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Excerpt from legalinsurrection.com

The Michigan man suspected of beating an elderly man in a “politically motivated” attack over a sign supporting former President Donald Trump committed suicide.

One of the attacks left an elderly man in critical condition, according to Ashe Schow at The Daily Wire.

The Houghton County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a 22-year-old man who confessed to “a crime involving an ATV driver within the last 24 hours.” He asked the police to “send someone to pick me up.”

The police showed up, discovering a dead man “with a single self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

 

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Excerpt from www.washingtonexaminer.com

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will announce his resignation from the Senate, effective Aug. 20, following his felony conviction in a corruption case. The senator had been facing calls from both parties to step down.

Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) will appoint his successor, who will serve the rest of the term until after the 2024 elections. Menendez had been running for reelection as an independent.

Menendez was charged on 16 federal counts including extortion, honest services wire fraud, obstruction of justice, acting as a foreign agent for Egypt, bribery, and conspiracy. He was found guilty on all 16 counts. The jury deliberated for more than 12 hours over the course of three days.

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Excerpt from www.washingtonexaminer.com

The Department of Justice is in possession of transcripts detailing conversations President Joe Biden had with his ghostwriter during which the president may have revealed classified information, DOJ attorneys revealed Monday in court filings.

The attorneys acknowledged the transcripts in a response to a lawsuit brought by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

The Heritage Foundation had requested several documents and recordings referenced in former special counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s handling of classified documents. One of the requests was for audio of Biden’s interviews with Mark Zwonitzer, who ghostwrote the president’s memoir Promise Me, Dad.

DOJ attorneys said Monday they discovered transcripts of some of the audio in the “past few days” as they were processing “portions of the Biden-Zwonitzer audio recordings that the parties agreed to.”

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Excerpt from freebeacon.com

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) asserted that cross-sex hormones and surgeries were “medically necessary” so that insurance companies would pay for those procedures, allowing concerns about the treatments’ affordability to dictate claims about their effectiveness, newly unsealed court documents show.

WPATH’s standards of care, which guide clinical practice in the United States, were updated in 2022 to include language about the medical necessity of hormones and surgeries because, as one WPATH official wrote in an email, the group was frustrated with America’s “obtuse and unhealthy system of healthcare ‘coverage.'”

Most private insurance plans and state Medicaid policies exclude procedures deemed elective or cosmetic. That is why, in 2016, WPATH issued a statement describing gender treatments as “medically necessary” and urging U.S. insurers to cover them.

“We needed a tool for our attorneys to use in defending access to care,” a WPATH official recalled in a January 2022 email, one of the many communications unsealed last month during the course of litigation. “The original Medical Necessity Statement was specific to the US because this was where we were experiencing the problem.”

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Excerpt from www.louderwithcrowder.com

According to the Treasury Department, it’s okay for institutions to engage in anti-conservative banking because laws that mandate fair treatment are supposedly a national security risk, and to say that claim is asinine would be an understatement.

According to AP News:

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter sent Thursday to lawmakers. The letter singled out a law signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in May that says it would be an “unsafe and unsound practice” for banks to consider non-financial factors when doing business. The letter concludes that “such laws create uncertainty and may inhibit” national security efforts.

Conservative Republicans such as DeSantis have sought to block environmental and socially conscious standards for investing, saying that such initiatives can lead to unfair discrimination based on political beliefs and harm legitimate businesses. They say that considering environmental, social and corporate-governance issues, or ESG, before deciding whether to invest is woke behavior gone amok.

DeSantis has said the law being questioned by the Treasury Department would protect the access that conservative groups and the firearms industry have to the financial sector, arguing that such organizations have at times had their accounts frozen or closed.

Several months ago, 15 Republican attorney generals blasted Bank of America for allegedly discriminating against customers based on their religious and/or political beliefs. The Florida law was intended to protect against that, but according to the Treasury Department, it’s a national security risk to be anti-woke.

The Treasury Department letter said that the Florida law could, however, undermine the work of federal agencies, heightening “the risk that international drug traffickers, transnational organized criminals, terrorists, and corrupt foreign officials will use the U.S. financial system to launder money, evade sanctions, and threaten our national security.”

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

On July 22, lawyers for former President Donald Trump appealed to a New York court to overturn the $454 million civil fraud judgment issued earlier this year.

In court documents filed with the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court’s First Department, New York’s mid-level court, Trump’s lawyers argued that Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron’s February 16 ruling, which claimed former President Trump made false statements about his wealth to insurers, banks, and other entities, was incorrect.

