westernjournal--2020-10-15--Gov. Cuomo Claims He Never Ordered Nursing Homes To Accept COVID Patients in Baldfaced Lie

The late epigrammatical Anglo-American pundit Christopher Hitchens once observed that “ perhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
” “ Of course we don ’ t keep political dissidents in secret prisons , ” dictators will say .
“ Not that there ’ s anything wrong with keeping them in prison if they ’ re agitating to disturb the peace , and if we did have secret prisons those dissidents surely be there for good reason.
” Translation : Sure , we have political dissidents in secret prisons .
But shh .
Perhaps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York Gov .
Andrew Cuomo isn ’ t a despot .
Or maybe he just doesn ’ t have the practice .
Whatever the case , Cuomo has decided to reverse things and make the justification the preface to the denial .
On Wednesday , the Democratic governor appeared on MSNBC to promote his new book “ American Crisis : Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
” One is again reminded of another quote ( often misattributed to Winston Churchill ) : “ History will be kind to me , for I intend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with which “ American Crisis ” has appeared , one assumes Cuomo has scarcely read the book , much less written it , but the same principle holds : Cuomo and his ghostwriters are individuals who are rather indulgent toward Cuomo .
Even at MSNBC , they can ’ t be quite as accommodating toward the governor — which is why , not unfairly , they asked him about his administration ’ s order to send COVID-positive seniors back into the state ’ s nursing homes .
Cuomo ’ s answer : No @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never a directive that said : ‘ We will send COVID-positive people back to nursing homes , ' ” Cuomo said .
“ The directive , which was modeled on the federal directive , said that you can not discriminate ” against someone who had COVID-19 , he told MSNBC ’ s Willie Geist on “ Morning Joe.
” According to the New York Post , he was more assertive during an interview with CNN .
“ There was never a directive in New York state that said nursing homes must accept COVID-positive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” Cuomo said .
“ We did follow a federal rule that said you can ’ t discriminate against people who have COVID , not in a hospital , not in a nursing home.
” In this case , Cuomo is trying to get history to be kind to him by unwriting it .
A March 25 order from the New York state Department of Health — with Cuomo ’ s name first on the letterhead — made it clear that COVID-positive patients needed to be returned to nursing homes posthaste .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Health stated that “ all [ nursing homes ] must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs .
Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.
” “ No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19 .
NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Cuomo : If the Orthodox Community Ca n't Live with the Rules , I 'm Closing the Synagogues That order was scrubbed from the Department of Health ’ s website as of late May , according to The Daily Caller .
And again , we ’ d already heard the justification from Cuomo when he was asked about the policy during a news conference earlier in May .
The governor said that “ if you look at the facts , which is always fun , you can test your hypothesis on what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many residents we have in nursing homes , look at the percentage of our deaths in our nursing homes vis-a-vis other states , we ’ re down by like number 34 , ” according to the Washington Examiner .
“ So , whatever we ’ re doing has worked on the facts.
” “ Second , at one time , hospital beds were precious .
When we started this , remember , the whole question was will you have enough hospital beds ?
We were in a scramble to provide more hospital beds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last thing you would be doing would be gratuitously saying we ’ re going to keep a person in a hospital bed who doesn ’ t need a hospital bed who could be at another facility .
You would never do that .
It would be reckless .
It would be negligent.
” Looking at the facts may not , indeed , always be fun , particularly when you consider the facts involve COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes in New York state .
If you find this an agreeable and stimulating way to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ’ s still not going to be possible .
In August , The Associated Press reported that “ New York ’ s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes , already among the highest in the nation , could actually be a significant undercount .
Unlike every other state with major outbreaks , New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there.
” Cuomo felt no urgency to get to the bottom of this , however , and he certainly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ independent inquiry into the number .
“ I wouldn ’ t do an investigation [ into nursing home deaths ] whether or not it ’ s political , ” Cuomo said at an August media briefing , according to National Review .
“ I think you ’ d have to be blind to realize it ’ s not political.
” For instance , that investigation might proceed from the perfectly reasonable starting point that New York state ’ s Department of Health order that “ nursing homes must accept COVID-positive patients ” actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-positive patients , ” and that this order didn ’ t spring from a federal law involving nondiscrimination against COVID-19 patients , given New York ’ s unique position among the 50 states .
A bunch of “ political propaganda , ” that rot .
Now if you ’ ll excuse the governor , he needs to work with his spin team on learning how to put the justification after — and not before — the denial .
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The late epigrammatical Anglo-American pundit Christopher Hitchens once observed that “perhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.”
“Of course we don’t keep political dissidents in secret prisons,” dictators will say. “Not that there’s anything wrong with keeping them in prison if they’re agitating to disturb the peace, and if we did have secret prisons those dissidents surely be there for good reason.” Translation: Sure, we have political dissidents in secret prisons. But shh.
Perhaps it’s the fact that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn’t a despot. Or maybe he just doesn’t have the practice. Whatever the case, Cuomo has decided to reverse things and make the justification the preface to the denial.
On Wednesday, the Democratic governor appeared on MSNBC to promote his new book “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” One is again reminded of another quote (often misattributed to Winston Churchill): “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” Given the rapidity with which “American Crisis” has appeared, one assumes Cuomo has scarcely read the book, much less written it, but the same principle holds: Cuomo and his ghostwriters are individuals who are rather indulgent toward Cuomo.
Even at MSNBC, they can’t be quite as accommodating toward the governor — which is why, not unfairly, they asked him about his administration’s order to send COVID-positive seniors back into the state’s nursing homes. Cuomo’s answer: No such order existed.
.@andrewcuomo: “There was never a directive that said: ‘We will send COVID positive people back to nursing homes.'” pic.twitter.com/LdYwwlYeF0 — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 14, 2020
“There was never a directive that said: ‘We will send COVID-positive people back to nursing homes,'” Cuomo said.
“The directive, which was modeled on the federal directive, said that you cannot discriminate” against someone who had COVID-19, he told MSNBC’s Willie Geist on “Morning Joe.”
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According to the New York Post, he was more assertive during an interview with CNN.
“There was never a directive in New York state that said nursing homes must accept COVID-positive patients. That’s political propaganda,” Cuomo said. “We did follow a federal rule that said you can’t discriminate against people who have COVID, not in a hospital, not in a nursing home.”
In this case, Cuomo is trying to get history to be kind to him by unwriting it. A March 25 order from the New York state Department of Health — with Cuomo’s name first on the letterhead — made it clear that COVID-positive patients needed to be returned to nursing homes posthaste.
In the order, the Department of Health stated that “all [nursing homes] must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.”
“No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”
That order was scrubbed from the Department of Health’s website as of late May, according to The Daily Caller.
And again, we’d already heard the justification from Cuomo when he was asked about the policy during a news conference earlier in May.
The governor said that “if you look at the facts, which is always fun, you can test your hypothesis on what’s flawed. Look at how many residents we have in nursing homes, look at the percentage of our deaths in our nursing homes vis-a-vis other states, we’re down by like number 34,” according to the Washington Examiner. “So, whatever we’re doing has worked on the facts.”
“Second, at one time, hospital beds were precious. When we started this, remember, the whole question was will you have enough hospital beds? We were in a scramble to provide more hospital beds,” he continued.
“The last thing you would be doing would be gratuitously saying we’re going to keep a person in a hospital bed who doesn’t need a hospital bed who could be at another facility. You would never do that. It would be reckless. It would be negligent.”
Looking at the facts may not, indeed, always be fun, particularly when you consider the facts involve COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes in New York state. If you find this an agreeable and stimulating way to while away the hours, however, that’s still not going to be possible.
In August, The Associated Press reported that “New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount. Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there.”
Cuomo felt no urgency to get to the bottom of this, however, and he certainly wasn’t going to allow an independent inquiry into the number.
“I wouldn’t do an investigation [into nursing home deaths] whether or not it’s political,” Cuomo said at an August media briefing, according to National Review.
“I think you’d have to be blind to realize it’s not political.”
For instance, that investigation might proceed from the perfectly reasonable starting point that New York state’s Department of Health order that “nursing homes must accept COVID-positive patients” actually meant that “nursing homes must accept COVID-positive patients,” and that this order didn’t spring from a federal law involving nondiscrimination against COVID-19 patients, given New York’s unique position among the 50 states.
A bunch of “political propaganda,” that rot. Now if you’ll excuse the governor, he needs to work with his spin team on learning how to put the justification after — and not before — the denial.
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westernjournal--2020-10-15--Company Accused of Funneling PPP Funds to Liberal Causes Exposed After These Records Surface

Invest in Education , the political campaign behind the massive Arizona tax proposal known as Proposition 208 , has come under fire .
It was recently revealed that one of Invest in Ed ’ s biggest funders , Stand for Children , Inc. , appears to be funneling millions in Paycheck Protection Program funds , meant for keeping employees on payroll , to the Invest in Ed political campaign .
