WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs, which blocked abortions from its medical benefits package prior to changes made by President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, is proposing to reinstate that exclusion, The Daily Wire has learned.
Before Biden&#8217;s administration removed an exclusion on abortions and abortion counseling from the Veterans Affairs medical benefits package, that exclusion had been in place since the package was first established in 1999 through the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992, a proposed rule from the Department of Veterans Affairs states.
Under the exclusion, abortions, which end the life of unborn babies, were expressly excluded from the package.
Veterans Affairs is also proposing that it reinstate exclusions on abortions and abortion counseling for the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA), the proposed rule shows — exclusions also removed in 2022.
&#8220;We take this action to ensure that VA provides only needed medical services to our nation’s heroes and their families,&#8221; reads the proposed rule.
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A Veterans Affairs spokesperson shared in a statement that &#8220;prior to the Biden Administration’s politically motivated change in 2022, federal law and longstanding precedent across Democrat and Republican administrations prevented VA from providing abortions and abortion counseling.&#8221;
 &#8220;VA’s proposed rule will reinstate the pre-Biden bipartisan policy, bringing the department back in line with historical norms,&#8221; the spokesperson noted.
The VA notes that the new policy will not prevent the department from caring for women in life-threatening circumstances — a fear commonly promoted by critical media when discussing abortion policy.
Under the Biden administration, the former president <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/09/2022-19239/reproductive-health-services">directed the VA to amend</a> its &#8220;medical regulations to remove the exclusion on abortion counseling and establish exceptions to the exclusion on abortions in the medical benefits package for veterans who receive care set forth in that package, and to remove the exclusion on abortion counseling and expand the exceptions to the exclusion on abortions for Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) beneficiaries.&#8221;
The administration&#8217;s VA Department <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/09/2022-19239/reproductive-health-services">said at the time</a>, shortly after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, that the move was necessary to help protect &#8220;the lives and health of veterans.&#8221;
&#8220;As abortion bans come into force across the country, veterans in many States are no longer assured access to abortion services in their communities, even when those services are needed,&#8221; the Biden era rule said. &#8220;VA has determined that an abortion is &#8216;needed&#8217; pursuant to <a class="usc external" href="https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/38/1710" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">38 U.S.C. 1710</a>, when sought by a veteran, if determined needed by a health care professional, when the life or health of the pregnant veteran would be endangered if the pregnancy were carried to term or when the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest. Unless VA removes its existing prohibitions on abortion-related care and makes clear that needed abortion-related care is authorized, these veterans will face serious threats to their life and health.&#8221;

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Reversing Biden Policy, Veterans Affairs Seeks To Block Abortions From Benefits Package

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Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s top political aide, Mike Donilon, was paid $4 million for his work on Biden&#8217;s 2024 re-election campaign and promised an additional $4 million if Biden won, Donilon told congressional investigators on Thursday.
The news, first <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/donilon-biden-2024-reelection-testimony-congress">reported</a> by Axios, shows Donilon had a financial incentive to push Biden to run again and remain in the race as questions arose about the octogenarian president&#8217;s declining cognitive fitness and his ability to lead for another four years.
Donilon was interviewed during the GOP-led House Oversight Committee&#8217;s investigation into Biden&#8217;s fitness for office.
Donilon told the committee that Biden &#8220;continued to grow stronger and wiser as a leader as a result of being tested by some of the most difficult challenges any president has ever faced,&#8221; according to a copy of an opening statement obtained by Axios.
Donilon said he believed the nation overreacted to Biden&#8217;s debate performance, when both sides ridiculed him as appearing to be disoriented. Biden dropped out of the race less than one month later.
Donilon&#8217;s $4 million payday was first reported in the book &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; which was co-written by Axios reporter Alex Thompson. The possible $4 million bonus if Biden won had not been previously reported. According to the book, Donilon left the White House to work on the re-election campaign in early 2024 and insisted on the multi-million-dollar deal. It also states that Biden&#8217;s campaign chair, Jen O&#8217;Malley Dillon, was paid $300,000 despite starting on the campaign at the same time as Donilon.
Donilon had worked for Biden for decades, Axios reported. Other Biden aides have suggested Donilon led the campaign into disaster because of his self-interest and affection for the former president, the outlet noted.
Axios said both Donilon and his spokesperson declined to comment.
&#8220;Original Sin&#8221; reported that Biden&#8217;s physician, Kevin O&#8217;Connor, believed the president&#8217;s aides were not doing enough to take care of Biden. He pleaded the Fifth when interviewed by the Oversight Committee about Biden&#8217;s mental state.

