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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

🕓 Donald Trump awaits the jury’s decision. The former president now must wait for the New York jury to reach one of four possible outcomes in the following days or possibly weeks: a conviction, a partial conviction, an acquittal, or a hung jury. Donald Trump expressed his frustration to the media on Wednesday, asserting, “Mother Teresa could not beat these charges…The whole thing is rigged.”

🦠 NIH was accused of orchestrating “a conspiracy at the highest levels.” House Republicans allegedly have damning evidence of National Institute of Health (NIH) officials deleting FOIA-requested emails regarding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The NIH’s striking disregard for transparency represents their latest breach of trust between America’s public health leaders and the public.

📈 Trump and the GOP currently have the best shot of winning in 2024. The Hill and Decision Desk HQ revealed their newest election model for the 2024 election, assigning Donald Trump a 58 percent chance to take the presidency, Republicans a 77 percent chance of taking the Senate, and Republicans a 62 percent chance of retaining the House of Representatives.

❌ Justice Alito shot down Democrats’ call to recuse himself. Several Democrat senators demanded Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from the Trump v United States 2020 election case because of the ginned-up “flag controversy” of which he was the focus. Alito issued a letter on Wednesday rejecting their calls, stating he is “duty-bound to reject your recusal request.”

MEDIA

We’re finally allowed to talk about vaccine injuries

The story

After negative side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine were widely dismissed by government leaders, pharmaceutical companies, public health authorities, and media personalities, the experiences of thousands — if not millions — of Americans have forced the vaccine safety conversation back into the spotlight.

Recently, South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace (R), former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, and liberal comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore all shared their experiences with negative side effects from the vaccine.

High-profile voices aren’t alone. COVID-19 vaccine-injured Americans are seeking compensation and an overhaul of how the federal government tackles immunization injuries.

As of April 2024, over 13,000 people filed claims with the federal Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). Almost nothing has been done for these individuals; only 19 percent of claims have been reviewed, and only 12 people have been compensated.

Hiding the risk

As early as 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who once labeled unvaccinated people “the real danger,” allegedly received reports of severe adverse vaccine-related events, including myocarditis and neurological injuries. Despite this knowledge, he and other National Institute of Health (NIH) officials did not adequately address these concerns or communicate them to the public.

Other elements of pandemic policies and mandates followed a similar pattern. Dr. Fauci and public health officials admitted that the six-foot distancing rule “sort of just appeared” out of nowhere. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) influenced teachers’ unions to close schools and downplayed mental health issues that closures would cause for children, despite knowing that schools were not hot spots for spreading the virus.

Talking heads like Chris Cuomo spent the crisis demonizing Americans who refused mandates and lockdowns — and figures like Joe Rogan, who questioned the medical establishment’s orders — while their own close families were skeptical, even preferring homeopathic treatments. Cuomo notably avoided covering his brother, Governor Cuomo’s mass slaughter of the elderly in New York’s nursing home scandal.

Cuomo’s recent acknowledgment of struggling with possible side effects from the COVID vaccine caused him to walk back his pandemic-era positions, even admitting to taking doses of the once-mocked ivermectin.

Beyond the headlines

The biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca developed its own vaccine which was distributed throughout the developing world. It recently withdrew the vaccine from global markets, citing low demand, but new court documents reveal that dozens of recipients died after developing severe blood clots, forcing the company to compensate over $100 million to victims.

Further, the state of Texas filed a lawsuit against Pfizer last year for “unlawfully misrepresenting the effectiveness of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine and attempting to censor public discussion of the product.”

Also in Texas, bioscientist David Wiseman, PhD testified before a state Senate committee on the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which signaled a relationship between cancer and the vaccine. Wiseman claimed, “There are a number of case reports, growing, of associating cancers and COVID vaccination… The number of reports per year for COVID vaccines is between 18 and 33 times more than the number of cancer reports for all other vaccines, for all other years, combined."

Because vaccines were rushed to the public, they were not tested for cancerous effects.

VAERS data and recent large-scale studies confirm that statistically significant links exist between the COVID-19 vaccine, cancer, and heart and neurological disorders. Instead of taking the concerns seriously, medical health professionals cited statistics suggesting that the virus was more deadly than the vaccine’s risks, failing to clarify that the virus was severe for only a small, predictable portion of the population.

Big picture

While the virus claimed considerable lives, unsuspecting healthy Americans — possibly millions —who trusted the medical establishment suffered severe side effects or even death when they likely had no need for the vaccine.

To date, repercussions have been negligible for America’s public health officials, despite their untruthful, misleading statements. Falsehoods fed to the American public are often attributed to the prevailing atmosphere of anxiety and uncertainty during the pandemic's rise, but overwhelming evidence indicates now that the lies were intentional.

—B.G.

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WHAT WE’RE HEARING

• Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) filed an official misconduct complaint with New York’s court system relating to their “random” assignment of Judge Juan Merchan to Donald Trump’s trial.

• Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, proposed $55 billion more in defense spending than what President Biden requested.

• Elon Musk may be given an advisory role in the next Trump administration, as the two have reportedly grown closer.

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POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY

Should universities ban JVP from campus?

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IN THE LOOP

• The Justice Department tracked the group Moms for Liberty, pressuring school boards to defer decision-making to the DOJ rather than enact conservative education policies.

• The House Ethics Committee will investigate Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) over bribery and misconduct allegations.

• Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is promising the GOP a mega-bill if they achieve unified control of government in the November elections.

• Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill to roll back a natural gas tax instituted by President Biden.

• The most clicked link in our last newsletter was the ad in our free version for PragerU’s citizenship quiz.

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