🔵 Biden Autopen Probe

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Citizen Frank
June 03, 2025

Good evening. It’s Monday, June 2.

President Trump’s administration has opened an investigation into whether Joe Biden ‘was competent’ when he used an autopen to issue lame duck pardons to family members and death row inmates.

Ed Martin – Trump’s pardon attorney – said the Justice Department has been directed to investigate clemency granted by Biden in the waning days of his presidency, including the December pardon of his troubled son Hunter.

Martin’s probe was revealed in a Monday email to staffers that was obtained by Reuters.

 
 

Police have arrested a man in connection with a stabbing at a mission in Salem, Oregon that left 11 people injured on June 1.

Salem Police responded to the stabbing incident at Union Gospel Mission of Salem north of downtown at about 7:15 p.m. on June 1.

Almost a dozen people were taken to Salem Health hospital with various injuries,, and a male suspect, who was not identified, was arrested, police said.

The U.S. Department of Justice said they had secured a plea agreement from a Romanian man who is accused of organizing “swatting” attacks against lawmakers, including a former U.S. president.

26-year-old Thomasz Szabo was extradited in November to the U.S. to face charges that he led an online community that targeted about 100 lawmakers with “swatting calls,” hoax calls to law enforcement authorities.

Szabo would encourage members of the online community, beginning in late 2020, to make bomb threats and other hoax calls to police in order to provoke a dangerous law enforcement response to the target’s home, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia.

California Democrat U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters is once again caught in a legal bind, this time for allegedly violating several campaign finance rules.

The Federal Election Commission accused Waters’ 2020 campaign committee, Citizens for Waters, of “failing to accurately report both receipts and disbursements,” “knowingly accepting excessive contributions,” and “making prohibited cash disbursements.”

A conciliation agreement sent by the FEC to the committee’s treasurer on Friday outlined the alleged violations.

There’s a total of $698 billion worth of homes for sale in the U.S., up 20.3% from a year ago and the highest dollar amount ever.

This is based on an analysis of listings on Redfin.com going back through 2012. For the total dollar value of all inventory on the market, we sum up the list price of all active U.S. listings as of the last day of each month; April 2025 is the most recent month for which data is available. For the purposes of this report, the term “value” is interchangeable with “list price”; i.e., when we refer to “total home value,” we mean the sum of all list prices. We define “stale inventory” as home listings that spend at least 60 days on the market and are actively listed for sale on the final day of the relevant month. Please see the end of this report for more on methodology.

The total value of U.S. home listings is at an all-time high because of the combination of growing inventory, slowing demand, and increasing home-sale prices.

On March 31, Virginia Conservation Police Master Officer Brian Bratton concluded an investigation that had begun during the 2023-24 waterfowl season when he received information about an individual trapping and poisoning hawks and eagles on the Eastern Shore. After Master CPO Bratton contacted U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to assist in the investigation, a USFWS agent and Bratton located traps and multiple eagle and hawk carcasses to confirm the original information.

“[The defendant had] built a small waterfowl impoundment on his property,” Bratton said. “He’s a big duck hunter, and he was in the process of trying to really get it going [and attracting ducks].”

When Bratton and the USFWS agent interviewed the suspect and inspected his property, they found a pole trap, which was used to attract birds of prey to land and then snared them, and a juvenile bald eagle carcass on the ground. Bratton and the USFWS agent suspected that bird had been poisoned.

Greta Thunberg, the climate activist, has set sail for Gaza in a bid to “break the Israeli blockade”.

Ms Thunberg, a vocal opponent of Israel’s war on Gaza, boarded the ship Madleen with 11 other activists, including Liam Cunningham, the Game of Thrones actor, and the European parliamentarian Rima Hassan.

They left Sicily on Sunday with the aim of reaching Gaza’s shores and drawing attention to the plight of civilians in the Strip, who have endured more than a year and a half of intense bombardment.

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