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Miranda Devine: How Trump can fix the Epstein mess that’s ripping his party apart
By Miranda Devine Published July 16, 2025, 10:15 p.m. ET
As much as President Trump and the White House would like everyone to shut up and move on from the dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a new poll shows that the scandal isn’t going away.
Rasmussen polling this week shows Trump has suffered a sharp drop in approval over the period of the Epstein brouhaha, plummeting from a plus-4 popularity rating to a negative-4 in three weeks.
The poll of 1,164 likely voters conducted on July 8-10 found that just 21% believe the Trump FBI and DOJ are telling the truth about Epstein, who was found hanged in his jail cell in 2019.
While FBI Director Kash Patel and deputy Dan Bongino insist that Epstein committed suicide, only 31% of voters believe them.
“You can’t just say ‘Trust me, bro,’?” says Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen’s head pollster.
“Roughly two-thirds of every political category — 68% of Democrats, 66% of Republicans and 69% of unaffiliated voters — reject the idea that the Epstein case is closed and instead believe that there are dozens of powerful and wealthy offenders who need to face justice.”
Epstein is a self-inflicted wound by the administration that has Trump venting on social media at his “PAST” supporters and “weaklings” of the MAGA base who have bought the “bulls–t” of the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”
“Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats’ work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”
Echoes of Biden
Mitchell says Trump’s plummeting poll numbers echo Joe Biden’s precipitous and permanent decline after the catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal.
“People want criminal accountability,” he says.
“The FBI interfered with two elections in a row.”
Yet nobody has been punished.
The fury is not just about Epstein.
He’s dead, by suicide in his jail cell, solo or assisted.
His pimp girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is in jail.
But the Epstein scandal is symbolic of the absence of accountability for past crimes against the American people.
The president, who won in part by echoing deep distrust in the institutions and stoking legitimate grievances, hasn’t delivered heads on pikes.
The FBI and DOJ act as if that’s a low priority.
Trump is understandably infuriated that the Epstein business is soaking up so much attention, seeing he works from dawn to midnight fixing the disasters unleashed by Biden.
But all those supporters who chanted “lock her up” at his 2016 rallies were disappointed when he broke his promise to investigate “Crooked” Hillary Clinton and instead offered her grace, saying “leave her alone” and praising her as “strong and smart.”
Trump supporters grudgingly accepted it as a one-off sacrifice for the good of national unity.
Fat lot of good that did!
What ensued was the Clinton campaign-inspired Russia hoax, a weaponized FBI and CIA targeting Trump and his allies for the next eight years and an array of fake controversies peddled to an all too eager media.
There was the “pee tape,” the “Very Fine People” Hoax, the “Suckers and Losers” Hoax, the Russian Bounties Hoax, the “Drinking Bleach” Hoax, the “Lafayette Square Tear Gas” Hoax and, of course, the “Hunter Biden Laptop is Russian Disinfo” Hoax.
Two impeachments later it was obvious that extending grace to deceitful Democrats is a mug’s game, so this time everyone thought that Trump would come back into office and eke out retribution.
Business as usual
Six months on, it’s business as usual.
Kash Patel wasted no time putting on an FBI cap, jetting around to hockey games in the FBI private jet and pledging allegiance to the troops he had so recently castigated.
Now he claims they deserve more than anything an expensive new headquarters.
No. They don’t.The FBI is rotten.
That was the mantra of the Trump campaign, and certainly of Patel and Bongino.
They were going to crack down on everyone involved in the weaponization efforts against Trump and his supporters.
“Lock them up” was the chant.
And again nothing happened.
In fact, worse than nothing.
Steven Jensen, the architect of the FBI’s overzealous Jan. 6 investigations, was appointed to lead the Washington Field Office.
We were promised a good reason would soon be revealed.
Three months later, crickets.
There has been zero accountability for the FBI targeting traditional Catholics as incipient domestic terrorists.
The “Radical Traditionalist Catholics” memo of 2023 was not an isolated error as former Director Chris Wray claimed.
Sen. Chuck Grassley has revealed it was an action item pumped out to more than 1,000 FBI employees over multiple field offices.
Meanwhile, the handful of valiant whistleblowers who exposed the corruption, like Steve Friend and Garret O’Boyle, have been abandoned by Patel, who once posed as their champion.
The way to solve the disillusionment embodied in the Epstein furor is not pumping out Truth Socials calling the whole thing a hoax.
It’s not telling people there’s nothing there.
It’s not releasing a doctored video of Epstein’s jail cell with one minute missing — or as the lefty rag Wired claims, “2 minutes and 53 seconds.”
That just added gasoline to the fire.
As distasteful and time-consuming as it for a White House busy with important matters of state, someone has to grab hold of this whirling dervish and fast.
Already you can bet devious Dems are concocting some new version of the “pee tape” to bring down Trump, or at least depress his poll numbers so they win the midterms.
‘No client list’
Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer, claims there is no “client list” and that courts have sealed all FBI interview records of alleged victims.
“I know who they are. They don’t include any current officeholders.”
People have confused Epstein’s “client list” with his little black book — hundreds of names of all the rich and famous people he ever met.
Dershowitz was falsely accused of being an abuser and had to fight to clear his name.
But it’s a pity that Dershowitz-style clarity has not come from the FBI, DOJ or White House, all of which appear to have been caught flat-footed by a conspiracy that MAGA influencers have been whipping up for a decade.
One communications expert in the administration believes the FBI should release a detailed timeline and flowchart of everything known about the Epstein case and hold a press conference to answer every question.
If it’s really some Russiagate-style plot, then expose it.
If the FBI or DOJ botched the initial Epstein investigation or acted corruptly in the sweetheart plea deal, expose it.
The CIA should say whether Epstein was an intelligence asset.
But beyond that tawdry case, there has to be accountability for the deep state witch hunts against Trump and his supporters.
And where is the accountability on the COVID lies and censorship?
Heads on pikes, nothing less.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/opinion/miranda-devine-trumps-base-wants-the-truth-about-epstein-and-many-other-injustices-whether-prez-cries-hoax-or-not/
There was no doubt in my mind that it was honest.
Good for you, Larry.
You earn it with your first in class early morning posts.
Enjoy.
" awww ~ that was an honest-one >>
I had been watching for it, but then other
news made me fergit ... !!
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Hey Larry. BTW... Great grub ! ! ! 414141 Congrats.
" Agreed, 'n Good Morning, K2 " .. !! .
Hallelujah. This money should have been pulled back the first time they failed to deliver...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, whose department oversees FRA, has further directed the agency to consult with the Department of Justice on possibly clawing back federal funds for the failed high-speed rail project.
“This is California’s fault,” Duffy said in a statement. “Governor Newsom and the complicit Democrats have enabled this waste for years.”
“Federal dollars are not a blank check – they come with a promise to deliver results,” the transportation secretary continued. “After over a decade of failures, CHSRA’s mismanagement and incompetence has proven it cannot build its train to nowhere on time or on budget.”
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Maurene Comey, daughter of ex-FBI Director James, >
fired from top US Attorney’s Office job
after working Diddy, Epstein cases
By Josh Christenson,
Joe Marino,
Miranda Devine,
Ben Kochman and
Anna Young
Published July 16, 2025
Updated July 16, 2025, 9:54 p.m. E
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/maurene-comey-daughter-of-james-comey-fired-from-top-us-attorneys-office-job-after-working-diddy-epstein-cases/
Trump terminates federal funding for California’s $135B high-speed >
rail ‘boondoggle’: ‘TRAIN TO NOWHERE’
By Victor Nava
Published July 16, 2025, 10:16 p.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/trump-terminates-federal-funding-for-californias-135b-high-speed-rail-boondoggle/
A Soft Amnesty Bill has been filed and >
has the support of several House Republicans.
