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A South Carolina prison inmate handed a judge a “wad” of counterfeit cash to pay his trespassing bond — and then told the judge to “keep the change,” the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office said.

Officials on Monday said an inmate at the Chesterfield County Detention Center was charged with forgery after the incident.

With that, instead of a relatively minor charge of trespassing, Alexander soon was charged with counterfeit money/forgery, the sheriff’s office said.

A judge said he had set bond for inmate Patrick Alexander, 33, of Mississippi in the amount of $250 on a trespassing charge, officials said.

After being given his personal property, Alexander reportedly “removed a wad of money, sorted through the bills, and handed the judge” three $100 bills — and then told the judge to “keep the change,” officials said.

As you can imagine, the judge wasn’t impressed by the suspect’s supposed generosity.

Instead, the judge told Alexander he “could not keep the change and, while holding the money, noticed the color of the bills appeared unusual,” the sheriff’s office said.

Upon further inspection, the judge observed Chinese writing on the back of the bills, officials said.

A detention officer then checked the bills using a counterfeit detection pen, and that revealed the bills were counterfeit, the sheriff’s office said.

Alexander then was informed the currency was fake, and the judge instructed the detention officer to hold the money as evidence, officials said.

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Image source: Chesterfield County (S.C.) Sheriff’s Office

With that, instead of a relatively minor charge of trespassing, Alexander soon was charged with counterfeit money/forgery, the sheriff’s office said.

A warrant was obtained and served on Alexander at the Chesterfield County Detention Center, the sheriff’s office noted.

“Under South Carolina Code § 16-13-10 (Forgery), it is unlawful for a person to falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or knowingly assist in the making or counterfeiting of any writing or instrument,” officials said.

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A man who formerly worked as a principal at an Oregon high school was convicted on child porn charges after he was placed on paid leave for comments about the death of Charlie Kirk.

Jeremy P. Williams, 50, was on paid leave when he was arrested in Sept. 2025 on numerous charges, according to a letter written by Rainier School District superintendent Chad Holloway.

He was charged with possessing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit content, as well as distribution of the same.

He resigned as principal in Nov. 2025 and was getting paid $99.5K in his last year.

Police said they were informed by alerts from a social media site about the illicit images connected to an account used by a resident of Longview, Washington.

Investigators obtained warrants to confirm that the account belonged to Williams and then served a search warrant at his home to confiscate computers, phones, and other digital storage devices.

He was charged with possessing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit content, as well as distribution of the same.

Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Thad Scudder sentenced Williams to five years and one month in prison after he was convicted in February. He must also serve three years of probation, pay $3K in court fees, and register as a sex offender.

None of the images were of students from the high school, police say.

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Investigators said more than 30 child sex abuse images were found on his devices. One involved a 6-month-old child.

A reporter for the Daily Chronicle in Longview said Williams previously boasted about winning awards for writing erotic fiction.

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Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey has been reportedly subpoenaed in the investigation into a “grand conspiracy” against President Donald Trump.

The development was confirmed by two sources with knowledge of the situation who spoke to Axios. It was also reported by NBC News, which cited two sources as well.

‘No one is above the law. … We will follow the facts in this case.’

The “grand conspiracy” investigation is targeting top officials from the former Biden and Obama administrations, according to the sources, and has produced more than 130 subpoenas.

The subpoena against Comey reportedly relates to the infamous Intelligence Community Assessment about Russian election interference that was sent in January 2017.

The investigation into the grand conspiracy is being led by U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones from the Southern District of Florida.

Comey was indicted in Sept. 2025 by a grand jury for allegedly abusing his office out of political motivation.

“No one is above the law,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement following the indictment. “Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.”

That was dismissed after a judge found in Nov. 2025 that Trump had improperly appointed Lindsey Halligan, his personal attorney, to serve as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

The Justice Dept. has appealed that ruling.

RELATED: Trump rips into Comey over seashell message: ‘He knew exactly what he was doing!’

Comey made headlines in May 2026 when he snapped a photo of shells on a beach that many took to be a threat against Trump. After posting the image on social media, he denied knowing that the message could be taken as a threat.

“He knew exactly what that meant,” Trump said about the incident. “A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know what that meant? That meant assassination.”

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A major political shake-up unfolded in Illinois as progressives whose views align with those of “the Squad” were dealt a decisive blow in recent Democratic primaries.

According to BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere, the losses highlight growing fractures within the Democratic Party, particularly between establishment figures and the party’s far-left flank associated with the likes of Jasmine Crockett, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“What we saw in Illinois was a situation where you’ve got obviously a bright, bright, bright blue state, right? This is the bluest of the blue basically where, you know, you can kind of do whatever you want if you’re a Democrat,” Stu begins.

“So, you have these factions of the Democratic Party warring with each other. They’re fighting, they’re going back and forth trying to take control. Of course, one of the big groups that is trying to do that is the sort of Squad left,” he continues.

“The Squad left,” Stu explains, is the “AOC left.”

“Someone who’s very, very socialist leaning, very, very anti-Israel, very, you know, pro-abortion and trans, everything as far as you can go,” he says.

“And they had a play here in Illinois. They had a chance to do something. They had a chance to move the needle a little bit, and it did not work,” he says, referencing an article by Axios titled, “The ‘Squad’ left suffers complete wipeout in Illinois.”

“The left suffered a virtually total collapse in the Illinois Democratic congressional primaries on Tuesday night — even in races where the AIPAC-backed candidate lost,” the article reads.

“It’s a bad sign for the dozens of insurgent Democrats running in congressional races across the country, both in open seats and as primary rivals to older or more establishment-oriented incumbents,” it continues.

