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PERKINS: Man Cannot Live on Business Alone

By Family Research Council

The world witnessed the quintessential President Donald Trump as he brokered major deals with leaders in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. I’m reminded of my first meeting with President Trump at the White House during his first administration. The meeting started late because he was personally negotiating the cost of a military aircraft contract. It was clear then — as it is now — that this is the president’s “happy place.” And for good reason: over his 78 years, he’s been remarkably successful at it.

More than ever, it’s evident that President Trump views the world through the lens of a business deal — how to make the best one possible.

In his speech in Riyadh, the president rightly criticized the failures of previous U.S. approaches in the region:

“The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders, neocons, or liberal nonprofits. … In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built. The interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.”

President Trump is right. While I supported efforts to eliminate terrorist threats to the United States — and still believe we have a moral and strategic responsibility to protect ourselves and Israel from a nuclear-equipped Iran — I opposed the Bush-era notion of “nation building” from the beginning. The belief that, with enough money, one could till the soil of Islamic authoritarianism and plant the seeds of freedom endemic to our constitutional Republic was rooted in a deeply flawed worldview. It was a fool’s errand to think that drafting a constitution for Afghanistan would give rise to a nation that recognizes and protects God-given rights. Freedom is not the product of imposed institutions — it springs from a transformed people, something politics, foreign aid, and even business alone can never produce.

In fact, that flawed thinking is cut from the same ideological cloth as Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. After 50 years, it had cost taxpayers more than $22 trillion — with little to show for it in terms of real human flourishing. The worldview behind the Great Society echoes that of Karl Marx, who wrote:

“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but their social being that determines their consciousness.”

In other words, material reality shapes identity — a belief that external change creates internal transformation.

But that’s not the American view. The freedoms and prosperity we’ve enjoyed for nearly 250 years are rooted in a Judeo-Christian worldview — one that understands man is not changed by his environment but rather changes his environment through a transformed life made possible by a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

That worldview once permeated American life. While it has weakened over the last 60 years, it remains embedded in our national DNA. It’s what makes our capitalist system work — and what makes the art of the deal possible.

As we engage with the Middle East, we must recognize this: business deals and wealth creation alone will not cause authoritarian regimes to abandon totalitarianism or their tolerance for terrorism. As we’ve seen, it will only give them more resources to threaten the West.

AUTHOR

Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins is president of Family Research Council and executive editor of The Washington Stand.

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Tim Walz Suggests ICE Is ‘Trump’s Modern-Day Gestapo’ In Commencement Speech

By The Daily Caller

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz compared the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel executing the Trump administration’s immigration agenda to the Gestapo in a Saturday commencement address at the University of Minnesota law school.

President Donald Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration and border security, including designating Mexican drug cartels and South and Central American gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, and the president has also invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up the deportation of gang members. Walz, the failed Democratic nominee for vice president in 2024, suggested during the speech that Trump is using ICE to implement his immigration agenda in similar fashion to how Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler used the Gestapo secret police to target opponents, according to RealClearPolitics.

“Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets,” Walz claimed. “They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons—no chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.”

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“To be clear, there’s no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not, because they refused to give them a trial,” Walz continued. “We’re supposed to just take their word for it.”

Democrats initially rallied around Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an adjudicated member of MS-13 deported to El Salvador in March, as a symbol of resistance to Trump’s immigration policies, and several members of Congress — including Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen — traveled to El Salvador to visit Abrego Garcia. The Trump administration released a 13-page dossier detailing the evidence suggesting that Abrego Garcia is a MS-13 gang member in April, which included rulings from immigration courts that found he was a member of the El Salvadoran prison gang.

Recent polling indicates that 48.3% of Americans approve Trump’s approach to immigration so far, and that 48.9% disapprove, according to RealClearPolling. A White House fact sheet released in late April showed that border crossings, migrant encounters and “gotaways” were all down by 93% or more through the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

Walz also claimed Trump was trying to intimidate members of Congress, referencing a chaotic May 9 incident involving Democratic New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez Jr. outside an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey. The Democratic lawmakers denied wrongdoing in a May 11 appearance on CNN.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy toured the ICE facility in Newark and describer her observations during a Monday appearance on “Fox and Friends.”

“ICE has nothing to hide,” Campos-Duffy said. “They have nothing to be ashamed of. This facility is so clean. It has, you know, all kind of recreation facilities, outdoor soccer field, weight equipment, domino tables. It has telephones everywhere with signs next to them of how they can, phone numbers to reach their consulate and also legal facilities, computer web cams.”

“There are doors on the bedrooms and they aren’t even locked,” Campos-Duffy continued. “The facility actually looks like a high school.”

Walz is considered a possible Democratic candidate for president in the 2028 election cycle.

AUTHOR

Harold Hutchison

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The False Equivalence of Antisemitism and ‘Islamophobia’ is Meant to Minimize Rampant Jew-Hatred

By Jihad Watch

Islamophobia is a newly-minted concept designed to intimidate people into being afraid to oppose jihad violence and Sharia oppression.

“Exposing the Islamophobia hoax,” by James Sinkinson, JNS, May 14, 2025:

Jew-hatred is a highly prevalent, historically well-documented and well-defined set of behaviors, while Islamophobia is a relatively new phenomenon, much less frequent and so weaponized that some consider the very concept a hoax.

Case in point: After more than 18 chaotic months of pro-Hamas protesters bullying and blocking Jewish students’ access to campus, Harvard University, on April 29, finally issued a report on the school’s and radicals’ misdeeds, titled: “Presidential task force on combating antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.”

Bizarrely, that same day, Harvard University released another report: “Presidential task force on combating anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias.”

Why did we need two simultaneous reports on two unrelated problems with two dramatically different measures of magnitude, incidence and character?

Indeed, Muslim and Arab students at Harvard are not bullied, nor are they denied access, nor do their professors demean them for their ethnicity, nor are they victims of screaming invectives in mass protests against their homelands.

Moreover, while only a tiny few classes in Harvard’s curricula address Israel favorably, its catalog teems with pro-Palestinian, openly anti-Israel courses. Finally, ironically, a preponderance of campus activities attacking Harvard’s Jewish students’ rights are themselves led by Muslims and Arabs.

The same disproportionate attention to “Islamophobia” was paid by the Biden administration in April 2024, when it simultaneously formed the “National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism” and a sister task force to counter “Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate.”

Though certainly hatred of Jews, and other religious or ethnic groups, is deplorable, the actions of Harvard and the Biden administration seem to indicate that antisemitism and Islamophobia are problems of equal import and impact. In fact, antisemitic hate crimes make up a majority of all religious-based hate crimes nationally and are nearly eight times more frequent than anti-Muslim hate crimes.

This disparity in frequency is also matched by profound differences in characteristics. Antisemitism is recognized as a dangerous, irrational hatred of the Jewish people, whose values form the foundation of Western civilization. Research shows that Muslim societies harbor some of the world’s most virulent anti-Jewish attitudes, as well as a determination by radical Islamists to destroy the Jewish state.

Islamophobia is a relatively new concept, which critics convincingly argue is generally not a hatred at all, but rather a term used by social, political and media elites to whitewash the avowed intentions of Islamists to wage jihad globally….

AUTHOR

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TEXAS Under Attack!

By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.

The Great State of Texas (a Republic if you can keep it) is under direct assault by foreign entities. Actually, Texas has been under assault for some time, but the infusion of anti-American elements has successfully remained hidden below the political and social radar. No one would imagine the Republic of Texas (yes, the state came into the union with the understanding plus full and complete agreement that it would remain a Republic within the association of states in the union), so no one could imagine the Republic of Texas allowing such seduction and infusion of Middle Eastern and South American entities allowed into the state remain and sabotage the goals, traditions and principles of Texas. But this is exactly what has been taking place all the while Texas shouts its’ unique ways and means, not to mention such American traditions like the Dallas Cowboys, Sweet Tea, and gas station parking lot Bar-be-que. You heard me right on my last description, “gas station parking lot Bar-be-que” which only “old school” Texans understand.

The Republic of Texas is experiencing a deliberate flow of anti-Texans hell bent on taking over and turning this once proud Republic into a mirror image of many Middle Eastern Islamic countries accompanied by massive financial infusion from MS-13 and related terrorism and hard-core gangs. It may well come down to the people of Texas, the ranchers, cowboys, old-school Texans to pick up their weapons and defend the land they so love. With the exception of a few politicos, many in Texas elected office will do little to save the very state they claim to love.

