U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has falsely claimed that her grandfather was a freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement.
The Democratic presidential nominee shared on Sept. 8 a picture of herself in India with her maternal grandfather P.V. Gopalan. She described him as a "retired civil servant who had been part of the movement to win India's independence." Gopalan's daughter Shyamala is the mother of the incumbent vice president.
Harris has previously described Gopalan, a Tamil from the elite Brahmin caste, as "one of the original independence fighters in India." Gopalan purportedly was among the many who pushed back against British rule, which ended in 1946 shortly after the conclusion of World War II.
But news reports in India, quoting official records, have disproved the vice president's claims. In one instance, the Times of India pointed out that Gopalan – born in 1911 – was a diligent civil servant. Harris' uncle and Gopalan's son G. Balachandran even told the outlet that he would have been fired if his father openly advocated ending British rule.
The U.S. vice president also received a strong rebuke on social media. The official X account of the Hindu People's Party wrote that Gopalan worked in the British Imperial Secretariat Service in the 1930s, "a role off-limits to anyone tied to the struggle against British rule." It added that "if anything, he aided colonial exploitation by serving the imperial bureaucracy."
Defense analyst Abhijit Iyer-Mitra meanwhile decried Harris as a "liar" for parroting false claims about her grandfather. He continued: "How could a serving bureaucrat be part of the [Indian] independence movement opposing the same government and violating service rules?"
According to the National Pulse, Harris "has downplayed her Indian heritage in recent years, instead emphasizing the Black identity she inherited from her father." The vice president's father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris, is a Jamaican-American of mixed African and European descent.
Harris linked to slavery on her father's side of the family
But on the side of her father, the incumbent vice president reportedly has a notorious slave owner from Ireland as an ancestor. The Gateway Pundit reported on this connection, citing research done by British historian Stephen McCracken.
According to McCracken, Harris' four-times-paternal-great-grandfather, Hamilton Brown, was born in Ireland's County Antrim in 1776. Brown's birth year coincided with America declaring its independence from the British.
Brown relocated to Jamaica, which at the time was a British colony, where he became an ardent slave owner on the sugar plantations that made the fortitude of the island's economy. He opposed the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1832 and even went back to County Antrim to replace his slaves with workers from his native country.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-09-18-harris-falsely-claims-maternal-grandfather-freedom-fighter.html
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Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has criticized the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security for their "lack of cooperation" in the investigation into the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally in July. This comes as the agency has faced criticism from both Republicans and Democrats.
According to Fox News, Johnson said, "Things like the autopsy report, you know, the House has it under subpoena. We don't have it." He added, "[The] toxicology report; we don't have any of the trajectory reports. So, where'd the bullets go? We don't even know how they handled the crime scene." Johnson is a ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
The senator pointed out the time that has passed since the July assassination attempt on Trump when Thomas Matthew Crooks fired several shots at the GOP nominee, hitting him in the ear as well as killing Corey Comperatore and critically injuring two others in the crowd. "There's just basic information we should have right now, and we don't have it," Johnson said. "We haven't been able to interview the sniper who took out [Thomas] Crooks."
The harsh words from Johnson come as Democrats and Republicans alike have accused the Biden-Harris administration's agencies of "stonewalling" Congress in its investigation into the assassination attempt. Johnson said that the sniper who took out Crooks was the first person he wanted to interview about the incident.
The Wisconsin senator added that the FBI has not provided them with FD-302 forms, which are used to investigate the results of interviews. FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told Johnson in a July hearing that those investigating the assassination attempt would get the forms as soon as possible, but it has been over two months. "They've done 1,000 interviews. We've done 12," Johnson told reporters.
https://thepostmillennial.com/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this-sen-ron-johnson-slams-dhs-secret-service-for-lack-of-cooperation-in-first-trump-assassination-attempt-investigation
By John Solomon and Charlotte Hazard
Published: September 19, 2024 6:13am
Updated: September 19, 2024 10:33am
The powerful chairman of the House committee that oversees election integrity is asking five states to open investigations into “potential criminal activity” in the routing of hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations to Kamala Harris and other Democrats through the fundraising platform known as ActBlue.
House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., made five referrals on Wednesday evening to Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, saying a massive computer analysis conducted by his committee uncovered a suspicious pattern of donations from individuals with net worths too small to donate what has been credited to them via ActBlue reports to the Federal Election Commission.
“This investigation focused on potential unlawful exploitation of unwitting ‘straw donors,’ whose identities may have been used to channel illicit funds into campaigns in your state,” Steil wrote the top law enforcement officials in the five states.
“The final analysis produced a set of anomalous donor profiles, ranked by the severity of the inconsistencies. In reviewing this analysis, it became clear there is suspicious activity occurring that warrants further review,” he added.
"Straw donors" are donors who are either given money by others to donate to federal candidates or whose identity is misused by others to make donations to evade federal campaign contribution limits.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/congress-asks-five-state-attorneys-general-investigate-possible-money-laundering-act