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Keeping Up With Trump: Here’s Everything He’s Done The Past Two Weeks

Every week, The Daily Wire will summarize the latest from President Donald Trump and his team.

President Donald Trump continued his administration’s breakneck pace through his second and third weeks in office, tackling issues from trade to terrorism and gender ideology.

The president issued multiple executive orders nearly daily, fulfilling one campaign promise after another, while turning his attention to tariffs, meetings with foreign leaders, and disaster responses.

Here’s what Trump’s been up to.

Aircraft Crash

Trump’s second week was rocked by a deadly aircraft disaster that launched the administration into action.

On Tuesday last week, an American Airlines flight was hit by a Black Hawk military helicopter minutes before landing, causing both craft to fall into the icy Potomac River and killing all 67 crew and passengers.

Trump held a press conference the next day with Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who had been confirmed hours before the crash.

The president suggested that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies could be to blame for the crash.

“Because I have common sense,” he told a reporter who questioned his theory.

On Thursday last week, Trump ordered a review of all aviation hiring decisions and changes to safety protocols over the past four years.

“This shocking event follows problematic and likely illegal decisions during the Obama and Biden Administrations that minimized merit and competence,” the memorandum read.

Education

Trump took several actions on education, including signing an executive order last week prohibiting federal funding for schools teaching “radical, anti-American ideologies” including Critical Race Theory and gender ideology.

Another executive order on school choice directs the Education Secretary to determine how states can use federal funds to support school choice. Trump also proclaimed last week National School Choice Week.

Yet another order is aimed at combating anti-Semitism, including pushing colleges to investigate and remove alien students who engage in anti-Semitism if appropriate.

Meanwhile, the Department of Education has taken several actions on its own.

At the end of the administration’s first week, the department tossed out a slew of complaints about “book bans,” or school districts removing sexually explicit materials.

It also scrapped President Joe Biden’s reinterpretation of Title IX to include trans-identifying men as women, calling it an “unlawful abuse of regulatory power and an egregious slight to women and girls.”

The department also said it will investigate the University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State University for allowing trans-identifying males in women’s sports.

Gender Ideology

Trump signed an executive order committing that the United States will not fund or support the “so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”

This prompted a slew of hospitals to pump the brakes on transgender medicalization for children, including hospitals in New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Colorado, and Virginia.

Trump also signed an order banning trans-identifying males in girls’ sports by threatening to rescind funds from schools that allow this, saying it “results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.”

In response, the NCAA changed its policy to read that a “student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team.”

Trump also issued an order banning trans-identifying members from the military.

“A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member,” the order read.

Federal employees were also instructed to remove pronouns from their email signatures.

In a surprise move, Trump also fired several Kennedy Center board members, accusing the center of “Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth.”

Foreign Policy

Over the last two weeks, Trump secured the release of six more Israeli hostages and an American-Israeli citizen held by Hamas.

The president said he would like to see Egypt and Jordan accept more Palestinian refugees. He spoke recently with both Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egypt’s President El-Sisi about the Hamas hostage situation. Abdullah is set to visit the White House later this month.

Trump made waves internationally when he proposed the United States take over Gaza after resettling the Palestinian population, and turn the seaside area into a “Riviera of the Middle East.”

He announced the plan at a joint press conference on Tuesday after meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at White House.

Trump also issued an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court, which faced backlash from the United States in November when it issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, accusing him of war crimes.

The president also ordered his first major military operation — air strikes on ISIS operatives in Somalian caves who had “threatened” the U.S., saying “Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done.”

Trump also revived his “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, announcing sanctions aimed at driving its oil exports to zero to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. He accused Biden of failing to keep pressure on Tehran.

The United States had a victory related to China when Panama announced it would leave China’s “Belt and Road” infrastructure and influence program. Panama’s decision came after Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned the country to immediately reduce Chinese influence over the canal area or the United States could retaliate.

Trump also ended funding to several United Nation organizations including the Human Rights Council and another group focused on Palestinian refugees.

He ordered the development of a missile defense system similar to Israel’s Iron Dome, calling aerial “the most catastrophic threat facing the United States.”

On Ukraine, the president proposed a deal where the country trades rare earth for financial defense aid.

Trump also signed an order on Friday freezing assistance to South Africa, in part to address the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era.

Trump had a friendly meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru in Washington as well. He also spoke with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer about the two countries’ economic relationship and India’s prime minister about India buying more American-made security equipment.

Immigration

The president signed the Laken Riley Act, which mandates that federal immigration authorities detain illegal migrants who are accused of theft and other violent crimes. The law is named after the Georgia college student who was killed by an illegal migrant on her morning run last year.

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Chicago and Illinois over “sanctuary” policies for migrants.

Trump directed that Guantanamo Bay’s migrant operations be expanded to take in “high-priority” criminal illegal aliens. The first flight there included 10 members of the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.

The Trump administration also evoked Biden’s deportation protections for Venezuelan migrants. Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy for special missions also secured the release of six Americans detained in Venezuelan prisons, and the country agreed to accept the return of illegal migrant Tren de Aragua gang members.

