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Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel responded defiantly to calls demanding he be fired after joking about President Donald Trump dying before the latest assassination attempt.

Kimmel made the joke during a parody Thursday where he pretended to tell jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and made one at the expense of the president.

‘I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do. And I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.’

Only two days later, an allegedly crazed gunman fired shots at the dinner after posting threats against the president and his administration online.

Kimmel replied to the backlash during his show Monday night.

“You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and the first lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired from your job? We’ve all been there. Right?” Kimmel said.

He claimed the joke was not about the president dying but rather about the lack of joy on the first lady’s face during their interactions.

“It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination. And they know that,” Kimmel said.

“I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence, in particular,” he added. “But I understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over the weekend. And probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house. And also, I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do. And I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.”

Both the president and first lady called for Kimmel to be fired for the joke.

“Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow!” Kimmel quipped.

Kimmel’s show was pulled off the air in Sept. 2025 after he suggested that the suspect in the killing of activist Charlie Kirk was a Trump supporter. He went back to his show only a few days later.

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The first lady posted her comments on Monday.

“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” she wrote.

“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him,” she added.

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Video of a very simple question from a Republican member of Congress to a pro-abortion activist went viral on social media.

Republican Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas questioned reproductive rights expert Jessica L. Waters on her preferred method of gruesome baby aborting, but she refused to answer.

‘I wouldn’t want to talk about this either if I were you because it is barbaric and evil.’

Waters was testifying in defense of the FACE Act that was weaponized under the Biden administration to increase prosecution against pro-life activists who protest at abortion provider centers.

“You’re an advocate for abortion, for abortion policy. What’s your favorite type of abortion?” Gill asked.

“I am an advocate for patients having access to the full realm of reproductive health care,” she answered.

“But do you have a preferred method of abortion that you like?” he asked.

“I do not,” she replied.

“Let me read through a couple different methods, and I want to get your take on how much you like these,” Gill said.

“The first type is called a suction abortion. This is when the cervix is dilated and a strong suction 29 times the power of a household vacuum cleaner tears the baby’s body apart and sucks it through the hose into a container. Do you prefer that method?” he asked.

Waters refused to answer, so Gill went on to another method.

“OK, what about this one? This one is called dilation and curettage. After dilation of the cervix, a sharp looped knife is inserted into the uterus. The baby’s body is cut into pieces and extracted, often by suction. Do you prefer that method?” he asked.

Waters again tried to sidestep the question, but Gill pressed on.

“You don’t want to talk about abortion itself. Why is that?” he asked.

He went on to describe another method called dilation and evacuation.

“Do you prefer that method?” he asked.

“I would prefer to talk about the reason the hearing was called and the basis of my expert testimony,” she responded.

“It’s uncomfortable to hear this, isn’t it? It is. I think it is, because it’s barbaric and evil,” he said before describing another abortion method, after which Waters responded again that she would prefer to speak on the subject of the hearing.

“This is the subject of the hearing. This is about protests outside of abortion clinics. I’m asking you about abortion,” Gill said.

“I stand by my prior testimony,” Waters replied.

“I wouldn’t want to talk about this either if I were you because it is barbaric and evil,” he added.

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Gill posted video of the testimony from the hearing at the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, and it went viral on social media.

“This is the greatest single question I’ve ever seen asked in Congress,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace replied.

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Last weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton in D.C., a 31-year-old California resident named Cole Tomas Allen allegedly rushed a security checkpoint — armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and knives — and fired multiple shots in an attempt to target Trump administration officials. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, and Allen was charged with attempted assassination of the president.

Allen, Glenn Beck says, is different from former would-be assassins. He isn’t “some lone wolf,” “crazed madman,” or “basement-dwelling nobody.” He’s “a brilliant Caltech graduate” with a long list of impressive credentials and a normal background by all measures.

Glenn wants to know how a man with a successful history in engineering, computer science, and education, whose students and colleagues “loved him,” became “the friendly federal assassin” — the nom de guerre Allen gave himself in the manifesto he sent to family and friends before he allegedly attempted to kill President Trump and other Cabinet members.

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn dives into how a bright person with great potential becomes a radicalized killer and what it means for America if this trend isn’t stopped.

