Gregory Bovino, who is heading operations in Chicago for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, ridiculed Illinois state Sen. Karina Villa after she was caught on video making a tearful plea to ICE agents on behalf of illegal immigrants, UK Daily Mail reported. Bovino was speaking on Fox & Friends on Wednesday when he was asked to comment on the video.
As President Donald Trump's administration cracks down on illegal immigration, Democrats dig their heels in against it. Villa was one of those whose over-the-top, tearful pleas to ICE agents demonstrated the ridiculousness of that viewpoint.
Bovino took one look at her conduct and said Villa "may need some help" as the video showed her running down the street and demanding ICE agents remove their masks. Villa represents Illinois' 25th district, which includes areas such as West Chicago and sections of Aurora that have a heavily Hispanic population. She was the first Latina elected to the office and represents a population that is 82% U.S. citizen.
Many on the left routinely engage in political theater to score points with voters and become internet famous. After all, who can forget New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez crying in front of an empty parking lot back in 2019 as if she were upset at seeing migrants locked away?
Villa seems equally eager to make her mark in the same way after she confronted ICE agents who were just doing their job in a suburb of Chicago on Monday. The state senator can be seen wearing a white structured jacket, red pants, and tan high heels as she runs down the street with her message, like Paul Revere.
"This is my city! This is my city, that’s right!" she yells to ICE agents. Villa sounds like she's crying and becoming hysterical as she makes her impassioned plea to the agents who are outfitted with weapons and bulletproof vests.
She demands they "take off your masks" to the ICE officers and confronts them as they get into their vehicles, though they seem utterly indifferent to her antics. Villa then says to the camera, "Stay in your cars! Tell everyone to stay in their houses!"
There's no word on who captured the video, but Villa clearly wanted it out to the public as she shared it on her Instagram account. "'Today, masked ICE agents targeted families in my hometown as they brought kids to school & headed to work. I stood with my neighbors because fear has no place in our communities," Villa's caption read.
The message Villa was trying to get across fell flat for Bovino, who called Villa out for her insanity. When host Brian Kilmeade asked for Bovino's response, the ICE chief shared his concerns about Villa. "When I see this, I think she really needs to see someone. She may need some help," Bovino said.
He also noted that Villa's request to take the masks off is a bad idea as that part of the uniform is for the safety of the agents who are under attack from leftists angry about the illegal immigration crackdowns. "With a 1,000% increase in assaults against federal agents doing operations such as this, I think it makes sense for these masks to be there," Bovino said.
The official noted that an agent was attacked in Chicago and that their agents are at risk because of these confrontations. "There’s a reason for this," Bovino said. In just the last week, Bovino said there have been "several hundred arrests" in the Chicagoland area because of his agents.
"And you’re going to see those numbers rise," he added. Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has also pushed back against ICE operations, and Bovino said that he would "rather walk the streets with the governor" to show him the problem firsthand. "He better put his walking shoes on if he’s got them in. Let’s take a walk and look at the streets and look at what these aliens are doing to Chicago and its residents," Bovino added.
Villa's antics show that Democrats have yet another unhinged politician among their ranks. Even if they disagree with the ICE raids, which are necessary and very much a part of the agents' jobs, this is not the way to change things.
Actress Ellen DeGeneres is facing a lawsuit that accuses her of "negligent conduct" leading to the plaintiff's "serious personal injuries" in a 2023 car crash, Fox News reported. The plaintiff claims DeGeneres "t-boned" her after allegedly running through a four-way stop sign in Santa Barbara County.
The woman who filed the complaint stated that she was driving her Tesla on October 16, 2023, on Evans Avenue, en route to the intersection with Ortega Hill Road, when the accident occurred. She was wearing her seatbelt at the time of the crash but says she was injured after DeGeneres ran into her car after making no attempt to stop.
"This intersection is controlled by stop signs in all directions. Plaintiff stopped for her stop sign," the complaint said, noting that the plaintiff "made sure there were no other vehicles at the intersection and it was her way to proceed." Unfortunately, DeGeneres allegedly did not stop.
