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MAGA Inc Senate Ads Running in Pennsylvania, Ohio (Newsmax)

By Charlie McCarthy | Friday, 07 October 2022 12:20 PM EDT

A PAC sanctioned by former President Donald Trump launched video ads for U.S. Senate races in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The Pennsylvania ad targets Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who's in a tight race against Republican Mehmet Oz.

MAGA Inc.'s new ad, which was tweeted Thursday night by Save America Director of Communications Taylor Budowich, focuses on Fetterman casting the only vote in favor of clemency for man convicted of murder.

"He brutally murdered his girlfriend's mother with a pair of scissors. Convicted of first-degree murder, John Brookins is serving a life sentence. John Fetterman was the only member of the pardon board to vote for Brookins' release — the only vote," a speaker says in the video ad.

"John Fetterman wants ruthless killers, muggers, and rapists back on our streets, and he wants them back now. John Fetterman is dangerous."

Meanwhile, Republican J.D. Vance is trying to defeat Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, and succeed retiring Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.

The Washington Free Beacon's Joe Gabriel Simonson on Friday tweeted a "first look" at the MAGA Inc. video ad, which begins by showing Ryan at an event attended by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

"'Sen. Schumer's here and I want to make sure he's my future boss so I gotta such up a little bit here,'" Ryan says before a voiceover speaker is heard.

"Tim Ryan voted the liberal party line 100% of the time. Giving stimulus checks to illegal immigrants. Hitting middle-class families with tax hikes, Creating sky-high inflation. Driving our economy to the brink of recession. 'I gotta suck up a little bit here.' Did he ever."

AdImpact Politics tweeted Thursday that MAGA Inc., sanctioned by Trump, began its campaign spending by placing broadcast reservations in Ohio with $276,000 in Columbus and Cleveland.

Budowich, a former senior adviser on Trump's 2020 campaign, oversees MAGA Inc., Politico reported. Longtime Republican operative Chris LaCivita, who previously ran the pro-Trump super PAC Preserve America, will be chief strategist.

"President Trump is committed to saving America, and Make America Great Again, Inc., will ensure that is achieved at the ballot box in November and beyond," Budowich told Politico last month.

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NYT: DOJ Said to Suspect Trump Has Additional Documents (Newsmax)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Friday, 07 October 2022 10:03 AM EDT

Jay Bratt, who heads the Justice Department's counter Intelligence operations told lawyers for Donald Trump in recent weeks that the DOJ believes the former president has not returned all the documents he took when he left the White House, The New York Times is reporting.

The newspaper attributed the information to two people briefed on the matter.

It is unknown whether DOJ has uncovered any new evidence that Trump is in possession of additional documents even after the FBI raid on his South Florida estate in August. And it remains unclear what steps, if any, DOJ officials might take to get back the additional material — if it does exist. The Justice Department declined to comment.

The FBI seized a combination of government, business, and personal documents when agents raided former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, a recently unsealed court filing showed.

Thousands of documents included analysis about pardon requests, call notes marked with a presidential seal, and retainer agreements for lawyers and accountants, Bloomberg reported, based on a recently unsealed Aug. 30 report from the Justice Department.

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N.H. Candidate Leavitt to Newsmax: Youth 'Greatest Asset' in House Race Karoline Leavitt (AP)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Friday, 07 October 2022 09:46 AM EDT

Karoline Leavitt, the 25-year-old New Hampshire GOP candidate seeking election to the U.S. House of Representatives, is often attacked by her opponent because of her age, but Leavitt said on Newsmax on Friday that her youth is her "greatest asset," as voters in the state's 1st Congressional District "want a fresh voice."

"It's funny because my opponents try to use it as our greatest weakness," Leavitt told Newsmax's "Wake Up America," adding that people in her district "want youthful energy down in Washington, D.C., to shake up the system."

Leavitt could be the youngest woman elected to Congress, coming in at four years younger than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who was 29 when she was sworn in.

Leavitt, a 2019 graduate of Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, worked in former President Donald Trump's administration just after graduating and became an assistant press secretary under Kayleigh McEnany, reports CNN. After Trump left office, Leavitt worked for Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who was once the youngest woman elected to Congress, taking office in 2014 at 30.

Leavitt is challenging incumbent Democrat Rep. Christopher Pappas, who was sworn into office in 2019.

Leavitt told Newsmax that some have been in Congress "twice as long as I have been alive, clinging to power and ripping off hardworking families like my own. That's why I got involved in this race in the first place."

Leavitt also said that young voices need to be elected, because "Generation Z [is] unfortunately being taught socialism and cultural marxism by the left."

"It's in every institution in this country, starting in our public schools, higher education universities, the mainstream media, tech, Hollywood, you name it," said Leavitt. "It's indoctrinating my generation, and we desperately need a young conservative voice to wake up these voters. So not only can we win elections, but we can save our country as well."

Leavitt also discussed the issues facing her state and said that the main concern is with the rising cost of energy.

"We have some of the highest electricity rates of any state in the country," said Leavitt. "We're a cold weather state, and this winter, we're facing a home heating oil shortage, which is a very dangerous and scary reality.

