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Government Corruption

Miranda Devine: How the Biden admin ‘weaponized' the justice system against Trump aide Peter Navarro

2025-07-07

[NYPost] Former first lady Jill Biden’s factotum Anthony Bernal refused to testify before Congress last week for a scheduled interview about the President Joe Biden autopen scandal.

Now Bernal will be subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to compel his testimony about who was really running the White House during Biden’s term — or face potential criminal charges of contempt.

That’s a real possibility for Bernal and other former White House officials implicated in the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline, considering that the Biden administration broke all norms when it jailed President Trump’s White House adviser Peter Navarro and former adviser Steve Bannon last year for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas to testify before Nancy Pelosi’s star chamber investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

What goes around comes around.

Navarro, 75, was the first White House official in history to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction.

He served a four-month sentence in a federal prison in Miami last year.

DEM DOJ’S PRECEDENT
By contrast, the very Department of Justice that set a chilling precedent with its prosecutions of Navarro and Bannon (who also served four months in a federal prison in Connecticut last year) gave itself a pass when then-Attorney General Merrick Garland similarly was held in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena to hand over embarrassing audio recordings of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

As a senior White House adviser on Jan. 6, 2021, Navarro’s conviction should have had a higher bar than Bernal’s or any other former adviser’s.

But the Biden DOJ and one of its pet DC judges, President Barack Obama-appointed District Judge Amit Mehta, ignored Navarro’s legitimate concerns about executive privilege and punished him for his loyalty to his boss, Trump.

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Home Front: Politix

What a Joke! Old Joe Biden Claims European Leaders Are Calling Him and Wanting Him to "get engaged" in politics again.

2025-07-06

[GatewayPundit] Old Joe Biden claims European leaders are calling him and wanting him to "get engaged" in politics again.

Joe Biden gave a speech at the Society for Human Resource Management convention (SHRM) in San Diego on Wednesday.

Joe Biden made the remarks during a sit-down interview with the president Johnny Taylor of the SHRM25 after his speech.

Presumably because standing for that long is too hard for him.

Biden says he’s giving advice to the foreign leaders. Seriously?

Maybe Mr. Trump can give JB an advisory position...and then do the opposite of what "Ole' Brandon" suggests.

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Government Corruption

Judge Blocking Trump's HHS Reorganization Is Biden Diversity Hire Fixated on Race

2025-07-05

[Breitbart] The judge who ruled Tuesday to block the Trump administration’s reorganization and cost-cutting efforts at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was touted by President Joe Biden for her race and LGBTQ status and has a record suggesting she is unqualified and fixated on racial redress.

Judge Melissa DuBose was appointed by Biden in 2024 after being recommended by Democrat Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Jack Reed (RI) and confirmed 51-47 after Republicans Sens. Susan Collins (ME) and Lindsay Graham (SC) voted with Democrats.

Whitehouse and Reed’s press release announcing the recommendation noted that DuBose "would become the first person of color and first openly LGBTQ judge to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island."

During her confirmation, DuBose stated she was "not aware of any U.S. Supreme Court or First Circuit precedent establishing the legal basis for a nationwide injunction." While technically not nationwide, her recent preliminary injunction was brought by a coalition of attorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia.

The record revealed in her confirmation process troubled many Senators.

Dubose admitted to having a "Marxist phase" in an 2000 interview with the Feminist Press that she did not provide in her Senate questionnaire.
"Fixated on Race" as well as communism.

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Government Corruption

FBI blocked probe into alleged Chinese 2020 election meddling to protect Wray from fallout, documents show

2025-07-02

Long. A taste

[FoxNews] 'Now’s the time to rebuild the FBI’s trust,' said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley

The FBI blocked an investigation into allegations that the Chinese Communist Party manufactured fake driver’s licenses and shipped them to the U.S. in a scheme to influence the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden because it would "contradict" then-FBI Director Christopher Wray’s congressional testimony, newly declassified FBI documents obtained by Fox News Digital reveal.

