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A top official at the Social Security Administration has stepped down after conflict with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees, according to reports.
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It is time to return to work in person, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an update on Tuesday, piggybacking on the Trump administration's greater effort to end remote work for federal employees.
The post EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to Employees Working Remotely: ‘It’s Time to Return to the Office’ appeared first on Breitbart.
For someone who says he's not running for the Democratic nomination in 2028, ESPN host Stephen A. Smith spends a lot of time discussing the Democratic nominees in 2028.
The post Stephen A. Smith Blasts Dems ‘Weak’ 2028 Presidential Bench: ‘They Suck!’ appeared first on Breitbart.
A precision air strike carried out by U.S. forces killed a senior official of an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria on Saturday.
The post Operative of al-Qaeda Affiliate Killed in U.S. Air Strike, Trump Commends CENTCOM appeared first on Breitbart.
WNBA star Caitlin Clark is one of the biggest female athletes in the nation, but she will never get paid what she is really worth.
The post Sports Agents: Caitlin Clark Will Never Be Paid What She’s Worth appeared first on Breitbart.
The disgraced far-left Associated Press was caught red-handed Monday inventing a story to smear Elon Musk and DOGE.
The post Nolte: Disgraced AP Caught Lying About DOGE, Then Stealth Edits Fake Story appeared first on Breitbart.
Media elites are defending the Associated Press's feud with the White House over maintaining far-left speech code and have called for a national boycott of covering President Donald Trump.
The post Media Elites Call for Boycott of Donald Trump in Support of AP’s Speech Codes appeared first on Breitbart.
Jim Jones, head of the FDA’s food division resigned in protest of the Trump Administration’s mass firings.
Jones reportedly resigned on Monday after the Trump Administration fired thousands of employees in the HHS.
Scoop: Jim Jones has resigned as FDA deputy commissioner for human foods.
The move comes after the Trump administration over the weekend fired thousands of employees across HHS, including many within FDA’s foods program.https://t.co/HPZBDDVtyA
— Helena Bottemiller Evich (@hbottemiller) February 17, 2025
“I was looking forward to working to pursue the department’s agenda of improving the health of Americans by reducing diet-related chronic disease and risks from chemicals in food,” Jones said in his resignation letter, according to Bloomberg News.
Jones said that because of the mass firings it would be “fruitless for me to continue in this role.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Jim Jones’ resignation.
“President Trump is only interested in the best and most qualified people who are also willing to implement his America First Agenda on behalf of the American people,” Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, according to NBC News. “It’s not for everyone, and that’s okay.”
More from NBC News:
Jim Jones, head of the food division at the Food and Drug Administration, has resigned, according to a source familiar with the matter. The division is tasked with ensuring that the country’s food supply is safe, overseeing inspections and recalls.
Jones’ resignation comes after the Trump administration last week cut thousands of federal workers, including some who worked at the FDA. The source didn’t provide a reason for Jones’ resignation.
It’s unclear whether Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was sworn in Thursday, has an immediate replacement for Jones. Kennedy met with HHS staff Tuesday morning as part of a welcome ceremony, according to a second source.
Jones stepped in to lead the FDA’s food division in 2023, after three decades at the Environmental Protection Agency.
The post Head of FDA Food Division Resigns in Protest of Mass Firings at HHS – White House Responds appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
On Tuesday Chief Justice Roberts ordered fired Biden holdover Hampton Dellinger to respond to the Trump Administration’s application to the Supreme Court.
Hampton Dellinger must respond by Wednesday.
President Trump on Sunday filed an emergency appeal with the US Supreme Court after corrupt Obama judge Amy Berman Jackson reinstated Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel.
2/2 https://t.co/bcmPgOfmxf Given that TROs are rarely appealable this confirms how extreme court’s order was and important separation of powers issue.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) February 18, 2025
President Trump fired Hampton Dellinger, Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel (not to be confused with a special counsel hired as a federal prosecutor) a couple of weeks ago.
Trump appointed Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins to take over Dellinger’s job as the Special Counsel.
Shortly after the firing, Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger, issued an administrative stay, and allowed him to keep his job.
“Trump must allow Dellinger to continue to have “access” to the agency’s resources and cannot “recognize the authority of any other person as Special Counsel” while the order remains in effect, Jackson wrote,” according to Politico.
Amy Berman Jackson entered an administrative stay rather than a TRO which made appealing her decision tricky.
The Trump Justice Department immediately appealed Judge Jackson’s administrative stay anyway.
The DC District Circuit Court of Appeals last week dismissed Trump’s appeal of Judge Jackson’s administrative stay and kicked Dellinger’s firing back to Amy Berman Jackson.
Amy Berman Jackson granted a longer extension to fired Biden holdover Hampton Dellinger so Trump took the fight to the Supreme Court.
Justice Roberts gave Hampton Dellinger until Wednesday to respond to Trump’s application for stay of Judge Jackson’s reinstatement order.
The post NEW: Chief Justice Roberts Orders Fired Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger to Respond to Trump Emergency Appeal to Supreme Court appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
MSNBC viewers are not used to hearing the cold truth about politics and government waste from the network. It turns out neither are some of MSNBC’s anchors.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Elon Musk’s DOGE team late Sunday night unearthed jaw-dropping irregularity from the U.S. Social Security database. Over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself.
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the ‘death’ field set to FALSE. Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” Musk quipped.
More stunning news has emerged from cable television’s most left-wing network.
During a Tuesday segment on “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” a reporter revealed that an inspector general audit last year showed that the Social Security Administration had made tens of billions of improper payments over the last eight years.
“There was an inspector general audit last year,” the reporter began before a screenshot of SSA waste appeared on the screen, “that showed over an eight-year period that the Social Security Administration made almost $72 billion in improper payments, a little less than 1% of payments in that period.”
The audit the reporter was referring to came from an August 2024 report detailing that these overpayments occurred from FYs 2015 through 2022. $23 billion still remains unrecovered.
Unsurprisingly, the reporter tried to play down the findings while also trying to debunk DOGE, noting that most of the improper payments were simply from SSA paying too much.
“Now, the report also says most of these improper payments were overpayments, not payments to deceased people or people who didn’t qualify to receive these payments, he added. “At the same time, Jose, this effort by DOGE is to go through this agency like every other and try to weed out waste and fraud.”
Hearing this damning information regarding SS waste and fraud left Diaz-Balart shocked.
WATCH:
MSNBC: The Social Security Administration made ~$72 billion in improper payments over an eight-year period, according to an Inspector General audit.@jdbalart: “$72 billion — and that’s without a comprehensive search! I mean, that’s significant.” pic.twitter.com/9D621F29Zf
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 18, 2025
“Yeah, and also $72 BILLION! And that’s without a comprehensive search,” he exclaimed. “That’s significant.”
One can only imagine how much more waste DOGE will find when they fully investigate the SSA. After all, Elon Musk has already uncovered $100 billion in improper payments from Medicare and Medicaid via a simple search on X.
The post MSNBC Host Left Stunned When He Learns How Much Social Security Has Made in “Improper Payments” Over Eight Years (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
A Democratic Congressman has compared J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference to Adolf Hitler.
Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachussetts said that the rhetoric Vice President Vance used at the conference was reminiscient of Nazi Germany.
“He was talking about ‘the enemy within.’ This is some of the same language that Hitler used to justify the Holocaust,” Moulton said during an appearance on MSNBC on Monday.
