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Devin Nunes to Newsmax: Dems, DOJ, Media Working Together on Trump Leaks Devin Nunes (Getty Images)

By Jay Clemons | Thursday, 08 September 2022 03:00 PM EDT

Devin Nunes hasn't been shocked by any of the left-leaning media's coverage of the documents dispute between the Justice Department (DOJ) and former President Donald Trump.

That's because it's largely the "same play-call" from seven years ago, when the Democrats, law enforcement agencies, and media first worked together on the Russia Collusion "hoax," says Nunes, which included the "laughable" rumors of then-candidate Trump and a so-called pee tape.

"I don't think it's a [coincidence] at all. [The leaks are] actually quite planned," Nunes told Newsmax on on Thursday while appearing on "John Bachman Now."

"A lot of the conspiracies [the media] has chased around" — including the aforementioned pee-tape incident, allegedly involving Russia — "those were the top news agencies that did that for the better part of a couple years," says Nunes, even after the House Republicans "proved it was a hoax."

Nunes had a front-row street for the House chamber's Russia-collusion investigations. As a then-congressman representing the state of California, Nunes had insider access to the true reality, not just scurrilous rumors.

Back then, "you had the [Hillary] Clinton campaign working with the media to start investigations, and this [media leaking] has never stopped, even though it's been totally debunked," says Nunes, current CEO of the Trump Media and Technology Group.

Nunes says the various news drops coming from the Washington Post, New York Times, and TV outlets — largely quoting unnamed sources — are all designed to paint Trump in a negative light, and also help justify the FBI's Aug. 8 raid on the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

However, if the federal government had something of actual substance against Trump, Nunes says that information would have already been leaked to the media.

"It's the same play-call that was used during the Russia hoax," says Nunes, of how law enforcement agencies and national media pull together for a common cause — supporting the Democrats. "If there were super-secret-type of nuclear documents [involving Trump], everyone would know" by now.

From Nunes' perspective, there's little distinction between the Obama and Biden administrations in how White House officials launch false narratives against political opponents.

"There's no truth to the [Mar-a-Lago] leaks; and I believe this is all about the Russia hoax," Nunes said. "The people at the top" are still looking for the Russia collusion documents.

"And I'm just happy the federal courts are looking into it. … We have an administration that has gone way out of bounds of their constitutional authority," says Nunes.

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Record Number of Migrants Die at Border in Biden's First 2 Years Southern border along the Rio Grande River in Texas. (Dreamstime)

By Eric Mack | Thursday, 08 September 2022 01:54 PM EDT

A record number of migrants died at the border this year, 748 to date, a mark that surpassed the previous high set just last year by more than 200 victims, CNN reported.

The Department of Homeland Security data makes the Biden administration the deadliest one on the border for a president's first two years in office.

There have been 1,305 border deaths during the past two years under President Joe Biden. Former President Donald Trump had 581 total border migrant deaths in the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years, the fewest of any president's first two years since the data records began.

Trump's body count was dwarfed by the Biden administration in this year alone and almost surpassed by the previous record of 557 border migrant deaths in fiscal year 2021, which covered most of Biden's first year in office.

Biden's DHS data total almost doubles the previous most deadly border situation in the first two presidential years of former President Barack Obama, which saw 805 migrants die on the border in the 2008 and 2009 fiscal years.

Former President George W. Bush, who formed DHS after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, had 660 total migrant border deaths in 2001 and 2002, according to the DHS data that only goes back to 1998.

The 2022 totals will still rise, as the fiscal year ends Friday, Sept. 30.

Also, CNN reported, the death counts are likely higher because the dead bodies recovered by DHS are the only ones recorded. Other law enforcement agencies recovering deaths at the southern border do not figure in this data.

"Migrants, refugees, and entire families are using more distant and dangerous routes to come to the United States," Border Network for Human Rights Executive Director Fernando García told CNN.

Customs and Border Protection point to transnational human trafficking rings as being responsible for the deaths of migrants at the border. Experts have told Newsmax the Mexican cartels are emboldened and enriched financially by Biden's border policies.

