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Compiled by Mike Hernandez
09-16-24
Sept 8:
Kamala Harris Blames Trump For The Afghanistan Withdrawal That Happened Under Her And Biden’s Watch
Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign tried to blame her and President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan on former President Donald Trump — even though it happened seven months after he left office.
Trump had begun negotiations with the Taliban and reached a deal, but it had not been completed by the time he left office in January 2020. Biden — against the advice of his military advisers — decided to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in September 2021, which prompted the Taliban to sweep into Kabul at the end of August 2021 and topple the U.S.-backed government in a surprise rout. The sudden takeover prompted mass panic and chaos as hundreds of thousands of Americans, foreign civilians, and desperate Afghans scrambled to depart.
The remaining U.S. troops in Kabul at the time, as well as hundreds more who were flown in, were ordered to carry out the withdrawal — as well undertake a massive civilian evacuation effort — under extremely stressful and dangerous conditions from a makeshift fortress at the Kabul International Airport while surrounded by the Taliban.
A suicide bomber infiltrated the crowd surrounding the airport on the final days of the evacuation, and killed 13 American service members. Before departing, U.S. military commanders ordered a drone strike that accidentally killed a humanitarian aid worker and members of his family, including children.
The Biden administration has never held anyone accountable for the bungled withdrawal that played out on television screens across the world, and President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have said they have no regrets.
Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller reminded the public that Harris has previously bragged about being the “last person in the room” when Biden decided to withdraw the U.S. troops.
Sept. 9: Brietbart By Wendell Husebo
Report: Biden-Harris Inflation Cost Georgia Families $27K Since 2021
Georgia families, who are paying $27,000 more for the same goods or services since 2021, are feeling the pinch under the Biden-Harris administration, according to Bruce LeVell, former executive director of the National Diversity Coalition.
Prices for Georgia families, however, have not reduced. Instead, they remain about 20 percent greater across the board on average.
Harris is stuck in a catch-22. She cannot powerfully campaign on policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security without undermining the Biden-Harris administration’s policies, but she must tout the administration’s policies to validate her record and candidacy.
Sept. 8: Fox News By Danielle Wallace
Harris Finally Adds Policy Page To Campaign Website, Devotes Several Sections To Trump
Vice President Harris finally added policies to her campaign website for the first time since President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her in the presidential race 50 days ago.
The website breaks Harris and her vice-presidential running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’ policy proposals into four sections “Build and Opportunity Economy and Lower Costs for Families,” “Safeguard Our Fundamental Freedoms,” “Ensure Safety and Justice For All,” and “Keep America Safe, Secure, and Prosperous.”
Sept. 9: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Releases Moving New Ad In Support Of Trump And America’s Children
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. officially endorsed Donald Trump for president in late August after holding several private talks with the former president.
Kennedy, in a statement, outlined the three primary causes that drove him to his decision: free speech, the war in Ukraine, and what he described as “the war on our children.” He explained that these issues were central to his initial decision to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now they have compelled him to support Trump’s candidacy.
Sept 9: Breitbart By Frances Martel
Kamala Policy Page Touts DMZ Visit – Site Of ‘Alliance With North Korea’ Gaffe – As Proof She Is ‘Ready’ On ‘Day 1’
Vice President Kamala Harris published a policy page on her official website Sunday promising she is “ready to be Commander in Chief on day one,” but she cited one of her most notorious foreign policy gaffes — claiming the United States has a “strong alliance” with North Korea — as evidence.
Harris’s presidential campaign debuted a slightly more detailed page of her stances on policy issues seven weeks after she replaced outgoing President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic Party ticket. The page focuses heavily on her experience as a prosecutor and attorney general in California but also features a more limited explanation of her stances on international issues.
“Vice President Harris is ready to be Commander in Chief on day one,” her campaign states. “Vice President Harris has been a tireless and effective diplomat on the world stage.”
A prime example listed on the “issues” page is her visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in September 2022 in which she attempted to reassure the nascent government of conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol of Biden’s commitment to supporting it against the persistent threat of a nuclear North Korea. Biden has not treated the Korean Peninsula as a foreign policy priority during his tenure. During his time in office, communist dictator Kim Jong-un has significantly expanded his influence internationally through broadening alliances with Russia and Iran.
