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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday announced on the Senate floor that the Burisma executive who allegedly paid President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations of them as an “insurance policy.” Grassley said an FBI document, known as an FD-1023, that was shown to the House Oversight Committee last Thursday — but that he has also seen — has a redacted reference to the executive possessing 15 audio recordings of phone calls between himself and Hunter Biden and two audio recordings of phone calls between himself and then-Vice President Joe Biden. ------------ Game show host Pat Sajak will be ending his reign as the Wheel of Fortune host after 40 years at the helm. -------------- Girl Scouts of the United States are offering kids a special patch for completing LGBTQ activities, such as attending pride celebrations and reading LGBTQ materials. According to the Girl Scouts online store, the “LGBTQ+ Pride Month patch” is designed for Girl Scouts of all levels to “honor LGBTQ+ history, to celebrate the diverse cultures and identities of LGBTQ+ people, and to acknowledge the many contributions that the LGBTQ+ community has made and continues to make across our nation.”

President Joe Biden put the left’s “Progress Pride” flag — which is topped by the pink-and-blue colors of transgender advocacy — at the center of the White House for his “Pride” celebration. The pro-transgender political display prompted many complaints that he disrespected the nation’s flag, which is the primary symbol of the nation’s solidarity with its ordinary citizens. ----------------- A poll indicates that former President Donald Trump has widened his lead in the GOP primary following the Department of Justice’s indictment of him for allegedly mishandling classified documents at his Florida home. --------------- A section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, collapsed when a tanker truck went up in flames on Sunday, and officials warned drivers to stay clear of the area. The truck was hauling a petroleum product when the blaze ignited, according to the Associated Press (AP). --------------- Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., spoke exclusively with Florida’s Voice about the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump and new whistleblower allegations of a UFO government coverup.

Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that federal prosecutors had indicted him as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into his handling of White House documents. Trump said U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors notified his attorneys of the indictment, in a statement issued on Truth Social.

Eleven hours before the House Oversight Committee would assemble to vote on holding FBI Director Wray in Contempt of Congress, the FBI agreed to permit members of the Oversight Committee to review an unclassified informant file that allegedly links President Joe Biden to a $5 million bribery scheme. -------------- Reports are circulating that federal prosecutors are about to ask a grand jury to indict former President Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents after leaving office. If those reports are true, and prosecutors do move against Trump, it would be the first time in American history that the government had prosecuted the leading opposition candidate. It would also destroy public faith in the rule of law and voters’ trust in democracy. ------------ President Joe Biden intends to nominate Charlie Crist as an ambassador, the White House said on Wednesday. The announcement comes about seven months after Crist lost his bid to defeat Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and reclaim his old job after more than a decade.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) accused Florida Gov Ron DeSantis (R) of “kidnapping” 16 migrants who were flown from New Mexico to Sacramento, California, allegedly without advance preparation for their arrival. According to the Los Angeles Times, “The 16 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia were initially transported by bus from El Paso to New Mexico, where they boarded the flight to Sacramento, officials said. They were dropped off at the doorstep of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento on Friday.” ------------------ John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, denied on Monday the Biden family’s business schemes represent a national security threat despite admitting he had not read the House Oversight Committee report on the matter. --------------- Disney’s The Little Mermaid star Melissa McCarthy had a starring role at Sunday’s West Hollywood Pride Parade where some participants engaged in explicit BDSM sex acts in full view of the public. One report claimed that children were present on the parade route where the BDSM activity took place.

Vandals deflating the tires of SUVs under the guise of climate activism are now active in 18 countries. The Tyre Extinguishers have deflated over 10,000 SUVs across the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, New Zealand, Italy, Ireland, Belgium, and Portugal, Fox News Digital reported. -------------- A loud sonic boom that was felt throughout the Washington, D.C., area on Sunday reportedly came from a fighter jet that was scrambled to respond to a small aircraft that entered a no-fly zone and later crashed in Virginia. The trespassing Cessna Citation did not respond to authorities who tried to contact the plane and is believed to have been on autopilot, a source told Reuters. --------------- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said during a campaign stop in Iowa over the weekend that as President of the United States, he will shut down the southern border. DeSantis made the remarks during Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) annual “Roast and Ride” event, where candidates get a chance to meet with voters who are very politically engaged and who participate in the state’s GOP presidential caucus.

