America’s most powerful financial institutions appear to be promoting young professionals on the basis of race and sex in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo both hosted summer programs that barred white men unless they happened to be disabled, a veteran, or identify as LGBT. Goldman Sachs held career advancement summits tailored to students of specific demographic backgrounds, while JP Morgan hosted a scholarship and internship program that openly excluded white and Asian students. Bank of America, meanwhile, ran a “diversity fellowship” program that solicited applicants from non-white, non-Asian racial backgrounds. The programs collectively furthered the leftwing DEI agenda, which presupposes certain demographic groups benefit from undue privilege at the expense of oppressed groups. Corporations across various industries have established racially-based hiring and advancement programs to rectify this alleged injustice by engaging in anti-white, and in some cases, anti-Asian discrimination, which may run afoul of the law. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. The financial industry’s embrace of DEI could be disastrous, New Founding CEO Nate Fischer told The Daily Wire. “The move to DEI reflects a broader trend away from even aiming for the entrepreneurial investment of capital—a primary driver of wealth creation in our country—and toward a bureaucratic, formulaic model of capital allocation that rewards large bureaucratic corporations and other politically connected parties rather than those with the potential to produce strong returns,” Fischer explained. Morgan Stanley’s Early Insights program, a summer training program that teaches undergraduate students about the financial field, is aimed specifically at those who come from “historically underrepresented populations” and gives participants the opportunity to apply for a summer analyst position. “One way we demonstrate our commitment to diversity is through our Summer Internship Programs,” Morgan Stanley says, calling it “an integral part of our diversity recruiting efforts.” “Historically underrepresented populations in the finance industry include: women, Hispanic, Black, veteran, disabled, LGBTQ+, and first-generation college student populations,” Morgan Stanley states under the header “eligibility requirements.” Morgan Stanley is far from the only financial institution that appears to discriminate against white and Asian men. Wells Fargo also hosted an MBA Diversity Fellowship that similarly steers applicants into a summer internship program and offers $35,000 towards the MBA programs of those who accept and complete the internship program. “The fellowship is designed to be a best-in-class program to pipeline high-potential underrepresented candidates into our Investment Banking Summer Associate Program,” Wells Fargo states. The institution goes on to explain that the term “underrepresented candidates” includes those who are “female, Black/African American, Latinx/Hispanic, Asian, Native American/Alaskan Native and LGBTQIA+ students, as well as protected veterans and people with disabilities.” Goldman Sachs Possibilities Summits does not appear to be racially-biased at first blush, merely intended for undergraduate students who want to “cultivate top industry skills and explore the wealth of opportunities available at Goldman Sachs.” But the company hosts several summits, each aimed at a different identity group. There’s the “Black Possibilities Summit,” “HBCU Possibilities Summit,” “Hispanic/Latinx Possibilities Summit,” and the “Women’s Possibilities Summit.” White and Asian men only appear to be eligible if they meet the criteria of other identity-based summits for those who identify as LGBT, are veterans, attend a City of New York school, or are disabled. A now-deleted page from JP Morgan advertised an undergraduate scholarship and internship program that appeared to explicitly engage in racial discrimination against white and Asian students. The details of JP Morgan’s “Launching Leaders Undergraduate Program” have been preserved on the Baruch College website. “The program is open to Black, Hispanic and Native American sophomores and juniors from all majors who are interested in financial services and have a 3.5 GPA minimum,” the description reads. “The Launching Leaders Undergraduate Scholarship includes internship opportunities, as well as scholarships of up to $15,000. It gives talented Black, Hispanic and Native American students the chance to fulfill their career ambitions.” A spokeswoman for JP Morgan told The Daily Wire that the company has not hosted the program for “many years,” but did not respond when asked if the company was willing to state on the record that it would not host discriminatory internship programs in the future. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Bank of America’s MBA Diversity Fellowship Program “will award merit-based fellowships to individuals who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, military veterans, LGBT+, students with disabilities and women in their first year of business school.” The financial institution adds a caveat, however, and explains “while our goal is to target underrepresented groups, all eligible students regardless of background are encouraged to apply.” While many of these internship and career opportunity postings do not explicitly bar people from certain backgrounds from applying, they do indicate that those from certain backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply, and necessitate that those from white or Asian backgrounds meet other criteria that those from other backgrounds are not required to meet as a condition of eligibility. David Bernstein, a professor at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, told The Daily Wire that companies may still be engaging in illegal discrimination even if they technically allow certain qualified whites or Asians into programs. “If you are giving illegal