It would allow illegal aliens who crossed the border before 2021
a pathway to stay and work here, legally.
They can get up to 7 years of legal status with work authorization.
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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 16, 2025
lol That's just your opinion.
Better than wondering if your butt hole is going to FREEZE shut!!!!
That sounds like fun...
Not wind or solar power????
Google inks $3 billion US hydropower deal in largest clean energy agreement of its kind
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google has agreed to secure as much as 3 gigawatts of U.S. hydropower in the world’s largest corporate clean power pact for hydroelectricity, the company said on Tuesday, as Big Tech pursues the expansion of energy-hungry data centers.
The deal between Google and Brookfield Asset Management (BAM.TO) includes initial 20-year power purchase agreements, totaling $3 billion, for electricity generated from two hydropower facilities in Pennsylvania.
The tech giant will also invest $25 billion in data centers across Pennsylvania and neighboring states over the next two years, Semafor reported on Tuesday.
The technology industry is intensifying the hunt for massive amounts of clean electricity to power data centers needed for artificial intelligence and cloud computing, which has driven U.S. power consumption to record highs after nearly two decades of stagnation.
Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer at Google parent company Alphabet, is expected to discuss the news at an AI summit in Pittsburgh. U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend the event, where $70 billion in AI and energy investments are expected to be announced.
“This collaboration with Brookfield is a significant step forward, ensuring clean energy supply in the PJM region where we operate,” Amanda Peterson Corio, Google’s head of data center energy, said in a statement.
Over roughly the last year, Google has struck several first-of-a-kind power purchase agreements, including for carbon-free geothermal energy and advanced nuclear. The company is also working with the country’s largest electricity grid operator, PJM Interconnection, to use AI to speed up the process of hooking up new power supplies to the grid.
In the latest deal, Google said it has signed an initial framework agreement with Brookfield, owner of Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP.N), which develops and operates renewable energy plants.
Its two hydropower sites in Pennsylvania will be upgraded and relicensed as part of the arrangement, the companies said.
Google said it plans to expand the deal eventually beyond those sites to other parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.
https://www.oann.com/tech/google-inks-3-billion-us-hydropower-deal-in-largest-clean-energy-agreement-of-its-kind/
DHS sends 5 ‘Criminal illegal aliens’ to Eswatini in Southern Africa: ‘Their home countries refused to take them back’
OAN Staff Blake Wolf
12:14 PM – Wednesday, July 16, 2025
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) resumed their policy of deporting illegal aliens to poverty-stricken nations willing to take in the worst of the worst — sending at least five “criminal illegal aliens” to Eswatini in Southern Africa.
The five individuals deported are from the countries Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba, and Yemen.
Eswatini is a developing nation with significant poverty and economic challenges. It is classified as a lower-middle-income country by the World Bank.
The deportation follows after the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on the federal government’s ability to deport illegal aliens to nations in which they have “no ties to.”
Meanwhile, as Democrat-led criticism of President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown continues, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin revealed that the five illegal aliens are “so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back.”
McLaughlin noted that the individuals were convicted on charges ranging from “child rape” to murder.
“These depraved monsters have been terrorizing American communities, but thanks to [President Donald Trump] and [DHS Secretary Kristi Noem], they are off of American soil,” she continued.
NEW: a safe third country deportation flight to Eswatini in Southern Africa has landed— This flight took individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back.
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) July 16, 2025
These depraved monsters have been terrorizing American communities but thanks to @POTUS… pic.twitter.com/TsanIX8H4T
Biden push for $10B electric mail delivery fleet flops with just 250 trucks built in two years
By Josh Christenson and Kendall White Published July 16, 2025, 2:00 p.m. ET
(Just a small example of Biden's "successful" presidency. And now the USPS has the nerve to raise the rates.)
WASHINGTON — A Biden administration plan to create a “green” fleet of postal vehicles has churned out a mere 250 electric mail trucks in just over two years — after shelling out taxpayer funds meant to build thousands — leaving Republicans raging at the multibillion-dollar “boondoggle.”
The nearly $10 billion project — which called for more than 35,000 battery-powered US Postal Service (USPS) vehicles to be completed by September 2028 — was funded in part by $3 billion in funding from former President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
As of this month, the project is well behind schedule despite taxpayers forking over $1.7 billion — prompting Capitol Hill Republicans to try to rescind the remaining nearly $1.3 billion earmarked from the IRA.
“Biden’s multi-billion-dollar EV fleet for the USPS is lost in the mail and more than $1 billion is postmarked to order more,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told The Post.
“I am working to cancel the order and return the money to the sender, the American people. The rescissions package is a great start, but Congress must keep its foot on the pedal and make DOGE a lifestyle by stamping out waste like this on a regular basis.”
The move comes after former Postmaster General Louis DeJoy stepped down earlier this year, passing off the agency’s EV embarrassment to his successor, David Steiner, whose new job became official Monday.
Wisconsin-based Oshkosh, a defense contractor, agreed to be paid $2.6 billion by the USPS to provide the 35,000 vehicles — but the Washington Post reported late last year that just 93 battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) were ready by November 2024, even though 3,000 were expected by that date.
Oshkosh’s mail truck production has struggled to clear a number of engineering hurdles, including issues with airbag calibration and during leak testing, which resulted in “water [pouring] out as if [the vehicles’] oversize windows had been left open in a storm.”
A senior executive at Oshkosh attempted to alert USPS about the production problems in 2022, but was blocked by their superiors.
“This is the bottom line: We don’t know how to make a damn truck,” one person involved with the manufacturing process told the Washington Post.
Michigan-based Morgan Olson, a previous contractual partner of USPS, had tried and failed to win the bid to produce the BEVs in February 2024.
During a meeting of DeJoy, postal officials and Morgan Olson executives, the postmaster general lamented the status of “a production plant in South Carolina,” apparently referring to the Oshkosh truck manufacturing facility, a source who attended the meeting revealed to The Post.
But DeJoy later added that he was “in the parcel delivery business, not the vehicle manufacturing business,” the source continued.
At the time, Oshkosh’s Spartanburg factory could produce just one mail truck per day, with company records showing that it had expected to be producing upward of 80 vehicles on a daily basis.
The cost per truck to the defense contractor was pegged at $77.692 for 28,195 electric vehicles, according to the Washington Post.
In December 2023, USPS put out a call for vehicle suppliers that could provide “at least 12,000 battery-electric” mail trucks by October 2025, along with “at least 1,500 internal combustion engine” trucks starting in October 2024.
A rep for Oshkosh referred comments to USPS but confirmed the manufacturer still has an active contract with the agency for electric vehicles.
USPS OIG
A rep for Oshkosh referred questions to USPS but confirmed the manufacturer still has an active contract with the agency for electric vehicles.
“Modernization of the Postal Service’s delivery fleet is part of the organization’s $40 billion investment strategy to upgrade and improve the USPS processing, transportation, and delivery networks,” a USPS spokesperson said.
“The Postal Service has placed orders for 51,500 next generation delivery vehicles (NGDVs), of which 35,000 are Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV). More than 1,000 NGDVs have been received to date, of which more than 250 are BEV,” the rep added.
“Additionally, the Postal Service has ordered 9,250 Ford E-Transit electric vehicles, of which nearly 8,000 have been received. Deployment continues to expand to sites across the country in accordance with the rollout of our new delivery network.”