“AIPAC is like, I don’t know, they’re supposedly the ultimate villains of all the world right now because, you know, a lot of people even on the right, certainly plenty on the left, are blaming them for pushing us into war with Iran and, you know, all sorts of different things,” Stu explains.

Stu notes that AIPAC was “very excited” about Illinois’ results, as “they put a lot of money into these races to try to stop very hardcore anti-Israel candidates from winning those primaries.”

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On March 17, Joe Kent resigned from his position as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest over the Trump administration’s ongoing war in Iran. He claimed he could not “in good conscience” support the conflict, arguing that Iran posed no imminent threat to the U.S. and that the war was started due to pressure from Israel and its American lobby.

BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler was taken aback when she read Kent’s accusatory letter.

“This is a very big claim that Joe Kent is making,” she says.

On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz unpacks Kent’s letter and explains why she’s skeptical of its contents.

“He is making the allegation that President Trump was duped … with false information into embarking on this military operation in Iran, and he claims that this trickery happened at the hands of Israel and the Israeli lobby in the United States,” she says, summarizing the allegations listed in his letter.

“He further claims that there is no evidence in the intel community, which he would be aware of as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, of an Iranian threat,” she adds, calling it “the scandal of the century” if proved true.

Liz is unwilling to entertain Kent’s claims until he can provide hard evidence.

“Where’s the evidence of this?” she asks. “If you are so certain that President Trump’s military operation in Iran is essentially based on manipulation by the Israelis and that Iran posed no threat, … shouldn’t you show us evidence of this?”

While Liz welcomes a “whistleblower,” she demands the “receipts.”

“If you make a claim of this enormity — I mean, the implications of a claim like this being true would shake our nation — then you owe us the receipts. You need to show us the evidence of this,” she insists.

But Kent’s lack of evidence isn’t the only cause of Liz’s skepticism.

She considers his recent podcast appearances a calculated “media tour” on which he speaks only to hosts who are the “least likely to ask the most important questions.”

“To go on a media tour insinuates one of two things,” she says, “that either you have information of severe corruption — so severe that it could not be remedied internally — that you have to take this to the American people rather than go the legal whistleblower route internally in the intelligence community, or there’s some kind of other attention that is being sought.”

Liz acknowledges Kent’s traumatic history — he “lost his first wife” to “an ISIS suicide bomber”; however, the information she currently has makes her believe that Kent is “behaving as an opportunist.”

To hear more of her analysis, watch the full episode above.

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A reporter trying to scare voters on the SAVE America Act got a crushing response from Vice President JD Vance at a stop in Auburn Hills, Michigan, Thursday.

Craig Mauger of the Detroit News asked Vance to respond to comments made by President Donald Trump that he might order the federal takeover of elections to ensure voter integrity.

Vance joked that they had no plans to send Secretary of State Marco Rubio to count ballots in Michigan.

“There’s a lot of concern and talk in Michigan right now ahead of this pivotal midterm election that the federal government might somehow intervene in the administration of the election here in this state,” said Mauger.

“Do you have any promises that you would make that the federal government will not intervene in any way in this election, or what would you tell people in Michigan who are concerned about that?” he asked.

Vance said it was the first time he had heard about possible federal intervention in elections and asked him to clarify the question.

“I believe the president has talked about nationalizing elections in recent months himself,” Mauger responded.

“If what you mean by ‘intervening in the election’ is that we want everybody to have a voter ID before voting in this country, yes, we should be doing that, to be clear,” Vance responded.

He received great applause and USA chants from the event audience.

Vance joked that they had no plans to send Secretary of State Marco Rubio to count ballots in Michigan and added that they had no intention to intervene in elections.

“I don’t think so. I haven’t talked to the president or Marco about it, but look, there’s a lot of scare tactics,” Vance responded.

“If you believe, as I do, that the American people are sovereign in their own country, then you have to believe that their vote should be protected, and the only way to fully protect their vote is to prevent fraudsters from coming and voting in American elections,” he added.

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Mauger appeared to be referring to comments made by Trump in February, when he said that “the federal government should get involved” in elections by sending “agents of the federal government to count the votes” in cities that included Detroit.

“A state is an agent for the federal government in elections. I don’t know why the federal government doesn’t do them anyway,” Trump said to reporters. “But when you see some of these states about how horribly they run their elections, what a disgrace it is.”

Video of the interaction was widely circulated on social media where it garnered hundreds of thousands of views.

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Watching the real-time updates from Operation Epic Fury, one lesson kept flashing like a warning light: Don’t chase the rockets. Find the launcher.

For years, militaries have built sophisticated defenses. Rockets fly, interceptors rise, lives get saved. That matters. But every soldier knows intercepting rockets never counts as the long-term solution. Defense buys time. Strategy ends the threat.

Recall the maxim that the best defense is a good offense. Intercepting rockets protects you today. Disabling the launcher protects you tomorrow.

You trace the attack back to its source. You stop the launcher, and you stop the rockets that follow.

That principle applies to our culture.

Take the Oscars. Every year, a celebrity steps to the microphone and scolds half the country. Commentators repeat it the next morning. Clips hit social media within minutes. None of this happens by accident. The provocation is the point. The speech aims to trigger a predictable response, and for years it worked. Every clip pulled more people into the outrage cycle. Rocket after rocket.

But something changed. People have built defenses.

Many Americans now recognize the pattern. The provocation arrives. The clip goes viral. The outrage machine revs. And more people shrug. The rockets still fly. They just don’t land the way they once did.

I saw that recently in a clip of Ben Stiller promoting his new soda brand in a grocery store. For years, Stiller fired political rockets on social media at Donald Trump and his supporters. But there he was in the beverage aisle, hawking soda while shoppers pushed carts past him.

The moment felt revealing.