Citing The Western Journal ’ s original report on the controversy , multiple outlets and groups , including the Arizona Daily Independent and the Arizona Free Enterprise Club , called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ed for abusing PPP funds in order to promote a massive tax hike that could harm small businesses in Arizona .
In response to the accusations , Stand for Children , Inc. , put out a statement on Oct. 1 claiming that Stand for Children Leadership Center , the 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) organization that received the PPP loan , is financially separate from Stand for Children , Inc. , the 501 ( c ) ( 4 ) organization providing funding for the Proposition 208 campaign .
The implication of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have different workers on payroll .
Contrary to these claims , the two separate affiliates appear to have the exact same workers on payroll ( or , at least , there is significant overlap ) which would mean that the PPP funds are in fact benefiting the organization that is , in turn , spending millions funding Invest in Education .
Multiple sources make it clear : There is overlap between the two organizations ’ payrolls .
First , when clicking on Stand for Children Leadership Center ’ s ( the 501 ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Ed ) “ staff ” link , the website redirects to the staff page of Stand for Children , Inc. ( the 501 ( c ) ( 4 ) that received the loans ) .
Additionally , a list of employees on the 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) ’ s historical tax filings for the period ending on Aug. 31 , 2018 , also appear on the archived pages of the 501 ( c ) ( 4 ) ’ s staff page , showing that the two affiliate organizations did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same employees at that time and likely continue to do so .
Stand for Children Leadership Center is not required to list every employee in its tax filings , so it is possible that there is even greater payroll overlap between the two organizations .
As an example of the overlap , Rebecca Gau , listed in 2018 as executive director on the Arizona staff of Stand for Children , Inc. , received at least $ 156,739 in compensation from Stand for Children Leadership Center that same year , according to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Children , Inc. , supported Invest in Education back in 2018 in an interview with The Arizona Republic and even filed a formal statement with the Arizona secretary of state at the time declaring the organization ’ s support for Invest in Education .
RELATED : GOP Congressional Candidate Takes Legal Action She Says May Be 'What Takes Down ' Twitter Even back in 2018 , it appears that the two companys have not been completely honest about their financial support for the Invest in Education campaign .
At the time , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Children , Inc. , had “ not contributed money to the campaign , ” but tax filings reveal that in 2017-2018 the organization had contributed a $ 323,000 grant to Invest in Education LLC with the purpose of the grant listed as “ ballot measure support.
” In addition to the fact that the two affiliate organizations have payroll overlap , there has also been a significant amount of money transferred between Stand for Children , Inc. , and Stand for Children Leadership Center .
During the tax period ending Aug. 31 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Center had contributed $ 830,000 to Stand for Children , Inc. , “ for direct and grass roots lobbying efforts to influence state and local legislation.
” The Western Journal reached out to Stand for Children , Inc. , for comment but did not immediately receive a response .
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Invest in Education, the political campaign behind the massive Arizona tax proposal known as Proposition 208, has come under fire.
It was recently revealed that one of Invest in Ed’s biggest funders, Stand for Children, Inc., appears to be funneling millions in Paycheck Protection Program funds, meant for keeping employees on payroll, to the Invest in Ed political campaign.
Citing The Western Journal’s original report on the controversy, multiple outlets and groups, including the Arizona Daily Independent and the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, called out Stand for Children and Invest in Ed for abusing PPP funds in order to promote a massive tax hike that could harm small businesses in Arizona.
This doesn’t seem how loans for small businesses were meant to be spent?? Small business loans being used to deliver an economic blow to small business. ? Is this what Congress intended? @RepAndyBiggsAZ @DebbieLesko @nfib_az ⬇⬇ https://t.co/yU6ve4clJc — No Prop 208 (@NoProp208AZ) October 1, 2020
In response to the accusations, Stand for Children, Inc., put out a statement on Oct. 1 claiming that Stand for Children Leadership Center, the 501(c)(3) organization that received the PPP loan, is financially separate from Stand for Children, Inc., the 501(c)(4) organization providing funding for the Proposition 208 campaign.
The implication of the statement is that the two organizations have different workers on payroll.
Contrary to these claims, the two separate affiliates appear to have the exact same workers on payroll (or, at least, there is significant overlap) which would mean that the PPP funds are in fact benefiting the organization that is, in turn, spending millions funding Invest in Education.
Multiple sources make it clear: There is overlap between the two organizations’ payrolls.
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First, when clicking on Stand for Children Leadership Center’s (the 501(c)(3) funding Invest in Ed) “staff” link, the website redirects to the staff page of Stand for Children, Inc. (the 501(c)(4) that received the loans).
Additionally, a list of employees on the 501(c)(3)’s historical tax filings for the period ending on Aug. 31, 2018, also appear on the archived pages of the 501(c)(4)’s staff page, showing that the two affiliate organizations did, in fact, share many of the same employees at that time and likely continue to do so.
Stand for Children Leadership Center is not required to list every employee in its tax filings, so it is possible that there is even greater payroll overlap between the two organizations.
As an example of the overlap, Rebecca Gau, listed in 2018 as executive director on the Arizona staff of Stand for Children, Inc., received at least $156,739 in compensation from Stand for Children Leadership Center that same year, according to the tax filings.
Gau announced that Stand for Children, Inc., supported Invest in Education back in 2018 in an interview with The Arizona Republic and even filed a formal statement with the Arizona secretary of state at the time declaring the organization’s support for Invest in Education.
Even back in 2018, it appears that the two companys have not been completely honest about their financial support for the Invest in Education campaign.
At the time, Gau told The Arizona Republic that Stand for Children, Inc., had “not contributed money to the campaign,” but tax filings reveal that in 2017-2018 the organization had contributed a $323,000 grant to Invest in Education LLC with the purpose of the grant listed as “ballot measure support.”
In addition to the fact that the two affiliate organizations have payroll overlap, there has also been a significant amount of money transferred between Stand for Children, Inc., and Stand for Children Leadership Center.
During the tax period ending Aug. 31, 2019, Stand for Children Leadership Center had contributed $830,000 to Stand for Children, Inc., “for direct and grass roots lobbying efforts to influence state and local legislation.”
The Western Journal reached out to Stand for Children, Inc., for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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westernjournal--2020-10-15--Obama Attacks Trump by Stretching the Truth About His Own Administration

Former President Barack Obama took a shot at his successor , President Donald Trump , on Wednesday while touting his own administration ’ s handling of the swine flu pandemic .
In an appearance on the Crooked Media “ Pod Save America ” podcast , Obama engaged in some revisionist history while discussing his and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ’ s handling of the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic .
Obama told the podcast ’ s host — his former speechwriter , Jon Favreau — that minority and young voters should avoid voting for the president ’ s re-election .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ favorably compared his administration ’ s handling of the H1N1 outbreak with Trump ’ s handling of the coronavirus pandemic .
“ Well , let ’ s take some examples just from this year .
We know that COVID-19 disproportionately affects minorities .
So those voters you just described , they ’ ve got a member of their family who may have been killed by COVID or disabled by COVID , ” he said , according to a transcript of the podcast .
The former president then blamed Trump for job losses that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state governments , which included prolonged shutdowns in some areas of the country .
“ One thing we know is that just basic competence can end up saving lives , ” Obama said .
“ And so , you know , one thing I would say to anybody who ’ s skeptical about what government can do generally is to just take the example of when we were in office.
” He added , “ You might not have been happy with everything I did , all my policy choices .
I didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But when we had a pandemic or the threat of pandemic , we had competent people in place who would deal with it .
“ And that ’ s an example of the kind of thing that government can do and we ’ ve seen it do .
And that , I think , is important.
” Of course , as Vice President Mike Pence pointed out during last week ’ s vice presidential debate with Biden ’ s running mate , Sen. Kamala Harris of California , the swine flu pandemic was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Americans were infected .
“ [ Biden ’ s ] own chief of staff Ron Klain would say last year that it was pure luck , that they did ‘ everything possible wrong.
’ And we learned from that , ” the vice president said .
Indeed , according to NBC News , Klain did say in May 2019 at a biosecurity summit , “ We did every possible thing wrong — 60 million Americans got H1N1.
” “ It is purely a fortuity that this isn ’ t one of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” he said .
“ It had nothing to do with us doing anything right .
It just had to do with luck.
” Of course , the novel coronavirus gripping the globe is much more severe than the H1N1 virus strain .
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ’ s data on the swine flu pandemic seems to side with Pence , Klain and other critics of the Obama administration ’ s handling of the public health crisis .
The CDC noted , “ From April 12 , 2009 to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there were 60.8 million cases ( range : 43.3-89.3 million ) , 274,304 hospitalizations ( range : 195,086-402,719 ) , and 12,469 deaths ( range : 8868-18,306 ) in the United States due to the ( H1N1 ) pdm09 virus.
” Despite a “ complex , multi-faceted and long-term ” response that lasted longer than a year , per the CDC , tens of millions of Americans were stricken ill , and the virus caused 12,469 deaths in the U.S. despite being mild in comparison with COVID-19 .