He went on to describe the speech as “out of touch” with public opinion and accused him of selling out the people of Ukraine.
“I think many of us Americans just felt totally embarrassed as VP Vance delivered really not a speech but a condescending lecture about the fundamental tenets of democracy to our European allies, and what was most remarkable is just how hypocritical this speech was,” the Massachusetts Democrat continued.
Moulton also slammed Vance for meeting with members of the conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, claiming he went to “the old Nazi Party headquarters in Munich to meet with the leader of the modern-day Neo-Nazi party in Germany.”
Watch the clip below:
VP VANCE’S MUNICH SPEECH WAS DANGEROUS.
Congressman Seth Moulton who is on the Armed Services Committee, also attended the Munich Security Conference and was present for Vance’s speech.
This is his WARNING :REP. SETH MOULTON (D-MA): “The utter hypocrisy was… pic.twitter.com/7IuH0WsZHD
— Bobbi Blue (@BobbiBlueRay) February 18, 2025
During his speech last week, which was widely praised by conservatives and patriots on both sides of the Atlantic, Vance called out the staggering authoritarianism of some of Europe’s leading countries, such as Germany and the United Kingdom, particularly concerning the issue of freedom of speech.
“What I worry about is the threat from within,” Vance said during the address.
”The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values: values shared with the United States of America.”
“Free speech, I fear, is in retreat and in the interests of comedy, my friends, but also in the interest of truth, I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe, but from within my own country, where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation,” he added.
Despite horrifying left-wing European leaders, the speech will likely go down as a historic moment in which Europe was forced to confront its slide into authoritarianism.
National elections will be held in Germany this weekend, with the Alternative for Germany party soaring in the polls.
The outcome of this election could determine the fate of not just Germany but Europe as a whole.
The post Dem Congressman Likens J.D. Vance’s Munich Speech to Hitler — Claims Rhetoric Could Be Used to ‘Justify The Holocaust’ (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
A woman carries placards with pictures of Ariel, Kfir and Shiri Bibas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 1, 2025.
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during an interview with Reuters, in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 7, 2025.
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Ashley St. Clair, the conservative influencer who publicly announced that Elon Musk is the father of her infant son, feels "jilted and terrified" after the billionaire refused to come to her aid when reporters began investigating their relationship, according to a close friend.
The post NY Post: Ashley St. Clair Felt ‘Jilted and Terrified’ by Elon Musk’s Absence Before Going Public appeared first on Breitbart.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart News exclusively on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration is exploring ways for the federal government to stop China from purchasing American farmland.
The post Exclusive — Secretary Rollins: USDA Exploring ‘Federal Solution’ to Stopping China from Purchasing U.S. Farmland appeared first on Breitbart.
Multiple news outlets report that the CIA is now stepping up drone flights over Mexico. The currently unarmed flights are said to be searching for fentanyl labs run by Mexican cartels designated by President Donald Trump as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
The post REPORTS: CIA Flying Surveillance Drones over Cartels in Mexico appeared first on Breitbart.
Oscar-nominated "Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo will play Jesus in a production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles this summer.
The post ‘Wicked’ Star Cynthia Erivo to Play Jesus in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at Hollywood Bowl appeared first on Breitbart.
Leonard Peltier, a man who executed two FBI agents, was released from prison Tuesday thanks to Joe Biden’s commutation.
The post Nolte: Leonard Peltier Released After Biden Commutation of Life Sentence for FBI Executions appeared first on Breitbart.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), a battleground Democrat up for reelection in 2026, in 2021 voted for the $1.9 trillion Biden coronavirus aid bill that has a loan forgiveness provision that discriminated against white farmers.
The post Battleground Democrat Jon Ossoff in 2021 Voted for Anti-White Farming Program Trump DOJ Says Violates Constitution appeared first on Breitbart.
Authorities in Greece said Tuesday they detained 107 migrants in two separate operations near the island of Crete, as an official attributed an increase in people trying to cross the eastern Mediterranean to conflicts in the Middle East.
The post Greece Claims Migrant Surge Tied to Middle East Conflicts as over 100 Illegals Detained appeared first on Breitbart.
Breitbart’s London Bureau Chief Oliver Lane discusses the upcoming elections in Germany and Romania as well as Europe’s reaction to Vice President JD Vance’s speech in Munich.
The post Breitbart News Daily Podcast Ep. 711: Breitbart’s Oliver Lane on the Upcoming European Elections appeared first on Breitbart.
Nearly half of German voters support Berlin deploying troops as part of a broader peacekeeping force in Ukraine after a potential Trump-negotiated settlement between Kyiv and Moscow.
The post Plurality of Germans Support Deploying Peacekeeping Troops to Ukraine as Berlin Refuses Commitment appeared first on Breitbart.
The Treasury Department sent $4.7 trillion dollars of payments without a code that links a Treasury payment to a budget line item, DOGE announced Monday, making the payments "almost impossible" to trace.
The post DOGE Discovers $4.7 Trillion of Treasury Payments ‘Almost Impossible’ to Trace appeared first on Breitbart.
Dramatic video footage has emerged showing a Delta Air Lines jet, flying in snowy conditions, overturning and landing upside down and burning on the tarmac at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon, with all 80 onboard surviving.
The post Video: Dramatic Footage Shows Delta Plane Crashing and Flipping over in Toronto appeared first on Breitbart.
Russia praised first round of Ukraine talks, with U.S. delegation saying both sides committed to work towards in-person Presidential meeting.
The post U.S. and Russia Take ‘First Step’ With ‘Very Useful’ Ukraine War Talks, Agree Trump-Putin Meeting to Come appeared first on Breitbart.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer wants a guarantee of U.S. military intervention in Ukraine in a worst-case scenario to ensure any future peace deal there goes ahead.
The post Keir Starmer: Ukraine Peace Deal Must Get U.S. Commitment to Military Intervention in Worst-Case Scenario appeared first on Breitbart.
OnlyFans model Annie Knight -- who reportedly slept with more than 600 men in 2024 and plans to "get railed" by another 1,000 men in 2025 -- says she is now looking to "settle down" and "find love."
The post OnlyFans Model Who Slept with 600 Men in 2024 Says She Is Ready to Settle Down, Find Love appeared first on Breitbart.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is looking for help identifying government waste, setting up more than two dozen affiliates to help organize the mass effort to audit the federal government after years of unchecked waste, fraud, and abuse.
The post DOGE Seeks Public’s Help Identifying Government Waste, Sets Up over Two Dozen Affiliates appeared first on Breitbart.
A top DOJ official involved in Hunter Biden’s case was removed from his post.
Trump’s Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove informed Bradley Weinsheimer that he was removed as associate deputy attorney general.
Weinsheimer worked along side anti-Trump Deep State hack former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and ran interference on the Hunter Biden case.
A report from The New York Post suggested Weinsheimer repeatedly went over Special Counsel David Weiss and was actually in charge of the Hunter Biden tax fraud case.
According to Bloomberg Law, Weinsheimer served in the DOJ for more than 30 years. He was told to take another position in the immigration enforcement division or be fired.
Bloomberg Law reported:
Delegating such weighty tasks to political aides — both first-time DOJ employees — without a career official’s involvement is a dramatic departure from past practice.
Previous versions of the delegation order assigned many of the same powers to a career associate deputy attorney general. That person’s involvement helped insulate thorny matters affecting the department’s integrity from partisan influence and ensured that the experience of the most senior non-political official was brought to bear, former DOJ officials said.
But the most recent holder of that post, Bradley Weinsheimer, was removed from the job, several people familiar with the decision told Bloomberg Law. News reports first circulated on Weinsheimer’s demotion Jan. 27, the same day as Bove’s signature line on the order.
Transferring Weinsheimer’s portfolio to far less experienced political aides can make the department vulnerable to controversies akin to Bove’s handling of the New York Mayor Eric Adams dismissal, the former officials said.
Weinsheimer had been at the department for three decades, and his predecessors had substantial DOJ experience as well.
More good news from Trump's DOJ.
Blomberg confirms that associate deputy AG Bradley Weinsheimer, considered Lisa Monaco's right-hand man, has been removed from his post. A 30+-year veteran of the DOJ, Weinsheimer was given the option of moving to a new immigration enforcement…
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) February 18, 2025
The post Top DOJ Official Who Ran Interference For Bidens in Hunter Biden Case Removed from His Post appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
U.S. and Russian officials have reportedly agreed on a framework that could see the end of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, but at a potentially steep price for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce, the meeting culminated in an agreement to form “high-level teams,” led by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, to draft a peace agreement, as reported earlier by The Gateway Pundit.
The U.S. delegation also includes National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Special Envoy Ambassador Steve Witkoff.
According to Sergey Lagodinsky, a German lawyer and a Member of the European Parliament, wrote on X:
According to my sources: the proposal by Trump consists of 3 stages:
1) a ceasefire
2) ELECTIONS in Ukraine
3) signing of a final agreement.
BREAKING: According to my sources: the proposal by #Trump consists of 3 stages:
1) a ceasefire
2) ELECTIONS in Ukraine
3) signing of a final agreement.This is complete fulfillment of all #Putin desires.
Especially the election part is a gift by Trump to Putin. Putin…
— Sergey Lagodinsky (@SLagodinsky) February 18, 2025
This sentiment was echoed by Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich, stating:
The US and Russia are proposing a three-stage peace plan, according to multiple foreign diplomatic sources close to the talks in Saudi Arabia. The plan includes a ceasefire, elections in Ukraine, then signing of a final agreement.
Multiple foreign diplomatic sources tell FOX the US and Russia consider holding new elections in Ukraine to be a key condition for the success of the settlement process. This piece is certain to stir controversy, as Russia does not hold true elections and the Ukrainians balk at the prospect of installing a pro-Russia puppet president.
A US source familiar with the negotiations softens this claim – telling me people are “floating” the elections piece – and “it may be part of future talks, but not today.”
Ukraine also disputes the notion that Zelenskyy’s popularity is too low to win reelection, even without Russian interference, citing his refusal to sign anything in Munich.
Multiple foreign diplomatic sources provided this readout from the Ukrainian side: “Putin assesses the probability of electing a puppet president as quite high and is also convinced that any candidate other than the current President of Ukraine will be more flexible and ready for negotiations and concessions. In turn, D. Trump is ready to accept any election result, including the possibility of election of a pro-Russian puppet. D. Trump and V. Putin consider the chances of the current President of Ukraine being re-elected as low.”
NEWS w/ @NanaSajaia – US/Russia 3 stage peace proposal would force new Ukraine elections: foreign diplomatic sources
The US and Russia are proposing a three-stage peace plan, according to multiple foreign diplomatic sources close to the talks in Saudi Arabia. The plan includes…
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) February 18, 2025
Spokesperson Tammy Bruce released the following statement after the meeting:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met withRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today as a follow up to President Donald Trump’s conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 12. Secretary Rubio was joined by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Special Envoy Ambassador Steve Witkoff, the team chosen by President Trump to reestablish the bilateral relationship. Foreign Minister Lavrov was joined by Russian Aide to the President Yuri Ushakov.
President Trump wants to stop the killing; the United States wants peace and is using its strength in the world to bring countries together. President Trump is the only leader in the world who can get Ukraine and Russia to agree to that.
We agreed to:
- Establish a consultation mechanism to address irritants to our bilateral relationship with the objective of taking steps necessary to normalize the operation of our respective diplomatic missions.
- Appoint respective high-level teams to begin working on a path to ending the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible in a way that is enduring, sustainable, and acceptable to all sides.
- Lay the groundwork for future cooperation on matters of mutual geopolitical interest and historic economic and investment opportunities which will emerge from a successful end to the conflict in Ukraine.
- The parties to today’s meetings pledge to remain engaged to make sure the process moves forward in a timely and productive manner.
One phone call followed by one meeting is not sufficient to establish enduring peace. We must take action, and today we took an important step forward.
We would like to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for hosting under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlines three points on U.S. and Russia discussions to end the war in Ukraine after a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Saudi Arabia:
1 – Reestablish diplomatic facilities in each respective country.
2 – Appoint a high level… pic.twitter.com/tFQ04RqLKf— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 18, 2025
It can be recalled Volodymyr Zelensky canceled the elections in Ukraine.
This comes after, in May 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed into law No. 7172-1 that will ban opposition parties and seize their property. The law targets opposition parties if they deny the armed aggression against Ukraine.
Zelenskyy also closed all of the TV stations and consolidated them into one state-run channel.
In December 2022, after banning all TV platforms in Ukraine into one state broadcast, jailing political rivals, and restricting political parties, Zelensky banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
In a related development, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has canceled his upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia, choosing instead to return to Kyiv from Ankara.
NEWS: Zelenskyy CANCELLING trip to Saudi Arabia following US/Russia talks
A source with the direct knowledge tells @NanaSajaia Zelenskyy will now return to Kyiv from Ankara, Turkey.
He is on a previously planned trip – was in UAE yesterday, Turkey today, and was scheduled to…
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) February 18, 2025
On Sunday, Ukrainian president Zelensky sat down with far-left ABC News reporter Kristen Welker.
This comes after a Saturday when Zelensky could not stop ranting about the upcoming peace talks in Saudi Arabia.
Zelensky on Saturday told reporters it would be more dangerous if President Trump speaks with Putin first before he speaks with Ukraine.
“I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine. Never. Our people—never. Our adults and children, everybody—it can’t be so. This is a war in Ukraine against us, and it’s our human losses,” said Zelensky.
Meanwhile, globalists convened a panicked meeting in Paris amid fears that Trump might bring an end to the war in Ukraine.
This comes after the Trump administration has decisively barred Europe’s elitist cabal from participating in crucial peace negotiations
Today in Paris we reaffirmed that Ukraine deserves peace through strength.
Peace respectful of its independance, sovereignty, territorial integrity, with strong security guarantees.
Europe carries its full share of the military assistance to Ukraine.
At the same time we need… pic.twitter.com/xdAnkeWr4v
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) February 17, 2025
Ready and willing. That’s my take from today’s meeting in Paris. Europe is ready and willing to step up. To lead in providing security guarantees for Ukraine. Ready and willing to invest a lot more in our security. The details will need to be decided but the commitment is clear. pic.twitter.com/Y4ClrX94Qe
— Mark Rutte (@SecGenNATO) February 17, 2025
️ WATCH: Keir Starmer’s address to the nation after meeting with European leaders in Paris for an emergency summit on Ukraine
“Ukraine must have a secure future, Europe must have a secure future, Britain must have a secure future, and democratic values must prevail” pic.twitter.com/KuHOJsr5JH
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) February 17, 2025
The post More Bad News for Zelensky — U.S.A.-Russia Peace Deal Demands Ukraine Hold New Election: Report appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
In early February, Democrats elected online activist David Hogg as the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Only days after the election, some Democrat strategists already began questioning elevating Hogg to a prominent role.
