The book, titled Melania, is the first memoir from the reclusive former First Lady.
Melania teases memoir
In a subtle rebuke of the media, Melania said she has been the target of "misrepresentation" over the years, and her new book will "clarify the facts."
“Writing this memoir has been a deeply personal and reflective journey for me,” Trump said in a video posted to social media on Thursday.
“As a private person who has often been the subject of public scrutiny and misrepresentation, I feel a responsibility to clarify the facts,” she said. “I believe it is important to share my perspective: The truth.”
The book, from Skyhorse Publishing, has an Oct. 8 release date. Fans can buy a signed copy at an additional cost, and there is also a collector's edition with "bonus photographs and a digital collectible."
"Melania is the powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has defined personal excellence, overcome adversity, and carved her own path,” the book's website says.
“The former First Lady invites readers into her world, offering an intimate portrait of a woman who has lived an extraordinary life,” it continues, teasing “stories and images never before shared with the public.”
In stark contrast to her very vocal husband Donald Trump, Melania has long been a mysterious figure to the public. She has often been depicted as a reluctant wife and First Lady by a hostile, left-wing press.
"I am thinking of you, now, my fellow Americans," she wrote in the statement. "Dawn is here again. Let us reunite. Now."
With a few exceptions, she has been largely absent from the 2024 campaign trail, although she made an appearance at the Republican National Convention. Melania - making an elegant entrance as Beethoven played - did not speak at the event, which came days after the assassination attempt.
Now, the public will finally get her perspective on things, instead of the usual garbage rumors from the Trump-bashing media.
The House Education and Workforce Committee has subpoenaed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz amid an inquiry into alleged misuse of funds by the nonprofit Feeding Our Future during the pandemic.
On Wednesday, the Republican-led House Education and Workforce Committee issued subpoenas to key figures including Walz, the current running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris. The subpoenas are part of an ongoing investigation concerning the oversight of Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit accused of significant financial misconduct during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Feeding Our Future was alleged to have improperly used millions of dollars allocated for child nutrition. These funds were intended to assist children during the school closures and community lockdowns caused by the pandemic.
Early Alerts and Initial Responses
In fall 2020, concerns about the nonprofit's activities were first communicated to the USDA inspector general's office. However, no immediate action was undertaken at that time. By April 2021, the Minnesota Department of Education, growing suspicious of the nonprofit’s actions, alerted the FBI.
Subsequent to the state's notification, the FBI launched an investigation into the organization in May 2021. This probe was aimed at unraveling the depth and breadth of the alleged fraud within Feeding Our Future.
Despite early warnings, the misuse of funds escalated, leading to a broader federal response. The U.S. Department of Justice has since charged 70 individuals in connection with the scheme, with 18 pleading guilty and five more convicted in June of this year.
Increasing Oversight After Fraud Discoveries
In December 2022, as the allegations of fraud deepened, Governor Walz announced the establishment of an inspector general within the state education department. This position was created specifically to enhance oversight and prevent such abuses in the future.
The state education department itself was criticized in a June state audit report for its insufficient oversight, which purportedly allowed opportunities for fraud to occur. This audit underscored the systemic failures at multiple levels of government oversight.
Addressing these criticisms, Gov. Walz stated that no state employees were implicated in illegal activities but acknowledged the need for more rigorous due diligence in overseeing such programs.
Political Reactions to the Subpoenas
Rep. Virginia Foxx, leading the committee’s effort, emphasized the seriousness of the situation, stating, "The committee is requesting this information to show 'the extent of your responsibilities and actions addressing the massive fraud that resulted in the abuse of taxpayer dollars intended for hungry children.'"
A spokeswoman for Gov. Walz defended the state’s efforts, noting the diligent work by the state department of education to halt the fraud and the collaboration with the FBI that led to arrests and charges against the perpetrators.
Minnesota Commissioner of Education Willie Jett described the fraud as "a coordinated, brazen abuse of nutrition programs," placing the blame squarely on the individuals who have since been indicted and convicted.
Questioning the Timing of Subpoenas
Rep. Bobby Scott raised questions about the timing of these subpoenas, calling it "weird," suggesting political motivations may be at play behind the scenes. This comment highlights the complex interplay of politics in the investigations of pandemic-related financial misconduct.
The committee has set a deadline of September 18 for all subpoenaed parties to deliver the requested documents, which are anticipated to shed further light on the depth of oversight failures and the extent of fraud perpetrated under the guise of pandemic aid.
As the legal and political battles unfold, the focus remains on ensuring accountability and reforming systems to safeguard against future abuses of critical public funds intended for the welfare of children in crisis situations.
