Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director

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The Senate confirmed Kashyap “Kash” Patel as the new FBI director on Thursday in a Senate vote that largely fell along party lines.

51 Senators voted in favor of Patel’s confirmation, against 49 no votes, cementing him as the director of the nation’s leading federal law enforcement agency.

Two high-profile Republicans, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, notably voted against his confirmation.

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader, who announced Thursday he will not be seeking re-election in 2026, voted in favor of Patel’s nomination. This move came as a surprise to many, especially as McConnell had previously opposed three of Trump’s key picks. McConnell was against having Pete Hegseth as the Defense Secretary, Tulsi Gabbard as the director of National Intelligence, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. (Read more from “Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director” HERE)

Trump Torches ’Dictator’ Zelensky For Opposing Peace Push; President Doubles Down After Zelensky Responds to His Criticism

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By Breitbart. President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “Dictator without Elections” a day after Zelensky complained about Ukraine not having a seat at diplomatic talks Tuesday between the United States and Russia.

Trump ripped into Zelensky in a lengthy Truth Social post, first addressing him as “a modestly successful comedian” rather than president.

“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump wrote.

Trump added that the United States has spent hundreds of billions more on the war than Europe has:

The United States has spent $200 Billion Dollars more than Europe, and Europe’s money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back. Why didn’t Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this War is far more important to Europe than it is to us — We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation.

(Read more from “Trump Torches ’Dictator’ Zelensky For Opposing Peace Push” HERE)
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President Doubles Down After Zelensky Responds to His Criticism

By Breitbart. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has found himself exactly where he does not want to be: In a war of words with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Trump addressed complaints on Tuesday coming from Ukraine about it being left out of recent peace talks with Russia while addressing reporters at Mar-a-Lago. A brought up Russia’s insistence that Ukraine hold new elections for president to potentially sign a new peace deal and asked whether Trump would support this idea.

“Well, we have a situation where we haven’t had elections in Ukraine. Where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine, I hate to say it, but he’s down at 4% approval rating, and where a country has been blown to smithereens,” the president replied.

Trump referred to the damage Ukraine sustained after Russia’s invasion began in 2022. “You have cities that are absolutely decimated,” he said, comparing it to the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s war against terrorist group Hamas.

The president asserted that the Ukrainian people “are tired of it” and that they “want to see something happen.” He criticized Zelensky over reports suggesting he could not locate half of the financial aid the U.S. had sent Ukraine. (Read more from “Trump Doubles Down After Zelensky Responds to His Criticism” HERE)

Outrageous: Leftists Sink to New Lows to Protect Illegal Aliens Criminals

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I thought the claim was that the feds — at the direction of the Trump administration — were letting allegedly crooked Mayor Eric Adams off the hook in order to prevent this sort of thing from happening. “A pair of reputed migrant gangbangers were nabbed in a drug raid at a Queens auto shop — only to be cut loose without bail after prosecutors reduced the charges,” the New York Post reports. For the life of me, I do not understand why anyone defends this madness. These men are illegal immigrants, reportedly with ties to the dangerous Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. They were caught up in a police raid and arrested for crimes. Not only were they not handed over to federal authorities for deportation (New York’s deranged policies forbid this common-sense step), but soft-on-crime prosecutors reduced charges, allowing both men to walk. When you see criminal migrants get violent and do things like assault police officers, it’s because they have been conditioned to feel invincible and unaccountable in New York City.

Get nabbed committing crimes, while tied to a known international gang, and in the United States illegally? You’re fine. We’ll minimize the charges, and don’t you worry, we promise not to tell the feds. It’s mind-boggling, and it’s been the status quo for years. A Republican Congresswoman representing part of the city is disgusted anew:

(Read more from “Outrageous: Leftists Sink to New Lows to Protect Illegal Aliens Criminals” HERE)

Delta Upside-Down Plane Crash Allegedly Involved All-Female Crew (UPDATED)

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By The Express Tribune. The upside-down crash of a Delta flight in Toronto has sparked intense scrutiny and debate, particularly surrounding the pilot’s identity and the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in aviation.

