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Trump’s shutdown blame game: Why he says Democrats are at fault
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has had one refrain in recent days when asked about the looming government shutdown.
By SEUNG MIN KIM
Will there be a shutdown? Yes, Trump says, “because the Democrats are crazed.” Why is the White House pursuing mass firings, not just furloughs, of federal workers? Trump responds, “Well, this is all caused by the Democrats.”
Is he concerned about the impact of a shutdown? “The radical left Democrats want to shut it down,” he retorts.
“If it has to shut down, it’ll have to shut down,” Trump said Friday. “But they’re the ones that are shutting down government.”
In his public rhetoric, the Republican president has been singularly focused on laying pressure on Democrats in hopes they will yield before Wednesday, when the shutdown could begin, or shoulder the political blame if they don’t. That has aligned Trump with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who have refused to accede to Democrats’ calls to include health care provisions on a bill that will keep the government operating for seven more weeks.
Those dynamics could change Monday, when the president has agreed to host Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Johnson and Thune. Democrats believe the high-stakes meeting means the GOP is feeling pressure to compromise with them.
Still, Republicans say they are confident Democrats would be faulted if the closure comes. For Trump, the impact would go far beyond politics. His administration is sketching plans to implement mass layoffs of federal workers rather than simply furloughing them, furthering their goal of building a far smaller government that lines up with Trump’s vision and policy priorities.
This time, it’s the Democrats making policy demands
The GOP’s stance — a short-term extension of funding, with no strings attached — is unusual for a political party that has often tried to extract policy demands using the threat of a government shutdown as leverage.
In 2013, Republicans refused to keep the government running unless the Affordable Care Act was defunded, a stand that led to a 16-day shutdown for which the GOP was widely blamed. During his first term, Trump insisted on adding funding for a border wall that Congress would not approve, prompting a shutdown that the president, in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting that played out before cameras, said he would “take the mantle” for.
“I will be the one to shut it down,” Trump declared at the time.
This time, it’s the Democrats making the policy demands.
They want an extension of subsidies that help low- and middle-income earners who buy insurance coverage through the Obama-era health care law. They also want to reverse cuts to Medicaid enacted in the GOP’s tax and border spending bill this year. Republican leaders say what Democrats are pushing for is too costly and too complicated to negotiate with the threat of a government shutdown hanging over lawmakers.
Watching all this is Trump. He has not ruled out a potential deal on continuing the expiring subsidies, which some Republicans also want to extend.
“My assumption is, he’s going to be willing to sit down and talk about at least one of these issues that they’re interested in and pursuing a solution for after the government stays open,” Thune said in an Associated Press interview last week. “Frankly, I just don’t know what you negotiate at this point.”
Back and forth on a White House sit-down
At this point, Trump has shown no public indication he plans to compromise with Democrats on a shutdown, even as he acknowledges he needs help from at least a handful of them to keep the government open and is willing to meet with them at the White House.
Last week, Trump appeared to agree to sit down with Schumer and Jeffries and a meeting went on the books for Thursday. Once word got out about that, Johnson and Thune intervened, privately making the case to Trump that it was not the time during the funding fight to negotiate with Democrats over health care, according to a person familiar with the conversation who was not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Not long after hearing from the GOP leaders, Trump took to social media and said he would no longer meet with the two Democrats “after reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats.” Republicans privately acknowledge Trump’s decision to agree to a meeting was a misstep because it gave Democrats fodder to paint Trump as the one refusing to negotiate.
“Trump is literally boycotting meeting with Democrats to find a solution,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., wrote on the social media site X before Trump reversed course again and agreed to meet with the leadership. “There is no one to blame but him. He wants a shut down.”
It was not immediately clear what led Trump over the weekend to take a meeting he had once refused. Schumer spoke privately with Thune on Friday, pushing the majority leader to get a meeting with the president scheduled because of the approaching funding deadline, according to a Schumer aide. A Thune spokesman said in response that Schumer was “clearly getting nervous.”
Another reason why Democrats suspect Trump would be fine with a shutdown is how his budget office would approach a closure should one happen.
The administration’s strategy was laid out in an Office of Management and Budget memo last week that said agencies should consider a reduction in force for federal programs whose funding would lapse, are not otherwise funded and are “not consistent” with the president’s priorities. A reduction in force would not only lay off employees but also eliminate their positions, triggering yet another massive upheaval in the federal workforce.
Jeffries argued that Trump and his top aides were using the “smoke screen of a government shutdown caused by them to do more damage.”
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Sep 29, 2025 - 12:36 PM - by Thiệu Ngô
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Vice President Vance ROASTS Lunatic Left: “Democrats Want to Take from American People In Order to Give Taxpayer-Funded Healthcare to Illegal Immigrants”
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Vice President Vance ROASTS Lunatic Left: “Democrats Want to Take from American People In Order to Give Taxpayer-Funded Healthcare to Illegal Immigrants”
by Jim Hoft Sep. 28, 2025
Democrats are threatening to shut down the government this week unless Republicans spend billions in taxpayer money to pay for healthcare for illegal immigrants.
Democrats think this is a winner.
And you wonder why the left’s approval ratings are in the cellar!
Vice President J.D. Vance spelled this out on FOX News Sunday.
Martha MacCallum: Last question, Vice President. This government shutdown issue looming next week, how do you see this? And are you opposed to a shutdown, or do you think there would be advantages to that potentially?
Vice President J.D. Vance: Well, look, we don’t want to shut down the government, Martha, but it’s really up to the Democrats.
Under our system, you need 60 Senate Democrats to vote for the clean, continuing resolution that the President and House Republicans have put forward.
I think it’s preposterous, Martha. I think the American people really should pay attention to the fact that Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve never seen a political party actually advertising the fact that they want to shut down every essential function of government, and they want to use that as leverage so that they get more money for illegal alien health care benefits.
It’s such a stark contrast between Republicans who are trying to put the interests of the American people first, and Democrats who I think would want to take money from the American people to give benefits to illegal aliens.
We don’t want to shut down the government. But if Democrats refuse to just pass this clean, continuing resolution, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. I think the Democrats are going to bear the responsibility for it.
Martha MacCallum: All right, we’ll see what happens. Vice President Vance, thank you very much. Good to have you with us on Fox.
Via Rapid Response 47.
The contrast could not be more clear: Republicans are trying to keep the government open and put the interest of Americans first.
Meanwhile, Democrats want to take from the American people in order to give taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants. pic.twitter.com/cGlqrF1Cip
— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 28, 2025
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From The Gateway Pundit
Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...emocrats-want/
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Sep 29, 2025 - 12:34 PM - by Da Lat
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US Ready to Replace All Russian Gas and Oil in Europe: Secretary Wright Warns EU of Moscow Dependency, Trade Agreement Compliance, and Trump's Peace Agenda Against Putin
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US Ready to Replace All Russian Gas and Oil in Europe: Secretary Wright Warns EU of Moscow Dependency, Trade Agreement Compliance, and Trump's Peace Agenda Against Putin
By Joana Campos, Sep. 28, 2025
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright delivered a strong message to Europe in a recent Fox News interview, asserting that his country is prepared "today" to fully displace the natural gas from Russia entering the continent, as well as all refined petroleum products from Moscow.
«America is ready today to displace all the Russian gas entering Europe, and also all Russian refined petroleum products… We have the capacity. "We are prepared to meet your needs," the official declared.
This statement did not come out of nowhere. Wright, a petroleum engineer with decades of experience in the energy industry, led a six-day tour across Europe. He visited Milan, Italy, to participate in GasTech 2025 , where he delivered a keynote speech on Trump's commitment to increasing gas exports. There, he emphasized how US gas strengthens global stability, lowers prices, and provides a reliable alternative to “adversarial” sources like Russia.
From Milan, Wright traveled to Brussels, Belgium, to meet with members of the European Parliament and the European Commission. In those discussions, I have highlighted the benefits of transatlantic energy alliances.
I have urged an end to Europe's dependence on Russian oil and gas, criticizing policies that raise costs and hinder long-term agreements within the EU.
The context is critical. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe has drastically reduced its reliance on Moscow's energy. Previously, Russia supplied 45% of the EU's gas; in the first eight months of 2025, that figure dropped to 12%, while US liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports rose to 26%, surpassing Norway as the top supplier.
However, the shift is not complete. In the second quarter of 2025, 8% of the EU's gas still arrived via Russian pipelines. Additionally, Russian LNG imports hit record levels in 2024, with 20 billion cubic meters delivered through the TurkStream pipeline and 32 billion in LNG shipments.
Hungary and Slovakia, reliant on the Druzhba pipeline, import around 100,000 barrels daily of Russian crude, with Budapest increasing its dependence from 61% pre-invasion to 86% in 2024. Wright tied this offer to Donald Trump's peace agenda.»
They are working in Europe to displace Russian energy, perhaps not as quickly as we'd like. The United States is prepared today to replace all the Russian gas entering Europe, as well as all Russian refined petroleum products.
That's why I spent six days there meeting with European leaders, assuring them we have the capacity and are ready to meet their needs; and the president's agenda is peace—and to achieve peace, we must leave Putin without resources," he explained on Fox News.
This strategy is not new for the Trump administration. In July 2025, the EU and US signed an even trade agreement: the European bloc committed to purchasing $750 billion in US oil, gas, and nuclear fuel by the end of 2028.
Wright views this as a framework to triple US imports, which already reached €76 billion in 2024. But Trump has toughened his stance. In his September 23, 2025, address to the United Nations General Assembly, he lashed out at the EU for "funding a war against itself" by continuing to buy Russian energy. “They must immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia,” he demanded.
He has conditioned new sanctions on Moscow to NATO fully cutting those ties. The pressure worked. On September 19, the European Commission proposed moving up the end of Russian LNG imports from December 31, 2027, to January 1, 2027.
This is part of the 19th sanctions package, which includes designating 118 vessels of Russia's "shadow fleet" and banning reinsurance for listed tankers. This energy offensive by Trump is a strategic masterstroke. It reinforces US dominance in global markets, weakens Putin's war funding—which generates €1.1 billion annually from the EU alone—and forces Europe to choose: reliable allies or an aggressor using gas as a weapon.
The contrast with the Biden era is clear. Under Trump, fossil fuel production will rise by 3 million barrels of oil equivalent daily, with a focus on gas. This not only secures jobs in Texas and Louisiana but also exports "freedom gas."
Let us reflect: How much longer will Europe fund Putin's aggression while preaching democracy? The European left, with its green obsession, has raised costs and delayed the Russian cut-off, leaving allies like Ukraine bleeding.
Trump, with conservative pragmatism, offers not charity but a deal: peace through economic strength. If the EU chooses to keep buying from Moscow, it not only betrays Kyiv but also mortgages its sovereignty to a dictator.
It's time for Europe to wake up: energy dependence is a chain, and the US holds the key.
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Source: Gateway Hispanic
Link: https://gatewayhispanic.com/2025/09/...ssian-gas-oil/
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Sep 29, 2025 - 12:29 PM - by Da Lat
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Investigating whether Stephen Miller's speech at Charlie Kirk memorial included Nazi subtext
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Attachment 2576908
Miller allegedly "plagiarized" from Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels.
By Nur Ibrahim
On Sept. 21, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump and members of his administration, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, spoke at a memorial service for the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The Turning Point USA co-founder was shot dead Sept. 10 during a Utah college speaking event. Police later arrested a suspect, Tyler Robinson.
In the aftermath, Republicans such as U.S. Vice President JD Vance sought to paint the shooting as a result of "left-wing extremism" even though investigators have not connected the suspect to any left-wing groups, as of this writing.
Miller, an architect of Trump's most exclusionary immigration policies who has has been accused of expressing white nationalist rhetoric, also spoke at Kirk's memorial. Many online compared his words to those of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief. According to one post, Miller "plagiarized" his speech from a 1932 Goebbels address titled "The Storm is Coming":
Stephen Miller's speech at Charlie Kirk's memorial was essentially plagiarized. See if you can spot the similarities.
The Storm is Coming by Joseph Goebbels (1932)
"So our dead comrade Horst Wessel wrote, and we are fulfilling his prophesy. The others may lie, slander, and pour their scorn on us — their political days are numbered."
"They promised you, workers, citizens and creative Germans, a Reich of freedom and beauty and dignity."
"People, rise up, and storm, break loose!"
"You are the witnesses, the builders, the will-bearers of our idea and our worldview."
"Well, we the people have awakened! We have risen against oppression, 15 million people have joined in an army of revenge."
"You, men, women and comrades, are the bearers, witnesses, builders and finishers of this unique people's uprising… We have served the truth, and only the truth. For twelve years, they have insulted and outlawed and slandered and persecuted us."
Miller's and Goebbels' speeches have rhetorical similarities, including the use of "storm" imagery, the call to people to "rise," the exhortations to "build," and the idea of seeking vengeance for the death of a key figure in their movements. Miller did not plagiarize Goebbels' speech word for word, but some similarities exist. Furthermore, Democrats and watchdog groups have accused Miller of frequently promoting and repeating neo-Nazi and white nationalist views.
While we cannot outright confirm that Miller copied Goebbels' speech, we can observe the similarities. Whether Miller intended for such similarities to appear can only be confirmed by Miller himself. We have reached out to The White House to learn more about Miller's inspirations for the speech. A spokesperson did not respond to our queries and questioned the basis for writing such an article.
Below, we analyze the language of Miller's speech and compare it to Goebbels' "The Storm is Coming," which Goebbels delivered in Berlin just weeks before the Nazis would win elections to become the largest German political party.
Miller began his speech with a reminder of Kirk's death and the "righteous fury" that would result (emphasis ours):
The day that Charlie died the angels wept. But those tears had been turned into fire in our hearts. And that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand.
In his 1932 speech, Goebbels referenced Horst Wessel, a member of the Nazi paramilitary forces whom Communists fatally shot in 1930. Nazi propaganda turned him into a martyr, as he had also written song lyrics that later became a Nazi Party anthem. Goebbels used Wessel's death to call for revenge against the enemies of the Nazi Party (emphasis ours):
Our campaign spreads to all of Germany, and once again the ears hear, the eyes see, the heart beats faster and the senses clear:
"The day of freedom and prosperity is coming!"
