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Trump: Dems' 'Wild Socialist Spree' to Blame for Economy (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 17 September 2022 09:16 PM EDT

The Biden administration's "wild socialist spree" has thrown the United States into a recession, former President Donald Trump told Ohioans at his rally in Youngstown on Saturday night.

"There's no reason for us to be in a recession," he told the rally, which aired live on Newsmax. "We were doing it. We were doing things that nobody thought possible. You remember China was going to take the place of the United States as the world's largest economy in 2019, except we did so well."

Trump added his administration "put some of those beautiful tariffs on steel."

"I rebuilt our military, including our nuclear capability and the creation of Space Force," Trump said. "[The Biden administration] surrendered our strength and turned Afghanistan into the greatest humiliation our country has ever seen. I believe it was the most humiliating time in the history of our country."

But now, there is a war between Russia and Ukraine, with potentially hundreds of thousands of people dying, "but that would never have happened if I were your president. It would never have happened if they didn't rig the election."

Further, Trump said that "no third-world country would allow to happen to their border what's happening now to ours."

"I don't believe the 2 million and the 3 million," Trump said of the figures of people coming in over the border. "I believe it's 10 million who are coming in. They're phony numbers when they say two or three million people, and that's a lot bigger than most cities, but it's not the right number. It's much higher than that."

Trump also pointed out that his administration built hundreds of miles of border walls despite more than two years of Democrat-inspired lawsuits.

But then the election was "rigged," Trump. "I ran twice, I won twice and I did much better the second time."

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Trump: 'Thugs, Tyrants' Awakened a 'Sleeping Giant'

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 17 September 2022 08:41 PM EDT

The "thugs and tyrants" attacking the MAGA movement have awakened a "sleeping giant," former President Donald Trump said during his Save America rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Saturday night.

"They have no idea of the sleeping giant that they have awoken," Trump told the rally, which aired live on Newsmax. "The American people will never accept the corruption and the ruination of our beloved country, and that's what they want to do."

The Democrats' policies are "mad," he added, but Nov. 8, "we are going to vote in record numbers, and we are going to send these left-wing lunatics a message they cannot cancel, silence, or ignore all the abuse, all the smears, and all the attacks will not dissuade us. They will only make us stronger, much stronger. Much much stronger."

He pointed out that Democrats spied on his first campaign, but "nobody wants to do anything about it."

But, said Trump, "no matter what our sick and deranged political establishment throw at me, no matter what they do to me, I will endure their torment and oppression and I will do it very willingly. They will never get me to stop fighting for you, the American people. And I will never quit because the fate of our country is at stake."

He further attacked President Joe Biden for his speech in Philadelphia and the red backdrop that was used while he was talking.

"That was terrible," said Trump, "but that's where they're coming from. But you know what? We're strong and we're smart. We're smarter than them. We're stronger than them."

Further, Democrats "view 75 million Americans as enemies to be canceled and suppressed," said Trump. "They want to censor you from the internet, banish you from the public square, get you fired from your jobs, target you for destruction with 87,000 new IRS agents."

But, said Trump, "there's more enthusiasm right now than there has ever been for the rallies and for everything because you've seen what a horrible job they've done."

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Trump: 'Thugs, Tyrants' Awakened a 'Sleeping Giant' (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 17 September 2022 08:51 PM EDT

The "thugs and tyrants" attacking the MAGA movement have awakened a "sleeping giant," former President Donald Trump said during his Save America rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Saturday night.

"They have no idea of the sleeping giant that they have awoken," Trump told the rally, which aired live on Newsmax. "The American people will never accept the corruption and the ruination of our beloved country, and that's what they want to do."

The Democrats' policies are "mad," he added, but come Nov. 8, "we are going to vote in record numbers, and we are going to send these left-wing lunatics a message: They cannot cancel, silence, or ignore … all the abuse, all the smears, and all the attacks will not dissuade us. They will only make us stronger, much stronger. Much much stronger."

He pointed out that Democrats spied on his first campaign, but "nobody wants to do anything about it."

Trump said: "No matter what our sick and deranged political establishment throw at me, no matter what they do to me, I will endure their torment and oppression, and I will do it very willingly.

"They will never get me to stop fighting for you, the American people. And I will never quit because the fate of our country is at stake."

He further attacked President Joe Biden for his speech in Philadelphia and the red backdrop that was used while he was talking.

"That was terrible," said Trump, "but that's where they're coming from. But you know what? We're strong and we're smart. We're smarter than them. We're stronger than them."