The prosecutor in Alec Baldwin's "Rust" case is fighting to bring the charges back after they were dramatically dismissed by the judge this summer.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey asked the judge to reconsider her July ruling, arguing that there was no harm done to Baldwin's rights when live ammunition was withheld by "mistake."
Update in Baldwin case
The long, winding legal saga began almost three years ago when Baldwin accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western movie.
Baldwin insisted he had no idea live ammunition was inside the gun and that he did not pull the trigger. The movie's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after a conviction for involuntary manslaughter.
Baldwin previously had the charges in the case dropped and then reinstated before his brief trial began.
In a dramatic mid-trial ruling, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer threw the charges out over prosecutors' failure to disclose live ammunition rounds.
The judge ended the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled once prosecutors exhaust their appeal options.
Morrissey urged the judge Friday to reconsider, arguing the bullets were not relevant to establishing Baldwin's culpability. The prosecutor argued that Baldwin's team distracted the judge with a "smokescreen" argument.
“This is a smoke screen created by the defense and was intended to sway and confuse the court ... and it was successful,” Morrissey wrote.
Did judge get played?
The live rounds were filed under a different case number in what Morrissey called an honest mistake.
"Human beings make mistakes — it does not mean they are lying or that they intentionally buried evidence as claimed by the defense," she wrote.
"Nothing about the details of how the live rounds were introduced to the set is relevant or material to the charges against Mr. Baldwin,” Morrissey wrote, adding, "there was no cover-up because there was nothing to cover up.”
The live bullets had been given to police by Troy Teske, a friend of Gutierrez-Reed's stepfather Thell Reed, who is a prominent armorer.
Morrissey asked for "all information regarding when and how" the defense became aware of the bullets, arguing Baldwin's lawyers knew about them before the trial but waited to ambush prosecutors. The motion to dismiss was "all a ruse," she said.
Gutierrez-Reed is trying to have her conviction thrown out over the alleged misconduct.
Ex-Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas Robertson had his original sentence of seven years and three months reduced to six years after the Supreme Court rebuked the Justice Department for stretching the law on "obstruction of an official proceeding."
This is the first example of a sentence being reduced because of the court's June ruling in Fischer v. United States.
January 6th sentence reduced
The Supreme Court clarified that the obstruction statute, which became law after the Enron scandal, only applies to those who destroy physical evidence.
The DOJ has charged hundreds with obstruction of an official proceeding for interrupting the certification of the 2020 election. In some cases, it is the only felony filed against a January 6th participant.
Robertson was convicted of multiple felonies, including obstruction of an official proceeding and entering a restricted area with a dangerous weapon, a large wooden stick.
The former cop, who was off-duty at the time, entered the Capitol with another off-duty Rocky Mount police officer, Jacob Fracker, and a third unidentified man. Once inside, Robertson and Fracker photographed themselves giving the middle finger in front of a statue of John Stark, an American Revolutionary War general.
Robertson, a veteran who was injured in Afghanistan, shared social media posts indicating he was prepared to fight in a "counter insurgency."
“I’ve spent most of my adult life fighting a counter insurgency. (I’m) about to become part of one, and a very effective one,” he wrote.
"A broken man"
Prosecutors officially moved to drop Robertson's obstruction conviction Wednesday but insisted that the judge keep his 87-month sentence, arguing he came prepared to start an "armed rebellion."
Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, balked at the request and lowered the sentence to six years. The judge said he doubted Robertson's original sentence would have been more than seven years if not for the obstruction charge.
Robertson expressed remorse to the court as his defense lawyer, Mark Rollins, insisted he had no intent to "overthrow democracy."
"Everything that could be taken from this man has been taken," Rollins said. "What you find now is a broken man."
He became a sergeant with the Rocky Mount Police Department, but he was fired, along with Fracker, after their involvement in January 6th came to light.
A team of researchers that included a number of medical experts as well as individuals with creditable science backgrounds has uncovered what is believed to be an "off switch" that could be used by those who were given the COVID-19 mRNA treatments, and now face that possibility of "turbo cancers, heart failure, strokes, blood clots, and damaged immune systems," according to a new report.
It is Slay News that revealed the "historic discovery" that now "offers hope to the billions of people around the world who have been injected with the 'vaccines.'"
The report cites a preprint study called, "Strategic Deactivation of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines: New Applications for RIBOTACs and siRNA Therapy."
The promoters of the experimental treatment originally said the "vaccine" injection would stay in a person's arm but tests show it spreads, which has prompted health experts to express concern about the safety.
The report confirmed the "spike protein triggered by the mRNA from the shots has been linked to multiple deadly diseases and sudden death."
