August 1, 2026

02 U.S. Politics

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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has ruled that the appointment of special council Jack Smith by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland was unconstitutional, calling the cases cited by Jack Smith’s office to back up his claim irrelevant to the constitutional issues at hand. This means that the classified documents charges against Trump are necessarily thrown out.

Cannon concluded, “The Framers gave Congress a pivotal role in the appointment of principal and inferior officers. That role cannot be usurped by the Executive Branch or diffused elsewhere — whether in this case or in another case, whether in times of heightened national need or not.”

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Excerpt from abcnews.go.com

WASHINGTON — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case of former President Donald Trump in Florida dismissed the prosecution on Monday, siding with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon brings a stunning and abrupt conclusion to a criminal case that at the time it was filed was widely regarded as the most perilous of all the legal threats that the Republican former president confronted. Trump faced dozens of felony counts accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and obstructing FBI efforts to get them back.

Defense lawyers filed multiple challenges to the case, including a legally technical one that asserted that special counsel Jack Smith had been illegally appointed under the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, which governs the appointment of certain government positions, and that his office was improperly funded by the Justice Department.

Donald J Trump chose Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate on the first day of the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024. Vance was once a virulent critic of Trump but had changed his tune, becoming one of Trump’s staunchest supporters. Vance is 39, a stark contrast to the age of his running mate, Trump, as well as Biden.

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Excerpt from www.washingtonexaminer.com

MILWAUKEE — Anticipation around former President Donald Trump tapping Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his vice presidential nominee not only concerned the next four months before the 2024 election and the next four years, should he and Vance win in November.

But Trump’s decision on Monday, announced during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, could also define the GOP for the four or eight years after that should Vance become the party’s prohibitive favorite in 2028.

In tapping Vance, 39, the youngest vice president since eventual President Richard Nixon, Trump has provided his Make America Great Again movement and America First policy platform with an opportunity to continue after his second and last term, instead of picking a more centrist, compromise candidate as an appeal to more establishment Republicans.

Trump, a legacy-minded real estate mogul and marketing expert who rose to national prominence before The Apprentice TV series because of his branded buildings, has anointed an heir apparent in tapping Vance, according to Republican strategist Cesar Conda.

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

Kimberly Cheatle, director of the U.S. Secret Service, said she will not resign from her role after what she called the “unacceptable” assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

In an interview with ABC, Cheatle said the attack on Saturday is “something that shouldn’t happen again.”

Cheatle said she understood her responsibility as the director of the Secret Service but refused to step down, telling ABC she would not resign from her post.

“The buck stops with me,” Cheatle said. “I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary.”

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Excerpt from thepostmillennial.com

Donald Trump was officially nominated as the Republican nominee for president on Monday at the RNC in Milwaukee. He announced his vice president and running mate Ohio Senator JD Vance. He was not expected to make an appearance at the Republican National Convention, yet he arrived on the floor, appearing with Vance, Tucker Carlson, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

He entered the floor of the convention to cheers from the crowd that had nominated him that day, a wounded political warrior fresh from the fight. The crowd exploded with applause and a standing ovation.

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Monty Python’s John Cleese reacted to the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump by pointing the finger at the NRA.

Cleese posted to X:

The alleged shooter, a 20-year-old, used an AR-15-style rifle. Cleese did not mention there are 28,144,000 such rifles in circulation, yet only one of those more than 28 million guns was used in that heinous fashion.

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Excerpt from www.newsbusters.org

CBS ran a news special on Sunday night after President Biden’s remarks in the Oval Office. CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell interviewed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and dragged him right back to January 6 to discuss how rhetoric has grown hotter. Typically, CBS didn’t include itself in the atmosphere of overheated rhetoric.

O’DONNELL: You were speaker of the house on January 6th. We spoke that day. We were live on the air for more than ten hours or so, and I remember our conversation vividly, because you called on the president, to come forward, come before the cameras, and ask for the violence to stop. And you said, this should be a moment that brings us together, not divides us. But it’s almost like the rhetoric’s gotten hotter since then.