The following description is written by Michael Yon. Mr. Yon is an independent journalist, and the following words are his, I take NO credit but give thanks to him and Steve Bannon for the investigations and research they accomplished to bring to light what has been deliberately hidden from public view, including from many in the Great State and Republic of Texas. Thank you, Michael Yon for writing this expose on Texas and the ugly truth hidden in broad daylight.

Today I (Michael Yon) will also go on with Steve Bannon on War Room. Yesterday I flew over Colony Ridge, Texas. An invasion city built with help from Governor Abbott. Early yesterday morning I flew over Colony Ridge with Dave Cannon in his helicopter. Fog became thick because Colony Ridge is built on precious low wetlands. So, we came back with Dave’s airplane and got higher after the fog burned off. Bottom Line — a critical mass of Texas Law Enforcement is refusing to help with mass deportations. Texas DPS specifically. The Department of Public Safety leadership is outright refusing to help deport. As are many local law enforcement agencies. A critical mass of Texas leadership is captured and helping destroy Texas and the rest of America. Many officers are angry. Trump promised mass deportations yet even Texas refuses to do it. Tom Homan is very angry.

Some local and county leadership in Texas are ready to roll and work mass deportations. Others are openly obstructing cooperation with ICE. Importantly; ICE itself is obstructing ICE duties. ICE is specifically at fault. Any law enforcement who refuses to help mass deportations should see their federal funding cut immediately. Likewise at State level, including Lone Star Texas. Cut Texas funding immediately. Section 287(g) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)) is being incinerated by various agencies in Texas. Florida is working hard to get things done. Texas is at best limping to catch Florida. More realistically, Texas is behaving like California while Texas pretends to be TEXAS!

Colony Ridge in Liberty Country near Houston is effectively another sanctuary zone. Yes, there was one flashy bust. And then nothing. ICE refuses to address Colony Ridge and other invasion colonization zones. As does Texas DPS itself. These bustling sanctuary rape and drug zones are heavily populated by illegals. Texas Governor Abbott takes big money from the developer. Remember…I warned about Abbott for years and took much flak. It’s all turned out to be perfectly accurate.

Nobody needs to go to Mexico to fight cartels. They are very powerful and know how to throw the money around. Abbott takes money to help cartels operate in sanctuary zones. That makes Abbott part of the cartel machinery. Bottom line.

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WATCH: Douglas Murray reacts to President Trump’s bold Gaza plans

By NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

Author Douglas Murray has commented on U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to rebuild Gaza and have American ownership of the enclave. 

“As for the Gaza announcements this week, they certainly break the paradigm, don’t they?” Mr. Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

Listen to what Rita and Douglas have to say on the matter!

WATCH: Douglas Murray reacts to President Trump’s bold Gaza plans

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Trump Names Bishop Who Banned Pelosi From Communion to Commission

By The Daily Signal

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump on Thursday named San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to serve on the advisory board of the newly-created Religious Liberty Commission.

Cordileone made headlines in 2022 after denying then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Holy Communion due to her public support and promotion of abortion. The commission was created via executive order on May 1 in order to “vigorously enforce the historic and robust protections for religious liberty enshrined in Federal law.”

Religious liberty is a critical issue in our time that needs to be defended and addressed,” Cordileone said in a statement. “I am happy to join my brother bishops in providing a Catholic voice on this important topic at a national level.”

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The Archdiocese referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to the public statement in response to a request for comment.

Cordileone said in 2022 his decision to deny Pelosi communion was rooted in Church teaching and that lawmakers must oppose any law that isn’t protecting life.

“After numerous attempts to speak with Speaker Pelosi to help her understand the grave evil she is perpetrating, the scandal she is causing, and the danger to her own soul she is risking, I have determined that she is not to be admitted to Holy Communion,” Cordileone stated on Twitter at the time.

The Religious Liberty Commission is meant to investigate attacks on religious liberty in the United States and design strategies to preserve the right. The commission will be composed of several “educated representatives of various sectors of society” who will report their findings and recommendations to the White House.

The Biden administration was accused of infringing on religious freedom after it attempted to force religious doctors and hospitals to perform transgender surgeries despite the procedures conflicting with their faith. Former President Joe Biden, a reportedly devout Catholic, later took flak for issuing a proclamation for a “transgender day of visibility” on Easter Sunday.

The FBI under the previous administration also reportedly “abused its counterterrorism tools” to target Catholics and pro-life advocates, labeling them as “potential domestic terrorists,” according to the House Weaponization Subcommittee. The committee was referring to a February 2023 memo from the Richmond field office that described traditionalist Roman Catholics as “radical,” which the Bureau eventually retracted.

Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation

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Jaryn Crouson is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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5 More Stories in Ongoing Trump-Federal Court Saga

By Family Research Council

Conflict is escalating — not just between President Donald Trump and the federal judiciary but even among the courts themselves. As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Thursday in a case centered on birthright citizenship and the constant use of sweeping universal injunctions by inferior courts, federal judges across the country are continuing to halt the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, although at least one judge is bucking the trend and siding with the president. Here are the latest updates.

Trump Blocked from Deporting Hamas Propagandist

Biden-appointed Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ordered on Wednesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release Indian national Badar Khan Suri from custody. Suri was an academic at Georgetown University when he was arrested in March after spreading propaganda supporting the terrorist organization Hamas, of which his father-in-law, Ahmed Yousef, is reportedly a senior officer. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin reported at the time that Suri was involved in “actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media” and “has close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas.” Therefore, Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked Suri’s visa and “rendered him deportable” under the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA).

Suri has subsequently filed a habeas corpus claim in a bid to stop his deportation. In the order she issued Wednesday, Giles demanded that Suri “be immediately released … during the pendency of his habeas proceedings…” She ordered that Suri is to remain in Virginia, attend court hearings in person, and cooperate with removal proceedings if necessary. The judge also barred law enforcement officers from using GPS tracking to monitor Suri’s whereabouts and ordered that law enforcement give both the court and Suri’s attorneys 48 hours’ notice if they intend to arrest him again.

ICE Barred from Deporting International Students

In another case, Judge Jeffrey White of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction barring ICE from deporting 18 noncitizens studying in the U.S. DHS canceled the students’ visas and allegedly removed their immigration information from a federal database, citing the fact that each of the students had been identified in the National Crime Information Center database. White determined that terminating the students’ immigration records was “unlawful,” even on the basis of visa revocation, and ordered that the records be restored, even though DHS agents had already pledged to do so.

Although White, appointed to the judiciary by George W. Bush, temporarily halted ICE from deporting the 18 students who had filed lawsuits, he stipulated that his is not a universal injunction but applies only to the 18 students involved in the lawsuits, while still reserving the right to expand the scope of the injunction at a later date to bar action taken against the supposed thousands of foreign students across the U.S. who may be impacted.

Judge Seizes Control of Rikers Island

In a shocking move, another federal judge has taken over the prison on Rikers Island in New York City. Clinton-appointed Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a sweeping order Tuesday placing the notorious prison complex under the command of an independent officer who will report directly to Swain, rather than to New York City officials. The judge also granted that officer the authority to change or adjust any New York City Department of Corrections policies deemed necessary.

The case originated in 2011, when complaints were lodged of abusive and excessively violent conditions being permitted by Rikers Island guards. In the years since, Swain has issued numerous court orders demanding various changes and reforms. While her latest order does not specifically allude to immigration or deportation policies, it comes shortly after New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) agreed to cooperate with ICE and allow agents into the prison for the first time in years to arrest and deport illegal immigrants detained there.

Trump Can Use 1798 Law to Deport Illegal Immigrants

One of the most controversial moves of the second Trump administration so far has been the use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798 to carry out the mass arrest and deportation of Venezuelan nationals affiliated with the foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua (TdA). While the president’s use of the AEA has been challenged in various ways and to varying degrees by different federal courts, Judge Stephanie Haines of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania published an opinion Tuesday determining that the president does have the authority to arrest and deport TdA members under the auspices of the AEA, since the actions of TdA in the U.S. constitute an “invasion” or “predatory incursion.”

Haines, who was appointed by Trump in his first term, defined a “predatory incursion” as: “a hostile entry into the United States by a cohesive group of individuals, such as a military detachment or a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, who are united by a common goal of causing significant disruption to the public safety — whether that be the safety of persons, property, or pecuniary interests — of those within the United States.”

She added, “The Court finds that that definition is faithful to the meaning of ‘predatory incursions’ in 1798, but it also accounts for new applications given ‘changes in the world.’”

