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DAYTONA BEACH, Florida – President Donald Trump became the runaway star of the famous Daytona 500 NASCAR race on Sunday.

"The biggest applause we heard all day long was when they put Donald Trump's face on the big screen," a Fox TV announcer said. "The crowd went crazy."

The president flew on Air Force One from Palm Beach International Airport up to what's marketed as "the world's most famous beach" to attend the annual race.

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A White House Valentine, published on social media this year, expresses a sort of love.

But not for a paramour, it's love for a country, for secure borders and safety for Americans.

It represents the dedication of the administration of President Donald Trump to national security:

It says:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Come here illegally
And we'll deport you

It's a pink image with headshots of Trump and border czar Tom Homan.

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Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has engaged in rhetoric for many years that often is out of bounds.

Get in their faces, she told supporters years ago about Republican members of the White House then. Make sure they are unwelcome in public places like restaurants and grocery stores. In other words, she was inciting confrontations that could be violent.

She hasn't changed much over the years since.

But now her words have taken on a new tone, one of extreme concern.

About what could be corruption.

In fact, she's put into words the worst nightmare for America's Left.

And it all comes because of President Donald Trump, his Department of Government Efficiency, and his campaign pledge, now actually being pursued by the White House and many federal agencies, to clean up the government, rid it of corruption, fraud and waste, and more.

Her concern, "We don't know what all they have on us."

Social media responses included "Maxine seem a little worried here."

And, "I bet she's concerned about her bank accounts being discovered."

And, "She's awfully worried."

The Gateway Pundit said the situation was Waters saying "the quiet part out loud."

Her comment came during a House Financial Services Committee hearing. She was questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

The committee meeting was shortly after Elon Musk, heading the Department of Government Efficiency, announced the government would be looking into very rich "public servants."

"We do find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have essentially a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow manage to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position. We're just curious as to where it came from. Whether they have very good investing in which that case we should take their investment advice perhaps. They seem to be mysteriously getting wealthy, and we don't know why – where did it come from? I think the reality is that they are getting wealthier at the taxpayer's expense," he suggested.

Waters actually isn't ranked among the wealthiest in Congress, but her worth still has been estimated to be in the range of millions, with bank accounts and real estate holdings.

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There is, in fact, a "constitutional crisis" in America.

That's according to the White House.

There, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explained, however, that it's not what the Democrats have been identifying in their use of their newest talking point with which they are slamming President Donald Trump.

It's leftist and activist judges, who no longer are "honest arbiters of the law."

She explained, "The real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch where district court judges in liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority.

"We believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law, and they have issued at least 12 injunctions against this administration in the past 14 days, often without citing any evidence or grounds for their lawsuits. This is part of a larger concerted effort by Democrat activists and nothing more than a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump."

She continued, "Quick news flash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts: 77 million Americans voted to elect this president and each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law and an attempt to thwart the will of the people. As the president clearly stated in the Oval Office yesterday, we will comply with the law and the courts but we will also continue to seek every legal remedy to ultimately overturn these radical injunctions and ensure President Trump's policies can be enacted."

While Democrats with a nearly unanimous voice have claimed President Trump has created the crisis by taking action to clean up the government, restore its position among nations around the world, eliminate fraud and waste, and support Americans, he has actually taken actions that literally are within the rights of the nation's chief executive.

Not even all Democrats now are submitting to the partyspeak, either.

It is Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, who said in an interview "it's just a lot of noise"

That "noise" has included a stunning five dozen lawsuits already filed against the Trump administration. Constitutional experts say that most of them may be given brief life by activist judges, but they ultimately are expected to die at the appellate level.

WND reported this week that the wild claims are being triggered by the Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire Elon Musk, which already has moved to cut thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in spending.

That has triggered Democrats, whose favorite constituencies sometimes are losing their funding. They now are calling it a "constitutional crisis."

Trump mocked the claims, assuring listeners that he has no plans to ignore court orders regarding his executive decisions: That he'll make the decisions, then appeal adverse decisions by local judges and get those overturned on appeal.

