President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s Department of Labor introduced measures to reverse a ban on environmental, social, and governance investing, also known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESG</a>, among fiduciaries managing retirement funds, a rule that former President Donald Trump established during his final days in office.
The agency published a <a href="https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/fact-sheets/final-rule-on-prudence-and-loyalty-in-selecting-plan-investments-and-exercising-shareholder-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">final rule</a> on Tuesday that reflected the Biden administration’s directive to safeguard the economy from “climate-related financial risk that may threaten the life savings and pensions of America&#8217;s workers and families.” Under the new rule, fiduciaries are permitted to weigh “the economic effects of climate change and other ESG considerations” as long as such concerns are relevant to a risk-and-return analysis.
Employee Benefits Security Administration Acting Assistant Secretary Ali Khawar <a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20211013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last year that the measure, which had been undergoing a public comment period, would “bolster the resilience of workers’ retirement savings and pensions by removing the artificial impediments … caused by the prior administration’s rules.” She added that “climate change and other ESG factors can be financially material and when they are, considering them will inevitably lead to better long-term risk-adjusted returns, protecting the retirement savings of America’s workers.”
Critics of the ESG movement argue that the investment philosophy mingles political and social causes in a manner that fails to maximize shareholder returns. The former <a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20201030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rule</a> created by the Trump administration prevented “fiduciaries from selecting investments based on non-pecuniary considerations” and required them to “base investment decisions on financial factors” alone.
West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore remarked during an interview with The Daily Wire that allowing proponents of the ESG movement access to retirement funds exposes Americans to significant downside risk. “This is certainly reckless, because they are playing with other people’s retirement money,” he said. “When you put these ESG investment strategies in place, you become less diverse in your investments.”
Moore noted that ESG investments have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virtue-signaling-isnt-free-how-woke-investing-fell-apart-once-the-economy-got-bad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> over the past year as technology stocks languish and the energy sector witnesses outsized profitability. Harvard Management Company, which manages the elite university’s endowment, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-university-endowment-loses-2-3-billion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> last month that a recent $2.3 billion loss was attributable to fossil fuel divestment efforts, even though the organization remains “proud to be deeply engaged in the issue of sustainability.”
“It’s almost along the lines of a religious fervor, where they’re willing to take a loss to further their political ideology,” Moore commented. “They need to be maximizing returns for their beneficiaries so they can feel safe in retirement.”
West Virginia ranked among the top six states for energy production as of 2019, according to <a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Energy Information Administration. Moore characterized pushes from ratings agencies to downgrade energy-producing states as “coercive capitalism,” observing that his state’s finances have “never been better” despite the presence of a robust fossil fuel sector. Meanwhile, the broader American economy will suffer as investment dollars fail to reach critical oil and natural gas ventures in energy-rich states.
Moore, who recently announced his candidacy for Congress, said that lawmakers could prohibit ratings agencies from “pushing their worldview” on the marketplace and examine asset management companies’ use of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blackrock-makes-major-change-after-backlash-against-woke-investing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proxy voting</a> to advance the ESG movement. “There is a tremendous amount that can be done at the federal level to fill in the cracks where the states are limited in their capacity, while at the same time respecting federalism,” he added.
Americans would prefer that their investment dollars remain politically neutral, a recent survey found. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive poll</a> from The Daily Wire showed that 64% of respondents believe “individual investors whose savings are being invested” should ultimately decide whether retirement and pension funds are allocated according to ESG standards, while a mere 20% believe that “Wall Street asset managers” should make such decisions.

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Trump Barred Retirement Plans From Mixing Wokeness With Profits; Biden Is Reversing That Rule

Biden Reverses Trump-Era Rule To Prevent Mixing Wokeness With Profits In Retirement Funds