At some point, the rockets stopped landing.

That shouldn’t surprise anyone who remembers what Michael Jordan once said when asked why he stayed out of politics: “Republicans buy sneakers too.” Jordan understood something fundamental about celebrity influence. Star power works only if the audience still wants to watch.

Attention may be the currency of choice for some. But actual currency still runs the world.

Rebuking a president may generate applause and headlines. Selling soda still requires receipts. Filling theaters still requires paying customers. You can see it in the numbers: Award show ratings have fallen, and box office success increasingly depends on audiences tired of being lectured.

The rockets are still flying, but they’re losing range.

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Photo by Nick Agro/Academy Museum Foundation via Getty Images

Which raises the real question: Why do we keep arguing about the explosions instead of the launchers?

Most cultural flashpoints don’t originate on a stage or in a viral clip. They are symptoms of deeper forces already at work — ideas formed in classrooms, reinforced by institutions, and absorbed by the next generation.

Those are the launchers.

Some leaders figured this out and adjusted their strategy. Instead of reacting to every viral moment, they went to the places where the ideas get produced and packaged. That’s a big part of what made Charlie Kirk effective with young audiences. He didn’t spend his life chasing rockets. He went to campuses and challenged the ideas being launched there.

Recall the maxim that the best defense is a good offense. Intercepting rockets protects you today. Disabling the launcher protects you tomorrow. Once the launcher is gone, there’s far less you need to defend against.

That takes patience. Discipline. And the wisdom to ignore the latest explosion overhead.

Playing defense keeps you alive. Playing offense wins.

And there’s one more thing worth noticing.

God never plays defense. Throughout scripture, truth advances. Light pushes back darkness. The gates of hell aren’t advancing against the church. They are the ones being stormed.

The lesson is simple: Stop chasing rockets. Find the launchers.

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Republican Rep. August Pfluger of Texas is leading a bipartisan charge to combat the rise of nitazenes, a class of illicit drugs that could be deadlier than fentanyl, Blaze News has learned.

Pfluger introduced the House version of the DETECT Nitazenes Act Thursday alongside Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman of Virginia. The bipartisan and bicameral legislation would direct resources from the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate and the Drug Enforcement Administration to enhance technologies to detect illicit drugs like nitazenes at extremely low concentrations, according to bill text obtained exclusively by Blaze News.

‘These deadly drugs are taking American lives.’

“Nitazenes are an emerging class of illicit drugs that pose a serious threat to Americans’ health and safety, yet today, these deadly drugs have not received the level of attention necessary to combat them,” Pfluger told Blaze News. “The DETECT Nitazenes Act will close critical gaps in detection capabilities, support law enforcement efforts, and improve public safety outcomes by enabling faster and more accurate identification of these deadly substances.”

“As the risk from synthetic drugs continues to evolve, this legislation ensures that we remain prepared to respond to the next generation of deadly narcotics and protect our communities,” he continued.

RELATED: Exclusive: SAVE Act hangs in the balance as Republican Study Committee pushes for Senate passage

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Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri, who is leading the companion bill in the Senate, demonstrated just how destructive nitazenes can be, urging Congress to take swift action.

“Nitazenes are powerful synthetic opioids that are stronger than fentanyl, cheaper to produce, and devastatingly lethal,” Schmitt told Blaze News. “These deadly drugs are taking American lives, and we must get smart on them before they devastate communities across Missouri and the nation.”

RELATED: Exclusive: GOP lawmaker leads push to counter CCP influence in global telecommunications

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Schmitt added, “I was proud to introduce the DETECT Nitazenes Act in the Senate and am encouraged to see my colleagues introduce it in the House. I urge both the House and the Senate to take up this critical bill to help tackle this crisis before nitazenes get out of control.”

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested several criminal illegal aliens, including those with convictions for murder and child sexual abuse.

A Department of Homeland Security press release obtained by Blaze News highlighted five arrests made by ICE on Wednesday.

‘President Trump has been clear: If you break the law, you will face the consequences.’

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announces the arrest of more criminal illegal aliens convicted for heinous crimes, including murder, lewd acts with a child, forcible sexual abuse, and possession and intent to distribute methamphetamine,” the press release stated.

The DHS noted that nearly 70% of the immigration agency’s arrests are of illegal aliens with prior charges or convictions in the United States.

The agency highlighted the capture of Santos Cornelio Ramos Vasquez, an illegal alien from Guatemala. Ramos Vasquez is a registered sex offender who was convicted on two counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor child under 14 years old in Los Angeles, California.

RELATED: White House offers concessions to end DHS shutdown — but Dems still choose illegal aliens over unpaid American TSA agents

Santos Cornelio Ramos Vasquez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Cesar Verduzco-Rojas, an illegal alien from Mexico, was also arrested by ICE officers. He was previously convicted of murder in Perris, California. According to the San Bernardino Sun, Verduzco-Rojas was accused of killing a 24-year-old Mead Valley man in 2021. The victim was found behind the wheel of his vehicle, deceased from gunshot wounds.

Cesar Verduzco-Rojas. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Federal immigration agents nabbed Jermaine Dalton Crosley, an illegal alien from Jamaica who was previously convicted of third-degree murder in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Court records revealed that Dalton Crosley was accused of fatally shooting a man who had allowed him to live on his property. A physical altercation ensued after the man demanded Dalton Crosley vacate.

Jermaine Dalton Crosley. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Alber Eleazar Blanco, an illegal alien from Venezuela, was nabbed by immigration agents. He has a prior conviction in Provo, Utah, for forcible sexual abuse. Based on sex offender registry data, Blanco is 33 years old and lives in Spanish Fork, Utah.