"As she was proceeding straight through the intersection, suddenly and without any warning, plaintiff's vehicle was t-boned from the right by the vehicle driven by Ellen DeGeneres," causing the plaintiff's injuries. "Ellen DeGeneres entered the intersection without stopping at the stop sign," the complaint alleges.
An attorney for the plaintiff claimed the former talk show host's "negligent conduct fell below the standard of care of a reasonable person in that defendants negligently caused, or contributed to causing plaintiff's vehicle to be collided with by the defendants' vehicle," suggesting a disregard for the safety of others. "Defendants and their conduct was a substantial factor in causing plaintiff's multiple serious personal injuries and damages stemming therefrom," the attorney further alleged.
The damages include "loss of enjoyment of life, emotional distress, and anxiety," as well as actual damages for medical expenses, hospital bills, lost wages, loss of future earnings, and other general damages. While this is a legal threshold, it could also be seen as a reflection on DeGeneres's overall character.
Although anyone can be accused of causing injuries in an auto accident, the circumstances fit with longstanding allegations about DeGeneres's terrible behavior and her blatant disregard for the wellbeing of others. After years on air playing the nice woman, it came to light in 2020 that DeGeneres was actually a tyrant on the set, targeting male employees for her ire when they spoke to her wife, Portia de Rossi.
Staffers said those who crossed DeGeneres would feel the "Ellen gaze" and thought of her as "a queen searching for her next execution." A former cameraman for the show said of DeGeneres that, "She was terrifying."
At the time, DeGeneres attempted to save her reputation by making an on-air apology, but the damage had been done. With her career and reputation in tatters, DeGeneres moved to the U.K. with de Rossi in 2024, citing President Donald Trump's election to a second term as a reason to flee the U.S.
At the time, DeGeneres blamed her hasty exit on Trump's election, though by then her career was over and her relevance greatly diminished. The 67-year-old has presented her move as an opportunity that gave her a new lease on life. Shortly after the move, DeGeneres made a schmaltzy post honoring de Rossi on Instagram.
On Dec. 1, 2024, DeGeneres wrote, "20 years ago today we began this relationship, not realizing what a long, beautiful adventure this would be. You are the best thing that ever happened in my life. You take care of me. You help me see the good in everything," she said of de Rossi.
"You help to guide me and pick me up when I feel off or down. You are a beautiful soul that I am so very grateful to have as a partner to navigate this crazy life with. My wife. My best friend. The love of my life. Thank you for being you and loving me. So happy we get to travel and explore the world together in the next 20 years, and looking forward to our first snowy Christmas," DeGeneres gushed. Nobody stateside has missed the pair.
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DeGeneres has earned her terrible reputation through her own actions while running a talk show. It will remain to be seen whether she will be held responsible for the car crash and the injuries it caused, but the allegations are enough to add to the existing mountain of evidence that DeGeneres is indeed not a very nice person.
Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin, confessed to the crime in text messages to his roomate, the New York Post reported. FBI Director Kash Patel provided this new information on Monday during an interview on Fox News's Hannity as authorities piece together what led to a gunman shooting Kirk at a speaking event in Utah last week.
Information about the alleged gunman and his motivation has continued to come to light after the Turning Point USA founder's death on Sept. 10. Patel announced on Fox News's Hannity on Monday that they found a confession in the text exchange.
“[W]hat was found, in terms of information, a text message exchange where the suspect [Robinson], specifically stated that he had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and he was going to do that," Patel told host Sean Hannity. "And when [Robinson] was asked why, he said, ‘Some hatred cannot be negotiated with,'" the FBI director noted.
Patel said law enforcement is investigating whether others were involved in the alleged plot. "We’re dedicating every asset we have to run the reverse daisy chain analysis of anyone that was in contact with the suspect that’s currently in custody and anyone he contacted, called and text-messaged and had chats on online social media platforms with," Patel explained.
The content of the text messages was released on Tuesday, and reporter Brian Schnee shared documents showing the entire text exchange between the 22-year-0ld and Lance Twiggs, his live-in transgender lover, a separate New York Post report revealed. Schnee posted them to X, formerly Twitter, as the document made the rounds among several users.
