Month: May 2025

In a statement released Sunday evening in response to Joe Biden’s cancer announcement, former President Barack Obama absurdly claimed Joe Biden has done the most work to find treatments for cancer.

On Sunday, it was reported that 82-year-old Joe Biden was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer.

According to Biden’s spox, the former president was diagnosed with prostate cancer last Friday with the cancer cells spreading to his bones.

“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement said.

“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” the statement said.

“Michelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family. Nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe, and I am certain he will fight this challenge with his trademark resolve and grace. We pray for a fast and full recovery,” Barack Obama said on Sunday evening.

Michelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family. Nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe, and I am certain he will fight this challenge with his trademark resolve and grace. We pray for a fast and full recovery.

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 18, 2025

Tax filings reveal Joe Biden’s charity, the Biden Cancer Initiative, spent more than $3 million on salaries and zero on actual cancer research.

The majority of the millions of dollars raised went to payroll rather than cancer research.

The New York Post reported:

A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research, and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries, federal filings show.

The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill Biden to “develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes,” according to its IRS mission statement. But it gave out no grants in its first two years, and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington DC aides it hired.

The charity took in $4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018, and spent $3,070,301 on payroll in those two years. The group’s president, Gregory Simon, raked in $429,850 in fiscal 2018 (July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019), according to the charity’s most recent federal tax filings.

Simon, a former Pfizer executive and longtime health care lobbyist who headed up the White House’s cancer task force in the Obama administration, saw his salary nearly double from the $224,539 he made in fiscal 2017, tax filings show.

Joe Biden did launch the Cancer Moonshot initiative during his presidency but he can hardly be given credit for doing the most to find breakthrough treatments for cancer.

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Kash Patel and Dan Bongino’s recent assertions on Fox News that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, is somewhat stunning. Both the Director and Deputy Director of the FBI claim they, “Read the files.” But I don’t trust any FBI files from the previous administration. Contrary to their position, we unveil the inconsistencies and unanswered questions surrounding Epstein’s death, which occurred under highly suspicious circumstances in a federal detention center.

There are key facts that Kash and Dan Bongino will need to explain away: the malfunctioning security cameras, the alleged neglect by prison staff, and the autopsy findings that some independent experts claim are more consistent with homicide than suicide.

Plus we examine the broader context of Epstein’s connections to powerful individuals and the potential motivations some may have had to silence him.

And Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis comes at an “extraordinary moment.” Friday’s release of damming audio of Joe Biden from his interview with DOJ Special Prosecutor Robert Hur and the new release of Jake Tapper’s book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Once again, this cancer diagnosis may not actually be what it seems.

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Argentina’s Javier Milei is getting politically stronger by the day.

When Javier Milei was elected Argentine President, there were no shortage of ‘analysts’ predicting that this crazed outsider was sure to lead the South American country deeper into the hole and finish destroying it.

Two years later, all these Liberal-Globalist voices have been proven oh so very wrong, as Milei’s administration stacks economic achievements, bringing down the insane inflation and securing the country’s first budget surplus in 14 years.

As a result of his no-nonsense economic policy and his rejection of ‘woke’ ideologies, Milei is starting to reap the political rewards.

Yesterday (18), the libertarian President received a show of support as the candidates he has endorsed won the legislative election in the capital city of Buenos Aires.

Javier Milei’s party wins Buenos Aires regional election!

UPDATED RESULTS 96.5% counted

% vote (seats) change

LLA: 30% (11) 4
Peronists: 27% (10) 2
PRO: 16% (5) 1
UCR & centrists: 8% (3) 2
Leftist front: 3.2% (1) 2 https://t.co/ak91GhtuQC

— Daniel Di Martino (@DanielDiMartino) May 18, 2025

Reuters reported:

“With over 99% of polling stations counted, Milei’s list of candidates led by his spokesperson Manuel Adorni was leading the results for the local legislature with 30.1% of the votes, according to official results.

‘Today is a turning point for the ideas of freedom’, the libertarian Milei said on Sunday evening, celebrating the results on stage, accompanied by members of his cabinet.”

With the economic panorama looking up, Milei is increasingly gaining the trust of the voters.

Sunday’s election in the capital’s legislature was the first important electoral test for Milei since taking office.

“’It wasn’t simply a local election’, Adorni said on stage. ‘It was an election between two models … The model of the political class, the model of a privileged few, and the model of freedom. And today, freedom won – once again’.”

#FPWorld: Javier Milei’s libertarian party won the Buenos Aires elections, defeating Mauricio Macri’s PRO party. This dramatic result could boost Milei’s chances in the upcoming midterm elections.https://t.co/qcMMoZJMg6

— Firstpost (@firstpost) May 19, 2025

The Buenos Aires elections is traditionally an important indicator leading up to the national midterm elections in October.

