Month: January 2025

On December 3, 2024, Project Veritas released a video showing a top EPA advisor telling the undercover reporter that they are funneling billions to Climate Organizations as an ‘Insurance Policy’ against President Trump.

“We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic…”

Watch:

The Conspiracy Theorists were RIGHT AGAIN. ‘Climate Change’ is a SCAM.

“EPA Advisor Admits ‘Insurance Policy’ against President Trump is Funneling BILLIONS to Climate Organizations, “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic…” pic.twitter.com/kuitqczKKe

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) December 3, 2024

Well, as an insurance policy against unsettled science, President Trump has issued an order to the USDA, telling them that they are to remove all climate change “propaganda from their websites “no later than close of business day on Friday (today).”

Politico was first to report on the memo after three sources confirmed they received an email on Thursday afternoon giving them an end-of-day Friday deadline to abide by his order.

THIS is what WINNING looks like.

USDA has been ordered to scrub all ‘Climate Change’ from their websites.

“Climate Change is a Hoax…”
-President Trump pic.twitter.com/32AX59NTp9

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) January 31, 2025

Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by Politico.

Under former President Joe Biden’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, USDA spent $3.1 billion on the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, working with private food companies, nonprofits and universities to research ways for farmers to reduce their carbon footprint, develop more resilient crops and restore land. But Trump’s executive order targeting climate spending in the IRA forced officials at USDA to temporarily pause funding disbursements through the program.

Technically, “the end of day” deadline has already passed, and at least one of the USDA climate change websites is still active: USDA’s Climate Hub.

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Trump signs Executive Order/ screen image: CSPAN

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Trump’s order to freeze federal funding to 22 states on public loans and grants.

On Monday, Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) put a temporary pause of agency grant, loan and other financial assistance programs.

“The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024,of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans,” the OMB said.

“This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President’s policies and requirements,” the OMB memo said.

This temporary pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs and determine the best uses of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the President’s priorities. The temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00 PM. Even before completing their comprehensive analysis, Federal agencies must immediately identify any legally mandated actions or deadlines for assistance programs arising while the pause remains in effect. Federal agencies must report this information to OMB along with ananalysis of the requirement. OMB also directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated with open NOFOs, such as conducting merit review panels,” the OMB added.

US District Judge of the District Court for the District of Rhode Island, John McConnell, an Obama appointee, temporarily blocked Trump’s freeze on federal funding in response to a request from 22 Democrat state attorneys general and DC.

Reuters reported:

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing federal loans, grants and other financial assistance to 22 states, barring the Republican for now from implementing a policy that had stoked confusion and fears about critical government-funded services being disrupted.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island came at the behest of Democratic attorneys generals from 22 states and the District of Columbia and despite the White House saying it was rescinding Monday’s memo from its budget office detailing the policy.

The temporary restraining order will be in place until further order of the court while the judge considers whether to issue a longer preliminary injunction.

Earlier this week Judge Loren AliKhan, a Biden appointee, granted a temporary stay on Trump’s plan to freeze federal funding.

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The Army announced Friday that at the request of the female pilot’s family, it is withholding the name of one of three Black Hawk helicopter crew members killed in the mid-air collision with a passenger plane over the Potomac River while the plane was on final approach Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. The Army said the name “will not be released at this time”, leaving open the possibility of later public identification.

All 60 passengers and 4 crew members on the PSA/American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas were also killed in the crash. As of Friday afternoon 41 sets of remains had been recovered with 28 of those identified, ABC News reported.

Screen image from an unsourced viral video shows the collision of an Army helicopter and a PSA/American Airlines plane near Reagan National Airport, January 29, 2025.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said the Army helicopter crew was on a routine training mission for “continuity of government.”

