Azerbaijan, Armenia, Nakhchivan, and Syunik are not names most Americans are familiar with. However, the TRIPP (Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity) Corridor through these countries, cities, and regions is a decisive strategic move in the Caucasus and Central Asia against three U.S. adversaries at once: China, Russia and Iran.
The TRIPP will link the city of Kars in Turkey to the port city of Baku in Azerbaijan. Baku is the most important port in the Caspian Sea, an inland sea connecting Azerbaijan directly to Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Together, these countries have proven oil reserves of 37 billion barrels, slightly more than the entire U.S.’s proven reserves of 35 billion.
When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941, his rhetorical justification was secondary to his need to secure the Caucasus and the oil fields of Azerbaijan and Central Asia. At the time, Germany’s only significant access to oil was from Romania, which was insufficient for the needs of Germany and its occupied countries. The famed Battle of Stalingrad was fought to secure the Volga River for its access to Caspian oil and as a launch point for an invasion to capture the port of Baku and its oil trade. It could be said that Hitler’s push into the Eastern Front — whose ultimate failure lost him the war — was driven in large part by the need to secure this region’s oil.
Despite its rhetoric condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the E.U. purchased €21.9 billion in fossil fuels from Russia in 2024 alone (though far less than pre-2022 levels), compared to sending €18.7 billion in financial aid to Ukraine. Europe’s need for fossil fuels has trumped its desire to oppose Putin’s Russia.
Enter the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. This rail line has the potential to unlock $50–100 billion in annual trade by 2027, a significant portion of which will be in fossil fuels. The rail from Baku to Kars, Turkey will allow the oil and natural gas exports of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan to enter the Mediterranean (and then, to Europe) without passing through Russia or Iran as before.
Fifteen to 20% of Russia’s GDP is from fossil fuels, and 30–50% of its budget comes from fossil fuels. By opening the Caucasus and Caspian oil to the world, without the need to transit Russia or Iran, President Trump has seriously undermined a geopolitical opponent without firing a shot or starting another regime-change war. In fact, the TRIPP is part of the peace deal negotiated between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with the U.S. leasing a 27-mile stretch of the railway in Armenia’s Syunik province, effectively underwriting Armenian security without deploying U.S. troops.
Not only does the TRIPP give the U.S. influence in a region on the southern flank of Russia and the northern flank of Iran, but it also undermines China’s Belt and Road initiative. China has long dreamed of creating a Middle Corridor, a 4,000-mile trade path from China to Europe. Trump’s link from Central Asia to the Mediterranean undermines China’s most important soft power program, creating a transit route that aligns with U.S. interests.
The TRIPP involves no deployment of U.S. forces and will be solely managed by private non-military organizations. Without using a single soldier or jet fighter, President Trump has delivered a decisive strategic advantage against three U.S. adversaries at the same time.
Although its purpose is non-military, the railway also has the potential to be used for military purposes should Russia, China, or Iran decide to go to war with the United States. The Caucasus and Central Asia have mostly been out of U.S. reach without the use of expensive air power, and supporting ground troops there in the numbers required to make a difference in a potential global conflict would be prohibitively expensive.
With a capacity of 50 million tons of cargo per year, the TRIPP could hypothetically support the transit of over 130,000 tons of supplies per day. A U.S. infantry division in 2025 requires approximately 1,100 tons of supplies per day, meaning multiple divisions and their supporting air power could be deployed to the region. These units could cause severe issues for Russia, Iran, and China should the unfortunate need arise.
The mere ability to deploy significant U.S. forces to Central Asia and the Caucasus acts as a deterrent against Iran, Russia, and China, thus decreasing the likelihood of war. In a conflict with China centered on Taiwan and Southeast Asian waters, China could be forced to deploy significant numbers of troops and supplies to Xinjiang province (where China is currently committing a genocide against the native Uyghurs) on Kazakhstan’s eastern border, diverting them from China’s Pacific coast, which would be the decisive theater of said conflict.
President Trump has delivered a major economic blow to our geopolitical adversaries without fighting a single costly war. By negotiating peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, he has created a competing transit route for Caspian oil and significantly weakened China’s Belt and Road initiative.
There is a constant harangue from left-wing politicians and complicit media that Trump and his administration are fascists and that MAGA, ICE, and anyone else they don’t like are Nazis.
When you ask Gemini A.I., Duck A.I., and Wikipedia, “Is fascism right-wing?”, the answer is yes; fascism is considered right-wing. Co-pilot says yes, it is right-wing, and then says it has left-wing aspects as well, and then concludes that it is right-wing. What?
A Wikipedia Overview via A.I. comes up with this: “Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology ...”
Dinesh D’Souza said on a PragerU video that the Nazi regime was redefined after WWII from left-wing to right-wing. His reasoning, summarized, is that political and academic leaders wanted to ensure that their collectivist (socialist) beliefs were separated from the horrors of Hitler’s regime. It appears the redefining was successful.
Emmanuel Rincón wrote “There’s No Denying the Socialist Roots of Fascism” in 2021. This article looks at fascism not as a list of words, but through the actions of the fathers of fascism: Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile. Together they wrote the “doctrine of fascism.” Gentile said, “Fascism is a form of socialism; in fact, it is its most viable form.” The Fascist Party broke with the Italian Socialist Party, but mainly in rhetoric. They moved steadily toward the collective. The fascist Italian government first nationalized the arms industry. Private property in practice was eliminated. They did not own the means of production or fully control the economy, but they dominated it. Businesses were run by individuals, but to keep that business, the business had to serve the state.
It was Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship that inspired Hitler and the Nazi party to move forward with their own fascist plans.
The Road to Serfdom, published by Routledge and University of Chicago in 1944, by Austrian-British economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, is like taking a step back in time. Hayek’s lifespan was 1899 to 1992. This enabled him to observe WWI, WWII, the rise of Stalin, and the rise of socialist thought across Europe. Socialism ideals had begun to mutate away from Marx’s revolution; the Social Democrats believed that collectivist socialism could be achieved via government actors. Writers like Marx and the socialist revisionist Bernstein believed that socialism was a natural progression from capitalism. Hayek argued against this; he called Social Democracy utopian and
impossible. He believed that Germany went from capitalist ideals to socialist ideals, and it was this move to socialism that led to fascism.
The capitalist principles that preceded the years of the fascist reign had evaporated in Germany. Hayek witnessed the change as socialism showed up in writings and socialist political parties were formed. As the populace began to take the progress made by a market economy for granted, they forgot what had created the success they were experiencing. This is where Hayek states that the success of democracy and capitalism opened the door to their own demise.
In the introduction of The Road to Serfdom, Hayek wrote, “Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period, but the necessary outcome of those tendencies.” He also observed that despite seeing the clear similarities between Stalin’s communism in Russia and Germany’s National Socialism, intellectual leaders and academics still promoted the very experiment that led to the despotism of the Nazi movement.
