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Trump Reveals the Very Moment He Knew Dems Were Spying on Him

Former President Donald Trump told conservative talk show host Glenn Beck Tuesday the moment he knew for sure Democrats were spying on him.

“You said from the very beginning, ‘They’re spying on us.’ How did you know that was happening?” Beck asked during a phone interview for his radio show, wondering if it was just a “gut” instinct.

“I think it was a combination of things, but I tell you, the world blew up when I did that,” Trump responded.

Trump said the moment came during his 2016 contest against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton when he was watching a television show — he did not identify the program — and “somebody suggested” that then-President Barack Obama’s White House was spying on the Trump campaign.

“I felt there was something strange going on, really strange, and I just put it out,” Trump said.

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BACK TO THE BASICS: Arizona Lawmakers Seek to Return to Paper Ballots, Hand Counts

Arizona lawmakers gave early approval to a bill that would ban the use of voting machines and require millions of the state’s electoral ballots to be hand-counted.

The Senate Government Committee voted along party lines Monday to advance Senate Bill 1338, sponsored by Sen. Wendy Rogers.
The legislation would ban the use of electronic voting and electronic or other tabulating devices in any Arizona election. It would also require precinct polling places, forbidding the current system of more consolidated voting centers.
“There is nothing more important than the preservation of our democracy,” Rogers told the committee. “This is brave what we’re trying to do here. We must do this.”
Rogers insisted that despite the hard work of counting millions of ballots, they would have plenty of volunteers to complete the task.
“They’re willing to go anywhere in the state,” Rogers said. “There would be enough people volunteering around the state to come to your district and mine, if necessary.”
As reported by Just the News, Jen Marson with the Arizona Associati …

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HILLARY HEALTH EXCLUSIVE

Based on new testimony uncovered today, Hillary Clinton was carted all over in a wheelchair during her 2016 Presidential campaign. She couldn’t walk a city block and she had a “med bag” near her at all times.

We wrote on August 15, 2016 that Hillary was so exhausted that she was taking weekends off. This article caught fire and was the top story at Drudge that day.

We then reported on an individual who was always near Hillary who was quickly referred to as her handler. This individual on the left in the picture above, was found carrying a diazepam pen, used to control seizures. Once he was identified at The Gateway Pundit and other sites he suddenly disappeared for a time.

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Manchin: Midterm SCOTUS vacancy = No

I spent an entertaining 20 minutes on social media this afternoon watching liberals have conniptions in response to this comment.He infuriated them by tanking Build Back Better. He made mortal enemies of them by refusing to change the filibuster to pass voting-rights legislation.

If he denied them a Supreme Court seat — particularly an opportunity to replace a conservative on the Court — I think they’d sink his house boat.

Manchin tells reporters of a hypothetical SCOTUS vacancy close to an election: “I’m not going to be hypocritical on that. If it would come a week or two weeks before like it did with our last Supreme Court nominee, I think that’s the time it should go to the next election”
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) February 14, 2022

What does Manchin mean when he says he doesn’t want to be hypocritical? Well, despite his habit of support …

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Repubs help confirm Biden FDA nom

The Senate narrowly confirmed Dr. Robert Califf, a cardiologist and biomedical scientist, to lead the Food and Drug Administration, with several Republicans crossing the aisle to make up for Democratic dissent.
Califf was confirmed by a vote of 50–46, with support from such Republicans as Mitt Romney of Utah, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and Richard Burr of North Carolina, compensating for the “no” votes from a handful of Democrats. The Democrats who opposed the confirmation have cited Califf’s ties to the pharmaceutical industry as well as his handling of the opioid crisis during his previous tenure atop the agency during the Obama administration.

