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Dick Morris to Newsmax: No Downside in Trump Suing CNN for Reporting 'Lies' (Newsmax/"The Chris Salcedo Show")

By Jay Clemons | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 06:23 PM EDT

Political strategist, best-selling author, and TV host Dick Morris sees no downside to former President Donald Trump's $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN.

"Oh yeah. It's about time. How much is the guy going to take? So many of the misstatements and lies about Trump have been broadcast on CNN," Morris told Newsmax Tuesday afternoon, while appearing on "The Chris Salcedo Show."

Morris added that Trump has routinely "excoriated [CNN] in public. He's [also] cost them half their viewership," a reference to the network's declining TV ratings, shortly after Trump left office in January 2021.

"And now, [Trump] wants to cost them a final $500 million," says Morris, a former adviser to Presidents Trump and Bill Clinton, and the host of "Dick Morris Democracy" on Newsmax.

As part of his defamation suit, Trump claims that CNN wants to thwart a possible run for the White House two years from now.

However, the way Morris sees it, President Joe Biden won't be Trump's opponent in the 2024 presidential election.

"You're beating a dead horse" with Biden-impeachment talk in 2023, says Morris. "Biden's not going to run. He'll hang on as a lame duck."

For his best-selling book, "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback," Morris outlines the potential of an "October Surprise" or two, involving Biden and/or Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In a nutshell, Morris believes Biden and Putin have their proverbial backs to the wall, politically. And one "wagging the dog" hypothetical involves Putin amping up his threats of using nuclear weapons "to distract attention away from his defeats in Ukraine" … and Biden then ratcheting up the anti-nuke rhetoric against Putin, knowing the Russian president has no plans to initiate nuclear warfare across the globe.

"They both need to change the subject" of failing as leaders, Morris says of Putin and Biden.

From Morris's perspective, the Democrats will then use Biden's tough talk against Putin, as a means of rallying the country "in a time of national crisis" — just in time for the midterm elections (Nov. 8).

That layered scenario aside, Morris predicts the Republicans will take over the House chamber in November.

The Senate Republicans may even claim its majority, says Morris, which would drastically limit Biden's powers as a "lame-duck" president for the final two years in office.

"The Democrats are cornered, and they'll do anything" to win the midterms, says Morris.

And if that plan should fail, Morris opines the Democrats can always fall back on propping up Hillary Clinton for a 2024 presidential run — as a "centrist" candidate.

"Hillary will say, '[Biden] went too far to the left. I'll move ya back to the center,'" reasons Morris.

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Congress Members, Ex-White House Officials Back Iranian Protests

By Luca Cacciatore | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 06:10 PM EDT

A group of Congress members, former U.S. officials, and prominent activists pledged their support to the ongoing anti-government protests in Iran, a video released on Tuesday highlighted.

Iranian American For Liberty, an organization that opposes the current Mullah regime, featured GOP Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Claudia Tenney of New York, and Mary Miller of Illinois in their compilation of endorsements for the protestor cause.

"As protests intensify across Iran, I am honored to continue standing with the brave Iranian people as they demand freedom and justice," Tenney wrote on Twitter. "Their courage in the face of the Islamic Republic's terror and brutality is nothing short of heroic."

David M. Friedman, former President Donald Trump's U.S. Ambassador to Israel; State Department official Len Khodorkovsky; and Trump-era national security adviser Victoria Coates also lent their support.

Ellie Cohanim, who was born in Tehran and served as the U.S. Deputy Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism under Trump, delivered a special message in Iran's native language Farsi towards those seeking freedom.

"I'm recording this message to say I proudly support you, the Iranian people," a translation of Cohanim's statement read. "I urge you to not give up until freedom from [the] Islamic Republic is achieved."

IAL Executive Director Bryan E. Leib told Newsmax that the video was put together in opposition to Ayatollah Khamenei, whose government has received criticism for corruption allegations, enforcing strict Sharia law, and murdering dissidents.

"We organized this video message from congressional leaders and former senior Trump administration officials to send a clear and strong message to the Iranian people who are fighting for freedom from the Khamenei regime – We hear you. We see you. We support you." Leib said.

Renewed calls developed after the Guidance Patrol, known as Iran's "morality police," allegedly beat 22-year-old Mahsa Amini to death after claiming she was wearing her hijab improperly, The Guardian noted.

The government has consistently denied any wrongdoing in her death and has claimed Amini suffered from underlying health conditions that caused her brain to swell.

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Lawyers: Arizona GOP Chair Pleaded Fifth to Jan. 6 Panel (AP)

BOB CHRISTIE Tuesday, 04 October 2022 05:44 PM EDT

Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward refused to answer questions during a deposition of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach at the Capitol, an attorney for the panel revealed Tuesday during a court hearing in Phoenix.

Attorney Eric Columbus told a federal judge that Ward asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when she complied with a subpoena from the House committee.