Further, Democrats "view 75 million Americans as enemies to be canceled and suppressed," said Trump. "They want to censor you from the internet, banish you from the public square, get you fired from your jobs, target you for destruction with 87,000 new IRS agents."

He added, "There's more enthusiasm right now than there has ever been for the rallies and for everything, because you've seen what a horrible job they've done."

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Trump: Dems 'Been Trying for 6 Years' to Get Me (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 17 September 2022 08:29 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump taunted Democrats for "trying for six years to get me," and then told the crowd at his Save America rally in Youngstown, Ohio, "They haven't made it, and we're not going to let it happen."

Trump said, "Coming in, I noticed some of the factories, the old buildings, and I said, you know, 50 years ago that was something that was incredible." Trump told the rally, which aired live on Newsmax: "Now you look at them, and they're not looking too good. They're not looking too good. But we brought it back, and we brought it back strong, and now they're letting it go back to China and these other places. But everything changed six years ago when you finally got a president who put Ohio first and put America first."

But, Trump said, "from the moment I left my very luxurious and enjoyable life," the Democrats said, "let's go get this guy."

"They've been trying for six years," he said. "Democrats have been fighting tooth and nail to stop me because they know I will never be loyal to them because I will only be loyal to you and to our country."

He said that the "Washington swamp has put us through one monstrous witch hunt after another, including with the Russia-Mueller "scam, impeachments … prosecutorial abuse and restoration."

He said he thought the Jan. 6 committee's chase ended a few weeks ago when Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., lost "by a record number" but then, there was the "unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department and the FBI to break into and raid the home of a former president of the United States."

But those behind the witch hunts, he said, "have no shame, no morals, no conscience, and absolutely no respect for the citizens of our country."

"For six straight years, I've been harassed, investigated defamed, slandered, and persecuted like no other president and probably like no one in American history, yet all I have ever wanted, and all we've ever fought for, is to simply — very simply — make America great again," Trump said.

The investigators, he added, also go after his staff.

"They're sick," Trump said. "They go in and they take good people and they say you're going to jail for 10 years; you're going to jail for five years unless you say something bad about Trump.

"I can't believe how people don't want to do it. They don't want to do it because they are legitimate, and they see what's happening and they love our country."

He added: "Everyone associated with this travesty will go down in history as scoundrels and arsonists who tried to demolish our justice system, shatter our most sacred traditions, and wipe out the very foundations of our democracy for their own selfish partisan gain."

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Jon Voight to Newsmax: Trump's 'Abraham Accords' Doc Reveals What MSM Won't

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By Nick Koutsobinas | Saturday, 17 September 2022 08:03 PM EDT

Famed actor Jon Voight joined Newsmax Saturday to discuss his new documentary, "The Abraham Accords."

Voight told "The Count" of the Newsmax exclusive program that "it's a monumental event that is very little reported in the media. Of course, the mainstream media doesn't want to give any attention to Donald Trump at all. But it's a monumental event that happened that has brought peace and the possibility of peace — real peace to the Middle East — for the first time."

The special, which will air Sunday at 8 pm, brings an in-depth interview with President Donald Trump about the Abraham Accords.

Voight added that despite Trump's public image, for the special, "you're going to see me sitting down with a very different kind of man."

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Report: Jan. 6 Committee Quickly Crafting 'Sweeping Legislation'

The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 (Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images)

By Charles Kim | Saturday, 17 September 2022 03:33 PM EDT

The House select committee on Jan. 6 is working to quickly put together "sweeping legislation" to prevent a future similar event, The Hill reported Saturday.

"We have some minor factual loose ends to wrap up, but then really what we need to do is to make our sweeping legislative recommendations about what needs to be done to fortify America against coups and insurrections and political violence in the future," committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told the news outlet. "We want to strengthen and fortify the electoral system and the right to vote. We want to do what we can to secure the situation of election workers and keep them safe from violence. We want to solidify the states in their determination that private armed militias not operate in the name of the state. You know, we don't have any kind of federal law or policy about private armed militias."

According to the report, the panel has until the end of the year to finish its work, including legislation that could include election reforms and enhanced criminal penalties for similar actions.

The committee is charged with investigating the protest and eventual riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after several hundred supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the building in an attempt to stop a joint session of Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election.

The report said that committee vice chair Liz Cheney, R-Wy., wants to see harsher penalties for the actions taken by Trump, which she believes were a dereliction of duty in allowing the riot to unfold that day.

"We are evaluating whether our criminal laws should be enhanced to apply more consequences to this type of behavior," she told The Hill.

In addition to criminal penalties, the proposed legislation could also include a clarification of the vice president's role in the final certification as strictly ceremonial without an ability to challenge the results.

