Articles by Bob Unruh

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‘Lied for decades’: Texas sues Tylenol maker for withholding details of link to autism

The state of Texas is suing the makers of Tylenol for withholding information the drug maker had about the product’s possible links to autism, links that long had been known by the company. President Donald Trump earlier advised pregnant women not to take Tylenol because of the possible side effect – autism for the new child. And Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been working on the problem. Now a report from USA today confirmed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the legal action against Kenvue, which makes the over-the-counter painkiller. The claim is that the company failed to warn consumers about the risks involved when a pregnant woman takes the drug. Paxton, in a statement, suggested the makers were “deceptively marketing Tylenol to pregnant mothers despite knowing that early exposure to acetaminophen, Tylenol’s only active ingredient, leads to a significantly increased risk of autism and other disorders.” He charged, “These corporations lied for decades, knowingly endangering millions to line their pockets. Additionally, seeing that the day of reckoning was coming, Johnson & Johnson attempted to escape responsibility by illegally offloading their liability onto a different company. By holding Big Pharma accountable for poisoning our people, we will help Make America Healthy Again” BREAKING: I’m suing Big Pharma manufacturers for deceptively marketing Tylenol to pregnant mothers despite the known dangers to unborn children. By holding Big Pharma accountable for poisoning our people, we will help Make America Healthy Again. pic.twitter.com/wyInVBdZlj — Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) October 28, 2025 A President who looks out for pregnant women and their children. NO TYLENOL. Make America Healthy Again! pic.twitter.com/Lz1uKN9MsO — Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) October 28, 2025 According to a report at Courthousenews, the lawsuit comes just a month after the Trump administration linked autism to mothers taking Tylenol, which uses acetaminophen as its active ingredient. The Paxton complaint was filed in Panola County district court. “The state claims scientific evidence shows use of Tylenol during pregnancy and in early childhood can cause conditions like autism and ADHD and that Kenvue and Johnson & Johnson knowingly covered up the risks,” the report said.

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Trump takes New York judge’s lawfare against him to task as he appeals hush money conviction

When the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, accused President Donald Trump of felonies in a so-called hush money case, the judge, Juan Merchan, censored Trump’s statements about the case. He allowed prosecutors to leave a vague “secondary” crime claim in place without any specifics. He delivered pro-prosecution jury instructions which seemed to allow a verdict without unanimity. And all the while, Merchan’s daughter was making money advising Democrats on issues that could include her father’s courtroom rulings. Now the president is appealing, with his lawyers explaining the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling means prosecutors should not have been allowed to say some of the things they claimed about Trump. The Washington Examiner reports Trump’s legal team confirmed the Supreme Court’s decision on immunity “means prosecutors should have been barred from using evidence connected to Trump’s ‘official’ acts as president in the case against him.” “Trump also urged a federal appeals court to transfer the New York state criminal case to federal court. It’s similar to the president’s move over the summer, when his lawyers urged a federal appeals panel to move the hush money case. Such a change could open up the pathway for the Supreme Court to hear the case, which could be friendlier territory for the president, as the court has ruled largely in his favor on presidential immunity,” the report explained. It was in 2024 that a jury in leftist-majority Manhattan said he was guilty of falsifying records dealing with a payment to onetime porn star Stormy Daniels, 34 counts total. The errors made in the trial court, however, mean the conviction should be scrapped, the report said. Merchan, a donor to a Democrat cause, in fact, barred some of Trump’s defense evidence, including statements that appeared to exonerate him from Daniels herself, censored Trump’s speech, delivered pro-prosecution instructions, and more. President Donald Trump asked an appeals court on Monday to overturn his conviction in the New York hush money case, marking his latest attempt to erase his felon status. https://t.co/aFVNJATPBx — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 28, 2025 Trump appeals historic Manhattan hush money conviction that branded him a felon https://t.co/rpILKON6Kd pic.twitter.com/bvEU6aKQvT — New York Post (@nypost) October 28, 2025 JUST IN: President Trump’s attorneys appealed his criminal conviction Monday, arguing the New York trial was “fatally marred” by evidence they say was protected by the Supreme Court’s immunity decision. pic.twitter.com/FLpFkvFRTp — Melissa Hallman (@dotconnectinga) October 28, 2025 “One of the mistakes some legal critics believe was committed during the trial involved allegations that the New York district attorney’s office, led by Alvin Bragg, never committed itself to what the second crime was. Rather, his office theorized that the crime could have been a New York tax violation, a federal campaign finance violation, or a New York election law violation,” the report explained. The law violation brought by Bragg is a two-part crime, meaning it depends on violation of another statute, and the prosecution never clarified that. That means some members of the jury may have assumed one law, or another, leaving their verdict not unanimous. “The court permitted the jury to convict if some jurors believed only that President Trump had conspired to violate FECA, while others believed only that he had conspired to help others commit tax fraud, and still others believed only that he had conspired to help others make false statements to a bank,” appeals court filings said. “Due process and Section 17-152 do not permit a conviction based on such a haphazard ‘combination of jury findings.'” At sentencing, Merchan spent seven minutes complaining that he was limited in his sentencing, then gave Trump an unconditional discharge, allowing for no fines, jail or probation while continuing the felony convictions. Merchan, whose daughter is a consultant who was making money off of her father’s multiple rulings against Trump, claimed “extraordinary” legal protections handed to the president of the United States required him to hand down a minor sentence that Trump would allegedly not have received without being reelected. “While one can argue that the trial itself was in many respects somewhat ordinary, the same cannot be said about the circumstances surrounding this sentencing and that is because of the office [Trump] once occupied, and which you will soon occupy again,” Merchan told the president-elect. “To be sure, it is the legal protections afforded to the office of the president of the United States that are extraordinary, not the occupant of the office. The legal protections, especially within the context of a criminal prosecution, afforded to the office of the president have been laid out by our founders, the Constitution and most recently interpreted by the United States Supreme Court in the matter of Trump versus the United States, which was decided on July 1, 2024. “As with every other defendant in your position, it is my obligation to consider any and all aggravating and mitigating factors to inform my decision … The considerable, indeed, extraordinary legal protections afforded by the office of the chief executive, is a factor that overrides all others,” the judge continued. Merchan, in extraordinary fashion, allowed a wide range of inflammatory testimony to come into his courtroom against Trump. The substance of the complaint was that Bragg claimed a $130,000 non-disclosure agreement with former porn actress Stormy Daniels, paid through Trump’s then-lawyer as legal fees, were not legal fees. Bragg claimed that calling legal fees legal fees was “falsifying business records.” A long list of legal experts charged that the case never should have been created by Bragg. Merchan, in fact, inexplicably told the jurors their verdict didn’t have to be unanimous. The payment was for Daniels’ silence about an alleged affair, which Trump has confirmed never happened. Trump said the payments were part of a standard legal retainer and denied knowing of any unlawful scheme. The “offenses” actually were misdemeanors until Bragg theorized they were part of the furtherance of another, unidentified, crime, and that made them felonies. Experts called Bragg’s machinations “legally creative.”

