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These simple words from Jeremiah 1:5 adorn a stone memorial, located on the grounds of St. Philip of the Apostle Catholic Church in Somerville, Tenn., titled “A Monument to the Unborn”. It commemorates all the victims of abortion, and was officially dedicated following Mass on Memorial Day, May, 29, 2023. (OSV News photo/Amelia Carlson, courtesy St. Philip of the Apostle Catholic Church)
Rep. Rick Crawford joined the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) in early 2017, just as the Obama administration was putting the Russia collusion hoax into motion. The Arkansas Republican and his fellow committee members would soon be up to their necks in one of the darkest chapters in U.S. intelligence history.
On Jan. 6, 2017, documents suggest, the deep state was setting up its own brand of insurrection, pushing an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) filled with dubious information and sourcing that Crawford believes was designed to topple President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in office.
“Forgive me for being coarse, but these [intelligence] analysts, for lack of a better term, crapped all over ICD [Intelligence Community Directive] 203. They did not follow it in the slightest,” Crawford said on the latest episode of The Federalist Radio Hour. He was referring to the analytic standards that CIA agents and analysts must follow. They didn’t.
“It was ignored and they went forward with their own narrative that was done simply to discredit President Trump and to spin a narrative that was false: That he was involved with [Russian President] Vladimir Putin in helping to change the outcome of the election,” he added.
‘It Didn’t Matter If It Was True’
Crawford, who in January took over as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has, like his Republican colleagues, been waiting a long time for the public to know what he has known for years. The recent declassification and release of the committee’s 2020 majority staff report lays to waste the lie that the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin to steal the 2016 election and exposes the likes of then-CIA Director John Brennan for driving a deeply flawed intelligence assessment. The report, released last week by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, found that one “scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard reports constitutes the only classified information cited to suggest Putin ‘aspired’ to help Trump win.”
The ICA “ignored strong indicators supporting the alternative hypothesis that, at a minimum, Putin didn’t care who won and even had reasons to prefer a Clinton victory,” and that by “adopting a single-track explanation for Putin’s actions — that he ‘preferred’ candidate Trump and ‘aspired’ to help him win — the ICA authors had little choice but to ignore contrary evidence and attempt to force-fit weak evidence to make their case.”
And there was a plethora of contrary evidence. Career intelligence officials warned Brennan and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that they were barking up the wrong tree. The Trump-hating deep staters didn’t listen. Forcing their collusion narrative, Brennan and crew relied on the Steele dossier to the disgust of intelligence analysts who saw it for the garbage political opposition research that it was. According to the committee report, a CIA analyst told investigators that Brennan “refused to remove it, and when confronted with the dossier’s main flaws, [Brennan] responded, ‘Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?’”
Crawford found the old CIA director’s comment particularly troubling.
“It didn’t matter if it was true, as far as he was concerned. It rang true so it was going to be central to their assessment,” the committee chairman said. “The analytic integrity was completely lacking.”
Never mind that Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid for the Steele dossier, littered with salacious and unverifiable opposition research.
‘Willing Accomplices’
Crawford said there’s a reason why the damning documents have been sealed for so long. Former Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who chaired the Intelligence Committee in the thick of the Russia collusion hoax and who was viciously attacked by Democrats and the media for combatting the lies, tried unsuccessfully to get the 2020 report released. Rep. Mike Turner, an Ohio Republican who served as chairman of the Intelligence Committee in the previous session of Congress, tried as well but ran into a brick wall, Crawford said. That changed with Trump’s return to the White House in January. The administration returned the documents to the House Intelligence Committee, and they are now open to public inspection.
“So, what we see here is a fraud, a hoax perpetrated on the American people at the expense of President Trump,” the congressman said. “And this was nothing more than a Psyop, a psychological operation against the American people, really under the direction of President Obama and conducted by the IC leadership team.”
And the hoax was greatly assisted by a Trump-hating corporate media that gladly gobbled up all of the false “tips” the Intelligence Community and like-minded political operatives fed them, Crawford said.
“It’s not as though the media were just reporting facts that were being put out there in the public sphere. They were willing accomplices,” the chairman said. So much so, he added, that the Steele dossier was leaked to Yahoo News, and the leak was used as a predicate to go after Trump and launch the FBI’s politically-driven Crossfire Hurricane sham probe. Ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok, the partisan player behind the investigation, suggested as much in a Sept. 23, 2016 text, boasting that the Steele dossier was able to “influence” media.
“Looking at the Yahoo article, I would definitely say at a minimum Steele’s reports should be viewed as intended to influence as well as to inform,” the disgraced former agent, fired from the FBI in August 2018, wrote in the declassified communications.
Now that same accomplice media is ignoring or dismissing the bombshell documents.
“So, the media essentially becomes not an unwitting player in this whole thing but a witting accomplice, like, ‘Yes, give us this information. We’ll help spin this. We’ll help sell it to the American people, we’ll help take down President Trump,’” Crawford said. “And they’re not about to admit that they made that mistake or that they were involved in that because that would be a huge revelation. It would discredit them all.”
‘An Absolute Travesty’
Like corporate media, the Intelligence Community has had plenty of struggles with the truth over the years. Crawford and the Subcommittee on Central Intelligence Agency have investigated more recent suspect ICAs.
“The Intelligence Community (IC) has attempted to thwart the Subcommittee’s investigative efforts to uncover the truth at every turn. Despite this, the Subcommittee has uncovered information illustrative of problems with the ICA’s creation, review, and release,” Crawford wrote in the subcommittee’s interim report in December on “the Intelligence Community’s Conclusions on Anomalous Health Incidents.” The report asked, “Is the Intelligence Community Hiding the Real Reason for This Phenomenon?”
Crawford said he wants to believe that the perpetrators of the Russia collusion hoax will ultimately be held accountable, but he worries about legal “loopholes.” The major players have gone on to very lucrative post-IC careers, serving as “credible experts” to the same news outlets that ran with their twisted intelligence.
“That’s an absolute travesty because what they have done, they really, in my opinion, perpetrated the largest, deepest, widest hoax we’ve ever seen in American history, and they seem to be proud of it. And that’s the thing that bothers me the most.”
Listen to The Federalist Radio Hour podcast interview with Rep. Rick Crawford here.
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CINCINNATI – A third person has been arrested in connection with a brutal beatdown in Cincinnati that left two people seriously injured this past weekend, police sources confirmed to Fox News. Sources also said that the individual was booked overnight. Jermaine Matthews has been arrested and charged with aggravated riot and assault. Sources confirmed to Fox News Digital that authorities are taking the investigation into the viral beating in Cincinnati. Now, just days after the beatdown, three people have been arrested in connection with the crime.
The arrest comes a day after 34-year-old Montianez Merriweather and 24-year-old Dekyra Vernon were arrested on charges of felonious assault, aggravated riot and assault. All three suspects appeared in court on Wednesday morning for bond hearings.
The judge held Merriweather on a $500,000 bond; Matthews on a $100,000 bond; and Vernon on a $200,000 bond.
Detectives told the judge during the bond hearing that they are working to determine what led up to the “extremely violent” incident that happened, which includes reviewing multiple videos.
“Ultimately, we do have on video Mr. Merriweather walking up to a co-defendant. He whispers something to him, then walks back behind the victim,” the detective said. “We have Mr. Merriweather coming up behind the victim, striking him in the side of the face from behind.”
The judge asked the detective if he would call this a surprise attack.
WATCH: Three suspects in brutal Cincinnati beatdown appear for bond hearingsVideo
“This is kind of like an ambush, almost like it was setup in a certain way,” the detective told the judge, adding that the footage came from a camera mounted on a nearby building.
He continued, alleging that Merriweather and a co-defendant, later identified as Matthews, were seen chasing the victims as they were trying to retreat, and once the victims were on the ground, they began to punch and kick them.
“Mr. Merriwether goes after another gentleman behind another car and then he walks off to the side and goes to the sidewalk,” the detective said. “So as to Mr. Merriweather’s involvement in this, we believe that he coordinated this with Mr. Matthews. He walked up to him on a video, whispered something to him, and then strategically placed himself behind the victim.”
Montianez Merriweather, 34, stands in front of Municipal Court Judge Michael Peck during his arraignment on felonious assault and aggravated riot charges stemming from the early morning downtown brawl July 26, 2025. His bond was set at $500,000, July 30, 2025. At right is his public defender, Dan Might. (Liz Dufour/The Enquirer, Imagn)
Detectives also alleged that Matthews was seen on video chasing one of the victims into the street, and when the victim fell, Matthews allegedly started kicking him several times. When he stopped kicking the suspect, the detectives claimed, Matthews appeared “visibly, just, enraged” before going to hit another person. When asked if the punch looked like a surprise punch, the detectives explained that it appeared intentional.
A fight broke out on Friday night in downtown Cincinnati, leaving several people injured. (X/@Anthea06274890)
Still, detectives said in one video, Matthews was seen standing in the area when the victim punched him in the face.
“We are looking into that,” the detective said. In another video, Matthews is seen squared up with someone when he gets punched in the face, the detectives alleged, and “everything goes south from there.”
Jermaine Matthews, 39, stands in front of Municipal Court Judge Michael Peck during his arraignment on charges stemming from the early morning downtown brawl on July 26, 2025. His bond was set at $100,000, July 30, 2025. At right is his attorney, Brandon Fox. (Liz Dufour/The Enquirer, Imagn)
Cincinnati detectives said in court that they believe Merriweather and Matthews coordinated with each other during the attack. Court records show Merriweather has an extensive criminal history. In December 2008, when he was just 17, Merriweather was convicted of aggravated robbery. He had also faced robbery, aggravated burglary and kidnapping charges stemming from the same incident, though those charges were dismissed.
Since 2019, Merriweather has been charged with things like felonious assault, domestic violence, receiving stolen property, possessing weapons while on disability, and carrying weapons in a motor vehicle as a felon. Matthews has three previous felony convictions, all of which were drug-related.
The defense attorney for Vernon said his client was in a “very different situation,” saying she is 24-years-old and has no prior criminal history other than traffic violations and an open warrant for a traffic violation.
A fight broke out on Friday night in downtown Cincinnati, leaving several people injured. (X/@Anthea06274890)
Detectives shared a still image of the attack with the judge, and although Vernon only had traffic violations on her record, they said the photo shows a significant bond was warranted. They alleged that one video shows Vernon watching the “brawl” on the street, and in the same video a woman is seen trying to protect the victim and help him up. Vernon then is seen knocking the same woman out, they said.
Dekyra Vernon, 24, stands in front of Municipal Court Judge Michael Peck during her arraignment on felonious assault and aggravated riot charges stemming from the early morning downtown brawl on July 26, 2025. Her bond was set at $200,000, July 30, 2025. (Liz Dufour/The Enquirer, Imagn)
The victim, detectives said, has been back to the hospital twice for treatment and was “significantly harmed” by the incident.
Still, detectives said Vernon was standing on the sidewalk, watching the fight when she stepped out onto the street and interjected herself as someone was trying to stop it.
The FBI confirmed to Fox News Digital that it was involved in the investigation into the assault and that it would be working with police.
“The FBI has been and will continue closely coordinating with the Cincinnati Police Department on this matter,” the FBI told Fox News Digital.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, violence broke out near the popular nightclub LoVe and the late-night restaurant next to the establishment. Footage of the incident went viral and sparked public outrage. Cincinnati Chief of Police Teresa Theetge said during a press conference on Monday afternoon that her department had charged five people for their involvement in the violence, though she would not release the names of the individuals. Additionally, she said that while there was a crowd of about 100 people watching or getting involved in the attack, only one person called 911.
“That is unacceptable to not call the police,” she said. “Traffic was horrendous. People saw this. They were fighting in front of traffic. Why didn’t people call us?”
Theetge said in a statement on Wednesday that more arrests are coming, as her team continues to work the active investigation.
“As I have stated previously, our Investigative Team and Fugitive Apprehension Unit are working tirelessly and will not stop until every individual involved in this attack is identified and arrested,” the chief said, while commending members of the community for coming forward with “crucial” information. “This remains an active and ongoing investigation with more arrests forthcoming.”
Footage shows a man and a woman being beaten up by a crowd of people, with the woman eventually being knocked out cold with a sucker punch. Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spoke with Holly — the woman who was knocked out — on Monday.
“She’s a single working mom who went to a friend’s birthday party. It’s unconscionable that there were no police present in that area of Cincinnati on a Friday night, or even an ambulance to take her to the hospital,” he said. “Hard-working Americans shouldn’t have to worry for their safety when they have a good time in our cities. Holly said not a single local or state official had yet reached out as of earlier this afternoon, other than one police detective.‘
“Leftists like to lecture about ‘systemic injustice’ while thugs turn our cities into war zones. I’m done with their excuses,” he continued. “As governor, I’ll make sure they’re behind bars, not running wild. Our cops will have the green light to restore order—no apologies. Holly appreciates the kind words and prayers from patriots across the country and hopes that the publicity around her story ensures that local & state leaders clean up our failing cities. We hope to visit Holly soon as she recovers.”
Cory Bowman, who is also Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother in addition to being a candidate for Cincinnati mayor, slammed the city’s leadership over the incident.
“People don’t even see the sense in calling 911 anymore,” Bowman told Fox News Digital.
Fox News’ Alexis McAdams and Fox News Digital’s Adam Sabes and Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report.
Rachel Wolf is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and FOX Business.
Resisting tremendous pressure from the Trump administration, the Federal Reserve held its key interest rate steady on Wednesday as two of President Donald Trump’s appointees dissented from the decision and voted for cuts.
Wednesday’s meeting reportedly marks the first time in more than 30 years that two members of the Fed’s seven-member Board of Governors voted against a rate decision at the central bank.
Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman and board member Christopher Waller “preferred to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by one quarter of a percentage point at this meeting,” according to the Fed’s policy statement.
In announcing its decision, the Fed said that while economic growth had moderated in the first six months of 2025, inflation remained “somewhat elevated.”
Fed Chair Jerome Powell voted to keep rates unchanged, as did three other board members and the five Fed regional bank presidents who currently sit on the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Board member Adriana Kugler was absent from the meeting and did not vote.
Trump has been increasingly incensed by Powell’s refusal to lower rates in recent weeks. At one point, the president was threatening to oust the Fed chairman before his term expires, though the legality of such a plan was unclear. Last week, however, Trump appeared resigned to waiting until next May, when Powell’s four-year term is up, to appoint a new chair.
“I think he’s done a bad job, but he’s going to be out pretty soon anyway,” the president said at an event that aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform. “In eight months, he’ll be out. But I call him ‘Too Late.’ He’s too late all the time. He should have lowered interest rates many times. Europe lowered their rate 10 times. We lowered ours none, and it’s causing a problem for people that want to buy a home.”
With the Fed’s next meeting scheduled for September, the question now becomes whether the central bank will make cuts then.
“The next two months’ data will be pivotal and we see a path to a resumption of the Fed’s easing cycle in the autumn should tariff inflation prove more modest than expected or the labor market show signs of weakness,” Ashish Shah, a chief investment officer at Goldman Sachs, said in a note to clients after the decision was announced on Wednesday.
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When President James Buchanan declared that the United States Senate is the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” he clearly had not envisioned Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.). In yet another tirade on the floor, Sen. Booker attacked not just President Donald Trump but his Democratic colleagues for voting for a bipartisan bill on law enforcement. Behind the “I am Spartacus” theatrics is a more troubling trend in the United States Senate as it devolves into a more populist, impulsive institution.
In 1872, Moncure Daniel Conway published an account of a meeting between Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Jefferson questioned Washington’s support for the creation of a second or upper house in the form of the Senate. Washington asked:
“Why…did you just now pour that coffee into your saucer, before drinking?”
“To cool it,” answered Jefferson, “my throat is not made of brass.”
“Even so,” rejoined Washington, “we pour our legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it.”
These days, it seems like legislation goes to the Senate to heat up. The Senate is losing its constitutional and cultural moorings as the cooling saucer for our heated politics. Instead, it is becoming more like . . . well . . . the house.
