Revenge or Justice?

 

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents—with promises of much more to follow.

The new material describes the role of the Obama administration’s intelligence and investigatory directors—purportedly along with former President Barack Obama himself—in undermining the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. In addition, their efforts extended to sabotaging the 2016-2017 presidential transition and, by extension, the first three years of the Trump presidency.

The released documents add some new details to what over the last decade has become accepted knowledge.

Congressional committees, special prosecutors, and the inspectors general had all previously issued reports that largely confirmed the general outlines of the skulduggery that began in 2015-16.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign, later aided by the top echelon of the FBI, CIA, and the director of national intelligence, sought—falsely—to seed a narrative that Donald Trump had colluded directly with Russia to win unfairly the 2016 election.

When that campaign gambit failed to alter the 2016 results, the Obama administration doubled down during the transition to undermine the incoming Trump presidency.

Next, special counsel Robert Mueller’s “all-star” legal team found no evidence of direct Trump-Putin collusion to hijack the election. But his investigation did sabotage 22 months of Trump’s first term, marked by constant leaks and hysterical rumors that Trump was soon to be convicted and jailed as a “Russian asset.”

By 2020, the frustrated intelligence agencies and former “authorities” now absurdly further lied that Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop had “all the earmarks”—once again—of Russian interference.

So, what could be new about Gabbard’s latest release?

One, after the 2016 election of Trump but before his inauguration, Obama convened a strange meeting with his outgoing intelligence and investigatory heads—CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, national security adviser Susan Rice, and a few others.

Contrary to a four-year Democratic Party narrative that “18 intelligence agencies” had long claimed Russian collusion, the top directors apprised Obama that their expert colleagues had found no such evidence of Trump-Putin collusion.

Yet outgoing President Obama allegedly directed them to ignore such an assessment. Instead, they began spreading narratives that President-elect Trump had been colluding with the Russians.

Leaks followed. Media hysteria crested. And soon Mueller and his left-wing “dream team” of lawyers targeted Trump.

Further new information may confirm that Brennan’s CIA—and those he briefed in the Oval Office—had known for some time that the Russians themselves were confused about why they were falsely being accused of colluding with Trump to rig the election.

Of course, Russian operatives, like their Chinese counterparts, often seek to cause havoc in American institutions, such as hacking emails or spreading online disinformation. But they may have been nevertheless curious why Clinton was making such false accusations that they were working directly with Trump, and why the Obama administration was acting upon them.

Obama has now claimed these new charges are outrageous and beneath the dignity of the presidency.

He did not, however, flatly contradict the new information. He should have issued an unambiguous denial that he had never ordered his intelligence chiefs in December 2016 to ignore their associates’ assessments and instead to assume Trump’s collusion with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

These sustained efforts of the Clinton campaign, Obama appointees, and ex-intelligence chiefs and their media counterparts between 2015 and 2020 severely undermined the 2016 Trump campaign.

They bushwhacked the 2017 presidential transition.

They hamstrung the Trump presidency.

And they may well have hurt Trump’s 2020 election bid.

Summed up, here is the damage caused by the Trump-Putin collusion lies:

1. They emboldened “experts” in 2020 to again lie blatantly and shamelessly to the American people that the incriminating Hunter Biden laptop was yet another fake product of Russian interference to help reelect Trump.

2. The media were equally guilty. Journalists partnered with current and ex-Obama appointees by disseminating fake documents like the Steele dossier and working with giants like Twitter and Facebook. During the 2020 campaign, the FBI and social media sought to censor accurate news stories that the laptop was indeed authentic and already verified as such by the FBI.

3. These operations may have had serious consequences for U.S. foreign policy. Dictatorial Russia is an adversary of the U.S.

But by needlessly and falsely claiming that Russia had intervened in two elections directly to partner with Trump, Obama-era officials and Clinton-campaign activists destroyed Trump’s own credibility to sustain a workable relationship with a nuclear Russia.

In addition, the lying and extra-legal operations of the FBI and CIA only further convinced the paranoid Russians that they could not trust the U.S. government—given it had been engaging in the very conspiracy lies that were more akin to its own than America’s.

Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and others will likely never face legal consequences for the damage they’ve done to our institutions and foreign policy.

But that does not mean they should be exempt from an ongoing and disinterested effort to find and finally expose the whole truth.

Hunter’s Meltdown Exposes the Biden Machine

 

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I would like to talk a little bit about the strange, bizarre, endless, run-on, crazy interview that Hunter Biden, former President Joe Biden’s son, gave with Andrew Callaghan, a so-called Generation Z internet influencer.

In this long interview, it was a spirited defense of his father, claiming that he was not demented at all, that he was in full control of his faculties, and he had a wonderful administration, and he was unfortunately aborted, kicked out, deposed by a sinister array of characters, whom he accused of being incompetent.

So he attacked George Clooney, who had written a letter about, in an op-ed about Joe Biden’s cognitive problems. He went after David Axelrod, who was also an advocate of removing Biden and putting in then-Vice President Kamala Harris, said his only claim to fame is he won one election. That’s kind of true, in the case of former President Barack Obama. And as Hunter said, Obama was the reason he was elected, not Axelrod. He went after James Carville. He went after Jake Tapper. He went after the entire Democratic establishment.

But what was very strange about what he did, he revealed himself. He attacked grifters in the Democratic Party that made a lot of money. That’s what he did. He said, “These people were unethical.” That’s what he was.

Remember, he was a tax cheat. He never reported, fully, the income that he made by trading off his father’s name. He never truly gave us the full account of the Biden consortium—what his uncle, aunt, cousins, what they were actually doing to get such an enormous amount of money. He never explained why he accepted a pardon from his father. He never explained why his father actually signed his pardon, in opposition to what he did with everybody else, almost, with an autopen.

And then it got very bizarre. He never mentioned that he had dated his brother’s widow and got her hooked on dangerous drugs. In fact, when he mentioned drugs, I thought he might refer to the cocaine that was found in a mail slot in the West Wing. He didn’t. Instead, he gave a defense of cocaine and suggested it’s not nearly as toxic as alcohol.

When he was asked about the laptop—and remember the laptop was in the possession of the FBI for one year and they authenticated it as genuine, and they knew it was genuine. At the same time, they kept silent when “51 intelligence authorities” lied to the American people. And Joe Biden used that lie in the second debate of the 2020 campaign to say that Donald Trump was lying, that this laptop “had all the earmarks of Russian” information efforts—meaning “disinformation.”

He didn’t mention any of that. In fact, he just said about the laptop—in which he is seen using drugs, he’s in pornographic poses, but most importantly, he references his father as “the big guy” and “the 10% guy,” and he laments that he is the bagman for the family.

It’s very incriminating. But he doesn’t—as he has before—he has never denied that it was his. He never denies it’s his. He just says, “It’s irrelevant. If anybody had a laptop and you looked into it, all kinds of stuff would come out.”

He doesn’t talk about his art, that con where he was doodling and blowing paint on through his nose and then hawking that art to buyers, who wanted influence with his father.

His protestations that his father was heroic, that he was one of the best Democratic senators we’ve had, that his presidency was a smashing success are laughable.

So what am I getting at? What I’m getting at is this: It’s very dangerous to think that for four years we had a president who was mentally challenged, cognitively disabled, suffering dementia. And the close circle around them—whether they were former Obama operatives or Biden senatorial family, or his own real family—that these people were running the country.

And the last year or two, if you look at photographs, videos of Biden giving a speech, Biden traveling, there’s one constant. It’s Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was his eyes and his ears. And he was a close—and maybe the closest—adviser to his father.

And after listening to that video, you can appreciate just how close we came to utter chaos and disruption, that a mentally challenged president and his addicted son had the most power of anybody in the entire world and were running this government with the help of who knows who. We have no idea.

Bottom line, if you listen to even a clip of that interview, it’s frightening that this man was anywhere near the presidency. And how he got near the presidency and how the president was the president is a scandal in itself of historical proportions.

New Details Emerge on Obama’s Role in Russiagate Scandal

 

I’d like to talk about the ongoing melodrama of what former President Barack Obama knew or did not know in his involvement with Russian collusion, the hoax that plagued the Donald Trump 2016 campaign, tried to undermine his transition in 2016 and 2017, and ate up the first 22 months of his presidency in 2017 and 2018, and was found to be completely bogus.

There are three blind mice involved in this tale: John Brennan, the former CIA director; James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence; and James Comey, the former FBI director. And they all have new manifestations of their untruthfulness.

Let’s start with John Brennan. He’s very angry right now because the trove that was released by National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard of new documents and investigations may or may not have criminal referrals come out of them, and Attorney General Pam Bondi may file new charges.

The problem that Brennan has is that he went to a meeting and he presented a false picture of CIA assessments.

The so-called CIA heads of various divisions found no Russian collusion. They said to John Brennan, “There’s nothing there that we can see that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians.” He rejected that, cherry-picked four or five other analysts, and then presented a false picture to Barack Obama. Or did he? Or did Barack Obama request that he do that? It’ll be “he said, he said,” but it’s more likely that Barack Obama asked John Brennan to come up with the correct CIA assessments.