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‘Your life has no value. Kill yourself’: Mobs inflicting lasting mental anguish on academics

A new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression reveals the massive damage inflicted by hate campaigns that are launched against academics across America when they say something of which “the mob” disapproves. FIRE surveyed more than 600 academics listed in its Scholars under Fire database who were sanctioned or targeted from 2020 to 2024, and 209 responded. “Nearly all (94%) who participated in the survey described the impact of their experience as negative. Roughly two-thirds (65%) experienced emotional distress, and significant chunks reported facing harrowing social setbacks, such as being shunned at work (40%) or losing professional relationships (47%) and friendships (33%),” the organization reported. “For some, the consequences were severe. About a quarter of the scholars who completed the survey reported that they sought psychological counseling (27%), and 1 in 5 lost their jobs entirely (20%).” Nathan Honeycutt, the organization’s manager of polling and analytics, said, “Cancellation campaigns are often wrapped in the language of preventing ’emotional harm.’ But our survey shows that it’s the mobs themselves that inflict lasting mental anguish on academics, many of whom still suffer the consequences long after the controversy subsided.” The report found the attacks to be one-sided, citing large numbers of professors, one in three, who say they have “toned down” their statements for fear of causing controversy: “These concerns are especially pronounced among politically moderate and conservative faculty members, who report self-censoring more frequently than they liberal and progressive colleagues. “They also express greater worry about damaging their reputations or losing their jobs. In the 2024 faculty survey, for instance, more than half of conservative respondents reported at least occasionally hiding their political beliefs from peers in order to protect their careers. It remains unclear whether this climate of fear is primarily driven by the threat of cancellation itself or by the broader unwillingness of faculty to defend foundational principles of free expression,” the report said. The database from which FIRE drew contact includes a list of those who faced calls for sanction for their speech from 2000 to now. “This database includes almost 1,700 documented sanction attempts, including a record number this year, with 300 of these attempts resulting in faculty terminations. Most of these incidents have occurred over the past decade.” One professor wrote, “Due to the extreme amount of hate mail and voicemails I received, I had a campus police officer posted outside my class for a period of time and an escort to my vehicle. My husband was constantly worried about my safety, we rarely went places in public, and my mother was harassed online by complete strangers.” Another found an email message: “You are unintelligent. You are poorly educated. You are nauseatingly fat and hideous. Your life has no value. Kill yourself.” The study found that 94% of respondents reported negative impacts including reputational damage, PTSD and/or job loss. They reported their families frequently were caught in the fallout, and there was a chilling effect. “”Overall, scholars were split on whether they’d speak similarly again. Along ideological lines, liberals were more likely to report their speech being chilled (i.e., that they were less likely to say similar things in the future), while conservatives were more likely to indicate they were not detracted (i.e., that they were as much, if not more likely, to say similar things in the future),” the survey found. Further, “Public silence sends a message about what views are acceptable and safe to express, effectively narrowing the range of ideas deemed reasonable to discuss on campus. This may result in topic avoidance in teaching and research, especially on contested or policy-relevant issues.” Of the respondents, 65% reported emotional distress, 53% lost sleep, 47% lost professional relationships, 40% were shunned at work, 29% had family members with collateral damage, 27% sought counseling, and 20% lost jobs. One of the problems that was revealed, FIRE said, was that “Nearly all institutions of higher learning promise academic freedom and free speech rights to their scholars. But many of the targeted scholars reported that they received no support from precisely the institutions and individuals who were supposed to have their backs in moments of crisis and controversy. Only 21% reported that they received at least a moderate amount of public support of their faculty union, for example, and a paltry 11% reported that they received public support from administrators.” FIRE said its report “also found a noticeable partisan gap in the level of public support reported by scholars. Larger proportions of conservative than liberal faculty reported that they received support from the general public (55% vs. 37%). But far fewer than their liberal peers reported that they received public support from their faculty union (7% vs. 29%) or their university colleagues (19% vs. 40%).” “Support for academic freedom should never depend on the views being expressed, but our survey shows that’s exactly what’s happening,” said FIRE research advisor Sean Stevens. “If faculty unions and institutions of higher learning won’t stand by scholars in their moments of crisis, they can’t claim to stand for free speech and inquiry.”