TEXT MESSAGE EXCHANGE BETWEEN TYLER ROBINSON AND ROOMATE
"On September 10, 2025, the roommate received a text message from Robinson which said, “drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard.” The roommate looked under the keyboard and found a note that stated, “I had the… pic.twitter.com/UXwVYLSUTy
— 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐞 (@brian_schnee) September 16, 2025
What the alleged killer had to say is disturbing, as it's clear that Twiggs knew about the alleged role Robinson played in the assassination a full 24 hours before he was caught. The message from Robinson was reassuring his lover that he was "still ok," but that he had to go retrieve the rifle he allegedly used before it could be traced to him.
When Twiggs asked Robinson why he did it, the alleged shooter said that Kirk's "hatred" left him no choice. "I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out," Robinson said about Kirk. "If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence. Going to attempt to retrieve it again, hopefully they have moved on. I haven’t seen anything about them finding it," Robinson said about the rifle.
When asked how long he had "been planning this," Robinson admitted it was "a bit over a week" before he turned back to worries about his gun. "My dad wants photos of the rifle … he says grandpa wants to know who has what, the feds released a photo of the rifle, and it is very unique. Hes calling me rn, not answering. …" the text message said.
The text message exchange appears to cover all the key points of a confession as Patel noted. Robinson planned what he was going to do, spoke about the alleged murder weapon and hiding out while law enforcement remained in the area, and even discussed his motive.
To normal people, this was a disgusting admission about a heinous crime from the man who purportedly committed it. To Matt Gutman, a correspondent at ABC News, the way Robinson spoke to Twiggs was "very touching," as Fox News reported.
Gutman was impressed by how detailed the messages were, "but, also, it was very touching in a way that many of us didn't expect," the correspondent said. "A very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who is transitioning, calling him ‘my love.’ And ‘I want to protect you, my love,'" Gutman swooned.
"So, it was this duality of someone who the attorney said not only jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd, but was doing it in front of children, which is one of the aggravating circumstances of this case. And then, on the other hand, he was, you know, speaking so lovingly about his partner. So a very interesting and … riveting press conference," the correspondent claimed.
The messages provide a glimpse into the mind of the alleged assassin and his thought patterns following the incident. This is stomach-churning stuff in light of the brutal way a beloved public figure died, but it has been made that much worse by those who lionize Robinson already.
Raymond Lopez, the Democratic alderman for Chicago’s 15th Ward on its crime-plagued south side, told the New York Post on Sunday that "probably half" of his colleagues want the National Guard to help bring order back to Chicago and reduce crime, but are too afraid to say it.
“This is a very real war that we are fighting here, and we need every tool box to win it,” Lopez said.
He said he didn't mind that President Donald Trump, a Republican, would be the one to help the city.
“If that means working with a Republican president to keep Chicagoans safe, then that is what we should be doing. We shouldn’t be playing politics with people’s lives,” he added.
Lopez's ward has seen horrific crimes over his 10-year tenure and wants to see it end.
“We have human traffickers connected with Tren de Aragua here selling women for $150 on Facebook Marketplace. I had high school students gunned down by a Venezuelan migrant on their way home from school a couple of weeks ago,” Lopez described.
“We now even have gang versus gang warfare that’s taken an international turn because of some of the migrants that are here,” he added.
If Trump decides to federalize Chicago in a similar way to his takeover of D.C., crime could drop dramatically; D.C. has seen a 45% drop in crime and shootings fall to almost zero since August.
A similar effort was undertaken in 2016, with similar results, but was abandoned after a month because of how it would look politically.
Now, there are dozens of shootings every week in the city, and many of them are right on Lopez's South Side.
“I live this everyday,” he said. “I see in real terms, in real time, the criminality that exists in our communities and its impact on my residents and on law abiding people of Chicago who just want to get by, want to be able to go to work, drop our kids off, to sit on the front porch, not becoming the victim of violent crime.”
“I haven’t lost touch with that fact, and sadly, I think many in the Democratic elite have,” he added.
“I’d say probably half the city council is in favor of it,” Lopez said, adding, “I don’t know if anyone is willing to stand up against the billionaire governor because of fear that he would dump money into their opponent’s campaigns,” he said. “But I think there is definitely quiet support between my colleagues and other individuals.”
As for the people of his ward, he thinks they “overwhelmingly” support the idea.
