El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele built a mega-prison and locked up gang members, driving the crime rate to single digits and spurring an economic boom. He has criticized Mexico’s government for failing to control the cartels, and now he is determined to clean up Haiti. Photo: Nayib Bukele’s Twitter profile picture, September 2024.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced on Oct. 21 that he had launched a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped by gangs in Haiti. Addressing Haitian gang leaders directly, Bukele warned, “We have already dealt with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can deal with you too,” according to the Haitian Times. The statement carries weight because of what Bukele accomplished at home.
In 2015, El Salvador’s homicide rate stood at 103 per 100,000 inhabitants, among the highest in the world outside a war zone. Bukele took office in June 2019, and in March 2022 his government declared a state of exception against the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs. According to figures presented by El Salvador’s Security Cabinet, annual homicides fell from 3,962 in 2017 to 2,398 in 2019, 495 in 2022, 114 in 2024, and 82 in 2025.
Justice and Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro reported a 2025 rate of 1.3 per 100,000, down from 1.9 the previous year, and stated that all 82 cases had been resolved with arrests. Of those killings, Villatoro said 43 stemmed from social disputes, 31 from family disputes, and eight from general crime, with none attributed to gangs.
Haiti presents a larger challenge. Gangs control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince, and according to the United Nations, gang violence has displaced nearly 1.5 million people. From January through mid-September 2026, more than 5,700 people were killed or injured and more than 230 were kidnapped.
In May 2025, the U.S. State Department designated the Viv Ansanm gang coalition and the Gran Grif gang as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Viv Ansanm, formed in September 2023 as an alliance of the G-9 and G-Pèp factions, has attacked prisons, government buildings, and the main airport, and its campaign forced the resignation of former Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
On Sept. 30, 2025, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2793, converting the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support mission into a Gang Suppression Force (GSF) authorized at up to 5,550 personnel. The vote was 12-0, with China, Russia, and Pakistan abstaining. The GSF now has more than 2,000 troops on the ground from countries including El Salvador, Chad, Jamaica, and Guatemala, and its mandate has been extended through March 2027.
El Salvador had initially joined the predecessor mission in early 2025 with a narrow role. Bukele said the mission “consists only of pilots and technical personnel” whose main job is medical evacuation. In early October 2026, however, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly passed a law extending the deployment for one year and authorizing the deployment of civilian and military personnel according to the mission’s needs, expanding the contingent’s role beyond medical evacuations.
On Oct. 18, gangs opened fire on an armored vehicle carrying the four Salvadorans in the Santo area of Croix-des-Bouquets, northeast of downtown Port-au-Prince. According to Bukele, the men were returning from buying food at a local supermarket. It was the first major attack on the GSF since it began operating.
The men escaped the burning vehicle, but contact was lost. Bukele said they were abducted. The area is controlled by gangs including Chèn Méchan, Kraze Barye led by Vitelhomme Innocent, and 400 Mawozo led by Lanmo Sanjou. Innocent and Sanjou are sanctioned by the UN and the United States. No group has claimed responsibility.
Bukele posted his warning on X in Spanish and Haitian Creole, sharing a video of armored vehicles with shattered windows moving through smoke. He demanded the hostages be returned alive and unharmed, stating that the current operation was nothing compared to what would follow if they were not.
Haiti’s government called their release an “absolute priority” and convened a meeting at the prime minister’s office to strengthen operations alongside the GSF. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz condemned the kidnapping and reaffirmed full U.S. support for the rescue effort. As of Oct. 22, the fate of the four men remained unknown.
Bukele proved that eliminating crime in El Salvador was just a matter of will. He has criticized Mexico’s government for failing to control the cartels, saying that no matter how strong a cartel or gang is, it has a fraction of the firepower of the national army. Win or lose in Haiti, it remains to be seen whether Mexico will take a cue.
Meanwhile, Costa Rica, a country that does not even have an army, is following Bukele’s example. On October 14, President Laura Fernández inaugurated the CACCO, a maximum-security prison built to hold about 5,100 inmates, using plans donated by El Salvador. Fernández thanked Bukele for his cooperation. It seems that Latin America is turning. It remains to be seen whether Haiti, a country that has always been underdeveloped and violent, is salvageable.
