Month: July 2025

ABLECHILD: One Year Later, Where is The Final FBI Investigation on The Trump Assassination Attempt?

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One Year Later, Where is The Final FBI Investigation on The Trump Assassination Attempt?

Republished with permission from AbleChild.

Given the recent shift in reality by the nation’s top law enforcement agencies regarding whether there is or isn’t a “client list” of the late pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, it seems completely possible that law enforcement may report that the assassination attempt on President Trump never happened.

In the event there actually was an assassination attempt in Butler PA, resembling what American’s thought they saw, one can only wonder, on the one-year anniversary of the event, when the federal investigation will be released…if ever? The problem with the administration’s law enforcement is transparency. It’s been a year since the shooting and nothing, nada, zip, a big hole in a donut.

Given the lack of investigative information, it appears that there are an awful lot of people hell-bent on not releasing all the information about what occurred on July 13th in Butler, PA. Why? There sure is a lot of information that needs to be made public.

First, what we have gleaned from all the pathetic investigations provided by the U.S. Senate, the House Task Force, the Secret Service review and a Department of Homeland Security independent review is that the Secret Service dropped the ball. Yep. These geniuses spent time and big money to concluded what every American already knew. Congratulations.

Now, what we don’t know is anything about the alleged shooter and his family. Why? The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) apparently took the lead role in the investigation, yet the last “update” provided by the FBI was last August.

The American people are told that the FBI conducted extensive investigations, gaining access to the alleged shooter’s devices, searched his residence and reviewed digital media and video footage. That’s wonderful. Good job. Where’s the final report?

How bout the FBI release its final report of its investigation, including the complete ballistics report, all DNA and fingerprint information, all information relating to the alleged shooter’s phone (including tracking his pings the day of the shooting) and, of course, the mysterious autopsy report of the alleged shooter that Congressional Task Force Chair, Congressman Kelly, says the American people can’t handle.

Note to Congressman Kelly. The American people can handle it. In fact, the American people want the facts that so far are being withheld. In a nutshell, the American people want the truth.

The FBI final report should include all the above data which should cement that Thomas Matthew Crooks was, in fact, the shooter. So far, what has been released by the Congressional Task Force does not positively identify Crooks as the shooter as none of the collected and tested projectiles have been positively identified as coming from the alleged shooter’s alleged weapon. This is no small deal.

No information as to whether Crooks’s fingerprints and DNA were on the alleged weapon has been made public. There is no video showing Crooks as the person on the roof of the AGR building. Law enforcement says Crooks is the shooter, but there is no physical evidence supporting this statement.

Without Crooks’s autopsy, it’s impossible to know if the body that was cremated was actually Thomas Matthew Crooks. Furthermore, why didn’t the FBI release the phone records of Crooks and his father. Afterall, the public has been told that the father tried contacting his son all day. Well, let’s see the evidence of those calls. That’s physical evidence that’s as easy as it gets.

And how could his parents (both reportedly mental health experts) know that their son was acting strangely in his room but didn’t notice the bombs being made in the same room? Sound just a little strange to anyone?

And let’s not forget that the Pennsylvania State Police conducted its own investigation which just happens to be classified. Why? For God’s sake! Just provide the report and let the American people decide what happened. Is Corey Comperatore’s widow allowed to see the Pennsylvania State Police report or is she being forced to sue for it? Why?

Finally, any report that is released by the FBI must explain what happened to the White Van that police surrounded that evening on the outskirts of the rally grounds where explosives were found and the van was removed by police. Was there more than one alleged assassin? Who owned the van? What happened to the owner of the van? Why didn’t the owner return to the van? Where did the owner of the van get the explosives? Whose fingerprints were removed from the van?

There are a zillion other questions that need to be answered about what actually happened last July 13th in Butler PA. Just release the report and the American people can figure out whether it’s a competent investigation of just more stonewalling. But it’s time. It’s time for the Trump Administration to release the FBI investigation about the assassination attempt on then candidate Trump. The American people are smart and will know if it’s a twist in reality. After the Epstein debacle, the American people have their antenna up.

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New Pope, Still Only Two Genders and Marriage Only Between a Man and a Woman

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Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Catholic Church’s position on only two genders and marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Photo courtesy of Vatican Media.

 

Officially, there are still only two genders, it remains a sin to change your gender, and marriage is exclusively between a man and a woman. While gays and transgender individuals are welcomed in the Church for worship and blessings, their actions are considered sinful and they are urged to repent.

Critics attack Christianity and the Catholic Church in particular for being unyielding or failing to “get with the times,” but the Church has maintained its core beliefs precisely because this constancy has enabled it to survive since 33 AD through every societal shift that has occurred over the past two millennia.

