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Donald Trump’s inaugural address Monday showcased an unusually refined version of the MAGA leader on the cusp of his presidency: it toiled over the economy and immigration, promising to bring America into a “golden age.” But Trump’s unscripted second speech to a throng of his supporters served as his cutting room floor, sharing all the gripes that his script writers implored him not to dish. Seemingly unrehearsed and riddled with grammatical errors, Trump’s second speech of the day was remarkably more like him. Trump ripped into a cohort of his so-called enemies, torching former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for supposedly...

President Donald Trump said during an appearance on the Dan Bongino Show that he will fully investigate Jan. 6. Trump stated that he will figure out the identity of the pipe bomber, identify the scaffold man who instigated rioting, and determine whether Ray Epps is a federal informant. “I think we are going to find out about Ray Epps. I think we are going to find out about scaffold man… We’re going to find out who scaffold man is, and we are going to find out about other things, and I think you’re going to be very happy,” Trump said...

All these absences make me nervous for Trump’s safety. https://x.com/instapundit/status/1880097882638090265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1880255297685479630%7Ctwgr%5Ecde0f19c6ae58f85a922fce4d950a31ee433af15%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F696823%2F

A blistering new report is claiming that Sen.Chuck Schumer was literally crying after some political posturing. ... Schumer met with Biden on July 13 (just a little over a week before Biden formally withdrew) and the agenda was simple: convince Joe Biden to withdraw from his re-election bid. “If there were a secret ballot among Democratic senators, Mr. Schumer would tell the president, no more than five would say he should continue running,” ... Biden was apparently kept in the dark about his re-election chances by his own team. ... Schumer couched his pleas with a veiled threat. “If you...

First lady Jill Biden expressed disappointment in Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) role in pushing President Joe Biden out of the presidential election.In an interview with the Washington Post, Jill Biden spoke about how the Bidens and the Pelosis had been friends for 50 years," adding that Pelosi's role in pushing Joe Biden to exit the presidential race had been on her "mind a lot lately."Pelosi's role in pushing the president out came after his lackluster debate performance against President-elect Donald Trump on June 27. In response to Joe Biden's performance at the debate, several donors and Democrat officials called for...

Incoming Vice President JD Vance has received some notable criticism for his comments on J6 protesters earlier today, and now he is firing back. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Vance appeared on Fox News Sunday today to speak about the incoming Trump Administration’s plans to save America. But he inadvertently whipped up a social media uproar when the subject turned to J6 pardons. During the discussion, Vance revealed to host Shannon Bream how Trump will decide who should get a pardon and who should stay in jail. And this is bad news for some notable J6 prisoners. “It’s very simple,”...

Judicial Watch President @TomFitton discusses new emails showing communications between government officials, including then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, and Lieutenant Michael Byrd, after he shot and killed Ashli Babbitt inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

A thin-skinned Liz Cheney could not help herself in firing back at President Trump on Friday over his savage remarks regarding the medal she received from Joe Biden and ended up making a huge error in the process. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Biden awarded the second-highest civilian medal to 20 individuals on Thursday. These included the leaders of the January 6th select committee, Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), along with two of his longtime friends/cronies, former Senators Ted Kaufman (D-DE) and Chris Dodd (D-CT). The award, known as the Presidential Citizens Medal, is generally given to Americans...

With all of the lies and deception we have seen lately in politics, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit a major question from the past. Whatever happened to Obama’s birth certificate?

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) underwent hip replacement surgery Saturday after falling during a congressional delegation trip to Luxembourg. “Earlier this morning, Speaker Emerita Pelosi underwent a successful hip replacement and is well on the mend,” said the congresswoman’s spokesman, Ian Krager.

Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized after falling and fracturing her hip during an event in Luxembourg, sources close to the congresswoman told The New York Times. She is “currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals,” a Pelosi spokesperson wrote in a statement Friday. Pelosi tripped while descending a marble staircase at the Grand Ducal Palace and took a hard fall, The Times reported.

