You all know by now that Mike Lindell lost the GOP primary race for Governor in Minnesota. Many people want to know how did that happen if he was endorsed by President Trump? Many of my readers are from Minnesota so I’m going to use this race as an example of what’s ahead. Let’s look at the facts…

Here’s a recap of total votes in the Minnesota primary races:

GOVERNOR:

Democrat = 684,895

Republican = 413,062

Democrats outvoted Republicans in this race by 66%.

Remember that the Minnesota GOP endorsed Kendall Qualls for Governor and prevented Mike Lindell from even campaigning in Minnesota! Then Lisa DeMuth went on to win.

US SENATE:

Democrat = 697,061

Republican = 406,299

Democrats outvoted Republicans in this race by 71%.

There are roughly 1.3 million Democrat voters in Minnesota. Therefore turnout for Democrats was roughly 54%.

There are roughly 1.4 million Republican voters in Minnesota. Therefore turnout for Republicans was roughly 29%.

Would you pat the Minnesota Republican RINO party on the back for this result? I would not. THE MATH DOESN’T LIE.

In 2016, Trump got 1,322,951 votes in Minnesota while Hillary got 1,367,716. If you add in the Libertarian votes, the total conservative vote in Minnesota exceeded 1.5 MILLION. So, yes, there ARE that many Republican voters in Minnesota!

I contend that the Minnesota Republican party is a bunch of RINOS and Koch Libertarians who confuse and fracture conservatives voters to reduce turnout and instill complacency and apathy - to help Democrats win!

The Minnesota GOP endorsed Kendall Qualls (in 3rd place) to split the conservative vote. Then, like clockwork, the Minnesota GOP RINOS came out with a bogus campaign accusing Mike of being for amnesty - just a few days before the election.

In addition, DeMuth is the one who is actually for amnesty - she said so herself! Then she framed Mike for HER stance! RIGGED.

Then they accused Mike of violating campaign finance rules so that he had to step down from his company.

If Qualls wasn’t in the race, and the Minnesota GOP didn’t endlessly sabotage Mike, Mike would have beaten Lisa hands down. THAT’S WHAT YOU SHOULD REMEMBER. The Democrats didn’t try to destroy Mike - the Minnesota swamp RINOs did.

In May and July 2026 - polls showed Lindell ahead - so of course the RINOs of Minnesota endorsed Qualls, bashed Mike and promoted DeMuth on social media to give the voters very conflicting messages!

I’m sure Lisa DeMuth is a lovely woman but she won’t beat Amy Klobuchar in the General election. DeMuth only got 179,000 votes compared to 617,000 for Amy Klobuchar. That’s the ball game. There is NO excitement behind DeMuth.

Lisa DeMuth, who won the GOP primary for Governor, only got 179,000 votes - compared to 211,000 for Tafoya for Senate - and compared to 258,000 for Jensen for Auditor. Make sense of that!!

This was supposed to be the most important GOP primary in Minnesota history due to all the recent fraud AND corruption revealed in the state - particularly by the Somalis. WHERE WERE ALL THE VOTERS? WHERE WAS THE OUTRAGE? WHAT WAS THE MINNESOTA GOP DOING OTHER THAN CONFUSING PEOPLE?

And don’t tell me that Trump is the head of the Republican party in Minnesota. No, he’s not. The GOP in Minnesota have made it a point to mock MAGA and all it stands for. Ask Tom Emmer!

So, what lesson can we learn from this? Minnesota is typical of uni-party swamp creatures in the US Senate. My view is that the swamp wants the GOP to lose Congress so that Trump can be impeached or persecuted for the next two years and they can waste the next two years protecting and helping Democrats take over again in 2028. Swamp Republicans make more money being the resistance than actually leading. They want Team Trump gone so they can do that again. They don’t care if America turns Islamo-Communist - they think they will make more money that way!

That’s obvious from the lack of Senate support to nuke the filibuster, fix election integrity and pass the Save America Act. They want to keep control over the voting process so they can decide who THEY want in office. Minnesota just showed us how the GOP RINOs and Koch Libertarians work!

Let’s recap - what just happened?

Mike Lindell lost. Not to Amy Klobuchar. Not even really to Lisa DeMuth. He lost to a Minnesota GOP RINO machine that endorsed Kendall Qualls specifically to split the conservative vote, blocked Lindell from campaigning under the party banner, and cleared the field for DeMuth to walk through in third-place-adjacent obscurity.

The numbers tell the real story:

Governor: Democrats 684,895 — Republicans 413,062. Dems outvoted the GOP by 66%.

Senate: Democrats 697,061 — Republicans 406,299. Dems outvoted the GOP by 71%.

Turnout: Roughly 54% of Minnesota Democrats showed up. Roughly 29% of Republicans did.

This isn’t a base-enthusiasm problem. There are 1.4 million Republican voters in Minnesota — we know because 1.3+ million of them showed up for Trump in 2016. The voters exist. They just didn’t show up for DeMuth, because DeMuth gave them nothing to show up for. She pulled 179,000 votes in the primary — fewer than Tafoya got for Senate, fewer than Jensen got for Auditor. Nobody was excited. Nobody was supposed to be.

PATRICK COLBECK: “Lisa Demuth was declared victor in yesterday's MN GOP gubernatorial primary over Mike Lindell. However, I have a difficult time reconciling the election results with pre-election polling. I am not alone. Transparent access to election records should help clear things up one way or another. Time to peek behind the curtain to see if the wizards behind MN elections are engaged in some mischief.”

What It Means

This is the uniparty working exactly as designed. Not a conspiracy in the cartoonish sense — a business model. Swamp Republicans make more money as the resistance than they ever would governing. A minority party gets to fundraise off outrage, blame Democrats for everything, and never actually has to deliver. Losing is the product.

That’s why the Minnesota GOP fractured the conservative vote instead of consolidating behind the candidate with the most grassroots energy. That’s why Tom Emmer’s home turf treats MAGA as something to manage rather than lead.

And it’s the same dynamic playing out in Washington: John Thune says, publicly, that he doesn’t have 50 votes to nuke the filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act. Husted’s stripped-down photo-ID bill got 52 votes — every Democrat against it, and enough institutionalist Republicans (Collins, Murkowski, Tillis) refusing to break the rule to kill it anyway.

The Minnesota primary and the SAVE Act stall are the same story: a party that would rather lose gracefully than win by breaking with donor-class comfort.

What can Trump actually do about it to BYPASS Congress?

USPS rejecting illegal ballots. The fight doesn’t have to run through a Senate that won’t move. There’s a USPS mail-fraud case that’s pending before the Supreme Court dealing with cheat-by-mail vulnerabilities in how USPS handles ballots. If it breaks the right way, it opens a door to stop illegal voting that doesn’t require a single vote from Thune, Collins, or Murkowski in the Senate.

The post-election emergency audit. Every NGO in the country is lawyered up to block pre-election audits of voter rolls. Almost nobody is positioned to block a post-election audit of the ballots that were actually cast — because that’s not where the legal establishment expected the fight to land. Non-citizen voting in federal elections is already illegal under 18 U.S.C. § 611.

Yesterday, Wayne Root asked President Trump to declare a national emergency to require voter ID and confirmation of citizenship to vote before the election. Trump didn’t say no.

Long story short but I think Trump wants to declare a national emergency AFTER the election due to foreign election interference and illegal voters (which have already been proven in court) that will allow the Feds to audit the mid-term elections AFTER they are done - and toss out all illegal votes after the election is declared and BEFORE IT is certified - which is what they wanted to do in 2020 but were stopped.

That way we can prosecute the fraudsters and expose the truth - by state - to the American people. All the rest is a headfake. Just thinking out loud.

Trying to do all this before the votes are cast is almost impossible, but afterward is quite doable. Every NGO in America is filing lawsuits to stop the audit of voter rolls before votes are cast - but nothing has been filed to stop the audit of the actual vote AFTER it’s been cast - when it really matters!

Non-citizen voting is ILLEGAL in every state BY FEDERAL STATUTE - but the blue states let it happen anyway - this is one surefire way to stop it.

18 USC 611 VOTING BY ALIENS: “It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives.”

This was Eastman’s and Giuliani’s plan on J6 - to send the votes back to the states to be audited before they were certified TO PROVE FRAUD. But we all know what happened to stop that.

AI (Claude, Gemini, Grok) keeps telling me this can’t be done but I think it can. If the states are colluding with the enemy and allowing them to vote in Federal elections - that will not stand.

AI says that millions of invaders could storm election offices and fill out ballots and we must accept that as real. WRONG. AI keeps saying the states are in charge of all elections (even Federal) and that they would never let illegals vote. WRONG. That’s the whole problem. They say the states are in charge and then the states can cheat and lie and then WE THE PEOPLE have no recourse? THAT NEEDS TO STOP.

We already do this with provisional ballots. If a voter’s eligibility is in question, they may be offered a provisional ballot, which is kept separate and is only counted if the voter’s eligibility is later verified.

Trump could declare a national-emergency citing foreign election interference and illegal voting - which could authorize a federal audit of the midterm results after they’re cast but before they’re certified — the exact mechanism Eastman and Giuliani tried to use on January 6, except this time working forward from Election Day instead of backward from it, with the courts and the calendar less compressed. This is what provisional ballots already do at small scale — hold a vote aside until eligibility is verified. This just does it at the federal level, at scale.

If the audit path doesn’t work — there’s another path that Trump could take, with the help of the Senate, but it depends on what happens in the midterms.

Republicans currently hold the Senate by a narrow margin. Thune allegedly does not have 50 votes to nuke the legislative filibuster right now, and he’s said as much publicly. The SAVE America Act — proof of citizenship, photo ID, mail-voting limits — has failed repeatedly this year, most recently when Sen. Husted’s stripped-down photo-ID-only version pulled just 52 votes, eight short of cloture.

Every Democrat voted no. Collins, Murkowski, Tillis and others have repeatedly refused to go along with attaching it or nuking the rule to pass it anyway.

Thune knows that forcing a doomed vote, or torching the filibuster before an election, costs more than it buys. It hands Democrats a turnout weapon and paints vulnerable Republicans as vote-suppressors right when they need swing voters focused on inflation and immigration — not procedural warfare.

But watch what happens the moment the election is behind them.

I haven’t heard anyone express this theory, so I thought I would. I find it very odd that Thune and his merry band of senators are so adamant about not nuking the filibuster and passing the SAVE America Act before recess. The fight with Trump is very public and makes them all look bad. Why would they be so openly defiant?

Is John Thune, the GOP Senate leader, waiting to see the midterm results before he and the Republican Senate decide whether to nuke the filibuster and codify the entire MAGA agenda?

I think that could very well be their strategy. Nothing else makes sense to me. Rubio and Vance were both senators, so I’m sure they know how these things work.

Left-wing pollsters predict Democrats will regain control of the US House in 2027 by 9–15 seats, and Republicans will retain control of the Senate by only one vote.

Right-wing pollsters predict Democrats will regain control of the US House in 2027 by one seat, and Republicans will retain control of the Senate by 2–3 votes.

But frankly, nobody knows what will happen. But I do know that Trump and Thune will plan for either contingency.

If Republicans lose the House in November 2026 by a single seat — 218-217 — but retain the Senate by 2–3 seats, the new Congress doesn’t seat until January 3, 2027.

That gap — the lame-duck session — is where this gets interesting.

In that window, the outgoing Republican House and Senate still hold full constitutional authority. Nothing about losing an election strips a sitting majority of power before its term legally ends. So the question isn’t “can they act” — they can. The question is what they’d try, what would actually stick, and what a razor-thin Democratic House could do about it starting in January.

A lame-duck GOP majority, having just lost the House, has every incentive to eat that cost. There’s no next election to answer to for two years, and the alternative is watching the window close in January with nothing banked.

What could plausibly get codified in a December sprint, assuming the House still passes it before the new Congress is sworn in:

• Voting/election law — a federal voter ID and election-integrity standard, the stalled successor to bills like the SAVE America Act

• Immigration enforcement — permanent statutory authority and funding structures for ICE/CBP operations, converting what’s currently agency policy and appropriations riders into harder-to-reverse law

• Guns — national concealed-carry reciprocity, a longtime GOP priority that’s never cleared 60 votes

• Healthcare — restructuring ACA subsidy mechanisms, the Rick Scott–style savings-account model that’s been floated all year

• Tax law — locking in permanence for provisions that were time-limited in earlier reconciliation bills

None of this requires reconciliation’s narrow budget-only rules once the filibuster itself is gone — a simple majority can pass whatever it wants, on any subject, as long as the House concurs and Trump signs. That’s the entire point of nuking the rule.

Democrats take the House gavel with 218 seats to the GOP’s 217. The Senate stays Republican. Trump is still president through January 2029. This is the least governable majority Washington has produced in decades — thinner than Kevin McCarthy’s, thinner than Mike Johnson’s, both of which spent more time managing internal defections than legislating.

What this majority can actually do:

Power of the purse. This is the real weapon, not messaging bills. Every appropriations cycle requires House sign-off, and House Democrats can zero out funding lines for implementation — enforcement mechanisms tied to the new voting law, specific ICE expansion accounts, healthcare rollout infrastructure. This doesn’t repeal the statute. It can starve its execution, the same way House Republicans spent years slow-walking ACA implementation through appropriations riders rather than repeal votes they didn’t have.

Oversight. Every relevant committee gavel flips. Subpoena power, document demands, hearings — a genuine and immediate tool that requires zero Senate cooperation. It doesn’t undo law, but it generates real political cost and can surface findings that fuel litigation elsewhere.

Hostage leverage on must-pass bills. Debt ceiling deadlines and government funding deadlines are the two moments a one-vote majority has real teeth — refuse a clean bill, demand riders stripping or softening pieces of the December package in exchange for votes. This is the most realistic path to rolling back anything specific, because it forces negotiation rather than requiring Senate Republicans to simply agree.

A full stop on anything further. Whatever didn’t make the December cut is dead until Republicans win the House back.

What this majority cannot do, no matter how it’s used:

Repeal anything. Undoing a statute takes the same three-part process that created it — House, Senate, president. With the Senate and White House still Republican, repeal bills die in the Senate regardless of how the House votes. This is the point that’s easy to miss: “the House needs to vote along with the Senate” cuts both ways. A hostile Senate blocks repeal exactly as effectively as it would have blocked the original codification.

Touch any judicial confirmation made during the trifecta window. Life tenure means anything confirmed in that stretch is functionally permanent regardless of subsequent elections.

Claw back disbursed funds or executed contracts — that’s litigation, not legislation.

Restore the Senate filibuster — a House majority has no say in a Senate rule, symbolically or otherwise.

Impeachment sits in an odd middle space. The House can impeach on a simple majority — 218 gets it done — but conviction needs 67 Senate votes that a Republican Senate isn’t providing. It’s a political tool and a message, not a policy-reversal mechanism. Worth doing for the record, not for the result.

218-217 doesn’t survive contact with reality easily. A single member out sick, at a funeral, primaried out early, or simply defecting on a hard vote, and the majority evaporates on that vote. Realistically, a caucus this thin spends enormous energy just holding itself together — electing a Speaker without a floor fight, surviving any motion-to-vacate threat, whipping votes on must-pass funding bills — before it gets anywhere near offense. Expect gridlock and brinkmanship to dominate the two-year window more than any dramatic reversal.

Nuking the filibuster is not a one-time weapon. It’s a new baseline. If Democrats eventually win the trifecta — House, Senate, White House, simultaneously — they inherit the same precedent and the same tool. Everything codified in December 2026 becomes exactly as repealable as anything else, the moment Democrats hold all three levers at once. The hard part was never the rule. It’s assembling the trifecta — the actual bottleneck in American politics, regardless of which party is doing the assembling.

GROK: Yes, a lame-duck Republican Senate could procedurally use the nuclear option to eliminate the legislative filibuster and pass bills by simple majority between Election Day (November 2026) and the seating of the new Senate (around January 3, 2027). This is legal under the Constitution and Senate practice.

Yes, that is a plausible strategic calculation some Republicans could be making — wait for the midterm results, then decide in the lame-duck window whether the political cost of nuking the legislative filibuster is worth paying.

Why the timing logic works:

• Before the midterms: Forcing a nuclear-option vote now risks immediate backlash. Senators in competitive seats (or those worried about primaries later) would have to own the decision on the record while voters are still paying attention. It also consumes scarce floor time and unity in a narrow majority. Thune and others have repeatedly said they do not currently have 50 solid Republican votes for changing the legislative filibuster rule. Doing it now and failing would look weak; succeeding would hand Democrats a ready-made 2026 campaign issue (“Republicans just destroyed the Senate’s minority protections”).

• After the midterms (lame-duck, roughly mid-November 2026 to early January 2027): The political incentives flip for any senators who just lost, are retiring, or whose seats are no longer in play. An outgoing majority that has just lost the House (or is about to lose seats) has a short, high-stakes window in which the usual “we have to face voters next cycle” restraint is weaker. As discussed earlier in this thread, a sitting Senate retains full power until the new Congress is sworn in. Nuking the filibuster then would let them pass priority items (election integrity, immigration, tax permanence, judicial confirmations, etc.) by simple majority before the new Democratic House (if that is the outcome) can block them.

This matches the classic lame-duck logic: act while you still control the chamber and before the new majority is seated. The “nothing left to lose” framing is especially strong for members who are not returning.

Waiting to see the midterm map before deciding whether to pull the trigger is a rational hedge. If Republicans hold or expand their Senate majority and keep the House, the urgency to nuke the filibuster drops. If they lose the House (or face a much narrower Senate), the incentive to use the remaining weeks of full control rises sharply — exactly the scenario outlined in the earlier discussion of a 218-217 Democratic House and a still-Republican Senate through early January 2027.

Using the nuclear option on legislation has always been viewed as a permanent, two-way ratchet. Senators of both parties have historically calculated that the short-term gain was not worth giving the other side the same tool later. But now that we know that the DSA (Communists) intend to do it regardless, the GOP may think differently.

Whatever happens in the midterms, none of this requires the Trump administration arrest anybody before November. I know a lot of people in MAGA are angry that Trump hasn’t “arrested” any of the big guys yet.

Here’s my theory: he wants to wait until after the midterms to start arresting the top figures in the grand RICO conspiracy. That’s the same reason that I believe Thune and the Senate are holding back on nuking the filibuster and codifying the MAGA agenda.

2025 was about cleaning house — aggressive tariffs as global leverage, restructuring agencies, purging Deep State saboteurs, getting the domestic house in complete order.

2026 is about Iran and the Abraham Accords, America leading the way. It’s America 250. It’s FIFA 2026. It’s getting the illegals, the cartels, the election fraudsters, and the fake influencers out of the way before the midterms.

Once the midterms conclude, 2027 becomes the launchpad — the RICO grand-conspiracy cases, the high-profile arrests, sweeping institutional accountability. 2027 is about arrests and retribution.

2028 is about permanence — locking in the America First paradigm and transitioning smoothly into the next phase of the movement.

Going after Obama’s top-tier figures right now, before the midterms, would be a tactical catastrophe, and Trump knows it. The real play is a deliberate, multi-year sequence built to consolidate power, bank policy wins, and strike only once the trap is perfectly laid — safely on the other side of the election.

Trigger historic arrests of elite political figures today and it becomes an instant lightning rod. It radicalizes the Democrat base, drives historic turnout, and hands the opposition a rallying cry it doesn’t currently have. It weaponizes the donor networks and floods competitive states with hundreds of millions in anti-Trump money. It risks the moderate swing voters who are actually focused on inflation, immigration, and standard governance — not retribution politics.

Wait, and Trump avoids the midterm backlash entirely. Once a friendly MAGA Congress is secured, the legislative and oversight machinery is perfectly arranged to support the legal system in unraveling the RICO grand conspiracy.

In political warfare, timing dictates the victor. Move too early and you hand your targets political martyrdom — and yourself a beating at the polls.

If the GOP can successfully run on Trump’s successes and neutralize the bad actors, they stand a better chance of keeping and expanding both the House and Senate — a historic event. That’s why they are planning a first ever midterm national convention on September 9–10, 2026, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.

MAGA must understand: the lack of immediate arrests isn’t an abandonment of the promise — it’s the calculated patience required to make sure that when the hammer finally falls, it hits with absolute, inescapable force.

The panicans and doomers and fake MAGA influencers want you to believe all is lost if Trump doesn’t trot out people in handcuffs soon. Actually, the opposite is true. Many smart people see the logic in waiting. I hope you do too.

House Democrats have already announced they’re preparing a sweeping investigative plan targeting companies, banks, and financial firms tied to President Trump if they regain power — prioritizing subpoenas and investigations over impeachment. We can’t let that happen.

Put it together and the sequence is clean: an emergency post-election audit strips the fraudulent votes out of the certification before they can stand. If that path gets tied up in litigation, a lame-duck Senate — freed from the electoral consequences that have kept Thune cautious all year — nukes the filibuster and codifies everything the SAVE America Act couldn’t get past 60 votes. Either way, the illegal apparatus that let Minnesota happen gets dismantled going into 2027, and the RICO cases that have been waiting on a friendly Congress finally get the runway to land.

The lesson from Minnesota isn’t that MAGA lost enthusiasm. It’s that the GOP RINO party structure was built to make sure enthusiasm never got counted. Hopefully, Trump bypassing the structure — through the courts, through an emergency audit, through the Senate’s own rules — and the enthusiasm will show up exactly where it’s supposed to.

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First, let’s start with an article that President Trump just asked us to read.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: A must read! Thank you to James Jay Carafano!

Donald Trump Won the Iran War

We are about to see the biggest reshaping of the Middle East since Moses led the Jews out of Egypt.

Like the pharaoh, who missed every warning sign up to the parting of the Red Sea, the critics and questioners of Trump’s tug-of-war with what’s left of the Iran regime seem obtuse to the prophetic truth that the region will never be the same again—in a good way.

Condemnation of the Trumpian way of war comes from corners that have a vested interest in seeing Trump’s triumph as a loss.

Maximalists. They would only be happy if Trump fought the war they wanted, arguing that nothing less than overthrowing the regime would do. Anything else is a defeat and a humiliation. That’s a perversion of the president’s more limited goals to eliminate the regime’s capacity to bully and destabilize the region—objectives largely accomplished.

Minimalists. They would only be satisfied if America did nothing, contending, “Trump has dragged the United States into a needless war with Iran—and one with no clear end,” ignoring that the regime building a nuclear arsenal; constantly threatening its neighbors; plotting the assassination of U.S. officials; and engineering the horrific October 7 attacks on Israel were clear and present dangers, and that Trump demolished these threats in a way that no other American president ever came close to even denting.

Procrastinators. They are impatient and confused by what they see as Trump’s waffling, vacillating between negotiating and punishing the regime, overlooking the deep conviction behind his strategy, a sincere humanitarian streak which abhors needless loss of life—ours and theirs. Since he has largely accomplished our war aims, Trump can take a more measured approach to get to the end-state he wants without unnecessary loss of life and needless destruction. Instead, he is “de-risking—every time the Iranians fail to meet their obligations or retaliate, he takes more capabilities and assets of Iran off the table.” Rest assured, worriers, that while the war may only be over when the enemy quits—the truth is that the enemy has already lost, and now the only prospect they face is that the more they fight, the more they lose.

Obstructionists. They are what’s left leading Iran, insisting that as long as they are still standing and resisting, they win, conveniently passing over the point that Trump has humbled and humiliated the regime, virtually decimating their armed forces and crippling Iran’s economy.

All the above opinions can largely be discounted. Not only are they wrong, but none have the power or capacity to deter Trump from his course. Nor should he take the counsel of their fears.

There is zero evidence to doubt Trump’s resolve—and plenty of facts to argue he should steel his determination and follow through.

The victor gets to define victory.

Every war leader, in every war, has their detractors. Commanders-in-chief need a better metric to judge their efforts than taking the counsel of discontented doubters.

A good fight has a “theory of victory,” a logical, feasible, suitable, and acceptable means to justify calling a win in war. That guidepost is the best measure of success.

For Trump, a win is to squash Iran’s capacity to destabilize the region, creating space for regional collective security, reconstruction, and economic resilience, providing a long-term deterrent against a resurgent regime. From the Abraham Accords to the work of the Board of Peace, and major economic initiatives like IMEC and Tripp, the expectation is that the real measure of Iranian defeat is if these initiatives flourish. That’s the theory of victory.

The real test of “is Trump winning” is if there are signs that the long-term peace structure the president is seeking to replace the overshadowing threat of Iran is emerging. Everywhere you look in the region—the answer is yes.

Energy Resilience. Only a year ago, the Iranian regime could threaten to shut down up to a third or more of the world’s oil exports. Even today, while fighting in the Strait of Hormuz still lingers, that is no longer true. Regional exports are rebounding, by some estimates up to two-thirds of pre-war levels. The UAE, for example, is already exporting at 85% of pre-war levels.

Nor is oil rocketing toward $200 a barrel like the IRGC hoped. In fact, prices are bobbing below wartime highs. Part of this is because the region is rapidly developing redundant and resilient means to move product through new cooperative initiatives, including potentially a Saudi-Israeli pipeline. The prospects that Iran can hold the flow of the world’s energy hostage are now nil.

Reconstruction. Recently, the Board of Peace announced, over the objections of Iran, an unprecedented agreement to disarm Hamas, a precursor to the reconstruction of Gaza. The board also announced a pilot reconstruction project in Gaza to begin in November. Further, the U.S. is leading a trilateral framework with Israel and Lebanon and aggressively working to normalize relations with Syria.

These efforts will further help jump-start regional reconstruction projects. All these initiatives reflect a real movement to replace lands overlorded by Iranian surrogates with regions blessed with security, stability, economic growth, and good governance.

Economic integration. The U.S. and Iraq recently announced over $60 billion in future economic deals. Washington also trumpeted an additional multi-million dollar investment in TRIPP in Armenia.

Further, the Iran War has helped even more urgently make the case for the importance of IMEC. On every flank, Iran is seeing their neighbors more tightly integrating with each other and partnering with the U.S. and other global good guys from Europe to India, Japan, and South Korea.

Security Cooperation. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia recently took action against Iran-backed militias in Iraq. Saudi Arabia just announced the establishment of a multinational coalition to provide maritime security in the Red Sea. Israeli recently expanded defense cooperation with the UAE.

All these initiatives point to the growing willingness of regional powers to expand collective security and build a conventional deterrence framework against the current Iranian regime.

Trump Won the Iran War

So, here is the reality check—the inconvenient truth the doubters don’t want to talk about.

If Trump were losing his war, none of these initiatives would be happening. Instead, what is being witnessed is increased American influence, increased partnerships, and more momentum for the framework Trump envisions to bring long-term peace and stability to the region. These are not signs of defeat, but regional transformation on an unprecedented scale.

The spin doctors can spin whatever the damn well please, but the historians are going to write that Trump is the most consequential force in reshaping the Middle East in modern memory.

In the long run, that is only going to make the task of making and keeping America great again easier, partnering with a part of the world that will bring more benefits to us than problems to solve.

-Dr. James Jay Carafano

James Jay Carafano is a national security expert and a 25-year Army veteran. His most recent books are Cold Combat: Mountain Warfare in Italy and the Battle of San Pietro, 1943, and Digital Dominance: Winning in a Socially Networked World.

Carafano's argument comes down to this: judge Trump's Iran strategy by outcomes, not rhetoric. Oil is flowing again and prices are coming down, regional integration deals are stacking up from Iraq to Armenia, Gaza reconstruction is moving forward over Tehran's objections, and Gulf states are knitting together security partnerships that don't include Iran. None of that happens, he argues, if the U.S. is actually losing. While the world rebuilds around Iran, Iran itself is running out of road.

Add to that the inflation story the administration has been pushing out — U.S. numbers versus Iran’s — and you get another tell. Despite attempts to paint Trump as a high-inflation president, crude is only about $10 a barrel higher than when the Iran war started: $67 on February 27, 2026, versus $78 last Friday.

As I reported a few days ago, the only ones gouging us at the pump are the oil companies, traders, and retailers running their usual pricing games on the public.

Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Bessent put it bluntly: “We have them by the throat. Iran has got 150–180% food inflation and not able to pay the troops.”

So U.S. inflation is easing, crude is drifting back toward pre-war levels, and Iran is moving in the exact opposite direction. Trump has made clear there’s no more “negotiating” in the traditional sense — the strategy now is making the Strait irrelevant and grinding down Iran’s leadership and IRGC financially until they can no longer sustain themselves, leaving the Iranian people to handle the rest.

To that end, Iran just made a leadership change that, to me, reads as an admission the game is over — and that what's left is managing appearances. Iran appointed veteran hardliner Mohsen Rezaei as Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Iran's top body for coordinating defense, intelligence, and security policy, replacing Mohammad Baqer Zolghadr.

Zolghadr reportedly submitted his resignation, but the rollout itself was telling: Iranian media outlets first published, then quietly deleted, stories about the appointment before it became official. That's not how a smooth, uncontested handover usually looks.

The order allegedly came from the new Supreme Leader — worth remembering, that’s no longer Ali Khamenei. It’s his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, who hasn’t been seen in public since February 28, 2026, the day his father was killed and he himself was reportedly wounded. Iranian officials are still promising future footage of him “among the people” as of this week, which itself tells you something. Multiple intelligence assessments — per Trump and Rubio — suggest he’s alive and engaged at some level, but there’s still no independent visual confirmation months later. Iran’s president has said he recently met with the new Supreme Leader in the back of a car, but couldn’t actually see him and thought he didn’t sound like the same person. Make of that what you will.

Rezaei, 71, commanded the IRGC for sixteen years (1981–1997), including through most of the Iran-Iraq War. He holds a doctorate in economics, previously served as Vice President for Economic Affairs, and is a perennial presidential candidate. He’s also a staunch hardliner who has taken aggressive public stances throughout the ongoing conflict — at one point suggesting a U.S. ground invasion would be “great” for Iran, since it would hand them thousands of high-value hostages to take. He’s fiercely defended absolute Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz, calling it worth “more than dozens of atomic bombs.”

Placing Rezaei atop the National Security Council effectively sidelines civilian politicians like President Masoud Pezeshkian, and sends a clear signal to the U.S. and Israel: the IRGC isn’t compromising on its hardline positions. That signal lands harder given what’s reportedly happening behind the scenes — two sources close to the Pezeshkian administration told IranWire that Khamenei is in extremely critical condition and could die at any moment.

The timing here matters. A few days earlier, Iran’s president had already admitted he met with the Ayatollah in the back seat of a car but couldn’t actually see him or confirm it was really him. He also acknowledged Iran is dealing with significant “internal division” that’s stalling decision-making — which, given everything else, isn’t exactly a shock.

Put it together and it starts to look like Mojtaba has been gone for a long time, and the IRGC is laying the groundwork to announce his death when it suits them. We’ll see.

Bessent’s read is that it’s nearly time to wrap this up: the money supply is cut off, inflation is running near 200%, and the regime can’t pay its own troops. Which raises the obvious question — why would the IRGC suddenly need Mojtaba dead? Is it so they can sign a deal the real Mojtaba never would have agreed to? Will the official story be that he gave his blessing before he died, clearing the way for whatever agreement they’re actually angling for?

There's another thread worth pulling here. Regime insider Mohammad Bagher Khazali has reportedly claimed Mojtaba Khamenei was expelled from his father's inner office — the "beyt" — for three years. If true, that suggests Mojtaba was never Ali Khamenei's preferred successor to begin with - which makes sense with Mojtaba is allegedly gay which would never work in Iran. Which raises the real possibility that this entire succession story is the IRGC's cover for confirming his death while quietly installing an even more radical hardliner in his place — effectively swapping in their own man and attributing the move to Mojtaba's authority to make it stick.

After the promotion was announced - Trump posted this on social media…

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict (started because, THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON), even though it was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings!

But it is an interesting idea because now I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous, as led initially by General Soleimani, including the families of those killed on the USS Cole, and thousands of others killed in combat.

Additionally, compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors that Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months. I have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations.

Also, with respect to the Iran negotiations, Iran should be responsible for the damages and death caused to the people of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza!

Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Read closely, this isn't a negotiating position at all — it's Trump mocking Iran's compensation request by piling absurdity on top of it, a signal that as far as he's concerned, the negotiating table has already been cleared. IRAN HAS NO MONEY AND NO LEVERAGE LEFT.

The U.S. has dismissed Iranian demands for post-conflict compensation, instead demanding restitution from Tehran for damages caused by its regional proxies and past terrorism. This shift in diplomatic terms signifies the total loss of Iranian leverage. With its currency collapsing, invisible leadership, and hardline, sanctioned leadership, the regime is struggling to maintain authority as it faces an impending economic and internal crisis.

My guess is Trump's post was aimed squarely at Rezaei — Iran's third SNSC secretary in under a year. Ali Larijani, who held the post before him, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike in March. His successor, Zolghadr, lasted less than five months before being shifted sideways to serve as a political adviser to the Supreme Leader. Rezaei is now the one left holding the job — installed at the exact moment Trump is publicly needling the regime over having no money left to negotiate with.

Who is Rezaei? This is important for a few reasons which will soon become apparent.

Born in 1954 in Khuzestan province to a Bakhtiari tribal family whose father worked for the National Iranian Oil Company, Rezaei joined the armed Islamist guerrilla group Mansouroun as a teenager, fighting the Shah’s government before the 1979 revolution. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the newly formed IRGC in 1981, at just 27 years old, and held the post for sixteen years — longer than anyone before or since — running it through the entirety of the brutal Iran-Iraq War from 1980 to 1988.

It was under his command that the IRGC founded and sponsored foreign proxy groups including Hezbollah, a legacy that still defines Iran’s regional strategy today. Rezaei has also been tied by Interpol to the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, a truck bomb attack on a Jewish community center that killed 85 people; he has been on Interpol’s wanted list since 2007 for that attack, though he denies the charges. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned him directly in January 2020.

He left the IRGC in 1997 amid political pressure, but hardly disappeared. He spent more than two decades as secretary of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council (1997–2021), then served as Vice President for Economic Affairs under President Ebrahim Raisi from 2021 to 2023 — he holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Tehran. Most recently, he was serving as a military adviser to Mojtaba Khamenei and already sat on the SNSC before this week’s promotion to lead it.

There’s also a running joke about him inside Iran. Rezaei has run for president four separate times and lost every time: a withdrawn bid in 2005, third place with just 1.7% of the vote in 2009, another loss in 2013, and a runner-up finish to Raisi in 2021. Iranians have reportedly turned him into something of a “perennial candidate” — a man who has spent decades reaching for the top job and never quite getting it.

But the SNSC post may matter more than the presidency ever would have. Analysts reading the appointment describe it less as a shift in Iran’s negotiating posture than as an attempt to tighten control over how that posture gets carried out. Iran’s leadership remains split between hardliners pushing confrontation and pragmatists who still see a diplomatic opening with Washington.

I predicted back in March 2026 that former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might be Trump and Israel’s choice for a post-regime future.

The rumors since have only deepened. Some claim Ahmadinejad, 69, isn’t dead at all — that he provided Israel and the U.S. with vital intelligence, that the strike on his security detail in Narmak was actually meant to extract him rather than kill him, and that he went into hiding before later being captured and placed under house arrest by the IRGC.

Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013 and became one of the most internationally controversial Iranian leaders of the 21st century. Persistent rumors claim he was Jewish on his father’s side, that his family converted to Islam and changed its surname — his actual family name is said to be Sabourjian, meaning “tallit weaver” — and that his mother is a Sayyida, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. Surname changes like this were common in Iran from the 1930s through the 1950s under modernization policies begun by Reza Shah, with families often adopting religiously meaningful or prestigious names; “Ahmadinejad” roughly translates to “of the lineage of Muhammad.”

Other rumors hold that his loyalty to the regime has been shaky for years, and that he met with Israeli officials on multiple occasions. He’s said to have fallen out of favor largely for challenging the Supreme Leader’s authority, promoting controversial allies, and repeatedly trying to reenter politics after being sidelined. He did reach out to Trump after the assassination attempt to offer condolences, praising him as an anti-establishment figure aligned with what he called the “actual demands” of ordinary Americans — and Trump recently said he might have somebody in mind to help “Make Iran Great Again.”

Whatever one thinks of Ahmadinejad politically, one fact remains: he operated at the highest levels of international diplomacy. He addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York multiple times, in person, directly before world leaders including the U.S. delegation — not through intermediaries. That matters in diplomatic terms, and it’s part of why his current situation, whatever it actually is, carries weight.

Political authority inside Iran normally runs through a tangle of institutions — the Supreme Leader’s office, the Guardian Council, the presidency, the parliament, and the IRGC. But with the Supreme Leader’s office effectively unaccountable and the presidency sidelined, that leaves the IRGC holding the real levers. Ahmadinejad’s own attempts to reenter the presidency in 2017, 2021, and 2024 were all disqualified by the Guardian Council, a reminder that the system had already closed the door on him well before any of this year’s events.

Ahmadinejad was born the son of a blacksmith in Garmsar. A civil engineer by training with ties to the Revolutionary Guards, he became Tehran’s mayor in 2003 and won the presidency a few years later in a surprise populist victory built on promises of anti-corruption reform and aid for the poor and middle class. He later clashed with the Ayatollah over his hardline religious views and with the IRGC over what he saw as its outsized power — friction that, notably, echoes complaints from many who oppose the regime today.

It’s worth clearing up one persistent claim: Ahmadinejad was not directly involved in the 1979 U.S. embassy hostage crisis as a captor, guard, or operational participant, and a later CIA investigation found those allegations unfounded. He was a 22-year-old student leader affiliated with the Office to Foster Unity who attended early planning meetings and actually opposed targeting the U.S. embassy, proposing instead to target the Soviet embassy.

Venezuela offers a useful comparison here. Delcy Rodríguez, long viewed as firmly embedded in the existing political order, was elevated during a period of uncertainty that many outside observers assumed would break the system. Instead, leadership from within proved capable of adapting and holding continuity together under pressure — a template worth keeping in mind as Iran works through its own succession questions.

