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President Trump: “That’s Two in a Row, Comey and Wray, Who Got Caught LYING, with Our Great Country at Stake”








September 28, 2025 by Joe Hoft

President Trump goes off on Christopher Wray after he got caught like his predecessor Comey, lying to the American people about the crimes they were committing.

President Trump shared this message on Saturday night after it Jim Comey was indicted and Christopher Wray was found lying to Congress about the number of undercover FBI agents at the Capitol on Jan 6 (274). Wray

It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That’s right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as “Law Enforcement Officials.” I want to know who each and every one of these so-called “Agents” are, and what they were up to on that now “Historic” Day. Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of “Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians” to them! Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA AGAIN!

There were some heroes who knew that Jan 6 was a setup and who had the courage to call out the corrupt FBI Director Christopher Wray for the FBI’s actions that day. Wray wouldn’t answer at this time the question for how many FEDS were in the crowd that day. He indicated none.

Clay Higgins was all over Chris Wray accusing the FBI of having Ghost busses to transport FBI agts dressed as Trump supporters to the Capitol on J6

"your day will come " Chris Wray

The day is today... no one's above the law

Kudos to Clay Higgins 👏 pic.twitter.com/0QPjjljwo4

— @chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @chicago1Ray) September 26, 2025

Chris Wray said he didn’t know if any FBI undercover agents on site at the Capitol on Jan 6.

Here is:

Former FBI Director Christopher Wray perjuring himself— flat-out lying that he “does not believe” there were any undercover FBI agents in or around the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Time to indict. pic.twitter.com/XKBu4v37Kg

— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺 🇸 (@Real_RobN) September 26, 2025

Jan 6ers were arrested with their doors kicked down. They were placed in jail for years. They were sentenced to false crimes. They were forced into pleas to save their livelihoods and protect their families.


Chris Wray lied about Jan 6 from the start.

Chris Wray should be behind bars. He currently is more suspect than any arrested on Jan 6.


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From Joe Hoft
Link: https://joehoft.com/president-trump-...ntry-at-stake/






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Attachment 2576901

The voting system manufacturer claimed the news channel made false statements about the company.

By Jacqueline Munis

Conservative-leaning cable news channel Newsmax agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67 million to settle a defamation lawsuit over false election claims that the 2020 election was rigged.

Dominion Voting Systems filed its lawsuit against Newsmax and several other defendants in 2021, seeking $1.6 billion in damages. The settlement avoids a trial that was set to begin in October.

“We are pleased to have settled this matter,” a Dominion spokesperson said in a statement to POLITICO.

As part of the agreement, the first payment of $27 million was paid Aug. 15. Two more $20 million payments must be paid in 2026 and 2027, according to a filing from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In a statement, Newsmax defended its coverage as “fair, balanced, and conducted within professional standards of journalism.”

“The actions taken against Newsmax, and earlier against Fox News, represent a direct attack on free speech and a free press,” Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy said in a statement.

In 2023, Fox News reached a $787 million settlement with Dominion over similar claims. Newsmax previously settled with Smartmatic, another voting machine company, over defamation claims in 2024.

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SHOCKER: Here’s a Detailed List of Over 40 Lies Made By Jim Comey in Private Memos Re: Trump








September 28, 2025 by Joe Hoft

The following article was published at The Gateway Pundit on April 20, 2018 (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...onspiring-fbi/). It was very clear that Jim Comey, the fired FBI Director, had lied multiple times and we listed over 40 of these lies.

Notes from Former FBI Head James Comey related to his discussions with President Trump were finally released by the DOJ and FBI last night.

These damning notes follow the release of the DOJ’s IG report less than a week prior that provided evidence that former FBI Head Andrew McCabe lied multiple times, including under oath. The McCabe report exposed President Obama’s FBI and DOJ as corrupt, dishonest, coordinated and conspiring. Comey’s notes provide additional support of a very dishonest, conniving and corrupt FBI led by Comey, who set the tone.


L- stands for outright lies

PL – stands for probable lies





(Link to download the document: https://www.scribd.com/document/3768...oad&from_embed)


Less than a week since the DOJ IG’s report about fired former FBI Head Andrew McCabe, the DOJ and FBI finally released James Comey’s notes as requested by Congress. These notes show a very corrupt, manipulative, conniving and dishonest FBI Director.


A list of the key points in the 15 pages of notes follows –


1.First note that the notes were classified and therefore Comey leaked classified information.(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...d-information/)

James Comey Memos just out and show clearly that there was NO COLLUSION and NO OBSTRUCTION. Also, he leaked classified information. WOW! Will the Witch Hunt continue?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2018

2. The first page of the notes includes perhaps the most damning piece of information from corrupt Comey’s first notes on his meeting on January 6, 2017. After getting the President-elect alone, Comey writes, “I then executed the session exactly as I had planned.”

3. He next states whom the reports were from which is redacted. But then says that he “didn’t want him caught cold by some of the detail. [PL-1]

4. On page 2 Comey writes the Russians allegedly had tapes. [PL-2]

5.The President immediately said this was false but Comey never released this information.


6. Comey says, “I said I wasn’t say this was true. “[PL-3]…” media like CNN had them” [how did he know and why was he not protecting the President-elect?]…It’s important not to give them “the excuse to write that the FBI had the material” [PL-4]… they [FBI] were keeping it very close [PL-5]

7. Comey admits they were not investigating [President-elect Trump] but it was being said out of Russia [PL-6]

8. Comey also wanted to let him [Trump] know in case it came out in the media. [PL-7]

9. On page 3 begins corrupt Comey’s 2nd meeting notes with President on January 28, 2017 [shortly after the inauguration].

10. Comey admits he was never relaxed “given the focus his conversation required” [what focus? Why the discomfort? This doesn’t sound normal for someone without an agenda.]


11. Comey says “I explained that he could count on me to always tell him the truth. [L-8] I said in don’t do sneaky things [L-9], I don’t leak [L-10], I don’t do weasel moves. [L-11] But I was not on anybody’s side politically [L-12].”

12. When the President asked whether the FBI leaks, Comey answered “that FBI leaks far less than people often say”. [L-13]

13. Comey said AG Lynch directed him not to use the word “investigation” [in the Hillary matter].

14. President Trump asked whether it was true “there was a revolt” after Comey announced no crimes in the Hillary investigation and Comey said “that was nonsense [PL-14] and I worked hard to see if folks had concerns [PL-15]. Comey next said that “investigators all agreed there was not case [PL-16], he [Trump] said he disagreed.’

15. President Trump next asked about McCabe and whether he as a problem with the President and Comey said “he’s a true professional [L-17] and had no problem at all” [L-18 – it was well known in the FBI that McCabe hated Trump].


16. Comey next bashed former Republican AG’s but not Obama’s AG’s Holder or Lynch.

17. President Trump again said the dossier Comey presented to him in the previous meeting was not accurate. Trump noted that he didn’t even stay the night in Russia during the Miss Universe contest when some incidents were said to take place.

18. Comey said, “I wouldn’t want to create a narrative that we were investigating him [L-19 – this went on for months and Comey never once came out and said the President wasn’t under investigation – this is the 2nd time Comey admits Trump not under investigation.]

19.Comey says Obama “wanted competence and independence and didn’t want the FBI involved in policy.” [L-20 – Comey went to the White House on numerous occasions and is now suspected as following Obama’s orders – also, Obama’s entire administration was corrupt.] Comey also said Obama slept well knowing the FBI was well run. [L-21 – for Obama well run meant corrupt]

20. Comey next again said McCabe was “professional”. [L-22]


21. The next notes were from February 8, 2017, starting on p. 7. Comey said that a redacted item was necessary in the now known as fake dossier. He states “analysts from all three agencies agreed it was relevant and that portions of the material were corroborated by other intelligence.”[PL-23]

22. Comey notes a primary source of the dossier but it is redacted [PL-24]

23. Comey talked about leaks and said they were probably from folks “who have left government”. [PL-25] He also said unlikely they came from the FBI [PL-26], and that most leaks come from one or two out. [L-27 – Comey and McCabe both have testified under oath that they leaked]

24. On page 8, Comey tell Priebus their conversation was private [L-28].

25. Priebus asked whether there was a FISA application on General Flynn and Comey answered but it is redacted.


26. Next Comey’s note reflect something strange. Comey notes that Priebus asked why Hillary was not charged with “gross negligence”. [Comey changed this as we now know to clear Hillary of emails crimes.] Comey then says I took him through “facts and the law”. [L-29 – we know Hillary was guilty of numerous crimes.] Then unexpectedly Comey writes “I added that it wasn’t my fault that Huma Abedin forwarded emails to Anthony Weiner.” [This suggests the Weiner emails are an important part of the 2016 campaign and the Hillary email investigations.]

28. Comey said referring to the FBI “we aren’t the kind of killer that Putin is”. President Trump apparently paused [does Trump know something or was Comey trying to scare the President?]

29. On page 10 Comey begins his notes from a February 14, 2017, meeting with the President [Valentine’s Day]. President Trump says that he thought his phone was protected but that the calls he made with Australia and Mexico and that General Flynn’s call with the Russians were taped and then leaked. Comey says he tried to interject several times that “leaks are terrible” but the President wouldn’t let him. [L-32 – Comey is a leaker] Comey says it’s terrible his calls were leaked. [L-33 – Comey is a leaker] Comey says FBI leaks were terrible [L-34 – Comey is a leaker].

30. Comey agrees that leaks compromise the President and that he was “eager to find leakers”. [L-35 – Comey is a leaker]


31. Comey then said he was eager to put a “head on a pike” of a leaker. [L-36 – Comey is a leaker.]

32. On page 12 Comey notes a very brief call from the President and then on page 13 he notes from his discussion with the President on March 30, 2017 via a phone. The President stated that the Russia business was hurting him and that he was going to personally sue Christopher Steele.

33. President Trump asked what Comey could do to lift the cloud. Comey replies that they were “running it down as quickly as possible’ [L-37 – this mess is still going on and the cause of the corrupt Mueller investigation].

34. Comey again tells Trump that he was not under investigation and the President said it would be good to get that out. [Comey leaked everything else but never announced or leaked that the President was not being investigated.]

35. Trump again brings up McCabe and Comey says again two more times that McCabe is an honorable guy. [L-38 and L-39] Then Comey says he’d see what he could do to get out that the President is not under investigation. [L-40 – Comey never did until under oath in front of Congress months later.]


36. The final set of notes begin on page 15 and refer to a call from President Trump on April 11, 2017. Comey begins to tell the President that he passed the President’s request about letting the American people know that he is not under investigation and Comey says he passed on to the acting AG but had not heard from him. [PL-41]

37. President Trump then stated that he heard the FBI was involved in an incident in Jordan in delaying a prosecution of a soldier who killed Americans. Comey did not deny but said he would dig into it. [PL-42 – Comey probably knew but lied as he had a pattern of doing]

38. Comey tries to insinuate in some footnotes that the President was up to something but there was no basis for his impressions. [PL-43 – by this time it is clear that Comey was a liar and leaker.]


Overall Summary –

1. The notes were classified and Comey leaked them which is a crime.

2. Comey writes that his “plan” in how he wanted to share the fake dossier with President Trump went exactly the way he wanted. This indicates Comey was conniving and manipulative in presenting the fake dossier to the President.

