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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CENTER SQUARE—U.S. House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer launched an investigation Wednesday into allegations that Google and Meta, parent company of Facebook, censored or misrepresented content about President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Comer, R-Ky., sent letters to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai Wednesday over the alleged censorship, which grabbed national attention after the near-fatal assassination attempt against Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania, on July 13. How Google and Facebook handled questions and searches about the assassination attempt against Trump sparked criticism. “Specifically, Meta’s AI assistant claimed, ‘the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was a ‘fictional’ event,’ even as the chatbot ‘had plenty to say about Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ run for the White House,” Comer wrote, citing a New York Post article. “When asked if the assassination on President Trump was fictional, Meta’s bot responded that there ‘was no real assassination attempt on Donald Trump. I strive to provide accurate and reliable information, but sometimes mistakes can occur.’ The bot further added, ‘[t]o confirm, there has been no credible report or evidence of a successful or attempted assassination of Donald Trump.’” Facebook’s team also admitted that it censored the photo of a bloody Trump holding his fist in the air just after the shooting, a photo that went viral online and became a rallying point for his campaign. “This was an error,” Facebook communications director Dani Levi wrote on X about the photo. “This fact-check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the Secret Service agents smiling, and in some cases, our systems incorrectly applied that fact-check to the real photo. This has been fixed, and we apologize for the mistake.” “Google users report that autocompleted search prompts related to the assassination attempt of President Trump produced results for failed assassination attempts of former presidents, including Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan—or even assassinations of historical figures such as Archduke Franz Ferdinand—but omitted from the list of automatically generated search suggestions the recent attempt on President Trump’s life,” Comer wrote. Google told CBS MoneyWatch that the search issues were technical “anomalies” that were unintentional and could affect anyone. Comer’s investigation is calling for documents and answers on how Google’s search and autocomplete works. Google staff briefed the committee earlier this month. “In response to preliminary staff inquiries, Google contends that the autocomplete results omitted the Trump assassination attempt due to a safety protocol concerning predicted assassination attempts of current political leaders, and Google had not yet updated the autocomplete feature to reflect that an assassination attempt of President Trump had occurred,” Comer wrote. In his letter to Meta’s Zuckerberg, Comer pointed out that the executive branch regulates the tech companies that can have bias in determining who runs the executive branch. “The Committee has long been concerned with how large technology companies leverage their businesses to influence public opinion—especially the design and use of content-moderation policies within private sector social media companies—and how company policies are shaped and influenced by Executive Branch officials,” Comer wrote in his letter to Zuckerberg. After the issues last month, Trump blasted both companies online, saying “here we go again” and calling it “rigging the election,” an apparent reference to how social media companies at the urging of the FBI censored news stories about the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, but the laptop later was found to be real. Originally published by The Center Square. The post Oversight Panel Probes Claims of Google, Facebook Censorship of Trump Shooting appeared first on The Daily Signal.