Alber Eleazar Blanco. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

The final arrest noted by the DHS was Jose Manuel Ruiz Preciado, an illegal alien from Mexico. He was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas of possession and intent to distribute methamphetamine.

RELATED: Georgia city cuts water to planned ICE detention center

Jose Manuel Ruiz Preciado. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

“The media and sanctuary politicians continuously ignore the criminal illegal aliens ICE law enforcement is arresting from American neighborhoods,” DHS acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis stated.

“Yesterday alone, ICE arrested multiple murderers, pedophiles, and drug traffickers. President Trump has been clear: If you break the law, you will face the consequences,” Bis continued. “Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.”

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President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security advanced through committee Thursday thanks to one Democrat senator.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s nomination advanced through the Senate Homeland Security Committee after Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania crossed party lines and voted in favor of the nominee. Mullin’s confirmation was previously in jeopardy after the committee’s chairman, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, vowed to vote against the nominee, citing concerns about his “temperament.”

‘Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us.’

“They’ve had to have known for weeks that I couldn’t be real happy about a guy that won’t apologize and thinks that my assault was perfectly understandable,” Paul said.

Without Paul’s support, Mullin was on the brink of failing the simple majority vote needed to pass through the committee. However, Fetterman joined seven Republicans on the committee to advance Mullin’s nomination to the Senate floor.

RELATED: ‘Freaking snake’: Trump’s new DHS pick faces major roadblock from lone Republican

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Paul and Mullin sparred in Wednesday’s confirmation hearing after the chairman confronted the nominee over past comments he made about a violent assault Paul survived.

“You have never had the courage to look me in the eye and tell me that the assault was justified,” Paul said of Mullin’s comments following the 2017 assault that left him with broken ribs. Paul also claimed Mullin referred to him as a “freaking snake.”

Mullin pushed back on Paul’s claims in his opening statement, saying they addressed their differences when the Oklahoma senator was still in the House.

“I’m very blunt and direct to the point,” Mullin said. “And if I have something to say, I’ll say it directly to your face.”

“Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us,” Mullin added.

RELATED: Noem is OUT — and Trump has named her replacement

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Mullin’s nomination is now headed to the floor, where the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to confirm him with a simple majority.

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The midterms are shaping up to be a rough outing for Republicans, according to CNN analyst Harry Enten.

On Thursday, Enten pointed to Americans’ attitudes on the cost of living and a massive drop in satisfaction from just before the election in 2024 until March 2026.

‘You can’t win when you’re 41 points below water on the cost of living.’

While President Donald Trump enjoyed a three-point net positive on the issue of cost of living in October 2024, he now has a negative 41-point rating on the same issue. The rating is the worst recorded, said the analyst.

“I would say that this is the most troublesome sign that I have seen for the president of the United States and the Republican Party so far,” said Enten.

“You can’t win when you’re 41 points below water on the cost of living.”

Among independent voters, which many consider to be a bellwether for elections, the drop is even steeper. The president had a net positive rating of 11 points in 2024, but that has fallen by 71 points to a net negative rating of 60 points among independents for the cost-of-living question.

“This, my dear friends, is just a political nightmare waiting to happen for the Republican Party come the midterm election,” Enten added.

Voters also rate cost of living as their top issue, and that concern has grown slightly for the next election.

Thirty-eight percent of voters cited cost of living as their top concern in 2024, and 39% now say it’s their top concern.

“Simply put, I am saying this loud and proud: You cannot win an election when you are the incumbent party and the top issue is the cost of living,” he added.

“And your net approval rating on it is 41 points underwater? I mean, you’re with Greg Louganis at this point!”

Louganis is an American diver who won multiple Olympic gold medals in the 1980s.

RELATED: Congressional Democrats have horrendous approval ratings — even among Democratic voters

Enten posted video of the segment to his official X social media account.

“You cannot win. If you’re the president and you’re the Republican Party and you’re not addressing this issue: Wave adios, amigos, goodbye, see you later to your House majority and may very well be your Senate majority as well.”

Enten also pointed out that prediction markets pointed to a strong possibility that inflation would be higher when reported for the month of March over the last year, which would likely worsen conditions for Republicans.

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A bevy of European countries and Japan issued a joint statement to condemn Iran and pledge to defend the Strait of Hormuz from the belligerent regime’s military threat.

Iran has shut down the strait and sent oil prices spiraling after the U.S. and Israel began military strikes about three weeks ago.

‘Everybody agrees. The strait cannot stay closed. It has to open up again as soon as possible. This is crucial for the world economy.’

European countries initially refused to join the effort to defend the strait, but on Thursday, they relented and issued a statement condemning Iran.

“We express our deep concern about the escalating conflict. We call on Iran to cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks, and other attempts to block the Strait to commercial shipping,” said the global leaders in their proclamation.

Leaders from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan signed the letter, which went on to call Iran’s actions to disrupt global energy supply chains “a threat to international peace and security.”

“We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait,” the letter continued. “We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning.”

President Trump had warned that the future of NATO was threatened unless the international community joined the effort to defend the oil tanker route.

“The United States of America has beaten and completely decimated Iran, both Militarily, Economically, and in every other way, but the Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!” he wrote on Saturday.

“This should have always been a team effort, and now it will be — It will bring the World together toward Harmony, Security, and Everlasting Peace!” he added.

Crude oil rose to about $65 in late February and spiked to above $95 by Thursday, an increase of about 50%. Americans are seeing the price surge at the gas pump, leading some to worry that cost-of-living concerns may crush Republicans in the midterm elections.

An Israeli strike on a major oil field in Iran led to retaliatory Irani strikes against oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, as well as Kuwait. Trump claimed that he had not been alerted prior to the oil field attack, but an Axios report citing U.S. and Israeli officials said he had been told about the strike.

