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President Trump on Friday continued taking flak from the leftist media over Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad on Democrat Amy Acton, and he doubled down in support of the ad. 

The controversy surrounds a recent Ramaswamy ad, where Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, calls Acton a “liar” nd a sick person who “needs help.” She contends that Acton’s lies about Ramaswamy are disqualifying. But the media, Democrats, and some Republicans want to portray it as an attack on Acton’s claims of sexual abuse as a child.

Acton’s mother previously accused her of exaggerating or inventing stories about her childhood back in 2020.

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As Trump argues, the left-wing media would never criticize such an ad from a Democratic candidate if used against a Republican.

Reporters tried to argue that because Acton’s stepfather was accused and charged, he must be guilty. However, the man was never prosecuted and pleaded not guilty to the charge. He reportedly fled and evaded prosecution until his death at age 69 in 2004. Still, with no record of a conviction or solid story on the alleged abuse, it’s impossible to know what actually happened.

Trump was first asked on Friday, “Her stepfather was indicted for rape. Now that you know all that, sir, did you change your mind about that?”

“No, it’s a mother speaking badly against Amy Acton, and to me, it’s very easy. But they haven’t talked,” Trump said.

When tag-teamed by CBS’s Weijia Jang and CNN’s Alayna Treen on the abuse allegations, Trump told them, “If it were my mother speaking badly about me. You’d be making it as the number one story on the news.”

“But her mother stood by her after her husband had raped or had sexually assaulted her,” CNN’s Alayna Treen chimed in. Trump fired back, “You don’t know that. You don’t know anything.”

“Her mother stood by, didn’t stand by; her mother went on television and said that the daughter who’s running for governor of Ohio is a liar and a bad person, and that’s all I know. Nobody knows, nobody knows anything,” he added.

“Can I be honest? You shouldn’t even — the press is embarrassing themselves. You’re trying to take a horrible situation for a Democrat and make it look better. The mother said really bad things about a person that wants to be the Democrat governor of Ohio. The mother said terrible things. Anybody seeing that would say, “No way, I’m voting for her.” There’s nothing to it. It’s very simple. The press is trying so hard to nullify it.”

“You know, they called me up about it. I said, ‘Wait a minute. The mother said these things.’ The mother looks like she’s totally lucid. She looks very smart, actually, and she felt she had an obligation to Ohio voters to tell them that her daughter is a liar!” he added.

Asked about Iowa Republican Senate Nominee Ashley Hinson’s condemnation of the ad, as he was on Thursday, Trump maintained, “Well, they can, but they don’t know the facts.”

“A mother is saying, ‘Don’t put my daughter there because she’s a terrible person and she’s a liar.’ Why shouldn’t somebody use that? Let me ask you. If my mother said—” he continued before the reporter cut him off. “Wait, wait, wait, wait. Slow down. Who are you with?” he said, and she said NBC.

“One of the worst networks you have,” he said as the reporter complained that “there are very serious sexual abuse allegations.” Trump said, “Quiet!” and she responded, “They make no difference to you.”

Trump then went off, saying, “Isn’t she a fresh person? You’re a horrible little reporter, aren’t you?”

“If my mother said bad things about me, you think the Democrats would put it up? I think so. But my mother thought I was wonderful! Thank you, Mom. My mother would never; even if she thought that, she would never say it. This is a person, a mother, a smart woman,” he said.

“If I had that ad, I should be so lucky to have an ad like that; why wouldn’t you listen to a mother that says that? Why? Why would you, Miss NBC? Why wouldn’t you listen?”

As the reporter tried to interrupt again, Trump continued, “Quiet. I don’t know anything about a stepfather…I know that recently a mother got on television and said that her daughter should not be governor of Ohio, and she said I love my daughter, but my daughter lies all the time and lied about her opponent, and I can’t watch it. And the mother got up. This has nothing to do with the stepfather or anything else. This has to do with the fact that a woman got out, the mother of a person running for governor of one of the greatest states, where I set records and said that she’s a liar. Her daughter’s a liar.”

“That’s what she said: Her daughter should not be the governor of Ohio. To me, that’s something that’s very much fair game,” Trump added.

This comes after Trump answered almost the exact same smear questions on Thursday and gave the same defense.

