Biden Gun Control Study Omits Obama Gun Running Scandal

Remember Barack Obama’s and Eric Holder’s deadly gun running scandal called Fast and Furious? Joe Biden’s bureaucrats are pretending they have forgotten.

The Biden administration’s long-winded project aimed at reducing gun violence by examining criminal gun trafficking over two decades conveniently omits Obama’s disastrous Mexican gun running operation that let drug traffickers obtain U.S.-sold weapons. Known as Fast and Furious, the failed experiment was run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and allowed guns from the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of hundreds of weapons which were used in an unknown number of crimes, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.

In 2021 Attorney General Merrick B. Garland directed the same agency that orchestrated that fiasco, the ATF, to lead a drawn-out comprehensive study, known as National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment (NFCTA), aimed at curbing gun violence and illegal gun trafficking across the nation. This week the Department of Justice (DOJ) published the final volume of the extensive four-part series, which claims to include an in-depth analysis of how firearms enter illegal markets and fall into the wrong hands, including Mexican drug cartels. The analysis covers 20 years of data and is vital to helping law enforcement nationwide solve crimes and take shooters off the street, according to Garland. “This landmark series represents the most thorough research, analysis, and examination ever of firearms commerce and how firearms enter illegal markets and fall into the wrong hands,” reads a DOJ statement announcing the final NFCTA report this week.

The agency, charged with upholding the rule of law and keeping the country safe, defines criminal gun trafficking as the intentional movement of firearms into the illegal market for a criminal purpose or possession

https://jw.structure.email/weekly-update/wu-11725

$30 million juvenile facility in Minnesota sits empty while violent youth offenders walk free.

"We're sending metro kids far away rather than utilizing a facility right in our backyard," said Rep. Kristin Robbins, who recently toured the facility.

As violent juvenile crime explodes across the Twin Cities, police and local leaders are at their breaking point—forced to watch repeat offenders walk free because there’s nowhere to hold them. And yet, in Minnetonka, a sprawling $30 million juvenile facility built to rehabilitate troubled youth has sat unused since 2021.

The question so many are asking: why is this resource being wasted while chaos grows on our streets?

Alpha News spoke with a police officer in Hennepin County, who requested anonymity, about the dire state of the juvenile justice system, where auto thefts, gun possession, assaults, and robberies appear to be the new norm. According to the Star Tribune, juvenile homicide rates more than doubled between 2021 and 2023 compared to the three years prior.

The officer described it as a “revolving door,” where serious offenders face little to no consequences.

https://alphanews.org/why-a-30-million-juvenile-facility-sits-empty-while-violent-youth-offenders-walk-free/

‘Budgeting tricks’: Walz pitches .075% sales tax cut but wants to expand taxable services.

Republicans quickly gave the governor's proposal a thumbs down, saying "any tax increases are off the table."

The governor’s plan would also expand the base of taxable services—which would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue over the next four years.

That was enough for Republican leaders in both the House and Senate to give the pitch a thumbs down.

“Yeah, it’s a hard no from us on any tax increases,” the Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus posted on social media shortly after Walz’s budget proposal press conference.

Speaker of the House Lisa Demuth said in a post on X: “There will be no tax increases this session. Period.”

https://alphanews.org/budgeting-tricks-walz-pitches-075-sales-tax-cut-but-wants-to-expand-taxable-services/

Three Twin Cities men charged in 80-pound meth bust connected to Mexican drug trafficking organization.

Criminal complaints say police had been investigating one of the men as "a known drug trafficker" with ties to a Mexican DTO which is "coordinating the importation and distribution of methamphetamine in Minnesota."

https://alphanews.org/three-twin-cities-men-charged-in-80-pound-meth-bust-connected-to-mexican-drug-trafficking-organization/

Some Democrats have chosen not to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, including former first lady Michelle Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Members of Congress are not required to attend presidential inaugurations, but the majority of Congress usually attends the ceremony. However, this year, Democratic lawmakers have cited a conflict with Martin Luther King Jr. events in their home districts, or safety concerns because of how many Trump supporters would be in attendance in the wake of the riots on Jan. 6, 2021, according to Newsweek.

