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Chris Clark, one of the attorneys representing first son Hunter Biden in a federal investigation of Biden’s tax and business dealings, accused the IRS whistleblower who has alleged political interference into the tax investigation of committing a felony by disclosing “information about an ongoing tax investigation.”

Chrisopher K. Clark, publicity photo via Latham & Watkins.
The smash mouth tactic is likely to be seen as an effort to intimidate the whistleblower and any others contemplating stepping forward.
Clark had initially declined comment when news of the whistleblower broke on Wednesday, reported CBS News, “Chris Clark, an attorney for Hunter Biden, declined to comment.”
Clark provided a statement to NBC News on Thursday (excerpt):
Hunter Biden’s attorney said Thursday that the IRS whistleblower could be improperly disclosing private tax information and attempting to abuse the power of the government to harm the president’s son.
“It is a felony for an IRS agent to improperly disclose information about an ongoing tax investigation. The IRS has incredible power, and abusing that power by targeting, embarrassing, or disclosing information about a private citizen’s tax matters undermines Americans’ faith in the federal government,” Hunter Biden’s attorney, Chris Clark, told NBC News in a statement. “Unfortunately, that is what has happened and is happening here in an attempt to harm my client. It appears this IRS agent has committed a crime, and had denied my client protections that are his right.”
Clark, a former federal prosecutor who has also represented billionaires Mark Cuban and Elon Musk, recently left high-powered Latham & Watkins to form a boutique firm in New York City.
Press release excerpt:
April 13, 2023, New York, NY: Christopher J. Clark, a former federal prosecutor and former Global Chairman of the Securities Litigation and Financial Institutions groups at an international law firm, Patrick J. Smith and Rodney Villazor, co-founders of Smith Villazor LLP, announced today the formation of Clark Smith Villazor LLP.
Clark, an accomplished litigator with a track record of successfully leading securities law, foreign and domestic anti-corruption law, and reputational matters, brings wide-ranging expertise to the firm. He has represented public companies, alternative investment entities, and individuals in criminal and civil investigations.
Throughout his nearly 30-year long legal career, Clark has represented hedge fund clients in precedent setting matters involving Section 5 of the Securities Act, Rule 105 of Regulation M and the rules regarding insider trading. He successfully defended Mark Cuban at his insider trading trial in SEC v. Mark Cuban and represented Elon Musk in SEC v. Elon Musk, an investigation and resolution of selective disclosure allegations. Clark also currently represents Hunter Biden in an investigation regarding tax issues.
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Christopher J. Clark
Clark joins the firm from Latham & Watkins LLP, where he served as Deputy Office Managing Partner of the firm’s New York office. He previously served as Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Financial Institutions Industry Group and as Global Co-Chair of the Securities Litigation Practice. His expertise has included representing financial institutions corporations, and individuals in complex civil and criminal litigation, regulatory inquiries, and investigations, in addition to representing alternative investment firms in large-scale civil disputes involving distressed or defaulted securities.
Prior to Latham & Watkins, Clark served as an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York and a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force. During his tenure there, he conducted nine federal criminal trials as lead counsel (including the conviction of the men who looted Adelphia Communications Corp.) and argued more than 20 appeals in the Second Circuit. Clark earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and graduated from the Columbia University School of Law.
Reuters reported Clark saying the new firm is “dangerous and frightening” (excerpt):
“We’re an incredibly dangerous and frightening team for people to face off against, and that excites me,” Clark said.
Clark said he opted to leave the partnership at Latham, one of the largest and highest-grossing U.S. law firms, to avoid conflicts that hampered his ability to pursue cases on behalf of his hedge fund clients and others.
“We don’t have that problem at Clark Smith Villazor,” he added.
Clark said he will continue to lead a team of Latham lawyers that is representing Hunter Biden, who in December 2020 said his tax affairs were being investigated by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware. A Latham spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Biden said in a statement then that he handled his affairs “legally and appropriately.” Clark said the U.S. investigation is ongoing.
The Washington Post reported last December on the plans by Hunter Biden and his allies to target his accusers in an article headlined, “Some Hunter Biden allies making plans to go after his accusers” (excerpt):
Hunter Biden’s friend and lawyer Kevin Morris was blunt in laying out his thoughts at a strategy session last September on an expected onslaught of investigations by House Republicans: It was crucial, Morris suggested, for Hunter Biden’s camp to be more aggressive.
Morris, at the meeting in his California home, described defamation lawsuits the team could pursue against the presidential son’s critics, including Fox News, Eric Trump and Rudy Giuliani. He outlined extensive research on two potential witnesses against Hunter Biden — a spurned business partner named Tony Bobulinski and a computer repairman named John Paul Mac Isaac.