It may also increase the number of state delegation members required to challenge the electoral college votes from just one House member and Senate member to 20% of the state's delegation, according to the report.

Raskin told The Hill that the legislation must be "comprehensive," and it must do more than simply "clarify" the vice president's role.

"We need to develop a comprehensive approach to guaranteeing voting rights and solidifying the electoral apparatus against coups and insurrections, political violence and electoral sabotage in the future," Raskin said. "If all we did was to say that the vice president does not have the authority to nullify Electoral College votes, then we will not have lived up to this moment."

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: Hillary Trying to Capitalize as Centrist

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By Charles Kim | Saturday, 17 September 2022 02:36 PM EDT

Author, podcast cohost and adviser to former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump Dick Morris told Newsmax Saturday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is taking a page from her husband's political playbook and moving toward the center for a potential 2024 run at the presidency.

"[Hillary] is following precisely the same game plan that Bill Clinton followed in 1992 to win the Democratic nomination," Morris said during "Saturday Report." "I feel like I'm back in the Clinton White House. She is following it word by word."

Morris said that he outlines the plan to move more to the center in his bestselling book "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback" after Democrats lose control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.

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"Now Hillary is doing the same thing," he said. "Yesterday, she said that most Americans do not want open borders, and she even criticized [President Joe] Biden directly for calling Republicans 'fascists.' She's trying to move to the center just like [Bill], and she knows that the Democrats are probably going to lose both houses of Congress in November. And she's hoping to use their anger and disappointment about that to catalyze her candidacy, just like Bill did in 1992."

Hillary Clinton said on MSNBC Friday that the country needs to come together to deal with the crisis at the southern border and to reform immigration policy.

"Nobody wants open borders who has any idea of how government and countries work," Clinton said during MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "But nobody wants inhumane terrible treatment of human beings either. What we should have been doing is to come together to reform change and better fund the system by which we deal with these issues. But some people, like [Gov. Greg Abbott] of Texas, would rather have an issue than be part of a solution."

The former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee told CBS News earlier this month that she would not make a third run for the White House in 2024.

"No. No," Clinton, who lost to former Republican President Donald Trump in 2016, told CBS News anchor Norah O'Donnell after being asked about a possible run. "But I'm going to do everything I can to make sure we have a president who respects our democracy and the rule of law and upholds our institutions."

Despite her assertion that she will not run and would support Biden's reelection bid in 2024, there have been rumors about her becoming the leader of the party as Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' poll numbers continue to sink, CNN reported in June.

"Clinton is exactly the right person to put steel in the Democrats' spine and bring attention to the reality that 'ultra-MAGA' Republicans, as President Biden calls them, are tearing apart the nation," CNN reported Democratic pundit Juan Williams writing in an article for The Hill newspaper at the time. "Keep talking and talk louder, Hillary!"

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Dershowitz to Newsmax: Special Master Unpredictable in Trump Case

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By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 17 September 2022 01:54 PM EDT

It's hard to predict how Brooklyn senior Judge Raymond Dearie, who has been named as the special master to lead the independent review of materials seized by the FBI at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in August, will carry out his task, Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on Newsmax Saturday.

"He's been the U.S. attorney, that is, the chief prosecutor in Brooklyn," Dershowitz said on Newsmax's "America Right Now." "He has been a federal judge and, most importantly, he [was] on the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court, which means his inclinations are probably in the favor of the government."

Dearie was recommended by Trump's legal team and approved by Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, to determine which parts of the documents that were seized were privileged communications and which are subject to classifications of confidentiality, said Dershowitz. "It seems to me that he would lean in favor of the government; but, you know, we can't tell for sure," he said. "Most of his background and experience has been on the prosecution side."

Cannon also said that Trump must pay Dearie's fees, but Dershowitz said that is not an unusual move.

"It is often the person who is seeking it who has to for it," said Dershowitz. "It will be very expensive because he is a lawyer in a big firm, which charges a couple of thousand bucks an hour sometimes for the work; and they will also be lots of assistants, lots of associates, lots of junior partners working on this. This is not a one-person job. It will be interesting to see what the bill is at the end of the day."

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice issued more than three dozen subpoenas over the past week in its Jan. 6 investigation, and Dershowitz said it seems that there is a greater sense of urgency now on the matter.

"I much prefer subpoenas over search warrants," said Dershowitz. "There also been some search warrant issues. One example is Mike Lindell's phone was taken away from him. I represented Mike in a number of other cases, and he was subject both to a subpoena and a search warrant."

He said he doesn't know how many other search warrants have been issued, "but it does represent an escalation."

