The Biden administration put Americans who defied COVID-19 mask mandates on no-fly lists — some of which are ordinarily used to flag suspected terrorists — according to preliminary findings from an internal Department of Homeland Security investigation obtained by The Post.
DHS flagged 19 Americans to Transportation Security Administration watchlists between Sept. 30, 2021, and Oct. 25, 2021, more than half of whom received the most severe no-fly designation and were prevented from boarding domestic flights as a result.
At least 11 of those Americans were kept on the watchlists until April 2022, when a federal court ruling forced the Biden administration to end its mask mandate.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that “Biden’s TSA wildly abused their authority” when sharing the findings from the internal investigation, first reported by Fox News, into what the prior administration had dubbed Operation Freedom to Breathe.
“Biden’s TSA Administrator [David] Pekoske and his cronies abused their authority and weaponized the federal government against the very people they were charged with protecting,” Noem said in a statement
“President Trump promised to end the weaponization of government against the American people, and we are making good on that promise,” she added.
Noem fired five senior officials associated with the operation and referred relevant information to the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division as well as to members of Congress for further investigation. --->READ MORE HERE
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The president was speaking to the press alongside prescription drug executives on Tuesday when he joked about germs
During a presidential press conference on Tuesday, Donald Trump took a moment to poke fun at his Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
While answering a question about prescription drugs, Trump was interrupted by RFK sneezing. Pausing his remarks, he turned to the HHS head, saying, "God bless you, Bobby."
After a moment, the president added, "I hope I didn't catch COVID just then!"
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was also present for the press conference. Trump turned to the prescription executive and said, "He's got Paxlovid, give me a Paxlovid immediately!" referencing the antiviral medication used to treat COVID-19 symptoms.
Trump was president during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and first contracted the disease during a cluster outbreak at the White House that lasted from September 2020 and ended in January 2021.
In a 2021 memoir by Mark Meadows, Trump's former Chief of Staff, Meadows claimed that the president tested positive for the disease three days before he faced Joe Biden in their first presidential debate on Sept. 29, 2020.
Immediately following the positive results, which were not disclosed to the press or the public, Trump was quickly given another, more accurate test, according to Meadows, who wrote that after a "brief but tense wait" the results came back negative. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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