Read more:

In the Documents That Javier Milei Has Just Released – Related to Nazi Criminals Who Fled to Argentina After WW2 – A Chance for the South American Nation To Come to Terms With Its Past

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The Supreme Court handed down a brief order Monday staying an injunction that prevented Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem from revoking the Temporary Protective Status (TPS) that prevented Venezuelans illegally living in the U.S. from being deported. 

The injunction was issued by Senior District Court Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee, who agreed with the plaintiffs—the National TPS Alliance—in finding that Noem’s order to revoke was motivated by racial animus. “Acting on the basis of a negative group stereotype and generalizing such stereotype to the entire group is the classic example of racism,” Chen wrote.

The government is appealing the decision and requested a stay of injunction from the Supreme Court, which granted the stay pending appeal. The court’s order will allow the Trump administration to begin deporting the more than 350,000 Venezuelans currently living in the country illegally.

The post SCOTUS Lifts Injunction on Deporting Venezuelan Illegals appeared first on The American Conservative.

A federal judge on Monday ruled that DOGE’s takeover of the US Institute of Peace (USIP) was illegal.

US District Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, reinstalled ousted Acting USIP President George Moose and banned DOGE workers from entering the facility.

NBC News reported:

A federal district judge on Monday tossed out the takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace by the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency, declaring that actions by “illegitimately-installed leaders” were “unlawful” and had to be declared “null and void.”

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that “the removal of USIP’s president, his replacement by officials affiliated with DOGE, the termination of nearly all of USIP’s staff, and the transfer of USIP property to the General Services Administration” were “effectuated by illegitimately-installed leaders who lacked legal authority to take these actions, which must therefore be declared null and void.”

Howell wrote in her decision that USIP Acting President George Moose would continue to serve as president of the organization and banned defendants from “further trespass against the real and personal property belonging to the Institute and its employees, contractors, agents, and other representatives.”

As previously reported:

In March, the fired president, George Moose, refused to leave the Institute of Peace’s building in Washington DC, prompting a standoff with law enforcement.

The Institute of Peace was created in 1984 under the Reagan Administration. George Moose is an old Clintonite who refused to leave after Trump signed an executive order reducing the USIP to its “statutory minimum.”

DOGE attempted to evict George Moose and other officials of the USIP in March but Musk’s workers were forced to call law enforcement amid a standoff.

Police intervened after Acting USIP President Kenneth Jackson was denied entry.

Mr. Moose denied lawful access to Kenneth Jackson, the Acting USIP President (as approved by the USIP Board). @DCPoliceDept arrived onsite and escorted Mr. Jackson into the building. The only unlawful individual was Mr. Moose, who refused to comply, and even tried to fire USIP’s… https://t.co/Fy8hJClx9E pic.twitter.com/yqq81qNKXM

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 18, 2025

“MPD members went to the USIP building and contacted an individual who allowed MPD members inside of the building,” the Metro police said. “Once inside of the building, the acting USIP President requested that all the unauthorized individuals inside of the building leave.”

George Moose was escorted out of the building by MPD without incident. No arrests were made.

The US Institute of Peace sued to block DOGE’s takeover.

Judge Beryl Howell previously denied an emergency TRO but she blasted DOGE for their treatment of USIP president George Moose – who literally barricaded himself in the building after he was fired.

“Are you the least bit offended by how this was executed, Mr. Hudak? I have to say, I’m offended on behalf of the American citizens who have done so much, as I just said, with Mr. Moose himself, so much service to this country to be treated so abominably, let alone the directors on the board,” Judge Howell said to Assistant US Attorney Brian Hudak.

The DOJ official responded to Howell with common sense: “If I’m fired and I decide to barricade myself into the US attorney’s office…I’m assuming some of my colleagues would say, ‘Brian, what are you doing? Here’s your termination letter, you need to leave.’ I’m assuming it would escalate from there…I’m assuming the police would be called.”

Howell wasn’t offended by the petulant USIP official refusing to leave after he was fired from his job. She was offended that DOGE used law enforcement and other forceful yet lawful incentives to remove George Moose.

George Moose previously called it an “illegal takeover.”

WATCH:

DOGE evicted the president and several officials of the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on Monday, even though it was an independent organization and not a government agency.

Read more: https://t.co/T2ttl26pp5 pic.twitter.com/WgDQtUudqD

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) March 18, 2025

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President Trump announced on Monday after an hour-long phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that a ceasefire and end to the war with Ukraine is imminent.

Trump campaigned on ending the war, and it appears they have finally reached a deal.

He further stated that “Russia wants to do largescale TRADE with the United States.”

