Posts on Wednesday, February 5, 2025
FBI employees who "simply followed orders" with respect to their investigations into Jan. 6 defendants will not be fired or face any other penalties, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove confirmed in an internal memo. Bove's memo this week accused Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll of refusing to reply to requests from President Donald Trump's administration to identify "the core team in Washington, D.C. responsible for the investigation relating to events on January 6, 2021."
"That insubordination necessitated, among other things, the directive in my January 31, 2025 memo to identify all agents assigned to investigations relating to January 6, 2021.
The Arab world and many world leaders have rejected President Donald Trump’s plan, outlined on Feb. 4, for the United States to take over the Gaza Strip.
Key nations, including U.S. allies, have rejected it outright.
Saudi Arabia reiterated that it won’t normalize its relations with Israel without the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.Its foreign ministry also opposed Trump’s plan to resettle Gaza’s current residents elsewhere.
France’s foreign ministry, opposing the plan, was quoted in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as saying, “[The plan] would constitute a serious violation of international law, an attack on the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians,
Congressional Democrats signal government
shutdown in March, not willing to accept
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Congressional Democrats have begun scheming to use an upcoming government battle to force concessions from President Donald Trump.
Though the next spending deadline is in mid-March, Congress has yet to agree on anything, let alone a deal to avert a crisis.
“Democrats say they have little appetite to help Republicans, given Trump’s latest moves, and intend to use their leverage in the spending fight,” according to The Hill.
Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, warned reporters earlier this week that “the level of trust is at the lowest I have ever seen it here in Congress,
A double down on DEI had the NFL previewing end zone slogans ahead of President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attendance that had one columnist crying foul.
“Trump soils everything.”
Sunday, tens of millions of people from around the world are expected to tune in to see if the Kansas City Chiefs will achieve a Super Bowl three-peat or if the Philadelphia Eagles will achieve their second championship. At the same time, those viewers will be made subject to a slew of woke content in contrast to the president’s attendance as league Commissioner Roger Goodell argued, “It does make the NFL better.”
“We got into diversity efforts
U.S. Wins Major Concession in Panama Canal,
With Trump Picking Up Another Foreign
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With Trump Picking Up Another Foreign
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The U.S. has won a major concession in the Panama Canal, the State Department announced on Wednesday night.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio successfully negotiated a new deal with the nation of Panama that would grant the U.S. the right to pass through the waterway without being charged fees. The move, State said, will save the U.S. government millions of dollars a year. Saving millions a year may seem like a drop in the bucket compared to other government expenses - like buying subscriptions to Politico PRO - but it is a major symbolic win as the Panama Canal was a central part
Wednesday marks the 39th annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day (NGWSD).
President Donald Trump commemorated this day by signing an executive order banning so-called “transgenders” from women’s sports.
Going forward, any school that allows men to compete against women or use their locker rooms will lose federal funding under Title IX.
For anyone who thinks this is rare, it is not. Townhall covered how a shocking United Nations report titled "Violence against women and girls in sports" showed that female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to so-called "transgender" athletes.
The order, titled "No Men in Women's Sports," mandates that Title IX be interpreted as prohibiting
Kamala Harris gave an 179-word meandering answer on Israel that “60 Minutes” cut to just 20 words, according to transcripts released Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission.
The FCC says its investigating CBS for possible election interference, after complaints that the venerated news program cut Harris’ word-salad answers to make her look more coherent. Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the network.
Trump-appointed FCC chair Brendan Carr got the full transcript and video on Monday after a tug-of-war with the Tiffany Network, which has defended the editing as a standard practice for “time, space or clarity.”
But a CBS source told The Post on Wednesday that the “60 Minutes” edit
Boston University assistant media technician Jared May took to the leftist echo chamber social media platform Bluesky to post a “Wanted Dead or Alive” image featuring the names and photos of Elon Musk’s DOGE employees. The University’s weak response was that “the views expressed do not reflect the values of Questrom School of Business.”
In his Bluesky post, May listed off the names of six individuals he said are “The men carrying out Musk’s coup,” and shared an image featuring their photos alongside the words, “Wanted for Treason — Dead or Alive.”
American taxpayers are no longer subsidizing foreign media once funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), prompting leftwing concern over the potential impact on global journalism and “democracy.”
