Rand Paul Rips Into Dr. Fauci About Funding the Wuhan Virology Institute Lab – Arrogant Fauci Hits Back!

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing on the efforts to combat COVID-19 on Tuesday.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) ripped into Dr. Fauci on Tuesday about funding the Wuhan lab.

Since May 2020, The Gateway Pundit has been reporting on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s likely illegal funding of coronavirus projects at the Wuhan Virology Center.

It is clear that they successfully isolated the coronavirus in the lab and were actively experimenting with species-to-species transmission.

It’s also important to note that back in 2017 we had solid intelligence about a viral leak in a high-security Chinese virology R&D center that resulted in the SARS virus getting out and killing people.

In May 2020, TGP reported this: The leader of the US task force overseeing the country’s response to the China coronavirus, Dr. Tony Fauci, was the one who funded the Wuhan bat virus work and kept it going.

Last month Washington Post columnist Josh Rogan said Fauci needs to provide answers about his involvement with the Wuhan lab.

“Dr. Fauci and the National Institutes of Health were responsible for using taxpayer dollars for gain of function research, to weaponize viruses to make them more contagious and more deadly.” he said.

Rand Paul confronted Fauci on Tuesday: “Dr. Fauci, do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan?”

Arrogant Fauci shot back at the Kentucky lawmaker: “Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan institute.”

Rand Paul would not back down and really got under Fauci’s skin!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/rand-paul-rips-dr-fauci-funding-wuhan-virology-institute-lab-arrogant-fauci-hits-back-video/

Bombshell Report Reveals CDC Risk of Covid Transmission Outdoors Greatly Exaggerated

A bombshell report from the New York Times revealed the CDC greatly exaggerated the risk of Covid transmission while outdoors.

According to the NY Times, the 10% transmission rate was based “partly on a misclassification” of some transmission in Singapore in a setting with a mix of indoors and outdoors.

The real outdoor transmission rate is 1% or less!

“There are limited data on outdoor transmission,” a CDC official told the Times. “The data we do have supports the hypothesis that the risk of outdoor transmission is low. 10 percent is a conservative estimate from a recent systematic review of peer-reviewed papers. CDC cannot provide the specific risk level for every activity in every community and errs on the side of protection when it comes to recommending steps to protect health. It is important for people and communities to consider their own situations and risks and to take appropriate steps to protect their health.”

Senator Susan Collins confronted CDC Director Rochelle Walensky about the report and said it is yet another example of conflicting guidance coming out of the agency Tuesday during a hearing.

“The topline result was less than 10%, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, one of our top infectious disease journals,” Walensky said. “That is where that came from, it was from a published study that synthesized studies from many places.”

Susan Collins said she doesn’t trust the CDC anymore.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/bombshell-report-reveals-cdc-risk-covid-transmission-outdoors-greatly-exaggerated/

Unhinged Leftist Bette Midler Threatens To Kill Unvaccinated Kids

"Entertainer" Bette Midler has called for KILLING children who have not had COVID shots.

In a completely mental tweet aimed at ‘anti-vaxxers’, the unhinged Midler advocated using peanut butter on kids with allergies if they haven’t been vaccinated against coronavirus.

Normally anything coming out of her mouth is easily ignored, but this mind to keyboard splurge is a particularly hot take…

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/unhinged-leftist-bette-middler-threatens-kill-unvaccinated-kids

‘I am like a God’: Kazan school shooter’s chilling message revealed as Putin orders gun control probe after nine killed in attack

A teenager has been detained by security forces in the Russian city of Kazan after a bloody attack at a local school left at least nine dead and more than a dozen wounded on the first day back after a 10-day national holiday.

Media in the country named the suspect as 19-year-old Ilnaz Galyaviev, identified as a former student at School No. 175, where the attack took place on Tuesday morning. He had subsequently gone on to study at the nearby TISBI management university, but a spokesperson for the college told Moscow’s RBC that he had been expelled after falling behind on his studies.