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WATCH: Trump Spars With Leftwing Media and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Over Amy Acton’s Mother Appearing in Campaign Ad – “If It Were My Mother, I’d be Fair Game!”

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Ilhan Nur Said Elmi has reportedly broken her silence, denying reports that she has been living under the fraudulent name Ilhan Omar, as more information from the ongoing criminal fraud probe comes to light. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, it was revealed in a recent court filing by the DC US Attorney’s Office that the Somali Congresswoman who goes by Ilhan Omar was referred to as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.”

It was then revealed by sources familiar with the investigation that “Ilhan Omar” is a fake alias used by Ilhan Nur Said Elmi to obtain citizenship in the year 2000, live in the country illegally, and run for office. A former Minnesota federal immigration judge said this could “call into question” every document she’s ever filled out with her fake name, Ilhan Omar.

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro also confirmed on Thursday, “Her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. You had it absolutely right.” She added, “Her sister is Sahra Nur Said Elmi, and her sister actually wrote a book and talked about the fact that Ilhan is her sister. So that is her name.”

According to the New York Post, “Omar’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, also went by the name Nur Said Elmi.”

Despite all of the evidence, however, in a statement to Fox News, a spokesperson for Omar has said, “This is completely false. Ilhan Omar is her real name.”

Via Fox:

The spokesperson further responded to Ilhan Omar’s own statements that it’s “not to my knowledge” whether or not she married her own brother, who shares the same last name as her and her sister, “Nur Said Elmi.”

During an interview this week with MS Now, Chris Hayes asked of Omar’s former husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, “You were not related to him at all? There’s not some weird kernel of truth?”

Ilhan awkwardly responded, “Not to my knowledge.”

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But Omar’s spox said, “Rep. Omar has repeatedly and unequivocally denied this baseless, disgusting conspiracy theory. She denied it again on MS NOW—and when pressed yet again, responded sarcastically.”

They further said it’s “disgraceful that the media continues to give this lie oxygen.”

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A 47-year-old Mount Vernon woman has been charged with criminally negligent homicide after allegedly performing unlicensed back-alley silicone butt injections that killed a Connecticut mother, then dumping her unconscious and half-naked at a Bronx hospital.

Maxine Messam, 53, of Bridgeport, was dumped at Jacobi Medical Center just before 2 a.m. on February 15, 2022, according to police and the Bronx District Attorney’s office.

Messam was unconscious, unresponsive, and without pants, with multiple injection marks visible on her buttocks.

Two women pulled her from the vehicle, placed her on a gurney, and wheeled her inside. They told hospital staff they had found her in distress outside Woodlawn Cemetery and then left the scene.

Messam was pronounced dead at the hospital from cardiac arrest linked to the silicone substance injected into her body, according to the criminal complaint and indictment.

Alicia “Toya” Leslie, 47, of Mount Vernon, was arrested earlier this month and charged with criminally negligent homicide and unauthorized practice of a profession.

Prosecutors say Leslie, who held no license to practice medicine or cosmetic surgery, injected the silicone in Messam’s behind.

Investigators recovered text messages between Leslie and Messam arranging to meet for the procedure that day, law enforcement sources told the New York Post.

Leslie was one of the women seen dumping Messam at the hospital while claiming to be a good Samaritan; the second woman has not been charged.

Leslie was arraigned before Judge Pamela Goldsmith and released on supervised release without bail. She is scheduled to appear in court again on November 4.

The fake cosmetologist’s attorney, Kyle Watters, told the New York Daily News that Leslie denies the allegations and looks forward to her day in court. Watters described his client as married with children and the owner of an interstate trucking company.

Leslie has prior arrests, including petit larceny, grand larceny, and possession of stolen property.

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The FBI is investigating Meghan Markle’s estranged father for alleged disturbing child sex abuse images on his computer.

The Sun was the first to report that Markle’s father, Thomas Markle Senior was reported to authorities in Cebu, Philippines about the disturbing images.

Thomas Markle Sr’s son Thomas Markle Jr., reported the images to authorities.

The FBI is opening up its own investigation into Thomas Markle Sr.

“An FBI agent has already requested the contact details of investigators leading the case in the Philippines,” a source close to the case in Cebu told The Sun.

