May 2, 2026

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President Donald Trump has seen remarkable success after just a few weeks of National Guard patrols on the streets of Washington, D.C., with the Mayor, Muriel Bowser, admitting “We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city… We know that when carjackings go down, when use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer, so this surge has been important to us.”

The DNC media have likened the “surge” to the usual suspects, Nazism and Fascism, but finding it increasingly difficult to find a token black D.C. resident willing to go on camera to do anything other than praise the “surge.” Now, the President is considering taking similar action in other Blue Cities, with many members of the black community welcoming the move.

Trump administration to take control of Washington Union Station – Reuters– news.google.com
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  1. Trump administration to take control of Washington Union Station  Reuters
  2. Live Updates: Trump Administration Says It Will Take Over Union Station in D.C.  The New York Times
  3. U.S. Transportation Department plans to take over D.C.’s Union Station  The Washington Post
  4. Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak  AP News
  5. Department of Transportation announces new Acela trains, plan to control DC’s Union Station  ABC News

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Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser had some positive things to say about Trump’s law enforcement surge in the city today, noting the drastic drop in crimes, most notably carjackings.

This is sure to cause some anger on the left. This is precisely what most Democrats do not want to hear. They’re still trying to run with the narrative that this was some sort of authoritarian takeover of the city.

What they can’t argue with is numbers, like the ones Bowser is citing here.

NBC News reported:

“We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city,” the mayor, a Democrat, told reporters about the expansion of federal law enforcement and its partnership with the Metropolitan Police Department.

Carjackings, she said, were the “most troubling” crime that plagued D.C. in 2023 and they have decreased in recent years. Bowser said that in the 20 days since the federal takeover, there has been an 87% drop in carjackings compared to the same period last year. The data cited also showed a 15% fall in crime overall in the district during that same period last year.

“We know that when carjackings go down, when use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer, so this surge has been important to us,” said Bowser, who added that she has been personally engaged with Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles…

The mayor said that since the increase in federal law enforcement officers, there have been more stops that have resulted in the seizure of illegal guns and there has been more “accountability in the system” that “is driving down illegal behavior.”

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For years, Washington, D.C.’s sanctuary city laws barred local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. However, a recent order from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi effectively nullifies many of these rules—so long as President Donald Trump retains federal control of the district.

Two weeks ago, Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation’s capital and federalized the Metropolitan Police Department for 30 days—the maximum period allowed for a state of emergency before an authorization from Congress is required to lengthen it.

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You knew this line was going to be dropped about President Trump’s executive order creating specialized National Guard units to curb urban unrest and rising crime, a not-so-subtle warning to Democrat-run cities that federal troops could be coming soon to a theater near you (via NYT):

President Trump directed the Defense Department on Monday to take a larger role in domestic law enforcement, including by “quelling civil disturbances,” as he threatens to broaden deployments of the National Guard in cities run by his political enemies.

The executive order, released by the White House on Monday morning, also formalizes the creation of specially trained National Guard units in the District of Columbia and all 50 states that can be mobilized quickly for “ensuring the public safety and order.”

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United States President Donald Trump has announced his government will seek the death penalty in every murder case that unfolds in Washington, DC, as part of his crackdown on crime in the country’s capital.

Trump made the announcement in the midst of a Labor Day-themed meeting of his cabinet on Tuesday as he discussed a range of issues, from weapons sales to the rising cost of living.

“Anybody murders something in the capital: capital punishment. Capital capital punishment,” Trump said, seeming to relish the wordplay.

“If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, DC, we’re going to be seeking the death penalty. And that’s a very strong preventative, and everybody that’s heard it agrees with it.”

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore came out swinging over the weekend, rejecting a plot by President Donald Trump to deploy federal troops to Baltimore, the largest city in Moore’s home state.

Trump has deployed federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Washington, despite a recent drop in crime. He has also threatened to repeat the process with other major cities with large Black populations. In response, Moore sent a letter to Trump on Thursday, inviting him to go on a safety walk in Baltimore to see how crime-prevention efforts have improved the situation there.

As part of our broad approach to public safety, I regularly join community advocates and elected officials to walk through the neighborhoods most affected by violent crime,” Moore wrote. “I would like to formally invite you to attend our next public safety walk in September, at a date of your choosing.”

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National Guardsmen patrol near the US Capitol, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Washington.Rahmat Gul/AP

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President Donald Trump’s DC takeover has proven to be broadly unpopular among residents and seemingly counterproductive.

But the president has never been deterred by facts—and he is now setting his sights on additional cities where violent crime has already been falling.

The Washington Post first reported on Saturday that the Pentagon has for weeks been developing plans for potential troop deployments in Chicago. The report came a day after Trump hinted at such a move himself, calling Chicago a “mess” and Mayor Brandon Johnson “incompetent.” Citing officials familiar, the Post reports that the plan could include mobilizing a few thousand members of the National Guard to take to Chicago’s streets by next month.

Who is James Boasberg, the judge threatening Trump officials with ...

It seems the insurrectionist judge who makes a habit of overstepping his authority in an effort serve Progmerica over American Rule of Law, has a deep connection to the Russiagate Hoax. Judge James Boesberg is the man who tried to illegally hold the Trump administration in contempt to protect an illegal alien violent criminal.

This same judge let convicted former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith off without a prison sentence. Clinesmith is one of the original orchestrators of the Russia Collusion Hoax. Boesberg was serving as a judge in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court at the time.

Investigation Season—Lawfare Judge Boasberg’s Russiagate Connection Revealed– www.breitbart.com
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… The Clinesmith ruling is part of Boasberg’s pattern of judicial activism. For example, he had ruled for the release of migrants from detention facilities in Trump’s first term; he approved the use of warrantless surveillance against American citizens despite evidence of improper data collection; and he ordered the Trump administration to empty the Dakota Access Pipeline pending an environmental review, among other rulings that favored Democrat causes.

His politicking has persisted into the second Trump administration. Recently, the Federalist obtained a memo revealing Boasberg’s predisposition against Trump. Boasberg advanced, without evidence, that Trump cold create a constitutional crisis.

Ironically, it’s “President Boasberg” who is the real threat in this regard.

Boasberg took on four “Trump cases” in the early weeks of the second Trump administration, blocking and stalling the president’s first wave of executive actions. One such case was a high-profile lawsuit alleging that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and others violated the Federal Records Act by using the encrypted messaging app Signal to discuss military strikes against Houthi terrorists.

On Saturday, August 23, 2025, two Scottish girls, aged 14 and 12, are seen being harassed and followed by adult black men with non-Scottish accents. In the video, you can tell the two girls are terrified, but one girl, now being called Sarah of Dundee on the internet, was more than terrified, she was determined. This girl, the older one, brandished a butcher knife and hatchet and waved it at the men threateningly to avoid being snatched up and raped by them since the police have NO INTEREST protecting her.

This is the response by the Scottish police through a spokesperson following the event, “Around 7:40pm on Saturday, 23 August, 2025 we received a report of a female youth with a weapon in St Ann Lane, Dundee. Officers attended and a 14-year-old girl was charged in connection. She will be reported to the relevant authorities.”

Imagine if this was your child and you learned she was so petrified to walk in her own country she felt compelled to arm herself with an axe and a butcher knife to protect herself. Imagine you then learn after she defends herself from advancing, aggressive foreigners that come from a culture where raping white girls is not only allowed, but it’s almost compulsory, that your own police arrested her and charged her, not the men menacingly threatening the two girls.

This is where Sarah of Dundee’s parents find themselves, and now every white parent in Britain and Ireland must now find themselves. Their country is critically unsafe for their children to live freely in without fear of either being raped by violent Islamists (who will remain protected by those same police) or being arrested for defending themselves against those same wanna-be (probably already are) rapists.

Scotland Police Charge Teen Girl Seen In Viral Alleged Attempted Migrant Assault– dailycaller.com
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Police in Scotland have charged a 14-year-old girl who was seen on video brandishing an axe and a knife while allegedly defending herself and her sister from two migrants, the police confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday.

In a viral video with nearly 40 million views on X reportedly connected to the arrest, two girls can be seen shouting back and forth with at least two alleged migrant men who allegedly attempted to assault one of the girls, with the two pleading for the men to leave them alone while one brandished an axe and a large knife. Police arrived on the scene after the incident to make the arrest, but did not charge any of the men in the video, the police told the DCNF.

“Around 7:40pm on Saturday, 23 August, 2025 we received a report of a female youth with a weapon in St Ann Lane, Dundee. Officers attended and a 14-year-old girl was charged in connection,” a Police Scotland spokesperson told the DCNF in a statement. “She will be reported to the relevant authorities.”

President Donald Trump announced plans to Federalize the DC Police force and implement a patrol surge to stop the exploding crime in the nation’s Capital. The move happened after a DOGE employee known as “Big Balls” was beaten while defending others who had been jumped by a criminal mob. As of the writing of this report, the patrols have just begun, with plans by the DNC to pay “protestors” to attempt to disrupt the patrols as much as possible.

Trump Takes DC by Storm: How National Guard and Common Sense Are Shaking Crime to Its Core – Warroom

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When President Trump rolled into Washington, D.C. with the National Guard, Park Police, and every federal law enforcement agency he could muster, people across the city finally started asking: “Why wasn’t it done like this before?” That is what was discussed on Thursday’s WarRoom.

Steve Bannon sat down with Dr. John Lott to break down why Trump’s approach is not only innovative—it’s revolutionary.

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that he could avoid congressional approval to extend his 30-day federal takeover of Washington’s police, amid his efforts to wrest control of the capital’s law enforcement.

Trump this week invoked the Home Rule Act, effectively handing the executive branch control over Washington’s police for up to 30 days. Beyond that, Trump would have to go through Congress for an extension authorization.

But during his speech announcing the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees on Wednesday, Trump repeatedly floated circumventing Congress to maintain his hold over the city’s law enforcement.

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Department of Homeland Security Investigations agents join Washington Metropolitan Police Department officers as they conduct traffic checks at a checkpoint along 14th Street in northwest Washington (AP photo)

Residents in parts of Washington DC took to the streets Wednesday to protest President Donald Trump’s takeover of the city’s police department and the surge of federal officers and National Guard troops. The demonstrations, marked by chants and calls for drivers to avoid police checkpoints, came as the White House defended the month-long federal control as necessary to combat crime, despite city data showing violent crime at a decades-low, reported AP.

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A Washington, D.C., city councilman accused of running a $156,000 bribery scheme is attacking President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the city’s law enforcement.

The remarks from Trayon White come even as the Democrat lawmaker awaits trial on serious corruption charges.

White, 41, was sworn back into the council on Friday after winning a special election in July.

It comes months after he was expelled by his colleagues over his federal indictment.

 

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The Democrats’ media allies are arguing that President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., was unwarranted due to sharply decreasing crime rates. However, these reports do not provide a complete and accurate picture of the crime crisis in the area.

Since February, Trump has repeatedly warned D.C. leaders, including Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), that the federal government will intervene unless the nation’s capital is cleaned up.

‘Unfortunately, while Fake News journalists and politicians go out of their way to claim otherwise, the reality is that our nation’s capital is anything but safe.’

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A single photo often tells a more compelling story than all the statistics in the world.

Monday on the social media platform X, reporter Nick Minock of WJLA in Washington, D.C., posted a photo of a note taped to a car window in the nation’s capital.

“There is nothing of value in this car,” the note read. “Only restaurant supplies + broken dreams. Plz don’t break the windows for the fifth time.”

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Token conservative and fan favorite of this season of CNN Scott Jennings came over the top rope on the Leftist mouthpieces on News Night with Abby Phillips over the upcoming Trump/Putin meeting. Here’s a brief summary of President Donald Trump’s record on peacemaking and peace keeping. President Trump is going to make Washington, D.C. safe again and the Left is…mad about it? Because they think crime is down? Let’s throw a little factcheck out there, see what we get. Holes in the ozone layer, melting ice caps, acid rain. The climate change/global warming/the end is nigh doomsayers have said it all. And for their next trick: the Great Barrier Reef. In the words of Donald J. Trump: Wrong.

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U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Monday briefly morphed into the Fox News host whose rapier-like response sent liberals quivering.

Pirro spoke with the media to add her endorsement to President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce crime in the District of Columbia by calling out the National Guard and putting the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control.

Although media reports cited that crime overall in Washington has been declining, Pirro lambasted a reporter who seemed fixated on that and not the damage crime is doing to the city.

“It may be down, but the question is always down from what?” she said in a video posted to X.

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A top talent at ABC News admitted she was recently the victim of a violent crime in Washington, D.C., underscoring the need for a greater law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital.

Kyra Phillips, who has been with the network since 2018, recalled on Monday her recent encounter with a “half-dressed” man who mugged her in downtown D.C. She cited the instance as a “firsthand” experience felt by many others as they brave the pedestrian commute to work each day.

“I can tell you firsthand here in downtown DC, where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot, one person died, literally two blocks down here from the bureau,” Phillips explained.

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Donald Trump did a thing, causing Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) to have a knee-jerk reaction to said thing that they didn’t think through. Washington DC is a cesspool edition: Trump is against DC being a violent cesspool, so the media and Democrats (but I repeat myself) have to claim it isn’t. As Scott Jennings points out during another 4-on-1 handicapped match on CNN, no one is buying it.

Ponder this quote from yesterday as you continue: “Donald Trump has some of the best political instincts of any politician…”

Democrats and the media (again, I repeat myself) have decided on 30% as the statistic to claim Trump is spreading fake news, because, ACKSHUALLY, DC isn’t mostly violent anymore. It’s only very much violent. As Jennings says, good luck with that.

Whoops, wrong post. Here’s Jennings.

You know who also isn’t a fan of the alleged “30%?” Gregg Pemberton. He’s the chairman of the DC Police Union. You know, the guys who put their lives on the line every day they leave their families to go to work.

This is what Trump understands that the media and the Democrats (do I have to say it again?) refuse to. The Trump Admin is well aware of statistics claiming crime in D.C. “has fallen significantly from COVID-era highs.” And yet, residents of Washington DC don’t feel 30% safer than they did 30 years ago. According to a recent poll, half of the city says crime was an “extremely serious” problem, or at least “very serious.”

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President Donald Trump’s decision to place the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., under federal control and deploy National Guard troops in response to the city’s escalating crime crisis has ignited a firestorm of predictable resistance from Democratic leaders and their media allies. Despite glaring evidence that crime spirals out of control in the nation’s capital, Democrats cling desperately to a narrative of declining violence, parroting doctored statistics and political spin as though doing so magically erases the reality that D.C. residents face.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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As more and more evidence mounts of direct and treasonous efforts made by the highest leaders in government to remove a duly elected President, calls are mounting for arrests to be made. The target of that unconstitutional, insurrectionist action, President Donald Trump, is now wondering when Pam Bondi, his Attorney General, will arrest the top leaders, top leaders like Obama, the Clintons, and more.

The President said to “I actually told him, I said, you know, they got this phony investigation going on — Russia, Russia, Russia — totally phony, created by Adam Schiff, shifty Schiff and Hillary Clinton and the whole group of them. And it made it very dangerous for our country because I was unable to really deal with Russia the way we should have been. I’m looking at Pam because I hope something’s going to be done about it. These people put our country at great danger. And Adam Schiff… was all made up. It was a hoax. The Mueller report came out. They all hated me.” Read More about the Russian Collusion Hoax

Trump Calls Out Pam Bondi, Demands Investigations Into Schiff And Hillary – Trending Politics News

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President Donald Trump used his appearance at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday to deliver a direct call for action, urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over what he repeatedly called the “Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.”

Trump, who earlier in the evening unveiled the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, shifted from celebrating the arts to blasting what he described as one of the most damaging political schemes in modern history. Speaking to the audience, Trump recalled the cloud of suspicion that dogged his administration from the moment he took office, pinning the blame squarely on Schiff and Clinton.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified an email from 2016 that exposes the Russia hoax.

In the email, then-DNI James Clapper wrote that it might have to “compromise” on our ‘normal’ modalities” regarding the Russia report.

Gabbard posted on X: ”Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama’s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax. Clapper admits that it was a “team sport” that required “compromise on our ‘normal modalities’”. Read for yourself below:”

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Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama’s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax. Clapper admits that it was a “team sport” that required “compromise on our ‘normal modalities’”.

When the Director of National Intelligence tells people to “compromise normal procedures” for a “team sport,” that’s not intelligence – that’s conspiracy.

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No one has asked for Hillary Clinton’s opinion in a long time, but she continues to give it.

The failed presidential candidate and former secretary of state weighed in on President Donald Trump’s decision to restore law and order on the streets of Washington, D.C., slamming her former rival as “unhinged” and pointing to an overall drop in crime in the nation’s capital.

“As you listen to an unhinged Trump try to justify deploying the National Guard in DC, here’s reality: Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low,” Clinton wrote on X shortly after Trump’s press conference, where he announced the federal takeover.

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Just the News reported that in 2017, an intelligence officer who worked for the Democrats on the House Intelligence committee told the FBI that then-Rep. Adam Schiff approved leaking classified information to hurt then-President Donald Trump regarding Russia.

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Newly declassified FBI memos reveal how extensively former FBI Director James Comey used his longtime friend Daniel Richman as a secret media conduit to strategically leak classified information to the media in 2016 and 2017 in an alleged effort to take down President Donald Trump.

FBI Director Kash Patel delivered a tranche of the Bureau’s internal memos on leak investigations to Congress earlier this week.

The memos provide details on multiple classified leak investigations involving Comey, including: Arctic Haze, Tropic Vortex, Foggy Falls, Riding Hood, Sirens Lure, Echos Fate, and Genetic Christmas, Just the News reported.

 

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A bombshell set of newly declassified FBI documents is creating questions over former FBI Director James Comey’s role in shaping the “Russia collusion” narrative against President Donald Trump — and whether classified information was intentionally leaked to damage Trump’s presidency.

The revelations were discussed by Just the News founder John Solomon during an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity, where he detailed how Comey bypassed official FBI press channels to manipulate the media narrative in Washington. According to Solomon, Comey sought to rehabilitate his image among Democrats after the 2016 election while simultaneously harming Trump’s reputation.

