President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-appears-to-read-aloud-pause-instruction-from-teleprompter">Joe Biden</a> has been slammed for telling yet another lie &#8212; and it’s one he’s repeated several times after claiming that he used to “drive an 18-wheeler” truck.
At a speech in Florida at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa Bay, Biden made the false claim about his biography, telling the crowd, “I used to drive an 18-wheeler.”
RNC’s Zach Parkinson, who is also the director of RNC Research, posted the video on <a href="https://x.com/AZachParkinson/status/1782875113265766667">X</a> of Biden and said, “There is *zero evidence* that Biden &#8216;used to drive an 18 wheeler.’”
“The extent of Biden&#8217;s trucking experience is that he **rode in** a truck once, for one night in 1973 (he made sure to return home by plane though),” he added, sharing a newspaper clip of Biden’s ride in a truck.
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Reminder, there is zero evidence that Biden &#8220;used to drive an 18 wheeler.&#8221;
The extent of Biden&#8217;s trucking experience is that he **rode in** a truck once, for one night in 1973 (he made sure to return home by plane though). <a href="https://t.co/miT2EIBSXN">https://t.co/miT2EIBSXN</a> <a href="https://t.co/AjGhQASQjP">pic.twitter.com/AjGhQASQjP</a>
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AZachParkinson/status/1782875113265766667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
“Biden has always been a chronic liar — now, coupled with his cognitive decline, he’s a national security risk,” the official account for RNC Research wrote on <a href="https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1782926300950450436">X</a>.
CNN ended up <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/politics/fact-check-biden-driving-18-wheeler/index.html">fact checking</a> the claim, too, and admitted it is fictional, despite the repeated times the president has used the debunked tale.
“Biden’s claim remains untrue. There is no evidence he ever drove an 18-wheeler,” the outlet reported.
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In 2021, during a tour of the Mack Trucks facility, the <a href="https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1420441422067552259">president</a> claimed, “I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man. I got to,” the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13348007/Biden-81-blasted-CNN-repeating-lie-drive-18-wheeler.html">Daily Mail</a> noted.
That same year at another event, he <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/03/joe-biden/no-joe-biden-wasnt-tractor-trailer-driver/">told</a> college students, “I used to drive a tractor-trailer. I only did it for part of a summer, but I got my license anyway,” the Daily Mail noted.
Last week, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-claim-that-his-uncle-was-eaten-by-cannibals-might-actually-be-his-most-plausible-tall-tale-yet">claimed</a> that his uncle Ambrose Finnegan — “Uncle Bosie” &#8212; “flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones, and he got shot down in [Papua] New Guinea. They never found the body because there used to be, there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea.”
Megyn Kelly, the host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN6iBtWH-rA">podcast</a>, reacted to Biden’s “Uncle Bosie” tale and said, “He can’t go two seconds with telling another familial lie, something about his background, his son. … The latest one is about Uncle Bosie.&#8221;
Kelly then played a clip of Biden’s claim of cannibalism. “Okay, so virtually none of that was true,” she added. “There is a dead uncle. Died in WWII. Was not in a single engine, he was in a double engine plane. Was not shot down. Officials say they don’t know what happened to the plane, both engines failed.”
“There were no cannibals,” Kelly continued, recalling what the survivor of the crash said, “and went on to tell us what happened.”

Joe Biden By A Vehicle

‘Zero Evidence’: Biden Slammed For Once Again Lying About Driving ‘An 18-Wheeler’

'Zero Evidence': Biden Slammed For Once Again Lying About Driving 'An 18-Wheeler'

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Joe Biden

Megyn Kelly

Politics

Truckers

White House

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly">Megyn Kelly</a> reacted to President Joe Biden’s latest flub and said the president “might have just lost” the election over it.
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-appears-to-read-aloud-pause-instruction-from-teleprompter">video</a> that surfaced on <a href="https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1783184198477508785">X</a>, Biden read everything written on the teleprompter, seemingly including instructions, while he was delivering remarks on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., at the North America’s Building Trade Union National Legislative Conference. &#8220;Four more years. Pause,” Biden appeared to tell the room.
“He might have just lost,” Kelly wrote on<a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1783239165821309090"> X</a>, along with the video of Biden’s comments. “Seriously. Watch this.”
In another <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1783283054666002543">post</a>, the host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast reposted a screenshot of the official <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/04/24/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-north-americas-building-trades-unions-national-legislative-conference/">White House transcript</a> of Biden’s comments that read, “Four–more years (inaudible.)
“This really is the perfect embodiment of the Biden presidency &#8211; don’t believe your lyin’ eyes and ears…” Kelly’s <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1783283054666002543">post</a> read, adding sarcastically, “The economy is fixed! The border is secure! Crime is over! Men are women! The WH staff can’t keep up with Joe Biden!”
Kelly wasn’t the only person who noticed the video. Former acting director of national intelligence during the Trump administration, Richard Grenell, wrote on social media, “Joe Biden said the word ‘pause’ because it was written in his teleprompter. It was there to tell him to pause before speaking again. But he read the word out loud.”
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He might have just lost. Seriously. Watch this. <a href="https://t.co/n1LHIP9Qfh">https://t.co/n1LHIP9Qfh</a>
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1783239165821309090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
Last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-daily-show-takes-a-bite-out-of-bidens-uncle-bosie-story-would-a-cannibal-even-eat-people-out-of-a-wreck" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden</a> claimed that his uncle Ambrose Finnegan — “Uncle Bosie” — might have been eaten by cannibals after his plane went down during World War II. Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kjp-defends-bidens-dubious-cannibals-story-it-was-a-really-proud-moment-for-him">told the story</a> during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, saying that “Uncle Bosie” had been a part of the Army Air Corps in the Pacific when he was “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-claim-that-his-uncle-was-eaten-by-cannibals-might-actually-be-his-most-plausible-tall-tale-yet">shot down</a>” over Papua New Guinea.
“He flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones, and he got shot down in New Guinea. They never found the body because there used to be, there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea,” Biden said at the time.
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The host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN6iBtWH-rA">podcast</a> previously talked about Biden’s “Uncle Bosie” story and said the president “once again came out with a nonsense story.”
“He [Biden] can’t go two seconds with telling another familial lie, something about his background, his son. …The latest one is about Uncle Bosie,” Kelly said before playing a clip of Biden’s claim of cannibalism.
“Okay, so virtually none of that was true,” she added. “There is a dead uncle. Died in WWII. Was not in a single engine, he was in a double engine plane. Was not shot down. Officials say they don’t know what happened to the plane, both engines failed.”
“There were no cannibals,” Kelly continued, recalling what the survivor of the crash said, “and went on to tell us what happened.”
Virginia Kruta contributed to this piece.
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‘He Might Have Just Lost’: Megyn Kelly Reacts To Biden’s Latest Flub

