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</div><div>A Sampling of Recent Election Fraud Cases from Across the United States</div><div>The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database presents a sampling of recent proven instances of election fraud from across the country. Each and every one of the cases in this database represents an instance in which a public official, usually a prosecutor, thought it serious enough to act upon it. And each and every one ended in a finding that the individual had engaged in wrongdoing in connection with an election hoping to affect its outcome — or that the results of an election were sufficiently in question and had to be overturned. This database is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list. This database is intended to demonstrate the vulnerabilities in the election system and the many ways in which fraud is committed.</div><div>
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</div><div><b>1,432</b></div><div><b>Proven instances of voter fraud</b></div><div>
</div><div>1,235</div><div>Criminal convictions</div><div>
</div><div>48</div><div>Civil penalties</div><div>
</div><div>107</div><div>Diversion program</div><div>
</div><div>25</div><div>Judicial finding</div><div>
</div><div>17</div><div>Official finding</div><div>
</div><div>Search the Database</div><div>Submit a Case of Voter Fraud</div><div>More Resources on Election Integrity Open Printable Results</div><div>
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">eXON HILL, Md.—The Heritage Foundation and a small army of conservative allies on Friday launched the <b>2025 Presidential Transition Project, also known as Project 2025, calling for reining in federal agencies and curbing political weaponizaiton.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“For the most powerful think tank in America, it would be very easy to go it alone,” said Ed Corrigan, president of the Conservative Partnership Institute, referring to The Heritage Foundation. “This has been really a team effort, 50 different conservative organizations contributed to this. That’s what makes this a historic product.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Policy and personnel recommendations dot Heritage’s blueprint for the next conservative president. (</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The first pillar of the plan is Heritage’s book “Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise,” which sets forth policy proposals touching on virtually every government agency. The second pillar is the concept that personnel is policy. The third is a call for training and the fourth recommends executive orders to advance conservative policy.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“This has never happened. We’ve never had this coming together in our movement to prepare for one thing—Day One, January 2025,” said<b> Paul Dans, director </b>of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, referring to Jan. 21, 2025, when the next president will be sworn into office.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“What brings all these organizations together is our common theme to</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> take down the administrative state,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the bureaucracy,</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” Dans said. <b>“The bottom line is we need to have an army of conservatives ready to march in on Day One.”</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dans stressed that the effort includes examing the 50 states for useful and practical knowledge outside Washington</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The alliance of conservatives will be involved in recruiting and training officials.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Ken Cuccinelli, the Trump administration’s acting deputy secretary of homeland security, wrote Project 2025’s chapter on the Department of Homeland Security.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We don’t agree on everything all the time—you may have noticed that in the conservative movement—but we reflect alternative options, and DHS is a good example of this,” said Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general who now is part of The Center for Renewing America. “<b>We start out with a recommendation which may surprise some of you, to get rid of the Department of Homeland Security.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cuccinelli said he didn’t want to bet on that:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We don’t mean get rid of the missions. We mean [make them] better managed from the national standpoint, how American security is protected. We go through agency by agency as well, including some of the things we think we should get rid of, like the<b> TSA [Transportation Security Administration]. There should be security, but government doesn’t need to run that.</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>
</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“The peaceful transition of power is an awesome responsibility.</b> I would have given my right arm to have the book on the tables out there,” Rick Dearborn, former deputy chief of staff for President Donald Trump and also executive director of Trump’s presidential transition team in late 2016 and early 2017.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dearborn, who was referring to copies of “<b>Mandate for Leadership 2025,</b>” is now a Heritage visiting fellow on the Presidential Transition Project.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Portrait of Fred Lucas</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">@FredLucasWH</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Lucas</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Lucas is also the author of "</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left's Assault on Clean Election</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s." Send an email to Fred.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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vertical-align: baseline;">Sep 13, 2022</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left's Assault on Clean Elections Paperback - September 13, 2022 by Fred V. 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</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Don’t know who to believe about election fraud, voter suppression, hysteria, and the dueling partisan narrative? Here are the facts.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In the tradition of Tammany Hall and the Jim Crow era, Democrats </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">are still bent on hastily bending and changing election laws to make it easier to wield power. Fred Lucas, a veteran Washington Correspondent, details how the <b>Biden-Pelosi agenda</b> is</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> attempting a federal takeover to wipe away states’ clean election laws such as voter ID and undermine confidence in elections.”</span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">–Mark Levin</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">, host of </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Life, Liberty & Levin; </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">#1</span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"> New York Times</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"> bestselling author<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">The Myth of Voter Suppression </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">exposes the widespread lies about US elections and the real threats to democracy. </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It investigates the big money that’s bankrolling the voter suppression hysteria industrial complex.</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When nearly half of the states adopted election integrity laws, such as voter ID and restrictions on ballot trafficking, the left inaccurately howled “Jim Crow 2.0.”</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> But voter turnout soared, cramping Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi’s goal of a federal election takeover that would more appropriately be called “Tammany Hall 2.0”</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">—only this time it would be national. When these bills were rejected, President Biden used executive power for an “all-of-government approach” deputizing federal agencies in a Get-out-the-Vote effort.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Voter fraud is still a problem, as proven by numerous convictions and overturned elections in recent years</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">. Voter suppression is a soundbite, void of provable cases in modern times. Clearly, election security is facing a threat in America. </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">The Myth of Voter Suppression</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"> sorts out the truth and lies that every informed voter needs to know.</span></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Editorial Reviews</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Review</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"In the tradition of Tammany Hall and the Jim Crow era, Democrats are still bent on hastily bending and changing election laws to make it easier to wield power. Fred Lucas, a veteran Washington correspondent, details how the Biden-Pelosi agenda is attempting a federal takeover to wipe away states' clean election laws such as voter ID and undermine confidence in elections." -<b>Mark Levin,</b> host of Life, Liberty & Levin, #1 New York Times bestselling author</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The left insists every election integrity measure such as voter ID is 'voter suppression' or worse, 'Jim Crow 2.0.' This book by journalist Fred Lucas not only shows why that's wrong, but it details the efforts by Biden, Pelosi, and other Democrats that would federalize and ultimately corrupt the election process." -</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, co-chair of the House Election Integrity Caucus</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Fred Lucas provides a battlespace assessment in the Voting Wars. This is a roadmap for anyone who wants to understand why the Left has poured billions of dollars into transforming our elections into something we wouldn't recognize a decade ago."<b> -J. Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>"This is the book Eric Swalwell doesn't want you to read</b>. Fred Lucas takes a clear-eyed look at the 2020 election, what states did right and what they did wrong. If the right people pay attention, maybe 2024 won't be a total mess." -</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Debra J. Saunders, syndicated columnist and fellow at the <b>Discovery Institute</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Fred Lucas cuts through the name-calling to zero in on both the documented problems in American elections and the effectiveness of recent solutions. Americans tend to agree on a commonsense approach to elections, and purveyors of commonsense will find Fred's book to be loaded easy-to-understand analysis andcriticallysolutions to help improve the cornerstone of our republic: our elections." -Ken<b> Cuccinelli, f</b>ormer Virginia Attorney General and former Acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Throughout the book, Lucas systematically documents the decrepit condition of many states' voter rolls, which are replete with ineligible, dead, and double voters. He tackles the politically charged issue of <b>ballot harvesting and trafficking</b>, in which individuals gather and submit other voters' ballots. ... Lucas pulls no punches, arguing that genuine voter suppression—and its cousin, voter fraud—date back to Aaron Burr, New York's Tammany Hall, and the origins of the Democratic Party." -<b> Hayden Ludwig, Capital Research Center</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"He examines the various bills introduced and occasionally passed by one house of the current Congress that would <b>essentially federalize control of elections</b> (Lucas sees that as a dangerous mistake). And he presents an in-depth study of all of the various groups behind the claims of "voter suppression" and who's funding them - including some of the biggest charitable foundations in America." - Glynn Young, Faith, Fiction, Friends.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The Myth of Voter Suppression exposes the imbalance between the voter suppression and voter fraud controversies. Although Lucas cites examples of voter suppression in our past, today, voter suppression is a myth. ... This is a well-researched book on a very important subject. I highly recommend it." - James Best, Tempest at Dawn.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Well researched, well documented, and a wealth of resources. ... The Myth of Voter Suppression is a great book for discussion groups, newscasters, political science students and candidates on both sides to read and discuss." - Fran Lewis, Just Reviews</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From the Back Cover</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"In the tradition of Tammany Hall and the Jim Crow era, Democrats are still bent on hastily bending and changing election laws to make it easier to wield power. Fred Lucas, a veteran Washington correspondent, details how the Biden-Pelosi agenda is attempting a federal takeover to wipe away states' clean election laws such as voter ID and undermine confidence in elections." -Mark Levin, host of Life, Liberty & Levin, #1 New York Times bestselling author</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The left insists every election integrity measure such as voter ID is 'voter suppression' or worse, 'Jim Crow 2.0.' This book by journalist Fred Lucas not only shows why that's wrong, but it details the efforts by Biden, Pelosi, and other Democrats that would federalize and ultimately corrupt the election process." -Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, co-chair of the House Election Integrity Caucus</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Fred Lucas provides a battlespace assessment in the Voting Wars. This is a roadmap for anyone who wants to understand why the Left has poured billions of dollars into transforming our elections into something we wouldn't recognize a decade ago." -J. Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"This is the book Eric Swalwell doesn't want you to read. Fred Lucas takes a clear-eyed look at the 2020 election, what states did right and what they did wrong. If the right people pay attention, maybe 2024 won't be a total mess." -Debra J. Saunders, syndicated columnist and fellow at the Discovery Institute</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Fred Lucas cuts through the name-calling to zero in on both the documented problems in American elections and the effectiveness of recent solutions. Americans tend to agree on a commonsense approach to elections, and purveyors of commonsense will find Fred's book to be loaded easy-to-understand analysis andcriticallysolutions to help improve the cornerstone of our republic: our elections." -Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia Attorney General and former Acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Product details</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Publisher : </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Bombardier Books (</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">September 13, 2022)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Language : English</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paperback : 248 pages</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ISBN-10 : 1637587856</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ISBN-13 : 978-1637587850</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Item Weight : 11.3 ounces</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.25 inches</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best Sellers Rank: #391,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#108 in U.S.Congresses, Senates & Legislative</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#156 in Public Affairs & Administration (Books)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Customer Reviews: 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 23 ratings</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Follow</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Lucas</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Lucas is the Manager of the Investigative Reporting Project at The Daily Signal. He is an </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">award-winning journalist</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">veteran White House correspondent </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who has written and reported for <b>Fox News, Newsweek, National Review, History Magazine Quarterly, The Washington Examiner, Newsmax, TheBlaze, Townhall, The Federalist, The National Interest, The American Spectator, The American Conservative, </b>and other outlets. Before going to Washington, he reported on state capitals in Kentucky and Connecticut. He earned his </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">MS at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and BA at Western Kentucky University. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Basia.</span></div></span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><ol class="react-results--main" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li data-layout="organic" class="wLL07_0Xnd1QZpzpfR4W" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><article id="r1-2" data-handled-by-react="true" data-testid="result" data-nrn="result" class="yQDlj3B5DI5YO8c8Ulio CpkrTDP54mqzpuCSn1Fa SKlplDuh9FjtDprgoMxk" style="margin: 0px; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div data-result="snippet" class="OgdwYG6KE2qthn9XQWFC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-snippet-main); font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="MILR5XIVy9h75WrLvKiq" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Sep 14, 2022</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">WASHINGTON — Fred Lucas, chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal, today released his latest book, " The Myth of Voter Suppression: The ...</span></font></div></div></article></li></ol></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/02/07/what-the-media-isnt-telling-you-about-jan-6/">https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/02/07/what-the-media-isnt-telling-you-about-jan-6/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LONG INTERVIEW CONSPIR J6 WACKO</font></div><div><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bluey: Yeah, it certainly seems like they are politicizing it to the extent that they can benefit in their own elected offices and pursuing an agenda that they want to do.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, the interviews you have done reveal what you just remarked on. This was a rather spontaneous event. It was a protest that started at the other end of the National Mall near the White House and proceeded to the U.S. Capitol. As you did these interviews and learned more about the day, what are some of the most revealing details that you want to share with our listeners?</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>So, first of all, Rob, the idea that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi and [D.C. Mayor] Muriel Bowser kept the Capitol intentionally insecure that day.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’ve spoken with a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">D.C. National Guardsman. They were stationed at the Armory at 6 a.m. that day. They were waiting there, about 1,200 of them, and they were not activated and deployed until 4 o’clock that day. Now, why? BC TRUMP WD NOT CALL, VP DID]</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">So why did they leave it intentionally unsecure? Why then, right before the session started, did you have two things happening at once? One, the</span><b> alleged discovery of the pipe bombs</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">—who, by the way, we still don’t know who the pipe bomber is. And then two, the first breach of the perimeter, the grounds, which happened when one man, after Ray Epps, famous Ray Epps, whispered in his ear,</span><b> he knocked down these bike racks and ran up.