A spokesman for the Unified Command Post for the crash told reporters Thursday the unnamed pilot is a female with 500 flying hours (Telegraph excerpt):

“It was a very experienced group,” said Jonathan Koziol, a retired Army chief warrant officer with more than 30 years experience in flying Army helicopters. Koziol has been attached to the Unified Command Post created at Reagan National Airport to coordinate efforts following the deadly collision.

Koziol confirmed to reporters on a conference call that the male instructor pilot had more than 1,000 hours of flight time, the female pilot who was commanding the flight at the time had more than 500 hours of flight time, and the crew chief was also said to have hundreds of hours of flight time.

NPR reported on the controversy about the pilot’s identity (excerpt):

The third crew member on the helicopter was a female pilot with 500 hours of flying experience, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. The Army is withholding the pilot’s name at the request of her family.

The withholding of a name in the instances (sic) is a highly unusual move. The identity of the third crew member has already drawn intense scrutiny online.

Misinformation on social media falsely claims she was a transgender pilot from the Virginia National Guard named Jo Ellis. Ellis has posted a “proof of life” video on Facebook, denouncing the rumors and offering condolences to those killed in the crash.

An Army press release issued Friday identified two of the three crew members, noting that only one body has been recovered.

The press release was accompanied by photos of the two crew members who were identified:

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Maryland (Photo Credit: U.S. Army)
Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia (Photo Credit: U.S. Army)

The Department of Army identifies two of three Army Soldiers involved in Helicopter Crash

WASHINGTON — A United States Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed at approximately 9 p.m. while performing a training mission near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Jan. 29. There was a three-person crew on board the helicopter. The UH-60 helicopter from the 12th Aviation Battalion, Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir, Va., collided in midair with an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet Flight 5342 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The FAA, NTSB and the United States Army are investigating. The NTSB will lead the investigation. We are working with local officials and will provide any additional information once it becomes available.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia, is believed to be deceased pending positive identification.

The remains of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Maryland, have not yet been recovered, therefore is duty status-whereabouts unknown (DUSTWUN).

At the request of the family, the name of the third Soldier will not be released at this time. That pilot is also DUSTWUN.

“Our deepest condolences go out to all the families and friends impacted during this tragedy, and we will support them through this difficult time. Our top priority is to assist in the recovery efforts, while fully cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and other investigative agencies to determine the cause of this tragic incident,” said Maj. Gen. Trevor J. Bredenkamp, commander Joint Task Force – National Capital Region/ U.S. Army Military District of Washington.

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Eaves, served in the U.S. Navy from August 2007 to September 2017, then transitioned to a UH-60 pilot for the regular Army from September 2017 to present day. His awards include Army Commendation Medal x3, Navy Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Navy Achievement Medal x3, Navy “E” Ribbon x2, Navy Good Conduct Medal x3, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Armed Forces Service Medal, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Navy & Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon and Army Aviator Badge.

Staff Sgt. O’Hara served as a UH-60 helicopter repairer (15T) in the regular Army from July 2014 to present day. He successfully deployed to Afghanistan from March 2017 to August 2017. His awards include Army Commendation Medal w/C Device, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal x4, Army Good Conduct Medal x3, National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal with campaign star, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, NATO Medal, Aviation Badge and Senior Aviation Badge.

Friday afternoon, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced new flight restrictions for helicopters near Reagan Airport:

NEW: With the support of @POTUS and in consultation with the @SecDef, effective today, the @FAANews will restrict helicopter traffic around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport airport.

Today’s decision will immediately help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport, ensuring the safety of airplane and helicopter traffic. This is part of the @USDOT’s ongoing commitment to safeguarding our nation’s skies and upholding the highest standards of air travel safety. We will continue to support @POTUS’ directive to achieve uncompromised aviation safety. The American people deserve full confidence in our aviation system and today’s action is a significant step towards restoring that trust.

The restricted area includes:
– Memorial Bridge to South Capitol Street Bridge, excluding the Tidal Basin
– Haines Point to Wilson Bridge
– Over the top of DCA

NEW: With the support of @POTUS and in consultation with the @SecDef, effective today, the @FAANews will restrict helicopter traffic around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport airport.