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Flashback to September 2018.
That’s when President Donald Trump stood before the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-nations">United Nations</a> and warned Germany about the dangers of becoming addicted to Russian energy.
In response, the <a href="https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/germans-laugh-after-trump-warns-of-reliance-on-foreign-oil/5029974">German delegation laughed</a> in his face. They scoffed. The global press rolled their eyes. Trump, they said, didn’t understand how the world worked.
Fast forward to 2025: those same European leaders are preparing to cut a <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/eu-ditch-russia-agrees-purchase-750b-american-energy-supplies">$750 billion check</a> for American energy – as a result of President Trump’s deal-making.
Who’s laughing now?
The energy investment is a centerpiece of <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/07/fact-sheet-the-united-states-and-european-union-reach-massive-trade-deal/">the trade agreement</a> reached between Washington and Brussels on Sunday. The deal isn’t just a seismic shift in European policy — it’s a vindication of Trump’s America First vision. It is also a humiliating rebuke of the Biden administration’s energy failures. While Biden spent four years kneecapping American producers and begging hostile foreign actors for help, Trump was laying the groundwork for energy dominance.
Now, the world is willing to pay for it — literally.
<h3>Biden Begged For Foreign Oil</h3>
Let’s not forget the image that defined Biden’s energy policy: the President of the United States traveling to Saudi Arabia, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/18/oil-price-rises-joe-biden-saudi-output-petrol-diesel-prices">fist-bumping the crown prince</a>, and pleading for more oil. Not only did the Saudis say no, they mocked him by cutting production just months later.
Even worse, Biden’s administration reportedly <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/biden-admin-asked-saudi-arabia-to-postpone-opec-cut-by-a-month-saudis-say.html">begged the Saudis</a> to delay that production cut until after the 2022 midterms — because keeping gas prices low wasn’t about helping Americans, it was about helping Democrats stay in power.
All Biden had to do was unleash American energy. But he couldn’t. His green agenda wouldn’t allow it. He blocked drilling, shut down pipelines, and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/biden-pauses-approval-new-lng-export-projects-win-climate-activists-2024-01-26/">froze LNG exports</a>. He made it harder to produce energy here, so we had to buy it from over there.
President Trump’s deal flips the script. Instead of American dollars flowing to foreign regimes, European money is now flowing to the U.S. This isn’t diplomacy through weakness — it’s dominance through strength. President Trump didn’t have to beg because he knows how to lead.
<h3>A Boon To The American Economy</h3>
This $750 billion deal is more than just a geopolitical win — it’s rocket fuel for the American economy. More domestic energy production means more high-paying jobs, more local prosperity, and more opportunities in towns that the Biden economy left behind.
While Biden shut down LNG export projects, Trump is cranking the valves wide open. American energy workers aren’t waiting for a government subsidy — they’re producing real energy the world needs.
Let’s also not ignore Europe’s glaring hypocrisy. In 2024, the European Union spent nearly <a href="https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/eu-imports-of-russian-fossil-fuels-in-third-year-of-invasion-surpass-financial-aid-sent-to-ukraine/">€22 billion on Russian energy</a> — more than the €18.7 billion they gave Ukraine in aid. So, while they waved Ukrainian flags and tried to shame America, they were still funding Putin’s war machine. Now, thanks to President Trump, those Euros will come to American producers instead of Moscow’s war chest. It&#8217;s not just an energy shift — it&#8217;s a moral one.
<h3>Fueling The Fight Against The Deficit</h3>
There’s another upside Biden’s team never understood: when America produces energy, America generates revenue. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-103676">took in over $16 billion</a> in <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-federal-energy-revenue-falls-10-2024-still-among-biggest-years-ever-2024-11-08/">just one year</a> from oil and gas leases and royalties.
Trump’s deal promises to supercharge those numbers. More production means more revenue — without raising taxes on a single American family. It’s simple math: energy made here, sold abroad, grows our economy and shrinks our deficit. No gimmicks. No IRS expansion. Just common sense.
Perhaps the most staggering contrast between Biden and President Trump’s EU deal comes down to this: where the money is going.
Under Biden, the federal government <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/11/biden-regrets-calling-spending-bill-inflation-reduction-act/">dumped $369 billion </a>of your tax dollars into green energy pipe dreams — Chinese solar panels, offshore wind disasters, and EV charger projects that never got built.
Under Trump? He just secured more than double that amount — $750 billion — in foreign investment in American energy. No taxpayer gimmicks. No dependence on Beijing. Just American energy, made by American workers, powering the world again.
Yes, it’s safe to say the German delegation isn’t laughing anymore. But thanks to Donald Trump, they’ll have plenty of American natural gas to keep them warm through the winter.
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Larry Behrens is an energy expert and the Communications Director for Power The Future. He has appeared on Fox News, ZeroHedge, and NewsMax speaking in defense of American energy workers. You can follow him on X/Twitter @larrybehrens.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

U.S. President Donald Trump Visits Scotland For Golfing Getaway

Europe Laughed At Trump. Now They’re Going To Cut A Big Energy Check.

