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Lahren: Forced vaccines could be the latest in ‘shifting propaganda campaign’ of ‘tyrants’

A new report showing 40 percent of U.S. Marines have declined to get a coronavirus vaccine may be a hint that the left’s continually changing narrative on coronavirus pandemic-related mandates might again change to further guarantee compliance claimed Fox Nation’s Tomi Lahren in her “Final Thoughts” on Monday.

“A new report shows nearly 40% of our United States Marines have declined getting a COVID vaccine and guess what, that is every bit their right to refuse,” she said. “It’s plain as day the Democrats have been playing a very inconsistent game with their COVID messaging, protocols, and infringements.”

“From Day 1 it has been a propaganda campaign that has continually shifted to fit whatever agenda these tyrants want to push at the time.”

Lahren pointed to the chronological list of inconsistencies in the Democrats’ pandemic response.

First, she noted, people like President Biden slammed critics like President Donald Trump for pinning the blame for the virus on China, home to the Wuhan Province from which it originated.

“Biden himself even call[ed] President Trump’s decision to halt travel from China racist and xenophobic,” she said, as Trump responded in that way following infections in Washington state and elsewhere.

“But their laissez faire approach to coronavirus swiftly ended when they realized they could use it to abuse their power and attack Trump — that brought us to the ‘2 weeks to flatten the curve’ big-lie.”

She said that following the announcement of two-week shutdowns that more often than not lasted months longer, an evolving narrative on use of face masks began.

Lahren referred to top Biden adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “COVID whisperer” who at first said masks weren’t necessary but has since changed his prescription in that regard.

“That too quickly changed after Democrat tyrant leaders realized they could enforce a new infringement,” she said of facemask mandates that are still in effect in places like New York, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey.

“Yeah, their love affair with masks coupled with their new COVID fear mongering buzzwords like ‘new normal’, ‘quarantine’, ‘essential workers and businesses’, ‘safer apart’ and ‘social distancing’ kicked their power trip into full gear.”

Turning to the vaccine, Lahren said the Marines aren’t the only service branch declining the jab in large numbers, pointing to a February report showing about one-third of all military personally refusing it.

“Luckily, the vaccines have not yet become mandatory and service members can still be deployed without it but I imagine that’ll change any day now,” she predicted.

“If there’s one thing we know about the Biden Administration–besides the fact Biden isn’t in charge of it–it’s that they prioritize government control above all else.”

The one group Lahren suggested will be immune from such social restrictions if they don’t get a potentially mandatory vaccine shot is illegal immigrants, who she noted are already “outside of and above the pandemic protocols” under the Biden administration.

“But I don’t care what the Democrats say,” she added. “How could a forced vaccine be constitutional? What happened to informed consent? What happened to the USA being a free country wherein Americans are in charge of their own health decisions?”

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“I’m not saying we can’t trust the vaccine but I also find it a little concerning that in November, the FDA itself recommended those who received the investigational COVID vaccines not donate convalescent plasma due to ‘uncertainty regarding the quality of the immune response produced by such investigational vaccines’ — um, OK, make of that what you will.”

Lahren also noted that it is clear that mandatory or not, Democrats and the public health officials supported by them have not declared vaccines to be the end of governmental face mask mandates.

“I personally will not get the COVID vaccine and I personally will not be forced to get it. If you want to get it, by all means please do.”

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“If you are terrified of returning to the “old normal” and people gathering makes you uncomfortable, by all means stay home,” she added.

“But how dare the government or anyone else tell me how to live my life or mandate I take a shot to live and work in what I thought was this free country.”

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Giroir calls on Biden to ‘surge’ COVID vaccines, tests to Michigan in response to rise in cases

Former HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giror urged President Biden Monday to rush additional supplies of COVID vaccines to Michigan to fight a rise in cases, telling “Your World” it’s the best way to “put out the blaze.”

