Watch: Commerce Secretary Nominee Shares
Powerful Opening Statement
Posted By: Imright, 1/29/2025 3:49:02 PM
Commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick gave an emotional opening statement on Wednesday as he testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, sharing a bit about his life story that Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued is truly the embodiment of the “American spirit of resilience and achievement.” Born and raised in New York, Lutnick suffered one of his first major life blows in his teens, losing his mother and father in the span of a year and a half, both to cancer. A graduate of Haverford College, Lutnick would go on to join financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald
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The FBI is stalling again. The world’s top intelligence agency is still refusing to turn over the Seth Rich records to Attorney Ty Clevenger.
Attorney Ty Clevenger is the bulldog attorney who has been working for years to get to the bottom of the Seth Rich murder. His requests continue to be denied by the FBI. Kash Patel cannot be sworn in as FBI Director soon enough!
Clevenger previously investigated who supplied the DNC and Podesta emails to Wikileaks during the 2016 election cycle. This was always the key to the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense. No proof was ever offered up by the fake news legacy media, Democrats, or the intelligence community
Democrats and the media have scoffed at Trump’s talk of acquiring Greenland for the United States, but they may not be laughing for much longer.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was interviewed by Megyn Kelly this week and confirmed that Trump’s intentions are very real and that the acquisition of Greenland has nothing to do with gaining more land but is all about national security.
Rubio also did a great job of explaining Trump’s approach to the issue, with the mind of a strategic businessman rather than that of a politician.
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Wednesday backing school choice and empowering parents in education.
The order states that it is the policy of the Trump administration to “support parents in choosing and directing the upbringing and education of their children,” and it directs the Department of Education to prioritize school choice programs through discretionary grants.
“Parents want and deserve the best education for their children. But too many children do not thrive in their assigned, government-run K-12 school. According to this year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 70 percent of 8th graders were below proficient in reading, and 72 percent were below proficient in math,”
President Trump zinged a reporter asking if he will visit the site of the American Airlines plane crash.
Trump signed a series of executive orders from the Oval Office on Thursday after a Blackhawk helicopter crashed into an American Airlines plane near Reagan Airport on Wednesday evening.
67 people died after the two aircraft collided over the Potomac.
First responders pulled bodies out of the icy Potomac river on Wednesday and Thursday. There were no survivors.
Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences? Mexico also recently balked at allowing a U.S. transport plane to land, returning its own nationals apprehended as illegal aliens.
Was its attitude that Alejandro Mayorkas was still Homeland Security Secretary and thus working with Mexico to ensure that millions of illegal aliens could stay in the U.S. indefinitely?
The nation is reeling from the Reagan National Airport disaster. There are no survivors. The American Airlines flight that collided with an Army Blackhawk helicopter last night around 9 PM spared no one. All 67 people on the aircraft and the chopper perished in what is the worst aviation accident in recent memory. For some, this was an event waiting to happen, given the congestion, the length of the runway, and variating flight patterns. (X Video) Reagan Airport has seen more than a few close calls. It doesn’t help that the air traffic control tower has one staffer doing the work of two people.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, said on Thursday that he will stop federal funding from going to National Institutes of Health (NIH) research using the body parts of aborted babies.
During round two of Kennedy’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) asked Kennedy if he would reinstate a 2019 HHS policy from President Donald Trump’s first term barring providing taxpayer funding for NIH research programs that use human fetal tissue derived from the body parts of aborted babies. The rabidly pro-abortion Biden-Harris administration reversed Trump’s policy in 2021. Hawley said:
Trump’s FCC Chair Launching Investigation
of NPR and PBS, Taxpayer Funding Under
Increased Scrutiny 7 replies
of NPR and PBS, Taxpayer Funding Under
Increased Scrutiny 7 replies
Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under Trump, is launching an investigation of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Both organizations are already facing the loss of taxpayer funding, but this investigation will increase pressure on lawmakers to pull that funding.
Conservative Americans have been calling for the defunding of NPR and PBS for years. There are countless examples of these organizations acting as surrogates for the Democrat party.
President Trump confirmed Thursday that there are no survivors after an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided in the air over Washington, DC, Wednesday night. The search-and-rescue operation became a recovery mission in the early morning hours, officials said.
The flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with the military chopper while approaching Runaway 33 at Reagan National airport around 9 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.(Photos) There were 64 people aboard American Flight 5324, with 28 bodies recovered from the river so far, officials said Thursday afternoon. The bodies of all three soldiers who were on the Army helicopter had been recovered as well.
Tulsi Gabbard took Washington by storm as she exposed the rot of deep state corruption, slamming 51 intelligence officials, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat Party for their blatant weaponization of America’s intelligence agencies.
As she stood before the Senate Intelligence Committee for her confirmation hearing as President Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence, Gabbard delivered a devastating indictment of the intelligence community’s failures and abuses over the last two decades.
Gabbard, a combat veteran and former Democrat presidential candidate, wasted no time calling out the politically motivated intelligence fiascos
The much-anticipated showdown between President Trump’s FBI Director nominee, Kash Patel, and crooked Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) became an easy rout for Patel as Schiff face-planted over a simple word.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, Patel sat down this morning to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation beginning at 9:30 A.M. Patel’s impressive qualifications include several high-ranking positions in the intelligence and defense communities, such as Department of Defense Chief of Staff and Deputy Director of National Intelligence under President Trump.
DNI Nominee Tulsi Gabbard Lays Out Weaponization
of Biden Admin: Trust Is at an ‘All-Time Low’ 3 replies
of Biden Admin: Trust Is at an ‘All-Time Low’ 3 replies
Trust in the intelligence community is at an “all-time low,” Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), said during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
“I’m honored and grateful to President Trump for his trust and confidence in nominating me to serve our country as the Director of National Intelligence at a time when trust in the intelligence community, unfortunately, is at an all-time low,” Gabbard said during her opening statement, citing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who “admitted a few years ago, quote, ‘You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.'”
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Justice Jackson punches out her frustrations
with the conservative Supreme Court in
the boxing ring 23 replies
with the conservative Supreme Court in
the boxing ring 23 replies
WASHINGTON — One of three liberals on a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she has found an outlet for the frustration that can result from being in the minority on the nation’s highest court: boxing. “I take boxing lessons,” Jackson said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press at the Supreme Court. “And I think that helps you to really get out any frustrations.” There have been more than a few dissents for the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, including the end of affirmative action in college admissions and a grant of
A first-term House Democrat is attacking White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on X after she sought to clarify a White House memo rescinding an earlier policy statement on President Donald Trump's federal funding order. "Karoline Leavitt is a Fake Christian, like so many in this Golden Calf administration," Rep. Dave Min, D-Calif., wrote on Wednesday.
It comes after the White House rescinded an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo that ordered the freeze of most federal grants and assistance, which was blocked by a federal judge on Tuesday.
As reported earlier, former Democrat Senator Bob Menendez, 71, sobbed in court as he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for bribery and corruption.
A tearful Menendez sobbed as he begged SDNY Judge Sidney Stein to have mercy on him.
The judge showed no mercy to “Gold Bar Bob” and sentenced him to 11 years. (X) Last summer a jury convicted Senator Bob Menendez on all bribery and corruption charges. (Snip) Following his brutal sentencing, Menendez stunned reporters as he praised President Trump.
“President Trump was right. This process is political, and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool
Connecticut Bureaucrat Charged With Fraudulently
Changing Republican Voter Registrations
To Democrat 18 replies
Changing Republican Voter Registrations
To Democrat 18 replies
A Connecticut state mental health worker has been accused of fraudulently changing Republican voter registrations to Democrat following a September voting event.
Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services employee Arlanda Brantley, 57, faces “five counts each of Fraudulent Registration and Primary or Enrollment Violations,”(snip)
After a “national voting event” at the Western Connecticut Mental Health Network in Torrington, Connecticut on Sept. 17, Brantley allegedly changed “several” voter registration cards with an affiliation of “Republican” or “No” to “Democrat” “without the consent of the registrants.” Police said she then submitted the cards to the Torrington Registrar of Voters clerk,(snip)
Officials noticed white out on the voter registrations,
RFK Jr. Torches Bernie Sanders for Screaming
'Health Care for All' While Taking Big
Pharma Cash 18 replies
'Health Care for All' While Taking Big
Pharma Cash 18 replies
On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary-nominee Robert F. Kennedy sat before yet another Senate committee to answer questions, and it went about as well as expected. When Kennedy appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, he was questioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who went on a wild rant about whether he supported onesies with an anti-vax message on them. It was comedy gold.