An estimated 7.9 million Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , according to Johns Hopkins University , which pales next to the nearly 61 million U.S. cases of H1N1 from 2009 to 2010 .
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Former President Barack Obama took a shot at his successor, President Donald Trump, on Wednesday while touting his own administration’s handling of the swine flu pandemic.
In an appearance on the Crooked Media “Pod Save America” podcast, Obama engaged in some revisionist history while discussing his and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s handling of the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic.
Obama told the podcast’s host — his former speechwriter, Jon Favreau — that minority and young voters should avoid voting for the president’s re-election.
In his appeal to these voters, Obama favorably compared his administration’s handling of the H1N1 outbreak with Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Well, let’s take some examples just from this year. We know that COVID-19 disproportionately affects minorities. So those voters you just described, they’ve got a member of their family who may have been killed by COVID or disabled by COVID,” he said, according to a transcript of the podcast.
The former president then blamed Trump for job losses that followed the pandemic response of local and state governments, which included prolonged shutdowns in some areas of the country.
“One thing we know is that just basic competence can end up saving lives,” Obama said. “And so, you know, one thing I would say to anybody who’s skeptical about what government can do generally is to just take the example of when we were in office.”
He added, “You might not have been happy with everything I did, all my policy choices. I didn’t eliminate poverty in America. But when we had a pandemic or the threat of pandemic, we had competent people in place who would deal with it.
“And that’s an example of the kind of thing that government can do and we’ve seen it do. And that, I think, is important.”
Of course, as Vice President Mike Pence pointed out during last week’s vice presidential debate with Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, the swine flu pandemic was arguably mishandled, as tens of millions of Americans were infected.
Vice President @Mike_Pence: We know what failure looks like and it’s how the Obama-Biden administration handled Swine Flu#VPDebate pic.twitter.com/CVzIGmXHsr — Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) October 8, 2020
Pence said, “Sixty million Americans contracted the swine flu.”
“[Biden’s] own chief of staff Ron Klain would say last year that it was pure luck, that they did ‘everything possible wrong.’ And we learned from that,” the vice president said.
Indeed, according to NBC News, Klain did say in May 2019 at a biosecurity summit, “We did every possible thing wrong — 60 million Americans got H1N1.”
“It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history,” he said. “It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It just had to do with luck.”
Of course, the novel coronavirus gripping the globe is much more severe than the H1N1 virus strain.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s data on the swine flu pandemic seems to side with Pence, Klain and other critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the public health crisis.
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The CDC noted, “From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.”
Despite a “complex, multi-faceted and long-term” response that lasted longer than a year, per the CDC, tens of millions of Americans were stricken ill, and the virus caused 12,469 deaths in the U.S. despite being mild in comparison with COVID-19.
An estimated 7.9 million Americans have contracted the coronavirus as of Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University, which pales next to the nearly 61 million U.S. cases of H1N1 from 2009 to 2010.
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westernjournal--2020-10-15--Checkmate: Twitter Will Have To Block a Government Website To Censor Hunter Biden Bombshell After Cr

Checkmate: Twitter Will Have To Block a Government Website To Censor Hunter Biden Bombshell After Creative Move by GOP

After Twitter blocked a bombshell New York Post story on Wednesday alleging to have files from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden , Republicans came up with a clever plan to get around the big tech giant ’ s censoring .
The House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Wednesday republished the New York Post story on their official government website .
If Twitter was going to keep playing this game , the company was going to have to block users from being able to see a government website , which certainly would not be a good look for the social media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ numerous occasions for disproportionately censoring conservative voices over liberal ones .
“ Twitter has blocked users from tweeting the link to the @ nypost ’ s story on Hunter Biden .
So we put it on our website for you to read and share .
Click , share , and RT !
” the House Judiciary GOP said from their official Twitter account .
Twitter did indeed temporarily block the link to the government website just as it had to the original New York Post story .
So the GOP pivoted .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we put the article on @ Jim_Jordan ’ s website .
Nice try , @ jack .
But , we won ’ t stop , ” the House Judiciary GOP tweeted .
Now , it appears Twitter is no longer blocking the original link .
The original story from the Post alleges to have information taken from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden , the son of Democratic Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden , that was abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware .
The hard drive allegedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emails supposedly showing him peddling political access to foreign entities using his father ’ s status as vice president , according to the Post .
RELATED : Jack Posobiec Locked Out of Twitter for Posting Hunter Biden Photo There is a clear public interest in sharing the details of the story .
However , it should be noted that Twitter does have a policy against sharing any private information , such as email addresses , publicly .
That being said , Twitter has done an awful job communicating its reason for doing so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the true damage had been done , that it will censor the New York Post article on its platform because “ the images contained in the articles include personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules.
” Technically , Twitter is in fact , abiding by its privacy policy .
But it ’ s awfully convenient that the platform has decided to lean so heavily on this policy right as a bombshell story critical of the Bidens is published .
Twitter may , in fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but it ’ s not a stretch to say that the platform is doing so for the wrong reason — because it favors Biden over Trump .
And Twitter is allowing this policy to get in the way of a significant public interest in learning the truth about a story that could very well affect who ends up leading the free world .
Twitter has also cited its policy against the “ distribution of hacked material ” in the censorship of the story .
There ’ s just one problem with that — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Post ’ s story that proves the emails had been hacked .
Twitter ’ s inability to truly explain their reasoning for blocking the story on the platform speaks to the general sense of elitism the company has : they decide which information the public gets to know and if you have a problem with that , too bad .
Twitter knows what ’ s best for you whether you like it or not .
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After Twitter blocked a bombshell New York Post story on Wednesday alleging to have files from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, Republicans came up with a clever plan to get around the big tech giant’s censoring.
The House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Wednesday republished the New York Post story on their official government website.
If Twitter was going to keep playing this game, the company was going to have to block users from being able to see a government website, which certainly would not be a good look for the social media company that has come under fire on numerous occasions for disproportionately censoring conservative voices over liberal ones.
This is election interference. Period. https://t.co/eenLFO5n67 — House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) October 15, 2020
Twitter has blocked users from tweeting the link to the @nypost‘s story on Hunter Biden. So we put it on our website for you to read and share. Click, share, and RT! https://t.co/tZwybnoW0e — House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) October 14, 2020
“Twitter has blocked users from tweeting the link to the @nypost’s story on Hunter Biden. So we put it on our website for you to read and share. Click, share, and RT!” the House Judiciary GOP said from their official Twitter account.
Twitter did indeed temporarily block the link to the government website just as it had to the original New York Post story. So the GOP pivoted.
“Twitter censored our last link! So, we put the article on @Jim_Jordan’s website. Nice try, @jack. But, we won’t stop,” the House Judiciary GOP tweeted.
Twitter censored our last link! So, we put the article on @Jim_Jordan‘s website. Nice try, @jack. But, we won’t stop. Click, share, and RT!https://t.co/DwJTdvqbUB — House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) October 15, 2020
Now, it appears Twitter is no longer blocking the original link.
The original story from the Post alleges to have information taken from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, that was abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware.
The hard drive allegedly contains graphic pictures of Hunter Biden and emails supposedly showing him peddling political access to foreign entities using his father’s status as vice president, according to the Post.
There is a clear public interest in sharing the details of the story.
However, it should be noted that Twitter does have a policy against sharing any private information, such as email addresses, publicly.
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That being said, Twitter has done an awful job communicating its reason for doing so.
Twitter claimed Wednesday, long after the true damage had been done, that it will censor the New York Post article on its platform because “the images contained in the articles include personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules.”
Technically, Twitter is in fact, abiding by its privacy policy. But it’s awfully convenient that the platform has decided to lean so heavily on this policy right as a bombshell story critical of the Bidens is published.
Twitter may, in fact, be abiding by its policy, but it’s not a stretch to say that the platform is doing so for the wrong reason — because it favors Biden over Trump. And Twitter is allowing this policy to get in the way of a significant public interest in learning the truth about a story that could very well affect who ends up leading the free world.
Twitter has also cited its policy against the “distribution of hacked material” in the censorship of the story.
There’s just one problem with that — there’s no evidence in the Post’s story that proves the emails had been hacked.
Twitter’s inability to truly explain their reasoning for blocking the story on the platform speaks to the general sense of elitism the company has: they decide which information the public gets to know and if you have a problem with that, too bad.
Twitter knows what’s best for you whether you like it or not.
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westernjournal--2020-10-15--Dem Mayor Rails Against Trump, Christian ‘Zealots’ in Vulgar Facebook Tantrum

A New Jersey mayor hurled expletives at President Donald Trump ’ s supporters and said those who voted for Trump want to “ enact the Christian version of Sharia Law ” in a private Facebook post .
The New Jersey Republican Party shared the text of the now-deleted post by Flemington Mayor Betsy Driver on the organization ’ s website .