Today’s decision will immediately help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport, ensuring… pic.twitter.com/Oo6B9H8z8S

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) January 31, 2025

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday addressed video of massive flooding at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C., saying the flooding was caused by deferred maintenance by the Biden administration and vowed that President Trump would provide the “best care” to troops.

Screen image from a video posted by Buck Sexton on X shows flood damage at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in mid-January 2025.

The catastrophic damage at the hospital center occurred in mid-January right as Biden left office. A steam system failure and frozen pipes damaged a reported fifty rooms and six elevators, causing patients to be moved to other rooms and hospitals, surgeries to be put off, and reducing the ability to handle a mass casualty event.

Hegseth was responding to shocking video obtained by national talk radio host Buck Sexton posted to X Thursday night. Sexton had commented, “This flooding is inside Walter Reed National Military Medical center- source tells me following years of neglect, a critical steam system failure has crippled all non-emergency operations. Critical situation at military medicine’s flagship institution.”

This flooding is inside Walter Reed National Military Medical center- source tells me following years of neglect, a critical steam system failure has crippled all non-emergency operations. Critical situation at military medicine’s flagship institution. pic.twitter.com/rnmNDITHc0

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) January 31, 2025

Hegseth posted a statement on X Friday afternoon, “We looked into this – it’s real and unacceptable. This is a result of deferred maintenance under the last administration. My staff is prioritizing fixing this, and under this President our troops will only receive the best care.”

We looked into this – it’s real and unacceptable.

This is a result of deferred maintenance under the last administration. My staff is prioritizing fixing this, and under this President our troops will only receive the best care. https://t.co/evnYMarGRz

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) January 31, 2025

The Defense Health Agency, which oversees Walter Reed, issued a statement Friday:

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Facilities Challenges

In January, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center experienced facilities challenges, beginning with frozen pipes bursting from extremely cold weather in the National Capital Region, then two incidents leading to water damage. Overall, fifty rooms and six elevators were damaged. Patients were safely moved to other locations within the medical center or transferred to other hospitals when necessary. Clean-up is complete and repairs are underway. Walter Reed continues to deliver care and admit patients to all wards.

We are grateful for our partners at the Navy Installation Command and the Naval Support Activity Bethesda in addressing these incidents in a timely manner. We remain committed to delivering the high quality, patient-focused care to our service members, retirees, and families.

Walter Reed hospital flooding, steam failure causes chaos for patient care. Great story by @AlexHortonTX and @bydanielgilbert. No paywall here: https://t.co/1A6tatBx91

— Tom Jackman (@TomJackmanWP) January 31, 2025

The Washington Post reported Friday afternoon that patient care was affected (excerpt):

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center has experienced widespread flooding in recent days and outages of its steam system vital for equipment sterilization, significant infrastructure failures that threaten to disrupt patient care for months to come, The Washington Post has learned.

The medical facility in Maryland, responsible for the care of U.S. presidents and severely wounded service members among others, experienced the utility problems beginning in mid-January. Since then, there have been multiple breakdowns that have left the hospital unable to handle a large influx of patients should a crisis occur, according to internal emails and imagery obtained by The Post, and two Walter Reed staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the situation.

The source of the flooding, a burst sprinkler pipe, spewed 60,000 gallons of water before it was contained — enough “to fill a 25×50 foot swimming pool,” according to an email sent to Walter Reed staff on Monday from the medical center’s director, Navy Capt. Melissa C. Austin. Five buildings and dozens of rooms and hallways were affected, the email says. Video and other imagery obtained by The Post show water gushing from pipes, soaked ceiling tiles that crumbled and fell to the floor, and a constant drip of liquid falling like rain from the rafters.