This Iowa farmer knows more about real life in America than any typical leftist hack in DC.
President Donald Trump traveled to deep red Sioux City in northwestern Iowa on Thursday night for a rally.
For the record, FOX News reporter, Lucas Tomlinson, at the rally sounded like any other off-the-shelf liberal reporter in America with his questions outside the massive pro-Trump rally.
But Lucas did not know what he was about to see.
This Iowa farmer sounds more informed than any boviating hack in DC right now.
FOX News hack Lucas Tomlinson: “Do you think President Trump coming here to Iowa could help make the difference in the Senate race?”
Iowa Farmer: I do. I think, you know, everybody already supports these candidates. I think Trump being present will help energize people to actually get out and vote. That’s going to be the key. If they get out and vote, the Republicans are going to win.
Lucas Tomlinson: Why do you think the Senate race is so close?
Iowa Farmer: You know, people have short memories. They look at high fuel prices. You know, I grew up on a farm. I’m from a farm family. Every farmer I know supports Trump and supports his policies. So this is just a small blip.
Lucas Tomlinson: Even with the high fertilizer prices, diesel prices?
Iowa Farmer: Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, everybody forgets all of the awesome things that Trump has done for this country with securing the border, Securing our national safety, which is the most important thing. If we’re not safe, well then nothing else matters, right?
Lucas Tomlinson: So thank you very much, sir. John and Sandra, we’ll send it back to you in the studio. But a lot of enthusiasm here in Sioux City, Iowa for the president.
IOWA FARMERS JUST DROPPED THE TRUTH BOMB EVERY PUNDIT IS TERRIFIED OF!!!
A REAL farmer from a real farm family stood outside the Trump rally in Sioux City and explained the entire Senate race better than every cable-news talking head combined.
He looked straight into the camera and said:
“Every farmer I know supports Trump and his policies.”
High diesel prices? He shrugged it off like it was NOTHING:
“This is just a small blip.”
Then he hit them with the cold hard reality:
“People have short memories. Everybody forgets the awesome things Trump has done for this country — securing the border, securing our national safety. If we are not safe, then NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.”
He’s backing Ashley Hinson for Senate. He knows the stakes. He knows the ground.
“If they get out and vote, Republicans are going to win.”
Farm country is still Trump country. The media can lie, the polls can spin, but the people who actually grow America’s food just told the truth.
Don’t let them forget. Share this. Wake people up. 12 days left.
President Trump speaks to reporters at the White House
President Trump on Thursday sparred with reporters over Vivek Ramaswamy’s recent attack ad against his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, which features Acton’s own mother telling Ohioans not to vote for her.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Tuesday, Donna Arthur, Acton’s mother, came out swinging in a Vivek Ramaswamy campaign ad, slamming her daughter as a “liar” and a sick person who “needs help.”
“I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent — it’s not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy has a serious problem,” Arthur said, adding that “she lies about her past,” and “she’s lied her entire life.”
“Don’t vote for people who lie. Don’t let her become your governor. If you think she’ll make your life better, you’re fooling yourself. It will only get worse.”
Acton’s mother previously accused her of exaggerating or inventing stories about her childhood back in 2020.
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Acton’s campaign initially responded with a statement from Acton’s brother, Philip Stearns, blasting Ramaswamy and claiming that her mother was complicit in alleged sexual abuse she faced from her stepfather as a child. They baselessly accused Ramaswamy of an “attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point.”
In a subsequent campaign ad, Stearns appeared on camera, accusing Ramaswamy of turning alleged childhood abuse into a “talking point.” However, Ramaswamy’s campaign simply featured Acton’s mother saying she can’t be trusted to be governor of the state.
Trump responded to the controversy on Wednesday, saying of the alleged abuse, “I just don’t know that,” and slamming the biased media hypocrisy in attacking Republicans over the ad. “You know, if it was about a Republican, I can guarantee you they’d let it go, so that’s why you’re asking. The fact is, I know nothing about it, but I hear the mother went very rogue on the daughter, doesn’t have a lot of respect for the daughter,” Trump said. “It’s a very unusual situation to have a mother hate a daughter that much. But I don’t think that has anything to do with Vivek.”
