While ousted GOP Chair Liz Cheney runs to Fox News’ Chris Wallace for her interview (more on that later), her replacement Elise Stefanik appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the priorities of the House Republican Conference, and her perspective in the new role.

Stefanik defends the policies and results of the Trump administration and appears to understand the priorities of the MAGA base.  Stefanik accepts that election integrity and voter confidence is the priority in advance of the 2022 mid-term election.  Additionally, Chairwoman Stefanik supports the Arizona ballot audit taking place in Maricopa County and is prepared for the attacks against her and the GOP policy.

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Journalist Lara Logan gives a very lengthy and insightful answer to a question posed by Jan Jekielek of the The Epoch Times.  This segment is well worth watching, especially for the CTH audience who have been around since our original very lengthy Benghazi Brief was published.   Stay with it… it is all worth hearing.

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Earlier today President Trump delivered remarks on the Maricopa EMS system (not voter files, but actual voter results) database being deleted.  However, it should be noted there are growing suspicions the database was not deleted, but rather the results files were always connected to an external database and that is what the Board of Supervisors are really trying to hide.

PRESIDENT TRUMP – “The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED! This is illegal and the Arizona State Senate, who is leading the Forensic Audit, is up in arms. Additionally, seals were broken on the boxes that hold the votes, ballots are missing, and worse. Mark Brnovich, the Attorney General of Arizona, will now be forced to look into this unbelievable Election crime. Many Radical Left Democrats and weak Republicans are very worried about the fact that this has been exposed.

The DELETION of an entire Database and critical Election files of Maricopa County is unprecedented. Many other States to follow. The Mainstream Media and Radical Left Democrats want to stay as far away as possible from the Presidential Election Fraud, which should be one of the biggest stories of our time. Fox News is afraid to cover it—there is rarely a mention. Likewise, Newsmax has been virtually silent on this subject because they are intimidated by threats of lawsuits. One America News (OAN), one of the fastest growing networks on television, and the “hottest”, is doing a magnificent job of exposing the massive fraud that took place. The story is only getting bigger and at some point it will be impossible for the weak and/or corrupt media not to cover. Thank you to OAN and other brave American Patriots. It is all happening quickly!”

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California Governor Gavin Newsom is taking the federal COVID bailout money to new levels of manipulated intent by using the funds to bail himself out of a recall that is based on the COVID dictates he initiated.

Thus part of the reason why the highly political federal agencies lifted the COVID rules surfaces.  Politically the blue state shutdowns were backfiring, and the ramifications were getting more serious by the day.

The CDC responded to the political shift against JoeBama and lifted their mandates.  Simultaneously, Governor Newsom goes on a spending spree in California to provide bailout money to all the favored leftist causes:

(Via AP) […] His budget released Friday was studded with initiatives favored by his progressive base, including $7.2 billion to pay off people’s outstanding rent and utility bills and $300 million to forgive traffic and other fines for lower-income residents. There also was $35 million to encourage local universal basic income programs and money to give Medicaid benefits to people 60 and older living in the country illegally. (read more)

Will this strategy work for Newsom this year and will it work for Democrats in 2022 mid-terms?…. Only time will tell.  However, the transparency of their political intent is as subtle as a brick through a window.

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The audit in Maricopa County is being paused for ten days to allow the venue to conduct pre-scheduled graduation ceremonies.  The audit will resume on May 24th.  Arizona Chairwoman Kelli Ward provides details of the status so far.

The Maricopa Board of Supervisors is huddling in a private meeting with attorneys to defend themselves against mounting evidence of misconduct during the 2020 election.  No-one knows if the BoS will show up to a public hearing on Tuesday May 18th (1:00pm) as scheduled by the Arizona State Senate.

