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'When we examine her Test Scores, we will find out that she is NOT qualified for office but, nevertheless, far more qualified than Crockett, who is a seriously Low IQ individual, or Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our Country'
In the wake of an impeachment suggestion by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, President Donald Trump uncorked a fierce criticism of the New York congresswoman and fellow Democrats, saying AOC should be forced to take a cognitive test.
In a lengthy post on Truth Social Tuesday, Trump said: "Stupid AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the 'dumbest' people in Congress, is now calling for my Impeachment, despite the fact that the Crooked and Corrupt Democrats have already done that twice before.
"The reason for her 'rantings' is all of the Victories that the U.S.A. has had under the Trump Administration. The Democrats aren't used to WINNING, and she can't stand the concept of our Country being successful again.
"When we examine her Test Scores, we will find out that she is NOT qualified for office but, nevertheless, far more qualified than [Jasmine] Crockett, who is a seriously Low IQ individual, or Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our Country, yet the Failed Country that she comes from doesn't have a Government, is drenched in Crime and Poverty, and is rated one of the WORST in the World, if it's even rated at all. How dare 'The Mouse' tells us how to run the United States of America!
"We're just now coming back from that Radical Left experiment with Sleepy Joe, Kamala, and 'THE AUTOPEN,' in charge. What a disaster it was! AOC should be forced to take the Cognitive Test that I just completed at Walter Reed Medical Center, as part of my Physical. As the Doctor in charge said, 'President Trump ACED it,' meaning, I got every answer right.
"Instead of her constant complaining, Alexandria should go back home to Queens, where I was also brought up, and straighten out her filthy, disgusting, crime ridden streets, in the District she 'represents,' and which she never goes to anymore. She better start worrying about her own Primary, before she thinks about beating our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, whose career is definitely on very thin ice!
"She and her Democrat friends have just hit the Lowest Poll Numbers in Congressional History, so go ahead and try Impeaching me, again, MAKE MY DAY!
On Saturday, as Trump unleashed U.S. military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities, AOC posted an online message stating: "The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
"He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment."
Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is shooting down the impeachment call, saying "it's going anywhere."
"Of course, no [he should not be impeached]," Fetterman said Monday on Fox News.
"She knows it. I know it. We all know it … that's not going anywhere. He's been impeached twice, and now he's still our president as well too, so it's not going anywhere, and I don't think [bringing it up is] helpful."
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A city official in California is under FBI investigation, according to multiple reports, for calling on gangs in her city to "protect" their "turf" from "the biggest gang there is," the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The video later was deleted, but the investigation now focuses on the threats from Cynthia Gonzalez, vice mayor of Cudahy,.
She had delivered her instructions to members of the 18th Street and Florencia 13 gangs.
There have been repeated riots in Los Angeles that were triggered by ICE officers delivering warrants and making arrests in an investigation into cartel crimes, apparently including money laundering.
Activists claimed the enforcement involved "immigration raids" and launched riots that have cost millions of dollars in damages and cleanup.
According to the New York Post, "Gonzalez later posted that the FBI came to her house and that she needs a lawyer," a Fox reporter confirmed.
"A spokesperson for the FBI's LA field office neither confirmed nor denied the investigation to The Post, but emphasized that the Bureau condemns all gang violence," the report said.
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, whose resume includes not only testifying to Congress as an expert on constitutional issues but representing members in court in those disputes, said, "The call for gang action is disgraceful, particularly as ICE reports a 500 percent increase in attacks on its officers. However, I do not believe that the comments can be the basis for a criminal charge and would be considered protected speech."
"Gonzalez has now taken down the video below, but she earlier called for these gangs to move against ICE: 'It's everyone else who's not about the gang life that's out there protesting and speaking up. We're out there… protecting our turf and protecting our people. And, like, where you at?'" he explained.
He noted, "This is not the first time that Democratic politicians have enlisted violent groups as political allies. Some Democrats have played a dangerous game in supporting or excusing the work of Antifa. Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, once said Antifa would 'strike fear in the heart' of Trump. This was after Antifa had been involved in numerous acts of violence, and its website was banned in Germany."