Thomas Markle Sr. blasted the allegations as ‘sick lies.’

Meghan Markle released a statement on the allegations.

“I am deeply distressed at the news that has come to light in the last 24 hours, and my thoughts are with any children who may have been harmed,” Meghan Markle said, The Sun reported.

The New York Post reported:

The FBI is poised to open its own investigation into Meghan Markle’s estranged dad after a vile stash of child pornography was allegedly uncovered at his home in the Philippines, according to a report.

Thomas Markle Sr., 82, was reported to local police by his own son, Thomas Markle Jr., who discovered “hundreds, if not thousands,” of disturbing child sex abuse images in storage boxes at his Cebu home, The Sun first reported.

The son contacted FBI investigators in the US, who plan to investigate Markle Sr., who is currently living in the States, and have requested contact information for investigators in the Philippines, the outlet reported.

In July, Markle Jr., 60, said he reported the sickening find to the FBI hotline, the US National Center for Exploited and Missing Children, and state police in Pennsylvania, where his father was living.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are back living in the United Kingdom after residing in California.

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Gunmen opened fire on mourners at a funeral at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in the village of Hmood, in Jordan’s Karak governorate, on October 23, 2026. Seven people were killed and 34 wounded, according to the director of Jordan’s Public Security Directorate.

A public security official told a news conference that the shooting was a terrorist attack against Christians attending a funeral. A witness told CNN that the gunmen shouted “Allahu Akbar” as they fired into the church courtyard, where most of the mourners were standing.

The funeral was for a woman from Hmood, a Christian village north of the city of Karak. A witness told state broadcaster Al-Mamlaka that between 150 and 200 people were inside and around the church when the attack began. Most of the victims were between 50 and 70 years old.

A member of the Halasah family told The National that three doctors were among those killed.

Survivors said they heard an explosion as the funeral procession began. Masked attackers then entered the church and fired for several minutes. The Public Security Directorate said the assailants got out of a vehicle and stormed the compound before opening fire.

Security camera footage aired by Al-Mamlaka showed three people shooting at the church from a sidewalk while sheltering behind trees and a low wall. Two of the gunmen carried pistols and the third carried a long gun.

Witnesses said the gunmen first fired at people outside the church and then toward the building’s entrance, which the footage showed them running toward. An eyewitness said the shooting continued for about five minutes before the attackers fled.

Initial casualty reports varied. Al-Mamlaka reported seven dead and around 10 wounded, while the Public Security Directorate subsequently announced six dead and 28 wounded. The directorate later raised the toll to seven dead and 34 wounded.

Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya said the attack was carried out by a “group of extremists”. He called it unprecedented but did not name a specific group. No group has claimed responsibility, and the attackers have not been identified.

Security forces launched a manhunt for the perpetrators. Government spokesman Mohammad Al-Momani said Prime Minister Jafar Hassan would chair a security meeting in Karak.

The Public Security Directorate urged the public to rely only on official statements. Jordan’s state news agency, Petra, reported that Amman Prosecutor General Hassan Al-Abdallat had imposed a publication ban on news, information, photographs, and videos related to the case and its investigation. The ban extends to social media, with government media under the Ministry of Government Communication exempted.

King Abdullah II wrote on X that the attack on Karak would be met with the “harshest retaliation.” He visited the wounded in hospital and spoke with them about their condition, according to footage aired by Al Mamlaka. Queen Rania said the crime against worshippers in Karak had affected all Jordanians.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, the only Christian head of state in the Arab world, called the shooting a “heinous terrorist attack.” Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi condemned the attack on the church and declared the GCC’s full solidarity with Jordan.

UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said an attack on a place of worship during a funeral is especially heinous. Aid to the Church in Need issued a statement of solidarity with Jordan’s Greek Orthodox community.

Christians make up about 2 percent of Jordan’s population, according to CNN. Karak was the site of a 2016 attack in which gunmen killed 10 people, including security officers and a Canadian tourist, before holing up in the city’s Crusader-era castle. Jordanian forces killed the attackers, and the Islamic State later claimed responsibility.

