Former President Joe Biden returned to the public stage this week, and almost immediately delivered the kind of unscripted moment that has followed him throughout his decades-long political career.
While addressing a crowd, Biden spotted a black man in the audience and called out, “Barack, what are you doing? Come here, come here, come here, come here.” He then added, “Come here!” 
“I feel like he should be standing to the right and I should be standing to the left. Doesn’t he look like Barack? Anyway.” The man was not Barack Obama.
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🚨 JOE BIDEN spots a black guy: &#8220;Come here, COME HERE! [&#8230;] Doesn&#8217;t he look like Barack?!&#8221;
&#8220;Barack, what are you doing?&#8221;
Are you serious right now 😭😭 <a href="https://t.co/4BAXwHbhP9">pic.twitter.com/4BAXwHbhP9</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2044138003744870805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The moment, delivered with Biden’s characteristic wandering, off-the-cuff style, quickly drew attention online, not necessarily because it was shocking for Biden, but because it echoed the kind of comment that, in a different political context, would likely spark immediate backlash from the Left.
To be clear, there’s no indication Biden intended anything malicious. The remark came off more as a familiar blend of Biden’s age and verbal wandering than anything resembling actual animus. 
That tension is part of what makes Biden’s long history of gaffes so politically unique. For decades, he has been prone to unscripted remarks that veer into awkward or eyebrow-raising territory, often blurring the line between folksy charm and unintentional controversy.
Some of those moments have been more memorable than others. During the 2020 campaign, Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/politics/biden-charlamagne-tha-god-you-aint-black">told</a> radio host Charlamagne Tha God, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” a line that drew widespread criticism at the time. Years earlier, he <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-obama-articulate-quote/">described Obama</a> as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean,” a comment that lingered in political discourse long after it was said.
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FLASHBACK: Biden said “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black”
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— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1793305846039924991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Even outside of political campaigns, Biden’s tendency toward verbal stumbles has been a defining feature of his public persona. From mixing up names and places to wandering anecdotes that lose their thread mid-sentence, his speaking style has often been as unpredictable as it is incomprehensible.
Still, the “Barack” moment underscores a broader dynamic in American politics: the uneven way certain comments are received depending on who says them. What might be dismissed as a harmless slip for one figure could be treated as a major controversy for another.
For Biden, it’s just the latest addition to a decades-long reel of offhand remarks — the kind that, for better or worse, have become inseparable from his political identity.

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We now know that the Biden administration was literally partnering with abortion activists to track and imprison pro-lifers.
When I see President Trump and Pope Leo going at it, I think to myself, if we&#8217;re going to talk about presidents who are legitimately attacking Catholics, we should really be talking about Barack Obama, who went after the Little Sisters of the Poor and decided that he was going to mainstream every sin he could find.
We should talk about Joe Biden, who apparently was using the DOJ to go after pro-lifers, which is insane.
According to Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers">reporting</a>, President Biden&#8217;s administration relied on information gathered from radical pro-abortion groups to track, prosecute, and snoop on peaceful pro-life protesters who were later arrested by the FBI.
A DOJ report titled “The Biden Administration&#8217;s Weaponization of the FACE Act” examined more than 700,000 records.
The FACE Act is a bill that was designed to prevent people from obstructing entry to abortion clinics. The FACE Act also said that you weren&#8217;t allowed to invade churches during services. That came up in the context of Don Lemon and his friends invading and disturbing a church service in order to protest ICE.
The dossiers that the DOJ examined contained information about pro-life activists who had not yet been charged with any federal crimes, but were deemed threats by abortion groups because of their activism.
We&#8217;ve seen this kind of pattern emerge in all of the reporting from the Biden administration, over and over and over. They were using left-wing cutout groups to do their dirty work, whether it was the Biden administration State Department contracting out to other services to promote boycotts of right-wing news outlets, or whether it was the Biden administration outsourcing its investigative pursuits to anti-life, pro-choice organizations to target pro-lifers.
The Biden administration liked to do such things.
According to the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers">reporting</a>, the weaponization can be traced to former Attorney General Merrick Garland&#8217;s resurrection of the National Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers the month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
That task force was operating out of the department&#8217;s civil rights division under the direction of Sanjay Patel, who was <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-fires-4-prosecutors-face-act-biden-administration/">reportedly fired</a> on Monday. Patel was on texting terms with the National Abortion Federation security team and was regularly communicating with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Feminist Majority Foundation, according to the DOJ. Members of the Biden DOJ were coordinating openly with various abortion groups and leaders in the abortion movement.
This was all part of these non-governmental organizations working hand-in-glove with the federal government under Joe Biden. Daily Wire reporting looked into the sentences that were sought by the Biden DOJ against pro-life activists, and what they found is that the Biden DOJ asked for a longer, average sentence for pro-life defendants compared to pro-abortion defendants. Actual sentences shook out to an average of 14 months for pro-life defendants, versus three months for pro-choice defendants.
This is astonishing. It demonstrates the full-scale animus that the Biden administration had for the pro-life movement.
This is nothing new. If you go back to the Clinton administration, the attempt to target political adversaries using the DOJ is perfectly obvious.
I&#8217;ve said over and over that the Left likes to say that Donald Trump broke all the rules, that he&#8217;s the one who killed the American political system.
The reality is that the American political system was already dead, and Trump stumbled upon it. Barack Obama used the IRS to go after pro-life groups, conservative groups, and Tea Party groups. Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ targeted pro-lifers.
There&#8217;s nothing new here. Democrats have been doing this for a very, very long time.
Imagine the scandal if, for example, the Trump administration were coordinating with pro-life groups to go after abortion advocates. Can you imagine the scandal? Can you imagine the front page coverage?
One of the questions here is how people who were involved in this were allowed to stay at the DOJ for so long. Sanjay Patel was still working for the DOJ all the way until Monday, which is crazy and demonstrates the truth of President Trump&#8217;s statement that there is, in fact, a deep state.
There are lifelong appointees of various administrations who are still working inside the current administration — working against the president’s priorities. That&#8217;s very real. It just goes to show you that the attempt to cleanse the administration of holdovers is an ongoing pursuit.
The Democratic Party is perfectly willing to use the auspices of government to go after religious people. They&#8217;ve been doing it over and over and over again. It’s one of the reasons I said to my family that we ought to leave California. My great fear is that states like California will effectively quasi-criminalize religious practice by essentially saying that any 501C3 that receives tax-exempt status from the state government must buy into the left-wing social agenda.
If the Democrats were able to take over the Supreme Court, they would get away with that. They would be able to use anti-discrimination law as a guise for cracking down on First Amendment religiously protected activity. That is the direction that Democrats would love to move. And if left to their own devices, they absolutely would be able to do it.
If the Democrats had won in 2024, Kamala Harris would have attempted to stack the Supreme Court and state governments everywhere would be pursuing anti-religious activity just like this.
The Biden administration was, in my opinion, the worst administration in modern American history, worse even than Obama — because Obama didn&#8217;t say the quiet part out loud.
Biden said the quiet part out loud.

