The fact that one of these men was already wanted on armed robbery charges in another state is just a reminder of what Biden’s open border brought into the country.
Undocumented suspect arrested for shooting border patrol agent wanted in Massachusetts
In New York City, federal authorities say two undocumented men responsible for shooting a US Customs and Border Patrol Officer over the weekend are now in custody.
The off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was shot in a Manhattan park on Saturday following an apparent robbery gone wrong, New York City police and federal officials said…
Authorities believe that case is tied to the brutal armed robbery of a pawn shop in Leominster earlier this year.
Store surveillance video from inside Sam and Friends Pawn Shop, recorded the entire armed robbery. On the afternoon of February 3rd, the video shows that while one suspect approached the owner, another jumped over a counter.
At gunpoint, they forced the owner to the ground and tied him up with duct tape, that duct tape still in place today.
The owner told me, one of the suspects twice tried to shoot him, but the gun misfired. Meanwhile the other suspect stuffed a bag with cash, guns, and jewelry.
This case perfectly illustrates one of the main reasons that the American people voted for Trump last November. He was needed to correct the criminal policies of Joe Biden. Thankfully, Trump is delivering.
Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville is proving that old saying about how even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Carville wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times over the weekend that described his own party as a ‘cracked-out clown car.’ Who could possibly disagree with his assessment?
His piece is behind a paywall, but there are details at The Hill:
Carville: Democratic Party ‘a cracked-out clown car’
Democratic strategist James Carville said in a new opinion piece for The New York Times that the current Democratic Party is “a cracked-out clown car.”
“Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they’re not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles,” Carville said in the Times piece released Monday.
Carville pointed to the recent clinching of the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor by Zohran Mamdani, which shocked many political observers, saying it “wasn’t an isolated event.”
“It represents an undeniable fissure in our political soul. We are divided along generational lines: Candidates like Mr. Mamdani are impatient for an economic future that folks my age are skeptical can be delivered,” Carville added.
“We are divided along ideological lines: A party that is historically allegiant to the state of Israel is at odds with a growing faction that will not look past the abuses in Gaza and the West Bank,” he continued. “From Medicare for All purists to Affordable Care Act reformists, the list goes on and on.”
The list does go on and on, Mr. Carville. You’re right.
We will leave you with this astute observation:
The biggest problem the Democrats face is their base is completely insane.
A federal judge on Monday temporarily extended a block on Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Provision barring funding for Planned Parenthood.
Earlier this month Judge Talwani, an Obama appointee, issued a TRO and set a preliminary injunction hearing for Monday July 21 (today).
On Monday, the judge granted a preliminary injunction in part extending a block on barring funding for Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood sued the Trump Administration over its funding cuts written into the newly-passed reconciliation bill.
The House passed the Big Beautiful Bill earlier this month and President Trump signed in on July 4th at the White House.
“Everyone deserves access to high-quality, affordable health care. That’s what we’ve been fighting for the last century — and we’ll never stop,” President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson said last week. “We’ll be suing the Trump administration to stop this unlawful attack. See you in court.”
A judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stripping Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood after Congress and President Donald Trump agreed to partially defund the nonprofit through passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said in her order partially granting a preliminary injunction that the bill unconstitutionally punishes Planned Parenthood member organizations that do not provide abortions.
The injunction will risk “at most minimal harm—financial or otherwise—to” the Trump administration while the lawsuit proceeds,” Talwani, an Obama appointee, wrote.
Talwani’s order arose from a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion vendor, over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a massive budget bill that passed Congress this month with no Democrat support. Trump signed the bill into law on July 4.
A provision in the bill stripped Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, which the nonprofit said could force it to close about 200 of its 600 facilities and deprive about half of its customers, more than one million people, of services that do not include abortion.
Following the wildfires that ravaged the Los Angeles area earlier this year, Democrats and a bunch of celebrities did a fundraising event called ‘FireAid’ that brought in a ton of cash, some reports say it was almost $100 million. Yet none of the victims have seen a penny of if it.
Independent investigative journalist Sue Pascoe began looking into this and found that all of the money was apparently distributed to non-profit groups in the area, some of which have absolutely nothing to do with fire recovery.
