Month: May 2025

A naturalized American citizen wrongfully detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is speaking out — not in anger — but in support of the very agency that mistakenly handcuffed him.

Hugo Monteiro, a 31-year-old naturalized citizen from Brazil, was leaving the Cambridge District Court in Medford, Massachusetts, Friday morning when four plainclothes ICE agents suddenly descended on him.

Monteiro, who became a U.S. citizen in 2020, was simply accompanying a client to a court hearing when the officers, allegedly acting on mistaken identity, placed him in handcuffs and loaded him into a government vehicle, Boston 25 News reported.

“They were threatening me. But again, I was calm because I knew I didn’t do anything wrong,” Monteiro told reporters. “They were just, like, telling me I was under arrest, that I was in trouble. I was confused.”

According to Monteiro, it wasn’t until the officers stopped in a nearby parking lot that they decided to actually confirm whether they had apprehended the correct individual. Upon presenting his passport and ID, the officers realized their critical error.

“They pulled over in the parking lot. They explained to me they wanted to make sure they had the correct person. I showed them my ID, my passport and my picture, and they confirmed that it was not me.”

After a brief 15-minute ordeal, Monteiro was dropped off back at the courthouse.

But rather than lash out at the officers or engage in the typical left-wing outrage narrative, Monteiro did something extraordinary: he stood by them.

“Unfortunately, they called the wrong person, but I still support whatever they’re doing,” Monteiro said. “I voted for Trump. There are a lot of bad people in this country, to be honest with you, who don’t deserve to be here.”

“No hard feelings,” he added, according to Harvard Crimson.

WATCH:

NEW: A U.S. citizen from Medford, MA who was wrongly detained by ICE says he voted for Trump and supports deportations, even after being visibly shaken by the ordeal.

Watch below pic.twitter.com/VfH5cra0xt

— Bostonians Against Mayor Wu (@AntiWuCoalition) May 19, 2025

Let that sink in.

While the radical left cheers for open borders, abolishing ICE, and defunding law enforcement, this legal immigrant — now a proud American — is standing tall, calling for law and order, and continuing to back President Donald J. Trump. He knows what many Americans know: that a country without borders is a country in decline.

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The office of 82-year-old Joe Biden confirmed that the former president has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” and “very rare” form of prostate cancer — a diagnosis that top medical experts now say definitively places Biden at Stage 4.

The official statement, quietly released late Sunday morning, admits Biden has a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) — the second-highest rating on the prostate cancer scale — with metastasis to the bone, signaling that the cancer has already spread beyond the prostate and into Biden’s skeletal system.

“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.

But Dr. Alexander Kutikov, chair of the Department of Urology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, clarified the situation with a blunt assessment on NBC10: this is Stage 4 cancer.

“The fact that the team has told us that the cancer has spread to the bone, stages it as a Stage 4 cancer,” Kutikov said.

Stage 4 prostate cancer, also known as metastatic prostate cancer, means the cancer has spread beyond the prostate gland to other parts of the body. This advanced stage is characterized by the presence of cancer cells in distant sites like the lymph nodes, bones, liver, or lungs.

According to Kutikov, only 5 to 8% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer have it already spread to other organs or bones. Biden’s high Gleason score of 9 — coupled with widespread metastasis — places him in an extremely rare and high-risk category.

“So, this is a very rare subtype, and a very rare scenario that the president is facing,” said Kutikov. “The majority of the cancers are very low-risk. In fact, about half of the prostate cancers that get treated in the United State don’t need to be treated immediately.”

Although Kutikov said Biden’s cancer is “manageable.”

“It’s manageable. This is not a situation, as some cancers are, where we’re fighting to keep someone with us through the next year. Treatment now is an investment for years from now and to make sure that the president is healthy and is with us.”

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Kevin Spacey

Nearly eight years after the outbreak of the #MeToo era, it appears the actor Kevin Spacey has finally been uncancelled.

Spacey will be honored at Better World Fund’s 10th anniversary gala dinner at Cannes’ Carlton Hotel, where he will receive an award celebrating his contributions to film and television.

He is also in town to promote his latest project, The Awakening, and is seeking distribution deals during the festival.

According to the Better World Fund, the award acknowledges both his “artistic achievements over decades” and his “lasting influence on cinema and the arts.”

The Awakening is being showcased at the Marché du Film, the festival’s official industry market located beneath the Palais des Festivals.