“Based on the ruling in this case, no company will want to come to New York to do business, and many businesses are fleeing,” his attorneys wrote. “The economic aspects of this decision are a disaster for New York.” The New York Attorney General’s office “has used the statute in a way never seen before,” they added.

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Excerpt from amgreatness.com

The FBI has revealed several more details about the 20-year-old would-be assassin who nearly killed former President Donald Trump, including connections to other mass shooters and the presence of unusual apps on his devices.

Just The News reports that Thomas Matthew Crooks used three different encrypted messaging apps based out of Germany, Brussels, and New Zealand, respectively. He also had the arrest photo of Ethan Crumbley, the perpetrator of the Oxford High School shooting in Michigan in 2021, as well as further information on Crumbley, including details about his parents.

These details come from the FBI’s investigation of Crooks’ cell phone, which had over 14,000 images on it. The phone contained multiple stock images of firearms and other weapons, as well as news articles about various government figures. The phone also had a screenshot of then-live coverage of the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th; the screenshot was saved at 6:01 PM EST, just 10 minutes before Crooks began firing from a rooftop about 130 yards away from Trump’s stage.

The FBI further revealed details of their investigation in a closed-door briefing, providing a stark contrast to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who testified before the House Oversight Committee on Monday but refused to give any specifics, instead deferring to the FBI for questioning.

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Excerpt from thepostmillennial.com

Reports circulated on social media that President Joe Biden experienced an undisclosed medical emergency in Las Vegas on Wednesday before abrubtly cancelling Nevada campaign events and heading back to Delaware, rapidly, aboard Air Force Once. On Sunday, Biden’s X account posted a letter signed by Biden saying that he would be dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. Biden’s X account on Sunday endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

“US Secret Service informed LV Metro that there was an emergency situation involving Joe Biden and to close necessary streets so that POTUS could be transported immediately to University Medical, which they began to do in earnest,” Charlie Kirk posted on Monday.

“Then, mysteriously, there was a stand-down order and the USSS informed local Vegas PD that they were going to ‘medivac’ POTUS to Johns Hopkins, which they presumed meant fly him back east ASAP. Apparently, the rumor mill in the police department was that Joe Biden was dying or possibly already dead.”

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

A day after a House committee grilled her for shocking failures that led to the near-assassination of former President Donald Trump, U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned in disgrace.

Her departure comes as questions surround the July 13 attempt on the GOP presidential candidate’s life by a 20-year-old gunman who was able to climb up on a roof and get off several rounds before being killed by a Secret Service sniper.

Cheatle’s resignation was first reported by NBC News. Her departure comes amid a whirlwind of events, culminating on Sunday with a post on X announcing that President Joe Biden is withdrawing as the Democrats’ candidate for president. Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to replace Biden on the November ballot.

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Excerpt from www.louderwithcrowder.com

… On Saturday afternoon it was “full steam ahead” for Sleepy Joe. Unclear what that means considering he was probably in bed when that X post went out but I digress. Nonetheless, less than 12 hours later Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Kamala Harris.

FYI we are still awaiting nicknames from Trump but for now, we shall stick to AP style and refer to her by her last name.

Anyway, it begs the question, what changed in 12 hours for Crooked Joe to go from full steam to replacing himself with someone no one voted for?

According to several reports, Crazy Nancy initiated a de facto coup by making it “clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way.” After three weeks of Sleepy Joe doubling down, it was about to be the “hard way,” and by hard way, they meant the 25th Amendment.

According to POLITICO:

Senior Biden aides were bracing for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who’d worked behind the scenes to encourage others in the party toward the kind of collective action that might finally push the president to end his campaign, to go public this week and possibly even disclose Democratic polling clarifying Biden’s dire political straits.

“Nancy made clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way,” said one Democrat familiar with private conversations who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “She gave them three weeks of the easy way. It was about to be the hard way.”

Democrats agreed that it was time for Joe to go.

“He got the message,” said the House Democrat, granted anonymity to speak frankly. Referring to the Senate Majority Leader, House Minority Leader and Speaker Emeritus, the lawmaker said: “It was from Chuck, Hakeem, Pelosi.”

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Excerpt from slaynews.com

The high school of Thomas Matthew Crooks has responded after allegations suggested that bullying led the 20-year-old to launch an assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.

Crooks was a former student of Bethel Park High School, which has been a focus of attention since the July 13 shooting in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

While Trump was delivering a speech, Crooks was able to scale a BlackRock-owned building nearby and open fire on Trump, killing a crowd member, wounding the 45th president, and injuring two more.

Armed with a legally acquired rifle belonging to his father, Crooks positioned himself on the building’s rooftop with a clear view of Trump.