3. At least three times Comey tells the President he is not under investigation which is probably a lie but no matter how many times the President asks the FBI Director to share this with the American people, he refuses to do so.

4. Comey lies over 40 times in the 15 pages of notes. Some of his lies are known at this point from other information [L] and some probable lies [PL] are based on other information and a track record of lying from Comey. In total we identified 18 probable lies [PL] and 25 outright lies [L].

5. The Weiner emails are again noted in these notes as they were noted in the McCabe IG Report. These may include information that Comey and others do not want released to American voters and this may be why they are going all out to remove President Trump.

6. The Corrupt individuals in the government have no concern for the American people or the President they elected.


Comey shows in these notes that he is dishonest, manipulative, conniving, conceited, arrogant and corrupt. Fired former FBI Director James Comey is a leaker and a liar!


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From Joe Hoft
Link: https://joehoft.com/shocker-heres-a-...-private-memos







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Attachment 2576898

A new GOP-led panel could tear open raw wounds from the Capitol's most violent day.

By Hailey Fuchs and Kyle Cheney

A new House panel will re-investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack with an eye toward recasting the narrative about the events in Washington that day.

It’s the latest sign that the deadly riot remains a wound on Congress that might never fully heal amid ferocious partisan sparring. Retribution, not reconciliation, appears to be the prime motivation behind the new probe, with the Republicans behind it still bitter over the work of the panel’s previous iteration, which was largely led by Democrats and concluded President Donald Trump was singularly to blame for the violence inflicted by his supporters.

One GOP member of the new panel, Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins, did not rule out questioning members of the prior committee.

“They were not invested in actual investigative work anyway,” said Higgins, who has pushed an unfounded theory that FBI agents helped coordinate the events at the Capitol. “That thing was never legitimate. It was always biased. And therefore, if we question them, it may be with the angle of having them implicate themselves in lies that they presented as truth.”

Speaker Mike Johnson called it “a committee investigating the previous committee” in a CNN interview Sunday and said the prior effort “was rigged.”

The panel’s chair, Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, describes the investigation more soberly. He said in an interview that GOP staff have been quietly toiling for months, even before Johnson moved to formalize the probe this month.

Loudermilk said his team has been “talking to different entities,” reviewing documents and brainstorming potential investigative targets.

“We need to look at it from a factual standpoint,” he said. “It’s dangerous out there. There were a lot of civilians, as well as members of Congress and staff and even press that were here on Jan. 6. And I think we’re all interested to know, why did the Capitol get breached — regardless of who did it — how did it get breached?”

But to Democrats and even some Republicans, that rationale is a smokescreen for the panel’s true purpose: rewriting the history of Jan. 6, 2021, to minimize the culpability of the president and supporters who violently assaulted police officers and entered the Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the final certification of Trump’s 2020 election loss.

The security failures Loudermilk cited have been the subject of a slew of wide-ranging investigations: a review by retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, a series of reports by the Capitol Police’s inspector general, a bipartisan Senate review and two appendices in the final report of the previous House Jan. 6 select committee.

That previous select committee concluded that Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, and months of false claims to sow doubt about his defeat in the 2020 election, inflamed his supporters shortly before he directed them to march on the Capitol. But the review also acknowledged that Capitol security officials were underprepared for the onslaught, leading to the breach of the building and several near-confrontations between rioters and lawmakers.

“They can’t even seem to settle on which conspiracy theory they want to advance,” said Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who served on the previous Jan. 6 panel and serves on the new one. “Was it Antifa? Did it not happen at all? Did Donald Trump really win the election? They can’t figure out what it is they want to say, and it’s because it’s just a tissue of lies and conspiracy theories.”

The backdrop for the new GOP-led investigation is Trump’s return to the presidency and his persistent efforts to reject any blame for the attack — and to accuse his political enemies of persecuting his supporters. On his first day back in office, Trump pardoned about 1,000 members of the mob and ordered his Justice Department to drop pending criminal cases against hundreds of others.

Trump has spent the intervening years downplaying the violence that occurred that day, which left more than 100 police officers injured. One officer died a day after the riot after suffering strokes, and several others died of suicide in subsequent weeks. Four Trump supporters died in the violence, including one who was shot by a Capitol Police officer as she attempted to enter the lobby that leads onto the House floor.

The attack remains a raw issue on Capitol Hill. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) helped sink the nomination of conservative attorney Ed Martin to be Trump’s top prosecutor in Washington, citing Martin’s advocacy for Jan. 6 criminal defendants and his comments about the attack. FBI Director Kash Patel has faced intense questioning about his own advocacy for Jan. 6 defendants and his role in producing a rendition of the National Anthem by some of the most violent offenders that day.

There is even an ongoing controversy over whether to hang a plaque previously commissioned by Congress to honor those who protected the Capitol that day. Johnson has refused to display the memorial, and Loudermilk, while expressing personal support for the officers, said that decision is “not in my decisionmaking wheelhouse.”

Meanwhile, the prior select committee, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), remains a particular sore spot for Trump and many Republicans. Even after it was disbanded, Trump continued calling its report a “Hoax” and its leaders “Political Hacks and Thugs” while championing Loudermilk’s work.

Reinvestigating the attack has been a longstanding priority for the Georgia Republican, who came under scrutiny by the previous Jan. 6 panel for hosting a tour of the complex the night before the Capitol riot. One person in his party was later found to have posted incendiary videos and marched toward, but not into, the building the next day.

Neither Loudermilk nor anyone in his tour group was accused of any wrongdoing, but the Jan. 6 committee interviewed one of the group members and questioned why Loudermilk did not inform authorities about the presence of his group.

After Republicans retook the House majority in 2023, Loudermilk led a probe “on the failures and politicization of the January 6th Select Committee” as chair of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight. In that investigation, some entities were uncooperative with his requests, Loudermilk said.
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This time, in helming a select subcommittee under the Judiciary Committee, he has full subpoena power to compel compliance with his demands. “We think we’ve got a little more cooperation at this point,” he said.

The formal creation of Loudermilk’s panel followed months of negotiations over its scope and powers, with Loudermilk pushing for greater jurisdiction than Johnson’s team had been willing to give — and complaining to fellow Republicans about how GOP leadership was trying to stifle his effort. Then the Trump administration privately applied pressure to get the effort set up, Loudermilk told reporters earlier this year.

Johnson, who was central to the effort on Capitol Hill to overturn the 2020 election, acted quietly — inserting a provision establishing the panel as part of an unrelated procedural measure. One House Republican, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive dynamics around the panel, was unaware the subcommittee even existed before being asked about it by a POLITICO reporter.

Besides Loudermilk and Higgins, the panel’s members are Republican Reps. Morgan Griffith of Virginia, Troy Nehls of Texas and Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, as well as Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell of California, Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Jared Moskowitz of Florida. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will serve as an ex officio member alongside Raskin, the top Judiciary Democrat.

These lawmakers are some of the most aggressive political messengers of their respective parties. Nehls sued the government over what he claimed was retaliation from the Capitol Police for his criticism of the force’s handling of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Hageman unseated Cheney after she was ostracized by her party for her leading role in the prior panel and her unrelenting criticism of Trump.

The panel is wasting no time in launching an effort to review the findings of that previous committee. Earlier this month, Loudermilk sent letters to some businesses and other entities that had been in contact with the previous Jan. 6 panel to request data that was deleted or not otherwise archived. That committee disclosed a host of information in its possession, but some materials — including footage of its interviews — remain unreleased.

Other details of what the panel’s work will entail in the coming months remain sketchy. Loudermilk said he anticipates releasing a final report, while hearings would be called “based on a need and based on the evidence that we’re collecting.”

He added that his team was focusing on the unsolved mystery of the pipe bombs placed near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee offices the day before the riot and the FBI’s use of confidential human sources who were present at the Capitol.

Patel recently said the bureau’s pipe bomb investigation remained active and promising. The Justice Department’s inspector general reported in December that there were 26 FBI sources present in Washington on Jan. 6 but only three had actually been tasked by the bureau with tracking potential bad actors.

Both issues have fueled conspiracy theories about government involvement in the violence that day. Johnson in the CNN interview Sunday repeated an unfounded narrative endorsed by Trump that there were hundreds of FBI agents in the crowd as the Capitol was stormed — a misapprehension of data released by the bureau that includes agents dispatched to the scene after the violence broke out.

Loudermilk said he intends to steer his panel away from politics.

“I’m trying to make it clear I do not want this to be a partisan clown show,” he said. “This isn’t about getting clicks or media interviews.”

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Former Trump Adviser Mike Flynn Drops Bombshell After Comey Indictment







Sep. 29, 2025

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn reacted to the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey by warning that the case represents “just the beginning” of what he described as a larger effort to confront corruption and infiltration within the United States.

Comey, who led the FBI from 2013 to 2017, was indicted this week after prosecutors alleged he misled lawmakers during a 2020 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about his handling of the Trump–Russia investigation, known internally as “Crossfire Hurricane.” He has denied wrongdoing and said he will fight the charges in court.

In an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, Flynn — who briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser during his first term — criticized Comey’s recent online video, viewing it as a signal to left-wing forces and a possible threat.

“Now what is Jim Comey going to do? Jim Comey, on his little video that he put out, you know, he’s signaling, he’s signaling to everybody. He’s, it’s, you know, the dog whistle, and maybe there’s some threats that are put in there. We don’t know, you know, we’ll have to figure that out. But it’s certainly a signal to everybody,” Flynn began during a segment.

“Hey, don’t worry about this. We’re going to get, we’re going to be okay. We’re not going to, you know, it’s not about, I’m going to stand and fight. No, this is about whistling to the Marxist left in this country, the infiltration of our country by a very, very serious threat,” Flynn added.

He then linked Comey’s situation to what he says is a growing threat of communism and Islamism in the U.S.

“And yet, we can blame China. Yes, they’re, they’re to blame partially. Yes, we can blame Russia. Yep, that’s the idea of an ism that’s called communism. There’s also the rise of Islamism,” he said, adding his biggest concern is for younger Americans.

“I’m in the, sort of the waning age group of your audience, right? I mean, your audience is generally a young crowd out there, and I want them to know that guys like me, guys like you, but there are others. We’re standing up fighting, not for me. I don’t give a shit about me at this point. What I care about is this country, because I have children and I have grandchildren, and we are going to have to fight through this,” he said.


WATCH:

Yeah, Comey got indicted. But let’s be clear, that’s just the first crack in the dam. The corruption inside our government runs much deeper, and Comey is only one piece of a larger, coordinated operation.

History will remember James Comey not as a leader, but as the FBI… pic.twitter.com/NWDqg9Ipdi

— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) September 26, 2025

Flynn said Comey’s indictment should not be viewed as the end of the battle but as an opening step.

“This is just the beginning. If people think that, oh, this is great. Comey has been indicted. Wonderful. Clap pat yourselves on the back. You know, brush the crap off of your shoes, or put your running shoes on, because we all have got to start running now, this is just the beginning,” he stated.

He added, “There will likely be other indictments, and that’s good and it we start to get at this leadership team. But we have such a cancer inside of our our government right now, and that’s at that’s at federal, state and local.”

Flynn then added that Americans at all levels will need to step up and take responsibility for changing the direction of the country.