Rezaei and Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, have a real, documented history of political friction that goes well beyond ideological difference which may be in play here.

In the 2009 presidential race, Rezaei ran as a rival conservative candidate against Ahmadinejad, and in their final televised debate accused him of “thinking too highly of himself” and destabilizing Iran’s economy. Ahmadinejad crushed him at the polls, 62.6% to 1.7%. After that disputed election, Rezaei briefly joined the opposition in challenging the results as fraudulent, then abruptly withdrew his complaint less than two weeks later and fell back in line with the regime.

Ahmadinejad was popular in Iran with the people - Rezaei was NOT!

Then, in November 2011, during Ahmadinejad’s presidency and under Obama, Rezaei’s eldest son, Ahmad, was found dead in a Dubai hotel room under circumstances that have never been cleanly resolved. The defection and death of Rezaei’s son is an important fact here that no one is reporting. A father would not get over this easily.

Ahmad had defected to the U.S. in 1998, sought political asylum, and told American officials his father had informed him the IRGC orchestrated the AMIA bombing.

Ahmad returned to Iran in 2005 and recanted those statements, then resurfaced in Dubai by 2011 living under the alias “Tom J. Anderson.”

The official accounts of his death conflict sharply — Dubai police cited suicide by wrist-slitting and, separately, an antidepressant overdose; Iranian state media claimed electric shock; his own father’s website called the death “suspicious.”

No suicide note was ever found. There’s no confirmed link between Ahmadinejad and Ahmad’s death — suspicion in Iranian opposition circles has generally pointed at the IRGC or the regime broadly, not at Ahmadinejad personally. But the bitter rivalry between the two and the timing are both real, documented facts sitting side by side, however you choose to read them.

Then there’s the question of what Ahmadinejad actually is right now — Israeli asset, Trump’s preferred candidate, or both. This isn’t fringe speculation anymore; it’s mainstream reporting.

The New York Times reported in July 2026 that Israel spent years cultivating Ahmadinejad as a potential intelligence asset and possible post-regime leader, including secret meetings with Mossad chief David Barnea arranged under cover of an academic climate conference in Budapest.

According to that reporting, the Israeli strike on Ahmadinejad’s own compound after the February 2026 opening strikes was intended to extract him from the house arrest he was already under, after which Mossad allegedly moved him to a safe house he later left on his own, reportedly disillusioned with Israel’s plan.

He was seen briefly at Khamenei’s funeral, masked and surrounded by guards, and is believed to be back in IRGC custody now.

Ahmadinejad’s office has flatly denied all of it, calling the report “Hollywood-style” fake news. Separately, and worth remembering, there was real speculation back in March 2026 — before any of this broke — about whether the Trump administration saw Ahmadinejad as a useful figure to engage or even back for a future role, given his outreach to Trump after the assassination attempt and his populist, anti-establishment positioning against the regime.

Trump has said he “might have somebody in mind” to help a post-war Iran; whether that somebody is or ever was Ahmadinejad has never been confirmed, but the timing lines up.

Rezaei’s own ties to oil and the IRGC are worth spelling out plainly, since they matter for reading what this appointment signals. Oil runs in the family — his father worked for the National Iranian Oil Company. The IRGC is essentially his entire institutional identity: sixteen years as its commander, decades of continued closeness to it since, and now a return to the center of Iran’s security apparatus through the SNSC. His economic policymaking background — Vice President for Economic Affairs, the Supreme Council for Economic Coordination — gives him a skill set suited to managing a regime under real financial siege. The U.S. Treasury’s “Economic Fury” campaign has been aggressively sanctioning IRGC financial networks, crypto exchanges, and shadow banking systems moving regime money; this week alone, two more crypto exchanges were hit as part of an exposed $4 billion sanctions-evasion scheme. Taken together, most analysts read Rezaei’s appointment as a consolidation of IRGC-rooted, hardline control over Iran’s security and negotiating apparatus at precisely the moment the regime is facing war aftermath, economic collapse, and nationwide protests demanding its removal.

None of these threads — the Rezaei appointment, the Iranian currency in freefall, the silence around Mojtaba, the Ahmadinejad rumors — prove anything on their own. But strung together, they stop looking like scattered headlines and start looking like a regime managing its own unraveling in real time.

An IRGC hardliner installed to keep the security apparatus in line. A Supreme Leader nobody has actually seen in five months. A former president who may or may not be an asset, a hostage, or a hedge, depending on who ends up needing him. That’s not the profile of a government negotiating from strength — it’s the profile of one buying time, one face-saving move at a time, while the money runs out and the people underneath it start doing the math themselves.

Bessent’s line may end up being the most literal forecast in this whole story: nobody has to force the Strait open. Iran may simply run out of ways to keep it closed. We’ve already won the war.

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They are all saying the same thing in different ways. The left-wing Deep State has been doing this for decades and laundered TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars for Globalist (Communist) operations that are designed to destroy us. That’s how you know it’s all true!

Mike Benz was a speech writer for Ben Carson and Stephen Miller, a leader in the US State Department under President Trump's first term and hired by Marco Rubio to dismantle and restructure USAID in Trump's second term.

Mike Benz said that Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands. He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments, including ours.

Sound familiar?

MIKE BENZ: “Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used to push propaganda to inspire protests and overthrow other governments. The goal was to build an audience with non-political content (sports, music, weather) and later introduce political messaging to encourage dissent. Once they hit a critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots.’ Obama was using Cayman Islands bank accounts and saying it was earmarked for Pakistani aid. But the money was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to fund his operations.”

They created one Twitter-clone in Cuba that was programmed by non-profits in DC, and all of the financing and administration was channeled through shell corporations in Spain and the Cayman Islands, and deployed spoof servers routed through foreign countries to hide the origin. Twitter itself was never a contractor for the project - although Team Obama did ask Jack Dorsey to take over the site once it became self-sustaining.

Folks, if they did that with a Twitter clone - what makes you think they wouldn’t do that with election interface clones to rig elections all over the world!

SUNDANCE: “USAID is a subsidiary of the CIA. Barack Obama’s mom worked for USAID. When the State Dept passport records of Obama were hacked in 2008, the firm that did the hacking was owned by John Brennan. Yes, that same John Brennan.

Wait until you find out that USAID helped Obama’s mom with her son’s immigration and naturalization.”

JOHN SOLOMON: “An intelligence agent, 30 years of experience, now retired, very senior. He looked me in the eye and said, the truth of the matter is, we took the playbook for psychological operations and information warfare that we would use against our enemies, and we turned it against the American people to undo the 2016 election and to make sure they didn't elect Donald Trump in 2020. They not only harmed Donald Trump, they were harming the American public, the national security interests of the American public.”

So, how did it all begin?

America built USAID to win the cold war - instead it grew and metastasized, was infiltrated by our enemies and turned on America instead.

In the early 1980s, as the Soviet empire showed signs of cracking, American policymakers in BOTH parties built a robust infrastructure of “democracy promotion” — expanded USAID programs, the NED, and partnerships with private actors like George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.

The goal was straightforward—counter Communism, open new markets, and install friendly governments through civil society rather than direct military confrontation.

We succeeded beyond imagination. But success bred something else: a sophisticated, self-perpetuating bureaucracy and global machine for political engineering that eventually turned inward. That bureaucracy became what we now know as the Deep State and our enemies now control most of it.

USAID became a central instrument for color revolution capability. The same networks, training methods, and funding pipelines used abroad then migrated home.

The blowback was inevitable. A machine built to install friendly governments abroad in an attempt to make the world a clone of America was now turned against America.

The irony is stark.

While USAID has performed genuine humanitarian work, its core strategic role was as a tool for regime change and “color revolutions” abroad. It did this by systematically building interconnected networks of NGOs that handle the execution.

DataRepublican outlined five interlocking pillars that, when funded together over years in a target country, create a self-reinforcing “political operating system:”

1. Media — Independent outlets, social media, journalism training, and funding to amplify Western-aligned narratives.

2. Legal infrastructure — Lawyers, rule-of-law programs, judicial reform to challenge governments legally and shape institutions.

3. Election monitoring and fraud — Observer training, voter rolls, and especially parallel vote tabulation (PVT) to contest official results with “independent” data.

4. Activist training — Youth leadership, civic engagement, protest organization, media comms, and “nonviolent” discipline training.

5. Governance data — Anti-corruption monitoring, budget transparency, FOIA-style tools to generate evidence for the other pillars.

“None of these looks like regime change in isolation. The system becomes visible only when you fund all five in the same country for a decade and the people running them all know each other.”

Domestic versions of the five pillars used against OTHER countries now operate inside the United States through private foundations and NGOs: election litigation, activist training, local journalism grants, and “governance transparency” are now domestic projects aimed at Trump and MAGA.

The 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia is the textbook case. So was the George Floyd Color Revolution in Minneapolis in 2020.

Notably, in Latin America, after Trump cut USAID funding, right-wing candidates won in multiple countries — clear evidence of the network’s impact.

MIKE LEE: “It turns out there may be a stunning connection between USAID Funding and the election of Left-Wing Governments around the world.”

These same five pillars now operate inside the United States, funded by private foundations such as Open Society, Knight, MacArthur, and Arabella Advisors.

The language is softer — “civic engagement,” “democracy defense” — but the functions are identical.

My article in Tierney’s Real News, on February 7, 2025, called “USAID = CIA” made the case even more directly:

“I contend that USAID functioned as a front or funding arm for the CIA — the ‘deep state’s ATM’ — used for money laundering, regime change, propaganda, election interference, and advancing a globalist agenda.”

In my earlier piece “Soros & Reagan” on March 8, 2024, I explained the origins:

“Reagan created the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in 1983 that was basically a CIA cut-out. Soros joined hands with the US State Department and NATO as a ‘civil-society’ conduit for NED & the CIA. So Soros was basically the financial guy behind Reagan’s cold-war capture plan.”

“Soros set up satellite facilities all over Europe under the protection of Reagan’s State Department to topple Governments from within. Now those same actions are being used by the Deep State CIA against Americans!”

Broader USAID-Funded Operations in America include:

• Election rigging and coups

• Funding BLM/Antifa riots and the J6 frame job against Trump

• Funding bioweapons, population control, weather manipulation, abortion, cloud seeding

• Funding Hamas, cartels, BlackRock, Koch libertarians, CCP influence, corrupt judges, connections to J6, assassination attempts on Trump.

• Soros was not originally an independent left-wing billionaire activist, but a key financial operator partnered with Reagan-era US foreign policy (via the State Department, NED, and CIA cut-outs) to facilitate the “capture” of post-communist countries during the Cold War’s end.

• This allowed hedge funds (like BlackRock) and connected elites to profit enormously from currency speculation, privatization fire sales, and market access—creating a uni-party “swamp” dynamic that persists today. Trump’s disruption of this system explains elite opposition to him.

• Partners include corporate interests who want open borders and totally free trade (US Chamber of Commerce, Koch Libertarians) and financial backers.

• Soros bet on currencies of countries targeted for regime change and transition, profiting from advance knowledge.

• Privatization of state assets at bargain prices benefited Western hedge funds (”dumpster dive” trillions in assets, especially Russia/Ukraine).

• Soros set up networks across Europe under US protection—the same tools now allegedly turned inward. Both parties (including Reagan Republicans, RINOs, Clintons, Bidens, Obamas, etc.) benefited.

• The Reagan Library’s Never Trump stance is explained by defense of this system.

• Trump sought to dismantle these entrenched power factions (like JFK/RFK/Nixon tried and failed). That’s why they hate him so and are infected with TDS.

This is why I believe President Trump surrounded himself with battle-tested players who understand the USAID machinery:

Scott Bessent, who grasps how Soros-style financial networks operate; Marco Rubio at State, who is executing the overhaul of foreign aid and folding remaining USAID functions into a national-interest-focused Department of State; Pete Hegseth at Defense, with his media and military background - who rejects endless foreign adventures dressed up as democracy promotion; Vice President J.D. Vance, who provides the intellectual backbone for putting American workers and sovereignty first; and Bill Pulte, who knows how to follow the money, and is firing Deep State CIA operatives embedded in the IC and every Federal agency.

Now, let’s talk about Soros and Reagan. The history has to be told and I’m not telling you this to be inflammatory. This may upset you but here goes…I believe in telling the whole truth…

Why did the Reagan Library become hard-core Never Trump? Reagan inherited, in 1980, a CIA whose name was dirt. The CIA had been RIGHTLY dragged through the mud in the 1970’s for coups and assassinations. Now they wanted redemption.

JFK, RFK and Richard Nixon all pledged to dismantle the operations wing of the CIA. We all know what happened to them. There are two sides of the CIA - the operations wing and the intelligence wing. The operations wing is the one that overthrows Governments with Color Revolutions like George Floyd.

Reagan saw a need for the intelligence arm of the CIA to accomplish Reagan’s Cold War goals but the Democrats back then hated the CIA. So Reagan created the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in 1983 that was basically a CIA cut-out that would benefit both Republicans and Democrats and would do what the CIA used to do.

Reagan wanted to liberate Europe from Communism by creating insurgency movements all over that were aligned with the US. The US Government benefited but so did corporate stakeholders who wanted a global audience (an example would be Pizza Hut opening in Russia and suddenly getting new customers.)

Corporations could capture new markets and hundreds of millions of people would become customers of US corporations. That was the goal of the US Chamber of Commerce lobby and libertarians like the Kochs and the Murdochs. There are a whole host of benefits to the US when they politically capture a country - cheap labor, favorable trade treatment, supply lines, etc.

Reagan was a cowboy and partnered with the corporate interests, like the Koch Libertarian Chamber of Commerce, which in turn partnered with the money folks.

The financial backers (hedge funds) in London and on Wall Street were all betting on the currencies of the countries the NED, CIA, and State Department were working to capture and overthrow during the Cold War. Enter George Soros.

Soros started the Open Society Foundation in 1979 in South Africa as a tax loophole for his kids. In the early 80s, he joined hands with the US State Department and NATO as a “civil-society” conduit for NED & the CIA.

So Soros was basically the financial guy behind Reagan’s cold-war capture plan. Who knew? Not me.

Soros was a New York hedge fund guy and speculating on the currencies in Europe. He’s now worth $30 BILLION because of that partnership with the US State Department and advance knowledge of their plans to overturn Governments.

This is the ultimate version of insider trading and a great example of the uni-party swamp alliance. Soros was used by BOTH parties (including anti-Communist right-wing Republicans) to navigate the cold war - which we allegedly won when the Berlin wall fell. But Old Communists don’t stay down - they just rebrand and move on. That’s where we are today.

Soros knew, back then, in advance, which countries were going to be toppled and what would happen to their currency. Beyond the benefits of anti-Communism, all of these Communist countries held collectively TRILLIONS of dollars of publicly held assets (especially Russia.)

The moment you move from a Communist country to a private economy all of those assets go up in a fire sale to be bought by London and Wall Street hedge funds and their clients! Politicians all take a cut just like they did in Russia and Ukraine!

These hedge funds get to dumpster dive all the Federally held and publicly held assets of the people who lived in those countries. George Soros & his Harvard pals could gobble up those assets at bargain basement prices and then give a cut to the various crime families that are complicit in the schemes.

Soros set up satellite facilities all over Europe under the protection of Reagan’s State Department to topple Governments from within and bring them into the orbit of the US empire. Now those same actions are being used by the CIA against Americans!

The collapse of Communism in Russia did unlock large state-owned assets and was chaotic, corrupt, and produced oligarchs through voucher schemes and “loans-for-shares.” Western advisors played a significant role and you can bet Putin helped.

Soros was basically the key financial partner in a Reagan corporate/CIA/NED plan, used advance knowledge for massive insider currency profits, engineered the looting of trillions via fire-sale privatizations for Wall Street/London with political kickbacks, and that the identical machinery is now run by the Deep State CIA against Americans.

USAID is a money laundering front for the CIA and it’s run through the State Department. They use it to launder BILLIONS of our tax dollars for coups, false flags, election rigging, lawfare, fake prosecutions, whatever, under the guise of AID for starving children. This has been going on for decades. They have STOLEN trillions from the American people.

Marco Rubio is Trump’s new Secretary of State. One of his first acts was to cancel 83% of USAID programs!

Former Secretaries of States that knew about this fraud and did nothing are:

• Colin Powell

• Condoleezza Rice

• Hillary Clinton

• John Kerry

• Victoria Nuland (Undersecretary)

• Rex Tillerson

• Mike Pompeo

• Tony Blinken

John Dulles was Secretary of State under Eisenhower in 1953 and likely helped his brother, Allen Dulles, set this up. John Foster Dulles’s brother was Allen Welsh Dulles, who served as the first civilian director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1952.

Since then, TRILLIONS of dollars have been stolen by the CIA through USAID at the State Department. That’s how they fund all their coups and operations like MK ULTRA to brainwash patsies and informants and OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD to control the media and brainwash the public.

Why does it still thrive today?

RFK JR: “Victoria Nuland is married to Bob Kagen [of the Brookings Institute] - she is not Democrat or Republican. These are people with an agenda that says until the entire world is garrisoned by US forces and is converted forcibly to some form of rule that THEY approve - the world will not be safe and we must continue to fight. Those are the people who are driving it for the military industrial complex.

USAID was first created by President JFK through a 1961 executive order as an agency of the State Department. I’m sure he quickly came to regret that! Kennedy fired Allen Dulles as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. The function of the CIA is to provide the military industrial complex, my Uncle JFK discovered this, with this pipeline of continual new wars. That money is being paid by the American middle class. That's why we don't have a middle class in this country. It’s being gutted for these operations.”

Victoria Nuland and Robert "Bob" Kagan are a prominent American married couple who have spent decades at the center of U.S. foreign policy. They are widely recognized as a highly influential Washington "power couple" whose career paths have heavily shaped modern American global strategy.

Together, Victoria Nuland and Robert "Bob" Kagan have guided six presidential administrations across both political parties all the way back to Reagan. While Robert Kagan provides the intellectual arguments for American global primacy from elite think tanks and publishes his work at the Washington Post, Victoria Nuland has spent decades operating the actual levers of power inside the State Department. Thank goodness they are NOT INFLUENCING the Trump administration!

The Trump Doctrine is the opposite of this. He does not want to occupy other nations or force them to become clones of America. He does not want to spend taxpayer dollars forcing regime change across the world — he knows that doesn't work. That's why, instead of an occupation, he backed Delcy Rodríguez to replace Maduro, pushing Venezuela to stop destabilizing the region and start rebuilding as a partner to America rather than an adversary. He's pursuing the same approach with Iran — squeezing the regime until it can no longer export terror across the Middle East or choke off global oil supply.

Trump wants global peace, and a world of nations with their own distinct cultures AND borders that complement each other instead of warring with each other. He isn't trying to remake the world in America's image or flatten it into one big globalist clone.

The system these patriots have exposed—built over 75 years with bipartisan roots to fight the Soviets, expanded through USAID, the NED, and aligned private networks, then turned against America itself—is finally under direct assault.

President Trump’s team is dismantling it piece by piece: key appointments, aggressive audits, the cancellation of the vast majority of USAID programs, and a clean rejection of endless regime-change adventures.

This is not an overnight job—you don’t erase decades of entrenched machinery in a few months—but the progress is real and accelerating. Celebrate every win. We are reclaiming America’s tools of statecraft for the American people, not a self-serving globalist machine. Stay the course, take the victories as they come, and keep pushing.

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Here are some of Mike’s words without my interpretation…

MIKE ROWE: “Jobs like pipe fitter - those are literally AI proof six-figure jobs. I do not know what’s going to happen three, five years from now. Nobody does. I’m optimistic. It’s all moving so fast it’s almost impossible for anyone to say.

There’s so many jobs that need to be done and we don’t have enough people to do them. Rebuilding to me is going to be a very big growth industry and there’s just not enough people to do it.

We have trillions in outstanding student loans held by kids who either started a four-year degree and dropped out or who got one and statistically aren’t working or not working in their chosen field.

That’s a bad number. Meanwhile, we’ve got 400,000 open jobs in construction right now. Twice that many in the defense industrial base.

It’s bananas. Not a week goes by when I don’t get a call from some CEO of some consequential company or an elected official (governors mostly) and they’re freaking out. They’ve done the math. For every five trades people who retire - two come in - it’s been that way for about 12 years now, The arithmetic is is horrifying. I’m telling you they are in a panic. Any company that has a blue-collar workforce is going full on.

Farley told me he’s got 5,000 empty bays at Ford. These are AI-proof six figure jobs, right? 120,000 a year. You can’t fill them. You can’t fill them. They’re out there. They’re everywhere.

Electricians that we trained 6 years ago are making $230,000 a year… right now. No college debt, they’re setting their own schedules, more overtime than they can fill.

There are 7 Million men—able-bodied men, mostly young—who are what they call NILF, not in the labor force. This is different than unemployed. Unemployed means you’re looking but you can’t find a job. This means NOT LOOKING.

When I look at 400,000, 500,000 open jobs and I look at those 7 million able-bodied men not even looking at the jobs at all…I can draw a pretty straight line to every calamity that we’re talking about right now, whether it’s student debt, those 7 Million men not working, or all these open jobs. It started with the removal of shop class.

The NILFs are not contributing anything to their community. What are they doing? On average, they’re spending between 2,000 and 2,1000 hours a year on their screen. We just haven’t seen the likes of it before. How are they able to survive? This is the biggest reason for two decades of social decay: screens replaced face-to-face human contact.

They just hate our generation (Boomers) except when we give them money. That’s always okay. It’s always okay when you get Daddy’s money. Then the Boomers aren’t so bad.

The ideas, the stigmas, the stereotypes, the myths, the misconceptions that surround open jobs right now - many of which are in trades and manufacturing. You DON’T need a college degree for everything.

Within the Democrat Party right now, 59% of Democrats who support socialism have college degrees, 40% who support socialism DON’T.

So this thing that’s being called a workers uprising? It’s really not. This is happening because a lot of people with a really expensive college degrees are in the hole in a big way, and they’re pissed.

More than a few [of these college educated Democrats without jobs] have called for the complete dismantling of capitalism, free markets, representative government, property rights, borders, police, prisons, and the Constitution in general.

The Communists they support and currently running for office have clearly identified themselves as such. They do not dispute or reject the label. They embrace it. It is who they are, who they claim to be, and who they want to be.

I think there’s a lot of room for improvement in our country, and I believe the best way to realize those improvements is for Democrats and Republicans to have continuous, robust and public debate about all the issues. But the Democrats are trying to turn our country into a Communist state - they are actively trying to destroy it. And really, what’s the point of tolerating that?”

Separately, research cited alongside the segment referenced a study that scanned the brains of 60 preschool-age children and found that interactive screen time was associated with reduced white matter — the brain’s wiring system connecting different regions for thinking, movement, emotion, and learning.

Professor Mike Nagel, cited in that research, described the finding in terms of measurable brain damage, noting that deficits in myelin production early in life would likely correspond to deficits in neural connectivity, and that the study found greater screen exposure correlated with greater white-matter loss.

While Mike Rowe was on Maher pushing blue-collar jobs like pipe fitters, mechanics and electricians - President Trump held a historic roundtable with the mining industry where he announced over $3 billion in projects to revitalize the industry and over $180 million in mining school investments to educate and bolster the American mining workforce. The goal is to secure domestic supply chains for critical minerals, replenish military stockpiles, and actively counter Communist China’s dominance in the sector.

He then joked about how Hillary wanted miners to ‘learn to code’ and ‘build chips’ instead of do manly work:

“There was a woman named Hillary Clinton and she wanted the miners of West Virginia to learn how to make chips, tiny little chips with their BIG STRONG HANDS. They were not thrilled. They didn’t want to be doing that. They wanted to be in the mines. That’s what they wanted to do. They didn’t want to do anything else. That was unbelievable that she said that. She didn’t get it. That’s why I won by 55 points.”

In the end, Mike Rowe’s appearance on Bill Maher and President Trump’s mining roundtable the same day illuminate the same hard truth: America still runs on the skilled hands of people willing to do the dirty, essential work that keeps the lights on, the factories humming, and the supply chains secure.

While millions of able-bodied men sit out of the labor force and hundreds of thousands of high-paying trades jobs go unfilled, the administration is putting real money behind mining schools, critical-minerals projects, and the workers who actually want to dig, weld, and build.

That stands in stark contrast to the tone-deaf notion—whether from Hillary Clinton in 2016 or others since—that miners should simply retrain for jobs their “big strong hands” were never meant to do.

Rowe’s message and Trump’s actions both point the same direction: stop stigmatizing blue-collar work, reopen the path to it, and let Americans who still value making and extracting things rebuild the country the only way it has ever been rebuilt—with sweat, skill, and dignity.

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The investigation was opened on May 16, 2017 — exactly one week after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe authorized and opened the case against Trump.

The Obama-era FBI’s rationale for opening the investigation was that Trump had fired Comey because Trump was acting as a Russian agent! In reality, Trump fired Comey because Comey had violated Justice Department policy in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

By the time Obama’s FBI opened Oxferd C0mma, its own agents already knew the central Trump/Russia-collusion narrative was a lie:

• The Steele dossier had been exposed as unverified opposition research and fabrications.

• Agents had already concluded Trump was not a Russian agent.

• Peter Strzok had texted Lisa Page that there was “no big there, there.”

• The Bureau knew Carter Page was a CIA operational contact, not a Russian asset.

• Lead agent William Barnett had found no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion and wanted off the case, describing it as “a bad game of Clue.”

Despite all of this, the FBI still opened the full criminal investigation into the sitting president and used it to help secure the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — the same official who knew Comey had been fired for violating DOJ policy on the Clinton emails — allowed the case against Trump to proceed and authorized Mueller’s appointment. The opening was signed off by FBI General Counsel James Baker and Counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap.

Download the documents and read them here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/08/fbi-secretly-opened-probe-alleging-trump-fired-comey-because-he-was-a-russian-asset-declassified-memos-show/

The task force not only released the documents that President Trump and White House Counsel Dave Warrington declassified but also assembled a stack of prior evidence that contradicted Oxferd C0mma’s predicate for criminally investigating President Trump to begin with!

Why the Deliberate Misspelling?

JEFF CLARK: “Good grief, it’s even worse than I thought. They didn’t just deliberately misspell Oxford as Oxferd, they substituted in a zero ( 0 ) for an “o” so that it’s not Comma, it’s C0mma. Totally designed to foil FOIA requests. It should be investigated as an obstruction of justice. Comey even joked about it online.”

Why the Name “Oxferd C0mma”?

Oxford is in England — and the naming points to where the operation was actually run.

The theory goes like this: The Obama-era CIA, FBI, and MI6 officials ran the anti-Trump operation out of England to create deniability for the White House, using Britain’s two oldest universities — Oxford and Cambridge — as institutional cover.

Here’s who’s alleged to have been involved in the operation to remove Trump, in sequence:

Gina Haspel — then the CIA’s Chief of Station in London — is alleged to have overseen the anti-Trump operation from there.

Stefan Halper, a CIA operative who claims two Oxford and Cambridge PhDs, allegedly used that academic standing as cover. Halper is also a veteran of Nixon-era “dirty tricks” operations tied to the HW Bush family, connecting him to the effort that framed Nixon in Watergate. Halper is also alleged to have been the FBI informant who fed fabricated “intelligence” on Trump to Andrew McCabe, providing McCabe grounds to open Oxferd Comma.

Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6 and a Master of a Cambridge college, is Halper’s longtime friend and business partner. Dearlove is separately described as a friend of Andrew McCabe — the two reportedly appeared together on a podcast.

Christopher Steele, another Cambridge-connected figure, worked for Dearlove earlier in his career and was endorsed by him. Steele is alleged to have coordinated his claims with Halper’s.

John McLaughlin, the former acting CIA director, was reportedly at Oxford around the time of the operation and is described as a friend of Dearlove’s, having visited Cambridge while the operation was allegedly being organized.

Alan Kohler, the FBI’s representative in London, allegedly ran both Steele and Halper as assets. Kohler is separately alleged to have later organized the Mar-a-Lago raid, which was designed to retrieve the original Crossfire Hurricane documents.

If you’re just catching up, here’s the full picture — from what “Russiagate” even was, to what the new declassified documents show, to the theory now circulating about who ran the operation and why.

Background: What Was “Crossfire Hurricane”?

In July 2016, the Obama FBI opened an investigation called Crossfire Hurricane into whether the Trump campaign had ties to Russian election interference. That investigation became the foundation for years of “Russiagate” coverage, congressional hearings, and eventually the Mueller Special Counsel probe.

Two things about Crossfire Hurricane matter for understanding what came next:

• It relied heavily on the Steele dossier, a set of unverified claims compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, alleging Trump-Russia coordination.

• By the time Trump took office in January 2017, the Obama-era FBI agents, working for James Comey, who were working the case were already privately expressing doubts. Investigators had cleared former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn of collusion allegations, and lead agent Peter Strzok texted colleague Lisa Page that there was “no big there, there.”

The Comey Firing — and a New Investigation

On May 9, 2017, Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. The White House’s stated reason at the time was Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

One week later, on May 16, 2017, the FBI opened a new, separate investigation into President Trump — code-named Oxferd C0mma. This is the subject of this week’s declassification.

Unlike Crossfire Hurricane, which investigated the Trump campaign, Oxferd Comma investigated Trump personally, as sitting president, on the theory that firing Comey was itself evidence he was “wittingly or unwittingly” acting on behalf of the Russian government. Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe opened the case and briefed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein the same day. Mueller was appointed Special Counsel the very next day, May 17 — and Oxferd C0mma was folded into his investigation.

Why Critics Say the Case Shouldn’t Have Been Opened

The newly declassified material is being paired with previously known facts that, taken together, raise the question of why the FBI opened a criminal counterintelligence case on a president rather than simply accepting the stated personnel reason for Comey’s firing:

• The Steele dossier’s credibility problems were already known to investigators.

• Flynn had already been cleared of collusion.

• Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser named in the dossier, had previously served as a CIA operational contact — the opposite of a “Russian stooge,” as critics have put it.

• William Barnett, one of the lead agents on the underlying case, had concluded there was no evidence of collusion and reportedly wanted off the investigation.

• Rosenstein — who authorized Mueller’s appointment — was the same official who had written the memo describing Comey’s handling of the Clinton email case as the grounds for his firing. Critics argue he therefore knew the stated reason for the firing was legitimate, yet let the Russia-agent theory proceed anyway.

None of this proves misconduct on its own — but it’s the reason the timing (Comey fired → Oxferd C0mma opened seven days later → Mueller appointed the day after that) is the center of the current controversy.

Jeff Clark, a former acting assistant attorney general, has also alleged the code name’s odd spelling — “Oxferd” and “C0mma” with a zero substituted for a letter — was a deliberate attempt to make the case harder to find in FOIA searches.

That’s the long and the short of it. In the end, if nothing else, the new declassifications provide more evidence that Barack Obama, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Stefan Halper, Gina Haspel, Rod Rosenstein, Richard Dearlove, Alan Kohler, John McLaughlin, Robert Mueller, James Baker and Bill Priestap - in addition to countless others - were part of multiple Globalist left-wing operations designed to take out President Trump.

In addition, declassified documents also released today confirm that a hacker stole 633,000 VOTER FILES just before the 2020 election in Maricopa County (Phoenix, Arizona.) The hacker destroyed the files when he was raided by the FBI and CONFESSED to the illegal hacking. The Arizona Attorney's Office DECLINED to prosecute the hacker.

That happened the night before Bret Baier and Fox News suddenly declared Biden the winner of Arizona and handed him the White House!

The same Obama-tied network that manufactured a false Russia predicate against a sitting president in 2017 did not simply disappear once Mueller’s investigation ended. It stayed in place, refined its methods, and resurfaced in 2020—this time targeting the election itself. That ongoing conspiracy, run by parties and agencies and coup plotters connected all over the world, is the basis for a RICO racketing case!

The newly released Oxferd C0mma documents and the simultaneous exposure of the Maricopa County voter-file hack are not isolated scandals. They are sequential chapters in one continuous operation: intelligence services, foreign partners, and “captured media” working in concert to remove Trump from power by any means necessary. The Arizona evidence that also dropped today makes the continuity impossible to ignore.

The “captured media” isn’t just NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC and CBS - it includes Fox News and the fake influencers like Tucker, Alex Jones, Candace and others…

Rupert Murdoch - the owner of Fox News - is the worst kind of “captured media” to MAGA. Why do I say that? Let’s look at some history…

Murdoch hired Roger Ailes to build Fox News - and Roger (a friend to Trump) did a great job - then Murdoch framed Roger and got rid of him (then he died) and then Murdoch replaced Ailes with Paul Ryan (Koch Libertarian snake) and his liberal sons.

Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes created Fox News together in 1996, built a conservative media powerhouse, and then Murdoch dumped Ailes and handed the keys to Paul Ryan and Murdoch’s liberal sons in 2016 to go after Trump!

So, the entire Murdoch network (New York Post, Fox News, Wall Street Journal) is now run by a bunch of left-wing Commies out of Australia pretending to be Republicans!

BANNON: “YOUR OWNER, RUPERT MURDOCH, SHOULD BE DENATURALIZED IMMEDIATELY.

Murdoch was not an American citizen when he wanted to buy the Fox network, and federal law required American ownership. So the political establishment made him a citizen in the middle of the night to get the deal done. Rupert Murdoch became a naturalized U.S. citizen on September 4, 1985, under Reagan, at the age of 54, during a ceremony at a federal district court in New York!

The U.S. Communications Act of 1934 prohibited foreign nationals from owning more than 20% of a domestic television station. Because Murdoch was Australian, he could not legally buy the stations he wanted without becoming an American citizen.

In 1985, Murdoch and his partner Marvin Davis agreed to purchase Metromedia’s television stations for $2 billion. This group of stations included major markets like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. To satisfy the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and finalize the purchase, Murdoch had to rapidly naturalize as a U.S. citizen.

Murdoch used these newly acquired Metromedia stations to create the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986 and the Reagan administration let him do that.

That is how power works in Washington.

Now Murdoch’s New York Post, Fox News, Wall Street Journal and the rest of his controlled-opposition empire pretend to represent conservatives while pushing the same liberal policies that have wrecked this country for decades.

The truth is they are owned by a bunch of progressive Australians (Communists and Koch Libertarian RINOs) that should be DENATURALIZED and deported.

That’s why I take everything Fox News reports with a grain of salt. The same with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. They often report half-truths and misleading headlines to keep you from knowing the whole story!

REMEMBER. When the chips are down - none of them can be trusted to put AMERICA FIRST.

It’s obvious now that the Globalist left-wing Islamo-Communists, embedded in the “captured media” and every nation on earth, conspired together to take down President Trump and MAGA.

Not only did the Globalist left work with Fauci, Gates and Communist China to release COVID, they worked with Iran and Cuba and Venezuela to subvert our elections and with Comey, Haspel and UK intelligence to frame a sitting President. Put nothing past them!

And here’s the final insult: American taxpayers footed the bill for all of it.

Over the past decade, the Mueller special counsel investigation alone to frame Trump cost nearly $32 million. John Durham’s subsequent probe into the origins of the Russia investigation added several million more. Those are just the formal special-counsel line items.

Add the un-itemized FBI costs for Crossfire Hurricane and Oxferd C0mma, the congressional investigations, the IG reviews, the endless legal and administrative overhead, and the total easily climbs into the BILLIONS—money extracted from ordinary Americans to fund a multi-year smear and persecution campaign against Trump and MAGA that, according to the newly declassified documents and the mountain of prior evidence, rested on a predicate the Bureau’s own agents already knew was false.

That is what this operation cost the country in pure cash. The damage to trust in the FBI, the Justice Department, and the intelligence community is harder to price, but every taxpayer who paid for Oxferd C0mma, Crossfire Hurricane, and the Mueller circus got the bill.

Hopefully, one day soon, we will see the Globalists held accountable! I hope Special U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova will treat the opening of Oxferd C0mma as an overt act in the widespread GLOBAL criminal RICO conspiracy to violate President Trump’s civil liberties and destroy America!

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I honestly have no idea if what Sundance says is true - but he’s often correct so I always consider his analysis. But, I find it hard to believe Russia is winning the battle - based on everything I’ve read. Here’s an alternate take based on the map, the casualties, and what’s happening at Russian gas stations right now.

Russia’s position today (early August 2026) is substantially weaker than at its peak in the war, both territorially and in terms of military momentum, sustainability, and strategic outlook.

Russia’s high-water mark came in late March 2022, shortly after the full-scale invasion, when its forces controlled roughly 27% of Ukraine (around 163,000 km²). This included large areas approaching Kyiv, significant parts of the north (Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv approaches), and a broad southern corridor linking Crimea to the Donbas.

Ukrainian counter-offensives in autumn 2022 (Kharkiv and Kherson) rolled much of that back. By late 2022, Russian control had fallen to about 18–19%. Since then, Russia has made gradual gains focused on the Donbas and limited border areas, bringing the figure back to roughly 19–20% (around 110,000–120,000 km² including Crimea and pre-2022 holdings in Donbas). Net Russian gains since the end of 2022 amount to only a small percentage of Ukraine’s total territory.

In 2026 specifically, the rate of advance has slowed dramatically. Russia seized or infiltrated far less territory in the first half of 2026 than in the same period of 2025 (roughly 28% as much in some ISW comparisons). There were periods of net Russian territorial loss in spring 2026. Current monthly advances are often measured in tens of square kilometers at best—sometimes less than the area of Manhattan in an entire month—versus much higher rates earlier in the war or even in 2025.

- Peak momentum: Early 2022 featured rapid armored advances. Later relative peaks (e.g., parts of 2024–2025) still saw higher daily/weekly gains than today.

- Today: Russian forces retain the initiative in some sectors (especially around the Donetsk “fortress belt” near Kostiantynivka, Kramatorsk, and Sloviansk) and continue limited tactical pressure, but the spring-summer 2026 offensive has produced no operationally significant breakthroughs. Advances occur at a “footpace” amid dense Ukrainian drone, mine, and fortification defenses. Ukrainian counterattacks have liberated hundreds of square kilometers in certain directions (e.g., Oleksandrivka area) in 2026.