The role of the Senate is key to the Madisonian design in forcing compromise and deliberation. Senators were given longer, six-year terms to insulate them from the immediate political demands that often motivate the House.
That has changed with the 24-hour media-saturated political environment. It has changed in this age of rage. Cue Corey Booker:
Putting the claims of “secret police” and, once again, the imminent collapse of democracy, Booker was immediately set upon by his colleagues after he moved to block the bipartisan bill by fellow Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.). Klobuchar effectively accused Booker of grandstanding and hypocrisy:
“I will note that Sen. Booker objected to my police reauthorization bill, the cops funding, the Clinton cops funding, long before Donald Trump came into office. So, this is not just about this. This is a long dispute over this type of funding.”
She also snapped back at Booker saying that he could not make a key hearing on the drafting of the bill because of a conflict, noting “I can’t help it if someone couldn’t change their schedule to be there.”
Cortez Masto struck back at the notion that Democrats should simply refuse to cooperate with the Administration or that working with Republicans is what Booker calls “complicity.”
Booker is clearly maneuvering for a possible presidential run and seeking to tap into the rage growing on the far left. He is also the inevitable result of the rising rhetoric of figures like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in pandering to the far left of his party. Democratic senators are now being denounced as “establishment” as Booker and others tack to the left to lead “the resistance.”
Booker just raised the anger ante for Democrats. They must either join the resistance and the rage or face the ire of their party. In the interim, the constitutional system will suffer. We need the House of Representatives as the “people’s house.” We do not need two Houses of Representatives. The Senate ideally moderates, not magnifies, the pressures and passions in the political system.
Booker’s tirades clearly resonate with some on the far left, but it is likely to come at a cost for the institution itself. As tensions build on the Democratic side, Teddy Roosevelt’s quip seems to be coming true in voting for bipartisan legislation: “When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.””
A.F. Branco Cartoon – Despite Trump’s historic first few months in office, rejuvenating the economy, securing the border, etc., the democrats think they finally have something to bring him down. Epstein. LOL.
“The Biggest Deal Ever Made”: Trump’s Second Victory in Europe in Just Over a Month
By Antonio Graceffo – The Gateway Pundit – July 29, 2025
President Trump has just secured a decisive victory in trade negotiations with the European Union, his second major win following the landmark NATO agreement. Together, these deals generate massive revenue, reduce the U.S. deficit, and reshape America’s global economic and security leadership. The new trade agreement imposes a 15% tariff on most European imports, generating tens of billions of dollars annually for the U.S. It also eliminates all tariffs on American industrial goods exported to Europe and commits the EU to purchasing large quantities of U.S. military equipment, expanding opportunities for American manufacturers and helping close the long-standing trade imbalance. In return, the EU has agreed to purchase $750 billion in U.S. energy and invest another $600 billion into the U.S. economy by 2028… READ MORE
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It’s beginning to look like the Obama administration was all-in on the Russia collusion hoax long before Trump won the 2016 election.
On Monday, Fox News reported that before the FBI ever launched its politicized probe of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies had “credible foreign sources” indicating the FBI would help spread the Russia collusion hoax, which of course is exactly what happened.
It’s the latest twist in a string of shocking new revelations about how the U.S. intelligence community, at the behest of then-President Barack Obama, manufactured and disseminated a false narrative that Moscow was working to get Trump elected in 2016.
The “credible foreign sources” that predicted the FBI would run an intelligence operation against Trump in the summer of 2016 were almost certainly Russian sources. Back in September of 2020, my colleagues Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway reported that then-Director of National Intelligence (now CIA director) John Ratcliffe told congressional officials that top U.S. intelligence officials knew that Moscow was aware of Hillary Clinton’s campaign plan to accuse Trump of being a Russian asset.
Former CIA Director John Brennan, said Ratcliffe, personally briefed then-President Obama and top U.S. national security officials that Moscow had determined Clinton had approved a plan in late July 2016, “to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services,” according to Brennan’s own handwritten notes. In September of that year, former FBI Director James Comey was sent an investigative referral regarding Moscow’s alleged knowledge of Clinton’s plans to paint Trump as a treasonous Russian agent. But instead of investigating whether the Clinton campaign had been infiltrated by Russian intelligence, Comey went about obtaining federal warrants to spy on Trump’s campaign.
What’s more, we know that Christopher Steele, whose infamous dossier wound up being a key source for the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that falsely claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin “aspired” for Trump to win the election, was at the time on the payroll of sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. And his primary subsource for the dossier, Igor Danchenko, was long suspected of being a Russian intelligence asset.
All of which helps shed light on what was reported Monday. Ratcliffe, according to Fox News, is going to declassify the underlying intelligence that reveals that “credible foreign sources” knew about the FBI’s plans to promote the Trump-Russia narrative. Part of that intelligence is a classified annex in former Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe.
Fox News quoted an anonymous source familiar with the contents of the annex who said that the intelligence collected from these foreign sources predicted the FBI’s next move, in the summer of 2016, “with alarming specificity.”
“Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” the source told Fox News.
Together with what we now know about Obama’s involvement in all of this, especially after Trump had won the election, it looks very much like what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called it last week: a treasonous conspiracy and a years-long coup against a duly elected president.
In particular, as my colleague Margot Cleveland reported in these pages yesterday, the extent of Obama’s personal involvement is deeper than previously reported. Last week’s release of the House Permanent Selection Committee on Intelligence’s (HPSCI) report summarizing its investigation into the drafting of the ICA exposed how then-CIA Director Brennan ordered the publication of three substandard intelligence reports. These reports, together with the Steele dossier, “became foundational sources for the ICA judgments that Putin preferred Trump over Clinton.”
But as Cleveland notes, the recently declassified HPSCI report also reveals Obama’s central role in this scheme. Investigators and the ICA authors were “denied access to a trove of information on grounds of executive or congressional privilege,” according to the HPSCI report. One FBI analyst, the report says, argued that this intelligence should be shared with those responsible for drafting the ICA, but the Obama administration “denied ICA drafters access to this intelligence on grounds of Executive or Congressional privilege.”
Setting aside what intelligence might have been protected by congressional privilege, executive privilege rests with the president, which means Obama is the one who barred the ICA drafters from seeing the underlying intelligence.
Why would he do that? To prevent them from seeing that it was laughably unreliable — indeed, that much of it relied on the outlandish Steele dossier. Indeed, the “compartmented” version of the ICA — that is, the version only accessible to specially identified and approved individuals — included the Steele dossier. But the public and even classified versions did not. Why would the Steele dossier be compartmented? As Cleveland explained, “to keep the honest analysts responsible for finalizing the classified and unclassified version of the ICA from discovering the shady and fake intel Brennan buried in the compartmented version.”
A big part of what we’re learning now is the lengths some of these intelligence officials went to hide what they had done. That’s why much of this didn’t come out during Trump’s first term — some of the people who were involved in it continued to serve in the Trump administration — and worked to cover their tracks.
For example, Gina Haspel, who served as CIA director under Trump, personally blocked the declassification of Russiagate documents in 2020. Why would she do that? Well, Haspel was hand-picked by Brennan to serve as CIA station chief in London from 2014 to early 2017 — the same time that Steele, a British national, was in London compiling his garbage dossier on Trump. Haspel was the CIA’s link between London and Washington during this period.
Over the weekend, Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer suggested Haspel should be investigated for her potential role in the Russia collusion hoax. “What role did she play not only in perhaps creating this, but what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director and she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?” Schweizer said. “She certainly had access to this material.”
At this point, that’s really the question that should determine who gets investigated: who had access to this material? We know that Obama and his intel chiefs had access to material in the summer of 2016 that suggested Moscow knew that Clinton was going to try to smear Trump as a Russian asset, and that Moscow believed the FBI would go along with that. We know that they did indeed go along with it, and that they cooked up the ICA after Trump won, hiding their reliance on the Steele dossier and other unreliable and outlandish intelligence products.
We know all this now, eight years after the treasonous conspiracy was launched, and soon we’ll know more, as Ratcliffe and Gabbard release more. The question is, will anyone in the Trump administration do anything about it?
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The Pope, the State Department, the United Nations and a leading Christian group have all condemned a new major attack on Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which the U.N. says left at least 49 dead.
In the latest attack in a tragic long string of mass murders by Islamist terrorists in both Nigeria and the DRC, the U.N. said rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a sanctioned rebel group allied to Islamic State with roots in Uganda, burst into a church in the Eastern town of Komanda and set about hacking Christians who were worshipping inside with machetes and other knives. The congregation was attacked at 1 a.m. last Sunday morning, while they were on a night vigil, reportedly praying for peace.
The rebels also burnt nearby homes. Nine children are said to be among the dead. Several villagers have been abducted.
A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, “The United States designated the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), also known as ISIS-DRC, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2021. We are concerned by reports of the recent attack on civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo and strongly condemn this cowardly act of violence against Christians in their place of worship.”
Villagers bury their dead on July 28th, following the murder of 49 Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo by ISIS-linked jihadists. (Open Doors )
Pope Leo XIV also condemned the attack. “May the blood of these martyrs become a seed of peace, reconciliation, fraternity, and love for the Congolese people.” A Vatican Cardinal added that the Pope “learned with dismay and deep sorrow of the attack.”
The U.N.’s Stablization Mission in the DRC, MONUSCO, expressed “deep outrage at these heinous acts of violence, which constitute serious violations of international humanitarian law and infringements on human rights.”
“The killings are strategic,” Illia Djadi, senior sub-Saharan researcher for Christian charity Open Doors, who support and speak up for Christians persecuted for their faith, stated. He added, “The ADF have a very clear aim: they want to turn a large part of DRC into an Islamic caliphate, like the horrific one instigated in Iraq and Syria in 2014 by Islamic State.”
Contacted by Fox News Digital on Tuesday, Djadi said, “The presence of Islamic State groups across the region means that sub-Saharan Africa has become the new epicenter of jihadism.”Muslims are in the minority here; it’s said that Christians account for between 80-95% of the population.
Villagers walk towards the burial site of 49 Christians killed by jihadists in the Democratic Republic of Congo on July 28th. (Open Doors)
70 Christians were reported beheaded, again in a church in the DRC, in February. The killings of Christians are worse in Nigeria, with Pope Leo XIV telling crowds at the Vatican that “some 200 people were murdered, with extraordinary cruelty” on June 13 in Yelewata, in Nigeria’s Benue State.
According to Open Doors International’s 2025 World Watch List (WWL), of the 4,476 Christians killed worldwide in WWL’s latest reporting period, 3,100 of those who died (69%) were in Nigeria.
Djadi told Fox News Digital that despite President Trump’s brokered peace deal in the DRC, Christians in the East of the country are still at risk. “There has been a lot of attention paid to the DRC recently, with Donald Trump spearheading a peace initiative between the DRC and Rwanda, whose rebel fighters the M23 have taken a large proportion of territories in the east of the DRC.”
Christian faithfuls hold signs as they march on the streets of Abuja during a prayer and penance for peace and security in Nigeria in Abuja on March 1, 2020. (KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images)
“However,” Djadi added, “while government forces are trying to contain the M23 in the urban regions, the rural areas are left undefended. It has left a security vacuum, meaning that the ADF are free to slaughter hundreds of innocent civilians with impunity, with Christians especially at risk.‘
“It is the primary responsibility of (the) Congolese government to protect the whole nation, regardless of their religious faith or ethnic background. What would happen if the ADF continues its killing unopposed is too awful to contemplate.”
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The Public Broadcast: From Educator to Echo Chamber
NPR started as your mom’s cultured whisper in the morning—classical music, educational fare. Fast forward to 2025, and it’s more like a 24/7 campus rally, with woke mantras peppered throughout its programming. PBS, once a wholesome window into Mr. Rogers, now co-hosts drag story hours for your kids. We can’t even get through “Masterpiece Theater” these days without an ideological subplot.
But then came Trump, stepping in like a turnaround CEO sans the boardroom jargon. He wielded Executive Order 14290 (May 1, 2025) like an axe: “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media” With a flick of the pen, he defunded NPR and PBS—finally freeing Uncle Sam from being the PR manager for progressive talking points. And Congress finally codified this.
NPR’s Leftward Migration: From Neutral to Narrative
During the George Floyd riots, NPR promoted a book called ‘In Defense of Looting.’ Here is one line from the article.
“The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression…”
Let’s pause on that anchor quote: NPR, taxpayer-funded, giving airtime to a book celebrating looting as moral justice. It’s not editorializing—it’s activism, on your dime. Scholar Samantha Bradshaw documented how private platforms shape propaganda—but here, public media is doubling down, funding incitement instead of impartial reporting.
When your “news” platform starts sounding like a university campus radical, you’ve gone rogue. But NPR doubled down—because why be a news service when you can be political?
Trump Cuts the Red Tape—and the Funds
Realizing nobody else would do it, Trump played his CEO card. On May 1, 2025, he issued EO 14290 to eliminate funding to NPR and PBS. Congress followed suit via the Rescissions Act of 2025, stripping $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—effectively zeroing out federal support. Stations panicked—PBS’s CEO warned of devastation in rural America. Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Sen Lisa Murkowski called PBS and NPR, “a lifeline for many of my small, rural communities.”
Seriously? I grew up in a small community, and not once did I hear of anybody relying on NPR for anything. Sure, you might listen occasionally, generally when you’re in “flyover” country and you can’t get a clear radio signal. But rely on NPR?
If your lifeline is faking neutrality while preaching leftism, then it was a leash more than it was a lifeline.
The Red Ink Tsunami Hits Legacy Media
PBS and NPR are icing on the cake for President Trump. He can be credited for permanently crippling the fake-news narrative. He coined the term nearly a decade ago—“fake news,” and it bit. It’s survived every administration’s spin cycle.
TV isn’t immune. The cancellation of The Late Show hit late-night with a sledge hammer. Networks and podcasts bloodied. Even the Washington Post CEO held a town hall asking “Real journalism, or pink slips?”—because the left’s game plan isn’t editing copy, it’s bleeding the business. The private outlets are hemorrhaging red ink—and in their last throes, they scream “We need protection!” But Trump, armed with budgeting knives rather than bluster, said “Nah.”
Government Joins the Exit Strategy
Public media was the last unabashed government-funded narrative peddler. But not anymore. Trump’s bold move compelled taxpayer escapes from ideological echo chambers. PBS may fight in court (they did), but fact is: government propaganda is over. Not through cancel culture—but through budget cuts. Welcome to free market—where propaganda meets zero-dollar ads.
If PBS and NPR stoically go down, I’m all to happy to add them to the existing media carcasses.
Trump’s Media Trophy Room: And He’s Still Adding Heads
Consider:
He debuted “fake news.”
He defunded federal media’s baton of bias.
He triggered TV cancellations (The Late Show, Trevor Noah, Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, et al).
He forced WaPo to issue existential memos.
All from the CEO perspective. You cut waste. You dump the PR spin. You claw back cash to run the important things. Check. Check. And check.
Reactions, Backlashes, and Irony
Progressives wailed. Rural station heads claimed doom. But recall Fred Rogers: in 1969, he moved Congress to fund PBS as an educational beacon. They cried foul. Now they’re elite tentacles of the Left. Hilarious arc.
Exclusive PBS drag shows? NPR-sponsored looting pamphlets? This isn’t Fred Rogers pushing wheels in Peacefulville; it’s Leftist insurgent political theater paraded as journalism.
Why Defunding Was More Than Just Budget Cuts
No neutral public sector narrative. If government-funded media hops Left, taxpayers get hemmed into funding echo chambers.
Red ink is real. Legacy news is dying. Public media was the last subsidized fortress—now it’s falling.
Marketplace wins. Podcasts, private news, streaming—if you create it, someone will pay for it.
Final Score: A Win for Citizens, Not Cultures
Trump didn’t just sculpt policy—he curated the information buffet. Cutting public media funding wasn’t removal—it was refusal to fund Leftist PR from Washington.
What’s next? A civilian media renaissance—undirected, decentralized, and driven by demand—not by capital-D Doublespeak.