"I'm talking to mothers and fathers who are choosing between feeding their children eating and heating this winter, and it's a direct result of the policies of the Biden administration that my Democratic opponent, Chris Pappas, has supported 100% of the time."

But Pappas says he pushed the Biden administration into tapping into the federal oil energy reserves, said Leavitt, and she called that a mistake.

"We've nearly depleted those emergency reserves," she said. "Those are supposed to be used for war time."

Levitt also on Friday discussed the fentanyl crisis, saying it's one of the top issues facing her state and is becoming worse because of the Biden administration's "wide open border policies."

"The fentanyl crisis has hit us hard for nearly a decade," said Leavitt. "I know way too many people, unfortunately, that have lost their lives to drug addiction, and we have a real problem, and it's only gotten worse because of the wide-open border policies of this administration.

"I'm proud to be supported by the New Hampshire Police Association and several sheriffs within my district, because they know I will fight to shut down the border and stop this influx of drugs."

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Trump Mocks 'Liddle Ben Sasse' Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. (Al Drago-Pool/Getty)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Friday, 07 October 2022 08:25 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump ridiculed Sen. Ben Sasse after reports emerged that the Nebraska Republican is expected to resign from the Senate by the end of the year to head the University of Florida.

Trump’s comments came in a pair of posts on Truth Social.

He wrote: “Great news for the United States Senate, and our Country itself. Liddle’ Ben Sasse, the lightweight Senator from the great State of Nebraska, will be resigning. If he knew he was going to resign so early in his term, why did he run in the first place? But it’s still great news! The University of Florida will soon regret their decision to hire him as their President."

And he added: “We have enough weak and ineffective RINOs in our midst. I look forward to working with the terrific Republican Party of Nebraska to get a REAL Senator to represent the incredible People of that State, not another Fake RINO!”

RINO is short for “Republican In Name Only.”

Sasse was one of seven Republican senators to vote for Trump’s impeachment in 2021.

KFAB talk radio host Ian Swanson reported on Thursday that Sasse "will imminently announce his intent to resign from the U.S. Senate to pursue another opportunity in higher education. While the process could take a bit, the announcements are expected 'imminently.'"

Swanson also said he was "told to expect the resignation to actually be made official in December.”

The "University of Florida announced Sasse as the sole finalist to be the 13th president of the UF System," Swanson added. "His resignation would be made official upon confirmation by the Board of Trustees, likely in December.”

The Washington Examiner noted that, should Sasse follow through with his resignation and announce it in December, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is expected to name a replacement.

Should Sasse announce his resignation in January or later, a new governor will name the replacement.

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Trump Mocks 'Liddle Ben Sasse' Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Friday, 07 October 2022 08:51 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump ridiculed Sen. Ben Sasse after reports emerged that the Nebraska Republican is expected to resign from the Senate by the end of the year to head the University of Florida.

Trump's comments came in a pair of posts on Truth Social.

He wrote: "Great news for the United States Senate, and our Country itself. Liddle' Ben Sasse, the lightweight Senator from the great State of Nebraska, will be resigning. If he knew he was going to resign so early in his term, why did he run in the first place? But it's still great news! The University of Florida will soon regret their decision to hire him as their President."

And he added: "We have enough weak and ineffective RINOs in our midst. I look forward to working with the terrific Republican Party of Nebraska to get a REAL Senator to represent the incredible People of that State, not another Fake RINO!"

RINO is short for "Republican In Name Only."

Sasse was one of seven Republican senators to vote for Trump's impeachment in 2021.

KFAB talk radio host Ian Swanson reported on Thursday that Sasse "will imminently announce his intent to resign from the U.S. Senate to pursue another opportunity in higher education. While the process could take a bit, the announcements are expected 'imminently.'"

Swanson also said he was "told to expect the resignation to actually be made official in December."

The "University of Florida announced Sasse as the sole finalist to be the 13th president of the UF System," Swanson added. "His resignation would be made official upon confirmation by the Board of Trustees, likely in December."

The Washington Examiner noted that, should Sasse follow through with his resignation and announce it in December, Nebraska GOP Gov. Pete Ricketts is expected to name a replacement.

Should Sasse announce his resignation in January or later, a new governor will name the replacement.

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Bill O'Reilly to Newsmax: GOP-Led House Might Impeach Biden (Newsmax/"Rob Schmitt Tonight")

By Eric Mack | Thursday, 06 October 2022 09:04 PM EDT

While the reports of alleged evidence significant enough to charge Hunter Biden with federal crimes do not implicate President Joe Biden, political pundit Bill O'Reilly on Newsmax said a Republican-led House might make that connection in their oversight and ultimately impeach the president.

"If the House committees investigating Hunter Biden-Joe Biden financial situation come across documents that show that Joe Biden himself received money, that's impeachment," O'Reilly told Thursday's "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "That's impeachment. He's out.

"None of this is good news for Joe Biden," O'Reilly said, adding, and "he knows it."

O'Reilly began his appearance with host Rob Schmitt denouncing Biden's effort to get Saudi Arabia to pump more oil for America, only to have the opposite happen.

"The Biden administration's beyond incompetent — I think everybody understands that at this point," O'Reilly said, noting the OPEC+ oil alliance will ultimately hold the U.S. up for ransom on oil. "But the U.S. can't cut arms shipments to Saudi Arabia because they're the bulwark against Iran. So all of this is just posturing. It's just blowing smoke.