“What you find out is that James Comey decided not to work through the FBI press office when he wanted to change the narrative

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has sent the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) a request for a treasure trove of documents related to the ongoing federal investigation into the Obama administration’s Russiagate operation, The Federalist has learned. According to a letter to ODNI senior adviser Paul McNamara, which was obtained by The Federalist, the DOJ has requested from ODNI a wide array of documents about the Obama administration’s 2016 and 2017 attempts to frame then-President-elect Donald Trump as an agent of Russia who stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton.

The request comes on the heels of the declassification and public release of records from late 2016 and 2017 which show how top intelligence and law enforcement officials — including former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former DNI James Clapper — conspired to fabricate a narrative that Russia meddled in the 2016 election in order to elect Trump. The declassified records showed that top intelligence experts objected to the narrative, highlighted myriad issues with the so-called intelligence used to support false claims about Trump, and even told Brennan that he was misrepresenting facts and ignoring counter-evidence as part of a push to attack Trump, cripple his transition, and even hijack his presidency.

Fox News reported on Monday that the DOJ had authorized the empaneling of a federal grand jury to investigate whether Comey, Brennan, or other top Obama administration officials committed any crimes as part of their operation to use the nation’s top intelligence and law enforcement agencies to smear Trump.

The DOJ letter from a federal prosecutor, which was sent in response to a request from Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard for the DOJ to investigate any potential criminal wrongdoing related to the production of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that claimed without evidence that Russia sought to elect Trump in 2016, asks for 12 different categories of documents related to Gabbard’s criminal referral.

“Pursuant to the authority and director of the United States Attorney General, I have been assigned responsibility for investigating this criminal referral,” the letter states.

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FBI Director Kash Patel challenged news media to own who is really “lying” about his discovery of a stash of classified documents connected to the Trump-Russia collusion narrative weaponized against Donald Trump in his first term.

The director’s comments came in the wake of recent reports that “burn bags” filled with thousands of documents dating back to the Trump-Russia probe were discovered in a room in FBI headquarters.

Posting on X Saturday, the director evoked his role as senior counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the first Trump term and wrote:

In 2017/18, I proved the Steele Dossier was fictitious intelligence, weaponized by corrupt FBI officials to deceive a federal judge and unlawfully spy on then presidential candidate Trump’s campaign — all paid for by his opponent.

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In an explosive new interview with former Congressman and Fox News host Trey Gowdy, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said more declassified documents are coming that expose the FBI’s coordinated effort to bury the truth and amplify a lie—all to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and destroy Donald Trump’s presidency.

Ratcliffe confirmed that he and current FBI Director Kash Patel are preparing to declassify additional records proving that the FBI actively suppressed a counterintelligence referral about Hillary Clinton’s plan to frame Trump while giving full legitimacy to the now-debunked Steele Dossier, paid for by Clinton herself.

According to Ratcliffe, foreign intelligence services had already flagged a plot by Hillary Clinton to smear Trump as a Russian agent, a scheme known internally as the “Clinton Plan.”

Yet this intelligence was never shared with Congress. Instead, it was buried, while Obama’s inner circle, including Biden, were fully briefed on it.

According to declassified materials already made public by Ratcliffe and former Special Counsel John Durham, the Clinton campaign not only greenlit the collusion hoax, but also coordinated with foreign groups including the Soros Foundation to build a disinformation war chest against Trump.

When Republicans in the Texas State government moved to finalize a congressional district map that eliminated two Democrat seats, the Democrats in the House fled to Illinois to prevent a quorum from taking place. While Texas moves to arrest them and strip them of their seats, a district court came to their rescue, though it appears their battle is over as they signal they will return to face the vote.

The response from Democrat governors is to declare they’re “taking the gloves off” and they’ll do the same thing Texas did, only the evidence shows the Democrats have already done it. Gavin Newsome’s efforts to sound like Trump led him to declare LIBERATION DAY as he vowed California will try to eliminate what few Republican districts remain. The only problem for him is Californians don’t support the redistricting move.

JUST IN: Judge Rules to Protect Runaway Texas Democrats From Arrest Warrants – Conservative Roof

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An Illinois judge denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to enforce arrest warrants against derelict state House Democrats.

The Democrats fled to Illinois last week to block the Republicans from voting on a new congressional redistricting map.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatened the derelict Democrats with arrest and removal from office if they didn’t return to the Capitol.

Judge Scott Larson said Paxton failed to “present a legal basis for the court to obtain subject matter jurisdiction over this cause of action…”

Demos protest Gerrymandering, by Fleeing to Illinois – Daily Caller

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Democrat state representatives in Texas are fleeing to Chicago, Illinois, to break quorum and block a vote on the 2026 congressional redistricting map.

A total of 51 Texas Democrats traveled to Illinois in an effort to halt legislative proceedings by denying the state House a quorum, aiming to block a vote on the proposed redistricting map.

The Texas state legislature announced the introduction of a bill that would redraw its congressional districts, likely to favor Republican candidates due to the addition of five House seats, CBS News reported.

With control of the House at stake in 2021, Illinois Democrats redrew their congressional maps, removing two Republican-held districts and strengthening their position in Washington, D.C., according to a Politico report.

 

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With the runaway Texas Democrats folding, it’s only a matter of time before the new redistricting plan passes and Republicans pick up five new House seats. The decision to gerrymander the Lone Star State was made in response to states like California, which, despite its “independent commission,” has a map that gives Democrats 43 of the 52 seats with just 60 percent of the total vote.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday confirmed that he and other local Democrats would hold a high-profile press conference geared towards combating the legislative effort to add five additional House seats in Texas.

“Donald Trump is about to have a very bad day,” Newsom wrote in a Wednesday post on X.

The president previously told reporters that Republicans were “entitled” to additional seats and said the FBI “may have to” go after Democratic lawmakers who fled the Lone Star State to ensure a vote approving the measure didn’t pass.

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California voters want to keep the state’s independent redistricting commission in place, even as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) pushes to redraw the maps by giving redistricting power to California‘s Democratic legislators, a new poll revealed.

Newsom wants to redraw the state’s lines in a way that favors Democrats to combat President Donald Trump’s push for Texas lawmakers to do the same in a way that favors Republicans.

A POLITICO-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey found that 36% of registered voters in California support returning congressional redistricting authority to state lawmakers. Sixty-four percent of voters in the state want to keep the commission.

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A draft of California‘s new congressional districts could be released as early as Friday, a spokesman for California State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-CA) confirmed on Wednesday.

“We are aiming to release draft maps on Friday,” Nick Miller wrote in an email to the Washington Examiner.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), left, talks with California Attorney General Rob Bonta during the Assembly’s Organizational Session in Sacramento, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

The news follows a contentious back-and-forth between California Democrats and President Donald Trump over the map.

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As Texas Republicans push to redraw their congressional map along (district) lines more friendly to their party, a redistricting arms race has broken out between governors from both parties.

Texas state House Republicans’ redistricting plans could hypothetically flip as many as five Democrat-held congressional seats, an effort President Donald Trump supports.

In response, California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening a mid-decade redistricting of his own with a new ballot measure. On Monday, he penned a letter to President Donald Trump threatening to counter Republican districts if the Texas redistricting proceeded.

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“You are playing with fire, risking the destabilization of our democracy, while knowing that California can neutralize any gains you hope to make.”

Governor Gavin Newsom is demanding that President Donald Trump respond to his threat to redraw the California congressional district maps, as President Donald Trump and others in the GOP have been pushing to redraw district maps in Texas and other states for Republicans to pick up a few more seats in Congress in the 2026 midterms.

Newsom wrote in the letter, dated August 11, “I am writing to ask you to call on the governor of Texas and other red states, who are acting on your request to draw new congressional maps through an unprecedented, mid-decade hyper-partisan gerrymander to rig the upcoming term elections, to stop those efforts.”

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Democrats are increasingly explicit about their goals to turn illegal aliens into future voters — making Republican talk of amnesty or compromise more worrisome. Those efforts would be nothing less than hammering the final nails into the coffin of both the Republican Party and America.

At a Fort Worth “The People vs. The Power Grab” rally, Beto O’Rourke laid it out plainly.

“We absolutely failed to live up to the expectations that we set, so next time we win power, we’re going to drive that car like we stole it,” O’Rourke said. “We’re going to legalize every DREAMer, every DREAMer’s parents, every hardworking American doing backbreaking work that makes this country so g-dd-mn great in the first place, even greater as US citizens.”

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Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott ended Democrat Governor of California Gavin Newsom and Texas Democrats who fled the state with a hilarious, brutal message, saying he’s still got plenty in his arsenal in this fight over redistricting.

Speaking to Glenn Beck on his podcast on Wednesday, Abbott literally laughed off Newsom who threatened him the day before to stop his plans to vote on a new congressional map that will give Republicans five more seats or else he would, somehow, add five more seats in CA to nullify the move, in a state that Democrats have already gerrymandered to benefit their party.

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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked the FBI to intervene to help bring back state House Democrats who left Texas earlier this week to block the GOP from advancing a congressional redistricting map.

In a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday, Cornyn said he wants the bureau to “take any appropriate steps to aid in Texas state law enforcement efforts to locate or arrest potential lawbreakers who have fled the state” before referring to the Democrats who left.

Dozens of Texas state House Democrats left for other states, including Illinois and New York, this week, preventing state Republicans from doing business in the House on Monday. The remaining representatives voted to issue civil arrest warrants to the Democrats, while Gov. Greg Abbott ordered their arrest later that day.

 

 

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to move towards a potential ceasefire in Ukraine. The war, right now, is seeing Russia make territory gains it hasn’t seen in over a year while Ukraine drones continue to wreak havoc with Russia’s supplies and interior in general.

Ahead of the meeting, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be throwing cold water on the meeting, saying Putin is bluffing. Europe’s world leaders are now behind Trump, hoping he can get a deal done that will stop the war, at least for now.

How Pro-Kremlin Media See The Trump-Putin Summit – rferl.org

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The upcoming meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin has pro-Kremlin media and bloggers talking not just about the expected outcome, but also the chosen location. Current Time correspondent Andrey Cherkasov explains why.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to London on Thursday, a day before a critical U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska.

“Yesterday, together with all partners, today in a bilateral format, we discussed expectations from the meeting in Alaska and possible prospects,” Zelenskyy said in a social media post after the meeting. “We also discussed in detail security guarantees that can make peace truly sustainable if the United States still manages to pressure Russia to stop the killings and engage in real meaningful diplomacy. It is important that we can all work together within a coalition of those willing to achieve effective formats for security work.”

 

 

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised President Donald Trump during a gathering of European leaders ahead of the U.S.-Russia meeting in Alaska.

Starmer, who has maintained a tense but friendly relationship with the White House, championed Trump for arranging the meeting in Anchorage on Friday.

“For three and a bit years this conflict has been going, we haven’t got anywhere near … a viable way of bringing it to a ceasefire,” Starmer said. “Now we do have that chance, because of the work that the president has put in.”

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The Kremlin has warned that everyone should be careful about nuclear rhetoric, after Donald Trump ordered a repositioning of US nuclear submarines.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov played down the significance of Mr Trump’s announcement last Friday that he had ordered two submarines to be moved to “the appropriate regions”.

The move came after former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev made remarks about the risk of war between the nuclear-armed adversaries.

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Fresh from his latest research trip to Ukraine’s battlefields, Michael Kofman joins Ryan for an insightful discussion on the shifting dynamics at the front, the role of drones in Ukraine’s defensive strategy, and the adaptation of Ukrainian military command structures in real time. They explore the political turmoil gripping Ukraine, including contentious reforms targeting anti-corruption agencies, and delve into evolving Western efforts for supplying arms to Ukraine. Their conversation also tackles the implications of President Trump’s growing frustration with Putin and provides a clear-eyed assessment of Senator Graham’s proposed Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025, and what it might mean (or, not mean) for the future of the conflict. Kofman goes into many of these issues further in his show, “The Russia Contingency,” so don’t miss out on becoming a member. Join at warontherocks.com/membership.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed an official misconduct complaint against DNC-CCP activist Judge James Boesberg over his gross violations of constitutional law and overstep of authority in recent rulings. Boesberg was also caught preemptively “suggesting” to fellow judges, including pal Chief Justice Roberts, that Trump wouldn’t obey court orders.

The complaint read, “The Department of Justice respectfully submits this complaint alleging misconduct by U.S. District Court Chief Judge James E. Boasberg for making improper public comments about President Donald J. Trump to the Chief Justice of the United States and other federal judges that have undermined the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.”

AG Bondi Targets Activist Judge Boasburg for Trying to Turn Judiciary Against Trump– slaynews.com
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi filed an official complaint on behalf of the Justice Department against anti-Trump Obama-appointed U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg.

Bondi is accusing Boasberg of committing misconduct by trying to influence other judges against President Donald Trump.

The complaint was written by Bondi’s Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle at her direction.

It was addressed to the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Sri Srinivasan.

 

U.S. reaches trade agreement with Europe with 15% tariff – Axios
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The Mystery of the Declining U.S

The Mystery of the Declining U.SThe Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released the latest numbers on U.S. birth rates and it shows women on average are having 1.6 children each, meaning it has reached the level referred to as “civilizational suicide.” The general fertility rate (GFR) has declined by 22% since 2007 alone.

American Birth Rates Rates Drop To Levels Of Civilizational Suicide– thefederalist.com
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“First world nations are dying,” Pat Buchanan warned in his 2002 book The Death of the West.

“They face a mortal crisis, not because of something happening in the Third World, but because of what is not happening at home and in the homes of the First World.”

And what was not — and still is not — happening at home is childbearing. Buchanan was referring to fertility rates, which have been on the decline for decades.

Data released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows U.S. birth rates are dropping to levels of civilizational suicide, with women having on average 1.6 children. According to the CDC data, birth rates dropped for women aged 15-34 between 2023 and 2024 while rising for women aged 40-44. The general fertility rate (GFR), which is the number of births per 1,000 females ages 15-44, “is down 22% from 2007 to 2024.” While fertility rates are down, the number of births increased by roughly 1 percent between 2023 and 2024, according to the data.

Women are delaying having children or completely casting it aside — thanks in part to the rise of the obnoxious hyper-independent girl boss mentality that has asserted that marriage and motherhood are shackles, along with the “loss of religiosity” and “availability of birth control” and abortion, as pointed out in these pages by David Harsanyi.

The result? The country is dying.

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The corporate media has been eerily silent following Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s bombshell criminal referral for former President Barack Obama and several of his top administration officials.

As Slay News reported, Gabbard is accusing the Obama administration of orchestrating a “years-long coup” against President Donald Trump following his 2016 election win.

In a declassified report released Friday, Gabbard revealed “overwhelming evidence” suggesting that top Obama officials used “manufactured and politicized intelligence” to set the stage for the controversial Trump–Russia collusion investigation.

Gabbard sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for several Obama-era officials involved in the coup.

Despite the gravity of these revelations, corporate media outlets largely ignored or downplayed Gabbard’s explosive claims.

However, the media blackout may come as no surprise to many, considering many of those outlets helped to promote the Democrats’ anti-Trump Russia Hoax.

ABC News and NBC News failed to cover the story at all.

 

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The death toll in the tragic Texas floods over the weekend keeps rising, yet leftist politicians and the mainstream media wasted no time in politicizing the heartbreak and trying to pin blame for the natural event on Donald Trump and his administration.

They blame everything from DOGE to cuts to the National Weather Service to budget reductions at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), but as RedState’s Bonchie points out, most of those cuts haven’t even taken effect yet, and their predictions wouldn’t have changed no matter how high their funding.

But this second Trump administration is a different beast, and they’re not taking things like this lying down. The Department of Homeland Security blasted the media in a series of Sunday posts and accused the biased press of outright lying:

Here is the timeline of NWS’s proactive response:

There are at least 12 subsequent posts by the department proving that they did in fact send out numerous warnings about the potential dangers ahead.

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The death toll in the tragic Texas floods over the weekend keeps rising, yet leftist politicians and the mainstream media wasted no time in politicizing the heartbreak and trying to pin blame for the natural event on Donald Trump and his administration.

They blame everything from DOGE to cuts to the National Weather Service to budget reductions at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), but as RedState’s Bonchie points out, most of those cuts haven’t even taken effect yet, and their predictions wouldn’t have changed no matter how high their funding.

But this second Trump administration is a different beast, and they’re not taking things like this lying down. The Department of Homeland Security blasted the media in a series of Sunday posts and accused the biased press of outright lying:

Here is the timeline of NWS’s proactive response:

There are at least 12 subsequent posts by the department proving that they did in fact send out numerous warnings about the potential dangers ahead. Click on the above tweet to read the entire thread, but here are just a few examples:

 

DHS said the National Weather Service actually did its job:

“The National Weather Service executed timely, precise forecasting and warnings, despite unprecedented rainfall overwhelming the region,” it continued.

The agency also provided a timeline of the National Weather Service’s “proactive response” to the storm beginning on Thursday morning.

“The National Weather Service provided over 12 hours of advance notice via the Flood Watch and over 3 hours of lead time for Flash Flood Warnings, with escalated alerts as the storm intensified,” DHS wrote.


Related: Amazing Rescue of Woman in Tree, Stunning Video Shows Just How Fast TX Flood Waters Rose

Amid Tragedy and Heartbreak in Texas, Hero Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Saves Over 160 Lives

 


This is an awful story, and like Bonchie, I’m heartbroken as a parent to contemplate the unimaginable pain the families of the victims are feeling at this time. There will be investigations, and reports, and studies to determine how this could have been better prevented, but this moment is not the time to throw out conjecture, uncorroborated theories and unfounded allegations.

Blaming the Trump administration for cuts that supposedly kneecapped our warning systems is a fool’s game, because as the DHS points out, the warnings went out. There are still questions to be answered about what happened next, but in the meantime, the media should stop throwing out baseless speculation when the waters haven’t even receded yet.

Updated 7/6 11:35 p.m. ET: Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee had something to say about it:

 

Israel-Iran War Sort of Ends with Iran Missing Most of its Leadership and Possibly its Nuclear Weapons Program

This month, Israel and Iran went to war, with the U.S. appearing to have finished it, at least for now. The fallout of the war will be reported on in the next MIA issue. For now, the Iranian regime is tottering, but not dead, with executions being reported in reaction to growing unrest within. While a ceasefire is in place, it is questionable as to how long it will last.

