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 Stephen L. Miller: Sam Bankman-Fried’s media outlets must come clean Their readers deserve full transparency ... The media outlets he buoyed with FTX investor money include a list of popular titles that lean to the left when it comes to covering issues like those Bankman-Fried is passionate about: Vox, the Intercept, ProPublica, the Law and Justice Journalism Project and the recently launched Semafor, a much-hyped news outlet cofounded by former BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith. Smith has brought several known names from the world of Beltway media onboard, including Politico’s Max Tani and the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel, the latter of whom it’s fair to assume was looking for an exit after being suspended for retweeting a joke earlier this year. Semafor and Vox have disclosed Bankman-Fried as a financial backer in their recent reporting on the FTX collapse, but that’s about it. Yet since the scandal broke, Bankman-Fried has been treated to two relative puff pieces on his ph...

 Washington Free Beacon: Ill-Gotten Gains: Crypto Kingpin’s Donations Put Democrats in the Hot Seat Sam Bankman-Fried is under federal investigation and suspected of defrauding his investors The FTX scandal has become a Democrat scandal.  Will they be forced to give the donations to the victims of FTX? 

  Epoch Times: Subpoena for Hunter Biden to Testify Before Congress Blocked by Democrats: GOP The Democrats are voting to cover up a scandal and the Biden family corruption. 

  Federalist: A Scandal For Every Month: The Biggest Botches, Failures, And Mess-Ups Of Joe Biden’s First 12 Months In Office With Biden, it is probably hard to limit yourself to just 12 in a year.  I think this one should haunt both Biden and Big Tech: July: Bragging about Working with Big Tech to Silence Dissent Getting Big Tech to do what the Constitution forbids the government to do is a scandal for both. 

 Matt Mayer: One would think a major report from a group representing America’s top law enforcement leaders analyzing the widespread riots of 2020 would have garnered significant media attention. One also would think such a report would garner widespread discussion after the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capital due to the parallels between it and the 2020 riots. Given our hyper-partisan environment, however, one would be woefully wrong. Specifically, back in October 2020, the Major Cities Chiefs (MCC) released a comprehensive report full of data from dozens of cities that provides deep insights into the 2020 riots that plagued America after George Floyd’s death in Minnesota. The MCC’s “ Report on the 2020 Protests and Civil Unrest ” served as an excellent after-action report that cities, states, and the federal government could use to reform their practices and, equally importantly, to prepare for future riots. With the ongoing hunt for and prosecution of January 6 participant...

 PJ Media: ... Remember just a few short years ago, when the Left’s panties were more twisted than a sheepshank knot made out of Twizzlers because then-president Donald Trump’s hotels might make a few bucks off of foreign potentates? How very quaint. How barely lucrative. If you want to be a real crook in politics, you’ve got to think big. And it helps to be a well-connected Democrat. In addition to billion-dollar Biden Inc. deals with wholesome family enterprises like Burisma and the Chinese Communist Party, we now have the Biden Mexico deal, courtesy of that laptop Hunter abandoned at a repair shop while in a drug stupor: Joe Biden entertained his son’s business associates in the vice president’s office, including Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco. The then-vice president also flew Hunter and his partner Jeff Cooper on Air Force 2 to Mexico City in 2016 where Hunter arranged to meet Alemán’s son for meetings over a ‘flippin gigantic’ business deal. The...

 Breitbart: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) slammed President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday, saying the members of the administration are “absolutely living in fantasy land” if they believe the border is secure. In response to a report saying the Biden administration has been secretly flying migrants to Tennessee, Blackburn told Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” that the White House needs to “come clean with the people of Tennessee.” “[W]hat we know is that the Biden administration is absolutely living in fantasy land if they are telling people that that border is secure,” Blackburn declared. “They have apprehended 500,000 illegal entrants since Joe Biden took office. And what they’ve begun to do is to move them out and about around the country, to say off-loading the cost for the housing child services, are health care, education, to the states and counties, and what we have found out is that they have these planes coming into Chattanooga, putting these children...

 Red States: ... ...    Here’s the   short version   of what Axios reported Tuesday about Swalwell’s longtime dealings and interactions with Chinese national Christine Fang: Fang took part in fundraising activity for Swalwell’s 2014 re-election campaign, according to a Bay Area political operative and a current U.S. intelligence official. Swalwell’s office was directly aware of these activities on its behalf, the political operative said. That same political operative, who witnessed Fang fundraising on Swalwell’s behalf, found no evidence of illegal contributions. Federal Election Commission records don’t indicate Fang herself made donations, which are prohibited from foreign nationals. Fang helped place at least one intern in Swalwell’s office, according to those same two people, and interacted with Swalwell at multiple events over the course of several years. Swalwell, a failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate,  has blamed  the story on Preside...

