Speaker Mike Johnson has insisted that “no one expects that Joe Biden will be on cocaine” during Thursday night’s debate, despite former President Donald Trump’s comments to the contrary.

Trump has requested that Biden take a drug test before Thursday’s debate, even promising to take one himself as well.

During an appearance on The Source on CNN, Johnson was asked by Kaitlan Collins about Trump’s remarks.

“Just knowing you and how you conduct yourself, do you think some of the rhetoric is out of line when people from Trump’s team are suggesting that – and Trump himself – that Biden is going to be on cocaine when he’s on that debate stage Thursday night?” Collins asked.

Johnson said that Trump was just joking and that nobody believes Biden will be on cocaine.

“Look, there’s a lot of things that are said in jest,” Johnson said. “Of course, no one expects that Joe Biden will be on cocaine.”

Johnson also brought up Biden’s performance at the State of the Union.

“He had a lot of energy that night,” Johnson continued. “So, that’s the Joe Biden I expect to see. The question is, can he stay for 90 minutes on that stage and go toe-to-toe with President Trump, who as you know, goes to rallies and talks two hours on end without any break and any notes.”

In a post to Truth Social on Monday, Trump wrote:

“DRUG TEST FOR CROOKED JOE BIDEN??? I WOULD, ALSO, IMMEDIATELY AGREE TO ONE!!!”

While speaking at a rally in Racine, Wisconsin, last Tuesday, Trump implied that he believes Biden might take cocaine before the debate.

“Joe Biden doesn’t have a clue. Now we’re gonna watch– is anybody gonna watch the debate? He’s gonna be so pumped up, he’s gonna be pumped up. You know all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the White House? What happened?” Trump said.

TRUMP: BIDEN DOESN’T HAVE A CLUE

“Joe Biden doesn’t have a clue.

Is anybody going to watch the debate?

He’s going to be so pumped up.

You know all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the White House? What happened? Who left it?

Somebody left a laptop in… pic.twitter.com/Gjeaj20yiM

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 18, 2024

“Who left it? Somebody left it. I wonder, let’s see. Somebody left the laptop in an office of a gentleman who was supposed to fix the laptop from hell,” Trump said. “He never picked it up, and somebody didn’t pick up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine. I wonder who that could’ve been.”

“I don’t know—actually, I think it was Joe. Ha-ha,” Trump told the crowd.

According to a Quinnipiac University survey released at the end of May, a 72 percent majority of likely voters said it is “likely” that they will watch the first presidential debate.

“Get out the popcorn, pull up a chair, it is must see TV and if the past is any indication, the gloves will likely come off early and often,” said Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy.

The second debate will be hosted by ABC News in September. The network has not yet announced moderators for that debate.

WATCH:

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The House Judiciary Committee released information on Tuesday that revealed that CIA contractors colluded with the Biden campaign in 2020 to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop.

In October 2020, just days before the presidential election, 51 former intelligence officials signed and published a letter that baselessly decried the contents of Hunter’s ‘laptop from hell’ had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

This was a lie.  They all knew it was a lie. The fake news media ran with the story anyway. And the fake news even used it during the debate to bash President Trump.

On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee released these details, as reported earlier by Cristina Laila.

● High ranking CIA officials, up to and including then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, were made aware of the Hunter Biden statement prior to its approval and publication. Because several former senior intelligence officials signed the statement, the PCRB sent the draft statement to the CIA’s then-Chief Operating Officer (COO) Andrew Makridis, who said he subsequently informed then-Director Haspel or thenDeputy Director Vaughn Frederick Bishop that the statement would be published soon. Senior CIA leadership had an opportunity at that time to slow down the CIA’s process for reviewing publication submissions and ensure that such an extraordinary statement was properly vetted.

● Some of the statement’s signatories, including Michael Morell, were on active contract with the CIA at the time of the Hunter Biden statement’s publication. Throughout the course of the Committees’ investigation, the signatories claimed to not have had access to any classified information when asserting that the allegations surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the hallmarks” of Russian disinformation.

However, at the time of the statement’s publication, at least two signatories—Morell and former CIA Inspector General David Buckley—were on the CIA’s payroll as contractors. Due to purported operational concerns, the CIA declined to declassify the entire universe of signatories who were on active contract. In addition, some signatories to the Hunter Biden statement also had special “Green Card” access to the CIA at the time of the statement’s publication, allowing them to gain entry to secure CIA facilities.