“Everybody agrees. The strait cannot stay closed. It has to open up again as soon as possible. This is crucial for the world economy,” said NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte Thursday. “I am confident that allies as always, will do everything in support of our shared interest.”

RELATED: The Economist gets crushed over sympathetic portrayal of dead Iranian leader

War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday the strikes on Iran would escalate.

“Again, today will be the largest strike package yet, just like yesterday was. As I’ve said from day one, our capabilities continue to build; Iran’s continue to degrade,” he said in a media briefing. “We’re hunting and striking death and destruction from above.”

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In 1996, the Oscars viewership totaled a whopping 45 million — but now, in 2026, the number has dwindled to a measly 17 million.

“At 17 million, it’s attracting about 5% of the American public,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock comments, adding that Clay Travis made an interesting point regarding the celebrity awards show.

“Big media take: the only reason broadcast TV networks still exist is the NFL. Go look at ratings, if the NFL isn’t on NBC, CBS and Fox, what are people watching on these channels? Bigger media take: sports is the only reason cable TV still exists. Am I wrong? Debate, discuss,” Travis wrote in a post on X.

The Oscars, like sports, Whitlock comments, “used to be a powerhouse.”

“It was like a big party, a big holiday event, Oscars night. Families would dress up, families would throw parties, people would invite everybody over, people would have wine and beer and drink and food,” he recalls.

“It was like a celebration. It was a mini-Super Bowl. And now it’s nothing. And it’s nothing because it moved away from reality. It’s nothing because the movies are nothing. They are straight trash,” he says, blaming DEI for the quality of films.

“The woke movement has done this. Woke movies, woke television, woke everything, the move away from reality. Movies and TV no longer reflect our reality. And that has made sports the last thing still connected to reality, the last thing that still reflects an American reality. It makes sports more valuable,” he explains.

And sports still reflect an American reality because many of them are attached to patriotism.

“There is an underserved market of people out here that want to see things on television, things in popular culture, that reflect a love for America and are connected to something that’s believable,” Whitlock says.

“This is how I know they have killed capitalism, because there’s this great mass of America that just wants popular culture to serve them up some reality, some masculinity, some moral values loosely connected to Christianity,” he continues.

“They want to celebrate America,” he adds.

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Sources have informed multiple publications that the FBI is investigating combat veteran Joe Kent over an alleged leak of classified information. Four individuals with direct knowledge of the probe told Semafor that it predates Kent’s resignation on Tuesday as director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

A source familiar with the case told Axios that Kent was suspected of leaking information to Tucker Carlson and another conservative podcaster and that the bureau is looking into whether the allegedly leaked information pertained to Israel and Iran.

‘Israelis drove the decision.’

When asked for comment, the White House referred Blaze News to the FBI. The FBI declined to comment. Blaze News reached out to Kent for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Kent — a retired Green Beret and former CIA officer whom President Donald Trump nominated to be NCTC director in February 2025 and the U.S. Senate confirmed in a 52-44 vote in July — wrote in a post accompanying his resignation letter addressed to Trump and published Tuesday that Iran “posed no imminent threat to our nation” and that “it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

The ex-intel official said further in the letter:

Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.

The president told reporters on Tuesday, “I read his statement — and I always thought he was a nice guy — but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security.”

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“When I read his statement, I realized that it’s a good thing that he’s out, because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat — every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether they wanted to do something about it,” said Trump.

Trump later shared an image of a tweet that Kent posted in January 2020, imploring Trump, then in his first term, to “wipe Iran’s ballistic capability out and get our troops out of Iraq — they are only targets now.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed on Tuesday that Kent’s resignation letter was replete with “false claims” and noted that “the absurd allegation that President Trump made this decision based on the influence of others, even foreign countries, is both insulting and laughable.”

On Wednesday, Kent appeared with Tucker Carlson, who said about the Iran strikes: “Joe Kent was right. Therefore, Joe Kent must be destroyed. And there is, of course, this ongoing effort to do that — to dismiss Joe Kent as a tool of the Islamists or a leaker.”

During the interview, Kent explained to Carlson his reasons for leaving the administration, his misgivings about the conflict with Iran, and his support for the president and Trump’s previous policies.

Referring to remarks made earlier this month by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Kent told Carlson — who was denounced on March 5 by the president following months of criticism — that the “Israelis drove the decision” to attack Iran.

Intelligence showed that Iran was neither on the verge of obtaining a nuclear weapon nor planning “to launch this big sneak attack,” Kent added.

He further claimed that Trump was siloed when it came to the issue of Iran, stating that “a good deal of key decision-makers were not allowed to come express their opinion to the president.”

‘He quit because he’s under investigation.’

Kent also claimed that when it came to Charlie Kirk’s assassination, “we’re not really even allowed to look into that at all.” Kent even intimated that the assassination might have something to do with Kirk’s vocal opposition to a possible regime-change war in Iran.

“One of President Trump’s closest advisers who is vocally advocating for us to not go to war with Iran and for us to rethink, at least, our relationship with the Israelis, and then he’s suddenly publicly assassinated, and we’re not allowed to ask any questions about that — it’s a data point,” said Kent. “It’s a data point that we need to look into.”‘

One of the sources reportedly familiar with the FBI investigation into Kent told Axios, “He left quite an online paper trail and he has been monitored for months.”

“He’s going to try to say this was in retaliation for his resignation,” continued the source, “but it’s the other way around: He quit because he’s under investigation — and he knew it.”

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Anonymity is never promised online, even when using an account that isn’t attached to your real name or personal email address. While it usually takes a lot of time and effort for an investigator to expose someone’s real identity, that’s all about to change. A new study confirms that it’s easier and cheaper than ever to uncover the people behind anonymous social media accounts en masse, and it’s all powered by generative AI.