Another infrastructure failure, the breakdown and leak of the hospital’s steam system, happened around Jan. 18 and has compromised staff’s ability to sterilize surgical equipment while sharply reducing the number of surgeries performed there, said one of Walter Reed’s employees.

The sterile processing department has become “nonfunctional,” according to a recent briefing slide shared with Walter Reed staff and obtained by The Post. The document says a concurrent release of steam has created “unbearable conditions” in the general surgery department, with temperatures reaching to 112 degrees.

The Post also reported that hospital director Capt. Melissa Austin appeared to downplay concerns about mold at the hospital after the flooding:

Austin, the hospital’s director, has appeared to downplay concerns from workers about a potential for mold growth after so much water penetrated the facility and the threat that could pose to patients and staff, her emails show. It’s true there may be a “funky” smell, she wrote in one message to staff, but that doesn’t mean mold is present. Mold, she wrote, is part of the “tapestry of life” in Maryland and any overgrowth would be targeted by industrial hygiene workers brought in to clean affected spaces, she wrote.

Navy Captain Melissa Austin took over as hospital director in July of 2023.

BETHESDA, Md. (July 5, 2023) — Walter Reed National Military Medical Center — U.S. Navy Capt. Melissa Austin assumed directorship of Walter Reed during a change of directorship ceremony in Memorial Auditorium. She assumes the helm of the world’s most revered military hospital, often referred to as “The President’s Hospital,” during a period of transformation for the historic campus.

“To whom much is given, much is required,” emphasized Austin in thanking her mentor outgoing Walter Reed director U.S. Navy Capt. Felix A. Drew Bigby. “That’s why my goal is that each of you have the same passion, purpose, and pride for military medical service that I do,” pledged Austin – promising to embrace the challenges of leading the military’s flagship hospital by empowering creativity and collaboration each and every day.

Austin joins Walter Reed after serving as the first commanding officer of the Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) at Fort Belvoir, a command that was previously a NMRTC under Bethesda. Austin previously served as the executive officer, NMRTC Portsmouth; deputy director, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth; and as the commanding officer for Expeditionary Medical Facility Juliet.

Austin, the daughter of a career Army officer, graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering and earned a commission through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) in 1996. She spent seven years in the surface warfare community before earning her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and completing her residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of Washington Medical Center.

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Arizona State Representative Alex Kolodin called Arizona’s illegitimate Democrat governor out in a letter to her office Thursday after $339 million “disappeared” from the state budget.

Kolodin told The Gateway Pundit, “Maybe somebody’s siphoning off some funds.” He clarified, “Maybe some are mistakes. Who knows? But they don’t match up.”

This is not the first, nor the second, time Hobbs has come under scrutiny for mismanagement or corruption involving large sums of money.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, in November, Hobbs was in the spotlight after her Office of Tourism awarded a $700,000 contract to create a hideous new state logo to a company with close ties to the agency’s director.

“Hobbs’ fake director of tourism has been caught funneling MASSIVE contracts to her own brother,” State Senator Jake Hoffman said. “Katie Hobbs continues to exploit her office, break the law, and take advantage of the people of Arizona.”

UPDATE: Arizona Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes to Launch Criminal Investigation into Gov. Katie Hobbs for Bribery and Fraud

Previously, Hobbs came under fire for other questionable contract decisions after accepting significant donations made to a dark money group that was used for Hobbs’ inaugural events in 2023 and appeared to influence state contract decisions. Hobbs reportedly received $400,000 from a company that later made millions in return.

Former Arizona Attorney General Democrat Terry Goddard even agreed that an investigation by law enforcement is warranted, and the Democrat Attorney General and Republican Maricopa County Attorney launched probes into the apparent quid pro quo.

Kolodin notes in his letter to Hobbs that the apparent pay-for-play scheme involving her inaugural fund “remains under investigation by the Attorney General’s and Maricopa County Attorney’s office.”

