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A congressional delegation, Reps. Tony Wied, Derrick Van Orden, Thomas Tiffany, Bryan Steil, Glenn Grothman and Scott Fitzgerald, all of Wisconsin, is urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to end a program imposed under the Joe Biden administration that discriminates, unlawfully, against victims based on race and sex.
The case concerns Adam Faust, a dairy farmer from Chilton, Wisconsin.
"Mr. Faust has been subjected to protected class-based discrimination by USDA. Specifically, he is ineligible for certain USDA programs based on his race and sex," the members explained in a letter to Brooke Rollins, President Donald Trump's secretary of Agriculture.
The delegation points out that Trump, in fact, "has taken bold and decisive action to eliminate racially discriminatory policies within the executive branch." And the letter said USDA should comply with orders to "eliminate racially discriminatory policies … ."
The problem, the letter explains, is that, "Mr. Faust is ineligible for loan guarantees and grants on equal terms with non-white farmers. Mr. Faust is also charged a fee for the Dairy Margin Coverage Program, while non-white farmers are not. He is one of the 2 million white male American farmers—representing more than 60% of all American farmers—who are still subject to lasting discriminatory policies instituted by the Biden administration."
The letter said, "Mr. Faust's case is particularly worthy of your attention because this is not the first time he has been subjected to USDA's race-based policies. He was the first farmer in America to challenge President Biden and his administration's discriminatory and unconstitutional $4 billion farmer loan forgiveness program. Mr. Faust won a nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO)—the first in the country —halting President Biden's racially selective loan forgiveness initiative."
The delegating is seeking a review of the situation and "prompt reform" of potentially discriminatory programs.
According to the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, which has worked on the case, The Trump administration "has taken many commendable steps to root out race discrimination in many agencies; however, race-based policies and programs persist. USDA is the worst offender, running over two dozen race-based programs that unconstitutionally discriminate against farmers and ranchers every day."
Dan Lennington, deputy counsel for WILL, said, "While the Trump administration has made progress against government-sponsored discrimination, the USDA remains a glaring holdout, inflicting economic pain on millions of farmers based on their race. This isn't just bad policy, it's a blatant violation of the Constitution. We commend the Wisconsin delegation for their support of Mr. Faust and farmers across Wisconsin."
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FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino are facing fierce criticism for asserting convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein indeed killed himself in jail, and also downplaying concerns about the assassination attempts on President Donald Trump.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Maria Bartiromo of Fox News on "Sunday Morning Futures" asked both officials why many Americans don't buy the government assertion that Epstein committed suicide in a New York City holding facility.
"They have a right to their opinion," Patel said, "but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who's been in that prison system, who's been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that's what that was."
Bongino said: "He killed himself. I've seen the whole file. He killed himself."
Regarding the case of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Bartiromo asked both officials why many Americans don't buy the government assertion that Epstein killed himself in a New York City jail.
"I call bullsh**," said Infowars host Alex Jones.
"Overall, I think Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are doing a great job, but on this claim that Epstein's death is not a cover-up I call bullsh**."
Jones posted a lengthy comment on X, indicating: "EPSTEIN confirmed a suic*de? Maria sits down with FBI's Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, who claim Epstein did, in fact, commit suic*de. Now, let's get into why people do not believe this theory."
Number one, Maurene Comey, Fmr. disgraced FBI Dir. James Comey's daughter was in charge of Epstein's alleged suic*de investigation, which isn't a good start, and Maurene allegedly lost the jailhouse CCTV tapes as a result of a technical error.
Then on top of the "lost/erased tapes," through a "technical error," both security guards "fell asleep," who were supposed to be watching Epstein's cell, who was on 24hr surveillance for suicide watch which is standard procedure in every jail and being a high-profile prisoner.
There are rumors and a video you can search which claims nitrous oxide was used to knock the guards out, which then Epstein was taken out by another individual. Others claim the guards were paid not to talk.
Either way, for the tapes to mysteriously go missing or erased and to have not one, but TWO guards both fall asleep coincidentally, the odds of both of these happenings to occur at the same time in the same place are astronomical.
We know the Comey's are corrupt. James Comey just sent out a dogwhistle to have our sitting president assassinated. Why do you think he would do that? What [do] Comey, the Clintons, and the Obamas all have to hide? Are you paying attention to Trump's recent posts? Are you starting to connect the dots? Remember, there are no coincidences.
Regarding the two attempts on Trump's life, Patel cited two reasons for the lack of specific details released.