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WASHINGTON—In an explosive report released on Tuesday, the Trump administration revealed the lengths to which the Justice Department went under President Joe Biden&#8217;s watch to target religious Americans who opposed abortion.
The Trump Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group reviewed over 700,000 internal records, The Daily Wire has learned, which they distilled into an 800-page report. The document, which details the Biden administration&#8217;s weaponization of federal law to target peaceful pro-life activists, also outlines how the Trump administration plans to correct the previous administration&#8217;s wrongs.
“This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement on Tuesday morning. “No Department should conduct selective prosecution based on beliefs. The weaponization that happened under the Biden administration will not happen again, as we restore integrity to our prosecutorial system.”
At the center of the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts is the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law meant to protect access to pro-abortion and pro-life facilities alike. The Biden administration infamously used the FACE Act to prosecute and imprison peaceful pro-life protesters. And Tuesday&#8217;s report found that &#8220;Biden DOJ senior leadership&#8221; and members of the Reproductive Health Care Providers Task Force &#8220;provided extensive support to abortion clinics&#8221; and &#8220;ignored and downplayed vandalism and attacks against pregnancy resource centers or houses of worship.&#8221;
The DOJ report describes how the Biden-era &#8220;Reproductive Health Care Providers Task Force&#8221; was in constant contact with pro-abortion groups and the clinics they represented while disregarding pro-life groups. As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Leif Le Mahieu <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=Original&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=How+Biden+Partnered+With+Abortion+Activists+To+Track+And+Imprison+Pro-Lifers">reported</a>, one Justice Department official often texted an abortion activist and worked to track the travel plans of Christian pro-life activists who had not been charged with any crimes. The emails also show how pro-abortion groups provided dossiers to the Biden DOJ with pictures and information — which was later used by the FBI to make arrests.
Meanwhile, the Task Force attorneys didn&#8217;t communicate with any pro-life pregnancy centers until September 2022 — months after the <a href="https://catholicvote.org/pregnancy-center-attack-tracker/">massive spike in violence against pregnancy centers</a> related to the leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion indicating Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned. Vandals would firebomb, attack, vandalize, or spray-paint the buildings with messages like &#8220;If abortions aren&#8217;t safe, then neither are you.&#8221;
When the Biden Justice Department did address the attacks on pregnancy centers, they merely identified possible contacts &#8220;via a quick Google search and directed Task Force leadership to schedule meetings.&#8221;
&#8220;The Task Force then had several meetings with the pro-life groups identified through that initial outreach and periodically sent them press releases,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;However, internally, CRT attorneys questioned whether to provide pregnancy resource centers with the same resources as abortion clinics, questioning whether these facilities fall under the FACE Act’s scope.&#8221;
Biden DOJ prosecutors were also engaging in inappropriate conduct, the report found. The prosecutors &#8220;knowingly withheld evidence that defense counsel requested to prepare an affirmative defense&#8221; and lied about not having that information available.
For example, in United States v. Gallagher, the defense counsel asked for historical data on FACE Act prosecutions, but the DOJ Task Force Director declined that data, saying he didn&#8217;t keep those records and that the DOJ wouldn&#8217;t provide them.
&#8220;Notably,&#8221; the report says, &#8220;he had this information readily available and decided not to share it with the defendants, despite sharing substantially identical information with NAF.&#8221;
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Video of the FBI&#8217;s arrest of Paul Vaughn of Centerville, Tennessee. DOJ charged him with “conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act, and committing FACE Act violations&#8221; for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic. Paul tells me the footage was taken by his wife. <a href="https://t.co/KSDvLRSrlF">pic.twitter.com/KSDvLRSrlF</a>
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The Biden prosecutors also tried to screen jurors based on their religious beliefs, according to the report: in United States v. Zastrow in the Eastern District of Michigan, assistant United States attorneys allegedly tried to screen jurors based on whether they were conservative or religious &#8220;while not inquiring about liberal counterviews.&#8221;
&#8220;They referred to Christian pro-life views as &#8216;culty&#8217; and lambasted the defendants’ beliefs in the courtroom,&#8221; the report said.
Notably, those assistant United States attorneys complained that they “ended up with a very Catholic magistrate on duty this week and he was very particular about the bond conditions and not infringing on [defendants’] First Amendment rights.”
The report specifically points to the case of Mark Houck, a Catholic father of a large family whose son was attacked by an abortion clinic worker. The Biden DOJ tried to use the FACE Act to prosecute Houck, but lost the case.
In Houck&#8217;s case, &#8220;prosecutors considered and declined a request for the defendant to self-surrender.&#8221; Apparently determined to make an example of Houck, the DOJ sent &#8220;16 FBI agents&#8221; to arrest him in front of his crying children.
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Photos from the morning the FBI arrested Mark Houck in front of his children. <a href="https://t.co/NbLq5bnDQa">pic.twitter.com/NbLq5bnDQa</a>
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&#8220;When faced with public backlash about the aggressive arrest, the Task Force Director attempted to blame the FBI, rather than address the Biden DOJ’s lack of initial guidance to law enforcement,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;The jury ultimately found Houck not guilty, and DOJ settled a civil claim to compensate for the Biden DOJ’s misconduct.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s Justice Department argues that the Biden DOJ pursued more severe charges, as well as &#8220;significantly harsher sentences,&#8221; for the peaceful pro-life defendants than the violent pro-abortion defendants, requesting an average sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants compared to the 12.3 months for pro-abortion ones.
&#8220;The Biden DOJ pursued significantly higher sentences (near the top range of sentencing guidelines) for pro-life defendants, while pursuing more lenient sentences against the handful of pro-abortion defendants that it charged,&#8221; the report reads. &#8220;Pro-life defendants were ultimately sentenced to an average of 14 months, while pro-abortion defendants were sentenced to an average of 3 months.&#8221;
Meanwhile, as the National Abortion Federation cozied up to the Biden Justice Department, that same department &#8220;sought to provide funding to pro-abortion groups,&#8221; according to the report.
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who was director of the Reproductive Health Care Provider Task Force, served as a reference for the National Abortion Federation&#8217;s application for a &#8220;large, private grant.&#8221;
&#8220;We found no record of ethics approval for a DOJ attorney to take an interest in the financial outcome of a party having business before the Biden DOJ,&#8221; the report says. &#8220;Indeed, it is doubtful that the Biden DOJ could validly give any such ethical clearance for this conflict of interest.&#8221;
The Trump administration says it is determined to rectify the actions of the Biden Justice Department. Tuesday&#8217;s report highlights Trump&#8217;s &#8220;full and unconditional pardons&#8221; of the many pro-life Christians who were targeted in these Biden-era prosecutions.
The Trump Justice Department also dismissed, with prejudice, three Biden-era civil lawsuits against &#8220;non-violent pro-life demonstrators and issued a directive that, moving forward, DOJ prosecutors may only bring FACE Act civil actions and prosecutions in extraordinary circumstances or in cases presenting significant aggravating factors.&#8221;