'He Might Have Just Lost': Megyn Kelly Reacts To Biden's Latest Flub

President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> is saying the quiet part out loud.
During remarks at an event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Biden appeared to state an instruction on the teleprompter that he was not meant to read aloud.
He was talking about his vision for a second term when Biden said, &#8220;Imagine what we can do next. Four more years. Pause.&#8221;
Biden looked as if he was squinting at the teleprompter before flashing a smile as people in the audience broke into a chant of &#8220;Four more years!&#8221;
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BIDEN, reading from his teleprompter: &quot;Four more years? Pause?&quot;
It&#39;s all completely staged. <a href="https://t.co/vqkIt0SSTF">pic.twitter.com/vqkIt0SSTF</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1783181170751992121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The apparent flub did not go unnoticed, as it was shared on X by a Republican National Committee (RNC) account, gathering more than 1.6 million views as of press time.
Among those to mock Biden was Richard Grenell, who served as a U.S. ambassador and acting director of national intelligence during the Trump administration.
&#8220;Joe Biden said the word &#8216;pause&#8217; because it was written in his teleprompter,&#8221; Grenell <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1783239408642404811" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;It was there to tell him to pause before speaking again. But he read the word out loud.&#8221;
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The slip may be a small one, but it is just the latest in a long series of gaffes that have fed concerns about Biden&#8217;s mental fitness and ability to keep serving as commander in chief at the age of 81.
Findings from an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that were published in March <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-state-of-union-mental-capacity-trump-reelection-66d8784586d21f30885d8153f949510c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> 63% of U.S. adults were not very or not at all confident in Biden&#8217;s mental capacity for the presidency.
The survey, by comparison, found 57% of U.S. adults said the same about Trump, who is also running another White House campaign this year at the age of 77.
When questioned about concerns about his age, Biden sought to offer reassurances by saying, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/07/biden-state-of-the-union-age/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Watch me.&#8221;</a>
For those who did not see the clip and only looked at the transcript of Biden&#8217;s remarks on Wednesday, they would not get the impression that he read aloud a part of the teleprompter that he should not have.
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Biden’s handlers want to pretend this highly embarrassing moment didn’t happen.
Here’s how it played out in the official White House transcript: <a href="https://t.co/ZvM2noAKD5">pic.twitter.com/ZvM2noAKD5</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1783234750733300088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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That is because, as the RNC account pointed out, the transcript shows that part of what Biden said as &#8220;(inaudible)&#8221; despite the audio being very clear.
&#8220;Biden’s handlers want to pretend this highly embarrassing moment didn’t happen,&#8221; the account said on X.

President Joe Biden

Biden Appears To Read Aloud ‘Pause’ Instruction From Teleprompter

Biden Appears To Read Aloud 'Pause' Instruction From Teleprompter

U.S.

House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) accused the White House on Wednesday of &#8220;caving&#8221; to anti-Semitism that he believes is getting too much of a pass in today&#8217;s Democratic Party.
A &#8220;real problem&#8221; right now is a lack of &#8220;strong leadership&#8221; from the White House and Democrats in Congress, Johnson told radio host Hugh Hewitt in an <a href="https://hughhewitt.com/speaker-mike-johnson-on-his-trip-to-columbia-the-state-department-leak-about-sanctioning-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a>.
&#8220;I mean, the White House is caving to the antisemitic — I call it the pro-Hamas wing of the party. Now they backpedaled on their support for Israel,&#8221; Johnson said.
Although Biden has declared <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4610240-biden-marks-passover-with-statement-of-ironclad-support-for-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;ironclad&#8221; support</a> for Israel and backs aid for the country, he has also taken actions that could alleviate blowback from pro-Palestinian allies, including members of the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/bidens-support-from-progressives-at-risk-over-border-bill-and-israel-f44ed8f7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leftist &#8220;Squad&#8221;</a> in the House.
Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/politics/biden-trump-threat-to-democracy/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s approach to the war against Hamas in Gaza and <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel-us-wont-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly warned</a> Netanyahu the United States would not support Israel in a counterattack against Iran after a recent drone and missile attack.
Johnson, in his discussion with Hewitt, also chided Democrats for not doing more to condemn <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6351366323112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protesters chanting</a> for &#8220;death&#8221; to America.
&#8220;They won&#8217;t call that out and some members, Democratic members of Congress, are even calling these anti-Semitic mobs peaceful protesters and defending the harassment, intimidation and all the rest,&#8221; Johnson said.
&#8220;So it&#8217;s really become a serious problem,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And they&#8217;re allowing mob rule to overtake the American ideals of free speech and the free exchange of ideas and in the free exercise of religion. This is not who we are.&#8221;
Johnson is planning a visit later on Wednesday to Columbia University, where a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-rabbi-warns-of-extreme-antisemitism-advises-jewish-students-to-return-home-asap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rabbi warned</a> Jewish students to go home amid safety concerns stemming from pro-Palestinian demonstrations taking place around campus.
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The speaker told Hewitt that acts of harassment and intimidation being reported at Columbia and other colleges are &#8220;disgusting and unacceptable.&#8221;
Johnson voiced support for revoking federal funds for universities that cannot get a grip on the situation and for pulling student visas for &#8220;violent protesters&#8221; from other countries.
&#8220;We&#8217;re calling upon and demanding these university officials to get control. This situation is just completely out of control right now,&#8221; Johnson said.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

