Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said the Trump administration needs better “transparency” regarding the Jeffrey Epstein case, shortly after President Donald Trump doubled down on calling the files a “made-up” hoax orchestrated by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other Democrat leaders.

Speaking with reporters on the steps outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Roy appeared to stumble over his answer when asked if he thinks the Department of Justice (DOJ) has “been transparent enough when it comes to the Epstein matter,” but ultimately called for the administration to “address” the situation:

“Uh, look, I’ll let the, you know, Department of Justice continue to carry out what they need to do, I do think there needs to be more transparency,” he said. “I do think that all needs to move forward, and I think that the administration needs to address that. But we’ll keep, you know, talking to them about what they’re going to do.”

When further asked if the DOJ’s controversial memo claiming there was no evidence of an Epstein sex trafficking “client list” and that the billionaire criminal had committed suicide in his New York City prison cell was “good enough” for him, Roy replied, “We’ll see. We want to see more information out of that.”

The congressman’s call for “more information” regarding the case came shortly after Trump told reporters outside the White House that the “files” associated with Epstein were “made up by [former FBI Director James] Comey, they were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden [administration].”

“And we went through years of that, with the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax, with all of the different things that we had to go through — we’ve gone through years of it,” he continued. 

Referring to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump said, “She’s handled it very well, and it’s going to be up to her. Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release.”

Trump’s latest statement on the subject followed a few days after a long Truth Social post claiming that the Epstein files were “written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, [former CIA Director John] Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration.”

After listing other priorities he believes the DOJ should focus on, including “investigating Voter Fraud, Political Corruption, ActBlue, The Rigged and Stolen Election of 2020, and arresting Thugs and Criminals,” the president said Americans should “not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”

The administration’s assertion that there is no “client list” of people who procured underage girls from Epstein has contradicted what even some of Trump’s most senior officials have said in the past, including Vice President JD Vance.

“What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…” Vance wrote when he was running for Senate in 2021:

“If you’re a journalist and you’re not asking questions about this case you should be ashamed of yourself. What purpose do you even serve?” he wrote in a follow-up:

Trump himself chided a reporter for asking about the case last week after the DOJ’s memo dropped, saying, “I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this”:

Olivia Rondeau is a politics reporter for Breitbart News based in Washington, DC. Find her on X/Twitter and Instagram. 

President Trump has reportedly given Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the go-ahead to strike targets deep inside Russia using U.S. weaponry.

According to the report, the conversation took place during a telephone call between Trump and Putin on July 3, which left Trump feeling that Putin wasn’t very interested in any peace plan that did not involve reducing Ukraine to a Russian vassal state. In that call, Putin made it clear that he intended to pursue Russian war aims.

The following day, Trump and Zelensky reportedly had a call in which Trump urged Zelensky to “make them [the Russians] feel the pain.”

Two people familiar with the conversation between Trump and Zelenskyy said the US president had asked his Ukrainian counterpart whether he could hit military targets deep inside Russia if he provided weapons capable of doing so.

“Volodymyr, can you hit Moscow? . . . Can you hit St Petersburg too?” Trump asked on the call, according to the people.

They said Zelenskyy replied: “Absolutely. We can if you give us the weapons.” 

Trump signalled his backing for the idea, describing the strategy as intended to “make them [Russians] feel the pain” and force the Kremlin to the negotiating table, according to the two people briefed on the call.

The White House issued some mild pushback on the story that, in my view, amounts to a non-denial denial.

The White House insisted in a statement to The Post that the comments should not be taken out of context, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt pushing back on the Financial Times’ framing of the call, which suggested Trump encouraged Zelensky to step up strikes deep into Russian territory.

“The Financial Times is notorious for taking words wildly out of context to get clicks because their paper is dying,” Leavitt told The Post.

“President Trump was merely asking a question, not encouraging further killing. He’s working tirelessly to stop the killing and end this war.”

