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Healthcare

Americans Are Suffering ‘Delusional Psychosis’ About CCP Virus, Psychiatrist Claims

by USNN2020December 3, 2020February 26, 2025

Healthcare

Expired Face Masks Can Still Be Used: FDA

by USNN2020December 3, 2020January 12, 2021

World

Chinese State Media Misrepresents Facts to Claim COVID-19 Did Not Originate from China

by USNN2020December 3, 2020July 11, 2024

Healthcare

CDC: COVID-19 Quarantines Can Be as Short as Seven Days

by USNN2020December 3, 2020January 12, 2021

Congress

Trump Supports McConnell’s COVID-19 Relief Package: Mnuchin

by USNN2020December 3, 2020January 12, 2021

National News

Trump Calls for ‘Full Forensic Audit’ of Mail-In Ballots

by USNN2020December 2, 2020January 12, 2021

Commentary Attorney General William Barr signaled on Tuesday that he has washed his hands of the president. He told the media that the Department of Justice has found no evidence of fraud that would change the election results in favor of Donald Trump. U.S. officials I spoke with do not understand Barr’s motivation for speaking to a press corps typically hostile to him as well as Trump. “There’s no evidence that the DOJ spoke with any of the numerous witnesses with first-hand knowledge of election fraud,” said one senior official. “And many people reached out directly to the FBI and got no response back.” The effect of Barr’s statement is to derail the Trump campaign’s efforts to reverse the vote in battleground states contested by the president’s legal team. It is difficult to imagine state legislatures or courts taking up the campaign’s cause when the headlines show that Trump’s own attorney general says nothing is wrong. By distancing himself from the president’s political fortunes, Barr gave his bona fides as an honest broker in order to resolve the issue that most matters to him—salvaging the reputation of the institution he’s led twice, the Justice Department. He revealed Tuesday that he’d appointed John Durham special counsel to continue his nearly two-year-long probe into the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s discredited investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign. According to Barr, the scope of the investigation he asked the U.S. attorney from Connecticut to lead in May 2019 has “narrowed considerably.” At first, it seemed sprawling. The two men reportedly traveled to Italy and contacted officials in the United Kingdom and Australia to gather information on foreign nationals allegedly involved in Crossfire Hurricane. In August, Durham interviewed former CIA director John Brennan for eight hours. In September, the prosecutor reportedly sought information on the FBI’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation. Republican officials reasoned that it was precisely because the investigation was so large and thorough that it was taking Durham so much time to deliver indictments. Reports claimed that he kept finding new evidence, was following more leads. On Tuesday, Barr said Durham’s work now “really is focused on the activities of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation within the FBI.” Perhaps Barr believes that limiting the investigation’s scope will convince a Biden White House that it does not threaten his administration. After all, a thorough investigation would have to look at Biden’s pick for National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. What did the former Hillary Clinton campaign advisor know about the FBI’s role in the anti-Trump operation when he was briefing the press on “collusion” and tweeting out stories sourced to Clinton contractor and FBI source Christopher Steele? What did John Kerry, Biden’s choice for climate envoy, do with Steele’s Trump-Russia reports when they were passed to him as secretary of state? And why did then-Vice President Biden direct the FBI to look at Trump’s national security advisor Michael Flynn for violating the Logan Act? There’s nothing to stop Biden from dismissing Durham. Trump reportedly considered firing Robert Mueller at least twice. But the president’s legal team defended the probity of the coup targeting their client. “I would never have anything to do with any attempts to attack Bob Mueller’s integrity,” said the former spokesman for the White House’s legal team, Mark Corallo. In other words, the aides hired to defend Trump were less concerned with the stability of the U.S. government than the prospect that their reputations would be trashed in the press. A Biden administration will be lauded by the media for disarming a weapon dangerous to “democracy” if—when—Durham is fired, and any charges made are withdrawn. But the only Americans likely to be shocked by a cover-up of that magnitude are Trump voters. And they are no longer capable of being shocked by the corruption of the Democratic Party and its media partners after watching, for example, the press bury news of the Biden family’s financial ties to a Chinese regime responsible for a pandemic that left hundreds of thousands of Americans dead and tens of millions unemployed. It’s not clear why Durham can make a case now that he wasn’t able to make in a year and a half. He was rumored to be concerned that bringing charges or releasing a report too close to the election would look like a political hit job, and the investigation, conducted by a career prosecutor proud of his reputation as a “straight-shooter,” had to be above reproach. Only self-regard blinded him to the irony—his discretion left the rule of law liable to the outcome of a political contest. The subject of his investigation—corruption at the highest levels of government—was all the evidence he needed that its integrity would depend entirely on a Trump victory. Failing to bring charges, or even filing a report, for interfering in the 2016 election, was an invitation to interfere in the 2020 race. If no one was held accountable for what they did four years ago, there was little risk this time out. And now Barr speaks out to downplay the Trump campaign’s claims of election fraud when it is precisely because of the actions and decisions taken by the institution he cherishes that half of America has lost its faith in the justice system as well as the electoral process. On such things much smaller than war hang the fate of nations. Lee Smith is the author of the recently published book, “The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President.”