While Haines ultimately determined that TdA’s actions constitute a “predatory incursion” and thus warrant the president’s use of the AEA, she further claimed that the Trump administration was not providing accused TdA members with enough notice prior to deportation. In order to afford Venezuelan nationals accused of being TdA members enough time to file habeas petitions and present their cases in court, Haines ordered that the Trump administration give detainees slated for deportation 21 days’ notice before actually deporting them.

Judge Claims Trump Administration Retaliated against American Bar Association

On Wednesday, Obama-appointed Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a memorandum opinion in which he claimed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had engaged in “unlawful retaliation” against the American Bar Association (ABA). After the ABA joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration and openly criticized the president’s words and actions against federal judges, the DOJ canceled an estimated $3 million in grants to the ABA and further barred DOJ employees from using taxpayer dollars to travel to ABA events, attend ABA events while on the clock, and obtain DOJ approval before attending ABA events. Cooper argued that the DOJ’s actions regarding the ABA constituted retaliation against constitutionally protected free speech. “The First Amendment injury is concrete and ongoing. The ABA regularly engages in protected expressive activity, and DOJ’s termination of its grants directly punishes that activity,” he wrote.

Interestingly, the Trump administration did not directly contest the claim that it was acting in retaliation against the ABA. Instead, Trump administration attorneys argued that Cooper lacked jurisdiction, contending that the complaint was a contract matter and thus should have been brought in a court of claims, not in a district court.

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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Land of Liars, Land of Slaves!

By Karen Schoen

Either YOU OWN the property, or YOU ARE the property!

I don’t know how many of you had the opportunity to listen to President Trump’s speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia? I think it was one of the best ones he’s ever done, to date. Amazing speech.

WATCH: President Trump Participates in a U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum



The whole gist of the speech can be summarized is that America is open for business!  America is not looking for War.  America is not looking to spread Democracy. America is not looking to get involved with Arab culture.  Your culture is your own. America is open for business and is looking for trade.  Trade is what will make all of us strong. Once we are involved economically, the chances of War become minimal.

I was also amazed to see the amount of American flags, the pageantry and tribute to America that these new Middle Eastern partners displayed. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince greeted President Trump personally on a royal purple carpet, flanked by a guard of honor, reserved only for most-favored guests. President Trump was escorted by a 6-fighter F-15 honorary jet escort by the Royal Saudi Air Force. Qatar escorted Air Force One with 8 fighter jets. The UAE awarded Donald Trump its highest civilian award available.

Playing the National Anthem was the icing on the cake.  Then I thought, how sad it is that our schools don’t even bother displaying the American flag, let alone play the National Anthem. How Ironic. In our own country, patriotism is frowned on.

America has become the land of give me, give me, give me. And by the way, if you have it and I want it, I will steal and take what I want without any consequences. Bad behavior is rewarded.  It seems as though there is never enough money and there is never enough power for the Elite. The only way they can keep it and get more is to lie, cheat, and steal.  We have become the Land of Liars.

They lied about Biden’s health, and we knew it. Yet our impotent, incompetent RINO leaders refused to do anything about it. They allowed Leftist insane Marxist ideology of open borders, mega spending, loss of free speech and government controlled healthcare to rule. How can we allow any Biden policy to stand? Easy, do nothing and the RINOs will continue to fund his programs like the Green New Deal to subsidize China.

We will let them use programs like Sustainable Developments … aka 15 Minute Cities and Smart Cities … to herd us into walkable, NOT drivable, low emission neighborhoods … aka Prisons, Ghettos, or concentration camps.

EAT, LIVE AND SHOP WHERE YOU LIVE  AND CAN WALK TO. HAIRDRESSER, GROCERY, DOCTOR – NOT WHERE YOU WANT TO GO BUT WHERE YOU MUST GO. 

With constant surveillance every step you take, every breath you make, every move you make, they will be watching you.

These evil people must strip you of everything you own – especially your home. My favorite movie was “Gone With The Wind.”

My favorite line:  “The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that lasts”…..Gerald O’Hara, Gone With The Wind.” 

Land is an asset which can be leveraged to accumulate wealth. We are considered subservient and cannot have wealth.

“We will have nothing and be happy.”

Never forget 2008. Billions of our tax dollars were given to the banks, who along with George W Bush created the mortgage melt down. The RINOS forced us into foreclosure by shipping our jobs overseas.  Instead of giving each American the money to pay rent or mortgages, they gave our money to the rich bankers who foreclosed on us. Then they called us deadbeats.   Today, they are making the taxes so high, people are being forced off their land. Nothing changes, unless we change it ourselves!

The contrast of the reception in the Middle East versus  the Left in America is so staggering! It really shows the disdain and contempt that the Left and RINOS have for the American people.

You need to Sit Up and pay Attention Now! THIS IS DEEP!

The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.” – Club of Rome, premier environmental think-tank, consultants to the United Nations.

This is what they think of us, and teach our children!

Their ultimate goal is Depopulation.  Still having a hard time wrapping your head around the real issue?

ELITES WANT AMERICA DESTROYED, AND THEY WANT US ALL…DEAD.  

If you are not an Elite, you are a Useless Eater. You are using up and hogging up resources that Elites feel only they are entitled to. You need to go die.

WATCH: AGENDA: Grinding America Down.



Then, take a look at this map, which we call the Death Map from Dr. Michael Coffman: The Wildlands Project and UN Convention on Biological Diversity Plan to Restore Biodiversity in the United States

The United Nations lied to Congress, saying that Agenda 21 didn’t exist.  Today, it is called Agenda 2030.

  • Everything is connected
  • Nothing is random
  • Everything happens for a reason
  • Everything is a LIE

So what do we do about this mess we are in?

  1. Support President Trump
  2. VOTE in the PRIMARIES and toss the RINOS out
  3. Contact your legislators and tell them WE WANT DOGE CUTS
  4. Don’t listen to the Lies!

Applying Knowledge is Power.

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Trump Bashes Supreme Court Following Order Further Blocking Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Illegal Gang Members

By The Daily Signal

The Supreme Court has extended its block on the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal alien gang members from Venezuelan.

“The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our country illegally, are not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted, and expensive legal process,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday evening.

In an unsigned opinion Friday, the justices sent the case back down to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and asked the lower court to determine the procedural specifics the illegal aliens are legally entitled to before they are removed.

The appeals court needs to determine “whether the Alien Enemies Act … authorizes removal of these detainees and if so, what notice is due before removal,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in his concurring opinion.

Trump warned that the Supreme Court’s “decision will let more criminals pour into our country, doing great harm to our cherished American public. It will also encourage other criminals to illegally enter our Country, wreaking havoc and bedlam wherever they go.”

The case before the court specifically pertains to a group of Tren de Aragua gang members who are being held in Texas. After designating Tren de Aragua as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, the White House announced in March that Trump would use the powers of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to remove members of the gang from America.

On April 19, the Supreme Court ordered the administration to pause the deportation of a group of criminal illegal aliens until the court could rule further. The order followed an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the illegal aliens the administration was preparing to deport.

Following the court’s ruling to extend the ban on the removal of the gang members, Trump said the Supreme Court “is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do,” referring to his campaign promise to deport criminal illegal aliens.

More than 10 million illegal aliens entered the U.S. under the Biden administration, according to Customs and Border Protection, and “in order to get them out of our country, we have to go through a long and extended process,” Trump said, adding that the court’s order represents “a bad and dangerous day for America!”

Trump thanked Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas for dissenting from the court’s order.

The Supreme Court had “no authority to issue any relief,” Alito argued in the decant.

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Republicans Scramble to Regroup After Budget Bill Setback

By The Daily Signal

Top congressional Republicans are picking up the pieces in the wake of the House Budget Committee’s rejection Friday of leadership’s budget proposals.

If one thing’s clear, it’s that leadership will have to seek a compromise with fiscal hard-liners.

On Friday, the House Budget Committee voted against advancing the budget package with Republican fiscal hawks—specifically, Reps. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, and Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma—joining all committee Democrats in voting it down. The vote was 21 against advancing the budget and 16 in favor.

Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., switched his vote from yes to no at the last moment. The Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based news site LancasterOnline.com reported that “Smucker said he flipped his vote for procedural reasons. Doing so ensures he can call for another vote on the more than 1,100-page legislation at a later date. House rules require that a motion to reconsider must be introduced by a member from the prevailing side of the vote—in this case, someone who voted against the bill.”

In response to the failure to pass the budget through the committee, the panel’s leadership stated that they would move to reconvene on Sunday.

“I am confident we will get to a good place this weekend and have the votes to pass it out of committee Sunday evening,” Budget Chairman Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, said in a statement.

