The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pentagon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pentagon</a>&#8216;s dismissal of the claim that mystery drones flying over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Jersey</a> are linked to Iran was &#8220;amateur hour,&#8221; Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) said on Thursday.
Van Drew caused a stir on Wednesday when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-congressman-sources-claim-mystery-drones-over-new-jersey-come-from-mothership-sent-by-iran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that &#8220;qualified sources&#8221; told him the drones are coming from an Iranian &#8220;mothership&#8221; off the East Coast of the U.S., but Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters at a news conference there was &#8220;no truth&#8221; to the assertion.
&#8220;They&#8217;ve been incredibly stupid and incredibly weak with this,&#8221; Van Drew told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nj-lawmaker-fires-back-after-pentagon-dismisses-claim-drones-may-linked-iran-weakness-stupidity">Fox News</a> on Thursday, adding that he thought the Pentagon&#8217;s Wednesday press conference &#8220;was amateur hour &#8230; No answers, no focus, no ideas.&#8221;
There have been reports of <a href="https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2024/12/10/what-are-the-car-sized-drones-flying-over-new-jersey-pennsylvania/76859459007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;car-sized&#8221;</a> drone sightings in New Jersey and elsewhere over the past couple of weeks. Some drones have been spotted near military sites and President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/drones-new-jersey-trump-bedminster-golf-course-fbi-20241206.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">golf club</a> in Bedminster. The FBI is investigating, but so far has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-clueless-about-mystery-drones-flying-over-new-jersey-official-tells-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no answers</a>.
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Van Drew said &#8220;of course&#8221; people are concerned and stressed that what he did was pass forward information from sources who possess a &#8220;high-security clearance.&#8221;
New Jersey Republican Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia <a href="https://x.com/DawnFantasia_NJ/status/1866896860578717994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> to X on Wednesday details from a briefing in which the drones were described as being up to 6 feet in diameter, operated in a coordinated manner, and appeared to avoid detection by helicopters and radio frequencies.
&#8220;We know nothing. PERIOD,&#8221; Fantasia emphasized. &#8220;To state that there is no known or credible threat is incredibly misleading, and I informed all officials of that sentiment.&#8221;
Singh said during her press briefing that the Pentagon had &#8220;no evidence&#8221; that the reported drone activity came from a foreign entity or adversary and insisted that no military installation had been threatened. She also denied that people were seeing U.S. military drones.
Van Drew argued the drone reports indicate they are too &#8220;sophisticated&#8221; to be flown by hobbyists or come from a U.S. company. He also contended the drones could be launched from a ship hundreds of miles out at sea, perhaps from China or another country, if not Iran.
&#8220;Why don&#8217;t they take one of them down, analyze it, and let us know what&#8217;s really happening,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I hope they know more than they&#8217;re telling us &#8230; It&#8217;s about time they leveled with the truth.&#8221;

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‘Amateur Hour’: GOP Rep Calls BS On Pentagon’s Response To Mystery Drones

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In the hours after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/syria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Syrian</a> President Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell over the weekend, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces conducted &#8220;precision airstrikes targeting known ISIS camps and operatives&#8221; in central Syria on Sunday.
&#8220;The strikes against the ISIS leaders, operatives, and camps were conducted as part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS, in order to prevent the terrorist group from conducting external operations and to ensure that ISIS does not seek to take advantage of the current situation to reconstitute in central Syria,&#8221; CENTCOM <a href="https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/1865841718366450013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;The operation struck over 75 targets using multiple U.S. Air Force assets, including B-52s, F-15s, and A-10s.&#8221;
CENTCOM said battle damage assessments were &#8220;underway&#8221; and noted that there were &#8220;no indications&#8221; of civilian casualties. CENTCOM also said it would &#8220;continue to carry out operations to degrade ISIS operational capabilities even during this dynamic period in Syria&#8221; together with U.S. &#8220;allies and partners&#8221; in the region.
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&#8220;There should be no doubt — we will not allow ISIS to reconstitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria,&#8221; said Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla. &#8220;All organizations in Syria should know that we will hold them accountable if they partner with or support ISIS in any way.&#8221;
Assad fled to Russia as rebel forces took over the capital of Damascus amid a sudden resurgence of fighting in Syria&#8217;s civil war that had stalled in recent years, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/assad-is-gone-trump-responds-to-syrias-downfall-calls-for-russia-ukraine-ceasefire?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Russia&#8217;s state media <a href="https://x.com/yashar/status/1865817892178247886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Assad and his family made it to Moscow and were granted political asylum.
In public remarks, President Joe Biden <a href="https://x.com/ABCPolitics/status/1865834957366538536" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that U.S. forces conducted &#8220;precision airstrikes&#8221; within Syria against ISIS, and pledged to help &#8220;ensure stability&#8221; in the country.