"Transnational criminal organizations continue to recklessly endanger the lives of individuals they smuggle for their own financial gain with no regard for human life," CBP told CNN in a statement. "Smuggling organizations are abandoning migrants in remote and dangerous areas, leading to a rise in the number of rescues but also tragically a rise in the number of deaths.

"The terrain along the border is extreme, the summer heat is severe, and the miles of desert migrants must hike after crossing the border in many areas are unforgiving."

DOJ Investigating Trump's Save America PAC Fundraising Former President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

By Eric Mack | Thursday, 08 September 2022 12:59 PM EDT

The Justice Department is looking into former President Donald Trump's fundraising for his GOP midterm candidates and potentially his own 2024 presidential campaign.

A federal grand jury has subpoenaed Save America PAC for information on its formation and spending, The New York Times and ABC News reported Thursday.

The subpoenas have targeted mid- and low-level aides Beau Harrison and William Russell, according to the reports.

Harrison and Russell representatives did not respond to the outlets' requests for comment.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said at a June hearing of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee that Trump's campaign raised $250 million in a Trump-led GOP fight for election integrity after claims the 2020 presidential election was compromised by fraud.

Lofgren claimed it constituted a "big rip-off," adding "donors deserve to know where their funds are really going."

Trump has not mentioned these subpoenas — which ostensibly seek to find out how the recognized leader of the Republican Party is funding campaigns against Democrats — in recent Truth Social remarks.

But he did blast the "latest witch hunt" Tuesday by the media, Democrats, and Republicans In Name Only (RINOs), all seeking to stop his America First/Make America Great Again movement, saying he does things "by the book," perhaps a references to fundraising bookkeeping.

"The fake news mainstream media, Democrats, and RINOs are obsessed with pushing the latest Witch Hunt against me," Trump posted to Truth Social.

"All American patriots know that I always do everything 'by the book' and that this hoax will fail miserably just like the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, Impeachment Hoax # 1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and all other attempts, perpetrated by the same people, to weaponize law enforcement against the 45th President, me."

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Herschel Walker to Newsmax: Warnock Should Put 'Big Man Pants On' and Debate Herschel Walker (Getty Images

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 08 September 2022 12:44 PM EDT

Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker laid down a challenge on Newsmax on Thursday to Sen. Raphael Warner to "put your big man pants on and show up" for a debate on Oct. 14 in Savannah, Georgia.

"Show up because I'm ready to debate you any time," Walker, a former NFL star and Heisman Trophy winner, said on Newsmax's "National Report," while rejecting claims by Warnock and the news media that he won't engage in a campaign debate.

"I've been saying that for weeks I've been ready to debate him, and you know they're raising a lot of money and telling a lot of lies, and I'm going to say they're telling bald-faced lies," Walker said. "I'm saying I want him to come to Savannah, Georgia, on October 14 and quit complaining."

Walker added that he's tired of Warnock "running away" and "hiding behind his Twitter account, hiding behind the news media saying that I don't want to debate him."

In the debate, Walker said, people will see the difference between him and Warnock, as the senator "represents" President Joe Biden while "I will represent Georgia."

Walker and Warnock are in a neck-and-neck race for Georgia's Senate seat, with Warnock just one point ahead of Walker in the polls, according to a RealClearPolitics average.

Walker, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, opened another attack on Warnock this week with a new advertisement, slamming him and Democrats for making comments on race.

In Walker's ad, he says that Warnock "believes America is a bad place full of racist people," but he does not agree.

"I believe we are a great country full of generous people," Walker said. "Warnock wants to divide us. I want to bring us together."

Walker told Newsmax Thursday that Biden is also a divider, as shown in his speech in Philadelphia a week ago.
"I'm running against Senator Warnock, who made a statement that America needs to apologize for whiteness," said Walker. "I believe that we've got to come together. We have a lot of good people in this country. We have a lot of good people in the state of Georgia and I'm about bringing people together.

"I remember the great saying, 'A house divided cannot stand.' And right now, it seems like this administration just wants to continue to divide and and I don't believe in that. I believe that we have to come together to get things done."

