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Media outlets buried the revelation that an accuser of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had retracted former President Donald Trump from her allegations. On Monday, multiple media outlets ran reports of Trump having been named in the latest Epstein documents, but failed to note in the lede of their articles that the accuser had actually retracted those allegations in 2019. --------------- Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in several key swing states — including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania — and more of these voters believe Trump would emerge as the victor in a head-to-head matchup than Biden, a Redfield & Wilton Strategies survey released Monday found.

A victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s claimed that the convicted pedophile told her that former President Bill Clinton “likes them young.” Released on Wednesday night, the document from May 2016 quotes Johanna Sjoberg when she testified about being recruited by Epstein to work as a massage therapist. “Sjoberg told the lawyers in 2016 that Epstein told her ‘Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,'” noted the Daily Mail. Clinton’s name has been mentioned as many as 50 times in the newly released documents. In response, a spokesperson for the former president told CNN that he knew nothing of Epstein’s “terrible crimes” when they met, asserting that it has “been nearly 20 years since Clinton last had contact with Epstein.”

Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday, following antisemitism scandals at the Ivy League university, a disastrous congressional testimony, and scores of plagiarism allegations being unearthed in recent months. Her six month tenure marks the shortest tenure in Harvard’s history. ----------------- In response to the news that former President Donald Trump won’t participate in CNN’s Jan. 10 Iowa GOP debate and rather participate in a Fox News town hall, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign berated Trump for not defending his record on stage. ------------- Political commentator and host of the Rubin Report, Dave Rubin, said Tuesday that the growing list of conservative-pushed legislation in Florida for the upcoming legislative session is one more reason he wants Republicans to get behind Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2024.

Former President Bill Clinton will be identified as “John Doe 36” in a trove of court documents related to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein which are expected to be released this week, according to a report. Clinton, 77, is mentioned more than 50 times across redacted documents related to a 2015 lawsuit from Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, according to ABC News. ----------------- Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., announced he is talking with law enforcement to consider what legislation can be put forth to combat “swatting” incidences, following his own personal experience over the Christmas season.

With no signs of slowing, the latest migrant surge into Texas’ busiest border sector forced the agency to suspend operations at highway checkpoints. Nearly all Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector have been redirected from border enforcement duties to focus on processing, transporting, and providing humanitarian care for more than 7,000 migrants in custody at local facilities and at a temporary outdoor staging site near Eagle Pass, according to a source within CBP. --------------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wants former President Donald Trump to tell supporters if he has publicly ruled out the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, as his pick for vice president if Trump wins the nomination in 2024. ------------- Sen. Corey Simon, R-Tallahassee, filed a bill that limits when citizen’s arrest can be used in Florida. SB 834 declares that it is the legislature’s intent to repeal any common-law remedy of citizen’s arrest. The proposal said a private person who is not a law enforcement officer may not arrest another person for violating Florida laws.

Former President Donald Trump is dominating the Republican primary polls with 69 percent support, up seven points from November, a Fox News survey released Sunday revealed. The Republican is the clear favorite among GOP voters, with his support having grown by a whopping 26 points since February. ------------------- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joined calls for the resignation of Republican Party of Florida Chairman Christian Ziegler amidst an ongoing sexual assault investigation. According to a search warrant for Ziegler’s telephone, police said the investigation revealed the victim and Ziegler have known each other for 20 years and they agreed to have a sexual encounter that included Ziegler’s wife, Bridget. ---------------------- Three teachers filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Education over a new pronoun law. The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of the teachers challenging the law, which was signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May. The group is seeking an injunction preventing enforcement of subsection 3, which prevents employees from telling students that the employee uses preferred pronouns. One of the teachers is seeking damages from their employer, who fired them for violating the law.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden by a vote of 221 to 212. The formally adopted status will enable House investigators to enforce subpoenas and gather evidence about whether the president is compromised and “traded official acts for foreign dollars,” according to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). ---------------- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a Democrat, has come under fire for planning a “no whites” Christmas Party that specifically sought to exclude white members of the city government. Wu’s aide issued an apology this week after she mistakenly sent an invite for the mayor’s “no whites” Christmas Party to all members of the Boston City Council when only the “Electeds of Color” were meant to receive the invite. ------------------ Monarch High School was fined and put on administrative probation following an investigation that concluded a biological male played on the girls’ varsity volleyball team, according documents Florida’s Voice obtained. On Tuesday, the Florida High School Athletic Association notified Monarch High School and its principal, Moira Sweeting-Miller, that the school violated FHSA bylaws and Florida Statute.