The detail about Ward's deposition came at a hearing where lawyers urged a federal judge to block the committee from getting her phone records while she appeals. U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa ruled on Sept. 23 that Ward's arguments that her phone call records should be secret did not pass legal muster.

Ward attorney Laurin Mills cast the phone records fight as one with major implications for democracy, on par if not bigger than the violence that unfolded at the Capitol.

"This is the first time in American history that a select committee of the United States Congress controlled by one party has subpoenaed the records of the state chair of the rival party," Mills said.

He said the outcome will set important precedent, not just for the current case but for others that will come when Republicans ultimately control Congress.

The House Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol is seeking phone records from just before the November 2020 election to Jan. 31, 2021. That would include a period where Ward was pushing for former President Donald Trump's election defeat to be overturned and while Congress was set to certify the results.

Kelli Ward and her husband Michael Ward were presidential electors who would have voted for Trump in the Electoral College had he won Arizona. Both signed a document falsely claiming they were Arizona's true electors, despite Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the state.

Columbus said that investigators get telephone records all the time, and noted that congressional investigators can't arrest or charge anyone with a crime. And he noted Congress does not know all that is involved with Ward's action to overturn President Joe Biden's 2020 win.

"Dr. Ward was deposed by the select committee and she declined to answer on every substantive question under her rights under the Fifth Amendment," he said. "There are other aspects of her involvement that are not at this point fully understood."

Ward is hardly the first witness to refuse the committee's questions. Others who have asserted their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination include Trump allies Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and lawyer John Eastman.

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Lawyers: Arizona GOP Chair Pleaded Fifth to Jan. 6 Panel (AP)

BOB CHRISTIE Tuesday, 04 October 2022 05:44 PM EDT

Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward refused to answer questions during a deposition of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach at the Capitol, an attorney for the panel revealed Tuesday during a court hearing in Phoenix.

Attorney Eric Columbus told a federal judge that Ward asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when she complied with a subpoena from the House committee.

The detail about Ward's deposition came at a hearing where lawyers urged a federal judge to block the committee from getting her phone records while she appeals. U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa ruled on Sept. 23 that Ward's arguments that her phone call records should be secret did not pass legal muster.

Ward attorney Laurin Mills cast the phone records fight as one with major implications for democracy, on par if not bigger than the violence that unfolded at the Capitol.

“This is the first time in American history that a select committee of the United State Congress controlled by one party has subpoenaed the records of the state chair of the rival party,” Mills said.

He said the outcome will set important precedent, not just for the current case but for others that will come when Republicans ultimately control Congress.

The House Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol is seeking phone records from just before the November 2020 election to Jan. 31, 2021. That would include a period where Ward was pushing for former President Donald Trump's election defeat to be overturned and while Congress was set to certify the results.

Kelli Ward and her husband Michael Ward were presidential electors who would have voted for Trump in the Electoral College had he won Arizona. Both signed a document falsely claiming they were Arizona's true electors, despite Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the state.

Columbus said that investigators get telephone records all the time, and noted that congressional investigators can't arrest or charge anyone with a crime. And he noted Congress does not know all that is involved with Ward's action to overturn President Joe Biden's 2020 win.

"Dr. Ward was deposed by the select committee and she declined to answer on every substantive question under her rights under the Fifth Amendment," he said. “There are other aspects of her involvement that are not at this point fully understood.”

Ward is hardly the first witness to refuse the committee’s questions. Others who have asserted their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination include Trump allies Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and lawyer John Eastman.

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Conservative Group Sues FBI Over Alleged Big Tech Collusion (Newsmax)

By Luca Cacciatore | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 04:48 PM EDT

America First Legal filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday for allegedly failing to disclose communications between the agency and Big Tech companies, court filings showed.

The group, founded by ex-staffers under former President Trump, is specifically targeting the FBI's communications with platforms like Facebook, whose CEO previously admitted to censoring information surrounding the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop.

AFL partner Reed Rubinstein told Fox News: "The evidence is that during the 2020 Presidential election campaign, the FBI conspired and combined with large corporations, including Facebook, to censor and suppress the damning evidence of Biden family corruption and influence peddling found on Hunter Biden's laptop.

"This was done to help Joe Biden and the Democrats win the 2020 election. Now, arrogantly disregarding the law, the FBI is stonewalling AFL's efforts to expose the FBI's emails detailing the tradecraft behind this collusive attack on our elections and identifying the persons inside and outside of government who were responsible for it."

AFL's lawsuit comes less than two months after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed his site limited circulation of the Hunter Biden laptop story on the pretext it was part of a Russian disinformation campaign the FBI warned about.

"The background here is that the FBI came to us — some folks on our team — and was like, 'Hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump that's similar to that,'" Zuckerberg told podcaster Joe Rogan.

Those comments led Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin to call on Facebook to hand over its communications between members of the organization and government agencies – a request still outstanding.