</b></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This happened about 10, 15 minutes before the joint session commenced. So you have all these interesting timelines.</b></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, the people who were at Trump’s speech were still there. Trump’s speech didn’t end until 1:15. By the time they walked to the Capitol, a lot of whoever the instigators [PROUD BOYS] were, the provocateurs, the undercover agents, the informants, the rattle rousers, they had already started a lot of the chaos that we saw. So people who were coming from Trump’s speech really didn’t know what was going on.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And as I say, repeatedly, Rob, the people who wanted the proceedings that day shut down were not Republicans, they were Democrats. They did not want the airing of all of the evidence of fraud, which would be two hours per state.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You had senators working with Republican House members to contest those results, ask for the 10-day audit and have two hours of debate over it. Democrats did not want that. It was the Democrats who wanted the proceedings that day shut down, not Republicans. And of course, they got what they wanted.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Yeah. Thank you for providing that important historical fact, and also that context. Let’s go back to that time period. So here we are, and you write about this in the book, four days after this highly contentious election, in which there were <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">millions of mail-in ballots and absentee ballots </span>yet to be officially counted, the news media declared Joe Biden the winner. I believe it was a Saturday—</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>Right.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: … afternoon when that happened. And immediately afterward, the Trump campaign began to raise some concern about some irregularities. Well, they were doing it even before that announcement was made. But then even in the weeks leading up to that, you had a number of members of Congress, House members and senators, who, as you said, wanted to have this 10-day audit. Why were Democrats so intent about plowing through and carrying out this, as you said, on Jan. 6?</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>Well, because they did not want any of the evidence of voter fraud to be exposed. And that’s why the media immediately announced Joe Biden the winner. You’re right, it was that Saturday, I think the 7th or 8th of November. Then they branded any inquiries about what happened in the election “The Big Lie,” which we still hear to this day.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But look, all you have to do is look at that<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; width: 100%;">Time magazine article</a> that was written in February of 2021. They admitted, not just as you’re saying, all the malfeasants with the mail-in ballots and people who were curing ballots when they shouldn’t have been, but just this whole orchestrated effort with Big Tech, national news media, business interests, everyone collaborating to take down Trump.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">what’s interesting is, they war-gamed out this whole thing under something called the Transition Integrity Project.</span> I write about it in my book. They used the word insurrection four times in that plan. So they were already planning that this was going to be their excuse for Trump. He was going to call in the military. He was going to initiate the insurrection.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So they already had so much of this pre-planned. And so, that’s how they really, effectively, shut down any congressional investigation into voter fraud. [LOST 62 CTCASES, SEVERAL STATE FRAUDITS] And then, of course, after Jan. 6, it was completely shut down.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: And of course, during this period of time, the American people, Trump supporters, or even maybe not <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump supporters, who were just upset about the way things were proceeding, decided to start gathering, </span>as you said, at these rallies, “Stop the Steal” rallies. And one of these [JUST HAPPENED TO TAKE PLACE, NOTHING TO DO W TRUMP] took place on Jan. 6. Bring us to that day and some of the things that you heard from people who came to Washington, D.C., never expecting what transpired at the U.S. Capitol. Why were they there?</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>That’s a great question. They were there, I think, most of them really thought something was going to happen in Congress that day, that they were going to pass this 10-day audit that the senators were asking for. Some of them, I think, believed <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[then-Vice President] Mike Pence actually would be able to do something. That, of course, he wasn’t going to do. And then said at 1 o’clock that day he was not going to do, which is fine.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But they also were there, I think, some of them sensed nothing was going to happen. This was kind of a way to see Donald Trump, listen to his speech, sort of say “thank you,” be with like-minded Americans, protest what they believed was a rigged election.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And so people say it was a great event, people who were at [it]. And there were hundreds of thousands of people there, there was great spirit, comradery. People were singing, they had flags, and then they went to the Capitol. And of course, it was all over after that.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Let me ask you specifically about that. Many media outlets incorrectly reported many of the details that happened on Jan. 6, including the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">circumstances of Officer Brian Sicknick’s death, which The New York Times and others had to famously correct their errors. What stands out to you as some of the most egregious falsehoods that the media put forward in the aftermath of that day?</span></font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly:</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> So, the Officer Sicknick story has to be at the top of that list. Because what happened, Rob, is </span><b>four Trump supporters died that day. Ashli Babbitt, killed by a police officer. Rosanne Boyland probably died because of what police officers were doing that day, and likely two other men.</b></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Because what was happening </span><b>is law enforcement and official officers were throwing flash bangs into the crowd, dosing people with tear gas, using rubber bullets against protesters<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></b><span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> These are people outside. They’re not even near the building. They just started attacking these people around 1:15, 1:30. So that led to a lot of the confrontations you see on cherry-picked video.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">What happened was, the night of Jan. 7, U.S. Capitol Police announced that Officer Brian Sicknick had been killed in the line of duty, that he had been killed by protesters, basically. The next day, Jan. 8, The New York Times posts a report, an account based on </span><b>two anonymous law enforcement officials, saying that Brian Sicknick had been bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by Trump supporters.</b></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, this story goes viral. Every major news organization picks it up. Democrat politicians pick it up. Even some Republican conservative outlets picked it up. No questioning about whether this was true or not.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">So this prompted all sorts of outrage, led to a lot of optics, like his procession through the Capitol. He was laid in state. His remains were laid in state in the Capitol Rotunda. He was eulogized by Nancy Pelosi and by [Sen.] Chuck Schumer. </span><b>His remains were taken to Arlington National Cemetery</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">. The whole idea was that Trump supporters were responsible for murdering a police officer.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Well, what happens after all that’s over? The New York Times quietly retracts their story, says, “We have no evidence that he was killed by anyone with a fire extinguisher.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">” But it was too late because they had gone for five weeks and had all the optics that they needed. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And it even made it into the House Democrats’ impeachment memo, that New York Times citation. And it’s still in there.</span></span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So one of my big questions is, if Jan. 6 was so bad, why do they have to lie about it? That’s just one of the big lies that they told.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Well, of course, the D.C. coroner comes out in April and says Brian Sicknick died at the age of 42 of natural causes, a very untimely, unfortunate death, but had nothing to do with what happened on Jan. 6.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Thank you for helping to clarify and expose this. As you and I both know, when something is out there for as long as that was, the impression is already made in so many people’s minds. And so they’re not going to see the retraction or the correction.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>Nope.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Let’s talk about the other tragic death that happened that day, and that’s <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Ashli Babbitt. </span>You mentioned her name. A lot of controversy surrounding that. She was unarmed at the time she was killed. What do you want our listeners to know about her death?</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly:<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That it was so unnecessary, that they covered up the name of the police officer who shot and killed her. They covered that up for months, including the news media.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Now, Rob, think about that. In any other situation, especially in a race—I mean, you had </span><b>a black police officer shoot a white woman.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> [GEO FL BLM?] Race had nothing you with it, but that’s not how the media works. So in any other situation, his name would’ve been released, they would’ve scoured his social media, known where he worked before, talked to his relatives. None of that happened. His name was concealed for months. He was then heralded as a hero.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She, in the meantime, was completely vilified by the news media as a QAnon supporter, that she sort of deserved what happened to her. Five-foot-two, a veteran, longtime veteran, tours of duty overseas, unarmed, and was trying to climb through a window.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Now, it looks like new video that came out is that she was trying to stop the man who’s smashing the window</span>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There’s some video that shows her punching him in the face to get him to stop. And there’s speculation that she was trying to get through that window because of the violence that was happening around her and trying to escape.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Yeah. Watching Tucker Carlson’s special and hearing from her mother and husband is just so sad and particularly how they treated her body after she had been shot as well.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly:</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> Right. And that’s why they want to conceal a lot of this video, Rob, which is the 1</span><b>4,000 hours of surveillance video that they’re keeping under wraps. T</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">hey don’t want the public to see how her body was handled by police officers, basically dragging her down these stairs face up, just so disrespectfully.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And so just the way she’s been treated in the media. And millions of Americans who feel the same way, that she deserved what was coming to her, and they think it’s unfortunate that more people weren’t shot that day.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rosanne Boyland is another woman who died that day. They mishandled her body, too</span>. She was dragged through that tunnel after police basically contributed to her death and hidden inside the rotunda near [Rep.] Steny Hoyer’s office by two Capitol Police officers until paramedics arrived and declared her dead. So there’s a lot still to uncover. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Jan. 6 committee has no interest in this, but I do think some of the evidence will come out in these trials.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Yes. Well, certainly. And our prayers go out to not only them, but their families who are still grieving.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You’ve talked about the police and you say, you write in the book that they were responsible for a lot of the violence that took place through some of their actions, which you have already mentioned in the interview. As you reported this, what did you discover about the police and the steps that they were taking that led some people to act the way they did?</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span><span style="font-weight: inherit;">I was shocked. I remember the first man, he’s still in the D.C. jail, he sent me a video that he had taken that </span><b>showed police throwing flash bangs into the crowd. </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">And I was shocked. Now, this was four months after I had started reporting it. I had never seen anything like this.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">So you see him saying, “Look at this, they’re throwing flash bangs into the crowd. They’re exploding in people’s faces.” And then they were throwing something called </span><b>sting balls,</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> which, when it hits the ground, deploys these rubber bullets. So you see people bleeding from these rubber bullets.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">And I thought, “Well, why were they doing this?” These people were basically outside on the grounds. T</span><b>hey had flags, they were singing. Then all of a sudden, D.C. and Capitol Police started attacking them.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> Again, I think that’s why there were not National Guardsmen there, because if you had had the thousand or so National Guardsmen, they would say, “Well, you can’t do this to people. Why are you provoking them?”</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So that’s why you see the crowd turn. They were very supportive, Back the Blue, Trump, whatever. And then you see them start screaming at police officers, and that is why.</span> In some instances they were tackling, they were punching protesters, spraying them directly in the face. Now, these aren’t even people trying to get into the building.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So this is why I write in my book that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the law enforcement officials there, D.C. Metro and Capitol Police, were the provocateurs that day</span>. And that is what I think their marching orders were, is to get the crowd riled up so you would see all of these brawls that we did see. And so, another reason why they want to keep the video under seal.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Sure. And naturally, if you put yourself, you or I put ourselves in that position, and we feel that we are being attacked—I mean, I can only imagine the natural human reaction to a situation like that.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly:</span> Right.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: You also talk about the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">FBI having informants at the Capitol </span>that day. This is one of the areas where I feel like we still are missing a lot of information. What can you tell us today about what we’ve learned so far?</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>We’ve learned that we need to learn a lot more.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: OK.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>Right? So we already know that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">informants were run into two of the militia groups, because it’s been confirmed in court filings and also The New York Times.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">We know that the FBI will not answer any questions about, say—[Attorney General]</span><b> Merrick Garland refused to answer [Rep.] Tom Massie’s question about who Ray Epps</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> was, said he didn’t know, which he probably does not know. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Merrick Garland is like Robert Mueller, right? He’s not running that department. Lisa Monaco is running it, his deputy, a former Obama top official.</span></span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But also it was interesting,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Jill Sanborn, who’s a top FBI official, when she was asked by [the] Senate Judiciary [Committee], “Were there any FBI informants or agents who either incited or engaged in violent behavior that day?”, she twice refused to answer that question.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So we need a lot more answers about how many FBI agents, not just were involved that day, but months beforehand, including the infiltration in these alleged militia groups.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why were there so many people photographed with the Proud Boys, but only about 20 of them have been arrested? Who were the rest of those men who were with that group during the first breach? We still don’t know.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> knowing how this FBI operates, looking at the Whitmer kidnapping caper, which was concocted solely by the FBI and executed by the FBI for political purposes, </span>the same FBI field office director who oversaw the Whitmer case was then promoted to the D.C. FBI field office right before Jan. 6. So there’s no coincidences when it comes to the FBI, and so we need to answer.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>So hopefully, when Republicans get the House, they are going to confront [FBI Director] Christopher Wray</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> with a lot of questions and demand a lot of answers, because the American people need to know. This FBI we know has been completely weaponized. It’s a law enforcement agency.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> It’s like Gestapo, basically, for the Democratic Party.</span> We deserve all the answers about what they did before and during Jan. 6.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: And the American people aren’t going to get it from the Jan. 6 committee, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nancy Pelosi’s handpicked group</span> that’s allegedly looking into to the events of that day.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Let’s fast forward. You also talk about the deplorable conditions in the jail where some, believe it or not, here a year, over a year later, some people are still being held. Who are th<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">e political prisoners</span> who are still in jail and what are the types of charges that they’re facing? [JAN20 THREW EGGS FROM FREE SP ZONE, KETTLED?]