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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

Trump calls for swift justice in shooting of ambushed deputies as manhunt intensifies in LA

By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News Authorities have offered a $100,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. President Trump argued on Sunday for tougher criminal sentencing guidelines ...

Republicans demand answers on Mueller team wiping phones, suggest ‘anticipatory obstruction of justice’

By Brooke Singman | Fox News Congressional Republicans call the purported accidental ‘wiping’ an ‘amazing coincidence’. Congressional Republicans demanded answers on Friday as to whether there “was a ...

Libertarians pick first female presidential nominee

By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News Newly minted Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen is touting that she’s the “freedom” candidate. “The choice isn’t one or the other but the ...

CBS reporter tweets about Biden not ‘outworking’ Trump

By Morgan Phillips | Fox News CBS reporter Kathryn Watson questioned why Joe Biden wasn’t campaigning more after news broke that the former vice president was not expected to ...

Data shows that half of 2019 donations to ActBlue came from untraceable ‘unemployed’ donors

By Hollie McKay | Fox News A Take Back Action Fund analysis of $400M in donations to liberal causes raises red flags of possible foreign involvement. Less than ...

Never Forget – We Remember

By NH POLITICIAN The September 11 attacks (often referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, ...

Texas police group warns drivers to ‘enter at your own risk’ after Austin cuts police funding

By Morgan Phillips | Fox News ‘Limited support next 20 miles,’ one sign reads. A Texas police group has put up billboards on Austin city limits warning drivers that the city had ...

Left-wing dark money groups to ‘carpet-bomb’ 2020 election, report warns

By Adam Shaw | Fox News Report says network’s revenues eclipse those of conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation. A network of left-wing groups with budgets eclipsing ...

Biden spokesman refuses to discuss whether former VP used teleprompter to answer questions

By Sam Dorman | Fox News ‘This is straight from the Trump campaign talking points,’ TJ Ducklo tells Bret Baier. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s national press secretary attempted to deflect a ...

Trump reacts to ‘great honor’ of Nobel Peace Prize nomination, calls it ‘great thing for our country’

By Yael Halon | Fox News ‘It shows that we’re trying to make peace, not war all the time,’ Trump tells ‘Fox News Rundown’ President Trump welcomed his nomination for ...

Trump speech at Michigan rally interrupted by ‘We love you’ chant

By Edmund DeMarche | Fox News A crowd had a similar chant recently in North Carolina. President Trump’s speech during a rally on Thursday in Freeland, Mich., was briefly interrupted ...

Critics blast CNN’s Jake Tapper for ‘lying’ after claim about GOP candidate Sean Parnell

By Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Brian Flood | Fox News Ric Grenell published Tapper’s denial that was made in a direct message on Twitter. CNN anchor Jake Tapper is facing criticism for ...