"The American people deserve to know whether the FBI used Facebook as part of their alleged plan to discredit information about Hunter Biden," the senators wrote to Zuckerberg.

Bannon Declares to Media: 'We're Going to Destroy the Democrat Party' Former adviser to former President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon leaves after a court appearance at New York State Supreme Court on Tuesday in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

By Jay Clemons | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 03:18 PM EDT

Steve Bannon had a simple message for Democrats Tuesday morning, shortly before being informed he would stand trial on fraud charges sometime next year.

"We're going to destroy the Democrat Party as a national political institution," said Bannon, while briefly talking to reporters at New York State Supreme Court Manhattan.

Bannon didn't go into greater detail on his proclamation, or whether this public pledge involves former President Donald Trump pursuing the White House again in 2024 — something for which Trump has yet to make official, even though he's the presumptive favorite to secure the Republican Party's nomination two years from now.

In the meantime, Bannon — a former Trump senior adviser — has a number of legal issues to sort through in the coming months.

His Tuesday appearance in Manhattan court revolved around charges of money laundering (two counts), attempt to commit conspiracy (three counts), and one count of scheming to defraud, allegedly related to the inner workings of his "We Build The Wall" nonprofit organization.

And back in July, Bannon was convicted on a contempt of Congress charge, after failing to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, unrest at the Capitol.

Bannon is slated for sentencing on the above conviction later this month.

During Tuesday's hearing, Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan nixed Bannon's request for the trial being delayed until 2024.

Instead, that trial will likely begin in November 2023.

Judge Merchan also gave Bannon's legal team until February to peruse the evidence in the fraud case.

As Newsmax chronicled last week, prosecutors allege that Bannon duped donors who contributed to the "We Build The Wall" initiative, regarding construction of the wall at the United States-Mexico border.

Bannon allegedly promised private donors that all monies submitted would go to completing the southern border wall, which stretches from Texas to California.

Prosecutors have also accused Bannon of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to two other people — believed to be Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in April.

The state-level charges in New York are separate from the federal charges Bannon once faced two years ago, before being pardoned by then-President Trump, prior to his leaving the White House in January 2021.

Bannon lawyer David Schoen reportedly said his client has become the target of political retribution from federal officials and plans to fight all charges to the end.

"[Bannon] is not guilty of anything that he's charged with, or of any crime," says Schoen.

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Rep. Bishop to Newsmax: Biden's Puerto Rico Trip Had 'Political Overtones' (Newsmax/"John Bachman Now")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 02:59 PM EDT

President Joe Biden's decision to visit Puerto Rico first rather than hurricane-slammed Florida had "political overtones" and his approach to emergency matters is "regrettable," Rep. Dan Bishop said on Newsmax Tuesday.

"Biden's approach to things like this is so regrettable, even the decision to go to Puerto Rico first has political overtones," said the North Carolina Republican on Newsmax's "John Bachman Now." "His comments there reinforce his unfortunate image as a purely political animal, and it's kind of pathetic, too, but most of all that divides Americans, one against the other at the worst time."

Biden's comments in Puerto Rico have come under fire from critics after he told an audience that he was "raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically," and Bishop called such comments "pathetic."

"Florida is the focal point in the minds of all Americans for the damage," said Bishop. "We, of course, are concerned about Puerto Rico as well but I certainly think the best thing the president can do is go to Florida."

North Carolina, which also suffered damages from Hurricane Ian, is still recovering from localized flooding, and thousands remain without power from the storm, which killed five people in the state, Bishop said.

"It was a multistate affair," the North Carolina Republican told Newsmax's "John Bachman Now." "Florida, I think, is where everyone's focus is and the damage was worse there. In North Carolina, we had some localized flooding, but we emerged relatively unscathed. We did have those five deaths and we regret every one of them. It was a doozy of a storm, and there's a lot of work to be done."

Bishop also on Tuesday commented on the Supreme Court's upcoming hearings on the Case of Moore v. North Carolina, after The New York Times reported that case challenges the independent state legislature rule which holds that legislatures, not courts or secretaries of state, hold the final say over the rules of federal elections.

The rule came into play in arguments by former President Donald Trump's campaign, which held that changes such as ballot boxes and voting times enacted by state officials, were not legal because they didn't come from state legislatures.

"It is an extremely important case, but The New York Times and The Washington Post are not giving you the straight scoop," Bishop said. "Even the phrase they use, that it's testing the independent state legislature theory, that's sort of a subtle smear. What it does is, it goes to this issue that the United States Constitution says that the time-placing management manner for regulating elections will be determined in the states, 'by the legislatures thereof.'"

What the case stands for, Bishop said, is that in North Carolina, "we have a sharply partisan majority on the court."

"The four Democrats struck the legislature's plans down entirely, and they didn't do it based on some discreet language in our state constitution, they just did it on their policy preference grounds," said Bishop. "They had no such language, and so what, three of the justices said in a preliminary step here was the question is the extent of a court of power to strike down legislatures decisions about districting. It is fundamental to our democracy that the Constitution be honored as it's written that legislatures make those decisions."

