Posts on Wednesday, October 29, 2025
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a 100-page report Tuesday with the damning title, “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House.”
It details former President Joe Biden’s diminishing mental and physical abilities, the implications of that decline, and Biden’s “inner circle of loyalists attempting to mislead the nation to ignore what people’s eyes plainly showed them,” the report reads.(snip)the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline “left no record demonstrating President Biden himself made all of the executive decisions that were attributed to him.”
The American people, and others around the world, have been sold a bill of goods on wind and solar energy. These electricity sources are intermittent, unreliable, and ridiculously expensive. Those defects supposedly were outweighed by their environmental benefits. But are there, in fact, any environmental benefits?
The reality is that both wind and solar energy are terrible for the environment. This is because they are absurdly low-power energy sources, so they require vast quantities of materials (mining, manufacturing, transportation and construction) and land to produce minimal amounts of electricity.
This video tells the story. It is deliberately moderate in tone to be accessible to a broad audience that probably
The ground beneath Democrats' feet is starting to shift.
A government shutdown is not a strategy that works absent the media. The whole point of the exercise is to do something dramatic in order to bring attention and raise awareness of some particular issue. In this case, Democrats decided their issue would be health care. They would shut down the government to make demand Republicans extend Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of this year.
For the past few weeks, that strategy has worked pretty well for Democrats for two reasons. First, the shutdown didn't really have much impact right away, especially because President Trump worked to ensure
Government shutdowns are always and everywhere about using government spending —or, really, the restriction of government spending —as political leverage. Sometimes they are used effectively, and sometimes not, but the goal is to impose pain on your negotiating partner and break their will. (Snip)Since politicians are careful to avoid feeling any of the pain directly—they consider themselves essential employees and keep the money flowing into their own pockets—the pain has to be inflicted on others, with the hope that the victims can implore their legislators to give in to demands.
A New Hampshire man has lost his right to vote after repeatedly vandalizing and stealing Trump campaign signs from his neighbor’s property, another glaring example of left-wing intolerance toward free speech and political expression.
According to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Nick Moorhead, 55, of Northfield, pleaded guilty in Franklin District Court to “unlawfully removing political signs.”
Moorhead admitted to targeting a local resident’s Trump sign multiple times, an act that clearly wasn’t a one-off impulse but a pattern of politically motivated harassment, Boston 25 News.
Court documents reveal that Moorhead was caught on camera on August 27 and 28, 2024, removing the Trump sign from the homeowner’s yard and damaging it.
Zohran Mamdani’s filmmaker mom once described the socialist mayoral front-runner as “not an American at all” in a newly surfaced interview about his Indian roots.
Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair, made the remarks in a 2013 interview with the Hindustan Times when she was asked about her then-21-year-old son’s upbringing.
“He is a total desi,” Nair told the outlet, referring to the Hindi and Urdu term used to describe those of Indian descent.Completely. We are not firangs at all. He is very much us. He is not an Uhmericcan (American) at all,” she continued.
“He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places.
More than 160 Republicans, including current Trump administration officials, may have been investigated by the FBI under former President Joe Biden, as part of the bureau’s sweeping Arctic Frost probe, documents show.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, US Pardon Attorney Ed Martin and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro are among the prominent GOP figures named in FBI files released by the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, detailing the massive scope of the Biden-era Justice Department’s investigation into allegations of 2020 election interference.
“What we’ve learned is it was much broader, much more expansive, than we ever thought,”
As my colleague Becky Noble reported, there seems to be a lot of voter fraud being uncovered in red states. Verifiable proof has been uncovered in places like Texas and Arkansas that not only were illegal aliens and duplicate registrations found on voter rolls, but votes were cast in prior elections under those individuals' names.
So much for Democrat claims that this never happens. As Noble wrote:
As illegal immigrants from all over the world poured into the U.S. during the Biden administration, Republicans voiced concerns about non-citizens making it onto state voter rolls and casting illegal votes. Democrats insisted that it was a "rare" occurrence. Really?
President Donald Trump’s firing of all members of an independent federal agency expected to review some of his construction projects, including his planned $300 million White House ballroom, has sparked an online backlash.
Trump fired six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, a group of architectural experts that advises the federal government on historic preservation and public buildings, on Tuesday. The Washington Post first reported the firings.
A White House official told the newspaper that new members who were more aligned with Trump’s "America First" policies would be named to the commission.
