Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1722763300629266562?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Senate lawmakers on Thursday to approve a subpoena against the estate of deceased wealthy financier and convicted sex offender <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeffrey-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein</a>, demanding Congress gains access to flight logs from his private plane.
&#8220;Given the numerous allegations of human trafficking and abuse surrounding Mr. Epstein, we&#8217;ve got to identify everyone who could have participated in his horrific conduct,&#8221; Blackburn said in a <a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2023/11/democrats-sham-hearing-abruptly-ends-shortly-after-blackburn-pushes-subpoenas-on-justice-sotomayor-staff-epstein-flight-logs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Blackburn announced she filed the request during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing surrounding Sen. Dick Durbin&#8217;s (D-IL) attempts to investigate Supreme Court ethics issues. Amid a fiery exchange between the two lawmakers, Blackburn announced a series of subpoenas, including the one against Epstein&#8217;s estate.
&#8220;I think it is very important that we identify everybody that was on that plane, and how many trips they took on that plane and the destinations to which they arrived,&#8221; she said.
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JUST IN &#8211; U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn has filed a subpoena to obtain Jeffrey Epstein&#39;s flight logs.<a href="https://t.co/gWcK8PtMOj">pic.twitter.com/gWcK8PtMOj</a>
&mdash; Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) <a href="https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1722716829628465257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Epstein died in his New York prison cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges that involved running a &#8220;vast network&#8221; of underage girls for sex. He pleaded not guilty to the charges prior to his death at 66 years old.
Insider previously <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/faa-accidentally-released-jeffrey-epsteins-flight-records-2021-10?_gl=1*qc1121*_ga*MTk2NDUxOTI1NS4xNjk5NTc5NTE1*_ga_E21CV80ZCZ*MTY5OTU3OTUxNC4xLjEuMTY5OTU4MTMzOC42MC4wLjA." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Epstein had owned at least three jets, including a Gulfstream II sold in November 2013, a Gulfstream IV sold before his arrest, and a Boeing 727 nicknamed the &#8220;Lolita Express,&#8221; which infamously transported prominent individuals and girls all around the world.
The so-called Lolita Express private jet has been the subject of controversy amid the accusations brought against Epstein and, in particular, the flight records connected to the plane that supposedly include the names of those who traveled with him.
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In December 2021, prosecutors <a href="https://www.insider.com/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-jeffrey-epstein-private-jet-flight-records-revealed-2021-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> released thousands of flight records in the sex-trafficking trial of his alleged accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who pleaded not guilty but was ultimately convicted.
In addition to who flew on the plane, the 118-page collection of flight logs reportedly contains other information such as dates, points of departure and arrival, number of landings, and the pilot&#8217;s signature.
Victims of Epstein, and one of his pilots, have since come out and claimed that public figures, including Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, and Donald Trump, traveled with the disgraced financier.
Insider reported flight manifests unsealed in a defamation case against Maxwell included former President Bill Clinton, supermodel Naomi Campbell, and the astronaut John Glenn.
FAA records obtained by Insider found Epstein&#8217;s jets flew mainly between his former primary residences in New York and Palm Beach and his estates in Paris, New Mexico, and the Virgin Islands.

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marsha-blackburn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marsha Blackburn</a> (R-TN) is calling on the U.S. to &#8220;stand with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel&#8221;</a> in a new video documenting the violence committed by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a> terrorists on Israeli civilians. 
In the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgMWHPOBCe0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>, called “The Reality of Hamas’ Terrorist Attacks on Israel,” Blackburn shows the atrocities by Hamas since Saturday when the terror group launched a surprise attack on Israel, which included the murder and kidnapping of women and children. 
“When you look at the numbers that have been killed, the massacre, the slaughter, when you look at what Hamas has done, when you look at Iran’s participation in this,” Blackburn said in the video first obtained by The Daily Wire. “Israel has the right to defend itself. The United States must stand with Israel.” 
More than 1,300 Israelis have been killed and 3,000 wounded by Hamas terrorists who entered southern Israel from the Gaza Strip.
The video by Blackburn shows Israelis hiding from rocket fire, blood-stained floors and beds, walls covered with bullet holes, and homes that had been reduced to rubble by explosions. It also showed Hamas terrorists seizing and dragging women through the streets. 
“Amid waves of antisemitism rolling throughout the nation as the left-wing media portrays Israel as the aggressor in these attacks, we must show the American people and the world the truth about Hamas’ brutality,&#8221; Blackburn said in a statement to The Daily Wire. &#8220;These Iran-backed terrorists have one goal — to wipe the Jewish state of Israel off the face of the earth. They have beheaded infants, raped and paraded murdered women through Gaza, and burned Israelis alive. This is the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust, and the United States must stand together and declare with steadfast commitment: Never again.&#8221;
It is estimated that Hamas has taken up to 150 people hostage, including some Americans. At least 27 Americans were killed during the attacks, a number that has gradually increased as reporting continues to trickle in. 
