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President Donald Trump on Monday said he'll sign an executive order doing away with mail-in ballots while fighting to eliminate "seriously controversial voting machines" that he says "are a complete and total disaster."
In a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump said: "I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we're at it, Highly 'Inaccurate,' Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election.
"We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED.
"WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.
"Remember, the States are merely an 'agent' for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do.
"With their HORRIBLE Radical Left policies, like Open Borders, Men Playing in Women's Sports, Transgender and 'WOKE' for everyone, and so much more, Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM.
"ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS.
"I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!!
"REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON'T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."
Trump has long maintained the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, and many Americans have had doubts about the security of certain voting machines.
Dominion Voting Systems was awarded a $787 million settlement from Fox News after it claimed the network defamed the voting company.
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The U.S. military trains its personnel on virtually everything under the sun, yet fails to provide any training at all on the fundamental legal document of the United States of America – and the one every service member swears an oath to "support and defend."
WorldNetDaily spoke to Dr. Chase Spears, a retired U.S. Army public affairs officer, writer and host of the Finding Your Spine podcast about this blatant oversight.
A service member's sworn oath to support and defend the Constitution dates back hundreds of years in American history, Spears noted. He described the commitment as "a good and noble thing." For while other militaries around the world swear allegiance to a ruler or a particular ruling party, Spears said, "the American military is set apart because we swear to our Constitution."
Interestingly, he admitted that over the course of his two decades of service to his country, "it was hard to find anyone who actually read it." As a result, "hardly anyone knows what's actually written in the nation's foundational document."
Why don't service members know the Constitution? Why don't Americans, in general, understand it? These are two questions that heightened Spears' interest in the topic, compelling him to write an article titled "The Case for a Constitutional Training Culture in the Military." For Spears, the answer lies in a lack of "institutional instruction."
He explained to WND, "Many schools are deliberately not teaching civics in elementary education, and the worst offenders are in the public school system."
"That's very much by design," he added.
"They don't want Americans to know civics because the public is much easier to control when isolated from their history," Spears argued.
Specific to the military, he added, "We train them how to shoot, how to manage equipment, how to plan maneuvers, and so much more, but you won't find a single line of instruction about the Constitution and how to uphold an oath to it."
"There are also 'equal opportunity' trainings and 'sexual harassment and prevention' trainings that are mandated," he shared.
"These all sound good on the surface, but through the years, they've become Trojan horses for hard leftwing Marxist ideologies to infiltrate unit culture." Thus, the military has been influenced on how to think about "highly contentious political partisan issues," but its personnel have not been trained on the Constitution that they've actually sworn to defend.
"This is extraordinarily problematic," Spears lamented. "Ignorance to the military's true purpose is how you get a military that has members who will say, 'Of course you should take this experimental jab and lay aside your moral beliefs because you ceded your rights when you joined the military.'" But for Spears, this couldn't be further from the truth.
"There is no such clause in the very Constitution we swear to," a point also noted in the book titled "Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines" by Navy Commander Robert A. Green, Jr.
"Leaders who ignore a service member's constitutionally protected rights are the kind of people helping separate soldiers from their history, and making the Pentagon and partisan whims of Washington, D.C. the ultimate authority," Spears argued.
He encourages Defense Department leadership to strongly consider his words, paving a way to include training service members to know and understand the U.S. Constitution.
"Our military has to get concerned about the constitutional illiteracy filling its ranks," he asserted.
"While there's already precedent to train soldiers in basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills, we should also be educating them to know the very document they swear to support and defend."
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Another "Russia collusion hoaxer" has had her security clearance canceled by the federal government.
Those involved in the "Russia collusion" lies ran to the dozens of officials under the Barack Obama administration, and were responsible for creating the conspiracy the theory, apparently launched by Hillary Clinton, that tried to link then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia.
It failed to prevent him from being elected to his first term, and eventually was debunked completely.
However, when Trump took office for his second term, he immediately revoked the security clearances, traditionally kept alive for former government officials, of dozens.
They included ex-FBI Andrew McCabe, ex-DNI Andrew Liepman, ex-Obama adviser David Axelrod, ex-COVID adviser Anthony Fauci, ex-FBI James Baker, ex-DNI James Clapper, ex-FBI James Comey, ex-Defense Secretary James Mattis, ex-DHS Secretary John Kelly, ex-CIA John Brennan, ex-CIA Leon Panetta, ex-FBI Lisa Page, ex-FBI Peter Strzok, ex-DOJ Sally Yates, and dozens more.