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Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews conceded during a recent interview that the American people were &#8220;moving towards&#8221; President Donald Trump — and attributed that to Trump&#8217;s uncanny ability to gauge the mood of the people in real time.
Matthews made the comments during an interview with longtime PBS broadcaster Charlie Rose (who was let go by the network in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct), and he compared Trump&#8217;s staying power with the &#8220;charisma&#8221; of others like former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
&#8220;To be honest with you, the country is moving towards Trump. These polls, they come out and show him not doing well — I don&#8217;t buy that,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;He is a stronger public figure than the Democratic people.&#8221;
Matthews went on to reference Obama — who still has the ability to draw a crowd — and argued that it was not enough to match what Trump brought to the table.
&#8220;Obama still has tremendous charisma — but Trump has strength,&#8221; he added. &#8220;[Voters] want a president who is a strong figure. And he&#8217;s got it. It&#8217;s just there. And half the country buys it.&#8221;
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🚨NEW: Chris Matthews *DOESN&#8217;T BELIEVE* negative TRUMP polls🚨
&#8220;To be honest with you, the country is moving towards Trump. These polls, they come out and show him not doing well — I don&#8217;t buy that.&#8221;
&#8220;He is a stronger public figure than the Democratic people.&#8221;
&#8220;Obama still… <a href="https://t.co/twYsmDnD1P">pic.twitter.com/twYsmDnD1P</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1949238442564460960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But Matthews didn&#8217;t stop there — instead, he went on to explain what he thought was really giving Trump the edge: his apparent ability to read the room and get his finger on the pulse of the people.
&#8220;We have never had a president so instantly spontaneous that he knows this minute — at 4:00 this afternoon, he will say, &#8216;You know, that&#8217;s not really true anymore,'&#8221; Matthews explained. &#8220;He will know the mood of the country.&#8221;
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🚨NEW: Chris Matthews *PRAISES* Trump&#8217;s political skill🚨
&#8220;We have never had a president so instantly spontaneous that he knows this minute — at 4:00 this afternoon, he will say, &#8216;You know, that&#8217;s not really true anymore.'&#8221;
&#8220;He will know the mood of the country.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s very… <a href="https://t.co/2X4KU2193T">pic.twitter.com/2X4KU2193T</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1949246615774011901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;He&#8217;s very good at knowing your condition, your worries, your insecurities,&#8221; he continued, saying that Trump was like the kid in grade school who understood where everyone&#8217;s weaknesses were. &#8220;He&#8217;s really good at the moment. He&#8217;s out there watching television and keeping up. And &#8216;Is this the right thing to do? What are we going to do right now?'&#8221;
&#8220;Biden couldn&#8217;t do that in a million years, not in a million years. Mondale couldn&#8217;t do that,&#8221; he admitted. &#8220;They don&#8217;t have the connection to the electricity of what&#8217;s going on in the country culturally. And he knows what works.&#8221;

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Ex-MSNBC Host Says Trump Has Pulse Of American People: ‘Biden Couldn’t Do That In A Million Years’

Ex-MSNBC Host Says Trump Has Pulse Of American People: 'Biden Couldn't Do That In A Million Years'

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Longtime &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host Chuck Todd called out media outlets for continuing to book former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden, saying that those who chose to give him a platform were choosing to &#8220;book spectacle&#8221; over substance.
Todd spoke up on his eponymous podcast — &#8220;The Chuck Todd-Cast&#8221; — after Hunter Biden gave a slew of interviews that essentially boiled down to expletive-laden attacks on anyone who either failed to support his dad all the way to the end or who had supported President Donald Trump in any way. Todd&#8217;s main objection to the interviews appeared to be that keeping the younger Biden on camera was not good for anyone — especially the Democratic Party.
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🚨NEW: Chuck Todd *RAGES* against interviewers platforming Hunter Biden — after Hunter trashed him🚨
&#8220;I will never book Hunter Biden. I have no interest in what he has to say &#8230; I have a real problem with the folks that are booking him.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/TbH8B7Jc5t">pic.twitter.com/TbH8B7Jc5t</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1948792140626055416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I will never book Hunter Biden. I have no interest in what he has to say for a couple reasons. Number one, he’s not the candidate. He wasn’t on the ballot. Anything he says is in defense of his father. I don’t know whether it’s true or not, but it doesn’t matter, he’s a son defending his father, and my guess is he’s going to defend him to the hilt,&#8221; Todd began. &#8220;So I just kind of think, you know, I take every one of his anger pieces of anger and criticism and I just sort of chalk it up to, yeah, he’s defending his dad and he loves his dad.&#8221;
&#8220;I have a real problem with the folks that are booking him. If you’ve chosen to book Hunter Biden, you’ve chose to book spectacle. You’re not interested in — and the two interviews that have gone viral were both designed to get attention, not to surface new facts, not to give you a better understanding of what may have happened. It was just, let’s give him a platform to settle some scores that maybe he wants to settle,” Todd continued.
His overall assessment was simple: &#8220;I don’t think this does Hunter Biden any good. I don’t think this does Joe Biden any good, it certainly doesn’t do the Democratic Party any good. That’s why it’s surprising to see the former DNC chair, start a podcast and decide that the best way to market it is Hunter Biden.&#8221;
In his recent interviews, Hunter Biden lashed out at actor George Clooney for writing the op-ed that kick-started a wave of Democrat calls for President Joe Biden to bow out of the 2024 presidential race. Hunter also called out the Democratic Party, scolding them for folding under the pressure rather than having his dad&#8217;s back when it mattered.

