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The private messages offer a disturbing glimpse into how Jones — who is looking to oust incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares this fall — describes his political adversaries in private conversations.

A firm, unmistakable, No. trib.al/y0CkllO

Here are screenshots of some of the texts that Democrats' nominee for VA AG Jay Jones sent in 2022 threatening the former House GOP speaker. Read @AudreyFahlberg's full scoop in National Review for more context on the texts, which he doesn’t dispute sending.👇👇

.@AndrewCMcCarthy: “I can’t see any other way of looking at this...Joe Biden, as it turns out, is what they accused Donald Trump of being: He is a clandestine agent who’s been well paid by a hostile foreign power.” trib.al/r2YRFVM

H.R. 1 is not merely a bad idea; it is a scandal. nationalreview.com/2021/03/h…

Then at one point, the source said, he suggested he wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views, prompting Coyner to hang up the phone in disgust. nationalreview.com/news/dem-…

For the health of the Republican Party — and the nation — convicting and disqualifying Trump is the right and just thing to do. | by @baseballcrank nationalreview.com/2021/01/c…​ nationalreview.com/2021/01/c…

"No American — Democrat or Republican — should defend the expressed intent of this meeting." -- @DavidAFrench natl.io/wLxFOj

Two female employees were fired from a Georgia branch of Lululemon for confronting store thieves and calling local law enforcement, which Lululemon says is against company policy. | @ariblaff trib.al/7T9ymzz

Trump’s Disgraceful Endgame | bit.ly/33wHeI9

A senior executive taking two full months out of the office during a major crisis in the job is a legitimate story. | by @baseballcrank nationalreview.com/corner/pe…

.@AndrewCMcCarthy: “I can’t see any other way of looking at this...Joe Biden, as it turns out, is what they accused Donald Trump of being: He is a clandestine agent who’s been well paid by a hostile foreign power.” trib.al/Au1793y

Our national press is a national joke. bit.ly/2Tf6Wd8 via @CharlesCWCooke

Yes, It Was Rigged | @RichLowry The Alvin Bragg trial was everything that Trump warns about. When Trump made his statement to reporters on Wednesday morning prior to the jury getting the Alvin Bragg case, he repeatedly used the word “rigged,” and, in this instance, he was absolutely right. The charges were rigged, the prosecution’s presentation of the case was rigged, the judge’s management of the case was rigged, the gag order was rigged, and the instructions to the jury were rigged. The whole thing was rigged from beginning to end, in the hopes of — to the extent this case and the guilty verdict will matter in November — rigging the presidential election.

New Project Veritas Video: Voter Fraud in Ilhan Omar’s District nationalreview.com/2020/09/n… via @JohnFund

#WikiLeaks e-mails reveal a disturbing pattern of international solicitation fraud on the part of @ClintonFdn. ---> natl.io/gIJq2R

Republican lawmakers, including senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, have called for an end to Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption. nationalreview.com/news/gop-…

Harvard's embarrassing president Claudine Gay has inadvertently exposed a lot about the deterioration of higher education. Now we learn more about Harvard itself; namely, its nasty effort at suppressing the investigation into her plagiarism. | George Leef trib.al/nJWUxB0

.@RandPaul announced he would never support Nikki Haley as the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. | @ariblaff trib.al/92eFJx7

Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) on Tuesday called on President Biden to reinstate the Keystone XL pipeline as the U.S. struggles with gas shortages and skyrocketing prices. nationalreview.com/news/manc…

Harvard's embarrassing president Claudine Gay has inadvertently exposed a lot about the deterioration of higher education. Now we learn more about Harvard itself; namely, its nasty effort at suppressing the investigation into her plagiarism. | George Leef trib.al/JxgWuxE

Bernie Sanders and others on the Left think space-exploration efforts by the likes of Elon Musk should take a backseat to woke pieties. They're wrong; Team Elon is right. nationalreview.com/2021/03/b…

BREAKING: Democrats to take the House, for the first time in eight years. bit.ly/2F57IqA

A year ago, Biden called Georgia's election reform law 'Jim Crow in the 21st Century.' Yet the state's early primary vote is up 155 percent from the 2020 cycle. nationalreview.com/corner/th…