After all, he said it is his practice to follow court orders. Unlike Joe Biden, who openly boasted of defying a Supreme Court ruling he could not transfer student loan debt from the borrowers to innocent taxpayers, and then doing so.

The Washington Examiner reported Trump said, on the topic of the court orders delaying his agenda, "I always abide by the courts, and then I'll have to appeal it."

The problem he cited, however, is that the lower court judges are slowing down the process and that "gives crooked people more time to cover up the books. You know if a person's crooked and they get caught other people see that, and all of a sudden, it becomes harder later on."

He cited Paul Engelmayer, a judge who has temporarily foiled DOGE's access to Treasury Department information.

Fox News reported that contributor, and constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley "was left bewildered after a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order Monday blocking the Trump administration's buyout offer to federal employees." He explained that as being "perfectly within the wheelhouse of the president."

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President Donald Trump has sent dismissal notices to the remaining U.S. attorneys who were appointed by Joe Biden during his tenure in the White house.

Reports confirmed emails were sent by the White House deputy director for the office of presidential personnel telling the recipients, "At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as U.S. attorney is terminated, effective immediately."

A website for the Department of Justice had listed just recently as many as two dozen officials appointed by Biden who had remained in their posts.

Typically during a changeover of administrations the incoming president asks for resignations.

Newsweek reported the DOJ had not commented on the turnover in staffing. But just weeks ago, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove instructed the officials in the Washington, D.C., office to dismiss all the prosecutors who had been involved in the January 6 cases.

One immediate response that was noted came from Erek Barron, the U.S. attorney in Maryland, who wrote to staff members, "As many of you may know by now, my time with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland has come to an end. It has been an honor to lead such a talented and dedicated team."

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President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, run by Elon Musk, has uncovered stunningly wasteful and offensive spending by the federal government, and has been trying to cut that off, even clawing back funding at times.

But a new statement from Musk, on social media, is pushing the outrage to a whole new level, pointing out that the government paid $9 million in a contract for "Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) Large Scale Social Deception (LSD)."

It is the Liberty Daily that promptly raised questions about the massive expenditure, and its reason:

"Many of the proposed Community Notes cite references to programs coordinated by Reuters that focus on fighting 'disinformation' and inappropriate social engineering. But just because they claim their motives are positive doesn't change the fact that they've participated in spreading disinformation in the name of 'stopping' disinformation. This has been demonstrated clearly by the push to promote ineffective and dangerous COVID jabs. Conspicuously, the contract was for 2018 (before COVID) through 2022 (peak injection time). Why did they have a program set up to fight COVID disinformation before COVID was known to exist? Why were they tasked with social engineering and 'large scale social deception' by DARPA? What will DOGE and the Trump administration do about this?"

Musk had referenced a posting from Mario Nawful, who said, "DOGE investigations reveal mysterious Defense Department payments to Reuters for 'large scale social deception' project between 2018-2022. While DARPA claims it was for cyber defense, questions swirl about why a news agency received millions for 'social engineering.' The revelation comes as other media outlets face scrutiny over federal funding. Source: USASpendingGov,"

The Reuters referenced is the parent company of the Reuters news agency.

The Daily Mail reported DOGE found the Department of Defense awarded Thomson Reuters Special Services the $9.15 million contract in September 2018.

"The contract was filed under the Pentagon's 'Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services' and 'Research and Development' programs. And a pro-Trump incubator and investing consultant claims the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says the contract to TRSS was for cyber defense," the report explained.

Trump, on social media, said, "Looks like Radical Left Reuters was paid $9,000,000 by the Department of Defense to study 'large scale social deception.' GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!"

It noted, "On the government website that tracks and publishes contracts the federal agencies award to private companies, the $9 million contract for TRSS is listed on the purchase order as being for 'Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) Large Scale Social Deception (LSD).'"

The reported noted on the contract was a statement that some funding provided in 2020 and beyond was related to COVID-19.

Government payments to other news organizations also have been identified, and criticized.