Further, he explained, "Ellison's son, Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of the protests this summer. During a prior hearing, Democratic senators refused to clearly denounce Antifa and falsely suggested that the far right was the primary cause of recent violence."
He said, "The video may not be criminal, but it is still an indictment of how some Democratic politicians continue to pander to violent groups for political purposes. It is a dangerous game. History has shown that those who fuel extreme groups often find themselves later targets as mob rule takes hold. Gonzalez may find that she is also unwelcome on their 'turf.'"
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A new secret investigation has been launched within the Trump administration of hundreds of scientists who are working inside the United States, but actually come from "countries of concern," such as China, according to a new report from Just the News.
The publication reported its sources have confirmed the investigation into scientists that sometimes have accessed the United States by "using visas procured with the help of the National Institutes of Health and other federal research agencies."
The concerns were heightened recently when "three Chinese scientists were arrested … trying to smuggle into America dangerous pathogens like fungi and roundworms capable of destroy crops."
The absence of a review by prior administrations of whether scientists were linked to "actors" like the Chinese military or its Community Party triggered the review.
The report explained there could be as many as 1,000 scientists from those nations, mostly from China, who have been identified as working inside NIH alone.
"The Trump administration is committed to safeguarding America's national and economic security. Taxpayer dollars should not and cannot fund foreign espionage against America's industrial base and research apparatus," White House spokesman Kush Desai told Just the News.
Officials told Just the News the urgency of the new effort underscores the lax screening procedures under the NIH leadership of Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, the prominent promoter of dangerous mRNA shots during the COVID pandemic.
The report pointed out that GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, has released a half a dozen reports or more in recent years warning that NIH and other agencies, "and their surrogates inside universities," simply don't have the safeguards to guard American research from foreign influences.
One of those concluded, "China is America's top adversary, and foreign influence remains a key risk for the country's national security. DOD and DHS officials lack specific guidance on how acquisition personnel should collect information, assess, or mitigate potential national security risks when awarding contracts for consulting services."
The report noted, "Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese virologist who defected to the United States in 2020 and alleged the COVID-19 virus was man-made, told Just the News that most scientists in her home country who win a visa to the United States sign contracts with the communist government of China to use their time in America for their home country's benefit."
Yan said, on the Just the News, No Noise television show that, "The scientists getting visas from China to the US, they are visiting scholars, and they have signed the contract with Chinese government to go back to China, serve for China with whatever they can get from the U.S."
And Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Texas, said on the John Solomon Reports podcast, "The Chinese have been infiltrating our intellectual property, both covertly and on the surface for us to see. Yet we have sat back and allowed it to happen."
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is still untangling the financial webs that were woven by criminals when the federal money was flowing at the height of the pandemic.
Case in point, a former news presenter from Phoenix was found guilty by a federal jury in Texas of conspiring to cheat the government of COVID-19 relief funds following a weeklong trial, as The Daily Mail reported.
Stephanie Hockridge and her husband, Nathan Reis, co-founded Blueacorn, which was a financial technology company that directed businesses in applying for the government Paycheck Protection Program.
Before her 2018 retirement from television, Hockridge spent seven years as a news anchor for Phoenix's ABC15.
“This defendant exploited a national emergency to personally profit from a taxpayer-funded program intended to support vulnerable individuals and small businesses,” said Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
“This conviction demonstrates the Department’s commitment to holding individuals accountable for defrauding the government and wasting taxpayer money.”
She and Reis were said to have falsified paperwork in order to seek loans totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars that they did not qualify for.
They allegedly went on to establish a business called "VIPPP" where they advised clients on how to submit false PPP loan applications in exchange for kickbacks proportional to the amount of the loans, as stated in their indictment.
A jury convicted Hockridge of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud; however, she got off on the other four charges.
A maximum of twenty years behind bars is in her future after she receives sentencing in the next few months.
