MLB Legend and Trump Supporter Mark Teixeira Launches Bid to Succeed Texas Rep. Chip Roy

Mark Teixeira, a former New York Yankees All-Star who was part of the team’s 2009 World Series victory, announced on Thursday that he is entering the race to replace Congressman Chip Roy in Texas.

In his campaign announcement for Texas’s 21st Congressional District, Teixeira described himself as an America First conservative who would support President Trump’s political agenda.

“As a proud Texan and lifelong conservative who loves our country, I’m ready to fight for the principles that make Texas strong and America exceptional,” Teixeira said.

“It takes teamwork to win, and I’m ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families, and individual liberty.”

“Congressman Chip Roy has represented this district with unwavering courage and leaves an impressive legacy of principled conservative leadership,” he continued.

“I’m running to ensure District 21 remains prosperous and free for generations to come.”

Teixeira enters the congressional race with the advantage of considerable name recognition.

The former Yankees All-Star and 2009 World Series champion is far better known than most first-time candidates, which should make it easier for him to raise money.

Over a 14-year career, Teixeira played for the Rangers, Braves, Angels, and Yankees before retiring in 2016. He won the World Series with the Yankees in 2009.

He and his family moved back to Texas in 2021, where he has since focused on raising his children, business ventures, and supporting education and Christian causes.

Teixeira’s politics align him with several of his old Yankee teammates who backed Donald Trump.

Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera not only endorsed Trump but received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, while fellow 2009 champion Johnny Damon was also appointed to Trump’s sports council.

The district Teixeira seeks is a Republican stronghold, with Chip Roy winning re-election by more than 25 points in 2024.

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NEW: President Trump Revokes Kamala Harris’ Secret Service Protection – Team Harris Responds

On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission released the full "60 Minutes" interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission released the full "60 Minutes" interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission released the full “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. (Federal Communications Commission / YouTube screen shot)

President Trump struck another blow against his 2024 Presidential rival, even as she considers another desperate bid for the presidency.

As CNN reported, Trump revoked Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection on Thursday.

Harris previously received six months of protection after leaving office in accordance with federal law.

That period ended on July 21. Joe Biden, however, extended her protection by an additional year for undisclosed reasons, according to CNN.

How unsurprising that Biden and his handlers would make a mockery of the law once again.

Here is the letter in full, which CNN obtained:

“You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris,” the letter reads.

Per CNN, here is what losing this protection means for Harris going forward:

But what will now disappear is not just the agents assigned to guard her in person, 24-7: Secret Service protection includes constant analysis of threat intelligence and covering in-person situations, emails, texts and social media.

With her detail canceled, Harris aides are worried they will lose the same access to threat warnings, the people familiar with her security operations said. Her home, in the middle of Los Angeles, will also stop being protected by federal agents.

CNN notes this news comes as Harris embarks on a book tour around the release of her new memoir “107 Days.” The book, which covers her short presidential campaign last year, will be released on September 23.

Team Harris released a short statement to CNN in response to the news:

“The Vice President is grateful to the United States Secret Service for their professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety,” said Kirsten Allen, a Harris senior adviser.

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ABLECHILD: Minneapolis Murder – When Will Investigators Reveal Mental Health and Drug History of Shooter?

Minneapolis Murder: When Will Investigators Reveal Mental Health and Drug History of Shooter?

Republished with permission from AbleChild

How many times will the nation have to suffer through another senseless mass murder and listen to the same lame excuses for the attacker’s motives? Twenty-three-year-old Robert Westman, aka Robin, killed two kids and wounded many others at an early morning attack on Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis yesterday and already we are being overloaded with the same blather.

We’ve seen these attacks and heard the same old tired arguments against guns and the “trans” status of the shooter. What we don’t hear, what is never discussed, is the mental health history of the shooter and, of course, the psychiatric drugs that may have been prescribed that could account for the murderous behavior. Why?

That’s easy. The mainstream media isn’t going to raise the issue of mental health and prescription psychiatric drugs because that’s how the salaries of the talking heads are paid. One only needs to turn on any of the cable or mainstream media sources and it takes minutes before the pharmaceutical commercials begin. Let’s face it, how would Sean Hannity, for example, be paid his enormous salary without the millions in advertising paid to Fox News by the pharmaceutical industry?