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A new national poll that surveyed approximately 1,300 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hispanics">Hispanic</a> voters revealed about half of sample believe the United States is on the wrong track, citing key issues impacting their views on the current political climate — particularly with regard to crime, healthcare, and inflation.
WPA Intelligence, a conservative polling firm that collaborated with Visto Media on behalf of the Latino advocacy group Bienvenido, conducted a poll of 1,288 Hispanic voters with a 3% margin of error earlier this month. The firm built out the sample before the 2022 midterm elections to gauge which side the demographic would likely swing at the polling station less than two weeks away.
According to the poll, about 56% of Hispanic voters said they are frustrated with the current state of the country and that the nation has gone off on the wrong track.
&#8220;Looking at this pitch, I think it certainly shows that Hispanics are recognizing that there are problems with what is going on right now in the direction of the country,&#8221; Conor Maguire, the firm&#8217;s principal and managing director, told reporters during a presentation on Monday.
WPA officials said the poll used a verified voter Pew Research study of the 2020 Hispanic Vote where 38% supported former President Trump and 59% marked their ballots for Biden. Half of Trump&#8217;s Hispanic voters supported him in 2016, while the other half were from voters who either gave his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton their vote — or did not cast a ballot.
According to the poll, Republicans have cut the Democrats&#8217; Hispanic margins by nearly half in the last four years.
Pollsters said that while Hispanics may have conservative cultural leanings like moral values, faith, and religion, such topics did not rank high in their priorities. However, an overwhelming majority of Hispanics want to limit abortions to 15 weeks or less and believe it&#8217;s inappropriate for educational institutes to teach radical gender ideology to children or allow them to attend drag queen shows.
In the last five years, 22% of the surveyed voters said they have become more conservative, with only 19% saying they have become more liberal.
Approval numbers for President Biden from Hispanic voters show that 56% of Hispanics believe he should not run for re-election. Many of their frustrations with the country&#8217;s current condition under the Biden administration revealed that 60% believe that crime has worsened, and 74% rate the nation&#8217;s economic condition as fair or poor.
&#8220;They&#8217;re just very frustrated with the economy &#8230; the impact that they see illegal immigration has in their communities, and they&#8217;re very frustrated with the crime levels in their communities,&#8221; Giancarlo Sopo, media strategist for the firm, told reporters. &#8220;And I think there&#8217;s just there&#8217;s a disconnect there that I think has to be addressed.&#8221;
With many left-wing politicians and media outlets pushing the idea racism and discrimination cause people to fail, most of the Hispanic voters surveyed said they reject the idea of victimhood and embrace the American dream, showing 71% believe their problems and failures in life directly related to their actions, decisions, and circumstances. Numbers from the poll also showed that 74% of Hispanics still believe in the American dream.
The poll revealed that many Hispanic Democrats still believe left-wing disinformation from Spanish-speaking media sources, such as the false narrative police officers kill 150 or more unarmed Black men every year, the Supreme Court outlawed abortion in the nation, or former President Trump called all immigrants &#8220;animals,&#8221; rather than just referring to MS-13 gang members.
&#8220;I think a lot of the time, Democrats are too eager to brand anything and everything that they don&#8217;t like as misinformation,&#8221; Sopo said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not denying that there is misinformation in Hispanic communities — but as we saw in this poll — it is clearly not limited to right-wing sources … right-leaning audiences. There is misinformation, and I think Hispanic voters are incredibly smart and nuanced, sophisticated enough to decipher fact from fiction.&#8221;
Last summer, Latino Media Network <a href="https://radioinsight.com/headlines/227505/latino-media-network-to-acquire-univision-radio-properties-in-ten-markets/">announced</a> that the company signed &#8220;one of the largest single acquisitions of stations by a Latino-owned and operated company in history&#8221; in a $60 million all-cash deal with TelevisaUnivision. The still-pending acquisition would take over 18 radio stations in ten of the nation&#8217;s largest media markets to reach approximately one-third of the U.S. Latino population.
The network reportedly secured equity investments from investors and debt financing for the acquisition from Lakestar Finance, which affiliates itself with left-wing billionaire George Soros&#8217;s private American investment management firm, Soros Fund Management. Soros has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in left-wing politicians and at least 75 progressive prosecutors across the U.S. to transform the criminal justice system with radical policies and anti-police narratives.
&#8220;It was a defensive move to protect their current standing with Hispanics,&#8221; Sopo told The Daily Wire.

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President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> argued on Friday that his administration was responsible for the largest decrease of the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/national-debt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">budget deficit</a> in American history, while “mega MAGA trickle-down” policies from Republicans “failed the country.”
The claim occurs as the national debt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-debt-surpasses-31-trillion-for-the-first-time-republicans-and-democrats-both-to-blame" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surpasses</a> $31 trillion for the first time, <a href="https://www.usdebtclock.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implying</a> over $93,000 in liabilities per citizen and nearly $248,000 per taxpayer. As he argued that the nation is transitioning “from a historically strong economic recovery to a steady and stable growth,” Biden added that the deficit fell by $1.4 trillion this year and $350 billion last year.
“Today, we have further proof that we’re rebuilding the economy in a responsible way,” he said during a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/10/21/remarks-by-president-biden-on-historic-deficit-reduction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a>. “Let me be clear: This record deficit reduction includes the cost of my student loan plan and everything else we’re paying for.”
Biden failed to mention, however, that the deficit surged as policymakers enacted multiple stimulus packages meant to dampen economic fallout from government lockdowns. The deficit surged from nearly $1 trillion in 2019 to $3.1 trillion in 2020, according to <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Office of Management and Budget, while the current deficit of $1.4 trillion exceeds the last pre-recession deficit by roughly $400 billion.
Policies enacted by the Biden administration will contribute more than $4.8 trillion in new deficit spending between 2021 and 2031, according to an <a href="https://www.crfb.org/blogs/biden-administration-has-approved-48-trillion-new-borrowing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Removing the effect of the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion package greenlit weeks after Biden’s inauguration, implies $2.5 trillion of new deficits.
Biden was nevertheless quick to argue that his policies decreased spending more than those enacted by Trump, who indeed oversaw a rapid increase in spending even before the recession.
“On my watch, things have been different. The deficit has come down both years that I’ve been in office,” Biden said. “And I just signed legislation that’s going to reduce it even more in the decades to come. Now Republicans in Congress are doubling down on their commitment to explode the deficit again. Just this week, Republican leaders said if they get their way, they’re going to extend the Trump tax cuts, which are due to expire in a couple years.”
The comments occur less than one month before the midterm elections, in which the economy and inflation rates are particularly salient issues for American voters, as indicated by a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-midterm-poll-spells-bad-news-for-democrats-on-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from ABC News and The Washington Post. Republicans lead the Democrats by a 16% margin and a 19% margin with respect to trust in handling the economy and inflation, respectively.
“If Republicans get their way, the deficit is going to soar, the tax burden is going to fall on the middle class,” Biden added. “And Republicans are working really hard.”
Democratic candidates, however, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vulnerable-democrats-in-swing-states-distance-themselves-from-biden-on-student-debt-cancellation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">distanced themselves</a> from Biden and his economic agenda, including an executive order which canceled as much as $20,000 in student loan debt per borrower. One <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clear-majority-of-americans-worried-about-more-inflation-as-biden-mulls-canceling-student-debt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> from CNBC revealed that 59% of Americans are concerned that eliminating student debt will worsen inflation.
In terms of midterm predictions, Biden conjectured that his party will “see one more shift” in the polls toward their side before Americans cast their ballots. “It’s been back and forth with them ahead, us ahead, them ahead. Back and forth,” he said.