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MILWAUKEE – The risk of political division at this week’s GOP convention is fading in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday.

Moments before the former president was shot at, with one bullet grazing his ear, Trump declared to a crowd of rallygoers that his nomination would be a moment of unity for the party.

“The world will see a vibrant Republican Party that is bigger, stronger, more confident, and more united than ever before,” he said in Butler, Pennsylvania.

But Republicans were going into the convention, a four-day affair that begins on Monday in Milwaukee, with lingering divisions over the party’s official platform and a bitter primary that revealed a sizable rift among Republican voters.

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Excerpt from thehill.com

 

Former President Trump’s campaign raised more than $2 million through a GoFundMe campaign this weekend for the victims of the Trump rally shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.

By Sunday afternoon, just before 3 p.m., the Trump campaign more than doubled its $1 million goal, reaching $2.034 million in donations.

The total number of donations reached 27,900, according to the website, and the top donation was listed as $50,000.

The Trump campaign confirmed the authenticity of the GoFundMe page to The Hill.

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

MSNBC is covering the Republican National Convention this week, and for some reason, Joy Reid has been given a platform to speak.

Last week, she compared Trump to Hitler, and now she is claiming that Trump is the greatest promoter of political violence.


Just days after the man was shot, she is blaming him for political violence. She also used the opportunity to absolve MSNBC of any responsibility for the public’s lack of confidence in the media.

How does this woman still have a job discussing politics on TV?

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President Joe Biden’s campaign website still has comments posted on it claiming, “We need to stop Trump before it’s too late,” despite his own calls in the past 48 hours to reject political violence following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

As of Monday at 12 p.m., the site for the campaign of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, which asks for donations starting at $25, has a chatbot pop-up window that reads: “We need to stop Trump before it’s too late.”

Screenshot taken from the campaign website of Joe Biden, which still says, “we need to stop Trump before it’s too late.”

Similarly, under its issues page, it still refers to Trump as a “dangerous threat to democracy.”

Under the issues page of Biden’s campaign website, it still shows language labeling Trump a “dangerous threat to democracy.”

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Excerpt from www.newsbusters.org

The Washington Post shamelessly jumped right into the “no evidence” game on Sunday when Republicans complained that all of the Left’s routinely extreme demonization of Donald Trump could inspire violence. Michael Scherer’s headline jumped right in:

Trump allies immediately blame Biden, Democrats for their rhetoric

Supporters argued that Democratic portrayals of Trump as a threat to democracy led to the violence, though the shooter’s motive was not apparent at the time of their remarks.

This is how a paper proves they’re a Democrat rag at the worst possible time. Let’s guess that if Trump has been seriously wounded, the Post would have done this story just the same way. They can’t acknowledge that this is a favorite leftist tactic, to connect conservative speech to violence…and then suggest the tactic cannot be reversed.

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Excerpt from www.thenation.com

The president deftly avoids the trap of surrendering his critique of MAGA lawlessness.

Joe Biden delivers a nationally televised address from the Oval Office of the White House on July 14, 2024.(Erin Schaff-Pool / Getty Images)

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday has upturned the political world, not least the reelection campaign of Joe Biden. Trump, empowered now with a dramatic photo showing him defiantly raising his fist after being fired on, has assumed the role of a righteous and perhaps divinely protected victim. In response, could Biden really carry on with his planned strategy of highlighting Trump’s threat to American democracy?

Some of Biden’s political allies were so demoralized they seem to have preemptively surrendered. On Sunday, Axios quoted a “senior House Democrat” as saying, “We’ve all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez correctly responded to this comment by noting, “If you’re a ‘senior Democrat’ that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism. This kind of leadership is functionally useless to the American people. Retire.”

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Excerpt from www.westernjournal.com

Trump Derangement Syndrome has yet again reared its nasty head only one day after an assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump’s life.

Of course, as is often the case with TDS, this isn’t coming from some random fringe actors on social media.

It’s coming from a sitting state representative in the Democratic Party.

The man in question, Colorado state Rep. Steven Woodrow, posted the following on X (of which a screen shot was taken before being taken down) Saturday just after former President Donald Trump was shot.