"Two open, ongoing prosecutions," he said. 'Two of the investigations are obviously closed because the individuals are dead, but there's two live prosecutions … so we can't get ahead of the federal court case."
"We have personally invested our time in making sure that we have looked at any possible international connections to terrorism and adversaries alike."
"Kash is not kidding," said Bongino. "We've been personally briefed extensively on every single detail, nugget, tendril of this case."
He said he's aware many feel the federal government is hiding something about the assassination attempts.
"I'm not going to tell people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you the truth, and whether you like it or not is up to you," Bongino explained.
"In some of these cases, the 'there' you're looking for is not there. And I know people, I get it, I understand. It's not there. If it was there, we would have told you."
Jim Hoft at the Gateway Pundit reported: "This is a stunning reversal from Bongino's previous whistleblowing on Secret Service failures. Just last year, he blew the lid off the culture of corruption in the Secret Service."
"Thomas Crooks was able to do the following on July 13:
The Gateway Pundit added: "Meanwhile, new court documents were released that reveal would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh was in talks to purchase a Stinger Missile to take out Trump here in the U.S.
"A Stinger missile reportedly costs from $119,000 to $120,000. A Stinger missile costs anywhere from $50,000 to $80,000 on the black market. … [C]ourt documents reveal that Routh was communicating with someone he 'believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military weapons.'"
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PALM BEACH, Florida – President Donald Trump is threatening fresh legal action against ABC News for what he calls "misleading" and "fake" news coverage of Qatar's gift of a luxury 747 jet to America.
In a late-night post on Truth Social Saturday, Trump wondered: "Why doesn't Chairman Bob Iger do something about ABC Fake News, especially since I just won $16,000,000 based on the Fake and Defamatory reporting of Liddle' George Slopadopolus. He was given warnings, but just couldn't be restrained by 'management.'"
"Now I see they are at it again, and I again give these SleazeBags fair warning!
"The wonderful country of Qatar, after agreeing to invest more than 1.4 Trillion Dollars in the United States of America, deserves much better than Misleading (Fake!) News."
Trump stressed the gift of the plane to be used as Air Force One is not to him personally, but to the U.S. Defense Department.
"Everyone, including their lawyers, has been told that ABC must not say that Qatar is giving ME a FREE Boeing 747 Airplane, because they are not," he explained.
"Instead, and as Fake News ABC fully knows and understands, this highly respected country is donating the plane to the United States Air Force/ Defense Department, AND NOT TO ME.
"By so doing, they are saving our country, and the American Taxpayer, hundreds of millions of dollars. ABC Fake News is one of the WORST."
As WorldNetDaily reported last Monday, President Donald Trump unleashed his disdain on an ABC reporter who asked him about Qatar's $400 million aircraft gift.
"What do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you?" ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott asked Trump during a signing ceremony for an executive order designed to slash prices for prescription drugs. "Why not leave it behind?"
Trump instantly responded with an attack on Scott and her network, saying: "You're ABC Fake News right? Because only ABC – well, a few of you would. Let me tell you. You should be embarrassed asking that question.
"They're giving us a free jet. I could say no, no, no, don't give us … I want to pay you $1 billion or $400 million or whatever it is or I could say thank you very much."
He then discussed an anecdote concerning pro golfer Sam Snead.
"He had a motto, when they give you a putt, you say, thank you very much. You pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole," Trump recounted.
"A lot of people are stupid. They say, no, no, I insist on putting it. And then they put it, they miss it, and their partner gets angry at them. You know what? Remember that Sam Snead, when they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you say, thank you very much."
Scott continued to press the matter, but was cut off by Trump as she asked: "Respectfully, sir, as a businessman, some people may look at this and say, have you ever been given a gift worth millions of dollars and then not …"
"It's not a gift to me," Trump replied. "It's a gift to the Department of Defense and you should know better because you've been embarrassed enough and so has your network. Your network is a disaster. ABC is a disaster."
Regarding the offer of the aircraft, Trump said: "I think it's a great gesture from Qatar. Appreciate it very much. I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer."
"I mean, I could be a stupid person and say, No, we don't want a free, very expensive airplane. But it was, I thought it was a great gesture."
"I think it was a gesture because of the fact that we help, have helped, and continue to, we will continue to all of those countries, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and others," he continued.
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He's a "dirty cop," but it will be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi whether to pursue charges against ex-FBI head James Comey.
That's the verdict from President Donald Trump after Comey was found to have posted what many saw as a direct threat to the life of Trump online.