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&#8220;We&#8217;re clear-eyed about the fact that ISIS will try to take advantage of any vacuum to re-establish its capabilities and to create a safe haven,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;We will not let that happen.&#8221;
President-elect Donald Trump, who is slated to begin his second term in a little more than five weeks, <a href="https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1865434273953509462" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> in a post to X on Saturday that Syria is a &#8220;mess&#8221; and the United States should &#8220;NOT GET INVOLVED!&#8221;

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U.S. Forces Conduct ‘Precision Airstrikes’ On ISIS Targets In Syria After Assad Regime Collapses

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President-elect Donald Trump released a statement on Friday morning standing by his Secretary of Defense pick, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pete-hegseth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Hegseth</a>, as legacy media <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-devotes-multiple-segments-to-pete-hegseth-drinking-beer-on-a-st-pats-day-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> critical of Hegseth&#8217;s credentials and past behavior have ramped up.
Hegseth has been meeting with senators on Capitol Hill and talking to reporters as an NBC News article circulated citing anonymous sources accusing the veteran of excessive consumption of alcohol and worrying his Fox News colleagues. Following the NBC News report, however, multiple colleagues of Hegseth spoke up and defended him. As questions mounted about Hegseth&#8217;s chance to be cleared by the Senate, Trump said he is standing by his nominee, adding that despite &#8220;Fake News&#8221; reports, Hegseth maintains strong support.
&#8220;Pete Hegseth is doing very well. His support is strong and deep, much more so than the Fake News would have you believe,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113605996857369106" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;He was a great student &#8211; Princeton/Harvard educated &#8211; with a Military state of mind. He will be a fantastic, high energy, Secretary of Defense, one who leads with charisma and skill. Pete is a WINNER, and there is nothing that can be done to change that!!!&#8221;
Vice President-elect JD Vance <a href="https://x.com/jdvance/status/1865028676359725196?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;Led by President Trump, we&#8217;re fighting for Pete Hegseth. And we&#8217;re doing so because Pete Hegseth will fight for our troops. For too long, the Pentagon has been led by people who lose wars. Pete Hegseth is a man who fought in those wars. We&#8217;ve got his back.&#8221;
Trump is doubling down on his support for Hegseth as legacy media reports cite unnamed Republican senators reportedly concerned about Hegseth&#8217;s nomination being shot down by the Senate. An unidentified senator spoke to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5025283-hegseth-defense-nomination-doomed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a> in a report published on Thursday, saying, “I think most people do not expect Hegseth to make it. There’s seven or eight [Republican] votes against him. It’s a matter of time.” Other reports and unnamed GOP senators have floated Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as a replacement for Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.
On Wednesday, Hegseth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-fiery-pete-hegseth-goes-on-offensive-in-first-sit-down-interview-since-nomination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sat down with Megyn Kelly</a> for his first interview since being tapped by Trump and responded to some of the claims made against him. He told Kelly that the NBC News story is a &#8220;smear&#8221; campaign against &#8220;someone who supports Donald Trump&#8217;s agenda.&#8221;
“They never asked those people,” Hegseth told Kelly. “And that’s what a smear looks like. It’s a couple anonymous nuggets, usually from disgruntled people who are fired for cause, who are jealous or want a little bit of retribution. And so they peddle stuff to reporters who are not interested in the truth, they’re interested in smearing someone who supports Donald Trump’s agenda. It’s really clear.”
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Hegseth added, “My meetings with (senators) have been fantastic. No one has looked me in the eye and said, ‘I have concerns and I can’t vote for you.’ In fact, most have said, let’s take a picture, and I’m behind you all the way. And that’s a reflection of Donald Trump and the strength of his election, but also the mandate to change something at the Defense Department. We’re not backing down one bit.”
The legacy media has also focused on a sexual assault allegation against Hegseth made by an unnamed woman in 2017. Authorities investigated the allegation and no charges were filed against Hegseth.
“It’s very simple,” Hegseth said of the sex assault allegation. “The matter was fully investigated, and I was completely cleared, and that’s where I’m gonna leave it.”

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‘Pete Is A WINNER’: Trump Stands By Hegseth Amid Legacy Media Firestorm

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-government-efficiency-doge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)</a> is making for some odd bedfellows.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has long railed against billionaires, vouched for Elon Musk — the world&#8217;s richest man and co-leader of DOGE — in the hopes of a defense spending crackdown.
&#8220;Elon Musk is right,&#8221; Sanders <a href="https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1863268770371772863" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.
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Elon Musk is right.
The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions.
Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud.
That must change.
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1863268770371772863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud.&#8221;
Sanders concluded: &#8220;That must change.&#8221;
The post garnered all sorts of buzz, including from Musk&#8217;s America PAC.
&#8220;Sensible spending is not a partisan issue,&#8221; the PAC <a href="https://x.com/america/status/1863275615878516848" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;The general public supports [DOGE] holding government accountable to spend taxpayer money more wisely.&#8221;
President-elect Donald Trump picked Musk and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a> to head DOGE and come up with a plan to reform government and cut down on waste.