In July 2023, Spacey was acquitted of charges involving alleged sexual assaults on four men following a high-profile four-week trial at Southwark Crown Court.

Kevin Spacey is Found ‘Not Guilty’ by London Jurors on His 64th Birthday – Academy Award Winner Now Wants to Restart Career

The year prior, he was also found not liable in a separate civil case in New York.

Since 2017, over 30 individuals have made accusations against Spacey, leading to his removal from the final season of the Netflix political House of Cards and the cancellation of a planned biopic on Gore Vidal.

Earlier this year, Spacey responded to remarks by fellow actor Guy Pearce, who claimed that Spacey had behaved inappropriately and targeted him on the set of 1997 film LA Confidential.

“We worked together a long time ago,” Spacey said in a video posted on the X platform.

“If I did something then that upset you, you could have reached out to me.”

”We could have had that conversation, but instead, you’ve decided to speak to the press, who are now, of course, coming after me, because they would like to know what my response is to the things that you said.

”You really want to know what my response is? Grow up.”

Grow up, Guy Pearce. You are not a victim. pic.twitter.com/33paGTj4Aq

— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) February 18, 2025

Spacey confirmed his return to acting last October, posting an image of himself on a horse while filming on location in Phoenix, Arizona.

A little beaten up but honored to be back on the horse.

On location in Phoenix.@piersmorgan pic.twitter.com/j7oYPPUu4S

— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) October 11, 2024

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The autopen scandal just erupted into a full-blown constitutional crisis.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) revealed in a bombshell interview with Jason Chaffetz that his committee has identified the shadowy White House staffers responsible for wielding President Joe Biden’s infamous autopen during a period when Biden was “clearly in mental decline.”

The autopen scandal first erupted in March when President Trump, in a fiery late-night Truth Social post, declared Joe Biden’s autopen pardons “VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT.”

Trump revealed that Biden, whom he branded “the Worst President in the History of our Country,” did not personally sign the pardons, nor was he even aware of them.

“Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” Trump wrote.

“The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime.”

By April, President Trump escalated his calls for accountability, demanding that the person or persons operating Biden’s autopen be JAILED.

 “Why did the Auto Pen give Schiff a Pardon? Biden knew nothing about it. Who operated the Auto Pen? That is the biggest question being asked in D.C. They almost destroyed our Country. They should all be in jail!!!” Trump said on Truth Social.

On Saturday, Trump reacted to newly released audio from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 interview with Biden and labeled the autopen scandal a “major part” of the “real crime.”

“Whoever had control of the ‘AUTOPEN’ is looking to be a bigger and bigger scandal by the moment. It is a major part of the real crime, THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!”

He also slammed former FBI Director James Comey as a “Dirty Cop” for spying on his 2016 campaign, tying the autopen scandal to a broader conspiracy orchestrated by Barack Obama, Biden, and the “Radical Left Democrats.”

Now, Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has dropped a bombshell that could bring the perpetrators to justice.

Appearing on Fox News with host Jason Chaffetz, Comer revealed that investigators have pinpointed the staffers behind the autopen’s illicit use.

Jason Chaffetz:
You are going and looking at who is controlling this autopen, because Joe Biden—he’s demonstrating that he doesn’t have all the cognitive capabilities he once had. That interview was from 2023.

James Comer:
Yeah, that’s hard evidence early in President Biden’s term. It clearly shows that he was in significant mental decline. It raises questions about who was actually making the decisions.

What we found is not just with the pardons he issued, but many of the executive orders that the courts are now using to “Trump-proof” the government—orders that President Trump is trying to reverse to make government more efficient. Many of these executive orders, as well as the pardons—including those involving Biden’s entire family—as a result of our investigation, were all signed with the autopen.

Clearly, from that interview—many, many months before the heavy use of the autopen—Joe Biden wasn’t capable of making decisions. He wasn’t coherent.

We think we’ve identified who the staffers are. Jason, you all have done great work with that over at Heritage Oversight. We’re going to bring everyone we believe was involved in any role in the use of the autopen. We’re going to invite them to come in for a transcribed interview. If they decline, they will receive a subpoena and face a full-blown deposition.

But we want to find out who was actually making the decisions in the White House during the last nine months of the Biden administration—when he was clearly in mental decline.

WATCH:

Rep. James Comer believes they’ve identified the staffers involved “in the use of the autopen” when Biden was “clearly in mental decline.”