Speaker Johnson Says Biden White House Is ‘Caving’ To ‘Pro-Hamas Wing’ Of Democratic Party

Speaker Johnson Says Biden White House Is 'Caving' To 'Pro-Hamas Wing' Of Democratic Party

Anti-Semitism

Congress

Mike Johnson

U.S. House of Representatives

The White House leaked details of a call between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to placate &#8220;so-called peace activists&#8221; after Iran launched an assault on Israel, Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> (R-FL) posited on Sunday.
Rubio, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN that he favors doing &#8220;anything&#8221; that can be done to protect U.S. troops in the region from being attacked when pressed on the prospect of U.S. retaliation.
&#8220;But Israel is not asking us to launch attacks on Iran. I &#8230; have ever heard the Israelis come to us and say, &#8216;Will you help us or will you attack Iran or go in after Iran? They&#8217;re not asking for that. They&#8217;re not asking for it,&#8221; Rubio said.
He then addressed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-netanyahu-u-s-will-not-back-counterstrike-against-iran-report?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> that Biden told Netanyahu that the United States would not support a counterattack against Iran as the White House is concerned that escalating military action could have significant consequences for the region.
&#8220;I think we go from that to the other extreme, which is Joe Biden telling Netanyahu, &#8216;Take the win, don&#8217;t do anything.&#8217; And then his people leaking it to the media, leaking it to the press,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;And what it sets up is — they know that Israel is going to respond. They know this for a fact. So why would the White House leak it?&#8221;
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He added, &#8220;There&#8217;s only one reason they leaked that, and that is that so, when Israel does respond, the White House can say, &#8216;We told them not to do it,&#8217; and at least somehow, in some way appease the so-called peace activists &#8230; the so — cease-fire now people, who were out yesterday cheering the launch of hundreds of rockets and drones and missiles against Israel.&#8221;
A viral clip posted to X on Saturday showed leftist activists chanting &#8220;hands off Iran!&#8221; after Iran launched drones and missiles at Israel. The news outlet that published the video, The Free Press, <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/american-anti-war-activists-cheer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the crowd applauded and someone did a &#8220;celebratory whistle&#8221; when the news broke.
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A few minutes after news broke that Iran had launched drones and missiles heading toward Israel, a crowd of far-left activists in Chicago started chanting “hands off Iran!” <a href="https://t.co/xuZZ8C0XyU">pic.twitter.com/xuZZ8C0XyU</a>
&mdash; The Free Press (@TheFP) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheFP/status/1779284879886123267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rubio explained that anyone who is encouraging major strikes on Israel — beyond simply demonstrating in favor of a cease-fire in Gaza where Israeli forces are fighting Iran-backed Hamas terrorists — is not a &#8220;peace activist,&#8221; as some might claim.
&#8220;These are antisemites, anti-Israel, pro-terrorist elements out there, and we need to stop calling them peace activists. They are not peace activists,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Peace activists do not cheer massive attacks against other countries, which is what they were doing yesterday. So I guess this is part of the White House&#8217;s effort to appease them by putting this out there proactively,&#8221; Rubio added.

Sen. Marco Rubio

Rubio Suggests White House Leaked Israel Call To Appease ‘So-Called Peace Activists’

Rubio Suggests White House Leaked Israel Call To Appease 'So-Called Peace Activists'

Iran

Israel

Marco Rubio

National Security

U.S. Senate

President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> will return to the White House this weekend to discuss the Middle East crisis with his national security team, cutting short a trip to his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home. 
Biden will return to Washington to “consult with his national security team about events in the Middle East,” the White House <a href="https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-04-13-24/h_96747590ce7877721f328f5e1db92421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Saturday. The announcement comes amid rising tensions as American officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-warns-iran-to-not-launch-attack-on-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> Iran is expected to launch an attack on Israel. 
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to be at the meeting with Biden, according to CNN. The meeting will come hours after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irans-irgc-seizes-israeli-linked-ship-near-strait-of-hormuz?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seized</a> a ship near the Strait of Hormuz linked to Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group shipping company. 
“The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have seized a Portuguese civilian cargo ship, belonging to an EU member, claiming Israeli ownership,” Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign minister, <a href="https://twitter.com/Israel_katz/status/1779110154300002423" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X. “The Ayatollah regime of @khamenei_ir is a criminal regime that supports Hamas’ crimes and is now conducting a pirate operation in violation of international law.”
“I call on the European Union and the free world to immediately declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guards corps as a terrorist organization and to sanction Iran now,” he added.
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The U.S. has called for Iran to release control of the ship, saying it would hold the country accountable. 
“We call on Iran to release the vessel &amp; its international crew immediately,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement. “It must be condemned unequivocally, &amp; we will work with our partners to hold Iran to account for its actions.” 
On Friday, Biden was asked at the National Action Network Convention about when Iran was expected to attack Israel. “I don’t want to say,” Biden said. “I don’t want to get into secure information, but my expectation is sooner than later.”
“We are devoted to the defense of Israel. We will support Israel,” he added. “We will defend — help defend Israel. And Iran will not succeed.”

