GOP Rep. Scott Perry Says FBI Agents Seized His Cellphone
By Laurel Duggan / @laureldugg /
The Daily Signal
August 09, 2022
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., had his cellphone seized by FBI agents Tuesday, the day after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago, he told Fox News.
Agents confronted Perry while he was traveling with his family and seized his phone without making an attempt to contact his attorney, who would have turned the phone over to the authorities, he told Fox News.
Perry suggested the actions from the FBI in both the confiscation of his cellphone and the raiding of Mar-a-Lago belonged in a corrupt, Third World country.
“As with President Trump last night, DOJ [Justice Department] chose this unnecessary and aggressive action instead of simply contacting my attorneys,” Perry told Fox. “These kinds of banana republic tactics should concern every citizen—especially considering the decision before Congress this week to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to further persecute law-abiding citizens.”
Perry’s statement comes just days after FBI agents executed a search warrant at Trump’s home in Florida, through which they reportedly seized at least 10 boxes of documents, according to The Wall Street Journal. The raid was reportedly due to documents Trump had allegedly failed to return to the National Archives, according to multiple sources.
“I’m outraged—though not surprised—that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland’s DOJ would seize the phone of a sitting member of Congress,” Perry said in his statement. “My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends. None of this is the government’s business.”
Perry and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.
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Biden Pledges More Aid to Flood Victims in Kentucky
By Anita Powell and Megan Duzor
VOA News
August 08, 2022
LOST CREEK, KENTUCKY — U.S. President Joe Biden pledged more federal help to flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky on Monday after touring the devastation, which he linked to climate change.
In the sweltering afternoon heat, Biden walked with families through the wreckage of their homes in an unincorporated community in the state's rural southeast.
One family saw their prefabricated home ripped from its cinderblock foundation and thrown on its side by the waters. Rows and rows of sodden corn, planted in neat lines, lay collapsed in the front yard.
In another family, two young boys, not yet school-aged, squirmed under the president's attention as their mother held them back from a new lake that appeared as the rain poured down. The new body of water lay a stone's throw from where their home had once stood, before it washed away. It slumped on the other side of the water, smashed into a small hill.
"No one has ever seen anything like the historic flooding that hit us on the night of July 26," Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said. "Hours of rainfall hammered these mountains, sending walls of debris-clogged water crashing through homes and businesses, sweeping them clear off their foundations, crashing them into bridges. And for some, their home is just gone. We don't even know where it is. Maybe not one scrap that we can locate."
Biden offered extensive support.
"We're staying — the federal government, along with the state and county and the city — we are staying until everyone is back to where they were," he said after visiting with families in Lost Creek, Kentucky, affected by the flooding.
He said the objective is not to "just to get back to where we were, it's to get back to better than where we were."……
Some information in this report comes from The Associated Press and Reuters.
For more, read: https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-pledges-more-aid-to-flood-victims-in-kentucky-/6693500.html
Nancy Pelosi Has Done Her Best To Evaporate Unborn Babies, Eradicate Firearms, Expand Government And Enact Tyranny
—Why Not Go Out With A Bang And Launch World War III?
By Chuck Baldwin
ChuckBaldwinLive
August 4, 2022
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From BeforeItsNews.com:
Pelosi is an idiot, but she’s not stupid. She knows there are consequences. The Chinese have made it very clear that they do not want Pelosi going to Taiwan. Tensions are already high between the US and China, and this trip certainly won’t help.
Now, obviously it’s not up to China to dictate US policy or actions. But like Alcibiades’ trip to the Peloponnese in 418 BC, there is absolutely zero benefit in Pelosi going to Taiwan.
The US economy is in a tailspin. Parents can’t find baby formula for their infants. Inflation is raging. People are suffering.
What exactly does this woman hope to achieve? Will her visit to Taiwan somehow make inflation miraculously retreat? Will baby formula suddenly appear on the shelves?
Of course not. So if there’s no benefit for Americans, then why go at all?
On the flip side, the trip does present a number of risks. China doesn’t want to look weak, and whatever retaliatory action they take probably won’t be positive for the US.
China’s initial response has been predictably swift. They’ve already kicked off live-fire military exercises, i.e. real weapons and munitions, and have essentially encircled Taiwan by sea. Apparently these military exercises will include missile tests off Taiwan’s east coast.
The US, meanwhile, has positioned at least two naval vessels and several fighter jets close to Taiwan’s east coast, increasing the potential for conflict, or even just an accident.
Hopefully nothing catastrophic happens. But, again, what exactly is the point of this trip? It’s all risk and no reward… just so that Pelosi can showboat in front of the cameras before her retirement next year.
You’d think that someone with decades of political experience– an ‘expert’ in international diplomacy– would understand such a simple reality, and then rationally choose the course of action which will benefit her country the most. But that’s a laughable proposition.
Pelosi has a multi-decade track record of deceit, disloyalty, cowardice, and arrogance. She’s even despised by prominent members of her own party.
Pelosi is just one of countless examples– a #mefirst, self-centered hypocrite who has become the modern day Alcibiades. And she’ll most likely go down in history with a similar reputation as he did.
Please read the entire article from which the above is quoted, and you will understand the historical references.
As I have said from the beginning of the war in Ukraine—which was the catalyst for all of the current East/West turmoil: The war in Ukraine was not started by Russia in 2022. It was started by the United States in 2014. Russia was more than patient to wait 8 years while the Donbass was turned into a giant incinerator by Zelensky and his mob of Nazi gangsters and animalistic monsters.
