Donald Trump holds rally in Savannah, GA

Former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance are both making trips to Georgia this week. Trump spoke about taxes and manufacturing during his campaign stop in Savannah. Among the ideas Trump pitched is offering foreign access to federal land. He teased the plan earlier this month when he proposed a cut in the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15%, but only for companies that produce in the U.S.

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The leftist media has continued its fear-mongering rhetoric about Donald Trump even after two assassination attempts against the former president. Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker joins to discuss and provides updates on the first assassination attempt. Plus, senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy J. Michael Waller joins to break down the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in America and Tim Walz’s involvement. Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford joins to break down Kamala Harris’ and Donald Trump’s 2024 events as well as D.C.’s reaction to his interview with Representative Andy Harris. Could a new California law weaponize artificial intelligence and outlaw parody? BlazeTV Host James Poulos joins to discuss. Finally, Springfield resident Bill Monaghan joins to explain how the Haitian immigrant crisis has impacted his town.

White House Releases Gun Violence Prevention Office ‘Progress Report’

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The White House has issued a report on the activities of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention.

The Biden-Harris administration has released a 13-page progress report on the Office of Gun Violence Prevention’s (OGVP) first-year accomplishments, emphasizing “executive actions to combat gun violence” and how the White House has been helping state lawmakers push new gun control measures.

“The White House Office of Gun Violence released the Safer States Agenda, a playbook of 14 legislative actions that states can pursue to prevent gun violence and save lives,” the report states. “Since December 2023, at least 31 states have introduced new legislation to address gun violence. At least 17 states have enacted new legislation, including a safe storage law in California, a gun dealer accountability law in Washington, a victims compensation law in Maryland, a ghost gun ban in Vermont, a background check expansion in Maine, and a permit to purchase law in Delaware.”

Now, with Kamala Harris running hard to replace Joe Biden in 2025, it appears gun control is back in the spotlight, especially after she acknowledged being a gun owner while almost in the same breath saying the nation needs to ban so-called “assault weapons.”

As noted by Scripps News Service, the creation of the White House gun control office was “a landmark moment for President Joe Biden, for whom the issue of gun violence has been a decades-long focus.”

True enough, as Biden has been a gun control proponent since his early days on Capitol Hill a half-century ago.

Scripps quoted Stefanie Feldman, director of the OGVP, stating, “President Biden and Vice President Harris are committed to continuing their long legacy of leadership on this work.”

In a statement from the White House, it was acknowledged the Biden-Harris OGVP has “encouraged other states and cities to establish their own offices of violence prevention to coordinate their work to reduce gun violence, and partnered with existing offices of violence prevention to share best practices.”

The statement revealed that Maryland, Pennsylvania and Maine have established their own offices of violence prevention, and in May, the White House “convened over 80 leaders from city and local offices of violence prevention in over 50 cities across the country to share common challenges their offices face.”

What it means in simple terms is that the Biden-Harris administration has spread its gun control tentacles to the states.

The Scripps report quoted data from the Gun Violence Archive indicating mass shootings have declined by 20 percent this year over the same period in 2023. A report in the Nebraska Examiner said the school shooting in Georgia “marked the 30th mass killing in the United States this year, defined as an attack in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator, are killed.” This is based on a database maintained by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, the Examiner detailed.

Expect more anti-gun news to crop up, including the oft-repeated claim that guns kill more children than traffic wrecks. Even NYU News recently reported that “gun violence remains the leading cause of death among children and teenagers.” Is that really accurate?

Back in early February, the Washington Post’s reliable fact checker Glenn Kessler took on this claim, and while not issuing any “Pinocchio’s” to the people making the argument, he did explain how including people aged 18 and 19 into the mix, and excluding infants under the age of one year can skew the data. Here’s what he wrote at the time:

“By including 18- and 19-year-olds, excluding infants under age 1 and comparing firearm deaths with only vehicle crashes, Johns Hopkins reports that in 2021, there were 4,733 firearm deaths of “children and teens” compared with 4,048 deaths from motor vehicle crashes.

“But by counting only children 17 and under, including infants under the age of 1, and comparing with all motor vehicle deaths, the CDC data shows that in 2021, there were 2,590 firearm deaths of children, compared with 2,687 motor vehicle deaths.

“Excluding infants under 1 from the data narrows the gap to a near tie — 2,580 deaths from motor vehicles compared with 2,571 from firearms. If one focuses just on vehicle crashes, as Johns Hopkins does, then starting in 2020, firearm deaths exceeded motor vehicle deaths of children ages 1 to 17.”

Harris will no doubt push the claim that the OGVP, which she ostensibly oversees, has made great strides in reducing gun-related violence. Whether it is an accurate claim could be open to argument, but what is a certainty is that gun control, as predicted months ago, is going to be an issue as the nation rushes toward the November elections.


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Biden’s Unwillingness to Combat Gang Violence is a Deadly Disgrace

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Four heavily armed gangsters formed a skirmish line of sorts outside of a nightclub in Birmingham, Alabama’s popular entertainment district known as Five Points South Saturday night around 11 p.m., and then sprayed a large crowd with their illegally converted fully automatic 9mm handguns.

