Now we know who interrupted Joe Biden’s State of the Union address: A Gold Star parent who lost a son in Afghanistan.

That Gold Star parent’s story is indeed a tragic one. He took offense at a particularly painful passage during Joe Biden’s angry and partisan State of the Union Address.

“Freedom to be safe and America’s safer today than when I took office,” Biden said. “Year before I took office, murder rates went up 30%. 30%. They went up. The biggest increase in history. It was then through my American rescue plan, which every American voted against … are mad at. We made the largest investment in public safety ever. Last year, the murder rates saw the stop decrease in history. Violent crime fell to one of us lowest levels of more than 50 years. But we have more to do.”

During Biden’s boasting about the alleged decrease in violent crime, a distraught man yelled “United States Marines!” and “Abbey Gate!”

That man was Steve Nikoui, a Gold Star parent invited to the State of the Union. He was a guest of Florida Congressman Brian Mast.

“The man screaming at Biden during his speech was Steve Nikoui, whose son, Kareem Nikoui, was killed during Biden’s DISASTROUS Afghanistan withdrawal Steve was screaming things like ‘UNITED STATES MARINES’ and ‘ABBEY GATE!’ If there’s anything I’d ask you to do tonight, it’s pray for the Nikoui family, and demand they receive justice for Kareem,” Nick Sortor reported.

Steve Nikoui’s sad story was told to Americans after President Biden’s disastrous Afghan withdrawal.

“Steve Nikoui had been glued to TV reports on Thursday, desperate for hints his son, Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, survived the deadly airport suicide bombing in Afghanistan when three Marines arrived at his door with the worst news possible,” Reuters reported in August 2021.

“The 20-year-old Marine, who the previous day had sent home a video of himself giving candy to Afghan children, was among 13 U.S. service members killed in the bombing,” the story continued. “Others included an expectant father from Wyoming, the son of a California police officer and a medic from Ohio.”

“He was born the same year it started, and ended his life with the end of this war,” Nikoui said.

Rep. Brian Mast provided a rationale for inviting Nikoui to the State of the Union Address.

“Joe Biden has been trying to turn the page on Afghanistan after his incompetence cost American lives, but not on my watch,” Rep. Mast said.  “For the last three years, Joe Biden has done nothing but tried to deflect blame as terrorists have taken hold of Afghanistan, repressed women, and killed those who supported America.  I will continue to call out President Biden to remind him of the damage he has done to national security and American families.”

Mast, an Army veteran, provided more context for Biden’s Afghan War pullout.

• According to a Pentagon report, the United States left behind $7.12 billion of military equipment in Afghanistan after the withdrawal.

• In addition, despite his promise to stay to get all American citizens out by the August 31, 2021 deadline, more than 800 Americans were abandoned behind enemy lines after the withdrawal.

• Most egregiously, eleven Marines, one Navy corpsman and one Army soldier lost their lives in a suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport.

One of those servicemembers was Kareem Nikoui. And much like Laken Riley, Joe Biden was not able to ‘say his name.’

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President Joe Biden finally “said her name” at the State of the Union address on Thursday night before a packed joint session of Congress.

The president was challenged to say her name during his speech by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Congresswoman from Georgia.

Joe Biden did say Laken Riley’s name. Or at least he tried to. He appears to have butchered her first name, by saying “Lincoln.” Twice. (This is according to automated transcription.)

“I know you know how to read,” Biden railed.” I believe that given the opportunity for a majority in the House and Senate would endorse the bill as well. The majority right now. But unfortunately, politics has derailed this bill so far. I’m told my predecessor called members of Congress in the Senate to demand. They block the bill. He feels a political win. He viewed it as be a political win for me and a political loser for him. It’s not about him. It’s not about me. I’d be a winner. Not really.”

Then, MTG spoke up and derailed his scattershot train of thought.

Joe Biden has the authority as commander-in-chief to shut down the border without an act of Congress. His administration has issued dozens of executive actions that have made it easier for illegal immigrants to make it into the country.

There have been an estimated seven million illegal migrants who have come into the country on Biden’s watch. One of them killed Laken Hope Riley.

The House passed a bill Thursday that would target illegal migrants in the U.S. who have committed certain crimes, naming the legislation in memory of the late nursing student Laken Hope Riley.