In just his first two weeks, Hogg has become embroiled in controversy after allegations that he is using the DNC platform to solicit donations for his own PAC.
Now, Hogg is being slammed for his tone-deaf criticism of President Trump’s weekend appearance at the Daytona 500.
On Sunday, President Trump and Air Force One did a flyover above the race track. He then addressed the drivers on the radio as his limousine paced the field to start the race.
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) February 16, 2025
Watching regular folks that Democrats like to smear as “flyover” folks enthusiastically cheer the commander-in-chief was apparently too much for Hogg, and he turned to social media to do what Democrats reflexively do: look down their noses at the American people.
According to Hogg, spending time with the American people at a beloved annual event is more of a stunt than sticking to dinners with millionaires or laying on a beach not interacting with a single person during a “Weekend at Bernie’s” cosplay.
Driving in circles for a multi million dollar publicity stunt while claiming you care so much about “efficiency” as thousands are illegally fired from their jobs and prices continue to climb is the perfect symbolism for the Trump admin.
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) February 17, 2025
Pretty sure the new Vice DNC Chair currently under investigation for funneling money to his PAC should shut his little cunt mouth.
— The Older Millennial (@teameffujoe) February 18, 2025
David, you wouldn’t know efficiency if it smacked you in the face. Trump and DOGE are cutting actual waste, meanwhile, you’re crying over bureaucrats losing their cushy jobs while Americans struggle under Biden’s economy. Sit this one out, kid.
— MAG1775 (@Mar50cC5O) February 17, 2025
Crooked Joe Biden and Jill, Ed.D., arrive in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, for a week in the sun at taxpayers’ expense.
Biden has spent 570 days — nearly 40% of his entire presidency — on vacation. pic.twitter.com/xYxYi4LHHU
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 26, 2024
Your President couldn’t ride his bike across the street without falling.
My President does laps at Daytona.
We are not the same.
— Gunther Eagleman
(@GuntherEagleman) February 16, 2025
Hogg is offended by the cost of an event for the President but is conveniently silent on the billions in tax dollars being wasted throughout the government, including the shocking scandal at USAID.
Vs the billions funneled by USAID. I’m OK with this.
— The Disrespected Trucker (@DisrespectedThe) February 17, 2025
The post DNC Vice Chair David Hogg Slammed for Tone Deaf Criticism of Trump’s Daytona 500 Appearance appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Musk is not dismantling democracy; he is cutting government spending and eliminating waste. He is also investigating corruption among politicians earning less than $200,000 per year yet possessing net worths in the millions. Why would anyone oppose that?
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has launched a comprehensive effort to reduce bureaucracy, eliminate wasteful spending, and modernize government operations. By streamlining processes and cutting unnecessary expenditures, DOGE aims to enhance efficiency across multiple federal agencies. One key initiative includes replacing outdated systems, such as manual sorting of retirement paperwork, with modernized solutions to improve effectiveness and reduce costs.
One of DOGE’s most significant actions targeted the Department of Education, immediately terminating over $370 million in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) grants, which funded programs such as anti-racism training for teachers and educational initiatives abroad. Additionally, DOGE implemented a $900 million budget cut to the agency responsible for tracking American students’ academic progress, significantly reducing operational expenses.
Advocates for dismantling the U.S. Department of Education argue that its elimination could enhance educational outcomes by returning control to state and local authorities, thereby fostering tailored approaches that better address regional needs. Established in 1979, the Department’s inception was intended to elevate national educational standards; however, critics point out that since its formation, the United States has experienced a decline in global education rankings. For instance, recent assessments reveal that American students’ reading and math proficiency has deteriorated, with eighth-grade reading scores reaching their lowest levels in decades. Proponents assert that decentralizing education governance would reduce bureaucratic inefficiencies and empower communities to implement effective, localized solutions, potentially reversing these negative trends.
DOGE took decisive action to eliminate the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), shutting down its website and social media accounts, terminating staff, and halting overseas development projects. This move effectively ceased USAID’s operations, significantly reducing federal spending on international aid programs. The agency has long faced criticism for inefficient spending and misallocated funds. Notable examples include $1.5 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in Serbian workplaces and a $70,000 grant for a DEI-themed musical in Ireland. Additionally, USAID funded a $47,000 “transgender opera” in Colombia and a $32,000 “transgender comic book” in Peru—funding which could have been used for lifesaving aid in crisis zones. Other questionable expenditures include $6 million to boost Egypt’s already thriving tourism industry and $20 million to develop a Sesame Street program in Iraq. Furthermore, USAID awarded $110,000 to a Michigan-based charity with alleged ties to terrorist organizations in South Asia, raising concerns about oversight and accountability.
Another major cut involved the shutdown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) headquarters in Washington, D.C. Reports indicated that windows were covered as internal discussions on budget reductions and restructuring took place. As the agency responsible for financial consumer protection, the CFPB underwent significant operational changes under DOGE’s directives, reflecting broader efforts to streamline government functions and reduce spending.
DOGE secured access to the Treasury Department’s federal payment system, which manages trillions in annual government expenditures. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to analyze and potentially restructure how federal funds are allocated and spent, ensuring greater efficiency and accountability.
DOGE’s cost-saving initiatives include eliminating redundant advisory boards across multiple agencies, saving an estimated $2.3 billion annually. Additionally, consolidating IT services within the federal government has streamlined data management, cutting cybersecurity costs by $1.5 billion. Another major effort involves renegotiating defense contracts, eliminating overpriced supplier agreements, and enforcing competitive bidding practices, leading to projected savings of over $10 billion.
Beyond cost-cutting, DOGE has intensified efforts to scrutinize congressional financial activities and expose conflicts of interest among high-ranking government officials. Elon Musk has questioned how certain representatives, despite earning middle-class salaries, have accumulated significant wealth. Investigations have uncovered cases where lawmakers made lucrative stock trades coinciding with legislative actions that benefited specific industries, raising concerns about potential insider trading violations. To address these issues, DOGE is working to implement stricter financial disclosure requirements and audit procedures, aiming to enhance transparency and accountability within the federal government.
DOGE’s initiatives signify a major shift in federal operations, focusing on reevaluating government efficiency, prioritizing spending, and tackling potential corruption. By emphasizing cost reduction, transparency, and accountability, these efforts aim to fundamentally reshape financial management across federal agencies.
The media and Twittersphere are working hard to convince Americans that Musk is dangerous, portraying his efforts to cut government waste and reduce costs as not only harmful but a threat to democracy. They repeatedly point out that Musk is not an elected official, yet of the millions of government officials, fewer than 1,000—including Congress and the president—are elected. The IRS, the Department of Education, and the head of the Federal Reserve are not elected either, yet their authority and legitimacy have never been questioned by the media. Those opposing Musk and Trump’s actions are either blinded by party loyalty rather than evaluating the policies themselves, afraid of what Musk might uncover, or worried about losing their cushy positions. In that case, they are exactly the kind of people who need to be investigated and removed.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2025.
