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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announced Friday that he is stepping aside in his bid for another term as leader. The move follows months of escalating criticism from MAGA conservatives within his party, who have sought to remove him from power and reshape the House’s leadership. Phelan, who claimed he had the votes to fend off a challenge from former ally Rep. David Cook, withdrew just a day before the GOP caucus was set to choose its speaker nominee regardless. Infamously, Phelan assisted the failed plot to impeach and remove the Lone Star State’s America First Attorney General, Ken Paxton.

The Department of Justice was obliged to open an internal investigation into Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office in June of 2023 because of allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, but the investigation went nowhere, and now the House Judiciary Committee is demanding answers. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday sent a letter to Jeffrey Ragsdale, Counsel for the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility expressing concern about OPR’s “refusal to take prompt investigative steps,” and urging him to preserve all records related to its highly suspect “investigation.” After stonewalling the committee for months, OPR officials finally briefed the committee on the investigation...

Media mouth-breathers are shocked that Dementia Joe Biden would pardon his son for eleven years’ worth of crimes against the United States. He said he would do no such thing! He gave us his word — as a Biden! Yeah, about that last bit — I don’t know exactly when Child-Sniffing Joe started referencing his family name as a way to assure the public that his promises are always kept, but the word “Biden” has been synonymous with corruption at least since the Delaware Dimwit first entered politics a half-century ago. Personally, I think Liar Joe watched too much Game...

On Saturday night, Donald Trump announced he intends to appoint Kash Patel as director of the FBI.The news sparked an immediate frenzy from establishment figures across media and politics. Legal and national security “experts” were deployed to the Sunday morning news shows to characterize the move as evidence that Trump intends to politicize the FBI and use it as a weapon against his many political opponents.The political establishment’s concerns about what a Trump FBI could do mirror a lot of what we’ve heard from the right in recent years as they found themselves in the Bureau’s crosshairs.But almost all of...

Donald Trump may have mastered the art of the deal once again, with rumors he will replace Pete Hegseth with Ron DeSantis as his pick to head Defense in exchange for Trump's daughter-in-law Lara getting Florida's open Senate seat. The Florida governor and Trump have reportedly had one-on-one discussions about the move. A GOP source told The Bulwark: 'These discussions are real. It's serious. I can't say it's definitely going to happen, but the governor is receptive and Trump is serious, too.'

Joe Biden’s senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions. Biden’s aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel has publicly vowed to pursue Trump’s critics. The White...

BREAKING: @EPA Advisor Admits ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump is Funneling Billions to Climate Organizations, “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic” “It was an insurance policy against Trump winning.” “Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump Administration] come in ... it’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge.”

President Joe Biden’s selection to command the US Army in Europe and Africa was quietly promoted to full general Monday after a delay that might have had something to do with his role in the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Lieut-Gen. Christopher Donahue was the commander of the 82nd Airborne when US forces left Afghanistan and also left billions of dollars of military hardware to the Taliban. The Senate agreed to his promotion after at least one of its members finally dropped his reservations about it, Politico reported. Donahue's file was not part of a bundle of...

THORNTON TOWNSHIP, Ill. (WLS) -- The decision was made within minutes, with Thornton Township supervisor Tiffany Henyard receiving a blow to her reelection efforts on Tuesday night. A packed gym room at the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District erupted in cheers as the Democratic Party Caucus for Thornton Township decided to deny embattled current Township Supervisor Henyard's name from being on the ballot in April. Illinois State Sen. Napoleon Harris is now nominated as the Democratic challenger for that position. "So, to hear the people, tonight - you heard them express how wonderful it was to finally, finally get rid of her,"...

What will be Joe Biden's legacy as President? Vice President, and Senator?

Several top Veterans Affairs officials in Tennessee resigned as an internal investigation and a broader congressional probe into alleged sexual misconduct intensified, Breitbart News has learned. Congressional investigators discovered that one man who resigned, whose name they would not tell Breitbart News but sources familiar say was a bargaining unit biomedical employee, had dozens of sexual relationships with women who worked at the Mountain Home VA medical center in Tennessee. In fact, the congressional investigators told Breitbart News this one man slept with no fewer than 32 different women who worked there—and the man and several of the women bragged...