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Embattled former first son Hunter Biden raised eyebrows on Thursday when he said he&#8217;d be &#8220;open&#8221; to a &#8220;cage match&#8221; with two of President Donald Trump&#8217;s sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr.
The younger Biden announced that he&#8217;d been invited — and that he had accepted the invitation — to join Andrew Callaghan&#8217;s Channel Five Carnival Tour. The tour is described as a blend of live music, rap battles, magic, and full screenings of controversial documentaries. Biden then added that Callaghan had pitched a finale idea that he couldn&#8217;t pass up: a &#8220;cage match&#8221; in which he would face both Eric and Donald Trump Jr.
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&#8220;Hey guys, Hunter Biden here,&#8221; Biden said, speaking directly to the camera. &#8220;I just got a call from Andrew Callaghan. He asked me to come out on the Channel Five Carnival Tour at the end of the month. I think we start in Phoenix and then we go to San Diego, and we end in Albuquerque. And I think he&#8217;s trying to organize a cage match, me versus Eric and Don Jr. I told him I&#8217;d do it, 100% in if he can pull it off. And if he can&#8217;t, I&#8217;m still coming.&#8221;
A <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/us-news/hunter-biden-is-too-broke-to-pay-lawyer-challenges-trumps-sons-to-a-cage-match/">report</a> from the New York Post, published on Friday, suggested that Hunter Biden might be less motivated by revenge fantasy than by his own personal financial situation. The report alleged that Biden, who has been living abroad, is deep in debt and struggling to pay his attorneys.
And if Hunter Biden&#8217;s posturing sounds familiar, it should: his father, former President Joe Biden, once made a similar remark about confronting President Trump.
During a 2018 speech, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump">Biden</a> famously told a room full of College Democrats at the University of Miami, &#8220;They asked me would I like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.'&#8221;
Trump fired back at Biden via X (still Twitter at the time), saying, &#8220;Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!&#8221;