The Biden administration had been committed to USPS acquiring “100% electric” postal vehicles starting in 2026, but it remains to be seen whether Republicans will withdraw the funding for the green fleet project.
The transition of USPS vehicles to electric power from gas vehicles — a central pillar of Biden’s environmental agenda — has been stalled almost from the outset.
Expert estimates project that the broader set of environmental provisions included in the Inflation Reduction Act could cost taxpayers upward of $1 trillion during the decade following the bill’s passage.
The new, predominantly electric vehicles are meant to replace the antiquated fleet of Grumman Long Life Vehicles, which date to 1987 and are expensive to maintain, loud, fuel-inefficient, and have been known at times to burst into flame.
The miniscule number of vehicles that have been produced by Oshkosh are also a small fraction of the 60,000 total “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles,” powered by a mix of battery-electric and other energy sources, that USPS is set to purchase from the firm.
The miniscule number of vehicles that have been produced by Oshkosh are also a small fraction of the 60,000 total “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles,” powered by a mix of battery-electric and other energy sources, that USPS is set to purchase from the firm.
The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan taxpayer accountability agency, identified USPS in a February 2025 report as having “high risk” financial viability because the agency “still cannot fully fund its current level of services and financial obligations.”
In recent months, Trump has floated the possibility of merging USPS with the Department of Commerce, citing USPS losses of an astonishing $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024.
“[USPS has] been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money they’ve lost,” the president told reporters in February.
“We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that, and will be a form of a merger, but it’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it’ll operate a lot better than it has been over the years.”
With the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States Post Office by the Second Continental Congress approaching on July 26, the newly appointed Steiner will inherit the tall task of modernizing USPS while its EV program continues to tread water.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/biden-push-for-10b-electric-mail-delivery-fleet-flops-with-just-250-trucks-built-in-two-years/
"Back" on the crack pipe????
Hunter Biden goes scorched earth on Democrats, gives blunt reason why party lost big in 2024
By Ryan King Published July 16, 2025, 10:12 a.m. ET
(Is Hunter back on crack or is he merely severely brain damaged?)
“We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party,” Hunter Biden said... “That’s my position. We had the advantage of incumbency, we had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration..."
President Trump Has Lost Patience With Putin
No more Mr. Nice Guy just dealt the Russian leader a tough hand.
by Dave Patterson | Jul 16, 2025
In a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on July 14, President Donald Trump made it clear he had had enough of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stalling and trolling. At the press availability, Trump drew a line in the sand, giving Putin 50 days to come back to the negotiating table in good faith or the United States will levy secondary sanctions on Russia’s ability to do business globally.
Trump Not Happy With Putin
As Trump explained, the Russian leader talks really nicely and then doesn’t follow through. Those days are over, as the commander-in-chief noted:
“But we’re very, very unhappy with [Putin], and we’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days, tariffs that are about 100 percent. You’d call them secondary tariffs.”
To address his displeasure with the Russians, Trump also announced that the United States would be selling both offensive and defensive weapons to NATO. “Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday [July 11] that some of the U.S.-made weapons that Ukraine is seeking are deployed with NATO allies in Europe. Those weapons could be transferred to Ukraine, with European countries buying replacements from the US, he said,” Military Times reported. These systems will help to shoot down the massive drone and cruise-missile assaults the Kremlin has been launching against Ukraine lately. Rutte added that Putin was launching “700 drones a day, missiles, bombing cities. This is not because of military goals. It is just creating panic.”
Political pundits inside the DC beltway have attempted to draw parallels between Trump’s approach to providing weapons to Ukraine and that of the previous administration. According to a RealClear Politics article:
“Unlike Biden, the Trump administration will not send military aid directly to Ukraine. Instead, NATO allies will purchase weapons from the US and then funnel them to the front lines, a development that comes in the weeks after those European nations finally agreed to meet Trump’s separate demand that they spend at least 5% of their annual GDP on defense within the next decade.”
The renewed flow of military aid to Ukraine signals a shift in the level of support the US president is providing to the Kyiv government. “A top ally of Trump, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said Sunday [July 13] that the conflict is nearing an inflection point as Trump shows growing interest in helping Ukraine fight back against Russia’s full-scale invasion,” the Associated Press reported. Previously, Trump had been skeptical that the large amount of military assistance the United States and its allies were giving Ukraine was effective in bringing Putin to the negotiating table to stop the unfettered killing in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
However, it’s not only about pushing more weapons to Kyiv but also combining a resurgence of offensive and defensive weapons with financially punishing secondary tariffs. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Russia is spending 40% of its total government budget on defense, most of which goes to replenish weapons and equipment lost in Ukraine. Over the long term, such spending is unsustainable in light of other domestic priorities.
Kremlin Cannot Support War in Ukraine Much Longer
It’s unclear how long the Kremlin can support this level of spending if progress toward a ceasefire and lasting peace is not forthcoming within 50 days. Trump will implement secondary sanctions on those doing business with Russia — legislation to do just that is making its way through the Senate. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), along with 81 bipartisan co-sponsors, are pushing a bill called the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025 (S.1241/H.R2548). The 83 senators in favor make the bill filibuster-proof, having more than 60 votes. The legislation proposes 500% tariffs on countries such as Brazil, which buys 12% of its oil products from Russia; India, which acquires 38% of its crude oil imports from Russia; and China, which gets 47% of its petroleum from Russia. The Kremlin’s energy revenue flow could be significantly disrupted. The tariffs on these countries would be a powerful motivation to find alternative sources for oil, and the loss of revenue would push Russia further down an economic slide.
Trump is demonstrating that economic warfare may be the most effective weapon to get Russia to come to the bargaining table. In the midst of renegotiating economic agreements worldwide, Trump is well-positioned to coordinate tariffs and bilateral trade agreements, thereby exerting geopolitical pressure where it will have the greatest impact for the United States. The whole world is the playing field, but the objective is to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine.
https://www.libertynation.com/president-trump-has-lost-patience-with-putin/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=2025-07-16
EXCLUSIVE: Memo Reveals D.C. Judges Are Predisposed Against Trump Administration
Margot Cleveland
July 16, 2025
The Trump Administration has been doing its part, but the lower courts remain rabid in their attack on the rule of law.
Federal judge James Boasberg advised Chief Justice John Roberts and some two dozen other judges that his D.C. colleagues were “concern[ed] that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis,” according to a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. That Judge Boasberg and his fellow D.C. District Court judges would discuss how a named Defendant in numerous pending lawsuits might respond to an adverse ruling is shocking. Equally outrageous is those judges’ clear disregard for the presumption of regularity — a presumption that requires a court to presume public officials properly discharged their official duties.
During the week of March 11, 2025, members of the Judicial Conference met in Washington, D.C., for the first of its two regular meetings. As the U.S. Court’s webpage explains, “[t]he Judicial Conference of the United States is the national policymaking body for the federal courts.”
The Judicial Conference consists of Chief Justice Roberts, who presides over the body, as well as the chief judge of each judicial circuit, the chief judge of the Court of International Trade, and one district judge from each regional circuit, making for a group of approximately thirty judges. While the Judicial Conference mainstay is considering “administrative and policy issues affecting the federal court system,” and “mak[ing] recommendations to Congress concerning legislation involving the Judicial Branch,” a side conversation at the group’s most recent meeting revealed a disturbing detail — the predisposition of supposedly unbiased judges against the Trump Administration.
In a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist, a member of the Judicial Conference summarized the March meeting, including a “working breakfast” at which Justice Roberts spoke. According to the memorandum, “District of the District of Columbia Chief Judge James Boasberg next raised his colleagues’ concerns that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis.”