Opinion

Barr Fails to Salvage DOJ’s Reputation With Statements on Election Fraud

by USNN2020December 2, 2020January 12, 2021

National News

Trump: US Election System ‘Under Coordinated Assault and Siege’

by USNN2020December 2, 2020October 11, 2025

Congress

Rep. Mo Brooks Plans to Challenge Electoral College Votes in Congress

by USNN2020December 2, 2020June 20, 2024

National News

Trump Team to File Lawsuit: 40,000 People Voted Twice in Nevada

by USNN2020December 2, 2020February 26, 2025

National News

Michigan, Arizona Public Hearings Shed Light on Election Irregularities

by USNN2020December 2, 2020June 20, 2024

National News

2020 Election Boosts GOP State Legislator Advantage by 67 Percent

by USNN2020December 2, 2020February 26, 2025

NATIONAL NEWS

McCarthy: Picking Clinton would show Bloomberg knows he cannot win without ‘cheating’

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., responding to a report that Michael Bloomberg may choose Hillary Clinton as a running mate by claiming it reveals ...

Trump, Melania rev up Daytona 500 with historic lap in presidential limo, ‘The Beast’

By Stephen Sorace | Fox News President Trump revved up NASCAR’s Daytona 500 on Sunday, becoming the second-ever president to deliver the Great American Race’s iconic command, “Gentlemen, start your engines!” and the ...

Bloomberg Campaign Responds to Report That He Is Considering Hillary Clinton as His VP Pick

By Janita Kan Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg’s campaign has responded to a report that the billionaire is considering former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as his running mate. The ...

New York Politicians Lied and Their Gun-Control Laws Failed Again

By Rob Morse U.S.A.–-(Ammoland.com)- New York politicians said we would be safe. Democrats told us to register our guns so the criminals would be disarmed. New ...

Don’t think Jeffrey Epstein killed himself? Chances are you’re a Trump or Sanders supporter

By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times More than half of Americans believe it’s likely that “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself,” and that’s an ill omen for ...

Dan Crenshaw calls out Bernie and AOC’s Green New Deal: It’s a ‘third-grade science project’

By Julia Musto | Fox News Democratic Socialists’ Green New Deal is not an actual proposal, Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw said Friday. Appearing on “Fox & Friends” with hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian ...

Bozell & Graham: HBO slams Catholics and its silence about other groups speaks volumes

By L. Brent Bozell III, Tim Graham | Creators Syndicate HBO is currently running a dark little miniseries called “The New Pope,” which is basically a reboot of the ...

Trump becomes first president named Daytona 500 grand marshal

By Gary Gastelu | Fox News President Trump is taking part in this year’s Daytona 500. Trump hosted NASCAR Champion Martin Truex Jr.’s team at The White House. (Jabin Botsford/The ...

Lara Trump reacts to liberal ‘View’ hosts defending Hunter Biden: The hypocrisy is ‘glaring’

By Joshua Nelson | Fox News Trump 2020 campaign adviser Lara Trump appeared on “Fox & Friends” Friday to point out the hypocrisy of “The View” hosts defending Hunter Biden while ...

McCain, Behar explode over Bloomberg, Trump’s 2016 win: ‘He is president, move on!’

By Sam Dorman | Fox News “The View” co-hosts Joy Behar and Meghan McCain got into another spat over President Trump on Friday, this time while discussing whether he was more electable than former ...

Onetime media darling Avenatti faces years in prison after conviction in Nike shakedown scheme

By Brian Flood | Fox News Brian Stelter and Joy Behar thought he could run for president in 2020. Now he’s going to jail. Former liberal media darling ...

Republicans introduce bill to pull funds from states that give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants

By Adam Shaw | Fox News Republicans in the House and the Senate are introducing legislation that would block federal funds from states that allow illegal immigrants to obtain ...