“This missing money was, seems like it could be connected to the inaugural fund, which has already been a subject of legislative investigation,” Kolodin told us. “It at least raises the appearance of a quid pro quo. The legislature is going to have to dig into this more to figure out whether it is, and if so, what changes we need to make to our budget process to account with the fact that we’re dealing with this administration.”

Arizona State Representative Alex Kolodin fired off a letter “Re: Mismanagement of State Funds and Agencies; Pressing Budget Questions” to Hobbs on Thursday.

“$339m disappeared from Arizona’s budget, and I have questions for Katie Hobbs!” Kolodin said on X:

$339m disappeared from Arizona’s budget and I have questions for Katie Hobbs! pic.twitter.com/1xTJHUrwcA

— Rep. Alexander Kolodin (@realAlexKolodin) January 30, 2025

In his letter, Kolodin outlines his surprise that “the Legislature was informed the State has several insolvent agencies and requires a $339 million bailout to close out the current Fiscal Year.” He continues, “Since your liaisons dedicated to briefing members of the Legislature failed to provide detail on how we got here, I am putting my request in writing: Arizonans deserve to know the details.”

Much of the controversy surrounds an expansion to the state’s Medicaid agency, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCS), which Kolodin says Hobbs did “unilaterally” without informing the legislature during budget negotiations.

“In the last budget cycle, when she submitted her draft budget when the legislature was negotiating her budget with her, she never told us that she was intending to approve a major expansion of ACCHS, which somehow she can do unilaterally, at least, to approve the expansion,” Kolodin told The Gateway Pundit. “As a consequence, that expansion was never budgeted for. But once the budget got passed, she did it and started sucking that money out of the state treasury for that expansion. So, it siphoned off a whole bunch of money that was supposed to go to other things.”

He added, “She didn’t tell us when we were negotiating the budget because she was trying to be sneaky and go around us.”

Also concerning is the resignation of Hobbs’ budget director contemporaneous with the new discovery. “Somebody had to take the fall,” said Kolodin. He continued, “From talking to colleagues and staff about the budget process and about this year’s budget process, it’s become very apparent to me that the line between malice and incompetence, with respect to the Hobbs administration’s capabilities to competently negotiate a budget with us, is a line that is hard to parse.”

“Her office, either they have no idea what they’re doing, or they’re like incredibly evil with a tinge of stupidity. And it’s very hard to tell the difference, but essentially, they make basic accounting mistakes that lead to absolutely huge divergences between her budget and reality.”

Hobbs again “refused to account for” an additional $60 million in state liabilities for Arizona schools, which “everybody knew about,” including Hobbs, said Kolodin. Still, she failed to account for this large obligation in her budget negotiations and spending.

Kolodin asks the following questions to Hobbs:

Why did you mislead the legislature about the spending you intended to approve?

Why did your budget team refuse to work with us to budget for a known cost?

Who in your orbit is profiting off of Arizona’s children?

Why has your budget director taken the fall?

“I think it’s probably time for at least a a first step in a more formal investigation,” Kolodin told us, noting that he needs a legislative committee chair to back him up and launch a formal investigation.

This is a developing story. 

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After two days of confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is likely to be the next U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services—but there’s no reason to clutch your canola oil just yet. 

Senators threw buzzwords like “conspiracy theories” and “anti-vaccine” at Kennedy in Wednesday’s Senate hearing. Rhode Island’s Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse told Kennedy, “You frighten people.” Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon called Kennedy’s books on vaccines “junk science.” 

Kennedy made it very clear: He is not coming for our food or vaccines. 

“I don’t want to take food away from anybody. If you like a McDonald’s cheeseburger and Diet Coke–which my boss loves–you should be able to get them. If you want to eat Hostess Twinkies, you should be able to do that,” Kennedy said in his hearing. “But you should know what the impacts are on your family and on your health.”

This is not a controversial take. Regardless of personal health opinions, the triple vaccinated and the raw milk–drinkers alike have the right to question the foods and medicines they consume and make their own informed choices accordingly. 