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Biden Administration Rolls Back Trump 'Public Charge' Green Card Regulation (Dreamstime)

By Charlie McCarthy | Thursday, 08 September 2022 11:59 AM EDT

The Biden administration announced it will ease regulations for low-income immigrants seeking to become permanent U.S. residents.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a rule, to take effect Dec. 23, that dictates when immigrants can be considered a "public charge," or an economic burden.

The rule rolls back regulations under the Trump administration, which began to consider supplemental public health benefits such as Medicaid and nutritional assistance as part of the public charge inadmissibility determination.

Under the rule, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) only will consider green card applicants a public charge if "they are likely at any time to become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence."

"This action ensures fair and humane treatment of legal immigrants and their U.S. citizen family members," Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas said in a DHS press release.

"Consistent with America's bedrock values, we will not penalize individuals for choosing to access the health benefits and other supplemental government services available to them."

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ur M. Jaddou said the policy "treats all those we serve with fairness and respect."

"Though there is still much to do to overcome confusion and fear, we will continue to work to break down barriers in the immigration system, restore faith and trust with our immigrant communities, and eliminate excessive burdens in the application process," Jaddou said.

A noncitizen deemed likely to become a "public charge" can be denied admission or lawful permanent residence (green card).

Before 2019, almost all non-cash government benefits such as Medicaid or nutrition assistance were excluded from consideration. The Trump administration rule, which ultimately was vacated and no longer is in effect, resulted in a drop in enrollments in such programs among individuals, such as U.S. citizen children in mixed-status households, who are not subject to the public charge ground of inadmissibility.

The DHS said that publication of this rule in the Federal Register avoids these effects by formally codifying the historical understanding of the term.

The administration in February released a draft version of its public charge regulation, which received more than 10,000 public comments.

The Department of Health and Human Services also praised the changes, calling Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) essential services.

"People who qualify for Medicaid, CHIP, and other health programs should receive the care they need without fear of jeopardizing their immigration status," HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a release.

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Poll: Majority of Americans Support Maximum Age Limits for Elected Officials Poll. (Dreamstime)

By Solange Reyner | Thursday, 08 September 2022 11:43 AM EDT

Seventy-three percent of U.S. voters say there should be maximum age limits for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll released Thursday.

And 40% say the maximum age limit for elected officials should be 70, compared with 18% who say 80 and 26% who say 60.

Additionally, just 12% think having more older people in elected office would make politics better, compared with 47% who say young people, women (45%), racial minorities (41%) and LGBTQ people (32%).

The poll, conducted Aug. 29-31, also found:

• 47% of U.S. voters say having young people in elected office would make politics better, while 42% say having older people in elected office would make politics worse.
• Voters across the board favor maximum age limits for elected officials: 71% of Democrats, 75% of independents and 75% of Republicans and 74% of voters ages 65 and over, 75% of voters ages 45-64 and voters ages 30-44 and 68% of voters ages 18-29.

An analysis from the Congressional Research Service on the current members of Congress published in January found that the current group is the oldest on average of any Congress in at least the past 20 years.

A January YouGov survey noted that the average age of U.S. senators is 64, while 58 is the average of U.S. House members. President Joe Biden became the oldest president in U.S. history when he defeated Donald Trump in 2020.

The CBS News/YouGov poll published Thursday surveyed 2,085 U.S. adults. The margin of error is +/-2.6 percentage points.

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Bannon Charged With Money Laundering in Wall Donor Case Steve Bannon, former adviser to former President Donald Trump, arrives at the New York District Attorney's office to turn himself in on Sept. 8, 2022 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

MICHAEL R. SISAK Thursday, 08 September 2022 11:08 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon surrendered Thursday to face state money laundering and conspiracy charges in New York alleging he duped donors who gave money to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Prosecutors say that while Bannon promised donors all the money they gave would go to building the wall, he was involved in funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to two other people. The indictment didn't identify those people by name, but the details match those of Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in April.

Bannon’s state-level charges in New York stem from the same alleged conduct covered in a federal prosecution that ended abruptly, before trial, when Trump pardoned Bannon on his last day in office.

Manhattan prosecutors also charged WeBuildTheWall, Inc., a nonprofit entity that Bannon and others allegedly used to solicit donations.

Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, not state offenses. In Bannon’s case, any double jeopardy argument would likely fall flat because his federal case didn’t involve an acquittal or conviction.

Bannon, 68, arrived at the Manhattan district attorney's office shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday.

“This is an irony,” Bannon told reporters as he entered the building.

“On the very day the mayor of this city has a delegation down on the border, they are persecuting people here, that try to stop them at the border,” he said, referring to a recent trip by New York City officials to Texas.

“This is all about 60 days from the day,” he said, referring to the upcoming national election in November.

In an earlier, written statement, Bannon accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of pursing “phony charges” against him ahead of the midterm election, saying the Democratic prosecutor targeted him because Bannon and his radio show are popular among Trump’s Republican supporters.

Bannon said federal prosecutors “did the exact same thing in August 2020 to try to take me out of the election,” referring to his arrest months before Trump’s reelection loss. “This is nothing more than a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system.”

In 2020, federal agents pulled Bannon from a yacht off the Connecticut coast and arrested him on charges he pocketed more than $1 million in wall donations. Prosecutors alleged thousands of investors were tricked into thinking all of their donations would go toward the border wall project, although Bannon instead paid a salary to one campaign official and personal expenses for himself.

The states of Texas and Arizona recently began busing asylum-seekers to New York and Washington, D.C., in an attempt to ratchet up political pressure on President Joe Biden’s administration to stop people from crossing into their states from Mexico. New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently dispatched a fact-finding team to Texas, partly to find out whether migrants were getting on the buses voluntarily.

While the wall Bannon’s group proposed was to be built on the U.S. southern border, more than 1,000 miles from the Big Apple, Manhattan prosecutors have jurisdiction to pursue charges against Bannon because some donors to the effort lived in New York.

Federal prosecutors, in the trial of a former Bannon co-defendant, noted that some residents of the New York City area had donated to the wall-building project. One witness that testified was an official with the charities bureau of the New York attorney general’s office who said that a charity backing the wall project had filed paperwork to accept donations in the state. The attorney general’s office is also involved in Bannon’s state criminal case.

Bannon, who pleaded not guilty to the federal charges, was dropped from the federal case when Trump pardoned him.

Kolfage and Badolato had been scheduled to be sentenced this week, but that was recently postponed to December. A third defendant’s trial ended in a mistrial in June after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict.

In another case not covered by Trump’s pardon, Bannon was convicted in July on contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. He is scheduled to be sentenced in October and faces up to two years in federal prison.

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Trump Was Worried Biden, 'Deep State' Would Destroy Russian Probe Documents Former President Donald Trump (AP)

By Charlie McCarthy | Thursday, 08 September 2022 09:50 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump was worried that his enemies would destroy certain Russia-related documents that exonerated him, and pushed to declassify the records during his final days in office.

Trump, believing the documents would expose a "Deep State" plot against him, told several people that he was concerned that incoming President Joe Biden's administration would "shred," bury, or destroy "the evidence," Rolling Stone reported Wednesday.

The documents were related to the federal investigation into the since discredited story about Russian collusion with Trump's 2016 campaign.

Trump and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows worked to declassify information right up to when Biden took the oath of office, Rolling Stone said.

The Rolling Stone story came a month after FBI agents raided Trump's Florida home with a warrant saying the former president had 11 sets of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, and that the DOJ had probable cause to conduct the search based on possible Espionage Act violations.

Trump and allies, however, say the documents had been declassified.

Neither Trump nor the Department of Justice (DOJ) have said much about what documents were taken during the Aug. 8 raid.

The former president, though, did hint that Russia-related documents could be among the materials the FBI sought.

"I think they thought it was something to do with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax," Trump told a Newsmax host during a Sept. 1 radio interview.

"They were afraid that things were in there — part of their scam material."

John Ratcliffe, former director of National Intelligence, told CBS that, "it wouldn't surprise me if there were records related to [Russia] there."

Ratcliffe, a month before the 2020 election, declassified intelligence detailing how the U.S. had obtained information about "Russian intelligence analysis" on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Critics of Ratcliffe's move said declassifications could out sensitive sources.