In a Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/musk-and-ramaswamy-the-doge-plan-to-reform-government-supreme-court-guidance-end-executive-power-grab-fa51c020?mod=hp_opin_pos_0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> outlining DOGE&#8217;s aspirations, Musk and Ramaswamy mentioned how the Department of Defense had just <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4992913-pentagon-fails-7th-audit-in-a-row-but-says-progress-made/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> its seventh audit in a row.
&#8220;The Pentagon recently failed its seventh consecutive audit, suggesting that the agency’s leadership has little idea how its annual budget of more than $800 billion is spent,&#8221; they wrote.
Further insight could be gleaned from their exchanges on X over the past couple of weeks.
In one post, Ramaswamy <a href="https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1859996110687019166" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;We need to strengthen our military by focusing on the *effectiveness* of our defense spending, rather than just reflexively increasing the magnitude.&#8221;
Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1859996677316510131" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replied</a> by saying that DOGE &#8220;will improve the efficiency of Defense spending.&#8221;
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Last week, Ramaswamy <a href="https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1861163071437242747" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;Yes, it’s true that cutting bureaucracy will reduce the federal deficit, but the real win will be its pro-growth effect. The biggest cost of bureaucracy isn’t the headcount costs, it’s that bureaucrats find legally dubious &#8216;things to do&#8217; that stifle freedom &amp; depress our economy.&#8221;
&#8220;Exactly,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1861174504992694667" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replied</a>. &#8220;In a meeting with senior military officers today, they told me that it now takes longer to renovate stairs (24 months) in the Pentagon than it took to build the WHOLE Pentagon (16 months) in the 1940s!!&#8221;

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From “anti-racism” trainings to bans on “misgendering,” the Biden administration made the American people all too familiar with the increasing &#8220;wokeness&#8221; of the United States government.
Now, President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to undo the Biden-Harris administration’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) push. His allies and <a href="https://hbr.org/2024/11/what-trumps-second-term-could-mean-for-dei">opponents</a> alike anticipate Trump will quickly shutter DEI offices. But thoroughly purging woke people and policies from the government will take more than a few executive orders. Trump has his work cut out for him.
Fortunately, he&#8217;s building a team that will help him achieve this goal. If confirmed, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Pete Hegseth, and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard will be instrumental to Trump&#8217;s DEI purge as Secretaries of State and Defense and Director of National Intelligence, respectively.
The Trump team will have no shortage of targets on their quest. So, we here at The Daily Wire dug through our past reporting on government wokeness and thought we could offer some suggestions as to where they could start.
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<h3>End Pride Month Celebrations</h3>
Every June agencies throughout the federal government use taxpayer dollars to celebrate Pride Month — and they spare no expense.
This year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which Gabbard is slated to helm, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-bidens-intel-community-is-celebrating-pride-month-with-free-trans-flag-manicures-and-filipinx-lectures">hosted</a> a series of events, including a talk on “trans rights” from a “transgender non-binary first generation Filipinx-American activist” and a nail painting session, where intelligence agents could get the transgender flag painted on their nails during work hours. Agents were also invited to take a crochet class, to learn how to make pride flags.
The Air Force, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-air-force-celebrates-pride-month-with-ceo-of-organization-advocating-for-child-gender-transitions">hosted</a> a keynote speech from Brian Bond, the head of a far-left non-profit organization called PFLAG that opposes legislation protecting minors from irreversible medical sex change attempts that threaten to render them infertile. PFLAG also compiled a “transgender reading list for children,” including one about a child who began identifying as transgender at two years old.
The Pentagon also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/air-force-academy-highlights-transgender-officer-at-leadership-summit">hosted</a> Lieutenant Colonel Bree Fram, an engineer with the United States Space Force and activist for pro-transgender policies in the military, as a speaker at an annual Pride Month celebration.
​​“Remember that we mark Pride not beginning with a celebration, but with a riot,” he went on to say in the speech. “I’m not asking you to pick up your bricks, but I am asking you to pick up your ideas about how we can be a more inclusive service.”
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<h3>Abolish &#8216;Affinity Groups&#8217; 
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The most ostentatious displays of fealty to the woke agenda aren&#8217;t always the handiwork of formal DEI offices, however. Some bureaucrats have taken it upon themselves to push their agencies farther to the Left, coalescing in identity-based employee organizations that seek to promote DEI and change agency policies.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-race-and-sex-based-affinity-groups-drive-dei-initiatives-throughout-the-federal-government">Affinity groups</a>, sometimes referred to as &#8220;employee resource groups,&#8221; are organizations divided by racial or sexual identity that are often used as activist nodes within agencies to advance left-wing agendas.
Biden gave his stamp of approval to the employee organizations in his June <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">2021 executive order</a> pushing DEI, and many have since gone on to enlist rank-and-file bureaucrats in the DEI crusade, leveraging civil servants as woke activists.