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• Executive Director Curt Mills appeared on Al Jazeera to discuss the American midterm election
• Mills appeared on OAN’s Matt Gaetz Show to discuss the war in Yemen
• Mills was quoted in Responsible Statecraft on this year’s National Coservatism conference
• Mills was quoted in the New Yorker on the post-Trump right
• Mills was interviewed on the Reveal podcast about the U.S. relationship with Israel
• Senior Editor Luke Nicastro was quoted in the New Yorker on a prospective Hegseth impeachment
• Senior Editor Andrew Day spoke on American foreign policy at the East-West Forum in Istanbul
• Day appeared on The Kyle Anzalone Show to discuss the Iran War
• Day moderated a panel on the U.S.-Israel relationship for the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy
• Managing Editor Jude Russo appeared on The Matt Gaetz Show to discuss Yemen’s Houthis
• Russo appeared on the Daily Wire’s Wired In Live to discuss the Ukraine War

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is going to have trouble explaining this explosive new development away as the walls close in on her.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson previously reported, Omar gave a weird response when asked if she married her brother in an interview on Wednesday, suggesting she’s unsure of the answer in an awkward, apparent attempt at sarcasm.

Omar appeared nervous while laughing and said, “It started with the Somali blog that I don’t know if it still exists, but somebody put him there that, you know, that he had to have been my brother or something to that effect, and right-wing conspiracy theorists in Minneapolis got a hold of it.”

She continued, “And they just kind of went and like found random people who were like, she introduced us, you know, ‘she introduced him to us and said he was her brother,’ which is, you know, insane. I mean, I don’t, I don’t know those people that they talk about.”

When asked if she had married her brother, Omar awkwardly responded, “Not to my knowledge.”

But we can now chalk this up to yet another LIE by the Minnesota congresswoman.

The New York Post has obtained and published an official copy of a damning 1997 marriage certificate.

The certificate shows that the woman’s name is Leila Nur Said Elmi and also lists Nur Said Elmi, a Somali military officer, as her father.

Most critically, however, is that Said Elmi is the SAME last name as the man Omar married, her brother.

Per the Post, Elmi’s parentage is unknown, but he lived in London with Leila Nur Said, who is believed to be one of Omar’s sisters.

This woman is thought to have raised him as well.

LOOK:

Omar had to have known all of this.

This new development also confirms the DOJ has Omar DEAD TO RIGHTS when it comes to her real name.

As Conradson notes, sources have revealed that “Ilhan Omar” is a fake name used by the Somali Minnesota Congresswoman currently embattled in a federal fraud investigation.

Her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, the name of her brother-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, two sources familiar with the ongoing investigation confirmed to Fox.

A former Minnesota federal immigration judge also told the outlet that if it is proven that she lived her “entire life under an alias,” every document she’s ever filled out with the fake name could be “called into question.”

Now, Omar faces prison time in America or deportation should she be prosecuted and convicted.

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President Trump told the Sioux City, Iowa, crowd on Thursday night. He went after Ilhan Omar.

We learned this week that Ilhan Omar is not her real name.  She also went by Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, and several other aliases.

Ilhan has used at least eight aliases, via an Yaacov Applebaum report in 2019:

Ilhan
Omar Ilhan
Ilhan Omar
Ilham Umar
Omar Ihan
Omar Ijhan
Ilham Omar
Ilham A Omar
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar
and, Ilhan Nur Said Elmi (her assumed real name)

President Trump savaged Ilhan Omar during his speech, accusing her of marrying her brother.

WATCH: Trump Savages Ilhan Nur Said Elmi AKA Ilhan Omar for Using Fake Name and Marrying Her Brother: “I Assume She Must Immediately Have to Resign” – Crowd Chants “Lock Her Up!”

Trump also suggested she had children with her “brusband.”

What is she going to say? “Yes, he’s my brother. I married him but we never had any children?”

What a brilliant move by Trump.

Here is the partial transcript:

President Trump:  It was just revealed just a little while ago that Ilhan Omar, not a person I’ve ever been particularly fond of, that her name is not Ilhan Omar, the one that she used to get elected and sworn into Congress. In other words, she used the name Ilhan Omar, but rather it’s an entirely different name, Iran Noor Said Elmi, slightly different than Ilhan.

It’s just— and I don’t know if you heard this also. Have you people heard this?