The court in North Carolina could not strip the legislature of its authority and then allow the courts to draw elections maps, he added.

"It is the legislators who are more directly answerable to their constituents and why these things have got to be decided in a state legislature regardless of whether they are Democrat or Republican," said Bishop. "It is the responsibility of the states and the legislatures."

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Trump: Herschel Walker 'Slandered, Maligned' by Media, Democrats (Newsmax/"Spicer & Co.")

By Charlie McCarthy | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 02:45 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump defended Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker and commended the former football star for fighting back after being "slandered and maligned" by the media and Democrats.

A report Monday accused Walker of paying for a woman's abortion after the two conceived a child while they were dating in 2009.

"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, [Democrat Sen.] 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."

Trump further accused Democrats and progressives of playing dirty politics five weeks before the midterms.

"They are trying to destroy a man who has true greatness in his future, just as he had athletic greatness in his past," Trump continued. "It's very important for our country and the great state of Georgia that Herschel Walker wins this Election.

"With all that Herschel has accomplished, when you come from Georgia, and you see the name Herschel Walker when voting, it will be very hard to resist. Don't!"

Recent polls have shown a virtual toss-up race between Walker and Warnock.

Walker took to Twitter on Monday night to blast The Daily Beast, which initially reported the abortion story, and claimed the woman had a $575 receipt from a clinic and a bank deposit receipt that showed an image of a signed personal check for $700 from Walker.

"This is a flat-out lie – and I deny this in the strongest possible terms," Walker tweeted.

"This is another repugnant hatchet job from a Democrat activist disguised as a reporter who has obsessively attacked my family and tried to tear me down since this race started. He's harassed friends of mine, asking if I fathered their children. He's called my children 'secret' because I didn't want to use them as campaign props in a political campaign. Now, they're using an anonymous source to further slander me. They will do anything to hold onto power. It's disgusting, gutter politics.

"I'm not taking this anymore. I planning to sue The Daily Beast for this defamatory lie. It will be filed tomorrow morning."

Newsmax reached out to the Walker campaign to find out if a suit had been filed, and was awaiting a response.

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Trump: Herschel Walker 'Slandered, Maligned' by Media, Democrats (Newsmax/"Spicer & Co.")

By Charlie McCarthy | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 02:45 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump defended Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker and commended the former football star for fighting back after being "slandered and maligned" by the media and Democrats.

A report Monday accused Walker of paying for a woman's abortion after the two conceived a child while they were dating in 2009.

"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, [Democrat Sen.] 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."

Trump further accused Democrats and progressives of playing dirty politics five weeks before the midterms.

"They are trying to destroy a man who has true greatness in his future, just as he had athletic greatness in his past," Trump continued. "It's very important for our country and the great state of Georgia that Herschel Walker wins this Election.

"With all that Herschel has accomplished, when you come from Georgia, and you see the name Herschel Walker when voting, it will be very hard to resist. Don't!"

Recent polls have shown a virtual toss-up race between Walker and Warnock.

Walker took to Twitter on Monday night to blast The Daily Beast, which initially reported the abortion story, and claimed the woman had a $575 receipt from a clinic and a bank deposit receipt that showed an image of a signed personal check for $700 from Walker.

"This is a flat-out lie – and I deny this in the strongest possible terms," Walker tweeted.

"This is another repugnant hatchet job from a Democrat activist disguised as a reporter who has obsessively attacked my family and tried to tear me down since this race started. He's harassed friends of mine, asking if I fathered their children. He's called my children 'secret' because I didn't want to use them as campaign props in a political campaign. Now, they're using an anonymous source to further slander me. They will do anything to hold onto power. It's disgusting, gutter politics.

"I'm not taking this anymore. I'm planning to sue The Daily Beast for this defamatory lie. It will be filed tomorrow morning."

Newsmax reached out to the Walker campaign to find out if a suit had been filed, and was awaiting a response.

Revival Sought for Pastor's Lawsuit Over COVID-19 Restrictions Louisiana pastor Tony Spelld to follow Gov. John Bel Edwards' coronavirus restrictions, speaks at a public meeting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2021. (Melinda Deslatte/AP)

KEVIN McGILL Tuesday, 04 October 2022 01:59 PM EDT

Christian conservative lawyer Roy Moore has asked a federal appeals court to revive a Louisiana pastor’s damage claims against state officials over long-expired COVID-19 restrictions.

A federal judge this year dismissed minister Tony Spell’s lawsuit against Gov. John Bel Edwards and others over enforcement of the ban. Spell drew national attendance for his flouting of the restrictions early in the pandemic at his church in Central, near Baton Rouge.

Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court justice and Senate candidate who is one of Spell's lawyers, insisted in arguments this week before a panel of judges from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the state had no authority whatsoever to restrict church gatherings.