The source told reporters that Galyaviev had “shown himself to be a quiet and non-abrasive student during his studies. He was always neat and calm, and respectful of fellow students and teachers.” The teenager had apparently stopped attending classes in January and lost touch with tutors. “He did not appear to defend his industrial experience project or to sit three state exams, as a result of which he was expelled,” the press office added.

Last week, Galyaviev is reported to have set up a channel on the Telegram service, with messages purporting to be from “God.” In a series of comments written last Thursday, the account announced that “I am like a God.”

The account went on to say that the population of the world were his "slaves," and should kill each other before ultimately killing themselves. He added that there should be no living creatures left in the world, and that life was a "mistake of the universe."

Prior to the shooting, he is reported to have written that he would kill a large number of people before ending his own life. A photograph posted to the channel showed a man resembling the one detained by police posing for a selfie while wearing what appears to be a combat vest and a face covering, emblazoned with the word “Bog,” or “God” in Russian.

https://www.rt.com/russia/523458-kazan-school-shooting-suspect-arrested/

New Military Letter Warning Of Civil War In France Gains Over 220,000 Signatures

A group of currently serving French soldiers has published an open letter warning President Emmanuel Macron that the survival of France is at stake after his “concessions” to Islamism.

The French government condemned it, as well as a similar letter in April.

This previous letter was signed and published by 20 French semi-retired generals.

The letter to the government last month came from semi-retired generals. The minister in charge of the armed forces, Florence Parly, said they would be punished for defying a law that forbids reservists or serving members of the military from expressing opinions in public on religion and politics.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called the latest letter a “crude manoeuvre” and accused its anonymous signatories of lacking “courage”.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-military-letter-warning-civil-war-france-gains-160000-signatures

STUNNING TESTIMONY: AZ Elections Witness Testifies that Private Company Was Scanning Ballots Offsite, NOT Election Workers, Then Delivering Them to Counting Center

Back on November 30, 2020, Maricopa County elections witness Jan Bryant testified before the Arizona legislature.

Jan has a strong project management background. She could not believe what she witnessed during the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Jan said back on November 30, 2020, that Maricopa County officials DID NOT RUN THE ELECTION! Dominion employees John and Bruce did.

Jan’s testimony might explain why Maricopa County officials do not have Admin passwords or access to the Dominion voting machines.

Jan also testified under oath that county staff, not even IT staff were allowed access to the voting machines and that she witnessed Dominon employees with a laptop computer in the counting room.

Jan worked 6 days at MCTEC, has an MBA, and project management background in technology.

Later during questioning by Republican Rep. Mark Finchem, Jan Bryant told the Arizona lawmakers that there were daily election ballot deliveries to MCTEC by Runbeck Election Services. According to witness testimony (transcribed below), these deliveries happened in 2020 from Nov. 3rd to at least the 10th.

Repeated explanations by supervisors at that time was that “Runbeck has high speed scanners”.

According to Jan Bryant, she was told the ballots were scanned offsite by Runbeck and then delivered to the Maricopa County Election Center.

Jan also testified under oath that county staff, not even IT staff were allowed access to the voting machines and that she witnessed Dominon employees with a laptop computer in the counting room.

Jan worked 6 days at MCTEC, has an MBA, and project management background in technology.

Later during questioning by Republican Rep. Mark Finchem, Jan Bryant told the Arizona lawmakers that there were daily election ballot deliveries to MCTEC by Runbeck Election Services. According to witness testimony (transcribed below), these deliveries happened in 2020 from Nov. 3rd to at least the 10th.

Repeated explanations by supervisors at that time was that “Runbeck has high speed scanners”.