Many of them also knowingly signed a letter from the intelligence community wildly claiming that information detailing Biden family scandals found in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop likely was "Russian" disinformation, when authorities knew it was all factual.
The FBI even moved to interfere in the 2020 election on that basis, telling media corporations to suppress the information it knew was accurate, and a subsequent polling showed that move alone might have cost Trump re-election in that year.
The White House said, at the time of the cancellations earlier this year, "By abusing their previous positions in government, these individuals helped sell a public relations fraud to the American people. They greatly damaged the credibility of the Intelligence Community by using their privileges to interfere in a presidential election."
Now another name has been added to those who have lost their clearances.
Under the headline, "Pentagon terminates security clearance of Russia collusion hoaxer Susan Miller," the Federalist explains Miller is the "retired CIA spook who lied about her leadership role in the intelligence report that lit the fuse on the Russia collusion hoax bomb."
The report cites administration officials familiar with the matter.
Miller long boasted of her "full clearance" while she was attacking President Donald Trump.
"This woman totally shouldn't hold a high level security clearance after pushing the Russia Hoax. All she did was lie to the American people to hurt Trump," a senior Defense official said of Miller.
She's been making the rounds of the legacy media corporations who oppose Trump recently in an attempt to "undercut" the reams of declassified documents that now have exposed the Obama White House and others for making up the 2017 report that falsely claimed Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump.
"Internal communications at the time show career agents warning then-CIA Director John Brennan and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that the 'intelligence' used to go after Trump was bad and failed to measure up to CIA intelligence-gathering standards," the report said.
But they used it anyway.
In fact, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released records that she describes as showing "President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump."
Congressional and other investigations now are under way.
Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, explained what now is known to have happened, "They went forward with their own narrative that was done simply to discredit President Trump and to spin a narrative that was false, and that was that he was involved with [Russian President] Vladimir Putin in helping to change the outcome of the election."
Despite the claims of Russia collusion being debunked completely, Miller said as recently as a few weeks ago that Trump has acted like a "Kremlin asset."
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Despite some media claiming President Trump ought to be worried about "falling" poll numbers, when compared with two recent U.S. presidents, he's actually doing better.
The RealClearPolitics Poll Average shows Trump with 45.9% approval rating as of Aug. 12.
At the same point in their second terms, Presidents Obama and Bush Jr. were at 43.8% and 43.2%, respectively. RealClearPolitics takes the results of several polls and averages them.
Meanwhile, some media outlets point to falling numbers for the president in some polls and attribute them to "fallout from the so-called 'Epstein Files.'"
On the other hand, Newsweek has a story noting that Trump's approval rating among women has increased in recent days, specifically in a survey released by The Economist and YouGov.
This chart posting on X contrasts the ratings of Trump, Bush 43 and Obama:
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While legacy network late-night TV hosts are losing viewership, respect and, in some cases, their jobs, one of them is so upset over the current U.S. president, he has obtained citizenship in Italy.
Jimmy Kimmel spilled the beans during a recent episode of "The Sarah Silverman Podcast," as he was interviewed by comedian and host Sarah Silverman, his ex-girlfriend.
As the Blaze reported, on the episode, Kimmel revealed that he dislikes Trump's second presidency so much that he sought out foreign citizenship.
"A lot of people I know are thinking about, where are they going to get citizenship?" Silverman said.
"I do have Italian – I did get Italian citizenship," Kimmel replied.
Elated, Silverman stated, "You do? Oh, that's amazing!"
Said Kimmel: "I do have that. And what's going on is as bad as you thought it was going to be. Way worse. It's so much worse," he said about Trump. "It's just unbelievable. Like, I feel like it's probably even worse than he would like it to be."
Italy is one of several foreign nations that honors dual citizenship. It was unclear whether or not Kimmel planned to repudiate his U.S. citizenship.
The prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meroni, is considered a "far right-wing" leader. She has been in office since 2022 and was seen on video last year at a G7 summit gently guiding then-President Biden back after his seemingly wandering away from a gathering of state leaders.
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A key legal team that has fought many of the fights over personal and religious rights, and government overreach, in the U.S. and around the world in recent years is calling for the administration of President Donald Trump to impose sanctions or tariffs on three nations that now have promised to recognize "Palestine."
