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Sen. Graham Clarifies 'Riots' Remark, Knocks DOJ for Trump Obsession Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to supporters at the Charleston County Victory Office in 2020. ( Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

By Jay Clemons | Sunday, 04 September 2022 11:19 AM EDT

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has clarified his comments from last week, when predicting there would be "riots in the streets" if the Justice Department (DOJ) charged former President Donald Trump with a federal crime over classified documents being stored at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

While speaking to CNBC on Saturday, Graham toned down his previous words by saying, "what I tried to do was state the obvious."

Graham continued: "Here's what I said, The raid on President Trump's home, the likely [Republican Party] nominee for 2024, better bear some fruit here. If it's just about mishandling classified information, we've [already] had a standard set when it came to Hillary Clinton."

The former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Graham says the federal government has seemingly thrown out all the rules — in terms of wanting respectful and prudent law enforcement — when it comes to Trump.

And that pervasive attitude of "Get him, it doesn't matter how you get him" has become problematic, says the South Carolina Republican.

"So I said if [Trump's alleged crime] is similar to what happened to Clinton and he gets prosecuted, it'll be one of the most disruptive events in America​," says Graham.

Graham's reference to Hillary Clinton — the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee who lost to Trump in that year's general election — involved her stint as President Barack Obama's Secretary of State. During that time, the FBI claimed Clinton had mishandled classified documents on an email server, but was also never prosecuted for the supposed error in judgment.

Regarding the Clinton-Trump comparison, there's a significant difference between the titles of secretary of state and President of the United States.

As such, two weeks ago, while serving as a studio guest on "Rob Schmitt Tonight," Trump attorney Alina Habba told Newsmax the Mar-a-Lago affidavit implied potential guilt for the former president on three fronts — concealment, espionage, and destruction of documents.

To which, Habba responded: If the DOJ claims concealment, "you wouldn't have allowed [federal agents] into Mar-a-Lago," Habba said.

If the DOJ cites espionage, Habba said the Trump attorneys wouldn't have been transparent about federal officials viewing the documents in June.

And if the DOJ argues destruction, Habba says Trump's people wouldn't have responded positively to the feds' request of putting a padlock on the presidential documents.

"What people don't understand: Presidents have different kinds of privileges — executive privileges," said Habba, adding that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama exercised similar declassification privileges with documents after leaving office in 2009 and 2017, respectively.

At a midterm-election rally Saturday in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Trump lashed out at Democrats, the DOJ, the FBI, and the national media over the Aug. 8 raid his Florida home.

"The shameful raid and break-in of my home at Mar-a-Lago was a travesty of justice that made a mockery of America's laws, traditions and principles before the entire world,"Trump told the crowd of boisterous supporters.

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Rep. Fallon to Newsmax: Germany Ignored Trump's Warning on Russian Oil (Newsmax/"Wake Up America")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 04 September 2022 11:00 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump four years ago warned Germany, in a speech at the United Nations, against being too reliant on Russia for their energy needs, but they were "insulted" and didn't heed his warning, and now it is in a dire situation, Rep. Pat Fallon said on Newsmax Sunday.

"They were insulted, but now look at the situation that the Germans have gotten themselves into," the Texas Republican said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "If you look at their price per megawatt, in 2020 for the four months between April and July, and you look at it just two years later, it is 10 times more expensive in Germany right now because they were closing down their power plants and becoming far too dependent on Russia."

His comments come after Russia announced that the Nord Stream pipeline will remain shut down indefinitely, and as lower gas flows before and during the invasion of Ukraine pushed Europe's price up by 400%, leading to the spike in electricity costs.

Europe is accusing Russia of weaponizing the energy supplies, while Moscow is blaming the issue on Western sanctions and supply disruptions.

Nord Stream, which goes under the Baltic Sea to take gas to Germany, was already at 20% of capacity before the flows were shut off last week. Gas from it represents about a third of what's normally exported from Russia to Europe.

"Russia is using energy as a political weapon," Fallon said. "They claim they're not but of course they are. That's why President Trump refused the Nord Stream 2 pipeline but President Biden pulled the sanctions from it and then he had to reinstate President Trump's policies."