</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>That’s such a good question. So shockingly, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">we have a political prison in Washington, D.C. Right now, there are about three dozen men who have been detained there. This D.C. jail opened one year ago this week</span>. But a lot of men were incarcerated in other jails before they got to D.C., so over a year they’ve been behind bars.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Most of them face some sort of attacking, assaulting, or interfering with law enforcement, but there are also nonviolent offenders, including at the D.C. jail, members of the </span><b>Oath Keepers who are not accused of any violent crime, </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">a couple of others who face no violent charges. But nonetheless, [the Justice Department] continues to ask for their continued, indefinite incarceration, because some of them don’t even have trial dates yet.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">And the ones that had them, Rob, have now been pushed into the middle or end of this year, based on COVID, based on some chicanery by the DOJ, which</span><b> keeps adding superseding indictments,</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> they keep adding defendants, so this delays the cases for months.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You could have one man in particular who will be in jail for 18 months before his trial even starts at the end of May, no violent charges, he walked in peacefully, did nothing wrong. [NO NAME]He’s been dubbed a white supremacist. He’ll be in jail for 18 months.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> And you know what’s really upsetting about that case is the man who’s kept him behind bars is a Trump-appointed D.C. District Court judge, Trevor McFadden.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Wow.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>Yes. So, it’s all the judges.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Yeah, yeah. And as you said earlier, and just to repeat, no one has been charged with insurrection.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>That’s correct.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Yeah.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>We just got charges for seditious conspiracy. I guess that’s supposed to be close enough. But out of 730 defendants, now think about this, 730 people arrested by the FBI for Jan. 6, three times as many as have been arrested by the FBI for the 2020 riots that lasted months. So yes, these men will be in jail. Their trials are being delayed and they are political prisoners. They are being kept there because of their involvement in Jan. 6, and that’s the only reason why.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Paint a picture for our listeners of what it’s like … you use the word deplorable in the book, what are the conditions like that they’re currently facing in that jail?</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Well, in the D.C. jail for the first several months, they were</span><b> under solitary confinement conditions. Again, based on COVID.</b></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">They were separated from the general population, saying it was for their own protection because most of the people in the D.C. jail are convicted criminals and they wouldn’t be fans of Trump supporters, neither are the guards. And so, there have been</span><b> reports of physical assault, some very explicit strip searches</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> that actually required one man to be transferred out of there to another jail, racial slurs.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">The </span><b>only newspaper that’s distributed there is the Nation of Islam newspaper.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> T<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">hey are withholding discovery evidence that’s sent to the jail so they can’t even see their evidence against them. If they’re not vaccinated, they can’t meet in person with their defense attorney, which of course, constitutional violation</span>.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But I think it’s really the solitary confinement conditions, they’re back to 22 hours a day in their cell. Again, the premise is COVID, but they’re really just being tortured.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And again, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">not convicted of any crime … most of them have no criminal records. Some of them are veterans. So there’s no reason for them to not be released back home awaiting trials that the DOJ and judges keep delaying. They pose no threat to the community. They’re not a flight risk. And so they’re just keeping them there to torture them. AGAIN NO SPECIF NAMES]</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Thank you for helping to expose and reveal to not only our listeners, but to the world about what those conditions are, because if it weren’t for you and a few others, I don’t think we would truly know.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And you’ve spent so much of the past year dedicating your life to getting the truth about Jan. 6 to a bigger audience, and making sure that where others in the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">media or the Democrats i</span>n Congress have failed or ignore the opportunity to do so, you’re stepping in and filling that void. So we are thankful for that.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As you sit here today, what would you say if you had to pick one or two of the biggest issues that you want to get to the bottom of? What would those be?</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The No. 1 issue would definitely be the government’s involvement. So, FBI and other agencies, what they did to provoke that day.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">And also, I would want to get to the bottom of what these prosecutors are doing, what they’re showing the grand jury. We already know that they’ve </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">misled the grand jury </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">on two of the most prevalent misdemeanor charges</span>. So I really want to expose everything that’s happening at DOJ with these prosecutions, their correspondence with other political actors, but most importantly, I think what happened with the FBI.</span></font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And I do, before I forget, want to give a shoutout to—there was no structure in place either, Rob, to help any of these defendants. And so a woman of one of the detainees actually started what’s called the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Patriot Freedom Project, and it’s <a href="http://patriotfreedomproject.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; width: 100%;">patriotfreedomproject.com</a>. And she really single-handedly helped raise money. Dinesh D’Souza contributed $100,000 to it,</span> which really got it started, because no lawyers would step up and help these people.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So I do think the narrative is shifting quite a bit and we are seeing some lawyers and people step up to help them, but there was a huge vacuum there.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: You’re dedicating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of your <a href="https://amzn.to/3ooiTPa" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; width: 100%;">book</a> to that. We’ll make sure to link to it in the transcript and in the show notes.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>Thanks.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: So, looking back a year later and all of the work that still needs to be done, why are you still dedicated to doing this? I mean, I imagine you’ve come under personal attack from those on the left for seeking the truth. What motivates you to keep going and why should the American people still want these answers?</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>That’s such a good question. Because this is wrong, it should not be happening in America. You know, Rob, I talked to the wife of a detainee the other night and she’s like, “I never thought this would be happening in America.”</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It just should not be happening. The Democrats should not be using the weapons of war against American citizens and they are. And they’re escalating it. They’re doing it with the J6 committee, but they’re certainly doing it with this DOJ and FBI. It’s just wrong. And if we are going to keep our country protected from the enemies in our own country, which is the left and the Democratic Party, then we need to expose what they’re doing.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So I think I keep doing it because it’s right for the country, but also on behalf of all of these people whose lives are seriously being destroyed and really had no one to speak up for them. So that’s why.</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Thank you, Julie. Thank you for what you’re doing. Thank you for writing the book. Again, it’s called “<a href="https://amzn.to/3ooiTPa" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; width: 100%;">January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right.</a>” Thank you for visiting with The Daily Signal today.</font></span></p><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;">Kelly: </span>Thanks so much for having me, really appreciate it.</font></p><p style="font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.2px; float: none;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Julia Dandoy, a member of The Heritage Foundation’s <a href="https://www.heritage.org/young-leaders-program" style="font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; width: 100%;">Young Leaders Program</a>,</span> assisted with the questions for this interview.</font></span></p></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAILY SIEG HEIL</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/05/31/capitol-punishment-movie-tells-story-you-wont-hear-from-jan-6-committee/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.dailysignal.com/<b>2022/05/31/</b>capitol-punishment-movie-tells-story-you-wont-hear-from-jan-6-committee/</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rob BLUEY</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NO LNX TWT?<b> VID</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the month of June, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., plan to hold six public hearings on the events that took place on Jan. 6. Two of them are even scheduled during primetime TV in an effort by Democrats to maximize their attempt to frame what happened that day at the U.S. Capitol.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But there’s another side to the story that you won’t hear from the likes of Reps. Bennie Thompson, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, or other members of the House select committee. They determined long ago who to blame and what narrative to tell.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, thanks to a new documentary called “Capitol Punishment,” Americans are able to hear stories from the people who were there on Jan. 6—in their own words and the ordeals they’ve faced since that day.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joining me on “<b>The Daily Signal Podcast” are two people who made the movie, actor Nick Searcy and director Chris Burgard.</b> Listen to the full show or read a lightly edited transcript below.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rob Bluey: </b>Let’s start at the beginning. Let’s go back to that day on Jan. 6. What was your experience in Washington, D.C., like on that day?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Nick Searcy:</b> Part of the reason we wanted to make the movie is that Chris and I were both there and we were in different places. And our experience on that day was so different from what the media was showing us.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We saw people, hundreds of thousands of people, biggest crowd I’ve ever seen. And most of them were singing hymns and saying the Pledge of Allegiance and waving flags. And I saw people of all races, all creeds. <b>It was a very happy, joyful time, really.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And then as the day went on and after the speech was over, <b>I personally saw the police moving barricades and allowing people to go into the Capitol.</b> So the things that we saw on television, that it was a few hundred crazed, right-wing, Trump-supporting white supremacists, was not anything like what I saw when I was there.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chris Burgard: The difference in what we saw that day versus what was on the news was so dramatic that we just couldn’t just sit by and watch a day in history and the government be stolen.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>I had been in Central America during attempted regime change </b>previously, and my bells and whistles were going off, especially when Nick called me and said, “They just moved the barricades. They’re letting people in the Capitol.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I just said to my wife, I said, “Look—”. We were still marching down to the Capitol. Nick was ahead of us. I said to my wife, I said, “Look at all these peaceful images.<b> Look at this, over a million people here.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> And there’s no cameras</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. That leads me to believe that there’s going to be an orchestrated event at the end of this. And that’s the agendas that they want to run with.” EXCEPT EVERYONE CARRYING MOST USING ONE]</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And when Nick called just at that time and said, “Look, they’re moving the bike racks. They’re letting people in,” I looked to my wife and I said, “<b>I got bad deja vu. And I’m afraid someone’s going to die today.” And that’s exactly what it was.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It was just a day of orchestrated events that anybody that knew what they were looking for saw it. I mean, we saw people changing from Antifa black-block into MAGA clothes.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>These same people were trying to get us to attack the police, the Capitol Police. We said, “No.”</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And when we went to the FBI that was on the ground</span> and said, “Hey, you’ve got bad guys here trying to start violence and recruit others to violence. Do you want me to show you who they are?”, the FBI said, “No.” I’m like, “Do you want to take a report? My family can give you witness. I was there with my wife and my daughter,” and the FBI agents on the ground just said, “No, we’re OK. Thank you.” So, there was clearly a disconnect.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: One of the things that strikes me as I watch the film, and I think so many of the people who do will see this with their own eyes, are the many images and the videos that you have collected and compiled into this one powerful documentary. Share more about the types of people who you interacted with on that day.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Searcy: Like I said, most of the people there were very patriotic people, and people of all races and creeds, and they were not there to cause any violence.</b> And they had come to make their voices heard, that<b> they believed that there were things about the election that didn’t make sense. They wanted the certification to be paused for 10 days so that this could be investigated.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They weren’t there to disrupt any process that was going on in the Senate, which is what most of them have been charged with, is trying to disrupt an official proceeding. They wanted what was happening in the joint session of Congress to happen. [S<b>ens.] Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and other people were making the argument that this needs to be paused for 10 days.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There’s no reason for the people that came there to make that happen, for them to disrupt the proceeding, which made us begin to put together—when we were making the film—that the fact of the matter is the people that were trying to disrupt the proceeding or <b>the people that … instigated people to go into the Capitol Building were not people that supported Donald Trump. They were not people that wanted the proceedings to be stopped.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And what happened? As soon as the Capitol was breached and all the violence happened, they suspended the session of Congress and they went ahead and certified the election. We can’t have any more discussion. It’s too dangerous.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>So the people that went inside, a majority of them, I would say, at least a significant number of them, were not Trump supporters.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burgard: Yeah, it was pretty obvious. You saw this mass of possibly up to <b>2 million people headed to the Capitol. </b>And if you could have seen—and picture a huge herd of cattle, but this cattle was mostly, there was a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">lot of church groups there, families, two and three generations of folks. And then there was a lot of groups from a former communist country, people that had escaped communist countries.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>There were Chinese organizations on the ground. </b>There were Americans who were—nationals who were <b>Vietnamese</b> heritage. All these different groups saying how great America was and warning against China and warning against this country moving to socialism because they had escaped that and come to America.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There was just so many good <b>kids there with their parents.</b> [RECONN TOUR DEFENSE] And like Nick said earlier, they were praying, they were singing. And the people that you saw at the Trump rally, the people that you saw around the Washington Monument, the people that you were with marching to the Capitol Building is a completely different crowd than what we’ve been seeing over and over again in the attack videos.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Just for your audience alone, anybody that looks at a video of what happened at the Capitol, if the people had a mask on or if the mask was dropped below their chins, they were probably operatives. They were in there to capture this operation.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because we went through almost 2 million people waiting to go see Trump, seeing Trump and marching back, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and I think I saw maybe seven or eight people wearing masks. I mean, the Trump supporters just weren’t wearing them.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Searcy: No, because we Trump supporters are heartless. And remember, we want grandmas to die. We won’t wear our masks.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Nick, tell me about the various people that you feature in the movie. There are many stories that I think Americans probably have never heard of.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Searcy: Well, as the movie went on, we started talking to people who had their doors broken down by the FBI. And we interviewed a number of people, Derek Kinnison, Tony Martinez, man named Easton Cantwell,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Simone Gold, the America’s Frontline Doctors. </span><b>And all of these stories were pretty similar.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Six a.m., no phone call, no nothing. FBI shows up at their door. In Derek and Tony’s cases, they came with an overwhelming show of force,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> armored vehicles driving through their little suburban neighborhood, battering rams, flashbang grenades. </span>They treated these people as if they were drug cartel members or leaders or serial killers, and most of these people had never been arrested for anything in their lives.