The records, which include communications between FBI officials ahead of the 2020 election, were recently declassified by FBI Director Kash Patel and transmitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

Fox News Digital reported in June that Patel located and declassified the original reporting document alleging the Chinese Communist Party sought to deliver fake driver’s licenses to Chinese sympathizers in the U.S. who would cast a vote for Biden in the 2020 election. The document did not say whether any ballots were cast as part of the scheme.

The FBI recalled that reporting, though, Sept. 25, 2020 – just a day after Wray testified before Congress that the FBI had not seen any coordinated voter fraud ahead of the 2020 election.

The FBI, at the time, had recalled that report "in order to re-interview the source." It also directed "recipients" of the original report to "destroy all copies of the original report and remove the original report from all computer holdings."

But Patel, this week, declassified additional documents, including records relating to the re-interview of the source, and communications between FBI officials at the time discussing the decision-making behind the recall and its decision not to republish the intelligence reporting.

The records were sent to Grassley and Fox News Digital has reviewed the records.

"Although the source was reengaged and provided additional context to support the initial IIR, FBI Headquarters maintained its position not to republish the report," Assistant FBI Director Marshall Yates wrote in a letter to Grassley, obtained by Fox News Digital. "One reason cited for not releasing the IIR was because ‘the reporting will contradict Director Wray’s testimony.’"

During a Senate hearing on Sept. 24, 2020, Wray said he had not seen any widespread fraud by mail, and if he had, it would be something that we would investigate seriously… and aggressively."

"We have not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it is by mail or otherwise," Wray testified. But "people should make no mistake. We are vigilant as to the threat and watching it carefully, because we are in uncharted new territory."

But Wray also testified that the Chinese had been "expanding their influence efforts," saying they had been "looking for different ways to take a page out of the malign foreign influence playbook that they have seen elsewhere."

Yates, in his letter to Grassley, explained that the recall of the original reporting document was "abnormal."

"The rationale provided to Albany staff for the recall was that Headquarters deemed the report not ‘authoritative,’ but this characterization was met with disagreement by those in the Albany office," Yates explained.

Grassley told Fox News Digital: "These records smack of political decision-making and prove the Wray-led FBI to be a deeply broken institution. Ahead of a high-stakes election happening amid an unprecedented global pandemic, the FBI turned its back on its national security mission."

"One way or the other, intelligence must be fully investigated to determine whether it’s true or if it’s just smoke and mirrors," Grassley said.

Fox News Digital was unable to reach Wray for comment.

The report was recalled at the direction of Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Nikki Floris.

Fox News Digital first reported that Floris was the FBI official to deliver a "defensive briefing" to Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in August 2020, claiming that their Hunter Biden investigation advanced Russian disinformation.

The FBI declassified internal emails among Albany, New York, staff, obtained by Fox News Digital, reflecting concerns that suppressing the document would be "dangerous if we cite potential political implications as reasons for not putting out our information."

Yates explained that it "was not the role of analysts to align intelligence with public testimony."

"Albany staff further warned against FBI assuming the role of sole gatekeeper for the Intelligence Community (IC), emphasizing that suppressing field-generated reporting could deprive other IC elements of the opportunity to corroborate or discredit intelligence," Yates said.

In an email on Sept. 30, 2020, reviewed by Fox News Digital, agents questioned why the report could not be released, to which another replied: "Again, the reporting will contradict Director Wray’s testimony."

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Home Front: Politix

'He wanted me in here': Trump calls Biden a 'son of a b----' in visit to 'Alligator Alcatraz'

2025-07-02

[USA Today] WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump referred to former President Joe Biden as a "son of a b---" as he toured a detention facility in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz," claiming his predecessor wanted him behind similar bars.

"Biden wanted me in here, OK," Trump said July 1 next to chain-link cages with beds that will house detained migrants beginning Wednesday. "He wanted me. Didn't work out that way, but he wanted me in here that son of a b----."

Trump has repeatedly blamed Biden for his 2023 federal indictments led by Special Counsel Jack Smith over Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and concealing classified documents. Trump claimed the indictments were politically motivated to hurt his chances in the 2024 election. Both cases were closed after Trump was elected to a second presidential term in 2024.

In a sign of charitable compassion, he left off the adjectives 'crooked and worthless.'