Panel members appeared skeptical of that claim in arguments recorded as they were held Monday in Fort Worth, Texas. But they raised the question of whether Spell’s church was unfairly restricted, compared with other public gathering places, such as shopping mall food courts.

“They have treated us differently,” Moore said. “But the basis of our argument is there is no jurisdiction to limit a church attendance.”

Spell has had some legal victories in his fight with the state. Louisiana's Supreme Court, in May, threw out state charges against him, ruling 5-2 that Edwards' restrictions in place at the time violated Spell's freedom of religion.

But his lawsuit that includes claims for damages over the gathering restrictions was thrown out by U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson in Baton Rouge. Jackson ruled in January that the lawsuit was moot because the restrictions expired long ago.

And Jackson rejected Spell’s request for damages from state and local officials, ruling that "there is not now, and never has been, a ‘clearly established’ right to unrestricted religious assembly, and at all relevant times Defendants reasonably believed that they were acting within the constitutional limits set by the Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit.”

The appellate judges on Monday closely questioned Josh Force, an attorney arguing for the Edwards administration, on whether church assemblies were treated unfairly when compared with other public gatherings, including crowds at shopping malls and Black Lives Matter protests.

“Isn't the food court at the mall at least as dangerous as the worship center?” Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod asked.

Force argued that Edwards was acting under the best advice of public health officials at the time as to what types of gatherings were safe.

Hearing the case were Elrod and 5th Circuit Chief Judge Priscilla Richman, both nominated to the circuit by President George W. Bush; and Judge Andrew Oldham, nominated by President Donald Trump.

Rep. Tenney to Newsmax: Send Funding for IRS Agents to Border Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y.

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 09:43 AM EDT

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., has introduced legislation to redirect $80 billion to the border rather than spending it to hire new IRS agents, and told Newsmax on Tuesday the money, allocated through the Inflation Reduction Act, would be "wasted" otherwise.

But she told Newsmax's "Wake Up America" that her legislation won't pass while Democrats continue to hold the House, even while her office and "all the offices in Congress have been dealing with taxpayer advocacy issues."

"People are still not up to date on their taxes because of the IRS' inadequacies," said Tenney, noting the delays are not only because of the COVID-19 pandemic but because the IRS is focused on the wrong things, particularly dealing with middle-and-lower-income taxpayers.

The Inflation Reduction Act allows the $80 billion to hire 87,000 new IRS agents — who Tenney slammed as being "Gestapo-like people" — for tax enforcement the Biden administration says will target only higher-income people.

But Tenney, like other critics, said the auditors will target lower-income taxpayers.

"Our country was founded on the concept of you are innocent until proven guilty, but we know under the IRS, we've empowered them, and now you're guilty until proven innocent," she said. "This is only going to affect the lower and middle-income taxpayers because they can't afford lawyers and accountants for compliance."

Further, the inflation legislation is the "biggest climate bill, the biggest Green New Deal bill we've ever signed in American history," said Tenney.

"They weren't talking about inflation because spending causes inflation," she said. "The cartels are running the border. They're making hundreds of millions of dollars with human trafficking and drug trafficking … why are we focused on going after the most beleaguered citizens in the nation?"

Tenney acknowledged her legislation won't be approved while Democrats hold the House majority, but if the Republicans retake the House, which she thinks they will, the bill will have a chance.

She also said the border crisis has caused the fentanyl overdose epidemic, but said the Biden administration does not want to address it.

"This has been going on for years with opioids," she said. "We did a lot under the Trump administration to combat opiates in our communities through community block grants and other ways to help us in these small communities. This affects everyone. It is killing 300 people a day and a lot of those are in the 18 to 25 age group. It's a tragedy."

But the progressives' border policy is "so radical, it's almost like they know what to do, but they're paralyzed by what could be done and [they] refuse to do it."

"We're hoping that we can take back the House and make sure that we hold them accountable and do something about protecting the American citizens," she added.

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Pelosi Tells Colbert Dems Will Take House, Throws Shade at Trump (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 07:41 AM EDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is predicting that Democrats will hold the House majority after the upcoming midterm elections, telling talk show host Stephen Colbert that her party will win more seats and reminding him, while cracking a joke, that former President Donald Trump is "not on the ballot now."

"I believe that we will win the – hold the House, and we will hold the House – by winning more seats," the California Democrat, appearing on CBS's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Monday night, commented. "We won the forty seats, then we lost some when Trump was on the ballot. We lost some of the Trump districts, but we held enough seats to hold the House with him on the ballot."

Then, she said, "He's not on the ballot now. Oh, did I say his name? I didn't mean to."

Colbert told her that "we'll have the videotapes fumigated," and she responded that "perhaps you could bleep that out."

Colbert noted that the "prognosticators" predicted a "crazy red wave," and it still appears that Republicans will take the House, but Pelosi disagreed.