Harris, her policy page states, “has met with China’s Xi Jinping, making clear she will always stand up for American interests in the face of China’s threats, and traveled to the Indo-Pacific four times to advance our economic and security partnerships.”
“She visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone to affirm our unwavering commitment to South Korea in the face of North Korean threats,” it continues, later referring to President Donald Trump as too “dangerous” on foreign policy to return to the White House.
“From advising on tough decisions in the Oval Office and the Situation Room, to serving on the Senate Select Committee on the Intelligence,” the page concludes, “to going after transnational criminal organizations as California’s Attorney General, Vice President Harris brings extensive national security experience.”
The page offers no details on Harris’s visit to the DMZ. Harris visited the inter-Korean border in 2022 and delivered a speech in which her goal was to reiterate how “ironclad” Biden considered Washington’s ties to Seoul. Harris opened the speech, however, by erroneously referring to North Korea as an American partner.
“I cannot state enough that the commitment of the United States to the defense of the Republic of Korea is ironclad and that we will do everything in our power to ensure that it has meaning in every way that the words suggest,” Harris said at the time.
“Our shared goal — the United States and the Republic of Korea — is a complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” the vice president said. The Democratic Party removed “denuclearizing the Korean peninsula” from its official policy platform in August.
Outside of her DMZ visit, Harris played a minor role in Biden’s Korean policy. Early during his tenure, Biden welcomed then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Washington, a trip during which Moon also met with Kamala Harris. The meeting attracted attention in China, where state media claimed that video showed the vice president wiping her hand on her clothes after shaking hands with Moon — allegedly a sign of “disrespect” and “discrimination.”
Despite her limited, and somewhat embarrassing, Korean policy portfolio, Harris has highlighted it as one of her foreign policy strengths. During her speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, Harris made the unsubstantiated claim that Kim Jong-un was “rooting for Trump” to win the election, promising not to “cozy up to tyrants and dictators.”
In reality, the official flagship propaganda outlet of Kim’s regime, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), has repeatedly referred to Trump as a “dotard” and “old lunatic” with a “nasty smell.” “Referring to the 2024 presidential election, KCNA announced in July, “we do not care.”
Sept. 9: Breitbart By Katherine Hamilton
Kamala Harris’s Belated Policy Page Pledges To Wipe Out Pro-Life State Laws, Federalize Abortion On Demand
The Kamala Harris/Tim Walz campaign’s newly released policy page reaffirms their commitment to obliterating pro-life state laws in favor of abortion on demand across the United States. Harris pledged to sign legislation restoring an invented federal right to abortion, should she be elected. The Democrats use the term “reproductive freedom” as a euphemism for ending the lives of unborn babies via medication abortions and dismemberment abortions.
“As President, she will never allow a national abortion ban to become law. And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, she will sign it,” the policy page reads.
Following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, the Biden-Harris White House and Democrats have called for the restoration of Roe v. Wade, which would federalize the issue of abortion again. Democrats have repeatedly tried to pass the radical Women’s Health Protection Act, which they claim would restore Roe. But opponents of the legislation, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), say the bill is an “expansion” of Roe and could lead to abortion throughout pregnancy across the country. Biden pledged to sign the bill should it ever reach his desk, and now so has Harris.
Ultimately, abortion is Harris’s number one campaign issue, as it was for Biden before his exit from the race. While most polling shows that abortion is not a top priority for voters, one in four Democrats are single-issue voters on abortion and the majority of independents identify as “pro-choice.” The focus on abortion and painting Republicans as dangerous to women also seems like a ploy to distract from Americans’ top concerns under the Biden-Harris administration: the flailing economy and the border, which is essentially open.
The policy page further claims that Harris and Walz “trust women to make decisions about their own bodies, and not have the government tell them what to do.” The policy page does not say anything about separate bodies of unborn babies who are destroyed in abortions.
The policy page erroneously calls pro-life laws “Trump abortion bans,” and slams the former president for picking the conservative Supreme Court justices who ultimately voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and send the issue of abortion to individual states. The pro-abortion pair also claim Trump will “ban abortion nationwide, restrict access to birth control, force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions, and jeopardize access to IVF,” although he has not promised to do any of those things.
