Ambassador Monica Crowley, the U.S. government’s chief of protocol, said the administration will “soon” produce evidence that proves President Trump won the 2020 election.
Ms. Crowley, speaking Wednesday at an event hosted by Breitbart News, didn’t reveal more about the evidence but expressed confidence in what it would show.
“He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that,” she said.
That matches comments by other high officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel, who have talked about evidence of a conspiracy to subvert the 2020 vote, which made President Joseph R. Biden the victor over Mr. Trump’s vehement objections.
The claims that were raised during and immediately after the election were all rejected by courts and Congress, which confirmed Mr. Biden’s victory.
But a federal grand jury in Florida is newly pursuing the matter, and the Justice Department has hired and deployed Joe diGenova, a Trump ally, to help the U.S. attorney’s office in southern Florida with the case.
Ms. Crowley suggested that Mr. Trump should have served in the previous term from 2021 to 2025, but added that it’s fitting he’s in office now to oversee this year’s World Cup soccer extravaganza and the 2028 Olympics, both in America.
Ms. Crowley, who said her job as chief of protocol makes her “America’s ambassador,” also teased the upcoming 250th celebration of America’s independence, saying it gives the nation a chance to rally around “our shared values.”
Events include a national prayer event, rodeo, UFC fights and an Indy Car race, along with a 110-foot Ferris wheel on the National Mall.
Ms. Crowley also praised the president’s approach to China, noting that heading into the upcoming meeting with President Xi Jinping, Mr. Trump “holds all the cards.”
“Every American who has the resources to go to China must go to see what we are up against,” Ms. Crowley said. “President Trump understands it. He gets that the CCP is an existential threat.”
Justice Gorsuch celebrates ’crazy radical ideas’ of 1776
As the nation prepares for its 250th anniversary of independence, Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wants Americans to understand just how much of an accomplishment that was.
His new children’s book, “Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence,” tries to do just that.
He said notions that political rights came not from a king or country but from God and citizens enjoyed them equally were “crazy, radical ideas.”
“That’s what unites us,” he said at a book launch at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California on Tuesday.
The 48-page book, published by HarperCollins, is aimed at children from preschool to elementary school and tells the story of the people behind the Declaration of Independence.
“We are about to celebrate our 250th birthday, and I know you are going to enjoy — you young ones — parades, fireworks, picnics. We all should, but maybe we need to take a moment to reflect on the declaration that started it all — the ideas in the declaration that unite us, and the people with their incredible courage and sacrifice,” Justice Gorsuch said.
He pointed to an account, retold in his book, of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson sparring over who would write the declaration — with each urging the other to do it.
While debating the issue, Jefferson, a Virginian, finally asked Adams, from Massachusetts, why he was so insistent that the Southerner write it. Adams replied that having a Virginian do it was important to get broader support among the 13 Colonies, plus he admitted Jefferson was more popular in the country — and a better writer.
“There are superheroes in our past,” Justice Gorsuch said.
When Pete Hegseth got to be Santa Claus
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a video message at the Defender of Freedom Gala in Virginia’s Pentagon City last week, fondly recalled his cold morning in Minnesota years ago when he delivered joy to a veteran and his family.
Mr. Hegseth was part of “Fox & Friends,” a Fox News program, when Freedom Alliance, an organization that helps military service members and veterans, asked him to help give away a mortgage-free home to the man.
“I watched as his kids ran through the house,” the secretary said. “It was the first house the family had ever owned. Programs like these from Freedom Alliance transform lives.”
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