"The Arabs always try to squeeze the USA. It's been going on for what, 78 years? But the Biden administration's windmill thing didn't work. The electric car thing didn't work. They shut down the fossil fuel industry, or try to, in the USA. It led to inflation."

O'Reilly admits Biden will not be leaving the White House before 2024, but Republicans can start to move the country back into a conservative direction if they retake control of the House and Senate.

"We've got to put up with this guy for another two years, but I hope in the midterms that people say, 'Enough, enough, enough,'" O'Reilly said.

Former President Donald Trump had workable relations with Saudi Arabia, and they would not have played Trump like they have Biden, O'Reilly concluded.

"They knew if they did stuff like this, embarrassing the U.S., or making it more difficult, that Trump would find a way to hurt them, but nobody's afraid of Joe Biden," he said.

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Bill O'Reilly to Newsmax: GOP-Led House Might Impeach Biden (Newsmax/"Rob Schmitt Tonight")

By Eric Mack | Thursday, 06 October 2022 10:14 PM EDT

While the reports of alleged evidence significant enough to charge Hunter Biden with federal crimes do not implicate President Joe Biden, political pundit Bill O'Reilly on Newsmax said a Republican-led House might make that connection in their oversight and ultimately impeach the president.

"If the House committees investigating Hunter Biden-Joe Biden financial situation come across documents that show that Joe Biden himself received money, that's impeachment," O'Reilly told Thursday's "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "That's impeachment. He's out.

"None of this is good news for Joe Biden," O'Reilly said, adding, "He knows it."

O'Reilly began his appearance with host Rob Schmitt denouncing Biden's effort to get Saudi Arabia to pump more oil for America, only to have the opposite happen.

"The Biden administration's beyond incompetent — I think everybody understands that at this point," O'Reilly said, noting the OPEC+ oil alliance will ultimately hold the U.S. up for ransom on oil. "But the U.S. can't cut arms shipments to Saudi Arabia because they're the bulwark against Iran. So all of this is just posturing. It's just blowing smoke.

"The Arabs always try to squeeze the USA. It's been going on for what, 78 years? But the Biden administration's windmill thing didn't work. The electric car thing didn't work. They shut down the fossil fuel industry, or try to, in the USA. It led to inflation."

O'Reilly admitted Biden will not be leaving the White House before 2024, but Republicans can start to move the country back into a conservative direction if they retake control of the House and Senate.

"We've got to put up with this guy for another two years. But I hope in the midterms that people say, 'Enough, enough, enough,'" O'Reilly said.

Former President Donald Trump had workable relations with Saudi Arabia, and they would not have played Trump like they have Biden, O'Reilly concluded.

"They knew if they did stuff like this, embarrassing the U.S. or making it more difficult, that Trump would find a way to hurt them. But nobody's afraid of Joe Biden," he said.

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Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax: Trump 'Most Interested' Hunter Is Not Charged

(Newsmax/"The Record With Greta Van Susteren")

By Eric Mack | Thursday, 06 October 2022 08:31 PM EDT

Amid reports federal agents allegedly have enough to charge Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes, legal expert Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax said former President Donald Trump should be rooting for no charges from Attorney General Merrick Garland.

"I'll tell you the man who should be most interested in assuring that Biden does not get prosecuted, and it's not Joe Biden: It's Donald Trump," Dershowitz told Thursday's "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "Let me explain why; it's counterintuitive: Unless they indict Biden Jr., they will not credibly be able to indict Trump.

"But if they indict Biden Jr., Garland will be able to say, 'Look how fair we are: We didn't go after Trump; we indicted the son of the president and we indicted the man who's going to be running against the president.'

"Fair is fair, and that's why politics inevitably plays a role in this, because in all of these cases, there's an element of subjectivity."

Van Susteren noted in 2018, when the Hunter Biden investigation reportedly began, there was close to a 60% prosecution rate on criminal referrals for lying on gun forms — as Hunter Biden is alleged to have done because of admitted drug use.

"Look, I hate the fact that we just weaponized the criminal justice system on both sides, and I think we're seeing this as an example," Dershowitz said. "I think the defense attorney was right when he said the only reason that they're going after this guy [is] because of his last name. I don't think they would generally do that. On the other hand, if the facts make out a clear case of criminal violation, and they, you know, obviously have to go for it."

But, Dershowitz added, prosecution might depend on finding "willfulness" to commit an alleged crime.

"Did he make the 'to be or not to be' decision, from Hamlet: to be or not to be a felon?" Dershowitz asked. "Do I deliberately lie to get a gun license, knowing full well that I'm using drugs, or is it just slippage? The same thing with income taxes? There are a lot of bad income tax returns filed but never prosecution because blame it on the accountant.

"In order to get a prosecution here, you have to show willfulness to a high level of certainty," Dershowitz continued. "You have to show that this man set out to commit crime — not that it was negligent, not that it was careless, not even that it was reckless — and I just don't know if you ever come up to that standard."

There is a clear political conundrum here, too, according to Dershowitz.

"Even though every case should be considered separately, when you have the son of the current president under investigation and the potential future candidate for president against the incumbent under investigation, there is no way that some degree of politics, some degree of balance won't be used by the Justice Department," he said.