Kennedy has somewhat walked back his claims on vaccines, despite having previously written books about their potential harmful effects and spoken out against them in podcasts. He asserted throughout the hearing that he is not anti-vaccine and that vaccines “play a critical role in healthcare.” 

“I support the measles vaccine, I support the polio vaccine, I will do nothing as HHS Secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking either of those,” Kennedy said in response to Senator Wyden’s accusations that Kennedy is anti-vaccine. 

Thanks to vaccines, Americans aren’t dying from preventable diseases. But now they’re just dying slower deaths. One in five American adults is obese, and over half of all Americans have one or more chronic diseases, many of which are preventable through a healthy diet and regular exercise. As Kennedy noted in the hearing, 40 percent of American children—what should be the healthiest population—are afflicted with chronic illnesses. Around one in 10 Americans struggles with infertility. We can no longer deny that Americans have become a very sick people. 

We cannot underestimate the role food has to play in our rising health problems. Seed oils—about which Kennedy has been outspoken—make up 8–10 percent of the American’s daily diet (given an average 2,000 calorie diet that would be around 160-200 calories, equal to 1–2 tablespoons of oil consumed every day). These inflammatory oils found in most restaurants and many processed foods are linked to colorectal cancers, which are on the rise among young adults. Food dyes and preservatives banned in Europe are also known to be dangerous when consumed in high enough quantities. We ought to be concerned. 

With all this mounting scientific evidence supporting some of Kennedy’s claims, it’s time the American public at last joins him and all the others questioning the FDA’s assurances that our food and medicine are “safe.” 

As prominent as Kennedy has been in the health and wellness world, it does not start or end with him. It didn’t take Kennedy to wake people up to the dangers of our food and medicine. We already knew processed foods were harmful; hence diet trends like the Mediterranean, raw vegan, and carnivore diets. Patients and even medical providers were already questioning the necessity of administering nearly two dozen shots in a child’s first year of life. The “crunchy” influencers of social media were already dispersing research and healthier recipes to concerned housewives. This ball has been rolling for quite some time. 

Despite what left-leaning media outlets warn, RFK Jr. is not about to eradicate Western medicine and ultra-processed foods. But people will be more informed of their effects. Households will switch to cooking with butter and healthier oils. Parents will research the medicines and foods they give their children. Everyone will have access to their favorite vaccines, and Doritos will stay on grocery store shelves.

Even if we remain a physically sick nation, it’ll have to be of our own free choice—not because we blindly trusted doctors and the FDA. At the very least, people will have access to enough information to think for themselves. And that’s perhaps the greatest feat Kennedy could achieve for the American people. 

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The draining of the swamp is about to go even deeper as FBI agents who persecuted President Trump and his supporters are about to get the ax.

CNN reported this afternoon that the Trump administration is expected to can scores of FBI agents who worked to throw innocent J6 protesters in gulags following the US Capitol protest and investigated the president for bogus reasons. Some supervisors are also being looked at for termination as soon as the end of today.

More from CNN:

Interim leaders at the Justice Department have spent the past week drawing up lists of people whose work at the bureau has earned disfavor with Trump for various reasons. Agents and analysts have been warned by FBI leadership that they may be asked to resign or face termination.

Agents who worked the investigation of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, and those who investigated the roughly 1,600 rioters charged or convicted connected to the violent US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, have been concerned they could face retribution for doing work they were assigned to do.

The AP has confirmed CNN’s reporting on the matter.

The FBI Agents Association blasted the planned firings in a statement, calling them “outrageous actions by acting officials are fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents.”

“Dismissing potentially hundreds of Agents would severely weaken the Bureau’s ability to protect the country from national security and criminal threats and will ultimately risk setting up the Bureau and its new leadership for failure,” the group added.