According to Jan Bryant, she was told the ballots were scanned offsite by Runbeck and then delivered to the Maricopa County Election Center.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/stunning-testimony-az-elections-witness-testifies-private-company-scanning-ballots-offsite-not-election-workers-delivering-counting-center/

The Massive Infiltration of U.S. Virus Research by China’s Military

The following is one example of a much larger problem, not just at this institution, but all across the United States involving billions of taxpayer dollars in knowledge, skills and research grants being fed into China’s virus research laboratories, no doubt, some going to its biowarfare program.

The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston is a major virus research center heavily funded by the National Institutes of Health, especially Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

In August 2020, UTMB was designated by Anthony Fauci as one of the ten Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases and newly funded by a NIAID grant totaling $82 million.

Perhaps not coincidentally, Fauci also designated Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, a long-time collaborator with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as another Center for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases, awarding it $7.5 million.

UTMB is also the home of the Department of Defense-funded Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases.

UTMB has one of the few Biosafety Level 4 facilities for containing and conducting research on the world’s most dangerous viruses.

One does not need to dig very deeply to find that UTMB has been infiltrated by scientists of People’s Liberation Army, some believed to be linked to China’s biowarfare program.

This is happening right now, not something that happened ten years ago.

Case in point using a single COVID-19 scientific article published on January 20, 2021:

“Ubiquitination of SARS-CoV-2 ORF7a promotes antagonism of interferon response” authored by Zengguo Cao, Hongjie Xia, Ricardo Rajsbaum, Xianzhu Xia, Hualei Wang and Pei-Yong Shi.

The senior author, Pei-Yong Shi, was trained in the People’s Republic of China and now is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at UTMB. Since 2007, he has been an Honorary Professor at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The first author, Zengguo Cao, who works with Pei-Yong Shi at UTMB, lists another affiliation, the Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China.

Zengguo Cao leaves out the fact that he works at the People’s Liberation Army’s Military Veterinary Research Institute.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/massive-infiltration-u-s-virus-research-chinas-military/

Netanyahu vows to step up ‘might and frequency’ of Israel’s attacks on Gaza

Tel Aviv will ramp up its airstrikes on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, PM Benjamin Netanyahu has warned, as Israel and Hamas exchanged fire in the aftermath of violent clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Israel will continue and increase its assault, Netanyahu said in a video address on Tuesday.

At the conclusion of a situational assessment, it was decided that both the strength of the attacks and the frequency of the attacks will be increased.

Over the past two days, the region has seen a serious outbreak of fighting between Israel and the Palestinian enclave, which is controlled by the Islamist Hamas group. The militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel, while Tel Aviv launched airstrikes against Hamas targets.

While most of the Palestinian rockets were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome, a system designed to stop short-range rockets, some got through the air defenses. At least two people were killed in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, with more than 30 injured across southern Israel.

According to the Gaza health authorities, Israel’s strikes on the enclave killed at least 26, including nine children, while more than 120 were injured. Israel disputed those numbers, insisting that it killed some 15 Hamas fighters, including some high-profile militants.

The cross-border exchange of fire follows Palestinian protests in Jerusalem that have been ongoing for days. The recent unrest was prompted by Israeli plans to forcibly evict several Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, part of the occupied Palestinian territories, in order for settlers to move in.

The protests came at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when thousands of pilgrims had flocked to Jerusalem to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

https://www.rt.com/news/523501-israel-netanyahu-gaza-airstrikes/

Netanyahu loses power but starts a war before the new guy can get sworn in

Globalist Pope Francis Defends Joe Biden Over Abortion Policies – Says Plan by US Bishops to Rebuke Him Might Look “Divisive” – But Same Pope a Frequent Critic of Trump

Globalist Pope Francis was a frequent critic of President Trump and his policies to secure and protect the US border.

But this same Marxist pope holds his tongue in criticism of Obama or Joe Biden.

This week Red Francis rebuked US Bishops over a plan to rebuke Joe Biden from Communion.

Pope Francis said he was concerned it might come off as “divisive.”

KTLA reported:

The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to rebuke Roman Catholic politicians such as President Joe Biden for receiving Communion even though they support abortion rights.