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And as they tell their stories in the movie, you start to realize, you start to ask yourself the question, what is the government doing? Why is the government treating these people this way?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Simone Gold even says so in the movie, somebody like her, who’s a public figure, no history of violence, they could have just called and said, “We’d like to speak to you,” but no, they come and they treat them like criminals. And they do that to send a message. They are doing this on purpose.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This like a terror tactic. They’re trying to instill fear in the citizenry, </span>that if you stand up to the government or if you stand up and say, “I believe that the election was stolen and shouldn’t have been certified,” then you were committing some vile act and the government is going to come down on you and treat you like this. And they’re trying to send a message to everybody: “Do not ever resist us again or this is what will happen to you.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And this is an ongoing terror campaign against these people. There’s still people in jail that have been there for over a year, most of whom are charged with misdemeanors, and the people in our movie are still going through their trials.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And this is judicial harassment. These people don’t have much of a chance. They are facing a D.C. jury. They have to have a D.C. attorney because of the rules in the District of Columbia and a D.C. judge.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">All of these are 96% Democrat, all of whom hate Trump, all of whom are biased against Trump supporters</span>.<b> So they go in with all these charges against them and they try to get these people to take a plea deal so that they don’t face 80 years in prison or something insane.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And most of the people in our movie never even went in the building.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The only two people that went in the building are two 74-year-old twin sister grandmothers who went into the building, asked the police if they could be there, they took a couple of pictures, they walked out, and three weeks later, the FBI’s banging on their door. This is a terror campaign against American citizens who disagreed with the Democrat Party.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Chris, let me ask a follow-up question to that. As you went through the process of identifying the people to feature in the film, what was it like talking to them, getting them to tell their stories? And some of them might be apprehensive to speak publicly about this given the circumstances that they currently face, as Nick said, awaiting their judgment.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Burgard: Never underestimate the power of fear to control people, </b>because there were more people than we put in the movie that didn’t go in the movie because they were so afraid.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We actually had to take one person out of the film who did not go into the Capitol. And he was former law enforcement. He was a retired police chief, and we thought he was going to be the strongest guy in the whole film. And over the course of our production, what happened to him and the continuing pressure that the government put on him, he backed out of the film.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So the folks that are still in the film, the biggest thing I can say about them is what good people they are and how brave they are. …</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A common thread we saw in this, like Nick was saying, <b>Tony Martinez and Derek Kinnison </b>never went into the building, but what did they have in common and what did some of the other people who were arrested have in common? <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They were leaders in putting together Trump caravans or helping their community, small business band together when [Black Lives Matter] was coming to protest in their communities or put together anti-mask rallies,</span> but they didn’t go inside the Capitol.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So then you have to ask yourself, “Well, what’s going on here? Are they really going after people they think broke the law? <b>Or is this a political purge</b>?” And that’s something we saw, like with Simone Gold.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>I mean, why did they arrest Simone Gold? Because she followed the crowd into the building when the police said it was OK,</b> or did they arrest her because she had previously stood on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court with a bunch of other Frontline Doctors and said, “This pandemic is a hoax. This pandemic is treatable.<b> If we use common sense in good medicine, no one has to die”</b>? That’s what we saw over and over.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: One of the most powerful parts of the movie, in my experience, wa<b>s hearing from Aaron Babbitt, the husband of Ashli Babbitt</b>, who tragically died on that day. Nick, [let’s] start with you, what was the experience like talking to Aaron and hearing his perspective on this?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Searcy: So, it was overwhelming. I mean, what the media has done to Ashli Babbitt after she was murdered is as much of a crime as her actual death.<b> They have vilified her as some sort of rabid Trump-supporting zealot. And in fact, nothing can be further from the truth.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Footage that we’ve found since the movie was released of what she was doing before she was killed was, she was telling the people to stop breaking the doors, stop trying to break in. She was talking to the police, saying, “We need more reinforcement up here.” She was actually up there trying to stop the violence rather than cause it, as she’s been portrayed.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And just to hear Aaron recount what it’s like to actually see your wife, your loved one, your partner in life, see her killed on television and be powerless to do anything, to reach her, to be there—I mean, it is heart-rending.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And one of the things we wanted to do with the movie is really humanize Ashli Babbitt and just let people know what she was really like, rather than the way the media has lied about he</b>r.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bluey: And Chris, what are some of the things that you would like our listeners to know about Ashli Babbitt that they might not hear elsewhere?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Burgard: Ashli Babbitt wasn’t only a 14-year military veteran, she was a law enforcement specialist. She had served her country on some very difficult situations in Iraq. She had been previously injured, seriously. She knew what was going on that day. She was there.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Not only, she went there as someone to support her president. She was very excited about the day. You’ll see in the film, she was streaming her thoughts as she was walking toward the Capitol</b>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But in that moment, the footage that we have of her that we’ve since found, you can<b> see she’s acting as a law enforcement professional, telling these young cops that I’m sure had much less experience than she did, she’s like, “You need backup in here. There’s a force of people coming. You need to get help now.”</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And there’s a guy named Zachary Alam. If you see the footage in the movie, this is the guy that’s trying to break the window. He’s leading the violence against the Capitol. He’s got a military helmet and he’s trying to crack the glass with the military helmet. He’s hitting it with everything he can.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In this other angle that we hav</span>e, you see Ashli Babbitt grab him. He jerks away from her. She grabs him again, and she throws a left hook into his face and actually knocks his glasses off. This is mere seconds before she gets shot.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As a law enforcement professional, I mean, Aaron thinks, and I agree with him, that due to her claustrophobia and due to the situation getting more and more out of hand, he thinks she actually might have gone through that window trying to escape or get to a better vantage point to try to stop the violence.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In any case, as a law enforcement professional, she knows the procedure for that you follow before use of deadly force, the use of deadly force continuum. She knew as a military law enforcement personnel what the Capitol Police training was, and they did not do their job.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>There was no vocal warning. There was no visible presence. There was no use of nonlethal force</b>. So the last thing that woman thought as she was going through that window was, “I’m going to get shot for doing this.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>You look at the footage of [Lt. Michael] Byrd and how he handled his weapon, that was not a professional.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: I want to ask you both about a couple of the families who are featured in the film. Let’s start with Tony Martinez. You’ve been able to pull some of the actual footage of the FBI raiding Tony’s home. You spoke to Tony and his teenage daughter. Nick, what was that like, hearing from this 13-year-old girl about the experience of having her home raided?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Searcy: It’s heartbreaking. I mean, they basically terrorized and traumatized [this] family. And by treating them, like I said, like they were hardened criminals. These are decent, hardworking Americans, church-going people, never been arrested for anything before. A man and his wife and three children, and they threatened to break down his door and then literally break the sliding glass door in the back.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And Tony and his daughter Isabelle were frantically trying to get them to pause long enough for them to control the family dog. And because the <b>dog was traumatized, of course, and they couldn’t control the dog, the dog ran away, was gone for a week.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And they pulled this 13-year-old girl out of the house and handcuffed her on the sidewalk</b>, and it’s nonsensical. You can’t explain why they would do this in any other way than they are intentionally trying to traumatize people. And it’s heartbreaking to hear them tell the story.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Nick, the other family that you interviewed was Derek Kinnison and his daughter, and you have footage from the Ring doorbell camera, essentially that you include in the film, and what’s Derek’s story?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Searcy: Derek and Tony were friends and they went there together. They felt called to go and they were there with first-aid gear. Basically, they had received some reports on the internet that there might be some Antifa presence there, and they wanted to be there to be present to help people.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are no weapons. They weren’t carrying anything except first-aid gear. And Derek was treated much the same way as Tony. And when you see the footage of the armored vehicles, it’s surreal. It looks like something in a crazy, futuristic movie, or something that you might see in the streets of Afghanistan.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It looks like a raid. A raid on a terrorist is what it looks like. They’ve got armored vehicles, battering rams, 20 SWAT team members. <b>Derek said, when he stepped out of his house, there were red dots all over his chest. He’s got his hands up. It’s surreal. It looks like a raid on a terrorist camp.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bluey: Chris, let me ask you this question, because we are just about to embark on the Jan. 6 committee set up by [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi, stacked with Democrats and a couple of Republicans who are Republican in name only</span>. And they are presenting a narrative that is quite different from what we’ve just heard you and Nick talk about. As Americans see coverage of these hearings, what are some of the things you want them to remember and think about in the context of the film that you’ve made?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burgard: I would like them to know that e<b>verything the J6 committee is pushing is a lie. Everything that they’re telling you is a lie.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the J6 community was, congressional committee was interested in the truth,<b> they would’ve subpoenaed somebody like Millie Weaver, who is an investigative journalist, who has a track record of infiltrating groups and providing information to the Capitol Police and to Secret Service</b>, and the FBI that has been used in actionable law enforcement actions to protect senators like Lindsey Graham and other VIP personnel.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Before this film, she had infiltrated a call that had not only far-left groups planning an event just like this that was carried out, but on that call were actually members of our own government.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, that footage is in the movie. Why don’t they subpoena her and bring her in so that she can show the evidence that she brought up that was never used? Why don’t they subpoena the foreign Isabelle, the 13-year-old girl that was dragged out of her bed and handcuffed? How about her 4- and 7-year-old brothers and sisters that are still completely<b> suffering from PTSD from being woken up with flashbangs and having their door smashed in?</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These are what I’d like America to see, is the whole story, the real story. They’re not getting that. They’re getting a false narrative.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Basically, you’re seeing one of the biggest <b>psy-ops</b> this country’s ever gone through. And the congressional committee in tandem with the fake news media is working hand and foot to bring this fiction and push it into the minds of the American people. I’d like to see the truth</span>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Will there be a point when Americans say, <b>“Enough is enough. We’ve watched ‘Capitol Punishment.’ We’ve read other sources. We’ve read Julie Kelly’s book.</b> We’re not standing for this anymore”? When will that moment come?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Searcy: I think that moment has to come when somebody in the Republican Party stands up for these victims. So far we haven’t had anybody, very few people. Maybe [Reps.] Marjorie Taylor Greene, Louie Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, maybe a few others have really tried to call attention to the fact that these people are not only being held in jail, in D.C. jails</b> for misdemeanor charges, for month after month after month with their trials continually pushed forward,[BY DEFENSE?] but also that the people who have been awaiting trial now for over 18 months or almost 18 months, they keep having their adjudications continued and everything because the government wants to bleed them out.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The government is trying to bleed these people of their resources and make them so desperate that they just accept a plea deal just to get it over with. And it is so criminal, so wrong what is happening to these people. We need someone, even if it’s President Trump himself, we need someone to stand up for these prisoners and these people that are being tortured. And until that happens, until the Jan. 6 committee is given all this legitimacy; treated, taken seriously—</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Jan. 6 committee is a clown show. It is a joke</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. It is there simply to draw this out so that they can try to use it for the narrative on the next election to say, “We’ve got to stop these evil white supremacists, these domestic terrorists,” blah, blah, blah.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There’s no truth in it whatsoever. And until our <b>side stands up </b>and forcefully calls it out, I don’t see it ending anytime soon. And if it actually does impact the election and it works for them, they’re never going to let it go.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Let me ask you this as we start to wrap-up here. Chris, I’ll begin with you. This was obviously a massive undertaking on your part and Nick, and so many of the other people who were involved in making “Capitol Punishment,” what was it that motivated you to devote the time to doing this?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burgard: My kids love for this country. Nick and I could not stand to sit and see this day in history stolen. Somebody had to tell the truth and that’s what we did. And this is now the most censored movie in America.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>There’s a reason why the Silicon Valley algorithms and the mainstream media have done everything they can to cover this film up,</b> because this film completely destroys the false Jan. 6 narrative. It completely destroys the agenda of the J6 commission. The Democrats are going to double down on J6. And it’s been working for them.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I mean, people on our side are so afraid to be branded as violent insurrectionist, they won’t look at the truth. This movie completely<b> destroys their agenda. </b>The Democrats are going to double down on this all the way through the 2020 elections. And with what I’ve seen, <b>them abuse the law to average citizens, I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to charge Trump with something else so that instead of running for a fair election in 2024, he’s fighting off some sort of indictments.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The abuse I’ve seen of our legal system in this film is incredible.<b> My dad went to the 109 Session, FBI Academy. My dad was law enforcement. He must be rolling over in his grave with the abuse of power that’s been going on legally here.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The truth is the only thing that will beat this. And if there’s a tipping point of truth, of enough people see with their own eyes what happened that day, everything falls apart. Big shifts, big things happen, big doors open on very small hinges.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And the hinge that makes everything fall apart is Jan. 6, because people can see with their own eyes what really happened that day. They can see with their own eyes what our government is doing to innocent Americans and to small children. And they will stand up and they will say, “This should not be happening in the United States America. This is Third World. This is what happened in the revolutions in <b>Venezuela, in Ukraine, in Egypt. It put the Muslim Brotherhood in power.</b> That same thing should not be happening in America, but it just did.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: Nick, I’ll give you the last word here. What was it about this day and your being involved there that led you to embark on a project like this, to tell the story of Jan. 6 from this perspective?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Searcy: Well, to be honest, I must say, at the beginning I was reluctant because I was scared. And so many of the people that we talk to, we interview a number of people in the movie, but there’s an equal number, if not more, that were afraid to speak to </b>us.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because when you see the way the government is treating these people, it makes you wonder, “Is it worth it?” But as we kind of got going, and Chris and I, “OK, we’re going to make this movie,” and we started talking to people as it went on, it became something that I knew I had to do. We had to finish this. We had to see it through. …</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I was appalled at my own government and I really never wanted to think this. I never wanted to think that this is what my government is like, but it is. And we have to expose it. We have to get the truth out there and people need to confront it.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’ve always said from the beginning, even if you disagree with us, please, would you just please watch this movie and tell me if you think this is the way Americans should be treated, no matter what side they’re on.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even if they were there protesting a Republican president, do you think this is correct? Do you think this is the way our government should operate? And a lot of the problem that we have is a lot of people on the left, they’re afraid to look at it. They don’t want to see the movie. They call it propaganda. They’re just afraid to look at something that might disturb their worldview.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But I really believe that if more people will confront the truth of what happened about Jan. 6 and see through the government’s lies, we’re all going to be better off for it. We can still save this country, but people have to confront the truth of what is actually happening right in front of their faces.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: And what’s the best way for our listeners to watch the film?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Searcy: Right now, there’s a number of places, but the best one right now is: Go to <b>givemelibertynow.org. … And you can also find it at capitolpunishmentthemovie.com. </b>Both those places, the movie’s available.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bluey: We will be sure to include links to those, both in the transcript of this interview and the notes for this podcast. As somebody who’s watched it myself, I’m certainly grateful that you’ve given us the time today to explain what motivated you to make the movie, and also why you are so passionate about telling those stories of the Americans who’ve suffered as a result.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Searcy: Thank you, Rob.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burgard: Thanks for having us on, Rob.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>"Climate change is certain to exacerbate existing, historically-codified disparities that track existing housing-related harms experienced by African Americans,” a report greenlit by California Gov. Gavin Newsom says. Pictured: Newsom speaks during a news conference with New Zealand's prime minister May 27, 2022, in San Francisco. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)</div><div>
