Joe Biden arrived in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday for a drive-by photo-op border visit.
Brownsville is a desolate stretch with virtually no illegal alien invasion compared to other hot spots such as El Paso and Eagle Pass.
Trump supporters protested Biden’s arrival.
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Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days in office to weaken border security.
Since then, millions of military-age men from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and China have invaded the US.
Americans are being murdered by Joe Biden’s illegal aliens and he responds by visiting a desolate part of the southern border in a choreographed photo-op.
Biden’s stiff gait as he shuffled along a calm part of the border in Brownsville shocked the public. He barely moved his arms as he struggled to walk.
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“Where am I going?” Biden said on a hot mic.
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Trump is also at the Texas border, but he actually visited a place where Biden’s border invasion is much worse – Eagle Pass – hundreds of thousands of illegals have poured into Eagle Pass in the past few months.
President Donald Trump has accomplished a revolution of which few leaders are capable: He has led his MAGA followers from purity and defeat to maturity and power.
In his takeover of the GOP Senate delegation — signaled by his successful efforts to hasten Mitch McConnell’s retirement — he has infused the ranks of his most zealous supporters with a new understanding of power and how to get it.
In 2022, the watchword in MAGA was purity. Candidates were evaluated according to litmus tests of ideological fidelity. Wary of Republicans who go to Washington, grow a horn and turn RINO, GOP voters and leaders embraced the likes of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Oz and Georgia’s Herschel Walker — ideologically pure but politically inept.
Now there is a new team in town — the tandem of Montana Sen. Steve Daines and President Trump.
Daines, the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has brought a new wisdom and acuity to the job of running the Republican campaign for the Senate in 2024.
The new watchword is electability. Sacrificial lambs need not apply.
Harking back to the bare-knuckle tactics of legislative leaders like Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, Daines has promoted winners and told losers to, well, get lost.
But the weapon behind Daines’ leadership is Donald Trump’s endorsement.
Trump is so dominant and popular with the MAGA base that his word alone can make or break candidates. But in 2022, Trump often bestowed his endorsement on candidates with whom he empathized but who couldn’t win.
Daines is the perfect complement to Trump. They both have been burned by unelectable candidates and share a new pragmatic determination to endorse winners. In state after state, the duo are working together, with Daines winnowing the field while Trump enforces discipline with his endorsement.
The Montana Senate race exemplifies how these two lions hunt together.
Republicans found a superstar candidate in Tim Sheehy, a Purple Heart, Bronze Star combat veteran, but his path to the nomination against Jon Tester, a longtime Democratic senator, was blocked by Rep. Matt Rosendale, the at-large congressman for Montana.
Rosendale had taken on Tester in 2018, losing by 6 points even though Trump had carried Montana by 20 points.
Daines realized that he needed to sweep Rosendale aside and deployed the big man — Donald Trump — to do so in dramatic fashion. Hours after Rosendale announced his Senate candidacy, Trump swooped in and endorsed Sheehy, calling him an “American Hero.”
Rather than criticize Rosendale, Trump publicly urged him to run again for Congress, saying, “I also respect Matt Rosendale, and was very happy to Endorse him in the past — and will Endorse him again in the future should he decide to change course and run for his Congressional Seat.”
Oops! Rosendale withdrew from the Senate race, took Trump’s hint and declared his candidacy for re-election to Congress. Now Sheehy has every prospect of beating Tester.
In Arizona, Republicans were reluctant to rally in support of their defeated 2022 gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. But Daines made clear that the party was backing Lake and, using Trump’s endorsement as a cudgel, forced Republican Blake Masters, who was also considering entering the race, to follow Rosendale’s path and run instead for Congress.
In Nevada too, Daines is clearing the GOP field to make way for Sam Brown, a former Army captain whose face was shredded by an Iraqi roadside bomb. Brown, initially reluctant to back Trump, came around to support the former president in Nevada’s primary.
But Daines’ magical performance was in inducing Maryland’s two-term RINO governor, Larry Hogan, to run for Senate in one of the bluest states in the union. Now the GOP’s likely candidate — Hogan — holds a 10-point lead in the general election. A steal for Senate Republicans.
The Trump-Daines combo is the new game in town, and it has every promise of delivering a Senate majority to President Trump.
President Joe Biden’s White House has begun referring to border crossers and illegal aliens as “newcomers and “people who are in the country” — a terminology distinction that conflicts with federal immigration law.
On Thursday — while promoting a Senate bill to preserve his catch and release network at the United States-Mexico border — Biden’s White House made a passing reference to border crossers and illegal aliens, calling them “newcomers” to the U.S.
The White House fact sheet on the Senate bill reads:
The bill also includes $1.4 billion for cities and states who are providing critical services to newcomers, and would expedite work permits for people who are in the country and qualify. [Emphasis added]
Earlier this month, in a similar press release on the Senate bill, Biden’s White House touted billions that the legislation would provide to cities and states accepting these so-called “newcomers.”
The Biden administration has made it a point to rid the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of all references to “illegal aliens” or “illegal immigrants,” instead demanding officials use “more inclusive” terms like “noncitizens” and “undocumented individual.”
In July 2023, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended these changes:
In the Department of Homeland Security, I issued a memo very early on that we would not use the term ‘illegal alien’ when speaking of these individuals, we use the term ‘noncitizen,’ and that speaks to the importance of respecting the dignity of the individual. [Emphasis added]
Democrats in Congress have sought to ban the terms “illegal alien” and “alien” from federal law, filing legislation in 2021 that would strip all of their references.
Despite the Biden administration’s attempts, the term “alien” is regularly used as a legal definition to describe a foreign national residing in the U.S. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) codified the term into law and defines it as “any person not a citizen or national of the United States.”