“ This is day one of the new SCOTUS term — the religious zealots want to enact the Christian version of Sharia law , ” Driver reportedly wrote .
“ If you voted for the orange monster with COVID @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plan on voting for him again , unfriend me and go f— yourself again.
” The state GOP called for an apology from Driver .
“ President Trump earned nearly 43 % of the vote amongst Mayor Driver ’ s constituents , ” Doug Steinhardt , chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee , wrote .
“ I think we all know she will never step down , but is it too much to ask for her to apologize ?
Her comments are bigoted and hateful.
” A local resident asked Driver @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Tuesday City Council meeting , WKXW reported .
She added that voters have the choice to “ not vote for me next time I ’ m up for election .
That is your recourse.
” City Council vice president Kim Tilly called for the local government body to censure Driver .
“ It ’ s time the council take action to hopefully prevent Mayor Driver from bringing the wrong kind of attention to an already struggling borough .
I am requesting the council censure Mayor Driver , ” Tilly said .
Driver @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jersey GOP unfairly cropped her Facebook post and that Republicans are “ triggered and clutching their peals.
” RELATED : Amy Coney Barrett Tells Dem Senator : ' I Hope You Are n't Suggesting That I Do n't Have My Own Mind' “ That they are that triggered and clutching their pearls over my being upset and angry at the threats to my LGBTQ family by a Supreme Court enabled by their support of a president who is hate-filled and unhinged every day is sad , ” Driver wrote .
“ It reflects @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s diversity and their own intolerance of anyone who disagrees with them.
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A New Jersey mayor hurled expletives at President Donald Trump’s supporters and said those who voted for Trump want to “enact the Christian version of Sharia Law” in a private Facebook post.
The New Jersey Republican Party shared the text of the now-deleted post by Flemington Mayor Betsy Driver on the organization’s website.
“This is day one of the new SCOTUS term — the religious zealots want to enact the Christian version of Sharia law,” Driver reportedly wrote.
“If you voted for the orange monster with COVID, go f— yourself. If you plan on voting for him again, unfriend me and go f— yourself again.”
The state GOP called for an apology from Driver.
“President Trump earned nearly 43% of the vote amongst Mayor Driver’s constituents,” Doug Steinhardt, chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee, wrote.
“I think we all know she will never step down, but is it too much to ask for her to apologize? Her comments are bigoted and hateful.”
A local resident asked Driver if she was planning to resign during a Tuesday City Council meeting, WKXW reported.
“I am not,” Driver responded.
She added that voters have the choice to “not vote for me next time I’m up for election. That is your recourse.”
City Council vice president Kim Tilly called for the local government body to censure Driver.
“It’s time the council take action to hopefully prevent Mayor Driver from bringing the wrong kind of attention to an already struggling borough. I am requesting the council censure Mayor Driver,” Tilly said.
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Driver said in a statement that the New Jersey GOP unfairly cropped her Facebook post and that Republicans are “triggered and clutching their peals.”
“That they are that triggered and clutching their pearls over my being upset and angry at the threats to my LGBTQ family by a Supreme Court enabled by their support of a president who is hate-filled and unhinged every day is sad,” Driver wrote.
“It reflects their privilege that refuses to acknowledge America’s diversity and their own intolerance of anyone who disagrees with them.”
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westernjournal--2020-10-15--Computer Repair Shop Owner Speaks Out About What the Infamous Laptop Really Contained

A Delaware computer repair shop owner described in an interview what he found on a laptop that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden last year and how he felt when he discovered its “ disturbing ” contents .
The New York Post on Wednesday published a stunning report detailing the first of many files to be released after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani obtained them from the computer .
According to the Post , the computer contained thousands of emails between Hunter Biden and overseas business associates , as well as other files and images that showed drug use and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the documents purported to show a connection between Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son ’ s business dealings with regard to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings while the elder Biden was vice president .
Biden has denied knowledge of those dealings on more than one occasion .
But lost in the shuffle of shock and awe Wednesday was the man behind the release of the files .
John Paul Mac Isaac , who owns The Mac Shop in Wilmington , Delaware , told Fox News he can ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who dropped off the computer last April , as he has a visual impairment , but he is certain the computer did belong to the former vice president ’ s son .
He also spoke about what was on the computer ’ s hard drive and how he felt when he discovered it .
Isaac said he obtained ownership of the computer after the person who dropped it off , presumably Hunter Biden , failed to return for the hardware within 90 days to pay for work done on it .
The laptop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but the other two were in a state that prevented them from being salvaged , Isaac said .
The Delaware man said the computer he was able to access had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it ; the foundation is named after the former vice president ’ s late son , Beau .
Issac said he contacted the FBI about the computer and its contents through a third party in September 2019 and was hesitant in the interview to discuss the issue openly .
“ I just don ’ t know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ m allowed to say , ” Isaac told Fox News .
“ I know that I saw , I saw stuff .
And I was concerned .
I was concerned that somebody might want to come looking for this stuff eventually and I wanted it out of my shop.
” Issac also referred those the “ stuff ” on the computer as “ disturbing.
” He said the bureau sent someone to make a forensic copy of the hard drive and later confiscated it with a subpoena .
Isaac said the FBI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to try , in vain , to contact several members of Congress .
Eventually , he contacted Robert Costello , who is the attorney for Giuliani .
The computer shop owner , an apparent supporter of President Donald Trump , denied he is involved in any attempt to set up the Democratic nominee ’ s son , and he also ruled out any possibility that the computer did not belong to Hunter Biden .
Issac said he pored over the computer its contents by doing a keyword search in the summer of 2019 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that has no journalistic ability , no detective ability or investigative ability and I was able to find stuff in a short period of time , somebody else should have been able to find something to show , ” he told Fox News .
Issac apparently made his own copy of the hard drive , which is the source for the Post ’ s reporting .
He told Fox News that given the country ’ s political landscape , he found the computer ’ s contents to be of public interest , specifically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Trump .
Isaac said he did not want to be in the spotlight .
“ I wanted — above all , I wanted safety and security , ” he said .
“ I wanted anonymity .
I wanted just to be [ able ] to wash my hands of it , and like it never happened .
And that did not happen.
” An attorney for Hunter Biden has blamed the scandal on “ Russian intelligence ” actors and claimed the information published by the Post is part of a series of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Giuliani .
In one of the emails related Wednesday from the computer , Burisma board adviser Vadym Pozharskyi appeared to thank Hunter Biden for arranging a meeting with Joe Biden , who was vice president at the time .
Biden ’ s campaign issued what appeared to be a carefully worded statement Wednesday denying the alleged 2015 meeting between him and Pozharskyi .
In addition to denying any wrongdoing by Biden , his camping added , “ Moreover , we have reviewed Joe Biden ’ s official schedules from the time and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York Post , ever took place.
” The campaign ’ s decision to use the official schedule and the words , “ as alleged by the New York Post , ” led to speculation that the campaign was not being forthcoming .
Politico reported Wednesday , “ Biden ’ s campaign would not rule out the possibility that the former VP had some kind of informal interaction with Pozharskyi , which wouldn ’ t appear on Biden ’ s official schedule .
But they said any encounter would have been cursory.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s reporting as of Thursday .
Any attempt to read the report sent users to a page that said : “ Warning : this link may be unsafe.
” The site early Thursday morning censored a tweet from the Republican House Judiciary Committee , which linked to a government website containing the Hunter Biden report from the Post .
Twitter immediately ramped up censoring the Post article Wednesday after a Facebook executive said his company would work to “ reduce its distribution.
” Andy Stone , the policy communications manager at Facebook , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to “ reduce the spread of misinformation.
” Stone notes in his Twitter bio that he is a former Democrat operative who worked for former Sen. Barbara Boxer of California as well as current Democrat California Rep. Jerry McNerney of California .
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A Delaware computer repair shop owner described in an interview what he found on a laptop that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden last year and how he felt when he discovered its “disturbing” contents.
The New York Post on Wednesday published a stunning report detailing the first of many files to be released after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani obtained them from the computer.
According to the Post, the computer contained thousands of emails between Hunter Biden and overseas business associates, as well as other files and images that showed drug use and sexual activity.
The bombshell Wednesday was that the documents purported to show a connection between Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son’s business dealings with regard to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings while the elder Biden was vice president.
Biden has denied knowledge of those dealings on more than one occasion.
But lost in the shuffle of shock and awe Wednesday was the man behind the release of the files.
John Paul Mac Isaac, who owns The Mac Shop in Wilmington, Delaware, told Fox News he can’t be certain that it was Hunter Biden who dropped off the computer last April, as he has a visual impairment, but he is certain the computer did belong to the former vice president’s son.
He also spoke about what was on the computer’s hard drive and how he felt when he discovered it.
Isaac said he obtained ownership of the computer after the person who dropped it off, presumably Hunter Biden, failed to return for the hardware within 90 days to pay for work done on it.
The laptop in question was one of three computers, but the other two were in a state that prevented them from being salvaged, Isaac said.