“Chief Justice Roberts expressed hope that would not happen and in turn no constitutional crisis would materialize,” according to the memorandum. The summary of the working breakfast added that Chief Justice Roberts noted that “his interactions with the President have been civil and respectful, such as the President thanking him at the state of the union address for administering the oath.”
Donald Trump, however, is not merely the president: He is a Defendant in scores of lawsuits, including multiple cases in the D.C. District Court. As such, this conversation did not concern generic concerns of the judiciary, but specific discussions about a litigant currently before the same judges who expressed concern to the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court that the Trump Administration would disregard the court’s orders.
Judge Boasberg’s comments reveal he and his colleagues hold an anti-Trump bias, for the Trump Administration had complied with every court order to date (and since for that matter). The D.C. District Court judges’ “concern” also went counter to the normal presumption courts hold — one that presumes public officials properly discharged their official duties. Apparently, that presumption does not apply to the current president, at least if you are litigating in D.C.
And what is both troubling and ironic is that only a few days later, Judge Boasberg, in a case in which he completely lacked jurisdiction, as the Supreme Court would later confirm, entered a lawless order commanding the Trump Administration to halt removals to El Salvador. So, one of the judges concerned about Trump following the law, ignored the law. Nonetheless, Judge Boasberg would later find “the Trump Administration committed criminal contempt of court” by failing to turn the planes around or fly the gang members back to the U.S., even though the court’s written (and unlawful) injunction ordered neither.
As I said at the time, the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court seemed hellbent on finding the Trump Administration in contempt. It would seem, we now know why: Judge Boasberg and his colleagues prejudged Trump as a scofflaw. The reality, though, is the president has shown great restraint in the face of an avalanche of lawless lower court orders.
In fact, recently released emails related to the case before Judge Boasberg confirm the Trump Administration’s intent was and remains to obey all court orders — even those lawless ones. Those emails came to light after a whistleblower made spurious allegations against Emil Bove, whom Trump has nominated to serve on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Bove served as the principal associate deputy attorney general at the time the DOJ was representing the Trump Administration before Judge Boasberg. While the whistleblower claimed Bove suggested the DOJ ignore court orders to advance the Trump Administration’s agenda, an email obtained by The Federalist on Friday disproved the claim.
In that email, the whistleblower’s supervisor wrote that the legal team was “called to a meeting with the Deputy Attorney General,” at which Bove “advised our team that we must avoid a court order halting an upcoming operation to implement the Act at all costs.”
As Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Chair of the Judiciary Committee, noted yesterday, “Bove telling subordinate DOJ litigators, in advance of anticipated litigation, to avoid a court order that negatively impacts a mission is inconsistent with instructions to outright ignore a court order, and entirely consistent with Bove’s sworn testimony.” And at his confirmation hearing, Bove, under oath, attested that he has “never advised a Department of Justice attorney to violate a court order.” But as Justice Alito reminded Americans a mere month after the Judicial Conference attended by Judge Boasberg concluded, “oth the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.” The Trump Administration has been doing its part, but the lower courts remain rabid in their attack on the rule of law — and now we know that at least some judges are likewise flouting their obligation to remain impartial or recuse from the case when they aren’t.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/16/exclusive-memo-reveals-d-c-judges-are-predisposed-against-trump-administration/
Busted in Minnesota: Duo Pleads Guilty After Flooding Election Offices With Fake Voter Registrations—Scheme Mirrors Michigan GBI Strategies Voter Fraud Investigation With ZERO Convictions
by Patty McMurray Jul. 15, 2025 5:00 pm
In October 2020, only one month before the general election, GBI Strategies, a Democrat-funded group, was caught by the Muskegon and Michigan State Police Departments submitting potentially thousands of false voter registration applications to the Muskegon Clerk’s office.
The offices of Democrat Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel each had investigators working with the Michigan State Police on the statewide investigation. According to the key suspect in the investigation, GBI Strategies focused on "canvassing" in urban areas of the state. The Michigan State Police report identifies U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D) and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden as the two campaigns funding the fraudulent voter registration group's work in the key swing state.
In Minnesota, the FBI investigated a similar voter registration fraud scam involving two individuals and an unnamed "voter registration" group that paid them for each registration they submitted. The voter fraud crimes took place between 2021 and 2022. Unlike Michigan, the perpetrators in this case were charged.
Two Nevada residents have pleaded guilty to filling out hundreds of voter registration forms with false information and then submitting them to 10 Minnesota election offices during the 2022 election. The former West St. Paul, Minnesota residents, 57-year-old Lorraine Lee Combs and 58-year-old Ronnie Williams, who are described as longtime romantic partners, were charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. The couple was caught and charged with conspiracy to engage in voter registration fraud in Minnesota. They were both charged through a judicial process called information, which indicates to the court their intention to plead guilty.
According to court documents, an unnamed voter registration group paid both individuals to create the fake registrations and submit them to 10 different counties in Minnesota. The counties have not been named, but the Carver County Sheriff's Department is mentioned in the U.S. Attorney's press release. Carver County, MN, is a swing county with Republicans holding a slight edge over Democratic voters. Creating large numbers of new voters out of thin air could significantly impact the outcome of their elections.
The U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota, had this to say about the charges that resulted from a 2-year investigation in the voter fraud scam: “Election fraud strikes at the heart of our democracy,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson. “Thankfully, the FBI stopped this fraud in its tracks before anyone successfully cast a fraudulent ballot. But we will stay vigilant. Whether it's jury bribery, witness tampering, or now election fraud—crimes that threaten our democracy have no place in Minnesota.”
“Nothing is more central to our democracy than fair and impartially conducted elections,” said Special Agent in Charge Alvin M. Winston Sr. of the FBI Minneapolis. "Through their actions, Combs and Williams attempted to deprive the citizens of Minnesota of a secure and reliable election process. Along with our partners, the FBI will stop at nothing to identify and bring to justice anyone who threatens the security of our electoral system.”
According to court documents, Williams then provided the completed voter registration forms to Foundation 1, an entity seeking to register voters in Minnesota, which submitted the false voter registration applications to county election offices across Minnesota. Foundation 1 paid Williams for the registrations, and Williams split the proceeds with Combs.
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon claimed he worked to identify the false registrations and report them to law enforcement.
According to Alpha News, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon stated that his office also partnered with local election officials, who utilized verification tools to identify inconsistencies and report them to law enforcement and Simon’s office. “The extensive checks in Minnesota’s voter registration process ensured that the fraudulent applications were immediately flagged, and no ineligible votes were cast,” Simon added.
In Michigan, when it was discovered that GBI Strategies (a Democrat-funded voter registration group) was sending packages filled with fake voter registrations from a hotel in Auburn Hills, MI, to clerks' offices across the state of Michigan, Corey Ames, an investigator working for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, was assigned to the case. Curiously, Ms.Benson, a Democrat who is now running for governor of the state, kept the investigation hidden from the public. Moreover, MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson kept the investigation hidden from the clerks, who were never told to be on the lookout for the fraudulent voter applications.
Unlike the Minnesota Secretary of State, who was transparent about their findings, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson kept the statewide investigation into GBI Strategies a secret from Michigan clerks tasked with determining whether the voter registrations they received in the mail were legitimate or fraudulent. Michigan clerks used Facebook to compare notes when they received what they considered suspicious activity. fcomplain about the large volume of fake voter registrations they were receiving from the Democrat-funded group, which never faced any criminal charges for its actions.