Here's the list:https://justthenews.com/government/congress/here-are-democrats-who-said-they-will-not-attend-trumps-inauguration-monday

Retired NYPD Inspector Paul Mauro predicts the Trump administration will uncover unsettling truths about the FBI.

Maybe some of the following will finally be exposed…?

• Seth Rich

• Weinter laptop

• HRC e-mails

• Epstein files

• MS-13 "wetworks"

• SDNY collusion with the FBI

Trump on Thursday ordered the preservation of all relevant records for a potential corruption investigation. This, as he raised questions about the motivations and implications of the FBI’s actions after the agency suddenly discontinued its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. As the investigation into the FBI and its DEI shutdown begins, Mauro said that this could be just the start of a larger drama.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/not-going-to-be-pretty-retired-nypd-intel-officer-predicts-learning-ugly-truths-on-fbi-as-trump-admin-digs-deeper/ar-AA1xqksW

If you trust NBC news…=

Trump 'most likely' to give TikTok a 90-day extension before ban takes effect, NBC News reports.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-most-likely-to-give-tiktok-a-90-day-extension-before-ban-takes-effect-nbc-news-reports/ar-AA1xr3UD

Guard troops will wear a special patch at Trump's inauguration to make it clear they aren't police.

National Guard leaders have authorized the use of a special shoulder patch with the Guard motto “Always Ready, Always There," to ensure that people coming to the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Monday will know who is who.

“It is to make sure it’s easier to identify who’s participating for the National Guard,” said Brig. Gen. Leland Blanchard II, adjutant general of the Washington, D.C., Guard. The patch, he added, will “connect each of the participants from the National Guard back to the mission set, back to what they’re doing and the importance of participating in this peaceful transition.”

The new red, white and blue patch also depicts a minuteman, long a symbol of the Guard that harkens back to the Revolutionary War. The key, said Army Col. Larry Doane, a senior Guard leader, was to provide a visible way to distinguish the troops.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/guard-troops-will-wear-a-special-patch-at-trump-s-inauguration-to-make-it-clear-they-aren-t-police/ar-AA1xqt69

Biden insisted he didn’t sign executive order just weeks after doing so, Speaker Johnson reveals.

Outgoing President Biden insisted in a meeting with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson he never issued an executive order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits — despite doing less than a month prior, the Louisiana pol revealed.

Johnson told the Free Press’ Bari Weiss that he didn’t believe Biden was lying — the then 81-year-old leader was simply so addled that he “genuinely didn’t know what he had signed.”

The troubling encounter happened in the Oval Office in early 2024, when the two met to discuss the latest aid package for Ukraine.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-insisted-he-didn-t-sign-executive-order-just-weeks-after-doing-so-speaker-johnson-reveals/ar-AA1xrf0n

D.C.’s heated, unused $1.5M inauguration stand has a new message for Trump.

With frigid temperatures forcing Trump’s second inaugural festivities inside, neither Trump nor the world will see the greeting the city inscribed on its viewing stand this time.

It reads, “Welcome to DC,” according to a Department of General Services spokesperson.

“There are no current plans for the viewing stand,” the spokesperson continued, in an emailed statement. “The stand will be dismantled after the Inauguration next week, with portions stored at a DC government-owned storage site for reuse during the next inauguration.”

Stationed outside the John A. Wilson building, the stand has long been District officials’ front-row seat of the presidential procession down Pennsylvania Avenue. This year’s version cost $1.5 million, more than triple the $419,560 city officials said were spent on the viewing platform from 2017. Administration staffers have attributed the spike to increased construction costs and a competitive bidding process. Costs for the stand are potentially federally reimbursable, according to the Department of General Services.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/d-c-s-heated-unused-1-5m-inauguration-stand-had-a-new-message-for-trump/ar-AA1xr9s0

Will the weak GOP finally grow a pair? I have my doubts.

