[Townhall] The tapes former President Joe Biden recorded with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, have been released. They confirm what we’ve known for quite some time: that Joe Biden leaked classified information while speaking with Zwonitzer for Promise Me, Dad. He admitted to it on tape, which is why the February 2024 presser was so bizarre.
CNN's Elie Honig on Biden's denial he shared classified documents with his ghostwriter:
"He's ON TAPE — after he's out of the vice presidency — saying to his autobiographer, 'the classified documents are in the basement.' He knew it!" pic.twitter.com/pft2PbQ9oC
Even CNN’s Eli Honig, a former assistant U.S. Attorney, said that Biden was close to being held criminally liable. As a former DOJ official, he understands that Special Counsel Robert Hur’s description of Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” aligns with department policy: you need to disclose mitigating factors for prosecution.
For months, there was a legal fight between the Heritage Foundation’s FOIA request and Biden’s legal team, and in a 2-1 ruling on July 21, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of disclosing the tapes.
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Many of us noticed the changes in him when the meds wore off during those primaries swksvolFF, and were ridiculed for thinking such a thing.
And it was worse during the actual election cycle, although harder to tell as he was ensconced somewhere in a 'basement' during much of it.
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I thought everyone who has ever seen dementia grab hold saw it during the Iowa meet & greet debate thing; but that it had already set in at least 2 years earlier sort of justifies the people who concluded memory loss is a feature of the selected candidate.
Indeed, "covid" provided cover for the lack of media scrutiny.
So I wonder; how much of Fauci's behavior could be attributed to ginning up said cover?
[FoxNews] Multiple 2020 entries contradict Fauci's repeated public denials that he recommended COVID lockdowns or school closures
Despite denying on multiple occasions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic that he personally recommended lockdowns, excerpts revealed from Dr. Anthony Fauci's private diary prove a clear contradiction.
In a March 15, 2020, entry in the diary, which begins with "BIG DAY!" written in red letters, Fauci, then the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) recalled a striking conversation he had with then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
"I spoke with Bill de Blasio (Mayor – NYC) and convinced him based on what I was saying publicly and my conversation tonight to close the NYC schools (he had already decided based on what I was saying on TV)," Fauci revealed in his private notes.
But seven months later, in an Oct. 16, 2022, interview with ABC News' Jonathan Karl, Fauci denied any involvement in inspiring lockdowns.
"Let's go back and look at the transcript. We said we should try as best as we possibly can to keep the children in school," Fauci said. "Nobody plays that clip."
"They always come back and say, 'Fauci was responsible for shutting schools down.' I had nothing to do [with it]!" he insisted at the time.
In 2022, he told The Hill that he "didn't recommend locking anything down," clearly going against his own privately recorded entries.
On January 9, 2024, years after the end of lockdowns ended, Fauci testified the same thing before the House Oversight Committee.
"I did not close the schools," he said, according to the hearing transcript. And it became the widespread situation where I became a political target."
Fauci recommended to government leaders lockdown measures besides just closing schools, which he would also later deny.
In the March 15, 2020, diary entry, Fauci, once the nation's leading infectious disease expert, said he directed de Blasio to close the city's bars.
"I went on to tell him he should close the bars and restaurants in NYC. He said that he would base this on my recommendation," Fauci wrote.
Five days later, he said he told the mayor to close all of New York City.
"Also, had phone call with [Mayor] de Blasio who wants to go to 'shelter in place for the entire city.['] He is asking my advice since Gov. Cuomo is pushing back. I advised DeBlasio [sic] to go ahead and do it. I will try to speak with Cuomo," the entry said.
On March 29, 2020, Fauci recounted a tense meeting with President Donald Trump, who he described as "incorrigible."
The goal of the meeting was to get the president to extend lockdowns after the initial "15 days to stop the spread" period, which began on March 16 of 2020 — about a month after the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in the U.S.
"At the end of the day, it was a good outcome since we convinced him to go with 30 day (sic) instead of ending the mitigation prematurely, which I feel would be a disaster," Fauci said.
In a November 28, 2020, diary entry, he recalled lending support to a Los Angeles County health official who wanted to lock the county down.