“The tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent,” Trump said.

“Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin immediately.”

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social:

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday crushed the mainstream media’s criticism of President Trump over the acceptance of a plane from Qatar to temporarily replace Air Force One.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump faced heavy criticism from the Democrats and leftist mainstream media outlets after he announced Qatar was providing a $400 million Boeing 747-8 to the Department of Defense to replace Air Force One, as Boeing fumbles the job.

Leftwing outlets described the donation to the Department of Defense as a “gift” to President Trump and implied it was a corrupt transaction.

Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton even chimed in, accusing President Trump of engaging in a quid pro quo transaction, a move that unearthed her many scandals.

Hillary Clinton Accuses Trump of Engaging in Quid Pro Quo Transaction Over Qatar’s Gift of Luxury Jet – Instantly Regrets It

The President last week slammed the “Crooked Democrats” for criticizing the DoD’s acceptance of the new aircraft instead of “pay[ing] TOP DOLLAR”  in a message on Truth Social:

So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA

On Monday, Leavitt was asked a fair question about the plane, and she took the opportunity to slam the leftist media hoax, urging members of the outlets to correct their stories.

“It’s the Air Force’s project to take on,” she said, noting that the White House has nothing to do with the project, as the media claimed.

WATCH:

Reporter: On the gift plane from Qatar, three things: is there a timeline for the US receiving that plane? Do you know how long it will take to retrofit the plane to presidential standards? And thirdly, has the intelligence community, security folks, have they weighed in on whether that plane can actually be secured to presidential standards?

Leavitt: I’m glad you brought up this question because I was watching the American press spew a lot of misinformation about the plane donation last week when we were abroad. Let’s be very clear, the government of Qatar, the Qatari family, has offered to donate this plane to the United States Air Force, where that donation will be accepted according to all legal and ethical obligations.

It will be retrofitted to the highest of standards by the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force. This plane is not a personal donation or a gift to the President of the United States, and everyone who wrote that last week should go and correct their stories because this is a donation to our country and to the United States Air Force. As for a timeline, because it is the United States Air Force that is accepting the plane, I would defer you to them for specifics because the president, frankly, has nothing to do with it. It’s the Air Force’s project to take on.

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CBS News president Wendy McMahon abruptly resigned on Monday amid President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against the network’s parent company Paramount for deceptively editing a ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris.

“It’s become clear that the company and I do not agree on a path forward,” Wendy McMahon said in an email to staff just weeks after the top “60 Minutes” producer resigned.

President Trump originally sought $10 billion in damages, but earlier this year he amended the complaint and increased it to $20 billion.

The New York Times reported:

CBS News faced another shock wave on Monday after its president, Wendy McMahon, abruptly said that she would exit her post, the latest development in an ongoing showdown between the news division and President Trump.

Ms. McMahon, whose full title was president of CBS News and Stations, said in a memo that “it’s become clear the company and I do not agree on the path forward.”

Tensions between Ms. McMahon and CBS’s parent company, Paramount, have simmered for months, a period that Ms. McMahon described in her memo as “challenging.”

Paramount is in talks to settle a $20 billion lawsuit brought by Mr. Trump that accused “60 Minutes” of deceptively editing an interview last year with his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris.

Many legal experts have called the suit baseless, but Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, has said she favors settling the case. She is seeking the Trump administration’s approval for a multibillion-dollar sale of her company to a Hollywood studio, Skydance.

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 (now increased to $20 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 US Supreme Court on Monday lifted a lower court’s block on President Trump’s order to revoke ‘protected status’ for hundreds of thousands of migrants living in the US.

The high court allowed the Trump Administration to strip approximately 350,000 Venezuelans currently in the US of their ‘protected status.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone Supreme Court justice to dissent.

BREAKING: A 8-1 Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to rescind Biden-era temporary deportation protections for Venezuelan migrants while the policy is challenged in court. Jackson is the only noted dissent. pic.twitter.com/AZRNBQtx2u

— Katie Buehler (@bykatiebuehler) May 19, 2025

In March, a federal judge issued a stay on Trump’s order to revoke Temporary Restricted Status (TPS) for Venezuelans who arrived to the US on Biden’s parole program.

US District Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee, temporarily paused Trump’s plans to end Biden’s TPS program.

The DOJ argued that the parole programs were discretionary and it is up to the government to decide when it can cut the program.

It was previously reported that President Trump was set to strip the status of 532,000 migrants living in the United States who were flown in on Joe Biden’s parole program.

Recall that Joe Biden brought in more than half a million migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela on his CHNV program.

CBP data found that over 1 million illegal aliens have been allowed into the US through what the Biden Regime defined as “legal” means.” The Biden-Kamala admin used the CBP One App and the CHNV program to allow illegals entry into the US.