Social planning was progressively applied to society as Hitler consolidated power. Once a central faction dictated economic and social decisions, they began to silence resistance by fear and confusion. This ultimately led to a controlling state. The Nazi regime determined what the people could say and do. Judgments were made by the state as to whether someone was a “good” German, with egregious consequences if not. Within a year and half of Chancellor Hitler, any opposition to his authority was removed, and he declared himself Führer, the exclusive leader of Germany.
The only social order accepted by the Nazi regime was fascism. All other groups were dismantled to create a single ruling party. The Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda saturated education, the arts, and the media with the Nazi message. The Fascist Party also chose the winners and losers in the country, favoring certain people over others. Anyone or anything that did not promote the new Nazi Germany was silenced or worse. This treatment included socialists, communists, capitalists, Slavs, Roma, and Christians who did not agree with the Nazi way, and in particular the horrific treatment of millions of Jewish people. To eliminate all opposition, coerce the support of the governed, and even just to fund the war economy, a centralized, strong state was required.
Fascism, according to Hayek, is a collectivist ideology that eventually — through state control deep into everyday life, monopolies to serve the state, and propaganda to ensure acceptance — will, out of necessity, lead to a totalitarian state. In direct contrast, the principles of Individual freedom, a strong independent market economy, and democracy are the monikers of U.S. right-wing politics.
Is fascism right-wing? No, it is not.
Blindly tossing insults for political purposes dilutes the tragedy of Germany’s fascist dictatorship. It dismisses the loss of millions of innocent lives and shows a scary ignorance of history.
The Road to Serfdom is a warning. Hayek saw the socialist trends in the U.K. and America at the very time WWII was raging, and they did not slow throughout his life. It is important to understand real fascism and the dangers of collectivist ideologies to ensure we do not repeat Germany’s error.
The latest Democrat scam of the shutdown: Transgender ‘care’
By Susan Quinn
Oct. 08, 2025
With all the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth by the Democrats and Chuck Schumer, as they deny that illegal aliens are receiving government healthcare, you may have missed one of their healthcare proposals lurking in the shadows. It’s hidden in plain sight in their more than $1 trillion spending demand: “gender-affirming care.”
President Trump’s signed an EO in January to withhold federal funding from any facility that offered “trans” interventions for children, but Schumer is trying to get around that:
President Donald Trump recently pointed to another concerning aspect of the Schumer bill, stating that it would ‘force Taxpayers to fund Transgender surgery for minors.’ By permanently extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidy regime, the Schumer bill would indeed send federal funds to insurance plans that cover ‘gender reassignment’ procedures for adults and children alike. Several states require all insurers to cover such procedures, meaning that the taxpayer funds included in the Schumer bill would subsidize plans covering them.
It gets worse. The Movement Advancement Project (MAP) via The Federalist explains that the projected expense for taxpayers would be substantial:
The Movement Advancement Project notes that 24 states have ‘nondiscrimination’ provisions in their insurance markets. In these states, insurers that cover procedures like mastectomies for breast cancer must also cover the same procedure as part of so-called ‘gender affirming care.’
When individuals receive Obamacare Exchange subsidies to defray the cost of their premiums for these insurance policies, taxpayers are funding these treatments. And if Congress extends the enhanced Exchange subsidies — as Democrats have shut down the government to force Republicans to do — they will throw more taxpayer dollars toward funding these treatments.
A large part of the problem is that while there’s an EO in place to protect children, future Democrat administrations could easily nullify it, if the courts don’t do so first. Trump’s EO must be enshrined into law through legislative action to ensure that there is at least some protection for children against these disgraceful experiments. We cannot concede on Schumer’s demands.
Meanwhile, Democrat-controlled states are forging ahead. In 2022, California passed legislation intended to indoctrinate aspiring medical professionals into transgender ideology—though it only took effect this year—which “requires continuing medical education courses and all health plans to engage in ‘cultural competency training.’” In this case, it’s code for pro-trans language. Here are some of the legislated requirements:
Information about communicating more effectively across gender identities, including TGI [transgender, gender diverse, or intersex] -inclusive terminology, using people’s correct names and pronouns, even when they are not reflected in records or legal documents; avoiding language, whether verbal or nonverbal, that demeans, ridicules, or condemns TGI individuals; and avoiding making assumptions about gender identity by using gender-neutral language and avoiding language that presumes all individuals are heterosexual, cisgender or gender conforming, or nonintersex.
Colorado is also forcing the transgender agenda on its constituents and insurers:
Take Colorado, which requires all insurers to cover so-called ‘gender affirming care’ as an essential health benefit. The state’s Division of Insurance lists all the surgical and hormonal treatments that insurers cover. The list, which runs the gamut from facial feminization to gluteal implantation and implantation of testicular prostheses, includes treatments that many Americans would at best find wasteful and at worst consider morally objectionable and offensive.
Of particular note: Nothing on the Colorado website indicates that these treatments are only available to adults who have reached age 18, suggesting that insurers may be covering — and taxpayers may be paying for — procedures performed on minor children.
It’s clear what the Democrats are doing, and in case you think that our “elite” professional organizations will stop them, knowing that these procedures are abhorrent and immoral, think again. The American Medical Association caved to transgender ideology long ago, in spite of reputable studies that contradict their observations and conclusions, partially listed here:
Transgender individuals in the US are up to three times more likely than the general population to report or be diagnosed with mental health disorders, with as many as 41.5 percent reporting at least one diagnosis of a mental health or substance use disorder: • Over a third of transgender individuals suffer a major depressive episode in their lifetimes; • 20.2 percent have been diagnosed with suicidality in the past 30 days; • 7.9 percent have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in the past six months; • 9.8 percent have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in the past six months; and • 15.2 percent have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder in the past year. The increased prevalence of these mental health conditions is widely thought to be a consequence of minority stress, the chronic stress from coping with societal stigma and discrimination because of one’s gender identity and expression. Indeed, gender-based discrimination affecting access to services is a strong predictor of suicide risk among transgender persons.
The key goal should be to pass legislation that echoes Trump’s EO, and further hold states accountable for allowing “trans” procedures on children. (Obamacare should also be repealed.)
We will have to be the ones to protect our children and save ourselves.
Leftists: Kicking the dog until it bites and demanding that we shoot the dog
By Kevin Finn
Oct. 08, 2025
The Left creates a big mess, and then reacts violently when we try and clean it up.
It's been described as "kicking the dog until it bites, and then demanding we shoot the dog."
After allowing over 10 million unvetted illegals from third world nations and countries hostile to the U.S., President Trump is attempting to reverse the flow.
In response, ICE agents are reporting a 1,000% increase in attacks on their agents which have been fueled by inflammatory leftist rhetoric.
These attacks undermine the rule of law, erode civil discourse and risk plunging the nation into chaos.
Conservatives have long warned that unchecked rage against traditional values and constitutional principles could yield deadly results, and recent events bear this out.
The rising tide of political violence disproportionately targets Republicans, conservatives and law enforcement. The scale of the problem is enormous. Well over 200 documented acts of left-wing political violence have scarred the American landscape since Trump's election in 2016.
