Armed assailant attacks Lee Zeldin with a knife at campaign event

The assailant has not yet been identified, but is in law enforcement custody

A knife-wielding assailant stormed the stage of New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin while he delivered a campaign speech.

Zeldin was speaking on bail reform at the local VFW in Perinton, N.Y., when the attacker, screaming hysterically, got on stage and wrestled with the Republican before being subdued by AMVETS national Director Joe Chenelly, local news outlet Rochester First reported.

The assailant has not yet been identified, but is in law enforcement custody. Zeldin was unharmed and resumed speaking after the incident.

The Republican congressman triumphed in a crowded primary, which included Andrew Giuliani, and will challenge New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in November.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/armed-assailant-attacks-lee-zeldin-knife-campaign-event

Tony Fauci, Nina Jankowicz, Vivek Murthy, Karine Jean Pierre and More Served in Missouri and Louisiana Lawsuit Alleging Collusion to Suppress Freedom of Speech

Dr. Tony Fauci, Nina Jankowicz, Vivek Murthy and Karine Jean Pierre were served subpoenas along with several more Biden officials, the five social media giants as well as NIAID and the CDC in the Missouri and Louisiana lawsuit alleging collusion between the Biden administration and Big Tech in silencing conservative speech.

The subpoenas request all communications between the government officials and bodies and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

In December 2020 a FOIA request revealed several communications between Fauci and Zuckerberg.

The Gateway Pundit had the honor and privilege to work with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office to offer extensive evidence of Big Tech’s large-scale censorship and coordination with the federal government.

The AG’s suit against the Biden Admin. also sues some other deserving people and agencies, including:

** Joe Biden, himself

** Anthony Fauci

** The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

** The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

** DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

** The CyberSecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

** The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

** Former Ministry of Truth head Nina “Mary Poppins” Jankowicz

** Former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki

** And several more agencies and officials

The suit, brought along with the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, is filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

In the suit, Missouri Attorney General Schmitt pounds away on the Biden regime for both conspiring with and also compelling Big Tech social media companies, to censor millions of Americans on their social media accounts through a governmentally created social media censorship program.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt posted this report on latest developments in the lawsuit the Missouri AG website on Tuesday.

Yesterday, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry served discovery requests on top Biden Administration Officials and today served third-party subpoenas on social media giants Twitter, Meta, Youtube, Instagram, and LinkedIn. The discovery requests and subpoenas come as part of Missouri’s and Louisiana’s lawsuit against the Biden Administration for allegedly colluding with social media giants to censor and suppress freedom of speech. Earlier this month, a federal court granted Missouri’s and Louisiana’s request for expedited discovery and documents, and yesterday Missouri and Louisiana served those discovery requests.

“In May, Missouri and Louisiana filed a landmark lawsuit against top-ranking Biden Administration officials for allegedly colluding with social media giants to suppress free speech on topics like COVID-19 and election security,” said Attorney General Schmitt. “Earlier this month, a federal court granted our motion for expedited discovery, allowing us to collect important documents from Biden Administration officials. Yesterday, we served discovery requests and today served third-party subpoenas to do exactly that. We will fight to get to the bottom of this alleged collusion and expose the suppression of freedom of speech by social media giants at the behest of top-ranking government officials.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/tony-fauci-nina-jankowicz-vivek-murthy-karine-jean-pierre-served-missouri-louisiana-lawsuit-alleging-collusion-suppress-freedom-speech/

Antifa Summer Camp In Portland Teaches Anarchy To Children

A summer camp in Portland, Oregon, is offering children the opportunity to become budding social justice warriors (SJW) while “reflecting on white supremacy” and learning Black Lives Matter (BLM) chants about putting “killer cops in jail.”

The Budding Roses camp in August for fourth through eighth graders is a project of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation, a political organization promoting the tenets of anarchy that some would argue led to the Portland riots of 2020.

In June 2021, the Portland Police Association issued a press release announcing that the Portland Police Bureau Rapid Response Team resigned from their voluntary positions due to the “political venom” of local politicians who not only failed to support but demonized the team during the Portland riots that began in 2020 and continued through 2021.

The resignation is a step toward what Budding Roses teaches children in the chant, “Cops and borders, We don’t need them.”

As with many SJW goals, the camp’s curriculum appears to be inflicting children with race obsession and graphic sexual concepts, as can be seen in a BLM coloring book espousing transgender affirmation and in a chant that compares the government to a rapist.

“It’s the state that’s our oppressor, It’s the rapist government,” the chant reads.