Economy And Trade

The United States had a brief but heated showdown with Colombia after the country refused to accept American military planes trying to return Colombian illegal migrants.

Trump immediately threatened a 25% emergency tariff on Colombia that would increase to 50% after a week, as well as visa sanctions, banking sanctions, and enhanced inspections by border authorities.

Colombia quickly caved to all of Trump’s demands, even offering the Colombian presidential plane for migrant flights.

Trump imposed tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China — 25% for the first two, 10% for China.

The president said the tariffs were to hold the countries accountable for stopping illegal immigration and fentanyl at the U.S. border, accusing the Biden administration of “letting problems fester.”

“Access to the American market is a privilege,” the White House said of the tariffs.

Trump subsequently paused the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for a month after both countries agreed to help stop illegal immigration and drugs. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum offered 10,000 Mexican soldiers at the southern border, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will deploy a joint strike force with the United States and put $200 million towards combating organized crime and fentanyl.

China responded with retaliatory tariffs including 10% on U.S. crude oil and 15% on coal and natural gas.

Trump directed his administration to make a plan for a Sovereign Wealth Fund, which he said could held finance the purchase of TikTok.

Meanwhile, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has thrown federal employees and Democrats into a panic.

Democrat lawmakers claimed that Elon Musk’s DOGE team, which has been tasked with finding federal waste to cut, had unfettered access to the government’s massive payment system for things like Social Security and Medicare. In fact, DOGE has “read-only” access to the payment system.

DOGE targeted the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for elimination, with Musk calling the agency not just an “apple with a worm it in” but rather a “bowl of worms” and Trump saying it is run by “radical left lunatics.”

Now, the Trump administration is planning to slash the number of USAID workers from more than 10,000 to just 290 positions.

The Trump administration has also seen more than 60,000 federal employees accept a buyout offer to resign.

Trump also directed that administrations may not finalize new deals with federal worker unions 30 days before a new administration takes over, as the Biden administration did three days before the inauguration.

Religious Freedom

On Thursday, Trump signed an order aimed at eradicating the “anti-Christian weaponization of government.”

The order noted that the Biden administration targeted pro-life Americans, including federal agents arresting a father of 11 at his home after he prayed outside an abortion clinic, and two elderly women who were also prosecuted. It also cites Biden ignoring attacks on Catholic churches and pro-life centers, the FBI’s 2023 memo targeting traditional Catholics, and the Biden Department of Health and Human Service’s attempts to shut out Christians from the foster care system if they did not affirm gender ideology for children.

In another order, he established the White House Faith Office to help faith-based organizations serve communities.

Other Moves

The administration has removed thousands of government web pages, including vaccine guidelines for “pregnant people, a “Reproductive Rights” page, and an FAQ about the Monkeypox vaccine.

Trump met with Texas Governor Greg Abbott and discussed border security. He also met with California Governor Gavin Newsom and discussed wildfire disaster aid.

The president also revoked Biden’s security clearance and stopped his daily intelligence briefings, citing the former president’s “poor memory” and the fact that Biden stopped them for Trump. He also pulled the security details of retired General Mark Milley and former Defense Secretary Mark Esper and revoked Milley’s security clearance.

This week, government agencies were found to be spending millions of dollars on subscriptions to the Politico Pro news service, and the administration canceled them along with other media subscriptions.

Trump also issued an order aimed at slashing regulation, which requires for every new regulation, 10 others must be repealed.

Trump issued an order aimed at protecting the Second Amendment that orders the Attorney General to review and address any ongoing infringements.

Trump also restored an executive order from his first term protecting American monuments, including prosecuting those who vandalize them and withholding certain federal funds from jurisdictions that fail to protect them.

Trump also proclaimed January 27 as the National Day of Remembrance of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. He also proclaimed February as National Black History Month, American Heart Month, and Career and Technical Education Month.

He formed a White House task force to plan a “grand celebration” for the 250th anniversary of American Independence on July 4, 2026.

Meanwhile, more of Trump’s Cabinet nominations have been confirmed, including Pam Bondi as attorney general on Tuesday. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel all had heated confirmation hearings.

On Sunday, Trump set to attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

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The Musk-eteers Reveal You’ve Been Living in a Simulated Reality

Over the past two weeks Elon Musk and his cadre of young computer geniuses have cracked the code. Like Toto pulling the curtain on the Wizard of Oz, they’ve pulled back the cover on government secrecy. They’ve shown how oceans of tax revenue have flowed through Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), charitable-sounding foundations, the UN, and others to fund terrorists, disrupters like BLM, and reporters to promote Democrats and censor the opposition, most often to enrich Democrat politicians and their friends, families, and allies. The news you thought was news wasn’t independently and honestly generated. The charities you thought were genuine, weren’t. It’s one big gaslighting grift and you paid for it.

The mountain of discoveries is more than I can keep up with. Our own Andrea Widburg listed some of what was found in the first tranche of USAID records. This included (just to start) funding anti-Trumper Bill Kristol, along with “religious charities” run by highly remunerated people who can be counted on to advocate strongly for increased immigration and protection of illegal immigrants they brought here. And placed on the welfare rolls for you to support.