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

Russia “collusion.” “Peaceful” protests. Mask mandates. Vaxx mandates. Don’t-leave-your-house mandates. Don’t question the canvassers. Jan. 6. Two-tiered-justice target on your back. “Misinformation.” Mutilate your body. Kill your child. Kill free speech. Kill your political enemy.

For too long, we have been fed chaos. And for too long, we have been told it is reality. We have been told to forget what we see, forget what we hear; we have been told to ignore what we know. Layer after layer of doubt upon misconstrued fact upon convenient cover-up upon censored content upon corruption.

The leftist media know that chaos begets chaos. They know that mass hysteria begets fear. And they know that exploited fear is the primary means of mind control. They have slowly and strategically unleashed a full-on psychological attack against the critical thought capabilities of the American people — an attack so gradual and persistent, many have no idea they have been taken captive.

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Excerpt from thepostmillennial.com

President Joe Biden addressed Americans for the second time on Sunday evening, instructing voters how to feel and behave in the wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump on Saturday.

“We’re neighbors, we’re friends, coworkers, citizens,” he told his “fellow Americans,” saying that “we’re not enemies.” He went on to say “we must stand together,” saying it was time to “lower the temperature” and “take a step back.”

“Thankfully,” he said, “former Trump is not injured” [sic], he said, noting again, as he did this morning and last evening in a post, that they spoke on the phone. And he again offered condolences to the family of Corey Comperatore, who was killed by the would-be assassin’s bullet. Biden had no update on the investigation, saying that it was ongoing and that was still no information as to what the motivation of Thomas Matthew Cooks, the 20-year-old Pennsylvania gunman, was.

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Excerpt from redstate.com

 

As fans of MSNBC woke up on Monday morning, many no doubt waiting to be delivered the hottest takes from Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, they were instead greeted by generic news desk coverage. That’s because executives at the network made the call to pull “Morning Joe” off the air in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The reason why is telling.

According to CNN, which reported the development, this wasn’t a case of routine preemption. After all, “Morning Joe” has been left intact through essentially every other breaking news story since its inception. Instead, the decision came from a much darker place: MSNBC couldn’t trust that Joe, Mika, and its stable of lunatics wouldn’t compare Trump to Hitler again.

A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show’s stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole. Given the breaking news nature of the story, the person said, it made more sense to continue airing rolling breaking news coverage in the fraught political moment.

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Excerpt from amgreatness.com

Alex Berenson, author of the book, “Pandemia”, said the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is the biggest security “failure since 9-11.”

“LOL dummy it was the biggest failure since 9/11. Or maybe the Kennedy assassination,” Berenson posted on X, in response to a post saying the assassination attempt was the biggest security failure since January 6, 2021.

“I am so tired with lefty media pretending Jan. 6 was a near-coup. It sucked, it was horrible and embarrassing, but it was closer to a Capitol tour gone wrong for 98% of the ‘insurrectionists,’” posted Berenson.

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A video from former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday appeared to show rally attendees spotting the suspected shooter on the roof moments ahead of the eruption of gunfire.

‘Don’t go over there.’

According to CNN, the footage was taken inside the rally by an attendee. It captured audio of multiple individuals warning about a possible gunman.

“He’s got a gun!” several eyewitnesses shouted.

“He’s on the roof,” one rally attendee warned.

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

According to a new report by NBC News, the Secret Service identified the rooftop next to Trump’s event in Butler, Pennsylvania as a security vulnerability just days before the rally.

The agents failed to secure the building, allowing a man with a rifle to climb onto the roof, position his scope, and fire several shots at President Trump.

A bullet grazed Trump’s right ear, while two rally attendees were wounded. One Trump supporter was fatally shot.

President Trump told former W

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Biden’s FBI has announced that they believe the would-be assassin at former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally on Saturday acted alone.

The statement comes despite the bureau’s inability to access data from the suspect’s cell phone, which has been sent to Quantico for further examination.

Kevin Rojek, FBI Special Agent in Charge Pittsburgh, said that the information currently available to the bureau suggests that there is no further public safety concern. However, he also noted that the investigation is still in its early stages, according to Fox News.

