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January 22, 2025 - Jimmy Dore breaks down all of Anthony Fauci’s crimes

As one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden issued a blanket preemptive pardon to former NIAID head Dr. Anthony Fauci. Of course Fauci shouldn’t need a pardon since he’s done nothing wrong, right? Right?

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger go through the litany of crimes Fauci has committed that he now needs to be pardoned for or face possible prosecution.

January 23, 2025 - Davos elites embrace jihad at World Economic Forum's 2025 annual meeting

Syria’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani speaks with Tony Blair at the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Davos meeting. (Credit: Reuters).

A US-designated terrorist group still remains the current de facto ruling entity in Damascus and over Syria. But for the West, all that matters is that al-Qaeda linked Jolani is not Assad. A decade-plus long proxy war in pursuit of regime change finally overthrew the secular Baath government early last month, and resulted in the hardline Islamists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) controlling most of the country.

New ruler of Syria, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani (Credit: Aref Tammawi/Getty Images)

The West appears to be fully embracing the new rulers which we previously referred to as al-Qaeda in suits. This week we have been treated to the spectacle of a HTS representative speaking on the main stage at Davos. He’s come a long way from Idlib and its black flags… straight to the red carpet jet-setting champa[gne]-sipping insider atmosphere of world elites.

Syria’s new HTS-appointed Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani told the World Economic Forum on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia is now the exemplar for Syria to follow.

“Where do we see inspiration for the new Syria? We have the Vision 2030 of Saudi Arabia,” Al-Shaibani said during a conversation with former UK prime minister Tony Blair.

“We need Syria to be a place of peace, to be a place of development, a place free of war,” the top HTS diplomat added.

On top of the irony of an AQ-linked official being invited to Davos (and merely within less than two months after HTS took power), there’s the added irony that Tony Blair – one of Bush’s key allies who pushed the 2003 invasion of Iraq – was hosting the Davos main stage discussion with Al-Shaibani.

Former leaders like Blair, in overthrowing Saddam Hussein, are responsible for having overseen the sectarian and Islamist nightmare which gripped Iraq and the region in the aftermath. The rise of ISIS would not have been possible if it weren’t for the US/UK ‘shock and awe’ regime change operation, for example. Later, the West and Gulf states funded the Syrian insurgency, during which time Al-Qaeda in Iraq jihadists poured across the border into Syria.HTS was born out of this West-backed anti-Assad jihad (it was known as Nusra Front in the beginning).

But of course, the Davos elites are embracing it all: war crimes and jihad.

Meanwhile, in Syria HTS has allowed ISIS-linked foreign fighters to intimidate the population with impunity. Alawites, Druze, and Christians live in fear as sectarian-driven killings are on the rise in the “liberated Syria” – especially in the Homs, Latakia, and coastal and countryside regions.

(…) The future looks bleak as Jolani has pledged eventual implementation of Sharia law.

(Read more: Zero Hedge, 1/23/2025)  (Archive)

January 23, 2025 - Trump slams Bank of America boss for refusing 'conservative business'

President Donald Trump confronted Bank of America boss Brian Moynihan in front of the entire world Thursday for not providing banking services to conservatives.

“I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives, because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank, and that included a place called Bank of America. … what you’re doing is wrong,” Trump said during a question and answer session with corporate leaders and CEOs, who were assembled on stage at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Trump, who spoke by satellite to address the forum, suggested his predecessor – former President Joe Biden – was behind the effort.

“And I don’t know if the regulators mandated that because of Biden or what,” Trump continued, “But you and [JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon] and everybody – I hope you’re going to open your banks to conservatives, because what you’re doing is wrong.”

(Read more: The Center Square, 1/23/2025)  (Archive)

January 23, 2025 - White House advisor reveals how bureaucracy protects “its own interests” and predicts bureaucracy will ‘crush’ RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary

Captured on hidden camera, a White House advisor, Byron Cohen, warned that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s potential appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services could be sabotaged by the entrenched federal bureaucracy. Cohen, acknowledging the existence of the “deep state,” described how the bureaucracy operates with its own agenda, potentially hindering or even blocking initiatives from external appointees like Kennedy Jr.

“People joke about the ‘deep state,’ but to some degree, it’s real,” admitted Byron Cohen, an advisor at the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, to an undercover OMG journalist. Cohen, a holdover from the Biden Administration, is currently lent to the office through the Horizon Institute for Public Service.