NPR and PBS weren’t the neutral stewards they advertised. In fact, they became state-funded billboards for the Left. CEO Trump cut them from the budget, liberating taxpayers and creating a media meltdown, and pulling the plug on propaganda.
We have been discussing the recently declassified material related to the Russian investigation, including disclosures of the role of former CIA director John Brennan at the end of the Obama Administration to reinforce the unfounded allegations of Russian collusion and influence. After an earlier intelligence assessment rejecting the narrative was effectively quashed, Brennan reportedly hand-picked the team to do a second rushed 2016 U.S. intelligence community assessment in the final days. We are now learning more about the person Brennan selected to head that team. Just the News and other outlets are revealing not just the extreme political bias of Susan Miller, but her remarkably poor handle on some key facts. The one unassailable fact that comes out of her postings is her declaration that “[I] am not a Trump fan.”
A review of Miller’s social media postings reveals intense hostility toward Donald Trump and his supporters, including calling the President a “dictator” and MAGA supporters “Nazis.” What is particularly notable is that she still maintains that the widely ridiculed Steele Dossier, secretly funded by the Clinton campaign, “might be true.” Despite the findings of the Special Counsel and various investigations, she has insisted that Trump may indeed be a “Russian asset” or a “Kremlin asset”
Miller recently retired but says that she continues to train CIA officers.
Brennan choose wisely if he wanted to ensure that a reliable political ally would draft the assessment. However, she has said that there were others in the CIA who wanted an actual finding that Trump’s election was illegitimate. That was the narrative pushed by Hillary Clinton and many Democrats after the 2016 loss. She suggested that that may still be true, a form of election denial that is still accepted on the left as they criticize Trump for his questioning of the 2020 defeat.
Miller appears to be one of the last diehards claiming that the Steele dossier could have also repeatedly still proved correct in its allegations.
Some interviews are striking in their conflicting elements, like insisting “all of us went in with a completely open mind” but that “they [the Russians] definitely wanted him [Trump].”
Miller also seemed to view the CIA’s role as part of a resistance, or at least counterforce to Trump: “I headed up the report team. … I wanted people who would speak truth to power.”
On social media, Miller comes across as unhinged at times in responding to stories with screeds like “This is awful! Further proof that Trump is a dictator.” She also wrote, “Good grief. As if we needed proof that MAGA types are nazis…”
She responded to a foreign poster by saying, “Yes….the Hitler analogy is not lost on a bunch of us…..sadly….”
In one of the most bizarre series of statements, Miller accuses Trump, Barr, and Durham of putting “me on trial” because she was interviewed in the various investigations.
She insisted in an interview with Times Radio in July that Trump got Barr and Durham “to open a trial on us…I spent 8 hours on trial; other team members also had trials. Not unexpectedly, nothing criminal was found.”
Just the News notes that Miller said again in June that “Trump put me on trial….criminal complaint after inauguration.” There is no indication of what that criminal complaint entailed, where it was filed, or what happened to it.
Miller appears to be struggling to make the case against Brennan and herself in carrying out this intelligence assessment. It is telling that, within the entire CIA establishment, Brennan would select Miller for this controversial report. What is even more chilling is that top intelligence officials would continue to cling to debunked sources like Steele. It is the kind of intransigence common among those living in echo chambers created by news and social media sites. CIA analysts are supposedly trained to avoid such confirmation bias.
All of this makes for a great pitch to join figures like Clapper or McCabe with MSNBC or CNN contracts. It is less compelling in defending the work product of the CIA on this report.
Public trust in the church as an institution has risen after three years of stagnation, with 36% of Americans now saying they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in it. The shift, recorded in Gallup’s latest survey on the topic, marks the first significant increase since 2020.
Confidence in the church had fallen to 31% in 2022 and remained around 32% over the following two years, near its lowest recorded levels. Gallup has tracked this trend annually since 1973, when trust stood at 66%, reaching a high of 68% in 1975.
The only other major rebound in recent decades came in 2001, when post-9/11 sentiment briefly raised confidence to 60%, the last time the institution earned such broad support, as reported by Lifeway Research.
The latest numbers show the American church regaining some ground, matching levels last seen in 2021 when confidence was at 37%. While still far from majority support, the increase is notable across several demographics, particularly among political conservatives.
Among Republicans, trust in the church jumped from 49% in 2024 to 64% this year. That change aligns with broader gains in institutional confidence among Republican voters following the reelection of President Donald Trump.
In contrast, confidence in the church fell slightly among Democrats, from 22% to 21%, and rose modestly among independents from 28% to 30%, according to Gallup.
The divide along party lines follows political patterns in institutional trust. In the same survey, Gallup recorded a 73-point increase in Republican confidence in the presidency,while Democrats’ trust in that office dropped 58 points. Gallup noted that partisan control of institutions plays a central role in public trust, stating that confidence often correlates more with political affiliation than with institutional performance.
Women, younger Americans and lower-income households showed marked increases in trust toward the church over the past year. Women’s confidence rose eight points to 36%, closing the previous gender gap. Americans aged 18 to 37 experienced the largest increase, rising from 26% to 32%. Those aged 38 to 54 increased three points to 31%, and Americans 55 and older grew from 39% to 42%.
Trust among black and Hispanic Americans remained lower than among white Americans, but all groups showed modest gains. Thirty-one percent of black Americans and 33% of Hispanic Americans expressed high confidence in the church, compared to 37% of white Americans. In 2024, the figure for all non-white respondents stood at 30%.
Those with some college education but no degree reported one of the steepest increases — up 11 points to 36%. People earning less than $50,000 per year also grew from 31% to 39% in confidence, while those in households earning more than $100,000 rose from 29% to 36%.
Despite the increase, the church still ranks behind small businesses (70%), the military (62%), and science (61%) in terms of public trust. It falls in the middle tier, alongside the police (45%), higher education (42%), and the medical system (32%).
Institutions with lower levels of confidence than the church include the presidency (30%), banks (30%), public schools (29%), the U.S. Supreme Court (27%), and large tech companies (24%). Newspapers (17%), the criminal justice system (17%), big business (15%), television news (11%), and Congress (10%) occupy the bottom of Gallup’s 2025 ranking.
Gallup’s Megan Brenan noted that institutional trust tends to shift dramatically depending on which party holds power. “… Partisans’ confidence is easily restored when their political party controls the institution,” she wrote. “The flip side, of course, is that the confidence of the other party’s supporters declines when their party loses power.”
The average public confidence across the 14 institutions measured by Gallup remains low. This year, just 28% of Americans reported high trust in these institutions overall, the same as in 2024.
In an absolutely earth-shattering revelation, CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced that the classified annex of the Durham Report will be declassified in the coming weeks — and it reportedly contains undeniable evidence of a criminal conspiracy involving Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Comey, and the FBI to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidency and defraud the American people. READ MORE
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The vicious attack on a white man and woman by a Black mob in Cincinnati has drawn national attention, yet the liberal media remains eerily silent. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced the Department of Justice will monitor the local investigation, emphasizing that federal hate crime laws apply to all Americans. Dhillon responded to Senator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), who slammed Cincinnati’s Democrat Mayor Aftab Pureval for his failure to condemn the racially motivated violence.
“Our federal hate crimes laws apply to ALL Americans. We @CivilRights will monitor closely how local authorities handle this attack. Nobody in our great nation should be the victim of such a crime, and where race is a motivation, federal law may apply,”Dhillon stated.
Senator Moreno blasted Pureval’s inaction: “The Mayor of Cincinnati, @AftabPureval, who has an opinion on lots of irrelevant topics, has not issued a statement, let alone a condemnation, of this heinous attack. Instead of dreaming about higher office, which will never happen, he should be ensuring his residents are safe.”
Our federal hate crimes laws apply to ALL Americans. We @CivilRights will monitor closely how local authorities handle this attack.
Nobody in our great nation should be the victim of such a crime, and where race is a motivation, federal law may apply. https://t.co/QeADELQMsZ
The disturbing footage, shared by Cincinnati mayoral candidate Cory Bowman, shows a white man brutally beaten on the ground while an unconscious woman lies nearby, blood streaming from her mouth. Bowman, a Republican challenging Pureval in November, exposed the city’s failure to protect its citizens, revealing that no dedicated emergency dispatcher was on duty during the city’s second-largest event of the year.
“More violence from Friday night in downtown Cincinnati… Sources within the ECC have stated that Friday night, no such dispatcher was on duty. This reinforces what we’ve known, that major problems exist in the ECC relating to crime in the city. Cincinnati deserves better,” Bowman declared.
A white couple was brutaIIy beaten at a jazz festival by a black "teen mob" in Cincinnati yesterday.
Under President Donald Trump, law and order were prioritized and hate crimes—regardless of the perpetrator’s race—were met with swift justice. The current administration’s weakness has emboldened violent mobs, while Democrat-run cities like Cincinnati descend into chaos. Trump’s return to the White House would restore accountability, ensuring that all Americans are protected from racially motivated violence.
A.F. Branco Cartoon – GOP alarmed over Democrats choosing a Communist (Omar Fateh) in the primary for Minneapolis Mayoral run. Still, no one is surprised, given that the Dems have been moving in that direction for years.
Minneapolis GOP chair sounds the alarm after Democrats endorse socialist Omar Fateh for mayor
By Dr. JC Chair – AphaNews.org – July 23, 2025
Voters need to “really understand what it is that the Democrat Socialists of America stand for,” said Minneapolis GOP Chair Diane Napper, arguing that Fateh’s election would be “the downfall of Minneapolis.” The race for the next mayor of Minneapolis is off to a controversial start. With the DFL endorsement of a democratic socialist facing scrutiny, the chair of the Minneapolis GOP Diane Napper spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast about what’s at stake this November. Omar Fateh is currently a Minnesota state senator. He’s now the DFL-endorsed candidate for the Mayor of Minneapolis. However, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has asked the DFL to invalidate the endorsement… READ MORE
DNI Tulsi Gabbard Fires Back at Barack Obama After He Issues a Pathetic Denial of His Treasonous Actions in the Russia Collusion Hoax (VIDEO)
By Cullen Linebarger – The Gateway Pundit – July 26, 2025
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has responded to Barack Obama’s pathetic attempt to distance himself from his treasonous actions during the Russia Collusion Hoax. As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, Gabbard released her second batch of previously undisclosed documents on Wednesday morning. These documents include more proof that Barack Obama directly gave the order to publish the Russia Collusion hoax, knowing there was no proof to back it up. Page three of this latest document drop shows that then-President Obama ordered the release of documents, knowing there was no evidence to back them up. Obama didn’t just know about the Russia hoax – he directed it. All to delegitimize Trump’s historic win… READ MORE
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Not only is the U.S. failing to create enough new Americans through birth — it is also failing to turn immigrants into Americans in any meaningful sense.
“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.
As Buchanan warned, a nation that will not reproduce will not survive. A shrinking native population leads to one inevitable outcome: mass immigration.
As noted by The Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Abbamonte, “without a substantial increase in fertility, the United States will continue to be increasingly dependent on immigration to slow down population ageing and prevent population contraction.”
One of the most obvious results of a shrinking population is a shrinking workforce. But a workforce is rather interchangeable. A country can always import labor — the United States can import labor for the foreseeable future if there is a shortage of workers. But what a country cannot import is a culture, a heritage, a set of particular values that will help the republic endure.
America simply cannot outsource her future to people from other places. And it’s not about “xenophobia” or whatever other “phobia” the left will throw at Americans. A country — any country — that replaces its population with people from somewhere else because its own people will not reproduce becomes something else entirely. If we don’t make more Americans, we won’t have any more left. And without Americans, there will be no America.
Not only is the U.S. failing to create enough new Americans through birth — it is also failing to turn immigrants into Americans in any meaningful sense — making the prospect of boosting the dying population with foreigners even more problematic. Of course, this hasn’t always been the case. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the U.S. successfully assimilated millions of immigrants — Germans, Italians, Poles, Irish, and so on and so forth — because they shared a foundation of similar cultural and social norms, values, and religion. They often became Americans within a single generation.
But since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, that assimilation process has broken down. America has seen a wave of mass migration from nations that are dissimilar to it. Different languages, cultures, religions, and political philosophies are all things that act as barriers to assimilation. And the one thing that could ease the assimilation process has been undermined by the left — that thing being a shared national identity. The left abhors American exceptionalism. They demonize it, teaching children and young adults that America is an evil place that must atone for her sins. So how are we supposed to assimilate foreigners into America’s culture and way of life when we ourselves have vilified and rejected our own heritage?
American birth rates have now dropped to levels of civilizational suicide. And in the vacuum left by a people that won’t reproduce, another people will — but they won’t be American.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
White House Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Gabbard released a 2017 report from the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence that she says undermines the conclusion of intelligence agencies during the Obama administration that Russia favored the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
This week’s news cycle erupted after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently declassified documents that allegedly show former President Barack Obama and members of his administration laid the groundwork for the years-long “Russiagate” investigation that snarled much of President Donald Trump’s first term. Trump has since accused his predecessor of treason for attempting to subvert his electoral victory in the 2016 presidential election by undermining his administration with a political hoax suggesting Russia collusion.
Gabbard has stopped short of overtly accusing Obama of treason but noted Wednesday that she has referred evidence to the U.S. Department of Justice that could lead to his criminal prosecution.
Here are five key takeaways from the developing story.
1. ‘Years-long coup’
On July 18, Gabbard declassified more than 100 documents, including memos and emails, that she claimed provided “overwhelming evidence” that the Obama administration conspired to manufacture and politically weaponize false intelligence.
In a lengthy X thread, Gabbard alleged that after Trump’s 2016 victory, Obama and his national security team — including officials such as James Clapper, John Brennan and James Comey — were involved in producing the intelligence claiming Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential election to favor Trump, which was then leaked to the media to undermine his presidency.
🧵 Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President @realDonaldTrump, subverting the… pic.twitter.com/UQKKZ5c4Op
“Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President [Trump], subverting the will of the American people and undermining our democratic republic,” Gabbard wrote.
Gabbard claimed that despite assessments from the intelligence community that Russia was not trying to steal the election, Obama personally directed the creation of a new assessment to push a false narrative.
During an appearance in the White House press briefing room Wednesday afternoon, Gabbard reiterated her assertions but declined to accuse the former president of treason, a potentially capital crime.
“I’m leaving the criminal charges to the Department of Justice,” Gabbard said, adding, “The expressed intent and what followed afterward can only be described as a years-long coup and a treasonous conspiracy against the American people, our republic and an attempt to undermine President Trump’s administration.”
🚨 BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard announces she has officially referred Barack Obama to the DOJ for CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
"The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment.
Former CIA Director John Brennan overruled senior intelligence officials who raised concerns regarding the key claim in the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that Russia intervened in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump, according to documents reviewed by reporter Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist.
Intelligence experts within the CIA, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence expressed concerns during the drafting of the ICA, noting there was no direct intelligence to substantiate its claim. Despite objections, Brennan reportedly dismissed such concerns during a heated meeting on Dec. 30, 2016.
A subsequent CIA review criticized the ICA’s rushed timeline, limited access to underlying intelligence and the inflated confidence level assigned to it despite reservations from top officials.
The records also indicated Brennan selectively shared the intelligence with Congress, which prompted skepticism from then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who came to believe it was politically motivated and an attempt to undermine Trump.
3. Trump accuses Obama of treason: ‘They did things that nobody’s ever even imagined’
During a press gaggle in the Oval Office on Tuesday with the Philippine president, Trump escalated his rhetoric by accusing Obama of treason, which prompted a rare statement from Obama’s spokesperson.
Trump accused Obama of being the “ringleader” in the attempt to subvert the 2016 presidential election with weaponized, manufactured intelligence, but said he has been “shielded by the press for his entire life.”
“It was President Obama,” Trump said regarding Russiagate. “It wasn’t lots of people all over the place — it was them, too — but the leader of the gang was President Obama, Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him?”