“They see through the gaslighting that’s going on by many of my colleagues and peers, who are just content on pushing forward the anti-Trump narrative so they can appear to be doing something for the people of Chicago,” Lopez said.
Last week’s tragic assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk shocked the nation and spurred an immediate -- and ultimately successful -- manhunt to locate the accused killer.
It was not long before FBI Director Kash Patel found himself under fire for what critics said was a series of embarrassing blunders in the early hours of the investigation, though President Donald Trump has since stepped forward to defend the agency and its leader, as Politico reports.
The immediate aftermath of Kirk’s killing saw the start of an intense, coordinated law enforcement effort to identify and arrest the perpetrator.
Indeed, not long after the shooting, social media users posted video of a man being handcuffed and led away by police, though it later emerged that he was not suspected of shooting Kirk.
Patel himself posted that same day that another “subject” had been taken into custody, only to reveal two hours later that the individual had been “released after an interrogation by law enforcement.”
Adding fuel to the fire were reports that just hours after Kirk was gunned down in front of a stunned Utah Valley University crowd, Patel was spotted dining at Rao’s, a high-end, New York City eatery in what was viewed as tone-deaf move, given the critical work in which his agency was then engaged.
Among the growing list of prominent names casting doubt on the director’s suitability for his current role were those of conservative commentator Christopher Rufo, who said that it was “time for Republicans to assess whether Kash Patel is the right man to run the FBI” and of Erick Erickson, who echoed his sentiments and said, “The FBI situation is concerning.”
Countering those assessments was Trump himself, who said in a Saturday Fox News interview, “I am very proud of the FBI. Kash -- and everyone else -- they have done a great job.”
White House communications director Steven Cheung also came to Patel’s defense, issuing a statement to Politico on Saturday.
“Director Patel and his team worked night and day to find this murderer and bring him to justice,” Cheung began.
The White House official continued, “Anyone who doubts his resolve and dedication -- especially when Charlie was such a close friend to him -- simply is using this extremely sad moment in a disgusting act of political gamesmanship.”
Cheung concluded, “The focus was on catching this killer, and he will face the full wrath of the justice system.”
On Friday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced the arrest of suspected killer Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old man expected to face formal charges next week.
For Patel’s part, he is slated to appear on Capitol Hill in the coming week, where he will almost certainly be questioned about the manner in which the investigation unfolded, and undoubtedly, the nation will be watching.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris blames the "recklessness" of then-President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden that led to the Democrats' spectacular loss in the 2024 presidential election, Times of India reported. Harris made this claim in her new book, 107 Days, which chronicles her experiences during her short-lived candidacy.
Despite his advanced age and evident cognitive issues, Joe Biden decided to run for reelection. Harris now claims that it was his "ego" that influenced the decision to stick with it because the Bidens assumed he could once again defeat Donald Trump as he did in 2020, even though Joe Biden was in mental decline.
Nevertheless, Joe Biden stayed in the presidential race as the Democratic candidate long after it became apparent even to the public that he was having cognitive struggles. On the surface, Harris and the Bidens put up a united front as she insisted that the then-president was in tiptop shape.
Behind the scenes, it seems Harris was seething as Joe and Jill Biden put her in an awkward position. Harris took over as the Democratic candidate and ran a 107-day campaign, as the book title suggests, that led to a humiliating loss and a second term for President Donald Trump.
Harris' publisher released an excerpt ahead of the book set to debut later this month, and it appears she's ready to dish the dirt on the Bidens. Political commentator Clay Travis shared an image of a passage that serves as a telling indictment of the Bidens and their "ambition," which kept him in the race and hindered Harris's chances from the start.
"Kamala Harris says in her new book that Joe Biden running for re-election was reckless and shouldn’t have happened. So brave of her to say the opposite now of what she said for years," Travis captioned the excerpt on a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.
Kamala Harris says in her new book that Joe Biden running for re-election was reckless and shouldn’t have happened. So brave of her to say the opposite now of what she said for years. pic.twitter.com/WvaADCnB39
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 10, 2025
"'It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.' We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized," Harris shared in the excerpt about the decision for Joe Biden to keep going despite losing ground.
"Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision," Harris added.
