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It's been three years since a "politically motivated investigation" by the Joe Biden administration resulted in a reduced rank for Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician who held the rank of admiral.
Now he's back at that rank, obliterating the Biden regime's attempt to reduce his rank for all of his retirement to captain.
Further, the military also has granted military honors to Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed protester at the January 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capital, who was shot at point blank range and killed by a security officer there at the time.
It is RedState that detailed the restoration of Jackson's rank.
"Jackson was a triggering figure for Senate Democrats and some Republicans during Trump's first term. The oleaginous Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson allowed Montana Democrat Jon Tester to turn Jackson's nomination hearing to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs into a character assassination campaign. He was twice nominated to the rank of rear (two-star) admiral, and Mitch McConnell declined to allow a vote either time."
Then the Democrats jumped into the fight when Jackson retired in 2019 and Biden was inaugurated.
There were anonymous claims he misbehaved while White House physician, and when a Department of Defense investigation failed to substantiate any offense, the Biden administration had the inspector general reissue the report with a different conclusion.
Jackson explained, "If I had retired and not gotten into politics, this investigation would have never gone anywhere. This was happening because I am a perceived threat to the Biden administration and because a few political appointees in the Department of Defense want to make a name for themselves."
On social media Jackson announced, "I was, and still am, a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, and Joe Biden is a retired old FOOL."
Further, the U.S. Air Force confirmed it is providing Babbitt with military funeral honors.
The Biden administration had denied that to her family.
But government watchdog Judicial Watch said a letter from Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier extends an offer to allow the special funeral procedures to take place.
The letter said the circumstances of the situation were reviewed and Biden's determination "was incorrect."
Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot and killed at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protest as she attempted to climb through a barricaded door to the speaker's lobby near the House chamber.
The government also agreed to pay her family about $5 million to settle a lawsuit over her death.
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As Americans learn that their nation's immigration and visa laws have been subject to phenomenal levels of abuse, particularly the H-1B visa, more subtle and tricky forms of abuse are being employed.
For example, the most powerful tech and finance brands don't just hire workers on H-1B visas directly. They also buy labor from layers of outside "consultancies" that recruit abroad, place people at client sites and skim a margin. Those layers, in turn, create a gray zone of accountability that invites wage theft, benching without pay and even classic kickback schemes in broader contracting.
The secondary-employer trap
Here's how it works: Big companies keep their "headcount" lean and shift cost and legal risk to outside vendors. Those vendors then subcontract to smaller "body shops," so the person coding in a blue-chip office may legally work for a tiny shop two layers down.
When layoffs hit or projects pause, the end client says the worker is not their employee and the vendor says the worker is "non-productive," which is where the abuse really starts.
Senators sounded this scheme out a decade ago when Southern California Edison replaced hundreds of its staff via outsourcers, an arrangement justified by claiming the utility was not the legal employer.
When layoffs hit or projects pause, the end client says the worker is not their employee and the vendor says the worker is "non-productive," which is where the abuse really starts.
Senators sounded this scheme out a decade ago when Southern California Edison replaced hundreds of its staff via outsourcers, an arrangement justified by claiming the utility was not the legal employer.
How secondary employers squeeze workers
Once a worker is on the vendor's payroll, the leverage flips. The Department of Labor has repeatedly found "benching" without pay and underpayment relative to required wages. Those violations are common in layered placements because time between client projects becomes unpaid "non-productive" time. Examples include multiple wage-recovery actions and guidance barring these tactics outright.
Wage theft at scale is not theoretical
The Economic Policy Institute's document-based investigation into HCL, a major supplier to big brands, found at least $95 million in apparent underpayments to H-1B workers through internal pay-level manipulations and off-books adjustments. The business model works because vendors can bill the client one rate yet quietly pay the worker another.
Kickbacks thrive in opaque vendor chains
When major corporations source labor through multiple layers of subcontractors, it opens the door for abuse. Intermediaries can demand "placement fees" or under-the-table payments in exchange for securing or keeping a project role. The Department of Justice has prosecuted kickback and bribery schemes in staffing and contracting, where vendor managers steered jobs in return for personal payoffs, even in cases that had nothing to do with immigration.