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The Hamas terrorists were reportedly backed by Iran, leading many in Congress, including Blackburn, to urge that the $6 billion in oil money unfrozen by the Biden administration in exchange for Americans who were being held by Iran be frozen again. 
“Biden knows the $6 billion transfer served as a catalyst for the Iran-backed terrorist attacks. We need a formal agreement to freeze the funds — not a leak to the media. Biden should follow the lead of myself and my colleagues who called on the admin to freeze the payment,” Blackburn <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1712504539931164881" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X.
The Tennessee Republican was responding to a report from CBS News that the U.S. and Qatar had a “quiet understanding” that the $6 billion in oil money would not be released yet. 
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Commerce Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gina-raimondo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gina Raimondo</a> refused to support <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taiwan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taiwan</a>&#8216;s claims of independence from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> Wednesday while testifying on Capitol Hill.
Raimondo sat in front of the Senate Commerce Committee and in part fielded questions on her August trip to China and her interactions with Chinese heads of state. Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee grilled the secretary on whether she held the Chinese “to account” on human rights abuses and aggression.
“I was clear that there would be no negotiation on anything related to national security or export controls,” Raimondo told Blackburn, later adding that the Chinese were challenged directly on their treatment of Uyghur Muslims.
Raimondo demurred when asked about Taiwan, however. The Commerce secretary has yet to visit the island nation despite its importance as a supplier of semiconductors and other goods to the United States.
“I have had no reason to visit Taiwan,” Raimondo said when pressed by Blackburn.
When the Tennessee senator asked the secretary if she would recognize Taiwan as a country, Raimondo responded that “the administration’s policy is clear on Taiwan” and that Raimondo would “absolutely not” deviate from it.
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Why did <a href="https://twitter.com/SecRaimondo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecRaimondo</a> refuse to acknowledge that Taiwan is a country? <a href="https://t.co/LvWj5IHUwa">pic.twitter.com/LvWj5IHUwa</a>
&mdash; Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1709669307104285044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“It has long been clear that the Biden administration is the pro-China administration,” Blackburn told The Daily Wire in a statement. “Today’s comments by Secretary Raimondo prove that the Biden administration is once again prioritizing Communist China over Taiwan. China is committing genocide against millions of Muslim Uyghurs, and this administration is willing to turn a blind eye to advance their radical climate agenda and Green New Deal.”
Taiwan has been a wedge issue between some of the United States’ top Democratic leaders. Last year, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Taiwan in a show of support for the island against Chinese threats and aggression. The former speaker <a href="https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-asia-beijing-nancy-pelosi-taipei-938933cfaea62b31e7577b0a2a4f7006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the United States commitment to Taiwan “ironclad.”
The Biden administration has adopted a more vague stance on the issue of Taiwanese independence, standing firmly on a position of “strategic ambiguity” that neither commits to Taiwan nor shuns it. The U.S. supports keeping the “status quo,” according to the State Department.
“The United States has a longstanding one China policy, which is guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three U.S.-China Joint Communiques, and the Six Assurances.  We oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side; we do not support Taiwan independence; and we expect cross-Strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means,” a May 2022 <a href="https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-taiwan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the Department of State says.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a scathing letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Wednesday, asking the Biden administration to reverse course on its pending <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/god-will-make-a-way-christian-homeschool-family-holds-out-hope-after-biden-admin-moves-to-deport-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deportation of a German homeschool family</a> that has lived in the U.S. for 15 years. 
The Romeike family was caught off guard earlier this month when they were ordered to meet with an immigration agent and were told to prepare to self-deport. Uwe Romeike told The Daily Wire in an interview on Wednesday that the orders “came as a surprise,” but said that his family is &#8220;trust[ing] God to make a way for us to stay here.&#8221;
Blackburn blasted the Biden administration for applying “two standards of justice” in a letter to Mayorkas shared with The Daily Wire. Blackburn pointed to how the Biden administration has targeted the Romeike family while illegal immigrants flood across the southern border at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-border-numbers-near-all-time-high" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record levels</a>. 
“I write today to express my disappointment with this administration’s misplaced priorities regarding the enforcement of our laws, as well as your blatant application of two standards of justice,” Blackburn wrote. “As millions of illegal immigrants flood across our southern border and disappear into our country, your immigration authorities have chosen to punish a family who has built their lives in Tennessee within the legal parameters of our immigration system.” 
Uwe Romeike and his wife moved their five children at the time to the United States after facing fines from the German government for pulling their children out of the public school system. Homeschooling is rarely permitted in Germany and only for medical reasons. When the Romeikes began homeschooling in 2006, the German government levied fines that amounted to around $9,000 and threatened to remove the Romeike children from the care of their parents, WBIR <a href="https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/morristown-family-faces-deportation-homeschooling/51-2d3dd498-b8b0-4b4e-86af-e8c33dae0dbb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
The couple, who had two more children after moving to the United States, were granted permission by an immigration judge to live in the country. After the Obama administration’s Department of Justice fought the decision, the family took the fight to the courts, which ultimately ruled against them in 2013, arguing that the Romeikes did not prove that they faced persecution in Germany.