Sort of like Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the Soviet secret police during the Cold War and at the end of World War II. He said, “I have the criminal. You find me the crime.” So: “I have the criminal, Donald Trump. All I need is Russian collusion.” And that was the methodology that they proceeded by.

The problem with Brennan, though, is, in the process of preparing this false assessment, he said again and again, both publicly but also under testimony, he didn’t know anything about the Steele dossier. Didn’t know anything about it. He didn’t read it. It didn’t compute into CIA assessment. That was a lie.

We know now from other testimonies, especially from the trove, that he did draw on the fake Steele dossier. He referenced it to other people.

And the problem with John Brennan is this isn’t the first time he’s misled us. He lied about the Senate staffer computers. That was under oath. He lied, remember, about Predator drones, when he said there was no collateral damage. And remember he lied also as one of the 51 intelligence authorities who tried to float that bogus idea that Hunter Biden’s laptop was cooked up in Russia.

Then we come to James Clapper. He was sitting at this meeting in December of 2016, where he gave a false assessment and he misrepresented what the 18 intelligence agencies under his direction had found.

They had not found Russian collusion, and yet he participated in this. He went so far as later to thanking and giving credit to Barack Obama for demanding that they find Russian collusion. He said, “If he hadn’t have ordered us to do this, we wouldn’t have found it.” I.e., the subtext is, “There was no evidence in our intelligence agency for it, so we concocted it on the directive of Barack Obama.”

But remember, he lied too. He swore under oath to the U.S. Congress that the National Security Agency had never spied on Americans. That was an abject lie. And he was part of the 51 intelligent authorities who also lied to the American people in 2020 on the eve of the second debate when Joe Biden denied that Hunter lied, Hunter Biden’s laptop was authentic. He quoted the 51 authorities. The FBI, remember, at that time, had it in its possession and had already authenticated it as genuine.

Then we come to James Comey. He also says that he had really nothing to do with the Steele dossier. The fact is, he was completely acquainted with it. He offered, his FBI offered a million dollars. They were so desperate to validate it. They said to Christopher Steele, “Just give us some proof. We can use this. We’ll give you a million dollars.” He couldn’t even come up with the substantive arguments to corroborate his own dossier, so he didn’t get the million dollars.

More importantly, James Comey has a problem. He leaked, on an FBI device, a conversation he had memorialized to The New York Times via a third party.

James Comey, remember, went before the House Oversight Committee, as I said earlier, and lied 245 times. If you say, “I don’t remember, I don’t recall, I don’t know,”—can you imagine an FBI director with all that knowledge at his fingertips saying, “I don’t remember, I don’t know,” about the most important investigation in recent history?

Let’s sum up these three blind mice. There’s new evidence that Barack Obama asked intelligence, investigatory heads—like John Brennan, like James Clapper and James Comey—to “find me evidence that you haven’t found yet so that we can continue the Russian collusion hoax after it was ineffective in the campaign, Hillary Clinton lost the election. Now we want to sabotage.” This is the subtext of the transition and his presidency. “You go back—we only have a few weeks left, I’m a lame-duck president—and bring me the right assessments.”

And that’s exactly what they did, and that’s why they’re terrified that new information is coming forth that suggests to the American people what they did and how they were culpable.

‘Tough Love’ for Mexico’s President Meddling in US Politics

 

. I’d like to talk about illegal immigration, but specifically about the new president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum.

She’s been very vocal about U.S. policy toward Mexico. For example, she said she would offer legal counsel to her citizens that were here illegally that were picked up, she thought, unfairly or too violently by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

She also said that the United States had no business taxing remittances—that is money that Mexican nationals here, for the most part illegally, send back to Mexico.

She said, “Do not come into Mexican national ground if you’re going after the cartels.” That’s understandable, but the cartels are going into our ground.

So, what I’m getting at is she’s very, very intrusive in American politics. But here’s the problem: A recent Pew poll, taken just last year, showed a striking asymmetry. Whereas 61% of Mexican citizens have a favorable view of the United States, only 31% of Americans have a favorable view of Mexico.

Now, why is that? Well, Sheinbaum should ask herself that question. First of all, Mexico is running up a $171 billion surplus with us. Remember, it was supposed to be the North American Free Trade Agreement. There wasn’t supposed to be, at least eventually, surpluses or deficits. Canada, the United States, and Mexico were all supposed to trade freely and equitably. That didn’t happen.

Why is Mexico running a $171 billion trade surplus with the United States? Because China is avoiding tariffs by sending products to Mexico, which then Mexico assembles and exports with less duty into the United States. In other words, she’s using a gimmick, as all Mexican presidents have recently, to get around tariffs and to run up surpluses, contrary to the spirit and law of that old agreement.

Second, the cartels are sending fentanyl—but the thing about fentanyl is the raw product comes from China. The Mexican government could stop that. But the raw product comes from China, it’s assembled in Mexican cartel laboratories and factories, and then it’s sent to the United States—but it’s not always sent labeled as fentanyl. It’s labeled as Valium. It’s labeled as Ativan. It’s labeled as Dexedrine. It’s labeled as either illicit or prescription drugs. It contributes to 70,000 or 80,000 deaths per year of Americans, who either commit suicide through it, but the majority just simply overdose.

Mexico knows that. Why don’t they stop it? Because, like the trade surplus, it creates foreign exchange—$20 billion or $30 billion comes into the cartels and is absorbed by the Mexican economy.

Finally, she’s mad about remittances, and the tax on them is really paltry—1% or 2%, we’ll see in the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” But there’s a trillion dollars that go out from foreign nationals, for the most part, in the United States all over the world. In the case of Mexico, it’s the largest source of direct foreign exchange, $63 billion.

But here’s the rub. Many of these people sending back that money to Mexico are on local, state, federal entitlements for housing, for food, for education, for health care. In other words, we the taxpayers subsidize illegal aliens so that they can free up cash to send back to people in Mexico in dire poverty that can’t find redress of grievances from Sheinbaum’s own government.

And so, there’s a lot of problems between us and Mexico, and the cure—the solution—is not for her to start editorializing on the shortfalls of American foreign policy toward Mexico or our own domestic policy. I’ve got a better idea.

Sheinbaum, why don’t you do the following? Why don’t you say that Mexican nationals are your citizens? They’re key to your economic growth. You don’t want them to leave your country. You have a new revisionist reform plan that you’re going to offer them social services so that they don’t flee to the United States. You’re going to keep your own people in your own country.

No. 2: You’re gonna forbid the importation, at all cost, of fentanyl into your country, and you’re gonna go after the cartels and shut them down.

No. 3: You’re gonna call up President Donald Trump and you’re gonna say, “In three years, there will be no surplus and no trade deficit on either side. We want to be good neighbors and we want to be equitable.”

And therefore, there would be no need for you to intervene in our politics and lecturing us on what we’re doing wrong and where we are exposed and all of the misdemeanors and felonies you spot in our policy.

Why am I saying that? Because the problem with Mexican-American relationships, as those polls reveal, is on your side.

Don’t run up surpluses by mercantile dealings with an existential enemy of the United States, China. Do not count on American taxpayers to subsidize your own citizens who entered illegally to send back $63 billion to your failing economy. And do not lecture us about the cartels—what we should and should not do about it—when you are enabling them to kill 70,000 Americans as a source of foreign exchange inside Mexico.

That’s tough love, but it’s also honest.

Democrats Are Addicted to Losing

 

After the defeat of Kamala Harris in November 2024, the Democrats recently decided to run an autopsy, a discovery, so to speak, of why they lost that election. These autopsies are not uncommon for the losing political party, but they only tend to work if you’re honest and you try to analyze every considerable factor or criterion without censorship or without fear.

In the case of the Democrats, though, there are certain elements of that campaign that were obviously wrong and contributed to their defeat.

So, we would expect the following: Why was Joe Biden nominated in the first place? He seemed to—after the South Carolina primary of 2020—be suddenly coronated. He had lost New Hampshire, he had lost Iowa.

And then the party bosses came in and said, “Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders? These people are too radical. We’ll get old Joe Biden from Scranton, even though he’s not alert.”

And then when he was president, they kind of created a cabal that hid his dementia. And then when he was no longer useful and could not serve as a waxen effigy for a radical agenda under his name or his autopen, then they dumped him.

And yet, at that point, they should have had an open convention. But they didn’t. They anointed Kamala Harris, who had been a candidate in 2020—a dismal candidate—and had not won one delegate. Her campaign, truncated though it was, was a dismal failure. I mean, she went through a billion dollars.

She really didn’t have a message. She avoided the press. When she did try to speak extemporaneously, it was a word salad. And she was just an unimpressive candidate.

More importantly, though, they didn’t have issues and policies that reflected their core values but would also appeal to the middle class.

Bill Clinton was a liberal, but he ran in ’92 and ’96 on a hundred new police officers; abortion should be legal, safe, but rare; school uniforms; juveniles who commit violent crimes should be punished accordingly; there should be a secure border; illegal immigration is wrong. And then he made a populist appeal to the middle class.

The Democrats are not going there. They don’t want to talk about the middle class because their policies—open borders, the Green New Deal, critical race theory, critical legal theory, defund the police—all that has to be rejected because they’re anathema to the middle class. They won’t do it.