“Donda,” Kanye West's latest album, is everything we could have hoped for. | by @gmessenger99 nationalreview.com/2021/09/t…

Why the Economic Scars of Rioting Will Haunt Minneapolis for Decades nationalreview.com/2020/09/m… via @brad_polumbo

Elizabeth Warren may be 1/1024th Native American, but she is 100% a fraud. bit.ly/2CqnQA3 via @BenShapiro

Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said he believes the novel coronavirus originated inside a lab in Wuhan. nationalreview.com/news/form…

Republican lawmakers, including senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, have called for an end to Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption. nationalreview.com/news/gop-…

The Texas Democratic leader who called Senator Tim Scott an “oreo” has resigned in response to mounting pressure from state officials on both sides of the aisle. nationalreview.com/news/texa…

Perhaps we should be happy that Harvard is determined to keep Claudine Gay as its president. Nothing could do more to focus attention on the institutional rot the university has been suffering for many years. | George Leef trib.al/OAqCKJT

Thank you, @USPS.

Harvard's embarrassing president Claudine Gay has inadvertently exposed a lot about the deterioration of higher education. Now we learn more about Harvard itself; namely, its nasty effort at suppressing the investigation into her plagiarism. | George Leef trib.al/DKPTYqk

Is it normal for an American president to take 36 hours to respond to an urgent call from the U.K. Prime Minister? | By @jimgeraghty nationalreview.com/corner/wh…

“I’m the first woman to lead my state. And he’s the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can’t even tell you what woman is.” @SarahHuckabee delivers the GOP response to Biden's State of the Union. | @CarolineDowney_ trib.al/VAo8iwL

.@RandPaul announced he would never support Nikki Haley as the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. | @ariblaff trib.al/JE4EIcu

Tulsi Gabbard's appointment would send an unmistakable message: The days of the intelligence community operating as an unaccountable black box are over. | @RandPaul trib.al/7wXUfiz

Bobulinski: "Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability.” | @jameslynch32 nationalreview.com/news/tony…

Here is a walk through some of Thomas Sowell’s most quotable lines. | by @rkylesmith nationalreview.com/2021/10/t…

"Mr. Secretary, you just testified to the American people that you are incompetent at your job!" @tedcruz took @SecMayorkas to task repeatedly over the crisis at the US Southern Border, hammering him for refusing to answer questions directly.

In a Sane World, America Would Have Just Fallen in Love with the Barrett Family nationalreview.com/corner/in… via @kathrynlopez

Karl Marx, You Were Wrong bit.ly/2HH33vU via @BenShapiro

This isn't a one-time thing. It's endemic. If you're willing to lie about the president not being senile when everyone can see that the president is senile, then you're willing to lie about anything to advance your political goals. | @charlescwcooke trib.al/Ui4vJq8

David Hogg has chosen to insert himself into an important national policy debate. We who disagree with his views on guns have a duty to speak up against them. bit.ly/2F0HP6H via @CharlesCWCooke

A laughable junk-science study claimed Covid was a top cause of death for children, and the CDC promoted it. | by @rkylesmith nationalreview.com/corner/th…

The FBI’s Trump-Russia Investigation Was Formally Opened on False Pretenses bit.ly/2DT0Jha via @AndrewCMcCarthy

Thomas Sowell at 90 Is More Relevant Than Ever nationalreview.com/2020/07/t…

Charlie Gard’s Parents Support Alfie’s Parents, Announce Campaign to Change Law natl.io/IIxicc

President Biden’s Afghanistan Predictions Were Disastrously Wrong | by @charlescwcooke nationalreview.com/corner/pr…

Charlie Kirk was a joyful warrior for life. That is true in the sense that his life was rooted in faith in God. It is true to his witness as a debater about abortion, especially on college campuses. | @kathrynlopez nationalreview.com/corner/ch…

.@RandPaul Is Right; Don’t Launch War in Syria Without Congressional Approval natl.io/9ulTkR

At a town hall, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Senators Manchin and Sinema are "complicit in the violence" because they refuse to eliminate the filibuster. nationalreview.com/news/aoc-…

Newsom lost the Fox News debate against DeSantis not only on the merits, but on his stage presence and charisma as well. | @EsotericCD trib.al/p6R6lnJ

