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GOP Was Investigating Secret Service Before Trump Assassination Attempt

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The Secret Service had already been under investigation by House Oversight Committee Republicans for several months when a bullet came within inches of killing former President Trump, killed a bystander, and injured at least two others at a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday afternoon.

Even though Trump and his family members credited the special agents and a counter sniper assigned to his protective detail with saving his life and possibly many others, recriminations against the Secret Service started almost immediately after the assassination attempt.

Americans could see for themselves how the agents and officers traveling with Trump on Saturday acted heroically, falling on the former president after his right ear was pierced by a bullet and returning heavy caliber gunfire, killing the 20-year-old shooter, Thomas Crooks. But questions remain over how Crooks managed to perch on a nearby rooftop and come within inches of killing Trump, renewing past criticisms of the once-vaunted agency with a troubled history of security lapses, employee misconduct, and uneven discipline practices.

Rep. James Comer, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, has called on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to testify at a hearing on Monday, July 22.

“Americans demand answers about the assassination attempt of President Trump,” Comer tweeted Saturday night.

In a letter to Cheatle, Comer was far more laudatory of the agency’s actions.

“The tremendous bravery of the individual United States Secret Service agents who protected President Trump[,] eliminated the gunman, and possibly averted more loss of life cannot be overstated,”

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Tax-Funded Group Offering $30,000 For Non-Citizen Homebuyers In Oregon: Report

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A taxpayer-funded development group is reportedly offering $30,000 for down payment assistance to non-citizen residents in Oregon. American citizens need not apply.

On Wednesday, the Daily Caller reported the Hacienda Community Development Corp. is doling out the benefits for new migrant homebuyers through the group’s “Camino a Casa program.”

“Clients work closely with financial coaches and HUD-certified housing counselors throughout the entirety of the home-buying process,” the program website reads. “In addition to mortgage readiness and financial fitness workshops, we provide various opportunities for down-payment assistance.”

What do you think Oregon friends? Should non citizens and undocumented citizens be given $30,000 for down payments to buy a home here in the state of Oregon? Check out the requirements! ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/riGm6AuMGJ

— Oregon Citizen (@oregoncitizen_) August 9, 2024

Non-citizen status is required for eligibility to participate in the taxpayer funded program, according to a resident post on X by Oregon Citizen. State Rep. Ed Diehl, R-Ore., told the Daily Caller he confirmed with a local business group that citizens were excluded, despite Americans coping with “a severe housing shortage in this state.”

“Hacienda CDC is partially funded through the Economic Equity Investment Program (EEIP), an equity-based beneficiary project established through the Economic Equity Investment Act (SB 1579), which the Oregon legislature passed in 2022,” the Daily Caller reported. “The organization receives millions in Oregon state taxpayer money and federal taxes through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), according to its recent annual report.”

The Hacienda Community Development

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Everything Kamala Harris Said About Abortion In Her DNC Speech Was A Lie

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In an attempt to cover up her own abortion extremism, Vice President Kamala Harris laced her Democratic National Convention speech with lies accusing former President Donald Trump and Republicans of being radicals whose views are out of line with most of the country.

Harris reaffirmed from the stage in Chicago on Thursday night that she believes anyone should be allowed to end their baby’s life through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason. Most Americans oppose Democrats’ unlimited abortion agenda, but that didn’t stop Harris from pretending Americans desire the death and danger that comes with her plan to pass legislation that would codify baby-killing until birth.

“And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law,” Harris declared

Harris’ first lie was claiming that a national law greenlighting widespread abortion would “restore reproductive freedom” instead of accurately noting that it would subject thousands of babies and women, nearly 70 percent of whom felt their abortions were forced, unwanted, or contradicted their views, to harm.

Ever since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision, Democrats have falsely claimed that doctors are no longer permitted to treat ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages. Harris specifically told her DNC audience on Thursday, however, that the lifesaving laws designed to protect thousands of innocents every year from elective abortions prevent women suffering from spontaneous pregnancy loss or complications from receiving the care they need.

“I’ll tell you over the past two

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CISA Censors Join Forces With Private Groups To Target So-Called Election ‘Misinformation’

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A federal agency with a record of online censorship is working with private groups to stop so-called “misinformation” ahead of November’s presidential election. 

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – the federal government’s hub for online censorship — has been working with private groups since 2018 in an initiative dubbed the Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council (SCC), and boasts that its “collaboration” with “private sector partners is unprecedented.”

“CISA coordinates support for these election infrastructure partners across the federal government, with our state and local partners, and with the private sector to help them reduce cyber, physical, and operational security risks to election infrastructure,” a CISA representative said to The Federalist.

The SCC uses a “unified government and private sector approach,” working with a Government Coordinating Council (GCC) for “information-sharing and risk mitigation” before the election, according to a 2024 update on the councils’ work hosted by CISA online.

The document warns of “risks” from “false or misleading information about election administration.”

CISA noted so-called “misinformation campaigns” in 2022, and claimed they “exacerbated” a “threat environment for targeted violence.” A 2024 “Homeland Threat Assessment” by CISA’s parent agency warned that such unapproved speech would carry the “potential for violence or threats directed at government officials, voters, and elections-related personnel and infrastructure.”

The SCC and GCC have been telling “election stakeholders” to do things like create websites to “provide accurate information” and “dispel false information,” according to CISA’s 2024 update, which noted these efforts are “expected to

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