He revealed the extent to which the bureaucracy operates with its own hidden priorities and safeguards, adding, “It’s not just a matter of ordering people to do things. They have ways to slow things down or block you without you realizing it.”

Cohen expressed strong disapproval of Kennedy Jr.’s potential appointment, citing his views on vaccines as a point of contention with the American public. He predicts that Kennedy Jr. will face an uphill battle in gaining cooperation from the bureaucracy, which he believes will prioritize its own interests over his agenda.

“RFK Jr. is a very bad pick for HHS… it’s probably a good chance that the bureaucracy just crushes him,” Cohen stated. He further elaborated when asked, “Can you give me an example of how you think they’ll do it when RFK, like if he gets in?” and described a ‘fake commission’ to “Make him [RFK Jr.] think something is happening when it’s not…” (O’Keefe Media Group/Email, 1/23/2025)

January 24-25, 2025 - Newly appointed Secret Service Director Sean Curran immediately begins to clean house; Tells 10 senior officials to resign, retire or be reassigned

President Trump appoints Sean Curran (r) as the Director of Secret Service, 1/24/2025  (Credit: public domain)

(…) Curran was wasting little time in starting to clean house at the Secret Service. On his first day on the job, as many as 10 senior leadership officials, including Rowe, were warned that they would either be fired, moved, or pressed into retirement, according to three Secret Service sources.

Curran has been inundated with information on which top officials on the 8th floor of headquarters to oust or replace. Agents are circulating removal wish lists, as well as names of those agents Curran or other members of his new leadership team already informed that their services are no longer needed.

Cynthia Sjoberg Radway

Agents are expressing an urgent need to remove Chief Operating Officer Cynthia Sjoberg Radway from her leadership post. Radway was incredibly close to Cheatle, the pair having become good friends during a previous Radway stint working for the agency. When Cheatle became director, she brought Radway back to work more directly for her in the COO role and gave her a bonus to do so, according to multiple sources. The fear is that Radway, if allowed to stay, will continue to serve as a pipeline of information back to Cheatle. She also has crossed many agents Curran respects.

“She will be a major roadblock to positive progress,” if allowed to stay, one source in the Secret Service community told RealClearPolitics.

One of the biggest points of contention about who should stay and go is being waged over an alleged decision by former USSS leadership, under Cheatle’s and Rowe’s direction, not to inform Curran of the security threats against Trump before the Butler rally.

David Torres

In addition to Cheatle and Rowe, David Torres, assistant director of Strategic Intelligence and Information, was also involved in keeping the Trump campaign detail in the dark about a specific Iranian attempt against Trump’s life. The Pittsburgh Field Office, which partnered with the Trump campaign detail for planning and executing security for the Butler rally, also was never informed before the July 13 assassination attempt. If the two Secret Service contingents had been informed, the agents charged with providing security may have upped their game to come up with a more robust security plan and far better execution, these sources contend.

Rowe officially passed the torch to Curran in a “good-bye” letter to all Secret Service personal sent late Thursday night and obtained by RealClearPolitics. In it, he praised Curran’s selection for the role, while omitting any reference to the two assassination attempts against Trump’s life while he was serving in top leadership agency roles. Rowe only became acting director after Kimberly Cheatle resigned under pressure from Congress in the wake of the Butler assassination-attempt debacle.

Rowe strangely claimed he is “excited” to announce that Curran will be the next director, the 28th in the agency’s history. (Trump previously announced that decision on Truth Social.)

“Throughout his career, Director Curran has led and played critical roles in both protective operations and the investigative mission,” Rowe wrote. “He has consistently demonstrated outstanding leadership, integrity, and courage.”

“His vision, dedication, and ability to drive results have earned him respect inside the agency and from law enforcement partners,” he continued. “I am confident that under his leadership the Secret Service will continue to grow, innovate, and remain steadfast in our unwavering commitment to succeed in our missions.” Rowe’s conclusion that he’s “proud of all that we have accomplished together” without any mention of the monumental failures in Butler and during the second assassination attempt on Trump’s life at a Florida golf course spurred instant ridicule among rank-and-file agents.

But it was the way he signed the letter that gave fellow agents and USSS officers the most pause. Rowe listed his title as deputy director, the post he held before former Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas elevated him to the acting director role following Cheatle’s resignation.

If Rowe is moving to the deputy director role with Curran in the top post, agents tell RCP they believe nothing will change, and the USSS will continue to experience protection failures, retention problems, and low morale. “When are we going to seriously fix the problems instead of putting lipstick on a pig?” one source questioned.

