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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, 2020June 29, 2024

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

The Survivors: These Trump officials have weathered controversies from the start – and are still here

By Alex Pappas | Fox News Meet the Trump administration survivors. People like Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller and Betsy DeVos joined President Trump’s team at the beginning. They’ve occasionally — or ...

After Impeachment, Pelosi Will Lose House Majority: Trump

By Zachary Stieber House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will lose the majority in the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump said on Dec. 23 following ...

Ken Starr Says Impeachment Is Attempt to Overthrow Trump, Criticizes Pelosi for Withholding Articles

By Zachary Stieber Ken Starr, the independent counsel who probed President Bill Clinton, said that the impeachment of President Donald Trump is an attempt to ...

Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement Rises in Wake of More Gun Laws

By Breitbart News BUCKINGHAM, Va. (AP) — A standing-room only crowd of more than 400 packed the meeting room, filled the lobby and spilled into ...

Tim Scott: Trump’s Ukraine call not ‘perfect’ but also not impeachable

By Sam Dorman | Fox News Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said on Saturday that while President Trump’s call with Ukraine wasn’t “perfect,” it also wasn’t impeachable. “It was not in my opinion a ...

Former House Speaker: Democrats Have ‘No Leverage’ by Holding Impeachment Articles

By Jack Phillips Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said the temporary hold on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump is “foolish” ...

Trump Campaign Launches ‘Democrats for Trump’ Coalition, Aimed at Disaffected Democrats

By Isabel van Brugen President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign on Dec. 19 launched the “Democrats for Trump” coalition, on the same day Rep. Jeff Van ...

Trump Campaign Official: $10 Million Raised in 48 Hours After Impeachment Vote

By Jack Phillips The communications director for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign said it raised $10 million in 48 hours after the impeachment vote in ...

Trump Says White House Counsel Cipollone Will Likely Play Lead Role in Impeachment Trial

By Zachary Stieber White House counsel Pat Cipollone will likely play a leading role in the Senate impeachment trial, President Donald Trump said. The House voted ...

Markets Shrug Off Impeachment of President Trump: ‘It’s a Non-Event’

By Tom Ozimek Stock markets in Europe and the United States shrugged off the Dec. 18 vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach ...

Trump Accepts Pelosi’s Invitation to Deliver State of the Union Next Year

By Jack Phillips Two days after House Democrats voted to approve articles of impeachment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday invited President Donald Trump to ...

Ken Starr: House Dems have committed a ‘fraud on the high court of impeachment’

By Julia Musto | Fox News House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment inquiry was “a fraud on the high court of impeachment,” former Whitewater Independent Counsel Ken Starr said Friday. Appearing on “The Ingraham Angle” with host ...