GIROIR: Compared to Florida, Michigan has 250% more cases. Compare to Texas, they have 700% more cases, and both Florida and Texas are wide open. It’s a complex situation. What they should do — number one, 100% they should surge vaccines to Michigan. Leadership is about making choices. You have to put out this blaze. Vaccinations are the way to do it. We can vaccinate our way out of this. Sure, it will take two weeks or three weeks … number two, this is not April of 2020. We have hundreds of millions of tests. I’d send an at-home test to every [Michigan] resident. Allow people to test themselves … We can do that now. The logistics are easy, send it in the mail. They’re also over-the-counter. These are two ways. Shutdowns, they already have a mask mandate, they already have limitations of work. I don’t think you’ll get more bang for your buck out of more limitations. You’re just going to hurt more people.

We’re not to herd immunity … We still have a couple more months of vaccinations to get there. So it’s possible [the Michigan surge could] happen in other places. Number two, nobody knows exactly what happened in Michigan and is happening in Michigan. It’s not just variants because variants are throughout the country. That is a straw man argument that doesn’t hold the test of questioning. But we have seen over the last year, some places that had the most draconian steps, people revolted and they did workarounds. If you can’t eat out in a restaurant, you have 15 of your closest friends over to your house and sit in a small room and have dinner together. We’ve seen the more draconian actions are associated with exactly the opposite of what you want. This is not 2020 and this certainly isn’t 1820. We have vaccinations. Surge them. We have tests. Provide them. These are direct ways that the administration, with good leadership, can get out of this situation we’re in in Michigan while still protecting the rest of the country.

We should not be bleak. We need to be concerned. We need to be vigilant. We’re not through this yet. But remember, we protected the most vulnerable in our country. About 80% of over 65s have been vaccinated. We’ve done well over 110 to 120 million vaccines. The mortality rate continues to go down. We need to be concerned. We’re not out of the woods yet, but we have to restore our life back to normal to a degree. Texas is doing fantastic. I love being here. I can do things I haven’t done for one-and-a-half years. We shouldn’t be that bleak. We have vaccines. Vaccines will end this. Vaccines are controlling the variants including South Africa and the U.K. variant. So we have every reason to be cautiously optimistic, but it’s not bleak. Whatever the reasons are, this is not bleak. I don’t see doom ahead of us. I see a bright light at the end of the tunnel and approaching very quickly.

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Andrew Yang tearfully explains giving away his dog Grizzly

Andrew Yang is more than a little fur-klempt over his old dog, Grizzly.

The New York City mayoral wannabe teared up on Monday while describing what he called a “difficult” decision to give away Grizz to a friend after his allergic son had a respiratory attack.

“That’s when I knew that we’d have to give our dog away,” Yang said through tears during a press conference in Brooklyn. “Oh, that was terrible. It was awful.”

Yang’s comments came after he raised eyebrows Sunday when he tweeted about giving up the pooch to “celebrate” National Pet Day.

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Some on Twitter had given the former presidential candidate flak for relinquishing the pet, but Yang explained that it came after his older son, Christopher, had a severe asthma attack — and that the pup is safe and happy living with friends in California.

Yang acquired the dog with his wife before their kids were born, and said he at first was in “denial” that the dog was the cause of his son’s allergies.

“I’ve got to say, I was in denial. I was like, ‘No way he’s allergic to Grizzly,'” the mayoral polling front-runner said. But his wife, Evelyn, knew the dog was the issue.

“He was like a member of the family. We miss him all the time. He was, like, my best friend,” said Yang.

“Here’s the circle of life in New York City, at least it was for me and Evelyn,” he said. “You meet someone you love and get married, and then what do you do? You get a dog.”

“One of the jokes that some of our friends tell is that your dog is your kid until you have a kid. But it was heartbreaking. We still miss Grizzly.”

Asked why he tweeted the photo of his former pup, Yang said the post “felt very natural.”

“You know, it was National Pet Day and we still have a pet in our hearts, so I didn’t really think much of it,” he said.

“It was a day to celebrate pets and what they mean to us all, and Grizzly meant the world to me and my family and so it felt very natural.”

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He said Grizz’s new owners “pamper him I think even more than me and Evelyn did.”