However, it's not known what the DOJ is looking for, he said, whether it's information on the Jan. 6 incidents at the Capitol, classified materials or efforts to change the election results, as there are just a few clues from the subpoenas and warrants.

"I think the first step would be to demand the affidavits being made public so that we can get a better sense of what the investigation is about," said Dershowitz. "I also think that the Trump folks should release some of their own communications back and forth with the DOJ to try to get their side of the story out there. Transparency is essential, particularly when you're having one administration investigate the potential candidate on the other side … it has to be a slam-dunk case, and it has to be performed with extreme care and sensitivity."

Dershowitz further on Saturday commented on California Gov. Gavin Newsom's call to charge Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis with kidnapping for transporting immigrants to other states, calling it "a lot far-fetched."

"Look, I live in Martha's Vineyard in the summer, and we are welcoming these folks with open arms," said Dershowitz. "I already yesterday, as soon as we found out about this, I offered through my synagogue to pay to feed and give medical care. Many of us are grandchildren and great-grandchildren of immigrants who escaped persecution. We have to be the first people to open our arms."

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Released After Thyroid Cancer Surgery Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

By Nick Koutsobinas | Saturday, 17 September 2022 01:56 PM EDT

Former White House press secretary and Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders was released Saturday from the hospital following the removal of thyroid cancer.

"On our way home from the hospital — cancer free," Huckabee Sanders wrote, according to The Hill. "Words cannot express how much we appreciate the outpouring of love, prayers and support!"

On Saturday, her spokesman Judd Deere took to Twitter to share the news.

"Following successful surgery on Friday to remove her thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes and in consultation with her physician, Sarah was discharged from an Arkansas hospital — cancer free — today," Deere wrote. "She will spend the remaining portion of her recovery at home."

"Sarah is in great spirits and remains grateful for the exceptional care and service provided by the doctors and nurses."

Deere told The Associated Press that Sanders, 40, plans to resume campaigning "soon," but it was not known precisely when she would return.

Sanders said Friday when announcing the surgery that a biopsy earlier this month revealed she had thyroid cancer.

Dr. John R. Sims, a surgeon at CARTI Cancer Center in Little Rock who is one of Sanders' doctors, said Sanders' cancer was a stage 1 papillary thyroid carcinoma, the most common type of thyroid cancer and said she has an "excellent" prognosis.

Sims said Sanders will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine and long-term continuing care.

Sanders, who served as former President Donald Trump's spokeswoman until 2019, is running against Democrat nominee Chris Jones. She is the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Jones and his wife, Jerrilyn, on Friday issued a statement saying their family was thinking of Sanders and praying for her.

Sanders is heavily favored in the predominantly Republican state of Arkansas to win the office currently held by Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is leaving office in January due to term limits.

She has run primarily on national issues in the Arkansas race, promising to use the governor's office to fight President Joe Biden and the "radical left."

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Rep. Bishop to Newsmax: FBI Needs to Be Decentralized

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By Solange Reyner | Saturday, 17 September 2022 12:35 PM EDT

Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., said the FBI needs to be decentralized and Republicans need to look at the agency "top to bottom" when they hold the majority in Congress.

"If you look at the [Hillary] Clinton email scandal, the Crossfire Hurricane spying on the presidential campaign, the corrupt FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] applications, the missing Woods files, the Bruce Ohr, the Steele dossier, it goes on and on, the latest one being the raid on [former President Donald] Trump's Florida home being a project of the Washington field office," Bishop said Saturday during an appearance on Newsmax's "Wake Up America."

"There are all sorts of indications that we've got to give a hard look at the FBI, but the biggest problem … is that from Robert Mueller's administration of the FBI, the emphasis has been to make it into an intelligence organization and to favor centralized decision making. I think it's turned it into a political weapon, and it's got to stop."

The FBI's argument to raid Trump's home, he added, "is not sufficient."

"The judge has recognized that in Florida that (the FBI) simply showing that something's got stamped 'top secret' doesn't make it a classified document when the president was dealing with it. I think for the American people's confidence to be restored it's going to require a lot more than that. In the next Congress we need under Republican majority to have something like the Church committee in the 70s and look hard at the FBI top to bottom.

"There are lots of problems. The unprecedented raid on the home of a former president of the United States is just the latest."

Bishop also touched on the hypocrisy of the Biden administration and Democrats for their actions related to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis sending 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

"Most tellingly, they shipped them out as soon as they could, sent them to a military base to house them," Bishop said.

"There's noplace in America that has the resources to accommodate thousands and thousands of migrants coming across without any processing, without any adjustment providing for them. What the left has always done: They virtue signal about how humane they want to be. They're creating monstrous inhumanity for the migrants, and they're destroying the country in the process."