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Friend of the Treehouse John Spiropoulos attended a freedom rally in Orange County, California, organized against the concept of COVID passports.  The rally included about 800 concerned patriots who see the effort of vaccination passports as an intrusion of privacy as well as a slippery slope of government demanding to see papers in order to engage in constitutional freedom.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Google banned the video within hours of upload from its YouTube platform {Story Here}.  It is quite alarming that a video documenting the rally itself would be deemed against the interests of the government and Big Tech.  However, John uploaded the video series to Rumble so that people could see the rally and support the effort.

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Part II, The Banned Video, below

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Promoting the January 6th protest in Washington DC as a “domestic terrorist” event; and promoting the protest as an “armed insurrection” against the U.S. government; is the cornerstone of the Democrat’s 2022 election effort.   If we watch carefully now we will see an increased emphasis on attacking anyone who might downplay the Democrat narrative.

With their back against the wall on failing and catastrophic policy outcomes; with gas prices skyrocketing; and with the economy stalled due to inflation (ie. stagflation), the democrats are all-in with this “insurrection” narrative as a political tool to distract the voting population from merging crisis of bad policy.

If they do not control the politics of the national conversation the Democrats will be crushed in the 2022 mid-term election.  Ultimately their loss of control over the COVID narrative is what has led to the new CDC guidance about masks.  A false premise can only last as long as the reality can be ignored.  With more people awake to the fraud modifications need to be made.

The Democrats are counting on exploiting the false storyline around the Jan.6th protest.  They will work overdrive in the next few days to attack anyone who puts that narrative at risk.  Cue the example:

(The Hill) Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) on Friday began asking Democratic colleagues to sign on to a resolution to censure three House Republicans who tried this week to minimize the severity of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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House Democrats have organized a bill [pdf here] that will create a commission to investigate the January 6th events in Washington DC.   The narrative is a 9/11-style commission to investigate the details, issues and circumstances of the January 6th “insurrection”; however, everyone with a lick of political common sense knows this commission will be used to further a Democrat narrative about ‘right-wing extremism’ in an effort to assist Democrats in the mid-term election.

WASHINGTON DC – […] The bill to establish the Jan. 6 commission could come to the floor “as soon as next week,” Pelosi announced Friday, noting that the panel is modeled after a bipartisan study of events leading up to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. That floor vote will likely be followed by the emergency funding bill, as Democrats hope to pass both before leaving for the Memorial Day recess. (more from Politico)

The narrative behind the Bill is constructed to frame the outcome as a ‘domestic terrorism event‘, setting the stage for Democrats to label any opposition to their agenda as “domestic extremists.”  This is a typical Alinsky maneuver.  The commission will be empowered to: “Issue subpoenas requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence relating to any matter which the Commission is empowered to investigate.”

The commission will also be permitted to use any/all aspects of the U.S. intelligence community to advance their investigation. “The Commission may secure directly from any Federal department or agency information, including any underlying information that may be in the possession of the intelligence community, that is necessary to enable it to carry out its purposes and functions under this Act.”  In other words, the House democrats will use their control to weaponize and shape the intelligence information for their political benefit.

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I don’t know much about Glenn Youngkin other than he was endorsed by President Trump.  That said, the Virginia governors race has been a bell-weather for the mid-term elections for quite a while.

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Speaking of Virginia, a recent report shows that gasoline has reached $6.99/gal in the commonwealth.  “Drivers were shocked when they got to the pump at a gas station in Virginia. The price on the pump was $6.999 at a Richmond BP station earlier this week.” (LINK)

What is the gasoline price in your neck of the woods?

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From the Desk of President Trump – “A devastating letter written by Arizona Senate President Karen Fann on voting irregularities, and probably fraud, in Maricopa County during the 2020 Presidential Election. Even the database was illegally deleted after the subpoena to produce the information. Senate President Fann has invited Maricopa County officials to a public hearing on May 18 to allow them the opportunity to try to explain what happened to the missing databases, ballots, and other significant issues. The Fake News and Lamestream Media is doing everything they can not to cover this major story. They just refuse to talk or report about it. They don’t want the United States or World to see what is going on with our corrupt, third world election. [Read the full letter here]”