The study, led by renowned American cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, uncovered a novel approach using "small interfering messenger RNA (siRNA) and ribonuclease targeting chimeras (RIBOTACs) to bind and deactivate the mRNA from these vaccines."
The report said evidence is that that process allows a body to clear out mRNA from the injections.
McCullough said he already uses products like "Patisiran" and "Inclisiran" in his practice.
The process is that they "bind up messenger RNA to inactivate it."
That, the report said, hits at the mRNA and its potentially lethal spike protein call and reduces the overall toxicity.
"The urgency for an 'off switch' becomes even more pressing since Moderna's mRNA vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus and influenza were recently approved," the report said.
The threat is, McCullough said, "Without any way to turn off the messenger RNA, we think every single messenger RNA shot, because it's been made synthetic and resistant to human breakdown, is going to make people progressively sick."
Slay News noted McCullough previously raised an alarm after finding data showing that COVID mRNA shots caused an increase in brain clots by 112,000%.
In a move that assured some of the most scandalous details about Joe Biden's years-long influence-peddling operations will not be publicized during a trial, First Son Hunter Biden pleaded guilty Thursday to a series of tax charges.
His lawyers first had insisted on an "Alford" plea, in which Biden would plead guilty but still maintain his innocence, a plan to which prosecutors objected. Then Hunter Biden submitted an ordinary guilty plea.
A former federal prosecutor, who asked not to be named, told the DailyMail.com publication a possible reason for the sudden change, from not guilty to guilty, was to "get a quick verdict without a salacious trial, followed by a pardon or commutation from Hunter's father, President Joe Biden."
Hunter Biden still could be given that pardon by his father, even though Joe Biden has said that's something he would not do.
"As long as he is president, through January 2025, he has the power to reduce or forgive any sentence his son receives," the report said.
The report said another lawyer, Samuel Dewey, a former congressional chief counsel, told DailyMail.com "he also suspected the change of plea was part of a political pact to protect damaging information about Joe Biden from being aired in public."
"We know the trial was going to involve detailed evidence of foreign influence peddling that likely would involve the broader Biden family and the president," Dewey said.
He was referring to prosecutors' evidence that Hunter "earned $1 million from allegedly lobbying U.S. State Department officials on behalf of a Romanian real estate magnate charged with bribery – a scandal first revealed by DailyMail.com two years ago."
Dewey explained, "A plausible theory for why this odd turn happened now, is that Hunter has run out the clock and will not be required to report to prison until after November 4, when he will be pardoned without massive political damage to the Democratic nominee in the 2024 general election."
A congressional investigation already has revealed the Biden family collected some $27 million from the family's influence peddling, largely to overseas interests and unfriendly nations.
There were nine tax evasion charges, including three felonies, to which Hunter Biden admitted responsibility.
The "Alford" stunt failed after what the Mail described as a "fiery exchange between prosecutors and the defense."
Judge Mark Scarsi then explained the penalties in the case could be 15 years and a $1 million fine.
Prosecutor Leo Wise read the indictment to put all the allegations on the record.
The report said, "The indictment includes details of Hunter's shady overseas deals with Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu who has been convicted of bribery, and with Chinese oil giant CEFC, which has been linked to a Chinese government influence operation."
Also included were allegations about Hunter Biden paying prostitutes and drug dealers instead of his taxes.
Scarsi ordered that the probation and pretrial services officials should meet and assemble a sentencing recommendation.
The Mail itself suggested Hunter Biden's change of plea "was an apparent Hail Mary strategy by the defense to try to stop damaging and embarrassing evidence being presented to the jury."
In a move that likely will attract a lot of support from voters who have been hit by those 20% inflation penalties courtesy of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime, President Donald Trump wants an audit.
Of the U.S. government.
The ENTIRE U.S. government.
To crack down on fraud, waste and worse, all of which costs voters their paychecks.
Is it the Post-Millennial that reported Trump promised a "Government Efficiency Commission" to audit and analyze the finances of the federal government – and all of its trillions of dollars in spending.
X Space chief Elon Musk had suggested the idea.
Trump said, "I will create a Government Efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government — and making recommendations for drastic reforms."
He pointed out that Kamala Harris is inextricably linked to the policies and failures of the Biden-Harris administration and the 20% inflation they have produced to hurt Americans during her tenure.
And he warned Harris would double down if elected in November, with her promise of a corporate tax rate of 28%. Trump's proposal is 15%.
He also warned of the Harris plan for a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains. That means some high-dollar voters would have to pay taxes on increase in their property or asset values, even though they've gotten none of that increase because they haven't sold.
His economic plan, his supporters say, would bring inflation down rapidly and trigger a huge growth in the economy.