While the appeals court judge ruled against the Romeikes’ asylum claims, the family was allowed to remain in the United States indefinitely, and they checked in annually with an immigration agent, but that all changed earlier this month when the family was told to prepare for deportation even as the Biden administration continues to oversee record-breaking numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border into the United States. 
“This enforcement action highlights the two standards of justice that have been a constant theme of President Biden’s first two and a half years in office,” Blackburn continued. “You are targeting a family who fled Germany in search of basic parental rights and has legally resided in the United States for years.” 
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“Simultaneously, you have allowed millions of illegal immigrants — some of whom have been identified as terrorists — to enter the country with abandon,” the Republican senator added. “I urge this administration to reverse course and allow the Romeike family to continue their lives in Morristown, Tennessee.”

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Sen. Blackburn Stands Up For Christian Homeschool Family, Asks Biden Admin To Allow It To Remain In U.S.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee">Tennessee</a> Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn blasted President Joe Biden on Sunday for being “weak” on America’s adversaries. 
Blackburn made the comments during an <a href="https://catsroundtable.com/sen-marsha-blackburn-chinese-relations-are-deteriorating/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearance</a> on WABC 770 AM’s “Cats Roundtable” with host John Catsimatidis. She said Biden’s performance as president has “emboldened” what she called the “new axis of evil.”  
“What worries me tremendously is what we see happening with the aggression coming out of the new Axis of Evil: Russia, China, Iran, North Korea,” Blackburn said. “The pressure that they are putting on one another to stand up and fight against the United States.”
“And we see how they feel emboldened because Joe Biden is weak, Joe Biden is not holding them to account, Joe Biden has not asked China to explain COVID and what happened at the lab, that he has allowed them to continue to export to the United States without saying one word to them about the trade imbalance,” Blackburn said. 
The Tennessee Republican added that Biden has “[continued] to allow” China to be aggressive with Taiwan. In the past year, China has ramped up its aggression toward the island nation, conducting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-claims-the-u-s-is-turning-taiwan-into-a-powder-keg-pushing-taiwanese-toward-abyss-of-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extensive military drills</a> after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited Taiwan in August 2022 and when Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen visited California and met with current House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in April. 
In just one day last week, China sent 103 military aircraft around Taiwan, with 40 entering the air-defense identification zone. Earlier this month, roughly 24 warships sailed near Taiwan, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/chinas-fighter-jets-arent-just-flying-around-taiwan-theyre-practicing-d6e56cc5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Wall Street Journal. 
Blackburn also criticized Biden for his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-biden-an-incompetent-fool-for-giving-iran-access-to-6b-in-prisoner-swap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent deal</a> with Iran, in which the United States received five Americans held captive in Iran in exchange for releasing five Iranian prisoners and $6 billion in frozen assets.
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“We see Iran now emboldened because Joe Biden has released $6 billion to them, and we know, you know John, they are not going to use that money to feed the poor,” Blackburn said. “They are not going to use it to better the lives of their people. They’re going to use it to push forward on uranium enrichment and nuclear proliferation.”
A National Security Council spokeswoman said U.S. officials would oversee the use of the funds and called it a “procedural step” to ensure humanitarian aid gets to the country. However, in an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iranian-president-says-tehran-will-spend-6-billion-released-prisoner-e-rcna104475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with NBC News’s Lester Holt earlier this month, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said the money “belongs to the Iranian people, the Iranian government, so the Islamic Republic of Iran will decide what to do with this money.&#8221; 
“With Iran saying, &#8216;We&#8217;ll do whatever we want to do,&#8217; and knowing that Iran has teamed up with Russia to create drones that are now flying over Ukraine, and China, we hear, is pretty much banking that operation. This should be something that worries us,” Blackburn said. “Having Kim Jong Un over in Russia visiting with Putin, extending the hand of friendship, saying ‘We want to be your ally, come visit with us in North Korea, come see what we’re doing on developing next-generation rockets.’ This is not something that is going to serve the American people and our cause of pushing freedom around the globe.&#8221;

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Marsha Blackburn Says ‘New Axis Of Evil’ Feels ‘Emboldened’ By Biden’s Weakness

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A group of Tennessee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican</a> lawmakers pushed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Homeland Security</a> (DHS) on Monday to explain how an illegal immigrant accused of raping multiple children was allowed to stay in the U.S. for two decades.
The Republicans, led by Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marsha-blackburn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marsha Blackburn</a>, wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accusing his agency of failing to enforce American immigration laws and contributing to the alleged crimes.
“We write to express our disgust with this administration’s complete failure to secure our border and enforce the rule of law, the effects of which are impacting communities and families across the country,” the <a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/services/files/7E96A9AB-B823-490E-8B41-F23B8E1390A6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> says.
Blackburn was joined by Reps. Diana Harshbarger, Tim Burchett, Chuck Fleischmann, Scott DesJarlais, Andy Ogles, Mark Green, and John Rose.