The image below is a screenshot taken by The Gateway Pundit from a Michigan Clerk's Facebook page, which we were given access to through a whistleblower. The post shared by a clerk on the west side of the state, reveals a photo of the box of phony voter registrations she received from GBI Strategies, aka Empower Michigan (EM), from a hotel on the other side of the state.
Although Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is also a Democrat, is very vocal about using lawfare to punish her political enemies, she also chose to keep the statewide voter registration fraud investigation hidden from the public. In the video below, Stephen Morse, an investigator working for Dana Nessel's office, can be seen interviewing the key suspect, who was employed by GBI Strategies and was caught turning in a massive quantity of fake registrations.
The key GBI Strategies suspect tells MI AG Nessel Investigator Stephen Morse she doesn’t know who pays GBI to do the work they were doing. She also said they had several offices in MI, Miami, Philly, N. Carolina and Iowa.
Morse tells the GBI Strategies employee who allegedly… pic.twitter.com/OxTXHVxmru
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) March 31, 2025
Unlike the two suspects who just pleaded guilty to creating and turning in over 500 fraudulent voter registrations in Minnesota, not one person, including the key suspect in the GBI Strategies voter fraud case, was ever charged for their role in the Democrat-funded voter fraud scheme.
Although FOIA requests related to GBI Strategies' work in Michigan and other states have been submitted, they have reportedly all been rejected due to an "ongoing investigation."
So far, the voter registration group involved in the Minnesota voter registration fraud investigation has not been named. The Minnesota voter registration group that paid Williams and Lee-Combs is listed as "Foundation 1" in the court documents.
Many of these groups, like GBI Strategies and Black Fork Strategies which operates in Ohio and have also been accused of mass voter registration fraud, are funded by left-leaning organizations or PACs.
Here We Go Again: Ohio Board of Elections Asks SOS To Investigate Black Fork Strategies For Alleged Registration Fraud…”This is fraud! This is outright fraudulent behavior!”
One of the top funders of GBI Strategies (which now appears to be defunct or has reorganized under a new acronym) was the DSCC (Democratic Senate Campaign Committee). Curiously, U.S. Senator Gary Peters, whose campaign funded their work in Michigan, has served as chairman for the past two election cycles. Peters shocked Michigan residents when he abruptly announced his retirement at the end of his term in 2024.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/busted-minnesota-duo-pleads-guilty-after-flooding-election/
Got the Memo: Left-Wing Pundits Push Scary 2026 Midterms Theory
President Trump’s political foes shape a new narrative to deploy in the event of a major election defeat.
by Graham J Noble | Jul 16, 2025
Whenever Republicans in any state redraw congressional district maps, it’s “gerrymandering” and cheating. When Democrats do the same – as they do – it’s merely an effort to ensure the state’s residents are more fairly represented. It is strange that this is always the case.
Astroturfing and Authenticity – Anti-Trump Protests Falling Flat
As America braces for the next round of ‘grassroots’ activism, messaging gets muddled.
by Mark Angelides | Jul 16, 2025
On Thursday, July 17, Americans will once again be granted a slew of anti-Trump protests courtesy of the political left and its affiliate organizations. The Good Trouble Lives On events are slated to occur in more than 400 locations coast to coast and will be – according to the founders – “a national day of action to respond to the attacks on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration.” The big question, however, is: Does anyone really care about these clearly astroturfed “spontaneous” outpourings?
Named after a phrase coined by the late Georgia congressman John Lewis, the group partners with just about every left-leaning activist organization one could name, from MoveOn to Rock the Vote. In the early 2010s, the thought of hundreds of coordinated protests would send shivers down the spine of even the most stalwart politico, and now it seems most people have become inured – or enlightened – to what these activities really are.
Congrats on the Protests
Attentive Americans may have been aware of the No Kings series of protests that took place on June 14. Hundreds of thousands of angry folks gathered in locations spanning the nation to declare loudly that the United States will not put up with having a king in charge. Well, congratulations. Either the protests paid off, or the country didn’t have a king in the first place.
In fact, the much-hyped event was just political theater. The United States has a president (or an autopen, depending on the year), so calls for “no kings” were little more than media-friendly fairy dust. By June 15, what had changed in America? And what about the so-called 50501 (50 states, 50 protests, one day) movement born – allegedly “without any budget, centralized structure, or official backing” – on Feb. 5?
That group has had numerous successive “days of action” – seven at last count – all billed as “a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies.” How has that worked out? Did anyone really notice?
And finally, what of the upcoming Good Trouble Lives On day of action? The webpage claims that Trump is in the process of attacking civil rights – but fails to provide specific details.
In fact, the stated goals of these groups and protests are so nebulous that it would be impossible to tell if they had succeeded in their aims or not. And perhaps that’s the whole idea. Concrete action is hard; protesting at well-funded demonstrations complete with ready-made placards and slogans, all provided free of charge, is not. These events appear to be increasingly narcissistic collaborations, allowing the indolent to congratulate themselves on being “good people” without having to expend the effort to develop well-thought-out rationales or beliefs.
And as the old saying goes, the fish rots from the head.
Adrift in a Sea of Resentment
These are not grassroots protests, sparked by a painful restriction of rights. They are publicity campaigns for a political party to encourage donations and generate media soundbites. It is a rare “protest” nowadays that does not provide “tools” for social media amplification.
Consider the Good Trouble movement, which has automated X posts to click on to spread a carefully curated message that requires zero thought. For example, “Trump is trying to divide us, but we know the power of coming together,” or “We are facing the most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations.” It sounds as if one really cares or is engaged in creative thought – but without the necessity for either.
As author Neil Gaiman once wisely noted:
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.”
https://www.libertynation.com/astroturfing-and-authenticity-anti-trump-protests-falling-flat/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=2025-07-16
Israel Strikes Syrian Capital, Sending Warning to Government >>
Israel threatened to escalate attacks on Syrian government forces unless they withdrew from Sweida, a southern province dominated by the Druse minority.
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Smoke rising from the Syrian Defense Ministry in the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday.Credit...Rami Al Sayed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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By Euan Ward and Aaron Boxerman
Euan Ward reported from Beirut, Lebanon, and Aaron Boxerman from Jerusalem.
July 16, 2025Updated 10:56 a.m. ET
Israel conducted airstrikes in Syria’s capital on Wednesday, including attacks on a compound housing the defense ministry and an area near the presidential palace, according to the Israeli military, Syrian authorities and a war monitoring group.
The strikes followed deadly clashes involving Syrian government forces in the southern region of Sweida, the heartland of the country’s Druse minority. Israel has pledged to protect Syria’s Druse, a minority group that also has a sizable population in Israel.
Earlier on Wednesday, Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, threatened to intensify strikes on Syrian forces if they did not pull back from Sweida.
The escalating tensions between Israel and the Syrian government threatened to derail tentative steps recently toward warmer ties after decades of hostility.
The Assad dictatorship that previously ruled Syria was a close ally of Iran and a sworn enemy of Israel. The Islamist rebels who ousted it opened contacts with Israel, mediated by the United States, to try to lower tensions and stop Israeli military attacks on the country.
President Trump’s envoy to Syria, Thomas J. Barrack Jr., said he was making efforts to mediate and calm the situation in Sweida.
The death toll from four days of clashes in Sweida rose on Wednesday to more than 200 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor based in Britain. That makes it the deadliest bout of unrest to hit the region in years.
The fighting began on Sunday after armed members of a Bedouin tribe attacked and robbed a Druse man along Sweida’s main highway, the Observatory said. As the unrest escalated, the Syrian government deployed military forces on Monday to quell the conflict, Syrian officials said.