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It is easy to forget the dystopian excesses of the Covid era: business closures, shuttered schools, and mask and vaccine mandates. A new development in Missouri v. Biden, a Covid-era lawsuit, serves as an important reminder of how precarious our basic freedoms become in the face of a perceived disaster. For the past four years, a coalition of state attorneys general, courageous scientists, and First Amendment advocates waged a counterattack against the federal government’s efforts to strong-arm social media companies into silencing those espousing views contrary to the government-approved narrative. 
Last week, the plaintiffs and the federal defendants submitted a consent decree to the court for approval. The <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.477.1.pdf">proposed consent decree</a> is both a real win for free speech and a blueprint for further protections necessary to safeguard our First Amendment rights.
That need is underscored by another recent free speech victory by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-dept-reaches-censorship-settlement-with-daily-wire?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Daily+Wire+Wins+Landmark+Free+Speech+Victory+In+Censorship+Lawsuit+Against+State+Department">The Daily Wire</a>, in which the State Department agreed to stop supporting efforts that targeted protected speech by American media outlets. That settlement also imposed ongoing compliance oversight, helping ensure the government cannot quietly return to the same tactics.
The core allegation in Missouri v. Biden was that senior officials across multiple federal agencies had engaged in an unprecedented campaign to coerce and pressure major social media platforms into censoring lawful speech. The plaintiffs argued that the Biden administration had effectively outsourced government censorship to private companies, leaning on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to suppress content related to Covid origins and treatments, the Hunter Biden laptop story, and election integrity.
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For example, Rob Flaherty, the director of digital media in the Biden Administration, tried to coerce Meta into suppressing posts critical of the Covid vaccine on Facebook, accusing Meta of driving “vaccine hesitancy.” Flaherty even demanded that Meta explain what it would do to suppress anti-vaccine content on WhatsApp, a private messaging application. Flaherty made clear he was not speaking just for himself, but rather for, “the highest — and I mean the highest — levels of the White House.&#8221;
The case bounced between trial and appellate courts, including a stop at the Supreme Court, as judges evaluated the nuances of the thorny, at times novel, claims at issue in the case. With the change in presidential administrations, however, the federal government no longer was the adversary, though it was still the nominal defendant. 
On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled, “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” which condemned the types of censorship the plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden had filed suit regarding. With a sympathetic administration in office, the plaintiffs were able to negotiate a consent decree rather than spend many more years embroiled in litigation.
The consent decree is focused on preventing the type of coercion, known as jawboning, that the federal government had used to do indirectly during Covid what it could not do directly: prevent Americans from speaking out in public about the major issues of the day. The parties agreed that the government would no longer take actions designed to bully social media companies into removing or suppressing content containing free speech. The consent decree further prohibits the government from directing or vetoing social media companies’ content moderation policies.
A critical limit in the consent decree, however, exposes the clear need for the government to take protective measures outside the confines of the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit. For technical legal reasons related to standing and jurisdiction, the consent decree is focused on the parties to the case. Rather than enjoin the federal government as a whole, the consent decree binds the Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which engaged in some of the most blatant jawboning efforts during the Covid period. The consent decree further protects only the plaintiffs in the case, that is, the states and individuals who sued the government. (In a bit of poetic justice, two of the plaintiffs, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, withdrew from the case after accepting senior posts in the Trump administration.)
The Missouri v. Biden plaintiffs are not the only litigants who have prevailed in challenges to Biden-era free speech violations. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-dept-reaches-censorship-settlement-with-daily-wire">reported</a>, this week, a federal judge issued a consent decree in a challenge to the Biden-era State Department’s practice of partnering with outside organizations to label various outlets — including this one and the Federalist — as disinformation. The State Department agreed that it would no longer engage in efforts to suppress, censor, demonetize, or downgrade the constitutionally protected speech of Americans and domestic news outlets. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-dept-reaches-censorship-settlement-with-daily-wire?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Daily+Wire+Wins+Landmark+Free+Speech+Victory+In+Censorship+Lawsuit+Against+State+Department"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-1070109 aligncenter" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/dw_vs._state_dept_16x9_720.png" alt="" width="720" height="405" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/dw_vs._state_dept_16x9_720.png 720w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/dw_vs._state_dept_16x9_720-300x169.png 300w" sizes=" (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /></a>
While these consent decrees are real victories for the plaintiffs who had the courage to take on the federal government in court, they will not stop a future administration from engaging in similar tactics that we saw during Covid, in the wake of the 2020 election, and throughout the Biden Administration. Americans as a whole deserve the robust protections the Missouri v. Biden plaintiffs earned in that litigation. 
Congressional action of any sort is admittedly a difficult feat. But there are few bedrock principles more important than those embodied in the First Amendment. If Congress wants to protect Americans’ free speech rights, the proposed consent decree in Missouri v. Biden is a useful roadmap. All federal agencies and officials, not just the select handful named in the proposed consent decree, should be prohibited from trying to control speech by telling social media companies what content is and is not allowed. And all Americans should be able to speak on social media with the assurance that the government cannot tell social media platforms to silence them.
The plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden and their attorneys should be praised for bringing a landmark lawsuit in the face of tremendous government overreach and achieving a real victory in the process. Congress should follow suit by extending those protections to everyone else.
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Jesse Franklin-Murdock is the Miles Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Liberty, and he is a partner at Sweigart Murdock, LLP in San Francisco, where he specializes in First Amendment and defamation law, political law, and civil rights.

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Recent media coverage of rising gas prices reflects something more consequential than concern for energy affordability. It reveals a pattern of selective outrage and one meant to condition the American public to view any temporary cost associated with national security as politically unacceptable — especially under a Republican administration. This dynamic carries strategic consequences. It erodes trust, weakens institutional resilience, and reduces our country’s capacity to absorb short-term strain in pursuit of long-term stability.
During the Biden administration, gasoline prices <a href="https://www.wbur.org/npr/1084893419/gas-prices-surge-to-above-4-a-gallon-oil-russia-ukraine-antony-blinken">reached</a> historic and unsustainable levels, surpassing $5.00 per gallon in many parts of the country as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted global energy markets. The media’s coverage at the time was extensive, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/us/politics/fact-check-republicans-biden-gas.html">but they refused to blame then-President Biden</a> for foolishly tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in November 2021 ahead of the war. The dominant narrative emphasized structural forces, including global commodity markets, supply chain disruptions, and post-pandemic demand recovery outpacing supply. It was the former president’s climate policies, however, that inevitably invited energy insecurity.
Those explanations reflected the realities of energy economics. Energy markets respond to geopolitical shocks, and price volatility often follows disruptions to supply and transportation infrastructure. Public messaging from legacy media during that period <a href="https://time.com/6188569/gas-prices-oil/">emphasized patience while markets stabilized</a>.
Current coverage reflects a very different emphasis: It’s panicked, grim, and chaotic. The narrative is intended to guilt developed nations into <a href="https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-wars-renewable-energy-asia-4b5fe0693ce5816472c905db85f7da6e">abandoning</a> “warmongering” oil and gas for “<a href="https://time.com/7358460/renewable-energy-peace-democracy-venezuela/">peaceful</a>” renewable energy to fight a so-called climate crisis, despite much of the world now <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/magazine/climate-politics-us-world-paris-agreement.html">prioritizing</a> energy security. The United Nations claims wind and solar energy, unlike oil and gas, will withstand closures in the Strait of Hormuz. Much to the UN’s chagrin, energy-importing nations that have adopted 100% renewable energy targets are planning to purchase <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/after-qatar-lng-plant-outage-more-buyers-turn-to-us-suppliers">American liquefied natural gas (LNG)</a> or <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/iran-war-lng-asia-japan.html">pivot back to coal</a> after Qatar’s LNG terminal closed down.
Price volatility is frequently presented as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/politics/gas-prices-republicans-affordability.html">evidence of policy failure</a> rather than as a predictable consequence of geopolitical risk. Rather than putting the temporary economic pressure as something that deserves perspective and patience, it is portrayed as a political liability that must be eliminated immediately. This framing amplifies anxiety while obscuring the strategic rationale behind national security decisions and the long-term expectation that energy prices will soon come back down. This isn’t 2022, with an administration that deliberately suppressed domestic energy production. The landscape is vastly different, and arguably more secure, with American energy dominance keeping prices relatively low here at home and coming to the rescue abroad.
That shift in emphasis by the media shapes public perception over time.
Research on public opinion during military operations <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2007.00602.x">demonstrates</a> public support for national security decisions tracks the signals sent by major institutions.
Coverage that focuses primarily on risk, cost, and disruption encourages the public to conclude that action lacks justification. A sustained emphasis on negative consequences and downplaying the purpose and potential upsides contributes to declining confidence in leadership and reduced tolerance for continued engagement.
Over the long term, the media framing weakens our country and the public. A society that interprets every economic disruption as a disaster and evidence of fundamental failure becomes less willing to endure temporary hardship even when the alternative carries greater long-term risk and expense.
Trust declines gradually through accumulated inconsistency.
This erosion of trust carries implications beyond the current moment. A public conditioned to associate short-term economic disruption with failure will resist future decisions that require temporary sacrifice, regardless of the strategic stakes involved.
Public uncertainty about the necessity of current operations reflects an imbalance in how the rationale has been reinforced in public discourse. Policymakers have articulated the objective of degrading the capabilities of a regime that was developing advanced ballistic missile capabilities <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-fires-missiles-remote-uk-us-base-claiming-long-range-capabilities-rcna264547">able to reach long distances</a>, unfettered <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/05/21/9-myths-about-irans-uranium-enrichment-program/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23305160353&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADHXS9VYjLIExrfvz9Me63UlMpO7a&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwyYPOBhBxEiwAgpT8P611Ekse1TESk6d_oEGyl9DdHc8HDPOTawrLNLyStN8M33Drkse33BoCfyAQAvD_BwE">nuclear ambitions</a>, arms proxy forces <a href="https://www.cfr.org/articles/irans-regional-armed-network">across multiple theaters</a>, and uses <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-chokes-strait-hormuz-reported-2m-tanker-toll-regime-threatens-global-oil-supply">instability</a> to influence global energy markets.
The strategic logic rests on deterrence. Restoring deterrence imposes short-term costs but reduces the likelihood of sustained instability and higher long-term economic disruption – specifically global energy prices.
Coverage that concentrates on immediate economic consequences without sustained attention to strategic necessity leaves the public with incomplete information. That informational gap encourages apprehension and weakens support for popular actions that serve long-term security interests.
The United States has historically maintained security and prosperity by accepting temporary hardship when the stakes were explained clearly and consistently. Wartime rationing, economic sanctions, and military mobilization all required short-term sacrifice in service of larger objectives.
Public resilience depends on coherent communication from institutions and a shared understanding of the relationship between cost and purpose. That resilience weakens when the information environment frames disruption as avoidable and treats temporary hardship as evidence of failure.
Leadership requires the willingness to act despite short-term discomfort and to explain the reasons for that action clearly. Public resilience requires the willingness to endure temporary strain when the strategic rationale is understood.
Americans facing higher gas prices deserve transparency for what they are being asked to pay and the strategic purpose behind this ask from the media without bias. Clear explanation strengthens trust, supports resilience, and preserves the capacity to act decisively when national security requires it.
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Meaghan Mobbs is director of Independent Women’s Center for American Safety and Security.
Gabriella Hoffman is director of Independent Women’s Center for Energy and Conservation.