Have you heard this, Ashley? And the last name is incredibly also the exact last name of her brother, Ahmed Noor Said Elmi, the person that they say she married and had children with.

Are you allowed to do that? Jeff, are you allowed to do that? I don’t think so. Joni, I don’t know. You’re an expert. Are you allowed to do that, Joni?

When asked whether or not she married her brother today, they asked her, did you marry your brother? She said, “Not to my knowledge.”

That’s one of the worst answers I think I’ve ever heard. You know, I’ve heard some bad political answers. I could go over a lot of them, but that would be about the worst. Not to my knowledge. I don’t think so.

Did you have children with your brother? I’m not sure.

She didn’t know whether or not she married her brother. She wasn’t sure.

So it’s not looking good because she used a fake name to be sworn in. I assume she must immediately have to resign from Congress, right?

(…)

The Republicans have just picked up a seat in the House.

Crowd: Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!

Here is the video via RSBN.

“Did You Marry Your Brother?… Not to My Knowledge” “She Must Resign from Congress” Trump in Sioux City – 10/22/2026 https://t.co/2ZMnp5x8Ew

— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) October 23, 2026

We will NEVER see another Donald Trump in our lifetime!

We are living through historic times. God blessed us with a man who will not cower to the left or apologize for America.

They mock him, slander him, sue him with BS cases, despise him, and attempt to kill him. And, yet this great man never gives up.

And he’s always two steps ahead of them and their wickedness.

Notice in his speech, President Trump suggested Ilhan had children with her brother.

What is she going to say, “Yes, I married my brother but we never had children together?”

That won’t work. Trump KNOWS she’s finally been caught. She spun a web of lies and now she is the one who his caught – by her own actions.

Soon, the US Congress will be rid of this horrible deceitful and hateful person.

Trump knows it. Don’t stop, President Trump! Don’t stop!

God keep him safe!

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Two former senior FBI officials were arrested and charged with lying to Congress about their involvement in the Hunter Biden investigation.

Nikki Cole Floris, 46, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Bradley Benavides, 56, of Aiken, South Carolina, were taken into custody and charged with making false statements about the Hunter Biden laptop investigation.

Floris also privately boasted to be “running a shadow government” during the 2020 election.

“Evidence shows that Floris discussed the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden routinely for more than a year both within the FITF and with others in the FBI. Contrary to his assertion that he learned of the Hunter Biden laptop from Wikipedia, Benavides regularly discussed the laptop with FBI officials in the leadup to the 2020 election,” the DOJ said.

Floris and Benavides both falsely testified that the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) was not involved in the Hunter Biden laptop investigation.

Full statement from Kash Patel:

Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, were taken into custody today on charges of allegedly lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden.

The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force.

Floris led the FITF as a Deputy Assistant Director from mid-2019 through mid-2022. Benavides was the FITF Section Chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election. Both testified that the FITF was not involved in the Hunter Biden investigations. Documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their testimony.

Floris is also on record privately claiming to be “running a shadow government” during the 2020 election in her role on the FITF.

Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system. No one is above the law.

The FBI has already dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad that engaged in political weaponization targeting their opponents, including President Trump.

Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, were taken into custody today on charges of allegedly lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden.

The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force.

Floris led the FITF as a Deputy Assistant Director from mid-2019 through mid-2022. Benavides was the FITF Section Chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election. Both testified that the FITF was not involved in the Hunter Biden investigations. Documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their testimony.

Floris is also on record privately claiming to be “running a shadow government” during the 2020 election in her role on the FITF.

Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system. No one is above the law.

The FBI has already dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad that engaged in political weaponization targeting their opponents, including President Trump.

Thanks to @TheJusticeDept @FBIKansasCity and @USAttyPirro.

-DKP

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 23, 2026

“Lying to Congress by anyone strikes at the heart of our democratic system­­ but when senior FBI agents lie to Congress believing they are above the law, it’s time to bring the hammer of justice down on them,” said U.S. Attorney Pirro.

“When senior officials entrusted with safeguarding our nation’s security choose deception over duty, they undermine the very institutions they swore to uphold. Today’s action makes clear that no one is above the law, and we will hold accountable all who obstruct the truth,” Pirro added.

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