The Patriot Post® · Monday: Below the Fold
- No, Trump is not going to war with Chicago: Referencing a meme posted on Donald Trump’s Truth Social account that read, “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” an NBC reporter asked President Donald Trump, “Are you trying to go to war with Chicago?” Trump first blasted her for pushing fake news and then stated, “You don’t listen! You never listen. That’s why you’re second-rate. We’re not going to war; we’re gonna clean up our cities. We’re gonna clean them up, so they don’t kill five people every weekend. That’s not war; that’s common sense.” Trump then spun the focus on Chicago’s violent crime problem, noting the number of people killed and wounded in the city over the last two weeks.
The Biden pardon scam: Joe Biden set a record for the largest number of pardons and clemencies granted by a president in U.S. history — 4,245. Well, at least officially. The question is, how many of those pardons and clemencies did Biden actually personally authorize? The vast majority of them occurred within the last three and a half months of his presidency, and even more problematic was the unprecedented use of the autopen to sign them. There is little evidence that Biden was even consulted on the vast majority of autopen-signed clemencies. An email from White House counsel Tyeesha Dixon to White House Chief of Staff Michael Posada is revealing. Dixon wrote, “Michael, thoughts on how to handle this? He [Biden] doesn’t review the warrants.” A warrant is the official document declaring a clemency or pardon.
Was Trump an FBI informant against Epstein? In an apparent effort to defend Donald Trump’s claim that the ongoing controversy surrounding the Epstein files was a Democrat “hoax,” House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed last week that Trump “was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down.” Johnson said that when Trump learned of Epstein’s sex predation on young women, he was “horrified,” which was why he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago back in 2004. However, on Sunday, Johnson backed off the bombshell claim. His office released a statement clarifying that Trump “was the only one more than a decade ago willing to help prosecutors expose Epstein for being a disgusting child predator.” Democrats and a few Republicans, led by Rep. Thomas Massie, have proposed a bill dubbed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in an effort to force the Trump administration to release all documents related to Epstein’s crimes.
Trump warns FL against nixing school vax requirements: With Florida seeking to become the first state in the U.S. to end vaccine requirements for school children, Donald Trump weighed in on the issue on Friday. “I think we have to be very careful. You have some vaccines that are so amazing,” Trump told reporters. “Look, you have vaccines that work. They just pure and simple work. They’re not controversial at all, and I think those vaccines should be used. Otherwise, some people are going to catch it, and they endanger other people.” He added, “And when you don’t have controversy at all, I think people should take it.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has advocated for ending vaccine mandates in schools on the grounds of parental rights. As Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo explained, “Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?”
Autism and Tylenol: While Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s promise to reveal the cause of autism by September was ambitious at best, he is working on bringing more transparency to HHS and attempting to get to the bottom of the autism problem. The National Institutes of Health will soon release a report listing possible causes for the disorder and discussing what is known and unknown. HHS and RFK plan to announce a link between pregnant women who take Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. Some previous studies have shown acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to pose risks to fetal development. Other studies have not. In 2021, a group of 91 scientists published a consensus statement saying acetaminophen was risky for fetal development. Of course, Kenvue, the company that makes Tylenol, asserts, “There is no causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism.”
Michigan city debuts Arabic police logo: The Dearborn Heights Police Department is sacrificing safety and unity for a virtue signal of diversity. It’s not official, Mayor Bill Bazzi announced, and it is an optional patch that is still under review within the department. As of 2023, the Dearborn Heights population is 39% Arab or North African, and the neighboring city of Dearborn is the first Arab-majority city in the United States. If you import the third world and then appease them in the name of diversity by not requiring them to assimilate to American laws and language, our country will not only cease to exist but devolve into the third world. Let’s hope the mayor and the department listen to the pushback over this, and that more people across the country will see this as a wake-up call.
Trump removes “White House Peace Vigil”: What is believed to have been the longest continuously running anti-war protest in U.S. history came to an end on Sunday after Donald Trump ordered the removal of the so-called White House Peace Vigil encampment. First established in 1981 by the late William Thomas to protest nuclear weapons, the single-tent encampment, adorned with numerous protest signs, maintained a permanent spot in Lafayette Square Park, directly across the street from the White House. In May, New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew sent a letter to Interior Department Secretary Doug Burgum regarding the protest encampment, observing, “Nothing in the Constitution guarantees the right to erect permanent structures and occupy public land day after day, year after year, in a manner that creates public safety hazards, degrades the appearance of one of our most iconic parks, and burdens both the District and the National Park Service.”
Another Gaza hoax exposed: A hoax is bad enough, but to use the death of children to promote it is despicable. Hamas continues to exploit the suffering of children in its propaganda war against Israel. According to an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report, there have been 16 child deaths from malnutrition-related causes, with six total deaths per day across the entire Gaza Strip. These numbers, despite being exaggerated by Hamas, fall far short of the threshold for famine. The UN has repeatedly declared that there are famine conditions in parts of Gaza since Hamas’s attack on Israel, but Israel has refuted the claims, and evidence brought to light has proved it correct. Assertions of widespread food shortages stand against confirmed Israeli deliveries of 100,000 truckloads of humanitarian supplies. Gazans are suffering, but Israel and the war are not solely to blame, and the claims of famine are a facade.
Headlines
300 Hyundai plant workers to be sent back to South Korea (Daily Wire)
Tom Homan vows future raids like one at Hyundai plant, warns companies against illegal hiring (Fox News)
Trump says he’s giving Hamas one “last warning” to accept hostage deal (Just the News)
Zohran Mamdani’s CNN interview was so moronic that even Abby Phillip couldn’t let it slide (RedState)
CBS will now air interviews in their entirety after backlash over deceptive edits (National Review)
Mugshots released as two teens charged in fatal shooting of Capitol Hill intern (Fox News)
Judge shoots down Northern Virginia schools’ lawsuit to keep transgender bathrooms (Washington Times)
Humor: 10 other departments Trump is renaming (Babylon Bee)
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