Whistleblowers told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that security personnel were "woefully unprepared" on the day former President Donald Trump was shot at a Pennsylvania rally, the UK Daily Mail reported. Hawley said that Homeland Security Investigations agents were assigned to Trump's detail without proper Secret Service training.
Trump was shot on July 13 during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and sustained an injury to his ear. It could have been much worse as gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to get near the former president and take his shot despite the Secret Service's presence.
Hawley and other members of Congress have begun asking how this could have happened. The answers they're getting are disturbing, especially considering that these whistleblowers report that things have not improved.
These individuals charged with protecting Trump were given a two-hour webinar training with prerecorded content to prepare for the rally and little else. "'This is a nightmare; the only reason we know about this stuff is because of whistleblowers," Hawley said Tuesday on Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime.
What Went Wrong
Protecting Trump, a former president and current GOP presidential candidate, is a job that requires precision and knowledge of proper procedure. Instead, Hawley shared that the whistleblowers were inadequately briefed using glitchy technology.
"Imagine 1,000 people logging onto Microsoft Teams at the same time after being informed at the last minute that everyone needed to login individually. Once it got rolling, the Secret Service instructor couldn’t figure out how to get the audio working on the prerecorded videos," Hawley shared from a letter from the whistleblower to USSS Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr.
"All told, they restarted the videos approximately six times …. The content was not helpful," Hawley added.
To make matters worse, the whistleblowers said that the Secret Service has not learned from these mistakes, Fox News reported. "Nothing new, nothing improved since the assassination attempt on former President Trump," Hawley recounted from one of the whistleblowers.
Compounding Problems
However, it wasn't just the training that day that was the problem. As Hawley noted in a separate interview, the lead agent at the site was also the wrong person for such an important job.
"The site agent, the lead agent, was known to the Trump campaign to be inexperienced, to be ineffectual, to be, frankly, incompetent at their job. I'm also told by whistleblowers that on that day, she was not enforcing the normal security protocols," Hawley said at the time.
"She was not checking people's IDs. She did not use Secret Service agents," Hawley continued.
"Most of the agents there that day were not Secret Service agents. They were Homeland Security agents," Hawley noted.
Trump survived this attempt on his life by the grace of God. Unfortunately, it appears the Secret Service relied too heavily on that as well rather than properly training the people charged with protecting Trump's life.
A new report has found Chinese operatives are using social media platforms to impersonate American voters and spread divisive narratives about issues in the U.S., particularly social issues, and political conversations around the 2024 presidential election.
Graphika, a company that analyzes online social media behaviors, published their report titled "The #Americans" Tuesday, detailing how Spamouflage – a Chinese state-linked influence operation – has become increasingly aggressive on social media platforms, using personas disguised as Americans to sew divisive narratives.
Spamouflage is an influence operation first monitored by Graphika in 2019. Active on over 40 online platforms, it uses inauthentic accounts to promote pro-China and anti-Western narratives. Graphika determined the origins of the operation are linked to the Chinese government.
A new report has found Chinese operatives are using social media platforms to impersonate American voters and spread divisive narratives about issues in the U.S., particularly social issues, and political conversations around the 2024 presidential election.
Graphika, a company that analyzes online social media behaviors, published their report titled "The #Americans" Tuesday, detailing how Spamouflage – a Chinese state-linked influence operation – has become increasingly aggressive on social media platforms, using personas disguised as Americans to sew divisive narratives.
Spamouflage is an influence operation first monitored by Graphika in 2019. Active on over 40 online platforms, it uses inauthentic accounts to promote pro-China and anti-Western narratives. Graphika determined the origins of the operation are linked to the Chinese government.
President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, and Vice President Kamala Harris have also all been targeted by these accounts in the run-up to the 2024 election, which both "seeded and amplified content denigrating Democratic and Republican candidates."
The report states Graphika's findings built on research conducted by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which published findings in April that the Chinese were using Spamouflage accounts to impersonate MAGA supporters.
While attempts to pose as American social media users have increased significantly, analysts note the accounts failed to get any traction, with the exception being a single Spamouflage account on TikTok that garnered 1.5 million views.
"Many of the accounts' bios suggested the U.S. is deteriorating and filled with discrimination. For example, some posed rhetorical questions with awkward grammar, such as 'is the present America still our America?' or 'is the current president our president?' likely to present themselves as U.S. voters disappointed in the current administration," the report states.
The Chinese government has recently upped its spying efforts both inside and outside of the U.S.
Recently, Chinese military installations have been rumored to have been erected along the coast of Cuba to spy on American military bases in Florida, as well as the state's space program.