But given deep-seated mistrust of the new government, some members of Druse militias in Sweida thought that the government forces were coming to aid the Bedouins and to attack the Druse, according to Druse militia leaders.
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Israeli fighter jets have attacked Syrian government forces in Sweida in support of Syria’s Druse over the past few days.
The Israeli airstrikes in the capital on Wednesday caused “extensive” damage in the heart of Damascus, according to the Observatory, sending thick plumes of smoke rising above the skyline. At least one civilian was killed and 18 were injured, according to Syria’s health ministry.
The Israeli military said it had attacked the Syrian military’s general staff compound, the country’s main command center, where it said Syrian commanders were directing and overseeing government forces in Sweida. Syria’s defense ministry is housed in the same complex.
The Israeli military said it had also targeted an area near the presidential palace in Damascus, the seat of power of Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara. The Israeli military also struck near the palace in May, during a previous bout of sectarian violence involving the Syrian Druse.
An Israeli military official told reporters that Israel was conducting dozens of airstrikes — including targeting Syrian soldiers — against Syrian forces in Sweida.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to comply with military protocol, said Israel was acting prevent a buildup of hostile forces near its borders, as well as to prevent attacks on Druse civilians.
The Israeli military was prepared for different scenarios, including days of fighting in Syria if necessary, the official said.
Shortly after the Israeli airstrikes on Damascus, Syrian state media reported that a cease-fire had been reached in Sweida. But a previous truce announced on Tuesday collapsed.
Gabby Sobelman and Reham Mourshed contributed reporting.
Euan Ward is a Times reporter covering Lebanon and Syria. He is based in Beirut.
Aaron Boxerman is a Times reporter covering Israel and Gaza. He is based in Jerusalem.
See more on: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/world/middleeast/israel-syria-damascus-strikes.html
Burger King worker, mom of 3 Nykia Hamilton forced to run South Carolina store by herself: ‘Nobody wants to work anymore’
By Richard Pollina Published July 16, 2025, 1:41 a.m. ET
A South Carolina Burger King employee is being praised for her commitment to providing for her three children after she was forced to run an entire store by herself when her co-worker quit on her.
Nykia Hamilton, 25, hustled from station to station alone inside the Columbia, SC, fast-food joint to ensure hungry customers were fed amid the staffing shortage, according to a viral TikTok video posted on July 6.
“One of my employees just quit on me, and they didn’t have anyone else to come in, so I had to work by myself, and close by myself,” Hamilton told WACH News.
“Had to do the dishes, do prep, do the floor, do the front counter, drive-thru.”
Nykia Hamilton, 25, was seen in a viral TikTok video hustling from station to station alone at Burger King.
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In the video, the customer said Hamilton was “doing the fries, the burger, the chicken sandwiches. She’s doing everything by herself.”
Hamilton usually works more than 12 hours in a shift at Burger King to support her three children, and said her duty as a parent to provide for them didn’t stop just because she was left alone.
“I be missing out on my kids’ lives when I work so much,” Hamilton said, fighting back tears. “I have to provide for them, but I really don’t have time to spend with them, and it hurts me a lot.”
The super-mom said she had help the following day, but her Burger King was still understaffed and she ended up running solo on another closing shift.
“I closed again by myself last night. I finally got help today. Eleven o’clock and will stay until close at 11,” she said. “We just don’t have any employees. Nobody wants to work anymore.”
Hamilton usually works more than 12 hours in a shift at Burger King to support her three children, and said that just because she was left alone that day didn’t mean her duties as a parent to provide for them stopped.
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Hamilton said she’s deeply grateful for the opportunity to work and provide for her kids since turning over a new leaf in life.
“I wouldn’t have no job because I do have a record, and it is hard to find a job with a record,” she said.
“And by grace of God, she gave me a job. So that’s the only reason why I stayed for her,” Hamilton added, referencing her manager.
The customer who recorded Hamilton, who goes by Dejlatae on TikTok, praised the “beautiful” worker for “busting her behind” despite having zero help.
“She’s doing everything she needs to do to make sure everybody is okay in here,” the customer said.
The customer also slammed management for leaving her alone — a viewpoint that was echoed by many in the comments of the video, which has garnered over 100,000 views as of July 16
“This is unfair to her. She shouldn’t have to do this and run a whole business – restaurant – alone. Thank you for showing up and showing out, though. Thank you,” commented one TikTok user.
“Bless this beautiful queen! She deserves a raise and help! She doing the job of at least 5-6 people,” wrote another.
“This is shameful on that business. Bless her but whether it’s a franchise or what she shouldn’t have to be working that hard! Another reason I won’t eat fast food anymore, they don’t care about their employees or customers,” another commented.
Many users also urged Hamilton to start a GoFundMe page to help cover her children’s expenses, which she did — sharing that she works two jobs to provide for her family.
Following the praise for Hamilton’s work ethic and criticism over Burger King leaving her to work shifts alone, the fast food chain released a comment saying that her working solo is against company policy.
“At Burger King, it is our policy that all company and franchise owned restaurants require more than one Team Member to be working per shift,” Burger King said in a press release to WACH News.
“We are working with the Franchisee of this location to understand what happened and take any necessary action.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/burger-king-worker-mom-of-3-nykia-hamilton-forced-to-run-south-carolina-store-by-herself-when-co-worker-quits/
Epstein’s lawyer says there was no client list — and sets record straight on Trump: Nothing ‘improper or even questionable’
By Anthony Blair Published July 16, 2025, 8:38 a.m. ET
(Can hardly wait for the conspiracy theorists' take on this.)
Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer has claimed the convicted sex offender never created a “client list,” and said there was no suggestion that President Trump had done “anything improper or even questionable.”
Polite black bear stuns New Hampshire homeowners after ringing doorbell before exploring hot tub: video
By Caitlin McCormack Published July 16, 2025, 1:22 a.m. ET
(There's a short video at the link. I've never heard a bear "speak" before.)
A curious black bear sauntered right on up to a New Hampshire home and rang the doorbell before wandering over to explore a nearby hot tub in adorable surveillance footage released by the homeowners.
The bear looked around the patio in the yard before poking its snout at the Ring doorbell, sniffing it appraisingly.
Then, the cub stood up on its hind legs and pressed its clawed paw against the doorbell, peering inside the nearby window as if expecting the residents to answer.
The bear staggered backwards when the doorbell rang, eyeing it for a moment before pivoting back around to explore the rest of the patio.
It stood up straight again once it spotted the hot tub and placed its paws right on the cover, jabbing it with its snout.
When the cover didn’t budge, the bear seemingly surrendered and wandered deeper into the vast yard.
“At least he was polite enough to ring the doorbell to see if we were home,” resident Jay Lievens wrote on Facebook.
Black bears are extremely common in New Hampshire, with an estimated population of around 5,000, according to the state’s Fish and Game Department.
The curious black bear sauntered right on up to a New Hampshire home and rang the doorbell before wandering over to explore a nearby hot tub in adorable surveillance footage released by the homeowners.
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Black bears are extremely common in New Hampshire, with an estimated population of around 5,000. (Ringing the bell.)
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They are largely docile creatures, and not a single person has been killed by one in New Hampshire since 1784, according to the department. They are still, of course, dangerous predators with razor sharp teeth, so people are still advised to keep their distance.
In April, similar home security footage captured a playful bear exploring a child’s playground and taking a ride down the slide in Connecticut.
In North Carolina, one man scared off a bear poking around his front yard by donning a shoddy bear costume of his own.