Meanwhile, the United States has lost its energy independence under Biden, driving gas prices up this summer, but Fallon said that can be reversed.

"What we need Biden to do is first of all end the freeze on gas and oil exploration on federal lands and seas, stop the regulatory assault, expedite all energy and pipeline projects, and not only issue leases but also permits because leases without permits don't do any good," said Fallon. "He can also fast track liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting permits but he doesn't do that."

But, he added, it's "unbelievable what Biden has done."

"We can be energy independent," the congressman said. "Trump proved that but Biden has just rolled back the clock, particularly at a time when Europe needs the energy and we have it."

But, the United States does not have any product to sell because of the policies Biden has enacted in his first 20 months of office, said Fallon.

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Video: Naturalized US Citizen Calls Out Biden for Mocking 'MAGA' Movement A person holds an American flag as they participate in a ceremony to become an American citizen during a U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services naturalization ceremony. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

By Jay Clemons | Sunday, 04 September 2022 10:17 AM EDT

The fallout of President Joe Biden's primetime address from Thursday — in which he fixated on former President Donald Trump, openly mocked conservative voters, and referred to the "MAGA Republicans" as a threat to this nation — carried over to the holiday weekend, when an apparent immigrant-turned-American-citizen criticized Biden for being a divisive figure during his speech.

The naturalized U.S. citizen posted a TikTok video, which has already garnered more than 932,000 views, saying that President Biden was wrong to characterize Make America Great Again supporters as "terrorists," while also proclaiming his pride in being a "MAGA" conservative.

"Mr. President, I am also a conservative Republican. Or what you have recently labeled a 'MAGA Republican,'" the man said in the video. "Over the last few days, you have looked into the camera and called me and millions of people like me 'extremists.' You have told me and my children that we don't matter to you because of our beliefs.

"Your spokespeople and the media have labeled us 'dangerous,' 'full of hate,' and a 'threat to democracy,'" the man continued. "You went as far as to suggest that we would not stand a chance against government F-15s in defending our country from tyranny. Your party leaders have taken your cue and called us 'terrorists.' And all this without taking any time to acknowledge our humanity, listen to our concerns, or seek to understand our fears."

The man, possibly in his late 30s, first came to the United States at age 19; and after 18 years of living here and raising four children, finally became an American citizen.

"This is the reason many of us embrace the call to Make American Great Again," the man continued in the video. "It is because we believe our great nation is under a moral, fiscal, and spiritual assault. We're MAGA because we want to restore the promise in the hearts of our children that this is the place where their efforts will be rewarded and where their true potential can be realized.

"We are MAGA because we believe in freedom of speech, the freedom to exercise our religion. We believe in limited government, and the rule of law," said the man. "We are MAGA because we love the Constitution and believe our Founders established a means for 'We the people' to defend it from enemies both foreign and domestic."

The man concluded, "I am MAGA, because I want to be able to look into the eyes of my four black children to assure them that they're not victims, that they hold inside them what it takes to achieve anything they set their hearts on."

On Friday, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., told Newsmax that Biden doesn't get to walk back his comments, consequence-free, from Thursday's address.

Biden "called 75 million Americans 'extremists' in that speech," said Reschenthaler, while appearing on "The Record with Greta Van Susteren," featuring guest host Bianca de la Garza.

When discussing the presidential speech, along with the ominous background that might have fallen short in projecting American optimism, Reschenthaler says there's a reason why Biden ignored discussing the lagging economy, high inflation, or the chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"That's because Joe Biden has zero wins," says Reschenthaler, while lamenting the White House's era of "stagnation" — a term for when a stagnant economy meets high inflation — and how the American military was "embarrassed" in last year's withdrawal from Afghanistan, which paved the way for the Taliban taking over full control of the country.

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Biden Hits New Low for Offshore, Federal Land Drilling Permits Drilling platforms are seen off the southern California coast on October 6, 2021.(Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 04 September 2022 09:56 AM EDT

President Joe Biden's administration has leased far fewer acres for oil and gas drilling offshore and on federal land at the early stages of his presidency than has any other leader since Harry Truman at the end of World War II, according to a new analysis.