In the ODNI, for example, one leaked document obtained by The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism">revealed</a> that one of the agency’s employee resource groups was able to modify the language guidelines used when intelligence agents discussed one of our foreign adversaries.
“IC employee resource groups advocating for Asian and Pacific Islander heritage have been particularly successful in creating a new framework and language guidelines for how we talk about the People’s Republic of China,” the leaked document, a newsletter called “The Dive,” explained.
That same edition of The Dive also highlighted ways in which discussions about Islamic terrorism could be changed in order to avoid “problematic phrases.” The newsletter goes on to include an article from an anonymous agent who claims that cross-dressing while at work makes him a better intelligence agent.
The ODNI’s aforementioned pride celebrations, complete with nail painting and pride-flag crocheting, were organized in part by the office’s Pride Employee Resource Group.
Similar organizations are also common in the State Department, which <a href="https://careers.state.gov/about/diversity-inclusion/employee-organizations/">boasts</a> chapters like Blacks in Government, LGBTQIA+ Pride in Foreign Affairs Agencies, and the Hispanic and Latin Employee Council of Foreign Affairs Agencies, among several others.
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<h3>Eliminate The State Department’s Race And LGBT-Based Special Envoys</h3>
In addition to shutting down DEI offices and firing the personnel that staff them, there are other roles, most notably in the State Department, which the new administration could scrap as it works to banish the far-left agenda from the halls of government.
While not officially existing under the umbrella of the DEI office, the State Department has two prominent roles that exist for blatantly ideological reasons.
Desiree Cormier Smith, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-state-department-official-bringing-dei-to-foreign-policy">spotlighted</a> by The Daily Wire, serves as the State Department’s first Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice in a new role that was created under the Biden-Harris administration. Cormier, whose role could be eliminated under the Trump administration, previously worked for Democrat megadonor and billionaire George Soros.
Smith is tasked with creating “global partnerships to combat systemic racism, discrimination, and xenophobia” and has repeatedly endorsed the core tenets of Critical Race Theory. “Structural racism, discrimination, and xenophobia are global scourges that require global solutions,” Smith said in one interview, also adding that “violent white supremacy” is a “global threat.” Smith’s role could be left vacant or axed under Trump altogether.
Smith is not the only left-wing activist who now occupies an influential role at the State Department. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-biden-official-making-six-figures-to-travel-the-globe-pushing-transgenderism">Jessica Stern</a>, the Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons, travels the globe pushing pro-transgender ideology.
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NEW: Meet Jessica Stern — the Biden official paid six figures to travel the globe lobbying for the transgender agenda.
She&#8217;s marched with transgenders in Brazil and cheered as children attend pride parades in Lithuania, but now she&#8217;s afraid that she could be fired by Trump🧵 <a href="https://t.co/s4VOWuNh1Y">pic.twitter.com/s4VOWuNh1Y</a>
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1764766222103544199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
Stern has marched alongside transgender Brazilians and celebrated at the sight of children at LGBT pride events. The State Department official’s priorities under the Biden-Harris administration have included establishing “legal gender recognition based on the principle of self-determination” and <a href="https://iop.harvard.edu/events/americas-leadership-global-lgbtqi-rights-conversation-special-envoy-jessica-stern">addressing</a> the “vulnerability of LGBTQI asylum seekers and refugees.”
Both of these roles could be axed entirely or, at the very least, left vacant. And Smith and Stern are well aware. The special envoy admitted as much in one interview, where she said,  &#8220;We can&#8217;t say for sure that we&#8217;ll exist in two years,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Our eye is always on the clock.&#8221;
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<h3>Review Grant-Making To Ensure The DEI Agenda Isn’t Outsourced</h3>
Even if DEI offices are shuttered and the personnel that staffs them are sent pink slips, there&#8217;s still another way bureaucrats can push their far-left agendas in federal agencies, albeit somewhat indirectly.
A sprawling network of non-profits and think tanks are more than happy to promulgate DEI dogma, especially when they&#8217;re rewarded with federal dollars. Under the Biden administration, the DEI agenda hasn&#8217;t just been pursued by federal agencies themselves, but by a litany of external organizations that have been contracted by the federal government to advance the cause.
Accordingly, the full scope of the left-wing agenda may not be immediately apparent unless a review of grant-making is conducted.
The DOD, for example, has enlisted various outside organizations to assist it in advancing the DEI agenda. A Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-harris-admin-paid-consultants-millions-to-help-military-implement-race-based-hiring-combat-resistance-to-dei">investigation</a> found that the Air Force paid an undisclosed sum of money to the Rand Corporation to commission a report outlining how the Pentagon could fight resistance to DEI. In their report, the Rand Corporation encouraged the Air Force to “develop techniques and tools to mitigate resistance” to DEI, warning that “across organizations, a resistance to DE&amp;I is growing, while discriminatory and xenophobic expressions are increasing.”
“Some researchers describe the presence of ‘denial perspectives’ and ‘diversity defiance,’ or ‘White fatigue,’” the report said, also urging the Defense Department to “exercise caution to guard against” opposition to DEI.