At one point, Hunter Biden himself happened to call into the meeting, connecting briefly by video to add his own thoughts.
“They feel that there is a whole counternarrative missing because of the whole Hunter-hater narrative out there,” said liberal activist David Brock, who attended the meeting. “What we really got into was more the meat of it, the meat of what a response would look like.” Brock was planning for a new group, Facts First USA, focused on fighting the looming House GOP investigations.
The meeting was a glimpse into a sprawling infrastructure that is rapidly, almost frantically, assembling to combat Republicans’ plans to turn Hunter Biden into a major news story when the GOP takes over the House next year. The risk for Hunter Biden, and possibly for President Biden as well, is that this hodgepodge of efforts is not fully coordinating and does not share a unified approach, according to people involved in the effort who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal dynamics.
Hunter Biden has been working with Morris, his friend and sometime financial benefactor, and a team of researchers. The younger Biden has also hired several other lawyers — Chris Clark, who is handling a federal criminal investigation into his business dealings and other matters, along with a separate attorney, Joshua A. Levy, to deal directly with the House investigators.
Earlier this year Hunter Biden added high-profile attorney Abbe Lowell to his defense team.
Mark Lytle, the attorney for the whistleblower, told John Solomon in an interview published Wednesday his client is non-political and by-the-book (Just the News excerpt):
In an interview with Just the News, Lytle said he could not yet identify the specific case his client had raised concerns about or the specific political appointees whose actions or testimony raised concerns because of tax confidentiality laws. But he confirmed that one senior DOJ official’s recent testimony played a role in the agent coming forward to blow the whistle.
“I can say that he’s been working diligently on a high-profile case,” the lawyer said during an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast, explaining that his client “was concerned about some statements by a senior political appointee from the Department of Justice that contradicted what he knew to be the facts of the case.”
Lytle said his client is a career law enforcement official who hasn’t made any political donations and doesn’t even use social media. “He is just a guy who likes his job as a law enforcement officer, as an investigator, and he takes it seriously, and he’s dedicated,” he said. “And when he sees something that is not routine and doesn’t follow the rules, or … something maybe is affected by politics — that’s what made him come forward.”
The whistleblower’s name has not been disclosed by his attorney. How long will it take for his name to be leaked by Biden insiders and the intimidation campaign to kick into high gear?
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Rep. Adam Schiff has claimed that the House Judiciary Committee field hearing on “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan” is an “attempt to obstruct justice and intimidate Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his investigation into former president Donald Trump.”
Monday’s hearing was set up to examine how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s pro-crime, anti-victim policies have led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for New York City residents, according to a press release from the committee.
While whining about the hearing, Rep. Schiff claimed, “Since the former president’s indictment, the Manhattan District Attorney has been the subject of countless death threats and racist diatribes. Others have made ugly appeals to antisemitism, in an effort to attack the proceedings.”
New York has seen a massive explosion in violent crime under Democrat leadership, and Schiff is not too happy about Republicans pointing it out.
“And this committee, this committee — has used every means at its disposal to disrupt, interrupt and interfere with the prosecution, demanding documents it has no right obtain, and no jurisdiction to demand, subpoenaing a former deputy district attorney and threatening to subpoena the D.A. himself, and now, holding this hearing in Manhattan in a vain attempt to intimidate or embarrass the prosecutorial authority,” Schiff continued.
Schiff’s rant continued, “Now the majority denies that this is the purpose of today’s hearing. They would have you believe it is mere coincidence that all of a sudden, and out of the blue, the chairman decided that the state of New York is a wonderful place to do a hearing. Not the chairman’s home state of Ohio, with its high rates of murder. But New York State. And of all the cities in New York, they would pick New York City. and of all the Boroughs in New York, they pick Manhattan. Apparently, Manhattan is just lovely this time of year.”
Ironically, Schiff said that “our role should be to defend the rule of law, not tear it down,” while condemning a hearing about the city’s lawlessness.
“There was a time in America when both parties used to believe in the rule of law, but sadly those days are over,” Schiff said, laughably. “One of America’s two great political parties believes that political might, makes right, and more than right, it means that you are beyond the reach of the law, and beyond accountability. The more power, the less justice. But this is not democracy. This is the antithesis of democracy.”
Schiff’s complaints were interrupted by a protester.