“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said President Joe Biden could “throw every Republican in jail” if the Supreme Court rules in former President Donald Trump’s favor in the presidential immunity case.
The Supreme Court agreed to take up Trump’s presidential immunity appeal after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found he was not immune from prosecution in his election interference case brought forth by special counsel Jack Smith. The court will hear oral arguments on the matter beginning April 22.
“Let’s look at a scenario where the Supreme Court says yes, he has all those rights,” Goldberg began. “He is immune from everything. You know what Joe Biden could do since he is presently president? He could … throw every Republican in jail. I mean, he could. What this means is he could do anything. He could dismiss everybody’s debt. You know, there’s a whole bunch of great stuff that could happen. But let’s really look at what this means.”
“So they’re basically kicking the can down the road though,” co-host Joy Behar said. “They’re not taking up this case immediately. So what’s their motivation then if we all know that they can’t do what you just said because of the extreme power that the president would have. What is their motivation for not doing it right away?”
Co-host Sunny Hostin argued the conservative justices on the court “want to help” Trump since he cannot be indicted under the Department of Justice’s policy if re-elected.
“It’s his get-out-of-jail-free card,” Hostin said.
Goldberg added the Supreme Court ruling in Trump’s favor would be a “slippery slope.” Hostin argued the court will likely decide on the issue before the election.
Trump’s trial was scheduled for March 4, but District Judge Tanya Chutkan vacated the date until the court’s ruling.
Smith is charging Trump with four charges related to his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The former president referred to his case as “prosecutorial misconduct” and accused him of attempting to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.
At long last, first son Hunter Biden affirmed during his Wednesday impeachment inquiry deposition that his father, Joe, was “the big guy” referenced in an email about a business deal with a Chinese state-linked energy firm that yielded millions for Biden family members and other associates, more than three years after The Post broke the story — but rejected the notion that the president was ever penciled in for a 10% stake.
“At one point, we asked Hunter about the 10% for the ‘big guy,’” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, told Breitbart following Hunter’s six-hour, closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill. “We showed him the email … And he said, ‘Oh, that was after my father left office.’”
Hunter Biden arrives for a closed-door deposition before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and House Judiciary Committee in the O’Neill House Office Building on February 28, 2024 in Washington, DC.The statement represents the first time the 54-year-old Hunter has admitted that his former business partner James Gilliar was referring to Joe Biden when he raised the prospect on May 13, 2017, of the first son holding a 10% stake in the lucrative joint venture involving CEFC China Energy “for the big guy.”
The email, found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, was first reported by The Post in October 2020 as part of a bombshell series of reports on the first son’s influence-peddling schemes. Hunter Biden and his allies had long insisted that information found on the laptop either was not his or had been manipulated by bad actors — with dozens of former intelligence officials insisting the trove bore the hallmarks of Russian election interference.
“What’s wrong with having a pie-in-the-sky idea?” Hunter reportedly said in response to the line of questioning, noting he assumed his father “was done” with holding public office in 2017 after eight years as Barack Obama’s vice president.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) says Hunter Biden didn’t deny his dad, Joe, was “the big guy” in a Chinese state-linked entity that yielded $5 million for first family-linked accounts, her spokesman confirmed to The Post.Greene added that the first son stressed “there was no percentage which a source with direct knowledge of the deposition previously
That source said Hunter Biden told investigators that Gilliar “was out of his mind for even suggesting Joe Biden get involved in their joint venture.”
The president lashed out at a Post reporter in June 2023 when pressed about being repeatedly referred to as “the big guy,” a moniker that his brother Frank also used in addition to several of Hunter’s associates.
“Why do you ask such a dumb question?” Biden shot back.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) described the deal involving CEFC China Energy as “money laundering” when speaking with reporters on a break from the deposition, pointing to a $40,000 check Joe Biden received from his brother James, following a “complicated financial transaction.”
Comer released bank records last year showing the firm, a shuttered entity that was apparently part of the Chinese Communist Party’s “Belt and Road” foreign influence campaign, paid James and Hunter Biden $6.1 million in 2017 and 2018 — including a $5 million wire on Aug. 8, 2017, days after Hunter texted a CEFC translator that he was “sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
The first son rejected the notion that his father was ever penciled in for a 10% stake in a more than $5 million deal with CEFC China Energy.
Through a series of transfers to entities owned and controlled by Hunter, those funds flowed to other Biden family members, with $50,000 landing in a personal checking account for James and his wife, Sara — and the first brother writing the $40,000 check to the former vice president as a “loan repayment.”
At another point in the deposition, Hunter Biden also defended putting his dad on speakerphone more than 20 times with foreign associates, saying it was “totally normal for your parents to call you,” according to Greene.
At another point in the deposition, Hunter Biden also defended putting his dad on speakerphone more than 20 times with foreign associates and said it was “totally normal for your parents to call you,” according to Greene.
“We’ve been hearing about these speakerphones in public settings for a long time now,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the committee’s ranking member, saying there was nothing “illicit” in doing so and Hunter’s explanation resonated with both Democrats and Republicans in the hearing room.
“People say, ‘Hey, Dad, will you say hello to my friends?’” Raskin said.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) scoffed at the explanation and the first son’s purported expertise as a businessman.
“It is a mirage to believe that Hunter Biden was engaged in international business,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told reporters during another break. “This was a bribe masquerading as an international business transaction.”
“It is a mirage to believe that Hunter Biden was engaged in international business,” he told reporters during another break. “This was a bribe masquerading as an international business transaction.”
“Hunter Biden told us that he joined the Burisma board to counter Russian aggression. I hadn’t heard that one before,” he added.
Greene said the first son described his role — which netted him up to $1 million annually from 2014 to 2019 — as necessary “to defend democracy.”
