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FPI / May 24, 2020 On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo attempted to blame President Donald Trump for the thousands of coronavirus deaths in the state’s nursing homes. “Anyone who wants to ask, ‘Why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes,’ it’s because the state followed President Trump’s CDC [Centers […]

FPI / May 24, 2020 Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Pretoria To witness South Africa’s descent into chaos is like experiencing a powerless, slow-motion dream sequence. There is a widespread consensus that President Cyril Ramaphosa has lost support inside and outside the governing African National Congress (ANC), and the ANC has become so distrusted […]

FPI / May 22, 2020 Republicans swept to victory in Staunton, Virginia’s city council election on Tuesday as voters tossed out three Democratic incumbents in a usually reliable Democratic stronghold in the state’s Shenandoah Valley. Republican candidates Mark Robertson, Amy Darby, and Steve Claffey all joined incumbent Andrea Oakes in a four-seat GOP sweep, WHSV […]

FPI / May 22, 2020 Continued enforced lockdowns are a bigger threat to Americans’ physical and mental health than the coronavirus, physicians said on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday. “I just feel that’s there’s a very big disconnect between what the average American thinks is going on and what’s actually going on,” Dr. […]

FPI / May 22, 2020 The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has vowed there will be “uniformity on both sides” when it comes to intelligence briefings to 2020 presidential candidates. Such was not the case in the 2016 election, Washington Times reporter Rowan Scarborough noted on May 19. “In 2016, with Russian […]

FPI / May 22, 2020 Planned Parenthood affiliates applied for and received $80 million in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Now, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and some members of Congress are calling on the abortion provider to return the funds, saying it violated the coronavirus relief program. “The money needs to be […]

FPI / May 22, 2020 By John J. Metzler After years of consistent economic expansion and growth throughout much of the world, the global economy is facing tectonic shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic. For developed states such as the United States and Western Europe, the “unseen enemy” of the virus has shattered economic forecasts and […]

FPI / May 22, 2020 Saying that vote-by-mail plans are subject to “massive fraud,” President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to withhold federal funds to Michigan and Nevada if they expand vote-by-mail in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “Mail-in ballots are very dangerous. There is tremendous fraud involved and tremendous illegality,” the president said. “You’ll […]

FPI / May 22, 2020 Commentary by Jason Orestes The destruction China has exported to the U.S. and the world continues to grow. Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump are exploring ramifications that include an intentional default on Chinese debt. Frankly, this is a somewhat tepid punishment. China owns some $1.1 trillion of American treasuries, […]

FPI / May 21, 2020 FBI Director Christopher Wray has failed to responded to a letter from Reps. Jim Jordan and Mike Johnson seeking information and interviews with key FBI officials after revelations earlier this month suggested that FBI agents planned to interview Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 “to get […]

FPI / May 21, 2020 On Jan. 20, 2017, President Donald Trump’s inauguration day, then-national security adviser Susan Rice sent a note to herself (which was declassified in its entirety this week by acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell) showing that then-FBI Director James Comey suggested to President Barack Obama in a January 2017 […]

FPI / May 21, 2020 “The debate over reopening the economy has a peculiar characteristic: It breaks down almost entirely along political lines,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw wrote in a May 18 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. “Liberals emphasize the dangers of an open society, shaming those who want to go back to work. Conservatives […]

FPI / May 21, 2020 Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie on Tuesday debunked the major media’s widely used narrative surrounding a study which said the use of hydroxychloroquine is not safe to treat coronavirus patients. “I want to knock down the phony story that this is somehow the VA going back on what the president […]

FPI / May 21, 2020 PBS affiliates which receive millions of dollars in funding from U.S. taxpayers have aired a pro-communist China documentary produced in conjunction with a Chinese propaganda outlet, a report said. The documentary, titled, “Voices from the Frontline: China’s War on Poverty,” was produced in conjunction with CGTN, a Chinese-government controlled media […]

FPI / May 21, 2020 Democratic officials have gone “crazy” with power in imposing wide-ranging lockdown orders even as coronavirus curves have been flattened and the pandemic “recedes,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson said. Carlson slammed several “drunk with power” leaders including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and New York City Mayor […]