Vice President Vance also defended the ad on Wednesday, slamming Republicans who are expressing outrage over the clip. “Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern,” he said, emphasizing the importance of the Ohio elections for Governor and Senator. “I’ve got to be honest, when I see Republicans, people in my party, reacting so strongly, especially elected officials — look, have the opinion you want to have on that ad. If you think it was too tough, say it was too tough. If you think it wasn’t tough enough, say that,” he added. “But I have to admit that I’m a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that advertisement than they are about what the Congressional Democrats and other Democrats want to do to the United States of America.”
While speaking to reporters on Thursday for approximately 12 and a half minutes, the press focused more than one-third of the time fixating on the ad and trying to corner Trump.
Trump responded to the criticisms from the press about Acton’s claims of abuse, emphasizing their hypocrisy. “I know nothing about it. All I know is the mother said very bad things about Acton,” he said.
“And I know one thing: if my mother said bad about me, it would be a major news story. That’s for sure. So, I don’t know what it is, but I guess the mother said very bad things about the one who’s running for governor, and I think you have to take that seriously.”
“If my mother said that about me, it would be — you would have hit gold. You would have been very happy about it,” he told another reporter.
Asked about Iowa Senate Nominee Ashley Hinson’s calls for the ad to be taken down, Trump said, “That’s her opinion. I’m defending it because I know that if that ad were about my mother, you would love it. You would love every inch of it, and what’s happened is the press has teamed up because he’s a Republican, and they’ve tried to make it like it’s a horrible thing.”
“This is a mother saying very bad things about her daughter, and I don’t know why that should be shielded. The only problem is the press has decided to unify and act like it’s a horrible thing. It’s horrible for her,” he added.
Then CNN’s Kaitlan Collins angrily asked Trump, “Why did you make no mention of the sexual abuse allegations that Amy Acton made against her stepfather, who stayed married to her mother?”
“I don’t know the mother. I don’t know her. I never heard of her, until just recently, as somebody running for governor of Ohio,” Trump responded, before CNN’s bias and hypocrisy. “I can tell you this: if my mother ever made those statements, I have a mother, I had a mother who’s up there right now, looking down, Mary McLeod Trump. If she ever made statements like that about me, you and your fake station would have it front row center; you’d love it,” he added, noting that the press has “ganged up” on Amy Acton’s mother.
Trump continued, “If my mother, who loved me, made those statements, you’d be the first one to be broadcasting, and you would have found nothing wrong with them,” as Collins interrupted, saying, “But the child abuse allegation is different.”
Still, Trump did not back down, reminding her, “Amy Acton’s mother said horrible things about Amy Acton, and I don’t know why you’re not allowed to do that, you’re not allowed to broadcast it.”
“The press has ganged up because you hate it, because that one ad should really win. Look, if what the mother said about the daughter is half right, she has no right even running for the governor of Ohio,” he added as Collins and other reporters continued trying to corner him.
“I know one thing: if it were my mother, I’d be fair game, and you know that, and you know that well. You’re trying to help Amy Acton get elected. The press has teamed up to help Amy Acton get elected, and that’s all it is. What the mother said is terrible. From the standpoint that I wouldn’t want somebody like that to be the governor of a great state,” he said before moving on.
President Trump holds a midterm rally in Sioux City, Iowa – October 22, 2026
President Trump on Thursday went off on Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, the Somali fraudster occupying a seat in Congress under the fake name Ilhan Omar, calling on her to resign “immediately” and concede her upcoming election.
As Gateway Pundit reported earlier, sources familiar with the ongoing criminal investigation have revealed that “Ilhan Omar” is an alias. Her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, and she’s been living under the fake name for decades and fraudulently serving in Congress, after likely using the name to fraudulently obtain citizenship.
President Trump on Tuesday told reporters that he believes Ilhan Omar “might go to jail,” while slamming her culture and home country of Somalia as a “real sh*t house.”
“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 Ilan Omar, the one that she used to get elected and sworn into Congress,” Trump told the crowd at his rally in Sioux City, Iowa. “In other words, she used the name Ilhan Omar, but rather it’s an entirely different name: Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, slightly different.”
Trump also highlighted that her birth last name is the same as that of her former husband-brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and that she recently said in an interview, “not to my knowledge,” when asked whether she married her brother.