Comey's message was "86 47," where "86" is considered an order to remove someone or something, and Trump is the 47th president in his second term.
A report in the Washington Examiner noted Trump, in an interview, dismissed Comey's "apology" and claim that he didn't know what the numbers meant.
"He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant. If you're the FBI director and you don't know what that meant, that meant assassination, and it says it loud and clear," Trump said.
"Now, he wasn't very competent, but he was competent enough to know what that meant. And he did it for a reason, and he was hit so hard because people like me, they like what's happening with our country. Our country has become respected again, and all this, and he's calling for the assassination of the president."
He continued, "I don't want to take a position on it, because that's going to be up to Pam and all of the great people, but I will say this, I think it's a terrible thing. And when you add his history to that, if he had a clean history, he doesn't. He's a dirty cop. He's a dirty cop. And if he had a clean history, I could understand if there was leniency. But I'm going to let them make that decision."
Comey posted the image, then deleted it later.
An investigation into Comey already has been launched.
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Ex-CIA chief John Brennan, evidence now shows, suppressed intelligence that Americans should have been given, wildly claimed there was no spying on the 2016 Donald Trump campaign, has been known to unleash untruths, and even was accused by a counter-terrorism expert of treason.
Now, he's gone ballistic over the routine housecleaning decisions being made by President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
It's all from his outrage that she is not keeping in place the intelligence officers who worked for Joe Biden.
Gabbard, in fact, recently announced the firings of Mike Collins, who was on the National Intelligence Council, and Maria Langan-Riekhof, his deputy.
According to reports, both have been named by whistleblowers as having political biases, acting on them, and undermining President Trump.
One Daily Fetched report identified them as "Deep State" operatives. And Fox News had reported they were "radically" in opposition to President Trump and his actions.
Brennan commented on the staff changes in an interview in which he was "visibly angry."
Gabbard's stated goals have been to prevent the politicization of intelligence, which has happened under Barack Obama and Biden.
For example, ex-CIA Director Michael Morrell was accused of helping organization a letter signed by dozens of intel operatives that claimed the scandal-proving laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
Actually, the laptop provided documentation of real scandals involving the Biden family.
And officials knew when they signed the letter that the evidence was factual.
Collins had been accused by whistleblowers of deliberately undermining Trump, and Langan-Riekhof was known for her advocacy for the now-discredited DEI agenda.
On MSNBC, Brennan unleashed his rage:
"This whole thing just makes me livid."
A commentary by David Harsanyi, in fact, discussed the Durham report that reviewed the FBI's political scheme to attack Trump over the "Russia" claims.
The column explained, "The just-released Durham report confirmed that the FBI not only failed to corroborate the Steele dossier, Hillary Clinton's oppo-doc against former President Donald Trump, but it regularly ignored existing, sometimes dispositive, evidence to keep the investigation alive. Some officials were credulous. Others were devious. But no one 'stole' our democracy – other than perhaps intelligence officials and the journalists who helped feed the collective hysteria over Russia.
"John Brennan, Hamas-loving authoritarian and partisan propagandist, almost surely knew it was a con from the start. Yet he spent four years on television sounding like a deranged subreddit commenter. Even after privately admitting he knew there was no collusion, Brennan kept lying and using his credentials to mislead the public."
John Durham, himself, concluded after a years-long investigation of the origins of the FBI war against Trump and the Trump campaign, "CIA Director John Brennan and Deputy Director David Cohen were interviewed by the Office and were asked about their knowledge of any actual evidence of members of the Trump campaign conspiring or colluding with Russian officials. When Brennan was provided with an overview of the origins of the Attorney General's Review after Special Counsel Mueller finding a lack of evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian authorities, Brennan offered that 'they found no conspiracy.'"
But Brennan later went on television to insist that he "suspected there was more" to collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian President Vladimir Putin than [special counsel Robert] Mueller had let on."
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the top officials leading the National Intelligence Council and has moved the agency to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI.
According to a report by Fox News Digital, whistleblowers have described some members of the Council as "radically opposed" to President Trump.
Gabbard fired Mike Collins, who was serving as the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, on Tuesday, senior intelligence officials told Fox News Digital.
Collins has elicited whistleblower complaints against him for political bias and "deliberately undermining the incoming Trump administration," officials told Fox. They added that Collins was closely associated with Michael Morrell, the former deputy director of the CIA who worked to write a public letter in 2020 claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," and to get signatures from top ex-intelligence officials.
The report notes that Langan-Reikhof has been a "key advocate" for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, which contravene Trump policies.
