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Joe Biden, vice president in 2015 and in charge of Ukraine policy for Barack Obama, told the CIA he would "strongly prefer" that an intel report confirming Ukrainian concerns about his family's tied to "corrupt" business operations there "not be disseminated."

And it wasn't.

A report published at Fox News explains that comes from newly declassified emails and records.

The information was declassified by CIA chief John Ratcliffe, who said the details suggest there was a "politicization of intelligence."

The report explained a senior CIA official briefed Fox News Digital on the details, "stating that the intelligence was discovered along with an email showing that Biden 'expressed a preference to not share the report.'"

The email said, "Good morning, I just spoke with VP/NSA and he would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated. Thanks for understanding."

The signer's name was redacted but held the title of "PDB Briefer," for "presidential daily brief."

The email was from Feb. 10, 2016, with the subject line: "RE: OVP query regarding draft [REDACTED]."

Fox confirmed, "The report in question included intelligence revealing that Ukrainian officials viewed the Biden family's alleged ties to corrupt business practices in Ukraine 'as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power.'"

In fact, at the time Joe Biden was in charge of Obama's Ukraine policy, son Hunter Biden was being paid about a million dollars a year to be on the board of Burisma, an allegedly corrupt company being targeted by investigators.

Joe Biden used the threat of withholding American financial help to force Ukrainians to fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma.

The report never was shared based on the "preference" from the office of the vice president.

"The senior CIA official told Fox News Digital that it was 'extremely rare and unusual' and 'inappropriate to go outside of the intelligence community and inquire with the White House on the dissemination of a particular report for what appears to be political reasons,'" the report said.

Fox's report continued, "The intelligence document stated that 'officials within the administration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed bewilderment and disappointment at the 7-8 December 2015 visit of the Vice President of the United States to Kiev, Ukraine. These officials highlighted that, prior to the visit, the Poroshenko administration and other [REDACTED] Ukrainian officials expected the U.S. Vice President to discuss personnel matters with Poroshenko during the visit, and had assumed that the U.S. Vice President would advocate in support of or against specific officials within the Ukrainian Government,' the intelligence states. After the visit, these officials assessed that the U.S. Vice President had come to Kiev almost exclusively to give a generic public speech, and had not had any intention of discussing substantive matters with Poroshenko or other officials within the Ukrainian government.'"

The intelligence document specified, "Following the visit of the U.S. Vice President, [REDACTED] officials within the Poroshenko administration privately mused at the U.S. media scrutiny of the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President's family to corrupt business practices in Ukraine. These officials viewed the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President's family to corruption in Ukraine as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power."

It was Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin who was investigating Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, and it was Shokin who was fired after Biden's pressure on Ukrainian officials.

Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid: "I said, 'You're not getting the billion.' … I looked at them and said, 'I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money,'" Joe Biden confirmed.

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It was just two weeks ago that President Donald Trump appeared on the debut episode of "The Sunday Briefing" on Fox News with Peter Doocy, but that September lovefest is apparently over.

The president is now blasting both Doocy and the network for refusing to push back against Democrat U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly's claims about health care and the shutdown of the federal government.

Kelly had indicated: "When you consider millions of people possibly losing their health care or going bankrupt, when people lose their health care, they die. I mean that is the reality of the situation we're in."

As the interview was still being aired Sunday, Trump took to Truth Social to voice his objections.

"Why is FoxNews and Peter Doocy putting on Democrat Senator Mark Kelly to talk about, totally unabated or challenged, Healthcare?" Trump began.

"The FAKE SPIN is so bad for Republicans that it is hard to believe that we WIN. It will be very unfair, in the future, when they don't have 'TRUMP' to fight for them. Therefore, we should fix it, NOW!"

"I'm watching this Interview. It just doesn't end. Fox should either get on board, or get off board, NOW, but at this point, it just doesn't make any difference to me. They suck up the Ratings because of us, and then spin them in the Democrats' direction.

"They refuse to put up Polls that correctly show me at 65% in Popularity, a Republican RECORD, but if I have a fake bad 'Poll,' many of which are done by Fox (One of the worst 'Pollsters' out there is the FoxNews Poll), they put them up immediately, and with gusto.

"Republicans are so tired of this fight with Fox always trying to be so 'politically correct!' Thank you for your attention to this matter."

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As President Donald Trump's 6 p.m. Sunday deadline for Hamas to accept a peace deal to release all hostages arrived, the commander in chief said "talks have been very successful, and proceeding rapidly."