Riley, aged 22, was killed on Feb. 22 after being allegedly attacked while running in a forested area near the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, with the suspect arrested and charged with her murder, Jose Antonio Ibarra, being a Venezuelan national who allegedly entered the United States illegally and was released after being initially detained. The Laken Riley Act would require the federal government to detain foreign nationals who commit “burglary, theft, larceny, or [a] shoplifting offense” as well as grant states to sue the federal government for non-enforcement of certain aspects of immigration law, and passed the House by a vote of 251 yeas to 170 nays.

“It should pass the Senate. That doesn’t mean it will or it would, but it should. This is common sense legislation. This is good legislation, and this can help our local law enforcement so I would hope that the Senate would look at it from that standpoint,” Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia, the bill’s sponsor, who represents the district where Riley died, told the DCNF. “There’s nothing wrong with this bill. There’s nothing I could see that they could point at and say ‘That’s wrong,’ with this bill. And if we can pass this, we should pass it. It’s got a good chance of helping save a life.”

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Congresswoman from Georgia, laid into Joe Biden at the State of the Union address.

The Georgia firebrand confronted Joe Biden and demanded he “say her name.”

That person’s name? Laken Riley. Here was Joe Biden’s reaction.

Biden took a pin from Greene honoring Laken Riley, but did not say her name. MTG was handing out Laken Riley pins and wearing one in her honor.

On Thursday, the House passed a bill that would deport illegal migrants in the U.S. who have committed certain crimes, such as various types of theft. The legislation was named in memory of the late nursing student Laken Hope Riley, who was brutally murdered by a Venezuelan illegal migrant.

170 Democrats voted against the Laken Riley Act. The Act would require the federal government to detain foreign nationals who commit “burglary, theft, larceny, or [a] shoplifting offense” as well as grant states to sue the federal government for non-enforcement of certain aspects of immigration law.

Riley, aged 22, was killed on Feb. 22 after being allegedly attacked while running in a forested area near the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, with the suspect arrested and charged with her murder, Jose Antonio Ibarra.

“It should pass the Senate. That doesn’t mean it will or it would, but it should. This is common sense legislation. This is good legislation, and this can help our local law enforcement so I would hope that the Senate would look at it from that standpoint,” Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia, the bill’s sponsor, who represents the district where Riley died, told the DCNF. “There’s nothing wrong with this bill. There’s nothing I could see that they could point at and say ‘That’s wrong,’ with this bill. And if we can pass this, we should pass it. It’s got a good chance of helping save a life.”

“Laken Riley is not here with us anymore because of Biden’s failed policies. It’s about border security more than immigration. So, we need to look at what can we do if he is not going to secure the border,” Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia told the DCNF. “Her murderer was arrested in New York City weeks before and was released. Why shouldn’t he have been deported at that moment, by committing a crime?”

“Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old citizen of Venezuela, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 8, 2022, after unlawfully entering the United States near El Paso, Texas. He was paroled and released for further processing,” ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams told the DCNF. “On Aug. 31, 2023, Ibarra was arrested by the New York Police Department and charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation. He was released by the NYPD before a detainer could be issued,” Williams added.

The bill was passed shortly before Biden visited the U.S. Capitol to deliver the annual State of the Union address.

“This is a young lady who was just…with everything that we’ve learned about her, [she] just had a great future, a wonderful young lady who was dedicating herself to being a nurse, to help people,” Republican Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter of Georgia told the DCNF. “Don’t think that this is the only incident there are other incidents, as well…Every city is a border city. Now, every state is a border state.”

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A federal court on Thursday denied former President Trump’s plea to postpone the $83.3 million judgment in advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit, refusing to grant Trump extra time to post a bond with the deadline just a few days away.

The former president and GOP presidential candidate has attempted to postpone the verdicts in both Carroll’s lawsuit and the New York attorney general’s vast fraud prosecution, with Trump facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines across the two civil lawsuits.

Trump suffers a defeat as a result of Thursday’s verdict, which maintains default provisions that allow the judgment in Carroll’s case to be enforced as early as next week, thereby making it Trump’s bond posting deadline.

“Mr. Trump’s current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan stated in his decision.