A day before leaving office, Trump sent a memo to the acting attorney general and intelligence officials to say the DOJ had sent him a binder of materials on the FBI's so-called "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation in late December 2020 "so I could determine to what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified form."

The materials, according to journalist John Solomon, Trump's representative to the National Archives, included "transcripts of intercepts made by the FBI of Trump aides, a declassified copy of the final FISA warrant approved by an intelligence court, and the tasking orders and debriefings of the two main confidential human sources."

Meadows later in his memoir wrote that he "personally went through every page" of the documents to make sure the declassified portions didn't "disclose sources and methods." He also described his frustration by what he considered "push back" from the DOJ and FBI.

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Rep. Steube to Newsmax: DOJ Leaking to Media to Push Narrative (Newsmax/''Rob Schmitt Tonight'')

By Luca Cacciatore | Wednesday, 07 September 2022 09:15 PM EDT

Rep. Greg Steube told Newsmax on Wednesday that the Department of Justice has a history of leaking to the media ''to start a narrative.''

On ''Rob Schmitt Tonight,'' the Florida Republican said that although ''the deep state and the Democrats and the mainstream media'' are working together, most Americans aren't fooled by their agenda.

''The American people have gotten smart on this in the last four years, and I tell you what, when Republicans take the [House] majority back — God willing — in November, and we get the gavels in January, there is going to be a lot of depositions and a lot of hell to pay,'' Steube said.

His comments follow those of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.,who revealed earlier in the day on ''Fox & Friends'' that the FBI and DOJ never approached congressional leaders about sensitive files at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.

''As a member of the Gang of Eight, which is the eight officials in Congress with insight to intelligence, we run into all kinds of things all the time,'' Rubio explained. ''Never once were we approached and told, 'There is this massive brewing counterintelligence threat to the United States, and we want to make you aware of it.'''

Steube, who is seeking reelection in Florida's 17th Congressional District, emphasized that the federal government ''waited over a year and a half'' after Trump left office to clamp down on the supposedly essential documents, adding that the FBI ''waited days'' with a warrant before conducting the search.

''I mean, if this is a huge national security risk, then why in the world did they wait days to execute the search warrant?'' the congressman said. ''This is an opportunity, and they are using their power in a corrupt DOJ and a weaponized DOJ to go in and get information on Donald Trump.''

''The deep state and the DOJ will stop at nothing to prevent Donald Trump from running for president in 2024 and becoming president again,'' he concluded.

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Rep. Steube to Newsmax: DOJ Leaking to Media to Push Narrative (Newsmax/''Rob Schmitt Tonight'')

By Luca Cacciatore | Wednesday, 07 September 2022 09:15 PM EDT

Rep. Greg Steube told Newsmax on Wednesday that the Department of Justice has a history of leaking to the media ''to start a narrative.''

On ''Rob Schmitt Tonight,'' the Florida Republican said that although ''the deep state and the Democrats and the mainstream media'' are working together, most Americans aren't fooled by their agenda.

''The American people have gotten smart on this in the last four years, and I tell you what, when Republicans take the [House] majority back — God willing — in November, and we get the gavels in January, there is going to be a lot of depositions and a lot of hell to pay,'' Steube said.

His comments follow those of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who revealed earlier in the day on ''Fox & Friends'' that the FBI and DOJ never approached congressional leaders about sensitive files at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.

''As a member of the Gang of Eight, which is the eight officials in Congress with insight to intelligence, we run into all kinds of things all the time,'' Rubio explained. ''Never once were we approached and told, 'There is this massive brewing counterintelligence threat to the United States, and we want to make you aware of it.'''

Steube, who is seeking reelection in Florida's 17th Congressional District, emphasized that the federal government ''waited over a year and a half'' after Trump left office to clamp down on the supposedly essential documents, adding that the FBI ''waited days'' with a warrant before conducting the search.

''I mean, if this is a huge national security risk, then why in the world did they wait days to execute the search warrant?'' the congressman said. ''This is an opportunity, and they are using their power in a corrupt DOJ and a weaponized DOJ to go in and get information on Donald Trump.''

