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(RepublicanWire.org) – During a hearing about Starbucks’ efforts to block its stores from being unionized, Schultz slammed an attempt by Sanders to paint him as a privileged oligarch who had success handed to him early in life.

“I grew up in federally subsidized housing, my parents never owned a home, I came from nothing,” Shultz said. “I thought that my entire life was based on the achievement of the American dream! Yes, I have billions of dollars — I earned it! No one gave it to me. And I’ve shared it constantly with the people of Starbucks.”

Schultz then directly addressed Sanders.

“Your moniker… is unfair,” he charged.

“No it is not!” Sanders shot back, and then informed him that it was now time to hear from other witnesses because “you’re not the only person testifying.”

At the start of the hearing, Sanders accused Schultz and Starbucks of waging “the most aggressive and illegal union-busting campaign in the modern history of our country.”

Multiple Starbucks locations have voted to unionize over the past two years but so far the company has not recognized any of them as legitimate.

In a heated exchange during the congressional hearing, Republican Markwayne Mullin called out Senator Bernie Sanders for his hypocrisy on wealth and wages. Mullin questioned Sanders how he could ridicule CEOs and billionaires for being rich, while at the same time, being wealthy himself.

Mullin told Bernie, “You and your wife have immense wealth, over $8 million…Why is it that Mr. Schultz, who actually creates jobs — and the bestseller of a book isn’t creating any jobs — why is it that he’s corrupt, and you’re not?”

“If you are not part of a union, you’re also paying starvation wages?” Mullin asked Sanders. “What hypocrisy. What bias. Chairman, you are chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee. We shouldn’t have a biased approach, we should have what’s best for America and all those that want to thrive and work in it.”

Mullin continued to accuse Sanders of bias, and suggested that his socialist approach is not what’s best for Americans who want to work and thrive.

(RepublicanWire.org) – Fox News host Jesse Watters and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) called out America’s failed Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday’s Jesse Watters Primetime.

Watters said, “So, Kamala’s out in Africa. She’s doing her thing, saying the right things, sometimes the wrong things. How do you interpret this?”

Sarah replied, “It would be nice instead of traveling all over the world if she traveled to our southern border – something that she was specifically asked to handle for this administration. But yet it is another failure under their watch that they refuse to address. 

“I think, you know, good for her for taking trips around the world. 

“I wish she’d take some time and actually deal with some of the problems that we have here in our own backyard.”

Watters asked, “As a woman, Governor, are you a little ashamed that the first female vice president is Kamala Harris?”

Sarah said, “Look, I think it’s a great thing that we have broken that barrier that we have a female as the vice president.

“However, I just wish we had somebody who was competent as the vice president. 

“I love the idea that we have been able to achieve the things that we have. 

“I just wish we had somebody who could actually do the job.”

(RepublicanWire.org) – When being interviewed by a journalist from St. Louis, a Republican senator’s conversation took a strange turn on national television. 

Missouri senator Josh Hawley turned the tables on an interviewer, and it was all captured on a hot mic. 

Hawley interrogated KDSK-TV editor Mark Maxwell before a sit-down interview earlier this month. Before the interview kicked off, Hawley asked Maxwell why he gave Elon Musk such a hard time on Twitter. He questioned whether or not he supported people who supported free speech. 

Maxwell agreed the tweet was “vitriolic.” 

As the conversation progressed, Hawley seemed to assume the role of interviewer, pressing Maxwell with questions about other social media activity. The unusual sequence of events occurred during a live discussion between the journalist from St. Louis and the Republican senator. 

There was a time when it seemed they should have been at a bar, not a TV studio, because of the talk’s direction. Hawley said to Maxwell that he hoped he would conduct their interview “sober,” alluding to Maxwell’s deleted tweets in which he warned his fans not to assume he wasn’t drinking at any given time. 

As Hawley continued to cast doubt on Maxwell’s sobriety, the interviewer said to “feel free” to take a blood alcohol reading from him. 

He assured Hawley, for the sake of clarity, that the tweets were all in good fun. 

He said drinking could wait until the weekend when Saint Patrick’s Day festivities begin. 

