What Happens Inside the White House on Inauguration Day

Ever wonder what happens inside the White House on Inauguration Day? We will examine how the Presidential administration transfers the White House from one President to the next. With a literal army of White House staff, these people have the seemingly impossible task of packing up an entire 20,000-square-foot mansion in a matter of hours two times over. This video will examine the behind-the-scenes action that makes sense of this highly choreographed, organized chaos. Don't miss this behind-the-scenes look at the inauguration of the President of the United States!

Trump Names Attorney Will Scharf As Assistant To The President, White House Staff Secretary

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 06: Will Scharf, Attorney for Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a press conference at Trump Tower on September 06, 2024 in New York City. Trump held a press conference hours after attending a federal appeals court attempting to get a new trial after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll. A nine-member jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages following a two-week trial last year and another jury awarded her $83.3 million in damages after finding Trump defamed her again in 2022. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Will Scharf, Attorney for Republican presidential nominee, President-elect Donald Trump, speaks during a press conference at Trump Tower on September 06, 2024 in New York City. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Abril Elfi
3:56 PM – Saturday, November 16, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that William Owen Scharf, a member of his legal team, will take on the role of White House Staff Secretary in the forthcoming administration.

On Saturday, Trump released a statement announcing that Scharf will serve as Assistant to the President and White House Staff Secretary.

“I am pleased to announce that William Owen Scharf will serve as Assistant to the President and White House Staff Secretary,” Trump’s statement read. “Will is a highly skilled attorney who will be a crucial part of my White House team.”

“Scharf has played a key role in defeating the Election Interference and Lawfare waged against me, including by winning the Historic Immunity Decision in the Supreme Court,” he said. “Will is going to make us proud as we Make America Great Again.”

Scharf, a Princeton University graduate with a law degree from Harvard University, clerked for two federal appeals court judges and served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in St. Louis.

In addition to his prosecutorial experience, Scharf worked for Missouri Governor Eric Greitens (R-Mo.) and was employed by CRC Advisors, a conservative public relations firm.

Scharf recently ran for Missouri Attorney General but lost in the Republican primary to Andrew Bailey (R-Mo.), who went on to defeat Elad Gross (D-Mo.) in the general election earlier this month.

President-elect Trump announced Scharf’s appointment shortly before naming Chris Wright as his pick for Secretary of Energy.

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Secret Service Seals Up White House Campus, Vice President’s house, & Treasury with riot fences today as election nears.

Fences are going up around the White House and the Vice President's house this weekend, along with more buildings in DC being secured from possible election violence.

New fences up at Treasury and the Vice President's house due to election violence fears.

Anti-scale riot fencing is being installed at the Vice President's residence tonight, and earlier today we saw spiked fences around the Treasury Building next to the White House. The election is just 72 hours away.

White House Releases Gun Violence Prevention Office ‘Progress Report’

SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2024/09/white-house-releases-gun-violence-prevention-office-progress-report; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
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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Trump’s Plane Forced Into Emergency Landing As First Responders Lock Down White House!

In this explosive segment of RAW FEED, host Gary Franchi dives deep into the latest political bombshells. We start with breaking news of President Trump's plane making an emergency landing in Montana due to mechanical issues, raising concerns about potential foul play. Simultaneously, reports emerged of a mysterious lockdown at the White House, leaving viewers on the edge of their seats.

You Won't Believe What We Found in Kamala's Crowd Photos

Secret Service Corruption and Incompetence is No Secret, Consorting with criminals, ignoring White House shooters, and failing to stop an attempted assassination.

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/secret-service-corruption-and-incompetence-is-no-secret; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

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The Secret Service is coming under fire for the ease with which Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to get within 150 meters of Donald Trump, a distance U.S. Army recruits must hit human-sized targets to qualify with the M-16 rifle. Former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker also called out the Secret Service for poor communication and failing to get Trump out of the danger zone in rapid fashion. Those troubled by the attempted assassination should know that Secret Service incompetence and corruption are not new developments.

“The U.S. Secret Service has suspended four agents linked to two men accused of impersonating federal law enforcement officers who authorities said gave gifts worth thousands of dollars to agency personnel including one assigned to protect President Joe Biden’s wife,” explains an April 7, 2022 U.S. News story headlined “Four U.S. Secret Service Agents Suspended Over Ties to Phony Cops,” a reference to “Washington men” Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 35.