"Got call last night from Mark Ghaly (Deputy Director for Community Health for the LA County Dept of Health Services). He has called me several times for advice," the diary says. "Frantic call saying that they are surging in LA County and very soon hospital beds will be overrun. He wants to do a 3 weeks shutdown of the city to 'stop the surge' and wants my support since there is a large pushback to locking down. I agreed to support him."
But again in 2022, when he joined The Hill's "Rising" podcast, Fauci denied responsibility for lockdowns.
"Well, you know, again, first of all, I didn't recommend locking anything down," he claimed. "You're asking me questions. You're talking about the CDC is the public health agency that uses their epidemiologists and their science-based approach to make recommendations..."
Despite his own denials, Fauci himself told CBS news in the midst of the 2020 chaos that he was behind the lockdowns.
"When it became clear that we had community spread in the country, with a few cases of community spread — this was way before there was a major explosion like we saw in the northeastern corridor driven by New York City metropolitan area — I recommended to the president that we shut the country down," he said on Oct. 7, 2020.
[FoxNews] Democracy PAC funded Justice & Public Safety PAC despite dozens of Soros-linked district attorneys losing office since 2022
The Soros family has pumped more than $1 million into political action committees (PACs) dedicated to electing progressive prosecutors this election cycle, campaign finance documents show.
While some predicted that Soros-backed district attorneys would become a thing of the past after sustaining a string of defeats between 2022 and 2024, records suggest that the liberal family is giving their criminal justice reform crusade another go. Democracy PAC, now run by George Soros’s son Alex, pumped roughly $1.7 million into the federal and non-federal arms of the Justice & Public Safety PAC between March 2025 and April 2026, according to public records.
Of the 25 district attorneys with links to Soros that appeared on the ballot in 2024, 12 were either defeated or recalled. Of the 75 Soros-linked prosecutors his organization had identified since 2022, 50 had either left office or been replaced with more moderate officials.
The renewed spending signals that the Soros network is rebuilding its effort to shape local criminal justice policy ahead of the 2026 elections, despite a voter backlash that removed or replaced dozens of prosecutors linked to its funding.
By directing significant resources to Justice & Public Safety PAC, the family is positioning the group to again influence races where decisions on bail, charging and sentencing can drastically reshape public safety.
The Soros family, led for decades by billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros, has spent heavily on charitable foundations and political committees to advance liberal candidates and human rights worldwide, including efforts to make society more equitable through criminal justice reform and other initiatives. The elder Soros transferred control of the family’s roughly $25 billion philanthropic and political network to his son Alex in 2023.
Justice & Public Safety PAC is the organization responsible for providing financial backing to a number of prosecutors who have since become infamous in conservative circles, according to Influence Watch. Among these are former Alameda County, California, District Attorney Pamela Price, former Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and former Cook County, Illinois, State Attorney Kim Foxx.
Critics charge that these prosecutors fail to incarcerate dangerous members of society, leading to increased crime. Supporters, meanwhile, maintain that addressing the root causes of crime, such as poverty and inequality, will stop offenses before they occur and that harsh punishments for criminals incentivizes recidivism.
Gascon, for one, attracted criticism for ordering his prosecutors not to pursue many sentencing enhancements, which can result in criminals being put away for longer, and for drastically reducing the number of misdemeanors tried by his office, according to the Los Angeles Times. He faced significant internal dissent as crime rates climbed, with rank-and-file prosecutors voting nearly unanimously to support a recall effort against him, Politico reported.
Krasner, meanwhile, has been denounced for presiding over a historic homicide spike in his city while he reduced prosecutions.
These controversies were not without consequences for Soros-backed prosecutors.
Of the 25 district attorneys with links to Soros that appeared on the ballot in 2024, 12 were either defeated or recalled, including Gascon. Sean Kennedy, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund’s policy director, told Fox News Digital at the time that, of the 75 Soros-linked prosecutors his organization had identified since 2022, 50 had either left office or been replaced with more moderate officials.
Justice & Public Safety backed a progressive prosecutor in Virginia’s 2025 election, providing some potential insight into the kinds of candidates it will bankroll as Election Day 2026 approaches.
The committee spent six figures backing the candidacy of Norfolk Commonwealth Attorney Ramin Fatehi, campaign finance records show. Conservatives criticized Fatehi over his opposition to cash bail, his resistance to prosecuting crimes like shoplifting and his participation in a coalition of prosecutors aiming to prosecute federal immigration agents.
