Former Democratic fundraiser Lindy Li says former Vice President Kamala Harris intentionally misled donors in the weeks before she took over the campaign — and the donors knew it.
Li, who switched her party affiliation after Democrats ignored the warning signs that made it clear former President Joe Biden was not capable of serving another term, gave an insider&#8217;s view of what transpired in the days before Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race — and what Harris did to crown herself his de facto successor.
&#8220;It was all charade. She was auditioning for Biden&#8217;s endorsement, and the way that she did it was by imposing a fake rule on her staff to not talk about her ascending to the nomination,&#8221; Li told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-dem-insider-accuses-harris-charade-major-donors-days-before-biden-dropped-out">Fox News Digital</a>.
Li worked closely with donors as a top fundraiser for the party, and she said that as the campaign stretched into the summer of 2024 it became painfully clear to those closest to Biden that he would not make it to November. Harris, she said, used that time to position herself favorably with the donors.
&#8220;I was on the call; she would host calls with donors and pretend to support Biden and say there&#8217;s no daylight between Biden and herself. All the while she was auditioning for those very donors,&#8221; Li explained, adding that Harris carried the charade all the way through to the day Biden left the race: &#8220;It was either on July 19th or July 20th. Actually, I think it was July 19, 2024; Kamala Harris held a call saying that there was no way that Biden would drop out and that she would stick with him until the end. And these were some of the biggest donors in the party.&#8221;
&#8220;A lot of us have group chats, and the immediate reaction is what an effing waste of time. What a charade, how fake. Like these are like the wealthiest people in the country saying that,&#8221; Li said of the general reaction to Harris&#8217; comments. &#8220;They were very aware they were being lied to, that Biden was clearly not okay and to be told that he was okay when he was clearly incapacitated. It was insulting.&#8221;
Once Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, Li said that the president had been hesitant to endorse Harris. But because she had done such a thorough job of ingratiating herself with party donors — and she&#8217;d all but told them that she had Biden&#8217;s full confidence — Biden felt like he did not have a choice.
&#8220;She was flattering people left and right. The first 24 hours were a very intensive charm offensive on her part. And that&#8217;s how she was able to consolidate it so quickly. She flattered people up the wazoo. It made it abundantly clear that Biden had endorsed her. And Biden initially — I don&#8217;t know if people know this, but he didn&#8217;t want to endorse her right away. It took him a while,&#8221; Li said.
The former Democratic fundraiser has written a book — &#8220;<a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/unburdened-lindy-li?variant=44717895680034">Unburdened</a>&#8221; — detailing the months that led up to the end of Biden&#8217;s campaign and her subsequent exit from the party. It will be available September 22.

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Hunter Biden said &#8220;may have to&#8221; enter the 2028 presidential race in an <a href="https://wabcradio.com/show/the-cats-roundtable/">interview</a> Sunday, a notable shift from his previous dismissals of the idea.
Speaking with radio host John Catsimatidis on WABC&#8217;s &#8220;Cats Roundtable,&#8221; Biden was asked whether he had considered a White House bid. &#8220;If I get your endorsement, I may have to,&#8221; he told Catsimatidis, a billionaire grocery chain owner and ally of President Donald Trump. Biden added that his central concern would be the roughly 50 million Americans he said are still struggling with addiction.
Asked what would qualify him for office, Biden pointed to the Constitution rather than his own resume. &#8220;He is my qualification for becoming president, if you believe in the Constitution of the United States of America that you swear to uphold and protect,&#8221; he said, adding that he wants the next president &#8220;to commit to one thing: adhering to the rule of law.&#8221;
The comment sits awkwardly alongside Biden&#8217;s own legal history; his father granted him a full and unconditional pardon in December 2024, wiping away federal convictions on gun and tax charges before he could be sentenced.
The remark also stands in contrast to comments Biden made in August during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEGP_dd2zig">appearance</a> on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher,&#8221; where he waved off the idea of running and joked that anyone hearing he&#8217;d announced a campaign should &#8220;check and see if I relapsed.&#8221;
In the Catsimatidis interview, Biden stopped short of declaring a campaign and instead praised the depth of the Democratic field, name-dropping Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) and Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) before saying, &#8220;I love Gavin Newsom, personally.&#8221; Newsom, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/politics/gavin-newsom-2028-race.html">has acknowledged</a> eying a run after this year&#8217;s midterms, has separately polled ahead of both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in hypothetical general election matchups, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6039336-rubio-outperforms-vance-poll/">according</a> to an August Emerson College/The Hill survey. Other Democrats frequently mentioned as potential 2028 contenders include Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), former Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Any Biden candidacy would almost assuredly draw renewed scrutiny of his colorful personal and legal history. He was convicted in 2024 on federal gun charges tied to a 2018 firearm purchase, during which he falsely denied drug use, and separately pleaded guilty to federal tax charges. His father&#8217;s sweeping, unconditional pardon in 2024 covered any such conduct dating back a decade.
