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The conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to rage, with no resolution in sight.
With peace talks stalled, Russian drones recently targeted Ukrainian power infrastructure in both northern and southern regions, cutting electricity to approximately 60,000 people. In response, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy promised counterstrikes far beyond Russian's borders.
After three and a half years of war, questions linger about potential paths to peace, while concerns continue to mount over how much the American military should be involved. Last month, President Donald Trump said a peace deal with Russia would not include deploying U.S. troops to Ukraine's borders.
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, a former UH-60 Black Hawk pilot and battalion commander, agrees with the president, telling Fox News "'boots on the ground' in Ukraine is not necessary."
WorldNetDaily spoke to Gaub in-depth to flesh out what is really happening right now in the Russia-Ukraine war – and America's involvement.
"Trump's primary leverage – one that he's been using lately – is economic," Gaub explained. "The key thing the U.S. can do is tie ourselves to Ukraine economically and help them use their own resources to build themselves up economically and rebuild their own country." By doing that, he said, the Eastern European country could rebuild its military and take a formidable stance against Russia.
"The challenge in this conflict is that Russia saw this coming for years and built an alliance and economic system to survive the inevitable sanctions," Gaub explained to WND. "Not only did he invest heavily in golds and silvers, but he also tied himself closely to China and Iran." As the retired Army officer explained, "Through these nations, he's still able to sell energy and fuel his economy and war industry."
Additionally, Gaub considers it "unfortunate" that "Trump has placed around himself some bad actors providing equally bad advice."
Despite these setbacks, it still appears only the weight of American influence could compel Vladimir Putin to change his course of action. "This takes time and there has to be some security guarantees in order to make this possible," said Gaub. "A calculated discussion about the use of intelligence assets – space and airborne – could enforce a no-fly zone, for example." But, he added, "To think you need to have U.S. troops patrolling some sort of demilitarized zone between Russia and Ukraine is absolutely ridiculous and should never happen."
"Sadly," Gaub explained to WND, "European politicians talk one way to Trump, and act another way at home. They are content to let Ukraine fight on until the last standing Ukrainian." Why? "Too many European nations still benefit economically from the war," said Gaub, "and continue to make unrealistic demands that serve only to keep the war going, such as refusing to accept that Ukraine would have to make land concessions and that the Crimea be recognized as Russian."
"Ukraine is not in a good place militarily," Gaub pointed out, noting that "continuing to destroy Russian oil infrastructure will only serve to push Russia into a corner where they will fight harder."
"History is full of lessons that teach us the things we shouldn't do, but it seems many are attempting to recreate history in hopes this time it will work out differently," Gaub said. He concluded on an idealistic note: "Ultimately, I hope this war ends soon and we are able to see nations elevate each other through economic interchange and trade, rather than looking at each other as opponents."
Gaub is also the author of VERITAS VINCIT: A Soldier's Perspective on Truth, Faith, Family, and Freedom."
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced that his agency would be "launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI [antidepressant] drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."
The announcement came one day after the Aug. 27 mass shooting of children in a Minneapolis Catholic School. Kennedy specifically said HHS would investigate whether drugs taken by transgender mass-shooter Robin Westman played a role in his church attack, during which Westman murdered 2 children and wounded 18 other people, 15 of them children.
Immediately, the establishment media went into high gear defending both the controversial drugs and transgenders with headlines like this from MSNBC: "RFK Jr. is propagating a dangerous myth about mental health treatment and violence." And the Washington Post led its coverage with, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that psychiatric drugs may have played a role in the Minnesota Catholic school shooting – a statement widely criticized as unsupported by science." Likewise, Google's search AI is entirely dismissive of RFK Jr.'s commitment to research the obvious link, denigrating the HHS secretary as a conspiracist and skeptic, whose "decision to launch the investigation has drawn sharp criticism. Opponents argue he is using a tragedy to promote disinformation and attack a vulnerable population."
In reality: 1) Individuals identifying as transgender very commonly are prescribed antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs due to high levels of anxiety and depression stemming from their "gender dysphoria"; and 2) Putting people on a regimen of powerful cross-sex hormones in a vain attempt to change their gender – something that is scientifically impossible – is well known to create havoc in both body and mind.
Indeed, as summarized below, there is a shocking and near-total correlation between psychiatric medications – particularly so-called SSRI and SNRI antidepressants – and America's most infamous and gruesome mass shooters in recent decades.