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Caribbean-Latin America

Trump imposes tougher US policy toward Cuba

2025-07-01

[Reuters] President Donald Trump on Monday signed a memorandum imposing a hard-line U.S. policy toward communist-run Cuba and reversing measures put in place by former President Joe Biden, the White House said.

The directive will enforce a statutory ban on U.S. tourism to Cuba while supporting an economic embargo of the country, the White House said in a fact sheet.

While Americans cannot visit Cuba for leisure, travel has been allowed for activities including educational or humanitarian trips.

As one of his first acts after taking office in January, Trump, a harsh Cuba critic, revoked the Biden administration's last-minute decision to remove the country from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. He has also partially restricted the entry of people from Cuba.

Under Monday's memorandum, Trump renewed a ban on direct or indirect financial transactions with entities controlled by the Cuban military, such as Grupo de Administracion Empresarial S.A. (GAESA), and its affiliates, with exceptions for transactions that advance U.S. policy goals or support the Cuban people.

Biden had revoked a 2017 Trump order that restricted financial transactions with some military and government-linked Cuban entities.

The new memorandum "enforces the statutory ban on U.S. tourism to Cuba and ensures compliance through regular audits and mandatory record-keeping of all travel-related transactions for at least five years," the White House fact sheet said.

It also supports the economic embargo of Cuba and opposes calls in the United Nations and other international forums for its termination, the fact sheet said.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez posted on social media platform X that "the Presidential Memorandum against Cuba made public today by the US government reinforces the aggression and economic blockade that punishes the entire Cuban people and is the main obstacle to our development."

"It is a criminal act and a violation of the human rights of an entire nation. The main obstacle to our development," he said.

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Migrant kids trafficked to pedophiles under Biden are being rescued by ICE, border czar Tom Homan tells ‘Pod Force One'

2025-07-01

[NYPost] “Thousands” of migrant children who disappeared after being smuggled across the US-Mexico border under the Biden administration have been rescued from grim fates such as being sex-trafficked to pedophiles, according to border czar Tom Homan — who revealed that a 14-year-old pregnant girl was found living with adult men just two weeks ago.

In the latest episode of Miranda Devine’s “Pod Force One” podcast, Homan said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have also located minors who were forced into servitude on ranches and chicken farms, as the agency searches for hundreds of thousands of migrant children unaccounted for during President Joe Biden’s four-year illegal alien invasion.

“There were 300,000 missing children under the last administration,” said Homan. “We’ve found thousands of them … We rescued victims of sex trafficking [and] two weeks ago, we rescued a 14-year-old that was already pregnant, living with adult men …

“We rescued some victims of forced labor. We found children working on ranches and chicken farms, not going to school, but enslaved labor in the United States of America …

“Some of the children we found [were] perfectly fine with their families … They just didn’t respond to call-ins [because they] didn’t want to face the consequences of immigration court.”

The number of unaccompanied alien children [UACs] entering the US surged to record levels under Biden, as changes to border enforcement policies incentivized families and smugglers to send minors to America.

More than 500,000 children were recorded entering the country and were placed with sponsors while awaiting immigration proceedings.

A report last August from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found that the Biden administration lost track of hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children and placed some with potentially dangerous sponsors who had not been adequately vetted.

More than 31,000 addresses provided by sponsors turned out to be “blank, undeliverable, or missing apartment numbers,” the inspector general reported. At one location, “sponsor addresses were incorrect 80 percent of the time.”

ICE officers at one field office also told the inspector general that thousands of migrant children had been released to sponsors “who are not immediate family and are not a parent, sibling, or grandparent.”

HHS released more than 14,500 migrant children in 2023 and more than 9,600 in 2024 “to unrelated sponsors” or distant relatives.

Of the more than 2,400 children released to sponsors over one week in November 2023, only 1,000 went to their parent or a legal guardian.

About 300 went to unrelated sponsors or distant family members. Three children were released to their “spouses,” including one who was 40 years old.

“Although these relatives may have been appropriately qualified, [one ICE officer] noted the UACs most at risk for trafficking or forced labor are those released to an unrelated sponsor.”

