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President Donald Trump on Monday said on social media that his hours-call telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin went "very well" and the result is that negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are to start "immediately."
The goal will be a ceasefire, and "more importantly, an END to the War."
"Just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. I believe it went very well. Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War," Trump explained.
"The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of. The tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent. If it wasn't, I would say so now, rather than later.
"Russia wants to do largescale TRADE with the United States when this catastrophic 'bloodbath' is over, and I agree. There is a tremendous opportunity for Russia to create massive amounts of jobs and wealth. Its potential is UNLIMITED. Likewise, Ukraine can be a great beneficiary on Trade, in the process of rebuilding its Country.
"Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin immediately. I have so informed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, President Emmanuel Macron, of France, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, of Italy, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, of Germany, and President Alexander Stubb, of Finland, during a call with me, immediately after the call with President Putin. The Vatican, as represented by the Pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations. Let the process begin!"
After the call, Putin said Moscow is ready to work toward ending the fighting.
Trump has been urging peace between the two combatants since before he took office.
The conflict began in early 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Trump's goal for the call with Putin was "to see a ceasefire."
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A lawsuit against the government over the shooting by a Capitol police officer of an unarmed Ashli Babbitt, who was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to protest what many saw as an unfair election result, apparently has been settled.
Reports say the settlement to the family is for just about $5 million, with about one-third going to lawyers who advocated for her.
A RedState report said the government apparently has agreed to those details to resolve the fight.
"Two people briefed on the matter said the Justice Department has agreed in principle to pay just under $5 million to Babbitt's family, with about one-third to go to their attorneys, who include the conservative group Judicial Watch and Alexandria, Virginia, lawyer Richard Driscoll. The two people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a pending court matter," the report said.
The case had been seeking $30 million.
The legal case alleged the police officer involved, Michael Byrd, used excessive force and unjustly caused the woman's death.
The case was brought on behalf of Ashli Babbitt's husband, Aaron.
"Lt. Byrd later confessed that he shot Ashli before seeing her hands or assessing her intentions or even identifying her as female. Ashli was unarmed. Her hands were up in the air, empty, and in plain view of Lt. Byrd and other officers in the lobby. Ashli posed no threat to the safety of anyone. Not one member of Congress was in the lobby, which was guarded by multiple armed police officers," RedState commented.
WND reported earlier when it was documented that a settlement was being pursued.
At that time, Department of Justice Lawyer Joseph Gonzalez and Robert Sticht, representing Babbitt's husband, Aaron, confirmed the settlement was in process.
Byrd shot and killed Babbitt as she was part of a group of protesters who had entered the Capitol and ended up near the House chamber.
The filing described that Byrd "negligently discharged his firearm and failed to warn Babbitt or de-escalate the situation. The suit also alleged negligence on the part of other officers near the Speaker's Lobby at the time of the shooting as well as the U.S. Capitol Police and the Capitol Police Board in failing to properly train Byrd in tactical decision-making."
Babbitt was an Air Force veteran but was killed during the protests that day.
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Some states, many cities, and even some other jurisdictions have declared themselves to be "sanctuary" locations.
Those are places where local law and its enforcers don't apply statutes regarding illegal entry into the United States, even though that is a federal crime.
They don't recognize it, they don't enforce, and many actively work to foil the federal law by refusing to accept or act on detainers, which are federal requests to turn over an illegal alien for deportation when that person finishes a local or state jail term.
Those "sanctuary" locations simply turn the wanted individuals loose, without regard for federal law enforcement.
But in one state that now could be changing.
A report from Fox News explains that in California, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli is changing things up.
He's no longer going to issue "detainers" for wanted individuals, he's going to issue criminal warrants for their arrests.
The report said his "Operation Guardian Angel" task force, including assets from ICE, HIS, DEA, FBI, ATF and Border Patrol, is under way.
"They've made it almost impossible for ICE to do their job, issue detainers and get criminal illegal immigrants out of jails. So what we're doing instead is we're going to start issuing warrants," he explained.
Federal officers scan the criminal database of those held in California jails all the time now, to identify those who are in custody, and are illegal aliens.