Yet, Rowe may simply be moving back to the deputy director job temporarily before Curran has a chance to name his own No. 2 and chief of staff. The names circulating among the Secret Service for those top leadership roles include Matthew Piant, who served as Curran’s No. 2 on the Trump campaign detail, and Tyler McQuiston, a former agent who previously served in several senior protective operations roles. (Read more: RealClearPolitics, 1/25/2025)  (Archive)

January 24, 2025 - Trump asks Bank of America CEO to stop discriminating against conservatives; BoA denies; people they discriminated against respond

UPDATE

Rep James Comer tells Maria Bartiromo the House Oversight Committee has evidence of debanking occurring:

January 24, 2025 - Paul Ryan comes out of his hidey-hole with an appearance at the World Economic Forum's 2025 annual meeting in Davos

Paul Ryan appears in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s 2025 annual globalists meeting.

(…) We don’t hear Paul Ryan’s name much these days, unless we’re talking about Fox News, where he’s a board member. But rest assured, this globalist snake in the grass is still slithering around, doing everything he can to undermine President Trump’s America First agenda.

Nowhere was that more obvious than Ryan’s recent trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos. There he was, rubbing elbows with his fellow elites and reminding all of us that he’s still an undercover power player in the Great Reset and the sinister and dark world of globalism.

Ryan was cornered by Canadian firehouse and investigative reporter Ezra Levant, who asked why the former House Speaker refuses to congratulate President Trump on his epic, historic presidential victory.

The answer, sadly, is no mystery: Paul Ryan loathes Trump and everything the America First movement stands for. It clashes with every globalist bone in his body.

Paul Ryan is stepping out of the shadows, where he quietly hid during most of Biden’s disastrous regime. Suddenly, he’s back in the spotlight, making moves to rally the anti-Trump uniparty and reminding them that, yes, their movement still exists. He recently appeared on CNBC for a really awkward interview, where he was called out for sounding an awful lot like a Democrat.

You can see it all over his face—he can’t even fake being happy for President Trump or the country that sent him to the White House with a resounding mandate.

Ryan knows this is war. When Biden’s regime was destroying the country, Paul had nothing to worry about – trust the plan, right? Now that President Trump is back, Ryan knows it’s “go time.”  After all, President Trump just delivered a deathblow to the GOP establishment wing of the GOP. He’s made it clear; he’s not hiring anyone who worked for hacks like Charles Koch, Liz Cheney, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, and others in this establishment camp. (Read more: Revolver News, 1/24/2025)  (Archive)

January 24, 2025 - Inside the Trump DOJ shake-up

January 24, 2025 - Former reporters for Politico claim outlet squashed negative stories about the Bidens

Two former reporters with Politico accused the outlet of suppressing negative stories about former President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential election in a video clip posted to YouTube Thursday.

Dozens of former intelligence officials signed an October 2020 letter published by Politico that claimed a bombshell New York Post report about emails from a laptop supposedly abandoned by Hunter Biden “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Puck News reporter Tara Palmeri and Axios reporter Marc Caputo discussed the Politico newsroom’s approach to unflattering reports about the Bidens on Palmeri’s podcast, “Somebody’s Gotta Win,” though the outlet has denied their allegations.

“Politico did that terrible, ill-fated headline: 51 intelligence agents, or former intelligence agents, say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation, or bore the hallmarks of disinformation. Turns out that story was closer to disinformation because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true,” Caputo told Palmeri, who responded. “But then Facebook also pulled all stories down about the Hunter Biden laptop, and I think Twitter did at the same time, too.”

Twitter locked multiple accounts, including the New York Post’s and the personal account of then-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing the Oct, 14, 2020 report, citing a “hacked materials” policy. Documents released to journalist Michael Shellenberger by Elon Musk show that the FBI contacted Twitter about the potential for leaks involving Hunter Biden prior to the New York Post’s report.

“Correct, they punished The New York Post, that didn’t help. I mean, Politico, my former employer and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors,” said Caputo. “I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop.