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Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink on Tuesday shot down a lawsuit by the illegitimate Attorney General challenging a mutual agreement between the Cochise County Board of Supervisors and County Recorder, giving the Recorder authority to administer elections.
Newly selected Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a lawsuit against Cochise County Supervisors last month, alleging that “Defendants recently have made and executed an illegal agreement” delegating elections administration duties to the County Recorder.
The agreement can be found in Exhibit A of Kris Mayes’ complaint.
Mayes’ reportedly won the rigged election by just 280 votes after a shady vote recount discovered hundreds of uncounted ballots for Abe Hamadeh in rural Pinal County. Additionally, multiple election anomalies in Maricopa County put a large number of ballots in question. The number of ballots in question far outnumbers the margin of victory.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, at least 517 voters left the long lines on Election Day in Maricopa County after the polls closed and were unable to cast a ballot. An estimated 8,327 were unable to cast a ballot due to the tabulator failures and extremely long wait times at nearly 60% of Maricopa County voting locations.
Now Kris Mayes is targeting officials who decline to accept fraudulent elections.
Remember, Katie Hobbs, the Governor installed by the same fraudulent midterm election, also previously sued Cochise County for not certifying the election. Cochise County Chairwoman Peggy Judd and Supervisor Ann English voted to certify the elections in Cochise under duress. The third Supervisor, Tom Crosby, refused to show up and vote on the forced, corrupt meeting agenda.
As The Gateway Pundit recently reported, Abe Hamadeh’s Motion for New Trial was granted with new Oral Arguments, scheduled for May 16, and a review of the roughly 8,000 provisional ballots will likely overturn the Arizona Attorney General race.
BREAKING: Katie Hobbs’ New Voter Registration “Error” Affects Up To 6,000 Arizona Voters – Approximately 1,000 Receive Mail Ballot WITHOUT Local Races