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President Donald Trump on Monday slammed the Biden administration&#8217;s “open door” policies for the release of an illegal immigrant suspected of murdering 18-year-old college student Sheridan Gorman.
Trump’s comments came after 25-year-old Jose Medina-Medina, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, was charged in the killing of Gorman, a student at Loyola University Chicago. Authorities say Medina approached Gorman on Thursday while she was watching the Northern Lights near a lakefront pier and opened fire, striking her as she tried to flee.
“It&#8217;s devastating. These people were let in by Biden. We&#8217;re getting them out. We&#8217;re getting them out fast. That&#8217;s why ICE is so important. They are doing such a good job,” Trump told Daily Wire reporter Mary Margaret Olohan, part of the presidential press pool, on Monday morning. “This animal, I saw the whole thing last night. They gave me a briefing.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryMargOlohan</a>: Another young woman was killed by an illegal immigrant that was let in under Biden. Do you have a message for her family? <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s devastating. These people were let in by Biden. We&#8217;re getting them out&#8230;That&#8217;s why ICE is so important&#8230;&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/74YM2RxX3h">pic.twitter.com/74YM2RxX3h</a>
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Medina was released into the United States in May 2023 and had previously faced shoplifting charges, according to authorities. He was released by local officials following that incident.
“This person came in through the open-door policy of Joe Biden. We&#8217;re taking them out by the tens of thousands. We’re doing a great job. It’s a shame. They’ve hurt our country,” Trump said. 
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Leftist Chicago Alderman Maria Hadden described the incident as Gorman being &#8220;at the wrong place at the wrong time.&#8221;
Gorman’s family pushed back, saying she was in a safe area.  
“She was walking with a group of friends near her dorm, in an area that was understood to be safe. There was nothing reckless about her actions,” the family said. “What happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to the idea of someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“This is the loss of a daughter. The loss of a sister. The loss of a future filled with milestones that will now never come. Our family is forever changed,” they said.  
The family added that the suspect should never have been free to roam the streets.
&#8220;We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime,&#8221; they said. &#8220;When systems fail — whether through release decisions, lack of coordination, or unwillingness to act — the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And in our case, they are permanent.&#8221;
Medina was <a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/sheridan-gorman-loyola-killing-venezuelan-court">expected</a> to appear in court on Monday to face charges for first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, three felony counts of aggravated assault, and unlawful possession of a firearm. However, the Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s Office said Medina is currently hospitalized and unable to attend the detention hearing, NBC5 <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suspect-in-killing-of-loyola-university-chicago-student-hospitalized-states-attorney-says/3912241/">reported</a>. 
The Department of Homeland Security has urged Chicago officials not to release Medina. 
“Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life,” said Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis. “We are calling on Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods.”