President Donald Trump put a 90 day hold on all USAID’s foreign aid this week, which subsequently cut $268 million from media outlets in more than 30 countries, according to the agency’s 2025 foreign aid budget reported by Reporters Without Borders (RWB).
USAID’s 2023 fact sheet, taken offline due to the hold, boasted the agency supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets, 279 media-sector civil society organizations, the Columbia Journalism Review reported.
“We have articles scheduled until the end of January,
Trump’s newly-confirmed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy annihilated twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Wednesday after she launched an attack on the agency.
Secretary Duffy said he spoke with Elon Musk’s DOGE team to help upgrade the aviation system after do-nothing bureaucrats destroyed the US’s infrastructure over the years.
“Big News – Talked to the DOGE team. They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system,” Secretary Duffy said on Wednesday.
Oversight Committee Devolves Into Shouting
Chaos After Republicans Block Elon Musk
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Chaos After Republicans Block Elon Musk
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The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday devolved into chaos after the Democrats, who are in the minority, failed to subpoena Elon Musk.
Democrat lawmakers lashed out at Elon Musk for shaking up Washington with his DOGE team.
The Trump Administration really poked the hornets nest after Musk’s DOGE workers accessed the Treasury Department’s payment systems.
The Democrat-media complex lashed out at the young Gen Z whiz kids cleaning up government waste.
The DOGE team also got to work cleaning out waste after Trump shut down the Democrats’ USAID money laundering slush fund.
On Wednesday, Republicans on the Oversight Committee blocked Democrats from issuing Elon Musk a subpoena for deposition.
Antisemitism may be one of the most, if not the civilized world's most ancient hatreds, and it resurfaces with baffling regularity. Most recently, hatred of the Jewish people is rearing its ugly head on American college campuses, where young skulls full of mush whose grandfathers may well have helped liberate German death camps are wearing kaffiyehs and screaming Hamas slogans.
At one school, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan, is being sued by Jewish students who were locked by security personnel into a school library to protect them from their fellow students, who had been whipped into an antisemitic rage, in October 2023.
Senate Judiciary Democrats want Kash Patel, President Trump’s FBI director nominee, to sit for a second hearing to explain “false statements” they allege he made during his confirmation hearing and answer questions about the recent firings at the agency.
“To ensure the Senate Judiciary Committee can fulfill its constitutional duty to provide advice and consent on the nomination of Kashyap Patel to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Mr. Patel must clarify apparent falsehoods in his testimony, under oath, during his confirmation hearing," the Democrats wrote to Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). "It also is critical that Mr. Patel address a material item
During her appearance on CNN's "Laura Coates Live" earlier this week, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) went for a particularly unhinged take as she ranted about "white tears" and other racist remarks. Her comments have been showcased, criticized, and even became a trending topic over X.
After she ranted and raved against Elon Musk for some minutes with Coates, the conversation moved to discuss Darren Beattie, an acting undersecretary at the State Department whose social media posts have come under fire.
Crockett wouldn't even let Coates provide background to the situation as she ranted and raved about President Donald Trump, accusing him of being "a white supremacist"
A federal judge has indicated that she will issue an injunction forbidding members of the DOGE team, which is part of the Executive Office of the Presidency, from reviewing some financial records.
During the hearing, a lawyer from the Department of Justice disclosed that two "special government employees" associated with Musk, but employed by the Treasury Department, accessed sensitive records from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service based on "high level guidance" from the Department of Government Efficiency to prevent waste and fraud.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly gave the government and unions who brought the case until 6 p.m. ET to say whether they agree to the injunction,
UNITED NATIONS - President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. "take over" the Gaza Strip has garnered negative reactions across the globe and even from within his own party. [Snip] Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó, however, doesn’t think the world should be so quick to dismiss President Trump’s proposal. Szijjártó compared the Gaza proposal... [Snip] "I would like to remind everyone that when President Trump announced his plan regarding the Abraham Accords, there was hardly anyone in the world who would have believed in the success....those agreements,...brought a totally new dimension to the life of the Middle East,"
This week, a massive firefight broke out between Democrats and Team Trump over the White House takeover of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The USAID managed approximately $40 billion in fiscal year 2023; its original mandate, established under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, was to spread American influence across the globe through aid to various governmental and non-governmental organizations. Over time, however, USAID morphed into a piggy bank for a wide variety of international organizations with agendas ranging from green energy policy to the spread of left-wing gender and racial politics.