While Iran attacked Israel with missiles and drones, targeting major civilian populations, Israel wiped out most of Iran’s military and scientific leadership, along with numerous military targets, including ones going after Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. delivered strikes on three facilities, with most “experts’ now conceding Iran’s nuclear program is over, despite denials by Iran’s leadership.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not hold back Thursday morning, slamming the legacy media during a fiery Pentagon press conference. He said their hatred for President Donald Trump was driving their coverage of last weekend’s U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. “Because you cheer against Trump so hard, in your DNA and in your blood, cheer against Trump because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy” of the strikes.

The Trump administration is fighting back hard against the “fake news” media following CNN’s reckless and misleading report late Tuesday that claimed the U.S. strikes on three of Iran’s key nuclear sites only set the theocratic regime’s nuclear program back by a few months. Anonymous officials had leaked a preliminary “low confidence” assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency to CNN reporters.

Sources told The New York Post that the DIA assessment, which had been labeled “top secret,” was “compiled on Sunday without input from other intelligence agencies. … That suggests the report authors did not use CIA or other assets inside Iran to verify the extent of the damage nor rely on audio or online communications that may have been intercepted by the National Security Agency.”

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June 26, 2025—Hundreds of ordinary citizens, members of religious and ethnic minorities, activists, and others are being rounded up and arrested in Iran as the Islamic Republic, facing its most serious challenge to date, moves to stamp out any trace of dissent and reassert its control.

Key Developments:

  • Over 700 individuals have been arrested across Iran in the past 12 days, with many hundreds more detained in Tehran. Checkpoints are set up in many cities to aid in arrests.
  • Six executions on espionage charges have been carried out just since the war began, with additional death sentences expected.
  • Detainees are being subjected to fast-tracked trials in kangaroo courts without lawyers or due process.

The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) calls on the Trump administration to forcefully raise these grave human rights violations in the upcoming negotiations with Iran and warn the Iranian authorities to immediately cease the domestic crackdown on its people.

“Like a wounded animal, the Islamic Republic is going after every perceived threat in the country with deadly force,” said Hadi Ghaemi, CHRI executive director.

“And true to form, the Iranian authorities are locking people up incommunicado without cause or access to a lawyer, and sending them to the gallows on ‘national security’ charges in order to terrorize the public and reestablish control,” Ghaemi said.

In just 12 days of war between Iran and Israel, at least 700 people in cities across Iran have been arrested for alleged collaboration with Israel, according to Iran’s Fars News Agency (126 in Kermanshah, 76 in Isfahan, 62 in Khuzestan, 53 in Fars, and 49 in Lorestan)—while CHRI has received credible reports of additional hundreds—if not more than a thousand—being rounded up and arrested inside Tehran, the capital.

Executions have already begun. Since the war’s outbreak, six individuals have been hanged on espionage charges—three in just the past few days. Two others were executed on the same charges shortly before the conflict began. More are expected to swiftly follow.

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In his first remarks since the ceasefire between Iran and Israel went in to effect, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared “victory over the U.S. regime” and “the fallacious Zionist regime.”

“I offer my congratulations on the victory over the fallacious Zionist regime,” Khamenei, whose exact whereabouts still remain unknown, stated on X Thursday. The Supreme Leader had been holed up in a secret location or bunker since June 13, 2025, due to security concerns. He is reportedly being protected by a special forces unit of the Revolutionary Guards.

“With all that commotion and all those claims, the Zionist regime was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic,” he added.

Israel obliterated Iranian nuclear and military facilities, and assassinated high-profile security, intelligence and military figures, as well as nuclear scientists during the 12-day war.

The majority of the ballistic missiles Iran fired into Israeli towns and cities were intercepted and the few that landed destroyed apartment buildings and other mostly civilian sites. Only five out of the 50 to 60 impacts struck military or energy infrastructure facilities, according to an Institute For the Study of War (ISW) report.

🔴 Watch! Big Winning: Trump’s Iran Victory Makes CNN, AOC, and the Entire Left Absolutely Decompose– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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President Donald Trump knocked out the Iranian nuclear program and has established a ceasefire between Israel and Iran and CNN is mad about it. So mad that they’re reporting is worse than normal. Senator Bernie Sanders appeared on Joe Rogan and it doesn’t seem as though it went the way he planned. We bring you the highlights. The New York City mayoral primary was yesterday. Good news! Andrew Cuomo lost. Bad news: the guy who won might be somehow worse.

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Ohio GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno will introduce a resolution on Wednesday calling on the Senate to formally nominate President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

This comes after the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran, prompted by Trump

“President Trump just pulled off what neocons and Democrat globalists have failed to do for decades: peace in the Middle East with Iran’s nuclear arsenal decimated – all with no American boots on the ground, American casualties, or injuries,” Moreno said in a statement.

“President Trump is delivering exactly what he promised, the era of regime change and Forever wars abroad is over. Now it’s time for the world to recognize the obvious truth and award him the Nobel Peace Prize,” he added.

The Nobel Peace Prize recognizes individuals and organizations that have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” This was outlined in Alfred Nobel’s will.

In Moreno’s resolution, he outlined the fact that former Democratic President Barack Obama was awarded the prize for his alleged ‘‘extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” However, this included the deaths of thousands of people, something that should have disqualified him from receiving the prize, Moreno noted.

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The White House distributed a statement to reporters on Wednesday from the Israel Atomic Energy Commission giving their assessment of the damage U.S. strikes inflicted on key Iranian nuclear facilities.

“The devastating US strike on Fordo destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable,” the IAEC statement reads.

Iran’s nuclear weapons program has now been set back “by many years” following U.S. and Israeli strikes, the statement added.

“We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran’s military nuclear program, has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years,” IAEC said. “The achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear material.”

The statement comes after CNN reported that U.S. strikes against three of Iran’s nuclear sites did not destroy the nation’s nuclear program—a claim fiercely disputed by the administration.

“This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

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President Donald Trump brokered an historic ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran on Monday, marking a dramatic pause in the most significant military confrontation between the two foes.

The Monday evening announcement took effect 12 hours later, following a timeline designed to allow final military maneuvers on both sides. However, a barrage of Iranian missile fire in the hours that followed left many Israelis questioning whether the truce had already been violated.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, John Spencer, executive director of the Urban Warfare Institute, said such delayed implementation is not unusual. “It’s hard to turn things off on a switch. You have aircraft in flight. You have forces in position,” he explained.

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The recent Israeli and American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities have been “extremely successful” in significantly delaying Iran’s nuclear program, according to Robert Greenway, a former senior intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s U.S. Central Command.

Greenway, who also served as a senior director for the National Security Council and principal architect of the Abraham Accords during President Donald Trump’s first term, questioned leaked intelligence assessments suggesting limited damage.

Speaking to Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo today, Greenway said the Israeli and U.S. operations damaged Iran’s most protected facilities and left the country with no meaningful air defenses.

“The United States and Israel enjoy complete freedom of action in the air over Iran,” Greenway said on “Mornings with Maria,” emphasizing that Iran “has no air defenses to speak of and no air force.”

Greenway expressed optimism that the weakened Iranian position creates favorable conditions for expanding the Abraham Accords, potentially including Saudi Arabia, and represents a fundamental shift in regional power dynamics.

He also suggested the strikes send important signals to other U.S. adversaries like Russia and China, particularly through renewed American influence over global energy markets.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday called for China to prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important trade routes for crude oil in the world.

“I encourage the Chinese government in Beijing to call them about that, because they heavily depend on the Straits of Hormuz for their oil,” Rubio said in an interview on Fox News. China is Iran’s most important oil customer and maintains friendly relations with the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s foreign minister warned earlier Sunday that the Islamic Republic “reserves all options to defend its sovereignty,” after the U.S. bombed three key nuclear sites over the weekend.

Iranian state-owned media, meanwhile, reported that Iran’s parliament backed closing the Strait of Hormuz, citing a senior lawmaker. However, the final decision to close the strait lies with Iran’s national security council, according to the report.

An attempt to block the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman could have profound consequences for the global economy. Some 20 million barrels per day of crude oil, or 20% of global consumption, flowed through the strait in 2024, according to the Energy Information Administration.

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President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired back at NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell on Wednesday as she attempted to question them on reports that the Iranian nuclear sites were not “obliterated.”

An early assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which was leaked to CNN, found that the damage done to Iran’s nuclear facilities likely only set back the Iranians’ nuclear program by a few months, which contradicted Trump’s claim that the sites were “completely obliterated.” While O’Donnell repeatedly asked about the report, Trump said the DIA report is incomplete and does not properly assess the damages caused by the U.S.’ bombings on Saturday night.

“You talked about having some on-the-ground assessments at Fordow and other sites … What is your message then, sir, to the intelligence community when they present reports?” O’Donnell asked.

“[The DIA] presented a report that wasn’t finished. We’re talking about something that took place three days ago. The report was done days ago,” Trump said, with O’Donnell attempting to push back. “Wait a minute, they didn’t see it. All they can do is take a guess. Now if you take a look at the pictures, if you take a look at how it’s all blackened. You know the fire and brimstone is all underground because it’s granite and it’s all underground. You don’t show it. But even there, with all of that being said, the whole area for 75 yards around, the hole where it hit is black with fire … It’s been obliterated, totally obliterated.”

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An initial classified assessment found the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities set back Tehran’s nuclear program by a matter of months, according to three sources familiar with its contents.

The assessment, produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s military intelligence wing, said the strikes caused the entrances to two nuclear enrichment facilities, including Fordo, to be sealed off. Resumption of the enrichment program may be determined by how long it takes Iran to clear the entrances and make repairs to electrical and water supplies, two sources familiar with the report’s findings said.

The DIA assessment also indicates some of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile was moved before the strikes, one of the sources said.

Officials familiar with the report cautioned that it was an early assessment that could change as more information becomes available about the sites. It was not immediately clear at what confidence level the judgments included in the report were made.

A complete battle damage assessment is still being assembled, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said on Sunday at a press availability.

“Final battle damage will take some time, but initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction,” Caine said.

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Was it all Kayfabe all along?

President Trump just came right out and told you, for anyone with ears to hear.

What’s “Kayfabe” mean anyway?

In professional wrestling, kayfabe refers to the practice of maintaining the illusion that the staged events, rivalries, and characters are real, even though they are not. It’s a suspension of disbelief that allows audiences to become invested in the storylines and characters. Essentially, it’s the wrestling industry’s version of “the show must go on” and maintaining the appearance of legitimacy.

And is that what we just got with Iran’s “retaliation” strike against the USA?

President Trump just told you:

Check this out…

💥 KABOOM — President Trump literally confirms it was all KAYFAB with Iran!

“Iran was very nice, they gave us warning. They said we’re going to shoot them. Is 1 o’clock ok?

I said it’s fine… and everybody was emptied off the base, so they couldn’t get hurt.”

🔴 MY THOUGHTS:
Come on… you gotta admit this is a pretty weird thing to say, coming from a “terror regime”. Right?

Trump put Iran in check in 2018. We are watching a clandestine military operation take place.

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Arn Anderson’s real name isn’t Arn Anderson. It’s Martin Anthony Lunde. But because he kinda-sorta looked like fellow pro wrestler Ole Anderson, he “became” an Anderson in the weird, wacky world of wrestling. (Of course, Ole Anderson wasn’t really an Anderson either: In the 1960s, Alan Robert Rogowski “became” Ole Anderson, when he was teamed with “brothers” Gene Anderson and Lars Anderson… a.k.a. Larry Heiniemi.) Out of the four Andersons, only one was authentic.

Which is why it worked: A 4-1 ratio is all you need to sell a lie. 

If everything you say is untrue, nobody will listen to you. A Devil who only told lies would collect zero souls. There needs to be an anchor — something real and tangible for you to exploit.

The overwhelming majority of political pundits — from the biggest stars on Fox News to the lowliest “influencers” on social media — simply aren’t smart enough to offer new insights and thoughtful, original analysis of fast-breaking events. And that’s a problem, because their livelihood depends on their minds and their mouths: If they aren’t saying something different than the next guy, then what’s the point in paying ‘em for their opinions? These pundits work, after all, in an attention-driven marketplace.

Unfortunately, this incentivizes media “experts” to greatly exaggerate their “expertise.”

 

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“I don’t see them getting back involved in the nuclear business anymore. I think they’ve had it. They’ve been at it for 20 years, and I don’t see that happening either.”

President Donald Trump spoke to press at the NATO summit from The Hague in the Netherlands on Wednesday, telling reporters that he did not think restarting negotiations with Iran was necessary since the “war is done.”

Trump celebrated the missile strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling it “obliteration.” He said that “no other military on Earth could have done it” and it was an “incredible exercise of American strength” that has “paved the way for peace with a historic ceasefire agreement.”

He said that he believes the 12 Day War is “over,” and added “I don’t think they’re going to be going back at each other.” He noted a letter that stated Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities were rendered “totally inoperable” during the strikes, and that the strikes “set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years to come.”

Trump was asked what made him “so confident” that the conflict between Israel and Iran was over, to which Trump replied, “they’re both tired, exhausted. They both fought very, very hard and very viciously, very violently, and they were both satisfied to go home and get out.”

“Can it start again? I guess someday it can. It could maybe start again soon. I think a big telltale sign was when, as you know, Iran, somewhat but not much, violated the ceasefire. And Israel had the planes going out that morning, and there were a lot of them, 52 of them. And I said, you got to get them back, and they brought them back. They didn’t do anything.”

He said of Iran, “I don’t see them getting back involved in the nuclear business anymore. I think they’ve had it. They’ve been at it for 20 years, and I don’t see that happening either.”

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All those breathless headlines about Iran’s nuclear program from the fake news media on Tuesday are, well, fake news. Shocking, I know.

We kind of already knew that, as my colleague Chris Queen reported yesterday and others have spoken out on it, but when it comes to foreign policy, I listen to one man and one man only, and that is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. On Wednesday,  he not only set the record straight on the impact of bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, but he also explained why most of Europe is wrong to want to sanction Russia.

Rubio, who is traveling with President Donald Trump to Europe this week, sat down for an interview with Politico on Wednesday morning, and, as you can imagine, Iran was the first topic to come up. Rubio’s biggest problem with the situation is the intelligence leak and the fact that it was likely misread and/or misused just to embarrass the president or promote an agenda:

Well, I can’t talk to you about intelligence.  I can also tell you that intelligence leaks are one of the most frustrating things anywhere, not just because you’ve got somebody who has access to this putting stuff out there, but because it’s so often mischaracterized.  An intelligence report, for anyone who’s ever seen it, sometimes is an assessment.  Some analyst will make an assessment, or analysts will make an assessment.  And in these leaks, what you typically have is someone who read it and then leaks it to the media, giving it the spin and the angle they want it to have because they’ve got some purpose:  embarrass the administration, they were against the action, whatever it may be.

After expressing his frustration with intelligence leaks, he explained that our bombs did significant damage to Iran’s nuclear program.

Let me tell you this. The Iranian program, the nuclear program today, looks nothing like it did just a week ago. The program today has been set behind significantly from where it was a week ago. It is in far worse shape today than it was a week ago because of U.S. actions and because some of the actions the Israelis took. So the bottom line is they are much further away from a nuclear weapon today than they were before the President took this bold action. That’s the most important thing to understand. Significant, very significant, substantial damage was done to a variety of different components, and we’re just learning more about it.

Understand that most of the damage that occurred here in Fordow occurred deep underground. That’s why we used penetrator weaponry to do that. So that’s why I hate commenting on these stories, because often the first story is wrong and the person putting it out there has an agenda. And I would say that story is a false story and it’s one that really shouldn’t be re-reported because it doesn’t accurately reflect what’s happening here.

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Vice President J.D. Vance has vowed that America will not see “boots on the ground” in Iran.

Vance made the promise as he defended President Donald Trump’s bold airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“We’re not at war with Iran,” Vance told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.

“We have no interest in a protracted conflict.

“We have no interest in boots on the ground,” he said.

“We didn’t blow up diplomacy.”

Trump has said he has no interest in a prolonged conflict in the Middle East after the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend.

The strikes led to criticism from Democrats, as well as some libertarians and non-interventionists on the Right, who feared Trump was breaking a promise not to embroil the U.S. in another war.

Vance, a vocal non-interventionist, said that Trump’s strikes had a limited objective and only came as a last resort.

“We only took this action when it was clear, as the president said, that the Iranians were tapping us along,” he said.

“The Iranians are clearly not very good at war.

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Speaking to reporters during a press conference to finish out his visit to the 2025 NATO Summit, President Donald Trump revealed talks with Iran are in the works and won’t be about their “obliterated” nuclear program.

“We may sign an agreement. I don’t know,” Trump said. “I don’t think it [a signed agreement] is necessary.”

Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth all vehimentely pushed back on leftist media reports Wednesday that the U.S. military strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure over the weekend didn’t severely damage their program.

Earlier in the day Trump told reporters Iran could be a great country and that they should return their focus to the oil business, not building a nuclear bomb.

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Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) has said that US and Israeli strikes on Iran on Sunday have rendered the Fordow underground enrichment site “inoperable.”

In a handout, the IAEC claimed the “devastating” strikes “destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure.”

“We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran’s military nuclear program, has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years,” the statement said.

The statement was initially shared by the White House and then later released on X by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Israeli assessment contradicts a leaked intelligence report from the US, which suggests that Iran’s nuclear programme has only been set back by a few months and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as US President Donald Trump claimed.

The report issued by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) on Monday is at odds with statements from Trump and Netanyahu about the status of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

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President Trump shut down Iran’s nuclear program and helped get a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. CNN is so upset about it; their reporting is worse than usual. Today’s show breaks it down.

“How can anyone be upset about that?” Crowder said.

Per a Truth Social post from the POTUS:

FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!

However, CNN would like you to believe otherwise.

According to CNN:

The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by seven people briefed on it.

The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.

The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.”

 

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Border czar Tom Homan revealed Sunday that 1,272 Iranian nationals were released during the Biden administration, who were among the “over 10 million people” who crossed into the United States illegally.

Homan’s warning comes after President Donald Trump announced on Saturday night that the U.S. struck Iran, in which “a full payload” of bombs was dropped on three nuclear sites in the country. The border czar was asked about the possibility of sleeper cells occupied by Iranians in the U.S., to which he reiterated his national security concerns posed by the last administration’s handling of the border and how it greatly contrasts with Trump’s security of it.