Kari Lake is currently fighting in the Arizona Supreme Court against Katie Hobbs to take her rightful place in the Arizona Governor’s office.
On March 7, Kris Mayes put out the following press release, claiming that the Board of Supervisors violated the law by delegating election duties to the County Recorder.
“Today, my office filed a lawsuit against Cochise County, the members of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors, and the County Recorder for their unlawful agreement to delegate nearly all of the Board’s election duties to the Recorder. The Agreement is essentially an unqualified handover from the Board to the Recorder, not one that would allow both entities to work hand in hand to fulfill their statutory duties openly and transparently.
While counties may appropriately enter into cooperative agreements with their recorders to manage elections, Cochise County’s agreement steps far over the legal line. In addition to this broad transfer of power, I am deeply concerned this move might shield or obscure actions and deliberations the Board would typically conduct publicly under open meeting law.
Suing other public officials is not something I take lightly–but it is my job as Attorney General to bring action when public officials unlawfully exercise their power or act outside the confines of their authority.”
Tucson.com reports,
A judge rejected a request from Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes to block the Cochise County Board of Supervisors from handing over its election administration to the elected county recorder.
On Tuesday, Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink turned aside Mayes’ request for an injunction blocking the February agreement from being implemented. Mayes had argued in her lawsuit that the board illegally delegated its oversight of elections to Recorder David Stevens.
But Fink said the agreement the board signed gives it sufficient oversight to meet the law’s requirements, including regular reports from Stevens to the board and its ability to overturn any decisions it finds objectionable.
“If there is a problem with the recorder’s performance of his election duties, these provisions are safeguards that are in the court’s opinion sufficient to ensure that the board means authority over the conduct of elections in Cochise County,” Fink said.
The decision came after an hour-long court hearing in which Solicitor General Josh Bendor, representing Mayes, tried to persuade Fink that the county was illegally delegating its authority to Stevens.
The county’s hired outside attorney, Timothy La Sota, said the Attorney General’s Office was nitpicking the agreement to find faults that weren’t there.
“If you look at the state’s critique of the agreement, it looks more like what a lawyer would put together for a client when they’re just kind of looking for things to pick out about something they don’t like,” La Sota told the judge. “’I don’t like how this is written,’ ‘I don’t like how that’s written.’”
La Sota pointed out that the county board, made up of two Republicans and one Democrat, retained the power to review decisions made by Stevens and replace him if it wants.
Those were important clarifications of the agreement, which the state read differently, Bendor said in an interview after the hearing ended.
He maintained that the judge’s decision was not a clear loss for Mayes. The attorney general had argued the agreement was so unclear about the board’s ability to oversee elections, including an upcoming one for a new jail tax, that it crossed the line into illegality.
“They cannot make a representation to the judge and then not implement it that way,” Bendor said. “So I think that’s important, and it means that the board does have supervisory authority over Stevens’ elections duties and that’s what the judge appeared to say, as well. I would hope that the defendants act consistent with their representations to the court, and if they do, then maybe there won’t be a need for us to appeal.”
The attorney general’s lawsuit pointed to a series of issues in last year’s election in Cochise County, where the board tried to have a 100% hand count conducted. That was blocked by the courts and the two Republican board members refused to certify the election results until ordered to do so.
Judge Fink, however, said those issues were irrelevant to his decision and that if the case went forward, he would have stricken them from the record.
Stevens said in an interview after the attorney general filed suit in March that the agreement does not give him carte blanche to do as he wishes.
Instead, it says the board must sign off on his decisions. He noted that the agreement was drafted by the County Attorney’s Office, and only two small changes were made by the board before they signed off on it.
Stevens, a Republican, said any thought that he might use his new role to affect the operation or outcome of elections is misplaced.
After Tuesday’s ruling, Bendor said the Democratic attorney general will continue to keep close tabs on election administration in Cochise County.
“We have to keep an eye on what’s going down there,” Bendor said. “I assume (Stevens) will follow the law, and we’ll keep an eye on things in case there’s any shenanigans.”
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Recently, the US government announced that it had approved three payments to Americans injured by the COVID-19 vaccine. These three payments, including two for myocarditis – a potentially life-threatening heart condition – totaling a measly $4,634.89.
According to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), more than 1,500,000 have reported adverse events after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Despite this monumental number of injured Americans, these recently announced tiny payments to three individuals mark the first payments made by the government under the Health and Resources Service Administration’s Countermeasure Injury Compensation Program (CICP).
Healthcare advocates and leaders in the fight for medical freedom were quick to criticize the government’s shockingly low payouts.
Laura Bono, acting President of Children’s Health Defense reacted to the payments by saying,

“The CICP is a pathetic, government-run program that gives complete liability protection to the very industries profiting from the COVID vaccine or product. While victims linger with their injuries, paying out-of-pocket for expenses, or at worst die, the industries run to the bank.”

In the wake of the government’s dereliction of duty in caring for those who have been injured by the COVID-19 vaccine, many Americans are asking what they can do to protect themselves and their families.
The good news is that Americans don’t have to rely on the government. Dr. Peter McCullough and the freedom fighting medical professionals at The Wellness Company have released an over-the-counter supplement, Spike Support Formula, that can help protect you against spike protein – the culprit behind the vast majority of post COVID and post COVID vaccine injuries and illness.
Dr. McCullough’s analysis shows that:

Over three years into the pandemic with nearly the entire country having become sick with SARS-CoV-2, a virus engineered to invade the body, there are millions suffering with long-hauler syndrome. Approximately half of patients admitted to the ICU with COVID-19 will have post-COVID syndrome which is now understood to be due to persistence of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein within cells, tissues, and organs. Those vaccinated have been additionally loaded with Spike, so may have even a worse course with prolonged symptoms including fatigue, lethargy, brain fog, muscle loss, skin and hair changes, sleeplessness, and effort intolerance. The magnitude of the problem has driven an all-encompassing search for management strategies to resolve the syndrome(s).