But of course, it’s much more sinister. The nation is addicted to a failed mental health model of diagnose and drug. In fact, after every mass shooting, there are cries for the need of “more mental health funding!” What most people don’t understand is that the entire mental health model, that has been used for the last fifty years, is built on fraud. That’s right, fraud.

There is no science to any psychiatric diagnosis. There is no abnormality in the brain that is any alleged psychiatric disorder, and the alleged “chemical imbalance” was, thankfully, completely debunked in 2022 by Dr. Joanna Moncrieff as a myth that was never supported by scientific evidence.

Making the fraud of the psychiatric diagnosis worse is that the pharmaceutical industry jumped on board with psychiatric drugs sold as “treatment” for the alleged mental disorders. The problem with selling the antidepressants, stimulants, antipsychotics and anti-anxiety drugs as “treatment” is that the pharmaceutical companies admit that they have no idea how the drugs “work” as “treatment” for the alleged disorder. Will the drugs change behavior? Yes, but so will illegal drugs.  What people need to understand is that yes, they are depressed, suffering from anxiety and wiggling in their seat, but that doesn’t mean there is an abnormality. There isn’t an abnormality, and these drugs don’t treat one.

The drugs sold as “treatment,” however, come with an ever-expanding list of possible adverse events. First, for example, antidepressants that “treat” depression carry a black box warning (the most serious warning issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before a drug is pulled from the market) for suicidality. That’s right, the drug taken to “treat” depression can cause the patient to commit suicide. The drug also can cause depression, the very behavior the drug is prescribed to “treat.” You can’t make this up. But there are other possible dangerous, life-threatening adverse events associated with antidepressants, including aggressive reaction, aggression, agitation, anxiety, depersonalization, mania, paranoia, abnormal dreams/thinking, psychotic disorder and psychosis to name a few. And similar devastating possible side effects are attached to all the other categories of prescription psychiatric drugs, too.

The question that needs to be answered in the case of the Minneapolis shooter, and all the others, is what is the mental health history, what is the prescription drug history, and, in the case of “trans” shooters, one would want to know at what stage of the transition the shooter is in. The adverse effects of mixing psychiatric drugs and hormone drugs are still not fully understood and could contribute to the state of mind of the shooter.

Until the nation is ready to address the role of the psycho/pharmaceutical industry in these deadly attacks, they will continue and, perhaps, increase in intensity. As the data show, mental health diagnosing increases every year, prescription psychiatric drug use increases every year and suicides increase every year. Beyond that, with every mass shooting incident, lawmakers run to increase mental health funding. It’s a vicious circle.

And, by virtue of the known data, what is maddening is that lawmakers don’t understand that the mental health model of diagnosing and drugging isn’t making anyone better. Lawmakers don’t understand that the current mental health model is a failed model. People aren’t getting better with this failed model…they are only getting more drugged and that is not the kind of health care that supports strong, healthy Americans.

What is the psychiatric history of Robert/Robin Westman? Answer that question and you’ll understand the murderous behavior.
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Medical Workers Attempting To Stop ICE Arrest Of Illegal Alien INDICTED | Drew Hernandez

On July 8, 2025, at the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center in Ontario, California, two medical workers attempted to intervene during an ICE attempt to arrest an undocumented immigrant who had fled into the facility. The workers, identified as Jose de Jesus Ortega and Danielle Nadine Davila, allegedly obstructed the agents by physically impeding them which can be seen on video, with Davila wedging herself between an officer and the target, and Ortega grabbing an officer’s arm. The illegal alien, Denis Guillen-Solis, a Honduran national not affiliated with the center as a patient, was ultimately detained by ICE.

Initially, Ortega and Davila faced federal felony charges including assault on a federal officer and conspiracy to interfere with officers’ duties, following their arrests on July 25, 2025. Jose de Jesus Ortega and Danielle Nadine Davila were indicted by a federal grand jury on August 27, 2025, for one felony count each of assaulting, resisting, and impeding a federal officer. This indictment follows an earlier reduction of their charges to misdemeanors on August 19, 2025, though the recent grand jury action reinstates felony-level accusations.

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St. Louis Man Who Gunned Down Police Officer Demond Taylor Is Released on $5,000 Bond

St. Louis officials charged 46-year-old Brandon Levy with first degree murder in the shooting death of off-duty Police Officer Demond Taylor 17 years ago in the Academy neighborhood in St. Louis. Taylor was gunned down when he was driving to pick up one of his sons along Page Boulevard.