During visits to three sponsor addresses to which multiple children had been released, the inspector general found “potentially unsafe conditions” including “bars on the inside of a window” in an area that was “very dangerous, was run by gangs, and had high crime rates and daily shootings. The [ICE officer] noted one UAC within their area of responsibility left their sponsor’s address to join a local gang.”

“Another sponsor address was a dilapidated motel that did not have a kitchen. UACs’ sponsors provided this address five times.

“During a site visit in another city, ICE officers noted an illegal drug deal occurring based on their law enforcement experience at an apartment complex where 44 UACs had been released in FY 2023.”

Homan told “Pod Force One” that the Biden administration rushed the vetting process to avoid the “optics” of overcrowding at the border.

“They didn’t care about the invasion itself; it was the optics.”

DNA tests were routinely used during the first Trump administration to verify that an adult accompanying a child really was the parent, he said, but the Biden administration abandoned that policy.

Homan said in some of the DNA testing “as high as 30 percent [of] the families weren’t families. Not relatives at all. The [children] were being trafficked…

“A lot of parents paid a smuggling organization to bring their kids [over the border]. Some of these children were trafficked. We know HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] had several investigations where a child was rented by the criminal cartel to an adult male or female, crossed the border [and] when you’re done, you send the kid back [and] re-rent them.”

“We’re going to find every one of these kids,” Homan vowed. “President Trump made a promise. We’re going to keep that promise.”

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Harvard willfully ignored harassment of Jews and Israelis, Trump administration finds

2025-07-01

[IsraelTimes] 57-page investigation cites allegations of bias beginning shortly after Oct. 7 attack and stretching into this year, threatens loss of all federal funding

Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
’s administration concluded after an investigation, threatening on Monday to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action.

A federal task force sent a letter to Harvard on Monday, finding the university violated civil rights laws requiring colleges to protect students from discrimination based on race or national origin. It says Sherlocks found Harvard was at times a "willful participant in antisemitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff" and that campus leaders allowed antisemitism to fester on the Massachusetts campus.

A Trump administration statement said the school was "deliberately indifferent to the severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive harassment of Jewish and Israeli students by its own students and faculty." It cited an internal university investigation into antisemitism and anti-Israel bias, an investigation by the US Congress, and media reports that documented "vandalism, harassment, and physical violence" against Jewish and Israeli students.

"Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government," officials said in the letter, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Harvard did not immediately comment.

The letter finds that Harvard violated Title VI of the US Civil Rights Act of 1964. Such findings have almost always been resolved through voluntary resolutions between schools and the federal government. The Trump administration has taken a much sharper edge than its predecessors, however.

Trump’s administration and its predecessor under former president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy...
opened Title VI investigations into antisemitism at campuses across the country following Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
’s October 7, 2023, onslaught and during the ensuing war, which sparked a spike in antisemitism worldwide. A number of them have been resolved. It has been decades since a US administration even attempted to fully strip a school or college of its federal funding over civil rights violations.

The letter is the latest intensification in the White House’s battle with Harvard over campus antisemitism. The school lost more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants after rejecting a list of federal demands calling for sweeping changes to campus governance, hiring, and admissions. According to the investigation, from fiscal year 2023 to 2025, the school received more than $794 million in federal funds.

A formal finding paves the way for a negotiated agreement or — if one is not reached — an attempt to cut the school off from federal dollars. The Trump administration has also sought to bar foreign students from studying at Harvard. A federal judge issued an injunction against that ban last week.

The 57-page investigation cites allegations of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel bias beginning shortly after the October 7 attack and stretching into this year. It includes reports of discriminatory conduct on social media and in campus spaces, as well as sections titled "Targeted harassment by student groups" and "Institutional acceptance of antisemitism."

Much of the investigation’s evidence focuses on campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war, which drew global attention particularly in the spring of 2024 as anti-Israel groups set up encampments on campuses across the United States and in other countries. The investigation says Harvard was "overrun by an impermissible, multiweek encampment" that left Jewish and Israeli students fearful and disrupted their studies.

It accuses Harvard of imposing lax and inconsistent discipline against students who participated in the encampment, noting that none were suspended.