The letter referred to the case of Camilo Hurtado Campos, a youth soccer coach and illegal immigrant living in Franklin, Tennessee. Police say they found “disturbing videos and pictures” on documenting the “rapes of at least 10 children” ages 9 to 17 on Campos phone, which he accidentally left at a restaurant, according to <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/07/13/camilo-hurtado-campos-soccer-coach-franklin-tennessee/70409271007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tennessean</a>.
“We fear that, in addition to very recent victims, there could be a decade or more of victims out there,” Franklin Police Department Lt. Charles Warner said last week. More people have since stepped forward and said they were victimized by Campos, who is being held in custody on charges of child rape and sexual exploitation of a minor.
“Perhaps most devastating of all, this horrific abuse was entirely preventable — police confirmed on July 12 that Campos is an illegal immigrant who should not have been in our country in the first place,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter on Monday. “Indeed, if this administration had any interest in enforcing our nation’s laws, he wouldn’t have been.”
Campos had been in trouble with the police before, according to the letter. He had been cited for public intoxication and three instances of driving without a license. Despite his run-ins with law enforcement, police said Campos has lived in the Franklin area for about two decades through multiple administrations.
The lawmakers requested more information from the DHS on Campos’s case, including whether the department was aware of Campos and his immigration status as well as whether the department ever initiated any enforcement actions against him. The GOP letter asks for a response from the secretary by July 24.
“Violence against children is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, and Tennesseans deserve to know why the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) permitted this criminal to live in their community and abuse their children after entering the country illegally,” the letter says.
Mayorkas has received an intense criticism from Republicans for his handling of the U.S. southern border crisis, punctuated by a peak of roughly 10,000 apprehensions a day for a period of time in May. Some members have even pushed for Mayorkas to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-house-republican-files-impeachment-articles-against-dhs-secretary-mayorkas">impeached</a>.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) and Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marsha-blackburn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marsha Blackburn</a> (R-TN) called on the Beer Institute, a trade association that represents producers of the beverage, to examine whether <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anheuser-busch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anheuser-Busch</a> improperly marketed to minors through a recent promotion between <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bud-light" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bud Light</a> and social media influencer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dylan-mulvaney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dylan Mulvaney</a>.
Bud Light garnered widespread controversy after the brand nodded toward Mulvaney, a man who claims to be a woman, by sending him a beer can emblazoned with his likeness. Cruz and Blackburn requested that the Beer Institute’s Code Compliance Review Board open an investigation to determine whether Anheuser-Busch broke the trade association’s marketing guidelines by soliciting a spokesperson with a large following among minors.
“We believe that Anheuser-Busch’s clear failure to exercise appropriate due diligence when selecting online influencers for its marketing efforts warrants detailed oversight by Congress,” the lawmakers wrote in a <a href="https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/53A77108-4DBE-4430-88C0-E2325FC8F567" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Brendan Whitworth, who serves as both chief executive officer of Anheuser-Busch and chairman of the Beer Institute.
The letter noted that Mulvaney has some 10.8 million followers on TikTok and 1.8 million followers on Instagram. Beyond the “Days of Girlhood” series that made the influencer a sensation, Mulvaney has videos in which he shopped for Barbie dolls in a Target store, dressed as a small child, and handed out merchandise to teenage girls at a mall.
“An objective survey of Dylan Mulvaney’s content clearly presents a faux, pre-pubescent girl persona that is created and presented to specifically appeal to young viewers,” the letter said.
Cruz and Blackburn referenced market research data noting that Instagram is an “ideal platform” for companies seeking to reach users between 16 and 24 years of age, while the majority of account owners on TikTok are between 13 and 24 years of age.
The lawmakers compared the Bud Light and Mulvaney partnership to the “discredited and now illegal marketing campaigns of cigarette manufacturers that used youth-favored advertising tools such as ‘Joe Camel’ in an attempt to develop early brand loyalty with children who were legally prohibited from smoking cigarettes.” They likewise cited comments from Alissa Heinerscheid, the former vice president of marketing for Bud Light who has since taken a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-marketing-vp-takes-leave-of-absence-amid-dylan-mulvaney-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leave</a> of absence from Anheuser-Busch, who said that “if we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this brand there will be no future for Bud Light.”
Guidelines from the Beer Institute <a href="https://www.beerinstitute.org/policy-responsibility/responsibility/advertising-marketing-code/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state</a> that companies should only seek to advertise on digital media platforms where at least roughly three-quarters of users are “adults of legal drinking age.”
The letter from Cruz and Blackburn, both of whom are members of the Senate Commerce Committee, occurs as previous consumers of Bud Light take their business elsewhere. Market data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-sales-plummet-for-fifth-straight-week-as-customers-react-against-mulvaney-partnership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicate</a> that weekly sales for Bud Light have continued to decline by nearly 25% relative to the same periods last year several weeks after the initial backlash, even as other Anheuser-Busch brands which took hits could be starting to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-severe-backlash-against-anheuser-busch-may-already-be-over-some-brands-turning-a-corner-banker-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recover</a> from the controversy.
