Hunter Biden’s public embarrassment continues. Last week, Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal catastrophically fell apart in court before U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika. One of the reasons the plea deal fell apart is because Judge Noreika didn’t approve of the blanket immunity that Hunter would receive for all alleged crimes from 2014–2018 as a result of the plea deal.
Now the details of the plea deal have been made public. As reported:
“The plea agreement that blew up last week during Hunter Biden’s court appearance was made public Wednesday, revealing new information about the tax and gun charges involving the president’s son.
The documents, which U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika made public at the request of NBC News, provide detailed accounts of the cases surrounding the criminal charges, with fact sets that were agreed to by Biden’s lawyers and federal prosecutors in Delaware. . . .
The deal wound up being scrapped — at least temporarily — because of questions the judge raised last week in court about the proposed agreements.
‘These agreements are not straightforward and they contain some atypical provisions,’ Noreika said, including one that could theoretically protect Biden from other tax-related crimes.”
As ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow, pointed out: A judge rejecting a plea deal is very rare. Some highly concerning details must have caused the deal to fall apart.
Judge Noreika followed the law correctly in not sweeping Hunter’s alleged crimes under the rug just to appease a Deep State DOJ. Too much smoke is swirling around the Biden family right now with charges of financial impropriety that must be fully investigated.
The revealed documents also go into some rather disturbing details that were the chief contributing factors to his failure to pay taxes and illegally owning a handgun. Of note to us, reportedly, a third party even paid Hunter’s tax bill of almost $2 million in 2021, which is not illegal . . . but highly irregular. The documents also detail that Hunter Biden was doing business with companies in Ukraine, China, and Romania.
Again, supposedly Hunter never discussed any of these business deals with President Joe Biden while his father was serving as Vice President. President Joe Biden denies that any business discussions ever took place, despite Biden confidant Devon Archer testifying otherwise.
Let’s compare the special treatment Hunter Biden is getting as opposed to our newest whistleblower client, FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle. After exposing the FBI for targeting pro-lifers, FBI Special Agent O’Boyle faced the wrath of the FBI, being suspended without pay for almost a year, likely because of his willingness to tell the truth.
The Deep State FBI tried to destroy this brave hero. We are excited to announce we will interview Garret O’Boyle on tomorrow’s Sekulow broadcast. You don’t want to miss it.
Or compare Hunter’s treatment to former President Donald Trump, whose arraignment is scheduled for 4 p.m. today in Washington, D.C. As we pointed out yesterday, Trump faces criminal charges for his BELIEF that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Whether you believe Trump’s claims or not, in America you can’t put a man in jail merely for believing something. If they can unconstitutionally imprison the President for his belief, they could one day do the same to you.
Today’s Seukulow broadcast also featured an interview with Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to discuss the upcoming vote in Ohio on Issue 1, which would raise the threshold to 60% of statewide votes for a change to the Ohio state constitution. This change would prevent future radical abortion laws from being easily passed in Ohio.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose explained the importance of passing Issue 1:
“It’s about the fight for life and liberty, and we are on the front lines of this here in Ohio as we speak. As you mentioned, the radical Left is trying to get a really extreme abortion amendment [passed]. . . . And so we’re making a stand and saying it shouldn’t be so easy to amend the Ohio constitution. It’s been at 50% plus one for 100 years. We want to raise it to 60%, where really, it should have been all along. As you know, it’s not easy to amend the U.S. Constitution. It shouldn’t be so easy for out-of-state special interests groups to come into Ohio and amend our state constitution.”
Since the overturning of Roe, the battle for life has been in the states. We fervently hope Issue 1 gets passed in Ohio to ensure the future safety of the unborn. Legislation like this is a great reminder of why voting in state elections is so important – your vote could literally save lives.
Later, ACLJ Senior Counsel for Global Affairs Mike Pompeo joined to discuss Biden’s questionable foreign business deals and other global issues. We also highlighted the brand-new Life & Liberty Drive that focuses on the ACLJ’s efforts to preserve life and liberty in America and worldwide.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.