President Donald Trump tasked Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with taking charge
"Canoo, the electric vehicle startup that was promised $100 million in incentives, files for bankruptcy,” read the headline from The Oklahoman in mid-January, angering Oklahoma taxpayers opposed to both tax subsidies and the “green energy” agenda.
It’s one more of the many green energy scams draining the pocketbooks of taxpayers across the nation — think Solyndra and its $570 million bailout.
Canoo began its public-private partnership with Oklahoma in 2021with the state Commerce Department declaring the deal “historic” and Gov. Kevin Stitt gushing about how “thrilled” he was that Oklahoma would become “an innovation leader in electric vehicle technology.”
This week we learned that the Trump administration is drafting an executive order aimed at abolishing the Department of Education.
Since future administrations can easily overturn executive orders, Trump’s order would strategically weaken the department while reinforcing the need for congressional action to abolish it entirely.
Why do we even have a Department of Education in the first place? As Reason Magazine noted a few years ago, the Department of Education wasn’t so much created to make education better, but actually as a political favor to the National Education Association (NEA), which had backed Jimmy Carter’s 1976 campaign after he promised to establish the agency.
If I say that Elon Musk is the smartest, boldest, most creative entrepreneur in the world, I don't think I will get pushback.
President Donald Trump's move to bring him to Washington and put him at the top of a new Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, to do the seemingly impossible -- to streamline a vastly outsized government spending behemoth -- injects hope that yes, maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.Musk, the world's richest man, is not beholden to anyone, and so there is little danger of him getting bogged down and imprisoned in the Washington culture of politics and quid pro quo.
When you as a liberal Democrat have lost CNN’s Abby Phillip and your protest gets LITERALLY laughed at live on CNN air, it may be a sign that your ability to influence coverage of the day’s events is waning. This was the reaction garnered by Congressional Democrats’ protest outside the headquarters of the dying United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
WATCH Phillip describe the protest as “a piñata in search of a stick”, which was met with an outburst of laughter by the guests at the table (click “expand” to view transcript):
Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei said in an interview published Tuesday that the liberal media has reached a low point in popularity and influence over the American public.
"There's a market for ideological," VandeHei said in an interview with Mediaite. "The left right now, liberal media, has probably never been weaker in my lifetime than right now."
CNN and NBC News, among other liberal news outlets, have reported layoffs of staff this year amid concerns over lower ratings and a changing media landscape, as podcasters continue to grow their audiences.
Trump’s new Attorney General Pam Bondi has hit the ground running. If she succeeds in implementing her ambitious agenda, America will be a substantially stronger republic.
The single aspect of Old Joe Biden’s misrule that makes him by far the worst president in American history was his politicization of the Justice Department and his use of it (with Merrick Garland’s willing help) to try to ensnare and destroy Trump with an array of bogus charges. Bondi is tackling that corruption head-on: Fox News reported Tuesday that among the new attorney general’s first directives are “orders to combat the weaponization of the legal system.”
The hammer of justice is coming to those who persecuted President Trump to stop him from running for President.
CNN reported Wednesday afternoon that Attorney General Pam Bondi will be ordering an investigation of the BS cases brought against President Donald Trump, including those undertaken by prosecutors in New York.
This means Marxist Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will be in hot water. Recall in his case against Trump, the jury did not need to reach a unanimous decision on the specific “unlawful means” that Trump was accused of in the case. They just have to sense that he is guilty.
WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance told Breitbart News during an exclusive interview at the White House on Tuesday that President Donald Trump recognizes his ability to “actually just do things” as president in ways that traditional politicians have not.
Breitbart News caught up with Vance in his West Wing office for a wide-ranging interview, including about America’s role on the world stage since the administration took over and Vance’s upcoming trip to Europe next week. He emphasized that Trump has “a bias towards willful action to the presidency” that enables him to set and accomplish goals traditional politicians are unable to achieve when asked about the topics of Canada, Mexico, and Panama.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers hit multiple apartment complexes across Aurora, Colorado in raids targeting 100 Tren de Aragua gang members on Wednesday — just five months after the Democratic governor dismissed reporting by The Post that the violent migrant gang had taken hold in the Denver suburb.
ICE’s Denver branch said officers made arrests alongside federal agents from numerous other agencies including the DEA, FBI, US Marshals and Customs and Border Patrol.
The agency did not not say how many gang members were ultimately nabbed in the raid.
