Dem Gov Reverses Course on Trump Criticism, Says He Clearly Cares About Her State

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signaled willingness to work with Donald Trump in an interview this week, saying the president-elect clearly cared about her state.

“People in Michigan, like a majority of Americans, voted for Donald Trump, and my oath is to Michigan,” Whitmer told CNN at a meeting of Democratic governors in Los Angeles. “Obviously, I’ve got experience in this type of environment that will help inform how I continue to fight for Michigan. But I know Donald Trump cares about Michigan. And I’m hoping that because of that, we’ll be able to find some common ground in some important ways.”

Trump won back Michigan in the 2024 election en route to re-capturing the White House. Whitmer is widely seen as a possible White House contender in 2028 given her status as a 2-term governor of a battleground state.

Whitmer seemed to be employing the tactic of not antagonizing Trump in public, given the federal government’s ability to allocate aid and prioritize certain states’ initiatives.

Whitmer and Trump butted heads in the media during his first term, particularly over his administration’s COVID-19 response. She was floated as a possible running mate for Kamala Harris, but declined consideration so she could conclude her second term in office, which is up in 2027. (Read more from “Dem Gov Reverses Course on Trump Criticism, Says He Clearly Cares About Her State” HERE)

Trump’s Reported Plan For ICE Leaves Nowhere For Criminal Migrants To Hide

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The incoming Trump administration intends to scrap a longstanding policy that largely prevents federal immigration authorities from arresting illegal migrants in areas that are known as “sensitive” locations, according to an NBC News report.

President-elect Donald Trump would like to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to begin arresting illegal migrants at or near hospitals, schools, churches and other areas deemed to be “sensitive” locations without needing prior approval from their supervisors, according to NBC News. Trump, who won the presidential election with a hardline immigration platform, may issue the rule change as soon as his first day in office.

The reported policy change could allow ICE agents to better follow through on one of the president-elect’s most notable campaign promises: conducting the largest deportation operation in American history.

A policy of not conducting apprehensions at sensitive locations — with exceptions relating to terrorism, national security threats or other imminent dangers — has been on the books for over a decade within the agency. Then-ICE Director John Morton issued a memo in October 2011 that largely prohibited agents from operating in schools or churches, establishing a policy that extended into the Trump and Biden administrations. (Read more from “Trump’s Reported Plan For ICE Leaves Nowhere For Criminal Migrants To Hide” HERE)

U.S. Senators Who Left Democratic Party Stick It to Biden Before They Go

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Democrats lost retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, now an independent of Arizona, and Sen. Joe Manchin, now an independent from West Virginia, from their party ranks some time ago.

The result was that party members lost no opportunity to trash them, their accomplishments, and their ideas.

Now, those two have responded with a parting gift to Joe Biden, who leaves office in a few weeks: A move to torpedo his choice for a spot on the National Labor Relations Board.

It is the Washington Examiner that notes up for a vote was Lauren McFerran, an activist who likely would have left the NLRB under Democrat control for years to come.

The report said, “McFerran’s term expires Monday. Her reinstalment would’ve secured a Democratic NLRB majority on the five-person panel tasked with protecting organized union labor until at least August 2026, at which point Trump could have replaced another expiring Democrat with a Republican. The NLRB’s current makeup is three Democrats, one Republican, and one absent Republican seat. The agency may not have more than a 3-2 partisan majority for either party. Each seat’s term runs five years, regardless of when members are seated.” (Read more from “U.S. Senators Who Left Democratic Party Stick It to Biden Before They Go” HERE)

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Major Study Confirms COVID-Vaxxed Cause Side Effects in Unvaccinated People

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A major new peer-reviewed study has confirmed that unvaccinated people can suffer from the harmful side effects of Covid mRNA “vaccines” by just being around people who have received the injections.

The study finally confirms the existence of “vaccine shedding” – an issue previously shot down by health officials as a “conspiracy theory.”

Alarmingly, the study found that unvaccinated people suffer vaccine harms even if they are “indirectly exposed” to those who received Covid mRNA shots.

A study titled, “Menstrual Abnormalities Strongly Associated with Proximity to COVID-19 Vaccinated Individuals,” was just published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.

The team of top American researchers behind the study was led by Professor Jill Newman and Dr. Sue E. Peters.

The study revealed shocking findings: Unvaccinated women who were around vaccinated people daily (within 6 feet) suffered vaccine side effects. (Read more from “Major Study Confirms COVID-Vaxxed Cause Side Effects in Unvaccinated People” HERE)

Congress Is Ramming Through A $895 Billion Pork-Filled Defense Bill Before Trump Takes Office

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Congressional leaders are gearing up to ram through a $895 billion pork-filled defense bill before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office next month.

According to The Hill, the House is expected to vote on the 1,813-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025 on Wednesday. Released on Saturday night, the legislation — which was negotiated behind closed doors by congressional leadership — is stuffed with items unrelated to defense policy and void of conservative priorities included in the version passed by the GOP-controlled House earlier this year.

The “negotiated” NDAA does not include a provision from the lower chamber’s bill that eliminated all Pentagon offices that “promote diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), an offshoot of Marxist ideology. The removed provision also sought to ensure that “the employment of all personnel of each such [DEI} office is terminated.”

The final version does not include a section from the House bill prohibiting the defense secretary from “establish[ing] or maintain[ing] any committee, panel, office, or other organization with responsibility for matters relating to [DEI] in schools operated by the Department of Defense Education Activity.” A provision eliminating the Defense Department’s chief diversity officer was also removed from the final measure. (Read more from “Congress Is Ramming Through A $895 Billion Pork-Filled Defense Bill Before Trump Takes Office” HERE)

Bill Clinton: I’m Open to Discussing Preemptive Pardon for Hillary Before Trump Takes Office

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Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that he was open to discussing a potential preemptive pardon for his wife Hillary Clinton with President Joe Biden.

Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “Do you think it would be wise of President Biden to preemptively pardon any potential targets? What about your wife, Hillary Clinton? She apparently is on Kash Patel’s list.”

Clinton said, “They’ve got a problem with her because first, she didn’t do anything wrong. Second, she followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third, Trump’s State Department — Trump’s State Department — found — remember how the emails were such a big issue in 2016? Trump’s State Department found that Hillary sent and received exactly zero classified emails on her personal device. It was a made-up phony story.” (Read more from “Bill Clinton: I’m Open to Discussing Preemptive Pardon for Hillary Before Trump Takes Office” HERE)

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Donald Trump Expected to Be Named TIME Magazine Person of the Year: Report

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Donald Trump’s run of good fortune is expected to be recognized this week by Time magazine, which will name him Person of the Year, according to Politico.

Time will announce the winner Thursday morning on its website.

Trump’s political comeback after two impeachments, four indictments, losing the 2020 election and inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol to try to overturn the results is a remarkable moment in American history.

The president-elect also survived two assassination attempts. A bullet grazed his ear and killed a rallygoer during the first assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania. (Read more from “Donald Trump Expected to Be Named TIME Magazine Person of the Year: Report” HERE)

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Jill Biden Catches Herself After Urging WH Audience to ‘Feel Joy Now’ Amid Holidays and Harris Loss: ‘You’re All Reading Into That’

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Jill Biden caught herself during a Wednesday event at the White House after having made an ill-considered reference to the “joy” Americans are now feeling entering the holiday season after the 2024 election, claiming attendees were “reading into” her remarks.

The first lady went on a tangent about the “joy” of the holidays — a buzzword that had defined Vice President Kamala Harris’ short-lived campaign — while speaking at a conference on advancing women’s health research.

Jill, 73, urged attendees to take note of the White House décor and “feel, I don’t know, a little, a sense of joy. Because I think we all need like this, you know, we all need to feel joy now.”

“You’re all reading into that!” she blurted out, making the audience laugh.

The first lady and the vice president have had a frosty public relationship after Harris, 60, succeeded her husband as the Democratic presidential nominee — but ultimately lost to Trump. (Read more from “Jill Biden Catches Herself After Urging WH Audience to ‘Feel Joy Now’ Amid Holidays and Harris Loss: ‘You’re All Reading Into That’” HERE)

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California County Votes to Stop Turning Violent Illegal Immigrant Criminals Over to Feds

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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution Tuesday to protect violent illegal immigrants in order to maintain “public safety.”

The board voted 3-1 to become a “Super Sanctuary” county, which means under the resolution illegal immigrants accused of things like rape would be protected by the county from federal immigration authorities, said the sole supervisor who voted against the resolution.

“San Diego County has a vested interest in maintaining public safety and effective law enforcement while also managing its resources efficiently,” the resolution states. “By avoiding active cooperation with ICE, including through a specific notification to ICE of the release dates of immigrants, the County avoids treating a group of individuals differently solely on the basis of their immigration status.”

The resolution states the county will not provide:

“…assistance or cooperation to ICE in its civil immigration enforcement efforts including by giving ICE agents access to individuals or allowing them to use County facilities for investigate interviews or other purposes, expending County time or resources responding to ICE inquiries or communicating with ICE regarding individuals’ incarceration status or release dates, or otherwise participating in any civil immigration enforcement activities.”

(Read more from “California County Votes to Stop Turning Violent Illegal Immigrant Criminals Over to Feds” HERE)

Read Why Luigi Mangione Allegedly Killed Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson

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By Townhall. Luigi Mangione had a brief court appearance today in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he remains detained without bail due to his threat to the general public. The proceedings dealt with his extradition back to New York, where he’s been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was allegedly shot and killed by Mangione around 6:45 AM on December 4 outside of the New York Hilton Midtown hotel—Thompson was in the city for an investor’s meeting.

Mangione escaped the city but was arrested this week in Altoona, Pennsylvania, at a McDonald’s after customers recognized him from the new images released by authorities where he was unmasked. Police found the firearm used in the crime, four fake IDs, including the one Mangione reportedly used to check into a hostel before committing the murder, and allegedly $8,000 in cash on his person—the latter detail he claims was planted by police. We also got bits and pieces of the reported manifesto, which was around two to three pages long and in his possession. It was a screed against the healthcare industry, which justifies the killing of the executives within the industry (via Ken Klippenstein):

(Read more from “Read Why Luigi Mangione Allegedly Killed Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson” HERE)

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Suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO struggles, shouts while entering courthouse

By Associated Press. The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO struggled with deputies and shouted while being led into court Tuesday as new details emerged about his possible motivation behind the ambush.

In his first public words since a five-day search ended with his arrest at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, Luigi Nicholas Mangione emerged from a patrol car shouting about an “insult to the intelligence of the American people” while deputies pushed him inside a courthouse.

The 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family is fighting attempts to extradite him to New York so that he can face a murder charge in the Manhattan killing of Brian Thompson, who led the United States’ largest medical insurance company.

A law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Associated Press said that at the time of his arrest, Mangione was carrying a handwritten document expressing anger with what he called “parasitic” health insurance companies and a disdain for corporate greed and power. (Read more from “Suspect in the Killing of Unitedhealthcare’s CEO Struggles, Shouts While Entering Courthouse” HERE)