Townhall has more. Here’s a brief sample — there’s much much more:

$1 million went toward supporting French-speaking LGBTQ+ groups in West and Central Africa, $3.3 million was blown on normalizing "being LGBTQ in the Caribbean," and $425,600 helped Indonesian coffee companies become "more climate and gender friendly."

Mast said $1.5 million had gone toward promoting job opportunities for LGBTQ-identifying individuals in Serbia, $16,500 for fostering a "united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society," $47,000-plus on a "transgender opera" in Colombia, $32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru, $70,880 on a musical promoting DEI in Ireland, $20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador, over $7,000 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada, more than $39,650 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on "gender identity and racial equality," $80,000 on an LGBTQ community center in Slovakia, $10,000 on pressuring Lithuanian corporations to push DEI messaging, and $8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ+ groups in Cyprus.

USAID’s Office of Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility notified Congress just before Christmas that they’ve earmarked money (about $1 million) for several programs that will support "marginalized" groups in Indonesia, Guatemala, and Kenya. The funding notice said USAID would "engage with Indigenous-led institutions to implement an Indigenous language technology program" in Guatemala.

In March 2023, USAID set aside up to $1 million to help disabled people in Tajikistan become "climate leaders." The grant notice solicited proposals for a "Disability-Inclusive Climate Action" project in the Central Asian country that would ensure that disabled Tajikistanis are included "in the development of climate change response and mitigation policies."

In May 2023, USAID unveiled a $1.5 million effort aimed at "empowering women to adapt to climate change in northern Kenya." Women in the area, USAID wrote, live in "traditionally patriarchal communities" and need training to join Kenya’s fight against climate change. The program would "improve their participation in decision making" and "enhance adaptive capabilities to climate change."

It’s not just waste on idiotic projects. Most of these disbursements are funneled through and into the pockets of NGOs located in the Washington D.C. area run by friends and family of Democrat politicians who get the lion’s share of the money.

The only way to keep track of the billions government agencies have blown through and DOGE is saving is to go on X (formerly Twitter) and follow the DOGE and Data Republican (small ‘r’) posts. (The latter devised a more workable search engine and regularly reports what was harder to find and unpublicized in the government databanks.)

The Musk-eteers are beginning a dive into other agencies. Musk Says His DOGE Team Uncovered $100 billion in Medicare and Medicaid waste after gaining access to the system. They’ve begun swimming through mountains of Social Security fraud.

They are about to audit the Department of Education and the Department of Defense, which has failed every audit for the last seven years and which cannot account for lost billions. 

You may wonder why USAID was selected first, and that is a story in itself.

Trump decided to pause Foreign Aid for 90 days — reasonable enough. A couple days later the White House said this USAID leadership was trying to circumvent this Executive Order. That alerted the DOGE team and Elon confirmed this on X. He said all DOGE did was check to see which Federal Agency was violating Trump’s orders the most and that turned out to be USAID, so that became our focus."

Naturally, the recipients and beneficiaries of this pork are fighting tooth and nail to stop the audits, doubtless by groups and lawyers that themselves are recipients. Just yesterday Letitia James persuaded a judge in New York to temporarily enjoin the audit of the Treasury Department. 

We’ll see how long this and other overreaching by extremist district court judges is allowed to continue. It has already been established how severely compromised these personal records in the Treasury files have been. The Chinese accessed Treasury workstations and unclassified documents as late as December of last year when it was headed by Wally Adeyamo, a Nigerian émigré who once headed the Obama Foundation. In that year (2024), according to the Congressional Budget Office, Treasury illegally disbursed $516 billion dollars for which there had been no congressional authorization. 

The team’s takeover of the Treasury records involved some high drama:

Following the takeover of the Office of Personnel Management, the truly great challenge was to get to the source of the largess, the spigot spilling so much money that it was creating $1 trillion in debt every 100 days. [snip] The team — which converted itself quickly into an official government office to evade that obvious criticism — headed to the U.S. Treasury and announced an audit of the entire government. In order to conduct that, they would need the logins to the system. The auditors had already figured out that the whole government was operating on autopay, with billions flowing to enemy regimes and rackets of all sorts. Shutting that down had to be priority number one.

What they found was an acting head of the U.S. Treasury named David A. Lebryk, who turns out to be the highest-ranking person in the civil service. Lebryk had been promoted to that position on January 20, but his former boss was the deputy head of Treasury, a Nigerian émigré named Wally Adeyemo, who had at one time been head of the Obama Foundation. His resignation put Lebryk in the driver’s seat of the world’s biggest outgoing payroll system.

That’s right, you cannot make this stuff up!

Lebryk absolutely refused to turn over the passwords. After what was said to be a shouting match, he resigned on the spot. Then Elon’s crew took control of the passwords to the system that was sending out $6 trillion on autopay.

This action generated panicked headlines in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal that the Trump administration has gotten hold of the control center of government spending, strongly suggesting that nothing like this has ever happened. For reasons that are unclear, regime media seemed shocked and alarmed that the Trump administration had broken into the sanctum sanctorum.