“So we’re not releasing people in this country, special interest aliens aren’t crossing this border undetected,” Homan stated on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “But under Joe Biden, we had over 10 million people cross that border. But my biggest concern, from day one, beyond the fentanyl, beyond the sex trafficking of women and children, were the two million known gotaways. Over two million people crossed that border, we don’t know who they are, where they came from, because they got away because border patrol is so overwhelmed with the humanitarian crisis that Biden created that 2 million people crossed the border and got away.”

Homan went on to state that Trump’s intelligence community has been working “since day one” to figure out where the illegal gotaways are within the U.S. He also expressed gratitude that new leadership at the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are in place, namedropping FBI Director Kash Patel and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

Iranian Parliament Orders Closure of Strait of Hormuz, Threatening Global Oil Supply – RedState– redstate.com
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Following President Donald Trump’s “Operation Midnight Hammer” attack on Iranian nuclear enrichment sites on Saturday night, the Islamist nation’s parliament has voted in favor of closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, with the ultimate decision resting with the Supreme National Security Council, according to a report from Iran’s Press TV on Sunday.

The US military launched multiple “bunker buster” bombs at Iran’s Fordow facility, along with Natanz and Isfahan. Trump said the infamous Fordow facility, which is concealed nearly 300 feet beneath a mountain, has been “completely and totally obliterated.”

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran. All planes are now outside of Iranian airspace,” Trump posted on Truth Social shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday, marking the first US strike on Iranian soil.

Following strikes on the three key nuclear targets, international attention shifted to how Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Khamenei might respond. Among the possible responses, most widely debated has been Iran’s threat to block the Strait — through which 20 percent of the world’s daily oil shipments flow. When questioned about the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Aragchi stated that “a variety of options are available with Iran.

Israel alone ‘cannot facilitate regime change’, US involvement would be essential– www.france24.com
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Israel’s strikes on Iran have targeted several of its nuclear facilities, alleging Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons, claims Iran vehemently denies. Meanwhile, the IAEA reports no rise in radiation at the affected sites. Since the US unilaterally exited the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran has gradually rolled back its commitments, especially on uranium enrichment. For deeper insight, Eve Irvine welcomes with Dr. Rouzbeh Parsi, journalist and Head of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

 

Three DNC operatives who were a part, in some capacity, of the alleged bribery scheme that is USAID, have pled guilty, Roderick Watson, 37, a former employee, and two contractors, Walter Varnes and Darryl Britt.

Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, said of the plea deals, “The defendants sought to enrich themselves at the expense of American taxpayers through bribery and fraud. Their scheme violated the public trust by corrupting the federal government’s procurement process. Anybody who cares about good and effective government should be concerned about the waste, fraud, and abuse in government agencies, including USAID. Those who engage in bribery schemes to exploit the U.S. Small Business Administration’s vital economic programs for small businesses — whether individuals or corporations acting through them — will be held to account.”

USAID Official Pleads Guilty In Sprawling Corruption Scheme– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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Roderick Watson, a former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employee who worked under the Biden administration, and three businessmen have pleaded guilty to participating in a $550 million bribery scheme involving the embattled agency.

Watson, a Maryland native, is alleged to have received bribes valued north of $1 million in exchange for using his position as a trusted overseer of taxpayer money to direct 14 prime federal contracts to two consulting companies, Apprio and Vistant, which were contracted with USAID.

Watson, 57, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official and faces up to 15 years in federal prison. He is currently scheduled to be sentenced this upcoming October.

As part of the wide-reaching scheme, Vistant owner Walter Barnes and Darryl Britt, owner of Apprio, used Paul Young, the president of a subcontractor used by both Vistant and Apprio, as a middleman in order to facilitate some of the bribes that went to Watson, the Justice Department said in a press release.

Barnes pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and securities fraud. Britt has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official, while Young pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official.

In addition, Apprio and Vistant, both of which contracted with USAID, have agreed to admit criminal liability and enter into three-year deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) in connection with criminal informations filed in the District of Maryland.

“The defendants sought to enrich themselves at the expense of American taxpayers through bribery and fraud,” said Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Their scheme violated the public trust by corrupting the federal government’s procurement process. Anybody who cares about good and effective government should be concerned about the waste, fraud, and abuse in government agencies, including USAID. Those who engage in bribery schemes to exploit the U.S. Small Business Administration’s vital economic programs for small businesses — whether individuals or corporations acting through them — will be held to account.”

The scheme dates back to 2013 when Watson, working within his capacity as a USAID contracting officer, agreed to steer government contracts to Britt’s Apprio firm in exchange for bribes, prosecutors said. Britt’s company had been eligible for lucrative federal contracts as a designated “socially and economically disadvantaged” business by the Small Business Administration (SBA), according to a report from the New York Post.

Federal Contractors Plead Guilty to Bribery Scheme Involving USAID Official– slaynews.com
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Several federal contractors have pleaded guilty to a bribery scheme involving a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) official.

A major corruption scandal has engulfed the USAID, where a long-running bribery scheme resulted in over $1 million in improper payments and four guilty pleas tied to federal contracting abuse, Fox News reported.

The Justice Department uncovered that a USAID official took bribes in exchange for steering contracts.

The charges draw new scrutiny to the embattled agency, already facing restructuring and criticism over spending.

On Friday, the DOJ announced that Roderick Watson, 57, a former USAID contracting officer, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from government contractors beginning in 2013.

These bribes came from Walter Barnes, owner of Vistant, and Darryl Britt, owner of Apprio, through a third party named Paul Young, who ran a subcontractor connected to both firms.

Prosecutors say the illegal payments exceeded $1 million and included cash, laptops, NBA suite tickets, a country club wedding, mortgage down payments, phones, and jobs for Watson’s relatives.

The bribes were carefully masked using shell companies, false invoices, bank transfers, and fabricated payroll records.

The Obama-appointed Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, has unilaterally removed key parts of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” One provision gutted was the removal of illegal aliens from Medicaid, among others.

Calls to Senate Leader John Thune (R-SD) to fire the unelected bureaucrat who unilaterally gutted the Trump agenda have fallen on deaf ears. Thune has the power to do so constitutionally but so far is refusing to serve his country. Failure by Thune to do so could trigger an effort to pass a resolution rejecting her counsel, which the Senate can legally do with a simple majority vote.

Madness: Unelected Democrat Senate Parliamentarian Rips Out Key Parts of President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Including Defunding Medicaid for Illegal Aliens – John Thune Responds By Rolling Over | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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An unelected leftist bureaucrat who no one voted for is single-handedly gutting President Trump’s signature bill with the stroke of a pen, and calls for her termination are emerging. But the Senate Majority Leader is not willing to go that far.

On Thursday, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough struck down several key features of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful bill,” including defunding of Medicaid for illegal aliens and defunding “gender-affirming care” under Medicaid and CHIP, citing the Byrd rule.

MacDonough also axed the Medicare Provider tax, which complicates the Senate GOP’s math on the spending cuts it needs to pass the legislation.

This is the second time MacDonough has removed key parts of Trump’s bill. As the Gateway Pundit reported, MacDonough over the weekend struck down several GOP provisions in the bill by applying the ‘Byrd Rule.’

Here are the four key items MacDonough rejected:

• The federal government defunding sanctuary cities
• Defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (DOGE targeted this agency)
• The EPA’s effort to roll back Electric Vehicle mandates
• A proposal to restrict federal courts from issuing nationwide injunctions

MacDonough is a partisan hack who was appointed back in 2012 when Harry Reid ran the Senate. Why is she still in charge, considering Republicans control the Senate?

Fortunately, Republicans are under no obligation to abide by MacDonough’s activism because her opinion is merely advisory. For example, the Hill notes the Senate can hold a simple-majority vote on the floor to establish a new precedent to expand the scope of what is eligible under reconciliation.

The Senate GOP can also fire MacDonough and replace her with another parliamentarian with a simple majority vote. Given the Senate has 53 Republicans, they can afford to lose three, provided Vice President JD Vance is available to break the tie.

Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is calling for the GOP to take this exact step.

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By William Collier, Publisher

Originally published June 13, 2025 for our Mid-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.” Proverbs 3:5-8

  1. NOTE: Here is a special editor’s commentary from our publisher, Bill Collier, about what it means to trust God, a challenge for many during these trying times, and yet a source of comfort in the midst of chaos for many others.

Trust in God.

It’s so easily said. It just rolls out of your voice, almost as predictable as the tide.

But do we trust God?

I have been experiencing something like I haven’t experienced since I was maybe 10 years old. This “feeling” had been dormant in me for years, though I only realized it recently. It was a specific and unique feeling of joy/peace and quiet certainty that if I but stewarded my life and actions with honor to God as the driving energy behind that, God would take care of an outcome that serves my eternal good, even if suffering and loss in this life are needed to shape me into who He wants me to become.

Of course, I’m paraphrasing here; the kid version of me would have used much different language. Still, looking back, I realize, in essence, this is what I was really thinking in that incredible moment of joy/peace.

I do trust God, overall, but I have not been living in that joy/peace I experienced back then. I have not experienced the trust in God that gives you the REST within, replaces anxiety with peace, and gives a heart thankfulness, filled with the simple joy of following and knowing Jesus Christ.

Of course, this was not a deliberate choice, to kill this joy/peace within me, and it didn’t happen overnight. It was a gradual ebbing out of the spirit of peace as I struggled to finitely figure out for myself how to essentially save myself.

I trust God. I trust the outcomes. I trust when I am merely suffering the consequences of my own failing or mistake, knowing He has grace and mercy and that whatever is resetting me, if I give it to Him, He will transform me as I seek to obey Him until I can put those traits or flaws behind me.

I trust when I suffer for something that was not true, something that was a total lie (yet is laid at my charge), that God’s provision will give me exactly what I need to fulfill His purpose and intentions for my life.

I trust Him when the outcomes are good and bring joyful results, success, and prosperity. But I also trust Him when it seems that in every direction, there is bad news and failures.

I trust when I have more than I need or when I am totally lacking and overwhelmed by the needs I cannot at present meet.

I trust in Jesus Christ to shape and utilize me through this life experience to be prepared for my eternal destiny and to fulfill His scroll of destiny and purpose for me in this life as well.

I rest in that trust.

When anxiety comes because I want an outcome, fear an outcome, or am just confused and uncertain how to proceed, I just focus my heart and mind on the fact God oversees my life BECAUSE I have surrendered to Him. While I need to be a good steward through my worship of Him, He truly is in total control of my outcomes, and I surrender that to Him.

Being a good steward means you take responsibility for your actions, and you utilize all God has given you according to His design, His blueprint, and His purpose, to the best of your understanding and through the means God has given you.

Even if you fumble your stewardship in some way, seeking God and trusting that He will always control your outcomes for your eternal good, allows you to recover and be transformed until you no longer fumble in that manner.

Trust comes as we obey, and as we learn and grow through knowledge and experience over time, we become ever more attuned to God’s voice, understanding of God’s Word, and surrounded by wise Christian counsel through fellowship, and thus, we suffer less for our mistakes.

When we do suffer, it is not necessarily because we made a mistake or a bad choice, but we trust it serves God’s purpose.

As we learn to trust in bad times, we also learn to trust in good times. When riches increase, we do not set our hearts upon those riches. When we are praised and honored, we acknowledge our honor comes from God and goes back to God. When we no longer have the urgency of needing to retreat within ourselves to the Presence of God, we remember this need to abide under His shadow during good times as well, lest we become tempted by our own sense of well-being and our pride.

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”Romans 8:35-39

I survey the unresolved problems I do not know how I will overcome, but yet, even here, I trust in God. I can see that when I lacked the ability, resources, or knowledge to solve a problem, it becomes resolved through God’s provision and/or guidance in sudden, unexpected ways.

Deus Ex Machina isn’t just a dramatic device, it’s real. I can attest to this fact, even through my marriage (maybe even especially through it).

I consider all the impossible things and trying things and what I must face or do that will be hard or have uncertain outcomes, and I yet trust in God. In suffering, the fellowship of His suffering is a place of honor. In happy prosperity, victory, and abundance, I guard my heart but revel in a thankful heart toward God for all He has done.

When I have abundance, I enjoy and take pleasure in distributing the benefits of living for Jesus and of His Kingdom to others. When I lack, I trust in Him and endure knowing these outcomes too serve God’s eternal purpose for my life, and I bear up, seeking counsel in the Word, the meditations of my heart, and the support and encouragement of my circles of family, friends, and fellow saints.

I say these things as a statement of faith, for I am not different than most in that I do not always do these things. But as I am learning to do these things more, I am experiencing more trust and more peace, and therefore more joy. Even in the midst of great blessings (and I have had plenty of those lately as well), I set not my heart upon them but stay in a place of seeking the JOY of HIS Presence.

It is easy for success to make you confident in your own false self-salvation powers; even great Kings of Israel fell to such snares. Remember Joash? He was the King who was saved from the only Queen of Judah, Athaliah, by Jehoiada the Priest.

She had murdered all the male descendants of Judah, save one (Joash), so she could take power for herself. Jehoiada protected the child Joash and worked to finally get him restored to the throne. He saved his life and his Kingship. These blessings were through God.

Under Jehoiada’s guidance, Joash was a righteous King, and his Kingdom prospered. After Jehoida died, Joash let men satisfy his ego, and he turned away from the Lord, ending his days by killing Jehoida’s son, Zechariah, for challenging his unrighteous ways (2 Chronicles 24).

I sense that old pure, innocent, and unquestioning faith in Jesus Christ in its joy and peace is growing anew, at a deep level to where I feel more fearless and overcoming, without fretting over results which, ultimately, I must acknowledge are in God’s hands. That is JUST where I WANT them to be. This means I surrender my expectations or desires as to outcomes, not that I don’t make my requests known or seek to be a good steward and work toward goals.

This isn’t laziness or pacifism. We bear stewardship responsibility for our actions; this includes how we manage and use everything God gives into our hands (stewardship).

Yet God knows we are a work in progress and ultimately, if we let Him, if we TRUST in Him and HIS ways, HIS timing, He will control the outcome for our eternal good. That is rock solid, and the more you live in that, the better your decision-making abilities will become, and the more peace and joy you will experience.

“At that time Jesus declared, ‘I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.’”Matthew 11:25-30

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Report By Michael A. Cessna, Military Affairs Correspondent

Summary by Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

Originally published June 13, 2025 for our Mid-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.’s founders.” –George H.W. Bush after an Iraqi Airstrike, January 17, 1991

INTRODUCTION

Donald Trump’s return to the presidency has marked one of the most dramatic foreign policy transformations in recent American history.

The 47th President’s approach to international relations during this critical period has demonstrated a deliberate departure from conventional diplomatic norms, employing what leftist observers, like Emma Ashford, termed a “move fast and break things” approach to foreign policy that prioritizes rapid, often chaotic transformation over incremental change.

Unlike traditional Presidential transitions that prioritize continuity and measured change, Trump entered his second term with an unprecedented burst of executive actions, signing at least 142 executive orders in his first 100 days, more than any other U.S. president in their first 100 days in office.

As Editor Paul Gordon Collier noted in Part One of our Second 100 Days report, “Donald Trump has signed more executive orders in the first 100 days than any other U.S. President in history, with 152. The list includes 3 Democrats in positions 2-4 before Trump shows up again in 5th for his first term’s first 100 days (with 33 executive orders). Second place is Franklin D. Roosevelt with 99 executive orders, third place is Harry S. Truman with 57 executive orders, and fourth place is Joe Biden with 42 executive orders.

Of those executive orders, 44 have been blocked by the judiciary, mostly at the District Court level. The number of reverses of those blocking orders is disputed, but somewhere between 2-5 are the numbers most often given.

This writer does not assume every executive order by Trump is constitutional, though those executive orders might not even be the ones that have been struck down and/or challenged.

The sheer volume of executive orders, however, is astounding. Given the fact he wrote 50% more executive orders than one of the most far-left authoritarian Presidents of all-time, FDR, one should be sobered by that high number.”

This “assertive” approach has fundamentally altered America’s relationships with allies and adversaries alike, while pursuing an expansionist vision that challenges international norms established by the 1945 UN Charter (something many Americans probably voted for), to break the old “new world order” set by Bush I.

A. THE CURRENT SITUATION IN THE UKRAINE: PROMISES AND REALITIES

Trump entered office with hopes of producing a ceasefire in Ukraine in “one day.”

Reaching a ceasefire agreement during the first 100 days of the second Trump presidency, let alone a peace deal, has arguably proven much harder than the President might have expected. Trump himself eventually acknowledged this difficulty, saying he was joking about the one-day timeline.

While that timeline has proven overly optimistic, Trump’s shift towards Russia from adversarial to conversational counters the Uniparty consensus on Russia.

However, the administration’s diplomatic efforts began immediately, with Trump announcing he had called Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible ceasefire deal on February 12, marking the first known conversation between the presidents since Trump assumed office in January.

Despite multiple rounds of negotiations mediated through various channels, including meetings in Saudi Arabia and Istanbul, substantive progress remained elusive. By late May, Trump said after his call with President Vladimir Putin that Russia and Ukraine would immediately start negotiations for a ceasefire, but the Kremlin said the process would take time, with Trump indicating reluctance to impose additional sanctions on Moscow.

The signs of an entirely different approach to Ukraine were starkly laid out on February 28, 2025, when Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a highly combative bilateral meeting televised live in the Oval Office that was meant to discuss a Ukraine-U.S. mineral resources agreement.

During the meeting, Trump bluntly told Zelenskyy, “You’re not winning this. You have a damn good chance of coming out okay because of us” and You don’t have the cards. You’re buried there.”

The meeting ended abruptly without signing the planned agreement, and Trump canceled a planned news conference. Media outlets described it as an unprecedented public confrontation between an American president and a foreign head of state.

The practical implications have been significant. Trump also said he had been in “serious discussions with Russia” and hadreceived strong signals that they are ready for peacewhile simultaneously pressuring Ukraine through aid suspensions and public criticism.

When negotiations stalled, Trump’s frustration became evident. The United States will walk away from efforts to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal unless there are clear signs of progress soon, U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in April, with Rubio emphasizing, “We need to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about a matter of days, whether or not this is doable in the next few weeks.”

B. MIDDLE EAST COMPLEXITIES: GAZA AND REGIONAL AMBITIONS

The President came into office with big radical visions for the Gaza Strip, proposing what he termed a “freedom zone” for the territory.