(Read more: The Daily Caller, 1/24/2025) (Archive)

January 25, 2025 - CIA Director John Ratcliffe officially confirms COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China

CIA Reverses Itself, Acknowledging COVID Likely Originated from a Wuhan Lab

New CIA Director John Ratcliffe went straight to work on behalf of the American people by releasing a new assessment on the origins of Covid-19. (Read more: Legal Insurrection, 1/25/2025)  (Archive)

CIA analysts were ‘bribed to change position’ on COVID-19 origins as Fauci led ‘orchestrated’ effort to undermine lab-leak origin theory

A new Sky News Australia documentary reveals further evidence of the “orchestrated effort” to push the narrative that COVID-19 had natural origins, despite intelligence officials saying it “most likely” leaked out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. (Read more: Sky News Australia, 11/28/2023)  (Archive)

January 26, 2025 - Florida Democrat official and President of LGBTQ group arrested on child porn charges

Democratic Delegate and prominent gay activist Matthew Inman, 39, has been arrested after sending child pornography to an undercover police officer.

According to Inman’s X account bio, archived here, he serves as the President of the Rainbow Democrats, a nonprofit that aims to “foster goodwill between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and allied members of the Democratic Party and the community at large.” Inman, an Orlando resident, was previously the Orange County Democratic Party’s Treasurer.

(…) The U.S. District Attorney’s office said in a statement that between August and October 2024, Inman “received and saved several videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM),” which “depicted adults sexually assaulting young children.”

He apparently sent these photos to an undercover cop, posing as the father of a nine-year-old boy, who Inman had expressed interest in sexually assaulting.

He then attempted to delete the evidence as FBI agents searched his home, and he hid in the attic, according to the complaint. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/26/2024)  (Archive)

January 27, 2025 - Acting US Attorney Ed Martin initiates probe into former US Atty Matthew Graves’ unlawful use of 1512(c)(2) obstruction charges against J6ers

SCOOP: New DC US Attorney Ed Martin has opened an inquiry into the DOJ’s unlawful use of 1512c2, the post-Enron obstruction statute filed against 300+ J6ers. Martin called the use of 1512c2 a “great failure” of the office and directed staff to immediately deliver “all files, documents, notes, emails and other information” related to 1512c2 charging decisions to two other prosecutors, who will prepare a preliminary report for Martin by this Friday.

Martin further indicated his team will reach out to prosecutors who left the office but nonetheless were involved in the unlawful prosecution of J6ers under 1512c2.

The Supreme Court determined in Fischer v US that the DOJ had misapplied the felony statute, which requires proof of documents/evidence destruction. After the June 2024 ruling, defendants–some of whom had already served years-long prison sentences–filed motions to vacate convictions, drop existing indictments.

The DC circuit slowly overturned those cases but DC US Attorney Matt Graves tried to work around Fischer by bringing an alternative charge that was equally as dubious.

Further, despite the fact the 1512c2 conviction animated long prison sentences, Graves tried to keep 1512c2 defendants in jail for the same amount of time EVEN AFTER THE CONVICTION WAS DROPPED by asking for new sentencing enhancements.

Of course DC judges were only too happy to comply.

The unlawful application of 1512c2 represents the dark heart of the abusive, reckless prosecution of J6ers. Every prosecutor signed their name to court documents related to 1512c2 and every DC judge except two–Carl Nichols and Greg Katsas–endorsed the statute’s unlawful use.

They all must be held accountable.

January 27, 2025 - Trump admin fires over a dozen DOJ officials who worked under Jack Smith

Special Counsel Jack Smith as prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in the Hague. (Credit: public domain)

The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen officials involved in former special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of President Trump, The Post has confirmed.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry ordered the terminations because he believed the officials could not be trusted in “faithfully implementing the president’s agenda,” a DOJ official said in a statement to The Post.

Trump appoints James McHenry as Acting Attorney General on January 20, 2025. (Credit: public domain)

“Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” the statement read. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”

The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

McHenry notified the DOJ officials — who have not yet been identified — of their firings in a letter. It’s unclear exactly how many officials received termination letters from McHenry.

The firings were first reported by Fox News on Monday.

The move comes days after the DOJ reportedly reassigned at least 15 career officials at the agency, including one who pushed for the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, to roles with less influence on the department’s major decisions.

Some were reassigned to the DOJ’s new Office of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement the Washington Post reported last week.  (Read more: New York Post, 1/28/2025)  (Archive)

January 27, 2025 - Top USAID career staff are placed on immediate leave

A USAID staff member stands as Gaza aid on a truck is about to enter a U.S ship at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus, on June 26, 2024. (Credit: Petros Karadjias/AP)

The Trump administration has ordered dozens of top career employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development to go on administrative leave, according to six people told of the decision.

The order — sent via email to members of the senior executive and senior Foreign Service — was issued close to the end of the business day Monday and was effective immediately, according to two current USAID officials and three former USAID officials told of the communication. It comes as USAID and the State Department have been ordered to impose halts on a vast number of humanitarian and related programs around the world.