"When we won in 2020, and again, fewer seats, but still holding the House, we started right away to prepare for the next election in terms of organization," Pelosi said. "When you mobilize, you must own the ground to take out the vote. You have to do that with inspiration and how we put together our messaging – and that's the second 'M,' and the third is money. So we're getting ready for the election. That was in December of 2020."

However, then Jan. 6 happened, said Pelosi, resulting in the "greatest influx of candidates" coming forward."

"Young people, people of color, people of different generations, different backgrounds, and the rest – the beautiful diversity of America came forward," said Pelosi. "They didn't pay attention to those pundits who said 'You can't win.' They went in with courage and confidence that they could win."

The Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade also created a "different attitude" about whether the Democrats could win, Pelosi added.

"We always believed that we could win, because we knew we had to because our democracy was on the ballot," she said. "Our planet was on the ballot. A woman's – everything was on the ballot in this election, more than in regular majorities come and go."

She also told Colbert, who told her that the polls aren't reflecting what she was saying, that she doesn't believe in the polls and that the candidates are "doing very well in their districts."

Pelosi compared the election to a horse race, noting that she's originally from Maryland, a "horse racing state."

"In Maryland, when you're in the lead – which we believe we are, we're in the lead. You're in the stretch, we made the turn," she said. "Five weeks from tomorrow is the election and voting starts even sooner than that. When you're in the lead, and you're in the stretch, you whip the lead. And that's what we are doing: we're whipping the lead to ensure a Democratic victory."

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Peter Navarro to Newsmax: 'Hubris Defined by the Democratic Party' (Newsmax/ "Eric Bolling: The Balance")

By Charles Kim | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 06:38 AM EDT

Adviser to former President Donald Trump, Peter Navarro, told Newsmax Monday that recent comments by Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., show that “hubris is defined by the Democratic Party.”

“It's like your head just wants to explode with how stupid and arrogant these people are,” Navarro said during “Eric Bolling: The Balance” Monday. “Hubris is defined right now by the Democrat Party and the only one you can't hold responsible is [President] Joe Biden because he doesn't know who he is, where he is.”

Navarro was reacting to comments made recently by both Harris and Pelosi on two separate issues that appeared to be racist in nature.

During a Democratic National Committee event, Harris seemed to imply that communities of color in Florida would get federal disaster aid before others after Hurricane Ian devastated much of the state last week.

“We have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity,” the New York Post reported Harris saying during the event. “If we want people to be in an equal place sometimes, we need to take into account those disparities and do that work.”

Her comment immediately drew a backlash from Florida’s Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw.

“This is false. [Harris’] rhetoric is causing undue panic and must be clarified,” Pushaw said in a post on Twitter. “FEMA Individual Assistance is already available to all Floridians impacted by Hurricane Ian, regardless of race or background.”

Then at a press briefing Friday by Pelosi, the speaker said that instead of sending illegal migrants to northern Democratic-run cities and states, they should remain in the southern border states to “pick crops.”

“We have a shortage of workers in our country,” the Daily Mail reported Pelosi saying during the press conference. “You see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying 'why are you shipping these immigrants up North? We need them to pick the crops down here.’ But that doesn't mean that we don't recognize our moral responsibility as well.”

Navarro said this is why Republicans have to stay “focused” on the midterm elections which are coming up in about a month.

“We have to stay focused on this November election,” he said. “If we don't take back the House of Representatives and the Senate for Trump Republicanism, [Harris] is going to still be there as Senate President, breaking ties like she's been doing, and spending us into the poor house. Pelosi is going to be doing the same thing on immigration, and weaponizing investigatory powers of Congress, even as she ‘insider trades.’”

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Peter Navarro to Newsmax: 'Hubris Defined by the Democratic Party' (Newsmax/"Eric Bolling The Balance")

By Charles Kim | Tuesday, 04 October 2022 08:35 AM EDT

Adviser to former President Donald Trump, Peter Navarro, told Newsmax on Monday that recent comments by Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., show that "hubris is defined by the Democratic Party."

"It's like your head just wants to explode with how stupid and arrogant these people are," Navarro said during "Eric Bolling The Balance" on Monday. "Hubris is defined right now by the Democrat Party and the only one you can't hold responsible is [President] Joe Biden because he doesn't know who he is, where he is."

Navarro was reacting to comments made recently by both Harris and Pelosi on two separate issues that appeared to be racist in nature.

During a Democratic National Committee event, Harris seemed to imply that communities of color in Florida would get federal disaster aid before others after Hurricane Ian devastated much of the state last week.

"We have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity," the New York Post reported Harris saying during the event. "If we want people to be in an equal place sometimes, we need to take into account those disparities and do that work."

Her comment immediately drew a backlash from Florida's Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw.

"This is false. [Harris'] rhetoric is causing undue panic and must be clarified," Pushaw said in a post on Twitter. "FEMA Individual Assistance is already available to all Floridians impacted by Hurricane Ian, regardless of race or background."