Biden has spoken candidly about his addiction struggles, including in his 2021 memoir, and said in the interview that he recently marked seven and a half years of sobriety.

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Embattled former first son Hunter Biden came out as &#8220;a little bit&#8221; gay during a recent podcast interview, putting the number at just under 50%.
Biden spoke with host Luke Beasley on his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_GblOwaOUQ">eponymous podcast</a> and joked about his orientation for a good part of the show&#8217;s opening bit.
Beasley kicked things off by first pretending to announce that former President Joe Biden was going to be on the show — and then feigned disappointment when he realized his guest was actually Hunter Biden. After reading off some of the former president&#8217;s resume, Beasley asked Hunter, &#8220;So what do you do?
&#8220;Seriously?&#8221; Biden asked, before joking that he&#8217;d better admit now to being a &#8220;central figure&#8221; in the Biden crime family.
&#8220;No, what do you do besides be related to someone cool?&#8221; Beasley asked.
When they had exhausted that avenue, Beasley turned to Biden and announced, &#8220;Let&#8217;s get serious. I&#8217;m gay.&#8221;
&#8220;Really? Wow. Seriously. I’m so amazed you’re gay,&#8221; Biden replied.
&#8220;Are you gay?&#8221; Beasley asked.
&#8220;Only a little bit,&#8221; Biden replied.
Beasley followed up, asking Biden whether &#8220;a little bit&#8221; meant &#8220;more or less than 50 percent.&#8221;
Biden: &#8220;48.6.&#8221;
&#8220;If you were gay, would I be your type?&#8221; Beasley asked.
Biden appeared to backtrack his announcement, saying, &#8220;No, a little bit more masculine would be my type, if I was gay.&#8221;
Beasley pivoted to ask Biden about his art, saying that he&#8217;d heard somewhere that the former president&#8217;s son was a painter. When Biden said yes, he was a painter, Beasley replied simply: &#8220;Gay.&#8221;
&#8220;So you&#8217;re like very &#8230; colorful,&#8221; Beasley continued, clearly alluding to the LGBTQ Pride flag. &#8220;A &#8230; rainbow of colors.&#8221;
They kept coming back to the topic, and after a while, Biden said he wanted to revise his number: &#8220;Maybe I take back 48.5. More like 47 after that conversation. My gaydom went down a percentage point.”
He raised the topic once more as the interview came to a close, declaring, &#8220;I just wanted to let you know that I am back up to 48.5 percent gay.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s comments came just weeks after he said, on another podcast, that the biggest problem in Washington, D.C., was the &#8220;closeted gay mafia&#8221; — which he claimed was made up mostly of Republican men — who ran everything.
&#8220;I believe the biggest problem in America is not the oligarchy; it’s the closetocracy. Everybody knows there is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in DC. The only reason that is relevant is I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world,&#8221; he told Jennifer Welch on her &#8220;I&#8217;ve Had It&#8221; podcast.
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Legendary songstress Dolly Parton turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom three times — from two different presidents.
Parton, who passed away on Tuesday after a brief battle with an unspecified type of cancer, had the award offered to her twice during President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term and a third time during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration. All three times, she respectfully declined the honor.
After Biden offered her the award, the country legend explained why she turned down the honor during a 2021 appearance on &#8220;The TODAY Show,&#8221; telling hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager that she&#8217;d ultimately been offered three times.
&#8220;To be honest — in all fairness — I got offered the Freedom Award from the Trump administration,&#8221; Parton revealed. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t accept it because my husband was ill. Then they asked me again about it, and I wouldn&#8217;t travel because of the COVID.&#8221;
&#8220;So now I feel like if I take it I&#8217;ll be doing politics, so I don&#8217;t — I&#8217;m not sure,&#8221; Parton added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t work for those awards. It&#8217;d be nice, but I&#8217;m not sure that I — you know — that I even deserve it, but it&#8217;s a nice compliment for people to think that I might deserve it.&#8221;
Kotb pushed back, saying she believed &#8220;everybody thinks you might deserve it.&#8221;
Parton always <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2026/08/26/dolly-parton-awards-presidential-medal-of-freedom/91471344007/">eschewed politics</a>, saying that she certainly had her opinions but chose to keep them to herself because she valued both her privacy and her fans.
&#8220;First of all, I have as many Republican fans as I do Democrats. I don&#8217;t want to offend anybody, I have a right to myself,&#8221; she said.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom was not the only honor she turned down. Also in 2021, Tennessee lawmakers were considering a bill to have a statue of her placed on the Capitol grounds — and she reached out to them, asking that the bill be removed from consideration.