“The last name is incredibly also the exact last name of her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi,” Trump noted.
“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.” He continued, “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.”
He then called for Omar’s removal from the House of Representatives, declaring victory for her Republican opponent this election.
“I assume she must immediately have to resign from Congress. So, please inform our great Speaker of the House of Representatives James Michael Johnson… that the Dumocrat Party has just conceded her seat, that Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, her real name is, openly admitted to fraud, and she will not be legally allowed to be a member of that august body any longer,” he said.
“She won’t be able. I mean, I don’t know. If you get sworn in with a false name, I would imagine that’s pretty tough to remain. What do you think, the chairman of our party? What do you think?… I don’t think, I don’t think it’s looking too good. The Republicans have just picked up a seat in the House,” he continued, further slamming Omar as a “scammer” from the third-world “non-country” of Somalia.
The crowd began chanting, “Lock her up!”
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As The Gateway Pundit reported, Ilhan Omar’s real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.
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. Perhaps her election filings and Congressional legitimacy could also be challenged. She should be expelled from Congress.
New internal emails reveal Jack Smith’s office mishandled privileged material during the investigation into President Trump.
Jack Smith’s prosecutors admitted that investigators who should have never seen the privileged material had access to the records.
“Folks – the filter team should not have recently released certain [redacted] search warrant materials to the substantive side,” the January 2023 e-mail read.
The Oversight Project released a new tranche of internal emails from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office that were obtained through a FOIA lawsuit.
Smith’s prosecutors admit that privileged material reached investigators who should have never seen it. The emails show they repeatedly discussed deleting records.
Today, the Oversight Project released a new tranche of internal emails from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office. We obtained them through our FOIA lawsuit, Oversight Project v. DOJ, No. 25-cv-220 (D.D.C.). In their own words, Smith’s prosecutors admit that privileged material reached investigators who should have never seen it. The emails show they repeatedly discussed deleting records. These are the same records Smith swore to the Senate Judiciary Committee were handled by the book.
On September 29, 2026, after the Oversight Project released 844 pages of DOJ records on Smith’s office. Smith then testified under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee when asked about whether his office followed filter team protocols, he unequivocally stated that his office “followed Justice Department policies, observed legal requirements, and took actions based on the facts and the law.” When asked about following the Federal Records Act, he stated that he “sought at all times to comply with the Federal Records Act.” Chairman Grassley asked him what direction he gave his staff on privileged material, and Smith described no safeguard.
Filter Teams and the Federal Records Act
When prosecutors seize material that is likely to include privileged communications, the Justice Manual (§ 9-13.420) says a “filter team” should be designated, made up of “agents and lawyers not involved in the underlying investigation.” Attorney-client privilege and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel let people speak candidly with their lawyers, so prosecutors who see privileged material compromise a target’s defense even if they never use it, and deleting the file afterward can’t erase what was learned. Filter teams act as a layer of protection for investigation targets to ensure that they maintain constitutional protections while under investigation.
The Federal Records Act (44 U.S.C. chapters 21, 29, 31 and 33) requires every federal agency to create and preserve records documenting its work, including emails and electronic files. Agencies may dispose of records only under schedules approved by the National Archives (NARA). It also requires agency heads to notify the Archivist of any unlawful removal or destruction and to seek its recovery, and anyone who willfully destroys federal records can face criminal penalties under 18 U.S.C. § 2071.
Jack Smith previously claimed under oath that his office “followed Justice Department policies, observed legal requirements, and took actions based on the facts and the law.”
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These are the same records Smith swore to the Senate Judiciary Committee were handled by the book.
When asked about his office following filter team protocols, Smith unequivocally stated that his office “followed Justice Department policies, observed legal requirements, and took actions based on the facts and the law.”
On October 1, 2026, the Archivist of the United States quietly signed an agreement with a private Dallas Museum that keeps the clearest, highest-resolution versions of the Zapruder film locked away from the American people.
The Zapruder film is the single most important piece of photographic evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The taxpayers bought it. The government made high-quality copies of it specifically so the public could study it. And the government is still keeping those copies out of reach.
The timing of this agreement is no accident.
Just eight weeks earlier, on August 5, 2026, a federal judge in Dallas handed attorney Mark Javitch a major victory, ruling that a court can order the National Archives to put the Zapruder film online for the public and that the copyright itself was subject to challenge and a determination of fair use.
