Joe Biden referred to himself as a “former president” during an address Monday night in Texas where he spiraled into another incoherent tirade about the Supreme Court. WATCH – Confused Biden calls himself a ‘former President.’Who is running the country?pic.twitter.com/9hUczQo0VS— The First (@TheFirstonTV) July 30, 2024

American tennis star Coco Gauff was brought to tears during her 7-6 (9-7), 6-2 loss to Croatian player Donna Vekić in the third round of the tournament on Tuesday after an intense argument with the chair umpire of the match.

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After Turkish Islamist President Recep Erdogan threatened to invade Israel, the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, a staunch defender of the Jewish state and a hardline opponent of Islamism, blasted Erdogan, calling for Turkey to be kicked out of NATO. “Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do similar to them,” Erdogan threatened on Sunday. “There is no reason why we cannot do this.” “Islamofascist Erdogan threatens to invade Israel,” Wilders wrote on X. “This guy is totally nuts. Turkey should be kicked out of NATO.” Islamofascist Erdogan threatens to invade Israel. This guy is totally nuts. Turkey should be kicked out of NATO. https://t.co/pYXHNi9XQ8 — Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) July 28, 2024   Wilders became the kingmaker in The Netherlands after his PVV party became the biggest Party in the Dutch parliament in the November 2023 national election. The resulting coalition found Wilders’ PVV joined with the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), and the New Social Contract (NSC). As far back as 2009, Wilders predicted the PVV would eventually become the Netherlands’ biggest party. In 2007, Wilder stated: Islam is the Trojan Horse in Europe. If we do not stop Islamification now, Eurabia and Netherabia will just be a matter of time. One century ago, there were approximately 50 Muslims in the Netherlands. Today, there are about 1 million Muslims in this country. Where will it end? We are heading for the end of European and Dutch civilization as we know it. He added of Erdogan, “As Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said the other day, and I quote, ‘There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.’” In 2010, he asserted, “If Jerusalem falls into the hands of the Muslims, Athens and Rome will be next. Thus, Jerusalem is the main front protecting the West. It is not a conflict over territory but rather an ideological battle, between the mentality of the liberated West and the ideology of Islamic barbarism. There has been an independent Palestinian state since 1946, and it is the kingdom of Jordan.”

A formerly tenured history professor at a community college in California will receive a multi-million dollar settlement after being investigated and disciplined for criticizing the school’s social justice initiatives. Matthew Garrett, who previously taught at Bakersfield College, was fired last year following allegations of racial discrimination – which The Daily Wire proved were untrue. He and the school have now agreed to a $2.4 million settlement, The College Fix reported. Garrett will receive $2,245,480 spread out over the next 20 years through monthly payments – which amounts to just over $9,000 a month. He will also receive an immediate one-time payment of $154,520 as “compensation for back wages and medical benefits since [his] dismissal,” the settlement agreement says. For his part, Garrett agreed to resign from his position with the Kern Community College District, and administrators for the KCCD will withdraw and seal any accusations against him regarding “unprofessional conduct.” “After five years of administrative misconduct, a decisive courtroom display exonerated me of all allegations and exposed that Kern Community College District engaged in flagrant retaliation for my questioning of partisan policies and wasteful expenditures,” Garrett told the Fix in an email. “Facing an imminent ruling in my favor and the prospect of paying millions of dollars in damages, KCCD had only one viable option: settlement. I am grateful to the many who stood by my side during this difficult time and invite them to join in our triumph.” Garrett’s troubles began in 2019 when he defended free speech on campus, which some claimed was offensive. During a meeting on December 13, 2022, John Corkins, vice president of the KCCD, threatened to take conservative faculty “to the slaughterhouse” based on false allegations of racism leveled against Garrett and a colleague from an October 11, 2022, diversity meeting. The allegations centered around claims made by students who attended the meeting in support of professor Paula Parks, who obtained her doctorate in philosophy at Capella University and runs Bakersfield’s Umoja ASTEP program, described on its website as “a program that integrates academics, support services and African-American culture.” After that meeting, Parks’ students began publicly claiming that their mentor was smeared by Matthew Garrett, who has a doctorate in American history from Arizona State University and teaches history and ethnic studies at Bakersfield. One student, Jordyn Davis, submitted a written comment to Bakersfield’s academic senate with an alleged direct quote of Garrett saying, “Dr. Parks’ way of teaching is not…” and saying this made her feel “a mixture of confusion and concern.” In additional comments to the KCCD Board of Trustees in December, Davis claimed that Garrett “went on to insult Dr. Parks,” which she insisted “felt very personal and came from a place of hate.” In both instances, Davis began her remarks by saying Garrett “insisted” that a survey purporting to show students of color experienced “racial stress,” “race-based physical aggression,” and “microaggressions” was incorrect. Audio of the October 11 meeting, in which Garrett was alleged to have made the comments, shows that Garrett did ask whether the underlying survey was valid and suggested doing another survey since the original was conducted during the pandemic when students weren’t on campus. He also suggested at the beginning of his comments that he was “concerned about repeated appeals to popularity as evidence of truth” and indicated to Andrea Thorson, Bakersfield’s dean of instruction, that she teaches in her class that this is bad logic. But he did not mention Parks during his remarks. Two other students also submitted comments to the academic senate. One claimed she felt “very uncomfortable” after walking into the room and seeing “a few of the faculty’s faces.” She also claimed that she “felt” that if she were to take those professors’ classes, she “would fail in the classes because of the color of my skin.” Another accusation centered around comments made by Ximena Da Silva Tavares, a research assistant who received her doctor of philosophy from Caltech. Parks read an accusation from a student at the December board meeting who claimed Da Silva Tavares said during the October meeting that racism doesn’t exist. Da Silva Tavares brought up her own concerns about how the survey showing students of color were the victims of racism on campus was collected and whether there really was an issue of racism on campus. She ended her remarks by saying she and other professors “question the solutions of the problems” and “question even the problems that you’re saying that we have.” When asked about the allegations against Garrett and other members of the diversity committee, Parks spoke about the “trauma” her students endured at the meeting. “When I take students to a campus committee meeting, I want them to be positively educated about how an educational institution works, not traumatized and questioning whether they want to enter the profession,” Parks said. Parks was then asked how her students were “traumatized.” She didn’t respond. “Call me old fashioned but I believe in truth and evidence-based reasoning,” Garrett told The Daily Wire last year. “In an age of emotional incontinence we need to remember that while feelings do matter they cannot displace facts.”

Acting Secret Service Ronald Rowe said on Tuesday he “cannot defend” why the rooftop where a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump was not “better secured.” The admission came as Rowe delivered his opening statement during testimony before the Senate’s Judiciary and Homeland Security committees to give testimony about the security lapse. Rowe said one of his first actions as acting director was to visit Butler, Pennsylvania, and examine the location where the shooting took place earlier this month. “I went to the roof of the AGR building where the assailant fired shots and I laid in a prone position to evaluate his line of sight,” he said. “What I saw made me ashamed,” Rowe added. “As a career law enforcement officer, and a 25-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured.” Rowe also said it was his understanding the Secret Service’s counter-sniper teams and Trump’s security detail did not know the assailant was on the roof with a firearm until they heard gunshots. “Prior to that, they were operating with the knowledge that local law enforcement was working an issue of a suspicious individual prior to the shots being fired,” he said. Questions have been raised about how the gunman, identified as a 20-year-old man named Thomas Matthew Crooks, managed to get onto a nearby rooftop and begin shooting with a rifle. A Secret Service sniper shot and killed Crooks while other personnel rushed to protect Trump and escort him off the stage, but not before the former president got hit in the right ear. One rallygoer, 50-year-old fireman Corey Comperatore, was killed. Two others were wounded and have been released from the hospital in recent days. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned last week, one day after testifying before the House as she faced backlash over the security failure underlying the Trump rally shooting. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas then announced that Rowe, the Secret Service’s deputy director, would become acting director. Rowe said on Tuesday that it was clear to him that “other protective enhancements could have strengthened our security” at the rally and listed some directives he made. The acting director said he ordered the “expanded” use of drones to detect elevated threats and directed resources to “facilitate” communications, particularly with state and local partners. Rowe said he directed protective detail requests to be approved “expeditiously” and ordered the “maximum use” of requested personnel at protective sites to address “this heightened security environment.” The Secret Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility is conducting a review, and any employee shown to have violated agency protocols “will be held accountable to our disciplinary process,” Rowe said. Rowe also declared that he instructed staff to provide “full cooperation and respond expeditiously on a continuing basis” to congressional investigations.

Three pro-life activists targeted by the Biden administration over a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility were sentenced by a federal judge Tuesday to three years of probation, including 90 days of house arrest.  Judge Chip Frensley sentenced Eva Zastrow, James Zastrow, and Paul Place, who were convicted in April of violating the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law guaranteeing entry into abortion facilities. The trio faced a maximum penalty of six months in prison, five years of probation, and a $10,000 fine. The three were also sentenced to time served, which began back in October 2022 when they were first charged. The terms of their house arrest will include exceptions for work and church. The Biden Justice Department charged the activists over their participation in a pro-life protest at Carefem, a Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, abortion facility, on March 5, 2021. On that day, a group of demonstrators gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside Carafem. The group prayed, sang hymns, and urged women showing up to the clinic to not get abortions.  Prosecutors said the protesters sat in front of doors at Carafem and blocked women from coming inside. Frensley convicted them during a bench trial in April after less than 30 minutes of deliberation.  During their trial, lawyers for the defendants said that their clients were merely practicing their faith in a peaceful manner. Place’s lawyers argued the trial demonstrated massive overreach by the federal government, saying that the Biden administration was prosecuting “people who were simply expressing their beliefs in a non-violent way.” The three protesters spoke of their Christian faiths when given an opportunity to talk during Tuesday’s sentencing hearing. James Zastrow said he was “obeying a higher law” when he took part in the protest, and expressed his belief that “preborn children are people.” Eva Zastrow said her only ambition was to love God and her neighbors. She said that “God personally identified with the weak and vulnerable” and that she didn’t want anyone harmed at Carafem. Choking up, she read a poem she had written about the value of children.  Place said everything he did at Carafem was done out of love, adding that “children are a blessing from the Lord.” Over a dozen supporters gathered Tuesday morning outside the courthouse to pray and sing before the sentencing. They sang songs Christian hymns including “Rescue the Perishing” and “Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus.” Earlier this month, four others charged with violating the FACE Act and a felony charge of conspiring against civil rights over the same protest were sentenced in Nashville. One protester, Calvin Zastrow, was given six months in prison over his participation in the protest. The Justice Department had requested over two years of incarceration.  Three of his co-defendants, Paul Vaughn, Dennis Green, and Coleman Boyd, all avoided jail time.