The decision appears to affect nearly every career staffer who holds a top leadership role at the agency, at least in Washington — around 60 officials, the current and former officials said. (Read more: Politico, 1/27/2025) (Archive)

(Timeline editor’s note: Be sure and check our USAID tag timeline for a good look at some of the corruption connected to this program.)

January 28, 2025 - Congress summons sanctuary city mayors to testify about protecting criminal aliens from federal law enforcement

(L-R) Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams (Credit: The Gateway Pundit)

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has initiated a bold inquiry into the protective policies of notorious sanctuary cities against federal law enforcement.

This inquiry targets mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City on their controversial stances on non-cooperation with federal immigration authorities, which Comer criticizes as “misguided and obstructionist policies that jeopardize American safety.”

Each of these cities has enacted measures that limit cooperation with federal efforts to apprehend and deport illegal immigrants, particularly those with criminal records.

Read the letters here:

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/28/2025)  (Archive)

January 28, 2025 - Birthright Citizenship: The 14th Amendment does not confer automatic citizenship

Claremont Institute scholars, including me, Ed Erler, Tom West, John Marini, and Michael Anton, President Trump’s incoming Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, have been contending for years—decades, really—that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause does not provide automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil, no matter the circumstances. Other prominent scholars, such as the late University of Texas law Professor Lino Graglia, University of Pennsylvania Professor Rogers Smith, and Yale Law Professor Emeritus Peter Schuck, have come to the same conclusion based on their own extensive scholarly research.

Claremont scholars have made the argument in books, law review articles, congressional testimony, and legal briefs. President Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General, Edwin Meese, even joined one of those briefs, in which we argued against treating enemy combatant Yaser Esam Hamdi as a citizen merely because he had been born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while his father was working in the U.S. on a temporary work visa. Perhaps as a result of our brief in that case, the late Justice Antonin Scalia referred to Hamdi as a “presumed citizen” in his dissenting opinion.

Our argument is straightforward. The text of the 14th Amendment contains two requirements for acquiring automatic citizenship by birth: one must be born in the United States and be subject to its jurisdiction. The proper understanding of the Citizenship Clause therefore turns on what the drafters of the amendment, and those who ratified it, meant by “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Was it merely a partial, temporary jurisdiction, such as applies to anyone (except for diplomats) who are subject to our laws while they are within our borders? Or does it instead apply only to those who are subject to a more complete jurisdiction, one which manifests itself as owing allegiance to the United States and not to any foreign power?

Think of it this way. Someone from Great Britain visiting the United States is subject to our laws while here, which is to say subject to our partial or territorial jurisdiction. He must drive on the right-hand side of the road rather than the left, for example. But he does not thereby owe allegiance to the United States; he is not subject to being drafted into our army; and he cannot be prosecuted for treason (as opposed to ordinary violations of law) if he takes up arms against the United States, for he has breached no oath of allegiance.

So which understanding of “subject to the jurisdiction” did the drafters of the 14th Amendment have in mind?

Happily, we don’t need to speculate, as they were asked that very question. They unambiguously stated that it meant “complete” jurisdiction, such as existed under the law at the time, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which excluded from citizenship those born on U.S. soil who were “subject to a foreign power.”

The Supreme Court confirmed that understanding (albeit in dicta) in the first case addressing the 14th Amendment, noting in The Slaughterhouse Cases in 1872 that “[t]he phrase, ‘subject to its jurisdiction’ was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.” It then confirmed that understanding in the 1884 case of Elk v. Wilkins, holding that the “subject to the jurisdiction” phrase required that one be “not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction, and owing them direct and immediate allegiance.” John Elk, the Native American claimant in the case, did not meet that requirement because, as a mem­ber of an Indian tribe at his birth, he “owed imme­diate allegiance to” his tribe and not to the United States.

Thomas Cooley, the leading treatise writer of the era, also confirmed that “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States “meant full and complete jurisdic­tion to which citizens are generally subject, and not any qualified and partial jurisdiction, such as may consist with allegiance to some other government.”  More fundamentally, this understanding of the Citizenship Clause is the only one compatible with the consent of the governed principle articulated in the Declaration of Independence.

All of this matters a great deal because on the first day of his second term in office, President Trump issued an executive order, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” which adopted the view of the Citizenship Clause I and other Claremont scholars have espoused. It directs every department and agency of the U.S. government to accept our view henceforth as the correct interpretation of the Constitution’s Citizenship Clause.