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My foray into government seemed in hyperdrive. It was my patriotic attempt to do all I could to restore our nation to its first principles and a greater respect for life.
I had left my 30-year career as a chemist to become a speechwriter and advisor to then Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin. I was an energy policy wonk and had the honor of collaborating with the White House a few times on key issues.
When we were not reelected in 2019, I began to prepare a return to private life when I was appointed as a Senior Advisor in the Trump Administration.
So, I would head to Washington D.C.. My family, including our Golden Retriever, Chipper, would follow as soon as I got settled.
At the end of my first month in Washington, I was thrilled to be invited to a White House breakfast meeting the following week. But as I made my way up the Metro steps heading to my new apartment, I learned Chipper had just lost his battle with cancer. I was overcome with emotion. He crossed the Rainbow Bridge while I was 900 miles away. The regret and guilt of not being there for him were overwhelming.
All those thoughts dissolved, however, as I reached the top Metro step. Everything went black, and I collapsed.
After eventually getting back to my apartment, I had to scramble to find a doctor. I had only been in the city a month. A friend in Alexandria recommended an internal medicine specialist, Dr. Gary Miller. I didn’t know it at the time, but that selection would save my life.
That specialist noticed that my fingernails had no pink coloring beneath them; instead, they were completely white. He quickly referred me to the hematology department at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
This, too, was a life-saving decision. The internist told me months later, when I called to thank him, that he’d suspected I had a serious condition but didn’t have the testing capability at his office to be certain. He did, however, know that the team at Sibley was among the best in the world at diagnosing what he suspected.
The night after seeing the internist, I called my wife, who was still in Kentucky packing the house. I assured her I felt fine and that this was all much ado about nothing, but God impressed upon her that it was serious. She got on the first available flight to Washington.
Days later, after a series of blood tests, I remained steel-spined as the doctor at Sibley came into my room and told us that he suspected cancer, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). A painful bone marrow biopsy followed and confirmed the worst possible news. I had T-type with two mutations, making mine the most rare and deadly form of cancer in the world, with an approximate 98% fatality rate. There weren’t even enough survivors to craft any kind of hopeful prognosis. Sibley Hospital had become a satellite facility at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and was under the supervision of one of the top oncologists in the world. He was the only doctor on record to have cured my type of cancer.
“Okay, no problem,” I said. “I can beat it. What do we have to do, like chemo or something?”
“Yeah, or something,” the doctor answered, a bit perplexed by my cavalier response.
“No problem, here’s the deal, I have a meeting at the White House next week. I’ll go take care of that and then come back here, and you can tell me what I need to do.”
The doctor rolled his stool over to me and placed a hand on my shoulder. “Mr. Skates,” he said intensely. “You aren’t comprehending what I am telling you. Mr. Skates, there is no medical explanation for you to be alive right now. You have almost no red or white blood cells left. You are passing out because there is no vehicle to carry oxygen to your brain. We are starting chemo on Monday, and there will be no meeting. Fighting this disease will dominate your life for the next year.”
That’s when the gravity of the situation hit me. 
I was given three days to get my affairs in order before reporting the following Monday for my first chemotherapy treatment. Acute leukemia hits you like a freight train, so once I reached the point of passing out, the shortness of breath and weakness were debilitating. 
Still, we took a few hours on one of those days to tour the Museum of the Bible. My son pushed me in a wheelchair. I’m glad I took the risk. Even with all the magnificent artifacts, a simple one impacted me the most. 
There was a small oil lamp on display made of clay. In my imagination it was a child’s lamp that was used at the child’s bedside. It was said to be from the time of Jesus’ youth. The fact that the little lamp had traveled across space and time for me to admire it at such an emotional time, gave me a renewed perspective on the bigness of God. I determined that if I lived or died, He was in control. From that day forward, I was never afraid of my illness.
I would undergo the most intensive chemo regimen in use for six months. It was brutal and included 14 spinal taps, since my leukemia liked to hide in the spinal fluid. Then, the hard part: I would have to move to Baltimore and Johns Hopkins for a bone marrow transplant. I would be there for 66 days. Chemo, alone, couldn’t defeat this foe. The chemo was tough, but it was a walk in the park compared to the transplant. My son, a haploidentical match (a 50% match) would be my donor.
The transplant process, and the massive progress that has been made in conducting them in the last five years, is a miracle unto itself. After a day of testing and scans, I was given whole body radiation and one last massive dose of chemo. These were intended to destroy my own marrow and immune system. I was neutropenic for a time. A minor infection could have been fatal. 
Even after my son’s marrow was introduced into my body a few days later, weeks would go by before I would have any immunity at all. The nausea and weakness were at their most intense during this period. I lost all of my hair and my beard, and I lost 80 pounds. I then underwent two more painful bone marrow biopsies.
All of this occurred in 2020 during the pandemic. Covid would have quickly been fatal for me. My wife did the work of a saint, moving us to D.C. while I was in the hospital with the help of a church friend who drove our Ryder truck to Washington. She kept everything that came into our apartment sanitized. She did all of this with no family support, given we were so far from Kentucky and the limited travel due to the pandemic. 
We also survived all of this as Washington, D.C. and Baltimore were literally on fire from the summer riots.
I thought I went to D.C. to help save the Republic. Apparently, God sent me to D.C. to save my life, to ensure I was at Sibley and Johns Hopkins and to see the only doctor who had cured my type of leukemia.
I am now two years in remission, supposedly it takes three before you’re considered cured, but I think I’ve made it. I’m back home in Kentucky near my grandchildren, and, after a long period mourning Chipper, I’ve even taken in a new puppy. I’m a walking medical miracle.
Chris Skates is an author and a former chemist, speechwriter, and senior policy advisor.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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I Went To D.C. To Help Save The Republic. God Turned Me Into A Walking Medical Miracle Instead.

