Jill Biden’s longtime senior aide Anthony Bernal was subpoenaed to testify before Congress as part of the House GOP’s investigation into the Biden autopen scandal. However, he flat-out refused to answer any questions, pleading the Fifth… Watch for yourself: Autopen-gate: Top Jill Biden aide takes the Fifth. pic.twitter.com/Xsnkbk2e4X — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) July 16, 2025 Bernal became the second person called to testify as part of the Biden autopen investigation who plead the Fifth to refuse any questions. The first was Joe Biden’s physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor. BREAKING – Jill Biden’s longtime aide Anthony Bernal has just pleaded the Fifth during a probe into Biden’s fitness and the autopen scandal. His refusal marks two of four Biden officials now invoking the Fifth as investigations intensify. pic.twitter.com/vVPICQVLwP — Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) July 16, 2025 It’s all very suspicious. If there’s truly nothing to hide, what are these people scared of? “Totally the most transparent administration in history.” Unless you ask a question. Then it’s Fifth Amendment Season. — The Undercurrent (@NotTheirScript) July 16, 2025 This is what organized crime cases look like… everyone pleading the 5th… basic questions involving clear and cut expected behaviors of people who know the law and how to follow it, but didn’t. — jasoncloninger (@jasoncloninger) July 16, 2025 After Bernal left the courtroom, he also refused to take any questions from the press. Rep. Comer — who is leading the investigation — plans to subpoena several other Biden aides to testify, including WH Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, who we recently learned was the guy who approved the use of autopen to pardon Dr. Anthony Fauci. AP News reported: “Well, unfortunately, that was quick,” said Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, after the deposition ended. “I believe the American people are concerned. They’re concerned that there were people making decisions in the White House that were not only unelected but no one to this day knows who they were.” Bernal ignored questions from reporters as he entered and exited the House Oversight Committee’s hearing room on Capitol Hill. He was accompanied by his lawyer, Jonathan Su, who was a deputy White House counsel to the former president. Su in a statement provided to the committee noted that pleading the Fifth is not evidence of wrongdoing. The former president has dismissed the inquiries as legally spurious. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Biden said that he delegated responsibilities when necessary as president but was actively involved and knowledgeable of all of his administration’s actions, including on granting clemency. “I consciously made all those decisions,” Biden said. Comer has has sought testimony from nearly a dozen former Biden aides as he conducts his investigation, including former White House chiefs of staff Ron Klain and Jeff Zients; former senior advisers Mike Donilon and Anita Dunn; former deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed, former counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti, former deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini and a former assistant to the president, Ashley Williams. On Tuesday, Comer also subpoenaed Annie Tomasini, a former White House deputy chief of staff, to appear before the committee on July 18. She is the third former official to be subpoenaed by the committee.

This just in: Attorney-General Pam Bondi has just fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of disgraced ex-FBI Director James Comey, from her position as a federal prosecutor at the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office. BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi has fired Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, from her role as top DOJ prosecutor in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/UcXj5Au0IZ — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 16, 2025 Very notably, Maurene Comey was the prosecutor in both Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 case and Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. And, get this: Maurene Comey was the attorney responsible for keeping the Epstein files under wraps… SINGULARITY ACHIEVED: The Justice Dept lawyer who filed the key court declarations to keep the Epstein files from release under #FOIA was…wait for it…Maurene Comey, SDNY AUSA & daughter of ex-FBI Dir James. Links here w/@kyledcheney @Hailey_Fuchs https://t.co/KXHdQVHMTM pic.twitter.com/aAjRSiASMp — Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) July 16, 2025 Most recently, she also worked on the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs case. No explanation was provided as to why exactly she was fired. Politico reported: The reason for her firing was not immediately clear. She did not immediately respond to phone calls and an email seeking comment. Spokespeople for the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment. Comey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. In recent weeks, President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have faced a firestorm of criticism over their decision not to release additional files related to Epstein, the disgraced financier who was accused of running a child sex trafficking ring. Prosecutors in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, including Comey, charged Epstein in 2019 with sex trafficking of minors. He died by suicide in jail while awaiting trial on those charges. Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison. She is appealing her conviction. Comey’s firing also comes as the Trump administration is reportedly investigating her father, whom Trump has long reviled. The investigations apparently relate to James Comey’s role in the probe of links between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, as well as a recent Instagram post by James Comey that Trump allies saw as threatening to Trump. A few months ago, Laura Loomer called for Maurene Comey to be fired. She responded to the very good news on X: BREAKING NEWS: Today, the DOJ FIRED Maurene Comey from the United States Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York. She is the daughter of former disgraced FBI Director James @Comey. This comes 2 months after my pressure campaign on Pam Blondi to fire Comey’s… https://t.co/0wVP4eYNFh pic.twitter.com/SOyrvHaZqb — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 16, 2025 BREAKING NEWS: Today, the DOJ FIRED Maurene Comey from the United States Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York. She is the daughter of former disgraced FBI Director James @Comey. This comes 2 months after my pressure campaign on Pam Blondi to fire Comey’s daughter and Comey’s son in law from the DOJ. Source: https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/1924195103842984073?s=46 https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/1923555086837613012?s=46 Maurene Comey’s husband is Lucas Issacharoff. As I previously reported, he works at the current Trump DOJ, despite a long history being a Trump hater. He is the Assistant U.S. Attorney in SDNY, working in the Civil Division since 2019. No word yet on whether or not he was also fired today, but he should be! +1 for Blondi today! This also marks yet another big change at the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office — one of the most prominent federal prosecutor’s offices in the nation. Over the past few months, there have been multiple shake-ups. ABC News noted: In April, the office’s top prosecutor, Matthew Podolsky, agreed to step aside, clearing the way for Trump to install Jay Clayton, his nominee for interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Podolsky had taken over for Danielle Sassoon, who in February resigned in protest of the Justice Department’s order to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams. Sassoon had been named interim U.S. attorney by Trump when the president fired Edward Kim, who assumed the role during the change in administrations.  

According to U.N. health officials, more than 14 million children worldwide did not receive a single vaccine. The number reportedly is about the same as the year prior. 14 million children were saved. pic.twitter.com/DUao1R2CuI — Luther ‘Ćyrus’ (@Censored4sure) July 15, 2025 More details from the Associated Press: In their annual estimate of global vaccine coverage, released Tuesday, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said about 89% of children under 1 year old got a first dose of the diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough vaccine in 2024, the same as in 2023. About 85% completed the three-dose series, up from 84% in 2023. Officials acknowledged, however, that the collapse of international aid this year will make it more difficult to reduce the number of unprotected children. In January, U.S. President Trump withdrew the country from the WHO, froze nearly all humanitarian aid and later moved to close the U.S. AID Agency. And last month, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it was pulling the billions of dollars the U.S. had previously pledged to the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying the group had “ignored the science.” Over 14 million children have never received a single vaccine, despite steady global childhood immunization levels. Latest data by @‌WHO and UNICEF:https://t.co/fHX6WWhTnL pic.twitter.com/SclI6dCj3e — UNICEF (@UNICEF) July 15, 2025 The WHO said 84% of children got the first dose of the measles vaccine. 76% of children received the second dose. #Measles is preventable with two doses of vaccine. Yet in 2024, 30+ million children remained under-protected, leading to more large or disruptive outbreaks. Only 76% of children got the second dose, far below the 95% coverage needed to stop outbreaks https://t.co/2kZnoI3fjn pic.twitter.com/R0kPi0lrHn — World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) July 17, 2025 Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced last month the United States would not provide Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance further funding until it regained “public trust.” “In its zeal to promote universal vaccination, @gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has neglected the key issue of vaccine safety. When vaccine safety issues have come before GAVI, it has treated them not as a patient health problem, but as a public relations problem. During the COVID-19 pandemic, GAVI partnered with the World Health Organization to recommend best practices for social media companies to silence dissenting views and to stifle free speech and legitimate questions during that period,” RFK Jr. said. “GAVI should consider the best science available, even when that science contradicts established paradigms. It should define success not just in terms of the number of vaccines delivered, but on their rigorously measured overall impacts,” he continued. “I call on GAVI to re-earn the public trust and to justify the $8 billion dollars that America has provided in funding since 2001. Until that happens the United States won’t contribute more to GAVI. Business as usual is over,” he added. Watch RFK Jr.’s message: In its zeal to promote universal vaccination, @gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has neglected the key issue of vaccine safety. When vaccine safety issues have come before GAVI, it has treated them not as a patient health problem, but as a public relations problem. During the COVID-19… pic.twitter.com/z140rJQMnn — Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) June 25, 2025 The UNICEF report reads: Still, nearly 20 million infants missed at least one dose of DTP-containing vaccine last year. This includes 14.3 million “zero-dose” children who never received a single dose of any vaccine – 4 million more than the 2024 target needed to stay on track with Immunization Agenda 2030 goals, and 1.4 million more than in 2019, the baseline year for measuring progress. “Vaccines save lives, allowing individuals, families, communities, economies and nations to flourish,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “It’s encouraging to see a continued increase in the number of children being vaccinated, although we still have a lot of work to