These range from physical assaults on Trump supporters at rallies -- like the 2016 San Jose riot where protesters hurled rocks and eggs at peaceful attendees -- to arson attacks on Republican headquarters, such as the 2016 firebombing in North Carolina scrawled with "Nazi Republicans leave town or else."
Law enforcement has not been spared.
Antifa militants ambushed ICE agents in Chicago and, in July, ten radicals faced charges for attempting to murder federal officers at a Texas detention center.
Post-Dobbs, the violence escalated with hundreds of Catholic churches burned and vandalized, and over 100 attacks on crisis pregnancy centers in 2022 alone. Even legacy media outlets like PBS acknowledge this growing menace, cataloging incidents striking at the heart of conservative institutions.
In March 2025, the Republican headquarters in New Mexico was torched with graffiti proclaiming ICE as the "KKK."
The attempted assassinations of Trump -- once in Butler, Pennsylvania and another at his Florida golf course -- exemplify the lethal levels this hatred has reached.
Other examples, such as the 2017 congressional baseball shooting committed by a "Bernie Bro" that nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise and the assassination of Charlie Kirk reveal a pattern: lone actors, steeped in anti-conservative vitriol, crossing into murder.
Sen. Rand Paul was viciously tackled from behind by a neighbor over perceived political slights, fracturing his ribs and triggering pneumonia.
Minnesota GOP candidate Shane Mekeland was beaten unconscious in 2018 by a man incensed over "middle-class disregard."
In 2022, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was stalked by a lunatic who was incensed over leaked abortion drafts and school shootings.
These incidents form a tapestry of targeted brutality against people defending family values, fiscal restraint, and constitutional rights. At the root of it all lies the Democrats' reckless, rage-filled rhetoric.
When the Left labels Trump "Hitler reincarnated," or claims that Elon Musk or conservatives are a threat to democracy, that isn't just hyperbole -- it's a call to arms.
Congressional Democrats have invoked "war" on the right, while leftists demonize conservatives as existential evils.
From a conservative viewpoint, leftist violence assaults the Judeo-Christian foundations of our Republic, where ordered liberty demands respect for dissent and opposing views.
It assaults law enforcement and emboldens anarchists who despise authority.
If unaddressed, the end-result could be catastrophic: a fractured union where elections yield to street battles resembling 1930's Europe, with assassinations felling leaders and militias clashing in the streets.
Neighborhoods could devolve into no-go zones, as seen in Antifa strongholds such as the "Chaz" zone in Portland.
Economic sabotage, such as the Tesla arsons tied to Musk's ties to Trump could cripple innovation.
Ultimately, without swift prosecutions, cultural reclamation of civility, and a rejection of woke extremism, America risks a conservative backlash -- trust in institutions collapsing, armed self-defense groups rising in urban areas, and larger civil conflicts over the soul of the Republic itself.
The Left may claim they're fighting fascism, but they're forging the very tyranny they condemn. It's time to douse the flames before they consume us all.
"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes it comes alone.” -- Oscar Wilde
Why on earth is the Democrat party keeping the government shut down for a variety of nonsensical, unaffordable spending programs?
For example, a short list:
Over $4 million for LGBTQ projects in the Balkans and Uganda
$3.6 million for cooking and dance workshops for male sex workers in Haiti
$500,000 to purchase electric buses in Rwanda
$6 million to subsidize Palestinian media outlets
More than $833,000 for transgender training initiatives in Nepal
$300,000 to sponsor a pride parade in Lesotho
Nearly $900,000 for mentorship and social media programs in Serbia
$3 million for circumcision and sterilization programs in Zambia
Have they not analyzed why they lost the 2024 (and 2020) election? Do they not realize how clueless they are about what regular, normal Americans want from their government?
Newsflash! It’s not what they think we want.
It is most definitely not open borders and the influx of as many as 20 million migrants from all over the world.
It is not having to pay for the health care of those 20 million illegal invaders.
It is not the gender mutilation of minor children who have been told they are the wrong gender.
It is not men in women’s sports, or boys in girls’ bathrooms.
It is not the “democratic socialism” of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who is actually a full-blown communist. If he is elected, he will destroy New York City from the ground up, from education to law enforcement to the city’s economy. Criminals will have the run of the city without penalty. It will be open season on cops. The top 5% of income earners, the very wealthy whose taxes pay for the running of the city, will leave.
All of Mamdani’s promised giveaways will never come to fruition. And yet Zohran keeps promising the moon. He’s a lifelong antisemite who has advocated for a global intifada against Israel, but even New York Jews seem stupidly unafraid of what his position as mayor would mean for them.
Why do so many Jews think that capitulating to the likes of Mamdani will bring them favor or peace? It will not. They will be driven from New York City like they’ve been driven from the entire Middle East.
Then there is the left’s penchant for violence that they just cannot bring themselves to condemn.
Far too many of them openly celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk: academics, politicians, and, of course, far-left activists.
They shamelessly praised his killer.
The Democrats can’t bring themselves to condemn Jay Jones, the current candidate for state Attorney General in Virginia, who a few years ago texted his wish to kill a few people he opposed – and their children, and cops! Not one Democrat has called for him to step down from the campaign!
How is this possible? Because they agree with him. They actually do believe their political opponents deserve to die. The Democrat party of today is angry, immoral, encourages violence, and then applauds it when it occurs.
The current Sen. Charles Schumer shutdown of the government is an exercise in futility. Schumer fears losing his seat to AOC, one of the least qualified (among many) persons to ever win a seat in Congress, so he is holding out for what?
Sheer irresponsible spending on programs that are anathema to the American people? He is torn between the radical AOC/Squad and his determination to remain in power. Spending that would further increase our already unspeakable debt? Yup! After all, he is worth about $85 million these days. All that wealth came from his years of corruption, selling himself to the highest bidders.
AOC is allegedly worth $30 million after six years in Congress! And she knows nothing about anything!
It seems that becoming a Democrat member of Congress is the path to wealth, no matter what one’s qualifications for the job are. (Yes, Republicans get rich and can be corrupt too.)
But Oscar Wilde was prescient when it came to wisdom.
The Democrat party, since 2015, has come along, tragically without a scintilla of wisdom.
Hakeem Jeffries Rejects Legislation to Extend Obamacare Subsidies for One Year
Elizabeth Weibel
7 Oct 2025
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) rejected a one-year extension of Obamacare subsidies, which Breitbart News has reported that Democrats essentially shut down the government over.
The Hill reported that while Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA) is advocating for legislation that would “extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credit” until the end of 2026, Jeffries criticized Republicans for thinking “Democrats are going to go along with a one-year extension” of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies:
Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) is pushing legislation to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits, which expire on Jan. 1, through the end of 2026. The proposal has bipartisan support, and some political observers view it as a launching pad for securing a deal to reopen the government.