● After publication of the Hunter Biden statement, CIA employees internally expressed concern about the statement’s politicized content, acknowledging it was not “helpful to the Agency in the long run.” At least one employee found it “[i]nteresting to see what was submitted and approved” when discussing media talking points that the statement’s co author, former Senior Intelligence Service Officer Marc Polymeropoulos, submitted related to the statement.

When discussing Polymeropoulos’s talking points, another CIA official stated, “It appears [Polymeropoulos] is actively involved in a pro-Biden campaign and may be disclosing classified information in his efforts.” The CIA’s internal review board, known as the Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB), determined that Polymeropoulos’s talking points contained classified information that had to be removed prior to publication.

“The new information included in this report, based on new testimony and declassified documents, shows the potential dangers of a politicized intelligence community. In the waning days before the 2020 presidential election, 51 intelligence community officials rushed to draft and release a statement using their official titles, presumably to convey access to specialized information unavailable to other Americans. The statement was conceived following a conversation with a senior Biden campaign official and designed explicitly to provide talking points to the Biden campaign to discredit politically damaging allegations. Some of the signatories of the statement were on the CIA payroll at the time as contractors and others had special access to CIA facilities. Even Michael Morell—before the Committees learned of his contract with the CIA—acknowledged, “It’s inappropriate for a currently serving staff officer or contractor to be involved in the political process,” the House Judiciary Committee said.

Here is the Judiciary report posted on X on Tuesday.

“We knew that the rushed statement from the 51 former intelligence officials was a political maneuver between the Biden campaign and the intelligence community. Now with this interim report, we reveal how officials at the highest levels of the CIA were aware of the statement and…

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) June 25, 2024

However, the CIA was not alone in its deception and manipulation of the American public in the 2020 election.

The House Ways and Means Committee released in June 2023 their interview with Gary Shapley, Jr., on May 26, 2023.

In the report, the committee included this nugget:

In October 2019, the FBI became aware that a repair shop had a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden and that the laptop might contain evidence of a crime. The FBI verified its authenticity in November of 2019 by matching the device number against Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud ID.

Here is the screen grab from page 12 of the report:

The FBI and intelligence community knew in November 2019 that Hunter Biden’s laptop was authentic and contained evidence of hundreds of international crimes that included his father, Joe Biden.

They knew this in November 2019!

Chris Wray and the FBI said NOTHING!

Then, during the second presidential debate in 2020, Joe Biden and hack reporter Kristen Welker teamed up against President Donald Trump.

At one point, Joe Biden interrupted Welker for his planned response to the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell scandal. Joe Biden told the audience that 50 intelligence leaders signed a letter saying the laptop was “Russian propaganda.”

The intel leaders all lied. They knew it was a lie. Joe Biden knew it was a lie. The media knew this was a lie.

The Biden campaign and current Secretary of State Tony Blinken organized this massive lie.

The laptop was real, and EVERY SINGLE INTEL ‘EXPERT’ who signed that letter knew it was real!

There were 60 dishonest intel officers (9 who refused to publicly post their names) who lied to the American public about the Hunter Biden laptop being a Russian disinformation operation.

These 60 should be outed, subpoenaed, and jailed for pushing such a brazen political lie to swing a presidential election. 

And the FBI and CIA must both be held to account for their dangerous and lawless practices.

Justice must be served!

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The effort to recall Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos successfully turned in enough signatures to trigger a recall election.

This is despite Robin Vos’ attempts to intimidate recall circulators with surveillance and police investigations and to sabotage efforts using unknown individuals from across the nation.

Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) staff released a 223-page memo Tuesday, recommending that “the Commission find the petition sufficient, and that the Commission formally attach a certificate of sufficiency to the petition.”

The Wisconsin Election Commission just announced that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos will now face a recall election. Vos has angered many GOP voters in the state by refusing to support election integrity measures introduced after the rigged 2020 election.

— Emerald Robinson (@EmeraldRobinson) June 26, 2024

The recall effort comes after a recent discovery that Vos sits on the CCP-tied Legislative Leaders Foundation Board of Directors. Likely because of this, Vos “has not moved on legislation to hold China accountable when he’s had multiple opportunities to do so,” according to a Wisconsin State Legislator.

Additionally, Vos has fought against efforts to secure elections and get to the bottom of the stolen 2020 election in Wisconsin. It is speculated that he is doing everything possible to stop Trump in 2024, including fighting vigorously to keep corrupt Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe in office.