"But, it will ultimately come to Garland's desk and the buck stops there, and he has to make a very, very difficult decision, but I don't think we're going to see one of them prosecuted and the other not. I think if one gets prosecuted, it raises the likelihood that the other will be prosecuted."

Ultimately, Thursday's reports by The Washington Post and The New York Times raise the question of whether the leaks about evidence against Hunter Biden might have been felonious.

"I don't like leaks of grand jury material," Dershowitz concluded. "I think there ought to be an investigation of how The Post and The Times got this story. Did they get it from an FBI agent who feloniously disclosed grand jury material? That's a serious crime."

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Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax: Trump 'Most Interested' Hunter Is Not Charged (Newsmax/"The Record With Greta Van Susteren")

By Eric Mack | Thursday, 06 October 2022 08:31 PM EDT

Amid reports federal agents allegedly have enough to charge Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes, legal expert Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax said former President Donald Trump should be rooting for no charges from Attorney General Merrick Garland.

"I'll tell you the man who should be most interested in assuring that Biden does not get prosecuted, and it's not Joe Biden: It's Donald Trump," Dershowitz told Thursday's "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "Let me explain why; it's counterintuitive: Unless they indict Biden Jr., they will not credibly be able to indict Trump.

"But if they indict Biden Jr., Garland will be able to say, 'Look how fair we are: We didn't go after Trump; we indicted the son of the president, and we indicted the man who's going to be running against the president.'

"Fair is fair, and that's why politics inevitably plays a role in this, because in all of these cases, there's an element of subjectivity."

Van Susteren noted in 2018, when the Hunter Biden investigation reportedly began, there was close to a 60% prosecution rate on criminal referrals for lying on gun forms — as Hunter Biden is alleged to have done because of admitted drug use.

"Look, I hate the fact that we just weaponized the criminal justice system on both sides, and I think we're seeing this as an example," Dershowitz said. "I think the defense attorney was right when he said the only reason that they're going after this guy [is] because of his last name. I don't think they would generally do that. On the other hand, if the facts make out a clear case of criminal violation, and they, you know, obviously have to go for it."

But, Dershowitz added, prosecution might depend on finding "willfulness" to commit an alleged crime.

"Did he make the 'to be or not to be' decision, from Hamlet: to be or not to be a felon?" Dershowitz asked. "Do I deliberately lie to get a gun license, knowing full well that I'm using drugs, or is it just slippage? The same thing with income taxes? There are a lot of bad income tax returns filed but never prosecution because blame it on the accountant.

"In order to get a prosecution here, you have to show willfulness to a high level of certainty," Dershowitz continued. "You have to show that this man set out to commit crime — not that it was negligent, not that it was careless, not even that it was reckless — and I just don't know if you ever come up to that standard."

There is a clear political conundrum here, too, according to Dershowitz.

"Even though every case should be considered separately, when you have the son of the current president under investigation and the potential future candidate for president against the incumbent under investigation, there is no way that some degree of politics, some degree of balance won't be used by the Justice Department," he said.

"But, it will ultimately come to Garland's desk and the buck stops there, and he has to make a very, very difficult decision, but I don't think we're going to see one of them prosecuted and the other not. I think if one gets prosecuted, it raises the likelihood that the other will be prosecuted."

Ultimately, Thursday's reports by The Washington Post and The New York Times raise the question of whether the leaks about evidence against Hunter Biden might have been felonious.

"I don't like leaks of grand jury material," Dershowitz concluded. "I think there ought to be an investigation of how The Post and The Times got this story. Did they get it from an FBI agent who feloniously disclosed grand jury material? That's a serious crime."

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Devin Nunes to Newsmax: 'You Have to Go With What Works' in Energy (Newsmax/"The Chris Salcedo Show")

By Nicole Wells | Thursday, 06 October 2022 07:17 PM EDT

Former California congressman Devin Nunes told Newsmax Thursday that Saudi Arabia doesn't see the U.S. as a "reliable partner at this point," which is why the kingdom is backing massive cuts to OPEC's oil output, and that, until green energy delivers, "you have to go with what works."

"They saw what happened, after 40-50 years of working closely with the United States of America, what the democratic socialist party did in this country, and I think the Saudis want nothing to do with it," Nunes, CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group, said during an appearance on Newsmax's "The Chris Salcedo Show." "I think, if you're the Saudi Arabian government, they don't see the United States as a reliable partner at this point, so they're like, hey, we're going to do what's best for us."

Nunes said that the Democrats, and President Joe Biden specifically, were "very critical" of the Saudi regime in the past.

"There are dictators all around the world," he said. "They are bad, they do a lot of bad things, but we have had a great relationship with the Saudi kingdom for decades."

"For the Democrats to demagogue them and attack them over and over and over again, and then, all of a sudden, they decide to implement their climate hysteria [and] their worshiping of the green gods, and essentially shut down pipelines, construction for oil and gas in this country, shut down new drilling, and miraculously believe that we're going to import enough windmills and solar panels from China to solve this problem," Nunes continued. "Then, when it doesn't work, then you run back over to Saudi Arabia."

