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Henry Kissinger urges Biden to uphold Trump’s ‘brilliant’ Middle East success

March 6, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, WND

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in April 1975 (National Archives and Records Administration)

President Biden’s unraveling of the Trump administration’s Middle East policy already is well underway, but a prominent elder statesmen is advising him to uphold his predecessor’s “brilliant” realignment of the region’s politics.

Henry Kissinger, who was secretary of state under the Nixon and Ford administrations, praised Trump administration’s strategy of pitting major Sunni Muslim countries against Iran’s Shiite mullah-led regime, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

“I think that one of the great successes of the previous administration was that they had lined up, that they had achieved two things in the Middle East,” Kissinger said Tuesday during the first seminar of a new monthly series from the Richard Nixon Foundation focused on national security and foreign policy.

“One, to separate the Palestinian problem from all of the other problems so that it did not become a veto over everything else — and secondly, of lining up the Sunni states in actual or potential combination against the Shiite states, which is Iran, that was developing a capacity to threaten them,” he said. “I think that this was a brilliant concept. We were just at the beginning of it.”

Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state and national security adviser for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, discusses the Vietnam War with LBJ Presidential Library director Mark Updegrove on April 26, 2016 ( LBJ Library photo by Jay Godwin)

Kissinger, 97, was joined by former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, former national security advisers Robert O’Brien and Matt Pottinger, and Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis.

Last year, the Trump administration brokered the Abraham Accords between Israel and Muslim-majority countries, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Trump also sanctioned Iran in a “maximum pressure” campaign aimed at halting the Iranian nuclear program.

And the Trump administration was on the verge of securing a peace agreement between Israel and Indonesia in its final weeks in office, according to a former senior Trump administration official, Caroline Glick reported in a column Friday

Calling the Biden administration “the most ideologically rigid and radical administration in U.S. history,” the Israel-based foreign affairs specialist said the Indonesia deal would “pay a huge dividend to the US in its burgeoning cold war with China.”

“An expanded strategic and economic partnership with the archipelago and ASEAN member would be a setback for China’s efforts to dominate the South China Sea, particularly with Indonesia playing a role in an Islamic-Israeli alliance led by the US,” she wrote.

The senior official said, “We got the ball on Indonesia and Israel to the [one]-yard line.”

Unfortunately, Glick wrote, “the Biden administration has dropped the ball on the ground and walked off the field.”

‘The risk of losing the two achievements’

At the seminar Tuesday, Kissinger said the Biden administration “should not give up the pressures that exist on Iran until we know where they are heading.”

“If we break out the Iranian issue from the overall Middle Eastern issue, we run the risk of losing the two achievements, namely of separating the Palestinian issue, which removes it as a veto over everything else, and the Sunni cooperation with Israel, which is unique in its openness,” he said.

Already, however, the Free Beacon noted, the Biden administration has appointed Obama-era diplomats who argued for the Iran nuclear deal, including climate czar John Kerry, Iran envoy Robert Malley and nominee for undersecretary of defense Colin Kahl.

Amid strong bipartisan opposition from Congress, the White House has said it still hopes to reengage in nuclear talks with Iran in the coming months.

In February, Biden halted an arms deal with Saudi Arabia and removed the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen from terror watchlists. Days later, Houthi militants bombed an airport in Saudi Arabia.

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DHS chief: Trump ‘gutted’ immigration system, no ‘crisis’ at border

March 1, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, WND

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a White House press briefing March 1, 2021 (Video screenshot)

In his first White House press briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accused the Trump administration of gutting the U.S. immigration system and instituting “cruel” policies.

“The prior administration dismantled our immigration system in its entirety,” Mayorkas said. “Quite frankly, the entire system was gutted.”

He said it will take time to rebuild the system “from scratch.”

Mayorkas denied there is a “crisis” at the border.

“I think here is a challenge at the border that we are managing, and we have our resources dedicated to managing it,” he said.

