Rep Zinke asks Biden's Interior Secretary questions she couldn't answer

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) who served as Secretary of the Interior under President Donald Trump questioned his successor, Deb Haaland in a brutal exchange during her testimony before the House Interior, Environment Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday.

Secretary Haaland failed to provide even one intelligent response to questions about critical minerals that are vital not only to the American economy, but to U.S. national security, as well. She was utterly clueless but at least she fills in the right identity box as a Laguna Pueblo Native American.

The Montana congressman asked Haaland: 

 “Madame Secretary, is it your policy that critical minerals should be sourced from countries that are stewards of the environment like the U.S. and our allies, or sourced from Russia and China that don’t share our same values?”

She tried to do a Katrina Jean Pierre by dodging the question but Zinke chimed in that he would take her misdirection as a "maybe."

He next asked her if she was “aware that China produces more emissions than any other country on the planet?”

Her answer did not enlist much confidence in anyone who was paying attention: “I have probably read that somewhere, yes,” the secretary replied, indicating that she knows how to read.

“Are you also aware that China produces 90 percent of the world’s plastic from four rivers?”

“I will take that as …” Haaland began.

Zinke interrupted, “You also are aware that China is the biggest offender on illegal fishing?”

“Thank you chair – congressman.” Haaland said quietly.

“Have you read the Department of Interior report on critical minerals dated December [20]17?”

She had not.

“Are you aware that China controls by proxy production the supply chain of critical minerals that are critical to both the EV world and defense?” Zinke pressed on.

“Thank you for that information,” she meekly replied, which should scare the crap out of every American who understands what Haaland does not know.

“Are you aware by multiple studies that in order to satisfy the present requirements of EV and critical minerals of defense, it would take an increase of 2,000 percent of mining for twenty years?” asked Zinke.

“Thank you for the information congressman.” More crap being scared out of knowledgeable Americans.

“Are you also aware that northern Minnesota is home to those critical minerals that are necessary for EVs and our Defense Department?” Zinke asked as part of a rapid-fire round of questions.

“I think there are critical minerals across our country,” Haaland answered, hoping she was correct.

The exchange continued on in this breathtaking painful manner as Rep. Zinke seemed to increasingly grow more frustrated by Haaland’s total lack of basic knowledge about the agency she oversees. But to her credit, she is a woman and a Laguna Pueblo woman at that.

Haaland’s embarrassing struggle to answer nearly every question Zinke asked was alarming. Even more concerning is that Haaland’s anemic showing was just one of many similar performances by Biden administration officials and nominees, like judges who didn't know the US Constitution when asked about specific Amendments and laws by Sen. John Kennedy (R-KY) as merely one example.

Biden Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is left completely and totally dumbstruck after being asked a series of simple questions on China and the production of critical minerals. pic.twitter.com/MrJNj6CGlT

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 28, 2023

But this is what we get when an administration is more concerned about skin color, sexual orientation and other identity characteristics of individuals than the qualifications and abilities of individuals themselves.

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Soros-backed Dem arrested for 'battery' of Nev. GOP candidate's campaign manager

A Democratic operative for American Bridge 21st Century was arrested Tuesday after the campaign manager for Nevada GOP gubernatorial nominee Adam Laxalt accused the operative of grabbing and yanking her arm, refusing to release her.

Kristin Davison and other members for the Nevada attorney general's campaign said the "battery" left her "terrified and traumatized." She had visible bruises on her neck and arms.

Davison, 31, told Fox News "Politics is a little bit aggressive these days, but this is just insane. I've never seen anything like it."

The Laxalt campaign and local law enforcement said that Wilfred Michael Start III, 50, was arrested by the Las Vegas City Marshals on Tuesday night and remains in custody in the Las Vegas city jail.

The city marshal's office said "He was arrested by our city marshals last night about 7 p.m. after Kristin Davison contacted them saying Mr. Stark had grabbed her by the arm and pushed her. The arrest is classified as a citizen's arrest because the incident did not happen in the presence of the marshals."

The office said the incident was "an apparent result of an altercation involving Mr. Stark entering one of the room...and attempting to question Attorney General Adam Laxalt."

Stark, an apparent misogynist, was arrested earlier this year for allegedly assaulting the female press secretary for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

Stark is reminiscent of Jordan Hunt, the lisping leather-clad hair dresser who roundhouse kicked a pro-life woman and was caught on video.

The latest Stark confrontation occurred after a campaign event in East Las Vegas Tuesday evening. Davison told Fox News that a "very large man," later ID'd as Stark, "burst into the room where Adam [Laxalt] and I were talking with a camera."

"We're used to trackers, but this guy was very physical--pushing me, pushing into members of my staff, screaming," she said. "This man was physically, almost body-checking me. I was getting nervous for my safety, so we left, and went into an open room."

