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President Biden’s younger brother James said the future president was sitting right next to him during a business call about a now-bankrupt hospital business James allegedly fleeced, according to a new report — mirroring first son Hunter Biden’s infamous assertion to a Chinese businessman in July 2017 that he was “sitting here with my father” in a shakedown text message. Joe Biden also met with the founder of Americore Health Enterprises before it went belly-up — harming its rural patients in the process — and he was at one point penciled in for an equity stake, Politico reported. Current presidential...

President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a 45-minute telephone call Sunday not to attack Hamas’s last stronghold in Rafah without a credible plan to evacuate the roughly one million Palestinian civilians there. A White House readout of the call said: President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke this morning with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. The President reaffirmed our shared goal to see Hamas defeated and to ensure the long-term security of Israel and its people. The President and the Prime Minister discussed ongoing efforts to secure the release of all remaining hostages held by Hamas....

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's staff requested the ambulance to "not show up with lights and sirens" Don't worry his assistant is a woman who was on an island vacation when she took over for Austin. Does ANYONE work in the Biden administration? (report in link below)https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1747654678261735719

House and Senate conservatives on Wednesday sounded the alarm on a potential move by congressional leadership to extend a deep state surveillance law in a defense bill. “Reauthorization of FISA can’t be hooked to anything. The federal GOV has spied on Americans [who] decided to go to Church or you went to a school board meeting. This needs to end. Reauthorization needs to stand on its own, and have significant reform,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) said during a press conference with the House Freedom Caucus and Senate conservatives. The conservatives held their press conference as congressional leaders...

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod brushed aside reporting that President Biden used colorful language to complain about his recent commentary about Biden’s reelection chances and political future. Politico’s Jonathan Martin, who has covered Biden for years, reported Monday that Biden referred to him as a “--‑‑‑” following Axelrod’s recent comments, citing a person who has heard Biden use the word on occasion in private. Axelrod, who is now a CNN contributor and political analyst, was asked about Martin’s reporting during an appearance on the network Monday.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) repeated a fake version of the infamous 2019 Trump-Zelensky phone call in the first impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Thursday. Raskin, the ranking minority member of the committee, claimed in his opening statement that the entire inquiry was a recapitulation of claims of corruption made by Republicans in 2019, of which he said there was no evidence. In the process, Raskin claimed that Trump associates traveled to Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, which he said “culminated in the infamous phone call that then-President [Donald] Trump...

President Biden said Wednesday he plans to call Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after the leader appeared to freeze up while taking questions from reporters. The incident, which happened in Covington, Ky., is the second time in recent weeks that McConnell has abruptly stopped speaking during a press conference. “I just heard, literally, coming out. And Mitch is a friend, as you know, not a joke,” Biden said during remarks at the White House on the Hurricane Idalia response. “We have disagreements politically, but he’s a good friend.” “So, I’m going to try to get in touch with him...

Former President Donald Trump is giving yet another major Iowa presidential campaign event a miss next month. Neither the 77-year-old 2024 Republican front-runner nor former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are scheduled to be part of Hawkeye State Gov. Kim Reynolds’ “Fair Side Chats” at the Iowa State Fair — as Trump continues his feud with Reynolds and Christie focuses his attention on New Hampshire. “President Trump looks forward to interacting with tens of thousands of Iowans at the fair in an open and unfiltered setting,” campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told The Post of the apparent snub to Reynolds.

Ukraine claimed Friday that it intercepted a telephone call between Russian soldiers that “confirms” that Moscow’s saboteurs destroyed the Nova Kakhovka dam — as Norwegian seismologists revealed they had detected a possible blast around the time of the dam’s breach. Ukraine’s domestic security agency, SBU, posted a one-and-a-half-minute audio recording on its Telegram channel in which two men are heard discussing in Russian the aftermath of the dam collapse. “[The Ukrainians] didn’t strike it. That was our sabotage group,” says one of the men on the call, described by the SBU as a Russian serviceman. “They wanted to, like, scare...