"We're going to flood the system with warrants for criminal illegal immigration that are in county jails, they can ignore a detainer, but they cannot ignore a criminal arrest warrant," he told Fox. "As soon as an illegal immigrant is booked into a county jail, we're reviewing their file. And if they meet the elements of illegal reentry, which is a federal crime, we are filing a complaint and getting an arrest warrant issued before they're released from state custody."
He said the plan is a test for what such adjustments in the system will do for other "sanctuary" locations, too.
After Joe Biden's administration let millions and millions of illegal aliens into the U.S. across essentially open borders, including criminal gang and terrorist elements, the administration of President Donald Trump closed the borders.
But many of the millions who already were allowed in under Biden remain.
Biden's CBP One app, to let people in, was turned into the CBP Home app, to encourage illegals to return to their home country, under Trump.
Already, 350 such warrants have been filed in just the Los Angeles area, Essayli said.
"They have no choice, they will comply. And if they don't comply, if they interfere in our ability to arrest a federal felon, they can expect to face consequences for that. So I don't expect any resistance from the local authorities," he explained.
He said, "This is the safest way for us to get criminal illegal immigrants. Get them while they're still in state custody, where they've been searched. They have no weapons, and we can do a safe transfer."
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Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer "with metastasis to the bone."
A statement from his personal office Sunday indicated: "Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms.
"On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.
"While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management.
"The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians."
President Donald Trump reacted to the news on Truth Social: "Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden's recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery."
Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News' senior medical analyst, told anchor Jon Scott: "I'm a little taken aback that it's this far advanced."
"I wouldn't say it's ominous, but I'd say it's very, very concerning and clearly a life-threatening situation."
He noted about "80% of men at the age of 80 have some prostate cancer cells in their body" and that "the five year survival rate is somewhere between 30% and 40%."
Peter Doocy, the White House correspondent for Fox News, said, "It's very sad to hear."
"As far as the diagnosis, we just know what we're told," Doocy continued. "White House officials assured us through July of last year that he was healthy enough to serve another term."
"Who knows how long they've actually known about it?"
Jeff Mason, the Reuters White House correspondent, extended his best wishes to the 82-year-old Biden and his family, and explained, "From a political angle, it will absolutely, when you set aside the realities, the health issues he's now dealing with which is private but also a story as a former president, it will also raise questions again about his decision to run for re-election."
"A lot of those questions were focused on his mental acuity, but his age of course means there's a higher likelihood of having diagnoses and diseases that come to you as you get older."
When asked if he thought the diagnosis would create more sympathy for Biden, Mason responded: "I don't know the answer to that but I think certainly the American people and people in general when they see somebody facing a diagnosis with this, have sympathy. And I'll be interested to watch how that sympathy manifests itself in terms of how people respond on Capitol Hill from both parties."
Meghan McCain, daughter of former U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who died of brain cancer in 2018, said on X: "Cancer is the absolute worst. It is hell. It is incredibly difficult for any family, anywhere that has to deal with it.
"Wishing nothing but healing, prayers, light and strength to President Biden and his family. I don't believe times like these are appropriate for politics."
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In August 2024, the U.S. Small Business Administration signed a five-year agreement with the government of India to promote Indian small- and medium-sized enterprises in the global marketplace. Framed as a knowledge-sharing partnership, the deal includes digital matchmaking tools, joint programs on access to capital and shared training on export finance, green technology and women-owned entrepreneurship.
Diverging narratives: India's ambitions vs. U.S. indifference
Despite being presented as a "landmark" agreement by the Small Business Administration, the U.S.-India MSME Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) received virtually no coverage in major American media outlets. It was not reported by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, or major networks such as CNN or Fox News. Most mentions came from Indian outlets, industry blogs, or government press releases.
This absence of domestic attention raises serious questions about how much priority the U.S. government and media actually place on a deal that claims to advance American small-business interests.
The only notable U.S. commentary came from a blog post by the SMB Center, which bluntly assessed the agreement's relevance for American entrepreneurs: "In reality, for most small business owners in the U.S., this agreement won't have much of an impact on your day-to-day operations or immediate business prospects. … It largely means nothing for the average small business owner."