She said that when she, Laxalt and two other male staffers went into the private room and closed the door, it "burst open" moments later.

"Two male staffers were trying to hold him back. He was so aggressive, he looked like he was going towards the candidate to physically harm him," Davison said, and explained that she was standing in the doorway.

Then she described what he did to her. "He grabbed my right arm, my leg was lodged between the door and the wall. He twisted my arm, and contorted it behind my back. I was scared. Every time I tried pulling away, he would grab tighter, and pull me closer into him."

She said Stark pulled her head into his chest, bruising her neck. He held her there for several minutes, but she said it "felt like an hour."

She said, "I was scared and screaming 'stop--you're hurting me.'"

Davison said Stark told Laxalt, "Adam, there's only one way you can make this stop."

"That really scared me," she said.

The Laxalt campaign told Fox News in a statement that politics in Nevada has "reached a new low."

"Assaulting the female campaign manager of the opposing campaign is disgusting and it has no place in our system," campaign spokesperson Parker Briden said. "This mob behavior from the left is out of control. Encouraging violence, as many prominent Democrats like former Attorney General Eric Holder has recently done, is having real, dangerous consequences."

And of course we see the left harassing lawmakers and other officials in restaurants and in public places. The left is calling for it as if they are on the moral high ground, which they clearly are not.

Holder can say he wasn't advocating for violence, but he wasn't advocating for peaceful coexistence and his message was meant to be unclear.

The campaign of Steve Sisolak, the Democratic challenger to Laxalt, deny any connection to Stark.

Stark has a record of arrests while working for the David Brock group, funded by George Soros, the socialist instigator of leftist pressure. On October 28, 2017 he was arrested for disorderly conduct at a Virginia event while covering then-GOP candidate Ed Gillespie. He was found guilty of disorderly conduct this past February.

The incident with Zinke's press secretary Heather Swift happened in March after a budget hearing before a House committee at the Longworth House Office Building. Stark is alleged to have approached Zinke and reportedly "used his full body to push" Swift as she tried to leave the room. She called the incident "terrifying" and told police she would press charges to help obtain a "stay away order" against Stark.

Davison told Fox News "It's shocking to me that anyone in this business, no matter which party or issue you're working on, would keep someone on their payroll who has been consistently arrested for violence. This is a terrifying incident."

Well, don't you worry, Kirsten Davison--American Bridge 21st Century finally decided to let the woman-assaulter go. It was announced Wednesday night that it fired one of its operatives after he was arrested and accused of battery against the female campaign manager for Nevada GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt.

In a statement, the far-left weasels who did nothing about that scumcrumpet Stark finally said that he has been relieved of his duties "effective immediately."

What took them so long? Did the coin keep coming up 'tails'? Or were they undecided because it only happened to conservative women?


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Capitol cops arrest 'brave' Dem. operative for attacking female Trump official

Ryan Zinke as a Navy SEAL

U.S. Capitol Police arrested a misogynist Democratic operative for assaulting a female Interior Department communications official. 

This came after a House budget hearing Thursday when Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke finished testifying on the department's 2019 budget proposal before the House Committee on Natural Resources.

The loathsome bully identified himself as a reporter with American Bridge. He pushed the woman to the floor and chased after Zinke, according to The Daily Caller. It was lucky for the bully that he was stopped before trying to accost Zinke, a former University of Oregon football player and Navy SEAL, as he would have likely required the service of a local hospital.

Interior officials filed a police report, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned, but it hasn't been processed. American Bridge didn't respond for comment.

Interior communications director Laura Rigas was "greatly alarmed and extremely irate that a female senior member of my DOI Communications team was physically assaulted today by a Democrat staffer from the PAC American Bridge," she told Politico.

"We are appalled to hear of the events following yesterday's hearing wheer a member of Secretary Zinke's staff was victim to an assault," committee spokesperson Katie Schoettler said.

"These actions are reprehensible and have no place in this body. We thank the U.S. Capitol Police for their quick response and professionalism," she said, "The USCP is now handling the matter."

U.S. Capitol Police took the scumcrumpet into custody. Police "arrested an adult male for simple assault against another individual outside room 1324 in the Longworth House Office Building," and officer told Politico.  "The suspect was transported to USCP Headquarters for processing."

American Bridge man in training

American Bridge is a political action committee dedicated to "holding Republicans accountable for their words and actions," states their website. They are known for having operatives follow Republican candidates on the campaign trail. 

The organization was founded in 2010 by crap weasel David Brock and has raised millions of dollars to support leftist candidates. They have been described as an "opposition research hub of the Democratic fundraising apparatus."

Socialist POS billionaire George Soros donated two million dollars to American Bridge in 2016.

Again, it's a shame the attacker didn't reach Ryan Zinke in his attack.


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