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Trump Picks Fight With Pope With Pick for New Vatican Ambassador

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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated Brian Burch, a ring-wing Catholic who has often criticized Pope Francis, as his ambassador to the Holy See.

Trump announced Burch, a father of nine and president of the non-profit CatholicVote.org (which he described as “one of the largest Catholic advocacy groups in the Country”) as his nominee in a Truth Social post, which was followed by a message selling “God Bless the USA” Bibles.

Burch is also the author of the independently-published book A New Catholic Moment: Donald Trump and the Politics of the Common Good, which touts Trump’s impact on US politics “to make sure that Americans from all walks of life can live the American Dream.”

“He represented me well during the last Election, having garnered more Catholic votes than any Presidential Candidate in History,” wrote Trump of Burch and, of course, his recent re-election. “Brian loves his Church and the United States – He will make us all proud.”

Burch, however, may not have a lot of love for Pope Francis specifically. He strongly opposed the pontiff’s decision to allow the blessing of same-sex couples; in a post on X last year, he derided the “progressive Catholic cheerleading” that he associated with Francis’ leadership—as well as what he charged as a crackdown on conservative critics. (Read more from “Trump Picks Fight With Pope With Pick for New Vatican Ambassador” HERE)

Congress Passes Bill to Stop Partial Government Shutdown After Missing Midnight Deadline

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Senators voted to pass a new version of a stopgap spending bill early Saturday morning after the midnight deadline for a partial government shutdown came and went.

The Senate advanced the third version of a short-term spending bill by 85 to 11, and it will now head to President Biden’s desk, who has already signaled that he will sign it.

An original agreement on a short-term spending bill was released earlier in the week, totaling 1,547-pages and including a number of policy provisions and disaster aid.

But soon after its release, billionaire Elon Musk and other conservative critics publicly blasted the measure, ultimately resulting in it being condemned by President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.

“Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief,” Trump and Vance said in a lengthy statement opposing the bill on Wednesday afternoon. (Read more from “Congress Passes Bill to Stop Partial Government Shutdown After Missing Midnight Deadline” HERE)

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Trump Blasts Chip Roy Over Spending Bill Negotiations as Texas Republican Pushes Back

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President-elect Donald Trump criticized Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, over social media amid the spending bill negotiations, as the Texas Republican has called for spending cuts.

The House of Representatives is negotiating a budget deal to prevent a government shutdown on Friday. The original plan, a continuing resolution/omnibus bill, fell through on Wednesday as Republicans raised concerns about pork-filled spending.

Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday about Roy.

“The very unpopular ‘Congressman’ from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great Republican Victory – All for the sake of some cheap publicity for himself,” Trump wrote. “Republican obstructionists have to be done away with. The Democrats are using them, and we can’t let that happen. Our Country is far better off closing up for a period of time than it is agreeing to the things that the Democrats want to force upon us. Biden is President, and it’s his obligation to properly lead.”

“We’re there to do the right thing, and we can’t agree with what Biden and the Democrats are demanding,” he added. “Weak and ineffective people like Chip have to be dismissed as being utterly unknowledgeable as to the ways of politics, and as to Making America Great Again. Put ‘America First,’ and go for the Victory, even if it means shutting the Government down for a period of time. We had an overwhelming Victory just four weeks ago, and we’re not going to let the Democrats forget it so quickly!” (Read more from “Trump Blasts Chip Roy Over Spending Bill Negotiations as Texas Republican Pushes Back” HERE)

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Spending Deal Goes Down in Flames as House Republicans Confront Difficult Questions

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House Republicans are going back to the drawing board after a deal negotiated Thursday failed decidedly just hours later.

The deal, thrown together during daylong negotiations between different ideological corners of the House Republican Conference and President-elect Donald Trump’s team, failed 174 to 236, with one voting present and 20 absences.

An astonishing 38 Republicans voted against the hastily assembled, Trump-endorsed deal, with nine not voting.

Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance stepped in Wednesday afternoon to drive the final stake in the heart of a previous deal negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democrats. Support for that deal was deteriorating rapidly ahead of Trump taking action to reframe the debate, insisting the deal should have included a debt limit increase to take the tricky issue off his administration’s plate next Congress.

The new deal removed over a thousand pages of pork and other provisions unrelated to keeping the government open. (Read more from “Spending Deal Goes Down in Flames as House Republicans Confront Difficult Questions” HERE)

Attorney Behind Fani Willis Disqualification Expects Trump DOJ to Launch Investigation

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is likely to face continued consequences over her failed prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump, the attorney behind the original motion to disqualify her told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“I would be shocked if she wasn’t investigated by the new Justice Department,” Ashleigh Merchant, who represented Trump co-defendant Mike Roman in Willis’ racketeering case, told the DCNF.

Merchant filed the motion in January, alleging Willis financially benefited from improperly appointing Nathan Wade, with whom she was romantically involved, as special prosecutor, pointing to vacations Wade financed using money earned from his position. In March, Judge Scott McAfee found the relationship created a “significant appearance of impropriety,” though he allowed Willis to remain on the case if Wade stepped aside.

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that Willis must be disqualified from prosecuting her case against Trump.