Jeffries, though, has other ideas, saying a one-year extension is “a non-starter.” He emphasized that President Trump and Republicans had adopted a permanent extension of tax cuts for the country’s wealthiest people earlier in the year. With that in mind, he’s demanding a similarly permanent extension of the enhanced ACA subsidies, which overwhelmingly help working class people.
“What world are these MAGA extremists living in right now to think that Democrats are going to go along with a one-year extension from a group of people, meaning the Republicans, who just permanently extended massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors?” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol.
Breitbart News’s Sean Moran reported that Breitbart Fight Club explained “How Democrats shut down the government over the looming expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, subsidies:”
Breitbart News has explained on the Breitbart Fight Club how Democrats shut down the government over the looming expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, subsidies.
These subsidies were first enhanced through the Biden-era $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus plan, formally known as the American Rescue Plan. Democrats continued these subsidies through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.
The enhanced subsidies will expire on December 31, 2025.
While Democrats argue that “the loss of enhanced subsidies will result in the widespread loss of Americans’ health care,” Michael Cannon, the director of health policy studies for the Cato Institute explained that the enhanced subsidies “subsidize people making from $129,000 all the way up to $600,000 per year.”
Cannon described them as “Obamacare subsidies for the wealthy.”
Trump: Leaderless Democrats ‘Remind Me of Somalia’ as Pointless Shutdown Continues
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at theAnna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Nick Gilbertson
7 Oct 2025
President Donald Trump blasted Democrats on Tuesday over their government shutdown, stating their lack of leadership reminds him of Somalia.
Trump took a dig at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Democrats as they continue to keep the government closed, despite Republicans passing a clean continuing resolution almost three weeks ago in the House of Representatives.
“I just don’t know if Schumer has any power anymore. I look at your leadership; I don’t know who to speak to,” Trump said.
“I’ll tell you what. I’m getting calls from Democrats wanting to meet. I never even heard their names before, and they’re claiming to be leader — the Democrats have no leader. They remind me of Somalia,” he added.
Trump’s dig came during his response to a reporter asking about programs the administration has identified to nix due to the shutdown.
While he would not divulge which programs he is looking at cutting, he said, “We have a lot” that would be eliminated. By forcing a shutdown, Democrats created a dynamic where the Trump administration, specifically Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought, must cut nonessential funding to save for essential services.
"We have a lot of things that we're going to eliminate," says @POTUS.
"Because of the shutdown — which I think they made a big mistake — we're able to take out billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse, and they've handed it on a silver platter." pic.twitter.com/gdPgEIoWs1
“One of the things that we have as some advantage, you could say, but because of the shutdown, which I think they made a big mistake, we’re able to take out billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse, and they’ve handed it on a silver platter,” Trump said.
“And you know, Russell Vought, he’s a serious person, very serious person, and he’s sitting there and he’s getting ready to cut things. And this is something that was handed to us by, I assume, Schumer,” he added.
Trump was also asked about potential permanent federal worker layoffs and said he would be able to share those in five days or so if the shutdown persists.
.@POTUS on potential federal layoffs due to the Democrat Shutdown: "I'll be able to tell you that in four or five days if this keeps going on. If this keeps going on, it'll be substantial — and a lot of those jobs will never come back." pic.twitter.com/nUHeJlQA4Z
“I’ll be able to tell you that in four or five days, if this keeps going on. If this keeps going on, it’ll be substantial, and a lot of those jobs will never come back,” he said, adding that America would also be “a lot closer to a balanced budget.”
The White House has already paused $18 billion and $2.1 billion in New York City and Chicago infrastructure projects since the shutdown began, and canceled nearly $8 billion in “Green New Scam” funding, affecting projects in blue and blue-leaning states.
Democrat Spending Proposal Funds Woke Programs, Upends Trump Executive Order to End Crime, Fix Homeless Crisis
Roger Boyd, 35, holds a piece of foil containing Fentanyl while spending time on McAllisteJessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
Sean Moran
7 Oct 2025
The Democrat counterproposal to the Republicans’ stop-gap spending bill would fund woke programs and upend President Donald Trump’s executive order to combat crime and fix the homelessness crisis.
Breitbart News has reported how nonpartisan budget analysts claim the proposal would add $1.5 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years.
Although Democrats have shut down the government over expiring enhanced Obamacare subsidies, there are many other programs that the Democrat counterproposal would fund.
Buried within the Democrat spending bill is a provision that would renew all “existing continuum of care grants and youth homelessness demonstration projects” for one year. The continuum of care (CoC) program is a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program that serves as the largest source of federal funding for homeless funding and services programs, which doled out $3.6 billion in fiscal year 2024.
The Continuum of Care doles out funding purportedly on a competitive basis; however, in fiscal year 2024, 90 percent of funding was automatically renewed.
However, the program has engendered controversy, as CoC recipients have been accused of waste, fraud, and abuse, handing out crack pipes to smoke fentanyl and funding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) is being investigated after its ex-CEO, Va Lecia Adams Kellum, signed a taxpayer deal to pay $2.1 million to a nonprofit that employs her husband in a senior leadership role.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to strip more than $300 million in funding out of LAHSA to create a new department of homelessness.
Many leaders in these homeless nonprofits receive exorbitant salaries.
The 20 nonprofits that have the largest amounts in active contracts with San Francisco’s Department of Homeless and Supportive Housing have received $2 billion from the city since 2017. The average total compensation fro the executives of these nonprofits, including benefits, amounted to roughly $300,000.
San Francisco nonprofits also doled out foil and glass pipes as part of a harm reduction strategy.
Seattle, Washington, nonprofits carry out a similar harm reduction strategy, handing out drug paraphernalia to drug addicts:
Seattle, Washington, in June elected a new Continuum of Care committee, ousting former cochair Shanee Colson after Colson was recorded at a May meeting in a fit of rage after a board member claimed she had been inappropriately touched by a repeat sex offender who was being nominated to the same board.
Coston screamed at the board member, saying:
I’m actually glad that is the case that he’s here because sex offenders are another population that is most vulnerable that don’t have housing.I don’t care if they’re a sex offender. I don’t care if they’re Black. I don’t care if they’re indigenous. I don’t care if they’re a criminal. I don’t care if they’re coming out of jail or prison. Everyone deserves housing.
The Seattle CoC board oversees roughly $50 million in federal homelessness grants.
The Lavender Rights Project (LRP), a “black trans feminist organization committed to dismantling oppressive systems that disproportionately harm[ing] black communities,” in April 2024 announced a partnership with the Chief Seattle Club to open permanent housing for queer, trans, two-spirit, black, indigenous, and people of color (QT2BIPOC) in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
The Democrat counterproposal would also upend Trump’s efforts to end the Biden-era “harm reduction” policies by renewing all existing CoC grants for another year.
The July Trump executive order on ending crime and disorder wanted to ensure that the government would not dole out grants that would fund harm reduction programs, contending that it would only “facilitate illegal drug use and its attendant harm.”
The executive order would have HUD assess federal grant programs to prioritize programs that require sobriety and treatment and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.
