The Daily Detail for 4.6.26

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U.S. Congressman Barry Moore sees an opportunity within the U.S. Department of Justice

now that Pam Bondy has been fired from that leadership position.

Moore was on Newsmax, just days after President Trump announced that Bondy was out at the DOJ.

The weaponization of the DOJ against President Trump and Todd Blanch kind of defended him in the Jack Smith trials.

I said on the judiciary committee, so in many ways, if you think about what they put President Trump through as he was impeached twice,

there were 91 or 91 days before an election, they rated his home 96 felony indictment.

He spent 76 million on legal fees, they put all his friends in jail and including his very own,

I mean, just his shaperone, the people that were around him, his friends.

And so there's some underlying currents there, I think Todd's very familiar with.

And you coupled out with the Epstein files, and I think in many ways, there are some things that Pam has missed

that there's an opportunity for us to bring somebody in.

And I think Todd's very familiar with the case, obviously, defended against Jack Smith and the things that they put the President through.

So we'd like to see some movement on some of that, and I think that it's time for a change to see if we get somebody there can handle that.

State Representative Ernie Yarbrough has filed a bill that would create an opt-in or opt-out mechanism when it comes to payroll deductions being taken from the paychecks of public school teachers

in order to pay for teachers' union dues.

Yarbrough says that people should be able to leave a union and cancel their dues whenever they want.

He also says schools should be protected from the influence of ideologies and principles that are not in keeping with Alabama values,

which are being pushed into schools through this national union and their backdoor programs and influences.

Yarbrough says he filed the bill to start the conversation despite the fact that the state legislature has only three days left in session.

Yarbrough says he plans to file the bill again in 2027, but he's not allowed to pre-file it right now until this legislative session is officially over.

The chairman of the Alabama Republican Party Scott Stadhagen talks about the bill to close primary elections only to those who are registered within the state party.

Stadhagen was on priority talk with Greg Davis when the issue of independent voters came up and how they would be affected when the party primaries are closed.

The only thing this bill does is makes it where you are a registered Republican voter.

Now, if you change your vote or want to change your vote, you can do that.

The next primary, all you do is 60 days before you fill out the paperwork to swap to the other party. It's that simple.

If you're an independent, I find it very hard, policy-wise for you to say that you support both parties.

We do agree on some legislation. Prince Chestnuts bill that he just filed. I agree with that 100%.

But there's some things within our policy that we don't agree on.

I just don't see how you could be for both parties.

You're not hard or cold. You're sort of in between.

You need to decide.

I'm with you, and I've said this very clearly on our program.

If people like to call themselves an independent, then they like to show up and vote in a primary.

And you're not independent if you vote in a primary.

Independent means I wait and choose in the general election.

That's right.

The better of the two nominees.

If you're an independent, you're not part of choosing those nominees.

You're independent of the Republican and the Democrat process.

Is that right?

That's 100% accurate.

That's what I've been saying.

I hope I've been saying it right.

And independence election is the general.

That's right.

Where you go in, they don't ask you.

There's only one ballot.

There's one ballot.

There's no party affiliation.

You show them your ID.

They give you a ballot with everyone on it.

That is an independent election cycle right there.

That's when you vote.

State Representative Arnold Mooney is denying the accusations that were leveled against him last week

from some other members of the House Republican caucus.

Last week Mooney was not permitted into a sudden caucus meeting after he was spotted with a phone in his hand.

The move to kick out Mooney came after an audio was leaked from a prior caucus meeting

that involved statements made by the House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter.

House Majority Leader Paul Lee confirmed that Mooney was kicked out of the meeting,

saying that internal meetings are not to be discussed in public.

Mooney has now spoken with 1819 news saying he has never secretly recorded or attempted

to secretly record a Republican caucus meeting.

And he says the claim against him by Lee is simply false.

Mooney says that he has represented District 43 for 12 years

and has done so with honesty, transparency, and a commitment to doing what is right for the people he represents.

An Aniston man has been sentenced to federal prison regarding health care fraud and identity theft.

Hassan Pulliam will spend 54 months in prison

and make restitution payments of over $700,000 to the Alabama Medicaid Agency.

