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Just in: The father of 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom says her death is all but certain after she was targeted by a jihadist Afghan "refugee" "She has a mortal wound. It's not going to be a recovery."

We're learning more about the suspect in the terrorist attack that took place earlier in Washington, D.C., that sent two members of the West Virginia National Guard to the hospital, where they are listed as being in critical condition.The attack, which investigators are describing as a targeted ambush, reportedly took place just blocks from the White House, around 2:15 pm Eastern time.As we previously reported, D.C. Metro Police Department Executive Assistant Chief Jeff Carroll told reporters during a D.C. presser that "At approximately 2:15 this afternoon, members of the National Guard were on high visibility patrols in the area of...

Mayorkas claims repeatedly for almost three minutes that all the Afghans were vetted before being brought to America. At the 2:45 mark he is reminded that he is under oath and he then goes from claiming that they were all vetted to saying that he has no idea if any were vetted.Grok Summary of AI-Generated Video TranscriptIn a Senate hearing, a senator questioned Alejandro Mayorkas about the vetting process during the 2021 Afghanistan evacuation. The senator repeatedly asked how many of the evacuees were vetted and screened by U.S. officials before boarding planes (specifically C-17s) to the United States. Mayorkas...

Former President George W. Bush on Monday urged President Joe Biden to “cut the red tape” and allow for the swift evacuation of Afghan refugees following the Taliban’s takeover of the country. Responding to the fall of Afghanistan’s US-backed government, Bush said the Afghans “at the greatest risk are the same ones who have been on the forefront of progress inside their nation.” The costly US-led war in Afghanistan began just shy of 20 years ago after the 9/11 attack while Bush was president. Bush, in his Monday statement, noted Biden has promised to evacuate the Afghans who assisted Americans...

President Donald Trump says the alleged shooter of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., entered the United States from Afghanistan in 2021 and asks for Americans to pray for the victims.

WASHINGTON — President Trump hosted the annual turkey pardon at the White House Tuesday — joking that he was also re-pardoning last year’s birds that only got an “autopen” reprieve and saying he considered naming this year’s gobblers “Chuck and Nancy.” Former President Joe Biden “used an autopen for last year’s turkey pardons,” the president joked, calling them “totally invalid,” a contention he’s made of the Democrat’s late-term grants so often that an autopen portrait took the place of Biden’s picture in the White House photo gallery. “The turkeys known as Peach and Blossom last year have been located and...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a staunch pro-life advocate known for leading investigations into the Biden administration’s aggressive imprisonment of peaceful pro-life advocates, revealed Thursday that former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department secretly subpoenaed his phone records over a 28-month period. The subpoena, part of the Justice Department’s Arctic Frost investigation, targeted Jordan’s “call detail records” from Verizon, covering calls, text messages, voicemails and location data dating back to January 1, 2020. The federal grand jury request was issued on April 25, 2022, and was accompanied by a nondisclosure order signed by Magistrate Judge David A. Baker that barred...

Former Democratic Senator Joe Manchin called out the Biden administration, arguing their mishandling of border security led to President Trump's return to the White House.

Republican Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Ted Cruz of Texas introduced legislation on Friday to recover savings from former President Joe Biden’s rural broadband initiative. The $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program has not started a single project since the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) was signed in 2021 by Biden, drawing Ernst’s attention in a November 2024 letter to former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Tesla CEO Elon Musk outlining up to $2 trillion in savings. Ernst, who chairs the Senate DOGE Caucus, introduced the Recovering Excess Communications Appropriations while Protecting Telecommunications Upgrades, Reinvestment, and...

Alright guys, I need some help. What the heck is Schumer trying to say here when asked why he didn't care about Epstein while Biden was in office? REPORTER: "Why wouldn't [the Epstein files] have been released the last four years when President Biden was in office?"CHUCK SCHUMER (MORON): "That's the question every American is asking... What the hell is he hiding!?"So true! pic.twitter.com/aA6jHXIe2k— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 17, 2025That's the question every American is asking ... What the hell is he hiding! Biden sitting at home, seeing Schumer accuse him of hiding the Epstein list: Did Schumer think...

Pseudo economics savant Paul Krugman just can’t give up trying to sell the snake oil of Bidenomics as being the unsung hero of the economy that the supposedly dumb plebeians just couldn’t appreciate. Seriously, bro. Just take the “L” and move on. Krugman plastered another piece of rambling gobbledygook on his Substack page November 16 trying to draw parallels between the Trump and Biden economies. Unlike Trump, snooted Krugman, there was a “surprisingly strong case for Bidenomics.” Oh, but wait! He took it a step further: He referred to the inflationary disaster President Joe Biden inflicted on the economy with...

