Plus: How Democrats' IRS Expansion Would Empower Ruling Elites to Target Americans
August 10 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the Justice Department refuses to explain why the FBI conducted a predawn search of Donald Trump’s Florida home. Fred Lucas reports on what may be next, while Doug Blair surveys reaction from Republicans. On the podcast, Heritage Foundation budget expert Richard Stern shares what Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act is really about. Plus: the Justice Department goes after pro-life states; mayors who don’t embrace illegal aliens after all; and the IRS may want you next. Forty-five years ago today, postal employee David Berkowitz, 24, is arrested and charged with being New York serial killer “Son of Sam,” killing six and wounding seven more with a .44-caliber revolver.
Will President Trump be indicted? Could he be banned from running for president again? Is there any historical precedent for a president being targeted like this?
It’s hard to shake the feeling that the Biden administration would use an expanded IRS as a weapon to threaten, intimidate, and investigate political foes.
Democratic mayors a thousand miles or more from the border are getting a taste of what Republican governors of Texas and Arizona have been living with for 18 months.
"Since they took office, the Biden administration has tried to weaponize the Department of Justice and the FBI to go after political enemies,” says Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas.
Public “messaging from the CDC and others suggesting gay people simply have less—or distanced—sex has been met with eye rolls by many in the community,” admit two “queer” writers.