The Trump fiscal year 2026 budget request would consolidate the Continuum of Care program into a “more targeted Emergency Solutions (ESG) program” and would refocus the effort to combat homelessness by having state and local governments lead the way.
Devon Kurtz, the public safety director at the Cicero Institute, said, “This is a huge step.” The Institute had been lobbying for many of these reforms.
Kurtz said that the housing first strategy made homelessness worse by not addressing addiction first.
“This is really that crucial safety net at the bottom to make sure that [homeless people] don’t continue to fall through the cracks and die on the street,” Kurtz remarked.
Declassified Docs: Obama Admin Withheld Reports Critical of Biden’s Ukraine Visit at the VP Office’s Request
A November 29, 2024 photo shows US President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden stepping out MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
Bradley Jaye
7 Oct 2025
The Obama administration withheld reports revealing Ukrainian officials questioned the legitimate purpose of Vice President Joe Biden’s 2015 visit to Ukraine as questions swirled regarding his corrupt business dealings in Ukraine, newly declassified documents show.
According to documents declassified Monday by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Ukrainian administration officials believed not only that Biden’s December 2015 official government visit to Ukraine served no compelling government purpose but that Biden was being hypocritical in professing to target corruption within Ukraine’s government.
The documents also reveal that the report, which met standards for reporting as they contained intelligence valuable to policymakers, was withheld after a request by Biden’s office.
Withholding a document in defiance of normal procedures is “extremely rare and unusual,” according to a senior CIA official, raising questions about the politicization of intelligence in the Obama administration as well as who may have been involved.
The report makes clear that Ukrainian officials mused about the connection between Biden’s trip and alleged corruption in the country.
“After the visit, these officials assessed that the Vice President of the United States had come to Kiev almost exclusively to give a generic public speech, and had no intention of discussing substantive matters with [Ukrainian President Petro] Poroshenko or other officials within the Ukrainian government,” according to the declassified report.
The Poroshenko administration and other “Ukrainian officials expected the U.S. Vice President to discuss personnel matters with Poroshenko during the visit, and had assumed that the U.S. Vice President would advocate in support of or against specific officials within the Ukrainian Government.”
Yet no discussions took place, bewildering Ukrainian officials.
After Biden’s visit, “Officials within the Poroshenko administration privately mused at the U.S. media scrutiny of the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President’s family to corrupt business practices in Ukraine,” the declassified report reads. “These officials viewed the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President’s family to corruption in Ukraine as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power.”
The CIA declassified the documents Monday after career intelligence officials determined that the documents met the criteria for intelligence reporting at the time and should have been disseminated due to its value to U.S. government officials in their dealings with the Ukrainian government.
Today, I declassified @CIA intelligence regarding Ukraine after determining it is in the public interest.
— CIA Director John Ratcliffe (@CIADirector) October 7, 2025
According to the senior CIA official, under normal procedures, this intelligence report would be disseminated to individuals with appropriate clearance and need to know within the US government.
However, in February 2016, Biden’s National Security Adviser, Colin Kohl, told his intelligence briefer that he would strongly prefer the report not be disseminated.
After the request from Biden’s top staffer, the report never saw the light of day.
It is not clear from the heavily redacted document how the information was shared with the Vice President’s office. It is also unclear from the heavily redacted document if President Barack Obama, or who else at the White House, may have seen the document before its removal from dissemination.
But the document includes an email from one of President Obama’s Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) briefers, whose name is redacted, expressing Kahl’s diplomatic request that the report not be disseminated.
The many redactions in the document are necessary to protect CIA sources and methods, a senior CIA official explained to Breitbart News.
In late 2024, the CIA began an internal review of historical agency records and databases which led to the discovery of the until-now non-disseminated intelligence report as well as the email documenting that Biden’s office wanted to withhold the report despite its intelligence value.
“Director Radcliffe believes this is an example of the kind of politicization of intelligence that we need to work to eliminate in the intelligence community, and for which we will have zero tolerance,” the senior CIA official said.
Biden’s son Hunter’s business dealings in Ukraine, and Joe Biden’s knowledge and direct involvement, were a longstanding thorn in the president’s side as a steady flow of revelations continued undermining his denials.
As president, Joe Biden had long maintained he would not pardon Hunter.
Yet after the November 2024 election, ahead of sentencing after Hunter’s conviction on gun charges and tax evasion charges for which he pleaded guilty, Joe Biden issued a pardon for Hunter which included any offenses committed as far back January 1, 2014.
ICE Arrests 91 Illegal Migrant Semi-Truck Drivers in Licensing Crackdown
Red and Silver Truck on Asphalt RoadQuintin Gellar/Pexels
Warner Todd Huston
7 Oct 2025
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the arrests of 91 illegal aliens driving semi-trucks on fraudulent licenses in Oklahoma as the feds continue a crackdown on migrants driving commercial trucks.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol made the arrests during a three-day operation along Oklahoma’s I-40. Along with the 91 illegal drivers, ICE took an additional 29 illegal aliens into custody during the operation, DHS said in an October 6 press release.
The criminal activity committed by those taken into custody includes driving on multiple DUIs, illegal re-entry into the U.S., money laundering, human smuggling, assault, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and possession of a controlled substance.
“ICE’s 287(g) program clearly demonstrates how federal and local law enforcement agencies can work together to make America safe again,” said ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan. “Illegal aliens have no business operating 18 wheelers on America’s highways. Our roads are now safer with these illegal aliens no longer behind the wheel. We encourage more state and local law enforcement to sign 287(g) agreements to help remove public safety threats and receive reimbursement funds available to our law enforcement partners.”
The crackdown on illegal aliens working as commercial truck drivers on fraudulently issued state drivers licenses comes after another migrant semi-truck driver killed three Americans in Florida while trying to make an illegal u-turn on a highway. Police arrested Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India who entered the U.S. in 2018 across the U.S. border with Mexico, and charged him in the deaths.
Singh reportedly had state-issued Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDLs) from both California and Washington State despite being ineligible because he is an illegal alien.
As more migrants hit our roads — many of whom cannot read or speak English — the death toll on our highways has skyrocketed.
The Trump administration has taken notice of this horrible statistic, and recently, Trump’s transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, directed federal highway safety offices to enforce a law requiring foreign drivers to be able to read English.
The new policy move came after thousands of American truckers launched a pressure campaign to force the feds to root out these illegal migrant truckers.
American Truckers has been chronicling the mounting number of semi-truck and box truck accidents attributed to illegal drivers for some time on social media.
Another crash involving suspected Non-Domicile Truck Drivers, No English, and the typical Amazon Involvement pic.twitter.com/2lcZa0pIV9
Victims are piling up all across America as migrant truckers continue to cause havoc on the roads. In September, a father Marcus Coleman, whose daughter, Dalilah, was permanently disabled in an accident caused by a migrant trucker, spoke out.