The government lost in court. So it went around the court.
JFK after being shot in Dallas. Photo taken on November 22, 1963.
Mark Javitch: The Lawyer Who Took On the Archives and the Museum
Mark L. Javitch is a federal litigator based in San Mateo, California. He represents the Forum on Open Access to Government Records, a publisher fighting to pry the Zapruder film loose from government and private control.
Javitch has spent years battling the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas and the National Archives in Freedom of Information Act and JFK Records Act cases, including an appeal now pending before the Ninth Circuit. He is the author of SCAM: The Zapruder Copyright — How the Sixth Floor Museum Continues the Coverup (2025). The Forum maintains ZapruderFilm.com, the largest free public collection of National Archives documents on the history of the Zapruder film.
“The one attempt to enforce the Zapruder copyright lost in court in 1967. Inexplicably, 60 years later, the government lets the Museum decide who gets access based on the copyright that could never be enforced.” Javitch said. Javitch suspects the Zapruder film held by the Archives may have been altered — a theory his book lays out in detail, and one the Museum denies. Javitch believes that the Museum rejected the Forum’s request for permission to use the copyright because the Forum’s publications raise the question whether the film was altered, a theory the Museum considers off limits.
Javitch hopes that full public access to the best copies will shed light on the question once and for all. If the film is authentic, the highest-resolution versions will show it. If it is not, the American people deserve to know. Either way, the answer lies in the very versions the government is now locking away. The government promised to make high-quality versions available to the public. It performed the high-resolution scans in 2002, but never made them widely available.
The fight started with a simple request.
In the summer of 2024, the Forum filed FOIA requests asking the National Archives for copies of frames from the film. The Archives said no — because the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which claims to own the copyright, would not give its permission.
In April 2025, the Forum went to the Museum directly and asked for permission. The Museum never answered.
Think about that. A federal agency refused to hand the public copies of a federal record because a private museum in Dallas would not sign off.
So Javitch sued them both.
The Court Rules: The Archives Can Be Forced to Post the Film
The National Archives told the court it had no power to make the agency publish anything. U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle of the Northern District of Texas rejected that argument.
Since the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, federal agencies have been required to post frequently requested records online in their electronic reading rooms. The Zapruder film is among the most requested records in the entire National Archives. Judge Boyle held that courts can enforce that duty — siding with the Second and Ninth Circuits over the D.C. Circuit.
The Archives also claimed the reading-room requirement only applies to records created after November 1, 1996. The judge rejected that too.
The government’s motion to dismiss was denied outright.
The Museum did not fare much better. Javitch’s core challenges to the Museum’s copyright survived:
Abandonment. Not a single lawsuit has been filed to enforce the Zapruder copyright since 1969 — not when the film was sold on VHS, not when it was screened on college campuses, and not when Geraldo Rivera aired it on national television in 1975. The court held that the Forum can try to prove the copyright was abandoned, and that the Museum’s current licensing program “would not resurrect the copyright if it was already abandoned.”
Waiver. The court allowed the Forum’s claim that frames 207 through 212 were released into the public domain decades ago.
Fair use. Judge Boyle described a book that reproduces the frames to criticize the film as “the paradigmatic example of fair use.”
Not every claim made it through. The judge dismissed several of the Forum’s other theories, some with permission to refile. But the heart of the case is alive, and it is moving forward against both the Archives and the Museum.
Then the Government Cut a Deal
Instead of complying, the National Archives signed a new agreement with the Museum.
The agreement is sweeping. It declares that it supersedes all previous agreements. It asserts that the Museum’s copyright covers “any and all” versions of the Zapruder film held by the National Archives — potentially dozens or hundreds of items.
The agreement grants the Archives “permission” to post the film online. That is being sold as a concession. It is not. Posting the film online is something the Archives has been legally required to do since 2016. It never needed the Museum’s permission.
And permission is not performance. As of this writing, the National Archives still has not posted the film. In its court filings, it continues to insist it is not required to.
What They’re Locking Away
The agreement’s real work is hidden in the fine print.