In Nunes's home state of California, he said the Democrats' green energy agenda isn't delivering as anticipated.

"We put in so many solar panels that when the sun goes down, we don't have enough power," the Golden State resident said. "We found that out earlier this year, just a month ago or so. Plus … I think we're the highest price for electricity."

"So, since we've been investing in the so-called green energy, all that's happened is that electricity prices have tripled or quadrupled in the state of California," he continued. "I think Republicans, conservatives, have been for an all-of-the-above strategy, but it relies on what is most important and that is, until there truly is this type of green energy that works, you have to go with what works."

Elaborating on "what works," Nunes said that the U.S., which was a net exporter of energy under the Trump administration, has an oil pipeline "sitting up in Alaska that's running at 15% or 20%."

"We're not even using it, even though it's one of the largest oil reserves in the country," he said. "The Trump administration opened it up. The Biden administration closed it back down."

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Trump Allies Launch Senate Ad Campaign (Newsmax)

By Theodore Bunker | Thursday, 06 October 2022 03:51 PM EDT

Allies of former President Donald Trump launched a new ad campaign in support of Republican Senate candidates through a recently created super PAC, according to AdImpact.

Politico notes that MAGA Inc., is being overseen by Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich, a former senior advisor on Trump's 2020 campaign. Longtime Republican operative Chris LaCivita, who previously ran the pro-Trump super PAC Preserve America, will be chief strategist.

"President Trump is committed to saving America, and Make America Great Again, Inc. will ensure that is achieved at the ballot box in November and beyond," Budowich told Politico.

The organization spent $276,000 on TV ad time starting Friday in Ohio markets Columbus and Cleveland in a potential attempt to bolster the campaign of GOP Senate nominee J.D. Vance before the midterm elections. It also spent $135,650 on ads in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Republican Mehmet Oz is running for Senate against Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.

"We don’t telegraph ad spends or our strategy," said a spokesperson for MAGA Inc. told Politico.

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Feds Believe They Have Enough to Charge Hunter Biden With Tax, Gun Crimes

(Newsmax/"Rob Schmitt Tonight")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 06 October 2022 03:57 PM EDT

Federal investigators believe they have sufficient evidence to charge President Joe Biden's son Hunter with tax crimes and making a false statement about a gun purchase, and now it's up to a Delaware U.S. attorney, who was nominated by then-President Donald Trump, to take the next steps, according to sources close to the case.

The reports come years after the investigation into the president's son began in 2018 initially centering around his finances about his work overseas, such as with the Ukraine energy giant Burisma, but have shifted to whether he failed to report his income and if he lied on his paperwork in 2018 about whether he was a drug user when buying a gun, reports The Washington Post, quoting anonymous sources.

The case is in the hands of U.S. Attorney David Weiss in Delaware, whom Trump nominated in 2017, while Attorney General Merrick Garland says there will be no political pressure in the case.

Weiss' spokeswoman declined to comment, as did the Department of Justice, the FBI and the IRS, but Hunter Biden's attorney Chris Clark accused federal investigators of leaking the information on the investigation.

"It is a federal felony for a federal agent to leak information about a grand jury investigation such as this one," he said in a written statement. "Any agent you cite as a source in your article apparently has committed such a felony. We expect the Department of Justice will diligently investigate and prosecute such bad actors."

Further, Clark wrote that the Biden team believes the prosecutors in the case are weighing not only the evidence from the investigators but from all other witnesses and "should not be pressured, rushed or criticized for doing their job."

A decision to charge Biden with crimes will have political ramifications, considering Trump and his allies have used accusations of corruption in his business dealings to attack Democrats, before and after his father won the 2020 election.

The primary focus of the tax investigation has been whether Hunter Biden did not declare income related to his various business ventures, including those overseas.

During the 2020 race, Trump's allies revealed Biden's laptop had been turned over to the FBI after he left it at a Delaware computer repair shop.

By December of that year, federal agents sought an interview with Biden, and he publicly acknowledged he was under investigation, but said he was confident that a review would show he handled his affairs "legally and appropriately."

But Thursday, his attorney said he's had no contact with any federal investigative agents.

"A rendition of the case from such an 'agent' is inherently biased, one-sided and inaccurate," he said. "It is regrettable that law enforcement agents appear to be violating the law to prejudice a case against a person who is a target simply because of his family name."

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Feds Believe They Have Enough to Charge Hunter Biden With Tax, Gun Crimes (Newsmax/"Rob Schmitt Tonight")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 06 October 2022 03:57 PM EDT

Federal investigators believe they have sufficient evidence to charge President Joe Biden's son Hunter with tax crimes and making a false statement about a gun purchase, and now it's up to a Delaware U.S. attorney, who was nominated by then-President Donald Trump, to take the next steps, according to sources close to the case.

The reports come years after the investigation into the president's son began in 2018 initially centering around his finances about his work overseas, such as with the Ukraine energy giant Burisma, but have shifted to whether he failed to report his income and if he lied on his paperwork in 2018 about whether he was a drug user when buying a gun, reports The Washington Post, quoting anonymous sources.

The case is in the hands of U.S. Attorney David Weiss in Delaware, whom Trump nominated in 2017, while Attorney General Merrick Garland says there will be no political pressure in the case.