Russia still holds almost all of Luhansk, a large majority of Donetsk, and substantial portions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson (east bank), plus Crimea. But completing the remaining Ukrainian-held parts of Donetsk at current rates would take years, not months.

This is where the comparison is starkest. Cumulative Russian casualties are now estimated in the range of 1.4 million (including 400,000–450,000+ killed) by some Western analyses—far higher than at any earlier stage. Monthly losses in 2026 frequently run 30,000–40,000+, often exceeding recruitment. Equipment attrition remains heavy. Ukrainian intermediate- and long-range strikes on Russian oil infrastructure, logistics, and rear areas have increased economic and operational friction inside Russia itself.

Early in the war, Russia could absorb losses while advancing quickly. Today it is paying a much higher price for far smaller gains and faces greater internal economic strain.

- Territorially: Well below the March 2022 peak; roughly comparable to (or only modestly better than) the post-2022 stabilized line, despite years of grinding effort.

- Operationally/strategically: Weaker. Momentum has slowed, costs have skyrocketed, and Ukraine has developed more effective defensive and deep-strike tools. Russia retains numerical advantages and the ability to continue attritional pressure for the medium term, but it is further from its maximalist goals (full control of claimed oblasts or Ukrainian capitulation) than it appeared in early 2022, and the trajectory of advances has deteriorated relative to 2024–2025.

In short, Russia occupies significant land and has not been driven out, but its position relative to its wartime peak is diminished by slower progress, vastly higher cumulative losses, and reduced capacity for rapid or decisive operations.

Putin repeatedly states that Russia is “ready for peace talks,” but only on terms that effectively require Ukraine to accept Russian control of the full Donbas (including areas Russia does not yet hold), recognition of annexed territories (Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson), Ukrainian neutrality/no NATO path, and other political concessions. He has rejected limited proposals such as mutual pauses on long-range strikes or confining fighting to the four claimed regions, viewing them as ways for Ukraine to regroup.

Recent reporting (including from sources close to the Kremlin) indicates Putin is prioritizing the military seizure of the remainder of Donetsk before serious talks and has hardened against returning any currently occupied territory (including border areas in Sumy and Kharkiv, which he now frames as permanent “buffer zones”). He has publicly dismissed direct meetings with Zelenskyy as pointless for now and frames Western calls for ceasefires as attempts to buy Ukraine time.

Analysts note that while Putin tolerates some elite discussion of ending the war, his actions suggest he is not yet ready to settle for less than his core goals. The war serves domestic political purposes (unity, legitimacy, great-power narrative) and he appears to believe Russia can still outlast Ukraine or extract better terms later.

There are incentives for Russia to negotiate—primarily the mounting human, economic, and operational costs—but they have not yet overridden Putin’s determination to achieve (or at least claim) a version of victory on his terms.

The home front is where this really shows.

While the front lines have frozen into a war of inches, something more revealing is happening inside Russia itself.

Ukraine changed its targeting strategy this year and started hammering Russian refineries directly — and it’s working better than three-plus years of Western sanctions ever did. Fuel shortages have now hit nearly every region in the country. Rationing is in place across more than half of Russia. Drivers are waiting hours at the pump, and even Putin has been forced to publicly admit the shortages are real, though he’s calling them manageable. Refinery output is running at roughly two-thirds of normal capacity. Russia — one of the largest oil producers on the planet — is now buying gasoline from Kazakhstan to keep its own pumps running.

That’s not a talking point. That’s a nuclear-armed petrostate that can’t keep gas stations open.

The public mood is catching up to it. Recent polling shows 60% of Russians now say the economy is getting worse — the worst reading in twenty years of surveys. Inflation is running above target, growth forecasts have been slashed, and the budget deficit has doubled.

And now the elite are getting nervous too — which is the part worth watching closest. For most of this war, Russia’s oligarchs did what they always do: kept quiet, kept their money moving offshore, let Putin run the show. That’s cracking at the edges. The head of Russia’s largest bank has reportedly pushed back on the Kremlin, accusing it of wrecking the economy rather than accept a peace deal that looks like a loss. A prominent billionaire has publicly appealed to the West for economic relief. Reports say wealthy Russians are quietly moving billions out of the country, and security around Putin’s own residence has reportedly been tightened. Even state TV had a moment of the mask slipping — one of the Kremlin’s top propagandists admitted on air that the war was a mistake.

Here’s the caveat, though — and it matters: none of this means a coup is coming. Russia’s elite haven’t had a real mechanism to challenge Putin in years. The system was built specifically to prevent that kind of pushback — no institutional levers, no political outlet, nothing but personal loyalty and fear. Grumbling oligarchs protecting their fortunes are not the same thing as oligarchs positioned to act. We’ve seen “elite disappointment” reported before, more than a year ago, and it went nowhere.

So the honest read is this: Putin was supposed to take Kyiv in days back in February 2022. Four and a half years later, he’s got a fraction of the country, an army bleeding tens of thousands a month, and a domestic fuel crisis his own state media can no longer paper over. That’s not collapse. But it’s the first time the cost of this war has become something an ordinary Russian can see with their own eyes, standing in a gas line — and that’s a very different kind of pressure than another sanctions package out of Brussels.

In addition, Putin is losing his “mercenary army” he once relied on to saber rattle for him. Hamas and Hezbollah are part of Russia’s anti-Western axis that Putin has spent years positioning himself at the center of, alongside Iran, Syria’s old regime, and Venezuela. And that whole bloc has taken a beating, thanks to Trump, while Russia sat on its hands.

The pattern, in order:

Syria, December 2024 — Assad fell to a rebel offensive. He was Russia’s oldest client in the region, hosting Russian naval and air bases since 2015. Moscow offered him nothing but a plane out and exile. Russia’s Syrian foothold — the thing that let it project power into the Mediterranean and Africa — collapsed with him.

Venezuela, January 2026 — US forces captured Maduro directly.

Maduro had leaned on Russia for support as pressure mounted; Russia gave him rhetoric and nothing else.

Iran, 2026 — This is the big one, and it’s worth flagging clearly since it happened well outside typical news cycles: the US and Israel launched a full air campaign against Iran in 2026, and the strikes killed Supreme Leader Khamenei himself. Iran is Russia’s most functionally important partner in this whole list — Tehran supplies the Shahed drones Russia has been raining on Ukrainian cities, and licensed local production of them inside Russia. Moscow had actually urged restraint before the strikes and then did nothing when they came.

Hezbollah — already “decapitated” (their word, not mine) in the 2024 war with Israel, then dragged back into the fight when Iran’s war broke out, taking another round of Israeli airstrikes and a ground incursion into southern Lebanon.

Hamas — militarily hollowed out as a force capable of threatening Israel, though not eliminated as an organization.

Russia’s credibility as a patron is getting shredded in front of every other authoritarian regime watching — China, North Korea and the Gulf states are hedging their bets. Trump is showing the world that Russia is a paper tiger.

One analyst put it well: Moscow has been “unable to rescue allies on the verge of collapse” again and again, precisely because it’s tied down and bled out in Ukraine. Assad begged, got a spare bedroom. Maduro begged, got a statement. Iran didn’t even get a real warning.

Russia’s weakness isn’t just showing up on the battlefield or in the fuel lines. It’s showing up in currency markets eight time zones away, in a crisis that traces straight back to the same conflict dragging Moscow’s whole BRICS alliance network down with it.

Because while Putin’s mercenary bloc collapses one client at a time, the war he’s still fighting is doing something else entirely — it’s reshaping how Washington runs the global financial system.

Bessent appears to be building Bretton Woods 2.0 and Iran is the fuse.

Bannon’s “War Room” is out there asking why Trump is “bailing out” Japan, framing it like Washington’s playing defense, caught flat-footed by a currency crisis it didn’t see coming.

That’s backwards. As usual, Bannon gets it wrong by trying to make Trump look stupid without the “mastermind” Bannon behind him. I think Trump’s strategy with Japan is offense.

Scott Bessent is engineering a “Bretton Woods 2.0” by strategically stabilizing the Japanese yen to reinforce a U.S. dollar-centered global system, rather than simply offering a bailout. The initiative aims to prevent a massive fire sale of U.S. Treasuries by Japan while countering BRICS initiatives and sending a message to Beijing, all while navigating the volatility caused by the Iran war.

The Old System Died Once Already

Bretton Woods — the 1944 framework that pegged global currencies to the dollar and the dollar to gold — died in 1971 when Nixon ended gold convertibility. Nixon had to do that because massive military spending on the Vietnam War and foreign aid flooded the world with U.S. dollars. Foreign nations demanded gold for those dollars, threatening to empty America's remaining gold reserves.

What replaced Bretton Woods wasn’t a new set of rules. It was a floating-rate system held together by habit: the dollar stayed dominant because the world kept using it, not because anyone signed a new treaty saying it had to.

Japan’s postwar model was cheap, centrally-directed credit. That built a historic bubble. The bubble popped, and Japan spent decades stuck at zero rates, unable to escape its own policy. The U.S. ran the same playbook after 2008 — QE, suppressed rates, the whole script — and landed in the same trap. Both economies are now buried under debt too large to survive a real normalization of interest rates.

That era is ending. And the place it’s ending fastest is Japan.

As the conflict pushed oil prices higher, the yen cratered. It broke past 160 to the dollar in late March — its weakest level since Tokyo last had to intervene back in July 2024 — driven straight by the oil shock coming out of the Middle East. Tokyo’s own numbers tell the story: the government was forced to raise its crude oil price assumption from $68 to $92.50 a barrel and slash its growth forecast down to 0.9%.

By June, Japan’s import bill hit a record high, driven by crude, even with U.S.-Iran peace talks underway — the war’s damage to trade and logistics didn’t stop just because the diplomats started talking.

Last week the yen hit its worst level since 1986, sliding to 163.73 before rebounding to 157.57 after the U.S. and Japan ran their first coordinated yen-buying intervention since 1998.

This week Bessent went further, pushing to expand the Fed’s FIMA Repo Facility so Japan can raise dollars without dumping Treasuries outright. That matters because Japan is sitting on $1.14 trillion in U.S. Treasuries — the largest foreign holding on earth. Force Tokyo into a fire sale to defend its own currency, and American borrowing costs spike at the worst possible moment.

They’re Calling It Friendship. It’s Strategy.

Officially, Washington’s playing it soft. Trump called the intervention “a signal of friendship.” Treasury told reporters it was just a response to disorderly market conditions, nothing more.

Don’t buy the modesty. Even the analysts watching this closely are saying the quiet part out loud — one Tokyo-based strategist put it plainly: stabilizing the yen “sends a geopolitical message to Beijing,” because China responds to actions, not words.

That’s the real play. A stable Japan is a Japan that can keep the financial screws on Iran, keep standing next to Washington against China, and keep functioning as the load-bearing wall of the dollar system while the rest of it gets rebuilt. Bessent isn’t rescuing an ally out of sentiment. He’s keeping a critical piece of the board from falling over while he rewrites the rules around it.

What’s Next

Four things to watch:

Does the Fed actually sign off on the FIMA expansion. That’s the real test of whether Bessent can direct monetary tools, not just jawbone markets. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s willingness to go along with it is the tell.

Does the Bank of Japan resume rate hikes. Intervention buys time. It doesn’t fix anything. A durable yen needs Tokyo to tighten into an already fragile economy — that’s a second fault line stacked on the first.

Does the Iran war actually wind down. The yen’s pain is downstream of oil, and oil is downstream of the war. A real de-escalation does more for Tokyo than any amount of dollar-buying ever will.

How Beijing answers. If this is a message to China, the next move isn’t Washington’s. It’s what China does with its own currency and its own Treasury holdings in response. That’s the piece nobody’s watching yet — and it’s the one that matters most.

Japan gets propped up because a disorderly yen threatens the system Bessent is constructing. China gets pressured because an artificially cheap yuan threatens the same system, just from the other direction. Both moves are really one move — forcing every major currency into alignment with a dollar-centered order that Washington still writes the rules for.

Bessent isn’t reacting to any of this. He’s forcing it.

How it hurts BRICS:

Bessent stabilizing the yen is Bessent defending the idea that the US dollar-centered system still works — that when a currency breaks, Washington has the tools and the will to fix it. Every successful intervention is a counter-narrative to “the dollar system is fragile and BRICS is the alternative.”

Putin and Xi created BRICS in 2008 as a scheme to replace the US dollar. We’ve been battling that ever since. Trump is the only President actually fighting back - his predecessors rolled over and decided to let America fail and our enemies win!

The dollar still cleared roughly 89% of global FX transactions in the most recent BIS survey — that share actually rose slightly from 2022 to 2025, not fell. A functioning Bretton Woods 2.0, even a Bessent-engineered one, is bad for the “dollar is collapsing” propaganda that BRICS spews.

The Iran war is the live testing ground for BRICS de-dollarization mechanics.

As of late March, Iran began charging yuan-denominated transit tolls for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz — tolls reportedly reaching $2 million per voyage, with at least 20 vessels transiting under the arrangement. At the same time, Indian refiners settled roughly 60 million barrels a month of Russian crude in yuan and UAE dirhams instead of dollars, with Indian Oil Corporation making some direct yuan payments outright. That’s the same war that’s crushing the yen also functioning as BRICS’s proof-of-concept for bypassing the dollar in energy trade.

Bessent has stated that in ongoing Iranian negotiations, Iran will invoice oil sales in dollars again. He has similarly highlighted Venezuela’s return to dollar invoicing and framed broader administration policy as actively reinforcing the dollar as the centerpiece of global trade and energy markets.

But the BRICS bloc has explicitly disclaimed a single currency. Russia confirmed in January 2026 that talks on a unified currency “have not taken place and are not taking place now,” a position Brazil, the current BRICS president, echoed. BRICS’s own analysts caution that Iran’s Hormuz toll is a wartime measure, not a peacetime trade framework, and China has reason to move carefully since directly challenging the petrodollar strains its relationship with Washington at a moment of active trade negotiations.

Iran’s war is simultaneously fueling two competing systems — Bessent’s dollar-centered rebuild and BRICS’s parallel plumbing — off the exact same instability.

If China weakens its currency to maintain an export edge, it will directly counter Bessent’s strategy. Then, Trump can use tariffs to directly counter a weaker Chinese yuan. When China weakens the yuan, its goods become artificially cheap for American buyers, boosting Chinese exports. Trump can use targeted or blanket tariffs to erase that exact pricing advantage. Don’t you wish more people understood that - including the US Supreme Court? I do.

Putin and Xi set out in 2008 to take over the world by replacing the US dollar. Putin (backed by Xi) set out in 2022 in the war against Ukraine to demonstrate Russian strength and the decline of the American-led order. Notice that both of those strategies emerged under Democrat leadership - the left in every country are all working together to destroy America! That’s why Trump always says that Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if he was in charge. TRUE.

Four and a half years later Putin holds a fraction of the territory he once approached, an army that bleeds tens of thousands of men a month for gains measured in city blocks, a domestic fuel crisis visible at every gas station, and a string of abandoned clients. The war he started has not broken the dollar system; it has handed Trump and Bessent the leverage and the urgency they need to reinforce it. Putin and Xi wanted to prove the old order was breaking. Instead they are supercharging America’s comeback - just when we need it most.

I don’t know about you but my money is on the two guys on the right side!

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PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Mike Wirth, Chairman and CEO of Chevron, just gave, in an interview with the fabulous Maria Bartiromo, all of the reasons that his company is doing so well. The only thing he conveniently forgot to mention is that, without the genius, foresight, strength, and stability, of the TRUMP Administration, the Oil Industry, and our Country itself, would be DEAD!

As an example, they threw Mike and Chevron out of Venezuela, but now they’re back, far bigger and stronger than ever before, expecting to make a fortune! That goes for other Oil Companies as well…and get your consumer (retail!) Oil Prices DOWN, NOW! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6402689356112

I said this in May. The price of gas in America is self-inflicted and they are gouging us on gas prices - and blaming Iran - and Trump knows they should be coming down much faster than they are.

Seriously, why does he have to do everything!?! As consumers, we need to demand lower prices from oil companies and retailers. Use Gas Buddy to find the lowest prices and then shame those who gouge you! DEMAND YOUR LOCAL GAS STATION LOWER PRICES!

A few months ago, the CEO of Chevron said crude would be $160 a barrel due to the Iran war - he was WRONG - it’s under $80 right now! Now they are making $12 BILLION a quarter off the US consumer while pretending they are heroes!

Make calls, write letters, hold signs - do whatever it takes! Crude oil is much lower now than under Biden! But the oil companies and gas stations are still GOUGING us! The real cost of a gallon of gas in America is about $2.30. The rest is PURE PROFIT.

Don’t believe me? Let’s look at some numbers…

In California, a gallon of regular gas now costs the consumer $5.66!

The Democrats are promoting that number as if it’s the fault of the Trump administration. Let’s look at the truth.

$1.40 of that is for California state and local taxes.

18 cents of that is Federal tax.

The actual cost today to extract and refine and distribute sweet American crude is $1.50 to $2.30 per gallon of regular gas - anything on top of that is profit in somebody’s pocket!

Cost to produce and distribute: $2.30

California taxes: $1.40

Federal tax: $.18

TOTAL: $3.88

PROFIT: $5.66-$3.88 = $1.78

California marks up gas 60% ($1.40) before they even deliver it to you! Then the retailers AND gas companies charge you another $1.78 per gallon in pure profit. It’s a racket!

Crude oil is lower than it was under the Biden administration but the oil companies are still gouging! They are making record profits off of us!

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Oil Companies must get consumer (retail!) Oil Prices DOWN, NOW! They’re making too much money. I don’t like it. I should be the last one to say that because I’m a big free enterprise guy, nobody bigger. Chevron, too much money. ExxonMobil, too much, too much money. When you look at one company where they made 12x what they made the year before, they ought to give some of that back to the public, and they better cut the retail price, the consumer price. I’ll say it loud and clear. I’m not happy about it.”

ExxonMobil and Chevron combined made $26.5 BILLION in Second Quarter 2026.

Many people say that retailers can’t set the prices. WRONG. Major gas retailers heavily rely on AI and algorithmic pricing software to decide what to charge at the pump. Chains like Kwik Trip, Walmart, 7-Eleven, Circle K, and BP use specialized enterprise software to dynamically adjust their prices to charge more. This widespread adoption of AI software has sparked massive legal pushback. Major retailers like Walmart, 7-Eleven, BP, Circle K, and Marathon are facing a prominent class-action lawsuit.

Drivers and state regulators allege that because so many direct competitors are funneling their private sales volumes and local data into the same platform (Kalibrate), the AI acts as an artificial cartel. Instead of undercutting each other to win over drivers, the algorithm allegedly keeps regional pump prices uniformly inflated by 6 to 30 cents per gallon. The ongoing lawsuit is testing strict new antitrust laws designed specifically to ban “algorithmic price-fixing.”

Please explain this to your friends and family. Most people don’t know. They want you to blame the war in Iran for everything - when our own oil companies and blue states are GOUGING us!

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It was a contentious back and forth interview with Dana Bash* of CNN - but between all the yelling I heard much truth revealed. Much of what Bobby said confirms what I reported in Part 1 and sets up what I will reveal in Part 3:

ROBERT KENNEDY JR, HEAD OF HHS: “President Trump, as you recall, wanted to end the COVID lockdowns. I think the thing that did the most damage to our country was the lockdowns — lockdowns that shut down 3.5 million businesses in our country with no due process, no just compensation. All of our churches closed, our schools closed, and our children are still paying the price for that.

And yet, after it was all over, we had the worst outcome of any country in the world. We had the highest death rate from COVID of any nation on earth because of Anthony Fauci mismanaging the COVID pandemic. President Trump wanted to end the lockdowns. In fact, in Anthony Fauci’s diaries, he talks about how President Trump is calling him every day, trying to get him to reopen the country.

Anthony Fauci was telling everyone: “You need to lock down.” There were ICUs that were empty all over the country, including in New York, at the height.

President Trump was still trying to reopen the country when he left office. Thanks to Biden and Fauci, who mismanaged the COVID pandemic, the country was kept closed for another year — almost a year and a half — after that.

People have been trying to put guardrails around viruses for generations, and it hasn’t worked. And clearly the COVID-19 pandemic, and many other global pandemics we’ve had, have come from gain-of-function research.

The RSV epidemic that we have — the biggest killer of kids in this country today — came from these kinds of [gain—of-function] experiments. Lyme disease almost certainly came from this kind of research.

And the “experts” keep saying that they need to do “gain-of-function” research to prevent the next pandemic. There is not one instance in history where research that came out of this kind of experimentation has actually provided us something beneficial…

Lyme disease almost certainly came from these experiments, which is now devastating our country. RSV came from a laboratory, which is now the biggest killer of children in our country. And of course, COVID-19... all of those have been linked credibly to gain-of-function research. So it's something with enormous cost and no proven benefits.

The principal thing that we need to do during the next pandemic is listen to what’s happening with doctors on the ground. There are 15 million front-line physicians around the world. They’re mainly now connected through the internet. We can tell on the front lines what’s working and what’s not.

If we had listened to those doctors during the COVID pandemic, we would have saved potentially millions of lives. There were therapeutics out there that were working. There were doctors who were having no deaths from COVID, treating in some cases thousands of patients. Fauci wasn’t listening to them — instead he was doing the opposite, he was shutting them down.

And the other thing I would say is that we need to protect our constitutional rights. That is the primary obligation. During COVID we completely dismantled our constitutional rights. We began censoring people, in violation of the Constitution. One of the mistakes we made last time was suppressing those rights, so people weren’t being heard. Doctors who were saying “you’re doing it wrong” were being marginalized and vilified.

The media was a big part of the problem. It was absolute press malpractice. The media’s job is supposed to be furious skepticism toward authority, and the media weren’t doing that. The media is supposed to tell the truth. Instead. they were beating up on people who were dissenting. The media were scaring people and constantly promoting how many people were dying to get people to comply.

Do you think the Covid vaccine protected children? Can you show me one study that shows that children were protected by the COVID vaccine … that the vaccine did more good than harm to children? Can you show me one study that shows that? [Trump wanted to vaccinate only the elderly and the immune compromised - he never wanted to vaccinate children or healthy young people. Biden did that - and then mandated it for everyone!]

There is not one single study that shows the COVID vaccine helped children.

The current measles outbreak is an international outbreak, and we’re doing better at handling it than any country in the world. Mexico has fifteen times the amount of measles per capita that we have. Canada has four times the amount of measles. England has two times the amount of measles.

Why are we having a measles outbreak right now? Anthony Fauci, in his diaries, answers the question of why we’re having a measles outbreak right now. The reason we’re having a measles outbreak is because of the COVID lockdowns — because children did not get vaccinated for measles during that period, and in his diaries he says this is going to cause massive outbreaks of measles and more children are going to die. He says this. He says in his diaries more children are going to die from measles because of these lockdowns from COVID.

So the age group that should have gotten the MMR measles vaccine when they’re 18 months old and didn’t get it — they’re the ones being infected. The communities that are suffering from measles are almost all religious communities that just don’t vaccinate. The Mennonites have not vaccinated since 1796, since Edward Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine.

I’ve never questioned the efficacy of the MMR vaccine. Parents should get their children vaccinated for measles. The measles vaccine is effective. It stops measles in about 97% of cases. People should get vaccinated for measles.

The President wants me to go further to probe the link between autism and vaccines.

We are investigating every possibility that could cause autism, which scientists do believe starts with fetal brain development. That’s one of the ways that we found Tylenol. There are 73 studies out there that link Tylenol exposure during later pregnancy and the perinatal period to autism onset.

None of the eight vaccines administered to babies during the first six months of life have ever been studied for a relationship to autism. I’m trying to find out why autism has exploded. Show me one of the studies that’s been done on the first eight vaccines during the first six months of life — you will not find them.

All the media knows how to do is repeat things that people told them to say and say “trust the experts.” Like parrots. That’s what they did during COVID.

Now we know that Anthony Fauci, who was the so-called expert, was lying about everything — about masks, about social distancing, about natural immunity, about transmission from the vaccine, about the source of COVID. He was lying, and the media were punishing people for not trusting Fauci.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued that COVID lockdowns—pushed by Anthony Fauci despite empty ICUs and against President Trump’s daily efforts to reopen—inflicted the greatest damage by shuttering millions of businesses, churches, and schools without due process, leaving children still suffering, while the U.S. suffered the world’s highest COVID death rate due to Fauci’s mismanagement and continued closures under Biden.

RFK Jr. linked gain-of-function research to COVID, RSV (now the top killer of U.S. children), and likely Lyme disease, claiming it has never yielded benefits, only enormous costs. He stressed that future responses must prioritize real-time input from millions of front-line doctors who found effective therapeutics that Fauci ignored or suppressed, while rigorously protecting constitutional rights against the censorship and rights erosions of the last pandemic. He also blasted the media for press malpractice in amplifying fear, attacking dissenters, and parroting “trust the experts” instead of skepticism.

RFK Jr. asserted there is no study showing COVID vaccines benefit children or outweigh harms (remember, Trump favored vaccinating only the elderly and immunocompromised.)

RFK Jr. attributed the current measles outbreak to Fauci’s lockdowns and said he favored children being vaccinated for measles, stating that the MMR vaccine was highly effective.

He also described ongoing HHS investigations into autism’s causes—including Tylenol (based on links from dozens of studies)—and noted that, contrary to reporting, there is a complete absence of studies on the safety of administering vaccines to babies during the first six months of life. RED FLAG.

Finally, he accused Fauci of lying about masks, distancing, natural immunity, vaccine transmission, and COVID’s origin.

*Dana Bash’s ex-husband, Jeremy Bash, was Obama’s CIA Chief of Staff and signed the 2020 letter claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian information operation.

He also served on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board under President Joe Biden. Jeremy Bash served as chief of staff to CIA Director Leon Panetta from 2009 to 2011 and then as chief of staff to Panetta at the Department of Defense from 2011 to 2013. He is the only Obama administration official to hold the chief-of-staff role in both agencies.

After leaving government, he co-founded Beacon Global Strategies. He has worked as an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

In October 2020, days after emails and other material from Hunter Biden’s laptop were made public, Bash was one of 51 former senior intelligence officials who signed an open letter claiming the laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

Bash himself appeared on MSNBC shortly after the letter’s release and lied for Biden and described the laptop material as looking, walking, and talking like Russian intelligence.

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In order to do that he needed to cut off the money supply and hamstring their proxies and funders. All of his stops and starts are purposeful and timed to allow him to accomplish that goal.

I predicted in a series of articles on gas prices that Trump was setting up the chess board to fix our big problem with oil and gas distribution in California and the West Coast which impacts the entire country. He highlighted this EO today. California once supplied nearly 40 percent of U.S. oil production, but decades of radical state policies targeting reliable energy sources have driven a decline in domestic output and California policies have left the region and U.S. military forces dependent on foreign oil.

The purpose is to redirect the world to the United States for energy, stop our enemies from controlling key trade and oil chokepoints around the world and stop our reliance on foreign powers for anything critical.

After 13 straight days of bombing Iran, on Thursday, President Trump announced that the Board of Peace had reached what he called a “HISTORIC agreement” for the “COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza” and then he threatened to finish the job in Iran by destroying all their power plants and bridges.

The doomers and black pillers immediately jumped up and said Trump is just crazy and that none of this makes sense and none of it will last.

Rod Martin explained it all very clearly - much better than I can.

ROD MARTIN: “Some of you are telling me the Gaza deal can’t last. You’re not seeing the whole board.

There are two default assumptions at work here.

The first is that Islamist radicals can just spontaneously produce missiles, guns, and money from thin air. They can’t.

The second is just general black pilling, which is frankly stupid. So you’re demoralized: big whoop. You’d have been more demoralized in the summer of 1940, or for that matter of 1942. And you’d have been just as wrong. Get over yourself. Look at the facts.

First, Israel beat the crap out of Hamas, one of the most bloodthirsty terrorist groups on Earth. They are as murderous with their own people as with the Israelis, and have been for decades. It is no accident that since Israel handed Gaza to the Palestinians in 2006, the Christian Arab population there has been “reduced” by 2/3. And that’s not a lot different from the West Bank Palestinians, who upon gaining control of Bethlehem “reduced” its Christian population from 80% to about 10%, or the PLO and Hezbollah in Lebanon, where the Christian population was about 54% before the Civil War and is now about 37%.

The people pretending that it’s the Jews who are killing Christians are willfully blind, and intentionally blinding you.

No matter what you think of Israel, Hamas is evil. They went too far in 2023, as they were always going to do, and Israel has defeated them. They can no longer field an effective military force. They cannot resupply. They’re done.

Can individual or small groups of militants kill people? Sure. But there’s no longer any sanctuary, and the days of your tax money being funneled through the PA to pay for suicide bombers are long over (although if you live in Tim Walz’s Minnesota, that is not true of Somalia).

The black pill types told us nine months ago that the peace would not last a week and that Trump could never pull off the deal agreed to yesterday. Yet here we are, nine months later, and he has. “Oh, it won’t last,” you say, but you said that last October, and the peace has held. Why? Israel cut off Hamas’s ability to fight, while Trump cut off its ability to resupply. It’s that simple.

Second, the reason that’s simple is that Hamas’s three chief patrons were Iran, which now can’t get ships in or out of its own ports, along with Turkey and Qatar. Trump has reduced Qatar to a U.S. protectorate. He’s dealmaking with the Turks on F-35s and the disposition of Syria, including new oil pipelines (to be built and owned by U.S. oil companies). Turkey suddenly needs peace to achieve its own ends; Qatar simply has nowhere to go. And Hamas has no one to ship them weapons or pay their bills.

They could have made Gaza into the Riviera. Instead they dug up the water and sewer pipes to make missiles they fired for two decades at schools. So now the Board of Peace will build what they did not.

Third, they’ll do that because no one hates Hamas as much as the Arabs. Every country the Palestinians have entered in any numbers, they’ve immediately plunged into civil war. No one wants them anywhere near anything important. Egypt’s wall along its border with Gaza makes a maximum security prison look like a sand castle.

Egypt will not allow one “Palestinian” from Gaza to enter Egypt.

Egypt has no such wall along its Israeli border. There’s a reason.

Trump has carefully cultivated enormous business and investment deals with every regional power. He’s gone out of his way to give them things they need and want, from the Saudi nuclear power deal to the Turks’ favorite installed in Damascus. Their interests are interlocked with ours, and tightening by the day. Everyone now profits from peace. The Palestinians are in their way.

Fourth, a massive generational shift is underway. The old timers wanted a Palestinian state, so long as it was safely contained somewhere else, and they used it to show they were “tough” against Israel when in war after war they’d been shown to be impotent. it was low cost and (moderately) higher reward for them.

Their children, exemplified by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), are sick of it. They WANT peace with Israel. They want to make money in Israel, and they want the Israelis to bring tech and investment to them. Even more so, they want military and intelligence cooperation, which all of them badly need. They have none of their parents’ sentimental attachment to long-dead Palestinian leaders or decades-old lost wars. And Trump is daily incentivizing them to double down.

Fifth, why? Because Trump knows three things the black pill guys do not:

A. Trump knows that prosperous countries rarely attack one another.

B. Trump knows Americans can make fortunes in the Middle East if peace is the rule rather than the exception, and that will never be achieved through a Bush-style occupation. He also knows that we can save fortunes if we don’t have to worry about the Middle East anymore.

C. Trump knows that without money, you’re done. And he knows how to cut off the cash.

No one funds Hamas now. No one funds Hezbollah now. A Lebanese peace requires a stable, functioning Lebanese government and the dismantling of Iran’s proxy army on Israel’s northern border -- the one that has also occupied and terrorized Lebanon for half a century.

So Trump let Israel annihilate Hamas, which has now unconditionally surrendered. He also let it beat Hezbollah into submission. On the ground, these were the two biggest obstacles to regional peace, now each shattered.

And now we have a way to give everyone what they want in both countries: a Palestinian state under new management, military and intelligence cooperation with Israel, Israeli energy exports to Egypt and Jordan (and Syria and Lebanon soon enough), and the restoration of Lebanon as “the Paris of the Middle East” as it was before the civil war.

Sixth, most people watching see these as disconnected issues. They aren’t. They never were. But neither is Syria, under new management and (despite its sordid past) desperate to balance Turkish, Israeli, Saudi, and U.S. power so it can have the breathing room to avoid becoming Ankara’s colony. Suddenly it has an intense interest in peace as well; just as suddenly, it is no longer an essential Russian outpost or a colony of Tehran.

And also neither is Iraq, where pro-Iranian militias have wreaked havoc for 20 years. Those days are over. Iraq’s new President is disarming the militias and arresting their leaders. The militias spent the early part of this year reinforcing the IRGC in its massacre and crackdown on the Iranian people. They’re also the final obstacle to a durable peace -- and economic development, and pipeline construction, and prosperity -- in Iraq itself.

Seventh, all these roads lead one place: Iran. The Islamic regime is the primary source of funding, armament, and direction for the bad guys in every armed conflict in the region: literally all of them. Tehran used all these proxies to build a de facto Persian Empire from Baghdad to Beirut and from Abadan to Aden. That’s gone now. It won’t be coming back.

Eighth, the Iran war has shown the Gulf Arab states that the Iranian really is a clear and present danger, not a convenient idiocracy that keeps its country from becoming a rich regional power. Months of Iranian bombardment of Arab hotels, water plants, airports, and shipping have been more persuasive than decades of American leaders. Now Saudi Arabia carries out joint attacks on Iran with the U.S.; so do Kuwait and the UAE. And with a host of currency swap lines, nuclear power deals, and direct military support, Trump is drawing all of them closer to the U.S. by the day.

Ninth, all that works because of what doesn’t. China is a nonfactor. Supposedly Iran’s ally (much like it was supposedly Russia’s “ally without limits” while it pushed Putin into his Ukrainian quagmire), China hasn’t lifted a finger. Rumors of shoulder-fired missile shipments are just that: rumors. But if true, they’re the exception that proves the rule. China is NOT sending advanced fighter jets, not at any price. China is NOT sending troops. China is NOT sending its Navy. If anything, it’s sparring with the U.S. over the pending Taiwan arms sale...but only very, very gently.

No one in the Middle East is stupid enough not to understand what China calls “the Malacca Dilemma”. 80% of its oil has to flow through the Strait of Malacca. The U.S. already had de facto control of the chokepoint; it has turned that into control into a chokehold with its new defense pact with the heretofore “Non-Aligned” Indonesia. It’s also flipped India, which not only signed an “impossible” February trade deal with Trump (or so said the black pillers) but immediately began capturing illegal Russian Shadow Fleet oil tankers.

Iran has to use that Shadow Fleet too: 90% of its exports are to China. But China hasn’t lifted a finger, and India doesn’t care. That was even before Trump sealed Iran’s ports tight.

Tenth, all of this has required complex negotiations with at least a dozen countries that mostly don’t like each other, and all of that takes time. If you see Trump call a cease fire to “negotiate” with Iran, don’t be dumb: he’s actually using that time to negotiate with Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, and Oman, and Qatar, and Bahrain, and Kuwait, and Iraq, and Syria, and Lebanon, and Turkey, and Israel. Iran is a threat to every one of them, and in many cases has been their murderous oppressor. They’re skittish, they’re gunshy, they know their militaries are strong on paper but weak in fact, and like all people, inertia has kept them in the long status quo. But Trump has destroyed that status quo: it is never coming back. And slowly, every country in the region is getting the point and getting on board.

How Iran finishes is almost irrelevant. Oh, you’re not going to believe our expanded target package over the next few weeks. The prospect of a successful Iranian revolution and a free Iran is very, very real. A free Iran would be the greatest investment opportunity of the 2030s, and everyone would benefit, no matter how much change is tough.

But at this point it wouldn’t matter. Iran spent trillions of its people’s money on underground complexes in which to build nuclear weapons and the ICBMs to load them on. It has literally nothing left to show for it. And every day it threatens Hormuz or the Bab al-Mandab is other day that it’s well-armed, wealthy neighbors become more determined that it can never be allowed to rise again. If the U.S. doesn’t finish Iran, the Arabs will.

Trump plays the part of a chaos agent. He does this to keep all his enemies off balance. He’s been telling you this on video and in print since at least 1987. If you can’t see the play, that’s on you.

But no one ever does the homework. So it keeps on working for him. He’s remaking the Middle East no matter what happens in Iran, and our grandchildren will thank him, not just for peace but for the prosperity that comes from it. What they won’t remember is your black pill foolishness, your temporary gas price inconvenience, or your inability to see the world being transformed before your eyes.

Which is good. You want your grandchildren to respect you, after all.”

Rod’s central claim: The Gaza peace deal will hold, and skeptics (”black pill” doomers like MTG, Tucker, Massie and pals) are wrong because they’re missing a coordinated regional collapse of the old order, engineered by Trump through economic and military pressure.

The argument, step by step:

Hamas is militarily finished. Israel destroyed its fighting capacity; it can’t resupply or field forces anymore. Isolated attacks are possible, but organized war-making isn’t.

The money pipeline is cut. Hamas’s patrons — Iran, Turkey, Qatar — have all been neutralized or flipped. Iran can’t move ships, Qatar is functionally a US client, Turkey is being bought off with F-35 deals and Syrian oil pipeline stakes.

The Arabs themselves have turned on the Palestinian cause. Every state that’s hosted Palestinians in numbers has suffered civil war from it (Jordan, Lebanon), so regional powers now want Gaza contained and rebuilt under new management, not championed.

Generational shift among Arab leadership. Older leaders used the Palestinian cause performatively; MBS-generation leaders want tech investment, security cooperation, and normalization with Israel instead — no sentimental attachment to the old fight.

Trump’s strategic logic: prosperous states don’t go to war with each other; Americans profit from a peaceful Middle East; and cutting off financing kills militant groups more effectively than occupation ever did.