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*"When I was lying in my bed that night, I couldn't sleep because my voice in my head kept echoing through my mind telling me to kill them."
The words are those of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, struggling to explain why he murdered his grandparents, who had provided the only love and stability he'd ever known in his turbulent life. He was angry with his grandfather, who had disciplined him earlier that day for hurting another student during a fight on the school bus. So later that night, he shot both of his grandparents in the head with a .410 shotgun as they slept and then burned down their South Carolina home, where he had lived with them.
"I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger," he recalled. "Through the whole thing, it was like watching your favorite TV show. You know what is going to happen, but you can't do anything to stop it."
His lawyers would later argue that the boy had been a victim of "involuntary intoxication," since Pittman's doctors had him taking the powerful antidepressants Paxil and Zoloft just prior to the murders.
Paxil's known "adverse drug reactions" – according to the drug's FDA-approved label – include "mania," "insomnia," "anxiety," "agitation," "confusion," "amnesia," "depression," "paranoid reaction," "psychosis," "hostility," "delirium," "hallucinations," "abnormal thinking," "depersonalization" and "lack of emotion," among others.
Pittman, who was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for murdering his grandparents, would later "transition" to the female gender and change his first name to Kristen. "I, as well as my family, know that I have identified as a 'female' most of my life," Pittman wrote in a lawsuit against South Carolina prison officials, "but due to my incarceration at twelve (12) years old I was not able to take the steps of transition that I needed over the years."
* Andrea Yates, in one of the most horrifying and heartbreaking crimes in modern history, drowned all five of her children – aged 7 years down to 6 months – in a bathtub. Insisting inner voices commanded her to kill her children, she had become increasingly psychotic over the course of several years. At her 2006 murder re-trial (after a 2002 guilty verdict was overturned on appeal), Yates' longtime friend Debbie Holmes testified: "She asked me if I thought Satan could read her mind and if I believed in demon possession." And Dr. George Ringholz, after evaluating Yates for two days, recounted an experience she had after the birth of her first child:
"What she described was feeling a presence … Satan … telling her to take a knife and stab her son Noah," Ringholz said, adding that Yates' delusion at the time of the bathtub murders was not only that she had to kill her children to save them, but that Satan had entered her and that she had to be executed in order to kill Satan.
Yates had been taking the SNRI antidepressant Effexor. (SNRIs, short for serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, are similar to SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, in that both chemically elevate the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain). In November 2005, more than four years after Yates drowned her five children, Effexor manufacturer Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (since acquired by Pfizer) quietly added "homicidal ideation" – that is, murderous thoughts and feelings – to the drug's list of "rare adverse events."
And what exactly does "rare" mean in the phrase "rare adverse events"? The FDA defines it as occurring in less than one in 1,000 people. But since that same year a staggering 19.2 million prescriptions for Effexor were filled in the U.S., statistically that means over 19,000 Americans might have been experiencing "homicidal ideation" as a result of taking just this one brand of antidepressant drug during that time period.
* Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox – like Paxil and Zoloft (and trendsetter Prozac) a modern and widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs. Harris and fellow student Dylan Klebold went on a hellish school shooting rampage in 1999 during which they killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before turning their guns on themselves.
Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that during short-term controlled clinical trials 4% of children and youth taking Luvox – that's 1 in 25 – developed mania, a dangerous and violence-prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion.
The inescapable truth is, perpetrators of many of the most horrendous murder rampages in recent years were taking, or just coming off of, prescribed psychiatric drugs.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers are nervous about lawsuits over the "rare adverse effects" of their powerfully mood-altering medications. To avoid costly settlements and public relations catastrophes – such as when GlaxoSmithKline was ordered to pay $6.4 million to the family of 60-year-old Donald Schnell who murdered his wife, daughter and granddaughter in a fit of rage shortly after starting on Paxil – drug companies' legal teams have quietly and skillfully settled hundreds of cases out-of-court, shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to plaintiffs. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly fought scores of legal claims against Prozac in this way, settling for cash before the complaint could go to court while stipulating that the settlement remain secret – and then claiming it had never lost a Prozac lawsuit.
Meanwhile, the list of killers who were taking prescribed psychiatric medications is long and chilling. Some prominent examples most people will remember:
* Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old former student who in 2018 murdered 17 people – 14 students and 3 staff members – at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., was on psychiatric medications "to deal with his emotional fragility," his mother's sister, Barbara Kumbatovich, told the Miami Herald.