President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the 450th mile of the new border wall Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, near the Texas Mexico border. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)

Fox News White House correspondent Kristin Fisher noted there are 200 migrants children a day arriving at the border. And Customs and Border Protection projects a peak of 13,000 unaccompanied children arriving during the month of May.

Mayorkas was asked what is being done between now and then to handle the surge.

“Let me answer that question with tremendous pride. The men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are working around the clock, seven days a week to ensure that we do not have a crisis at the border, that we manage the challenge, as acute as the challenge is, and they are not doing it alone,” he said.

Following up, Fisher noted that former Obama DHS Director Jeh Johnson said that 1,000 border crossings a day constitutes a crisis that overwhelms the system.

Since there are between 3,000 and 4,000 arriving daily, Fisher continued, how is that not a crisis?

“I have explained that quite clearly,” Mayorkas replied. “We are challenged at the border. The men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are meeting that challenge.”

What’s changed?

Reacting to Mayorkas’ comments, former Trump director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe said that “when Trump was still president there wasn’t a crisis or an issue at all at the border.”

“What’s changed is, immediately upon Joe Biden becoming president he advertised a different policy,” Ratcliffe told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum.

“As a result, we now have an issue that hasn’t existed for two years,” he said.

When there was a crisis two years ago, he said, it ended when Trump worked with Mexican President Manuel López Obrador to enforce Mexico’s southern border, which had been allowing illegal immigrants to come from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

“As a result, that crisis went away,” the former Texas congressman said.

“I hope this is not a situation where the Biden administration is quick to say, ‘Trump’s immigration policies were cruel, we’re going to do something different,’ when very clearly we can see the effect of that is it’s creating a crisis at the southern border of my state.”

Mayorkas remarks came ahead of Biden’s scheduled virtual meeting Monday with López Obrador.

The DHS chief advised asylum seekers to wait before traveling north on the “dangerous journey,” because Biden will make the process easier.

“We need individuals to wait,” he said. “They will wait with a goal in mind, and that is our ability to rebuild, as quickly as possible, a system so that they don’t have to take the dangerous journey and we can enable them to access humanitarian relief from their country of origin.”

Mayorkas was asked how Biden is handling immigration differently.

“The Trump administration expelled children to Mexico. And we are not expelling young children,” Mayorkas said.

“We are not apprehending a 9-year-old child who’s come alone, who has traversed Mexico, whose parents — whose loving parents — had sent that child alone, we are not expelling that 9-year-old child to Mexico when that child’s origin, country of origin, was Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador.”

Mayorkas said DHS is “actually bringing that child into a Border Patrol station as a stepping point to get that child in the hands of HHS, that has the capacity and in the unique talents to care for the child — health care workers, mental health counseling and the like — and moving that child to a sponsor as quickly as possible.”

AOC: Biden’s ‘kids in cages’

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and others from her party’s far left have condemned Biden’s detention camps unaccompanied minors as similar to the ones described as “kids in cages” under Trump.

In his CPAC speech Sunday, Trump charged “Biden has triggered a massive flood of illegal immigration into our country the likes of which we have never seen before.”

“They’re all coming because of promises and foolish words,” he said. “Perhaps worst of all, Joe Biden’s decision to cancel border security has singlehandedly launched a youth migrant crisis that is enriching child smugglers, vicious criminal cartels and some of the most evil people on the planet.”

DHS Secretary Mayorkas says there is not a “crisis at the border”

“The men and women of DHS are working around the clock seven days a week to ensure we do not have a crisis at the border… We are meeting that challenge.”
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— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 1, 2021

DHS Secretary Mayorkas says Trump administration “dismantled our nation’s immigration system in its entirety” and border policy & process must be rebuilt “virtually from scratch”

“It takes time to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administration before us established” pic.twitter.com/65rgeS1SUp

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 1, 2021

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Psaki: Biden Supports Independent Investigation into Cuomo Sexual Harassment Allegations

February 28, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: Breitbart, MORE NEWS

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President Joe Biden wanted an independent investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) over sexual harassment allegations by two former aides.