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Executives for Anheuser-Busch have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-single-can-anheuser-busch-sends-letter-to-minimize-disastrous-mulvaney-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">downplayed</a> the extent of the partnership and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-parent-company-taps-lobbyists-to-win-back-conservatives-upset-over-dylan-mulvaney-partnership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hired</a> veteran Republican lobbyists in various efforts to win back conservatives who once consumed the brew. The company meanwhile seems to have offended those on both ends of the political spectrum: leftists and owners of gay bars across the country threatened to launch additional <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-activists-furious-at-bud-light-for-backing-away-from-mulvaney-call-for-a-boycott-of-their-own" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boycotts</a> after the firm backed away from Mulvaney.

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Senators Contend Anheuser-Busch Was Marketing To Minors With Dylan Mulvaney Push

Lawmakers Contend Anheuser-Busch Was Marketing To Minors With Mulvaney Push

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Tennessee GOP Senator Bill Hagerty, who served as the ambassador to Japan under former President Donald Trump, endorsed his former boss’ candidacy over the weekend, joining fellow Volunteer State Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
Three other members of the House of Representatives also endorsed Trump: Reps. John Rose and Diana Harshbarger from Tennessee and Florida Rep. Greg Steube.
Trump, who is one of two announced candidates for the GOP nomination along with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, has also been endorsed by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3942482-2024-gop-primary-endorsements/">38 other members</a> of the House — 184 Republicans have yet to declare.
Hagerty joins eight other senators who have endorsed Trump, including Blackburn, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. Forty GOP senators have yet to declare.
In recent decades in which Republicans were not in possession of the White House and so primaries were necessary to determine their presidential candidate, the primaries generally featured a bevy of candidates being whittled down to four or even two candidates facing off mano-a-mano.
In 2000, although, conservative activist Gary Bauer, businessman Steve Forbes, Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, former Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole, Alan Keyes, and former Vice President Dan Quayle threw their hats in the ring, the race ended with then-Texas Governor George W. Bush facing off with Senator John McCain for the nomination. After Bush’s Super Tuesday victories on March 7 in California, New York, and the South, McCain suspended his campaign. Bush thus cemented his nomination early, then won the general election to become president.
In 2012, candidates included Texas Governor Rick Perry, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr., Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Congressman Ron Paul, and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. The field got whittled down to Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, and Paul. Santorum left the race in April, Gingrich in early May, while Paul kept trying to win delegates at state conventions. Romney surpassed a majority of bound delegates on June 5, finally cementing his nomination. He lost in the general election.
In 2016, the wide-open field included a whopping 17 candidates. After Senator Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucuses, Trump won the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries. By March 16, 2016, only three candidates remained in the race: Trump, Cruz, and Ohio Governor John Kasich. On May 26, Trump passed the threshold of 1,237 delegates required to guarantee his nomination. He later defeated Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.

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This article is adapted from today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Tennessee Capitol Stormed
A group of around 400 people rushed into the Tennessee state capitol building in Nashville this morning to protest for stricter gun laws following a mass shooting at the Covenant School earlier this week. The protest was planned by a Tennessee non-profit called “AWAKE.” According to the New York Post, “AWAKE” seeks to improve conditions for women and children. Capitol police escorted members of the legislature to the restroom as protesters grew more aggressive.
WSJ Journalist Arrested
A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wall-street-journal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a> reporter has been arrested in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia</a> after being accused of spying by Russia’s security agency. According to Russia’s Federal Security Service, Evan Gershkovich had “collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex” after “acting on the instructions of the American side.” An espionage case has been opened against Gershkovich. The Journal denied any accusations of spying. An arrest of this nature has not happened since the fall of the Soviet Union. 
Nine Killed In Training Accident
Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-army" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Army</a> HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters crashed Wednesday night in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kentucky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kentucky</a> during a training exercise, resulting in the deaths of NINE service members.  
Few details have been released about the crash, which occurred at around 10:00 p.m. local time between two helicopters that are part of the 101st Airborne Division. The crash took place in Trigg County, near Fort Campbell. Early Thursday morning, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced that he would be traveling to Fort Campbell to “support our troops and their families after last night’s tragic incident.” 
“We know a lot about loss in Kentucky, especially these last three years. We&#8217;re gonna do what we always do,&#8221; Beshear said. &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna wrap our arms around these families, and we&#8217;re gonna be there with them, not just for the days, but the weeks and the months and the years to come. We&#8217;re gonna let them know that they are loved, they are special. And if they&#8217;ll allow us to carry some of their grief, we&#8217;ll do that for as long as we can. ”
Safe School Act Introduced
Following the horrific school shooting in Nashville on Monday, Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Haggerty have introduced the “Safe School Act,” a bill that would unlock $900 million in grants to beef up security at public and private schools. 