Note that the White House response is missing either a denial that the call took place or that Trump told Zelensky to “make them feel the pain.” Instead, we’re supposed to assume that “feel the pain” meant calling the Russians bad names or blocking them on Instagram and not striking deep targets.

The events of the past few days have added more details to the events. When NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited the White House on Monday, Trump issued a 50-day deadline for Putin to come to the bargaining table. This was a change from the non-operative two-week deadlines that preceded it on at least two occasions (April 27 and May 14). Not only did Trump threaten Putin’s Russia with punishing secondary sanctions, which have so far been off the table, he also changed direction on Pentagon weapons sales from the, in my view, ill-advised Pentagon decision to discontinue sending arms to Ukraine.

The new method of arming Ukraine by selling weapons to the Europeans for donation to Ukraine, or to fill European stocks, while sending older equipment and munitions to Ukraine, gives a fig leaf to the Pentagon architects of weapons moratorium rather than open repudiation. The Europeans buying our weapons does nothing more to relieve the shortages of ammunition cited by the Pentagon than sending them to Ukraine directly. As any transfer of U.S. weapons and munitions requires our approval, we are still openly arming Ukraine.

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This followed an announcement on Friday that Germany would fund the production of long-range missiles based on a design developed in Ukraine. 

Ukraine will begin receiving hundreds of domestically produced long-range weapon systems by the end of July under a German-financed agreement, German Major General Christian Freuding told the German ZDF news channel on July 11.

The weapons will be supplied in a “high triple-digit quantity,” he said, referring to a deal between Ukraine’s Defense Ministry and local arms producers that Berlin agreed to fund in late May.

“We need weapons systems that can reach far into the depth of Russian territory — to hit depots, command centers, airfields and aircraft,” Freuding said, adding that Germany is “ready to provide such systems.”

The statement likely refers to the Neptune R-360 missile, which has a range exceeding 600 miles and has seen combat use.

In the past, Germany has refused to provide Ukraine with any weapon system that the U.S did not match. Where Britain and France have transferred their Storm Shadow and SCALP EG cruise missiles to Ukraine, Germany resolutely refused to release Taurus even after the U.S. gave ATACMS to Ukraine.

Even though Trump seemed to give Putin a deadline, one which the Russians ruthlessly mocked, I’d point out that the Axios report of Trump’s July 3 call with Putin has Putin saying he has a 60-day offensive plan in which he hoped to take the administrative boundaries of the four Ukrainian provinces he has annexed. Putin’s 60 days and Trump’s 50 days are about 10 days apart (July 3 and July 14).

Whether Trump’s suggestion to Zelensky marks a new combativeness in a strangely docile Trump as it relates to Putin, or it is part of a negotiation scheme to convince Putin to come to the table, remains to be seen. We’ll only know that when Trump’s 50-day deadline expires and the war is still going full bore, and he has to either deliver on his ultimatum or follow the Tik-Tok model and give Putin more time.

Editor’s Note: This article was updated post-publication for clarity.

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Investigative journalist James O’Keefe and his O’Keefe Media Group (aptly shortened as “OMG”) are at it again. O’Keefe made his name first with Project Veritas and later with his newer outfit by catching politicians and big company executives saying things on undercover video that they really wish they hadn’t.

Now, one of his reporters captured a “Lead Scientist in Regulatory Affairs” at pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson saying the company did not test its COVID vaccine properly and that it wasn’t actually effective.

Color me shocked. Actually, I’m not in the slightest.

“We didn’t do the typical tests,” said Joshua Rys… [who] revealed on hidden camera that the typical clinical process was abandoned for the COVID-19 vaccine, knowingly bypassing standard testing protocols under pressure from the U.S. government and public demand. He added, “This was just, ‘let’s test it on some lab models… and just throw it to the wind and see what happens.’”

He acknowledged that the public wasn’t informed about the shortcuts, asking, “Do you have any idea the lack of research that was done on those products?” Rys claimed, “People wanted it, we gave it to them.”