</div><div>A report on alleged systemic racism released Wednesday and greenlit by California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for the planting of trees statewide “to create shade equity” and reduce “heat islands in black neighborhoods.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>The 500-page report was released after Newsom, a Democrat, signed legislation in 2020 forming a nine-member task force to “inform Californians about slavery and explore ways the state might provide reparations.” It describes tree demolishing in black neighborhoods for highway construction and says climate change makes these areas hotter.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Nationally, formerly redlined areas consistently show hotter temperatures than other areas,” the report states. “Therefore, climate change is certain to exacerbate existing, historically-codified disparities that track existing housing-related harms experienced by African Americans.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>The report is billed as the first of its kind by a state government to examine slavery and “the compounding harms that the United States and Californian governments have inflicted upon African Americans,” according to a press release. The California Reparations Task Force issued the document to the state Legislature, and a final report will then be issued prior to July 2023.</div><div>
</div><div>“In particular, <b>so-called [TTUMPISM, SO CALLED JUDGE] ‘heat islands,’</b> which will worsen due to climate change, exist where built-up urban areas have few trees, vegetation or parks that serve to dissipate or reflect heat, and instead have pavement and building materials that absorb and retain it,” the report also notes.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>While the report accurately notes that cities are indeed hotter due to “heat islands,”</b> it uses this fact to claim that black people are disproportionately impacted by heat, former Republican aide Marc Morano, who runs the website Climate Depot, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Adding tree cover to cities will <b>most likely [WEASEL?] have a negligible impact</b> on the urban heat of the cities,” said Morano. “These solutions appear to be nothing more than just ‘virtue signally’ racial grievance claims. These types of reports are generated to justify bureaucratic jobs and massive bloated budgets for ‘equity’ programs</span>.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Morano also said that the climate debate has “descended into cultural absurdity” and called the idea of “shade equity” the latest in a round of “racially charged climate claims and identity politics” in the left-leaning movement.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The report further claims “modern efforts to add green space” in black neighborhoods “involve racist narratives.” It argues that the city of Los Angeles intentionally limited tree growth in areas with more black people due to police officers expressing concern that trees “could serve as places to hide drugs or weapons.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>California’s Reparations Task Force did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.</div><div>
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</div><div>Washington Free Beacon</div><div>Book and Periodical Publishing</div></div></li></ul></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 22</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">off bs</font></div><div><p paraeid="{5d3f41f2-2c4d-4ba9-808e-ee09d8ea9bbf}{164}" paraid="1284343712" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="blank" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">Daily Signal</a>, Heritage’s news and commentary website, ended 2021 with large audience gains, registering a year-over-year increase of 66%, according to <a href="https://www.therighting.com/daily-signal-newsbusters-lead-conservative-websites-in-december-2021-traffic-gains" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="blank" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">Comscore data released by TheRighting</a>, a media tracking company. </font></p><p paraeid="{5d3f41f2-2c4d-4ba9-808e-ee09d8ea9bbf}{242}" paraid="1720460316" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among the top 20 conservative websites tracked by TheRighting, The Daily Signal had the largest year-over-year increase. The Daily Signal was one of only four conservative websites that grew its audience in December 2021 compared to December 2020. </font></p><p paraeid="{6459e2e9-8ad3-4018-a870-30d37a3a2ec2}{21}" paraid="1788964589" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The Daily Signal team has worked around the clock to bring our readers the most important underreported news,” said Katrina Trinko, editor-in-chief of The Daily Signal. “We are excited about our growth and can’t wait to see what we can do in 2022.” </font></p><p paraeid="{6459e2e9-8ad3-4018-a870-30d37a3a2ec2}{39}" paraid="264409896" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Under Trinko’s leadership, The Daily Signal expanded its focus on investigative reporting in 2021.</b> The Daily Signal’s team of reporters will build out this capability in 2022, working in conjunction with Heritage’s newly announced <a href="https://www.heritage.org/press/heritage-foundation-launches-conservative-oversight-project" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">Conservative Oversight Project</a>. </font></p><p paraeid="{6459e2e9-8ad3-4018-a870-30d37a3a2ec2}{82}" paraid="459273192" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Daily Signal’s work has been cited across other major media platforms, including Fox News, New York Times, Washington Examiner, and the Daily Wire. </font></span></p><p paraeid="{6459e2e9-8ad3-4018-a870-30d37a3a2ec2}{92}" paraid="1837568321" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“One reason The Daily Signal gained more audience than any other conservative website in December was due to the Dec. 13 publication of the commentary ‘<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/12/13/what-ive-learned-rescuing-my-daughter-from-her-transgender-fantasy/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="blank" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">What I’ve Learned Rescuing My Daughter From Her<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Transgender </span>Fantasy</a>.’ It was among The Daily Signal’s most popular stories of the year,”</b> reports TheRighting. <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />That commentary, written under the <b>pen name Charlie Jacobs, received over half a million views.</b> Other articles that performed well for The Daily Signal in 2021 included, “<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/07/my-woke-employees-tried-to-cancel-me-heres-how-i-fought-back-and-saved-my-nonprofit" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="blank" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">My Woke Employees Tried to Cancel Me. Here’s How I Fought Back</a>”, and “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/02/11-takeaways-from-faucis-emails-about-covid-19/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="blank" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">11 Takeaways From Fauci’s Emails About COVID-19</a>.” </span></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-signal/">https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-signal/</a> [lotta popup ads?]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read our profile on the USA government’s influence on media.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Funded by / Ownership</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Heritage Foundation owns the Daily Signal. The website does not have advertising and is completely funded through The Heritage Foundation, which has drawn criticism for right-leaning bias due to all funding coming from the right-leaning think tank.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Analysis / Bias</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In review, The Daily Signal reports on political news and policy with a right-leaning bias in both story selection and wording such as this: Osama Bin Laden Was Right. This article is critical of President Trump’s decision to leave Syria, arguing that pulling out will result in “at some point having to fight them again on U.S. soil.” In other words, the Daily Signal supports a more right-leaning interventionist Neoconservative military approach. In another article, the moderate use of loaded language in the headline negatively portrays the Mueller investigation: Mueller Investigation Stirring Up More Trouble Than Its Finding. This particular story is republished directly from the Tribune Content Agency. Other stories are republished from the factually Mixed Daily Caller. Original news stories such as this one are typically properly sourced through hyperlinking to credible media sources.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Editorially, The Daily Signal consistently casts doubt on the role of humans in climate change</b> with articles such as this: Climate Change Alarmism Is the World’s Leading Cause of Hot Gas. Further, all opinion pieces favor the right and denigrate the left. In general, story selection and editorials almost always favor the right, though, at times, The Daily Signal is critical of former President Donald Trump’s policies and actions.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Failed Fact Checks</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">None in the Last 5 years</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Overall, we rate the Daily Signal, Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that always favor the right. We also rate them Mostly Factual, rather than High, due to not aligning with the consensus of science regarding human-influenced climate change. (D. Van Zandt 7/19/2016)<b> Updated (03/24/2021</b>)</div></span></span></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">an 3 22</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Far-right MAGA Republicans admire Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine — and try to emulate it: report</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alex Henderson March 16, 2022</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The list of far-right MAGA Republicans who have vigorously defended and even praised Russian President Vladimir Putin is a long one, ranging from former President Donald Trump to “War Room” host Steve Bannon, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and QAnon supporter Lauren Witzke (the Delaware Republican who ran against Sen. Chris Coons in 2020). Bannon has praised Putin for not being “woke,” and Witzke recently said, “I identify more with Putin's Christian values than I do with Joe Biden.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To Kevin Baron, executive editor of Defense One, all of the Putin worship coming from MAGA Republicans speaks volumes about their view of the world. In an article published by Defense One on March 11, Baron warns that the way Putin runs Russia is the way the far right would like to run the United States — and he stresses that MAGA media functions a lot like government-operated pro-Putin media in Russia.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It’s hard to watch Russia's version of journalism and not think of the American far-right’s version of it,” Baron argues. “Indeed, the connections are both direct and philosophical — and of import to national security leaders. But there’s a deeper connection as well. America’s right-wing partisans wish they had what Putin has: control of the information and messages that flow to the body politic. That’s not an accusation; it is their goal.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[twt?]</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Baron, it's no coincidence that Carlson in the U.S. and government-operated media in Russia use the same talking points when discussing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In the past few months,” Baron explains, “we’ve seen just how closely related the two are: Putin’s propaganda and our own. Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, America’s far-right denied the looming threat as a wag-the-dog conspiracy concocted by deep-state Democrats and centrist Republicans, or tried to blame President Joe Biden. Russian propaganda outlets gleefully put those clips into heavy rotation. Two weeks into the invasion, far-right leaders continue to sow doubt on war reporting, claiming or implying there is an elite conspiracy to keep Americans uninformed, and often parroting Russian propagandists’ distortions and lies.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baron cites specific examples of far-right media outlets that conduct themselves like state-owned Russian media.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“While politicians come and go, the lasting damage is in the lingering popularity of Soviet-style agitprop propaganda from loyalist far-right media operations deliberately masquerading as journalism,” Baron observes. “These outlets —designed to look, sound, and feel like journalism — are de facto paid actors, directors, and scriptwriters of a carefully crafted fiction that would make the Kremlin proud. They call themselves reporters and operate in</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> pretend newsrooms like Steve Bannon’s Breitbart, Carlson’s Daily Caller, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and upstarts like One America News Network and Newsmax.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> They are different from older conservative magazines like the National Review and Weekly Standard, whose writers did not try to impersonate straight newsrooms — and, indeed, intermittently opposed Trump’s 2016 election.”</span></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Daily Signal</b> is an American news website founded in June 2014. The publication focuses on politics, culture, and under-reported stories. It is published by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Heritage Foundation</a>.</font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#Overview" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;"><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Overview</span></span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Overview">Overview</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i>The Daily Signal</i> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_publishing" title="Electronic publishing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">digital-only</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News" title="News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">news</a> publication created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American</a> conservative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">think tank</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Heritage Foundation</a> based in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington D.C.</a><sup id="cite_ref-Green_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Green-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Ballhaus-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Farhi-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> The publication reports on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American politics</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_policy" title="Public policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">public policy</a> issues, both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy" title="Foreign policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">foreign</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_policy" title="Domestic policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">domestic</a>, with a focus on unreported or under-reported news stories.<sup id="cite_ref-Green_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Green-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thompson_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Thompson-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chasmar_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Chasmar-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> The site relies on original <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigative_journalism" title="Investigative journalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">investigative reporting</a> and aims to be an unbiased news source.<sup id="cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Ballhaus-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Yu_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Yu-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> It was created as an attempt to remedy what the organization saw as a lack of original reporting on public policy issues from understaffed publications.<sup id="cite_ref-Green_1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Green-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><i>The Daily Signal</i> also includes an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_journalism" title="Opinion journalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">opinion section</a> geared toward <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials" title="Millennials" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Millennial</a> readers that features <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conservative</a> commentary, </b>but that is kept separate from the news section.