preferences based on race, they don’t become lawful because you are also giving other preferences not based on race,” Bernstein explained. He added that the Biden administration appears to have adopted the perspective that programs like those from these financial institutions do not constitute discrimination before calling this approach “clearly inconsistent with Supreme Court precedent.” The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) does discuss job recruitment and advertising practices, specifically barring those that show racial preferences. “It is illegal for an employer to publish a job advertisement that shows a preference for or discourages someone from applying for a job because of his or her race, color, religion, sex,” the EEOC explains. “It is also illegal for an employer to recruit new employees in a way that discriminates against them.” The financial and banking sectors are hardly the only industries that have openly discriminated against white and Asian applicants, however. A series of investigations from The Daily Wire revealed that DEI discrimination is commonplace across a range of different industries. NASCAR, for example, hosted two different internships that explicitly listed certain racial backgrounds as program requirements, only omitting white people. Bernstein told The Daily Wire that NASCAR’s program requirements were “blatantly illegal.” “Blatantly Illegal:” NASCAR hosted a paid “diversity internship” that banned white applicants on the basis of their race, my latest report in @realDailyWire reveals. But it’s just one of NASCAR’s several racially discriminatory diversity initiatives. Thread? pic.twitter.com/hDWqsAd1iX — Spencer Lindquist ?? (@SpencerLndqst) August 28, 2023 The owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, recently came under fire after it was revealed that his company, the Kraft Group, listed a job posting that was only open to those who are “BIPOC,” an acronym that stands for “black, indigenous, people of color.” Multiple major tech companies have also held programs that discriminate against white and Asian people on the basis of their race. The Daily Wire revealed that Oracle hosted internship and scholarship opportunities that barred both whites and Asians, with approved racial groups being listed under the program’s “eligibility requirements.” Apple hosted an entrepreneur training program that required participating companies to have “a black, Hispanic/Latinx, or Indigenous founder, cofounder, or CEO” as well as a developer from the same racial and ethnic backgrounds, The Daily Wire revealed. Corporations from across different sectors, including Bayer Pharmaceuticals, US Bank, Best Buy, and Liberty Mutual all participated in a training program from McKinsey and Company that barred white people on the basis of their race.

Vice President Kamala Harris was slammed on Friday as she is expected to announce a plan to give first-time homeowners $25,000 from the federal government for a down payment on a house. A Harris campaign official reportedly told ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Selina Wang on Thursday that Harris would unroll the plan during her Friday afternoon rally in North Carolina. According to Wang, a Harris-Walz administration would give working families up to $25,000 in down payment assistance if they have paid their rent on time for two years and are first-time buyers. Those who are first-generation homeowners would get more assistance than other first-time homeowners, the campaign official added. Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance ripped Harris’ housing proposal, warning that it would be used to give illegal immigrants “American homes.” “Kamala Harris wants to give $25,000 to illegal aliens to buy American homes. This will only further exacerbate the housing shortage in our country. It’s a disgrace,” Vance posted on X. “We should be making it easier and more affordable for American citizens to buy homes.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Vance addressed the U.S. housing crisis on Wednesday, telling supporters in Michigan, “Americans, especially young people, are becoming paupers in their own country. If we don’t do better, our young generation, they’re not going to own anything, they’re not going to have anything, they’re going to be renters in the country that their parents and grandparents built. Inflation is a disaster.” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro said Harris’ proposal will only “flush money down the toilet” because it will give handouts “to people who cannot afford to pay for the mortgage.” He added that all of Harris’s “market interventionism is simply a sop to people who want free stuff from the federal government. And by the way, it ain’t free. We all get to pay for it, or rather, all of our children get to pay for it.” Median home prices in the U.S. have skyrocketed under the Biden-Harris administration, hitting a peak of $479,500 in the fourth quarter of 2022. The median home price dropped in 2023, but it remains higher than during the final months of the Trump administration, according to Rocket Homes. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Harris is also expected to announce a proposal to institute price controls on groceries on Friday. Her plan would be “the first-ever federal ban on corporate price-gouging” if it were to go into effect, NBC News reporter Yamiche Alcindor said. Conservatives also blasted Harris for the price control plan, comparing it to the Soviet Union practices that resulted in food shortages. Trump slammed Harris on Thursday, saying at a press conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, “Now Kamala is reportedly proposing communist price controls, she wants price controls. And if they worked, I’d go along with it, too, but they don’t work. They actually have the exact opposite impact and effect and it leads to food shortages, rationing, hunger, dramatically more inflation.”