“Look, he’s guilty. It’s not a question. … It’s there. He’s guilty. This was treason. This was every word you can think of.”
“They tried to steal the election; they tried to obfuscate the election. They did things that nobody’s ever even imagined, even in other countries,” Trump said.
Trump added that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also played a major role, and that Gabbard has “thousands of additional documents coming,” which he suggested will further incriminate the Obama administration.
“So, President Obama, it was his concept — his idea,” Trump said. “But he also got it from crooked Hillary Clinton — crooked as a $3 bill, and Hillary Clinton and her group, the Democrats, spent $12 million to Christopher Steele to write up a report that was a total fake report.”
4. Obama spokesperson pushes back: ‘Weak attempt at distraction’
Obama’s spokesman Patrick Rodenbush issued an unusual scathing statement in the wake of Trump’s claims, which he dismissed as “bizarre” and “ridiculous” without denying them.
BREAKING 🚨 Statement issued from the Office of President Obama:
"Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous…
“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” Rodenbush said. “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one.”
“These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction,” Obama’s spokesman continued. “Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.”
“These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio,” he added.
5. House Speaker Mike Johnson floats potential Obama subpoena: ‘Sinister plot’
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., maintained that the Obama administration has done immense damage to the public trust by participating in what he described as “a sinister plot.”
Speaking to CBN reporter David Brody in an interview published Monday, Johnson also suggested congressional subpoenas for the former president and members of his administration may be incoming.
JUST IN: Speaker Johnson tells me says he has no concern at all about bringing Former President Barack Obama in for a congressional deposition or subpoena over the newly declassified documents bombshell. "If it's uncomfortable for him, he shouldn't have been involved in… pic.twitter.com/hAeVHdYt4m
“I think we have a responsibility to follow the truth, where it leads,” Johnson said. “To do effectively the opposite of what that other team did — they were engaged in a partisan political plot to take down their foe in the other party. We need to be about the rule of law and bring an order to the chaos and searching out the truth because the American people are owed those answers.”
Johnson expressed no sympathy for Obama potentially being dragged into a criminal investigation.
“If it’s uncomfortable for him, he shouldn’t have been involved in overseeing this, which is what it appears to us has happened,” he said.
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POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE: Tulsi GOES OFF on Barack Obama – Says Obama Criminally Implicated (VIDEO)
By Jordan Conradson – The Gateway Pundit – July 23, 2025
ODNI Tulsi Gabbard made a surprise appearance in the White House press briefing room after she released the second batch of previously undisclosed documents on Wednesday morning that include more proof that Barack Obama directly gave the order to publish Russia Collusion hoax knowing there was no proof to back it up. Wednesday’s document release followed Friday’s document dump by ODNI Tulsi Gabbard of a declassified December 2016 presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax Tulsi went off on Barack Obama for covering up the blackmail Putin had on Hillary Clinton… READ MORE
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President Barack Obama was among the U.S. leaders directing intelligence agencies to lie about Russians tipping the 2016 election to Donald Trump, reaffirm newly declassified U.S. intelligence records.
The Obama administration’s use of U.S. intelligence to back false claims about Trump and Russia sabotaged the peaceful transition of power necessary for democratic self-government. It denied the American majority the policies they voted for by consuming the first Trump administration with fabricated scandals, including a massive special counsel investigation. These also wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and damaged U.S. foreign policy, likely feeding the still-raging Russia-Ukraine war.
An unclassified memorandum to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat member of Congress, was released Friday. It quotes newly declassified federal records that demonstrate U.S. intelligence agencies in 2016 believed Russia could not manipulate vote counts in favor of Trump or any other candidate.
It also reproduces formerly classified documents showing that Obama and his top intelligence officials — including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, and FBI Director James Comey — tossed aside such evidence to rush out a doctored “intelligence assessment” that falsely claimed the opposite. Under U.S. intelligence branding, that assessment relied on fabricated information funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign to falsely claim Trump was a Russian stooge.
The New York Times has run articles just in the last few months still promoting the conclusions of the doctored Jan. 6. 2017 “intelligence community assessment,” or ICA. A Rasmussen poll conducted just two weeks ago found 60 percent of Democrat voters and 45 percent of “moderates” still believe “the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.” Fifty-seven percent of those polled agreed officials who manipulated evidence to “get Trump” should be prosecuted.
Obama Called for Packaging Smears As an Intelligence Assessment
Numerous email communications contained in a 114-page accompanying packet of declassified records also released Friday confirm that it was Obama who directed the rushed creation of an ICA outside normal protocols that lied to Americans about Russian interference in U.S. elections and smeared Trump as a treasonous colluder with Russia.
A Dec. 7, 2016 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) email to CIA, DHS, and ODNI recipients wrote of “discuss[ing] a NIC [intelligence community] product in response to POTUS” that “would mirror” an intelligence assessment produced in September. The September assessment said Russians couldn’t change U.S. vote totals. Later emails agreed the CIA, then led by Brennan, would lead the construction of this Obama-requested ICA.
A Dec. 9, 2016, email from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) tells 13 other ODNI and one CIA recipient, “The IC [intelligence community] is prepared to produce an assessment per the President’s request, that pulls together the information we have on the tools Moscow used and the actions it took to influence the 2016 election.”
The email set a date target for delivering the assessment to Obama on Jan. 9, 2017. That date was later moved up to Jan. 6, 2017, with top security state officials working through the holidays to release the intelligence-branded packet of smear tinder before Obama left office.
A Dec. 22, 2016 ODNI email about the Democrat disinformation-riddled ICA tells other ODNI recipients, “The only real direction we got was 1) POTUS wants a comprehensive assessment, drawing from all available sources, and 2) it has to be before the end of his administration.”
Another Dec. 22, 2016, email between top-level DNI officials concerns “the IC [intelligence community] report on Russian election meddling that POTUS tasked us to do.”
In addition to the disinformation ICA he directed at Congress and the public, Obama directly lied to Americans in speeches about Russian election interference. For example, on Dec. 16, 2016, Obama stated he was “concerned about … potential hacking that could hamper vote counting and affect the actual election process itself. And so in early September, when I saw President Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that, that didn’t happen was to talk to him directly. And tell him to cut it out.”
At that time, however, Obama had to know U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that statement to be false, because his staff had prevented the publication of an earlier intelligence assessment saying so, the newly released documents show. This also means the same people and agencies that erected a totalitarian censorship edifice under the pretext of “misinformation” and “disinformation” were in fact the top sources of widely believed misinformation and disinformation that have now affected at least three U.S. presidential elections.
U.S. Intel Said Russians Couldn’t Change Votes
The memorandum gives a timeline showing that U.S. intelligence analysts, agencies, and reports leading up to the 2016 election had repeatedly concluded Russia couldn’t hack U.S. elections or change vote totals. Clapper received an intelligence analysis in August 2016 stating, “there is no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count through cyber means.”
Instead, U.S. intelligence believed Russian activity was more propagandistic, affecting public confidence in the election but not its outcome. Numerous other high-level intelligence officials and assessments made similar conclusions — until December 2016.
From the Gabbard memorandum released Friday.
On Dec. 8, there was a sudden switch. Multiple intelligence agencies were preparing to publish an assessment stating, “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”
Yet on Dec. 8, 2016, Comey suddenly declared the FBI would withdraw its support for that cross-agency conclusion, and the FBI would instead be “drafting a dissent,” the newly declassified documents show. That report was ultimately never published.
Instead, on Dec. 9, the White House held a national security meeting that included Clapper, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Secretary of State John Kerry, CIA Director John Brennan, Andrew McCabe (Comey’s deputy), Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes. After the meeting, Clapper’s assistant sent an email to ODNI leaders with the subject line, “POTUS Tasking on Russia Election Meddling.” In the email, the assistant asks them to create an “assessment per the President’s request,” with input from the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, and Department of Homeland Security. This meant sidelining several intelligence agencies that normally contribute to such publications.
Hollering Collusion Lies Into a Media Echo Chamber
“That same day,” Dec. 9, 2016, “Deep State officials in the IC begin leaking blatantly false intelligence to the Washington Post,” says the Gabbard memo released Friday, “… claiming that Russia used ‘cyber means’ to influence ‘the outcome of the election.’” The leaks seeded the false “Russia, Russia, Russia” narrative throughout willing corporate media partners in advance of the publication of the disinformation ICA on Jan. 6, 2017.
The doctored ICA itself crystalized and legitimized myriad politicized false claims that went on to hamstring the first Trump presidency. For example, it smeared rising pro-democracy movements across the West of citizens against international oligarchs as authoritarian by linking them with Vladimir Putin, claiming “Russian media hailed President-elect Trump’s victory as a vindication of Putin’s advocacy of global populist movements.”
Rhodes, a top Obama foreign policy advisor, was in on the Dec. 9, 2016 meeting that appears to have planned the ICA switcheroo. Rhodes is infamous for telling The New York Times in 2016 that the Obama administration “created an echo chamber” in corporate media to sell Obama’s payout of American tax dollars to Iran and government takeover of formerly private health markets: “We created an echo chamber. They [corporate media reporters] were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”
“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns,” Rhodes explained. “They literally know nothing.”
The documents released Friday further substantiate previous reporting by The Federalist going back to 2017 that: Obama was likely directly involved with his administration’s spying on the Trump campaign; the Obama administration spied on domestic political opponents; an email from Susan Rice implicated Obama in the Russia collusion smear against Trump; Obama intelligence officials likely lied to Congress; and that Obama himself was involved in ensnaring Trump’s first national security advisor in yet another fabricated scandal using spying, leaking, and manipulation of U.S. intelligence.
Steele Dossier Key to Potential Perjury, Conspiracy Prosecution
On Jan. 6, 2017, two weeks before Trump took office, the Obama administration published the doctored ICA. The Friday memo says that ICA falsely claimed “Putin directed an effort to help President Trump defeat Hillary Clinton,” launching years of smears and investigations.
That falsified ICA at least partly relied on the infamous Steele dossier, according to a memorandum released two weeks ago by current CIA Director John Ratcliffe. That “dossier” was an opposition research packet fabricated by British spook Christopher Steele for the Clinton campaign that has been roundly debunked since, including by a special counsel investigation.
In May 2023 (and at several other times), Brennan testified to Congress that the CIA opposed using the Steele dossier in the 2017 Russia collusion ICA he was heavily involved in creating. Yet a CIA internal review released earlier this month says Brennan included the Steele dossier in the ICA “over the objections of career intelligence officials.”The Federalist also reported that still-classified congressional reports show ICA-related Obama administration corruption is much deeper than what is currently publicly known.
FBI Director Kash Patel opened criminal investigations into Brennan and Comey earlier this month and is considering not just perjury but also conspiracy charges, according to Matt Taibbi at Racket News.
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Pope Leo XIV arrived in the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo on Sunday, July 6 to start a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town back its most illustrious resident after Pope Francis stayed away during his 12-year pontificate.
It has been widely reported that Pope Leo will be using part of his vacation to begin drafting his first encyclical. These are important teaching documents for the Roman Catholic Church and sometimes they teach that the current pontiff can be very right, very wrong, very smart or simply not very good at this particular part of his duties. Most Catholics have high hopes for this first missive. Still, who doesn’t need editors to help with my suggestions?
The new pope has been very measured, calm and careful in the months since his election on May 8. It has to be the most dizzying of ascents and upon arrival as head of the Vatican, a confrontation with the broadest range of problems for any religious leader, and most political ones, on the planet. So Pope Leo taking things slowly and cautiously is a relief.
An encyclical is a big deal for practicing Catholics who assume encyclicals are intended to be read, studied, and the occasion of a prayer for discernment. The audience is assumed to be primarily Catholics everywhere, but Pope Leo has to be aware that the secular press —from supportive to hostile— will also be looking the first one over very carefully.
Here are some suggestions from an American Catholic his age which means we share a lot of culture, from network television, movies and music to the transition that followed Vatican II. (If Leo had to learn the Mass in Latin in order to be an altar boy only to have that chore tossed out as soon as it was accomplished and replaced with the English script, he will have perfect pitch for millions of Catholic seniors —young and old seniors alike.)
When he does begin to do interviews, if he chooses long form sit-downs with respectful journalists, the pope will go a long way to making the promise of his papacy real. Those interviews should focus on the encyclical if one issues before he does his sit-downs with reporters at least a few of whom, American Catholics hope, will be American. Curiosity about a new pope is always acute. It is off the charts about the first American pope.
So will curiosity be about the encyclical, which is a reason to hope that it is (1) written in clear, concise English and then translated by the Vatican’s best Latin scholars into the official language of the Church and (2) relatively short.
If the pope writes in English, not only will he be using his native tongue and thus be as certain as he can be that he’s conveying his meaning, it will be a huge hit with the English-speaking peoples of the world, especially the Americans, especially Midwesterners, and most especially Chicagoland Catholics. Some inside baseball phrases for Americans would be a nice touch.
The more concise the encyclical, the less susceptible it is to misleading excerpts and agenda-driven reporting. Even with the reach of the internet, hundreds of millions of people who have not read it will be told by others what it says and what it means.
As with discussions of Supreme Court decisions, the second-hand reports are usually at best incomplete and at worst intentionally misleading. In this new age of AI-driven deep fakes, don’t be surprised if subtlety-altered encyclicals instantly appear. The Vatican press office might want to assure that the real deal has arrows pointing to it. Simultaneous distribution to many of the world’s major outlets would be another guardrail.
So in English and relatively concise. I hope as well that it is not overtly political in the sense of the left-right spectrum that dominates most of the West where Leo’s letter will not be subject to suppression. If he encourages religious liberty, great! If he speaks to the need to care for life from conception to natural death, great! If he wants to encourage the flock to read and reflect on the Beatitudes, great!
If he wants to encourage Catholics to renew their commitment to the confessional, bravo! (The decline in the practice of this Catholic sacrament is pronounced, but its revival would have to begin with the direction to bishops and priests to make it a priority above all but the other Sacraments.
Pope Leo XIV could even begin with an appeal for vocations to the religious life which are needed everywhere, but especially in his homeland.
But pray he has already decided he’s not going to do immigration and especially that he’s not going to disparage capitalism or America as his predecessor was fond of intimating.
Catholics believe the Church is divinely ordained and can never fail. But it can and frequently does stumble. The road back from a divided and disillusioned Church in America begins with finding the good in the United States and praising it. Now that would be a welcome change from the past dozen years.
And please, nothing about President Trump. Read the room Pope Leo, please. You don’t need to single out the president. Lots of Catholic commentators like to do so. You don’t have to. At all.
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris. (Gao Chenxiang/VCG via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in a move Rep. Randy Fine says he fully supports.
“This is an organization that has repeatedly pushed anti-Israel propaganda, from recognizing Palestinian statehood to denying the Jewish connection to holy sites,” Fine, R-Fla., who is Jewish, told The Daily Signal.
“It has allowed China to expand its influence and promoted woke DEI agendas that have no place in American foreign policy,” Fine said of UNESCO.
China and UNESCO have what UNESCO refers to as “a stable relationship that is conducive to world peace and prosperity.” In 2022, China became the largest financial backer of UNESCO, according to the Global Policy Journal.
“‘America First’ means we do not fund global institutions that undermine our values, rewrite history, or threaten the security of our allies,”according to Fine.
UNESCO is a United Nations organization established to promote education, science, culture, and communication in the name of furthering peace worldwide.
The Trump administration’s decision to leave UNESCO follows a 90-day review of the organization. The review uncovered, according to The New York Post, that UNESCO engages in diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and has a pro-China and pro-Palestinian bias.
“UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsize focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our ‘America First’ foreign policy,” Tammy Bruce, a State Department spokeswoman, said in a statement Tuesday.
Bruce called “UNESCO’s decision to admit the ‘state of Palestine’ as a member state” of the organization “highly problematic” and “contrary to U.S. policy,” adding the action “contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization.”
Moving forward, “U.S. participation in international organizations will focus on advancing American interests with clarity and conviction,” she said.