The strong words of caution came in a letter from Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, addressed to Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The USCCB will convene for a national meeting June 16, with plans to vote on drafting a document on the Communion issue

There is division among the bishops, with some pressing for Biden and other Catholic public figures to be excluded from Communion over their abortion stance, and other bishops warning that such a move would be politically polarizing.

Ladaria, in his letter, said any new policy “requires that dialogue occurs in two stages: first among the bishops themselves, and then between bishops and Catholic pro-choice politicians within their jurisdictions.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/globalist-pope-francis-defends-joe-biden-abortion-policies-says-rebuke-us-bishops-might-look-divisive-pope-frequent-critic-trump/

Windham, New Hampshire Patriots File Emergency Injunction Against Sham Audit Set to Begin Tuesday Morning

This was originally posted by Ken Eyring at Granite Grok.

We will update as we learn more information.

From Monday night:

The forensic audit of the Windham voting machines and ballots from November 3, 2020, is scheduled to begin tomorrow at 10 am – but that might be delayed if the temporary injunction I filed today is approved by a Judge in the morning.

I filed the request because I’m concerned with the lack of checks and balances of the auditors, as well as the volatility of the forensic machine data that needs to be preserved. It is important to forensically image all of the data for each of Windham’s four AccuVote machines and I do not believe any of the current forensic teams have the necessary skill sets to adequately perform that specialized task.

I also filed a RTK request to protect the critical machine data that is stored in memory when the machines are powered down. That data is vulnerable to being lost if special care is not taken, because it will be flushed out of memory and lost when the machines are powered up.

The RTK request should protect all of the data on the machines if the intent of the law is followed:

RSA 91-A:9 Destruction of Certain Information Prohibited. – A person is guilty of a misdemeanor who knowingly destroys any information with the purpose to prevent such information from being inspected or disclosed in response to a request under this chapter. If a request for inspection is denied on the grounds that the information is exempt under this chapter, the requested material shall be preserved for 90 days or while any lawsuit pursuant to RSA 91-A:7-8 is pending.

The breakdown means this:

(1) either the data is copied and delivered as requested,

(2) the request is denied – but the data must be preserved for 90 days, or

(3) the request is denied but the data must be preserved while a lawsuit is in progress:

The goal is to get copies of all the data from all of the machines and perform a forensic audit with an independent team that is outside of the umbrella of one organization (Verified Voting). There will be those who fight this request. Not because there is any justification to do so – nor harm that will come if it is approved. They will fight it just to fight it. And to that, I say keep on exposing who you are.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/windham-new-hampshire-patriots-file-emergency-injunction-sham-audit-set-begin-tuesday-morning/

Israel To Biden White House: Stay Out Of Jerusalem Crisis

With violence against Palestinians escalating in East Jerusalem, the US expressed "concerns" over the situation and the planned evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. According to multiple media reports, the Israelis didn’t want to hear these concerns and told the US not to meddle in the crisis.

The "concerns" were expressed in a Sunday phone call between National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben-Shabbat. According to Hebrew media reports, Ben-Shabbat told Sullivan that the US and other countries should stay out of the conflict. He said international pressure on Israel to halt the evictions or stop the violence would be "a prize for the rioters and those sending them who hoped to put pressure on Israel."

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/05/10/israel-to-us-stay-out-of-jerusalem-crisis/

Colonial Pipeline Partially Reopens; EPA Waives Environmental Rule To Boost Fuel Supplies

Update (1011ET): Colonial Pipeline reopened a section of its paralyzed pipeline system after a ransomware attack, reconnecting some East Coast markets with a critical supply hub, according to Bloomberg.

Colonial's line connecting storage facilities in Greensboro, North Carolina, to Baltimore has briefly resumed for a "limited period while existing inventory is available," Colonial stated Monday.

The section of line in the oil-refining part of South Texas that runs to North Carolina remains shuttered. Across the Southeast, fuel shortages have materialized at gas stations.