US-POLITICS-BIDEN

Biden Leaves Beach For White House Ahead Of Imminent Iranian Attack On Israel

Delaware

Middle East

Washington D.C.

The Biden administration lashed out on Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled that he will ban Aljazeera, a Qatari government-controlled propaganda channel, from Israel because of the lies it has told about the October 7 terrorist attack and because some of its journalists participated in the attack.
Israeli lawmakers in the Knesset passed a measure 71-10 on Monday giving Netanyahu the power to ban the organization.
&#8220;Al Jazeera harmed Israel&#8217;s security, actively participated in the October 7 massacre, and incited against IDF soldiers,&#8221; Netanyahu posted on X. &#8220;It is time to remove the shofar of Hamas from our country. The terrorist channel Al Jazeera will no longer broadcast from Israel.&#8221;
&#8220;I intend to act immediately in accordance with the new law to stop the channel&#8217;s activity,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I welcome the law promoted by Communications Minister Shlomo Karai with the support of coalition members led by coalition chairman Ofir Katz.&#8221;
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lashed out at Israel during the White House press briefing on Monday, saying that it was concerning that Israel would ban a propaganda network that is controlled by a country that has <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/terror-watch-its-time-rethink-our-relationship-qatar-opinion-1834604">strong ties</a> to terrorism.
&#8220;At least the reports that we’ve seen — is about Al Jazeera, specifically. But it doesn’t matter, whichever — right? — journalists more broadly,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But if it is true — if it is true, a move like this is concerning. We believe in the freedom of the press. It is critical. It is critically important. And the United States supports the critically important work journalists around the world do. And so — and that includes those who are reporting in — in the conflict in Gaza.&#8221;
&#8220;So, we believe that work is important, the freedom of the press is important,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And if those reports are true, it is concerning to us.&#8221;

In this photo illustration an Aljazeera logo seen displayed

White House Lashes Out After Israel Signals It Will Ban ‘Terrorist’ Propaganda Channel

Al Jazeera

Benjamin Netanyahu

Hamas

Karine Jean-Pierre

Propaganda

Sunday was a deeply religious day for the Biden administration. They celebrated their religion: the religion of deep, insane progressivism.
Sunday was Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar. And the Biden administration decided it was necessary to put out messaging over the weekend, including on Easter Sunday, about the “Trans Day of Visibility.”
The “Trans Day of Visibility” is a day about people who are gender dysphoric or who believe they are members of the opposite sex. It was founded by a person named Rachel Crandall Crocker, a man who believes that he is a woman.
He is also a psychotherapist — because that&#8217;s the way the psychotherapy industry now works. He says he knew he was trans since the age of eight, and now the President of the United States is paying homage to people like Rachel Crandall Crocker.
So Joe Biden put out a statement on &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility.&#8221; Because if there&#8217;s one thing we know about transgender people in modern America — people who believe they&#8217;re members of the opposite sex — it’s that they don&#8217;t get enough attention; they need more attention. Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: 
<blockquote>Today we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back.</blockquote>
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1937-trans-day-of-awareness-vs-easter-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
Did you know transgender people are America? Did you know when the Founders were putting together the Constitution of the United States, they said to themselves, “What will America be? Will this be a constitutional republic of limited government and guaranteed liberties? Or maybe America is a dude wearing a dress believing that he&#8217;s a lady. Maybe it&#8217;s that.”
According to Biden, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton were all sitting around working up the courage to explain that America was about the dudes who think they are ladies and vice versa.
Biden continued:
<blockquote>Now, therefore, I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility. I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.</blockquote>
Gender identity is the nonsense notion that you can identify as something other than what you are.
But here was the best part from Biden: 
<blockquote>In witness whereof, I have heretofore set my hand this twenty-ninth day of March, in the Year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four, and of Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.</blockquote>
My favorite part of this is when Joe Biden mentions the Year of our Lord. That would be Jesus, because in America, we keep the Christian calendar. I like the part where he mentions the Year of Our Lord at 11:00 a.m. on Easter — the holiest day in the Christian calendar — to celebrate the &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility.&#8221;
The perspective of the Biden administration when it comes to holy days on the calendar goes something like this: You&#8217;re not allowed to kill terrorists during Ramadan because if you do, it will offend Muslims, but you are certainly allowed to pay homage to the completely specious, false, and irreligious notion that men can be women —  on Easter. 
President Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1774511985700352189" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted:</a>
<blockquote>Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you. You are made in the image of God, and you&#8217;re worthy of respect and dignity.</blockquote>
Every person is made in the image of God; they are made male and female. And the “image of God” phrase occurs in the same verse in Genesis as God making them male and female. When Biden says, “You&#8217;re made in the image of God,” the final part of that verse is “male and female He made them.”  
The religion of this administration is not Christianity or even some sort of broader secular version of Christian values. It is wild progressivism. 
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/religious-themed-designs-banned-white-house-easter-egg-art-contest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Children of the National Guard are prohibited from submitting religious Easter egg designs for the 2024 &#8220;Celebrating National Guard Families&#8221; art event at the White House.  </blockquote>
It&#8217;s Easter and people were painting crosses on eggs. And Biden said no, none of that. The only symbols we will allow here are the Pride Progress flag flying from the giant rotunda of the White House.
<blockquote>The art contest is part of the White House’s Easter traditions, which include the annual Easter Egg Roll. The flyer for the contest states that an Easter egg design submission &#8220;must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.</blockquote>
I assume if you put trans flag colors on the Easter egg, that would be totally fine with the White House; that it would not be considered a partisan political statement, piece of questionable content or religious symbol. You just have to make sure everything is fine with the secular Left.
That is the religion of this White House.
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Many people are saying this is a made-up problem because the &#8220;Trans Day of Visibility&#8221; falls on March 31 every year, and this year it just happened to fall on Easter. Let me ask you: If &#8220;Trans Day of Visibility&#8221; were to fall on, say, Juneteenth by some sort of random coincidence, do you think the White House would put both of those messages out at the same time?
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates defended Biden, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-bashes-dishonest-republican-criticism-bidens-transgender/story?id=108687647#:~:text=%22As%20a%20Christian%20who%20celebrates,a%20statement%20to%20ABC%20News." target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying:</a>
<blockquote>As a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American. Sadly, it&#8217;s unsurprising politicians are seeking to divide and weaken our country with cruel, hateful, dishonest rhetoric. President Biden will never abuse his faith for political purposes or for profit.</blockquote>
Biden abuses his faith for political purposes every time he cites his Catholicism in defense of his pro-abortion position.
I do look forward to the White House&#8217;s Christmas Day statement celebrating partial birth abortion on the day Jesus was born.