Three witnesses identified Levy as the man who shot and killed Officer Levy.

FBI Special Agent Chris Crocker released a statement on X following the arrest of Levy this weekend.

The FBI had been working hand-in-hand with local St. Louis homicide detectives for years to solve the case.

Levy was later released on $5,000 bond for killing a St. Louis cop.

$5,000!

FOX 2 reported:

Authorities noted that officer Taylor would have turned 52 this past Sunday.

Levy was charged with one count of first-degree murder, but he has now been released, posting a $5,000 cash-only bond.

“After a confined docket hearing on August 25, 2025, Associate Circuit Judge Michael Colona modified the defendant’s bond to $50,000 cash-only, requiring 10 percent to be posted. The State requested that the bond conditions imposed on August 23, 2025, remain in place. The defendant posted bond, and the court released him under court-ordered conditions.

Associate Circuit Judge Michael Colona served as a Democrat in the Missouri legislature before his appointment to the Circuit Attorney’s office.

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South Korea’s Ruling Party Pushes “Special Court for Rebellion” – A Communist-Style Assault on Judicial Independence

This is the latest in our continuing coverage of the events in South Korea. We are keeping our source anonymous for his/her protection.

Korea’s pro-China totalitarian leader met with President Trump this week at the White House.


President Donald Trump hosts a bilateral meeting with President Lee Jae-myung of the Republic of Korea, Monday, August 25, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins.)

On August 28, 2025, South Korea’s Democratic Party (DP) crossed a dangerous line. In response to the judiciary’s rejection of an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, the DP not only condemned the courts but also moved to create a so-called “Special Court for Rebellion.”

This is not a normal judicial measure. It is an attempt to strip authority from ordinary courts and build a parallel tribunal designed to guarantee convictions. In reality, this amounts to the creation of a Communist-style pseudo-court—courts in appearance, but not in substance—serving as instruments of political repression.

Key developments on August 28:

** The DP’s emergency committee and hardliners denounced the judiciary’s decision as sending the “wrong signal” to so-called “rebellion forces.”

** Calls for a “Special Court for Rebellion” escalated from rhetoric to formal resolution and legislative planning. According to Yonhap News, the DP will present legislation to establish the tribunal as early as September 4.

** Senior DP lawmakers declared: “The ordinary judiciary cannot be trusted. A special panel is required to handle rebellion charges.”

On social media and in press briefings, DP figures demanded “swift reapplication of warrants” and labeled the judiciary’s independence as an obstacle to “ending rebellion.”

This is nothing less than a Stalinist tactic:

** Branding political opponents as “rebels” to justify extraordinary tribunals;

** Overriding the independent judiciary with a handpicked court loyal to the ruling party;

** Turning the language of law into a weapon for political purge.

The Communist People’s Courts of the 20th century operated in precisely this way: they mimicked judicial form while serving as political tools. The Democratic Party is now attempting to reproduce this in South Korea. It is a direct assault on the separation of powers and the rule of law.

This is not justice—it is judicial theater to consolidate authoritarian control. If unchecked, no opposition leader, dissident, or ordinary citizen will be safe from arbitrary prosecution.

We urge international observers, human rights organizations, and democratic allies to closely scrutinize these developments. A “Special Court for Rebellion” is wholly incompatible with democratic governance. It signals the transformation of South Korea’s judiciary into a party-controlled instrument.

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It’s Time for President Trump to Appoint a Special Envoy to The Afrikaners!

Guest post by Stefano Forte, President of New York Young Republicans Club

President Trump plays compilation of Africans calling for the murder of white people for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa amid the genocide of White Afrikaner farmers. – White House video – May ’25

U.S. foreign policy has too often prioritized globalist interests over principled ones. A second Trump administration offers the chance to realign America’s moral compass on the global landscape, and there’s no better place to start than with South Africa’s beleaguered Afrikaner minority.

For decades, the Afrikaners – descendants of Dutch settlers – have faced escalating violence, discrimination, and land expropriation threats under successive and genocidal ANC governments. Despite their contributions to South Africa’s infrastructure, agriculture, and economy, they are increasingly treated as political scapegoats. Farm attacks continue at alarming rates. Land expropriation without compensation remains a policy debate. Yet the world stays silent.

