Warden Admits Biden-Harris DOJ Has Illegally Imprisoned Steve Bannon Since October 19

Stephen K. Bannon

The Tennessee Star on Monday obtained a letter sent by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to Steve Bannon, wherein the federal agency acknowledged it is holding him the former White House chief strategist in violation of the First Step Act (FSA) of 2018.

Bannon’s attorneys filed the letter as part of an effort to secure an earlier release but it was sent to Bannon’s lawyers by the Acting Warden at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, where Bannon is serving a four-month sentence after he was convicted in 2022 for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena from the House select committee that investigated January 6.

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Task Force Probing Trump Assassination Attempt in Butler Finds ‘Unclear Chains of Command’ in Report

Donald Trump, Assassination Attempt July 13, 2024

The bipartisan House task force on the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump released its interim report Monday morning, finding “an unclear chains of command” in the security at site of the incident, a July 13 campaign rally.

The rally, in Butler, Pennsylvania, was for Trump’s GOP presidential bid. The gunman, Thomas Cooks, fired 10 shot from a rooftop in the American Glass Research complex, a series of buildings about 150 yards from the rally stage and outside to the hard security perimeter.

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Trump Slams ‘Unprecedented’ Prison Sentences Biden-Harris DOJ Handed Allies Bannon, Navarro, Vows ‘I Won’t Be Doing That’

Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump vowed not to repeat the “unprecedented” prosecutions of political opponents seen during the Biden-Harris administration during a Saturday interview with Matthew Boyle of Breitbart News.

Responding to claims by Vice President Kamala Harris that Trump intends to weaponize the government against his political adversaries, the former president told Boyle it is actually Democrats who resort to such tactics, and confirmed he “won’t be doing that” should he be returned to the White House in November.

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Analysis: Top Five Threats to Election Integrity Ahead of the Presidential Election

Voters

While there are dozens of ongoing election integrity issues, a newly released report from a watchdog group lists the top 50 election threats that the U.S. is facing with less than three weeks until the presidential election.

Election integrity has has a spotlight shined on it since the contentious aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and although some states have made improvements, many issues still remain.

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‘There’s Going to Be Pain’: Restaurant Chains Are Falling Like Dominoes as Inflation Under Biden-Harris Takes Its Toll

Red Lobster

Restaurant chains and operators are slated to have their most bankruptcies in decades apart from 2020, a Wall Street Journal analysis of Chapter 11 filings found Monday.

The bankruptcies seen this year are rivaling those seen during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when restrictions and other pandemic-related disruptions caused the industry’s sales to fall $240 billion, according to the WSJ. The surge in bankruptcies comes as prices have increased over 20% since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, raising operational expenses for restaurants and making customers less inclined to eat out.

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Cook Political Playbook Shifts Pennsylvania Senate to ‘Toss-Up,’ Nebraska to ‘Lean Republican’

The Hill   The Cook Political Report on Monday shifted the Pennsylvania Senate race into the “toss-up” category and moved the Nebraska Senate contest from likely to “lean Republican” with just 15 days until the November election. With Pennsylvania shifting to the right from “lean Democrat,” three of the “blue wall” states are now toss-ups.   Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) is looking to nab a fourth term in office over Republican David McCormick, who has narrowed the gap to inside the margin of error. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Speaker Mike Johnson Says Up to 4.5 Million Migrants Will Be ‘First Priority’ for Mass Deportation

New York Post   Should former President Donald Trump win back the White House, as many as 4.5 million migrants who entered the US illegally will be a “first priority” for deportation, House Speaker Mike Johnson told The Post in an exclusive interview. Trump, 78, has already floated the removal of “nearly 20 million” migrants if he becomes the 47th president — and his closest ally in the House sees an opportunity to fast-track the removal of the most dangerous of the lot. “There’s about 4.5 million who would be the first priority for that, people who’ve already committed crimes,” Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday. “They’re in the system now [for] shoplifting, or whatever it is … or [having] done things that are untoward or unlawful.” READ THE FULL STORY      

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Report: Middle Class Americans in Swing States Disproportionately Face Unaffordable Home Prices

Breitbart   Swing states are disproportionately facing unaffordable home prices, an analysis conducted by the Washington Post reveals, and it is crushing middle class Americans. Since 2019, when former President Donald Trump was in office, unsustainable housing costs and rents have increasingly burdened Americans living in swing states like North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, the analysis finds. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Immigration Expert Todd Bensman Details Massive Group of Illegal Migrants Waiting to Cross into U.S. After November 5 Election

Illegal Immigrants

Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, returned to the U.S. on Saturday after traveling to Tapachula, Mexico, to document the Mexican government’s holding of approximately 150,000 illegal migrants who are waiting to continue their journey to cross the U.S. southern border.

Tapachula is located in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, near the Guatemalan border and the Pacific Ocean.

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Walz Granted Hundreds of Thousands to Meatpacker That Had Kids Cleaning Processing Plant

Meat Packing Plant

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz awarded up to $126,000 in taxpayer funds to meat processor JBS after an investigation revealed some of the company’s processing plants were cleaned using child labor.

The U.S. Department of Labor found in February 2023 that at least 31 children were employed “in hazardous occupations to clean dangerous powered equipment during overnight shifts at JBS USA plants,” though they were employed by a third-party cleaning service rather than by JBS directly. Minnesota’s Office of Higher Education then announced a grant in June to fund job training for 28 staff members at the JBS plant in Worthington, Minnesota — a plant at which at least 22 children had been illegally employed to clean.