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Joe Biden Honors ‘Trans Day Of Visibility.’ On Easter.

Joe Biden Honors 'Trans Day Of Visibility.' On Easter.

Ben Shapiro

Christianity

Easter

Opinion

Readers Pass

Transgender

As they&#8217;ve done for thousands of years, Christians celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Sunday. 
All over the world, the faithful gathered to celebrate the joyous news: that the Messiah died and rose from the grave, for the salvation of mankind. This is the central fact of our faith, and the reason why Easter is our most sacred holiday.
At the same time, a cult that was invented mere decades ago — and which opposes everything Christianity stands for — was holding its own observances on Sunday. In a deliberate attempt to mock the very idea of Easter, they celebrated something called the &#8220;Transgender Day Of Visibility.&#8221; Joe Biden, who claims to be a Catholic, ushered in the festivities with a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presidential proclamation</a> that can only be described as not only blasphemous, but also completely counterfactual. It&#8217;s not overstating things to say that this proclamation document underscores, once again, that the Biden administration is the single most radically anti-Christian regime in American history — and it&#8217;s not even close.
In the proclamation, Biden describes so-called &#8220;transgender Americans&#8221; as &#8220;part of the fabric of our Nation.&#8221; He accuses millions of Americans of being &#8220;hateful&#8221; for supporting laws that ban the castration, sterilization and mutilation of children, saying these Americans seek to &#8220;target and terrify transgender kids and their families.&#8221;
And he also claims that there&#8217;s an &#8220;epidemic of violence&#8221; against people identifying as transgender, without mentioning that this violence almost <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshShow/status/1727039849880830069" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusively</a> relates to domestic incidents, or prostitution and drug related crimes. He also failed to qualify this statement with the fact that trans-identified Americans are murdered at a lower rate than the general population.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1337-the-most-anti-christian-president-in-history-declares-easter-transgender-day-of-visibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
Of course, nowhere in &#8220;devout Catholic&#8221; Joe Biden&#8217;s proclamation is there an attempt to explain how the concept of transgenderism is compatible, in any way, with Catholicism. He does not grapple with how a Christian can ascribe to modern gender theory while also accepting what we are clearly told in the first chapter of genesis: “male and female created He them.” There is no way to grapple with this. These views are diametrically opposed. One can either believe in transgenderism or Christianity, not both. Just as one can either believe in transgenderism or biology, not both. On both counts, Biden chooses transgenderism. Coming from the same alleged Catholic who pushes the mass murder of the unborn, that&#8217;s not surprising.
This decision — to issue this blasphemous proclamation on Easter — was so unbelievable, so unprecedented in modern politics, that a lot of people wondered if it was real. When I saw it on social media, I had to check the White House website myself. And I found that indeed, it was real. And precisely because it&#8217;s real — because it&#8217;s easily verifiable and so damaging to the Biden administration at the same time — so-called &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; instinctively jumped into action to tell us not to believe our lying eyes.
There were many examples of this, so I&#8217;ll just pick one. Here&#8217;s the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/transgender-day-visibility-falls-annually-march-31-not-always-easter-2024-03-29/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> from Reuters: &#8220;Fact Check: Transgender Day of Visibility falls annually on March 31, not always at Easter.&#8221; And here&#8217;s the spin: &#8220;International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) takes place annually on March 31 to celebrate transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. It was not designed intentionally to fall on Easter Sunday as claimed by some online account. &#8230; TDOV has been celebrated on the same date, March 31, for years. The date of Easter changes each year.&#8221;
The point of &#8220;fact-checks&#8221; like this is to censor posts on social media platforms like Facebook by labeling information as misinformation. They do this not by debunking a claim, but rather by intentionally confusing the issue. We see this again and again. It&#8217;s like when PolitiFact said it was &#8220;false&#8221; to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/politifact-aoc-parking-lot-fact-check-mockery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> AOC was photographed crying in front of an empty parking lot, because in reality, it was an empty road. They know what people are reacting to. And instead of talking about that, they pick some phony misconception related to the episode, in order to rate it &#8220;false.&#8221;
The problem with this excuse, in this case, is that Joe Biden did not have to issue any proclamation recognizing the so-called &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility.&#8221; Even Barack Obama never did that, despite the fact that this holiday was invented a year after Obama took office. That is what people are responding to.
Of course, no president should recognize any &#8220;transgender day,&#8221; regardless of what date it falls on. But if you have any respect at all for the holiest day on the Christian calendar, you would at least skip the proclamation this year. That&#8217;s the point. Reuters knows that, and they dodge it on purpose. There was no need to issue this proclamation, except for the sole and express purpose of mocking Christians.
Secondly, it&#8217;s not like the Democrats just begrudgingly nodded towards Trans Day because they felt like they had to. This wasn’t a perfunctory checking of boxes. They went out of their way to celebrate the occasion. It wasn&#8217;t just some staffer in the White House who put out that proclamation with Joe Biden&#8217;s name on it — they all did it. And this went beyond the White House. Here’s Gavin Newsom&#8217;s Easter message, for example:
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BREAKING: CA Governor Gavin Newsom just released a touching Easter message. 
Just kidding. 
It&#39;s for Trans Day Of Visibility. <a href="https://t.co/maKOi0OXGb">pic.twitter.com/maKOi0OXGb</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1774569413611511878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s not necessarily the most important point to make here, but notice how Gavin Newsom’s wife claims that trans people have made many incredible contributions to human progress but then fails to cite one single specific example. She just says they&#8217;ve done a lot of great things, and moves on. But the truth is that trans-identified people have accomplished nothing of significance in this country, or any country. All they have done is contribute to massively increased rates of depression in the last decade, by encouraging young people to castrate and mutilate themselves instead of improving their mental health. They&#8217;ve also committed several acts of terrorism. But beyond that, they&#8217;re not doing anything of significance. Even if I was interested in celebrating the achievements of trans people — even if somehow I wanted to do this on Easter, of all days — I still would not be able to partake in that celebration for the simple reason that there are no achievements to celebrate.