Audrey Azoulay, director general of UNESCO, said Tuesday that the U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO “contradicts the fundamental principles of multilateralism, and may affect first and foremost our many partners in the United States of America.” But Azoulay added that the group “has prepared” for the U.S. leaving the organization, since the move was anticipated.
The U.S. will officially withdraw from UNESCO at the end of 2026, but this won’t be the first time the U.S. has pulled out of the organization. President Ronald Reagan withdrew the U.S. from UNESCO in 1984 due to concerns over corruption within the organization. The U.S. rejoined under George W. Bush’s administration in 2003. America again pulled out of UNESCO during Trump’s first administration, but rejoined under President Joe Biden’s administration.
With this now being the third time the U.S. has pulled out of UNESCO, Eugene Kontorovich, a Heritage Foundation senior research fellow specializing in international law and issues related to Israel, says U.S. leaders need to “figure out a way to make this permanent.”
“Congress should repeal, formally, its 1946 authorization for U.S. membership [in UNESCO],” Kontorovich said, “so that a future Democratic president can’t just merry-go-round us back in.”
The Left’s Safe Space: Where Consequences Go to Die
Let’s start with a universal truth: Leftism is the only ideology where you can openly fantasize about punching Nazis (read: anyone right of Karl Marx) while simultaneously clutching your pearls if someone dares to disagree with you. Ah Leftism: the magical realm where hypocrisy isn’t just tolerated—it’s celebrated.
Take my recent conversation with a conservative friend who, like many, has adopted the “live and let live” approach to his Leftist acquaintances. His reasoning? “She’s not that bad.”
Really? The classic conservative cop-out.
She only wants to dismantle the nuclear family, not the entire Western legal system. She only supports Antifa when they’re firebombing federal buildings, not when they’re (allegedly) firebombing your federal building.
This is the modern Democrat Party in a nutshell: a coalition of useful idiots who’ve convinced themselves that their side is merely “passionate” while the other side is “violent extremists.” But let’s be real—when was the last time you saw a conservative hunt down a Leftist in the streets? Meanwhile, Antifa’s resume includes shooting at ICE officers and ambushing cops. But sure, both sides.
The Myth of the ‘Reasonable’ Leftist
My friend’s argument hinges on the idea that his Leftist pal isn’t “one of the bad ones.” She just posts memes about conservatives being fascists—harmless stuff, really. But here’s the rub: silence is complicity. If she’s not actively condemning the worst of her side (spoiler: she’s not), then she’s enabling it.
Brigitte Macron: A Case Study in Leftist Absurdity
Speaking of delusion, let’s talk about France’s First Lady, Brigitte Macron. Two women were acquitted after being sued for claiming Brigitte was born male. Now, one of them is turning the tables and suing her for fraud. The rumor? Brigitte is actually Macron’s father, who transitioned. Now, I don’t care if Macron married a sentient baguette—just own it. But Leftists can’t handle the truth. They’d rather litigate it into oblivion.
Astroturfing 101: How the Left Manufactures ‘Grassroots’ Outrage
Then there’s Zohran Mamdani, the New York socialist who—shockingly—isn’t actually supported by New Yorkers.
*“Once more, with feeling (and for about the 1000th time): There are NO grassroots movements on the Left. It’s ALL top-down, astroturf funding and organizing. BREAKING: Campaign finance records reveal 72% of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign cash came from out-of-state donors — not local supporters. His donors? Hollywood elites and tech billionaires.”*
Even John Fetterman—a man who dresses like he’s perpetually mid-Napoleon Dynamite cosplay—called Mamdani out for not being a “real Democrat.” The Left is so fractured they’re eating their own. And this is before the 2024 election cycle, where we’ll undoubtedly uncover a decade’s worth of Leftist election “irregularities.”
The Conservative Conundrum: Why We Lose by Playing Nice
Here’s the kicker: Leftists post their insanity because they can. There are no consequences. Meanwhile, conservatives self-censor because we actually have jobs to lose. The asymmetry is the point.
So, the next time a Leftist friend posts some inane drivel about “fascist Republicans,” ask them: Are you cool with Antifa’s violence? The persecution of the unvaxxed? The fact that your ‘movement’ is bankrolled by coastal elites? Watch them squirm.
Because at the end of the day, the only thing worse than Leftist idiocy is conservative silence in the face of it.
Final Thought: The Left isn’t just wrong—they’re dangerously stupid. And until conservatives start treating them like the existential threat they are, we’ll keep losing. So speak up. Or get ready to live in their delusional world.
Consider this story: An outgoing president and his top officials are told that there is no evidence of Russian collusion or influence in the national election. The White House then moved to suppress the intelligence assessment and reverse the conclusions, while false claims were leaked to the press.
That is not just a major but a Pulitzer-level story, right?
Apparently not. The legacy media has largely ignored the declassified evidence and possible criminal referral on the Obama administration seeding the Russian collusion narrative just before the first Trump Administration. It supports allegations in the real Russian conspiracy: the conspiracy to create a false Russian collusion scandal to undermine the election and administration of Donald Trump in 2016.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggested last week that intelligence was “manufactured and politicized” despite countervailing conclusions from American intelligence that there was no collusion or influence on the election. Critics have noted that CBS only covered the story to refute it.
The release of this information is historically significant, as it finally allows the public to see how this effort began with the Clinton campaign and was then actively cultivated by Obama officials. We previously learned that the Clinton campaign spent millions to create the infamous Steele dossier and then hid their role from the public.
Attorney Marc Elias, the general counsel to the Clinton presidential campaign, pushed the false Alfa Bank conspiracy. (His fellow Perkins Coie partner, Michael Sussmann, was indicted but acquitted in a criminal trial.) During the campaign, reporters asked about the possible connection to the campaign, but Clinton campaign officials denied any involvement in the Steele Dossier. When journalists discovered after the election that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the Steele dossier as “legal fees” among the $5.6 million paid to Perkins Coie, they met with nothing but shrugs from the Clinton staff.
Elias was back when John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, was questioned by Congress on the Steele dossier and denied categorically any contractual agreement with Fusion GPS. Sitting beside him was Elias, who reportedly said nothing to correct the misleading information given to Congress.
Not only did Clinton reportedly spent over $10 million on the report, but Obama was briefed that she was going to create a Russian collusion narrative as part of her campaign. Aware of that Clinton effort, these new documents suggest that Obama and his aides actively sought to affirm the allegations just before Trump’s inauguration. The FBI then ramped up its own efforts despite also being told that the Steele dossier was unreliable and contradicted.
I disagree with the use of the charge of treason being thrown around with this release. Based on this evidence, it would be hard to make a criminal case against Obama, let alone the specific charge of treason. However, there are good-faith allegations raised about prior congressional testimony of key players in the Obama Administration. There may be viable criminal allegations ranging from perjury to obstruction to making false statements to federal investigators.
It is too early to gauge the basis for possible criminal charges. However, the release of this new evidence is both historically and legally significant. There is now a legitimate concern over a conspiracy to create this false narrative to undermine the incoming Administration. It proved successful in derailing the first Trump Administration. By the time the allegations were debunked, much of the first term had been exhausted. That is worthy of investigation and the public has a right to expect transparency on these long-withheld documents.
The silence of the legacy media is hardly surprising, given the key role the media played in spreading these false claims. Most media outlets find themselves in an uncomfortable position, having fostered an alleged conspiracy for years. Most reporters are not keen on making a case against themselves in spreading of these false claims.
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“They’re Coming Out of the Woodwork!” – DNI Tulsi Gabbard Says Disgusted Whistleblowers Who Helped Craft Obama-Brennan’s Phony Russia Report Are Turning Over Affidavits to DOJ
By Jim Hoft – The Gateway Pundit – July 20, 2025
The walls are closing in on Obama’s Deep State. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard dropped a political nuke Sunday morning on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo. Gabbard confirmed that multiple intelligence whistleblowers—some of whom helped compile the now-debunked 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA)—are “coming out of the woodwork” and preparing to hand over sworn affidavits to the Department of Justice. Maria Bartiromo: Do you believe that we will see prosecutions? Our audience wants to know where this story goes from here. Will we ever see anyone held accountable for this incredible lie on the American people? … READ MORE
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Christianity is at risk of being “wiped out” in parts of the world due to intensifying persecution, the United Kingdom’s special envoy for freedom of religion or belief, David Smith, has warned. The British government is now targeting 10 countries as part of its revised foreign policy focus to defend this human right.
Smith, the Labour Party MP for North Northumberland, made the remarks during a briefing at the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office. A Christian who previously worked with Tearfund and the Bible Society, he announced a new plan to prioritize FoRB in countries where religious minorities, including Christians, Baháʼís and Ahmadiyya Muslims, face repression or violence, the Religion Media Centre reported.
Smith said the U.K. will focus on 10 countries, naming Vietnam, Algeria, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, China, Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Iraq. He said these were selected because of the severity of need, the U.K.’s diplomatic ties and the possibility of making progress.
He added that persecution, carried out both by governments and social groups, can involve harassment by police, social ostracism, detention without cause, denial of citizenship, torture, attacks on places of worship and even killings, citing research by the Pew Research Center.
He cited recent data showing that 380 million Christians face persecution worldwide and warned, “Persecution on the basis of religion or belief, enacted by States themselves and social groups, is taking place on every continent in the world.”
Smith called the U.K.’s commitment “a new chapter” in foreign policy and said freedom of religion was interlinked with other liberties, including freedom of speech, conscience and assembly.
Of the 10 selected, only three — Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan — are among the top 10 in the Open Doors World Watch List, which identifies countries where Christians are most severely persecuted. The worst offenders on that list, such as North Korea, Somalia and Yemen, are not among the U.K.’s current priorities.
Smith acknowledged the gap and said that countries like Eritrea and Yemen remain within his scope through ongoing advocacy. He stated that the strategy’s targeted nature does not prevent the U.K. from acting in other cases, including on behalf of prisoners of conscience.
He referred to the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan, who are not recognized as Muslims by the state and whose mosques are often desecrated, and the repression of Baháʼís in Iran and Christians in North Korea.
FoRB, Smith explained, is not merely about religious belief but about the health of societies. “Religious intolerance and persecution can fuel instability and conflict,” he said. He added that protecting belief rights is crucial to preventing future crises, especially in countries grappling with war or sectarian divisions.
The U.K. government’s FoRB strategy involves five strands.
First, it aims to uphold international standards through bodies such as the U.N. and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Second, it will embed the issue into targeted bilateral diplomacy, encouraging individual missions to raise FoRB in foreign capitals. Third, the U.K. will strengthen international coalitions working on religious freedom. Fourth, the Foreign Office will incorporate FoRB into its mainstream human rights programming. The fifth strand involves collaboration with civil society groups working on interfaith respect and awareness.
Speaking at the briefing, Lord Collins of Highbury, minister for human rights, said the U.K. has long believed that rights and the rule of law strengthen global prosperity and resilience. He said his office had already written to British heads of mission directing them to embed human rights, including FoRB, into all areas of diplomatic work.
He cited the recent release of two individuals — Nigerian atheist Mubarak Bala and Cuban Pastor Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo — as examples of successful British-supported advocacy.
“Only by working together can we build a world where everyone, everywhere, can live with dignity, free to believe — or not believe — without fear,” Lord Collins said.
In April, during a debate, Smith said Britain’s diplomatic stance is informed by its own history, moving “from persecution to pluralism,” which he said provides credibility to advocate abroad. He described the U.K. as “uniquely well placed” to act in support of religious liberty, citing its legacy of legal rights and peaceful pluralism.
The role of FoRB envoy was created following a 2019 report by then-Bishop of Truro Philip Mounstephen, which found that Foreign Office staff lacked awareness of global religious persecution. The report led to recommendations that religious freedom be formally integrated into U.K. foreign policy.
Smith argued that defending FoRB not only benefits persecuted communities but also those who engage in repression. He said FoRB could unlock new opportunities and freedoms for their nations to flourish, and reaffirmed his commitment to press the U.K. government to act.
Meanwhile, Christian Today noted that new research by Jersey Road PR has found that mainstream U.K. media rarely report on attacks against Christians globally.
Below is my column in the Hill on the termination of funding for National Public Radio. Now that we have ended government-sponsored media, the question is whether the media will cease acting like a state media. The good news is that the market could force a correction that the media has largely refused to make.
Here is the column:
With the final elimination of public funding for National Public Radio as part of a $9 billion savings package, the era of the American state media will technically come to an end. However, what makes for state media is not state support alone.
So, the state media is dead — long live the state media.
That variation of the traditional mourning cry of the British monarchy will be heard more in whispers than proclamations this week in Washington. The government subsidy for NPR has long been a subject of controversy. Many opposed NPR for its open bias in reporting news, a record that thrilled the left and outraged many on the right. Just before the final vote, NPR CEO Katherine Maher gave another interview that left many agape. She denied any such bias and asked whether anyone could point to a single story that showed a political or ideological slant.
Ignoring a myriad of such examples, Maher then went from defiant to delusional, insisting that NPR was trying hard to “understand those criticisms.”
It was a bit late for Maher to feign surprise or confusion, particularly as a CEO whose selection to take over the struggling NPR many of us opposed. Her glaring and overt bias did not seem like the antidote to NPR’s shrinking audience and revenue. In 2024, NPR had a window to actually “understand” the criticism and make adjustments. Instead, it treated the government subsidy as an entitlement, backed by Democratic members in Congress. The board would have done better to select a neutral journalist. Instead, it doubled down, hiring a candidate with a long record of far-left public statements against Republicans, Trump, and others.
This is the same CEO who attacked respected senior editor Uri Berliner when he tried to get NPR to address its bias and restore greater balance on the staff. Berliner noted that NPR’s Washington headquarters has 87 registered Democrats among its editors and zero Republicans.
Maher slammed the award-winning Berliner for his “affront to the individual journalists who work incredibly hard.” She called his criticism “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.” Berliner resigned after noting how Maher’s “divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR” that he had been pointing out.
But I have argued that NPR’s well-established bias and publication of baseless conspiracy theories are not the real reasons for taking away its federal funding. The truth is, NPR represented an embrace of a state media model used in other countries that Americans thoroughly reject.
Maher bizarrely tried to rally support for government funding by insisting that we must “keep the government out” of the media. Congress just did precisely that by clawing back NPR’s funding.
The government has occasionally supported the media, but generally to benefit all media outlets. For example, in 1791, Madison declared that Congress had an obligation to improve the “circulation of newspapers through the entire body of the people” and sponsored the Post Office Act of 1791, giving newspapers reduced postage rates.
Notably, those same Democrats in Congress who decried the reduction of funding for NPR would have revolted over funding for more successful radio outlets, such as Fox Radio. Indeed, some of the same members had previously pushed cable carriers to consider dropping Fox News, the most popular cable news channel.
What Congress did with prior funding of a single preferred media outlet was wrong. Liberals and Democrats fought to protect the funding even though NPR’s shrinking audience is now overwhelmingly white, affluent, and liberal.
However, the end of government subsidies will not necessarily mean the end of an effective state media. As I noted in my book “The Indispensable Right,” we have seen how the media can create the same effect as state media by consent rather than coercion. For years, media outlets have echoed the same party line, including burying negative stories and repeating debunked stories. Actual readers and listeners abandoned the mainstream media in droves. “Let’s Go Brandon” became a national mantra mocking journalists for their inability even to see and hear if the sights and sounds don’t fit their preconceived narratives.
Just as Maher has expressed utter confusion on how anyone could view NPR as biased, these editors and journalists will cling to the same advocacy journalism, rejecting the principles of objectivity and neutrality. However, there is still one hope for restoring traditional journalism: the market.
Now that NPR is off the public dole, it will have to compete fairly with other radio outlets for audiences and revenue. It is free to alienate most listeners who have center-right viewpoints, but it will have to sustain itself on a smaller share of the market.
Other outlets are facing the same dire choice. Recently, the Post encouraged writers and editors to leave if they were unwilling to get on board with a new direction at the newspaper. Previously, Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis had told his writers that the newspaper was experiencing massive losses in readers and revenues because “no one is reading your stuff.” It triggered a revolt on the staff, which would have rather run the paper into insolvency than return to objectivity and neutrality.