Four people were killed and 17 were wounded – at least four critically. Police later found more than 100 shell casings on the blood-drenched sidewalk.

Investigators determined it was a “targeted hit.” The shooters were after a specific person. The 20 innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire were not even a consideration. The gangsters, who police say were likely paid for the assassination, have not been caught.

This is not Birmingham’s only brush with extreme gang violence. In July, four people were shot and murdered and 10 were wounded in a shooting outside another nightclub. In February, four people were murdered while standing outside of a library.

Officials have offered a $100,000 reward for information about Saturday night’s shooting. Alabama lawmakers even sponsored a bill that would outlaw conversion switches, which turn a legal semi-automatic pistol into a machinegun, even though the switches are already heavily regulated under federal law – possession is punishable by up to 10 years in federal prison.

One frustrated Birmingham Police officer told CNN the killings “have more to do with culture than they do criminality. We’re seeing far too many arguments being settled by bullets.”

Biden’s nonresponse

The Biden-Harris administration weaponized the ATF soon after taking office, but rather than siccing ATF agents on inner city gang members who are responsible for the majority of the shootings and murders in the country, the ATF was ordered to target law-abiding gun dealers and gun owners instead, most often for simple clerical errors or some minor violation of ATF’s everchanging rules.

Joe Biden has issued more than 40 anti-gun executive orders since becoming president, but not a single one does anything to yank guns from the hands of criminal street gang members.

The ATF claims it’s a participant in Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federal program designed “to reduce gun violence and other violent crime, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.” However, most of the ATF’s investigations occur after-the-fact, after local law enforcement officers who are not afraid to confront armed gangsters make an arrest and discover an illegal conversion switch or some other violation of federal law.

To be clear, most of ATF’s highly touted arrests take place within the comfy confines of their field offices, not on the streets where it matters – where they should be deployed. After all, possession of stolen firearms, conversion switches and possession by a convicted felon are federal crimes and ATF’s responsibility.

Not Crips or Bloods

Rather than attacking gang violence head-on, the Biden-Harris administration cannot even say gang violence. They talk about groups of youths or at-risk teens. They demonize the gangsters’ tools but never the gangsters themselves. To do otherwise would be racist, they mistakenly believe. However, forcing law-abiding residents of the cities impacted by gang violence to live trapped in their homes by crime is about as racist as it can get. This type of attitude is mimicked by the corporate media, who ignore the problem because they don’t want to offend anyone by citing an arrestee’s race or gang affiliation.

Today’s gangsters are not the Bloods and Crips or Folk and People law enforcement encountered during the 1980s and 1990s. While a few still claim some type of traditional gang affiliation, most are drug crews who are drawn together solely to make money rather than out of allegiance to a specific gang.

These crews are primarily armed with handguns, not the “assault weapons” the Biden-Harris administration would have you believe. They acquire their illegal handguns the old-fashioned way – either by stealing them or buying them from other criminals. The gangsters aren’t purchasing them at local gun shops, so cracking down on local gun dealers is a waste of resources, which would be better spent cracking down on actual gang members.

Add weak-willed, George Soros-funded prosecutors to mix – who are responsible for the catch-and-release seen in most major cities – and a revolving door of criminals and skyrocketing crime rates follow.

Why this matters

Gang violence impacts all of us. During prohibition, it led to the National Firearms Act of 1934 and its inane $200 stamps.

Gang interdiction is not rocket science, but it requires the type of leadership we have not seen at the federal level for quite some time. There are strategies that have proven effective, including RICO Act prosecutions, sentence enhancements for documented gang membership and mandatory minimums, such as Florida’s 10-20-Life law.

Every so-called gang expert will say we can never arrest our way out of the problem, which is partially true. Gangs are a community problem, and any solution must involve the community. However, before they can marshal community resources – such as families, educators and clergy – the killings must stop or at least slow down. This is where the federal government with its nearly unlimited resources could play a significant role, if gang interdiction ever becomes a federal priority.

Nowadays, while the Biden-Harris administration does not recognize gangs or gangsters, they’re quick to cite their bloody handiwork as one of the reasons for their constant infringements of our civil rights. In other words, the Biden-Harris administration uses gang violence as an excuse to crack down on legal gun ownership by law-abiding Americans.

This has happened before.

“To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the law abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless.” Lysander Spooner said that, an American abolitionist and essayist. Spooner died in 1887, but his words still ring true.

The next administration must target gang violence. It must become a federal law enforcement priority. It’s time to stop ignoring the killings.

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About Lee Williams

Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.

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Trump Will Officially Return To Butler, Pa. On October 5, Where First Assassination Attempt Took Place

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring former U.S. President Donald Trump, killing one audience member and injuring another in the shooting. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring former U.S. President Donald Trump, killing one audience member and injuring another in the shooting. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Abril Elfi
4:49 PM – Wednesday, September 25, 2024

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-will-officially-return-to-butler-pa-on-october-5-where-first-assassination-attempt-took-place/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

Former President Donald Trump is set to hold an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the same location where the first assassination attempt on his life took place. 