In the 2020 election, more than 1-in-5 voters who submitted ballots by mail say they did so fraudulently, a survey from Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute reveals. The survey asked those who voted by mail in the 2020 election if they filled out a ballot “in part or in full, on behalf of a friend or family member, such as a spouse or child?” to which 21 percent said they had done so. -------------------- A new piece of Florida legislation would implement new restrictions on political advertisements and communications that utilize artificial intelligence, or AI. Sen. Nick DiCeglie, R-St. Petersburg, filed SB 850, which would require civil penalties for violators of the proposed law.

Former President Donald Trump has a double-digit lead over President Joe Biden in the key swing state of Michigan, the latest CNN Poll found. The survey showed Trump leading Biden nationally by eight points, 39 percent to Biden’s 31 percent, in a race that includes independent candidates. That gap, however, only grows in individual states such as Michigan, where Trump is now leading Biden by ten points — 50 percent to Biden’s 40 percent. Another ten percent said they would not support either candidate. ---------------- The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has called for the removal of Harvard President Claudine Gay following allegations of plagiarism. In an open letter released on Monday, NAS said that Claudine Gay’s botched testimony before Congress on December 5, wherein she refused to say that calling for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s policy on harassment, made her unworthy of her administrative position. -------------- Florida House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa, accused the Republican Party of Florida for not addressing the concerns of Floridians during a press briefing on Monday. The lawmaker said Republicans have not listened to Democratic proposals. Democrats experienced staggering losses in the 2022 election across Florida.

President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has been indicted on nine charges, including three felonies, for allegedly failing to file taxes, evading an assessment, and filing a fraudulent form. The 56-page indictment filed in a federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday alleged that the president’s son “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle” rather than pay his taxes, per NBC News. The indictment also alleges that Hunter Biden “willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 taxes on time, despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes.”

And then there were four. Wednesday evening in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, only four GOP challengers to former President Donald Trump remain on the debate stage, as each of them desperately seeks a moment to change the trajectory of the race, while, for now, it seems all but certain that Trump is mere weeks away from wiping them all out. ---------------------- Speaker Mike Johson (R-LA) backtracked and caved to the deep state and Democrats, moving to slip a deep state authorization into the defense bill. Reports say that congressional leaders, including Johnson, agreed to put an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill would extend Section 702 until April 19. -------------------- Randi Weingarten, the leader of the second-largest teachers’ union in the United States, is broadly blaming a worldwide drop in math scores on the COVID-19 pandemic despite fiercely lobbying against the return of in-person learning.

The House will vote the week of December 10 on formalizing the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden to strengthen subpoena power over the stonewalling Biden administration, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) stated during a Tuesday press conference. ---------------- Despite Congress having allocated billions to building electric vehicle (EV) chargers across the United States at the behest of President Joe Biden, not a single charger has been built so far with the funds. ----------- Former President Donald Trump endorsed Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott for reelection in 2024 Tuesday. Trump made the announcement on his social media platform Truth Social. “I am proud to give my Complete and Total Endorsement to U.S. Senator Rick Scott of Florida in his bid for Re-Election,” Trump said. “I have known Rick for a long time, as both a businessman and great Governor of FLORIDA, and there are few like him!”

Leftist media outlets — the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Atlantic — are stoking fear about a second Trump administration as former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in key polling. ------------------- Florida elected officials expressed their thoughts on the recent sexual assault investigation involving Republican Party of Florida Chairman Christian Ziegler. Ziegler’s attorney maintained the chairman’s innocence in a statement last week, saying Ziegler would be “completely exonerated” once the investigation is complete. ----------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis said the U.S. is being “invaded” in response to a video released Monday depicting a “large group of migrants” mainly composed of Chinese nationals crossing the border. The video was released by NewsNation correspondent Jorge Ventura. It shows a group of men lined up with their belongings. Ventura reported that they bridged through open gaps in the U.S. southern border barrier.