Look what happened in 2008 when John McCain lost to Barack Obama. He didn’t do very well at all. He was a moderate Republican.

About 10,000 Republicans were unimpressed and stayed home, or 10,000—10 million independents, or whatever we want to call them.

But the point is, there were millions of voters who would’ve voted for a Republican candidate had he just appealed to the middle class. Instead, there wasn’t much difference—if you look at their respective campaigns—between John McCain and Barack Obama.

And when John McCain lost, there was a Republican autopsy. And what did they find? Well, they picked Michael Steele for Republican National Committee chairman because he was black and he was a McCainite. But he wasn’t the medicine for the cause of John McCain’s defeat.

Remember what they also did? They started idolizing Barack Obama. David Frum, a Republican strategist, had a very infamous essay where he compared Barack Obama to what he said was a new head of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh. And he said, Rush is white, he’s fat, he’s had multiple marriages. He’s not a good example.

That wasn’t the point. The point was that Rush Limbaugh had some ideas—not all of them—that could be incorporated into a new Republican message. Close the border. Protect American citizens. Try to create a new policy that favors the middle class on matters of trade and tariffs. Avoid optional wars in the Middle East—on the ground, at least—that rely on the middle class that you have neglected during globalization to fight for you. Try to be fiscally responsible.

All those were core Republican values, and yet when you looked at that Republican autopsy of 2009, it was essentially: Try to out-identity politics the other side, or let in people from south of the border illegally. It was not a corrective.

Bottom line is, until the Democrats look in the mirror and say, “We have a message that nobody wants in the middle class. It’s antithetical to the middle class on crime, on immigration, on energy, on foreign policy, on the economy,” they’ll never change.

They’re like addicts. They can’t live with DEI, with the Green New Deal, with this utopian globalization, and they can’t live without it.

Trump Takes a Stand Against Homelessness

 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order urging states and municipalities to clear homeless encampments from public streets and relocate individuals to designated treatment and rehabilitation centers. The initiative marks a sharp pivot from the permissive, hands-off approach favored by many Democrat-led cities, which critics say has allowed public spaces to deteriorate into unsafe, unsanitary zones. 

On Thursday, President Trump took decisive action by signing an executive order urging cities and local governments to remove homeless individuals from public spaces and restore law and order to America’s streets. Unlike Democrats—who seem content to let homelessness spiral out of control while expanding the welfare state—Trump’s plan offers real solutions. The order calls for the rehousing of homeless individuals, including drug addicts and those with mental health issues, in designated treatment centers. It also redirects federal funding to support these facilities, prioritizing states and municipalities that already take a tough stance on open drug use, urban camping, squatting, and other quality-of-life crimes. This move signals a return to accountability and common sense in addressing a crisis that progressive policies have only made worse. 

The overwhelming majority of the homeless population, by some estimates, over 90 percent, are entangled in criminal activity, drug abuse, or both. A significant number are also in the country illegally. In cities like Los Angeles, they've transformed once-thriving neighborhoods into dangerous zones marked by crime, filth, and lawlessness. While local mayors and officials continue to turn a blind eye, President Trump is stepping in to do what they won’t: restore safety and order to the nation's streets. 

"President Trump is delivering on his commitment to Make America Safe Again and end homelessness across America,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. "By removing vagrant criminals from our streets and redirecting resources toward substance abuse programs, the Trump Administration will ensure that Americans feel safe in their own communities and that individuals suffering from addiction or mental health struggles are able to get the help they need." 

Actually, Trump Might Have Ended Jerome Powell Without Firing Him

 

Sarah will have more on this later, but I wish President Trump could fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom he has eloquently dubbed “too late” for his refusal to lower interest rates. The president met with Mr. Powell, touring the multi-billion-dollar renovation to the Federal Reserve Building. Trump made it clear that if a site manager were causing costs overruns, he’d fire him, a not-so-subtle swipe at Mr. Powell (via CNBC):

President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell went back and forth in front of the press Thursday over Trump’s claims about cost overruns at the Fed headquarters in Washington. 

The stunning side-by-side took place as Trump began touring the Fed building in what is widely seen as the latest chapter in his pressure campaign to get Powell to lower interest rates or resign as the central bank chairman. 

But Trump also suggested that he was abandoning any consideration of firing Powell, despite floating that unprecedented and legally contested idea earlier this month. 

“To do that is a big move, and I just don’t think it’s necessary,” Trump told reporters at a separate press gathering after his brief spat with Powell. 

He added, “I believe that he’s going to do the right thing.” 

The president’s visit to a construction site at the Fed on Thursday afternoon came as his administration has recently homed in on the costly renovations of two historic central bank buildings in D.C. 

Shortly after his arrival, Trump and Powell were seen touring the site together, both wearing white hard hats. 

He also joked with the chairman, saying that he wished he would cut interest rates, slapping him on the back in the process. Powell looked immensely uncomfortable during this part of the tour. He knows that while Trump can’t fire him, if a shooting ever erupted between the two men, the president would win. He always wins.

He owned him. The liberal media is harping on a moment when Powell pushed back on some of the costs of the project or something. I don’t know—it’s not relevant. Trump got the final word, took over the spot, and owned Powell. He’ll likely serve out the remainder of his term, but as Kellyanne Conway said tonight, the worst thing Trump could do to someone with these bureaucratic protections on their employment is to make them irrelevant. The president might have set that into motion today. He’s going to let Powell die on the vine. 

The View Goes on Hiatus After Joy Behar Anti-Trump Rant

 

he View has abruptly gone on hiatus following co-host Joy Behar’s latest unhinged anti-Trump rant, a tirade so inflammatory that it prompted a warning from the White House. After years of pushing partisan narratives and ridiculing conservative voices, the show may finally be facing real consequences for its unchecked rhetoric. The break comes amid mounting calls for media accountability and a renewed effort by the Trump administration to rein in platforms that use their airtime to smear political opponents under the guise of daytime entertainment.

On Thursday, Behar appeared to reveal the show's upcoming hiatus accidentally. 

"Before we go on hiatus, we only have one more show after this. I’m allowed to say that, right?” Behar asked, to which Alyssa Farah Griffin laughed and responded, “Too late now!” A producer chimed in from the background to add, “Doesn’t really matter.”

This followed the previous day's episode, where she and her co-hosts reacted to former President Donald Trump's demand that ex-President Obama be criminally investigated for allegedly fabricating intelligence related to the Russia collusion hoax. 

"First of all, who tried to overthrow the government on Jan. 6?" Behar said. "Who was that again? That was not Obama. The thing about him is he's so jealous of Obama, because Obama is everything that he is not: Trim, smart, handsome, happily married, and can sing Al Green's song 'Let's Stay Together' better than Al Green. And Trump cannot stand it. It's driving him crazy. Green is not a good color."

White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers criticized Behar, calling her irrelevant and accusing her of having "Trump Derangement Syndrome." She blamed her for the decline in The View’s ratings and suggested she’s jealous of Trump’s popularity, warning that her show could be canceled next. 

After Stephen Colbert's late-night show was cancelled, The View's hiatus has many wondering whether the break will be a permanent vacation for the daytime show. 

Dems Thought They Cooked Trump With This Chart, But There Was a Huge Problem

 

Democrats thought they were cooking with this tweet attacking Donald Trump for high grocery prices. The fact is, inflation is lower than at any point in Joe Biden’s failed presidency, the price of eggs is down, the market is soaring, and tariffs have not caused price spikes or economic Armageddon. It’s the Left being crybabies because they’re sad, pathetic losers who only care about niche political items that only resonate with single, unhinged, blue-haired feminists who hate America. 

 That’s about it—liberal American women are locusts; they kill everything. But we digress. The tweet had to be deleted because, well, all the Democrats did was expose that the price spikes occurred under the Biden administration. You cannot make this up. And yes, some of the reactions were amazing: 

Obama Faked Trump-Russia Narrative and Almost Got Away With It

 

This week in the news, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, made a discovery that she has documents, under her purview, that are pertinent to the so-called Russian collusion hoax of 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Remember what that was? During the campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016, there were allegations that Donald Trump was enlisting Russian President Vladimir Putin to disparage or hurt Hillary Clinton for his benefit.

That charge was never substantiated. Special counsel Robert Mueller—after Donald Trump was elected—spent 22 months and $40 million and found no evidence that Donald Trump was directly involved in any Russian escapade to throw the election.

But here’s the two new sources of discovery. The first is that, apparently, the Dutch intelligence had tapped into Russian intelligence, unknowingly to the Russians. And they were concerned that they were being accused of colluding with Donald Trump by the Hillary Clinton campaign. And yet, they had intelligence that Hillary Clinton had actually hired—and we know now that that was true—through the paywalls of the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm, the Fusion GPS political operation, to give money to Christopher Steele for this so-called Steele dossier that was proven to be fraudulent and the source of this entire hoax.

So, here’s the point. That had been completely proven false, both by the Mueller investigation—saw that no credible—but the intelligence agencies, one of these 18 or all of them or some of them, knew from information from the Dutch that there was no validity.