“What started as an OxyContin prescription for back pain became full-blown dependence on heroin for countless Americans,” Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey said on Tuesday. “The FDA continued to approve powerful new opioids either over the express objections of its own advisory committees or without convening an advisory committee at all. The FDA became the cou …

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Durham probe will undermine Biden

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The bombshell revelations filed late last week by Special Counsel John Durham, and ignored by most of the mainstream media, could have profound implications on Americans’ ability to trust our institutions.  It’s significant that the Durham filing further confirms what so many voters already suspected – that President Donald Trump was right about his opponents infiltrating his private information, and that Hillary Clinton’s campaign consistently lied to the American people.  HILLARY CLINTON DODGES QUESTIONS ABOUT DURHAM PROBE DEVELOPMENTS
SUNDAY TODAY WITH WILLIE GEIST — Pictured: Hillary Clinton on Dec. 12, 2021 — (Photo by: Mike Smith/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
But beyond those obvious top line revelations, there are even more sweeping implications that threaten to undermine the Biden Administration, the Democrat Party, and our country for years to come. Based on this and previous filings, we must now confront the following truths:Government can’t be trusted to protect our data.The Clinton campaign, according to Durham, “exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data” and “enlisted the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university who were receiving and analyzing large amounts of Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract.” That means data collected on us by the federal government has now been used for partisan political activities.  How much other data is out there and who can access it?White House Communications are not secure.No one should be able to access them.  The fact that the Clinton campaign was able to reflects a severe national security threat.  Who else has access to White House communications?The Biden Administration has a clear conflict of interest.The filing implicates current National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.  As a result, there should be no interference in the investigation by the administration.  Such would be presumed to be self-servin …

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Navy’s first F‑35C deployment

ABOARD USS CARL VINSON, OFF THE COAST OF SAN DIEGO — Aircraft carrier Carl Vinson returned home Feb. 14 after a six-and-a-half-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific, in the U.S. Navy’s first deployment of the “air wing of the future.”The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group and its Carrier Air Wing 2 brought along an F‑35C Joint Strike Fighter squadron in its first-ever operational deployment, and they worked with a detachment of CMV-22 Ospreys as the carrier onboard delivery aircraft.The “air wing of the future” also included two additional EA-18G Growlers and one additional E‑2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft, bolstering the air wing’s ability to sense the operating area and share data from those sensors across the CSG.In an unexpected twist, the carrier strike group began moving towards U.S. 5th Fleet in the Middle East, but then stopped and turned around, remaining in U.S. 7th Fleet and in the Indo-Pacific for the entire duration of its deployment, in what leaders are calling the start of a “shift” for the West Coast fleet’s operations.The ships of the Carl Vinson CSG sailed more th …

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Quantum Future of Naval Warfare

[The United States] was ahead for so long, and in so many areas, that it hasn’t really had to do much thinking about what it means to be behind.

As the tech Cold War intensifies with China and President Xi Jinping striving to establish the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as the dominant maritime power in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. Navy faces a critical point: Achieve technological superiority for tomorrow’s conflicts or surrender its competitive advantage to China. To visualize what falling behind in the race for technology entails, imagine this fictional news briefing set in the near future:

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What’s going on in Ukraine?

In recent months, the news has been dominated by the massing of 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine’s border and broad discussions about the potential for war, not just between Ukraine and Russia, but between global powers. The United States, along with several NATO allies, have offered direct support to Ukraine in the form of both funds and military equipment, while simultaneously placing diplomatic pressure on Moscow in an attempt to dissuade Russian President Vladimir Putin from following through with an invasion.

Today’s simmering tensions on the Ukraine border have roots that reach back decades, and in some ways, today’s potential for conflict could be seen as a reverberating effect of the fall of the Soviet Union at the close of the Cold War.

Why would Russia invade Ukra …

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‘Asia vs. Europe’ Is False Policy Choice

Ever since the Obama administration announced America’s impending “pivot to Asia” in early 2012 there has been a palpable sense of anxiety among Europe’s political class that Washington was gearing up to end NATO’s free riding and demand the allies start acting responsibly when it comes to rebuilding their militaries. Since then, U.S. foreign policy elites have periodically revisited various formulas of “strategic rebalancing” away from the Atlantic to the Pacific to better position the country to face the rising Chinese threat. Today this view constitutes the dominant consensus in Washington. The Trump administration’s 2017 National Security Strategy and its 2018 National Defense Strategy prioritized China as the principal national security threat. The Biden administration has carried on in the same strategic direction. 
Over the last ten years, op-eds, articles, policy papers, and books have worked essentially the same two-point problem set: (1) Asia, centered on the surging China, is tracking to replace the transatlantic community of democracies as the hub of the new international system, and (2) the United States needs to come to terms with the reality of its resource constraints that c …

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