The India media, however, highlighted how this new agreement will address issues related to India's MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises), including provisions to exchange expertise that will improve MSME participation in the global market, access to trade and export finance, technology, digital trade, green economy and trade facilitation.
This contrast in media coverage underscores a troubling gap: While India sees strategic gain and has deployed national resources to capitalize on the MoU, the U.S. has not mobilized its small business community or mainstream media to do the same, leaving American entrepreneurs in the dark while a foreign government positions itself to benefit.
What seems to be additionally concerning is that the five-year agreement did not appear in President Trump's U.S. Trade Representative's 2025 Trade Policy Agenda and Annual Report, while other similar SBA agreements for other countries did.
Opening American systems to foreign service providers
The agreement gives Indian firms direct access to U.S. companies and service providers through a government-backed "business matching digital platform," along with programming on trade finance, commercialization and digital technologies, all supported by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Critically, the SBA agreement makes no distinction between high-value, innovation-driven startups and low-cost outsourcing firms. It imposes no requirement for participating foreign entities to comply with U.S. labor standards, employment protections, or tax obligations.
It also fails to acknowledge that many of these Indian small- and medium-sized enterprises often operate as outsourcing vendors, offering services such as customer support, IT maintenance, accounting and administrative operations, roles that have long been offshored to the detriment of American workers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, American companies spent over $36 billion on imported business services from India in 2023.
Technology and intellectual-property risks remain unaddressed
The SBA agreement further opens the door to joint programming around technology, digital trade and innovation without any clear guardrails for data protection, commercial confidentiality, or export controls. India's Ministry of MSMEs actively manages programs that fund domestic startups to commercialize technologies, many of which are developed through international partnerships with foreign firms.
At the same time, India remains on the United States Trade Representative's Priority Watch List for systemic failures in intellectual-property enforcement. The USTR has cited "high rates of counterfeiting and trade secret theft," among other issues including a lack of adequate protections for U.S. innovators and investors.
Despite these unresolved concerns, the August 2024 SBA agreement creates new, direct pathways for Indian firms to access U.S. companies, innovation hubs and federal small business resources, particularly in high-growth sectors like green energy and digital infrastructure.
American small businesses, many built on proprietary technologies and unique workflows, are now expected to share space in SBA-facilitated engagements without any assurance their innovations won't be reverse-engineered or replicated abroad.
This raises a critical question: Does the SBA agreement provide India's MSMEs with the very access the USTR has consistently withheld? And in doing so, has the U.S. government created a backdoor for India to bypass trade enforcement mechanisms meant to protect American technology and innovation?
Record U.S. closures as foreign partnerships grow
While the SBA was expanding trade access for India, American small businesses were closing in record numbers back home.
In 2024 alone, the U.S. Small Business Administration reported more than 600,000 American small business closures. According to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. retailers announced over 7,100 store closures, a staggering 69% increase from the previous year.
The wave of shutdowns hit both major chains like CVS, Walgreens, and 99 Cents Only, as well as thousands of small, independently owned shops across the country.
Rising inflation, supply chain disruptions and tighter capital markets pushed many small enterprises out of business. The odds remain grim as nearly 1 in 5 small businesses fail within their first year and by year five, nearly half have shut down.
Yet even in the face of this crisis, the SBA appears to have shifted its focus away from its core mission of supporting American small businesses. Instead, its international engagement strategy prioritizes deeper integration with India's export infrastructure, leaving struggling U.S. entrepreneurs behind.
Meanwhile, across the globe, India is celebrating the results. In a government press release titled "2025-26: Fueling MSME Expansion – Credit access, digitisation, and business-friendly reforms lead the way," India's Ministry of MSME reports that contributions from Indian micro, small and medium enterprises have tripled between 2021 and 2024–2025.
The contrast couldn't be clearer: As American small businesses shutter under economic pressure, the U.S. government is helping fuel India's MSME boom, opening U.S. markets, sharing resources and forging partnerships that offer little in return for the American worker.
