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White House Communications Director Steven Cheung went off on the “slope-brained retards” and “Kamala-rejects” behind a Democratic Party X account on Monday after they accused him of distancing himself from the GOP operatives leading Trump’s midterm operations. 

James Blair, who previously served as Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff for legislative, political, and public affairs, and Chris LaCivita, who was 2024 Campaign Co-Manager for Trump, are now leading the Republican Party’s midterm strategy. They came under fire this week for an alleged conflict of interest in consulting work with Trump, the GOP, and foreign governments in Europe.

After Trump responded to the news, the team behind @HQNewsNow, formerly @KamalaHQ, a 2024 campaign social media account for Kamala Harris, attempted to start a hoax, claiming that Cheung unfollowed Blair and LaCivita on X “after Trump threw them under the bus and threatened to ‘terminate’ them.”

Cheung, however, responded with fire. “Wrong, you slope-brained retards. I know it sucks to be Kamala-rejects, but the truth is that I unfollow deactivated WH/47 accounts,” he wrote. 

Wrong, you slope-brained retards. I know it sucks to be Kamala-rejects, but the truth is that I unfollow deactivated WH/47 accounts. https://t.co/aZHbBlsfhW

— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) October 7, 2026

Additionally, according to the list of accounts Cheung follows, he still follows their personal X pages.

This comes after a New York Times report that Blair and LaCivita were in Europe last week advising the government of Republika Srpska, a small self-governing territory in the Balkans, ahead of its elections. The report suggested that the Russia-aligned country has “sought favor from the U.S. president while bucking the international community” and that Blair and LaCivita are capitalizing on their connections to the White House.

Reacting to the report this morning, Trump said on Truth Social earlier that he would terminate the two “if there’s a conflict,” but also said they’re “allowed to do work for others, just like all consultants in Washington, D.C.”

Chris LaCivita and James Blair are outside consultants. They do not work for me, other than as outside consultants. They most likely have numerous clients, but for that, you would have to ask them. They are allowed to do work for others, just like all consultants in Washington, D.C. I do not have any idea who else they work for but will, on reflection, ask them and, if there’s a conflict, I will terminate them, immediately! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

He made similar comments in an Oval Office press conference this afternoon when asked if he’s spoken to Blair or LaCivita about a potential conflict. Trump maintained that the two are “independent” from the White House and “don’t work for me.” Trump added, “If I thought they had a conflict here, I would terminate, but all they are is consultants.”

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The very first words of convicted murderer Christa Pike have allegedly been revealed following her botched execution, and there has been another update on her condition.

As The Gateway Pundit reported on Tuesday, Pike is conscious and speaking at a hospital nearly one week after the botched execution.

“Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care. Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed. Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery,” attorneys for Pike said in a statement, according to The Associated Press.

Christa Pike’s attorney, Randy Spivey, shared more information with the media during a brief press conference on Wednesday afternoon.

Spivey said that Pike’s first words once she regained consciousness were: “Where am I and who are you?”

He also said that while Pike remains awake, she remains cognitively confused. This should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Spivey added during his brief press conference, saying that Pike has asked about multiple individuals. These include her legal team and her victim’s family.

He concluded by noting that he believed that Pike was “angry and confused about everything now.”

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BREAKING: Christa Pike is awake but remains cognitively confused following her failed execution, according to her attorney Randy Spivey.

He says he was told her first words when she gained consciousness were, “Where am I and who are you?”

Spivey says Pike wants to know what happened and has asked about several people, including members of her legal team and the victim’s family.

“I think she is angry and confused about everything right now,” Spivey says.

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 7, 2026

As TGP readers know, Pike was sentenced to death after stabbing, torturing, and beating of 19-year-old Colleen Slemm in a jealous rage. The incident occurred back in January 1995.

This evil monster and her boyfriend at the time carved an inverted pentagram into Slemmer’s chest during the brutal murder.

Pike was 18 at the time of the murder. Pike’s boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, was also convicted of the 1995 murder.

Last Wednesday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to halt the execution to determine whether Pike’s allegations of childhood sexual abuse were taken into consideration during her death penalty sentencing.

Tennessee’s Attorney General immediately appealed to the Supreme Court. A few hours later, the Supreme Court allowed Tennessee to go forward with the execution.