Gabbard is moving the National Intelligence Council from the CIA to her office to "directly hold accountable any improper action and politicization of intelligence," Fox News Digital reported.
Many intel community leakers are "career bureaucrats that are entrenched in Washington politics," officials said.
"It takes time to weed them out and fire them," one official told Fox News, adding that "plans to eliminate non-essential offices within ODNI that we know are housing deep state leakers are underway."
The moves come as Gabbard has taken steps to root out leakers and alleged "deep state holdovers" who officials say are politicizing intelligence analysis and "trying to sabotage President Trump's agenda."
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Sonia Sotomayor has a well-established reputation for being a leftist on the Supreme Court, supporting all manner of Democrat causes and opposing President Donald Trump.
But her comments now have moved into new territory, territory in which she is advocating for lawyers to stand up and fight.
Carefully, she did not identify Trump by name, but during a recent address, she left no doubt in the minds of many against whom she advocates opposition.
"Right now we can't lose the battles we are facing," she told a meeting of the leftist American Bar Association.
She was talking to the ABA's Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section, and NBC said she considered her appearance there an "act of solidarity."
Trump, meanwhile, has opposed liberal activists in the judiciary and even has advocated that there be another endorsement organization specified so that law schools would not have to work through the ABA for their graduates' authorizations.
She said, without identifying specific "battles," said, "In all of the uncertainty that exists at this moment, this is our time to stand up and be heard."
"If you're not used to fighting losing battles, don't become a lawyer. Our job is to stand for people who can't do it themselves," she said.
The comment comes amid an extended war against Trump that is being assembled by district court judges across the nation, many of whom have issued nationwide injunctions halting the president's executive actions and imposing restrictions on his executive branch agenda.
The topics on which judges have bashed back have included deporting illegal aliens, limiting American citizenship for babies born to foreigners in the U.S. illegally, a long list of environmental rules, his plans to cut waste, fraud and corruption from the government, his plans to eliminate federal bureaucracies and jobs, and much more.
Actually, according to constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who not only has testified before Congress as an expert on the Constitution but has represented members in court in constitutional disputes, Sotomayor previously has been scorched for "making public comments that some viewed as overly political or partisan."
That topic included her demands that law students organize to support abortion rights, a subject that has been before the court many times, and undoubtedly will appear there again.
Turley noted Sotomayor's blasts "presumably" targeted President Trump.
"Sotomayor made a number of inspiring comments to encourage lawyers to pursue justice despite the odds or challenges," Turley explained.
And they "appeared to veer into more partisan territory."
Her reference to "we" was a surprise, he said, and many viewed it as a rallying call for "the left."
He explained, "Clearly, such comments are subject to different interpretations. Newspapers like the New York Times made the obvious connection, stating that it was made 'against the backdrop of immense stress on lawyers and the legal system from the Trump administration,'"
Leftist lawyer Marc Elias, a key part of the fabricated 2016 conspiracy theory assembled by Democrats that alleged "Russia collusion" against Trump's campaign, then credited Sotomayor with "solidarity" to leftist ideals.
"She understands that while we must bring difficult cases and be willing to lose, we must always fight to win. And by lending her voice in 'solidarity,' she affirmed that it is 'our time to stand up and be heard,' he said.
Turley noted that Sotomayor previously lobbied publicly for abortion, telling students, "You know, I can't change Texas' law, but you can and everyone else who may or may not like it can go out there and be lobbying forces in changing laws that you don't like. I am pointing out to that when I shouldn't, because they tell me I shouldn't. But my point is that there are going to be a lot of things you don't like," and require public action.
Turley admits he's often been critical of members of the high court for appearing before "ideologically supportive groups."
And he calls this circumstance the "rise of the celebrity justice."
He said her calls to "fight this fight" were injudicious.
"The court is set to hear a number of key cases on the Trump policies, including a key argument next week on the rapidly expanding number of national injunctions imposed by district courts. This is not the time to be seen as speaking in 'solidarity' with one side," he said.
Brianna Lynn explained at The Federalist the dangers of Sotomayor's argument for the benefit of one side.
"The fact that you have a sitting Supreme Court justice [Sonia Sotomayor] saying we have to 'Stand up' and 'Fight this fight' … is reinforcing the criticism that judicial overreach is occurring and that the judiciary is being used as a political weapon rather than the judiciary being used as a neutral arbiter of the law."
She continued, "And the fact that [Justice Sotomayor] said that we have to fight for 'lost causes' — the role of a lawyer is to zealously advocate for a client, of course. But the role of a judge is to zealously advocate for the Constitution, and those aren't always the same thing."