&#8220;[I don&#8217;t] think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time,&#8221; Parton said. &#8220;I hope, though, that somewhere down the road several years from now or perhaps after I&#8217;m gone if you still feel I deserve it, then I&#8217;m certain I will stand proud in our great State Capitol as a grateful Tennessean.&#8221;
She also asked to have her name removed from the 2022 list of nominees to the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame, saying that she had not &#8220;earned&#8221; the right to be added. The organization declined to remove her, however, and she was inducted anyway.
&#8220;I feel honored that all the people that voted for me did,&#8221; Parton told <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/dolly-parton-rock-roll-hall-fame-interview-1235066988/">Billboard</a> after she was inducted. &#8220;I never meant to cause trouble or stir up any controversy.&#8221;
Trump honored the late singer by having the flags lowered to half-staff for a week following her passing.
&#8220;There has never been anyone like her, and never will,&#8221; Trump said.

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Former First Lady Jill Biden is still wondering whether someone could have slipped something into then-President Joe Biden&#8217;s drink ahead of his disastrous 2024 debate with now-President Donald Trump.
Biden sat down with Jamie Kern Lima on her eponymous <a href="https://youtu.be/Vg83Xxndc_k?si=RZrJyR27HDWvstm_">podcast</a>, and the conversation turned to that moment — the moment that even the president&#8217;s staunchest allies and defenders had to admit that something was not right with his cognitive function.
&#8220;Still to this day, you don&#8217;t have a gut instinct on what — what was that moment?&#8221; the host asked.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Biden replied. &#8220;I mean, there&#8217;s all kinds of theories — you know, he had been traveling. I know he was tired, he didn&#8217;t feel well that day when I saw him, but there was nothing definitive that I could point to.&#8221;
&#8220;And I had been on the road for two weeks up until that moment, so I wasn&#8217;t with him. I didn&#8217;t see him days before, weeks before,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I saw him maybe one hour before.&#8221;
&#8220;And there&#8217;s no way anyone could have, God forbid, laced his drink or something —&#8221; Kern Lima suggested.
&#8220;Who knows? Who knows?&#8221; Biden answered.
&#8220;Who knows?&#8221; Kern Lima repeated.
&#8220;Right? Who knows?&#8221; Biden said again.
Kern Lima also asked the former first lady what she might say if embattled former First Son Hunter Biden ever decided to run for office — or even for president.
&#8220;You know, I do have a funny answer for that,&#8221; Biden said, adding, &#8220;I would say, &#8216;Run.&#8217; But then you take that how you want to &#8230; So, you know, Hunter&#8217;s got to find his own path. And whatever he decides to do — I feel that with all our kids &#8230; whatever they decide to do, we will support them. We&#8217;ll support them, 100%.&#8221;
Biden went on to say that she&#8217;d felt the same way about supporting her husband no matter what, claiming that she&#8217;d found it &#8220;daunting&#8221; when he decided to run for president, but her desire to &#8220;support&#8221; him ultimately won out.

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Jill Biden Can't Be Sure Joe Wasn't Roofied Before Debate Disaster

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A drug dealer let off the hook by President Joe Biden was arrested with a large stash of cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.
Walter Lee Muhammad, granted clemency in the final months of the Biden presidency, faces drug trafficking charges after police say he was arrested with 25 kilograms of cocaine, seven kilograms of heroin, and four kilograms of fentanyl. Biden cut the Atlanta-based Muhammad’s 10-year prison sentence six years short in December 2024 when he issued clemency to over a thousand drug offenders. 
“Muhammad is a serial drug trafficker who — despite receiving the extraordinary gift of presidential clemency — continued to deal lethal fentanyl and other dangerous drugs,” said U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg. “Thanks to our law enforcement partners, the community is safer with this repeat offender off the street and back behind bars.” 
Muhammad now faces federal and state drug trafficking charges after a lengthy investigation.
DEA agent Michael DeWald said in the complaint against Muhammad that he and other suspected drug traffickers had been under investigation since July 2025. Officials suspect that Muhammad had several Atlanta properties that he used to store and distribute the drugs. 
On August 5, 2026, DEA agents observed multiple bags being shuffled out of a property used by Muhammad. Those bags were transferred to a BMW which left late that evening for North Carolina. The BMW was stopped by the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office, which deployed dogs that detected drugs, according to investigators. 
“The Adidas bag contained MUHAMMAD’s clothing that was wrapped around four kilograms of fentanyl. Deputies found 25 kilograms of cocaine in the cardboard box. Guilford County Sheriff deputies field-tested the seized substances, and both tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl, respectively,” DeWald wrote in the complaint. 
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The next day, agents searched Muhammad’s property and found more heroin and fentanyl, along with three firearms, including a stolen Glock handgun. 
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“Despite receiving a second chance, this defendant returned to trafficking fentanyl and putting lives at risk,” said DEA special agent Jae Chung. “The seizure of this significant amount of fentanyl is a reminder that we will continue to hold those who profit from this deadly poison accountable.”
