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Democrats IGNORED Biden’s dementia for four years — now attack Trump?

The Blaze
3 weeks 4 days ago


While Democrats still argue that former President Joe Biden was mentally fit during his presidency, they’re now questioning President Trump’s cognitive fitness after Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu (Calif.) accused the president of falling asleep during a Cabinet meeting last year.

"Secretary Rubio, have you been at more than one meeting where President Trump has fallen asleep?" the Democrat lawmaker asked Marco Rubio, who answered that Lieu was wrong.

BlazeTV host Pat Gray is shocked at the Democrat’s hypocrisy.

“We had a president for four years who had full-blown dementia, who couldn’t speak, who couldn’t walk, who fell upstairs heading to Air Force One three times, fell over on a bicycle, fell at a speech to the Navy. The guy couldn’t talk,” Gray says.


“The guy was so bad his wife thought he was having a stroke during the debate with Donald Trump. And it’s now all of a sudden you want to focus on a president’s cognitive ability, based on what? What has Trump done that is so egregious like Biden was doing every day?” he asks.

“This is despicable. These people are despicable,” he adds, before playing a clip of former first lady Jill Biden revealing some of her own frustration with her husband — despite denying any knowledge of his mental decline.

“Oh, Joe has a question. Like you couldn’t ask it later?” Jill asked her husband as he walked up to the stage of the interview.

“Who do you love most in the whole world?” Joe asked.

“Whoopi,” Jill answered.

“That’s unbelievable,” Gray comments.

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Flashback: Kamala's GOP opponent in 2010 explains how his victory was snatched at the last minute by 'harvested' ballots

The Blaze
3 weeks 4 days ago


Nobody understands the frustration of "harvested" ballots and seemingly endless vote-counting in California better than Steve Cooley.

Cooley's name resurfaced on social media this week in an old news clip about Kamala Harris' come-from-behind victory in the California attorney general race back in 2010. Cooley, the Republican candidate as well as the district attorney of L.A. County at the time, declared victory on November 2 of that year after initial results showed him with a lead that at one point grew as large as 8%.

'This is a f**king mess, and there's no will in California to clean it up.'

Cooley told Blaze News that he felt a growing sense of confidence as he watched the returns come in. "Those numbers are pretty good," he recalled thinking.

"The night of the election, when they counted all the ballots cast that day, and they included all of the absentees, I was ahead," he said.

However, he quickly noted that the race was still "within 1%."

That narrow lead prompted an automatic count of all ballots cast, including provisional ballots. In general, provisional ballots are "harvested," Cooley said, and Harris "slaughtered" him once the provisional ballots were included.

"She beat me in all 58 counties — and it wasn't even close."

By November 25, three weeks after Cooley's victory appeared to be sealed, Harris had been declared the winner.

At the time, Cooley declined to request a recount since he would have been stuck with the bill if the recount failed to change the result. "It would have cost millions of dollars," he claimed.

"So it's a great incentive to not ask for a recount."

Still, Cooley believes that Democrat operatives played a pivotal role in handing the race to Harris. He claimed that "mostly Democrats ... do ballot-harvesting" and that "Kamala Harris was the default choice on a high percentage of the provisional ballots."

Kamala Harris' office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Spencer Pratt on Primary Election Day. Ronaldo Bolaños/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images.

Cooley indicated the electoral process in California has not improved in the last 16 years. Though he stopped short of calling it "rigged," as President Donald Trump has done, Cooley believes the system is vulnerable to fraud, especially since every active registered voter in the state receives a live ballot and the voter rolls may yet still include individuals who have died, left the state, or are otherwise ineligible to vote.

"Those ballots are out there, ready to be picked up, harvested, whatever. And that's where the fraud comes in," he explained.

The Trump DOJ has pledged to audit the voter rolls in California, but Cooley notes such an audit will not affect the 2026 primary, even after Spencer Pratt was boxed out of the general election for L.A. mayor despite a 40,000-vote edge over far-left City Councilwoman Nithya Raman on Election Night, June 2. Raman will advance to face incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in November.