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The Biden administration, in its last days in office, secretly entered into a sweetheart settlement with an alleged Iranian front group, with the government agreeing to relinquish a $174 million interest in Manhattan real estate that it previously seized for prohibited links to the terror state.
When The Daily Wire revealed that the Manassas Mosque outside of D.C. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mosque-near-pentagon-labels-irans-khamenei-as-its-martyred-leader" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pledged its loyalty</a> to the &#8220;martyred&#8221; Supreme Leader of Iran, numerous officials called for a crackdown on the mosque, which is funded by the Alavi Foundation.
Alavi was originally funded by the shah of Iran prior to the revolution, then taken over by figures linked to the Islamic hardline regime. For years, it used front groups to hide the forbidden relationship, the DOJ said in a 2008 <a href="https://akamai-staging.justice.gov/usao-sdny/programs/victim-witness-services/united-states-v-all-right-title-and-interest-assa-corp-08-civ-10934-rjh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forfeiture action</a> against the Assa Corp., which the DOJ said was an offshore front group used by Alavi.
It emerged this week that the Biden administration agreed to settle a long-running case on favorable terms to the foundation – a decision that could now contribute to increased pro-mullah activity inside America during wartime.
A federal court document <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.337385/gov.uscourts.nysd.337385.2490.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> that the court approved a settlement agreement on January 17, 2025, three days before Biden left office. On March 11, 2026, Judge Loretta A. Preska <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.337385/gov.uscourts.nysd.337385.2491.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to &#8220;seal the Order in its entirety,&#8221; &#8220;not only from the public, but also from any litigant that is not a party to the Settlement Agreement.&#8221;
The settlement was first reported by <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/03/alavi-foundation-iran-linked-manhattan-justice-department/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish Insider</a>, which located a January 12 filing with the New York State Charity Board that laid out its terms.
It would transfer assets to a new foundation, called the Amir Kabir Foundation, which shares most of the same leaders as Alavi. It would agree to pay victims of Iranian terror who had sued the foundation – but slowly, and mostly out of proceeds that come from the government agreeing to give back a portion of the building that was seized for its links to Iran.
The terms &#8220;provide for the payment or release of a total of $318 million to the United States government and the Judgment Creditors,&#8221; but &#8220;a majority of the Payment will be in exchange for the 40% partnership interest in the Fifth Avenue Company previously held by Petitioner&#8217;s former partner, Assa, an entity determined to be indirectly owned by Bank Melli, an Iranian bank. The Assa Interest is now held by the United States government,&#8221; the charity document said.
The Alavi Foundation owns $300 million in real estate, including properties around the nation&#8217;s capital and the remaining 60% interest in the Fifth Avenue skyscraper. The 40% interest that had previously been seized is worth $174 million.
That means instead of paying what it owes, it is seemingly largely meeting its obligations thanks to a gift from the U.S. government. To fund the settlement, the foundation will be able to use rental income from Assa&#8217;s share of the building &#8220;that has accumulated over the course of nearly sixteen years of litigation and which is held in a bank account controlled by the U.S. Marshals Service,&#8221; the filing said.
It said the terms of the agreement were agreed to by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who would monitor the new foundation for five years.
Lara Burns, a former FBI agent and head of terrorism research at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, told Jewish Insider that “Allowing Alavi to obfuscate their identity and basically start with a clean slate creates risks related to a continued foreign influence campaign on behalf of a regime that has called for the death of U.S. leaders and who has blatantly stated its intent to cause America harm through a variety of nefarious activities.”
Alavi&#8217;s attorney, Daniel Ruzumna, told the publication that Alavi&#8217;s board had turned over completely since litigation began, and that leaders of the new entity, the Amir Kabir Foundation, had been interviewed by the Biden administration&#8217;s Department of Justice, which did not object. “AKF and its board members have no relationship to the Government of Iran,&#8221; he said.
In 2017, a New York jury &#8220;found the 36-story office building at 650 Fifth Avenue (the &#8216;Building&#8217;), worth at least $500 million, and other real property and bank accounts <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/acting-manhattan-us-attorney-announces-historic-jury-verdict-finding-forfeiture-midtown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forfeitable</a> to the United States as proceeds of violations of the Iran sanctions and property involved in laundering the proceeds,&#8221; the Department of Justice said at the time, in what was the &#8220;largest terrorism-related civil forfeiture in United States history.&#8221;
&#8220;Hiding in plain sight, this 36-story Manhattan office tower secretly served as a front for the Iranian government and as a gateway for millions of dollars to be funneled to Iran in clear violation of U.S. sanctions laws,&#8221; it said.
It said Alavi, the 60% owner, knew that its minority partner was an Iranian front group. The government planned to sell the building and send the proceeds to victims of Iranian terror. But in 2019, the jury verdict was overturned on appeal.
In 2009, the then-head of the Alavi Foundation, Farshid Jahedi, was indicted for “allegedly destroying documents subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating the Alavi Foundation’s relationship with Bank Melli Iran and the ownership of a Manhattan office building,” the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nys/pressreleases/May09/Jahedi,%20Farshid%20Indictment%20PR.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
But President Barack Obama gave lenient treatment: In 2010, Jahedi pleaded guilty and was sentenced to <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-slap-hand-of-alavis-ex-boss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only</a> three months in prison and a $3,000 fine on two felony counts.
The Alavi Foundation funded the Manassas Mosque 30 miles outside of D.C., which held an event &#8220;Honoring Our Leader Shaheed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei&#8221; after the ayatollah was killed during Operation Epic Fury.
In 2023, nine GOP congressmen <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/gop-reps-raise-alarm-bells-irans-influence-american-religious-institutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to the Biden administration’s attorney general and director of national intelligence, saying that the Manassas mosque received $200,000 from the Alavi Foundation and “a recent video inside the Mosque showed it is adorned with pictures of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps … This appears to be part of a network of regime-sponsored mosques acting as agents for a foreign adversary.”
The Manassas Mosque’s imam is Abolfazl Bahram Nahidian, who in 2010 said that Israel was behind 9/11, and who is currently in Iran. His daughter-in-law has been behind much of the anti-Israel activism in D.C., and <a href="https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/2029266278150471909/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to Instagram a photo that said &#8220;Soon we will avenge (your death) from the Zionists and the Americans&#8230; They&#8217;ve dug their own graves.&#8221;
In response to The Daily Wire&#8217;s reporting, Rep. Keith Self (R-TX), a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said “The enemy is inside the gates.”
“We need to get them the hell out of our country,” Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mosque-near-pentagon-labels-irans-khamenei-as-its-martyred-leader?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Mosque+Near+Pentagon+Labels+Iran’s+Khamenei+As+Its+‘Martyred+Leader’">Mosque Near Pentagon Labels Iran’s Khamenei As Its ‘Martyred Leader’</a>