fter a confidential human source claimed then-Vice President Joe Biden agreed to accept money from a foreign national to affect policy decisions, FBI agents used what’s called an FD-1023 form to record the allegation. Now FBI Director Christopher Wray is defying a May 3 congressional subpoena to provide this form. On Tuesday, in response to Wray’s refusal to hand over the documents, Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer announced the House will move to hold the FBI director in contempt of Congress. ------------- The U.S. Senate voted to approve the “The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023,” averting a potential default on the national debt. The bill reportedly passed the Senate on Thursday with a vote of 63-36. “The Senate passed the bipartisan debt deal Thursday night, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk days before the default deadline and capping off months of melodrama,” Politico reported. ------------ Gov. Ron DeSantis told an Iowa voter Wednesday night that he plans to use ballot harvesting to win the presidency in 2024. Ballot harvesting is the practice of employing people to deliver voters’ ballots, rather than the voter traveling to the poll and voting in-person or returning their own ballot.

The House voted by an overwhelming majority Wednesday to increase the debt limit in exchange for Republican-backed measures to rein in spending. The bill, called the “Fiscal Responsibility Act,” passed 314 to 117, and will now head to the Democrat-controlled Senate for consideration. ---------- After Gov. Ron DeSantis’ first campaign rally in Iowa Tuesday night, he was asked whether he will become more “aggressive” against former President Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP primary. DeSantis did swipe at the former president multiple times subtly during his first rally, the reporter from News Nation noted. --------------------- A business is left without workers, and it’s because of the country’s strongest legislation against undocumented migrants. Governor DeSantis signed the bill, making employers use e-verify if a company has over 25 workers. Now there’s a protest opposing the law. And it’s causing businesses in Southwest Florida to close on Thursday. They’re standing up for themselves by shutting down.

The nation’s biggest tech conglomerates continued hiring foreign workers through the H-1B visa program, even as they carried out mass layoffs of American employees, investigative reporter Lee Fang details. ------------ Two months into the Bud Light transvestite debacle and sales are worsening with a staggering drop of 29.5 percent for the week ending May 20. Everyone assumed time would heal Bud Light’s public relations debacle. Eventually, it was assumed, beer drinkers would get over their anger at Anheuser-Busch for “partnering” with Dylan Mulvaney, a guy who runs around in a dress mocking women. All Bud Light had to do was wait it out, right? After all, it’s not easy to get someone to change their brand, especially their beer brand, right? --------------- The House began the process of holding the FBI in contempt of Congress on Tuesday after the bureau refused to provide a subpoenaed informant file to Congress that allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions between now-President Biden and a foreign national.

The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia was handed an 18-year prison sentence Thursday for sedition in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, the toughest penalty given yet over the January 6 assault. Out of the more than 1,000 people charged over the attack, Stewart Rhodes was singled out for directing his heavily armed group to descend on Washington and use violence if necessary to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president. ---------------- Two-thirds of voters believe former President Donald Trump was the target of a political “hit job” over allegations that his campaign colluded with Russia, and a majority want the FBI officials involved “criminally prosecuted,” according to a Rasmussen poll released after Special Counsel John Durham released his report on the origins of Russiagate. -------------------- Former President Donald Trump holds a 30-point lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in Nevada as the Republican primary field continues to grow. The poll, which Vote TXT conducted and Nevada Newsmakers sponsored, found that Trump holds 51 percent of support among Republican primary voters, while 21 percent back DeSantis. No other candidate or potential candidate eclipses double digits, with former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) at five percent, followed by entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy with three percent and former Vice President Mike Pence, who has two percent of support. Another 11 percent are undecided.