But here’s the second thing. Apparently, John Brennan and James Clapper, maybe or not James Comey, the head of the FBI, also knew from their own intelligence teams, when they were trying to act on this information and prepare it for digestion by Barack Obama, the lame-duck president, who was on his way out, they said:

Wow. All of the people who are investigating this Russian collusion, it’s pretty clear there was no Russian collusion. They may have wanted to tamper in or troll or get on the, you know, websites, like the Chinese have done. But there was no evidence, according to our subordinates, our intelligence chiefs of these subdivisions, and Tulsi Gabbard, remember, oversees some of these well beyond the FBI or the CIA, there’s no evidence that our team can find any evidence.

Now, what’s Tulsi Gabbard upset about? That was known to John Brennan. That was known to James Clapper. That was probably known to the FBI. But they have notes, they have information that when they prepared this digest daily, weekly digest of intelligence updates to lame-duck Barack Obama in 2016 and into 2017, he ignored it. He did not want to hear that. He wanted more information pertaining to Donald Trump and the Russians colluding. It was almost like, you find me the crime and I’ll give you the criminal.

And so, what did Brennan and Clapper allegedly do? They reversed the opinion of their own intelligence subordinates. And they crafted or fabricated after the election, remember that? After the November 2016 election. And then, according to the wishes of Barack Obama, they created an intelligence falsehood, a false narrative, a fake narrative, that Donald Trump, now the president-elect, soon to elect office, had been colluding with the Russians.

And we know what happened after that. They destroyed the career of Michael Flynn. We got these false charges that Trump was Putin’s asset or puppet. Jeff Sessions foolishly, but tragically, appointed Robert Mueller, who was an intimate of James Comey and many of the intelligence chiefs. His team, the “All-Stars,” as they were called, they were pretty partisan. Remember Andrew Weissmann and all that mess? That went on for 22 months, $40 million. I think it’s fair to say it nearly wrecked the first two years of the Trump administration. And I think Tulsi Gabbard is making the allegation that was by design.

We couldn’t stop him with a Steele fake dossier. Hillary couldn’t stop him. Nobody could stop him during the campaign. But Barack Obama, allegedly, by Tulsi Gabbard’s conjectures, said, “We can stop his presidency. So, you guys go back, ignore what your subordinates are saying, when they found no evidence, and ignore foreign intelligence that found no evidence. Just get me a narrative that Donald Trump is colluding with the Russians and we’ll spread it.”

And spread it they did. And it nearly destroyed Donald Trump.

Is it serious? If it’s credible, then you have a conspiracy of the top people in the United States intelligence and investigative communities conspiring with a sitting president of the United States to destroy the administration of his opponent, successor, Donald J. Trump.

Trump Sends So-Called Experts Reeling After Historic First 6 Months

 

In this first six months of the Trump administration, we’ve entered unknown territory. I guess the best way to term it is there are a lot of known unknowns. We’re doing things we’ve never done before. And our experts think they can predict it, but they’ve been wrong.

Let’s take some examples. Usually, tariffs are not a source of revenue because traditional economic orthodoxy says that whatever revenue they generate, they decrease gross domestic product by inflicting attacks on goods. But yet, we don’t know what the profit margin is in these countries. And perhaps the tariffs are not resulting in rising prices. At least they haven’t in May and June.

Which suggests, again, that the Germans or the South Koreans or the Chinese were making so much money by exporting to the United States, while protecting their own industry and piling up surpluses, that they could pay tariffs and still remain in our market at a cost-competitive profit.

The result is that we’re getting $26 billion a month and higher. No one anticipated that. Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, said, “In theory, the year could end with a third of a trillion dollars—$330 billion.” That’s almost 5% of our revenue is coming from tariffs, which we’d thought would be impossible.

Another impossibility is usually we’re running a $2 trillion debt. That’s what we were usually told by people. But in the month of May, there were more federal revenues than there were debits. And that was a result of the Department of Government Efficiency cuts and the tariffs and the seasonal increase in federal revenues that come through taxation and other charges against the private sector.

Everybody said, “Well, May’s always a good month. It’s the one good month of the year.” But we haven’t had a surplus since 2017 in any month, which is kind of strange if we’re going to run this huge $2 trillion budget deficit. And while we’re discussing it, more money is coming in than going out. And we have this known unknown about tariffs. Then something’s up. And that something’s up is amplified.

When we look at the foreign investment, we were told, $4 trillion, $6 trillion, $8 trillion. That’s a phenomenal number. Nobody has ever had $8 trillion of foreign investment in the United States in one year. The secretary of interior, Doug Burgum, says to us now that the actual income or amount or capital investment from foreign sources of various statuses could be $15 trillion. Economists have ratios for each billion dollars in foreign investment, depending on the nature of the foreign investment, the jobs created. If this were true, it’s a phenomenal number.

He also said something that was quite striking. That the value of U.S. assets that have been untapped—natural gas, coal, oil, timber, rare earth minerals—is somewhere between $100 trillion and $200 trillion.

Now, we don’t want to exploit and plunder our countryside, but it’s something to think about, that if we were not buying rare earth minerals from China—and we probably may not be—or we had a mechanism to tap our coal and use it cleanly to help generate the electricity for artificial intelligence.

This is unusual. This is crazy: $15 trillion of foreign investment, $200 trillion of unrealized assets. And remember that the $15 trillion is coming from people who were not willing to do that prior to President Donald Trump. They’re doing it in fear of tariffs.

There’s a couple of other things, and that is the military was short anywhere—depending on who you talked to—45,000 to 65,000 recruits. They could only get 50% of their benchmarks. A year ago, at this time, about 50%, only about half of the people were enlisting. But when they changed the ad campaigns, and they said they were no longer going to prejudice recruits for tenure promotion, enlistment, advancement, etc. by their race or gender, and they were going to stress battle efficacy, all of a sudden, recruitment soared.

Nobody thought you could do it in six months. But in less than six months, the military went from, “We’re short 50%. We don’t know what to do. Maybe it’s gangs. Maybe it’s tattoos. Maybe it’s drug use. Maybe it’s obesity. Maybe we’re competing—” to, “I don’t know what happened but all these people have enlisted.” And we all know what happened. They stress what the military is for in their ads and communications. And they got what they wanted.

And there’s one other final thing that’s inexplicable. We were letting in up to 10,000 illegal immigrants a day for over a four-year period. It’s controversial how many in total came. But it could be from 8 million to 12 million.

So when Donald Trump said he was going to offer a self-deportation, you get a thousand dollars, you get your way paid for, and you can apply for legal immigration at some future date—if you don’t do this, you’re disqualified for 10 years. And then the “Big, Beautiful Bill” will continue the wall. He put pressure on Mexico to enforce its own borders, to stop this trek northward.

We could go through all the things he has done. But we all thought that maybe he could reduce it from 10,000 to 2,000, maybe to 1,000. I thought maybe, “Wow. If he does all this, if he actually forces people and he creates a new deterrence, he might get only 500.” Some months, there’s nobody; 126 people I think it was in May. This is phenomenal.

There is no illegal immigration right now, as we speak. That frees the Border Patrol and the new agents that’ll come online and the new Big, Beautiful Bill to round up the 10 million, starting with the 500,000 criminals that former President Joe Biden let in.

Add it all up and the orthodoxy, the conventional wisdom about tariffs, about foreign investment, about our assets that are unrealized, about military recruitment, about illegal immigration, they’ve all gone with the wind. We’re in new territory. All the perceived wisdom is ignorance. And nobody knows what is what, except we’re in a very exciting period.

If $9 trillion represents the market capitalization of all of Silicon Valley, you can imagine what $10 trillion to $15 trillion would do to this country. It’s like bringing a new Silicon Valley—in total, one and a half of them—and plopping them down. And when you add in robotics and AI and the efficiency in government regulation, through these cuts and fast-tracking permits, we don’t know where we are, but we might be on the verge of an economic boom.

New Evidence Suggests Trump-Russia Collusion Was an Obama Setup

 

here’s news about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s release of documents, alleging that then-President Barack Obama and our top intelligence head had conspired to create a false narrative that Donald Trump was, essentially, a Russian asset. And that that effort not only had damaged his 2016 campaign, it had damaged his transition to the presidency and his presidency itself in the first 22 months of the Mueller investigation.

And there’s new information coming out all the time. Essentially, the new narrative says that despite all the references to “17 intelligence authorities” that had confirmed a Trump-Putin collusion, there was no such consensus.

Now, we have had the Devin Nunes House Intelligence Committee majority report. We’ve had Michael Horowitz’s inspector general’s report. We have had various congressional, Senate and House committees report. And we’ve had the long John Durham special investigation.

And while there’s some disagreement that the Russians tried to do this or tried to interfere—and let’s be candid, the Chinese and the Russians always try to interfere—there was never any evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump colluded to throw the election to Donald Trump.

And what’s new, as I said earlier, is that foreign intelligence tapped into the Russians. And they were baffled that they were being falsely accused. That might’ve had ramifications for our strategic relationship with Russia. Not that they’re not adversaries, but they’re kind of confused that we were using the same type of skullduggery that they do. And that undermined the high moral ground vis-a-vis Ukraine and other flashpoints with the Russians.