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The terrorist who opened fire in a Virginia classroom on Thursday had been released early from federal custody and later enrolled in classes at Old Dominion University, developments that may have been made possible by Democrat policies.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/15/us/mohamed-bailor-jalloh-old-dominion">Mohamed Bailor Jalloh</a> was initially sentenced in 2017 to 11 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release. He was released in December 2024 after completing a substance abuse program that could qualify inmates for reduced sentences under a provision of the 1994 crime bill signed by then-President Bill Clinton. A Trump administration policy change in 2025 later barred inmates convicted of terrorism-related crimes from qualifying for such early release.
Jalloh&#8217;s release came just eight years after he told investigators that he had considered a Fort Hood-style attack on American military personnel.
Less than two years after he was released, he walked into a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) classroom, shooting and killing a decorated service member and ROTC instructor, Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, before students subdued him.
Another law that may have cleared a path for Jalloh, <a href="https://www.progress-index.com/story/news/2021/06/03/virginia-governor-removes-criminal-record-checkbox-college-apps/7527473002/">signed in 2021</a> by then-Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA), bars colleges from asking prospective students about their criminal histories on applications — and may help explain how Jalloh, 36, was able to enroll in online classes at Old Dominion despite his 2016 guilty plea to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (ISIS).
Former Attorney General Jason Miyares drew attention to the issue with an <a href="https://x.com/JasonMiyaresVA/status/2033160143395836335">X post</a>, referencing what he called a &#8220;social justice&#8221; law signed by Northam.
The Common Application, which many Virginia universities use, removed its criminal history question by 2019, and Northam later signed legislation in 2021 prohibiting public universities from asking applicants about criminal records.
The U.S. Department of Education, under former President Joe Biden, urged the rest of the nation to move in the same direction as recently as 2023. A report titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.highereddive.com/news/education-department-ban-box-incarcerated-students/649091/">Beyond the Box 2023</a>&#8221; advised universities to stop asking prospective students to provide their criminal histories, stating that there was not enough evidence to prove that previous crimes were indicative of on-campus behavior.
“The use of criminal justice information is very different from the traditional information reviewed in a college application,” the report stated. “Properly trained admissions staff are key to ensuring that a criminal record does not unfairly bias the admission decision and that formerly incarcerated applicants are treated with dignity.”
Jalloh was released from federal custody in December 2024, re‑enrolled at ODU in summer 2025, and was taking <a href="https://www.pilotonline.com/2026/03/13/jalloh-was-student/">online classes</a> at the university at the time of the shooting. Authorities have not said whether he used a student ID to access the building where the shooting occurred.

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As the world watches the Iranian regime scramble to find a spider hole in the face of escalating regional pressure, a stark reality has emerged: former President Joe Biden’s catastrophic decision to abandon Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan has left the United States with its hands tied behind its back.
Reports are now flooding in that the Iranian &#8220;top brass,&#8221; sensing the walls closing in on Tehran, have decamped to the distant city of Mashhad.
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A major mystery over the past few days has been the exact location where regime officials are giving interviews to state TV.
​The Iranian account <a href="https://twitter.com/Merida2NAJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Merida2NAJ</a> accurately identified the site as the Mashhad branch of the regime&#39;s Foreign Ministry 👇 <a href="https://t.co/xCapy73uWa">pic.twitter.com/xCapy73uWa</a>
&mdash; Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/2031829155936079949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
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This isn&#8217;t just a change of scenery; it’s a strategic retreat. As was noted on X, the regime has abandoned the capital for a site &#8220;as far away from US bases and carriers—and from Israel—as you can get without actually fleeing to Afghanistan.&#8221;
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The regime&#39;s top brass seems to have decamped to the distant city of Mashhad, as far away from the US bases and carriers—and from Israel—as you can get without actually fleeing to Afghanistan. They have abandoned the capital. <a href="https://t.co/xkXk2KHe23">https://t.co/xkXk2KHe23</a> <a href="https://t.co/tcIExBPCGs">pic.twitter.com/tcIExBPCGs</a>
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Mashhad, now identified as the site where many say regime officials are conducting state TV interviews from a branch of the Foreign Ministry, sits roughly 575 miles from Bagram Airbase. In military terms, that is a stone’s throw for a modern air force. But thanks to the Biden administration’s 2021 surrender of that strategic crown jewel, that distance might as well be a million miles.
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz summed up the frustration of the military community in five words: &#8220;If only we still had Bagram Airbase&#8230;&#8221;
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If only we still had Bagram Airbase…. <a href="https://t.co/54S0E09EZQ">https://t.co/54S0E09EZQ</a>
&mdash; Ambassador Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/2031960371414675633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The loss of Bagram — one of the largest U.S. military facilities in Afghanistan,<a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/Nov/16/2002893786/-1/-1/1/LEAD%20INSPECTOR%20GENERAL%20FOR%20OPERATION%20FREEDOM%E2%80%99S%20SENTINEL%20JULY%201%2C%202021%20-%20SEPTEMBER%2030%2C%202021..PDF.PDF?utm_source=chatgpt.com"> hosting</a> roughly 40,000 personnel — wasn&#8217;t a defeat on the battlefield; it was a self-inflicted wound by a commander-in-chief who prioritized a political calendar over tactical reality. In July 2021, Biden oversaw a &#8220;midnight departure&#8221; so poorly coordinated that the Afghan commander didn’t even know the Americans were gone until two hours after the last plane cleared the runway. By cutting the power and slipping away in the dark, the Biden administration didn&#8217;t just leave a base — they left a vacuum that was immediately filled by looters and, eventually, the Taliban.
Biden’s defenders, including Secretary Lloyd Austin and <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-contradicts-milley-on-decision-to-abandon-bagram/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">General Mark Milley</a>, tried to hand-wave the decision, citing manpower constraints. They claimed they couldn’t spare 5,000 troops to secure the $1 billion infrastructure. Instead, Biden chose to funnel everything through the vulnerable Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, setting the stage for the chaotic collapse that followed.
The consequences of this retreat are staggering. When Bagram fell on August 15, 2021, the Taliban didn&#8217;t just get a runway; they got the keys to the Parwan Detention Facility, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/politics/kabul-airport-attacker-prison">releasing</a> thousands of Al-Qaeda and ISIS-K terrorists back into the wild. They also inherited a &#8220;gift&#8221; from the American taxpayer: a portion of the <a href="https://voz.us/en/politics/251205/31639/afghan-watchdog-concludes-billions-in-weapons-u-s-left-behind-form-core-of-taliban-military.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com#google_vignette">$7.1 billion</a> in tactical equipment left behind across the country, including Black Hawks, MRAPs, and advanced night-vision tech.
Today, while the Taliban uses Bagram to hold military parades showcasing refurbished U.S. gear, the Iranian mullahs are using the base’s absence to their advantage. Had Biden maintained the American presence at Bagram, the move to Mashhad would have placed the Iranian leadership directly under the nose of U.S. airpower. Instead, Biden’s retreat has provided the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism exactly what they needed: a safe haven just out of reach.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-bagram-air-base">Donald Trump</a> and other critics have noted, Bagram was a vital strategic asset—not just for Afghanistan, but for monitoring China and holding Iran accountable. By abandoning it, Joe Biden didn&#8217;t just end a war; he disarmed the United States in a region that is now more volatile than ever.