One agency, two outcomes
For small businesses in the United States, 2024 brought thousands of closures, record debt burdens and tighter access to capital. Even firms approved for SBA loans reported delays or funding gaps too large to survive.
Yet while domestic businesses face mounting pressure, the SBA formalized a multi-year agreement that promotes the international expansion of a foreign small-business sector, one that is already displacing U.S. labor, absorbing global investment and operating under rules that shield it from the obligations American firms must meet.
The SBA's partnership with India does not include a mechanism to measure or limit job displacement. It does not restrict foreign participation based on trade compliance or intellectual-property risk. And it does not ensure any tangible benefit to the struggling small businesses across America, the agency was created to serve.
As India celebrates a new era of economic dominance, America's small businesses are left behind, underfunded, underprotected, and outmatched by a foreign system our own government is helping to build.
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Transgenders in the U.S. military services – institutions that were, until recently, bastions of forced wokeness thanks to the Biden administration – are now being removed from America's armed forces under President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
\Within the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, ICD-10 diagnosis codes have shown a significant rise in "transsexualism" within the military in recent years. And according to a 2023 survey conducted by this reporter, 59% of the survey's 229 participants disclosed that they have served with a transgender.
With transsexualism on the rise with no end in sight, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that President Trump could constitutionally carry out his ban on transgender service members. The ruling came after Trump issued a Jan. 27 executive order banning transgenders from serving in the military. Then on May 8, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent a memo to senior Pentagon leadership and others within the Department of Defense to begin their removal.
According to Hegseth's memo, the active-component transgender service members have 30 days to voluntarily separate or be forced out, while those in the National Guard and Reserve have 60 days. The directive immediately impacts about 1,000 openly identifying as transgender service members.
WorldNetDaily spoke to retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, a former UH-60 Blackhawk pilot and battalion commander, who considers Hegseth's memo "a good move." As he wrote for Armed Forces Press, he is "happy to see these failed experiments end, hopefully never to return."
In Gaub's view, "It sends a clear message that weakness and wokeness will no longer be tolerated," adding, "The SecDef is portraying and messaging to everybody that our military is not a political work force, but a force of lethality and readiness."
"Regardless of the politics and the personal opinions of all this," he said, and even the sympathy many may feel for people drawn into transsexualism, "we have been wasting time, money, medical and other resources on people who often cannot do the job they signed up to do in the military in the first place," particularly "if they're going through" a so-called "transition" process "while they're on active duty."
"These individuals impact recruiting, retention and morale," Gaub argued. "For example, consider a parent's perspective who might not have want their kids involved in a woke military." Removing wokeness benefits such a family.
For the former battalion commander and pilot, "The whole issue has been magnified so much to the point where it was made very large in the eyes of the country's population, so this thousand people affected by getting kicked out of the military for being transvestites could have had an impact on the military's capability to meet recruiting goals."
Gaub added, "The message" – that is, removing transgenders and wokeness in general from the U.S. armed forces – "this sends to those within our country, or out of it, is one of strength and readiness, so their removal is worth this benefit."
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Just who did convicted sex-abuse kingpin Jeffrey Epstein have on speed dial on the phones in his remote island bedroom?
A new video report from OMG, O'Keefe Media Group, has some startling details, with first names of a list of those to whom Epstein wanted quick contact.
The organization has been releasing information this week about Epstein's residence on the private Little St. James island in the Caribbean.
Previously, O'Keefe released images and details about Epstein's private library.
Evidence suggests crimes committed by the convicted sex offender, who died in a New York jail while awaiting further court hearings on new charges, happened at the structures on the private Little St. James island in the Caribbean.
An earlier video release disclosed images from Epstein's kitchen, including a disturbing image in a photograph of a nude infant sitting in a sink.
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Microsoft has quietly filed notice with its home state of Washington that 2,000 jobs will be cut at its Redmond headquarters beginning July 13. The layoffs, according to the May 13 announcement, are part of a broader downsizing strategy to "reduce management layers."