When regular people think about this, they start asking serious questions. Why is it not a normal thing for the new administration to be in control of the spending systems? Why is this such a shocking thing to have happened? Isn’t auditing the books just what any new president would do?

Indeed, I am unconcerned about any bumps extremist judges may install in the road because I am in full agreement with the author of this article in the Federalist, and I’m certain that saner heads in a court of last resort will not fail to acknowledge this:

If the executive cannot control his own personnel, agencies, and funding lawfully given to him by a duly elected Congress, elections mean nothing. If the executive is not actually an executor, then the entire bureaucracy is an autocratic, self-licking ice cream cone. It runs the country, not any elected official. And Congress is complicit, because it allows the distribution of opium funds to Afghanistan and queer “safe spaces” in Kenya without ever having to take a public vote on any of this garbage, so long as these taxpayer-provided slush funds slather their retirements and relatives with “nonprofit” and “contractor” lard.

Whatever you want to call unelected bureaucrats and “nonprofit” grifters distributing funds obtained from American citizens against our consent as expressed in elections and line-item votes, it is not a republic, nor a democracy. If Trump can’t fire his own employees and redistribute public funds the executive branch has been given by law, he’s not really the president, and elections are fake. 

(While Trump could not shutter the agency, of the 1400 personnel he has removed all but about 294 mission-critical-function employees from the payroll. He could not without congressional authorization completely dissolve it. It’s been folded into the Department of State where it will be under the supervision of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.)

It’s hard for me to decide which visual of the last week was most appealing: A grandfatherly President signing an executive order banning males from women’s sports as he was watched by dozens of adorable little girls or maintenance workers removing the signage of the USAID.

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White House Confirms: Politico Propped Up By Millions Of Dollars From US Government

White House Confirms: Politico Propped Up By Millions Of Dollars From US Government

Update: 1344ET): During Wednesday’s White House presser, spox Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Politico has been getting ‘more than $8 million taxpayer dollars,’ which has ‘gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions.’

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As journalist Sean Davis of The Federalist points out,

It was Politico that maneuvered to have the Hunter laptop story banned and everyone discussing it censored.

Politico peddled the illegal Supreme Court leak that led to the near-assassination of multiple Supreme Court justices.

And now we find out the regime was funneling tens of millions of dollars of our money to Politico?

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On Tuesday, staffers at Politico were notified that a ‘technical error’ had prevented paychecks from going out. Many joked that this had something to do with the Trump administration putting a freeze on USAID funding.

And while there’s no evidence the two are linked, the suggestion prompted internet sleuths to look into Politico‘s sources of funding. What they found was absolutely shocking.

According to government spending tracker website USASPENDING.gov, Politico – which laundered the Hunter Biden ’51 intel officials’ propaganda during the 2020 election – received up to $27 million (and by some counts $32 million) from various US agencies during the Biden years.

In one instance, roughly $500,000 was spent on 37 Politico ‘pro’ subscriptions.

Of note, Politico was sold to German media giant Axel Springer (which also owns Business Insider) for $1 billion in 2021, meaning US taxpayer dollars have been flowing to the German media giant to prop up their US propaganda rags.

And look at this, the NY Times received $3.1 million in taxpayer funds, while the UK’s BBC received $3.2 million.

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The Senate GOP’s Trump resistance is on life support

That’s a wrap. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) are on their way to confirmation by the U.S. Senate to direct the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, respectively. All that remains is Kash Patel for director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation — an essential White House nomination that Democrats are working hard to torpedo.

There was plenty of hand-wringing over Kennedy and Gabbard, two of the three more controversial nominees to President Donald Trump’s Cabinet remaining. Would Senate Republicans tank their nominations in committee? Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) was well primed to vote “nay” on Kennedy. The hearing he chaired considering RFK’s nomination was contentious; his questioning of the nominee even led to a back-and-forth on the importance of long-lacking scientific humility between Cassidy and his fellow Republican, Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.).

Combined, the White House’s victories represent a near-total rout of Senate uniparty opposition to the president’s “Make America Great Again” agenda.

In the end, momentous outside pressure combined with a series of commitments from RFK to secure Cassidy’s final decision. In a tweet sent as he voted, the chairman credited his change of heart to "very intense conversations with Bobby and the White House over the weekend and even [Tuesday] morning," led by Vice President JD Vance.

It definitely didn’t hurt that Cassidy, who voted to impeach Trump on the second Democrat-led go-around, is up for re-election next year in Trump-loving Louisiana. He’s already drawn a primary challenger. It’s important to play nice when you now claim to represent the interests of the most popular Republican president in decades.

Gabbard’s confirmation — arguably more imperiled than even RFK’s was, given her direct threat to deep-state intelligence community interests — was all but secured over the weekend, when Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) confirmed her support. Collins’ decision put the last remaining holdout, Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), in the hot seat.

If Collins had stayed the course as a “nay” vote, Young, a hawk who doesn’t face re-election for three years, could have counted on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s inexplicable decision to hold its vote in secret to shield him from backlash from the president and his supporters. By Monday, he looked less sure. “He doesn’t have the balls,” one veteran D.C. conservative predicted Monday evening.