So our dead comrade Horst Wessel wrote, and we are fulfilling his prophecy. The others may lie, slander, and pour their scorn on us — their political days are numbered.
Like the title of Goebbels' speech "The Storm is Coming," Miller frequently referenced a "storm" in response to Kirk's death (emphasis ours):
When I see [Kirk's widow] Erika and her strength and her courage, I'm reminded of a famous expression: "The storm whispers to the warrior that you cannot withstand my strength, and the warrior whispers back, I am the storm."
Erika is the storm. We are the storm. And our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion.
Goebbels stated in the 1932 speech: "Together we share the words of the poet: 'People, rise up, and storm, break loose!'"
Goebbels continued by heralding the ascent of Hitler, who he said represented millions of workers and farmers. He then exhorted listeners directly: "You are the witnesses, the builders, the will-bearers of our idea and our worldview."
Miller, too, referenced the idea of building (emphasis ours):
Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello. Our ancestors built the cities. They produced the art and architecture. They built the industry.
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We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity. You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk. You have made him immortal. You have immortalized Charlie Kirk. And now millions will carry on his legacy. And we will devote the rest of our lives to finishing the causes for which Charlie gave his last measure of devotion. You cannot defeat us. You cannot slow us. You cannot stop us. You cannot deter us.
Both speeches called for revenge, with Goebbels stating (emphasis ours):
Well, we the people have awakened! We have risen against oppression, 15 million people have joined in an army of revenge. They who accepted their nice suits from the Sklareks [Jewish brothers involved in a Berlin financial scandal] can hardly imagine that an honest German worker will spend his starvation wages for a decent brown shirt.
Miller stated (emphasis ours):
The light will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened.
They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing.
Miller's speech also referenced civilization and the West: "You have no idea how determined we will be to save the civilization, to save the West."
Whether Miller directly drew from Goebbels' speech is pure speculation, though both relied on propaganda's rhetorical tools that political figures have used throughout history. Criticism of Miller over his alleged history of promoting white nationalist and neo-Nazi views, as well as his restrictive immigration policies, is necessary context.
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Sep 29, 2025 - 12:28 PM - by Thiệu Ngô
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Jim Comey Has a History of Lying – He Once Used WaPo as a Vehicle to Push a Lie September 28, 2025
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Jim Comey Has a History of Lying – He Once Used WaPo as a Vehicle to Push a Lie
September 28, 2025 by Joe Hoft
Fired FBI Director James Comey has a history of lies. In one instance he used the WaPo to promote his lie.
In May of 2019, Comey wrote an Op-ed for Deep State WaPo (Washington Post). He couldn’t help it. He manufactured a lie in his report and was outed by George Papadopoulos.
…Former FBI Director and Dirty Cop James Comey unleashed on President Trump in an Op-ed at the far left Washington Post.
Only a far left publication would put an oped from James Comey in its publication.
Regardless, and not unexpectedly, Comey lied throughout his hit piece:
Comey lied about the timing of the DNC ‘hack’.
Comey claims that former Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos knew about Russian leaks weeks before the FBI did. This is a lie since the asset from the FBI, Stefan Halper, was the one who leaked this information to Papadopoulos. Also, this is not supported by Comey partner in crime, Robert Mueller’s report.
Papadopoulos had some choice words for Comey – calling him a nut. He also tweeted in response, that Comey’s own asset, Joseph Mifsud, provided him that information.
We gave Comey a bit of a break, noting: No big deal for Comey, his partner in crime Mueller also stated Mifsud was a Russian in his report. This too was a lie as we now know Mifsud was a Western asset.
Jim Comey is not someone anyone should ever trust.
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From Joe Hoft
Link: https://joehoft.com/jim-comey-has-a-...to-push-a-lie/
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Sep 29, 2025 - 12:21 PM - by Da Lat
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Debunking 100 Trump false claims from his first 100 days
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President Donald Trump filled his first 100 days back in office with the same relentless lying and inaccuracy that was a hallmark of his first presidency and his 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns.
By Daniel Dale
Some of Trump’s 2025 false claims were about consequential policy matters, others about trivial personal fixations. Some were sophisticated distortions about obscure subjects, others obvious fictions about issues average Americans experience in their daily lives. Many were ad-libbed or posted on social media, but many were scripted into prepared remarks.
Aside from the staggering frequency and the trademark brazenness, what stood out was how repetitive Trump’s lying was. Though he regularly sprinkled in some fresh deception, he deployed a core batch of favored falsehoods again and again – undeterred by the fact that many of these claims had been publicly debunked for months or even years.
Here is a list of 100 separate false claims from Trump since his inauguration on January 20, fact-checked concisely with hyperlinks to more information. This is not a comprehensive list of the president’s false claims during this period (there were well over 100 in all) or a count of how many total times he was inaccurate (he uttered many of these 100 claims over and over again).
Inflation
1. Falsely claimed in April that grocery prices “are down” and “WAY DOWN.” Grocery prices had continued to increase since he took office – and the jump from February to March, about 0.49%, was the biggest one-month increase since October 2022.
2. Falsely claimed in April that “the cost of eggs has come down like 93, 94% since we took office.” The consumer price of eggs hit a record high in March, and while they might well have fallen in April, the decline certainly wasn’t 93% or 94%; wholesale egg prices had fallen roughly 52% since the week Trump took office.
3. Falsely claimed April 17 that gas prices had fallen to $1.98 per gallon in two states the day prior. In fact, no state’s average gas price was below $2.70 per gallon the day prior, according to data from AAA – and of the tens of thousands of individual stations tracked by the firm GasBuddy, not a single one was selling for under $2.19 per gallon that day.
4. Falsely claimed there was “no inflation” during his first presidency. Inflation was relatively low, but it existed; prices rose about 8% from the beginning of Trump’s term to the end. And year-over-year inflation was 1.4% in the month he left office, January 2021.
5. Falsely claimed President Joe Biden’s administration had the highest inflation “in the history of our country.” Trump could have fairly said the year-over-year US inflation rate hit a 40-year high under Biden in June 2022, when it was 9.1%, but that was not close to the all-time record of 23.7% , set in 1920. Trump’s claim was also wrong if he was claiming there was record cumulative inflation over the course of Biden’s presidency. It was about 21%, compared to about 49% during President Jimmy Carter’s term.
6. Falsely claimed the price of bacon “quadrupled” during Biden’s presidency. Federal statistics show the average price of a pound of sliced bacon in December 2024, Biden’s last full month in office, was up about 19% since January 2021, the month Biden was inaugurated; the average price in January 2025, Biden’s last partial month in office, was up about 21% since January 2021. Neither was close to the 300% increase Trump claimed.
7. Falsely claimed the price of apples doubled during Biden’s presidency. Federal statistics show the price of apples increased by about 7% between the month Biden was sworn in as president and December 2024; it was about an 8% increase between January 2021 and January 2025. Neither was close to the 100% increase Trump claimed.
Trade, the economy, taxes
8. Falsely claimed that, before he came back to office, “We were losing $2 trillion a year on trade.” The total US deficit in goods and services trade in 2024 was about $918 billion; if you count only goods trade and ignore the services trade at which the US excels, it was about $1.2 trillion, still far shy of Trump’s figure. (And economists widely reject Trump’s notion that a trade deficit, the difference between the value of US imports and exports in a given year, is a loss.)
9. Falsely claimed in early April that the US was already taking in $2 billion, $3 billion, or even $3.5 billion per day in tariff revenue. The actual figure was in the hundreds of millions at most, not $2 billion, and it’s important to note that US importers, not foreign exporters, pay the tariff revenue.
10. Falsely claimed the US has a “$350 billion” trade deficit with Mexico. Federal statistics show the 2024 deficit with Mexico in goods and services trade was about $179 billion; it was about $182 billion in goods trade alone.
11. Falsely claimed, after an interviewer reminded him that not a single tariff deal with another country had been announced yet, “I’ve made 200 deals.” He simply had not done so, and his supposed explanation for this assertion – “The deal is a deal that I choose…We are a department store, and we set the price” – did not substantiate it.
12. Falsely claimed, while touting the supposed benefits of tariffs, that Honda “just announced” it is building “a really big plant in Indiana.” Honda subsequently told CNN: “Honda did not announce plans for a new plant in the U.S. at this time.” Reuters, citing anonymous sources, had reported that Honda was planning to build its next-generation Civic hybrid in Indiana rather than Mexico as originally planned, but the report did not say Honda was building a new factory.
13. Falsely claimed “the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been” from 1789 to 1913, when tariffs made up a higher percentage of federal revenue, and that 1870 to 1913, before the reintroduction of the federal income tax, was “the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking.” Trump didn’t explain what he meant by “proportionately the wealthiest” or “the richest…relatively speaking,” but economists say that by any standard measure, the US is far wealthier today than it was in the early 20th century and prior; per capita gross domestic product is now many times higher than it was then.
14. Falsely claimed he signed “the largest tax cut in history” during his first presidency. Expert analyses have found his 2017 tax cut law was not the largest in US history, either in percentage of gross domestic product or in inflation-adjusted dollars.
Ukraine and Russia
15. Falsely claimed Ukraine started the war with Russia, saying, “You should’ve never started it. You could’ve made a deal.” Russia started the war, annexing Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014 and then launching a full-scale invasion in 2022.
16. Falsely claimed the US had provided “$350 billion” in wartime aid to Ukraine. There is no basis for this figure. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank that closely tracks wartime aid to Ukraine, the US had committed about $135 billion in wartime military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine through February 2025 (at current exchange rates) and actually allocated about $130 billion of that sum.
17. Falsely claimed Europe had provided $200 billion less in aid to Ukraine than the US had. In fact, the Kiel Institute data shows that Europe – the European Union plus individual European countries – had committed and allocated more total wartime military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine than the US had through February; in aid allocated, it was about $157 billion for Europe to about $135 billion for the US.
18. Falsely claimed he was clearly speaking “in jest” when he said during his 2024 campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine by “day one” of this presidency. Trump made the pledge at least 53 times in 2023 and 2024 in an entirely serious context and tone, often declaring he would end the war even before his inauguration.
19. Falsely claimed in February that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “down at 4% approval rating.” An approval survey conducted from late November to early January found 63% of Ukrainians either approved fully or tended to approve of Zelensky’s actions as president; another survey, conducted in February, found that 57% of Ukrainians said they trusted Zelensky.
20. Falsely claimed Zelensky admitted “half of the money we sent him is ‘MISSING.’” Zelensky had made no such admission; rather, he had taken issue with inflated claims about how much US cash Ukraine had received, saying he doesn’t know where all the professed additional money has gone and that perhaps these higher figures are correct “on paper,” according to a translation by the news outlet Ukrainska Pravda.
21. Falsely claimed in mid-March that “AT THIS VERY MOMENT, THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY THE RUSSIAN MILITARY.” There was no encirclement of thousands of Ukrainian troops at the time, according to Ukrainian leaders, independent analysts, journalists, and, Reuters reported, US intelligence.
22. Falsely claimed that after Democratic senator and former House member Adam Schiff made up an account of Trump’s controversial 2019 phone call with Zelensky, “they found out that there was a tape of the conversation.” There is still no known US recording of that Trump-Zelensky conversation; the Schiff comments Trump was criticizing were exaggerations of a rough written transcript of the call, which was released before Schiff delivered his rendition of it.
23. Falsely claimed Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline “was dead” when he left office in January 2021 because he had “stopped it.” It wasn’t dead. Trump signed sanctions related to the project into law in December 2019, when the pipeline was already about 90% complete, and the state-owned Russian company behind the project announced in December 2020, the month before Trump left office, that construction was resuming.
Immigration
24. Falsely claimed the US is the only country that grants birthright citizenship. Dozens of other countries, including Canada and Mexico, also grant automatic citizenship to people born on their soil.
25. Falsely claimed he had “571 miles of border wall” constructed during his first presidency. Federal statistics show 458 miles were built during those four years. (And the majority of them replaced previous barriers, though Trump’s replacement barriers were generally much more formidable.)
26. Falsely claimed “I completed the wall, what I was doing,” but then had wanted to build “an extension” before Biden halted construction. Trump’s phrasing here was a bit confusing, but he did not complete the wall. The 458 miles of construction fell far short of the 1,000 miles he campaigned on building, and when he left office, there were about 280 miles where wall construction had been planned but not executed.
27. Falsely claimed that his first full month back in office in 2025 had “the lowest level of illegal border crossings ever recorded.” It was the lowest number recorded since the early 1960s, but not the lowest “ever recorded.”
28. Falsely claimed that, as shown on a chart he frequently displayed at rallies, the US had the lowest level of illegal immigration ever when he left office in January 2021. In fact, the spot that the chart deceptively highlights as a historic low point was April 2020, when Trump still had more than eight months left in his term and when global migration had slowed to a trickle because of the Covid-19 pandemic. After hitting a roughly three-year low (not an all-time low) in April 2020, migration numbers at the southern border increased each month through the end of Trump’s first term.
29. Falsely claimed “21 million” migrants were allowed into the country by the Biden administration, “not even including the gotaways” who evaded detection. Through December 2024, the last full month under Biden, the country had recorded under 11 million nationwide “encounters” with migrants during that administration, including millions who were rapidly expelled from the country. Even adding in so-called gotaways who evaded detection, estimated by House Republicans as being roughly 2.2 million, there’s no way the total is 21 million.
30. Falsely claimed foreign leaders “all over the world” emptied their jails and mental health facilities to somehow “dump” people from those facilities into the US as migrants during the Biden administration – adding that in “some countries” it was “a complete emptying of their prison system.” Trump and his allies have never provided proof that this happened in any country, let alone in many countries as he has claimed, and an expert on prison systems around the world said she knows of nothing like it.
31. Falsely claimed former Vice President Harris was the Biden administration’s “border czar.” In reality, the White House always rejected that label; Biden gave Harris a more limited immigration-related assignment in 2021, asking her to lead diplomacy with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in an attempt to address the conditions that prompted their citizens to try to migrate to the US.