Is there a more perfect example of liberalism than this? Rather than giving the funds directly to the people who need it most, the people behind this event gave it to charities, with little to no vetting, just trusting that the money would then somehow make it to the victims.
FireAid, a celebrity-packed concert held in January, raised an impressive $100 million for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.
But now, six months later, residents affected by the fires are asking where exactly that money has gone.
“This ‘benefit concert’ might be one of the biggest scams in disaster fundraising history,” said independent journalist James Li on X.
Thanks to Li and Sue Pascoe, an investigative journalist for Circling The News, we now know that FireAid funds have not gone directly to residents, but instead to nonprofits selected by a charity based on the other side of the country…
As Pascoe reports, The Annenberg Foundation was tasked with managing the FireAid funds. Pascoe emailed the organization asking, “How much of the funds were spent specifically for the Palisades and which nonprofits in that community are receiving money?” But Pascoe didn’t get a reply, and no one answered when she called several of the company’s extensions.
Pascoe was finally able to connect with someone at The Annenberg Foundation and while she initially got the runaround, she was directed to Chris Wallace, the foundation’s chief communications officer.
However, when Pascoe spoke with Wallace, she was shocked to learn that the FireAid proceeds would not go to residents affected by the devastating fires. Instead, the money would be distributed to several nonprofits affiliated with the Annenberg Foundation.
Watch the video report below:
Democrats and celebrities raised $50m for the victims of the Los Angeles fires. But where did that money actually go? Not to the victims but rather nonprofits and into the pockets of high-salary executives and staff teams. pic.twitter.com/JVr8NvBqrq
Every aspect of this disaster has been mismanaged from the moment the fires started and there was no water in the fire hydrants. How Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass still have their jobs is truly a mystery.
After almost a year, the family of Wilbert Castaneda received the news they had been waiting for. All they knew so far was that Wilbert, a Navy SEAL of nearly twenty years, has been held captive by the Venezuelan Government. However, on Friday, July 18th, they were finally given word that Wilbert, along with 9 other hostages, would be coming home.
The Gateway Pundit had been alerted to Castaneda’s plight earlier this year by a January 6th hostage. The J6er met Scott St. Clair, father of Joseph St. Clair, who was another Venezuelan Hostage, at a church event and told him that maybe TGP could help get their story out. You can see that story HERE…
On January 31st, 2025, United States Envoy to Special Missions Ric Grenell, returned from Venezuela with six Americans, hostages of the Maduro Regime. It was then that the number and names of the hostages left behind became known. Eleven men were still left languishing in horrific conditions and praying that they were not forgotten.
Christian Castaneda and Scott St. Clair were able to confirm from the six rescued by Ric Grenell that their brother and son were being held in this prison. Joseph St. Clair, an Air Force Veteran, and Wilbert, an active-duty Navy SEAL, along with nine others, were finally revealed. Previously, the families either had no idea where these men were or had very little communication. At the time, Joseph had not been in contact with his family for three months, and Wilbert had not been heard from in six months.
Once the eleven remaining men were known, the campaign to get them home went into full gear. BringOurFamiliesHome.org has been amazing in advocating for not just the Venezuelan Hostages but also for American Hostages being held around the world.
BringOurFamiliesHome.org had a mural campaign in Washington DC that was put up by the families and showcased some of the Political Hostages’ pictures.
The mural erected by families of the Hostages and BringOurFamiliesHome.org (photo by J. Baker)
Fast forward to May 20th, 2025, and Americans were able to celebrate the release of Joseph St. Clair. His family was finally reunited with him.
As I was on my way to see the mural that @BOFHcampaign and families of these hostages erected 2 or so weeks ago, I received a message that USAF Vet Joseph St.Clair is headed home!!!! So overjoyed that words escape me!!!