In 2002, under a National Archives contract, Monaco Laboratories in San Francisco produced the highest-quality versions of the Zapruder film ever made: 35mm blow-up preservation elements and release prints duplicated from the camera original and from the two Secret Service first-generation copies.
Those are the versions researchers want. Those are the versions the public was supposed to get.
Under the new agreement, the Archives’ license covers only “a digital non-commercial grade copy.” The “commercial-grade” versions — the highest-resolution copies — stay off-limits without the Museum’s permission.
Why fight so hard to control the sharpest images of a 63-year-old film? Whatever detail is visible in those high-resolution versions is precisely the detail researchers are looking for — and precisely what the public is entitled to see.
Censorship Written Into a Government Contract
The agreement goes further, imposing conditions that have no basis in FOIA or copyright law.
Research purposes only. Access is limited to “research purposes only,” and the Archives must warn viewers that they are responsible for obtaining the Museum’s permission for any use, duplication, or publication of the film.
Editorial control. For the first time, the federal government has promised not to use the film, or encourage others to use it, “in a manner which is sensational,” and not to “punctuate or emphasize the episodes of violence” — including the fatal head shot — except for “historic or scientific inquiry, illustration, or study.” No earlier written agreement ever bound the government to editorial limits on how it presents this record.
A private copyright notice on government websites. The Archives must display the Museum’s copyright notice next to the film wherever it appears in full — including in NARA’s Electronic FOIA Reading Room.
Let that sink in. The Archivist of the United States has signed a contract letting a private museum dictate how the federal government presents the evidence of a presidential assassination.
The Public Was Promised This Film
This was never supposed to happen.
In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act to get the records of the assassination into the hands of the American people.
On April 24, 1997, the Assassination Records Review Board — the body Congress created to carry out that law — resolved that it would “do all in its power to ensure that the best available copy of the Zapruder film shall become available to the public at the lowest reasonable price.” Board Chairman Judge John R. Tunheim, now a Senior U.S. District Judge in Minnesota, said the public should have “free and unfettered access to this film at a reasonable cost.”
That promise was broken.
In 1999, arbitrators ordered the United States to pay the Zapruder heirs $16 million for the original film. Incredibly, the $16 million did not include the copyright. The family kept it and gave it to the Sixth Floor Museum, which now uses it to restrict access to the very film the taxpayers paid for.
The high-resolution copies the government made in 2002 were never released as the “best available copy” at the “lowest reasonable price.” A researcher who bought one from the Archives in 2008 had to get the Museum’s permission and pay several hundred dollars to do so.
The courts settled this question long ago. In 1968, a federal court called the Zapruder film “an historic document and undoubtedly the most important photographic evidence concerning the fatal shots.” Time Inc. v. Bernard Geis Assocs., 293 F. Supp. 130, 131 (S.D.N.Y. 1968). The court held that a researcher’s publication of the frames was fair use, explaining: “There is a public interest in having the fullest information available on the murder of President Kennedy.” Id. at 146.
Fifty-eight years later, the government is acting as if that decision was never written.
The Fight Is Bigger Than One Film
As an attorney who has fought the government over hidden January 6 evidence, I recognize this playbook. When the public demands the evidence, the government stalls. When a court orders transparency, the government finds another way to keep the truth locked up.
President Trump ordered the release of the JFK files because the American people deserve the truth about what happened in Dealey Plaza. That promise means little if the clearest visual evidence of the assassination remains under lock and key — controlled by a private museum, with the blessing of the National Archives.
Mark Javitch is doing what Congress, the Review Board, and the National Archives would not. He is forcing the question into a courtroom, and so far, he is winning.
The American people paid $16 million for this film. Sixty-three years after President Kennedy was murdered, they should finally be allowed to see all of it.
President Trump is scheduled to speak at a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa, tonight to stump for Iowa GOP Senate Nominee and current Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, and other statewide and Congressional candidates.
Trump posted his list of endorsed candidates on Truth Social on Wednesday night:
TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF IOWA, GET OUT AND VOTE FOR:
– Ashley Hinson for U.S. Senate
– Zach Lahn for Governor
– Brenna Bird for Attorney General
– Mariannette Miller-Meeks for U.S. Congress (IA-01)
– Joe Mitchell for U.S. Congress (IA-02)
– Zach Nunn for U.S. Congress (IA-03)
– Chris McGowan for U.S. Congress (IA-04)
These Great Patriots have my Complete and Total Endorsement — They will never let you down! President DONALD J. TRUMP swampthevoteusa.com/iowa/
Trump will return to Iowa to make a final pitch to voters on Sunday, November 1, just two days before Election Day.