<sup id="cite_ref-Green_1-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Green-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Ballhaus-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> Entertainment and sports stories that relate to politics are also published by the site.<sup id="cite_ref-Yu_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Yu-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The publication has a staff of 12 and uses freelance investigative reporters.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Ballhaus-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_3-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Farhi-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bhuiyan_7-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Bhuiyan-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><sup id="cite_ref-Green_1-4" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Green-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bhuiyan_7-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Bhuiyan-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor-in-chief" title="Editor-in-chief" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">editor-in-chief</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bluey" title="Robert Bluey" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Bluey</a>, former editor at <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Events" title="Human Events" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Human Events</a></i> and reporter for <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercast_News_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Cybercast News Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Cybercast News Service</a>.</b></span><sup id="cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-4" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Ballhaus-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_3-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Farhi-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Yu_6-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Yu-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Other key staff include Katrina Trinko, former <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Review</a></i> political reporter, who is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managing_editor" title="Managing editor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">managing editor</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Green_1-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Green-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Ballhaus-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hare_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Hare-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson" title="Sharyl Attkisson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sharyl Attkisson</a>, former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CBS News</a> reporter, who is a senior independent contributor.<sup id="cite_ref-Chasmar_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Chasmar-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><i>The Daily Signal</i> is funded entirely by The Heritage Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Ballhaus-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hare_8-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Hare-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> The publication's initial annual budget was US$1 million</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_3-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Farhi-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chasmar_5-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Chasmar-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Prior to starting <i>The Daily Signal</i>, The Heritage Foundation ran two other digital publications: <i>The Foundry</i>, a blog, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhall.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Townhall.com" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Townhall.com</a>, a news and opinion site.<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhall.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Townhall.com" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Townhall.com</a> was acquired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="Salem Communications" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Salem Communications</a> in 2005, </b>while <i>The Foundry</i> was phased out following the advent of <i>The Daily Signal</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chasmar_5-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Chasmar-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Byers_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Byers-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i>The Daily Signal</i> was announced by The Heritage Foundation in May 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-Green_1-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Green-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> Atlantic Media Strategies was hired to design the site specifically for mobile phones and tablets.<sup id="cite_ref-Green_1-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Green-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In its initial reception, the site's design and mission drew comparisons to <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Media" title="Vox Media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Vox</a></i> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiveThirtyEight" title="FiveThirtyEight" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">FiveThirtyEight</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Green_1-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Green-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a></sup> The announcement was also met with skepticism that the publication could be unbiased.<sup id="cite_ref-VandenDolder_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-VandenDolder-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[10]</a></sup> It was also criticized for not having advertisers</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Scocca_11-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Scocca-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Heritage Foundation responded to these criticisms with understanding that <i>The Daily Signal</i> would have to prove its ability to produce fair journalism. Kelly McBride, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynter_Institute" title="Poynter Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Poynter's</a> media ethicist, commented that <i>The Daily Signal</i> could never be credible for liberal readers, but could reach an undecided audience, so long as the publication removed political agenda and published quality work from trained journalists.<sup id="cite_ref-Hare_8-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Hare-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The site was officially launched in June 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_3-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Farhi-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> Debut stories included an exclusive report from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson" title="Sharyl Attkisson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sharyl Attkisson</a> about medical research on premature babies funded by the government,<sup id="cite_ref-Chasmar_5-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Chasmar-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> an interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kansas</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Kansas" title="Governor of Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Governor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback" title="Sam Brownback" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sam Brownback</a> about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">federal health care law's</a> effects on his state,<sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_3-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Farhi-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> and an account of a recent trip to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demilitarized_zone" title="Demilitarized zone" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">DMZ</a>from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_DeMint" title="Jim DeMint" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim DeMint</a>, the president of The Heritage Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhi_3-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Farhi-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In September 2014, Sharyl Attkisson's interview with former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Assistant_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Assistant Secretary of State" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Deputy Assistant Secretary of State</a> Raymond Maxwell was picked up by multiple outlets, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" title="Fox News Channel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fox News</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Berger_12-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Berger-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CBS</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Condon_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Condon-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate(magazine)" title="Slate (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Slate</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Weigel_14-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Weigel-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_News(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily News (New York)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Daily News</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Friedman_15-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_note-Friedman-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-Green-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Green_1-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Green_1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Green_1-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Green_1-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Green_1-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Green_1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Green_1-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Green_1-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Green_1-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Joshua Green (May 8, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-08/daily-signal-heritage-foundation-news-site-seeks-mainstream-impact" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"The Tea Party Gets Into the News Biz"</a>. <i>Businessweek</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">1 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Daily+Signal&rft.atitle=The+Tea+Party+Gets+Into+the+News+Biz&rft.au=Joshua+Green&rft.date=2014-05-08&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessweek.com%2Farticles%2F2014-05-08%2Fdaily-signal-heritage-foundation-news-site-seeks-mainstream-impact&rft.jtitle=Businessweek&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Ballhaus-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Ballhaus_2-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Rebecca Ballhaus (May 8, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/05/08/heritage-foundation-to-launch-news-site/" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Heritage Foundation Plans News Site"</a>. <i>The Wall Street Journal</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">1 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Daily+Signal&rft.atitle=Heritage+Foundation+Plans+News+Site&rft.au=Rebecca+Ballhaus&rft.date=2014-05-08&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.wsj.com%2Fwashwire%2F2014%2F05%2F08%2Fheritage-foundation-to-launch-news-site%2F&rft.jtitle=The+Wall+Street+Journal&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Farhi-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Farhi_3-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Farhi_3-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Farhi_3-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Farhi_3-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Farhi_3-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Farhi_3-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Farhi_3-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Paul Farhi (June 2, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/heritage-foundation-starts-online-site-to-cover-news-it-says-is-unreported-or-under-reported/2014/06/02/2a7631ce-ea76-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Heritage Foundation starts online site to cover news it says is unreported or under-reported"</a>. <i>The Washington Post</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved<span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">1 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Daily+Signal&rft.atitle=Heritage+Foundation+starts+online+site+to+cover+news+it+says+is+unreported+or+under-reported&rft.au=Paul+Farhi&rft.date=2014-06-02&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flifestyle%2Fstyle%2Fheritage-foundation-starts-online-site-to-cover-news-it-says-is-unreported-or-under-reported%2F2014%2F06%2F02%2F2a7631ce-ea76-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Thompson-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Thompson_4-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Catherine Thompson (May 8, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/heritage-foundation-to-launch-daily-signal-news-site" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Heritage Foundation To Launch 'Straight-Down-The-Middle' News Site"</a>. <i>Talking Points Memo</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">1 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Daily+Signal&rft.atitle=Heritage+Foundation+To+Launch+%27Straight-Down-The-Middle%27+News+Site&rft.au=Catherine+Thompson&rft.date=2014-05-08&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Flivewire%2Fheritage-foundation-to-launch-daily-signal-news-site&rft.jtitle=Talking+Points+Memo&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Chasmar-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Chasmar_5-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Chasmar_5-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Chasmar_5-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Chasmar_5-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Chasmar_5-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jessica Chasmar (June 3, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/3/sharyl-attkisson-joins-heritage-foundations-websit/" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Sharyl Attkisson joins new Heritage website The Daily Signal"</a>. <i>The Washington Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">1 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Daily+Signal&rft.atitle=Sharyl+Attkisson+joins+new+Heritage+website+The+Daily+Signal&rft.au=Jessica+Chasmar&rft.date=2014-06-03&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.com%2Fnews%2F2014%2Fjun%2F3%2Fsharyl-attkisson-joins-heritage-foundations-websit%2F&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Times&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Yu-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Yu_6-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Yu_6-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Yu_6-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Roger Yu (May 8, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/05/08/heritage-foundation-news-site/8846899/" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Heritage Foundation to launch online news site in June"</a>. <i>USA Today</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">1 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Daily+Signal&rft.atitle=Heritage+Foundation+to+launch+online+news+site+in+June&rft.au=Roger+Yu&rft.date=2014-05-08&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fmoney%2Fbusiness%2F2014%2F05%2F08%2Fheritage-foundation-news-site%2F8846899%2F&rft.jtitle=USA+Today&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Bhuiyan-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Bhuiyan_7-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Bhuiyan_7-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Johana Bhuiyan (May 8, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/05/8545036/heritage-foundation-launch-straight-down-middle-news-site" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Heritage Foundation to launch ‘straight-down-the-middle’ news site"</a>. <i>Capital New York</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">1 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Daily+Signal&rft.atitle=Heritage+Foundation+to+launch+%98straight-down-the-middle%99+news+site&rft.au=Johana+Bhuiyan&rft.date=2014-05-08&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.capitalnewyork.com%2Farticle%2Fmedia%2F2014%2F05%2F8545036%2Fheritage-foundation-launch-straight-down-middle-news-site&rft.jtitle=Capital+New+York&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Hare-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Hare_8-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Hare_8-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Hare_8-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Kristen Hare (May 8, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/251112/heritage-foundations-news-site-doesnt-have-ad-or-traffic-constraints/" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Heritage Foundation’s news site doesn’t have ad or traffic constraints"</a>. <i>Poynter</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">1 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Daily+Signal&rft.atitle=Heritage+Foundation%99s+news+site+doesn%99t+have+ad+or+traffic+constraints&rft.au=Kristen+Hare&rft.date=2014-05-08&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poynter.org%2Fnews%2Fmediawire%2F251112%2Fheritage-foundations-news-site-doesnt-have-ad-or-traffic-constraints%2F&rft.jtitle=Poynter&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Byers-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-Byers_9-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dylan Byers (May 7, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/05/heritage-foundation-to-launch-news-service-188148.html" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Heritage Foundation to launch news service"</a>. <i>Politico</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">1 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Daily+Signal&rft.atitle=Heritage+Foundation+to+launch+news+service&rft.au=Dylan+Byers&rft.date=2014-05-07&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fblogs%2Fmedia%2F2014%2F05%2Fheritage-foundation-to-launch-news-service-188148.html&rft.jtitle=Politico&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-VandenDolder-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Signal#cite_ref-VandenDolder_10-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Tess VandenDolder (May 8, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2014/05/08/tea-party-heritage-foundation-launches-news-site-the-daily-signal/" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Move Over, FOX: The Tea Party Launches Its Own News Site"</a>. <i>InTheCapital</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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background: none;">CBS News</a>. She had also substituted as anchor for the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Evening_News" title="CBS Evening News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CBS Evening News</a></i>. She resigned from CBS News on March 10, 2014 after 21 years with the network. She hosts