News about Chuck Grassley

It continues to raise questions about the roles of each agency and office involved in securing Trump's rally site that day.

Iran-backed entities plotted to target and potentially assassinate American politicians, newly reveal FBI documents uncovered. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) discovered that these plotters discussed targeting Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and former presidential candidate Nikki Haley as well as other American 'politicians, military people or bureaucrats.' The plans were an attempt to retaliate against the U.S. for Iranian military officer Qasem Soleimani's death.

Thomas Matthew Crooks joined a gun club less than a year before shooting Donald Trump. The would-be assassin visited the range 43 times and through 2024 went to target practice three to six times per month, according to records obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Clairton Sportsmen's Club turned over the documents to Grassley the logs of the times when Crooks visited the club.

The Secret Service's now-top leader Ronald Rowe admitted he had no defense as for why the rooftop where Thomas Matthew Crooks fired shots toward former President Trump was left open. '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. What I saw made me ashamed 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,' he told Congress on Tuesday. Crooks fired eight rounds toward Trump, killing firefighter veteran Corey Comperatore, critically injuring two and grazing Trump with a bullet in his ear. Acting Director Rowe and Deputy Secret Service Director Paul Abbate testified in a rare joint Senate hearing on Tuesday.

Newly revealed texts between the Beaver County emergency services team reveal that local law enforcement was understaffed on the day of the rally due to a lack of available workers. According to one unnamed team leader, he only had a few people available because 'everyone else is either working, on vacation or hurt.' An unnamed team leader wrote to a text chat that they had been 'requested by Butler to assist' and needed six people to step up for the 12-hour detail. Two offered to do so for the whole time, and two more offered to split the Saturday shift. The messages were obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

The chilling clip shows law enforcement agents stood around the lifeless body of Thomas Crooks, 20, (inset) moments after he shot at Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The officers discuss with a Secret Service agent (bottom right) how Crooks was identified as a 'suspicious' person prior to unleashing the hail of bullets which grazed Trump and killed fire fighter Corey Comperatrore. The clip shows Crooks' lying in a pool of blood next to the rifle used in the shooting.

Whistleblowers revealed that former Secretary of State John Kerry used a secret email address while serving as the nation's top diplomat under President Obama. The allegations mean Kerry is yet another Obama official who used an alternative alias, then-Vice President Joe Biden did so as well. Hillary Clinton, when she served as Secretary of State under Obama, also was famously embroiled in a scandal regarding State Department files by storing some that were meant to be top secret on a personal web server. The whistleblowers uncovered Kerry's secret email to Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. The two in turn sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, demanding he take action on the allegations. 'We want to know whether then-Secretary Kerry properly complied with all federal records laws and regulations with respect to his official email communications and whether responses to relevant Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] requests have properly included that email address in productions to requestors,' the lawmakers wrote to Blinken.

Reps. Rich McCormick and Beth Van Duyne went public with their relationship after DailyMail.com reported he had filed for divorce and been seen frequently with her, but they're far from the first couple to meet and fall in love on Capitol Hill. In a field that demands overlap between professional and personal, the deeply ambitious, sometimes-awkward staffers that prop up the U.S. government often meet and find spouses at work. Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer is a famous matchmaker within his office -  Sen. Chuck Grassley boasted last year that his office had paired up 20 married couples. And a handful of House members have preceded McCormick and Van Duyne in dating while they're both in office. Here are the details of those relationships.

In a rare display of bipartisanship, the House passed a sprawling tax bill on Wednesday evening. The $78 billion plan would extend the child tax credit and bring back common research and development tax deductions. It also includes low-income housing tax credits and tax waivers for Taiwan, as well as offsets the cost by reducing payroll tax exemptions. Due to some GOP resistance, the bill would be considered to be subjected to a suspension of the rules. Some hard right Republicans are against the bill's tax credit extension, although some progressives are likely to oppose it, arguing that the bill does not expand the child tax credit sufficiently.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior senator from Iowa, has been hospitalized due to an infection and is now receiving antibiotic infusions, meaning he will miss critical votes as a government shutdown looms. Following doctors' orders, Grassley, the oldest member of the senate at 90, will return to work as soon as possible,' his office said in a tweet. No further information regarding his health were given. His withdrawal from the upper chamber comes just days before a critical deadline is set to prevent a partial government shutdown. If funding rules are not approved by Saturday, several government departments will run out of funds, and employees will be asked to stay home on Monday.

Thousands of Iowa voters will vote for president on Monday from 1,657 precincts in the chilly, snow-covered state. They will gather at churches, high schools, gym, and golf courses at 7 p.m. Central Time (8 p.m. Eastern) to write their preferred candidate's name on a blank piece of paper in a tradition that dates back to 1972. Iowa's position at the start of the primary calendar makes it and its three million people, an outsized but highly influential vote in determining the Republican nominee. In key states, the winner gains traction and climbs to 40 delegates for the convention.

On January 15, the 2024 Republican presidential race in the rural farm state of Iowa will officially begin as voters announce their choice for who should be the Republican nominee. Unlike other states, Iowa uses a 'caucus' system, which requires residents to arrive at a designated time at a designated location at a predetermined time. Iowa's position in the primary calendar and the three million people it represents, gives it a disproportionate vote in the presidential nominating competition.

Dylan Butler, who shot and killed a fellow student in Iowa on Thursday and injured five others before committing suicide, has been bullied since elementary school, according to classmates. His younger sister was getting picked on as well. The teachers' final straw' for the shooter was that no one interfered, according to the classmates, and that was 'the last straw' for the shooter. He was ill.' He was exhausted.' He was drained. He got sick of the bullying. Yesenia Roeder Hall, 17, said, he was sick of the bullying.' 'Was it a smart idea to shoot up the school? No. No,' God, no.'