And that could bring up an interesting fight, as multiple members of the Democrat party now are insisting the Trump administration itself take the same political step.
It is the American Center for Law and Justice that confirms it has written to top officials in the Senate, House of Representatives and the executive branch "urging immediate action in response to France, the U.K., Ireland, and other countries' reckless and dangerous move to unilaterally recognize Palestinian statehood."
The statehood agenda long has been one of the goals of terrorists such as Hamas members who invaded Israel in 2023, slaughtering in vicious ways hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians.
"Our allies are choosing to reward terror with statehood," the ACLJ said in a report. "As a result, we are urging the Trump Administration to impose swift and decisive tariffs on these nations and economic sanctions to show that America will not support those who reward terror."
The ACLJ explained, "By recognizing Palestinian statehood while Hamas still holds hostages and continues to wage war against Israeli civilians, France, the U.K., Ireland, and other countries are abandoning their commitments to peace, diplomacy, and international law. Their declarations reward a terror regime backed by Iran and responsible for decades of suicide bombings, rocket attacks, and the brutal killing and kidnapping of innocent civilians – including Americans."
The ACLJ warned such actions by American allies are "a disgraceful capitulation to extremist demands," and does nothing to promote peace.
"It only emboldens those who reject it," the report said.
"Our letters explain that the Oslo Accords and key U.N. Security Council Resolutions make it clear: Statehood must be achieved through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians," the ACLJ said.
International law provides that a state meet four requirements in order to be recognized: a permanent population, defined territory, effective government, and the capacity for foreign relations.
However, there is no unified Palestinian government, as Hamas and the Palestinian Authority run different regions, there is no defined territory, since those boundaries are in dispute, and the movement "lacks the capacity to independently manage foreign relations."
So, the ACLJ said, Congress and the president should work on suspending preferential trade agreements and impose tariffs, cut diplomatic interactions, and end joint military operations.
It was just as those letters were being dispatched that multiple reports confirmed a handful of Democrats in the U.S. House signed a letter to President Donald Trump telling him to "officially recognize a Palestinian state."
The Washington Post reported they insist that move is needed to provide for the "legitimate national rights" of Palestinians.
The letter, signed by 13 House Democrats so far, noted that the three American allies already have plunged into that political agenda.
Incidentally, Trump has expressed that he now has a conflict with reducing tariffs on Canada, since officials there broached the concept of recognizing a Palestinian state.
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Letitia James, a high-profile Democrat who used her position as New York attorney general to build a wild case against President Donald Trump that accused him of fraud – a case now on appeal – since then has been caught up in her own case in which she's alleged to have committed mortgage fraud.
And Adam Schiff, a high-profile Democrat, claimed that he had seen "evidence" of the 2016 Trump campaign's "collusion" with Russia, even though multiple investigations failed to document that "evidence," and also has been caught up in mortgage fraud allegations.
While those cases remain under investigation, with the possibility of fines and jail times for a conviction, one Republican senator has had enough.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, believes public officials should be held to a high standard, and pay a bigger penalty when convicted.
He's introduced the "LETITIA Act," which would raise the mandatory minimum penalties for such officials, according to Fox News..
His enhanced penalties would be applied to public officials "who commit federal bank fraud, tax fraud, or loan or mortgage fraud."
His "Law Enforcement Tools to Interdict Troubling Investments in Abodes (LETITIA) Act" follows Depar\tment of Justice investigations into James for alleged mortgage fraud.
Federal Housing Finance Director Bill Pulte has alleged James could have engaged in mortgage fraud by lying, or making false statements, on property records, such as a loan application that said her property in Virginia "is her primary residence," as well her claim on government paperwork that her Brooklyn property has four units, when it actually has five.
"This legislation would empower President Trump to hold crooked politicians like New York's Letitia James accountable for defrauding their constituents, violating their oath of office, and breaking the law, and I'm proud to lead my Republican colleagues in introducing it," Cornyn said.
Also in the jurisdiction of Cornyn's plan would be Schiff, who was accused by Pulte of falsifying bank documents and property records by listing homes in Maryland and California as his primary residence out of an effort to allegedly get more favorable loans.
A spokesperson for Schiff, who repeatedly and viciously has lashed out at Trump, said the claims about mortgage lies are "false allegations."
Six other senators have joined Cornyn already in sponsoring the bill.
It would "increase federal statutory maximum sentences and fines for public officials who abuse their offices and violate the public trust to commit bank fraud, loan or mortgage fraud, or tax fraud," the report said.