But it all boils down to this Dec. 9 meeting of 2016. Remember, Donald Trump had won the election. Barack Obama was going out. His intelligence heads and others at this meeting—John Brennan, CIA director; James Clapper, director of national intelligence; and James Comey, FBI director; surrounded by Susan Rice, national security adviser; Loretta Lynch, attorney general, etc.—they reported to Barack Obama, who would be out of office in six weeks.

And they said to him, “Here is the intelligence update.” And the intelligence update was, contrary to media reports and contrary to Hillary Clinton, these 17 subordinate intelligence authorities had not found evidence, either in the campaign or during the transition, that Donald Trump was colluding. And so, that’s what they reported.

They said that Barack Obama—or they have leaked that, or the documents, handwritten notes suggest that Barack Obama did not accept that, but said, “No, we don’t want that assessment. We want an assessment that he did collude.” In other words, in Soviet Beria fashion: “Find me the crime and I have the criminal to insert into that false narrative.”

And they also were reporting, at various times, that, as I said, foreign intelligence sources thought that the Russians had no reason to lie, internally, in their internal communications. And they were baffled.

So, what’s new about it? What’s new is Barack Obama was confronted with this. And he’s basically said, “This is beneath the dignity of the president. This is nonsense. This is crazy. I don’t have to reply to any of this.”

Why didn’t he just say the following?

I, Barack Obama, when I was president, in the last few weeks of my term, I had a regularly scheduled intelligence committee meeting. People came in, of various branches, and they gave me an assessment. And it said that there was no evidence—as the media had alleged and as the Steele dossier had alleged and as James Comey, who was in the room, had earlier alleged when he contacted Christopher Steele—that there was any Russian collusion. And when I heard that, I was dumbfounded. So, I just simply disagreed with them. And I said, ‘Well, this is important. Go back and find other things.’

Instead, he just completely denies it.

But the problem is that, as I’m speaking, there’s going to be new information. And these other subordinate intelligence directors that work variously for Clapper or Brennan are going to come forward in saying, “We found nothing. Clapper knew it. Brennan knew it.” And what will Clapper and Brennan say? That “we knew it, but we lied,” or, “We knew it and they told us to—Obama told us to lie,” or, “He lied. We lied.”

It’s not going to be pretty.

Will they ever go to court? No. I don’t think that they will be indicted because the so-called administrative state takes care of its own.

But this had a lot of ramifications. It undermined confidence in our elections. It tried to disrupt the campaign of Donald Trump. It tried to erode his transition. And it tried to sabotage his presidency.

And when we were dealing with Russia, our nuclear adversary, on Ukraine, we didn’t get anywhere, in part because Donald Trump could not be a force in opposition to Putin because he was under constant allegations from Clapper and Brennan—now as MSNBC and CNN contributors—that he was a Russian asset, that he was a Russian puppet.

So, they kept advancing this false narrative, even after they left office, and it undermined the credibility of an American president to conduct foreign policy with Putin. And I think Putin’s concluded: “These guys are just as bad as we are. They lie. They lie. I am not going to negotiate with them.” And the rest is history, as is amplified by the Ukraine war.

Very sorted incident—worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-Contra, worse than Monica Lewinsky. A scandal whose dimensions we can’t even imagine. But we’re going to learn a lot more. But don’t expect any of these people to face the justice that they deserve.

$2.5B Fed Cover-Up? Jerome Powell Accused of Lying As White House Demands Site Visit

 

According to White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell offered a private tour to his group at 7 p.m. on Friday, well outside regular hours and during a time when no so-called “renovations” were taking place. The move raises serious concerns and fuels growing worries about transparency and accountability at the Fed. With $2.5 billion in taxpayer dollars reportedly allocated for renovations, Americans deserve answers, not secretive tours and dodged questions.

Blair called for an immediate site visit, stating, “They should show us all the revisions and just let us see what’s actually going on—and whether what Chair Powell told the Senate Banking Committee is even true.” He questioned the staggering cost of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters renovation, which is reportedly more than double the per-square-foot cost of any other historic building project. Blair also highlighted that the price tag is 25 percent higher than what it cost to build the entire U.S. Capitol, despite the Capitol being five times larger and accommodating five times as many staff.

On Friday, during an interview, Pulte criticized Powell, saying that he is "sitting there like an obnoxious, arrogant, pompous person, saying I'm gonna keep these rates high." He called for Powell to resign, arguing that he sees inflation where it doesn't exist. 

"He goes into a room, he sees a ghost, and nobody else sees the ghost, which is that tariffs cause inflation," Powell said. "He's a bad guy. There's gonna be more coming out." 

This follows comments from Pulte, who stated that several members of Congress may issue criminal referrals against Jerome Powell after he allegedly lied about the $2.5 billion “renovation” of the Federal Reserve building.

Watch Out: Texas Democrat Pushes Views That Clearly Contradict Clear Biblical Teachings

 

A Texas House Democrat is claiming that there’s no biblical basis for Christians to oppose abortion. The lawmaker’s comments reflect a growing trend on the Left to twist or dismiss Scripture to justify its radical pro-abortion policies. However, for millions of Christians, the Bible is clear that life is sacred, and it begins in the womb. 

During an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Texas House Democrat and self-described pastor James Talarico claimed there’s no biblical or historical foundation for Christians to oppose abortion or traditional marriage. Talarico argued that Christian beliefs against abortion and same-sex marriage are not rooted in Scripture but are instead modern political constructs—remarks that are already drawing backlash from faith-based conservatives who say his views distort core Christian teachings.

"So this idea that to be a Christian means you have to be anti gay and anti abortion... There really is no historical, theological, or biblical basis for that opinion," Talarico said. 

However, it is clearly stated in the Bible, under Jeremiah 1:5, that "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

The self-proclaimed “devout” Christian is openly pro-choice, having sponsored legislation to restore abortion access and push the issue to a statewide referendum. He has fiercely criticized Texas’s pro-life laws, claiming they’re about “controlling women” rather than protecting life. Additionally, he has opposed efforts to require the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, arguing that such measures violate the separation of church and state

Trump Admin Ends Biden’s SAVE Scheme, Blocks 460K Borrowers From Costly Giveaway

 

The Trump administration has officially shut the door on former President Joe Biden’s hand-me-downs, putting an end to his controversial SAVE student loan scheme. As a result, it denied 460,000 borrowers access to what critics called an unsustainable handout. The move marks a return to fiscal responsibility, as the Department of Education aims to end student loan forgiveness and restore accountability, rather than providing blanket handouts.  

According to an internal document from the Department of Education, approximately 460,000 federal student loan borrowers have been denied access to lower monthly payments through income-driven repayment (IDR) plans. The denial follows a sweeping overhaul of the department under the Trump administration, which confirmed that applications tied to the SAVE program can no longer be accepted for processing. The Biden-era SAVE plan has been deemed illegal under current law and has been officially withdrawn from consideration. 

The SAVE Plan—short for Saving on a Valuable Education—was an income-driven repayment program introduced by the Biden administration, aiming to reduce monthly payments for borrowers by capping them at 5 percent of discretionary income for undergraduates and 10 percent for graduate loans. Promoted as a relief measure for low- and middle-income borrowers, the plan drew criticism for its high long-term cost and questionable legality. In 2024, a federal court blocked the program, ruling it exceeded executive authority. Interest is set to resume next month, leaving nearly 2 million borrowers in limbo as they await clarity on their repayment options.

As part of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law on July 4, 2025, the sweeping tax-and-spending reform streamlines the federal student loan system by eliminating complex repayment plans like PAYE, SAVE, IBR, and ICR. In their place, it introduces just two clear options: a standard 10-year repayment plan and a new Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP), which caps monthly payments between 1–10 percent of a borrower’s income over 30 years. The law also reins in runaway borrowing by imposing strict annual and lifetime limits on Graduate and Parent PLUS loans, with a hard cap of $65,000 on all PLUS borrowing, restoring discipline and fiscal sanity to the system.

Klobuchar’s Deflection Fails: Trump Exposes Dems’ Silence on Epstein Files While She Spins Wild Excuses

 Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) fired back at President Donald Trump’s claims that Democrats did nothing about the Epstein files during former President Joe Biden's time in office, comparing his excuse to the Astronomer CEO caught cheating, who then blamed the Coldplay lead singer for the scandal. 

During an interview on CNN with Jake Tapper, Klobuchar dismissed claims from Trump that the Democratic Party failed to make a single effort to release any new information on the Jeffrey Epstein files, saying that the President "Saying the Democrats did nothing about the Epstein files for four years is like that CEO who got caught on camera blaming Coldplay!" 

During the Biden administration’s four years in office, the Democratic Party did not release any new information from the Epstein files. The Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, chose to withhold certain documents to protect ongoing investigations and safeguard the privacy of individuals not charged with crimes. While the administration didn’t actively suppress information, it also refrained from pushing for broader disclosure. Some Democrats, including Rep. Ro Khanna (CA) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (MD), did attempt to force the release of Epstein-related materials, but their efforts faced roadblocks—the House Rules Committee blocked Khanna’s amendment, and Van Hollen’s proposal never advanced. The administration maintained that protecting due process and victims’ rights was paramount, guiding its cautious approach to releasing sensitive files.