The risk multiplies as the number of middlemen increases. In parallel, DOJ investigations have also uncovered consultancy firms hoarding H-1B workers without real assignments, stockpiling them simply to gain leverage over competitors.
In the Cloudgen, LLC case, for example, a classic consulting "body shop" pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit H-1B fraud, admitting it placed workers on phony client letters and mismatched roles to game approvals. Cases like this reveal how easy it is to feed a layered labor market with questionable petitions.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) itself has acknowledged that the H-1B system can depress wages and displace U.S. workers when contractors flood client sites. Rulemaking over the last few years tried to tighten definitions of "third-party worksite" and "U.S. employer," but the layered model still lets brand-name clients claim they are not the employer of record.
The vast vendor ecosystem: A look into the success of the business model
All employer-to-vendor visuals are produced by the Red Line Project, using data pulled directly from employer applications filed with the Department of Labor. Each employer's secondary profile exposes a detailed roster of vendors operating behind the scenes. The takeaway is unmistakable: At many of America's largest brands, the individuals writing code and managing sensitive data are not direct employees at all, but are legally employed by third-party consultancies that specialize in visa staffing and subcontracting.
Every extra layer between the badge and the building is a place where wages can be shaved, fees shifted to workers and kickbacks demanded for a seat on a project. The end client gets the work and plausible deniability. The middlemen get the spread. And American workers get squeezed out of job interviews that should have been theirs.
The pattern is identical across telecom, finance, health care, banking and big tech. Different industries, same architecture. When the stacks grow, accountability shrinks. When the rosters lengthen, transparency fades. Americans are looking at a pipeline that turned their nation's visa program into a profit center for intermediaries.
These images are not abstract graphics. They are the footprint of a business model that is scaled by routing critical jobs through secondary employers. Clean up the layers and the unfair incentives disappear. Until then, the pictures tell the story better than words.
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Get ready for Democrats and other leftists, who long have called for gun limits, gun restrictions, gun bans and gun confiscations. to start defending the Second Amendment.
It's because there are reports the Department of Justice is considering the idea of banning transgenders from buying weapons.
After all, they could be argued to fall under existing restrictions on guns for those who have confirmed mental health conditions.
It is the Daily Wire that noted, "In the wake of the latest deadly attack on a school by a transgender-identifying individual, President Donald Trump's Justice Department is considering blocking trans-identifying people from buying firearms."
A DOJ source explained, "Individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell."
The reasoning is that those who say they are transgender suffer from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder.
Specifics were not yet being discussed.
But the DOJ official said, "Under Attorney General Bondi's leadership this Department of Justice is actively considering a range of options to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools."
The most recent gun violence by a transgender happened last week at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Trans-identifying Robert Westman, who changed his name to Robin, but also admitted he regretted brainwashing himself, shot up a school, killing two students and injuring many more.
"Westman's actions came only two years after another trans-identifying killer, this one a woman who identified as a man, targeted Christian school children in Nashville," the report said.
The report continued, "A review by The Daily Wire found that the Annunciation school shooting and the Covenant Christian school shooting are just two examples of a steady stream of transgender-related violence over the past decade."
It continued, "The move would undoubtedly infuriate those on the left who believe that men can become women and women can become men — and that people who identify as transgender are not mentally ill but merely living in the wrong body. These critics argue that transgender identification is irrelevant when discussing school shootings and that even discussing the topic puts trans-identifying people in danger and should be off limits.
"In recent years, doctors, therapists, activists, and even President Joe Biden's administration have argued that people experiencing gender dysphoria will benefit from so-called 'gender-affirming care' — transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers — claiming that these gender dysphoric people are more likely to kill themselves if they don't receive such 'care.' Opponents of these measures, including young people who underwent the procedures as teenagers like Chloe Cole, argue that 'gender-affirming care' does not mitigate the distress that gender dysphoric people have, but actually often exacerbates mental health issues."