"The president said he was going to stop leasing, and he’s been remarkably successful," former Trump administration Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, an energy lawyer, tells The Wall Street Journal in response to its analysis, which shows Biden's Interior Department has leased 126,228 acres for drilling in his first 19 months of office, or through Aug. 20.

Only Truman, at this stage of his presidency, leased fewer acres, coming in at just 65,658 in 1945-46. However, notes the publication, at that time, the federal government did not control the deep-water leases that now make up the largest part of the federal energy program, and offshore drilling was just starting.

No other president's administration since Richard Nixon, in his 1969-70 period, has issued fewer than 4.4 million acres by this stage of a first term.

The paper quoted statistics from the federal bureaus of Land Management and Ocean Energy Management, but the numbers exclude the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife ​Refuge.

Biden, while campaigning in 2020, promised to stop drilling on federal lands but changed his stance some when oil prices climbed after Russia invaded Ukraine. Still, he pushed back from the leasing program that has been used by presidents for years.

The federal program was already declining when oil-and-gas companies turned to fracking shale and away from drilling offshore and on federal land, but under Biden, the decline dropped by 97% from the first 19 months of the year, compared to former President Donald Trump's first months in office.

Interior Department spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said that industry trends are driving most production in the United States to private or state lands and that the department last year issued a record-high amount of drilling permits for already-existing leases.

She also said that out of the approximately 35 million acres that the federal government already leases, around 60% are not actively producing.

During Biden's first week in office, he placed an indefinite moratorium on new oil leases, while the Interior Department set a requirement for more reviews on drilling permits over the first 60 days of the administration.

The administration has tried just one offshore sale, which a court invalidated in January, and resumed onshore leasing this summer, after a federal judge in Louisiana ruled in June 2021 that Biden's moratorium was not lawful.

Leasing went to record highs in the 1970s and early 1980s under then-Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, with Reagan holding the record after leasing almost 48 million acres in his first 19 months in office.

"Stepping up domestic production has been a priority of every president from Nixon right up through Obama and of course, Trump," Daniel Yergin, the vice chairman of S&P Global and a noted oil-industry historian, commented. "Whether Democrats or Republicans, presidents have wanted to embrace the idea of energy independence and production."

Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law on Aug. 16, includes a requirement that the Interior Department offers at least 60 million offshore acres and 2 million acres of federal land to oil and gas producers for the next decade for administrations to permit some development in wind and solar power.

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Trump: Fetterman 'One of the Most Fringe Far Left Freak Shows Ever' (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 03 September 2022 09:28 PM EDT

Stumping for Pennsylvania GOP Sen.-nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz, former President Donald Trump blasted Oz's opponent, Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, as a "far left freak show."

"Restoring safety to America starts with defeating the Democrat extremists right here in Pennsylvania," Trump told his Wilkes-Barre Save America rally, which aired live on Newsmax. "Your state's radical Democrat candidate for Senate, John Fetterman, is the most dangerous Democrat.

"He's the most dangerous Democrat seeking to join Congress this year, and one of the most fringe, far left freak shows ever to seek election for any office in any state."

Trump rebuked Fetterman for living out of his parent's basement, wearing casual sweatshirts and sweat pants.

"This guy is a disaster," Trump said. "He comes in with a sweatsuit on – I've never seen him wear a suit – dirty, dirty, dirty sweatsuits. Really disgusting. You know, I'm a clean freak, Oz.

"I don't like those dirty sweatsuits."

Trump said Fetterman dresses "like a teenager getting high in his parents' basement."

"But he's a raging lunatic hellbent on springing hardened criminals out of jail in the middle of the worst crime wave in Pennsylvania history," Trump added, noting Fetterman's past positions on reducing prison populations.

"He wants everybody out of jail, and by the way he wants to get rid of your police. Fetterman is a defund the police marxist, who's just pulling the wool over people's eyes, who literally said that if he had a magic wand and could fix one thing he would end life sentences without parole for murderers, cop killers, rapists, and other monstrous criminals. That's what he said.