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US Appeals Court Rejects Big Tech's Right Regulate Online Speech An illustration picture taken in London on Dec. 18, 2020, shows the logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone. (Justin Tallis/Getty Images)

Daniel Trotta Saturday, 17 September 2022 10:19 AM EDT

A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a Texas law that bars large social media companies from banning or censoring users based on "viewpoint," a setback for technology industry groups that say the measure would turn platforms into bastions of dangerous content.

The largely 2-1 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, sets up the potential for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the law, which conservatives and right-wing commentators have said is necessary to prevent "Big Tech" from suppressing their views.

"Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say," Judge Andrew Oldham, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, wrote in the ruling.

The Texas law was passed by the state's Republican-led legislature and signed by its Republican governor.

The tech groups that challenged the law and were on the losing end of Friday's ruling include NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which count Meta Platforms' Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet Inc's YouTube as members.

They have sought to preserve rights to regulate user content when they believe it may lead to violence, citing concerns that unregulated platforms will enable extremists such as Nazi supporters, terrorists and hostile foreign governments.

The association on Friday said it disagreed with forcing private companies to give equal treatment to all viewpoints. "'God Bless America' and 'Death to America' are both viewpoints, and it is unwise and unconstitutional for the state of Texas to compel a private business to treat those the same," it said in a statement.

Some conservatives have labeled the social media companies' practices abusive, pointing to Twitter's permanent suspension of Trump from the platform shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters. Twitter had cited "the risk of further incitement of violence" as a reason.

The Texas law forbids social media companies with at least 50 million monthly active users from acting to "censor" users based on "viewpoint," and allows either users or the Texas attorney general to sue to enforce the law.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Twitter hailed the ruling as "massive victory for the constitution and free speech."

Because the 5th Circuit ruling conflicts with part of a ruling by the 11th Circuit, the aggrieved parties have a stronger case for petitioning the Supreme Court to hear the matter.

In May, the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, found that most of a similar Florida law violates the companies' free speech rights and cannot be enforced.

Trump to Stump for Vance in Ohio Senate Race Senate candidate J.D. Vance speaks with prospective voters on the campaign trail on April 11, 2022. in Troy, Ohio. (Gaelen Morse/Getty Images)

By Luca Cacciatore | Friday, 16 September 2022 10:02 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump is flying to Ohio this weekend in support of his endorsed Republican nominee in the U.S. Senate race, J.D. Vance, The Hill reported.

Vance, a venture capitalist and the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," is currently leading Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan in a RealClearPolitics average of the polls conducted thus far by a margin of 2.7 points.

Recent surveys from the Trafalgar Group and Emerson College have Vance at four percentage points or higher above Ryan, with the race still featuring many undecideds — as high as 13%, according to Emerson's latest survey.

Polling data in the state has been notoriously off. In 2018, nine major pollsters in the month leading up to that year's midterm had Democrat gubernatorial nominee Richard Cordray tied or leading current Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican.

DeWine would go on to win by nearly four points, according to Ballotpedia.

The 2020 presidential election polling showed the state as a toss-up between Trump and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. In the end, Trump would win by an eight-point margin.

Trump, who might seek a rematch against Biden in 2024, warned Ohio-based radio broadcaster Hugh Hewitt ahead of the Saturday rally that any indictments against him could initiate "problems in this country the likes of which we've never seen before."

"I think they'd have big problems, big problems. I just don't think they'd stand for it. They [the public] will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes," the former president said, clarifying that he was not inciting any violent action.

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Biden Admits to Lie: 'I Wasn't Arrested' Trying to See Mandela (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

By Luca Cacciatore | Friday, 16 September 2022 09:37 PM EDT

After claiming three times in 2020 to have been arrested while attempting to see South African leader Nelson Mandela, President Joe Biden came clean on Friday, the New York Post reported.

"I said once — I said I got arrested. I wasn't arrested. I got stopped, prevented from moving. But he was extremely gracious," Biden confessed while sitting down with current South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Then a senator from Delaware, Biden explained that he was excited to see Mandela when he visited the U.S. He claimed the legendary figure greeted him by recalling the time "I had been stopped trying to get to visit him" in prison.

Biden previously pushed the claim he was arrested when running against then-President Donald Trump. However, he attracted wide-ranging media scrutiny, including from left-leaning outlets, one of which called the story "ridiculous."

"I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him [Mandela] on Robbens Island," Biden remarked in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 16, 2020.