''The deep state and the DOJ will stop at nothing to prevent Donald Trump from running for president in 2024 and becoming president again,'' he concluded.

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Trump Endorses Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, Lt. Gov. Husted Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks to a group of supporters. (Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 07 September 2022 07:57 PM EDT

Going all-in on one of the election's largest bellwether states, former President Donald Trump has endorsed incumbent GOP Gov. Mike DeWine, despite having been at odds, along with Lt. Gov. Jon Husted for reelection.

"Things are really starting to look good in Ohio for Republicans, probably because they've seen the alternative, and the alternative is not good," Trump wrote in a Save America PAC statement posted Wednesday.

"I won Ohio twice, in a landslide, and we may have to do it again!"

Trump has already boosted GOP Senate nominee J.D. Vance in Ohio, seeking to retain the Senate seat of retiring Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.

"With a heated Senate race where J.D. Vance is pulling ahead of a 'RINO Democrat,' Tim Ryan, who has tied himself to me rather than Biden, yet he's voted 100% for Biden's destructive economic policies, little has been said about the race for governor, where we have an outstanding person running, Mike DeWine, who quietly, but professionally and patriotically, goes about doing his job, and really well.

"Running alongside his very talented and loyal Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, Ohio has been in strong hands with the economy 'roaring,' especially in the four years that I was president."

The endorsement of the incumbents comes just 10 days before Trump is headed for a Save America rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Saturday, Sept. 17, which will air live on Newsmax.

"This great team is running against a terrible person, and failed Mayor Nan Whaley, where crime rates in Dayton, under her leadership, have reached new highs," Trump continued. "I know very well who she is, and she would send Ohio back to the Stone Ages.

"Mike DeWine and Jon Husted truly deserve my complete and total endorsement, AND THEY'VE GOT IT — they will never let you down!"

Trump was not always effusive in praise for DeWine. He once slammed the Ohio governor at a spring Save America rally.

"We had this terrible governor that you had: Terrible, terrible guy, and he was fighting us," Trump told the crowd.

Trump has come around in Ohio before. He once trashed Vance for saying, "he's the guy that said some bad s**t about me," before ultimately endorsing him in the GOP Senate primary.

DeWine once suggested Trump "started a fire that threatened to burn down our democracy" Jan. 6, 2021, causing the rift that has since healed.

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AOC Worries About Marrying a White Man, Fears Trump Supporters Could Kill Her Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks on banning stock trades for members of Congress at a news conference. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

By Nicole Wells | Wednesday, 07 September 2022 07:33 PM EDT

In a wide-ranging conversation with GQ magazine, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., confessed to feeling shunned by her own party and said she worries about marrying a white man and being killed by Trump supporters.

The democratic socialist and "Squad" member is featured on the cover of the magazine's most recent edition in a navy-blue suit and black turtleneck with a bold red lip. The cover advertises a discussion on "masculinity, power, and politics in a post-Roe America," while a photo spread inside shows the congresswoman posing on the Capitol steps in a black dress.

"I hold two contradictory things at the same time," Ocasio-Cortez told GQ. "One is just the relentless belief that anything is possible. But at the same time, my experience here has given me a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women. And they hate women of color."

Speaking about her short commute to work, which she walked prior to the Jan. 6 Capitol building breach, AOC said she is afraid she may be killed within the month because so many people hate women.

"People ask me questions about the future," she said. "And realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September. And that weighs very heavily on me. And it's not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center."

Running for a third term in the House in November, the former bartender was called "the political voice of a generation" by GQ writer Wesley Lowery — "a cultural star whose power transcends politics."

In the profile, Ocasio-Cortez, who got engaged to Riley Roberts in April, shared her concerns about marrying a white man, namely that she wasn't sure an intercultural, interracial relationship would work for her.

"It is the presence of good men that has shown me what kind of men are possible in this world," she told GQ.

For all her fears of misogynists and Trump supporters, AOC said it was the Democrats' treatment of her that has been the most discouraging.

After her election to Congress in 2018, the New York Democrat said she was disregarded by her own party.