“It questions who was actually making the decisions…Many of these executive orders, as well as the pardons of Biden’s entire family as a… pic.twitter.com/uYcLrmXr44

— Julia (@Jules31415) May 18, 2025

It can be recalled that The Oversight Project determined that all of the pardons issued on January 19 had the same exact Biden autopen signature.

The Oversight Project also has gathered every document they could find with Biden’s signature – ALL used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that he was dropping out of the 2024 election.

TGP’s Cristina Laila previously reported that The Oversight Project alleges that Neera Tanden was the White House Staff Secretary when Joe Biden autopenned pardons from a golf course in the US Virgin Islands.

Neera Tanden was a frequent mention in the leaked Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks.

Tanden was one of the most vocal Russiagate conspiracy theorists. She not only attacked Republicans while she was working for Hillary Clinton, but also went for the throats of Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters.

Neera Tanden

Last month the Oversight Project revealed six criminals were pardoned by Biden’s autopen on December 30, 2022 while Joe Biden was vacationing and golfing in St. Croix.

According to The New York Post’s Steve Nelson, a key Biden aide may have exceeded their authority by unilaterally determining what documents to robo-sign.

The New York Post knows the name of the key Biden aide, but they did not disclose their identity in Friday’s bombshell report.

An insider told The New York Post that he feared this key Biden aide: “I feared no one as much as I feared that [staffer]. To me, [the staffer] basically was the president,” the person said. “No one ever questioned [the staffer]. Period.”

Is Neera Tanden the ‘key aide’ behind Biden’s autopenned pardons? Tanden went to work as a key Biden White House staffer after she was forced to withdraw her nomination as OMB Director.

“You were White House Staff Secretary when Biden autopenned pardons from the golf course in USVI,” the Oversight Project said in response to Neera Tanden’s tweet.

“This you?” they asked.

It is also being reported that Ed Martin was investigating whether Joe Biden was competent to issue pardons late in his presidency.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is set to deliver a press briefing this morning at 9 am.

This comes after President Trump’s trip to the Middle East last week, where he met with foreign heads of state in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

During his trip, The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump secured trillions of dollars in U.S. investment and several strategic foreign policy wins.

Trump Secures Trillions and Strategic Wins in the Middle East

President Trump announced on Friday that he has already brought “over $10 trillion” of private and foreign investments since taking office.

The Middle East trip is expected to be a primary topic of today’s presser.

In other news, the House Budget Committee on Sunday night passed the Big Beautiful Bill budget reconciliation package, paving the way for a vote on the House floor this week.

President Trump has been the driving force behind the bill, urging Republicans to enact his 2017 tax cuts, as well as his no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security plan.

He responded to the Budget Committee’s passage of the bill shortly after midnight:

CONGRATULATIONS REPUBLICANS!!! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

Later in the afternoon, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are scheduled to participate in a bill signing ceremony.

This evening, President Trump will participate in a Kennedy Center Board dinner event.

Watch the full press briefing below:

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There are FIVE doorbells on Letitia James’s building in NYC. This supports our previous reporting and also confirms that Letitia James lied about the number of units in her building.

There weeks ago, America First Legal (AFL) filed a formal bar complaint with the New York State Grievance Committee against Attorney General Letitia James.

In New York state, attorneys are held to stringent ethical standards. Violations, especially those involving dishonesty or fraud, can lead to severe disciplinary consequences, including disbarment and criminal prosecution.

Historically, New York has disbarred attorneys who engage in mortgage fraud and related misconduct. This precedent does not bode well for Letitia James.

Examples of New York attorneys who have been disbarred due to their involvement in mortgage fraud include Akintayo Abimbola Ayorinde, a Brooklyn attorney who was disbarred after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud in a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in over $10 million in fraudulent loans.

Ayorinde was one of three attorneys indicted in the scheme, which charged a total of 10 individuals.

George Guldi, a former Suffolk County legislator and attorney, was disbarred and convicted of defrauding Ditech Financial LLC out of more than $250,000.

While serving a prison sentence for unrelated charges, Guldi, along with co-conspirator Victoria Davidson, orchestrated a scheme to defraud the mortgage lender. Both were convicted of conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, wire fraud, and bank fraud.

Thomas Cusack III, an attorney in Williston Park, New York, was disbarred for his failure to prevent a $98 million mortgage fraud scheme.

As in-house counsel for a developer, Cusack failed to perform standard lender’s attorney functions, which allowed the fraudulent scheme to proceed.