Only President Trump famously stood up for the Afrikaners on the world stage when he confronted President Cyril Ramaphopsa – and invariably shocked the world when he instructed White House staff to “Turn the lights down” in order to display a video montage of South African government officials calling for the death of Afrikaners. President Ramaphopsa’s reaction was the subject of weeks of memes, and shortly following their meeting President Trump granted refugee status to the Afrikaners in an Executive Order.

More recently, the Trump administration put together an assessment of human rights abuses throughout the world, concluding that human rights in South Africa have significantly worsened in 2024. We’ve seen a substantial number of Afrikaners leave as a result – to which President Ramaphosa called them cowards.

But many of the Afrikaners are not looking to leave. They were born on South African land and intend to be buried on that same South African land. A Trump-appointed Special Envoy for the Protection of Afrikaner Rights would send a clear message: the United States will not ignore genocide or state-sponsored ethnic targeting. This isn’t just about protecting the Afrikaners – rather, it’s about reaffirming our nation’s commitment to the fundamental rights for an innocent minority, and participating in the defense of a western people whose values mirror our own American ones.

Trump has never been afraid to speak truth to globalist hypocrisy. While the Biden administration lectured about “equity” abroad, it ignored the brutal consequences of race-based policies in South Africa. A Special Envoy would give persecuted communities a voice, expose corruption, and challenge the end of history global order that has turned a blind eye in the name of “racial justice.”

If the U.S. could appoint envoys for climate change and LGBTQ rights, surely we can also appoint one for a Christian farming minority at risk of cultural extinction. As it stands, their time is running thin as South African government officials openly chant “Kill the Boer”. Many Afrikaner communities – such as the autonomous town of Orania – are self-sufficient without reliance on the government that rejects them, but they are so small that a special envoy from the US is necessary to ensure their continued survival.

I had the personal honor of hosting a delegation from Orania as President of the New York Young Republican Club. I speak from firsthand experience when I say that if there is any group the United States should be allying itself with in South Africa, it is this community. The very values that we regard as the epitome of the American Dream – self-reliance, hard work, and undying determination – have made the Afrikaners targets in their homeland.

A Special Envoy for the Protection of Afrikaner Rights would show the world that the Trump Administration is realigning the global order to favor western values, and that the woke political elite who would rather turn a blind eye to this politically inconvenient situation will not prevail.

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Bachmann on the Annunciation Catholic School Mass Shooting: The Lord Could Not Have Made This More Obvious

Guest post by former US Representative from Minnesota, Michele Bachmann

Failed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and clueless Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speak at press conference following Annunciation Catholic Church shooting.

The Lord could not have made this more obvious.

The DNC met in Minneapolis this week trying to figure out why the voters rejected them.

On Monday, Governor Tim Walz took to the podium and bragged Minnesota is the number one trans state in America.
The MN Lt. Gov. bragged about Minnesota trans kids and how we need to affirm their sexual self-discovery, as did Attorney General Keith Ellison as he bragged about suing the Trump administration to retain the state’s power over a child’s sexuality.
The irrelevant but risible US Representative Ilhan Omar did the same.
Policy-wise they’ve proven they all hate kids.
Utter fools.

Then they had to cut short their DNC meeting to scramble to stand before a microphone to comment on the 4th shooting event in Minnesota in 24 hours!
Only this shooting garnered national notice and cameras.
And this mass shooting was at the hands of a gender-affirmed trans!

Everything the murderer wrote on his gun reflected Democrat talking points:

  • Hate/kill Trump;
  • Rejection/mocking God;
  • Free Palestine;
  • Jew hatred/kill the Jews;
  • A photo of Jesus Christ shot for target practice.

The trans murderer’s final statements summarized what Dems have spouted for years.
He learned from them well.

The Democrat politicians gave us this mess because they’ve run the state of Minnesota unimpeded for so long.
They looked clueless and ignorant at the press conference outside the Catholic sanctuary.

Sen. Klobuchar blanched at the microphone and blamed other politicians who wouldn’t ban guns.
Mayor Jacob Frey lectured viewers not to blame trans people for the murder of praying children, when it was a gender affirmed trans murderer who pulled the trigger to kill as many kids as he could.

You bet it was the trans who pulled the triggers that killed these kids —and we had better say it!

