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House Republicans criticized Democrats on Monday for using a hearing on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump to call for gun control.  Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was at the House Oversight Committee hearing to testify about security failures that led to a 20-year-old gunman opening fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania this month, shooting the former president in the ear, wounding two rallygoers, and killing a third.  But committee members such as Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., used much of their time to highlight the type of rifle the gunman borrowed from his father, who had legally purchased the weapon.  Raskin began by expressing concern about “all the AR-15s out there” and spent several minutes of his speaking time urging a federal ban on the rifles.  Before questioning Cheatle, Connolly said, “There’s some things my friends on one particular side of the aisle don’t really want to talk about, like AR-15s and access to them by a 20-year-old—or anybody, for that matter.” He then asked repeatedly whether gun access makes Secret Service’s job “easier” or “harder.”  Cheatle repeatedly dodged the question, saying she pays attention to whatever “environment that the Secret Service works in every day.”  “That doesn’t tell me anything,” Connolly told her angrily.  Norton referred to “guns” as “one of the roots of political violence” in her opening statement and argued against allowing the concealed carrying of handguns in Washington.  Republicans who attended the hearing attacked their Democratic colleagues’ priorities in comments to The Daily Signal.  “The Democrats never miss an opportunity to push for gun control,” Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., told The Daily Signal. “Give them any episode that happens and they’re going to push for gun control. We have the Second Amendment for a reason, and it has to be protected.”  Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said the gun control topic belongs in “a separate hearing.”  “There are a lot of different things that we could do to reduce gun violence in this country, but this is a hearing about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump,” she told The Daily Signal.  Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, accused Democrats of wanting to “jump on” the gun issue after avoiding “responsible legislation” on guns in Congress for several years. “The bottom line is … that we have to pass something for changes to be made.” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said members of Congress should be “focused on trying to get answers” about the Trump rally shooting.  “But frankly,” he added, Cheatle is “not giving us any answers.” The office of Ranking Member Raskin, who led the charge in bringing up gun control at the hearing, did not respond to a request for comment before publication.  Republicans and Democrats, however, were widely united in their frustration with Cheatle’s often unresponsive testimony about Trump’s near-assassination. She alluded to “ongoing investigations” as her reason for not giving more detailed responses. “We had members on both sides of the aisle calling for her resignation,” Mace noted, adding that “this unified the country.”  The post EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Slam Democrats for Pushing Gun Control After Trump Assassination Attempt appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Corporate TV journalists are so thrilled with President Biden’s decision to step aside that they’ve begun comparing his “selfless” act to George Washington’s choice not to seek re-election in 1796. Since last night, legacy media have been falling all over themselves to applaud Biden for the supposedly heroic decision to exit a presidential race in which he stood no chance of winning. Gone are the worrisome reports of his creeping mental fatigue and infirmity; he’s transformed quite literally overnight from an incompetent candidate to a valiant savior of “democracy.” It’s worth noting that when searching for clips of people comparing Biden to George Washington, we noticed a fairly telling pattern. On CNN, almost everyone making this absurd comparison was an elected Democrat, whereas on MSNBC, the comparisons were coming from the network’s own talking heads. And actually, that’s a pretty great analogy for the difference between those two networks on the whole: CNN is a willing platform for Democrats’ political messaging, whereas on MSNBC, “journalists” flat-out recite the political messaging themselves. Apparently these two cable networks have done away with the notion that George Washington was a racist, slave-owning white man — at least for long enough to use his memory to heap excessive praise on Joe Biden:  

January 6 started as a chance for Trump supporters to innocently protest and quickly turned into a day that would change their lives forever. Now, however, things might be taking a turn for the better.“One J-sixer is seeing a reversal of fate,” Jill Savage of “Blaze New Tonight” explains. “John Strand is actually one of the more, let’s call it, infamous stories, certainly one of the more high-profile cases of all the January 6 defendants,” Steve Baker tells Savage.Strand was friend and bodyguard of Simone Gold — a doctor and attorney who was the deplatformed founder of the Frontline American Doctors. Gold had been accused of “disinformation” for recommending alternative therapies that were not part of what Baker calls the “approved narrative” regarding COVID-19. Gold was scheduled to speak on January 6 at one of the six legally permitted events scheduled on the Capitol property that day. “By the time they got to the Capitol, everything had gone to hell in a handbasket, and so there was nothing but chaos by the time they arrived. The breaches had already taken place. John Strand and Simone Gold did not participate in violence, they did not participate in breaching the Capitol building whatsoever,” Baker explains. However, their fatal flaw was going inside the Capitol peacefully. “She actually decided to deliver her prepared remarks there in the Rotunda. She climbed up on the Eisenhower statue, with John standing guard beside her, she delivered her remarks there in the great Rotunda of the Capitol, and then they peacefully left, just as so many other hundreds and thousands of people did,” Baker says. Both Strand and Gold were “handed that infamous 1512 obstruction of an official proceeding felony.” The felony carried up to 20 years of imprisonment. Gold ended up taking a plea deal and pled down to a single misdemeanor. Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced her to 60 days in prison. “John Strand decided he was not going to take this lying down, that he was going to be a warrior, and he, despite the odds being horribly stacked against him, he was going to go to trial and he did that,” Baker explains. He was convicted on all counts, and he was sentenced to 32 months in prison. “Now what’s happening is that because of the Supreme Court’s overturning the 1512 obstruction of an official proceeding charge against 355 defendants, him being one of those,” Baker says, “they’re shortening their sentences or letting them go.” If they haven’t gone to trial yet, they’re not charging them with it. “It’s especially a good sign because the Department of Justice has already announced that they want to figure out how to continue with that charge,” Baker explains. “But the point being, is it appears that the judges are pushing back against the DOJ.” “We’ll take this as a good sign,” he adds.

A homeowner in north central Washington state fatally shot a suspected vehicle prowler amid a physical confrontation Sunday night.The armed homeowner approached a suspect who was seen tampering with the homeowner's vehicle around 7:15 p.m. on Hanford Street near Omak Avenue, KXLY-TV reported, citing the Omak Police Department. The city of Omak is located about 50 miles from the Canadian border.The homeowner has not been arrested or charged with any crimes, KPQ reported.Police told the station that the homeowner didn't use the gun, but the suspect attacked and knocked down the homeowner.The homeowner's significant other fired a warning shot into the ground, but police told KXLY the assault didn't stop. KPQ-FM reported that the warning shot was an attempt to run the suspect off.Police said the significant other pulled the suspect off of the homeowner, but the suspect re-engaged in the assault, the station reported.With that, police told KXLY the homeowner shot the suspect once. The suspect left the property and collapsed in the street, KPQ reported, adding that police found the alleged prowler lying in the street with a gunshot woundThe suspect was transported to Mid Valley Hospital, KPQ noted, adding that the suspect later was pronounced dead.The homeowner has not been arrested or charged with any crimes, KPQ reported.Police told KXLY an investigation is underway in regard to the use of deadly force and that their findings will be turned over to the prosecutor's office to determine if any charges will be filed.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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