However, The Washington Post noted that Biden's geography was strikingly off. The city of Soweto is nearly 900 miles from the Robben Island prison, which he also mispronounced.

But former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young gave the definitive blow when he told The Post that Biden had never been arrested in the country, despite Biden invoking Young in previous comments as being detained along with him.

"There is no chance I ever was arrested in South Africa, and I don't think Joe was either," Young said. "I was arrested twice — in Savannah and Atlanta."

White House communications director Kate Bedingfield later admitted that the story was off-kilter, stating that the incident described was actually when Biden got separated from the Congressional Black Caucus at the airport.

"It was a separation. He was not allowed to go through the same door as the rest of the party he was with," she said, according to the New York Post.

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US Asks Appeals Court to Lift Judge's Mar-a-Lago Probe Hold (Dreamstime)

ERIC TUCKER Friday, 16 September 2022 09:23 PM EDT

The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court Friday to lift a judge's order that temporarily barred it from reviewing a batch of classified documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home last month.

The department told the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta that the judge's hold was impeding the “government’s efforts to protect the nation’s security” and interfering with its investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago. It said the hold needed to be lifted immediately so work could resume.

“The government and the public would suffer irreparable harm absent a stay,” department lawyers wrote in their brief to the appeals court.

The judge's appointment of a “special master” to review the documents, and the resulting legal tussle, appear certain to further slow the department’s criminal investigation. It remains unclear whether Trump, who has been laying the groundwork for another potential presidential run, or anyone else might be charged.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon earlier this month directed the department to halt its use of the records until further court order, or until the completion of a report of an independent arbiter who is to do his own inspection of the documents and weed out any covered by claims of legal privilege.

On Thursday night, she assigned Raymond Dearie, the former chief judge of the federal court based in Brooklyn, to serve as the arbiter — also known as a special master. She also declined to lift an order that prevented the department from using for its investigation about 100 seized documents marked as classified, citing ongoing disputes about the nature of the documents that she said merited a neutral review.

“The Court does not find it appropriate to accept the Government’s conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party in an expedited and orderly fashion,” she wrote.

The Justice Department last week asked Cannon to put her own order on hold by Thursday, and said that if she did not, it would ask the appeals court to step in.

The FBI says it took about 11,000 documents, including roughly 100 with classification markings found in a storage room and an office, while serving a court-authorized search warrant at the home. Weeks after the search, Trump lawyers asked a judge to appoint a special master to do an independent review of the records.

In her Sept. 5 order, Cannon agreed to name a special master to sift through the records and filter out any that may be potentially covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.

In appointing Dearie on Thursday, she granted him access to the entire tranche of documents, including classified records. She directed him to complete his review by Nov. 30 and to prioritize the review of classified documents, and directed the Justice Department to permit the Trump legal team to inspect classified records with “controlled access conditions.”

The Justice Department disagreed with the judge that the special master should be empowered to inspect the classified records. It said the classified records that were seized do not contain communication between Trump and his lawyers that could be covered by attorney-client privilege, and said the former president could not credibly invoke executive privilege to shield government documents that do not belong to him from the investigation.

Though the department had argued that its work was being unduly impeded by the judge’s order, Cannon disagreed, noting in her order Thursday that officials could proceed with other aspects of their investigation, such as interviewing witnesses.

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Dershowitz to Newsmax: 'Surprised' Trump Team Approved Dearie as Special Master (Newsmax/"Spicer & Co.")

By Jay Clemons | Friday, 16 September 2022 08:01 PM EDT

On Friday evening, in the wake of a special master arbiter being appointed to the document dispute between the Department of Justice and former President Donald Trump, Newsmax spoke to Matthew Whitaker, the acting attorney general during the Trump administration, and Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School and one of this nation's foremost authorities on the U.S. Constitution.

Both the DOJ and Trump's legal team approved the appointment of special master Raymond Dearie, a former federal prosecutor who also served as the chief judge of the federal court based in Brooklyn.

Dershowitz admitted to being "surprised" by the Trump legal team's submission of Dearie, who signed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant in 2018 geared toward Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.

Also, FISA court judges generally err "on the side of the government and national security," says Dershowitz, while appearing on "Spicer & Co." with host Sean Spicer.

Dershowitz, who's promoting his book, "The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth The Consequences," said Dearie has a reputation of being a "good judge, a fair judge. … He's had a very distinguished career, but it's also very much a pro-prosecution career, a pro-national security career."

Overall, Dershowitz doesn't "understand completely why the Trump team would pick [Dearie]."

Dershowitz added: Dearie may lean politically to the right, and he was appointed to the federal courts by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. "But in New York, there are many anti-Trump Republicans."