A thorough review of DOD grantmaking could ensure that the Pentagon hasn’t simply outsourced its DEI activities to outside organizations like academic institutions or nonprofits.
The State Department has similarly used taxpayer dollars to push a far-left agenda. One Daily Wire investigation found that the State Department was planning to spend roughly $50,000 to push <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-dept-to-spend-nearly-50k-pushing-trans-inclusive-policies-on-indian-corporations">pro-transgender policies in Indian corporations</a> in Chennai and Hyderabad. The department <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2022/12/21/state-department-awards-30k-grant-pro-trans-group-kyrgyzstan/">awarded</a> another $30,000 to an organization in Kyrgyzstan to promote transgender sensitivity training.
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<h3>Investigate And Abolish Any Identity-Based Employment And Recruitment Programs</h3>
Conservatives slammed critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi when he <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/06/ibram-x-kendi-definition-of-antiracist">infamously stated</a> that &#8220;the only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination.&#8221; While some blasted Kendi for his endorsement of race-based discrimination, others took his advice.
Over the last four years, federal agencies have sought to &#8220;diversify&#8221; the bureaucracy and the armed forces, with some programs openly attempting to recruit certain demographics while disadvantaging others.
One Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-harris-admin-paid-consultants-millions-to-help-military-implement-race-based-hiring-combat-resistance-to-dei">investigation</a> revealed that the Pentagon used taxpayer dollars to implement race-based job candidate selection practices in the name of DEI. The Department of Defense awarded a $760,000 grant to the University of Missouri — Kansas City to create an “equity-focused” career pipeline program that gave preferential treatment to women and non-white students in STEM.
“To meet our equity-focused programmatic goals, campus internship selection will be equitable such that qualified applicants from underserved and underrepresented cohorts … will be provided first choice,” the DOD explained, outlining its race and gender-based career program.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpencerLndqst</a> joins <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@charliekirk11</a> to discuss the Department of Defense’s DEI scandal, using tax payer funds to establish discriminatory hiring pipelines. <a href="https://t.co/uL80NUSRwe">pic.twitter.com/uL80NUSRwe</a>
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The Pentagon later had to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-was-compelled-to-drop-discriminatory-dei-program-after-supreme-court-ruling">revise</a> its program at the University of Missouri — Kansas City after the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action in 2023.
Other efforts to diversify the DOD were far more blatant, however. Internal Air Force documents <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/19/exclusive-new-docs-shed-light-air-force-reduce-white-male-population-joining-officer-ranks/">revealed</a> that the military branch set specific demographic recruiting goals, with one presentation slide explaining that the “white male population will decline as other demographics increase” if the goals are met.
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The Air Force is engaged in anti-white discrimination and enacted a plan to replace white male officers with other demographics. This is the DEI agenda in action.
&#8220;White male population will decline as other demographics increase.&#8221; Excellent reporting from <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSmith2212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JakeSmith2212</a> <a href="https://t.co/wbRcL5lfIC">pic.twitter.com/wbRcL5lfIC</a>
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1836847602492482000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
Much of the military’s push to diversify its ranks has been justified by a flawed McKinsey study, which erroneously claimed that there was a positive correlation between private sector profits and the racial and ethnic diversity of its executive team.
The study has since been debunked, though not before it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-used-debunked-mckinsey-studies-to-justify-dei-in-the-military">used in multiple reports</a> from the United States Navy advocating for DEI policies.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFO</a> hunter who <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Written-Testimony-Elizondo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worked in</a> the Pentagon testified under oath to Congress on Wednesday that he signed documents limiting what he could say about crash retrievals of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly described as unidentified flying objects (UFO).
Luis Elizondo, an author and former Department of Defense (DoD) official, appeared for a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-exposing-the-truth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> on Capitol Hill, titled &#8220;Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,&#8221; alongside other witnesses.
Under questioning from Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-mace" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Mace</a> (R-SC), who chaired the hearing and asked about secret UAP crash retrieval programs, Elizondo said he signed documents three years ago restricting what he could say.
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Secret UAP Crash Retrieval Programs
&quot;Were they designed to identify and reverse engineer alien craft? Yes or no?&quot; &#8211; Rep. Nancy Mace
&quot;Yes.&quot; &#8211; Lue Elizondo <a href="https://t.co/FeAb8PNFv4">pic.twitter.com/FeAb8PNFv4</a>
&mdash; Mike Colangelo (@MikeColangelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1856752950154064003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He did say &#8220;yes&#8221; to the questions of whether the U.S. government has conducted covert UAP crash retrievals and whether these programs were designed to identify and reverse engineer &#8220;alien&#8221; craft.
Elizondo emphasized that for him to speak more candidly, he would have to do so in a closed session and stressed that he was only allowed to discuss what the Pentagon approved for disclosure for his recent book.