"He wants them to get out of jail. Get out of jail."

Trump denounced Democrats for activism to reduce punishment on violent criminals, while pursuing him with relentless investigations that have yet to be successful.

"Let's put Trump in jail; let's get these murderers, let these murderers out, put Trump in jail," Trump said, mocking Democrats. "'That trump is no good. He just works his a** off for this country."

Fetterman is also lax on drug dealers, who Trump said he wants to put in the death penalty for drug dealers who sell lethal drugs like fentanyl.

"He bragged that his goal is to get as many criminals out onto the street as quickly as possible," Trump continued. "Fetterman supports taxpayer funded drug dens and the complete decriminalization of illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, and ultra lethal fentanyl."

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Trump: Fetterman 'One of the Most Fringe Far Left Freak Shows Ever' (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 03 September 2022 09:28 PM EDT

Stumping for Pennsylvania GOP Sen.-nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz, former President Donald Trump blasted Oz's opponent, Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, as a "far left freak show."

"Restoring safety to America starts with defeating the Democrat extremists right here in Pennsylvania," Trump told his Wilkes-Barre Save America rally, which aired live on Newsmax. "Your state's radical Democrat candidate for Senate, John Fetterman, is the most dangerous Democrat.

"He's the most dangerous Democrat seeking to join Congress this year, and one of the most fringe, far left freak shows ever to seek election for any office in any state."

Trump rebuked Fetterman for living out of his parent's basement, wearing casual sweatshirts and sweat pants.

"This guy is a disaster," Trump said. "He comes in with a sweatsuit on – I've never seen him wear a suit – dirty, dirty, dirty sweatsuits. Really disgusting. You know, I'm a clean freak, Oz.

"I don't like those dirty sweatsuits."

Trump said Fetterman dresses "like a teenager getting high in his parents' basement."

"But he's a raging lunatic hellbent on springing hardened criminals out of jail in the middle of the worst crime wave in Pennsylvania history," Trump added, noting Fetterman's past positions on reducing prison populations.

"He wants everybody out of jail, and by the way he wants to get rid of your police. Fetterman is a defund the police marxist, who's just pulling the wool over people's eyes, who literally said that if he had a magic wand and could fix one thing he would end life sentences without parole for murderers, cop killers, rapists, and other monstrous criminals. That's what he said.

"He wants them to get out of jail. Get out of jail."

Trump denounced Democrats for activism to reduce punishment on violent criminals, while pursuing him with relentless investigations that have yet to be successful.

"Let's put Trump in jail; let's get these murderers, let these murderers out, put Trump in jail," Trump said, mocking Democrats. "'That trump is no good. He just works his a** off for this country."

Fetterman is also lax on drug dealers, who Trump said he wants to put in the death penalty for drug dealers who sell lethal drugs like fentanyl.

"He bragged that his goal is to get as many criminals out onto the street as quickly as possible," Trump continued. "Fetterman supports taxpayer funded drug dens and the complete decriminalization of illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, and ultra lethal fentanyl."

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Trump Teases '24 Run: 'I May Just Have to Do It Again' (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 03 September 2022 08:57 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump made his latest tease for a 2024 presidential campaign Saturday night in his return to the Save America rally circuit, saying, "Our country is paying a terrible price for the rigged election."

"I ran twice; I won twice; and did much better the second time than I did the first, getting millions and millions more votes in 2020 that we got in 2016," Trump told his Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania rally, which aired live on Newsmax, as he stumped for GOP Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz and GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano.

"You know that? Doug knows that. We've got millions of more votes."

Trump said his promising poll numbers just may lead him to run again for the White House in the 2024 presidential election, stopping short of making an official declaration.

"We're leading Biden and everyone else, including the Republicans, by record numbers in the polls, so I may just have to do it again," Trump said. "May just have to do it again."

But, he added, "first we have to win a historic victory for the Republican Party this November."