Satisfying holdouts will take some concessions—namely, more aggressive reforms to benefits programs such as Medicaid.

On Thursday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., told The Daily Signal that “everything is on the table” when asked if he would consider implementing Medicaid work requirements sooner than the bill currently calls for in order to satisfy holdouts.

Norman said in a statement after the vote, “My biggest priority in Congress is to STOP the bloated bureaucracy’s spending. Today, the budget committee marked up the One Big Beautiful bill that includes making President [Donald] Trump’s tax cuts permanent. That is INCREDIBLE!!”

He continued, “However, this bill is not serious about necessary reforms. It delays work requirements for able-bodied adults until 2029. It does nothing to combat Obamacare’s unfair Medicaid expansion that provides more federal funding for able-bodied adults than the truly disabled, pregnant mothers, and children the program was originally intended for.”

Norman and other fiscal hawks are seeking to implement proposed Medicaid “engagement requirements” immediately and limit the federal government’s matching of federal payments to Medicaid expansion enrollees.

“In addition to Medicaid reform, Biden’s ‘Green New Scam’ tax credits MUST be repealed. We’ll be working through the weekend to keep pushing for stronger reforms. No more SMOKE & MIRRORS.”

Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan., told reporters, “I expect the next step is to work on addressing some of the concerns raised by the Republicans who voted no. These particularly include that the deficit reduction is not enough and that what deficit reduction there is included is so heavily weighted to the end of the 10-year window.”

Friday’s vote against the budget package was a reminder of disagreements within the GOP that House leadership will have to contend with in order to pass Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

Johnson has repeatedly said that Memorial DayMay 26, would make for a good deadline for passage, while major stakeholders such as House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have suggested Independence Day, July 4.

Two natural incentives for accelerating the budgetary process are the expiration of Trump’s first-term 2017 tax cuts and the eventual running up against the federal government’s current debt limit.

Jacob Adams contributed to this report.

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Handful of Republicans Sink Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ in Key House Committee

By The Geller Report

The GOP never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, once again snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

Making perfect the enemy of the good.

Our GOP controlled House and Senate sent fewer bills to President Trump than any Congress in 70 years. They sent five bills to President Trump’s desk to sign in his first 100 days. That’s the least out of any President since the 1950s.

Handful of Republicans sink Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ in key House committee

The bill failed to pass the House Budget Committee on Friday

By Elizabeth Elkind, Tyler Olson, Fox New, May 16, 2025:

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” failed to pass the House Budget Committee on Friday, in what appears to be a massive blow to House GOP leaders’ plans to hold a House-wide vote next week.

Republican Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, and Ralph Norman of South Carolina, all voted against the legislation.

A fifth House Republican, Rep. Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania, also switched his vote from “yes” to “no,” though it was a procedural maneuver that allows him to bring the legislation up again. Smucker told reporters he was “quite confident” in the bill’s success.

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, said the panel would likely not meet again on Friday, and could reconvene on Monday.

The committee met to mark up and debate the bill, a massive piece of legislation that’s a product of 11 different House committees’ individual efforts to craft policy under their jurisdictions. The result is a wide-ranging bill that advances Trump’s priorities on the border, immigration, taxes, energy, defense and raising the debt limit.

Emotions ran high in the hallway outside the House Budget Committee’s meeting room from the outset, however, giving the media little indication of how events would transpire.

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who had been at home with his wife and newborn baby, surprised reporters when he arrived at the Cannon House Office Building after he was initially expected to miss the committee meeting.

His appearance gave House GOP leaders some added wiggle room, allowing the committee to lose two Republican votes and still pass the bill, rather than just one.

But at least four House Republicans went into the meeting warning they were opposed to the bill.

Shortly before the meeting was expected to begin, Roy, Norman, Clyde and Brecheen abruptly left the room while saying little to reporters on the way out.

Each came back a short while later and criticized the legislation in their opening remarks.

The fiscal hawks are frustrated about provisions curbing Medicaid in the bill not going into effect until 2029, and had similar issues with the delay in phasing out green energy subsidies from former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

“Only in Washington are we expected to bet on the come that in five years, then everything will work. Then we will solve the problem,” Roy said during debate. “We have got to change the direction of this town. And to my colleagues and other side of the aisle, yes, that means touching Medicaid.

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EXCLUSIVE: IRS Quietly Puts On New Face, Ousts Anti-Trump Spokeswoman With Drunk Driving Record

By The Daily Caller

The IRS replaced its left-leaning top spokeswoman who worked at the agency for 27 years but did not announce or explain her removal.

Jodie Reynolds, formerly the chief of communications for the agency who was often quoted in news stories, was previously arrested for driving while intoxicated, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The IRS quietly removed Reynolds’ name from an organizational chart after the DCNF reached out on Thursday about her history. The updated chart shows there is a new “acting” chief.

A conservative group that investigated Reynolds’ background said her case showed hypocrisy in the taxation agency tasked with enforcing the law on Americans.

“Jodie Reynolds is a perfect case study of the rot inside the IRS,” American Accountability Foundation (AAF) president Tom Jones told the DCNF. “This is an agency that will hammer working Americans over a paperwork mistake, yet it kept a top official on payroll after she was arrested for drunk driving.”

Reynolds, 50, led an office handling the IRS’ relations with Congress, other government agencies, the news media and other groups, according to the IRS website. She did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF, and the IRS’ media office did not answer questions about her employment status.

After the DCNF reached out, Reynolds deleted her X and LinkedIn accounts.

Reynolds had posted on LinkedIn in April that she was looking for another job. The IRS told the DCNF on Tuesday that Reynolds still held her chief position — before the DCNF inquired about her criminal record. The agency did not specify when she was removed.

While working under both Republican and Democratic presidents, Reynolds displayed disapproval of both Trump administrations’ policy moves in her social media postings.

She posted “#familiesbelongtogether” on Twitter in 2018, referencing a social media campaign against so-called family separation that critics say resulted from President Donald Trump’s border policies. She also liked an April LinkedIn post by a lawyer who announced that she had sued to stop Trump from firing her from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the DCNF found.

Reynolds was pulled over and arrested by Knightstown, Indiana police in October 2015 for speeding, nearly veering off the road and “failing to signal lane changes,” the local police department’s affidavit says. The arrest occurred while she was employed as a media relations specialist at the IRS, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Reynolds, who was living in Indiana at the time, told police officers that she had consumed five beers that evening, adding “that she has a government job and that she will lose it if she gets into trouble,” according to the affidavit.

Reynolds remained at the IRS under the Obama administration after having worked there since 1998 — and went on to become a branch chief, acting director and finally, in 2023, rose to become the head of its communications office, a highly visible and influential position.

The affidavit said Reynolds acted in an “abusive” manner toward police during the 2015 encounter and refused to take a chemical test to determine her blood-alcohol content. “She was very argumentative and showed mood swings,” an Indiana state trooper wrote.

In Indiana, refusing a breath test upon request of a law enforcement officer is in itself a crime. One officer said Reynolds refused despite him explaining the law to her.

“I read Indiana Implied Consent to Miss Reynolds,” the officer wrote. “Miss Reynolds said that she will not take anymore tests without a lawyer present. I asked Miss Reynolds if she is refusing to take a chemical test and she said ‘yes I am.’”

Police later obtained a warrant to have Reynolds’ blood drawn at a hospital, revealing she was unlawfully drunk while driving.

The document also said that Reynolds had five other traffic violations going back to the 1990s, four of which were for speeding. She failed to pay the fine for one of the offenses and had her license suspended in 1995.

Reynolds pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle while intoxicated and served one year of probation, though a judge found that she could have also been charged with public intoxication, records show. She initially requested a jury trial to fight her charges, but due to her probation, Reynolds walked away from the 2015 incident with no conviction on her record.

Reynolds asked a court to grant her limited driving privileges less than two months after her arrest, and a judge agreed in December, finding that she did not refuse a chemical test “knowing and willfully.”

“Defendant’s employment with the IRS requires that Defendant sometimes travel to Washington D.C.,” Reynolds’ lawyer wrote in one motion.

“Reynolds could’ve killed someone, and instead of firing her, the IRS handed her a promotion,” the AAF’s Jones told the DCNF. “If that doesn’t tell you everything about the culture of that agency, nothing will.”

The IRS began laying off workers by the dozens in February amid scrutiny from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Trump’s agency working to shrink government bureaucracy. The IRS reportedly fired almost a third of its tax auditors and about 50 IT executives by March, with DOGE planning to cut its total staff by up to two-thirds.