A top priority for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a renewed focus on the U.S. military's warfighting capabilities and warrior ethos, paired with the rollback or elimination of extraneous and unnecessary ideals and programs that detract from these efforts.
That includes the recent cancellation of the U.S. Army's Command Assessment Program, which factored in potential social biases and psychological evaluations over merit and performance in the consideration of candidates for command positions, according to Fox News.
The secretary declared "Good riddance" to the news that the generally unpopular feelings-over-facts Biden-era program had been ended.
First rolled out across the Army in 2020 and more broadly implemented thereafter, per Fox News, CAP was intended to reduce "conscious and subconscious biases" and utilize "peer assessments and behavioral analysis" when selecting candidates for promotion to command positions.
The program was finally made official in January 2025 by former Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, just days before President Donald Trump took office, after which she was replaced by current Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.
In August, Driscoll paused CAP and conducted a review of the new promotion program that ultimately led to its elimination.
In reaction to the news that CAP had been cancelled, Defense Secretary Hegseth wrote on X, "Good riddance. Promotions across @DeptofDefense will ONLY be based on merit & performance."
His post included a screenshot of a Military Times article on the subject that was headlined: "Army cancels Biden-era promotion program aimed at eliminating bias."
The article noted that CAP "relied heavily on peer evaluations and behavioral analysis" in the selection process for promotions, rather than the prior system that focused on a "series of performance factors," and further highlighted that a "stated goal" of the program was "protecting minorities from bias."
According to a doctrinal document on CAP published in January, "The battery of psychometric assessments employs several different instruments to measure cognitive capacity, emotional intelligence, conscientiousness, self-awareness, and other behavioral traits."
The document also admitted that the promotion selection process was subjective instead of objective, as it acknowledged, "Though not completely hidden, assessing intellect through casual observation is highly subjective and contextual."
The Military Times reported that while CAP was heralded by Army leadership during its brief run under former President Biden, it was not particularly popular with the troops and led to a reduction in officer candidates seeking promotions.
Indeed, in 2024, 54% of Army officers declined to take part in CAP, a record high non-participation rate, as compared to the 40% average in 2019 before the program's introduction.
With CAP scrapped, the Army has now reverted to the previous system known as the Centralized Selection Board/List, or CSL, which primarily focuses on candidates' merit and performance when under consideration for promotion to a command position.
Speaking independently of each other, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla both said this week that President Donald Trump deserved a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed, the program that distributed COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. and globally in 2020.
“President Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed,” Cassidy said in a Wednesday statement on X.
“Operation Warp Speed restored consumer confidence, saved over $1 trillion in health care costs due to reductions in serious illness and avoidance of hospitalizations, and rapidly scaled up domestic production,” Bourla wrote a few hours earlier.
“This American leadership also delivered a new platform that may drive significant innovation in cancer research. Such an accomplishment would typically be worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, given its significant impact,” he added.
Bourla credited Trump with saving 14 million people's lives around the world with Operation Warp Speed, which involved a partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
Now that some time has passed, however, and complications of the vaccines have come to light, the current Trump administration is distancing itself from the vaccines.
Now, Trump wants drug companies to "justify" the success of their COVID drugs.
“It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!” the president said in a Labor Day post on Truth Social.
Trump has mentioned several times that he thinks he deserves a Nobel Prize, though not for the same reason Bourla and Cassidy mentioned.
Pakistan said he should get one for defusing tensions between it and India in May 2025, while House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he should get one for the crime crackdown in Washington, D.C. in recent weeks.
Given the proclivities of the Nobel Committee, however, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to bestow an award on Trump.
Of course, Democrats would be beside themselves if Trump got a Nobel Prize, which is probably part of the reason he wants one so much.
He surely doesn't need the $1.1 million dollars that comes with the prize.