With the election of America’s first pontiff, some speculated that Pope Leo XIV’s progressive views on immigration and social justice might signal broader shifts in Catholic teaching on gender, transgender issues, gay priesthood, or same-sex marriage. However, neither the new pope nor the Catholic Church has yielded to the liberal pressure that has transformed so many other churches and eroded traditional Western values.

Just days into his historic papacy, Leo XIV sent a clear signal about the direction of his pontificate. Speaking to the Vatican’s diplomatic corps on May 16, 2025, the 69-year-old pontiff affirmed that the family is “founded upon the stable union between a man and a woman,” reinforcing the Catholic Church’s unwavering commitment to biblical marriage.

Pope Leo’s statement represents the latest chapter in a remarkable story of institutional consistency. Despite dramatically different leadership styles, geographic backgrounds, and pastoral approaches, three successive popes spanning over two decades have maintained the Church’s foundational teachings on marriage and gender, even as cultural pressures have intensified.

This continuity reflects not personal preference or cultural resistance, but adherence to what the Church considers eternal truth. The substance of Catholic teaching has remained constant while the presentation has adapted to different audiences and eras.

The doctrinal foundation was established under Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) with the 2003 document “Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons.” This authoritative text, approved by Pope John Paul II, declared unequivocally: “The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behaviour or to legal recognition of homosexual unions.”

The document went further, stating that “legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity.” Benedict’s approach emphasized the rational and natural law foundations of marriage, arguing that marriage serves the “common good” by recognizing and protecting “marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society.”

Pope Francis, despite his reputation for pastoral outreach, maintained doctrinal consistency through the 2019 document “Male and Female He Created Them: Toward a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education.” While the document emphasized dialogue and listening, it firmly rejected gender theory and affirmed traditional Christian beliefs, supported by biology. The document criticized ideologies that “assert themselves as absolute and unquestionable, even dictating how children should be raised,” and maintained that biological sex determines gender identity. It reinforced the Church’s teaching that there are fundamentally two genders, male and female, as created by God.

Even Francis’s later allowance of blessings for same-sex couples came with strict limitations, explicitly stating that such blessings could not “be imparted in concurrence with the ceremonies of a civil union” and cannot be performed with any “clothing, gestures or words that are proper to a wedding.”

Pope Francis’s final major statement on these issues came through “Dignitas Infinita” in April 2024, which condemned both “gender theory” and “sex-change” surgeries as violations of human dignity. The document stated that “any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception.” Francis had previously called gender theory “the ugliest danger” of our time, telling an audience in March 2024 that “cancelling out the differences [between genders] means cancelling our humanity.”

Pope Leo XIV’s early statements suggest continuity with his predecessors, stating that “the idea of promoting gender ideology is confusing because it seeks to create genders that don’t exist. So God created man and woman, and the attempt to confuse ideas from nature will only harm families and people.”

However, Leo has also emphasized building bridges, saying from St. Peter’s balcony that the Church must be “a missionary church, a church that builds bridges, establishes dialogues” and stressed the need “to be able to receive everybody that needs our charity, our presence, dialogue and love.”

What emerges from this 22-year span is remarkable institutional consistency. This consistency suggests that Catholic teaching on these matters transcends individual papal preferences or cultural backgrounds. The Church’s position is rooted in what it considers unchanging theological principles rather than temporal cultural attitudes.

As Pope Leo XIV begins his papacy, early indications suggest that while his pastoral approach may differ from his predecessors, the fundamental teachings that have guided the Church for over two decades, and the two millennia before, will remain unchanged.

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Scott Jennings Reveals First Big-Name Guest for His Brand-New Show

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Scott Jennings, a rising star in conservative media in an unlikely place, is taking his message to the airwaves with a nationally syndicated radio show aimed at taking the fight to the left.

Salem Media Group announced this week the debut of “The Scott Jennings Show,” which will launch Monday and air weekdays on stations nationwide.

“We’re going on offense,” Jennings said in an official news release. “Every day, I’ll take calls, interview big names, and take the fight directly to the liberal machine. It’s time to bust the narratives and bring back some plain old common sense.”

In a conversation with The Western Journal, Jennings confirmed the mission statement remains his driving force.

Jennings then announced his show would kick off next week with a high-profile guest.

“Here’s a scoop – my first guest on Monday is House Speaker Mike Johnson,” he said.

Johnson is riding high after helping shepherd President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” through Congress.

The sweeping legislation delivers on core campaign promises: tax relief, strengthened immigration enforcement, and a renewed focus on border security.

Jennings, a former special assistant to President George W. Bush and longtime GOP strategist, went to the mat for the bill on CNN.

He has become one of the network’s most prominent voices in the post-Biden media era.

The Kentucky native spends most of his evenings challenging the left’s narratives and spin in what is often a lion’s den. (He plans to continue appearing on CNN in addition to doing the radio show.)