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Trump Teases '24 Run: 'I May Just Have to Do It Again' (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 03 September 2022 08:57 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump made his latest tease for a 2024 presidential campaign Saturday night in his return to the Save America rally circuit, saying, "Our country is paying a terrible price for the rigged election."

"I ran twice; I won twice; and did much better the second time than I did the first, getting millions and millions more votes in 2020 that we got in 2016," Trump told his Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania rally, which aired live on Newsmax, as he stumped for GOP Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz and GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano.

"You know that? Doug knows that. We've got millions of more votes."

Trump said his promising poll numbers just may lead him to run again for the White House in the 2024 presidential election, stopping short of making an official declaration.

"We're leading Biden and everyone else, including the Republicans, by record numbers in the polls, so I may just have to do it again," Trump said. "May just have to do it again."

But, he added, "first we have to win a historic victory for the Republican Party this November."

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Trump: MAGA 'Hopes, Dreams' Were Raided Like My Home (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 03 September 2022 08:37 PM EDT

The Justice Department raided not only the home of a former president, but also the "hopes and dreams" of America-loving citizens, according to former President Donald Trump in his first Save America rally since the raid.

"It was not just my home that was raided last month — it was the hopes and dreams of every citizen who I have been fighting for since the moment I came down the golden escalator in 2015, wanting to represent the people, wanting to stop the massive corruption in this country," Trump told the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania rally, which aired lived on Newsmax.

"The radical Democrats are engaging in a desperate attempt to keep me from returning to the White House, where they know I will clean this mess up again," Trump added. "They want to stop us from completing our mission to bring back American values."

Trump noted the raid was conducted "on a phony pretext" in order to deflect from Biden's struggles and the impending midterm elections.

"The Biden administration invaded the home of their chief political opponent, who is absolutely destroying him and everyone else in the polls — I hate to say it — even including the Republicans, but we love the Republicans," Trump said, noting the raid began only after "getting permission from a highly political magistrate, who they handpicked late in the evening, just days before the break in and trampled upon my rights and civil liberties."

Even the room of Trump's son Barron, 16, was subjected to an invasive search, Trump said for the first time.

"They rifled through the first lady's closet drawers and everything else, and even did a deep and ugly search of the room of my 16-year-old son, leaving everything they touched in far different conditions than it was when they started," Trump said. "Can you believe it?

"The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters, controlled by radical-left scoundrels, lawyers, and the media who tell them what to do."

Trump claimed it is a weaponization of the Justice Department in order to meddle in the political process and the midterm elections.

"They're trying to silence me, and more importantly, they are trying to silence you, but we will not be silenced, right?" Trump said. "We will never stop speaking the truth.

"We have no choice, because we're not going to have a country left. The evil and malice of this demented persecution of you and me should be obvious to all and it is. Even media companies that are pretty far left have come out and said, 'We can't believe this is happening in the USA.'"

The politicization of justice under Biden is a "disgrace," Trump said, ripping the leak of a photo of seized documents on the floor at Mar-a-Lago.

"They talk about documents not being properly stored; yet, they go in and take documents, dumped them on the floor, stage a photo shoot, and pretend that I had done it — like I had put them all over the floor," Trump said. "They took that back after a lot of prodding.

"Then they put out for public consumption a picture, which is seen all over the world. This is what they do. It's called disinformation. These are very dishonest, sick people. Very dishonest people. Americans are sick of the lies, sick of the hoaxes, and scams, and above all, sick of the hypocrisy."

This is all going to backfire in the midterm elections, Trump predicted.

"But our opponents have badly miscalculated," he said. "This egregious abuse of the law is going to produce a backlash the likes of which nobody has ever seen.

"They think they can divide us, but they can't divide us. The MAGA movement is the greatest in the history of our country, in the history of the world."

Trump encouraged loyal supporters to stick with him amid the relentless political "persecution."

"I will never turn my back on you, and you will never turn your back on me because we love our nation, and we will save our nation from people who are trying to destroy it," Trump said.

"These are bad people. They're trying to destroy our country, and we can't let it go on any longer because we have too much work to do."

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