Prayers for the St. Clair family!!! @tsori233… pic.twitter.com/WYpSf4loat
When asked about the release of the remaining hostages, Scott St. Clair happily replied,
“We are elated that the other Americans held hostage by Maduro are finally home. We are deeply grateful to the Trump administration for demonstrating the leadership and taking the decisive action needed to secure their release. Since Joe’s rescue in May, our hearts and prayers have remained with those still in captivity. The families we’ve come to know and love through this journey—fighting side by side for the freedom of our loved ones—have become like brothers and sisters to us. Joe is also thrilled and relieved that his fellow hostages are finally free.”
photo by J. Baker
Today, ten more families are feeling the joy of reuniting with their loved ones. There was a lot of negotiating between several countries to make the release happen. President Bukele of El Salvador was a determining factor in these negotiations between the US and Venezuela. As part of the agreement there was an exchange for more than 250 Venezuelan nationals who had been deported from the US to El Salvador earlier in the year and held at the notorious CECOT mega-prison. These individuals all known to Americans as dangerous criminals and members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, though their lawyers argue otherwise.
The ten Americans released from Venezuela on July 18, 2025, as part of a prisoner swap are:
When I reached out to Christian Castaneda to express my joy and excitement of his brother is coming home, he asked me to share the following statement with The Gateway Pundit readers…
“We have prayed for this day for almost a year. My brother is an innocent man who was used as a political pawn by the Maduro regime. We knew that President Trump would not leave a decorated SEAL behind. We are grateful to him and Special Envoys Grenell and Boehler for bringing Wilbert back home with the other detainees to reunite with their families.”
“My brother has served honorably in the US Navy for over 18 years and, because of his role as a breacher and dealing with regular exposure to explosions, he has suffered several traumatic brain injuries. His medical condition worsened from those workplace hazards, which we believe impaired his judgment and risk mitigation. His condition led him to make a bad decision to travel to Venezuela. We are just glad that he is out and able to receive the treatment and help he deserves and will be able to celebrate his upcoming 38th birthday with his family in freedom.”
It has been almost a year since Wilbert has had any connection with his family. The home to his small children, and all his assets are in danger of being foreclosed on and/or taken from them.
President Barack Obama, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, delivers a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sept. 12, 2012, regarding the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
President Donald Trump on Monday directly accused Barack Obama of orchestrating the infamous Russia Hoax.
Trump labeled it “the crime of the century” and accused Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and the “Deep State” of colluding in a years‑long conspiracy to sabotage his 2016 victory.
This weekend, Trump posted an AI-generated video depicting Obama being handcuffed by FBI agents in the Oval Office—set to the Village People’s “YMCA”—just hours after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred declassified documents to the DOJ accusing Obama-era officials of sponsoring a “treasonous conspiracy.”
The video shows FBI agents ambushing Barack Obama during an Oval Office meeting with Trump, cuffing him and putting him in prison.
Trump also posted a video of “Anonymous” breaking down the Obama Treason Crime as the Biggest Scandal Ever!
According to Britannica – Anonymous is a decentralized international movement of digital activists and hackers known for conducting high-profile cyberattacks against governments, corporations, and other institutions. The group typically uses a white mask with a grin symbolizing that anyone can be part of the collective.
The documents reveal a December 9, 2016, Situation Room session led by then-President Obama and attended by top intel brass including James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, and Andrew McCabe.
President Trump also posted mugshots of the Deep State coup plotters involved in the Russia collusion hoax. (Screenshot: Donald Trump/ Truth Social)
According to Gabbard, Obama personally ordered them to “manufacture a new intelligence assessment” on Russian interference, despite no evidence backing such claims.
Gabbard’s report alleges the use of discredited Steele dossier content—funded by Clinton allies—to falsely inflate the Russia narrative, then aggressively leaker-fed to the “fake news” media (think WaPo, NYT) to drive a nationwide smear campaign.
On Monday, Trump took to Truth Social and declared that Obama HIMSELF was the mastermind behind the entire Russia hoax, calling it “The CRIME of the CENTURY!”
“Obama himself manufactured the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX. Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, and numerous others participated in this, THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY!. Irrefutable EVIDENCE. A major threat to our Country!!!” Trump wrote.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell pulled another shady stunt after Trump officials requested a tour of the so-called $2.5 billion in building ‘renovations.’
On Friday Chairman of the Board of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bill Pulte, revealed Jerome Powell offered a tour of the renovations on Friday night when no one was there.