Prior to Biden’s clemency, Muhammad had been convicted for drug trafficking three other times. In August 1999, he was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Just over ten years later, in November 2010, he was convicted of conspiring to distribute marijuana, and in February 2020 he was sentenced for intending to traffic fentanyl. 
Biden issued a wave of pardons to drug dealers in his final months in office, claiming he was taking steps to give mercy to people given &#8220;disproportionately long sentences.&#8221; On January 17, 2025, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-commutes-sentences-of-another-2500-drug-offenders">commuted</a> the sentences of 2,500 drug offenders, in addition to the nearly 1,500 he granted clemency to in December 2024.
“With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history,&#8221; Biden boasted at the time.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden&#8217;s State Department taught diplomats how to discuss &#8220;systemic racism&#8221; and &#8220;white privilege&#8221; in foreign languages, encouraging U.S. diplomats to push other countries to mirror the Biden administration&#8217;s woke ideological stances on race and immigration, The Daily Wire has learned.
The Biden administration&#8217;s efforts included creating a &#8220;DEI Toolkit&#8221; for Foreign Service language instructors that contained trainings on &#8220;Black Lives Matter,&#8221; &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; and &#8220;systemic racism&#8221; in foreign languages, according to materials examined by The Daily Wire.
The Trump State Department is focused on reforming the Foreign Service, encouraging patriotic Americans to join the service, putting an end to leftist trainings pushed by the Biden administration and refocusing on &#8220;American history, diplomatic tradecraft, and the tangible skills that empower the Foreign Service to deliver results for the American people,&#8221; a spokesman shared.
Instead of focusing trainings on Black Lives Matter and DEI, an official shared, new Trump administration Foreign Service trainings include the topics: &#8220;Why Are You Here? Mission and Vision in a Career of Service,&#8221; or &#8220;The Need for Grand Strategy,&#8221; &#8220;Theories of Foreign Policy,&#8221; &#8220;Protecting American Citizens Abroad: Emergencies and Evacuations,&#8221; and &#8220;America Founding Principles: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers.&#8221;
“America’s diplomats are called to advocate for the national interests of the United States on the world stage – not advance extreme anti-American dogmas,&#8221; State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Fringe divisive ideological dogma has no places in Foreign Service training.”
Materials reviewed by The Daily Wire show that under the former president, State Department Foreign Service language instructors were tasked with teaching &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; concepts in Bangla, or Bengali, primarily spoken in South Asia.
That training suggested role-playing a scenario in which a video is presented to a Bengali class discussing white supremacy, racism, and discrimination, as well as &#8220;the linguistic and cultural barriers that make it difficult to broach these topics with the Bangladeshi American community.&#8221; The video referenced the country&#8217;s &#8220;renewed reckoning with systemic racism and its coercive effect on the public institutions.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_1156301" style="width: 905px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-heres-how-bidens-diplomats-pushed-woke-ideology-in-foreign-countries/president-biden-meets-with-his-cabinet-at-the-white-house-3" rel="attachment wp-att-1156301"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1156301" class="wp-image-1156301 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2173386735-895x576.jpg" alt="" width="895" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2173386735-895x576.jpg 895w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2173386735-300x193.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2173386735-768x494.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2173386735.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 895px) 100vw, 895px" /></a>U.S. President Joe Biden presides over a cabinet meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and others at the White House on September 20, 2024. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)</div>
The training&#8217;s vocabulary list included words such as racism, activism, affirmative action, discrimination, equal opportunity, equality, inequality, implicit bias, unconscious bias, systemic racism, white privilege, marginalization, police brutality, and violation of human rights.
Foreign service officers engaged in the training were asked to role play multiple choice questions with their students, discussing recent protests spurred by the death of George Floyd, highlighting the &#8220;importance of addressing racism at the institutional and individual levels,&#8221; to &#8220;control key vocabulary related to DEIC themes in the US in the target language,&#8221; and to use the Bangla language to share personal stories about how racism affects the United States, as well as &#8220;slavery&#8217;s enduring legacy.&#8221;
In one scenario, those taking the class would watch a video on BLM and then react to the following statement: &#8220;Your house is burning in a fire. The fire department comes and everyone tries to save your house. But I live next door and I&#8217;m saying, &#8216;Why aren&#8217;t you checking my house, my house matters also.'&#8221;
Then students would be asked to choose whether this exemplified systemic racism, white privilege, or implicit bias.
Another training focused on Black Lives Matter and systemic racism for those who speak Urdu, spoken primarily in Pakistan but also in parts of India and the Middle East. That section asked students to &#8220;reflect more deeply&#8221; about BLM and to make connections between &#8220;idealized&#8221; U.S. policy positions related to BLM and the &#8220;actual lived experiences of BLM in the US and the host country.&#8221; This group would also heavily focus on the death of George Floyd in the &#8220;target language&#8221; of Urdu.