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Leader of Opposition Group Against Nashville Transit Referendum Explains Why Proposal Is ‘Unfair, Unsafe, and Unnecessary’

Emily Evans

Emily Evans, head of the Committee to Stop an UnFair Tax, is warning that the multi-billion dollar transit referendum presented to Nashville voters on the November 5 general election ballot is “unfair, unsafe, and unnecessary.”

Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s transit plan, “Choose How You Move: An All-Access Pass to Sidewalks, Signals, Service, and Safety,” would be funded by a half-cent increase in the city’s sales tax to construct miles of new sidewalks, bus stops, transit centers, parking facilities, and upgraded traffic signals throughout Nashville.

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Progressives Threaten Conservative Election Attorneys in Advance of 2024 Election

Kate Shaw, Donald Trump

Progressive activists are warning conservative election attorneys to avoid getting involved in litigation over the 2024 election or they will have their jobs threatened, will be targeted for disbarment, and even prosecuted. Many attorneys who assisted with litigation over the disputed 2020 presidential election, such as Donald Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar John Eastman, underwent disciplinary proceedings and prosecution.

The New York Times published an op-ed a few days ago by law professor Kate Shaw warning attorneys not to represent Trump in election litigation. She said, “Lawyers cannot, consistent with their ethical obligations, participate in devising litigation that is retrofitted to support the position Mr. Trump seems to hold — that the only ‘real’ Americans are those who cast their ballots for him and that those who vote against him are by definition engaging in fraud.” 

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Republican Appointed by Hobbs to Review Possible Non-Citizen Voter Registrations Exchanged Praise with Stephen Richer

Patty Hansen, Stallworth-Pouquette

Governor Katie Hobbs on Friday appointed one Democratic and one Republican official to lead a bipartisan investigation into the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Division after her administration confirmed it lacks confirmation of citizenship for more than 200,000 registered voters earlier this month.

Hobbs stated on Friday that she “directed MVD to work swiftly in coordination with election officials” immediately upon learning Arizona lacked citizenship information for approximately 218,000 voters, and on Friday launched what her office called, “an independent, bipartisan audit of MVD policies.”

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Gov. Josh Shapiro Says Pennsylvania Fracking Flip Flop ‘On the Vice President to Explain’ During Appearance as Harris Surrogate

Josh Shapiro

Governor Josh Shapiro on Sunday that Vice President Kamala Harris must be the one to explain why she no longer seeks a ban on fracking in Pennsylvania, but claimed he believes she is genuine in her policy reversal.

While Harris promised to ban fracking during her abortive presidential campaign in 2019, her campaign has insisted the Democrat will not attack fracking during her 2024 candidacy as she seeks to repeat President Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, and Shapiro told “Firing Line” host Margaret Hoover he is convinced by the vice president’s change of heart.

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Mike Benz Details How Donald Trump Could Dismantle the Global Censorship Machine in ‘Five Minutes’ If Elected

Mike Benz

Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official and current executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, said the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s censorship complex aimed at censoring Americans and people across the globe would be able to be dismantled in a manner of “five minutes” if former President Donald Trump was elected in the November 5 general election.

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BOP Refuses to Verify Steve Bannon’s First Step Act Eligibility Amid Allegation of ‘Illegally Holding’ Former Trump Strategist

Steve Bannon

The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on Monday declined to confirm to The Tennessee Star that Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist for the Trump administration, was evaluated for possible reductions in his prison sentence in accordance with the First Step Act of 2018.

Bannon, who is now serving a four-month prison sentence after he was convicted in 2022 for his refusal to comply with a Congressional subpoena by the House January 6 committee, stated on Friday to The National Pulse, “The Harris Bureau of Prisons is illegally holding me past my legal release date–trying to eliminate one of President Trump’s strongest advocates–these criminals reek of desperation,” and called Vice President Kamala Harris the “Mass Incarceration Queen” for the White House’s failure to implement the Trump-era First Step Act (FSA).

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Fani Willis Laid Groundwork in Trump Prosecution Before She Took Office, Special Prosecutor Says

Nathan Wade

House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday released the transcript of closed-door testimony from Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to help manage her office’s Donald Trump election interference case before coming under scrutiny for his romantic-financial relationship with Willis. 

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Congress Widens Probe of Democrat Fundraising, Seeking Bank Docs on Possible Foreign Funding

Rep. Bryan Steil

A congressional investigation into whether Democrats have been using the ActBlue online donation platform to cheat at fund-raising has expanded into possible foreign funding as House and Senate investigators join forces to demand the Biden administration provide them access to classified intelligence and secret money-laundering reports filed by banks.

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Biden-Harris Admin Has Illegally Imprisoned Steve Bannon for More Than a Week, Possibly a Month

Stephen K. Bannon

The Biden-Harris administration failed to uphold the First Step Act of 2018 when implementing the four-month prison sentence handed to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who remains scheduled for release from the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut on October 29.

Bannon raised the issue in his Friday statement, when he condemned Vice President Kamala Harris as the “Mass Incarceration Queen” for the failure of her administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to uphold the Trump-era criminal justice reform in his case.

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Peter Navarro Commentary: Biden’s Bureau of Prisons Is Botching Trump’s ‘First Step Act’ and Costing Taxpayers Billions

Peter Navarro

Behind my prison walls, I have uncovered one of the great hidden scandals of the Biden administration. This is the refusal of Biden’s Bureau of Prisons to implement President Donald Trump’s First Step Act (FSA), signed by the president in 2018 while I was in the White House. This delay is costing American taxpayers billions, increases the rate of recidivism and crime and cruelly delays returning inmates to their families and jobs.

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