Technical issues plagued the beginning of highly anticipated presidential campaign launch of Gov. Ron DeSantis, as the initial Twitter Spaces audio continued to cut out prior to DeSantis even being introduced. ------------------ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his administration’s fight with the multi-national corporation Disney on the day of his campaign launch for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. ------------- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is aiming to strike a deal soon with the White House on raising the debt ceiling, he indicated to reporters Wednesday afternoon. McCarthy said staff planned to meet at the White House “to try to finish up the negotiations” between House Republicans and President Joe Biden that day and made clear that spending cuts remain a condition of any debt ceiling hike.

Gov. Ron DeSantis will kick off his 2024 presidential campaign Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. EST with tech mogul Elon Musk, Florida’s Voice has confirmed. The news was first reported by NBC and Fox. The governor will also reportedly file official 2024 paperwork with the Federal Election Commission Wednesday evening. “Big if true,” his wife, Casey DeSantis, reacted to reports of the governor’s campaign starting on Wednesday. ------------------ The Los Angeles Dodgers have indeed proven themselves to be the “Bud Light of Baseball” after backing down to the woke and reinviting the radical, anti-Christian gay and transgender group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, to their Pride Night on June 16. Now that the Dodgers have reversed its decision to disinvite the hate group from its gay pride night after acquiescing to Christians who were outraged that the group was set to get a community award at the game, Christians are again mounting efforts to denounce the team for reinviting the LGBTQ group to the game. ---------------------- The New York judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s criminal case on Tuesday scheduled a trial date on March 25, 2024, just weeks after the Republican presidential primary’s “Super Tuesday,”

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political team press secretary, Bryan Griffin, said the governor “presents the greatest threat to Donald Trump” ahead of an expected 2024 presidential announcement. Griffin’s comments represent one of the first public instances in which the governor or his team begin to directly press forward indicating a 2024 challenge to the former president, ending what Trump and his supporters have complained has been a “shadow” campaign. ================ A fake image showing the aftermath of an explosion near the Pentagon in Washington D.C., home to the U.S. Department of Defense, apparently created by AI technology, went viral on social media early this morning. =================== Most registered voters think President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden partook “in an illegal influence peddling scheme while he was Vice President,” according to a Harvard/Harris poll. The poll, conducted between May 17-18, asked participants, “From what you know, do you think Hunter Biden was involved in illegal influence peddling and tax evasion, or do you think he was not involved in such crimes?”

A senior official in the White House says President Joe Biden’s immigration policy is intended to fill new jobs in government spending programs, high-tech firms, and a growing economy. ============== For around two minutes and 40 seconds, Nebraska state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D) repeated “transgender people belong here, we need trans people, we love trans people” during a Friday morning session in the state’s legislature. With each utterance her cadence and volume increased, and for a little under a minute she was screaming and waving her hands in the air, according to a video obtained by Fox News digital. ================== Through April 2023, Florida Republicans have extended their lead over registered Democrats by over 116,000, data shows. In November, Republicans led Democrats by a little over 350,000. Less than six months later, that lead now stands at 472,780 – and continues to grow by tens of thousands per month. Both parties are losing voters, though. Since late 2022, Republicans lost around 18,000 voters. However, their expanding lead over Democrats can be attributed to Democrats losing voters at a much more rapid pace. Over the same time period, Florida Democrats lost a massive 134,583 voters – more than 600% faster than Republicans. From March 30 to April 30, Republicans expanded their lead by over 17,000 voters.

House Republicans’ premier investigative panel refuted numerous claims Thursday that the FBI made in a letter about its decision to revoke the security clearances of three individuals who had approached Congress with allegations of misconduct within the bureau. The Weaponization of the Federal Government Select Subcommittee said Marcus Allen and Steve Friend, whose security clearances were suspended by the FBI and later revoked, were retaliated against for speaking out about their concerns that the bureau had become politicized against conservatives. ------------- Special Counsel John Durham’s highly-anticipated report on the origins of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 revealed that top leaders at the Bureau shut down four criminal investigations into Hillary and Bill Clinton. In 2014, the FBI investigated a “well-placed” confidential source’s claims that an unnamed foreign government intended to “contribute to Hillary Clinton’s anticipated presidential campaign, as a way to gain influence with Clinton should she win the presidency,” the report said. ------------------- The Walt Disney Company has revoked a $1 billion plan to establish a new office complex in Orlando. It would reportedly have brought more than 2,000 jobs with a $120,000 average salary to the Orlando area, situated close to Walt Disney World.

