Liberty Nation News’ correspondent, John Klar, is an attorney on the case* who spoke exclusively with us to explore the ramifications of the upcoming filing, Politella v. Vermont.

Parental Consent

Mark Angelides: John, can you give us a brief background on how Leo came to be vaccinated against his parents’ wishes?

John Klar: Tony and Shujen Politella were not anti-vax, but because they knew the vaccine was early in development and children were at low risk from COVID-19, they did not want their son, Leo, vaccinated. Tony visited the school the week before the clinic and was assured Leo would not receive the vaccine. On the day of the clinic, Leo was given another student’s arm tag, and when he protested that he was not supposed to be vaccinated, he was distracted by the workers and jabbed against his will. It should be noted that Vermont schools received cash awards from the state if they achieved high vaccination rates. […]

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War and Peace

Regardless of what incoming President Trump has in mind for the various conflicts that sprang up during the present administration, Biden still wields considerable power. Indeed, the big news of the weekend was the president demonstrating that power by reversing the policy on the most powerful weapons sent to Ukraine by the US, authorizing Ukraine to use American long-range missiles to strike into Russia. Liberty Nation News reported back in June, “The ATACMS or Army Tactical Missile System, with a range of 186 miles, can hit deeper into Russia and Russian-held areas of Ukraine … However, having the weapons and being able to use them for just any targets was not part of the deal.”

Biden’s announcement on Sunday, November 17, was certainly welcome relief for Ukraine. But it also risks escalating conflict between the US and Russia – potentially undermining whatever Trump may have been accomplishing in his discussions with the leadership of the two warring nations.

Previously, Secretary of State Antony Blinken had announced the Biden administration’s determination to get as much support to Ukraine as possible before Trump takes over. “As we’re working to make sure Ukraine has everything it needs to effectively defend itself, the United States continues to step up. We’ve obligated just recently and pushed out the door another eight billion dollars in security systems for Ukraine. That was in September,” Blinken declared. “Another almost half a billion dollars just a few weeks ago, and President Biden is committed to making sure that every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed out the door between now and January 20.”

Let that sink in a moment – “every dollar we have at our disposal” will go to Ukraine before Trump takes office. […]

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Will DOGE Eye Higher Education?

In August 2022, President Joe Biden and his administration unveiled a new income-driven repayment plan. The program’s official title was “Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE).” The purpose was to help students and graduates lower their loan payments by selecting the most affordable vehicle best suited to their circumstances. The initiative has crashed into legal roadblocks, and borrowers enrolled in SAVE were placed into administrative forbearance this past summer.

If the White House’s initiative remains intact, which may seem doubtful under the Republican trifecta, the government could continue to subsidize worthless degrees and tax the productive ones.

In 2022, the Brookings Institution crunched the numbers of income-driven repayment program subsidies, which are dependent on the field of study. It revealed that the government prioritizes the fine arts over engineering, which might explain why America’s education standards and results have deteriorated this century. According to the report, the most subsidized degrees have been cosmetology, drama, liberal arts, music, health and medical administration, and biology. The least subsidized degrees have been engineering (mechanical, civil, electrical, and chemical), nursing, finance, economics, and mathematics. […]

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The Trump Bump

A few months into Trump’s first term, The New York Times passed three million digital subscribers. When it hit seven million subscribers in November of 2020, it wrote, “There is little doubt that Donald J. Trump’s presidency has helped lift The Times’s subscription business, and the readership numbers have risen at a steady pace during his years in office.” During the 12 months preceding March of 2017, DC’s most prominent newspaper saw a 75% increase in new subscribers and reached 300,000 digital-only subscribers for the first time, a number that, by 2020, would be near three million, but which gradually decreased during Biden’s term. Worse, it lost 250,000 subscribers last month because its billionaire owner blocked an editorial endorsement Kamala Harris.

“In 2018,” explained the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), “‘Trump’ was the fourth-most-used word in the New York Times. On average, Trump was directly mentioned two to three times in every article, and indirectly mentioned an additional once or twice.” That almost sounds creepy and stalker-like. What about cable? “[F]rom August 2015 to November 2016, cable news aired about two hours per day (123 minutes) of just Trump talking.” Meanwhile, some networks were relishing “record ratings and huge increases in ad revenue by fetishizing the president.” Just before the 2016 election, CNN was expected to make $100 million more than in a typical election year. Fox News, NBC, and MSNBC also benefited from Trump’s entry into politics. Some networks were giddy and couldn’t hide it: “The Trump spectacle may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS,” said Les Moonves, the network’s chief executive, at a 2016 conference in San Francisco. “The money’s rolling in, and this is fun.”