“[Allen] was radicalized the same way our children are being radicalized today — not by some foreign terrorist group, but by the toxic stew that is American politics in 2026,” Glenn says.

From “endless media hysteria” and “the online echo chambers” — where Trump and others in the administration are constantly accused of being “rapists,” “pedophiles,” and “fascists” — to the pervasive “belief that our political opponents aren’t just wrong … they’re evil,” modern society has become a factory that churns out radicals, he explains.

But it’s a complicated issue because these revolutionaries who commit acts of violence in the name of justice consider themselves the good guys.

“[Allen] saw himself as a hero — and that mindset is the danger. The guy thought he was Bonhoeffer!” Glenn exclaims.

Allen’s devolution from a bright man with great potential into an alleged would-be assassin is evidence that our republic is heading toward collapse, he warns.

“Bright young men convinced that violence is the only answer to a political disagreement, when assassination becomes thinkable, when fixing the world means opening fire at a dinner — that’s how our republic unravels,” Glenn says.

If the radicalization and violence continues, government officials and public figures will have to start “living behind the walls,” but it’s everyday Americans who will pay the steepest price by “[losing] a piece of the free open society” that we’ve known for so long.

“It’s the republic that pays the price as we lose yet just one more piece of our soul every time hatred wins,” Glenn says.

“[Allen] wasn’t born this way. He was taught to be this way. He was radicalized step by step, post by post, protest by protest, march after march. He actually began to believe that murder was moral,” he continues.

And Glenn fears he won’t be the last to commit violence against political opponents.

“In a country where political rage is treated like a virtue instead of poison, how many other guys are out there right now?” he asks.

“America, we are running out of warnings.”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Three female customers at a Florida Taco Bell allegedly used a water cup for soda earlier this week, after which an employee opened fire following an argument.

Officers were called around noon Monday to the Taco Bell at Military Trail and 45th Street in West Palm Beach after reports of shots fired inside the restaurant, WPEC-TV reported, citing the probable cause affidavit released Tuesday.

‘It doesn’t surprise me that it would happen. The world we live in today, it makes sense.’

Police said three women entered the restaurant and asked for a cup of water, the station reported.

Investigators said one of the women then filled the cup at a soda fountain, which led to a verbal argument with an employee identified as 20-year-old D’Mari Jy’Quan Patterson, WPEC said.

A witness recorded cellphone video showing Patterson yelling at the women as tempers flared, the station said, adding that police said the sound of a gun being racked can be heard on the video just before a shot rang out in the dining area.

One woman fell to the floor after being shot while another suffered a graze wound, investigators told WPEC.

A third woman ran out of the restaurant, the station said, adding that police allege Patterson followed her outside and fired another shot in her direction.

WPEC said that shot missed but shattered a window near the entrance.

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The three women drove themselves to a hospital, WPEC reported, adding that police said two were treated for minor injuries and released, while the third was not injured.

After the shooting, Patterson called 911 and told dispatchers a customer had jumped behind the counter, the station said, adding that an arrest affidavit indicated he admitted firing the gun and told officers he placed the gun in the management office before police arrived.

Investigators told WPEC Patterson claimed he believed the women were armed — though police said no weapons were found.

In addition, surveillance video and witness statements don’t support a claim of self-defense, police told the station, which added that the women appeared to be trying to leave when additional shots were fired.

One customer told WPEC regarding the incident that “it doesn’t surprise me that it would happen. The world we live in today, it makes sense.”

Patterson was arrested Monday and charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, the station said, adding that jail records show he’s being held pending court proceedings. His bond is $25,000 for each count of aggravated assault, jail records show.

The State Attorney’s Office is reviewing the case, WPEC said.

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Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tried and failed to co-opt federal raids on day cares and autism centers amid allegations that he has obstructed anti-fraud investigations.

The Dept. of Justice announced an operation on nearly two dozen sites on Tuesday as part of an investigation into massive fraud in Minnesota, allegedly by members of the Somali community.

‘It’s too little too late because I have already referred him.’

Walz, who dropped a re-election campaign after the allegations of obstruction, posted a statement on social media to take credit for the federal raids.