Fetterman Expected To Return Home Next Week
Senator John Fetterman is expected to return to work the week of April 17th, after weeks of seeking treatment for anxiety and depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Fetterman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/senator-fetterman-to-be-hospitalized-for-weeks-after-checking-himself-into-hospital/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">checked himself in</a> for treatment in March, stating that he’d dealt with such issues in the past but they’d amplified after a near-fatal stroke, a senate campaign, and his first days in office. Sources close to the freshman senator have indicated that he recovered well and is ready to get back to work as soon as possible.
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Days after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-mourns-covenant-school-shooting-victims-at-citywide-vigil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deadly mass shooting</a> at a private Christian grade school in Nashville, Tennessee&#8217;s two U.S. senators announced they will introduce legislation to fund ways to better protect public and private schools around the country.
At the heart of the bill, which will be called the The Securing Aid for Every (SAFE) School Act, is a $900 million grant program, according to Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN).
<a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/services/files/C9909869-9DCC-4DD8-BB2B-D55AD18CD113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A fact sheet</a> for Blackburn and Hagerty&#8217;s bill says states will be able use the grant money in a number of ways, including to train and hire veterans and former law enforcement officers to serve as school safety officers, hire off duty law enforcement officers, and provide funding to harden schools and increase physical security.
The legislation offers an alternative to the gun control measures being pushed by Democrats, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-calls-for-republicans-to-face-pressure-claims-he-supports-2a-in-renewed-gun-control-push" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>, following the shooting at The Covenant School that resulted in the deaths of three children and three faculty members. The shooter, a woman who identified as transgender, was killed by law enforcement.
“I am beyond heartbroken at the shooting that occurred at the Covenant School in Nashville,” Blackburn said in a statement. “No parent should have to endure what these families are experiencing. Schools should be places where children are safe to learn, play, and be children.&#8221;
&#8220;By providing these critical funds, we can help protect our precious children and secure our schools,&#8221; she added.
Blackburn, who has pushed similar legislation in the past, and Hagerty said they have the support of Tennessee leaders, school safety advocates, and veterans, along with local, state and federal law enforcement officials and organizations. Among them is Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, who said he commends Blackburn and Hagerty &#8220;for proposing legislation to secure public and private schools across the nation.&#8221;
Their fact sheet noted that Tennessee already has a training program for school resource officers but stressed the SAFE School would not disrupt that program. Rather, it would &#8220;provide supplemental resources in addition to the resources provided by other programs, like Tennessee’s Safe Schools Act,&#8221; the document notes.
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“The heroic bravery of law enforcement officers and first responders who quickly ran into danger, as well as the actions of teachers, staff, and students who deployed security measures, saved many other lives and underscore the critical role of school-security planning and personnel in the face of depraved, evil acts,&#8221; Hagerty said in a statement. &#8220;That’s why I’ve joined Senator Blackburn in introducing this legislation to provide additional security resources to keep our schools and children safe.&#8221;

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Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker explained to Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) this week how President Joe Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice is a &#8220;two-tiered system of justice&#8221; in which conservatives often get the short end of the stick.
Whitaker made the remarks during an appearance on Blackburn&#8217;s podcast &#8220;Unmuted&#8221; while the two discussed Attorney General Merrick Garland&#8217;s recent congressional hearing.
&#8220;Why hasn&#8217;t the Attorney General moved forward with these prosecutions of people that have committed domestic terrorism, have committed these fire bombings, are breaking federal law protesting outside of Justice&#8217;s homes?&#8221; Blackburn asked.
&#8220;It boils down to one priorities and second just prosecutorial will,&#8221; Whitaker said. &#8220;If they want to, they can prosecute anyone and everyone for crimes. But in these cases, you know, crisis pregnancy centers and the justice&#8217;s houses, you know, clear violations of federal law, this Justice department is just ignoring it. They&#8217;re not doing the will of the people. And, you know, to your point at the beginning, I think this is a two-tiered system of justice.&#8221;
&#8220;And one of the things I saw Attorney General Garland really not seem to comprehend is that what is happening, which is the, the people on the right, conservatives, Republicans seem to be singled out, uh, for extra prosecutorial attention,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And while folks on the left, uh, you know, get away with clear violations of federal law and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any desire to bring them in and hold them accountable to the rule of law.&#8221;
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<blockquote>SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN (R-TN): Under Attorney General Merrick Garland&#8217;s watch, the Biden Justice Department has really created two tiers of justice. And as we had our hearing this week, that became so evident in the way that the Attorney General chose to answer questions or maybe some things that he chose not to say at all. But we have someone who does know how the Department of Justice works and does know the answer to some of those questions. And we are so pleased to welcome him. He&#8217;s been the former, former Acting Attorney General, and he is also the host of Liberty and Justice. It is on iHeartRadio, Matt Whitaker. I am delighted that you are joining us for &#8216;Unmuted.&#8217;
MATT WHITAKER, FORMER ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL: Senator, it is great to be with you and, uh, I was so honored to get the request and I immediately jumped on it cause I&#8217;m a big fan and, uh, really I think what you&#8217;re doing in the Senate is pretty awesome.