While Maxwell hasn’t publicly mentioned the conversation about his sobriety, he has posted a video of that portion of the actual interview, ostensibly because Hawley put him on the spot. 

It’s not apparent whether KDSK meant for the pre-interview conversation to be made public. Fox News published the video on Thursday. 

(RepublicanWire.org) – On Saturday, President Donald Trump gave an electric rally in Waco, TX where he railed on the political establishment.

At one point, he said that establishment politicians like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are bigger threats than foreign adversaries like China and Russia.

“I was asked the other day, and I took a little heat for it, they said, who’s our biggest threat? Is it China, sir? Or is it Russia? I said, no, our biggest threat are high-level politicians that work in the United States government, like Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, Justice Department, because that’s poisoning our country,” Trump said.

At another point in his speech, he said “Either the deep state destroys America or we destroy the deep state”.

(RepublicanWire.org) – AOC had a meltdown on the floor of the House after Congress passed the Parents Bill of Rights Act in a 213-208 vote. No Democrats voted in favor of the bill.

The Parents Bill of Rights was championed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and GOP conference chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY). It will require public schools to disclose all curricula, reading lists, library books, and budget costs, as well as force administrators and teachers to seek parents’ consent before changing a child’s gender status.

AOC said: “This Republican bill is asking the government to force the outing of LGBT people before they are ready. When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is, and that is freedom over fascism.”

Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) said:

“This bill is not complex or complicated. Nor should it be partisan or polarizing and contrary to what you may hear from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, it is not an attack on our hard-working teachers, who will always be the heroes in my eyes.”

Stefanik said:

“Parents are the primary stakeholders in their child’s education, and House Republicans are working to protect their right to know what is going on inside their child’s classroom.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said:

“Extreme MAGA Republicans don’t want the children of America to learn about the Holocaust,” referencing efforts by a local school board in Tennessee that had removed the graphic novel “Maus” from one of its reading lists.

“They want to ban books, they want to bully the LGBTQ+ community, they want to bring guns into classrooms, kindergarten and above. That’s their educational agenda.

“They want to ban a book called ‘Melissa,’ a book describing, in very personal terms, the experience of a trans girl beginning to understand her identity,” he said.

(RepublicanWire.org) – President Joe Biden is sending a message to Canadians that he takes global warming very, very seriously, by taking a 75-car motorcade through the capital city of Ottawa.

 “Biden will be taken—in his infamous armoured limousine known as ‘The Beast’—to Rideau Cottage to meet with Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau,” CTV noted. “Rideau Cottage is the prime minister’s current residence, located on the grounds at Rideau Hall, approximately seven kilometres northeast of Parliament Hill.”

During their visit to Canada, the Biden’s claimed that it has been ‘a tough year’ for the United States, blaming ‘global warming’ for everything from forest fires to excessive rain.

Jill can be quoted as saying “It’s been really warm ’cause of global warming in the United States”.

Joe then adds, “On the West Coast — a great deal of rain and a lot of forest fires — we’ve had a tough year due to global warming”.

How ridiculous is this? To have a President who has brought our economy to its knees, saying it has been a tough year because of ‘global warming.’

Biden claims global warming is the number one threat to society, as areas of California experience record snowfall.

It is just hard to believe that Biden actually thinks global warming is an actually threat, when he is flying all over the world on a regular basis, and when he arrives at his destination, he has a ridiculous motorcade.

(RepublicanWire.org) – Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee issued a warning to President Joe Biden telling him the investigation into Biden’s family business dealings is not going away. He said:

“It’s rich that the president just stood there and lied to the American people. It’s also rich that the mainstream media hasn’t called him out on it. I mean, where are the fact-checkers?

“They’ve gone for years now saying that this is Russian disinformation, that the Bidens weren’t involved in influence peddling. Then when the laptop surfaced, obviously, they said that wasn’t real, that had been compromised.

“Well, now I have subpoenaed bank records to prove that the family took over $1 million from a Chinese Communist Party-backed energy company for no apparent reason, and he’s still denying it, he’s still lying about it.

“So yes, we expect an apology from Joe Biden. We’re disappointed but not shocked that the mainstream media has turned a blind eye to this. But my message to the White House is, this isn’t going away. 