Reynolds made her left-leaning views public in 2017, by approvingly reposting a video on Twitter by a Black Lives Matter activist. The post declared: “If you’re tired of going to work and making money for other people, then you’re probably tired of capitalism.”

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Legalizing Anti-Semitism in America

By Beverly Newman, Ed. D.

In his revealing article “How Antisemitism Infects the Law” published by the ABA, Law Professor Robert Katz dares to document antisemitism in the legal profession and governmental agencies as “a highly infectious intellectual disease.” Not only is antisemitism in the legal system “highly infectious,” it is epidemic if not pandemic.

In far too many American courts, Jews are denigrated by lawyers before acquiescing judges or even castigated with antisemitic accusations by judges themselves. In South Florida, a judge’s antisemitic litany against a Holocaust Survivor family was profuse with slurs:

  • “deliberate callousness”
  • “inappropriate”
  • “gross indifference”
  • “oppositional behavior continued unabated”
  • “like nothing this Court has ever seen”
  • “bizarre and unjustifiable”
  • “callous disregard”
  • “egregiousness of these purported actions”
  • “vindictive and wholly inappropriate”
  • “hyperbolic”
  • “abject contempt”
  • “gross indifference”
  • “abusive”
  • “callous and inappropriate”
  • “egregious and inappropriate indifference and disrespect ”
  • “contumacious disregard.”

In some jurisdictions, it is common knowledge that all antisemitism goes unpunished and continues with impunity unabated in the world of law, as this nation is witnessing on countless college campuses, American streets, and in corporate America, where Jews are often held in contempt by co-workers or management.

Where are the aggressive prosecutions of antisemitic crimes required by Executive Orders?


How Antisemitism Infects the Law

Robert Katz

Summary

  • Antisemitic stereotypes have infiltrated legal frameworks, as seen in certain EEOC compliance manuals and judicial decisions.
  • Such biases can distort legal reasoning and undermine the impartiality of legal institutions.
  • Lawyers and legal professionals must develop a profound understanding of antisemitism to prevent its influence on the law.

Historian Paul Johnson described antisemitism as a highly infectious “intellectual disease.” This essay examines three instances where antisemitism infected the intellectual work of otherwise intelligent and well-meaning lawyers.

The first instance examines a manual published by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in which the EEOC impaired its mission by including antisemitic stereotypes. The second instance explores a case heard by the House of Lords in which antisemitism unhinged the Lords’ reasoning. The third instance discusses a case in which concern over antisemitic backlash distorted the legal strategy of lawyers defending the civil rights of Jewish plaintiffs. These instances indicate that lawyers have a personal and professional interest in developing a profound understanding of antisemitism.

EEOC Compliance Manual on Religious Discrimination

The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. In January 2021, it published the Compliance Manual on Religious Discrimination, which contains a passage designed to illustrate religious discrimination. It presents three examples:

An otherwise qualified applicant is not hired because he is a self-described evangelical Christian. A qualified non-Jewish employee is denied promotion because the supervisor wishes to give a preference based on religion to a fellow Jewish employee. An employer terminates an employee based on his disclosure to the employer that he has recently converted to the Baha’i Faith.

Section 12: Religious Discrimination, 12-I.A.1, Example 1 “Employment Decisions Based on ‘Religion’”

The second sentence in this passage, intentionally or not, reflects the antisemitic trope that Jews are clannish. This stereotype is widely held: According to a 2022 Anti-Defamation League (ADL) survey, 53 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that “Jews in business go out of their way to hire other Jews.”

Two parties are responsible for this passage: those who wrote it and those who approved it. The writers presumably started with a simple, non-antisemitic fact pattern that mirrored the Christian and Baha’i examples: “An otherwise qualified applicant is not hired because he is Jewish.” The Christian and Baha’i examples do not provide fact patterns that reinforce stereotypes.

The writers might have similarly provided the “Jewish” example. They instead chose to modify the example in certain telling ways. For example, they made the victim a non-Jew and the victimizer a Jew. They depicted the Jew as engaged in illegal activity, playing into a stereotype that Jews are devious and dishonest. They gave the Jew the power to control the fate of the non-Jew. They depicted the Jew as disloyal to the employer, who desired to promote the most qualified person.

While it seems unlikely the EEOC intended to lend credence to antisemitic stereotypes that Jews are dishonest, devious, disloyal, malevolent, controlling, and give unfair advantages to fellow Jews, the example can clearly be interpreted that way. Asserting or implying that Jews possess these odious qualities is a form of group defamation or hate speech. In some countries, this kind of anti-Jewish propaganda would be actionable.

The people who approved the manual’s publication with this passage also should have known better. Even if this language reflects unintentional or unconscious anti-Jewish bias, it demonstrates the ease with which such bias can infect otherwise sound legal minds. The fact that this appears in an EEOC publication magnifies the problem. If there is any agency that should know better it is the EEOC, an agency charged with fighting discrimination.

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Robert De Niro’s Trump Obsession and Hollywood’s Hypocrisy

By Amil Imani

For over a decade, Robert De Niro, one of Hollywood’s most celebrated actors, has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump, escalating his attacks from pointed critiques to expletive-laden rants. His disdain for the former president, whom he has called everything from a “punk” to a “clown,” has become as defining as his iconic roles in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.

Yet, the irony of De Niro’s personal life — particularly his marriage to Grace Hightower, a Black woman who reportedly voted for Trump — underscores the contradictions within Hollywood’s liberal elite.

Let’s examine how the chronicles of De Niro’s 12-year campaign against Trump reveal personal irony and critique Hollywood’s sanctimonious culture, which amplifies such feuds while overlooking their flaws.

De Niro’s public attacks on Trump began in 2011, during Trump’s “birther” campaign questioning Barack Obama’s citizenship.

In an interview at the Tribeca Film Festival, De Niro called out Trump’s claims, saying, “How dare you? That isn’t very good. To go out there and say things you can’t back up. That’s crazy.” Trump responded on Fox & Friends, dismissing De Niro as “not the brightest bulb” and “no Albert Einstein.”

By 2016, as Trump campaigned for president, De Niro’s rhetoric intensified.

At a Sarajevo event celebrating Taxi Driver’s 40th anniversary, he called Trump “totally nuts” and a “national disaster,” expressing disbelief at his rise.

That October, in a #VoteYourFuture campaign video, De Niro unleashed a tirade, labeling Trump a “punk,” “pig,” “con,” and “bullshit artist” who “doesn’t do his homework” and “thinks he’s gaming society.”

After Trump’s election, De Niro told The Hollywood Reporter he felt as devastated as after 9/11, though he briefly tempered his tone on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, saying he couldn’t punch Trump now that he was president.

In 2017, De Niro’s attacks resumed with vigor. At a “United We Stand” rally, he mocked Trump’s social media rants and criticized his immigration policies.

By 2018, De Niro’s rhetoric turned profane. At the National Board of Review gala, he called Trump a “jerk-off in chief” and “f***ing fool” while introducing Meryl Streep. At the Tony Awards, he received a standing ovation for shouting “F*** Trump,” prompting Trump to tweet that De Niro was “punch-drunk” and a “very Low IQ individual.”

In 2019, De Niro called Trump a “wannabe gangster” and “total loser” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, comparing him unfavorably to mobsters with codes of honor.

During the 2020 pandemic, he branded Trump a “lunatic” who “doesn’t care how many people die.”

In 2023, at the Gotham Awards, De Niro accused organizers of censoring his anti-Trump remarks while reading from his phone, criticizing Trump’s “30,000+ lies” and use of “Pocahontas” against Sen. Elizabeth Warren who falsified claims about Native American heritage to gain affirmative action privileges in hiring. Trump retaliated on Truth Social, calling De Niro a “total loser” whose “acting talents have greatly diminished.”

De Niro’s attacks peaked in 2024 and 2025.

In May 2024, outside the Manhattan Criminal Court during Trump’s hush-money trial, De Niro called him a “grubby real estate hustler,” “clown,” and “tyrant” who “will never leave” if re-elected. He narrated a Biden campaign ad. warning of a Trump “bloodbath.”

In September 2024, at a Megalopolis screening, De Niro said Trump “cannot do anything” and “wants to destroy the country.”

In October, he went on a “foul-mouthed tirade,” calling Trump a “piece of sh**.”

In November, at an Eagles tailgate, he likened Trump to Hitler and urged NFL fans to vote for Kamala Harris.

Most recently, in May 2025, at Cannes, De Niro accepted an honorary Palme d’Or and called Trump a “philistine president” whose 100% tariff on foreign films threatens art and democracy.