Harvard President Alan Garber has acknowledged problems with antisemitism and anti-Moslem bias on campus, but he says Harvard has made strides to fight prejudice. He announced new initiatives in April after Harvard released its internal reports finding evidence of antisemitism and Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
on campus.

"Harvard cannot — and will not — abide bigotry," Garber wrote in releasing the reports.

Harvard pushes back at Trump administration over antisemitism findings
[IsraelTimes] Harvard University says it strongly disagrees with the findings of a federal task force accusing it of being a “willful participant” in antisemitic harassment of Jewish students and faculty.

“Antisemitism is a serious problem and no matter the context, it is unacceptable,” the university says in a statement. “Harvard has taken substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism in its community.”

The government’s investigation largely relied on a campus antisemitism study commissioned by Harvard and released in April. Federal officials cited numerous details from that report, including accounts of Jewish students who said they were spit on and faced chants on campus including “Heil Hitler.”

It focuses heavily on last year’s protests over the Israel-Hamas war. In the letter to Harvard, federal officials say the campus was “overrun by an impermissible, multiweek encampment” that left Jewish and Israeli students fearful and disrupted their studies.

The task force threatens to refer the case to the Justice Department to file a civil rights lawsuit “as soon as possible,” unless Harvard comes into compliance.

Harvard has faced mounting sanctions after rejecting a list of federal demands calling for sweeping changes to campus governance, hiring and admissions. The formal finding could now jeopardize Harvard’s eligibility to accept federal loans or grants for students to attend the university — a penalty often referred to as a “death sentence” in higher education.

In a court filing Monday seeking to annul the freezing of federal funds over antisemitism claims, Harvard argues that the formal filing marks a concession by the government that it previously bypassed required procedural findings under Title VI.

It calls the administration’s previous use of antisemitism claims to justify the freeze “arbitrary and capricious,” with the government failing to investigate or document antisemitism on campus itself and relying instead on Harvard’s own study.

The filing also claims an “absence of any concrete evidence of antisemitism in the administrative record,” while accusing the government of ignoring the school’s efforts to combat hate.

“Harvard’s willingness to seek and publish a report harshly condemning antisemitism on its campus, and detailing actions to implement the report’s recommendations, show that Harvard did respond and is responding
forcefully to antisemitism,” the filing reads.

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Americans at risk 'anywhere' after 6 illegal immigrants are charged in mother's murder: congressman

2025-06-29

[FoxNews] GOP congressman says case highlights nationwide threat after 4 years of former President Joe Biden's open border policies

A South Carolina congressman is warning of threats that face Americans "anywhere" after four years of an open border following the random murder of a Lancaster mom of two last month.

The comments come after Lancaster authorities charged six illegal immigrants, between the ages of 13 and 21, in connection with Larisha Thompson's May 2 murder. She was shot to death while driving to meet friends in Rock Hill.

"Two children will not have a mother to come home to," Republican South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. "It can happen anywhere, at any time. That's the sad part. We've seen it all over the country."

He added that while Laken Riley, the Augusta University student killed by illegal Venezuelan migrant Jose Ibarra in February 2024, has become "the face" of crimes committed by those living illegally in the United States, there are similar victims in states across the country, including Thompson and others, such as Lizbeth Medina, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin and Kayla Hamilton.

"The positive thing is: the border's secure now, but you've got to realize: four years of leaving the doors open to over 160 countries to put criminals and anybody else that wanted to come into the country," Norman said. "You wouldn't open your house up like that. Yet the Democrats are still not condemning what Joe Biden intentionally did. But it's a new day, and hopefully, [it is] going to be straightened out in time."

Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office deputies located Thompson, 40, deceased with a gunshot wound behind the wheel of her vehicle on Riverside Road in Lancaster, which is located about an hour south of Charlotte, North Carolina.

On May 12, authorities announced the arrests of three adults – Asael Aminadas Torres-Chirinos, 21, Jarby Ardon Ramos-Odari, 18, and Jeyson Sobied Pineda-Salgado, 17 – and three juveniles, ages 13, 14 and 15, in connection with Thompson's death and a separate burglary that occurred on April 30.