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During another exchange, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) got Elizondo to testify that the &#8220;U.S. government&#8221; gave him the documentation to sign that prevented him from speaking further on crash retrieval programs.
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If none of this UAP stuff exists, if it’s all false, why at every turn are people trying to stop transparency? You can’t talk about fight club if there’s no fight club. <a href="https://t.co/otPGNbwu71">pic.twitter.com/otPGNbwu71</a>
&mdash; Congressman Jared Moskowitz (@RepMoskowitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMoskowitz/status/1856761419137495406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Elizondo said he did not have a copy of the record and that it was stored in a SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility). He said the DoD had it, but indicated he could not reveal much more than that publicly.
&#8220;You specifically said that the document said that you can&#8217;t talk about crash retrievals. Well, you can&#8217;t talk about fight club if there&#8217;s no fight club,&#8221; Moskowitz quipped, making a &#8220;Fight Club&#8221; movie reference.
Elizondo also said, while facing questions from Mace, he would &#8220;prefer&#8221; to address whether U.S. contractors have been involved in retrieval programs in a closed setting. And he affirmed there have been injuries.
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&#8220;In your book, you mention government employees who have been injured by UAPs, placed on leave, and receiving government compensation for their injuries, is that correct?&#8221;
After Elizondo replied in the affirmative, Mace asked, &#8220;How can the government deny that we have recovered craft if they are paying people because they&#8217;ve been injured by recovered craft?&#8221;
Elizondo said: &#8220;That&#8217;s why I think we&#8217;re here — again — because I&#8217;ve seen the documentation by the U.S. government for several of these individuals who have sustained injuries as the result of a UAP incident.&#8221;
In posts to X that followed, Mace <a href="https://x.com/RepNancyMace/status/1856756113162866795" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>, &#8220;If I hear closed session conversation one more time I am going to lose it,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RepNancyMace/status/1856794705251766766" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and</a>, &#8220;I’m fed up with the government’s efforts to hide this from American taxpayers.&#8221;
The congresswoman also <a href="https://x.com/RepNancyMace/status/1856771509735375148" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>: &#8220;If it doesn&#8217;t exist, why are we spending taxpayer dollars on something that isn&#8217;t real? And if it does exist, why is it being deliberately hidden from the public?&#8221;
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The U.S. Military is sending an advanced anti-missile system to Israel along with a rare deployment of U.S. soldiers inside Israel who are needed to operate the systems.
The Department of Defense announced on Sunday the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery after Iran fired hundreds of missiles at Israel in April and October
&#8220;The THAAD Battery will augment Israel&#8217;s integrated air defense system,&#8221; the Pentagon said in a statement. &#8220;This action underscores the United States&#8217; ironclad commitment to the defense of Israel, and to defend Americans in Israel, from any further ballistic missile attacks by Iran.&#8221;
The news comes as Israel prepares to retaliate against Iran over their latest attack, firing approximately 180 ballistic missiles at Israel at the start of the month.
After the attack in April, Israel responded with a very limited strike that was intended to send a message rather than cause serious damage.
This time it is widely expected, based on remarks from Israeli officials and assessments from analysts, that Israel is going to respond with significantly greater force.
The THAAD system uses &#8220;hit-to-kill&#8221; technology to destroy incoming missiles and is capable of engaging targets well over 100 miles away.
In the U.S. arsenal, the THAAD &#8220;covers the [U.S. ballistic missile defense] middle tier and defends a larger area than the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System,&#8221; according to congressional research <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12645/2">documents</a>. &#8220;It complements the Patriot, the Navy&#8217;s AEGIS Missile Defense System, and the Ground-based Midcourse Defense System.&#8221;
A THAAD battery typically consists of &#8220;95 soldiers, six truck mounted launchers, 48 interceptors (eight per launcher), one Army/Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance and Control Mode 2 (AN/TPY-2) radar, and a Tactical Fire Control/Communications component.&#8221;
The system, developed by Lockheed Martin Corporation, was designed to shoot down short-range, medium-range, and limited intermediate-range ballistic missile threats inside or outside the atmosphere during their final (terminal) phase of flight.

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The Biden-Harris administration is reportedly refusing to provide intelligence support to Israel in its fight against Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon after the terrorist organization has fired more than 8,000 missiles, rockets, and drones at Israel over the last year.
Israel has conducted thousands of airstrikes against Hezbollah over the last couple of weeks that have destroyed tens of thousands of missiles, rockets, and drones that were among Hezbollah&#8217;s large stockpile of weapons. Although exact numbers have not been released, the number of terrorists that have been killed is well into the hundreds, if not thousands, and many thousands more have been injured.
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh was asked during a press conference on Wednesday whether the U.S. was providing any support to Israel, including intelligence sharing, in its fight against Hezbollah.