Amid De Niro’s relentless attacks, a striking irony emerges from his personal life.

De Niro was married to Grace Hightower, a Black woman, from 1997 until their divorce in 2021.

Reports suggest Hightower voted for Trump, a claim that, while unverified in primary sources, aligns with the complexity of political divides even within liberal circles. This alleged divergence highlights the disconnect between De Niro’s public persona as a progressive crusader and the private realities of his relationships. Their divorce, finalized after years of separation, underscores how political differences can strain even high-profile unions.

De Niro’s obsession with Trump is emblematic of Hollywood’s broader sanctimonious culture. The industry, dominated by liberal elites, often cloaks its moralizing in artistic virtue while ignoring its own contradictions.

Stars like De Niro decry Trump’s divisiveness yet engage in rhetoric that fuels polarization, alienating audiences who see their activism as out of touch with their values.

Hollywood’s selective outrage — condemning political figures while excusing its own history of misconduct, from Harvey Weinstein to labor abuses — reveals a double standard. De Niro’s Cannes speech, railing against Trump’s tariffs while overlooking the festival’s own controversies, like Gérard Depardieu’s sexual assault conviction, exemplifies this hypocrisy.

Moreover, Hollywood’s echo chamber amplifies voices like De Niro’s, rewarding them with applause while dismissing dissenting perspectives. The industry’s portrayal of conservatives as caricatures — think Trump as a “clown” or “Hitler” — reduces complex issues to soundbites, undermining genuine discourse. De Niro’s rants, cheered on by peers, reflect a culture that prioritizes performative activism over self-reflection while profiting from the very systems it critiques.

Robert De Niro’s extended vendetta against Donald Trump, from 2011’s measured critiques to 2025’s fiery Cannes speech, reveals a man consumed by political animus. The irony of his ex-wife’s alleged support for Trump exposes the personal contradictions beneath his public stance. More broadly, De Niro’s crusade reflects Hollywood’s sanctimonious tendency to preach while ignoring its own flaws. As audiences grow weary of celebrity moralizing, the industry should look inward rather than point fingers outward.

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Virginia County Votes Not to Report Illegal Alien Terrorists to ICE—in Name of ‘Public Safety’

By The Daily Signal

The Arlington County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to end its police department’s ability to report illegal aliens arrested for felonies and terrorist activity to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Board members couched their decision as a way to protect immigrant communities from the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, which, funny enough, target the types of criminals that Arlington is now protecting.

Prior to this egregious decision to disregard the public’s safety, the Arlington County Police Department’s interaction with ICE was already restricted in the county’s “Trust Policy,” also known as “Arlington’s Commitment to Strengthening Trust with Our Immigrant Communities,” enacted in 2022 and updated last year.

Section 7 of the “Trust Policy” very narrowly carved out a few exceptions for when police were allowed to report arrests of illegal aliens to ICE. These were for instances when police made arrests for felonies, gang activity, terrorism, and human trafficking.

The draft document had identified the presence of these illegal aliens as a “threat to the community.”

And the county was right. Now, Section 7 is crossed out in unambiguous red ink, and terrorists and other dangerous criminals will be effectively shielded from deportation.

“What the removal of Section 7 actually means is that we are not going to allow anymore that our law enforcement proactively contacts the federal government immigration authorities on any issue,” said Board Chair Takis Karantonis, a Democrat.

Several so-called immigrant rights groups have been leading a yearslong pressure campaign for Arlington police to stop all contact with ICE, specifically targeting Section 7.

Karantonis claimed that the community has “seen a decrease in safety” since the Trump administration has started deporting dangerous illegal aliens. Board members said immigrants are increasingly afraid to call 911 for fear of deportation—a claim, as TV station WJLA noted, that was made without supporting data.

“Sending people to foreign prisons and claiming we have no way to get them back is not normal,” said Democrat Board Member Maureen Coffey, possibly referring to the recent case of alleged MS-13 gang member and wife-beater Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration deported along with other gang members to a mega-prison in El Salvador. She, too, claimed that not cooperating with ICE is an issue of “public safety.”

Karantonis likewise insisted that the Trump administration is “infringing on the Constitution” by denying illegal immigrants—presumably like Abrego Garcia—due process.

However, keeping terrorists and gang members in the country would lead to more crimes and medical emergencies—specifically related to gunshot wounds and blunt force trauma—not less. This would especially affect immigrant populations, who are often exposed to this criminal behavior in their communities.

Meanwhile, since January, the administration has arrested over 219 known or suspected terrorists in the U.S., and, according to the Department of Homeland Security, 3 in 4 of the total 66,463 aliens arrested in the first 100 days of the new administration were criminals. This includes 2,288 gang members and hundreds of sex offenders and murderers.

The Trump administration’s targeted deportation of dangerous criminal aliens is exposing the far-left’s bottom line when it comes to protecting illegal aliens. It’s not about compassion. It’s not to protect hardworking legal immigrants toiling to make a living. And it certainly has nothing to do with “public safety.”

No. This system of protecting criminals who broke the law to come here can only lead to more left-leaning political supporters and more communities dependent on government handouts, effectively lining the pockets of government cronies—even at the local level.

Meanwhile the coffers of many government contractors and nongovernmental organizations like Catholic Charities are being emptied. What used to be a dependable flow of government grants creating a multibillion-dollar industry facilitating entry into the United States for illegal immigrants is no more. The new administration won’t stand for the misuse of taxpayer money and seeks to undo the damage the last administration and these organizations wreaked on our communities and the economy.

But the Left is angry. What it wants is a dingy, dilapidated, crime-ridden, third-world nightmare where no one will remember the Shining City on a Hill America used to be. They can gaslight us all they want about their bleeding-heart admonitions and hidden motives. But finally, Americans are on to them.

Erin Poff is a development writer in the donor relations department at The Heritage Foundation.

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Doc Who Revived Zombie Virus From Frozen Corpse Now Has Keys To Fauci’s Old Agency

By The Daily Caller

The new head of Anthony Fauci’s former institute has accrued an extraordinary amount of research money and power in recent weeks despite a long career conducting just the sort of high-risk virology that President Donald Trump’s health leaders have vowed to stamp out.

Virologist Jeffery Taubenberger, a longtime Fauci ally who for more than a decade has defended the practice of enhancing viruses known as gain-of-function (GOF) virology, ascended to the top of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) on April 24. His bosses, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, oppose GOF as potentially catastrophic.

One week after Taubenberger became head of NIAID, HHS announced May 1 that it would make a half a billion-dollar investment in a vaccine technology co-invented by Taubenberger. Taubenberger could receive royalty payments and lab investments should the taxpayer-funded bet on the vaccine technology prove successful, according to government watchdog Open the Books (OTB).

Taubenberger’s rise to the top of the second largest subagency at Bhattacharya’s NIH follows a career marked by headline-grabbing GOF research.

Taubenberger’s most famous experiments involved what his lab’s website refers to as “archaevirology”— reviving the 1918 Spanish flu that killed up to 100 million people from a body preserved in permafrost. Taubenberger has also participated in experiments to splice genes from 1918 flu with contemporary H1N1 viruses. Critics like Kennedy and Bhattacharya say gain-of-function experiments like these have no public health benefit.

Taubenberger did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

‘The Complaining Crowd’

As the virologist behind some of the most famous GOF experiments in history, Taubenberger worked with Fauci to advocate for the discipline against the concerns from other scientists about lab-born pandemics, emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show.

“The complaining crowd”: That’s how Taubenberger referred in a May 2020 email to people concerned about one of the earliest and most hotly debated GOF experiments — the creation of an airborne H5N1 avian influenza virus. The World Health Organization estimates the fatality rate of H5N1 to be roughly 50%.

Taubenberger’s elevation to NIAID director shows the practical challenges of “draining the swamp.” Kennedy and Bhattacharya, despite ambitions for upheaval, face an entrenched Washington bureaucracy.

Taubenberger’s leadership of the $6.6 billion institute is temporary, but it comes at a sensitive moment.

As the head of NIAID, the agency that underwrites most federally-funded GOF, Taubenberger is well-positioned to influence new regulations. His leadership coincides with a 120-day sprint to ban “dangerous gain-of-function research.” Trump signed an executive order on May 6 that started the clock on a four-month process to hammer out the precise language.

“I was very disappointed by the appointment of Jeffrey Taubenberger as head of NIAID,” Laura Kahn, a pandemic expert and coauthor of the book “One Health and the Politics of COVID-19,” told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Given Taubenberger’s research history, his appointment suggests that such work will continue to be supported by NIAID despite Trump’s executive order. Have we learned nothing from COVID-19?”