He wasn’t a counter-protester. He just wanted to go home. That didn't stop a mob of pro-terrorist demonstrators from spitting on him, assaulting him and spraying bear mace into his eyes. He's 68. Here's what he said happened, from @RyanAMills77: trib.al/mD7NhJO

Nathan Phillips Lied. The Media Bought It. natl.io/OcPs2b via @rkylesmith

Senator Ben Sasse speaks out on his impeachment conviction vote: “I don’t care very much about the next 100 days,” he told NR. “I care about the next 100 years.” | by @charlescwcooke nationalreview.com/2021/02/b…​ nationalreview.com/2021/02/b…

A founder of the "all-inclusive" online bookstore Allstora, which launched last week with the promise to “carry all books,” admitted to removing titles and apologized for previously selling “harmful books.” | @abigailandwords trib.al/haiJXVM

None of this is a gray area. You either uphold certain basic standards of decency or you don’t. natl.io/EyWrDa

The man accused of fatally hitting teenager Cayler Ellingson with an SUV because he thought he was a "Republican extremist" was charged with murder. trib.al/aSMgI4g

Death of a F***ing Salesman natl.io/jvMzv2 via @kevinNR

Joe Biden is a bad president. He doesn’t care about inflation — the central problem facing the United States. He routinely violates his oath of office. He is a serial liar. And he’s a fraud into the bargain. | @charlescwcooke trib.al/topUQO0

For the health of the Republican Party — and the nation — convicting and disqualifying Trump is the right and just thing to do. | by @baseballcrank nationalreview.com/2021/01/c…​ nationalreview.com/2021/01/c…

While CNN never exactly exemplified objective journalism, its crusade against podcast host Joe Rogan exemplifies everything wrong with the mainstream press. nationalreview.com/news/cnns…

Third Circuit Rejects Trump Campaign’s Appeal of Biden’s Pennsylvania Win nationalreview.com/corner/th… via @AndrewCMcCarthy

Lindsey Graham to Voters: ‘Do You Want to Live in the World of Senator Hirono?’ natl.io/UGOeY4

When Dr. Sanjay Gupta went on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the result was a rare moment of civil discussion about COVID — calm, rational, cordial, and productive. | Opinion by Pradheep J. Shanker ow.ly/D4b350Gsp39

Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz is facing scrutiny for allegedly lying in a recent piece that she had requested comment from two YouTube personalities. nationalreview.com/news/yout…

If You Refuse to Condemn Predators because of Politics, You’re Disgusting bit.ly/2yqIw64 via @KatTimpf #RoyMoore

While CNN never exactly exemplified objective journalism, its crusade against podcast host Joe Rogan exemplifies everything wrong with the mainstream press. nationalreview.com/news/cnns…

Video of the mounted border patrol agents in Del Rio suggests they were holding their reins, not whips. nationalreview.com/news/no-b…

President Trump has the magic ability to make Democrats defend the most indefensible. bit.ly/2KNB0Yw via @BenShapiro

Antifa and the Alt-Right Are Twin Cancers Eating America bit.ly/2w4ziil via @benshapiro

Come and see why the former president is nailed dead to rights in the DOJ indictment against him. | @EsotericCD trib.al/cEANHEP

.@baseballcrank: It really is a scandal for the national political press to call the outcome while people are still voting. A replay of calling Florida for Gore while people were waiting on line in the panhandle in 2000. They are just far too eager to coronate Trump. nationalreview.com/2024/01/i…

.@charlescwcooke: “They tried everything. Barack Obama got involved...They tried the race card. They tried the feminist card. They tried to redefine plagiarism. They held a fake investigation. And it didn't work. She's gone. No one cared.” trib.al/TXNTtiH

Anti-Jewish attacks did not spring forth in a vacuum. Increasingly, the Left has gone beyond mere criticism of the Jewish State and adopted a virulent strain of anti-Israel rhetoric. nationalreview.com/2021/05/t…

Matt Walsh's documentary "What Is a Woman?" highlights mesmerizing and extremely disturbing notions advanced by transgender activists. nationalreview.com/corner/yo…