Then at a press briefing Friday by Pelosi, the speaker said that instead of sending illegal migrants to northern Democratic-run cities and states, they should remain in the southern border states to "pick crops."

"We have a shortage of workers in our country," the Daily Mail reported Pelosi saying during the press conference. "You see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying 'why are you shipping these immigrants up North? We need them to pick the crops down here.' But that doesn't mean that we don't recognize our moral responsibility as well."

Navarro said this is why Republicans have to stay "focused" on the midterm elections which are coming up in about a month.

"We have to stay focused on this November election," he said. "If we don't take back the House of Representatives and the Senate for Trump Republicanism, [Harris] is going to still be there as Senate President, breaking ties like she's been doing, and spending us into the poor house. Pelosi is going to be doing the same thing on immigration, and weaponizing investigatory powers of Congress, even as she 'insider trades.'"

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According to Emerson College and The Hill, Trump endorsed Senate hopeful Doctor Mehmet Oz (R-PA.) is catching up to Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman (D-PA.) in the polls.

The survey showed Fetterman with 45 percent of the support and Oz with 43 percent. Those numbers are well within the margin of error.

Questions were raised about Fetterman’s health after he suffered a stroke in May. It is a top concern for many voters.

Oz’s campaigning across the state combined with him picking up key endorsements from some police associations have tightened the race.

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On Monday, 45th President Donald J. Trump sued CNN for alleged defamation. Trump is seeking $475 million in damages.

In a Truth Social post, Trump claimed that the once prestigious network is now the “purveyor of disinformation, defamation and Fake News.”

In the 29-page lawsuit, it is mentioned how CNN has had a history of criticizing the former president. However, it is indicated that the criticism against Trump has heightened in the recent months out of fear that the 45th President will run for office again in 2024.

“As a part of its concerted effort to tilt the political balance to the left, CNN has tried to taint the Plaintiff,” the suit said.

The lawsuit listed many examples of how the network has defamed the Florida resident. Some of those examples include comparing Trump to Hitler, using the defamatory label of ‘racist’ to describe Trump and by referring to Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen as ‘Trump’s big lie.’

A CNN spokesperson has declined to comment on the lawsuit.

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Report: National Archives Requested Trump's Records With Kim Jong Un (Newsmax)

By Luca Cacciatore | Monday, 03 October 2022 09:26 PM EDT

An email from May 2021 shows that the National Archives requested former President Donald Trump's lawyers account for his correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The message was a part of the National Archives' push to obtain records they had seemingly lost after Trump left office and released publicly on Monday after over 50 Freedom of Information Act requests were filed.

In the email, National Archives General Counsel Gary Stern asked Trump's legal team for their assistance in receiving lost documents relevant under the Presidential Records Act, including several ones specifically requested.

"The original correspondence between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un were not transferred to us," Stern stated, also requesting Trump hand over the letter former President Barack Obama gave him on his first day in office.

"It is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original Presidential records were kept in the Residence of the White House over the course of President Trump's last year in office and have not been transferred to NARA," he added.

The news comes as Trump mounts a legal battle against the Justice Department for approving the Federal Bureau of Investigation's raid on the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence in South Florida.

Trump has consistently claimed that he had a standing order as president allowing him to declassify any document he so chose, meaning that the sensitive files housed on his property were not violating record law.

"He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them," Trump's office told Just the News founder John Solomon.

"The power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the president of the United States," the statement added.

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EWTN/RealClear Poll: Majority of Catholics Don't Want Biden or Trump to Run Former President Donald Trump, left and President Joe Biden. (AP)

By Jay Clemons | Monday, 03 October 2022 08:15 PM EDT

A new joint poll from EWTN News and RealClear Opinion reveals nearly 6 in 10 Catholic voters maintain that President Joe Biden, the nation's second Catholic president, should not seek a second term in 2024.

The Catholic voters also expressed similar opposition to former President Donald Trump running for office two years from now.

For this survey, which chronicled the responses of 1,581 Catholic voters over a four-day span (Sept. 12-15), only 22.2% said they favored President Biden — already this nation's oldest president — from pursuing the White House again in 2024.

That figure was nearly tripled by the 58.4% of respondents who prefer Biden retire at the end of his term in January 2025.

Also, nearly 52% of Catholic voters said they either disapproved or strongly disapproved of the president's job performance after 20-plus months in office, with 47% of that subset casting a "strongly disapprove" vote.

On the flip side, 32% of respondents approved of President Biden's work to date, and 14% "strongly approved" of his time in the White House.

Also, just 2% of voters didn't have a substantive opinion on Biden, either way.

Regarding Trump, the EWTN/RealClear findings report that 63.3% of Catholic respondents don't want the 45th president to seek reelection in 2024 — despite being the consensus favorite to secure the Republican Party's 2024 nomination.

Conversely, 26.7% of Catholic respondents support Trump's presumptive presidential bid.