“During a time of crisis in our country, this defendant abused the generosity of the American people by stealing money dedicated to the survival of small businesses to fraudulently enrich herself,” said Acting U. S. Attorney Nancy E. Larson for the Northern District of Texas. “We are proud of the diligent work of our law enforcement partners to hold her accountable and bring her to justice. Make no mistake, our efforts to bring such fraudsters to justice are ongoing.”
Hockridge said she sought to expose and prevent fraud, claiming she was misled. Her legal team attempted to justify her behavior by saying it was "a sincere effort to support small businesses during a time of unprecedented need" and blamed her husband for keeping her in the dark.
Reis will face a trial in August of this year. The charges against him included four counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
“This verdict is a victory for justice, accountability, and the American public,” said Special Agent in Charge Christopher J. Altemus Jr. of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Dallas Field Office. “In a time of crisis, the Paycheck Protection Program was created as a lifeline to keep small businesses afloat and families fed."
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Sneers at critics of leftist, racist, sexist ideologies being taught in many classrooms, but one responds with, 'I love it when they are transparent about how sinister they are'
Stacy Davis Gates is president of the Chicago Teachers Union and spoke recently at a meeting of the City Club of Chicago.
She insisted that residents should "blame President Donald Trump, not the city's broken politics, for the fact that Chicago Public Schools are running a deficit of over a half a billion dollars," according to a Western Journal commentary published at the Gateway Pundit.
But the posting suggested her real title should be "the newest reason for you to homeschool your children."
That's because she went out of her way, snarkily ridiculing critics of the public education industry and its ideologies, to insist that she believes schools do own all the children.
She explained, "The budget and its choices manifest into real impact that our young people get to experience. So choices about the budget left students at Julian High School in 2025 without a math teacher for nearly a year, Clemente high school without a chemistry teacher … Those are not occurrences. Those are choices."
But her real ideology soon was revealed, when she explained, "one of the first social studies lessons taught in kindergarten classrooms is of community" as that lets children "come to understand the connectedness of people and institutions."
"The attack on the idea of community is exactly the point," she charged.
She pointed to "right-wing outrage" triggered by "a teacher who quoted African-American author James Baldwin during a rally last year."
"The children are always ours. Every single one of them, all over the globe."
Turning on her sneer voice, she said, "And what comes next is, 'CTU, you think your children are its children.'"
She confirmed, "Yes. Yes we do. We do. [Sneering again] 'CTU thinks all children belong to it, and their socialist conspiracy ideology.'"
She then claimed the corporate education industry educates, nurtures, protects and supports children, and even negotiates for them, although it was unclear what those negotiations involve.
Social media responses included:
"This is so vile."
"They wouldn't treat a dog they (sic) way those children are treated."
"I love it when they are transparent about how sinister they are."
The commentary noted, "And of course they are. We're just coming off the Biden administration, where the president said — in the same speech, mind you — that we've got to stop making teachers 'the target of the culture wars,' then told a group of teachers that their charges are 'not somebody else's children; they're like yours when they're in the classroom.'"
The report noted the full speech is here:
A new Inspector General report has found that former President Joe Biden's administration allowed rampant abuse of remote work by federal employees.
The new report, released by the Office of Personnel Management on Friday, details a culture lacking any oversight or effective management of remote workers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic that led to massive numbers of workers staying home in both the public and private sector.
Acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell issued a statement saying, "Under the previous administration, OPMʼs telework and remote work policies were mismanaged and oversight was virtually nonexistent. That era of telework abuse is over. At President Trumpʼs direction, OPM has restored in-person operations to ensure federal employees are working for the taxpayers.”
President Donald Trump has made optimization of the federal government a priority in his 2nd term in the White House, and he plans to both cut the federal workforce down significantly while ensuring the remaining workers are efficient.
The Biden administration didn't seem to care about ensuring taxpayer dollars were spent well and allowed employees to abuse lax requirements for years.
The new report from the OPM confirmed that an astounding 58.1% of employees sampled failed to meet minimum requirements for in-office work under President Biden's leadership.
Furthermore, the report found that nearly one-third (29.7%) had lapsed telework agreements, 21% had discrepancies in their paperwork, and 15% did not have any approved agreements on file, likely due to intentional fraud or abuse.