“My daughter and family’s lives have been forever changed by the injuries and car crash that an illegal alien driving an 18-wheeler caused,” Coleman said, according to DHS. “I’m proud to see ICE officers working together with highway patrol across the U.S. to protect our roads from criminal illegal aliens who pose a danger to Americans. Illegal aliens should not be driving 18-wheelers on our highways, and neither should 18-year-olds or drivers who lack experience. Governor Newsom’s California Department of Motor Vehicles needs to put in place stricter standards for who can obtain a commercial driver’s license before more people are killed and hurt.”
An entire industry to create migrant truck drivers to take jobs away from Americans has thrived in the U.S. for decades. Recently, Daily Caller reported a company operated by Chinese nationals called the Chinese American Trucker Organization USA was revealed as a major training organization importing Chinese citizens into the U.S. to take commercial driver jobs.
The China-linked company is also a national security risk for placing Chinese nationals inside our transportation infrastructure as China continues its belligerence against the United States worldwide.
“Having a large CCP-tied network further train, certify, and place ‘their’ illegal migrants throughout vital surface shipping routes — urban, rural, and interstate — elevates national security risks,” said Steve Yates, senior research fellow for China and national security policy at the Heritage Foundation. “At a time of high tension, crisis, or conflict with the CCP, what confidence could we have this network could not and would not be used against us?”
Speaker Johnson Shows What Democrats Are Demanding in Order to Reopen Government: Taxpayer-Funded Illegal Alien Health Care, $1.5 Trillion in Partisan Spending
US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, during a news conference at thEric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty
Hannah Knudsen
7 Oct 20252,679
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday shared a chart showcasing in black and white what Democrats are demanding in order to reopen the government — taxpayer-funded health care for illegal aliens and $1.5 trillion in new partisan spending.
“Facts are stubborn things: Here are the differences between what Republicans passed out of the House and what Democrats are demanding in order to reopen the government,” Johnson wrote on social media, sharing a side-by-side chart showing the differences between what the Republicans in the House have passed and what Democrats are now demanding.
Republicans proposed a clean 7-week extension of current Biden-era spending levels with no new programs added or partisan spending demands. The chart notes that this plan “allows time for continued work on regular bipartisan appropriations, which is already underway.”
Conversely, Democrats’ “dirty” continuing resolution (CR) puts “illegal aliens and able-bodied adults back on free, American taxpayer-funded health care” and “sends half a billion dollars to left-wing media.”
Further it “repeals $50 billion investment in rural health care” and adds up to $1.5 trillion in new partisan spending.
Facts are stubborn things:
Here are the differences between what Republicans passed out of the House and what Democrats are demanding in order to reopen the government. pic.twitter.com/a5eKh3qDd9
Johnson on Monday explained during a press conference that the shutdown fight and health care are two totally separate issues, slamming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for turning this into a partisan fight in order to appease his far-left base.
“I want you to look at the real facts,” Johnson began, explaining that the GOP plan would “keep the lights on and keep the government open so that appropriators can finish this very healthy process for the people they represent.”
“Why do we say it’s clean? Because there’s nothing to it. It’s 24 pages. It’s the bare minimum. It just says, keep the status quo,” he said, telling the American people that the left “created a red herring” out of desperation.
“A red herring is a distraction. They decided that they would pick a fight on health care,” he said, explaining that these issues — health care and the shutdown — are actually two separate issues to address.
“They’re two totally separate things. The clean continuing resolution would simply keep the lights on so that the members in the House and Senate can have those debates on health care. We were always planning it. We have lots of ideas on the table on how to fix it, but we don’t yet have consensus on it because it’s very complicated,” he said. “We have time to do it.”
“In his [Schumer’s] desperation, they decided to create the red herring. They decided to claim that this is all about health care, which the September funding issue never was,” Johnson added.” That’s a December policy issue. He tried to create it as a September funding issue. … In his desperation, they hastily filed an outrageous counter proposal. It is a wild wish list of big government liberal nonsense that we can’t do.”
AG Bondi: Trump’s Crime Crackdown Yields 3,837 Arrests in D.C. and 273 in Memphis
Amy Furr
7 Oct 2025
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed crime statistics on Monday as President Donald Trump works to protect American cities and their residents.
Bondi wrote in a social media post that at the president’s direction, “we are making America safe again: In Washington, DC our law enforcement partners have made 3,837 arrests to date and seized 361 illegal guns. In Memphis, 273 arrests have been made in just under a week and 73 illegal guns seized.”
At @POTUS direction, we are making America safe again:
In Washington, DC our law enforcement partners have made 3,837 arrests to date and seized 361 illegal guns.
In Memphis, 273 arrests have been made in just under a week and 73 illegal guns seized.
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) October 5, 2025
After Trump planned to execute a crime crackdown in the nation’s capital, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) was in denial about her crime-ridden city being in trouble. However, its crime rate saw a big drop after the president federalized the city’s police department, Breitbart News reported in August.
In September, the president signed a memo establishing the “Memphis Safe Task Force” that resembles the one he established in D.C., per Breitbart News.
He said at the time “It’s very important because of the crime that’s going on, not only in Memphis, in many cities, and we’re going to take care of all of them step by step, just like we did in DC.”
The Breitbart News article noted that “Trump highlighted Memphis’s status in 2024 as the American city with the highest violent crime rate, the third-highest murder rate, and the highest property crime rate.”
The report continued:
The memorandum shows that representatives from many different federal departments and agencies, ranging from the Department of the Treasury to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), will comprise the task force. The task force is encouraged to draw upon strategies and principles implemented in the D.C. crime crackdown as it addresses both violent crime and non-violent crime in Memphis, according to a White House fact sheet.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is directed to request the Tennessee National Guard units from Lee and, in coordination with governors of other states, to mobilize National Guard from other parts of the country that support the initiative.
Video footage shows Republicans in Memphis welcoming the National Guard to the area by waving American flags. One person held a sign that read “Make Memphis Great Again,” according to a report from WTKR.
“If the city council worked as hard to fight crime as they are fighting Donald Trump bringing federal resources to Memphis, we wouldn’t have to have the National Guard here to begin with,” one man told the crowd.
Meanwhile, a Memphis business owner said it would help local law enforcement:
“Because you have people who run in stores, run out, shoplift, which costs us more,” he added.
Meanwhile, Breitbart News reported Tuesday that “Democrats are pushing back on Trump administration claims Chicago is a ‘war zone’ even as the evidence shows more than 32,000 people have been shot in the Windy City during the past decade alone.”
MAJOR WIN FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY: Judge Orders Citizenship Checks Of All Registered Wisconsin Voters
by Anthony 19 hours ago
Wisconsin might not be a swing state after this!
A Wisconsin judge has ordered a review for the citizenship status for all Wisconsin voters.
Waukesha County Judge Michael Maxwell has called for the Wisconsin Elections Commission to use the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s citizenship records to clean up voter rolls from containing non-citizens.
WPR provided further context on the Judge’s ruling:
A Waukesha County judge who ordered a review of the citizenship status of millions of Wisconsin voters has stayed part of his ruling while the case is appealed, though much of his decision remains in effect.