Clarice Feldman: The  Atlantic  does it Again The  Atlantic  published a tale based on anonymous sources  that the President referred to veterans who had lost their lives in battles as “ suckers” and losers” and refused to go to a French cemetery honoring WWI American veterans because he feared his hair would be mussed. The magazine is now majority owned by Steve Jobs’s very rich widow, Laurene, who contributed $500,000 to the Biden campaign and who seems to have reshaped it as the Biden sleazy propaganda arm . It previously published a  pro-defund the police article  -- supposedly a firsthand account of witnessing a police officer shoot an unarmed youngster for ignoring a basketball sign-in sheet -- which, as the extensive  Federalist  investigation showed, was utter poppycock.  While the  Atlantic  was the ringleader, the usual media wizards copied and pasted the unsupported claims by Jeffrey Goldberg and megaph...

NY Post: Former President Barack Obama tried to talk Joe Biden out of jumping into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination — and fears his veep could “damage his legacy” with his White House bid, according to a report. “You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” the former president told Biden before the front-runner entered the race, insiders told the New York Times. Biden has repeatedly cited his relationship with his old boss as he touts his credentials on the campaign trail — but Obama has asked Biden staffers to make sure the gaffe-prone veep does not “damage his legacy” or “embarrass himself” during his run. They have been unable to prevent him from making verbal blunders, like his claim last week that “poor kids are just as bright … as white kids” and his insistence that there are “at least three” genders. ... The blunders are the least of his problems.  Biden's monetizing of the Vice Presidency in order to enrich his family is a scandal too big...

Matt Margolis: John Kerry Claims Obama 'Never Had a Whiff of Scandal' So Let's Remind Him Of Some Margolis list 10 of the more obvious ones that Democrat politicians and the media ignore and they were far worse than anything Trump has been accused of.

Julie Kelly: The Democrats’ Ukrainian impeachment gambit is backfiring on Joe Biden. The three-time presidential hopeful is getting awfully testy with voters and journalists who dare to confront Biden about his son’s ghost-payrolling gig for a corrupt Ukrainian energy company while dad was vice president and acted as President Obama’s point man for that country. Biden taunted an Iowa farmer during a campaign event for raising questions about Hunter Biden’s lucrative Burisma board seat; over the weekend, he repeatedly scolded a female NPR reporter who pressed him on the matter. (An outrageous display that would now dominate headlines had it been President Trump.) But Biden’s in-your-face reaction when presented with valid inquiries about his son’s multi-million-dollar patronage job, a post that he surrendered this year only after the senior Biden announced his run for president, is telling: This is how you behave when the press runs cover for you and your boss for more than a deca...

David Harsanyi: Obama Says ‘I Didn’t Have Scandals.’ So What Are All These? Democrats and media revisionists try to make eight years of abuse disappear. ... It’s not about Obama’s brazen lying about Obamacare or even recurrent abuse of power . I’m talking about supposed non-scandals like “ Operation Fast and Furious ,” a program devised by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that put around 2,000 weapons into the hands of narco-traffickers (and an Islamic terrorist), leading to the murder of hundreds of Mexicans and at least one American, border agent Brian Terry. The body count could have been higher when a homegrown extremist who, with another assailant, attempted to murder the audience at a “Draw Muhammad” contest in Garland, Texas with one of the Fast and Furious weapons. An off-duty police officer killed both of the attackers . Despite the incompetence, absurdity, recklessness, and fatalities of the program, the entire affair never really receive...

Washington Post: Russia is the slow burn of the Trump administration, and it’s not going away There are legitimate questions that the president can’t simply wish away. No, the real scandal is the abuse of power by the Obama administration on behalf of the Democrats to use the FISA courts to spy on their opponents and then spread NSA information among a large group in order to facilitate leaks to the media to attack and sabotage the Trump administration.   Finding those responsible for this travesty should be a priority in any Congressional investigation. This story is ready to blow back in the faces of Democrats in much the same way the so-called "fake news" stories backfired on the media.

Stephen Colbert has some fun with the latest scandal.

Ron Arnold: Is Big Green running things in President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency? Wake up and smell the corruption. A virulent 2009 sue-and-settle lawsuit, WildEarth Guardians v. Jackson (as in Lisa Jackson, former EPA administrator) is an outrageous sweetheart deal rife with collusion and manipulation to create arbitrary regulations, along with the EPA takeover of state regulatory programs and a price tag of more than $2.5 billion -- all aimed against the domestic fossil fuel industry. William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute discovered the details after a Freedom of Information Act request produced 659 pages of EPA emails. "WEG's lawsuit centered on the EPA's regional haze program to improve visibility, which was created by Congress, which gave the states, not EPA, primacy to choose their own standards and controls for regional haze," Yeatman told me. "A federal court confirmed that authority, so how did EPA take it away from th...