But the all-female execution team failed to put Pike out of her misery.

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Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are facing additional charges over the torture of Americans.

More than a dozen Americans held in Venezuelan prisons have been tortured.

Federal prosecutors have also weighed charging several more people over their role in the torture of American prisoners.

CNN reported:

Prosecutors in New York are expected to bring new charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores over the alleged torture of Americans who were held in Venezuelan government custody in recent years, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation.

An announcement could come as soon as Thursday, the people said.

The new charges relate to what the US government has said was the wrongful detention of more than a dozen US citizens in Venezuelan prisons during the time Maduro led a repressive regime in Venezuela, the people briefed on the investigation said.

Investigators have also discussed charging several additional people for their alleged role in the torture of Americans, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Fox News also confirmed that Maduro and his wife will be facing additional charges.

President Trump ordered military strikes on Venezuela earlier this year as special operators captured Maduro.

Delta Force captured Maduro and dragged him out of his bedroom amid military strikes earlier this year.

According to Reuters, Delta Force created an exact replica of Maduro’s safe house and practiced how they would enter and capture him. The CIA had an asset on the ground in Venezuela who infiltrated Maduro’s inner circle.

The asset monitored Maduro which helped the Army’s Delta Force locate and extract him.

Maduro was indicted on four counts by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York.

Read the indictment here.

The grand jury indicted Maduro, his wife, Cilia Flores and four others on four counts: Narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.

“Nicolas Maduro Moros, the defendant, now sits atop a corrupt, illegitimate government that, for decades, has leveraged government power to protect and promote illegal activity, including drug trafficking,” the indictment read.

“That drug trafficking has enriched and entrenched Venezuela’s political and military elite, including Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace Diosado Cabello Rondon, the defendant, and former Minister of the Interior and Justice Ramon Rodriguez Chachin, the defendant,” the charging document read.

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Former Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes argued convincingly that one of the midterm hoaxes being propagated by the establishment media is that Republican candidates should distance themselves from the president’s immigration policies.

The mainstream outlets point to polling, showing that Donald Trump’s approval rating on immigration policy is underwater, though it has been improving and nearing 50 percent in some surveys, according to RealClear Polling.

Cortes says that the headwinds Republicans are facing are mostly due to higher prices, not immigration policy.

Cortes served as a senior adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign with focus on reaching Hispanic voters and joined the 2020 campaign in the same capacity, Fox News reported at the time.

In a post published Monday on the social media platform X, he zeroed in on Hispanics, which is a group where Trump and Republicans have lost support going into the midterms. An NBC News/Telemundo poll published over the weekend found the president’s approval rating sits at 27 percent with Latino voters, while 69 percent disapprove. By contrast, a CNN exit poll found 46 percent voted for him in 2024.

Republican lawmakers are faring a little better than Trump among the demographic, with 35 percent of Latinos preferring they control Congress, down from 42 percent in 2024, but up from 33 percent in 2022, when the GOP did take back control of the House.

Citing his own polling work, Cortes wrote Monday: “There is a new hoax being pushed by the corporate media and establishment Republicans: that Hispanics are angry with the GOP over immigration enforcement. It’s a lie designed to stop mass deportations.

“Hispanics are angry about prices and the economy, not immigration. My own polling proves it. Asked which concerns them more, high prices or ICE and immigration enforcement, Hispanics pick inflation by a staggering 73% to 19%,” he continued.

“But Hispanics approve, by 11 points, of removing illegal migrants who refuse the Trump administration’s generous self-deportation incentives, including paid trips home and the chance to reapply later for legal status,” Cortes wrote. “And they back full cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities by 20 points.”

In an accompanying video, he summarized, “They’re not concerned about immigration. They’re concerned about prices in the economy, which tells me, ultimately, we’re going to get that support back, but we’re going to have to earn it. We’re going to have to work to do it.”

There is a new hoax being pushed by the corporate media and establishment Republicans: that Hispanics are angry with the GOP over immigration enforcement. It’s a lie designed to stop mass deportations.

Hispanics are angry about prices and the economy, not immigration.

My own polling proves it.