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Congress already has investigated, and confirmed, that Joe Biden and his family took in tens of millions of dollars while he was vice president or president from what amounted to an influence peddling operation.
First Son Hunter Biden was part of the plans, and is described as repeatedly having sold access to his father to foreign interests.
Curiously, as that income pipeline no longer exists because the influence collapsed on Biden's departure from the White House, there now are multiple reports that the family is looking for ways to start generating income.
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has promised, like in his first term, to donate his presidential salary of $400,000 a year.
But none of that stopped reporters whose agenda was made clear at the White House from suggesting that Trump was profiting from his presidential term.
Two reporters raised the issue, and White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt responded:
"I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit. He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service, not just once, but twice. And again, the American public re-elected him back to this White House because they trust he acts in the best interests of our country and putting the country first.
"This is a president who actually has lost money for being president of the United States.
"I don't remember these same type of questions being asked of my predecessor about a career politician who was clearly profiting off of this office."
On social media was the comment, "Joe didn't just cash in on his public service, he turned it into a family business."
In fact, multiple members of the Biden family were documented to have had unusual financial activities in their accounts while Joe Biden was vice president or president. A long list of presidential pardons issued to family members by Joe as he left office effectively closed the door on the public ever accessing many of those details.
At Twitchy was the comment, "Another White House briefing brought with it more reporters getting verbal wedgies from Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Today's example happened when one or two reporters insinuated that President Trump is in some way profiting from the presidency. A mic drop ensued that landed on the media and the Biden family."
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PALM BEACH, Florida – After teasing that his next message on Truth Social would be "one of the most important and impactful I have ever issued," President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he would sign an executive order Monday morning designed to cut prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices "almost immediately, by 30% to 80%."
"For many years the World has wondered why Prescription Drugs and Pharmaceuticals in the United States States of America were SO MUCH HIGHER IN PRICE THAN THEY WERE IN ANY OTHER NATION, SOMETIMES BEING FIVE TO TEN TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE SAME DRUG, MANUFACTURED IN THE EXACT SAME LABORATORY OR PLANT, BY THE SAME COMPANY???" Trump began, having made people wait nearly four hours for his post.
"It was always difficult to explain and very embarrassing because, in fact, there was no correct or rightful answer. The Pharmaceutical/Drug Companies would say, for years, that it was Research and Development Costs, and that all of these costs were, and would be, for no reason whatsoever, borne by the 'suckers' of America, ALONE.
"Campaign Contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not with the Republican Party. We are going to do the right thing, something that the Democrats have fought for many years.
"Therefore, I am pleased to announce that Tomorrow morning, in the White House, at 9:00 A.M., I will be signing one of the most consequential Executive Orders in our Country's history. Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be REDUCED, almost immediately, by 30% to 80%.
"They will rise throughout the World in order to equalize and, for the first time in many years, bring FAIRNESS TO AMERICA! I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION'S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World.
"Our Country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens Healthcare Costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought of before. Additionally, on top of everything else, the United States will save TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
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Shows president during 'Fight, fight, fight' moment after 2024 assassination attempt
In what appears to be a miniature of an eventual nine-foot statue, a small sculpture depicting a pivotal point in President Trump's life was spied on display in the Oval Office Friday.
The piece of art, approximately a foot tall, shows the moment Trump stood up after being shot in the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July as he raised his fist and shouted, "Fight, fight, fight!"
Surrounding him are the Secret Service agents who hurried the then-candidate off the outdoor rally stage, including current chief of the agency, Sean Curran.
Though the White House has not addressed the added piece of artwork, it appears to be a maquette of a proposed statue in the works by artist Stan Watts of the Trump Statue Project, an effort creating a nine-foot replica to honor the president.
"This powerful image, embodying 'Confidence, Strength, and Hope,' will be immortalized in this nine-foot-tall statue," the group's website reads. "It symbolizes the divine intervention as well as the man and his message of unity and resilience for which America stands."
As reported by the New York Post, the Oval Office statue isn't the only piece of art related to the Butler assassination attempt on display at the White House.
Last month, a new painting – an artistic interpretation of one of the iconic images captured by New York Times photographer Doug Mills in Butler – was revealed to be hanging in a prominent spot in the Grand Foyer of the East Wing of the executive mansion.
The artwork, painted by Marc Lipp, also depicts Trump with blood splattered across his face and the American flag in the background, raising his fist after the shooting.