His most controversial suggestion, timed with the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – the first world leader to arrive at the White House on February 4, signaling the administration’s strong support for Israel – involved the idea that the U.S. might “take over” and “own” the Gaza Strip, envisioning long-term U.S. control and the relocation of Palestinians to neighboring countries, turning Gaza into theRiviera of the Middle East.”

However, the administration has also pursued unexpected diplomatic openings. Trump hosted Netanyahu again in April to inform him of the U.S. decision to enter nuclear talks with Iran, a move that reportedly blocked Israeli plans for military action against Iran’s nuclear program. Jerusalem worries that Trump will accept an agreement with Tehran that fails to contain the regime’s nuclear ambitions. As of right now, that block is not in place as Israel has struck a major blow against Iran that is still ongoing even as I write this.

C. GLOBALIST INSTITUTIONAL DISMANTLING AND A BUREAUCRATIC REVOLUTION

One of Trump’s most dramatic foreign policy moves involved the systematic dismantling of America’s international engagement apparatus. The administration has shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Millennium Challenge Account, Voice of America, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

The scale of these cuts was unprecedented, with at least 121,000 workers fired from federal agencies, including 10,000 employees fired from the Agency for International Development (USAID), where 100 percent of the jobs were culled.

This institutional dismantling extended beyond foreign aid agencies. On January 20, his first day in office, Trump signed 26 executive orders, which included withdrawing from the World Health Organization and renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The broader pattern reflected what globalist critics described as an assault on the foundations of American global leadership. MAGA voters would call this the dismantling of the globalist world order, from without and from within.

By the end of those first 100 days, the Trump World Order has replaced the old agreements.

D. TRUMP’S WORLD ORDER EMERGES

  1. TRUMPOLARISM – President Trump came out the gates calling for Canada to become the fifty-first state, proposing to buy Greenland, and taking action to retake control of the Panama Canal. The President appears to be done with the global order’s way of doing things and has opted for unipolarism over globalism.
  2. ALLIANCE RE-ALIGNMENT – Trump’s approach to traditional alliances during his first 100 days demonstrated a fundamental shift in American foreign policy priorities. Trump has forced a rethink of the U.S. commitment to NATO, creating ruptures with transatlantic allies while simultaneously challenging the European Union in myriad ways: withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, imposing sweeping tariffs on European countries, and telling them to take care of their own security.

The impact on traditional alliances has been paradigm-shifting. Trump’s aggressive stance toward Canada has completely upended what was traditionally a close relationship, with Trump telling reporters, “Canada only works as a state. We don’t need anything they have.”

3. MILITARY POWER – In contrast, Trump’s military deployments against various factions in the Middle East presented a reminder that, even given the somewhat dilapidated state the U.S. armed forces found themselves in after the four years of the Biden administration, the United States still packs a massive punch when it decides to deploy it.

Trump’s most significant military action during his first 100 days was Operation Rough Rider, a large-scale campaign against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis launched on March 15, 2025. The operation marked the biggest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since Trump took office, targeting the group over their serious disruption of Red Sea shipping traffic since October of 2023.

The campaign began with strikes on 30-plus targets at multiple locations, including terrorist training sites, drone infrastructure, weapons manufacturing capabilities, and command-and-control centers.

The strikes killed at least 53 people and wounded almost 100 others, including “multiple” Houthi leaders, according to U.S. national security adviser Michael Waltz.

Unlike the Biden administration’s limited and ineffectual approach, Trump granted broader authority to operational commanders and showed less reluctance about potential casualties. The campaign hit 1,000 targets and killed hundreds of Houthi fighters over nearly two months.

The operation concluded on May 6, 2025, when Trump announced the U.S. would stop bombing the Houthis after the group agreed to halt attacks on shipping lanes, though the Houthis indicated they would continue targeting Israel.

  1. REMOVING THE CANCER WITHOUT KILLING THE HOST

The administration’s approach to great power competition revealed internal contradictions, or, perhaps more accurately, conflicting concerns. While some policies appeared designed to counter Chinese influence, the administration has been willing to accept the risk of ending USAID and VOA so suddenly that it creates opportunities for America’s enemies to move in.

Trump is dismantling America’s soft power machine, but if the administration is right in its assumptions that much of this apparatus serves the globalist agenda, not the America First agenda, the damage these tax-funded institutions can continue to do is far more than the damage done by immediately terminating them.

It does open the door for China (and it already has), but it also immediately shuts the door on the insurrectionists within the government.

Beyond bilateral relationships, Trump has sought to completely dismantle the leftist-captured bureaucratic apparatus working aggressively against his “America First” policy.

In so doing, some cuts may have been too hasty. For instance, Trump dismantled some of America’s most essential cyber programs, including more than $175 million in grants and contracts for partner capacity building through USAID cuts.

These moves, then, reflect Trump’s broader skepticism about the nature of these government programs that seem to push anti-American and/or leftist values over American ones. It also appears to reflect his preference for direct, bilateral engagement over multilateral institutions with their own foreign policy agendas and lack of accountability (until now).

E. LATIN AMERICA AND IMMIGRATION DIPLOMACY

President Trump followed through with his promise to begin mass deportations in his first 100 days. This has put Latin America to the fore of U.S. foreign policy. This has led to unprecedented cooperation mechanisms, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio making his first international trip to the region, visiting Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic.

The approach has been effective in achieving stunning cooperation. The United States later transferred illegal aliens to El Salvador, with many Liberal and anti-Trump hawkers alleging that they weren’t gang members at all.

Despite accusations of human rights violations by DNC operatives and their allies, many Latin American leaders are happy to facilitate these deportations – and not only those who seek a close relationship with Trump.

  1. THE EL SALVADOR PRISON DEAL – One of the Trump administration’s most controversial foreign policy innovations involved an unprecedented agreement with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to accept criminal deportees.

Under this arrangement, El Salvador’s government receives about $6 million to imprison 300 alleged members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang in the country’s notorious mega-prison known as the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).

The program relied heavily on Trump’s invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to justify deportations in an effort to cut the criminals off from getting what the Trump administration would characterize as “undo due process,” or “due process not granted to illegal alien criminals by the constitution.”

Since March, Washington has transferred at least 200 mostly Venezuelan alleged gang members and violent criminals to El Salvador. Unfortunately for the Trump administration, it would be determined that one person, a person the DNC criminal press called a “Maryland resident,” was deported in error.

The Trump Administration conceded to the courts, sort of. They had the illegal alien, Kilmar Abrego García, extradited back to the U.S. to face charges in Federal court for human trafficking, including of children.

Trump further expanded the scope of this partnership by expressing interest in sending U.S. citizens convicted of violent crimes to Salvadoran prisons, telling Bukele, “The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You’ve got to build about five more places.”

Legal experts described the concept as “obviously unconstitutional, obviously illegal,” since the U.S. government cannot forcibly remove citizens from the country for any reason.

In making these statements, Trump continued to pursue his apparent strategy of getting his political opposition to fly into near-hysterical rage, taking Trump literally at his word, despite the obvious silliness of his statements.

While this may be technically seen as “buffoonery,” it does seem to be working, as both Democrat politicians and Left-wing commentators repeatedly show themselves as both foolish and childish… This, of course, calls into question the veracity of the previously quoted polls.

The first 100 days of Trump’s second presidency thus established a pattern of maximum disruption combined with uncertain outcomes – an approach that prioritized the destruction of existing frameworks over the construction of viable alternatives, leaving both allies and adversaries struggling to adapt to an increasingly unpredictable American foreign policy.

SUMMARY

Written by Editor Paul Gordon Collier

More than any other aspect of the second first 100 days of the Trump administration, the entanglement of globalist far-left activism with America’s primary means of “soft power,” power projected through social and cultural influence, presents the most challenging problem.

On the one hand, the Trump administration NEEDS these institutions to do the work of American foreign policy; on the other hand, getting these institutions to carry forth with his policy was going to be nearly impossible as they existed on his second first day in office.

As many leaders will tell you, if you want to get “big things” done, do it as quickly as possible. The longer you wait, the less likely you will have the political capital to ever move so dramatically, so suddenly again. Taking office, he had tremendous political capital, capital he might never have again.

A second major conflicting issue is the nature of the American alliance, which has devolved to the point where America’s “allies” took it for granted that America would continue to meet the obligations of the old agreement, the Bretton Woods Agreement, without having to meet theirs.

This agreement essentially made it clear that America would give its allies favorable trade deals, provide for their defense, and keep the global trading lanes, especially the ocean ones, open. All they must do is simply go along with American foreign policy.

It was intended to contain Russian influence by offering the world prosperity over war. But since that agreement was first signed, in 1944, one part of the agreement has continued: America’s obligation. The second part, America’s allies’ obligations, have been met less and less until, at this point, the “alliances” serve the globalist agenda.

More insidiously, this globalist agenda works against the sovereignty of the nations in this same American-centered alliance (which worked against America’s interests, not for it). The UK, Northern Ireland, France, and Germany are all in this alliance, and they’re all heading towards state failure because they follow the same globalist, not American, foreign policies.

Trump must have understood going in that the old agreements were existential threats to American sovereignty and power. To his enemies, the loss of “respect” from allies is a testament to his failures; to Americans, the nations being served notice that America is now working in its own best interests, not the world’s, is a moment they’ve been wanting to see for at least two decades now.

Yet Trump hopes to ultimately keep these same allies, or at least most of them (including Canada and the UK), if they choose to reject the old new world order and embrace the Trump World Order.

This means he must balance out the need to preserve with the need to cull, knowing he has little time to make an impact that his successor cannot easily undo.

I am not sure there is anyone short of God who could hit the right balance between culling and preserving, but I will say this writer believes it is better, at this point, to ere on the side of culling too much than preserving too much, for a little leaven leavens the whole lump.

An America left with a little leftism is not an America that can survive anyway.

Cull away, Trump; let the chips fall where they may.

ED: NOTE: The last part of our report, on Tariffs, is being delayed until the End-Month Issue of MIA this June 27 (barring more urgent breaking news). It has been moved up to make space for our report on the ICE Raid Riots (see pg. 2).

FURTHER RESOURCES:

The Bretton Woods GATT System – Orin Kirshner

An Introduction to the WTO Agreements – Bhagirath Lai Das

The New World Order – A. Ralph Epperson

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to The New World Order – Alan Axelrod

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By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

Originally published June 13, 2025 for our Mid-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

“And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.” –Daniel 5:25-28

ED.NOTE: All accusations should be presumed to be allegations, allegations we believe are true but cannot yet clearly prove, mainly that the Democrat Party and its “allies” are attempting to trigger an insurrectionist event that will destroy the American republic and replace it with Progmerica, which is no America at all.

INTRODUCTION

The ICE raid riots are an ongoing story that will hardly be completed before we go to print on Friday, June 13. Normally, we would wait to do a report on a story like this, until it gets closer to some form of total or “chapter” completion. We’re not even going to see a chapter completion before this goes to print.

As of the writing of this report (June 12), President Donald Trump has ordered in hundreds of marines and a couple of thousand national guardsmen to stabilize Los Angeles (where the insurrectionist attacks first started).

In response, the DNC is now threatening a national event for June 14 called “No Kings” that promises to spread more terror to American cities. GOP states, the targets of these scheduled terror attacks, are bracing for the next battle.

This is not intended to be a report that captures the minutia of facts, but rather the emerging narratives, spirits, or zeitgeist that is emerging from these acts of insurrection. The open declaration of war by Democrats and their activists against the Federal government is disturbing enough as it is; the refusal of the DOJ to prosecute these top DNC leaders for openly inciting violence is even more disturbing, and why I felt the need to report on this so soon.

I decided to do an analysis of events around the ICE protests because right now America is closer than it ever has been to potentially becoming unstable for a short, or longer period of time. It might come through some level of Civil War or a disruption of interstate trade due to increased acts of leftist terrorism. It might also prove to be much sound and fury signifying nothing.

We will most likely have a sense of the bite of the left by the time the next publication comes to print, after their “No Kings” terror threat is carried out (or not carried out).

I believe our audience should get a sense of the state of things as they currently are (at least up until the day before printing) to make the best decision regarding what you might want to do to ensure you are ready should instability come, for however long. By the time we print our next issue, we will already being experiencing disruption, or learn there is no fire to their smoke.

A recent event happened in New York City that, this writer believes, captures a new zeitgeist emerging in America that shatters the paradigms the left has used to control the narrative for the last 50-plus years. That zeitgeist is emerging from the violent confrontations happening in more and more cities as insurrectionists attempt to shatter American stability.

If this new zeitgeist emerges, our “fears” will be laid to rest. America will rise again.

A. THE ICE RAID RIOT ZEITGEIST EMERGES

Occasionally, a moment happens that crystalizes a new zeitgeist rising in a culture. These types of images are often on their face jarring. They will have elements out of their old acceptable context that yet will reveal a “new acceptable” context.

For instance, recently, we had the startling image of Donald Trump rising with a raised fist, blood on his cheek. He was almost, but not quite, protected by a woman who seemed uncomfortable to touch him. On the other side was a man in shades looking more like he wanted to look cool rather than protect the President. They are worthy of their own symbolic zeitgeist analysis, but they’re not as relevant as the weak man who rose.

The incongruous combination of the weakness of a former President disheveled, bloodied, yet made strong by a determined cry and a fist pump, made the weakness of Trump himself “permissible” for people to look past. For in his weakness, he rose.

That image may be the very image that changed the zeitgeist of the political debate, a contest between the status quo empty suit that will keep to the plan versus the unstable, unpredictable, weak man who had been bloodied before the assassination attempt with 34 felony convictions. The weak man rose. The narrative was broken. America had “permission” to take a chance on a dangerous bet.

Recently, an exchange occurred, captured in a viral video, that rises almost to that level as far as zeitgeist-changing goes.

A woman was driving on her way to work when she was interrupted by a mob of ICE raid protestors, insurrectionists, who had illegally shut down the freeway she happened to be driving on. She got out of her car to beg the insurrectionists to let her go because she needed to make money to support her daughter.

The insurrectionists laughed to her face, claiming the children of immigrants are also in need.

The insurrectionists in this story were two white people, a mother in her 50s to 60s and her son in his 30s. The woman in this story is a black woman. The image you see is two white people confronting a black woman, telling her that the immigrant child is more important than her child.

The welfare bribe that won the black community over to the party that enslaved them might not be enough to keep black Americans on the DNC plantation anymore if they rightly perceive their needs are second, or even last, compared to the needs of illegal aliens.

From Legal Insurrection:

With traffic having ground to a halt at a busy intersection, the young woman gets out of her car and begs the mother-son team to let her get through. “I have a kid, and I need to go to work.”

The mother snapped, “These people [illegal immigrants] are having their children taken.”

“But what about my kid?” the young woman asked.

Too busy fighting for the rights of illegal immigrants, she replied sharply, “I can’t help you.”

Hernandez asked the protestors, “How do you all feel as white people stopping a black woman from going to work?”

The son, who looked to be in his thirties, turned to Hernandez and said sarcastically, “Oh no, not work.”

As a derisive smile crossed his face, he added, “I care so much.”

The symbolism here breaks an old paradigm and creates a new one. Here, you have on one side the representation of the DNC-CCP, the angry white suburban idler who might also be getting paid by an NGO to intentionally disrupt American cities. On the other side, you don’t see a Republican, a conservative; you see an American, a black woman who represents at this moment ALL OF AMERICA.

The white people look like the college class, the entitled. The black woman is a working woman, a middle-class, working-class woman. The division that is more important than race is the division between the college class and the working class, which is devastating to the DNC because its brand was that it represents the worker.

I guarantee you 99 percent of the alleged white supremacists in this country, MAGA people, identified with the black woman, recognized HER as the American, not the white leftist insurrectionists.

The paradigm of race is broken. The paradigm of leftist versus American has risen. Americans believe many things, come in many colors, but all believe in “live and let live,” in not interfering with your neighbor’s right to pursue their own truth, their own way, so long as they respect the rights of others to do the same.

America is not a biological expression; it is an ideal, an ideal manifest in the land we have been blessed to govern, a land that is the envy of the world, and why these insurrectionists are trying to help the world absorb it into its “gun-less and thought-less zones.”

It remains to be seen if this image will become the crystalizing image of this latest effort by the DNC-CCP to overthrow the republic, by any means necessary, through these ICE raid riots, but this writer is praying that it will.

B. HOW THE DNC FANNED THE FLAMES OF THE ICE RAID RIOTS

  1. HOW IT BEGAN – On June 6, 2025, Federal ICE Agents were serving warrants for criminal illegal aliens in a place of business where they discovered more illegal aliens. Insurrectionist activists were deployed by the various terrorist organizations the left has utilized for years to attempt to disrupt the arrest process, with one Democrat congresswoman being arrested and charged after assaulting ICE officers to “protect” criminal illegal aliens.
  2. INSURRECTIONIST PRESS FUELS MORE VIOLENCE – The DNC-CCP press immediately spread lies that there was a massive raid going on, characterizing the raids as something unconstitutional, agitating their brownshirt activists intentionally to bring a mob to harm the ICE agents.

From Newsbusters:

The latest L.A. riots came after ICE began enforcing immigration law and rounding up illegals in downtown Los Angeles, and the New York Times is desperately trying to downplay the radical and violent nature of the so-called protests by calling them “largely peaceful” (i.e., somewhat violent, as a trove of photos from Los Angeles prove).

A representative piece is “What to Know About the Immigration Protests in Los Angeles,” with this subhead attached: “Demonstrations against the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration have been largely peaceful, but tensions flared after President Trump ordered National Guard troops to deploy to the city.”

The story is wrong right from the subhead. Riots were already ongoing, with stones hurled at cop cars, while the National Guard troops were sent to protect the Los Angeles Federal Building, which came under siege Friday by protesters.

These were known facts the press concealed. They could only have done so to incite violence against federal agents. But not only is the press in on the insurrection, so are the DNC-CCP-controlled AI bots, like ChatGPT, a digital terrorist if ever there was one.

  1. AI TERROR MACHINES – If you ask AI bots about the ICE RAID riots, you get large language model responses, all written within the presumed leftist paradigm. ChatGPT, for instance, wrote a correction to my labeling the LA Riots as riots, “Here’s what triggered the 2025 ‘LA Riots’ (really protests that erupted into unrest) … “

However, we now know these riots were always riots, from the start, intended to produce sympathy from the American public after the law is sent in to rightly arrest, detain, and put down the insurrection. Leftists are using these AI terror machines to “justify” the violent actions they are taking, using ChatGPT quotes to “rebuke” basic statements of fact.

