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Joe Manchin’s memoir, Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense, is out and in it, he reveals how vicious and dangerous Joe Biden was. Biden arranged for death threats against Manchin when he wouldn’t sign on to the BBB. Manchin gives us a glimpse of what was in the book on the All In Pod. He […] The post Biden’s Paid Protesters Threatened Manchin’s Life Over the BBB appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

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Hundreds of American families are asking President Donald Trump to help them bring their children home from China.   “Your leadership could unite hundreds of children with their forever families,” the parents told Trump in a letter Friday.   Each of the 300 families have spent about five years waiting to bring their adopted children home from China. Initially, the adoptions were stalled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but progress halted completely when China announced the closure of its international adoption program in 2024.   Despite each family having been matched with a child in China waiting for a forever home and told their adoptions were cleared to move forward, the adoptions remain stalled following the shuttering of China’s program.   “These are children who’ve already been matched with U.S. families—children who long for the safety and permanency of a loving family. Their rooms are ready, their siblings wait eagerly, and their parents pray daily for the moment they will finally be united. We believe that you can help make that moment a reality,” the letter to Trump reads.   Advocacy Letter to President TrumpDownload Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of next week in South Korea. The meeting is expected to focus on trade relations between the two nations, but the families are asking Trump to also “urge China to allow these adoptions to be finalized.”   Chinese President Xi Jinping (Pool via Getty Images) “This would be an act of compassion that transcends politics and strengthens the bonds between our two nations,” the families write. The letter has already been signed by more than 150 of the waiting families and is still garnering signatures.   “You’ve led with moral clarity and American strength to bring home Israel’s hostages and raise the issue of Ukraine’s vulnerable children with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” the letter continued. “We are grateful for your strong leadership. Mr. President, we know you will be overjoyed when you see these children running into their parents’ arms—a joyful picture of love, family, and hope fulfilled.”   The president is aware of the issue of the pending adoptions of Chinese children, but senior U.S. officials say they are unsure whether the president plans to raise the issue with Xi during next week’s meeting.   The families have also written a similar letter to Xi, asking the Chinese leader to “help make possible a moment the world will never forget, children running into the arms of their parents at last. These reunions would be a testament to the shared values of love, family, and hope that transcend borders.”   Adoption Advocacy Letter to President XiDownload Signers of the letters to the two world leaders include families such as Lauren and Kevin Hawley, who were matched with a daughter, Eleanor, in January of 2020.   Eleanor, now 7, has a metabolic disorder, and there is a clinic near the Hawleys’ home outside Cincinnati, Ohio, that is well-equipped to provide her with medical care.   Upon first seeing Eleanor’s picture, “we just both melted,” Lauren Hawley previously told The Daily Signal, adding, “it just felt like a deep knowing that she was ours.”    The Hawley family had 30-minute video calls with Eleanor every six months ahead of China closing its international adoption program and told her they were going to come get her in China and bring her home to America.   Eleanor holds a pillow sent to her by the Hawley family. (Courtesy of Lauren Hawley) The Hawleys have not been given the opportunity to explain to Eleanor why they have not come to bring her home yet, and they have no way of knowing if the orphanage has told the child the situation or that the Hawley family is still working to bring her home.    Callie and Brian Troyer are also waiting and have never met their now 10-year-old son, Sam, who is currently living in an orphanage in China. Sam was born with congenital cataracts and is blind.    After waiting for five years, Callie Troyer says she has “reached the point where I’m not sure that anyone else other than President Trump is able to get our children home.”   Sam, the adopted son of Callie and Brian Troyer. (Courtesy of the Troyers) Lifeline Children’s Services, a multifaceted child advocacy and adoption organization, represents about 60 of the waiting families and remains a vocal advocate of the effort to complete the 300 pending adoptions.   “These children have forever families ready to welcome and love them—families who have completed the long and rigorous adoption journey and who have been waiting with hope and prayer for more than five years,” Herbie Newell, president and executive director of Lifeline Children’s Services, told The Daily Signal.   “We are confident that President Trump and President Xi can put aside geopolitical differences and work together for the sake of these children,” Newell added. “Adoption is not a matter of politics, but of compassion, dignity, and the shared humanity that transcends borders.”  