&#8220;No. No support,&#8221; Singh <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-not-providing-intelligence-support-israel-lebanon-operations-pentagon-says-2024-09-25/">said</a>. &#8220;When it comes to Lebanon, the U.S. military has no involvement in Israel&#8217;s operations.&#8221;
Hezbollah is one of the largest terrorist organizations in the world, receiving nearly $1 billion a year from Iran that it uses to fund its force of approximately 100,000 terrorists who are armed with more than 150,000 missiles, rockets, and drones as of a few weeks ago.
The terrorist group is responsible for murdering hundreds of Americans in bombings that happened in the 1980s. Some of the terrorists that Israel has killed recently, who had multi-million dollar bounties placed on their heads by the U.S., were responsible for those attacks.
The Biden-Harris administration published a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/09/25/joint-statement-by-the-united-states-australia-canada-european-union-france-germany-italy-japan-saudi-arabia-united-arab-emirates-qatar/">statement</a> late on Wednesday night that failed to mention &#8220;Hezbollah&#8221; once and failed to pin the blame for the fighting on the terrorist group and Iran.
The administration led a joint statement — which included Australia, Canada, European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Qatar — that called for an immediate ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border.
Hezbollah has terrorized northern Israel every day since Hamas&#8217; October 7 terrorist attack last year by firing missiles, rockets, and drones into the country. The result has been tens of thousands of Israelis that have been displaced from their homes along the northern border.
The recent escalation over the last couple of weeks was largely ignited after Israel detonated thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies that it secretly manufactured and sold to Hezbollah that were laced with explosives. The explosions killed dozens of terrorists and severely wounded thousands more, including many who were in critical condition or who sustained injuries that rendered them permanently disabled on the battlefield.
Israel followed up the detonations — which decimated a significant portion of the terrorist group&#8217;s communication infrastructure and injected rampant fear and paranoia among the surviving terrorists — by killing the entire senior command of the Radwan force and other top Hezbollah commanders.
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After eliminating top commanders in the terrorist group, Israel targeted thousands of locations across Lebanon, mostly in the south, where Hezbollah stored weapons. Numerous videos posted online showed instances where there were hundreds of secondary explosions when some sites were hit, indicating a large presence of munitions that were exploding due to the heat and flames caused by the strike.
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Secondary Explosions = Stored Munitions
It&#8217;s basic. Secondary explosions occur because we are precisely targeting the munitions of Hezbollah that are aimed at killing our civilians. <a href="https://t.co/HvgbEkps2L">pic.twitter.com/HvgbEkps2L</a>
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1839047433134764043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Shocking scenes in Lebanon as the IDF bombs the house of a local fireworks enthusiast. Just look at his collection of Catherine wheels, Roman candles and bottle rockets going off.
Well, either that or Hezbollah are hiding arms caches in civilian houses. Hard to say. <a href="https://t.co/sl0obPvwBE">pic.twitter.com/sl0obPvwBE</a>
— Andrew Fox (@Mr_Andrew_Fox) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mr_Andrew_Fox/status/1838231894565024200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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What appears to be another Hezbollah ammunition depot in Sidon has been identified and struck by the Israeli military. <a href="https://t.co/wol1FP4nLV">pic.twitter.com/wol1FP4nLV</a>
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeTruzman/status/1838260021580431719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-destroys-underground-iranian-built-missile-factory-report">Israel Destroys Underground Iranian-Built Missile Factory</a>

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The Department of Defense awarded nearly $1.5 million in taxpayer money to a Democratic donor’s company, which makes fake lab-grown meat from fermented fungus.
The Better Meat Company, which uses fungus protein to make fake meat in a lab, is led by CEO Paul Shapiro, an activist with a history of donating to Democrats. The taxpayer-funded <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3878835/dod-releases-seven-awards-for-distributed-bioindustrial-manufacturing-program/">grant</a> will bankroll a “bioproduction facility for mycoprotein ingredients that are shelf-stable, have high protein and fiber contents, and can be dehydrated.” The company <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJO8UtRIEH8&amp;t=670s">creates the phony meat</a> by feeding water and nutrients to fungal roots stored in a bioreactor, turning the material into a semi-solid gray liquid that is strained to finally become the end product.
A Pentagon spokesman told The Daily Wire that the award “is in support of a bioproduction facility for types of protein that are shelf-stable, have high protein and fiber content, and can rapidly support the sustainment requirements of our globally-deployed forces.&#8221;
“We are investing in sources of protein such as chickpeas and tofu. The Department is not funding research into ‘lab-grown’ or ‘fake meat’ &#8211; nor does it have plans to include such protein substitutes in service members&#8217; MREs,” the Pentagon spokesman went on to say.
The grant will, however, fund a “facility for mycoprotein ingredients,” the same exact ingredient used to create the fake meat. The Daily Wire asked the Defense Department if these facilities will be used by the Better Meat Company to create fake meat during or after the grant term, but has not received a response.
The Defense Department <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13552897/pentagon-lab-meat-soldiers-rations-BioMADE.html">previously announced</a> plans to feed imitation meat to soldiers in an attempt to reduce its carbon footprint. The department then backtracked after being hit with widespread criticism, and <a href="https://www.drovers.com/news/department-defense-backs-feeding-lab-grown-protein">agreed not to fund</a> the fake meat initiative this July — just before the Pentagon seemingly reversed course again with its grant to the Better Meat Company.