There was no press conference. No apologies. Just a bureaucratic filing that confirmed what many American workers already suspected – that their jobs are no longer essential to the company they helped build.
Yet lurking beneath the surface of this corporate downsizing is a sweeping corporate realignment with global and geopolitical implications.
For while Microsoft is cutting thousands of jobs in the United States, the company is simultaneously executing its most aggressive expansion ever into a single foreign nation: India. From billion-dollar investments in AI infrastructure to skilling programs to government partnerships and cloud capacity, Microsoft is actively repositioning India, not the United States, as the centerpiece of its AI empire.
How Microsoft is using AI to replace American labor and redirect investment overseas
Globally, Microsoft is on pace to spend $80 billion this fiscal year on data centers to power its AI future. But that investment isn't fueling jobs in America, it's powering layoffs. Microsoft executives admitted at a recent JPMorgan conference that "AI is saving us hundreds of millions a year" by replacing human labor in customer support alone.
But what the company won't say publicly is this: The AI revolution they're funding isn't just about innovation, it's about offshoring – about products and services being designed, deployed and expanded in India, funded by U.S. dollars and built using technologies born in America. The very business models pioneered in the United States are now being used to undercut the American workforce and hollow out the very economy that fuels Microsoft's success and the bulk of its revenue.
In 2024, Microsoft earned $124.70 billion from the United States, accounting for 50.87% of its total earnings. In contrast, India contributed just $2.74 billion, a mere 1.12%. Yet India is where the company is placing its biggest bets.
How Microsoft turned its back on American workers
This isn't Microsoft's first move in this direction. In 2023, the company laid off 10,000 employees, nearly 5% of its global workforce, while quietly ramping up hiring overseas. In a company-wide email, CEO Satya Nadella tried to soften the blow: "While we are eliminating roles in some areas, we will continue to hire in key strategic areas." Left unsaid was that these "strategic areas" were overwhelmingly outside the U.S. and largely excluded Americans.
As U.S.-based engineers, project managers and customer service teams were handed pink slips, Microsoft expanded its international footprint with no such downsizing abroad. In fact, the company's head of India and South Asia, Puneet Chandok, made it clear in a press interview that there would be no layoffs in India.
AI empire: Made in India
Just months earlier, Microsoft's Nadella stood on stage in Bengaluru to announce the company's largest-ever foreign investment, $3 billion to build out AI infrastructure in India. This includes expanding data centers, cloud capacity and an aggressive AI workforce training program that will "skill" 10 million people in India by 2030, 2.4 million of whom were already trained in the past year. The announcement, made with little fanfare in the United States, was the largest foreign investment Microsoft has made in more than a decade.
"India is rapidly becoming a leader in AI innovation. … These investments in infrastructure and skilling … reaffirm our commitment to making India AI-first," Nadella said during a press conference hosted by the Indian government.
Microsoft's president of India and South Asia, Puneet Chandok, added: "Today's announcement strengthens our belief in India's potential and our resolve to equip the country with the resources and future-ready skills needed to excel in the global marketplace." Chandok extolled Microsoft's "commitment to copiloting India on its journey to become an AI-first nation."
Microsoft's partnership is with the IndiaAI Mission, the Indian government's flagship program that explicitly aims to dominate global AI applications by attracting foreign capital, embedding Indian infrastructure into international systems and forging deep partnerships with U.S. tech giants like Microsoft.
India: 'the world's leading nation'?
India has made no secret of its ambition to become a global economic superpower by 2047, and Microsoft is helping make it happen.
India's strategy is straightforward: Attract foreign capital, embed Indian infrastructure into global systems and acquire leadership through international partnerships, not organic innovation. As scientist and international speaker Dr. Pratik Mungekar has plainly declared, "In the quest for global supremacy and recognition, India has set its sights on a momentous goal – to claim the mantle of the world's leading nation by 2047."