"It was open hostility, open hostility to my presence, my existence," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Since I got here, literally day one, even before day one, I've experienced a lot of targeting diminishment from my party. And the pervasiveness of that diminishment, it was all-encompassing at times. I feel a little more steady on my own two feet now."

In general, the Empire State representative said her experience in Washington is very different than what people may think.

"Others may see a person who is admired, but my everyday lived experience here is as a person who is despised," she told GQ. "Imagine working a job and your bosses don't like you and folks on your team are suspicious of you. And then the competing company is trying to kill you."

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Special Master to Newsmax: Executive Privilege Cases Come Up 'Once Every 50 Years' (Newsmax/"American Agenda")

By Nick Koutsobinas | Wednesday, 07 September 2022 05:52 PM EDT

Special Master David Cohen spoke with Newsmax to give his take on the uniqueness of Former President Donald Trump's call to appoint a special master as well as explain what someone in that position does.

Speaking with "American Agenda" on Wednesday, Cohen says that a special master "is kind of a fancy old term for judge's helper."

Cohen, who is not working on Trump's case, adds that "anytime a judge needs help, normally in a complex case, they will sometimes appoint a special master. Sometimes parties will ask the judge for appointment of a special master. Sometimes the judge will come to the parties and say, 'you know, this is a case that's very complicated. There is a lot of work here. I'm only one person, and I would like to appoint a special master.'"

From there, the special master works as an arbiter, deciding which information or documents, say during a period of discovery, are attorney-client privileged and which are not.

But as Cohen points out, Trump's case is unique. In most instances, "attorney-client privilege comes up every day." But "executive privilege seems to come up, maybe once every 50 years."

Because of that, Cohen speculates that a special master with top secret clearance would need to be appointed. Cohen says such a person would likely be a "retired federal judge."

Cohen illustrates the uniqueness of Trump's case by providing an example of his own "opioid" case.

"For example, in the opioid litigation, there are literally tens and hundreds of millions of documents, and many of those are potentially privileged. The court will appoint a special master to review the documents. The special master will receive those documents in camera — meaning in private; the other side doesn't get them yet — and will review them, and make sure that the claims of attorney-client privilege are valid."

"That is part of what's happening in this case," Cohen continues. "President Trump has said some of these documents are attorney-client privileged, and the FBI has agreed. The FBI said, 'yeah, you're right, about four or 500 of them, they are privileged. And we agree. We should not be able to use those.'"

For the special master, they would decide which documents are attorney-client privilege, or in Trump's case, possibly executive privilege. From there, they would write a "report and recommendation."
In such a case, "I sign it," Cohen says. "And it is my document that I send to the judge. And, of course, both parties get a copy of it. And I say 'here are the documents that I think are privileged. And here are the documents that I think are not privileged. And here are my reasons why.' And the parties then have an opportunity to object. They can file an objection and ask the court to review it. It's essentially an appeal to the court."

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Florida Gubernatorial Hopeful: 'So Damn Proud' of Biden's Anti-MAGA Speech Florida gubernatorial candidate Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., gives a victory speech after defeating Nikki Fried in the state Democratic primary election in August. (Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

By Jay Clemons | Wednesday, 07 September 2022 05:27 PM EDT

Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., might be embracing the reputation of being a maverick candidate in Florida's gubernatorial election.

During a recent campaign speech, Crist — the Democrat challenger to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — said he is "so damn proud" of President Joe Biden for last week's controversial national address in Pennsylvania, amid an ominous backdrop, in which the commander-in-chief condemned "MAGA Republicans" as a threat to the republic.

Biden was essentially alienating half the American audience with his anti-MAGA/anti-Donald Trump rhetoric. But Crist didn't see it that way.

"How many of you saw Joe Biden speak [last Thursday] on national TV?" Crist asked his group of cheering supporters.

The former Florida governor (2007-11) then praised Biden for having the tenacity and "courage" to call out the Make America Great Again wing of the Republican base.

"God love him. God love him, and I do," said Crist of Biden. "And he's told it straight. Democracy is at stake. … Our freedoms are at stake. And the President laid it out, and he couldn't hold back, and I'm so damn proud of him for it."