This may be the most legally controversial executive order issued by the president on day one. And because of that, it is already being challenged in court, as 22 states have filed a lawsuit trying to block its implementation a little more than 24 hours after it was signed.

In the coming days and weeks, just as with that lawsuit, there will be lots of pundits opining that the president had no authority to issue such an order because the Constitution mandates automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil, a mandate that cannot be changed with the stroke of a president’s pen. They will contend that the Supreme Court already settled the issue more than a century ago in the 1898 case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark.

But even if Wong Kim Ark was correctly decided (as Ed Erler points out, it was not), honest scholars must acknowledge that Wong Kim Ark involved a child born to parents who were permanently domiciled in the United States, not those who were only here temporarily or illegally. Indeed, honest scholars will be forced to acknowledge that the Supreme Court has never held that the children of illegal immigrants, or even temporary lawful visitors, are constitutionally entitled to automatic citizenship merely by virtue of their birth in the United States. And they will be forced to acknowledge as true the claim in Trump’s executive order that “the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted [in any formal, binding way] to extend citizenship universally to everyone born in the United States.”

Alas, when it comes to anything related to Trump, there are very few honest scholars. Instead of acknowledging the Supreme Court’s limited, actual holding in Wong Kim Ark, they will point to dicta in which the Court’s majority falsely claimed that the Citizenship Clause codified the old English common law rule known as jus soli—that anyone born on the king’s soil owed perpetual allegiance to the king.  They will overlook that our Declaration of Independence was an explicit and eloquent repudiation of jus soli, stating in its closing paragraph that “these United Colonies…are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown.” They will overlook that Congress did not view Wong Kim Ark as mandating automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil when, a quarter century later, it extended citizenship to Native Americans pursuant to its power under the Naturalization Clause, an act that would have been superfluous if Wong Kim Ark had already settled the matter that everyone born in the U.S., including Native Americans, were automatically citizens. And they will overlook that when a 1920s guest worker program ended in the wake of the Great Depression and more than a million Mexican workers were repatriated to Mexico, the repatriation included their U.S.-born children. No one at the time claimed that the children were U.S. citizens.

Nevertheless, despite the original meaning of the Constitution’s text, its initial interpretation by the Supreme Court, and its compatibility with the social compact “consent of the governed” political theory of the Declaration, our government agencies have for more than a half-century, without any formal amendment, court decision, or official authoritative pronouncement, been acting as though birth alone is sufficient to confer citizenship. And many children of illegal immigrants or temporary visitors have organized their lives in reliance on those informal views. (President Trump’s executive order does not disturb those interests. It makes the order applicable only to children born on U.S. soil more than 30 days after the order’s effective date, to parents who were unlawfully present, or lawfully but only temporarily present, in the United States at the time of their birth.)

As a result of this order and the inevitable legal challenges to it, the Supreme Court will now, for the first time, have the opportunity to acknowledge that the Claremont Institute’s long-standing view of the Citizenship Clause is the correct one. With the Court currently composed of more originalist justices than has been the case in more than a century, we anticipate with great optimism a careful and considered assessment of the clause and a restoration of the fundamental notion that ours is a country rooted in consent, not in the old feudal notion of jus soli that was so thoroughly rejected in our Declaration of Independence. (American Mind.org, 1/28/2025)  (Archive)

January 29, 2025 - DOJ moves to drop classified documents appeal against Trump’s co-defendants

Carlos De Oliveira (Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion on Jan. 29 to voluntarily dismiss its appeal in the Florida classified documents case that has reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

“The United States of America moves to voluntarily dismiss its appeal with prejudice,” a filing with the appeals court reads.

Hayden O’Byrne, the interim U.S. attorney in Miami, noted in the filing that the government had conferred with counsel for two remaining appellees, Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, who were named as defendants along with President Donald Trump.

The motion was made after former special counsel Jack Smith’s office asked the court to dismiss the appeal as it related to then-President-elect Donald Trump—something the court granted last year.

The DOJ was in the process of appealing Florida Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case. Cannon had ruled that Smith was unlawfully appointed.

The DOJ’s motion was made after Cannon blocked the release of the second volume of Smith’s report on the classified documents case.

Cannon sided with an emergency motion brought by Nauta and De Oliveira. The previous administration had sought to allow certain members of Congress to read a redacted version of the report. In her Jan. 21 order, Cannon said that “there is certainly a reasonable likelihood that review by members of Congress as proposed will result in public dissemination of all or part of Volume II.”