"The old-fashioned view about public safety was not taking into account externalities. It was focused on the idea of crime as an evil unto itself," Fatehi said in a 2021 interview. "Where I part ways is in recognizing that crime is a symptom. It’s a symptom of structural racism, of systematic community disinvestment, of redlining, unequal school policy, the lack of jobs, lack of transportation, a lack of opportunities, intergenerational barriers to wealth building, the disinvestment in the treatment of the mentally ill."
Soros himself similarly argued in a 2022 essay that progressive prosecutors can improve public safety by using resources to address the root causes of crime rather than resorting to jailing criminals for long periods of time. Supporting his claim, he wrote that "black people in the U.S. are five times as likely to be sent to jail as white people," which is "an injustice that undermines our democracy."
The Soros family has other sources of cash available to fund its political goals ahead of 2026, including the Open Society Foundation, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group that brought in nearly $160 million in 2024, according to tax documents.
The Open Society Foundation, the Soros family’s philanthropy, did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital Monday.
[FoxNews] Paul Vaughn faced up to 10 years in prison after FBI raided his home at gunpoint over a Tennessee abortion facility protest
A Christian father of 11 has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice after facing up to 10 years in prison for protesting at a Tennessee abortion clinic in March 2021.
Paul Vaughn was convicted of violating the FACE Act, a federal law that prohibits "threats of force, obstruction or inflict property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services."
The 1994 law was used by former President Joe Biden's Justice Department to aggressively prosecute pro-life activists following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
Two days after he was charged, federal agents raided Vaughn's home at gunpoint, according to his attorneys at the Thomas More Society, and arrested him in front of his wife and children.
The Biden DOJ also added a felony conspiracy charge carrying up to 10.5 years in prison.
Vaughn pursued legal action against the Justice Department over his prosecution. He shared first with Fox News Digital that he recently reached a seven-figure settlement with the government agency.
Vaughn said the settlement has brought much-needed closure to his family after living through a traumatic, multiyear ordeal stemming from the "egregious deeds of the Biden DOJ."
"Obviously, money doesn't equate justice, and there's not a true sense of justice in the settlement, but it is an acknowledgment of wrong, and it is something to help make up for the time lost," he told Fox News Digital.
Vaughn said seven of his eleven children — ranging from 18 months old to 18 years old — were home at the time of his arrest, and that three of his children were "basically held at gunpoint" by an agent in the yard during the encounter. He added that his 5-year-old continues to express anxiety due to what happened.
Paul Vaughn reading from a Bible
Paul Vaughn faced up to over ten years in prison after being convicted on federal charges for an abortion protest. (Thomas More Society)
TRUMP DOJ FIRES PROSECUTORS TIED TO FACE ACT CASES AFTER REPORT ALLEGES BIAS AND MISCONDUCT
"God's been gracious to us and has helped us through this process. But there's still a lot of unknowns of how does this impact a child's life, going into their adult years," Vaughn said.
Vaughn expressed gratitude to the Thomas More Society, the supporters who prayed for his family, and President Donald Trump's administration for taking steps to address his case.
He encouraged other people of faith to remain courageous regardless of who's in office, noting that "the threat of good and evil runs right through the heart of every man."
In January 2025, Trump pardoned Vaughn and 23 other pro-life protesters convicted under the FACE Act by the Biden administration Department of Justice. The move coincided with the annual March for Life demonstration in Washington, D.C.
Around the same time, the Department of Justice issued a memorandum outlining new charging policies for the federal law. Under the new guidance, future abortion-related FACE Act prosecutions and civil actions are permitted only under extraordinary circumstances or cases presenting severe aggravating factors, such as death, serious bodily harm, or major property damage, the memo from the Associate Attorney General said.
The resolution follows a similar settlement reached by another pro-life activist, Mark Houck.
Houck received a seven-figure settlement from the Trump DOJ after filing a lawsuit over his 2022 arrest. He sought restitution for what he called "a faulty investigation" and "excessive force" after a SWAT team of around 25 people arrested him in front of his children at his home on Sept. 23, 2022, allegedly with guns drawn, on charges he had violated the FACE Act.
The shocking details of his arrest spurred criticism from conservatives that the Justice Department was targeting pro-life activists.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