For example, Politico got $8 million in payments from the now-defunct U.S. Agency for International Development in return for access to premium services.

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Democrats are lining up behind a new talking point to undermine President Donald Trump's agenda to clean up the federal government, eliminate waste and fraud, and focus on projects and costs that are in the nation's national interests.

Through his Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire Elon Musk, already has moved to cut thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in spending.

Which has triggered Democrats, whose favorite constituencies sometimes are losing their funding. They now are calling it a "constitutional crisis."

Trump mocked the claims, assuring listeners that he has not plans to ignore court orders regarding his executive decisions: That he'll make the decisions, then appeal adverse decisions by local judges and get those overturned on appeal.

After all, he said it is his practice to follow court orders. Unlike Joe Biden, who openly boasted of defying a Supreme Court ruling he could not transfer student loan debt from the borrowers to innocent taxpayers, and then doing so.

The Washington Examiner reported Trump said, on the topic of the court orders delaying his agenda, "I always abide by the courts, and then I'll have to appeal it."

The problem he cited, however, is that the lower court judges are slowing down the process and that "gives crooked people more time to cover up the books. You know if a person's crooked and they get caught other people see that, and all of a sudden, it becomes harder later on."

He cited Paul Engelmayer, a judge who has temporarily foiled DOGE's access to TRreasury Department information.

Vice President JD Vance has pointed out that it's illegal for a judge to interfere in the duties of the executive branch.

Trump explained, "I would hope that a judge, if you go to a judge and you show them, 'Here's a corrupt situation. We have a check to be sent, but we found it to be corrupt. Do you want us to send this corrupt check to a person, or do you want us not to give it and give it back to the taxpayer?' I would hope a judge would say, 'Don't send it. Give it back to the taxpayer.'"

Vance charged, ""If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power."

Democrats routinely accuse Trump of ignoring court decisions, a situation that has yet to develop.

The "constitutional crisis," Vance has explained, could actually be something not of Trump's making.

"If the elected president says, 'I get to control the staff of my own government,' and the Supreme Court steps in and says, 'You're not allowed to do that' — like, that is the constitutional crisis. It's not whatever Trump or whoever else does in response. When the Supreme Court tells the president he can't control the government anymore, we need to be honest about what's actually going on," Vance has said.

The real constitutional crisis is the evolution of a fourth branch of government — a massive power center insulated from accountability, immune from the results of elections, and yet eager to impose its will on We the People.

The real constitutional crisis lies in leftist… https://t.co/qkD8rbmYQY

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) February 12, 2025

Fox News reported that contributor, and constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley "was left bewildered after a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order Monday blocking the Trump administration's buyout offer to federal employees.

He explained that as being "perfectly within the wheelhouse of the president."

"The report said, "The legal group Democracy Forward sued on behalf of labor unions representing thousands of employees, claiming the administration can't administer payments. In a letter to its members, the AFGE noted that the buyout offer doesn't guarantee that the employee's resignation will be accepted or that the benefits will be paid."

It also claimed the offer violates federal law.

Trump, in an Oval Office comment, said, "Any court that would say that the president or his representatives, like secretary of the treasury, secretary of state, whatever, doesn't have the right to go over their books and make sure everything's honest — I mean, how can you have a country? You can't have anything that way. You can't have a business that way. I hope that the court system is going to allow us to do what we have to do. We got elected to, among other things, find all of this fraud, abuse, all of this, this horrible stuff going on. And we've already found billions of dollars. … And when you get down to it, it's going to be probably close to a trillion dollars."

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has publicly explained why two Associated Press reporters were denied access to White House events: Their organization is pushing a "lie" by continuing to refer to the body of water off the coast of Louisiana as the Gulf of Mexico.

President Donald Trump, on his first day in office, ordered it renamed the "Gulf of America" and that was done for official government references. Apple and Google also have made that change. On Super Bowl Sunday this week, he designated Feb. 9 as "Gulf of America Day."

But AP, claiming that it needed to make its references easily recognizable for all audiences, said it would not change, although it would note Trump's announcement.