A Hebrew section on &#8220;Race and Racism&#8221; tasked students with imagining that they are hosting an event at a library in Tel Aviv to discuss race and diversity in the United States and Israel. In this fictional scenario, they invited several colleagues from the Israeli Embassy to discuss current topics such as &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; and immigration as well as a panel of &#8220;diverse Israelis.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_1156309" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-heres-how-bidens-diplomats-pushed-woke-ideology-in-foreign-countries/atlanta-protest-over-police-custody-death-of-george-floyd-4" rel="attachment wp-att-1156309"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1156309" class="wp-image-1156309 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-1216237394.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="683" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-1216237394.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-1216237394-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-1216237394-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-1216237394-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>A man holds a Black Lives Matter sign as a police car burns during a protest on May 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.  (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)</div>
The Foreign Service officers would also be asked to role play situations involving race and racism. More training materials reviewed by The Daily Wire asked the officers to pretend they are hosting an event in another country while &#8220;the killing of an African American citizen by the police is all over the news.&#8221;
&#8220;While you were not planning to discuss &#8216;Black Lives Matter&#8217; in the U.S. you find yourself in a position to discuss race and diversity in the U.S. and host country,&#8221; the materials state. &#8220;You have invited several colleagues from the Embassy as well.&#8221;
In that role-playing scenario, the Foreign Service officer would be tasked with identifying solutions to racism in the United States and then asking their peers if their home country has similar issues related to minorities and how their government could improve racism in their own country.
The materials given to Biden administration State Department employees also included a vocabulary list instructing the diplomats on how to discuss hot button topics like BLM and immigration. Diplomats were asked not to refer to illegal aliens as &#8220;illegal,&#8221; for example, but instead to refer to them as &#8220;undocumented persons.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a problematic term often used in U.S. political discourse that many find dehumanizing, as it reduces individuals to their immigration status and implies undocumented immigrants are inferior and do not belong,&#8221; reads State Department documents shared with The Daily Wire.
Those documents also define privilege as &#8220;a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most,&#8221; and additionally, &#8220;unearned social power accorded by the formal and informal institutions of society to ALL members of a dominant group.&#8221;
&#8220;Privilege is usually invisible to those who have it because we are taught not to see it, but nevertheless it puts them at an advantage over those who do not have it.&#8221;

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National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya stopped CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan cold during a Sunday morning interview, refusing to let her steer the conversation away from what he says was his censorship by former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.
Midway through the interview, Brennan turned to Bhattacharya&#8217;s trip to Atlanta that week, marking one year since the shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters that killed DeKalb County police officer David Rose — a Marine combat veteran and father of three who had graduated from the police academy five months earlier. Brennan asked whether enough was being done to counter that kind of &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; noting that the shooter&#8217;s father said his son had been &#8220;brainwashed&#8221; about the vaccine and thought it &#8220;was making him suicidal.&#8221;
Bhattacharya, the acting CDC director, pushed back, reminding Brennan that not everyone agreed on what constituted &#8220;misinformation&#8221; — and that had been weaponized to great effect during Biden&#8217;s administration.
&#8220;I think the key thing is there&#8217;s a loss of public trust in public health that happened in part because a lot of — frankly, even on this network and on other networks — there was a particular single point of view put across during the COVID pandemic that led to things that really did cause harm to people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The school closures are probably the number one thing that the —&#8221;
Brennan interrupted, attempting to redirect the conversation: &#8220;This is not a productive line of claims. We covered COVID in depth on this program like no other Sunday show did.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not blaming you specifically,&#8221; Bhattacharya replied. &#8220;What I&#8217;m saying is that you want to talk about misinformation — the kinds of decisions and the public, sort of the face of public health during the pandemic led to many people losing trust in public health.&#8221;
&#8220;The Trump administration officials,&#8221; Brennan interjected.
&#8220;No, I mean like Biden. So Biden, for instance, censored me,&#8221; Bhattacharya said.
&#8220;The pandemic began under the Trump administration, and we put those officials on our air,&#8221; Brennan said.
&#8220;Just so we&#8217;re clear, the Biden administration censored me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They sent out direct attacks on people who disagreed on whether the COVID vaccine stopped — &#8221;
Brennan cut in to note that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had called the COVID vaccine &#8220;the deadliest vaccine ever made.&#8221;
&#8220;That is misinformation, and we&#8217;re not being clear about that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I think that is dangerous. Wouldn&#8217;t you agree?&#8221;
&#8220;People lost their jobs, Margaret, because the Biden administration censored people and said, &#8216;Look, you can&#8217;t even talk about COVID vaccine harms,&#8221; Bhattacharya responded.
&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about a shooting,&#8221; Brennan said.
&#8220;Yeah, and I&#8217;m talking about why you have the kind of distrust that&#8217;s led to the kind of problems that we were talking about earlier in public health,&#8221; Bhattacharya replied. &#8220;That distrust was not caused by President Trump, it wasn&#8217;t caused by Bobby.&#8221;

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NIH Director Reveals What Got Him ‘Censored’ By Biden Admin During COVID

NIH Director Stops Margaret Brennan Cold: 'The Biden Administration Censored Me'

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Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s prostate cancer has progressed beyond the bone metastases disclosed at his 2025 diagnosis and is causing him significant pain, his son Hunter Biden said in an interview Friday.