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Nikki Haley says she won’t run against Trump if he mounts presidential bid in 2024

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Monday that she would not run for the presidency in 2024 if former President Donald Trump mounts another campaign for the White House.

Haley served in the Trump administration as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018. She is considered a potential contender for the GOP’s presidential nomination in 2024. When asked if she would support Trump if he runs again, Haley responded, “Yes.”

“I would not run if President Trump ran and I would talk to him about it,” Haley told the Associated Press. “That’s something that we will have a conversation about at some point, if that decision is something that has to be made. But yeah, I would, absolutely.”

Trump has yet to indicate whether he plans to run for president in 2024. During a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Trump said he “may even decide to run again” and pledged to be active in the 2022 midterm races.

Haley said she last spoke to Trump “after the presidential election,” but before the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

“I had a great working relationship with him, I appreciated the way he let me do my job,” Haley added. “I thought we did some fantastically great foreign policy things together. Look, I just want to keep building on what we accomplished and not watch it get torn down.”

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Haley was a staunch advocate for the Trump administration’s policies in her role as U.S. ambassador to the UN. When the former governor resigned in 2018, Trump called her a “fantastic person” who did an “incredible job” in the post.

But Haley was one of several prominent Republicans who publicized criticized Trump following the Jan. 6 riot, when his supporters stormed the Capitol as lawmakers met to certify the Electoral College vote.

She told Politico that she believed Trump was “not going to run for federal office again.”

“I think he’s going to find himself further and further isolated,” Haley said. “I think his business is suffering at this point. I think he’s lost any sort of political viability he was going to have. I think he’s lost his social media, which meant the world to him. I mean, I think he’s lost the things that really could have kept him moving.”

Biden USCIS nominee called for pausing border patrol funding

President Biden’s nominee to head up the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) once called for pausing Customs and Border Protection (CBP) funding during the Trump administration.

Ur Jaddou is the current director of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Watch at America’s Voice, a pro-amnesty nonprofit, as well as an adjunct professor at the American University School of Law. Biden announced her nomination on Monday.

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Jaddou took aim at the department’s immigration agencies during the Trump era, calling for Congress to pause CBP’s funding last July until the agency “stops attacking peaceful protesters around the country” and has “real reform and meaningful accountability.”

She also referred to CBP as the “personal militia” to former President Donald Trump.

“As our states, cities and towns are begging for more funding to stave off an economic collapse in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic, CBP has the audacity to propose moving money around, defying Congressional opposition so that their agents can continue to be the personal militia of the President,” wrote Jaddou.

Jaddou was also quoted in the Cronkite News last April claiming that Trump was using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to turn people away at the southern border.

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“That was a goal from Day One, and he found the perfect opportunity to do it,” Jaddou told the Cronkite News.

Additionally, America’s Voice — where Jaddou works — has in the past called for all families held in migrant facilities to be “released” and referred to US Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) as a “rogue agency.”

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America’s Voice also attacked the press and media pundits who have labeled the border situation a “crisis.”

The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

Sen. Wicker on infrastructure meeting with Biden: We made good points but ‘there is a lot of space between us’

Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) joined Fox Business’ “Kudlow” on Monday following his Oval Office meeting with President Biden and says he and his Republican colleagues made “good points” but noted there remains “a lot of space between” the two parties.

Wicker: Well of course, it’s a massive program. I did tell the president he has a very hard sell on raising the corporate tax rate and I said that I viewed that 2017 tax bill as one of our signature legislative achievements. It’s probably the most important bill I have ever voted for and I think it is responsible for us having 3.5% unemployment and really great economic news right up until the COVID-19 pandemic hit us. So I made that point.

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The good news, Larry, is that a lot of us want to do better this year on infrastructure than we have before. I’m for a big infrastructure bill. I think the Republican conference would be for it also. So, we agreed, roads, bridges, ports, airports, rail, those are all infrastructure and we had a nice conversation about broadband. I think building that out is absolutely it belongs in an infrastructure bill. So there was a lot we agreed on. I think to the extent he wants to give broadband to, to government entities, that is a very bad idea. We need to incentivize the private sector.