Asked which concerns them more, high prices or ICE and immigration enforcement, Hispanics pick inflation by a staggering 73% to 19%.

But Hispanics approve, by 11 points, of removing illegal migrants who refuse the Trump administration’s generous self-deportation incentives, including paid trips home and the chance to reapply later for legal status.

And they back full cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities by 20 points.

We can win back patriotic Hispanic voters. But we have to earn it by tackling affordability and fixing our problems here at home.

— Steve Cortes (@SteveCortes) October 5, 2026

What is likely also true is that a majority of Americans, no matter their race, are pleased that the border is no longer a chaotic mess as it was under Joe Biden when thousands of people crossed illegally into the U.S. daily.

A look at our southern border. https://t.co/IIC2cgmiza

— The Western Journal (@WesternJournalX) October 6, 2026

If they were apprehended, they were soon thereafter released into the country by the millions, driving up housing and other costs for Americans. Tragically, many of these migrants engaged in crime.

Can there be any doubt that one reason the murder rate saw its largest decline ever recorded and other violent crimes dropped so dramatically during Trump’s first year in office is because of strict immigration enforcement?

Control of Congress is pretty much a toss-up according to the latest polling. GOP candidates should be leaning into Trump’s record on immigration and the economy, while also addressing the steps that they have taken and continue to take (in the case of incumbents) to bring down costs that rose primarily under Biden and the Democrats.

That is the key to winning at the ballot box next month.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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An Ohio political blogger will go on trial Thursday for allegedly sending a state lawmaker a picture of Shrek with an erect penis.

D.J. Byrnes, 39, publisher of the Ohio political newsletter The Rooster, has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor telecommunications harassment over the bizarre exchange with Republican State Sen. Jerry Cirino.

The saga began after Cirino gave up his bid to become president of the Ohio Senate.

Byrnes, a committed leftist who nicknamed Cirino the “Young Mussolini,” allegedly sent him a taunting message celebrating his political setback.

“Good to see you finally made your humiliation public, Young Mussolini. THE PATRIOTS CAUCUS sends its regards!!!!!!!!!!!” Byrnes wrote, according to court filings.

“I don’t know who this is but I am certain you are a moron,” Cirino responded.

Byrnes allegedly sent the senator a digitally altered image depicting the famous green ogre fully nude with an exposed and erect penis.

Cirino subsequently contacted police, describing the image as “disgusting” and “pornographic in nature” and asking that charges be brought against the sender.

“I would like this harassment to stop immediately,” he wrote.

He was jailed for texting an image of Shrek’s dick to a politician.

The trial starts tomorrow.

Brush up on one of @TheFIREorg‘s most ogre-the-top cases of the year. https://t.co/jYQrtZCAwH

— Daniel Burnett (@Burnett18) October 7, 2026

Byrnes was arrested at the Ohio Statehouse on June 1 by four state troopers and spent nearly 24 hours in jail.

He later turned his mugshot into merchandise emblazoned with the words “never surrender.”

Byrnes rejected two plea agreements that would have allowed him to avoid jail and instead elected to take the Shrek case before a jury.

His lawyers argue that the messages amount to constitutionally protected political mockery rather than criminal harassment.

“This case does not involve repeated telephone calls to a private citizen,” they argued in a motion seeking dismissal.

“It does not involve threats, extortion, stalking, soliciting sex, or attempts to invade another person’s privacy.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has also backed Byrnes, arguing that political ridicule of an elected official is protected by the First Amendment.

A judge rejected Byrnes’s attempt to have the prosecution dismissed in August.

Cirino, meanwhile, is looking forward to jurors getting acquainted with the evidence.

“I can’t wait for the jury to see the image that he sent to me,” he recently said.

If convicted of the first-degree misdemeanor, Byrnes faces a maximum of six months in prison.

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By Paradigm Press

Well, that’s one way to end a press conference.

Recently, President Trump was asked about the upcoming midterm elections. And his answer was shocking: 

“I think if the Democrats get in, we will end up in a financial depression. We will go into a depression the likes of which we’ve never seen before. It’ll be 1929.”

If he’s right, we could be in for a bloodbath in the weeks ahead.