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Wash Post Op-ed: Sen. Paul Is A ‘Monster’ For Questioning Trans Policies for Kids

February 26, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

The potential United States Assistant Secretary of Health can’t even get the record straight on her gender but Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is the “monster” for expressing concerns about how someone like that might supervise America’s medical bureaucracy?

In an op-ed for The Washington Post, columnist and style reporter, Monica Hesse, went into attack dog mode against the Senator from Kentucky on February 26, after he refused to pull any punches while questioning of Biden’s potential Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine, during his Senate confirmation hearing. Hesse called Paul’s questioning of the appointee a “tirade” full of “ignorance” and “demeaning” questions.

Of course, let’s set the proper context here. Levine, a biological male who is now a “trans female” has endorsed controversial and dangerous transgender procedures being applied to children in the past. Though Hesse couldn’t be bothered to wonder if a Biden medical bureau helmed by a trans activist would have strange implications for the health of America’s children. Anyone who was skeptical, like Paul, drew her wrath. 

The columnist took issue with this question from the Senator: “Dr. Levine, you have supported [minors] being given hormone blockers, and surgical reconstruction of a child’s genitalia.” Hesse characterized it as a “tirade” and bashed him for comparing it to genital mutilation of the variety found in countries prone to human rights violations. 

The fact that Paul’s question about seriously consequential views regarding children’s safety and health was just glossed over and dismissed, is highly disturbing. Hesse ignored it, and on top of that, pivoted to what she saw as Paul conflating it with more serious issue of female genital mutilation (FGM), as if that should totally distract audiences from the horrors present in Levine’s views. Clever tactic. That’s like trying to get the jury to absolve the murderer because the prosecutor conflated the 2nd degree murder with 1st degree murder.

Though in all seriousness, is FGM, for example, any different than helping a child get his genitals surgically removed? Last time we checked, rape was the nature of sexual interaction with children under 18 in legal terms – even if they consented. The point is, they can’t consent. But now they can? 

Again, these are serious questions, and despite the implications of such an appointment, our columnist’s rebuttal boiled down to, well, she’s the “first publicly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.” Heaven forbid we ruin the woke moment. The piece even let Dr. Levine’s laughable answer to Paul’s question slide: “She would have been within her rights to be enraged by Paul’s ignorance, but she responded on Thursday by repeating a steady message: ‘Transgender medicine is a complex and nuanced field.’” 

Really? That’s it? There was nothing to her answer, but she was “steady” and yes, Mr. Paul was “demeaning.”

Ms. Hesse’s own justification for taking Levine’s side is the exact same as the trans doctor’s: “medical cases are complex, and there are fields of study and many experts who have dedicated their entire careers to thinking through ethical practices.” Mmhmm. So the argument is essentially, “it’s not what you think, bro.” Oh yeah, that’s convincing. 

Again the other main thrust of her argument was that, compared to Paul, Levine was so nice. Hesse wrote, “Levine spent three hours sitting behind a table, wearing a patterned blazer, a string of pearls, eyeglasses and a graying haircut. She occasionally sounded nervous, but always remained calm.” Oh that’s good. Nice equals good. You can convince little Timmy he can get a sex change as long as everyone stays “calm.” 

The piece added, “If you watched her exchange with Paul, you might have seen someone behaving monstrously. But it definitely wasn’t her.” And this is how they’ll justify future malpractice. They won’t answer our valid questions and they’ll just call us mean. What else is new?

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Wash Post Op-ed: Sen. Paul Is A ‘Monster’ For Asking Health Sec Nom About Trans Kids

February 26, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

The potential United States Assistant Secretary of Health can’t even get the record straight on her gender but Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is the “monster” for expressing concerns about how someone like that might supervise America’s medical bureaucracy?

In an op-ed for The Washington Post, columnist and style reporter, Monica Hesse, went into attack dog mode against the Senator from Kentucky on February 26, after he refused to pull any punches while questioning of Biden’s potential Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine, during his Senate confirmation hearing. Hesse called Paul’s questioning of the appointee a “tirade” full of “ignorance” and “demeaning” questions.