do. Drastic cuts in aid, coupled with misinformation about the safety of vaccines, threaten to unwind decades of progress. WHO remains committed to working with our partners to support countries to develop local solutions and increase domestic investment to reach all children with the lifesaving power of vaccines.” Children often remain un- or under-vaccinated due to a combination of factors, such as limited access to immunization services, disrupted supply, conflict and instability, or misinformation about vaccines. Since 2019, data from 195 countries show that 131 countries have consistently reached at least 90 per cent of children with the first dose of DTP, but there has been no significant movement in expanding this group. Among the countries that reached less than 90 per cent in 2019, only 17 managed to increase their coverage rates in the past five years. Meanwhile, in 47 countries, progress is stalling or worsening. This includes 22 countries that achieved and surpassed the 90 per cent target in 2019 but have since declined. The data shows conflict and humanitarian crises can quickly erode vaccination progress. A quarter of the world’s infants live in just 26 countries affected by fragility, conflict, or humanitarian crises, yet they make up half of all unvaccinated children globally. Concerningly, in half of these countries, the number of unvaccinated children has expanded rapidly from 3.6 million in 2019 to 5.4 million in 2024, underscoring the need for humanitarian responses to include immunization. Immunization coverage in the 57 low-income countries supported by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance have improved in the past year, with a reduction of roughly 600,000 un- and under-vaccinated children. While Gavi-supported countries are protecting more children against more diseases than ever before, significant challenges persist due to conflicts and population growth. At the same time, signs of slippage are emerging in upper-middle- and high-income countries that have previously maintained at least 90 per cent coverage. Even small declines in immunization coverage can dramatically raise the risk of disease outbreaks and place additional strain on already overstretched health systems.

It was a long night at the Capitol for U.S. Senators. In the early hours on Thursday, the Senate voted to pass the Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts. The legislation included major cuts to foreign aid and the complete shutdown of government-run news agencies such as NPR. The legislation passed with all Republicans voting for the spending cuts except for two. They were Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Lisa Murkowski. CNN had more details on the DOGE Cuts getting enough votes: President Donald Trump is one step closer to having Congress officially sign off on a slice of his Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts after Senate Republicans agreed in the early hours of Thursday morning to cancel $9 billion in funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting. The package now returns to the House for final approval, where it must pass by a Friday deadline mandated under the budget rules Republicans are using to move the package without Democratic votes. If successful, it will then head to Trump’s desk, where he’s expected to sign the partisan push to claw back federal dollars that Congress had already sent out the door. While most Senate Republicans firmly embraced the spending cuts and are pressing for more, some within the party raised concerns over the White House push, arguing that it set a harmful precedent undermining congressional authority. Two Republicans opposed the measure on the final vote: Sen. Susan Collins, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The final tally was 51-48. Roughly $8 billion will be taken from congressionally approved foreign aid programs as part of the White House’s efforts to dismantle the US Agency for International Development. Another $1.1 billion comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund NPR and PBS. The Senate passed the bill after an extended voting session on amendments that stretched from Wednesday afternoon into the early hours of Thursday morning and lasted over 12 and a half hours. Democrats offered a number of amendments attempting to strike provisions from the legislation, but none were adopted. BREAKING: The Senate has just voted to PASS President Trump’s DOGE rescissions package, 51-48 It now heads back to the House for a final vote, which must be accomplished by Friday Over $9 BILLION for USAID, NPR, and PBS is on the chopping block! pic.twitter.com/IpUJF1CtEY — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 17, 2025 The bill will now go to the House for a final vote: BREAKING: The Senate votes to pass President Trump’s historic plan to Defund PBS and NPR! The rescission package will go back to the House for a final vote. pic.twitter.com/9EbEeC2DGn — Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 17, 2025 Some lawmakers are still concerned over the cuts not being enough, per The Washington Examiner: It took weeks of vote-wrangling for congressional Republicans to near final passage of $9 billion in DOGE-inspired cuts, or only 0.10% of the $7 trillion budget. The arduous saga, filled with centrist complaints and some last-minute deal-cutting, doesn’t bode well for conservatives who have their sights on far more ambitious efforts under President Donald Trump, who has promised to erase the $2 trillion a year deficit. “It tells me we should’ve pressed for a lot more spending reductions in the One Big Beautiful Bill,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). He was among the fiscal hawk holdouts who ultimately voted to favor Trump’s signature tax law despite projections that it would hike the deficit. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), a centrist emboldened by his recent retirement announcement, compared the $9 billion clawback, known as a rescission, to “collecting bottles on the side of the road.” The White House request, which centers on foreign aid and public broadcasting dollars, was narrowly cleared the GOP-led Senate Thursday despite two GOP defectors.