The NCAA shocked college football by leaving undefeated Florida State out of its College Football Playoffs, and now some state lawmakers are demanding answers. When the NCAA College Football Playoff Selection Committee elevated Alabama’s Crimson Tide to the playoffs after a one-loss season but left the undefeated Seminoles out, cries of foul erupted from state officials, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rick Scott, and Reps. Byron Donalds and Jared Moskowitz, Fox News reported. ------------------------ Kristin Davison was reportedly fired on Friday as the interim CEO for the pro-DeSantis Super PAC Never Back Down, just over a week after she filled the role, signaling continued dysfunction within the organization. Politico’s Alex Isenstadt first reported that Davison was fired Friday, nine days after assuming the position, citing two sources familiar with the move. A vague description of “management and personnel issues” from one of the sources was noted in the article as the reasons for her termination.

Black Lives Matter Rhode Island leader Mark Fisher said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” that he was endorsing former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race. Co-host Lawrence Jones asked, “This is my favorite story of the day because it identifies what I have seen in the barbershop. All the brothers, for some reason right now are turning tides right now. I just wonder what is the big reason?” ---------------- ep. Bob Rommel, R-Naples, filed a bill that aims to increase penalties on groups of people that commit retail theft. HB 549 makes it a third degree felony if the crime has five or more people within one or more establishments for the purpose of “overwhelming the response of a merchant, merchant’s employee, or law enforcement officer in order to carry out the offense or avoid detection or apprehension for the offense.”

Economists have turned much more optimistic about the economy in recent months. The average probability of a recession over the next 12 months assigned by the business and academic survey conducted each quarter by the Wall Street Journal slipped to 48 percent from 53 percent in the July survey and 61 percent in April. Yet growth is not expected to be particularly robust. In fact, some economists expect less growth next year than they did in prior surveys, probably because they are no longer expecting the economy to be rebounding following the widely-expected 2023 recession that never materialized. --------------- The 21st Statewide Grand Jury delivered another scathing report calling for new laws after an investigation into illegal immigration. The report said many Floridians are “almost dangerously naive and unaware of the true magnitude and malevolence of the illegal immigration industry.” --------------- Rep. Sam Killebrew, R-Winter Haven, introduced legislation Wednesday that would implement a sales tax holiday for personal mobility vehicles such as bicycles and electric scooters. The bill also provides a sales tax holiday for personal safety equipment used when operating micromobility vehicles, like helmets and knee pads.

University of Southern California (USC) economics professor John Strauss, who is Jewish, has been barred from campus because of a doctored video circulated by anti-Israel activists who claim he said all Palestinians should be killed. In fact, as the full video (clumsily included here by an anti-Israel activist) shows, Strauss was referring specifically to the Hamas terrorist organization. ------------------- Floridians have begun to feel mild relief at the pump this holiday season as gas prices have dropped to near $3 per gallon, according to data from AAA. -------------- U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will visit Sarasota on Monday to tour the city’s airport expansion. He will be accompanied by Florida Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan for a construction update and tour of the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport. The airport is undergoing a nearly $100 million renovation project for a new terminal, which will have five new gates across over 75,000 square feet, Buchanan’s office said.

A NBC News poll conducted November 10-14, 2023, shows over half of Americans–52 percent–say they or someone in their household owns a gun. NBC News noted that this was the highest level of gun ownership ever recorded in one of their polls. In 2013, NBC News found the percentage of Americans owning guns was at 42 percent. In 2019, 46 percent of Americans said they or someone in their household owned a gun. ------------ The Israeli government approved a deal Tuesday night that will see the Palestinian Hamas terror group release at least 50 female, child, and elderly hostages over four days, in return for a pause in the fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Elon Musk's X Corp. sued Media Matters for America for defamation on Monday after the left-leaning nonprofit released a report on ads on X running next to pro-Nazi content and helped trigger an advertiser exodus. ----------------- Sen. Nick DiCeglie, R-St. Petersburg, and Rep. Berny Jacques, R-Clearwater, filed legislation Monday to prevent juveniles who are convicted of crimes as an adult from playing high school sports. HB 545 and SB 530 bar high school students who are convicted or held responsible in an adult court for homicide, sexual battery, or lewd and lascivious offenses from participating in high school athletics. -------------- New evidence shows that some Lee County students are more than likely to end up in a “school to prison pipeline.” A Fort Myers City Council meeting on Monday night discussed efforts to keep kids out of the criminal justice system. Councilwoman Debbie Jordan told WINK News that Streets is floating an idea for bringing truant officers in as part of his fight to stop what he calls the “school to prison pipeline.”