President Joe Biden’s border deputies welcomed a record surge of economic migrants in April, shortly before they lifted the Title 42 barrier on May 11. Alejandro Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the record inflow on May 17, saying that 137,374 migrants were admitted during the month, before the flood of roughly 40,000 migrants through the border in the days before May 11. --------------- Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Wednesday introduced a resolution to expel Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (CA) from Congress. ---------------- The new Adidas “Pride 2023” ad campaign features a man wearing a women’s one-piece bathing suit, perpetuating an ongoing corporate trend featuring men in women’s clothing. -------------- An advocacy nonprofit group behind a campaign demanding Supreme Court "transparency" reforms on financial disclosures is in panic mode over accidentally leaking its own funders to the Washington Examiner.

Calls among House Republicans to begin impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have grown after a week of chaotic and record-breaking illegal migration activity at the southern border. ------------ A Hernando County, FL parent is upset about a Winding Waters K-8 school fifth-grade teacher showing her students a pro-LGBTQ Disney movie. The parent, Shannon Rodriguez, protested fifth-grade teacher Jenna Barbee’s decision during a local school board meeting. ---------------- Democrat Donna Deegan will become the next mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, after winning the mayoral race on Tuesday, according to projections. Deegan led Republican candidate Daniel Davis by four percentage points, at 52 percent compared to Davis’s 48 percent, with 185 out of 186 precincts reported.

Former President Donald Trump sounded off on Monday in response to the long-awaited report from Special Counsel John Durham showing that the FBI should have never launched its investigation into the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. In a series of posts on the former president’s Truth Social account Monday, Trump called the actions of certain FBI agents as being tantamount to “treason” and how a “great fraud” had been pushed on the American people. ------------ Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said that Special Counsel John Durham’s report about the origins of the FBI’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign revealed a “criminal abuse of power” that went up to the Obama-Biden White House. -------------- Then-President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden were personally briefed by then-CIA Director John Brennan in 2016 that the CIA had evidence of Hillary Clinton planning to falsely link then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to Russia, according to a report by Special Counsel John Durham released Monday.

As illegal immigration overwhelms the United States as a result of President Joe Biden ending the Title 42 border control, New Yorkers say hotel rooms they booked months in advance are now being given to newly arrived border crossers and illegal aliens. A couple, originally from New York but now residing in Florida, told the New York Post the 30 hotel rooms they had booked at the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, New York, were abruptly canceled to accommodate border crossers and illegal aliens ------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Friday that would effectively outlaw the use of a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, in Florida. The legislation aims to prohibit the U.S. Federal Reserve implementing such a digital currency that can be centrally tracked by the federal government in Florida. -------------- As a Trump-era imposed rule to swiftly deport illegal immigrants expired Friday, a federal judge granted Florida a legal victory in attempting to block the U.S. from releasing migrants without assigning court dates. Title 42’s expiration prompted alarm bells that border patrol would begin mass-releasing migrants into the country. In a lawsuit filed earlier on Thursday, Attorney General Ashley Moody warned that if the court does not step in, authorities would “stand down” prompting “hundreds of thousands of migrants to storm the Southwest Border.”

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will charge Daniel Penny, the former marine who neutralized Jordan Neely amid an erratic outburst, with second-degree manslaughter after protests erupted in New York City over law enforcement initially declining to charge Penny, according to reports. ----------------- The detriment to “national sovereignty, border security, and the safety of American citizens” caused by ending Title 42 “cannot be overstated,” warned Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who slammed President Biden for “prioritizing an open-borders agenda above any semblance of border security.” --------------- As Title 42 is set to expire Thursday at midnight, the state filed a lawsuit aimed at preventing “mass release” of illegal migrants by Biden administration. Title 42 is a rule enacted by the Trump administration during the coronavirus pandemic to more easily and swiftly deport illegal aliens from the country.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday named the previously undisclosed Biden family members who received payments from the family’s foreign business ventures. On April 17, Comer announced a total of nine Biden family members profited from the family’s international business schemes, six more than disclosed. Those identified on the payroll were Hunter, James, Hallie Biden — and a fourth unidentified Biden. ---------------- Former President Donald Trump steamrolled CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during Wednesday’s Townhall event in New Hampshire, dismissing her politically biased and outdated questions, effectively reducing her role as the moderator by speaking directly to the audience about the “gotcha” topics a visibly irritated Collins continually posed throughout the night. --------------- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Election Crime Unit announced it has arrested a person for alleged election and voting crimes. Officials said Louis Palmieri, 77, was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Brevard County Jail for false affirmation in connection with an election and voting by an unqualified elector, which are both third-degree felonies.

