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Another Award Bites The Dust

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I am old enough to remember when the Pulitzer Prize meant something. In recent years it has been given to news outlets for being part of the Russia hoax with no intention of returning it after the hoax was revealed. I didn’t think it could go lower, but it has.

On May 6th, The Federalist reported:

On Monday The Washington Post announced that it won a Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category for its coverage of the July 13, 2024, attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

The “coverage” in question?

That Trump was “taken away after loud noises at rally,” according to a July 13 headline.

According to the Post’s self-congratulatory write-up on its award, WaPo’s “live-updates file” — from which the aforementioned headline came — earned the paper what was once journalism’s top honor, the Pulitzer.

“The Post’s first report from Butler published almost immediately, at 6:21 p.m., in a live-updates file,” the article reads. “The source of the loud noises was not immediately clear.”

But they weren’t just “loud noises.” They were gunshots that ripped through Trump’s ear and killed firefighter and father Corey Comperatore, who died shielding his family from the assassin’s bullet. In fact, the Post knew the gravity of the situation because it published that headline with the featured photo showing blood pouring down the side of Trump’s face.

Yet, the Post still went with — and won an award for — that angle. Two days later, the paper’s Paul Farhi defended the media’s coverage that deliberately downplayed the horrific event, saying media outlets “reported cautiously about what had occurred” since “it wasn’t immediately clear what was unfolding.”

If you saw President Trump being rushed off the stage, then you saw the picture of the President with blood running down his face. How stupid does the Washington Post think Americans are?

The Reasons I Believe President Trump Was Elected

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1. The raid on Mar-a-Lago. I remember how shocked I was when I heard about the raid. I also remember seeing reports that the pictures taken during that raid were staged.

2. The never-ending lawfare. I think most Americans have a sense of fairness and understand when someone is being treated differently by law enforcement. The hoops they had to jump through to bring some of the cases against the President are amazing.

3. The difference in the way the classified information case with President Trump was handled and the way the classified information case with President Biden was handled. The papers that President Biden had were taken when he was a Senator or a Vice-President. He was never authorized to have the actual papers or notes he took. You can debate whether or not President Trump had the right to declassified things.

4. The assassination attempt at Butler, Pennsylvania, and President Trump’s reaction to it.

5. The mug shot of President Trump.

6. The obvious constitutional violations in the treatment of the January 6th prisoners under President Biden and his Justice Department. The treatment of those prisoners (no bail, delayed trials, solitary confinement, etc.) resembled things that go on in third-world countries, and I think many Americans realized that the Biden administration was not upholding the Constitutional rights of Americans.

The Government Is Not Cooperating With Itself!

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On Tuesday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the House task force investigating assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump.

The article reports:

The Department of Justice and FBI provided only “limited cooperation” to the House task force investigating assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump, according to the task force’s final report.

Among recommendations offered in the final report, which include reconsidering whether the Secret Service should remain within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and limiting protection for foreign leaders, the task force wrote that Congress needs to “clarify its right” to obtain information related to law enforcement investigations.

“With respect to the assassination attempt in Butler, the Task Force’s requests for information were characterized by the FBI as implicating ‘significant law enforcement sensitivities,’ and subsequent FBI disclosures were labeled as ‘extraordinary accommodation[s] unique to this matter,’” the report said. “With respect to the assassination attempt in Florida, where the gunman was apprehended alive and awaits a likely prosecution, the FBI provided no documents in response to the Task Force’s request and provided only a single status briefing on September 25, 2024.”

We currently know more about Luigi Mangione, who killed the CEO of United Healthcare last week than we know about either person who attempted to kill President Trump. That seems odd.

The article concludes:

The task force accessed more than 18,000 pages of documents and 46 transcribed witness interviews over the course of its investigation. Ultimately, it concluded the attempt on Trump’s life at his Butler, Pa. rally was “preventable and should not have happened.”

“There was not, however, a singular moment or decision that allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to nearly assassinate the former President,” the report said. “The various failures in planning, execution, and leadership on and before July 13, 2024, and the preexisting conditions that undermined the effectiveness of the human and material assets deployed that day, coalesced to create an environment in which the former President—and everyone at the campaign event—were exposed to grave danger.”

It’s time to overhaul the Secret Service.