Of course, let’s set the proper context here. Levine, a biological male who is now a “trans female” has endorsed controversial and dangerous transgender procedures being applied to children in the past. Though Hesse couldn’t be bothered to wonder if a Biden medical bureau helmed by a trans activist would have strange implications for the health of America’s children. Anyone who was skeptical, like Paul, drew her wrath. 

The columnist took issue with this question from the Senator: “Dr. Levine, you have supported [minors] being given hormone blockers, and surgical reconstruction of a child’s genitalia.” Hesse characterized it as a “tirade” and bashed him for comparing it to genital mutilation of the variety found in countries prone to human rights violations. 

The fact that Paul’s question about seriously consequential views regarding children’s safety and health was just glossed over and dismissed, is highly disturbing. Hesse ignored it, and on top of that, pivoted to what she saw as Paul conflating it with more serious issue of female genital mutilation (FGM), as if that should totally distract audiences from the horrors present in Levine’s views. Clever tactic. That’s like trying to get the jury to absolve the murderer because the prosecutor conflated the 2nd degree murder with 1st degree murder.

Though in all seriousness, is FGM, for example, any different than helping a child get his genitals surgically removed? Last time we checked, rape was the nature of sexual interaction with children under 18 in legal terms – even if they consented. The point is, they can’t consent. But now they can? 

Again, these are serious questions, and despite the implications of such an appointment, our columnist’s rebuttal boiled down to, well, she’s the “first publicly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.” Heaven forbid we ruin the woke moment. The piece even let Dr. Levine’s laughable answer to Paul’s question slide: “She would have been within her rights to be enraged by Paul’s ignorance, but she responded on Thursday by repeating a steady message: ‘Transgender medicine is a complex and nuanced field.’” 

Really? That’s it? There was nothing to her answer, but she was “steady” and yes, Mr. Paul was “demeaning.”

Ms. Hesse’s own justification for taking Levine’s side is the exact same as the trans doctor’s: “medical cases are complex, and there are fields of study and many experts who have dedicated their entire careers to thinking through ethical practices.” Mmhmm. So the argument is essentially, “it’s not what you think, bro.” Oh yeah, that’s convincing. 

Again the other main thrust of her argument was that, compared to Paul, Levine was so nice. Hesse wrote, “Levine spent three hours sitting behind a table, wearing a patterned blazer, a string of pearls, eyeglasses and a graying haircut. She occasionally sounded nervous, but always remained calm.” Oh that’s good. Nice equals good. You can convince little Timmy he can get a sex change as long as everyone stays “calm.” 

The piece added, “If you watched her exchange with Paul, you might have seen someone behaving monstrously. But it definitely wasn’t her.” And this is how they’ll justify future malpractice. They won’t answer our valid questions and they’ll just call us mean. What else is new?

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Meghan McCain Shames Psaki on Biden’s Kids in Cages, Before Joy Behar Comes to Her Rescue

February 25, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

On The View Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki faced tough questions from conservative co-host Meghan McCain about the administration reopening a border detention facility for migrant kids, which was heavily chastised by the media and the left during President Trump’s years.

Psaki was grilled by White House reporter Peter Doocy this week over the treatment of migrant children by the Biden admin, and she scrambled to rationalize how these kids in “containers” were different than how the left described the kids in “cages” during the Trump years. As Meghan McCain repeatedly pressed her on the hypocrisy, Psaki repeated the same excuses and refused to admit this was the same as what Democrats blasted under Trump (click “expand”):

MCCAIN: [I] feel like this is the same thing, and that you’re still detaining kids at the border and it’s not meaningfully different than what President Trump was doing. 

JEN PSAKI: Well it’s absolutely not the same, Meghan. We are not ripping children from the arms of their parents. That is horrible and immoral and that’s something we saw in the last administration, but we’re seeing kids are fleeing prosecution. They’re fleeing really difficult circumstances in their home country and they’re coming to the border and we need to figure out how to treat them humanely and keep them safe, and in a time of COVID, that means we had to open up an additional facility so we could have educational services, so we could have legal services and medical and health services and have those kids there treated humanely until we can find proper homes, family placements for these kids….