These aren’t separate conflicts — Gaza, Lebanon/Hezbollah, Syria, Iraq’s militias — they’re all downstream of the same funding source: Iran.

Iran is the real target, and the region’s Sunni states (having been directly attacked by Iran) now see it as an active threat rather than useful bogeyman, driving them into overt security cooperation with the US and Israel.

China is a nonfactor — despite being nominally aligned with Iran, it’s sending no real military support, constrained by dependence on the Strait of Malacca chokepoint the US controls.

Trump’s apparent chaos/erraticism is deliberate misdirection — cease-fires and delays are cover for parallel negotiations with a dozen regional players simultaneously.

Bottom line of his argument: This isn’t a fragile ceasefire but the visible surface of a deliberate, multi-front dismantling of Iran’s regional proxy network — and once that’s done, durable peace and Arab-Israeli economic integration follow almost automatically.

After Trump threatened the IRGC with extermination this weekend, they came back to the table once again.

The doomers and black pillers, of course, are all over X shouting “This will never work! Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing!”

Meanwhile, one of the largest group of doomers, led by MTG, just announced a new anti-MAGA movement including Massie, Tucker and Joe Kent and wives and they are cheering for Iran and Russia to win. Told ya. Look at all the bait and switch influencers! Joe Kent’s wife works for Max Blumenthal - a Clinton operative tied to Candace! Expect her to join next!

Every one of these frauds was on my list of fake influencers!

The people on X cheering Team MTG on also include General Flynn, his son and Alex Jones!

Bongino just posted this on X and I agree:

If you don’t believe me or Rod Martin - here’s what Rubio had to say this week about what the Trump administration is doing and how they are approaching Iran:

RUBIO: “I don't think the Iranian regime has ever faced a president like President Trump, which is someone who actually takes action. The regime has to change. The Iranian regime traditionally has been expeditionary. In essence their view is they don't want to just govern Iran, they want to govern the region. They got used to for 20 or 30 years, not just the U.S., but the broader world, allowing them to get away with things like lying, breaking deals, and tricking people into agreements and so forth. In this particular case, they're pretty straightforward. The world now knows who they are.”

"Iran wants a nuclear weapon, and they were building a conventional missile shield they were going to hide behind! In essence, they wanted to be in a position a year and a half from now to be able to say, we have so many drones and so many missiles, you can't possibly defend against them. That's the place they wanted to get to."

"President Trump said, I'm not going to let you get to that place."

"And he went after, wiped out their navy, wiped out their air force, wiped out their missile defenses, wiped out their launchers, wiped out their factories that make all of these things, and severely degraded their defense capabilities. Now they still have missiles and they still have drones and they can still do damage, but they no longer have that shield, that conventional shield that they could hide behind."

"And that's changed the whole dynamic. It's the only reason why they are now willing, and in some cases seem eager, to do a deal on denuclearization, to do a deal on the straits, because we're now approaching them from a position of strength, not from a position of weakness, which is what they perceived from previous administrations and frankly from the world at large."

“For the first time in 15–20 years, the overwhelming majority of the countries in the Western Hemisphere are now led by pro-American leaders and governments since President Trump was elected president. What you see President Trump doing now is rebalancing [the world] - on the economy using tariffs, on geopolitics using our presence in the world. China wants to become the most powerful country in the world, and they want to do so at our expense. Trump isn’t going to let that happen.”

President Trump finally said out loud the point that I’ve been saying all along is the biggest strategic issue we face by executing massive strikes on power plants and bridges.

If we strike the power plants and energy systems in Iran - 90 million people will be plunged into the dark and many will starve to death. Where do you think they will go?

To their neighbors - like Turkey, Iraq, Syria and BTW, that means they’ll be closer to Israel - and the Democrats will want to bring millions of them here to America!

That’s how we got Omar’s tribe from Somalia!! This needs to be handled correctly or the invasion of Spain will look like child’s play. Just bombing away like Mark Levin wants and hoping for the best is not a solution.

“Would I rather make a deal? I’m not looking to kill people. We don’t want that. You don’t know where these attacks lead. I mean, will the neighbors of Iran be flooded with people pouring into their countries? A disaster. A lot of bad things can happen.”

If you’re a conservative and still start your posts or comments with: “I’m not a big Trump fan....but....” you are just as bad as the Democrats.

Fencing sitting and equivocating at this point only helps our enemies. That kind of posturing disgusts me more than TDS.

After all this time, if you’re not in MAGA’s camp, whose camp are you in? Tell me, who are you rooting for to win if not Trump? I’ll wait.

There is no other righteous camp worth supporting right now. There is no other camp on God’s green earth that has a chance to deliver us from this evil. God help us all.

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On Monday, July 27, 2026, the justices got an emergency application from the Trump administration and 15 red states, asking them to clear the way for full implementation of the President’s March 2026 executive order on mail-in ballot tracking. Briefs are due this coming Monday, August 3.

What the Executive Order Actually Says

For anyone just tuning in: on March 31, 2026, Trump signed Executive Order 14399, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections.” Strip away the legalese and it does two main things.

First, it directs the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Social Security Administration, to build “State Citizenship Lists” — rosters of confirmed U.S. citizens age 18 and up in each state, pulled from federal databases. These lists get sent to state election officials. States aren’t ordered to do anything with them, but the order clearly intends for them to matter.

Second — and this is the part actually before the Supreme Court right now — it directs USPS to write a new rule creating “State Absentee and Mail-in Participation Lists.” States would send USPS their own lists of who’s approved for mail voting, starting 60 days before an election. USPS would then assign each approved voter a unique identifier or barcode, and under the order, the Postal Service would only transmit mail ballots to people whose names appear on those approved lists. Ballot envelopes also get new federal design and tracking requirements. States that don’t play along risk losing federal election funding.

In plain terms: it’s an attempt to ensure that only qualified voters get mailed a ballot in the first place, using the Postal Service as the enforcement mechanism, rather than leaving that entirely to the states as has traditionally been the case. We all know that leaving the states to keep illegals off voting lists is a huge risk - it’s been proven time and time again that hundreds of thousands of non-citizens are voting in our elections - often welcomed by blue states!

Trump’s 2026 executive order on non-citizen voting is distinct from Trump’s earlier March 2025 executive order, which focused more on registration and Election Day receipt deadlines.

Critics argue the 2026 order oversteps presidential authority entirely, since Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution gives election-rule authority to states and Congress, not the president.

Critics argue the 2026 order oversteps presidential authority, since Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution — the Elections Clause — gives the power to set the "times, places and manner" of federal elections to the states and Congress, not the president acting alone. However, the Constitution does basically say that only citizens should vote - and there is already a federal ban on non-citizen voting in federal elections from statute 18 U.S.C. § 611 and pieces of the National Voter Registration Act. All the President is doing is providing a tool (USPS) to enforce that ban in cheat-by-mail.

Critics also point out federal law already prohibits USPS from selectively refusing to deliver mail, and that DHS’s citizenship data is known to be incomplete, raising the risk that eligible citizens get miscategorized and denied a ballot. The administration’s position, laid out in the White House’s own fact sheet, is that this simply “modernizes and secures” mail-in ballot procedures and confirms that ONLY eligible voters are the ones receiving ballots.

How We Got Here

Judge Indira Talwani was appointed in 2013 by Barack Obama. Judge Talwani rules from a deep blue District of Massachusetts, one of the preferred destinations for the steady stream of lawsuits against President Trump.

On June 25, she froze the March 2026 executive order’s mail-ballot and citizenship-list provisions for the November 2026 elections, in a ruling covering roughly two dozen blue states and DC. Twenty-three states plus the District had sued, arguing the ballot-tracking plan was terrible, horrible, and simply no good. Talwani agreed, finding the order created confusion, disenfranchised voters, and — on top of that — was unconstitutional. “The Constitution does not grant the president any specific powers over elections,” she wrote.

Trump’s lawyers appealed. The First Circuit — which hears cases out of Massachusetts — upheld her injunction.

But a separate group of NGOs had also sued in DC, in front of Judge Emmet Sullivan, arguing the order lets USPS refuse to deliver ballots to voters who aren’t on a federally approved list, and that DHS’s citizenship lists are (by the government’s own admission in court) incomplete. Sullivan was appointed by Reagan and put on the Federal bench by Clinton in 1994.

Judge Sullivan blocked USPS from moving forward. But the D.C. Circuit reversed him — temporarily reviving USPS’s ability to proceed with the rule while the case continues. The panel credited USPS’s argument that leaving the injunction in place would make it impossible to finalize a rule before November: “there can be no do over,” the judges wrote, once the election happens.

That produced an immediate, uncomfortable conflict: the First Circuit says USPS can’t move forward in the blue states covered by Talwani’s order; the D.C. Circuit says it can. That’s what lawyers call a circuit split, and it’s exactly the kind of thing that gets the Supreme Court’s attention fast. The Court took the case Monday and ordered insta-briefing, due by August 3.

Two different federal appeals courts looked at the same Trump executive order on mail-in ballot tracking and reached opposite temporary conclusions about whether the U.S. Postal Service can keep moving forward with its new rules right now.

• In the First Circuit (the appeals court that covers Massachusetts and several New England states), the judges left in place a lower-court order from Judge Indira Talwani that blocks key parts of the executive order in roughly two dozen blue states and the District of Columbia. That means, in those jurisdictions, USPS can not yet implement the requirement that states submit lists of approved mail voters and that ballots be mailed only to people on those lists. These are the plaintiff jurisdictions (23 states + DC - which includes the swing states too):

  • Arizona (AZ)

  • California (CA)

  • Colorado (CO)

  • Connecticut (CT)

  • Delaware (DE)

  • Illinois (IL)

  • Maine (ME)

  • Maryland (MD)

  • Massachusetts (MA)

  • Michigan (MI)

  • Minnesota (MN)

  • Nevada (NV)

  • New Jersey (NJ)

  • New Mexico (NM)

  • New York (NY)

  • North Carolina (NC)

  • Oregon (OR)

  • Pennsylvania (PA) (via Governor Shapiro)

  • Rhode Island (RI)

  • Vermont (VT)

  • Virginia (VA)

  • Washington (WA)

  • Wisconsin (WI)

  • District of Columbia (DC)

• In the D.C. Circuit (the appeals court that covers cases filed in Washington, D.C.), a different panel temporarily lifted a lower-court block issued by Judge Emmet Sullivan. That decision allows USPS to continue developing and, outside the First Circuit’s geographic reach, begin applying the new tracking and participation-list rules while the underlying lawsuits continue.

The practical result is a temporary patchwork: the Postal Service is free to proceed in some parts of the country but frozen in others (and all the swing states.) When federal appeals courts disagree like this on an urgent national issue—especially one tied to an impending election—the Supreme Court often steps in quickly on its “shadow docket” (emergency applications) to decide which temporary rule will apply nationwide, or at least to resolve the conflict, while the full cases keep moving in the lower courts.

That is exactly what happened: the Trump administration and 15 states asked the justices to clear the way for nationwide implementation. Briefs are due August 3, 2026. Because this is an emergency stay application rather than a full merits case with oral argument, a decision could come within days to a couple of weeks after briefing, though the Court is not bound to any fixed timetable.

The split does not yet decide whether the executive order is constitutional or lawful in the long run. It only decides, for now, whether the Postal Service may keep preparing and applying the new procedures before the November 2026 midterms.

Where Things Stand Right Now — Not Waiting on SCOTUS

Because of the D.C. Circuit’s stay, USPS can currently proceed with the rule outside the blue states Talwani’s order covers. And Postmaster General David Steiner has already confirmed, in testimony to lawmakers, that the agency will not deliver mail-in ballots in states that refuse to hand over voter data to the administration — a policy that’s operative now, not something waiting on a ruling.

So the practical map today is a patchwork: USPS can move in some states, remains frozen in the ~23 Talwani states, and everyone is waiting to see whether that patchwork becomes uniform — and in which direction — once SCOTUS weighs in.

When Will SCOTUS Rule?

This is an emergency application on the shadow docket, not a fully briefed merits case with oral argument. That means no fixed decision date — but shadow-docket rulings after full briefing typically come within days to a couple of weeks. With briefs due August 3, a ruling sometime in early-to-mid August is plausible, though the Court could also sit on it longer.

The smart money is on the justices siding with the D.C. Circuit — finding the rule isn’t final yet, so it’s too soon to sue, and letting USPS keep moving.

The 23 blue states are crying about having to “rebuild” their systems less than three months before a federal election — even though 15 red states filed briefs saying it would be no problem at all. That gives the Court room to instead find we’re simply too close to the midterms and default to the status quo, which is what SCOTUS often does in election cases. That tension is what makes this genuinely hard to handicap.

“We want to have honest voting in our country,” Trump said when he signed the order in March 2026, “because if you don’t have honest voting, you can’t really have a nation.”

The Midterm Clock

This is a genuine race against the calendar. Election officials need final rules months out to reprogram systems, print new envelopes, and train staff. If SCOTUS doesn’t act by roughly September, USPS likely can’t implement in time for November regardless of who eventually wins on the merits — which means a fast ruling (or the absence of one) is itself close to decisive for this election cycle, separate from whatever the Court eventually says about the law.

A Preview of the Court’s Mood: Watson v. RNC

Before handicapping the USPS case, it’s worth looking at what the Court just did in a related — but legally distinct — mail-ballot fight. On June 29, the justices ruled 5-4 in Watson v. Republican National Committee, upholding a Mississippi law that counts absentee ballots as long as they’re postmarked by Election Day and received within five business days afterward. The RNC and the Mississippi Republican Party had sued, arguing federal law requires ballots to be received by Election Day, full stop — no grace period for the mail.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the majority, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and the Court’s three liberals: Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson. Her reasoning was narrow and textual — federal “election day” statutes fix the deadline for voters to cast a ballot, not the deadline for officials to receive it. Since Mississippi’s Election Day is still the day voters must act, the state remains free to give the mail a few extra days to catch up. Alito dissented, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch (and by Kavanaugh on most of it), arguing that historically an “election” meant ballot collection was complete on that day, receipt included.

A few things about this ruling matter for the fight ahead. First, the coalition: Barrett and Roberts crossing over to join the liberal bloc against a GOP-backed challenge complicates any assumption that this Court reflexively backs Republican election litigants. Second, roughly 30 states — not just Mississippi — have similar postmark-and-grace-period laws, so this wasn’t a small technical fix; it protected the mail-voting infrastructure a lot of the country already relies on. Third, and most useful for our purposes: this was a statutory ruling, not a constitutional one. Barrett’s opinion turned on what federal election-day statutes currently say — which means Congress could still legislate a hard receipt deadline for mail ballots if it had the votes.

None of this decides the USPS ballot-tracking case — it’s a different legal theory (statutory preemption vs. constitutional authority over elections) wrapped around a different piece of the mail-voting pipeline (receipt deadlines vs. delivery gating). But it’s the clearest recent signal of how this Court thinks about mail voting, and it’s worth remembering as we wait on the USPS ruling: the “smart money” read assumes a friendly Court, and the Watson lineup is a reminder that isn’t automatic. As of today, SCOTUS still hasn’t said a word about Trump’s USPS delivery-gating plan specifically — that fight is the one now sitting in front of them, with briefs due Monday.

Why This Matters More Than the SAVE Act

Childers, an attorney, said that if he had to pick, he’d take the USPS ballot-tracking and gating plan over the SAVE America Act every single day. The postal plan offers conservatives a more durable, lower-friction, and politically resilient win. It embeds federal control and auditability directly into the mail-ballot pipeline using existing postal authority, instead of relying on a politically thermonuclear congressional fight over new registration documentation requirements.

The SAVE America Act requires documentary proof of citizenship — a passport, birth certificate, or equivalent — to register or update a registration for federal elections. It’s passed the House repeatedly through 2025 and 2026 but remains stuck in the Senate behind the filibuster. Even if it clears that hurdle, it only polices the front end of registration. Once a ballot is mailed, it still disappears into the same inky darkness with zero federal visibility. There are no black eyes to stick out.

I prefer both but the USPS plan is easier to implement at this time.

The USPS plan is already quietly working in states that opted in voluntarily. It short-circuits Congress entirely, running through USPS rulemaking under existing statutory authority — no 60-vote hurdle, no reconciliation gimmicks. It’s also easier to sell politically: barcodes, tracking numbers, and “Official Election Mail” markings sound like the same package-delivery confirmation tools everyone already accepts from Amazon, FedEx, and UPS. It’s much harder to paint real-time visibility as disenfranchising than it is to attack a demand that every voter dig up a birth certificate.

Once USPS design reviews and participation-list systems go live, they become sticky operational reality — unwinding them later would require new rulemaking or legislation. Citizenship lists, however imperfect today, can be refined over time, and all the implementation work is done at the federal level. SAVE’s burdens, by contrast, fall on voters and local clerks every single cycle, guaranteeing endless “as-applied” litigation and provisional-ballot chaos in the meantime.

Best of all, the USPS system generates exactly the kind of data conservatives have wanted for years: proof of delivery only to verified citizens, chain-of-custody logs, and timelines for every ballot — forensic evidence for future DOJ enforcement if anomalies show up. “Accidental” mass disappearances of mailed ballots from red counties would become impossible to hand-wave away.

Everyone — the fake news and influencers included — has been distracted by the high-profile SAVE America Act fight while the better solution quietly landed at the Supreme Court. And frankly, even if the USPS program survives the ripeness fight but misses the midterm implementation window, we’ll still be vastly better positioned in 2028 and beyond. We’re still in the game for November. And who knows — we could still get both.

Briefs are due Monday. Pray.

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How were the Fauci diaries uncovered? You can thank Bobby Kennedy Jr!! He was the one who found them, not Rand Paul.

RFK Jr. wrote a book in 2021 called “The Real Anthony Fauci” - and his HHS found the diaries and gave them to Rand Paul and Ron Johnson.

RFK JR: “It took us about 8 months to dig these out of 11 separate servers where they had been sequestered and secreted.”

“I think the starkest impression that you get from reading these diaries is this massive dichotomy between what he was saying privately and what he was simultaneously saying publicly.”

“These were not personal journals. They were government records created on a government computer by a federal employee during one of the most consequential public health emergencies in history.

Under federal law, these documents belong to the American people. Precision matters.”

“Fauci has immunity against all of the things that he did prior to President Biden signing or the electronic pen signing his pardon, but he could perjure himself now. There are many things that he said that we know are lies, and if he lies again, then he could be subject to perjury prosecution.”

Fauci always said he was MR. SCIENCE - and that we should trust the science.

VDH: “Fauci is a sociopathic narcissist and pathological schizophrenic.”

If you read his diaries, you will come to the same conclusion.

I’m not going to spend much time in this newsletter pointing out the fact that Fauci’s diary pretty much proves that he is liar and fraud and everything he does feeds his pocketbook or ego. You can read all 1,100 pages for yourself and come to your own conclusions.

But I do think it’s important to use the information in the diary for 2020 and 2021 and tie it to what happened publicly. There is way too much revisionist history going on now by people with ulterior motives. It’s important that we remember not only what happened - but when it happened - in order to make sure our memories are clear and we do not let this ever happen again. So, I read the first 500 pages of the diary and combined Fauci’s quotes with the sequence of events. Once I did that - the picture of what happened became very clear.

I must warn you now - if you don’t like detail - you should stop reading now, because this is very detailed. But, I can’t see the bigger picture of anything until I examine the timeline myself. I hope this helps you as much as it helped me.

Many elderly people died of COVID from January 2020-December 2020 after they got pneumonia and then were wrongly masked up, locked down, quarantined and ventilated or given the wrong treatments - thanks to Dr. Fauci. Many died of loneliness, isolation and fear - thanks to Dr. Fauci.

Many of those elderly and immune-compromised who died in locked down nursing homes and hospitals in 2020 were used to vote Democrat via cheat-by-mail!

THE VACCINE WAS NOT RELEASED UNTIL JANUARY 2021 - not during the first year of COVID. So, pretending that people died that year from the vaccine is a lie.

Hundreds of thousands died that first year before the vaccine was even administered in January 2021. Most of those deaths were elderly patients. Let’s tell the truth about this.

After my church and my AA meetings and my social groups shut down in Minnesota, and every business required that I mask up upon entry, I said NO WAY and got in my car and drove to Tennessee and Florida to be free! However, even Florida turned out to be almost as bad as Minnesota! Tennessee turned out to be great and free - like no other place in America.

In the summer of 2020, 62% of Americans said they put their trust in Fauci about COVID and would do whatever he said including 83% of Democrats. Even the majority of Republicans trusted Fauci more than Trump! How did that work out?

Forbes called Fauci “America’s most trusted voice” in July 2020!

Fauci was hired to his position as head of NIAID in 1984 under Reagan!

Fauci was in charge of America’s infectious disease program for 38 years. He basically lied and misled the public the entire time, conspired with WHO, Gates and the CCP, and most decisions were based on personal gain and fame.

By April 1, 2020, the diaries reveal that after working with him for just a few months on COVID, President Trump TOLD us Fauci could not be trusted and nobody would listen. Fauci’s diaries prove that to be true. But many Americans refused to listen to Trump and continued to fawn over Fauci - well into 2022.

In Christmas 2020, there were even Fauci dolls! That’s how crazy people were about Fauci and how much he was trusted. The diaries prove, to me, that Fauci was being coached by many (including Obama and Pence and Mulvaney) to destroy Trump and help Biden.

With that as a backdrop, let’s go through the history of COVID together - starting with the first outbreak of COVID (SARS) in 2002 which happened right after Bush won the White House, the 9/11 terror attack and the War in Afghanistan. I look for patterns - let’s do that together. I put Fauci’s diary words in italics:

December 13, 2000: George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election, but it was one of the closest and most contested in U.S. history. Election Day was November 7, 2000. The race came down to Florida, where Jeb Bush was Governor. The margin was razor-thin — a few hundred votes out of nearly 6 million cast — triggering an automatic recount and then weeks of legal battles over manual recounts, “hanging chads,” and ballot-counting standards.

The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Bush v. Gore on December 12, 2000, halting the Florida recount and effectively settling the election in Bush’s favor. Gore conceded the next day, December 13, 2000.

Final result: Bush won Florida by 537 votes, giving him 271 electoral votes to Gore’s 266 — even though Gore won the national popular vote by about 543,000 votes. It remains one of only a handful of U.S. elections where the electoral and popular vote winners diverged.

September 11, 2001: 9/11 attacks; ~3,000 deaths; leads to DHS creation, Patriot Act.

October 7, 2001: The War in Afghanistan. The US and UK launched Operation Enduring Freedom against the Taliban and al-Qaeda about a month after the 9/11 attacks, once the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden. It ran until the Taliban retook Kabul under Biden in August 2021.

November 2002: The SARS (SARS-CoV-1) outbreak began in Guangdong Province, China, though it wasn't recognized internationally until early 2003. WHO issued a global alert in March 2003, and the outbreak was declared contained by July 2003. Over that roughly nine-month span, it spread to 25+ countries with 8,096 cases and 774 deaths.

The 2002 U.S. midterm elections were held on November 5, 2002. Republicans won decisively — an unusual result, since the president’s party typically loses seats in midterms. Riding a wave of post-9/11 approval for President George W. Bush, the GOP retook control of the Senate (51-49) and expanded their majority in the House, picking up seats rather than losing them.

March 2003: The Iraq War began March 20, 2003, when the US, UK, and coalition partners launched the invasion (code-named Operation Iraqi Freedom by the US) with airstrikes on Baghdad, followed by ground forces crossing from Kuwait. Baghdad fell by early April 2003, and Bush declared "major combat operations" over on May 1, 2003.

2008: Bear Stearns collapsed in March 2008 and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed into federal conservatorship on September 7, 2008; and then the pivotal moment — Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, the largest bankruptcy in US history, which triggered a full-blown global financial panic. Congress passed TARP (the $700 billion bank bailout) on October 3, 2008. The election timing made this politically decisive: the Lehman collapse hit less than two months before Election Day (November 4, 2008), while Bush — a Republican — was still president. Polling at the time shows the race tightening through September 2008 before the financial crisis broke sharply in Obama’s favor. Obama won about 53% of the popular vote widely attributed in large part to the economic collapse unfolding in real time under an incumbent Republican administration.

April 2009: Swine flu (H1N1pdm09) hit first: the outbreak was first detected in April 2009 (Mexico and the US, nearly simultaneously), and the WHO declared it a pandemic on June 11, 2009 — the first global flu pandemic declaration in 41 years. It peaked in the US in fall 2009 and tapered through early 2010. Total US toll by the time it wound down: roughly 60.8 million cases and about 12,469 deaths, per CDC estimates — notably milder in fatality rate than initially feared, though it hit children and younger adults harder than seasonal flu typically does.

17,000 Americans in the US died of H1N1 flu from Mexico under Obama in 2009, many of them children, because he waited 6 months to do anything & never closed the border. Obama depleted America’s critical medical supplies in 2009 and never restocked. The media said nothing about the 61 million who were infected in Obama’s H1N1 crisis.

March 23, 2010: Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010 (the Senate had passed its version back on December 24, 2009, with the House taking up that Senate bill in March 2010 after Scott Brown’s special election win cost Democrats their filibuster-proof majority). A follow-up reconciliation bill (the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act) was signed March 30, 2010.

The swine flu pandemic was credited with convincing Congress to pass Obamacare!

2012 — Ralph Baric’s UNC lab develops synthetic chimeric coronavirus research methods. Ralph Baric was a virologist and professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he’s one of the most important — and most controversial — figures in coronavirus research over the past two decades.

Baric has spent most of his career studying coronaviruses, going back well before SARS made them famous. His lab specializes in reverse genetics — essentially the ability to build an infectious virus from a synthetic DNA blueprint rather than starting with a natural isolate. This matters because it means researchers can deliberately construct, modify, and test specific genetic changes in a virus rather than just observing naturally occurring strains.

In the years following SARS-1 (2002-03), Baric’s lab developed a system for assembling full-length coronavirus genomes from smaller synthetic DNA fragments — sometimes called a “no-see’m” technology because the assembled genome doesn’t leave the kind of genetic scar or marker that would show it was artificially stitched together. This was a genuine technical achievement that let researchers study coronavirus biology far more precisely than before.

Baric’s lab and Zhengli Shi’s team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology worked together and Baric taught the CCP how to create bioweapons and hide them. They published in Nature Medicine in November 2015 (”A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence”). In that study, researchers took the backbone of a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV and swapped in the spike protein from a bat coronavirus (SHC014) that Shi’s team had sampled — creating a chimeric virus to test whether that particular bat spike protein could bind the human ACE2 receptor and cause disease in mice. It could, to a degree.

2013 — West Africa Ebola epidemic; 28,600+ cases, 11,300+ deaths. The outbreak began in Guinea in December 2013 (though not identified as Ebola until March 2014), then spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, becoming the largest Ebola outbreak in history — more cases than all previous outbreaks combined. WHO declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in August 2014. It exposed major gaps in global outbreak response and led to the creation of new WHO emergency protocols and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in 2017.

2014 — US institutes Gain-of-Function research funding moratorium. In October 2014, following lab safety mishaps involving anthrax and avian flu at government facilities, the White House halted federal funding for gain-of-function studies on influenza, MERS, and SARS coronaviruses that could make pathogens more transmissible or lethal. The pause covered any new studies and asked researchers already doing such work to voluntarily stand down. Around 20 ongoing projects were paused while the NIH spent roughly three years debating how to make the research safer. The moratorium was formally lifted in December 2017, replaced by a case-by-case review framework at HHS. NIH Director Francis Collins said the shift wasn’t a major change in practice, since some gain-of-function work had continued to be funded even during the pause.

2014 — Russia annexes Crimea; war begins in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Russian forces seized Crimea in February–March 2014 following the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych; a widely-disputed referendum was used to justify annexation. Fighting broke out shortly after in Donetsk and Luhansk between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces — the conflict that simmered for eight years before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

2014 — US measles resurgence (Disneyland outbreak). A measles outbreak traced to Disneyland in California in December 2014 eventually spread to 24 states and infected 147+ people, reigniting national debate over vaccine exemptions and prompting several states, including California, to tighten school vaccination requirements.

2014 — EcoHealth Alliance/NIH-funded grants extend bat coronavirus research to Wuhan Institute of Virology. NIH approved a grant to EcoHealth Alliance, with a subaward to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, to study how animal and bat coronaviruses evolve in the wild and their potential to jump to humans — the project titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” The grant totaled roughly $3.7 million, with subawards of nearly $600,000 going to WIV, and was renewed again in 2019. It became the center of years of later controversy: EcoHealth fell out of compliance with grant reporting terms as early as 2016, and documents later showed EcoHealth scientists combined genetic material from a bat coronavirus (WIV1) with other viruses, producing altered coronaviruses that at times reproduced faster than the original in the lungs of humanized mice. Fauci later acknowledged in May 2021 that it was impossible to guarantee WIV researchers hadn’t used US funds to perform gain-of-function research on coronaviruses between 2014 and 2017. The Trump administration terminated the grant in April 2020; NIH partially restarted a stripped-down version in 2023.

2016 — Zika virus outbreak across the Americas; WHO declares PHEIC. Zika spread rapidly through Brazil starting in 2015, linked to a surge in microcephaly and other birth defects in infants born to infected mothers. WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in February 2016. The outbreak accelerated global investment in mosquito-borne disease surveillance and vaccine research infrastructure that later fed into pandemic-preparedness funding streams.

November 2016: President Trump wins Presidential election - against all odds.

2018 — the Wuhan lab in China continued bat coronavirus sampling/spike protein testing. Between 2018 and 2019 — the fifth year of the EcoHealth/WIV grant — researchers at the Wuhan lab infected humanized mice with hybrid coronavirus chimeras. This is also the period some lab-leak proponents point to regarding WIV’s broader bat coronavirus sampling database, which the institute took offline in September 2019 (before the outbreak was publicly known) — a decision EcoHealth’s president later defended as routine, and which critics have cited as suspicious.

Also, in 2018, while the Wuhan lab was working on making COVID deadly to humans - using mice and bats - the WEF and the WHO (run by the CCP) were talking about Disease X that could kill potentially 60 million people.

Autumn 2019 — Several retrospective studies (including WHO-convened and independent analyses) have pointed to possible undetected transmission in Wuhan as early as October–November 2019, based on later blood-bank sample testing, hospital record reviews, and phylogenetic modeling of the virus’s mutation rate.

October 2019 — In October of 2019, the WEF held a pandemic planning event called Event 201 which strangely occurred only two months before the COVID pandemic hit America. This was held at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the WHO (World Health Organization - run by the CCP) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The first case of Wuhan virus was reported in China on November 17th.

December 2019: This was coupled with a “documentary” released from Obama and Gates called “Pandemic” - which was released in December 2019 on Obama’s Netflix. NOT A COINCIDENCE.

Shortly after the documentary was released, Communist China announced a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan. COINCIDENCE? I think not. Bill Gates was a member of China's Academy of Sciences who built the lab and he was awarded their highest honor.

December 31, 2019 — Wuhan Municipal Health Commission announces cluster of 27 pneumonia cases. The commission reported a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown cause linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. China notified the WHO Country Office the same day. The market was closed and disinfected on January 1, 2020.

Communists didn't inform the CDC until January 11th. WHO & Communist China said it wasn't spread by humans until January 21st.

January 3, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Influenza is heavy in the media. Did an interview with Elizabeth Cohen of CNN for her Blog. Also, did a live radio interview with John Catsimatidis for his "Cats Roundtable" from NYC. Also, yesterday the US via a precise drone strike in Iraq outside of Baghdad airport killed the leader of the Iranian Quds Force General Quassim Souleimani. There has been over the past few days attacks on the US Embassy by Iranian backed Iraqi militia as a result of the fact that the US armed forces attacked and killed 25 Iranian backed Iraqi militia who had killed a USA contractor and wounded several USA soldiers in Iraq. This will certainly lead to major escalation of tension and even retaliation from Iran. Also 44 unusual cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China over the past couple of days. Etiology still unknown. Said to be a "viral pneumonia' of unknown etiology. Flu ruled out. Cases linked to a seafood market. No human-to-human transmission documented at this time.

January 5, 2020 — SARS-CoV-2 genome sequenced and published. Zhang Yongzhen, of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and Fudan University, had sequenced the genome by January 5, 2020. The sequence was posted publicly on January 10 on virological.org by Edward Holmes of the University of Sydney, communicated on behalf of Zhang’s team. Zhang had granted Holmes permission to publish it, despite an (unbeknownst-to-Zhang) Chinese government order barring labs from releasing information on the new virus — and the day after publication, Shanghai health authorities ordered Zhang’s lab temporarily closed.

GISAID didn’t actually post its first SARS-CoV-2 genomes until January 12, 2020. GISAID (Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data) is an international database and data-sharing platform for genomic sequences of influenza and other viruses, including SARS-CoV-2. It was launched in 2008, originally focused on flu genomes, to encourage rapid, open sharing of viral sequence data among researchers and public health agencies worldwide — while still letting contributing labs retain some credit/control over their data (unlike fully open repositories like GenBank).

During COVID it became the primary global clearinghouse for SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences — labs everywhere uploaded variant sequences there, which is how scientists tracked the emergence and spread of variants like Alpha, Delta, and Omicron in near-real time. It’s run by a nonprofit (the Freiburg, Germany–based GISAID Initiative), not a government agency, though it has had ongoing controversies over data-access restrictions and, as you saw, the priority dispute over who first published the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

GISAID is nominally a nonprofit, but effective control sits with one person: Peter Bogner, a German-American former media executive (previously a Time Warner exec, no prior scientific background) who founded it in 2006 and remains its president. It’s formally structured as a nonprofit headquartered in Munich, with Bogner as president and Jörg Paura and Christoph Wetzler as executive board members. Bogner initially financed it himself and drove its creation despite having no prior ties to the influenza research community.

Bogner was born in West Germany (1964), emigrated to the US in the early 1980s, and built a career in Western media (Time Warner, TV channels, consulting). Chinese labs (including China CDC under figures like George Gao) have deposited large volumes of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 data in GISAID. Bogner has ties to the WEF and has communicated directly with Chinese researchers. He sounds like a Communist plant to me - both in the media and in virus data.

Since COVID, that structure has drawn real scrutiny. A Science investigation in 2021 found scientists describing an opaque access process, unexplained account suspensions, and phone threats or legal letters when researchers ran afoul of GISAID’s rules against resharing data — with much of that culture traced back to Bogner personally.

Nancy Cox headed influenza research at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2006, the year she met Bogner and began to help him create GISAID. In April 2006, Bogner attended an avian flu meeting in the United Kingdom where he met Nancy Cox, who then headed influenza research at CDC. Hmm. Court documents indicate a Peter Heribert Bogner, age 22, lived in Los Angeles as a “legal alien” in January 1984 and came from a wealthy international family. In December 2006, GISAID registered as a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. The database officially launched in May 2008.

So for the timeline: sequenced by Zhang Yongzhen’s team (Fudan University / Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center), first made public by Edward Holmes on virological.org on Jan 10–11, 2020 — GISAID’s first confirmed public release was Jan 12, 2020, two days later than usually credited.

Jan. 10, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Influenza is hot and heavy. Vaccine match is OK for H1N1, but not so good for B and H3N2. Apparently, CDC is upset because I am saying that this is on a course to be as bad a year as 2017-2018 and 2014-2015. Influenza B predominating yet the Victoria B in the vaccine is only a 58% match and so children are getting a double whammy with B predominating early in the year and continuing and the vaccine is not well matched. In this regard, there are more pediatric deaths (39) thus far at this point in the season compared to most other years.”

January 10, 2020: China deploys world’s first RT-PCR test kits. According to an Associated Press investigation based on internal documents and interviews, China CDC conducted secret evaluations of test kits on January 10 and approved only those from three obscure Shanghai companies (GeneoDx Biotech, Huirui Biotechnology, and BioGerm Medical Technology) with which officials had ties to the CCP. These firms received exclusive design/distribution rights. The first test kits arrived in Wuhan on January 16. Other cities in Hubei received them around January 22. Distribution was limited, and many early kits had reliability problems (inconclusive results or false negatives). China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) granted emergency approvals for several nucleic acid test kits starting around January 26 (including from BGI, GeneoDx, and others).

China's broader COVID test-kit exports to other countries (which did happen at massive scale later in 2020) mostly involved different, larger manufacturers — BGI, Sansure Biotech, Guangzhou Wondfo, Zhuhai Livzon, Bioeasy — sent to places like the Philippines (BGI kits), India (Wondfo and Livzon kits), India again via other Chinese kits, and Spain (Bioeasy kits, which turned out to be unlicensed and faulty). Malaysia also received a wave of Chinese kits later in March 2020.

January 16, 2020: Charité Institute (Berlin) publishes first open-source RT-PCR protocol, adopted by WHO.

Jan. 16, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “The situation in Wuhan, China continues. Now have 2 deaths and 2 cases in Thailand and 1 in Japan.”

January 20, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Now there are >220 cases of n-CoV with a travel case in South Korea and 14 transmissions to health care providers. Clearly, this is a rapidly expanding situation with no question about person-to-person transmission.”

The virus started in South Korea because the leaders of a "doomsday" cult went to Wuhan, China and went back and infected 8,000 of their members. Who paid them to do that? South Korean President Moon Jae-in allowed 5 million Chinese to enter the country after the initial outbreak!

January 21, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “CDC announced today that the first case of n-CoV has been identified in Seattle. A 35 year old otherwise healthy Chinese man visited Wuhan, came to USA on January 15 (before airport screening), developed sxs on Jan. 16, tested on Jan. 19, test sent to CDC and positive on Jan. 20. He walked into a clinical with fever and respiratory sxs and was smart enough to mention that he just came from Wuhan.”

January 22, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “To complicate it all, while we were in the PCC, China announced that it is cutting off all public transportation (air, ferries, train, buses, out of Wuhan City) Essentially a quarantine of the entire city of 11 million people except for absolute emergencies. On the interview below (FOX Business with David Asman) one of the panel asked me to comment of a clip he played where Trump said that everything is under control. Xi Jinping told him everything is under control. I had to answer that we are taking this very seriously and that Americans should not be frightened or worry, but we are taking it seriously. Let us see if this pits me against the POTUS.”