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‘You’ve Chosen To Book Spectacle’: Chuck Todd Unloads On Media Outlets Platforming Hunter Biden

'You've Chosen To Book Spectacle': Chuck Todd Unloads On Media Outlets Platforming Hunter Biden

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Border czar Tom Homan pulled no punches in his brutal roast of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden, referring to him as the &#8220;former First Drug Addict&#8221; during a recent appearance on &#8220;The Ingraham Angle&#8221; on Fox News.
Homan, a longtime Border Patrol officer who was named border czar by President Donald Trump, joined host Laura Ingraham to share his reaction to a recent Hunter Biden interview. During that interview, an emotional Hunter Biden had lashed out at President Trump&#8217;s border policies and suggested that all illegal immigrants in the United States should simply be allowed to remain. Homan disagreed.
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🚨 LMAO! Tom Homan just ROASTED Hunter Biden after Hunter said &#8220;f— you&#8221; to those who want immigration laws enforced.
&#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t really care what the former First Drug Addict thinks!&#8221; 🤣🔥
Homan is a national treasure. <a href="https://t.co/Okq5XsPGjF">pic.twitter.com/Okq5XsPGjF</a>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1947817740539973654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to get your reaction, Tom, to one of your old friends who had a message for Americans who care about illegal immigration,&#8221; Ingraham teased the clip of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-defends-illegals-with-slew-of-f-bombs">younger Biden</a>.
&#8220;People are really upset about illegal immigration. F*** you. How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you have food on your f***ing table? Who do you think washes your dishes?” he asked in the clip.
&#8220;Well, I do my own dishes,&#8221; Ingraham said as she cut away from the Biden interview. &#8220;But this idea that the fruit&#8217;s going to rot in the orchards, nobody&#8217;s ever going to have a lawn mowed again if we actually enforce our immigration laws &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t really care what the former First Drug Addict thinks,&#8221; Homan shot back. &#8220;I just thank God every morning I wake up, and we&#8217;ve got President Trump in the Oval Office. And because of President Trump, in seven weeks, we got the most secure border in this nation&#8217;s history. And now we&#8217;re arresting public safety threats and national security every day across this country.&#8221;

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Tom Homan Delivers Brutal Roast Of ‘Former First Drug Addict’ Hunter Biden