* In 2017, Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock had benzodiazepines (e.g. Valium and similar anti-anxiety drugs) in his system when, out the window of his 32nd-floor hotel room, he shot 58 people to death and wounded hundreds more in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
* Patrick Purdy went on a schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, Calif., in 1989, which became the catalyst for the legislative frenzy to ban "semiautomatic assault weapons" in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptyline, an antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine.
* Adam Lanza, the school shooter who massacred 26 people – 6 teachers and 20 first-grade children – at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2013, was on psychiatric meds, according to Mark and Louise Tambascio, family friends of Lanza and his mother. As Louise Tambascio told correspondent Scott Pelley on CBS' "60 Minutes," "I know he was on medication and everything, but she (Cruz's mother) homeschooled him at home 'cause he couldn't deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life." Tambascio likewise told ABC News, "I knew he was on medication, but that's all I know."
* Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents in 1998 and the next day went to his school, Thurston High in Springfield, Ore., and opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin.
* In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Ill., killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania.
* In Paducah, Ky., in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, son of a prominent attorney, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting students in a prayer meeting taking place in the school's lobby, killing three and leaving another paralyzed. Carneal reportedly was on Ritalin.
* In 2005, 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise, living on Minnesota's Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed nine people and wounded five others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac.
* Kurt Danysh, 18, shot his own father to death in 1996, a little more than two weeks after starting on Prozac. Danysh's description of own his mental-emotional state at the time of the murder sounded strikingly similar to that of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, who had shot his grandparents while on psychiatric meds. "I didn't realize I did it until after it was done," Danysh said. "This might sound weird, but it felt like I had no control of what I was doing, like I was left there just holding a gun."
* John Hinckley, age 25, took four Valium two hours before shooting and almost killing President Ronald Reagan in 1981. In the assassination attempt, Hinckley also wounded press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and policeman Thomas Delahanty.
* In still another famous case, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker, just a month after he began taking Prozac in 1989, shot 20 workers at Standard Gravure Corp. in Louisville, Ky., killing nine. Prozac-maker Eli Lilly later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors. Since then, Eli Lilly has reportedly paid out an estimated $50 million to settle 300 lawsuits filed as a result of homicides, suicides and suicide attempts connected with use of Prozac.
These are just some of the better-known offenders who had been taking prescribed psychiatric drugs before committing their horrendous crimes – there are many others.
Today, despite the fact that literally all modern antidepressants prescribed for Americans carry an FDA-mandated black box warning of increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior ("behavior," of course, meaning actually killing oneself, or trying to), antidepressants are nevertheless wildly prescribed to the American public. As psychiatrist and antidepressant expert Josef Witt-Doerring, M.D., recently explained to Tucker Carlson, approximately 1 in 5 Americans are currently taking SSRIs.
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PALM BEACH, Florida – Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse announced on Wednesday they're preparing their own list of high-profile names who allegedly sexually abused them, and one of the victims indicated Donald Trump was the pedophile's "biggest brag forever" when it came to friendship, though she did not suggest the president was among the perpetrators.
"Let me announce now," said Lisa Phillips, a model brought to Epstein's Caribbean island in 2000, "several of us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list of names. We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world. And it will be done by survivors and for survivors, no one else is involved. Stay tuned for more details on that."
"I'm demanding justice," Phillips added. "Congress must choose. Will you continue to protect predators? Or will you finally protect survivors?"
Another victim of Epstein's sexual abuse, Chauntae Davies, pointed out how Jeffrey would brag about being friends with fellow Palm Beacher Donald Trump.
"His biggest brag forever was that he was good friends with Donald Trump," Davies said. "He had an 8-by-10 framed picture of him on his desk, with the two of them."
"Epstein surrounded himself with the most powerful leaders of our country and the world."
"He abused not only me, but countless others and everyone seemed to look away. The truth is, Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag, actually."
Davies also mentioned former President Bill Clinton, saying: "I was just one of the many young women trapped in his (Epstein's) orbit. I was even taken on a trip to Africa with former president Bill Clinton and other notable figures. In those moments, I realized how powerless I was. If I spoke out, who would believe me? Who would protect me?"
"One thing is certain, unless we learn from this history, monsters like Epstein will rise again. There are files, government files that hold the truth about Epstein … ."