Taubenberger’s reconstruction of the 1918 influenza virus “sent a terrible message to China and Russia that dangerous GOF work was acceptable,” Kahn said.

In contrast, virologists who support GOF have praised the pick.

“He’s a senior scientist at NIH and a collaborator of Matthew Memoli who was acting NIH director … Huge plus that the lab leak conspiracists over on X are so upset about it,” wrote University of Sydney virologist Eddie Holmes on BlueSky. Holmes is a collaborator of Taubenberger and one of the virologists who aided Fauci in downplaying a possible lab origin of COVID in 2020.

When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, Taubenberger worked with Fauci’s disgraced senior scientific adviser David Morens to defend the researchers who had conducted GOF research in Wuhan. He and Morens coauthored a July 2020 scientific paper arguing that “theories about a hypothetical man-made origin” of the coronavirus “have been thoroughly discredited.”

The article published at an opportune time for Wuhan Institute of Virology collaborator Peter Daszak, whose organization EcoHealth Alliance faced the possible clawback of NIH funding if it couldn’t produce critical data about its coronavirus research in China. Morens described the article as one that “defends Peter and his Chinese colleagues.”

Sure enough, Daszak received a new $7.5 million grant from NIAID by August 2020 even without turning over information from Wuhan.

Morens later faced bipartisan criticism in 2024 for emails exposing his attempts to evade the Freedom of Information Act in his communications with Daszak, a longtime friend. Morens said that he would “delete any smoking guns.”

With help from officials within NIH like Taubenberger, Daszak stalled the suspension of his NIH funding. It was roughly four years later, after a congressional investigation, that EcoHealth and Daszak faced a federal funding suspension and, eventually, debarment.

‘Nature Is The Ultimate Bioterrorist’

Taubenberger’s public statements on GOF research — while more measured than the private communications mocking people with concerns — contrasts starkly with that of his bosses.

“In considering the threat of bioterrorism or accidental release of genetically engineered viruses, it is worth remembering that nature is the ultimate bioterrorist,” reads Taubenberger’s 2012 article defending the avian influenza experiment.

That position directly contradicts comments Bhattacharya gave on May 7 in a television interview citing that work as emblematic of the GOF the NIH plans to fetter out.

“That avian influenza work, I think it was in 2010 or 2011, and it led President Obama to actually put a freeze on all gain-of-function work which President Obama lifted almost on his last day in office in 2017,” Bhattacharya said in an interview with Newsmax. “Anything that puts the American people at risk like this is not something we at the NIH should be doing.”

Kennedy too was critical of that experiment in his 2023 book “The Wuhan Cover-Up And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race.”

Morens grumbled in an April 2020 email that he and Taubenberger had defended GOF research before against “Ludditism.”

“I am sure both of you remember the GOF attacks of a decade ago,” he said. “tony, me, Jeff Taubenberger, and many others here had to do battle with a lot of craziness. … It was much less [sic] about science than [it] was about Ludditism.”

In a separate May 2020 email, Morens reiterates the important role that he and Taubenberger played in advocating for GOF and combating the concerns of scientists at Stanford University, Harvard University and Rutgers University, which he described as “demagoguery.”

“As Tony’s scientific advisor, i spent much of the year, along with Jeff T, helping brief him and get him up to speed,” he said.

‘Leopard That Hasn’t Changed Its Spots’

The COVID-19 pandemic did not appear to dampen Taubenberger’s enthusiasm for GOF research. Taubenberger said in a December 2022 podcast interview with another prominent advocate for GOF virology that he aspired to revive other pre-1918 pandemic viruses through “archival tissues” from human autopsies, including viruses that caused pandemics in the Middle Ages.

“With the newer molecular techniques, I’ve consistently remained hopeful that someday the magic tissue sample will be found,” Taubenberger said.

The Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Energy all have intelligence pointing to a lab origin of COVID-19.

Taubenberger’s support of GOF research three years after COVID-19 emerged is troubling, according to Andrew Noymer, an associate professor of population health and disease prevention at the University of California, Irvine.

“Any leopard that hasn’t changed its spots already in the light of SARS-CoV-2, I’m skeptical will change its spots now,” Noymer said to DCNF. “I’m all for road to Damascus conversions, but if you can be pro-gain of function in December 2022, then it seems to me you’re a dyed in the wool pro-gain-of-function person and therefore not the right choice to implement the recent executive order.”

Vaccine ‘Gold’

Within a week of Taubenberger taking the reins at NIAID, he started ruffling feathers.

HHS will devote massive departmental resources toward the development of a flu vaccine platform co-owned by Taubenberger in the hopes it will provide broad protection against multiple strains of pandemic-capable flu viruses, the department announced earlier this month.

HHS has dubbed the initiative “Generation Gold Standard.”

The money has been rejiggered from a $5 billion investment by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and NIAID in next generation COVID-19 vaccines announced in 2023.

The vaccine prototypes — blandly named “BPL-1357” and “BPL-24910” — are BPL-inactivated whole-virus vaccines, a technology that has been in use since the 1950s. “BPL” stands for beta-propiolactone, a chemical used in vaccines to inactivate viruses, destroying their infectivity while retaining their ability to provoke an immune response.

Taubenberger holds two patents titled “Broadly Protective Inactivated Influenza Virus Vaccine.”

The new investment builds on the research of Taubenberger and his longtime collaborator Matthew J. Memoli, Bhattacharya’s principal deputy.

HHS said in its statement announcing Generation Gold Standard that the investment has “freedom from commercial conflicts of interest.”

But there’s another apparent conflict of interest: Should the vaccine prove safe and effective, Taubenberger could earn up to $150,000 annually and additional funds for his lab, per an investigation into NIH royalty payment rules by OTB.

NIH insists firewalls prevent the undue influence of patent holders on grant-making decisions but with few specifics. Then-NIH Acting Director Lawrence Tabak could not precisely describe the firewalls when pressed by congressional Republicans in May 2022, according to an August 2023 OTB investigation.

Some scientists criticize the surge in HHS resources toward a decades-old technology, according to press reports.

The investment is a major career milestone for Taubenberger, a Fauci-aligned expert who has not only survived but thrived in a department now led by self-declared “renegades” like Kennedy.

The success comes despite a career and declared worldview starkly at odds with the renegade ethos of his bosses.

“My wife bought me a mug that says ‘my medical degree is worth more than your Google search,’” Taubenberger said in the 2022 podcast interview.

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EXCLUSIVE: Recruits Flood Into Border Patrol’s Ranks After Years Of Bad Morale Under Biden, Memo Shows

By The Daily Caller

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seen a massive boost in recruiting numbers after years of low morale under former President Joe Biden, according to an internal memo obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Under Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, CBP saw a massive 44% spike in applications from January to May 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, according to the memo. Under Biden, CBP struggled to stem the tide of millions of migrants while the administration mostly ignored its requests for help, causing low recruitment figures while low morale caused suicides among agents to spike.

During the Biden years, CBP tallied a whopping 8.5 million border encounters, as well as over 1.7 million known gotaways. More than 250 migrants encountered at the southern border between 2021 and 2023 were on the terror watchlist.

On his way out of the agency, former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Chris Magnus said in 2022 morale was “the worst it’s ever been” in an email to CBP leaders. Magnus was reportedly told to step down by former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas or else be fired.

Morale was such an issue that CBP even hired a “suicidologist” in early 2021 to address the spike in suicides, The Washington Examiner previously reported. Even as Biden attempted to stop the decline in manpower with better funding, border crossings continued going unchecked while the CBP’s ranks were depleted.

Trump issued an executive order cracking down on illegal immigration immediately when he entered office, while also undoing Biden-era directives that hampered enforcement on the ground. Border apprehensions plummeted during his first month in office, hitting a fifteen-year low in February, according to the DHS.

Other divisions under the DHS have also seen improvement in performance markers and recruitment under new management, according to the memo obtained by the DCNF.

The U.S. Coast Guard has seen an uptick in drug seizures, capturing 11% more cocaine in fiscal year 2025 so far than the entire preceding year, the memo reads. Over 4,250 new recruits have joined up, an increase of 1,200 relative to the same period of time in 2024, and the Coast Guard has seized over 110,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana worth more than $1.5 billion.

Additionally, the Secret Service also had a recruitment spike, drawing in 200% more applications so far this year.