“My message to the American people is you better wake up to the fact that we all have a responsibility as citizens of this great country to serve this country. You don’t just have to serve in the United States military. You can serve your country down at your community level. And that’s my message to America. If people don’t wake up and start serving this country and in so many different ways, it does take sacrifice. That’s what freedom costs. Freedom is not free. It requires sacrifice. It requires a lot of things,” Flynn said.


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From Conservative Brief
Link: https://conservativebrief.com/trump-...m=ProTrumpNews







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Attachment 2576709

The alleged leak to the media that underpins the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey appears to relate to the 2016 investigation concerning Hillary Clinton, rather than the separate 2016 FBI investigation of Donald Trump and Russian election meddling.

By Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz , Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Herb


Prosecutors say in the indictment they believe Comey had authorized an anonymous leak to the press about an FBI investigation. The indictment then accuses him of lying under oath to the Senate in 2020 when he was asked whether he had authorized a leak, and he testified he hadn’t.

The indictment doesn’t identify which specific leaked details or news reports form the core of the case.

But officials and people involved in the case tell CNN the false statement charge appears to center on alleged leaks for news articles about the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton and her use of a private email server.

For Trump, Comey’s handling of the investigation into him and his campaign has been at the top of the agenda. He has accused Comey of being corrupt and of damaging his first term by leaking against him. That the two counts Comey faces may be instead about alleged leaks related to the Clinton investigation represents the irony of the latest developments. Clinton has long accused Comey of damaging her campaign and swinging the election to Trump.

Who are Persons 1, 2 and 3?

The indictment says Comey lied when he said he “had not ‘authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports’ regarding an FBI investigation concerning Person 1.”

The unidentified Person 1 is Clinton, according to officials and people briefed on the matter.

In another court filing in the case documenting a charge against Comey that the grand jury didn’t approve, “Person 1” is referenced again. In that document, “Person 1” is more clearly a reference to Clinton and her “approval of a plan concerning Person 2,” who is Trump.

More details about the leak and the alleged false statement could come out in court in subsequent proceedings, especially during a trial.

For instance, the person Comey allegedly authorized to leak about an FBI investigation is only called “Person 3” in the court documents.

A source familiar with the indictment tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that “Person 3,” the FBI individual whom Comey allegedly authorized to leak information on his behalf, is his longtime friend and Columbia Law School professor Daniel Richman.

Sources familiar with the investigation and indications from the public record point to unnamed “Person 3” in the indictment being Richman, who was at one point during Comey’s tenure a special government employee at the FBI.

After Comey was fired from the FBI in May 2017, he provided memos detailing his interactions with Trump to Richman, who leaked them. Comey testified in June 2017 that he gave Richman the memos in an attempt to get a special counsel appointed following his firing.

But the leak of those memos, which contained classified information, don’t appear related to Thursday’s indictment, which is focused on the Clinton investigation, and not the Trump probe.

Richman recently came in for an interview with the FBI and was given a subpoena, sources said.

Richman is not accused of any wrongdoing in the Comey indictment.

The possibility remains that Person 3 could have been former deputy FBI Director Andy McCabe, who is now a CNN contributor.

In Comey’s testimony cited in the indictment, Sen. Ted Cruz specifically asks Comey about statements from McCabe that the Texas Republican said contradicted Comey’s prior testimony. Comey responded he stood by his testimony.

But several sources said that while Cruz’s question referenced McCabe, Person 3 appeared to be Richman.

Richman’s lawyer declined to comment. The US attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is prosecuting the matter, also declined to comment.

‘Arctic Haze’ investigation

It’s not yet clear what specific news stories contained the information Comey is accused of authorizing to be leaked.

The FBI previously investigated during Trump’s first term the disclosure of classified information in four news stories from 2017, which was codenamed “Arctic Haze.” Several of the stories in question were about Comey’s handling of the Clinton investigation.

According to FBI documents declassified and turned over to Congress last month, Richman told investigators he spoke with a New York Times reporter about classified information in January 2017, though Richman said the reporter knew more about the information than he did.

“Richman was pretty sure he did not confirm the Classified Information. However, Richman told the interviewing agents he was sure ‘with a discount,’” Richman told FBI investigators in November 2019.

But at the same time, Richman told investigators that “Comey never asked him to talk to the media.”

The declassified FBI files state that Comey “used Richman as a liaison to the media,” to correct stories critical of Comey, though the documents do not state he authorized Richman specifically to discuss the Clinton investigation with reporters.

Comey under scrutiny for a decade

For nearly a decade, Comey has been under intense political scrutiny and multiple investigations for his handling of the two 2016 investigations, one around Clinton, and the other around Trump, both of which played a role in the presidential campaign that year.

Trump’s allies — both in political appointments in his administration and in the Republican Party on Capitol Hill — have voiced their anger toward Comey’s oversight of the FBI as it worked on the Russia investigation.

They have expressed far less concern with his announcement late in the 2016 campaign about the FBI re-opening the Clinton email server investigation because of material found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. Clinton was never charged, but Democrats say that Comey’s announcement and the distrust it sowed among voters was a factor in her losing the 2016 election to Trump.

Even in a statement announcing the indictment of Comey on Thursday, the current FBI Director Kash Patel smacked his agency again for the investigation it conducted around Trump in 2016.

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Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won a special election in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, which will deliver the decisive signature to the push for a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files.

By Molly English

The race was held to determine who would fill the seat vacated by the late Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, who died from cancer in March. Former Rep. Grijalva’s daughter was heavily favored against Republican Daniel Butierez, who ran for the seat against the elder Grijalva in 2024, losing the race by 26 points.

A discharge petition circulated by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, needs 218 House members to sign on to force leadership to hold a vote to release the Epstein files. The pair notched their 217th signature earlier this month when Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw, fresh off winning a special election in Virginia’s 11th District, was sworn in and signed the petition.

Both Grijalva and Butierez told the Arizona Daily Star last week they were committed to signing the Epstein petition if elected. In a statement to CNN, Grijalva said the issue “has definitely come up” on the campaign trail.

“We are hearing from voters that they believe the survivors deserve justice, and Congress must fulfill its duty to check the executive branch and hold Trump accountable,” she said in the statement.

It’s a vote House GOP leaders have tried to avoid for months. Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the House a day early in July before Congress’ month-long summer recess to avoid votes related to the files.

Speaking to CNN at the Capitol last week, Massie said he thought the House could vote as soon as mid-October on his Epstein bill, citing the Arizona special election as the catalyst for the 218th signature.

Once Grijalva is sworn in and the needed signatures are secured, Massie has to wait at least seven legislative days before bringing the bill to the floor, and House leaders can also take up to two legislative days before they put it to a vote.

The House is out of session this week, delaying any immediate trigger of the legislative calendar.

Discharge petitions historically have a bad track record of actually forcing a vote on the floor, mostly because lawmakers in the majority are wary of taking a stand against leadership. The Epstein issue, however, has animated some Republican members, with Trump allies like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Nancy Mace of South Carolina signing onto the petition.

While few Republicans have backed the effort to force a vote, a number have expressed support for the underlying bill. Still, it would face an uphill battle in the Senate if it cleared the House.

After the Arizona seat is officially filled, there will be two vacancies in the House due to Texas Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner’s death in March and Tennessee Republican Rep. Mark Green’s departure in July. An all-party primary for Turner’s seat is scheduled for November 4, but it could require a runoff, and the election for Green’s seat will be held December 2.

Although another Democratic win will further chip away at Johnson’s thin 219-213 majority, it will not change the fact that he currently can only afford to lose two Republicans on party-line votes with full attendance.

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FBI Director Kash Patel has disputed President Donald Trump’s claim that undercover bureau agents, under former FBI Director Christopher Wray, provoked the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying instead that they were deployed on a crowd control mission that breached bureau protocol but did not amount to instigation.

By Emma Marsden

Newsweek contacted Trump via online form, the FBI via email, and was unable to contact Wray for comment on Sunday outside of usual working hours.

Why It Matters

Patel’s comments show a rare split from Trump’s narrative as the president continues to shift blame for the riot away from his supporters. The remarks also reopen scrutiny of how the FBI managed its presence during the attack, with Patel accusing his predecessor Wray of misleading Congress about the bureau’s role. The dispute highlights ongoing political battles over the legacy of January 6 and how responsibility is framed.

Testifying before a House Committee on 15 November 2023, as reported by Fox News, Wray said, “If you are asking if the violence at the Capitol was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources or agents, the answer is no,” but declined to say whether agents or informants had been embedded in the crowd.

What To Know

Following Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election to President Joe Biden, a mob of the Republican's supporters attacked the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Following the attack, Congress formed the January 6 Committee, a bipartisan entity tasked with investigating what led to the events of the attack. The committee published its full report on December 22, 2022, with a unanimous recommendation to the U.S. Department of Justice to look into Trump and lawyer John Eastman for prosecution.

Following a recent report from Blaze Media, Trump claimed on Truth Social Saturday that Wray had placed “274 agents…in the crowd” as “agitators and insurrectionists,” suggesting they were there to provoke violence. Patel, in interviews, declined to support that characterization, but admitted the decision to insert agents after the riot had been declared by police broke FBI standards. He has defended his stance by pointing to whistleblowers and saying that previous leadership failed to be transparent with Congress.

Independent reviews contradict Trump’s allegation. A 2024 Justice Department Inspector General’s report found that while 26 FBI confidential informants were present on January 6, none were directed to incite violence, nor was there evidence of undercover bureau staff participating in the attack.

On Saturday, Patel posted a screenshot of an article from Fox News to his X account, which stated that he had clarified the role of the FBI on January 6, saying they were sent in after it was declared a riot, which directly contradicted Trump's claim that they were in the crowd prior to the events unfolding. Patel has nonetheless accused Wray of lying and argued that the former FBI director's handling of questions from lawmakers obscured key facts.

Patel captioned the post: "274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan. 6 against FBI standards. That failure was on corrupt leadership. Thanks to agents stepping up, the truth is coming out. Transparency. Justice. Accountability." The post has since had over 906,000 views.

Several MAGA accounts jumped on the initial line, with some on the left now calling them out over it. An FBI official told Fox News Digital there is no evidence that any agents took part in events connected to Trump’s speech at the Ellipse on the morning of January 6, but added that Wray should have informed Congress of their presence when questioned.

What People Are Saying

President Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social account: "It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That’s right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as “Law Enforcement Officials.” I want to know who each and every one of these so-called “Agents” are, and what they were up to on that now ''Historic'”' Day…Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, [former FBI Director, James] Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake."

FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital: "Agents were sent into a crowd control mission after the riot was declared by Metro Police–something that goes against FBI standards. This was the failure of a corrupt leadership that lied to Congress and to the American people about what really happened. Thanks to agents coming forward, we are now uncovering the truth. We are fully committed to transparency, and justice and accountability continues with this FBI."

What Happens Next

Investigations into January 6 continue to take place. While independent reviews have dismissed claims of FBI orchestration, Patel’s criticism of Wray keeps pressure on the bureau, and his contradictory comments to Trump's regarding January 6 highlight divisions within the Republican Party over how to interpret the events at the Capitol.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Some countries’ leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.

By MELINA WALLING and SETH BORENSTEIN

Some countries’ leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.