But politicians throughout the Democratic Party, all over the country, pretended otherwise yesterday. In New York, Kathy Hochul <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/Transgender-Day-of-Visibility_2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> her own proclamation for Transgender Day of Visibility. It states that New York &#8220;reaffirm[s] our commitment to see beyond the gender binary and create equity.&#8221; 
For his part, the HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, put out <a href="https://x.com/SecBecerra/status/1774466699066024177?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this message</a>: 
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Today, I&#39;m thinking about our country’s great transgender, nonbinary, and two-spirit leaders who epitomize resilience, progress, and joy. Transgender Day of Visibility is an opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments and double down on our commitment to their wellbeing. <a href="https://t.co/BehdgWJZV8">pic.twitter.com/BehdgWJZV8</a>
&mdash; Secretary Xavier Becerra (@SecBecerra) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecBecerra/status/1774466699066024177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He also added a picture of a bunch of people without faces, because that&#8217;s what equity means. No one has a face.
First of all, like Newsom&#8217;s wife, he doesn&#8217;t mention what &#8220;accomplishments&#8221; transgender people have achieved. That&#8217;s because there are no accomplishments to mention. On top of that, like the identity of &#8220;transgender,&#8221; so-called &#8220;non-binary&#8221; and &#8220;two-spirit&#8221; are nonsense labels that mean nothing. The two-spirit thing blew up in Canada a while ago, which is why Justin Trudeau goes around referring to &#8220;2SLGBTQIA+&#8221; people. But it&#8217;s not a real thing; it was <a href="https://lgbtqhealth.ca/community/two-spirit.php">invented</a> by some woman at a gay and lesbian conference in Canada in 1990.
There are other major problems with this statement, which again, is from our HHS secretary, who oversees health in this country. The biggest one, perhaps, is that you cannot tell us that trans people will kill themselves if you misgender them and then in the next breath insist that these people &#8220;epitomize resilience and joy.” If they really are a resilient, joyful people then we don’t have to worry about what kind of language we use around them. They can handle it, with resilience and joy.
But if we do have to worry about the words we use — worry, in fact, that the wrong word might cause them to commit suicide en masse — then there may be many terms you can use to describe them but “joyful” isn’t one of them, and “resilient” even less so. As for &#8220;doubling down on our commitment to their wellbeing,&#8221; as the HHS secretary claims to want to do, the only way to accomplish that is to tell them the truth and stop catering to their delusions.
But of course, most importantly, Sunday was Easter. Xavier Becerra, like all of us, should have spent the day thinking not about trans people, but about the lordship of Jesus Christ, and the state of his own immortal soul.
The same is true of Karine Jean-Pierre, who issued a <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1774203846023053330?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> about the &#8220;courage&#8221; of the trans community on Sunday. This is the same woman who claimed that &#8220;trans kids&#8221; are under attack in this country, just three days after a trans terrorist murdered men, women and children in a Christian school. 
But Karine Jean-Pierre never praised the courage of the police officers who put that trans terrorist down. She never mentioned their heroism. They do not need to be “visible,” apparently, like trans people do. They don’t have their own holiday, like the sacred Trans Day of Visibility. A holiday so apparently important, so engrained in our national tradition, that it must be officially recognized by the White House, no matter if it conflicts with Easter or not.
It could be interesting now to take a look at the person who started this fake holiday. It was invented by a man who identifies as a woman and now uses the name Rachel Crandall-Crocker. Here he is:
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This is the person who invented “Trans Day of Visibility.” He claims he knew since he was 8-years-old that he was trans. <a href="https://t.co/FQtsqig1D2">pic.twitter.com/FQtsqig1D2</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1774494901742575834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This is the Left&#8217;s approximation of Jesus now. This man who believes that 8-year-olds can change their gender, is who they&#8217;re choosing to valorize. He achieved the incredible feat of starting a Facebook group back in 2009, which is where Trans Day of Visibility originates. Easter began with the son of God emerging gloriously from the tomb. Trans Day of Visibility began with a guy starting a Facebook group. I guess this is what passes for a great accomplishment in the trans community.
Another irony of this whole &#8220;trans day of visibility,&#8221; of course, is that trans people are already more visible than any other group in the history of the world, when you compare their population to the amount of media coverage, et cetera, that they receive. There has never been such a vast gulf between the attention paid to a group of people and the actual size of that group. LGBT people in general are celebrated with <a href="https://x.com/jarvis_best/status/1774115482255106479?s=20">dozens</a> of special days and months, just for them. 
We’ve gone over the full list several times in the past, so I’ll spare you. But we know, of course, that they have all of &#8220;Pride Month.&#8221; That&#8217;s 30 days right there. They have the Trans Day of Visibility, the Agender Pride Day, International Pronoun Day, National Coming Out Day, Transgender Parent Day, Trans Awareness Week, Omnisexual Visibility Day, Bisexual Visibility Day, Bisexual Awareness Week, International Non-Binary Day (which is also a week, for some reason), the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, the International Lesbian Visibility Day, as well as Gay Uncle Day in August. There&#8217;s many more. In all, I counted more than 130 days on the calendar reserved to worship our LGBT deities. There might be more but I gave up counting.
Government leaders make a point of recognizing most of these days. Meanwhile, Christianity — the faith that built this country, the faith that many of the most important, most accomplished, most significant human beings in the history of humanity belonged to — only has two holidays that someone like Joe Biden will even pretend to care about. And now one of those two has been overshadowed by one of the 130 LGBT days. It&#8217;s outrageous and disgusting, but also instructive. I&#8217;ve been saying for years that &#8220;LGBT&#8221; isn&#8217;t just a collection of sexual and gender identities. It&#8217;s our new state religion. And never has that been more clear than it is today.