According to the FBI, “Taherzadeh offered to purchase a $2,000 assault rifle for a Secret Service agent assigned to protect first lady Jill Biden and told other government officials they could have access to what he claimed were official government vehicles.” Ali told witnesses that he has “connections to the Pakistani intelligence service ISI.”

According to prosecutors, “the pair had posed as special agents since at least February 2020 and offered a variety of gifts to Secret Service members and at least one Department of Homeland Security employee including rent-free apartments valued at $40,000 a year, iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat-screen television, a case for storing an assault rifle, a generator and other law enforcement paraphernalia.” The FBI found “a loaded Glock pistol, ammunition, components from disassembled guns and sniper equipment” along with “body armor, gas masks, zip ties, handcuffs, firearm storage cases, a drone, Department of Homeland Security patches and law enforcement clothing, DHS training manuals, surveillance equipment and a binder with a list of residents in the apartment complex.”

According to the Justice Department, “Ali and Taherzadeh ingratiated themselves with employees of the U.S. Secret Service because it provided them with cover and aided in their scheme.” The pair also tried to recruit at least one person to join what they claimed as an official DHS “task force.” The pair required that the recruit “be shot with an Airsoft rifle to evaluate their pain tolerance and reaction.” Prosecutors called Taherzadeh and Ali “a serious threat to the community” and “a potential risk to national security.”

Last August, Haider Ali was sentenced to 68 months in federal prison for his role in a “fraud conspiracy.”  Last December Arian Taherzadeh was sentenced to 33 months in prison for pretending to be a federal law enforcement officer to curry favor with members of the U.S. Secret Service.” The four suspended Secret Service agents were also not named, which was also the case in another failure.

In 2011, gunman Oscar Ortega-Hernandez parked his car on Constitution Avenue, fired at least seven rounds at the White House with a semi-automatic rifle, and safely fled the scene. According to a CBS report, Secret Service agents responded to the sound of gunfire but were ordered to stand down. Secret Service bosses blamed the noise on construction equipment backfiring and a gang shoot-out.

The attack was not noticed until four days later when a housekeeper spotted broken glass and plaster around Truman's balcony. The president and First Lady blasted then-Secret Service director Mark Sullivan, but deputy national security advisor Antony Blinken told reporters “I know the Secret Service is on top of this and they will take every necessary step to correct any problems.”

Ortega-Hernandez was apprehended in Pennsylvania and in 2014 sentenced to 25 years in prison for terrorism and weapons offenses. That year Secret Service director Julia Pierson resigned in the wake of security breaches such as an armed man jumping a fence and gaining access to the White House. So Tony Blinken was wrong that the Secret Service would take every necessary step to correct the problems.  Jump ahead ten years and Blinken is Biden’s Secretary of State, a big fan of the letter proclaiming Hunter Biden’s laptop “Russian disinformation,” which he knows is untrue.

Joe Biden’s pick for Secret Service director is Kimberly Cheatle the veteran of “a long and distinguished career at the Secret Service.” Biden came to “trust her judgement and counsel” and Cheatle “was easily the best choice to lead the agency at a critical moment for the Secret Service.” Cheatle’s Secret Service failed to prevent Thomas Matthew Crooks from firing rifle shots that wounded Donald Trump and killed rally attendee Corey Comperatore, a firefighter and family man, and critically wounded David Dutch and James Copenhaver.

In May, House Oversight and Accountability chairman James Comer wrote to Cheatle about “potential vulnerabilities within the Secret Service preventing it from fulfilling its mission to ensure the safety and security of its protectees.” The committee has now launched an investigation into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and requests Cheatle’s “voluntary appearance” at a hearing on July 22. As Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.

White House releases Biden doctor letter after Parkinson’s report

The White House released a letter Monday night from President Biden's physician explaining why a Parkinson’s disease specialist had visited the White House several times. It came hours after Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sparred with reporters about Biden's health. In the letter, Dr. Kevin O'Connor said Kevin Cannard "was the neurological specialist that examined President Biden for each of his annual physicals ... President Biden has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual physical.” Widespread concerns from fellow Democrats over Biden's health and cognitive abilities have been magnified since his performance in last month's debate against former President Trump.

 

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