32. Falsely claimed he “came up with” the term “caravan” in reference to migrants. He didn’t, as CNN and others noted when he previously claimed to have coined the phrase.
Foreign affairs
33. Falsely claimed he thwarted a plan from the Biden administration to spend $50 million on condoms for Hamas in Gaza, then falsely claimed it was $100 million. The tale was fictional at either figure. When Trump ally Elon Musk was challenged about the claim after it was debunked, Musk conceded that “some of the things that I say will be incorrect, and should be corrected.”
34. Falsely claimed of hostages in Gaza: “Biden got none back, by the way, just so you understand: none, zero.” Leaving aside the question of who deserves more credit for the ceasefire-for-hostages deal secured by representatives of both Trump and Biden in the final days of Biden’s presidency, Hamas released 105 hostages during a brief 2023 truce brokered in part by the Biden administration about a year before Trump’s election victory.
35. Falsely claimed there was “peace all over the world” when he left office in 2021. There were dozens of active armed conflicts at the time.
36. Falsely claimed of South Korea’s cost-sharing payments related to the US military presence in that country: “They began these Military payments during my first term.” In fact, the cost-sharing deals with South Korea began in 1991.
37. Falsely claimed Biden “terminated the deal” with South Korea. In fact, Trump’s cost-sharing deals with South Korea had expired by the time he left office, and Biden proceeded to make new ones in 2021 and 2024 - both of which included South Korean spending increases.
38. Falsely claimed the US has a deal to defend Japan in which “we pay all the money; they don’t pay anything.” Japan provides billions of dollars per year in support for the US military presence in the country.
39. Falsely claimed, “NATO was gone until I came along.” Experts on NATO say there is simply no basis for his assertion that the alliance was vanishing before he took office.
40. Falsely claimed Iran was so “broke” during his first presidency that “they weren’t giving any money to Hamas or Hezbollah.” Trump’s own administration acknowledged in the last year of that presidency that Iran was continuing to fund terror groups including Hezbollah. The funding did decline in the second half of the term, when the Iranian economy struggled because of Trump’s sanctions, but the cash for Hamas and Hezbollah never ceased during that presidency, four experts told CNN in 2024.
41. Falsely claimed he “got rid of” the ISIS terror group in just “three weeks” even though “people” had told him it would take five years. The so-called ISIS “caliphate” was declared fully liberated more than two years into Trump’s presidency, and the group continues to operate today.
42. Falsely claimed the US left “tens of billions of dollars worth” of military equipment to the Taliban when Biden pulled US troops out of the country in 2021. The Defense Department has estimated that this equipment surrendered by the Afghan forces had been worth about $7.1 billion – a chunk of the roughly $18.6 billion worth of equipment provided to the Afghan forces between 2005 and 2021.
43. Falsely claimed “38,000 people died, from our country, building the Panama Canal.” Experts say that figure is not close to accurate. While the century-old records are imprecise, they show about 5,600 people died during the canal’s American construction phase between 1903 and 1914 and that the vast majority of those people were from the Caribbean. The late historian David McCullough found that “the number of white Americans who died was about 350.”
China
44. Falsely claimed that “we have a deficit with China of over $1 trillion.” Federal statistics show the 2024 trade deficit with China in goods and services trade was about $263 billion. Even if you count only trade in goods, the 2024 deficit with China was about $295 billion, still not close to Trump’s figure.
45. Falsely claimed Biden is responsible for the trade deficit with China supposedly worsening to more than $1 trillion, saying Biden let it “get out of hand.” In fact, the 2024 deficit of about $263 billion was lower than the deficit in every year of Trump’s first presidency.
46. Falsely claimed the US took in “hundreds of billions of dollars from China” – that “they paid” – because of the tariffs he imposed during his first presidency. US importers, not foreign exporters like China, make the tariff payments, and study after study has found that Americans bore the overwhelming majority of the costs.
47. Falsely claimed no previous president had taken in even “10 cents” in revenue from tariffs on China. The US has generated revenue from tariffs on imports from China since 1789, and it was generating billions per year from such tariffs during the Obama administration.
48. Falsely claimed, “Above all, China is operating the Panama Canal.” It isn’t; Panama is. Trump could have raised legitimate questions about China’s influence in the canal area, but “operating the canal” went too far.
49. Falsely claimed that during his first presidency, he successfully pressured China into completely ceasing its purchases of oil from Iran. China’s oil imports from Iran did briefly plummet under Trump in 2019, the year the Trump administration made a concerted effort to deter such purchases, but they never stopped – and then they rose sharply again, up to hundreds of thousands of barrels per day, while Trump was still president.
Europe
50. Falsely claimed Europe doesn’t “take anything” sold by the US. While the European Union certainly has some trade barriers that impede the sale of US products there, federal statistics show the EU bought about $649 billion worth of US exports in 2024 – very far from nothing.
51. Falsely claimed, of Europe, that “they don’t take our farm products.” The US government says the EU was the fourth-largest export market for US agricultural exports in 2024, buying a record $12.8 billion worth, despite some agricultural trade barriers.
52. Falsely claimed the US has a trade deficit with the EU of “$350 billion.” Federal statistics show the 2024 deficit with the EU in goods and services trade was about $161 billion; it was about $237 billion in goods trade alone.
53. Falsely claimed of the EU, “They don’t take our cars,” adding that “we don’t have a car that’s been sold to the European Union.” According to a March 2025 report from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, “164,857 US-made cars were exported to the EU in 2024,” valued at about $8.8 billion at current exchange rates. Some of these are vehicles made by European automakers at plants in the US, and while US automakers have often struggled to gain popularity in Europe, it’s not true the EU categorically rejects US-made vehicles.
54. Falsely claimed the EU has a trade barrier that makes it impossible to sell US cars there – a test in which “they drop a bowling ball on the top of your car from 20 feet up in the air, and if there’s a little dent, they say, ‘No, I’m sorry, your car doesn’t qualify.’” There is no EU car safety test involving bowling balls and no requirement for cars to not experience even minor damage when a large object strikes them.
55. Falsely claimed the EU was “formed for the purpose of taking advantage of the United States.” Experts on the history of the EU have told CNN such claims are “preposterous” and “could not be more wrong or inaccurate,” noting US presidents consistently supported European integration efforts that were intended to stabilize the continent and promote prosperity.
Canada
56. Falsely claimed Canada imposes low tariffs on merely “the first little carton of milk” exported by the US, but then US exports get hit with tariffs “up to 275, 300%.” In reality, in Trump’s US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Canada guaranteed that tens of thousands of metric tons of imported US milk per year, not merely a single carton, will face no tariffs at all – and the US is not even close to hitting its tariff-free milk quota, so US exports aren’t being hit with the high tariffs at all.
57. Falsely claimed he had Canada’s dairy-tariff situation “well taken care of” at the time he left office the first time, “but under Biden, they just kept raising it.” In fact, Canada did not raise its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration; the tariffs Trump is denouncing were left in place by his own USMCA.
58. Falsely claimed the US has a $200 billion trade deficit with Canada. Federal statistics show the 2024 deficit with Canada in goods and services trade was about $36 billion; it was about $71 billion in goods trade alone.
59. Falsely claimed Canada is “ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.” Canada is a relatively low-tariff country on the whole, just 102nd-highest on a World Bank list of 137 countries’ trade-weighted average tariff rates in 2022 – and had a lower average (1.37%) than the US (1.49%) that year, the most recent for which data is available. (During this Trump presidency, Canada has announced new retaliatory tariffs on the US in direct response to Trump’s own new tariffs on Canada.)
60. Falsely claimed, of Canada, that “they don’t take our agricultural product for the most part”; he mentioned dairy, then said, “A little bit they do, but not much.” This is false even with Trump’s qualifiers. Canada was the world’s second-largest buyer of US agricultural exports in 2024, according to the US Department of Agriculture, purchasing about $28.4 billion worth. While Canada does limit foreign access to its dairy, egg and poultry markets in particular, the USDA notes on its website that “almost all” US agricultural exports to Canada face zero tariffs or quotas.
61. Falsely claimed Canada prohibits US banks. US banks have been operating in Canada for well over a century, and well-known US banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and US Bank operate there today. While Canada’s tight regulations have discouraged many foreign banks from opening retail branches in particular, Canada does not forbid the presence of foreign banks.
Environment and energy
62. Falsely claimed people concerned about climate change say “the ocean is going to rise one-eighth of an inch in the next 300 years.” The global average sea level is rising more per year than Trump claimed these “climate lunatics” say it will rise over 300 years; NASA reported in 2024 that the global average sea level rose about 0.3 inches from 2022 to 2023.
63. Falsely claimed the January wildfires in Los Angeles happened as a result of California’s Democratic leaders refusing to send the city sufficient water “because they were protecting a smelt,” an obscure fish species in Northern California. Experts on California water policy have explained that efforts to protect the smelt had nothing to do with the fires and did not impede the firefighting effort.
64. Falsely claimed “I broke into Los Angeles” and “I invaded Los Angeles” to provide the city with much-needed water, in late January and early February, “and the water is now flowing down.” The 2 billion-plus gallons of water Trump had released from two dams in California’s Central Valley agricultural hub did not actually go to Los Angeles; the water was directed to a dry lake basin elsewhere in the Central Valley – more than 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
65. Falsely claimed some of California’s water flows down from Canada. It doesn’t; the Columbia River that begins in Canada flows into the Pacific in Oregon.
66. Falsely claimed the Paris climate agreement cost the US “trillions of dollars that other countries were not paying.” The US has never spent or committed anywhere close to trillions of dollars in connection to the accord; Biden pledged to pay $11.4 billion per year toward international climate financing upon taking office, but Congress appropriated less than even that.
67. Falsely claimed Biden imposed a mandate “where everybody has to have an electric car.” Biden did make a legislative and regulatory push to get automakers to reduce emissions and adopt electric vehicles, but there was never a mandate requiring American consumers to have electric cars; the tailpipe rules for automakers the Biden administration unveiled in 2024 aimed to have electric vehicles make up 35% to 56% new vehicles sold in 2032.
68. Falsely claimed the Biden administration “ended up spending $9 billion on eight” charging stations for electric cars. That didn’t happen. As FactCheck.org and others have noted, Trump was distorting news articles about the slow pace at which $7.5 billion in federal funds allocated for electric charging have been spent. The articles reported that, as of March 2024, only eight charging stations had been built under the program; the articles did not say that these stations had themselves cost the entire $7.5 billion, let alone $9 billion.
69. Falsely claimed “they’re opening up coal plants all over Germany.” Germany closed 18 coal plants in 2024, its government told The Associated Press, and is not opening any new ones; the country has formally committed to phasing out coal by 2038 at the latest. It is true that Germany temporarily revived some idled coal plants after Russia slashed natural gas exports following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but those plants were taken offline again in 2024.
Gender, health, education, media
70. Falsely claimed two gold medalists in women’s boxing at the Olympics in Paris last year were men who “transitioned.” Neither champion had transitioned; as the International Olympic Committee noted, both were born as female, raised as female and have always competed in women’s events. Even the discredited boxing authority that controversially disqualified the women from a 2023 competition, vaguely claiming a test had found they had unfair competitive advantages, did not allege they had transitioned.
71. Falsely claimed “20 years ago, Autism in children was 1 in 10,000,” much rarer than today’s prevalence of about 1 in 31 children. Public statistics from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the prevalence of autism in 2004 was 1 in 125 children.
72. Falsely claimed that “we lose 300,000 people a year to fentanyl, not 100 (thousand), not 95 (thousand), not 60 (thousand) like you read.” There is no basis for Trump’s “300,000” figure; the US has never had 100,000 reported deaths involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl in a 12-month period, let alone 300,000, and while experts say there may well be an undercount, it is not nearly as high as Trump said.
73. Falsely claimed the US ranks dead last, 40th out of 40 countries, in international education rankings. The White House couldn’t identify any education rankings where the US ranked 40th out of 40 countries; FactCheck.org and PolitiFact have noted that even among the wealthy, developed countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the US ranks well above average in reading and science and below average but still far from last in math.
74. Falsely claimed that while Democratic governors closed schools during the Covid-19 pandemic, some governors “kept them open 100% of the time,” adding, “South Carolina did. Tennessee did.” The Republican governor of South Carolina ordered school closures in 2020, while the Republican governor of Tennessee recommended school closures that year (and the state’s school districts complied).
75. Falsely claimed, while alleging that CNN and MSNBC cover him too negatively, that “what they do is illegal.” It is not.
Elections and Trump’s popularity
76. Falsely claimed the 2020 election was “totally rigged.” There is no basis for the claim. Trump lost a legitimate election to Biden.
77. Falsely claimed Democrats “tried” to “rig” the 2024 election he won. There is no basis for this claim, either.
78. Falsely claimed his 2020 vote total, “almost 75 million votes,” was incorrect. The votes were counted and reported accurately, and Trump’s vote total – about 74.2 million – is his actual total.
79. Falsely claimed “Biden didn’t get 80 million votes” in 2020. Biden did; in fact, he got 81,283,501 votes.
80. Falsely claimed he got “much more than 80 million votes” in the 2024 election. Trump received about 77.3 million votes.
81. Falsely claimed his 2024 vote total is “actually much more than” the reported total, since unspecified people “cheated like hell.” Trump’s official vote total is his actual vote total, and there is no evidence of cheating by vote counters or by his Democratic foes.
82. Falsely claimed he won Wisconsin “three times.” He won it twice, in 2016 and 2024, but lost it in 2020.
83. Falsely claimed, “We’re the only country in the world that has mail-in voting.” Various other countries, including Canada, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Spain, allow some or all voters to vote by mail, though the specifics of their policies vary.
84. Falsely claimed a commission chaired by Democratic former President Jimmy Carter concluded that “if you have mail-in voting, you’re going to have massive fraud.” Though the commission Carter co-chaired in 2005 was generally skeptical of mail-in voting, saying absentee ballots were “the largest source of potential voter fraud,” it didn’t say massive fraud was inevitable with mail-in voting; in fact, it highlighted an example of successful all-mail elections, in Oregon, and offered recommendations for making the use of mail-in ballots more secure.