Amid a long-running shutdown, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has consistently defended the filibuster.That center has so far held. Republican-backed continuing resolution has failed to net the 60 votes needed to avert a filibuster, prompting some Republicans to flirt with the idea of altering it—a move last pursued by Democrats during the Biden administration.Yet despite some chatter a few days ago, lawmakers who spoke with The Epoch Times have mostly remained skeptical of such a maneuver. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told reporters on Oct. 23 that the nuclear option—another term for a Senate rules change to sidestep the filibuster—would be “a mistake.” Also on Oct 23, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters, “There’s no support on my side of the aisle to end the filibuster.”
A federal appeals court has revived a legal challenge to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Oct. 22 sent the challenge back to a district court judge who had thrown out the case.
The case challenges the military’s 2021 requirement that members and civilian employees receive a COVID-19 vaccine, unless they were approved for an exemption on medical or religious grounds.
You cannot make this up. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People endorsed a white candidate over a qualified black woman in Virginia.
Is it shocking that Democrat Abigail Spanberger got it over Republican Winsome Sears? No, but are the optics atrocious? It’s downright comical. We shouldn’t get too worked up over this because the NAACP pretty much endorsed Democrats no matter what, but lordy, talk about being as subtle as a sledgehammer here. Is it The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or The National Association for the Advancement of (the right) Colored People:
Grokipedia
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Wikipedia has long been a liberal bastion. It is useful for basic facts–in what year did Charles V die?–but on any politically controversial topic, its editors skew content to the left, and sometimes propagate outright misinformation.
Now Wikipedia has a competitor, Grokipedia. Grokipedia is a Grok product, and therefore part of the Elon Musk empire. I believe it is still in a beta version, but some are saying that it is already better than Wikipedia, and less biased. It would be great if it could put Wikipedia out of business.
My wife pointed out that there is a remarkably long article about Power Line on Grokipedia. From a quick look,
Trump Administration Announces Deadliest
Strike Yet: 14 Narco-Terrorists Killed
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The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, on Tuesday announced the 13th strike on a narco-terrorist vessel, this time in the Pacific Ocean. This marked the largest single operation against a drug-trafficking vessel to date, involving three separate strikes, four boats, and resulting in the deaths of 14 narco-terrorists.
"Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific. The four vessels were known by our intelligence apparatus, transiting along known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics," he wrote on X.
Michael Alfonso, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy’s son-in-law, announced his candidacy for Duffy’s old seat on Wednesday.
Alfonso, 25, said in a video statement posted to X that he is running for Congress in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District to “keep the American dream alive.” The Republican also wrote in his post that he believes it is time to “bring opportunity back and put Wisconsin families first.” "Some say Congress needs older people with more experience. But let’s be honest, they’re the ones who created this mess,” Alfonso said in his candidacy announcement video. “We need leaders with strong values, fresh energy and the courage to fight for America’s future.”
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen said Tuesday that parent company Unilever prevented the ice cream maker from creating a "flavor for Palestine." Cohen and the Vermont-based ice cream maker are known for social activism, often supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel. "Unilever / Magnum stopped Ben & Jerry’s from creating a flavor for Palestine — so I’m doing it myself," Cohen wrote on X, referring to Magnum Ice Cream, Unilever's ice cream unit. "I’ve got a watermelon, an empty pint, and I need your help: Name the flavor or suggest ingredients. Or design the pint packaging," he continued. Watermelons have become a symbol of Palestinian solidarity
Charlie Kirk and Cancel Culture
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The public exposure campaign against those who expressed malignant delight in the public execution of Charlie Kirk has prompted the usual facile harangues against “cancel culture” from the typical cast of tripe merchants. These characters are astonished that their stock of free speech clichés has been found inadequate to address the fact that several thousand Americans found it perfectly acceptable to relish the murder of a 31-year-old father of two, simply because he held the political beliefs of the median Republican voter.
Trump Hatred Explained
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We see it all the time, the vitriol against President Trump. Rage, outrage, digital and physical tantrums… it’s all part of the “We Hate Trump” show. It does cause a sane person to reflect, is there something to this hate? In reality, the truth, like so many truths, is simple. To get there, you have to understand all that came to pass.
For years, the Left has been waging political and social war with America, specifically against conservatives. It first became evident with the forcing of Obamacare down the country’s throat. There was no bipartisanship, no compromise. It was clear from that moment on that members of the Democrat Party
Zohran Mamdani’s filmmaker mom once described the socialist mayoral front-runner as “not an American at all” in a newly surfaced interview about his Indian roots.
Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair, made the remarks in a 2013 interview with the Hindustan Times when she was asked about her then-21-year-old son’s upbringing.
“He is a total desi,” Nair told the outlet, referring to the Hindi and Urdu term used to describe those of Indian descent." Completely. We are not firangs at all. He is very much us. He is not an Uhmericcan (American) at all,”
The Boy Who Was Too Healthy
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When Shelly Boyce walks through her home in Charlotte, the walls are lined with children’s laughter. There are four of them — barefoot, curious, full of life. Judah, the second, is eight years old. He likes dinosaurs and building things. He used to play outside more, before the chemo started. These days he gets tired easily. But he’s alive. And until recently, that was supposed to be the miracle.
At Novant Health Hemby Children's Hospital, an affiliate of St. Jude’s, Judah was nearing the end of his treatment for cancer — five months away from the finish line. He’d done better than anyone expected. His bloodwork was strong.
More than 24 hours of peaceful protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango culminated Tuesday with pepper spray and rubber bullets being used against protesters.
Protesters gathered at the site Monday morning after a man and his two middle school children were arrested that morning on their way to school. Protesters formed a human chain in front of the field office gates Monday night to block federal agents from removing the family from the facility.
Secret Meetings and Obama's Fingerprints:
Globalist Censors Are Targeting America
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Globalist Censors Are Targeting America
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Former U.S. president and censorship proponent Barack Obama’s fingerprints are all over an emerging story that reveals that the left’s quest for global censorship has moved forward unabated by the election of Donald Trump in 2024.
According to investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger, the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, on Sept. 24, “hosted a secret dinner between its leaders and top censorship officials from Europe, UK, Brazil, California and Australia.” [Tweets]
Shellenberger points to the continued pressure governments around the world are placing on the major tech platforms to conform to a “unified” set of censorship standards. While the altruistic argument for such a singular, global system for censorship
Starting Saturday, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for millions are in jeopardy as the impacts of the weeks-long federal government shutdown expand.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the food stamp program, said last week it will not use more than $5 million in contingency funding that Congress allocated for emergency scenarios. Next month’s SNAP benefits are estimated at $8 billion. SNAP funding is given to states monthly, with the federal government and states splitting administrative costs and states operating their own programs.
To kill a million mockingbirds
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In one of America’s most popular novels, seven-year-old Scout has been reading “ever since she was born.” She and her father read the newspapers together every evening. Late in the summer, she realized she would be starting school in a week. “I never looked forward more to anything in my life. Hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard, spying on the children there. ... I longed to join them.”
But everything changed by lunchtime! Scout’s older brother Jem asked how she was getting along on her first day of school. “I told him.
Mamdani’s dad claimed ‘moral equivalence’
between U.S. and Al-Qaeda, compared Afghan
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Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood — a prominent leftist in his own right — penned a book in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 where he argued that there was a “moral equivalence” between the United States and al-Qaeda, compared the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center, blamed the U.S. for 9/11 and al-Qaeda, and much more. Mahmood Mamdani is a longtime tenured Columbia University professor, where the school says he "specializes in the study of colonialism, anti-colonialism, and decolonization."
An even more potent replacement for fentanyl is emerging in the United States, and experts say China is behind its rise.
Nitazenes, a class of synthetic opioids that can be up to 43 times stronger than fentanyl, were first developed in the 1950s as a painkiller, but their extreme addictiveness led drugmakers to keep them off the shelves. Now, their black market presence is increasing. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) logged zero reported nitazene discoveries from 2005 to 2019. Since then, the agency has logged nearly 7,000 such reports and linked the drugs to roughly 2,000 deaths.
President Trump was given a massive gold crown Wednesday by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who proclaimed a new “golden age” of the nations’ alliance.
Trump, known for his love of the precious metal, which he has used extensively to redecorate the Oval Office, also received the Grand Order of Mugungwha, South Korea’s highest honor, featuring a large medal on a golden necklace.
“It’s as beautiful as it can possibly be…. I’d like to wear it right now,” Trump told his host, who told him the award recognized Trump’s efforts to improve relations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
If anyone had dared to tell me last winter that I would eventually vote to make Andrew Cuomo New York’s next mayor, I would have shot back, “Never.”
I was still thoroughly disgusted with the former governor, had applauded his forced 2021 exit from Albany and saw no evidence he was doing anything to make himself fit to hold public office again.
In the three-plus years since his resignation, he had continued to play defense and attack his critics, including me, but had done nothing to demonstrate he had learned anything or accepted any responsibility for his historic collapse.