Although there was no evidence that Cusack knew of the criminal activity, his negligence in fulfilling his duties led to his disbarment.

America First Legal’s bar complaint alleges that Letitia James committed multiple acts of mortgage fraud and knowingly made false representations in official filings, conduct that AFL argues violates the New York Rules of Professional Conduct.

The complaint echoes the one sent by the US FHFA to Attorney General Pam Bondi, and focuses on two main allegations.

First, AFL contends that James fraudulently claimed a property in Norfolk, Virginia, as her “principal residence” on legal documents related to a power of attorney she executed to purchase a home.

At the time, she was legally domiciled in Brooklyn, New York. AFL asserts that this false representation enabled James to qualify for a mortgage under false pretenses and receive more favorable loan terms.

The second allegation centers on a government-backed HAMP loan (Home Affordable Modification Program) application James made in 2011.

AFL claims that James misrepresented the number of legal units in her Brooklyn apartment building, stating it had fewer units than it actually did to qualify for a reduced interest rate loan under the HAMP program.

The application was ultimately approved, and James obtained a favorable 2.7% interest rate with the government loan.

My visit to James’s apartment building in Brooklyn confirmed her apartment building had 4 floors and five apartment units, matching the official Certificate of Occupancy, and not the 3 floors and four units she had claimed in legal documents.

The AFL complaint cites multiple rule violations by James under the New York Rules of Professional Conduct, most notably Rule 8.4(b) and (c), which prohibit attorneys from engaging in illegal conduct and acts involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.

Also, James is cited for Rule 1.6, related to confidentiality, and Rule 3.3, concerning a lawyer’s duty of candor to tribunals, in connection with her public filings and legal statements.

According to AFL, Letitia James’s acts constitute professional misconduct and merit disciplinary proceedings that could lead to suspension or disbarment. The organization stressed the imperative of holding public officials, particularly the state’s chief legal officer, to the highest ethical standards.

“The legal profession requires unimpeachable honesty,” AFL said in its public statement. “If the allegations are true, Ms. James not only defrauded financial institutions but also violated the public trust and the very rules she is sworn to enforce.”

Nick Barry, America First Legal Senior Counsel stated, “If the Director’s allegations are accurate, Ms. James should resign her office immediately, the people of New York deserve an Attorney General who upholds the highest ethical standards of the legal profession.”

In the ultimate twist of legal irony, the same Letitia James who built her career storming courtrooms to preach about “accountability” and that “no one is above the law” may now find herself on the receiving end of discipline and disbarment.

The New York State Grievance Committee is expected to review the AFL complaint and determine whether a formal investigation should proceed.

If the Committee finds probable cause, it could lead to disciplinary proceedings before the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court and to James’s ultimate disbarment, mimicking the punishments doled out in recent cases.

Joel Gilbert, is a Los Angeles-based film producer, and president of Highway 61 Entertainment. He is on Twitter: @JoelSGilbert.

Read the full complaint from AFL:

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President Donald Trump is calling for an investigation into a massive illegal scheme involving Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign and a slew of left-wing celebrity endorsements deceptively framed as “entertainment services.”

In a fiery late-night post on Truth Social, Trump torched Harris and her Hollywood cronies, alleging that her campaign engaged in illegal campaign finance activities by funneling massive sums of money to entertainers like Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, and Bono in exchange for endorsements under the guise of “performances.”

Trump: “HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT? WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? …AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO???

I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment.

In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic “entertainers,” this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”

It can be recalled that Bruce Springsteen performed at a Kamala Harris rally in Clarkston, Georgia — and attacked Trump as “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous.”

Trump questioned whether the payment Springsteen received was a backdoor payoff for a political endorsement masquerading as a concert.

Trump also targeted other celebrities who supported Harris, including Beyoncé, accusing her of making illegal campaign contributions by performing at her rallies.

In October, the Harris campaign announced that Beyoncé would appear AND PERFORM at a rally in Houston, Texas.

It was all a lie to build a crowd.

The pop star did NOT perform. She barely spoke for a few minutes and left.

“Beyoncé went up and spoke for a couple of minutes and then left, and the place went crazy,” Trump told a crowd in Michigan, per Fox News.

“They booed the hell out of everybody. They thought she was going to perform. What happened was my opponent got up and started speaking, and they booed the hell out of her. It’s crazy. They have to use people to get people to come, and then they send buses. We don’t send buses. Everybody comes. We’re just going to make America great again. It’s very simple.”

