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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) backs President Donald Trump on tariffs, he made clear during an appearance at an Axios News Shapers event this week. Trump has the backing of Johnson, who said according to Axios that the tariffs “are working.” “I think the executive has a broad array of authority that’s been recognized over the years,” Johnson said. “If it gets close to where the imbalance is there, then we would step in.” However, if it came to that, Johnson said the first line of defense would be calling Trump directly. “But I think the first protocol, to be...

On Friday, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said on CNN’s “News Central” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz should not be in government after using Signal for a chat among senior national security officials. Swalwell said, “I want to know, are they going to continue to use this type of chat environment for future operations? No one has answered that. and every member of Congress, at least on our side, should ask every intelligence official and every military official when they appear under oath before Congress. Are you using signal chat? And by the way, DOGE...

WASHINGTON – In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) made public legally protected whistleblower disclosures showing the FBI, as part of its Arctic Frost investigation, acquired the government cell phones of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, among other government officials. FBI agents used taxpayer dollars to crisscross the country and conduct dozens of interviews in support of the political probe. The unclassified FBI records convey the alarming scope and...

Barack and Michelle Obama are quietly carving up their $70 million empire and edging closer to confessing that their 32-year marriage is kaput, Knewz.com can reveal – with their sensational split set to be the first-ever post-White House divorce between a former president and first lady. Hard-nosed lawyers and mediators for the former Democratic Party power couple are attempting to come to terms and divvy up their dollars and assets before the estranged spouses come clean with the American people later this year, said sources. "They want to have everything ironed out in advance," an insider with knowledge of the...

House Republicans are fuming at Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) handling of an end-of-year measure to extend government funding until March, saying it is more like a sprawling omnibus — which they abhor — than a simple temporary funding measure. The continuing resolution (CR), which will keep government funding at current levels through March 14, is also set to include $100.4 billion in disaster aid for those affected by hurricanes earlier this year and $10 billion in economic assistance for farmers, lawmakers said, among other provisions. “It’s not a CR, which is a continuation of the budget. It’s turning into an...

Michelle Obama has shared insight into how she and her husband Barack Obama overcome their marriage problems, while also laying bare continuous body image issues. While the former first lady, 60, and ex-president, 63, celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary in October, it took them 'a lot of practice' to learn how they can conquer their disagreements. Getting candid about how they deal with conflict in her new book, Overcoming: A Workbook, Michelle admitted that she runs a 'lot hotter' than her husband does and that it takes her significantly more time to be ready to unpack an argument. 'My brain...

With Republicans taking back control of the Senate and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell finally stepping down, three Senators have emerged as possible Majority Leaders. Two of them are RINOs—John Thune and John Cornyn—while Rick Scott may not have the support to prevent either “McConnell 2.0” from ascending. Senator Mike Lee has a plan. Well, it’s really just a theory combined with a wish, but it has a lot of conservatives wanting to sprinkle any fairy dust they can find on it so they can make it come true. The “John Adams Plan” would have Vice-President-Elect J.D. Vance ascend to the...

Mike McCormick, a former White House stenographer who worked with Joe Biden, claimed during an interview with Alex Jones that Biden used potential damaging information to manipulate Barack Obama. McCormick alleges that Biden threatened to expose Obama’s supposed homosexual affairs unless certain conditions were met, wielding this information as a tool for political leverage. Mike McCormick is a former White House stenographer who worked closely with Joe Biden during his tenure as Vice President. In this role, McCormick was responsible for accurately transcribing speeches, meetings, and other communications involving Biden and other governmental officials. His firsthand experience provided him with...

Former first lady Michelle Obama is the leading candidate to take on former President Trump in 2024, according to a new poll conducted after last week’s presidential debate. A Reuters/Ipsos poll asked respondents who they would like to see take on Trump on the general election ballot amid calls to replace the current nominee, and President Biden was bested by both the former first lady and his own vice president. When respondents were asked who they would vote for in a race against Trump, the poll found that Obama was the only Democrat to secure enough votes to beat the...