Rep. Tyler Sirois, R-Merritt Island, filed a bill this week for the 2024 Legislative Session that would ban the manufacturing and sale of cultivated meat, also called lab-grown meat. As outlined in the bill, “cultivated meat” is defined as any meat or food product produced from cultured animal cells. Under HB 435, it would be illegal to manufacture, sell or distribute cultivated meat in Florida.

Chinese flags parading through the streets of San Francisco ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping have been met with backlash as videos circulate on social media. “Oh look, San Francisco turned into China for President Xi’s arrival,” the Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt wrote on X, along with a video of Chinese flags lining the city’s streets as Xi’s motorcade drives by. -------------- Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) cannot bar Donald Trump from the primary ballot based on a novel interpretation of an obscure clause in a Civil War-era amendment, a judge ruled Tuesday. Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford ruled that Secretary of State Benson must list all candidates running for the presidency on the primary ballot, citing Michigan law. ------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis agreed to a one-on-one debate with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as the two have got into multiple spats with the GOP primary heating up. Laura Ingraham of Fox News initially proposed the debate Wednesday afternoon. “Count me in!” DeSantis said.

Tuesday’s “March for Israel” on the National Mall in Washington, DC, reached an estimated total of 290,000 participants — three times what organizers had expected and the largest pro-Israel gathering in U.S. history. The rally was larger than similar events to support Israel during the terror of the second Palestinian intifada in 2002, and a rally to support Soviet Jews trying to leave the USSR in 1987. ---------------- The House passed a continuing resolution Tuesday to extend spending levels from a lame duck session last December by Democratic House and Senate majorities into 2024.

The House voted 209-201 Monday night to sideline a resolution introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his disastrous mishandling of the border, even as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) greases the skids on a funding package that punts a broader border policy battle until the new year. -------------- Former President Donald Trump would win the electoral college over President Joe Biden, but Biden would trounce Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), according to an analysis from Stack Data Strategy among 15,205 registered voters nationwide.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race after failing to pick up steam over the course of several debates. Scott made his decision to suspend the presidential campaign known during an appearance on former Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-SC) Fox News show. --------------- Anthem protester and left-wing activist soccer player Megan Rapinoe questioned the existence of God after suffering an injury three minutes into her final professional soccer game. As the Trump critic and trans activist sat fielding questions at her post-game press conference, attempting to smile while in obvious pain, Rapinoe lamented her plight and said, “I mean, I don’t deserve this, I’ll tell you that much,” she told reporters. “I’m not a religious person or anything, but if there is a God, this is proof that there isn’t.” ----------------- Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott pointed to former President Donald Trump’s “track record” as the prime rationale for endorsing Trump in the 2024 election. A large part of Scott’s endorsement was Trump’s record on Israel in light of war breaking out between the Jewish state and terrorist organization Hamas, sparking in early-October. Scott previously called Trump the most “pro-Israel” president.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced a resolution Thursday to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Greene introduced the resolution after two constituents of her Northwest Georgia district were killed Wednesday near the border by a human smuggler who crashed head-on with their vehicle while evading police. --------------- The New York Times issued a statement Thursday denying that photographer Yousef Masoud had accompanied Hamas terrorists to the October 7 terror attack on Israel, among other photographers identified by the pro-Israel watchdog Honest Reporting. ------------------- Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, filed legislation to seek mandatory employer notification when an employee of a school district has a risk protection order issued against them. A risk protection order temporarily removes firearms and ammunition from those who “pose a danger to themselves or others.”