The veteran columnist and political strategist has seen his star shine so bright in 2025, he has had the ear of Trump.

In May, Jennings was on a CNN panel where a claim was made that the Trump administration was one of “chaos.”

“I’ve been with the president recently. I’ve watched him in these meetings. I’ve seen the way things are working,” Jennings said.

While addressing Xochitl Hinojosa, a former Biden Justice Department public affairs official, he said, “There is no chaos. But I can tell you this: Unlike in the administration you work for, there’s no doubt who’s running the country, and it’s Donald Trump.”

After Jennings was invited to join the editorial board of The Los Angeles Times last November, he said he hoped to bring back some legitimacy for a media apparatus that had not only abandoned conservatives but had made them an adversary.

“I approach my commentary jobs by starting with the truth and then providing my honest opinion based on my conservative values and experience,” he said.

His new program is primed to deliver exactly that, combining caller interactions with high-profile conservative guests and analysis.

Phil Boyce, the Senior VP at Salem, praised Jennings as a “disruptor” while announcing his new show.

“He’s the Lone Ranger of the CNN panel, armed with facts and fearless in delivery. He doesn’t just survive in hostile territory — he dominates. Now, with a national platform on Salem, Scott becomes a daily fixture in the battle to save the country,” Boyce said.

Listeners can hear his hard-hitting, no-holds-barred show airing live each weekday from 2 to 3 p.m. ET.

You can find a Salem station near you at this link. The show will also be available on demand on the Salem Podcast Network.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Breaking: FBI Offers $50,000 Reward for Info on Masked Protester Seen on Video Firing Gun at ICE Agents During Raid on California Pot Farm

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Interim U. S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli announced late Thursday night the FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of a masked protester seen in video appearing to fire a handgun at ICE agents conducting a raid on a Camarillo, California, marijuana farm Thursday afternoon where several illegal alien children were discovered working.

Anti-ICE activist fires on ICE agents at marijuana farm raid near Camarillo. California, screen image via KABC-TV.

No one was reported hit by the apparent gunfire. This is the third incident within the past week of ICE agents being fired on while doing their jobs.

“FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo. The shooting occurred on 7/10/25 at approximately 2:26pm on Laguna Rd between Wood Rd and Las Posas Rd. Call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324)”

Video of the shooting incident was posted by KABC-YV:

Federal agents conducted raids on two marijuana farms in Ventura County owned Glass House Farms located in Camarillo and Carpinteria.

Pro-illegal alien protesters were alerted to the raids and urged to come to the farms by activist groups.

Overhead video by KSBW-TV shows the scale of the operation:

In a response to California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) criticizing the raid, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott reported several illegal alien children were found working at the marijuana farm, “Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility – all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It’s now under investigation for child labor violations. This is Newsom’s California.”

Breaking 4 News reported a counter-protester was attacked and beaten and was being checked out at the hospital for a possible concussion:

The Daily Sneed posted a closer view of the attack on the counter-protester:

Townhall posted video of protesters attacking armored National Guard vehicles:

Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) tried to crash a police line:

Just after 9 p.m. Pacific Time, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin posted a summary, noting the situation was still active, “To recap:- Federal agents conduct massive op at Camarillo marijuana farm.- Politicians push false narrative food workers & children are being raided.- Feds disclose they have criminal judicial warrant for harboring aliens.- Protester appears to shoot gun at agents.- Protesters throw rocks at federal vehicles. – 8 unaccompanied migrant children recovered at the cannabis farm, child labor investigation initiated. Situation there is still ongoing & active.”

Earlier, Melugin reported hundreds would likely end up arrested in this operation, “BREAKING: Regarding the ongoing ICE & Border Patrol raid at a marijuana farm in Camarillo: Three senior federal officials tell me that DHS has a criminal judicial search warrant signed off on by a federal judge for 8 USC 1324, harboring of illegal aliens. I’m told the operation is ongoing, and will likely result in “hundreds” of arrests when the dust settles, making it potentially one of the largest single operations we’ve seen during the Trump administration. I’m told HSI obtained evidence that Glasshouse Farms is employing illegal aliens. They went to a federal judge, and the judge signed a warrant for them to go in.”

UPDATE: The FBI office in Los Angeles posted about the reward:

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‘Walking Away’ from Ukraine Will Be a Logistical Challenge

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Foreign Affairs

‘Walking Away’ from Ukraine Will Be a Logistical Challenge

The U.S. is already deeply entangled in Kiev’s business.