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President Donald Trump blamed former President Joe Biden and his lax immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border for any Iranian &#8220;sleeper cells&#8221; that may have made it into the United States.
Trump said on Wednesday that his administration had &#8220;eyes on&#8221; a number of suspicious people who he said had crossed the border during the Biden administration, adding, &#8220;We know where most of them are. We&#8217;ve got our eye on all of them, I think.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/pdoocy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@pdoocy</a>: &#8220;Have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the US right now?&#8221;
PRESIDENT TRUMP: &#8220;I have been and a lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border. But we know where most of them are. We&#8217;ve got our eye on all of them,… <a href="https://t.co/VrAqcXgfkr">pic.twitter.com/VrAqcXgfkr</a>
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Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump about an alert — sent by the federal government to law enforcement offices all across the country — indicating that an encrypted message appeared to originate in Iran shortly after the launch of Operation Epic Fury and may have been designed to activate &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-dept-issues-worldwide-caution-alert-amid-report-iran-threatened-trump-with-sleeper-cells">sleeper cells</a>&#8221; already in the United States and other parts of the world.
&#8220;Have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the US right now?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;I have been and a lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border. But we know where most of them are. We&#8217;ve got our eye on all of them, I think,&#8221; Trump replied.
&#8220;Is it dozens?&#8221; Doocy pressed, looking for clarification.
&#8220;They came in through the open border policies of &#8216;sleepy &#8216;Joe Biden. One of the worst&#8230;the worst president in the history of our country and we&#8217;ve got our eyes on all of them,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But the war itself is being prosecuted at a level that nobody&#8217;s seen before. It&#8217;s pretty — it&#8217;s pretty amazing to watch.&#8221;
President Trump has taken every opportunity to tout his administration&#8217;s actions and the accomplishments of the United States military — alongside the Israeli Defense Forces — in Operation Epic Fury&#8217;s first ten days, telling Republican members at a recent conference, &#8220;No other president could do some of the sh*t I&#8217;m doing.&#8221;

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Trump Says Iranian ‘Sleeper Cells’ Came In Through Biden’s ‘Stupid Open Border’

Trump Says Iranian 'Sleeper Cells' Came In Through Biden's 'Stupid Open Border'

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An illegal immigrant accused of killing his three-year-old nephew in Florida was released into the United States by the Biden administration despite having previously been deported, The Daily Wire has learned.
He later went on to receive a deportation order after his release, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire.
Honduran illegal immigrant Samuel Antonio Maldonado-Erazo, 28, allegedly took the toddler to work on March 4 and ignored severe signs of distress his nephew appeared to be experiencing, <a href="https://www.fox10tv.com/2026/03/07/this-case-is-horrific-illegal-immigrant-accused-causing-death-his-3-year-old-nephew/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox10.
Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said the child had several broken ribs, one of which was detached from the backbone, a broken collarbone, and a transected pancreas from blunt trauma, the local news outlet reported. The child also appeared to show signs of possible sexual abuse.
When first responders came upon the toddler, they found he was suffering from cardiac arrest, according to Fox10.
“Life-saving measures were attempted but unfortunately, he passed,” Simmons said. “We learned this young boy suffered extensive bruising about his body, to include 17 strikes to the head alone. Additionally, there were several burn marks consistent with heating a lighter and then pressing that lighter against the skin. These injuries and the neglect associated with them contributed to his death.”
“The injuries to the child are hard to talk about, and even harder to imagine having to endure,” Simmons said. “The only solace I can think of is he suffers no more.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed a detainer with local authorities on March 5, asking for a heads-up before releasing Maldonado-Erazo, DHS said.
Maldonado-Erazo illegally entered the United States in August 2021 and &#8220;was immediately removed,&#8221; DHS said.
He then reentered the country illegally in November 2021 and was released &#8220;under the Biden administration’s catch-and-release policies,&#8221; the agency added.
He was ordered deported in May 2023, according to DHS.
Homeland Security deputy assistant secretary Lauren Bis called the situation &#8220;absolutely sickening,&#8221; saying &#8220;This heinous crime underscores the importance of local authorities working with ICE to remove dangerous criminal illegal aliens from American communities.&#8221;
“The Biden administration should have never RELEASED this monster into our communities,&#8221; Bis added.
The three-year-old was left with Maldonado-Erazo after his mother and aunt were deported, Simmons said.
Maldonado-Erazo had other children living with him who have since been taken into the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families, the sheriff said.
Erazo was originally charged with negligent manslaughter, but his charges have since been upgraded to felony murder, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.

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Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Killing 3-Year-Old Nephew Was Released By Biden After Prior Deportation

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