In Italy, the virus started in a hospital filled with sick elderly people in a small town in northern Italy -- spread by a 38-year old carrier from Wuhan, who recovered. Who put him there? Over 100,000 Chinese migrants from Wuhan own & work in the textile/leather industry in Northern Italy.

In 2019, Italy and Communist China signed an agreement to jointly promote China’s Belt & Road Initiative. Partners in Wuhan Virus! Italy admits they are coding ALL deaths to Wuhan and letting the elderly die.

January 24, 2020: Russia’s VECTOR center develops its first RT-PCR test kit.

January 25, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “President Xi Jinping essentially sutting down the entire country. Schools closing in Beijing. Suspicion that the Chinese are telling us everything that is going on in China. Why are the Chinese reacting so dramatically by essentially shutting down the entire country? State Department evacuating all USA personnel from consulate in WUHAN.”

Iran’s leaders suddenly became infected after Iran’s foreign leader met with John Kerry in Munich and laughed about the Wuhan virus on camera. Almost like he was told to go home, create panic and spread the virus. Why? To try to force Trump to drop sanctions.

Iran – like Italy, a partner in China’s Belt and Road initiative – continued flights between Iran and China. The first outbreak was in the city of Qom where most of the Chinese projects are set up.

WHO: 4 countries with economic & political ties (Communist China, South Korea, Italy, Iran) facilitated virus spread around the globe. Italy, Iran, South Korea & China, home to 90% of virus cases, are ALL partners in the Communist Party’s One Belt, One Road scheme!

January 26, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “GAME ON!!! Things are changing rapidly. Dr. Ma Xiaowei, the Chinese Minister of Health gave a press statement saying that the incubation period of nCoV is 1 to 14 days and that the virus is being transmitted when people are asymptomatic!

The infections spread among people weeks before the Chinese reported that they were dealing with a new infection and that gave the virus time to establish itself in multigenerational (sustained) spread. Remember, early on the Chinese were saying that there is no human to human transmission and all the original 27 cases were from the market. Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans. Chinese scientists are saying that the epidemic is much worse than is being reported.”

January 31, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Also, a NEJM report from Germany indicated that a Chinese woman came from Shanghai visited a colleague in Stockdorf Bavaria. She infected him when she had no sxs, returned to China and got sik on the plane. The german man then got sick and infected 2 other Germans. This would have bn the first truly documented case of transmission from an asymptomatic person, thus, adding to the concern about the accuracy of screening at airports.

The policy decision from the Trump White House was: 1) Ban travel to the USA of all non-citizens who have been to China within the past 14 days. If you were in China, you need to go somewhere else (Paris, UK, etc.) until 14 days pass from the time you were in China. 2) If you are a citizen and were in the Hubei Province (includes Wuhan) Released by Chairman Rand Paul 681 and you return to USA, you are institutionally quarantined for 14 days. 3) If you come from any other part of China other than Hubei, you have voluntary isolation for 14 days. Chinese officials criticizing USA for travel restrictions. WHO also adding muted criticism.”

After Trump closed travel from Communist China in January, the Chinese blamed the US and threatened to hold back our pharmaceuticals unless we opened travel back up again. They didn’t expect him to do that - that thwarted their plans to seed the US with more cases.

January 31, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “The people on the phone felt that the mutations around the furine cleavage site of the spike protein could not have occurred naturally since it would require an evolutionary “jump that they found nowhere in bat isolates. They bring up the possibility that this could have been deliberately inserted and either accidentally released or deliberately released by a crazy person in the lab, the former being the most likely. Dr. Zheng-Li Shi at the University of Wuhan has been working for years in GOF in coronaviruses to allow adaptation of the spike protein to bind to the human ACE2 receptor, we could not let this go.”

Dozens out of the total US deaths from the Wuhan virus came from ONE nursing home in Kirkland, Washington - the home state of Bill Gates where it all started.

Half the staff at that nursing home were infected with Wuhan virus. They appear to be the carriers. The nursing home draws employees from a large Chinese population across the border in Canada. I believe Gates placed carriers in vulnerable locations for the narrative and funding.

Other deaths around the country occurred in nursing facilities owned by the same company who owns the Kirkland facility! Half the deaths around the world occurred in nursing homes!

February 4, 2020 — US FDA issues first Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 diagnostic test (CDC’s RT-PCR assay). The testing rollout in the US was delayed by contamination issues until late Feb/early March.

Feb. 24, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Situation getting worse in Italy, Korea, Japan, Iran. More reports of transmissions by asymptomatic people.”

In other words - the CCP was spreading toxic tests and infection around the world before the US even was able to issue a test!

Feb. 27, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Very interesting things evolving. Pence ordered the lockdown of all press by everyone. Big surprise was at 10:35 PM tonight I got a phone call at home from President Trump who wanted to chat about the coronavirus situation in general. We spoke for about 20- 25 minutes. I encouraged him not to underplay the seriousness of the situation since if it turns out bad, it would look like he is covering up. Pence and Mick Mulvney want me standing right next to the POTUS on the podium tomorrow so that I can be seen on TV and want me to be on the Sunday shows.”

Right after the first deaths were reported in Bill Gates backyard, the Never Trump Governor of Washington State declared a national emergency & Congress approved over $8 billion - even though Trump asked for only a quarter of that. Much of the funding will flow to Gates’ global “research” partners.

Suddenly Bill Gates says his “foundation” will offer in-home testing kits where you swab your nose with a Q-Tip and send it to his labs. How convenient and timely! I think Gates developed the home-testing kits in order to secure access to all our DNA!

March 5, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Many hostile questions regarding what the POTUS said that AM on Hannity. He said that most people who get infected and do very well and can go back to work. Pence clearly very happy the way I handled the 2 Sunday Shows that I did.”

March 8, 2020 - 90% of those who tested positive on the Princess Cruise ship were CREW MEMBERS. Meaning the crews are carriers and are infecting passengers. Who put them there?

Congress passed a $8.3 billion supplement for coronavirus. NIAID gets $826 million.

Mar. 9, 2020 – FAUCI DIARY: “Even though we are saying that 1.1 million tests are out there, and millions to follow, we still do not know how many tests have been performed and whether anyone can get a test who needs it. Am now told by CDC that we only have 1 million nasal swabs to collect the specimens. And so now we have more tests than swabs! And the limiting factor is the swabs. Steve Mnuchin and Larry Kudlow are against locking down our borders since they felt it would cause a depression, not just a recession. Jared & Miller were for restriction to keep foreigners out of America.”

March 2020: Multiple EU member states and the European Commission accelerate national and CE-marked RT-PCR and antigen test deployments; WHO and ECDC coordinate guidance.

So China, Asia, Russia and the EU were all distributing COVID tests around the world before America! What was on the test?

March 15, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “I spoke up and said that several countries have already done what we are talking about, i.e. China, South Korea and so why not stop bragging and just say that we are entering a new phase of our response to COVID-19, i.e. a much more expansive testing capability. The POTUS came in and misunderstood thinking that we (the USG) would be implementing the testing. He was pissed.”

March 16, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Came out with the guidelines that reflected my pushing for a more aggressive mitigation 15 day strategy → If you are elderly, self-isolate; do not congregate in groups >10 people; stay away from bars, restaurants, theaters, sporting events; if a community has community spread CLOSE the bars, restaurants and places of congregation; close schools where there is community spread; no visitors to nursing homes; if family member is sick, others in family should take extra precautions; only necessary travel, telework as much as possible. Press conference after was highly attended. Stock market dropped by 3000 points, the biggest percentage drop in history.”

So Fauci was behind all the lockdowns - he said so himself.

March 17, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Issue arising of claims from France that hydroxychloroquine is effective in decreasing the duration of viral shedding and also is used as a prophylaxis in exposed people. All uncontrolled studies. POTUS called me up from Oval. A friend of POTUS said that he heard that someone gave Hydroxychloroquine (HC) to 51 people and 51 got better. I took a deep breath and said that this was wrong and should not be done. Mark Meadows wants me to consider the tone that I say that HC has no evidence of efficacy.”

Fauci was behind all the refusals to try alternative treatments. His only interest was in delaying all treatment and relying on masks and social distancing and lockdowns only.

March 20, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Per Trump’s direction we are shutting down entry to USA from China, South Korea, Iran, Europe and UK/Ireland and yet people from these same countries are crossing over from Mexico. If some are infected and we take them in, we put them in facilities including with unattended children, we could have another cruise ship situation.”

March 22, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Press is going wild with me. Front page in Washington Post yesterday and Op Ed by Maureen Dowd in NY Times today about me and my relationship with the POTUS. Profile by Peter Nicholas on me in The Atlantic. I am trying in several articles and on TV to clarify that the POTUS is talking about hope for therapies although there are no good data, while I must stick to the science and so fundamentally we are approaching this from different, but not conflicting standpoints. The press are crucifying the POTUS for “not listening to me and making crazy statements about “game-changing” therapies and praising me for sticking to my guns. Apparently the WH is very upset that I am being profiled and it looks like I am putting down the POTUS and becoming a star that outshines him. The press is playing into this as is the tweet storm.”

March 23, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Very important meeting in the Oval Office with the POTUS. He wants to lift everything by Easter Sunday (April 12). POTUS at press conference has essentially said he is going to open up the country. I told him I disagree.”

Mar. 29, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “BIG DAY AT WHITE HOUSE Spent several hours with the POTUS. Deb and I pushed hard to have the POTUS extend the 15 day guidelines for another 30 days to end of April even though Mark Meadows and Kevin Hassett were against this.”

April 1, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Some very early signs in NYC that the number of “new cases’ in starting the stabilize. Did major briefing of the GOP House leadership organized by Liz Cheney. Petition to name me “Sexiest Man Alive”; videos games named after me; Fauci Bobblehead; dishes in restaurants named after me, and on and on.

Had good conversation with Bill Gates tonight who wants the BMGF to partner with me (NIAID) and BARDA in the advanced development and scaleup of vaccines, therapeutics. Also, wanted to discuss a strategy for opening up the country after the wave subsides.”

April 3, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “CNN reported that I want all states to practice “stay at home’ and that POTUS has refused to “mandate that”. I believe that the White House (mostly POTUS staff) are starting to get really pissed off at me. Also, the POTUS said he would not wear a mask.”

April 4, 2020 - FAUCI DIARY: “Peter Navarro who handed out a folder that he says shows studies that Hydroxychloroquine is effective in COVID. I strenuously objected and he then attacked me saying that I was the one who was against blocked travel from China when in fact I pushed the POTUS to do so. Weird guy!! VP and Marc Short acted like Peter was nuts.”

The same treatments, tests & blood plasma used on SARS patients in 2003 & MERS patients in 2013 work on Wuhan patients. They are all related viruses. They don't want you to know that. Fauci is covering that up. Why? Because he's working with Gates on a "vaccine."

April 5, 2020 – FAUCI DIARY: “Major news-outlets (Wash Post, NY Times) starting to write detailed stories of how Trump dropped the ball in response to COVID-19 - but thus far, I am coming out OK. Print media still pitting everything I say as contradicting POTUS. I had another phone call with Bill Gates regarding working together on vaccines and therapeutics. Marc Short (Pence’s Chief of Staff) is becoming a good friend.”

That’s part one of my timeline showing what happened compared to what Fauci wrote in his diary. I know it’s a lot but I think it’s very enlightening.

It’s obvious now that the CCP released the virus on purpose and colluded with the left in other nations - and guys like Fauci and Mulvaney and Short (Pence) were put in place to sandbag and roadblock President Trump. You can tell from the timeline that Trump started to get wise to Fauci by April 1, 2020 - but by then the damage was done and the media had set him up for the fall.

The WHO, the WEF and the CCP controlled the tests and the genome sequencing early on and America was way late to the game. It’s obvious they all had been planning this since 2002.

As you’ll see in the next section, Russia, Communist China and the EU were first out with tests and vaccines and America did not release a vaccine until Trump was out of office. Why did they wait so long? For two reasons, they didn’t want Trump to get credit for the vaccine and they wanted to make sure that Biden could mandate it. THEY DID THAT ON PURPOSE.

You’ll also see how there may have been a second, more dangerous, COVID virus released in July 2020 that started the whole contamination process all over again. More to come. Thanks for sticking with me…

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Some 80,000 fighting age men from North Africa are overwhelming Spain’s border forces and flooding into a Spanish terrority called Ceuta, RIGHT NOW. You won’t believe the pictures and video I found below. Is this what you want for your neighborhood?

Ceuta is considered part of Spain and the EU and is only 10 miles from the mainland of Spain and is reached by ferry.

Spain can thank the RULING Communist Party of Spain and Pedro Sanchez (and his pal Alex Soros) for allowing this to happen. What do you want to bet that the recent wildfires in Spain were SET to distract the people while this was launched?

Sanchez just offered amnesty to 1 MILLION illegals and now millions more barbarians are storming the gates. The invasion of Spain is happening right before our eyes. Goodbye Spain. This is what the Communists do.

Citizens in Barcelona are putting barbed wire on their balconies to protect their apartments from invaders!

The Trump White House just said Spain must “IMMEDIATELY” shut the border, reverse course and expel the 3rd world migrants — or the country will COLLAPSE

The king of Morocco pardoned almost 3,000 criminals just yesterday, including convicted terrorists, to mark “Throne Day” and then he set them free to invade Spain!

And they’re now forcing their way into Spain. This is the same thing that Maduro did in Venezuela before they swarmed into the US under Biden.

After Trump’s warning, Spain has reportedly decided to “SEND IN THE MILITARY” to FINALLY address the invasion by thousands of men...

...after HOURS AND HOURS of refusing to do anything!!

The invasion is being organized on Facebook! Groups with tens of thousands of members are sharing routes, maps, equipment tips, and phone numbers to coordinate the mass crossing. They call it a “liberation.” Their plan is clear: get to the mainland, register for asylum, and immediately gain the right to work and social benefits.

This is not organic migration, but a coordinated surge exploiting Spain’s own policies.

The average person in Spain can NOT own a handgun for protection - requiring strict, documented proof of a specific safety threat, making it very rare for regular civilians.

King Philip saved Spain by expelling the Muslims (Expulsion of the Moriscos) in the 1600’s. The only way to save Europe now is to do the same. If not, Europe will be lost.

BRANDON GILL: “What's happening in Spain should be a warning to every American who may have forgotten about what our borders looked like the last time Democrats were in power: All it takes is one election for your nation to become unrecognizable.”

ELON MUSK: “Spain’s entire budget will be destroyed by illegal migrants. It’s basic math: if Spain offers free stuff to migrants that is above 90% of the living standard of Earth, they create a forcing function for 90% of Earth to move to Spain, which is around 7 billion people!”

VP VANCE: “These images out of Spain are an unfortunate reminder of the consequences of mass migration and the radical left-wing globalist policies that have enabled the Invasion of the West.”

ABASCAL: "The Iranian regime and Maduro’s regime have been behind the financing of the far left Communists in Spain over the last 15 years; that's why Pedro Sánchez is the Ayatollahs' best friend in Europe and Maduro's best friend."

Italy is already sounding the alarm about what the invasion of Spain means for the rest of Europe.

MELONI: “The images coming from Spain are striking and demonstrate, once again, that uncontrolled illegal immigration poses a concrete threat to the security of Europe's borders. Italy will not stand by and watch. We are convening the relevant bodies, and following these meetings, we are prepared to intervene with extraordinary measures to defend the borders and the safety of citizens, including the suspension of the Schengen Area with Spain.”

BISHOP: "They are not refugees, they're invaders who want to Islamize Europe. They want to destroy Europe's religion and culture."

REMEMBER: Europe is being destroyed by Muslim invasion. Today, about 25% of Paris residents are foreign-born and come from Muslim-majority countries in North Africa and the Middle East.

Paris will soon become a Muslim majority city - just like London. All of the churches and synagogues will be replaced with Mosques. This is Mamdani’s plan for New York City as well.

Even Google AI agrees that Paris will be 52% Muslim by 2050 and 87% Muslim by 2075 at the current birth rates and immigration rates. Demographics are destiny and the numbers don’t lie.

If you want to live in a Communist country, vote Democrat. If you want to live in a Muslim majority country, vote Democrat. If you want to live in a country ruled by Satan’s minions and the atheists, vote Democrat.

I do not. I am a Christian and I want to live in the FREE Republic of the United States of America. That’s why I vote MAGA. This is not rocket science. It’s our future.

I put a few links so you can view the nightmare yourself. If you can’t access these - that means somebody is censoring the truth so go and find it yourself.

Al-Andalus and the Reconquista

Right now, tens of thousands of Muslim migrants are invading Ceuta, Spain’s fenced enclave on the North African coast. The Spanish military has been deployed and the locals are overwhelmed. Taken on its own, it reads like dozens of other migration crises this decade in Europe and around the world. What makes this different?

But Ceuta isn’t just any border. It sits at the exact gateway through which Muslim armies first crossed into Iberia in 711, launching nearly 800 years of Islamic rule over what they called Al-Andalus — rule that Christian Iberia spent the next eight centuries fighting to reverse, in a campaign later named the Reconquista.

Is what’s happening today a repeat of what the Muslims did in 711? To determine that, it’s worth going back to the beginning: who was in Iberia first, why the Muslims invaded once before to conquer the Christians and Jews in 711, what Muslim rule over Christians and Jews actually looked like and how and why it ended.

Who Was There First

Jews came first. The earliest solid evidence places Jewish communities on the Iberian Peninsula in the Roman period — arriving with Roman trade and settlement from around the 1st century BC/AD, with a documented surge after Rome destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD and scattered much of Judea’s population. Iberia’s Jewish communities gave the peninsula its Hebrew name, Sepharad, and form the root of Sephardic Jewish identity.

By the time Rome itself turned Christian, Jews had already been established in Iberia for centuries.

Christians came second — as the empire’s new religion, not as a separate migration. Christianity spread through the Roman world from the 1st century AD and became Rome’s official religion under Theodosius in 380. When the Visigoths — Germanic invaders — took Iberia from a collapsing Rome in the early 5th century, they arrived as Arian Christians and converted to Catholic Christianity in 587 under King Reccared. From that point Visigothic Spain was a Catholic kingdom.

Its record toward the older Jewish communities was harsh: repeated forced conversions, a 613 decree ordering Jews to convert or leave, and by 694 measures aimed at enslaving those who had not converted. That history helps explain why some Jewish communities offered little resistance to, or even welcomed, the Muslim armies that arrived next — the new rulers at least offered a different set of rules rather than the Visigothic program of erasure.

Muslims came third, arriving in 711 — by which point Jews had been in Iberia for roughly 700–800 years and Christians, as the ruling religion, for about 300.

Where the Conquerors Came From, and Why the Conquests Went So Far

The armies that crossed into Spain in 711 were the far edge of an expansion that began in Arabia under Muhammad himself. Muhammad was born around 570 AD in Mecca. He began claiming revelations around 610 and died in 632 — roughly 600 years after Jesus. He was not a purely spiritual figure. He was a political and military leader who built power through a combination of preaching, alliance-making, raiding, treaty-breaking when convenient, and open warfare. His career in Medina after the Hijra was defined by campaigns against rival Arabian tribes and, repeatedly, against the Jewish tribes of the oasis. He expelled or destroyed Banu Qaynuqa and Banu Nadir; after the Banu Qurayza were accused of treachery during the Battle of the Trench, the adult males were executed and the women and children enslaved. These were not peripheral incidents — they were central to consolidating his authority and eliminating independent non-Muslim power centers in Arabia.

Muhammad’s explicit aim was political and religious supremacy. The Quranic material and the earliest biographical traditions present him as calling for the subordination or displacement of those who rejected his message, particularly Jews and Christians once they refused to accept him as the final prophet. His return to Mecca in 630 and the subsequent consolidation of the peninsula under his rule were military and political achievements first. He died in 632 before the great external conquests began, but the project he launched — a unified Arabian polity oriented toward expansion under the banner of Islam — did not die with him. His successors, the Rashidun and then Umayyad caliphs, carried that project outward in the decades that followed, treating the subordination of Christian and Jewish lands as the natural continuation of what Muhammad had begun at home.Several factors explain why the expansion went as far and as fast as it did:

A power vacuum next door. The Byzantine and Sasanian Persian empires had just exhausted each other in a long, ruinous war (602–628), followed by Sasanian civil war. Both were drained and vulnerable exactly when a newly unified Arabian force appeared.

A newly unified Arabia with military energy to expend. Pre-Islamic tribal raiding was endemic. Muhammad’s movement welded the tribes together under one leadership; the Ridda Wars after his death forcibly prevented that unity from collapsing. Once consolidated, the energy was directed outward.

Economic incentive. War booty (ghanima) is explicitly addressed and sanctioned in the Quran. Conquest also produced new tax bases — especially the jizya on non-Muslims — that funded the expanding state.

Religious ideology. Expanding the domain of Islamic rule was understood by the early conquerors as a religious duty continuous with Muhammad’s own campaigns. The goal was not abstract spiritual conversion of every individual on day one; it was political control, the imposition of Muslim supremacy, and the extraction of resources from the conquered — precisely the pattern Muhammad had established with the Jewish tribes of Medina and the Arabian polytheists.

Speed and mobility. Lightly provisioned Arab cavalry could move across terrain Byzantine and Sasanian defenses treated as impassable.

The immediate goal of these conquests was overwhelmingly political and fiscal control rather than instantaneous mass conversion at sword-point. Conquered Jews and Christians were generally folded into the dhimma system — taxed, subordinated, and allowed to retain their religion under restrictions — because a non-Muslim taxpaying population was more useful to the new state than a converted one that no longer paid jizya. Mass conversion occurred gradually over generations for social, economic, and pressure reasons. That distinction does not soften the core reality: the enterprise was expansionist conquest aimed at seizing and holding the lands of Christians and Jews under Muslim rule.

The Conquest (711–718)

In July 711 a force under the Berber general Tariq ibn Ziyad — roughly 7,000 to 12,000 men, mostly recent Berber converts serving the Umayyad Caliphate — crossed from North Africa and met the Visigothic king Roderic near the Guadalete or Barbate River. Roderic’s army, already weakened by internal succession conflict, was routed.

The following year the Umayyad governor Musa ibn Nusayr arrived with a larger force. Between them they took most of the peninsula in under seven years, stopping short of the mountainous northwest (Asturias and Galicia), where resistance held and later became the base of the Reconquista.

Much of the takeover was negotiated rather than fought to the last man. The 713 Treaty of Orihuela (Pact of Tudmir) is the best-documented example: the Visigothic noble Theodemir retained local authority and his people kept their law in exchange for tribute and recognition of Umayyad overlordship. Similar arrangements were repeated elsewhere. Local elites often preferred submission and tax to annihilation. This was efficient imperialism, not gentle invitation. The advance north of the Pyrenees was finally checked at Tours in 732 by Charles Martel’s Franks — the high-water mark of that particular wave of expansion into Western Europe.

Life Under Islamic Rule: The Dhimma System

Christians and Jews in al-Andalus lived under the dhimma — a legal status rooted in classical Islamic jurisprudence that granted “People of the Book” protection of life, property, and limited religious practice in exchange for the jizya (a per-capita tax on non-Muslim adult men) and general submission to Muslim political authority. This was the system that followed from the conquest model Muhammad’s successors inherited and applied.

Dhimmi status was a middle category, not equality and not immediate death. Classical law offered conquered Jews and Christians conversion, dhimmi status, or continued war. Dhimmi status was the alternative to death or enslavement for those who submitted. Legal subordination was built in: restrictions on building or repairing churches and synagogues, limits on public religious display, lower weight given to dhimmi testimony in court, and exclusion from certain positions of authority over Muslims. The jizya rates and enforcement varied by time and place; classical rules often exempted the poor, women, children, the elderly, and the disabled, though local governors sometimes ignored those exemptions when revenue was needed.

Conditions were not uniform across nearly 800 years. The relatively pragmatic atmosphere under the Umayyad emirate and caliphate of Córdoba — the period most associated with cultural and intellectual activity — differed sharply from the stricter, more coercive policies of the later Almoravid and especially Almohad dynasties. The Almohads in particular pushed conversion or expulsion in some periods. Claims that dhimmis routinely had wives and children seized as slaves for unpaid jizya, or were systematically beheaded simply for refusing conversion, overstate what the sources show as standard procedure. Violence, coercion, and enslavement occurred in conquest, in putting down rebellions, and in the wider slave trades of the era. The dhimma itself was a durable framework of formal second-class status under Muslim political supremacy — exactly the hierarchical outcome Muhammad’s own campaigns against Jewish tribes had prefigured.

The conversion of the great Visigothic church of Córdoba into the city’s central mosque (today’s Mezquita-Catedral) remains the clearest physical symbol of the new order.

The Long Contraction: Reconquista, 718–1492

The Reconquista is conventionally dated from the Battle of Covadonga (c. 718–722) to 1492. Those roughly 770 years were not a single continuous crusade. Christian and Muslim polities fought each other, allied with each other, and fought their own co-religionists as circumstances dictated. After the collapse of the Córdoban caliphate in 1031, the taifa kingdoms frequently paid tribute to Christian rulers and hired Christian mercenaries; Christian kings did the reverse. El Cid himself fought for a Muslim ruler at one point.

The military balance shifted decisively after the Christian victory at Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212 broke Almohad power. Castile, Aragón, and Portugal steadily absorbed Muslim territory until only the Emirate of Granada remained as a tributary state. Granada fell on 2 January 1492 when Muhammad XII (Boabdil) surrendered to Ferdinand of Aragón and Isabella of Castile — the same year Spain expelled its Jews and funded Columbus. The surrender terms initially promised toleration for Granada’s Muslims; those terms collapsed within a decade, leading to forced conversions and, ultimately, the 1609–1614 expulsion of the moriscos.

What “Waqf” and Reconquest Rhetoric Actually Refer To

Waqf is a real institution in Islamic law: an endowment of land or property dedicated in perpetuity to a religious or charitable purpose and treated as inalienable. The broader ideological claim — that any land once under Muslim rule remains permanently part of the dar al-Islam and carries an obligation to be recovered — is a genuine strand of Islamist and jihadist thought. Al-Andalus and Spain function as potent symbols within it. Figures such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi have spoken of the eventual “conquest” of Europe through da’wah, demography, and ideology rather than solely the sword. That rhetoric exists and should be taken seriously as the political expression of a particular current.

It is not a unanimous theological consensus among the world’s Muslims, nor a single coordinated operational plan executed by every migrant. It is, however, continuous with the expansionist logic that began with Muhammad’s campaigns to eliminate independent Jewish power in Arabia and to establish Muslim political supremacy, and that his successors applied on a continental scale.

The Takeaway

The historical sequence is clear. Jews were present in Iberia centuries before Christians became the ruling faith; Christians ruled for roughly three centuries before Muslim armies arrived in 711. Those armies were the western extension of a conquest project launched by Muhammad — a warrior-prophet who unified Arabia by force, destroyed or subordinated Jewish tribes that stood in his way, and left his successors a model and an ideology oriented toward expanding Muslim rule over the lands of Christians and Jews. The dhimma and jizya systems institutionalized second-class status under that rule. Conditions varied by dynasty, but the underlying hierarchy did not. Nearly 800 years of Muslim political control in Iberia ended in 1492. The memory of that control, and the claim that it remains unfinished business, still circulates in certain Islamist circles today.

AMY MEK: “Islam will enter every country, every city, every village, every home - by hook or by crook. Every house will have a Muslim inside. Islam will honor those who submit and humiliate those who disbelieve.”

This is the battle plan.

In 711 AD, Muslim armies crossed from North Africa and conquered nearly the entire Iberian Peninsula. For almost 800 years they ruled what they called Al-Andalus.

Churches were turned into mosques.

Christians and Jews lived as dhimmis - second-class subjects paying the jizya tax under Islamic law.

The Reconquista, completed in 1492 with the fall of Granada, was the Christian recovery of those lands after centuries of blood and sacrifice.

Islamic doctrine never accepted that loss.

Under the concept of waqf, any territory that was once under Muslim rule remains Islamic forever - the property of Allah. (This is HAPPENING NOW in AMERICA)

Many Muslim scholars and activists still teach that Spain must be reclaimed.

That is not some fringe rhetoric America!

It is the stated position that I documented for years: the lands lost in the Reconquista still belong to Islam, and Muslims have an Islamic right to return and re-establish rule.

Today that claim is being executed in real time.

Thousands of migrants are swimming and storming into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.

Reception centers have collapsed.

Local leaders call it a full humanitarian and security emergency.

The Spanish military is being deployed.

This is not “seeking a better life.”

This is the physical return to the gateway of the old Al-Andalus.

Hijrah is the sacred command.

Muhammad fled Mecca, built power in Medina, then returned and conquered.

The Quran (4:100) promises rich rewards for those who emigrate in the cause of Allah.

Modern Brotherhood leaders such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi said the quiet part out loud: Europe and America would be taken not only by the sword, but through da’wah and Hijrah — migration, settlement, demographic growth, and institutional takeover.

Spain is the historic prize.

The rest of the West is already in motion.

Look at Europe: parallel societies, no-go zones, soaring mosque construction, higher migrant birth rates, and political demands for Sharia accommodations.

Look at the United States: the same pattern of mosque-school-housing complexes, permanent waqf endowments, and open declarations that Islam will enter every house.

The method is identical - settle, expand, demand, replace.

They told us the goal and the method.

They are executing it on Spain’s border right now while the same process advances across the West.

This is not immigration. This is the reconquest they never abandoned.

Believe them. Close the borders. Send them back.

Or watch the lands our ancestors fought to free become Islamic again - exactly as they promised.”

UPDATE: Nick Shirley went to Spain and is reporting the truth from the ground there. The fake news said that Spain is sending the invaders home - that's a lie:

NICK SHIRLEY: Here is the truth from Ceuta, Spain. 60,000+ migrants from Morocco’s border stormed the small town and are now hiding in the mountains and city to reach mainland Europe.

Moroccan migrants said Moroccan authorities let them through their border and Spain literally opened their gates upon arrival. Many migrants thank PM Pedro Sánchez for opening the border. Ceuta is now effectively shut down due to looting concerns, and the military is losing power as migrants outnumber them and continue to escape into the mountains.

Now thousands of military age men are set to spread throughout Europe due to one country’s “failure.”

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The numbers tell a very different story. What gets you locked up, tortured, or executed in much of the world is protected speech, personal choice, or routine behavior in the United States. Here’s the record, category by category, with fresh examples from 2025 reporting.

Speech

Criticize leaders like Turkey’s Erdogan, Egypt’s el-Sisi, or Russia’s Putin, and you risk years in prison for what would be a routine op-ed or tweet in America.

Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are especially draconian. Roughly 750 people are currently imprisoned on such charges, with over 2,000 accused since 1987 and nearly 100 killed by mobs before trial. Courts continue handing out death sentences for social media posts—no proof of intent required; a forward or share can suffice.

In early 2025, a Pakistani court sentenced 10 men to death for online posts after a woman was sentenced to death in 2022 over WhatsApp and Facebook messages.

Journalists also fare poorly worldwide. The Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2025 census found there are 330 journalists imprisoned globally - right now. Communist China holds about 50, the global leader. Six in ten face “anti-state” charges for unflattering coverage; a quarter have been detained five years or longer without sentencing. In Russia and Iran, critical journalists also receive long sentences.

Religion

Leave Islam and it’s a death sentence on paper in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania. Their custody, inheritance, marriage, any legal protection, all gone. Trying to convert someone from Islam to another religion is illegal across most of the Muslim world, and India has even started cracking down on it too.

Falun Gong members and unregistered Christians get imprisoned in China. In Pakistan, 22 Ahmadiyya Muslims were arrested in one town for the crime of praying on Eid.

Sex and Relationships

Homosexuality is a crime in 65 countries as of this year. Seven countries execute for it, five more leave the door open: Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Uganda, Yemen.

Uganda’s 2023 law (home country of Mamdani) allows execution for what it calls “aggravated homosexuality” — not some dusty statute, an active law being used right now.

Adultery still gets people flogged or stoned under religious law in parts of Nigeria and Iran. Sex outside marriage (heterosexual) in general is a crime in Indonesia’s Aceh province and parts of the Gulf.

The Shia Twelver Islamic doomsday cult regime running Iran forces gay people to remove their sexual organs so that they can be called transgender and live in same-sex relationships and then the Mullahs can declare that Iran has no gay people. People do this because the alternative is death. It’s true - look it up. Where do you think all the transgender mania in the US came from? Iran!!

However, the son of the Ayatollah is allegedly gay, according to Trump and the IC, and that’s why his father never wanted him to rise to the top. Now the gay dictator in charge of Iran wants nukes even more than his father! Now you know why!

PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Iran has turned to being ruled by a gay dictator.”

It’s quite legal and common for adult men in Iran to have multiple sexual relationships with children (both male and female) in addition to polygamy.

Pakistan does NOT allow same-sex marriages and homosexuality is punishable by death. So many gay people pretend to be “transgender” so that they can be gay and marry. Got it? Iran does the same thing.

Did you know that sex change surgery in Iran is a MULTI-BILLION dollar business & that way the Mullahs can declare there is NO homosexuality in Iran? They even make castration affordable in Iran!

I know most people don’t want to hear these gory details because it hurts their sensibilities - but it’s important for us to know the truth instead of pretending otherwise.

Drugs, and this is the one with the numbers that are hard to believe.

Global executions hit 2,707 in 2025—a 78% jump from 2024 and the highest since 1981 (excluding unreported thousands in China). Nearly half (1,257) were for drug offenses.

China leads overall but hides numbers. Expansions in death penalty scope for drugs occurred in Algeria, Kuwait, and the Maldives. Iran alone carried out 998 drug-related executions (and over 2,000 total), more than doubling prior figures. Saudi Arabia executed at least 356 (many drug-related), with spikes also in Kuwait and Singapore.

The UN has repeatedly stated that drug offenses do not meet the “most serious crimes” threshold for capital punishment and don’t meet the bar required for a death sentence under international law. Nobody’s listening. It’s happening at a scale bigger than any point in the last 40 years. And separately — the Philippines’ drug war killed thousands with no trial at all, just police deciding someone was a user or a dealer.

Politics

Try to start an opposition party or an independent union in China, Belarus, Eritrea, or most of the Gulf, and you’ll get shut down or sent to prison or worse.

Protest peacefully in Russia, Iran, Egypt or China and you can get years in prison or worse — Hong Kong went back and punished people for protests that happened before the law criminalizing them even existed. In the January-February 2026 uprising against the Iranian regime alone - some 52,000 innocent protesters were gunned down in the streets - according to the Trump administration and the Iranian resistance.

In China, even if you sign a petition you’re labeled an enemy of the state. China uses “separatist” labels against Uyghurs and Tibetans for what Americans would treat as free expression.

Women’s rights

Abortion remains completely outlawed in roughly two dozen countries, including Andorra and Malta in Europe, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic in Latin America, Senegal and Egypt in Africa, and the Philippines and Laos in Asia.

Some 90 million women of reproductive age — about 5% of the global total — live under total abortion bans, and the Center for Reproductive Rights estimates roughly 40% of women worldwide live under some form of restrictive abortion law.

Iran sits in the middle: abortion is legal only to save the mother’s life or (recently, pending final approval) for confirmed fetal disability, with a 2021 law that treats any large-scale abortion as a capital offense. In other words, the leaders of Planned Parenthood would be put to death in Iran for doing what they do.

Female genital mutilation is still a widespread global — not merely African — practice. Over 230 million living girls and women have undergone FGM, more than 144 million of them in Africa and over 80 million in Asia, with roughly 6 million more across the Middle East.

Beyond the 33 African countries where it’s documented, FGM is also practiced in Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, the Palestinian territories, the UAE, and Yemen in the Middle East, and across parts of South and Southeast Asia including India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Maldives. Prevalence is near-universal — 90% or higher — in Somalia, Guinea, and Djibouti.

Iranian women face structural legal discrimination across marriage, divorce, child custody, nationality transmission, employment, inheritance, and political participation. Girls can be legally married at 13, with judicial exceptions allowing even younger marriages, and the age of criminal responsibility is lower for girls than boys — meaning girls can be tried and punished as adults sooner than boys can.

Compulsory hijab enforcement remains the most visible flashpoint in Iran. Morality police patrols continue to carry out arbitrary arrests, unfair trials, floggings, and social media bans targeting women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers, and anyone challenging mandatory veiling — some facing death sentences for their advocacy. Enforcement persists inside government offices and public institutions, reinforced by surveillance under the “Hijab and Chastity” initiative, vehicle confiscations, and periodic threats of renewed mass crackdowns.

Iran executed at least 48 women in 2025 — a sharp increase — many tied to protest activity or “morality” charges, and crackdowns extending into late 2025 and 2026 have produced additional death sentences and killings of women.

Conclusion

Strip away the propaganda and it’s easy to see that America is the most FREE and least OPPRESSIVE country on earth. America is the most fair and diverse place on earth. It’s not even close. Iran is one of the worst!

BRADFORD: "It’s easy to scream that America is an oppressive dictatorship when you’re in America and you have the legal freedom to do so. Sadly, the only people screaming that at the top of their lungs are the dumbest amongst us, who have no understanding of history, the world, and cultures beyond their own neighborhoods."

What lands someone in prison or on death row overseas is, here, either protected by the Constitution, not even illegal, or just something people yell about on social media or cable news. A tweet, a joint, who you love, a story you wrote — that’s just Tuesday in Washington. In Tehran - it’s a death sentence. Please tell your family and friends THAT truth! Godspeed.

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I predicted in March 2020 that COVID was a bioweapon that was unleashed by the CCP to kick off the Communist color revolution in Minneapolis - combined with the George Floyd false flag and summer of love - to sicken our elderly and steal our country with cheat-by-mail - and I was correct.

It appears to me the same playbook is being run in 2026 using different means. Obama told us twice on Netflix what he planned to do!