“It’s kind of like Christmas came early,” Merchant told the DCNF. (Read more from “Attorney Behind Fani Willis Disqualification Expects Trump DOJ to Launch Investigation” HERE)

Trump Opposes Mike Johnson’s Spending Bill: ‘Totally Against It’

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President-elect Donald Trump revealed that he is “totally against” the proposed continuing resolution (CR), which is weighed down with many unrelated and expensive provisions.

Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones reported in a post on X that he had spoken with Trump and that the president-elect was “totally against” the CR.

Vice President-elect JD Vance released a joint statement from him and Trump criticizing the CR, stating that the bill “would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6 committee.”

“The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025,” Trump and Vance said in the statement. “It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.”

“Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney,” the statement continued. “The bill would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6 committee — which accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures that happened that day. The bill would also give Congress a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas.”

(Read more from “Trump Opposes Mike Johnson’s Spending Bill: ‘Totally Against It’” HERE)

Trump’s Pick To Head DOJ Division Responsible For Weaponizing Gov’t Against Conservatives Spent Years Fighting It

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Few Trump picks have been met with more enthuthiasm from supporters than Harmeet Dhillon, who President Elect-Donald Trump selected to run the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) civil rights division.

With a track record that includes taking on physicians who performed irreversible transgender surgeries on minors and suing over COVID-19 policies that shuttered churches, clients and allies alike are confident Dhillon is the perfect choice to clean up the DOJ division they believe was behind the most brazen targeting of conservatives.

“There’s literally not another person in the United States of America better suited for this job,” California attorney and conservative commentator Kurt Schlichter told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “She checks all the boxes twice.”

Founder of Center for American Liberty, Dhillon’s prominent clients include detransitioners like Chloe Cole, who Dhillon helped sue Kaiser Permanente for allowing her to undergo surgical procedures as a young teenager. She also helped one mother secure a $100,000 settlement after school employees secretly encouraged her daughter to identify as transgender. During the 2024 election, she led the RNC’s election integrity team in Arizona. (Read more from “Trump’s Pick To Head DOJ Division Responsible For Weaponizing Gov’t Against Conservatives Spent Years Fighting It” HERE)

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Watch: U.S. Military Veteran Claims Trump Will Be Arrested Dec. 20 Under Executive Order

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. . .Enter USAF veteran and vocal leftist Jerry Doran, who has taken to social media to allege that President Trump will be arrested on December 20th under Executive Order 13848.

Doran, a nurse and substitute teacher, went further, urging a mass storming of Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day if his so-called prophecy doesn’t come to pass.

Suddenly, calls for public demonstrations, which liberals once decried as insurrections, are acceptable when they serve their narrative.

According to Doran’s unhinged social media rant, Executive Order 13848, signed in 2018 by Trump, will be weaponized to arrest the 45th President for conspiring with foreign actors to rig the election. He passionately encouraged leftists to prepare for mass mobilization if the arrest doesn’t happen by January 20th, the next Inauguration Day.

In his rambling video, Doran said:

“Don’t forget, it’s We the People, okay? Executive Order 13848 is coming out. It’s been out, and Donald Trump helped create it. It’s going to come back to bite him because it says how we have to proceed when there’s outside interference in our elections. There definitely has been. They’re going to reveal it on December 20th because 45 days from November 6th brings us to December 20th—six days from today, Friday.

(Read more from “Watch: U.S. Military Veteran Claims Trump Will Be Arrested Dec. 20 Under Executive Order” HERE)

Lara Trump: I Think Donald Trump Believes This Is a ‘Mandate From God’

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Lara Trump thinks her father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, believes he is operating under a mandate not only from the American people, but also from God.

She spoke about how he has been so mischaracterized over the years and predicted that many people by the end of his second term will realize they were wrong about him.

“I think there’s been a culture shift. Honestly. I really think that it’s hard to look at things like a Trump dance, like Donald Trump, you know, being kind of a cool figure to have, you know, you see all the memes with him and the GIFs and all that stuff, he really has become very cool in the eyes of so many in this country,” Trump said of her father-in-law.

“And there really has been a big culture shift. You know, once upon a time, if you were a Democrat, you were sort of anti-establishment, you were sort of counter culture in so many ways,” she said, noting that the Republican Party has now become that “brand.”

“And now that’s really become the brand of the Republican Party, and it is in part, in large part due to Donald Trump himself,” she said. “I think there have been so many people who saw the results of the election on November 5,” noting that Trump not only won with 312 electoral votes, but he also won the popular vote, along with every swing state. (Read more from “Lara Trump: I Think Donald Trump Believes This Is a ‘Mandate From God’” HERE)

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Trump Reportedly Looks to Privatize Massive Federal Agency

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President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly looking to privatize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), three people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post in a report published Sunday.

Trump has made known his desire to detach the USPS from the federal government in conversations at his Mar-a-Lago estate, sources informed the outlet, including with Howard Lutnick, his commerce secretary pick and co-chair of his presidential transition team.

In early December, Trump also talked with a group of transition team officials to feel out their opinions on privatizing the agency, one person told the outlet.

As mail volume declines for the Postal Service, the agency has reportedly lost $9.5 billion in the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30, The Washington Post reported.

The outlet expressed concern regarding the potential effect on e-commerce of privatizing the Postal Service, naming Amazon, whose executive chairman Jeff Bezos reportedly plans to donate $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund. Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. (Read more from “Trump Reportedly Looks to Privatize Massive Federal Agency” HERE)

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