Former first lady Michelle Obama is reluctant to publicly campaign for President Biden’s re-election because, in part, of how the family treated Kathleen Buhle, her close friend, in the wake of her divorce from Hunter Biden, a new report claims. The wife of former President Barack Obama has largely steered clear of the 2024 campaign trail after expressing frustration in private over Buhle’s apparent exile from the Biden family years earlier, Axios reported, citing two sources familiar with the relationship. Michelle’s disdain for partisan politics is also partly to blame for her absence so far this election cycle, the sources...

Seventy years ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months and became famous. But how did he live without a head for so long, asks Chris Stokel-Walker. On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olsen and his wife Clara were killing chickens, on their farm in Fruita, Colorado. Olsen would decapitate the birds, his wife would clean them up. But one of the 40 or 50 animals that went under Olsen's hatchet that day didn't behave like the rest.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of a healthy food and beverage company she co-founded that is targeted at fighting childhood obesity. The former first lady spearheaded the Let’s Move campaign, a program aimed at ending childhood obesity, during her time at the White House. She announced her latest venture at the Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival on Wednesday, May 3. "We're hoping not to just provide healthy and delicious drinks and snacks for kids, but to jumpstart a race to the top that will transform the entire food industry," Obama wrote in a PLEZi Nutrition...

2 months prior to the 2022 Midterm elections, the FIB seized Mike Lindell's cellphone. WHY DID THEY DO THIS?The timing of this is in itself suspicious, two months prior to the midterm election. I allege that the FIB was looking to see if Lindell had ADVANCE INFORMATION AS TO HOW THE DEMONRATS WOULD STEAL THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION. I BELIEVE THIS IS WHY THEY TOOK HIS PHONE. They wanted to see if he was talking to anyone who KNEW the Midterms would be stolen and the methods this would be done.Just looking at Laxalt's senate race in Nevada, it is...

"Mike" Device is Tested The first fusion bomb was tested by the United States in Operation Ivy on November 1, 1952, on Elugelab Island in the Enewatak Atoll of the Marshall Islands. Scientists had to work faster and harder in order the meet the short deadline to complete the weapon, but their work paid off when "Mike" was successfully completed on the target date. "Mike" used the Teller-Ulam configuration, liquid deuterium as its fusion fuel and a large fission weapon as its trigger. The device was strictly an experimental, prototype design and not a deliverable weapon: standing over 20 ft....

The Utah Democratic Party saw no shortage of drama during its state convention on Saturday — and their decision to not put forth a Democratic candidate to face off with Republican Sen. Mike Lee has big implications for Utah's U.S. Senate race. It injects significant momentum into a more moderate, independent movement in Utah politics — and signals Utah Democrats are so eager to up the chances of beating Lee, they're willing to ditch their own candidate. At least for now.

Former President Obama is wishing a happy birthday to his “best friend,” his wife, Michelle. The ex-commander in chief shared a lovey-dovey message directed to his spouse on Twitter on Monday, her 58th birthday.

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell is under attack by the left for the crime of saying he has evidence of mass voter fraud that happened in the November election. Shortly after the breach of the Capitol building on January 6, Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohls H-E-B, and Wayfair all announced they would stop carrying My Pillow products in their stores over Mike Lindell’s close relationship with President Trump after Democrats, RINOs, and many in the media blamed President Trump’s speech for the “spontaneous” attack, even though it has been proven that the attack was planned days before Trump’s speech. ....

Mike Lindell: Everyone has been emailing me asking for new updates from Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell, Rudy or Mike Lindell since January 7. Flynn, Powell and Rudy have all been off the grid. But Mike Lindell is in the inner-circle and he just gave this very encouraging update! Take a look at the 2:55 long video at link above. Most encouraging!

Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™, discusses last night's Vice Presidential Debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris. The question is, would you really want to see this nasty woman as President? If many Americans would, then God help us--we won't last much longer as a nation.

Man what a last 24 hours, trying to keep up on the RBG news is something, but I was trying watch a little college football today the news flashed across the screen... Last week Norvell started off losing 16-13 to GaTech in his first game now this... Not a good time to be a Seminole Fan.