The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghan migrants who were imported to the United States under former President Joe Biden.
In May, Trump’s DHS announced that the agency would end TPS, a quasi-amnesty program, for about 75,000 Afghan migrants whom the Biden administration had resettled across the U.S. in mere months.
CASA, Inc., the open borders organization, filed a lawsuit
TPS for Afghans was supposed to be terminated on July 12, but the appeals court has now halted DHS from moving forward with the plan, giving the Trump administration and CASA about a week to file briefs on the merits of the lawsuit.
There has been widespread fraud and abuse within the Afghan resettlement carried out by Biden, law enforcement agencies and inspectors general offices have repeatedly found.
In one such recent case, a 27-year-old Afghan man was arrested in Oklahoma last year after allegedly planning an Election Day terrorist attack on Americans. The man had been brought to the United States through Biden’s massive resettlement operation.
In April 2023, a former Department of Defense (DOD) official revealed to Congress that some unvetted Afghans were resettled in the U.S. who were found to have been involved in placing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan to kill American troops.
In 2021, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) requested information about the number of Afghans who sought entry to the U.S. and were listed on the federal government’s “No Fly List” because of their ties to Islamic terrorism. Biden’s top agency officials refused to disclose the total.
In September 2022, the DHS Inspector General (IG) issued a bombshell report detailing how the Biden administration imported Afghans who were “not fully vetted” and could “pose a risk to national security.”
Similarly, in February 2022, a DOD IG report revealed that Biden’s agencies failed to properly vet Afghans who arrived in the United States and that about 50 Afghans were flagged for “significant security concerns” after their resettlement.
Most of the unvetted Afghans flagged for possible terrorism ties, the DOD IG report stated, have since disappeared into American communities. The report noted that as of September 17, 2021, only three of 31 Afghans flagged with specific “derogatory information” could be located.
In August 2022, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) detailed allegations from a whistleblower who claimed the Biden administration knowingly resettled almost 400 Afghans in the United States who were listed as “potential threats” in federal databases and urged staff to cut corners in the vetting process.
In May 2022, a Project Veritas report alleged the Biden administration resettled Afghans listed on the federal government’s “Terrorism Watch List” in American communities.
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Jill Biden’s ‘work husband’ Anthony Bernal takes the Fifth in House GOP probe of Biden health cover-up
How would telling the truth before Congress incriminate him?
WASHINGTON — Jill Biden’s “work husband” Anthony Bernal became the second former White House aide to take the Fifth Amendment when hauled before a congressional committee Wednesday to answer questions about the 46th president’s cognitive decline.
Bernal, like Joe Biden’s former personal physician Kevin O’Connor, invoked his right against self-incrimination and departed without taking reporter questions.
Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said he only got to ask two questions of the Biden family confidant: “Was Joe Biden fit to exercise the duties of the president?” and “Did any unelected official or family member execute the duties of the presidency?”
“I think that the American people are concerned,” Comer added. “They’re concerned that there were people making decisions in the White House that were not only unelected but no one to this day knows who they were.”
“This is a historic scandal and Americans demand transparency and accountability,” the chairman said in a subsequent statement.
O’Connor, who served as Biden’s doctor during his vice presidency and presidency, took the Fifth last Friday when asked if he was ever told to “lie about the president’s health” or believed the president was “unfit to execute his duties.”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), a member of the Oversight panel, has maintained that Biden “completely understood what was going on” and “may get fumbled up by words, but that’s not anything new and it’s not anything that came with age.”
But Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said Bernal’s hasty retreat implicates him in “corruption at the highest level.”
“If you cannot, say, answer a simple question about Joe Biden’s capabilities, then that further demonstrates that he was not in charge of his administration,” Donalds told reporters.
“And if he was not in charge of his administration, then every order, every bill that was signed, every memorandum, as far as I’m concerned, are null and void.”
Donalds, who is running for governor of Florida next year, added that Jill Biden herself should “come in here and answer questions” after her deputy declined to do so.
“I think [former Vice President] Kamala Harris [also] needs to come in and tell us what she knew and when she knew it,” the congressman also threatened.
Comer noted that his panel would continue with transcribed interviews and depositions of key Biden White House aides to determine the scale of the purported cover-up of the president’s mental decline, as well as potential “illegal use of the autopen” to grant pardons.
Biden’s deputy chief of staff, Annie Tomasini, requested through her lawyer to be handed a subpoena in order to testify this Friday, making her the fifth aide to face questioning from lawmakers and staff.
Neera Tanden, a senior adviser who became director of the Domestic Policy Counsel, and Ashley Williams, deputy director of Oval Office operations, sat for transcribed interviews without taking the Fifth before the brief depositions with Brenal and O’Connor.
Asked whether there was an effort in the White House to cover up Biden’s cognitive decline, Tanden told reporters after her June 24 interview: “Absolutely not.”
Biden “admitted he didn’t know everything, he didn’t sign off on every individual pardon,” Comer added, referencing the ex-commander in chief’s recent interview with The New York Times.
“I think the possibility is very good that we’ll be asking members of the family to come in.”
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DOJ drops charges against Utah doc in fake Covid vax card case
Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered that federal charges be dropped against a Utah doctor who issued false Covid-19 vaccine cards and administered saline shots rather than Covid-19 vaccines to some patients who wanted the vax documentation but not the vax.
Bondi wrote on X, “At my direction the Justice Department has dismissed charges against Dr. Kirk Moore. Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today.”
She also gave credit to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) as well as Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for bringing the case to her attention and advocating “to end the weaponization of government.”