A jury in New York found former President Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexual abuse and battery of writer E. Jean Carroll three decades ago, though not liable for rape, and awarded $5 million in civil damages against him. ------------------ Former Fox News primetime anchor Tucker Carlson announced on Tuesday that he will “soon” broadcast a show on Twitter, which he called one of the few “English speaking” outlets that still allows free speech. -------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis said he is “willing” to send Florida personnel to the southern border to help build the wall. “I’ve always supported the wall just because it’s such a big border, you can have Border Patrol, you never will be able to have enough,” DeSantis said.

The serially lying Never Trumpers have spent months spreading the lie that former President Donald Trump can’t beat His Fraudulency Joe Biden in a 2024 rematch. Yeah, well, the data proves the exact opposite. In the Real Clear Politics poll of polls, Trump currently enjoys a single-point lead over Biden. If the 2024 election were held today, the poll of polls says Trump would beat Biden nationally 44 to 43 percent. If Trump beats Biden nationally, he will almost certainly win the Electoral College. In fact, Trump won the Electoral College in 2016 even though he lost the national ballot to Hillary Clinton by 2.1 points — 46.1 to 48.2 percent. -------------- As Hunter Biden faces a potential criminal indictment this week, his former best friend Devon Archer will make his last bid to avoid jail Tuesday when his appeal is heard in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan. As he grows increasingly despondent, friends with knowledge of Hunter’s thinking are telling Archer to accept that the Bidens have thrown him under the bus and that a last-minute presidential pardon has been ruled out. ------------- Explosive bribery allegations involving Joe Biden and foreign nationals were brought to the Department of Justice as early as 2018, two years before similar allegations against the president were made by the whistleblower now talking to the House Oversight Committee. Bud Cummins, a former federal prosecutor, first reported the bribery allegations to then-New York US Attorney Geoff Berman on Oct. 4, 2018, in an email claiming he had evidence that Joe Biden had “exercised influence to protect” his son’s Ukrainian employer “in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Joe Biden.”

Former President Donald Trump, a Republican, has opened up a clear lead over President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the 2024 race for the White House, a Washington Post and ABC News poll shows. The poll shows 49 percent of respondents said they would definitely or probably vote for Trump against Biden, or that they lean towards voting for Trump, whereas Biden in such a scenario only nets 42 percent. ----------------- Leaked 2018 video showing Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis prepping for his debate against Democrat Andrew Gillum features DeSantis attempting to tackle a controversy over his comment on the trail that year in which he warned voters not to “monkey this up” by electing a Democrat with socialist ties. ------------------ Friday, May 5 marks the end of Florida’s 2023 legislative session, which was host to a variety of bills rammed through by the state’s Republican supermajority in tandem with support from Gov. Ron DeSantis. At a bill signing in Jacksonville earlier this week, the governor thanked the state’s lawmakers for being “productive” off the heels of his 2022 reelection, which was host to a steep red wave. “We’ve done so much stuff this year to lead the country as is… We’ve got a lot more in the hopper that we will be signing in the law over the next few weeks,” DeSantis said Tuesday.

Live From Seed To Table Naples! As many as 700,000 migrants, a foreign population larger than Boston, Massachusetts, are currently in Mexico waiting to rush the United States-Mexico border when President Joe Biden ends the public health authority known as Title 42 on May 11. -------------- Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that an “insurrectionist philosophy” had spread within the Republican Party.