“If you commit fraud in Minnesota you’re going to get caught — and that’s exactly what we saw today. We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information. Joint investigations work, and securing justice depends on it,” the failed vice presidential candidate wrote.

He went on to claim that the raids were a result of state agencies catching “irregular behavior” and reporting it.

“Now let’s work on a joint investigation into the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good — instead of cherry picking when we seek justice and when we turn a blind eye,” he added.

Pretti and Good were killed while interfering with federal immigration agents in Minnesota.

Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, forcefully rejected Walz’s claims.

“Come again? This FBI and DOJ with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today,” Patel wrote.

“But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship,” he added.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida also broadsided the governor.

“Glad to see Tim Walz has finally come around to holding fraudsters accountable, unfortunately it’s too little too late because I have already referred him, as well as other bad actors, to the DOJ for criminal referral for being complicit in this horrifying Minnesota fraud scheme,” Luna wrote.

RELATED: ‘Feeding Our Future’ scam artist agrees to plea deal with a slap-on-the-wrist sentence

Numerous day care and autism treatment centers were included in the FBI raids in Minnesota Tuesday morning, including the infamous “Quality Learing Center” on Nicollet Avenue.

“The task force and the DOJ will be relentless in exposing these fraudsters wherever they may be hiding,” Vice President JD Vance wrote on social media.

Nearly 100 people have been indicted in Minnesota for fraud since 2021, and 67 have been convicted. One of the larger schemes involved the Feeding Our Future nonprofit organization that drained hundreds of millions of dollars from a federal nutrition program.

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The Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in Scott v. McDougle, a case initially brought before Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley Jr. that could determine whether Old Dominion ultimately adopts a gerrymandered map that would all but guarantee that 10 out of the state’s 11 congressional seats go to Democrats in the upcoming midterm election.

On April 21, Virginia voters passed the redistricting referendum, but the next day, Hurley blocked certification of the result, ruffling the feathers of Democrats who eagerly want to see the result certified.

Hurley ruled in January that the constitutional amendment that ended up on the April 21 ballot was unlawful. He then declared on April 22 in a related case about the constitutional amendment — Koski v. Republican National Committee — that:

the Virginia General Assembly illegitimately usurped the powers of the Virginia Redistricting Commission; the legislation that prompted the special election for the amendment violated the submission, timing, and form of laws clauses of the Virginia Constitution; and”any and all votes for or against the proposed constitutional amendment in the April 21, 2026, special election are ineffective.”

The judge granted the Republican plaintiffs in the Koski case a permanent injunction against certification, noting that they “will be irreparably harmed absent permanent injunctive relief because of the numerous violations of the constitutional amendment process and because Congressmen [Ben] Cline and [Morgan] Griffith would be irreparably harmed by their districts changing at this juncture.”

On April 24, Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) filed a motion for an emergency stay of Hurley’s order in the Koski case.

The Virginia Supreme Court delivered Jones and other Democrats bad news on Tuesday, denying them their coveted emergency stay.

RELATED: Virginia Supreme Court seems skeptical about Democratic gerrymandering

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Former Republican Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli said in response to the court’s rejection of the Democratic motion that “in the ‘tea leaves’ category, this is as positive a ‘tea leaf’ as one might imagine” with regard to the Scott case.

Cuccinelli said that if the Virginia Supreme Court “thought they would let the referendum stand, then logically they would have lifted the injunction on counting & certifying the votes.”

Virginia Del. Wren Williams (R) wrote, “The same Supreme Court that allowed the referendum to go forward in March, so voters could be heard, has now declined to override a final judgment finding the constitutional amendment process defective. Strong signal that process matters in Virginia.”

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In the wake of Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — in which 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen allegedly rushed a security checkpoint and opened fire in an attempt to assassinate President Trump and other administration officials — at least one prominent Democrat is showing signs of remorse.

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn spoke with Turning Point USA spokesperson and executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show” Andrew Kolvet about Sen. John Fetterman’s recent conversation with Erika Kirk.

“There was a moment with John Fetterman and Erika that I heard about where he was pretty emotional, and he just apologized for whatever he could,” says Kolvet, noting that this conversation happened shortly after the WHCD incident.

“Good for John Fetterman. That’s a real moment,” he adds.

