Mid-morning News Briefing: CIA collusion against Trump, 13 GOP Reps side with Dems on Biden program, and much more…

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Below are important excerpts from some of the top stories in the news this morning:

1 – Key details emerge about economists featured in report the Biden campaign is using to attack Trump

From Fox News: A letter signed by 16 top economists warning of the economic dangers of electing former President Trump, which is being amplified by the Biden campaign and other Biden surrogates, is littered with signatories who have either donated to Biden or supported him politically in the past.

“While each of us has different views on the particulars of various economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden’s economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump,” the economists wrote in a letter first reported on by Axios this week that has been promoted by various members of the Biden campaign on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The letter’s Nobel Prize-winning signatories show political donations to President Biden’s 2020 and 2024 campaigns. The signatories also donated tens of thousands of dollars to other Democrat candidates and signed previous letters supporting Biden’s agenda, including attacking “selfish and reckless” Trump, a Fox News Digital review found.

2 – Biden Aides Upset CNN Won’t Fact Check Trump During Debate

From Breitbart: President Joe Biden’s aides are reportedly furious CNN will not live fact-check former President Donald Trump during Thursday’s debate. The debate is “not the ideal arena for live fact-checking” Trump, CNN political director David Chalian told the New York Times on Monday.

Chalian later told the Associated Press that debate hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, extreme Trump critics, can correct an “egregious” misstatement from either candidate “that needs to be checked or the record needs to be made clear,” but he claimed Tapper and Bash are “not here to participate in this debate.”

Chalian’s comments launched “anxious calls and texts” from Democrat officials, who “tried to figure out what exactly his comments portended for Thursday night,” Politico’s West Wing reported Tuesday.

3 – Planned Parenthood to spend $40m to boost Biden, Democrats ahead of November

From The Hill: Planned Parenthood Votes will spend $40 million to boost President Biden and key congressional Democrats ahead of November’s elections, the organization announced Monday.

Planned Parenthood, along with its associated advocacy and political arms, are the nation’s leading reproductive health-care provider and abortion rights advocacy organizations.

The announcement from its political and advocacy arms came on the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, as Democrats and reproductive advocacy groups aim to tap into voter anger about GOP-led efforts to restrict access to abortion and other reproductive rights.

The group will initially invest in battleground presidential states Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin. It will also spend money on congressional races in Montana, New Hampshire and New York, where the winners will likely help swing control of the House and Senate.

4 – DNC Sent Millions To Law Firms Behind ‘Unprecedented Lawfare’ Campaign Against Trump

From the Daily Caller: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has sent millions of dollars to law firms that are intimately involved in an “unprecedented lawfare” campaign against former President Donald Trump, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by the Daily Caller.

The DNC has paid close to $2 million since August of 2021 to Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP for “legal services,” according to the DNC’s FEC filings. Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP founding partner Roberta A. Kaplan represented E. Jean Carroll in her sexual assault and defamation suits against Trump. The New York Times previously reported that Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn, helped pay for Carroll’s lawsuits.

The DNC did not pay the firm for any services from its founding in 2017 until August of 2021. Carroll initiated her first lawsuit against Trump in 2019.

5 – CIA contractors reportedly ‘colluded’ with Biden camp when dismissing Hunter laptop

From Fox News: Active Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractors “colluded” with the Biden campaign when releasing a statement dismissing Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election, and the then-CIA chief was in the loop before the statement’s release, according to a joint report released by three House panels.

“We knew that the rushed statement from the 51 former intelligence officials was a political maneuver between the Biden campaign and the intelligence community. Now with this interim report, we reveal how officials at the highest levels of the CIA were aware of the statement and CIA employees knew that several of the so-called former officials were on active contract with the CIA. The report underscores the risks posed by a weaponized federal government,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in a press release Tuesday.

The House Judiciary Committee, its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a report Tuesday titled, “The Intelligence Community 51: How CIA Contractors Colluded with The Biden Campaign to Mislead American Voters.”