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/08/08/dhs-statement-us-district-courts-decision-regarding-mpp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Monday they are preparing to terminate Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” border policy in a “quick and orderly manner.” 
The announcement follows the U.S. Supreme Court upholding a ruling, 5-4, at the beginning of August, which allows the Biden Administration to end the Migrant Protection Protocols, which required asylum seekers and other migrants who arrive at the U.S. southern border to remain in Mexico while they awaited their immigration trial. But with the nation’s highest court paving a path for DHS officials to forego Trump&#8217;s immigration policy, those waiting in Mexico until their trial date have the option to cross the border and stay in the United States while awaiting the outcome.
“As Secretary Mayorkas has said, [Migrant Protection Protocols], has endemic flaws, imposes unjustifiable human costs, and pulls resources and personnel away from other priority efforts to secure our border,” the DHS statement reads.
However, supporters of Trump’s border policy called it an effective deterrent for illegal immigrants coming to the border claiming asylum, adding the program has been a net benefit since around 70,000 asylum-seekers have successfully passed through the program while those seeking to enter the country illegally have been detained.
In 2021, President Joe Biden ordered an end to policy but faced litigation from Missouri and Texas, which sued the president’s administration for violating the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs the process by which federal agencies develop and issue regulations. A lower court ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the policy last December.
DHS officials said that approximately 70,000 migrants were subject to the policy until President Biden suspended it on his first day in office in January 2021. Since the court forced Biden to reinstate the policy, nearly 5,800 migrants were subject from December to June, with many traveling from Nicaragua, Cuba, Columbia, and Venezuela.  
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WS), who serves as a ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to DHS officials earlier this year after obtaining <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/F9D5467E-EEC9-4AEC-9156-73C5957CFE57" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the federal agency. The data disclosed that between March and August 2021, over 270,000 illegal immigrants were dispersed into the United States with little chance of removal. 
Of those, over 50,000 —more than half released into the United States under a Notice to Report (NTR)—failed to appear to begin deportation proceedings.
“DHS further clarified that between March 21, 2021, and December 5, 2021, ICE issued 50,683 NTAs to aliens previously released on an NTR,” Johnson said in a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2022/1/sen-johnson-releases-immigration-data-showing-failures-of-the-biden-administration-s-disastrous-border-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “For over 40,000 of those cases, ICE does not have data on what immigration court is overseeing these cases, despite the fact that ICE acts as the prosecutor in deportation proceedings.”
Fox News <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-migrants-released-into-us-2021-failed-report-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Biden’s administration’ began using the Notice to Report process in March as migrant apprehensions at the southern border dramatically spiked in the initial days of the administration. Rather than issuing a Notice to Appear, which gives migrants a time and date for a hearing, NTR processes migrants into the country in as little as 15 minutes. 
DHS officials said more information on the program’s status would be released in the coming days and that immigrants enrolled should follow the directions on their court documents and tear sheets to appear for their scheduled court date as required.
Charlotte Pence Bond and Tim Meads contributed to this report.