According to a report from The Washington Examiner on how the campaign burned through over $1 billion in funds, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions received $1 million in October for campaign-related services.

In return for this investment, Winfrey hosted a star-studded town hall and spoke at her final rally in Philadelphia before Election Day.

“We’re voting for values and integrity,” Winfrey told supporters at the rally. “We’re voting for healing over hate.”

Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign reportedly funneled $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s nonprofit, the National Action Network (NAN), just weeks before a lackluster interview with the professional race hustler on MSNBC.

According to a report by the Washington Free Beacon, Harris’s donation was part of a larger $5.4 million spending spree aimed at boosting her favorability among Black and Latino groups — a strategy that, as we know, fell flat.

Federal campaign finance records reveal Harris’s campaign issued two payments of $250,000 each to Sharpton’s National Action Network in early September and October. Just days after the contributions, Sharpton aired a video of Harris offering him birthday greetings, where she praised his “extraordinary leadership” and role as a “voice of truth.”

Trump said the Democrats illegally paid to get the endorsement of Oprah, Beyoncé, Al Sharpton and others.

“Are the Democrats allowed to pay $11,000,000, $2,000,000, and $500,000 to get the ENDORSEMENT of Beyoncé, Oprah, and Reverend Al? I don’t think so! Beyoncé didn’t sing, Oprah didn’t do much of anything (she called it “expenses”), and Al is just a third rate Con Man. So what is going on here??? Totally against the law, and I have heard there are many others!!!” Trump said on Truth Social last year.

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Aston Mack, a 35-year-old Black Lives Matter activist known for his role in protests in Florida, was arrested on May 13, 2025. He allegedly sent explicit messages to an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl on the platform «Skip The Games» and arranged a meeting for sex. When confronted by police and reporter Chris Hansen, Mack allegedly attempted to flee. He faces charges of soliciting a minor and traveling to meet a child. He is currently in custody on $250,000 bail.

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The Trump administration is perhaps the most pro-nuclear administration America has seen since Eisenhower. The president has made energy dominance a linchpin of his economic agenda; his energy secretary, Chris Wright, considers unleashing the atom vital for unlocking a Golden Age of American energy. 

This couldn’t come at a better time. After decades of flat power demand, electricity demand in the United States is estimated to increase by 128,000 megawatts, or 15 percent, over the next five years—and that’s on the low end of projections. Green energy policies, however, have weakened the American grid, leaving the country vulnerable to Spanish-style energy shortfalls. As the CEO of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, John Bear, put it, “We have to face some hard realities … the transition that is underway to get to a decarbonized end state is posing material, adverse challenges to electric reliability.”

America has been struggling to keep the lights on, let alone handle the oncoming wave of demand from manufacturing and AI data centers. While we have normally relied on natural gas for its firm power and quick deployment, lead times on turbines and gas plants stretch beyond the five-year mark.

Thus America needs nuclear if it wants to win the AI race and power the new golden age of manufacturing. 

Luckily, the White House, tech elites, and trade unions all share a renewed enthusiasm for nuclear. Plus, a bevy of new nuclear reactors are set to debut innovative designs on American soil. These “SMRs,” or small modular reactors, plan to build their components in factories and then assemble them on site wherever needed, driving down construction costs and avoiding the nasty surprises that crop up in a prolonged construction environment. That’s why major tech companies like Amazon and Google have partnered with SMR companies like X-Energy and Kairos, respectively. 

But America doesn’t currently have the fuel resources to power many of many of these new designs. Thanks to years of misguided policies, the United States has become dependent on countries like Russia and Kazakhstan for uranium and its enrichment. We have taken some steps to remedy this problem by incentivizing domestic fuel production, but there’s a solution sitting right under its nose that could unlock energy dominance in perpetuity while fueling the nuclear renaissance. 

The United States currently has 90,000 metric tons of commercial spent nuclear fuel, or nuclear waste. Despite its negative reputation, the waste sits safely in big concrete casks at nuclear power plants across the country. (In fact, consumers pay utilities to keep it there.) But we’re wasting the waste: Ninety-five percent of the material it contains can be reprocessed to serve as fuel for the oncoming fleet of advanced reactors. If we reprocessed our waste, then we could unlock five times the energy of Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves, all while reducing the waste by 90 percent and driving down Americans’ bills. 