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Amid a brief halt in arms shipments to Ukraine and new spending commitments reached at the recent NATO summit, Washington faces a rare opportunity to scale back its overcommitment in Europe. But that path is far from guaranteed. As American diplomacy pushes for an end to the Ukraine war, it’s worth examining the long-term security entanglements the United States may be drawn into under a post-war settlement

First, the United States will probably have a significant logistical stake in maintaining Ukraine’s American-furnished equipment. Ukraine has been furnished with the full spectrum of U.S. systems. This includes Patriot, NASAMS, HAWK, and a myriad of other air defense assets; HIMARS, howitzers, and mortar systems for the artillery fight; and Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and Strykers for the maneuver forces. Supplying parts is not a zero-sum game, either. Modern military equipment is not just soldered together; it is highly engineered and intricate, relying on sometimes hundreds of physical subcomponents and software components. Many of these components, critical to the employment of a given system, do not have robust inventories in place. Supplying them requires robbing Peter to pay Paul: A given part will have to be drawn from elsewhere in the NATO or U.S. inventories. 

Second, because Ukraine has been furnished with American kit, the United States will be tasked with integrating Ukraine’s military into the broader European defense scheme. This stems from Ukraine’s increased embeddedness in the NATO security architecture. As recently as last year, NATO called for Ukraine’s “irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration, including NATO membership.” This is not just rhetoric. Ukraine receives intelligence and targeting data that is timely and actionable enough that the United States is “part of the kill chain now,” according to New York Times reporting. Ukraine is receiving not just legacy equipment like American Stinger missiles, but also data-linked American systems that feed the data streams of operations centers and friendly platforms. 

Furthermore, continued U.S. support is unlikely to be substituted by Europeans. These systems are not just technically complex. They often require American-supplied data in order to execute their functions, and there are also significant obstacles to information exchange because of proprietary information that cannot be legally shared with non-American entities. Within the alliance, risk tolerances diverge on what a postwar deterrence posture should look like. Though the United States has adopted a more cautious approach to the war’s final settlement, European allies may pursue a reassurance force with a physical presence in Ukraine. In this scenario, it would be harder for Washington to successfully extricate U.S. support from Ukraine and from the European continent more generally. 

Ukraine’s embeddedness with NATO will also require it to transform the way it fights in the future. In Ukraine’s current war, expediency trumps uniformity, and its need to win fosters flexibility and adaptation. In a postwar environment, this need for ad-hoc solutions will give way to the rigidity that comes with fighting in an alliance (whether Ukraine be a de facto or a de jure member, it will transform along these lines). Thirty-two nations can’t fight disparately and incohesively in a large-scale conflict; standardization and shared operating picture is the endstate that NATO tends toward. The emphasis on a high-technology war reflects the American-led doctrinal change in NATO that emphasizes dominance in all domains: land, air, sea, space, and cyberspace.

Part of this is the Link 16 architecture, which provides a shared air picture between air, land, and sea assets. Importantly, this is meant to eliminate the communication gap between a sensor and a shooter, allowing for targets to be engaged as soon as they are detected by a sensor in the network. To illustrate, Ukraine currently fields handicapped F-16s without Link-16 software. The result is that these fighters have about one-third the engagement range of their Russian opponents. Ukraine, having been given the equipment for a multidomain fight, will only be able to fight effectively if it is integrated into the data environment of NATO. There is also the additional problem that European military logistics are still dependent on American capabilities. Given Kiev’s deep reliance on the U.S., Ukraine’s inclusion in Europe’s future security architecture will present considerable barriers to American disengagement with the continent.

The American stake in Ukraine will also be economic. This is especially the case since the United States and Ukraine signed a minerals deal. But this also poses complications. Much of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals are in Russian-controlled Donetsk, and, even for minerals in Ukrainian controlled territory, it would require massive investment to rebuild its energy infrastructure to support the machinery needed to extract these minerals. Exploiting these resources itself requires significant private investment from the United States. This increases pressure on Washington to have a permanent security stake in Ukraine’s future.

The conditions are primed for the U.S. to have a long-term stake in Ukraine. But this is poised to be a frozen conflict, given the probably inconclusive nature of the war’s termination. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin reiterated his demand that Ukraine have no future role in NATO. In a negotiated settlement, Ukraine is likely to be deprived of Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk. This will be painful and bitter for Ukraine to accept. Consequently, Ukrainian irredentism may be a concern in the postwar era. Recall that from 2014 to 2022, Ukraine and Russia fought in a grayzone low-intensity conflict. From Ukraine’s perspective, it will still have an armed and hostile state on its borders which occupies territory that it sees as rightfully Ukrainian. From Russia’s perspective, Ukraine will remain a de facto NATO bulwark threatening the Volgograd corridor and Russia’s primacy in the Black Sea. With Ukraine’s integration into European security, Russia’s perceived threat will increase rather than diminish. These are causal factors that point to a resurgence of prolonged low-intensity conflict even after the current war between Russia and Ukraine abates. Washington will have to consider if it is prudent to have hundreds of defense contractors, uniformed servicemembers, and a significant private sector presence in a country whose borders are going to be actively contested for years or even decades.