Tim Burchett Sounds Alarm: Biden Admin May Have Tampered With Epstein Files

 Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) has suggested that the Biden administration might have tampered with the Epstein files to conceal information and implicate President Donald Trump. His remarks followed a Wall Street Journal report claiming that Trump sent Epstein a “bawdy” birthday letter in 2003, featuring a hand-drawn nude figure—an allegation Trump has strongly denied. In response, Trump has filed a landmark $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Journal, Rupert Murdoch, and the reporters involved.

During an interview this week with CNN, Burchett expressed concern that the Biden administration may have tampered with the Epstein files, suggesting that, due to what he called a “history of corruption,” evidence might have been altered or planted. He warned that this could prevent the public from ever learning the full truth.

"The reason I‘m worried about these files now is the fact that the Biden Administration, who, in my opinion, has a history of corruption, has tampered with these files, and we‘re never going to get to the bottom of it. I think stuff could have been placed in those files," the Tennessee lawmaker said. 

Burchett is among the ten Republicans who signed Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) discharge petition regarding the files.

"Do I have proof? No, I don't, but I have a gut feeling and a historical reference, which is every [inaudible] time something like this happens in this town, it gets covered up and it needs to stop," he said. "I salute President Trump for pushing to move forward on those records that they have." 

Faith Under Fire: Why Every House of Worship Must Prioritize Security

 In the span of several weeks, American churches—CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, Manantial de Vida Church in Naples, Florida, and Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky—faced imminent threats of mass violence. Most recently, in Lexington, two worshipers were tragically killed and several others wounded after a gunman stormed into a Sunday service.
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Thankfully, at CrossPointe and Manantial de Vida, tragedies were averted in large part due to quick-thinking staff and security teams. Yet all three of these incidents underscore a sobering truth: Houses of worship are increasingly vulnerable and must proactively develop comprehensive safety and security plans.

On June 22, 2025, Brian Browning, a 31-year-old man wearing tactical gear and armed with an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun, opened fire outside CrossPointe Community Church during a Sunday service attended by approximately 150 people, including children. A deacon acted swiftly, using his pickup truck to strike Browning, slowing him down. This courageous act allowed several other safety team members, who had just attended a USCCA training class focussing on Protecting Houses of Worship, to incapacitate the attacker, preventing a potential massacre 

Just days later, on July 6, 2025, in Naples, Florida, 23-year-old Angel Antonio Arreguin entered Manantial de Vida Church during a service, claiming to be a trained killer and asking how much money it would take to stop a mass shooting. He had a loaded handgun and 60 rounds of ammunition. Church staff managed to discreetly alert law enforcement while ensuring the safety of congregants, particularly children. Deputies arrived promptly, disarmed Arreguin, and arrested him before any harm could occur

These incidents are not isolated. According to the FBI, hate crimes targeting religious groups have been on the rise, and houses of worship have increasingly become targets for individuals seeking to inflict harm. The motivations vary—from ideological extremism to mental health crises—but the threat is real and growing.

Historically, many faith communities have resisted implementing security measures, fearing that such actions might create an atmosphere of fear or contradict their spiritual mission. However, ensuring the safety of congregants is not antithetical to faith; rather, it is a manifestation of stewardship and care.

Developing a security plan does not mean turning places of worship into fortresses. It involves:

    Risk Assessment: Understanding potential threats specific to the community and location.
    Emergency Preparedness: Establishing clear protocols for various scenarios, including active shooter situations, medical emergencies, and natural disasters.
    Training: Providing staff and volunteers with training on how to respond during emergencies.
    Collaboration with Law Enforcement: Building relationships with local police and emergency services to ensure rapid response when needed.
    Communication Plans: Ensuring that there are effective ways to communicate with congregants during and after an emergency.

The heroism displayed by individuals at CrossPointe Community Church and Manantial de Vida Church was extraordinary and their actions certainly saved lives. However, relying solely on individual bravery is not a sustainable security strategy. Proactive planning and preparedness are essential.

Faith leaders must recognize that in today's world, spiritual guidance must be accompanied by practical measures to protect their communities. By embracing comprehensive safety and security plans, houses of worship can continue to be sanctuaries of peace and hope in an increasingly uncertain world.

The Illegal, Democrat-Linked Pot Farm the Left Wants You to Ignore

 

I want to talk about a big controversy. And that is Immigration and Customs Enforcement was recently deployed to the largest pot farm, cannabis farm, in California: Glass House Farms, run by Graham Farrar. He is the owner of it. And he was employing well over 300 illegal aliens, openly, in front of everybody.

It’s in the wider Los Angeles area, in Ventura County. And ICE went there. Of course, as it happens now, people within the government, the bureaucracy, tip off protesters. So as soon as ICE got to the pot farm, there were people. The usual crowd: academics, leftists, Latino organizers that are radical.

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And of course, they were waving the Mexican flag. The flag that the people who were going to be detained do not want to go back to. They were not waving the American flag, of the country in which they are desperately eager to stay, even under illegal auspices.

But here’s the irony. This raid typified or exemplified or was emblematic of all the strange things that are going on with illegal immigration.

First of all, this was a very liberal owner. He was a campaign donor to California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Gave him over $10,000. He’s given to the Democratic National Committee. And yet, ICE went out there because they had news that not only were there over 350 people there who were illegally openly working in violation of immigration law, but there were minors.

And remember, in California, it’s against law to work anywhere if you’re under 14. You can work with a family member if you are 16 and above and you’re not in school. You know, you’re on a family farm, you’re helping.

But if you’re working on a cannabis farm, a marijuana farm, and you’re dealing with this potentially dangerous drug that you’re harvesting—but the state regulates the harvest of marijuana as it pertains to minors. And you have to be 21 years old to come in contact with this potentially dangerous drug. And that was another violation. There were numerous people there that were unattached minors that were breaking the law and harvesting marijuana.

And so, ICE had a reason to go in there and to enforce federal immigration law, despite the protest.

Another theme of this raid was there were people who they detained that had been charged for rape, for assault, for kidnapping. So there were criminals there, as well as people who were working illegally, as well as minors who were unattended that were working unlawfully.

And of course, it’s a liberal mantra to protect the children. And yet, this liberal concern that is the largest pot farm in California knowingly, it denied it, but it must have known that it had children in violation of state law.

The other theme was the protesters. We had the usual suspects, as I said. There were organized people. There were people who had tips that came out there. There was also a CSU professor. I taught in the CSU, California State University system, for 21 years. And here we had a Cal State professor who was protesting this. He must have had advanced warning to go all the way to Ventura and know where to go.

But nevertheless, he was arrested because when the protests—which are always called “peaceful”—turned violent and people started to throw objects at ICE, they had to use tear gas. This professor picked up a tear gas canister—walked over, picked it up—threw it at the officer, then left. Apparently, he came back later with different clothes to hide his identity.

But just put everything in perspective: Big liberal pot farmer, producing more pot than any other farm in the United States; almost exclusively, knowingly, publicly using illegal labor; knowingly having minors working in violation of California’s labor laws, coming in contact with marijuana.

Protests that were tipped off to impede ICE. Professors from a California public university going there and throwing tear gas canisters at federal officers.

And Gavin Newsom and the California Democratic political establishment—Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and others—siding with those people who were trying to impede ICE from arresting and detaining people in violation of federal immigration law, people with criminal records that were here illegally, and trying to separate and keep children out of this marijuana operation.

And yet, the Left thinks that this is going to be a legitimate protest movement with popularity or favorability among the California or, indeed, the United States public. I don’t think that’s going to happen.

Meanwhile, while this raid was taking place, Mayor Karen Bass said that she wants to give illegal aliens—who are in their home—cash subsidies. She said, “Two hundred dollars. I don’t know how much.” She doesn’t know how much because she doesn’t really care how much.

She’s running for office. So, her primary concern is not the safety of people in Los Angeles. It’s not to bring back an expedited process for the people who lost their homes from the Pacific Palisades fire. It’s to give cash—taxpayers’ money—to people here unlawfully at the expense of U.S. citizens.

The pot raid, Karen Bass, it all has one theme: The Democratic Party and the Left, in general, favors people who are here illegally—foreign nationalists—over their own citizens.

And they think it was moral to break the law, to invite people, in the millions, in, and it’s amoral to try to rectify that situation by enforcing the law. And I don’t think the American people are going to stand for that.

The World Woke Up

 

In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo.

The unthinkable has become the banal.

Take illegal immigration—remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under former President Joe Biden?

Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”—a euphemism for mass amnesties.

Now, there is no such thing as daily new illegal immigration. It simply disappeared with commonsense enforcement of existing immigration laws—and a new president.

How about the 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment?

Remember all the causes that the generals cited for their inability to enlist soldiers: generational gangs, obesity, drugs, and stiff competition with private industry?

And now?

In just six months, recruitment targets are already met; the issue is mostly moot.

Why? The new Pentagon flipped the old, canceling its racist DEI programs and assuring the rural, middle-class Americans—especially white males—that they were not systemically racist after all.