Wildfire arson, new noroviruses, new respiratory viruses, a new Ebola strain, new parasites and salmonella outbreaks are all suddenly exploding at the same time in America right before mid-terms? Who thinks that’s all a coincidence?

41 states are having an explosion of diarrhea related disease!

I just had my own personal experience with it so this is not something I just read about - I just lived it. Here’s what I found out and what I think you need to know to make good decisions.

As always, this is NOT medical advice. This is my research to help YOU know the truth and not have to go through what I did. This is long and detailed but I think it’s important to tell you the whole story - not just bits and pieces - so you can see the bigger picture.

THE PATTERN

Who and what is actually making people sick? Here’s what I learned.

After it was announced that toxic food and toxic air are sickening Americans in over 41 states this summer, President Trump just stated that he is going to slap tariffs on Mexico for sending us toxic shredded lettuce and on Canada for letting their forests burn down and sending us filthy, smoky air every summer.

The implication in that statement, to me, is that these “invasions” are bioweapons and engineered by our enemies - not just happenstance or natural occurrences. Earlier, Trump said the same thing about the wildfires in California under Newsom. He said Newsom refused to use water to put out the fires in California. Trump confirmed that my reporting on the Palisades fire was correct - Newsom LET California burn down - on purpose!

In recent election years, where Democrats (Communists) are the underdogs, Americans mysteriously get hit with nasty bugs, cybercrimes, unexplained weather events, toxic smoke and more weirdness - all of which distract us from the real news and render us weak and many often unable to vote. It’s a pattern and I am good at pattern recognition and dot connecting - just like many of you.

WHAT HAPPENED TO ME

This year, I got hit with it myself so I have my own story to tell - along with receipts. Last week, I went to a restaurant in a small town in Wisconsin for dinner and had fish and a shredded lettuce salad. Two days later, I went to bed at 1am and felt fine - then woke up at 3am and had projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea for over 12 hours that sent me to the hospital with low blood pressure and deadly dehydration. I literally could not stand up and support my body. I haven’t been that sick since I was a kid.

I’m grateful for all the nurses and doctors and friends who came to my rescue. I was humbled and so appreciative.

Then, when I felt better I did what most people don't bother to do: I pushed for a full GI pathogen panel instead of a standard stool test. I assumed that I was suffering from the same parasite announced on the news. I was wrong. The result came back positive for something called sapovirus — a virus that’s related to norovirus - that almost nobody's heard of and that most doctors don't even test for by default.

I DID NOT HAVE CYCLOSPORA (THE PARASITE) - I HAD A KIND OF NOROVIRUS - THE KIND THEY FIND ON CRUISESHIPS. REMEMBER, Norovirus was rampant on cruise ships in the last half of 2019 - right before COVID hit.

In the past couple of weeks, I've heard from over 100 people in this area alone with the same kind of gut-punch illness that I had. Most of them never got a real diagnosis. They were told "it's probably a stomach bug" and sent home. That's not good enough — and here's why.

THREE BUGS, ONE SYMPTOM LIST

Right now there are at least three distinct pathogens circulating that can produce nearly identical symptoms — sudden vomiting, watery or "explosive" diarrhea, cramping, nausea and massive dehydration. The treatments for each is different and the long-term impact of each is different.

Think Lyme disease - I had that too over 30 years ago after my black lab and I both got it after a walk in the Wisconsin woods - and I was quickly treated with a two week course of antibiotics and it quickly came back. I found a doctor in California who was familiar with Lyme disease back then (few were) who told me I needed a strong course (2 months) of antibiotics to kill it. He was right - it worked. But I know many who were never diagnosed properly or treated properly, like I was, and have suffered decades with Lyme with lasting effects.

IMHO, the “bugs” we are being inundated with today have the same potential to destroy our bodies long-term just like Lyme. So, please take this seriously.

THE LYME CONNECTION

Recently, Bobby Kennedy Jr. acknowledged the threat we face from Lyme disease and just announced that the Trump administration is launching an all out attack against Lyme disease!

Lyme disease is a tick-borne infection that can lead to chronic, often invisible multi-system illness. Even after treatment, up to 20% of patients may develop Lyme “infection-associated chronic conditions and illnesses” (Lyme-IACCI) with persistent fatigue, pain, cognitive issues, neurological complications, and other enduring health challenges.

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, with an estimated 476,000 Americans diagnosed and treated annually. Lyme affects nearly every body system, producing wide-ranging symptoms that frequently overlap with other infections and autoimmune conditions—leading to frequent misdiagnosis or delayed care.

Nearly 10 MILLION Americans have been treated for Lyme in the past decade and many many millions more have likely gone untreated!

I guarantee that many who think they have LONG COVID are actually suffering from untreated Lyme disease.

RFK Jr. said that Lyme Disease is a bioweapon that came from a lab, just like COVID, and also mentioned the Lone Star tick disease that has infected many tribes in the East Coast and permanently creates an anti-meat allergy after just ONE bite.

I read somewhere today that pieces of the cell walls of the bacteria behind Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) remain in the body even after the disease is eradicated by antibiotics and will cause a long-term 24/7 low level immune response.

Then, when and if that person is exposed to ANY virus (COVID, flu, norovirus, sapovirus, parasites, etc.) the immune response goes into overdrive because it’s not only trying to eliminate the new virus it’s also attacking remnants from the Lyme’s bacteria.

In other words, getting the flu can cause a Lyme’s carrier to feel like he or she has fully body rheumatoid arthritis. Has anyone heard that before or been told that by their doctor?

New research shows that fragments of the Borrelia burgdorferi cell wall (a type of peptidoglycan) can persist in tissues—especially the liver and joints—for weeks to months after successful antibiotic treatment, even when live bacteria are gone.

Those cell-wall fragments are recognized by the immune system and can drive ongoing low-grade inflammation, which is one leading theory for Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) or long COVID.

I ran this theory by AI. Here’s what it said:

You’re landing on something that many researchers and clinicians are also starting to suspect: PTLDS and long COVID likely share overlapping mechanisms, and your idea fits within current leading theories.

THREE DIFFERENT BUGS AND HOW THEY SPREAD

Now back to the latest gastrointestinal epidemic in America. These are the three circulating culprits that we know of. There could be more…

Norovirus — the most talked-about. Nationally, a strain called GII.17 has become dominant this year, jumping from under 8% to over 75% of genotyped outbreaks in two seasons — meaning most people have little built-up immunity to it. Fast onset (12–48 hours after exposure), resolves in 1–3 days.

Sapovirus — a close viral cousin of norovirus, first identified in Sapporo, Japan in 1977. Nearly identical symptoms, same fast-onset pattern, same transmission route. The difference: almost nobody tests for it specifically, so it’s likely far more common than official numbers suggest. This is the one I tested positive for.

Both viruses were discovered in the 1970s via electron microscopy (norovirus in 1972 in Norwalk, Ohio; sapovirus around 1976–1977 in Sapporo, Japan). However, norovirus quickly gained attention due to its association with large outbreaks. Sapovirus was under-diagnosed for decades because routine testing was limited — early methods like electron microscopy were insensitive, and it wasn’t routinely included in diagnostic panels.

Cyclospora (a parasite, not a virus) — behaves completely differently. Slow onset (up to a week or more after exposure), watery diarrhea that can drag on for weeks if untreated, usually without the sharp vomiting norovirus/sapovirus cause.

All three (two viruses, one parasite) are spread primarily through contamination that starts with human waste — this isn’t airborne illness:

• Food — the most common vector for all three. A single contaminated ingredient (produce washed in bad water, food handled by a sick worker) can spread through a restaurant, a grocery chain, or a whole regional food supply.

• Water — contamination of a well or municipal supply is possible but requires a specific breach: a failing septic system, agricultural runoff, or a cracked well casing. Standard chlorination kills norovirus and sapovirus effectively — but Cyclospora is chlorine-resistant. Filtration, not chlorine, is what actually stops it.

• Person-to-person / surfaces — especially for norovirus and sapovirus, which spread easily through households, schools, and shared spaces. It takes only a tiny amount of virus to cause infection, and alcohol-based hand sanitizer doesn’t reliably kill it — soap and water does.

• Standard alcohol-based hand sanitizer is weak against norovirus and sapovirus specifically. Both are non-enveloped (naked capsid) viruses — they lack the lipid envelope that alcohol is good at disrupting. Alcohol-based sanitizers (60–95% ethanol or isopropanol) work well against enveloped viruses (flu, coronaviruses, HIV) and most bacteria, but non-enveloped viruses like noro/sapovirus, as well as rotavirus and adenovirus, are much more resistant to alcohol.

• TWITTER: “When we went to central Mexico years ago on vacation we were told by a lot of people to NOT eat salads especially with lettuce. They water their fields with sewage.”

Airborne spread is NOT a real factor for any of these — they’re fecal-oral pathogens. Keep that in mind for what I say later.

THE LETTUCE TRAIL

This didn’t come out of nowhere. Cyclospora (the parasite) has a documented 30-year history in this country and it is ALWAYS the same story: imported produce, eaten raw, grown or washed in bad water. There is a history of infection with raspberries from Guatemala and cilantro, basil and other herbs from Mexico.

It’s the same pattern, every single time. Produce that’s eaten raw. Grown or processed with water nobody can fully vouch for.

When people get sick from bagged lettuce, the cause almost always traces back to water. Farms use water to irrigate crops, and processing plants use water to wash and prepare vegetables before they’re shipped to stores. If that water has been contaminated with human waste — often because of poor sanitation near farms, sewage runoff, or workers who don’t have proper bathroom facilities — tiny organisms like the parasite Cyclospora can end up on the plant itself.

Once that contamination happens, it can spread from soil to plant, or from one batch of water into an entire day’s worth of washed and shredded lettuce.

Lettuce is a especially common source of these outbreaks for a few simple reasons.

People eat it raw, so there’s no cooking step to kill off anything harmful. Its leaves have folds and rough surfaces that are difficult to fully clean. And Cyclospora in particular has a tough outer shell that clings tightly to leaves, so rinsing it under water doesn’t reliably wash it away. On top of that, when lettuce is shredded and processed at a central factory, contamination from a single source can spread across enormous numbers of bags, which is why a problem at one supplier can suddenly cause sick people to show up in several different states at the same time.

WHY IT’S HARD TO DIAGNOSE

Part of what makes these outbreaks so hard to catch early is that contaminated lettuce looks, smells, and tastes completely normal. There’s no way to tell just by looking at it. The only way to know for sure is to test it in a lab, and companies don’t test every single batch that goes out the door. The same problem shows up when sick people go to the doctor.

A standard stool test, the kind doctors usually order first, will often miss norovirus, sapovirus, and Cyclospora entirely. To catch these specific illnesses, a doctor has to order something called a GI Pathogen PCR panel and specifically ask the lab to check for those three by name. Many doctors don’t think to do this unless the patient asks, which means a lot of people are told they simply have “a stomach bug” when in fact they have an infection that could be properly diagnosed and treated.

As for how well companies actually test their water and produce, the honest answer is: not very thoroughly, and not for everything.

Government rules require farms to regularly test their irrigation water for a common bacteria called generic E. coli, which serves as a general warning sign of possible contamination. Processing plants are also required to monitor the cleanliness of their wash water. But testing for more dangerous bacteria like Salmonella usually only happens if that basic E. coli test comes back bad, or once an outbreak is already under investigation. Testing specifically for Cyclospora, or for viruses like norovirus and sapovirus, is almost never done as part of routine safety checks.

It only happens after people have already gotten sick and investigators go looking for the source.

The reason is partly practical: tests for viruses and parasites are expensive and require specialized lab equipment, and even then, these organisms don’t always show up reliably in a water sample even when they’re present. So the whole system is built more to catch problems after an outbreak begins rather than to prevent one from starting in the first place.

Large suppliers follow these same basic rules, including extra scrutiny for lettuce imported from places like Mexico, but none of that changes the underlying gap: viruses and parasites simply aren’t part of routine screening.

So far, thousands of people across multiple states have gotten sick, with Michigan hit hardest, and there have been hospitalizations but no deaths reported. Because Cyclospora can take up to two weeks to cause symptoms after someone eats contaminated food, new cases may keep appearing even though products are recalled.

A natural question is whether washing lettuce at home can solve the problem, and unfortunately the answer is only partly. Washing under running water while rubbing the leaves can remove dirt and reduce some bacteria and surface germs. Soaking lettuce briefly in a mixture of one part vinegar to three parts water can help a little more.

But washing cannot reliably kill or remove norovirus or sapovirus, and it cannot get rid of Cyclospora, since its tough shell sticks so firmly to the leaf. It also can’t reach any contamination that has soaked into the plant’s tissue through dirty irrigation water, and it definitely can’t undo the damage of pre-shredded, bagged lettuce, where mixing during processing spreads contamination evenly through the whole bag.

Health authorities like the CDC and FDA are consistent on this point: washing lowers risk, but it does not make contaminated produce safe.

Given all this, there are some sensible precautions people can take, especially during an active outbreak like the current one. Buying whole heads of lettuce instead of pre-shredded or bagged versions reduces the number of ways contamination could have spread. Removing the outer leaves and rinsing each leaf individually under running water helps somewhat, as does drying the lettuce thoroughly afterward, since dampness allows bacteria to survive longer.

People should avoid any product that has been specifically recalled and check the FDA or CDC website for current warnings. Cooking greens, rather than eating them raw, eliminates the risk entirely. And for people who are more vulnerable to serious illness — older adults, young children, and anyone with a weakened immune system — it’s often wisest to avoid raw, pre-packaged shredded lettuce altogether while an outbreak is ongoing.

RECOVERY: WHAT TO EXPECT

For anyone who does get sick, it helps to understand what recovery typically looks like for these two illnesses, since they behave quite differently. Sapovirus usually causes an intense but short illness. In healthy adults, symptoms often last only one to four days, with vomiting typically clearing up faster than diarrhea.

In older adults, though, the illness tends to last longer and carries a higher risk of dehydration. Most people feel mostly back to normal within one to two weeks, though it can take longer in the elderly. Importantly, a person can still be contagious for weeks after they start feeling better, since the virus continues shedding from the body, so good hand hygiene remains important even after symptoms are gone. There’s no medicine that treats sapovirus directly — recovery depends entirely on rest, fluids, and a gentle diet while the body clears the virus on its own.

Cyclospora behaves quite differently. If it’s properly diagnosed and treated with an antibiotic called Bactrim, taken for seven to ten days, people usually start feeling better within a few days and are mostly recovered within one to three weeks, though fatigue and occasional loose stools can linger longer in older patients. Left untreated, however, Cyclospora can drag on for four to eight weeks or longer, with diarrhea that comes and goes, which is especially dangerous for elderly patients who are more vulnerable to prolonged dehydration and poor nutrition. Even after the parasite is cleared from the body, bloating, cramping, and general gut sensitivity can continue for weeks afterward.

For anyone who has been sick and doesn’t know why, the most useful step is to go back to the doctor and specifically request a GI Pathogen PCR panel, naming norovirus, sapovirus, and Cyclospora directly, since a standard stool test will likely miss all three.

If Cyclospora is confirmed, the standard treatment is that same antibiotic, Bactrim, usually for seven to ten days, and doctors should retest the stool afterward if symptoms don’t improve. In fact, due to lag times, I would suggest if you get sick that you get tested twice a few weeks apart. That’s what I am going to do.

Anyone relying on well water should have it tested, and people on municipal water systems can request their water utility’s Consumer Confidence Report and ask directly whether their water has been part of any local investigation.

Finally, if a person notices that several people around them are getting sick around the same time, reporting it to the local county health department is genuinely useful — a documented cluster with confirmed lab results gives investigators something concrete to act on, far more than scattered, unconfirmed reports of people simply feeling unwell.

Cyclosporiasis is notorious for a relapsing-remitting course — symptoms can improve and then flare up again in cycles, dragging on for weeks to months if untreated. Chronic, untreated cases can lead to significant weight loss and malnutrition-related complications, especially concerning in children, older adults, and pregnant women.

Immunocompromised individuals (HIV/AIDS, transplant patients, chemotherapy patients) are at risk for a more severe, prolonged, and sometimes life-threatening course, and can develop complications like reactive arthritis or, rarely, gallbladder inflammation.

THE POLITICAL REACTION

President Trump has pointed the finger directly at the source countries — announcing tariffs on Mexico over the lettuce and on Canada over wildfire smoke drifting south. Whatever you think of tariffs as a policy tool, the fact that this is being treated as a trade and border issue — not just a food-safety hiccup — tells you the administration doesn’t see this as an accident either.

The CDC/FDA traced a multistate Cyclospora (parasite) outbreak to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell locations, supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico.

As of July 17, 2026, Taco Bell says it has completed removal of the affected lettuce from all restaurants nationwide and switched suppliers.

On July 18, the FDA reported a lettuce sample from Taylor Farms de Mexico tested positive for cyclospora, then a day later retracted it, calling it a false positive — lab experts said the result didn't show "true amplification."

As of July 19, FDA said it had no confirmed positive product test results for the parasite at all. FDA came back the next day (July 20) and clarified the reversal doesn't change its underlying conclusion. The recall stands, and the agency says its traceback and epidemiological data still "converge on shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms locations in central Mexico."

Taylor Farms was previously linked to the 2024 E. coli/onion outbreak tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounders.

The pre-washed/bagged lettuce market in the U.S. is dominated by a handful of players, with two clearly on top:

• Taylor Farms — leverages a coast-to-coast processing network to dominate supply to both retail and foodservice, and is the company at the center of the current cyclospora/Taco Bell outbreak. It’s privately held and supplies chains, grocery private labels, and its own branded bags.

• Fresh Express — one of the most well-known bagged lettuce brands in the U.S., owned by Chiquita Brands International (a subsidiary of Brazil’s Cutrale Group), reporting over $1 billion in annual revenue in 2020 and known as a pioneer in the pre-packaged salad industry.

One widely-cited figure — repeated in industry commentary and social posts amid the outbreak — puts Taylor Farms at roughly 70% of the U.S. pre-packaged salad and processed vegetable market. Taylor Farms is pretending to be a victim - that tells you a lot right there!

Taco Bell says it has voluntarily removed potentially affected lettuce from a supplier in select states and is indefinitely removing the ingredient from its nationwide supply chain. The company says it will replace the lettuce within 24 hours.

CONNECTING THE DOTS

I’m not a biologist and I’m not going to pretend to be one. But I am a writer and I have a brain, and my job is pattern recognition. So here’s the pattern as I see it, and you can decide for yourself what to make of it. After all the misinformation spread about Covid for 6 years, I think it’s important to research and present all the details of the current outbreak so that we have a reasonable understanding of what we’re dealing with - and not have to rely on the fake news to tell us!

FACT: The Deep State (in America) along with Russia and China have, in the past, deliberately released biological agents on its own citizens to study how they spread — that’s not a conspiracy theory, that’s declassified history.

In 1950, the Navy sprayed Serratia marcescens bacteria over San Francisco in what’s now known as Operation Sea-Spray, to test how a biological attack would move through a city. A man named Edward Nevin died from the resulting infection. His family sued the government over it decades later. That happened. It’s documented.

Winds carried the spray directly over Stanford Hospital. Eleven patients developed serratia infections, and Edward Nevin, 75, died when the bacteria reached his heart.

Russia and the Soviet Union’s bioweapons program is the big one, which started almost 100 years and has operated even in direct violation of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention the USSR had signed. It focused on weaponizing anthrax, plague, smallpox, tularemia, and Marburg virus, using genetic engineering to enhance virulence and antibiotic resistance. The Bolshevik Communists and Marxists have been perfecting bioweaponry, mind control and chemical weapons for a long time.

In 1979, anthrax spores were accidentally released from a Soviet military production facility, killing at least 68 people. The KGB ran a cover-up — hospitals were ordered to hand over records, bodies disappeared from morgues, death certificates were altered — and the official story blamed tainted meat.

Communist China’s own state bioweapons or human-testing program is estimated by experts to be just as aggressive as Russia’s but there is little public documentation. Remember how they denied having anything to do with COVID - even the existence of a lab until they were forced to reveal it?

Russia and the CCP’s proxies in Iran have used chemical weapons since at least 1985 and U.S. intelligence assessed that Iran produced, weaponized, used, and stockpiled a mix of blood, blister, and choking agents during the Iran-Iraq War. Iran has reportedly shifted toward “pharmaceutical-based agents” today - that they are using against their own protesters and dissidents. You think they wouldn’t use them on us if they had a chance?

I bring that up history not to claim I’ve proven this year’s outbreaks were deliberately engineered by the Islamo-Communists and our enemies in China, Russia and Iran. Nobody has produced evidence that this summer’s Cyclospora, norovirus, or sapovirus outbreaks were intentional or that Mexico is sending us toxic lettuce at the CCP’s request. The traceback evidence so far points to the same contaminated irrigation or wash water in a supply chain nobody is testing closely enough, until people are already sick.

But here’s why I’m not ready to call it “just coincidence” either. We are, once again, heading into a midterm election with the Democrat party as underdogs, and once again the country is getting hit — all at once — with new pathogen strains, food-supply scares, wildfire smoke, and disrupted daily life. I said the same thing about COVID in 2020, and I still believe I was right about that one. Whether this is the same playbook - I’ll let you weigh the evidence yourself. That’s the whole point of doing this kind of research out loud instead of just handing you a conclusion.

What I won’t do is pretend the uncertainty away in either direction. I’m not going to tell you it’s definitely a coincidence, and I’m not going to tell you it’s definitely an attack, because I don’t have the forensic proof for either claim yet — and neither does anyone shouting confidently in either direction on your timeline.

THE BOTTOM LINE

There isn’t one single explanation for what’s going around right now — and that’s exactly the problem. When most people never get more than a shrug and a “probably just a bug” from urgent care, we lose the ability to actually see the real pattern, whatever that pattern turns out to be. My own case only got identified because I pushed for the right test. If you’ve been sick, push too, and make sure you get the right treatment to stop it.

A DETOUR: THE WILDFIRES AND WHAT'S UNDER THEM

Now, let’s take a detour and talk about the wildfires in Canada and near the Minnesota and Wisconsin border. We already know that Canada is letting it burn - but why? Is there more to the story? At the same time this has been an unusual, back-to-back-to-back heat dome summer, not a one-off pattern, which they are calling the “summer of the heat dome.” Hmm, you mean instead of the 2020 “summer of love?”

We know by now that “heat domes” and barometric pressure changes can be manipulated by geoengineering. In 1979, it was well documented that there were nearly 100 geoengineering projects in progress. Imagine what that number is today. These included hurricane manipulation, radioactive and electromagnetically enhanced fog dispersal, microwave chaff deployment, supersonic ice nucleation, and conventional cloud seeding operations. Since then, both the funding and the technology for geoengineering have expanded significantly.

Back to the fires near Ely, Minnesota. Was part of that started by agitators in Canada to stop mining projects in Minnesota that could compete against Communist China? We all know that the CCP and the IRGC are both building military operations in Canada and Carney, the Globalist central banker, is letting them.

If you’re like me, you believe that Tim Walz of Minnesota is a CCP agent - just like Omar and Ellison work for the Brotherhood. The Red-Green axis is taking over Minnesota and going for Wisconsin - and this is just part of the plan. Believe me, don’t believe me, but take it from there…

Few know that there’s a genuinely major discovery near Babbitt (right next to Ely, both in that same northern Minnesota area) that could have a major impact on national security and our ability to make our own computer chips. Our enemies do NOT want us to mine for helium in Northern Minnesota. The wildfires are forcing evacuations in that area and work has ground to a halt! Coincidence? I think not.

The Topaz Project, operated by Pulsar Helium, has confirmed helium concentrations as high as 13.8 percent in its Minnesota wells — the highest ever recorded in North America, and roughly thirty times above the 0.3 percent threshold typically needed for commercial viability. THAT’S HUGE.

What makes the find geologically unusual is that Topaz is a primary helium source: unlike most of the world’s helium supply, including Qatar’s, it doesn’t need to be extracted as a byproduct of natural gas production. The wells have also flowed helium naturally to the surface under pressure without water, a meaningful technical and environmental advantage over conventional extraction. Lab analysis has additionally confirmed the presence of helium-3, a rare isotope the U.S. government has separately invested in for its strategic value.

The relevance to semiconductor manufacturing is direct. Helium is used throughout chip fabrication for wafer cooling, thermal management, leak detection, and maintaining stable process conditions, and industry sources describe it as having limited or no viable substitute in these applications — a rare case where a critical mineral is genuinely irreplaceable rather than merely difficult to source.

That matters because global helium supply has reportedly been disrupted by roughly 45 percent, with a significant share of U.S.-origin helium said to be flowing toward Asian semiconductor markets — Taiwan, South Korea, Japan — rather than staying domestic. Demand is projected to roughly double by 2035, driven largely by chip manufacturing and the buildout of AI and data center infrastructure.

On the regulatory and development side, Minnesota passed helium extraction regulations in May 2026, clearing a path for production. Production-ready well drilling was slated to begin that September, with Pulsar targeting an economic assessment and production guidance by 2027.

The area near Ely, Minnesota also sits on top of the Duluth Complex, one of the largest known deposits of copper, nickel, cobalt, and platinum group metals (PGMs) in the world.

Here's the breakdown relevant to chip production specifically:

What’s actually there in northeastern Minnesota is copper, nickel, cobalt, platinum, and palladium. Twin Metals Minnesota — owned by the Chilean mining company Antofagasta — is targeting the Maturi deposit, roughly nine miles southeast of Ely. Copper is directly critical to chip manufacturing, used in circuitry and interconnects, and cobalt has applications in batteries and some semiconductor-adjacent uses. But this deposit isn’t primarily a rare earth elements source — rare earths being the specific group of 17 elements used in magnets, guidance systems, and specialized electronics. Twin Metals is a base-and-precious-metals and PGM play, not a rare earths one.

Rare earths specifically are a separate and less-developed story. Cleveland-Cliffs has identified early-stage evidence of rare earth mineralization in Minnesota and in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, explicitly framed around reducing U.S. dependence on Chinese rare earth supply chains. But that prospect is well behind Twin Metals in development, and remains in early assessment — Cliffs’ own CEO has characterized commercial viability as still an open question.

The reason this is politically live right now traces to April, when a Republican-backed bill championed by Rep. Pete Stauber lifted a ban on mining in the Lake Superior National Forest adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, clearing a major obstacle for Twin Metals after years of legal battles. There’s also a smaller, separate player in the mix: Niron Magnetics, working on rare-earth-free magnet technology on the Iron Range, which could reduce reliance on this kind of mining altogether if it pans out.

If the goal is delaying regulatory/permitting decisions, a large wildfire disaster consumes state and federal agency attention, emergency funding, and political bandwidth — DNR staff who'd otherwise be working permitting or environmental review get pulled into fire response. So if someone wanted to slow down a specific regulatory process (like the recently-passed Twin Metals mining bill or the new helium extraction rules), a disaster that diverts agency resources is a plausible *side effect*, even if it wasn't the intended cause.

If the goal is shifting media/political attention during an election year: This is a genuinely common real-world tactic — crowding out other news cycles, generating sympathetic or crisis-driven coverage, changing what voters are focused on heading into an election. Disasters do this regardless of who or what caused them. But this is a motive that would apply to basically *any* disaster, not something specific to wildfires or this particular region — and it doesn't require deliberate ignition to be true, since a naturally occurring disaster does exactly the same "buying time" work for anyone who benefits from distraction, without anyone needing to have set it.

If you didn’t know, the Birch Bay Fire, near Ely on Burntside Lake, was officially determined by a Minnesota DNR State Fire Investigator to have "likely originated during chainsaw operations associated with fuels reduction and prescribed fire preparation work being conducted by U.S. Forest Service personnel."

So, the first fire was started by “mistake” through a controlled burn and the DNR said it was put out and then the second massive fire started by a lightening strike and the fake news tells us they are not connected. The locals up there don’t buy that.

That’s the same story they told us about the Palisades fire and it turned out to be a lie. The first fire was never put out and was actually smoldering for days.

I heard from several locals who live near Ely that they believe the fires were started on purpose to force evacuation from the area - and it all appears to be covered up by the fake news. If the fires are being started to force shutdown of these key programs for national security, it all makes sense to me! Or even worse, to use the smoke as a cover to aerosolize dangerous pathogens into our atmosphere!

The timing of all this is very suspect and worth our investigation!

VACCINE RACE: WHO WAS FIRST, AND WHY IT MATTERS

While I have your attention, I’d like to close with one more important point that needs to be addressed when we are talking about our enemies using bioweapons and other forms of geo-engineering weaponry against us. Let’s talk about the COVID vaccine versus the COVID virus.

Remember in the summer of 2020 when the WHO wanted to give us the SINOVAC vaccine from Communist China and the SPUTNIK vaccine from Russia for Covid? I do.

We dodged that bullet.

Sputnik was the first registered combination vector vaccine against Covid-19.

Critics say that Russia’s vaccine was approved without robust research into its safety and efficacy. Yet, Putin’s vaccine was the one that the Deep State wanted to inject the world with!

A 2021 article in The Lancet even claimed that Russia’s COVID vaccine ‘appeared safe and effective’. Later, the Russian scientist who INVENTED the FIRST Covid vaccine was found strangled to death in 2023. Did the fake news tell you about that? I didn’t think so.

In case you don’t know this or remember this, Communist China and Russia both released COVID vaccines (non-mRNA) in June/August 2020, some 4-6 months before the US released its first Pfizer vaccine in December 2020.

So, the narrative that America was first out with a COVID vaccine to destroy the world has always been a lie. Communist China and Russia were FIRST OUT with a test for COVID in early January 2020 and a vaccine for COVID in June 2020 and rushed it around the world.

Did China and Russia’s COVID test help SPREAD COVID around the world from January - December 2020? Was the actual test from the CCP itself infected with COVID? That’s what I always thought - and the real reason I never used one.

You should ask yourself how the Communists were able to do that so quickly? Did the Chinese and Russia scientists suddenly become geniuses when it comes to global healthcare? It’s likely because they were behind the release of the virus (to hurt Trump and push cheat-by-mail) along with the Deep State coup plotters in the first place!

Ask yourself why Ron Johnson and Rand Paul never talk about the Wuhan lab where the virus was released and the fact that Communist China issued the first PCR test for COVID on January 11, 2020 and spread COVID through Asia, Europe and around the world in 60 days - so it could be delivered to America by ship and plane?

Trump didn’t issue an emergency in America until AFTER Communist China had spread COVID all over the world through toxic PCR tests! Then the CCP and Russia issued the first COVID VACCINES in the summer of 2020 (Sinopharm, CoronaVac and Sputnik V) and wanted to inoculate the world too! Trump didn’t issue a vaccine for COVID until 4 months AFTER Communist China & Russia did!

Ask yourself why China & Russia were so fast to issue a test for COVID and a vaccine BEFORE America? Do you think they are that much more capable? NO, because they were behind it!

Ask Ron Johnson why he fundraises off telling only HALF the story? Lying by omission is still lying! Rand Paul does the same thing. Irritates me!

Some 72 countries took Communist China’s vaccines (Sinovac and Sinopharm) starting in June 2020, 79 countries took Russia’s vaccine (Sputnik) starting in August 2020 and 149 countries took the US-EU Pfizer vaccine starting in December 2020.

I remember this because Elon Musk and several other wealthy global leaders admitted to taking the CCP and Russian vaccines while waiting for the American and EU versions. There were many elites so frightened of the initial bioweapon virus back then that they took every single vaccine from all over the world. Musk said he took 6 versions in 2020! Robert Malone did too. I wish I had written down all the names of those who did - because it’s all been scrubbed.

On August 11, 2020, Russia announced it had approved the Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine for emergency use, developed by the Gamaleya Institute. This made it the first country in the world to approve a COVID-19 vaccine.

Several Chinese-developed vaccines, including those from Sinovac and Sinopharm, were approved for emergency use in high-risk professions and military personnel starting in June 2020.

More countries authorized China and Russia’s COVID vaccine (252) for use than Trump’s!

The United States released the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020 under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). It later received full FDA approval in August 2021 - well AFTER Trump left office. By then, China & Russia had already jabbed much of the world and were coming after us!

In addition, a Senate GOP report says there were likely two COVID-19 lab leaks in Communist China - the very first as early as July 2019. In other words, the COVID virus was being spread around the world in the summer of 2019 - well before it was found in America in January 2020.

The CCP and Russia both had vaccines ready in the pipeline and wanted to inject the world FIRST with SINOVAC & SPUTNIK. Russia and China wanted to be heroes and inject the world with the first COVID vaccine - after they most likely released the virus on us! CHEW ON THAT. Seriously, the World Health Organization told us that China and Russia would swoop to the rescue after COVID hit!

IMHO, Trump outsmarted them, trumped them both and saved us all.

So, every time I see something strange today I ask God to help me decipher:

Who had the motive and means and opportunity to sicken us with that?

Who can I trust to tell me the true story?

Where can I find accurate information about what’s really going on?

After I examine all the evidence, what does common sense tell me is the cause?

I hope that’s not too much information all at once but I think it’s important to realize that things that appear disconnected are actually part of the same nefarious plot to sicken and INVADE our country.

I don't have forensic proof that the recent explosion of viruses, parasites, wildfires and other climate weirdness in my region is deliberate — I said that above and I meant it. But what I do know is that our enemies are real and they want to harm us and will do it in any way they can. Our challenge is to separate the wheat from the chaff, the viruses from the parasites and the truth from the lie. Godspeed.

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Here are his best lines of the night from my perspective. President Trump gave his speech after the fake news gave themselves fake awards for writing made-up stories about him:

“Wow. That was very beautiful, but this has not been an easy evening, all these awards. Do I have a say in those awards or those awards?”

“But it’s great to be back at a place that I know very well because I built it. And I’m very proud of it because I built it for $2.9 billion less than the Federal Reserve Building, which is a lot smaller, by the way.”

“But I am delighted to be here at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Amazing people. A lot of people that I like. Some I don’t like at all.”

“A tremendous amount was learned about security and about other things, the dangers of what we all do. But just like my presidency, the second time is always better. It’s always better. And the third time will be better yet. I’m only kidding.”

“From the earliest moments after the attack on our dinner last April, I knew we had to reschedule this event as soon as possible. We had to do it very quickly, and we met very quickly. And we figured something out. But the attempted mass murder at the Washington Hilton — that’s what it could have been — was an assault on our democracy itself.”

“Very serious situation. Many of you were there with me, and some showed extreme bravery, like Pete Hegseth, Steve Miller, Tom Homan. They were standing on tables, and most of you were under the tables. Okay? But they did. They showed up. I saw every one of them that was standing up at those tables.”

“So in this country, we believe in freedom of speech. We settle our differences not with bullets, but with open and vigorous debate. And no deranged loser with a gun will ever change that.”

“You know, I said, what do we do here? Is this supposed to be fun? Am I supposed to be serious? Am I supposed to be a comedian? So I guess you said, maybe a little bit of everything. It’s going to be a different kind of an evening.”

“Everyone’s looking really good tonight, and I know it was not easy finding shoes to go along with your bulletproof vest, which many people didn’t want to wear because they’d rather die than look 20 pounds heavier.”

“The press can be very, very difficult people, but I’m probably being a little bit oversensitive. Sometimes I really do think that some of you don’t like me. In fact, I read a report — I get 93% negative publicity. 93. So how the hell did I win the election by so much? Think of it. I don’t think that’s true. I can’t believe it’s 93. In the eighties, maybe, but not 93. But this place is really the largest group of Trump Derangement Syndrome people ever put together at one time, I suspect.”

“So I was thrilled to see that after witnessing the attack, even Democrat senator John Fetterman told his fellow Democrats to drop the Trump Derangement Syndrome and build the White House Ballroom — but it’s much more than that. It’s something that you’re going to use. I predict that you’re going to end up using it, and a lot of people are going to end up using it. They’ll be as safe as you can possibly be.”

“I hope that everyone finally got to enjoy their entire, very delicious beef tenderloins — very special beef. And I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy, who’s right here, personally ran over the cow in his car. Boom. And he cut it up, and he brought it here for you to eat tonight. So it’s very fresh.

And Bobby also suggested an appetizer featuring his favorite cut of male raccoon roadkill. But we drew the line at that, Cheryl. We said, “No, we’re not going to do that. We’re not doing that.

We love Bobby. I’ll tell you, he is a piece of work. You think it’s fun, but he is a very different kind of a person. I will tell you. But he has what it takes, and he’s smart, and he loves the country, and he wants people to be made to feel good. You agree with that, Bobby? He wants people to feel good, and he’s doing a fantastic job. Thank you, Bobby. Thank you. We can joke all we want, but thank you.”

“But usually, a comedian hosts this dinner, and I think we sort of changed it. Tonight, we’re going to have somebody who I think is really spectacular. But I’ve watched comedians get up at the dinner — because I have been here, actually, quite a few times, people don’t realize.

And there’s one time in particular when Barack Hussein Obama hosted it. Do you know who that is? And he hit me hard, but actually he hit me with respect. I was sitting with Melania at a table, and I have watched this clip thousands of times.

They keep playing it because they think that was the evening I decided to run for president. It was not. In fact, I loved the evening. I looked at my wife. I said, “Can you believe it? All these people, that’s all they’re doing is talking about me.” I love this dinner. It’s true. And Obama was nice. You know, it’s amazing how things work out.

He actually showed a picture of the White House with a big Trump on top, like I put a sign. And, you know, I’m sort of doing that when you think about it. Right? I mean, he wasn’t really wrong. But, no, he was respectful. He was good. And it had nothing to do with it. I just decided that I wanted to make America great again. This had nothing to do with that dinner.

I’ve gotten so many calls, and for years, they’ve been saying, “Was that the moment you decided to run?

I think I made the right decision (to run) because you hate to go where maybe you’re not wanted, but they did want me. They wanted me for ratings, and they wanted me for other reasons, but not for love.”