“We believe the future of meat production is fermentation-fueled,” the Better Meat Company <a href="https://www.bettermeat.co/our-mission">claims</a> on its site. “We aspire to revolutionize the meat industry by creating a new and better way to make meat,” it says, referencing its faux-meat product.
Jack Hubbard is the Executive Director of the <a href="https://environmentandwelfare.com/?_sm_nck=1">Center for the Environment and Welfare</a>, an organization “founded to help consumers, companies, and stakeholders navigate issues related to sustainability and animal welfare.” Hubbard tore into the Defense Department&#8217;s grant and expressed concern that the funding would support the company behind the production of phony meat.
“America’s foreign enemies are laughing at us,” he said, asserting that the Pentagon should stick to national security instead of diverting taxpayer dollars to companies that produce fake meat.
Other fake meat products have been found to result in <a href="https://www.fooddive.com/news/better-meat-awarded-grant-department-of-defense/725392/">various health problems</a>, including hives and swelling of the throat, one <a href="https://www.cspinet.org/news/quorns-mycoprotein-linked-severe-allergic-reactions-gastrointestinal-symptoms-new-report">study</a> found.
The Better Meat Company’s fake meat production appears to be ideologically motivated. Shapiro previously worked as a vice president at the Humane Society. One Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/30/humane-society-sexual-harassment-allegations-investigation-216553/">profile of Shapiro</a> in 2018, which detailed extensive sexual harassment allegations against him, called the Better Meat CEO “one of the nation’s most consequential animal rights advocates.”
“The problem today is that we are using vast numbers of geese, ducks, chickens, turkeys, pigs, cows, and other animals that we frankly really like to eat,” Shapiro said in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&amp;v=VWqNqp4i77Y&amp;embeds_widget_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bettermeat.co%2F&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.embedly.com%2F&amp;embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.embedly.com&amp;source_ve_path=Mjg2NjQsMjM4NTE">speech</a> about his company.
Shapiro also has a history of <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Paul+shapiro&amp;page=2">donating to Democrats,</a> including former New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).

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Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro warned Navy personnel against engaging in political activity just a day before he was found to have violated federal law by voicing his support for President Joe Biden over other potential candidates, The Daily Wire has learned.
Del Toro’s support of Biden was found to have “crossed a legal line” in <a href="https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/05/del-toro-faces-hatch-act-violation-for-comments-on-biden/">violation</a> of the Hatch Act, a federal law that bars federal employees from engaging in political activities while participating in work duties, during a taxpayer-funded trip to the United Kingdom in January, the Office of the Special Counsel said this week.
Just one day before it was revealed that Del Toro violated the law, he sent out an unclassified document to Navy personnel, personally warning them against engaging in political activity. The guidance sent out to Navy sailors, obtained by The Daily Wire, is titled “<a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/FILE_0577.pdf">Guidance on Political Activities of DON Personnel</a>,” and includes a warning to personnel from Del Toro himself.
“Now that the 2024 election season is upon us, it is more important than ever for us to remember that the DON is an apolitical body and our members cannot participate in activities that could appear to imply sponsorship, approval, or endorsement of a political candidate, campaign, or cause,” a quote from Del Toro reads. “Public trust and confidence depend on this.”
When he sent the guidance, Del Toro was just one day away from being cited for engaging in partisan activity himself.
“When speaking in his official capacity on a taxpayer-funded trip, Secretary Del Toro encouraged electoral support for one candidate over another in the upcoming presidential election,” Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger noted this week. “By doing so, he crossed a legal line and violated the Hatch Act.”
“Rules for thee but not for me is the unofficial slogan of the woke Biden-Harris DOD. Secretary Del Toro is correct that ‘public trust and confidence’ depend on an apolitical military,&#8221; Rep. Jim Banks, Chairman of the Anti-Woke Caucus, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;That’s why trust in our military has dropped to an all-time low under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.”
The Office of Special Counsel explained that Del Toro violated the Hatch Act while partaking in interviews while on the trip.
“I’m confident that the American people will step up to the plate come November and support President Biden for a second term as our Commander-in-Chief, so that we can continue to work together as free democratic countries respect each other around the globe,” Del Toro said in response to one interview question.
“Secretary Del Toro’s statements with overt reference to the election conveyed electoral support for one candidate and opposition to another candidate, and thus, constituted political activity,” the Office of Special Counsel report explains. 
The Biden-Harris administration has consistently worked to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-bidens-intel-community-is-celebrating-pride-month-with-free-trans-flag-manicures-and-filipinx-lectures">embed their ideology</a> throughout the military and our national security institutions, namely through the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">implementation</a> of leftwing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, as a series of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism">investigations</a> from The Daily Wire has revealed.

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