“That reasonable likelihood risks substantial prejudice to the due process rights of Defendants, who remain subject to the protective order in this case.”

The motion is part of a wave of changes that have occurred under the new administration, which has expressed an interest in halting what it views as weaponization of the department, or politically-based prosecutions. (Read more: The Epoch Times, 1/29/2025)  (Archive)

January 30, 2025 - Tulsi Gabbard exposes deep state corruption in her opening statement; mentions the 51 Intel Officials, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat Party

Gabbard:
For too long, faulty, inadequate, or weaponized intelligence has led to costly failures and the undermining of our national security and God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. The most obvious example of one of these failures is our invasion of Iraq, based on a total fabrication or a complete failure of intelligence.

This disastrous decision led to the deaths of tens of thousands of American soldiers, millions of people in the Middle East, mass migration, destabilization, and the undermining of the security and stability of our European allies. It also contributed to the rise of ISIS, the strengthening of Al Qaeda and other Islamist jihadist groups, and the empowerment of Iran.

The American people elected Donald Trump as their President—not once, but twice—yet the FBI and intelligence agencies were politicized by his opponents to undermine his presidency and falsely portray him as a puppet of Putin.

Gabbard’s testimony ripped into the coordinated efforts of the Clinton and Biden campaigns to manipulate intelligence agencies for political gain.

She highlighted how the now-discredited Steele dossier—funded by the Clinton campaign—was used as “evidence” to illegally spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page via FISA warrants.

Gabbard also targeted the now-infamous 51 former intelligence officials who falsely labeled Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” to help Joe Biden secure victory in the 2020 election.

She exposed Biden campaign operative Tony Blinken as the mastermind behind the disinformation letter.

Gabbard:
Title I of FISA was used illegally to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, using a Clinton-Biden campaign-funded false dossier as their so-called evidence. Biden campaign advisor Tony Blinken was the impetus for the “51 former senior intelligence officials’ letter,” dismissing Hunter Biden’s laptop as disinformation and specifically intended to help Biden win the election.”

Gabbard also blasted former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for blatantly lying to Congress about mass surveillance programs that targeted American citizens.

And she didn’t hold back on ex-CIA chief John Brennan, who she reminded the world spied on Congress, got caught, and faced zero accountability.

Gabbard revealed one of the most chilling abuses under the Biden administration: the FBI’s targeting of devout Catholics.

“Under Biden, the FBI abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil Catholics who attend traditional Latin mass, labeling them as radical traditionalist Catholics.”

Gabbard also exposed how, just 24 hours after she criticized Kamala Harris’s nomination, she was placed on a secret domestic terror watchlist called “Quiet Skies.”

Gabbard dismantled the left’s predictable playbook, warning Americans exactly what was coming: false accusations, fear-mongering, and outright lies designed to discredit her before she even steps into office.

Gabbard:
Those who oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal to something or someone other than God, my own conscience, and the Constitution of the United States—accusing me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, a guru’s puppet, and Modi’s puppet—without recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the puppet of five different puppet masters.

The same tactic was used against President Trump and failed. The American people elected President Trump with a decisive victory and a mandate for change. The fact is, what truly unsettles my political opponents is that I refuse to be their puppet.

I condemn those actions as a Democrat in Congress at the time, as religious bigotry must be thoroughly condemned by all of us, no matter the religion. Unfortunately, some Democrat senators still don’t understand the principle of freedom of religion and Article VI of the Constitution: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

Unfortunately, they are once again using the religious bigotry card—this time, trying to foment religious bigotry against Hindus and Hinduism.

If anyone is sincerely interested in knowing more about my personal spiritual path of Hinduism, I welcome you to visit my account on X, where I’ll share more on this topic.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/30/2025)  (Archive)

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January 30, 2025 - Grassley, Johnson release whistleblower records revealing DOJ and FBI plot to pin Trump in Jack Smith elector case

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are releasing legally protected whistleblower disclosures that prove the genesis of the federal election interference case brought against President Trump began at the hands of a prolific anti-Trump FBI agent who acted outside of established protocol for opening cases.

Internal FBI emails and predicating documents provided to Grassley and released jointly by the two senators show Timothy Thibault, a former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) who was forced to retire from the Bureau after Grassley exposed his public anti-Trump bias, authored the initial language for what ultimately became Jack Smith’s federal case against Trump regarding the 2020 presidential election. Records show Thibault essentially opened and approved his own investigation. The FBI titled the ensuing investigation “Arctic Frost.”