As TGP readers know, FBI goons imprisoned men and women under the Biden regime for daring to protest the legitimacy of the 2020 election lost family members, jobs, businesses, friends, and reputations, all because Democrats needed to push a fake narrative that President Trump committed a crime on January 6, when his followers peacefully protested on the Capitol grounds. Thankfully, Trump pardoned almost all of them during his first day in office.

The FBI and dirty special counsel Jack Smith’s team sought to jail Trump for allegedly withholding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida (despite ongoing negotiations with the agency) and exercising his constitutional rights to contest the 2020 Presidential election results. Both cases were dismissed after Trump’s landslide presidential win in November.

This latest news also comes as six FBI executive assistant directors and 25 special agents in charge were fired or have been told to resign by Monday as the TGP’s Brian Lupo reported.

This added to the purge that took place this week at the Department of Justice, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

At least a dozen employees at the DOJ were fired on Monday, mainly those involved in the political prosecutions levied against President Trump during “the Pause” between his administration.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to rule out the possibility of military action against Mexican drug cartels.

In an interview with Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends on Friday morning, Hegseth said that “all options are on the table” when it came to dealing with foreign terrorist organizations.

Here is a transcript of the exchange:

KILMEADE: “If we find that they continue to fire at Border Control and they continue to put fentanyl into our country, as a secretary of defense, are you permitted now to go after them in Mexico or where they are?”

HEGSETH: Brian, I don’t want to get ahead of the president and I won’t. That’s ultimately going to be his decision.

But let me be clear. All options will be on the table if we’re dealing with what are designated to be foreign terrorist organizations who are specifically targeting Americans on our border.

We’re finally securing our border. We’ve been securing other people’s border for a very long time. The military is orienting, shifting toward an understanding of homeland defense on our sovereign territorial border.

That is something we will do and do robustly. So we’re already doing it. Should there be other options necessary to prevent the cartels from continuing to pour people gangs and drugs and violence into our country — we will take that on.

So the president will make that call. I’ll work with him in that decision making process. Ultimately, we will hold nothing back to secure the American people.

Pete Hegseth opens the door to U.S. military strikes against Mexican drug cartels.

“All options are on the table if we’re dealing with what are designated to be foreign terrorist organizations who are specifically targeting Americans on our border.”

pic.twitter.com/yQNHdDWUC2

— Ben Kew (@ben_kew) January 31, 2025

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order designating cartels and other organizations as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations and specially designated global terrorists.”

This order has led to fundamental changes in how law enforcement is allowed to handle counter-narcotics investigations because authorities are granted additional powers when dealing with terrorists or those deemed a threat to national security.

The order stated:

The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only destabilized countries with significant importance for our national interests but also flooded the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs.

The Cartels functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States.  In certain portions of Mexico, they function as quasi-governmental entities, controlling nearly all aspects of society.

The Cartels’ activities threaten the safety of the American people, the security of the United States, and the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.

Their activities, proximity to, and incursions into the physical territory of the United States pose an unacceptable national security risk to the United States.

Hegseth, meanwhile, is still adjusting to being in charge of the Pentagon after he was confirmed to the role by a 51-50 vote in the Senate in which Vice President J.D. Vance acted as a tiebreaker.

All Democrats voted against Hegseth’s nomination, while RINOs Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski also refused to support him.

BREAKING: Senate Confirms Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary — Vance Casts Tie-Breaking Vote After RINOs McConnell, Murkowski and Collins Vote “NO”

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60 Minutes splices Kamala Harris’s answers together to make her sound coherent and normal. She’s that bad.

CBS is considering settling a $10 billion lawsuit brought by Trump over its deceptively edited ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris and the network’s staffers are fuming.

According to CNN, reports that the network is in talks of settling with Trump ‘sparked outrage in CBS’ newsroom.’

“Trump’s lawsuit was a joke, but if we settle, we become the laughingstock,” a CBS correspondent said on condition of anonymity, according to CNN.

CBS executives are reportedly worried ongoing litigation with President Trump will interfere with a merger with Skydance.