Annual Easter Egg Roll Held On South Lawn Of The White House

The Most Anti-Christian President In History Declares Easter ‘Transgender Day Of Visibility’

The Most Anti-Christian President In History Declares Easter 'Transgender Day Of Visibility'

Bible

Jesus Christ

LGBTQ

Matt Walsh

President Joe Biden faced backlash on Easter Sunday for proclaiming on his official White House X account that trans-identifying individuals &#8220;are made in the image of God.&#8221;
The incident comes after Biden issued a proclamation on Good Friday that said that “all Americans” should join in lifting up “the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation” and work toward “eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.”
The White House, which also caused a stir with a release announcing it had <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/29/media/religious-themed-designs-banned-from-white-house-easter-egg-art-contest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> overtly religious themed Easter egg designs for an annual art contest, then posted the following message on Easter: &#8220;Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you. You are made in the image of God, and you&#8217;re worthy of respect and dignity.&#8221;
Actor Dean Cain responded to Biden&#8217;s message: &#8220;If folks are made in the &#8216;image of God…&#8217; then why all the surgeries and hormones?&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;God created man in his own image. . . . male and female he created them.&#8217; Gn 1:27,&#8221; said DeSantis communications aide Christina Pushaw.
UFC fighter Tim Kennedy posted: &#8220;These aren’t mutually exclusive things. I celebrate every belief, race, religion, gender, but today I celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead.&#8221;
Pro-life advocate Samuel Sey wrote: &#8220;If you really believed they were made in the image of God, you would encourage them to accept their God-ordained gender.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speak-out-loudly-against-this-evil-internet-erupts-over-biden-declaring-easter-trans-day-of-visibility">‘Speak Out Loudly Against This Evil’: Internet Erupts Over Biden Declaring Easter ‘Trans Day Of Visibility’</a>