BLACKBURN: Well, thank you so much. Let&#8217;s get right into this hearing yesterday. You know, the Attorney General seemed not to have answers when it came to the picketing that&#8217;s taken place outside of the justice houses or the protests that have taken place around pregnancy centers, even some of the fire bombings that have happened at churches and at pregnant pregnancy centers. So why hasn&#8217;t the Attorney General moved forward with these prosecutions of people that have committed domestic terrorism, have committed these fire bombings, are breaking federal law protesting outside of Justice&#8217;s homes?
WHITAKER: Yeah, that&#8217;s such an important point and one that, you know, I heard you and others yesterday make, and, you know, I think it&#8217;s, it boils down to one priorities and second, uh, just prosecutorial will, uh, it&#8217;s not hard as we&#8217;ve seen. Uh, they did it, you know, sort of in, in another context, uh, where they could take all the cell phone data, all the, you know, uh, video camera, uh, uh, face recognition software, all the technological tools, uh, that the feds and the DOJ have available. And if they want to, they can prosecute anyone and everyone for, uh, crimes. But in these cases, you know, crisis pregnancy centers and, um, you know, the justices houses, um, you know, clear violations of federal law, uh, it is this Justice department is just ignoring it. They&#8217;re not doing, um, the will of the people. And, you know, to your point, uh, at the beginning, I think this is a two-tiered system of justice. And one of the things I saw Attorney General Garland really not seem to comprehend is, is the what is happening, which is the, the people on the right conservatives, Republicans seem to be singled out, uh, for extra prosecutorial attention. And while folks on the left, uh, you know, get away with clear violations of federal law and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any desire to bring them, uh, and hold them accountable to the rule of law,
BLACKBURN: What did you make of, uh, the Attorney General&#8217;s response to me when I asked him, tried to drill down with him on why he had not gone after a group Jane&#8217;s Revenge that took credit for bombing fire bombing a, a pregnancy center in Nashville, the Hope Clement Clinic. And he said, well, most of the time these individuals did their crimes at night and they were harder to find than people that were out peacefully protesting on the sidewalks during the day. What did you make of that?
WHITAKER: Uh, again, it just, it boils down to he has no desire to get to the bottom of who Jane&#8217;s Revenge is. Whether it is a domestic terrorist organization, whether, you know, these individuals are well-funded, well organized, you know, the left, uh, we&#8217;ve seen this, uh, behavior several times, you know, Antifa comes to mind. And what happened also in places like Portland and Seattle where, um, you know, this Department of Justice just seems, uh, really unwilling to, uh, go against, uh, political violence. And, and, and, and I understand, and I know you understand as well, the importance of the First Amendment and people&#8217;s right to speak, but at the same time, we have, as a society and as a, as a self-governing people decided that there is a line and crossing that line is a federal crime. Uh, obviously, you know, at the Department of Justice, we&#8217;ve brought down violent biker gangs. We have, you know, a long history of figuring out these organizations, figuring out who their leaders and members are, and then prosecuting them. And in this case, in the case of James Revenge that you pointed out and you&#8217;re questioning, uh, this Department of Justice has no desire, not only to bring those people, uh, to account, but really to stop that political violence. And that&#8217;s the scariest thing. If there is a favored political violence, Biden administration, like we&#8217;re seeing in the Biden administration, uh, if you&#8217;re for abortion, uh, and, and commit violent acts in furtherance of trying to advance that agenda, they seem to turn the other, uh, uh, blind eye and not be willing to bring those cases.
BLACKBURN: Yeah, I think you&#8217;re right about that. And not only is it the two tiers when it comes to that political violence, we see it in bias also. And I thought his comments concerning the Hunter Biden, uh, case where he says, you know, he&#8217;s not interfering with the Delaware Attorney General, uh, in that investigation, how are we ever going to know what truly happened with Hunter Biden, James Biden, Biden Incorporated, and the president?
WHITAKER: Yeah. And, and I, I, I watched that very carefully. I&#8217;ve been, as you know, an outspoken, uh, proponent of, you know, a blind Department of Justice that holds everyone to account no matter what their powerful political, uh, lineage might be, including the Bidens. And I think US Attorney Weiss, uh, certainly is in control of that. But the, the ag was not honest in a couple areas that concerns me. One is, unlike a special counsel, he is still going to have, um, you know, a lot of ability to control that investigation because it&#8217;s in the line of command up through the Deputy Attorney General. That&#8217;s one concern. And the second concern is many of these crimes require under the US Attorney&#8217;s Manual and Department of Justice prosecutorial guidelines, some component, uh, whether it&#8217;s, uh, the criminal division, uh, whether it&#8217;s, uh, the, um, national Security Division or others to also sign off on that is, that&#8217;s another way, kind of almost an invisible hand to control that US attorney, uh, without, you know, saying we&#8217;re, we&#8217;re interfering. But there is certainly a lot of main justice involvement in this investigation. You could just tell by the way he was not being truthful about where others are making decisions in addition to the US attorney in Delaware.