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In a carefully worded assault on white people, a candidate for mayor of Minneapolis Omar Fateh, said white people are domestic threats, not “immigrants.” When he says immigrants, he means those who come illegally. He wants immigrants and illegal immigrants to become synonymous. Additionally, he’s a racist. No Place for White Men “We heard them […] The post Mayoral Hopeful Omar Fateh Says Whites Are Domestic Threats appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Democrats in Congress are facing their lowest approval ratings ever, leaving many questioning whether the party can regain its footing before the 2026 midterms. Democratic Disarray: A Deepening Crisis In a political climate that’s been anything but forgiving, congressional Democrats find themselves at an all-time low in the eyes of the American public. According to a recent Quinnipiac University Poll, only 19% of registered voters approve of the job they’re doing. This isn’t just a dip; it’s a nosedive into uncharted territory. The party’s recent failures to block major GOP-backed legislation, such as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” have underscored their impotence in Congress. With President Trump’s administration aggressively pushing its legislative agenda, Democrats appear increasingly powerless, contributing to their plummeting approval ratings.   Adding fuel to the fire, a $9.4 billion rescissions package targeting funding for USAID, NPR, and PBS is making its way through Congress with little Democratic resistance. It’s a stark reminder of the party’s current predicament: outnumbered, outmaneuvered, and out of touch. The historical context is revealing: Democrats have experienced low approval ratings before, particularly during Trump’s first term, but the current numbers are unprecedented, signaling a deep crisis of confidence. The Voter Backlash: Disillusionment and Disengagement The numbers don’t lie, and they tell a story of widespread voter disillusionment. Among Democrats themselves, only 39% approve of their congressional representatives, while a staggering 52% disapprove. This internal dissatisfaction is mirrored among broader polling, where Democratic favorability is languishing at 37%, with unfavorability at 58.6%. Young voters, a crucial demographic for the party’s future, show only 23% approval for congressional Democrats. This is a demographic that was once a cornerstone of Democratic support, now slipping away. The Democrat Party approval rating is back to 19% is that too high? Democrats are rudderless, clueless and leaderless….sinking fast! pic.twitter.com/PK1F7v0mIE — GrrrGraphics-Ben Garrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) July 16, 2025 What we’re witnessing isn’t just a temporary setback; it’s a reflection of deeper systemic issues within the Democratic Party. The lack of clear leadership and a unified message has left many voters feeling alienated and disengaged. The party’s inability to mount effective opposition to Republican initiatives has further eroded its standing. With the 2026 midterms looming, the stakes couldn’t be higher. If Democrats can’t turn the tide, they risk further electoral losses, potentially cementing Republican dominance for years to come. Strategic Missteps: Leadership and Messaging Failures Democratic leadership, including figures like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, have publicly acknowledged their struggles but have yet to articulate a clear strategy for recovery. The absence of a coherent plan or vision has left the party rudderless, with internal divisions and public criticism mounting. Polling analysts have described the situation as “flat out terrible,” and it’s hard to disagree. The party’s current trajectory suggests that without a significant shift in approach, they may continue to flounder in the minority. Democrats hit new low. 19% approval rating. pic.twitter.com/ayhJNUwFRw — Southern Gentleman (@1stAmerican89) July 16, 2025 The power dynamics in Congress are stark: Republicans have seized control of both chambers, leaving Democrats with limited legislative leverage. This imbalance has been exacerbated by Democratic infighting and a lack of decisive leadership. External pressures from media, advocacy groups, and donors are compounding the problem, demanding a more robust and coherent strategy from the party. Yet, despite these calls for change, the party remains mired in uncertainty and indecision. Sources: RealClearPolling Emerson College Polling YouGov Cook Political Report

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