The United States has a clear interest in deprioritizing the European theater in favor of pivoting to the Pacific. This has been made clear in every National Defense Strategy since 2012, yet the United States has not fully committed to this aim. In light of the diplomatic efforts to end the Ukraine war, current policy is unlikely to extricate the United States from European commitments. The current trajectory will result in a permanent American stake in Ukraine, which is likely to remain in conflict, though in a less intense state. This does not seem to achieve the end goals which policymakers are striving for. Lest it be left unsaid, there are two nations that can end civilization: the United States and Russia. For all the failings of its conventional forces, Russia’s nuclear arsenal is still capable of wiping out billions of human beings in less than an hour. This threat should not go understated. U.S. intelligence estimated a 50 percent chance of Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine in 2022. Where would the ensuing escalation spiral have ended? This is not an academic exercise, but a forgotten reality that the continuity of civilization is jeopardized by a conflict between Russia and NATO. Diplomacy should be encouraged. America’s European allies should be empowered to take charge of their own security; but the United States should pursue its own strategy towards Russia.

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MAGA vs. Ultra-MAGA

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MAGA vs. Ultra-MAGA

The movement is splitting between those who value fealty to Trump no matter what and those who still believe in what it originally stood for.

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Tucker Carlson told his latest guest, the Breaking Points co-host Saagar Enjeti, in an interview released Tuesday, “If you get up and you say ‘we’re going to restore greatness to this country, we’re going to do it by putting our own interests first.’ That’s what every country does. That’s kind of natural. It’s organic.”

Carlson was weighing MAGA’s signature “America First” philosophy against those on the right who seem to prefer to put Israel first instead.

“And then you put the interest of a country of 9 million people above your own in a way that’s just insulting, people can’t deal with that,” Carlson said. “Their brains start to explode.”

“I think this is blowing up the coalition,” Carlson lamented. “I hope I’m wrong. I support the coalition… I’m worried about that. I feel like that’s happening.”

Enjeti agreed, “I think you should be worried about it.”

In the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, the MAGA faithful were optimistic, excited, and fairly united. It was broadly understood that Trump was never going to be able to please everyone in his coalition, but most seemed willing to give him grace on some things so long as MAGA was headed the right way on most things, or even enough things.

In those first few months, Trump began to fulfill his promises of border security and deportations. His special envoy Steve Witkoff forced a ceasefire in Gaza, and better diplomacy between Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S. seemed possible. The new administration established DOGE with Elon Musk at its head, which set out to find $2 trillion in cuts. President Trump was bashing the neocons and their failed nation-building during a speech in Saudi. Vice President J.D. Vance was attacking Germany’s anti–free speech laws to their faces in a speech in Berlin.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the sure-to-be-damning client list for the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was sitting on her desk, and she was on the cusp of releasing it to the public.

That was then.

Now, on Tuesday, Trump’s DOJ said there was no Epstein client list, something considered a bald-faced lie by so many throughout the MAGA coalition. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting the White House for the third time in less than six months of Trump’s second term. Trump struck Iran militarily, a top wish list item for Israel and every American neoconservative for decades. The ceasefire in Gaza has long been broken, and Israel’s military has slaughtered Palestinians for months on America’s dime. The same day, the president announced that the U.S. would be sending more weapons and dollars to Ukraine. Musk has left, and DOGE seems like a distant memory, along with all the big talk of big cuts to government. The administration is fully behind anti–free speech efforts that target those in the U.S. who dare criticize Israel’s government. Trump and most of his Republican party now seem most proud of passing the “Big, Beautiful Spending” bill recently, opposed by GOP fiscal hawks like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Warren Davidson (R-OH), and also Elon Musk.

And yes, as Tucker Carlson was saying, this president and his party now put Israel first regularly.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is very happy with this version of “MAGA.” So is Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). The neoconservative radio host Mark Levin believes Trump’s Iran strike is the embodiment of MAGA. Neoconservatives who once derided MAGA as a cult now dismiss rightwingers who don’t sufficiently trust Trump. Many congressional Republicans and voters, and perhaps even a majority, consider MAGA to be whatever Trump decides to do on any given day and at any whim—no matter how contradictory it might be to what he did a minute before or to the president’s longstanding, overall message.

That’s where MAGA is at the moment, for those willing to still call it that.

Then there’s Ultra-MAGA.

These are the supporters, many of whom have been with Trump from the beginning, who believe in the principles and policies that have defined MAGA throughout its history. They want border security. They want to stop fighting endless wars. They want drastic government spending cuts. They want to attack the Deep State.

They want to put America First for real.