MCCAIN: I just wanted to know are you or are you not detaining children in a separate facility? 

PSAKI: Well, Meghan, this is a facility that was reopened. It was revamped and it was redone to have these kids in a place where they could have access to educational services, health services so they could find proper homes. We can’t send them directly to families that haven’t been vetted. We’ve seen issues with that in the past. We can’t have them all in the same HHS facility because of COVID, and we need to make sure there are safety protocols so they’re not in beds next to each other. 

MCCAIN: There’s criticism all the way around including from people within your own party like AOC, and I think theres’s a lot of people see this as hypocrisy, and that it’s just sort of potato, potato. Kids in cages or kids being separated from their families–Kids are being separated from their families!

As Psaki waffled some more, Joy Behar had enough and cut in to defend the Biden administration:

Jen, I was reading this morning that many of the children have been reunited with their parents already, that this is an ongoing thing. Isn’t that so? That the Biden administration has already taken that step to reunite children with their parents? How is it in anybody’s mind the same as what went on before? It’s outrageous. 

A thankful Psaki wholeheartedly agreed with Behar that it was “absolutely not the same.” Remember, this is the same Joy Behar who constantly moaned about horrible it was that kids were separated from their parents that she even defended Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez calling the facilities “concentration camps” and Behar compared the treatment of migrant kids to the Holocaust.

The other questions to Psaki were a mixture of softballs from the most liberal hosts, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin, attacking Republicans, and neutral or critical questions from Sara Haines and Meghan McCain on schools reopening, and compromising on minimum wage raises to pass COVID relief.

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Read the transcript below:

The View

2/25/2021

MEGHAN MCCAIN: Hi, Jen. This week a migrant facility that operated under the Trump administration for only a month in September of 2019 is being reactivated to hold up to 700 children ages 13 to 17 throughout the campaign. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly spoke out against kids in cages. I feel like this is the same thing, and that you’re still detaining kids at the border and it’s not meaningfully different than what President Trump was doing. 

JEN PSAKI: Well it’s Absolutely not the same, Meghan. We are not ripping children from the arms of their parents. That is horrible and immoral and that’s something we saw in the last administration, but we’re seeing kids are fleeing prosecution. They’re fleeing really difficult circumstances in their home country and they’re coming to the border and we need to figure out how to treat them humanely and keep them safe, that means we had to open up an additional facility so we could have educational services, so we could have legal services and medical and health services and have those kids there treated humanely until we can find proper homes, family placements for these kids. This is incredibly difficult. It’s heart-wrenching and it’s a really difficult decision and it’s the best decision we could make to keep these kids safe until we can get them to the right places and the right homes. 

SUNNY HOSTIN: You know there are mounting calls—

MCCAIN: That’s the same question that I think everyone has. 

PSAKI: I’m sorry. Can you say that one more time? 

MCCAIN: I just wanted to know are you or are you not detaining children in a separate facility? 

PSAKI: Well, Meghan, this is a facility that was reopened. It was revamped and it was redone to have these kids in a place where they could have access to educational services, health services so they could find proper homes. We can’t send them directly to families that haven’t been vetted. We’ve seen issues with that in the past. We can’t have them all in the same HHS facility because of COVID, and we need to make sure there are safety protocols so they’re not in beds next to each other. 

MCCAIN: There’s criticism all the way around including from people within your own party like AOC, and I think theres’s a lot of people see this as hypocrisy, and that it’s just sort of potato, potato. Kids in cages or kids being separated from their families–Kids are being separated from their families

PSAKI:  Well Meghan what’s important, and what we all have the responsibility to do, is communicate clearly about what this is, and what this is not. This is kids going to a facility run by HHS and we had to open a new one to make sure we have the safe protocols in order to address the COVID needs and the health and safety needs because we can’t have as many kids in the former HHS facility. That’s exactly what we did, but our objective is to get these kids into safe homes with their families as quickly as possible, and we are absolutely not doing what the former president did, and what frankly the current president and the current vice president objected to, which is ripping kids from the arms of their parents. That is not the policy of this administration, and not something we would do. 