But the world U.S. President Donald Trump described in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday didn’t match the one many world leaders in the audience are contending with. Nor did it align with what scientists have long been observing.

“This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,” Trump said. “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.”

Trump has long been a critic of climate science and polices aimed at helping the world transition to green energies like wind and solar. His speech Tuesday, however, was one of his most expansive to date. It included false statements and making connections between things that are not connected.

Ilana Seid, an ambassador from the island nation of Palau and head of the organization of small island states, was in the audience. She said it’s what they’ve come to expect from Trump and the United States. She added that not acting on climate change will “be a betrayal of the most vulnerable,” a sentiment echoed by Evans Davie Njewa of Malawi, who said that “we are endangering the lives of innocent people in the world.”

For Adelle Thomas, a climate scientist who has published more than 40 studies and has a doctorate, climate change disasters are personal, too. A vice chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s top body on climate science, Thomas is from the Bahamas and said she experienced firsthand “the devastation of the climate disaster” when Hurricane Sandy hit the Caribbean and New York City, the city Trump was speaking from, in 2012.

“Millions of people around the world can already testify to the devastation that climate change has brought to their lives,” she said. ‘The evidence is not abstract. It is lived, it is deadly, and it demands urgent action.”

A look at some of Trump’s statements Tuesday, the science behind them and the reaction.

On renewable energy

WHAT HE SAID: Trump called renewable sources of energy like wind power a “joke” and “pathetic,” falsely claiming they don’t work, are too expensive and too weak.

THE BACKSTORY: Solar and wind are now “almost always” the least expensive and the fastest options for new electricity generation, according to a July report from the United Nations. That report also said the world has passed a “positive tipping point” where those energy sources will only continue to become more widespread.

The three cheapest electricity sources globally last year were onshore wind, solar panels and new hydropower, according to an energy cost report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Subsidies endorsed by Trump and the Republican party are artificially keeping fossil fuels viable, said University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann. “If one were truly in favor of the ‘free market’ to determine this, then fossil fuels would be disappearing even faster,” he wrote in an email.

Relatedly, Trump falsely claimed European electricity bills are now “two to three times higher than the United States, and our bills are coming way down.” But in fact retail electricity prices in the United States have increased faster than the rate of inflation since 2022, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The agency expects prices to continue increasing through 2026.

On the international politics of climate, the UN and the Paris Accord

WHAT HE SAID: Trump blasted the U.N.'s climate efforts, saying he withdrew America from the “fake” Paris climate accord because “America was paying so much more than every country, others weren’t paying.”

THE BACKSTORY: The Paris Agreement, decided by international consensus in 2015, is a voluntary but binding document in which each country is asked to set its own national goal to curb planet-warming emissions and decide how much money it will contribute to the countries that will be hit hardest by climate change.

Because carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for more than a century, the United States has put out more of the heat trapping gas than any other nation, even though China now is the No. 1 carbon polluter. Since 1850, the U.S. has contributed 24% of the human-caused carbon dioxide that’s in the air, according to Global Carbon Project data. The entire continent of Africa, with four times the population of the U.S., is responsible for about 3%.

On coal being referred to as clean

WHAT HE SAID: “I have a little standing order in the White House. Never use the word ‘coal.’ Only use the words ‘clean, beautiful coal.’ Sounds much better, doesn’t it?”

THE BACKSTORY: Coal kills millions of people a year. “The president can pretend coal is clean, but real people — mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters— will die for this lie,’’ said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson..

Trump also called the carbon footprint “a hoax made up by people with evil intentions,” a contention that Texas A&M University climate scientist Andrew Dessler agreed with. Dessler said the term was coined by oil companies and may have been designed to shift the responsibility for combatting climate change away from corporations to individuals.

The science of climate change started 169 years ago when Eunice Foote did simple experiments with flasks and sunlight showing that carbon dioxide trapped more heat than the regular atmosphere. It’s an experiment that can be repeated at home and has been done in labs hundreds of times and in greenhouses around the world every day. It is basic physics and chemistry with a long history.

“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,” reported the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is hundreds of scientists, with doctorates in the field.

In 2018, Trump’s own government said: “The impacts of global climate change are already being felt in the United States and are projected to intensify in the future.”

On cows and methane

WHAT HE SAID: In “the United States, we have still radicalized environmentalists and they want the factories to stop. Everything should stop. No more cows. We don’t want cows anymore.”

THE BACKSTORY: Cows belch methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Around the world, cattle are often raised on lands where forests have cut down. Since forests capture carbon dioxide, cutting them to raise cattle results in a double whammy. Still, no one is suggesting that cows be gotten rid of, said Nusa Urbancic, CEO of the Changing Markets Foundation.

“This polarizing and divisive language misrepresents the environmental message,” Urbancic wrote. “What is true, however, is that cutting methane emissions is a quick win to slow global heating and meet climate targets.”

Trump also blamed dirty air blowing in from afar, floating garbage in the ocean coming from other countries and “radicalized environmentalists.”

Although the United States does indeed now have cleaner air than it has in decades, the pollution seeping into communities is primarily caused by local dirty energy and industry projects, not by other countries. And many experts have said the biggest blow to local air and water quality is the Trump administration’s own wide-ranging rollbacks to the power of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other bedrock environmental laws.

“It is sad to see marine debris, a globally important issue, being misrepresented so completely,” said Lucy Woodall, an associate professor of marine conservation and policy at the University of Exeter.

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Democrats Can’t Debate

Charlie Kirk

By Whitson G. Waldo, III
Sep. 27, 2025


Charlie Kirk is emblematic of one of the things that is great about our country. Endowed by our Creator, we have freedom of speech. The First Amendment in our Bill of Rights enshrines this. Within bounds, we can express our own opinion, argue, and debate. Most importantly, we are free to say unpopular things so long as there’s no incitement to violence or willful defamation.

Charlie used freedom of speech to enlighten, educate, argue, and persuade. He chose a debate format, offering people with ideological differences a chance to give their own perspectives. If you count winning by hearts and minds, there was a clear champion over time of the debates. And, that champion was gathering strength and gaining ground. This is what terrified atheists and progressives most. The latter’s worldview has a stranglehold based on conformity, consensus, and ideological purity couching no challenge or dissent.

Calls have been renewed for progressive fascists to renounce political violence and violent rhetoric. This would leave progressives embracing just the socialist component of fascism. Establishing such a limit on themselves, they would have to settle for progressive socialism. This presents a vulnerability to ever louder calls to debate differences instead of resolving them with coercion, intimidation, and violence.

Why can’t progressive fascists debate? The answer is that, decades ago, progressives lost all the arguments on their merits.

How can Democrats defend socialism when it has impoverished and tyrannized citizens everywhere and every time it’s been tried? Won’t capitalism have to be recognized as the only economic system in mankind’s history capable of elevating people out of poverty and increasing liberty?

How will progressives justify regulation of every personal and corporate action? How will they oppose implementing only necessary, affordable, and beneficial regulations?

When libertarians opine the money you have earned legitimately is yours, what argument will advance the idea that all money belongs to the government from whence it is allocated to the people? How will leftists advocate for confiscatory taxes instead of low tax rates?

Will advocacy for open borders sound more compelling than having only legal immigration that serves our country’s interests?

Progressive fascists crave social justice even though it brings violence and anarchy. How will this stack up against citizens’ desire to live in safety in their neighborhoods applying criminal justice?

Where are the arguments from progressives in either party supporting Ever Bigger Government? Won’t minimalist government appear more compelling on the merits?

Do most citizens appreciate our Constitution anchoring rights of individuals, or do they prefer an untethered, living document with only contingent rights?

Will authoritarian arguments for freedom only within narrowly specified bounds sound better than freedom of everything as long as it’s not specifically forbidden?

Will Marxists convince listeners that words are violence, or will freedom of speech be cherished even if the opinions expressed are unpopular or disfavored?

What new arguments will be made that welfare should be open-ended, and there should be no workfare by able-bodied individuals?

How will consumers be convinced that higher cost, unreliable wind and solar energy with blackouts and brownouts is preferable to lower cost, abundant energy?

Is the U.S. an immoral and degenerate country led by, and populated with, irredeemably racist and unremittingly oppressive people? Or, will more people be persuaded these United States represent the best nation on earth, and things keep getting better over time?

Will Democrats argue Western Civilization is evil in all respects? What response will be given to evidence presented that Western Civilization is the best that’s ever been?

Apostate Christians and atheists have found their home in the Democrat party. Will that party now plainly advocate for their worldview, knowing there’s only this life with the highest goals of hedonism or a struggle to build utopia? What will be the rebuttal to the Christian worldview that best perceives, understands, and explains reality?

When does life begin? If it’s not a tomato or a squirrel, what is that newly conceived being? Is it a human being? When should new individual human life be protected? Christians and conservatives have ready answers. What responses can be given by atheists and progressives that won’t evoke horror and revulsion in many?

Over decades, our culture rejected Christian roots and influence. We progressed to modernism in our post-Christian time. Progressivism knowing no limits, modernism has been rejected for a post-reality vision. Nevertheless, science and facts are useful for describing reality. So, what is the compelling argument by progressives for a reality defined only by imagination and unburdened by what is sensed? That reality is just what political elites say it is today?

Is the grooming of children for sterilization and sexual mutilation going to be defended outright by Marxist cultural theorists? Won’t conservative advocacy maintaining the innocence of children for as long as possible be received more favorably? How will arguments go for holding accountable enablers and practitioners when inevitable buyer’s remorse of Frankenstein procedures is expressed?

Will enablers of perverts, predators, pedophiles explicitly be lionized by the left? Or, is there insurmountable empathy for protection of women and girls in spaces and opportunities?

Are progressive arguments better for group identity and enforced level achievement when compared to those for individualism and exceptionalism?

Will leftist arguments for reparations based on ancestral offenses win the day along with the idea of inexorable systemic racism? Rather, shouldn’t people, all made in the image of God, be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin?

Everyone’s for equality. But, is this forced equality of outcomes? Or, will there be recognition that individual differences means there will always be inequalities of outcomes absent coercion. Aren’t arguments more attractive for equality of opportunities?

For decades, progressives in both political parties have put American interests last in economics and foreign affairs. Is this defensible? Contemporary arguments advocate for putting American interests first. We can’t go in both directions. Which is most appealing?

World government is the gold ring for many progressive fascists. Incremental progress has been made over time with innumerable multilateral engagements. Can these be defended against arguments for only bilateral relationships that best serve our country’s interests?

If progressives can’t win any debate on the merits, then they won’t participate. It suggests speeches, arguments, and debates should still be used by Christians, conservatives, and libertarians for the purpose of awakening some of the woke. This will work and be effective so long as freedom of speech endures. But, the primary goal of progressive fascists will be to re-impose censorship and hollow out freedom of speech. Censorship will be expanded greatly in scope along the lines of what was implemented in the great trial run during the COVID-19 tyranny. If progressives can’t win a debate, then there should be no debate. In the immortal words of Anthony Fauci, “Just do as you’re told.”

It doesn’t bode well for our country when one of the two major political parties disdains virtues and eschews traditional and normal values. With or without any debate, the progressive fascist grip on the Democratic Party means their pernicious ideas are being mainstreamed. In memory of Charlie Kirk, let us resist those ideas and vanquish them, in debate, winning hearts and minds one by one.