We're not sure on the location, but this guy isn't playing around - filling up a several hundred-gallon tank as shortages worsen in the Southeast.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/gas-run-has-begun-fuel-stations-run-dry-amid-hacked-pipeline

Cop Arrested, Charged with Multiple Felonies Over 1,500 Accusations of Child Rape

Park Forest, IL — As TFTP reports on a regular basis, police officers are constantly in the news for betraying the trust of the communities they serve. Many times they are caught preying on the elderly, or robbing innocent citizens, but perhaps the most disturbing and all too common crimes are when cops prey on children. A Park Forest cop has been charged for allegedly preying on society’s most vulnerable — hundreds of times.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Harry Gillespie Nicholson IV, 47, has been charged with multiple high-level felonies and is currently in custody. A bond was set, but as of the writing of this article, Nicholson remains behind bars.

Nicholson was fired from his job as a Park Forest cop in March after the allegations surfaced. According to police, a victim came forward from Indiana, where Nicholson used to live. The girl reportedly asked her parents to leave the room when she told detectives what Nicholson had done to her as not to upset them.

The girl, who is now 18, told police in March that Nicholson started molesting her when she was just 4-years-old. When she was 12 and old enough to fight back, he began raping her, according to the charges.

According to the affidavit, she didn’t tell her family out of fear of what Nicholson may do and didn’t want them to get hurt. She told police that over the course of 14 years, she estimated Nicholson raped her around “1,500” times, according to the affidavit.

After the girl and her family moved to Lowell in 2018, Nicholson reportedly raped her twice a week amounting to “hundreds of times,” the victim said, according to court documents.

The victim’s allegations were backed up by another witness who told police they were terrified of what he might do. Nicholson, according to the witness, was a “former Marine,” who had “lots of guns,” according to the affidavit.

Among other charges, Nicholson is now facing rape, a level 3 felony, sexual misconduct with a minor, a level 4 felony, child seduction, a level 5 felony, sexual misconduct with a minor, a level 5 felony, child seduction, a level 6 felony, and child sexual battery, a level 6 felony.

Nicholson is due in court on May 27. According to court records, he has already entered a plea of not guilty.

If convicted on all charges and if he receives the maximum penalty for them, Nicholson faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in jail. However, as TFTP reports on a regular basis, child raping cops, often times, receive little to no jail time even when convicted of the most heinous crimes against children.

What’s more, many times the abuse is known about within the department and the top brass help to cover it up. As we reported last month, this was the case in Boston, as newly released documents were released detailing the abuse and cover-up of said abuse carried out by Patrick M. Rose Sr., the former president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association and Boston PD detective.

Rose has been charged with molesting children and the documents prove the department knew, and allowed him to continue to serve in their ranks and even engage with children for years.

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The documents are redacted copies of internal affairs investigations into Rose. Boston Mayor Kim Janey’s office said the information was released to shed light on the baffling case of how Boston’s top cop was allowed to go on abusing children for decades.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-arrested-multiple-felonies-accusations-child-rape/

Texas GOP Successfully Kills Bill To Stop Child Sex Changes, Chemical Castrations

Texas Republicans, reportedly at Abbott's direction, successfully killed a bill to end child sex changes and chemical castrations in the state.

Multiple activists and a former state legislator tell National File that the Texas House Calendars Committee’s refusal to assign a date for a floor debate on H.B. 1399, which would effectively ban transgender surgeries and chemical castrations for minors in the state, has essentially killed the bill.

Despite over 91% of voters in a large Texas district supporting the bill, it was not added to the calendar for a floor vote yesterday. Multiple sources have told National File that it will instead be scheduled for a Wednesday vote in a bid to stop the bill from passing while still allowing those associated with the legislation to take credit for writing it and officially scheduling it.