The Department of Homeland Security has placed detainers on all six individuals charged, Faile said during a press conference, adding that the community is a "much safer place today because these six individuals are off the streets."

Lancaster Sheriff Barry Faile alleged that the suspects pulled up alongside Thompson and fatally shot her in what authorities described as a "random robbery attempt." Authorities believe the other five suspects were in the vehicle with Torres-Chirinos, who was driving and allegedly fired the fatal shot at Thompson. They are accused of attempting to enter her vehicle and then fleeing the scene upon realizing that it was locked.

On April 30, deputies were dispatched to the Van Wyck Mart at 644 Rock Hill Highway before 8 a.m. to investigate a burglary. The store owner told deputies that surveillance video footage showed several young men trying to get into the store around 10:30 p.m. on April 29. When they could not get inside, they allegedly broke open a door on the northwest corner of the building, which opened up to a bathroom that had access to the inside of the store.

The suspects are also accused of firing a handgun at a security camera and the bathroom door. Detectives collected ballistics evidence at the scene.

The store the suspects allegedly broke into and the location of Thompson's murder are a seven-minute drive apart. Detectives determined that ballistic evidence recovered from the scene of the murder came from the same 9 mm handgun used at the burglary days before.

Through digital surveillance, investigators also identified Torres-Chirinos at the scene of both crimes. They questioned him at the sheriff's office on May 8, and by the end of that day, they had identified, located and detained the five additional suspects.

The three adult suspects are charged with murder, attempted armed robbery and second-degree burglary. Authorities believe Torres-Chirinos fired the handgun in both incidents, and he is charged with two counts of firearms possession during the commission of a crime and one count of firearms possession by an unlawful alien. A judge denied bond for all three men.

The three juvenile suspects are also charged with murder, attempted armed robbery and second-degree burglary.

All six suspects are subject to removal from the United States under federal immigration law based on their immigration status, the sheriff's office said.
Following a righteous beating in jail for each

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Is Chinese President Xi Jinping on his way out?

2025-06-29

[NY Post] Over the past few months, unprecedented developments point to the potential, and potentially imminent, fall of China’s "Chairman of Everything" Xi Jinping. Chinese Communist Party elders — including Hu Jintao, Xi’s immediate predecessor, whom Xi humiliated at the 20th Party Congress in 2022 — are now running things behind the scenes.

Xi is in poor health and likely to retire at the CCP Plenary Session this August or take a purely ceremonial position.

Xi’s downfall has been rumored before. But never have we seen the recent purges (and mysterious deaths) of dozens of People’s Liberation Army generals loyal to Xi; all replaced by non-Xi loyalists.

Zhang Youxia, with whom Xi had a major falling out after helping Xi secure an unprecedented third five-year term, is now the de facto leader of the PLA.

Also, the "un-naming" of Xi’s father’s mausoleum last month was unprecedented. The mausoleum, which Xi has built to honor his late father, was larger than the mausoleums of either Mao’s or Deng’s.

Meanwhile, Xi’s personal protective detail has recently been halved. What world leader cuts his own security?

There was no explanation for Xi’s disappearance for almost two weeks in late May and early June while foreign dignitaries were hosted in Beijing by other CCP Leaders. Xi has also been conspicuously missing from the pages of the People’s Daily, the CCP organ that until recently ran fawning front-page stories on Xi daily.

Xi reappeared to host Belarus dictator/Russian puppet Alexander Lukashenko in early June. Xi looked tired, uninterested — even defeated.

The meeting location was a low-key family-style area of the CCP leaders’ compound (Zhongnanhai) in Beijing that had never before hosted a state visit. Stripped of the pomp and circumstance that used to accompany every Xi gathering, the entire entourage was a mere handful. None of Xi’s translators or senior aides were present.

Compare that to the state visits recently hosted by other CCP leaders; large, extravagant affairs in prestigious CCP conference halls. And following his recent call with President Trump, Chinese state media, including state TV, referred to Xi without any formal title at all. This has never happened before.

While this was later partially corrected, it is inconceivable that such a glaring oversight was an accident. Recently, professors at some of China’s most prestigious universities have published articles directly criticizing Xi, which was unthinkable previously.