There’s good reason for that. In the days leading up to Tuesday’s vote, Young took incoming fire from Republicans as diverse as Meghan McCain and Elon Musk. McCain, a personal friend of Gabbard’s, called him “the new Liz Cheney,” and in a since-deleted tweet, Musk called him “a deep-state puppet.” In a tweet before Tuesday afternoon’s vote, Young announced his support for Gabbard’s nomination.

Cassidy, Collins, and Young’s shifts follow Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis’ literally last-minute decision to break with Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Collins to confirm Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth last week. His commitment was secured after a full-court press that included late-night/early-morning White House meetings. It figures that Tillis, a close McConnell ally, also faces re-election in red North Carolina next year. It pays to have friends in high places — and it hurts to have enemies. “They bent the knee,” one Trump team adviser told the Beltway Brief. “The MAHA/MAGA/anti-deep-state agenda rolls on.”

Combined, the White House’s victories represent a near-total rout of Senate uniparty opposition to the president’s “Make America Great Again” agenda. The next test — confirming Patel to the FBI — will come later this month. A Trump victory here would signify the end of Senate GOP opposition to his chosen Cabinet and the beginning a new Republican Party.

Patel’s confirmation has the most Republican momentum of the three remaining contested nominations. A dyed-in-the-wool MAGA Republican and proven enemy of partisan, deep-state, Department of Justice lawfare, Patel has secured the public support of key senators, but his confirmation isn’t for two weeks — giving Democrats plenty of time to undermine that support.

The delay is based on a committee rule that allows senators to request more questioning time — a rule Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) should have nixed at the beginning of the Congress but didn’t. Now Democrats are using the time to dig up anything they can on a nominee who has exposed partisanship in the FBI in the past and pledges to root it out from the top office if confirmed.

Republicans need to understand that a vote against Patel is a vote against the core of the president’s agenda. All signs say he’s set to pass, but for all the turmoil in this city, the uniparty is just a little too quiet. It’s enough to make a man nervous.

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City Journal: It’s time to end DEI in immigration. We all know American immigration is broken. We can see the results in the streets of small towns and big cities from El Paso to Albany, from Miami to Portland. But it’s not just illegal, but also legal immigration that is in need of serious reform. As with much of our decline, the problems are by human design. Daniel Di Martino reports:

… Today’s immigration system prioritizes diversity and inclusion over merit and skill. About 1 million new permanent residents arrive annually, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That number includes roughly 140,000 older parents of previous migrants coming through chain migration. The current system also randomly selects 55,000 people from “underrepresented” countries and gives them green cards.

These relatively unskilled and older immigrants are admitted immediately, while highly skilled immigrants can wait decades for green cards, even after paying more than $100,000 in taxes as temporary workers. Even a Nobel prizewinner from India, who would qualify for the so-called Einstein visa reserved for the highest-skilled workers (EB-1), cannot obtain a green card without waiting for more than a decade …

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NEW VIDEO Shows J6 Trump Supporter Rosanne Boyland Shot in the Face by Police Projectile, Then Pushed Down and Smothered, Before Metro Police Officer Beat Her with a Stick as She Died on US Capitol Steps

President Trump held his first press conference on Tuesday after Congress certified him the winner of the 2024 presidential election on Monday.

During his press conference from his home in Mar-a-Lago, President Trump made headlines when he announced he was changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico – to the Gulf of America.

President Trump also told the assembled journalists that he heard there was a second person who died on January 6, 2021 at the pro-Trump protests on Capitol Hill.

Actually, Mr. President, four people died that day, three were killed by police action, on January 6, 2021.

American patriots who lost their lives on January 6, 2021. (left to right) Kevin Greeson, Rosanne Boyland, Ashli Babbitt and Benjamin Phillips.

Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed in cold blood by Officer Michael Byrd. Kevin Greeson died of a heart attack. Benjamin Phillips was killed when Capitol Police fired exploding cylinders into the crowd, and he was knocked unconscious, and Trump supporters were unable to revive him. And Rosanne Boyland was gassed, pushed down, smothered until unconscious, and then beaten with a stick by Officer Lila Morris several times as she lay dying on the US Capitol Steps.

Many of the men that helped Rosanne are in pre-trial detention and being held as political prisoners, including Sheriff Ronald McAbee (in red hat).

The Capitol Police also attempted to kill Derrick Vargo when they pushed him off a three-story ledge. He survived with serious injuries.

Now, there is a video from Tommy Tatum that shows Rosanne allegedly shot in the face by police before she was knocked to the ground and smothered and before Officer Morris beat her dead.

In the video, you clearly see J6 defendant Philip Anderson duck as a projectile is shot at him as he was stuck in the crowd of Trump supporters in the West Tunnel.

Philip and Rosanne and dozens of Trump supporters were clearly “stuck” in the tunnel and could not move in any direction. When Philip was able to duck, the projectile, likely a pepper ball, hit Rosanne in the face and knocked off her glasses.