However, Vos argues that because recall signatories are electors of the “63rd Assembly District” and the state Supreme Court ruled that the legislative maps are unconstitutional, “the recall was initiated in the incorrect Assembly District and fails.”

This is despite Vos still being listed as representing the 63rd Assembly District:

According to the Racine Recall Committee, the WEC will meet on Thursday to certify the recall. Recall organizers say the WEC will hear from attorneys for the recall and attorneys for Vos and vote on whether or not to issue a recall.

The election is expected to be set for August 6:

The Wisconsin Elections Committee (WEC) recommends certification of the recall petition and the recall election of Robin ‘CCP’ Vos!

August 6th should be the recall election.

WEC will meet to certify on Thursday the 27th of June. pic.twitter.com/xpKlwTQWuP

— Racine Recall Committee (@RacineRecall) June 25, 2024

Per Wis Politics:

The Wisconsin Elections Commission staff review of the petitions seeking to recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos found his opponents turned in enough valid signatures to trigger an election.

Still, the agency staff declined to weigh in on whether Vos, R-Rochester, can be recalled from the 63rd AD that he was elected to in 2022 after the state Supreme Court barred the use of that map going forward.

In a 233-page memo prepared for Thursday’s commission meeting, agency staff found recall organizers turned in 6,866 valid signatures in the 63rd AD, just more than the 6,850 needed to trigger a recall.

That memo also leaves it to the six commissioners to decide whether Vos can be recalled from the 63rd AD. The staff noted the Supreme Court’s December decision barring the use of the 2022 maps going forward. In February, new maps were put in place that moved Vos to the 33rd AD, but those lines don’t take effect until the fall election.

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On the eve of the 2020 general election, residents went to bed late at night with the belief that Trump’s lead was so significant there was no way Joe Biden could overcome it, only to discover that in the wee hours of the morning on the day following the general election, hundreds of thousands of votes, almost out of thin air, materialized for Joe Biden, yet President Trump, who won the state in 2016, barely received any votes.

In the months before and in the hours, days, weeks, months, and even years after the 2020 election, evidence of provable voter fraud continued to be presented to members of the MI legislature, to the MI State Police, Muskegon Police, and even the FBI. Lawsuits were filed, and judges tossed most of them out of court. Michigan’s dirty SOS Jocelyn Benson was found guilty of violating election law in more than one court case, including a case where she told clerks to IGNORE signature matching on absentee ballots. Detroit Police confirmed SOS Benson lied about “armed” protesters in front of her home, a lie she continues to tell today. And just like in 2020, MI SOS Benson refuses to remove hundreds of thousands of illegitimate voters from the voter rolls before the 2024 election.

Michigan citizens are sick and tired of watching dirty, lawless elected leaders run our great state into the ground. The hopelessness citizens are feeling with a crooked majority in both houses of the MI legislature is palpable.  MI voters recognize that the only hope is to overwhelm the system with enough votes that Democrats can’t find enough phantom votes to steal the election [again] from President Trump. It’s important for President Trump, who has been demonized by the media, to get his message out to voters.

President Trump’s first debate is scheduled for Thursday night and will be aired by CNN, whose moderators despise President Trump.

CNN’s Jake Tapper, who will “moderate” the debate on Thursday, once went off on a rant about how President Trump is the equivalent of Hitler:

Jake Tapper has compared Trump to Hitler many times. Here’s a compilation of just a few

He is moderating the CNN debate this week https://t.co/wX1fIdBr48 pic.twitter.com/WHZfB1OrZK

— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) June 24, 2024

The other CNN moderator, Dana Bash, is married to Jeremy Bash, one of 51 Intelligence Community members who signed the letter stating that Hunter Biden’s laptop was proven to be “disinformation.”

Reminder: CNN debate moderator Dana Bash’s husband, Jeremy Bash, was one of the 51 IC members who signed onto the infamous Hunter Biden hoax letter pic.twitter.com/NZ8oVVCUoH

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 25, 2024

The odds have already been stacked against President Trump, as he will appear for his first debate against Crooked Joe Biden on the Trump-hating CNN cable news network, and the debate will be moderated by two hosts who despise President Trump. That’s why it’s so important to show up and show support for President Trump at debate parties across the country, especially in states like Michigan, where media outlets like CNN will try to prove Joe Biden has more support than the wildly popular Trump. Fake News outlets like CNN and local “reporters” like The Detroit News’ Craig Mauger will be working overtime to try to convince their viewers and readers that Joe Biden could actually win in a state where he is so unpopular. SHOW UP AND MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD!

