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Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey whose position has been the subject of legal gymnastics since her appointment by President Donald Trump, is now alleging "collusion" against her as she calls out Republican senators she says are trying to block her confirmation.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, Habba criticized U.S. Sen. Tillis of North Carolina and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa for what she called "the new lawfare."
"The president was rightfully voted in by a majority of Americans, and he is entitled to pick his U.S. attorneys, his Department of Justice officials, his judges, so that we can continue the agenda that the American public voted for which is to get rid of crime," Habba began.
"In the state of New Jersey in June alone, we arrested over 300 criminals, illegals, rapists. What is so bad about that work?"
"The truth is it has nothing to do with the work that we're doing. It has nothing to do with the crime that we're stopping. It has to do with trying to prevent President Trump from continuing his agenda, and it has to stop!"
"So I would say to Sen. Tillis and Sen. Grassley: You are becoming part of the issue. You are becoming part of the antithesis of what we fought for four years."
"We cannot allow and promote that kind of behavior. It is not just about me. It is about people across the country, U.S. attorneys across the country that just want to do right by Americans that voted for President Trump and this administration."
On Saturday, President Trump posted on Truth Social a 2017 quote from Grassley, in which Grassley stated: "We should not allow home-state senators to abuse this courtesy by attempting to block committee proceedings for political or ideological reasons."
Bartiromo also asked Habba about an unusual circumstance in which Habba's "first assistant was in the wedding party of the federal judge" who has ruled Habba has been illegally serving in her current post.
"We had a very strange situation that I was made very aware of months ago," Habba explained.
"The Department of Justice official who was named to replace me was very close with federal judges that voted me out and voted her in. It was not a typical situation. It was not a partisan situation. It was solely, 'Let's get our person in.'
"What they don't understand is Article 3 judges do not pick the U.S. attorney for the state. The president, Pam Bondi, the attorney general, that's who picks it.
"And they had a collusion, a plan. I'm aware of it and the Department of Justice is aware of it, and soon enough it will come out. It was inappropriate it was unethical and, frankly, senators ordering the judges in tweets to vote against me was also inappropriate, and it was all because of one arrest I made which I stand by."
The single arrest she referred to was the detainment of U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., who allegedly body slammed an ICE agent as she impeded and interfered with federal officers as they attempted to arrest an individual outside the Delaney Hall Federal Immigration Facility in Newark, New Jersey, on May 9, 2025.
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In response to President Trump vowing Friday to send National Guard troops to Chicago to help limit crime, as he has done in D.C., on resident of the Windy City says no thanks – even though she admits to being carjacked and assaulted in her hometown.
"Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we'll straighten that one out probably next," the president told reporters in the Oval Office. "That'll be our next one after this, and it won't even be tough."
But Jill Ciminillo thinks that's a terrible idea, as the Gateway Pundit reported.
"Dear @realDonaldTrump… I've been carjacked in Chicago with my arm broken. I still don't want you or your troops here," she wrote on X Friday. "TIA. BTW, there are no red hats here."
Ciminillo's X post has since been deleted.
Here are some responses to the Chicagoan's message to the president:
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The government's investigatory documents into Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile who serve jail time for one set of cases and died, apparently by suicide, while in jail awaiting prosecutors to assemble another set, have reached a boiling point in America.
Democrats are demanding full release of everything the government knows, likely in the hope that they will find some dirt on President Donald Trump. Trump, at the same time, has said if there WAS any dirt on him, Joe Biden already would have publicized it.
But there remain a ton of questions because of Epstein's connection to high profile individuals, like Bill Clinton, who took dozens of trips on Epstein's "Lolita Express" jet, and visited his private island where victims have confirmed they were sexually abused.
Another high profile name involved in Bill Gates, whose ex-wife cited his relationship with Epstein as their marriage broke up.
But the biggest name, if he is implicated, would be Trump.
But his critics likely will be disappointed.
That's because the Department of Justice has released hours of interview tapes between a federal prosecutor and Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a long prison sentencing for helping Epstein recruit – for abuse – young girls.
"Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche sat down with Maxwell in a federal prison in Tallahassee, where she was being held until recently. The terms of the interview granted her limited immunity from further prosecution – unless she told lies," reports confirmed.
And her testimony about Trump?
Asked if she ever observed President Trump get a massage, she said, "Never."
"I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects."
Another big name in the case is Prince Andrew, who months ago reached a massive financial settlement with a woman who charged that he abused her as a young girl.
Authorities now have published hundreds of pages of transcripts as well as audio recordings of Maxwell's interview on the DOJ website.
The materials are available here.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year term for her conviction of helping Epstein traffic teen girls. Her case is on appeal.
The release came with little warning, days after federal judges denied the DOJ's requests to unseal of grand jury materials from both Maxwell and Epstein's criminal cases.
The report in the Gateway Pundit on the release said, "Everyone is going to know what Maxwell told Deputy AG Todd Blanche in her interviews."
Maxwell also has subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee, and she has expressed willingness to appear, but that hasn't developed yet.
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A panel of appeals court judges, only a day after being accused publicly of "navel-gazing" for their lengthy delay in giving President Donald Trump relief from what has been confirmed as a politicized and biased "fraud" penalty of half a billion dollars, has canceled that threat.
The Washington Examiner confirmed the five-judge panel of the appellate division in New York threw out the judgment delivered by Arthur Engoron, a judge at the entry court level who has been openly derisive of Trump.
The ruling said his judgment was unconstitutional and violated the U.S. Constitution, which bars excessive fines.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who had campaigned for office on the promise to "get" President Trump, without citing any evidence of wrongdoing, then created "fraud" claims against him. She alleged that he was guilty over the valuation of his properties in connection with various loans.
Testimony during the trial showed that the banks that loaned Trump money were happy with the transactions, that all the loans were repaid in full, they made money from the deals and they would like to do them again.
Despite the evidence, Engoron, without a jury, claimed Trump was guilty and owed in excess of $300 million in penalties. That grew to more than half a billion dollars with interest, a threat Engoron made against the president that now has vanished.
Reports confirmed the ruling is a major loss for James, who ironically now is under investigation herself for fraud.
She's accused of misrepresenting her residences in order to obtain preferential mortgage loan treatments, including once when she allegedly characterized her father as a "spouse" and represented a five-apartment building she owns as having four apartments because that would give her a better interest rate.
"While the injunctive relief ordered by the court is well crafted to curb defendants' business culture, the court's disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment," Judges Dianne T. Renwick and Peter H. Moulton wrote.
Engoron also had set himself up as the expert on real estate values, insisting that Trump's exotic Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida would be worth about $20 million, when real real estate experts said it would be worth 25 times that.
The remaining injunctive demands from Engoron now can be appealed by Trump to the New York Court of Appeals.
Trump has charged that the case is a political attack by Democrats, like multiple other lawfare cases he faced, from Democrat prosecutors, in recent years, including wild claims he was engaged in an organized crime operation in Florida. Those other lawfare cases now have gone away.
WND had reported only a day earlier that the appeals court was under fire.
They apparently had become "lost in navel-gazing," instead of delivering justice, according to new charges from constitutional expert Jonathan Turley.
Legal commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano at the time Engoron delivered his ruling said that the judge's agenda no more or less than "government theft."
He said the case involved no crime or harm.
Engoron openly was antagonistic to Trump during the trial, and he claimed that Trump committed fraud in the way he valued his billions of dollars in property.
Napolitano said Engoron's decisions violated all the ordinary rules of American jurisprudence.
He found, "The government created a phantom harm by arguing to the court that Mr. Trump's corporation was not fully accurate in its loan applications and thus was charged a lower interest rate on the loans than it should have been charged had it been accurate, and thus, it earned more income on its use of the money it borrowed than would have been the case had it scrupulously reported the value of its pledged assets. And thus — somehow — the government ought to be able to confiscate the excess income plus interest. This, of course, defies the principles of no damages without breach of a duty and no damages without caused harm, which have been the bedrock of American tort law. It also redefines fraud."