C. WE KNOW IT’S ASTROTURFED

These planned acts of terror are coordinated and funded by leftist organizations, all with DEEP ties to the DNC, working in collusion directly with them in many instances. Here are a few examples:

From American Greatness:

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is about to focus its investigative powers on Neville Roy Singham, the pro-China Marxist multimillionaire behind many of the destructive far-left demonstrations plaguing the United States in recent years.

The Committee is reportedly issuing a formal document request to Singham over his alleged financial support of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), an extremist Marxist group that has been helping to organize violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

As the main funder of The People’s Forum, Singham, 71, has also bankrolled the “Free Palestine” protests that erupted after 1,400 innocent Israelis were slaughtered by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The People’s Forum works closely with other organizations in Singham’s network, including PSL and the ANSWER Coalition, all of which have been involved in the anti-Israel protests and anti-ICE riots.

Donald Trump is telegraphing to the world that this is a paid, coordinated terrorist attack. These are not and have never been peaceful protests, despite the agit prop the engines of terror, DNC-programmed AI like Grok and ChatGPT, tell you.

Speaking to reporters on June 10, 4 days after the insurrection began, he said, “…by having the military, it de-escalates. These people are agitators, they’re troublemakers, I believe many of them are paid. I watched them breaking up the sidewalks with a big hammer, handing pieces of the concrete to other people.”

We will have far more on this in the follow-up report, should events warrant it (and they most likely will).

D. DEMOCRATS OPENLY SUPPORT INSURRECTION

But it’s not only the press and their AI terror machines; it’s also Democrats in government, elected Democrats like insurrectionist representative Nanette Barragan (D-CA), who spread the lie these were “mostly peaceful” protests inflamed by Federal agents. This, again, is a known lie intentionally told to get ICE agents killed. She accused those same agents of “targeting peaceful protesters.”

1. FORMER VP GOES INSURRECTIONIST– Kamala Harris, who might as well be an AI program, fueled violent rage amongst her brownshirt stormtroopers. She openly and knowingly lied to the American public, claiming Trump was “stoking fear,” and saying “the demonstration in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful.”

The most recent Presidential candidate of the DNC just openly committed acts of treason and terror against the republic, yet she remains free to this day in part because of the Bondi effect, the presence of compromised collusionists and leftist agent, Pam Bondi, the feckless Attorney General of the United States.

2. KAREN BASS TREASON – Perhaps the most damning is the actions of Marxist LA Mayor Karen Bass (we did a report on her Marxist past in a previous MIA). She DEMANDED ICE agents stop their operations and characterized their actions as unconstitutional, as being a violation of states’ rights (as if states have a right to unleash terrorists on the people and prevent them from defending themselves against said terrorists).

She then committed high acts of treason and terrorism, knowingly spreading the violence-inciting lie that ICE agents were to blame for the violence. She said, “If immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder. It is peaceful now (it wasn’t, riots were going on AS she shared this statement), but we do not know where and when the next raids will be!”

Again, she is free because Pam Bondi, a compromised woman, a traitor herself, is the Attorney General, holding the line for her DNC bosses.

3, GAVIN NEWSOM NUKES AMERICA– Karen Bass’s betrayal of Americans in her city is bad enough, but what about the governor of the state? That governor is another insurrectionist, Gavin Newsom, the man who signed a bill into law that makes it illegal for parents to prevent their children from being chemically castrated if a pedophile teacher grooms them to think they’re in the wrong body.

That “law” alone should get every politician arrested, charged, and convicted of child endangerment and child grooming, to start.

Newsome’s response to the justified putting down of insurrectionist terror was to threaten to essentially leave the Union. He declared, “Californians pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over $80 billion more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off, @realDonaldTrump.”

Again, because Pam Bondi, a compromised woman, a traitor, is the DA, Gavin Newsom has not been arrested for openly rebelling against the republic and threatening insurrection at a state-wide scale.

For the record, Border Czar Tom Homan has denied that either Bass or Newsom have crossed the line. I sense he knows they did, but Bondi is holding him back.

4. DNC HOUSE LEADER’S DEATH THREATS TO ICE – The cherry on top of all of this, though, is the response from Hakeem Jeffries, who openly threatened, or rather PROMISED, to dox every ICE agent and bring them to account for obeying the law and defending the republic from its current number one existential threat and insurrectionist enemy from within, the Democratic Party.

He declared, “This is not the Soviet Union. We’re not behind the Iron Curtain. This is not the 1930s, and every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will, of course, be identified. That, in fact, is the law.”

He is essentially threatening not only to murder ICE agents, but he’s also threatening their families as well. Pam Bondi, meanwhile, is busy throwing more Epstein evidence into the bonfire under her desk.

The Democrats’ Hispanic Caucus officially tweeted their support of those acts of high treason in collusion with America’s foreign enemies, tweeting out, “We are keeping tabs, and we will have accountability” in response to the death threats made by the Democrats’ top person in the U.S. House.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

We started off with a zeitgeist-changing image of a working-class Mom (who happens to be black) being blocked from being able to provide for her daughter because entitled white people decided the immigrant child was more important than the American child.

What is playing out here is a fundamental paradigm shift from the left’s previously dominant one. That paradigm framed “truth” through the lens of arguably born traits, like being white, heterosexual, transgendered, black, etc.

The merits of the claims of conflicting parties were based on the status of the characteristics you were ostensibly born with (race, gender, sexual orientation) as well as the status of the nation you represent, with “Americanism” being the paradigm of evil, an indefensible evil born from white supremacism.

If you were black and defended Americanism, you were an Uncle Tom, White Adjacent, and, as Joe Biden claimed about blacks who didn’t vote for him, “you ain’t black.”

While the left has LONG been betraying American workers, its brand was still that it was the party of the people, the party of the workers, a lie that has been accepted long after it had any semblance of truth to it.

The “good guy” brand of the DNC was unshakeable, especially because their information terror machines, the criminal press, continued to spread lies that defended the party and concealed the truth that indicted it.

Now, with the intentional invasion of America by the DNC-CCP using foreign agents as their proxies, it is becoming increasingly difficult to deny what’s going on, not only because the information terror machines are losing their influence but because more and more Americans are encountering the brutal reality of the planvasion where they live, ESPECIALLY in the cities, the DNC’s own base.

Whatever coercive power the left can conjure to slow down their demise, it won’t, in the end, be enough to sustain the growing fury Americans are experiencing every day, especially the ones who were recently still voting Democrat, still believing this was not the party of the rich elites willingly murdering and destroying American agency not for the good of the working poor or middle class, but for the good of the elites who simple don’t want to compete with Americans anymore.

When the white man in the ICE protest video scoffed at the notion of being troubled that he might stop a black woman from going to “work,” the Democrat party died. They never cared about minorities, they never cared about the homosexuals, they could give two figs what happens to illegal immigrants, they only want to MANIPULATE psychopaths to get them to do their violent bidding, only to be discarded as well once they serve their purpose.

Hitler purged his nation of the very people that made it possible, the violent brown shirt thugs. He knew who the most psychotic and dangerous people were, the kind of people you first need to inspire to get them to murder your way to the top of the mountain. This lot will do the same thing. They will then be cut off because their handlers know when they’re done with the mutual enemies, the Americans, these same psychos will then turn on their handlers.

Perhaps, after this, some of those brown shirts will realize they are fighting against their own self-agency, surrendering their lives to child-sacrificing death cultists who feel as much contempt for them as they do for the Americans they’ve tricked them into hating and brutally assaulting.

Chaos may yet come. Disorder and disruption might be coming, but the war for the hearts and minds of Americans is over. You’ve taken our sacred elements, our flag, our name, our institutions, and you treated them like your playthings, like King Belshazzar did when he took God’s temple’s objects and used them as common wine glasses and playthings (Daniel 5).

Perhaps the Democrats should heed the warning Belshazzar received when he saw the writing on the wall, “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN.”

You have been measured and found wanting. Your Kingdom will be taken from you.

The question is, what will replace it? Will America be restored, or will one tyranny be replaced with another? As of right now, I’m betting on America, but the odds are still against overcoming the damage the left has done to this nation, beginning with the “Progressive Era.”

One thing for sure is this: America has learned it cannot be tolerant of intolerance. Tolerance is not acceptance; it’s an acceptance of your right to be wrong without violent consequences, not an acquiescence to your beliefs and ways (as the Democrats these past few decades have tried to make it, in open sedition against individual liberty American values).

Tolerance also doesn’t mean you stop speaking openly in opposition to others’ beliefs and ways. It just means you won’t try to destroy their lives because you disagree with them. But if your beliefs do not allow tolerance, then your beliefs should not be tolerated.

Leftism is an ideology that assumes the social is the only real, and there is an ideal that social experts can discover, an ideal social that justifies violence against wrongthink for the good of the whole.

It is anathema to Americanism, which is rooted in the idea that individuals have a right to be self-stewards of their own pursuit of their own defined happiness so long as they respect the rights of others to do the same. Leftism can never tolerate Americanism, for its lies are destroyed every time in any society that can openly challenge them. It can’t even deny the truth that a female adult human is a woman, and NO ONE ELSE IS!

The emerging question must be, what do we do about the left without destroying the self-stewardship rights of others? We cannot tolerate their intolerance, but how do we determine exactly what ideas are intolerant?

If America survives, it will be left to the next generation to test and work out how the republic can criminalize intolerant thought without criminalizing tolerant thought as well.

FUTHER RESOURCES:

The Color Revolutions – Lincoln A. Mitchell

Color Revolutions: Techniques in Breaking Down Modern Political Regimes – Oleg Karpovich and Andrei Manoilo

The History and Science of Color Revolutions – Brandon Turbeville

After the Color Revolutions – Daliborka Jankovic

 

After a 3-Judge panel on an obscure court called the U.S. Court of International Trade (located in the heart of DNC-CCP power, Manhattan) unilaterally struck down all of President Trump’s tariffs, the state of Rule of Law in America has now come into doubt. Defying the will of the people, the 3-judge panel decided a 1977 law that clearly gives the President the power to act in the way that he has doesn’t.

Trump’s key economic policy has just been undermined – and the president will be seething | US News– news.sky.com
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This is a huge decision by an obscure Manhattan court. President Trump’s core economic policy has just been comprehensively undermined, he has been undermined, and he will be seething.

Beyond the upending of his policy agenda, the ruling will electrify the deepening schism between the administration and the judiciary, furthering the sense of constitutional crisis in this country.

Donald Trump’s tariffs encapsulate his identity. They are the centrepiece of his economic platform. They are the tool with which he has tried to exert a sense of global authority. They are the levers in his “art of the deal”.

We all remember Trump’s Liberation Day – 2 April. With great fanfare, in the White House Rose Garden, the president revealed a percentage for each country around the world. He had governments, in capitals globally, hooked and wincing.

The Biden autopen scandal has only widened and led more and more people with means to investigate such matters to determine just who served on the committee that illegally ran the country while Biden served as their avatar? According to President Trump’s AI Czar, David Sacks, “Elizabeth Warren controlled the autopen during that administration.”

A whistleblower has come forward to U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin claiming there were three people who primarily controlled access to the autopen, and they made a lot of money selling that influence. Martin isn’t taking the claim as plain fact, but the investigation has begun. The implications got deeper when a watchdog group representing energy workers claiming there is “no evidence” President Biden knew about the autopen Presidency.

That Watchdog group, Power the Future, sent a letter to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-KY) saying the organization “remains concerned that key policies of major economic and national security significance directed by the White House during the Biden administration may have been undertaken without presidential awareness and approval, but perhaps instead by a small coterie of staff.”

Trump Official Reveals The Democrat Senator Who ‘Controlled’ Biden’s Autopen– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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The Trump administration’s top artificial intelligence authority claimed on Tuesday that he has discovered the identity of a Democratic U.S. senator who reportedly “controlled” the White House’s use of the autopen at the center of a growing scandal around former President Joe Biden.

David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s AI czar, told Fox News’ Jesse Watters that he believes the results of his investigation will show that one of the most progressive voices in the Senate was responsible for attaching Biden’s artificial signature to dozens or hundreds of executive orders that President Donald Trump claims should be invalidated as a result.

“Elizabeth Warren controlled the autopen during that administration,” said the Trump advisor, adding that the Massachusetts senator has a “pathological hatred of the crypto community” and wanted to “drive this community offshore.”

‘Senior Democrat’ Whistleblower Has Come Forward Regarding Biden Autopen Fiasco – townhall.com

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You know that Department of Justice official Ed Martin, who is now a pardon attorney and helming a weaponization task force, has named three of the big kahunas in this alleged scheme: Anita Dunn, Bob Bauer, and Ron Klain. Martin said the president can use an autopen, but he must be mentally fit for the contract to have the force of law.

We know Biden was not cogent, with numerous stories about how aides and the media covered up his mental decline. There also might be some funny shadow games regarding his prostate cancer diagnosis. Still, one thing that watchdogs who have been watching this activity agree on is that Martin is on the case and that with a senior Democrat coming forward, he’ll get to the bottom of this (via The Blaze):

Martin revealed on Tuesday that his investigation into the use of the autopen has actually been underway for weeks; that he has reached out to members of the Biden family; that some persons of interest have “lawyered up”; and that a whistleblower has already come forward with some troubling allegations.

“I had a whistleblower in my office 10 day ago — senior, senior Democrat — saying, ‘Look, it was these three people that controlled access, and they were making money off of it,'” Martin told journalist Mark Halperin on the “2WAY Tonight” show. “I don’t know if I believe it yet, but the point is, I think, we have to get to the bottom of it for the American people and to protect the process, and that’s what we’re doing.”

Martin indicated that the whistleblower was involved with the 2020 Biden campaign at the highest levels.

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The DOJ’s pardon attorney subsequently threw two more names into the mix — Steve Ricchetti, former counselor to Biden who previously served as chairman of his 2020 presidential campaign, and “obviously Jill [Biden].”

Biden’s Autopen Scandal Grows As Watchdog Finds ‘No Evidence’ Former POTUS Knew About Signed Orders – RedState

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A watchdog representing energy workers is raising red flags after conducting a review of significant executive orders signed by autopen under the previous administration and finding “no evidence” that President Biden was aware of them.

The startling revelations come as an official at the Department of Justice has reviewed potential “gatekeepers” controlling the White House during Biden’s tenure, insiders have revealed a covert “Politburo” was running the country, and the cover-up of his cognitive decline is being unfurled in public at an accelerated pace.

The nonprofit organization Power the Future penned a letter to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-KY) outlining their findings and demanding a more thorough investigation. They want to know who was wantonly signing orders while Biden was safely tucked away for nap time.

“Power The Future remains concerned that key policies of major economic and national security significance directed by the White House during the Biden administration may have been undertaken without presidential awareness and approval, but perhaps instead by a small coterie of staff,” the letter reads, according to Fox News Digital.

 

Due to the way the GOP has chosen to try and pass President Donald J Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a key component of DNC-CCP power, USAID, will be untouched by the budget-cutter’s knife.  The bill was originally promised to get close to putting into law Trump’s agenda that, so far, has largely been driven through edict (and hampered by questionable judicial injunctions).

USAID is discretionary, not “mandatory” spending, which is a problem since reconciliation bills (which is how they chose to pass the bill) can only alter mandatory spending, not discretionary spending. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may have crystalized the conservative opposition to this news in a post on X.

DeSantis wrote, “(Elon Musk) took massive incoming — including attacks on his companies as well as personal smears — to lead the effort on DOGE. He became public enemy #1 of legacy media around the world. To see Republicans in Congress cast aside any meaningful spending reductions (and, in fact, fully fund things like USAID) is demoralizing and represents a betrayal of the voters who elected them.”

‘Demoralizing,’ ‘Represents Betrayal of the Voters’ › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Congressional Republicans on Tuesday over their lack of action on cutting the government waste and abuse identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Back in March, Congress passed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, which maintained funding for USAID at the FY 2024 level, effectively extending existing funding for the purportedly “rogue agency” through September 30, 2025.

The “Big Beautiful Bill,” which narrowly passed in the House of Representatives last week, reportedly includes $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, including the largest-ever welfare reform.

But because it is a reconciliation bill,  Senate rules limit the cuts to “mandatory” spending only, such as Medicaid and Food Stamps, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller explained on X. The DOGE cuts are overwhelmingly discretionary, not mandatory, so they are not addressed in the Big Beautiful Bill.

Many conservatives have expressed disappointment that Republicans have failed to codify any meaningful cuts in wasteful discretionary spending, as identified by DOGE, in separate bills.  Meanwhile, the director of the National Economic Council promised last week that “way more spending cuts” are coming later this year.

The anti-Americanist activist judge, District Judge Brian Murphy, who unconstitutionally ordered President Trump to return convicted illegal alien child offenders before being deported to Sudan, is now tacitly threatening criminal action against the administration. He accused the administration of openly defying his child-rapist-enabling order, a criminal action if true.

Biden-Appointed Judge Threatens Charges Against Trump Administration Over Deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens to South Sudan– conservativeroof.com
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On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated his court order by deporting seven illegal aliens to South Sudan.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, ruled that the Trump administration violated his court order requiring “meaningful” due process for the aliens before deporting them to “third-party” countries.

Attorneys argued that sending some of the aliens—who are from Laos, Vietnam, and the Philippines—to South Sudan puts them in danger.

Judge Murphy hinted Trump administration officials could be held in contempt but declined to take immediate action.

As reported by Politico:

The Trump administration “unquestionably” violated a court order when it abruptly deported seven men to South Sudan, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, suggesting that administration officials may have committed criminal contempt.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy accused immigration officials of flagrantly defying his directives to provide “meaningful” due process to people they are trying to deport to countries where they have no ties and could face violence.

“It was impossible for these people to have a meaningful opportunity to object to their transfer to South Sudan,” said Murphy, a Boston-based Biden appointee.

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By Michael A. Cessna, Military Affairs Correspondent

Originally published May 16, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

NOTE: Our report on the Biafrans is still being developed as our intrepid reporter, publisher Bill Collier, continues to gather intelligence from on-the-ground sources. Expect to see it in the May 30 issue of MIA.

