Morning Wire - Bankman-Fried Charges & SCOTUS Gas Pipeline Ruling | Afternoon Update | 7.27.23

Episode Date: July 27, 2023

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Night my way. Forever. I just love my job. Get tickets now. The Devil Wears Prada 2 in theaters, May 1st. Directed by David Frankel. I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, July 27th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. The Department of Justice will not pursue campaign finance charges against the disgraced former Crypto King Sam Bankman-Fried after the DOJ learned that the U.S. hadn't obtained permission from the Bahamas to extradite Bankman-Fried on that charge.

Bankman Fried, who ran the multi-million dollar crypto investing firm FTX, was charged on eight counts. including fraud, money laundering, and campaign finance violations. He was a major Democrat donor. The change in his indictment came late Wednesday night. A congressional subcommittee heard testimony on Thursday about radical gender ideology and sex change surgeries and other procedures. The testimony was emotional for both those who supported so-called transgender care for minors and those who opposed it.

Among those who testified were Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who received sex change procedures at the age of 15, an NCAA athlete, as well as a trans-identifying attorney and a mother who has a trans-identifying child. I didn't need to be lied to. I needed compassion. I needed to be loved. I need to be given therapy to help me work through my issues, not affirmed to my delusion that by transforming into a boy, it would solve all my problems. That story is the exception, not the rule. Vast majority of young people who receive these treatments. are getting them after careful assessment and because they really need them. To sum up the university's response, we, the women, were the problem, not the victims.

We were expected to conform, to move over and shut up. Our feelings didn't matter. The university was gaslighting and fear-mongering women to validate the feelings and identity of a male. The Supreme Court has struck down a ruling from a lower court that prohibited the construction of a 300-mile natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia from moving forward. This morning, the High Court vacated stay orders put in place by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The lower court had sided with the plaintiff's environmental groups, wilderness society, and ablation voices, who wanted the pipeline construction stopped. That ruling was opposed by both the fossil fuel industry and the Biden administration.

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said he is relieved that the High Court up. held a law passed by Congress and signed by the president. The senator went on to say, quote, the Supreme Court has spoken and the decision to let construction of the Mountain Valley pipeline move forward again is the correct one. Former President Donald Trump's attorneys Todd Blanche and John Lurro were reportedly told by the prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office to, quote, expect an indictment for their client over the events leading up to and during the January 6th Capitol riot. However, Trump denied this report on. truth social and said it was a, quote, productive meeting.

The U.S. gross domestic product outpaced expectations and grew at a 2.4% annualized rate in the second quarter this year. That follows a 2% pace of growth in the first quarter and comes after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced Wednesday his team's positive economic outlook for the rest of the year. So the staff now has a noticeable slowdown in growth starting later this year in the forecast, but given the resilience of the economy recently, they are no longer forecasting a recession. Bo Bergdl, the American soldier who was captured in Afghanistan and later traded for five Taliban leaders in a prisoner exchange, has had his desertion conviction vacated after a federal judge

said the original case could have been clouded by a conflict of interest. Daily Wire senior editor, Joel Needler, has more. According to U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, Judge Jeffrey Nance did not disclose his application to be an immigration judge under then President Donald Trump. Walton argued that Bergdahl's trial could then be construed as a conflict of interest because Trump's vocal criticisms of Bergdahl and that Nancy's neutrality was undermined because he might be inclined to appeal to the president's expressed interest

in the plaintiff's conviction and punishment when applying for the immigration judge position. Authorities confirmed that three Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were found dead in a car at a Speedway gas station earlier this week. Here with the cause of death is Daily Wire Reporter, Zach Jewell. The Pender County Sheriff's Office received a call Sunday from the mother of one of the Marines who became worried when her son didn't arrive home in Oklahoma on his scheduled flight Saturday night. After beginning an investigation, authorities found the missing Marine, along with two other Marines,

dead inside a vehicle at the Speedway Station around 30 miles south of the base. Deputies were directed to the gas station by the mother who pinged her son's phone to find its location. Law enforcement officials say that the Marines. died from carbon monoxide poisoning. All right, those are your drive-home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to Dailywire.com, and for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to our latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.