Posts on Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Source” that President Donald Trump “has effectively surrendered” to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Host Kaitlan Collins said, “You’ve previously said that that you believe Putin sees Trump as what you described as an easy mark. You were there for their first meeting in Helsinki. What are your expectations for this one?”
Bolton said, “Well, I don’t have any expectations anymore. I think we know exactly what’s gonna happen. President Trump has effectively surrendered to Putin before the negotiations have even begun. The positions that Defense Secretary Hegseth announced in Brussels –
Breaking: Crockett the Rocket, a meteoric rising star in the Democratic Party, has just unseated AOC as the leader of the Imbecile Caucus. For those unfamiliar, the Imbecile Caucus is comprised of some of the smartest lawmakers in Washington, D.C. — the movers and the swamp shakers, a brain trust of politicians who split atoms in other lifetimes — and includes not only Democrats but several Republicans, such as Israel Rep. Don Bacon and Israel Rep. Brian Mast.
Democrats, those stalwart champions of democracy who tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, have an endlessly malleable understanding of whose view prevails whenever disputes arise between any combination of Congress, the courts, the president and the states. It’s almost as if they decide based not on any fixed principle, but on whose side they take.
When Joe Biden was president, he openly defied Supreme Court rulings — and bragged about doing so. Despite the court repeatedly telling him he had no authority to forgive student loans, he kept doing it. “The Supreme Court blocked it,” he said, “but that didn’t stop me.” No complaints from the left.
A new poll shows that 52 percent of American voters believe Vice President J.D. Vance is doing a good job. He is in Europe this week, making his international debut representing the Trump administration at an A.I. Summit followed by the Munich Security Conference at the end of the week. Vance was deployed as Trump's attack dog during the campaign, delighting the MAGA world but triggering a cascade of negative headlines elsewhere. (Snip) Even 17 percent of Democrats say they view him favorably. That put him on a similar standing to Trump, who has seen his own ratings improve since
Costco, Aldi, Trader Joe’s Limiting
Egg Purchases Due to Supply Issues amid
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Egg Purchases Due to Supply Issues amid
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Several grocery store chains such as Aldi, Costco, and Trader Joe’s are limiting how many eggs customers can purchase, citing supply issues amid an outbreak of the avian flu.
A spokesperson for Trader Joes confirmed to CNN that due to “issues with the supply of eggs,” the grocery store chain was limiting its customers to purchasing one dozen eggs per day, meanwhile Costco also confirmed that it was limiting the amount of eggs customers could purchase to “three packages of eggs.”
“Due to ongoing issues with the supply of eggs, we are currently limiting eggs purchases to one dozen per customer, per day, in all Trader Joe’s stores across the country,”
Just over three weeks into President Donald Trump's second term, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt continues to show how adept she is in her role. While asked by a reporter during Wednesday's briefing about the "authority" of Elon Musk, as it pertains to Democrats' ridiculous claims about the president's advisor, including from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), she called out their behavior for how "utterly ridiculous" it is.
Raskin is hardly the only one, though. During the House Oversight Committee's subcommittee hearing on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Democrats threw around the lazy narrative we've been hearing since before Trump officially even took office,
Nonprofit Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranked the U.S. 28th overall in the world when it comes to anti-corruption. The index factors in criteria such as the prevalence of bribery and the degree to which public officials use their positions to benefit themselves.
The U.S. scored its lowest-ever rating on an international corruption index.
On Tuesday, the German nonprofit Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index. The latest version of the index, which assessed data through 2024, evaluates corruption in the public sector across 180 countries.
An Arizona woman who created a "laptop farm" in her home to help fake IT workers pose as US-based employees has pleaded guilty in a scheme that generated over $17 million for herself... and North Korea. Christina Marie Chapman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments in a US District Court on Tuesday.
Some of the overseas workers were hired at Fortune 500 companies, including a top-five television network, a premier Silicon Valley technology company, an aerospace and defense manufacturer, an American car manufacturer, a luxury retail chain, and a US-hallmark media and entertainment company.
Israel is considering a substantial strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities now that President Trump is in office and Joe Biden is out, according to a report citing US intelligence agencies.
A strike could come sometime this year, with Israeli leaders feeling Trump is far more likely to back an attack on Iran than Biden ever was, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The intelligence came from an assessment compiled by the Biden administration in the final days of its existence. The report explained that the balance of military risks had shifted in the Middle East after Iran’s defenses had weakened following a year of war and proxy
According to the latest numbers from one of America’s most consistently accurate pollsters, a majority of the public sides with President Trump on the issue of limiting birthright citizenship.
Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1,196 likely voters on February 6, 9, and 10, and found majority support to finally put an end to how birthright citizenship is currently defined — which is that if you are born on United States soil you are automatically an American citizen. This stupid and suicidal Constitutional interpretation allows the children of non-citizens, including those whose parents are in our country illegally, to win American citizenship for that child simply because they happened to be born here.