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THE CUBAN AND THE RUSSIAN
UKRAINE TO 'BE CARVED UP'
And so it happened that on the 18th of February in the year of Our Lord of 2025, the United States and the Russian top negotiators met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a 4-and-a-half-hour meeting that has restarted the bilateral diplomatic relations after the dark years of the Joe Biden regime.
As we get (limited) access to the content of the discussions, we are amazed at how childish the Ukrainian and European leaders were. Because, as children, they imagine the whole world revolves around them, as they seem incapable of grasping a larger reality.
The Rubio-Lavrov (and teams) talks were not about ending the war in Ukraine. That war is an important topic, for sure, but a detail in the macroscopic US-Russia bilateral relations that both Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin are interested in restoring and expanding.
Read: Saudi Arabia Confirms It Will Host Trump-Putin Summit – Zelensky Complains He Was Not Invited
Some of the issues upon which Lavrov and Rubio agreed:
• Create a consultation mechanism to overcome “irritants” in US-Russia relations.
• Appoint high-level teams to begin work on a Ukrainian settlement.
• Cooperate on issues of common geopolitical interests.
• Cooperate on economic opportunities that may arise after the end of the Ukrainian conflict.
• Take steps necessary to normalize the work of diplomatic missions.
US State Department:
“A call and meeting between Russia and the US are not enough for a ‘lasting peace’, but an important step forward was taken in Riyadh.”
For the Russians, there were the presence of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.
The US team consisted of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.
I’ve written about how the MSM – shall we call them the USAID media? – has pivoted from their previous ‘it will never happen’ stance on the US-Russia talks.
Now, their narrative is ‘it’s taking too long’.
So, in this sense, Bloomberg is reporting that Presidents Trump and Putin are going to meet next week in Riyadh – but this has already been denied by the Kremlin, and everyone seems to agree it’s too soon to get all the issues ironed out before the top guys meet.
The winds of peace are blowing strong.
Read more:
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Ding dong, DEI is dead! But what will replace it?
Democrats will try to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to diversity, equity, and inclusion. But the Left cannot reverse the fatal wounds that President Donald Trump dealt this system of state-sponsored racism, as Fox News anchor Will Cain correctly describes it.
Fetishistic, twisted, and cruel programs such as these are now kaput:
Trump’s Jan. 21 executive order dispatched these racist shenanigans before a firing squad.
“Long-standing federal civil rights laws protect individual Americans from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin,” Trump’s order began. “As President, I have a solemn duty to ensure that these laws are enforced for the benefit of all Americans.”
Trump then lamented that DEI policies “not only violate the text and spirit of our long-standing federal civil rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.”
Also, Disney, Harley-Davidson, Walmart, and other companies are pounding private-sector nails into DEI’s casket.
So, what will replace DEI or, more accurately, outlive its demise? These small-government leaders are highly optimistic about what tomorrow will bring:
Specifically, post-DEI, the Civil Right Act of 1964 will function, as will America’s entire antidiscrimination infrastructure—from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to attorneys general’s offices in all 50 states to equal-employment agencies in city halls across America. Hundreds of public interest law firms and thousands of individual attorneys will remain all too eager to file private lawsuits on behalf of those who claim discrimination in workplaces, public schools, and government contracts.
If firefighters, police officers, or teachers do not get raises or promotions because their bosses hate blacks, despise Hispanics, cannot stand gays, or are terrified of women, those folks can sue for promotions, raises, back pay, and other forms of relief. DEI’s demise will not resurrect Jim Crow, unleash homophobes, or empower male chauvinists.
What will vanish are conference rooms full of “diversity consultants” who badger white people into feeling guilty about their pallor while telling blacks that their dark skin will cripple their progress and condemn them to poverty and injustice, because that’s how “the system” works.
Coca-Cola’s DEI efforts urged employees to become “less white” by being “less oppressive,” “less arrogant,” and by making a “break with white solidarity.” The United Federation of Teachers announced a seminar on how to develop “resistance against the harmful effects of whiteness in our lives.” After a backlash erupted, the teachers union stood down. Seattle hosted a training program for “white city employees” to acknowledge their “complicity in the system of white supremacy.” The Seattle School Board declared that “math is a tool for oppression.”
Trump is burying this destructive nonsense.
As DEI is lowered into its grave, the civil rights protections secured by the Freedom Riders, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other heroes of Black History Month will keep protecting genuine victims of actual discrimination, whenever they emerge.
Meanwhile, Americans can wish a fond “good riddance!” to DEI’s obsessive, relentless clawing at this country’s racial wounds, so that they never heal.
We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.
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There are many stories about January 6 that fall by the wayside. Some January 6 defendants got extensive media coverage, especially in the immediate aftermath of January 6, but this is not representative of the overall body.
Most defendants have remained nameless, faceless hostages. Real Americans have been rendered as caricatures as a way of pigeonholing them and glossing over the real experiences of that complicated day.
PATRIOT PETE
Peter Schwartz is many things, but an insurrectionist is not one of them. Schwartz served in the United States Army Reserve in his younger years. He ended up living a life on the road as a successful traveling welder and metallurgist. He’s a talented artist, a life-long biker, and a born-again Christian deeply interested is eschatology.
On January 6, Pete and his then-wife had gone to DC to hear their first Trump speech. Going to the Capitol building was an afterthought. After arriving, Schwartz was attacked by malicious and incompetent Capitol and Metro PD officers. I and every other defendant have long asserted that the “insurrection” was in truth just a protest that escalated into a riot – a riot incited by excessive force and police brutality against a peaceful crowd.
** Please donate to the Schwartz recovery fund here.
In the chaos that ensued, Pete picked up a spray cannister suspiciously left out by police. (Strangely, after Pete grabs a cannister, another individual originally heading to that same location appears to panic upon realizing he didn’t get to it first, raising suspicions this was planted for crisis actors.) This mace formed the basis of the false “assault” charge against Pete. Pete carried the cannister to protect himself and his wife during the panic on the West Terrace. None of the officers alleged to have been sprayed alleged injuries from Pete nor could they recall witnessing him committing crimes. So unsurprisingly the testimony of these officers was disregarded by prosecutors to save their narrative of Schwartz as a violent insurrectionist.
We found this in the jail using a shitty quality video on a propaganda tablet. I recorded a lower quality video I snuck out of the jail so I could use it to find the original, courtesy of the propagandists at MSNBC. #J6 #Fedsurrection pic.twitter.com/dtiC5zNcWV
— Tim Hale – Criminally Funny J6er (@LouisofMonmouth) January 28, 2024
Pete spent roughly 40 minutes at the Capitol on January 6. Afterward he was turned in to the FBI by his then-coworker, Cody Canary. Despite disagreeing on politics, Pete generously drove Canary to work every day, and Canary’s own statements to the FBI even assert he and Pete were friends.
Imagine your coworker and friend drove you to and from work every day and you repayed him by turning him in to the FBI for January 6 because you disagree over politics. Pete Schwartz is serving a 14 year sentence. On the bright side, this rat got fired for snitching on Pete. pic.twitter.com/6qie5RSAko
— Tim Hale – Criminally Funny J6er (@LouisofMonmouth) December 29, 2024
This miserable kind of betrayal is sadly not new to January 6 defendants who have been turned in by family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc. As part of the DOJ’s “shock and awe” campaign, Pete’s home was raided by 30 officers and armored vehicles. Pete’s phone was illegally seized and accessed, and he was kept in detention for days, all without a proper warrant. Pete would even have “ghost court hearings” in which the government kept Pete without bail by asserting he had bond hearings that never in fact happened.