Those minimums would include one year for bank fraud, one year for loan or mortgage fraud, and six months for tax fraud.
Repeated offenses would make those minimums five years for bank or loan fraud and two years for tax fraud, the report said.
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Tells Colbert on soon-to-be-gone talk show 'I don't wanna go back'
Kamala Harris, who delivered to Democrats in 2024 a catastrophic loss to President Donald Trump in the presidential race, and since has declared she won't run for governor of California in the next election, is uncertain about staging another run for the Oval Office, even though she nominally "leads" the political party now.
What might come to mind is the fact that she lost all seven swing states and succumbed to Trump's campaign by landslide numbers in the Electoral College and the popular vote.
Her dissembling came in an interview with Stephen Colbert, whose late-night talk show has been canceled and who is due to be off-air in a few months.
She said, "The system's broken … so I don't wanna go back into the system."
Commentator Nick Sortor explained, "Kamala Harris admits President Trump BROKE her, which is why she doesn't want to run for Governor of California "The system's broken … so I don't wanna go back into the system."
A report at RedState explained, "'Broken' is, of course, code for 'rigged,' which is rich coming from someone who stole the Democrat nomination in 2024 through a soft coup of a well-meaning elderly man with oatmeal for brains."
It continued, "Harris recently announced that she would not run for governor of California, prompting some pundits to speculate that she would instead focus her efforts on another bid for the White House. "
Colbert asked, and she said she doesn't want a return.
Curiously, Harris was anointed by the elites in the Democrat Party to be the 2024 nominee. She had been a candidate in 2020 but never won a single delegate. In 2024 when Biden's acute deterioration surfaced during a presidential debate, the elites of the party simply named her the candidate, so she never won a primary either.
Harris claimed "our systems" are not as strong "as they need to be."
RedState pointed out, "If the system is 'broken,' then it is her party that took a sledgehammer to it. The Democrat primaries were so rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton in 2016 that it even prompted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to call it out as 'rigged against me.'"
Social media commented on the "losers" on the show:
Further, Harris claimed she still will be in the "fight," but was left stumbling when asked to name the leader of the Democrat party now.
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The bad news for taxpayers is that the federal government is paying some 154,000 people to not do any work in their offices.
The good news is that those workers soon will be off the federal payroll entirely.
It's all part of President Donald Trump's plan to cut federal spending, including by reducing the number of government staff members drawing salaries and benefits.
It is the Hill that has reported on the costs, and benefits.
It cited details in the Washington Post that confirmed the government reportedly is cutting payroll checks even now to more than 154,000 workers.
But they don't report to work.
"Thousands have been receiving pay since June and will continue to be compensated until the end of fiscal 2025," the report said.
McLaurine Pinover of the Office of Personnel Management confirmed more than 150,000 employees were offered "a dignified and generous departure" program, a program that also "delivered incredible relief to the American taxpayer. No previous administration has gotten even close to saving American taxpayers this amount of money in such a short amount of time."
The plan came about as part of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, which in fact started efforts that could culminate in hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars being saved.
Democrats, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, are demanding an investigation of DOGE, including the layoff program. Blumental claims the government has wasted billions of dollars cutting expenses.
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As President Trump's efforts to preserve the integrity of women's sports continues, the World Athletics Council announced Wednesday it would require a test for all athletes wishing to compete in female categories at the upcoming track and field World Championships.
As Fox News reported, the test will be for the SRY gene, "a reliable proxy for determining biological sex" with a cheek swab or blood test, the organization said in a release.
"The philosophy that we hold dear in World Athletics is the protection and the promotion of the integrity of women's sport. It is really important in a sport that is permanently trying to attract more women that they enter a sport believing there is no biological glass ceiling. The test to confirm biological sex is a very important step in ensuring this is the case," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said.
"We are saying, at elite level, for you to compete in the female category, you have to be biologically female. It was always very clear to me and the World Athletics Council that gender cannot trump biology."
Fox reports that the specific gene "provides instructions for making a protein called the sex-determining region Y protein. This protein is involved in male-typical sex development, which usually follows a certain pattern based on an individual's chromosomes," according to Medline Plus.
World Athletics announced in March that it would institute a test and now is providing information about the specific requirements going forward.
The next World Championships open Sept. 13 in Tokyo, while Sept. 1 is "the closing date for entries and the date the regulations come into effect," the organization said.