The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3:

5:05pm- While speaking to the press in Philadelphia, PA, Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance implored the media to begin asking Kamala Harris tough questions about her far-left record. Despite becoming the party’s presumptive nominee over two-weeks ago, Harris has not answered any serious questions from the press or conducted an interview. Rich wonders, is she copying Joe Biden’s “basement campaign” strategy?

5:10pm- Disturbing Kamala Clip: In December 2003, then-District Attorney of San Francisco Kamala Harris speaks on Google’s campus: “The power I have as a prosecutor is that with a swipe of my pen, I can charge someone with a misdemeanor—the lowest level offense possible. And by virtue of that swipe of my pen you will have to go to a courthouse…you will have to come out of pocket and hire an attorney, you may get arrested for a few hours, you will be embarrassed in your community.”

5:20pm- Kamala Harris & The First Amendment: The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes: “We keep looking for an issue, any issue, on which Kamala Harris differs with the Democratic left, but we keep coming up empty. That includes her party’s use of lawfare against political opponents, as an episode while she was California Attorney General reminds us. Ms. Harris made headlines a decade ago by threatening to punish nonprofit groups that refused to turn over unredacted donor information. She demanded they hand to the state their federal IRS Form 990 Schedule B in the name of discovering ‘self dealing’ or ‘improper loans.’ The real purpose was to learn the names of conservative donors and chill future political giving—that is, political speech…The [Supreme Court] said California’s claim that it would protect donor information lacked credibility, since during the litigation plaintiffs discovered nearly 2,000 Schedule B forms ‘inadvertently posted to the Attorney General’s website’ It noted that the petitioners and donors faced ‘threats’ and ‘retaliation.’” You can read the full editorial here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/kamala-harris-california-attorney-general-lawfare-americans-for-prosperity-foundation-v-bonta-supreme-court-611a96f7?mod=opinion_lead_pos2

5:40pm- Tim Walz is the King of Covid Waste: Jim Geraghty of National Review writes that “the state’s handing hundreds of millions of dollars to Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future, the largest Covid-aid fraud scheme in the country. Announcing the federal fraud indictment against the Feeding Our Future nonprofit, FBI director Christopher Wray called it ‘an egregious plot to steal public funds meant to care for children in need in what amounts to the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme yet. The defendants went to great lengths to exploit a program designed to feed underserved children in Minnesota amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, fraudulently diverting millions of dollars designated for the program for their own personal gain.’ The nonprofit reportedly used a quarter of a billion dollars in federal funds to purchase luxury cars, houses, jewelry, and coastal resort property abroad. What does this have to do with Governor Tim Walz, you ask? Well, a state legislative audit concluded that the Minnesota Department of Education was asleep at the wheel and for years had ignored red flags concerning the nonprofit…Every state government deals with waste, fraud, and abuse. But no other state has ever gotten taken to the cleaners to the tune of a quarter of a billion dollars.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/harris-vp-short-lister-comes-loaded-with-baggage/