85. Falsely described the Biden administration as election cheaters, saying that “the only thing they’re good at, really, is cheating” and that “anybody that cheats that much and that well is not stupid.” This is nonsense.
86. Falsely claimed in a February 11 social media post that “California just stopped counting their votes on the 2024 Presidential Election.” While California does take notably long to finish its vote counts, its elections chief certified the 2024 presidential election results on December 13, nearly two months prior to Trump’s post, and individual California counties certified their own presidential results on December 3.
87. Falsely claimed on February 21, while speaking about California and the presidential election, that “they were voting a week and a half ago.” Nobody anywhere in the country was still voting in the November 2024 presidential election in February 2025.
88. Falsely claimed “I won youth by 36 points” in the 2024 election. He didn’t say how he was defining “youth,” but the claim that Trump won youth by 36 points is clearly false; CNN exit polls showed Harris beat him among voters ages 18-24, 25-29 and 30-39. (There is an ongoing debate among experts about how exactly young people voted, but Trump certainly did not win them by 36 points.)
89. Falsely claimed his “poll numbers” are the highest “that any Republican president has ever had.” There was no reasonable basis for the claim; his approval rating, in the 40s and 50s at the time he made it, was not even close to the best of all time for a Republican president. President George W. Bush hit 92% shortly after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, and President George H.W. Bush hit 89% at the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
90. Falsely claimed, while talking about the 2024 campaign, “We never had empty seats, it’s amazing.” There were empty seats at numerous Trump rallies in 2024, including one where he made the boast that “we never have an empty seat.”
91. Falsely claimed that when he was hours late to a 2024 rally in Michigan because he was taping a podcast interview with Joe Rogan, “Not a person left…not a person left.” Videos from the rally showed people leaving before Trump arrived; reporters from CNN and other outlets estimated that hundreds of people left.
The January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol
92. Falsely claimed the perpetrators of the Capitol riot “didn’t assault.” They did, as video after video and trial after trial made clear. The Justice Department has said more than 140 officers were assaulted on January 6 and that more than 170 people pleaded guilty to such assaults.
93. Falsely claimed the January 6 rioters “had no guns.” Multiple rioters were armed with guns.
94. Falsely claimed rioter Ashli Babbitt “was innocently standing there, they even say trying to sort of hold back the crowd,” when she was shot by a Capitol Police officer. Video evidence shows Babbitt was shot as she was trying to climb through a broken window to the Speaker’s Lobby outside the House of Representatives.
95. Falsely claimed the House select committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol “deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected.” The committee preserved a large volume of evidence, though there has been a long-running dispute between Republicans and Democrats over the preservation of certain committee records.
96. Falsely claimed Democratic former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “on tape” admitting that she had rejected his offer of 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol on January 6, 2021. There is no evidence Pelosi turned down or even received such an offer, and she has repeatedly rejected, not confirmed, Trump’s story about what happened. Pelosi was recorded by her daughter expressing frustration with Capitol security that day and saying, “I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more” – not saying she had turned down a Trump offer of 10,000 troops or that, as Trump has also wrongly claimed, she was in charge of Capitol security.
Federal government
97. Falsely claimed Biden made a last-minute push before Trump returned to office to hire people with significant disabilities as air traffic controllers. The Federal Aviation Administration pilot program he was referring to was actually a years-old initiative launched during Trump’s own administration in 2019.
98. Falsely claimed “money is being paid to many” of the more than 10 million people listed in the Social Security database as being 120 years old or older. Social Security already stops payments to people listed as being age 115 and older. As a government watchdog noted in a 2023 report and the Trump-appointed acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration noted in a February 2025 statement, someone not being marked as deceased in the database doesn’t mean they’re actually receiving checks.
99. Falsely claimed that when a federal employee didn’t respond to the initial Elon Musk email blast asking them to list accomplishments from the previous week, “Usually that means that maybe that person doesn’t exist, or that person doesn’t want to say they’re working for another company while being paid by the United States government.” That’s not true; there were explanations for the early non-responses other than improper moonlighting or someone not existing while being paid as a federal employee. For one, leaders at multiple federal agencies had told their employees not to respond to the email.
100. Falsely described the special counsel investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents, saying Biden was “essentially found guilty” and adding that “nobody knows what the ruling was.” Biden was not found guilty, “essentially” or not, and there was no judicial “ruling” at all; Biden was not even charged with a crime. The special counsel who was appointed to look into Biden’s handling of classified documents, Robert Hur, wrote in a public report that “the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” and that “several defenses are likely to create reasonable doubt as to such charges.”
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Sep 29, 2025 - 12:17 PM - by Thiệu Ngô
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Honest Americans Knew What Happened on Jan 6 – It Was a Setup to Overshadow the 2020 Stolen Election September 28, 2025
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Honest Americans Knew What Happened on Jan 6 – It Was a Setup to Overshadow the 2020 Stolen Election
September 28, 2025 by Joe Hoft
Americans knew the 2020 Election was stolen. They showed up to protest the steal and were setup in a plot ran by corrupt actors in our government and labeled violent insurrectionists.
Corrupt actors in Congress, the Biden Administration, Globalists, China, corrupt actors in the government and more worked together to create a narrative that President Trump’s supporters were violent. Not one single incident was recorded at Trump rallies in 2020 leading up to Jan 6. 1.1 million attended Trump rallies compared to less than 2,000 at Biden “rallies”. But they set Americans up and claimed good Americans praying in the Capitol were violent.
Our corrupt Government provokes attacks against the the American People! J6 was peaceful.
Christopher Wray announced he’s resigning as FBI head, the DOJ reveals that the FBI had 26 undercover assets on the Capitol grounds on J6.
Police cuff an FBI’s undercover asset, then bring him to a side room where they uncuffed him and fist bumped him.
Wray targeted innocent grandmas for Jan 6 but didn’t give a damn about real terrorists at the Capitol.
FBI Director Christopher Wray is obsessed with targeting Trump supporters who were at the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, but claimed he did not know that a terrorist group called “Global Intifada” organized the illegal occupation of the Cannon House Office Building on Oct 18th.
Not only is Mayorkas willingly breaking our laws allowing terrorists to flood into our country, Wray is not investigating or arresting actual terrorists that illegally entered the Capitol complex!
Here is more on Wray dodging questions (not answering) about Jan 6. He didn’t want to tell the truth. Julie Kelly shared this last year.
The real criminals stole the election and then created the Jan 6 nightmare in their effort to crush President Trump and the American people. It only made us stronger!
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From Joe Hoft
Link: https://joehoft.com/honest-americans...olen-election/
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Sep 29, 2025 - 12:13 PM - by Da Lat
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President Trump: “That’s Two in a Row, Comey and Wray, Who Got Caught LYING, with Our Great Country at Stake”
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President Trump: “That’s Two in a Row, Comey and Wray, Who Got Caught LYING, with Our Great Country at Stake”
September 28, 2025 by Joe Hoft
President Trump goes off on Christopher Wray after he got caught like his predecessor Comey, lying to the American people about the crimes they were committing.
President Trump shared this message on Saturday night after it Jim Comey was indicted and Christopher Wray was found lying to Congress about the number of undercover FBI agents at the Capitol on Jan 6 (274). Wray
It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That’s right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as “Law Enforcement Officials.” I want to know who each and every one of these so-called “Agents” are, and what they were up to on that now “Historic” Day. Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of “Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians” to them! Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA AGAIN!
There were some heroes who knew that Jan 6 was a setup and who had the courage to call out the corrupt FBI Director Christopher Wray for the FBI’s actions that day. Wray wouldn’t answer at this time the question for how many FEDS were in the crowd that day. He indicated none.
Chris Wray said he didn’t know if any FBI undercover agents on site at the Capitol on Jan 6.
Jan 6ers were arrested with their doors kicked down. They were placed in jail for years. They were sentenced to false crimes. They were forced into pleas to save their livelihoods and protect their families.
Chris Wray lied about Jan 6 from the start.
Chris Wray should be behind bars. He currently is more suspect than any arrested on Jan 6.
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From Joe Hoft
Link: https://joehoft.com/president-trump-...ntry-at-stake/
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Sep 29, 2025 - 12:02 PM - by Da Lat
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Newsmax reaches $67M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case
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The voting system manufacturer claimed the news channel made false statements about the company.
By Jacqueline Munis
Conservative-leaning cable news channel Newsmax agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67 million to settle a defamation lawsuit over false election claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
Dominion Voting Systems filed its lawsuit against Newsmax and several other defendants in 2021, seeking $1.6 billion in damages. The settlement avoids a trial that was set to begin in October.
“We are pleased to have settled this matter,” a Dominion spokesperson said in a statement to POLITICO.
As part of the agreement, the first payment of $27 million was paid Aug. 15. Two more $20 million payments must be paid in 2026 and 2027, according to a filing from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In a statement, Newsmax defended its coverage as “fair, balanced, and conducted within professional standards of journalism.”
“The actions taken against Newsmax, and earlier against Fox News, represent a direct attack on free speech and a free press,” Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy said in a statement.
In 2023, Fox News reached a $787 million settlement with Dominion over similar claims. Newsmax previously settled with Smartmatic, another voting machine company, over defamation claims in 2024.
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Sep 29, 2025 - 11:58 AM - by Thiệu Ngô
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SHOCKER: Here’s a Detailed List of Over 40 Lies Made By Jim Comey in Private Memos Re: Trump September 28, 2025 by Joe Hoft
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SHOCKER: Here’s a Detailed List of Over 40 Lies Made By Jim Comey in Private Memos Re: Trump
September 28, 2025 by Joe Hoft
The following article was published at The Gateway Pundit on April 20, 2018 ( https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...onspiring-fbi/). It was very clear that Jim Comey, the fired FBI Director, had lied multiple times and we listed over 40 of these lies.
Notes from Former FBI Head James Comey related to his discussions with President Trump were finally released by the DOJ and FBI last night.
These damning notes follow the release of the DOJ’s IG report less than a week prior that provided evidence that former FBI Head Andrew McCabe lied multiple times, including under oath. The McCabe report exposed President Obama’s FBI and DOJ as corrupt, dishonest, coordinated and conspiring. Comey’s notes provide additional support of a very dishonest, conniving and corrupt FBI led by Comey, who set the tone.
L- stands for outright lies
PL – stands for probable lies
(Link to download the document: https://www.scribd.com/document/3768...oad&from_embed)
Less than a week since the DOJ IG’s report about fired former FBI Head Andrew McCabe, the DOJ and FBI finally released James Comey’s notes as requested by Congress. These notes show a very corrupt, manipulative, conniving and dishonest FBI Director.
A list of the key points in the 15 pages of notes follows –
1.First note that the notes were classified and therefore Comey leaked classified information.( https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...d-information/)
2. The first page of the notes includes perhaps the most damning piece of information from corrupt Comey’s first notes on his meeting on January 6, 2017. After getting the President-elect alone, Comey writes, “I then executed the session exactly as I had planned.”
3. He next states whom the reports were from which is redacted. But then says that he “didn’t want him caught cold by some of the detail. [PL-1]
4. On page 2 Comey writes the Russians allegedly had tapes. [PL-2]
5.The President immediately said this was false but Comey never released this information.
6. Comey says, “I said I wasn’t say this was true. “[PL-3]…” media like CNN had them” [how did he know and why was he not protecting the President-elect?]…It’s important not to give them “the excuse to write that the FBI had the material” [PL-4]… they [FBI] were keeping it very close [PL-5]
7. Comey admits they were not investigating [President-elect Trump] but it was being said out of Russia [PL-6]
8. Comey also wanted to let him [Trump] know in case it came out in the media. [PL-7]
9. On page 3 begins corrupt Comey’s 2nd meeting notes with President on January 28, 2017 [shortly after the inauguration].
10. Comey admits he was never relaxed “given the focus his conversation required” [what focus? Why the discomfort? This doesn’t sound normal for someone without an agenda.]
11. Comey says “I explained that he could count on me to always tell him the truth. [L-8] I said in don’t do sneaky things [L-9], I don’t leak [L-10], I don’t do weasel moves. [L-11] But I was not on anybody’s side politically [L-12].”
12. When the President asked whether the FBI leaks, Comey answered “that FBI leaks far less than people often say”. [L-13]
13. Comey said AG Lynch directed him not to use the word “investigation” [in the Hillary matter].
14. President Trump asked whether it was true “there was a revolt” after Comey announced no crimes in the Hillary investigation and Comey said “that was nonsense [PL-14] and I worked hard to see if folks had concerns [PL-15]. Comey next said that “investigators all agreed there was not case [PL-16], he [Trump] said he disagreed.’
15. President Trump next asked about McCabe and whether he as a problem with the President and Comey said “he’s a true professional [L-17] and had no problem at all” [L-18 – it was well known in the FBI that McCabe hated Trump].
16. Comey next bashed former Republican AG’s but not Obama’s AG’s Holder or Lynch.
17. President Trump again said the dossier Comey presented to him in the previous meeting was not accurate. Trump noted that he didn’t even stay the night in Russia during the Miss Universe contest when some incidents were said to take place.
18. Comey said, “I wouldn’t want to create a narrative that we were investigating him [L-19 – this went on for months and Comey never once came out and said the President wasn’t under investigation – this is the 2nd time Comey admits Trump not under investigation.]
19.Comey says Obama “wanted competence and independence and didn’t want the FBI involved in policy.” [L-20 – Comey went to the White House on numerous occasions and is now suspected as following Obama’s orders – also, Obama’s entire administration was corrupt.] Comey also said Obama slept well knowing the FBI was well run. [L-21 – for Obama well run meant corrupt]
20. Comey next again said McCabe was “professional”. [L-22]
21. The next notes were from February 8, 2017, starting on p. 7. Comey said that a redacted item was necessary in the now known as fake dossier. He states “analysts from all three agencies agreed it was relevant and that portions of the material were corroborated by other intelligence.”[PL-23]
22. Comey notes a primary source of the dossier but it is redacted [PL-24]
23. Comey talked about leaks and said they were probably from folks “who have left government”. [PL-25] He also said unlikely they came from the FBI [PL-26], and that most leaks come from one or two out. [L-27 – Comey and McCabe both have testified under oath that they leaked]
24. On page 8, Comey tell Priebus their conversation was private [L-28].
25. Priebus asked whether there was a FISA application on General Flynn and Comey answered but it is redacted.
26. Next Comey’s note reflect something strange. Comey notes that Priebus asked why Hillary was not charged with “gross negligence”. [Comey changed this as we now know to clear Hillary of emails crimes.] Comey then says I took him through “facts and the law”. [L-29 – we know Hillary was guilty of numerous crimes.] Then unexpectedly Comey writes “I added that it wasn’t my fault that Huma Abedin forwarded emails to Anthony Weiner.” [This suggests the Weiner emails are an important part of the 2016 campaign and the Hillary email investigations.]