Richard Pilger leaves the FBI’s election crimes division in November, 2020 after Barr authorizes fraud investigations. (Credit: public domain)

Records further reveal Richard Pilger, an official in the Justice Department (DOJ)’s Public Integrity Section, reviewed and approved the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation, authorizing DOJ to move forward with a full field criminal and Grand Jury investigation that ultimately transformed into the Trump elector case. Grassley published a 2021 report that raised concerns regarding Pilger’s troubling record at DOJ.

Grassley in 2022 additionally questioned Thibault’s role at the FBI, writing, “I remain very concerned that political bias by a select group of Justice Department and FBI officials has infected the Justice Department’s and FBI’s usual process and procedure to open and pursue high-profile and politically charged investigations.” Grassley and Johnson in November called on Jack Smith to preserve all records related to Trump-targeted investigations.

The records released by Grassley and Johnson are linked below:

Grassley provided an overview of the records in his opening statement during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Kash Patel’s nomination to be FBI Director. Excerpts from Grassley’s opening statement follow:

“In my hand are a series of FBI emails.

“The first is an email that Thibault sent to a subordinate agent on February 14, 2022.

“He said, ‘Here is draft opening language we discussed.’  The draft opening was attached, and it included material that would later become part of Jack Smith’s elector case.

“The second email is a February 24, 2022, email from Thibault to John Crabb, a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, saying, ‘I had a discussion with the case team and we believe there to be predication to include former President of the United States Donald J. Trump as a predicated subject.’  This FBI case would later be codenamed Arctic Frost.

“The third email is a February 24, 2022, email from Thibault to John Crabb noting that Attorney General and FBI Director approval will be sought to open the case.

“The fourth email is a February 25, 2022, email from Thibault’s subordinate agents saying they added Trump, and others, as a criminal subject to the case.  Thibault responded ‘Perfect.’

“The fifth email is a March 22, 2022, email from Thibault emailing a version of an investigative opening for approval.  This didn’t include President Trump as a criminal subject.

“The sixth email is an April 11, 2022, email from Thibault approving the opening of Arctic Frost.

“The seventh email is an April 13, 2022, email from an FBI agent to Thibault stating that the FBI Deputy Director approved its opening.

“The eighth email on that same date had Thibault emailing John Crabb that the elector case was approved.  Crabb responded, ‘Thanks a lot. Let’s talk next week.’

“Between March 22 and April 13, other versions of the document opening the investigation existed, because a ninth email shows that the FBI General Counsel’s office made edits on March 25.

“Was Trump still removed as an investigative subject?  If so, which Justice Department and FBI officials – other than Jack Smith – later added him for prosecution?

“I expect the production of all records on this matter to better understand the full fact pattern and whether other records exist.”

(Grassley.gov, 1/30/2025)  (Archive)

January 30, 2025 - Did Obama and Eric Holder get paid to rig a court case?

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There’s a new video making the rounds, and it’s raising a massive red flag and asking: Did Obama and Eric Holder get paid to rig court cases? That’s the question many are now asking, and the allegations are so serious that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel should take a closer look once they get their offices setup.

The video was posted by an account “Against the Giants,” and it exposes a shocking timeline that suggests Big Tech, the Obama regime, and his DOJ may have colluded to rig our nation’s courts.

The building blocks of the left’s lawfare?

This disturbing story centers around a small, relatively unknown innovator who developed some cutting-edge wireless technology—and then had it allegedly stolen by Qualcomm.

When he sued for patent infringement, the court ruled in his favor.

But here’s where things get deeply disturbing and very interesting…

In shocking twist, that decision was mysteriously overturned right after Eric Holder’s DOJ was caught tracking the case. Suspicious? Yes. But there’s more…

The White House Executive Office was apparently busted visiting the inventor’s website, specifically looking at information related to the lawsuit against Qualcomm.

This has many people asking some very serious questions: Did the company Qualcomm grease the wheels inside the Obama regime to protect their billion-dollar empire?

Many would argue that the dots are connecting fast and furious (pun intended).

And to make matters more curious, Qualcomm’s founder met with Obama White House officials just days before the case was overturned, raising more concerns that perhaps campaign cash or political favors may have been exchanged for some favorable court rulings.

Take a look for yourself:

If this is true, it means Big Tech and the government worked together to rig the courts, crush competition, and sell out American innovators—and they did it while China swooped in and profited from stolen US technology. (Read more: Revolver News, 1/31/2025)  (Archive)