Trump’s Gaza Proposal Ignites Establishment
Media Meltdown: ‘Genocide Joe Never
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The establishment media gave extremely negative reviews to President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would take control of Gaza, underscoring Americans’ mistrust of the media.
The announcement immediately caused many reporters to spread conspiracy theories and suggest Trump would be starting a war in Gaza, while members of the radical left rushed to the White House to protest the historic announcement.“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said Tuesday night. “We’ll love it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous bombs and other weapons on the site … and
As President Donald Trump kicked off his joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday, he made sure to offer some words of praise for his White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt. Trump introduced the VIPs in attendance and then gave Leavitt high marks for her work herding and attempting to inform the media:Karoline has been doing a great job. She's really probably talked about more than anybody here,’ Trump quipped.
‘She's done a fantastic job. And thank you very much, Karoline,’ Trump added. 'We're proud of you.'
Lara Trump Scores Job as Fox News Anchor
— Will Host Saturday Evening Show ‘My
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— Will Host Saturday Evening Show ‘My
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Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump will join Fox News as a Saturday evening host, the network has confirmed.
The job was first reported by The New York Times, who claim that Fox will make an official announcement on the matter on Wednesday.
Their report stated:
Lara Trump, Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law and a former co-chair of the Republican Party, will begin hosting a new weekend show on Fox News on Feb. 22, the network is set to announce on Wednesday.
The president and his children are frequent guests on Fox News.
The Federal Communication Commission on Wednesday released the unedited version of the network’s controversial “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala.
The Tiffany Network published two never-before-seen excerpts from the sit-down, which President Donald Trump has alleged was deceptively edited to help the Democratic nominee in her failed bid for the White House.
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The Post reported earlier this week that FCC Chair Brendan Carr planned to put the investigation into high gear after CBS News handed over the full transcript of the Harris interview on Monday.
Carr vowed to launch a probe following a complaint by the Center for American Rights, a right-leaning activist group, which argued
Debt Crisis! Anti-Trump Lincoln Project
Ends 2024 So Far Underwater They Can't
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Ends 2024 So Far Underwater They Can't
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The schadenfreude, it is strong in this one. The anti-Trump Lincoln Project, made up of invertebrates who were once ostensibly Republicans, has finished off 2024. In that landmark year, the Lincoln Projectors not only saw their arch-nemesis Donald Trump win a second term in a resounding defeat of the Queen of Word Salads, Kamala Harris, but they are most decidedly burdened by what has been - namely, $863,000 in unpaid invoices.
Oops.
The anti-Trump Lincoln Project, which spent millions of dollars on ads supporting former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, finished out last year strapped with over $863,000 in unpaid invoices, Federal Election Commission filings show.
Newly-sworn in U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has gotten straight to work on her first day by directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities,” according to a Wednesday report.
Bondi’s day one directives, obtained by Fox News, showed a heavy focus on countering illegal immigration and drug cartels, as she also ordered the DOJ to evaluate funding to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that support illegal migrants. The former Florida attorney general, nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the DOJ immediately after he won the November election, was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday and sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
On Wednesday, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring men from women’s sports through Title IX, withholding funding from universities that insist on allowing male athletes to encroach on women’s competition.
The order will also empower women who are forced to compete against men to sue their schools and directs the Department of Homeland Security to deny visa applications from foreign athletes who identify themselves as the opposite sex in order to compete in the U.S.
At the signing ceremony, Trump specifically cited the importance of protecting female athletes at the upcoming 2028 Olympics
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A protest against President Trump's actions is underway on Wednesday afternoon in St. Paul. Demonstrators are marching from St. Paul Technical College near Downtown to the State Capitol. The protest is in solidarity with the 50501 Movement, a nationwide protest against the president's policies and executive orders. The "50501" stands for, "50 States, 50 Protests, One Day." The protesters are advocating for a variety of causes, including immigrant rights, government accountability, and opposition to Project 2025, the conservative movement that aims to reshape the federal government. The demonstration is scheduled to go on until 3 p.m.
Guatemala will accept 40% more deportation flights from the United States, including both Guatemalan deportees and those of other nationalities, President Bernardo Arevalo said after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday.
Rubio, speaking at a press conference alongside Arevalo following their meeting in Guatemala City, said the U.S. would also support the Central American country's efforts to return people not from Guatemala to their homeland.
US President Donald Trump didn’t commit to sending troops to Gaza--but he also did not rule anything out--because, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, the president is “very good” when negotiating and wants to preserve that leverage. [Snip] “His administration is going to work with our partners in the region to reconstruct this region. [Snip] Leavitt reiterated that it’s been made clear to Trump that the US needs to be involved in the rebuilding effort to ensure stability for all people. [Snip] “The president made this decision with a humanitarian heart for all people in the region.”
A group of Morgan Stanley-led banks is selling $5.5 billion of debt tied to Elon Musk’s social-media platform X after receiving stronger-than-expected demand from investors, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The banks initially planned to sell about $3 billion worth of the loan but received enough interest to parcel out additional debt. They are now selling the entire remaining slug of the highest-ranking borrowings used to fund Musk’s buyout of the platform formerly known as Twitter Inc., marking a significant milestone in their effort to free their balance sheet from the X exposure.
The loan is being priced at 97 cents on the dollar
After getting totally domesticated by President Trump last month over repatriation flights for illegals, you'd think Colombia's far-left president, Gustavo Petro, might have stayed quiet for a reasonable interval.
Guess again. The budding buffoon of South America has put out this doozy of a statement on non-dangers of cocaine: (X) Which is more than a little disturbing. There's plenty of difference between snorting lines of coke and sipping expensive whiskey in a club as anyone with common sense can tell you. To say the least, this is highly abnormal for any Latin American leader to be saying, complete with whimpering victimization about gringo being all prejudiced against Latin Americans
West Point Military Academy is getting rid of clubs identifying with gender, race and ethnicity in the wake of President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI executive order. A memo authored by Deputy Commandant Chad Foster dated February 4 announced the following groups would no longer be allowed to operate at the school: Asian-Pacific Forum Club, Contemporary Cultural Affairs Seminar Club, Corbin Forum, Japanese Forum Club, Korean-American Relations Seminar, Latin Cultural Club, National Society of Black Engineers, Native American Heritage Forum, Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers, Society of Women Engineers Club, Spectrum and the Vietnamese-American Cadet Association.
The Trump administration repatriated its first planeload of Indian nationals Wednesday as 104 men were loaded aboard a military plane bound for the subcontinent.
The U.S. flight carrying the migrants who illegally entered the U.S. landed in Amristar, a city in the northern Indian State of Punjab, not far from Lahore, Pakistan.
The first flight came after India agreed to accept their citizens once U.S. officials confirm identities and immigration status, according to ABC News.
Establishment Media Whine Donald Trump
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President Donald Trump is flooding the zone with swift action that is overwhelming the establishment media, which appears unable, ill-equipped, or too lazy to report the flurry of activity.
Opinionists at major news outlets have begun whining about their newsrooms’ inability to keep up with the increased flow of Trump’s executive orders, newsworthy comments, and changes within federal agencies.Just in the past few days, Trump has fired DOJ officials, planned to close the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), deported hundreds of illegal aliens, placed tariffs on Canada and Mexico and then paused them, and signed the Laken Riley Act into law. (X)
President Donald Trump’s decision to restore his maximum pressure campaign on the Islamic Republic of Iran jolted the clerical regime in Tehran and established a clean break with the Biden administration’s concessionary policy toward the rogue nation, according to Mideast experts. Trump also warned the regime on Tuesday that if it carries out his assassination, advisers will ensure that the country is "obliterated."
Trump's message to the Iranians seemingly got their attention. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that "If the main issue is ensuring that Iran does not pursue nuclear weapons, this is achievable and not a difficult matter."
Defunding USAID Isn’t About Reducing
The Deficit, It’s About Shutting Down
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The Deficit, It’s About Shutting Down
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The most common argument you’ll hear from those defending the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is that the grant dollars in question are just a fraction of the federal budget--less than one percent! [Snip] The point is to expose USAID for the left-wing propaganda and regime change operation that it has become, and to shut it down. In the six decades since it was established, USAID has gone from fighting poverty, spreading American ideals, and undercutting Soviet propaganda, to becoming a woke propaganda operation of its own that actively undermines the pillars of western civilization. It’s gone from exporting democracy to exporting deviancy,
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suffered another health scare Wednesday when he reportedly fell down the stairs in the Senate following a vote for HUD Secretary. Little information has come out so far: (X) This is far from the first time the 82-year-old former majority leader has had a health scare. He also fell in December 2024 and had several strange “freezing” episodes in the last few years as well. In August 2023, he blanked out while speaking to the press. As RedState’s Bonchie wrote at the time:
A scary scene unfolded amidst all the other news on Wednesday after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze up
It did not take long for Democrats to begin the process of overturning the results of President Trump’s historic election victory.
Radical left Rep. Al Green (D-TX) on Wednesday morning went on an insane rampage against Trump’s provocative comments during a press conference Tuesday night with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Israel. As Jim Hoft reported, Trump floated the idea of the US taking over the Gaza Strip and redeveloping it.
Doing so could force Gaza residents, who almost uniformly hate Jews and the West, to leave and bring more peace to Israel.
Now it is starting to make sense.
Unbeknownst to the vast majority of Americans, Politico was receiving huge amounts of taxpayer money from USAID.
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk seek to gut the corrupt agency and stop the disbursement of billions of dollars around the world, many people have pointed out some of the most ludicrous “grants” handed out by USAID.
Among the lucky recipients is Politico, a prominent digital news company covering U.S. and global politics.
Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), a presidential spokesperson said on Wednesday, following President Donald Trump's executive order last month to pull the United States out of the global health group.
Trump, who Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei considers a close ally, moved to exit the organization on his first day in office on January 20.
Milei ordered Argentina's withdrawal because of "deep differences" regarding the WHO's management of health issues, notably the COVID-19 pandemic, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said, citing Argentina's months-long lockdown under the previous leftist government.
Pro-Trump influencer will take legal action
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against New York Magazine over ‘despicable’
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CJ Pearson is taking legal action against New York Magazine after its “despicable” cover story that he feels falsely painted pro-Donald Trump conservatives as racist. New York Magazine writer Brock Colyar warned that a new generation of “casually cruel Trumpers” are “conquering Washington” in a cover story headlined “The Cruel Kids’ Table.” The glossy feature has come under fire for cropping black attendees out of the cover image while quoting an attendee who complained that “the entire room is white.”
Pam Bondi was sworn in as attorney general on Wednesday in the Oval Office with President Trump looking on and telling reporters she would be “as impartial as a person can be.”
“I know I’m supposed to say, ‘She’s going to be totally impartial with respect to Democrats.’ And I think she will be as impartial as a person can be,” Trump said during Bondi’s swearing-in ceremony.
Bondi, Florida’s former top prosecutor, was joined by family members as she was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The conservative justice also presided over the swearing in of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
The Carthaginian Solution
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Yesterday I took note of the Trump Department of Education’s investigation of five universities for their toleration of anti-Semitism. First on the DoE list is Columbia University and and rounding it out is the University of Minnesota. I commented that Columbia should be razed and the ground underneath it salted — the Carthaginian solution. A prominent historian and teacher reasonably implored me:
"Please be a little more moderate in your language. Making comments like 'Columbia University should be razed to the ground' are painful to read for Columbia grads like myself, who are grateful for all we’ve received from that great institution of learning. In the spirit of Burke, I believe,
Andrea Mitchell will step down as full-time anchor on MSNBC on Friday — ending a 17-year stint as host of “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on the Comcast-owned cable news outfit. Mitchell announced last fall that she would step down from her daily MSNBC show after the presidential inauguration but will continue her work as a correspondent for NBC News. The veteran journalist will remain NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent.
A U.S. Senate committee voted on Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump's nominee Howard Lutnick, billionaire chairman and CEO of Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, to run the Commerce Department.
The Senate Commerce Committee voted 16-12 with all Democrats except Senator John Fetterman opposing the nomination. Lutnick said last week he has advised Trump to pursue across-the-board tariffs country-by-country to restore "reciprocity" to America's trading relationships.
Democrats voted against the nomination, and also sharply criticized Trump adviser Elon Musk's efforts to restructure U.S. agencies.
Daniel Penny landed a cushy job at a powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm less than two months after he was acquitted in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely.
The Marine veteran was hired by Andreesen Horowitz to work in Manhattan as a deal partner on the firm’s American Dynamism team, which invests in government and defense tech, according to the company’s website.
Penny was lauded for his “courage” in an internal memo sent to all employees Tuesday afternoon.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) has called for the deportation Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a U.S. citizen, to her birth country of Somalia.
“America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia,” Gill wrote Tuesday on the social platform X.
Gill, a first-term lawmaker representing Texas’s 26th Congressional District, was responding to a clip another X user shared Tuesday of the Minnesota Democrat’s recent interview with a reporter.
Thirty minutes later, in another post, Gill wrote that “we should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country.”
Some of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama's largest donors have abandoned them amid rumors that the couple's marriage is on the rocks.
The 44th president of the United States is in the process of building his Obama Presidential Center on the south side of Chicago, but at least some of the donors the couple has turned to over the past few years are now backing down, according to the Daily Beast.
Among them is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who bailed the Obamas out in 2022 with $100million each, boosting the year's total to more than $311million.
The defeated Democrats are so screwed up that they installed David Hogg as their second-in-command at the DNC, so these dorks are not going to be our biggest problem. Neither is the regime media, which is totally confused and baffled both at Donald Trump’s popularity and at the sheer speed and volume of his assault on the Establishment. No, our biggest problem in making America great again is going to be other Republicans.
In this episode of "Good for Me but Not for Thee"...
Cast your mind back to the time when residents of the wealthy enclave island of Martha's Vineyard vociferously defended illegal aliens and their "right" to be in America. Then, in 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) ingeniously flew illegals to the island. In a word, all snobbish hell broke loose.
Vineyard officials begged for federal assistance — after just 50 illegals arrived on their little Shangri-La.
The illegals were promptly shipped off the island to a military base.
Hypocrisy to the max? Not quite. But what follows is.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says she plans to introduce legislation to abolish the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and to finally give the United States a national language.
The United States has long been considered a multilingual country, causing mass confusion in some areas that are flooded with Hispanic immigrants. Making English, the most widely spoken language in the world, the official language of the United States is a common sense initiative.
Greene’s move to abolish USAID comes amid already-known but now-proven discoveries that the agency is a slush fund for globalist interventionism and woke radical left programs. It’s also the worst offender of violating Presidential Executive Orders
His appetite for territorial expansion has not waned. Before he even returned to the White House, Donald Trump set his sights on the Panama Canal and then resource-rich Greenland. Now, the president who once railed against foreign entanglements wants to acquire some of the most disputed geography in the world.
“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip,” Trump announced Tuesday. Once redeveloped and under an American flag, he added, it could become “the Riviera of the Middle East.” The news shocked the world, but not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stood by the side of the president and smiled.
Seth Rich was a DNC operative. He was “mysteriously murdered in the summer of 2016” just “weeks before” Wikileaks released the results of its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. The matter of who leaked Clinton’s emails to Wikileaks directly pertains to the Russian Collusion Hoax that was perpetrated against President Trump. The murder is still unsolved. And the FBI still refuses to turn over records pertaining to the case to attorney Ty Clevenger, despite a federal judge ruling that the agency must do so way back in November of 2023. [Snip] The FBI responded by requesting another 66 years before they’d be required to release the information.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Tuesday that preliminary recruitment figures for the military show how interest in serving is quickly rising under President Donald Trump. Hegseth revealed that the Army had its best recruitment totals in 12 years in December 2024, the first full month after Trump was re-elected. That was followed by the best recruiting numbers in 15 years as of January 2025, the month in which Trump officially took office. (Snip) The Army now expects to add 10 more basic training units in April across Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, according to a report from
Americans have been largely pleased with President Donald Trump’s deluge of executive orders. But not all of them. Public support is weak for his order to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization and the Paris climate treaty. This is curious. One is clearly a political organization, the other a useless and wasteful effort. The failure by a significant swath of our countrymen to recognize this is worrisome.
This is actually the second time Trump pulled the U.S. from the WHO. The first departure was in 2020. It pleased us then that no longer would this country “take part
What the hell did I watch? If anything, the anti-Elon Musk rally last night proved two things: Trump derangement syndrome has been replaced by Elon Musk derangement syndrome. Second, the Democratic Party has no idea how to win elections. The reports of a rudderless, leaderless, and divided organization were confirmed last night. It also showed that they have no message other than ‘me no like this Trump administration,’ of which Elon Musk is a top agent of the president. His Department of Government Efficiency is wiping the table clean, exposing waste and fraud, and getting these lazy DC government workers to quit.
Trump floats plan to send criminal US
citizens to foreign jails: ‘Frankly,
they can keep them’ replies
citizens to foreign jails: ‘Frankly,
they can keep them’ replies
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Tuesday that he wants to send criminal US citizens to foreign jails to “get these animals out of our country” — after El Salvador’s president made the offer to Secretary of State Marco Rubio a day earlier.