The camp also has a class on “Why Writing People in Prisons and Jails Matters” to instruct children on writing to incarcerated felons.

“Letter writing with incarcerated people encompasses our commitment to change, and the intersection of our priorities,” it says. “In order to fight for prison abolition, we must connect with and advocate for those most impacted by the prison industrial complex.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/antifa-summer-camp-portland-teaches-anarchy-children

Josh Hawley Grills TSA Head For Letting Illegals Use Arrest Warrants To Board Planes

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley grilled the head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Thursday for allowing migrants to use arrest warrants as a form of identification when flying across the country.

The TSA allows migrants to use the warrants as a form of identification while traveling through U.S. airports, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation in January. Under 1,000 migrants have used the civil arrest warrants or deportation notices as identification at airports, TSA Administrator David Pekoske told Hawley.

“So we aren’t looking at whether a person is legal or illegal in the country,” Pekoske told Hawley at the Senate Homeland Security committee hearing for his re-nomination.

Hawley asked Pekoske for a reason for disregarding one’s legal status when screening migrants through TSA.

“Because our role is to make sure that people that might pose a risk to transportation that’s significant enough to either require enhanced screening or to not allow them to fly,” Pekoske responded.

“So your position is someone who is known to have violated the laws of the United States … you’re not concerned about the person’s security?,” Hawley asked.

Pekoske replied that there are travelers flying every day who have broken U.S. laws, but that the agency looks at what relates to transportation security.

“And you don’t think someone who is by definition, somebody who presents a warrant for arrest, you don’t think that that necessitates screening?,” Hawley questioned.

However, TSA argues that migrants are properly screened for potential national security threats.

“To confirm the identity of an individual and ensure they are not on the no-fly list or pose a known threat to public safety or national security, TSA verifies the identity of every traveler before they are permitted to enter the secure area of an airport. Noncitizens without a standard form of identification may instead present certain DHS-issued forms to a TSA officer,” a TSA spokesperson told the DCNF.

“These forms are civil immigration violation documents, do not include criminal arrest warrants, and are not indicative of a threat to public safety or national security. TSA confirms the identity of the individual by verifying the personally identifiable information found on these forms using DHS’s CBP One™ Mobile Application,” the spokesperson added.

Hawley’s office didn’t respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/21/josh-hawley-tsa-illegal-arrest-warrants-planes/

Fact Check: Bennie Thompson Falsely Claims Police ‘Killed’ in Capitol Riot

CLAIM: President Donald Trump failed to stop rioters who were “savagely beating and killing law enforcement officers.”

VERDICT: FALSE. While some rioters attacked police, they did not kill any; the only person killed was a fellow rioter.

The January 6 Committee held its eighth public hearing on Thursday, and its second in prime time. The event was billed as a crucial moment, the last scheduled hearing and one in which damning evidence would be revealed about Trump’s role.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chair of the committee, opened proceedings by addressing the hearing remotely, since he was recently diagnosed with COVID-19. He claimed that Trump was indifferent to the “beating and killing” of police officers:

For 187 minutes on January 6th, this man of unbridled destructive energy could not be moved. Not by his aides, not by his allies, not by the violent chants of rioters, or the desperate pleas of those facing down the riot. And more tellingly, Donald Trump ignored and disregarded the desperate pleas of his own family, including Ivanka and Don Jr. Even though he was the only person in the world who could call off the mob he sent to the Capitol [sic] he could not be moved to rise from his dining room table and walk a few steps down the White House hallway into the press briefing room, where cameras were anxiously and desperately waiting to carry his message to the armed and violent mob savagely beating and killing law enforcement officers revenging the Capitol and hunting down the Vice President and various members of Congress. He could not be moved. [Emphasis added.]

Thompson’s claim is false. Of the five people killed in connection with the riot, only one, Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, was killed, shot by a law enforcement officers as she tried to climb through a broken window into the House of Representatives.

Three were protesters who died of unrelated causes. One Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, passed away after the Capitol riot, but his death was not caused by the riot, as the media initially claimed, but rather by natural causes. Thompson is wrong.

Thompson also claimed that Trump “sent” the mob to the Capitol, though it has long been clear that the riot began before he told the crowd at his “Save America” rally, roughly a mile away, “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

And though Thompson — and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) — claimed that the rioters were “armed,” very few were, in fact, armed; there were very few arrests of rioters that involved firearms, and no firearms were discharged by rioters that day.