"There have been very positive discussions with Hamas, and Countries from all over the World (Arab, Muslim, and everyone else) this weekend, to release the Hostages, end the War in Gaza but, more importantly, finally have long sought PEACE in the Middle East," Trump posted on X at 5:56 p.m. Eastern Time.

"These talks have been very successful, and proceeding rapidly," he continued.

"The technical teams will again meet Monday, in Egypt, to work through and clarify the final details. I am told that the first phase should be completed this week, and I am asking everyone to MOVE FAST. I will continue to monitor this Centuries old 'conflict.'

"TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE OR, MASSIVE BLOODSHED WILL FOLLOW – SOMETHING THAT NOBODY WANTS TO SEE!"

On Friday, Trump issued an ultimatum to Hamas, warning the Islamic terrorists must accept his ceasefire framework by Sunday at 6 p.m. or completely lose the deal.

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In yet another finger in the eye of liberals, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach has suggested creating a $1 coin carrying the image of President Donald Trump to celebrate next year's 250th anniversary of the nation.

The "first drafts" were released online, and more details are to be coming soon.

Social media immediately turned sarcastic, with one commenter promising, "I cannot wait to pay liberals with these."

Reports described one side shows a profile of Trump, and the reverse shows him raising a fist in front of an American flag, with the words "fight, fight, fight" circling.

Normally, presidents only are memorialized on U.S. coinage after their deaths.

From 2007 and 2016, the U.S. mint produced four different coins each year honoring deceased presidents, and then in 2020 it added a coin honoring the late George H.W. Bush.

However, Congress already has authorized the Mint to issue new $1 coins "with designs emblematic of the United States semiquincentennial."

That means, if the Trump coins become reality, he would be the first living president so honored.

Details already released did not reveal whether such coins would be put generally into circulation, where dollar coins have not fared well, or be largely for collectors.

The Treasury statement explained, "Despite the radical left's forced shutdown of our government, the facts are clear: Under the historic leadership of President Donald J. Trump, our nation is entering its 250th anniversary stronger, more prosperous, and better than ever before. While a final $1 dollar coin design has not yet been selected to commemorate the United States' semiquincentennial, this first draft reflects well the enduring spirit of our country and democracy, even in the face of immense obstacles."

Other comments included, "Epic" and "cool." Also, "I voted for this" and "I need a whole bunch of these!"

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The Supreme Court on Friday, by a 6-3 majority, said the administration of President Donald Trump could move forward with deportation plans for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who previously had been protected under an order from Joe Biden.

And the justices got a scolding from their newest member in the process.

It was Ketanji Jackson who "rebuked" her colleagues for their "repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" in the issue of those people who are in the United States illegally.

Reports said her "biting dissent" conflicted with the reasoned conclusion by the majority that lifted the special protections Biden granted to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Venezuela.

"I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly misjudges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families' pleas for the stability our Government has promised them," she claimed.

"Because, respectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent." She was joined by fellow extremists Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in the dissent.

Of course, such cases would not be coming before the Supreme Court on an emergency basis had not the previous administration created the extraordinary circumstances that are being challenged. And perhaps such emergency rulings might not be as many were not lower courts less filled with leftists and activists.

According to the Daily Caller New Foundation, the judges let Trump move ahead with ending special protected status for the Venezuelans.

Edward Chen, a judge appointed by Obama, ruled last month the Department of Homeland Security's termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan nationals violated the law.

It was in May when the high court lifted another lower court decision that prevented the DHS from removing TPS from Venezuelan migrants.

"So long as the district court's order is in effect, the Secretary must permit over 300,000 Venezuelan nationals to remain in the country, notwithstanding her reasoned determination that doing so even temporarily is 'contrary to the national interest,'" the Trump administration wrote in its September application.

A commentary at the Gateway Pundijt said, "Jackson fumed in her dissent."

The report said the ruling means some of those losing TPS ultimately could be deported.

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Democrats in Congress, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, demanded lavish government spending on projects run by their friends, some $1.5 trillion, during a few weeks of budgeting addressed in a proposed continuing resolution.

The administration of President Donald Trump said the government couldn't and wouldn't afford that, so Schumer, working with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, assembled votes to kill the resolution, leaving the government in partial shutdown.

Now the layoffs are coming.

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Under Joe Biden, the U.S. military was facing a recruitment crisis.

His pro-LGBT ideology included schemes to use artificial diversity, equity and inclusion quotas for military duties, putting women sometimes in jobs they could not physically accomplish, dragged the Army, and more, down.

It's back up, under President Donald Trump.