“There are other bank records. 

“There are other potential business quote-unquote “deals” that your family has made with China and other adversarial countries around the world.

“We’re going to get the truth out. 

“And there’s going to come a point to where eventually, the mainstream media is not going to be able to let him stand up there and lie to the American people about the fact that his family has taken millions and millions of dollars from our adversary.

“This is a step-by-step process. I’ve been very transparent with the American people about what the purpose of this investigation is. 

“The purpose is to try to determine whether or not this White House is compromised because of the millions and millions of dollars this family’s taken from adversaries around the world.

“We knew this based on whistle-blowers. We knew this based on text messages and emails. Now we know this based on bank records. 

“So we got our first set of bank records — now that led to the second set of bank records that I hope to getting in hand within the next few days. 

“That second set will lead to the third set.

“And in the meantime, we were able to prove without a shadow of a doubt to the Treasury Cabinet that, look, we need those bank violations because obviously, this family has taken over $1 million from a Chinese Communist-backed energy company for no apparent reason.

“And we’re going to continue to follow the money and try to get the American people the proof they deserve about this family occupying the White House,” he said.

(RepublicanWire.org) – During a three-day visit this week to Moscow, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russian President Vladimir Putin that “change is coming” to the global stage.

“Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years. And we are driving this change together. Please take care, dear friend,” Xi said via his interpreter to Putin at the tail end of his visit on Wednesday.

According to CNN, the two are trying to build a new “multipolar world” that’s “not led by so-called Western values and rules.”

In other words, they want to create a world that isn’t dictated by the wishes of the West, particularly the “woke” wishes of the United States.

Speaking with CNN, international relations expert Alexander Korolev of the University of New South Wales in Australia said that this demonstrates an “overall convergence of Chinese and Russian world views and approaches to many international issues.”

“It’s very explicit and clear in terms of identifying the United States as a major security threat,” he said.

During the meeting between the two leaders, they also “referred to each other as dear friends, promised economic cooperation, and described their countries’ relations as the best they have ever been,” according to NBC News.

“They shared the view that this relationship has gone far beyond the bilateral scope and acquired critical importance for the global landscape and the future of humanity,” a statement by the Chinese government reads.

“We are working in solidarity on the formation of a more just and democratic multipolar world order, which should be based on the central role of the U.N., its Security Council, international law, the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter,” a statement by the Russian government likewise reads.

In a joint statement, the two also “accused the West of undermining global stability and NATO of barging into the Asia-Pacific region, but asserted the close partnership between China and Russia did not constitute a ‘military-political alliance,’” according to NBC News.

Regarding Ukraine, Putin reportedly praised Xi for a peace plan he’d proposed a month earlier and slammed both Ukraine and its Western allies for rejecting it.

The plan “calls for formal respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty, protections for Ukrainian civilians, an end to interference with the flow of humanitarian aid into the country, and condemnation of the possible use of nuclear weapons,” as reported by Time magazine.

“The plan also reflects the views of those around the world whose primary interest in the war is economic, by calling for a ceasefire, an end to sanctions, and the opening of peace talks that might help ease pressure on food and fuel prices,” according to Time.

However, though Putin is reportedly a big fan of the proposal, it has zero chance of being adopted because it doesn’t say anything about all the Russian troops already in Ukraine. Nor does it say anything about Russia returning commandeered land to the Ukrainian government.

“An immediate ceasefire would freeze Russian gains in place, forcing Ukraine to try to persuade Vladimir Putin to voluntarily give back land. In truth, no peace plan is likely to succeed at this stage of the war because neither the Russian nor Ukrainian governments can afford to lose,” Time magazine explains.

Despite China and Russia’s cozy relationship, one thing China hasn’t done yet is provide any weapons to its friend, likely because U.S. officials are watching closely. This suggests that “serious consequences will come if China” does at some point decide to start supplying weapons to Russia.

The irony of course is that virtually the entire West has been providing weapons to Ukraine.

Putin has warned of his own consequences if the West keeps supplying Ukraine weapons and even worse consequences if they start supplying depleted uranium shells as well:

“It seems that the West really has decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian – no longer in words, but in deeds. But in this regard, I would like to note that if all this comes to pass, then Russia will have to respond accordingly. What I mean is that the collective West is already starting to use weapons with a nuclear component,” the Russian leader said during this week’s joint meeting.

