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The FBI botched its investigation of the 2017 congressional baseball shooting — downplaying the gunman’s anti-GOP motives*** The House Judiciary Committee, *** released the scathing, unclassified report on its findings Tuesday after combing through roughly 3,000 case file documents it was given last month on the attack that wounded six, including current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), and led to the death of gunman James T. Hodgkinson. “This is the same FBI that can’t tell us who planted the pipe bomb [on Jan. 6, 2021], who can’t tell us who leaked the Dobbs opinion and who can tell us...

A group of Republican senators voted along with Democrats on Wednesday for a resolution to undo President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on Canadian imports, dealing an embarrassing blow to Trump. The resolution expresses the sense of the Senate and doesn’t have the force of law, but its 51-48 passage is unwelcome news for the president on the very day he announced a host of new tariffs.

In Feb 2021, then DC chief judge Beryl Howell created a special framework for judges to use in determining pre trial detention for J6ers—meaning keep them behind bars awaiting trial.. What became known as the “Chrestman factors” turned due process and standard bail rules on their head. Even nonviolent J6ers charged with conspiracy or obstruction with no criminal record could be held in a federal prison—often hauled cross country to the DC gulag—because as part of the “mob that attacked the Capitol,” they represented a danger to their community. A J6er’s release was not considered on a case by case...

If you ever doubted that Washington’s corrupt cartel of Democratic law firms, judges, NGOs, and deep-state bureaucrats is a machine designed to thwart the Trump administration, just watch as judge after judge blocks the president’s ability to keep his campaign promises. It may not be brown paper bags changing hands, but this lawfare that defies the people’s will is every bit as corrupt. It will be up to the Supreme Court to define the limits of presidential authority, but Chief Justice John Roberts’ preemptive scolding of Trump for musing about judicial impeachment doesn’t bode well for the president. Trump won...

In an era when most Americans struggle to understand why their $50 political donations barely make a dent, a sprawling network of tax-exempt organizations has built a political Death Star hiding in plain sight. Arabella Advisors, through its nonprofit subsidiaries, has constructed the most powerful political machine in American history—operating with billions in "dark money" while exploiting the very tax code everyday citizens fund. The following are 20 revelations exposing not just the scale of this operation, but the breathtaking cynicism with which it manipulates public opinion, election outcomes, and policy decisions while masquerading as charitable work. 1. Billions in...

Chris Josephs runs Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker on X and has all the details. (0:00) The Man Behind the Famous X Account, Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker (2:53) The Senator Scandal That Started It All (11:47) How Is Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth So High? (25:10) How Pelosi Outperforms Professional Stock Traders (31:12) Dan Crenshaw Is Out of Control (35:36) How Corrupt Politicians Rigged the System for Their Own Benefit (48:18) Why Every Effort to Ban Insider Trading Has Failed (55:26) Politicians That Own War Stocks and Push for War (1:07:18) Why Is Jim Cramer So Horrible at His Job? (1:12:02) Stop...

EXCLUSIVE: @GrossmanHannah and I [e.g., Christopher Rufo] have obtained logs from the NSA’s secret transgender sex chatroom, in which NSA, CIA, and DIA employees discuss genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs—all on government time. This is insane. 🧵 The NSA maintains a chat system for the "intelligence community" called Intelink. The servers are supposed to be used for government work, but gender activists have hijacked at least two channels—LBTQA and IC_Pride_TWG—to discuss fetishes, kink, and sex, all legitimized as "DEI." One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves surgically removing the penis and turning...

60 Minutes was caught in another completely fabricated report on Sunday night. Their lies are becoming sloppy. This time 60 Minutes aired a segment about a sad young mother Kristina Drye who was fired from USAID in Washington DC this month. But this was a complete lie. Kristina Drye does not work for USAID. She works for XLA and Jefferson Partners, a company that provides speechwriting services for USAID. Kari Lake has more. Kristina Drye was Samantha Power’s speechwriter – the former head of USAID! This entire segment was bullsh*t Kristina Drye was Samantha Power’s speech writer. Samantha Power was...

As of 2025, Chelsea Clinton’s net worth is $70 million. She is the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Hillary. Chelsea Inherited the majority of her wealth through a trust fund, which includes couple of expensive properties in Maui and millions in stock holdings. Chelsea Clinton receives an annually-recurring funding from USAID, allocated by Obama for her Foundation, which provides afternoon meals to children in Africa, India, and Bangladesh. However, as of today, the reported number of meals served stands at 11,886, implying an astonishing cost of $1,410 per meal.(snip) After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, USAID allocated more...

Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “all stakeholder engagement,” effectively stopping the agency’s operations, in an email from the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, on Saturday evening. Mr. Vought, who was confirmed this week to lead the Office of Management and Budget, was on Friday named acting director of the consumer protection bureau, the federal government’s financial industry watchdog. In his email to staff on Saturday, he reaffirmed earlier instructions from the previous acting director, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who ordered last week that...

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that President Donald Trump was attempting to seize control of power for “corrupt purposes.” Partial transcript as follows: RADDATZ: You have used incredibly strong language. A Constitutional crisis. Grossly unconstitutional. Pretty alarming language. MURPHY: Yes, listen, I think this is the most serious Constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly, since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes. The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends, he can punish...

Here is the extracted text from the article: --- Talked to a friend who has connections within the Democratic Party and he said the level of panic over Trump and Elon shutting down USAID is unlike anything he’s ever seen. By following the money DOGE has struck a killing blow to the heart of the Democrat deep state machine. Direct quote: “This is worse than 9/11 for Democrats. USAID is the primary vessel they use to achieve their political agenda. USAID is and always has been the primary source of funding for their influence peddling schemes and for their indirect...

The largest and most bloated bureaucracy in the history of the world has been thrown into a state of complete and utter chaos. I have no idea how all of this is going to end, but it sure is entertaining to watch. President Trump is firing people left and right, and Elon Musk is storming around Washington D.C. like a bull in a china shop. I think that the words “shock and awe” don’t even begin to describe what we are witnessing. Nobody has ever dared to go into these ultra-powerful government agencies and start turning the tables over. When...

Elon Musk, who is heading Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal government, has said they are working to shut down the foreign aid agency USAid, in a social media discussion on X early on Monday. The conversation, which included former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Republican senator Joni Ernst and Mike Lee, began with Musk saying they were working to shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAid). “It’s beyond repair,” Musk said, adding that Trump agreed it should be shut down. On Sunday, Reuters reported the Trump administration removed two top security officials at USAid...

The more we learn about John Brennan and the other swamp creatures, aka the 50 intelligence agents who signed off on the Hunter Biden laptop letter, the more we understand why and support Trump removing their security clearance. For years, we felt as if we were the crazies talking about the deep state and how they were working to control our elections but now that everything is out in the open, we're finding that perhaps we weren't so crazy after all. Especially when you see leaked emails like this one where Brennan admits everything they were doing was to help...

Biden’s handlers did exactly what many expected—they issued blanket pardons for some of the swamp’s most corrupt and evil creatures, all under the guise of protection from revenge. But there’s an interesting twist to these desperate Deep State pardons that has a lot of people talking. ... Deep State is playing their usual game, pretending to protect innocent so-called “democracy warriors” from Trump’s supposed political revenge. But let’s call it what it really is: the powerful protecting their dutiful little flunkies. ... Biden issues 11th hour pardons of globalist crime syndicate members! The DEEP STATE is running scared! ... These...

VIDEOKaren Bass froze up as if in a catatonic state when a REAL reporter started asking her questions about her utter failure to take measures to prevent or at least control the disastrous outbreak of wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Her catatonic state seemed rather familiar and if you had ever watched the "Andromeda Strain" you would remember why. It was very similar to the scientist in that film who froze up due to flashing red lights. In the case of Karen Bass, those red lights on her eyeglasses are reflections of the massive fires she could not control...

January 20 will see the conclusion of the most extraordinary episode in the history of the American presidency. For the last four years, the supposed president, Joe Biden, has been the man who wasn’t there. Bloody and historic events — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ pogrom in Israel and the subsequent five-cornered Israel-Iran war — have shaken the world, yet Biden wasn’t there. Millions of non-Americans of every description, including terrorists, criminals, and members of the Cuban Communist Party, have swarmed over the Mexican border and flooded into our urban centers, costing billions of taxpayer dollars to support — and...

“Extraordinary measures” will be needed to keep the US from defaulting on its obligations if the nation’s debt ceiling isn’t raised or suspended by mid-January, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress Friday. Yellen, in a letter to House and Senate leaders, noted that the nation’s debt ceiling — the total amount of money the federal government is authorized to borrow to pay for obligations such as Social Security and Medicare benefits — was suspended in June 2023 but will once again be in effect on Jan. 1. ***. “Treasury currently expects to reach the new limit between January 14 and...

The NYPD’s highest-paid employee — who shoveled in more than $400,000 last year — filed for retirement this week amid an internal affairs probe into her astronomical overtime, The Post has learned. Lt. Quathisha Epps will retire just shy of 20 years with the department, sources said — an early exit that will impact her pension and cost her a $12,000-a-year supplement for cops who reach the two-decade mark. Leaving money on the table is seemingly uncharacteristic for Epps, who raised eyebrows by pulling in roughly $204,000 in overtime last year for her administrative job in NYPD Chief of Department...