These are just a few of many unusual signs from Beijing that signal major changes in the CCP power structure. Although not yet certain, it appears that Zhang Youxia and CCP elders have chosen Wang Yang, whom Deng Xiaoping lifted out of obscurity and who served as a successful technocrat until his forced retirement in 2023, to be the next CCP chairman.

He is known as a soft-spoken reformer who supports more free-market policies, more decentralized decision making, and a much less confrontational foreign policy.

Now is not a good time to be confrontational with Donald Trump in the White House, as Iran and its allies have learnt to their sorrow.

To paraphrase Churchill, China is a riddle wrapped in an enigma surrounded by a mystery. So no one can know anything with absolute certainty. But given the disastrous results of Xi’s one-man rule, his ouster would be no surprise.

With over $50 trillion in total debt (national, local and private sector debt is larger than the combined economies of the US and EU),

…to be fair, the debt is the result of stupid CCP ideas since the Clinton era….

well over 50 million unused (and mostly unusable) apartments due to government policy failures (enough for all of Germany), wealthy Chinese emigrating en masse with their assets and an unemployment rate in depression territory... it is not surprising that local riots, factory arsons and anti-government protests have flared all over China.

CCP elders understand China needs a new pragmatic leader to have any chance of escaping the disaster now unfolding.

Such a change will have huge positive implications for the US and our democratic allies if handled correctly. Trump can win the Cold War with China without firing a shot. But Russia, North Korea, and Iran could be devastated by this momentous change.

In fact, Iran’s rapid defeat by Israel and the US has underscored the weakness of Xi’s foreign policy. One CCP elder recently lamented China’s complete isolation on the world stage under Xi, except for a handful of countries that are "good for nothing."

Vladimir Putin, take note: You lost Syria last year, you are on the brink of losing Iran, and you may soon lose China. Excellent news for all democracies, and especially for Israel, America, and the brave people of Ukraine.

Xi Jinping once again proved the adage that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." May his replacement learn from the success of the global West (including Asia’s most successful countries) and lead his nation onto the oftentimes messy but ultimately rewarding path of free markets, free people, real democracy, and the rule of law.

Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong (before the CCP takeover), and the tens of millions of successful Chinese people outside China make it clear that this is the best, and indeed the only sustainable path forward for China.

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White House demands apology from Miami Herald for ‘false reporting' on migrant children deportations

2025-06-27

[FoxNews] DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the story an 'absolute embarrassment to journalism.'

Members of the White House and Trump administration are hitting back hard against "false reporting" from the mainstream media outlet, the Miami Herald, which alleged that the administration was targeting migrant foster children for deportations.

In a Wednesday article by the Miami Herald titled "Trump administration targets Florida foster kids, migrant youth for deportations," the Miami Herald reported that the "Trump administration’s mass-deportation campaign is encircling vulnerable children who were previously off-limits — and squeezing the social welfare agencies tasked with caring for them."

The outlet said that "since Donald Trump began his second term, his administration has directed immigration agents to target unaccompanied minors, moved to cut contracts that fund their legal representation and sent Homeland Security agents to homes where unaccompanied children are released to conduct welfare checks."

The outlet also reported that the Trump administration is fast tracking deportations for minors who are documented victims of abuse, neglect or abandonment.

"The new guidance leaves unprotected those children who lack the ability to apply for lawful permanent residency because visas aren’t available — at the very moment when there is a years-long backlog for green cards," wrote the Miami Herald.

However, Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, quickly shot back against the Miami Herald’s accusations, saying, calling the story an "absolute embarrassment to journalism."

"This story is completely false," said McLaughlin.

Contrary to the Miami Herald’s reporting, McLaughlin said DHS was "leading efforts to conduct welfare checks on these children to ensure they are safe and not being exploited."

She said that President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem "take the responsibility to protect children seriously and are working with law enforcement to reunite the hundreds of thousands of migrant children the Biden Administration lost."

In response to the article, the Department of Homeland Security’s official X account posted a message pointing out that around 300,000 unaccompanied children were lost under the Biden administration.

DHS said that Trump and Noem are working to "reunite the children the Biden Administration lost."