(RepublicanWire.org) – America First Legal, a non-profit law center that according to Influence Watch  “aims to use litigation to oppose left-of-center policies”, announced some startling news on Twitter. They noted that due to their victorious Freedom of Information Act-related lawsuit against the National Archives, they finally got new documents “directly linking Joe Biden to Hunter’s profiteering in Ukraine” from the archives.

America First Legal had a rather lengthy Twitter thread on the subject. “Despite Joe Biden’s assertions that he had no involvement with Hunter’s appointment to Burisma, he signed off on the official statement in response to questions from reporters about whether Hunter’s position undermined the VP’s credibility in pushing anti-corruption measures,” they wrote showcasing a 2015 email exchange between a government official and Eric D. Schwerin, a Rosemont Seneca employee.

America First Legal noted that “Eric D. Schwerin, Hunter’s associate at Rosemont Seneca Advisors, LLC, corrected typos in Vice President Biden’s official statement.” The law center also revealed that “The VP’s office connected reporters (who were writing about Hunter’s appointment to Burisma) to Amos Hochstein, the ‘point’ person for International Energy Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, to provide a ‘unique and valuable perspective’ on the relationships in Ukraine.”

They further reported that “Wall Street Journal journalist Paul Sonne reached out to the office of the Vice President regarding whether Hunter’s involvement with Zlochevsky at Burisma would undermine the Vice President’s message on Ukraine” and displayed an email by Mr. Sonne on this matter.

Then came the major bombshell when the law center wrote “Office of the Vice President connected the Wall Street Journal to Amos Hochstein. Amos Hochstein is, according to Politico, ‘the most influential Joe Biden adviser that most people don’t know about.’ According to Axios, he is ‘one of President Biden’s closest confidants.’ According to Chuck Grassley [R-IO] and Ron Johnson [R-WI] committees’ staff report, then-U.S. Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein raised concerns with VP Biden and Hunter that Hunter’s position on Burisma’s board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.”

(RepublicanWire.org) – While speaking at the Kennedy Center this weekend, actor and celebrity Chris Rock dumped on Democrats and their plan to possibly indict Trump this coming week. Rock explained that any unlawful arrest would only make Trump’s case stronger and garner more support for his 2024 presidential campaign.

Rock asked the crowd, “Are you guys really going to arrest Trump?” The funny thing is, those in attendance included none other than Nancy Pelosi according to the DailyMail.

Rock continued to jab at the Dems in audience, “Do you know this is only going to make him more popular. It’s like arresting Tupac. He’s just gonna sell more records. Are you stupid?” The crowd erupted in laughter. Rock has been known for not holding back with his comical genius.

NBC News reported last week that law enforcement agencies were conducting preliminary security assessments, as well as discussing potential security plans around the Manhattan Criminal Court in case Trump is charged in connection with an alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.

“We’ve all been cheated on. Don’t you wish that the person that cheated on you paid off somebody so you wouldn’t find out?,” Rock joked.

Rock isn’t the only well-known celebrity to back Trump against the Left’s attacks. This weekend, Elon Musk tweeted about the possible indictment saying, “If this happens, Trump will be re-elected in a landslide victory.”

In 2016, just before the US presidential election, it was revealed that Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, had paid $130,000 to adult film actress Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement (NDA). The NDA was related to an alleged encounter between Trump and Daniels that took place in 2006, when Trump was married to his current wife, Melania.

In 2018, Daniels filed a lawsuit seeking to be released from the NDA, arguing that it was invalid because Trump had not signed it. In response, Trump’s legal team argued that he was not a party to the agreement and that Daniels was already free to talk about the alleged affair. However, Trump’s lawyers also filed a motion seeking $20 million in damages from Daniels for violating the NDA.

The investigation into the alleged hush money payment continued, and in July 2019, federal prosecutors in New York announced that they had closed the investigation without bringing any charges against Trump or anyone else involved in the matter. However, the case remained in the news and it was speculated that Trump could potentially face charges if he was no longer president.