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A social media thread report from America First Legal charges it was Joe Biden who was behind the FBI's raid on President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, all along.

That raid, a stunning armed maneuver against the 45th president of the United States, left armed officers raiding Trump's home, allegedly looking for government documents, even reportedly invading the private possessions of Trump's family members.

The raiders then staged photographs of various government documents in rows on the floor of Mar-a-Lago and released those images to the public to generate support for their claims.

The White House claimed at the time that it was all because of the need to retrieve those government documents, which later resulted in a massive federal criminal case against Trump, which dissolved when he was re-elected.

Incidentally, Joe Biden also was found to have had massive amounts of government documents in his possession, including in a stash in his unsecured garage, after his vice presidency, as was Trump Vice President Mike Pence. Both of them were given free passes for their actions.

The new report from AFL charges the case "was always about weaponizing the full force of the Department of Justice against President Trump by whatever means necessary."

The Democrats, in fact, launched a long list of lawfare cases against Trump, apparently in an attempt to deter him from running for office again in 2024, an election he won by landslide proportions in the popular vote and Electoral College both.

The report reveals that while Biden was claiming the matter was referred to the DOJ in February 2022 after it got "classified documents" from Mar-a-Lago, the NARA was working on a letter to Biden's attorney general nearly a year earlier. By that September, NARA was working with Biden's White House lawyer and the DOJ drafting a letter insisting on help "for the recovery of presidential records," "even though, admittedly, the Presidential Records Act 'has no explicit provision' authorizing such a procedure," the report said.

When it was revealed that negotiations with Trump's representatives likely were to resolve the issue, Biden's White House "devised a pretext for a 'special access request' to NARA," the report said.

The report informed, "This new timeline is further proof that Biden's FBI raid on MAL was never about securing classified documents…"

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Elon Musk, the head of DOGE, is voicing his astonishment after exposing a "ridiculous"multi-million-dollar virtual reality project teaching U.S. soldiers how to have "difficult conversations" regarding diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.

"Can you believe they were spending your tax dollars on this [poop] ??" Musk said Monday on X.

He was reacting to a video posted by LibsofTikTok revealing the training video.

"You can't make this stuff up," said LibsofTikTok.

The massive $2.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force's Air Education and Training Command created a virtual reality experience where members of the Armed Forces would interact with an avatar coaching them to converse and act in a friendly manner regarding DEI issues.

"This program allows the participants to have a conversation that are both realistic and difficult," wrote a U.S. airman attached to a video testimonial. "It uses a virtual avatar that are controlled by trained actors."

It "is just another way that the Air and Space Force are innovating and staying one step ahead of a time when we have difficult conversations!"

President Donald Trump has previously spoken against the woke mind virus, saying:: "Woke has to stop. It is destroying our country. We are going to stop woke. Woke is bull****."

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President Donald Trump on Monday morning took action to help purge the woke mindset from the U.S. Armed Forces.

"Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years," Trump posted on Truth Social.

"I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard.

"We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards.

"We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!"

According to the U.S. Air Force, "The Board inquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters relating to the Academy which the Board decides to consider."

"The Board consists of six members appointed by the president, three appointed by the vice president, four appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives, one designated by the Senate Armed Services Committee and one designated by the House Armed Services Committee."

The U.S. military came under heavy fire during the Joe Biden administration for its push toward LGBT causes, prompting severe shortages in recruitment targets.

Elon Musk of the Department of Governmental Efficiency, or DOGE, noted: "The federal government has forcibly injected DEI into everything. Most people still don't get it. Everything."

To which Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA replied: "This feels like a national exorcism."

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The administration of President Donald Trump, as part of his government-wide efficiency campaign being pursued by his White House Department of Government Efficiency, is sending dismissal notices to more than 9,000 USAID workers.

The Trump administration will continue to offer aid to recipients around the globe, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. But it "is going to be foreign aid that makes sense and is aligned with our national interest," he said.

The U.S. Agency for International Development has been one of Trump's first and biggest targets for his efficiency plans.

Rubio, in a news conference with the president of the Dominican Republican, said it would have been better to clean up and restructure the agency from the inside out.

But he said that was impossible. "When we tried to do it from the top down by getting cooperation from the central office and USAID, what we found instead are people trying to use the system to sneak through payments and push through payments despite the stop order. We found people that were uncooperative in terms of giving us information and access."