This week, CNN chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto claimed that billionaire Elon Musk’s conversation with former president Donald Trump was “not an interview” because Musk has endorsed Trump and donated to his campaign. It’s not an interview when the person asking the questions has endorsed you and is a donor to your campaign. — Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 13, 2024 But Musk didn’t promote his discussion with Trump as an interview, explicitly saying that he simply wanted a free-wheeling conversation. When pressed on how this definition could be used against CNN, Sciutto claimed that he and his colleagues “ask hard questions of both parties.” That remains to be seen. Multiple studies have shown that journalists who donate to political causes and politicians are far more likely to donate to Democrats. This bias is evident in the ranks of mainstream media outlets. For example, CNN anchor and pundit John Avlon is currently running as a Democrat in New York’s 1st Congressional District. MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez is the daughter of convicted felon and soon-to-be former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ). NBC News briefly hired Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, as a correspondent in 2011. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. A Daily Wire review of FEC records found no evidence that CNN anchors who have interviewed Trump have donated to Democrats – at least not to any organization that requires public reporting of such donations. But their treatment of the former president is essentially a de facto endorsement of his opponents. Here are some of the many, many examples of Sciutto’s network and others treating Trump more harshly than Biden or any other Democrat. Jim Sciutto Sciutto, who was chief of staff for then-Ambassador to China Gary Locke during the Obama administration, has used his X account to attack Trump and defend President Joe Biden. For example, on May 8, Sciutto claimed Trump halted Ukraine aid “for an explicit and personal political favor,” while claiming Biden threatening to halt aid to Israel was merely “over differences over the conduct of the war.” It’s a false equivalency. Trump denied Ukraine aid for an explicit and personal political favor. Biden is threatening to halt aid over differences over the conduct of the war, which U.S. officials and commanders have been counseling Israel since the very beginning of military… https://t.co/NCcrZyGj5L — Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 9, 2024 Sciutto’s tweets about Biden and Democrats are usually statements of praise or defense, such as a comment from June 16, 2021, where Sciutto said “Biden looked Putin in the eyes, Putin immediately looked away,” above a photo of Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin shaking hands. Biden looked Putin in the eyes, Putin immediately looked away. https://t.co/YCJJtB7PYq — Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 16, 2021 In his defense, Sciutto has never interviewed Trump. Kaitlan Collins Collins’ ascension at CNN (after a stint as The Daily Caller’s entertainment reporter) has been marked by biased decisions. On November 26, 2020, Collins posted a selfie with other CNN reporters bragging about being part of the “crew that got President Trump to answer his first questions in over three weeks.” As others noted at the time, neither Collins nor anyone else from CNN bragged about getting Biden to answer a single question as he and Vice President Kamala Harris continued to largely avoid taking questions from reporters. The crew that got President Trump to answer his first questions in over three weeks. Proud to be part of it. Happy Thanksgiving! pic.twitter.com/1H1uBdxdG9 — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 26, 2020 Collins also apparently rose through the ranks quickly at CNN thanks to her role as a White House reporter who annoyed Trump with her hostile questions. Wolf Blitzer Blitzer’s wife donated $250 to the Democratic National Committee in 1996, campaign finance records show. But Blitzer has come under fire for bias. CNN pundit Scott Jennings blasted Blitzer for saying “both sides” needed to cool rhetoric after an assassination attempt was made on Trump. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton excoriated Blitzer for pushing a New York Times-based conspiracy theory that the “Appeal to Heaven” flag – which was designed by George Washington’s private secretary and commissioned for use in the Continental Navy in 1775 — was somehow a symbol of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots. Jake Tapper Tapper, who began his career working for Democratic Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (now Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law), has used language comparing Trump to Hitler. In December 2023, Tapper said, “Trump, a couple of times over the weekend, referred to immigrants from South America, Africa, and Asia, he did not mention Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia as ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’ which if it’s not hyperbole, that does very directly echo Adolf Hitler’s language before World War II, before the Holocaust.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI He also said, “If you would open up a copy of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf,’ you would find the Nazi leader describing the mixing of non-Germans with Germans as poisoning. … There’s really no other way to say it. Donald Trump’s language mirrors this directly.” As The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro pointed out in June, Tapper and fellow CNN host Dana Bash had the following exchange after the first debate between Trump and Biden in 2020: Tapper: That was a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck. That was the worst debate I have ever seen. In fact, it wasn’t even a debate. It was a disgrace. And it’s primarily because of President Trump, who spent the entire time interrupting, not abiding by the rules he agreed to, lying, maliciously attacking the son of the Vice President. Dana Bash: You just took the words out of my mouth. You used some high-minded language. I’m just going to say it like it is: that was a s***show! Tapper: The President does not think he’s going to win this election. And he wants to bring the rest of us down with him. He also said, after Trump lost re-election, that the “long national nightmare is over” for tens of millions of his “fellow” Americans. Dana Bash Dana Bash’s ex-husband, Jeremy Bash, gave hundreds to Democrat candidates and organizations during their marriage. After Biden’s 2024 State of the Union speech, Bash praised Biden, “They wanted him to be a fighter, and, boy, a fight did he deliver.” Just this