Gun Owners of America Director of Federal Affairs Aiden Johnston says the recent raid on an Arkansas airport executive's home looks like the ATF hasn't "changed its tactics since Waco.” “Whether or not he was actually dealing firearms without a license, this shows the seriousness with which ATF is going to enforce that law,” says Johnston. “If ATF thinks you’re going to deal in firearms without a license, they’re going to show up at your house and they’re going to raid you and they’re willing to shoot you over enforcing that law.”

Gun Owners of America Director of Federal Affairs Aiden Johnston says the Biden administration’s rule on “ghost guns” violates the law and invades gunowner’s privacy. “There’s a lot of good reasons that a privacy conscious gunowner might want to purchase one of these kits and also they’re great fun for hobbyists," says Johnston. “And that’s what Gun Owners of America is going to be fighting for with our amicus brief in this case.”

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider says his organization has obtained the internal data of every single media outlet rated by NewsGuard, a news rating system that favors left-leaning media outlets. “In the past, we’ve done studies on the publicly available data that showed that NewsGuard gives positive ratings to 90 plus percent of liberal outlets... Now that we’ve got our hands on the complete data, the results are pretty similar. But we’ll be producing those results soon,” says Schneider.

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider says Facebook’s censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story had a tremendous impact on the 2020 election outcome. “That’s a story that almost half of Biden voters had never even heard about because of Big Tech censorship and because of legacy media censorship,” says Schneider. "Based on our own poll at the Media Research Center, 9.4% of these Biden voters would not have voted for him had they known of the Hunter Biden laptop story. This story, and this story alone, explains why Donald Trump is not the sitting president of the United States today.”

Just the News Now: April 23, 2024

Facebook interfered with U.S. elections almost 40 times since 2008: Study
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/facebook-interfered-us-elections-almost-40-times-2008-study

Judge reserves decision on whether Trump violated gag order in 'hush money' trial
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/trump-hush-money-trial-resumes-hearing-whether-former-president-violated

North Carolina judge strikes down law that criminalized voting by felons
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/north-carolina-judge-strikes-down-law-criminalized-voting-felony-convictions

California unemployment fund 'insolvent' due to $55B fraud, businesses to pay
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/california-unemployment-fund-insolvent-due-55b-fraud-businesses-pay

Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ) says Biden administration officials like Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will not address lawmakers’ concerns about the open southern border. "That's really the problem, John, when dealing with this administration... They don't want you to know and they try to stonewall representatives who are very intent on securing our border from getting the information that we need to keep this country safe," he says. "Nevertheless, that's why it's important that we continue to hold his feet to the fire."

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) says he supports defunding colleges that allow antisemitic protests to run rampant on their campuses. Sen. Johnson also talks about the left's long-term gameplan to spread extremist ideology throughout major institutions. "Because they control the media, because they control academia, because they control universities, they've kept it under the radar but now it's bubbling to the surface in this grotesque display of support for the brutal murderers of Hamas," he says.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) says there has always been a dispute over what classified documents the president is allowed to keep or must return to the National Archives and Records Administration. Sen. Johnson says that issue doesn’t exist for Joe Biden and the classified documents he kept as a U.S. Senator and Vice President. “Clear violation of the law, and yet President Biden gets let off scot-free because, I guess it's because he’s senile,” he says.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) says Republicans gave up the sole leverage they had to force President Joe Biden to close the border by passing the $95 billion foreign aid bill. “It’s important to point out—Trump had the authority, he closed the border. Biden used that exact same authority, opened it up. So he has the authority. He just doesn’t have the will,” he says. “Democrats and President Biden want an open border. They caused this problem.”

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) says the Ukraine-Russia war has essentially devolved into a proxy war between the West and the Kremlin. “Vladimir Putin is an evil war criminal. But the only way this war ends is with a negotiated settlement,” says Sen. Johnson. “I see no strategy to take or bring Putin to the negotiating table.”