The report noted Trump's reaction was to order it shut down.

"USAID is driving the radical left crazy, and there is nothing they can do about it because the way in which the money has been spent, so much of it fraudulently, is totally unexplainable. The corruption is at levels rarely seen before. Close it down," Trump said in a statement.

A report in the Daily Mail revealed some 9,400 USAID employees are losing their jobs, and only about 600 "essential" workers will remain.

Elon Musk, of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, has called the agency a "criminal organization."

"Your tax dollars should be spent on America or the government should just tax you less," he wrote on X.

Hundreds of awards and contracts handed out through the agency are being canceled, the agency's Washington headquarters is closed and overseas employees have been given 30 days to return.

The employee unions, whose income will be hit with a dramatic collapse if there are more than 9,000 workers no longer paying union dues, have gone to court, claiming that Trump's management of the federal bureaucracy is unconstitutional.

A lawsuit by the American Foreign Service Association and American Federation of Government Employees claims Trump's actions are an "unlawful seizure" of a federal bureaucracy.

Officials have said the USAID structure is being shut down, but it's duties will be moved to the State Department.

The White House repeatedly has unleashed lists of egregious USAID payments, including promotions for transgenderism and such, around the globe.

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She's in her mid-80s. And she's been in Congress for decades. She could be retired now, what with the hundreds of millions of dollars she and her husband have accumulated from stock options and deals during her years in public office.

None of that, however, is being accepted as an excuse for her claim, made during a TV interview, that the Democrats "did not" lose the 2024 elections.

California radical Nancy Pelosi says the Democrats didn't lose.

She's right. They didn't lose.

They got spanked by @POTUS and @VP. And they're agenda was roundly rejected by America.
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— James Lasher (@TheJamesLasher) February 6, 2025

A social media commenter responded, "California radical Nancy Pelosi says the Democrats didn't lose. She's right. They didn't lose. They got spanked by #POTUS and @VP. And they're (sic) agenda was roundly rejected by Americans."

Pelosi's claim. "All I know is we won a seat in the House. We did not lose any seats. People were like, 'Oh, the Democrats lost.' No we did not."

If the election was confined only to the House of Representatives, her comments could be understood, but the GOP maintained a majority there. And won seven out of seven swing states. And took over the majority in the Senate. And took over the White House. And have control in a majority of the states.

Here are her comments, and Fox News' responses:

Pelosi said, "I think it would have been quite different with President Biden at the top of the ticket."

She also said she hopes her rift with the Bidens, triggered when she "shivved" Biden during the campaign, can be repaired.

She claimed she did not want President Donald Trump in office, "for the children."

At Modernity was the comment, "Nancy Pelosi is sticking to her guns, asserting that while Democrats didn't lose (who's going to tell her?) they would have lost a lot more if Joe Biden hadn't been coup'd. In an MSNBC interview, Pelosi didn't so much throw Biden under a bus, as launch him under a Mack truck."

The report noted Pelosi admitted to anchor Andrea Mitchell that "she has not spoken to Biden since the coup that she initiated."

And while responding to that fracture among Democrat powerhouses, she "bizarrely" pivoted to children, and how she's "on a mission for the children," the report said.

"So what is it that we're doing for the children?" she said. "I think it would've been important for the children to not have Donald Trump be President of the United States, and I would take every step necessary to make sure that didn't happen. But it did, and now we have to deal with it."

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Among the millions of things the federal government has been spending money on are the media.

Those revelations came as part of the work by President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, which is run by Elon Musk.

The spending is through USAID, an agency that has been put on notice it is being shut down, or at least radically modified. It could come under the State Department going forward and Trump officials say its spending will be in pursuit of American policy and agenda worldwide, nothing else.

But revealed this week was the expenditure of millions of dollars on media organizations.

Those cited included the New York Times, Politico, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, AP, and more.

But that's now, apparently, over.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the front man for Joe Biden's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, in which the China virus likely escaped from a lab working on dangerous diseases and killed millions worldwide, was handed a pardon from federal charges for his actions by Joe Biden.

But he still theoretically could face state charges, and now a coalition of attorneys general is asking Congress whether members can share evidence of those violations.