“We have not identified an ideology associated with the subject, but I want to remind everyone that we’re still very early in this investigation,” Rojek said during a press conference on Sunday.

The FBI is ac

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Excerpt from www.motherjones.com

Trump is surround by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is helped off the stage after a shooting at his campaign rally in Butler, Pa. on Saturday.Gene J. Puskar/AP

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Officials on both sides of the aisle expressed shock, condolences, and condemnation after an attack at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania left the former president bloodied and at least one spectator dead, according to a statement from the Secret Service. The alleged shooter was also reportedly killed, and two spectators were critically injured, officials said.

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Excerpt from www.washingtonpost.com

Authorities say they are seeking clues to why a 20-year-old man from a small town in Pennsylvania decided to open fire at former president Donald Trump’s rally Saturday. The Secret Service chief said the agency would cooperate with an independent review of security at the rally, as Democratic and Republican lawmakers are questioning how a gunman managed to get onto a nearby roof.

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Donald Trump had blood on his ear and face after what sounded like gunshots interrupted his rally on Saturday.Evan Vucci/AP

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Secret Service personnel surrounded Donald Trump and rushed him off stage on Saturday after his rally speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, was interrupted by a series of popping sounds that turned out to be gunshots. As the popping began, Trump winced and touched his right ear, as though struck by a projectile, before ducking down. A second series of shots could then be discerned.

Trump later released a statement on Truth Social saying he’d been hit by a bullet: “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin.”

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After reports that the company had agreed to pleading guilty to conspiring to defraud the US government, Boeing is holding talks with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to determine how the move could impact its portfolio of defense contracts and future opportunities.


Defense is a major sector for Boeing, with more than one-third of the company’s revenue last year coming from government defense contracts.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has issued subpoenas to three White House staffers he has identified as key people that are protecting a non-functioning Joe Biden from the public.

He stated “I am issuing subpoenas today for White House staff Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, and Ashley Williams to appear for depositions. The White House has shielded these three key aides from testifying about President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and now we’ve learned through reporting these same aides are also seeking to cover up President Biden’s declining cognitive state inside the White House… it appears as though Tomasini has firsthand knowledge of the extent to which President Biden is personally carrying out the duties of his office and whether he is capable of doing so.”

The Chairman is being far more charitable than this writer would be in assuming that we are dealing with a declining cognitive state rather than a declined cognitive state, in terms of actual ability to perform the duties of President, since before he was elected. What we are seeing now is the failure by the best doctors in the world to medicate up a dying Biden enough to make him briefly semi-cognizant in ways that give the media marketers of the DNC-CCP, the mainstream media, some plausible deniability.

Now, even that is gone, and the rats are looking to leave a sinking ship, which isn’t losing the 2024 Presidential election (so long as they can take back the House majority), it’s getting Biden out fast before anyone goes beyond what Comer is asking. Comer is looking for evidence Biden is unfit now, but others want to know who knew before the 2020 election that they were propping up a juiced up dying man. Comer doesn’t appear ready to ask those types of questions just yet.

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Excerpt from amgreatness.com

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has subpoenaed three key White House staffers who are allegedly shielding Joe Biden from media scrutiny and doing his job for him amid his cognitive difficulties.

“I am issuing subpoenas today for White House staff Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, and Ashley Williams to appear for depositions,” Comer announced on X on Wednesday.

Williams is the Special Assistant to the President and Deputy director of Oval Office Operations,  Bernal, the Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the First Lady, and Tomasini, the Deputy Chief of Staff.

“The White House has shielded these three key aides from testifying about President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and now we’ve learned through reporting these same aides are also seeking to cover up President Biden’s declining cognitive state inside the White House,” the Chairman added.

The Department of Defense has informed the public this past Wednesday, July 10, that Pro-Life groups are terrorist organizations. They revealed this information at Fort Liberty’s Directorate of Emergency Services.