The Friday decision from Waukesha County Judge Michael Maxwell directs the Wisconsin Elections Commission to cross-reference the state’s voter registration list against Department of Transportation records, which include a person’s citizenship status when they applied for a driver’s license or identification card. In a follow-up order issued Monday, Maxwell left that portion of his ruling intact.
His Friday ruling also initially barred the commission and local clerks across Wisconsin from registering any new voters without proof of citizenship. Maxwell stayed that part of the order Monday, meaning he put it on hold.
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The Wisconsin Department of Justice, which is representing the Wisconsin Elections Commission and Department of Transportation, is appealing the initial decision. A hearing is set for Oct. 31.
The ruling comes as President Donald Trump’s administration is suing multiple states, including Minnesota, for voter registration data in an effort to ensure voter rolls are “clean.”
Big ruling in Wisconsin elections and voter roll maintenance, plus WEC’s responsibility for maintaining clean voter rolls with only citizens.
Also, the precedent has now been set that voters who may have their votes diluted due to illegalities have STANDING! pic.twitter.com/xxg0IldllA
Big ruling in Wisconsin elections and voter roll maintenance, plus WEC’s responsibility for maintaining clean voter rolls with only citizens.
Also, the precedent has now been set that voters who may have their votes diluted due to illegalities have STANDING! pic.twitter.com/xxg0IldllA
— COL Conrad Reynolds (@ColonelReynolds) October 3, 2025
The Wisconsin Examiner reported why the Wisconsin Elections Commission is cross-referencing the state’s voter registration list its Department of Transportation records:
Currently, applicants for voter registration in Wisconsin and most other states must attest, under penalty of perjury, that they are U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote, but they are not required to present proof of citizenship.
The issue of noncitizen voting has been hotly debated in recent years, though no widespread instances have been found. Republicans have used the concern to call for citizenship proof checks of all voters, even as data shows that such measures risk disenfranchising some U.S. citizens.
Republicans praised the decision, with state Rep. Amanda Nedweski calling it a “great win for election integrity.”
Democrats and the respondents in the case were largely mum.
Election commission spokesperson Emilee Miklas didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Riley Vetterkind, a spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Justice, which represents the commission and Department of Transportation, declined to say whether the agencies would appeal the decision.
CA Voter ID Signature Drive / No on Prop 50 Rally - San Bernardino
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Victory Chapel - 1156 North F St, San Bernardino, CA, 92419
Attend this important event and help us get the signatures we need to pass the CA Voter ID Initiative – while defeating Prop 50!
Your help is URGENTLY needed for two related fights:
NO on Prop 50: We need to get every voter to return their ballot before the November 4 deadline with a NO vote on Prop 50. Prop 50 is Gavin Newsom’s corrupt redistricting scheme to allow politicians to seize power back from the Independent Citizens’ Redistricting Commission so politicians can manipulate the lines of their own districts through gerrymandering.
CA Voter ID Signature Drive: We can’t just defeat Prop 50 – we must restore the integrity of our elections by enacting a Voter ID law. To do that we need to collect 1 million signatures on petitions in the next 90 days!
Both of these fights are key to defending fair elections in California – but unless we get your immediate help, neither fight will be successful!
Here’s what we’ll cover at this event:
LEARN ABOUT PROP 50 & VOTER ID – We’ll cover both of these important campaigns and answer your questions.
GET PETITIONS AND CAMPAIGN MATERIALS – We’ll have petitions and materials for volunteers to pick up at this event to take home to help turn out the NO on Prop 50 vote while collecting signatures on the CA Voter ID petition.
SIGN THE VOTER ID PETITION – We’re asking everyone to show up – and bring friends – to sign the petition at this event.
TURN IN SIGNATURES – If you have signatures to turn in that you have already collected, this event is the easiest and safest way to do it!
We can’t overstate the importance of defeating Prop 50 and getting the 1 million signatures we need to enact the CA Voter ID Initiative. We cannot take back California from the insanity of the far-Left until we first restore the integrity of our elections!
Attending this event is key – and we ask that you help us pack the house by inviting others to join you! RSVP at the link below!
CA Voter ID Signature Drive / No on Prop 50 Rally - San Bernardino – Victory Chapel - 1156 North F St, San Bernardino, CA
Wed Oct 8, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
JUST IN: GOP Senator Seeks To Have Jack Smith Disbarred Over Spying Revelations
Published 13 hours ago
on October 7, 2025
By Cullen McCue
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) revealed Tuesday that she is readying a complaint against former special counsel Jack Smith with the D.C. Bar Association over bombshell revelations that his office spied on at least eight Republican senators without making proper disclosures.
The latest revelations came as part of Smith’s “Arctic Frost” operation, the codename given to the Wray-led FBI’s codename for a far-reaching investigation into the Biden Administration’s political opponents. The investigation – launched by anti-Trump FBI agent Timothy Thibault in a breach of FBI protocol – formed the basis of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s elector case against Trump, the committee explained in a press release back in March.
Upon opening the investigation, Thibault vowed it would be “prioritized over all others in the Branch” and commented that “it frankly took too long for us to open this [investigation].”
Within weeks of launching the investigation in early 2022, senior FBI leadership immediately set up meetings with 13 field offices and immediately moved to seize communications between President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence. They also sought to obtain all communications between the administration and alternate electors in key swing states, as well as senior administration advisors and campaign officials.
In addition, the FBI surveilled at least 92 prominent conservative organizations and groups, including the late Charlie Kirk and his student activist group Turning Point USA.
On Monday, a document released by the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that Smith and his “Arctic Frost” team were allegedly tracking the phone calls of GOP Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
An FBI official told Fox News that Smith and his team tracking the senators were able to see which phone numbers they called, the location the phone call originated and the location where it was received. A second source added that the surveillance stemmed from legal challenges to the 2020 presidential election.
“The one thing that we do know is that everyone targeted is a Republican,” said Senator Marsha Blackburn, one of the targeted lawmakers. She further highlighted the timeline of events, mentioning the raid on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 and the indictment of President Donald Trump by Jack Smith in August 2023, followed by the surveillance of lawmakers’ phone records from January 4th to 8th, 2021.
While speaking with Fox News on Tuesday, Blackburn confirmed that she is and her team are working on a complaint letter to the D.C. bar, calling for Jack Smith to be disbarred. “He should be disbarred,” she said, stressing the need for accountability for those involved in the surveillance.
According to an email obtained by the New York Post, a formal review of Smith’s conduct has been launched by the Hatch Act Unit, which enforces a law restricting government employees from engaging in political activities. The email was penned by Senior Counsel Charles Baldis at the Office of Special Counsel.
“I appreciate the Office of Special Counsel taking this seriously and launching an investigation into Jack Smith’s conduct. No one is above the law,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) told the outlet. “Jack Smith’s actions were clearly driven to hurt President Trump’s election, and Smith should be held fully accountable.”