Pam Bondi is our only hope.

Before the Biden administration, the temptation to weaponize the justice system against political opponents was limited by a doctrine of mutually assured restraint. If one party set the Department of Justice on its rivals, the other party would respond in kind when it returned to power. Banana republics have tit-for-tats - not America – or so was the thinking.

Democrats will likely bend the legal process to political ends if there is zero fear the next Republican administration won’t do the same.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-democrats-have-set-a-trap-for-donald-trump/ar-AA1xpUgz

Leaker Mike Turner is butt-hurt for being canned. Trump's plumber strikes again! LOL.

The Republicans Against Trump account posted a clip of Pergram's report on X Friday, noting: "Turner has missed all House votes in the last 48 hours."

Turner, an Ohio Republican who is one of the House GOP's staunchest critics of Vladimir Putin and supporters of Ukraine, was forced out of the role by Johnson reportedly because of concerns from the incoming president. He was replaced by Arkansas Rep. Rick Crawford.

This removal caused uproar, with the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board scorching Johnson for his capitulation to Trump's whims.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/never-going-to-vote-for-another-blanking-thing-house-republican-goes-dark-after-ouster/ar-AA1xoNYd

Trump announced Friday that Matthew Lohmeier will serve as the undersecretary of the Air Force.

In 2021, Lohmeier was fired from the Space Force, where he served as a lieutenant colonel, after criticizing the U.S. military on a conservative podcast. Lohmeier joined “The Steve Gruber Show” to discuss his book “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military,” which claims that Marxist beliefs have become increasingly common in the military. In the same appearance, he also called The New York Times’s 1619 Project “anti-American.”

At the time, the Defense Department said it had lost “trust and confidence” in Lohmeier as the reason for his dismissal. His removal from the role was met with outrage from Republican lawmakers, including former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who called the department’s move “retaliatory.”

On Friday, Trump wrote that in his new role, Lohmeier will work to “end the devastating ‘woke’ policies that have destroyed our Military and make our Country STRONG AGAIN.”

Lohmeier will serve alongside Troy Meink, who Trump tapped to lead the Air Force earlier this week. His appointment, as well as Meink’s, will require Senate confirmation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dismissed-space-force-lieutenant-colonel-tapped-to-join-air-force-leadership-under-trump/ar-AA1xpfZm

Larger-than-life bronze Trump statue unveiled ahead of inauguration.

Should be 17 ft. tall IMO.

An Ohio artist has forged a larger-than-life 15-foot-tall, $1 million bronze statue of President Trump that will tour the country before eventually ending up at a future Trump presidential library.

Sculptor Alan Cottrill’s “Don Colossus” immortalizes the iconic moment Trump defiantly pumped his fist into the air after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, PA on July 13.

The six-ton statute was forged in Zanesville, OH, by the master bronzesmith and was commissioned just a week after the shooting.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/larger-than-life-bronze-trump-statue-unveiled-ahead-of-inauguration/ar-AA1xqnll

Maryland Police ‘Unable To Assist’ With Inauguration Security Due To ‘Use Of Force’ Policy.

“Due to differences in the interpretation of Maryland’s recent legislation on Use of Force compared to the District of Columbia’s Use of Force policies, some Maryland agencies are unable to assist MPD directly for the inauguration. However, many of these agencies are contributing to the event’s security efforts through agreements with the United States Capitol Police,” DC police told The Daily Caller in a statement.

Maryland state legislators passed new restrictions on police use-of-force and repealed the nation’s first Police Bill of Rights in April 2021 following the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd. The sweeping police reform bill stipulates force can be used only to prevent “an imminent threat of physical injury” to a person or to “effectuate a legitimate law enforcement objective.” It also upgraded the standard for using force from “reasonable” to “necessary and proportional.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-maryland-police-unable-to-assist-with-inauguration-security-due-to-use-of-force-policy/ar-AA1xr5Iy