Former Texas House Rep. Matt Rinaldi told National File, “If it’s scheduled for a Wednesday, unless they’re doing something completely different, I’ll be shocked if they get to it.” He added, “When they schedule something on the last day, they’re setting it up for the Democrats to filibuster it. If they wanted it to pass, it would have already passed.”

“If you look at the calendars the last several session, and look on the last day,” Rinaldi continued, “You’ll see a host of bills that are conservative firebrand bills that they knew they would never get to, and that’s all for them escaping accountability.” He then suggested that the Texas Republican Party has failed its voters. “I think it’s absolutely disgusting that bills like banning the mutilation of children and sex change surgeries are even being delayed. If we can’t, as a party, holding both houses of the legislature and the governor’s mansion, if we can’t pass that bill, what’s the case for voting for them at all, in any election? They’re absolutely terrible.”

https://nationalfile.com/texas-gop-successfully-kills-bill-to-stop-child-sex-changes-chemical-castrations/

Project Veritas Humiliates CNN White House Reporter Jeremy Diamond.

An undercover Project Veritas journalist repeatedly questioned CNN White House Correspondent Jeremy Diamond about his network’s admission to using “propaganda” against Republicans such as Donald Trump.

Diamond, however, failed to answer a single question posed by Project Veritas, instead fleeing to his car while in a parking garage.

“Why do you use propaganda to promote fear and lies,” the journalist asks Diamond before inquiring whether or not he’s allowed to report anything CEO Jeff Zucker disagrees with.

Diamond’s humiliation follows Technical Director Charlie Chester admitting the network openly engages in “propaganda” and “fear” to drive ratings and keep their audience engaged.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/project-veritas-humiliates-cnn-diamond/

Citizens Launch Petition To Audit The Vote In Pennsylvania, Citing ‘Alleged Fraud’

The Audit Movement Is Spreading

Patriotic American citizens have launched a petition to urge the Pennsylvania legislature to audit the results of the 2020 election, citing “alleged fraud” and numerous statistical abnormalities. The citizens demand a recount of certain votes and signature verification on mail ballots. A Trump stronghold in 2016, Pennsylvania certified its Electoral College votes for Democrat Joe Biden after a disputed paper ballot-counting effort in Philadelphia that alarmed civilians nationwide.

The petition at Auditthevotepa.com, drafted by freedom activist Toni L. Shuppe of Citizens For Free Speech, lays out a number of concerning anomalies and calls for an audit similar to the kind currently underway in Maricopa County, Arizona, where Republicans in the Arizona Senate tagged in the Cyber Ninjas group to search for evidence of fraud.

The Pennsylvania petition states the following: “To all Pennsylvania Representatives and Senators, I am writing this letter on behalf of myself and the other 10,000+ PA residents who have attached their signature. We are reaching out to voice our concern over the Pennsylvania 2020 election process, procedures, and alleged fraud to restore confidence in our entire election process moving forward. I speak on behalf of everyone who signed this letter when I say we are extremely disappointed at not just the handling of the election irregularities, but also what appears to be the blatant disregard for the rule of law in our home state…

In addition, on November 19th, the Pennsylvania House voted to approve a Republican-sponsored measure to set up a near-immediate audit of the 2020 election, citing inconsistencies and confusion in the electorate as evidence that the process must be improved for future elections in the state. The vote was 112 in favor of the audit and 90 against it. However, the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee ultimately rejected the request for an audit…

According to the votes.pa.com website, the purpose for a post-election audit is to detect errors, to deter fraudulent activity, to ensure votes were counted correctly, and to build voters’ trust in our elections. I have established below a list of irregularities that indicate enough cause for concern to perform a full investigative audit of the Pennsylvania 2020 General Election….” (READ THE FULL PETITION HERE)

“We believe this is more than enough evidence for WE THE PEOPLE to request a full investigative audit of the 2020 election…We are hereby requesting an investigative audit of the 2020 election to include the following:

https://nationalfile.com/citizens-launch-petition-to-audit-the-vote-in-pennsylvania-citing-alleged-fraud/