Social media company X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump, who has put X's billionaire owner Elon Musk in charge of a major government cost- and staff-cutting effort, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Trump had sued X, then known as Twitter, and its then-CEO Jack Dorsey in San Francisco federal court for deplatforming his account following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. Twitter had cited the risk of Trump inciting further violence related to his effort to remain in the White House following his loss to former President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Former aides to President Barack Obama admitted on an episode of “Pod Save America” they should have done “some of the stuff” President Donald Trump is doing with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
When discussing DOGE’s initiatives to cut federal spending, the “Obama Bros” admitted to “lamenting” their situation.
Jon Lovett, a former Obama speechwriter, implied he “didn’t know” they could make government so efficient.
“Honestly, some of this is pretty annoying because it’s some of the stuff we should’ve done. We didn’t know you could do some of this,” Lovett said.
The governing body for school sports in the state of Maine officially rejected President Donald Trump’s new Title IX rules and will continue to allow transgender athletes to play in girl’s and women’s sports, its director says.
Mike Burnham, executive director of the Maine Principals Association (MPA), confirmed on Wednesday that it will not abide by Trump’s executive order to “keep men out of women’s sports,” Fox News reported. “The executive order and our Maine state Human Rights Act are in conflict, and the Maine Principal’s Association (MPA) will continue to follow state law regarding gender identity,” Burnham insisted.
A federal judge on Wednesday declined to pause the Trump administration’s buyout program for government workers, giving President Trump a key win in his push to shrink the size of the federal government.
US District Judge George A. O’Toole ruled that the union groups suing to block the so-called “Deferred Resignation” program lacked standing and that his Massachusetts-based court lacked the jurisdiction to proceed with the lawsuit.
O’Toole, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, temporarily blocked the Office of Personnel Management from moving ahead with the program earlier this week, after unions representing more than 800,000 federal workers charged that that the buyout offers were unlawful
First lady Melania Trump announced that public tours of the White House that had been placed on pause would be resuming later this month, expressing that there was “much to learn,” not just about the presidency, but about the first families who have lived there.
In a post on X, the first lady shared a press release announcing that the White House would be opening for public tours on February 25, 2025. Melania Trump expressed that she and President Donald Trump were “excited to reopen the White House” to people interested in touring and learning about the “iconic and beautiful landmark.”
Just because Caryn Elaine Johnson, who does by the fake name Whoopi Goldberg, was 69 years old and Joy Behar was 82 years old, didn’t mean they were above acting like juvenile bullies. The oldest members of ABC’s Cackling Coven, The View kicked off Wednesday’s show by taking swings at Elon Musk’s 4-year-old son, mocking and bullying him for his name: “X.” At no point did any of the other cast members intervene on behalf of the child. Instead, one of them blamed Musk for South African apartheid.
Looking to start the show’s Hot Topics segment with Musk’s Oval Office press conference about the activities
What a difference three years makes: Time
to get realistic about Ukraine with Trump
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to get realistic about Ukraine with Trump
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It’s been three brutal years since Vladimir Putin launched his bid to conquer Ukraine; it’s time to find a lasting peace — which is only possible if all sides are realistic.
One huge difference is that we have a new US president — one who’s stronger, but also understands how to negotiate.
Putin knows he can’t snow Donald Trump as he did Joe Biden, who routinely folded in the face of Vlad’s nuclear bluffs — thereby failing to support Kyiv hard and fast enough to dislodge the Russians.
Biden lost that opportunity for good: It’s now pointless to demand a return to Ukraine’s 2014 borders (to be fair, Barack Obama let Crimea go);
The lefty freakout over DOGE inquiries into federal spending continues — despite (or maybe because of?) the fact that DOGE’s work is beyond justified: Just look at FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Per a recent inspector general audit, FEMA during COVID handed over $9.6 billion in a grant for medical aid to a single state — and it still hasn’t actually figured out if $8.1 billion of that was kosher under grant rules.
Worse, $1.5 billion that $9.6 billion was overkill, more than the state actually spent.
On Tuesday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, a panel hosted by Stephanie Ruhle expressed their regret, dismay, and indignation at the implosion of public confidence in established, mainstream media outlets, such as their own. In typical fashion for them, they pinned all the blame on such favorite bogeymen as President Trump and Elon Musk, and showed no self-awareness of the fact that they themselves may have borne much responsibility for the trend, with their own track record of politicized, one-sided, and less-than-transparent reporting.
Raising the subject, Ruhle turned to Semafor political reporter Dave Weigel, with the words, “you've also been reporting on this evolving problem…where less information is
Trump called out the AP’s lefty bias
— and its snooty response betrays the
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The Associated Press may not be inclined to use it, but there’s an old expression about relieving oneself and blaming the results on the rain that it ought to be reminded of.
On Tuesday, the White House demanded that the AP alter its style guide and align itself with President Trump’s latest branding exercise: Renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
When the AP refused, Team Trump barred AP reporters from a buzzy Oval Office signing ceremony featuring Elon Musk. There’s nothing to celebrate about that; the most powerful man in the country shouldn’t deny journalists access based upon their editorial judgments.
Border czar Tom Homan ‘not happy’
with immigration crackdown in NYC ahead
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with immigration crackdown in NYC ahead
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Border czar Tom Homan is “not happy” about the Big Apple’s lack of action to help President Trump’s immigration crackdown, sources said Wednesday — setting up what could be a contentious second meeting with Mayor Eric Adams.
