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Statement on the Serious Accusations against Rep. Eric Swalwell.

Senator Lindsey Graham is doing a fantastic job. He is running against a LUNATIC named Mark Lynch, who supports perhaps the Worst Congressman in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie, of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky. I don’t have to go into great detail, but needless to say, Mark Lynch would be a DISASTER for the Republican Party, and Lindsey Graham just, GETS THE JOB DONE. VOTE FOR LINDSEY ALL THE WAY. MAGA! President DONALD J. TRUMP

In an expose written by senior fellow Christopher Rufo at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research for the Institute's City Journal he wrote "experts and Health & Human Services officials estimated that fraud has consumed between $180 billion and $280 billion of public funds meant to provide heath care, unemployment benefits and general welfare payments." "While the state's indifferent and careless administration of these programs is the primary culprit, the lax enforcement of the federal government under Biden, and now Trump, bears a share of the blame," Rufo asserted. "Thousands of reports from whistleblowers led to fewer than 100 prosecutions."...

Vice President JD Vance heads to Islamabad, Pakistan, for negotiations with Iran amid the two-week ceasefire, marking a major moment for the 41-year-old vice president and the administration as a whole. Vance departed Joint Base Andrew aboard Air Force One on Friday morning, speaking briefly to reporters before boarding the plane. Vance was optimistic that the negotiations this weekend would be positive. “As the president of the United States said, if the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we’re certainly willing to extend the open hand. If they’re going to try to play us, then they’re going to...

Pakistan's FM Khawaja Asif: scandals and controversies. -1. Disqualification (UAE work permit case, 2018). Dawn. (2018, April 27). 'Khawaja Asif disqualified under Article 62(1)(f), IHC rules 'with a heavy heart'.' [https://www.dawn.com/news/1403994/khawaja-asif-disqualified-under-article-621f-ihc-rules-with-a-heavy-heart]. Dawn. (2018, June 1). 'SC disqualifies Khawaja Asif for life.' [https://www.dawn.com/news/1411333]. -2. Arrest / assets beyond means case (2020–2021). Dawn. (2020, December 29). 'PML-N leader Khawaja Asif arrested by NAB.' [https://www.dawn.com/news/1598528]. -3. Sexist remarks backlash (2023). BBC. (2023. Aug 1). 'The fury in Pakistan sparked by a misogynist minister.' [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66368714]. The Express Tribune. (2023). 'Outrage over Khawaja Asif’s remarks about women.' [https://tribune.com.pk/story/2404826/outrage-over-khawaja-asifs-remarks-about-women] -4. Election rigging allegations (2024). The Economic...

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is so unwilling to discuss whether President Donald Trump is going to leave the alliance that he would rather return to his unfortunate comment from months ago, when he referred to the president as “daddy.” Rutte was speaking at the Reagan Institute on Thursday, following his White House meeting the previous day, when a reporter asked him if Trump indicated whether he would stay in NATO — as well as if he would continue to call him “daddy” if he exits the alliance. “On the ‘daddy thing,’ this is a language problem,” Rutte immediately jumped to...

Last Monday's Loomer tried to convince the President that Tulsi Gabbard was about to resign- in an effort to get Trump to move preemptively to fire her. The whole thing was a hoax. Fortunately, I acted in time. When I called Loomer out on her lie is when she became unhinged Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr

Apr 8, 2026 @shadihamid · Follow My new @washingtonpost column: Why do Muslims need to be like everyone else? A case against assimilation. DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican · Follow Hello Mr. Hasim,You've already reached levels of institutional validation that remain inaccessible to nearly all Americans: a professorship at Georgetown, a position on the Washington Post's editorial board.At that point, saying you still need to prove yourself is like Taylor Swift insisting no one listens to her music. If assimilation feels out of reach, it isn’t because the system has excluded you. By any reasonable measure, it has already brought you into...

As we cross the one month mark of the Israeli-American war on Iran, a sufficient corpus of data is emerging to contemplate the kinetic dynamics of the conflict. This is a very strange war. It is not merely the fact that the roster of combatants and associated parties - Netanyahu, President Trump, Lindsay “Holden Bloodfeast” Graham - comprise the most polarizing figures in world politics today. As if to punctuate this fact, I fully anticipate angry comments berating me for using a sanitized and emotionally titrated word like “polarizing.” But we digress. Far more interesting than endless apoplexy over Israel...