When asked about the Epstein case in the Oval Office Wednesday, President Trump said: "This is a Democrat hoax that never ends."
"From what I understand, thousand of pages of documents have been given, but it's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk about something that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation since I've been president."
Survivor Haley Robson addressed Trump's "hoax" comment, saying: "Mr. President, Donald J. Trump, I am a registered Republican – not that that matters, because this is not political – however, I cordially invite you to the Capitol to meet me in person so you can understand this is not a hoax. We are real human beings. This is real trauma."
"It's being gutted from the inside out," Robson explained, when asked about the emotional impact.
"It feels like you just want to explode inside because nobody again is understanding that this is a real situation. These women are real. We're here in person. … Please humanize us. … There is no hoax, the abuse was real."
"I would be more than happy to meet with him (Trump), and I will meet him halfway."
"We are the keys to this situation," Robson added. "We have the truth, and the FBI knows the truth, the government knows the truth. You may pull the wool over the sheep's eyes. But we are the keys. We know who was involved. We know the game. We know the players, and we are sitting here for 20 years waiting for you to get up and do something. Well, guess what? Your time is up and now we're doing it."
Anouska De Georgiou, another Epstein victim, said: "The days of sweeping this under the rug are over. We the survivors say 'no more.'"
"I'm no longer weak, I am no longer powerless and I'm no longer alone. And with your vote, neither will the next generation," she said. "President Trump, you have so much influence and power in this situation. Please use that influence and power to help us, because we need it now, and this country needs it now."
Marina Lacerda, a survivor who was named as Minor Victim One in Epstein's 2019 federal indictment, spoke publicly for the first time about the horror, noting there are many parts of her story she can't even remember.
"It's so hard to begin to heal knowing that there are people out there who know more about my abuse than I do," she said.
"The worst part is that the government is still in possession right now of the documents and information that could help me remember and get over all of this, maybe, and help me heal. They have documents with my name on them that were confiscated from Jeffrey Epstein's house, and could help me put the pieces of my own life back together. But I don't have any of it, and I know the same is true for many of these women."
Sky Roberts, the brother of well-known Epstein survivor Virgina Giuffre who died by suicide in April, laid out three demands: "Ghislaine Maxwell must remain in a maximum security prison for the rest of her life," Roberts said.
"No leniency, no deals, no special treatment. The Epstein documents must be unsealed. Every name, every detail, no more secrets, no more protection for those who preyed on the vulnerable. And finally, we demand full accountability from every enabler, every accomplice, every person in power who turned a blind eye."
The victims are urging Congress to support a bipartisan push from Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna of California to compel the U.S. Justice Department to publicly release all the Epstein files.
At Wednesday's news conference, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said she personally would be fearless in naming the names of Epstein's friends and clients on the floor of the U.S. House Of Representatives.
"Yeah, it's a scary thing to name names, but I will tell you I'm not afraid to name names," Greene said.
"And so if they want to give me a list, I will walk in that Capitol on the House floor, I'll say every damn name that abused these women."
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Alex Jones of Infowars erupted on air Tuesday in graphic fashion as he slammed his star reporter Owen Shroyer who is leaving the media operation over purported disputes that Shroyer had become "too anti-Trump" and "negative."
"You stabbed your brother and this operation in the back and you're a f***in' liar! F***in' a**hole, piece of sh**!" Jones said on the air.
The 36-year-old Shroyer who has been with the company since 2016 explained Monday some of his difficulties with Jones, claiming: "Alex had been coming into my show and talking about how I'm negative and calling me a pessimist and all this other stuff, which is fine."
"You work for Alex, you're gonna get hit with it a lot. Alex is not easy to work for.
"He says I'm too negative, he says I'm a pessimist, whatever, I'm too anti-Trump. So I just said, all right, you know what? I'll just take some time off, I'll just disappear. And if Alex thinks I'm too negative then maybe he's right.
"But the same issues that I had started up immediately as soon as I came back," Shroyer continued.
"And it's not to say that I didn't have creative control over the Infowars War Room.
"But I mean, imagine it's like someone staring over your back 24/7."
'I couldn't do what I wanted to do," he added.
Shroyer indicated he "walked off the show, mid-show" on Thursday because Jones had been "disrupting" the War Room show.
"I kind of just reached my point of no return," he said.