Pulliam was working in Aniston as a child and family therapist who was enrolled as a provider for Medicaid recipients.

That started in 2018. He sent in false claims to Medicaid for services that were not rendered to any Medicaid patient.

The Alabama Attorney General's Office, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama,

and the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services were all involved in this case

of rooting out Medicare fraud.

A judge has lifted a temporary restraining order that was placed last week on the Central Alabama Water Board.

The order will no longer require that fluoride be resumed in the water treatment process,

but will now allow for the CAW to discontinue that fluoride program.

The judge filed the temporary restraining order at the request of the City of Birmingham

who launched a legal effort against the CAW for the decision to no longer continue fluoride treatment.

The City of Birmingham contends that there was supposed to be a 90-day public notice.

However, under the management of the former Birmingham Water Works Board,

the fluoridation program was quietly stopped with no public notice or notice to any city leadership,

and that was done within three of the four main water treatment facilities.

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In national news, two F-15 airmen were rescued by US Special Operators in two separate efforts inside the country of Iran.

The F-15 airmen were in one plane that was shot down in a remote part of Iran

with one of the airmen being located and retrieved shortly after the two had to eject from their aircraft.

However, the other pilot was missing for about 48 hours.

On Sunday, the news broke out from Central Command that the second airmen had been located and rescued.

Iranian military forces were also very aware of the downed military jet

and they had launched their own countermeasure to locate and capture the pilot.

The pilot moved on foot about 20 kilometers from the crash site using his radio transponder a few times

to let US military forces know that he was alive and what direction he was headed in.

He did this all while trying to avoid detection by Iranian forces.

This airmen ended up in a mountainous area hidden in a crevice at a high altitude.

The US military used drones to shoot at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and their search crews

while US SEAL teams deployed to the area where the pilot was hiding on him the mountain.

A total of 200 US soldiers took part in this special operation.

President Trump posted about the daring rescue on Truth Social and also revealed that the pilot is a colonel in the US military.

Meanwhile, President Trump issued another Truth Social post.

Just a few hours after the rescue of this airmen, this happened on Sunday.

Trump made a very angerly worded threat to Iran that this coming Tuesday night was a deadline for them

to open up the state of Hormuz or have their power plants and bridges destroyed.

Trump included some profanity in his words to the Iranians and he even invoked the name of Aula.

Trump then went on to say there will be nothing like it if Iran does not comply with the deadline,

which is 8 p.m. Tuesday, Eastern time.

The President also revealed that the US has been in deep negotiations with Iran that includes the presidential special envoy Steve Whitkopf

and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchi.

Over in the US State Department, the legal status for a Iranian doctor to be here in the US has now been revoked.

Dr. Fatima Ardishir Larajani is daughter to the Secretary for Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

She was recently fired from her job at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia this past January,

and then the State Department started to remove foreign nationals with ties to Iranian leaders and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

Ardishir Larajani and her husband have now been forced out of the country and can never return.

This past March, her father was killed in a US military strike on Iranian leadership.

And when it comes to doctors, there was a doctor who was contracting with Kaiser Permanente,

who is now out of a job with that company.

Jennifer Lincoln is an OB-GYN doctor who posted a video on TikTok of her at the JFK airport,

making a plan to insult ICE agents who had come to the airport to assist TSA workers during the partial government shutdown that affected the Department of Homeland Security.

The medical group became aware of this video and reviewed it, then decided to part ways with Lincoln by ending her six month contract.

Kaiser Permanente said that they decided all contract care providers should uphold their standard of respect and professionalism.

And also on the home front, a 12-year-old girl acted heroically just before the Easter weekend to save her two brothers from a house fire that occurred at the family's home in Savannah, Georgia.

The mother of 12-year-old Macy spoke with WJCL news about what happened when her daughter got off the school bus last Friday.

My 14-year-old had come home from school not feeling well and he was actually in bed in that bedroom right above the garage.

He was sleeping, he had no idea, and my oldest son was preparing to get a work, he was in the shower, again, had no idea until she started screaming.

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