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The next Republican National Convention ordinarily would be leading into the 2028 presidential race.
But little about the presidency of Donald Trump fits into the "ordinarily" category, and he's been discussing the idea of having it just before the 2026 midterms.
His comments didn't include details of when or where the events would be, but he discussed his party's success. And members want to maintain the majority in both the House and Senate, as the party now has.
"The Republican Party is doing really well. Millions of people have joined us in our quest to MAKE AMERICA, GREAT AGAIN. We won every aspect of the Presidential Election and, based on the great success we are having, are poised to WIN BIG IN THE MIDTERMS," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
A report at Fox said, "Historically, midterms have been tough elections for the party controlling the White House, typically losing roughly 25 seats in the House. Trump and the Republicans lost 41 House seats in the 2018 midterms.
The report explained Republican National Committee chair Kiersten Pels, following Trump's announcement, told Fox News Digital that the president "is leading with bold, innovative ideas to energize our Party and keep us on the path to victory."
The Democrats are not idle. Spokesperson Abhi Rahman said, "To showcase our tremendous candidates running up and down the ballot and harness the amazing grassroots energy we're already seeing, several options are on the table for next year, including hosting a large-scale gathering before the midterms."
The comments come amid a redistricting war. Texas already has taken action to emphasize a GOP advantage in several additional districts. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to do the same for Democrats in his state, although its representation already is weighted heavily to the Democrats' advantage.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced that there will be launched new studies into the effects of some anti-depressant drugs, and their use by those who turn out to be killers.
The announcement comes in the aftermath of this week's mass shooting at a Catholic church and school in Minneapolis that left two dead and more than a dozen more injured.
According to a report at RedState, the investigations will look at the potential link between SSRI drugs and violent behavior.
"SSRIs, or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, are a class of antidepressant medications that are used to treat depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders," the report said. "They are frequently used to treat common mental health challenges, especially in younger adults seeking to transition from their God-given gender who already suffer a higher rate of depression-related issues."
The shooting attack this week, by a transgender individual, a man who claimed to identify as a woman, came "two years after another trans-involved shooting spree in Nashville," the report said. There was no immediate confirmation on any medications taken by the Minneapolis shooter.
"We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence," Kennedy said. "You know, many of them on there have black box warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation."
The report noted, "There are … studies that suggest a possible association between SSRI use and increased risks of violent behavior or convictions, particularly in adolescents and young adults. A large Swedish cohort study of over 850,000 individuals prescribed SSRIs between 2006 and 2009 reported a modest increase in violent crime convictions among those aged 15-24 during treatment periods. At the same time, a 2020 study in the Netherlands and the U.S. linked SSRI use to higher reports of violent crimes, with one review noting a doubling of aggression and suicidality in healthy volunteers."
It was in a column posted on WND that commentator Barbara Simpson, several years ago, commented on the shooting by Nikolas Cruz at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 were killed.
She wrote, "We were told Nikolas was on medication. What medication? Who prescribed it? Was he being supervised? Was he under the influence at the time of the crimes? Is this important? Consider that almost all mass murders over the last years have involved the killers being on prescribed SSRI antidepressants – drugs we know can cause murderous violence in the patient. Drug companies pay out millions in lawsuits from such instances."
And she cited the research by David Kupelian of WND who found connections between drugs and killers:
Simpson wrote, "These are just a few of the horrors caused by 'medicine' that kills and destroys lives, yet we allow and encourage it."
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There is abundant documentation that George Soros, through his Open Society Foundations and other leftist channels, has donated dollars galore to left-wing ideologies.
And there is equal evidence that many left-wing groups have done much damage to America.
Consider the "Black Lives Matter" movement and agenda, which inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars in race riot destruction on American cities after the death of George Floyd.
Now whether the Soros money went directly into pushing that violence, or not, may be subject to investigation, after President Donald Trump called for RICO charges against not just George Soros, but his son Alex, who has taken over control of his father's multi-billion dollar empire that is dedicated to leftist goals.
"George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests and much more, all throughout the United States of America. We're not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart American any more, never giving it so much as a chance to "BREATHE," and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we're watching you! Thank you for your attention to this matter!" the president wrote.
RICO charges often involve racketeering, or organized crime ventures.
The Washington Examiner explained the comment was part of Trump's "feud with the Democratic megadonors."
"Trump has long joined Republicans in painting the Soros family as Democratic bogeymen due to the millions they have funneled into left-wing campaigns, causes, and protests over the past three decades," the report said. "Reports indicate that the Open Society Foundations, which Alex now chairs, has helped fund activists protesting the president's takeover of the police in Washington, D.C., and though Trump did not mention Washington by name, he claimed their history of donations and grants meets the standard for charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act."
The report noted the White House and Justice Department officials declined to answer questions about Trump's comment, specifically whether the administration has already opened a RICO investigation into George Soros and Open Society.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday jumped into the national debate over Cracker Barrel's new logo, giving the old-time-America restaurant chain free advice on how to rescue itself from negative sentiment and plunging stock value.
"Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo, admit a mistake based on customer response (the ultimate Poll), and manage the company better than ever before," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"They got a Billion Dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right. Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity.
"Have a major News Conference today. Make Cracker Barrel a WINNER again.
"Remember, in just a short period of time I made the United States of America the 'HOTTEST' Country anywhere in the World. One year ago, it was 'DEAD.' Good luck!"
As WorldNetDaily reported Monday, Cracker Barrel is in damage-control mode after for removing "Uncle Herschel" and his barrel from its logo.
The company issued a statement Monday, indicating: "If the last few days have shown us anything, it's how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel. We're truly grateful for your heartfelt voices."
"You've also shown us that we could've done a better job sharing who we are and who we'll always be."
"We know we won't always get everything right the first time, but we'll keep testing, learning, and listening to our guests and employees."
Fox Nation host Abby Hornacek said Tuesday, "If we're gonna take anything from this, we can be reassured that people still care about tradition."
And Fox News contributor Kennedy, host of the "Kennedy Saves the World" podcast, opined: "Maybe Cracker Barrel did this intentionally. Maybe they surveyed the landscape and realized how much conservative customers are resistant to this kind of change and then there will be a huge backlash, an upswell of free publicity, and then they can go back to exactly what they were doing, and they look like heroes who live their loyal base.
"Or they send Sydney Sweeney with a gun in a NASCAR, wearing American Eagle jeans to Cracker Barrel to demand the logo go back to what it was with Uncle Herschel, and everything's right in the world."
Outkick founder Clay Travis told Fox News: "They should fire the entire marketing agency that made this decision and the CEO should come out and publicly apologize."
"It's very much like Bud Light, they have a certain audience. It is people who want to have grandma's kitchen in the South invoked in some way. That is their market. They decided they didn't like that market. They turned their back on the people that made this a multi-billion dollar corporation that have made it successful, and they're going after an audience in the meat-packing district of New York City that's never gonna eat there! This is why people are so upset."
"It is a disastrous marketing campaign," Travis concluded. "This is what happens when you hire people in New York City and L.A. that have never eaten in your restaurant and tell them how to fix your brand. They destroy it."
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A Federal Reserve Board governor, described on social media as scheming to lower her own mortgage costs while voting to deny mortgage cost relief to Americans, also now is defying an order from President Donald Trump that she be fired.
Lisa Cook claims there's no "cause" for her firing, despite her being investigated by federal law enforcement for mortgage fraud.
The case against Cook is similar to the federal investigations now pending against California Sen. Adam Schiff, Democrat and longtime adherent to the fake Russiagate conspiracy theory against Trump, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who ironically claimed fraud in her case against Trump, a $500 million judgment that recently was thrown out because it violated the U.S. Constitution.
A report at RedState said Trump followed through on his threat to fire Cook, removing her from her position "effective immediately."
She immediately defied him, stating, "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign and will continue my work to support the U.S. economy."
Social media commenters immediately launched their criticisms, pointed out she allegedly was scheming to get better mortgage terms for herself while at the same time repeatedly voting to deprive Americans of similar help, by demanding the interest rates remain high.
Those interest rates are a legacy of Joe Biden's disastrous economic policies, which prompted inflation across America to explode to as high as 9% during his term.
Trump dispatched a letter to Cook, explaining she was removed for "cause" in light of a recent criminal referral against her.
That charge accuses Cook of claiming her primary residence in Michigan on mortgage documents, only to turn around and do the same thing with a different property in Georgia just a month later. As the letter notes, it seems improbable that such a thing could be done unknowingly.
The report noted that Cook advocates "tried to claim that Cook's situation does not fall under the guise of 'cause' when it comes to the authority of the president to remove Federal Reserve governors. But while the protections against removal afforded by the Banking Act of 1935 appear to extend to policy decisions, as in a governor can't be fired for not lowering interest rates, the idea that personal misconduct doesn't qualify belabors belief. Such a position would presume that a president can't fire someone who allegedly committed fraud. That stretches whatever protections exist far past the point of absurdity."
The report noted it's likely Cook will find a "lower-court" judge to agree with her if she fights. But "It's a legal battle she very well could lose in the end, though, which begs the question of whether it's smart to poke the bear."
"Her firing doesn't change the fact that she's under criminal investigation. Antagonizing the administration by suing over her removal won't do her any favors," the report noted.
Cook has been part of the Fed faction that also has been defying the president's call for lower interest rates to help Americans with their mortgage costs.
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President Donald Trump is urging severe action be taken against ABC and NBC News, claiming their "crooked journalism" should not be rewarded.
In a series of late-night messages posted Sunday on Truth Social, Trump indicated: "Despite a very high popularity and, according to many, among the greatest 8 months in Presidential History, ABC & NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the worst and most biased networks in history, give me 97% BAD STORIES.
"IF THAT IS THE CASE, THEY ARE SIMPLY AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND SHOULD, ACCORDING TO MANY, HAVE THEIR LICENSES REVOKED BY THE FCC. I would be totally in favor of that because they are so biased and untruthful, an actual threat to our Democracy!!!"
An hour later, the president said: "Why is it that ABC and NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the absolute worst and most biased networks anywhere in the World, aren't paying Millions of Dollars a year in LICENSE FEES.
"They should lose their Licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or Conservatives, but at a minimum, they should pay up BIG for having the privilege of using the most valuable airwaves anywhere at anytime!!!
"Crooked 'journalism' should not be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!"
He added: "Except what is written and broadcast in the Fake News, I now have the highest poll numbers I've ever had, some in the 60s and even 70s. Thank you. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"
Fox News reported: "Being national networks, ABC and NBC News do not hold FCC licenses for news content but provide programming for local affiliates across the country, which are regulated by the FCC and require licensing to operate in the U.S.
"TV stations pay fees and annual regulatory fees based on station type and market, while cable outlets pay their own regulatory fees. Only Congress has the authority to impose and collect such fees, which are deposited in the U.S. Treasury.
"Any move to revoke licenses based on real or perceived news bias would run afoul of First Amendment protections. Similar attempts in the past have been struck down by the courts."
As WorldNetDaily reported, Trump settled a defamation suit against ABC last year for $15 million, over network anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air claim that the president-elect was found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
And in the wake of legal action over a deceptively edited "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris in the 2024 White House race, Trump said CBS and its parent company Paramount, have finally paid a $16 million settlement, with another $20 million on the way.
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Ketanji Jackson, the newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by Joe Biden, is complaining that her colleagues are allowing the White House to win court cases.
Fox News reports she wrote in a dissent this week that the "recent tendencies" of the court to side with the Trump administration are wrong.
"This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins," she scolded.
Calvinball, in fact, comes out of the hilarious comic strip and book creations of Bill Watterson, where Calvin, the precocious little boy, plays games with his pet, stuffed tiger, and there are no fixed rules.
Jackson's claims, however, fall apart when considering the dozens and dozens of court rulings that have gone against the Trump administration at various court levels, based on the hundreds of legal cases leftists have brought against him as he pursues his Make America Great Again agenda.
Those include refusals to let him cut spending as he's planned, judges who insist that he bring deported criminals back to the United States, and many more.
Even if Jackson, whose personal ideologies clearly are being offended by the Trump administration's agenda for a strong America, following the law, providing protections for Americans, and calling for fair trade agreements, was referencing only the Supreme Court, those justices have been far from letting the Trump administration do all it wants.
Jackson, however, rebuked other justices for "lawmaking" on the court's "shadow docket," which involves cases that are brought to the justices on an emergency basis and require a ruling right away – before a full development in lower courts, a full briefing, and arguments.
The justice with a far-left ideology and agenda on the court said the majority on the court bent "over backwards to accommodate" Trump by allowing the National Institutes of Health to cancel more than $700 million in grants that did not align with its priorities.
Some of those grants were ideological, pushing the leftist agenda of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and gender identity, topics on which the government should be remaining neutral, not spending tax money pushing.
That ruling, she complained, is the "newest entry in the court's quest to make way for the Executive Branch…"
That 5-4 decision allows the NIH to cancel a series of grants that already had been identified.
In a second 5-4 decision that keeps a lower court's block on the NIH's directives about the grants intact, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, sided with John Roberts and the three liberals. The latter portion of the ruling could hinder the NIH's ability to cancel future grants, the report said.
Experts have noted a surge in the "rhetoric" from the leftist Jackson, who has established herself as one of the most active talkers during oral arguments.
"The histrionic and hyperbolic rhetoric has increased in Jackson's opinions, which at times portray her colleagues as abandoning not just the Constitution but democracy itself," said constitutional expert Jonathan Turley.
Jackson, in fact, got scolded for her rhetoric in an opinion by Barrett recently.
Barrett accused Jackson of advocating for an "imperial judiciary."
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FORT PIERCE, Florida – A petition supporting an illegal alien truck driver who allegedly killed three people in Florida has collected nearly 2.5 million signatures as of Sunday.
Harjinder Singh, 28, faces up to 45 years behind bars on three charges of vehicular homicide for pulling an illegal U-Turn on Florida's Turnpike in St. Lucie County Aug. 12, as a family crashed into his tractor trailer.
"We, the undersigned, urge Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency to re-examine and reduce the sentence for a 28-year-old truck driver involved in a fatal U-turn crash on Florida's Turnpike in South Florida," the petition reads.
"This was a tragic accident – not a deliberate act. While accountability matters, the severity of the charges against him does not align with the circumstances of the incident."
Singh has not faced trial yet, let alone being sentenced. He initially fled to California, the state which issued him a commercial driving license, but has since been hauled back to the Sunshine State.
Many of those supporting Singh appear to be Indian nationals.
"It was an accident. he made a terrible mistake, not a deliberate choice to harm anyone," wrote Marvi in Sydney, Australia. "He was working hard to support his family, like so many of us, and one wrong decision changed everything. A 45-year prison sentence is not justice."
Another supporter named Lovepreet in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, wrote: "45 yrs of imprisonment?? is it fair for a young boy who left his home country to have bright future ,support family ??? NO … it was mistake not intentional … this kind of sentence is a result of racial discrimination where comments were made that driver had no remorse, he didn't show emotions after he saw that accident but the TRUTH is he was in shock, devastated.. his whole life was shattering in front of his eyes."
But there's plenty of opposition to the petition and Singh supporters.
"I will never forget this moment," said Elizabeth Farah, co-founder of WorldNetDaily and host of "The Elizabeth Farah Show" on Rumble.
"This was no mistake. He and his employer must face the harshest penalty. The woman employing him is Indian. She has dozens of businesses. She has a record hiring unqualified illegals before. She has opened and closed multiple trucking companies. This is mass migration; this is cultural. The strength of caste is overwhelming. Justice is meaningless, caste is everything. This is un-American."
Others indicate:
"Deport all of the people who signed this petition. And if they're already in foreign countries, ban them from the U.S."
"If anything this petition should make the punishment more severe."
"I bet that petition would make a fantastic deportation list."
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Democrats long have used their claim, "No one is above the law" against President Donald Trump.
That included back when they were trying twice, unsuccessfully, to impeach him and remove him from office.
That slogan actually now has come back to dog Democrats, as there is a long list of party members now facing potential charges for mortgage fraud and other claims, not to mention charges that may come out of the Department of Justice investigations into the "Russiagate" conspiracy theory that party members promoted with false claims for years.
But now the Institute for Justice is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a ruling that makes the "No one is above the law" a precedent to be used across America.
"Constitutional guarantees mean little if the government can break them without consequences," said IJ lawyer Anya Bidwell. "That's why, since the country's founding, federal officials could be sued for violating people's rights. It is imperative we hold on to these sacred principles under current circumstances."
The precedent being sought means access to judicial remedies for those whose rights are violated by federal officials.
"Such remedies were a hallmark of the country's original constitutional design, as a method of implementing the protections of the Bill of Rights. But over time, the government has sought to undermine and eliminate that foundational guarantee of individual liberty. The judiciary should not go along with the government's efforts to force on the country a system of federal impunity," explained the legal team.
The brief explains the country's original system of federal accountability has been largely upended by a series of statutes and judicial decisions.
One statute the brief notes, the Federal Tort Claims Act, does in fact provide relief when government employees inflict harm.
In the case at issue, however, the government is arguing that the FTCA forecloses remedies where Texas property owner Lebene Konan alleges that postal officials engaged in a pattern of racial discrimination and economic interference against her by, among other things, refusing to deliver mail to her and her tenants and changing the locks on her mailbox.
As the Supreme Court confirmed in 1882, if the "courts cannot give remedy" for such harms, our government no longer, "has a just claim to well-regulated liberty and the protection of personal rights."
The IJ is urging the court to resist government attempts to shut down remedies.
The brief recounts several instances of lower courts eliminating remedies for outrageous rights violations by federal officials, including the brutal attack of an innocent student in Michigan and the false imprisonment of innocent teenage Somali refugees in Minnesota. And it discusses the case of a traumatic predawn raid of an innocent family's home in Georgia, in which IJ recently secured a Supreme Court victory regarding the scope of the FTCA.
"With federal police being deployed in cities around the country, it's vital for the judiciary to ensure that federal officials cannot operate with impunity," said IJ Attorney Jaba Tsitsuashvili. "The FTCA serves that function and preserves individual liberty."
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President Donald Trump has delivered a verdict on Lisa D. Cook, a governor for the Federal Reserve who now is facing accusations of mortgage fraud.
His conclusion: She'll be fired if she doesn't resign.
WND reported only a day earlier that Cook was the third major Democrat personality in recent weeks to face mortgage fraud claims.
It was the U.S. Federal Housing FHFA that alleged, in a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, that Cook committed mortgage fraud by designating both an out of state condominium as well as a Michigan residence as her primary "home," at the same time.
Shortly later, the condo allegedly was offered for rent.
The government statement said, "When someone commits mortgage fraud, they undermine the faith and integrity of our System. It does not matter who you are – no one is above the law. We have sent a Criminal Referral to the Department of Justice with regard to the allegations against Ms. Cook, and the DOJ should go wherever the facts may lead them."
Earlier cases were assembled against Letitia James, the attorney general for New York whose massive mortgage fraud case against President Donald Trump's companies collapse in a heap of smoldering ashes this week when her $500 million plus judgment against Trump was trashed by an appeals court.
She was accused of wrongly claiming the location of her "primary residence."
Then it was Adam Schiff, the Democrat senator from California who pushed hard at the false claims of the Russiagate conspiracy theory over which Trump was impeached – and acquitted.
He apparently claimed two residences as his "primary" at the same time.
The Gateway Pundit noted Special Prosecutor Ed Martin is currently investigating Cook for mortgage fraud and falsifying bank statements.
Martin also asked Fed Chair Jerome Powell to remove Cook from her post.
The report noted, "According to housing regulator Bill Pulte's criminal referral, Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud by lying on her mortgage application and falsifying bank statements when she designated her out-of-state Atlanta condo as her 'primary residence'—just two weeks after taking a loan on her Michigan home, which she also claimed as her 'primary residence.'"
Cook claimed she now is being "bullied" into leaving her post, which she said she won't do.