"Those questionable ballots have already been harvested and dropped off or sent in or mailed in by individuals who are essentially taking a mailed-out ballot and returning it on behalf of someone else."

"And there's no undoing that without a massive commitment of resources, and the registrar recorders are not going to do it. ... They don't want to spend the time, money, and energy in doing it, because all it does is point out how incompetent they are. They're not going to make any effort to prove their own incompetence and failures," Cooley said.

"This is a f**king mess, and there's no will in California to clean it up. No will."

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EXCLUSIVE: CBP dogs on high alert as World Cup-destined third-worlders smuggle in rotten souvenirs

The Blaze
3 weeks 4 days ago


Border authorities are signaling that increased caution is needed at American airports and points of entry during the World Cup.

While federal agencies have warned that they expect a rise in potentially harmful products, travelers from countries known for agricultural viral outbreaks have already been caught bringing forbidden items to the United States.

'These products may seem harmless.'

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that deadly viruses could come into the United States through prohibited agricultural products in passenger baggage, thus increasing risk to American livestock industries and citizen health.

Two such instances have already happened via travelers from Vietnam and Tunisia, the latter of which will participate in the World Cup.

Tunisia will play in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 25, and one traveler from the country was already caught at Washington Dulles International Airport last week. CBP told Blaze News that authorities discovered the traveler was carrying 15 pounds of "canned ruminant meat" in his baggage, with the traveler claiming that his mother cooked and canned the meat before he came to the U.S.

CBP warned that Tunisia has had episodes of several brutal diseases that are "highly contagious" to livestock, including lumpy skin disease, epizootic hemorrhagic disease, and bovine tuberculosis.

A week earlier, CBP agriculture detector dog — a 3-year-old female beagle named Valen — alerted authorities to a potentially dangerous piece of luggage from Vietnam.

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Valen was proven right when CBP agents conducting a secondary examination discovered 13 pounds of pork products and another 16 pounds of fruits and vegetables.

The federal agency warned about Vietnam's recent episodes of the deadly African swine fever, which could significantly affect the U.S. pork industry if it were to spread.

"These products may seem harmless, but the introduction of animal diseases could cripple our nation's livestock industries, cause devastating economic impacts, and restrict our ability to export pork or beef products across the globe," D.C. Area Port Director Christine Waugh said.

She added, "Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists play a vital role in protecting our nation's agriculture industries and economic security by intercepting potential animal diseases and invasive insects at our nation's ports of entry."

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US Customs and Border Protection

CBP is urging travelers to visit its prohibited and restricted items list, which contains warnings about items like alcohol, fruits and vegetables, and even dog and cat furs.

Other important information about traveling with agriculture is mapped out on the USDA travel page.

As for Valen, the detector dog is part of the CBP's "Beagle Brigade."

"When it comes to finding prohibited fruit, vegetables, plants, and meat products from high-risk countries, the nose knows. A trained agriculture detector dog can scan a piece of luggage for smuggled or forgotten fruits in mere seconds," CBP stated.

The K9 program was founded in 1984 at the Los Angeles International Airport with just one beagle. The breed has a great sense of smell, is non-threatening to travelers, and performs well in public settings.

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Alarming levels of heavy metals found in protein powders, sparking investigation from Texas AG Paxton

The Blaze
3 weeks 4 days ago


Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Monday an industry-wide investigation into protein powder manufacturers following the release of a pair of damning reports that confirmed the presence of various heavy metals in popular powders and ready-to-drink shakes.

Roughly 15 years ago, Consumer Reports tested 15 protein drinks in a laboratory and found that all of the drinks "had at least one sample containing one or more of the following contaminants: arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury."

'Far too many corporations have snuck harmful ingredients in their products.'

The investigators determined that while the heavy metal levels detected in most drinks were in the "low to moderate range," certain drinks had enough to warrant concern if consumed multiple times a day.

Last year, Consumer Reports conducted a new round of tests, scrutinizing 23 protein powders and read-to-drink shakes from popular brands. The CR investigators discovered that the problem facing the protein products of yesteryear is now not only commonplace but supercharged.