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Oversight report: Biden aides exercised presidential authority, so autopen actions are ‘VOID’!

A congressional report has found that Joe Biden’s aides arranged for the autopen signings of executive actions, directed policy and orchestrated his public appearances, literally exercising presidential authorities without his knowledge or consent, as his cognitive decline advanced. The 90-page report, “The Biden Autopen President: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” charges that Biden’s close associates actually ran the government during his final months in office. U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chief of the House Oversight Committee, concluded the findings have raised “constitutional and criminal concerns” about actions “Biden” took while in office. A report at Fox News said the committee has demanded a complete investigation into the autopen signatures that Biden’s associates arranged. “Faced with the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden, White House aides — at the direction of the inner circle — hid the truth about the former president’s condition and fitness for office,” charged the report. And there was a “haphazard documentation process” for pardons made by Biden. The committee said those procedures “left room for doubt over whether the former president made those decisions himself,” the report said. In fact, the report simply said those actions now are “void.” “In the absence of sufficient contemporaneous documentation indicating that cognitively deteriorating President Biden himself made a given executive decision, such decisions do not carry the force of law and should be considered void,” committee members concluded. “The Department of Justice should immediately conduct a review of all executive actions taken by President Biden between January 20, 2021, and January 19, 2025. Given the patterns and findings detailed herein, this review should focus particularly on all acts of clemency. However, it should also include all other types of executive actions.” Further, the report raised concerns about Hunter Biden’s influence, since former Biden chief of staff Jeff Zients has told investigators he was in the room for many discussions, including the preemptive pardons issued to Biden’s family. Comer’s report said, “Zients testified that President Biden included his son, Hunter Biden, in the decision-making process for and meetings about pardons. This apparently included the meeting to discuss the pardons of five Biden family members, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and the members of Congress who served on the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol, and their staff.” A Biden regime spokesperson told Fox News Digital the investigation was “baseless,” even though 14 witnesses testified to Oversight, mostly top Biden aides. Even during that testimony, Comer suggested, the aides were hiding things. “Throughout the Committee’s investigation, senior Biden White House aides presented a perspective of President Biden’s cognitive health completely disconnected from that of the American public,” the report said. “Not one of the Committee’s 14 witnesses was willing to admit that they ever had a concern about President Biden being in cognitive decline. In fact, numerous witnesses could not recall having a single conversation about President Biden’s cognitive health with anyone inside or outside of the White House.” According to a report in the Washington Examiner, Comer’s report found, “Biden’s aides misled the American people and hijacked the powers of the presidency. … Executive actions performed by Biden White House staff and signed by autopen are null and void.” For example, the committee found 32 of 51 clemency warrants were signed by autopen, “without any contemporaneous documentation linking Biden to those discussions,” leaving no evidence the president agreed to the actions. The Examiner explained, “A Jan. 19 episode detailed in the report describes a ‘game of telephone’ in which chief of staff Jeff Zients authorized the autopen for a final batch of pardons, including for his son Hunter Biden and four other family members, as well as Anthony Fauci, and Gen. Mark Milley, based only on secondhand accounts of a meeting he never attended. An aide emailed approval from Zients’s account, initialed ‘JZ,’ without confirming with Biden directly, according to the report.” The report also criticizes ex-White House physician Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s longtime doctor, “noting that he had ‘business dealings with and financial connections to President Biden’s family.’ Investigators said those ties, combined with political incentives to keep Biden viable for reelection, created ‘a motive to conceal the president’s decline while running the government in his stead,'” the Examiner explained. Comer’s report also revealed former aides confirmed an entire system of pre-scripted press cards, controlled questions, teleprompter use, schematics outlining the number of steps he would take and the time he would use during any public appearance. Democrats on the Oversight Committee cited Biden’s own statements rejecting evidence he was unaware of decisions, and said the Republican report is conjecture.

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