Homan will make the newly Trump-indebted Adams come to him at New York City’s ICE headquarters at 26 Federal Plaza for the Thursday morning meeting, which will mark the pair’s second face-to-face, sources told The Post.
The mayor discussed reopening ICE’s office on Rikers Island during the pair’s first sit-down in Gracie Mansion in December, and he left it vowing to crack down on criminal migrants.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said Wednesday he wants to shut down the Department of Education as soon as possible.
“I’d like it to be closed immediately,” he told reporters in the Oval Office, describing the agency as “a big con job.”
He blasted the US education system for being ranked 40th in the world, but being ranked No. 1 for “cost per pupil.”
“Send it back to Iowa, to Idaho, Colorado,” Trump went on, keeping to his pledge to put education back to the states.
The 78-year-old president is reportedly considering issuing an executive order that would move many DOE functions to other agencies, only keeping those functions that are explicitly written in statute,
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday that the Justice Department is suing the state of New York and its top officials for prioritizing "illegal aliens over American citizens."
"As you know, we sued Illinois and New York didn't listen. So now you're next," Bondi said.
Bondi, in her first news conference since being confirmed, said “millions” of people “with violent records have flooded into our communities, bringing violence and deadly drugs with them,” and that states like New York with permissive immigration policies were contributing to the problem.
Bondi announced that DOJ sued not only
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., debuted his annual book of "federal fumbles" that he believes can provide additional ideas for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as it continues to aggressively slash federal agency spending. The founding Senate DOGE Caucus member filled 26 pages with examples of what he believes are government shortcomings and inefficiencies, as well as the money they waste.
In a letter to readers, Lankford wrote, "My goal is to create a roadmap for DOGE, identifying key areas within the federal government and solutions to fix them."
A federal judge has removed a block he had previously placed on the Trump administration’s buyout program for federal workers, denying unions’ request for a preliminary injunction.
Massachusetts Judge George O'Toole said in a Feb. 12 order that the plaintiffs lacked standing and the court does not have subject matter jurisdiction over their claims.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Trump won’t block immigration arrests
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More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans--ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists--filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Trump administration move giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at houses of worship. [Snip] ...The DHS assistant secretary for public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, offered this response via email: “We are protecting our schools, places of worship, and Americans who attend, by preventing criminal aliens and gang members from exploiting these locations and take safe haven there because these criminals knew that under the previous Administration that law enforcement couldn’t go inside.”
White House Press Secretary took a chainsaw to the fake news press, which has been howling about some phantom constitutional crisis over President Trump’s spending cuts, which a little district court judge ruled was illegal. Judge John J. McConnell Jr. tried to pull the “plain text” nonsense on this when he is anything but a jurist in that vein of constitutional interpretation (via NYT): A federal judge said on Monday that the White House had defied his order to release billions of dollars in federal grants, marking the first time a judge has expressly declared that the Trump administration is disobeying a judicial mandate.
President Trump’s Department of Education is demanding top athletic organizations for colleges and high schools turn over awards, records and titles won by transgender women to biological females who were set to win them.
The Department of Education penned a missive Tuesday to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) to comply with Trump’s executive order earlier this month banning men from women’s sports.
“Whether the number of records in women’s events attributed to men is 1 or 1 million, every official record of women’s performances must accurately reflect the achievements of female athletes, not of male ones,”
WASHINGTON — The Department of Government Efficiency now has about 100 staffers hunting for federal spending cuts, President Trump said Wednesday, as its leader Elon Musk plans to slash $1 trillion in expenditures.
“I want to commend Elon … They started off with 12. I call them 12 geniuses. They started off with 12, and they went to 20 and 25 and now they’re up to almost 100 people joining to help them,” Trump said Wednesday in the Oval Office. (Photo) “Tomorrow, I’m having a news conference. I’m going to read to you some of the names that hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars have been given to —
The liberals over at CNN have truly lost it as Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media freak out over how President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are cleaning up government waste. On Monday night, Scott Jennings schooled the entire panel on "CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip" about a "constitutional crisis." He was back at it on Tuesday, confronting liberal guests on Trump, from what Democrats' aim is in opposing him to how he's taking action on the Israel-Hamas war and the Gaza region.
The change from Karine Jean-Pierre to Karoline Leavitt as White House Press Secretary is one of the most significant upgrades in American political history. On Wednesday, Leavitt again proved why she was a great choice to communicate President Trump’s agenda to the American people.
As TGP’s Jordan Conradson reported, Leavitt held her latest press conference where she discussed President Trump’s meetings with foreign leaders at the White House along with the discoveries made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Of course, corporate media reporters were only interested in trying to ambush Leavitt with ridiculous questions regarding the Trump administration’s concerted efforts to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said on Wednesday that she “clawed back” the full payment made by FEMA for hotels to house migrants in New York City, days after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced the discovery of a $59 million payment made last week.
“I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels,” Noem announced on Wednesday, noting that FEMA was actively funding the Roosevelt Hotel “that serves as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to house Laken Riley’s killer.”
Democrats against democracy
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Democrats are anything but democratic.
In the past, their idea of governance was overreach and abuse of power carried through unelected bureaucrats, intimidation attempts by radicalized mobs disguised as protesters, and a weaponized judicial system, especially rogue judges, to impose their will on the public.