Rosanne then dropped down and was pushed out of the tunnel by police as angry protesters were pushing at them from a different direction.

At that point, Philip and Rosanne were caught at the bottom of a huge pile. Capitol police continued to fire numerous toxic gas balls at the protesters.

Philip and Rosanne both fell unconscious.

J6er Jake Lang pulled Philip Anderson to safety and helped revive him.

Philip Anderson is rescued by the Pro-Trump crowd from the police attackers. This was while Rosanne Boyland was beaten with a police stick by Officer Morris. Rosanne was dead.

Rosanne was not so fortunate, and Officer Lila Morris beat her unconscious body numerous times with a stick. Rosanne was dead.

Numerous Trump supporters and eye-witnesses were later charged by Joe Biden’s wicked DOJ for attempting to rescue Rosanne Boyland. Even Philip Anderson was charged with a crime after police nearly killed him that day.

Rosanne Boyland was a victim of Capitol Police brutality that day. The legacy news has NEVER investigated her death. Ever.

Cara Castronuova has more on this tragic story here.

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Bovard: The Democrats’ Three-Decade War On Honest Voting

Bovard: The Democrats’ Three-Decade War On Honest Voting

Authored by James Bovard,

When did preventing election fraud become a violation of the Voting Rights Act?

According to President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, it is now a federal crime to prevent illegal ballots in presidential elections. 

Barely 30 days before the 2024 election, the Justice Department sued the state of Virginia to prohibit its removal of the names of noncitizens from voting rolls. Gov. Glenn Youngkin was enforcing a 2006 Virginia law, but the Biden administration portrayed that action as an attack on “the cornerstone of our democracy.” Youngkin denounced the federal lawsuit as “a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections” in Virginia.

The Virginia lawsuit is simply the latest in Democrats’ long war against honest voting, which began with the Clinton administration’s Motor Voter Act. That 1993 law mandated voter registration in every welfare and food-stamp office in the nation. Brent Thompson, executive director of the Fair Government Foundation, observed in 1996, “The Motor Voter law did away with a panoply of anti-fraud mechanisms long relied on by the states to police and deter fraudulent voting.”

In 2015, the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton condemned voter identification requirements as part of a “sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people.” A Washington Post headline aptly summarized her message: “Hillary Clinton Declares War on Voter ID.” Verifying identification was unnecessary because, as long as enough ballots showed up with a check by Hillary’s name, she would be irrevocably entitled to all the power she could seize in the following four years. 

Lax voting procedures in some states were insufficient to enable Hillary to capture the White House. But the panic induced by Covid-19 enabled politicians to radically loosen the rules for the next presidential election. Many states made it easier—if not automatic—to vote by mail, even though a 2012 New York Times analysis concluded that “fraud in voting by mail is… vastly more prevalent than the in-person voting fraud that has attracted far more attention.” Some states abandoned any effort to verify mail ballots, dropping requirements for matching signatures, return addresses, or having a witness verify the person and the vote. Civil Rights Commissioner J. Christian Adams noted that “Democrats succeeded in tossing out state laws related to absentee ballot verification, deadlines and a whole range of laws all in the name of Covid.”

Neither the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution (rules for federal elections “shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof”) nor state law stopped the rigging of the 2020 vote. Michigan sent “unsolicited absentee-voter ballot applications by mail to all 7.7 million registered Michigan voters…without signature verification as expressly required” by state law. The Wisconsin Elections Commission approved setting up to 500 unmanned ballot drop boxes in major Democratic cities in violation of Wisconsin law. That commission  and local election officials encouraged all Wisconsin “voters to unlawfully declare themselves ‘indefinitely confined’—which under Wisconsin law allows the voter to avoid security measures like signature verification and photo ID requirements,” as the Texas Attorney General noted in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that election officials acted illegally, but that did nothing to nullify the hundreds of thousands of votes that came in via illicit loopholes. Biden carried Wisconsin by 20,000 votes.

To stifle controversy over electoral rule changes, Biden’s media allies created a fairy tale. A week after Election Day, the New York Times ran a banner headline across the top of the front page: “Election Officials Nationwide Find No Fraud.” How did the Times know? Their reporters basically called election officials in each state and asked, “Did y’all have any fraud?” A total lack of fraud in an election with more than 100 million voters would have required divine intervention to achieve. Biden’s 2020 victory became the election equivalent of the Immaculate Conception. A Washington Post headline scoffed that anyone who doubted Biden’s victory was an “Election Denier”—placing them in the same odious category as Holocaust deniers. An ABC News analysis portrayed distrust of the election results as a form of mental illness.