28. Comey said referring to the FBI “we aren’t the kind of killer that Putin is”. President Trump apparently paused [does Trump know something or was Comey trying to scare the President?]
29. On page 10 Comey begins his notes from a February 14, 2017, meeting with the President [Valentine’s Day]. President Trump says that he thought his phone was protected but that the calls he made with Australia and Mexico and that General Flynn’s call with the Russians were taped and then leaked. Comey says he tried to interject several times that “leaks are terrible” but the President wouldn’t let him. [L-32 – Comey is a leaker] Comey says it’s terrible his calls were leaked. [L-33 – Comey is a leaker] Comey says FBI leaks were terrible [L-34 – Comey is a leaker].
30. Comey agrees that leaks compromise the President and that he was “eager to find leakers”. [L-35 – Comey is a leaker]
31. Comey then said he was eager to put a “head on a pike” of a leaker. [L-36 – Comey is a leaker.]
32. On page 12 Comey notes a very brief call from the President and then on page 13 he notes from his discussion with the President on March 30, 2017 via a phone. The President stated that the Russia business was hurting him and that he was going to personally sue Christopher Steele.
33. President Trump asked what Comey could do to lift the cloud. Comey replies that they were “running it down as quickly as possible’ [L-37 – this mess is still going on and the cause of the corrupt Mueller investigation].
34. Comey again tells Trump that he was not under investigation and the President said it would be good to get that out. [Comey leaked everything else but never announced or leaked that the President was not being investigated.]
35. Trump again brings up McCabe and Comey says again two more times that McCabe is an honorable guy. [L-38 and L-39] Then Comey says he’d see what he could do to get out that the President is not under investigation. [L-40 – Comey never did until under oath in front of Congress months later.]
36. The final set of notes begin on page 15 and refer to a call from President Trump on April 11, 2017. Comey begins to tell the President that he passed the President’s request about letting the American people know that he is not under investigation and Comey says he passed on to the acting AG but had not heard from him. [PL-41]
37. President Trump then stated that he heard the FBI was involved in an incident in Jordan in delaying a prosecution of a soldier who killed Americans. Comey did not deny but said he would dig into it. [PL-42 – Comey probably knew but lied as he had a pattern of doing]
38. Comey tries to insinuate in some footnotes that the President was up to something but there was no basis for his impressions. [PL-43 – by this time it is clear that Comey was a liar and leaker.]
Overall Summary –
1. The notes were classified and Comey leaked them which is a crime.
2. Comey writes that his “plan” in how he wanted to share the fake dossier with President Trump went exactly the way he wanted. This indicates Comey was conniving and manipulative in presenting the fake dossier to the President.
3. At least three times Comey tells the President he is not under investigation which is probably a lie but no matter how many times the President asks the FBI Director to share this with the American people, he refuses to do so.
4. Comey lies over 40 times in the 15 pages of notes. Some of his lies are known at this point from other information [L] and some probable lies [PL] are based on other information and a track record of lying from Comey. In total we identified 18 probable lies [PL] and 25 outright lies [L].
5. The Weiner emails are again noted in these notes as they were noted in the McCabe IG Report. These may include information that Comey and others do not want released to American voters and this may be why they are going all out to remove President Trump.
6. The Corrupt individuals in the government have no concern for the American people or the President they elected.
Comey shows in these notes that he is dishonest, manipulative, conniving, conceited, arrogant and corrupt. Fired former FBI Director James Comey is a leaker and a liar!
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From Joe Hoft
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Sep 29, 2025 - 11:51 AM - by Da Lat
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How House Republicans plan to rewrite history of Jan. 6
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Attachment 2576898
A new GOP-led panel could tear open raw wounds from the Capitol's most violent day.
By Hailey Fuchs and Kyle Cheney
A new House panel will re-investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack with an eye toward recasting the narrative about the events in Washington that day.
It’s the latest sign that the deadly riot remains a wound on Congress that might never fully heal amid ferocious partisan sparring. Retribution, not reconciliation, appears to be the prime motivation behind the new probe, with the Republicans behind it still bitter over the work of the panel’s previous iteration, which was largely led by Democrats and concluded President Donald Trump was singularly to blame for the violence inflicted by his supporters.
One GOP member of the new panel, Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins, did not rule out questioning members of the prior committee.
“They were not invested in actual investigative work anyway,” said Higgins, who has pushed an unfounded theory that FBI agents helped coordinate the events at the Capitol. “That thing was never legitimate. It was always biased. And therefore, if we question them, it may be with the angle of having them implicate themselves in lies that they presented as truth.”
Speaker Mike Johnson called it “a committee investigating the previous committee” in a CNN interview Sunday and said the prior effort “was rigged.”
The panel’s chair, Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, describes the investigation more soberly. He said in an interview that GOP staff have been quietly toiling for months, even before Johnson moved to formalize the probe this month.
Loudermilk said his team has been “talking to different entities,” reviewing documents and brainstorming potential investigative targets.
“We need to look at it from a factual standpoint,” he said. “It’s dangerous out there. There were a lot of civilians, as well as members of Congress and staff and even press that were here on Jan. 6. And I think we’re all interested to know, why did the Capitol get breached — regardless of who did it — how did it get breached?”
But to Democrats and even some Republicans, that rationale is a smokescreen for the panel’s true purpose: rewriting the history of Jan. 6, 2021, to minimize the culpability of the president and supporters who violently assaulted police officers and entered the Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the final certification of Trump’s 2020 election loss.
The security failures Loudermilk cited have been the subject of a slew of wide-ranging investigations: a review by retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, a series of reports by the Capitol Police’s inspector general, a bipartisan Senate review and two appendices in the final report of the previous House Jan. 6 select committee.
That previous select committee concluded that Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, and months of false claims to sow doubt about his defeat in the 2020 election, inflamed his supporters shortly before he directed them to march on the Capitol. But the review also acknowledged that Capitol security officials were underprepared for the onslaught, leading to the breach of the building and several near-confrontations between rioters and lawmakers.
“They can’t even seem to settle on which conspiracy theory they want to advance,” said Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who served on the previous Jan. 6 panel and serves on the new one. “Was it Antifa? Did it not happen at all? Did Donald Trump really win the election? They can’t figure out what it is they want to say, and it’s because it’s just a tissue of lies and conspiracy theories.”
The backdrop for the new GOP-led investigation is Trump’s return to the presidency and his persistent efforts to reject any blame for the attack — and to accuse his political enemies of persecuting his supporters. On his first day back in office, Trump pardoned about 1,000 members of the mob and ordered his Justice Department to drop pending criminal cases against hundreds of others.
Trump has spent the intervening years downplaying the violence that occurred that day, which left more than 100 police officers injured. One officer died a day after the riot after suffering strokes, and several others died of suicide in subsequent weeks. Four Trump supporters died in the violence, including one who was shot by a Capitol Police officer as she attempted to enter the lobby that leads onto the House floor.
The attack remains a raw issue on Capitol Hill. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) helped sink the nomination of conservative attorney Ed Martin to be Trump’s top prosecutor in Washington, citing Martin’s advocacy for Jan. 6 criminal defendants and his comments about the attack. FBI Director Kash Patel has faced intense questioning about his own advocacy for Jan. 6 defendants and his role in producing a rendition of the National Anthem by some of the most violent offenders that day.
There is even an ongoing controversy over whether to hang a plaque previously commissioned by Congress to honor those who protected the Capitol that day. Johnson has refused to display the memorial, and Loudermilk, while expressing personal support for the officers, said that decision is “not in my decisionmaking wheelhouse.”
Meanwhile, the prior select committee, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), remains a particular sore spot for Trump and many Republicans. Even after it was disbanded, Trump continued calling its report a “Hoax” and its leaders “Political Hacks and Thugs” while championing Loudermilk’s work.
Reinvestigating the attack has been a longstanding priority for the Georgia Republican, who came under scrutiny by the previous Jan. 6 panel for hosting a tour of the complex the night before the Capitol riot. One person in his party was later found to have posted incendiary videos and marched toward, but not into, the building the next day.
Neither Loudermilk nor anyone in his tour group was accused of any wrongdoing, but the Jan. 6 committee interviewed one of the group members and questioned why Loudermilk did not inform authorities about the presence of his group.
After Republicans retook the House majority in 2023, Loudermilk led a probe “on the failures and politicization of the January 6th Select Committee” as chair of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight. In that investigation, some entities were uncooperative with his requests, Loudermilk said.
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This time, in helming a select subcommittee under the Judiciary Committee, he has full subpoena power to compel compliance with his demands. “We think we’ve got a little more cooperation at this point,” he said.
The formal creation of Loudermilk’s panel followed months of negotiations over its scope and powers, with Loudermilk pushing for greater jurisdiction than Johnson’s team had been willing to give — and complaining to fellow Republicans about how GOP leadership was trying to stifle his effort. Then the Trump administration privately applied pressure to get the effort set up, Loudermilk told reporters earlier this year.
Johnson, who was central to the effort on Capitol Hill to overturn the 2020 election, acted quietly — inserting a provision establishing the panel as part of an unrelated procedural measure. One House Republican, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive dynamics around the panel, was unaware the subcommittee even existed before being asked about it by a POLITICO reporter.
Besides Loudermilk and Higgins, the panel’s members are Republican Reps. Morgan Griffith of Virginia, Troy Nehls of Texas and Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, as well as Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell of California, Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Jared Moskowitz of Florida. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will serve as an ex officio member alongside Raskin, the top Judiciary Democrat.
These lawmakers are some of the most aggressive political messengers of their respective parties. Nehls sued the government over what he claimed was retaliation from the Capitol Police for his criticism of the force’s handling of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Hageman unseated Cheney after she was ostracized by her party for her leading role in the prior panel and her unrelenting criticism of Trump.
The panel is wasting no time in launching an effort to review the findings of that previous committee. Earlier this month, Loudermilk sent letters to some businesses and other entities that had been in contact with the previous Jan. 6 panel to request data that was deleted or not otherwise archived. That committee disclosed a host of information in its possession, but some materials — including footage of its interviews — remain unreleased.
Other details of what the panel’s work will entail in the coming months remain sketchy. Loudermilk said he anticipates releasing a final report, while hearings would be called “based on a need and based on the evidence that we’re collecting.”
He added that his team was focusing on the unsolved mystery of the pipe bombs placed near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee offices the day before the riot and the FBI’s use of confidential human sources who were present at the Capitol.
Patel recently said the bureau’s pipe bomb investigation remained active and promising. The Justice Department’s inspector general reported in December that there were 26 FBI sources present in Washington on Jan. 6 but only three had actually been tasked by the bureau with tracking potential bad actors.
Both issues have fueled conspiracy theories about government involvement in the violence that day. Johnson in the CNN interview Sunday repeated an unfounded narrative endorsed by Trump that there were hundreds of FBI agents in the crowd as the Capitol was stormed — a misapprehension of data released by the bureau that includes agents dispatched to the scene after the violence broke out.
Loudermilk said he intends to steer his panel away from politics.
“I’m trying to make it clear I do not want this to be a partisan clown show,” he said. “This isn’t about getting clicks or media interviews.”
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Sep 29, 2025 - 11:41 AM - by Thiệu Ngô
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Former Trump Adviser Mike Flynn Drops Bombshell After Comey Indictment
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Former Trump Adviser Mike Flynn Drops Bombshell After Comey Indictment
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Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn reacted to the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey by warning that the case represents “just the beginning” of what he described as a larger effort to confront corruption and infiltration within the United States.
Comey, who led the FBI from 2013 to 2017, was indicted this week after prosecutors alleged he misled lawmakers during a 2020 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about his handling of the Trump–Russia investigation, known internally as “Crossfire Hurricane.” He has denied wrongdoing and said he will fight the charges in court.
In an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, Flynn — who briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser during his first term — criticized Comey’s recent online video, viewing it as a signal to left-wing forces and a possible threat.
“Now what is Jim Comey going to do? Jim Comey, on his little video that he put out, you know, he’s signaling, he’s signaling to everybody. He’s, it’s, you know, the dog whistle, and maybe there’s some threats that are put in there. We don’t know, you know, we’ll have to figure that out. But it’s certainly a signal to everybody,” Flynn began during a segment.
“Hey, don’t worry about this. We’re going to get, we’re going to be okay. We’re not going to, you know, it’s not about, I’m going to stand and fight. No, this is about whistling to the Marxist left in this country, the infiltration of our country by a very, very serious threat,” Flynn added.
He then linked Comey’s situation to what he says is a growing threat of communism and Islamism in the U.S.
“And yet, we can blame China. Yes, they’re, they’re to blame partially. Yes, we can blame Russia. Yep, that’s the idea of an ism that’s called communism. There’s also the rise of Islamism,” he said, adding his biggest concern is for younger Americans.
“I’m in the, sort of the waning age group of your audience, right? I mean, your audience is generally a young crowd out there, and I want them to know that guys like me, guys like you, but there are others. We’re standing up fighting, not for me. I don’t give a shit about me at this point. What I care about is this country, because I have children and I have grandchildren, and we are going to have to fight through this,” he said.
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Flynn said Comey’s indictment should not be viewed as the end of the battle but as an opening step.
“This is just the beginning. If people think that, oh, this is great. Comey has been indicted. Wonderful. Clap pat yourselves on the back. You know, brush the crap off of your shoes, or put your running shoes on, because we all have got to start running now, this is just the beginning,” he stated.