“The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further,” Hunter Biden said during an interview with <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ey458pv5o">BBC Newsnight</a>. “It’s very painful and it’s very debilitating in many respects.”
Hunter Biden became emotional while discussing his father’s condition, describing it as “really sad to watch” and saying he wished the former president would complain more about what he is experiencing.
Joe Biden, 83, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer">diagnosed</a> with an aggressive form of prostate cancer in May 2025, several months after leaving the White House, following a medical examination prompted by urinary symptoms. His office said at the time that the cancer had a Gleason score of 9 and had already metastasized to his bones, while describing it as hormone-sensitive and therefore potentially responsive to treatment.
Hunter Biden said his father remains active despite the progression of his illness. “He’s still out there. He’s still doing his thing,” Hunter Biden said. “He so believes in this country.”
“My dad is, to this day, the center of our family,” he added. “He’s the best father, the best husband, the best grandfather.”
Biden’s health became a major issue during the final year of his presidency, particularly following his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-plummets-in-betting-markets-as-cnn-polling-shows-trump-won-debate-in-blowout?author=Ryan+Saavedra&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Biden+Plummets+In+Betting+Markets+As+CNN+Polling+Shows+Trump+Won+Debate+In+Blowout">June 2024 debate</a> performance against now-President Donald Trump. Hunter Biden said he was “shocked” while watching the debate. “I knew something was wrong,” he added.
Hunter Biden also discussed his father&#8217;s decision to pardon him in the final weeks of his presidency, calling himself &#8220;the most privileged person there is&#8221; and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ey458pv5o">conceding</a> the pardon was &#8220;not good&#8221; for the American people, the Constitution or his father&#8217;s legacy.
Then-President Biden issued Hunter Biden a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-biden-pardons-hunter-claims-son-was-singled-out">full and unconditional pardon</a> in December 2024 covering his federal gun conviction, tax case and federal offenses committed between 2014 and 2024.
Hunter Biden said his father remains focused on his family and public life despite his illness. He concluded, “He’s the toughest man I know.”

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Grocery prices are too high; we all know it; we all get it.
They&#8217;re up about 35% since 2019 — first because of COVID-19, then because of Joe Biden&#8217;s inflationary policies. Inflation has slowed; grocery prices are up about 2.7% for the year right now.
But let’s set the record straight: Grocery prices are never coming back down to where they were in 2019. The only way for them to do that would be for us to experience a serious, actual deflationary episode, which generally means an economic depression.
Food inflation started to level out in 2023 while Joe Biden was still president, and has continued at a relatively tepid pace since. Yet the impression persists that the Trump administration isn&#8217;t doing enough to address inflation, in part because of the tariffs. Tariffs don&#8217;t target consumer prices; they target fairness in the production process and a level playing field with foreign countries
But there’s a far worse and more serious problem in the United States: Unrealistic, inflated utopian expectations.
Many young people have a completely broken set of expectations about life right now.
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One student wrote, “A burrito shouldn&#8217;t cost 20 bucks.” Andrew Kolvet of TPUSA commented, “Yeah, a lot of this is a hangover from Covid and Biden-era inflation, but the lived experience is the same: It just feels like basic things cost too much.”
I agree things cost more than they should. But there is only one way in the United States of America in 2026 for a burrito to cost $20: You went to an expensive restaurant.
A burrito at Chipotle probably tops out at about $13. A top-shelf burrito option at Taco Bell runs $5.99 plus tax.
Let’s pretend that you&#8217;re a poor young student, as I once was. Or pretend you&#8217;re a dude who is just starting his work life and wants upward mobility, as I once did.
This is what you do: If you want a burrito, you head to the supermarket. Here are today&#8217;s prices via Instacart: You buy a package of 10 tortillas for roughly $4. You also grab a can of refried beans for $2.50, then grab some cheese, salsa, maybe an avocado, and nuke it in the microwave.
Boom, you&#8217;re talking about a pretty good burrito for less than $2, one-tenth of the price that student was talking about.
So what the hell are we even talking about here?
Unfortunately, this has become the mode for a lot of young people: “Why can&#8217;t I afford what my parents could afford when they were my age?”
Spoiler alert about groceries: You can. And even in areas for housing where deregulation has been the rule, you still can.
In fact, today you have more restaurant options, your food takes up a smaller share of your disposable income, and it is probably significantly better than it was back in 1950, when your grandparents were consuming, on average, about 1,000 fewer calories per day than you do now.