6 – 13 House Republicans Side with Democrats to Fund Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline for Migrants

From Breitbart: A group of House Republicans sided with Democrats to keep President Joe Biden’s parole pipeline, flying hundreds of thousands of migrants into the United States, funded. On Wednesday, 13 Republicans voted with 205 Democrats to block Rep. Glenn Grothman’s (R-WI) amendment to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that would have defunded Biden’s parole pipeline.

The pipeline, known as the CHNV program, allows Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants to book their own flights in their home countries — after being screened by the federal government — and flying into American airports to secure so-called “humanitarian parole.”

The 13 Republicans are:

  • Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY)
  • Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL)
  • Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN)
  • Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
  • Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY)
  • Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-FL)
  • Rep. Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR)
  • Rep. Thomas Kean (R-NJ)
  • Rep. Young Kim (R-CA)
  • Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY)
  • Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY)
  • Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL)
  • Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY)

Through the CHNV program, Biden has brought nearly half a million migrants to the U.S. As of October of last year, almost two million migrants are awaiting authorization to fly into the U.S. interior to secure parole.

7 – Tone-deaf Mayorkas claims ‘only the criminal’ to blame for slaughter of 12-year-old Texas girl, not Biden border policy

From the New York Post: Tone-deaf Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday shrugged off attempts to blame Biden’s border policy for the horrific slaughter of Americans at the hands of illegal migrants, saying, “The individual who is responsible for a heinous criminal act is the criminal.”

His comment during a press conference from a Border Patrol aircraft hangar in Tucson, Arizona — some 70 miles from the nearest border crossing — came in response to a question about 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was brutalized and murdered in Houston, allegedly by two Venezuelan migrants who were released into the US earlier this year.

“We screen and vet individuals when we encounter them,” he said.

Border agents quickly responded with skepticism to Mayorkas’ claims that the DHS was sufficiently vetting anybody crossing the US border, saying his comments Wednesday show he’s living in “fairytale land.”

8 – Reporter Calls Out Liberal Judge For ‘Politicizing’ 12-Year-Old’s Murder By Illegal Migrant Suspect

From the Daily Caller: A reporter immediately called out Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo after she appeared to blame former President Donald Trump for the brutal murder of a 12-year-old allegedly committed by two illegal immigrants.

Two illegal migrants from Venezuela were arrested and charged for the brutal murder and sexual assault of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray on June 20 after the Houston Police Department found her body dumped in a week near her home. Hidalgo placed blame on Trump and congressional Republicans for the current state at the border and the murder of Nungaray.

“It hurts even more that they’re being used as pawns in this fight over immigration that doesn’t even exist because [President Joe] Biden and [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell agree Trump just won’t let them move it forward,” Hidalgo said.

“All due respect, judge, you say that this shouldn’t be politicized while you’re pointing the finger at former President Trump and Republicans in Congress. Aren’t you politicizing it?” a reporter asked.

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9 – Illegal Alien ‘Got-Away’ Wanted for Murder Found Living in Sanctuary State

From Breitbart: An illegal alien, wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic, has been found living in the sanctuary state of Massachusetts. The illegal alien first entered the United States in October 2015 on a visitor visa and departed that same month. At a later date, the illegal alien arrived as a got-away, likely successfully crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as most got-aways arrive.

In April, law enforcement in the Dominican Republic issued a warrant for the illegal alien’s arrest, charging him with murder and facing 30 years in prison.

On June 20, he was arraigned in Westborough, Massachusetts, on identification violation and larceny charges. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) then lodged a detainer requesting custody of him. That same day, ICE agents arrested the illegal alien in West Boylston, Massachusetts. He remains in ICE custody pending deportation from the U.S.

10 – Seattle’s shame: City once revered for its booming tech and quality of life descends into ‘zombieland’ where drug addicts and prostitutes reign supreme

From the Daily Mail: Shocking video shows the liberal tech haven of Seattle devolving into a sea of drugs, prostitution and homelessness.

Seattle, like many liberal west coast cities, has seen struggles with migrants moving in and homelessness increasing in recent years.

However, a local reporter posted a clip that has gone viral for showing the shocking decay of the Emerald City. The video, posted Monday comes from a gas station in Seattle in which reporter Jonathan Choe is confronted by a woman, alleging to be a sex worker wearing nothing but a bikini and high heels while shopping in the station’s convenience store.

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