The Delaware man said the computer he was able to access had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it; the foundation is named after the former vice president’s late son, Beau.
Issac said he contacted the FBI about the computer and its contents through a third party in September 2019 and was hesitant in the interview to discuss the issue openly.
“I just don’t know what to say, or what I’m allowed to say,” Isaac told Fox News.
“I know that I saw, I saw stuff. And I was concerned. I was concerned that somebody might want to come looking for this stuff eventually and I wanted it out of my shop.”
Outside The Mac Shop, the store at the center of the Hunter Biden email/influence peddling scandal, customers have put up a sign in support of the shop’s owner. pic.twitter.com/fQtZvHYXRJ — Pete D’Abrosca (@pdabrosca) October 15, 2020
Issac also referred those the “stuff” on the computer as “disturbing.”
He said the bureau sent someone to make a forensic copy of the hard drive and later confiscated it with a subpoena.
Isaac said the FBI stopped contacting him, which led him to try, in vain, to contact several members of Congress. Eventually, he contacted Robert Costello, who is the attorney for Giuliani.
The computer shop owner, an apparent supporter of President Donald Trump, denied he is involved in any attempt to set up the Democratic nominee’s son, and he also ruled out any possibility that the computer did not belong to Hunter Biden.
Issac said he pored over the computer’s contents by doing a keyword search in the summer of 2019.
“If I’m somebody that has no journalistic ability, no detective ability or investigative ability and I was able to find stuff in a short period of time, somebody else should have been able to find something to show,” he told Fox News.
Issac apparently made his own copy of the hard drive, which is the source for the Post’s reporting.
He told Fox News that given the country’s political landscape, he found the computer’s contents to be of public interest, specifically citing the House’s partisan impeachment of Trump.
Isaac said he did not want to be in the spotlight.
“I wanted — above all, I wanted safety and security,” he said. “I wanted anonymity. I wanted just to be [able] to wash my hands of it, and like it never happened. And that did not happen.”
An attorney for Hunter Biden has blamed the scandal on “Russian intelligence” actors and claimed the information published by the Post is part of a series of “discredited conspiracy theories” being pushed by Giuliani.
In one of the emails related Wednesday from the computer, Burisma board adviser Vadym Pozharskyi appeared to thank Hunter Biden for arranging a meeting with Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time.
Biden’s campaign issued what appeared to be a carefully worded statement Wednesday denying the alleged 2015 meeting between him and Pozharskyi.
In addition to denying any wrongdoing by Biden, his camping added, “Moreover, we have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.”
The campaign’s decision to use the official schedule and the words, “as alleged by the New York Post,” led to speculation that the campaign was not being forthcoming.
Politico reported Wednesday, “Biden’s campaign would not rule out the possibility that the former VP had some kind of informal interaction with Pozharskyi, which wouldn’t appear on Biden’s official schedule. But they said any encounter would have been cursory.”
Twitter continued to suppress the Post’s reporting as of Thursday.
Any attempt to read the report sent users to a page that said: “Warning: this link may be unsafe.”
The site early Thursday morning censored a tweet from the Republican House Judiciary Committee, which linked to a government website containing the Hunter Biden report from the Post.
Twitter is now censoring the government webpage for the Republican House Judiciary Committee. pic.twitter.com/eN70C0uPju — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 15, 2020
Twitter immediately ramped up censoring the Post article Wednesday after a Facebook executive said his company would work to “reduce its distribution.”
Andy Stone, the policy communications manager at Facebook, also tweeted the suppression of news was to “reduce the spread of misinformation.”
This is part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation. We temporarily reduce distribution pending fact-checker review. https://t.co/vf3CBvLmjj — Andy Stone (@andymstone) October 14, 2020
Stone notes in his Twitter bio that he is a former Democrat operative who worked for former Sen. Barbara Boxer of California as well as current Democrat California Rep. Jerry McNerney of California.
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westernjournal--2020-10-15--Sen. Hirono’s Idiotic Questions Explain Exactly Why the Left Freaks Out Over the Supreme Court

Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii has sure distinguished herself during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett .
The Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee perhaps first became a nationally known figure when she told America ’ s men to “ shut up ” and listen to the accusers of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings in 2018 .
Now , with her questioning during the Barrett confirmation process , Hirono appears to be trying to make a name for herself again .
Fulfilling a pledge she made in January of 2018 to ask all court nominees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assault or harassment — and perhaps wanting to relive the “ glory ” days of the Kavanaugh smears — Hirono asked the bizarre question of Barrett Tuesday : “ Since you became a legal adult , have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature ?
” The former Notre Dame Law School professor stated she had not .
Hirono then launched into a series of questions that explains why the left gets so freaked out about originalist/textualist judges like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Because they actually follow the law .
“ Do you think it is appropriate for justices to consider real-world impacts in their decision making as Justice [ Ruth Bader ] Ginsburg noted in a number of her dissents ?
” the senator asked .
Barrett pointed to the doctrine of stare decisis ( a Latin phrase meaning “ to stand by things decided ” ) as an example when judges do consider the real-world impact of their rulings .
The doctrine calls for decisions in a case to be consistent with previous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rely on them .
The presumption is to uphold previous rulings in the case at hand , unless the court determines the precedent was in error .
Hirono cited the Affordable Care Act as an example of a law that should be upheld due to the impact striking it down would have on the public .
RELATED : Dems Redefine 'Preference ' To Attack ACB ; Merriam-Webster Meekly Follows Their Lead The lawmaker referenced stories that she and her Democratic colleagues on the committee told about Americans who would be negatively affected if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Judge Barrett , are you saying that all the stories that we brought forth yesterday and the millions of people who are relying on the Affordable Care Act can rely upon you that those impacts would be considered by you .
That you would consider those to be legal arguments that you would consider ?
” she asked ( about the 2:40 mark in the video above ) .
“ When you say you ’ re going to make a decision based on the law , the real-life stories that we ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those to be part of the law ?
” Hirono followed up .
What strange questions .
Personal stories are not legal arguments — either for or against whether the law is constitutional .
“ What I ’ m trying to align myself with is the law and that I will take into account all factors , including real-world impacts when the law makes them relevant as it clearly does , for example , in the doctrine of stare decisis , ” she said .
Hirono dismissed the notion that judges should not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , instead of focusing solely on the legal questions at hand .
She called that a “ fiction ” ( about the 8:50 mark in the video ) .
“ I know that there is some discussion about some distinction that you make about policy versus the law and I find that distinction to be a fiction , because every law , or most laws we pass , are supposed to have real-world impacts .
Otherwise , why should we pass the law ?
” Hirono asked .
Believe it or not , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good intentions and are helpful to people , but may not be constitutional .
The Supreme Court is not there to grant authority to the federal government it does not have .
That ’ s why the Founders created an amendment process , so the people could decide .
The court is there to uphold the rule of law .
It appears the Amy Coney Barrett understands that , but Sen. Hirono does not .
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Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii has sure distinguished herself during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett.
The Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee perhaps first became a nationally known figure when she told America’s men to “shut up” and listen to the accusers of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings in 2018.
Now, with her questioning during the Barrett confirmation process, Hirono appears to be trying to make a name for herself again.
Fulfilling a pledge she made in January of 2018 to ask all court nominees if they have a history of sexual assault or harassment — and perhaps wanting to relive the “glory” days of the Kavanaugh smears — Hirono asked the bizarre question of Barrett Tuesday:
“Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?”
Sen. Mazie Hirono asks ACB “since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?” pic.twitter.com/6JgLkoIXIF — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 13, 2020
The former Notre Dame Law School professor stated she had not.
Hirono then launched into a series of questions that explains why the left gets so freaked out about originalist/textualist judges like Barrett and the late Justice Antonin Scalia: Because they actually follow the law.
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“Do you think it is appropriate for justices to consider real-world impacts in their decision making as Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg noted in a number of her dissents?” the senator asked.
Barrett pointed to the doctrine of stare decisis (a Latin phrase meaning “to stand by things decided”) as an example when judges do consider the real-world impact of their rulings.
The doctrine calls for decisions in a case to be consistent with previous like ones, so the public can rely on them.
The presumption is to uphold previous rulings in the case at hand, unless the court determines the precedent was in error.
Hirono cited the Affordable Care Act as an example of a law that should be upheld due to the impact striking it down would have on the public.
The lawmaker referenced stories that she and her Democratic colleagues on the committee told about Americans who would be negatively affected if the law were struck down.
“Judge Barrett, are you saying that all the stories that we brought forth yesterday and the millions of people who are relying on the Affordable Care Act can rely upon you that those impacts would be considered by you. That you would consider those to be legal arguments that you would consider?” she asked (about the 2:40 mark in the video above).
“When you say you’re going to make a decision based on the law, the real-life stories that we’ve been talking about, you would consider those to be part of the law?” Hirono followed up.