And all of the economic sanctions and transfer of billions of taxpayer dollars—not to mention billions of dollars worth of military arms and munitions—by the U.S. and NATO have not only exacerbated, extended and expanded the Ukrainian conflict but they have had SERIOUS negative ramifications upon the sanctioning countries—including the United States.
Joe Biden can try to blame Putin for America’s recession all he wants to: The American people know Washington, D.C., not Moscow, is responsible for our economic malaise. Americans probably don’t believe much that Putin says, but they don’t believe ANYTHING that Biden says.
But the other serious negative ramification (for the U.S.) is that the conflict in Ukraine has created a great divide between East and West unlike anything we have seen since the Cold War. And at this point, the East is expanding exponentially, and the West is shrinking at the same rate.
So, right in the middle of all of this mess, Pelosi chooses to incite more than half of the planet and inject herself smack-dab in the middle of an international minefield.
This only reinforces what I have said previously: All of the signs indicate that the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., is doing everything it can to incite World War III. Virtually everything Washington does spells W-E W-A-N-T W-A-R.
But do the American people really want World War III? No doubt Republican war hawks such as Lindsey Graham do. And warmongering Christian Zionists such as John Hagee do. But do the American people as a whole want open war with Russia and China? No way!
But since when has what the people want affected anything that the power elite in Washington, D.C., do?
And there is absolutely no better way for the beasts of prey inside the Beltway to climb their way out of the domestic morass that they have created than to start a war. War not only enriches the war profiteers; it entrenches the corrupt political elite. When there is a war going on, people forget all about how they have been raped and plundered by the smelly, soulless serpents in Washington, D.C.
War assures the scaly creatures on the banks of the Potomac that they are able to commit virtually any crime—no matter how evil and murderous—with complete impunity.
As the column above says, “Hopefully nothing catastrophic happens.”
But if nothing catastrophic happens, it’s not because Pelosi, Biden and the rest of the miscreants in Washington, D.C., haven’t done everything they can to create a catastrophe. That’s for sure.
P.S. As you doubtless know, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed HR 1808, which is the “Assault Weapons” ban. It is now in the U.S. Senate.
Please let me remind you that there is NO SUNSET PROVISION in this bill. If this ban on our semi-automatic rifles (they are NOT “assault weapons”) passes the Senate and becomes law, it will be FOREVER!!
Most conservatives assume that the Republicans in the Senate will stop this monstrously tyrannical bill. They assumed the same thing when the national Red Flag gun confiscation bill was sitting in the Senate, and guess what: Fifteen GOP senators helped Democrats pass the gun confiscation bill, and it’s now LAW.
I produced a 9-minute video urging people—especially Christians—to take immediate action by contacting their senators en masse. Senators need to hear from tens of thousands of their constituents across their respective states in defiance of this monstrous attack on our Second Amendment.
Here is my 9-minute video.
Please watch it and share it with as many people as you can.
What I’m about to say next, I’ve said many times:
When my AR-15 is outlawed, I will be an outlaw! I will NOT surrender my guns! And I make this decision based on conscience and the Holy Scriptures, not merely on the Second Amendment. This is a hill I am more than willing to die on.
My attorney son and I wrote a book on this subject from a Biblical perspective regarding the God-ordained responsibility of free men to maintain their right of self-defense.
The book is entitled To Keep Or Not To Keep: Why Christians Should Not Give Up Their Guns.
And once again, here is my 9-minute video pleading with Christians to urge their senators to STOP the “Assault Weapons” ban.
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Women Gubernatorial Hopefuls Break Records with Primary Wins
By Dora Mekouar
VOA News
August 05, 2022
Even with several U.S. primary elections still to go, women candidates for governor are already shattering records. At least 20 female gubernatorial candidates have won their party’s nomination and will be on the ballot in November, breaking the previous high of 16, which was set in 2018.
“It's notable because this is an area where women's underrepresentation has been quite persistent,” says Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the Center for American Women in Politics (CAWP) and an associate professor of political science at Rutgers University-Camden. “This disrupts gendered perceptions about who can and should lead … we've had some really stubborn biases about the association between executive office and masculine traits.”
There are currently nine women state governors in the United States, the most ever.
So far this year, there are 13 Democratic and 7 Republican female nominees for governor, as tracked by CAWP. And while being a major political party’s nominee isn’t a guarantee of winning office, the numbers do increase the likelihood that there could soon be a record number of women serving at the highest level in their states
“It's a powerful and influential political position where we want women's voices and experiences to be heard. But it's especially important as we see major policy issues being allocated back to the states,” Dittmar says. “When we think about abortion or voting rights or education — where a lot of our key policy debates are today are at the state level and governors will play a key role in them. And so having women in those positions is only more important now.”
In all, 47 gubernatorial candidates have already been selected ahead of November’s midterm elections. With 36 of the 50 states electing their governors this year, another 25 nominees are still to be selected. Several women — both Democrats and Republicans — are competing for those slots.
There are also more woman vs. woman gubernatorial matchups in 2022 than ever before. In all of American history, there have only been four all-women contests in races for governor. This year, there are already five, which highlights the fact that women don’t all think alike…….
For more, read: https://www.voanews.com/a/women-gubernatorial-hopefuls-break-records-with-primary-wins-/6686922.html
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