Democrats do not care about Dr. Ford. If she were lodging a similar complaint against, say, Congressman Keith Ellison (D., Minn.), she would not be heard, and the media would be pretending she did not exist. bit.ly/2OCHzj0

Whether or not they like Trump, millions of voters still think the president is all that stands between them and socialism, radical cultural transformation, and social chaos. bit.ly/2Dg8FsX via @VDHanson

A Wednesday letter from a top NIH official revealed that Fauci was wrong — and Senator Paul was right: The NIH did fund gain-of-function viral research at the Wuhan lab. | by @isaac_schorr nationalreview.com/news/reme…

President Trump is deliberately undoing, piece by piece, the main components of Obama’s legacy. bit.ly/2DdFhVT via @VDHanson

Kamala Harris Is Brazenly Lying about Florida’s Slavery Curriculum | By @charlescwcooke trib.al/qJMUBeP

The Biden DOJ has backed off charges against left-wing lawyers who made and used bombs at a protest, undermining the public legitimacy of prosecutions elsewhere. nationalreview.com/2022/06/t…

The same Left that despises President Trump despised George W. Bush long before him. bit.ly/2qUwLTb via @BenShapiro

We now know for sure what many suspected all along: Andrew Cuomo's coronavirus performance involved incompetence, followed by deception. nationalreview.com/2021/02/a…

Tulsi Gabbard's appointment would send an unmistakable message: The days of the intelligence community operating as an unaccountable black box are over. | @RandPaul trib.al/V0kzYPW

If Harvard Doesn’t Want Congress to Ask It Questions, It Can Stop Taking Money from Congress | @charlescwcooke trib.al/czq4hwj

It’s time to ask what we could expect from a second Trump presidency. The one thing we can count on in the Trump era of American politics is that surprises are around every corner. It can always get worse. | @michaelbd nationalreview.com/magazine/…

No artist alive has achieved as much as Paul McCartney, who turns 80 on Saturday. | by Kyle Smith nationalreview.com/2022/06/m…

How will reading Ibram X. Kendi help us fight our enemies better? It's worth asking those who compiled the latest reading list for the U.S. Navy. nationalreview.com/2021/03/w…

The daughter of a legendary right-wing Hollywood filmmaker calmly documents an all-American cliffhanger. | by @3xchair nationalreview.com/2020/12/r…

A GOP star is born? @DonaldJTrumpJr rocks the #gopconvention bit.ly/2acDMGA via @CR

.@GovRonDeSantis' admin is rescinding the liquor license of a venue that hosted a sexualized drag show open to children. | @CarolineDowney_ trib.al/sNqhvCd

Congressional Democrats Add Last-Minute Ideological Demands to Coronavirus Relief Package nationalreview.com/corner/co… via @McCormackJohn

The DOJ has indicted Dr. Eithan Haim, a little-known surgeon who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital for secretly conducting transgender surgeries on minors, on four felony counts related to his alleged violation of a medical-records law. | @dezward01 trib.al/IQig1V7