[cut] We know what the reported injury was, and it’s not uncommon for someone in their 80s. It’s also a serious injury: She tripped, fell down some steps, and fractured her hip (via NYT) [emphasis mine]:" Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized on Friday after being injured while traveling abroad on a bipartisan congressional delegation to Luxembourg, a spokesman said on Friday. Ms. Pelosi, 84, “sustained an injury during an official engagement,” the spokesman, Ian Krager, said in a brief statement that provided no details on the nature of the injury or how it occurred. He said she was admitted...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, was rushed to the hospital on Friday while on a foreign trip. Pelosi was in Luxembourg with a bipartisan congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. 'Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained an injury during an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation,' her spokesperson Ian Krager said in a statement. Krager said she is receiving 'excellent treatment' from doctors and medical professionals. As a result of the injury, she will be canceling the rest of her engagements on the congressional delegation trip. A source told...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “sustained an injury” during a congressional delegation trip to a World War II battlefield in Luxembourg, her office revealed on Friday. Pelosi, 84, joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in the Western European nation — but was injured and later “admitted to the hospital for evaluation,” according to her spokesman Ian Krager. “Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals,” Krager said in a statement. “She continues to work and regrets that she is unable to attend the remainder...

[Catholic Caucus] Nancy Pelosi's Communion ban to be resolved by VaticanThe former speaker is challenging the archbishop of San Francisco's 2022 order prohibiting her from receiving the Holy EucharistFormer Speaker Nancy Pelosi has quietly turned to Rome to resolve her two-year-old dispute with the San Francisco archbishop over her receiving Holy Communion.Pelosi for the first time has revealed that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone's order that she be banned from receiving Communion now is pending a final resolution at the Vatican. She did not say and it is unclear when she sought Vatican intervention."My understanding, as long as Rome has the case,...

Former U.S. House of Speaker Nancy Pelosi was rushed to a hospital in Luxembourg on Friday after she took a “hard fall” down a marble staircase. Pelosi, 84, tripped as she walked down the staircase at the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg City, a source told The New York Times. The paper reported later Friday that the longtime lawmaker fractured her hip in the tumble.

The good news is, she’s a wealthy, politically-connected woman. All three matter: when you’re wealthy, you have more options; when you’re politically-connected, you don’t wait in line; and women are way better at longevity than men are. And not just because men are dopey, drink more, and think it’s wicked cool to play with fireworks. (Or play with fireworks while drunk.) There’s a genetic component, too. There’s a reason why 85% of centenarians (and 90% of supercentenarians) are women. And this reason isn’t purely behavioral. When it comes to longevity, genetics are king. (Or, more commonly: queen.) Still, the short-term...

The U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was recommended for termination in 2001 for abandoning his post in the Speaker’s Office for a card game in a nearby cloakroom, then lying about it to Internal Affairs Division investigators, Blaze News has learned. The 2001 investigation of Michael L. Byrd, 56, was the first known disciplinary case brought against the lieutenant who crept from his blind near the doors to the Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021, and shot Babbitt to death. The 2001 incident is the fourth such disciplinary case...

LUXEMBOURG — According to eyewitnesses at the Grand Duke's palace, Nancy Pelosi was rushed to the hospital earlier today after her blood alcohol level plunged dangerously. Sources say that the Democrat representative is now in stable condition, having downed several vodka tonics and three glasses of wine since the incident. "We almost lost her," said Dr. Johann Warstein, who has been caring for Pelosi since she was hospitalized earlier today. "Ms. Pelosi skipped her usual four morning screwdrivers, then accidentally drank too much water over lunch. Her blood alcohol levels, normally around 50%, plunged to almost legal levels. If not...

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized after falling and fracturing her hip during an event in Luxembourg, sources close to the congresswoman told The New York Times. She is “currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals,” a Pelosi spokesperson wrote in a statement Friday. Pelosi tripped while descending a marble staircase at the Grand Ducal Palace and took a hard fall, The Times reported.