Tom Homan Delivers Brutal Roast Of 'Former First Drug Addict' Hunter Biden

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A top lawyer for President Donald Trump&#8217;s National Security Agency previously worked for Senate Democrats on their discredited probe attempting to tie Trump to Russia and has a history of partisan anti-Trump activism, a Daily Wire investigation reveals.
April Falcon Doss is the current general counsel for the NSA, the powerful cyber-intelligence agency, according to the agency’s <a href="https://archive.is/6EaPo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. A longtime veteran of the agency, Doss also worked as an NSA intelligence lawyer from 2003 to April 2016. But in between those two stints, she worked on the highly-partisan congressional investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
Just months into Trump&#8217;s first term as president, she took a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/april-doss-will-join-senate-intelligence-committee-russia-investigation-2017-4">high-level job</a> working for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on the Senate Intelligence Committee, investigating supposed Russian interference in the 2016 election. Doss was the Democrats&#8217; Senior Counsel for the committee&#8217;s Russia investigation, which conducted hundreds of interviews in its failed attempt to find evidence of conspiracy between Trump and Russia.
The Daily Wire’s discovery of Doss’s continuing employment at the top level of the intelligence community comes as newly-revealed documents provide further evidence of unethical conduct by Democrats and the intelligence state aimed at sabotaging Trump. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard submitted a criminal referral over what she called a conspiracy of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-receives-tusli-gabbards-criminal-referral-for-obama-russia-intel-controversy-report">&#8220;manufactured intelligence&#8221;</a>, and Trump has said the documents could support the prosecution of people as high up as former President Barack Obama, and his top intelligence chiefs, James Comey and James Clapper.
Doss is a transparently partisan activist who has written publicly about her opposition to Trump. She has called for Trump to be permanently banned from social media for staging an &#8220;insurrection,&#8221; attacked Republicans for opposing a crackdown on &#8220;disinformation,&#8221; and defended the treatment of Trump aides Carter Page and Michael Flynn at the hands of the intelligence state.
<a href="https://therecord.media/nsa-quietly-appoints-new-top-lawyer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Record</a> reported in June 2022 that the NSA, during the Biden administration, had re-hired Doss for the top role. The intelligence agency didn&#8217;t publicly announce the hire, it reported, because it didn&#8217;t want to “stir the hornet’s nest among Capitol Hill Republicans.” That&#8217;s because in the interim, Democrats, &#8220;experts,&#8221; and intelligence officials had decried it as improper — and ultimately blocked it — when Trump had attempted to name a Republican former House intelligence committee staffer to the same role.
The Trump administration appointed Michael Ellis to the job in November 2020, but then-NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone placed him on administrative leave the day he saw sworn in, while an investigation into whether Ellis&#8217;s hire was appropriate ensued. The investigation ultimately found no wrongdoing, but by that time, Ellis had resigned.
The job remained without a permanent occupant until Doss — after brief stop back at the same private practice — filled it. The general counsel job is considered a “career civil service” position, so she remained in the Trump administration, even as Trump sought to prevent a repeat of his first term, which was derailed by left-wing “deep state” intelligence actors pushing a cyber-conspiracy.
The divergent treatment of two people with similar backgrounds echoed those concerns. In Ellis&#8217;s case, Trump’s own NSA brass tried to stop a Republican from being hired in a Republican administration, and he was driven out by the early months of the Biden administration. In Doss&#8217;s case, Biden’s NSA approved the hiring of a Democrat, and worked to hide it. Thus far, she&#8217;s been retained in the second Trump administration.
Doss— who “earned her J.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and received an M.F.A. degree from Goucher College,” according to the NSA website — also taught at <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/faculty-in-the-news?id=0031Q00002NrTLXQA3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgetown University</a>. In that role, she published essays reflecting a personal opposition to Trump.
Writing for Just Security in May 2021, Doss <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/76061/facebooks-oversight-board-didnt-solve-the-content-moderation-riddle-we-shouldnt-be-surprised/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> that “at long last,” President Trump had been banned from all major social media platforms. In the essay, she blamed Trump for “deaths at the Capitol and a serious attempt to prevent certification of the election, plus the ongoing ‘Big Lie’ – the sustained set of evidence-free claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.” (The idea that right-wing rioters killed police on January 6 turned out to be, itself, misinformation.)
Doss also slams Republican efforts to prevent censorship, and said Republican conspiracy theories like “the rapid spread of anti-vaccination propaganda” necessitated a wide-ranging crackdown on “disinformation.”
In November 2020, she wrote an op-ed advising the “Biden-Harris Administration” on <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/73538/data-and-democracy-three-things-the-biden-harris-administration-should-do-to-tackle-big-tech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial equity</a>, and how to crack down on “disinformation” like Qanon and “extremism” like the right-wing plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan. (Many of the defendants in that alleged plot were later acquitted after their attorneys presented evidence that government assets had <a href="https://apnews.com/article/michigan-whitmer-kidnap-plot-appeal-539a9dd44027a5f8aff729d778dc8f5b">lured and encouraged them</a>).
In a July 2021 article called “The Tucker Carlson <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/77299/the-tucker-carlson-disinformation-show/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disinformation Show</a>,” she attacked Carlson for calling Nakasone, the NSA director in the first Trump administration, a “far-left partisan.” Nakasone was the one who drove out the Republican general counsel, ultimately opening the slot for Doss.
“Carlson’s repeated assertion that it’s &#8216;illegal&#8217; for the NSA to spy on Americans is untrue,” Doss wrote. She dismissed Republicans’ objections to the targeting of Trump officials, mockingly imagining conservatives saying “but Carter Page…” and “But Michael Flynn….”
In response to The Daily Wire&#8217;s inquiry, a spokesman for the Department of Defense, which oversees the NSA, said it was looking into the matter.
In April, President Trump fired Gen. Timothy Haugh, who led the NSA since 2023, after a meeting with Laura Loomer. Last month, the White House vetoed the Pentagon’s nomination for his replacement, Lt. Gen. Richard Angle, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/20/richard-angle-nsa-cyber-command-00415619" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> reported.
Senator Warner, Doss’ former boss, has been railing at Gabbard for releasing documents about the five-alarm effort by the intelligence community to tie Trump to Russia during his first term, with Warner <a href="https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/1947370490969854447">asking</a>: “What was Tulsi Gabbard trying to distract from with her insulting lies about the Russia investigation?”
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Hunter Biden is back.
There are a couple of reasons why that matters. One is that Hunter Biden is a stand-in for his father. When Hunter talks, Hunter is speaking for Joe Biden. And when he speaks for Joe Biden, he is speaking for the establishment wing of the Democratic Party.
The second reason is that Hunter Biden&#8217;s exposure of the entire Left for the fraud that it is, because of his father, is quite incredible.
It is worthwhile to remember that Hunter Biden was part of that inner coterie of people surrounding Joe Biden who knew that Joe was unhealthy, mentally unwell, and who left him in place because they were essentially playing at the presidency. When you listen to Hunter, you should understand he was at least partially the actual president of the United States for several years.
So that makes Hunter’s interview with Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5 on YouTube important.
He said Nancy Pelosi drove Biden out of the race. “You know who did not want Kamala Harris to be president and did not want her to be the nominee?” Hunter asked. “Nancy Pelosi didn&#8217;t want her to be; none of Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s people wanted her to be. They wanted an open convention. They wanted a floor fight. I don&#8217;t know what the hell they wanted, but they wanted to be the ones to anoint whoever they were going to anoint to become the next president of the United States. … All I know is that they definitely did not want Kamala Harris, which undermined her, which undermined the campaign.”
He also took some swipes at people like George Clooney and David Axelrod, saying:
<blockquote>You know what George Clooney did? He was given the blessing by the Obama team or the Obama people and whoever else, and David Axelrod and whoever the f*** else. &#8230; ‘We are going to insert our judgment over yours.’ We, me, and James Carville, who hasn&#8217;t won a race in 40 f***ing years, and David Axelrod, who had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama — and that was because of Barack Obama, not because of David Axelrod and David Plouffe and all of these guys, the Pod Save America guys who were junior speechwriters on Barack Obama&#8217;s Senate staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him for years, making millions of dollars, the Anita Dunns of the world, who&#8217;s made $40, $50 million off the Democratic Party &#8230; I don&#8217;t have to be nice. &#8230; What right do you have to step on a man who&#8217;s given 52 years of his life to the services of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in The New York Times to undermine the president?</blockquote>
Hunter also suggested that he was totally qualified to be on Burisma&#8217;s board. One of the kind of seamy realities about the last election cycle is that some of it was about Joe Biden&#8217;s age. A lot of it was about a widespread perception of the Biden family&#8217;s absolutely deep and abiding corruption.
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Hunter denied he had been put on the board of Burisma for any political reason, which, of course, is absolutely ridiculous. He had no experience in the energy sector. He couldn&#8217;t point out Ukraine on a map, and suddenly he was on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm?
It had nothing to do with his last name being Biden.
The last part of the interview was amusing — Hunter defending himself by making the argument that crack is somehow safer than alcohol, which is a hell of an argument.
But put all of this aside. Put aside the Biden administration and its corruption, the fact that Joe Biden was dead for several years, and that his family was essentially running the government. If you see Hunter as a stand-in for the Joe Biden moderate wing of the Democratic Party, things start to get interesting because Hunter Biden also spoke about policy.
There were two particular issues where Hunter Biden put specific focus: illegal immigration and Israel. These issues are the ones where Democrats are completely at odds with the American people, but they will not let it go. They are more likely to let go of the trans issue than to let go of illegal immigration and open borders, as well as the new flavor of the month, that Palestinians are the great victims in the Middle East, including Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, Islamic Jihad, and all the rest of the terrorist groups.
If you&#8217;re trying to figure out the direction of the Democratic Party, if you&#8217;re trying to get out the divining rod and determine which direction the Democratic Party is going to move into, the more moderate side or the more radical side, here’s the key: the moderates are already caving to the radicals.
They may separate from the trans stuff because it&#8217;s been so wildly unsuccessful for them. But the root cause of the Democratic Party is a belief that America is a great victimizer in the world, and therefore, America ought not to have borders, and also America’s foreign policy should be to abandon any strong ally, as long as it is beneficial to the Democratic Party.
“All these Democrats say you have to talk about and realize that people are really upset about illegal immigration,” he said. “How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you get food on your table? Who do you think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your garden? Who do you think is here, by the sheer, just grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because they thought that they could give themselves and their family a better chance, and he&#8217;s (Trump) somehow convinced all of us that these people are criminals? White men in America are 45 more times likely to commit violent crime than an immigrant.”
He actually concluded that statement by suggesting that we should actually force El Salvador to send back illegal immigrants. Which is funny, since the ones we&#8217;re sending to El Salvador are, by and large, people with actual criminal records.
This is vitally important because Hunter was Joe Biden&#8217;s partially functioning brain during the administration. This is the Democratic Party perspective on illegal immigration: America ought to be an open borders country because unfettered immigration, without any sort of real security, without any sort of concern about cultural assimilation, is an effective good.
That is something the Democratic Party deeply believes in. As we start discussing 2028 candidates understand, there will not be a Democrat on the stage who significantly calls for border security.
It&#8217;s not just with regard to immigration. The Democratic Party also realizes that the energy in its party is very much on the side of third-world-ism.
It&#8217;s the Zoran Mamdani belief that the Third World has been victimized by America and her allies, and therefore the Third World must have her revenge. Hunter was talking about the dramatic increase in antisemitism under his father&#8217;s administration and claimed the real reason for that is because of the Israelis. In other words, after Hamas murdered 1,200 Jews in Israel and took 250 hostage, a couple of dozen of whom are still being held hostage after a year and a half, it&#8217;s Israel&#8217;s fault that antisemitism broke out.
He quoted the noted hater of Israel, Tom Friedman, saying that the worst thing that&#8217;s happened to the Jewish people is the Israeli government. “Jewish people globally, the threats to their lives, the anti-Semitism that it has generated,” he said.
The worst thing that has happened to the Jewish people is the Israeli government, according to Hunter Biden. Then he bragged about how his father tried to hamstring Israel in its pursuit of getting back its hostages and ending Hamas, an actual, honest-to-god, American State Department-designated terrorist group in the Gaza Strip.
“He took away the bunker-busting bombs from the Israelis,” he boasted. “He tried to curtail Netanyahu&#8217;s thing. He forced Netanyahu to open up shipping lanes and aid lanes at the Rafah crossing to be able to get food aid in. He put pressure over and over and over again. And now, by the way, that is not even remotely happening. What is happening is that they were bombing food lines. There is no one in there to be able to record it. &#8230;There have been more journalists killed at this war in Gaza than in any other war combined, and nobody&#8217;s doing anything about it.”
This is propaganda on behalf of Hamas, because the reality is that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the GHF, which has been actually facilitating the entry of aid into Gaza, has been denying Hamas access to the food, which is why Hamas is shooting people and then attempting to insinuate itself among the population in order to shoot at Israeli soldiers, who then respond. That is the reality.
But these are the parts of the Democratic base that the Democrats are trying to woo. It is very important to them, illegal immigration, and third-world-ism. There is no systemic immunity for the Democratic Party against the radical base.
It does not exist. So if you think they&#8217;re going to nominate somebody who&#8217;s quasi-moderate in 2028, you’re wrong.
It is not going to happen.