Per The White House’s James Blair, Jerome Powell offered Our Group a Tour at 7pm last evening, when no one was doing so called renovations. Very disappointing! Yet another example of Powell dodging. Makes one even more concerned — where did this Billion $2.5 go?@JamesBlairUSA
Powell is under fire for the cost of renovating the Fed’s DC headquarters. The cost ballooned from $1.9 billion to $2.5 billion.
On Monday, Trump officials were declined a request for an on site visit to tour the building renovations and instead were given a “virtual site visit.”
“Instead of granting us our site visit, the Fed today released a “virtual site visit” video,” Trump White House official James Blair said. “What do they not want us to see?”
Instead of granting us our site visit, the Fed today released a “virtual site visit” video.
What do they not want us to see?
Fed Defends Renovations as Trump Administration Intensifies Attacks – The New York Times https://t.co/HUPEJm7Qdc
Powell has been criminally referred to the Justice Department for prosecution.
On Monday GOP Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna sent a letter to the DOJ accusing Powell of perjury.
“On June 25, 2025, Chairman Powell provided testimony under oath before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs regarding the renovation of the Federal Reserve’s Eccles Building. In his statements, he made several materially false claims,” Luna’s letter said, according to Fox News.
Rep. Luna said Powell was lying about the cost of the renovations.
“Separately, in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought, Chairman Powell characterized the changes that escalated the cost of the project from $1.9 billion to $2.5 billion as minor. However, documents reviewed by congressional investigators indicate that the scope and cost overruns of this project were neither minor in nature nor in substance,” Luna wrote.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called out the Federal Reserve on Monday, blasting Chair Jerome Powell’s stewardship and demanding an institution-wide review of the central bank’s performance, bloated bureaucracy, and disturbing deviation from its core mission.
“What we need to do is examine the entire Federal Reserve institution and whether they have been successful,” Bessent said during CNBC interview. “If this were the [Federal Aviation Administration] and we were having this many mistakes, we would go back and look at why has this happened.”
Bessent specifically torched the Fed for its elitist groupthink and catastrophic predictions on tariffs and inflation.
“They were fear-mongering over tariffs, and thus far we have seen very little, if any, inflation. We’ve had great inflation numbers. So, you know, I think this idea [is] of them not being able to break out of a certain mindset. All these Ph.D.s over there, I don’t know what they do.”
BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demands a THOROUGH REVIEW of the “ENTIRE Federal Reserve System.”
YES. Audit the Fed.
“All these PhDs over there, I don’t know what they do!”
“What we need to do is examine the entire Federal Reserve institution, and whether they… pic.twitter.com/MZYVGG2ay6
Later, Bessent took to X to double down, releasing a scathing statement demanding a full-scale institutional audit — not just of monetary policy, but of the Fed’s ever-growing empire of unchecked influence and wasteful expenditures.
“Today in a CNBC interview, I called for a review of the Federal Reserve. It is my belief that the central bank should conduct an exhaustive internal review of its non-monetary policy operations. Significant mission creep and institutional growth have taken the Fed into areas that potentially jeopardize the independence of its core monetary policy mission.
As I have said many times, the Fed’s conduct of monetary policy “is a jewel box” that should be walled off to preserve its independence. This independence is a cornerstone of continued U.S. economic growth and stability.
However, this autonomy is threatened by persistent mandate creep into areas beyond its core mission, provoking justifiable criticism that unnecessarily casts a cloud over the Fed’s valuable independence on monetary policy.
While I have no knowledge or opinion on the legal basis for the massive building renovations being undertaken on Constitution Avenue, a review of the decision to undertake such a project by an institution reporting operating losses of more than $100 billion per year should be conducted.
The Fed does regular reviews of its monetary policy framework. I would urge Fed leadership to similarly undertake, publish and implement a comprehensive institutional review across its entire mission to buttress its credibility. It will go a long way towards strengthening the Fed’s credibility with the American people on its core mission of guiding our nation’s monetary policy.”