Speaking of 1929…

If you had $100,000 in stocks at the peak, you had about $11,000 left by 1932. And the Dow didn’t get back to even for 25 years.

Perhaps Trump is right to be concerned.

As of this writing, the betting markets give the Democrats a 92% chance of taking the House.

Meanwhile, Wall Street is partying like it’s 1999.

With the S&P 500 hitting one new high after the next.

But one man who is close to the situation… four-time Presidential advisor, Jim Rickards… isn’t so relaxed.

Rickards famously warned John McCain’s campaign in the summer of 2008: 

“You won’t make it to Election Day without a major market meltdown.” 

They laughed him off the phone. About a month later, Lehman Brothers collapsed.

Now Rickards says Trump’s 1929 warning may not wait for Election Day. In a startling new briefing, he shows why the meltdown could hit before a single vote is counted.

Making matters worse, stocks are more expensive today than they were right before the 1929 crash.

But it’s the blueprint Rickards got his hands on that makes this briefing a must-see. One of the most famous lawyers in America walked into the White House and handed it to the President. And Rickards says it could give Trump extraordinary powers in the weeks ahead.

If you have money in a 401(k), an IRA or a bank account, take a few minutes to watch it below and decide for yourself.

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J6 Political prisoner, Edward Kelley, is still in solitary confinement despite President Trump’s sweeping pardons for J6 political prisoners in early 2025.

In August, 2025, just months after the President’s pardons, Kelley was sentenced to 80 years in prison for allegedly “conspiring to kill FBI agents,” he remains in prison along with Solomon Pena, another political prisoner and former GOP candidate in the 2022 midterms.

Pena was also sentenced to 80 years in August, 2025 for allegedly orchestrating a “politically motivated shooting spree,” following his electoral loss in 2022.

Kelley previously sent out an open letter, as reported by The Gateway Pundit, where he expresses frustration for being “abandoned” by the President. He also advocates for the release of both himself and Pena.

Back in July of 2025, a whistleblower even came forward and leaked a private conversation with the FBI, calling for “revenge” against Kelley. Is Kelley’s sentence merely just payback for something that the FBI didn’t like? If so, then that is a clear violation of Kelley’s civil rights.

FBI PERJURY
The FBI called for REVENGE on a #J6 subject prior to arrest, covered it up, and lied about it at trial.
FBI ASAC Joel Feaster held an all-employee meeting prior to the arrest and calmly declared, “They threatened our people, and that’s unacceptable. So, they’re going to feel… they’re going to feel our revenge, okay. They don’t do this shit to us.”
This is the audio of his call for revenge and his trial testimony transcript.

The FBI and US Attorney’s Office never disclosed this misconduct and bias to the defense as required by their discovery obligations. I reported this misconduct to FBI, DOJ-OIG, and the Court PRIOR to the trial. It was ignored and suppressed. At trial, the defense called FBI ASAC Feaster and asked if he made the “revenge” remark. Feaster lied and said ‘No’.

I then reported the perjury with a full 14-page transcript of Feaster’s meeting with his call for revenge and other misconduct. The FBI, OIG, USAO, and the court again ignored it.

What’s worse is that the SAC (Feaster’s boss) heard the revenge. At least 100 people heard the call for revenge and a handful complained about it. FBI personnel in the courtroom who heard the revenge comment and heard the perjury sat silent and did nothing. This is your FBI – morally bankrupt.

The AUSAs were aware of the revenge allegation yet didn’t bother to interview me or anyone to corroborate Feaster’s remark. Those same AUSAs sat in the court while Feaster perjured himself and said and done nothing 9 months later. Please RT to bring pressure and demand accountability of #DOJ and #FBI.
@AGPamBondi
@SenateGOP
#Whistleblowers
*Apologies for repost. Most didn’t realize the audio evidence was attached.

— William Taylor (@RetFBI) July 25, 2025

Kelley himself confirmed that he has a Certificate of Pardon from President Trump in a shocking message to the American People:

“To all Americans and freedom-loving peoples,

I am the first man in history to hold in my possession a Certificate of Pardon from the President of the United States and yet still be in prison for the offenses that I am pardoned for. There are no words for the injustice that I felt when I was delivered that certificate of pardon today (Oct. 5th, 2026) in legal mail WHILE I AM STILL IN PRISON! Furious, betrayed, enraged, ignored, persecuted all combined in one still miserably fail to describe what I am thinking and feeling.