The study

The study, led by members of Berlin-based independent research group MATS Research and Swiss research university ETH Zurich, claimed in early March that large language models can be used to reveal the real identities behind anonymous social media accounts at a scale never seen before.

There are serious consequences, especially for privacy and free speech.

Using a set of fictional accounts between Hacker News, Reddit, and LinkedIn, the study showed how LLMs can scan a single account and search the internet for potential matches based on semantic embeddings — mathematical vectors that represent the meaning of written text to compare similarities between various bodies of written work. Ultimately, the LLM was able to target an anonymous account on Hacker News or Reddit and connect it to the person’s “real identity” on LinkedIn.

The results showed that LLMs can achieve “up to 68% recall at 90% precision” to deanonymize accounts. In other words, the study correctly identified more than half of anonymous users with up to 90% accuracy.

It’s a terrifying revelation that your writing style — including your word choices, ideas, concepts, and beliefs — could all be turned into mathematical data that reveals exactly who you are, even if you think your social accounts aren’t connected to you at all. Even more sobering, the LLMs don’t need access to your email address, your phone number, your home address, or any other personal information to determine your identity. They only need your public writing.

The stipulations

If there’s any good news, it’s that there are several potential flaws in the study.

For starters, it didn’t use any real accounts. The targeted “users” were all fabricated with their identities already known by the researchers. In a real de-anonymizing scenario, there would be no confirmation on the other end when the LLM gets an identity right or wrong, leaving sleuths to wonder if they linked the correct person.

RELATED: New hack poses biggest iPhone threat in 19 years: What you can do

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Also, to cross-match an anonymous account with a real identity, the targeted person has to have a real online account to compare. If no such account exists, then an anonymous account could theoretically skirt the AI’s search parameters to stay concealed.

The implications

If used effectively, however, there are some serious consequences to wide-scale LLM de-anonymization, especially for privacy and free speech. This tech could easily be used by violent activist groups, corrupt NGOs, and government agencies to track anonymous accounts, uncover identities, and reveal the political beliefs of users who wish to remain unknown.

There is also huge potential for misidentifications. While the LLM in the study was considerably accurate by research standards, it wasn’t perfect. If and when something like this is ever deployed on real-world accounts at scale, it will misidentify some online accounts, possibly causing trouble for people who are wrongly accused of owning certain anonymous profiles.

Lastly, while the study focuses on LLMs digging through social media accounts to link anonymous users to real people, AI can technically do this with any body of written work. For example, all it takes is for Gemini to see the documents in your Google Drive account or for Microsoft Copilot to view your work emails to get enough semantic embedding data to search for your secret alter ego.

In other words, we could be heading into an age of oppressive online police and mass surveillance where online anonymity simply can’t exist.

What can you do?

There isn’t a surefire way to keep your anonymous online presence safe from scouring LLMs, but there are a couple of things that might help.

The first and obvious option is not to have an anonymous account at all. If you plan to be online, you must represent yourself under your own name. That means owning your values, never posting anything you wouldn’t say to a person in public, and standing up for what you believe. The Biden administration actively stomped on the values of conservatives with mass censorship and misinformation campaigns meant to scare us into submission, lest we face the wrath of cancel culture. That era is over. We can’t sit in the shadows any more while the left screams louder into the void. LLM de-anonymization simply won’t allow it.

If you must use an anonymous account, then you should delete any online accounts that do represent your true identity. That means getting rid of your real LinkedIn, Facebook, and any other profile where you’ve written words that provide semantic embedding data about you. Note, however, that even if you delete these accounts, pieces of them still exist in perpetuity on web archival services like Wayback Machine, so if an LLM wanted to dig around to uncover who you are, it still could.

The age of online anonymity is over

This study ultimately boils down to one central idea: “Anonymous” online interactions are a thing of the past. Privacy is merely a facade when an LLM can take everything you’ve ever posted online and track you down with stunning accuracy.

AI programs don’t care if you use a secret email address, install a VPN, or browse in incognito mode. The key to finding your identity is the words you write. That’s all it needs to understand who you are.

This is just the beginning. AI tools like these will only get better with time, making it even easier to unmask anonymous posters around the internet. That means if you do have an anonymous account, you shouldn’t assume your identity is safe. Anyone can find the truth with your own words used against you to destroy your privacy.

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A Haitian fraudster learned the hard way that when it comes to citizenship, the U.S. government can giveth and taketh away.

Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint, a 35-year-old Haitian national, applied to become an American citizen in early 2020. While his citizenship application was pending, Philossaint participated in an elaborate wire fraud and money laundering scheme in Florida.

‘You will lose what you unlawfully gained.’

Philossaint and his co-conspirators submitted 40 fraudulent applications on behalf of numerous businesses, seeking roughly $3.8 million from COVID-19 relief programs, said the Department of Justice. The applications falsely certified the businesses’ revenue, number of employees, and expenses.

The Haitian later acknowledged that after the conspirator business owners received their paydays, they paid him a fee of approximately 10% of the value of the loans, which amounted to approximately $549,000.

While ripping off his would-be countrymen, Philossaint lied in an interview with a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officer that he had never made false misrepresentations to receive a public benefit in the United States and had never committed a crime for which he had not been arrested — false representations that led to his naturalization as an American citizen.

Philossaint pleaded guilty in 2022 to wire fraud and money laundering charges and was found guilty in February 2023 of illegally obtaining his U.S. citizenship. He was sentenced in June 2023 to 50 months in federal prison.