BLACKBURN: And I think that was, uh, of such concern to us. You know, there were a couple of our members that pointed out the disparity in some, uh, the way people were addressed. You look at the rate at Mar-a-Lago, which ha it has come forward from whistleblowers that the F B I pushed back on that, and then you look at the Biden documents, and he did not, uh, want anybody to know about that. And of course, it appears that, um, that main justice overrode the FBI in saying, go conduct the raid at Mar-a-Lago. And there were insufficient answers around that.
WHITAKER: No, I, I agree. And you know, I think you and I both believe, uh, especially in the Mar-a-Lago case, that there were less, um, less intense ways of doing and obtaining whatever they were trying to get. Obviously. Yes. Uh, you know, president Trump believes he was cooperating, his team was working, uh, to determine what was personal, what was, you know, presidential, what was classified, you know, and sort through the post, um, transition documents. And, uh, and, and you point out, I think, such an important point that&#8217;s not highlighted enough. In the case of Joe Biden, when they discovered those documents, the Department of Justice knew, the archives knew, and they all entered into a conspiracy with the, the White House. And that&#8217;s all it is. It&#8217;s a, it&#8217;s an agreement among two or more people. It&#8217;s a conspiracy to make sure that that never saw the light of day.
BLACKBURN: And I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll ever know how the media three months later actually, you know, got that story. But that three months of their silence, uh, and their saying, not saying that, you know, we have an equivalent case here, uh, with President Biden, I think, um, whirly was a disservice to the American people, not only leading up to the election, uh, but also just as, um, as, as President Trump was, you know, taking a lot of, uh, political hits, um, for behavior that clearly not only, you know, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, others have done, I still am mystified as someone, uh, that has had a lot of access to classified materials. I&#8217;m still a little flummoxed as to how those end up at home or in your office, but, uh, they obviously did in many cases. And, you know, that, I think that points to an important role that I wish, you know, the, the Attorney General would&#8217;ve, uh, tried to offer a little more in the solutions as to how we protect America&#8217;s secrets. I didn&#8217;t see anything, uh, uh, from him on that front.
WHITAKER: Well, we saw it as being two different approaches depending on who you are and what side of the political aisle you are on. And two of justice. And for Tennessean, that is something that, that truly upsets them and concerns them for the future of our nation. Well, you&#8217;re going to find Matt Whitaker at Liberty and Justice on iHeartRadio and online, Matt Whitaker 46. I think I got that right.
BLACKBURN: That&#8217;s right.</blockquote>

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Tennessee Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Lee</a> said Tuesday that he had been informed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that the agency would be transporting &#8220;multiple busloads” of illegal aliens to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Volunteer State</a> to await trial. 
Lee said the agency informed him on Monday and called the move “irresponsible.” It is unclear where the detainees will be housed or how many are expected to arrive, but Lee did confirm they would be coming from New Orleans. 
“We’ve been informed by ICE that they plan to release single adult detainees into Tennessee while they await court proceedings. This is irresponsible and a threat to the safety of Tennesseans,” Lee <a href="https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2022/12/20/gov--lee--senators-blackburn-and-hagerty-demand-biden-administration-reverse-plan-to-release-ice-detainees-in-tennessee.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. “It’s not compassionate to perpetuate a problem that leads to more exploitation and trafficking.”
Lee said he would demand that the Biden administration reverse course.
“This crisis is too big to ignore, and the only way to stop it is to secure the border,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Placing the burden on states is not a solution, and we should not bear the brunt of the federal government’s failures.&#8221;
Sens. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marsha-blackburn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marsha Blackburn</a> and Bill Hagerty, both Republicans representing Tennessee, also condemned the plan, with Blackburn accusing the Biden administration of “trafficking illegal immigrants into communities across the country.”
Hagerty referenced the deadly fentanyl being trafficked over the border and the sheer number of unlawful crossings that have occurred in 2022. 
“In the last year, nearly three million migrants have illegally entered the country — a population larger than the largest four cities of Tennessee combined — Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga,&#8221; Hagerty said. &#8220;This does not even include the number of &#8216;gotaway&#8217; migrants who illegally crossed into our country undetected.”  
Tennessee GOP Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti <a href="https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/news/2022/12/20/pr22-54.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> his office would explore all options to halt the plan. 
Tennessee was one of the states that <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/20/feds-plan-to-transport-some-migrants-to-tennessee-as-title-42-ends/69744596007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> to extend Title 42, a Trump-era policy allowing migrants to be turned away based on concerns over COVID. The rule, which was set to expire on Wednesday, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-blocks-key-immigration-policy-title-42-from-ending" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowed</a> to be extended when the Supreme Court put a temporary hold on its termination. 
Customs and Border Protection officials warned lawmakers that approximately 50,000 foreigners were waiting to cross into the United States once Title 42 ended.

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