By the fall of 2020, “There is wall-to-wall coverage for every outrageous word and action,” wrote CJR, “often leading outlets to inadvertently report incorrect information in their bid to keep everyone glued to their seats. They fact-check Trump constantly, but often only after airing – and, in many cases, repeating – misinformation. This can create what psychologists call an ‘illusory truth effect,’ where people end up remembering the falsehood, forgetting the correction, and then attributing their misinformation to the very source that had tried to correct it!” Of course, the media’s corrections haven’t always been correct, further misleading the public and confusing the heck out of anybody foolish enough not to unearth more details to check the validity of their information.

Thus, Trump Derangement Syndrome was born, an inadvertent creation that might’ve been unintentionally created by those responsible for keeping the electorate informed. What’s funny but not laughable is that some people within the press believe Trump wrecked the credibility of journalism. Yet a strong case could be made that legacy media outlets, in their coverage of Trump, destroyed their own credibility. […]

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We Told You So

Here’s a quote from the premier American fashion magazine, Vogue:

“As sure as black women have proven themselves to be the often-underappreciated backbone of the Democratic party [sic], white women voters are establishing themselves as maddeningly, confusingly . . . unsisterly.”

But here’s the catch: This comment isn’t new. Liberty Nation News first featured the quote back in 2018. Still licking their wounds from the 2016 loss to Trump, the left finally turned on their beloved “sisters.” Fast-forward to November 5, 2024, and one can easily see it wasn’t just white women who handed President Donald Trump a supersized victory. It came from several – if not all – sectors of the electorate. Here are a few facts plucked out of the exit poll results by Edison Research/NEP via Statista:

Trump Demographic Gains from 2020

• Hispanic voters – plus 13%
• Hispanic men – plus 18%
• Hispanic women – plus 7%
• Black men – plus 1%*
• Black women – minus 2%*
• White women – minus 3%
• All women – plus 2%
• Voters 18 to 29 – plus 6% […]

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The Podcast Election

Technology has always been a vital tool in presidential elections, but a new device or medium occasionally comes along and transforms how campaigns are run and where they put their focus and energy. The rise of television no doubt benefitted John F. Kennedy. Donald Trump took advantage of Twitter during his 2016 run and won. This year, podcast interviews became the dominant medium.

“[T]raditional television . . . is getting a little bit older and maybe less significant,” Trump said on Lex Fridman’s podcast in September. He’s not wrong. Traditional interviews at cable news networks can appear rigid and are often dulled by the same talking points and ready-made answers that voters have already heard. Viewers probably don’t learn much about candidates in these situations other than how well presidential hopefuls can deflect unwanted questions. Also, American’s trust in mainstream media remains at an all-time low, which probably wasn’t helped by CBS’ editorial decision to change one of Harris’ answers during an interview with Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes, an act that could further deter people from watching future interviews on legacy media outlets.

Not only do podcasts appeal to a wider demographic, but they give candidates a more casual environment, enabling them to relax more. Unlike interviews on CNN or NBC, where the interviewer is limited to editorial guidelines and must stick to a strict schedule and time limit, genuine discussions happen between a pod-host and a candidate. A sort of stream-of-consciousness takes place. Trump appeared on multiple podcasts and discussed a variety of topics, including UFOs, professional fighting, golf, lakes, forestry management, electric cars, and whale psychiatry. Halfway through his interview with Joe Rogan on October 25, the two sounded like pals from high school. Conversations like these break away from the usual political façade and humanize candidates. […]

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, is one of the most left-leaning governors in the country. He is also one of the richest men in the country. Pritzker is an heir to the Hyatt hotel family fortune and enjoys an estimated net worth of $3.7 billion.

Pritzker is using that money pile to promote pro-abortion referendums in eight states in 2024, none of which he happens to reside in.

Citizen Initiatives?