While big pharma and the medical industrial complex want Americans to believe that there is nothing that can be done to combat spike protein, Dr. McCullough has identified three promising approaches.  Two of those approaches require a prescription – Ivermectin and low-dose Naltrexone – while one – Nattokinase – is available over-the counter.  
In particular, nattokinase shows great promise. From Dr. McCullough:

I have found nattokinase, the Japanese product derived from natto (a traditional Japanese food made from whole soybeans that have been fermented with Bacillus subtilis var. natto.) to be the most compelling and scientifically supported approach to clear Spike protein out of the body via proteolytic degradation. 

While nattokinase is widely known for its longevity-promoting abilities in Japan, it is a largely unheard of product here in the United States, which is why Dr. McCullough and his team designed an optimized Nattokinase-based supplement, Spike Support.
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I remember the night Donald Trump won the Presidency. I was away from home in Alabama for military training and had final exams the next day – I remember that distinctly because I griped the entire day about how they should’ve pushed the exams up a day so that we could stay up to watch the results.
No matter which way the cookie crumbled history would be made, and I wanted to see it.
I naturally watched the results because all Americans should stay awake to find out who their country’s leader is. However, I was not anticipating the result that was delivered. The ‘silent majority’ had spoken and chose The Donald. 
As we slide into another election season, I sense that the GOP is assuming that the same ‘silent majority’ will show up and have their voice heard, that the ‘little guy’ and ‘everyday man and woman’ will say with their votes that they have had enough of Sleepy Joe and his progressive handlers.
But is their assumption misplaced? Are they doomed to disappointment? 
While the right made huge waves, winning school board seats and beating back radical left-wing ideologies like critical race theory, the most recent elections show conservative candidates getting battered.

Here it is:
“In your opinion, who is more responsible for politicizing education (and making education too much a part of the culture war)?”
Democrats/liberals: 33%Republicans/conservatives: 28%Both equally: 36%Neither: 4% pic.twitter.com/bcDOBIkaQg
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) April 17, 2023

All Signs Point To Yes
I want to say I was shocked by this past midterms, but honestly, I didn’t expect a red wave.
I am of the same camp as James Woods, who so expertly put his analysis of the midterms as:
“Only one clear truth emerged from this election: this country is evenly divided and each side thinks the other is literally insane.”
This past midterm was the worst performance in decades for the party not in the White House; it was truly embarrassing. The GOP sure did try to rally, though, and spin their epic failures into gold by pointing out their narrow win in the House and, of course, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ ability to solidify Florida as a red state. 
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The midterms showed that it’s not just the Republicans that have a silent constituency; there could be a silent progressive majority. Or perhaps voters just aren’t going to get excited about a man like Dr. Oz even though he essentially ran against a vegetable – much like the kind found in his infamous crudites – and other such candidates of equal ridiculous quality.
But it wasn’t just Senate and House seats that didn’t flip as hoped by the GOP. School board races had and continue to have a unique interest that seemed relatively mundane before, and the results were mixed.

Conservatives finally organize to land a blow in the culture war and their leaders are publicly discouraging it? This is why the Right are losers, no killer instinct. If conservatives fail to punish Bud Light then why would other corporations fear their backlash in the future? pic.twitter.com/LQax2RZAaD
— Joel Davis (@joeldavisx) April 15, 2023