He added, “There will likely be other indictments, and that’s good and it we start to get at this leadership team. But we have such a cancer inside of our our government right now, and that’s at that’s at federal, state and local.”
Flynn then added that Americans at all levels will need to step up and take responsibility for changing the direction of the country.
“My message to the American people is you better wake up to the fact that we all have a responsibility as citizens of this great country to serve this country. You don’t just have to serve in the United States military. You can serve your country down at your community level. And that’s my message to America. If people don’t wake up and start serving this country and in so many different ways, it does take sacrifice. That’s what freedom costs. Freedom is not free. It requires sacrifice. It requires a lot of things,” Flynn said.
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From Conservative Brief
Link: https://conservativebrief.com/trump-...m=ProTrumpNews
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Sep 29, 2025 - 11:16 AM - by Da Lat
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False statement charge against Comey appears to center on Hillary Clinton email probe
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Attachment 2576709
The alleged leak to the media that underpins the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey appears to relate to the 2016 investigation concerning Hillary Clinton, rather than the separate 2016 FBI investigation of Donald Trump and Russian election meddling.
By Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz , Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Herb
Prosecutors say in the indictment they believe Comey had authorized an anonymous leak to the press about an FBI investigation. The indictment then accuses him of lying under oath to the Senate in 2020 when he was asked whether he had authorized a leak, and he testified he hadn’t.
The indictment doesn’t identify which specific leaked details or news reports form the core of the case.
But officials and people involved in the case tell CNN the false statement charge appears to center on alleged leaks for news articles about the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton and her use of a private email server.
For Trump, Comey’s handling of the investigation into him and his campaign has been at the top of the agenda. He has accused Comey of being corrupt and of damaging his first term by leaking against him. That the two counts Comey faces may be instead about alleged leaks related to the Clinton investigation represents the irony of the latest developments. Clinton has long accused Comey of damaging her campaign and swinging the election to Trump.
Who are Persons 1, 2 and 3?
The indictment says Comey lied when he said he “had not ‘authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports’ regarding an FBI investigation concerning Person 1.”
The unidentified Person 1 is Clinton, according to officials and people briefed on the matter.
In another court filing in the case documenting a charge against Comey that the grand jury didn’t approve, “Person 1” is referenced again. In that document, “Person 1” is more clearly a reference to Clinton and her “approval of a plan concerning Person 2,” who is Trump.
More details about the leak and the alleged false statement could come out in court in subsequent proceedings, especially during a trial.
For instance, the person Comey allegedly authorized to leak about an FBI investigation is only called “Person 3” in the court documents.
A source familiar with the indictment tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that “Person 3,” the FBI individual whom Comey allegedly authorized to leak information on his behalf, is his longtime friend and Columbia Law School professor Daniel Richman.
Sources familiar with the investigation and indications from the public record point to unnamed “Person 3” in the indictment being Richman, who was at one point during Comey’s tenure a special government employee at the FBI.
After Comey was fired from the FBI in May 2017, he provided memos detailing his interactions with Trump to Richman, who leaked them. Comey testified in June 2017 that he gave Richman the memos in an attempt to get a special counsel appointed following his firing.
But the leak of those memos, which contained classified information, don’t appear related to Thursday’s indictment, which is focused on the Clinton investigation, and not the Trump probe.
Richman recently came in for an interview with the FBI and was given a subpoena, sources said.
Richman is not accused of any wrongdoing in the Comey indictment.
The possibility remains that Person 3 could have been former deputy FBI Director Andy McCabe, who is now a CNN contributor.
In Comey’s testimony cited in the indictment, Sen. Ted Cruz specifically asks Comey about statements from McCabe that the Texas Republican said contradicted Comey’s prior testimony. Comey responded he stood by his testimony.
But several sources said that while Cruz’s question referenced McCabe, Person 3 appeared to be Richman.
Richman’s lawyer declined to comment. The US attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is prosecuting the matter, also declined to comment.
‘Arctic Haze’ investigation
It’s not yet clear what specific news stories contained the information Comey is accused of authorizing to be leaked.
The FBI previously investigated during Trump’s first term the disclosure of classified information in four news stories from 2017, which was codenamed “Arctic Haze.” Several of the stories in question were about Comey’s handling of the Clinton investigation.
According to FBI documents declassified and turned over to Congress last month, Richman told investigators he spoke with a New York Times reporter about classified information in January 2017, though Richman said the reporter knew more about the information than he did.
“Richman was pretty sure he did not confirm the Classified Information. However, Richman told the interviewing agents he was sure ‘with a discount,’” Richman told FBI investigators in November 2019.
But at the same time, Richman told investigators that “Comey never asked him to talk to the media.”
The declassified FBI files state that Comey “used Richman as a liaison to the media,” to correct stories critical of Comey, though the documents do not state he authorized Richman specifically to discuss the Clinton investigation with reporters.
Comey under scrutiny for a decade
For nearly a decade, Comey has been under intense political scrutiny and multiple investigations for his handling of the two 2016 investigations, one around Clinton, and the other around Trump, both of which played a role in the presidential campaign that year.
Trump’s allies — both in political appointments in his administration and in the Republican Party on Capitol Hill — have voiced their anger toward Comey’s oversight of the FBI as it worked on the Russia investigation.
They have expressed far less concern with his announcement late in the 2016 campaign about the FBI re-opening the Clinton email server investigation because of material found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. Clinton was never charged, but Democrats say that Comey’s announcement and the distrust it sowed among voters was a factor in her losing the 2016 election to Trump.
Even in a statement announcing the indictment of Comey on Thursday, the current FBI Director Kash Patel smacked his agency again for the investigation it conducted around Trump in 2016.
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Sep 29, 2025 - 1:32 AM - by Thiệu Ngô
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Adelita Grijalva wins US House special election in Arizona, delivering decisive signature for Epstein files push
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Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won a special election in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, which will deliver the decisive signature to the push for a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files.
By Molly English
The race was held to determine who would fill the seat vacated by the late Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, who died from cancer in March. Former Rep. Grijalva’s daughter was heavily favored against Republican Daniel Butierez, who ran for the seat against the elder Grijalva in 2024, losing the race by 26 points.
A discharge petition circulated by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, needs 218 House members to sign on to force leadership to hold a vote to release the Epstein files. The pair notched their 217th signature earlier this month when Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw, fresh off winning a special election in Virginia’s 11th District, was sworn in and signed the petition.
Both Grijalva and Butierez told the Arizona Daily Star last week they were committed to signing the Epstein petition if elected. In a statement to CNN, Grijalva said the issue “has definitely come up” on the campaign trail.
“We are hearing from voters that they believe the survivors deserve justice, and Congress must fulfill its duty to check the executive branch and hold Trump accountable,” she said in the statement.
It’s a vote House GOP leaders have tried to avoid for months. Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the House a day early in July before Congress’ month-long summer recess to avoid votes related to the files.
Speaking to CNN at the Capitol last week, Massie said he thought the House could vote as soon as mid-October on his Epstein bill, citing the Arizona special election as the catalyst for the 218th signature.
Once Grijalva is sworn in and the needed signatures are secured, Massie has to wait at least seven legislative days before bringing the bill to the floor, and House leaders can also take up to two legislative days before they put it to a vote.
The House is out of session this week, delaying any immediate trigger of the legislative calendar.
Discharge petitions historically have a bad track record of actually forcing a vote on the floor, mostly because lawmakers in the majority are wary of taking a stand against leadership. The Epstein issue, however, has animated some Republican members, with Trump allies like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Nancy Mace of South Carolina signing onto the petition.
While few Republicans have backed the effort to force a vote, a number have expressed support for the underlying bill. Still, it would face an uphill battle in the Senate if it cleared the House.
After the Arizona seat is officially filled, there will be two vacancies in the House due to Texas Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner’s death in March and Tennessee Republican Rep. Mark Green’s departure in July. An all-party primary for Turner’s seat is scheduled for November 4, but it could require a runoff, and the election for Green’s seat will be held December 2.
Although another Democratic win will further chip away at Johnson’s thin 219-213 majority, it will not change the fact that he currently can only afford to lose two Republicans on party-line votes with full attendance.
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Sep 29, 2025 - 1:08 AM - by Thiệu Ngô
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Kash Patel Contradicts Donald Trump’s Claim About FBI on January 6
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FBI Director Kash Patel has disputed President Donald Trump’s claim that undercover bureau agents, under former FBI Director Christopher Wray, provoked the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying instead that they were deployed on a crowd control mission that breached bureau protocol but did not amount to instigation.
By Emma Marsden
Newsweek contacted Trump via online form, the FBI via email, and was unable to contact Wray for comment on Sunday outside of usual working hours.
Why It Matters
Patel’s comments show a rare split from Trump’s narrative as the president continues to shift blame for the riot away from his supporters. The remarks also reopen scrutiny of how the FBI managed its presence during the attack, with Patel accusing his predecessor Wray of misleading Congress about the bureau’s role. The dispute highlights ongoing political battles over the legacy of January 6 and how responsibility is framed.
Testifying before a House Committee on 15 November 2023, as reported by Fox News, Wray said, “If you are asking if the violence at the Capitol was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources or agents, the answer is no,” but declined to say whether agents or informants had been embedded in the crowd.
What To Know
Following Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election to President Joe Biden, a mob of the Republican's supporters attacked the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Following the attack, Congress formed the January 6 Committee, a bipartisan entity tasked with investigating what led to the events of the attack. The committee published its full report on December 22, 2022, with a unanimous recommendation to the U.S. Department of Justice to look into Trump and lawyer John Eastman for prosecution.
Following a recent report from Blaze Media, Trump claimed on Truth Social Saturday that Wray had placed “274 agents…in the crowd” as “agitators and insurrectionists,” suggesting they were there to provoke violence. Patel, in interviews, declined to support that characterization, but admitted the decision to insert agents after the riot had been declared by police broke FBI standards. He has defended his stance by pointing to whistleblowers and saying that previous leadership failed to be transparent with Congress.
Independent reviews contradict Trump’s allegation. A 2024 Justice Department Inspector General’s report found that while 26 FBI confidential informants were present on January 6, none were directed to incite violence, nor was there evidence of undercover bureau staff participating in the attack.
On Saturday, Patel posted a screenshot of an article from Fox News to his X account, which stated that he had clarified the role of the FBI on January 6, saying they were sent in after it was declared a riot, which directly contradicted Trump's claim that they were in the crowd prior to the events unfolding. Patel has nonetheless accused Wray of lying and argued that the former FBI director's handling of questions from lawmakers obscured key facts.
Patel captioned the post: "274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan. 6 against FBI standards. That failure was on corrupt leadership. Thanks to agents stepping up, the truth is coming out. Transparency. Justice. Accountability." The post has since had over 906,000 views.
Several MAGA accounts jumped on the initial line, with some on the left now calling them out over it. An FBI official told Fox News Digital there is no evidence that any agents took part in events connected to Trump’s speech at the Ellipse on the morning of January 6, but added that Wray should have informed Congress of their presence when questioned.
What People Are Saying
President Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social account: "It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That’s right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as “Law Enforcement Officials.” I want to know who each and every one of these so-called “Agents” are, and what they were up to on that now ''Historic'”' Day…Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, [former FBI Director, James] Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake."
FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital: "Agents were sent into a crowd control mission after the riot was declared by Metro Police–something that goes against FBI standards. This was the failure of a corrupt leadership that lied to Congress and to the American people about what really happened. Thanks to agents coming forward, we are now uncovering the truth. We are fully committed to transparency, and justice and accountability continues with this FBI."
What Happens Next
Investigations into January 6 continue to take place. While independent reviews have dismissed claims of FBI orchestration, Patel’s criticism of Wray keeps pressure on the bureau, and his contradictory comments to Trump's regarding January 6 highlight divisions within the Republican Party over how to interpret the events at the Capitol.
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Sep 29, 2025 - 1:01 AM - by Thiệu Ngô
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In front of drowning nations, Trump calls climate change a ‘con job.’ Here are the facts and context
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NEW YORK (AP) — Some countries’ leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.
By MELINA WALLING and SETH BORENSTEIN
Some countries’ leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.
But the world U.S. President Donald Trump described in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday didn’t match the one many world leaders in the audience are contending with. Nor did it align with what scientists have long been observing.
“This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,” Trump said. “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.”
Trump has long been a critic of climate science and polices aimed at helping the world transition to green energies like wind and solar. His speech Tuesday, however, was one of his most expansive to date. It included false statements and making connections between things that are not connected.
Ilana Seid, an ambassador from the island nation of Palau and head of the organization of small island states, was in the audience. She said it’s what they’ve come to expect from Trump and the United States. She added that not acting on climate change will “be a betrayal of the most vulnerable,” a sentiment echoed by Evans Davie Njewa of Malawi, who said that “we are endangering the lives of innocent people in the world.”
For Adelle Thomas, a climate scientist who has published more than 40 studies and has a doctorate, climate change disasters are personal, too. A vice chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s top body on climate science, Thomas is from the Bahamas and said she experienced firsthand “the devastation of the climate disaster” when Hurricane Sandy hit the Caribbean and New York City, the city Trump was speaking from, in 2012.
“Millions of people around the world can already testify to the devastation that climate change has brought to their lives,” she said. ‘The evidence is not abstract. It is lived, it is deadly, and it demands urgent action.”
A look at some of Trump’s statements Tuesday, the science behind them and the reaction.
On renewable energy
WHAT HE SAID: Trump called renewable sources of energy like wind power a “joke” and “pathetic,” falsely claiming they don’t work, are too expensive and too weak.
THE BACKSTORY: Solar and wind are now “almost always” the least expensive and the fastest options for new electricity generation, according to a July report from the United Nations. That report also said the world has passed a “positive tipping point” where those energy sources will only continue to become more widespread.
The three cheapest electricity sources globally last year were onshore wind, solar panels and new hydropower, according to an energy cost report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Subsidies endorsed by Trump and the Republican party are artificially keeping fossil fuels viable, said University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann. “If one were truly in favor of the ‘free market’ to determine this, then fossil fuels would be disappearing even faster,” he wrote in an email.