Ok, so they didn’t test it properly. But it would at least stop you from getting the virus, right?

Not according to Rys:

While public officials claimed the vaccines were “safe and effective,” Rys pushed back. “There’s no proof. None of that stuff was safe and effective,” he said, adding that the industry relies on a benefit-risk tradeoff to justify product launches.

Watch:

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I knew back in 2021 that the J&J vax was junk for two reasons. You see, I took it—I did not want to, but it was the only way I would be allowed to see a seriously ailing close relative—and the very next day the government issued a temporary pause on its use due to concerns it could cause blood clots. That sure made me feel good.

Not too much longer after that, I came down with COVID. Some vaccine. Months later, Joe Biden was still telling us that if you got the jab, you wouldn’t get the Wuhan Flu. That, to put it mildly, was simply not true, just like so much else of what they sold us.

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Fauci: I Made It All Up

Needless to say, I refused all “boosters” and thankfully never got a dose of the experimental mRNA shots that were being peddled by Pfizer and Moderna. Raise your hand if you know someone who got addicted to getting boosted endlessly but seemed to come down with the virus once a month.

Rys also pointed to the immense pressure the company was under as people wanted a solution to the global crisis. “The government is like, ‘We need help… You’re solving this problem,'” he said. “People panic, so they try to solve it in whatever way they think is good.”

Unfortunately, we cannot know how much truth is being told here, because sometimes in these undercover situations, the unwitting subjects can boast, try to impress a date, make themselves sound more important at their companies than they really are, etc.

Nevertheless, I am still looking forward to hearing what J&J has to say about these remarks. Rys was confronted on camera by O’Keefe about his comments, but quickly clammed up and tried to get away as fast as he could. 

OMG ends their article with: “Stay tuned for part two.” That should be interesting indeed.

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The Lone Star State has boosted tax incentives for Hollywood to $300 million every two years, with guaranteed funding for ten years.

According to my public school math, that’s $1.5 billion in corporate welfare for an industry that hates Texas, hates Texans, and opposes tax cuts for everyone else.

Why do this?

Texas has two reasons, per the far-left Los Angeles Times…

Well, first off, Texas believes Hollywood business boosts other businesses — hotels, restaurants, etc.

Okay, but what business doesn’t boost other businesses? Nothing makes film, TV, and advertising uniquely special in this regard.

Here’s what drives me insane about this rationalization to give taxpayer-funded handouts to people who hate taxpayers, especially Texas taxpayers. First is that the government, including state government, should not be picking winners and losers. Well, the entertainment industry deserves a tax break, but not any other industries. That is no way to run a state or country. Some guy with eight employees is trying to keep his printing company afloat, while a bunch of left-wing multinational corporations live off the fat of the land? That’s bullshit.

Then there’s the hypocrisy. The entertainment industry is as far left as any industry in America. It’s an industry that props up socialist Democrats who detest any tax break for any American or any American business not called PBS or Planned Parenthood.

What’s more, movies and TV shows relentlessly push propaganda against corporations, they still slander Reaganomics and attack tax cuts of any kind as evil… And yet, here Hollywood is with its big, fat, wealthy, progressive hand out looking for a handout funded by everyday working people.

If Hollywood were in favor of tax cuts for everyone, if Hollywood would admit that Reaganomics works (not just for the entertainment business), I still wouldn’t like corporate welfare. Still, it would remove the gall of the shameless hypocrisy.

The second reason Texas is offering all this corporate welfare is…

“We are not trying to make Texas the next Hollywood — we don’t like Hollywood. We want to export Texas values,” said Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick,” reports the Times, who describes Patrick as a “staunch conservative who has relentlessly opposed legalized marijuana, gambling, and abortion.”

Nevertheless, Patrick has vowed to “make Texas the Film Capital of the World.”

That seems pretty naïve to me. Back in the Golden Age, during the Studio Era, when Hollywood was mostly a Republican town, it was because of where the people who found and ran the industry came from, which was all over the country. Not just the executives, but also the stars. Back then, no one was to the manor born. They were merchants, farmers, hustlers, businessmen, and mostly products of Middle and Small Town America.

That’s all changed now. Hollywood is a cesspool of leftism mostly because of where the people who populate it come from, who are to the manor born: both the nepotism of growing up in a show business world and the provincialism of being raised in Southern California. Plus, there’s the conservative blacklist to keep the entertainment industry culture ideologically “pure.”

You want to import that into Texas?

“The bill, which supports the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Fund (TMIIF) program, offers tiered grants up to 25% for projects spending $1.5 million in the state,” the L.A. Times adds. “Faith-based films and those that shoot in historic sites or employ a percentage of crew who are Texas-based military veterans can push grants up to 31%.”

The bill also gives the governor’s office “broad discretion over which projects receive funds.” These funds can be denied if it’s decided that the “material… portrays Texas negatively or contains ‘inappropriate’ content.”

I still remember this single example…

“In 2010, then-Gov. Rick Perry’s administration yanked funding for the Robert Rodriguez film Machete over concerns that the movie portrayed Texas negatively.”

Ya think?

No one should receive special tax cuts or credits, especially an industry devoted to increasing everyone else’s taxes.

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President Donald Trump told reporters during a meeting with NATO chief Mark Rutte on Monday that European NATO members would fund billions of dollars of American military equipment, including Patriot missiles, for Ukraine and threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with a massive 100-per cent indirect tariff if he did not make peace in 50 days.

Trump explained that, if Putin did not end his invasion of Ukraine in 50 days, he will begin his proposed regime of “secondary tariffs” on the Russian economy. While Western states have imposed direct tariffs on Russia for years with mixed success, the concept of secondary tariffs is to place punitive levies on countries that buy Russian exports, encouraging them to disconnect from trading with Moscow.

China and India are the largest customers for Russian crude oil, for instance, and could face a new 100 per cent punishment tariff for doing business with Russia in 50 days, the beginning of September.

President Trump also announced a new deal with European NATO allies to enable a fresh rush of weapons to Ukraine to keep fighting Russia. Unlike under the last administration, the president said, these weapons would be made in America but wholly funded by Europe, effectively creating a massive inflow of foreign investment into U.S. companies and jobs.

Trump also spoke of how First Lady Melania Trump is something of a grounding force to him when he’s deeply involved in Ukraine war peace negotiation.

“I speak to [Putin a lot]… I always hang up and say ‘well that was a nice phone call’ and then missiles are launched into Kyiv,” Trump recalled, “I go home, I tell the first lady, ‘you know, I spoke to Vladimir today, we had a wonderful conversation’. And then she says ‘oh really? Another city was just hit.’”

The sanctions and weapons announcements were made alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who described the deal as “really big.”

“Europe is stepping up,” he asserted. “Ukraine can get its hands on really massive numbers of military equipment both for air defence but also missiles, ammunition etc.”

“So if I was Vladimir Putin today and I hear what you are planning to do in 50 days, I would reconsider that I should take negotiations about Ukraine more seriously,” he added.

The exact terms of the weapons deal was not made explicit, but both men made clear the initial rush would be provided by European states shipping more of their own stores of weapons, missiles, and ammunition to Ukraine, and then backfilling their reserves with new production from the United States.

“We’ve made a deal today where we’re going to be sending them weapons and they’re going to be paying for them,” President Trump said. “They’ll be sent to NATO, NATO may choose to have some of them sent to other countries where we can get a little additional speed where the country can release something, it’ll be mostly in the form of a replacement”.

“Countries will move equipment fast into Ukraine, and then the U.S. later backfilling that because speed is of the essence,” Rutte elaborated, “taking consideration of what the U.S. needs itself, it isn’t like you can have a shopping list where you order have whatever you want because the U.S. has to make sure it keeps its hand on what it needs to keep the whole world safe, because you are the police agent of the whole world”.

In a specific case, President Trump said, one unspecified country that was on the verge of receiving 17 complete Patriot Missile air defence systems had agreed to delay taking that delivery, so some of those ready-to-go batteries could go to Ukraine. They would then wait for future production to have their delivery honoured.

Ukraine especially prizes Patriot missiles as they are effective at shooting down the Russian ballistic missiles that daily rain down on Ukrainian cities.

On the tariffs on Russia’s global customers and the Russian economy more generally, President Trump said he is “very unhappy” with Vladimir Putin for always being ready to talk peace but not act. On the punitive tariffs coming to deny Russia her global trade partners and allies, President Trump said: “we’re going to be doing very severe tariffs… doing secondary tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days, it’s very simple, and they’ll be at 100 per cent, and that’s the way it is, couldn’t be more simple. I hope we don’t have to do it”.

One of the major areas of Russian exports that has managed to continue earning Kremlin significant quantities of foreign cash through the war is energy.

China and India dominate purchases of coal and oil, analyses state, and slapping a mega-100-per-cent tariff on those countries may be difficult enough. But in other areas, even strong allies of the U.S. and Ukraine continue to buy huge volumes of Russian energy, even as they sanction and criticise Moscow elsewhere.

Turkey – a NATO member – is a major importer of Russian coal and refined oil products. The European Union, despite everything, continues to import record levels of Russian Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) to keep the lights on across the continent.

President Trump recommended Russia stop fighting and instead focus on opening up trade to the West in an era of peace, stating: “from Putin’s standpoint, their economy is going very poorly, he’s got to get his economy back, save his country … he’s got a great country for trading, he could use the assets instead of war. He’s got some tremendous potential”.

When the framers of the Constitution were forming the idea of Congress, a bicameral body that would include a House of Representatives and a Senate, the idea was that one would be elected to office, serve a term, maybe two, then go home and live under the laws you enacted as an elected official. Needless to say, that idea has gone the way of the horse and buggy. Serving in Congress was never meant to be a lifelong career. But now, one of those elected officials is actually acknowledging that there is a problem, and may have a solution. 

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) is a relative newbie to the Swamp. She was elected in 2022, and before that, she had never held public office. As an auto shop owner in her native Washington, she does not fit the mold of the average House member. Because just a few years ago, she was an average American with a real job, she has seen firsthand what she calls “a disconnect between Washington, D.C., and everyday Americans,” and much to Democrats’ dismay, has spoken about it out loud. But she also wants to address another problem, the problem of aging lawmakers.

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Gluesenkamp Perez says she includes the age problem in that disconnect between Washington, D.C., and voters. She stated:

“What I’ve heard from my neighbors, my community is this idea that this place is being run by a bunch of staffers. And we’re seeing a very real decline in confidence in Congress.”

In June, Gluesenkamp Perez offered up a solution to the problem. She proposed an amendment that would require the Office of Congressional Conduct to establish a standard that would determine members’ “ability to perform the duties of office unimpeded by significant irreversible cognitive impairment.” That standard could prompt ethics investigations into whether a member of Congress was so mentally incapacitated that the House’s credibility was impaired. 

However, Gluesenkamp Perez is finding out what an uphill battle she faces. Her amendment failed in a decisive voice vote, with few if any Democrats on the committee voting for it. Even Reps. David Valadao (R-CA) and Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), the chair and ranking members of the subcommittee, were opposed to it. Valadao admitted to “a lot of concern with some of our colleagues sometimes when we see some of their comments,” but added that elections are the way that members of Congress are deemed fit for office. Gluesenkamp Perez is also in favor of term limits, but says her amendment would give Congress a chance to “impartially evaluate these questions,” while also maintaining a “representative body of all ages and experiences.” 

The question of the mental acuity of elected officials became front and center during the June 2024 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. It highlighted a rapidly aging group of politicians. In addition to the then-81-year-old Biden, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is 74, and Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Maxine Waters (D-CA) are 85 and 86, respectively. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is 88 and has said she will run for reelection several times, but staff members have walked it back. But it gets even worse. In December, I brought you the story of Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), 82, who disappeared for roughly the last five months of her term and was found in a Texas memory care and assisted living facility. And Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) died in office at age 90.

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If there is still such a thing as a moderate Democrat, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez might be described as such. It might sound like a lot of political speak, but she is not backing down from trying to gain support from her fellow Democrats for her proposal, saying:

“It’s clear people want systemic reform. They want accountability. If we are going to … persist in a system of co-equal branches of government, I think this is a really important question to take up.”

Elderly lawmakers might be the least of the Democrats’ problems. But like all the other ones, do they have the will to solve it?

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Can CNN get worse? That’s an evergreen question with an evergreen answer. 

On Monday, libertarian commentator Brad Polumbo was part of the panel on Abby Phillip’s primetime show, and things quickly devolved into racism after Ana Navarro couldn’t form an actual rebuttal. The co-host of “The View” claimed that Donald Trump’s presidency has been a “reign of terror.” At that point, Polumbo rightly, and fairly politely, pointed out that such a statement is hyperbolic.

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Did Navarro then provide evidence to back up her rhetoric? Of course, not. She dismissed Polumbo as a “white man” whose opinions don’t matter because of his race. A fair warning that you may lose some brain cells watching this exchange. 

NAVARRO: Also, I want to respond to you, saying I was hyperbolic when I talked about a reign of terror. 

POLUMBO: Yeah, that is hyperbolic. 

NAVARRO: No, it might be hyperbolic for you as a white man. It’s certainly not hyperbolic for me as a Latino. 

POLUMBO: Oh, sure, sure, be racist.

NAVARRO: No, I’m not being racist.

POLUMBO: You’re dismissing my opinion for being a white man. 

NAVARRO: No, I’m not dismissing your opinion.

POLUMBO: Yes, you are.

NAVARRO: I am telling you that the Latino community, the brown community, in America

POLUMBO: ..They don’t speak with one voice. 

NAVARRO: Okay, well, let me speak with my voice! You said I was being hyperbolic. Let me respond. 

POLUMBO: After you insulted me racially, sure. 

NAVARRO: I’m not…being a white man is an insult?!

POLUMBO: When you invoke it to dismiss my opinion, yes. 

NAVARRO: Being a white man is an insult?!

POLUMBO: When you invoke it as an argument…

NAVARRO: Do you think Latinos are living under certain circumstances that other people may not be right now in this country? 

Full disclosure that Polumbo and I have interacted several times in the past, but given his libertarian positions, we often disagree on base-level politics. So I’m not coming at this from someone who would be afraid to say he was wrong if I thought he was wrong. But he’s not wrong here, and Navarro’s behavior is yet more of the absurdity we’ve come to expect from CNN. 

For one, she’s a multi-millionaire television host whose family legally immigrated to Miami when she was a child. How does that make her a spokesperson for the “struggle” of the “brown community?” She has had every opportunity given to her, including going to top-level universities. No part of her story as an American has been one of oppression. Yet, she wears it like a skinsuit, pretending to speak for tens of millions of people based on their race, as if they have a monolithic single viewpoint on various issues. The 2024 election showed that isn’t true. 

But it wasn’t really Navarro’s rantings that got my attention. I probably wouldn’t have even written this piece had that been the end of it. It was what Phillip then did that was truly out of line. 

PHILLIP: We’re about to have a whole conversation about that very thing. But I just want to make a point that, Brad, all she’s saying that her view of the situation is different than yours. I don’t think that’s an insult. 

POLUMBO: She basically said I’m wrong because I’m a white male. 

POLUMBO: It’s also not an explanation why I’m wrong. 

PHILLIP: No, no, no, she just said I see it differently from you…

(Navarro starts screaming in the background)

PHILLIP: She said I see it differently from you, which is not an insult, and it’s also not a racial insult. 

So Polumbo gets racially insulted, having his opinion dismissed because he’s a “white man.” Navarro then screams at him repeatedly when he pushes back on that contention, and Phillip’s response is to…go after Polumbo? 

On what planet did Navarro only say, “I see it differently from you?” Phillip claims that’s all that was said, but I have eyes and ears. Navarro directly brought up Polumbo’s race as a way to belittle him, providing no other commentary to support her “reign of terror” statement. Yet, Phillip almost rolls her eyes while confronting Polumbo to let him know that’s not an insult, much less a racial one. I mean, come on. 

With Scott Jennings likely having political ambitions and appearing on CNN less, this is what Phillip’s program has devolved into. That Greg Gutfeld continues to swamp her in the key demo should surprise no one. 

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At least 30 people were killed over the weekend in clashes between Druze militia and Sunni Muslim Bedouin tribes in the southern Syrian province of Sweida.

The Syrian Interior Ministry reported over 100 injuries in addition to the deaths.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) cited its sources inside Syria to provide a much worse casualty estimate of 89 dead, including 14 members of the Syrian government’s security force.

The fighting reportedly began on Friday when armed Bedouins seized a young Druze vegetable vendor on the highway between Sweida and the capital city of Damascus. The area where the kidnapping occurred is a predominantly Bedouin neighborhood in the majority-Druze city of Sweida.

The Druze are one of Syria’s numerous ethnic and religious minorites. About half of the world’s one million Druze live in Syria, while most of the rest live in Lebanon and Israel.

The Druze feared persecution after the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in December, so Israel offered them protection, striking extremist groups allegedly preparing to attack Syrian Druze communities and warning Syria’s junta government to keep its troops away from Druze neighborhoods in the Golan Heights.

Roughly a million Bedouins live in Syria, organized into nomadic clans. Like the bulk of the Syrian population, they are Sunni Muslims, whereas the Assad dynasty was ruled by members of a Shiite sect called the Alawites. The Bedouin lifestyle of herding camels, sheep, and goats across the steppes of Syria was severely impacted by the long and brutal Syrian civil war.

Druze militia retaliated for the merchant’s abduction over the weekend and the violence quickly escalated and spread across the province. Local media reported that bands of Bedouin tribesmen attacked villages outside the city of Sweida. Several of the fatalities were said to be women and children.

The government of interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Sunday it was deploying internal security forces and Syrian Arab Army units to “end the clashes quickly and decisively.”

“The lack of state, military and security institutions is a major reason for the ongoing tensions in Sweida. The only solution is to reactivate these institutions to ensure civil peace,” argued Interior Minister Anas Khabbab.

“Some clashes occurred with outlawed armed groups, but our forces are doing their best to prevent any civilian casualties,” a spokesman for the Interior Ministry on Monday said.

Some Druze leaders told a different story, accusing government security forces of aiding the Bedouins.

Shiekh Hikmat al-Hijri, a Druze spiritual leader, requested “international protection” on Monday because government security forces were allegedly “supporting takfiri gangs with their heavy weapons and drones.” Takfiri, a term for apostates or false Muslims, is often used to denounce terrorists or radicals.

Other Druze leaders held the government in Damascus “primarily responsible for the current situation, due to its failure to maintain security, its silence in the face of repeated violations and its tolerance of affiliated factions interfering and siding with one group over another.”

Unverified videos circulating on social media showed what appeared to be Druze men beating several captured members of the Syrian government security force.

The central government reached an agreement with the Druze in May, after earlier Druze-Bedouin clashes, to secure the highway between Sweida and Damascus without putting external security forces inside Sweida province. Those earlier clashes, which killed dozens of people, were allegedly caused by an audio recording of a Druze man “insulting” Islam’s prophet Muhammad.

Druze and Bedouin leaders held informal talks to reduce tensions on Sunday night, leading to the release of prisoners taken by both sides, but fighting surged again on Monday after a series of drone attacks against Druze villages was reported.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Monday that it “struck several tanks in the area between as-Sijn and Sama al-Kharab in southern Syria” as the tanks were advancing toward Sweida. It was the first direct confrontation between Israeli and Syrian forces since May.

“This cycle of violence has exploded in a terrifying way, and if it doesn’t end, we are heading toward a bloodbath,” Sweida-based Druze researcher Rayan Marouf warned on Monday.

Marouf’s website, Sweida24, reported that at least six Syrian troops were killed in the province on Monday.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were welcomed to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey for the FIFA Club World Cup final with thunderous applause.

As the crowd in the stadium could be heard cheering, Donald Trump was seen waving and clapping.

The Trumps traveled from Trump National Golf Club Bedminster to watch the game between the Premier League’s Chelsea and the French club Paris Saint-Germain, according to the New York Post.

Per the outlet, MetLife Stadium will be hosting “the men’s 2026 FIFA World Cup final,” which will be the “first time” that the United States has hosted the event in roughly 30 years.

As Breitbart News previously reported, on Wednesday, Trump told reporters that he would be “going to the game.”

“I’ll be going to the game,” Trump told reporters after he was asked if he would be attending the final in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the NY Post reports.

Trump’s presence at the Club World Cup final was teased on DAZN by on-air personality Emily Austin on Monday, the Post report notes.

In March, Trump signed an executive order creating a task force for the FIFA World Cup, in which Trump will serve as the chair of the task force, and Vice President JD Vance will serve as the vice chair.

“The United States is a host nation for the FIFA World Cup 2026, which will be the largest sporting event in history,” the executive order said. “This important event, taking place during the momentous occasion of the 250th anniversary of our country, presents an opportunity to showcase the Nation’s pride and hospitality while promoting economic growth and tourism through sport. My Administration will support preparations through a coordinated Government effort.”

Democrats have been flooding the airwaves and social media with desperate messages trying to paint the ICE raids on a California marijuana farm as proof that the Trump administration is comprised of Nazis who want to punish hard-working, law-abiding crop pickers who are just trying to “feed the nation.”

In reality, many of the illegal alien workers picked up were inadvertently trying to get the nation stoned, and multiple instances of forced illegal child labor were uncovered.

Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom stayed busy, of course, preening for the cameras as he readies his expected 2028 presidential run. He waxed poetic about the wonderful souls working on the farm and blasted the feds for trying to help clean up the disastrous mess that he helped create:

“Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum.” 

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott replied to Newsom: “Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility – all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It’s now under investigation for child labor violations.” 

“This is Newsom’s California.”

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Of course, Newsom didn’t mention this guy in his diatribe:

Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Rodney Scott confirmed one of the illegal farmers was previously sentenced for child sex crimes and worked at the same farm as juveniles. 

‘This illegal alien was apprehended at the CA marijuana facility,’ he said of the unnamed man. 

Turns out he had been sentenced to 7 yrs for kidnapping & attempted rape, w/ a prior conviction for attempted child molestation.

‘And this felon was working at the same farm as 10 kids – one being 14 yrs old.’ 

As I wrote in an article Saturday about the illegal alien detention facility “Alligator Alcatraz,” Democrats have worked themselves into a froth not because they actually care about poor farmworkers but because they’ve been thoroughly exposed:

The Democrats get their knickers in a twist over the conditions [at Alligator Alcatraz], but the reality is that what they’re really worked up about is that the Trump administration is deporting anyone at all—and reminding the American public daily what a disaster progressives created with their cruel, dangerous immigration policies over the Biden years.

Gavin Newsom didn’t care about these people before, and he didn’t care that there was forced child labor going on at pot farms in his state. He only cares now because he hopes it will give him some sort of political edge. He has ushered in a massive decline in almost every area in what was formerly one of the great states in the union, and he wants to bring his dystopian vision to the rest of America.

Don’t let it happen.

Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.

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