Originally, Jones wished much success for Shroyer online, stating: "I wish Owen all the best for his life and the great work he does fighting evil and promoting freedom. I never censored him and agreed with 99% of what I saw him talk about."
"As for me I am taking the high road and will continue to promote Owen when I see cool stuff he does."
Shroyer claimed he was "basically just living paycheck-to-paycheck" after not receiving a raise since 2018, which Jones refuted on the air.
"He took snake to the next level. So, Owen Shroyer's dead to me," Jones said.
But he did offer Shroyer an olive branch of sorts, saying, "If he goes on air and repents to Jesus and apologizes for being demon-possessed or whatever it is he is, then I will forgive him."
Shroyer made national headlines after his 2023 guilty plea for entering restricted grounds at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, mayhem, for which he served 60 days in prison.
Shroyer reportedly is looking to start his own news company, World Independent News, along with a new broadcast, "The Owen Report," to debut Oct. 6, on streaming platforms such as X and Rumble.
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President Donald Trump on Monday demanded drug companies justify the success of COVID shots, saying the Centers For Disease Control is "being ripped apart over this question."
In a lengthy post on Truth Social, the president stated: "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!
"With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW. I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public. Why not???
"They go off to the next 'hunt' and let everyone rip themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and CDC, trying to figure out the success or failure of the Drug Companies Covid work.
"They show me GREAT numbers and results, but they don't seem to be showing them to many others. I want them to show them NOW, to CDC and the public, and clear up this MESS, one way or the other!!!
"I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as 'BRILLIANT' as many say it was. If not, we all want to know about it, and why??? Thank you for your attention to this very important matter!"
In 2020, during the president's first term in office, the Trump administration launched Operation Warp Speed, which accelerated testing and approval of COVID jabs as the coronavirus swept across America.
The World Health Organization indicates at least 70% of Americans have gotten both shots of the COVID-19 vaccine as of 2025, with more than 711 million doses having been administered in the U.S.
But the vaccines administered by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, came under fierce criticism in 2021 for failing to stop breakthrough infections, as many who got the shots developed COVID-19 nonetheless.
"This development is a total game changer and is sending shock waves throughout the global establishment," Alex Jones of Infowars said Monday.
"Trump knows he was set up and knows the truth is coming out so he is getting ahead of it. Mark my words this is over the top good news!"
"The whole thing's already come down. The whole world is waking up. The majority of people know it's pure poison. Three percent even take the new, stupid boosters. So Trump understands he was set up."
"We've been all over this," Jones added. "It's the shot that kills you, the shot that erases the immune system."
Trump rarely mentions the pandemic except for praising the rapid development of COVID vaccines, which he termed a "Christmas miracle" in December 2020.
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll in May, only 30% of Republicans now believe the COVID shot is safe, while 55% of independents and 87% of Democrats feel that way.
Trump's secretary for Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been grappling with health officials at the CDC after putting a stop to emergency authorization for COVID shots and changing their standards to exclude most children and healthy adults.
Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was fired Wednesday after serving less than a month in that position. The White House told the New York Times she was booted because her opinions on inoculations differed from those of Kennedy, a well-known skeptic of vaccines.
"When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted," said Monarez's lawyers Abbe Lowell and Mark Zaid.
"This is not about one official. It is about the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of experts, and the dangerous politicization of science."
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A top White House official went to war with CNN on Sunday as a network anchor used deceptive data to downplay deadly attacks against Christians by transgenders.
Sebastian Gorka, the White House senior director for Counterterrorism, appeared on "State of the Union" with guest host Brianna Keilar, as the pair discussed Wednesday's mass-casualty shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis that killed two children and wounded 17 others.
The perpetrator, Robert Westman, a transgender who had changed his name to Robin Westman, killed himself at the conclusion of the horror.
Keilar asked Gorka: "When you are looking at the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center looking 172 mass attacks in the U.S. between 2016 and 2020. 96% of the attackers were non-trans men.
"So I know you're focusing on the shooter being trans, uh, the shooter was trans, and that is certainly of note. But are you missing the bigger picture here when you zero in on that instead of more broadly these school shooters as an epidemic and you perhaps miss through line that connects them all?"
Gorka responded: "Well, no, because your facts obfuscate two things: You are using data based on the predominant gun violence, which is gang-on-gang violence with zero ideological content.
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What could involve major law enforcement operations, tracking down and arresting illegal aliens, and assignment of National Guard troops, soon could be coming to Chicago, one of the most crime-ridden cities in America.