The same preference was seen with the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show. What had been David Letterman’s formidable program had become a shrill echo chamber for the far left as Colbert engaged in nightly and mostly unfunny diatribes against Trump and Republicans. As its ratings and revenues fell, Colbert was unmoved. At the same time, Fox’s Greg Gutfeld continued to crush the competition as viewers abandoned CBS and other broadcast networks.
The year’s second-quarter ratings showed Fox News’s “Gutfeld!” drawing an average of three million viewers. Gutfeld’s more conservative takes on news remain unique among these late-night shows. In comparison, “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert came in second last quarter with an average 2.42 million viewers, despite being a far more costly program.
As liberals expressed outrage over the cancellation and alleged that CBS’s owner, Paramount, was seeking to garner favor with the Trump Administration, even CNN admitted that the show under Colbert had become “unfortunately unprofitable.” Colbert’s show was reportedly losing $40 million a year with a bloated staff and declining audience.
Paramount issued a statement insisting that Colbert’s cancelation was “not related in any way to the show’s performance.” Perhaps, but media companies are hardly in the habit of cancelling profitable, high-performing programming.
Ultimately, the market is correcting what the media would not. Roughly half of this country is center-right, and 77 million people voted for Trump. They are turning to social media and new media rather than remain a captive audience to a biased legacy media committed to advocacy journalism.
As media outlets fail, there may also be more pressure on journalism schools to return to core principles rather than crank out social justice warriors no one wants to read or hear from.
In the meantime, Maher and NPR can continue to stay the course and try to make up in pledge drives what they lost in public subsidies. However, the whole thing will now have to pay for itself without passing along costs to the rest of the non-listening country.
A.F. Branco Cartoon – Mitchell took the stand in her own defense and testified for most of the day. At times, the senator appeared nervous and emotional as she attempted to persuade the jury.
Nicole Mitchell testifies in her own defense, says she was in her stepmother’s home to check on her
By Luke Sprinkel – AlphaNews.org – July 18, 2025
The burglary trial of Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury, continued Thursday with Mitchell testifying in her own defense. In April 2024, Mitchell was arrested and charged with first-degree burglary after allegedly breaking into her stepmother’s Detroit Lakes home. Mitchell’s trial began earlier this week and has examined body-camera footage of that night and heard from multiple witnesses. On Wednesday, the prosecution rested their case against the legislator and the defense has brought multiple witnesses as they argue that Mitchell was not in the home to steal, but was instead there to check on the 75-year-old woman who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease several years ago… READ MORE
Watch Mamdani the Commie Say That He’s OK With the ‘Abolition of Private Property’ (VIDEO)
By Mike LaChance – The Gateway Pundit – July 17, 2025
People on the left keep insisting that New York City Democrat nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani is not a communist, yet clip after clip of this guy talking reveals him to be an outspoken Marxist through and through.
This time, it’s a clip of him on some podcast saying that he is fine with the abolition of private property.
Note how he frames it. He wraps these comments in claims that he just cares so much about making sure that everyone has housing that he is open to doing away with private property. See? It’s just because he cares so much that he might have to take homes away from some people in order to make sure that other people have homes. It’s all about caring… READ MORE
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On Tuesday the Justice Department petitioned for a writ of Quo Warranto against three individuals having served as board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting who were fired by President Trump yet allegedly continued to hold and exercise their office.
The complaint states “[s]ince April 28, 2025, Defendants Laura G. Ross, Thomas E. Rothman, and Diane Kaplan have been usurping and purporting to exercise unlawfully the office of board member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (the “CPB”)… President Donald J. Trump lawfully removed each Defendant from office on April 28, 2025. As recent Supreme Court orders have recognized, the President cannot meaningfully exercise his executive power under Article II of the Constitution without the power to select—and, when necessary, remove—those who hold federal office. Personnel is policy, after all.”
According to Defendants, they “received an email from Trent Morse, the Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel for the Executive Office of the President, purporting to notify the board members that their positions on the Board of Directors for CPB were terminated… The Correspondence stated, in full:
‘On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service.’”
Immediately after President Trump’s effort to remove the board members from their positions, the three “immediately sought a preliminary injunction against the president and other officials, seeking to enjoin the government from completing their firing. See Corp. for Pub. Broad. v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 25-1305 (RDM) (D.D.C. Apr. 29, 2025). Their effort was unsuccessful as the court held that their claim the president lacked authority to remove them from office was unlikely to succeed.’
“The Justice Department’s complaint accused the three defendants of continuing to usurp the office of Board Member of the CPB by “participating in board meetings, voting on resolutions and other business that comes before the board, and presenting themselves to the public as board members. All of this [was] manifestly unlawful.”
The board members’ original complaint, argued that the CPB was created by Congress to be “a private corporation [to] be created to facilitate the development of public telecommunications and to afford maximum protection from extraneous interference and control.” They specifically argued the following:
CPB is not a federal agency subject to the President’s authority, but rather a private corporation. See Id. at § 396(b) (“[CPB] will not be an agency or establishment of the United States Government. The Corporation shall be subject to the provisions of this section, and, to the extent consistent with this section, to the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act.”);
CPB’s Board members are not officers of the United States, and thus are not within the removal provisions of Article II of the Constitution. See Id. at § 396(d)(2) (“The members of the [CPB] Board shall not, by reason of such membership, be deemed to be officers or employees of the United States.”);
CPB Board members cannot be affected, controlled, or disturbed by the actions of the government. See Id. at § 398(c) (forbidding “any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] …”);
CPB Board members forfeit their membership in only one scenario, not present here. See Id. at § 396(e)(7) (“Members of the Board shall attend not less than 50 percent of all duly convened meetings of the Board in any calendar year. A member who fails to meet the requirement … shall forfeit membership.”);
The Act omits the typical statutory provision when creating a federal agency that the Board members serve at the pleasure of the President.
The board members sought in their complaint declaratory relief, and alleging “Violation of the Administrative Procedure Act Not in Accordance with Law/In Excess of Statutory Authority, Violation of Separation of Powers/Ultra Vires Presidential Action, Violation of the Presentment, Appropriations, and Take Care Clauses.” They also sought relief in having the court declare the e-mail terminating their position to have no legal effect and a temporary restraining order “prohibiting the Defendants from taking any action which gives effect to the Correspondence or otherwise seeks to interfere with or control the governance and operations of CPB” along with legal fees and any other relief the court might grant.
In its quo warranto filing, the Justice Department countered, “Although the Public Broadcasting Act provides that “[t]he members of the Board shall not, by reason of such membership, be deemed to be officers or employees of the United States,” 47 U.S.C. § 396(d)(2), and that the CPB “will not be an agency or establishment of the United States Government,” id. § 396(b), the Act and other statutes provide many levers of government control and influence over the CPB:
[in partial list for brevity]
As noted above, all CPB board members are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Id. § 396(c)(1).
Congress set forth specific qualifications for board members, including that no more than 5 members will be of the same political party, that board members must be “eminent in” relevant fields, and that the Board contain members who represent licensees and permittees of public television stations and public radio stations. Id. § 396(c)(1)-(3).
Congress restricted the compensation of CPB officers and employees based on a federal employee pay scale. Id. § 396(e)(1).
Congress authorized the CPB to take various actions “[i]n order to achieve the objectives and to carry out the purposes of” the Act. Id. § 396(g); see also id. § 396(a) (listing those objectives and purposes). The CPB funds “public telecommunications . . . programs,” assists “in the development . . . of interconnection systems” and “public telecommunication entities.” 47 U.S.C. § 396(g)(1). And the CPB is empowered to make grants, hire staff, make payments, and to “take any other actions” necessary to support its congressional purposes. Id. § 396(g)(2). Congress also “prohibited” the CPB from owning or operating broadcast stations or producing its own programming. Id. § 396(g)(3). The CPB is primarily funded through annual Congressional appropriations. Id. § 396(k)(1). For example, in 2024, Congress appropriated $535 million to the CPB for fiscal year 2026. See Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, Pub. L. No. 118-47, 138 Stat. 460, 696, § 407.
[…]
Congress imposed various requirements on recipients of grants from the CPB, including that they hold open meetings, that public broadcast station grant recipients establish a community advisory board, and that employees of the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio cannot “be compensated in excess of reasonable compensation” while those organizations receive grants. Id. § 396(k)(4), (8), (9).
[…]
The CPB is a “designated Federal entity” under the Inspector General Act, 5 U.S.C. § 415(a)(1)(A), which means it has an Inspector General who conducts investigations and audits of CPB operations and issues reports to Congress, the CPB Board and management, and the public, see Office of the Inspector General, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, https://perma.cc/AAD4-G5DL (the CPB’s Office of the Inspector General “conduct[s] independent audits, evaluations, and investigations” and “report[s] to Congress and the public about our activities”).
Congress holds oversight hearings regarding the CPB. See, e.g., House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Hearing: “Examining Accusations of Ideological Bias at NPR, a Taxpayer Funded News Entity,” https://perma.cc/W284-W8GW (May 8, 2024).
Specific allegations against the board members, state the three held board meetings on May 2nd, 13th and June 10th and 11th where they voted in their official capacity, adopted resolutions, and acted as if the preliminary injunction they sought had been held in their favor. Also, the President under his Article II powers has:
“[a]mple authority, both longstanding and recent, [to] establish that the power to appoint someone to a position presumptively carries with it the incident power of removal, absent a clear restriction on that removal authority. “ citing also Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corp., 513 U.S. 374 (1995). The Supreme Court held that the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (commonly known as Amtrak) was “an agency or instrumentality of the United States for the purpose of individual rights guaranteed against the Government by the Constitution,” even though the federal statute creating Amtrak structured it as a corporation and provided that Amtrak would not be a government agency. The Supreme Court held “that where, as here, the Government creates a corporation by special law, for the furtherance of governmental objectives, and retains for itself permanent authority to appoint a majority of the directors of that corporation, the corporation is part of the Government for purposes of the First Amendment. Lebron involved a First Amendment claim, but the Supreme Court later applied similar analysis to hold that Amtrak is also “a governmental entity for purposes of the Constitution’s separation of powers provisions.” Dep’t of Transp. v. Ass’n of Am. R.Rs., 575 U.S.43, 53-54 (2015).”
The government requested the court “enter judgment that Defendants “be ousted and excluded” from the office of board member of the CPB. The Court should also grant appropriate ancillary relief, including return of any salary or payment Defendants have unlawfully taken by virtue of their usurpation of office” and that any official actions taken by the Defendants since their termination be nullified
Judge Randolph Moss of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, who presides over both the Board Member’s and the Justice Department’s complaints found it “difficult to fathom that Congress intended to provide the members of the Corporation’s Board with essentially irrevocable tenure.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Pastor Paula White-Cain, the head of the White House Faith Office, bow their heads in prayer during a White House Faith Office luncheon in the State Dining Room at the White House on July 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. White-Cain hosted the luncheon with members of government and faith-based and community organizations. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
President Donald Trump and the White House Faith Office hosted the inaugural Summit of Faith and Business Leaders on Monday to celebrate what he calls “core values that built this country,” which include “freedom, hard work, risk-taking, and above all, trust in Almighty God.”
Held in the State Dining Room, the event was attended by dozens of CEOs and business leaders, honoring those who have donated to faith-based charities.
In addition to remarks from Trump, Paula White-Cain, senior advisor to the White House Faith Office and a Charismatic televangelist, also addressed the gathering.
While Trump touched upon multiple topics during the discussion, encompassing both foreign and domestic policy, the importance of the Christian faith loomed large.
Here are four highlights from the meeting.
1. Trump highlights faith of notable entrepreneurs
U.S. President Donald Trump attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The president began his remarks by naming notable entrepreneurs throughout American history who strongly embraced the Christian faith. He repeatedly asserted that Christianity has had a positive influence on American society.
“From the earliest days of our republic, the steady compass of faith has guided the strong hands of American workers, builders and entrepreneurs like really no other,” he said. “Our country was founded by pilgrims and believers. And every generation since, Americans of faith have built our communities and forged new industries and enriched our country by millions and millions of people and ways.”
Trump listed John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, clothing entrepreneur J.C. Penney, inventor Charles Goodyear, and Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy as examples of business leaders “inspired by their love of God.” He insisted that there were people he could name in the room whose “names are every bit as big as that,” adding that “the proud tradition continues with all of you.”
“This group reminds us [that] a nation that prays is a nation that prospers,” he added. “I think one of the reasons we went so bad is they really wanted to take God and religion out of your lives, and there was nobody to … look up to.”
“We have to bring religion back into the country, and we’re starting to do that, I think, at a very high level.”
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 05: People use IRS Direct File at the Internal Revenue Service Building on April 05, 2024 in Washington, D.C. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Economic Security Project
2. Trump touts new policy allowing pastors to endorse political candidates
Much of Trump’s remarks at the event consisted of highlighting what he viewed as the major accomplishments of his administration so far.
“As president, I’ve ended the radical left war on faith, and we’re once again protecting religious freedom like never before in our country,” he said.
Trump touted “getting rid of the Johnson Amendment that didn’t let the pastors and ministers and everybody speak about politics.” He contended that in the absence of the Johnson Amendment, which was passed in 1954 to prevent nonprofits from endorsing political candidates, pastors now have the ability to say, “I don’t like that guy.”
In a legal filing last week, the IRS confirmed that religious leaders who endorse political candidates from the pulpit or through their church communications will not lose their tax-exempt status, drawing praise from conservative and progressive Christian leaders and criticism from secular legal groups.
The president recalled how many religious leaders supported him in his first presidential bid in 2016. But he claims they declined to endorse him because of concerns of losing their tax-exempt status under the Johnson Amendment. He described how, during “a meeting with 50 faith leaders” in 2015, then-candidate Trump informed them that “I’d love to have your endorsement.”
Trump expressed concern that the religious leaders “didn’t say anything” due to their concerns about the Johnson Amendment, maintaining that he was unaware of the longstanding provision because he was new to politics.
In a subsequent meeting with religious leaders ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Trump vowed to get rid of the Johnson Amendment. In 2017, Trump instructed the IRS to relax enforcement of the Johnson Amendment on churches.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage after an assassination attempt on his life during a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring former U.S. President Donald Trump, killing one audience member and injuring another in the shooting. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Image
3. Trump says his life was ‘saved by God to make America great again’
As Trump continued to talk about what has transpired during his administration, he noted that the White House gathering took place one day after the first anniversary of the Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally, where an assassin’s bullet nearly ended his life.
“It’s remarkable to think that it was only one year ago this week that my time on earth nearly ended,” Trump asserted. “And if you look at that, God was with me because that’s something,” he added. “In theory, I should not be with you today.”
After the attendees erupted into applause, Trump insisted that “my life was saved by God to really make America great again.” The president echoed what he has articulated in previous remarks about his assassination attempt, noting how his sons, who are avid shooters, informed him that “at that distance with that gun, you didn’t have a chance.”
“Some people say it was lucky, and some people say something else. I say something else. I think God helped us,” he concluded.
Paula White-Cain, senior advisor of the White House Faith Office, delivers remarks at a White House Faith Office luncheon, July 14, 2025. | Screenshot: Paula White Ministries
4. Paula White calls America’s business leaders ‘stewards on divine assignment’
The Rev. Paula White-Cain, a Florida-based pastor who has served as Trump’s spiritual advisor, called Trump “the greatest champion of faith of any president that the United States of America has ever had.”
She told the attendees that the Trump administration “understands that people who are of faith who are entrusted with wealth and influence, as you are, are essential to building a stronger, freer, and more compassionate nation.”
“You’re more than just CEOs and business leaders and entrepreneurs,” she said. “You’re stewards on divine assignment, builders of legacy and vessels of impact. You’ve been called by God to His kingdom for such a time as this.”
White-Cain claimed that “America’s spiritual and moral foundations have been restored.”