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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Democrats, such as former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, along with former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, should face &#8220;severe consequences&#8221; for their alleged involvement in the Russian collusion conspiracy.
Trump commented on the bombshell documents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-admin-suppressed-intel-showing-russia-didnt-impact-2016-election-tulsi-reveals?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Obama+Admin+Suppressed+Intel+Showing+Russia+Didn%E2%80%99t+Impact+2016+Election%2C+Tulsi+Reveals">released</a> last week by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, telling reporters in the Oval Office that Gabbard &#8220;caught President Obama absolutely cold.&#8221; On Sunday, the Department of Justice reportedly received a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-receives-tusli-gabbards-criminal-referral-for-obama-russia-intel-controversy-report">criminal referral</a> from Gabbard over the allegations against Obama administration officials.
&#8220;They tried to rig the election and they got caught — and there should be very severe consequences for that,&#8221; Trump said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &quot;The witch hunt that you should be talking about is they caught President Obama absolutely cold &#8230; They tried to rig the election and they got caught — and there should be very severe consequences for that.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/tNLz91Xp6T">pic.twitter.com/tNLz91Xp6T</a>
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Documents declassified by Gabbard last week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-admin-suppressed-intel-showing-russia-didnt-impact-2016-election-tulsi-reveals?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Obama+Admin+Suppressed+Intel+Showing+Russia+Didn%E2%80%99t+Impact+2016+Election%2C+Tulsi+Reveals">showed</a> that the Obama administration suppressed intelligence proving that Russia did not influence the outcome of the 2016 election. For the entirety of Trump&#8217;s first term in office, Democrats and the legacy media pointed to the intelligence compiled by the Obama administration to connect Trump&#8217;s election victory to the Russian government.
The president accused Obama of being the &#8220;ringleader&#8221; of those who put forward the false narrative that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign to rig the 2016 election in Trump&#8217;s favor.
&#8220;Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader. Hillary Clinton was right there with him, and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, and so were the rest of them — [former FBI Director Jim] Comey, [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper, the whole group. They tried to rig an election, and then they got caught.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &quot;Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader. Hillary Clinton was right there with him and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, and so were the rest of them — Comey, Clapper, the whole group. They tired to rig an election and then they got caught.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/zf2GqE3Dox">pic.twitter.com/zf2GqE3Dox</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1947688011002744912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump said that during his first term, he decided not to pursue criminal charges against his political rival, Clinton, but added that the latest revelations are too big to ignore.
&#8220;I let her off the hook, and I&#8217;m very happy I did, but after what they did to me, and whether it&#8217;s right or wrong, it&#8217;s time to go after people,&#8221; he added.
Gabbard said the information released last week &#8220;clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government.&#8221;
&#8220;Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people,&#8221; she added.
Conservatives have called for the DOJ to arrest former government officials who were involved in pushing the Russia conspiracy.