Instead, they were reinvited to enlist as the critical combat cohort who died at twice their demographic share in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How about the “end of the NATO crisis,” supposedly brought on by a bullying U.S.?

Now the vast majority of NATO members have met their pledges to spend 2% of gross domestic product on defense, which will soon increase to 5%.

Iconic neutrals like Sweden and Finland have become front-line NATO nations, arming to the teeth. The smiling NATO secretary-general even called Trump the “daddy” of the alliance

What about indomitable, all-powerful, theocratic Iran, the scourge of the Middle East for nearly 50 years?

Although it had never won a war in the last half-century, its terrorist surrogates—Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis—were supposedly too dangerous to provoke.

Now?

Most of their expeditionary terrorists are neutered, and their leaders are in hiding or dead. Iran has no air force, no real navy, no air defenses, and no active nuclear weapons program.

Its safety apparently depends only on the mood of the U.S. or Israel on any given day, not to fly into its airspace and take out its missiles, nuclear sites, generals, or theocrats at will.

What happened to the supposedly inevitable recession, hyperinflation, stock market collapse, unemployment spikes, and global trade war that last spring economists assured us would hit by summer?

Job growth is strong, and April’s inflation rate is the lowest in four years. GDP is still steady. The stock market hit a record high. Trade partners are renegotiating their surpluses with the U.S.

It turns out that staying in the U.S. consumer market is the top priority of our trading partners. It seems their preexisting and mostly undisclosed profits were large enough to afford reasonable U.S. symmetrical tariffs.

For now, news of tax cuts, deregulation, “drill, baby, drill” energy policies displacing Green New Deal strangulation, and $8-$10 trillion in potential foreign investment has encouraged—rather than deterred—business.

Then there were our marquee elite universities, whose prestige, riches, and powerful alumni made them answerable to no one.

And now, after the executive and congressional crackdown on their decades of hubris?

Supposedly brilliant university presidents have resigned in shame. The public has caught on to their grant surcharge gouging.

Campuses have backed off their arrogant defiance of the Supreme Court’s civil rights rulings.

They are panicked about the public exposure of their systemic antisemitism.

They are scrambling to explain away their institutionalized ideological bias and their tawdry profit-making schemes and mass recruitment of wealthy foreign students from illiberal regimes.

So, the mighty Ivy League powerhouses are now humbling themselves to cut a deal to save their financial hides and hopefully return to their proper mission of disinterested education.

What happened to the trans juggernaut of sex as a social construct and its bookend gospel that biological men could dominate women’s sports?

People woke up. They were no longer afraid to state that sex is binary and biologically determined. And biological men who dominate women’s sports are bullies, not heroes.

Where are the millionaire-scamming architects of Black Lives Matter now? Where is the “DEI now, tomorrow, and forever” conventional wisdom?

Where is professor Ibram X. Kendi and his $30,000 Zoom lessons on how to fight racism by being racist?

They have all been exposed as the race hustlers they always were. Their creed that it is OK for supposed victims to be racist victimizers themselves was exposed as an absurd con.

So, what flipped everything?

We were living in an “emperor has no clothes” make-believe world for the last few years. The people knew establishment narratives were absurd, and our supposed experts were even more ridiculous.

But few—until now—had the guts to scream “the emperor is naked” to dispel the fantasies.

When they finally did, reality returned.

Gavin Newsom Abandons Californians for 2028 White House Delusions

 

Lately, Gavin has redirected his energies from the crises of California to his aspirations to run for president in 2028. He was in South Carolina, which is the first big primary, campaigning. I don’t think that’s a good look to go to, pretty much, a red state, given the status of California. But nevertheless, he did that.

He’s now inserted himself into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations crisis in California and is siding with the protesters that are trying to obstruct ICE. And he has a very incoherent position.

He doesn’t really tell us what his attitude is about the illegal immigrant community in California, which is the largest illegal alien group of any state in the Union, here in California. He’s siding with the illegal aliens. He doesn’t tell us why he’s doing that. He has no reference to the 10 million to 12 million who came in illegally under President Joe Biden, in which Gavin was very silent.

And I guess the supposition is that Gavin thought it was quite moral for 12 million people to break the law, but it’s quite amoral for somebody to try to rectify the situation and enforce the law.

But while he is doing his podcast and he is attacking President Donald Trump, he called Donald Trump “scum.” He went after Vice President JD Vance for going to Disneyland, said that was hypocritical, given his criticisms of California.

You can see he’s flailing. He is desperate. And he’s a social media creature now. He’s on X all the time. He’s doing these podcasts. Although, he’s pivoted from the Steve Bannon-, Charlie Kirk-type, and he is going more left wing now because he thinks he has to win the primaries first, then he will pivot back.

But here’s my point. We’re facing an existential crisis in California. Newsom, there have not been very many building permits in Pacific Palisades. That is a catastrophe. And that’s in addition to the catastrophe of your governance, when you did not allow the gleaning of hills and fuel and brush that caused the fire.

And when Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was overseas in Ghana, and the water and power director closed down and did not fix or repair a reservoir, and when the vice mayor phoned in a bomb threat and was under house arrest, these were the conditions that led to that disaster. You’re not addressing them.

I just drove six hours on the California freeway system, Newsom. In 2025, we have 40 million people and we have 40 million cars. Fifty years ago—roughly 45 or 50 years ago—we had 20 million people and 4 million cars. And guess what? When I went down the 99, I-5, the 101, there are still large swaths that are two lanes. They have not changed in 50 or 60 years. And there is public domain space where they could have been enlarged. You haven’t done anything.

You were on the San Francisco City Council. You were mayor of San Francisco. You were the lieutenant governor. You were governor. In some capacity or other, you’ve been almost 30 years in a position of responsibility. You’ve never been an advocate.

These are some of the most dangerous bloody highways in the world. Meanwhile, we have wasted $15 to $20 billion on high-speed rail. And not one foot of track has been laid. If we were to gift high-speed rail over to California and said, “From Bakersfield to Merced, it’s free; we built it,” it would still lose money. No one wants to go from Bakersfield to Fresno any faster than they can on Amtrak. It’s a disaster. Why don’t you address that?

We are looking at an—we have the highest gas taxes, Newsom. And now you’ve had a scheduled 60-cent or more increase. It’s already started, a cent and a half. Why are we doing this? We have the highest gas taxes. And yet, we’re sitting on the Monterey Shale deposits. We could be one of the greatest gas producers—natural gas and petroleum. Instead, we’re importing petroleum from Saudi Arabia. And the price of gas, when I filled up today—when gas has gone down by two or three—was $5.50 in California. The poor can’t afford that.

Our energy is out of sight, 30 to 40 cents a kilowatt. And this is before the AI boom will really deplete us. We’re not building traditional natural gas or more nuclear generation or hydroelectric. The solar farms are not an answer. They do not create energy in the evening. The wind turbines, they all have to be subsidized. They’re not giving us reliable energy. And it’s very expensive to keep doing that.

You’re in South Carolina, but we have 13.3% income tax rate. It’s the highest in the nation. Can you explain why we have that and we still had this massive $77 billion deficit to start the year?

We have the highest number of illegal aliens in the country in California. Twenty-seven percent of the California resident population was not born in the United States. This is an enormous challenge of assimilation and integration. You’re not addressing it.

Twenty-one percent of Californians live before the poverty line. You’re in South Carolina. You’re on podcasts with your friends. You’re in a fight with Donald Trump. You’re going down to help ICE be impeded. And we have the highest poverty rate in the United States.

We have one-third of all people in public assistance here. One out of every two births in California is on Medi-Cal. Forty percent of the entire population is on Medi-Cal. Why would you try to impede ICE from deporting people who are here illegally, using these services and crowding out the availability to your own state residents who are legal?

In other words, you look at a state that is in complete free fall, it is a catastrophe, and rather than addressing transportation, energy, poverty, housing, gasoline, what are you doing? You’re campaigning for president. And you’re in Twitter wars with the president of the United States. And you’re defending the catastrophic governance in Los Angeles. And you’re trying to impede the enforcement of a law that, if it was enforced, you would be the biggest beneficiary.

Please stop this because California is a disaster and you, more than anyone in the last 30 years, are responsible for it.

Why the Left Is Going Crazy

 

What are the sources, the causes of Democratic rage? We see the manifestations everywhere.

We have House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., holding a bat, as if he’s gonna club somebody. And then, he spoke for no reason for eight hours in the House. That didn’t compare with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. He did a pseudo-filibuster for 25 hours.

Almost weekly, there’s a video cut by representatives and senators on the Democratic side with the S-word or the F-word. And then we have Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., going to these oligarch rallies on private jets, damning the oligarchical class, when they are the people who fund the Democratic Party.

That’s one level of leftist outrage.

Then we have the internet mob. And they do everything from canonize and glorify the assassin Luigi Mangione—who killed the UnitedHealthcare executive—to even more grotesquely and ghoulishly, now they’re on the internet suggesting that the over a hundred people who were killed, many of them children, deserved what they got for, A, they didn’t believe in climate change. This had nothing to do with climate change. B, they’re from red-state Texas that believes in small government. So, they got small government. The National Weather Service had given prior warning with plenty of time to evacuate, had they done so. And third, they believe in the Department of Government Efficiency. So, they deserve what they get. I’m being literal.

