All love on AF1: Former New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu recently teased a prospective run for the Granite State’s open Senate seat, indicating he had “no doubt” Donald Trump would support him if he entered the race. The Free Beacon‘s Jon Levine was aboard Air Force One traveling back from Florida with Trump on Sunday, so he asked the president: Is that true?
“It’s true,” Trump responded. “He came to my office, came to the Oval Office, and [I] met with Chris Sununu, and I support him fully. I hope he runs,” Trump told Levine. “He’s been very nice to me over the last year or so, but no, I hope he runs. I think he’ll win the seat.”
That’s good news for the New Hampshire Republican, who left office earlier this year as one of the nation’s most popular governors. Time will tell if it’s enough to clear the primary field. Scott Brown, the former GOP senator for neighboring Massachusetts, is also weighing a Senate bid in New Hampshire. It would be his second—Brown lost to Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen, who is vacating the seat, by 3 points in 2014.
READ MORE: Trump Backs Sununu in New Hampshire Senate Race: ‘I Think He’ll Win That Seat’
Now they tell us: Mainstream journalists spent the last four years “speaking truth to power” by helping Democrats lie about the extent of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. Alas, the election is over, and the truth can finally be told—through scandalous books that generate substantial paydays for their authors. “The revelations contained in these works of post-election journalism,” our Andrew Stiles writes, “reveal the alarming disparity between what leading Democratic politicians and White House aides felt privately about Biden’s cognitive health (very concerned) and their public comments defending the president from criticism.” Here’s a teaser:
- Ron Klain: The former White House chief of staff returned to Bidenworld to help old Joe prepare for the now-infamous CNN debate. Klain was “startled” as he watched a “fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged” Biden prep for the debate and feared a “nationally televised disaster,” according to Chris Whipple’s Uncharted. Several days after the debate, he blamed Biden’s performance on a cold, saying “the president is absolutely sharp, fit, on top of his game.”
- Jamal Simmons: While serving as Kamala Harris’s communications director, Simmons literally developed a “messaging plan” built around Biden dying in office, according to Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes’s Fight. He then left the VP’s office for a commentator gig at CNN, where he accused Republicans of promoting “fake” videos about the president’s health.
- Barack Obama: The former president was “not surprised” when Biden short circuited on the debate stage, according to Allen and Parnes, as he “could see the effects when he watched Biden on television.” After the debate, he wrote the following on X: “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself.”
READ MORE: Now They Tell Us: How Top Democrats Changed Their Tune on Biden’s Decline After the Election
Covering up China’s cover-up: In October 2019, months before China acknowledged to the world that COVID-19 was circulating in Wuhan, the city hosted the Military World Games, an Olympic-style competition for military athletes. Several European participants revealed they had developed COVID-19-like symptoms during their time in Wuhan after attending. Years later, as questions of COVID-19’s origins swirled through Washington, Congress ordered the Biden-controlled Defense Department to probe whether American athletes had contracted the virus during the games and to release the report publicly.
The Biden administration completed the report in December 2022 but it wasn’t made public until late last month when the Trump administration quietly uploaded it to a Defense Department website. It found that seven U.S. service members who participated in the games indeed contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or immediately after their time in Wuhan, a revelation that “adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in the city months before China disclosed it to the world,” our Andrew Kerr reports.
“The report’s findings directly contradict the Biden administration’s public statements about the U.S. military delegation to Wuhan in October 2019,” writes Kerr. “Then-Defense Department spokesman John Kirby told the Washington Post in June 2021 that the military had “no knowledge” of any COVID-19 infections among those troops as he downplayed Chinese propaganda claims that America could have imported the virus into Wuhan through the games.”
Away from the Beacon:
- Interim U.S. attorney for D.C. Ed Martin is going after convicted felons caught carrying guns in the district—and the Washington Post is upset that of the 18 arrestees so far, “all are black men.”
- During a “routine records review,” Harvard found that three of its students and two of its recent graduates “had their student visas revoked amid the Trump administration’s push to deport international students” involved in pro-Hamas protests, the Harvard Crimson reported.