Responsibility lies with the Democrat politicians who ignorantly went along with the crowd, willing to sacrifice kids lives rather than stand up to the lying sexual confusion community.

These Democratic politicians bear a lion’s share of the blame for the murder of those kids because they voted to mandate that ALL MN kids must be taught that sexual dysphoria is normative.

That’s Democrat controlled Minnesota classrooms today.

How stupid and harmful are these Dem politicians?

We needed a strong, masculine Mayor at the microphone after the Minneapolis mass shootings.

Instead, we got Mayor Frey doing his best impersonation of an emotionally flailing 14-year-old girl trying to channel how much he feels the affected family’s pain.
He wasn’t effective, nor did we need Mayor Frey to feel the families’ pain; we needed him to stop trans criminals in Minneapolis from killing innocent kid’s during a Catholic school mass!

Mayor Frey is another fraud as all these MN Dem politicians are frauds.

They steal their power base, (see the recent Minneapolis Mayor election disaster with Omar Fateh), they bankrupt the state, they force taxpayers to pay for a middle-class lifestyle for illegal aliens, they destroy Minnesota’s once vaunted education system, and they mandate Marxism and sexual confusion as Minnesota’s new core curriculum.

Christianity is out in Minnesota, Islamism is in.

The Dem politicians gave us the trans mandates.

These mandates are creating how many new trans kids who may be ticking time-bombs waiting to vent their anger and confusion at yet another innocent target.

The Dems remove MN kids from MN homes if parents reject a teacher’s or social worker’s wishes to rush a child into chemical castration and bodily mutilation.

The destruction Dems gave Minnesotans is on a forward march, and only sane Minnesotans can stop this hell from further advance.

May God be merciful to innocent Minnesota citizens.
May we be saved from this Dem-imposed tyranny!

Michele Bachmann, J.D., LL.M., was the first Republican woman from Minnesota elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She served as a United States Congresswoman representing Minnesota’s 6th District from 2007 to 2015. She is a founding member of the congressional Tea Party Caucus. In 2011, Bachmann announced her bid for the Republican presidential nomination and ran for president in 2012. Bachmann is a highly respected leader who is deeply committed to conservative values in government. She is currently the Dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University.

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The University of Michigan Hospital System Suspends Child ‘Gender Transitions’ in Trump Era

The University of Michigan (UM) hospital system has announced it is suspending its gender-transition practices for minors.

In an exclusive statement to Talking Points Memo UM shared, “The University of Michigan, including Michigan Medicine, is one of multiple institutions across the country that has received a federal subpoena as part of a criminal and civil investigation into gender-affirming care for minors.”

“In light of that investigation, and given escalating external threats and risks, we will no longer provide gender affirming hormonal therapies and puberty blocker medications for minors.”

“The University of Michigan, including Michigan Medicine, is one of multiple institutions across the country that has received a federal subpoena as part of a criminal and civil investigation into gender-affirming care for minors,” the statement reads. “In light of that investigation, and given escalating external threats and risks, we will no longer provide gender affirming hormonal therapies and puberty blocker medications for minors.”

The move follows a flurry of subpoenas from the Trump administration which indicated that institutions could be subject to criminal and civil charges if they did not cease all such activities.

In July, the Department of Justice announced it sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children.

The Department’s investigations include healthcare fraud, false statements, and more.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi noted at the time, “Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice.”

In January, President Trump signed an Executive Order, Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation, stating that U.S. policy was not to fund “the so-called ’transition’ of a child from one sex to another.”

“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”

“Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.”

“Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”

Following the Executive Order, HHS established a dedicated tip line for whistleblowers to report cases of chemical and surgical sex change procedures performed on minors.

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The Clock Ticks Down on an Army Black Hawk Pilot’s Two Decades of Military Service as Defense Department Inaction Ends His Career

Image: Wikimedia Commons (Sgt. Andrew Johnson)

Before the military imposed its 2021 COVID-19 shot requirement, Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brandon Budge had built an impeccable 18-year career flying Black Hawk helicopters. His trajectory changed dramatically when he refused the COVID shot on principle—a stance that now threatens to end his career.

In May, The Gateway Pundit wrote:

[CW3 Budge] was grounded for 18 months, unable to operate a Black Hawk. During this time, he was given a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand (GOMOR), and as an act he considers reprisal, he was also forced to go through a Flying Evaluation Board. Though the FEB exonerated him of any wrongdoing, his command still issued a GOMOR which eventually resulted in a loss of promotion status through a Special Selections Review Board. ‘This entire debacle has cost my family nearly $40,000 in legal fees and nearly $40,000 in lost pay on top of all the emotional and psychological stress,’ he lamented.