On the flip side, Whitaker believes the Trump team had a number of positive reasons for Dearie's special master submission. As a general rule, these types of recommendations typically go to legal minds the Trump team would "know" and "trust."

"This is a great win for the Trump team, and I continue to believe they wouldn't have put [Dearie's] name forward if they didn't think he would be fair," says Whitaker. "At the end of the day, all we want is someone who follows the rule of law" and makes judgments "based on reason and common sense. … I think he'll do a very good job."

Both Whitaker and Dershowitz are presuming that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will reject the DOJ's appeal to continue the criminal investigation involving Trump while special master Dearie combs through approximately 11,000 government documents — some of which may or may not have been formally declassified by then-President Trump, prior to leaving office in January 2021.

"Every judge is different … but this isn't calling balls and strikes," says Dershowitz, using a baseball analogy to exacerbate the point that the "top secret" or "classified" markings of the documents could be moot if Trump declassified the papers as president.

As for Cannon's conduct throughout this dispute, in terms of wading through the DOJ claims of national security being at risk from papers being stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Dershowitz says, the "government does cry wolf from time to time, on matters of national security. … There doesn't seem to be evidence that national security … is at serious risk."

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Special Master Dearie Summons DOJ and Trump Lawyers to Brooklyn

A page from the order by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon naming Raymond Dearie as special master to serve as an independent arbiter and to review records seized in the FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. (Jon Elswick/AP)

By Nicole Wells | Friday, 16 September 2022 07:25 PM EDT

Raymond Dearie, the special master in the Mar-a-Lago investigation, has summoned lawyers for the Department of Justice and former President Donald Trump to Brooklyn, New York, for a preliminary conference, Politico reports.

According to a Friday court filing, the attorneys are scheduled to appear at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20.

Last month, Trump's lawyers had asked a judge to name a special master to do an independent review of the records seized in the FBI's search of the former president's Palm Beach, Florida, estate, Mar-a-Lago. Trump's attorneys also requested that any documents that may be covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege be segregated.

DOJ argued that the appointment of a special master was unnecessary, as it had already conducted its own review, and Trump had no right to claim executive privilege, which normally permits the president to keep certain information from the public and Congress.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon disagreed with DOJ and directed both sides to name possible candidates for the job. The Trump appointee also ordered the Justice Department to pause its investigation until ''further Court order'' or until the special master completes his review.

Trump's legal team suggested either Dearie or a Florida lawyer for the position and DOJ said that, in addition to the two retired judges it recommended, Dearie would be an acceptable choice for it as well.

A top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York from 1982 to 1986, Dearie was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan. He has also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorizes DOJ wiretap requests in investigations involving suspected foreign agents.

Federal agents removed 11,000 documents from Trump's Florida home and recovered more than 300 other classified documents that he took with him when he left office, prosecutors said.

Citing unsealed federal documents, the New York Post reports that the former president is under investigation for obstruction of justice and potentially violating the Espionage Act.

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FBI Agents: Admin Pushing Agency to Exaggerate White Supremacy, Domestic Terrorism (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

By Solange Reyner | Friday, 16 September 2022 06:53 PM EDT

FBI agents say the Biden administration is pushing the agency to exaggerate the threat of white supremacists and domestic terrorism ahead of the midterm elections, reports The Washington Times.

"The demand for white supremacy" coming from FBI headquarters "vastly outstrips the supply of white supremacy," said one agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We have more people assigned to investigate white supremacists than we can actually find."

The report came the same day President Joe Biden during an address at a White House summit on hate-based violence said America can't remain silent when it comes to combating white supremacy and hate.

"We need to say clearly and forcefully, white supremacy, all forms of hate … have no place in America," Biden said at the "United We Stand Summit. "As to those who say, we bring this up, we just divide the country — bring it up, we silence it, instead of remaining silenced. For in silence, wounds deepen."

Biden has been turning up the rhetoric against former President Donald Trump and his America First loyalists ahead of the midterms, calling them existential threats to democracy.

In his recent "Soul of the Nation" speech, Biden said, "The MAGA Republicans believe that for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail."

The Washington Times report said top administration officials are "pressuring FBI agents to create domestic terrorist cases and tag people as white supremacists to meet internal metrics."

"We are sort of the lapdogs as the actual agents doing these sorts of investigations, trying to find a crime to fit otherwise First Amendment-protected activities," said one FBI agent. "If they have a Gadsden flag and they own guns and they are mean at school board meetings, that's probably a domestic terrorist."

An FBI spokesperson denied the claim.