Suddenly, Bill Gates is admitting that climate change won’t lead to “humanity’s demise” after all.
Now he tells us, after he long joined other climate alarmists in warning of “disaster,” as the West burned trillions on “decarbonizing” and steered economies toward the stone age.
The “doomsday view” that “cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization” is “wrong,” the Microsoft co-founder writes; people will “be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.” His 2021 book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” somehow missed these truths; he predictied instead that global warming “could be worse” than COVID.
Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), the lead Senate Republican negotiator on a bill to pay key federal workers during the shutdown, says he has offered Democrats a proposal to pay all federal workers — essential and furloughed federal employees — while federal departments and agencies are shuttered.
Johnson told The Hill that he believes Senate GOP leadership supports his offer, but he says the proposal will be discussed in more detail at the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon Tuesday.“Are they going to take ‘yes’ for an answer?” Johnson said of whether his Democratic colleagues would accept the latest offer.
“We’re willing to add furloughed workers,” he said, calling it a “big” concession.
Chinese state media ran a few victory laps on Sunday and Monday after news that U.S. and Chinese negotiators reached a provisional trade agreement after two days of talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The essence of China-US economic and trade relations is mutual benefit and win-win results, and the two countries gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation,” Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said after participating in the Kuala Lumpur talks on Saturday and Sunday.The U.S. team included Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer. Bessent said on Sunday that a “framework”
My antennae are always on the lookout for any signs of a return to that dystopian world of community masking. As a staunch and longstanding critic of this ineffective and harmful ‘pandemic’ restriction, I have – over the last few weeks – been troubled by what seemed to be an increase in the number of TV images and social media pics where the protagonists are wearing a face covering. Surely, I wondered, our world cannot be losing its sanity again? Alas, three recent observations suggest that my fears may be justified.First, the World Health Organisation (WHO) – that high-profile globalist mouthpiece –
Pilot Unions, Associations Call for Passage
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of Clean CR to Reopen Government, End
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Several pilot unions and associations have issued statements calling for the passage of a clean continuing resolution (CR) in order to reopen the government and end the ongoing shutdown.
Unions such as the Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations (CAPA), the NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots, the Allied Pilots Association (APA), and the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA), have issued statements calling upon lawmakers to support a clean CR, which Democrats have continued to opposeThe statements from the unions come as roughly 13,000 air traffic controllers are currently working without being paid during the ongoing shutdown.
Here in America, the Springsteen biopic opened to a truly dreadful $9.1 million. With billions more customers available overseas and Springsteen’s status as a global superstar, you’d think that’s where the money is.Nope.
The movie only scooped up another $7 million internationally, which means that its overall global take was a measly $16 million.
How bad is that?Well, box office analysts believed the worst it would do just here in America was $15 million, and it ended up only barely topping the domestic worst-case scenario all over the world.
Is this a case of “Go woke, go broke?”
Well, as I wrote on Sunday,
President Javier Milei’s party won Argentina’s midterm vote Sunday, a result that will give the libertarian leader a strong foothold in Congress to continue pursuing aggressive free-market policies that have won praise and a financial lifeline from Donald Trump.
Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, received 41% of votes nationwide with 92% of ballots counted, according to data published by Interior Minister Guillermo Francos on Sunday. It led in most of Argentina’s provinces and finished well ahead of the main opposition party, which in all of its iterations garnered about 32% of the vote, local newspaper Clarin said.
One aspect of the government shutdown that probably wasn’t anticipated by Chuck Schumer and other Democrats, is that it has revealed to the public just how many people receive food stamps.
Years ago, when the program was still called ‘food stamps’ it was seen as something that struggling families might use temporarily to get through a hard time. Then it was re-branded as the ‘SNAP’ program and destigmatized. People were encouraged to enroll. Now there are many more people using the program, many who probably don’t even really need it.
A new report being shared with Democrats is filled with bad news about their party.
Their brand is in the gutter and they are experiencing growth only among white liberals, while alienating pretty much every other group. This is something that we all began to see with the outcome of the 2024 election, but this report confirms it.
Part of the party’s problem is that they don’t stand for anything other than being anti-Trump. When they do stand for something, it’s on the 20 percent end of an 80-20 issue. How much longer can they drag on like this?