These numbers are not included in the millions of illegals that have entered the US under Joe Biden’s watch.

It was previously reported that 81% of the Haitian migrants from Biden’s parole program – 362,000 out of 448,000 – were flown into red states.

Earlier this year it was reported that one of the Haitians who entered the US on Biden’s parole program was charged with triple murder, including two children.

President Trump revoked the migrants’ legal status and told them that if they don’t self-deport, they will be arrested.

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Columbia University’s recent decision to lay off nearly 180 staff members is a stark reminder of the real-world consequences of elitist posturing.

The cuts, reported by multiple outlets, including Fox News and NBC News, were prompted by the revocation of $400 million in federal grants under the Trump administration, highlighting the school’s stubborn refusal to adapt to reasonable demands. These staffers are paying the price for the school’s defiance, while the university’s leadership retreats to their gilded mansions unscathed.

The Trump administration’s mandate was clear: protect Jewish students from rampant anti-Semitism on campus, or lose federal funding. Columbia chose defiance, and now its employees are suffering. The school’s insistence on coddling Hamas sympathizers has cost it dearly, and the fallout is hitting those least responsible for the decision.

Columbia’s acting president, Claire Shipman, issued a statement that reeks of self-pity.

“This is a deeply challenging time across all higher education, and we are attempting to navigate through tremendous ambiguity with precision, which will be imperfect at times,” she said.

Ambiguity? There’s nothing ambiguous about Trump’s directive. Stop the anti-Semitism, and you’re fine. Columbia’s leadership chose to play a stupid game, and now they’ve won a stupid prize.

The university’s financial strain, as Shipman laments, is self-inflicted.

“We are working on and planning for every eventuality, but the strain in the meantime, financially and on our research mission, is intense,” she added. Spare us the sob story, Columbia.

With a $14.8 billion endowment, per the Columbia Spectator, this institution is hardly a pauper. The school was hiring outside its means, banking on continued government largesse, and now it’s crying foul as the checks stop coming.

Let’s be clear: we’re not celebrating unemployment. Losing a job is a hardship, and surely some of these 180 staffers are good people caught in a bad situation. But the blame lies squarely with Columbia’s leadership, not the Trump administration. These cuts are the direct result of the school’s pathetic insistence on protecting Hamas terrorist supporters over its own students and employees.

Columbia’s stubbornness is a case study in elite entitlement. The university’s leaders, insulated by their wealth and privilege, can afford to posture. They’ll weather this storm in their mansions, while the staff they’ve laid off face uncertainty. It’s a disgrace that the consequences of their decisions fall on others.

The Trump administration’s action was a response to a crisis Columbia helped create. Anti-Semitic harassment on campus reached alarming levels, and the school’s failure to act prompted the grant revocations. Trump’s mandate wasn’t unreasonable; it was a demand for basic decency. Columbia’s refusal to comply is a choice, not a tragedy, as Shipman would like to frame it.

Shipman’s claim of “tremendous ambiguity” is laughable. There’s no ambiguity here. The administration set a clear standard, and Columbia chose to ignore it. Now, the school wants sympathy for the fallout. Sorry, Columbia, but you don’t get to play the victim after deliberately courting this outcome. Any parent with a toddler could confidently tell you that.

The university’s research mission, as Shipman bemoans, is indeed under strain. But whose fault is that? Columbia’s leadership decided to prioritize ideology over responsibility, and now the institution’s employees are paying the price. This is how painful accountability can be.

Columbia’s endowment is a shield for its leaders, but it’s no comfort to the staff losing their jobs. The school’s financial decisions, especially hiring beyond its means, were reckless and banked on continued government support. That support is gone, and the consequences are harsh.

The irony is palpable. Columbia, a bastion of progressive thought, is now reaping the rewards of its own stubbornness. The same leaders who championed DEI and social justice are now sacrificing their staff on the altar of their principles. It’s a bitter pill, but one they swallowed willingly.

Trump’s action wasn’t an attack on higher education; it was a defense of basic decency. Columbia’s refusal to comply is a choice, and choices — as in all of life — always have consequences, some good, some catastrophic. The university’s leaders can’t hide behind “ambiguity” when their decisions led directly here.

The 180 staff members losing their jobs are collateral damage in Columbia’s culture war. It’s a war the university chose to fight, and now it’s paying the price. The tragedy isn’t the cuts; it’s the leadership’s failure to prioritize the well-being of its community.

Columbia’s story is a warning to other defiant Ivy League schools. Stubbornness has consequences, and those consequences often fall on the most vulnerable.

The university’s leaders may escape unscathed financially, but their legacy is permanently tarnished.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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