I wrote about that WHCD years ago. If you don’t remember the story - here’s what happened…

“But, of course, this evening, it’s really all about the fake news media and your handling of prizes, writing, and producing, and performing made-up stories — like the Academy Awards.

You know, the Academy Awards used to be the epitome of ratings. Outside of the Super Bowl, it got the second most ratings. Now it’s down in the dumps. Nobody wants to watch it anymore because they took on Trump. They hit me all night long. They hit me. “The winner is so and so. I want to talk about Donald Trump. I hate this man.” Nobody wants to hear this stuff. Right, Peter? Nobody wants to hear it. You ever see the ratings? They used to have 48 million people. Now they have two people watching. But they’ll learn their lesson.”

“But I want to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award. It was all about me. It’s a fake. She shouldn’t get the award. It was a fake, but I didn’t mind. I said, “Kaitlan, congratulations.” But it was fake. There’s no question about it.

But she’s a young, attractive woman. She never smiles. I said, “Kaitlan, do you ever smile? Smile. You have a nice position. You’re at CNN — fake news. You should be a happy person. So smile, Kaitlan. Just smile.”

But we attack — and I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can. It was Dylan Mulvaney. And Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 billion in market cap.

That was the worst commercial ever made, by the way, for those few people that want to hear that. Most people don’t care, but I would. I wouldn’t want to hire Dylan anytime soon. Think of it. They hired Dylan Mulvaney, their market cap has gone down by $35 billion. Who wrote that commercial?”

“Some people say that Jake Tapper is a great investigative reporter in D.C., and that’s why after moderating our debate, it only took him one year to break the story that Joe Biden might possibly have suffered from cognitive decline. Took him one year. He wrote a book about how great he was mentally, not too good. And I don’t like Biden because Biden was very unfair to a lot of people.”

“But Jill Biden insists that Joe would have beaten me in 2024 even though he was way down. She said he was way behind in the polls because he was seriously ahead on deceased voters. He was leading on the deceased crowd, and there were a lot of them. You’re finding out there’s a lot of them. Look at the numbers that just came out yesterday.”

“And then there’s one man that we had who should be here — he turned Palestinian. This was a man who was 100% for Israel. 100% — Chuck Schumer, crying Chuck. Remember he cried at the airport over illegal immigrants. They were the fakest tears. There were people throwing water at his face.

But now he’s a proud, very proud Palestinian. In fact, I’m going to send him a beautiful Palestinian outfit tomorrow so he can greet Bibi Netanyahu when he comes to town next week, along with the mayor who I’m sure would love to meet Bibi. They’re not treating Bibi too well, but Chuck wanted to join us tonight, but he didn’t want to be violating many parts of the Palestinian rules, regulations, and certainly, he didn’t want to violate Sharia law — his new founding.”

“But I really do wonder whether the Democrats are trying to lose the midterms. In Maine, they nominated a guy with a Nazi tattoo. But don’t worry, Democrats. Word is that Platner is the replacement. He throws bottles at women. This guy throws bottles. This guy is another lunatic, by the way.

Although, I think Platner might have done surprisingly well because we’re in the age of Trump. Just call it what you want. People can do well today. Platner, I don’t know. But, you know, people don’t have the guts to stick it out, but it looked like he was guilty of a lot of stuff. He certainly didn’t defend himself very well.

In Texas, the Democrats are running a candidate named James Talarico, who hates guns, hates oil, hates sex, hates women, and who said he is, quote, “a Christian who hates Christianity.” Other than that, I think his platform is quite good. And that means that he’s not going to do very well against Ken Paxton, who hopefully in Texas is going to win.

But Talarico — he’s — you know what he looks like to me? Alfred E. Neuman. Do you remember Alfred E. Neuman? Mad Magazine. I said, that guy is Alfred E. Neuman. Can’t imagine he’d win.”

“Under my administration, a once feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled. Their former leaders have been removed, and they’re now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions. But I, for one, wish Bari Weiss all the best at CBS News. She’s a wonderful woman.”

I, for one, am glad to see Trump call out Bari Weiss. IMHO, she is destroying CBS. Why did David Ellison hire her? I asked the same question when Elon Musk hired her to work on the Twitter files!

“Most of the press lives here in Washington, DC, and you should be thankful for me for what my administration and I have done to make our nation’s capital — which was one of the most dangerous and unsafe cities anywhere in the world — one of the safest cities in the United States.

Crime is down 88%, and our capital is shining again with 62 monuments, statues, water fountains looking more beautiful. The graffiti’s all gone. The tents are all moved out of the parks. The fences are all done. Our capital looks like it’s really in good shape.

And people coming here — people in the White House, they work in the White House — they all say young women, young guys walk up. They say, “Thank you, sir. Two years ago, we lived in a dangerous city. We lived in a city where 150 people were killed a year. And now we have almost a crime-free city.”

Our National Guard has done an incredible job, and we’ve removed over 5,000 career criminals. You know, we removed — there’s one stat. I think it’s a great stat. It’s fantastic. 2% of the people create 91% of the crime. That’s something you can fix, and we fix it. We moved out over 5,000 career criminals out of Washington, DC, and we have the greatest capital in the world.

Again, it’s beautiful. It’s thriving. The restaurants are thriving. You couldn’t get into a restaurant because they didn’t have — all the restaurants were closing. And if you even got in, you felt unsafe. People were getting into Ubers, and they were being attacked when they were in an Uber. Not happening anymore. We have tough, smart people, and they have done a fantastic job.

Washington, DC is safe again.”

“But mostly, I’ve given up on you and the media, so now I just gave up on you, and I’m number one on TikTok. Think of this — 425 billion views. I gave up on you people. I gave up on traditional press, and it obviously worked because we did win in a landslide. I mean, somebody’s got to be saying something good about me.

But number one on TikTok is Trump, and that’s probably why we won. But for all of the trouble that you give me, you give me a lot of trouble, a lot of heartache.

I hope all of you know that I believe in the free press more than anyone in this room does. Maybe not quite. But that’s why I’m proud to be the most open and transparent president in history. They called me that.”

“But you people have no idea how lucky you are when I’m gone. You’re all going to be broke. Your business model is going to be finished. It’s true. When I’m not around, you’re going to be broke. There’s not going to be anybody to report on. Nobody gives a damn about anybody else.

The New York Times the other day had five stories about me.

You know, before I got into politics, in my whole life, I had seven front page stories on the front page of the New York Times. This is in years of success. I think six were good, one was bad.

Now I average about three or four a day. All different topics. All bad. Everything bad. But here we are. I mean, here we are.

In fact, when I’m finished, I’m going right back to the Oval Office, so I have to be doing okay.”

“That’s why tonight, to show just how much I care about the press, and I want to save your ratings, I’m pleased to announce my intention to — and this is somewhat of a scoop — my intention to run for a fourth term as president of the United States. I will be doing that.

I will be having an official — in fact, I think I have — yeah. I won three times. Now I’m going to do it again. Thank you. I’m going to do it again. It should be easy. I’m getting very good at running for president. Now, won three times. Did very well the second time, by the way.

It’s a rigged election, but we don’t have to talk about it. You know, it’s interesting. When you come back and you do a good job like we did, you don’t care about it so much, but we do have to tighten up these elections because they really are in seriously bad shape.”

“And you know, some people said they wanted to come, but they were afraid to come, but you people weren’t afraid to come. There were a lot of people that said they didn’t have the courage to come, and we don’t want that to happen. We’re going to do things.

Again, I want to thank our law enforcement. Keeps us safe. All law enforcement. We have the greatest people on earth.”

“Sometimes, I don’t feel you treat me fair, or maybe you do. I don’t know. I don’t feel that, but sometimes you treat me very fairly. And I have a lot of respect for your profession. Your profession’s amazing.

And I just want to thank you for having me, and it’s been fun, and I’ve met a lot of great people. And you know, I used an expression, and I’ve used it right from the beginning. I did this for one reason, to make America great again, and that’s what’s happening right before your very eyes. We have made America great again, and it’s going to get a lot greater. So thank you all very much.”

In the end, Trump trolled the fake news by mocking their phony press awards and pointed out how many scurried under the tables when danger arrived. He jabbed them for their overwhelming negativity and Trump Derangement Syndrome, and took shots at Democrats for relying on dead voters to win. At the same time, he reminded them of his actual successes, including building the very venue they were safely standing in, and his plans to fortify the White House so others can be safe too. He then showed them that he has the last laugh, since social media now outperforms the fake news, their voices are becoming irrelevant, and when he’s gone their careers will be over.

Winning!

You can watch the full event here - which was over 5 hours. President Trump begins speaking at the 3 hour 32 minute mark.

You can read the full transcript here: https://singjupost.com/transcript-trump-remarks-at-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner/

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What Happened

In March 2026, Iranian drones didn’t just hit the U.S. embassy in Riyadh — they hit the CIA station inside it. One drone blew a hole in the building. A second flew through that opening and detonated. A separate CIA site in eastern Iraq was hit too. Sources say more sites were struck, somewhere between “more than one and fewer than a dozen.”

These are not random buildings. The locations of CIA stations are among the most closely guarded secrets the United States keeps. Finding them takes real intelligence — not luck.

On July 16, President Trump gave a primetime address from the White House providing evidence that Communist China interfered in the 2020 election.

Then, on July 17, came Jordan. Muwaffaq Salti Air Base — a Jordanian base that hosts American F-16s, F-22s, F-35s, and MQ-9 Reaper drones as part of the U.S. presence in the region — had already survived one attack a week earlier relatively unscathed: on July 9, Iran fired eight ballistic missiles at it, and all eight were reportedly intercepted. No injuries, no damage.

July 17 was different. Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck the base directly. CENTCOM’s initial statement said two U.S. service members were killed in action and one was missing; four more were evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and have since been discharged. Days later, the Pentagon confirmed a fourth death — the missing service member’s remains were recovered.

How many missiles were actually launched, and how many got through? Jordan’s military said its air defenses intercepted ten Iranian missiles the night of July 17 — but that figure comes from Iranian state media’s own account of the Jordanian claim, so treat it cautiously. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, asked directly, told reporters: “We shot down almost all the missiles. One leaked through, hit the wrong place, and tragically... it’s heartbreaking.”

That “one leaked through” framing is the official line.

But the same base was hit twice in a 48-hour window, with dozens of U.S. personnel wounded across both strikes — which suggests this isn’t simply a story of one lucky shot getting past otherwise-airtight defenses. It’s a pattern of Iranian precision-guided munitions repeatedly evading a layered U.S.-Jordanian missile-defense system that, on paper, should be stopping nearly everything.

That gap — between “one leaked through” and “this keeps happening” — is exactly why we need to know if Iran is getting help behind the scenes.

President Trump was blunt about where he placed blame, saying Jordan “slipped something through” on security: “If we had other operators, that wouldn’t have happened. You know, when you let other people do your job, it sometimes doesn’t work very well.” He followed that with a promise to “unleash the gates of hell” on Iran if it doesn’t come to the table — a statement he made shortly after attending the dignified transfer of the fallen troops at Dover Air Force Base.

Remember Kuwait?

Remember the March 1, 2026 strike on Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, where six U.S. soldiers were killed in a trailer the second day of the war? That strike fits the same pattern — and it’s actually a stronger example of the “it wasn’t just luck” story.

An Iranian Shahed-series kamikaze drone hit a tactical operations center at Port Shuaiba — a trailer relocated from Camp Arifjan — killing six U.S. Army Reserve soldiers (103rd Sustainment Command) and wounding more than 30, some severely (burns, shrapnel, traumatic brain injuries). No warning sirens went off. It was the first U.S. combat deaths of the war.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth initially called it a “squirter” — a drone that slipped past defenses, echoing the same language later used for Jordan. The unit wasn’t in a fortified position at all.

So is Kuwait “the same thing” as the Russia/China question? Related pattern, different mechanism. The common thread across Shuaiba, Jordan, and the CIA stations is the same underlying story: “leaked through” as the official explanation. Whether that foreseeability came from Iran’s own surveillance (Shuaiba) or possible Russian/Chinese assistance (the CIA stations and Jordan) is the open question.

The Question the Administration Is Now Asking

According to Reuters, U.S. intelligence analysts are investigating whether Russia fed Iran precise targeting data — the coordinates of U.S. warships, aircraft, and secret CIA facilities — and provided the technology to use it, and whether China contributed satellite tracking support. Neither has been confirmed. Officials say no firm conclusions have been reached. Here’s the specific evidence they’re weighing:

• The drones were upgraded. Two Western officials say analysts believe the Riyadh embassy attack used Shahed-136 drones enhanced with Kometa-M, a Russian satellite-navigation system that is substantially more accurate and far harder to jam than anything Iran builds domestically. The Wall Street Journal first reported in March that Russia supplied Kometa-M to Iran.

• This isn’t the first time this specific accusation has surfaced. U.S. officials told the Washington Post and CNN as early as March that Russia was passing Iran targeting data on American warships and aircraft — well before the CIA-station strikes. CNN separately reported that intelligence suggests China may have been preparing to provide Iran financial assistance, spare parts, and missile components, though Beijing has stayed largely on the sidelines militarily.

• China had eyes in the water. Beijing deployed vessels to the region during the recent military buildup capable of tracking the U.S. fleet — raising the question, still unresolved, of whether that tracking data reached Tehran.

• One Western intelligence memo has already concluded Russia likely played a role in targeting regional CIA facilities specifically.

As one former CIA officer put it: there’s a short list of countries with both the means and the motive to hand Iran this level of capability, and it begins and ends with Moscow. China’s suspected role looks more like tracking and material support than a direct weapons transfer.

What Russia and China Have Actually Said

The Kremlin has denied it, flatly. When the Journal first reported the Kometa-M transfer in March, Putin called it “fake news.” More recently, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Iran had not even sought weapons deliveries from Russia — a denial that sits awkwardly next to the comprehensive strategic partnership Moscow and Tehran signed in 2025, and years of documented military cooperation that has included Iran supplying Shahed drones to Russia for use in Ukraine.

China has not directly addressed the accusation. Beijing has condemned U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran rhetorically and called for a ceasefire, but has offered nothing on the specific claim about satellite tracking or targeting support.

Iran’s own foreign minister didn’t deny it either. Abbas Araghchi told NBC News that Russia and China back Tehran “politically, and otherwise,” but said: “I’m not going to give the details of our cooperation with other countries, right in the middle of the war.” That’s about as close as a wartime foreign minister gets to confirming assistance without naming it.

Put simply: Russia denies it outright, China stays silent, and Iran won’t rule it out.

Jamming and Spoofing: The Quiet Second Front

There’s a second piece to this puzzle that goes beyond supplying weapons or intelligence. Russia and China could be helping jam or spoof navigation signals to confuse cargo ships and endanger civilians. That’s likely happening right now, and it’s a story most Americans have never heard explained plainly — even though it’s just as consequential as the strikes themselves.

Since the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict began in February, over 1,650 commercial ships in the Gulf have had their navigation systems disrupted. Planes have lost GPS entirely on approach to Gulf airports. Ships have shown up on radar screens “driving” through nuclear power plants or circling over dry land. Roughly 20% of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz — and that traffic has nearly ground to a halt.

Here’s the plain-English version of what’s going on:

• Jamming is brute-force radio noise that blocks GPS signals outright. A ship or plane just loses its position data.

• Spoofing is worse. Someone broadcasts a fake GPS signal, tricking a ship or aircraft into reporting a location that isn’t real.

Why is this so hard to stop, even for the most powerful militaries on earth? Because the real GPS signal, by the time it reaches Earth from a satellite roughly 12,000 miles up, is extremely weak.

A cheap, mobile transmitter mounted on a truck or a small boat can overpower it with ease. You can’t shoot down radio interference the way you can shoot down a missile.

To stop it at the source, you have to physically find and destroy every jammer — and they’re mobile, cheap, and easy to replace.

Both Iran and the Gulf states friendly to the U.S. are jamming right now — Iran to protect itself from precision strikes, Gulf allies to defend against Iranian drones and missiles. Ships get caught in the crossfire of both, which is part of why the interference doesn’t trace back to one single attacker.

What can actually be done about it: destroy known jamming sites when they’re located, cut off the supply chain of jamming components (much of it traced back to Iranian domestic manufacturers and Chinese dual-use electronics), and harden American and allied systems with encrypted, spoof-resistant GPS.

The U.S. has reportedly folded strikes on Iranian electronic-warfare sites into the broader campaign already. But no military — not Israel’s, not America’s — has ever fully eliminated this tactic in an active war zone. The realistic goal is suppression, not a total fix.

Was Israel Pointing Out Targets Inside Tehran?

Last night, dozens of targets were hit in Iran. Reports were it was one of the biggest nights of bombing in the entire war so far.

Explosions were reported across at least 17 locations: Tabriz, Abhar, Hamedan, Baneh, Kangavar/Nahavand, Mahshahr, Omidiyeh, Behbahan, Bushehr, Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Qeshm Island, Konarak/Chabahar, Pardis, PARCHIN, plus unconfirmed reports from Fasa and Urmia.

Heavy air defense activity was noted over Tehran AND Tabriz, with the capital’s guns firing on all sides of the city.

An anonymous account circulating online claimed that, minutes before U.S. strikes on the night of July 21–22, swarms of small drones exposed Iranian air-defense and jamming positions around Tehran — drones the poster argued must have launched from inside the city itself, given their limited range. The theory: Israel is quietly clearing the way for American strikes from the ground, the same way it did in 2025.

“Tonight’s tactic looks familiar. Is Israel quietly assisting the US from the ground in Tehran?

Minutes before the U.S. strikes in Iran, swarms of small drones reportedly exposed Iran’s air-defense positions around Tehran.

Once revealed, the U.S. struck successfully. It mirrors a tactic first used by Israel, raising questions about possible quiet coordination or intelligence support.

The drones appear to have been launched from INSIDE Tehran, as their maximum range is only around 20 km.”

-Anonymous X

This makes sense to me. Israel has plants on the ground all over the place. This is how you surgically take out the IRGC.

That 2025 precedent is real and well-documented. During Israel’s “Rising Lion” operation in June 2025, Mossad spent months smuggling drone parts and Spike NLOS precision missiles into Iran, then assembled a covert drone base near Tehran and used it to knock out Iranian air-defense systems and missile launchers from the inside, clearing the sky for Israeli jets. Israel’s own military chief publicly confirmed ground commando forces operated covertly inside Iran during that campaign. It’s one of the best-documented covert operations of the entire conflict.

What is confirmed: Tehran’s air-defense systems have been repeatedly activated on recent nights, including July 21 and 22, in response to U.S. strikes that have hit command centers, air-defense sites, missile and drone infrastructure, and logistics targets across the country.

Earlier, Israel told the media that they didn’t want to get involved in Iran at this time - but it appears that they could be acting covertly. Head fake? Earlier, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel has “no interest” in joining the renewed US military campaign against Iran. Smotrich said he believes the best way to bring down Iran is to crush it economically, not militarily, pointing to Iran’s surging inflation.

Meanwhile, Iran (and its masters in Communist China & Russia) are hoping that the American people become so upset over gas prices that they demand Trump withdraw from Iran and just let the Islamo-Communists terrorize the world as they’ve been doing for 47 years. President Trump has no plan to do that. He believes Americans are smarter than that and so do I. If nothing else, this war has shown how US gas prices can quickly and easily be manipulated and controlled by Communist propaganda, Muslim pirates and terrorist bullies. It’s insane how much power we have given our enemies!

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Americans don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. They don’t want high gas prices, but they’re not against the war.”

That’s why I think Trump and the Republicans in Congress should suspend the federal gas tax (18 cents) until mid-terms and ask the states and the oil companies and the retailers to match. That would automatically cut gas prices almost 80 cents a gallon overnight and make everybody a hero. That’s my idea - right or wrong.

Then Trump could publish a list of the gas stations and the states that complied to HELP the American people and stick it to our enemies. Let’s show the world who really cares about our country and those who are only in it for profit.

Where This Stands Right Now

Today, President Trump said Iran wants to make a deal but isn’t ready yet. In a speech in Georgia, he put it this way: “They’re getting hit so hard, and they want to make a deal. But I say they’re not ready to make a deal because every time they make a deal they want to change it and everything. They’re not ready. They will be ready very soon.”

He also warned that every time Iran hits a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. will destroy one civilian Iranian bridge or power plant in or around Tehran in response - on top of the strikes already underway.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Secretary of State Rubio is meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week in Manila, officially to discuss Ukraine - but unofficially to discuss Iran? Rubio is also expected to meet his Chinese counterpart soon to help prepare a possible September summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping. Perhaps Trump understands that America can’t play whack-a-mole with Iran while Russia and Communist China maneuver behind the scenes — and that ending this war may require a different kind of pressure, applied somewhere else entirely.

The Bottom Line

At a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on July 21 — the same week American soldiers were dying in Jordan — Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana asked Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a direct question: is Russia our friend?

Caine didn’t dodge it. “I think that depends on your definition of friend. I think it’s a complicated relationship,” he said. Then, after a pause: “But no, I don’t think they’re our friends.”

That’s it. That’s the whole picture, from the man who sits atop the entire U.S. military chain of command, under oath, in front of Congress. Not a pundit. Not an anonymous source. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

That’s quite a different picture than what we hear constantly from the Russia fan boys and fake influencers like Tucker and Candace and Alex Jones who always tell us that Russia is our friend.

Americans don’t need a classified briefing to understand what General Caine means.

While American soldiers come home in flag-draped transfer cases from Jordan and Kuwait, Russia and Communist China pretend that they are neutral parties on the world stage — even as the evidence mounts that one or both may be quietly arming Iran with the exact intelligence and technology needed to kill American troops. You don’t get to call yourself neutral while your equipment is showing up in the wreckage.

This is not a settled case. It’s an open investigation, and it deserves to be treated as one. But it is also not nothing.

Americans care about American lives. They deserve to know, in plain language, whether the countries killing our soldiers are getting help — and from whom. That’s not a partisan question. Americans deserve to know whether Russia or Communist China helped enable these strikes.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: President Xi, at our recent meeting in Beijing, China, told me that he would not, under any circumstances, give or sell Weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran — And that statement included Chinese Companies. Considering our relationship, I take him at his word and, besides, l am doing him very big favors, also.

Likewise, President Putin, despite the horrible War going on in Ukraine (The relationship remains, as it does with President Zelenskyy), told me that he would not sell Weapons to Iran. He understands that I do not sell Weapons to Ukraine, but to NATO Countries. They pay full price, and how those Weapons are distributed, I have no idea. Therefore, two major Countries that people speak of often in terms of Iran are, in my opinion, not participating. If they did, it would be very bad for them — Certainly not in their best interests. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Four more American heroes made the ultimate sacrifice over the past few days: 1st Lt. Tyler Feehan. Pvt. Isabella Gonzales. Sgt. Angel Rampersad. Army Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton. May God Bless them and keep them. RIP.

SENATOR TIM SHEEHY: “Yesterday we saw the president of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.

That process happens beginning in the war zone through Dover to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane.

One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP.

This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don’t care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don’t just say it, they actually do it, and they’ve been doing it for forty-seven years.

This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It’s a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery. And the second they took it over, they didn’t free their people, they didn’t unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges.

They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world, and that is exactly what they have been doing. They don’t just say it and talk about it. You don’t have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they’ve done.

They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people. They don’t just attack them and kill them, they rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country, and they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they’re heroes to that nation.

They’ve done it to friends of mine. They’ve done it to families who’ve been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead.

They don’t want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7. That’s what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self, and you don’t have to theorize that.

That’s what they do. From the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in a morning, from USS Cole to the Achille Lauro, to every terrorist attack, from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths.

William Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians. American prisoners of war who were captured. They were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered, power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they’ve never gotten a single dime.

These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them. Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever. There’s never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world.

And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn’t stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It’s a global radical ideology, and we’ve been fighting it for half a century.

We didn’t start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of the love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you’re fighting for your country, you don’t care what party’s in office, but you’re fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you’re failing, that you’ve failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard.

Last time I checked, we’ve wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the straits, that’s not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it. So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever’s politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life.

Because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It’s time to fix this problem and make sure another generations of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary.”

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On Sunday night, in Nicaragua, Communist President Daniel Ortega stood in front of thousands of Sandinista loyalists at the 47th anniversary of the 1979 revolution and said what everyone already knew was true: there will be no more elections in Nicaragua. He finally admitted out loud that Nicaragua is a Communist dictatorship!

“There won’t be any more elections here for them to try to seize the government and seize power. The days when parties backed by the Yankees and the Somocistas would return to power are over — never again.”

Nineteen years into his current run, and nearly a half-century after he first came to power with a rifle in his hand, Ortega has stopped pretending Nicaragua is a democracy at all

Democrat Jimmy Carter enabled the Communists in Nicaragua just as he enabled the Mullahs in Iran!

Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded within 48 hours. “Daniel Ortega’s declaration that under his family’s dictatorship Nicaragua will never again hold elections lays bare their true authoritarian nature.”

At the same time, Marco Rubio just issued a new report that Communist agitators in America are literally TRAINED by the Castro regime in Cuba and have been for decades. So, if you still think the Castro regime is benign - you'd be wrong.

You can read the full report here:

https://www.state.gov/cuba-the-capital-of-21st-century-communism/

"This report exposes the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in the U.S. The Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in America."

Cuba has even called for "AGITATED RESISTANCE" and published the location of ICE FACILITIES.

"Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism" is a 100-page State Department report released July 20, 2026, championed by Secretary Rubio.

Rubio has a personal reason for wanting to free Cuba of Communism.

Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, the son of Mario Rubio Reina and Oriales (née Garcia) Rubio, Cubans who immigrated to the United States in 1956, prior to the rise of Fidel Castro’s Communist regime in January 1959. His father worked as a bartender and his mother as a hotel maid. Rubio describes his family as Cuban exiles who fled Castro's Communist takeover.

“Anyone who can’t return to their natural country is an exile, if you can’t return for political reasons.” Marco’s Cuban parents came to the U.S., tried to build a life, then were shut out of ever returning home once Castro turned Cuba into a Communist nation.

Rubio documented that Cuba has run a nearly 70-year campaign of espionage, ideological subversion, and support for armed Communist movements against the US going back to the Weather Underground era and continuing into present-day.

Marco’s report leans on evidence procured from three convicted spies who together penetrated the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and the State Department.

Cuba has been the top state backer of American radical-left and "Third Worldism" activity and Cuba has backed “an unprecedented wave of left-wing terrorism” on U.S. soil.

"For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States."

The report points to 18 intelligence facilities on the island still run by Communist China and Russia — meaning our Communist enemies have a live foothold 90 miles from Florida.

Rubio contends that Cuba's conflict with the US was never really about economic policy or sovereignty — it's characterized as "a revolution against Western civilization itself," partly waged by turning young Americans against their own country's traditions.

At the same time, the Trump administration has issued heavy new sanctions on Communist Cuban front organizations and started investigations of 145 U.S. entities and individuals like DSA and Code Pink.

AI: A coalition called the National Rapid Response Plan, shared in June by the National Network on Cuba — a coalition of 60+ groups including DSA, the National Lawyers Guild, CodePink, and the Communist Party USA — lays out a plan to mobilize protests within 24 hours of any U.S. military action against Cuba, targeting federal buildings, military bases/recruitment centers, and ICE facilities and detention centers, with sports stadiums as an optional fourth target. It directs activists to a Black Alliance for Peace database mapping 1,335 U.S. military and law-enforcement locations, describing it as a tool activists can use to "strategize how and where to organize and agitate."

BTW - one of my liberal friends, who owns a travel agency, said that Trump was being too mean to Castro and America should just let him send whoever he wants to live here. She said Trump stopping the Communists from coming here was ruining her business!

Do you agree? Should we just open the borders wide and let Castro send his trained agitators and criminals run wild in our country?

I’ve seen Nicaragua with my own eyes

I’ve been to Nicaragua. It’s the poster child for Communist ruin. It is one of the most physically beautiful places in this hemisphere — but it has been strip-mined by the people running it. The elites live behind guarded walls and on private islands. Everyone else lives under armed checkpoints, filthy water, and grinding poverty. Small children are sent out by adult handlers to sell things, beg, and use drugs in plain view in public squares. This isn’t propaganda. I watched it happen.

That contrast — the postcard and the poverty — is Ortega’s Communist Nicaragua in one image.

What actually happened this week

Ortega, 80, has ruled pretty much continuously since 1985 after the Sandinistas toppled the US-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979. Nicaraguans voted him out in 1990, and he spent 16 years rebuilding his political machine before retaking the presidency. Since then he has not let go of it:

• Court rulings loyal to Ortega erased presidential term limits.

• His wife, Rosario Murillo, became his running mate and — after a 2025 constitutional overhaul — his formal co-president.

• A 2018 crackdown on anti-government protesters killed more than 300 people, according to human rights groups and the UN.

• The 2021 election that handed Ortega a fourth consecutive term was run only after every viable opposition candidate had been jailed. The U.S. does not recognize the legitimacy of that vote, and international observers, including the State Department, condemned it at the time.

• The 2025 reform extended the presidential term from five to six years and restructured the state to further concentrate power in the Ortega-Murillo household.

• Since 2018, the atheist Ortega government has shuttered more than 5,000 churches — and this month stripped licenses from masses of lawyers in what UN experts called a “purge of the legal profession.”

Sunday’s speech was Ortega formally closing the last door: no election, ever again, that could remove the Communists from power.

The State Department has now placed visa restrictions on more than 2,350 Nicaraguan officials and their family members. Rubio has personally sanctioned individual officials by name for torture and human rights abuses tied to the regime.

The pattern: 1979 was a hinge year for the hemisphere

It’s worth remembering that 1979 wasn’t just Nicaragua’s Communist revolution — it was also the year the Shah fell in Iran. Two Soviet-aligned, anti-American revolutions, on opposite sides of the globe, in the same twelve months. Coincidence? I think not.

Iran’s mullahs and Nicaragua’s Sandinistas have both now been in power, one way or another, for 47 years. Nicaragua now sits alongside Cuba and Venezuela as the third Communist government within reach of the U.S. southern border.

Cuba went Communist in 1959. Nicaragua and Iran followed in 1979. Venezuela went Communist in 1998 under Hugo Chávez. Over the two decades that followed, the Communists took power across much of Central and South America — Argentina and Brazil in 2003, Bolivia in 2006, Ecuador in 2007, and later Mexico in 2018, Peru in 2021, Colombia and Chile in 2022.

Since Trump has been in office - and he is dismantling Communist influence in our own backyard - Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay all now under conservative governments.

He is also trying to destroy the cartels in Mexico which are funded and work in partnership with Communist China, Russia and Iran.

The remaining Communist holdouts off our Southern border are essentially Cuba, Nicaragua, Brazil, Mexico and Guatemala/Uruguay. And don’t forget “socialist Canada” to the north - where 10,000 IRGC members want to relocate and retire!

Communist China, Russia and Iran have all funded these Communist nations, most in our own backyard, to turn against America. The region’s overall drift to Communism over time is what the Trump administration has been working to reverse. Sadly, most Americans are oblivious to this threat!

Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran have all provided financing, security cooperation, or political cover to these Communist governments over the years. Trump knows that and he is attempting to cut the head off that Communist snake - not only in our own backyard but around the world!

Where this leaves things — and why Ortega is scared

Look at the map as it actually stands today. Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Peru, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay — one after another, the region has been turning back toward elected, conservative, market-friendly, U.S.-aligned government.

Venezuela’s Maduro isn’t in Caracas anymore giving speeches; he’s in U.S. custody after a January operation that would have been unthinkable four years ago. The Senior Castro was indicted and Cuba is under sanctions pressure it hasn’t faced in a generation.

The Trump State Department, under Rubio, has gone from issuing statements to issuing consequences: sanctions on named regime officials, visa restrictions on thousands of enablers, and a demonstrated willingness to act rather than just condemn.

That is the actual context for Sunday night. Ortega didn’t announce “no more elections” from a position of strength — he announced it from a bunker. He is 80 years old, reportedly struggling to walk, hadn’t been seen in public in two months, and just watched the man next door in Caracas get physically hauled out of his own country by the United States. Ortega is a man who knows he’s now the last piece standing and is trying to bolt the door shut before someone comes to move him too.

For 47 years, Communism has had a foothold 90 miles from Florida. Trump is the first president in that entire span who has treated Latin America’s dictatorships as an actual national security problem to be solved rather than a regional annoyance to be managed. Cuba and Nicaragua are what’s left of a project that used to run from Buenos Aires to Havana. That’s not an accident, and it’s not over — Ortega just told the world he knows it too.

And, in closing, it's worth saying plainly who actually deserves the label "dictator for life" that gets thrown around so loosely in American politics. Trump left office after his first term in 2020 — an election we all know was stolen from him and the American people voted him back into office after seeing 4 years of ruin from the Obama-Biden administration and their Communist backers!

Compare that to the men actually running the table: Xi Jinping, ruling China indefinitely after abolishing his own term limits; Vladimir Putin, in power in one form or another since 1999; the Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's unelected supreme leader since 1989; the Castro family's one-party grip on Cuba since 1959; and Daniel Ortega, who just told his own country on television that elections are over, permanently.

That is what a dictator for life actually looks like. Xi, Putin, the Ayatollah, Castro family, Ortega are ALL Communist dictators for life - NOT Trump. They project their own evil on to him!

In America, Trump wants to make our elections free and fair so that our leaders are actually CHOSEN by We the People. Islamo-Communist dictators always want to make sure the people never get that chance!

I’ve written many articles over the years about the Islamo-Communist threat in our own backyard and the enormous task that President Trump and his team have undertaken to reverse that. If you’d like more information, these are two articles that are worth your time - “Surrounded” and “Clean up our own backyard.”

It should be obvious by now that the Trump administration’s military and tariff action against Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Russia, Mexico, the CCP and Canada are all connected. The goal is to get our enemies out of our backyard!

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Back in 2018, I wrote that the Somali political bloc forming in Minneapolis City Hall was becoming a power center to take over Minnesota. Key to that happening was a man by the name of Abdi Salah - who worked for Mayor Jacob Frey and who I later learned was connected to Obama.

Eight years later, the receipts are in. I was correct. Salah was just arrested for DWI and is back in the news pending sentencing for fraud. Here’s what you need to know.

Abdi Salah spent most of a decade as a trusted policy aide — first to Minneapolis Council Member Abdi Warsame, then as Mayor Jacob Frey’s senior policy hand.

Salah wasn’t a bit player. He was installed in the Frey administration by a man named Abdi Warsame - who I believe was brought here by Soros and Obama to rig elections, steal our money and turn Minneapolis into another London. Warsame helped install people like Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison in Minnesota by manipulating the Minneapolis vote. Salah helped install allies onto boards like the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority to do the same.

And while Salah sat inside Minneapolis City Hall, he was — according to federal prosecutors — simultaneously running a nonprofit, Stigma-Free International, that helped siphon over a million dollars of his own take from the $250+ million Feeding Our Future fraud, the largest pandemic fraud scheme in the country.

What is Feeding Our Future? It was a Minnesota nonprofit that was supposed to sponsor local organizations serving free meals to low-income kids during the COVID-19 pandemic, using federal Child Nutrition Program money. Instead, prosecutors say it became the center of the largest pandemic fraud scheme in the country — over $250 million stolen, with more than 70 people eventually charged.

Back in March 2022, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported on 2021 efforts by Mayor Frey to SUPPORT Feeding Our Future WHILE it was being fleeced by Bock and the Somali mafia. The Star Tribune wrote:

Before sitting down with state officials last year to discuss a meals program that is now under federal investigation for fraud, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was provided with a list of talking points that came from the woman at the heart of the alleged conspiracy, according to newly released records.

Aimee Bock, executive director of Feeding Our Future, drafted a set of talking points for city officials to use during a May 14 meeting with Heather Mueller, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), records show. At the time, the department had stopped all payments to Feeding Our Future over concerns about what it called the organization’s “rapid” and “unexplained growth.”

Bock’s main contact at City Hall, according to the records, was Abdi Salah, a former aide to Frey who was fired in February.

The trial exhibit numbered R-4 refers to an April 29, 2021, email chain between Abdi Salah and Aimee Bock. So, even the Communist Star Tribune admitted in 2022 that Abdi Salah and Aimee Bock conspired together to scam Minnesota’s children out of food.

The fake news wants you to focus only on Bock and ignore Salah.

So, after Salah was connected to the massive food stamp welfare scandal and Aimee Bock - Frey fired him to try to distance himself.

Abdi Nur Salah and his brother Abdulkadir Nur Salah were both charged in connection with the roughly $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud. Abdi Salah, working with Warsame, specifically ran fraud sites across Minnesota (Willmar, Mankato, St. Cloud, Waite Park, St. Paul), all while working as Mayor Frey's senior policy aide.

Salah pleaded guilty to those charges in January 2025. He’s set to FINALLY be sentenced August 26, 2026. And now, weeks before that sentencing, he was picked up on I-94 at 5am for erratic driving and signs of impairment and refused a blood test.

Now, let’s look at the timeline and try to figure out how it has dragged on for 8 years in Minnesota!

In February 2022, Minnesota Federal prosecutors moved to seize a $390,000 Minneapolis apartment building, alleging it was bought with fraud proceeds by Abdi Salah. He wasn’t charged yet, but the same day the story broke, Frey’s office fired him.

Salah was finally indicted and charged in September 2022 as part of the first big wave of 48 indictments: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering. Prosecutors said he ran a nonprofit, Stigma-Free International, that helped divert MILLIONS in funds.

Who was in charge of the US Attorney’s office during that period? Andrew Luger, an Obama-Biden appointee.

Andrew Luger was in charge of the US Attorney’s office in Minnesota both under Obama and then again under Biden. Luger’s office brought the original Feeding Our Future indictments in September 2022 and ran the case through its first trials.

Luger ended up dropping three of his four charges against Salah, leaving just wire fraud even after Salah admitted to personally pocketing more than $1 million. Days before he was set to stand trial, in January 2025, Abdi Salah pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Then his sentencing was delayed further and Luger stepped down.