Sadly, Sanders also sits on the Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) Committee, so he had a chance to dig deeper into the mystery of the onesies and other matters. Broken Record Bernie wants universal healthcare,
Ghoulish Democrats and Press Rush to Blame
Trump for Airliner Crash, Here's Why They're Wrong 16 replies
Trump for Airliner Crash, Here's Why They're Wrong 16 replies
On January 29th, 2025, the United States suffered its first hull loss of a passenger airliner since the Colgan crash of 2009. Tragically, 67 people appear to have perished after a mid-air collision between a CRJ-700 regional jet operated by PSA (contracted by American Airlines) and a military UH-60 Blackhawk. The CRJ was flying a circling approach to runway 33 at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA), which sits directly across the river from the nation's Capitol. In layman's terms, they were flying down the Potomac with the end of the approach being a low-altitude left turn onto short final to land
Conservatives on social media rallied around Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday as the Trump nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) faced questions from senators in his confirmation hearing. "RFK crushed it," conservative commentator Charlie Kirk posted on X. "Very proud of him. Confirm him, now!"
"RFK killed it today," RNC national committeewoman Amy Kremer posted on X." So proud of him! LFG."
"RFK Jr is crushing this hearing," former GOP Rep. Scott Taylor posted on X. "Dems look unhinged and very petty. America is sicker, more obese, and more unhealthy than ever. Something has to change!"
Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security chief, Kristi Noem, has frozen government funding for the progressive groups that aid migrants, pending a 90-day review.
Appearing on Fox News’s Will Cain Show on Wednesday, Noem said all grant funding “abused by NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration” has been stopped.“It’s amazing to me the hundreds of millions of dollars that have been spent by the federal government that has been sent to NGOs to facilitate this invasion of our country,” Noem told Cain.
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Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass made her big play this week to rebuild Pacific Palisades in her own image. Needless to say, it won't be pretty.
During what the Los Angeles Times called "a freewheeling half-hour walking tour in Pacific Palisades," with reporters and "chief recovery officer" and former LAPD commissioner Steve Soboroff, Bass announced that the city plans to hire "an outside consultant to handle a significant rebuilding contract for areas devastated by this month’s Palisades fire," as the Times put it.
“They’re going to represent you and make sure that everybody does exactly what they say they’re going to do,” Soboroff told reporters.
Pacific Palisades residents were not
A California bill that would allow higher education institutions to prioritize slave descendants in college admissions is drawing harsh critique from some civil rights experts.
Introduced in December, the bill, AB 7, is a project of Democrat Assemblymember Isaac Bryan who represents part of Los Angeles.
If passed, it would allow the state’s two public higher education systems, the California State University and the University of California, as well as private colleges and universities to “consider providing a preference in admissions to an applicant who is a descendant of slavery, as defined, to the extent it does not conflict with federal law.”
Any NYT reader looking at the buzzy front page headline below would immediately think that Robert F Kennedy Jr. is a madman. Can he really be an advocate for repealing the polio vaccine, a disease that has killed and crippled tens of millions of kids?
“Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine”
To the ordinary reader, the headline says pretty clearly that Kennedy asked his lawyer to revoke the polio vaccine. The headline makes the shocking accusation that Kennedy is in favor of banning the polio vaccine. There is no other way of interpreting it.
But it is flagrantly false and a gross distortion of the truth.
What kind of people are Democrats in terms of human decency?
I blogged yesterday about about their execrable behavior to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at his Senate confirmation hearings for the Health and Human Services portfolio in the new Trump administration. They bellowed. They bloviated. They interrupted, while Kennedy remained the perfect gentleman in a setting no gentleman should ever have to endur.
But they only got worse after I signed off on that piece.
Here's what kind of creature Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is as he preens on the Senate floor, piously intoning "You frighten me":