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DHS Ready To End Trump-Era “Remain in Mexico” Border Policy

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On Monday the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court">U.S. Supreme Court</a> certified a June 30 ruling that would allow the Biden Administration to end former President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” border policy. 
Just over a month ago, the nation’s highest court ruled 5-4 in Biden v. Texas that the current administration can end the Migrant Protection Protocols, otherwise known as Trump’s &#8220;Remain in Mexico&#8221; border policy. The policy required asylum seekers and other migrants who arrive at the U.S. southern border to remain in Mexico while they awaited their immigration trial.
“…the Government’s rescission of MPP did not violate section 1225 of the INA, and the October 29 Memoranda did constitute final agency action,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “We therefore reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. On remand, the District Court should consider in the first instance whether the October 29 Memoranda comply with section 706 of the APA.”
In 2021, President Joe Biden ordered an end to policy but faced litigation from Missouri and Texas, which sued the president’s administration for violating the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs the process by which federal agencies develop and issue regulations. A lower court ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the policy last December.
Roberts was joined by Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Sonia Sotomayer, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan. Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett dissented.
<a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/2022_0722_plcy_mpp_cohort_report_july_2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Homeland Security</a> says that approximately 70,000 migrants were subject to the policy until President Biden suspended it on his first day in office in January 2021. Since the court forced Biden to reinstate the policy, nearly 5,800 migrants were subject from December to June, with many traveling from Nicaragua, Cuba, Columbia, and Venezuela.  
Supporters of the policy called it an effective deterrent for illegal immigrants coming to the border claiming asylum, adding the program has been a net benefit since around 70,000 asylum-seekers have successfully passed through the program, while those seeking to enter the country illegally have been detained.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-mexico-immigration-alejandro-mayorkas-government-and-politics-642d82b25f8e44b0942a41c39d5e5e81">reports</a> the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration posted a sign at the Salvation Army migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, last week that informed asylum seekers of the policy’s status.
“Wait for official information! The Remain in Mexico (MPP) program remains in effect. The United States government will inform you of any changes.”
Charlotte Pence Bond and Tim Meads contributed to this report.

Migrant Border Crossings At The Southern Border Continue As Judge’s Title 42 Ruling Looms