A federal jury in New York ordered Trump to pay the eight-figure sum for defaming Carroll by dismissing her allegation when she came forward in 2019 accusing the then-president of sexual assault decades before. Last year, a second jury held Trump responsible for sexually assaulting the advice writer.

However, there are a number of evidentiary problems that make the sexual assault claim very problematic. Ms. Carroll waited 23 years to bring the lawsuit. She could only bring the lawsuit after New York implemented a temporary reprieve on the statute of limitations, specifically so Carroll could bring her case. She does not remember any details about how the alleged sexual assault happened that can be corroborated. She has also contradicted herself in her testimony, mentioning a dress that she wore that had not been available at the time. She also seems to have modeled her story after a Law & Order episode.

Thus, Donald Trump has not been criminally convicted, but is instead being compelled to pay an award to Ms. Carroll. Trump’s bail amount is expected to be $91.63 million as he appeals the January conviction.

In recent days, Trump has filed papers seeking a new trial or a reduction in damages. Trump had asked Kaplan, who was nominated to the bench by former President Clinton, to postpone the judgment until 30 days after the judge rules on the motions or decrease the bail sum to $24.475 million.

Kaplan has not yet decided on the delay request, but on Thursday, the court dismissed Trump’s most recent plea for an administrative stay to postpone Saturday’s deadline.

“This is the continuation of a totally lawless witch hunt,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement. “President Trump filed a timely motion to stay the ridiculous judgment, and many courts, including the Second Circuit, recognize the importance of temporary administrative stays while such motions are pending.” We look forward to continuing to pursue the lawsuit and achieving full vindication of the truth.”

Carroll’s attorneys rejected the former president’s plea to postpone the decision or lessen his bail amount, citing worries that Trump would not pay up.

“He simply asks the Court to ‘trust me’ and offers, in a case with a $83.3 million judgment against him, the court filing equivalent of a paper napkin; signed by the least trustworthy of borrowers,” they stated in their letter to the judge.

Trump’s attorneys said that Carroll’s team had highlighted to the jury Trump’s own assertions about the amount of his fortune, a technique intended to increase the overall damages.

Carroll’s lawyers were taking a “fast-and-loose approach to the facts,” according to Trump attorneys Alina Habba and D. John Sauer.

Sauer was appointed as a counsel on the matter after the trial. Sauer is also defending Trump in his presidential immunity defense against federal election subversion allegations, as well as his appeal of a gag order imposed in that case.

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California’s Super Tuesday Election Marred by Reports of Electronic Ballot Issues for GOP Senate Candidate

During the Super Tuesday election in California, several voters in San Mateo County reported having difficulty locating the name of a Republican contender for the United States Senate on their electronic ballots.

As reported by the Epoch Times, “She (pseudonym Voter X) requested to remain anonymous because she lives in an area where the majority of residents are Democrats. She said that she was worried about being exposed to potential retaliation.”

The voting place she visited was at Foster City Community Center. She told The Epoch Times that when she voted at 8 a.m., she couldn’t find Republican candidate Steve Garvey on the voting machine.

The report noted that California has two vacant seats in the United States Senate—one for a six-year full term and another for a six-month term—and Garvey has run for both.

Voter X stated that after going back and forth multiple times on the voting machine, seeking for the name “Steve Garvey” on the electronic ballot, she only found him listed as a candidate for the six-month seat, not the full-term position.

Voter X then requested assistance from the voting station’s supervisor. The supervisor informed her that he was aware of the matter and had reported it to the main office a few days earlier.

In the end, Voter X had to type in Garvey’s name for the United States Senate full-term position, but she was unsure whether her vote would be tallied correctly.

She stated that when her husband went to the same voting location to vote, he had no trouble locating the name of the same candidate for both U.S. Senate seats.

Voter X indicated that she has previously worked on an election integrity initiative and as a vote observer.

Garvey is competing against Democratic candidate Adam Schiff. Prior to the election, polls suggested that these two candidates were leading in a close battle.

The Epoch Times also contacted three additional voters who voted for Garvey at a separate polling location, the San Carlos Library in San Mateo County. They all stated that they had difficulties finding Garvey on the voting machine, but they were ultimately able to locate his name.

