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biden Former President Trump blasted President Biden's "no comment" response to the deadly wildfires in Hawaii, calling it "absolutely horrible and unacceptable." In a Monday TruthSocial video, Trump weighed in on the deadly wildfires in Maui that killed scores of people.  "I would like to express my sympathy and warmest regards to the people of Hawaii, and specifically all of those who have been so gravely and irreparably hurt by the tragedy of the wildfires in Maui, something the likes of which have seldom been seen anywhere at anytime," Trump said. HAWAII DEMOCRAT SAYS BIDEN'S ‘NO COMMENT’ ON WILDFIRES ‘SHOCKING’: ‘I WOULD EXPECT MORE’ "The death caused by this catastrophic event will be far worse than ever expected now that houses and cars and other areas are being inspected," Trump continued. "The sad thing is it should never have happened." Trump also took aim at Democrat Hawaii Governor Josh Green's response to the deadly blaze before blasting Biden's "no comment" response. The former president said our "government was not prepared and very importantly the aftermath is going very poorly with the governor of the island[s] wanting to do nothing but blame it on global warming and other things that just happen to pop into his head." "When asked about it today while getting into a car, perhaps coming home from the beach where he has been spending a great deal of time, crooked Joe Biden, the most incompetent president in the history of our country, with a laugh and a smile said he had ‘no comment’ on the death and the tragedy. To say ‘no comment’ is oftentimes fine, but to be smiling when you say it, especially against such a tragedy as this, is absolutely horrible and unacceptable." "It is a disgraceful thing that Joe Biden refuses to help or comment on the tragedy in Maui, just as he refused to comment on the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio for a very, very long time," Trump added. "To the families affected, I give you my love and my sympathy," Trump said. "Nothing can ever replace your loved ones, but you will always have the memories and will feel their great love surrounding and embracing you." "Together we will continue to carry their legacy forward and I love you very much," he added. Democratic National Committee spokesperson Ammar Moussa torched Trump's response in a post on X, formerly Twitter, comparing the two presidents' emergency response records. "President Biden immediately signed an emergency declaration to get Hawaii the help they need," Moussa wrote. "Trump on the other hand." A Hawaii Democrat criticized President Biden’s response to reporters’ question about the deadly fires in his state as "shocking" and "quite disappointing." Bloomberg White House correspondent Justin Sink reported Sunday that Biden had nothing to say during his Delaware beach getaway on the rising death toll due to severe wildfires, which reached 96 as of Monday afternoon with hundreds more missing. "After a couple hours on the Rehoboth beach, @potus was asked about the rising death toll in Hawaii ‘No comment,’ he said before heading home," Sink reported on X, formerly known as Twitter. Video footage of the exchange appeared to corroborate Sink’s account. The comment sparked a wave of backlash, including by former Hawaii state Rep. Mark Kaniela Ing, a Democrat who now serves as national director of the Green New Deal Network. "I campaigned for you. Now, when I lose dozens of my friends, family, and neighbors. This?" Kaniela Ing wrote in a now-deleted post. Kaniela Ing told Fox News Digital in a phone interview Monday that he found Biden’s remark "shocking" and out of character. Fox News Digital's Jessica Chasmar contributed reporting.

Former Vice President Mike Pence vowed Sunday to "clean house on the whole top floor" of the Department of Justice if he is elected president in 2024. Pence, who is seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for president, said he knows firsthand what it’s like to be treated unfairly by the DOJ due to what conservatives believe is political bias. "I mean, it started in 2016, when James [Comey] gave Hillary Clinton a pass, right, that no other American would have gotten," he argued. "But then what we found out since is the truth about what was going on during the Mueller investigation." "You know, I lived through that for two and a half years when we were busy rebuilding our military, cutting taxes, unleashing American energy, securing our border, all the while we actually had FBI agents that were falsifying documents and pushing a political agenda within the Justice Department," he continued. PENCE SAYS TRUMP IS ‘MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY' WITH HIS DECISION ABOUT THE IOWA STATE FAIR "It's one of the reasons why I tell people that if I have the privilege of being president of the United States, we're not just gonna have a new attorney general and a new FBI director, Chuck, but I'm gonna clean house on the whole top floor of the Justice Department and demand that we have men and women who are respected on both sides of the aisle as people of integrity who will apply the rule of law in this country equally to every American," he added. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the federal investigation into Hunter Biden. Republicans immediately criticized Garland's selection of Weiss, who led the prosecution in Hunter Biden's tax and gun charges that conservatives blasted as too lax. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., called Garland's announcement "part of the Justice Department’s efforts to attempt a Biden family coverup in light of [House Oversight Republicans'] mounting evidence of President Biden’s role in his family’s schemes selling ‘the brand’ for millions of dollars to foreign nationals." Pence on Sunday placed less confidence in the special counsel’s probe of Hunter Biden than the investigation currently led by House Republicans. "I think Joe Biden has weakened America at home and abroad, but frankly, the pattern of the Justice Department during our four years in the White House and since has undermined public confidence in equal treatment under the law," Pence said.  "And while I welcome the appointment of a special counsel, which is of course appropriate and is a minimum where the attorney general has a potential conflict of interest, I'm also comforted by the fact that Congress is going to continue to do its work," he said. "I'm confident that House Republicans are going to continue to bring forward the facts in this case. The American people have a right to know whether or not President Biden's family benefited or that he himself benefited when he was serving in the job that I had as vice president of the United States in a financial way from foreign nationals." Pence is polling in fourth place in the GOP primary with 5.2% of the vote, behind Vivek Ramaswamy at 6.1%, Ron DeSantis at 15.1%, and former President Donald Trump as the clear front-runner with 54.2%, according to the RealClearPolitics national average.

Officials argue ‘unborn child’ may not have rights under US constitution in lawsuit defense over prison guard stillbirth In defending themselves against a lawsuit, Texas officials have argued that an “unborn child” may not have rights under the US constitution, putting them in tension with arguments made by the state’s attorney’s general’s office as well as Republican lawmakers to support restrictions to abortion. A guard at the state prison in the community of Abilene filed the lawsuit in question after she asserted that her superiors barred her from going to the hospital while she experienced intense labor pains and what she suspected were contractions while seven months pregnant and on duty. Continue reading...