Former President Donald Trump has explicitly stated that he believes the issue of abortion should be left to individual states. He has also repeatedly expressed support for exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother. Abortions have notably drastically increased since the issue was returned to individual states. The Kamala Harris/Tim Walz campaign website released its policy page seven weeks after the Democratic nominees entered the 2024 race.
Sept. 9: Breitbart By Wendell Husebo
Kamala Harris Pledged To Decriminalize Fentanyl And Heroin In 2019
Vice President Kamala Harris indicated on a 2019 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) questionnaire that she wanted to decriminalize fentanyl, heroin, and “all drug possession for personal use,” adding to an array of radical policies she supported during her failed 2020 presidential campaign.
Harris’s far-left position on fentanyl and heroin was previously unreported and could be a topic brought up in Tuesday’s debate.
The ACLU questionnaire asked Harris, “Since drug use is better addressed as a public health issue (through treatment and other programming), will you support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use?”
Harris checked the “yes” box on the form.
Drug cartels highly traffic both fentanyl and heroin across the open southern border. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) estimates that more than 100,000 people died from drug overdose deaths in 2022, the most recent year on file.
“Overall, drug overdose deaths rose from 2019 to 2022 with 107,941 drug overdose deaths reported in 2022,” the NCHS reported. “Deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (primarily illicitly manufactured fentanyl) continued to rise with 73,838 overdose deaths reported in 2022.”
Sept. 11: Gateway Pundit
Megyn Kelly Goes Nuclear On ABC After Rigged Trump Debate, Exposes Their ‘Personal Friendship’ To Kamala
Megyn Kelly went nuclear on ABC following their disgraceful performance during Tuesday nights debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
The former Fox and NBC host, who has restyled herself as somewhat of a conservative firebrand since leaving mainstream media back in 2020, said she was “ashamed and disgusted” by ABC and exposed the close friendship between Kamala Harris and network bosses:
“Hi, everyone. I’m Megyn Kelly. A special program tonight for you, reacting to the debate. It was three against one. It’s very easy to look like you know what you’re doing when both moderators are entirely on your side. Trump did the best he could under the circumstances, but it really was like three fighters in the ring pummeling one opponent, and Trump tried to take them all on. He did fine.”
Trump, meanwhile, has so far not complained about the debate and instead focused on the quality of his own performance. “The choice could not be more clear— President Trump was the clear winner tonight, and he will win for America when he returns to the White House,” his campaign said in a statement after the debate.
Sept. 12: Breitbart By Alana Matrangelo
Donald Trump: ‘There Will Be No Third Debate’ — Kamala Wants A Rematch Because She Knows She Lost
Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday that “there will be no third debate,” suggesting Vice President Kamala Harris wants a rematch because she knows she lost the presidential debate hosted by ABC News this week.
As Breitbart News reported, Harris issued a slew of false claims and hoaxes on live television, in front of millions of Americans, during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, while ABC moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir failed to fact-check her (at all). Meanwhile, debate moderators joined Harris on debating Trump, countering statements he made and trying to fact-check him (five times), with Muir even bizarrely fact-checking a joke the 45th president had previously made.
Despite all that, a Reuters focus group found that undecided voters now lean toward Trump 2-to-1 following the debate. A New York Times survey of undecideds produced similar results.
Harris, for her part, showed herself as weak on key issues, such as fracking, guns, and Pennsylvania. She also refused to answer whether she would allow abortion at nine months.
Sept. 12: Fox News By Elizabeth Ekind
Legacy of incompetence’: Comer unveils wide-ranging hearing on Biden-Harris failed policies
The House Oversight Committee is planning a hearing next week broadly targeting Biden-Harris administration policies and their effect on Americans, Fox News Digital has learned. Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky, is scheduling the hearing titled, “A Legacy of Incompetence: Consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Policy Failures”—on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. EST.
