Russia Accuses US Media of ‘Collusion’ over Biden’s Health
There needs to be an investigation into a possible conspiracy among American political circles and the media to manipulate the public’s perceptions regarding President Joe Biden’s health, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
Biden announced on X (formerly Twitter) that he would not seek re-election in November, less than a month before the Democratic National Convention was scheduled to start in Chicago.
Commenting on his announcement in an interview with Russian media, Zakharova noted that it was highly unusual to have just a screenshot of a letter posted on social media rather than a video or audio statement.
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“In the modern world, filled with post-truth and deep fakes, it’s very important to leave no room for speculation,” Zakharova said.
Assuming Biden’s letter is authentic, as the US media – and the public alongside them – appear to have done, it “raises the question of investigating what I call the collusion of the American media with political circles, including officials and the so-called expert community, who hid the true state of affairs regarding Biden’s mental health,” she added.
Anyone who truly cares about free speech, transparency, and “our democracy” in America should support this, according to Zakharova.
It’s time to highlight all these statements and actions of the manipulation machine—their propaganda of lies.
Zakharova added that questions about Biden’s cognitive capabilities had been raised four years ago, back in 2020. The Democrat did not bother to campaign actively but stayed in his basement and repeatedly made gaffes in video interviews with supporters and friendly media. He then officially won the election by the most votes ever in US history.
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Biden’s personal X account posted the letter on Sunday afternoon, noting that he was not resigning from the presidency but letting the Democrats pick someone else as their nominee “in the best interest of my party and the country.” He later endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, for the job.
Trump responded by slamming Biden as the “worst president ever” and cheered for the Harris endorsement, suggesting that defeating her “will be easier than Biden.”
Harris Has “Biggest Fundraising Day” after Biden Drops Out
Donations totalling at least $45 million swelled Democrat coffers in the hours after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
According to fundraising platform ActBlue, “As of 9pm ET [Sunday], grassroots supporters have raised $46.7 million through ActBlue following Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign launch.
“This has been the biggest fundraising day of the 2024 cycle.”
A few hours later, the total was said to be $60 million.
Major Democrat donors have already pledged to back Vice President Kamala Harris. According to Newsweek, venture capitalist Reid Hoffman described Harris as “the right person at the right time,” and will now donate more to her campaign than he already has to the defunct Biden campaign.
Wall Street executive Marc Lasry, who helped raise money for Harris when she ran against Biden in the 2020 Democratic primary, is also ready to support her.
Harris has also received high-profile endorsements from the President and from the Clintons, as well as from Alexander Soros, son of George Soros, who wrote on Instagram, “It’s time for us all to unite around Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump.”
The Obamas, however, have yet to provide their endorsement for Harris, a clear suggestion that Michelle Obama is weighing up a bid for the presidency. In a statement in which he praised Biden as “one of America’s most consequential presidents” and said his decision to remove himself from proceedings reminds us “that he’s a patriot of the highest order,” former president Barack Obama made it clear that the race to be the Democratic nominee is still wide open.
“We will be navigating uncharted waters in the days ahead,” he wrote.
“But I have extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.”
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Androids Easier to Hack Than iPhones – Forensics Experts
Android-based phones may be easier targets for hackers and government agencies than iPhones, news outlet 404 Media has claimed, citing leaked documents allegedly intended for the customers of Israeli digital intelligence company Cellebrite.
The issue of cellphone users’ privacy has recently been highlighted after the FBI revealed on Monday that its “technical specialists successfully gained access to Thomas Matthew Crooks’ phone.” The authorities stopped short of divulging what device the suspected shooter in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was using.
Over the past few years there have been reports suggesting that thousands of politicians, journalists, activists, and business figures worldwide have had their cellphones accessed with the help of the Israeli spyware program Pegasus. Once installed, the software presumably grants the hacker the ability to read messages, look through photos, track the person’s location, and even switch on the camera and microphone without the knowledge of the phone’s owner.
In its reports on Wednesday, 404 Media alleged that an anonymous source recently sent two documents dating back to April, titled “Cellebrite iOS Support Matrix” and “Cellebrite Android Support Matrix,” respectively. The papers had presumably been given to one of Cellebrite’s clients and were not supposed to make it into the public domain.
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According to the article, the cellphone forensics company, which sells its tools to federal, state, and local law enforcement as well as to other companies and service providers, was unable to hack a considerable number of modern iPhones available on the market as of April 2024.
Describing Cellebrite’s ability to access devices using various iterations of common mobile operating systems, one of the documents reportedly says tools to hack phones based on iOS 17.4 or newer versions are “In Research,” which means “they cannot necessarily be unlocked with Cellebrite’s tools,” 404 Media claims.
For iOS 17.1 to 17.3.1, the Israeli firm supposedly said in the document that it can access the iPhone XR and iPhone 11 series, released in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
The other leaked document reportedly focuses on Android-based devices, indicating that Cellebrite can hack most of them. However, according to 404 Media, Google Pixel 6, 7, or 8 smartphones in particular remain inaccessible when switched off.
The media outlet reported that Cellebrite had confirmed the authenticity of the documents in an emailed statement. 404 Media quoted the firm’s senior director for corporate communications and content, Victor Ryan Cooper, as saying: “The reason we do not openly advertise our updates is so that bad actors are not privy to information that could further their criminal activity.”
Evidence of Multiple Shooters at Trump Assassination Attempt
Trump Reacts to Biden Exiting Race
Minutes after US President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 race, former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump spoke with CNN over the phone, asserting that Biden will be remembered as “the single worst president by far in the history of our country.”