What strange questions. Personal stories are not legal arguments — either for or against whether the law is constitutional.
Barrett didn’t take the bait.
“What I’m trying to align myself with is the law and that I will take into account all factors, including real-world impacts when the law makes them relevant as it clearly does, for example, in the doctrine of stare decisis,” she said.
Hirono dismissed the notion that judges should not weigh the policy implications of their decisions, instead of focusing solely on the legal questions at hand.
She called that a “fiction” (about the 8:50 mark in the video).
“I know that there is some discussion about some distinction that you make about policy versus the law and I find that distinction to be a fiction, because every law, or most laws we pass, are supposed to have real-world impacts. Otherwise, why should we pass the law?” Hirono asked.
Believe it or not, there are many laws that may have good intentions and are helpful to people, but may not be constitutional.
The Supreme Court is not there to grant authority to the federal government it does not have.
That’s why the Founders created an amendment process, so the people could decide.
The court is there to uphold the rule of law.
It appears the Amy Coney Barrett understands that, but Sen. Hirono does not.
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westernjournal--2020-10-15--New Round of Hunter Biden Emails Show Him Scoring Deal with Chinese Company for Unnamed ‘Big Guy’

Newly discovered emails apparently show that Hunter Biden was trying to make deals in China that would be “ interesting for me and my family ” and included a reference to an unnamed “ big guy.
” The emails were published Thursday by the New York Post , which on Wednesday had published emails it described as being from the hard drive of a discarded computer .
The emails indicated that Hunter Biden introduced his father to a top executive of a Ukrainian energy firm in 2015 , when Joe Biden was vice president in the Obama administration .
Big @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when both social media companies banned or limited users from spreading the news .
The China emails come from 2017 , according to the report , and appear to reference deals Hunter Biden was trying to make with CEFC China Energy Co .
The emails estimate Hunter Biden would be paid “ 850.
” and that equity shares in a new company he was trying to start would be split with “ 10 held by H for the big guy.
” The email chain did not reveal the identity of “ the big @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had no awareness of his son ’ s international business dealings in either Ukraine or China .
The emails reported Thursday include a series of communications from Aug. 2 , 2017 , with Ye Jianming , who was the chairman of CEFC but vanished in 2018 .
The company went bankrupt earlier this year .
The email shows Biden wrote that the terms of a deal had been improved from one that would pay Hunter Biden $ 10 million annually “ for introductions alone.
” “ Consulting fees is one piece of our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the chairman was so much more interesting to me and my family is that we would also be partners inn [ sic ] the equity and profits of the JV ’ s [ joint venture ’ s ] investments , ” the email stated .
A photo dated Aug. 1 , 2017 , shows a handwritten flowchart of the ownership of “ Hudson West ” split 50/50 between two entities ultimately controlled by Hunter Biden and someone identified as “ Chairman.
” The email from Biden was later sent to financier Gongwen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ September by the Senate Homeland Security and Finance committees painted an overview of Hunter Biden ’ s activities in China .
Besides Hunter Biden , the report names Joe Biden ’ s brother , James , and James ’ wife , Sara , as benefiting from their family name .
“ Hunter Biden ’ s connections and financial associations appear to have accelerated significantly after he associated himself with Ye Jianming , who had deep connections with the Communist regime and PLA .
However , that didn ’ t seem to have any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ millions from the relationship .
Indeed , Hunter Biden and his family , to include James and Sara Biden , associated with other Chinese nationals such as Gongwen Dong .
In one case , the three of them went on a $ 100,000 global spending spree after Gongwen Dong and Hunter Biden opened a joint account .
In addition , Hunter Biden received millions of dollars over a period of years from Gongwen Dong ’ s companies .
According to records acquired by the Committees , many of these transactions involved potential criminal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
RELATED : It 's Not Just America : Unfavorable Views of China Skyrocket All Over the World The new information , coupled with what was already known , caused a sensation on Twitter .
The Senate committees ’ report said Hunter Biden , who was involved in business dealings with China as early as the first year of the Obama administration , was involved in the 2015 acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm .
The report called that a potential conflict of interest because of his father ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the deal .
The report also noted that Hunter Biden ’ s business ventures in China included 2013 meetings with a Chinese banker after flying to China aboard Air Force Two .
“ Hunter Biden has extensive connections to Chinese businesses and Chinese foreign nationals that are linked to the Communist government .
Those contacts bore financial fruit when his father was vice president and after he left office , ” the report said .
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Newly discovered emails apparently show that Hunter Biden was trying to make deals in China that would be “interesting for me and my family” and included a reference to an unnamed “big guy.”
The emails were published Thursday by the New York Post, which on Wednesday had published emails it described as being from the hard drive of a discarded computer. The emails indicated that Hunter Biden introduced his father to a top executive of a Ukrainian energy firm in 2015, when Joe Biden was vice president in the Obama administration.
Big Tech giants Twitter and Facebook outraged conservatives when both social media companies banned or limited users from spreading the news.
The China emails come from 2017, according to the report, and appear to reference deals Hunter Biden was trying to make with CEFC China Energy Co.
The emails estimate Hunter Biden would be paid “850.” and that equity shares in a new company he was trying to start would be split with “10 held by H for the big guy.”
The email chain did not reveal the identity of “the big guy.”
Joe Biden has said he had no awareness of his son’s international business dealings in either Ukraine or China.
The emails reported Thursday include a series of communications from Aug. 2, 2017, with Ye Jianming, who was the chairman of CEFC but vanished in 2018. The company went bankrupt earlier this year.
The email shows Biden wrote that the terms of a deal had been improved from one that would pay Hunter Biden $10 million annually “for introductions alone.”
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“Consulting fees is one piece of our income stream but the reason this proposal by the chairman was so much more interesting to me and my family is that we would also be partners inn [sic] the equity and profits of the JV’s [joint venture’s] investments,” the email stated.
A photo dated Aug. 1, 2017, shows a handwritten flowchart of the ownership of “Hudson West” split 50/50 between two entities ultimately controlled by Hunter Biden and someone identified as “Chairman.”
The email from Biden was later sent to financier Gongwen Dong.
An interim report released in September by the Senate Homeland Security and Finance committees painted an overview of Hunter Biden’s activities in China. Besides Hunter Biden, the report names Joe Biden’s brother, James, and James’ wife, Sara, as benefiting from their family name.
“Hunter Biden’s connections and financial associations appear to have accelerated significantly after he associated himself with Ye Jianming, who had deep connections with the Communist regime and PLA. However, that didn’t seem to have any impact on Hunter Biden, who made millions from the relationship. Indeed, Hunter Biden and his family, to include James and Sara Biden, associated with other Chinese nationals such as Gongwen Dong. In one case, the three of them went on a $100,000 global spending spree after Gongwen Dong and Hunter Biden opened a joint account. In addition, Hunter Biden received millions of dollars over a period of years from Gongwen Dong’s companies. According to records acquired by the Committees, many of these transactions involved potential criminal financial activity,” the report stated.
The new information, coupled with what was already known, caused a sensation on Twitter.
This is why Joe Biden refuses to blame China for the China Virus — his family is on the payroll of the Chinese Communist Party. Emails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big on behalf of family with Chinese firm https://t.co/8ynNw4RgzF — Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) October 15, 2020
Hunter Biden flew to China on an official visit with Joe Biden in 2013 Hunter ended up inking a deal for his hedge fund with the Bank of China within days of the visit. Convenient. https://t.co/sBXAovIE7Z — House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) October 8, 2020
China Joe Biden lied, FBI knew he was lying, and did nothing despite evidence: Senate committee investigating alleged Hunter Biden drive, smoking-gun email https://t.co/pbg9DwjUxk #MAGA @realDonaldTrump #AmericaFirst — Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) October 14, 2020
The Senate committees’ report said Hunter Biden, who was involved in business dealings with China as early as the first year of the Obama administration, was involved in the 2015 acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm. The report called that a potential conflict of interest because of his father’s role in the Obama administration that approved the deal.
The report also noted that Hunter Biden’s business ventures in China included 2013 meetings with a Chinese banker after flying to China aboard Air Force Two.
“Hunter Biden has extensive connections to Chinese businesses and Chinese foreign nationals that are linked to the Communist government. Those contacts bore financial fruit when his father was vice president and after he left office,” the report said.
“The records acquired by the Committees show consistent, significant and extensive financial connections among and between Hunter Biden, James Biden, Sara Biden, [Hunter Biden business partner] Devon Archer, and Chinese nationals connected to the Communist regime and PLA [China’s People’s Liberation Army] as well as other foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds. These connections and the vast amount of money transferred among and between them don’t just raise conflicts of interest concerns, they raise criminal financial, counterintelligence and extortion concerns,” the report stated. In its reporting about the Hunter Biden emails, the New York Post said a computer was dropped off at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 but never claimed. The shop owner later informed federal authorities of the computer, which also has files on it that the Post said show Hunter Biden smoking crack and engaging in sex. Federal officials took possession of the computer in December, the Post reported. However, the shop owner made a copy of the contents of the hard drive and gave it to a lawyer for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in September. Giuliani supplied a copy to the Post. The Western Journal has reached out to the Biden campaign for comment Thursday. The Post reported Thursday that Hunter Biden’s attorney, George Mesires, and the Biden campaign did not return requests for comment. However, the Post noted that in a previous statement, Mesires had attacked the story’s credibility. “There is no need for comment on any so-called information provided by Rudy Giuliani,” Mesires said. “He has been pushing widely discredited conspiracy theories about the Biden family, openly relying on actors tied to Russian intelligence. His record of dishonesty in these matters speaks for itself.” On Wednesday, Biden campaign Andrew Bates spokesman issued a statement in response to the Post report. “Investigations by the press, during impeachment, and even by two Republican-led Senate committees whose work was decried as ‘not legitimate’ and political by a GOP colleague have all reached the same conclusion: that Joe Biden carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing. Trump Administration officials have attested to these facts under oath,” Bates stated.
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westernjournal--2020-10-15--Biden’s Past Work Against Social Security Comes Back To Haunt Him Even as He Attacks Trump

It ’ s days like these I wish I had a modicum of artistic talent and a desire to live my life off of residuals .
Now , my plan is half-baked at the moment , but I ’ d start with a simple political cartoon .
On one side would be a giant , ossified man with a tuxedo and a monocle ; think of the Monopoly mascot but fierce and lowering .
He ’ d be swiping a big bag of money away from an assemblage of smaller , pleasant-looking seniors , all shocked and dismayed .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ Social Security.
” Every two to four years , this simple stock image would generate enough cash that I could pay for , say , my rent , or perhaps Hunter Biden ’ s child support .
It ’ s a theme that ’ s touched upon in every election .
Those dastardly Republicans want to take away your hard-earned Social Security money !
You know , that money you paid into the Social Security system all your life ?
Don ’ t you fret , though — vote Democrat and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coming to you .
I could haggle with you all day long about whether you were “ paying into ” Social Security all those years or whether a GOP plan would be swiping that big bag of money away from you .
However , one thing ’ s for certain : Joe Biden ’ s presidential campaign would definitely be among the Democrats using my stock illustration if I ’ d bothered to draw it .
Alas , I can ’ t even draw stick figures , and television advertisements are more effective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ misleading 30-second spot from Biden ’ s campaign featuring ominous music and an anxious pensioner staring blankly out of a rainy window before lowering his gaze , doubtlessly to contemplate a Social Security-less future : It wouldn ’ t surprise a 12-year-old to learn this ad is spectacularly false ( more on that later ) , but it ’ s curious that Biden would choose this line of attack .
Yes , the Democratic nominee now says he plans to expand Social Security no matter what shape our budget might be in — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exigencies of 2020 , that there could be some issues .
Yet back in 1984 , when our deficit issues seemed positively quaint , Biden led the charge on the Democratic side to freeze Social Security spending .
The move was part of a deficit-reduction plan put forth by two Senate Republicans and Biden .
As Breitbart noted , Congress and the White House were at an impasse on how to curb deficits , with most Democrats feeling the White House was calling for reductions that were too draconian .
Biden , then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upper chamber , was willing to go further than the White House , however .
After all , he hails from Delaware ; if you ’ ve ever wondered why your bank is headquartered in that state , let me assure you it ’ s not because downtown Wilmington is the kind of happening place where young , swinging finance types want to rent Patrick Bateman-like lofts .
The state ’ s laws are structured so that it ’ s a good place to do business — and those businesses liked doing business @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a reason he got the nickname “ The Senator from MBNA , ” after all — which is partly why he joined forces with Republican Sens .
Charles Grassley of Iowa and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas to propose a suite of spending freezes and cuts .
“ While this program is severe , it is the only proposal that will halt the upward spiral of deficits , ” Biden said in a speech on the Senate floor on April 24 , 1984 , according to ABC News .
“ Within the next 12 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an economic and political crisis of extraordinary proportions if Congress refuses to take decisive action on the deficits that we face.
” “ So , when those of my friends in the Democratic and Republican Party say to me , ‘ How do you expect me to vote for your proposal ?
Are we not saying there will be no cost-of-living increases for one year ?
’ The answer to that is ‘ Yes , ” that is what I am saying.
” RELATED : Jack Posobiec Locked Out of Twitter for Posting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believe we face such a major crisis ?
” he said .
“ We have been running huge deficits for five years , and now we are clearly headed for continued huge deficits as far as the eye can see .
We have emerged from what may have been the worst recession since the 1930s , but we have emerged with incredible economic weaknesses.
” At the time , Biden predicted the plan would pass and “ shock the living devil out of everyone in the U.S. Senate.
” Proving he was about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as he is today , the plan didn ’ t shock the living devil out of anyone in any way , given it was voted down .
Now , even if it had shocked every senator ’ s living devils ( and even perhaps their deceased ones ) by getting passed , the plan was moribund from the start ; it included a military pay freeze strongly opposed by the Reagan administration , according to The New York Times .
While the total freeze would have potentially cut $ 266 billion a year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ronald Reagan had asked for — both the White House and congressional Republicans weren ’ t pleased the plan would do away with an already agreed-upon pay increase for the troops .
Biden said his plan was about “ shared sacrifice.
” “ It holds defense activities to the same budget that it has in fiscal year 1984 with no allowance for inflation .
It similarly proposes no cost-of-living adjustments for one year for all indexed programs , ” he said .
Now , of course , discussing any sacrifice levied upon our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ monocled rogue swiping the canvas bag of hard-earned cash away from that penurious old man looking vacantly out of that rain-dotted window .
The Trump administration isn ’ t doing that , mind you , but facts and campaign advertisements mix like drinking , driving and being a Kennedy .
Here ’ s what the Biden advertisement says : “ The chief actuary of the Social Security Administration just released an analysis of Trump ’ s planned cuts to Social Security .
Under Trump ’ s plan , Social Security would become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year 2023 .
If Trump gets his way , Social Security benefits will run out in just three years from now.
” However , as FactCheck.org points out , this is a hypothetical that would occur only if the president ’ s payroll tax holiday , intended to ease the brunt of the pandemic , were extended indefinitely with no other statutory method to pay for Social Security , given that the payroll tax is where the vast majority of Social Security funds come from .
This isn ’ t what the president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s ad relies upon a bad-faith reading of the president ’ s remarks on the payroll tax holiday ; while it indicates Trump said he would eliminate the payroll tax entirely , what the president was referring to was forgiving — as opposed to deferring — the payroll taxes the government hasn ’ t been collecting .
What Biden ’ s ad relies on isn ’ t being officially floated by the Trump administration or his campaign , and — if you want to rank the probability of strange events happening in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re more likely to see Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 land at Dulles and apologize for the delay and deviation from its original flight plan than the White House or the congressional GOP seriously taking up ending the payroll tax .
It ’ s interesting to see , however , that Biden ’ s campaign is willing to scare America into believing the monocled misers of the Trump administration are going to end Social Security in three years when Biden ’ s dirty little secret is that he ’ s the only man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Social Security spending .
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Read our editorial standards .

It’s days like these I wish I had a modicum of artistic talent and a desire to live my life off of residuals.
Now, my plan is half-baked at the moment, but I’d start with a simple political cartoon. On one side would be a giant, ossified man with a tuxedo and a monocle; think of the Monopoly mascot but fierce and lowering. He’d be swiping a big bag of money away from an assemblage of smaller, pleasant-looking seniors, all shocked and dismayed. On the canvas bag, in big letters: “Social Security.”
Every two to four years, this simple stock image would generate enough cash that I could pay for, say, my rent, or perhaps Hunter Biden’s child support.
It’s a theme that’s touched upon in every election. Those dastardly Republicans want to take away your hard-earned Social Security money! You know, that money you paid into the Social Security system all your life? Don’t you fret, though — vote Democrat and you’ll get what’s coming to you.
I could haggle with you all day long about whether you were “paying into” Social Security all those years or whether a GOP plan would be swiping that big bag of money away from you. However, one thing’s for certain: Joe Biden’s presidential campaign would definitely be among the Democrats using my stock illustration if I’d bothered to draw it.
Alas, I can’t even draw stick figures, and television advertisements are more effective anyway, so here’s a misleading 30-second spot from Biden’s campaign featuring ominous music and an anxious pensioner staring blankly out of a rainy window before lowering his gaze, doubtlessly to contemplate a Social Security-less future:
It wouldn’t surprise a 12-year-old to learn this ad is spectacularly false (more on that later), but it’s curious that Biden would choose this line of attack.
Yes, the Democratic nominee now says he plans to expand Social Security no matter what shape our budget might be in — and one might assume, given the exigencies of 2020, that there could be some issues. Yet back in 1984, when our deficit issues seemed positively quaint, Biden led the charge on the Democratic side to freeze Social Security spending.