“And it’s only the beginning,” she continued. “Today’s not just a luncheon. It is a moment of divine alignment, a commissioning. And we believe that God is raising up business leaders who don’t separate faith from enterprise but who see their platforms and their pulpits as their businesses and instruments for eternal impact.”
In a powerful and emotional ceremony in the White House East Room, President Donald Trump signed the HALT Fentanyl Act into law, permanently classifying fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act. Surrounded by nearly 200 Americans who have lost loved ones to the fentanyl epidemic, President Trump delivered a resounding message of justice, strength, and relentless action against the cartels and traffickers flooding the nation with poison.
“Today, we strike a righteous blow to the drug dealers, narcotic traffickers, and criminal cartels that we’ve all been hearing so much about for so many years… and we take a historic step toward justice for every family touched by the fentanyl scourge,” Trump declared to thunderous applause. His words stood in stark contrast to the inaction and neglect of the previous administration, which allowed the border crisis to spiral out of control, unleashing a wave of fentanyl deaths across America.
President Donald J. Trump officially signs the HALT Fentanyl Act into law — permanently classifying fentanyl-related substances as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 16, 2025
While the liberal media continues to downplay the devastation of the fentanyl crisis—often ignoring its ties to open-border policies—President Trump has taken decisive action. Since returning to office, his administration has seized over 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, a record-breaking effort to protect American lives.“On day one of the Trump administration, we declared an all-out war on the dealers, smugglers, traffickers, and cartels,” Trump stated, reaffirming his unwavering commitment to securing the border and stopping the flow of deadly drugs.
.@POTUS: "Today, we strike a righteous blow to the drug dealers, narcotic traffickers, and criminal cartels… and we take a historic step toward justice for every family touched by the fentanyl scourge as we sign the HALT Fentanyl Act into law." pic.twitter.com/x6uENhIMRo
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 16, 2025
The heartbreaking stories shared by grieving parents at the signing ceremony exposed the true cost of fentanyl. Gregory Swan, who lost his son Drew, held up his child’s photo and declared, “It’s the honor of my life to be here… His passing ruined, I thought, my life.”He praised Trump’s efforts to secure the border, emphasizing the importance of educating children on the dangers of fentanyl.
.@POTUS: "Joe Biden surrendered our borders to the most evil and vicious traffickers… allowing foreign drug cartels to carve out a massive footprint on American soil… On Day One of the Trump Administration, we declared an all-out war on the dealers, smugglers… and cartels." pic.twitter.com/q8w3SFJzM5
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 16, 2025
Anne Fundner, whose 15-year-old son Weston died after unknowingly taking fentanyl, delivered an emotional address, thanking Trump for finally giving victims a voice. “President Trump, for four years, we felt ignored, but you’ve changed that. We appreciate that so much,”she said, as Trump proudly held up Weston’s photo for the nation to see. Fundner highlighted Trump’s aggressive measures, including sanctioning cartels, closing shipping loopholes, and mobilizing federal agencies—actions the liberal media refuses to credit.
Greg Swan, who lost his son to opioids: "Thank you, Mr. President, for stopping the border crossings — full stop, mic drop … It was amazing what you did. We were being gaslit — and you came and lit a fire to that story, and we're a lot safer for of it." pic.twitter.com/JflFTlT29K
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 16, 2025
Jacqueline Siegel, who lost both her daughter and sister to fentanyl, shared her devastating story, vowing to turn her pain into purpose. “It’s turned me into more of a fighter to carry on my husband’s legacy and the other family’s legacies of saving lives,” she said.
Angel Mom Anne Fundner thanks @POTUS for signing the HALT Fentanyl Act:
"It is a lifeline for families across America in keeping our families safe… thank you so much. Thank you for keeping America safe for our children. This is what we voted for." pic.twitter.com/tWSxzIdkPO
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 16, 2025
While the left-wing press remains fixated on divisive narratives, President Trump is delivering real results—standing with victims, crushing cartels, and ensuring no more families suffer the agony of fentanyl poisoning.
A.F. Branco Cartoon – The White House is now investigating the Biden autopen scandal for apparent reasons. Most believe that Biden wasn’t cognitively capable of knowing what was being signed or why.
BREAKING: White House Counsel Now Investigating Growing Biden Autopen Scandal – 1 Million Documents Under Review
By Cristina Laila – The Gateway Pundit – July 15, 2025
The White House is now investigating the growing Biden autopen scandal, according to Fox News. The White House Counsel’s Office is expected to review over 1 million documents. The National Archives has already handed over more than 27,000 documents to investigators. The White House Counsel’s Office is working with the Justice Department in this autopen investigation. Fox News reported: The White House is investigating former President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen, with senior administration officials telling Fox News Digital that they already are reviewing tens of thousands of documents turned over by the National Archives and… READ MORE
California Pot Farm (and Newsom Donor) Under Investigation For Child Labor Violations After 10 Illegal Alien Juveniles Found at Facility During Raid
By Cristina Laila – The Gateway Pundit – 07/17/2025
A California marijuana farm is under investigation for child labor violations after 10 illegal alien juveniles were found at the facility during an immigration raid on Thursday. Federal agents descended on two marijuana farms in Ventura County owned Glass House Farms located in Camarillo and Carpinteria in Southern California on Thursday. The co-founder of Glass House Farms, Graham Farrar, is a Gavin Newsom donor. “According to California public campaign finance records, he also donated $10,000 to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2018, and his most recent public political donation was to California Democratic Assemblymember Gregg Hart in July 2023,” Fox News reported… READ MORE
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Democrat Senator Adam Schiff’s office is not answering our questions on where he is registered to vote. He is under a Fannie Mae investigation and possible Justice Dept. probe for wrongly declaring to banks he has two primary residences, which is against multiple laws. Other Democrats like Barack Obama have explicitly stated where they are registered to vote. Adam Schiff has lived for 22 years with his family at his $1.1M home in Potomac, Md. even though he represents California. He says many lawmakers have arrangements like this, but they have one primary residence in their home states where they are registered to vote. This is the first time we’ve seen a Senator declare two primary residences, which is not allowed under federal or state tax law, mortgage law, the IRS/tax code, insurance or electoral laws. Fannie Mae investigators found his Burbank, California condo that Schiff bought years after his Potomac purchase is only 691 square feet and is a one bedroom that is too small to house any family of four, “raising doubts about their true occupancy intent.” Fannie Mae investigators also found this slipperiness, that he told a bank that refinanced his Maryland mortgage that his California condo is his primary residence, but that his “Maryland property could be considered a primary residence for insurance underwriting purposes.” Meaning, to possibly lower his home insurance costs. Plus he took property tax exemptions on his Burbank condo even though he has declared his Maryland home as his primary residence. That’s not allowed under California state law. The Fannie Mae Financial Crime Investigations unit concluded that Schiff “engaged in a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation” on his home loans between 2009 and 2020. #schiff#AdamSchiff#adamschiff
Democrat Senator Adam Schiff’s office is not answering our questions on where he is registered to vote. He is under a Fannie Mae investigation and possible Justice Dept. probe for wrongly declaring to banks he has two primary residences, which is against multiple laws. Other… pic.twitter.com/YMjEnzdjnW
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Welcome to 2025, where we are still uncovering election fraud from the 2020 and 2022 elections. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating more than 100 possible noncitizens who may have voted in both the 2020 and 2022 elections, casting more than 200 ballots. In this case, most of the suspected illegal ballots were cast in Harris County. Paxton is also investigating in Guadalupe, Cameron, and Eastland counties, based on information from the Texas Secretary of State.
Add the possible 100 fraudulent voters announced this week to the 33 potential noncitizens who may have voted illegally in 2024. Paxton started investigating those 33 voters in June after the Texas secretary of state made a referral, based on information found in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s (USCIS) SAVE database, showing they voted in the 2024 general election.
Some 1,200 federal agencies use SAVE to verify U.S. citizenship or determine current immigration. For example, when an applicant applies for a Social Security Number, a drivers license, or for public housing assistance, the agency will check SAVE to see if they are a citizen. Legally, noncitizens are not allowed to vote in U.S. elections.
“Illegal aliens and foreign nationals must not be allowed to influence Texas elections by casting illegal ballots with impunity. I will not allow it to continue,” Paxton said in a statement. “Thanks to President Trump’s decisive action to help states safeguard the ballot box, this investigation will help Texas hold noncitizens accountable for unlawfully voting in American elections. If you’re a noncitizen who illegally cast a ballot, you will face the full force of the law.”
No one can realistically say fraudulent, noncitizen voting doesn’t happen. There are too many examples to ignore. Sometimes it is a single incident with one voter, like the Chinese student living in Michigan who was improperly registered to vote and is charged with voting the November election. Other times, it is a group of voters, like when Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson found 15 likely noncitizens across the state voted in November’s election, but she said illegal activity is “very rare.”
So rare, that an audits of voter registration rolls in Iowa found 277 noncitizens registered to vote or actually voted in the 2024 election. In Oregon, the elections director quit after officials discovered more than 300 noncitizens had been registered to vote, and the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles processed more than 54,600 voter registrations, 2021-2024, with an unknown citizenship.
Just last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced it is investigating newly declassified FBI documents alleging that in 2020 the Chinese Communist Party was making thousands of fake U.S. driver’s licenses to use to validate fake mail-in ballots. The investigation is ongoing, but we can already see it is a huge scandal. And the list goes on, and on, and on. Not rare.
The remedy is so simple. Mandatory voter identification at voter registration and when voting. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would keep noncitizens from voting by requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote. It passed in the House in April and still has not moved in the Senate. It should be a bipartisan issue, but Democrats have claimed that providing identification is a burden that disenfranchises voters.
It is good officials are still digging into how the 2020 election went off the rails, so we understand the weak spots. But it is past time to shore up the election process with simple fixes like the SAVE Act, so in 2030 we are not still trying to figure out what happened in 2028.
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
If this past week at the Supreme Court had a soundtrack, it would be the Mortal Kombat victory theme blaring over a chorus of sobbing ACLU interns.
Three major rulings dropped like anvils on progressive immigration fantasies; each one a constitutional mic drop—and each one a massive win for Donald Trump. The man the media called a dictator just used the courts—again—to prove he’s the only one playing by the rules. The Left, meanwhile, is so far out of bounds they’re tailgating in North Korea.
Let’s break it down.
1. No More Judicial Mall Cops
In Garland v. CASA, the Supreme Court ended one of the Left’s favorite tactics: the nationwide injunction. For years, low-level district judges—many looking to land a Netflix deal—blocked Trump’s entire national immigration policy with one ruling. Think about that. A part-time federal judge in Berkeley could tell the President of the United States: “Nope, I don’t like that law. You’re canceled.”
Not anymore.
SCOTUS ruled that only plaintiffs actually named in a case can be shielded by injunctions. No more rogue benchwarmers hitting pause on national security just because their barista cried about ICE raids. This is the adult equivalent of putting a baby gate on the judiciary. It doesn’t just rein in activist judges—it shoves them back into their assigned seats.
But perhaps the best part? The dissent. Oh, sweet mercy—the dissent.
Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered a 27-page emotional support pamphlet masquerading as jurisprudence. It read like someone asked ChatGPT to summarize Tumblr posts on immigration and feelings. She didn’t just miss the point—she brought a kazoo to a gunfight. Even Amy Coney Barrett, the queen of civility, gently scooted her chair away. You know it’s bad when a Justice with seven kids and zero tattoos goes full “I don’t know her.”
2. The Fourteenth Amendment Wasn’t Written in Spanish
The same case—Garland v. CASA—brushed up against one of the most sacred cows in the Democrat petting zoo: birthright citizenship. Now, the Court didn’t rule on whether babies born to illegal immigrants on U.S. soil automatically get citizenship—but they did make clear that only named plaintiffs in a lawsuit can challenge that policy. That means if you’re not part of the case, you’re not protected. And suddenly, immigration activists are racing to build legal “class actions” faster than Hunter Biden racing to find a burner phone.
Here’s what they don’t want you to understand: The 14th Amendment was written to protect the children of freed slaves—not to provide frequent flyer miles for birth tourists or human traffickers who time a border crossing with a contraction.
Imagine explaining to Frederick Douglass that his hard-won amendment is now being used to hand out U.S. passports like Costco samples. It’s grotesque. And it’s no accident.
For decades, the Left has pimped out the 14th Amendment like a punch card at a nail salon—weaponizing it to grant “citizenship by squatting” and hollowing out its original purpose. If Trump gets his way—and if this SCOTUS continues holding the line—America may finally end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants. Not by fiat, but by law. You know, that thing we’re supposedly still doing here.
3. Third-Country Deportation—Now Boarding
You know what really broke the Left this week? The Supreme Court saying, “Yes, you can deport criminal illegal aliens… to countries other than their homeland.”
And cue the meltdown.
This was a direct hit to the Biden DOJ and their activist judges who blocked Trump’s policy on the grounds that criminals might be “uncomfortable” getting dropped off somewhere that isn’t home. Really? I’m sorry, did we start offering concierge service for cartel hitmen? Trump’s plan was simple: If you’re an illegal immigrant, and your home country won’t take you back, you’re not our problem forever. We’ll send you to a third country—anyone willing to accept you.
Naturally, Democrats freaked out. Because suddenly, the “browning of America” was turning into the lightening of Africa. I say let’s lean into it. If Leftists love diversity so much, let’s export it. Let’s send gangbangers to places that have never experienced “cultural enrichment” like MS-13 tagging up the Serengeti. We’re not deporting—we’re diversifying the globe.
Imagine a convicted felon landing in Botswana and trying to explain that his machete tattoos are “just for show.” Or an MS-13 member introduced in Rwanda as “our new visiting fellow in machete diplomacy.” You wanted globalism? Here you go. Hope your village elders are ready for street racing and fentanyl overdoses.
The cherry on top? Over a million illegal immigrants have already left the U.S.—voluntarily—in anticipation of Trump’s second coming. That’s what you call preemptive border security.
4. Trump: The Most Law-Abiding “Dictator” in History
Let’s zoom out.
The media has painted Trump as a dictator since 2015. Mussolini with better hair. But here we are, in 2025, and what’s he doing? Winning—in court.
They said he’d destroy the Constitution. Instead, he’s restoring it—using it like a battering ram against judicial activism, fake rights, and weaponized tears. They said he would tear down the system. No—he’s beating them with it.
You don’t indict a guy five times and have him keep walking out the front door with a grin unless the law is on his side. Every single win this week was a win for:
The rule of law,
Common sense,
And the millions of Americans tired of being told their country belongs to everyone except them.
This is what makes the Left scream. They can’t claim Trump’s breaking democracy when he keeps beating them in it. He doesn’t kick down doors. He walks through them—legally, surgically, and with a smirk that says, “Told ya.”
And that’s why these rulings matter. Not just for policy, but for the soul of the nation. We’re seeing the end—maybe—of the weaponization of the 14th Amendment. The end of anchor babies. The end of open-borders lunacy dressed up as compassion. We might actually return to an America for Americans—and for those who earn their place here, not for those who sneak in, break the law, then sue for hotel points.
Final Thought: From Courtroom to Comeback
Trump didn’t jail his enemies. He didn’t silence dissent. He didn’t build gulags. He went to court. And won. Clean. Constitutional. Surgical. He’s not the tyrant they warned about. He’s the comeback they never saw coming.
So light a candle for the New York Times editorial board. Send tissues to MSNBC. And tell KBJ to stop submitting feelings as footnotes. Trump’s back. And the Constitution just gave him the keys.
The expanding adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is finding utility in nearly all areas of human thought and expression. Its speed, increasing sophistication and accuracy promises not only unique ideas but shows ability in automating ordinary processes which hopefully afford people savings in time and resources, enabling them to focus on the bigger picture and more important duties. There are however some worrying trends that can come up on the reliance of such technology in areas it is not yet suited. This article will focus on one area: police and criminal justice reporting.