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Source: American Thinker
Link: https://www.americanthinker.com/arti..._t_debate.html






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Trump Speaks the Truth









By Jeffrey Folks
Sep. 27, 2025

President Trump, unlike a host of politicians, prioritizes the truth — perhaps because he is not a politician. His announcement on September 11 of the death of Charlie Kirk is a good example. Hours before the death was confirmed by the media, Trump announced on Fox and Friends that Kirk had passed away. No theatrics, no politics — just the fact that Kirk was dead.

Trump is thoughtful and precise in his use of language. One can see this when he hesitates to answer the media’s gotcha questions and returns a clear, truthful answer. Also like Charlie Kirk, he is never afraid to face his opponents. For a decade now, Trump has faced down hostile reporters (the fake news media) and answered calmly with the truth.

When Trump is uncertain, he makes that clear, as when he recently announced that a “framework” (not a deal) had been achieved to preserve Tiktok and transform it into a company friendly to America. He probably knew that a “deal,” more than a framework, was likely and who the players were, but he did not take credit for a deal that had not yet been finalized. No “Mission Accomplished” until the mission was actually accomplished.

Trump is unique among recent presidents in the care with which he employs language, which is to say the care he gives to thought and the importance he ascribes to honesty. He did not become a colossus in the business world by misleading others or going back on his word. Trump is wise enough to understand that once caught in a lie, he will lose his reputation, and reputation is everything.

No recent president has been this truthful. Clinton was often deceptive (“it depends on the meaning of ‘is’”), Bush II was weak and evasive, and Obama seemed deliberately misleading (his campaign to “nudge” his listeners to change their ways is one example). Biden was secretive; when he did speak, he came across as close to illiterate. Biden’s many gaffes were not just unimportant mistakes: they were reflections of an individual who was so engrossed in politics that he seemed not to care about or even to be capable of expressing the precise truth.

By contrast, Trump answers questions in a straightforward and honest fashion. He can often be seen pausing before he answers so as to speak clearly and accurately. He genuinely cares about the truth. When asked in a recent interview what his one “bucket list wish” was, he answered: to make America great again. It’s clear that the president has thought deeply and long about that one task and that he brings everything he has, 18 hours a day, to completing it.

There again, Trump is unique. He has set a noble and ambitious goal for himself, and he labors tirelessly to achieve it. Can the same thing be said for Clinton, Obama, or Biden? Clinton’s “goal,” it seemed, was to remain in office and to satisfy certain ignoble desires. Biden had no goal, so far as I can tell. Obama often said his goal was to “transform America,” but he did so in ways that were opposed by more than half the public. A weak foreign policy, socialized medicine, de facto racial quotas, and government-funded abortions and genital mutilation are not changes that the public approved of, and they were not designed to make America great again.

Obama wanted to transform America because he did not like America as it was and had been for centuries. As Michelle Obama famously declared, she had never been proud of her country...until its people elected her husband president.

Trump, by contrast, is working to make America great again. What his careful wording reveals is that Trump is proud of what his country had been, and that he wants to restore, not transform, it greatness.

Trump was never more honest than he was in addressing the United Nations on Sep. 23. Other presidents have paid lip service to the U.N.’s feeble efforts at peacekeeping and addressing poverty and disease, but Trump made it clear that he does not respect the U.N. and does not wish to continue funding it at current levels. In his speech, Trump stated that the U.N. “is not even coming close to its potential.” After highlighting the many accomplishments of his first seven full months in office, Trump turned to his audience and said, “Your countries are going to hell.” One couldn’t get more blunt than that.

“It’s too bad,” he said, that the United Nations “did not even try to help” with any of the international problems he has solved on his own. As for the U.N., “all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve war.” On another matter, Trump insisted that “not only is the U.N. not solving the problems it should — too often, it’s actually creating new problems for us to solve. The best example is the number-one political issue of our time: the crisis of uncontrolled migration.”

At the U.N., Trump was nothing if not direct, but he was hardly negative. He held out his hand to any nation who wished to join the U.S. in peace and prosperity. He insisted that the U.N. had great potential. Again and again, Trump said that his purpose was to “save lives”: in ending war in Ukraine and Palestine, in halting illegal migration, in blocking illegal drugs from entering the U.S., in fighting crime, and in ending the Green New Scam.

Likewise with trade: “In the United States, we want trade and robust commerce with all nations, everybody. We want to help nations; we’re gonna help nations. But it must also be fair and reciprocal.” At the moment he uttered these words, Trump was facing an audience comprising the representatives of all of America’s trading partners, many of whom are now facing new tariffs. But instead of sugar-coating his remarks, Trump was honest and direct. Yes, for many years, other nations have taken advantage of the U.S. Now is the time for fair and equal trade.

In concluding, Trump again sought friendship: “Let us all work together to build a bright, beautiful planet, a planet that we all share, a planet of peace and a world that is richer, better, and more beautiful than ever before. That can happen. It will happen.”

Not since Reagan have we had a president who spoke with such honesty and directness.

“Speaking the truth” may seem like a simple matter, but it is not. It is, in fact, a crucial test of character, and one at which many of our national leaders have failed. One ought to listen to Trump when he speaks. He has earned that privilege through his many years of speaking the truth.


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Source: American Thinker
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The #1 Waster of Healthcare Dollars and How to Stop It


By Deane Waldman
Sep. 26, 2025


As Democrats threaten government shut-down over Medicaid cuts; as Americans are bracing for another increase in their healthcare costs; and as patients wait an average maximum of 132 days to see a primary care doctor, Americans can’t seem to wake up from the nightmare called U.S. healthcare.

The rise in insurance premium costs is estimated at 7–10 percent next year. This is on top of already unaffordable family spending with the average American family expending $32,066 on healthcare in 2024 according to Milliman Medical Index.

Faced with increasing pressure on their bottom lines, employers are passing these additional expenses on to employees with reduced benefits, narrower medical panels (which means longer wait times), plus higher deductibles and copays.

Republicans plan cuts to Medicaid that Democrats and the complicit media say these cuts will “hurt families,” “increase uncompensated care,” “and lead to thousands of deaths.” Biden’s 2021–2023 lockdowns threw millions of people out of work. Unemployment made them ineligible for employer-supported health insurance. Biden then expanded eligibility, adding 17 million Americans to Medicaid rolls. More than 60 percent of these individuals have returned to work and become (again) eligible for employer-provided insurance. Cutting them from Medicaid rolls will actually increase funds available to pay for those who truly need Medicaid.

NPR business analyst Maria Aspan is clear about whom she blames for elevated costs: “insurers, drug companies and your employer,” along with the Trump administration that has “government-sponsored alternatives” it won’t use, she says.

Last year, the U.S. spent $4.8 trillion on its healthcare system. That amount is greater than the entire GDP ($4.7 trillion) of the third-most productive nation on earth, Germany.

Where is all that money going? Who is getting rich, or richer, from Americans’ “unsustainable” (Obama) healthcare spending? Doctors? Big Pharma? Insurance? Hospitals? While each does take a piece of the healthcare “pie,” none comes close to the one entity that consumes more than 50 percent of all U.S. healthcare spending.

Of the $4.8 trillion, more than half, that’s right, at least $2.4 trillion, went to pay the federal BURRDEN — Bureaucracy, Unnecessary Rules and Regulations, Directives, Enforcement, and Noncompliance activities. Our own government denied Americans more than two trillion dollars’ worth of patient care to pay...itself.

The growth of the nonclinical healthcare workforce explains where the BURRDEN money is going — to accountants, administrators, authorization agents, compliance officers, lawyers (lots of lawyers), managers, reviewers, and a multitude of people who never touch a patient. From 1970 to 2020, the number of physicians increased approximately 100 percent. As a result of Congress passing innumerable healthcare Acts with familiar names like Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, the number of healthcare nonclinical workers — bureaucrats — increased by more than 4,400 percent! Taxpayer dollars funded the salaries and fringe benefits of 44 bureaucrats for every doctor.

The public often fails to recognize the cost and complexity associated with passing healthcare legislation, no matter how straightforward. Take price transparency as an example.

Medical price lists do not simply, magically appear. It requires a complex series of costly tasks between the passage of the Health Care PRICE Transparency Act of 2023 and posted lists of hospital prices for patients to see. Rules must be written and vetted to assure concurrence with existing laws and rules. Regulations must be developed which are actionable and quantifiable, including consequences for noncompliance. Directives must be distributed to give hospitals time to understand the regulations, gather, collate, and format the data in compliance with federal requirements, while maintaining secrecy of proprietary commercial information. A system to enforce compliance and punish the noncompliant. An entire bureaucratic structure must be created to accomplish all these tasks.

Not one penny of the billions expended to implement price transparency (or any other healthcare legislation) provides care for a single American patient.

Don’t blame doctors, hospitals, insurance, or even Big Pharma — they are not the big money consumers. They are playing the game according to rules established by Washington.

Blame innumerable federal Acts passed over the past six decades such as

Medicare, Medicaid, EMTALA, UMRA, HIPAA, most OBRAs, ACA, and IRA-2022.

Blame a World War II (1942) wage freeze that was never repealed, which has morphed into the disingenuous, market-distorting employer-supported health insurance benefit that denies 150 million employees an average of $25,572 of money they earned.

Blame a third-party payment system that takes away patients’ medical autonomy, supplants doctors’ judgment, and makes patients wait for care so long they die waiting in line.

Better yet, don’t play the blame game.

Identify the root cause and fix it. The problem of constantly rising healthcare costs is caused by Washington-created BURRDEN and third-party payment market distortion. The solution is to kick Washington out of healthcare. Empower patients — directly connect them with their own money and their chosen doctors without third-party payers in between.


Deane Waldman, MD, MBA, is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pathology, and Decision Science; former Director of the Center for Healthcare Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation; and former Director of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange. He co-authored Empower PATIENTS – Two Doctors’ Cure for Healthcare with Vance Ginn, PhD. Follow him on X @DrDeaneW or visit deanewaldman.com.


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HUGE EXCLUSIVE… NJ Man Secures Nearly 1 Million Documents From Detroit’s 2020 Election, Including Copies of Absentee Ballots and Signed Envelopes in One of Largest Election FOIA Hauls In U.S. History


by Patty McMurray Sep. 22, 2025 12:55 pm



TICK TOCK…Detroit election officials and Michigan’s dirty Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson have officially been put on notice.


After years of being gaslighted by some of the most dishonest people in election history, The Gateway Pundit, along with some of the most respected election investigators in the state, are about to blow the lid off the lies about Detroit’s “secure” 2020 election that helped to give Joe Biden an inexplicable victory in the must-win state of Michigan.

On Election Night 2020, President Donald J. Trump appeared to hold commanding leads in key battleground states — approximately 100,000 votes in Wisconsin, 300,000 in Michigan, and 700,000 in Pennsylvania. For Joe Biden to erase those margins, his performance in the outstanding vote would have needed to be dramatically stronger, particularly in heavily Democratic strongholds such as Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia.

As the night wore on, reports emerged — often inconsistent — that some precincts had stopped counting, sent workers home, or restarted tabulations under unclear circumstances. To this day, there is confusion and disagreement over the extent of these pauses and whether any state laws or procedures were ignored in the process. What cannot be disputed is that vote totals from Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania continued to change throughout the night, long after many Americans had gone to bed.