JOY BEHAR: Jen, I was reading this morning that many of the children have been reunited with their parents already, that this is an ongoing thing. Isn’t that so? That the Biden administration has already taken that step to reunite children with their parents? How is it in anybody’s mind the same as what went on before? It’s outrageous. 

PSAKI: It’s absolutely not the same, and that’s our objective. You know, we want these kids to be safe. We want them to be treated humanely. We can’t send them back on the journey they just went on. That is not the right choice, but we need to make sure that we are finding their families. That’s hard too. There’s not the data and the history thanks to the last administration. So this is incredibly difficult, Joy. We want these kids to be with their families, to be reunited. We want them to be with family members. It’s going to take some time, and we also want them to be safe during a time where there’s a global pandemic, and that required the opening and revamping of this facility. 

 

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Hillary Clinton to publish political thriller novel with heavy Trump overtones

February 23, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, WND

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is co-authoring an international political thriller with bestselling author Louise Penny that seems to reference former President Donald Trump’s administration.

“State of Terror” will be published on Oct. 12, 2021, by Simon & Schuster and St. Martin’s Press, according to a news release from the publishers.

“A novice Secretary of State joins the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage,” the book’s synopsis, published by Axios, reads.

“A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the Secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out of touch and out of power in the places where it counts the most.”

The administration of “a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage” seems to be a dig at Trump.

Clinton said in the news release that “[w]riting a thriller with Louise is a dream come true.”

“I’ve relished every one of her books and their characters as well as her friendship,” the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said.

“Now we’re joining our experiences to explore the complex world of high stakes diplomacy and treachery. All is not as it first appears.”

Penny was also eager to write with Clinton, saying, “I could not say yes fast enough.”

“What an incredible experience, to get inside the State Department. Inside the White House. Inside the mind of the Secretary of State as high stake crises explode,” she said.

“Before we started, we talked about her time as Secretary of State. What was her worst nightmare? STATE OF TERROR is the answer.”

Penny is an international award-winning author whose books have topped lists from The New York Times, USA Today and others.

Her Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels have also been translated into 31 languages and she recently received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture.

Clinton has been a longtime critic of her 2016 political rival, Trump.

In January, she suggested that he was merely a puppet for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I hope historically we will find out who he’s beholden to, who pulls his strings,” Clinton said.

“I would love to see his phone records to see whether he was talking to Putin the day the insurgence invaded our capital.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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GOP election-integrity leader: ‘Every state’ should ban private election administration funding

February 21, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, WND

(BREITBART) — Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) said “every state in the union,” should eliminate the private donor funding of election administration in an exclusive interview on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday with host Matt Boyle.

“We had states that sacrificed security, accountability, transparency for accessibility and availability of the ballot. We should never sacrifice security, transparency, and accountability in the elections process for anything,” Merrill, co-chair of the recently established election integrity commission of the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) said.

Boyle noted the 2020 general election was unique in that, for the first time, major private donors — such as Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, who donated $350 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Live (CTCL) and $69 million to the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) this election cycle — funded the administration of elections in many counties and localities around the country.

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Watch: Psaki Dodges Questions on Cuomo’s Leadership Amid Nursing Home Deaths Investigation

February 21, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: Breitbart, MORE NEWS

White House press secretary Jen Psaki avoided responding to questions about whether President Biden still believed Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is the “gold standard” in leadership during the coronavirus pandemic during an appearance on Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week.” 

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The Wall Street Journal: U.N. Panel of Experts alleges Blackwater founder and Trump ally Erik Prince breached Libya arms embargo, says diplomat

February 20, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: BUSINESS, MarketWatch

Prince is the brother of Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos.

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