So those are the pluses and minuses. It was an hour and 40 minutes. The president was very engaged. He heard from all of us, four democrats and four republicans. So we have got some work to do. So, if he’ll scale it back, we may be able to…. I think we made a good many points. There is a lot of space between us also.

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Daunte Wright’s death reignites ‘Defund the Police’ movement

The death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on Sunday has given new energy to the far-left “defund the police” movement.

Multiple progressive activists, politicians and groups have renewed their demands to cut police funding after Wright was shot during a traffic stop.

Our Revolution — a spinoff of Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign — called the death of Wright a “murder” and joined other progressive groups in calling for defunding the police.

“Enough is enough! The murder of Daunte Wright was NO ACCIDENT – it is a systemic issue that must be addressed immediately. #DefundThePolice #CriminalJusticeReform,” wrote the group.

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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., called for “police funding to unarmed traffic forces to remove even the possibility of state-sanctioned manslaughter.” Bowman has previously endorsed defunding the police.

Los Angeles City Council candidate Michael Guzik posted his support for defunding police departments on Twitter where he retweeted a post from progressive group Ground Game LA.

The post that Guzik retweeted called for the abolition of the police and referred to the Blue Lives Matter flag — a flag signaling support of police — as “a facist symbol that celebrates the lynching of Black people.”

The progressive gun control group March for Our Lives claimed that America’s police system was “built on white supremacy” and that the police needed to be defunded to “end gun violence.”

“No amount of training and reform can fix a system built on white supremacy,” wrote the group. “To end gun violence, we must #DefundThePolice and invest in our communities, the alternative is dire.”

Progressive legal group Law for Black Lives also called for the police to lose funding, calling for the “systems” to be “abolished.”

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Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said on Monday that he believes the unidentified officer who shot and killed Wright was reaching for her Taser but pulled her firearm instead. Gannon classified the shooting as an “accidental discharge.”

The shooting led to looting and rioting in the Minneapolis area late Sunday night. About 500 people had gathered overnight outside of a police precinct in the city and clashed with officers.

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“Our entire community is filled with grief following today’s officer-involved shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old young man. Our hearts are with his family, and with all those in our community impacted by this tragedy,” Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said in a statement.

“While we await additional information from the BCA [Bureau of Criminal Apprehension] who is leading the investigation, we continue to ask that members of our community gathering do so peacefully, amid our calls for transparency and accountability,” he continued.

Fox News’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.

Biden’s dog Major to undergo ‘additional training’ to help adjust to White House life after biting people

The younger Biden family dog, Major, will undergo “additional training” as he tries to adjust to life in the White House, a spokesperson told Fox News.

First lady Jill Biden’s press secretary Michael LaRosa said that Major would be going “off-site” for his training.

“The off-site, private training will take place in the Washington, D.C. area, and it is expected to last a few weeks,” LaRosa said.

The Bidens’ dog Major is seen on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Major, a German Shepherd, has grabbed headlines on a couple of unfortunate occasions since the Biden family moved into the White House.

The dog has bitten employees on two occasions: once, Major bit a Secret Service employee, and the second time he “nipped” at an employee on the South Lawn.

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Washington, D.C. observes strict dog bite laws: the “one-bite rule” dictates that “if the dog bites someone after it has already shown it will bite someone, then there is presumed negligence on the owner of the dog.”

Both incidents occurred in March.

President Biden’s pet, a German Shepard dog named Major, is walked on a leash by the South Portico of the White House minutes before the president departs for travel to Ohio from the White House in Washington, March 23, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

White House press secretary Jen Psaki referred to the first instance as “minor.”

Davis Cooper, a personal injury lawyer suggested that Major may have needed complete isolation until he could be determined safe to be around other people.

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“I believe it’s their duty to protect people from their dog,” Cooper told Fox News.

“Typically homeowners insurance covers dog bite injury, and it’s weird — I don’t know what kind of homeowners insurance comes with the White House,” he added.