Citizen journalist Sam Shoemate on X revealed this fact in X posts where he said “An anti-terrorism brief was held on Fort Liberty (Bragg) today where they listed several Pro-Life organizations as ‘terrorist organizations.’ The slide you see here followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East.” The slide listed pro-life organizations and labeled them “TERRORIST GROUPS.”

The flipping of morality from one of finding shock at the very idea of murdering unborn children to finding shock at the very idea of being opposed to murdering unborn children is indicative of how far we’ve come as a people from valuing the sanctity of each individual life. Seeing our security institutions so dominated with such dark moralities should give all of us Americans pause, for if the government now openly seeks to criminalize the very thought of not sub-humanizing life, what chance is there it will value your human life?

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

The Biden administration’s Department of Defense has made a ridiculous move, labeling pro-life groups as “terrorist organizations” during an anti-terrorism briefing at Fort Liberty’s Directorate of Emergency Services (formerly Fort Bragg) on Wednesday.

This deeply concerning slide from an anti-terrorism brief was first exposed by citizen journalist Sam Shoemate on X.


“An anti-terrorism brief was held on Fort Liberty (Bragg) today where they listed several Pro-Life organizations as “terrorist organizations.” The slide you see here followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East,” Shoemate wrote on X.

The presentation slide, which has since circulated widely on social media, lists these pro-life organizations that oppose “Roe[sic] v. Wade” under a headline reading “TERRORIST GROUPS.”

The presentation specifically focuses on organizations such as National Right to Life and Operation Rescue, both longstanding pillars of the pro-life movement.

These organizations are dedicated to peaceful advocacy against abortion, grounded in the belief that every life is valuable and worth protecting…

The slide also displayed a New York license plate bearing the text “IM4IT” and a design promoting the “Choose Life” message.

“They also included a screenshot of a license plate with “IM4IT,” which is a plate many Pro-Life citizens put on their car which implies normal citizens are terrorists if they display this plate,” Shoemate wrote.

“Keep in mind they’re not labeling them as extremist organizations (which would still be crazy), but as terrorist organizations. The military and Dept of Defense are insanely out of control. Service-members are being indoctrinated to view Pro-Life groups as the enemy,” Shoemate added.

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A bill that would make it mandatory for all Federal elections to require Voter ID to assure each person voting was who they claim they are AND is a U.S. citizen passed the House by a vote of 221-198, with all Republicans voting for it and only 5 Democrats joining them.

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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would expand on and enforce proof-of-citizenship requirements in federal elections. President Biden has vowed to veto the legislation if it is passed in the Senate, however, while Democrats have slammed the bill as “racist” and “xenophobic.”

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act passed through the House by a vote of 221-198 on Wednesday, with five Democrats voting in favor of the Republican-led bill.

If enacted, the legislation will require state election officials to ask about citizenship before providing voter registration forms. There is currently no requirement to provide proof of citizenship in order to receive federal voting forms. According to a recent report from the New York Post, this has led to non-citizens receiving voting forms in 49 states.

The SAVE Act would also allow state officials to accept a wide variety of documents that will make it easy for citizens to register to vote in federal elections, provide states with access to federal agency databases so they can remove noncitizens from voter rolls and confirm citizenship for individuals lacking proof of citizenship, and direct the Department of Homeland Security to determine whether to conduct removal proceedings if a noncitizen has been identified as having registered to vote in federal elections.

Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) failed to see her measure, an Inherent Contempt resolution against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, pass, it was voted down with 204 voting yes and 210 voting no. 12 Republicans were absent for the vote and 4 actually voted against it.

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Excerpt from thepostmillennial.com

The House voted to reject a resolution that would have held Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland in “inherent contempt” and would have fined him $10,000 per day if he did not comply with a Congressional subpoena. Congress demanded that he release audio recordings of Joe Biden’s interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur, which were part of the investigation into Biden’s illegal retaining of classified documents after leaving the vice presidency.

The resolution, brought by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), was met with a 204 to 210 vote. While 204 Republicans voted for the motion, another four voted against and 12 did not vote at all. The motion had been brought forward originally by Luna as well as Reps. Dan Crenshaw, Rich McCormick, Mark Alford, and Tim Burchett.