Ultra-MAGA is Steve Bannon, Musk, Carlson, Massie, Davidson and Paul. The band of podcasters, including Joe Rogan, who helped elect Trump are also part of this group. Musk and Bannon famously don’t like each other, but both are Ultra-MAGA despite their disagreements. Musk’s proposed “America Party” is part of this faction within the Trump coalition.

No one is more Ultra-MAGA than every longtime MAGA devotee who is absolutely outraged that this president and his team—their president and his team—now say there is no evidence to suggest Epstein did anything.

The current Epstein controversy seems like a line. Ultra-MAGA is diverse, it is broad and could very well outlast Donald Trump himself, in terms of shaping American politics, the Republican party, or even other parties.

Current MAGA’s main mission seems to be to bow to Washington consensus, especially on foreign policy, and to anger and disappoint its true believers—which could ultimately strengthen Ultra-MAGA’s resolve, no matter what else this president does.

Carlson told Enjeti, “One of the many tragic byproducts is, I think it’s destroying the right. And I say that as someone who’s been on the right my whole life. My whole life, I’ve been on the right.”

“I really sort of believe in the basic ideas, and I’m not a liberal,” Carlson said. “That’s for sure. In fact, I’m way more conservative than Mark Levin. That’s for sure.”

“But it’s like, the problem is, the promise of MAGA is ‘America First’ and the contradiction is just too obvious…” Tucker added.

Too obvious, for some. For many.

How many, time will tell.

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In Gaza, U.S. Mercenaries Advance Israeli War Aims

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Foreign Affairs

In Gaza, U.S. Mercenaries Advance Israeli War Aims

Washington is farming out private military contractors to Israel. What could go wrong?

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The world watched as the beaten and burned bodies of four American contractors from a private military company, then known as Blackwater, swung from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Iraq. 

It was March 31, 2004. Iraqi fighters had ambushed the U.S. mercenaries, proving beyond doubt the deadly seriousness of an insurgency that the U.S. government did not anticipate when it invaded Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein a year earlier. The episode sparked the first and then second battles of Fallujah, which resulted in over 120 U.S. Marines and upwards of 1,500 civilians killed and entire neighborhoods bombed out after extensive block-to-block fighting with insurgents.

Fast forward to today as the world watches images of beefed-up American contractors hailing from opaque companies called UG Solutions and Safe Reach Solutions shooting off guns at a security perimeter in one of the most nightmarish hellscapes on earth: the Gaza strip. They reportedly make $1100 a day after a $10,000 signing advance. The fact that they are there at all raises a host of questions, not least of which is what happens when one of them shoots into a crowd and kills a civilian, or when one of them is attacked—maybe dragged away, hung off a bridge.

The Trump administration has been virtually silent on the deployment of mercenaries to Gaza—first to help secure checkpoints in Gaza as part of a “multinational consortium” in February, and more recently to provide perimeter security for the U.S.-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the controversial outfit (conceived of and backed by Israel and the U.S with its own CIA link) serving as the primary channel for food aid to starving Palestinians. Over 500 civilians have been killed at these desolate aid centers, reportedly by IDF fire, in the last month. 

Gazans are walking for miles to four Mad Max-like facilities at the borders of the strip in the South and at the Netzarim corridor, which splits the north and south in half and has been occupied if not fortified by the IDF since the war began in October 2023, shortly after the Hamas attacks on Israel. 

The AP reported last week that two of the U.S. contractors from Safe Reach Solutions came forward as whistleblowers under the condition of anonymity and accused colleagues of shooting into crowds with live ammo, stun grenades, and pepper spray. Videos show Gazans forced like cattle into narrow, trench-like lines bordered by tall metal fences to queue up for food. There is mayhem. In one video, as machine-gun fire is heard in the vicinity, one American voice says, “I think you hit one.” Another yells, “hell yeah, boy!”

Safe Reach Solutions and the GHF have both denied that the hired guns were shooting into the crowd, though Safe Reach has acknowledged that live ammo has been used “in scattered incidents” away from crowds “to get [civilians’] attention.” The GHF said the gunfire in the video was coming from IDF soldiers and not directed into the crowds.

Several military and contracting experts who spoke with The American Conservative (TAC) say the U.S. is at a dangerous crossroads. The war privatization trend—which exploded during the post-9/11 conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and North Africa—has metastasized and morphed into a situation in which mercenaries are used as an extension of the U.S. government to directly advance a foreign nation’s war policy. The “humanitarian” justification, they say, is a fig leaf.

Western media and analysts have maligned Russia’s state-funded private military company (PMC), the Wagner Group, for fighting on behalf of but not officially for Moscow in Syria, Ukraine, and Africa. Now, it’s becoming clear that American companies, like UG Solutions and Safe Reach, run and staffed by ex-U.S. military and CIA paramilitary, may be smaller than Wagner but are similar in organization. While there is currently no overt federal funding trail to the contractors, both of which appear to have sprung into existence recently (and have not returned TAC’s calls for comment), the State Department rushed $30 million in USAID funds to GHF in the last month, waiving audits to do it.