Comer accused President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of causing “skyrocketing inflation, the word border crisis in American history, high energy prices, chaos around the world, and rampant waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement at federal agencies,” in a statement to Fox News Digital on Thursda.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-unveils-wide-ranging-hearing-biden-harris-legacy-incompetence
Sept. 13: Breitbart By Wendell Husebo
Kamala Harris First Solo Interview With Local Pennsylvania Reporter Turns Into Disaster
Vice President Kamala Harris, during her second interview on Friday since joining the race, undermined her record in the Biden-Harris administration by stating the administration’s policies are not fit for the “twenty-first century.”
Harris faces a conundrum: She cannot campaign on policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security without undermining the Biden-Harris administration’s policies, but she must tout the administration’s policies to validate her record and candidacy.
Speaking with Brian Taff of Philadelphia’s Action News 6 ABC, as the Harris campaign promised she would Thursday after she was slammed for failing to answer questions during Tuesday’s debate, Harris suggested she has a fresh “approach” with “new ideas” for the “current moment.”
“I wonder if there are one or two spots, policy areas or approaches where you would say I’m a different person [than Joe Biden]?” asked Taff. “My approach is about new ideas, new policies that are directed at the current moment. And also, to be very honest with you, my focus is very much in what we need to do over the next ten twenty years to catch up to the twenty first century,” Harris replied.
“I’m obviously not Joe Biden, and you know, I offer a new generation of leadership,” she said, providing examples that the Biden-Harris administration failed to achieve, such as helping citizens achieve the American dream:
And so, for example, thinking about developing and creating an opportunity economy where it’s about investing in areas that really need a lot of work, and maybe focusing on again, the aspirations and the dreams, but also just recognizing that at this moment in time, some of the stuff we could take for granted years ago, we can’t take for granted anymore. For example, another plan that I have that is a new approach is to expand the child tax credit to $6,000 for young families for the first year of their child’s life, because that is obviously a very critical stage of development of a child, and a lot of young parents need the help to buy a car seat or a crib or clothes for their kids.
When asked what she understands former President Donald Trump’s “appeal to be and how do you speak to his voters [about it],” Harris delivered a word salad and did not answer the question directly.
Harris said she wants to ban guns. “I feel very strongly that it is consistent with the second amendment and your right to own a gun to say that we need an assault weapons ban,” she said. “They’re literally tools of war…“We’re not taking anybody’s guns away,” she added in the same breath.
Sept. 13: Gateway Pundit By Kristinn Taylor
Linsey Davis Reveals How She, David Muir And ABC News Schemed To Protect Kamala Harris by Ambushing President Trump With ‘Fact Checks’ After He Crushed Biden in Debate
ABC News anchor Linsey Davis revealed in a post-debate Los Angeles Times puff-piece profile how she, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC producers schemed to ambush President Trump with ‘fact checks’ at Tuesday night’s presidential debate in Philadelphia with Kamala Harris after watching Trump crush and knock Joe Biden out of the race in their June debate.
The fact checking at the debate was one-sided, with Trump being interrupted by Muir and Davis several times with ‘fact checks’ while Harris was not ‘fact checked’ once. Going into the debate, there was concern about Harris’ friendship with a Disney executive who oversees the ABC News division
Dana Walden, a senior Disney executive whose portfolio includes ABC News, is one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ “extraordinary friends,” according to a report in the New York Times. Walden and Harris have known each other since 1994, while their husbands, Matt Walden and Doug Emhoff, have known each other since the 1980s. Dana Walden has donated to dozens of Democrats and contributed to Harris’ political campaigns since at least 2003, when she ran for district attorney in San Francisco. She went on to donate to her subsequent campaigns for California attorney general and US Senate, as well as her 2020 White House bid. Harris even credited Dana and Matt for her marriage at a fundraiser in April 2022, which was held at Walden’s home in Los Angeles.
ABC told the New York Times that Walden, who is Disney’s highest-ranking television executive, does not weigh in on editorial decisions. After the debate it was revealed that ABC did not disclose that Davis is an Alpha Kappa sorority sister of Harris. The day after the debate, Davis proudly gushed to the Los Angeles Times how the scheme to ambush Trump was put in action (excerpt): In the weeks before the debate, various scenarios were played out in table read-like settings where the anchors and ABC News producers tested their questions and played out the possible responses.
Michael Hernandez, from California is co-founder of the Citizens Journal—Ventura County’s online news service. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor. Mr. Hernandez can be contacted at
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