Supreme Court Certifies Ruling Ending Trump’s ‘Remain In Mexico’ Border Policy

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The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly investigating the actions of then-President Donald Trump related to events that happened after the 2020 presidential election.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/26/trump-justice-investigation-january-6/">reported</a> that the DOJ&#8217;s investigation into Trump was part of &#8220;its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.&#8221;
Prosecutors have reportedly questioned former White House officials in front of a grand jury about any conversations that Trump or his advisers may have allegedly had about trying to replace electors in states that Biden won with pro-Trump electors.
Prosecutors have also reportedly asked about Trump&#8217;s alleged attempt to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the election and any instructions that Trump may have given his legal team about fake electors.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said during an interview with NBC News Tuesday evening that the criminal investigation into the events of January 6 was &#8220;the most wide ranging investigation in its history,&#8221; and there will be things that the DOJ finds that the House Select January 6th committee &#8220;haven’t found.&#8221;
When asked by anchor Lester Holt about whether indicting Trump would &#8220;tear the country apart,&#8221; Garland responded, “We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding January 6, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s what we do,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We don’t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that.”
When asked if Trump announcing another campaign for president would impact how the DOJ would proceed with the case, Garland responded, “I’ll say again that we will hold accountable anyone who was criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate, lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next.”
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The report said that there were two areas that the DOJ is broadly looking at that could end up ensnaring Trump in some way, including “seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct a government proceeding,” which are what some of the rioters were charged with; and charges involving potential fraud with using fake electors or trying to pressure government officials to falsely claim the election was rigged.
The report noted that federal criminal investigations into political figures are highly secretive and that many of the investigations end with no criminal charges being filed. The report added that no former U.S. president has ever been charged with a crime and that in cases such as with former Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, investigators believed it was better to not charge them in-part because they did not want to be perceived as using government power to go after political opponents.
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The <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration">Biden administration</a> is led by lawyers, academics, and community organizers — but few <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/business">business</a> leaders, a <a href="https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CTUP_NoExperienceNecessary.pdf">report</a> from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity recently revealed.
According to the conservative think tank, the top 68 individuals in the administration have spent an average of 2.4 years in the business world, with only one in eight boasting “extensive business experience.&#8221; The median length of business experience for Biden officials is zero years.
“Surely we want our political class to have a diversity of backgrounds. We want lawyers, grassroots activists, those with political and policy experience, scientists, health experts, and academics with required specialties,” the report argued. “But we also want people who have experience running large operations with hundreds and thousands of employees and who understand logistics.”
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris each have zero years of business experience. Likewise, top Cabinet officials — such as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai — do not have any experience in the business world. However, a handful of top officials — such as Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, both of whom worked in venture capital — have more than a decade of business experience.
The Committee to Unleash Prosperity also evaluated members of the Trump administration. In addition to President Donald Trump’s 45 years in the business world, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross boasted 42 years, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had 25 years, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spent 23 years in the arena.
Business sentiment is suffering due to economic turmoil following COVID and the lockdown-induced recession, with 34% of small business owners <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-small-businesses-are-calling-inflation-their-single-most-important-problem">calling</a> inflationary pressures their “single most important problem” — the highest level since 1980, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses’ most recent Small Business Optimism Index.
Indeed, the Committee to Unleash Prosperity report comes after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-soars-to-new-high-of-9-1">rose</a> 9.1% between June 2021 and June 2022, while the Producer Price Index (PPI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/producer-price-index-hits-11-3-in-another-dismal-inflation-reading">rose</a> 11.3% during the same period. Among the factors behind increasing price levels are <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/supply-chain">supply chain</a> issues, higher <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/gas-prices">energy prices</a>, and persistent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/labor-shortage">worker shortages</a>.
President Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-dismisses-record-high-inflation-news-as-out-of-date">responded</a> to the inflation news by arguing that price levels are “unacceptably high” and affirmed that inflation “is our most pressing economic challenge,” yet contended that the recent findings are outdated.
“Energy alone comprised nearly half of the monthly increase in inflation. Today’s data does not reflect the full impact of nearly 30 days of decreases in gas prices,” he said in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/13/president-biden-statement-on-cpi-inflation-in-june/">statement</a>, noting that gas prices have fallen by $0.40 since June. “Those savings are providing important breathing room for American families.”
Biden has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-biden-blames-vladimir-putin-for-record-high-inflation">characterized</a> inflation as “Putin’s Price Hike” — a reference to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on global commodity prices. “High gas prices at the pump, energy, and food prices accounted for around half of the monthly price increases, and gas pump prices are up by $2 a gallon in many places since Russian troops began to threaten Ukraine,” Biden said last month. “Even as we continue our work to defend freedom in Ukraine, we must do more — and quickly — to get prices down here in the United States.&#8221;
Inflation is a central issue for Americans casting their ballots in this year’s midterm elections. Only 1% of voters currently characterize economic conditions as excellent, according to a poll released on Monday by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/us/politics/biden-approval-polling-2024.html">The New York Times</a>, which showed that Biden now has a 33% approval rating.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee">January 6 committee</a> did not reach out to the United States <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/secret-service">Secret Service</a> (USSS) before airing claims that former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> got into a physical altercation with his security on the day of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot">Capitol Riot</a>, the service said Wednesday.
Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house">White House</a> aide during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/trump-administration">Trump administration</a>, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/29/jan-6-hutchinson-secret-service-00043164">said</a> that senior Secret Service official Anthony Ornato had told her that an angry Trump attacked the head of his detail when agents refused to drive him to the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
She also claimed that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the limousine, and that the lead of the security detail, Bobby Engel, told him, “Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.&#8221; At that point, Hutchinson claimed she was told, Trump allegedly lunged at the agent and assaulted him.
The Secret Service was not contacted by the committee about Hutchinson&#8217;s claims before the committee aired them as a blockbuster special, Anthony Guglielmi, United States Secret Service Chief of Communications, confirmed to The Daily Wire on Wednesday.
And Hutchinson&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/testimony-of-cassidy-hutchinson-appears-to-fall-apart-as-new-reports-surface-about-secret-service">claims appear to have</a> quickly fallen apart.
CNN reported Tuesday that a USSS official said Ornato disputes Hutchinson&#8217;s story — and that both Ornato and Trump&#8217;s security chief Robert Engel are willing to deny the story. ABC also <a href="https://twitter.com/Santucci/status/1541918674642259968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1541918674642259968%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Ftestimony-of-cassidy-hutchinson-appears-to-fall-apart-as-new-reports-surface-about-secret-service">reported</a> that the Secret Service is prepared to deny the story.
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But Guglielmi declined to confirm or deny Hutchinson&#8217;s claims to The Daily Wire.
&#8220;We will share our first hand account with the Committee, on the record,&#8221; he said in an email. &#8220;It’s not appropriate for us to make these comments in the media before we have a chance to address members of Congress.&#8221;
Trump himself referred to Hutchinson as a &#8220;phony social climber&#8221; in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social.
&#8220;The lies and fabricated stories being told to the partisan Highly Unselect Committee, not only by the phony social climber who got caught yesterday, but by many others, are a disgrace to our, in serious decline, Nation,&#8221; the former president said.
&#8220;No cross examination, no real Republicans, no lawyers, NO NOTHING,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Fake stories and an all Fake Narrative being produced, with ZERO pushback allowed. Unselects should be forced to disband. WITCH HUNT!&#8221;
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A spokeswoman for Trump directed The Daily Wire to his social media points when asked for comment.
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January 6 committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) admitted that Hutchinson&#8217;s testimony was only hearsay during a Tuesday CNN interview.
“She did not see it happen,” CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/january-6-committee-member-admits-star-witness-evidence-is-hearsay-no-corroborating-evidence">said to Raskin</a>. “Do you have any corroborating evidence? You have interviewed both Ornato, or the committee has interviewed both Engle and Ornato, two Secret Service agents. Do you have any corroborating evidence that that story is true or do you only have it from Cassidy Hutchinson?”
“Well, um, the story that she told is the evidence that I’m aware of, at least within her story, and I’ve not seen anything to contradict it,” Raskin responded. “And then, of course, it’s corroborated by everything else we know about Donald Trump’s eagerness to not just incite this march and assemble the march and form the march and exhort the people in the march, but also to participate in it, he wanted to go into it.”
January 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this story.
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Secret Service: January 6 Committee Didn’t Verify Explosive Claim That Trump Assaulted An Agent