"The FBI aggressively investigates threats posed by domestic violent extremists," the person said. "We do not investigate ideology, and we do not investigate particular cases based on the political views of the individuals involved. The FBI will continue to pursue threats or acts of violence, regardless of the underlying motivation or sociopolitical goal."

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Arkansas GOP Gov. Candidate Huckabee Sanders 'Cancer Free' After Thyroid Surgery Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the America First Policy Institute Agenda Summit in July. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

By Solange Reyner | Friday, 16 September 2022 06:18 PM EDT

Arkansas GOP gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she underwent surgery Friday to remove thyroid cancer.

"Today, I underwent a successful surgery to remove my thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes and by the grace of God I am now cancer-free," Sanders said in a statement released by her campaign. "I want to thank the Arkansas doctors and nurses for their world-class care, as well as my family and friends for their love, prayers, and support."

Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, served as former President Donald Trump's spokeswoman until 2019. She is running against Democratic nominee Chris Jones and is endorsed by Trump.

Sanders' doctor said he expected her to be back on her feet within the next 24 hours.

Sanders "is currently recovering from surgery in which we removed her thyroid gland and some of the surrounding lymph nodes in her neck. The surgery went extremely well, and I expect her to be back on her feet even within the next 24 hours," Dr. John R. Sims said in a statement.

"This is a Stage I papillary thyroid carcinoma which is the most common type of thyroid cancer and has an excellent prognosis. While she will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine, as well as continued long term follow up, I think it's fair to say she's now cancer free, and I don't anticipate any of this slowing her down," Sims added.

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A Florida judge has approved 45th President Donald J. Trump’s pick to review his documents in the Mar-a-Lago raid case.

On Thursday, Judge Aileen Cannon appointed Raymond Dearie as the case’s special master. Dearie is a former chief judge of a federal court in the Eastern District of New York. He was first appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 to serve as a federal judge. Dearie is currently an active judge on senior status. He is described by his peers as being an “old school gentleman and unfailingly polite.” He is also described as being the “platonic ideal of what you want in a judge.”

Additionally, Judge Cannon denied the Depart of Justice’s (DOJ’s) motion for a stay. The DOJ attempted to prevent a review of the roughly 100 documents obtained in the raid but their motion was struck down. Trump’s team argued that a special master was necessary to ensure that the DOJ return private documents that were seized during the raid.

Judge Cannon is giving Dearie until November 30th to complete his work. Initially, the DOJ requested the process to end in October, however Trump’s legal team requested that they are allowed 90 days. In this time, he is instructed to issue interim reports and recommendations “as appropriate.”

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Rep. Clyde to Newsmax: 'King' Biden Not Serving People With Abortion Orders (Newsmax/"American Agenda")

By Jay Clemons | Friday, 16 September 2022 04:09 PM EDT

It's one thing for a president to sign a lot of executive orders, says Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., but it's another to push measures that go against the will of the American people.

The executive branch "is supposed to faithfully execute the law," exercising its power "for laws that Congress has already passed. But that's not what [Biden] is doing," Clyde told Newsmax Friday afternoon, while appearing on "American Agenda" with host Katrina Szish.

"[Biden's] trying to create law on his own, and that's not what a president is allowed to do," says Clyde. "That's what a king does … and we got rid of that back in 1776. We don't have a king in this country anymore. [Biden] is certainly not one, and he cannot make law."

President Joe Biden has signed 98 executive orders during his 19-plus months in office, an average pace of 60 executive orders per year — and a higher average than former President Donald Trump (55 per annum).

Clyde's latest philosophical difference with the president involves Biden signing two executive orders that would essentially direct several federal agencies to take action on abortion rights — regardless of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent overturning of Roe v. Wade (by a 5-4 decision), or various states already having abortion bans on the books.

The White House's plan, from Clyde's perspective: "Protecting and increasing access to abortion, and using federal funds to do it, which is a violation of the law. … It's inexcusable that [Biden] would undermine the authority of the United States Supreme Court," while also disrespecting the various state governments and "going against the will of the American people."

Clyde added: "The government is here to protect and defend life, not to [facilitate] the murder of unborn babies."

This week, Clyde introduced Protect the UNBORN Act, which would defund Biden's executive orders on abortion, and the Georgia Republican — who's up for reelection this November — says 89 other GOP leaders have already pledged their support of the bill.

The "unborn" part of the title name also stands for "Undoing Negligent Biden Orders Right Now," says Clyde, half-joking.

Regarding the substance of the bill, Clyde takes that seriously.

"President Biden is trying to govern by executive fiat," says Clyde, while adding the mission of Congress is keeping the executive branch in check.

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