Weiss' spokeswoman declined to comment, as did the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the IRS, but Hunter Biden's attorney Chris Clark accused federal investigators of leaking the information on the investigation.

Note: Dick Morris says Hunter’s laptop fears are key to understanding Biden’s war on Trump. See details in “The Return” — More Here Now

"It is a federal felony for a federal agent to leak information about a grand jury investigation such as this one," he said in a written statement. "Any agent you cite as a source in your article apparently has committed such a felony. We expect the Department of Justice will diligently investigate and prosecute such bad actors."

Further, Clark wrote that the Biden team believes the prosecutors in the case are weighing not only the evidence from the investigators but from all other witnesses and "should not be pressured, rushed or criticized for doing their job."

A decision to charge Biden with crimes will have political ramifications, considering Trump and his allies have used accusations of corruption in his business dealings to attack Democrats, before and after his father won the 2020 election.

The primary focus of the tax investigation has been whether Hunter Biden did not declare income related to his various business ventures, including those overseas.

During the 2020 race, Trump's allies revealed Biden's laptop had been turned over to the FBI after he left it at a Delaware computer repair shop.

By December of that year, federal agents sought an interview with Biden, and he publicly acknowledged he was under investigation, but said he was confident that a review would show he handled his affairs "legally and appropriately."

But Thursday, his attorney said he's had no contact with any federal investigative agents.

"A rendition of the case from such an 'agent' is inherently biased, one-sided and inaccurate," he said. "It is regrettable that law enforcement agents appear to be violating the law to prejudice a case against a person who is a target simply because of his family name."

Note: Dick Morris says Hunter’s laptop fears are key to understanding Biden’s war on Trump. See details in “The Return” — More Here Now

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CNN Poll: Laxalt Maintains Lead on Sen. Cortez Masto in Nevada (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Thursday, 06 October 2022 02:39 PM EDT

The battle for the Senate majority will be waged in part in Nevada, and Adam Laxalt is maintaining a consistent – albeit slight – lead over incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., in a bid to flip the seat.

Pollsters have noted seven consecutive polls have Laxalt in the lead, including a 2-point edge among likely voters in the latest CNN poll released Thursday.

A Laxalt victory would be a key pickup in the Senate that is currently divided 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris' tiebreaking vote the only thing giving Democrats a majority and control of the committee gavels. There are 50 Republicans in the Senate, along with 48 Democrats and two independents that caucus with them.

Laxalt, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, will be speaking Saturday night at the Save America rally, which will air live on Newsmax. Preview coverage begins at 9 p.m. ET and will go through post-rally coverage until 1 a.m. Sunday on Newsmax.

Among the recent polls that have Laxalt leading the Democrat incumbent, according to conservative poll-tracker Interactive Polls' Twitter post Thursday:

• CNN: Laxalt +2 (48/46).
• Predictive Insights: Laxalt +2 (45/43).
• @Peoples_Pundit: Laxalt +2 (46/44).
• Insider Adv.: Laxalt +3 (46/43).
• Trafalgar: Laxalt +4 (47/43).
• DFP (D): Laxalt +1 (47/46).
• Emerson: Laxalt +1 (42/41).

The RealClearPolitics polling average has Laxalt leading by an average of 2.1 percentage points.

Most of those polls, save for one by The Trafalgar Group, has Laxalt within the margin of error, which puts an onus on the final weeks of the campaign before the final vote Nov. 8.

The major political analysts call this seat a "tossup," making Trump's visit Saturday all that more important.

Adam Laxalt's grandfather, Paul Laxalt, was the last Republican to hold this Senate seat before the rein of late Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., began in the 1980s.

Trump-backed GOP Gov.-nominee Joe Lombardo also leads his Democrat opponent by 2 points among likely voters. GOP attorney general nominee Tim Marchant leads his Democrat opponent by 3 points.

The poll was conducted for CNN by SSRS among 828 likely Nevada voters Sept. 26-Oct. 2. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 5.0 percentage points.

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Jan. 6 Committee Schedules Next Public Hearing for Oct. 13 Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairs the House Jan. 6 committee. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

FARNOUSH AMIRI Thursday, 06 October 2022 01:32 PM EDT

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has scheduled its next hearing for Oct. 13, pushing the investigation back into the limelight less than three weeks before the midterm election that will determine control of Congress.

It will be the panel’s first public session since the summer, when lawmakers worked through a series of tightly scripted hearings that attracted millions of viewers and touched on nearly every aspect of the incident.

The committee had planned to hold the hearing in late September, but postponed as Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida.

The panel — comprising seven Democrats and two Republicans — has not yet provided an agenda, but Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said recently that the hearing would “tell the story about a key element of Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the election.”

Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee's chairman, told reporters last week that the hearing would touch on recent revelations about Save America PAC, Trump's chief fundraising vehicle.

The committee is aiming to wrap up its work by the end of the year and issue a final report and legislative recommendations.

If Republicans take the majority in November’s elections, they are expected to dissolve the committee in January. The panel plans to issue a final report by the end of December that will include legislative reforms it says would help prevent future attempts to subvert democracy.