Most of the American media pretended that voter fraud was so rare that the mere suggestion of its occurrence was a heresy against democracy. But a few weeks after Biden was sworn in as president, a federal investigation revealed that the U.S. government bankrolled some of the most brazenly corrupt elections in modern times. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), issued a report titled, “Elections: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan,” that should have received far more attention in Washington and beyond. SIGAR revealed that the net result of 15 years of U.S. pro-democracy assistance was that Afghanistan’s 2019 presidential election was “the most corrupt the country had ever held.” U.S. tax dollars poured into the coffers of Afghanistan’s Electoral Complaints Commission to safeguard voting, but that agency was a prime source of the most shameless vote stealing. U.S. aid enabled the Afghan government to purchase sophisticated electronic voting systems. But SIGAR’s report warned that “because governments often control electoral commissions and the procurement of election technology, they are well placed to use it to commit fraud.” SIGAR ruefully noted, “The true purpose of adopting election technologies may not be to actually reduce fraud, but to create the illusion of doing so.” A U.S. Army colonel who deployed several times to Afghanistan told SIGAR that as early as 2006, the Afghan government had “self-organized into a kleptocracy.” Officials who were stealing everything else never hesitated to steal votes. The collapse of democratic legitimacy paved the way for the collapse of the U.S. puppet regime in Kabul in August 2021.

The Biden administration sought to exploit Covid-era precedents to turn America into a Drop Box Democracy where minimal efforts by voters automatically sanctify maximum power for politicians. In 2021, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act, to force all states to adopt the most unreliable electoral procedures used during the pandemic. The bill, which failed in the Senate, would have compelled all future federal elections to permit paid ballot-harvesting and universal mail-in voting, prohibit checking voter identification, and require states to count ballots that arrive ten days after an election. Many of the same Democrats who championed Covid vaccine passports, which disproportionately barred blacks from restaurants and gyms, also insist that requiring voters to show identification is Jim Crow at its worst.

Histrionics and shenanigans continue to be the Democrats’ preferred substitute for election integrity:

  • Kamala Harris objected to voter identification requirements because she bizarrely claimed it was “almost impossible” for rural voters to photocopy their identification papers.
  • The city of Detroit responded to a Republican National Party Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for ballot drop box surveillance footage by claiming that the footage had been deleted—after the FOIA request was received. Detroit was notorious for shrouding its vote counting on Election Night 2020, blocking poll watchers from witnessing Biden’s miraculous comeback.
  • In Georgia, Judge Thomas Cox on Wednesday struck down the Georgia State Election Board’s new rules to require video surveillance of ballot drop boxes and to regulate ballot-harvesting.
  • Lawsuits are proceeding regarding lax standards for absentee mail-in ballots in North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, and elsewhere.

Preventing bogus ballots should not be treated like a moral or theological issue. When did verifying votes become a crime against democracy? Why is the Justice Department crusading to turn voting into an entitlement program for non-citizens? Do Democrats seek to make the actual voting as fraud-ridden as politicians’ campaign promises?  Elections need rigorous safeguards against fraud because, as Thomas Paine warned long ago, “the trade of governing has always been monopolized by… the most rascally individuals of mankind.” Four presidential elections since 2000 have been heavily tainted by allegations of foul play. American democracy has zero legitimacy to spare at this point.

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This is gut-wrenching. The media is lying. The North Carolina governor is lying

This is gut-wrenching. The media is lying. The North Carolina governor is lying. Not enough people are talking about this or calling out the lies. That list, I believe, is up to 3,000 missing now. Something has to give. We don’t treat Americans like this. We don’t discard Americans. These are human beings. Whole families. They were loved and cherished. My heart aches. I will never be able to move past the way north carolinans were treated. Praying up.

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‘Deadly Serious Breach’: Classified US Docs on Israel Reach Iranian News Entity, Signaling Jewish State ‘Can’t Trust Washington’

The Biden-Harris administration is investigating a "deadly serious breach" of classified U.S. intelligence detailing Israeli plans for a strike on Iran, the latest in a series of targeted leaks against Israel that has put America’s closest Middle East ally on edge, according to current and former U.S. officials.

The explosive weekend release included top-secret Pentagon documents purporting to show Israel’s preparations for a large-scale counterstrike on Iran. The two documents—compiled by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency over the past several weeks—expose how Israel is preparing for the attack, including the types of aircraft and munitions that are expected to be used. They were published by the Middle East Spectator, a little-known outlet that is known to disseminate propaganda from Tehran.

While the documents, according to CNN, include markings that indicate they were meant to be shared with the "Five Eyes" intelligence network—made up of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada—a former U.S. intelligence community official who reviewed them said there is no question they emanated from the U.S. side. The documents, the former official said, appear to have been posted on a U.S. classified system that can be accessed by "thousands upon thousands" of American officials from across the government."

"They all can literally log onto a classified computer and pull up the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency’s website and look at whatever is made available to them," the former official said. "Why would you allow any intelligence like this, whether it’s compartmentalized or not, why would you ever allow that to be generally available?"

While the documents do not detail which sites Israel is likely to attack inside Iran, they are the latest in a string of leaks that have raised questions about the Biden-Harris administration’s ability to safeguard information at the highest levels of government. For Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser, that trend is likely to erode Israel’s trust in the United States.

"The damage wrought by this leak has less to do with tipping Iran off about or tactical insight into an impending Israeli strike than with broader bilateral trust," Rubin said. "This is not the first time a U.S. administration has leaked top secret details meant to sidetrack Israeli efforts to undermine Iran’s nuclear program."