A Bizarre Battleground
School board politics never used to get my blood pumping. Still, lately, I’ve been to several school board meetings in my home county of Loudoun in northern Virginia, the infamous DC Metro. Not every meeting is Fox News-worthy. Often I wonder if my heart has stopped beating out of sheer boredom. 
But thanks to COVID, parents are finally paying attention to what is happening to their children in the public schools they pay for. One would’ve thought school boards across the nation would’ve flipped red, even though school boards are “nonpartisan” most of the time, or at least that’s the lie you’re meant to believe.
However, there were significant losses in the suburbs of Texas last year.
As Democrat winner Tiffanie Harrison stated, she believed the reason the Republican didn’t beat her was:
“Children aren’t red or blue. They just need people that are willing to serve them.”
Interesting take, I would argue you don’t serve the child, you serve the parent, but I’ll save that for later. Fast forward to this month, and Democrats handily beat many of their Republican challengers in school board races in Illinois and Wisconsin.
RELATED: Biden Vows to Veto Republican Title IX Bill Protecting Women’s and Girl’s Sports
As the executive director of the National Education Association, Kim Anderson, pointed out:
“Where culture war issues were being waged by some school board candidates those issues fell flat with voters. The takeaway for us is that parents and community members and voters want candidates who are focused on strengthening our public schools, not abandoning them.”
Somebody pinch me; I actually agree with someone from the NEA.

The Biden Administration is more concerned with protecting woke school board members from parents’ heated public comments than it is in protecting our nation with actual border security. https://t.co/4MyWiB9QG9
— Ian Prior (@iandprior) April 14, 2023

I Got 99 Problems
The public school system has been terrible for over 30 years; parents have just now woken up to it because they were forced to. I am one of the lucky ones who can homeschool my kids, but many families do not have this luxury.
Last year I volunteered on a campaign, and my candidate’s challengers often declared they would “Abolish the Department of Education!” and “Get Rid of Public Schools!” which was met with uproarious applause at all the GOP events. But I knew, and they knew deep down, that they wouldn’t be able to do either of those things, nor did most of them actually want to.
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Public education, if focused on, you know, education, is a Godsend for single parents, low-income families, and countless other families that do not have the luxury to pursue alternative schooling for their children.
The founder of the conservative 1776 Project PAC, Ryan Girdusky, rightly said after the recent school board losses:
“Don’t assume that a blanket message on critical race theory or transgender issues is going to claim every district – it’s very personalized.”
Wait a second, you mean you can’t just tell people all of their problems and no solutions and expect they’ll vote for you? What a novel concept.

Nashville police still haven’t released the trans terrorist’s manifesto. Why?
Because hiding the truth makes it easier for the Left to pretend the GOP is at fault when a trans terrorist shoots up a school and murders children https://t.co/e3sblkB9N7
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) April 17, 2023

Should We Dial It Down?
I know what you’re thinking, dear reader; you are thinking to yourself, Kat, these are school board races. They don’t matter anyway and aren’t a barometer for larger elections with more significant consequences, such as for President.
First, let me tell you, these days, nothing is much of a barometer; why do we even have pollsters? They don’t get it right, and when they get it wrong, they always blame the voters.
Second, you need to pay attention if you think the Presidency is more consequential than your local school board. We’ve essentially had an overripe avocado as Commander-in-Chief for the last two years, and so far, by the grace of God, we haven’t been wiped clean off the planet. 
School boards matter immensely as the members of those boards influence what can and can’t be taught to your children, the decisions that affect the safety of your children, and how your tax dollars are spent. These are the same school boards that opt to teach children about their various privileges, as seen in Fairfax County, Virginia, or have bathroom problems, like in Loudoun County. 
However, even with these fundamentally wrong actions happening in schools nationwide, some in the GOP advise watering down the message.
Republican pollster Dan Judy said of candidates addressing trans issues:
“The tone of how this is handled is extremely important because the vast majority of people, regardless of their views on trans issues, don’t want to treat people, especially children, cruelly.”
So, should Republican candidates dial back their attacks on school boards that wish to allow boys into girls’ locker rooms, bathrooms, sports, and various other previously protected areas for girls?

Day 5 of “Things I Never Do As A Real Girl”…Dress up in a 6 year old girl’s elementary school uniform, bounce into a hotel room, fall backwards onto the bed and pretend to be Eloise#WomanFace #Mockery #DylanMulvaney #DylanMulvaneyIsAMan #DylanMulvaneyMocksWomen #ThePenisIsReal pic.twitter.com/fXQScjBUyh
— Sammy Jo – Cooks 4U (@sammyjoms66) April 9, 2023