the weekly Sunday public affairs program <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Measure_with_Sharyl_Attkisson" class="mw-redirect" title="Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson</a></i>, which airs on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_stations" class="mw-redirect" title="Television stations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">television stations</a> operated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group" title="Sinclair Broadcast Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sinclair Broadcast Group</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> Her book <i>Stonewalled</i> reached number 5 on <i>New York Times</i> best seller list in November 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_Best_Stonewalled_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-NYT_Best_Stonewalled-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#Early_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;"><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life</span></span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Career</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#1990s" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">1990s</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#2000s" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2000s</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#2010s" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2010s</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#Report_of_Attkisson.27s_computer_being_hacked" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Report of Attkisson's computer being hacked</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life">Early life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sharyl_Attkisson&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Attkisson was born in 1961 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasota,Florida" title="Sarasota, Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sarasota, Florida</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CBSNews_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-CBSNews-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> Her step-father is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopedic_surgeon" class="mw-redirect" title="Orthopedic surgeon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">orthopedic surgeon</a> and her brother is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_room" class="mw-redirect" title="Emergency room" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">emergency room</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician" title="Physician" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">physician</a>. Attkisson graduated from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida" title="University of Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Florida</a> with a degree in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_journalism" title="Broadcast journalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">broadcast journalism</a> in 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-keynote_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-keynote-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sharyl_Attkisson&action=edit§ion=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Attkisson began her broadcast journalism career in 1982, aged 22, as a reporter at WUFT-TV, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS" title="PBS" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">PBS</a> station in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainesville,Florida" title="Gainesville, Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gainesville, Florida</a>. She later worked as an anchor and reporter at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTVX-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WTVX-TV" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">WTVX-TV</a> Fort Pierce/West Palm Beach, Florida from 1982–85, WBNS-TV, the CBS affiliate in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,Ohio" title="Columbus, Ohio" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Columbus, Ohio</a> from 1985–86, and WTVT Tampa, Florida (1986–90).<sup id="cite_ref-Full_Biography_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Full_Biography-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="1990s">1990s</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">From 1990–93, Attkisson was an anchor for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CNN</a>, and also served as a key anchor for CBS space exploration coverage in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> Attkisson left CNN in 1993,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>moving to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CBS</a>, where she anchored the television news broadcast <i>CBS News Up to the Minute</i> and became an investigative correspondent based in Washington D.C.<sup id="cite_ref-Full_Biography_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Full_Biography-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She served on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida" title="University of Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Florida</a>'s Journalism College Advisory Board (1993–97) and was its chair in 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-Full_Biography_6-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Full_Biography-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> The university gave her an Outstanding Achievement Award in 1997. From 1997 to 2003, Attkisson simultaneously hosted <i>CBS News Up to the Minute</i> and the PBS Health news magazine <i>HealthWeek</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2000s">2000s</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sharyl_Attkisson&action=edit§ion=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2000s" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Attkisson received an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigative_Reporters_and_Editors" title="Investigative Reporters and Editors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Investigative Reporters and Editors</a> (I.R.E.) Finalist award for <i>Dangerous Drugs</i> in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-profile_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-profile-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> In 2001, Attkisson received an Investigative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award" title="Emmy Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Emmy Award</a> nomination for <i>Firestone Tire Fiasco</i> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Academy_of_Television_Arts_and_Sciences" title="National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2001_Emmy_Nomination_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-2001_Emmy_Nomination-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2002, she co-authored a college textbook, <i>Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News</i>; later that same year she won an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award" title="Emmy Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Emmy Award</a> for her Investigative Journalism about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross" title="American Red Cross" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Red Cross</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Full_Biography_6-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Full_Biography-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> The award was presented in New York City on September 10, 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> Attkisson was part of the CBS News team that received RTNDA-Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2005 for Overall Excellence.<sup id="cite_ref-profile_10-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-profile-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2006, Attkisson served as Capitol Hill correspondent for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CBS</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> as one of a small number of female anchors covering the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,2006" title="United States elections, 2006" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2006 midterms</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> Attkisson was part of the CBS News team that received RTNDA-Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2008 for Overall Excellence.<sup id="cite_ref-profile_10-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-profile-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2008, Attkisson said that a claim by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> to have dodged sniper fire in Bosnia was unfounded: Clinton's trip to Bosnia was risky, she said, but no real bullets were dodged.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> In 2009, she won an Investigative Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting for her exclusive reports on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program" title="Troubled Asset Relief Program" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Troubled Asset Relief Program</a>(TARP) and the bank bailout.<sup id="cite_ref-profile_10-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-profile-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> The award was presented on December 7 at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordham_University" title="Fordham University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fordham University</a>'s Lincoln Center Campus in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2010s">2010s</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sharyl_Attkisson&action=edit§ion=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2010s" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Attkisson returned to the University of Florida as a keynote speaker at the College of Journalism and Communications in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-keynote_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-keynote-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> That same year, she received an<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award" title="Emmy Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Emmy Award</a> nomination for her investigations into members of Congress, and she also received a 2010 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award" title="Emmy Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Emmy Award</a> nomination for her investigation into waste of tax dollars.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> In July 2011, Attkisson was nominated for an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award" title="Emmy Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Emmy Award</a> for her <i>Follow the Money</i> investigations into Congressional travel to the Copenhagen climate summit, and problems with aid to Haiti earthquake victims.<sup id="cite_ref-profile_10-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-profile-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2011, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Offit" title="Paul Offit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paul Offit</a> criticized Attkisson's reporting on vaccines in his book <i>Deadly Choices</i> as "damning by association" and lacking sufficient evidence.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> Attkisson has been identified in the medical literature as problematically using rhetorical tactics that "imply that because there is no conclusive answer to certain problems, vaccines remain a plausible culprit."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2012, CBS News accepted an Investigative Reporting Award given to Attkisson's reporting on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal" title="ATF gunwalking scandal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ATF's <i>Fast and Furious</i> gunwalker controversy</a>. The award was from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media" title="Accuracy in Media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Accuracy in Media</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-profit organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">non-profit</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_media" title="News media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">news media</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchdog_journalism" title="Watchdog journalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">watchdog</a> group, and was presented at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Conservative Political Action Conference</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[21]</a></sup></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June 2012, Attkisson's investigative reporting for the <i>Gunwalker</i> story also won the CBS Evening News the Radio and Television News Directors Association's National Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Video Investigative Reporting. The award was presented October 8, 2012 in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup> In July 2012, Attkisson's <i>Gunwalker: <b>Fast and Furious</b></i><b> </b>reporting received an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award" title="Emmy Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Emmy Award</a> nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On March 10, 2014, Attkisson resigned from CBS News.<sup id="cite_ref-Macneal-resignation_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Macneal-resignation-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[24]</a></sup> She stated that the parting was "amicable".<sup id="cite_ref-Byers-resignation_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Byers-resignation-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[25]</a></sup> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico" title="Politico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Politico</a></i> reported that according to sources within CBS there had been tensions leading to "months of hard-fought negotiations" – that Attkisson had been frustrated over what she perceived to be the network's liberal bias and lack of dedication to investigative reporting, as well as issues she had with the network’s corporate partners, while some<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (December 2015)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> within the network saw her reporting as agenda-driven and doubted her impartiality.<sup id="cite_ref-Byers-resignation_25-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Byers-resignation-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[25]</a></sup></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Later that year came the release of her <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">New York Times</a></i> Best Seller, <i>Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington</i> (Harpers),<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_Best_Stonewalled_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-NYT_Best_Stonewalled-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a></sup> in which she accused CBS of running <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertorial" title="Advertorial" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">advertorials</a> and of protecting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama" title="Presidency of Barack Obama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Obama administration</a> by not giving enough coverage to such stories as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack" title="2012 Benghazi attack" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2012 Benghazi attack</a> and slow initial enrollments under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Obamacare</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[26]</a></sup></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In February 2015, Attkisson gave a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEDx" class="mw-redirect" title="TEDx" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">TEDx</a> talk at the University of Nevada. In the talk, she said that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing" title="Astroturfing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">astroturfing</a> was swaying public opinion, legislation and media outlets.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Tedx_2015_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Tedx_2015-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Tedx_2015-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">27]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 22.4px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Report_of_Attkisson.27s_computer_being_hacked">Report of Attkisson's computer being hacked</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sharyl_Attkisson&action=edit§ion=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Report of Attkisson's computer being hacked" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In May 2013, while still employed at CBS, Attkisson alleged that her personal and work computers had been "compromised" for more than two years.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CBS News</a>stated that it had investigated her work computer and found evidence of multiple unauthorized accesses by a third party in late 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Department of Justice</a>denied any involvement.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup> In her 2014 book, she alleged that her personal computer was hacked with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging" title="Keystroke logging" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">keystroke logging</a> spyware, enabling an intruder to read all her e-mail messages and gain access to the passwords for her financial accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup> In October 2014, just before the publication of her book, Attkisson released a video that she said corroborated her allegations of having her computer hacked.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In late January 2015, Attkisson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup> during a confirmation hearing for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Lynch" title="Loretta Lynch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Loretta Lynch</a>, President Obama's nominee to replace outgoing Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder" title="Eric Holder" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Eric Holder</a>. Attkisson's testimony concentrated on the Justice Department under Holder and was not related to Lynch's qualifications.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (November 2015)">by whom?</span></a></i>]</sup> As part of her appearance in front of that committee, a report by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) was released<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup> stating that "their investigation was not able to substantiate... allegations that Attkisson's computers were subject to remote intrusions by the FBI, other government personnel, or otherwise" and the deletion seen in Attkinsson's video “appeared to be caused by the backspace key being stuck, rather than a remote intrusion".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Media_Matters_Backspace_36-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Media_Matters_Backspace-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup> "CBS News told the OIG that they did not conduct any analysis on her personal computer."<sup id="cite_ref-Media_Matters_Blog_38-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Media_Matters_Blog-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In February 2015, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Examiner" title="The Washington Examiner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Washington Examiner</a></i> clarified that the OIG did not examine Attkisson's compromised CBS News computer,<sup id="cite_ref-Media_Matters_Blog_38-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-Media_Matters_Blog-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup> the OIG only inspected Attkisson's personal devices.