Relatedly, Trump falsely claimed European electricity bills are now “two to three times higher than the United States, and our bills are coming way down.” But in fact retail electricity prices in the United States have increased faster than the rate of inflation since 2022, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The agency expects prices to continue increasing through 2026.
On the international politics of climate, the UN and the Paris Accord
WHAT HE SAID: Trump blasted the U.N.'s climate efforts, saying he withdrew America from the “fake” Paris climate accord because “America was paying so much more than every country, others weren’t paying.”
THE BACKSTORY: The Paris Agreement, decided by international consensus in 2015, is a voluntary but binding document in which each country is asked to set its own national goal to curb planet-warming emissions and decide how much money it will contribute to the countries that will be hit hardest by climate change.
Because carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for more than a century, the United States has put out more of the heat trapping gas than any other nation, even though China now is the No. 1 carbon polluter. Since 1850, the U.S. has contributed 24% of the human-caused carbon dioxide that’s in the air, according to Global Carbon Project data. The entire continent of Africa, with four times the population of the U.S., is responsible for about 3%.
On coal being referred to as clean
WHAT HE SAID: “I have a little standing order in the White House. Never use the word ‘coal.’ Only use the words ‘clean, beautiful coal.’ Sounds much better, doesn’t it?”
THE BACKSTORY: Coal kills millions of people a year. “The president can pretend coal is clean, but real people — mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters— will die for this lie,’’ said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson..
Trump also called the carbon footprint “a hoax made up by people with evil intentions,” a contention that Texas A&M University climate scientist Andrew Dessler agreed with. Dessler said the term was coined by oil companies and may have been designed to shift the responsibility for combatting climate change away from corporations to individuals.
The science of climate change started 169 years ago when Eunice Foote did simple experiments with flasks and sunlight showing that carbon dioxide trapped more heat than the regular atmosphere. It’s an experiment that can be repeated at home and has been done in labs hundreds of times and in greenhouses around the world every day. It is basic physics and chemistry with a long history.
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,” reported the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is hundreds of scientists, with doctorates in the field.
In 2018, Trump’s own government said: “The impacts of global climate change are already being felt in the United States and are projected to intensify in the future.”
On cows and methane
WHAT HE SAID: In “the United States, we have still radicalized environmentalists and they want the factories to stop. Everything should stop. No more cows. We don’t want cows anymore.”
THE BACKSTORY: Cows belch methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Around the world, cattle are often raised on lands where forests have cut down. Since forests capture carbon dioxide, cutting them to raise cattle results in a double whammy. Still, no one is suggesting that cows be gotten rid of, said Nusa Urbancic, CEO of the Changing Markets Foundation.
“This polarizing and divisive language misrepresents the environmental message,” Urbancic wrote. “What is true, however, is that cutting methane emissions is a quick win to slow global heating and meet climate targets.”
Trump also blamed dirty air blowing in from afar, floating garbage in the ocean coming from other countries and “radicalized environmentalists.”
Although the United States does indeed now have cleaner air than it has in decades, the pollution seeping into communities is primarily caused by local dirty energy and industry projects, not by other countries. And many experts have said the biggest blow to local air and water quality is the Trump administration’s own wide-ranging rollbacks to the power of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other bedrock environmental laws.
“It is sad to see marine debris, a globally important issue, being misrepresented so completely,” said Lucy Woodall, an associate professor of marine conservation and policy at the University of Exeter.
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Sep 29, 2025 - 12:51 AM - by Thiệu Ngô
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Democrats Can’t Debate
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Democrats Can’t Debate
Charlie Kirk
By Whitson G. Waldo, III
Sep. 27, 2025
Charlie Kirk is emblematic of one of the things that is great about our country. Endowed by our Creator, we have freedom of speech. The First Amendment in our Bill of Rights enshrines this. Within bounds, we can express our own opinion, argue, and debate. Most importantly, we are free to say unpopular things so long as there’s no incitement to violence or willful defamation.
Charlie used freedom of speech to enlighten, educate, argue, and persuade. He chose a debate format, offering people with ideological differences a chance to give their own perspectives. If you count winning by hearts and minds, there was a clear champion over time of the debates. And, that champion was gathering strength and gaining ground. This is what terrified atheists and progressives most. The latter’s worldview has a stranglehold based on conformity, consensus, and ideological purity couching no challenge or dissent.
Calls have been renewed for progressive fascists to renounce political violence and violent rhetoric. This would leave progressives embracing just the socialist component of fascism. Establishing such a limit on themselves, they would have to settle for progressive socialism. This presents a vulnerability to ever louder calls to debate differences instead of resolving them with coercion, intimidation, and violence.
Why can’t progressive fascists debate? The answer is that, decades ago, progressives lost all the arguments on their merits.
How can Democrats defend socialism when it has impoverished and tyrannized citizens everywhere and every time it’s been tried? Won’t capitalism have to be recognized as the only economic system in mankind’s history capable of elevating people out of poverty and increasing liberty?
How will progressives justify regulation of every personal and corporate action? How will they oppose implementing only necessary, affordable, and beneficial regulations?
When libertarians opine the money you have earned legitimately is yours, what argument will advance the idea that all money belongs to the government from whence it is allocated to the people? How will leftists advocate for confiscatory taxes instead of low tax rates?
Will advocacy for open borders sound more compelling than having only legal immigration that serves our country’s interests?
Progressive fascists crave social justice even though it brings violence and anarchy. How will this stack up against citizens’ desire to live in safety in their neighborhoods applying criminal justice?
Where are the arguments from progressives in either party supporting Ever Bigger Government? Won’t minimalist government appear more compelling on the merits?
Do most citizens appreciate our Constitution anchoring rights of individuals, or do they prefer an untethered, living document with only contingent rights?
Will authoritarian arguments for freedom only within narrowly specified bounds sound better than freedom of everything as long as it’s not specifically forbidden?
Will Marxists convince listeners that words are violence, or will freedom of speech be cherished even if the opinions expressed are unpopular or disfavored?
What new arguments will be made that welfare should be open-ended, and there should be no workfare by able-bodied individuals?
How will consumers be convinced that higher cost, unreliable wind and solar energy with blackouts and brownouts is preferable to lower cost, abundant energy?
Is the U.S. an immoral and degenerate country led by, and populated with, irredeemably racist and unremittingly oppressive people? Or, will more people be persuaded these United States represent the best nation on earth, and things keep getting better over time?
Will Democrats argue Western Civilization is evil in all respects? What response will be given to evidence presented that Western Civilization is the best that’s ever been?
Apostate Christians and atheists have found their home in the Democrat party. Will that party now plainly advocate for their worldview, knowing there’s only this life with the highest goals of hedonism or a struggle to build utopia? What will be the rebuttal to the Christian worldview that best perceives, understands, and explains reality?
When does life begin? If it’s not a tomato or a squirrel, what is that newly conceived being? Is it a human being? When should new individual human life be protected? Christians and conservatives have ready answers. What responses can be given by atheists and progressives that won’t evoke horror and revulsion in many?
Over decades, our culture rejected Christian roots and influence. We progressed to modernism in our post-Christian time. Progressivism knowing no limits, modernism has been rejected for a post-reality vision. Nevertheless, science and facts are useful for describing reality. So, what is the compelling argument by progressives for a reality defined only by imagination and unburdened by what is sensed? That reality is just what political elites say it is today?
Is the grooming of children for sterilization and sexual mutilation going to be defended outright by Marxist cultural theorists? Won’t conservative advocacy maintaining the innocence of children for as long as possible be received more favorably? How will arguments go for holding accountable enablers and practitioners when inevitable buyer’s remorse of Frankenstein procedures is expressed?
Will enablers of perverts, predators, pedophiles explicitly be lionized by the left? Or, is there insurmountable empathy for protection of women and girls in spaces and opportunities?
Are progressive arguments better for group identity and enforced level achievement when compared to those for individualism and exceptionalism?
Will leftist arguments for reparations based on ancestral offenses win the day along with the idea of inexorable systemic racism? Rather, shouldn’t people, all made in the image of God, be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin?
Everyone’s for equality. But, is this forced equality of outcomes? Or, will there be recognition that individual differences means there will always be inequalities of outcomes absent coercion. Aren’t arguments more attractive for equality of opportunities?
For decades, progressives in both political parties have put American interests last in economics and foreign affairs. Is this defensible? Contemporary arguments advocate for putting American interests first. We can’t go in both directions. Which is most appealing?
World government is the gold ring for many progressive fascists. Incremental progress has been made over time with innumerable multilateral engagements. Can these be defended against arguments for only bilateral relationships that best serve our country’s interests?
If progressives can’t win any debate on the merits, then they won’t participate. It suggests speeches, arguments, and debates should still be used by Christians, conservatives, and libertarians for the purpose of awakening some of the woke. This will work and be effective so long as freedom of speech endures. But, the primary goal of progressive fascists will be to re-impose censorship and hollow out freedom of speech. Censorship will be expanded greatly in scope along the lines of what was implemented in the great trial run during the COVID-19 tyranny. If progressives can’t win a debate, then there should be no debate. In the immortal words of Anthony Fauci, “Just do as you’re told.”
It doesn’t bode well for our country when one of the two major political parties disdains virtues and eschews traditional and normal values. With or without any debate, the progressive fascist grip on the Democratic Party means their pernicious ideas are being mainstreamed. In memory of Charlie Kirk, let us resist those ideas and vanquish them, in debate, winning hearts and minds one by one.
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Source: American Thinker
Link: https://www.americanthinker.com/arti..._t_debate.html
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Sep 28, 2025 - 10:37 PM - by Da Lat
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Trump Speaks the Truth
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Trump Speaks the Truth
By Jeffrey Folks
Sep. 27, 2025
President Trump, unlike a host of politicians, prioritizes the truth — perhaps because he is not a politician. His announcement on September 11 of the death of Charlie Kirk is a good example. Hours before the death was confirmed by the media, Trump announced on Fox and Friends that Kirk had passed away. No theatrics, no politics — just the fact that Kirk was dead.
Trump is thoughtful and precise in his use of language. One can see this when he hesitates to answer the media’s gotcha questions and returns a clear, truthful answer. Also like Charlie Kirk, he is never afraid to face his opponents. For a decade now, Trump has faced down hostile reporters (the fake news media) and answered calmly with the truth.
When Trump is uncertain, he makes that clear, as when he recently announced that a “framework” (not a deal) had been achieved to preserve Tiktok and transform it into a company friendly to America. He probably knew that a “deal,” more than a framework, was likely and who the players were, but he did not take credit for a deal that had not yet been finalized. No “Mission Accomplished” until the mission was actually accomplished.
Trump is unique among recent presidents in the care with which he employs language, which is to say the care he gives to thought and the importance he ascribes to honesty. He did not become a colossus in the business world by misleading others or going back on his word. Trump is wise enough to understand that once caught in a lie, he will lose his reputation, and reputation is everything.
No recent president has been this truthful. Clinton was often deceptive (“it depends on the meaning of ‘is’”), Bush II was weak and evasive, and Obama seemed deliberately misleading (his campaign to “nudge” his listeners to change their ways is one example). Biden was secretive; when he did speak, he came across as close to illiterate. Biden’s many gaffes were not just unimportant mistakes: they were reflections of an individual who was so engrossed in politics that he seemed not to care about or even to be capable of expressing the precise truth.
By contrast, Trump answers questions in a straightforward and honest fashion. He can often be seen pausing before he answers so as to speak clearly and accurately. He genuinely cares about the truth. When asked in a recent interview what his one “bucket list wish” was, he answered: to make America great again. It’s clear that the president has thought deeply and long about that one task and that he brings everything he has, 18 hours a day, to completing it.
There again, Trump is unique. He has set a noble and ambitious goal for himself, and he labors tirelessly to achieve it. Can the same thing be said for Clinton, Obama, or Biden? Clinton’s “goal,” it seemed, was to remain in office and to satisfy certain ignoble desires. Biden had no goal, so far as I can tell. Obama often said his goal was to “transform America,” but he did so in ways that were opposed by more than half the public. A weak foreign policy, socialized medicine, de facto racial quotas, and government-funded abortions and genital mutilation are not changes that the public approved of, and they were not designed to make America great again.
Obama wanted to transform America because he did not like America as it was and had been for centuries. As Michelle Obama famously declared, she had never been proud of her country...until its people elected her husband president.
Trump, by contrast, is working to make America great again. What his careful wording reveals is that Trump is proud of what his country had been, and that he wants to restore, not transform, it greatness.
Trump was never more honest than he was in addressing the United Nations on Sep. 23. Other presidents have paid lip service to the U.N.’s feeble efforts at peacekeeping and addressing poverty and disease, but Trump made it clear that he does not respect the U.N. and does not wish to continue funding it at current levels. In his speech, Trump stated that the U.N. “is not even coming close to its potential.” After highlighting the many accomplishments of his first seven full months in office, Trump turned to his audience and said, “Your countries are going to hell.” One couldn’t get more blunt than that.
“It’s too bad,” he said, that the United Nations “did not even try to help” with any of the international problems he has solved on his own. As for the U.N., “all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war.” On another matter, Trump insisted that “not only is the U.N. not solving the problems it should — too often, it’s actually creating new problems for us to solve. The best example is the number-one political issue of our time: the crisis of uncontrolled migration.”
At the U.N., Trump was nothing if not direct, but he was hardly negative. He held out his hand to any nation who wished to join the U.S. in peace and prosperity. He insisted that the U.N. had great potential. Again and again, Trump said that his purpose was to “save lives”: in ending war in Ukraine and Palestine, in halting illegal migration, in blocking illegal drugs from entering the U.S., in fighting crime, and in ending the Green New Scam.
Likewise with trade: “In the United States, we want trade and robust commerce with all nations, everybody. We want to help nations; we’re gonna help nations. But it must also be fair and reciprocal.” At the moment he uttered these words, Trump was facing an audience comprising the representatives of all of America’s trading partners, many of whom are now facing new tariffs. But instead of sugar-coating his remarks, Trump was honest and direct. Yes, for many years, other nations have taken advantage of the U.S. Now is the time for fair and equal trade.