The incident occurred on Monday at Toronto Pearson International Airport when a Delta-operated Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft flipped upside down during its landing attempt, injuring 21 people. The flight, operated by Endeavor Air, a regional airline affiliated with Delta, was traveling from Minneapolis-St. Paul and had 80 people on board, including crew members.

Following the impact, parts of the aircraft separated, and a fire ensued, according to Canadian investigators. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is leading the inquiry into the crash, with assistance from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Initial reports indicate that weather conditions, including gusting crosswinds and blowing snow, were present at the time of the crash.

However, the lack of the usual “flare” maneuver—where pilots pull the nose of the plane up just before touchdown to slow the aircraft and ensure a smoother landing—has raised questions among aviation experts about potential issues with the pilot’s actions during the descent.

(Read more from “Delta Upside-Down Plane Crash Allegedly Involved All-Female Crew” HERE)

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UPDATED: Delta Finally Releases Information About Pilot, First-Officer

By Riley Moser. Delta Air Lines has revealed information about the crew on board a flight from Minneapolis that crashed and flipped upside down at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday.

Officials say the captain was hired by Mesaba Airlines in October 2007, which merged with Pinnacle Airlines in 2012 to form Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta that operated the flight to Toronto. Additionally, he has served as an active duty captain and in pilot training and flight safety capacities.

CBS News learned the first officer graduated from a university with an accredited and well-respected aviation program, and so was able to start working with fewer than 1,500 hours under a Restricted Air Transport Pilot certificate. She crossed the 1,500-hour mark and earned her full ATP certificate in January 2023, which is the highest-level pilot certification in the U.S., before completing training last April, and has been flying for Endeavor since then.

Delta says her flight experience “exceeded the minimum requirements” set by federal regulations.

She passed all of her check rides and there were “no red flags” about her pilot skills, a source familiar told CBS News. (Read more about the crew involved in the Delta plane crash HERE)

Insanity: Biden Admin. Spent Hundreds of Millions in Tranny Experiments on Animals

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At least $241 million in taxpayer funds was spent on transgender surgeries and animal experiments, prompting a congressional lawmaker to question the rationale behind the expenditures.

Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., on Wednesday, said spending millions on such treatments was “insane, right?”

During a Feb. 6 House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing titled: “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty,” earlier this month, Justin Goodman of the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) watchdog group said the federal government spent millions on “transgender animal testing.”

“I would say that’s the floor, not the ceiling,” Goodman told Crane.

“In a lot of these cases, they involve mice, rats, monkeys, who are being surgically mutilated and subjected to hormone therapies to mimic female to male or male to female gender transitions, gender-affirming hormone therapies, and then looking at the biological, psychological and physiological effects of the gender transitions, looking at the effects of taking vaccines after you’ve transitioned these animals from male to female or female to male, looking at the size of their genitals changing after you’ve put them on estrogen or testosterone therapies to transition them,” he added. (Read more from “Insanity: Biden Admin. Spent Hundreds of Millions in Tranny Experiments on Animals” HERE)

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Surprising New Poll Numbers Released on Trump’s Performance So Far in the White House

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Three new national polls released on Wednesday indicate President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are edging down slightly since taking over the White House one month ago.

Forty-five percent of voters questioned in a Quinnipiac University survey said they approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, with 49% disapproving.

That’s down from a 46%-43% approval/disapproval in a Quinnipiac poll conducted in late January, during the president’s first week back in office following his inauguration.

A new national poll from Gallup indicated the president at 45% approval and 51% disapproval, down from 47%-48% approval/disapproval late last month.

And according to a Reuters/Ipsos national survey also released on Wednesday, the president stood at 44% approval and 51% disapproval. Trump registered at 45%-46% approval/disapproval in the previous poll by Reuters/Ipsos, which was conducted late last month during the first week of the president’s second administration. (Read more from “Surprising New Poll Numbers Released on Trump’s Performance So Far in the White House” HERE)

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Whistleblowers: FBI Weaponization Is Real, And Here’s Proof

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Democrats have cast the Trump administration’s ouster of eight senior FBI leaders as a “purge” and act of “retribution” from a weaponized Justice Department, some likening it to President Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.”

But former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes.