Thompson objected to the certification of the vote from Ohio in the 2004 presidential election, the very act that he and his colleagues on the committee have described as an attempt to overturn democracy, and insurrection against the Constitution.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/21/fact-check-bennie-thompson-falsely-claims-police-killed-in-capitol-riot/

NYC company, owned by family who donated $300K to Gov. Hochul, paid $637 million for at-home COVID tests — without a contract

A company owned by a family which has donated $300,000 to the re-election campaign for New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been paid $637 million by the state over the past eight months to manufacture at-home COVID tests, and the entire arrangement has gone on without either party ever signing a contract.

According to the Times Union, Digital Gadgets LLC, owned by New York City businessman Charlie Tebele, has manufactured approximately 52 million at-home COVID tests since late November and sold them to the state of New York for either $13 or $11.50 each. Though the price per test appears to be reasonable, the state did not consider any other bids from competing manufacturers.

Nor did it seal the specifics of their agreement with a contract. The office of the state comptroller Tom DiNapoli issued almost 240 separate payments to Digital Gadgets between December 30 and March 25, but those transactions have been considered individual "purchase orders." DiNapoli's spokesperson denied that his office ever reviewed or approved them.

He didn't have to. When Hochul declared a state of emergency last November to combat the omicron variant surge, some New York finance laws were suspended, including laws regarding competitive bidding and comptroller oversight of state contracts, as a result.

But members of the state Republican Party aren't buying that explanation.

“I’m calling on Governor Hochul, and the department of health, to turn over all of their communications with the Tebele family and Digital Gadgets,” said state Republican Party Chair Nick Langworthy. “New Yorkers need to know who our government spoke to and when they spoke to them, and what was discussed.”

Langworthy claimed that he will soon file a Freedom of Information Act request to uncover more particulars about the transactions between the governor's office and Digital Gadgets and that he will ask a U.S. attorney to investigate the issue as well.

Despite the appearance of impropriety, however, Hochul has denied doing anything untoward. Hochul said that the state received test samples from several companies but that Digital Gadgets was the only manufacturer which could produce the number of tests needed by January 2022.

“The fact that there was someone who could meet that need at the time allowed us to deliver critically important test kits when nobody else, including the federal government, could get their hands on them,” Hochul said. “As a result we got kids back in school in January as opposed to them sitting home another semester.”

She also denied knowing that the Tebeles had donated so generously to her campaign.

“I was not aware that this was a company that had been supportive of me,” Hochul said. “I don’t keep track of that.”

The executive order for the state of emergency has been extended until August 13, but it may be extended again if Gov. Hochul deems it necessary.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/nyc-company-hochul-covid-tests

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Issues Report Detailing 'Myriad Of Election Issues'

More than two months after Pennsylvania’s May 17 primary election, the Department of State still has not certified the election results. It’s an administrative failure that undermines confidence in the state’s election system, according to Republican state Rep. Seth Grove, chairman of the State Government Committee.

That is one of numerous examples Grove described at the state capital building in Harrisburg during a July 19 press conference in which he released a 186-page report (pdf) with the long title, “Election Reform in Pennsylvania: Missed Opportunities and Continued Chaos-an Interim Report on The Status of Elections in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania After the Veto of House Bill 1300.”

Grove is still advocating for something like HB 1300, which Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed in June 2021. It was a package of election reforms that called for voter identification and provided for early in-person voting; moved the voter registration deadline back from 15 days to 30 days before the election; established a state bureau of election audits; allowed for pre-canvassing of mailed ballots; and would have made it easier for older and disabled voters by moving them to the front of the line or providing curbside voting so they could remain in their car.

The bill also introduced stiffer fines and longer possible prison terms for election tampering.

But Wolf didn’t go for it.

“This bill is ultimately not about improving access to voting or election security, but about restricting the freedom to vote,” Wolf said in a statement about the veto. “If adopted it would threaten to disrupt election administration, undermine faith in government, and invite costly, time-consuming, and destabilizing litigation.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pennsylvania-lawmaker-issues-report-detailing-myriad-election-issues

It didn’t seem like Wolf read the bill, Grove said in his report.

“Unfortunately, Gov. Wolf vetoed the bill despite seeming largely unfamiliar with the contents. By vetoing the legislation, he made himself the sole obstacle to historic reform that would have improved nearly every aspect of election administration in Pennsylvania. Most importantly, it would have allowed the General Assembly to live up to our constitutional requirement for uniformity and fairness in elections and prevent any reoccurrence of the national attention our current, broken process received during and after the November 2020 Election.”

https://www.repgrove.com/Display/SiteFiles/418/OtherDocuments/2022/Grove71922electiondoc.pdf