<sup id="cite_ref-suspect_computer_not_examined_by_OIG_39-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-suspect_computer_not_examined_by_OIG-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In March 2015, Attkisson and her family filed a suit against Holder, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_R.Donahoe" title="Patrick R. Donahoe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Patrick R. Donahoe</a> and unnamed agents of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Department_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="US Department of Justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">US Department of Justice</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Postal_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="US Postal Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">US Postal Service</a>and the United States in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_Court_of_the_District_of_Columbia" title="Superior Court of the District of Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Superior Court of the District of Columbia</a> claiming to have been subject to illegal surveillance activities.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyl_Attkisson#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Editor’s note: The U.S. just took a new, major step to leaving the Paris Agreement, a climate change deal between several countries. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, “Today the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Per the terms of the Agreement, the United States submitted formal notification of its withdrawal to the United Nations. The withdrawal will take effect one year from delivery of the notification.”... President [Donald] Trump made the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement because of the unfair economic burden imposed on American workers, businesses, and taxpayers by U.S. pledges made under the agreement. The United States has reduced all types of emissions, even as we grow our economy and ensure our citizens’ access to affordable energy. Our results speak for themselves: U.S. emissions of criteria air pollutants that impact human health and the environment declined by 74% between 1970 and 2018. U.S. net greenhouse gas emissions dropped 13% from 2005-2017, even as our economy grew over 19 percent.</font><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s a version of <a href="https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/commentary/democrats-want-rejoin-the-paris-accord-lets-recall-why-it-was-such-bad" target="blank" title="Democrats Want to Rejoin the Paris Accord. Let’s Recall Why It Was Such a Bad Deal." style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">a previously published article</a> from Heritage Foundation researcher Nick Loris on why the Paris Agreement wouldn’t significantly affect the climate–but would cost America jobs and would hurt some families’ incomes. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump is right to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. While the climate is indeed changing and human activity is playing a role, the chances of looming climate catastrophe are <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2018/11/24/is-rcp8-5-an-impossible-scenario/" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">simply unrealistic and not grounded in reality</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But even granting such a looming catastrophe, the Paris Agreement itself would <a href="http://www.aei.org/publication/the-climate-empire-strikes-out-the-perils-of-policy-analysis-in-an-echo-chamber/" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">do little to alter the climate</a>. To have any impact whatsoever on climate, the entire world would either have to quickly change the way it consumes energy or simply remain undeveloped. Both options are devoid of reality.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While many countries are rapidly expanding their use of renewable power, forecasts indicate that coal, oil, and natural gas will continue to provide the overwhelming majority of the world’s energy needs well into the future. For developing countries, the highest priorities are to reduce energy poverty and improve living standards.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those who are clamoring for action on climate change are the ones who should actually be most upset with what a sham the Paris agreement is. It’s been celebrated as a breakthrough achievement of the world’s developed and developing countries coming together, but it is anything but that.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>>>></i><a href="https://www.heritage.org/environment/heritage-explains/the-right-way-ensure-cleaner-environment" target="blank" title="The Right Way to Ensure a Cleaner Environment" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">The Right Way to Ensure a Cleaner Environment</a></font></strong></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With no enforcement mechanisms in place and no repercussions for failing to meet emissions reduction targets, countries are essentially free to do whatever they want, meaning they will continue on their business-as-usual trajectory without making any changes. China, for instance, can peak its emissions in 2030 even though projections have their peak emissions falling before that year.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">India, for its part, has pledged to reduce its emissions levels, or cuts its ratio of carbon emissions to gross domestic product. That ratio may well go down so long as carbon emissions rise at a slower rate than GDP, but carbon emissions will keep rising all the same. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Actually, India committed to emissions reductions that are less than what the country would achieve if it continues on the same track it is currently on today. In other words, it set the bar so low that it can continue along its businesses-as-usual trajectory of emissions intensity and come out looking like a climate hero.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Manhattan Institute’s Oren Cass <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/well-never-have-paris-15231.html" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">wrote</a>, “It’s easy to slim down to 180 pounds, if you weigh 175 to begin with.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pakistan was more honest than most about its emissions prospects, stating <a href="https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/report/after-paris-next-steps-the-trump-administrations-international-climate" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">bluntly</a>, “Given the future economic growth and associated growth in the energy sector, the peaking of emissions in Pakistan is expected to take place much beyond the year 2030. An exponential increase of [greenhouse gas] emissions for many decades is likely to occur before any decrease in emissions can be expected.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Global compliance with the Paris Agreement has been nothing short of abysmal. In fact, most nations will soon <a href="https://www.energydigital.com/sustainability/most-nations-are-not-track-meeting-paris-climate-agreement-deadlines" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">fail to meet</a> the deadlines they agreed to.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The original hope that each nation’s contribution might somehow push other countries to “do more” is not playing out. This deal was a hodgepodge of arbitrarily defined commitments with no enforcement mechanism. It was <a href="https://www.nature.com/news/price-carbon-i-will-if-you-will-1.18538" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">doomed from the start</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following through with the Obama administration’s commitments would impose clear economic harm on the U.S. by driving energy prices higher—and that’s just a small part of the overall cost. Americans would pay more for food, health care, education, clothes, and every other good and service that requires energy.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These higher costs would be spread across the entire economy and would shrink overall economic growth and employment. Heritage Foundation analysts <a href="https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/consequences-paris-protocol-devastating-economic-costs-essentially-zero" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">estimated</a> that the regulations required to meet the Obama administration’s commitments would impose the following costs by 2035:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.77778;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; list-style: outside disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An overall loss of nearly 400,000 jobs, half of which would be in manufacturing.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; list-style: outside disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A average total income loss of more than $20,000 for a family of four</b>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; list-style: outside disc;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An aggregate GDP loss of over $2.5 trillion.</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other countries would continue getting a free pass under the agreement, but if the U.S. signed back on, one can be sure that environmental activist lawsuits would make sure the U.S. kept its obligations. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To make matters worse, the climate regulations encompassing the U.S. target may not even achieve the desired results and would require additional regulations. And that would just be the beginning. The Paris Agreement requires ever-increasing targets as time goes on, which would further increase the cost of compliance. These efforts would return us to the same costly and ineffective policies that the current administration is unwinding.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congress should instead advance pragmatic policies that will actually drive innovation in energy and environmental protection.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.77778;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/05/staying-in-paris-agreement-would-have-cost-families-20k/" target="_blank" data-external="yes" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This piece originally appeared in The Daily Signal</font></a></span></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>How a Former Cheney Aide Nearly Killed the Christmas Tree Industry</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The National Christmas Tree Board was supposed to protect American tree growers, until one man intervened.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Muira McCammon DECEMBER 13, 2016 </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RITUALS WEEK</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">126</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Christmas tree. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Christmas tree. JOHNNY LAI/CC BY 2.0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Back in the early 2000s, the Christmas tree industry was in distress. Artificial tree imports kept rising, threatening the livelihoods of domestic tree farms. The situation spiraled so out of control that in 2004, the National Christmas Tree Association launched a free online video game called “Attack of the Mutant Artificial Christmas Tree.” The game invited players to throw snowballs at artificial trees, which were branded as “100% Fake” and “Made in China” and blamed for “sucking the spirit out of Christmas.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Christmas tree growers were worried that their competitors in the artificial tree industry would quash them. Profit margins were shrinking. The soul of Saint Nick was on the line. Other agricultural producers in the United States—almonds, cotton, honey, watermelons, peanuts, raspberries, and other farm-grown products—have had similar moments, when competition, unpopularity, or lack of public understanding threatened to derail the industry.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Screenshot of the now defunct “Attack of the Mutant Artificial Christmas Tree” via the Wayback Machine. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Screenshot of the now defunct “Attack of the Mutant Artificial Christmas Tree” via the Wayback Machine. WAYBACK MACHINE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leaders in these troubled industries had taken advantage of a provision in the Commodity Promotion, Research and Information Act of 1996 to fund research and to launch advertising campaigns to repopularize and retell the story of their products. This is how America got the “Got Milk?” campaign. It’s why there’s such a thing as the National Honey Board, the American Lamb Board, and U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council. These checkoff programs use a combination of research and ads to try to bolster and distinguish their products.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Faced with the perception that potatoes are bad for the diet, for instance, the National Potato Board might put together a potato nutrition handbook. The Mushroom Council might stump for National Mushroom Month to burnish the reputation of the widely-derided fungus. These initiatives may seem funny, but they’re driven by people, who are trying to grapple with serious concerns in their respective industries. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Christmas Tree Promotion Board wasn’t supposed to be much different. It was supposed to shine a light on the beauty of real Christmas trees, and bring tree growers together once and for all. It was supposed to fund focus groups to answer big questions, to figure out who wanted to buy real Christmas trees in the 21st century, to appeal to new demographics. It was supposed to let Christmas tree growers launch their own campaigns, to put up “Got Christmas?” advertisements if they wanted.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Enjoying This Story?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Get our latest, delivered straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The process seemed straightforward: for every Christmas tree sold, a small deduction of $0.15 from each grower’s proceeds would go into a fund that would support the Board’s work. But it wasn’t so simple. The Christmas Tree Promotion Board had a powerful enemy, and thanks to him, the American Christmas tree would have to wait a full four years for its heroes to convene.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Artificial trees on sale at Macy's.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Artificial trees on sale at Macy’s. RICH MITCHELL/CC BY 2.0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In photographs, rosy-cheeked, grey-bearded David Addington almost looks like Santa Claus. Don’t be fooled: from the perspective of Christmas tree growers, he’s more of an Anti-Claus. Addington will go down in U.S. history as the man who dumped some serious coal on the farm grown Christmas tree industry in America. This is the man who almost killed the Christmas Tree Promotion Board.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From 2005 to 2009, Addington had served as the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. He wielded so much power in the Bush Administration that many took to referring to him as “Cheney’s Cheney.” Richard L. Shiffrin, the Pentagon’s former deputy counsel for intelligence, called Addington “an unopposable force.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2011, Christmas tree farm growers were on the verge of getting what they wanted. That’s when Addington made his move. On November 8, 2011, he published “Obama Couldn’t Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax” on the Daily Signal. Addington wrote: “Nobody is saying President Obama doesn’t have authority to impose his new Christmas Tree Tax — his Administration cites the Commodity Promotion, Research and Information Act of 1996. Just because the Obama Administration has the legal power to impose its Christmas Tree Tax doesn’t mean it should do so.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then, he put a star on his own proverbial tree: “And, by the way, the American Christmas tree has a great image that doesn’t need any help from the government.” </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Addington with Dick Cheney in the White House, 2008. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Addington with Dick Cheney in the White House, 2008. NATIONAL ARCHIVES 18542200</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The blog quickly amassed over 3,000 comments—many from frustrated Christmas tree farmers, who disagreed adamantly with Addington. They wanted to set the record straight about the threats to the Christmas tree industry. One commenter wrote in to clarify that the fee was something that the growers had been wanting since 1991. He added, “The majority of tree growers are Republican. It is not a tax and has been done for other agricultural products thru the years. This is a comical spin.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The entire purpose of the Commodity Promotion, Research and Information Act of 1996 was to give people like the tree growers a chance to promote the commodity they were selling and protect it against competing markets, like the artificial tree industry. As one online commenter put it to Addington, “[It’s] simple business logic, you should be able to understand that.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nevertheless, the White House immediately postponed appointing board members to the Christmas Tree Promotion Board. No one in the U.S. government, especially President Obama, wanted to be labeled a tree-taxing humbug. In strategic terms, the delay made sense. Few people stepped up to try to explain the nuances of how checkoff programs worked, to clarify that the Christmas Tree Promotion Board embodied the very core concept of “for the people, by the people.” </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes, the Promotion Board was for Christmas tree growers, by the Christmas tree growers, but the technicalities didn’t matter anymore. No one wanted to get on Fox News and recite thorny, polysyllabic clauses of legislation to prove that President Obama and his administration were actually on the side of the trees. The damage was done. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Christmas tree farm.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Christmas tree farm. CAROL FERNANDEZ/CC BY-ND 2.0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So Christmas tree growers had to wait four more years for their gift to come. And in 2015, they got what they wanted: a group convened to try to save their industry from a slow and painful death.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tim O’Connor, the executive director of the Christmas Tree Promotion Board, reflected on the damper Anti-Claus Addington had put on the industry: “This program should have been implemented in 2011. It didn’t happen until 2015, because of that whole fiasco of presidential politics. The growers who work so hard on this program are so frustrated by that, because they didn’t want to get involved in presidential politics. They wanted to promote Christmas trees. They lost years and years of opportunities, and still are dealing with the hangover from that.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Bates, a professor of horticulture at Penn State University, lamented: “It probably would have been approved much sooner, but for David Addington’s article. Once that piece created the (misguided) illusion that the Obama administration was ‘taxing Christmas’ the issue became a political hot potato and USDA delayed the process until later.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now that the Christmas Tree Promotion Board is in session, maybe Christmas tree growers in the United States can finally follow their star</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div>