According to Fox News, Harris also claimed that before the Bidens even entertained the possibility of Joe Biden dropping out of the race, the relationship between the president and vice president had soured. Harris said that she was left on her own, noting it was "almost impossible" to get then-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to advocate for her with the press.
"Worse, I often learned that the president’s staff was adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me. One narrative that took a stubborn hold was that I had a 'chaotic' office and unusually high staff turnover during my first year," Harris claimed.
"Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well," Harris added.
"That, given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital. It would serve as a testament to his judgment in choosing me and reassurance that if something happened, the country was in good hands. My success was important for him," Harris claimed.
The Democrats lost the White House because Joe Biden stayed in the race too long for them to replace him with someone better. By the time he gave in and stepped down, Harris was the only viable choice they had, even though she was wildly unpopular and a terrible politician.
A federal appeals court has granted President Donald Trump's administration the right to prohibit abortion giant Planned Parenthood from receiving taxpayer-funded Medicaid payments, The Washington Times reported. The decision handed down Tuesday allows the provision found in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act to stand as it was passed in July.
Pro-life advocate and Live Action founder Lila Rose lauded this decision as another win for the protection of the unborn. "Breaking: The First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to allow HHS to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood!" Rose posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday.
"Overturning lower court rulings that kept the money flowing. Taxpayers should never be forced to fund abortion chains which murder babies," she added.
BREAKING: The First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to allow HHS to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood! Overturning lower court rulings that kept the money flowing. Taxpayers should never be forced to fund abortion chains which murder babies.
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) September 11, 2025
Trump's legislation was signed into law on July 4 this year and was almost immediately challenged by Planned Parenthood, Reuters reported. On July 28, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Boston, whom President Barack Obama appointed, blocked the provision on the basis that the law unfairly targeted Planned Parenthood with the intent to punish the abortion provider, which is unconstitutional.
Talwani claimed the provision amounted to a "bill of attainder," which means that the law was passed explicitly by Congress to punish a party without due process of a trial. "Plaintiffs are likely to establish that Congress singled them out with punitive intent," the judge said.
However, Trump's Department of Justice didn't see it that way but instead insisted "the bill stops federal subsidies for Big Abortion," which is something many Americans agree with. The DOJ further said it was incumbent upon Talwani not to allow Planned Parenthood to "supplant duly enacted legislation with their own policy preferences."
The judge disagreed, citing concerns about Planned Parenthood's Constitutional rights, including its First Amendment free association rights as well as its Fifth Amendment equal protection clause. This decision was described by White House spokesperson Harrison Fields as "not only absurd but illogical and incorrect" in a statement issued following the initial announcement.
In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, Trump promised to strip Planned Parenthood of its federal funding so taxpayers would no longer have to foot the bill for its evil practices. J.D. Vance, who would become his vice president just weeks later after Trump's stunning electoral victory, stated in October 2024 that Trump was committed to rectifying this wrong, as reported by NBC News at the time.
“On the question of defunding Planned Parenthood, look, I mean our view is we don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions. That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around," Vance said following Trump's return to Butler, Pennsylvania, to finish the rally where he was initially shot.
"It will remain a consistent view." Vance added. Although NBC News pointed out that just .9% of abortions occur after 21 weeks, the commitment meant a great deal to Trump's voters as evidenced by his Election Day victory. Of course, Planned Parenthood Votes executive director Jenny Lawson used the usual lines that this "would rob millions of people across the country of vital, affordable care."
Lawsom claimed in the usual shell game that taxpayer dollars fund other "healthcare" but not abortions. "'Defunding’ Planned Parenthood would only deepen and expand the public health crisis we’re already in thanks to Donald Trump, causing more people to suffer and die for lack of basic reproductive care," Lawson claimed.
The narrative is always that Planned Parenthood performs a tremendous public service by providing healthcare to poor women. Even if that were true, the fact that it also slaughters babies negates the right for the organization to receive a dime from taxpayers, and thankfully, the appeals court has agreed that Trump's plan to defund them is a go.
Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker blamed Charlie Kirk's assassination on President Donald Trump's "rhetoric" and claimed that he was responsible for "fomenting" political violence, Breitbart reported. The 31-year-old conservative star was gunned down during an appearance at a Utah college on Wednesday.