The hottest debate party ticket in Michigan will be hosted by Michigan’s most relevant and hard-working group, MCC (Michigan Conservative Coalition). Go HERE to purchase your tickets NOW! Please don’t wait until they’re sold out!

MCC has done more to help President Trump and other conservatives win key races than any other group in Michigan. Democrats so fear them that two of their founding leaders, Marian Sheridan and Meshawn Maddock, have been charged by the lawless Democrat AG Dana Nessel with eight felonies each for the “crime” of casting an alternate slate of electoral votes for President Trump in 2020. Of course, the goal is to bankrupt and make Trump’s best supporters and leaders in the Trump movement in Michigan look like criminals in their communities. Still, these two fearless ladies aren’t going into hiding anytime soon.

Trump impersonator Bob diBuono will be the MC of the event, and it will be EPIC!

Trump impersonator Bob diBuono will be the MC at the Trump V. Biden Debate at the Suburban Showcase in Novi on Thursday night. If you live in Michigan, you don’t want to miss this—it will be EPIC!

Go here to buy tickets before they’re gone! https://t.co/HTzlCX21MO pic.twitter.com/UgTVz8t1re

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) June 25, 2024

If you can’t make the event but want to donate to MCC, a group that will be working overtime to help ensure that Trump is re-elected in Michigan, you can go HERE to donate.

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Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson has been removed from her position following an incident where she was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer outside a Buckhead nightclub.

This incident served as the final straw in a series of 30 ethics charges brought against her by the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC).

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Christina Peterson had been charged with simple battery against a police officer and felony willful obstruction of law enforcement by use of threats of violence.

The incident took place at the Red Martini Restaurant and Lounge in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood.

According to the news release from the City of Atlanta Police Department:

On June 20th, 2024, at approximately 3:18 a.m., an Atlanta Police officer working an approved extra job at 3179 Peachtree Rd. NE, overheard a commotion nearby and went to investigate. During this time, he noticed security at the location escorting a female out of the venue.

While assisting security and attempting to de-escalate the situation, an unidentified female, later identified as 38-year-old Christina Peterson rushed toward the commotion and immediately started screaming at the security guard and the officer. Ms. Peterson then forcibly pushed the officer in the chest and kept swiping his hands away as he attempted to assist the female being escorted out.

Ms. Peterson pushed the officer in the chest again and that is when she was subsequently placed into custody. The arresting officer attempted several times to obtain the female suspect’s identifying information for processing purposes, however, she refused to cooperate. This caused a delay in the officer transporting her to jail. Upon further investigation, officers were able to later confirm her identity.

The officer was able to provide a Fulton County judge with probable cause, and secured arrest warrants for Ms. Peterson for Simple Battery Against a Police Officer and Obstruction of Law Enforcement Officer. Ms. Peterson was transported to the Fulton County Jail for processing and taken into their custody without incident.

On Saturday, the City of Atlanta Police Department released the body cam footage of Christina Peterson assaulting a police officer.

The two-hour video footage reveals Peterson refusing to provide her name to the officer, while consistently displaying loud and belligerent behavior throughout the incident.

Watch the edited video below:

Elected to the bench in an uncontested November 2020 election, 38-year-old Peterson has been battling judicial misconduct allegations since she assumed office.

These included multiple violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct (CJC) demonstrating a pattern of misconduct throughout her term. The Supreme Court’s decision to remove Peterson came after a thorough review, where it found clear and convincing evidence supporting 28 out of 30 misconduct allegations.

“Douglas County Probate Court Judge Christina Peterson has been charged with a number of violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct (CJC), including a number of violations that the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) says exhibited a pattern of judicial misconduct while in office,” the court said in a ruling issued Tuesday morning, the Atlanta News First reported. “The JQC Hearing Panel found that Judge Peterson violated multiple rules in the CJC and that 2 those violations warrant her removal from the bench.

“We agree that removal is warranted here … Accordingly, it is ordered that Judge Christina Peterson of the Douglas County Probate Court be removed from office, effective upon the date of this opinion. As a result, Judge Peterson ‘shall not be eligible to be elected or appointed to any judicial office in this state until seven years have elapsed’ from the date of this opinion.”

Read the ruling below:

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