Instead, it's all about the honor and recognition that he did something that changed the world for the better, instead of more allegations that he's harming it.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Mn.) is now a multi-millionaire after her net worth increased by $30 million in a single year, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
She owes the sudden increase in wealth to a 3500% jump in the value of her husband Tim Mynett's business investments, according to Omar's latest financial disclosure.
Omar's shocking turn of fortune is sure to raise eyebrows, especially after she went out of her way to deny being a millionaire earlier this year.
“Since getting elected, there has been a coordinated right-wing disinformation campaign claiming all sorts of wild things, including the ridiculous claim I am worth millions of dollars which is categorically false,” she told Business Insider.
“I am a working mom with student loan debt," she added. "Unlike some of my colleagues — and similar to most Americans — I am not a millionaire and am raising a family while maintaining a residence in both Minneapolis and DC, which are among the most expensive housing markets in the country,” she added.
At least part of that statement was true: Omar does have unpaid student loans, according to her financial disclosure for 2024, which listed up to $100,000 in student loan and credit card debt.
Omar's 2024 disclosure also shows that her husband's California-based winery, eStCru LLC, has between $1 million and $5 million in assets, after Omar reported between $15,000 and $50,000 in 2023.
More significantly, Mynett's venture capital firm, Rose Lake Capital, was worth between $5 million and $25 million in 2024 after Omar reported just $1,000 in assets in 2023.
This would not be the first time that Omar and her husband - who began their relationship as an affair when they were both married to different people - have come under scrutiny.
When Omar was seeking re-election in 2020, her campaign paid nearly $3 million to a consulting firm owned by Mynett.
While Omar severed ties with Mynett's consulting business by the end of 2020, his recent ventures invite further questions about whether he is exploiting his wife's political connections for profit.
Mynett's venture capital firm claims to have $60 billion under management, and its website touts its "extensive global network" and expertise in structuring "legislation."
Omar and Mynett have appeared together at events promoting foreign investment in Africa, according to the Washington Free Beacon, which noted that Omar started the U.S.-Africa Policy Working Group shortly after Mynett launched his venture capital firm.
Omar is now far richer than she could have ever dreamed before coming to America as a refugee from war-torn Somalia - but she is still convinced that America owes her something.
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For sure pharmaceutical companies made hundreds of billions of dollars during the COVID pandemic on their experimental shots, mostly mRNA creations that actually were "treatments" more than "vaccines," and ultimately have proven to carry with them a multitude of side effects, including multiple side effects that are fatal.
But now a newly released study from Germany, a peer-reviewed assessment, has shown that a cheap nasal spray, going for maybe $10 a bottle, used three times a day is mostly effective at stopping the China virus.
The study appeared in the JAMA Internal Medicine publication and was cited in a report in the Gateway Pundit.
That report said, "For years, Americans were told their only hope was to roll up their sleeves for Pfizer, Moderna, and the rest of the vaccine cartel. Trillions of dollars flowed into their coffers while dissenting doctors were silenced, families were divided, and countless workers lost their jobs under vaccine mandates."
But, it said, now the study of azelastine nasal spray confirmed it reduced COVID infections by two-thirds.
The JAMA publication confirmed, "In this randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial that included 450 participants, the incidence of laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections was significantly lower with application of azelastine nasal spray compared with placebo treatment."
The spray already has been in use "for decades to treat allergic rhinitis," and "has in vitro antiviral activity against respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2," JAMA reported.
"A phase 2, double-blind, placebo-controlled, single-center trial was conducted from March 2023 to July 2024. Healthy adults from the general population were enrolled at the Saarland University Hospital in Germany," it explained. "Participants were randomly assigned 1:1 to receive azelastine, 0.1%, nasal spray or placebo 3 times daily for 56 days. SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen testing (RAT) was conducted twice weekly, with positive results confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Symptomatic participants with negative RAT results underwent multiplex PCR testing for respiratory viruses."
The study had 227 patients assigned to azelastine and 223 to placebo treatment.