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Of the five defendants charged in the case, Philossaint was the only individual sent to prison, reported the Miami Herald. Although initially charged in connection with the fraud scheme, the Haitian’s former fiancée, Florida lawyer Mariel Tollinchi, was acquitted on all charges in 2024

The DOJ announced on Tuesday that Philossaint has been stripped of his American citizenship per the orders of U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith, an appointee of President Donald Trump.

“United States citizenship is one of the greatest privileges our nation can offer, and it must be earned honestly,” U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement.

“This defendant built his path to citizenship on false statements while stealing millions from programs meant to keep small businesses alive during the pandemic,” continued Reding Quiñones. “The court’s order revoking his citizenship restores accountability and reinforces a simple principle: If you lie to obtain immigration benefits and commit federal crimes, you will lose what you unlawfully gained.”

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After a gun-toting homeowner in Ontario, Canada, opened fire and wounded an alleged intruder earlier this week, Premier Doug Ford lauded the homeowner and said intruders “need to be shot,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

“Congratulations for shooting this guy — should have shot him a couple more times as far as I’m concerned,” Ford replied after being asked about the incident during an unrelated news conference Wednesday, according to the CBC.

‘We have seen far too many of these incidents involving individuals who were already known to police and out on release orders, highlighting a deeply broken bail system that is failing our communities.’

Ford also upbraided the Canadian government for “going after legal, law-abiding gun owners” and “weak-kneed judges” for letting suspects walk, the outlet noted.

“They always want to protect the bad guys, the judges always want to protect the Charter rights,” Ford said, according to the CBC. “How about the charter of rights of the people to keep them safe rather than always protecting these criminals. I’m just sick and tired of it.”

Opposition Leader Marit Stiles of the New Democratic Party called Ford’s statement “very irresponsible nonsense” while speaking with reporters Wednesday morning, the outlet said.

“This premier has been premier of this province for eight long years now,” she said, according to the CBC. “If people in Ontario feel less safe today, then that’s on him as the premier of this province.”

Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner also used the term “irresponsible” to describe Ford’s words in a statement to the outlet: “It is irresponsible for the premier to be making comments encouraging violence or celebrating the loss of life. He should focus on investing in measures that will make our province safer and empower first responders to do their jobs to serve and protect our communities.”

This wasn’t the first time Ford has spoken out amid such matters. After a homeowner was charged with aggravated assault for fighting and injuring an armed male who allegedly broke into his Lindsay, Ontario, residence last year, Ford said that “something is broken” in the system when one is punished for self-defense. The CBC last month reported that the homeowner in question no longer will face prosecution.

In regard to this week’s incident, York Regional Police said no charges were being filed against the homeowner who used a “legally owned” and “properly stored” gun.

Police said a middle-aged man and an elderly woman were home at the time of the incident, and no one living at the home was injured, the CBC reported.

A police press release issued Wednesday said officers responded just before 1 a.m. Tuesday to reports of a shooting at a Vaughan home in the area of Carrville Woods Circle and Crimson Forest Drive, near Rutherford Road and Dufferin Street.

Officials said multiple suspects allegedly armed with at least one gun forced their way into the home and that the suspects later were seen getting into a black pickup truck and fleeing the scene.

Police on Tuesday released video of the incident showing masked suspects entering and leaving the home, the CBC said, adding that rapid gunfire can be heard as they run from the residence to the truck.

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The male who was shot had been dropped off at a Toronto-area hospital shortly after the incident, the police press release said.

Police said Trestin Cassanova-Alman, a 24-year-old male with no fixed address, is facing charges of robbery with a firearm and disguise with intent as well with breaching a probation order “as he was on an outstanding probation order for unrelated offenses at the time of the home invasion.”

Cassanova-Alman is in stable condition in the hospital in police custody, the news release said.

At least one politician in the area appears squarely on Ford’s side — the mayor of the city where the shooting took place.

Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca in a social media statement posted Wednesday said he’s thankful the homeowner wasn’t charged given that it was an act of self-defense.

“We have seen far too many of these incidents involving individuals who were already known to police and out on release orders, highlighting a deeply broken bail system that is failing our communities,” the mayor said.

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Arizona has filed the first criminal charges against a prediction market website in the United States.

Kalshi is one of two major prediction market websites in the country (along with Polymarket), which allows users to make money off of almost anything.

‘We just can’t allow companies to come in here and override our laws.’

Whether it’s Taylor Swift getting married or the future price of Bitcoin, prediction markets turn real-life events into shares that can be bought and sold depending on their value. The value changes based on which outcome users are putting their money into.

Like financial exchanges, these predictions are regulated federally by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) is calling that into question.

“We just can’t allow companies to come in here and override our laws or try to bypass our laws against online gaming outside of regulations,” Mayes told Arizona’s CBS 5.

Mayes’ office put out a press release on Tuesday alleging that Kalshi has accepted bets from Arizona residents that violate state law.

The press release included a filing against Kalshi Trading LLC out of Delaware, listing 20 criminal charges related to what Arizona referred to as “proposition bets,” which typically refer to sports bets focused on individual player performances.

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The filing listed 16 “betting and wagering” offenses and four counts of “election wagering.”

This included “bets” on the 2028 presidential race, the 2026 Arizona gubernatorial race, the 2026 Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary, the 2026 Arizona Secretary of State race, and whether the SAVE Act would become law.

The alleged sports bets were on pro and college events, including prop bets on individual performances in those categories.

The state said that Arizona law prohibits operating an “unlicensed wagering business” and separately bans “betting on elections outright.”

A Kalshi spokeswoman told Business Insider that she believes Arizona’s charges are “seriously flawed” and an example of “gamesmanship.”

“These charges are meritless, and we look forward to fighting them in court,” the spokeswoman, Elisabeth Diana, told the outlet.