Beware the one who lurks in the shadows, for they may be more dangerous than the one who stands in plain sight.”Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad Dracula)

INTRODUCTION

There is trouble still simmering in Europe, beyond the war in Ukraine. In many NATO member states, the natives are restless, pushing forward “right-wing” political candidates as a counter to the insanity of the globalist agenda.

The globalists are “bitterly clinging” to power, with the recent spate of elections showing the full corpse-like flowering bloom of allowing in vast hordes of unassimilated “refugees” and giving them the Franchise. In Germany, the AfD Party is on the brink of being banned – but in Romania, it is much more out in the open.

In brief: Romania is far more important to NATO and Europe than its quiet nature suggests – and desperate globalists are trying to upend the country to keep it inside their agenda…assuming that revolution is impossible, a revolution that could push Romania back into the Russian orbit.

A. THE CURRENT SITUATION

Romania’s political landscape was thrown into unprecedented turmoil in December 2024 when the Constitutional Court made the extraordinary decision to annul the results of the presidential election’s first round.

This dramatic intervention came just 48 hours before the scheduled runoff between leftist-described “far-right ultranationalist” Calin Georgescu, who unexpectedly won the first round with 23% of the vote, and pro-European candidate Elena Lasconi, who secured 19%.

The court justified its decision based on declassified intelligence reports indicating significant Russian interference in the electoral process. Romanian security services alleged that a “highly organized” social media campaign, particularly on TikTok, had artificially boosted Georgescu’s candidacy.

The intelligence reports suggested that this operation bore the hallmarks of a coordinated effort by a “state actor,” widely understood to be Russia, though Moscow denied these allegations.

Following the annulment, Romanian authorities scheduled new elections for May 2025. In March 2025, electoral authorities barred Georgescu from participating in the rescheduled vote, citing criminal investigations into charges including incitement to actions against the constitutional order” and support for fascist organizations.

The first round of the rescheduled election took place on May 4, 2025, with George Simion, leader of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party, winning with nearly 41% of the vote. He will face Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, who secured about 21%, in a runoff scheduled for May 18.

Romania, however, has a long history of dealing with political issues” … among other things.’

B. ROMANIA: A BRIEF HISTORY

1. LEGACY OF THE ROMAN FRONTIER – Romania stands as a living testament to the enduring influence of ancient Rome on European civilization. The country’s very name derives from “Romania” land of the Romans” – reflecting its unique status as the easternmost outpost of Latin culture, surrounded by Slavic and Turkic neighbors. This cultural heritage emerges from the Roman province of Dacia, conquered by Emperor Trajan in 106 CE after fierce battles immortalized on Trajan’s Column in Rome.

The strategic importance of this territory has deep historical roots. Positioned between Central Europe and the Black Sea, Romania has long served as a frontier between empires. After the Roman withdrawal in 271 CE, the region experienced successive waves of migration and conquest – from Gothic tribes to Huns, from Ottoman Turks to Habsburg Austrians. Each left cultural imprints, yet remarkably, the Romance language and Latin-based cultural identity survived.

Medieval Romania emerged through the principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania. This period gave rise to legendary figures like Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), whose brutal tactics against Ottoman invaders later inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula. While Vlad’s fictional vampire version of himself dominates popular imagination, his historical significance lies in his fierce defense of Romanian sovereignty against Ottoman expansion.

Throughout its complex history, agriculture has remained the foundation of Romanian society. The fertile plains between the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube River have sustained civilizations for millennia. Today, Romania ranks among Europe’s leading agricultural producers, with over 12.4 million hectares of agricultural land. The country stands as a significant net food exporter, particularly of grains and oilseeds, with agriculture accounting for approximately 4.3% of its GDP and employing nearly 22% of its workforce.

This agricultural abundance, coupled with rich cultural traditions and strategic location, continues to define Romania’s place in Europe – a nation where ancient Roman heritage persists in language, customs, and national identity, even as the country embraces its European future.

2. CEAUSESCU RISES – Nicolae Ceausescu’s ascent to power began in Romania’s communist underground. Born in 1918 in Scornicesti, he joined the Romanian Communist youth movement in the early 1930s and was imprisoned multiple times for his political activities.

During his imprisonment, Ceausescu became a protégé of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who would later become Romania’s undisputed Communist leader. When Gheorghiu-Dej died in March 1965, Ceausescu succeeded him as first secretary (later general secretary) of Romania’s Communist Party.

By December 1967, he had assumed the presidency of the State Council, effectively becoming head of state. His early years in power were marked by a seemingly independent foreign policy that openly challenged Soviet dominance, earning him some popular support. Ceausescu limited Romania’s participation in the Warsaw Pact military alliance and condemned the Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia (1968) and Afghanistan (1979).

3. CEAUSESCU HARDENS – Despite his independence in foreign relations, Ceausescu’s domestic policies grew increasingly authoritarian. His July Theses of 1971 marked a turning point, demanding a return to rigid ideological orthodoxy and reasserting the leading role of the Communist Party. What followed was nearly two decades of what historians term neo-Stalinism,” during which the party intensified its control over all aspects of society.

Ceausescu established one of Eastern Europe’s most repressive regimes, characterized by an extensive personality cult. He appointed his wife Elena and many members of his extended family to high government and party positions. The Securitate (secret police) maintained rigid control through surveillance, intimidation, and violence.

By the late 1980s, Romania had become the most economically backward and politically repressive country in Europe.

4. ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND SOCIAL HARDSHIP – The 1980s brought severe economic decline to Romania. In an effort to pay off the country’s substantial foreign debt accumulated through mismanaged industrial projects in the 1970s, Ceausescu implemented draconian austerity measures in 1982. He ordered the export of much of Romania’s agricultural and industrial production, resulting in extreme shortages of food, fuel, energy, medicines, and other basic necessities for ordinary Romanians.

By 1989, living standards had plummeted, with food rationing, electricity cuts, and fuel shortages becoming commonplace. The regime’s economic policies also included grandiose and impractical schemes, such as a plan to bulldoze thousands of traditional Romanian villages and relocate residents to “agrotechnical centers.”

5. THE 1989 REVOLUTION – Romania was an unlikely site for revolution in 1989. Unlike Poland or Hungary, the country faced little organized opposition from reformists, who feared retribution from the police state. However, as communist regimes fell across Eastern Europe, tensions rose in Romania as well.

The spark came in mid-December 1989 in the western city of Timisoara, where protests erupted against the government’s attempt to evict László Tokés, an ethnic Hungarian pastor. What began as a small demonstration by his parishioners quickly grew into wider anti-regime protests. On December 17, Ceausescu ordered security forces to fire on the demonstrators, resulting in numerous deaths and escalating the crisis.

On December 21, Ceausescu attempted to address a large crowd in Bucharest’s Palace Square, only to be met with boos and jeers. The televised event showed a visibly shocked dictator as the crowd turned hostile. By the next day, hundreds of thousands joined the protests across the country, and the military defected to the revolution’s side.

Ceausescu and his wife Elena fled Bucharest by helicopter on December 22 but were captured by the army. On Christmas Day, December 25, 1989, they were subjected to a hasty trial by a special military tribunal, convicted of genocide and economic sabotage, and immediately executed by firing squad.

6. POST-COMMUNIST TRANSITION – The revolution resulted in over 1,100 deaths, making it the most violent overthrow of a communist regime during the revolutions of 1989. The National Salvation Front (NSF), led by Ion Iliescu, a former Communist Party official who had fallen out of favor with Ceausescu, quickly assumed power.

Under Iliescu’s leadership, Romania began a challenging transition toward democracy and a market economy. However, the process was complicated by the NSF’s dominance of politics and Iliescu’s own wariness of rapid economic reforms. The party maintained its political control as evidenced by its success in the 1992 elections, where Iliescu was reelected, and his party emerged as the largest in parliament.

Romania’s post-communist transition was marked by political instability, economic challenges, and the complex legacy of four decades of communist rule. The country eventually stabilized, joining NATO in 2004 and the European Union in 2007, but debates about the nature of the 1989 revolution and the influence of former communist officials in the new democratic system continue to this day.

Recent events, including the 2024 election controversy, have once again raised questions about Romania’s democratic consolidation and vulnerability to external influences, echoing some of the unresolved tensions from its revolutionary past.

7. THE POST-ELECTION FALL-OUT – The political instability stemming from the election controversy has already produced economic ripple effects across Romania, potentially impacting the broader European Union.

JP Morgan analysts warned that a Simion victory would carry the largest risk of re-adjusting the ruling coalition and thus the highest uncertaintyfor investors. The election re-run has stalled government efforts to address Romania’s budget deficit, which is currently the EU’s largest. This puts the country at risk of a ratings downgrade below investment level.

A shift toward nationalist, Eurosceptic leadership could potentially isolate Romania within the EU and reduce its access to EU funding mechanisms. As one analysis puts it,At home, this disruption will stall much-needed economic reforms, prolong uncertainty, and further damage investor confidence.”

The controversy has also prompted regulatory action at the EU level. The European Commission launched an investigation into TikTok under the Digital Services Act to determine whether the platform failed to address risks related to the Romanian election. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen emphasized, It should be crystal clear that in the EU, all online platforms, including TikTok, must be held accountable.”

Clearly, this demonstrates that Brussels is desperately holding the leash as tightly as it can… In other words: You can have any color you want – as long as its black.”

C. IMPLICATIONS FOR EUROPEAN SECURITY

1. RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE – The Romanian election controversy represents a critical test case for NATO’s eastern flank security in the face of hybrid warfare. As a key NATO member bordering Ukraine, Romania plays a strategically vital role in the alliance’s regional defense architecture.

The claims of Russian interference attempt to highlight vulnerabilities in democratic processes that extend beyond conventional military threats, a common theme of globalists for nearly a decade, while NATO has characterized this as an “algorithmic invasion” – a form of hybrid warfare where information manipulation and cyber-enabled disinformation campaigns target democratic institutions.

Both Georgescu and his successor as the far-right standard-bearer,” George Simion, have expressed views that would potentially undermine NATO cohesion. Georgescu had praised Romania’s interwar fascist leadership, questioned NATO’s protective role, and opposed supporting Ukraine. While Simion has positioned himself as “pro-NATO,” he opposes military aid to Ukraine and has advocated for “taking back territory” from Moldova and Ukraine that once belonged to Romania.

The security implications extend beyond Romania itself. The European Council on Foreign Relations noted, Romania is the first European country to cancel an election over alleged Russian interference… The Romanian case shows the extent to which even NATO countries are vulnerable to Russian meddling– declining to explore the question with any evidence.

Military planning is also at stake, as NATO is currently expanding the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base near Constanta in southeast Romania into what will become the alliance’s largest military base in Europe, surpassing Germany’s Ramstein Air Base…and, of course, all the money that goes with such a vast installation.

2. ROMANIA’S STRATEGIC POSITION ON THE BLACK SEA – Romania’s position on the Black Sea represents a critical strategic asset for NATO’s southeastern flank, particularly as tensions with Russia have intensified following the invasion of Ukraine.

The region has been officially designated as an area of “strategic importance” in NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept, marking a significant elevation in the alliance’s prioritization of Black Sea security.

The strategic importance of Romania’s Black Sea position has only increased with Russia’s aggressive actions in Ukraine. As NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana noted, For more than two decades the Black Sea region has been a launch pad for Russia’s aggressive actions,” making Romania’s commitment to regional security all the more vital for collective defense.

3. THE MK AIRBASE – At the center of Romania’s growing military importance is the previously mentioned Mihail Kogalniceanu (MK) Airbase near Constanta, which is undergoing a $2.7 billion expansion to become NATO’s largest military base in Europe, surpassing Germany’s Ramstein Air Base in size and strategic significance.

This base has been associated with NATO operations since 1999 and is poised to shift the regional balance of power as the alliance strengthens its southeastern presence.

4. ROMANIAN NAVY – Romania’s naval forces play a crucial role in regional security, conducting maritime patrol and de-mining missions that protect critical shipping lanes. The Romanian Naval Forces have been instrumental in helping Ukraine maintain its maritime trade despite Russian blockades, with the port of Constanta becoming a vital transit point for Ukrainian exports.

Romania, alongside Turkey and Bulgaria, recently activated a dedicated Naval Task Force to counter mine warfare in the Black Sea, with the Romanian minesweeper ROS Slt. Alexandru Axente contributing to this multinational effort.

5. ROMANIAN ARMY – To strengthen its military capabilities, Romania has committed to spending 2.5% of its GDP on defense and is pursuing an ambitious modernization program. This includes acquisitions of F-15 and F-35 fighter jets, Patriot missile-defense systems, Multiple-Launch Rocket Systems, battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, corvettes, submarines, coastal-defense missile systems, and combat drones.

These investments reflect Romania’s determination to bolster its defensive posture against potential threats from across the Black Sea, to the delight of arms suppliers throughout the West.

Military exercises have also intensified in the region, with Romania leading the annual “Sea Shield” naval drill that brings together thousands of troops from across the alliance.

6. DANUBE RIVER – In April 2025, over 2,300 troops from 12 NATO countries participated in exercises conducted on the Danube River and Romania’s Black Sea coast, aimed at strengthening collaboration between allied naval, air, and land forces.

This is all because the Danube River represents a vital strategic asset for European and NATO security, serving as a crucial transportation corridor that connects Western Europe to the Black Sea region. As Europe’s second-longest river, flowing through ten countries and bordering four more, the Danube functions as a natural highway through the heart of the continent, with significant implications for military mobility and regional security architecture.

The river’s strategic importance has grown considerably in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with security experts increasingly recognizing the Danube as a critical lifeline for southeastern Europe.

NATO analysts have advocated for designating the Danube as a formal “strategic security corridor” to ensure its optimal readiness for potential military contingencies. The waterway serves as a vital alternative supply route for Ukraine, allowing essential goods to bypass Russian blockades in the Black Sea.

For NATO’s military planners, the Danube provides a crucial transportation avenue for moving heavy equipment and troops to reinforce the alliance’s southeastern flank. Security experts have emphasized the need tomake better use of the Danube for bulk military cargoand called for infrastructure investments to improve its capacity for military mobility. This includes developing specialized barges capable of creating pontoon bridges across the river in scenarios where fixed bridges might be destroyed during conflict.

The Danube’s strategic value is further enhanced by legal provisions that could potentially extend NATO’s presence in the Black Sea region. According to Article 30 of the 1948 Convention Regarding the Regime of Navigation on the Danube, only Danubian countries can operate naval vessels on the river.

This provision gives Germany, as the only NATO Danubian country not situated on the Black Sea, a unique opportunity to project naval power along the river with Romanian permission, potentially bypassing the time limitations imposed by the Montreux Convention in the Black Sea.

Historical events have demonstrated the Danube’s critical importance to European security and commerce. During the 1999 NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, the destruction of bridges over the Danube at Novi Sad disrupted river traffic, affecting not only local communities but also European states like Hungary and Romania, whose economies depended on river access to the Black Sea.

The subsequent clearing of debris and reopening of navigation in 2001 was considered a major achievement for regional economic recovery…and, as NATO’s competent planners are well aware, that works in both directions.

As Europe confronts the greatest security challenge since the Cold War, the modernization of the Danube’s infrastructure and governance has become a strategic imperative.

Investment in improved river locks, bridge clearances, and dredging would not only enhance military mobility but also strengthen economic resilience across the region, making the Danube an essential component of Europe’s long-term security strategy.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

Romania’s political turbulence could produce destabilizing effects beyond its borders, particularly for Moldova. Romania has long served as Moldova’s key strategic ally, providing critical security cooperation, energy assistance, and diplomatic support in EU forums.

A Romanian pivot toward Euroscepticism could undermine Moldova’s pro-European leadership ahead of its own upcoming elections, highlighting one more reason why the globalists in Brussels want to keep Romania in their orbit.

Political observers have noted that Romania’s experience could embolden nationalist movements elsewhere in the EU, particularly in Poland, which faces its own upcoming electoral contests.

The Atlantic Council warned that a Simion presidency would pivot Romanian foreign policy toward ‘Romania First’ and Euroskepticism, emulating Trump’s MAGA model– heaven’s forbid…

As Europe grapples with the implications of Romania’s election controversy, the outcome remains uncertain. The May 18 runoff will likely determine whether Romania reaffirms its Western orientation or embarks on a more nationalist path that could reshape European security and economic cooperation at a critical juncture for the continent.

This also demonstrates why geopolitics is described as a swirling morass.”

FURTHER RESOURCES:

History of Romania: Land, People, Civilization – Nicolae Iorga

Romania after Ceausescu – Tom Gallagher

Nicolae Ceausescu: The Rise and Fall of Romania’s Infamous Communist Leader – Nicolae Ceausescu

 

On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at 9pm local time, a far-left activist inspired by violent anti-Jewish DNC rhetoric murdered two Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky, 30 and Sarah Lynn Milgram, 26. They were assassinated by leftist activist Elias Rodriguez, 31, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Rodriguez screamed as he was arrested, “Free Palestine, Free Palestine.”

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon called out the violent rhetoric of the Democratic Party, saying “When people are spreading lies, blaming us [for] genocide, calling for intifada, for like armed revolt against Israel, that is the consequence that we saw tonight. We have seen the incitement on campuses. We have seen the incitement in many places.”

“I’m sure that the authorities will make sure they will find out exactly who is behind it. But I think the more important issue is also to address the incitement. When people are spreading lies, blaming us [for] genocide, calling for intifada, for like armed revolt against Israel, that is the consequence that we saw tonight. I think we’ll have to go and look deeper about the incitement that we have seen in the last few weeks.”

Israeli UN Ambassador: Leftists ‘Spreading Lies’ of ‘Genocide’ Led to Killing of DC Embassy Staffers– slaynews.com
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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon has issued a response to the murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.

According to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot and killed on Wednesday evening near the Capital Jewish Museum in D.C.

Washington D.C. police began investigating after reports indicated two victims had been shot across the street from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, near the museum, according to CNN.

Pro-CCP sites like “Bastille Post Global” are producing a narrative around the recent U.S.-China tariff deal that suggests world leaders should reconsider moving too fast to concede to Trump’s demands on tariffs given China’s “success” in bringing Trump’s initial tariffs to heel with counter-tariffs of their own.

