{"id":593715,"date":"2021-07-16T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=593715"},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:05:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:05:37","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-calls-on-biden-to-withdraw-blm-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-calls-on-biden-to-withdraw-blm-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell Calls On Biden To Withdraw BLM Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmitch-mcconnell-calls-on-biden-to-withdraw-blm-nominee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=593715&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called on President Joe Biden to withdraw Tracy Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director Friday due to her connection to an eco-terrorist incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now know that President Biden\u2019s nominee to run the Bureau of Land Management lied to the Senate about her alleged participation in eco-terrorism,\u201d McConnell said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mcconnell-biden-withdraw-nominee-linked-eco-terrorist-plot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> to Fox News. \u201cThe White House should immediately withdraw her nomination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes after every Republican on the Senate Energy Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/joe-biden-senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-tracy-stone-manning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed a letter<\/a> Wednesday calling on Biden to withdraw Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/michael-merkley-stone-manning-tree-spiking-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Lead Investigator Comes Forward, Says Biden\u2019s BLM Nominee Was \u2018Extremely Anti-Government\u2019 And Actively Involved In 1989 Eco-Terrorism Incident)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s BLM nominee has faced ongoing heat over her involvement in a 1989 tree spiking incident. Tree spiking is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/28\/bureau-of-land-management-white-house-tracy-stone-manning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a violent tactic where metal spikes are nailed into trees<\/a>, making them unsafe to log. The process is also very harmful to tree-cutters. Stone-Manning did not cooperate with law enforcement officials investigating the event at the time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7238782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"11\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7238782\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7238782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Photo-by-Kevin-DietschGetty-Images-12331.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Photo-by-Kevin-DietschGetty-Images-12331.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Photo-by-Kevin-DietschGetty-Images-12331-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Photo-by-Kevin-DietschGetty-Images-12331-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Photo-by-Kevin-DietschGetty-Images-12331-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Photo-by-Kevin-DietschGetty-Images-12331-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Photo-by-Kevin-DietschGetty-Images-12331-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7238782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (C) speaks to reporters after a Republican Senate luncheon at the U.S. Capitol Building on June 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Senate is in negotiations for a bipartisan infrastructure deal. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Daily Caller News Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/michael-merkley-stone-manning-tree-spiking-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obtained a letter from a retired criminal investigator<\/a> for the Forest Service who served as the lead investigator into a 1989 tree spiking case in Idaho. In the letter, Michael Merkley said that Stone-Manning was \u201cextremely difficult to work with; in fact, she was the nastiest of the suspects\u201d during the beginning of his investigation in 1989. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/16\/tracy-stone-manning-biden-blm-tree-spike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: ANALYSIS: \u2018Anti-Government\u2019?: Here\u2019s Everything You Need To Know About Biden\u2019s BLM Nominee)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/25\/john-barrasso-tracy-stone-manning-bureau-of-land-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stone-Manning<\/a> originally refused to comply <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/16\/tracy-stone-manning-biden-blm-tree-spike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with the investigation and then agreed to testify<\/a> after she was caught. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/28\/bureau-of-land-management-white-house-tracy-stone-manning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: White House Affirms Support For BLM Nominee With Ties To Eco-Terrorism)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Biden White House has defended Stone-Manning despite the news, saying in late June: \u201cTracy Stone-Manning is a dedicated public servant who has years of experience and a proven track record of finding solutions and common ground when it comes to our public lands and waters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is exceptionally qualified to be the next Director of the Bureau of Land Management,\u201d the White House official told Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called on President Joe Biden to withdraw Tracy Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director Friday due to her connection to an eco-terrorist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}