Food expenditure as a share of family disposable income in the United States has been flat at well under 10% since the mid-1990s. If you go back to when your parents were doing this, it was roughly 13% to 15%. But we&#8217;re constantly being told that we can&#8217;t even afford food, which is a wild exaggeration.
We are, if anything, a very overweight country, and all of this is yet another form of black-pilling.
Things can get better. There are things we can do to get government out of this business, and we should. But insane, outsized expectations of reality wreck politics. That’s because if both parties are promising you something that can never be achieved via politics, you will inevitably be annoyed. You will swivel over to the other side, and then they&#8217;ll fail, and you&#8217;ll swivel back to the first side.
Here is the deal: In the United States of America, we are fatter and richer, and we have nicer houses and nicer cars than in the past, and the food we eat is much, much better than it was for our parents, in general.
There are secondary distortions that follow from that. “You know what? We need to go back to the way it was. Our food system is broken. We need to go totally domestic. We&#8217;re talking about chicken coops in the backyard.”
I think our ancestors would have laughed at us trying to cosplay the 1850s, when it turns out that if we had lived in the 1850s, we all would have been miserable and smelly, crapping in a hole in the backyard.
Life was not great back then. In fact, if you take people from poorer countries today and you bring them to the United States, they&#8217;re not complaining about the status of our food supply.
There&#8217;s a woman we know from the Philippines. She&#8217;s wonderful, and she just brought her mom over from there. The family grew up in a shack in the Philippines with no actual floor, along with 10 siblings. When her mom came over, she walked into an American supermarket, and it blew her mind.
Why?
Because for most of the world, the luxury that we experience on a daily basis here in the United States is utterly unthinkable.
Our system is not broken. It is working really, really, really efficiently. We have one of the most efficient food production and delivery systems in the history of the world — and the cheapest.
According to the Foundation for Economic Education, the price of eggs declined 96% between 1919 and 2019. That means an unskilled laborer today can buy 24 times as many eggs as an unskilled laborer could a century ago for the same amount of work.
Does this mean everything is perfectly ideal? No. We could probably reduce food prices by 5% to 10%. All you&#8217;d have to do is eliminate tariffs and ramp up American oil production.
There is so much black-pilling, so much doom-scrolling, so much “America is terrible. Everything&#8217;s awful. No one can afford anything.”
None of this is to claim that everything is ideal.
But there&#8217;s no such thing as ideal. Everything is comparative.
Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris. Trump is far better.
America versus other countries. America is far better.
America&#8217;s living situation now versus your parents’ living situation. Comparatively, America is far better now.
Economics is a study in trade-offs. If you&#8217;re on the Right and you spend all day complaining about the production side — “What if all of our labor was both domestic and unionized and we got rid of technology? And what if all of our food was produced in Iowa and was totally organic?” — then you don&#8217;t get to complain about the prices being too high. All of your inputs just doubled.
If you want prices to go down, end the tariffs, ramp up market-based incentives for innovation, and break up useless unions. Prices will go down.
There&#8217;s one kind of silly critique that I&#8217;ve heard online. “We need to stop being distracted by foreign wars. It&#8217;s the foreign wars that are causing the food inflation.”
No, it isn&#8217;t. The war in Iran has had basically no impact on food prices in the U.S.
Here&#8217;s the food inflation percentage increase between 2016 and 2026: 2023: 2.7; 2024: 2.5; 2025: 3.1; 2026: 3.0.
That is not a gigantic bump based on the war in Iran.
If you actually want the prices to go up, you should leave Iran in charge of the Strait of Hormuz so it can keep throttling up or throttling down our prices at will, based on oil shocks.
Losing wars to failed dictatorships seeking nuclear weapons is not a brilliant trade strategy.
But put all that aside and go back to the larger point: The Right is doom-pilling; it is black-pilling, and right now it is having an impact.
Not everything in America does, in fact, suck. Things are quite good by any historical standard — much better than if Kamala Harris had been president.
That may not be a winning message in 2026, but I can tell you what a losing message looks like: “America totally sucks under Trump, and if you elect more Republicans, it will surely continue to suck. What we need is a Tucker Carlson third party. What we need is a common-good conservatism third party that totally changes everything that&#8217;s been done. Elect Democrats. Split the GOP vote. Then it&#8217;ll get better.”
This demoralization is what the black-pillers are doing right now.
Don’t buy into it.

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The Democratic National Committee&#8217;s effort to explain and learn from its 2024 election losses has descended into fresh controversy after the author of the party&#8217;s official postmortem claimed Democratic leaders omitted an entire chapter examining what went wrong.
According to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/politics/democrats-autopsy-2024-election-dnc.html">New York Times</a>, Democratic consultant Paul Rivera, who authored the DNC&#8217;s after-action review, says a 28-page chapter titled &#8220;What Happened in 2024&#8221; was missing when the party released the report in May after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-finally-admit-what-went-wrong-in-2024">delaying publication</a> for nearly a year.