By the early morning hours of November 4, Wisconsin had flipped blue, followed soon after by the must-win state of Michigan. Days later, Georgia and Pennsylvania flipped for Biden as well. For many observers, the abrupt turnarounds — combined with conflicting reports of election-night disruptions — fueled deep skepticism about the integrity and transparency of the process.

Michigan lawmakers and election integrity investigators have spent an untold number of hours and resources to prove the election in Detroit was rigged. To date, they have not been able to secure the documents needed to verify what they believe happened that led to an inexplicable victory for Joe Biden in the presidential race.


Enter Yehuda Miller—an American hero.

Yehuda Miller, a New Jersey resident, explained to The Gateway Pundit that he used to be “non-political,” until after the 2020 election, when he found himself questioning the hotly-contested election results and the subsequent lack of transparency by election officials in key swing states whose results handed the presidency to the unremarkable and by many accounts, the inchoherent Democrat candidate Joe Biden.




The Gateway Pundit met with Yehuda Miller, who can be seen proudly standing next to one of the largest election FOIA hauls in U.S. history on the same day he picked up the documents from the City of Detroit.



Last week, Mr. Miller contacted me with news that he had just obtained almost 1 million election documents from the 2020 election via FOIA from the City of Detroit and Wayne County. Yehuda Miller’s request for the documents was originally rejected. Undeterred by their denial of public records, Miller hired a top FOIA attorney who successfully sued for the documents before the expiration of the 22-month federally mandated period, which requires election officials to retain all election records from all general, special, or primary elections. We are pleased to report that Mr. Miller has now secured copies of the actual absentee ballots, the signed envelopes that contained the absentee ballots, absentee ballot applications, QVF files, and total tapes from each (including the OUT OF BALANCE) Detroit precincts.





Within hours of obtaining the electronic files and hard copies of the copied materials, The Gateway Pundit began working with top election integrity experts in Michigan to review the massive amount of data. A few months ago, Mr. Miller obtained a large portion of FOIA’d materials from Wayne County, where Detroit is located, so his collection of data from the 2020 election in Detroit has now been completed.

Many in Michigan, who have become aware of his massive FOIA haul, are calling it a “miracle.”

The Gateway Pundit, who has broken more stories uncovering evidence of malfeasance, election irregularities, lies from top election officials like MI SOS Jocelyn Benson, and outright voter fraud than any other local, state or national news organizations, would like to personally thank Yehuda Miller for sharing this evidence with us and key election integrity experts in Michigan who are committed to revealing the truth about what really happened in the 2020 election in the City of Detroit.


On the day after the election, The Gateway Pundit reported about a white van that delivered ballots in the early morning hours in the back hallway of the counting center. The Gateway Pundit founder, Jim Hoft, paid to obtain the surveillance footage from the back hallways of the TCF Center, where absentee ballots were being counted in Detroit.


Thanks to a great deal of tedious work, the Gateway Pundit staff was able to prove that a black rental car was used to escort two white vans filled with absentee ballots in the wee hours of the morning on the day after the election. In the video, a gentleman dressed all in black (the uniform of supervisors inside the TCF counting room) can be seen entering the hallway and passing something to the driver of the vehicle through the window before the driver pulls away and the white van enters to begin unloading boxes of ballots. What was the supervisor handing the driver? How did the driver contact the supervisor to let him know they had discreetly entered the back hallway?


Watch the incredible footage here:


Exclusive: New Video Shows Late Night Deliveries of Thousands of Illegal Ballots to Michigan Arena





Republican poll challengers were locked out of the room after the top election official in the TCF Center told them to take a break while they prepared the “military” ballots. Only a small percentage of the UOCAVA ballots are actually military voters or voters who are family members of the military.


Democrat poll challengers and their counterparts, which included outside agitators, somehow knew to stay inside the counting room and ordered pizza to be delivered, while Republicans retreated for a short break to a room on another floor. When the Republicans returned to the counting room, they had been locked out. When Republican poll challengers began to chant “Stop the count!” leftist poll workers and Democrat poll challengers used their pizza boxes to cover the windows.


Never before seen video from inside TCF Center showing windows being covered up with pizza boxes & paper, while election workers & Dem poll challengers watch Republican poll challengers being tricked into leaving by a top election official and then locked out of the process. pic.twitter.com/I9ueIhkdZd

Never before seen video from inside TCF Center showing windows being covered up with pizza boxes & paper, while election workers & Dem poll challengers watch Republican poll challengers being tricked into leaving by a top election official and then locked out of the process. pic.twitter.com/I9ueIhkdZd

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) September 22, 2025

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) September 22, 2025



When Michigan’s top election official, Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, was asked by Detroit’s top radio host, the now-deceased Frank Beckmann, about the pizza boxes that were used to cover the windows and prevent the Republican poll challengers from watching the process, she did what she does best: she lied.


MI SOS Jocelyn Benson is a LIAR.

Listen to SOS Benson LYING to the now-deceased WJR talk show host Frank Beckmann about why the windows were being covered during the counting of 2020 absentee ballots in Detroit, at the TCF Center.

Detroit’s top election “coordinator,”… pic.twitter.com/leDC4uyPOE

🚨MI SOS Jocelyn Benson is a LIAR. 🤥

Listen to SOS Benson LYING to the now-deceased WJR talk show host Frank Beckmann about why the windows were being covered during the counting of 2020 absentee ballots in Detroit, at the TCF Center.

Detroit’s top election “coordinator,”… pic.twitter.com/leDC4uyPOE

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) August 11, 2025

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) August 11, 2025



In 2022, the Gateway Pundit received surveillance footage from almost every absentee ballot drop box in Detroit. What we found was outrageous. Not one charge was filed as a result of our exposing multiple individuals and teams dropping off stacks of ballots while filming themselves.


After hundreds of hours of poring through the video footage, we were able to share clips of USPS workers violating the US Postal Code by dropping stacks of ballots into the drop boxes instead of delivering them to the addresses on the envelopes, as well as individuals and teams working to drop off massive stacks of ballots while recording their activity with a cell phone. MI SOS Benson called the US Postal workers’ illegal activity “normal and legal” on the “fact-checking” tab of Michigan’s official Secretary of State website. MI AG Dana Nessel never commented on the videos.

The Gateway Pundit summarized our findings from the 2020 Detroit election drop box footage in a thirteen minute video:

EXCLUSIVE! 13 Min. of Never-Before-Seen Footage of Ballot Trafficking in Detroit, MI


On August 8, 2023, the Gateway Pundit broke the story about GBI Strategies/Empower Michigan, a voter registration group that was sending packages to clerks across the state of Michigan from a hotel in Auburn Hills, MI, filled with fake registrations.


The group, which was funded by Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and Democrat Senator Gary Peters (MI), was finally caught one month before the 2020 election when a supervisor working for GBI Strategies dropped off between 8,000 and 10,000 voter registrations, many, if not all of them, were fraudulent. No charges were filed, and after a lengthy two-year investigation by the MI State Police and Muskegon Police Department, the FBI took over the investigation. Several attempts have been made to get more information on the investigation into GBI Strategies, but the FBI refused, claiming it’s an ongoing investigation.

Prior to being named as the Deputy Director of the FBI, the former podcast host, Dan Bongino, suggested our report on GBI Strategies was the best evidence of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election, because we brought the “receipts.”



Is FBI Deputy Director Bongino investigating this Democrat funded group?




And finally, in one of the most underreported stories, Detroit activist Ramon Jackson revealed to MI House Election Integrity Committee Chair Rachelle Smit and her committee how he uncovered what the Gateway Pundit and election integrity experts in Michigan believe is one of the key ways elections are being repeatedly stolen in Detroit.






The group collecting the information from Yehuda Miller is in support of criminal investigations.

Please stay tuned, as the Gateway Pundit will be revealing our exclusive findings in the coming weeks.


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DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard Uncovers Hidden Documents that Show Obama Doctored Intel to Make It Look Like Trump and Putin Stole Election (VIDEO)









by Jim Hoft Sep. 27, 2025

Jesse Watters ran a very damning segment on the origins of the Trump-Russia hoax.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard uncovered documents that were hidden for ten years that show Barack Obama was leading efforts to make it look like President Trump and Vladimir Putin stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton.

Obama ordered his corrupt CIA Director John Brennan to create this fake assessment.

This ties the former President Obama directly to the Trump-Russia hoax.

Dirty Obama was leading the efforts to take down Trump.

Barack Obama, who offered ‘hope and change,’ was actually a blight on our country’s history.

Jesse Watters reported: The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, released a bombshell report today that shows a conspiracy by a sitting President, Barack Obama, and his intel agencies to sabotage the President-elect, Donald Trump, brainwash the electorate, and undermine the legitimacy of an election.

There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.

They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true. It wasn’t.

Gabbard got her hands on a House intel report that’s been locked away in a CIA vault for almost a decade. Investigators spent over 2,000 hours looking into how the Russia hoax was born, interviewing 20 CIA and FBI officials. It turns out that the Obama administration doctored the intelligence to make it look like Putin and Trump stole the election…

…Senior CIA officials repeatedly refused to traffic in these allegations. But they were repeatedly overruled by CIA Director Brennan and FBI Director Comey, who insisted that they be pushed even without verifiable evidence.

The Obama administration cherry-picked the intelligence, lied about their sources, misquoted sources, didn’t corroborate their claims, suppressed intelligence that ran counter to their narratives, and even used anonymous internet postings. Rank and file CIA admitted what they were doing violated their own Tradecraft standards.

There was a massive pressure campaign that came right from the top. Cia analysts say they received unusual directives from political appointees, the CIA director and Obama himself.

Now we have the proof – It was Obama leading the efforts to destroy Donald Trump.

So much for hope and change!

This right here should be enough evidence to lock up Obama, Brennan, and Jim Comey for years.

TREASON

Tulsi has uncovered documents that were hidden for ten years, showing Obama doctored the intel to make it look like Putin and Trump stole the 2016 election

Obama ordered Brennan to create a fake assessment

ALL ROADS LEAD DIRECTLY TO OBAMA pic.twitter.com/Bt9kiC8vQD

TREASON 🚨

Tulsi has uncovered documents that were hidden for ten years, showing Obama doctored the intel to make it look like Putin and Trump stole the 2016 election

Obama ordered Brennan to create a fake assessment

ALL ROADS LEAD DIRECTLY TO OBAMA pic.twitter.com/Bt9kiC8vQD

— @chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @chicago1Ray) September 26, 2025

— @chicago1Ray @chicago1Ray) September 26, 2025


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BREAKING: CHRIS WRAY LIED UNDER OATH! FBI Had 274 Plainclothes Agents in the Crowd on January 6th – IT WAS A TOTAL FEDSURRECTION


by Jim Hoft Sep. 26, 2025 7:00 am

Former FBI Director Chris Wray lied to Congress and the American people when he said under oath that there were no FBI agents undercover on January 6. – Congressional video

It appears that James Comey could have a familiar cellmate when he is finally sent to prison for lying under oath to Congress and the American people.


Former FBI Director Chris Wray lied and lectured House Republicans for accusing the FBI of planting informants/operatives/agents inside the massive crowd of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.