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Energy Alliance Head to Newsmax: Open Drilling, Not US Reserves Kathleen Sgamma (Michael Brochstein/Sipa via AP Images)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 06 October 2022 12:56 PM EDT

President Joe Biden's right response to the announcement from the OPEC+ group of nations that it is cutting back oil production would be to open up domestic production, not releasing even more oil from the U.S. strategic petroleum reserves, Western Energy Alliance President Kathleen Sgamma said on Newsmax Thursday.

"The right response would be to go to Texas, North Dakota and New Mexico, not Saudi Arabia and Venezuela," Sgamma said on Newsmax's "National Report." "We could produce more in the United States, except from day one, this administration has put up roadblocks. They canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, canceled federal leasing, and continue to throw up roadblocks for the oil and gas industry in America. It's better to produce it here than import it from Venezuela and Russia."

The OPEC+ oil ministers meeting in Vienna announced Wednesday that they have agreed to a larger cut in oil than the White House feared, pulling back 2 million barrels a day
in light of the uncertainty that surrounds the global economic and oil market outlooks.

The administration is reportedly considering easing sanctions on Venezuela so oil production can resume there, but Sgamma said similar incentives are not necessary in the United States.

"We need the Biden administration to stop getting in the way," she said. "They're trying to starve us of financing so that we can't finance new wells in this country. They're trying to over-regulate us. They haven't stopped on any of the new regulations meant to curtail oil and natural gas in the United States."

And instead of going to Venezuela, Sgamma said oil should be produced in the United States, adding that the nation is down 1.11 millions of oil production per day than it was in December 2019, a month before Biden was sworn in.

Biden also was not treated with the same respect when he visited Saudi Arabia as former President Donald Trump was treated, said Sgamma.

"They've continued to embarrass him with this announcement now on decreasing production again, but why go to Saudi Arabia when you can just back off all the roadblocks you're throwing up in front of the American producers," she continued. "It doesn't make sense. These are done in the name of a climate change agenda, which is about scarcity of energy. It's about reducing our access to energy so we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

However, the natural gas industry has reduced emissions more than any other industry, said Sgamma. "That's the reason the United States has reduced more greenhouse gas emissions than any other country, because we've increased our use of natural gas and electricity generation. So stop calling the oil and gas industry the bad guys. Start working with us and stop putting up roadblocks so that we can't produce as much here in America as we did back in December of 2019 cleaner production here in the United States, as opposed to overseas."

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Abe Hamadeh to Newsmax: AGs 'Leading the Charge' Against D.C. Overreach Abe Hamadeh (AP)

By Eric Mack | Thursday, 06 October 2022 11:44 AM EDT

State offices were brought to the forefront in the 2020 presidential election, making them more important than ever, leading President Donald Trump to endorse and stump for his candidates, Arizona GOP attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh told Newsmax.

"President Biden doesn't really know the law all that well," Hamadeh told Thursday's "National Report." "You know, we've seen this time and time again.

"This is exactly why state AGs are so much more powerful than ever before. We're leading the charge against Washington, D.C., right now at the state level, and that's why President Trump is going to come to the rally Sunday, because he recognizes, now more than ever, having good leaders of the statewide office is going to save our country."

Hamadeh has already worked against Democrats and their complicit friends in the media, having filed an ethics complain in Arizona because The Arizona Republic moderated a campaign debate between Hamadeh and Arizona Democrat attorney general nominee Kris Mayes without disclosing Mayes had worked for the newspaper in the past.

"We called for the Arizona Newspaper Association to have an investigation on ethic complaints because, right now the media is so dishonest in Arizona," Hamadeh said. "So we just want honesty and fairness to be covered on both sides."

Ultimately, the attorney general race is about Arizona and not Washington, though, and Hamadeh vows to work to keep the state from turning into California and another crime-infested Democrat-run area.

"Arizonans, they want to see an optimistic future, and we don't want to become California like San Francisco or Los Angeles with rolling energy blackouts, with homelessness on the streets, with the rising crime," Hamadeh said.

"We're ushering a new generation of political outsiders like myself, Kari Lake, Blake Masters, so Arizona is going to be on the front page because of all the bold ideas that are going to come out of it.

"We're on the front lines here in Arizona dealing with the fentanyl crisis, the rise in homelessness, so Arizona's better days are coming ahead of us."

Trump's Save America rally in Arizona will take place Sunday night at 7 p.m. ET in Mesa, Arizona.

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Herschel Walker Raises Over $500,000 Since Abortion Report (Newsmax)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 06 October 2022 10:47 AM EDT

Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia, has raised over $500,000 for his campaign since his televised interview on Monday after a report that he paid for an ex-girlfriend's abortion in 2009, a source tells NBC News.

Walker, who is challenging Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., denied the Daily Beast story on the abortion.

The $500,000 raised since his Monday appearance on the Fox News show "Hannity" is notable, but still puts him behind Warnock in fundraising, NBC News reported.

Citing figures from the Federal Election Commission, NBC News said Warnock has brought in $85 million this cycle, while Walker has raised over $20 million.

Despite the abortion report, national anti-abortion groups like the Susan B. Anthony List are sticking with their endorsement of Walker.

"Herschel Walker wants to protect unborn children while Raphael Warnock wants to see them die through unlimited abortion," the group said Wednesday.