Tulsi Gabbard: The Bold Choice to Fix a Broken Intelligence Community | @RandPaul Washington’s swamp thrives on a system that puts entrenched bureaucrats and political insiders ahead of the American people. Nowhere is this more evident than in our intelligence community — a closed-off bureaucracy plagued by inefficiency, unaccountability, and outright hostility toward transparency and constitutionally guaranteed rights. It’s long past time for a change, and that is why I proudly support Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for director of national intelligence. Tulsi’s record speaks for itself. A decorated combat veteran in the Hawaii Army National Guard, she has firsthand experience with national security threats and the weight of defending our nation. In Congress, she served on the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, tackling critical national security issues and gaining direct insight into the intelligence community’s operations and shortcomings. Unlike the bureaucrats who have run the system into the ground, Tulsi has shown the courage to speak out against the status quo, refusing to bow to political pressure. Tulsi Gabbard has been an invaluable partner in the fight to safeguard our civil liberties and protect Americans from government overreach. When I introduced the Unplug the Internet Kill Switch Act, Tulsi helped lead the effort on a companion bill in the House. This legislation aimed to ensure that no president could use the pretense of a national emergency to restrict access to the internet, conduct email surveillance, and take control of communications facilities. Tulsi has proven herself to be committed to upholding the Constitution and standing against unchecked government power. These are exactly the qualities we need in the leader of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: a willingness to put results over résumés and to challenge the status quo. For far too long, high-ranking appointments have prioritized résumés over results. Look no further than Hillary Clinton, whom President Obama touted as the “most qualified” presidential candidate in 2016. Yet her glittering credentials didn’t stop her from defending the intervention in Libya that turned the region into a breeding ground for terrorism. Her tenure as secretary of state left a trail of chaos across the Middle East. Consider Madeleine Albright, who held a Ph.D. from Columbia and was hailed as a brilliant stateswoman and secretary of state. Yet, on 60 Minutes in 1996, she justified sanctions on Iraq by saying they were “worth” the deaths of half a million children — an appalling statement that epitomized the callousness of establishment foreign policy. Over the last 20 years, this mindset has fueled disasters across the Middle East, from destabilizing interventions in Iraq and Libya to the quick collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban’s takeover following our botched withdrawal. These aren’t just failures of judgment — they’re the tragic results of trusting Ivy League pedigrees and polished credentials over principled leadership. The establishment’s track record of endless war and chaos speaks for itself. Our intelligence agencies are filled with “qualified” individuals — at least by Washington’s standards — but their actions have repeatedly betrayed the public trust. In 2003, the CIA’s false claims about weapons of mass destruction led to a disastrous war in Iraq. The NSA’s mass surveillance programs illegally spied on millions of Americans, while the FBI misused FISA warrants to surveil a Trump campaign adviser. Former FBI director James Comey admitted to leaking memos to trigger a special counsel investigation into Donald Trump, and intelligence agencies selectively leaked information during the 2016 election to damage political candidates. This culture of secrecy and unaccountability has eroded public trust, undermined our national security, and proven that even the “most qualified” individuals can fail spectacularly when insulated from accountability. It’s time to reform these agencies and demand transparency, integrity, and results. Tulsi would know better than almost anyone about the need to reform America’s security apparatus. When the Biden administration placed Tulsi on a TSA terrorist watchlist, she described this egregious abuse of power as “the ultimate betrayal” by an establishment that sees her “as a threat to their power.” Whistleblowers revealed that the program even deployed multiple air marshals to monitor her flights — an alarming example of rogue agencies weaponizing their authority to intimidate dissenters. Tulsi’s experience is a stark reminder of what happens when government power goes unchecked, and why we must remain vigilant in defending the civil liberties of every American. Donald Trump was elected because Americans saw the failures of a broken system and demanded a leader to fix it. Tulsi Gabbard will be a key ally in helping President-elect Trump reform our intelligence agencies to ensure they serve the American people — not work against them. Like Trump, Tulsi has been vilified and ridiculed by the D.C. establishment precisely because she threatens the privileges and power of the ruling class. The swamp fears reformers who expose its failures and challenge its grip on power, and Tulsi has proven she’s willing to take on that fight. Several of President-elect Trump’s nominees have a history of standing on the side of individual liberty against government power and coercion. Kash Patel exposed the abuse of surveillance authorities to concoct a bogus investigation into the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya refused to unthinkingly accept the medical establishment’s groupthink during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as stood up for natural immunity and against lockdowns and mandates. Pete Hegseth amplified the need for patriotism and accountability in government. And RFK Jr. continues to stand against special interests in public health and for transparency. Tulsi embodies the qualities Washington finds intolerable: fearlessness, principle, and an unwavering commitment to challenging corruption. Her appointment would send an unmistakable message: The days of the intelligence community operating as an unaccountable black box are over. Under her leadership, this critical institution would prioritize the freedoms and security of the American people — not the self-preservation of the bureaucratic elite. The failures of our intelligence apparatus are well-documented. Time and again, the so-called “experts” have betrayed American values, disregarded constitutional rights, and failed to protect the people they were sworn to serve. With Tulsi at the helm, that era of failure and impunity will come to an end. It’s time to put the intelligence community on notice: Reform is not just necessary — it’s here.

Anthony Fauci said recently that he is “not convinced” COVID-19 developed naturally and called for further investigation into the virus’s origins. nationalreview.com/news/fauc…