Meanwhile, a bear cub in New Jersey scaled a second-floor balcony while his friends were digging through a nearby dumpster, when the resident accidentally let their dog out. The ferocious protector of the home rushed forward and started to bark at the cub, who rushed back down to the ground in record time before scampering away into the woods.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/polite-black-bear-stuns-new-hampshire-homeowners-after-ringing-doorbell-before-exploring-hot-tub-video/
AOC is on his side. She's among the DIMmest of them all.
I fear and LOATHE this guy.
NYC is in for a world of hurt if this jackoff becomes mayor.
If that freaking Cuomo cared a fig about the city, he'd drop out
What a fustercluck.
Where all the accolades from the dems???
Where all the accolades from the dems???
Woke Netherlands Is Rationing Electricity as the Power Grid Is Overwhelmed and the Kingdom Is Focused on ‘Cutting Emissions’
by Paul Serran Jul. 14, 2025 7:20 pm
Go woke, go ‘broken power grid’.
Around the world, the unreliability of the new power-generating technologies and the unwise rush towards ‘net-zero’ goals are leading the countries most invested in these ruinous policies into deep power supply troubles.
After blackouts in Spain, Portugal and parts of France two months ago, now it’s the ultra-liberal kingdom of the Netherlands that is reaping the electricity shortage that they sowed with their woke agenda.
It arose today that the Dutch are now rationing electricity.
Their overloaded power grid can’t take the pressure of rapid electrification and ‘ambitious climate goals’ (a.k.a. the Church of Climate Change policies).
Daily Mail reported:
“More than 11,900 businesses are stuck in a queue for access to the network, alongside public buildings including hospitals, schools and fire stations.”
Delfzijl Windfarm. photo By Ulrich Mertens/Wiki Commons
The present crisis comes as the Dutch concentrate efforts ‘to cut carbon emissions’.
“After shutting down production at the massive Groningen gas field last year, the Dutch government has pushed a fast transition to electric heating, solar power and battery storage.”
The national grid did not grow to demand, creating widespread bottlenecks, and increasing costs.
“Officials estimate €200 billion will be needed by 2040 to expand grid capacity. Electricity prices are already among the highest in Western Europe, and Dutch households face yearly tariff increases of up to 4.7 percent for at least the next decade.”
Citizens are asked not charge e-bikes and electric cars during the peak usage hours between 4pm and 9pm.
“The Netherlands has been one of Europe’s most aggressive adopters of green policies, aiming to cut emissions in half by 2030.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/woke-netherlands-is-rationing-electricity-as-power-grid/
Justice Roberts Gives KBJ A Magna Doodle To Keep Her Busy During Oral Arguments
WASHINGTON, D.C. — To avoid further controversy over her unorthodox lines of questioning and uninformed opinions on Supreme Court cases, Chief Justice John Roberts reportedly gave Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson a Magnadoodle to keep her busy during oral arguments.
The Biden-appointed judge had received such strong criticism following a string of questionable statements and opinions recently, leading the chief justice to find some fun activity to keep her occupied while the real judges did their work.
"Bunny! I drew a bunny!" Jackson reportedly shouted at one point during oral arguments, according to a source within the courtroom, after which Chief Justice Roberts allegedly said, "That's very good Ketanji! Remember to use your inside voice and play quietly while we're doing Supreme Court things."
Another witness said that Jackson proceeded to walk around the room, showing her drawing to everyone in attendance while they provided her with affirmation. "She seemed really proud of herself," the witness said. "You could tell she had worked hard on it. She said she was going to draw a house with a doggie sitting outside next. Bless her heart."
A SCOTUS insider said that Roberts had consulted with the other justices to come up with the best way to keep Jackson busy. "There were different ideas — a Slinky, magnetic alphabet letters, and those large Duplo blocks you give kids who might choke on regular Legos," the source said. "Anything to just keep her out of the way."
At publishing time, a recess was called during oral arguments so the justices could charge Jackson's iPad enough to let her watch Peppa Pig videos on YouTube during the afternoon session.
https://babylonbee.com/news/justice-roberts-gives-kbj-a-magna-doodle-to-keep-her-busy-during-oral-arguments
This is disgusting!!! May be difficult to watch!
He was dinner for an illegal alien.
Disgusting pieces of shit
https://gettr.com/post/p3n8t60c774
Joe Rogan rips DOJ’s handling of Epstein files in scathing rant against Trump admin
By Alex Oliveira Published July 15, 2025, 9:27 p.m. ET
Joe Rogan used his latest podcast episode to weigh in on the Epstein files controversy amid public uproar over the Department of Justice’s probe into the late pedophile and his associates.
The podcast giant lambasted the Trump administration’s announcement that there was never a list or footage revealing clients of the high-flying sex pest.
“They’ve got videotape and all a sudden they don’t,” Rogan, 57, said on the latest episode of his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” released Tuesday.
“You had the director of the FBI on this show saying, ‘If there was [a videotape], nothing you’re looking for is on those tapes,'” Rogan added, referring to Director Kash Patel’s appearance on the show in June.
“Like, what? Why’d they say there was thousands of hours of tapes of people doing horrible s–t? Why’d they say that? Didn’t Pam Bondi say that?”
Rogan was referring to comments Attorney General Pam Bondi made on July 1 — just days before the Department of Justice announced there was no “Epstein List” or incriminating footage of the disgraced financier’s associates — in which she told reporters the FBI was reviewing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with children or child porn.”
And months earlier, Bondi intimated that the supposed Epstein List was on her desk waiting for review — though she later clarified that there was an Epstein investigation file ready for her review, not the so-called list at the center of countless conspiracy theories.
The turnaround comes after President Trump spent months talking about plans to release everything the government had on Epstein and his associates — even publishing “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” to great fanfare in February. Next to nothing new was revealed in those files.
Rogan didn’t seem to buy the Trump administration’s new stance, suggesting the president was trying to distract supporters from his campaign promises about Epstein.
“Just bomb Iran and everybody forgets. Everybody forgets about it,” Rogan said, referring to Trump’s late-June strikes on Iranian nuclear weapons facilities.
It was just the latest bone Rogan picked with Trump, whom he endorsed ahead of the election, on his podcast in recent weeks.
Earlier in July, he called the president’s ICE round-ups of illegal immigrants “insane,” and said authorities should focus on investigating dangerous criminals instead of raiding Home Depot parking lots for arrests.
“There’s two things that are insane. One is the targeting of migrant workers. Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers. Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really?” Rogan said.
He appeared to be referring to the incidents that sparked the Los Angeles protests in June, when ICE agents staked out parking lots where manual laborers gather to find work during mornings.
The Department of Homeland Security disputed Rogan’s characterization of ICE’s arrests, with a spokesperson saying “an overwhelming majority” of ICE arrestees in Trump’s crackdown had prior criminal convictions.
Rogan, whose podcast commands an audience of about 10 million listeners, has had a mixed stance on Trump.
He used to be a virulent critic of the president, but ended up endorsing him ahead of the 2024 election, saying Elon Musk’s arguments in favor of Trump convinced him.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/us-news/joe-rogan-weighs-in-on-jeffrey-epstein-files-controversy-amid-uproar-over-doj-probe/
Zohran Mamdani sticks to socialist guns, ‘tax the rich’ plan during highly anticipated sitdown with NYC big business leaders
By Carl Campanile and Matt Troutman Published July 15, 2025, 7:23 p.m. ET
(The devil seduces with smooth talk and a friendly demeanor. If these corporate big shots fall for his shtick, they're in for a rude surprise.)
... he’s a good politician. He was very confident.
Hail to the Turbaned Torpedo. May he rest peacefully in runner's heaven with his wife and fifth son.