A report at CNN confirmed the administration of President Donald Trump is making preparations for a "major immigration enforcement operation."
It could be happening as early as in a few days.
The report said the information was from sources "familiar" with the arrangements.
"President Donald Trump and his aides have repeatedly slammed Chicago over policies that limit cooperation between local authorities and federal immigration enforcement," the report said.
The city still is feeling the effects of the millions and millions of illegal aliens allowed into the country under the administration of Joe Biden, and his open borders practices.
Many ended up in Chicago when authorities in Texas, flooded with wave after wave of border crossers, shipped them north.
Chicago already has been put in a bull's-eye by the Trump administration, which sued over its so-called "sanctuary" practices in which illegal aliens purportedly are protected from federal law.
Now the operations are expected to expand, with officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and possibly other agencies, involved
Reportedly armored vehicles already are being moved to Chicago.
The plan already has been developed and put into operation in Los Angeles, where officers flooded locations where illegal aliens were known to be. Some 5,000 arrests have been made there.
White House border czar Tom Homan said that planning for Chicago was still underway.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, "Without getting into specifics and repeating any operational details, the president has been clear repeatedly that we're going to be prioritizing enforcement in these sanctuary jurisdictions as a matter of public safety and national security."
A report at the Gateway Pundit said it's part of Trump's moves against sanctuary locations.
He said, "I think Chicago will be our next, and then we'll help with New York."
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The gunman in a horrific shooting at a Catholic church and school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing at least two children and injuring 17 others has been identified as a transgender individual Robin Westman, formerly known as Robert Westman.
Westman opened fire through the stained glass windows of Annunciation Catholic Church during a back-to-school Mass filled with children 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. The assailant died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the back of the church.
KARE-TV reporter A.J. Lagoe reports Westman's mother "is believed to have worked at the church or school."
Westman underwent a legal name change in 2020, with his parents apparently signing off on the identity switch.
A series of videos linked to Westman have been posted online, including the individual holding weapons and ammunition marked with disturbing messages including: "Kill Donald Trump," "For the children," and "Where is your God?"
The manifesto posted online attributed to Westman voice an apparent final message for friends and family.
"I don't expect forgiveness and I don't expect any apology. I have to hold much weight, but to my family and those close to me, I do apologize for the effects my actions will have on your lives," the note begins.
"Please know I care for all of you so much and it pains me to bring this storm of chaos into your lives. This will affect so many more people than the ones that are immediately involved."
"I have wanted this for so long. I am not well. I am not right. I am a sad person haunted by these thoughts that do not go away. I know this is wrong but I can't seem to stop myself.
"I am severely depressed and have been suicidal for years. Only recently have I lost all hope and decided to perform my final action against this world. I don't want to kneel down for the injustices of this world. I want to die. I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees, constantly in pain."
"I think I am dying of cancer. It's a tragic end, as it's entirely self-inflicted. I did this to myself as I cannot control myself and have been destroying my body through vaping and other means.
"I think I have lung cancer. I have felt many pains that make me think I am past the point of recovery. I do not want to recover. I do not want to throw my life away by rotting in a hospital bed. I don't want the rest of my life to be as a cancer patient, in and out of hospitals, constantly being fretted about with people afraid to be too happy around me. F*** that!
"I want to go out on my own means. Unfortunately, due to my depression, anger and twisted mind, I want to fulfill in a final act that has been in the back of my head for years."
Two years ago, as WorldNetDaily reported, another high-profile transgender shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee made national headlines.
On March 27, 2023, shooter Audrey Hale, a woman identifying as a man, entered The Covenant School in Nashville and killed three nine-year-old students and three adults: an administrator, substitute teacher, and a custodian.
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A white Minnesota mother will face criminal charges for calling a young black child the N-word after the youngster was allegedly stealing from her own child's belongings at a public playground.
Video of the April incident went viral, and on Tuesday the Rochester City Attorney's Office said it intends to file three counts of disorderly conduct against Shiloh Hendrix, according to KTTC-TV.
While the charges are still subject to review and approval by a district court judge, the legal complaint concludes "[Shiloh] wrongfully and unlawfully engaged in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct, or in offensive obscene, or abusive language that would reasonably tend to arouse alarm, anger, or resentment in others."
Hendrix could face a maximum of 90 days in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.