Like many of us picked up by the feds after January 6, Pete would be bounced around the country by the US Marshals in what is dubbed “diesel therapy”. Moving from jail to jail, Pete would eventually link up with other January 6 hostages such as Jorden Mink, Julian Khater, Shane Jenkins, and Thomas Webster.
Pete was entrapped like the rest of us who went to the Capitol. After being held hostage for months on end, Pete’s marriage collapsed, his original lawyers failed time and again to secure his release from pretrial detention, and he came under intense media scrutiny portraying him as a career criminal based on largely old and petty offenses decades in the past.
I met Schwartz in the DC Gulag in early 2021. While Pete was firm in his beliefs and his boundaries, he was by no means a monster. As a Christian I was able to bond with him over a shared faith, and even as a Catholic I was able to enjoy good-spirited debates with Pete (a Protestant). As a conservative I was able to bond with him over shared cultural values and constitutional ideals. As a comedian I was able to bond with him over a shared sense of humor, often competing to draw the funniest cartoons and memes alongside others like Jessica Watkins.
Pete led Bible studies, protected genuine J6 patriots from informants and Antifa infiltrators, and never wavered in his convictions in the entire time we were in the Gulag together. Many people allow themselves to be shaped by their oppression or change who they are in captivity. Pete never changed and that was always proof to me that he was a genuine person.
** Please donate to the Schwartz recovery fund here.
DUE PROCESS DENIED
In an open letter to the American public and partisan Judge Amit Mehta Pete listed numerous constitutional and civil rights violations. Mehta was not moved by these pleas to uphold the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Pete didn’t let his situation stop him. He would speak out whenever possible thanks to the Gateway, Cowboy Logic, etc. He wrote letters to members of Congress, including former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Congressman Troy Nehls, all of which went without response. And he still fought on.
The bias of Pete’s jury was palpable. Juror #8 famously flipped him off. During the “voir dire” hearings (jury selection), 69 of 70 jurors, or 98.57%, of Pete’s jury pool were Democrats. Jurors were unhinged and acted hysterically during the trial, randomly accusing Pete and his codefendants of giving “death stares”. The emotional constitution of the jurors was seemingly so weak that one woman ran out of the jury box in the middle of trial after seeing video of an Metro PD Officer being harmed in the Lower West Terrace Tunnel. Pete and his codefendants were all found guilty on all counts.
The bad news would only get worse with time. In order to make an example of Schwartz for speaking out, Judge Mehta sentenced him to over 14 years in federal prison. That’s more than murderers in the DC jail received. At his lowest point, Pete wept, not for himself, but for his elderly parents. Pete had received the longest prison sentence of any January 6 defendant at that point. I remember being in prison myself and seeing the headlines about Pete’s sentence on a television, and my stomach sank in horror that he might never see his parents again. And the narratives about him being a dangerous criminal and Trump supporter were vomited out by the media nonstop.
** Please donate to the Schwartz recovery fund here.
BAD TO WORSE
And after all the abuse Pete endured in the DC Gulag, such as spending months on end in solitary confinement, or having a guard mace him in the eyes for seeking relief over raw sewage in his cell, Schwartz finally left DC’s Department of Corrections and made his way to the federal Bureau of Prisons. And it only got worse.
Upon being transferred from the DC Gulag to federal prison, to serve his insane 14-year sentence, Pete was placed in the most dangerous maximum-security prisons in America. A casual day could see a prison guard stabbed hundreds of times.
Immediately upon winding up in a new prison, Pete was attacked and forced into physical confrontations. Schwartz lost privileges for self-defense for a year, including losing access to phone calls. I remained in contact with his mother after getting out of prison myself. Pete was reduced to communicating via letter, half of which would be thrown out by the Bureau of Prisons.
Amazingly, and disturbingly, Pete’s conviction was OVERTURNED in the Appellate Court – and he was still kept in prison. Pete was ultimately released after winning his appeal, but only once President Trump retook office. Pete was not informed he had finally won his case, and the prison system refused to allow his attorney to give him the good news. Pete sat in prison after his conviction was invalidated over the rampant civil rights abused he faced following his arrest.
The narrative that Pete was a monster, a criminal, an insurrection? Didn’t matter. Lying reporters, malicious prosecutors, biased jurors, partisan judges? Didn’t work. A horrific 14-year sentence and years of wrongful imprisonment? Didn’t break him. Peter Schwartz didn’t just survive the full force and fury of a weaponized justice system – he WON. After over 2 years of separation, I was finally able to communicate with Pete again. After reconnecting, Pete agreed to an interview with me. For an hour and a half we covered topics like the gross smear campaign against him by the press, the abuses he faced at the hands of law enforcement, the corruption of the justice system, the psyop we lived through within the DC Gulag, and the path from prison to freedom:
Now that the January 6 defendants are no longer subject to probation or supervised release, we can speak freely with each other. The patriots who languished behind bars in the DC Gulag have been hastily reconnecting. With each day, more and more sign on to tell their story. What really happened on January 6, how they were smeared by the feds and media, and what they suffered through while locked up, and much more.
My phone has been on fire today as I reconnected with many of the men I was incarcerated with after January 6. And I’m now prepared to unveil a project that has been simmering in my head some time.
For 3 years after January 6, as I and other J6 political prisoners languished… pic.twitter.com/mForP3n8Ky
— Tim Hale – Criminally Funny J6er (@LouisofMonmouth) December 26, 2024
These interviews, along with hundreds of pages of primary documents, will form the basis for a multi-volume history series, Artifice and Betrayal: The History of the DC Gulag. Now that their voices have been restored, the defendants will be the ones to write the authoritative history of January 6 and the lawfare that followed, not the prosecutors and media.
When closing out our interview, I asked Pete what he most felt the public needed to understand. His answer was reasonable in light of the character assassination he’s faced:
How corrupt the media is, and that they’ve portrayed so many things wrongly that people don’t know what to believe. That’s why people believe I’m somebody different than I am. That’s why they believe different things about ridiculous stuff. All these lies that get told in the media – people are steadily taking it all in but I just wish people could understand to learn HOW to take this all in. – Pete in January 6 Unfiltered
Sure enough, as of the completion of our interview and the writing of this article, CBS propagandists have been harassing Pete and those close to him. CBS has admitted it plans to run a hit-piece on him leveling accusations against him cobbled together from anyone who would stab him in the back, undoubtedly to revive the bad press Schwartz has already endured for four years now.
The narrative of Pete as a violent, criminal redneck went hand in hand with his 14-year sentence. He was a punching bag in the press for years, even recently being cited in Congressional hearings on Kash Patel’s potential FBI directorship by U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin. With his victory in the Appellate Court, and his release by President Trump from his captivity, fake news media outlets and politicians are desperate to salvage their narratives:
Even after being released, the persecution from radical leftists continues. CBS tracked down the prosecutor in a 7-year-old petty case and put high pressure on them to drag the case back up and reprosecute me in an attempt to get me thrown in jail.
When the attempts to get me thrown in jail failed, they began harassing numerous people who know me, trying to con them into conning me into doing an interview with them. After numerous rebuffed attempts from my friends and family, in a move of desperation, they pleaded with my Kentucky State Representative to talk me into it. They were slightly more forthcoming with him, and told him that they were getting somebody who claimed to be victimized by me to go on the interview.