The OSC formally green-lit the investigation back in August after Cotton penned a letter alleging that Smith blatantly weaponized his position to undermine President Trump’s election campaign. “Jack Smith’s legal actions were nothing more than a tool for the Biden and Harris campaigns. This isn’t just unethical, it is very likely illegal campaign activity from a public office,” the senator posted on X.
Alan Dershowitz Says Jack Smith ‘Disgraced Himself’ After Tracking GOP Senators’ Calls
by Mariane Angela, DCNF
October 7, 2025
Alan Dershowitz
DCNF(DCNF)—Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on Fox Business Monday that former special counsel Jack Smith ‘disgrace himself’ for reportedly obtaining private phone records of Republican senators without their knowledge.
Senate Republicans revealed Monday that the FBI used grand jury subpoenas in 2023 to seize phone records from nine GOP senators, calling the move a politically motivated abuse of power. In an appearance on “The Evening Edit,” Dershowitz didn’t mince words.
“The idea of a special counsel intruding on private phone calls without, as far as I know, notifying the recipients of the phone calls. I think that does require a congressional investigation. Jack Smith has disgraced himself,” Dershowitz told host Elizabeth MacDonald.
Dershowitz said Smith’s action is a blatant overreach that tramples constitutional boundaries and warrants immediate congressional oversight.
“Oh, much too far. Have obviously constitutional immunity of a certain kind. Obviously the telephone wasn’t invented at the time of the Constitution,” Dershowitz said when the host asked if the special counsel had crossed a line.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released the FBI record Monday, as Republicans stressed the phone records were obtained lawfully through a grand jury process.
“This document shows the Biden FBI spied on eight of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into ‘election conspiracy.’ Arctic Frost later became Jack Smith’s elector case against Trump,” Grassley said.
Documents released in September show the Biden-era probe that led to Smith’s indictment of President Donald Trump also targeted dozens of conservative groups, including Turning Point USA and the RNC. Grassley said that the FBI’s “Arctic Frost” investigation swept up 92 Republican figures.
Grassley accused the FBI of using the “Arctic Frost” probe to improperly target the broader Republican political apparatus for partisan purposes. (RELATED: ‘How Serious Is It?’: Alan Dershowitz Breaks Down What Punishments Could Await From Students’ Pork Prank)
“Arctic Frost wasn’t just a case to politically investigate Trump,” Grassley said Tuesday during his opening statement for the Judiciary Committee’s FBI oversight hearing. “It was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.”
COVER-UP: Declassified Docs Reveal CIA BURIED Report on Biden Family’s Corrupt Foreign Dealings
by Kaley 16 hours ago
Newly-declassified documents just proved what we knew all along: Joe Biden had a lot to hide with regards to Ukraine.
CIA Director John Ratfcliffe just declassified records from 2015, which show that then-Vice President Biden asked for an intelligence report on concerns over his family’s corrupt business dealings in Ukraine to be hidden.
His request was granted, and the report was buried — until now.
Here’s what we know:
COVER-UP EXPOSED: Newly declassified records from CIA Director John Ratcliffe show that in 2015, Vice President Biden asked that an intelligence report on foreign concerns about his family’s ties to "corrupt" business dealings in Ukraine “not be disseminated.”
The records were… pic.twitter.com/pz0dAZiilA
COVER-UP EXPOSED: Newly declassified records from CIA Director John Ratcliffe show that in 2015, Vice President Biden asked that an intelligence report on foreign concerns about his family’s ties to "corrupt" business dealings in Ukraine “not be disseminated.”
COVER-UP EXPOSED: Newly declassified records from CIA Director John Ratcliffe show that in 2015, Vice President Biden asked that an intelligence report on foreign concerns about his family’s ties to “corrupt” business dealings in Ukraine “not be disseminated.”
The records were ultimately withheld — Director Ratcliffe calls this an example of “politicization of intelligence.” | @brookeSingman
BREAKING: Declassified CIA Docs Reveal Joe Biden Suppressed Reports of Ukrainian Leaders Exposing his Corruption pic.twitter.com/b7A0hjeG5I
BREAKING: Declassified CIA Docs Reveal Joe Biden Suppressed Reports of Ukrainian Leaders Exposing his Corruption pic.twitter.com/b7A0hjeG5I
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) October 7, 2025
Here’s a closer look:
The heavily-redacted report that Biden succeeded in having buried showed that Ukrainian officials believed his family’s ties to business corruption in Ukraine was evidence of a “double standard” in the U.S. government.
Fox News has more:
Then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015 told the CIA he would “strongly prefer” an intelligence report documenting Ukrainian officials’ concerns with his family’s ties to “corrupt” business deals in the country “not be disseminated” — and so it wasn’t, according to a newly declassified email and records made public by the agency.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe declassified the heavily redacted records, which he said he believes is an example of “politicization of intelligence.”
Fox News Digital obtained the declassified documents, which were discovered during a CIA review of historical agency records.
A senior CIA official briefed Fox News Digital on the declassified documents and intelligence report, stating that the intelligence was discovered along with an email showing that Biden “expressed a preference to not share the report.”
Representatives for Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
CIA officials discovered and declassified an email dated February 10, 2016, with the subject line stating: “RE: OVP query regarding draft [REDACTED].” The email was sent to the CIA.
The classification of the email was listed, and crossed out, as “SECRET.”
“Good morning, I just spoke with VP/ NSA and he would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated. Thanks for understanding,” the email states, signed by a redacted name, but with the title of “PDB Briefer.”
The “PDB” is the presidential daily brief.
The report in question included intelligence revealing that Ukrainian officials viewed the Biden family’s alleged ties to corrupt business practices in Ukraine “as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power.”
“Intelligence officials agreed that, at the time of collection, it would have met the threshold [for dissemination], but based on the Office of the Vice President’s preference, the information was never shared outside of the CIA,” the official said.
The CIA, during its review, confirmed that Biden’s request was granted and that the intelligence report “had not been disseminated.”
The senior CIA official told Fox News Digital that it was “extremely rare and unusual” and “inappropriate to go outside of the intelligence community and inquire with the White House on the dissemination of a particular report for what appears to be political reasons.”
Remember when Joe Biden bragged about having Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin — who was investigating Burisma Holdings, where Hunter was a member of the board — fired?
He threatened not to give Ukraine $1 billion of aid if they refused to fire Shotkin.
Here’s a refresher:
🇺🇸🇺🇦 CIA confirmed today they knew Biden was tied to corruption in Ukraine.
Remember how Biden bragged that he got Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin fired who investigated Burisma and his son Hunter?
Shokin, in his investigation of Burisma Holdings, identified Hunter Biden as… pic.twitter.com/ch4C7ztTAe
🇺🇸🇺🇦 CIA confirmed today they knew Biden was tied to corruption in Ukraine.
Remember how Biden bragged that he got Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin fired who investigated Burisma and his son Hunter?
Shokin, in his investigation of Burisma Holdings, identified Hunter Biden as… pic.twitter.com/ch4C7ztTAe
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