“Paramount, owner of CBS, its namesake studio and several cable channels, has a major piece of business in front of the new administration: its planned merger with Skydance Media,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “It’s become clear to executives at both companies that Trump’s dissatisfaction with CBS News will make the review tougher than they anticipated, and that they’ll likely need to offer concessions to win approval, people familiar with the situation said.”

In October President Trump sued CBS News for $10 billion for deceptively editing its ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris.

“President Trump brings this action to redress the immense harm caused to him, to his campaign, and to tens of millions of citizens in Texas and across America by CBS’s deceptive broadcasting conduct,” the lawsuit stated, according to Fox News.

Fake news 60 Minutes was caught editing Kamala’s answers to make her sound coherent and normal.

In fact it was so bad that ’60 Minutes’ spliced her nonsensical answer and replaced it with a completely separate sentence she said earlier in the interview.

Mixing and matching questions and answers. This isn’t journalism. It’s fraud.

Here is the original 60 Minutes exchange:

Bill Whitaker: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening?

Kamala Harris: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.

And here is ’60 Minutes” edited exchange:

Bill Whitaker: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening?

Kamala Harris: We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.

WATCH:

Holy. Shit.

60 Minutes cut Kamala’s nonsense answer on Israel and replaced it with a completely seperate sentence she said earlier in the interview…

Mixing and matching questions and answers. This isn’t journalism. It’s fraud.pic.twitter.com/onXli46xL6

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 8, 2024

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The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson attended Friday’s White House briefing.

The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson attended Friday’s White House briefing and asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about Democrats in “sanctuary cities” potential violation of the law with their failure to protect American citizens.

TGP’s Jordan Conradson: Karoline, yes. Thank you so much for having me here answering a question. So I want to talk more about the success that ICE is having finding these violent criminal aliens, some of them being sexual predators.

But my friend Ben Berquam reports that the Chicago mayor and the Illinois governor are preventing ICE agents from going into jails and prisons to enforce detainers against illegal aliens.

In Maryland, the attorney general has also put out a memo hindering local police cooperation with ICE.

Does the administration have any comment on leftist state and local officials defying ICE and Trump’s deportation efforts?

Karoline Leavitt: Yeah, I think it’s very interesting that Democrat officials in these cities, who have been completely overrun and overwhelmed, by illegal immigrant criminals would refuse support and help to cure this problem that has especially taken over their cities.

I guess they don’t want to admit they’ve been wrong with their sanctuary city policies. I’m not sure. You’ll have to ask them about their intentions, but they would be very wise to comply with this administration because this administration is hell-bent on enforcing our nation’s immigration laws, and this administration will continue to arrest, and detain, and deport illegal migrant criminals.

And what we don’t do is defy our nation’s immigration laws like the previous administration, who had these orders of removal on illegal immigrants across the country, and we’re refusing to execute on them. We will continue to remove illegal criminals from our nation’s interior.

Jordan Conradson: Are these sanctuary city leaders….are they violating the law?

Karoline Leavitt: I would certainly think so. I’d have to check back on which specific law they’re violating. But certainly, if they’re not enforcing our nation’s immigration law, it sounds like they are breaking the law.

And I would also add that their constituents don’t approve of that. You’ve seen residents in Chicago show up at their city council meetings infuriated with their leadership in that city because they are working very hard to provide for their families.

They want public safety and law and order, and their officials have abandoned those very basic American principles in these cities.

And the American people want law and order.

It’s, again, an overwhelmingly popular policy to deport illegal criminals from our nation’s interior, and this administration will continue to affect that goal.

Watch:

The Gateway Pundit’s White House Correspondent @ConradsonJordan asks @PressSec on far-left city sanctuaries DEFYING Trump’s orders and PROTECTING criminal illegal aliens. pic.twitter.com/OyLfMqgrJG

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) January 31, 2025

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