KUTV News reports that Moore was indicted in 2023 for issuing false Covid-19 vaccination cards. Kari Dee Burgoyne, 52, Kristin Jackson Andersen, 59, and Sandra Flores, 31, who were part of Moore’s practice were also charged in the case.
They were accused of destroying vaccines and giving saline injections to patients, many of them children. It is not clear if Bondi has dismissed the case against the others that were in his practice.
Lee posted to X in celebration of the charges being dismissed, writing, “Glad that we could ensure Dr. Moore remains a free man! Thank you for standing with the countless Americans who endured too many official lies, mandates, and lockdowns during COVID.”
According to the indictment in the case, Moore issued 2,000 false vaccine cards, and had patient pay for them with cash or with donations to a specified charity.
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Medical freedom victory: DOJ drops case against Utah surgeon
“Just a reminder that the people who insisted we have vax ID cards insist that we must not have voter ID.”
In a victory for medical freedom, on Saturday, July 12, federal prosecutors suddenly and unexpectedly dismissed all charges against 58-year-old Midvale, Utah plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, Jr., ending a two-and-a-half-year criminal case that had become a flashpoint in the national debate over pandemic mandates. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the decision Saturday on X, saying Moore “gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today.”
The Justice Department’s filing in U.S. District Court for Utah immediately halted a jury trial that had begun Monday in Salt Lake City. The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning the same federal counts cannot be re-filed. Bondi did not clarify whether charges against his three co-defendants were vacated. Moore faced up to 35 years in prison.
On January 11, 2023, a federal grand jury in Salt Lake City indicted Moore, his practice, and three co-defendants, including his neighbor, charging them “with conspiracy to defraud the United States by issuing fake CDC COVID-19 vaccination record cards to fraudulent vaccine card seekers.” The other defendants named in the case were Moore’s practice, the Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah, Inc.; Kari Dee Burgoyne; 52; Kristin Jackson Andersen, 59; and Sandra Flores, 31. According to court documents, the defendants in the case
allegedly destroyed at least $28,028.50 worth of government-provided COVID-19 vaccines, and distributed at least 1,937 doses’ worth of fraudulently completed vaccination record cards to others in exchange for either direct cash payments or required “donations” to a specified charitable organization, without administering a COVID-19 vaccine to the card recipient. As charged in court documents, defendants also administered saline shots to minors — at the request of their parents — so children would think they were receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
Curt L. Muller, special agent in charge at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Inspector General said Moore “endangered the health and well-being of a vulnerable population, undermined public trust, and the integrity of federal health care programs.”
Bondi said on X that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Senator Mike Lee influenced her decision by making her aware of Moore’s plight. On July 8, Greene promised to send a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging the officials there to drop his case. Her letter went out on July 12, the day of Bondi’s announcement. Greene stated that Moore was a “hero not a criminal”:
Dr. Moore is a hero for refusing to inject an experimental vaccine into the arms of patients who did not wish to subject themselves or their children to a human experiment.
Dr. Moore is a decorated U.S. Navy Flight Surgeon with no criminal record. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, he shifted his focus to serving the patients in his community. He courageously protected medical freedom by issuing vaccination record cards without administering the dangerous vaccines, allowing individuals and families in his community to live without fear of being demonized by society for being unvaccinated. Furthermore, he bravely destroyed thousands of vials of the COVID-19 vaccine and, at the request of some parents, injected saline into children whose parents wanted them to believe they got vaccinated without risking the deadly side effects. Dr. Moore has served this country in more ways than one, and he is a hero, not a criminal. He refused to succumb to the pressure of the mainstream narrative, the lies of the pharmaceutical industry, the so-called “science”, and the tyrannical mandates of the federal and state governments, and now, he is facing what could be the rest of his life in federal prison for doing so.
Greene added that the Biden administration weaponized the Justice Department against Moore in a “blatant attempt to punish dissent and silence those who question the safety of experimental vaccines.”
In a July 10 interview with Shannon Joy, Dr. Moore explained why he refused to administer the experimental mRNA vaccine and, instead, treat patients with therapeutics that were, at the time, suppressed and shunned by most of the medical community as well as the CDC and top government health officials.
When he saw the news of COVID-19, he immediately shut down his office because he was fearful of the disease. However, a couple of days later, he began to research COVID-19 and realized that “things just didn’t make sense.”
Within days, Moore began to treat people on an outpatient basis, using protocols that were being suppressed by the CDC and officials like NIAID director Anthony Fauci. Instead, he began to follow doctors like board certified family physician Dr. Vladimir Zelenko in Monroe, New York, who was advocating for a protocol using therapeutics like hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Vitamins C and D as well as antibiotics and steroids to prevent hospitalization due to the virus. Notably, Zelenko treated President Trump and former mayor of NYC Rudy Giuliani for COVID-19. Zelenko successfully treated thousands of patients with his early treatment protocol, and very few died under his care. He reopened his clinic at the end of April 2020.
Moore estimates that he treated roughly 800 patients starting in the spring of 2020 up until about “six months ago,” many with oxygen saturation levels in the high 80s, who all recovered within 24 to 48 hours. Using these protocols, he recorded not a single hospitalization or death. His success, combined with his belief in informed consent, motivated him to ignore CDC guidance and refuse what he viewed to be an unproven and experimental vaccine.
Having long championed medical freedom and informed consent, Trump’s base may also have influenced the DOJ’s decision to drop the case. On July 11, before entering court for day three of his trial, Moore grew emotional during a press conference when he saw countless medical freedom advocates gathered in support. When asked why he acted as he did, Moore tearfully replied that he simply “did what was right.”
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