Engoron's rulings essentially ignored what should have been a deciding factor in the case, that the banks involved "did their own due diligence on the value of the assets."
"The government won't say how it was harmed by Mr. Trump's commercial loans because it wasn't harmed by them. The government lawyers made a fanciful argument to the effect that if Mr. Trump had borrowed less because the buildings pledged as security were worth less than he claimed, the banks would have had more reserves available to lend to others. That is nonsense," Napolitano said.
Now Turley, a law professor at George Washington University and popular commentator for multiple forums, cited a report from the Wall Street Journal that the appellate judges hearing the case have let it drop into "some judicial black hole."
"This should not be a close case and certainly should not take this long. The case against Trump was raw lawfare, and the entire trial by Justice Arthur Engoron made a mockery of the court system, particularly his ridiculous half-a-billion-dollar judgment," he explained.
"Yet, weeks turned into months and then into years as the appellate court seemed lost in navel-gazing. There was also a concern over passive-aggressive delays; the long appeal is not only preventing Trump from moving this case toward the Supreme Court but keeps him trapped in an appellate amber."
Turley had warned, "It is distressing to hear that some of these judges may be striving to preserve this nonsensical opinion where Trump was hit with half a billion dollars in a case where no one lost money and the banks wanted renewed business with his company. Affirming the decision would be the final nail in the coffin for the New York legal system, which was turned into a farce by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Engoron."
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An assistant attorney general in Rhode Island who made national news for repeatedly shouting, "I'm an A.G." at police officers confronting her in a restaurant will be, at the least, suspended from her government job.
As WorldNetDaily reported, police responded Thursday night just before 10 p.m. to a trespassing call for customers refusing to leave a business, in this case the upscale Clarke Cooke House restaurant in Newport, Rhode Island.
Despite numerous warnings, Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan Hogan refused to leave and was taken into custody, but not before she legally challenged the officer – all caught on bodycam footage.
"You're not gonna arrest us," said Flanagan, repeating, "I'm an A.G. I'm an A.G."
"Good for you. I don't give a sh**," said the officer. "Let's go. We're going."
Now Flanagan's boss, Rhode Island Democrat Attorney General Peter Neronha, is considering how best to discipline her. He admitted on local radio that Flanagan will face a suspension without pay.
As the Gateway Pundit reported, Neronha stated, "Look, she's put me in a bad position. She's embarrassed herself, humiliated herself, and treated the Newport Police Department horribly. She is going to take some steps to try to address that in the next day or so. But I just don't know what I'm going to do yet, Jean, and I have to give it some more thought.
"But the inexcusable behavior – she knows better. The office knows better. I've got 110 lawyers. She embarrassed all of them, in a sense. … I want to get some more information, frankly, about what's going on with her before I make my final decision.
"She's taking a couple of vacation days. She's not working. Is she taking a couple of days off right now? I wouldn't call them vacation days. I will tell you, Jean, that in the end, there will be a suspension without pay here, if I were to retain her, for sure."
Fox News reported Wednesday that Neronha sat Flanagan down and had her watch the arrest video with him.
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Among all of the other Democrat scandals that now are coming to light: the Russiagate lies, the scheming at the highest levels of the White House to undermine a duly elected president, the undue influences orchestrated to impact the 2020 election, there's another horror being revealed.
Executives of America's banking industry now have confirmed that the Barack Obama and Joe Biden administrations, when they were in office, tried to force the bankers to "debank" the Democrats' political foes.
President Trump, in fact, recently addressed the concept of "debanking," or closing accounts and refusing to do business with companies or individuals because of their politics, by ordering an end.
Bank executives then confirmed that the Obama and Biden agendas were "to deny services to individuals and businesses for political reasons," Fox Business reported.
"Those pressures were very, very real. When your regulator gives you a suggestion, it's not a suggestion, it's an order. The political stuff is very real, those pressures are real," Fox News Digital confirmed a "senior banking official" reported.
Fox News Digital spoke with two executives at leading U.S. banks, who asked to remain anonymous, fearing reprisals.
They reported under Obama, and again under Biden, "banks were pressured to deny services to certain industries as part of Operation Choke Point and Operation Choke Point 2.0."