Singh became the oldest man to run a full marathon in 2011 at the age of 100 in Toronto.
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The year prior, he became the oldest runner to complete a full marathon at the age of 100, finishing the 2011 Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 8 hours and 11 minutes.
After running his first full marathon at the age of 89 in 2000, Singh went on to run eight more across London, Toronto and New York City.
His personal best time was in the 2003 Toronto Waterfront Marathon when he finished five hours and 40 minutes in the ‘over 90’ category.
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114yr. Oldest marathoner, Turbaned Torpedo, dies hit-and-run>
By Jenna Lemoncelli
Published July 15, 2025
Updated July 15, 2025, 4:44 p.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/sports/worlds-oldest-marathon-runner-fauja-singh-dies-at-114/
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Trump unveils more than $100B in AI >
energy investments as part of major push for US to lead innovation over China
By Diana Nerozzi and
Steven Nelson
Published July 15, 2025
Updated July 15, 2025, 7:39 p.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/us-news/trump-to-unveil-90-billion-investment-in-ai-energy/
Vance casts tie-breaking votes to move forward $9.4B >
rescissions package — which would defund PBS and NPR — in Senate
By Victor Nava
Published July 15, 2025, 11:49 p.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/us-news/vance-casts-tie-breaking-votes-to-move-forward-9-4b-rescissions-package-which-would-defund-pbs-and-npr-in-senate/
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Wall Street bosses snub meeting with ‘Marxist’ Zohran Mamdani
By James Franey Published July 15, 2025, 4:19 p.m. ET
"I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots... Almost every single policy rolled out failed.”
Well haven't trapped anymore rats, just the 2 rats and one mouse unless you count the 2 legged rat that's been into the peanut butter fudge I made Sunday, LOL
Marc and I both got our old age wellness visit with the doc today, then across the road for blood tests, will get results in a couple of days, but all looks good. That and a quick stop at the grocery store and back by 10:30 to an excited to see us Peanut.
Biden Was Never Fit For Office To Begin With
At this point, you would be hard-pressed to find any reasonably informed American who honestly thinks President Joe Biden wasn’t in a state of serious cognitive decline at the end of his term in office. Yet the New York Times has at least two reporters who are willing to pretend they believe this.
On Sunday, the Times ran a piece by notorious Russia collusion hoaxer Charlie Savage and Tyler Pager about the thousands of clemency decisions recorded with autopen in the final days of the Biden administration. The piece is meant, on the surface, to be a defense of Biden and his administration’s use of the autopen.
But anyone who reads the entire article carefully will immediately see that its real purpose is damage control: The Trump White House, Justice Department, and Congress are all investigating the high-profile clemency decisions that came down in the final days of the Biden presidency, and it sure looks like Biden’s top aides were making decisions on their own, without the president’s knowledge.
Despite the article’s framing — “Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen” — there’s no evidence presented in the piece that Biden personally authorized any of the last-minute pardons. Indeed, the article states that “Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons … Rather than ask Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version through the autopen, which they saw as … routine”
The overall picture that emerges from the article is that the entire pardon process was directed by top Biden staffers, not by Biden himself. Emails reviewed by the Times “show that use of the autopen was managed by Mr. Biden’s White House staff secretary, Ms. Feldman. She wanted to receive written accounts confirming Mr. Biden’s oral instructions in the meetings before using it to produce the warrants recording the clemency actions, the emails show.” Those written accounts were drafted by aides who themselves were not in the room when Biden supposedly gave verbal authorization for the pardons, and instead came entirely from Biden’s chief of staff, Jeffrey D. Zients, and Biden’s White House counsel, Ed Siskel.
In other words, Zients and Siskel were running the show, and the only evidence we have that Biden was actually authorizing these pardons is that Zients and Siskel insist that he was, verbally, in late-night, closed-door meetings. And the account of these meetings strains credulity: “At the Jan. 19 meeting, which took place in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House residence, Mr. Biden kept his aides until nearly 10 p.m. to talk through such decisions, according to people familiar with the matter.”
So you’re telling me a president in obvious cognitive decline, who clearly could not function after a certain point in the early afternoon, whose White House regularly called a lid at noon, “kept his aides until nearly 10 p.m.” on his last day in office? I’m sorry, but that’s just not believable.
What is believable is that Biden’s presidency was run by a faceless syndicate of aides, lawyers, and senior White House staff — the deep state, in other words. And not just in the final days regarding clemency decisions. Early on in the 2020 campaign it was obvious to anyone who cared to pay attention and be honest that Biden wasn’t all there and wasn’t really in charge. He awkwardly hid in his basement instead of campaigning, using Covid as the excuse. Once he took office, Biden’s decline was undeniable. His routine confusion on stage and in formal settings, his physical frailty and penchant for tripping, and his incessant verbal gaffes and nonsense made it obvious that he wasn’t all there.
Biden once repeatedly looked for a dead congresswomen in the crowd at a White House event and called out her name. That was in September 2022 — long before his disastrous debate performance with Trump made it obvious that he was unfit to run for a second term, let alone serve as commander-in-chief.
All along, the media ran cover for him, insisting anyone who questioned his mental acuity was a conspiracy theorist or acting in bad faith. Some, like CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, have tried to retcon all of this, writing an entire book about how the Biden White House hid the president’s mental decline and “deceived” the press. For Tapper to co-author such a book is almost pathologically shameless, since he was one of the major media figures who ran interference for Biden by attacking everyone who noticed the president’s decline.
Like nearly everything else about the Biden presidency, the autopen scandal reveals just how far the deep state was willing to go to keep a mentally compromised figurehead in office. They ran a coup against Biden last summer after the debate with Trump, only once it became obvious and undeniable that Biden wasn’t all there.
The New York Times can cite anonymous sources all it wants to try to “contextualize” the use of the autopen at the eleventh hour of Biden’s term, but like Biden’s obvious unfitness for office throughout his presidency, the truth is right in front of us, plain for all to see. His presidency stands as one of the greatest political scandals perpetrated against the American people in a generation, and eventually, someone needs to answer for that.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/15/biden-was-never-fit-for-office-to-begin-with/
Trump delivers shocking response to Andrew Cuomo’s independent bid for mayor against ‘communist’ Mamdani
By Craig McCarthy Published July 15, 2025, 2:24 p.m. ET
President Trump said Tuesday that ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo should stay in New York City’s mayoral race — despite his embarrassing defeat in the Democratic primary to “communist” Zohran Mamdani.
“I think he should stay,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn when asked about Cuomo’s newly relaunched campaign as an independent. “I think he has a shot.”
The shocking vote of confidence came despite Mayor Eric Adams, who has repeatedly cozied up to Trump, also vying for re-election on an independent line in the general race.
Adams has attacked Cuomo for staying in the race, claiming that he alone should be the one to take on Mamdani in November.
But Trump doubled down, saying, “I think Andrew [Cuomo] would have a good shot.”
“He’s got to run a good campaign,” Trump continued. “You know, he’s running against a communist.”
The president added: “I don’t think that race is over yet, we do have a couple of people running. There are things coming out about him [Mamdani].”
He notably did not mention Adams when asked who he would support, telling reporters, “I don’t want to say,”
Trump’s interim US Attorney in Washington DC — Jeanine Pirro, who is a longtime adversary of Cuomo after running against him for New York attorney general — is reportedly investigating the ex-gov for allegedly lying to Congress.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/us-news/trump-delivers-shocking-response-to-andrew-cuomos-independent-bid-for-mayor-against-communist-mamdani/
It's about time :)
You're very wise and we can only hope you are correct!
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