"For more than two-thirds of the products we analyzed, a single serving contained more lead than CR’s food safety experts say is safe to consume in a day — some by more than 10 times," said the report.

Lead is toxic to humans. Exposure in adults — for which there is no known safe level — can cause numerous health conditions including decreased kidney function, heart problems, infertility, and joint weakness.

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According to the Food and Drug Administration, "The most serious effects of lead exposure can occur during times of active brain development. High levels of exposure to lead in utero, infancy, and early childhood can lead to neurological effects such as learning disabilities, behavior difficulties, and lowered IQ."

The new CR investigation, led by chemist and food safety researcher Tunde Akinleye, found that the average level of lead in the protein powders was much higher than that observed in the previous CR tests and that there were fewer products with undetectable amounts of it.

Yesteryear's worst in show apparently have nothing on today's outliers.

According to the report, Naked Nutrition's Vegan Mass Gainer powder — the product found to have the highest lead levels among those tested — had twice as much lead per 315-gram serving as the worst product analyzed in 2010. It reportedly contained 7.7 micrograms of lead per serving, which is roughly 1,570% of CR's level of concern for the heavy metal.

Lead levels in a 90-gram serving of Huel's Black Edition powder — reportedly 6.3 micrograms of lead, or 1,288% of CR's daily lead limit — similarly raised concerns among testers, as did the levels in Garden of Life's Sport Organic Plant-Based Protein and Momentous' since-discontinued 100% Plant Protein powder, which allegedly contained lead between 400% and 600% of CR's level of concern.

The report concluded:

  • roughly 70% of the products tested contained over 120% of CR's level of concern for lead, which is 0.5 micrograms per day;
  • three products exceeded CR's level of concern for inorganic arsenic and cadmium — Huel's Black Edition powder, for instance, contained 9.2 micrograms of cadmium, which is more than twice the level that health experts say could be harmful to have daily;
  • consumers should avoid Naked Nutrition's Vegan Mass Gainer and Huel's Black Edition and limit consumption of Garden of Life Sport Organic Plant-Based Protein and Momentous' 100% Plant Protein to once a week; and
  • plant-based protein powders had, on average, nine times the amount of lead found in products made with dairy proteins like whey and twice as much as beef-based products.

Naked Nutrition's chief marketing officer James Clark told CR that his company takes "customers' health very seriously"; sources its ingredients from "select suppliers" that provide documentation attesting they were checked for heavy metals; and had requested a third-party test of its product Mass Gainer.

A spokesman for Huel stressed that the company was "confident in the current formulation and safety of the products," adding that its ingredients undergo "rigorous testing."

Will McClaren, a spokesman for Momentous, claimed his company had executed a "massive overhaul" of its lineup and discontinued the products that CR had tested, namely the company's Whey Protein Isolate and its 100% Plant Protein.

A spokesperson for Garden of Life US said the company's products were safe for daily use and that the company's limits for heavy metals were determined by closely following food safety guidance from the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other safety authorities.

Both Garden of Life and Momentous told CR that they tested their ingredients and finished protein products for heavy metals.

The Clean Label Project, an advocacy organization committed to greater transparency in product labeling, similarly found from a review of over 160 of the top-selling protein powders — according to Nielsen and Amazon best-seller lists — that heavy metals were a common issue.

The advocacy and research group stated in its January 2025 report that "47% of products exceeded at least one federal or state regulatory set for safety."

Texas AG Paxton said on Monday, "Protein is a vital macronutrient for human health, and Texans deserve clean protein powders without having to worry whether the products contain heavy metals or other harmful chemicals."

"Far too many corporations have snuck harmful ingredients in their products, and I am committed to doing everything I can to help Make America Healthy Again," added Paxton.

Paxton's investigation will "examine whether companies falsely marketed or misrepresented the safety and contents of their products and whether they failed to disclose known information about heavy metal contamination in violation of Texas law."

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Joseph MacKinnon