In fact, we already have firms working on making this economically viable, like Oklo and Curio. These companies are employing new methods of reprocessing, like pyroprocessing, which was pioneered at our national labs. This new technique, essentially heating the waste at high temperatures in order to harvest useful materials like fuel, is cheaper and more efficient than the methods used by other countries with waste recycling programs, like Japan or France. 

Moreover, Congress is already on board with reprocessing. The Nuclear REFUEL Act has bipartisan support and aims to adjust the regulatory framework to unleash this burgeoning industry. 

But the nation needs direction that only President Trump can provide. If Trump flexed his executive muscles, he could issue an executive order that establishes reprocessing as a national priority for energy dominance. Effectively, the president would mandate the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the State Department step out of the way of commercial entities that want to harvest and clean up our waste in order to produce more fuel. 

By establishing waste reprocessing as part of the national mission, Trump would shore up our energy security while locking in American energy dominance for generations. 

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Vice President J.D. Vance rocked Europe in February when he confronted European leaders at the Munich Security Conference about the continent’s slide into censorship. Vance singled out the United Kingdom—birthplace of the Magna Carta—for prosecuting and convicting an army veteran for the crime of violating a “safe zone” law by silently praying outside an abortion clinic. Here at home, another legal theory pioneered in Britain is central to an ongoing Biden-era federal prosecution that raises significant concerns about conscience rights.

The late forensic sociologist Dr. Evan Stark is credited with coining the term “coercive control,” a pattern of conduct that involves men victimizing women through physical abuse and psychological tactics such as intimidation, isolation, and control. In 2015, England and Wales made coercive control in intimate relationships a crime punishable with up to five years in prison. In 2022, British authorities used the statute to imprison a Jewish man for 18 months for declining to grant his ex-wife a religious divorce.

In our country, there is no federal law that expressly criminalizes coercive control. At the state level, in 2020 Hawaii made coercive control in certain family relationships a petty misdemeanor. California and other states have imported the concept into their domestic civil laws. The response has been otherwise tepid. That is understandable. Legal scholars have questioned whether criminalizing coercive control can be squared with the First Amendment and constitutional vagueness and overbreadth doctrines.

My client OneTaste, Inc. is a sexual wellness company that teaches the practice of “orgasmic meditation.” Two former OneTaste executives, Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone, are now on trial. Given the R-rated allegations in the indictment, one would expect Cherwitz and Daedone to be up on sex trafficking, prostitution, or sexual assault charges. Not so—they face up to twenty years in prison each for something called “forced labor conspiracy.” 

In the federal government’s telling, as part of a conspiracy to obtain labor from their victims, Cherwitz and Daedone prevented OneTaste members from exercising “independence and control,” isolated the members from others, leveraged “sensitive information” against them, and ultimately excluded them from the group. In pre-trial filings, the government forecast it would provide evidence about how Cherwitz and Daedone used “means of coercive control” to extract labor from their adult victims.

Whatever you think of Daedone’s Buddhist-influenced teachings, the theory undergirding the government’s coercive-control prosecution should give all Americans, including conservative evangelical Christians like me who believe sex outside one-man-one-woman marriage is a sin, reason for pause. The criminal case against Cherwitz and Daedone, replete with allegations of recruitment, trauma, and shunning, can be readily repackaged and deployed against churches, religious institutions, or other designated enemies of the moment. 

Against conservative Christians, the playbook would be straightforward. Evangelization becomes recruitment. Labor is extracted through church ministries. Holding others accountable for sin and instructing the faithful to avoid temptation is control. Church discipline and excommunication become the last steps in a campaign of shame and humiliation. There is no limiting principle. The same rationale can be applied to other religions. Taken to its logical conclusion, coercive control applied to intraorganizational dynamics criminalizes what could be subjectively perceived as harmful influence.

To be clear, sex traffickers and rapists deserve prison or worse. And none of this is to say troubled and abusive interpersonal relationships are not a problem. Christians know strong churches are primed to solve such problems by reconciling people to God through faith in Jesus Christ and then to each other. But those very efforts could be chilled by prosecuting Cherwitz and Daedone under our federal criminal laws.

Vice President Vance is right about what is happening in Britain, but we should be at least equally mindful of government overreach in our country. America has imported much that is good from the United Kingdom—criminalizing coercive control is not one of those things. The Trump administration, which has acted to roll back lawfare and restore conscience rights, should shut the lid on the Pandora’s box this Biden-era prosecution is opening.

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