A common complaint expressed in the law enforcement world and for that matter many other professions, is that an officer spends more time on paperwork than performing actual duties. In recent years, one solution promises a fundamental change to reduce the amount of time devoted to report writing through GenAI. The technology has developed to such a degree that industry offers law enforcement agencies the ability to use video recordings provided by body cameras or dash cameras to not only transcribe what was said by persons in the video (via voice recognition) but assemble the pertinent audio and video information into an actual police report that can be reviewed, corrected if necessary, and signed off by a commissioned law enforcement officer as his official report of the incident.
The promise made by GenAI is that officers will spend less time on overhead and can instead devote greater time to patrol and investigative duties elsewhere and thus be more efficient and less interrupted by paperwork.
To understand the problem let’s look at a brief synopsis of some milestones of police report generation over the past forty-five years.
With most agencies in the United States, the early 1980s consisted of sparse use of computer systems by line officers—they were typically database implementations for storing information of persons, vehicles, wanted or stolen records and as communications systems between agencies—rarely used by officers when completing crime reports and such. Most reports and citations were handwritten or typed and because of the amount of time used, especially in the case of handwritten forms, the amount of information conveyed was less, yet the time requirement was high. As the 1980s began to close personal computers began to be adopted by agencies for officer use and eventually the systems became more integrated and greatly more efficient. The speed of report writing not only increased, but the retrieval time and search ability was unmatched. Paper records and microfiche now became archaic.
Yet with the ease and efficiency of record keeping greatly improved, paradoxically so did the volume of information created, or required. This is certainly not unique to law enforcement as it has also been the case with patient charting with healthcare and in other fields. The efficiency invited the opportunity to create more data, and it was then expected.
Soon it became no longer necessary for a line officer to drive to a station to complete reports as in-car systems became standard practice, eventually replacing such things as paper citation forms given to violators but instead typing it in electronically, filing it automatically with the department and the courts, and printing off a copy for the violator. Nearly all the officer’s paperwork could be completed electronically and in the field.
The next advance began with what is commonly referred to as DashCams and BodyCams, electronic audio and video of law enforcement officer encounters with the world and individuals. Both have proven to be very useful in terms of correctly capturing information for which can be used by the criminal justice system. The cameras are greatly useful in correctly documenting events witnessed by the officer and in most respects are superior to not always reliable memory of those involved. In some ways they have reduced the amount of paperwork since the officer wearing the camera can simply provide a written synopsis in the written report and then reference an attached video as evidence. Or of this is not fully permitted, watching the video while composing the written report served to prompt the officer to write the report completely and accurately as depicted in the video. The GenAI service can take this to a high level of efficiency by generating most of the report in draft form whereupon the attesting officer then makes any corrections and fills in any gaps or external details. Such reports generated by AI mimic that of the conventional standard “style” of a crime report and from a workflow perspective the officer assumes a role that is in some way more of an editor rather than an author.
On a side note, when electronic videos of police cameras came to the attention of the public, the compliance requirement of freedom of information/public disclosure law went far beyond that of ordinary written reports which could relatively easily be redacted and disseminated when appropriate. Now departments must be tasked with being video editors to redact non-disclosable information such as faces, identities, words, addresses and other private information. The storage requirement for hours of video for sometimes hundreds of officers has become costly and added an additional burden.
Any new technology does have concerns that might offset some of the benefits. Some of the concerns are at what point does the AI become the primary author and the officer the rubber stamp approver. I present some open questions on the technology:
Will a low number of GenAI providers of police reports lead to a near monopoly of companies having access and control of information of most law enforcement agencies?
Will reliance on GenAI lead to an atrophy of skill in report writing in the ordinary sense by employees and if accuracy improves make them prone to overlook the occasional but highly consequential errors?
Law enforcement agencies have strict controls over dissemination of records for current or in-progress investigations and intelligence. Is GenAI use a vector by which outside actors can infiltrate police and government agencies? Those who might hack into the GenAI providers could learn of investigations or forewarn wanted persons of an upcoming arrest, or watch the agency via the AI input it submits?
Who controls the data given to the GenAI provider and is it subject to proper oversight? Will there be a temptation to sell the information to third parties?
How can bias be controlled in the GenAI response? The output is only as good as the input or the algorithm. Could the AI develop a bias as a result of incorporating the data it generates?
Are revisions and updates to each report considered work product and/or are they subject to discovery?
If the GenAI report is mostly completed by something other than the officer, how true is the officer’s testimony as to what he believed was happening since his mind did not actually create most of the report?
Is the present implementation of GenAI reports sufficiently efficient to mitigate the time required for necessary corrections and edits by the signing officer?
If the procedure is to plug the video/audio into the GenAI application, receive the generated draft, then make corrections and certify under penalty of perjury that the report is a true and accurate declaration of facts…are officers willing to risk a false swearing or perjury charge if computer generated data was inaccurate and overlooked?
Will GenAI created reports be considered expert analysis and will the output be challenged by the courts?
Are police administrators sufficiently adept and understanding of the artificial intelligence technology to fully understand managing or configuring the software?
Ethically have we fully considered what we are doing with GenAI with regard to justice? Those civilians and others who are subject to the GenAI reports have the most to lose as their lives can be changed markedly for the better or for the worse. Have we become so lazy and indifferent to them that we cannot be bothered to completely write a report ourselves?
What would become of the future of criminal justice if artificial intelligence is incorporated without restraint or consideration of the consequences? I can foresee a few areas where it promising use such as for generating a picture of an unidentified assailant from the descriptions of a witness, analyzing trace evidence, finding trends in data, and such. I do have reservations in what is made of the technology when it can be inexpensively replicated and used in place of a commissioned law enforcement officer.
An example would be incorporating AI into actually enforcing the law, where a camera films a speeding vehicle, a stop light violation, or eventually a strong armed robbery. The AI then identifies the persons involved, generates the report, and makes a charging decision with less and less human involvement. Are we to allow AI systems standing to enforce the law and are we going to question it since we have become so accustomed to its reliability and the fact that it is used everywhere? It might sound like “future shock” but we should consider how far we are willing to accept the convenience of low-cost surrogates of our responsibility.
By Darren Smith
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President Trump Slams Fed Chair Jerome Powell: “We should be number one, and we’re not. And that’s because of Jerome Powell.” (Video)
By Margaret Flavin – The Gateway Pundit – July 11, 2025
The conflict between President Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell continues to fester. Last week, The Gateway Pundit reported that Trump called on Powell to resign, saying on Truth Social,“’Too Late,’ should resign immediately!!!” Speaking to the press outside the White House, Trump was asked if he would fire Powell. President Trump replied, “No….I think he’s doing a terrible job. I think we should be three points lower interest rate. He’s costing our country a lot of money. We should be number one, and we’re not. And that’s because of Jerome Powell….In terms of interest…” READ MORE
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The Department of Homeland Security on Monday ripped a media report as “fake news” that alleged illegal immigrants in overcapacity detention centers are going hungry because of food shortages. An unnamed former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told NBC News in a story published Monday that it’s difficult for a detention facility to stay stocked with the right amount of food when it might face an unexpected surge of new detainees.
“FAKE NEWS!” DHS wrote in a post on X. “Any claim that there is a lack of food or subprime conditions at ICE detention centers are FALSE. All detainees are provided with proper meals, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers.‘
“Meals are certified by dieticians. Ensuring the safety, security, and well-being of individuals in our custody is a top priority at ICE.”
Reports of poor conditions at ICE facilities are becoming a common theme in the mainstream media, with The New York Times reporting June 28 that the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration is straining the nation’s detention facilities. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act provides $45 billion for ICE detention centers and reportedly could lead to an additional 116,000 to 125,000 beds, slightly below the 131,000 U.S. citizens in federal prisons, according to U.S. Sentencing Commission data.
DHS posted, “ICE actually has higher detention quality standards than most US detention spaces that hold actual US citizens. Despite a historic number of injunctions, DHS is working rapidly, overtime to remove these illegal aliens from detentions centers to their final destination: home.”
The so-called autopen scandal appears to be getting worse for former President Joe Biden as more information comes to light.
Biden, some of his former staffers, and a handful of thought leaders in the Democratic Party have attempted to triage the message about the inner workings of the previous presidential administration. But tangible evidence is mounting that it was effectively run like a kind of politburo.
The New York Times released an interesting report Sunday afternoon that included a short interview with Biden saying he made decisions on clemency that were carried out with an autopen. In the final month of his presidency, Biden pardoned a number of high-profile people and granted clemency to an additional 1,500.
High-profile examples included his son, Hunter Biden, members of the Jan. 6 committee, former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley.
“Everybody knows how vindictive [President Donald Trump] is, so we knew that they’d do what they’re doing now,” Biden said in the Times interview. “I consciously made all those decisions.”
Biden insisted that he was “conscious” of all his administration’s decisions (a contention not helped by his rambling responses).
But snippets from the Times’ report calls that claim into question.
“Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people, he and aides confirmed,” the Times reported. “Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence.”
On Biden’s last day in office Biden’s chief of staff Jeff Zients gave approval to use the autopen in the cases of Fauci and Milley, according to the Times.
In addition, the Times reported that Biden’s staff who drafted the blubs for acts of clemency admitted that they weren’t in the room with the president when approval for signing them was made.
NYT reporting on Biden pardons starts by repeating him saying he made the clemency decisions…but then buries his staff’s admission that he actually didn’t, and that the staffers sending those decisions to the autopen weren’t actually in the room when Biden allegedly gave his say… pic.twitter.com/woCOJyafxg
Whatever the intent of Biden or this report, it certainly didn’t clear up the suspicion that Biden wasn’t mentally competent to make decisions and that his staff and perhaps other people were essentially usurping executive power they didn’t have. When you combine that with the recent decision by Biden’s White House doctor to continually plead the Fifth Amendment to remain silent at a recent closed doors House hearing and former first lady Jill Biden’s chief-of-staff Anthony Bernal suddenly becoming uncooperative with the autopen investigation it certainly raises suspicion.
And that’s a potentially enormous scandal, even bigger than the media’s coverup of the president’s health. Not only was the country put in danger with an out-to-lunch commander in chief, but members of his staff may have been wielding unconstitutional powers on his behalf.
Trump said to reporters Monday that the autopen scandal may be one of the biggest in American history, and he may be correct.
.@POTUS: "The autopen I think is maybe one of the biggest scandals that we've had in 50-100 years. This is a tremendous scandal… I guarantee you he knew nothing about what he was signing. I guarantee it." pic.twitter.com/ozngUkINSz
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 14, 2025
Cruz may have come to this conclusion based on the testimony of a witness at a recent Senate hearing on the autopen use and abuse. Cruz asked Theodore Wold, a visiting fellow for law and technology policy at The Heritage Foundation, whether an executive order signed by a staffer who autopen signs it without the president’s knowledge is legally binding.
Wold answered, “No.”
‘HAIL TO THE PEN’: @SenTedCruz Torches Biden’s Use of Autopen as an ‘Assault on Democracy’
Since July 2022, the vast majority of Biden’s executive orders—including every single one in 2025—were signed by an autopen, not the president.
Unfortunately, there is very little precedent here to rely on to determine what the status of those pardons is. So, this may end up being more of a political battle than a legal dilemma.
I suspect this is why close associates of Biden are becoming closed lipped. This is about more than just Biden’s legacy or the media’s shame. It’s about whether Biden’s pardons are legally binding. It’s about whether members of the Biden White House misused their power. Did they commit fraud?
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., who is the chairman of a Senate committee looking into the autopen use, suggested that’s a possibility.
They may have broken several federal laws: – Fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1001) – Forgery (18 U.S.C. § 471) – Misuse of Government Property (18 U.S.C. § 641) – Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371) – Obstruction of Justice (18 U.S.C. § 1503 or § 1512) pic.twitter.com/D9WfO1mQNz
— Senator Eric Schmitt (@SenEricSchmitt) July 14, 2025
One way or another, the American people deserve answers.
Buckle up, folks, because we’re diving headfirst into a political circus so absurd it could double as a reality TV plot twist! Imagine a world where politicians spin tales so wild they’d make Pinocchio blush, only to have their own wallets—and voters—call their bluff. That’s the rollercoaster ride we’re on today as Democrats, long champions of open borders and free handouts, are suddenly forced to foot the bill for the very illegals they swore wouldn’t cost a dime. The hypocrisy? It’s as thick as a California fog and twice as insulting. Let’s peel back the curtain on this comedy of errors, where Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker are learning the hard way that fairy tales don’t pay the bills.
Act 1: The Golden State’s Budget Blunder
Picture this: California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, dubbed by some as the “worst governor in America” (a title he wears with a suspiciously smug grin), recently pulled a budgetary bait-and-switch that would make a magician jealous. In a move that screams “progressive panic,” he’s tweaking Medi-Cal to slap a $100 monthly premium on undocumented immigrants aged 19 and up starting in 2027. The catch? His office insists, with a straight face, that “no one will be kicked off their health care.” Sure, Gavin, and I’ve got a bridge in San Francisco to sell you!
And although Newsom’s office emphasized in materials it released that “no one will be kicked off their health care,” undocumented immigrants 19-years-old and older who are already on Medi-Cal’s rolls would have to pay a $100 monthly premium beginning in 2027.
All told, the changes will save the state about $5.4 billion by 2028, according to figures released by Newsom’s office.
The proposed reversal marks a significant retreat on an issue the governor has touted as being a linchpin in his goal of providing universal health care coverage in California. His success pushing through the initiative, which began in January 2024, helped solidify Newsom’s role as a progressive force in Democratic politics. The backtracking will be a political gift to conservatives, who for months have been criticizing the program as excessively expensive and out-of-touch with what Californians want in tough economic times.
This isn’t just a budget tweak; it’s a full-on retreat from the progressive podium Newsom’s been preaching from since 2024.
The $5.4 billion savings by 2028? That’s taxpayer money he’s clawing back because, surprise, Californians aren’t thrilled about funding universal healthcare for folks who strolled across the border. Conservatives are popping champagne, and rightly so—this is the kind of ammo they’ve been dreaming of. But let’s not kid ourselves: Newsom’s not suddenly seeing the light; he’s just feeling the heat from a state economy teetering on the edge. For more on California’s fiscal tightrope, check out this analysis from the California Legislative Analyst’s Office.
A.F. Branco Cartoon – Minnesota and the Minnesota (DHS) are being investigated by the U.S. DOJ for engaging in race and sex-based discrimination employment Practices.
Department of Justice launches investigation into Minnesota after Alpha News report
By Luke Sprinkel – AlphaNews.com – July 11, 2025
“States invite investigation when they engage in biased hiring practices tied to protected characteristics,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon. The State of Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) are being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice to determine whether the state “engaged in race- and sex-based discrimination in its state employment hiring practices.” Earlier this week, Alpha News published a report about a DHS policy which requires agency staff to justify their reasons for hiring a “non-underrepresented candidate” for a job where there is allegedly “underrepresentation.”… READ MORE
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American Family Association
American Family Association (AFA), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, was founded in 1977 by Donald E. Wildmon, who was the pastor of First United Methodist Church in Southaven, Mississippi, at the time. Since 1977, AFA has been on the frontlines of Ame
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American Family Association
American Family Association (AFA), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, was founded in 1977 by Donald E. Wildmon, who was the pastor of First United Methodist Church in Southaven, Mississippi, at the time. Since 1977, AFA has been on the frontlines of Ame
American Family Association
American Family Association (AFA), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, was founded in 1977 by Donald E. Wildmon, who was the pastor of First United Methodist Church in Southaven, Mississippi, at the time. Since 1977, AFA has been on the frontlines of Ame
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American Family Association
American Family Association (AFA), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, was founded in 1977 by Donald E. Wildmon, who was the pastor of First United Methodist Church in Southaven, Mississippi, at the time. Since 1977, AFA has been on the frontlines of Ame
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American Family Association
American Family Association (AFA), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, was founded in 1977 by Donald E. Wildmon, who was the pastor of First United Methodist Church in Southaven, Mississippi, at the time. Since 1977, AFA has been on the frontlines of Ame
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