“A colleague and I used to ruminate at times on the coming ‘Wagnerization’ of U.S. security policy, noting that Wagner offers a flexible, quasi-deniable, and politically expedient policy instrument to the Russian government,” said Richard Hinman, retired foreign service officer with the State Department as well as a retired Army officer who served in several U.S. conflict zones.

“The immediate advantages are just too compelling for a U.S. administration looking at a four-to-eight-year run,” Hinman told TAC. “It may be a bad idea, but it has a pretty slick selling point. So we can see GHF as a step on the path toward a U.S.-style Wagnerization.”

The selling point? Trump doesn’t have to put “boots on the ground.” Rather, he just farms out assistance to further the Israeli government’s plan for Gaza, which according to reports this week, is to continue to make the rest of the strip uninhabitable while shifting hundreds of thousands of half-starved and homeless Gazans into a giant camp with the Orwellian name “humanitarian city,” built on the ruins of Rafah in the south. Next, the Palestinians will have a “free choice” to migrate out of Gaza, says Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Having Americans manning checkpoints and the inner ring of the GHF centers puts a “multinational” face on what is essentially an IDF operation. 

Josh Paul, a former military affairs official in the State Department who resigned his post in 2023 in protest of Biden’s policies of transferring weapons to Israel, told TAC that the U.S. contractors in Israel, like all hired guns, allow “a degree of separation” in that they “don’t imply (U.S.) national involvement.” Still, Paul says, “it is clear they are there with U.S. approval and a deep complicity” in what is taking place at these aid centers, including the deaths of hundreds of civilians.

While this is worrying on several different levels, the actual hired guns don’t seem too concerned. They were hired to do a job, said Morgan Lerette, a former PMC and the author of Guns, Girls, and Greed: I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq. In the Iraq war, contractors “draped themselves in the flag” and insisted they weren’t mercenaries because they were serving as bodyguards for the State Department, he said. “The Gaza contract has changed the entire paradigm. They try to say they are trying to get food to people, but this is 100 percent mercenary work.”

The contractors don’t care about “the strategy or the politics or anything but surviving another day to make their $1500,” he said. “But what you are doing is putting people in situations where they have to make snap judgements, and there is so much legal ambiguity of what they can do or can’t do,” he told TAC. 

“This feels like a huge step in private military contracting. It was one thing to work under the State Department, but it is a whole different to work for a foreign government entity in a foreign land in an active combat.”

Of course, American PMCs have been working across the globe for decades now to help fragile governments raise and train armies and to engage in humanitarian and rescue missions. In many ways, the proliferation of mercenaries—what former contractor and author Sean McFate calls “neomedievalism”—is the direct result of their overuse by the U.S. in the Middle East to this day. There is a supply—a lot of ex-soldiers and contractors with training—and a demand—fragile states in conflict with leaders willing to spend the coin.

Gaza has accelerated the trend for Washington, which supports Israel’s assault on the strip but governs a population with red lines about putting American men and women in a warzone. The Israeli government surely welcomes any help it can get. Its military—mostly reserves—is stretched thin, and the Netanyahu government needs to manage optics while sustaining a crushing military operation on the ground. U.S. mercenaries aren’t (yet) fighting in Gaza, but in a way the political decision to use them is not dissimilar from Moscow deploying Wagner in Ukraine or bringing in North Koreans to fight in the Kursk region of Russia.

“Though we are not quite there yet, the trend that we are observing seems to be moving toward the outsourcing of certain types of military activities and operations to private companies, often staffed with veterans, to get around rules and limits placed on the use of U.S. military forces,” Jennifer Kavanagh, military affairs analyst for Defense Priorities, tells TAC. “Gaza is the next iteration.”

The “rules and limits” are indeed fuzzier for contractors. They are working ostensibly for the GHF, not the American government, but what is the chain of command on the ground? TAC’s call to the State Department went unanswered. Lerette says the biggest risk, setting aside civilians getting killed, is that contractors come under attack and Washington, in reaction, deepens its involvement.

“This is where I think World War Three is actually going to start if it does kick off,” Lerette said. “If anything has proven it can change war policy, it’s to have civilians die in the battle space. Now that we have contractors there, as we move them closer to the front lines, if one of them gets hurt, killed, or drug through the streets, that will change the war strategy.”

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DNC Chair Ken Martin Shrugs Off Zohran Mamdani Comments About Globalizing the Intifada: ‘We’re a Big Tent Party’ (VIDEO)

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DNC Chairman Ken Martin was recently asked by PBS about New York City communist and Democrat nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani, specifically his comments about ‘globalizing the intifada.’ The reporter pointed out that those sorts of words make Jews very uncomfortable and for good reasons.