America was left reeling after Kirk was apparently shot in the neck by a sniper's bullet and later pronounced dead. The graphic video made the rounds on social media as many in the conservative movement expressed their deep sorrow and sympathies for Kirk's wife and children.
As of Thursday, authorities were still unsure of the motive and had not taken anyone into custody. Nevertheless, many on the left began their ghoulish business of celebrating the murder, including Pritzker.
He was asked for his remarks about Kirk's death while speaking to reporters, and Pritzker took the opportunity to take a shot at the president, even though it was unclear who the shooter was and what the motive might be. The Illinois Democrats are just one of many who took the opportunity of Kirk's death to smear Republicans.
Pritzker's answer to a reporter's question about Kirk's death was absolutely disgraceful. The governor started with a short word of condolence for Kirk's family before launching into his reprehensible rhetoric. "Charlie Kirk has become a target for somebody," Prtizker said.
"I don’t know whether it’s political violence, because I don’t know who did it. But I will say that political violence, unfortunately, has been ratcheting up in this country," Prtizker remarked.
"We saw the shootings, the killings in Minnesota. We’ve seen other political violence occur in other states. And I would just say it’s gotta stop," Pritzker said, referring to the murder of Minnesota’s Democratic House Speaker, Rep. Melissa Hortman, and her husband, earlier this year.
"And I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it," Pritzker claimed. He then went on to repeat the narrative about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. "We’ve seen the January 6th rioters who clearly have tripped a new era of political violence," he claimed, though the only person killed in that attack was an unarmed woman shot by a Capitol Police officer.
JB Pritzker uses the assassination of Charlie Kirk to blame President Trump and talk about J6: "Political violence has been ratcheting up in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
Despicable. pic.twitter.com/fkHanokers
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 11, 2025
Pritzker was quick to blame Trump for Kirk's killing, but the governor has actively encouraged the people of his state to resist federal and National Guard troops sent in to clean up the crime in Chicago. "To any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous, we are watching, and we are taking names," Pritzker said late last month.
This was deliberately misleading about the reason for their presence, namely, stopping the hundreds of murders that happen in the Windy City every year. He also made a veiled threat on social media, promising, "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice…"
Still, Pritzker wasn't the only leftist to pin the murder of a conservative pundit on Republicans. As the New York Post reported, MSNBC's Matthew Dowd blamed Kirk after previously speculating that it could have been a bullet from a "supporter shooting their gun off in celebration," the author and political analyst said on air as the tragedy unfolded.
"You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place. That’s the unfortunate environment we’re in," Dowd claimed.
Kirk's assassination was one of the most harrowing tragedies to befall a political figure in recent times. While decent people mourn the loss of a man who was a husband, father, and beloved public figure, the dregs of society on the left took the opportunity of Kirk's death to debase him and themselves.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt set the record straight that President Donald Trump did not act as an FBI informant in the case of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, The Hill reported. The rumor surfaced last week after House Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned it during a press conference.
Leavitt was asked about Johnson's claim on Tuesday during a White House press briefing. When Johnson was asked about Trump's supposed connections to Epstein, Johnson said that the president "was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down" referring to the sex trafficker's heinous conduct.
"I can affirm that is not true," Leavitt told reporters. "I think the Speaker was referring to the fact that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago property for reasons the president has already discussed," she added.
Johnson also took the opportunity to set the record straight on his previous remarks on Monday and called it "much ado about nothing" after the media's coverage of the throwaway line. According to CNN, Johnson clarified what he meant by his previous statement while speaking to the press.
"What I was referring to in that long conversation was what the (Epstein) victims’ attorney said. More than a decade ago, President Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, and he was one of the only people, one of the only prominent people, as everyone has reported … that he was willing to help law enforcement go after this guy who was a disgusting child abuser, sex trafficker, all the allegations," Johnson explained.
"That’s what they heard. So the president was helpful in that," Johnson added.
"I don’t know if I used the right terminology, but that’s common knowledge, and everybody knows that. So this is much ado about nothing," Johnson said. The CNN reporter asked Johnson if Trump told him about being an informant, and the Louisiana Republican said it was "recounting what others have said" but that Trump had spoken out against "the Epstein evils many times" before.