“For four years, the previous administration demoralized and denied resources to our brave men and women in law enforcement, including in the Secret Service,” A DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “We are reinvigorating the Secret Service and providing it with the resources our brave and women need to do their jobs.”

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Trump’s Gulf Bonanza

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

It used to be that only the leaders of smaller, mercantile powers would travel the world with an entourage of businessmen and use their political clout to help them sign deals.

French president Mitterrand turned this into an art form, and his successors have all sought to champion “La Maison France” during diplomatic missions abroad or during the visits of foreign leaders to Paris.

This sometimes led to retrospective embarrassment, such as Prime Minister Jacques Chirac gushing over visiting Iraqi vice president Saddam Hussein in 1975 and taking him on a tour of the Dassault Mirage fighter jet factory and of a French nuclear reactor, before selling the Iraqis both.

Chirac even hosted Saddam to an epic lunch in the hilltop paradise, Les Baux-de-Provence, where the Iraqi pledged hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money to the young men who won a “cockade” bull fight specially staged in his honor. I tell the inside story of French arms sales to Saddam in the first volume of my memoir, And the Rest is History.

So far, the only people embarrassed by Donald Trump’s whirlwind tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates seem to be Democrats in Congress, who have pledged to put a hold on the hundreds of billions of dollars of new arms sales to those countries until Trump “explains” the Qatari offer of a $400 million Boeing jet he can use as Air Force One.

Even former Biden and Obama era officials were grudgingly praising the president for the way he wielded the powers of the presidency, not just in getting more than $1 trillion in investment deals and commercial purchases from the Gulf states, but in conducting diplomacy.

At the suggestion of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Trump held a thirty minute meeting on Wednesday in Riyadh with new Syrian president Ahmad al-Sharaa, who just six months ago had a $10 million U.S. bounty on his as an international terrorist.

In any other administration, such a suggestion would have been turned over to the National Security Council and the “inter-agency,” where bureaucrats at a handful of government departments and the heads of intelligence agencies could chew it like cud — and invariably get the president to nix the idea because it had never been done.

Trump used the opportunity to publicly call on al-Sharaa to recognize Israel and join the Abraham Accords, which, if it happens, would totally transform the Middle East.

Also during the trip, Hamas released the last remaining U.S. hostage, Edan Alexander. But a deal brokered by Steve Witkoff for them to release another ten Israeli hostages apparently fell through. By the time you read this, Israel could be pummeling Hamas again.

Previous U.S. presidents distributed U.S. taxpayer dollars during overseas trips. President Trump has been filling the tax coffers instead.

As he was flying back to the United States, Trump revealed that Witkoff had put a term sheet on the table for a nuclear deal with Iran, and warned that the Iranians had a limited window for accepting it.

This brought an immediate response from Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, who wrote on X that Iran “has not received any written proposal from the united States, whether directly or indirectly.”

Araghchi went on to reiterate the Iranian regime’s own non-negotiable demand that they be allowed to retain the capability to enrich uranium, which Trump, Rubio, and 51 Republican Senators have rejected.

I suspect the Iranians are, once again, trying to play us. If they continue in this vein they are going to lose and lose big.

On the sidelines of the President’s Gulf Bonanza tour, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Putin wasn’t coming to peace talks with Ukraine, and that NATO members were poised to agree to boost defense spending to 5% of GDP, more than double the current 2% guideline.

In any other presidency, that would have been headline news. What a time we are privileged to live in.

I discuss all this, as well as the astonishing advances Ukraine has made in battlefield tactics and in their defense production on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

The Ukrainians have created an entire new defense industry that today churns out 200,000 military drones every month, so when the Z-man comes to the table with Putin, he will have some unexpected new cards in his hand.

As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. Later, you can listen to podcast here.

Yours in freedom.

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James Comey Deletes ‘8647’ Post After Online Backlash Sparks Calls For Investigation

By The Daily Caller

Former FBI Director James Comey deleted a post depicting ‘8647’ from his Instagram on Thursday after sparking online outrage from Republicans and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, who opened an investigation.

In a now-deleted post to Instagram, Comey uploaded a picture of shells that depicted four numbers, ‘8647,’ saying he found the ‘cool shell formation’ during his walk on the beach. Republicans swiftly called out the former FBI director, saying the message was a threat to President Donald Trump as the term ’86’ is commonly used to “get rid of” or “throw out.”

With backlash piling on from figures like Trump’s senior advisor Dan Scavino Jr. and Donald Trump Jr., Comey deleted his original post and added a new one saying he didn’t “realize” the association of the numbers.

“I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence of any kind so I took the post down,” Comey wrote.

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Prior to the takedown of his post, Trump Jr. took to X saying Comey is “causally calling for my dad to be murdered.”

“This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!!”

Scavino Jr., in another post on X, called the former FBI director a “POS,” alleging he “knows exactly what he’s doing.”

“Comey truly is a POS. While he’ll claim not to know what 8647 means, there’s no doubt that the former disgraced FBI Dir. knows exactly what he’s doing, with a plea to bad actors/terrorists to assassinate the POTUS’ while traveling internationally,” Scavino Jr. wrote. “Don’t let him get away with it!!”

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said on X that Comey is making “cringe posts,” adding that the country should be “grateful” he was removed from the law enforcement agency.

“James Comey held himself up as a bastion of fairness and moral rectitude,” Kirk wrote. “Now, he makes cringe posts like a childless 50-year-old liberal woman on Facebook. The entire country should be grateful Trump put this weirdo out to pasture.”

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also spoke out, asking how “many times” Democrats are “going to try to assassinate President Trump”?

Noem in response said Comey “called for the assassination” of the 47th president, adding that both DHS and the Secret Service will investigate the “threat and will respond appropriately.”

FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that the agency is aware of the post, adding they are in “communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran.”

“Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support,” Patel wrote.

Trump has yet to publicly respond to Comey’s post. The president left the United States and this week is conducting discussions in Saudi Arabia. During Trump’s 2024 campaign, he faced two assassination attempts, with the first leaving him injured by a bullet and one rally attendee killed.

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Hailey Gomez

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Senate Rejects Dem Effort Defending Illegal Migrant Criminals

By The Daily Caller

The Senate on Thursday afternoon voted down a resolution from Senate Democrats to require President Donald Trump’s State Department to write a report on El Salvador’s human rights practices — in light of the administration’s deportation of illegal migrant criminals.

Senators voted along party lines — 50 to 45 — to reject the motion to discharge the resolution, led by Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Alex Padilla of California and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senate Republicans sharply criticized the effort as “pure political theater” and another example of their Democratic colleagues defending illegal migrant criminals and obstructing the president’s deportation agenda.

The resolution also required the State Department to report any steps the administration is taking to comply with a court order to “facilitate” the return of reputed MS-13 gangbanger and human trafficker, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The El Salvadoran national has been named in two domestic abuse cases against his wife and has been accused of trafficking illegal migrants across state lines.

Van Hollen referred to Abrego Garcia as his “constituent” on the Senate floor Thursday prior to the vote. Van Hollen was the first Democratic lawmaker to travel to El Salvador in April to protest his deportation and advocate for his return to the United States.

“I have made very clear from the start that I’m not vouching for Kilmar Abrego Garcia,” Van Hollen said Thursday. “I am vouching for his rights, because if you deny his rights, you put in jeopardy the rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.”

Senate Republicans torched Democrats for forcing a vote on the resolution.

“Senator Van Hollen says he does not ‘vouch’ for Garcia, yet he’s one of many Democrats who visited Garcia in El Salvador,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso during a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday. “What they’re proposing is to shield illegal immigrant criminals from deportation and help them evade arrest.”

“This [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] is who Democrats are defending – not just that one individual, but that whole style of behavior that has now impacted every community in America,” Barrasso continued.

“I’m frustrated why we have to have extensive due process for folks who ignore due process to come here,” Republican Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy told the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday. “This is a very curious turn of constitutionality from folks who had no concern about the constitutionality of millions of people coming here illegally.”

Senate Republicans also noted that their Democratic colleagues have largely rejected efforts to crack down on illegal immigration in the 119th Congress.

Just 12 Senate Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act, the first piece of legislation Trump signed into law during his second term. The law requires the detention of illegal migrants accused, charged or convicted of an array of criminal offenses.

Similarly, no Senate Democrats in April supported Republicans’ budget resolution unlocking historic amounts of funding to fast-track the president’s deportation agenda.

“What they should be doing is taking their energy to work with us to improve the economy, to make the country safer, to reduce government spending — that’s what they should be doing,” Republican Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno told the DCNF. “This stuff is just total nonsense.”

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Adam Pack

Contributor.

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