Today in a CNBC interview, I called for a review of the Federal Reserve. It is my belief that the central bank should conduct an exhaustive internal review of its non-monetary policy operations. Significant mission creep and institutional growth have taken the Fed into areas that…
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) July 21, 2025
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Image: Wikimedia Commons (Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers remarks to midshipmen during his visit to the U.S. Naval Academy on April 1, 2025)
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been adequately informed about a Marine Corps’ officer’s denied religious accommodation request and the subsequent punitive actions taken against him for holding to his religious convictions against the flu shot.
The Gateway Pundit spoke to Daniel Schmid, a constitutional attorney and the associate vice president of legal affairs with Liberty Counsel. The fight for the religious rights of service members is nothing new to the nonprofit organization. The attorney noted that Liberty Counsel obtained a number of injunctions against the Department of Defense at the height of the COVID-19 shot mandate era, affirming the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protects the right of service members to object to a vaccine that violates their conscience.
With heightened awareness about the testing and development process of vaccines during the COVID era, an increasing number of service members are also taking religious objection to flu vaccines. “Flu shots are much like the COVID vaccines in their testing, approval, and otherwise development with the use of aborted fetal cells that people have objections to,” Schmid shared.
“There’s a range of different objections that people have in this process and they request an accommodation for it,” he explained. For example, many Christians consider their body a temple of the Holy Spirit, taking strong objection to the use of aborted fetal cells in any stage of a vaccine’s development process. Others also rely on God for healing in sickness rather than the use of man-made drugs.
RFRA applies to each of these objections and more from members of the military, Schmid pointed out. “But just like the blanket denials [of religious accommodation] we saw in over 16,000 service members during COVID,” he said, “we’re starting to see the same blanket denials over the flu.”
“This is starting to look like retaliation for those who exercised their rights during COVID,” Schmid argued. “With all the executive orders that the president has signed about protecting religious freedom and all the memorandums that the Secretary of Defense has issued in support of religious freedom, someone down below is not getting the message.”
We sent a demand letter to @DeptofDefense and @SecDef on behalf of an officer in the Marines denied an RAR from annual shots. The DOD should not sacrifice a few good men on the altar of wrongfully denied religious accommodation requests. https://t.co/Z7J8tCqLhSpic.twitter.com/RpcoRF8nuh
In his case, the letter specifically requests that the Office of the Secretary of Defense require the Secretary of the Navy and Commandant of the Marine Corps to:
1) “Unsubstantiate and void” the discriminatory recommendations for separation
2) Rescind and remove all adverse paperwork and evaluations in his Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) and Automated Performance Evaluation System (APES)
3) Overturn the denial of Fiscal Year 2024 Special Selection Board and retroactively promote him to Captain, fully restoring losses to include backpay
4) Expedite acceptance into Professional Military Education in order for him to catch up with his peer group
Interestingly, not only does 1LT Supply Officer have a “sincere religious objection” to the flu shot, but Schmid also pointed out that the Marine Corps officer has had a previous adverse reaction to the shot. “So who’s directing medical staff to ignore his adverse reaction?” he questioned.
“They’ve essentially said ‘we’re not going to give him religious accommodation or medical exemption, because he bucked the system last time, got an injunction, and this is our way out,” Schmid declared.
Retired Air Force Judge Advocate General Davis Younts is also representing 1LT Supply Officer and praised Liberty Counsel for their efforts on behalf of service members. Younts, remains deeply concerned that “many mid-level officers are seeking to continue to purge Christians from the military despite the efforts of the Secretary of Defense and the Trump Administration.” Younts hopes this case is “one among several that will allow the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense to send a strong message that discrimination of this type will no longer be tolerated.”
Although he has over a decade of service, because he has served less than 6 years as an officer, 1LT Supply Officer is not eligible to go before a group of his peers during the administrative separation process. Thus, without the Defense Secretary’s intervention, he is expected to be separated from the military.
“It’s past time to stop persecuting individuals on the basis of their faith,” Schmid offered. “That was the last administration, and we don’t do that here, right?”
1LT Supply Officer’s circumstance is one of many that Liberal Counsel is prepared to share with the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
The Pentagon responded to requests for comment, saying “we do not discuss ongoing litigation.”
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