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Just the News Now: April 22, 2024

Prosecution, defense deliver opening statements in Trump hush money trial in Manhattan
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/court-session-manhattan-trump-trial

Supreme Court declines to hear Kari Lake, Mark Finchem's electronic voting machine case
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/supreme-court-declines-hear-kari-lake-mark-finchems-electronic-voting-machine

House Judiciary opens formal inquiry into ATF killing of Arkansas airport executive
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-judiciary-opens-formal-inquiry-atf-killing-arkansas-airport-executive

New York GOP delegation urges Columbia University president to resign over handling of protests
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/new-york-gop-delegation-urges-columbia-university-president-resign-over

Representative Eric Burlison (R-MO) says the House Oversight and Accountability Committee needs to follow the money propping up antisemitic organizations at U.S. colleges. Rep. Burlison believes Arab foreign nations are directly funding groups like ‘Justice for Palestine’ in order to establish covert propaganda arms of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran on college campuses.

Representative Eric Burlison (R-MO) says he was disappointed in the number of Republican congressmen who voted to pass a $95 billion foreign aid package on Saturday. Rep. Burlison says the majority of House Republicans would rather not risk leveraging Ukraine aid for border security.

Former President Donald Trump says President Joe Biden's foreign policies have enabled the Iranian regime's rise in tensions. “They were a poor nation three and a half years ago and you could’ve made a deal. They wanted to make a deal. And Israel’s in big trouble,” says Trump.

Former President Donald Trump talks about how FISA tools were illegally used to spy on his 2016 campaign. Trump says the FISA process isn't appropriate if it doesn’t have the necessary checks and balances.

Former President Donald Trump says Ukraine and Israel’s conflicts would have never happened if he was president. Trump says Europe is not paying their fair share in foreign aid to Ukraine and needs to equalize payments with America.

Former President Donald Trump says President Joe Biden is directly responsible for his ongoing political persecution. “This country’s never seen anything like this. And every one of these trials, including local DA trials, every one of these trials, every single one of them is coming out of the White House,” says Trump. “It’s to help get Biden elected, who can’t put two sentences together.”

Harvard Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz says he can’t find the crime in the state of New York’s case against former President Donald Trump. “Every American ought to see how their system of justice is being distorted for partisan purposes,” says Dershowitz. “I understand why the district attorney of New York didn’t want this on television. I understand why the judge didn’t want this on television. But we, the American public, have a right to see our criminal justice system abused for partisan purposes.”

Harvard Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz says he will no longer vote Democrat after hearing progressive leaders' responses to the antisemitic protests at Columbia University. “I have no loyalty anymore to the party that is the cause, a major cause of what’s going on at Columbia today,” says Dershowitz.

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Heritage Foundation Media and Public Relations Director Noah Weinrich says Polish President Andrzej Duda and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Obran’s decision to meet with former President Donald Trump and not President Joe Biden sends a clear message. “I think it tells you that leaders abroad do not see Biden as the real power in America,” he says.

Heritage Foundation Media and Public Relations Director Noah Weinrich says President Joe Biden has yet to present a solution that would end the Ukraine-Russia war. “Instead of peace through strength, which is what we had under President Trump and President Reagan, we have war with weakness,” he says. “President Biden could not tell you how he’s going to end the war in Ukraine even if you give him $200 billion, which is what they’re trying to do now.”

Michael Sobolik, author of “Countering China’s Great Game,” explains how the U.S. should exert dominance over the CCP through their two biggest weaknesses: human rights issues and freedom of information. “It’s easy to think that a lot of dictatorships are really strong because they wield power in a way that democracies don’t. But tyrants and despots rule the way they do not because they’re secure but because they’re afraid of their own people,” says Sobolik.

Arizona U.S. Senate Candidate Sheriff Mark Lamb says fentanyl poisoning is a major terrorist threat that has become the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45. “It looks very different than the terrorism we’re used to seeing like bombs going off or people firing guns or crashing planes into a building,” Sheriff Lamb says. “The real terrorism that’s killing Americans at a higher rate than anything else is, more effective than any army, is fentanyl poisonings.”