Pritzker’s “nonprofit group, Think Big America – which has already invested millions of dollars in abortion-rights initiatives in four states – just expanded into four more states where questions are on the ballot: Maryland, South Dakota, Nebraska and Missouri, according to plans first shared with NBC News,” the network reported Oct. 29.

The dollar amounts involved are impactful. […]

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Beginning on Oct. 21 until yesterday, Oct. 28, 14 national polls were released by the supposed best and brightest polling firms in the United States. One can only imagine what it costs to find out so little. Of the nationwide surveys released in this short time, seven claim that only one point or less separates the presidential candidates:

• New York Times/Siena: TIE
• Emerson: TIE
• TIPP: TIE
• CNN: TIE
• CBS News: Harris +1
• Rasmussen: Harris +1
• USA TODAY/Suffolk: Harris +1

Four ties. Really? Could it be that some folks fear putting their stamp on something meaningful? Have pollsters come down with a severe case of the gun-shy flu? Meanwhile, the other seven results are not precisely earth-shattering but at least provide the reader with some information:

• CNBC: Trump +2
• Forbes: Trump +2
• WSJ: Trump +3
• Economist/YouGov national multi-candidate: Harris +3
• Reuters/Ipsos: Harris +3
• Morning Consult: Harris +4
• ABC News/Ipsos: Harris +4 […]

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There are many ways to judge the state of a presidential or Senate race beyond the tsunami of polls we attempt to process in the run-up to Election Day. While the trajectory of national and swing-state polling appears to favor the former president with just days to go until all votes are cast, the behavior of Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and down-ballot candidates on both sides is arguably even more revealing.

Trump was pumped up as he put it all on the line in a much-ballyhooed rally on Sunday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden. To the strains of a live version of God Bless the USA, the 45th president strode onto the stage of the world’s most famous arena, after being introduced to the overflow audience by his wife for the last major speech of his third and final presidential campaign of an era he has largely defined. He channeled Ronald Reagan by kicking off his speech with that oft-repeated rhetorical question: Are you better off than you were four years ago? He spoke of a new golden age and reprised his most famous phrase prior to entering the political stage: “Kamala, you’re fired.”

He accused Vice President Harris of “shattering the middle class,” while promising to “make America affordable again.” He promised to end inflation and stop the invasion of criminals on the southern border, and to “build the greatest economy in the history of the world.” He reiterated his proposals to do away with taxes on tips, overtime, and social security benefits, and announced a new tax credit for caregivers, and making interest on car loans tax-deductible – but only for cars made in America. He reiterated his enthusiastic support for tariffs and used video clips about a vicious Venezuelan gang that has seized control of apartment complexes in Colorado and Texas, promising to reinstitute the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. He called for the death penalty for killing a police officer and for making sanctuary cities illegal.

The speech covered the waterfront, and – as most close observers say – Trump is in the zone, appearing happier than at any other time since he strode onto the political stage. And since we know the Donald loves nothing more than winning, that tells you something by itself. His speeches have become loftier, more uplifting, his rhetoric centering more around prospects for the future instead of grievances about the past. He has clearly adopted the stance of a Reagan-style happy warrior more than during his previous two campaigns for the White House. His recent maneuver at McDonald’s, designed to embarrass Harris and her unverifiable claim that she worked at America’s favorite restaurant, revealed a comfortable and enduring connection between the New York billionaire and everyday Americans. […]

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Pundits Predict Trouble

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer encapsulated the stalling campaign of Kamala Harris in a brief but damning denouement on Thursday. He said:

“I’m hearing this from top Republicans and top Democrats, that Harris seems to have stalled out a bit in the last couple of weeks. You know, she had a great rollout, great convention, very successful debate, but she seemed to have plateaued. One top Republican said two weeks ago, I would’ve said that she was a slight favorite. He said today I’d say Trump is a slight favorite.”

His sentiment here was echoed by colleague Chris Wallace (formerly of Fox News), who said, prior to Obama’s PA stump efforts, that Harris’ campaign had “plateaued,” and he suggested that heavy hitters were needed to shore up falling support. “Barack Obama is probably the most popular democrat in the country,” he said. “I think you see him, he’s gonna be in Pittsburgh tonight you’ll see him in a lot of urban areas, obviously, trying to help Kamala Harris with a weakness she has with younger below 50 black men.”

And he was 100% correct that Obama made that pitch. […]

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