AP, which has held dictatorial power in journalism for decades by assembling and distributing its own journalism stylebook, which often has moved into advocacy for leftist ideals in recent years, released a statement from spokeswoman Julie Pace, who said, "It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP's speech not only severely impedes the public's access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment."

Leavitt explained how that thinking was faulty:

Asked about the barred reporters, she said, "First of all, let me just set the record straight. It is a privilege to cover this White House. It is a privilege to be the White House press secretary. Nobody has the 'right' to go into the Oval Office and ask the president of the United States questions. That is an invitation that is given."

She noted, "There are hundreds of outlets on this campus, many of you in this room, who don't have the privilege of being part of that pool every single day, and getting to ask the president questions.

"We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office."

She then was asked about the reasons.

"I was very upfront in my briefing on day one that if we feel there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable," she said, "It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America. And I'm not sure why news outlets don't want to call it that, but that is what it is.

"The secretary of Interior has made that the official designation, Apple has recognized that, Google has recognized that. Pretty much every other outlet in this room has recognized that body of water as the Gulf of America. And it's very important to this administration that we get that right, not just for people here at home but for also for the rest of the world."

Trump's agenda, of course, is the Make America Great Again plan, and his design is to promote the presence of America, and its influence, everywhere.

The agency reported Tim Richardson, of PEN America, claimed that the decision was "an affront to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which bars the government from impeding the freedom of the press."

Also putting itself in an antagonistic position to Trump, the White House Correspondents Association, a private organization that imposes its ideologies on seating charts at White House press events, called it unacceptable.

While news organizations may say denying their access to the White House is a First Amendment issue, that question is cloudy, as they are among the few – out of thousands of news organizations nationwide – that have been given that access as a privilege. The decision actually imposes no control over what that reporting agency writes.

Of course, Trump's renaming of the gulf does not necessarily affect what other nations may label it.

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A policy adviser for the U.S. Department of the Treasury has admitted on camera that workers in the agency are defying Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

Because DOGE and Musk are, "risks to national security."

The video comes from O'Keefe Media Group, which goes undercover to interview subjects.

This one was identified as Nate Johnson, a policy adviser in the agency.

He called DOGE, "Government sanctioned harassment," and complained about Trump's offer to have federal workers agree to resign in return for months of pay.

He said no one thinks that's legal, and it would end up firing the "wrong people."

Further, he complained that DOGE should not have access to Treasury information because, even if they're American, they could give information to a "foreign governmenta."

He admitted there are problems, with employees in the government for 40 years, who "don't do much."

And he explained he works on situations where there could be security issues with a foreign investment in America, and said those often are resolved with an agreement … and subsequent monitoring.

He claimed Musk is "showing what he really cares about is money. So in theory all he wants is more money."

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A Democrat in Congress is urging Americans to "bring actual weapons" against Elon Musk as the head of DOGE continues to expose massive amounts of spending waste in the federal government.

U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., told CNN on Wednesday that Musk is "harming the American public in an enormous way, and what I think is really important and what the American public want, is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight.

"This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country."

During a DOGE Subcommittee hearing earlier in the day, Garcia held up a giant photo of a dapper Musk in a tuxedo, and referred to it as a "d*ck pic."

CNN's Brianna Keilar asked Garcia: "Do you think that calling Elon Musk a 'd*ck' is effective messaging for confronting what is a potentially an irreversible transformation of the U.S. government?"

"Well, he is a d*ck," Garcia responded.

Commenters on X indicated: "Robert Garcia needs criminal charges immediately. Congress should censor him or expel him. He also should be permanently banned or suspended on X, Facebook, etc. for violating their rules. All violent politicians should face real world consequences."

"So 'defending democracy' now means openly calling for violence against political opponents? The mask is off – Democrats aren't just corrupt, they're dangerous. If there's no accountability for this, they'll keep escalating."

The call for violence against Musk came the same day a mysterious ad appeared in Washington, D.C., stating "Help Eliminate Elon."