In 2017, top GOP congressional lawyers were probing the Justice Department for the tense Russian collusion investigation, codenamed 'Crossfire Hurricane'. However, new reports show that the DoJ office they were investigating was espionaging on their phone calls and emails during a reportedly unlawful 'fishing expedition.' Tejpal Chawla, a federal prosecutor who has contributed to Democratic campaigns, is one of the most notable participants in the scandalous investigation, according to DailyMail.com.

Grassley wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland that the databases had been operated by various FBI units and provided the bureau with information regarding potential offences by Hunter, James and Joe Biden. Grassley learned that an FBI task force within the Washington Field Office tried to, and successfully stopped reporting from those sources by inaccurately discrediting the facts, according to a letter seen by DailyMail.com.

Chuck Grassley and Chuck Schumer are eliminating dating services in Washington, D.C., and deploying their workers inside the White House's romantic walls. Sen. Paul Ryan, California's oldest member of congress after the death of Diane Feinstein, has a reputation for being Cupid amongst his employees. On the other hand of the aisle, he faces rival Chuck in whom he has already seen 14 babies born as a result of his own matchmaking. Employees from New York's Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer, 72, have also contracted the White House love bug, with 11 marriages between 22 of Schumer's employees.

Sen. Charles Grassley was born in 1933 and has served in the Senate for 43 years. He turned 90 at a time when President Joe Biden and Senator Dianne Feinstein were asked about his age. He celebrated with Dairy Cream ice cream inside the Senate, where the median age of 65 years has reached 65 years. It comes as voters continue to question President Joe Biden, 80, over his age in opinion polls.

According to a Fox News poll from August 11-14, fifty percent of voters said the first son had engaged in unlawful conduct relating to his foreign business dealings, up from 44 percent in April 2023 and 37 percent in February 2023. Democrats are now twice as likely to believe Hunter did something wrong as they were before, 19 percent believe it now, though only 9 percent did in February. Suspicions of unlawful conduct have grown by 21% in February from 30 percent to 50 percent, with Republicans and 11 percent with Republicans, from 69 to 80 percent. And more Americans believe Trump, who is now facing four separate indictments, committed crimes: 53%. This week, Fulton County District Attorney Frani Willis was the most recently charged with trying to reverse the 2020 election results in Georgia.

Senators Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said the latest evidence shows that DARPA funded a proposal pertaining to the Democratic National Committee servers. After unearthing a new email revealing links between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and computer scientists probing who was behind the cyber attack that shook the presidential campaign, they are asking responses. Special Counsel John Durham found no proof that Trump conspired with Moscow to assist him in deposing Hillary Clinton in a damning report. Since then, the hunt for those responsible for propaging fake reports of Trump's Kremlin's ties to politicians and the media has intensified. The hack resulted in a leak of emails blaming Clinton and the DNC, and some believe it played a role in Trump's demise.

Republicans also released a highly awaited internal FBI report pledging Joe and Hunter Biden to a $10 million criminal bribery scheme. Based on details from a highly paid informant, the FBI FD-1023 model was launched on June 30, 2020 and brought to the attention of Republicans by a whistleblower. It's a $10 million 'arrangement' for a transfer of funds for strategic decisions involving then-Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and a Ukrainian oil executive. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, obtained and published the paper following a months of back-and-forth between the top Republican and the FBI through 'legally shielded leaks' by Department of Justice (DOJ) whistleblowers.

Sen. Chuck Grassley argues that IRS agents were deliberately left out of a 2020 briefing to Hunter Biden prosecutor a suspected $10 million 'criminal bribery scheme' between Joe, Hunter and a foreign national. Grassley was sent by Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is prosecuting Hunter Biden for federal firearms and tax evasion, according to a letter sent by DailyMail.com that the senator suspects interference in the Hunter investigation by one of his top attorneys, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf. According to Grassley, Wolf "prevented investigators from seeking information about Joe Biden's involvement in Hunter Biden's criminal conduct."

Following the release of his scathing report indicating that the Department of Justice and the FBI had no reason to launch the Trump-Russia investigation, House Judiciary Committee Republicans are set to grill Special Counsel John Durham today at a public hearing today. Durham was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr in 2019 to look at misconduct relating to the 'Crossfire Hurricane', which prosecuted now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion allegations. He said four years later that the FBI launched the flawed investigation "based on raw, untested, and uncorroborated intelligence." On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will welcome Durham in a public setting.

Oversight Chair James Comer has announced that he will shortly obtain bank records revealing that the Biden family received upwards of $20 to $30 million from foreign nationals. This week, we have new bank records that may have surpassed ten million.' Comer, R-Ky., told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo that we should get between 20 and 30 million dollars, and that we should get between 20 and 30 million dollars. Sen. Chuck Grassley said this week that the Burisma executive who allegedly paid Joe Biden a bribe has retained 17 audio recordings of phone calls as part of his 'insurance program.' According to a 'highly credible' whistleblower, an internal FD-1023 memo released in 2020 based on details from a highly paid FBI informant, there is clearly a $5 million 'arrangement' between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.

The bill is unlikely to be up for a vote in the Democrat-led Senate for the first time since 2020, but it comes as borrowers around the nation brace for student loan bills for the first time since 2020. A group of Republicans from the Health Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee launched their plan before reporters, explaining that factor in rising college tuition rates is cheap federal student loans. Sen. John Kerry (no.): Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., John Cornyn, R-Texas, Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Steve Daines were among the bills that were included in the package. 'A government blank check to the universities has exacerbated the universities's problems in the last 35 years.' Tuberville said that unlimited government loans haven't done anything to raise the cost of education. We're here today to say that enough is enough.'