Too Late?
The bad news is politically and strategically, Mr. Judy is not wrong, more than likely. We live in a world where the average voter is even more uninformed, and at worst misinformed, than ever before.
Hell, I got into a debate with a former work associate who claimed I participate in indoctrination because I don’t teach my six-year-old the benefits of authoritarianism. Just meditate on that for a minute; I’ll wait.
The worse news is that we are all to blame for the state of politics today. Our political parties on either side have become lazy, assuming that white suburban women will vote for them. After all, we are all ‘Mama Bears’ – a term I find irritating as if the only thing that incenses me is anything pertaining to my children.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker said of the recent Republican school board losses:
“Fortunately, the voters saw through the hidden extremists who were running for school board…”
No, J.B., the voters didn’t see through anything; they probably didn’t care enough to pay attention, many forgot to vote, and others voted for the name they recognized versus the issues that mattered. Much as it will be, I predict when voters head to the booths in 2024. So much for the silent majority.

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Representative Matt Gaetz contends the GOP-led House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government can prove that the infamous letter signed by 51 intelligence officials indicating Hunter Biden’s laptop amounted to ‘Russian disinformation’ was a targeted attack on the 2020 presidential election.
Gaetz made the claim – long suspected amongst supporters of former President Donald Trump – in an interview with Steve Bannon on “Real America’s Voice.”
The Florida Republican told Bannon that former acting CIA Director Mike Morrell was seeking to reprise that role under President Biden following the 2020 election.
Morrell reportedly got a call from Biden’s campaign suggesting the Hunter Biden laptop – which they knew at the time was legitimately his laptop – was ‘Russian disinformation’.
That call, Gaetz contends, was a catalyst for Morrell to organize the letter from dozens of intelligence officials he had contact with. In fact, he said, the former acting CIA Director testified on the matter.
“You guys can prove that?” Bannon asked.
“We can prove that and much more,” Gaetz replied. “Everything I am telling you I can fully corroborate with records and testimony.”

BREAKING: @RepMattGaetz says @Weaponization CAN PROVE the letter signed by 51 former intel officials discrediting Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” was written with the explicit purpose of aiding Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
pic.twitter.com/bNjXM5TqBs
— Joel Valdez (@realJoelValdez) April 17, 2023

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Recap: The Letter From 51 Intelligence Officials
In a letter signed by 51 intelligence officials published just weeks before the election, the authors argued that the Hunter Biden laptop story had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
“If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this,” they said of the New York Post’s bombshell story at the time.
“If we are right” amounted to a widespread effort by Democrats, the legacy media, and social media alike to squash the story.
None of those involved in the letter ever apologized for spreading the actual misinformation. A couple of officials actually doubled down.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper even had the balls to declare the letter had been “distorted” – an effort to rewrite history over two years after the fact.

1. Clapper & co. should start with “sorry, we were wrong.”
2. @NatashaBertrand did overstate the letter’s claim that the laptop was Russian disinfo. BUT
3. That’s what they wanted! They politicized their NatSec credentials to sway an election with lies.https://t.co/lfTIejbTWz
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) February 13, 2023

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Actual ‘Collusion’ to Change the Course of the Election
Gaetz contends that the subcommittee on the weaponization of government can prove that the letter was a coordinated effort to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
“Topline: We can prove that the entire purpose of this letter at the outset was to influence a presidential election with some of the most senior people who have ever been in our intelligence community… to pave the way for Joe Biden’s presidency,” he told Bannon.
Gatez tweeted a video of his interview and reiterated the claims.
“The [Weaponization] Subcommittee can prove that the entire purpose of this letter at the outset was to influence the 2020 presidential election with some of the most senior people who have ever been in our intelligence community – using the imprimatur of their security clearances to pave the way for Joe Biden’s presidency,” he wrote.

On October 19, 2020, 51 former U.S. intelligence officials signed a letter saying Hunter Biden’s emails on his recovered laptop were part of a “Russian information operation.”
The @Weaponization Subcommittee can prove that the entire purpose of this letter at the outset was to… pic.twitter.com/9sFAEOXXHn
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 17, 2023

The letter from the 51 intelligence officials exposed two major things –  that the intel community is hopelessly corrupt and poisoned by politics, and the media is also hopelessly corrupt, wholly state-run propaganda, and the enemy of the people.

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