While Microsoft openly fuels India's ambitions abroad, in the U.S. the American-born company is selling a different narrative. In a January 2025 blog post titled "The Golden Opportunity for American AI," Microsoft Vice Chair Brad Smith outlines what appears to be a patriotic call to action: Invest in U.S. infrastructure, protect American innovation and promote AI leadership on the world stage. Smith opens with praise for President Trump's 2019 executive order on AI, which emphasized securing critical technologies and protecting America's AI edge from strategic competitors like China.
At first glance, the message appears aligned with U.S. interests and like a national strategy. In reality, it's a veiled push for India.
For while Smith invokes President Trump's 2019 executive order emphasizing the importance of protecting America's technological advantage in AI from "strategic competitors and adversarial nations," just paragraphs later, the blog downplays these protections, calling instead for a race to "spread American AI to allies and friends" and urging U.S. policymakers to empower companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon to expand their global infrastructure with fewer regulatory constraints.
While claiming to support American leadership, then, the real message is clear: Move fast, bypass red tape and expand overseas, especially to countries like India. What's left out is the glaring contradiction. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others have already invested heavily in India, building cloud regions, establishing AI labs and embedding their technologies across India's digital economy. These aren't emerging opportunities, they're established footholds. And now, under the guise of "exporting American AI," Microsoft is lobbying Washington to support and accelerate that shift even further.
Meanwhile, the supposed urgency of outpacing China is being used as a fear-based distraction. Smith's "Golden Opportunity for American AI" blog warns that China is rapidly expanding its AI capabilities and building infrastructure in developing countries, using subsidies and strategic partnerships. But what it fails to acknowledge is that India has adopted a similar playbook, positioning itself not through organic innovation, but through foreign acquisition, talent funnels and massive foreign-backed infrastructure builds. India's track record of intellectual property misuse, reverse engineering and tech transfer through partnerships has been well-documented.
The U.S. Trade Representative has consistently placed India on its Priority Watch List, citing ongoing challenges in intellectual property enforcement and protection, highlighting in some reports issues like inadequate trade secret protection and the absence of specific civil or criminal laws addressing trade secret misappropriation in India. Indeed, in sectors like defense and aerospace, India has repeatedly used strategic partnerships to absorb, replicate and redeploy foreign technologies. These practices are not anomalies, they're part of a documented pattern.
Yet Microsoft, in its bid for global expansion, turns a blind eye, insists the U.S. must protect critical AI systems from "adversarial acquisition," while doing exactly that.
Conclusion: Act now, or America's AI future will be 'Made in India'
At a time when American workers are being laid off in record numbers and the very industries they built are slipping away, Microsoft has shown the world exactly where its loyalty lies – and it's not with the country that gave it life. Behind polished blog posts and patriotic slogans lies a calculated shift: an offshoring blueprint disguised as innovation, fueled by U.S. dollars and aligned with a foreign nation that has openly vowed to outpace the West.
This isn't just a corporate betrayal, it's a surrender of American leadership, a silent handover of the future to a geopolitical rival cloaked as an ally. Microsoft's AI empire isn't being built in Redmond, it's being constructed in Bengaluru, brick by brick, as part of India's grand strategy to dominate the global tech order by 2047.
If Americans doesn't recognize the cost of this betrayal soon, the "golden opportunity" won't belong to them. It will have already been outsourced, packaged, exported and claimed by a country that was never meant to lead Americans' future.
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Democrats' lawfare against President Donald Trump was much more than just their voting against his plans and ideas in Congress. More than their public innuendo about him breaking democracy. Much more than the falsified claims perpetrated by the schemers of the Russian collusion conspiracy. Much more than just the Deep Staters ignoring his orders, reversing them when they could within their own sphere of government influence.
It also was all the criminal and civil cases created against him. It was all of the wild and unsubstantiated claims they used in two failed impeach-and-remove campaigns. It was Democrat prosecutors likely misusing their positions of power to attack him.
That's the conclusion drawn from an admission by a Democrat strategist.
"I can't believe it. They finally admitted it on live TV: The prosecution of President Trump was an organized effort by the Democratic Party 'resistance.' Lawfare is real. The justice system was weaponized against President Trump," explained Scott Jennings.