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“Kalshi may brand itself as a ‘prediction market,’ but what it’s actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law,” AG Mayes said in the press release. “No company gets to decide for itself which laws to follow.”

Mayes added, “Arizona will not be bullied into letting any company place itself above state law.”

Kalshi’s front page is currently covered in political predictions, which of course are subject to change. This includes the options to trade on topics like government shutdowns, U.S. tariff rates on China, and the results of the midterm elections.

Prediction markets have become so popular that they have forced major gambling platforms like DraftKings and FanDuel to create their own models, offering services to a national market as opposed to operating on a state-by-state basis.

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Carmaker Jaguar has made an about-face in its advertising formula, now opting for simplicity after a disastrous woke ad campaign seemingly derailed sales just over a year ago.

In late 2024, the company dropped an ad that was widely criticized, mocked, and labeled “woke.”

‘Jaguars need to be beautiful.’

The ad featured a diverse cast of flamboyantly dressed androgynous actors — including a man in a dress — in an attack on the “ordinary.”

“We’re here to delete ordinary. To go bold. To copy nothing,” the tagline read.

Strangely enough, though, the commercial did not include a single image of a car, let alone a Jaguar.

The strange marketing campaign even drew ire from President Trump, who said last August, “Jaguar did a stupid, and seriously WOKE advertisement.”

The ad became infamous over the summer, months after its release, and was coupled with a devastating sales decline.

Now, the company is going in a different direction, drawing on its original Jaguar E-type that launched at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1961.

RELATED: It’s time to make cars beautiful again

With the tagline “Original then. Original now,” Jaguar seems determined to invoke classic car nostalgia with a set of three 30-second ads released earlier this week.

The ads seem like the company is simply extending an olive branch to possible customers, as it is not promoting anything new, but includes its concept car — the Type 00 — which was first announced at the end of 2024.

The first ad, titled “Spirit of Reinvention,” simply shows off its mid-1950s XKSS and 1975 XJ-S.

The second ad, “Bold Expression,” gives a nod to the classic Jaguar SS models, while the third ad, “Shocking the World,” shows a vertically hanging E-type while referencing its original release.

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The ads are a stark contrast from the previous campaign, which culminated with Jaguar Land Rover’s longtime CEO stepping down in July.

The resignation came after sales dropped 97% when comparing April 2025 to April 2024. Just 49 Jaguars were registered across Europe in April 2025, a massive decline from 1,961 the previous April.

The shocking downturn came after record profits just a few months before.

It remains unclear what the future holds for Jaguar, as it labels its new concept car as a “non-production vehicle,” but the Type 00 still seems to be the brand’s focus. According to Jaguar’s former designer Ian Callum, several different models were scrapped to make way for the new design.

“They were all taken away,” Callum said. “They were all stopped, and even the current cars were stopped.”

The Type 00 is now the future of the brand and is being used as “a statement,” he said. While Callum admitted the car is “bold” and “handsome,” it is not “beautiful.”

“And Jaguars need to be beautiful,” he added.

Readers should note that Jaguar Land Rover has been owned by Indian manufacturer Tata Motors since 2008.

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Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) threw gasoline on an already sensitive fire for Democrats and said that his party has no real leadership.

Fetterman is among the few Democrats who support Operation Epic Fury, a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation in Iran that has seen weeks of bombing and conflict.

‘I think the TDS — I think that’s the leader right now.’

During the episode of the “All-In Podcast” released Wednesday, Fetterman was discussing his popularity among Republican voters when he was asked to identify the leader of the modern Democratic Party.

“Oh, we don’t have one,” Fetterman told host David Friedberg.

“I think the TDS — I think that’s the leader right now,” he said, referring to Trump derangement syndrome, which typically refers to an inability to see any positives in what President Trump does.

Fetterman continued, “You know, right now our party is governed by the TDS. And now it’s made it virtually impossible, without being punished as a Democrat, to agree something’s good or [say] ‘I agree with the other side.'”

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The Pennsylvania senator then directly cited his support for the Iranian operation, saying he thinks it is “entirely appropriate” to hold the now-former Iranian regime “accountable.”

“What’s strange to me [is] that every single Democrat that’s run for president and anyone that I know in Congress says we must never allow them to acquire a nuclear bomb. When that happens, why not celebrate that or acknowledge that? … Like, yeah, you don’t have to agree on every single thing, but when a good thing happens, just because it comes from the different party — that tells me that you’re choosing the demand of the base or the party over country or what’s really, I think, appropriate, in that circumstance.”

Fetterman, 56, said that his party has become so inflexible that “you are not allowed” to show solidarity with Israel but that “it’s not a big deal if you have a Nazi tattoo on your chest.”

The senator was likely referring to Graham Platner, a Democrat Senate candidate from Maine, who allegedly has a Nazi SS tattoo. Platner previously said he did not realize the tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol and that he planned to have it “removed.”

“You have people in my party now who are trying to normalize that or to excuse that. I mean, that’s kind of where we are,” Fetterman added.

RELATED: Will Republicans fight for the SAVE Act — or fold again?

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During the interview, Fetterman said he was not sure whether he is more popular with Republicans than Democrats, but suggested that if he is, it is because he does not label “MAGA” enthusiasts with pejoratives.

“They’re not Nazis. They’re not fascists. They’re not trying to destroy our country.”

According to Psychology Today, the term “Trump derangement syndrome” originates from late psychiatrist turned political commentator Charles Krauthammer, who is cited for coining the phrase “Bush derangement syndrome” in 2003, in reference to President George W. Bush.

Although Krauthammer was reportedly a harsh critic of Trump, he still defined TDS as a Trump-induced “general hysteria” that produces an “inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology” in Trump’s behavior.

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