He's dispensed with the DEI politics, put transgenders on notice, and through his War Secretary, Pete Hegseth, has confirmed that members of the military will be required to have the physical ability and strength to do the jobs they are required to do. That's to include, sometimes, fighting a war.

A new report at the Federalist described the situation as this: "America's propaganda press have wound up with egg on their faces a few many times over the past several years. And that could not be truer than when it comes to the military recruitment crisis that helped define Joe Biden's failed presidency."

That's as part of that "propaganda press," the Associated Press, admitted that the U.S. Marine Corps had reached its recruiting targets for 2025 fiscal year.

"The achievement follows in the footsteps of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, all of which hit their FY2025 goals months ahead of schedule," the report said.

"Naturally, the AP's Konstantin Toropin seemingly did everything he could to downplay the Trump administration's turnaround of the Biden-era recruiting crisis, pinning blame for the disaster on 'complications from the COVID-19 pandemic, tight job markets and a growing generation of young Americans struggling to meet fitness and academic standards.' While noting how 'the uptick [in recruitment] began well before President Donald Trump won office again in November,' he also 'conveniently' omitted the fact that several of the branches axed traditional standards recruits were expected to meet to qualify for service under Biden," the Federalist explained.

It said the excuses are coming for the "befuddled ex-president" because without them, outlets would have to admit U.S. leadership "does, in fact, matter to those seeking to serve their nation in uniform."

The Federalist explained that Biden's message to patriotic Americans was clear from the start, "You're not welcome here."

His years of giving up on lethality and efficiency in exchange for diversity and inclusion resulted in "America's real adversaries" expanding their geopolitical footprints virtually unchallenged, the report said.

Trump and Hegseth just this week, the report noted, made it clear that "failed leftist dogma" is out at the military, and "winning wars" is "No. 1."

"No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division, distraction, or gender delusions. No more debris. As I've said before and will say again, we are done with that s—," Hegseth charged.

"As hard as leftists may find it to believe, young men don't want to join a military whose commander-in-chief pushes racist DEI ideology, fires them for not taking an experimental shot, and keeps checking his watch as the bodies of their brothers and sisters in arms arrive home in flag-draped coffins — a tragedy which Biden himself is responsible for. They want leaders who love America as much as they do and will stand with them when their backs are against the wall," the report said.

Under Biden, the Army fell 15,000 short of its enlistment goal in 2022, and the next year, it brought in 50,000 recruits, well below its goal of 65,000. That year, the Navy and the Air Force also missed recruitment targets.

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Hillary Clinton, while running one of her two failed bids for the White House, once said she put all those Americans who failed to support her radical leftist ideologies in a "basket of deplorables."

Now, as an elder voice in her Democrat Party, she still does.

She recently unleashed a rant about how she disliked white, Christian men and how they were responsible for making things in America "not as they should be…"

She said, "And I am proud of the fact that we have always been a work in progress. You know, we haven't gotten to the more perfect union and we fought a civil war over part of it. And people have been protesting, you known, for hundreds of years. Uh. That things were not as they should be given our ideals and how we should be moving toward them."

She said that's what "makes us so special as a country."

Except for those white Christian men, of course.

"And the idea that you could turn the clock back and try to re-create a world that never was, dominated by— you know, let's say it, white men, uh— of a certain persuasion, uh— certain religion, uh— certain point of view, a certain ideology, is just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for," she said.

Now some Christians have responded to her anti-faith, racist diatribe.

"I guess if she wants to do away with the, you know, men, white men of a particular persuasion, I assume she wants to erase all of the Founding Fathers who actually established the framework from which we work as a country that has given us the longest running consistent Constitution in country and history," Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council, said in a report published by Fox News.

And Roger Severino, a spokesman for the Heritage Foundation, said, "It's beyond tone deaf for Hillary to proclaim that conservative white Christian men are what's wrong with America while the nation mourns the loss of Charlie Kirk. At least it confirms what we all suspected, that Hillary still believes millions of Americans belong in her 'basket of deplorables' based on their sex, race, and sincere religious beliefs."

Clinton's complaining focused on how she thinks "white man, of … a certain religion" are damaging America.

"She seems to be angry that the majority of Americans rejected the trajectory that the left had America on," Perkins continued. "And it's not just white men of a particular persuasion. And I'm not sure what she means by that. Straight men? I'm not sure. But the reality is America has rejected this leftist ideology that has totally decoupled itself from truth."

He suggested what Clinton really wants is an America that opposes American values.

