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The White House on Monday signaled its approval of an intelligence community effort to perform a “damage assessment” on former President Donald Trump’s storage of classified documents at his Florida estate, but stressed that President Joe Biden was “not involved” in the task.
“It is an appropriate action for the director in the intelligence community to undertake, but, again, I’ll let them speak to the details of this,” National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby told reporters, according to the Washington Examiner. He previously insisted that the NSC was not prepared to perform the assessment itself.
Kirby’s comments follow the public release of a heavily-redacted affidavit that accompanied the search warrant the FBI used to conduct its raid on Mar-a-Lago. The warrant application relied heavily on media reports, including a CBS Miami article about moving trucks at the estate and a Breitbart News article in which former Trump adviser Kash Patel discussed the FBI’s previous removal of classified documents from the estate on behalf of the National Archives.
Earlier this year, the Bureau secured 184 boxes of classified material from Trump’s home. Despite the president’s extensive cooperation and voluntary surrender of the documents, the FBI nonetheless cited this incident in the affidavit as establishing ” probable cause ” to conduct the raid.
After the raid, Trump filed a motion for the court to appoint a “special master” to review the documents the Bureau took from his home in August and to halt the federal government from further examining them, pending litigation. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has signaled her “preliminary intent to appoint a special master” in accordance with Trump’s request, potentially upending the intelligence committee’s damage assessment effort.
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker
