Trump Hits Jack Smith’s Lawyers With Bombshell Executive Order

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the law firm representing former special counsel Jack Smith.

Covington & Burling LLP currently represents Smith in a personal capacity and previously provided pro bono legal services to the special counsel’s office, according to White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf.

The new executive order suspends the security clearance held by Smith’s attorney Peter Koski, along with those of any other attorneys at the firm who assisted Smith as special counsel, pending a review of their roles, if any, in the “weaponization of the judicial process.”

It also directs the Office of Management and Budget to “terminate any engagement” with the firm.

“We’re going to call it the deranged Jack Smith signing or bill,” Trump told reporters before the signing, according to CNN. Afterward, he handed the pen he’d used to an attendee and said, “Why don’t you give it to Jack Smith?” (Read more from “Trump Hits Jack Smith’s Lawyers With Bombshell Executive Order” HERE)

USAID Blew Hundreds Of Thousands In Taxpayer Slush Funds On Ukrainian ‘Pickle Maker,’ Pet Accessories

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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spent millions of American taxpayer dollars propping up pet projects like dog collar manufacturing and pickle making in Ukraine and then spent months stonewalling members of Congress about that spending, according to findings obtained by The Federalist.

Sen. Joni Ernst’s staff uncovered the secret slush funds when, after months of enduring the agency’s excuses to justify its resistance to oversight, they were finally permitted access to “very limited data.” In October 2024, as Ernst has since detailed, the senator’s staff visited USAID headquarters in person for an “in-camera review” of Ukraine assistance data even though, her team discovered, the documents were not classified.

Even though they were heavily restricted during their investigation, Ernst’s team discovered a variety of U.S. taxpayer-funded grants funneled to Ukrainian businesses under the guise of both Competitive Economy Program (CEP) and Investment for Business Resilience funds.

Among the grants Ernst’s staff discovered were hundreds of thousands of dollars devoted to literal pet projects including approximately $300,000 to a “pet tracking app,” approximately $300,000 to a “dog collar manufacturer,” and approximately another $109,000 to a “pet food packaging producer,” according to a findings breakdown Ernst’s office sent to The Federalist.

Fashionistas also benefitted from the taxpayer-funded expenditures with a women’s clothing company, a fashion photographer, a “purveyor of contemporary knitwear,” a “luxury bridal brand,” a “marketplace for designer artisanal pieces,” and even a “trade mission for a fashion design house,” raking in approximately $733,000 combined. (Read more from “USAID Blew Hundreds Of Thousands In Taxpayer Slush Funds On Ukrainian ‘Pickle Maker,’ Pet Accessories” HERE)

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Latest Allegation at the FBI Must Be Investigated

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a new sheriff in town with Kash Patel and Dan Bongino serving as its director and deputy director respectively under the second Trump presidency, but that doesn’t mean the riffraff that’s infected this agency are gone. Progress has been made to dismiss, reassign, or outright fire the problematic staffers that had turned the FBI into the Democratic Party’s police force. The latest allegation must be investigated.

Independent reporter Michael Shellenberger said that sources told him that agents were destroying servers that contained sensitive documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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Trump Killed ‘Bidenbucks’ — Congress Needs To Bury It

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In his first two months in office, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14019, transforming the federal government into a get-out-the-vote machine for Democrats.

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump rescinded the order, putting an end to the constitutionally suspect directive that election integrity watchdogs referred to as “Bidenbucks.”

But without congressional action, the next leftist leading the executive branch could easily bring back Bidenbucks and eviscerate the foundation of election integrity.

“I think the way that this gets solved going forward is Congress has to enact a law to ensure it doesn’t happen again,” David Craig, legal director for the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), told The Federalist in an interview. “That is the final development that will forever fence off an administration from trying this in the future.”

FGA has been on the front lines in the battle against Biden’s so-called “Promoting Access to Voting” order for the better part of the past four years. The foundation sued the Biden Department of Justice in April 2022 in federal court after multiple federal agencies shrugged off Freedom of Information Act requests for documents and communications tied to the executive order. (Read more from “Trump Killed ‘Bidenbucks’ — Congress Needs To Bury It” HERE)

Fired CBS News Reporter Reveals Photos of Files on Hunter Biden, COVID Origins Seized by Network: ‘Attack on Investigative Journalism’

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Fired CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge posted photos of the confidential files seized by the network — which “included sensitive reporting about COVID-19 origins and Hunter Biden.”

The award-winning investigative journalist — who was dismissed last February as part of wider layoffs by embattled parent company Parent Global — stirred a firestorm in her bid to regain the materials before the network gave back the items weeks later.

“Exactly one year ago, @CBSNews returned my investigative reporting files,” Herridge wrote on X on Wednesday.

“Today, I am releasing photos of the records for the first time so you can see the sheer volume involved.”

One photo showed stacks of folders next to a Home Depot-labeled box.

Herridge wrote that the material encompassed four large moving boxes weighing over 100 pounds in total that were seized by the network. (Read more from “Fired CBS News Reporter Reveals Photos of Files on Hunter Biden, COVID Origins Seized by Network: ‘Attack on Investigative Journalism’” HERE)

DNI Gabbard: NSA Employees Tied to Explicit Chatrooms to Be Terminated, Security Clearance Revoked

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” that employees at the National Security Agency tied to explicit chatrooms will be terminated based on a directive she had issued.

Host Jesse Waters said, “I told you how government chat rooms were being used to brag about fetishes and kinks. A journalist just uncovered more messages. Journalist Christopher Rufo just uncovered more messages. Viewer warning. Creeps that the NSA were fantasizing about having hermaphrodite babies so they could raise the nonbinary. They were also trashing conservatives like Ben Shapiro, calling them effen monsters. And after Pat Robertson died, CIA workers celebrated. ‘I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it’s good. He’s dead. Good.’ The NSA was also caught badmouthing RFK but they really don’t like Tulsi Gabbard. They say she’s fervently anti-queer, a Russian agent and in the MAGA cult. This is the deep state the media says is fake. They’ve been shrouded in bureaucracy forever and we are shining a light on the infection and cleaning it out.”

He asked, “What are we going to do about that?

(Read more from “DNI Gabbard: NSA Employees Tied to Explicit Chatrooms to Be Terminated, Security Clearance Revoked” HERE)

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Trump Calls for Ukraine to Hold Elections to Potentially Replace Zelensky as He Takes Swipe at President’s Approval Rating

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By New York Post. President Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine should hold elections to potentially replace Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“We have a situation where we haven’t had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine,” Trump said at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago after his US delegation finished talks with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia.

Trump claimed Zelensky, who was first elected in 2019, has a “4% approval rating” — despite polls showing the Ukrainian president hovering just above 50%.

Presidential elections were scheduled for April 2024, but none were held since Ukraine has been in a state of martial law since Russia launched the largest invasion since World War II in February 2022.

Zelensky in 2023 said an election would give way to “political divides” at a time when the country should be focused on defense. (Read more from “Trump Calls for Ukraine to Hold Elections to Potentially Replace Zelensky as He Takes Swipe at President’s Approval Rating” HERE)

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Ukraine Official Says Minerals Deal Agreed With US

By BBC News. Ukraine has agreed the terms of a major minerals deal with the US, a senior official in Kyiv has told the BBC.

“We have indeed agreed it with a number of good amendments and see it as a positive outcome,” the official said, without providing any further details.

Media reports say Washington has dropped initial demands for a right to $500bn (£395bn) in potential revenue from utilising the natural resources but has not given firm security guarantees to war-torn Ukraine – a key Ukrainian demand.

US President Donald Trump said he was expecting his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington to sign the deal this week, after the two leaders exchanged strong words about each other.

Without confirming that an agreement had been reached, Trump said on Tuesday that in return for the deal Ukraine would get “the right to fight on”.

“They’re very brave,” he told reporters, but “without the United States and its money and its military equipment, this war would have been over in a very short period of time”. (Read more from “Ukraine Official Says Minerals Deal Agreed With US” HERE)

DOGE’s Work Is Meaningless Unless Republicans Get Serious About Cutting Spending

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The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has made commendable progress in identifying areas of waste, fraud, and abuse throughout the federal government. But failure by congressional Republicans to codify cuts to these items and other wasteful spending into law threatens to jeopardize the watchdog group’s success.

Amid the backdrop of DOGE’s fraud-finding expedition are ongoing negotiations among House and Senate Republicans to pass a budget reconciliation package that includes President Trump’s legislative priorities, such as tax cuts and resources for border enforcement. As defined by Ballotpedia’s Briana Ryan, “Budget reconciliation is a term for the legislative process that bypasses the [60-vote] filibuster to approve a package of legislation in Congress that changes spending, revenues, or the debt limit.”

While many Republicans have been quick to glom onto DOGE and profess support for its work, few seem to be interested in actually stopping the wasteful spending that’s plagued the federal government for years. Case in point: the Senate GOP’s latest “vote-a-rama.”

In the early hours of Friday morning, the upper chamber held votes on various amendments to Senate Republicans’ $340 billion reconciliation bill. According to Breitbart News, the package — which included provisions aimed at “secur[ing] the southern border, unleash[ing] domestic energy production, [and] other priorities” — is one half of the Senate GOP’s “two-bill strategy” for reconciliation. . .

Among the amendments proposed for the Senate’s reconciliation package was a measure introduced by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that sought to cut federal spending by $1.5 trillion. The Kentucky Republican noted that “Americans will pay dearly for Congress’s inability to say no to the welfare and warfare state,” and that continued reckless spending practices “will mean confiscatory tax rates, high inflation, rising interest rates, and a weak economy.” (Read more from “DOGE’s Work Is Meaningless Unless Republicans Get Serious About Cutting Spending” HERE)

Ukrainian Parliament Rejects Resolution Supporting Zelensky

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A resolution reaffirming the legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky failed to secure enough backing to pass in the Ukrainian parliament on Monday.

At a special session of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, convened to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the resolution received 218 votes, falling short of the 226 votes needed to pass.

Some 54 members of parliament present in the meeting room did not take part in the vote, including 38 representatives from Zelensky’s Servant of the People party.

The resolution was designed by the parliamentary leadership as a symbolic show of support for Zelensky, whose legitimacy has come under fire by Russia and, more recently, the United States.

The paper stated: “The Verkhovna Rada once again recalls that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky was elected in free, transparent, democratic elections. His mandate is not called into question by the Ukrainian people or the Verkhovna Rada.” (Read more from “Ukrainian Parliament Rejects Resolution Supporting Zelensky” HERE)

Leaked $25B Military Contractor Pitch Promises Trump 12 Million Deportations By Midterms: Report

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A group of private military contractors have pitched President Donald Trump a $25 billion plan to expedite mass deportations — leveraging military bases, private aircraft, and deputized civilians to forcibly remove 12 million undocumented immigrants before the 2026 midterm elections.

The leaked 26-page proposal led by former Blackwater executives Erik Prince and Bill Mathews has been circulating among Trump allies since December and was obtained by Politico. It reportedly details an aggressive strategy that includes a network of “processing camps” on U.S. military installations, a private fleet of 100 aircraft, and a force of civilians given federal law enforcement powers to carry out arrests.

The document bluntly states that deporting 12 million people in two years “would require the government to eject nearly 500,000 illegal aliens per month,” an undertaking it acknowledges would be impossible without outside contractors.

While it’s unclear if Trump himself has even reviewed the bid, White House spokesperson Kush Desai downplayed the proposal’s significance in a statement to Politico, stating that the administration “remains aligned on and committed to a whole-of-government approach to securing our borders, mass deporting criminal illegal migrants, and enforcing our immigration laws.” (Read more from “Leaked $25B Military Contractor Pitch Promises Trump 12 Million Deportations By Midterms: Report” HERE)

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