As a famous quote often attributed to Mark Twain goes, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Once again, the Democratic Party, when thwarted at the ballot box, has turned to judges to impose its will on the public.
Like a flock of aggressive but brainless seagulls at the Jersey Shore, they all began screeching in unison: constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis, ... constitutional Crisis. It’s always a crisis with President Donald Trump. The president could post on Truth Social at 2 a.m. calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas,” and hours later, the cable news channels will have brought on a Native American who runs a casino in North Dakota to riff on the racism crisis crippling America. Better yet, they will have brought on the race-hustling reverend, Al Sharpton.
As the Trump Administration transitions back into the White House, public tours have been put on a pause.
The Office of First Lady Melania Trump has announced the tours have resumed, starting
on Tuesday, Feb. 25, as the first lady and President Donald Trump have returned to the White House.
"The President and I are excited to reopen the White House to those interested in the extraordinary story of this iconic and beautiful landmark," said Melania Trump in a press release.
Shonda Rhimes, who had been treasurer of the Kennedy Center, has resigned from the board following Donald Trump’s takeover of the arts institution.
“Please be advised that as of today, Shonda Rhimes has resigned from the board of the Kennedy Center,” a spokesperson for the writer producer said.
Rhimes had been appointed to the board by President Barack Obama and was serving as one of the officers.
More to come.
The newly constituted board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has elected President Donald Trump as its chairman.
The vote, according to the president, was unanimous.
“It is a Great Honor to be Chairman of The Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees. We will make The Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!” Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social platform.
CNN has reached out to the Kennedy Center for comment.
Trump on Monday named Ric Grenell, a longtime confidant already serving in multiple administration positions, to lead the Kennedy Center
WASHINGTON—A new list from the White House assesses the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE’s) financial impact so far at more than $3.4 billion, with substantial savings realized through cuts to the Department of Education.
The latest numbers, provided to The Epoch Times on Feb. 11, include $59 million that Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) staff sent to house illegal immigrants in New York City hotels. The White House has sought to claw back that money.
The list also includes a variety of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) contracts and grants, many in the Department of Education, as well as moves against DEI-related directives and policies deemed as out ofstep
President Trump has fired the top watchdog for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) — just as details resurfaced that the controversial agency had bankrolled the college education of an al Qaeda terrorist with ties to 9/11 hijackers.
Paul Martin, who had served as the inspector general since 2023, was informed by a White House official via email Tuesday that his termination was “effective immediately.”
Martin wasn’t given a reason for his firing, a copy of the email shows. The White House wouldn’t comment on his termination.
James Clifford Shupe, aka Elisa Rae, who became the world’s first “legally nonbinary” person in 2016, reportedly hanged himself from the parking deck of the Syracuse, New York Veterans Affairs hospital last month. He was 61 years old. Shupe is survived by a wife and a daughter. Shupe had been released from inpatient mental health treatment at the facility on 21 January after undergoing vaginoplasty just before the Christmas holiday. During a brief period of sanity in 2021, Shupe criticized ‘gender identity’ ideology, calling himself a “transvestite” while disclosing his mental condition, autogynephilia, in Substack posts that he later deleted.
Why Trump 2.0 Looks Unstoppable
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If they don't already, Democrats will soon wish that President Donald Trump had won reelection in 2020.
It's staggering what Trump has already accomplished. Border crossings have plummeted. Trump ended DEI in the federal government. He reversed a 1965 executive order that required companies with federal contracts to put affirmative-action-style quotas in place. He stopped federal funding of transgender surgeries and treatments for minors.
There isn't enough room to mention all his accomplishments in areas like energy, foreign policy and the military.
Deep weeds walkers can infer quite a bit from the Zelenskyy pablum, including the necessary photograph that accompanies the text written for him by the CIA. And without a scintilla of doubt, the CIA wrote the Twitter text. Remember, in order to understand the Ukraine dynamic, it’s always World War Reddit, which is high on optics and narrative.
Yes, once you fully accept that situation – then you realize President Trump is negotiating with the CIA, through the installed representative we call Volodymyr Zelenskyy. That’s the context.
The Department of Homeland Security recovered $59 million of taxpayer funds the Federal Emergency Management Administration sent to hotels in New York City to shelter illegal immigrants.
DHS clawed back the payment Wednesday after firing four FEMA staffers Tuesday for making the payment in subversion of agency leadership and the Trump administration’s broader agenda, as National Review previously reported.
“Secretary Noem has clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels,” DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughin posted on X Wednesday.
President Trump said Wednesday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to begin “negotiations” on ending the Ukraine war.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said they will “work together, very closely.”
The president’s comments came shortly after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told NATO it is “unrealistic” to hope for a return to the version of Ukraine’s borders that existed before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.(snip)The defense secretary addressed fears that negotiations could embolden Putin by saying that “a durable peace for Ukraine must include robust security guarantees to ensure that the war won’t begin again.”
However, he said that peace would not involve U.S. troops deployed to Ukraine.
Migrant apprehensions along the Southwest U.S. Border with Mexico fell by nearly 96 percent last week, compared to the average number of apprehensions in February 2024. According to data from the Texas Department of Public Safety, apprehensions over the previous seven days in the five Texas-based border sectors fell by nearly 89 percent from last year.
Texas DPS Spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez posted a series of daily recaps showing apprehensions in each of the five Texas-based border sectors over a seven-day period that ended on February 9. During that period, the El Paso Sector, which includes far West Texas and the New Mexico border, led the five sectors
El Salvador President Nayyib Bukele has urged the U.S. to impeach activist judges holding back the progress of the Trump agenda.
Obama judges across the country are stepping in to try and block the Trump administration from enacting his elected agenda, issuing rulings on everything from who they can deport all the way through to exposing government waste.
The satirical Babylon Bee website made light of this fact with the headline “Sauron-Appointed Judge Rules Frodo Must Return Ring To Sauron,” a reference to the iconic Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Ilhan Omar Fumes at Trump’s ‘Discriminatory’
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Rep. Ilhan Omar is predictably upset with Donald Trump’s offer to resettle persecuted White South Africans.
In one of his first executive orders after taking office, Trump halted all refugee resettlement programs implemented under the Biden administration.
However, he has since announced an exception for Afrikaners, the White descendants of Dutch colonialists in South Africa, who face vicious anti-White persecution at the hands of the ruling regime.
This persecution mainly involves land seizures but also involves general discrimination, harassment, or violence.
Attorney General Pam Bondi personally removed newly installed large framed photos from a wall in the Justice Department of former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Harris, and former Attorney General Garland, sources confirmed to Breitbart News.
The removal of the images comes after President Donald Trump’s political opponents tried to imprison him, bankrupt him, assassinate him, remove him from the ballot, and make him politically irrelevant by introducing a partisan committee to investigate January 6.
The results are in: The Democratic Party’s Bidenomics strategy produced a disastrous score of just 160,000 extra jobs for Americans during each year of President Joe Biden’s presidency. President Joe Biden’s dismal Bidenomics also created jobs for 4.7 million migrants — including almost three million illegals, according to federal data collected by the Center for Immigration Studies and reported on February 7. So Bidenomics created 7.3 migrant jobs for every job gained by an American, even as it also exploded the national debt by $8 trillion.
Today we see hair-pulling and gnashing of teeth in the press over a move made by Donald Trump. Yes, yes – again. This time it involves a decision made at the White House regarding press access, and judging by the reaction, you would think the president had gone over to the National Archives and taken a Zippo to the Bill of Rights. Sure, the reason was petty, and the action taken was snarky – yet the press reacted like a teenager whose X Box was just pitched into a smelter. This all stems from Trump’s effort to make the cartography alteration of “The Gulf of America.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi personally removed newly installed large framed photos from a wall in the Justice Department of former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Harris, and former Attorney General Garland, sources confirmed to Breitbart News.
The removal of the images comes after President Donald Trump’s political opponents tried to imprison him, bankrupt him, assassinate him, remove him from the ballot, and make him politically irrelevant by introducing a partisan committee to investigate January 6.
Nevertheless, the Republican won the 2024 election in a landslide victory in the greatest comeback in American political history.
Holdover employees from Biden’s DOJ installed the images of the Democrats just three weeks after Trump took office,
Cellphone usage has exploded in the 21st century, and schools have implemented a variety of regulations to control students being on the devices, but now, bans are sweeping the country.
The use of cellphones in schools has only grown, and for teachers, it has become a significant problem. As lawmakers push forward laws empowering teachers and school administrators to restrict cellphone use in the classroom, here is why they are being supported and where they’re being implemented.Various research has led to the push for cellphone restrictions in schools, raising the alarm about how the devices distract from students’ learning in classrooms.
A fall 2023 Pew Research survey found that 72%
President Donald Trump has Democrats on the ropes with his surging support from African Americans, prompting a poll to declare that “black men love Trump.”
In a new Cygnal survey shared with Secrets, Trump has a shocking 42% approval rating from black men, a massive edge over any past Republican president.
Brock McCleary, Cygnal vice president of polling, told Secrets, “Forty-two percent of black men approving of Trump’s job so far is no small thing. Unlike Democrats’ approach previously, this isn’t about placation or offering new attractive policies with no follow-through. His popularity and approval surges because he does the things he says he’ll do
President Trump said Wednesday that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and directed members of his national security team to "immediately" begin negotiations aimed at ending Russia's war with Ukraine.
The call between Mr. Trump and Putin is the first known conversation between the two since the president returned to the White House for a second term. It comes a day after Russia released Pennsylvania schoolteacher Marc Fogel, who was serving a 14-year sentence and was designated as wrongfully detained late last year.
"I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia," the president wrote on Truth Social
Speaking to reporters at the White House Wednesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slapped down the narrative that President Trump and Elon Musk have created a "constitutional crisis" by cutting wasteful spending through DOGE. "Many outlets in this room have been fearmongering the American people into believing there is a constitutional crisis taking place here at the White House," Leavitt said. "But in fact, the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch where district court judges in liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority.
The Worcester City Council has voted to make the central Massachusetts city a “sanctuary” for “transgender and gender diverse” individuals.
A two-hour public comment portion was chaotic and wild before Tuesday’s vote. A video of the speakers has gone viral on social media. (X Video) According to the resolution, which passed with a 9-2 vote, the city “reiterates its commitment to transgender rights and equal protections for transgender community members, and declares itself a sanctuary city and a place of safety for transgender and gender diverse people.”
“As a result of anti-transgender legislation throughout our nation, many individuals and families are relocating to states such as Massachusetts
Toxic RINO Senator Mitch McConnell on Wednesday voted ‘no’ on Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation vote.
The Senate voted 52-48 to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as the next Director of National Intelligence. McConnell was the lone RINO who voted against President Trump’s nominee.
Recall that McConnell was also one of the three Senators to vote against Pete Hegseth’s confirmation as Defense Secretary.
Shortly after the confirmation vote on Wednesday, McConnell went off on Tulsi Gabbard.
Meet Judge John McConnell Jr. He is the judge who has issued a Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting President Trump from freezing any federal funds in order to root out waste.
Fraud? No big deal. This is the bureaucrats' money to spend as they see fit.
So who is he? Well, he is the kind of judge who, before he got his sweetheart gig, donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats, is on the board of a government-funded NGO that is seeing its funding frozen, whose daughter works for the Department of Education. He was a donor to the Obama, Clinton, and Joe Biden campaigns in 2008, covering his bases.
President Trump has fired the top watchdog for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) — just as details resurfaced that the controversial agency had bankrolled the college education of an al Qaeda terrorist with ties to 9/11 hijackers.
Paul Martin, who had served as the inspector general since 2023, was informed by a White House official via email Tuesday that his termination was “effective immediately.”
Martin wasn’t given a reason for his firing, a copy of the email shows. The White House wouldn’t comment on his termination.
President Trump said Wednesday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to begin “negotiations” on ending the Ukraine war.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said they will “work together, very closely.”
The president’s comments came shortly after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told NATO it is “unrealistic” to hope for a return to the version of Ukraine’s borders that existed before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
Hegseth further said that the U.S. “does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome for a negotiated settlement.”
Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was looking into a limestone mine in Pennsylvania, where the cost-cutting organization says federal employee retirements are processed manually using a system that could take months. Musk told reporters about the mine on Tuesday during an appearance with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, as the president prepared to sign an executive order concerning the billionaire’s work leading DOGE.
"And then we're told this is actually, I think, a great anecdote, because we're told the most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000," Musk said.
"We're like, well, what? Why is that?
Florida death row inmate James Dennis Ford was so overcome with grief after his father's death, his former wife says she would find him in the cemetery at night, lying on his dad's grave and crying.
Described as severely mentally delayed in court records, Ford turned to alcohol after the loss, and eventually, murder.
Florida is set to execute Ford by lethal injection for the 1997 murders of 25-year-old Gregory and his 26-year-old wife Kimberly Malnory. If the execution moves forward, Ford will be the first inmate executed in Florida this year and the fifth in the U.S.
Ford’s lawyers have argued in court filings that the death penalty should not be applied
A 12-year-old Indiana girl who is related to Vice President JD Vance has been barred from a spot on a heart transplant list because she’s not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and the flu, according to her parents.
Adaline Deal, a distant relative of the VP by marriage through his half-siblings, was born with two rare heart conditions that her family knew would one day require a transplant, her mother Janeen Deal told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Adaline — who was adopted from China when she was 4 — was treated at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for nearly 10 years, and her parents hoped she would get the transplant there.
Defense Secretary Hegseth Tells NATO Restoration
of Pre-2014 Ukrainian Borders Is ‘Unrealistic’ replies
of Pre-2014 Ukrainian Borders Is ‘Unrealistic’ replies
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday told NATO it is “unrealistic” to hope for a return to the version of Ukraine’s borders that existed before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
Hegseth further said that the U.S. “does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome for a negotiated settlement.”
“We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine,” Hegseth said during a trip to NATO’s headquarters in Brussels. “But we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective.”
After a weeks-long effort to win over a handful of Senate Republican skeptics, Tulsi Gabbard was confirmed Wednesday morning by a 52-48 vote along party lines to serve as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence. Former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell joined every Senate Democrat in opposing her confirmation.
Wednesday morning’s confirmation vote represents a major triumph for Gabbard, who was initially considered one of Trump’s most vulnerable nominees due to her unorthodox foreign policy views.
Senator Lindsey Graham (U-DC) was asked for his thoughts and perspectives about USAID today during a press conference.
Senator Lindsey Graham is senior senator in charge of the upper chamber oversight of foreign government influence operations via the “150 account” that supports the goals and objectives of the State Dept.
Senator Lindsey Graham culminates his entire political career in one brief segment of pretending not to know.
We can officially say this moment achieves ‘peak Graham.’ The part where Graham tells former USAID Director Samantha Power to “quit texting me” is epic. WATCH:
In a network of prisons and detention camps across northeastern Syria, the Islamic State militant group has an army in waiting, and fanatical support for its brutal regime lives on.
For now the prisons and camps are guarded by the American-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led fighting force that battled alongside the U.S. military to destroy ISIS’ so-called caliphate. The Islamist group’s radical ideology was never fully defeated, and after the ouster of longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad late last year, as well as the arrival of a new administration in Washington, some are fearful that ISIS could be unleashed on the world once again.
Swamp Apocalypse
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The Trump Team fooled everybody, including me. As last week’s various lawsuits sprouted restraining orders like early buds emerging all over the willow trees in springtime, most commenters expected Trump to take a necessary pause for defensive retrenchment.Surely, we all thought, it would take Trump’s anti-bureaucrats some time to clear the judicial logjam. (Snip)
Instead, yesterday Trump tripled down, jamming the battle tank’s accelerator into overdrive and smashing ahead in a whole different direction.His new battlefield banner unfurled yesterday afternoon in the form of one executive order plus three separate press conferences, which together sent a just-relaxing Deep State enemy racing for the bunkers with its trousers still half off.
What a rock-block. An award-winning UK scientist warns that it might be too late to deflect the “city killer” asteroid that’s headed toward Earth. Deflection efforts “might not be able to stop 2024 YR4,” cautioned Dr. Robin George Andrews, a London-based volcanologist and author, in a chilling X post blowing up online. Discovered hurtling through our galaxy in December 2024, the building-sized space rock is reportedly at the top of NASA’s watch list when it comes to deep space dangers, boasting a 1-in-43 chance of striking Earth in 2032.
The Democrats’ reaction to the Department of Government Efficiency’s necessary mission might seem a bit excessive. But it is understandable. Their taxpayer-funded slush fund has been exposed.
Rather than joining with Elon Musk, who is leading DOGE to root out federal waste and fraud, and improve the transparency of the murky federal leviathan, the Democrats are attacking him. At a rally a week ago outside the Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley, chanted “Elon Musk must go” along with a rabble that seems eager to do harm to the South African billionaire.
Google’s online and mobile calendars are no longer including references to Black History Month, Women’s History Month and LGBTQ+ holidays, among other events. The world’s biggest search engine previously marked the beginning of Black History Month in February and Pride Month in June, but the events do not appear for 2025. The removal of the holidays was first reported by the Verge last week. A Google spokesperson, Madison Cushman Veld, provided the Guardian with a statement that said the listed holidays were not “sustainable” for their model.
Make the DOGE revolution stick: Let Musk
and taxpayers reveal what’s really in
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and taxpayers reveal what’s really in
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A federal judge’s decision to bar Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from reviewing the Treasury Department’s payment system is most likely a temporary setback — but it illustrates the urgent need to secure a permanent win for transparency.
Progressives are panicking because their 100-year, largely successful assault on American constitutional government is in danger of being reversed.
Thanks to Musk’s wise plan to follow the money, he has a historic opportunity to mount a coup — not on behalf of himself or President Trump, but for We the People.
But to make the revolution stick, he’ll have to make transparency a permanent feature of our federal government.
Should we call this Project X-Files? This event regarding the JFK files has been years in the making. It’s been a generations-long wait for those interested in UFOs. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) announced that she had been tasked by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight Committee, to lead a task force aimed at declassifying top federal secrets, from COVID origins to RFK's assassination to the 9/11 files to documents on Jeffrey Epstein—all will be revealed (via Fox News): (X)
STUTTGART, Germany — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday began his first international trip overseas spending some quality time with American troops stationed in Germany early in the morning for some physical training — or PT, in military-speak.
Side-by-side with Green Berets from the 10th Special Forces Group, the 44-year-old defense secretary did the “HERO workout” — a series of exercises honoring those who have fallen in the line of duty. Hegseth did the workout despite arriving to Germany around 2 a.m. that morning and only getting a few hours sleep. Asked why it was important for him to do soo, he said it was about hearing from the troops directly.
Who Judges The Judges?
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Let us start by saying that the US Constitution is very clear on the role of judges. A judge is not there to assume the powers of the executive. The US system is designed with a separation of the powers which is there to prevent tyranny and arbitrary and unaccountable rule.
Separation of powers is designed to prevent a Presidential tyranny. But it’s also designed to prevent a judicial tyranny, or an administrative or a bureaucratic tyranny. It exists so that nobody can be in the position of making up the rules as they go along and that nobody is drafting the law, enforcing the law, judging the law all
President Trump, according to reports, wants to go to Beijing in his first hundred days and reach a bargain with China. Unfortunately, an enduring accommodation with the Chinese regime is not possible.
China is not done killing with disease.
Driven by these beliefs [replacing the Westphalian order of sovereign states with the Chinese imperial-era system], the Chinese regime has always thought it had the right to do whatever it wanted to others.
Try as Americans might, they will never have amicable relations with China as long as it is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. There can be only one survivor, either the People's Republic
Lightning in a Bottle: VP JD Vance Exhorts
AI Action Summit to Focus on Opportunity,
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AI Action Summit to Focus on Opportunity,
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Vice President JD Vance is overseas this week, traveling first to Paris, France, to attend the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, then on to Munich, Germany, for the Security Conference. On Tuesday, he addressed the Summit, delivering remarks on the United States' vision for AI and the opportunity it presents. Vance's speech was relatively brief — just over 15 minutes — but it set out that vision clearly and pointedly, calling on our European allies, in particular, to step back from over-regulation and censorship and be wary of adversarial regimes.
We've been seeing a pretty amazing move to make over the government over the last three weeks since President Donald Trump has taken office.[Snip] Now, there's a follow-up action in Congress with the House Oversight Committee naming Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) to head the new "Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets." Luna announced that they would be looking into UFOs, the Jeffrey Epstein client list, JFK, RFK, and MLK, as well as the origins of COVID-19 and the 9/11 files.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that House Republicans expect to move forward on a budget plan later this week that lays a foundation for approving President Trump's agenda, though a budget resolution has yet to be released. "We'll be rolling out the details of that probably by tonight," Johnson said Tuesday, adding that "we are right on the schedule that we need to be on."
Leaders in Congress have been pursuing a massive legislative package under the budget reconciliation process that would enact Mr. Trump's agenda, including resources to bolster border security, extend some of the 2017 tax cuts, incentivize domestic manufacturing and invest in American energy,
White House bars AP reporter from Oval
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Office because of AP style policy on ‘Gulf
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NEW YORK — The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.
The reporter, whom the AP would not identify, tried to enter the White House event as usual Tuesday afternoon and was turned away. Later, a second AP reporter was barred from a late-evening event in the White House Diplomatic Room.
The highly unusual ban, which Trump administration officials had threatened earlier Tuesday unless the AP changed the style on the Gulf, could have constitutional free-speech implications.
Joe Rogan Explains How Badly the Powers
That Be Messed Up When It Comes to Elon
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That Be Messed Up When It Comes to Elon
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The Democrats' attacks on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk over the work of DOGE have been desperate and ridiculous.
They pushed this "Musk is unelected" thing, ignoring that DOGE is part of the Executive Office of the President, so yes, he's not just randomly looking through the finances. Plus, virtually everyone operating in the government, including the bureaucrats the Democrats don't want us to review, are "unelected." What's happening here is, maybe for the first time ever, you have people who care looking line by line through expenditures, who believe that there shouldn't be an unelected bureaucracy and that the American people should be listened to.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” U.S. Hostage Envoy Adam Boehler stated that there will be another detained American coming home on Wednesday, but wouldn’t elaborate on who it was or which country they were being released from.
Boehler said, [relevant remarks begin around 6:00] “I just want to note, this is a unique circumstance that Secretary Rubio is saying. This is a unilateral move. It follows unilateral moves by Venezuela, other countries. We have another American coming in tomorrow. And so, this is — the president has made this a top priority. And he’s got the A team on it. He’s got Steve Witkoff on it.
Who is Harry to lecture anyone on ‘weak moral character’? [Snip] He made the thinly-veiled criticism about ‘weak moral character’ in front of an audience of 40,000 at the opening of the Invictus Games, [Snip] Insiders at the Games were reportedly angry and upset, complaining the Duke and Duchess of Sussex ‘continuously insert themselves into the spotlight’ at the Games. [Snip] We had a fawning Meghan making doe eyes while looking up at him, clutching his arm and grabbing his face for a very public kiss. No photo-op went unmissed. Megs was determined that she and their love affair would take centre-stage,...
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R–Fla.), the head of a new congressional task force aimed at exposing “federal secrets,” said Tuesday that she believes “two shooters” were involved in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
The task force — which will also probe pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s client list — intends to build on the Trump administration’s efforts to declassify records related to the assassinations of JFK, former New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and will start with a “thorough investigation” of JFK’s November 1963 shooting death in Dallas, Texas.
“Based on what I’ve been seeing so far, the initial hearing
President Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk at an Oval Office event. You know this was going to cause a meltdown. The event was marked by the president directing government agencies to cooperate with the Department of Government Efficiency, helmed by Elon Musk at the president's direction. It was quite an event, and Musk seemed ready to spar with the media, which attacked him as an Americanized Rasputin figure. The Telsa founder was short and sweet regarding questions about a shadow presidency, adding that the people voted for this; they want DOGE to audit the gravy train built by the political class and dismantle it.
Pennsylvania teacher Marc Fogel called President Trump “a hero” Tuesday in his first remarks since the commander in chief’s administration secured his release from a Russian prison.
“I want you to know that I am not a hero in this at all. And President Trump is a hero,” Fogel said after meeting Trump at the White House.
(Photo) “These men that came from the diplomatic service are heroes,” Fogel continued. “The senators and representatives that passed legislation in my honor to get me home are the heroes.” “I am in awe of what they all did.” Trump, 78, greeted Fogel outside the White House on a snowy night in Washington
Paul Martin, the inspector general at the USAID was fired on Tuesday just one day after his office released a report blasting the Trump Administration for working to gut the agency, according to CNN.
Martin, a Biden holdover, was terminated effective immediately.
NBC News also confirmed the firing.
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Inspector General of the United States Agency for International Development is terminated, effective immediately,” Trent Morse, deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, said to Paul Martin in an email obtained by NBC News. “Thank you for your service.”
The Department of Education (DOE) slashed 29 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training grants totaling $101 million as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) mission to eliminate wasteful spending within the federal government.
DOGE, which is led by Elon Musk, announced the DOE’s elimination of the DEI training grants along with the termination of nearly $1 billion in contracts.One of the 29 DEI training grants sought to “help students understand/interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression, and help students recognize areas of privilege and power on an individual and collective basis,” according to DOGE. (X)