Can you imagine people going on there? One internet person, Sade Perkins, basically said they were white and Christian and they deserve what they got.

That’s the second level of leftist outrage.

Then we come to what I would call the dregs. These are the mobs. These are the people who firebombed Tesla dealerships. These are the people who tried to run off the road Tesla drivers. These are the people who, in Los Angeles, waved Mexican flags and spat on and burned American flags. They destroyed patrol cars. They looted stores.

They tried to swarm Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. Two groups of them, one a single shooter and another 10 arrested suspects, tried to kill ICE officers. These are the people that the Democratic Party either cannot or will not censor.

In fact, there’s a bill in the Congress, on the part of Democrats, to disallow masks on ICE officers and to make them wear a badge, so they and their families can be ready targets.

I could go on with these examples, but what is going on? Why are they so angry? Why isn’t this the old party of President Bill Clinton? Or even the party of President Barack Obama?

One: They have no institutional power. They do not have the House. They do not have the Senate. They do not have the White House. They do not have the Supreme Court. They do not have the issues. There are 30/70, 20/80 issues. And they’re on the wrong side.

They can’t have a plebiscite because the people would vote against men in women’s sports. People would vote against “defund the police.” People would vote against the Green New Deal. People would vote against the foreign policy that we’ve seen from Afghanistan to the Middle East.

So, they’re angry. They have no power.

Two: This time President Donald Trump is not looking at symptoms or manifestations of the progressive project. No, no, no. He’s not just saying, “We’re gonna address the border.” He’s not just saying, “We have to deal with crime or the economy.” He’s trying to say how things got out of control the last 50 years.

How did we get to a point where people actually believe biological men should compete in women’s sports? How do they actually believe you could let in 12,000 people a day? How did you actually believe that you could let people loot stores with no consequences?

And he came up with a solution.

What are the sources of Democratic power? It’s the universities. That’s where people are indoctrinated. Ninety-five percent of the faculty are hard left. It’s the foundations that fund all of these groups. It’s the media: CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, NPR. It’s the corporate boardroom.

And so, Donald Trump decided that he was going to go after the universities and hold them to account. Their endowments taxed. Federal grants reduced to 15% overcharges. Follow the civil rights rules or lose all of your federal money. No separation by race in graduations, themes, etc.

His two lawsuits have been settled with CBS and ABC about the media. They’re very wary now of simply smearing and slandering and tell beyond truths.

There’s a third reason, a third source of the anger of the Democratic Party and the Left in general. Donald Trump is successful. Had The Wall Street Journal and the other prognosticators been correct in March, we wouldn’t have this violence.

They said Donald Trump would cause a recession. They said that his trade talk and tariff wars would cause the stock market to permanently—or at least this year—crash. They said we were gonna have a recession.

What happened? Jobs are up. Inflation’s low. Tariff income is increased. The economy, gross domestic product is growing. It didn’t happen.

They said that if Donald Trump bombed the installations in Iran, we would have a theater-wide war. Twenty-five minutes and a ceasefire the next day.

I could go on, but Donald Trump is having an amazing success. He stopped all illegal immigration at the border. There’s zero. We were told you could not get 50,000 missing recruits back into the military. He did that. They’re already back.

And so, to review, the Left is going crazy because they can’t enact their progressive agenda through any political method. There’s no avenue for them to pass a law or an executive order or a Supreme Court decision.

They’re angry because they thought that even though they didn’t have these levers of power, they could use these other institutions—cultural, social, economic, political foundations, universities, K-12, media, sports. And now Donald Trump is going after them.

And third, they thought Donald Trump would fail and he’d be a buffoon. And he succeeded in a more dramatic fashion than any president in the last 50 years in his first six months.

Put it all together and they’re mad, mad, mad. And they should be because Donald Trump threatens not just to take their power away, but the sources of their power.

no women relationships in 30 years

 

I didn’t have sex for 40 years with a woman. I thought I would on okcupid about 15 years ago. Now they don’t have faces on JPEG files.

I like not working with disability. When I sent my resume to indeed, employers didn’t want me with my bachelor degree for 10 years. I got jobs (laptop chips, western Wisconsin health, pulatech, walgreens, msu, radio mankato, fun.com) , but they didn’t last. My most successful time was laptop chips during lunch break talking about spotify and atvs with employees. They went to subway during lunch. I talked about movies, music like northern invasion, and vacations. Zac brought his swtich for show and tell. They liked pink floyd. I lasted 17 months. Pulatech, Western Wisconsin Health, Walgreens, MSU, fun.com I didn’t make any relationships. The small talks in the lunch room failed, because it was a bad economy and they had girlfriends or were married. The museum women were married and talked about “ The Way We Were” 1973 movie in the research room as I was doing obituaries and dead 4h children.

I played Ps4 a little bit, but mostly emulation station with old games like for Playstaiton , n64, sega saturn, because I spent a lot of time watching Canadian Prepper, Clownfish TV, J bravo, Jeremiah babe, I allegedly,

I have 18 dungeons and dragons books now. I started in October 2023. I read about 4 books through and I was at the game quest where everyone had had dungeon master from 2002. It was in demand like I remembered.

I spent 30 years trying to get girlfriends. I was unsuccessful. I never had a crush on someone in public school. There’s nobody to see my hobbies collection and watch tv with me and play multiplayer, watch youtube, and go on vacations.

Hey, DOJ, How About Growing Up and Doing Your Damn Jobs?

 

Washington, DC, is a high school with paychecks. The money is real, and there is a lot of it. However, the people running much of the show are still very much the same angry nerds, unlikeable geeks, aggressive jocks, and teacher suck-ups; everyone else thought people would outgrow after they graduated. Maybe there’s something in the water, I don’t know, but far too often, people near power revert to their worst instincts in a game of “pay attention to me,” either desperate to get credit for something good or avoid blame for something bad. What doesn’t get done is their jobs.

There’s an old saying in Washington, which I’ve seen attributed to everyone from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, that goes, “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” It probably is true, or at least I’d imagine it to be, but we don’t live in a world like that. I don’t know if one ever existed, but it sure doesn’t exist now.

We now live in a world where Democrats are doing all they can to inspire the murder of federal agents, and the Department of Justice and FBI are scrambling to do damage control and blame-shifting on over-promising and under-delivering on a dead pedophile. 

Yes, I want to know if anyone else is implicated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sick world, but I’d prefer to prevent the murder of ICE and border patrol agents as they do their jobs. I want the authorities to focus on infiltrating, tracking and dismantling the left-wing machine that exists for the express purpose of damaging this country’s law enforcement institutions. And I really want them to throw the book – hell, the whole damn library – at those who fund these goon squads who, only for lack of aim, would have stepped up to murder by now.

Instead of doing that, we have leadership scrambling to make sure their social media followers remain loyal to them, not the President’s agenda or any cause. We have people who’ve not been impressive in their jobs already – whoever decided to bring Kilmar back to try an old case they’re likely to lose, instead of keeping his ass out of the country (I mean, we’d already won, why backtrack?) should be fired – running around, leaking to the media that they can’t work with this one, or won’t work with that one because their integrity won’t allow for it.

Real integrity doesn’t leak to the press, especially when you’ve made a lot of money complaining about the press. 

No one looks good here, as no one is doing anything beyond a game of CYA. 

President Donald Trump and his agenda are not being served. The attempts by all involved are not to make sure he knows what is really happening, they’re for public consumption – they are to serve a career after government work; to keep media bookings flowing and audiences on the hook. If it were about the President’s agenda the conversations would be taking place with the President, not “reporters” at CNN and Axios.

Honestly, President Trump should clean house. If these people won’t put their egos aside (and they all have big egos) and do their damn jobs, replace them with people who will. There are people trying to murder federal officers enforcing the laws of the United States and one political party is leading that bloodthirsty charge while federal law enforcement makes sure they don’t get hit with social media backlash from an unforced error. It’s pathetic.

Everyone involved dropped the ball. They all spent years declaring things to be true that they had zero proof actually was, they sold tales from sources giving them information about alleged perverts they repeated as fact, but when they found themselves in a position to do something about it either discovered they’d been lied to and remained quiet about it or ignored it. The Attorney General was so misleading in her public statements while in office that you have to wonder if she understands basic definitions of words. 

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In all of that, someone decided to make up binders and give “social media influencers” already publicly available information in them and pretend it was A) new and B) just the first release of information.

I don’t know who is to blame, or who is more to blame, and it doesn't matter because none of this has been anything but clownish, and none of it has been helpful to the America First agenda.

Meanwhile, somewhere out there, the radical left is plotting more ambushes, illegal aliens are committing crimes and victimizing Americans, and the 300,000 children the Biden administration “lost” are being trafficked into slavery, either labor or sexual. And the people charged with bringing it all to justice are playing PR games. 

President Trump needs to summon them all to the Oval Office, chew them all out, tell them to grow the hell up and do their damn jobs or clean out their desks so he can put someone in those offices who will. Those jobs are too damn important to be occupied by people who have priorities other than doing them.