'Irony Is Dead': Newsom Makes Desperate
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Move After DOJ Announcement About Prop
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California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom will have monitors monitoring the monitors following the announcement from the Department of Justice that they will be in the state to make sure all is on the up and up for the Newsom-orchestrated special election on November 4th.CA Attorney General Rob Bonta has accused President Donald Trump of having monitors in the state in order to "sow seeds of doubt" about the integrity of the special election on Prop 50, which centers around voters determining whether the so-called temporary removal of the independent redistricting commission is okay to do.
The Home Office has “squandered” billions of pounds on asylum hotels, a damning report by MPs has found, blasting the department’s “incompetence” that has allowed private companies to make “excessive profits” from the crisis. The Mail has more.
There was “manifest failure” by the Home Office to “get a grip” of contracts with private companies it appointed to house asylum seekers, they concluded.
As a result, the firms had been allowed make “excessive profits” from the Channel crisis.
In one of the most damning reports ever published into the dysfunctional department, the MPs said the Home Office was “not up to this challenge” and demanded a series of major changes.
Shock New Report Lays Out the Full Scale
of Environmental Damage Caused by Onshore
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of Environmental Damage Caused by Onshore
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Fresh insights into the ecological devastation caused by onshore wind turbines around the world are contained in a shocking new paper published last month by a group of ecologists in Nature. The paper is paywalled and has attracted little mainstream media interest, but it highlights research that illustrates that the effect of utility-scale wind energy production “can be far reaching and sometimes have large and unexpected consequences for biodiversity”. An annual figure of around one million bats are killed in the countries with the highest number of turbines, but harmful effects are seen in many other parts of the ecosystem.
Are Young Britons Moving Right?
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Since the turn of the century or thereabouts, the rule in British politics has been that the young lean Left and the old lean Right. This trend is seen in many countries but is more pronounced in Britain than almost anywhere else.
At the last General Election, the vast majority of young people voted for Labour, the Lib Dems or the Greens. According to Focaldata, less than 25% of 18-24 year-olds voted for Reform or the Conservatives. According to Lord Ashcroft, it was 23%. According to YouGov, it was only 17%. And according to Ipsos, it was only 15%.
Are the young now moving Right? That’s what some headlines are claiming.
During his closing argument in a Sonoma County trial that could reverberate throughout America’s animal rights movement, Deputy District Attorney Matt Hobson seized several opportunities to stress something that should have seemed obvious: The defendant — not animal agriculture — is on trial here.
His need to reiterate that point Tuesday spoke to the unique nature of this case. It’s not just that Zoe Rosenberg, a 23-year-old Berkeley undergrad and animal rights activist, is facing nearly five years in prison for taking four chickens valued at around $24 from a Petaluma-area poultry processing facility. By spurning a plea agreement, she had intended to force an examination of the meat industry’s practices.
From Argentina to Japan, MAGA is going global.
President Donald Trump’s slogan has long been “America First,” and his movement is all about making America great again — language the president’s foes misunderstand as meaning “isolationism.”
In fact, strengthening America requires strengthening our friends and allies as well — and Trump sets an example for those leaders in Latin America, Asia and Europe who want to make their nations great again, too.There’s no paradox here.A robust international order is impossible if America has to sacrifice its own industrial capacity, and our people’s economic security, to global free trade.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) is calling for an investigation into New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani over allegations that he concealed his ties to terrorist and socialist organizations during his naturalization process.
Ogles sent a second letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday, urging her to investigate Mamdani’s naturalization documents. His first letter to Bondi on the matter was sent in June.
“Since that initial inquiry, additional public reporting has raised further questions about Mr. Mamdani’s past statements and associations, including his refusal to disavow violent, anti-American rhetoric and continued public praise for individuals convicted of providing material support for Hamas,” Ogles wrote.
Last week, Democratic Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) said her party planned to use the suffering inflicted on Americans by the Schumer Shutdown as "leverage" against Republicans in negotiations on re-opening the government. It was a refreshing, albeit appalling, moment of honesty.Clark knew what she said was terrible because she later tried to walk it back, claiming what she said wasn't what she meant.
Now her colleague, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), has offered more proof that Democrats have every intention of using the suffering of Americans as political leverage during the Schumer Shutdown.
New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani was hit with two criminal referrals Tuesday filed by a campaign finance watchdog accusing the lefty socialist of accepting illegal contributions from foreign donors.
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed the referrals – alleging Mamdani may have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act and New York Election Code – with the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office on Tuesday.
The referrals were filed after The Post reported earlier this month Mamdani’s campaign raked in nearly $13,000 in contributions from at least 170 donors with addresses outside the US – including one from his mother-in-law in Dubai.