"I was repeating what has been common knowledge for a long time. The president was helpful in trying to get Epstein for the law enforcement to go after Epstein. That’s always been my understanding. That’s common knowledge. It’s the public’s understanding. I didn’t — I was not breaking news there, OK? What I’m trying to emphasize is that the president is as disgusted about this as everyone is," Johnson said.
During the entire term of former President Joe Biden, the press did not seem interested in learning more about Epstein, his victims, or his crimes. Now that Trump is in office, they are demanding answers, which the Trump administration has admittedly been short on aside from the established narrative.
Trump has called this aspect of their curiosity a "hoax," which the leftist media has tried to claim was a dismissal of the entire story. Johnson was explaining this aspect when he said that Trump was an informant. "He’s not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax," Johnson explained on Friday.
"It’s a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself. When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago," Johnson added, which is an established fact that even the media admits to.
"He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down. The president knows and has great sympathy for the women who have suffered these unspeakable harms," Johnson said, which is what sparked the media questions about the fact.
Trump may not have been an informant, but he certainly seemed like one of the few wealthy and powerful individuals who stopped associating with Epstein after getting to know him better. The left can spin this however they choose, but the truth is that they are the ones who looked the other way for years on the Epstein case, and America knows it.
Vice President JD Vance said that Democrats are only concerned about Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes when they can use them against political enemies, Breitbart reported. The left has begun claiming the reason President Donald Trump won't release the files is that he's implicated in them, even though his predecessor ignored the scandal.
Vance was responding to recent news about a "birthday card" that the New York Times and other outlets claimed the president signed for the sex trafficker. "The Democrats don't care about Epstein," Vance posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Monday.
"They don’t even care about his victims. That's why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies. No one is falling for this BS," the vice president wrote.
The Democrats don't care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That's why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies.
No one is falling for this BS. https://t.co/u3pHgBtQDf
— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 8, 2025
In July, the Wall Street Journal described a birthday greeting Trump purportedly sent to Epstein in 2003 that featured a signed drawing of a naked woman with a message to Epstein about a " wonderful secret." Trump denied such a letter existed and sued the news outlet for defamation after the story broke.
However, copies of a note supposedly penned by Trump were released Monday by the House Oversight Committee and published in the Journal. Now, the left is going crazy with insinuations and accusations against Trump in another bid to smear the president with whatever they can get their hands on.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that believing this letter to be authentic is absurd, given the apparent contradictions in the reporting. "The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire ‘Birthday Card’ story is false," Leavitt said.
"As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it. President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation," Leavitt went on.
There has never been any dispute in the fact that Trump knew Epstein and had a casual relationship with the disgraced financier, as many of the top echelon of wealth and power had as well. The difference is they were willing to look the other way when it was people like former President Bill Clinton, but now that they can pin something on Trump, they're ready to pounce.
Former President Joe Biden refused to release the Epstein files, and Democrats were mostly okay with that during his time in the White House, Fox News reported. Democratic California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who was House Speaker for a time during Biden's presidency, remained silent when asked about her lack of curiosity until now.
Other Democrats like Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin are suddenly keyed into the Epstein saga, but even he couldn't explain his sudden interest when asked about it on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "But, Congressman, you could have gotten that from '21 to '25, when Democrats controlled the DOJ. Why — it was a crisis then," co-host Joe Scarborough asked.
"It’s a crisis now. Why didn’t Democrats call for it from '21 to '25?" Scarborough pressed. Raskin spoke in circles, claiming "you’d have to go back and look specifically at particular prosecutorial decisions and what was taking place in terms of the other cases. So, I don’t know, we could try to reconstruct that record."
Democratic Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal was also cagey when pressed about her sudden interest in the case by a reporter at CNN. "I would have been happy to raise it then as well. Frankly, we were focused on so many different pieces," Jayapal claimed.
Now that they believe they can take down Trump with it, Democrats are suddenly apoplectic about the goings on with Epstein. Their concern would be more credible if they hadn't spent years trying to make the story go away, but Vance has exposed their selective concern, which is clearly only for political gain.