An aide walks the Bidens’ dog Major on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 29, 2021. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Major is a rescue dog and was sent back to the Biden family home after the first bite. The Biden family adopted him from the Delaware Humane Association in 2018.

The Biden family also owns an older German Shepherd named Champ, which they bought after former President Barack Obama won the 2008 election.

McEnany reacts to deadly Minnesota police shooting: ‘We always have to let the facts play out’

“Outnumbered” co-host and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany discussed the fatal police shooting of Daunte Walker on “The Story” Monday, telling host Martha MacCallum there needs to be “due process and fairness” as well as accountability.

MCENANY: We always have to let the facts play out. Let that process be underway, of due process for the officer. Look, this is a tragedy. There’s no two ways about it. I grieve for the mother, Katie Wright. I’ll be praying for her. One of the most emotional days I had in the White House as press secretary is when President Trump sat down with families that lost loved ones in instances of police brutality, or sometimes a tragic accident. It was heart-breaking, it was one of the most emotional days. I hugged one of the moms and left in tears. At the end of this there’s a loss of life. A New Mexico police officer lost his life in what is another tragedy. We have to take a close look at these and make sure there’s accountability and make sure there’s due process and fairness.

I think there’s very often things like banning chokeholds in the wake of George Floyd’s death … It was a heart-breaking video and one of the most egregious videos I’ve ever watched. I remember President Trump getting very upset when he saw that video play out. It’s hard to watch. There’s obvious reforms that can be done, but we can’t overreach here. We know most officers are good, hard-working people who put their lives on the line every day. Removing their immunity doesn’t allow them to do their jobs, defunding the police departments doesn’t accomplish anything but fuel crime [as] we’ve seen in Democrat cities that have chosen to do that. There is common sense and then there’s overreaching. Most officers are good, hard-working people who put their lives on the line, as we saw in New Mexico and Long Island, where there’s an officer fighting for his life as well.

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Marines’ vaccine hesitancy presents early test for Biden as commander-in-chief

Many U.S. Marines’ hesitancy to receive coronavirus vaccinations could prove to be a sticking point for President Biden as some Democrats pressure him to mandate vaccinations for service members.

Nearly 40% of U.S. Marines who have been offered the coronavirus vaccine declined, according to data released last week. That translates to approximately 75,500 Marines who have received the vaccine, and approximately 48,000 who have declined the vaccine. More than 100,000 Marines have yet to be offered the coronavirus vaccine, however.

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“We fully understand that widespread acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine provides us with the best means to defeat this pandemic. The key to addressing this pandemic is building vaccine confidence. The vaccine is voluntary for all personnel at this time because the vaccines are authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration,” Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Andrew Wood told Fox News in a statement.

Walgreens pharmacist Brandon Berger checks syringes before administering second doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to seniors at John Knox Village, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Pompano Beach, Fla. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

In March, seven Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Jimmy Panetta of California, sent a letter to President Biden requesting he issue a “waiver of informed consent” that would essentially mandate members of the military receive coronavirus vaccinations, Navy Times reported.

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“Vaccinating every eligible servicemember will improve readiness and have an immediate and positive impact on the communities in which they serve,” Panetta said according to Navy Times. “Requiring DOD to obtain informed consent prior to vaccination is not only harmful to our national security, but contrary to the best interests of servicemembers, their families, communities and colleagues.”

Military leadership has honed in on the issue. Air Force Maj. Gen. Jeff Taliaferro, vice director of operations for the Joint Staff, told Congress in February that “very early data” suggests that just up to two-thirds of the service members offered the vaccine have accepted.

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That’s higher than the rate for the general population, which a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation put at roughly 50%.

Service leaders have vigorously campaigned for the vaccine. They have held town halls, written messages to the force, distributed scientific data, posted videos, and even put out photos of leaders getting vaccinated.

Many Americans have expressed their fears of a so-called vaccine passport that would dictate what Americans are allowed to do, although there’s no sign such a system will be instituted. Nevertheless, some private entities are requiring students to receive coronavirus vaccinations, including colleges like Oakland University in Michigan, Cornell University in upstate New York, Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Brown University in Rhode Island.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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