Former President Donald Trump has defended Walker and has commended the former football star for fighting back after being "slandered and maligned."

"Herschel Walker is being slandered and maligned by the Fake News Media and obviously, the Democrats," Trump wrote via his Save America PAC and posted on Truth Social. "Interestingly, I've heard many horrible things about his opponent, Raphael Warnock, things that nobody should be talking about, so we don't.

"Herschel has properly denied the charges against him, and I have no doubt he is correct."

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Trump Attorney Habba to Newsmax: NY AG James' Trump Lawsuit a 'Dud' Alina Habba (Habba Madiao & Associates)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 06 October 2022 10:26 AM EDT

New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against former President Donald Trump is a "dud" that won't go anywhere now that the announcements have been made, Alina Habba, one of Trump's lawyers, told Newsmax on Thursday.

"There is no case," Habba said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "There were absolutely no victims … but Letitia, as she was down in the polls, and the midterm elections are coming up, what does she do? She holds this massive conference where she effectively claims that there was some damage. Meanwhile, crime is crazy in New York."

James in September announced that the state was suing Trump, Trump Organization officials, and three of Trump's adult children (Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric) for at least $250 million in penalties on claims that he falsely inflated the value of his assets to generate further profits through banks.

Habba, though, pointed out that Trump is "an incredibly wealthy man with a great, successful company. He had major lenders like Deutsche Bank, for instance, who have their own vetting process, and there was the statement of financial conditions with a massive waiver that said, 'Look, these are what we believe our properties are worth. You do your due diligence.' Which they did, and then they all made money, and there's never been a default notice."

She also called the lawsuit a "political scheme" James is using to get reelected and called her estimates of Trump's properties "a joke."

"She put that Mar-a-Lago is worth $75 million," said Habba. "This man has very little debt. He has these unicorn properties that you really can't go in and compare to anywhere else, plus a few where he slapped the Trump name on it."

But Trump is facing legal challenges from James, and also concerning the raid on his Florida home when other former presidents haven't been challenged on documents, because "he still has a very large political career ahead of him if he so chooses," said Habba.

"My client is ahead in the polls, and every time they try and knock him down, his poll numbers go up," she said. "We welcome it because he's going to fight back, and he continues to do so."

Trump has called on the Supreme Court to look at the Mar-a-Lago case, and Habba noted that Judge Raymond Dearie, chosen as the special master to examine the seized data, is under a "tremendous amount of scrutiny" from both sides.

"I don't think you can say that you're happy with any judge, even if it's a Trump-appointed judge," said Habba about Dearie. "Sometimes they go the other way, and they get concerned because they don't want to look like they're impartial. So the judge right now, I think, is under a tremendous amount of scrutiny.

"I don't have any opinion about Judge Dearie. I think he's going to follow the rules. Do I like the decision he made? No, but you know I don't, I try not to speak ill of judges that are doing their job. Whether he's doing his job or not, though, is yet to be seen."

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US Spends $290 Million on Drug Supply to Treat Radiation Sickness A logo sign outside of a facility occupied by Amgen Inc., in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on April 16, 2017. (AP)

By Charlie McCarthy | Saturday, 08 October 2022 10:22 AM EDT

The Biden administration is spending $290 million to purchase a drug supply to treat radiation sickness, the Department of Health and Human Services announced.

The acquisition comes at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nuclear weapons during his country's war in Ukraine.

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Putin late last month warned the West that he isn't bluffing over his threat. President Joe Biden at a New York fundraiser said the U.S. faces the worst nuclear threat since the Cuban missile crisis.

The HHS purchase parallels state and local governments as they have begun public awareness campaigns alerting citizens to the dangers of nuclear fallout and how to react to such an emergency.

The purchase of the drug Nplate from Amgen USA Inc. is not connected necessarily to Putin's threats, an HHS spokesperson said.

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"This purchase is part of long-standing, ongoing efforts by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) to better prepare the U.S. for the potential health impacts of a wide range of threats to national security including chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, pandemic and emerging infectious diseases," an HHS spokesman said.

The purchase was made in the HHS’ Project BioShield, which develops drugs and vaccines to counter threats and then stockpiles them for national preparedness.

HHS said Nplate, purchased by BARDA for $290 million in Project BioShield-designated funding, will maintain the drug supply in vendor-managed inventory.

"Under Project BioShield contracts, ASPR's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority [BARDA] supports development of diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments to respond to the potential health impacts of such threats, and when development is successful, purchases the products for national preparedness."

HHS said Nplate, purchased by BARDA for $290 million in Project BioShield designated funding, will maintain the drug supply in vendor-managed inventory.

Nplate is approved to treat blood cell injuries that accompany acute radiation syndrome (ARS), otherwise known as radiation sickness.

ARS occurs when a person's entire body is exposed to a high dose of penetrating radiation, reaching internal organs in a matter of seconds. Symptoms of ARS injuries include impaired blood clotting as a result of low platelet counts, which can lead to uncontrolled and life-threatening bleeding.

Nuclear ramifications in Ukraine became a heightened issue late last month when a Russian missile blasted a crater close to a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, damaging nearby industrial equipment but not hitting its three reactors. Ukrainian authorities denounced the move as an act of "nuclear terrorism."

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