A million times worse than Watergate. Arctic Frost was the worst abuse of power by a presidential administration in the last 75 years. It easily exceeded not only Watergate, but even the Obama era which had pioneered the practice of spying on opposing members of Congress under the guise of conducting counterintelligence operations, first against Israel and then Russia, climaxing in ‘Russiagate’. The Biden administration discarded the ‘foreign’ pretext and began treating political opponents as ‘threats to democracy’ and the Jack Smith witch hunt not only targeted President Trump, but cast a net so wide that its Arctic Frost campaign...

Members of the Biden White House and leaders at the Biden-era Justice Department and FBI were all involved in efforts linked to the launch of the Arctic Frost investigation which targeted then-former President Donald Trump and MAGA World over the events surrounding January 6, 2021. Recently-declassified revelations related to the FBI’s “Arctic Frost” investigation chronicle the 2022 lawfare assault against then-former President Donald Trump and MAGA world, as criminal inquiries — which would soon lead to criminal charges — spun into high gear as Trump leaned toward running for president again. New evidence shows that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, then-Deputy...

The data recently obtain by CIS as part of a lengthy and ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation demonstrated that HHS lost contact with 112,872 UACs after 30 days of being released to sponsors, between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2023, and the UACs safety or whereabouts could not be determined.

President Trump should immediately pardon every person indicted by the partisan Democrat prosecutors doing the bidding of the Biden DOJ.The release last week by the U.S. House and U.S. Senate Judiciary Committees of more than 2,000 pages of FBI documents reveals the enormity of the Biden administration’s determination to persecute and prosecute President Donald Trump, his political allies and supporters, the Republican Party, and literally hundreds of conservative political operatives, leaders, organizations, and even media entities. The Biden administration presided over an unimaginably aggressive political witch hunt that has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and burdened thousands of...

When the White House included a gilt-framed image of an autopen in the new Presidential Walk of Fame installed outside the West Wing last month, it was more than just another epic troll by President Trump of his predecessor.The stark image on the wall among presidential portraits from George Washington to Donald Trump encapsulates Joe Biden’s failed presidency. It wasn’t just the opportunity cost of a commander in chief who was asleep at the wheel but the sum total of catastrophic judgments over four years of a man whose manifest flaws were only magnified by his cognitive decline.Even though everyone...

And now for the stupidest headline of the week (Of course it’s from Politico). “House GOP concludes investigation into Biden’s alleged mental decline.” Alleged? There’s nothing alleged about President Joe Biden’s mental decline. His own party got rid of him and replaced him with an idiot thanks to his mental decline. “Alleged” is necessary for speculative things. There was nothing speculative about Biden’s disastrous time in office. We saw with our own eyes. Cover-up media outlets like Politico spent four years telling us not to believe our eyes, up until George Clooney wrote an op-ed in the New York Times....

Biden preemptively protected a variety of people on Trump’s enemies list with pardons. Republicans want to strip them of those protections. As Republicans renew their offensive against Joe Biden, it’s not unreasonable to wonder about the underlying point of their partisan crusade. The former Democratic president won’t seek elected office again; he can’t be impeached; and even if GOP officials were eventually to concoct something damaging, he can’t be criminally charged. So why bother investing so much time, energy and resources into smearing him? What does the Republican Party hope to gain?The answer is increasingly obvious.During a recent appearance on...

[H/T Grey_Whiskers]On X.com Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell Alright, kids. Here it is. Released today by the FBI, nearly 200 pages of formerly classified FBI documents, posted today on the House Judiciary Committee website and proves that the "state law cases" with the fake criminal charges against Pres Trump, Trump lawyers, Trump electors...and supporters were NOT state initiated AT ALL. These were ALL proxies for the feds...the BIDEN feds.... The FBI with the blessing of the Biden DOJ and no doubt the Biden White House initiated and conducted the entire investigation of hundreds and hundreds of RNC, Trump campaign employees, consultants, lawyers,...

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is demanding the Department of Justice (DOJ) conduct a "comprehensive" investigation into former President Joe Biden’s autopen use. The committee’s GOP majority released a 100-page report on Tuesday morning detailing findings from its months-long probe into Biden’s White House, specifically whether his inner circle covered up signs of mental decline in the ex-president, and if that alleged cover-up extended to executive actions signed via autopen without Biden’s full awareness. "Faced with the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden, White House aides — at the direction of the inner circle — hid the truth...