Trisha Seevers stated that she went back and forth multiple times but couldn’t find Garvey’s name for the full-term position. She was ready to give up until she picked the write-in candidate option, and then Garvey’s name appeared.

Rep. Adam Schiff and baseball great Steve Garvey are projected to move forward in the race for the US Senate seat left open by the late Diane Feinstein.

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The Biden regime has acknowledged smuggling ‘unauthorized’ migrants into the United States on covert planes.

Immigration attorneys argue that disclosing the locations of these flights may cause national security “vulnerabilities.”

“Customs and Border Protection has refused to disclose information about a program last year secretly chartering flights for thousands of undocumented immigrants from foreign airports directly to U.S. cities,” the Mail reported.

“It means that while record numbers of migrants were flowing over the southern border last year, the Biden White House was also directly transporting them into the country,” the report added.

The use of a cell phone app enabled the nearly unnoticed entry by air of 320,000 foreigners with no legal permission to enter the United States.

It follows a debate over a 2022 transportation program in which the administration utilized taxpayer funds to ferry migrants around the country on nighttime flights.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, Biden’s CBP approved the latest secretive flights that transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from foreign countries into at least 43 different American airports from January to December 2023, as revealed in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit first reported by Todd Bensman.

The program was part of Biden’s development of the CBP One app, which began at the start of the year.

Under Biden’s extension, migrants might use the app to petition for asylum from their native nations.

However, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) points out that transporting these migrants directly to the United States is one of the app’s lesser-known functions.

Aliens who are unable to lawfully enter the United States can utilize CBP One to seek for travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release from certain airports.

Under this parole release, migrants can stay in the United States for two years without attaining legal status and yet be eligible for work permission.

The government first stated that it would not identify the airports to which illegal aliens were transferred, claiming a ‘law enforcement exemption’ in its refusal to provide information.

However, new revelations from the CIS complaint indicate that the locations were not disclosed out of fear ‘bad actors’ might cause harm to public safety or create law enforcement vulnerabilities.

Thus, the Department of Homeland Security could be accused of undermining ‘homeland security.’

The Biden administration has been laundering billions in taxpayer funds through Non-Governmental Organizations to facilitate illegal migration into the United States.

The State Department, for example, is offering a “loan” program to any foreigner around the world who desires to travel to the United States, claim without evidence that he or she is a “refugee,” and then resettle in the country — all subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.

As described by the the United States Refugee Admissions Program on its official website, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Travel Loan Program “helps to provide penalty and interest-free loans to refugees arriving in the United States.”

“Refugees who accept these travel loans are required to sign a promissory note prior to departure, committing themselves to repayment of the debt within a determined period after arrival,” the program description notes.

IOM “arranges travel for refugee using funds furnished by the Department of State and is mandated to subsequently receive refugees’ repayments on behalf of the Department of State,” the website explains. “Repayments made are remitted to a revolving fund created between the Department of State and IOM for use by the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) to defray the cost of future refugee travel.”

“A Travel Loan repayment is initially assigned either to IOM itself or to a resettlement agency,” the website adds.

Devex notes that UN IOM has an annual operating budget of “an estimated $1.4 billion and some 9,000 staff working in over 150 countries worldwide. IOM currently has 165 Member States and a further 8 states holding Observer status.”

The Biden administration is therefore engaging in an extensive human trafficking scheme to use taxpayer dollars to smuggle millions of illegal migrants into the United States.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley intends to stop her presidential campaign following a string of Super Tuesday setbacks.

Former President Donald Trump is now the only major Republican contender left standing, all but ensuring him the party’s nomination and a rematch with President Joe Biden in November.

Haley is slated to speak to the press in Charleston, South Carolina, at 10:00 a.m., although she is not expected to throw her support behind former President Donald Trump.

Nikki Haley was one of the first to announce her 2024 candidacy, and she is now the last to withdraw after more than a year of campaigning.

“America is not past our prime — it’s just that our politicians are past theirs,” Haley told a modest gathering in Charleston, South Carolina, at her campaign’s launch. “We won’t win the 21st century if we keep trusting politicians from the 20th century.”

That theme remained central to her message during the primary, with Haley often telling supporters at rallies that she was running against Trump because the country required a “new generational leader.”