J6 Committee Didn't Verify Explosive Claim That Trump Assaulted An Agent, Secret Service Says

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Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann delivered a damaging blow to Cassidy Hutchinson&#8217;s testimony against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday as he claims that he wrote the handwritten note that Hutchinson told the January 6 House select committee that she wrote.
The note that Hutchinson claims that she wrote stated, &#8220;Anyone who entered the Capitol without proper authority should leave immediately.&#8221;
&#8220;Herschmann is claiming that a handwritten note regarding a potential statement for then-President Donald Trump to release during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was written by him during a meeting at the White House that afternoon, and not by White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson,&#8221; ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-white-house-attorney-disputes-cassidy-hutchinsons-testimony/story?id=85898838">reported</a>. &#8220;At Tuesday&#8217;s Jan. 6 committee hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney displayed a handwritten note which Hutchinson testified she wrote after Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows handed her a note card and pen to take his dictation.&#8221;
One source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Daily Wire that Herschmann is claiming that he wrote the note, and not Hutchinson.
&#8220;The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021,&#8221; a spokesperson for Eric Herschmann told ABC News. &#8220;All sources with direct knowledge and law enforcement have and will confirm that it was written by Mr. Herschmann.&#8221;
Herschmann is a widely respected attorney who came came out of quasi-retirement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-craziest-meeting-of-trump-era-top-trump-official-combatted-conspiracies-was-primed-to-brawl">to protect Trump</a> against those around the president who were giving him bad advice.
&#8220;Anyone that has ever worked with Eric Herschmann knows that the handwriting on that note is his,&#8221; political strategist Arthur Schwartz wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Cassidy lied through her teeth and Liz Cheney knew she was lying.&#8221;
The credibility of the explosive claims that Hutchinson made during her testimony was further weakened on Tuesday afternoon when reports surfaced indicating that the Secret Service was expected to push back on claims that she made.
Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, claimed that Trump on the day of the January 6 rally tried to get Secret Service to take him to the U.S. Capitol building, and that he became enraged when they would not do it because the area was not secure.
Hutchinson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-white-house-aide-levels-explosive-claims-against-trump-during-hearing">claimed</a> that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the armored presidential limousine and that Bobby Engel, who was the lead security detail, had to tell him, “Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.” Hutchinson claimed that Trump then lunged at and assaulted the agent.
Hutchinson claims that she was told this information from Anthony Ornato, a senior Secret Service official who was detailed to the White House and served as deputy chief of operations.
CNN&#8217;s Shimon Prokupecz reported that “a Secret Service official familiar with the matter told CNN that Tony Ornato denies telling Cassidy Hutchinson that the former president grabbed the steering wheel or an agent on his detail.”
John Santucci, executive editorial producer for ABC News, added that the Secret Service is expected to come out and deny Hutchinson’s claims.
“Source close to the Secret Service tells @PierreTABC to expect the Secret Service to push back against any allegation of an assault against an agent or President Trump reaching for the steering wheel,” Santucci said.
“Tony Ornato is denying that he told Cassidy Hutchinson Trump grabbed the steering wheel in presidential vehicle on 1/6 or lunged at a fellow agent, a USSS official tells @joshscampbell,” Gabby Orr, a CNN reporter, tweeted. “CNN confirms that Ornato &amp; Engel are prepared to testify that neither incident occurred.”
NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted, “A source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.”
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Top Former White House Lawyer Delivers Devastating Blow To Cassidy Hutchinson Testimony