For the second time in a matter of weeks a clearly disappointed Jill Biden took time Wednesday to publicly air her grievances with men. A Women’s History Month event at the White House provided the backdrop for her lamentation men are failing women in their pursuit of equality and rights. Speaking ahead of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, AP reports Biden didn’t mince words as she said women find themselves relitigating “battles that we thought we had won a long time ago.”

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden called the owners of Club Q, the gay nightclub in Colorado Springs where a gunman opened fire on Saturday night, to express their condolences in the wake of the tragedy. The Bidens offered their support to Nic Grzecka and Matthew Haynes as well as the LGBTQ community, according to the White House, after five people died and 25 others were injured in the alleged hate attack.

Thursday, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden called into NBC during its coverage of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast in New York City. Reporter Dylan Dreyer said, “Hello, Mr. President.” The Bidens could be heard talking to each other. Dreyer said, “I don’t think I can hear you. Can you hear me, Mr. President?” Dreyer waited about 17 seconds to get a response as the Bidens continued to talk inaudibly.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday revealed President Joe Biden called him to offer congratulations for apparently winning a majority in the House of Representatives. “It was kind of short. He congratulated me,” McCarthy referring to a phone call he had with Biden on Wednesday. “So for anyone who thinks we didn’t win the majority. Joe, at least, believes we did as well.” McCarthy spoke about his conversation with Biden in an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters.

Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already busy forming a government, but has yet to receive a congratulatory phone call from U.S. President Joe Biden, several days after the result in the Nov. 1 election was finalized. Netanyahu’s Likud Party was the largest, winning 32 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, as right-wing parties that have agreed to co-govern with Likud won 64 seats — the largest majority that any Israeli government will have enjoyed in several years, heralding a more stable coalition.

In his first phone call with newly appointed UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President Joe Biden appears to have once again pushed the UK to sell out on Brexit. U.S. President Joe Biden appears to have once again pushed for the UK to bow to the European Union on the core Brexit issue of Northern Ireland in his first phone call with the country’s new Prime Minister. Biden’s White House had previously put significant pressure on now-former PM Liz Truss on the issue, with American authorities threatening to rip up any prospect of a UK-U.S. trade deal should Westminster not...

The presidential press office of Ukraine accused global media outlets of “nuclear hysteria” on Thursday for sharing remarks made by President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he asked the world for “preemptive strikes” on Russia to avoid nuclear war. Zelensky made the remarks during a question and answer session with the Lowy Institute, an Australian think tank, on Thursday, asserting that NATO had a responsibility to “make it impossible for Russia to use nuclear weapons.

Democrat extremism in the wake of President Joe Biden’s “Dark MAGA” speech heated up some more on Wednesday when Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) issued a “call to arms” on the Senate floor while debating a national abortion ban. “When I hear my colleagues talking about how, you know, ‘it should be state rights’ or ‘government should not be telling us what to do,’ the word ‘hypocrites,’ it doesn’t even go far enough to call them out on what they’re doing,” said Hirono.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Sunday said the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is aware of phone calls involving then-President Trump that took place the day of the violent attack during a more than seven-hour gap in Trump’s phone log.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Sunday said he is concerned about the more than seven-hour gap in then-President Trump’s phone logs from Jan. 6, 2021, at around the time when the deadly attack on the Capitol was taking place. Asked by co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” if he agrees with a federal judge’s ruling that Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election were likely criminal, Hogan said he did not have sufficient information to make a legal determination, but did claim that Trump “was involved in stirring up” the violent riot.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday sidestepped a question about reports that he declined a call from then-President Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, emphasizing that the last time he spoke to the former president was in December 2020. “I've said repeatedly the last time I spoke to the president was the day after the Electoral College declared President Biden the winner. I publicly congratulated President Biden on his victory and received a phone call after that from President Trump and that's the last time we’ve spoken,” McConnell said when asked why he did not take Trump's calls the...