Martin basically shrugged off the comments, ultimately declaring that the Democrats are a ‘big tent party.’

This is stunning on multiple levels. Martin is shrugging off a slogan that symbolizes the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews for simply being Jews.

These comments are going to come back to haunt him and his party.

FOX News reported:

Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), dismissed concerns over NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s unwillingness to explicitly condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada,” adding in an interview with PBS that the key to developing a winning coalition is through welcoming people with whom you disagree.

After Mamdani’s monumental upset in the Democratic primary election for New York City mayor over former Governor Andrew Cuomo, he garnered backlash for refusing to condemn a phrase used to describe violent Palestinian uprisings against Israel. The slogan, “globalize the intifada,” has become a rallying cry for anti-Israel protesters in the United States ever since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attacks against hundreds of innocent Israelis.

“There’s no candidate in this party that I agree 100% of the time with, to be honest with you. There are things that I don’t agree with Mamdani that he said, but at the end of the day, I always believe, as a Democratic Party chair in Minnesota for the last 14 years and now the chair of the DNC, that you win through addition,” Martin said during a Wednesday interview with PBS NewsHour.

“You win by bringing people into your coalition. We have conservative-Democrats, we have centrist-Democrats, we have labor-progressives like me, and we have this new brand of Democrat which is the leftists,” Martin continued. “We win by bringing people into that coalition and at the end of the day, for me, that’s the type of party we’re going to lead. We are a big tent party.”

Here’s the video:

Martin is a weak leader and this proves it. If he had any integrity, he would have denounced Mamdani’s comments. Like so many other Democrats, he is terrified of angering the radical left.

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California Democrat Who Rushed Kristi Noem With No ID Now Pushing Bill Requiring ICE Agents to ID Themselves

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Alex Padilla cuffed by ICE

California Democrat Alex Padilla is the one who was removed from a Kristi Noem presser a few weeks ago. He rushed towards Noem and was not wearing his Senate ID badge. Agents who had no idea who he was, grabbed him and removed him from the room until they could identify him.

The whole problem was that he was not wearing an ID, yet now he wants to require ICE agents to present their IDs when they’re making arrests.

You couldn’t make this up.

Padilla is demanding something that he himself failed to do.

Townhall reports:

You’ll Never Guess What the Dem Senator Who Got Manhandled by Federal Agents Is Pushing for Right Now

The whiplash is on maximum here. Not so long ago, if you weren’t wearing a mask, you were selfish, reckless, and not part of the ‘team’ trying to curb the spread of COVID. Quietly, liberals cheered that leftist rioters were protected by masking up during the riots of 2020. Now, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents masking up to protect themselves from being doxed by left-wing domestic terrorists, the Democratic Party has suddenly become the most virulent anti-maskers in the country. It’s truly amazing (and hilarious) stuff.

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) is now pushing for a law that would prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks and require them to display their identification on their uniforms. So, Democrats are now in favor of ID laws?

See the clip below:

Democrats are trying to get ICE agents killed. There is no other explanation for this unmasking push.

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CNN Data Analyst STUNNED That Majority of Americans Are NOT Worried About Climate Change (VIDEO)

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CNN data analyst Harry Enten recently did a segment on the issue of climate change and almost lost his mind as he reported that a majority of Americans – including Democrats – are not worried about climate change.

He cited data going back to the 1980s and pointed out that concern about this has become stagnant.

Of course, Democrats running for office will continue to push this issue. They have decades invested in climate change and it has become an industry in itself with lots of people making ridiculous amounts of money from it.

Partial transcript via RedState:

“Americans AREN’T afraid of climate change!” Enten said with shock in his voice. “Climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people!”

The data showed that in 1989, 35 percent of those polled admitted they were greatly afraid, and those numbers have basically stayed the same, with 39 percent feeling that way in 2000, and five years later, that number sits at 40 percent.

“We went back all the way to 1989, look at that, it was 35 percent,” Enten said. “2000, 40 percent. 2020, 46 percent. And in 2025, 40 percent. Which is the exact same percentage as back in 2000.”

“Despite all of these horrible weather events, the percentage of Americans who are greatly worried about climate change has stayed pretty gosh darn consistent,” he added, sounding genuinely flabbergasted. “Which kind of boggles the mind a little bit, granted everything that we see on our television screens, our computer screens.”

“Hurricanes, tornadoes, the flooding,” Enten continued. “But yet, greatly worried about climate change, 40 percent, the exact same percentage as in 2000.”

Watch the video, it’s kind of funny:

It’s very easy to see how this happened.

Even Greta Thunberg has turned her attention away from climate change in favor of the far left ‘free Palestine’ movement.

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