Other instances include Chinese agents being planted inside important political offices, where they quickly use their position to advance China's interests. New York's Gov. Kathy Hochul, has recently been caught in a scandal after a former aide in her office was accused of working as a Chinese agent.
Hochul's former aide, Linda Sun, was indicted on charges of not registering as a foreign agent, visa fraud, alien smuggling, and money laundering conspiracy. Sun's husband, Christopher Hu, allegedly laundered millions of dollars paid to the couple by the Chinese Communist Party. Hu has been charged with money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and misuse of means of identification.
According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Sun and Hu appeared in federal court in Brooklyn Tuesday, with both pleading not guilty to the charges.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said Sun and Hu enriched themselves while furthering the interests of the CCP.
"As alleged, while appearing to serve the people of New York as deputy chief of staff within the New York State Executive Chamber, the defendant and her husband actually worked to further the interests of the Chinese government and the CCP… The illicit scheme enriched the defendant's family to the tune of millions of dollars. Our office will act decisively to prosecute those who serve as undisclosed agents of a foreign government," Peace said.
It is also alleged Sun blocked representatives of Taiwan from accessing the governor, worked to prevent meetings with Taiwanese officials, and attempted to manipulate public statements made by the governor about China.
The U.S. Attorney's Office further stated Sun repeatedly violated internal rules and protocols, which included providing falsified invitation letters from Hochul's office, allowing CCP representatives to enter the U.S. unlawfully.
The 64-page indictment alleged Sun and Hu bought luxury homes with the proceeds, including a $4 million home in Long Island, a $2 million condo in Hawaii, and a fleet of luxury sports cars, including a 2024 Ferrari Roma.
Gov. Hochul stated during an interview with WNYC she was "outraged" by the allegations, calling Sun "brazen."
"I'm furious, and I'm outraged, and absolutely shocked at how brazen her behavior was. It was a betrayal of trust," Hochul said.
WND reached out to Hochul's Office for comment on the charges against Sun, but did not receive an immediate reply.
Sun was released on a $1.5 million bond, while Hu was released with a bond of $500,000. Bail conditions include Sun being forbidden to contact the Chinese consulate.
The federal government is proposing to "help" parents battle a new problem that it created for them, and the chief of the Family Research Council is saying, "Thank you, no."
It is FRC President Tony Perkins who has written at the Washington Stand about a plan from Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, who has complained that "Parents and caregivers today face tremendous pressures from familiar stressors, such as worrying about their kids health and safety and financial concerns, to new challenges like navigating technology and social media."
His "advisory" also insists he wants a "fundamental shift" in the way the mental health and well-being of parents is valued and prioritized.
And he's suggesting ways to "support parents and caregivers."
"The government, through its policies, plays a significant role in the current stress levels parents face. Now they propose more government to solve the problems they've created. It's time for a collective response: No, thank you," Perkins explained.
In fact, the Biden-Harris administration has had, essentially, two major points to attack families, transgenderism and abortion, during its years in office so far. That ideology has gone so far as to have court-approved plans to counsel children into a transgender ideology and then conceal those maneuvers from parents.
Perkins explained, "It's essential to scrutinize what this administration means by these changes. Over the last few years, we've seen radical ideologies — particularly regarding gender identity — infiltrating classrooms and creating divisions between parents and their children. Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the policies promoted by this administration keep parents in the dark about what happens at school — which, by the way, only adds to the stress that Dr. Murthy talks about.
"One of the recommendations in this advisory is to increase government access to children at even a younger age, through early childhood education and daycare. While this may be well-intended (or at least sound well-intended), the idea will only fuel a parent's stress in the teenage years. Why? Because a child's worldview is largely formed between the age of 15 months and 13 years. Under this construct, the government is going to shape the minds of your children in those early years. And nothing causes more stress for a parent than seeing their child reject the values they have prayerfully tried to instill in them."
Perkins is not without expertise, either.
"As a father of five, with our youngest now 16, I can attest to the challenges of raising children. But make no mistake — raising children is a labor of love, and nothing is more rewarding than knowing that you are shaping the future with every step you take. Dr. Murthy addresses the many stressors of parenting, both old and new. They include financial concerns, economic instability, time demands, and worries about children's health and safety. Additionally, he mentions modern challenges like parental isolation, managing technology and social media, and cultural pressures. The advisory suggests a shift in culture, policies, and programs to ensure parents and caregivers can thrive."
He explained the solution isn't complicated, and doesn't involve handing more control over children to government bureaucrats.
"The Bible offers sound advice for parents. Proverbs 22:6 says, 'Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.' The bottom line is, we should never outsource the upbringing of our children."
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