The explosive testimony delivered by former White House official Cassidy Hutchinson Tuesday to the January 6 House select committee appears to be falling apart as more reports surface of pushback coming from the U.S. Secret Service and other individuals.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, claimed that Trump on the day of the January 6 rally tried to get Secret Service to take him to the U.S. Capitol building, and that he became enraged when they would not do it because the area was not secure.
Hutchinson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-white-house-aide-levels-explosive-claims-against-trump-during-hearing">claimed</a> that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the armored presidential limousine and that Bobby Engel, who was the lead security detail, had to tell him, “Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.” Hutchinson claimed that Trump then lunged at and assaulted the agent.
Hutchinson claims that she was told this information from Anthony Ornato, a senior Secret Service official who was detailed to the White House and served as deputy chief of operations.
CNN&#8217;s Shimon Prokupecz reported that &#8220;a Secret Service official familiar with the matter told CNN that Tony Ornato denies telling Cassidy Hutchinson that the former president grabbed the steering wheel or an agent on his detail.&#8221;
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John Santucci, executive editorial producer for ABC News, added that the Secret Service is expected to come out and deny Hutchinson&#8217;s claims.
&#8220;Source close to the Secret Service tells @PierreTABC to expect the Secret Service to push back against any allegation of an assault against an agent or President Trump reaching for the steering wheel,&#8221; Santucci said.
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New: Source close to the Secret Service tells <a href="https://twitter.com/PierreTABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PierreTABC</a> to expect the Secret Service to push back against any allegation of an assault against an agent or President Trump reaching for the steering wheel.
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&#8220;Tony Ornato is denying that he told Cassidy Hutchinson Trump grabbed the steering wheel in presidential vehicle on 1/6 or lunged at a fellow agent, a USSS official tells @joshscampbell,&#8221; Gabby Orr, a CNN reporter, tweeted. &#8220;CNN confirms that Ornato &amp; Engel are prepared to testify that neither incident occurred.&#8221;
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Tony Ornato is denying that he told Cassidy Hutchinson Trump grabbed the steering wheel in presidential vehicle on 1/6 or lunged at a fellow agent, a USSS official tells <a href="https://twitter.com/joshscampbell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joshscampbell</a>. CNN confirms that Ornato &amp; Enger are prepared to testify that neither incident occurred.
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NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted, “A source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.”
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🚨 A source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.
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Testimony Of Cassidy Hutchinson Appears To Fall Apart As New Reports Surface About Secret Service

Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s lead Secret Service agent is reportedly ready to testify that testimony given by a former White House staffer on Wednesday to the January 6 House select committee is false.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, claimed that Trump on the day of the January 6 rally tried to get Secret Service to take him to the U.S. Capitol building, and that he became enraged when they would not do it because the area was not secure.
Hutchinson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-white-house-aide-levels-explosive-claims-against-trump-during-hearing">claimed</a> that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the armored presidential limousine and that Bobby Engel, who was the lead security detail, had to tell him, “Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.” Hutchinson claimed that Trump then lunged at and assaulted the agent.
NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted, &#8220;A source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.&#8221;
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🚨 A source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.
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The Secret Service responded to Hutchinson&#8217;s claims in a statement, &#8220;U.S. Secret Service has been cooperating with the Select Committee since its inception in spring 2021, and will continue to do so, including by responding on the record to the Committee regarding the new allegations surfaced in today’s testimony.&#8221;
Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey noted on Twitter that the January 6 select committee &#8220;has Secret Service testimony that would seemingly corroborate or dispute what Cassidy Hutchinson said today, but it wasn&#8217;t played.&#8221;
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Here&#39;s the thing. The committee has Secret Service testimony that would seemingly corroborate or dispute what Cassidy Hutchinson said today, but it wasn&#39;t played. Unclear why.
&mdash; Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) <a href="https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1541877869747617795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Trump responded to the allegations by writing on social media: &#8220;I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and ‘leaker’), and when she requested to go with certain others of the team to Florida after my having served a full term in office, I personally turned her request down.&#8221;
&#8220;Why did she want to go with us if she felt we were so terrible?&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;I understand that she was very upset and angry that I didn’t want her to go, or be a member of the team. She is bad news!&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s claim that Hutchinson wanted to work for him after he left the White House is somewhat corroborated by a January 14, 2021, tweet from Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer Jacobs, who wrote: &#8220;Aides had assumed Trump would fly to Mar-a-Lago when he leaves White House but now it’s definite: he’s heading to Florida, and several aides will continue to work for him, including Nick Luna, Molly Michael, Cassidy Hutchinson.&#8221;
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NEWS: Aides had assumed Trump would fly to Mar-a-Lago when he leaves White House but now it’s definite: he’s heading to Florida, and several aides will continue to work for him, including Nick Luna, Molly Michael, Cassidy Hutchinson, sources tell me and <a href="https://twitter.com/SalehaMohsin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SalehaMohsin</a>. Story TK.
&mdash; Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1349886404873089026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Trump later added that he did not &#8220;want or request that we make room for people with guns to watch my speech. Who would ever want that? Not me!&#8221;
&#8220;Besides, there were no guns found or brought into the Capitol Building,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;So where were all of these guns?&#8221;
Trump then said that her claims that he tried to grab the steering wheel were &#8220;fake&#8221; and that the allegation was &#8220;sick and fraudulent, very much like the Unselect Committee itself.&#8221;
&#8220;Wouldn’t even have been possible to do such a ridiculous thing,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Her story of me throwing food is also false…and why would SHE have to clean it up, I hardly knew who she was?&#8221;

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