Trump said that he believes Vice President Kamala Harris will be an easier opponent to defeat than Biden would have been.
The ex-president continued on his social media platform Truth Social to harshly criticize Biden’s rule, pledging to promptly fix the damage the incumbent has allegedly done to the US, once returning to office.
“Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President, and is certainly not fit to serve – And never was! He only attained the position of President by lies, Fake News, and not leaving his Basement. All those around him, including his Doctor and the Media, knew that he wasn’t capable of being President, and he wasn’t,” Trump wrote.
“We will suffer greatly because of his presidency, but we will remedy the damage he has done very quickly,” he added.
Evidence of Multiple Shooters at Trump Assassination Attempt
Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle a Close Friend of The Biden Crime Family – Jill’s Office Recommended Her for the Position
Many are calling for her to resign after it came out that Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle is a deep state darling with close ties to the Biden Crime Family and other career criminals in American politics.
Following the debacle in Butler, Penn., the locale of Trump rally where the former president was shot at in a failed assassination attempt, truth sleuths started digging for information about Cheatle who is about as bad as it gets when it comes to special interest politics.
Take the below interview from Sept. 21, 2022, for instance, in which Cheatle told “Good Morning America” that she knew the Biden Crime Family “for several years and fostered a relationship with them” before she was appointed as leader of the Secret Service:
??BREAKING: Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle got her job after being recommended by Jill Biden’s office, according to New York Post Sources.
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) July 15, 2024
I found this Good morning America interview that was released on September 21, 2022 where Cheatle confirmed she knew the Bidens ‘for… pic.twitter.com/a7ij0nNyHP
New York Post says Cheatle “should already be gone”
The editorial team over at the New York Post published a piece directly calling on Cheatle to resign “or get fired” over the Trump assassination attempt debacle.
Quoting statements made by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Post‘s editorial team called the Secret Service’s handling of the situation at Trump’s rally in which he was shot at the “most stunning failure in decades” for the agency.
“When I say that something like this cannot happen, we are speaking of a failure,” Mayorkas told CNN before adding in a statement to ABC News that “a direct line of sight like that to the former president should not occur.”
“The total security breakdown at Trump’s Butler, Pa., rally – which came an inch from killing the ex-prez, and did take Corey Comperatore’s life with two other civilians put in critical condition – is on her, no matter what scapegoats her minions offer up,” the Post contends about Cheatle.
“Despicably, she’s so far refused to to [sic] accept blame, with the Secret Service instead faulting local police for failing to secure the critical rooftop. As if officers in rural Pennsylvania are supposed to step up when the professionals charged with protecting an ex-and-likely-future-president don’t do their jobs.”
Cheatle is scheduled to testify before Congress in the coming days about what went wrong at Trump’s rally. She does not need to remain the director of the Secret Service in order to do so, though.
It is primarily “Dr.” Jill Biden’s fault that Cheatle is even in her directorship position as the First Lady maintained a close relationship with Cheatle going all the way back to when her husband Joe was VP under Obama.
Anthony “Rasputin” Bernal is also taking some of the blame for Cheatle’s appointment as he supposedly “pushed her” to become the first woman chief of the Secret Service.
Bernal reportedly has an obsession with “diversity” and wants to make at least 30 percent of the Secret Service female by the year 2030.
“Under Cheatle’s leadership, it botched that job, and only luck prevented an assassination that could’ve thrown the nation into crisis,” the Post‘s editorial team contends. “She should be gone already.”
The latest news about what’s happening with Trump, the assassination attempt, and other important matters related to the November election can be found at Trump.news.
Evidence of Multiple Shooters at Trump Assassination Attempt
Ministry of Truth: Japan’s Communications Ministry Proposes Disinformation Law
Only recently, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), an influential Washington think tank, outlined how the US and Japan could bolster their cooperation in “combating misinformation.”
In a report, CSIS noted almost in passing that Japan has in general fallen behind in this activity, but also that the group’s representatives had meetings with officials in Tokyo.
Coincidentally or not, news out of Japan this week says that the country’s Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry is looking at introducing new “anti-disinformation measures.” And, a draft report notes that here, “efforts are not sufficient” while transparency and accountability (ostensibly on the part of internet companies) have not been “adequate.”
That would suggest yet another “Ministry of Truth” and “disinformation law” are in the making somewhere in the world, these taking shape as a draft report details possible measures that social media companies would have to adhere to, going forward.
The report, which notably comes from the Interior Ministry (also in charge of Communications), speaks about the necessity of companies behind social platforms setting up “counter-disinformation systems” themselves, that would deal with what is deemed to be “disinformation” by deleting this content, but also, stepping up “screening of advertisers.”
And once again, time seems to be of the essence, because the report states that the reaction would have to be “prompt.”
The next step is for the draft to become subject to some form of public debate, after which the local press says it will become “official;” and the following step will be making it into law.
The situation reads almost like Japan wasn’t aware it had a “misinformation” problem of a magnitude that requires new and stringent rules, but is now just realizing that, and is almost mimicking the tone and language that’s been present around the topic for years already, in many parts of the world.
Thus, there are some vague and broad “definitions” – the content to be promptly dealt with is that which “contains obvious errors, infringes on the rights of others or is illegal (including disinformation).”
The Japanese plan states that once “a request” comes from a governmental agency, “the operators should make a prompt decision and provide notification as to whether they will delete the information or not.”
What about freedom of expression? The report’s authors seem to think this will do the trick: “The draft also requests that the administrative agency disclose information such as the contents of the request.”
One target is repeat offenders accused of peddling “illegal disinformation,” who will have their content deleted and accounts suspended.
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