Anonymous analyst “Deep Throat” writes: “The initial breakthrough in US–China trade negotiations has set a precedent, with China’s unwavering stance in the face of Trump’s so-called ‘reciprocal tariffs’ policy serving as a model for other countries in their own tariff talks with the US. China had refused to yield throughout the process and maintained a ‘not backing down’ posture.”

Watch for China’s continued pressure to create a world coalition response to Trump’s tariff actions. It remains to be seen if China’s spin on this deal will look like anything more than bluster. China initially claimed it would not negotiate at all with Trump and would not lower any of its pre-Trump tariff levels, yet ended up doing both in this same deal its trying to spin as a defeat for Trump.

The tables can be turned on China, as other nations might look at what the U.S. has done to bring China to heel, at least in part, and choose to do the same. If Trump were wise, he would be pushing for an anti-China-tariff response from the many nations currently being hammered by Xi’s policies.

After the death of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025, and the funeral that followed, the Cardinals of the Catholic Judge gathered to select the next Pope to replace him. In the end, they defied oddsmakers, picking a longshot, President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Robert Francis Prevost. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

Prevost is the first ever U.S. citizen to serve as Pope. He is also the first ever Peruvian citizen to serve as Pope due to his duel citizenship. He was born in Chicago but spent over a decade in Peru doing missions work. His appointment by Francis to his most recent office suggests he may be more aligned with the Catholic “left” than the Catholic “right.”

Pope Leo XIV election marks ‘super happy day’ for Catholics, according to Villanova professor– www.foxnews.com
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As silence and stillness calmed the eager world, Cardinal Protodeacon Dominique Mamberti, overlooking a sea of tens of thousands of teary-eyed viewers in St. Peter’s Square, introduced Catholics and non-faithful to the newest pontiff.

American Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, was elected to take the papal seat and succeed the deceased Pope Francis on May 8, 2025, after four rounds of conclave voting by 133 members of the College of Cardinals.

As the world explores both the tender and commanding qualities that make Pope Leo XIV papabile and worthy of the Vicar of Christ title, one place, a small place of around 10,000 people, is beaming with pride for the newly elected Chicago-native.

India-Pakistan Conflict Goes from Hot to White Hot After Missile Strike – India launched a missile strike into rival nation Pakistan, killing 31 people and injuring 57 others, Pakistan claims. The conflict is over the contested region of Kashmir that both countries claim as being rightfully theirs. Pakistan has called the attacks an “act of war” and has instructed its military to prepare to act in kind. Both nations have nuclear weapons, so the stakes for this potential conflict are near-catastrophic.

India-Pakistan live updates: Pakistan vows retaliation after Indian airstrikes follow Kashmir attack – NBC News
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  • India launched missiles at neighbor and rival Pakistan on Wednesday, dramatically escalating tensions between the nuclear powers in what Pakistan called an “act of war.”
  • Pakistan’s armed forces have been authorized to take “corresponding actions” following the strikes, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office said today.
  • The strikes took place two weeks after a terrorist attack that killed 26 people, mostly tourists, in the Indian part of Kashmir, a disputed Himalayan region that both India and Pakistan claim in its entirety. India blames Pakistan for the attack, which Pakistan denies.
  • Pakistan said 31 people were killed and 57 others were injured in strikes on six sites as well as firing along the Line of Control that divides the Indian- and Pakistan-controlled areas of Kashmir. India said it hit nine locations across the Pakistani province of Punjab and in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

 

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More than 100 million people could die if India and Pakistan began a devastating nuclear war, experts have warned.

An academic journal published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists found tens of millions of people would perish “immediately” should tensions between the two countries result in nuclear weapons being used – while huge plumes of dust released into the Earth’s atmosphere could trigger famines that would affect “billions” around the world. It comes after India launched a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones into Pakistan early on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people. Pakistan described the strikes as an “act of war”, and claimed it shot down several Indian fighter jets in retaliation.

India fired missiles at Pakistan overnight in what it described as an anti-terror operation

Tensions have soared between the nuclear-armed neighbours over a deadly attack on tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, which India says was carried out by terror groups based in Pakistan.

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India fired missiles across the border into Pakistani-administered territory in at least five locations early Wednesday local time, killing at least one child and injuring two other people, Pakistani security officials said. India said it was striking infrastructure used by militants.

The strikes came amid soaring tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors over last month’s militant attack on tourists in the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir. India has blamed Pakistan for backing the militant attack, which Islamabad has denied.

A spokesperson for the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the strikes hit Muridke and Bahawalpur, and across the Line of Control in Kotli and Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir. One of them struck a mosque in the city of Bahawalpur in Punjab, where a child was killed, and a woman and man were injured, one official told The Associated Press.

“India’s act of aggression has resulted in martyrdom of civilians, including women and children,” the spokesperson said. “This act of aggression has also caused grave threat to commercial air traffic.”

 

 

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A “tit for tat” border conflict between India and Pakistan exploding into all-out nuclear war should be “every sane person’s deepest fear”, a foreign policy expert has warned. India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory in several locations late on Tuesday night, killing at least 26 people, including a child, in what Pakistan’s leader called an act of war. The country’s military said it struck infrastructure used by militants linked to last month’s massacre of tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.

Pakistan then claimed it shot down several Indian fighter jets in retaliation as two planes fell onto villages in India-controlled Kashmir. At least seven civilians were also killed in the region by Pakistani shelling, Indian police and medics said. The nations are two of the world’s nuclear-capable militaries. Prof Antony Glees, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Economics and International Studies at the University of Buckingham, told The Express that the fate of the world could well now be on a knife-edge.

He said: “Everyone knows that there would be no winners if India and Pakistan used nuclear weapons against each other, although it does not stop them from fighting awful conventional wars like Putin’s war against Ukraine. However, tit for tat conflicts can escalate.

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As Pakistan reels from the most extensive airstrikes on its territory from India during official peacetime between the two countries, and amid ongoing gunfire exchanges across the Kashmir border, observers worry about further escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

But beyond bullets and missiles, there’s another weapon that India has threatened to use in the conflict that Pakistan has said would surely constitute an “Act of War”: water.

Among the targets of India’s early Wednesday strikes was Pakistan’s Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project, according to Pakistan’s armed forces. The strikes came just hours after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India would stop water from flowing out across its borders.

“Now, India’s water will flow for India’s benefit, it will be conserved for India’s benefit, and it will be used for India’s progress,” Modi said Tuesday.

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A Pakistani cleric has launched a scathing attack on his own government and has delcared that any war with India will be unislamic, in a video that has been widely circulated. In the video, Abdul Aziz Ghazi, a controversial cleric of Islamabad’s Lal Masjid, criticises the Pakistani government, calling it a  “cruel, useless system”.

In a video going viral on social media, Abdul Aziz Ghazi can be heard asking his audience whether they would stand with Pakistan in the event of a war with India. He question is met with an unexpected silence. Noting the lack of response from the crowd, the cleric commented, “There are very few [hands]. This means many are enlightened now. The matter is, war between Pakistan and India is not an Islamic war.”

 

Abdul Aziz Ghazi goes on to denounce the Pakistan military, accusing it of widespread repression, claiming authorities in Pakistan have grown more oppressive- a bold and controversial take for someone associated with Lal Masjid, a place once synonymous with radical calls.

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A day after meeting with Vice President JD Vance and making a public appearance delivering the benediction on Easter Sunday, Pope Francis passed away at the age of 88 on Monday, April 21, 2025, 7:35 AM. He had been hospitalized for five weeks with life-threatening pneumonia before being released four weeks ago to recover in his own residence.

An update to the candidates emerging in the race to replace Francis will follow here.

Pope Francis dies aged 88 after overseeing one of the Catholic Church’s most tumultuous periods – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff Pope Francis — born Jorge Mario Bergoglio — has died, aged 88.

From the moment he stepped onto the Vatican balcony in his fresh white robes on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis established himself as a very different kind of pontiff.

“Good evening!” he bellowed to the crowd of 150,000 people packed into St Peter’s Square to witness this historic moment.

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After the U.S. left the World Health Organization (WHO) for reasons that were mostly related to how the WHO handled the Covid-19 plandemic, the organization is now leading its remaining member states down a path that ends with a “pandemic treaty.”

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus claimed the agreement signaled to the world that “in our divided world, nations can still work together to find common ground and a shared response.”

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Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization’s member countries agreed on a draft “pandemic treaty” that sets guidelines for how the international community might confront the next global health crisis.

After the world’s largely disastrous response to the coronavirus, countries tasked the WHO with overseeing a pandemic treaty in 2021; negotiations concluded early Wednesday on an agreement expected to be adopted next month at the U.N. health agency’s annual meeting in Geneva.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus heralded it as a historic moment, saying countries have proven that “in our divided world, nations can still work together to find common ground and a shared response.”

Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the country from the WHO in January, American officials were barred from participating in the talks and are not expected to sign the treaty. During COVID-19, it was largely American research and development that produced the most effective vaccines and medicines.

Weeks after Trump’s decision, Argentina’s President Javier Milei also exited the WHO, citing “profound differences” with the U.N. agency.

Rachael Crockett, of the advocacy group Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, described the draft pandemic treaty as “a product of compromise.” She said it contained strong provisions, but only if countries chose to implement them. “This could change what we saw in COVID, when some populations didn’t get access to what they needed.”

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“The current international order is based on the presumption that our physical geography is fixed and unchanging. However, climate change – in the form of sea level rise and inundation – is shifting international boundaries. The world’s changing geography will force policymakers and legal experts to adapt the concepts of sovereignty, statehood, and citizenship to address the new global environment.”from Reconsidering Sovereignty Amid the Climate Crisis – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

ED.NOTE: The nation-state model is relatively new to the human experience. It may or may not continue to be the dominant model of human governance, be that for good or for ill. The critique offered here is not fundamentally against the notion that there aren’t viable non-nation-state models of human governance, but that this “paper” is not about an authentic exploration of those possibilities but rather agit prop intended to nudge humanity towards something approaching a one-world government.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace issued a “paper” called “Reconsidering Sovereignty Amid the Climate Crisis” that makes the case for surrendering national sovereignty to save the people and the planet from the impending climate change apocalypse.

The paper uses the unique circumstances of the Pacific Islands to justify the claim that the concept of national sovereignty itself is an impediment to saving the people from the disaster coming our way.

The paper was written by Nitya Labh, who Carnegie credits as being “a nonresident research assistant for the South Asia Program and for the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace…” A LinkedIn profile claims, “Nitya Labh (W&M ‘22) is the runner-up in the undergraduate category of an international essay contest sponsored by the journal International Security and Girl Security.”

Labh is a UN-approved girl, through and through, a content marketer disguised as a journalist, in this writer’s opinion.

Labh claims, “Policymakers should consider new legal options to address climate-induced boundary changes. These may include the creation of fictitious boundaries, collective sovereignty, hybrid citizenship, and corridors for climate displacement.

This paper does not seek to suggest that these new ideas for sovereignty are the only path to resolving the nexus of legal-climate challenges that exist today. Instead, this paper attempts to raise new questions and ideas about how policymakers should think about the international system at a time when anthropogenic climate and environmental change is rearranging its geophysical foundations.”

After a series of scientific claims justifying the climate apocalypse predictions, Labh doubles down on her “gentle” suggestion we reconsider sovereignty, writing, “With only a few exceptions, solely states and intergovernmental organizations obtain rights and face obligations in international law; the individual does not take part in this privileged community.

Sovereignty is also the basis for restrictions on international law; with only a few exceptions, it is the sovereign right of every state that no other state or organization interferes with its internal matters. Consequently, what happens within a state’s borders traditionally has little relevance for the international legal order.”

Here, she’s going far beyond suggesting sovereignty is interfering with saving the people and the planet; it’s just bad for the individual, a very Marxist worldview if ever there was one.

Her logic seems to be this: because sovereign states have avenues of exchange that don’t cater directly to the individual, the individual is somehow diminished because they’re not simply subject to an international order; they’re subject to the nation-state order. If they were subject to an international order, they would have direct representation, like they maybe do at the nation-state level.

Ask yourself if you’d rather face the consequences of a worldwide “election” or an election in the nation-state you’re currently in. If you really think about it, you’ll understand how much further your already diminished voice would be in a world where the prize is control of the entire world.

How much money do you think would go into those campaigns? How many people would die interfering with some faction’s plans to be the one to take power and always attempt to close the door behind them?

Her whole presentation presumes the world would be better off ceding its sovereignty to leftist thinkers, people who can’t understand the basic reality of power, where blood and bone and sinew meet forced habits of being delivered from on-high by “experts” such as this young woman must fancy herself to be.

They can’t even define what a woman is or allow for true value to be measured in their unrealistic utopian” black-and-white schemes.

She rightly points out what could be considered the birth of the modern political world, the birth of the nation-state, in the Treaty of Westphalia, seeming to suggest that the “newness” of the concept of the sovereignty of the nation-state should cause you to be suspicious of it for that reason alone.

Let us remember, though, that leftists will more often argue that tradition is oppression and wisdom is in progress, the new, what is becoming, NOT what has been. Yet on this issue, this Marxist essentially appeals to tradition to justify rejecting the more progressive governance model, the sovereign nation-state.

This headline in Labh’s “paper” makes it plain, “Climate Change and Sovereignty Are at Odds.”

Here, Labh reveals more than perhaps her presumed handlers would have wanted her to, claiming, “Climate change challenges the presumption that a sovereign state will have ‘a permanent population,’ in the sense that while the individuals living there may change, a territory will be continuously inhabited. It can be a driving factor in human migration by creating climate refugees or internally displaced persons, or by incentivizing voluntary relocations.”

Herein lies the heart of the SOLUTION to save the planet, by nearly any means necessary: Dissolve local identity and geographical heritage in a people and prevent them from occupying any land for generations. It is not a reality, but rather a desire, smuggled in as a matter of fact.

That “fact”claim is this: Humans will, because of the climate change-triggered rising sea levels and food disasters (that human ingenuity will fail to overcome, not by stopping it but by redesigning and rebuilding to accommodate it), no longer desire to be tied to a land of their forefathers.

Certainly, if rising sea levels happen (presuming their climate apocalypse is real) then the micro national islands in the Pacific this writer conveniently focuses on will have major sovereignty issues, with whole island micro-nations being sent to the bottom of the rising seas.

Furthermore, their national sovereignty is relatively newer in these regions, with less allegiance placed on the nation-state than with the families, the larger communities they live with.

One interesting “solution” is not entirely without merit, even if it is intended to wholly replace the nation-state model, which this writer imagines it would not. Here, she writes of “collective sovereignty,” claiming it “could provide a legitimate basis for hybrid citizenship that spans multiple jurisdictions.”

Such collective sovereignties, in this writer’s mind, could come from nations that join in some form of league or confederal pact, but even then, primary citizenship would most likely not only be required, but preferred by the citizens themselves. Their ability to vote in non-primary nation-states would most likely be diminished in some capacity.

In that same section, she writes, “In the absence of international law or institutional frameworks that allocate human rights responsibilities in hybrid arrangements, states will have to establish bilateral or regional agreements to divide, reestablish, and share human rights duties. Regardless of the form citizenship and migration pathways take, it is clear that climate response policies must center around the interests of human security.”

The key phrases here are “human rights,” “human rights DUTIES,” “climate response policies,” and “human security.

Climate response policiesis a particularly interesting phrase in that it contains within it the very thing President Trump is at least severely disrupting, the administrative state. A legislative, democratic response to the climate apocalypse would hardly be adequate.

These changes must be made by scientists, experts, and human rights advocates, on the fly, as the crisis demands. In other words, these changes need to be made by the administrative state.

Imagine keeping a whole world captive to the lie that the planet was going to die, and people were going to perish by the billions if they didn’t hand their lives and sovereignty over to people with the same worldview as this woman.

Imagine if that was really the only thing that held them, the fear that the end might be near. Year after year the state would have to find reasons the climate apocalypse hadn’t happened yet or why it wasn’t making a difference, or maybe it was making things worse, in the “fight to save the planet” so far.

Any dissenting voice would be labeled a saboteur, or worse, a climate denier, a charge that could, in that world, be even worse than being called a racist or a homophobe in today’s leftist-controlled cultural reality.

Imagine a world where the statement “homosexuality is a sin” will get you imprisoned because climate change experts determined that statement was a human rights violation, which could accelerate the habits of being that made man-made climate change happen in the first place.

In case you’re interested, that would be white supremacism; everything goes back to white supremacism, right before it halts for a time at “muh patriarchy,” though this agit prop piece doesn’t pull any “social justice” trump card other than saving the planet and human rights (which is a dog whistle for a forced socio-cultural value system at existential odds with Christian and Americanist values).

The mere introduction of the notion that surrendering nation-state sovereignty is NECESSARY to save the planet AND the people is a hard enough blow on conventional thought as it is, so perhaps she wisely chose to lay off the white devil and toxic male tropes.

The piece itself is a test of the spirit of the land, or at least how the “opposition” might choose to react or not react to what appears to this writer to be a severe shot across the bow of sovereign rights.

But it is also a nudge, an attempt to both stigmatize nation-state sovereignty and normalize more collective sovereignty identities. Don’t be fooled, however, the collective sovereignty stop is just that – a stop, a stop on a journey that ends in a one world socialist government run by the few enlightened for the “benefit” of the vast many.

Finally, it is a signal to lower-thought-serving agit prop information terror machines, like CBS News, CNN, etc., to start running stories that make nation-state sovereignty sound evil (even if you must make them up) and collective sovereignty look great.

If this writer is right, expect more stories from the DNC-CCP media on the plight of the island nations of the Pacific over the coming months and years as they prepare their low-informed, partisan-identified de facto sycophants to accept a world “without borders” that really becomes, as Alex Jones warned us, nothing more than a prison planet.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace isn’t interested in saving the people or the planet; it’s interested in making humans in their inhuman “image,” an image that sees humanity as needing one unified society to truly be the human they were born to choose to be.

That society must be created from on high, from experts who understand what human rights are, experts who understand what social justice is, experts who can use science and math and logic and reason to redesign the human experience from top to bottom, towards a new shared whole.

Those that don’t choose what they SHOULD HAVE CHOSEN will be culled from the social human tribe.

This “paper” is nothing short of a declaration of war against the whole planet by the “globalist” powers that be; the race to secure power is on, and Nitya Labh is ready to do her part to assure the rest of her network knows, it’s time to make war on sovereignty.