In concluding, Trump again sought friendship: “Let us all work together to build a bright, beautiful planet, a planet that we all share, a planet of peace and a world that is richer, better, and more beautiful than ever before. That can happen. It will happen.”
Not since Reagan have we had a president who spoke with such honesty and directness.
“Speaking the truth” may seem like a simple matter, but it is not. It is, in fact, a crucial test of character, and one at which many of our national leaders have failed. One ought to listen to Trump when he speaks. He has earned that privilege through his many years of speaking the truth.
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Source: American Thinker
Link: https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...the_truth.html
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Sep 28, 2025 - 10:30 PM - by Da Lat
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The #1 Waster of Healthcare Dollars and How to Stop It
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The #1 Waster of Healthcare Dollars and How to Stop It
By Deane Waldman
Sep. 26, 2025
As Democrats threaten government shut-down over Medicaid cuts; as Americans are bracing for another increase in their healthcare costs; and as patients wait an average maximum of 132 days to see a primary care doctor, Americans can’t seem to wake up from the nightmare called U.S. healthcare.
The rise in insurance premium costs is estimated at 7–10 percent next year. This is on top of already unaffordable family spending with the average American family expending $32,066 on healthcare in 2024 according to Milliman Medical Index.
Faced with increasing pressure on their bottom lines, employers are passing these additional expenses on to employees with reduced benefits, narrower medical panels (which means longer wait times), plus higher deductibles and copays.
Republicans plan cuts to Medicaid that Democrats and the complicit media say these cuts will “hurt families,” “increase uncompensated care,” “and lead to thousands of deaths.” Biden’s 2021–2023 lockdowns threw millions of people out of work. Unemployment made them ineligible for employer-supported health insurance. Biden then expanded eligibility, adding 17 million Americans to Medicaid rolls. More than 60 percent of these individuals have returned to work and become (again) eligible for employer-provided insurance. Cutting them from Medicaid rolls will actually increase funds available to pay for those who truly need Medicaid.
NPR business analyst Maria Aspan is clear about whom she blames for elevated costs: “insurers, drug companies and your employer,” along with the Trump administration that has “government-sponsored alternatives” it won’t use, she says.
Last year, the U.S. spent $4.8 trillion on its healthcare system. That amount is greater than the entire GDP ($4.7 trillion) of the third-most productive nation on earth, Germany.
Where is all that money going? Who is getting rich, or richer, from Americans’ “unsustainable” (Obama) healthcare spending? Doctors? Big Pharma? Insurance? Hospitals? While each does take a piece of the healthcare “pie,” none comes close to the one entity that consumes more than 50 percent of all U.S. healthcare spending.
Of the $4.8 trillion, more than half, that’s right, at least $2.4 trillion, went to pay the federal BURRDEN — Bureaucracy, Unnecessary Rules and Regulations, Directives, Enforcement, and Noncompliance activities. Our own government denied Americans more than two trillion dollars’ worth of patient care to pay...itself.
The growth of the nonclinical healthcare workforce explains where the BURRDEN money is going — to accountants, administrators, authorization agents, compliance officers, lawyers (lots of lawyers), managers, reviewers, and a multitude of people who never touch a patient. From 1970 to 2020, the number of physicians increased approximately 100 percent. As a result of Congress passing innumerable healthcare Acts with familiar names like Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, the number of healthcare nonclinical workers — bureaucrats — increased by more than 4,400 percent! Taxpayer dollars funded the salaries and fringe benefits of 44 bureaucrats for every doctor.
The public often fails to recognize the cost and complexity associated with passing healthcare legislation, no matter how straightforward. Take price transparency as an example.
Medical price lists do not simply, magically appear. It requires a complex series of costly tasks between the passage of the Health Care PRICE Transparency Act of 2023 and posted lists of hospital prices for patients to see. Rules must be written and vetted to assure concurrence with existing laws and rules. Regulations must be developed which are actionable and quantifiable, including consequences for noncompliance. Directives must be distributed to give hospitals time to understand the regulations, gather, collate, and format the data in compliance with federal requirements, while maintaining secrecy of proprietary commercial information. A system to enforce compliance and punish the noncompliant. An entire bureaucratic structure must be created to accomplish all these tasks.
Not one penny of the billions expended to implement price transparency (or any other healthcare legislation) provides care for a single American patient.
Don’t blame doctors, hospitals, insurance, or even Big Pharma — they are not the big money consumers. They are playing the game according to rules established by Washington.
Blame innumerable federal Acts passed over the past six decades such as
Medicare, Medicaid, EMTALA, UMRA, HIPAA, most OBRAs, ACA, and IRA-2022.
Blame a World War II (1942) wage freeze that was never repealed, which has morphed into the disingenuous, market-distorting employer-supported health insurance benefit that denies 150 million employees an average of $25,572 of money they earned.
Blame a third-party payment system that takes away patients’ medical autonomy, supplants doctors’ judgment, and makes patients wait for care so long they die waiting in line.
Better yet, don’t play the blame game.
Identify the root cause and fix it. The problem of constantly rising healthcare costs is caused by Washington-created BURRDEN and third-party payment market distortion. The solution is to kick Washington out of healthcare. Empower patients — directly connect them with their own money and their chosen doctors without third-party payers in between.
Deane Waldman, MD, MBA, is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pathology, and Decision Science; former Director of the Center for Healthcare Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation; and former Director of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange. He co-authored Empower PATIENTS – Two Doctors’ Cure for Healthcare with Vance Ginn, PhD. Follow him on X @DrDeaneW or visit deanewaldman.com.
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HUGE EXCLUSIVE… NJ Man Secures Nearly 1 Million Documents From Detroit’s 2020 Election, Including Copies of Absentee Ballots and Signed Envelopes in One of Largest Election FOIA Hauls In U.S. History
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HUGE EXCLUSIVE… NJ Man Secures Nearly 1 Million Documents From Detroit’s 2020 Election, Including Copies of Absentee Ballots and Signed Envelopes in One of Largest Election FOIA Hauls In U.S. History
by Patty McMurray Sep. 22, 2025 12:55 pm
TICK TOCK…Detroit election officials and Michigan’s dirty Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson have officially been put on notice.
After years of being gaslighted by some of the most dishonest people in election history, The Gateway Pundit, along with some of the most respected election investigators in the state, are about to blow the lid off the lies about Detroit’s “secure” 2020 election that helped to give Joe Biden an inexplicable victory in the must-win state of Michigan.
On Election Night 2020, President Donald J. Trump appeared to hold commanding leads in key battleground states — approximately 100,000 votes in Wisconsin, 300,000 in Michigan, and 700,000 in Pennsylvania. For Joe Biden to erase those margins, his performance in the outstanding vote would have needed to be dramatically stronger, particularly in heavily Democratic strongholds such as Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia.
As the night wore on, reports emerged — often inconsistent — that some precincts had stopped counting, sent workers home, or restarted tabulations under unclear circumstances. To this day, there is confusion and disagreement over the extent of these pauses and whether any state laws or procedures were ignored in the process. What cannot be disputed is that vote totals from Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania continued to change throughout the night, long after many Americans had gone to bed.
By the early morning hours of November 4, Wisconsin had flipped blue, followed soon after by the must-win state of Michigan. Days later, Georgia and Pennsylvania flipped for Biden as well. For many observers, the abrupt turnarounds — combined with conflicting reports of election-night disruptions — fueled deep skepticism about the integrity and transparency of the process.
Michigan lawmakers and election integrity investigators have spent an untold number of hours and resources to prove the election in Detroit was rigged. To date, they have not been able to secure the documents needed to verify what they believe happened that led to an inexplicable victory for Joe Biden in the presidential race.
Enter Yehuda Miller—an American hero.
Yehuda Miller, a New Jersey resident, explained to The Gateway Pundit that he used to be “non-political,” until after the 2020 election, when he found himself questioning the hotly-contested election results and the subsequent lack of transparency by election officials in key swing states whose results handed the presidency to the unremarkable and by many accounts, the inchoherent Democrat candidate Joe Biden.
The Gateway Pundit met with Yehuda Miller, who can be seen proudly standing next to one of the largest election FOIA hauls in U.S. history on the same day he picked up the documents from the City of Detroit.
Last week, Mr. Miller contacted me with news that he had just obtained almost 1 million election documents from the 2020 election via FOIA from the City of Detroit and Wayne County. Yehuda Miller’s request for the documents was originally rejected. Undeterred by their denial of public records, Miller hired a top FOIA attorney who successfully sued for the documents before the expiration of the 22-month federally mandated period, which requires election officials to retain all election records from all general, special, or primary elections. We are pleased to report that Mr. Miller has now secured copies of the actual absentee ballots, the signed envelopes that contained the absentee ballots, absentee ballot applications, QVF files, and total tapes from each (including the OUT OF BALANCE) Detroit precincts.
Within hours of obtaining the electronic files and hard copies of the copied materials, The Gateway Pundit began working with top election integrity experts in Michigan to review the massive amount of data. A few months ago, Mr. Miller obtained a large portion of FOIA’d materials from Wayne County, where Detroit is located, so his collection of data from the 2020 election in Detroit has now been completed.
Many in Michigan, who have become aware of his massive FOIA haul, are calling it a “miracle.”
The Gateway Pundit, who has broken more stories uncovering evidence of malfeasance, election irregularities, lies from top election officials like MI SOS Jocelyn Benson, and outright voter fraud than any other local, state or national news organizations, would like to personally thank Yehuda Miller for sharing this evidence with us and key election integrity experts in Michigan who are committed to revealing the truth about what really happened in the 2020 election in the City of Detroit.
On the day after the election, The Gateway Pundit reported about a white van that delivered ballots in the early morning hours in the back hallway of the counting center. The Gateway Pundit founder, Jim Hoft, paid to obtain the surveillance footage from the back hallways of the TCF Center, where absentee ballots were being counted in Detroit.
Thanks to a great deal of tedious work, the Gateway Pundit staff was able to prove that a black rental car was used to escort two white vans filled with absentee ballots in the wee hours of the morning on the day after the election. In the video, a gentleman dressed all in black (the uniform of supervisors inside the TCF counting room) can be seen entering the hallway and passing something to the driver of the vehicle through the window before the driver pulls away and the white van enters to begin unloading boxes of ballots. What was the supervisor handing the driver? How did the driver contact the supervisor to let him know they had discreetly entered the back hallway?
Watch the incredible footage here:
Exclusive: New Video Shows Late Night Deliveries of Thousands of Illegal Ballots to Michigan Arena
Republican poll challengers were locked out of the room after the top election official in the TCF Center told them to take a break while they prepared the “military” ballots. Only a small percentage of the UOCAVA ballots are actually military voters or voters who are family members of the military.
Democrat poll challengers and their counterparts, which included outside agitators, somehow knew to stay inside the counting room and ordered pizza to be delivered, while Republicans retreated for a short break to a room on another floor. When the Republicans returned to the counting room, they had been locked out. When Republican poll challengers began to chant “Stop the count!” leftist poll workers and Democrat poll challengers used their pizza boxes to cover the windows.
Never before seen video from inside TCF Center showing windows being covered up with pizza boxes & paper, while election workers & Dem poll challengers watch Republican poll challengers being tricked into leaving by a top election official and then locked out of the process. pic.twitter.com/I9ueIhkdZd
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) September 22, 2025
When Michigan’s top election official, Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, was asked by Detroit’s top radio host, the now-deceased Frank Beckmann, about the pizza boxes that were used to cover the windows and prevent the Republican poll challengers from watching the process, she did what she does best: she lied.
MI SOS Jocelyn Benson is a LIAR.
Listen to SOS Benson LYING to the now-deceased WJR talk show host Frank Beckmann about why the windows were being covered during the counting of 2020 absentee ballots in Detroit, at the TCF Center.
Detroit’s top election “coordinator,”… pic.twitter.com/leDC4uyPOE
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) August 11, 2025
In 2022, the Gateway Pundit received surveillance footage from almost every absentee ballot drop box in Detroit. What we found was outrageous. Not one charge was filed as a result of our exposing multiple individuals and teams dropping off stacks of ballots while filming themselves.
After hundreds of hours of poring through the video footage, we were able to share clips of USPS workers violating the US Postal Code by dropping stacks of ballots into the drop boxes instead of delivering them to the addresses on the envelopes, as well as individuals and teams working to drop off massive stacks of ballots while recording their activity with a cell phone. MI SOS Benson called the US Postal workers’ illegal activity “normal and legal” on the “fact-checking” tab of Michigan’s official Secretary of State website. MI AG Dana Nessel never commented on the videos.
The Gateway Pundit summarized our findings from the 2020 Detroit election drop box footage in a thirteen minute video:
EXCLUSIVE! 13 Min. of Never-Before-Seen Footage of Ballot Trafficking in Detroit, MI
On August 8, 2023, the Gateway Pundit broke the story about GBI Strategies/Empower Michigan, a voter registration group that was sending packages to clerks across the state of Michigan from a hotel in Auburn Hills, MI, filled with fake registrations.
The group, which was funded by Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and Democrat Senator Gary Peters (MI), was finally caught one month before the 2020 election when a supervisor working for GBI Strategies dropped off between 8,000 and 10,000 voter registrations, many, if not all of them, were fraudulent. No charges were filed, and after a lengthy two-year investigation by the MI State Police and Muskegon Police Department, the FBI took over the investigation. Several attempts have been made to get more information on the investigation into GBI Strategies, but the FBI refused, claiming it’s an ongoing investigation.
Prior to being named as the Deputy Director of the FBI, the former podcast host, Dan Bongino, suggested our report on GBI Strategies was the best evidence of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election, because we brought the “receipts.”
Is FBI Deputy Director Bongino investigating this Democrat funded group?
And finally, in one of the most underreported stories, Detroit activist Ramon Jackson revealed to MI House Election Integrity Committee Chair Rachelle Smit and her committee how he uncovered what the Gateway Pundit and election integrity experts in Michigan believe is one of the key ways elections are being repeatedly stolen in Detroit.
The group collecting the information from Yehuda Miller is in support of criminal investigations.
Please stay tuned, as the Gateway Pundit will be revealing our exclusive findings in the coming weeks.
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From The Gateway Pundit
Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ures-nearly-1/
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