week, Bash was caught lying about what billionaire Elon Musk and Trump discussed on X. Bash played a deceptively edited clip giving the implication that Musk and Trump simply said bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasn’t bad, when they were discussing that in the larger context of nuclear power and its benefits and dangers. Sen. J.D. Vance recently called out Bash for defending Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, after it was shown he has been misleading people about his military service. Bash also complimented a response from Biden that proved to be false. When four hostages were released from Russia in August, a reporter asked Biden about Trump’s claim that he would get the hostages released if he was elected in November, to which Biden asked why Trump didn’t get the hostages out when he was president. Bash commented: “I think that was what they call a ‘mic drop’ moment.” Only one of those hostages had been taken during Trump’s administration. Anderson Cooper Cooper’s on-air commentary also skews toward Democrats, like his 2020 comment that the Trump re-election campaign was “like a clown car on fire.” Cooper also has criticized Trump’s selection of Vance as his running mate, asking a guest in July if he thought the Trump campaign was “having any buyer’s remorse,” after the media reshared old videos of Vance’s comments. Cooper has not asked such a question following Harris’ selection of Walz as her running mate. Cooper has also compared the January 6 Capitol Hill riots to the Rwandan genocide, which saw 800,000 people murdered. “Part of it, I think, just based on what you were just saying, it comes to mind, the idea of otherizing people is something I think we saw a lot of over the last four years. I mean, certainly we’ve seen a lot over the last decades, but it’s so easy to otherize people, to make people other than, other than American, other than patriotic, other than human,” Cooper said in February 2021. “You know, and we’ve seen it in Bosnia, we’ve seen it in Rwanda, where radio was telling people that you know, Hutus, were telling the radio listeners that Tutsi were cockroaches for you know, getting them ginned up for genocide.” George Stephanopoulos Stephanopoulos, ABC’s top political anchor, came under fire in 2015 after it was discovered that he failed to disclose a $75,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation. Stephanopoulos, who previously worked as President Bill Clinton’s White House communications director and senior advisor, had a long history of supporting Democrats and undermining Republicans. In 2024, he said it was “journalistic malpractice” to air live television interviews with Trump, even though he’s currently running for president. Trump is also suing Stephanopoulos for defamation after the anchor falsely claimed Trump had been found “liable for rape.” Rachel Scott The ABC reporter who went viral last month for her hostile question toward Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Conference was a White House intern under President Barack Obama. Margaret Brennan On July 13 — the day Trump was shot by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — Brennan disparaged Trump for not immediately making a “call for lowering the temperature.” She also berated him for not “condemning all political violence, and really trying to signal to his supporters as well not to retaliate or to have any kind of escalation.”

Lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee led by Rep. James Comer (R-KY) announced Friday that they are investigating Minnesota Democratic governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz over his “extensive” ties to entities linked to the Chinese Communist Party.  In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Comer requested that the agency produce documents on any communications or documents it may have pertaining to Walz’s academic and business ties to China. Walz’s connections to China have come under increasing scrutiny since Vice President Kamala Harris selected him to run alongside her.  “It has come to the Committee’s attention that Governor Walz has longstanding connections to CCP-connected entities and officials that make him susceptible to the Party’s strategy of elite capture, which seeks to co-opt influential figures in elite political, cultural, and academic circles to influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and the detriment of Americans,” Comer wrote.  Comer told Wray that “the Committee seeks information about the Chinese entities and officials Governor Walz has engaged and partnered with, as well as any warnings or advice the FBI may have given to Governor Walz about U.S. political figures being targeted by or recruited for CCP influence operations.” The letter cited reporting that estimated Walz has visited China at least 30 times, stretching back to a trip he took with Alliance High School students back in the 1980s funded by the Chinese government. Additionally, Comer noted that Walz was a fellow at China’s Macao Polytechnic University while a member of Congress. The university says it promotes “devotion to and love for the motherland.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. “Despite bipartisan efforts to identify and defeat CCP unrestricted warfare against America, Governor Walz continues problematic engagement with concerning entities and individuals,” Comer wrote. “In March 2024, he met with Consul General Zhao Jian to discuss ‘China-U.S. relations and sub-national cooperation.'” Comer asked that Wray provide the committee with any communication or document in the FBI’s possession regarding over a dozen entities potentially linked to Walz. The entities include China’s Ministry of Public Security, Macao Polytechnic University, the National Association for China’s Peaceful Unification, the U.S. China People’s Friendship Association, and the United States China Heartland Association. Comer also asked Wray if the FBI had ever intervened to brief Walz on interactions with Chinese government officials or CCP-linked entities.  WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI The Harris-Walz campaign has pushed back on criticism from Republicans over his ties to China.  “Throughout his career, Governor Walz has stood up to the CCP, fought for human rights and democracy, and always put American jobs and manufacturing first,” spokesman James Singer said. “Vice President Harris and Governor Walz will ensure we win the competition with China, and will always stand up for our values and interests in the face of China’s threats.” Comer’s letter to Wray comes after Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) pressed the Pentagon on Tuesday for answers on Walz’s National Guard experience and trips to China. 

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