


“The voices of the brave individuals who perished 35 years ago in the Tiananmen Square massacre continue to echo across our collective conscience,” mourns Sen. Ben Cardin at Fox News.
On June 4, 1989, Beijing’s People’s Liberation Army “murdered and injured thousands of peaceful pro-democracy protesters calling for political reform and an end to corruption.”
The image of a sole protester defying “a row of tanks instantly became an enduring global symbol of resistance against oppression.”
Now Chinese educators are “forbidden from teaching about it,” references to the massacre “are instantly removed from China’s heavily censored internet,” and public memorials “are strictly prohibited.”
Expect a vote on a bipartisan resolution to “give voice to those silenced by the PRC and ensure that the legacy of Tiananmen continues to inspire generations to come.”
“We don’t know precisely what happened last weekend in Rafah” when “at least 45 civilians” were killed in a fire in a tent camp, fumes Becket Adams at The Hill.
This “means that much of what passed for reporting last week, including the reports that insinuated or stated outright that Israel had bombed civilians directly, was deeply irresponsible.”
“It may be that, as Israel has suggested, the explosion and fire that killed those civilians were caused by an arms cache that Hamas stashed among the civilian centers.”
Yet NPR, The New York Times and other outlets “presented Gaza’s claims at face value” and condemned Israel “without bothering to check first whether there was any truth” to them.
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President “Biden can continue to deny his responsibility for the criminal targeting of his political opponent all he wants,” argues The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland.
But “Biden and those seeking to ensure his re-election have their hands all over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of the former president.”
Consider “the incestuous relationship between the Manhattan D.A.’s office and Team Biden,” starting “as early as mid-February 2021.”
That’s when the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison lent “three lawyers to the Manhattan D.A.’s office” to help prosecute Trump.
The White House also has links to the Georgia case and to the two “brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith.”
“Cheers reportedly erupted in President Joe Biden’s campaign headquarters” after Donald Trump’s New York conviction, note The Free Press’ Olivia Reingold, Francesca Block & Rupa Subramanya.
But “many Americans had a different impression of the Trump verdict: that his conviction was proof of corruption, not justice.”
Like tech founder Shaun Maguire, who’s gone from a Trump skeptic to major donor. And lifelong NJ Dem Kate Nitti, who began voting GOP “to protest how Democrats had ‘abused their power’ during Covid with school lockdowns” and “vaccine and mask mandates for kids” and now backs Trump.
Driving the shift? As libertarian Maine state Sen. Eric Brakey put it: “Democrats don’t preserve democracy . . . They’re afraid that the people, when presented a democratic choice, will not vote for them.”
Senate Democrats want “the Justice Department ‘to prosecute collusion and price fixing’ in oil markets, which they claim is raising prices at the pump,” marvels The Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley.
It’s the left’s “version of ‘stop the steal,’ a device that blames corporate greed and malfeasance for inflation.”
Dems from President Biden on down “promote this conspiracy theory to dupe voters.”
But there’s no evidence oil or other companies are “swindling consumers.”
Rather, businesses, like consumers, “are victims” of Biden’s inflationary policies. Retailers are “squeezed by higher costs for products, labor, energy, rent and insurance.”
What’s really “fueling inflation? Excessive fiscal and monetary stimulus.”
“Even after Congress’s $5 trillion pandemic splurge, Washington continues to post enormous deficits.” “Rather than concede” their policy failures, “Democrats scapegoat businesses.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board