Now ask yourself why nothing happened from 2022-2024 under Luger.

With 70+ defendants, the Minnesota Federal prosecutors deliberately delayed most trials. The first trial (April 2024) needed 1,000 summoned jurors just to seat a panel, because the case had been in the news for years. That trial was then disrupted by a jury-tampering scandal, adding even more delay.

However, I think nothing happened because the US Attorneys in Minnesota were Obama-Biden Deep State plants! They purposefully delayed the process.

After Luger stepped down, Joseph H. Thompson became acting US attorney in Minnesota. Thompson worked for Luger for years. Thompson also oversaw the failed federal investigations into the Melissa Hortman assassination and the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting - we all know how that went!

Finally, in October 2025, a Trump appointee was installed in the Minnesota US Attorney’s office by Pam Bondi and something is finally getting done!

Daniel Rosen, a Trump appointee, took over in Minnesota in October 2025.

Roughly four and a half years after he was first flagged, Salah finally faces sentencing on August 26, 2026. The Deep State has penetrated every facet of Minnesota Government, that’s why nothing gets done!

This is what I wrote in 2018 - trying to warn Minnesota about what was happening to their beloved state. This is how Salah was connected to Obama.

How the Somali Voting Bloc Will Overtake Minnesota Politics.

MINNESOTA, PLEASE NOTE THE GROWING POWER OF THE SOMALI VOTING BLOC IN TWIN CITIES POLITICS AS EVIDENCED BY NEW MAYOR JACOB FREY’S RECENT ACTIONS and the move by Keith Ellison to run for Minnesota Attorney General and Ilhan Omar to run for his seat in the US House of Representatives.

New Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was sworn in and his office has announced the appointment of Abdi Salah as his Senior Policy Aide. Salah worked for Abdi Warsame, the first Somali-American elected to the Minneapolis City Council. Warsame recently took over as the Chairman of the powerful Ways and Means committee.

A rising star at Minneapolis City Hall, Salah first came there to work as a senior policy aide to Council member Abdi Warsame. Salah’s former boss, Warsame, was a strong supporter of Mayor Frey in the November elections where Frey ousted first term mayor Betsy Hodges. Abdi Warsame was born in Somalia and trained and was groomed in London. He came to Minnesota just a few years ago and has risen quickly in Minnesota politics. IMHO, he is Obama’s point man in Minneapolis to replicate the Sharia takeover of London in our state.

According to a statement from the mayor’s office, Salah’s new elevated and expanded role at the mayor’s office will include working on employment, training and supporting local businesses.

“Salah will also work on a number of economic development functions with a focus on advancing the mayor’s policy priorities,” the mayor’s statement went on to say.

Salah’s appointment signals the growing influence of the Somali-American voting bloc in Twin Cities politics. He is however well prepared for the new challenge as his previous position as an aide to Warsame had his hands full working on initiatives that included training and after school programs. Salah, while working for Warsame, was a key player on behalf of his boss in efforts that led to the creation of the celebrated Cedar Riverside Opportunity Center.

“Working for the 6th Ward and Council Member Warsame these past four years has been a great honor. I am excited that I will be working for Mayor Frey and I am looking forward to partnering with him in the effort to improve the lives of the citizens of Minneapolis,” Salah told Mshale.

Who is Abdi Warsame? Read on.

Muslim East African public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when they travel to their homelands. Instead, they will pay only $75 per month to hold their public housing units for their return. Meanwhile, native-born, low-income Minnesotans, who are on waiting lists for public housing, will just have to wait.

ABDI WARSAME, a City Council member, told the board that East Africans having to pay rent when they want to save to travel to their homelands is an unfair burden. Somali refugees receive federal Supplemental Security Income, which is halted when they leave the United States. The most common reasons for their travel abroad include visiting families left behind or participating in the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are expected to make at least once.

The Minneapolis Housing Agency board now has two members of Somali descent, Mohamud Tamir and Abdullahi Isse. Wait a minute. I thought refugees were fleeing persecution. Why would they want to vacation in their homelands and how can they afford a $3,000 flight home?

Here’s what a Facebook friend who worked for the Minneapolis Public Housing authority says:

“Taxpayers are paying for it in a way. The Somalis often have decent paying jobs, enough so that they paid maximum public housing rent of $500 or thereabouts. Once they reached maximum rent they could stay as long as they liked and make even more money and their rent was capped at $500. So they occupy what is supposed to be low income housing, their rent is not market rate, they are taking an apartment away from a true low income family that needs it and we subsidize it (and then they get to pay $75 a month to hold that unit for them when they leave the country.) Saw it with my own eyes.”

Nice huh? Come here to Minnesota as a “refugee” from another country and you get rent capped at $500, you can live there forever and then pay $75 a month to keep your unit while you fly home to visit relatives, in the country you had to flee because of “so-called persecution,” on $3,000 flights.

Abdi Warsame was also President Obama’s point man in Minnesota for the war on terror. He launched a pilot program to better understand why so many Somali youth in Minneapolis were leaving the U.S. to train as ISIS terrorists. HIS POINT MAN IN MINNESOTA: ABDI WARSAME. His effort on countering violent extremism – known as CVE – sought to fix terrorism through community engagement and undermine attraction to terrorist activity. The pilot program gave each city $5 million for the effort….

In other words, Obama and Warsame said that if Minneapolis would only understand Somali terrorists, we can stop them. If we hire more Somali cops, they can befriend would-be terrorists. No need to have the FBI keep tabs on terrorist activity. No need to infiltrate terrorist groups with informants. No need to follow-up on valid leads. That’s just mean and racist. INSANE. No wonder the Trump administration is dismantling the Minneapolis FBI, getting rid of the Obama moles, and starting over. Thank goodness. There’s nothing compassionate about using your own citizens as guinea pigs in the war on terror.

Over the next few years I wrote several other deep dives on this situation and combined them together in one post in 2025. This one is worth your time.

Not only are Minnesotans being robbed blind by the CCP and the Muslim pirates - they are paying for their attorneys!

I’ve been waiting a long time for something to happen in Minnesota. It looks like it finally is. If you want to see real change - VOTE FOR MIKE LINDELL FOR GOVERNOR. President Trump just bashed Amy Klobuchar and endorsed Mike Lindell and he deserves to win!

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Mike Lindell, the “Pillow Man,” and one of America’s greatest and most hard working Patriots, is running to be GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA, replacing one of the worst and most incompetent governors in the history of the U.S.A. Early Primary Voting has begun and, if given the chance, Mike will be SPECTACULAR!!! He truly loves Minnesota, as do I, and wants to bring it back from oblivion and embarrassment. He can do it!

Nobody has sacrificed more than Mike Lindell in fighting for our country, especially when it comes to Election Integrity. He truly deserves everything he gets - He will MAKE MINNESOTA GREAT AGAIN!!! MIKE LINDELL HAS MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT - HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN. Good Luck Mike!!!

Amy Klobuchar, the lightly respected Senator from Minnesota, is running for Governor to take the place of the current Corrupt and Incompetent Tim Walz. I have gotten to know Klobuchar over the years, and find her to be equally as incompetent as Walz, and probably equally as corrupt in that, as a high Government Official from Minnesota, she knew everything that was going on.

If the Elections in Minnesota weren’t RIGGED, any Republican could win, but they were, and that is why nobody has won there since Richard Nixon many years ago. I thought I won it all three times, only to be disappointed in the end. Vote for Mike Lindell for Governor, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement, and forget about these Corrupt Dumocrats like Amy Klobuchar. MAKE MINNESOTA GREAT AGAIN!”

Mike has been leading in the polls ALL ALONG and should be the Republican nominee!

Mike was robbed of the GOP endorsement by the establishment RINO clowns running Minnesota who always choose candidates that can’t win to run against the Democrats! The Minnesota political “leadership” is a bunch of RINOs that collude with the Democrats and the Koch Libertarians to steal elections and have turned Minnesota into a global laughingstock filled with foreign labor and criminals! They have done that ever since they got Jesse Ventura elected Governor!

One more thing about Amy Klobuchar that needs to be said.

I have 31 years of sobriety and I owe my life to God and the people at AA and I am grateful that Mike Lindell shares my journey with recovery.

However, you should know that much of AA and the treatment community in Minnesota (and New York for that matter) has obviously been penetrated and compromised by the Islamo-Communists and people like Amy Klobuchar!

I know this for a fact! A treatment center out in the suburbs (supposedly a non-profit) invited Amy Klobuchar to speak years ago and then they started bashing Trump at AA meetings out there. Two of the leaders even shouted ‘EFF TRUMP!”

That’s when I knew that many meetings and many of the treatment centers in Minneapolis were compromised by the sneaky Democrats. They even had the preamble on the wall where we’re not supposed to bring outside issues into Alcoholics Anonymous and then they went and bashed Trump and started campaigning for Democrats right at the meetings. NOT KIDDING. What a joke. They were even fundraising for PRIDE and the Democrats and illegal aliens AT THE MEETINGS. I saw it with my own eyes!

The preamble reads: “A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes.”

Yet, the Democrats in Minnesota abuse that all the time - including Amy Klobuchar!

Some treatment centers in Minnesota even started putting men in the women’s dorms during recovery and allowed men pretending to be women to attend women’s retreats! SICK. I saw that myself too!

IMHO, much of the recovery community in Minnesota has become an ARM of the Democrat Party!

IMHO, much of the recovery community in Minnesota has been infiltrated by PRIDE and the Communists and good people need to be aware of what’s really going on.

Amy Klobuchar’s dad, Jim Klobuchar, was an alcoholic in recovery who worked at the Minnesota Star Tribune and he was a big believer in AA. He was very famous in Minnesota. IMHO, Amy has WRONGLY used her father’s legacy of recovery AND compromised that for political gain.

I’m not making this up. The Star Tribune even promoted that connection AND reported that Amy exploited her father’s alcoholism to help her rise in Minnesota politics!

“In 1993, Jim Klobuchar was the star columnist for the Star Tribune, a Minnesota celebrity who'd just been arrested a third time for drinking and driving. His daughter Amy, now a U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate, was a young lawyer in Minneapolis who joined him at a meeting with counselors evaluating his addiction.

Her father’s drinking wasn’t a new story for Minnesotans who have followed her career. Klobuchar talked publicly of her dad’s alcoholism throughout her two decades of public service in Minnesota. She said it often informed her work as a county prosecutor and later U.S. senator.

For decades he was one of Minnesota’s most recognizable media figures: first as a high-profile Minnesota Vikings beat writer for the Minneapolis Star, and then for three decades as a columnist for what eventually became the Star Tribune.”

https://www.startribune.com/her-famous-father-s-drinking-shaped-sen-amy-klobuchar-s-life-politics/509484322

Even worse, many claim that Minnesota is the gold-star standard for treatment in the world - but instead I learned that many administer an average of 5 psych meds to unsuspecting clients to replace the alcohol - basically replacing one addiction with 5 others! I saw it myself - I worked for one and was tasked to do just that! We called it the PILL MILL.

Now, let’s tie all the “created addicts” by the Democrats in Minnesota with all the homeless camps they create every election year to harvest votes and you’ve got an evil recipe for ELECTION FRAUD. Just saying! CONNECT THE DOTS. IT’S ALL THERE.

Don’t get me wrong. I am a firm believer in Alcoholics Anonymous and Celebrate Recovery and other recovery programs. They saved my life! But, I am here to tell you that many have been compromised in Minneapolis by the Islamo-Communists just like every other facet of Minnesota life! ENOUGH.

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.”

This is something we can change! Godspeed.

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On Thursday night, July 16, 2026, President Trump delivered a primetime address on foreign election interference and election fraud from the East Room of the White House — his fourth nighttime national address since returning to office in 2025.

He announced that he had declassified a series of intelligence documents that revealed serious vulnerabilities in America's elections, evidence of interference in the 2020 election by the Chinese Communist Party, evidence of a Deep State cover up and instances of election fraud.

Trump said that the declassified documents "show that over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People's Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China's illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files" — which he called "an unprecedented election security nightmare."

Trump directed Americans to look at the documents themselves. The full document release is posted on WhiteHouse.gov and is organized around five major areas:

1. China's stealing of U.S. voter data.

2. Vulnerabilities in electronic voting and ballot-counting systems — China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have the technical capability to compromise voter databases, electronic poll books, and other election infrastructure.

3. Michigan voter-registration fraud allegations — a 2020 case involving a Tennessee-based canvassing firm in Muskegon, where documents allege canvassers signed registration forms in other people's names and received gift cards tied to application volume. Trump said the DOJ under Biden slow-walked and killed the investigation.

4. Noncitizens on state voter rolls — a DHS review Trump called "stunning," finding over 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote across just 4 states reviewed so far, with Trump claiming the real number is higher many Democrat-led states didn't share their voter files.

5. Concealment by intelligence and government officials — Trump said his administration discovered "burn bags" of documents designated for destruction under the Obama administration but never destroyed, and ordered federal investigations into how this information was withheld.

He directed the DOJ to prosecute those he said were involved, and used the speech to renew his push for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act.

JOHN SOLOMON: “Every intelligence chief vetted the President’s speech and verified its accuracy. They all say that the IC kept this information from them AND Congress AND President Trump in 2020.”

“5 countries are capable of hacking into our election files and our voting machines to steal and manipulate 220 million records and nobody has EVER reported that before to the American people.”

“They could register you in another location. You’d never even know they voted in your name. We get alerts when our bank account gets touched. Why don’t we get alerts when our voter record gets changed or used without our knowledge?”

Solomon said that Trump’s document release is just the beginning of many.

ABC, NBC and CNN refused to carry the address live on their main broadcast channels - instead they aired special reports so they could spin it and lie about it. CBS issued “fake” fact checks to muddle the truth and provide cover for the Communists.

I thought CBS might turn out to be the good guys after Bari Weiss took over but it’s even worse than MSNBC! Why? They take money from China!

CBS is not only spinning - they are outright lying!

Fox News aired it live. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said the day before that he believed networks should air it, stating "this is something that the American people have every right to be able to get over the airwaves." President Trump and his press office said ABC and NBC should have their license to broadcast pulled - because We the People have granted that to them for FREE.

FACT: President Trump released a substantial body of newly declassified intelligence that had never been made public — or even shared with the President at the time.

This includes assessments confirming that China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and other malign actors have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure, as well as evidence that the Maduro regime in Venezuela successfully developed methods to digitally alter vote totals in undetectable ways — information that has major implications in our own elections.

FACT: President Trump exposed how China obtained the personal data of 220 million American voters — names, addresses, phone numbers, and party affiliations — during the 2020 election cycle, representing the largest known compromise of U.S. voter information in history. Intelligence agencies knew about this breach in at least 18 states and kept it hidden from the President and Congress.

FACT: Deep State elements within the government withheld important assessments from President Trump. One analyst admitted to “deliberately massaging” the President’s Daily Brief to keep election-related intelligence out, while an FBI official even described running “a shadow government” to prevent this information from reaching the President.

The documents that Trump declassified and released last night prove that the IC ran a shadow government from 2017 on to hide the CCP’s penetration of our election systems and impact the results of both the 2018 mid-terms and the 2020 election. They didn’t do it on their own.

Who was in charge of the IC during that period? Basically the people at the CIA, FBI, DOJ, NSA, and DNI that were in charge and likely helped the CCP rig the 2020 election (and hide it from us) were Pompeo, Haspel, Barr, Comey, McCabe, Wray, Nakasone and Coats. They were the only people in those key positions at the time that could have set it up.

FBI Official Nikki Floris bragged about it in writing.

Floris served as the FBI’s election security lead for the 2020 presidential election, a role she held as deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division’s Intelligence Branch (a position she’d moved into in 2018). In that capacity she oversaw the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF).

Documents and testimony tied to her tenure include:

- An August 6, 2020 briefing she gave, alongside FITF section chief Bradley Benavides, to Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley — characterized in a later Senate letter as warning the senators that their Hunter Biden investigation risked advancing “Russian disinformation.” Johnson and Grassley called the briefing “unnecessary” and said it was delivered under pressure from Democratic congressional leadership.

- A September 25, 2020 recall of an FBI Albany field office report — one day after FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress the Bureau had seen no coordinated voter fraud. FBI Director Kash Patel has since said the underlying allegations in that recalled report were “substantiated” but never disclosed to the public. [I reported on this myself in November 2020 - it was public knowledge.]

- A declassified text message attributed to her describing herself as “basically running a shadow government across the FBI.”

- She also publicly defended the FBI’s “Protected Voices” election-security program in 2019 congressional testimony.

She was hired to work on elections by FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Christopher Wray was the director throughout her time in the Counterintelligence Division. Her role in that division and her promotions during that period fell under his leadership — the FBI’s official press releases specifically cite “Director Christopher Wray has named Nikki L. Floris” for her later Washington Field Office appointment. Her earlier internal promotions (2017 to deputy assistant director in Counterterrorism, 2018 move to Counterintelligence) would also have occurred under Wray’s directorship.

Christopher Wray's FBI even stopped Border Patrol from investigating Communist China after they found them bringing tens of thousands of fake IDs for fraudulent votes for Joe Biden!

Floris is currently the Director of Insider Risk at Microsoft. You know that Microsoft provides the front end for many of our election systems that we know can be HACKED by 5 China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and other enemy nations!?!

Documents also prove that China was blackmailing a White House official to do their bidding in 2019 and manufacturing fake drivers’ licenses and fake ballots and funding the George Floyd BLM riots.

Also, the emails indicate that the person responsible for directing NSA personnel and staffers like Floris to HIDE Chinese election interference from the American people and the sitting President of the United States to overthrow his government was likely NSA DIRECTOR GENERAL PAUL NAKASONE.

Paul Nakasone was a four-star general in the U.S. Army who served as the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command from May 2018 until he retired in February 2024. He concurrently served as the director of the National Security Agency and as chief of the Central Security Service. He led the military’s cyber operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. He currently sits on the board of OpenAI.

FACT: Multiple independent analyses have warned for years about the heightened risks of mail-in ballots. The bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform concluded that absentee ballots are “the largest source of potential voter fraud.” The MIT Election Data + Science Lab has noted that fraud appears more frequent with mail voting than in-person voting. A Heartland Institute/Rasmussen poll found that 21% of mail-in voters admitted to at least one form of fraud in the 2020 election. The Heritage Foundation has documented widespread vulnerabilities to theft, forgery, and coercion.

Where the SAVE America Act stands now: After passing the House multiple times (April 2025, February 2026, and again July 14, 2026) and repeatedly failing to clear the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold, House Republicans changed strategy this week.

Speaker Mike Johnson announced the House will attempt to pass SAVE America Act provisions through budget reconciliation — a process requiring only a simple majority (51 votes, or 50 plus VP Vance breaking a tie) rather than 60. The House Budget Committee advanced this framework on July 16, with a full House vote expected as early as the week of July 20. Reports indicate Republicans structured the provisions as $10 billion in election-security grants conditioned on states adopting SAVE-style requirements, an attempt to survive the Senate's "Byrd Rule" test for what qualifies as budgetary.

And on mail ballots specifically: On Friday, July 17, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals paused a lower-court injunction that had blocked USPS from moving forward with a rule requiring states to submit voter lists and use serialized ballot barcodes before USPS delivers mail ballots. The appellate panel found USPS had made a strong showing it would likely win on appeal. This clears one legal obstacle tied to a 2021 NAACP settlement — but a separate, broader injunction (from a Boston court, covering 24 states plus D.C., mostly competitive swing states) remains in place for now, meaning the practical effect on the actual midterms is still unresolved.

That’s the top line analysis so if you’d like to stop reading now, please do so. If you want more information - read on. If you are unable to “read” any of the exhibits in this post you can to directly to https://www.whitehouse.gov/election-integrity/ and download them and read them yourself!

I have gone through the documents myself and here is a recap of the key points I have uncovered, along with a screenshot of the proof. Following that is key reaction from some people I trust:

JOHN SOLOMON: “China wasn’t just “buying” commercially available voter data to manipulate the 2020 election, they were hacking state databases to get it, and the specific voter data they needed, was unique, which is how we caught them.

The purchased information only contained a small amount of data fields. But, that wasn’t enough, so they began stealing and hacking databases.

By 2022, the CCP used data exploitation teams to target and penetrate their way into secured databases and hacked voter data that could have only come from penetrated state databases and their vendors.

The election worker data contained everything from work addresses, DOB, DL numbers, work schedules, their children’s names and schools, even schematics of election precinct buildings where citizens would vote for the 2020 election.”

Declassified documents now confirm that China was indeed stealing U.S. civilian and military personal identifiable data and sending it to servers in China to create fake IDs, DLs, and votes for Joe Biden. A company called Konnech was caught in L.A. giving backdoor access to over 2 MILLION election workers personal info, including addresses, bank accounts, work schedules, their children's names, and even schematics of election precinct building where people would be voting for the 2020 election.

The owner was let off the hook. Now we know that this was indeed a backdoor operation to steal U.S. citizens data in order to steal the 2020 election. Here’s proof that China was making fake drivers’ licenses to help Biden.

CATHERINE HERRIDGE: “China is one of the biggest collectors of data on the planet. They are building a digital profile of every American.”

What she is saying is that not only did the CCP steal all 220 million US voter registration files to manipulate our elections, they have combined those records with hacked healthcare files, national security files, social media files, financial files and bank records to create a profile of every American.

What can that be used for? Well, not only to hijack your vote but it can also be used for identity theft, extortion and even profiling for bioweapons or organ donation. In other words, those people who disappear with no trace could have been abducted for their organs! The CCP and Iran run the biggest organ trafficking network in the world.

This database file can also be used to profile Americans for contact that can be captured and recruited for the CCP. THAT INCLUDES YOUR CHILDREN ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

Believe me, don’t believe me, but Herridge, who used to work for CBS, isn’t prone to hyperbole.

There is proof that the Deep State IC 'deliberately massaged' the Presidential Daily Briefing to withhold information from President Trump regarding Chinese activities related to the election. That means they kept it from the American people as well!

Communist China was BLACKMAILING Biden White House officials so they would take a “restrained” approach to China.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Recently we found significant numbers of burn bags in formation and this is a group of bags that were used to destroy information given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned. It was supposed to be burned. These bags were supposed to be at a different level by different people incinerated and checked but it never happened.

Maybe we got lucky. We believe this was not done on purpose but rather through gross incompetence of the people that were supposed to burn the bags. But the findings are stunning."

Evidence shows that Communist China compromised the voter rolls of at least EIGHTEEN states:

Documents from the Department of Homeland Security show that over 250,000 non-citizens are illegally registered to vote in just the four states for which public data files have been reviewed. They are now looking at the 46 others and I’m guessing the numbers will be in the tens of millions!

Some of the biggest names in media participated in private dinners and China trips organized by a Chinese Communist Party influence operation seeking to generate “favorable coverage” and “disseminate positive messages” about China.

The outlets named include:

• CNN

• The New York Times

• The Washington Post

• Reuters

• The Wall Street Journal

• Bloomberg

• BBC

• Associated Press

• TIME

• The Atlantic

The documents show that Communist China funded the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists BURNED and LOOTED their way through America’s great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees. Then, blue city governments all across the country simply REFUSED to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror!

BLM was also funded by Communist China. China funded operations and riots to divide white people and black people, stoke violence against the police and turn Americans against each other and our country. It’s all in there.

As I have reported often before, Communist China was working with Venezuela and Cuba to rig elections all over the world and were successfully able to use voting machines to switch votes and eliminate all evidence of where the deception came from!

Then, Communist China set out to use tariffs and price controls to PUNISH MAGA voters.

HIGBY: “According to the CIA, China levied tariffs on conservative areas of the United States that voted for Trump to cause those voters economic distress which would undermine the President and make Representatives lobby him for what China wants.”

We also just learned that a former advisor to the Federal Reserve had TIES TO THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY!

John Harold Rogers, 64, a former senior adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB), was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 38 months in federal prison.

Rogers was hired by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors itself — he was a Senior Adviser in its Division of International Finance, employed there from 2010 until his retirement in 2021.

He was hired under Obama and Ben Bernanke.

He worked as a part-time professor at Fudan University in Shanghai after retiring from the Fed. Chinese conspirators allegedly gave him gifts and paid for a beach vacation, plus airfare, lodging and meals during his China visits. Prosecutors say the co-conspirators worked for China’s intelligence and security apparatus while posing as graduate students at a PRC university.

Mike Lindell was right all along!

GLENN BECK: “I think the FBI and the IRS are going to begin taking some really big actions against people that might have been conspiring with foreign powers to harm American national security.

Based on his conversations with the White House, John Solomon tells me that there’s MUCH MORE to come after Trump’s speech last night. The administration may soon connect the dots between CCP-linked billionaire Neville Roy Singham, Cuban agitation inside the U.S., and violent far-left financial networks.”

JOHN SOLOMON: “I think you’re seeing boulders coming down a hill, picking up momentum... There is evidence that I’m working on right now…that there was contact going on between U.S. groups and foreign enemies, specifically related to the anti-ICE and ICE Out protests. Imagine that if anyone involved in that was conspiring with a foreign power to harm our United States. That’s something we’re looking at right now.

Scott Bessent came on my show a couple weeks ago and said, ‘We are going to start pulling IRS tax exemptions and making people pay taxes for what they did, and they might be charged with fraud if they claim they were doing public good and instead they were doing public harm under a tax exemption.’

So the IRS, the FBI, the Homeland Security Investigations unit created a task force, and they are cracking down. And I think the first fruits of that are likely to be in the next month. We’ll start to see actual activity: perp walks, actions in court, IRS actions, and that is the beginning of a long haul, because our country has been embedded with non-profits that are aligned with foreign enemies, and that is something that is not a good security posture.”

JOHN SOLOMON: “YOU HAVEN’T SEEN EVERYTHING YET. Additional intelligence is being prepared for release, including unredacted information on major data breaches that the public should be scared about.”

JOHN SOLOMON: “If Iran hacking just 100,000 voter files was election interference, and China stealing 40 million British voter files was a national crisis, why isn’t China stealing and compromising 220 million American voter files the biggest election scandal in America? The only reason is that the media is trying to hide it. They’re running a propaganda operation.”

JOHN SOLOMON: “Senator Mark Warner appeared to claim last night he knew China had obtained 220 million American voter records and that our voting machines are vulnerable to being hacked by a foreign power. Senator, if a foreign power gaining access to voter files is no big deal, why did Biden’s DOJ indict Iran hackers for obtaining just 100,000 voter files in 2021? Virtually every document that Trump released and cited has been seen and reviewed by the IC and Congress in a bipartisan way. If Warner knew, why not do something? It’s been six years?”

Many are trying to accuse John Ratcliffe of being in on it - WRONG. He is trying to fix what Pompeo and Haspel did to the CIA!

SPENCER PRATT: "The Communists are engaged in a subversive color revolution in America. CCP money is bankrolling all of these riots and protests to sow chaos and destabilize our country. None of this is organic...it's organized. And low IQ malcontents are falling for it. This is WAR."

Yep - and it started with George Floyd! I wrote a report on George Floyd the WEEK THAT IT HAPPENED - 6 years ago - and started it like this:

"It only took the Communists 9 days to engineer Floyd's death, loot & torch Minneapolis, shut down the Minneapolis police department & start race riots across America! They pulled another Jussie & the world fell for it..."

I was correct. The Communists set that whole thing up!

Here is the full speech if you missed it and a link to the documents. Immediately after the speech, Iran issued death threats to the entire Trump family.

That’s because Iran is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: “America is back, and doing very well.

We still have a major challenge that must be urgently addressed because no country can be great without fair and honest elections. You have to trust your country because if there can be no trust, there can be no greatness. That's very simple. No trust, no greatness.

For many years, I have called for bold, swift and decisive action to protect the integrity of America’s elections.

Every American deserves to know that when they cast their vote, that vote will be counted accurately in a system—and that is to make that system secure—one where cheating and interference are not just difficult, but virtually impossible.

Unfortunately, the system we have today falls catastrophically short of that standard.

Tonight, I am announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical intelligence revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.

This evidence shows that the election system we have dangerously exposes—and really exposes, like levels never thought possible—the hacking, exploitation and foreign interference.

Just as disturbingly, this vital information has for many years been covered up and hidden from you, the American people—our great and beautiful American people.

But that all changes right now.

The documents we will release, starting tonight, have been gathered by the White House Government Transparency Task Force—a great group of people—along with the staff of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, supported by our top intelligence agency chiefs, who have all personally reviewed the findings we are presenting this evening and fully confirmed their authenticity.

You can see these documents for yourself at WhiteHouse.gov. Go check it out.

Our purpose in disclosing this information is not to weaken confidence in elections, but to earn that confidence by confronting vulnerabilities and correcting them very, very quickly. And that’s what we are doing.

The documents cover five major areas of concern.

First, they show that over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files.

That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities—which is exactly what was happening.

This data loss presents an unprecedented election-security nightmare.

The intelligence even shows that China has assigned a data-exploitation unit specifically to this new project.

Compounding the travesty, this second set of documents we are releasing reveals that members of the deep state—a very, very famous group of people, in many cases in our intelligence agencies—worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling.

Covering it up from both the president and the American people like nobody thought was possible.

U.S. spy agencies began learning about the compromise of voter-registration files in 2020, when they discovered that tens of millions of voters’ data—think of that, tens of millions of voters’ data—in 18 states had been bought, stolen or hacked by China.

Yet those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden. They did not disclose it to me as president or to anyone else, and to the best of our knowledge, they did not inform Congress.

In fact, all they kept saying was, “This is the most secure election in the history of our country”—a standard, very pat line that was divvied out to say.

The cover-up of this colossal security breach is even more disturbing in light of the additional information showing that China engaged in other election-related activities to undermine my first administration and our 2020 campaign.

They did not want—they just did not want it. They fought like hell not to have it—for Donald Trump to win. And for good reason.

The documents we are releasing show CIA reporting explicitly stated, quote, “In mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party’s policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. president in an effort to reduce the U.S. president’s votes and make him resign or prevent his reelection.”

Isn’t that nice?

Also, in mid-2018, China was working to influence the results of the U.S. midterm elections and later the results of the 2020 presidential election itself.

Separately, in mid-2019, the Chinese government’s strategy against the United States was focused on undermining domestic confidence in the U.S. president.

They wanted to just make you sound like your president wasn’t so hot, when actually your president has done a great job. And they did everything possible to do exactly that.

Going on, this document says—this is by the CIA—this strategy included efforts to use Chinese contacts with big U.S. companies to influence U.S. business leaders to turn against the president of the United States of America.

The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him—as many as they could. And they did not care what they said.

The Chinese government wanted the U.S. president to lose the next election. And the reason they wanted me to lose is because they knew I was wise to them, charged them billions and billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs, and built the strongest military anywhere in the world.

We have the strongest military anywhere in the world.

These are exact quotes from the CIA reporting. The name of the person doing the quote is now under review.

But it gets even worse.

Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China’s activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.

Documents show that during this period, dozens of significant CIA and NSA reports about China’s election targeting were kept out of the presidential briefing.

These were briefings I would get almost every day. Everything of importance was kept out.

One email among intelligence analysts admitted that they had, quote, “deliberately massaged the Presidential Daily Briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election.”

Another official inside the FBI wrote that she was running, quote, “a shadow government” to keep intelligence about China’s election meddling from becoming known and to keep it away from the [unclear].

Other officials who witnessed such efforts perceived the motivations to be blatantly political.

Recently, we found significant numbers of burn bags. These are bags that were used to destroy information given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned. It was supposed to be burned.

These bags were supposed to be incinerated at a different level by different people, and checked, but it never happened. Maybe we got lucky.

We believe this was not done on purpose, but rather through the gross incompetence of the people who were supposed to burn the bags.

But the findings are stunning.

Today, I am asking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI and the CIA to investigate how and why such crucial information was hidden; to fire those involved in the cover-up; and to file criminal charges, if appropriate, against these people.

Yet concealing China’s meddling was only the beginning.

The third set of documents we are releasing proves that, for many years, Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot-counting systems.

Ballot-counting systems—dishonest, almost all. They are vulnerable and easily compromised, and people within our government knew that.

Tonight, we are publishing a series of previously classified U.S. intelligence community assessments and other reports proving that our government has long known these machines are extremely exposed to attack.

As one assessment states, quote, “We judge that United States adversaries, including, at a minimum, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure.”

That is some statement, made by supposedly great patriots of our country.

The document goes on to further state, quote, “We assess that centralized election-related data repositories, such as voter-registration databases, poll books and other official election websites, are most vulnerable to exploitation, and adversaries could use access to these systems to disrupt election processes within the United States of America.”

Tonight, we are releasing all of those findings, spanning from January 2022 to June 2026.

This is a cyber threat aimed at the very heart of our democracy.

Many people have questioned whether it could actually be possible to electronically manipulate vote totals or change election results on these terrible machines.

Today, we are releasing documents that show the CIA obtained reporting of a specific plot to do a big number in favor of the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela—and that’s exactly what happened—conspiring to digitally rig their own country’s elections in 2020. And that’s what they did.

This reporting included precise details about methods the regime developed to digitally alter vote totals in ways that could not be detected, even with an audit, no matter how deep they went.

This intelligence underscores why we must take urgent action to ensure that our own system can never, ever be hacked or compromised like it was in the past.

The fourth set of documents reveals that even when significant evidence of fraud has been detected, it has been buried and covered up.

Among the disclosures tonight are FBI files detailing evidence of alleged fraud by a large-scale voter-registration operation in Michigan.

In 2020, Michigan State Police raided a Democrat get-out-the-vote organization—a corrupt group—in Muskegon. And they were so concerned by what they found, they just could not believe it, actually, that they contacted the FBI in Detroit.

The documents state that some canvassers admitted to FBI agents that they signed voter-registration forms in other people’s names, appeared to submit fraudulent registrations for people who did not exist, and received gift cards tied to the number of applications they produced.

In other words, it was pay, play and cheat.

The FBI agents working on the case believed that crimes were committed, yet the Biden Department of Justice slow-walked the investigation and called it [unclear].

Tonight, I’m asking the FBI director to ensure that the matter is fully investigated and to work with the Department of Justice to prosecute those responsible for any crimes.

Finally, to reveal just how vulnerable our elections continue to be, we are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.

According to the DHS review of state voter rolls and public records, they identified approximately 278,000 noncitizens who are registered to vote in federal elections.

Since Democrat states refused to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher than that.

Yet even this limited analysis found more than one-quarter of a million foreigners illegally registered to vote.

Put together, these disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it. It is not defensible.

Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files are in the hands of foreign governments. Our machines and ballot-counting systems are exposed to hacking, manipulation and corruption.

China and other countries have been trying to meddle in our elections. Evidence of fraud has been buried. Hundreds of thousands of noncitizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls.

And yet we still have elections with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail.

As one example of the insanity, California’s recent election for mayor of L.A. and governor was held on June 2—a long time ago—but it was just completed a few days ago, on July 10.

Think of that. Much more than one month. It took a month to count the votes. I wonder what they were doing.

This is worse than any Third World country. There’s no Third World country that has elections like we have.

In a rare move, NBC and ABC—fake news—have both said that they would not cover this speech. They knew what it was about.

Because of the fact that they don’t like the topic, because they know how corrupt our system is and they don’t want to reveal it.

They and others in the media are part of a plot. They want to continue this fraud, for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left.

They can’t have a great country, and that’s true. You can’t have a great country without free and fair elections.

Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses.

They use our public airwaves—multibillion-dollar assets in value—for absolutely no money. They pay nothing.

All we want is honesty in our elections and honesty in reporting. They pay nothing for multibillion-dollar assets.

Great damage has been done to our country. Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen, and the trust of the American people was lost.

This cannot be allowed to continue.

Every American, whether you are a Republican, Democrat, independent or otherwise, should be able to agree that we deserve the most secure, honest and fair election system anywhere in the world.

Secure elections should be a partisan—really should just—we should be together: Democrats, Republicans, independents, everybody.

It should not be a partisan issue. It should be a cause to unite us, not to divide us.

This should be a cause. We should be united, not divided.

In light of the brand-new and irrefutable information I have revealed tonight, my administration is in the process of notifying the states whose election data was compromised by the People’s Republic of China, and many others.

We will be working closely to mitigate any harm, and we are taking swift action to ensure that sensitive voter data is better protected so we can never be bought, we can never be hacked, and we can never watch a stolen election again.

Tomorrow, the secretary of homeland security will hold a briefing to outline his department’s recent work confirming cyber vulnerabilities in our electronic voting systems.

They are bad.

We are in the process of informing governors, senators and members of Congress of potential issues in their states.

If you look at voting today, it’s in such bad shape in so many states. And we are committing to fix it.

We are also committing to work with those states and local jurisdictions to help them fix and patch known technical vulnerabilities before the midterm elections.

We have very important elections coming up. We want those elections to be honest.

I’ve also ordered DHS to notify every state about noncitizens on their voter rolls and direct them to remove all ineligible voters from the lists immediately.

But most importantly, addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress must pass the SAVE America Act.

How easy is that to do, unless you want to cheat?

The only reason you would not do it is you want to cheat, because your policies are so bad and your candidates are so pathetic that you can’t get away—or can’t get elected—any other way.

This landmark bill requires that all voters must show photo voter ID.

How simple is that? “Could I have your photo, please?” Photo voter ID.

All voters must provide proof of citizenship. “Are you a citizen of our country, please?”

And hopefully there will be no corrupt mail-in ballots, which, if you watched California and so many other places, mail-in ballots are inherently corrupt.

So you would have no mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military deployment or travel—if you are going away on business or vacation.

These reforms are urgently needed to stop the vulnerabilities that I have mentioned.

To all Americans, I ask you to pick up your phone tomorrow, call your representatives in the House and Senate, and demand that they pass the SAVE America Act without delay.

Together, we will restore faith and confidence in our country, and we will be bigger, better and stronger than ever before.

Thank you. God bless you. God bless our great military. And God bless America. Thank you very much.”