Trump border czar Tom Homan also weighed in, posting on X that "under Joe Biden’s watch, hundreds of thousands of migrant kids were trafficked across the border, many turned over to pedophiles and forced labor."

"We are rescuing the children Joe Biden condemned. The Miami Herald should report on that," added Homan.

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Government Corruption

Biden aide ditching House Oversight probe on his mental decline

2025-06-26

[FoxNews] Michael LaRosa, Jill Biden's former spokesperson, told Fox News Digital that 'no one' spent more time with the Biden family than Bernal

The House Oversight Committee says it will subpoena top Biden family aide, Anthony Bernal,

…Dr. Jill’s work husband…

after the committee said he refused to testify as part of their investigation into former President Biden's mental acuity and his use of an automatic signature tool that allowed aides to sign pardons, memos and other important documents on Biden's behalf.

"Jill Biden’s longtime aide Anthony Bernal is DEFYING Congress and REFUSING to testify tomorrow about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline after the White House waived his executive privilege," the committee posted on X Wednesday after Bernal was expected to testify on Thursday morning.

"He’s running scared. The cover-up is collapsing. We will subpoena him immediately."

By proxy, as the first lady's top aide, Bernal became one of the most influential people in the White House, according to recent reports, and he was expected to face tough questions about what he knew and when he knew about Biden’s mental decline.

"No one spent more time, whether it was in the motorcade, on the plane, in the private residence at the White House, Camp David, and at both houses in Delaware, nobody spent more personal time around them and their family and the Biden family than Anthony," Democratic strategist Michael LaRosa, who served as press secretary to former first lady Jill Biden, told Fox News Digital.

LaRosa told Fox News Digital that Bernal, former special assistant to Biden and deputy director of Oval Office Operations, was an "indispensable" part of the Biden team whose top priority was "protecting the Bidens," even if it was politically harmful due to a "personal and emotional attachment" that became more of a familial relationship than a professional one.

Fox News Digital previously reported on how the book "Original Sin," by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios political correspondent Alex Thompson, described Bernal as one of the most influential people in the White House who wielded loyalty as a weapon to weed out the defectors.

During the pandemic, Biden traded the campaign trail for lockdown. Bernal and Annie Tomasini, who is expected to testify next month, found their way into Joe and Jill Biden's pod, shifting the power dynamic of Biden's so-called "Politiburo," the group of advisors who steered Biden's political orbit, the book explained.

"The significance of Bernal and Tomasini is the degree to which their rise in the Biden White House signaled the success of people whose allegiance was to the Biden family – not to the presidency, not to the American people, not to the country, but to the Biden theology," the authors wrote.

"Their instincts, to hide the ball on often frivolous issues is what ultimately got them in trouble," LaRosa told Fox News Digital about the "bunker mentality" from Bernal and other aides around Biden.

"Their reflexive need to hide and protect was a deficiency and a blind spot and I never understood it."

A former White House staffer fired back against Tapper and Thompson's allegations about Bernal in a statement to Fox News Digital earlier this year.

"A lot of vignettes in this book are either false, exaggerated, or purposefully omit viewpoints that don’t fit the narrative they want to push. Anthony was a strong leader with high standards and a mentor to many. He’s the type of person you want on a team - he’s incredibly strategic, effective, and cares deeply about the people he manages," the former White House staffer said.

Politico reported in 2021 that Bernal’s management style was viewed by some as "toxic" and would sometimes lead to crying staffers.

LaRosa told Fox News Digital that Bernal has a "big heart" but acknowledged he was one of the more "challenging" people he had to work with.

Bernal’s appearance before the committee, if it happens, follows testimony from former Biden aide Neera Tanden, who said she was authorized to direct autopen signatures but was unaware of who in the president's inner circle was giving her final clearance.

When Tanden was asked whether she ever discussed Biden's health or his fitness to serve as president during her time as a top aide, including during the period of the former president's widely criticized debate performance last summer, Tanden said she did not. Lawmakers laid out a list of names of officials she could have potentially discussed it with, and Tanden said "no" to each name, according to a source familiar with her closed-door testimony.

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