In a bold statement that directly contradicts multiple official sources, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress in July 2023 that he “does not believe” undercover FBI agents were present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Wray’s statement came during a tense exchange with Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who specifically asked about the number of undercover agents in the Capitol vicinity on the infamous day.

Wray stated that he could not provide such a figure and even expressed doubt about the presence of undercover agents at all.

“I’m not sure there were undercover agents on scene,” Wray responded to Biggs. “As I sit here right now, I do not believe there were undercover agents on.”

Biggs wrote on Twitter that “Wray will be held accountable for this lie.”

“FBI Director Wray just told me he “does not believe” there were any undercover FBI agents in or around the U.S. Capitol on January 6. This claim has been already debunked—including by the former U.S. Capitol Police Chief,” Biggs added.


WATCH:

FBI Director Wray just told me he “does not believe” there were any undercover FBI agents in or around the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

This claim has been already debunked—including by the former U.S. Capitol Police Chief.

Wray will be held accountable for this lie. pic.twitter.com/jJ4RV3PINE

FBI Director Wray just told me he "does not believe" there were any undercover FBI agents in or around the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

This claim has been already debunked—including by the former U.S. Capitol Police Chief.

Wray will be held accountable for this lie. pic.twitter.com/jJ4RV3PINE

— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) July 12, 2023

— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) July 12, 2023


The Director’s statement is in stark contrast to facts previously revealed by the Washington D.C. FBI Field Office. According to their confirmed reports, a number of undercover officers, confidential informants, and FBI assets were indeed present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

On Thursday night, the FBI finally acknowledged it had 274 plainclothes agents in the massive crowds on Jan. 6, 2021. This was hundreds more than was previously reported.


The Blaze reported:

A senior congressional source said the number is not necessarily a surprise, since the FBI often embeds countersurveillance personnel at large events.

But given the FBI’s until-now steadfast refusal to disclose the level of its presence at the Capitol, the figure might still be viewed with skepticism in some quarters.

The news comes in the wake of claims by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General that the FBI had no undercover personnel in the Jan. 6 crowds.

“We found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6,” the DOJ OIG said in an 88-page report released in December 2024.

As the Gateway Pundit as previously reported — Dozens if not hundreds of government operatives infiltrated the protests at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The Gateway Pundit previously identified 20 different confirmed incidents and operations involving federal, state, and local government operatives who infiltrated the massive Trump crowds on January 6, 2021.

Each one of these incidents has been confirmed by the far-left press or the government in court documents.


We currently have no idea how many federal, state and local government operatives were working undercover on January 6 but it looks like it is close to 100 operatives leading the charge on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Recent court documents reveal the Biden Department of Justice admitting to at least 40 undercover operatives with the Proud Boys on January 6.

In September 2022, TGP learned the FBI was running operatives inside The Oath Keepers on January 6th. The DOJ sprung this on the Oath Keepers members before their trial in Washington DC before a Kangaroo Court. The US government finally admitted in this letter they sent out before the trial that they were running Confidential Human Sources (CHS) inside the Oath Keepers organization on January 6.

In November 2022, the FBI finally admitted they had 8 informants inside the Proud Boys organization on January 6 and likely more.

The FBI had as many as eight informants inside the Proud Boys in the months around the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, recent court papers indicate, raising questions about how much federal investigators were able to learn from them before and after it took place. https://t.co/vfMPExBNW3

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 14, 2022

The DOJ admitted to 40 government CHS agents were undercover on January 6th.

Proud Boys defendant Dominic Pezzola recently reported this admission.

SHOCK: The DoJ now admits that another 40 undercover agents were with the Proud Boys on J6 – from HSI – Homeland Security Investigations. The vast majority of the group was paid by the government as either W2 employees or CHS. pic.twitter.com/tCKZubpJmq

SHOCK: The DoJ now admits that another 40 undercover agents were with the Proud Boys on J6 - from HSI - Homeland Security Investigations. The vast majority of the group was paid by the government as either W2 employees or CHS. pic.twitter.com/tCKZubpJmq

— @amuse (@amuse) April 6, 2023

— @amuse (@amuse) April 6, 2023

And the number keeps growing – to 50 or more that they are admitting to.


BREAKING: Another doozy of a motion filed today by a Proud Boy defense lawyer related to informants, undercover agents

Number of DC Metro undercovers keeps growing: pic.twitter.com/3vOrIUZNPT

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) April 10, 2023

Undercover @DCPoliceDept bicycle driver stands right beside rolled up “Restricted Area” green fencing on west side of @uscapitol Jan 6

He speaks to three other undercovers (blue jacket, orange hat, and camera wearer) before 3x other cops walk up to west steps, north end pic.twitter.com/J9xkG9XNZo

— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) March 25, 2023

As public discourse around these events continues to unfold, Wray’s claims stand in stark opposition to confirmed facts. It remains to be seen how these contradictions will be addressed and what consequences they will have for Director Wray and the FBI as a whole.


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The H1B Visa Scam — It’s Bigger and Worse Than We Thought




Vishwanatha Badikana, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons



by Antonio Graceffo Sep. 28, 2025 9:00 am

President Trump recently cracked down on the H1B visa program, requiring companies to pay $100,000 to sponsor a worker.

The program was originally intended to bring in temporary employees with highly specialized skills that few Americans possessed. H

owever, as the White House proclamation states, the H-1B program “has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers.”

In practice, it now serves to import general IT and tech workers, displacing Americans and driving down wages.

Investigations have uncovered widespread fraud: fake applicants, forged documents, and shell companies that sponsor visas and then place workers into U.S. firms on contract.

Over the past 30 years, a pattern has emerged in which hiring an Indian HR manager often leads to a steady increase in Indian workers until Americans become a minority in certain departments or entire companies.

Wages are suppressed, discouraging Americans from entering these fields and reinforcing the false claim that there are jobs Americans “won’t” or “can’t” do.

In reality, Americans will take any job if the pay is fair, and proper wages motivate them to pursue training. The proof lies in recent layoffs: in 2022, the top 30 companies brought in 34,000 new H-1B workers even as they cut at least 85,000 staff.

The new Trump policy will reduce the number of new H1B visas issued but does nothing about the roughly 600,000 holders already in the country. The dishonesty and scope of the problem are far greater than most people realize.

Salvatore Militello, who has spent decades in the IT sector as both a technician and later a recruiter, told me in an interview how the H1B program has harmed the industry.

“I started working with Microsoft in around the year 2000. And then I became independent. From 2000 to about 2015 or 2016, there was this trend of bringing people from India over to Microsoft. I would occasionally work on campus, managing these difficult projects for Microsoft. They were called rescue projects.”

He recalled companies claiming they couldn’t find qualified Americans, but he didn’t believe it. “I’m thinking, yes, you can find people.” The reality, he said, was that companies simply didn’t want to pay American wages.

Militello noted that salaries offered to Indian workers were 30 to 40 percent below the market average, which in turn pushed wages across the board downward.

Across the industry, he saw a broader pattern of offshoring tied to H-1B visas.

“They had an offshore team, or they brought a mix of offshore and some of those onshore, which I used to call extended offshore, because that’s what they were with this H-1B business.”

COVID accelerated the trend. Once American employees were forced to work from home, companies found it easier to offshore jobs. Replacing remote U.S. staff with Indians working from India became seamless, and this also opened the door to bringing more Indian workers into the United States on H-1B visas to replace local employees.

According to Militello, the largest drivers of H-1B expansion have been Amazon, Microsoft, and LinkedIn. Amazon filed 10,969 Labor Condition Applications in fiscal year 2024, leading to 10,044 approvals in 2025.

The White House cited similar patterns, noting that one firm was approved for more than 5,000 H-1B visas in 2025 while laying off 15,000 workers, and another cut 2,400 staff in Oregon while securing nearly 1,700 approvals.

Amazon remained the top sponsor, rising from 9,257 approvals in 2024 to 10,044 in 2025, an increase of 787. Other major firms, including Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and JPMorgan Chase, also expanded their H-1B sponsorships.

LinkedIn has played a critical role in fueling this deluge. Evidence shows Indian recruiters use the platform aggressively to promote visa opportunities and connect workers with American companies.

Reports describe more than 14,000 call centers in India, each employing 500 to 1,000 workers with access to LinkedIn, Dice, ChatGPT, and VoIP, and each recruiter given quotas for collecting résumés. At the center of this system is the “bench sales” model.

LinkedIn job searches show hundreds of listings in India for “Sr. Bench Sales Recruiters,” whose role is to market H-1B workers who are between projects and place them in U.S. companies as quickly as possible.

American job seekers are now familiar with aggressive Indian recruiters who contact them with vague offers, demand résumés and personal details, and provide little real information.

These résumés are often harvested to “spice up” Indian candidates’ profiles or to fabricate a paper trail showing that domestic workers were considered and rejected, even though the jobs are reserved for pre-selected H-1B applicants.

This explains why so many Americans are contacted repeatedly about jobs they never hear back on. Fake recruiters use domestic résumés as evidence of unsuccessful screenings, creating the documentation needed for visa fraud.

The business model depends on scale and low costs. Bench recruiters in India may earn about $1,000 per month, while agencies profit from each consultant placed.

Many LinkedIn postings explicitly require knowledge of visa categories (H-1B, OPT, CPT, GC, USC) and emphasize working with visa-holding consultants.

After moving into recruiting, Militello was asked to review résumés from Indian applicants.

“What I found was that applicants would say they were H-1B, but they weren’t. They were here illegally. How do I know? Because I checked.”

When he explained that without a valid visa the company could not sponsor them, applicants often replied, “That’s okay. I have a friend with a corporation in the U.S. You pay the corporation, and they will pay me.”

This was one of many scams.

Shell companies, sometimes listing large numbers of employees on paper, existed only to loan workers out on consultancy contracts to U.S. firms. The shell company, not the worker, received the salary.

To keep costs attractive, the rate charged to the hiring company was below market value, and the shell company took a cut, leaving the worker with only a fraction of the standard pay.

Militello recalled that when the going rate was $100 an hour, Indian workers sometimes ended up with just $60.

In addition to his interactions with job seekers, Militello described the constant outreach from Indian scam recruiters. “We’ve got 20 candidates and their first name is Singh, Amit, Sumit—you get it. Twenty of them.

And then they say, ‘We have these people that need work, do you have any positions open for them?’ You can’t do that. If you have the work, I’m not going to participate.” He shared one such email, which read:

“Hello,
Greetings for the Day!!
This is Ganesh, from Sainar Solutions INC., working as a Bench Sales Recruiter.
We have excellent consultants in our Bench, who are actively looking for projects on C2C/C2H.
Please let me know if you have any suitable requirements. Kindly share me the requirements with…”

The recruiter’s email itself demonstrates multiple violations.


The H-1B program requires a specific job that cannot be filled by an American worker, yet the email shows they had candidates first and were seeking jobs second, exactly the opposite of the law. It also implies the workers were “on the bench,” waiting without pay for placement, another violation of federal rules.

Finally, offering to supply workers through a third-party arrangement raises employer-employee relationship issues, since the sponsoring company may not actually control the worker’s employment.

The H-1B visa scam grew under Obama and exploded under Biden. Now it is being squelched by Trump.