It was strategist Lis Smith, also a CNN panelist who said, "Democrats cannot be only the part of resistance. We cannot – like – we resisted so hard between 2017 and 2024. We impeached the guy…"
Jennings, "Twice."
Smith, "'Like, we prosecuted him, convicted him of 34 felony counts, and guess what? He still got elected. So, I don't know how much harder we can resist right now…"
Jennings: "Are you admitting that the case in New York against Trump was part of the organized Democrat Party resistance?"
Smith, "It was a Democrat prosecutor."
Jennings: "Yeaaaaah! Okay!"
Smith, "It was! At the time I said this was unwise."
Jennings, "You were right."
Not the Bee commented, "Let's just take a moment here to appreciate what Scott Jennings' mere presence on CNN has accomplished. They have admitted to lawfare. They have admitted openly that they abused their office, abused their power, colluded with law enforcement – all in an effort to stop the Bad Orange Man."
Other social media comments:
"Damning" and "stunning" admission."
"Legend,"
"As we knew all along."
"Has hell frozen over?"
And one that made the point a little more direct: "Now they must all go to jail."
A good number of the cases against Trump failed. In one, there's the possibility that Georgia will have to reimburse Trump for his legal fees for Fani Willis' wild claim that included organized crime charges.
One in New York, before a leftist judge, resulted in 34 convictions against Trump for essentially describing his legal expenses as legal expenses, and that's on appeal.
New York Attorney General Letitia James' case, claiming fraud in a series of deals that the "victims" all were happy with Trump's performance and payments, ended up with a half a billion dollar penalty for Trump from a leftist judge had been openly critical of Trump.
That, too, is on appeal, with multiple analysts describing the result as a clear weaponization of government against Trump.
Ironically, James herself now is under investigation for possible felony charges from suspected fraud that she committed.
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Barack Obama had a so-called Iran nuclear deal that essentially did nothing but delay a time frame for the rogue Islamic regime in Iran, which has vowed repeatedly to wipe Israel from the map, to have nuclear weapons.
What the deal did do was turn over billions of dollars to the Islamists, who have sponsored financially multiple terror proxies around the world.
President Donald Trump, during his first term, pointed out the facts and pulled America out of the deal.
Joe Biden could accomplish nothing major during his term regarding Iran's agenda for nukes.
But Trump now has revealed that he's confident a new agreement will be reached soon.
"You probably read today that Iran has sort of agreed to the terms," Trump said. "They're not going to be making any nuclear dust in Iran. And we've been strong. I want them to succeed. I want them to end up being a great country, frankly, but they can't have a nuclear weapon. … And people are getting close to maybe doing a deal."
A report in the Washington Examiner noted that Ali Shamkhani, a nuclear adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had just confirmed that Tehran was ready at a moment's notice to sign a nuclear deal.
That agreement reportedly would allow Iran to enrich uranium only to levels needed for civilian use, not levels needed for weaponry. That would be in exchange for lifting of sanctions, the report said.
Shamkhani, on the topic of those conditions and an agreement, explained, "If the Americans act as they say, for sure we can have better relations. It can lead to a better situation in the near future."
The reported revealed, "His comments are the clearest indication yet of a breakthrough after four rounds of talks among senior Iranian officials, led by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and U.S. officials, led by special envoy Steve Witkoff. The latest round of negotiations in Muscat, Oman, was described by Witkoff as 'encouraging' and Araghchi as 'difficult but useful.'"
Shamkhani did express frustration, according to the report, with Trump's hard line.
"He talks about the olive branch, which we have not seen. It's all barbed wire," he claimed.
There also have been reservations expressed by key members of the Senate. They have criticized Obama's efforts as doing nothing more than allowing Iran "to play for time."
The Washington Examiner noted, "Iran, meanwhile, finds itself in its worst position in decades. Blistering strikes from Israel last year devastated its proxies and allies across the Middle East, including its primary nonstate ally, Hezbollah in Lebanon, which saw its entire leadership killed in Israeli strikes. The sudden collapse of the allied Assad regime in Syria in December removed its foremost ally in the region."
Further, economic conditions inside Iran have been described as "dire."