The US and Iran have apparently agreed to a two-week ceasefire. President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that, based on conversations with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, he will delay the "bombing and attack of Iran" for two weeks.Trump said the decision came after the leaders requested the U.S. "hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran," which the president previously threatened would start at 8 p.m. eastern time if a deal was not reached. The president said the postponement is subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to "the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE,...

With about a day left before the deadline expires, the US president held a marathon of calls with regional leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At the center of the talks was the possibility of a significant escalation in the fighting against the Iranian regime. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed said there should be no ceasefire without removing the threat from Tehran.

US District Judge Randolph Moss overturned the federal government's decision to discontinue the subsidies to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) calling it "a violation of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. Neither the President nor Congress has the right to cancel the payment of federal money to these broadcasters merely because they don't like what they are broadcasting or they have better uses for the funds." White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson called Judge Moss' decision "a ridiculous ruling by an activist judge attempting to undermine the law. NPR and PBS have no right...

You're probably heard one of the many stories about how "Former" CIA Agent Spanberger and the Democrat controlled state house is working to leapfrog California and turn Virginia into Venezuela. What you might not know is what got us here, and where this is likely headed. Even if you live nowhere near Virginia, you should be worried. First let's step into The Wayback Machine to the long lost days of 2021... Ah, to go back to the days when the country was emerging from the government's overreaction to The Fauci Flu by locking down America, punishing the elderly and children...

A Democratic activist says she is working with multiple women preparing to come forward with sexual harassment allegations against California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell. Cheyenne Hunt — a lawyer, one-time congressional candidate and executive director of Gen-Z for Change — revealed that she has been working with an unspecified number of women set to accuse Swalwell in multiple X posts early Monday morning. Swalwell is currently a leading candidate in the crowded race to succeed Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom. “I got involved because the first victim who approached me is a close friend, but when I saw that there...

Rep. Eric Swalwell, a top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and candidate for California governor, relentlessly pressed to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files — even if innocent people were implicated — going so far as to suggest withholding funding to the Justice Department. “If the president is not implicated, then why not release everything?” Swalwell asked FBI Director Kash Patel in a tense exchange at a congressional hearing late last year that typified his pressure campaign. But Swalwell’s tone on unlimited transparency shifted markedly last week when he learned the Trump White House might release a long-secret trove...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif), who is currently a leading candidate to become his state's next governor, issued a cease-and-desist letter to FBI Director Kash Patel contending that "the FBI's intrusion into my relationship with Christine Fang is a violation of my privacy. She was a student who helped me campaign for Congress and is still a friend. The allegation that I may have divulged sensitive classified data to her that she passed on to China was proved false when Christopher Wray was the FBI Director while Biden was president. The case against me was dismissed. There is no need to...

The supposed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has not been seen or heard since his father was killed. Now the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps appears to run both the state and the war.

Amy Hamm: I've been fired for my gender critical views. But I'm far from cancelled. My public shaming has been ineffective because I value the truth more than my reputation. ...My public shaming has been ineffective because I value the truth more than my reputation. I will continue to speak it, in the company of other brave and sane Canadians who can plainly see that a man is a man—and that to pretend otherwise is a misogynist lie. https://archive.is/l0HUnAmy Hamm's articles.

Los Angeles funded and enabled a massive population of drug addicts to set up tent camps and banned effective ways of killing vermin. Medieval diseases returned. What’s to blame? Global warming! The county health department’s report indicates that California also had the highest number of flea-borne typhus cases in the modern era at 277. Number 1 in the modern era. Or perhaps California is going medieval. Shannon Bennett, the chief of science and a microbiology curator at the California Academy of Sciences, said the disease has been around for centuries and is “as old as the plague.” “It’s always a...

The March report on employment from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows non-farm payrolls increasing by 178,000 jobs. This exceeded expert predictions of a 60,000 increase. Since Trump's inauguration in January of 2025 the US private sector has added 609,000 jobs. Average hourly wages are 3.5% higher than a year ago. During the Biden Administration annual blue-collar wages declined by $1,703. In the past year these wages have risen by $1,186. The annual inflation rate that peaked at over 6% during the middle years of Biden's term have fallen to 2.5% in the first year of Trump's current term....