The picture painted by the report is one of fraud and waste that the Biden administration was facilitating.
Shortly after being sworn in, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies and departments to “take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements” and return all federal workers to the office.
That executive order does give department heads the power to carve exemptions from return-to-work policies, but it's clear that the Trump administration wants federal workers in the office and working hard for their taxpayer-funded paychecks.
Those employees who are allowed to work from home will be subject to new internal controls and compliance reviews to ensure there is no fraud or abuse of the system.
If you ask many Americans, President Biden never had a positive legacy. However, these continued discoveries of corruption and general mismanagement by the Biden administration only serve to hack down any legacy that Biden may have had with more centrist voters.
This report is further vindication for President Trump, who has long accused Biden of being incompetent and mismanaging the federal government and costing taxpayers billions.
The Trump administration is prioritizing taxpayers and will end every source of waste to cut back on the ballooning debt that threatens to swamp the nation.
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A mountainside has collapsed in Banff National Park in Canada, leaving authorities fearing a number of hikers have been killed. One death already has been confirmed.
Officials estimate up to 20 people were in the vicinity when the rockfall happened near Bow Glacier Falls, north of Lake Louise.
Lake Louise Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed "multiple hikers" were caught in the collapse that happened Thursday afternoon.
A report from the Daily Mail said, "An initial joint statement by RCMP and Parks Canada confirmed one person died at the scene, and three others were evacuated to the hospital. Their conditions have not been shared at this time."
The report said the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service dispatched two helicopters and transported each patient one by one to Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary.
Social media videos show a large shelf of stone collapsing and crashing down the mountain.
Niclas Brundell confirmed to CBC News he was in the vicinity and watched the slide he estimated at 160 feet wide and 30 feet deep.
"We heard this like 'chunk' noise and the whole roof of the wall came loose. And we just started sprinting down. I was yelling at my wife, 'Go, go, go! We need to run as fast as we can' We just kept sprinting and I couldn't see the people behind us anymore because they were all in that cloud of rock. And I saw rocks coming tumbling out of that. So it was, it was big. It was, like, the full mountainside," he narrated.
The park region now has been closed by authorities.
The Mail reported, "Alberta's premier, Danielle Smith, shared a statement as well, offering her condolences to the families affected by this tragic natural disaster. 'I am deeply saddened to learn of the tragic event at Bow Glacier Falls, north of Banff, today. We are thinking of all those involved and wishing for their safety as we await further details.'"
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A Colorado man, Barry Morphew, has been arrested and charged with his wife's murder five years after she disappeared.
And two years after her body was found.
KDVR television in Denver said Morphew was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of first-degree murder for the death of Suzanne, apparently in 2020. Her remains were found in Saguache County in 2023.
He was arrested in Arizona on Friday and the 12th Judicial District is working to have him extradited to Colorado, the report said.
He had been charged earlier, but that case was dismissed before her body was found.
In a statement, District Attorney Anne Kelly said, "Federal, State and local law enforcement have never stopped working toward justice for Suzanne. The Twelfth Judicial District Attorney's Office stands in solidarity with Suzanne's family and the citizens of Chaffee and Saguache Counties in pursuing the Grand Jury's indictment.":
Suzanne Morphew, 43, was reported missing on May 10, 2020, after she went for a bike ride and didn't return.
Barry Morphew quickly was suspected and charged, but the case fell apart over claims a district attorney at the time had withheld information from the court.
Reports at the time confirmed the marriage was turbulent, with Suzanne reportedly having an affair and Barry facing claims he was an abuser.
Suzanne's bike was found abandoned close to the family's $1.5 million home but reports say police suspected it was staged.
The Daily Mail reported, "Barry told police he was out of town for a landscaping job three hours away in Broomfield, just outside of Denver. He had spent the night before her murder in a cheap hotel room that his coworker later found scattered with wet towels and stinking of chlorine."
Her body was found later, and an autopsy concluded she died by murder after a cocktail of drugs used to tranquilize wildlife was found in her bones.