In the end, Rubin said, "it’s not Israel that will ultimately pay the price; it’s the United States. The U.S. intelligence community can gain more from Israel than vice versa. By signaling Israel can’t trust Washington, the United States will essentially be operating blind, learning about Israel actions from the media after the fact, just like the rest of the world. In a region where minutes can make the difference between life and death, this is a truly high price to bear."

One senior Biden-Harris administration official, who was not authorized to speak on record about the situation, described the leak as a "deadly serious breach."

"For at least the past year there has been a concerted campaign to leak what at least seems to be classified information by anti-Israel elements in large part to impact media narratives—but, if true, this obviously goes beyond that," the official said.

A U.S. defense official, also speaking only on background, confirmed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is "looking into these reports" as it seeks to determine how a cache of highly secretive documents, dated Oct. 15 and 16, made their way to a pro-Iran media account entity that published them on Telegram.

The White House National Security Council declined to comment, referring requests to the Pentagon and ODNI, which also would not speak on record. The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment on the documents, their authenticity, and efforts to identify the leaker.

"It is extremely alarming that pro-Iranian social media accounts are posting what appears to be leaked intelligence on Israeli operations and planning," said Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which oversees the U.S. defense establishment. "Whoever committed this outrageous act is putting our ally at risk, and they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

The Middle East Spectator said in a statement that the documents were originally posted inside a Telegram channel, where the leaker is likely an active participant. The outlet said it is "not aware" of any additional classified leaks. It also identified the leaker as potentially an employee with the State Department, which would have access to top-secret assessments.

The State Department did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.

Last week, private communications between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spilled into public view, showing a behind-the-scenes effort to pressure Israel into pumping more aid into the embattled Hamas-run Gaza Strip. The letter included a threat to cut off critical U.S. arms sales to Israel if it does not improve humanitarian conditions on the ground. The leak fueled accusations that the Biden-Harris administration is trying to embarrass Israel as it leans on the Jewish state to end its war against Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Earlier in the year, a State Department document assessing that Israel was in breach of American laws mandating humanitarian assistance in times of war also spilled into public view, jolting Israeli leadership and driving calls among some Democrats for arms sales to be cut off.

The leak has also raised fresh questions about several senior Biden-Harris administration officials who are known to advocate for increased diplomacy with Iran. This includes senior Pentagon official Ariane Tabatabai, who was identified last year as a member of a secretive pro-Iran influence group operated by the hardline regime’s government.

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Senator Graham: Trump’s Right, Democrat ‘Agenda’ Is ‘The Enemy From Within’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said over the weekend that former President Donald Trump was right when he talks about the Democrat Party being the “enemy from within.”

Graham made the remarks during an appearance on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” with host Kristen Welker.

“It is the enemy from within, and they’re very dangerous,” Trump said. “We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis. These people, they’re so sick and they’re so evil.”

Graham noted that the Democrats’ agenda “will change America fundamentally, that they want to pack the court, they want to go to 13-9, they want to eliminate the Electoral College.”

“They want to make D.C. and Puerto Rico states,” he said. “So yeah, I think their agenda’s really radical. But when you talk about rhetoric, you’ve got to remember, they tried to blow his head off. There’s one candidate in this race who’s been shot at and hit in the ear, and we’re lucky they didn’t blow his head off. And another guy tried to kill him the next week.”

Graham said that Democrats are trying to turn the U.S. “upside down.”

“It fundamentally changes who we are as a nation, and we’re going to stop it,” he said. “We’re going to stop it at the ballot box.”

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Kamala Harris Suggests Men Are “Misogynist” if They Don’t Vote For Her in Dumpster Fire Interview with Al Sharpton (VIDEO)

Al Sharpton’s interview with Kamala Harris

It happened.

Two of the dumbest people in politics sat down to discuss the 2024 election.

Professional race hustler and MSNBC host Al Sharpton interviewed Kamala Harris on Politics Nation.

The interview with prerecorded and aired Sunday evening.

Al Sharpton asked Kamala Harris about her lack of support from men of all races.

Black men are not supporting Kamala Harris which is why the Democrat machine sent Barack Obama on the campaign trail to shame black men.

Earlier this month Barack Obama scolded black men and told the ‘brothers’ that they had to vote for Kamala Harris.

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It didn’t work.

Black men blasted Barack Obama.

The Harris camp also rolled out “White Dudes for Harris” last month.

That backfired too.

Trump shredded ‘White Dudes for Harris’ at the Al Smith charity dinner last week.

“There’s a group called “White Dudes for Harris”… but I’m not worried about them at all, because their wives and their wives’ lovers are all voting for me,” Trump said.

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Al Sharpton asked Harris if men are misogynist if they don’t support her.

“Do you think some of the resistance of some men – black and white – is misogynist?” Al Sharpton asked Kamala Harris.

“I think that you are absolutely right,” Kamala Harris said after delivering a word salad.

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Harris admitted the price of groceries is still high because of her failed policies.

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Imagine this woman trying to deal with China’s Xi or Vladimir Putin.

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