The move was part of a deficit-reduction plan put forth by two Senate Republicans and Biden. As Breitbart noted, Congress and the White House were at an impasse on how to curb deficits, with most Democrats feeling the White House was calling for reductions that were too draconian.
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Biden, then running for a third term in the upper chamber, was willing to go further than the White House, however. After all, he hails from Delaware; if you’ve ever wondered why your bank is headquartered in that state, let me assure you it’s not because downtown Wilmington is the kind of happening place where young, swinging finance types want to rent Patrick Bateman-like lofts.
The state’s laws are structured so that it’s a good place to do business — and those businesses liked doing business with Joe Biden. There’s a reason he got the nickname “The Senator from MBNA,” after all — which is partly why he joined forces with Republican Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas to propose a suite of spending freezes and cuts.
“While this program is severe, it is the only proposal that will halt the upward spiral of deficits,” Biden said in a speech on the Senate floor on April 24, 1984, according to ABC News. “Within the next 12 to 18 months this country will face an economic and political crisis of extraordinary proportions if Congress refuses to take decisive action on the deficits that we face.”
“So, when those of my friends in the Democratic and Republican Party say to me, ‘How do you expect me to vote for your proposal? Are we not saying there will be no cost-of-living increases for one year?’ The answer to that is ‘Yes,” that is what I am saying.”
“Why do I believe we face such a major crisis?” he said. “We have been running huge deficits for five years, and now we are clearly headed for continued huge deficits as far as the eye can see. We have emerged from what may have been the worst recession since the 1930s, but we have emerged with incredible economic weaknesses.”
At the time, Biden predicted the plan would pass and “shock the living devil out of everyone in the U.S. Senate.” Proving he was about as good at prognostications 36 years ago as he is today, the plan didn’t shock the living devil out of anyone in any way, given it was voted down.
Now, even if it had shocked every senator’s living devils (and even perhaps their deceased ones) by getting passed, the plan was moribund from the start; it included a military pay freeze strongly opposed by the Reagan administration, according to The New York Times. While the total freeze would have potentially cut $266 billion a year from the budget — more than President Ronald Reagan had asked for — both the White House and congressional Republicans weren’t pleased the plan would do away with an already agreed-upon pay increase for the troops.
Biden said his plan was about “shared sacrifice.”
“It holds defense activities to the same budget that it has in fiscal year 1984 with no allowance for inflation. It similarly proposes no cost-of-living adjustments for one year for all indexed programs,” he said.
Now, of course, discussing any sacrifice levied upon our entitlement programs makes you that big ol’ monocled rogue swiping the canvas bag of hard-earned cash away from that penurious old man looking vacantly out of that rain-dotted window.
The Trump administration isn’t doing that, mind you, but facts and campaign advertisements mix like drinking, driving and being a Kennedy.
Here’s what the Biden advertisement says: “The chief actuary of the Social Security Administration just released an analysis of Trump’s planned cuts to Social Security. Under Trump’s plan, Social Security would become permanently depleted by the middle of calendar year 2023. If Trump gets his way, Social Security benefits will run out in just three years from now.”
However, as FactCheck.org points out, this is a hypothetical that would occur only if the president’s payroll tax holiday, intended to ease the brunt of the pandemic, were extended indefinitely with no other statutory method to pay for Social Security, given that the payroll tax is where the vast majority of Social Security funds come from.
This isn’t what the president has proposed, however.
Biden’s ad relies upon a bad-faith reading of the president’s remarks on the payroll tax holiday; while it indicates Trump said he would eliminate the payroll tax entirely, what the president was referring to was forgiving — as opposed to deferring — the payroll taxes the government hasn’t been collecting.
What Biden’s ad relies on isn’t being officially floated by the Trump administration or his campaign, and — if you want to rank the probability of strange events happening in the Washington, D.C., area — you’re more likely to see Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 land at Dulles and apologize for the delay and deviation from its original flight plan than the White House or the congressional GOP seriously taking up ending the payroll tax.
It’s interesting to see, however, that Biden’s campaign is willing to scare America into believing the monocled misers of the Trump administration are going to end Social Security in three years when Biden’s dirty little secret is that he’s the only man running in 2020 who ever proposed freezing Social Security spending.
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westernjournal--2020-10-16--Jack Posobiec Locked Out of Twitter for Posting Hunter Biden Photo

Twitter reportedly locked conservative commentator Jack Posobiec out of his account for sharing photos of Hunter Biden contained in a New York Post story .
The story dealt with the shady dealings of Hunter and his father , former Vice President Joe Biden , in Ukraine .
According to the emails acquired by the Post , “ Hunter Biden introduced his father , then-Vice President Joe Biden , to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi , an adviser to the board of Burisma , allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17 , 2015 , about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $ 50,000 a month.
” The Post reported the emails were obtained from a computer dropped off in Hunter Biden ’ s home state of Delaware in April 2019 .
“ The customer who brought in the water-damaged MacBook Pro for repair never paid for the service or retrieved it or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were stored , according to the shop owner , who said he tried repeatedly to contact the client , ” the Post reported .
The shop owner said the laptop bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation , named for Hunter ’ s late brother , the former attorney general of Delaware .
The computer ’ s hard drive contained not only emails but also photos of Hunter and a “ raunchy , 12-minute video that appears to show Hunter , who ’ s admitted struggling with addiction problems , smoking crack @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an unidentified woman , as well as numerous other sexually explicit images.
” The Post story published four pictures of a man who appeared to be Hunter , including one with what looks like a crack pipe .
Posobiec shared a meme with the four pictures from the Post story , Breitbart reported .
His account was then locked , with a message from Twitter saying it would only be reinstated when he deleted the tweet .
Ryan Fournier , co-chair of Students for Trump , shared the screen shots from Posobiec ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is ridiculous.
” RELATED : Facebook and Twitter Censor Bombshell Biden Stories Just Weeks After Execs Join His Transition Team Senate Republicans posted a video on how Twitter blocked all users from sharing the Post story , also informing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey , “ see you soon.
” GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee , including Sens .
Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri , announced plans Thursday to subpoena Dorsey to testify before the committee next week regarding his company ’ s decision to block the Post @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s dealings with China .
“ Never before have we seen active censorship of a major press publication with serious allegations of corruption of one of the two candidates for president , ” Cruz said .
“ The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to know what the hell is going on , ” he added .
Hopefully , Twitter will learn a lesson from all this , or Congress , if necessary , will ensure the social media giant does .
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Twitter reportedly locked conservative commentator Jack Posobiec out of his account for sharing photos of Hunter Biden contained in a New York Post story.
The story dealt with the shady dealings of Hunter and his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, in Ukraine.
According to the emails acquired by the Post, “Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.”
“The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.”
The Post reported the emails were obtained from a computer dropped off in Hunter Biden’s home state of Delaware in April 2019.
“The customer who brought in the water-damaged MacBook Pro for repair never paid for the service or retrieved it or a hard drive on which its contents were stored, according to the shop owner, who said he tried repeatedly to contact the client,” the Post reported.
The shop owner said the laptop bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, named for Hunter’s late brother, the former attorney general of Delaware.
The computer’s hard drive contained not only emails but also photos of Hunter and a “raunchy, 12-minute video that appears to show Hunter, who’s admitted struggling with addiction problems, smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman, as well as numerous other sexually explicit images.”
The Post story published four pictures of a man who appeared to be Hunter, including one with what looks like a crack pipe.
.@JackPosobiec was locked out of Twitter for posting a Hunter Biden meme. #freeposo pic.twitter.com/AHHzu30ORi — Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) October 15, 2020
Posobiec shared a meme with the four pictures from the Post story, Breitbart reported.
His account was then locked, with a message from Twitter saying it would only be reinstated when he deleted the tweet.
Ryan Fournier, co-chair of Students for Trump, shared the screen shots from Posobiec’s account, adding, “This is ridiculous.”
This is ridiculous. Jack Posobiec posted the photos of Hunter Biden released in today’s article… Twitter locked his account and sent him an alert to delete it. RT! pic.twitter.com/17O7ZKsDKO — Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) October 14, 2020
Senate Republicans posted a video on how Twitter blocked all users from sharing the Post story, also informing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, “see you soon.”
GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri, announced plans Thursday to subpoena Dorsey to testify before the committee next week regarding his company’s decision to block the Post story and another about Hunter Biden’s dealings with China.
Never before have we seen the censorship of a major outlet’s reporting, with serious allegations of corruption by a presidential candidate, days before an election. #BigTech crossed a line & must be held accountable. That’s why @senjudiciary is going to subpoena @jack. pic.twitter.com/FYHTacmbWr — Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) October 15, 2020
“Never before have we seen active censorship of a major press publication with serious allegations of corruption of one of the two candidates for president,” Cruz said.
“The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to know what the hell is going on,” he added.
Hopefully, Twitter will learn a lesson from all this, or Congress, if necessary, will ensure the social media giant does.
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