The additional steps the president needs to take are scrutinizing and canceling many of the 600,000 existing H-1B visas, and shutting down the consulting companies and Indian recruiters that enable the system.

Given his speed and thoroughness, the administration may already be working on that.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani has reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit over his baseless 2020 election-rigging claims.

By NEW YORK (AP)

The two sides said in a filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday that they have agreed to permanently dismiss the suit against the former New York City mayor and former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump.

The brief filing doesn’t cite the settlement terms. Spokespeople for Giuliani and the Colorado-based company said Saturday that the terms are confidential and declined to comment further.

Dominion sued Giuliani in 2021 for $1.3 billion in damages after he led Trump’s efforts to cast doubt on the 2020 election results.

Conservatives and other Trump supporters blamed the company, one of the nation’s top voting machine makers, for the Republican’s loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Many alleged, without evidence, that its systems were easily manipulated. Dominion had provided voting machines for the state of Georgia, a critical battleground that Biden won and which flipped control of the U.S. Senate.

The web of conspiracy theories following the the 2020 election not only caused headaches for Dominion but also undermined public confidence in U.S. elections, led to calls to ban voting machines and triggered death threats against elections officials.

Fox News also agreed to a nearly $800 million settlement with Dominion in 2023, and another politically conservative network, Newsmax, agreed to a $67 million settlement with Dominion over its election claims.

The company’s suit against Giuliani was based on statements the onetime presidential hopeful made on social media, on conservative news outlets and during legislative hearings in which he claimed the company conspired to flip votes to Biden.

Dominion’s lawsuit was among a series of legal and financial setbacks for Giuliani stemming from his role in spreading election conspiracy theories.

Earlier this month, a New York judge ordered the Republican, once celebrated as “America’s mayor” for his leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to pay $1.36 million in legal fees.

Giuliani, in recent years, has also been disbarred as an attorney in New York and Washington; filed for bankruptcy and reached an undisclosed settlement to keep his homes and belongings after he was ordered to pay $148 million to two former Georgia elections workers he defamed.

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The study was still on the website as of Sept. 11, 2025, but was removed by the following day, two days after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.

By Emery Winter


Following the Sept. 10, 2025, fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the administration of President Donald Trump threatened to crack down on the "radical left," including by potentially classifying some groups as domestic terrorists.

People on social media critical of the administration pointed out that it had removed a study from the U.S. Department of Justice website that showed right-wing domestic terrorism was far more common than left-wing or Islamist extremist domestic terrorism. One Reddit thread making the claim received more than 100,000 upvotes, while another received another 5,000 upvotes. The claim also spread to other social media sites, such as Facebook and Instagram .

The study, titled, "What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism," was published to the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice website on Jan. 4, 2024, during the administration of then-President Joe Biden, a Democrat. The study's text was posted directly to the website and in a PDF. Both links were archived with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

"In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives," the study's authors wrote in its first paragraph. "In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives."

Attempting to go to the same URL on Sept. 17, 2025, redirected to the DOJ Office of Justice Programs, which hosts the NIJ homepage. When trying to access the link to the PDF, the website says that the requested page could not be found. The study also could not be found with a website search for words in the study's title, "domestic terrorism." A Google search for the study's name, narrowed to .gov websites, did not bring up the study, only the PDF link that redirects to the 404 page. Links to the study from other organizations redirected to the same pages.

The Internet Archive's archive history for the study's page showed the study was still available on the DOJ's website on Sept. 11, 2025. However, by the time it was next saved — around 2 p.m. Eastern Time Sept. 12 — the study was removed from the website, and its link redirected to the OJP homepage. Snopes reached out to the Justice Department, which declined to comment.

The NIJ website maintains a domestic radicalization and terrorism topic page, which includes other research conducted under previous administrations, such as an April 2024 report on the role of social media networks in domestic radicalization. The OJP also has a much-older study on right-wing extremism from 1987 still available on its website.

The removed study's findings line up with other research into the subject. A report from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that excluding 9/11, the majority of murders in politically motivated terrorist acts in the U.S. since 1975 have been by people with right-wing ideologies. Even when including the 9/11 attacks, which skews the data heavily toward Islamic extremism being the most common ideology of politically motivated terrorist attacks, right-wing ideologies were still far more common than left-wing ideologies in perpetrators of politically motivated terrorist acts.

A University of Maryland Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice study similarly found it was nearly twice as likely for a violent act of extremism in the U.S. to be committed by a right-wing extremist than by a left-wing extremist.

Attachment 2576602

In the email, Trump said God saved him during the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and asked supporters for $15 donations.

By Jordan Liles

Claim:

An August 2025 email from one of U.S. President Donald Trump's political action committees asked for $15 donations and began,"I want to try and get to heaven."

Rating: True

In late August 2025, online users claimed an official fundraising email from U.S. President Donald Trump asked for $15 donations and began, "I want to try and get to heaven." Snopes received reader emails about this matter, and users also searched our website for information.

One X user shared a screenshot of the purported message, and wrote (archived), "Trump sent out an email at 8 am this morning saying 'I want to try and get to heaven.' Pretty weird to send out when you're trying to reassure people that you're healthy!"

The user created the post on Aug. 30 during Labor Day weekend — the same time social media users widely shared a false rumor that Trump had died, as we previously

An official, Trump-led political action committee truly sent the email with the "get to heaven" subject line, in which he asked supporters for $15 donations. In the message, Trump said God saved him during the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and told supporters to "never surrender."

Several different screenshots of the email helped to confirm the message as authentic. The PoliticalEmails.org website — a website that archives political emails — also hosted the message with three sending dates: Aug. 23 (archived), Aug. 25 (archived) and Sept. 2 (archived).

The email displayed the "from" email address of contact@win.donaldjt rump.com, featuring the official, Trump-owned website domain donaldjtrump.com. The message's footer read, in part, "Paid by Never Surrender, Inc." Earlier in August, Politico labeled Never Surrender as Trump's primary leadership PAC. (Never Surrender is also the name of a Minnesota-based charity with no affiliation to the Trump PAC.)

Trump spoke the same "get to heaven" phrase days earlier during an Aug. 19 phone interview with the hosts of the Fox News morning TV show "Fox & Friends." While discussing the prospect of saving soldiers and citizens from being killed in Ukraine-Russia war, as well as other conflicts, Trump said the following (emphasis ours):

If I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that's a pretty … I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I mean, I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.

Trump's full 'get to heaven' email

The PoliticalEmails.org website the full Trump fundraising email. The message featured the unfounded claim of a "rigged 2020 election," as well as other evidence-free claims. The email read as follows:

Friend,

I want to try and get to Heaven.

Last year I came millimeters from death when that bullet pierced through my skin. My triumphant return to the White House was never supposed to happen!

But I believe that God saved me for one reason: TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

I wasn't supposed to beat Crooked Hillary in 2016 — but I did.

I wasn't supposed to secure the border & build the greatest economy in history — but I did.

I certainly wasn't supposed to survive an assassin's bullet — but by the grace of the almighty God, I did.

SO NOW, I have no other choice but to answer the Call to Duty, but I can't do it alone.

Friend, you've been with me through everything.

You were there when they launched: the Russia Hoax, the first Impeachment, the second Impeachment, the rigged 2020 election, the Raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Arrest and Mugshot at the Fulton County Jail, the Removal from the CO ballot, the sham cases in DC / FL / NY / DC, the first Assassination attempt, the second Assassination attempt, and so much more!

Just because I won in a HISTORIC landslide and have unleashed the Golden Age of America, THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN TAKE OUR FOOT OFF THE GAS!

The forces that hate our country don't want a secure border or safe cities or high paying jobs. The Radical Left Lunatics want to STOP MAGA, but we're not going to let them NO MATTER WHAT.

Let me make this SOLEMN PLEDGE to you: I WILL NEVER SURRENDER!

I put my life on the line willingly because this is what I was made to do, but our movement, the beautiful MAGA movement, is powered by YOU.

Every time they count us out – count YOU out – we come back bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.

This is our moment to show the world that we will NEVER back down, NEVER give an inch, and NEVER SURRENDER in our fight to save this country.

That's why I've launched a 24 HOUR TRUMP FUNDRAISING BLITZ, and I'm asking everyone to chip in $15 to make it one for the record books!

So if you're with me all the way to the end, join with MILLIONS of your fellow PATRIOTS by chipping in $15 to keep the wins rolling in! >

GIVE $15STAND WITH TRUMP

Sincerely,Donald John Trump

STAND WITH TRUMP

Paid for by Never Surrender, Inc. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate authorized's committee. www.donaldjtrump.com.

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Is Wray Next?… Kash Patel Accuses Chris Wray of Lying to Congress about FBI Agents in the Crowd on January 6, 2021 – Calls Out His “Corrupt Leadership”

The massive patriotic crowd at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Little did they know their government planted 274 FBI agents in the crowd to create havoc that day. – screengrab

by Jim Hᴏft Sep. 28, 2025 7:45 am

On Thursday night, the FBI finally acknowledged it had 274 plainclothes agents in the massive crowds on Jan. 6, 2021. This was hundreds more than was previously reported.

As the Gateway Pundit as previously reported — Dozens if not hundreds of government operatives infiltrated the protests at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The Gateway Pundit previously identified 20 different confirmed incidents and operations involving federal, state, and local government operatives who infiltrated the massive Trump crowds on January 6, 2021.

But we had no idea there were 274 FBI agents operating in the crowd that day.

On Thursday after this news broke on the hundreds of FBI operatives in the crowd that day, TGP pointed out that Chris Wray lied about this while under oath in front of Congress.

You can read more here.

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BREAKING: CHRIS WRAY LIED UNDER OATH! FBI Had 274 Plainclothes Agents in the Crowd on January 6th – IT WAS A TOTAL FEDSURRECTION
by Jim Hoft Sep. 26, 2025 7:00 am
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Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...-oath-fbi-had/


On Saturday President Trump lashed out at Dirty former FBI Director Chris Wray and his lies to Congress about January 6.

President Trump: It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That’s right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as “Law Enforcement Officials.” I want to know who each and every one of these so-called “Agents” are, and what they were up to on that now “Historic” Day. Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of “Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians” to them! Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA AGAIN!






And later today FBI Director Kash Patel also tweeted out that Chris Wray lied to Congress.

Wray said there were no FBI operatives there. Wray lied.

274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan 6 against FBI standards.

That failure was on corrupt leadership.

Thanks to agents stepping up, the truth is coming out.

Transparency. Justice. Accountability. pic.twitter.com/BowkQb1h2E

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 28, 2025



Kash says the FBI agents were on hand after the rioting started. That explanation strains credulity.

After all, it was a peaceful protest on January 6 until the police started firing rubber bullets and tossing sound grenades on the unsuspecting crowd.

Regardless, this new information this week ought to be enough to press charges against serial liar Chris Wray.

Patel went on to say Wray lied to Congress and the American people about what really happened.

It appears that Chris Wray was attempting to top Jim Comey as the worst and most dishonest FBI Chief in history.

Maybe Wray will be the next deep state hack to be indicted for their criminal actions during President Trump's first term.

It won't come as a surprise for The Gateway Pundit readers.


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From The Gateway Pundit
Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ongress-about/






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