I am in the process of begging the appeals court to recognize that President Trump’s mass pardon of patriots, for all offenses stemming from and “related to” what happened at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021, applies wholly to my case. I should not have to be doing that. Nobody at any level of the criminal justice system has the power or right to deny a presidential pardon. Yet people currently in the Department of Justice and the federal judiciary think that they can, sure as hell did and are getting away with it right now.

If my case is allowed to stand in the courts then the case of United States v. Edward Kelley will be used as legal precedent for generations to keep people imprisoned even if they are pardoned by the president. The pardon clause of the US Constitution will be almost completely voided by a federal judge that leaned on the non-constitutional and false precedent of ‘judicial interpretation’ to ignore my pardon and keep me imprisoned. All freedom loving people need to be something far beyond outraged by my case. People across America need to be mobilized for my freedom and the freedom of other patriots still persecuted and abandoned in the system.

This injustice against me and other patriots needs to end. President Donald Trump could end it tomorrow. I demand to know why he doesn’t.

Stay strong. Stay free. Above all else, stay faithful to God.”

The message was passed to The Gateway Pundit by Daniel Goodwyn, who is aligned with the StopHate, an organization that seeks justice for prosecuted victims in the aftermath of January 6.

President Trump promised to pardon all the J6ers of any wrongdoing and to “end a grave national injustice,” so then why are Kelley and Pena still in prison?

Kelley continues to fight for his freedom and remains a victim of the weaponization of the federal government. His message is clear, and there is still hope that justice will be served for him.

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The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the U.S. withdrew its bombers from the British Fairford air base over the weekend because of concerns about a potential Iranian drone attack.

The withdrawal of about a dozen B-1 planes, which was first reported Sunday, followed British authorities announcing that several men had been arrested for plotting an attack on the base. The Post, citing a British official and “two people familiar with the decision,” said that the U.S. had received intelligence about potential attacks. Vice President J.D. Vance said the planes had been moved out of “an abundance of caution.”

Despite improved numbers of transits through the Strait of Hormuz, the Islamic Republic struck 11 ships in the past week. Iran has also been operating in the southeast of the country to suppress unrest from separatist elements in its Baluchistan province.

The Iran-aligned Yemeni Houthis claimed strikes on airports in the Saudi cities of Riyadh and Abha and in the Yemeni central government’s temporary capital of Aden.

Brent crude opened Wednesday at $101 per barrel. AAA reported continued easing in still-elevated consumer prices with national averages of $4.37 per gallon of regular gas and $6.30 per gallon of gasoline.

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Newly unsealed police bodycam footage shows the shocking moments after a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at a Virginia elementary school back in 2023.

In 2023, the Newport News Commonwealth’s prosecutor decided the 6-year-old boy who shot a Virginia school teacher wouldn’t face charges.

Richneck Elementary School teacher Abby Zwerner was hospitalized for two weeks after one of her students shot her in January 2023.

The family of the first grader said the child suffers from “acute disability and was under a care plan at the school that included his mother or father attending school with him and accompanying him to class every day.”

In April 2023, the mother of the child, Deja Taylor, was charged with “felony child neglect and a misdemeanor for leaving a firearm that could endanger a child,” WTKR reported.

The newly unsealed police bodycam footage is shocking.

The 6-year-old child cursed out police officers as they arrived at the scene of the crime.

An elderly female teacher had the child restrained on her lap when officers arrived.

“Ya’ll wanna f*ckin piece of me, bitch!” the child shouted as police officers entered the classroom. “F*ck you bitches!”

“That n*gga retired last year!” the boy shouted after the teacher said she had warned the assistant principal of a threat earlier.

“I called 911,” the teacher told police.

“F*ck you, bitch!” the boy said to the teacher who was holding him down on her lap.

“When you shot the gun, did anything hurt you?” the teacher asked the boy as she examined his hands.

“I stole that from my mom!” he shouted. “I shot my teacher!”

“What’s your name?” one of the officers asked the boy.

The child shouted at the officer: “If you wanna piece of me, come get it, bitch!”

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