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Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election because they &#8220;did not remain loyal&#8221; to the presidential nominee, Hunter Biden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVqiWu1fLdg">said</a> in a podcast interview.
&#8220;We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party,&#8221; Hunter said. &#8220;We had the advantage of incumbency. We had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration, and the Democratic Party literally melted down.&#8221;
The son of Joe Biden blamed top Democrats for abandoning his father, former President Joe Biden.
&#8220;They had clearly made a decision. And when I say they, I mean the speaker,&#8221; Hunter said, referring to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
Hunter made the comments on the &#8220;At Our Table&#8221; podcast hosted by Jaime Harrison, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee. Harrison interviewed Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the podcast&#8217;s first episode.
Hunter said the Democratic Party supported Biden, but Democrat elites rejected him.
&#8220;You know who stood by us? Who? Black caucus, Hispanic caucus, the progressive caucus, the Democratic Party,&#8221; Hunter said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the Democratic Party. You know who didn&#8217;t stand by us? The fundraisers, the elite, the people that are the insiders, the people that say they&#8217;re not part of the beltway, but you know where they are? They&#8217;re living in Beverly Hills telling you or me what it is that real people care about.&#8221;
Hunter rejected claims that his father experienced mental decline during his presidency.
&#8220;We watched him get old in front of our eyes. And that does not mean that you&#8217;re incapacitated,&#8221; Hunter said. &#8220;Your gate changes. It does not mean that you do not have the mental capacity to be able to do your job.&#8221;
Both Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-now-clear-there-was-a-conspiracy-bidens-doctor-pleads-the-fifth-as-gop-probes-cover-up">physician</a> and a top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-jill-biden-aide-joins-white-house-doc-takes-the-fifth-in-biden-health-cover-up-probe">aide</a> for former first lady Jill Biden have pleaded the Fifth in hearings about the state of Biden&#8217;s mental capacity, The Daily Wire previously reported.
Biden struggled to finish sentences and had to be helped off the stage after a debate with President Donald Trump in June 2024. The debate led to Biden stepping down as the presidential nominee.
But Hunter still said he thinks his father &#8220;could have won.&#8221;
&#8220;We could have survived if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that we decided that — people in the Democratic party — were not going to allow it to happen,&#8221; Hunter said.
Hunter said there was no conspiracy about his father&#8217;s mental state.
&#8220;What sells is the idea of a conspiracy. What sells is a cover up,&#8221; Hunter said. &#8220;Do you realize the daily touch points that he had with people — that, by the way were not necessarily loyal to him — every single day, hundreds of people every single day during that period of time. And you can&#8217;t get one of them to go on the record.&#8221;
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-year-after-biden-quit-race-mike-johnson-drops-14-minute-video-exposing-dem-cover-up-of-his-decline">released</a> a video supercut Monday of Democrats defending and covering up Biden&#8217;s clear mental decline.
Hunter said critics did not &#8220;understand&#8221; Biden.
“What I think is this is that in their hearts these people have a hole and they can&#8217;t understand that Joe Biden is actually who he says he is,&#8221; Hunter said.
Biden has been caught lying about himself multiple times, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zero-evidence-biden-slammed-for-once-again-lying-about-driving-an-18-wheeler">claiming</a> he used to drive 18-wheelers and appearing to claim his son Beau Biden was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-claims-his-son-beau-died-in-iraq">killed</a> in Iraq.