In a news release on Wednesday, the Trump campaign announced the return of the GOP nominee to Butler. 

“President Donald J. Trump will return to Butler, Pennsylvania, to hold a rally on the very same ground where he came within a quarter of an inch of losing his life less than three months ago,” the campaign announced. 

He is set to speak at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds on October 5th

On Wednesday, during a rally in Mint Hill, North Carolina, Trump told his crowd of fans and supporters that he would return to the venue to “finish our speech.” 

“As you know, there have been two assassination attempts on my life that we know of… and the first case in Butler, Pennsylvania, great place, and we’re going back to Butler,” Trump said. “We’re going to go back and finish our speech.”

Trump’s campaign said that the former president would also be paying tribute to the victims of the assassination attempt during the rally. A 50-year-old firefighter, Corey Comperatore, “historically sacrificed his life to shield his wife and daughters” from the barrage of bullets shot by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was taken out by Secret Service counter snipers.

Trump will also give recognition to David Dutch and James Copenhaver, the other two Americans who were injured during the incident.

“He will express his deep gratitude to law enforcement and first responders, and thank the entire community for their outpouring of love and support in the wake of the attack,” the campaign said.

Trump’s campaign said that his return to the location is a “tribute to the American spirit.”

“In America, we do not let monsters like that evil assassin have the last word. Every time our nation is struck by attack or hardship, we rally, we persevere, and we prevail,” the campaign said in a statement. “When terrorists knocked down our towering skyscrapers, we rebuilt taller. When our communities are ravaged by fire, storm, or natural disaster, we pull together and come back stronger.”

“And when a shooter attacked our democracy and tried to end this movement, President Trump will return to the site, joined by tens of thousands of proud citizens, and together, they will celebrate a unifying vision for America’s future in an event like the world has never seen before,” it continued.

After the former president suffered two assassination attempts in the last nine weeks—one at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, and the other in Butler, Pennsylvania— his campaign declared that he is “more determined than ever.”

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N.Y.C. Mayor Eric Adams Indicted On Federal Criminal Charges

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 30: Mayor Eric Adams holds an in-person media availability along with members of his staff at City Hall on July 30, 2024 in New York City. NYC Comptroller Brad Lander announced he will also challenge Adams in the 2025 primary, joining former Comptroller Scott Stringer and State Senator Zellnor Myrie. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Mayor Eric Adams holds an in-person media availability along with members of his staff at City Hall on July 30, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Abril Elfi
6:48 PM – Wednesday, September 25, 2024

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on federal criminal charges. 

On Wednesday, Adams (D-N.Y.) was indicted, making him the first mayor in New York to be charged while in office. 

Due to the indictment being sealed, it is unclear what the charge or charges Adams is set to face.

According to reports, the indictment comes following an investigation on whether Adams conspired with the Turkish government to funnel illegal foreign donations into his coffers in exchange for pressing the Fire Department to approve a new, high-rise Turkish consulate in Midtown despite safety concerns.

There are multiple ongoing federal investigations into Adams and people affiliated with him and his administration.

The indictment comes after Adams’ police commissioner, his schools chancellor and his health commissioner all step down from their positions. 

On September 5th, FBI agents raided the homes of two of Adams’ top aides, First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks.  

New York City Hall chief counsel Lisa Zornberg also resigned from her position following the resignation of former NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban after the raids. 

Adams had once called himself the “the future of the Democratic Party” and the “Biden of Brooklyn.” However, the mayor’s chances of winning a second term as well as serving out the remainder of his term are in jeopardy.

According to reports, calls for the mayor’s resignation are expected. However, he has insisted that he will not resign. 

“I always knew that If I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target — and a target I became,” Mr. Adams, 64, said in a statement Wednesday night. “If I am charged, I am innocent and I will fight this with every ounce of my strength and spirit.”

Jumaane Williams, the public advocate for New York City, would take over as acting mayor in the event that Adams resigned.

After emerging victorious in a special election in 2019, Williams, a left-leaning Democrat from Brooklyn, worked as a public advocate. After winning a full term reelection in 2021, he made an unsuccessful bid for governor the following year.

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GLENN BECK: U.N. JUST APPROVED the framework for a One World Government

The United Nations kicked off its 2024 General Assembly by approving a group of game-changing proposals that are practically the framework for a One World Government. Glenn’s co-author for “The Great Reset,” “Dark Future,” and his upcoming book, “Propaganda Wars,” Justin Haskins, joins to break down what this “Pact for the Future” will mean for America, especially right before the 2024 election. While the final versions of the proposals were slightly less terrifying than the originals, plenty of draconian agreements were still approved that would give the UN a terrifying level of power over member nations — and the Biden/Harris administration is fully on board. Haskins explains the 3 main proposals, including one that aims to give the UN power over the development of artificial intelligence and the “fact checking” of “disinformation.”