With the amount of stalking, desperation, and harassment they have put me through, I am fairly confident that they’ve paid somebody to slander me. I have reported 2 different people from CBS to the police a few days ago and will be pursuing legal action against them if necessary.
SURVIVING FREEDOM
Schwartz has in the past attempted to raise funds in the hopes of being able to survive off it after beating his case. Judge Amit Mehta however punished him for this at sentencing, claiming it showed he had no remorse for his actions (actions he didn’t commit). Now Pete is back to square one. Pete is still looking for work due to not being provided valid identification after being released from prison. Pete needs help, and while some have been fair to him in their coverage, it’s clear that the attacks upon his character by the leftist press haven’t paused despite his vindication under the law.
I got dropped into a world that I don’t recognize. I’ve been out coming up on a month. Every time I go to the store, I’m in shock. I’m not back to work yet, the prices are crazy… Everything’s happening very fast. It’s a tough time for me now. I’m still trying to adjust from coming out of a maximum-security prison to a world where people just sometimes say hi and they don’t want nothing from you and not trying to harm you, you know. It’s a long, hard adjustment. – Pete in January 6 Unfiltered
January 6 led to Pete losing his marriage, his career, his home, and everything in-between. He needs help to survive a very uncertain future. If you’d be so inclined, please consider helping Pete’s recovery fund HERE.
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The horrifying moment a Delta plane crash-landed and flipped upside down in Canada was captured on video.
A Delta plane crash-landed on a snowy runway at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada on Monday afternoon.
The flight arrived from Minneapolis when it crashed, landed, and flipped upside down. At least 15 people were injured, including one child.
Dashcam video shows the plane coming in for a hard landing before flipping upside down and turning into a fireball.
All 80 people aboard survived. At least 18 people were injured, 3 critically, including one child.
The plane crash is still under investigation.
Video captured by Instagram @CaptainChris:
Clearist footage showing the crash moment of Delta – Endevoir Air CRJ-900 Flight DL4819 from Minneapolis (MSP) to Toronto (YYZ) with registration N932XJ.
We will share the reports as soon as available. pic.twitter.com/4XRAdJt3c0— aircraftmaintenancengineer (@airmainengineer) February 18, 2025
More updates from Fox News:
Air traffic control audio released after the crash depicts officials describing how the plane was “ups-side-down and burning” on the tarmac.
Delta Air Lines said “18 customers with injuries” had been transported to area hospitals. At least three people suffered critical but not life-threatening injuries, a spokesperson for the paramedic service that was on scene told Fox News Digital.
In the airline’s most recent update, which was provided at 10:33 p.m. ET, Delta said that “no fatalities have been reported and some of the customers initially transported to area hospitals have been released.”
Two patients were taken by air ambulance to two different trauma centers – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center and St. Michael’s Hospital – in Toronto. A child, about four years old, was transported to The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation, as officials are expected to provide an update to the media early Tuesday.
“The Transportation Safety Board of Canada will be in charge of the investigation and will provide any updates,” the FAA said.
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg bit off far more than he could chew after trying to troll the Trump Administration on airline safety when his successor dropped the hammer on him in response.
As TGP readers know, the corporate media and Democrats have sought to blame recent plane crashes on President Trump and Elon Musk after conveniently giving Joe Biden a complete pass on the numerous aviation disasters that happened under his watch. The same thing happened regarding the latest plane crash in Toronto.
Leftists have also conveniently ignored how DEI initiatives going back to the Obama regime have led to a massive air traffic control shortage because so many white males were rejected.
Despite these facts, Mayor Pete on Monday decided to try to dunk on the Trump Administration by slyly inferring they bore the entire blame for these disasters thanks to recent FAA firings.
“The flying public needs answers,” Buttigieg wrote. “How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?”
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) February 17, 2025
However, current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy refused to let this defamation spread across the web without revealing the person really responsible for the dire state of aviation safety in America: Buttigieg himself.
“Mayor Pete failed for four years to address the air traffic controller shortage and upgrade our outdated, World War II-era air traffic control system,” Duffy wrote. “In less than four weeks, we have already begun the process and are engaging the smartest minds in the entire world.”
The Transportation Secretary then dropped some more cold, hard facts for those still buying into the narrative that Trump and DOGE are responsible for the plane crashes.
“Here’s the truth: the FAA alone has a staggering 45,000 employees,” Duffy explained. “Less than 400 were let go, and they were all probationary, meaning they had been hired less than a year ago. Zero air traffic controllers and critical safety personnel were let go.”
Duffy concluded by delivering another brutal reminder to the public regarding Mayor Pete’s abysmal record as DOT secretary when he was not AWOL or on paternity leave.
“Mayor Pete chose to use this amazing department—that is so critical to America’s success—as a slush fund for the green new scam and environmental justice nonsense. Not to mention that over 90% of the workforce under his leadership were working from home – including him,” Duffy wrote. “The building was empty!”
“When we finally get a full accounting of his mismanagement, I look forward to hearing from him. “In the meantime, I will not rest until I return the Department of Transportation and its incredible employees to its mission of efficiency and safety.”
Mayor Pete failed for four years to address the air traffic controller shortage and upgrade our outdated, World War II-era air traffic control system. In less than four weeks, we have already begun the process and are engaging the smartest minds in the entire world.
Here’s the… https://t.co/LCL1dswC2T
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) February 18, 2025
This was an absolutely perfect response from Duffy that not only exposed Mayor Pete’s failures, which led to the crisis, but also demolished a false liberal narrative in the process. The Trump Administration and airline travelers should be in good hands with Duffy for the next four years.
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The Vatican announced Monday afternoon that Pope Francis’ hospital stay would be extended for an indefinite period of time, citing a “complex” clinical condition due to an infection of the respiratory tract.
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Paquita la del Barrio, an iconic singer of traditional Mexican ranchera music who subverted the testosterone-driven genre with lyrics disparaging philandering men, died on Monday at the age of 77, leaving a legacy in Latin America like no other.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday as part of his first tour of the Middle East as America's top diplomat, reportedly emphasizing the importance of rehabilitating Gaza in his talks in Riyadh.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that Hamas has agreed to release the six remaining live hostages on Saturday from the first phase of the ceasefire agreement -- and four dead hostages on Thursday.
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California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara says that he is tired of being "white mansplained on how to do my job," after facing criticism from elected representatives, including Democrats, over his recent job performance.
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Not such a smart move. That was the conclusion of Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) after singer Sheryl Crow's announced a very public display of moral vanity by selling her Tesla vehicle and donating the proceeds to National Public Radio (NPR) — all in protest of Elon Musk.
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On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) stated that he believes employees at the Social Security Administration need to come back to in-person work. Host Chris Cuomo asked, “[W]hat is your theory of the efficiency model there
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Elon Musk's X social media firm announced it has launched legal cases in Germany against government "overreach" against the platform's users' privacy and freedom of expression.
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Growing demand for Ozempic and similar drugs used for weight loss in Brazil has sparked a wave of violent robberies across pharmacies by organized gangs who see it as a lucrative source of income, the New York Times reported over the weekend.
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Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday on MSNBC's "The Beat" that Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) s a "dolt" for not removing Mayor Eric Adams from his position as mayor of New York City.