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Former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, discussed many topics during a three-hour-long interview with Channel 5’s Andrew Callaghan, including a rant against major Democrat donor George Clooney.
Clooney infamously turned on Biden after his disastrous debate performance, urging him to drop out of the presidential race last July in an op-ed in The New York Times.
“F*** him,” Hunter said of the A-list actor. “F*** him and everybody around him. I don’t have to be f***ing nice. Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino. F***ing George Clooney is not a f***ing actor. He is f***ing like… I don’t know what he is. He’s a brand.”
Hunter went on, “And by the way, God bless him. You know what? He supposedly treats his friends really well. You know what I mean? Buys them things, and he’s got a really great place in Lake Como, and he’s great friends with Barack Obama. F*** you. What do you have to do with f***ing anything? Why do I have to f***ing listen to you?”
“What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his f***ing life to the service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the f***ing New York Times to undermine the president at a time in which, by the way, what do people care about the most?”
“Why do you think that the Republicans have an advantage over us? Because they’re unified,” Hunter said.
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Clooney’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-clooney-joins-chorus-of-stars-telling-biden-its-time-to-drop-out-of-race?author=Katie+Jerkovich&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=George+Clooney+Joins+Chorus+Of+Stars+Telling+Biden+It%E2%80%99s+Time+To+Drop+Out+Of+Race">op-ed</a> called out Biden’s mental fitness, saying the former president could not “win” a fight against time.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal‘ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” Clooney wrote in part. 
“We are not going to win in November with this president,” the actor added.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday released a supercut of Democrats defending Joe Biden&#8217;s mental acuity as Republicans investigate an alleged &#8220;cover-up&#8221; of the former president&#8217;s decline while in office.
The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euaBtI7F3xQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>, which is more than 14 minutes long, comes on the one-year anniversary of Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-drops-out-of-presidential-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abandoning</a> his 2024 re-election bid following a faltering presidential debate against now-President Donald Trump that led to immense pressure from allies for the incumbent to drop out of the race. It features clips of congressional Democrats, officials in the Biden administration, and others in various media interviews, press conferences, and public events. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump in the November election and is reportedly considering a run for California governor, is among them.
&#8220;One year ago today, President Biden&#8217;s disastrous debate performance made history by ending his re-election campaign and exposing the largest political cover-up in U.S. history,&#8221; Johnson said in a statement. &#8220;As House Republicans investigate the scandal to bring accountability, the American people should never forget how far Democrats and the media went to hide the truth about the mental decline of the man holding the most powerful position on earth. Our video compilation shows just a small sample of the countless receipts.&#8221;
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Biden, now 82, and his health have become a focus of increased scrutiny over the past several months. A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-flails-when-confronted-with-his-role-in-biden-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s &#8220;deterioration&#8221; and efforts to &#8220;hide&#8221; it, his recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;aggressive&#8221;</a> prostate cancer diagnosis, and the release of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-of-bidens-special-counsel-interview-is-out-and-its-painful-to-listen-to" target="_blank" rel="noopener">audio</a> from an interview with special counsel Robert Hur in which the former president struggled to recall simple facts has further stoked the flames of speculation.
House Republicans are calling in former Biden administration staffers to interview for an inquiry looking for any efforts to conceal issues with the former president&#8217;s mental state and whether he authorized the use of autopen signatures for pardons and other major executive actions. Some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-jill-biden-aide-joins-white-house-doc-takes-the-fifth-in-biden-health-cover-up-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded</a> the Fifth.
Senate Republicans are also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-duck-biden-mental-fitness-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looking into</a> Biden&#8217;s mental fitness. And Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-investigation-into-biden-autopen-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> a probe into whether aides improperly used an autopen for executive actions in an effort to conceal Biden&#8217;s health issues, suggesting there could be &#8220;implications&#8221; for the legality and validity of the presidential acts in question.
Democrats have largely shrugged off the investigations into Biden. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, took the opportunity to swipe at GOP colleagues over the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; that recently passed through Congress.
&#8220;The only person&#8217;s health that Republicans care about is Joe Biden&#8217;s – even as 17 million Americans lose access to health care thanks to their budget betrayal,&#8221; Garcia <a href="https://x.com/RepRobertGarcia/status/1942986945216549149" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.
Biden pushed back on the notion that he did not dictate his executive actions.
&#8220;Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn&#8217;t is ridiculous and false,&#8221; Biden said in a <a href="https://x.com/brittanys/status/1930450375699583244" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans.&#8221;
However, Biden later conceded to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> that he did not personally sign off on each of a large number of pardons before he left office.

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