According to a subsequent report, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George advised CW3 Budge to file with the Board for Correction of Military Records (BCMR), promising to resolve the situation. Despite this assurance and repeated appeals to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from journalist J.M. Phelps and other concerned advocates, CW3 Budge faces retirement on October 6, 2025—the direct result of his stance against what the Defense Secretary himself has characterized as experimental and unlawful.

Why are CW3 Budge and his advocates being ignored?  Rumors are beginning to circulate that his previous behavior and warranted actions taken against the shot during the COVID era might be the hidden reason his two-decade military career now hangs in the balance.

“Even as they tried to destroy my livelihood and my family, I couldn’t afford to be fearful during this time,” CW3 Budge admitted to The Gateway Pundit. “I did all I could to stand against the mandate and now I’m being held accountable for those actions which are forcing me out of the Army,” he lamented. “All the while, those that implemented it illegally are not being held accountable.”

“Nobody can pass judgment on a situation like I’ve gone through until they’ve stood in my shoes,” he shared. “I was expected to put everything aside, including my own health and the health of my family, while they used coercive tactics and isolation to attempt to silence me and get me to abide by their unlawful rules.”

CW3 Budge can only recall “raising [his] voice” once in this process. “Did I disobey an unlawful order and push back? Yes,” he admitted. “For it, I’m called unbecoming and unprofessional, [but] they wanted me to stay silent and give in, [and] that’s not my nature when you’re coming after me and my family,” he said. “Where’s the same level of professionalism they expected from me in those who treated us like criminals?”

According to retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, CW3 Budge is the one who was “nothing less than assaulted,” while his perpetrators walk scot-free. The Gateway Pundit also interviewed the former UH-60 Black Hawk pilot and Battalion Commander who has known CW3 Budge for several years.

CW3 Budge once served under Gaub’s command, a time that also included two combat tours. He described him as “a fighter” that can be “aggressive when he is determined to do what is right,” Gaub recalled. “But isn’t that the kind of person we want in our nation’s military—one that has the courage to do what it takes to stand against tyranny and unlawful orders?”

“At a time when Army Aviation is suffering from a severe loss of talent and experience as result of [the tyrannical enforcement of the] COVID-19 shot,” Gaub asserted, “Budge is the last person you should want to get rid of—an experienced Black Hawk maintenance test pilot with years of combat experience.” To the contrary, he argued, “You need to be bending over backwards to keep people like this, not bending over backwards to get rid of them as a result of his opposition to a mandate that has now been acknowledged as illegal.”

“You’ve taken Budge from a patriotic [warrant] officer serving in the military, trying to defend his nation, and turned him into a target of the chain of command, threatening his livelihood and his family,” Gaub shared. “On top of that, you went on a revenge trip, put him through boards to try to remove his flight wings, restricted his ability to travel, and attempted to keep him from his family—and now people are concerned about how he reacted?”

“[His command] backed him into a corner, and now you’re wondering why he responded negatively to you when you’re the one who attacked him,” Gaub said, noting “It definitely wasn’t the other way around as you were the one enforcing the jab against his lawful objections.”

“If you’re going to hold someone like Brandon Budge accountable for not reacting exactly like you wanted him to, particularly when you’re the ones coming after him with an illegal mandate, then what exactly did you expect the outcome to be?”

“Why would you hold him accountable for how an officer should act in this situation and not hold the people accountable who forced the illegal mandate on him?” Gaub questioned. In his opinion, “It is absolutely critical in this case and I’m sure in many others.”

“Brandon is just one example of a number of people who found themselves pushing back against their chain of command that was assaulting them with a potentially harmful or even deadly jab,” he offered. “That’s the greater issue here.”

Budge is one of tens of thousands of service members impacted by “the illegal mandate,” Gaub noted. “From what I’ve witnessed,” Gaub said, “I can’t think of a single person in that group of people who’s been properly addressed through the chain of command up to the Secretary of Defense.”

Can Defense Secretary Hegseth or Army Chief George intervene for Warrant Officer Budge while there’s still time? The answer may depend on whether enough Americans demand justice.

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