The mom created a GiveSendGo donation page for herself, saying she has "been put into a very dire situation. I recently had a kid steal from my 18-month-old son's diaper bag at a park. I called the kid out for what he was."
"Another man, who we recently found out has had a history with law enforcement, proceeded to record me and follow me to my car. He then posted these videos online which has caused my family, and myself, great turmoil.
"My SSN has been leaked. My address, and phone number have been given out freely. My family members are being attacked. My eldest child may not be going back to school. Even where I exercise has been exposed."
As of Tuesday, more than $800,000 has been collected online for Hendrix.
After receiving criticism, Jacob Wells, the CFO of GiveSendGo, defended his platform allowing Hendrix to raise money for her plight.
"You have to take a step back from the emotion of these because they are very highly emotional issues and you land on a principle," Wells told NewsNation.
"I believe in freedom of speech, freedom of association. These are foundational tenets to the society that we live in and when you start going down the road of cancellation and cancel culture, it actually breaks the very things that we see that we're against."
Wells explained some folks have developed a "mob mentality," which has "ruined so many people's lives," adding Hendrix did not act "unprovoked" on the playground.
"The boy was rummaging through her belongings, so it's not like she just stepped into the situation unprovoked and called a young boy a term," Wells noted before adding does not "condone calling people racial epithets and bad names at all."
Political commentator Matt Walsh said on video about this incident: "The people running Minnesota, including Tim Walz, decided to import a large group of people to secure a new and very local constituency for themselves. In fact, so many Somalis have now settled in Rochester, that the city recently opened an entire community center just for them."
"The real overarching problem that we should be talking about, if we could get outside of this playground and this incident, the much greater problem which the government has engineered, which is the flood of Third World immigration from dysfunctional, failed states that are overrun with poverty and crime, ad they bring it to this country."
The man who recorded the video, Sharmake Omar, 30, told NBC News in May: "That little boy … was visibly upset by the incident," claiming the child has autism spectrum disorder.
Omar said he knows the boy's parents, who are from Somalia, and indicated they were also supervising their three other children at the park.
Rochester Mayor Kim Norton said: "This was a situation that deeply affected many people, especially our communities of color, and caused real turmoil in our community."
"We acknowledge the lasting impact this incident has had, not only on those directly involved and across our community, but also in the broader conversations happening at the state and national level. These moments remind us of the complexity and far-reaching impacts of situations like this. The City remains committed to staying engaged and proceeding with transparency and care, continuing efforts that support accountability and progress in Rochester."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
As President Donald Trump on Monday continued to praise "zero murders" in Washington, D.C., since he sent in the National Guard, his Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is sounding the alarm about a "massive scandal" involving deception in the city's crime statistics.
"We've uncovered [and are] in the process of uncovering a massive scandal in Washington, D.C. with the doctoring of crime stats, and the Department of Justice under the attorney general is leading the effort to uncover this," Miller said in the Oval Office.
"But when we ultimately share the results, it will stun you the extent to which, even though D.C. had the worst crime in America, honestly measured it dramatically understated how bad it was."
"There's even accusations that murders and homicides were reported as accidents instead of murders. This is how severe the manipulation of the crime data has been in the city, and it will all be uncovered and it will all be brought to light."
Miller praised Trump's action with the National Guard, saying, "No police officer working in the city can remember a time in their lives when there has been no murders."
"No one can even find a record of being murder-free for as long as we've been murder-free under the president's leadership."
He said he's had numerous interactions with police, and "Members of the public are going up to them and thanking them, just overflowing with gratitude because for the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets.
"You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed, mugged or wearing their watches again, they're wearing jewelry again, and they're carrying purses again. People have changed their whole lives in this city for fear of being murdered mugged and carjacked.
"It is a literal statement that President Trump has freed 700,000 people in this city who were living under the rule of criminals and thugs," he continued.
"The street criminals here in Washington, D.C., were doing business directly with the transnational criminal cartels, the foreign terrorist organizations. So not only was the city being run by these criminal thugs, but they were working with some of the most dangerous terrorist organizations on the planet to traffic weapons and drugs into this city. What we are uncovering every day is shocking to us."
Trump is looking to replicate his D.C. success in other American crime-ridden cities, with Chicago a possibility at the top of the list, despite opposition from local officials including Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson who said: "The city of Chicago has a long history of standing up against tyranny, resisting those who wish to undermine the interests of working people. We're not gonna back down. We're not gonna cower. We're not gonna bend."