Crist continued in the speech: "We have to have that kind of courage and just tell it like it is. I'm gonna be a happy guy. You know, I'm a nice fella. But don't ever confuse my kindness with weakness. We're gonna take it to them."

The upcoming Florida gubernatorial election will be a popular-vote format. But last week, Crist was seemingly in no mood to plead for Republican, independent, or even moderate Democrat votes, telling reporters, "Those who support DeSantis should stay with him and vote for him, and I don't want your vote. If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there."

Back in July, Governor DeSantis trumpeted Florida as having more registered Republicans than Democrats, seemingly making Crist's climb to a gubernatorial victory — minus GOP voter crossovers — more difficult.

DeSantis has also taken note of Crist's penchant for chastising conservative and independent voters.

Crist has "referred to conservative voters as the 'toothless set.' And so this is a guy that is — I think he realizes that this is the end of his career," DeSantis recently told conservative talk show host Mark Levin. "So, he's lashing out. He's attacking people. And this is just not a way to win an election."

Citing the last four Florida gubernatorial tracking polls from Five Thirty-Eight, covering Aug. 17, 29, 30, and Sept. 2, the incumbent DeSantis maintains an average lead of 3.8 percentage points over Crist.

However, the previous two polls from Five Thirty-Eight had DeSantis sporting an average lead of 7.5 percentage points.

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John Browne, Jeffrey Lord to Newsmax: WH 'Lies' Putting US Economy in Peril (Newsmax/"American Agenda")

By Jay Clemons | Wednesday, 07 September 2022 04:44 PM EDT

On Wednesday, Newsmax chronicled a recent CNBC interview where renowned economist Niall Ferguson said "the ingredients of the 1970s are already in place," in terms of financial shocks, political unrest, and low consumer confidence being pervasive in many corners of the world, including the United States.

In the same segment of "American Agenda," host Bob Sellers spoke to John Browne, the longtime chief executive at British Petroleum energy company (1995-2007) and former Trump White House adviser, and Jeffrey Lord, now a columnist for American Spectator, regarding the state of the U.S. under the Biden administration.

While Browne and Lord were being introduced for their dual interview, Newsmax displayed a graphic showing that 68% of Americans surveyed last month acknowledged they were experiencing either "severe" or "severe-to-moderate" financial hardships — up 13% from a similar poll from last November.

Ferguson's warning might have seemed dire on TV, but Browne says it was likely a conservative assessment of the financial and political troubles that potentially lie ahead.

"I think the situation is far, far worse than Niall Ferguson had stated," Browne told Sellers. "But of course, few people are aware of it, because the official figures have all been manipulated, and they're all wrapped in White House lies."

As one example, Brown estimates the July inflation rate of 8.5% was significantly higher than reported.

"The real rate is about 16" percent, says Browne. "And yet, [President] Joe Biden says it's at zero [percent]."

Also, Browne knocked the Biden administration for being untruthful about the chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border, the massive drug flow at the southern border, exorbitant gas prices, high prices for proteins at grocery stores, and the country being in "recession" territory, after posting back-to-back quarters of negative GDP growth.

"But what can you expect, when the president is in the pay of China, our largest challenger?" asked Browne. He then added, it's "no wonder the [American] people are unaware and increasingly vulnerable."

Lord agreed with Browne during the Newsmax interview, saying that "anybody who was around during the 1970s" has likely noticed the similarities between the respective administrations for President Biden and former President Jimmy Carter (1977-81).

"They say that 'history may not repeat itself,' but it certainly rhymes," says Lord. "And that's exactly what's going on" today.

As a possible remedy to what ails America, Browne and Lord agree the U.S. must regain its economic and political standing of the Trump years.

"The only solution I see is a sweeping majority for Republicans in the [November] midterms, and voting in Trump" as president in 2024, says Browne.

And even then, due to President Biden's ineffective policies, Browne says Trump "would have a huge mountain to climb."

Lord believes the support for Trump — as a potential 2024 presidential hopeful — might even more rabid than the previous two presidential cycles.

The American people "want to put an end to this," says Lord, who attended Trump's Labor Day weekend rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. "This [upcoming election] is a big deal, they get it, and they're looking to him for leadership."

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