The post EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of Trump’s Meeting With Xi, US Families Ask President for Help to Bring Adopted Children Home From China appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will campaign with Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger in the Old Dominion Sunday, and despite his strong track record in condemning political violence, he declined to call for Jay Jones—the Democrat attorney general candidate who fantasized about shooting his political opponent—to drop out of the race. Shapiro’s spokesman, Manuel Bonder, repeated his condemnation of Jones’ comments but declined to answer whether he would call on Jones to drop out of the race or refuse to take the job of attorney general if elected. “Gov. Shapiro has been very, very clear in condemning political violence wherever it appears, no matter who it is coming from or targeting—and he has been a leader in pushing back against the hate and division that is driving this violence all across our country,” Bonder told The Daily Signal in a statement Friday. “As has been reported for weeks now, that condemnation, of course, includes Jay Jones’ reprehensible, inexcusable rhetoric,” he added. “It is wrong and unacceptable—period.” James Markley, communications director for the Pennsylvania Republican Party, said Shapiro isn’t calling for Jones to drop out because Jones is a member of the governor’s own party. “Josh wouldn’t call for him to drop out because he’s a Democrat,” Markley told The Daily Signal on Friday. He said Shapiro’s blanket condemnation of political violence “is fantastic” but he faulted Shapiro for failing to call out the Left specifically for the violence. “At the end of the day, more political violence is coming from the Left right now, and it should be named as such—and he has a hard time doing that,” he said. Markley also attacked Shapiro for leaving Pennsylvania to campaign in Virginia while the Keystone State has gone months without passing a budget. “He obviously cares more about Pennsylvania Avenue than he does about ordinary Pennsylvanians,” the Republican quipped, alluding to Shapiro’s potential 2028 presidential aspirations. Jones’ Text Messages As National Review’s Audrey Fahlberg first reported, Jones wrote text messages in August 2022 saying that in a hypothetical situation in which he had two bullets and had the choice of shooting Republican House of Delegates Speaker Todd Gilbert or two dictators—Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot—he would use both bullets on Gilbert. He later suggested he wanted to see Gilbert’s children dead in his wife’s arms, and when pressed on it by the person he sent the texts to, he said, “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.” Jones did not deny the story, but he did apologize. “Like all people, I’ve sent text messages that I regret and I believe that violent rhetoric has no place in our politics,” Jones said in a statement. He later said he had issued his “deepest apology to Speaker Gilbert and his family,” adding that “reading back those words made me sick to my stomach. I am embarrassed, ashamed, and sorry.”  Yet even after issuing that statement, he accused his opponent, Attorney General Jason Miyares, of “dropping smears through Trump-controlled media organizations to assault my character.” A Salient Issue in the Spanberger Campaign Spanberger condemned Jones’ remarks, saying she was “disgusted” by them. Yet Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, Spanberger’s Republican opponent, has called on the Democrat to go further and demand Jones drop out of the race. During a debate earlier this month, Spanberger repeatedly refused to state whether she still supports Jones. She voted for the attorney general candidate on Sept. 19 in early voting, before the text scandal became public. ?SHOCKINGAbigail Spanberger refuses to say whether she still supports Jay Jones despite his political violence texts.Deanna Allbrittin asks repeatedly, but Spanberger does not respond.? pic.twitter.com/gVkeBXjrj2— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 9, 2025 Shapiro’s Condemnations of Political Violence Shapiro has repeatedly condemned political violence. “Political disagreements can never, never, be addressed through violence,” he said after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year. He repeated those condemnations in Pittsburgh last month. “Unfortunately, political violence—and the hate that fuels it—is becoming far too common in our society,” the governor said. “In just the last year or so, we saw it in a field in Butler with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. We saw it on the streets of New York with the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. We saw it in the middle of the night in suburban Minnesota when an assassin took the life of Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and we saw it last week at Utah Valley University, with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.” He noted that these incidents involved “different places, different people, different perspectives” but “one common thread—people using violence to try to settle political differences.” Shapiro himself has suffered from political violence. Cody Balmer, 38, pleaded guilty to attempted murder earlier this month. He confessed to setting fire to the governor’s mansion in April. He will serve a sentence between 25 and 50 years. Balmer told police that he “will not take part” in Shapiro’s “plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.” Bonder, Shapiro’s spokesman, previously condemned the Jay Jones texts in comments to The Center Square. The Pennsylvania governor will reportedly campaign with Spanberger in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia on Sunday. The post Josh Shapiro Will Campaign With Spanberger but Dodges Key Issue in Virginia Race appeared first on The Daily Signal.