Clinton had complained, "Some people are actually scared about what's going on in our country. The idea of we the people, that all men and women are created equal, that seems to be in the crosshairs of those on the right who want to turn the clock back on the progress that has been made, writing out huge chunks of our history, slavery, suffrage, anything inconvenient, you know, take it out of museums, take it out of national parks. You know."

Perkins said, "I mean, I guess she wants to continue to advance a, you know, an administration, an ideology of the left that is killing unborn children, mutilating our children that do survive and are born. And indoctrinating them in our schools. I guess that's the trajectory she wants America to continue on. You know, the idea that there was never America in which there was normality."

Penny Nance, of Concerned Women for America, said, "The over 500,000 women of Concerned Women for America are incredibly thankful for strong men, and we dispute the false notion of 'toxic masculinity.' What has been labeled by the left as masculine is the opposite of masculine. Real masculinity protects the weak and leads with courage and character. We are thankful for men like the recent heroes who literally took bullets for women and children in recent shootings. We are grateful for the men who run towards danger, such as our first responders and the U.S. military."

Here are Clinton's comments:

She wasn't finished, adding that it is the administration of President Donald Trump has gone, in her word, "authoritarian."

She earned a sharp online rebuke for projecting what she and other Democrats have done onto Republicans, and claiming that's what the more conservative party is doing.

A commenter said, "Mind blowing that the left has the nerve to send Hillary Clinton out there as their mouthpiece and claim that Trump is censoring Americans. After everything they did to silence us, Hillary Clinton goes on TV and lists out everything they did under the Biden administration and claims that it's what Trump is doing. 'I view it as very dangerous. It is right out of the authoritarian playbook… Silence your opponents. Cripple the media that doesn't give you the slavish attention and agreement that you desire. Use the power of the government to go after corporations and individuals.' Astonishing. Direct bullet points from their own playbook. Google just admitted yesterday that they were forced by the Biden administration to censor his opponents. The projection is at an all time high because they are out of ammunition."

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President Donald Trump already has won a $16 million settlement from Paramount for a "60 Minutes" interview with then-candidate Kamala Harris that was charged with being, essentially, a campaign ad for the Democrat.

And he's collecting $15 million from ABC because George Stephanopoulos falsely claimed a jury found Trump liable for rape, when it didn't.

Now he's getting another payout, this time from YouTube for its censorship scheme that deprived Trump of access to some social media opportunities.

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It's shaping up as a fight between what now is known to have been the weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump by Democrats, and claims that Trump now is weaponizing the government against those who participated in the now-debunked "Russiagate" conspiracy theory Democrats launched against him during his first campaign.

The trigger is a federal indictment of ex-FBI chief James Comey for obstruction and lying.

He was, of course, a key player in the Russiagate lies, having had his FBI launch an investigation of Trump and his campaign during 2016 based on the wild claims that he was conspiring with Russia, a fabrication that Barack Obama had been told was being assembled by failed Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.

Comey posted on social media his claim to innocence which focused more on blaming Trump, and boasting about how he and his family were "standing up to Donald Trump."

But social media pointed out how even going to social media to make statements was banned for Donald Trump when the Democrat weaponization was at its most aggressive.

And social media pointed out the multiple lawfare cases against Trump and dozens of others, assembled by the Democrat power structure at the time.

Kash Patel, the current FBI chief, said the bureau under his management is just calling "the balls and strikes."

He said claims of politicization – now – are "wildly false" and come "from the same bankrupt media…"

Some of the evidence in the case already is in the public record, including on video:

GOP members of Congress suggested it was about time.

President Trump, who long has been calling for prosecutions over the Russiagate conspiracy theory and the lies it involved, was blunt, "Whether you Corrupt James Comey or not, and I can't imagine too many peple liking him, HE LIED! It is not a complex lie, it's very simple, but IMPORTANT one. There is no way he can explain his way out of it. He is a Dirty Cop, and always has beren, but he was just assigned a Crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge, so he's off to a very good start. Nevertheless, words are words, and he wasn't hedging or in dispute. He was very positive, there was no dbout in his mind about what he said, or meant by saying it. He left himself ZERO margin of error on a big and important answer to a question. He just got unexpectedly caught. …"

Democrats lined up with the claims that it is a "malicious prosecution."

Democrat Sen. Mark Warner said, "This kind of interference is a dangerous abuse of power. By ousting a respected, independent prosecutor and replacing him with a partisan loyalist, Trump is undermining one of the most important U.S. Attorney's offices in the country and eroding the rule of law itself."