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Four men have pleaded guilty to charges coming out of a $550 million USAID fraud scheme, pulling back the curtain on some of what went on in the federal operations that were targeted by Elon Musk when he was working with the Department of Government Efficiency.
His plan essentially gutted that program, and now some of the details are emerging.
One report confirmed that the defendants in the case "used YOUR tax dollars to buy NBA tickets, country club weddings, and laundered MILLIONS in cash through corrupt entities."
The report said, "One defendant 'exploited his position at USAID to line his pockets with bribes in exchange for more than $550 million in contracts.'"
A New York Post report said the defendants included a federal contracting officer and three businessmen.
They pleaded guilty on Thursday to participating in that scheme.
"Roderick Watson, of Maryland, is alleged to have received bribes valued in excess of $1 million while working at USAID in exchange for using his position as a trusted overseer of taxpayer money to direct 14 prime federal contracts to two consulting companies, Apprio and Vistant," the publication reported.
The 57-year-old pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official and could get up to 15 years in prison.
Walter Barnes, owner of Vistant, and Darryl Britt, owner of Apprio, used Paul Young, the president of a subcontractor used by both Vistant and Apprio, as a middleman to conceal some of the bribes destined for Watson, the Department of Justice charged in the case.
Each of the business operators pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and Barnes pleaded to securities fraud.
The DOJ explained it was back in 2013 when Watson, working at USAID, agreed to use his influence to push contracts to Apprio, which was given the privilege of lucrative federal deals because of its status as a "socially and economically disadvantaged" business.
"When Apprio 'graduated' from the SBA 8(a) program, the scheme shifted, and Watson began awarding prime contracts to Barnes' Vistant company – an Apprio subcontractor – between 2018 and 2022, in exchange for bribes," the report said.
The money went to, among other things, an NBA game suite, a country club wedding, down payments on two homes, cell phones and even "jobs for relatives," the DOJ said.
The skimming operations where concealed with shell companies, fake invoices and fraudulent accounting documents.
The Trump administration, in its demands to shut down USAID, charged that there was widespread waste, fraud and abuse there.
A DOJ spokesman said the four "violated the public trust by corrupting the federal government's procurement process."
Former Democratic senator Bob Menendez has officially reported to prison to begin his 11-year sentence for corruption.
It's a humbling step for the once-powerful New Jersey Democrat, who was found guilty of taking bribes in a lurid corruption trial.
The longtime senator and his wife Nadine were convicted of accepting gold bars, a luxury car, cash, and mortgage help in the sprawling scheme.
Menendez reported to Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill in Minersville, Pennsylvania, which houses 1,200 inmates.
The facility has a medium-security prison and a minimum-security camp. It's expected that Menendez, 71, will serve his time in the minimum-security camp, the AP noted.
The senator was found guilty of selling his influence as chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee to businessmen with ties to the governments of Egypt and Qatar.
In return for the senator's favors, the businessmen gave a Mercedez-Benz vehicle to his wife Nadine after she crashed her previous car in a deadly accident that killed a pedestrian. Nadine also received help with her mortgage, and the couple was showered with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gold bars.
In exchange for the glitzy gifts, Menendez promised to protect his co-conspirators from criminal prosecution, among other favors.
Menendez was tried separately from his wife, who is set to be sentenced on September 11. She was found guilty in April, months after her husband's conviction for bribery, corruption, and acting as a foreign agent. He resigned from Congress a month after his conviction in July.
At his trial, Menendez blamed his foreign-born wife, who is from Lebanon, painting her as the sophisticated mastermind.
"She kept things from him," the senator's attorney, Avi Weitzman, told jurors during opening statements. "She kept him in the dark on what she was asking others to give her. She was outgoing; she was fun loving. But she wasn't going to let Bob know that she had financial problems."
Two businessmen, Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, were also found guilty and sentenced to eight years and seven years respectively, while a third businessman, Jose Uribe, turned state's witness against Menendez.
The former senator appears to be lobbying for a pardon, claiming he is a victim of the same politicized justice system that targeted President Trump.
“This process is political and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system,” Menendez told reporters after his January sentencing.