These include allegations that at least two of the fired officials, Jeffrey Veltri and Dena Perkins, manipulated the security clearance review process to personally and professionally punish conservatives, Covid-19 vaccine skeptics, and Jan. 6 whistleblowers who reported suspected bureau malfeasance, and retaliated against those who came to the whistleblowers’ defense.

A third, Timothy Dunham, is also alleged to have improperly suspended security clearances.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, read numerous accounts of alleged misconduct perpetrated by these and other officials into the record on Feb. 13 as the committee considered the nomination of Kash Patel for FBI director. (Read more from “Whistleblowers: FBI Weaponization Is Real, And Here’s Proof” HERE)

Trump Administration Vows To Fight Any Schools That Defy Order To End DEI

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The left-wing American education establishment is clutching its pearls at the thought of dropping its push for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology after the Department of Education threatened its federal funding, but the Trump administration is calling its bluff.

“The Department of Education will no longer allow education entities to discriminate on the basis of race,” Department of Education Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor told The Federalist. “This isn’t complicated. When in doubt, every school should consult the SFFA [Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard] legal test contained in the [“Dear Colleague” letter]: if an educational institution treats a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of that person’s race, the educational institution violates law.”

The Trump administration distributed a “Dear Colleague” letter last Friday telling schools to shut down their DEI programs for training, teaching, and hiring or face the loss of their federal funding. The memo uses the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action from SFFA to set up guidance for schools to shut down their racially discriminatory DEI programs that have “toxically indoctrinated students with the false premise that the United States is built upon ‘systemic and structural racism’ and advanced discriminatory policies and practices.”

The Department of Education said that additional guidance on implementation is forthcoming.

However, as The Federalist reported, The School Superintendents Association (AASA), which represents the leaders of school districts across the country, sent a memo to its members to ignore the guidance. (Read more from “Trump Administration Vows To Fight Any Schools That Defy Order To End DEI” HERE)

Zelensky Cancels Saudi Arabia Trip After Exclusion From U.S.-Russia Talks

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he postponed a visit to Saudi Arabia to express his disapproval of the United States and Russia beginning bilateral negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.

“We were not invited to this Russian-American meeting in Saudi Arabia. It was a surprise for us. I don’t want any coincidences, so I’m not going to Saudi Arabia,” Zelensky said after a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.

By “coincidences,” Zelensky evidently meant that he did not want his planned visit to Saudi Arabia to be mistaken as an endorsement of the meetings held between U.S. and Russian diplomats in Riyadh this week.

“The Russian-American meeting in Saudi Arabia came as a surprise to us, just as it did to many others. Yes, we saw the media coverage, but I don’t know who will stay, who will leave, or where anyone is going. To be honest, I don’t really care. What matters to me is that our partners take time to think about us,” he said.

“Any country has a bilateral track with other countries. Please, you can discuss anything, but you can’t make a decision on how to end the war in Ukraine without Ukraine,” he insisted. (Read more from “Zelensky Cancels Saudi Arabia Trip After Exclusion From U.S.-Russia Talks” HERE)

China Condemns Trump’s ‘Tariff Shocks’ at World Trade Organization Meeting

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China’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Li Chenggang, told a closed-door meeting in Geneva on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s “tariff shocks” could trigger a worldwide recession.

“These ‘tariff shocks’ heighten economic uncertainty, disrupt global trade, and risk domestic inflation, market distortion or even global recession. Worse, the U.S. unilateralism threatens to upend the rules-based multilateral trading system,” Li said.

The WTO, headquartered in Geneva, is governed by a “General Council” that meets regularly with trade ambassadors from all 166 nations. Tuesday’s meeting was the first time since the 2024 U.S. election that growing worldwide trade frictions have been formally addressed by the General Council.

Disputes between the two top economies at the WTO long predate Trump’s arrival. Beijing has accused Washington of breaking rules while Washington says Beijing does not deserve its “developing country” status which entitles it to special treatment under WTO rules.

This last was an allusion to China absurdly classifying itself as a “developing nation” to enjoy preferential treatment at the WTO, despite being one of the world’s largest economies. (Read more from “China Condemns Trump’s ‘Tariff Shocks’ at World Trade Organization Meeting” HERE)