"In the intention-to-treat (ITT) population, the incidence of PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection was significantly lower in the azelastine group (n = 5 [2.2%]) compared with the placebo group (n = 15 [6.7%]).
"As secondary end points, azelastine demonstrated an increase in mean (SD) time to SARS-CoV-2 infection among infected participants (31.2 [9.3] vs 19.5 [14.8] days), a reduction of the overall number of PCR-confirmed symptomatic infections (21 of 227 participants vs 49 of 223 participants), and a lower incidence of PCR-confirmed rhinovirus infections (1.8% vs 6.3%)," the report said.
The study was done at Saarland University Hospital in Germany.
The reduction in risk of infection amounted to 67%.
"Not only were fewer people infected, but those who did get sick had longer protection before infection (31 days on average versus 19 days in the placebo group) and shorter illness duration when measured by rapid tests (3.4 days vs 5.1 days)," the Gateway Pundit explained.
"The spray didn't just block COVID. It also: Cut symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections from 6.3% (placebo) down to 1.8%. Reduced rhinovirus (common cold) infections from 6.3% to 1.8%. Slashed the overall number of PCR-confirmed infections (COVID + other respiratory viruses) from 22% in placebo to 9.3% with azelastine."
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Two federal appeals court judges have decided to second-guess President Donald Trump's "foreign affairs and national security" decisions, ruling that the Alien Enemies Act is not available for him to use to deport members of an invading criminal gang.
The decision came from Leslie Southwick and Irma Carrillo Ramirez, of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
There already is a division among federal courts on the issue, as a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that Trump is allowed to use the AEA to deport members of the Venezuelan force, Tren de Aragua, whose troops already have invaded America with their drugs and human trafficking, and even, in leftist Colorado, the armed and organized forces simply took over apartment buildings and demanded residents pay rent to them.
A report at Fox News said Southwick and Ramirez wrote in the majority opinion of the 2-1 decision that Venezuela sending "its residents and citizens" to enter the U.S. "illegally," "is not the modern-day equivalent" of sending an army.
"A country encouraging its residents and citizens to enter this country illegally is not the modern-day equivalent of sending an armed, organized force to occupy, to disrupt, or to otherwise harm the United States."
U.S. Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham argued in dissent that the majority was second-guessing Trump's conduct in foreign affairs and national security, and those are topics on which courts should give the president great deference.
"The majority's approach to this case is not only unprecedented—it is contrary to more than 200 years of precedent," Oldham wrote.
The case already had been to the Supreme Court, which in an unsigned order said the Trump DOJ didn't give members of the Venezuelan criminal force enough time to challenge their deportations, and it sent the case back down to the 5th Circuit.
The Supreme Court had said, "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster."
The law has been used before to repel members of invading organizations, but only during wartime, the report said.
Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the pro-illegal alien American Civil Liberties Union, said, "This is a critically important decision reining in the administration's view that it can simply declare an emergency without any oversight by the courts."
The Trump administration had argued that the courts cannot second-guess the president's decisions on foreign policy and international affairs, specifically his determination that Tren de Aragua was connected to Venezuela's government and represented a danger to the U.S., which warrants using the law.
The appeals court claimed that the organized crime operations by Tren de Aragua in the United States represented "no invasion or predatory incursion."
The fight is expected to be presented to the full 5th Circuit, and possibly then the Supreme Court again.
President Donald Trump's administration is focused on making America healthy again, and part of that agenda includes prohibiting the use of taxpayer-funded food stamp benefits, more formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to purchase certain junk foods.
On Tuesday, Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had approved a waiver that allowed the state to exclude soft drinks, energy drinks, and candy from the list of foods eligible for SNAP purchases, while adding rotisserie chicken, according to Breitbart.
Louisiana now joins eleven other mostly Republican-led states that have applied for and received such SNAP waivers from the Trump administration to further the broader goal, first introduced during the 2024 campaign season by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to Make Americans Healthy Again.
In a video posted to X on Tuesday, Gov. Landry said, "Good morning, Louisiana. Guess what was in the mail? Got a great postcard from the wonderful Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, my great friend, and this is our SNAP waiver."