It turns out that leader won’t be Nikki Haley. At least for the foreseeable future.

Despite her well-known name and extensive political experience, which includes two stints as governor of South Carolina and service as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations during Trump’s presidency, Haley began the election as a relative unknown.

She avoided attacking Donald Trump at first, but as billionaire funders sought an anti-Trump rival to emerge in the Republican primary, Haley grew more vocal and drew more funding for her fledgling campaign.

As Super Tuesday loomed and she became the last Trump alternative standing, she positioned herself as someone who can make the GOP more focused on issues than the politics of personality.

“The Republican Party that I’m seeing happen is one that isn’t focused on fiscal discipline, is one that isn’t focused on national security, and is one that’s becoming more about one man instead of about a party” Haley told reporters in Utah days before Super Tuesday.

In the crucial Super Tuesday election slate, Trump won the North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Maine, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, and California primaries. Haley was declared the winner in one tiny state — Vermont.

“They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. This is a big one,” Trump said in a victory speech at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. “There’s never been anything so conclusive.”

"November 5th is going to go down as the single most important day in the history of our country."

Donald Trump just gave a powerful victory speech after a sweeping victory on Super Tuesday.

But it's what he doesn't say that speaks volumes.pic.twitter.com/YjEtjqSho1

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) March 6, 2024

Trump made no mention of Haley in his 20-minute-long victory speech.

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There’s trouble in Harris County. Again.

The Houston-area mega-county’s District Attorney Kim Ogg is the subject of yet another eyebrow-raising incident that illustrates that the constant refrain from the mainstream media that U.S. elections are completely secure is little more than lip service.

“Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg went into Love Park Community Center Tuesday morning to cast a ballot for her own primary race — only to be told someone had already voted in her name, according to spokesperson Michael Kolenc,” the Houston Chronicle reported.

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg went into Love Park Community Center Tuesday morning to cast a ballot for her own primary race — only to be told someone had already voted in her name, according to spokesperson Michael Kolenc.https://t.co/5do5dIDPyj pic.twitter.com/yQXvWgJQsO

— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) March 5, 2024

The Houston Chronicle provided an “explanation” for the incident.

Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth published a statement on X, previously known as Twitter, stating that voters are asked to check and confirm the information on the iPad screen when they are eligible.

“In this instance, the DA’s partner must not have noticed that the information was not hers, and proceeded to sign in and vote under DA Ogg’s name,” Hudspeth said in a statement. “Clerical errors can occur at the polls. It is the voter’s responsibility to verify that their information in the iPad screen is correct.”

The Houston Chronicle further noted that, “Hudspeth said Ogg’s partner signed her own name as confirmation. The clerk’s office was able to rectify the error and said Ogg has been able to vote since 8:24 a.m. The poll book was corrected so Ogg could cast her ballot.”

District Attorney Kim Ogg is facing a competitive primary against Sean Teare.

After the 2022 midterm elections, Harris County’s election officials once again faced criticism and requests for heightened monitoring over Election Day concerns.

The state’s Republican leadership blasted the county’s struggles to organize a fair and respectable election in a county the size of other states.

“The allegations of election improprieties in our state’s largest county may result from anything ranging from malfeasance to blatant criminal conduct,” Abbott said in a statement Monday. “Voters in Harris County deserve to know what happened. Integrity in the election process is essential. To achieve that standard, a thorough investigation is warranted.”

The governor also called for the involvement of the secretary of state, attorney general and the Texas Rangers in investigating “allegations of improprieties in the way that the 2022 elections were conducted in Harris County.”

The failures spurred the Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg to begin an alleged inquiry into charges of “irregularities with the latest Harris County election that potentially may include criminal conduct.”

Kim Ogg, a Democrat, even requested that the Texas Rangers aid in the probe in an email sent on Monday.

The Harris County GOP party even filed a 22-page lawsuit against the county and its Election Administrator, Clifford Tatum.

Harris County GOP Lawsuit Against Election Administrator Over 2022 Midterms by Kyle Becker on Scribd

“This election was so botched that there’s no way to be confident in the outcomes in the close races,” said Election Lawyer Andy Taylor. “You literally cannot ascertain the winner vs. the loser.”

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