Among the other survey highlights:

• More than 73% of Catholic voters support limiting abortion rights to 15 weeks or less; and just 13.4% of Catholic voters favor abortion up to the moment of birth.
• 67.4% of Catholic voters support public funding for pregnancy resource centers, compared to 18.3% opposing public funding for the centers.
• More than 34% of Catholic voters consider inflation to be "the most important issue facing the nation." The other most-pressing issues involved the U.S. economy (19.7%), abortion rights (10.1%), and immigration (10.1%).
• Nearly 74% of Catholic voters are concerned about the so-called "COVID deficit" theory with schoolchildren, in which the students incurred intellectual and/or social-development deficits during the coronavirus-infused shutdowns of schools across America (2020 and 2021).
• Approximately 60% of Catholic voters oppose introducing Critical Race Theory (CRT) into classrooms, compared to 29% of Catholic voters who support it.
• 75.6% of Catholic voters oppose biological boys, or trans girls, competing on biological girls' sports teams — with particularly high opposition tallies from Hispanic Catholics (77.3%) and Black Catholics (80.3%).
• More than 53% of Catholic voters believe that supporting "transgender ideology" would conflict with Catholic teachings, while 30.3% believe it would not.

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Trump Team Objects to DOJ Request That Court Expedites Special Master Appeal (Newsmax)

By Luca Cacciatore | Monday, 03 October 2022 07:26 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump's legal team has objected to the Justice Department's request to expedite an appeal that would allow them to continue reviewing classified documents alongside an independent special master.

In a Monday filing, Trump's lawyers argued that expediting the Mar-a-Lago file review case could cause "prejudice" to the former president by granting less time to him than the government.

"Certainly, the Government is free to file its brief at its earliest convenience. However, no good cause has been shown as to why President Trump should have significantly less time than the Government and less time than that provided under the Rules to prepare and brief his arguments before this Court in this unprecedented case," his attorneys wrote.

"The Government, on the other hand, cannot possibly be prejudiced if this appeal is not expedited and President Trump is afforded the few extra days provided under the Rules to file his brief," they added.

The filing also claims that the public and political nature of the case should "countenance against any rush to judgment," adding that "the public interest is served best by [a] transparent and thorough consideration of all the issues."

"The Government has not and cannot possibly articulate any real risk of loss or harm resulting from a more deliberative process," it read.

According to The Hill, the Justice Department is seeking an expedited timeline starting with an opening brief by Oct. 14, a Trump response by Nov. 4, and a department rebuttal by Nov. 11.

On the other hand, Trump's team is pulling to make the final two dates Nov. 14 and Nov. 21, respectively.

The move comes after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stayed a lower court ruling that blocked the Justice Department review in September, with a final decision in the high-profile legal battle still up in the air.

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DOJ Moves to Quash Subpoena for Trump in FBI Dismissal Case (Newsmax)

By Charles Kim | Monday, 03 October 2022 05:30 PM EDT

President Joe Biden's Department of Justice took action Monday to try to stop former President Donald Trump from getting a deposition subpoena from former FBI agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI attorney Lisa Page's wrongful termination lawsuit.

The agency released several exhibits in a court filing Saturday to stop a request to subpoena Trump in the case, including the Aug. 8, 2018, letter to Strzok firing him from his deputy assistant director position at the FBI.

"In your adjudication, I removed all the politics, pundits, commentary, and the media from reporting the decision point which I must address," Deputy Director David Bowdich wrote to Strzok at the time. "When I strip away all the 'noise,' I am left with the facts and extremely damaging impact to the organization, which will take years to overcome.

"As Deputy Assistant Director you were expected to be a leader who was beyond reproach and set an example for not only our direct subordinates, but others throughout the organization who watched and observed your behavior and actions. You failed to do so repeatedly and put your own interests about the interests of the organization. Though it pains me to do so, it is for this reason that I am dismissing you from the rolls of the F.B.I."

Both Strzok, who played a key role in both the Hillary Clinton email and the early part of the Russian collusion investigation, and Page, were fired from the agency after texts between the couple were released calling out their bias against then President Trump.

The pair filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the DOJ and FBI in 2019 and sought to depose the former president for his disparaging remarks, and alleged role in their firing.

According to the court document, however, Bowdich testified that Trump had no role in his decision to fire Strzok and Page and had never discussed the issue with him during their private meetings.

"[I] Never saw the President [Trump] get involved in the termination of anyone beyond the politically-appointed [former] Director [James Comey]," Bowdich testified, according to the document.

Bowdich further testified that he "absolutely" did not recall Comey's successor, FBI Director Christopher Wray ever mentioning that Trump sought the pair's firing during their private meetings, and that he was trying to keep Wray away from deciding Strzok and Page's fate at the bureau.

"I had looked at those texts over, and over, and over, again," Bowdich said in his testimony cited in the document. "I was seeing the damage that it was doing to our organization."

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