President Biden Hosts Pride Month Celebration Event

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked Wednesday about the death of 31-year-old NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot and killed earlier this week allegedly by a career criminal, and Jean-Pierre used her answer to push for more gun control.
&#8220;Look, our hearts go out to this officer who tragically lost his life in the line of duty. We&#8217;re also praying for his family during this difficult time, who now has an empty seat at their dinner table,&#8221; the press secretary said. &#8220;President Biden is deeply grateful for the sacrifices police officers make to keep our communities safe. This shooting is yet another painful reminder of the toll of gun violence.&#8221;
Diller, a husband and father who had served three years on the force, was shot in the stomach while making a traffic stop Monday evening in Queens, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/nypd-cop-shot-in-chest-in-queens-rushed-to-hospital-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The suspect in the shooting death of the officer was identified as 34-year-old Guy Rivera, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the car pulled over by Diller when he allegedly pulled out a handgun and fired at the officer. Rivera has 21 prior arrests and was released from prison in 2021 after serving five years for criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to the Post. He was also in prison from 2011 to 2014 for first-degree assault.
Jean-Pierre then touted Biden&#8217;s executive actions, along with work Congress has done, to push more gun control.
&#8220;Obviously, more work needs to be done. We need Congress to continue to act on making sure that our communities are safe, and again, our hearts go out to this officer and his family. It&#8217;s a difficult time for them.&#8221;
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WOW! When asked about the murder of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller by career criminal, KJP doesn&#39;t even say his name
&quot;As it relates to the death of the officer&#8230;it is a painful reminder of the toll of gun violence.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/WNkNBe8mQ1">pic.twitter.com/WNkNBe8mQ1</a>
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Lindy Jones, the driver of the vehicle pulled over by Diller, also has a lengthy criminal rap sheet and was arrested on gun charges last April. In 2003, Jones was convicted of attempted murder and robbery and spent ten years in prison before being released in 2013. Jones was arraigned on Wednesday and charged with criminal possession of a weapon and possession of a defaced firearm, ABC 7 reported.
Investigators said they believe Jones and Rivera were casing a T-Mobile store when Diller and another officer approached their vehicle to ask them to move from a bus stop where they were illegally parked. When the suspects were asked to roll down their windows, they refused, and Rivera allegedly fired a single shot at Diller, which hit him below his vest, according to authorities.
Rivera was shot in the back when the other officer returned fire. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he remains in stable condition.
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“I can’t … say it any clearer: It is the good guys against the bad guys and these bad guys are violent,” said New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, adding that the shooting was another “senseless act of violence.”
Adams also addressed Jones’ prior arrest and said it represents “not a crime problem, but a recidivist problem.”
“Same bad people doing bad things to good people,” Adams said.
Former President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attend-wake-fallen-nypd-officer-ramps-rhetoric-crime-rcna145355" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> plans to attend the wake of the slain NYPD officer on Thursday and said in a Truth Social post earlier this week that the suspect in his death &#8220;NEVER should have been let back out on the streets.&#8221;
&#8220;To Officer Diller’s family, and all of the other brave men and women of law enforcement who put your lives on the line every day, we love you, we appreciate you, and we will always stand with you!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112162948806839516" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
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KJP Addresses NYPD Officer Allegedly Killed By Career Criminal, Pushes Gun Control

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> are pressing their inquiry into the biting incidents involving President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s dog Commander after Secret Service employees <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-bidens-dog-has-attacked-secret-service-dozens-of-times-during-presidency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> got nipped dozens of times.
On Monday, the House Education and the Workforce Committee sent a new <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/uploadedfiles/3.25.24_-_letter_to_dol.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to acting Labor Secretary Julie Su requesting information about workplace safety protocols at the White House.
Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said she wants to know what the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is doing to enforce the standards.
&#8220;Recently, news reports say the number of known dog-bite incidents involving the President’s dog Commander and Secret Service employees has risen to 24,&#8221; Foxx wrote.
She added the panel &#8220;stresses that it is still concerned about the occupational safety and health program for all employees working at the White House and the Executive Office of the President (EOP).&#8221;
Foxx has written <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/uploadedfiles/10.11.23_letter_to_president_biden_and_acting_secretary_of_labor_su_on_white_house_compliance_with_osha_regulations.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two</a> <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/uploadedfiles/11.15.23_letter_to_dol_re_white_house_compliance_with_osha_regulations.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other</a> letters to Su, in October and November, as biting incidents involving Commander kept <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-dog-commander-bites-secret-service-member-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">making headlines</a> until the first family <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/us-news/biden-dog-commander-drew-blood-with-attacks-on-secret-service-at-white-house-vacation-home-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> the German Shepard to family members.
In fact, Biden had been dogged by negative pet stories for years. He had another German Shepard named Major who also got in trouble for biting. Major was also removed from the White House and ultimately <a href="https://people.com/pets/biden-family-rehomes-rescue-dog-major-will-get-cat-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left</a> with family friends.
The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) &#8220;requires the head of every federal agency to maintain an occupational safety and health program consistent with OSHA standards,&#8221; Foxx noted.
In response to the November letter, the Labor Department claimed not to be &#8220;aware of any forms or reports from the White House submitted pursuant to the OSH Act,&#8221; Foxx said.
The chairwoman said it &#8220;seems that the EOP failed to provide this information to DOL.&#8221;
Foxx also noted OSHA chief Douglas Parker&#8217;s <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/ED/ED10/20230927/116336/HHRG-118-ED10-20230927-QFR001.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response to a question for the record (QFR)</a> &#8220;suggests that OSHA’s answer covers only agencies which OSHA &#8216;historically contacts&#8217; for injury and illness data.&#8221;
&#8220;This qualification suggests that, despite the dictates of the OSH Act, OSHA is picking and choosing which agencies it scrutinizes and requires to submit data,&#8221; Foxx said.
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&#8220;The Committee has an interest in ensuring that the White House is providing the same protections to its workforce that it demands of the private sector,&#8221; the chairwoman added. &#8220;Furthermore, the Committee has an interest in ensuring that DOL has accurate data on the EOP and the White House.&#8221;
Foxx requested various documents and information, including copies of claims submitted to DOL&#8217;s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs for EOP employees since January 20, 2021.
She asked, &#8220;Why did Park omit the EOP in the QFR response &#8230; when it appears the EOP did not comply with the requirements of the OSH Act?&#8221;
The chairwoman also queried, &#8220;If the White House has not submitted the appropriate forms to DOL to remain in compliance with the OSH Act, what does DOL intend to do to ensure that the EOP is aware of and complies with the OSH Act’s requirements?&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to DOL seeking comment. A spokesman said the agency received the newest letter and is reviewing it.

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