The omitted chapter reportedly addressed some of the most politically sensitive questions surrounding Democrats&#8217; defeat, including whether former President Joe Biden should have sought reelection, the party&#8217;s declining support among key voting blocs, and what Rivera described as a self-enriching Democratic consultant class that had become disconnected from ordinary Americans.
&#8220;An emerging critique of Democratic decision-making is there are too many people who have become generationally wealthy off politics and drive too much of the decision-making within the ecosystem,&#8221; Rivera wrote in the missing chapter, which he provided to the Times. 
He also questioned Biden&#8217;s decision to remain in the race. 
&#8220;Is there a single point of failure for 2024? Perhaps it is a decision of the President to seek re-election instead of passing the torch,&#8221; the chapter states.
Rivera says he personally handed DNC Chairman Ken Martin a three-ring binder containing the completed chapter during a January meeting after Martin criticized the draft report. Rivera said Martin later returned the binder after reviewing it.
Martin denied ever receiving the missing section. 
&#8220;As we said at the time, in May we released all of the draft report as we&#8217;d received it from the author,&#8221; Martin said in a statement to the Times. &#8220;If we had this in May, we would have released it with the rest of the report.&#8221; 
Martin maintained that the January meeting focused solely on &#8220;lessons learned&#8221; materials for internal planning, not on new report chapters, arguing that neither he nor the DNC ever reviewed the disputed document.
The dispute comes after the DNC initially announced it would not release an official autopsy of the 2024 election, with Martin arguing the effort had become a distraction. He later reversed course amid mounting pressure, publishing an annotated draft in May while insisting it was &#8220;not ready for primetime&#8221; and refusing to endorse its conclusions.
Rivera told the Times he decided to go public because he believes Democrats cannot fix their problems without candid self-examination.
 &#8220;It&#8217;s coming from a place of hope and, honestly, a little bit of desperation,&#8221; Rivera said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a very comfortable ecosystem that will profit mightily from no change.&#8221;
The controversy comes as Martin is already facing growing scrutiny over his leadership. The DNC recently <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00010603/#&amp;_intcmp=fnc_media_article_main-content_article-body_6_2">reported</a> having roughly $16.3 million cash on hand while carrying $18.5 million in debt. Martin has also come under fire following <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/raging-dnc-boss-ken-martin-threw-phone-at-aides-desk-as-committee-forced-to-put-up-hq-as-loan-collateral-report/">reports</a> that he threw his cellphone at a staffer&#8217;s desk during an internal dispute, prompting a human resources complaint, as well as comments suggesting he was uncertain how much longer he would remain in the position.
With fewer than 100 days until the midterm elections, the dispute over whether Democrats buried the most politically explosive section of their own election autopsy will likely do little to assuage concerns about whether party leadership has fully come to terms with the reasons behind its 2024 defeat.

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President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to the country after tens of thousands of African migrants stormed across the Moroccan border into the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Thursday. 
“It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/2083161441268297975">said</a> during a phone interview with Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich on Friday morning. “If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life.”
Trump&#8217;s comments came after almost 50,000 migrants rushed across the border into Ceuta, a Spanish territory on the tip of Morocco, bringing widespread chaos and unrest. At least <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34-dead-after-tens-of-thousands-of-migrants-invade-spain">34 people died</a> as thousands of migrants, mostly young men, attempted to swim or force their way into Ceuta. 
The migrants, emboldened by the lax immigration policies of leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, brought chaos to the streets of Ceuta, causing fear among locals who were overwhelmed by the flood. 
The images were reminiscent of <a href="https://x.com/JennieSTaer/status/1770886341879885952">video</a> captured during the Biden administration of a large mob of young men breaking down razor wire and fencing to storm past Texas National Guard troops stationed in El Paso. Over seven million illegal immigrants from all over the world crossed the United States border during President Joe Biden’s presidency. 
Many other Republicans echoed Trump’s comments in response to the scenes of chaos from Spain. 
“The Democrats did this to America every single day for 4 years under Biden and will do it again instantaneously, but orders of magnitude greater, if they are given any form of national power. Democrats will see your home trampled and stolen by invaders and they will rejoice,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said. 
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The Democrats did this to America every single day for 4 years under Biden and will do it again instantaneously, but orders of magnitude greater, if they are given any form of national power. Democrats will see your home trampled and stolen by invaders and they will rejoice. <a href="https://t.co/HKRKAOOkmi">https://t.co/HKRKAOOkmi</a>
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) <a href="https://x.com/StephenM/status/2082974213791441027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2026</a></blockquote>
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“This is what the defund ICE Democrats (even in Arkansas, Dems are openly campaigning on defunding ICE) see as a model,” said Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR). “They see open borders as a tool to import the third-world and fundamentally change America.”
“What&#8217;s happening in Spain should be a warning to every American who may have forgotten about what our borders looked like the last time Democrats were in power: All it takes is one election for your nation to become unrecognizable,” said Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX).

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