Hours before the rally started, a massive line of supporters was waiting to get inside the hangar.
Via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
President Trump is scheduled to speak at 6:30 pm CT/7:30 pm ET.
President Trump speaks to reporters at the White House
President Trump responded again on Thursday to Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar’s strange comment when asked if she married her brother in an interview on Wednesday, saying it “tells you a lot.”
Omar said “not to my knowledge” when asked whether she was related to her former husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.
She laughed awkwardly when Chris Hayes asked about claims that she had married her brother before making the non-denial.
Trump initially responded late on Wednesday night, telling reporters, “‘not to my knowledge,’ that’s not a good answer.”
“That’s an answer that a lot of us assume,” he added.
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It has since been revealed that “Ilhan Omar” is an alias, according to sources familiar with the investigation, and her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, the same name of her brother-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.
Asked again on Thursday about the strange “not to my knowledge response,” Trump said, “Well, if you ask me that same question about, let’s say, my sister, I would say no. She said not to my knowledge.”
“That tells you a lot, right there. No, she’s—I’ve never been a big fan of hers. I’ll be honest. Let’s see how it all works out, but that statement tells you a lot.”
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As The Gateway Pundit reported, Ilhan Omar’s real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.
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.
Matthew McConaughey’s take on independent voters is completely wrong. In my view, he’s playing the sympathy card, dressing up political indecision as some badge of intellectual superiority.
Give me a break. You don’t get a medal for being unable to make up your mind.
Today on Stinchfield, we expose the independent trap. Calling yourself independent doesn’t make you smarter than everyone who picked a side. Sometimes it means you haven’t done the homework. Sometimes it means you lack the backbone to defend your beliefs. And sometimes you simply don’t care.
None of those deserves applause.
Want credit for thinking for yourself? Tell me what you believe. Defend it. Vote for it. Spare me the smug suggestion that everyone with convictions is a sheep while your indecision makes you a genius.
Two parties. Two starkly different directions for America. What exactly are you still waiting to figure out?
You don’t owe a political party your loyalty. You owe your country enough attention to make a decision and enough courage to own it.
America’s future isn’t a spectator sport. Get informed. Pick a side. Take responsibility.
Waffling isn’t wisdom. Apathy isn’t patriotism. And refusing to take a stand is nothing to brag about.
Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano stands accused of damaging an Iwo Jima statue. Credit: Prince William County Police Department
A Virginia man has been arrested after allegedly getting caught in an incredibly sickening act that betrays those who bled for our country during World War II.
As InsideNoVa.com reported, Prince William County police officers responded to an incident involving the historic Iwo Jima monument in Quantico near Richmond Highway and Fuller Road.
The statue is located roughly two miles from Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.
Upon arrival, officers found a thug who has since been identified as 27-year-old Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano of Stafford.
Police say he was actively damaging the structure using a sledgehammer.
The officers quickly detained Maldonado Soriano.
Police later noted extensive destruction to the monument, including the removal of one of the soldiers’ heads. All told, the damage to the monument is estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
According to InsideNoVa.com, Maldonado Soriano has been charged with the following offenses: felony destruction of property, trespass with intent to damage property, and felony injury to a monument.
Maldonado Soriano is being held without bond. Per WJLA, his court date is pending.
Police have not revealed why Maldonado Soriano decided to attack the monument.
As Patch.com notes, the Iwo Jima statue stands near one entrance to Marine Base Quantico and is a short walk from the National Museum of the Marine Corps. It was carved out of limestone by Felix de Weldon in 1945.
The Quantico statue is one of several smaller-scale statues Weldon created of the scene.
Patch.com also notes that Weldon would recreate the scene as the 100-ton bronze Iwo Jima Monument. This currently sits in front of Arlington National Cemetery.
The Arlington National Cemetery monument was dedicated in 1954.
IOWA FARMERS JUST DROPPED THE TRUTH BOMB EVERY PUNDIT IS TERRIFIED OF!!! 