He thanked President Trump and Sec. Rollins "for helping make Louisiana healthy again," and noted that "SNAP beneficiaries are more likely to have higher rates of obesity. That creates a greater risk for chronic diseases."
"We want to make Louisianans healthy, so you will no longer be able to buy sugary candy, energy drinks, or soft drinks -- no more soda pop -- on food stamps," the governor continued. "But guess what? We're adding rotisserie chicken."
"We want all of Louisiana to be healthy, and our welfare programs are supposed to be a hand up, not a candy out," Landry added, as he once again thanked the president and secretary for approving the state's requested waiver.
The waiver approval letter from Sec. Rollins, dated August 4, explained that the waiver to exclude certain junk foods from SNAP eligibility in Louisiana would take effect in January 2026 and be good for two years, while also noting that it was a "novel design" that would be monitored and evaluated as a possible model to be implemented nationwide.
An attached summary of the waiver also provided definitions of what constituted and was exempted from the terms "soft drinks," "energy drinks," and "candy," along with other terms and conditions of the agreement.
At the time that letter was signed, HHS Sec. Kennedy issued a press release to celebrate the approval of SNAP eligibility waivers to exclude certain junk foods for not just Louisiana, but also Colorado, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia, which joined six other states that had received similar approvals earlier in the year, including Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah.
In that August press release, Sec. Kennedy said, "For years, SNAP has used taxpayer dollars to fund soda and candy -- products that fuel America’s diabetes and chronic disease epidemics."
"These waivers help put real food back at the center of the program and empower states to lead the charge in protecting public health," he added. "I thank these governors who have stepped up to request waivers, and I encourage others to follow their lead. This is how we Make America Healthy Again."
Sec. Rollins said at that time, "It is incredible to see so many states take action at this critical moment in our nation’s history and do something to begin to address chronic health problems."
"President Trump has changed the status quo, and the entire cabinet is taking action to Make America Healthy Again," she added. "At USDA, we play a key role in supporting Americans who fall on hard times, and that commitment does not change. Rather, these state waivers promote healthier options for families in need."
Leading Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler unexpectedly announced that he will not seek re-election next year, ending his 34-year run as a representative from New York.
Widely recognized for his rotund figure and slouching gait, Nadler has been a fixture in Democratic politics ever since he won his first House race in 1992.
The 78-year-old says the Democratic party needs "generational change," pointing to the dismal end of President Biden's career as a cautionary tale.
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party,” Nadler told the New York Times, “and I think I want to respect that.”
A staunch liberal, Nadler became widely known as a leading critic of Trump during the president's first term, when Nadler led two failed impeachments as chair of the House Judiciary Committee.
Trump and Nadler have clashed since the 1980s, when Trump became famous as a Manhattan real estate developer. The president once called Nadler "one of the most egregious hacks in contemporary politics."
His retirement comes after three House Democrats died while in office this year, fueling demands for fresh blood as Trump bulldozes through opposition in both parties.
Nadler, although advanced in age, is as vocal as ever, telling the Times that he is stepping aside to help Democrats resist Trump "and his incipient fascism."
“I’m not saying we should change over the entire party,” he told the outlet. “But I think a certain amount of change is very helpful, especially when we face the challenge of Trump," he added.
His departure will open up a contentious Democratic primary in his overwhelmingly liberal district, which spans some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in America, covering Midtown Manhattan and the Upper East and West sides.
"It’s a big deal. Nadler is a legend. He’s an institution in both Manhattan and Washington,” a Democratic Party insider told The New York Post.
“His retirement represents a generational opening. I could see at least a half dozen people running for that seat in a Democratic primary,” the insider added.
Nadler has not named a successor, but the Times reports that he is likely to endorse his former aide Micah Lasher, who represents parts of the Upper West Side in the New York State Assembly.
Staying true to his leftist record, Nadler has endorsed socialist Zohran Mamdani to be the next mayor of New York City.