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Cade Belyeu, star baseball player for the Auburn Tigers, hit his team's first home run of the season hours after learning his mother died.
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The top federal prosecutor overseeing criminal cases at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., has abruptly resigned, claiming that Trump-appointed officials insisted she investigate a government contract awarded during Joe Biden’s administration and take decisive action to freeze the recipient’s assets.
Denise Cheung, the office’s now-former criminal chief, submitted her resignation on Tuesday in a letter to interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin.
“When I started as an AUSA, I took an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, and I have executed this duty faithfully during my tenure, which has spanned through numerous Administrations,” Cheung wrote in her email obtained by far-left CNN.
“I know that all of the AUSAs in the office continue to honor their oaths on a daily basis, just as I know that you have always conducted yourself with the utmost integrity.”
Far-left The New York Times reported, citing sources close to the situation, that Cheung stepped down in protest just a day after President Trump announced his nominee for U.S. Attorney, Ed Martin.
According to Reuters:
The top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the Washington D.C. U.S. Attorney’s office resigned on Tuesday, citing what she described as an improper demand by Trump-appointed officials to launch a criminal probe and pursue an asset freeze.
In a letter to the interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin reviewed by Reuters, the office’s criminal chief Denise Cheung wrote that President Donald Trump’s administration had ordered her to investigate a government contract awarded during Joe Biden’s administration and pursue a freeze of the recipient’s assets.
Acting US Attorney for DC, Ed Martin, a staunch defender of constitutional rights, has been outspoken about the necessity of undoing the politically motivated January 6 prosecutions pushed by the previous administration.
Cheung, who had been with the DOJ for years, reportedly opposed Martin’s efforts to reassess the use of felony obstruction charges against January 6 defendants—a charge that the Supreme Court recently overturned.
Rather than uphold justice, Cheung appears to have chosen to walk away rather than be part of an effort to rectify the government’s politically motivated prosecution of Trump supporters.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that acting US Attorney for DC, Ed Martin, initiated an inquiry into former US Attorney Matthew Graves’ prosecutions of more than 1,500 January 6 protestors.
Ed Martin is specifically probing Graves’ abuse of the 1512(c)(2) obstruction charge.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information.
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Donald Trump has indicated he may be ready to endorse Rep. Byron Donalds as the next governor of Florida.
Posting on Truth Social, Trump shared a poll from Victory Polling showing that Donalds is way out in front of fellow Republican primary candidates in the race for Florida’s governorship.
According to Victory Insights, Donalds is currently commanding 31 percent support in a hypothetical Republican primary.
Other candidates including Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nunez, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez are lagging behind on four, three and one percent respectively.
A new @VictoryPolling survey shows @ByronDonalds far ahead of all other contenders in a hypothetical primary for Florida Governor.
31% – Byron Donalds
4% – Jeanette Nuñez
3% – Wilton Simpson
1% – Francis SuarezRead the full report: https://t.co/2MS9MwKk2o
(850 LV, 1/26-27/25) pic.twitter.com/Jb9dSRCvxc
— Victory Insights (@VictoryPolling) January 29, 2025
Trump also shared an image showing some of the individuals who have already endorsed Donalds’ candidacy, despite the fact he has not formally announced.
Among them include White House AI and crypto tzar David Sacks, billionaire businessman Marc Andreessen and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.
While not foolproof, an endorsement from the president is very likely to tip the race in favor of Donalds should he decide to run.
A rising star with the GOP, Donalds was first elected to Congress in 2020 having previously worked in finance before a stint in the Florida House of Representatives.
A staunch America First conservative, he has been a vocal supporter of Trump and was even touted as a possible running mate.
Last month, he told Fox News that he plans to have an “America First” bill on Trump’s desk by April.
“I think the job right now is specifically in the House is putting together the overall package,” Donalds said.
“There is gonna have to be some reforms, there is gonna have to be some cuts and so when you put all that stuff together with border security which is gonna be essential to all of this just like tax policy, we can deliver it, it’s just working through the finer points,” he added.
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Norm Eisen is the hatchet man in the current shadow government to take down US President Trump. Eisen is also the acclaimed expert on ‘color revolutions, ‘ a system used by US intel to overthrow undesirable regimes or unwanted political movements. Eisen and top Democrats and intel experts used this model to take the US election from President Trump in 2020.
Following the 2020 election, Eisen and others famously for bragging about using color revolution tactics to rid President Trump from the White House.
On Saturday, Norm Eisen posted a tweet on X bragging about how he was taking Elon Musk and Doge to court to “impose consequences” for their efforts to cut fraud and spending in the US government.
Eisen accuses Elon Musk of having an office in the White House, no supervising official — as if President Trump is AWOL?
Eisen hid the plaintiffs’ names and addresses in his lawsuit.
In response to the legal threats by Eisen, Elon Musk responded, “What are you trying to hide, Norm? Any of that money happen to reach your pockets or your organizations?”
What are you trying to hide, Norm?
Any of that money happen to reach your pockets or your organizations?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
Wouldn’t that be something if American taxpayers were paying this dirty creep to overthrow our own elections!?
Investigative reporter Jeff Carlson then added this background in a tweet on Eisen and his deep roots in lawfare against Trump and Republicans.
Most are aware of Norm Eisen but not everyone is aware of just how pervasive Eisen (and his legal attacks) have been – and how he’s weaved his way through all the major events of the last eight years.
After Ben Wittes first invoked the use of Lawfare against Trump (a month before the 2016 election), Eisen responded by ramping up his legal efforts at Brookings – and soon became the effective outside legal counsel for Mueller’s special counsel investigation. Eisen even developed specific legal strategies for Mueller to use.
Before Mueller’s report was even released Eisen shifted seamlessly to impeachment counsel for House Dems – where he drafted ten different articles of impeachment against Trump. All of which were written a month before Pelosi announced an official impeachment inquiry into Trump.
Eisen continued his work – re-aligning with CREW (he was co-founder). Eisen also participated in and directed pre-election wargames that mysteriously predicted the election outcome with eerie precision.
Eisen was also working with another longtime collaborator, Michael Podhorzer, on Dem efforts in the 2020 election. Podhorzer has been called the Architect of the 2020 election.
Eisen then moved on to seemingly direct all the legal cases against Trump. Eisen appears to have written (on background) many of the drafts for Fani Willis – and developed many of the strategic attacks for Jack Smith.
It’s not us saying this. Eisen’s published multiple volumes on each section I’ve mentioned through Brookings Institute whee he’s a senior fellow.
Eisen’s also directly tied in – and working with – Mary McCord and her lawfare group at Georgetown. They reportedly meet weekly by phone – and their group includes all the msnbc legal talking heads.
A known area of specific focus is restricting Trump’s use of the Insurrection Act to quell violent protests & riots.
Eisen also has a new working group called State Democracy Defenders Action acting in conjunction with his lawfare partners and most of the media’s legal talking heads. And it looks like they’re trying to push a Color Revolution in response to Trump’s new presidency.
Eisen has recently been bragging on MSNBC about his role in getting an activist judge to temporarily rule against DOGE.
So beyond the obvious questions surrounding Eisen, who has been paying for all these legal attacks?
Elon Musk responded to Carlson:
“Good qustion”
Good question
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
This ought to get more interesting in the days ahead.
How many of the far left organizations tearing this country apart and targeting our citizens were being funded by taxpayer dollars and how much money did Eisen take?
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