Fauci used to lead the National institute of for Allergy and Infectious Disease, and was paid an extraordinarily high salary for a government worker. He's now retired and his pension is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

He recently was involved in a scandal for the tens of millions of dollars taxpayers paid for his "security" even after he was a private citizen and not on the government payroll.

A report from the Washington Examiner said 17 state attorneys general now have asked Republican congressional leaders for information on the COVID-19 origins, and more.

"As state attorneys general, we possess the authority to address violations of state law or breaches of public trust," they told Congress. "We are fully committed to investigating any malfeasance that may have occurred to the fullest extent of our authority and are prepared to collaborate with you in further efforts."

Alan Wilson, South Carolina's attorney general, organized the letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

They want "information that could outline potential courses of action under state law, should they exist."

What's known, from a Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic report from Congress, is Fauci "prompted leading scientists to discredit the possibility that the virus originated as a result of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China," the report said. That's commonly considered the explanation for the virus now.

There also were allegations that Fauci "misled Congress regarding federal funding of potentially hazardous virtual research at the WIV."

Biden's protective order for Fauci applied a pardon to "any offenses which he may have committed or taken part in" beginning in January 2014.

"To say we are troubled by the scope and timing of the pardon – on the heels of the Subcommittee's Final Report–would be a gross understatement," the letter from the states explained. "To ensure that former President Biden's shameful pardon does not frustrate accountability, we urge Congress to consider using all available tools at its disposal."

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., already has committed to using his work in the Seante to hold Fauci account for any involvement in offenses. Fauci, at one point in the COVID pandemic when he insisted that others accept his version of events, called himself the "science" on the topics at hand.

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It's been called, by President Donald Trump's government efficiency chief, Elon Musk, a "criminal organization" that must "die," and now it appears that process is under way.

USAID has confirmed in a statement posted online that nearly all of its employees are on leave as of Friday night. Thousands of people are affected, and only those in "mission-critical functions, core leadership, and specially designated programs" are exempted.

Trump and Musk earlier announced that the organization likely will end up being discontinued as a separate bureaucracy, and its duties will be rolled into those of the State Department.

It has been exposed under the Trump administration as a leftist organization giving American tax money, without accountability, to far-left agendas around the world.

The USAID statement says, "On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST)."

A report at RedState explains the move is part of Trump's efforts to remove fraud, waste, abuse and more from the nation's spending system.

USAID has been targeted now by Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.

The report said, "News of the department placing the entirety of its staff on leave, with the exception of essential personnel, comes following an order to shut down all overseas missions and recall staff by the same deadline. Deputy administrator for the agency, Pete Marocco, said USAID had until Friday to recall all overseas employees. Those who were not successfully returned by that deadline were to be 'evacuated' by the United States military."

The report noted the virulent opposition coming from Democrats, but explained, "You know you're on the right path when Democrats are actively losing their minds over what amounts to their party's personal slush fund being eradicated. Over 96 percent of donations coming from USAID go to Democrats and Democrat causes, and a mere 4 percent to Republicans, according to a Heritage Foundation report from 2023."

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Jack Smith was a private lawyer hand-picked by Joe Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, to run a couple of the Democrats' lawfare cases against President Trump, one over Trump's thoughts on the 2020 election and another on papers he held from his presidency.

Both cases were killed by the Department of Justice when Trump was elected, but they're not over.

It's because of suspicions that Smith colluded with prosecutors including Atlanta's Fani Willis, who ran another lawfare campaign against Trump, a claim he was involved in organized crime around the 2020 election.

She's already been ordered to produce for government watchdog Judicial Watch her communications with Smith – and to pay Judicial Watch some $20,000 for refusing to comply with the legal requirements, and now a judge has ordered that Smith's communications also will be available for review.

The Washington Examiner said U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich has ordered the DOJ to turn over communications between Smith and Willis, "in what a legal watchdog group has called a case of collusion."

Smith resigned from his special counsel position before Trump, who had promised to fire him immediately, took office. And many of those career lawyers who worked on cases against Trump have been dismissed.

Judicial Watch sought the communications in a Freedom of Information Act action, but Smith and the DOJ claimed that releasing the information would hurt the prosecution of the case.

Now, the judge said, there's no prosecution and no case so the information can be turned over.

"Since DOJ filed its motion for summary judgment and supporting Declaration in March 2024, the Special Counsel's criminal enforcement actions have been terminated…. The cases are 'closed — not pending or contemplated — and therefore are not proceedings with which disclosure may interfere.' … Thus, the agency's sole justification for invoking the Glomar doctrine under Exemption 7(A) is no longer applicable," the judge said.

"Accordingly, the court will deny DOJ's motion for summary judgment and grant the plaintiff's cross motion. DOJ is directed to process the plaintiff's FOIA request and either 'disclose any [responsive] records or establish both that their contents are exempt from disclosure and that such exemption has not also been waived.'"

The Glomar doctrine concerns when prosecutors claim that just revealing the existence of records, or their absence, could impact a pending case.

Judicial Watch is questioning whether Willis asked for or got "federal funds or other federal assistance in any form relating to the investigation" of Trump.

Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch chief, said, "President Trump truly needs to overhaul the Justice Department from top to bottom. It is a scandal that a federal court had to order the Justice Department to admit the truth that their objections to producing records about collusion with Fani Willis had no basis in reality."

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President Donald Trump can win a significant victory no matter how the fight that erupted over his executive order over "birthright citizenship" ends up, according to a constitutional expert.

Jonathan Turley, the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University, has not only advised Congress on constitutional matters but has represented members in court cases.

He recently wrote about the dispute over "birthright citizenship" that has erupted since Trump took office and issued a list of orders cracking down on illegal aliens, illegal immigration and more.

He explained, "The Fourteenth Amendment starts and ends as a model of clarity, stating that 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States' are 'citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.' However, sandwiched between those two phrases, Congress inserted the words 'and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.' Those six words have perplexed many since they were first drafted."

He said the Supreme Court has seemed "conflicted" in its rulings on the issue, some of which date back a century and a half.

In one case then, the justices said for newborns to be citizens in America they must be born here and their parents must not merely be "subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction, and not subject to any foreign power."

A ruling some 40 years ago from the court then said there's no "plausible distinction" between those who enter the nation illegally, or illegally.

Roughly half the nation opposes birthright citizenship, that is citizenship status granted to those born in the U.S. of illegal alien parents.

"The key is where those voters are coming from," he said. " The minority of voters supporting the right are overwhelmingly coming from the Democratic core that opposed Trump in the last election. In other words, it is an issue appealing to the very margin voters that will be needed in the midterm election. That makes this a perfect wedge issue either as a court fight or, if unsuccessful, a fight for a constitutional amendment," he explained.

The Trump administration, he said, has been pleased even by criticism from leftists who have lined up against him.

The Trump administration members, he said, "believe that they cannot lose this fight."

He said the question probably will end up at the Supreme Court, and there are "skeptical" conservatives like John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett who make predicting an end result problematic.

"So what makes this a win-win proposition for the Trump administration? The politics are stronger than the precedent. Even if the administration loses before the Supreme Court, it will force Democrats again to fight against a tougher stance on immigration issues. Democrats maintained that position in the last election despite polling showing that 83 percent of Americans support deportations of immigrants with violent criminal records and almost half support mass deportation of all undocumented persons," he noted.

Trump can win either way, he said.

"It will either secure a new interpretation from the high court or it could spur a campaign for a constitutional amendment. All of this could unfold around the time of the midterm elections, when incumbents of the president's party are generally disfavored. This is a wedge issue that many in the Republican Party might welcome."

WND has reported that Trump announced the "birthright citizenship" agenda used for years in America, granting citizenship to any baby born on American soil, would no longer include the offspring of illegal aliens.

Opponents went to court immediately and members of Congress already have joined the battle, with a plan to resolve the fight in Trump's favor.

Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, has announced the pending Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025.

He said it would "restore the 14th Amendment to its original purpose and end the misuse of birthright citizenship."

It would provide for automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. if at least one parent is a citizen or national of the U.S., a lawful permanent resident whose residence is in the U.S., or a lawful immigrant performing active service in the armed forces.

"The introduction of this bill aligns with President Donald Trump's commitment to make birthright citizenship reform a top priority. Granting automatic citizenship to children of illegal immigrants is based on a flawed interpretation of the 14thAmendment, which was originally intended to ensure recently freed slaves gained full rights as Americans. It was never intended to confer citizenship to children of individuals who enter or remain in the United States illegally," he said.