One official documented, "When there's ambiguity in the law, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for a long time the beholder was the Obama and Biden administration."
Already, a report from the House Oversight Committee confirmed "Operation Choke Point" involved a DOJ team aiming to "choke" legal companies that Obama disliked.
They worked with regulators to falsely describe industries, such as firearms, as "high risk."
During his first term in the White House, Trump ended Obama's scheme, but then Biden revived them in "2.0," lawmakers have charged.
Trump has confirmed that multiple banks attacked him, his accounts and his business operations, likely a result of the political warfare assembled under the program.
In fact, First lady Melania Trump wrote in her memoir that she and her son Barron were debanked, as well, the report said.
"I was shocked and dismayed to learn that my long time bank decided to terminate my account and deny my son the opportunity to open a new one.… This decision appeared to be rooted in political discrimination, raising serious concerns about civil rights violations," she charged.
Former Republican Sen. Sam Brownback accused JPMorgan Chase of having debanked his nonprofit, the National Committee for Religious Freedom, in 2022, the report said.
Trump's order, "Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans," warns that banks that deny services to customers for their political views or beliefs will be banned.
One executive explained how the agenda from Obama and Biden would work: Politicians would use regulators to pressure banks to inflate "negative press" that had been directed at conservatives or political foes "as a pretext to debank them."
"It's all kind of set up, it's like somebody set the table, and it all ends up focusing on Republicans and conservatives," the executive told Fox.
Banks, in a flurry of activity of late, have been promising that they do not discriminate based on political or religious views.
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The organizers of what became known as "FireAid," a campaign to raise money for the victims of the massive Los Angeles wildfires of a few months ago, have been ordered by members of Congress to account for the cash they handed out – none of which apparently has gone directly to any of the thousands of victims.
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chief of the House Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., have dispatched a letter to the "FireAid" executives who took in, apparently, in the range of $100 million, with instructions to speak up.
According to a report at the Post Millennial, the two are demanding a detailed breakdown of where donations have gone – apparently $75 million already has been handed out.
And they want the remaining $25 million "sent directly to LA fire victims."
At the time wildfires raged across thousands of acres of Los Angeles, destroying thousands of homes, Irving and Shelli Azoff set up FireAid.
They claimed to be sending donations directly to fire victims.
The members of Congress pointed out, "You organized FireAid to raise money for California fire victims. FireAid held a benefit concert raising $100 million, which it promised to send directly to people affected by the wildfires.
"However, according to public reports, FireAid diverted these donations to nonprofits instead of providing direct relief to fire victims. As part of our constitutional oversight responsibilities, we request your voluntary cooperation with oversight of this matter. When confronted with the fact that the raised funds were not directly given to those affected, FireAid stated that it 'does not have the capability to make direct payments to individuals and that was never the plan. We partnered with trusted local non-profits… to reach communities in need.'"
But that doesn't align, the members of Congress said, with the fact that the $100 million, as FireAid promised, "ha[s] been designated for direct relief and will not be used for administrative purposes."
They wrote, "The donated money that was meant to go towards victims to assist in rebuilding efforts was instead sent to nonprofits with purposes unrelated to fire relief. For example, one of the nonprofits claims to promote 'self-determination in the Latino community.' Another nonprofit claims to 'cultivate egalitarian relationships based on trust and respect.'"
What's needed now, they said, is a "detailed breakdown of all nonprofits that received money from FireAid, including the amount, date, recipient, and purpose of each expenditure."
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Ed Martin, the director of the U.S. Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group, said Sunday probes into Democrats' targeting of American citizens in recent years are "going like crazy," and he says there could be indictments of major players who did not receive a pardon by Joe Biden.
Attorney General [Pam] Bondi has that Department of Justice spinning like a top," Martin said on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel.
"We've got more stuff going on, a lot of it we can't talk about because of the nature of it, but it's going like crazy."
"A lot of people did not get a pardon," he added. "It was not like anything in the history of America."
"Pam Bondi has let us loose and when this comes out, it'll take the whole of these people's hoaxes down."
In a wide-ranging interview, Martin discussed hoaxes including Jan. 6 and the 2020 presidential election, and criminal referrals for U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Democrat New York Attorney General Letitia James, both of whom face allegations of mortgage fraud.
"Every American that has a mortgage or has other documents they sign, has to follow the law," stressed Martin. "We're gonna follow the facts."
"When you're a liar, you lie not just on one thing. When you're a cheater, you cheat not just on one thing. When you're doing corruption, you generally don't do it on one thing."
Regarding the targeting of Americans, Martin said, "Joe Biden's Justice Department actively targeted American citizens: Catholics who went to mass, parents who went to school boards."
"The FBI and others were putting people on terrorism watchlists," he added.
With a series of criminal referrals being examined, Martin said a grand jury is merely one of the tools that can be used to investigate.
"When you get a criminal referral, you can infer what you need to," he indicated.
Martin concluded by saying, "The whole thing is falling apart … The players are always the same."
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First Lady Melania Trump wrote a "peace letter" to Russian President Vladimir Putin telling him "it is time" to protect children and future generations around the globe, a letter hand-delivered by President Trump before the high-stakes meeting in Alaska Friday.
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a copy of the "peace letter" the first lady penned to Putin.
According to the report, immediately upon receiving the letter, Putin read it as the U.S. and Russian delegations looked on.
"Dear President Putin," the first lady's letter begins. "Every child shares the same quiet dreams in their heart, whether born randomly into a nation's rustic countryside or a magnificent city-center. They dream of love, possibility, and safety from danger."
"As parents, it is our duty to nurture the next generation's hope," the letter continued. "As leaders, the responsibility to sustain our children extends beyond the comfort of a few."
"Undeniably, we must strive to paint a dignity-filled world for all – so that every soul may wake to peace, and so that the future itself is perfectly guarded. A simple yet profound concept, Mr. Putin, as I am sure you agree, is that each generation's descendants begin their lives with a purity – an innocence which stands above geography, government, and ideology."
The first lady continued that "in today's world, some children are forced to carry a quiet laughter, untouched by the darkness around them – a silent defiance against the forces that can potentially claim their future."
"Mr. Putin, you can singlehandedly restore their melodic laughter. In protecting the innocence of these children, you will do more than serve Russia alone – you serve humanity itself."
"Such a bold idea transcends all human division, and you, Mr. Putin, are fit to implement this vision with a stroke of the pen today," she wrote. "It is time."
Weeks ago, the first lady reportedly spoke to her husband about the promises Putin had not fulfilled regarding deescalating Moscow's war with Ukraine, in effect advising the president to get tougher with the Russian leader.
Saturday morning, President Trump announced that he had a meeting scheduled for Monday at the White House with Ukrainian President Zelensky to discuss an end to the war, saying that "a mere Ceasefire Agreement" is not on the table, but rather an immediate peace agreement.
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Federal officials have confirmed that Kristi Noem, the chief of the Department of Homeland Security for President Donald Trump, has been moved into secure housing – away from her personal residence – because of the death threats she's been getting.
"Following the media's publishing of the location of Secretary Noem's Washington D.C. apartment, she has faced vicious doxxing on the dark web and a surge in death threats, including from the terrorist organizations, cartels, and criminal gangs that DHS targets. Due to threats and security concerns, she has been forced to temporarily stay in secure military housing," explained Tricia McLaughlin, assistant DHS secretary.
She confirmed, "Secretary Noem continues to pay rent for her Navy Yard residence," but said, "It's a shame that the media chooses sensationalism over the safety of people enforcing America's laws to keep Americans safe."
A report at Fox News said the problem revolves around "vicious doxxing."
Noem herself confirmed just days ago that agents for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "are now facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them as they risk their lives to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens."
An online report explained twice now reporters "from the Washington Post" released her home address.
Noem has said, online, "We will not and have not let this violence stop us or slow us down. Everyday our law enforcement continues to enforce the law and arrest the most depraved criminals including pedophiles, terrorists, murderers, gang members, and sexual predators."