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley on Tuesday broke down how Hunter Biden could face “additional charges” that would not be protected by President Joe Biden’s pardon. Biden issued a “full and unconditional” pardon for his son on Sunday regarding any crime he is charged with or may have committed from Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 1, 2024, including any potential charges regarding an alleged influence peddling scheme during his time on a now-defunct Ukrainian gas company’s board. Turley said on “Fox & Friends” that Hunter could potentially face charges if he is called to testify before Congress about...

BREAKING: A judge in Georgia just ordered Fani Willis to release all communications she had with Jack Smith and the January 6th Committee to plot the RICO case against President Trump. The court also declared that she violated Georgia's Open Records Law. "The Court also hereby ORDERS Defendant to conduct a diligent search of her records for responsive materials within five business days of the entry of this Order. Within that same five day period, Defendant is ORDERED to provide Plaintiff with copies of all responsive records that are not legally exempted or excepted from disclosure." Big shout-out to -...

The reported nomination of Kash Patel means chickens are coming home to roost for the FBI, which needs to be destroyed as a political entity. From CNN’s “Trump announces he intends to replace current FBI director with loyalist Kash Patel”: Even among Trump loyalists, Patel is widely viewed as a controversial figure and relentless self-promoter whose value to the president-elect largely derives from a shared disdain for the so-called deep state… Patel rose to prominence within Trump’s orbit in 2018, when he served as an aide to Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee… Patel played...

Hunter Biden’s Pardon Is All About Protecting Joe Biden, Not His SonBy pardoning his son for more than a decade of potential crimes, the president is protecting himself above all.President Joe Biden didn’t pardon Hunter because he’s a loving father who thinks his drug addict son was treated unfairly by the Justice Department. He pardoned Hunter to help cover up his own crimes, just as he’ll likely pardon other members of his family before he leaves office in January. He’s trying to protect himself, and this is one of the only ways he has left to do it.After all, President...

U.S. Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) is facing an unfortunate reminder from the internet about his past condemnations about President-elect Donald Trump’s musings that he would pardon members of his family, a situation that took on new life Monday following President Joe Biden’s blanket pardoning of his son Hunter Biden. On X, users recirculated a clip from 2018 showing Schiff telling former CNN host Don Lemon that Trump, if he were to pardon one of his sons while under investigation, could be found guilty of obstruction of justice. “In the event that the president pardons anyone in an investigation in which...

In addition, Joe may have been too smart for his own good and set a terrible trap for himself and his son. Many people are angry that because Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden, who engaged in a seemingly endless laundry list of manifestly illegal activity (illicit drugs, prostitution, lying on a gun application, laundering money to hide it from the IRS, underpaying his taxes, etc.), means Hunter will walk on all current and future federal convictions and charges. However, Anony Mee believes that justice may yet come for Hunter. The icing on the cake is that Joe Biden may have...

When a new President comes into office, there is quite properly a changing of the guard. The people have voted for new policies. The norm is that all the Cabinet Secretaries, and all other Cabinet-level officials (like the heads of EPA, NSA and NASA, and the UN Ambassador) leave office, to be replaced by appointees of the new guy. But there are exceptions. The two most notable are the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the Director of the FBI. (See also, the Commissioners of the so-called “independent” agencies, like the FTC, SEC, CFTC, etc., etc., a more complex situation...

A presidential pardon notwithstanding, the Biden family may yet face accountability from Congress and the executive branch, government watchdog groups say. In fact, President Joe Biden’s blanket pardon of son Hunter Biden could provide more leverage for Congress to investigate other Biden family members, said Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, a conservative legal group. “President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter means that Hunter can no longer invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination,” Davis, Republicans’ former chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told The Daily Signal in a telephone interview Monday. Hunter Biden...

First lady Jill Biden backed President Biden's decision to pardon Hunter Biden from criminal charges during a holiday press conference with National Guard members and their families at the White House on Monday. "Of course I support the pardon of my son," Jill responded to a reporter's shouted question following her remarks. Hunter is the stepson of Jill Biden. The White House unveiled its Christmas decorations to the media ahead of the holiday season, with this year's theme, "A Season of Peace and Light," announced by Jill Biden in a statement Monday. "As we celebrate our final holiday season here...