“Frankly, they can keep them,” Trump, 78, told reporters in the Oval Office, citing New York City subway shovers as one example of the sort of offender who he’d like to ship off to countries that are known for harsh handling of felons.
“We have hard, hardened criminals, horrible people. You see him pushing people into subways. The train is coming — last week, a guy is walking around,
Unhinged Democrat lawmakers protested Elon Musk’s DOGE team in front of the Treasury Department on Tuesday evening.
Democrat Reps. Ayanna Pressley and LaMonica McIver called for violence during the “Nobody Elected Elon” protest outside the Treasury Department.
“We will not take this!” Rep. LaMonica McIver shouted before attacking Elon Musk. “We will fight back! And goddammit shut down the Senate! We are at war!”
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As we reported earlier, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) made it clear the left was going to be ramping up their protests in the streets against President Donald Trump. Their claims are truly unhinged — because special government employees, Elon Musk and his DOGE team, are operating as part of the Executive Office of the President to review government expenditures.
Yet Democrats have been leveling all kinds of crazy accusations against Trump and Musk, especially since Musk has been looking into the hornet's nest that is USAID. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) even accused Musk of "raiding the government, attempting to steal taxpayer money" from the Treasury Department.
We are living at a truly momentous time in history. Donald Trump illustrated that yet again on Tuesday evening during his press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “You have to learn from history,” Trump declared and proceeded to upend the political order that has prevailed in the Middle East for decades. It is a multiply failed order and new approaches are very, very long overdue, but no one has dared to question it and suggest new solutions. Until now.
The most momentous announcement of this most momentous of press conferences was Trump’s declaration that Hamas would not be permitted to regain control of Gaza and that, in fact,
Amnesty International Suffers Social Media
Aneurysm Over Netanyahu Visit to Trump
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Aneurysm Over Netanyahu Visit to Trump
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stress levels were likely the best they’ve ever been visiting the White House in years—a true ally was behind the Resolute Desk. It wasn’t some drooling vegetable from Delaware anymore who knew nothing about the situation between Israel and Hamas. The State Department and national security staffers who walked a waffled line between supporting Israel and her terrorist enemies—an untenable position that makes for sloppy messaging—are gone. It’s now the second presidency of Donald J. Trump, who stands firm behind Jerusalem with a massive arms package reportedly slated for the Jewish state soon.
President Donald Trump is reportedly set to sign an executive order Wednesday that would ban transgender athletes from playing in girl’s and women’s sports in schools that accept federal funding.
The president is expected to sign the order on Wednesday to coincide with National Girls and Women in Sports Day, according to The Hill.
While the order’s text has not been pre-released, a president does not have the authority to place an outright, nationwide ban on transgender athletes playing as females. However, the executive does control federal funding as it pertains to Title IX rules. So, it is likely the order will direct that Title IX rules
Kultida Woods, the mother of 15-time major champion Tiger Woods, died early Tuesday morning, according to a social media post from the legendary golfer.[Snip] "It is with heartfelt sadness that I want to share that my dear mother, Kultida Woods, passed away early this morning. My Mom was a force of nature all her own, her spirit was simply undeniable. She was quick with the needle and a laugh. She was my biggest fan, greatest supporter, without her none of my personal achievements would have been possible.
JD Vance Revisits East Palestine Derailment,
Pledges Action Where Biden Administration
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Pledges Action Where Biden Administration
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On the second anniversary of the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Vice President JD Vance visited the community to reaffirm his commitment to its recovery. Standing alongside local leaders, Vance assured residents, "This community will not be forgotten," as he pledged ongoing support for environmental and economic restoration efforts. The derailment, which resulted in a spill of hazardous chemicals in the area, has left lasting impacts on the small Ohio community. Vance’s visit highlights the ongoing struggle for justice and resources as the town strives to heal.
It’s been four months since Donald Trump and Republicans swept the 2024 elections — and Democrats haven’t learned a thing.
Here are three snapshots of a party wallowing in denial: When the eight candidates running to head the Democratic National Committee were asked if they believed “racism and misogyny” were factors in Kamala Harris’ defeat, all eight raised their hands.
When congressional Dems gathered outside the headquarters of the rogue USAID agency that Trump plans to shrink or close, one of their lead speakers was the antisemitic terror defender and America-hating Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Then there’s New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who said Saturday he was hiding an illegal immigrant