Glenn notes that for some time he has wanted to speak with Fetterman to tell him that despite their political differences, he admires Fetterman’s bravery to take stands against his own party, likely at the expense of being primaried.

“It’s interesting to me that somebody who just says common-sense stuff that is a Democrat … is so chased out of their own party. They can’t have anybody who is at all not a radical. They must have radicals in there,” Glenn emphasizes.

He calls the Democrats out for their complicity in the escalating political violence: “Democrats, you’re not an innocent bystander at this point. There’s too much evidence.”

“These people want to destroy the United States of America. If you want a violent destruction of your country, you just keep going down this road,” he cautions.

In the meantime, conservatives, he says, will continue to “do everything [they] can to stop it,” including continuing “to warn and to beg and to plead and to vote.”

But if Democrats continue to stoke the fires of violence, the consequences are bleak for everyone, including their own families.

“Your children and your grandchildren will suffer under Marxism and fascism and death and squalor — and you will be responsible for it!” Glenn warns.

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Nearly two dozen Minnesota day-care centers and other locations were raided Tuesday in a federal investigation into alleged fraud by members of the Somali community.

Dozens of people have already been arrested in the fraud investigations prior to the raids, and some officials estimate the scale of the illegal schemes to be in the billions.

‘We are pleased to see the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and our federal partners taking strong action based on information we have shared with them.’

Among those raided was the infamous “Quality Learing Center” on Nicollet Avenue, which was mocked online for misspelling “learning” in its business sign. Also raided were five centers for the treatment of autism.

“Today the FBI with federal, state, and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” read a statement from Homeland Security Investigations.

Other places raided included the Fahiye Child Care Center on Jackson Street, Baby Halimo Child Care Inc. on Cedar Avenue, and A Plus Universal Child Care and Learning Center on Shakopee Town Square.

Some of the scams involved the Feeding Our Future nonprofit that swallowed up millions of dollars in pandemic emergency relief funding but lied about supplying meals to hungry families and children. Sixty-five people have already been convicted in the FOF scam.

The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, which is responsible for licensing day-care centers, applauded the raids in a statement.

“We are pleased to see the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and our federal partners taking strong action based on information we have shared with them,” the organization said. “We will continue sharing information with law enforcement to ensure they are able to conduct thorough criminal investigations.”

RELATED: Founder of Minneapolis autism center admits to kickbacks to Somali families in $6M scam

The fraud scandal has already severely damaged the political career of Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, who was accused of obstructing fraud investigations. Walz denied the allegations but dropped his campaign for re-election to a third term.

“Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences,” Walz said in early January. “So I’ve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work.”

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Pope Leo XIV has recognized the martyrdom of scores of Spanish Christians murdered by leftists in the 1930s, setting the stage for their possible canonization.

Spain was ravaged in the first half of the 20th century by a bloody civil war that saw a motley crew of Soviet-backed leftists — a coalition strained by infighting between anarchists and communists, to the great chagrin of George Orwell — pitted against an alliance of conservatives, nationalists, and monarchists who were alternatively reinforced by German and Italian forces.

In the years leading up to the war, the Catholic Church and its supporters in Spain became increasingly popular targets for deadly leftist attacks and political persecution by the Republican government.

That oppression paled, however, in comparison to the anti-Catholic campaign executed during the “Red Terror” — the leftist counterinsurgency described by the late Austrian-American polymath Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn as “an orgy of rape, sadism, and unspeakable obscenities.”

According to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation:

Republican partisans desecrated, burned, and looted churches and shrines all across Spain. Relics and statues were paraded through the streets in mock celebrations; the bodies of saints and clergy were dug up and abused. Priests and religious were hunted and massacred: around 6,800 Catholic clergy, including 13 bishops, were tortured and executed by left-wing forces. Nor were these killings a reaction to clerical abuses. According to historian José Sanchez, “Priests of all types were killed: strict, loose, moral, immoral, libertines and ascetics,” including “some priests who were social activists and had actively opposed the uprisings.” Indeed, murder of the local priest became de rigueur for loyal partisans: “Cassock we see, cassock we kill.”

On Monday, Pope Leo authorized the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to recognize the martyrdom of Brother Estanislao Ortega García and 48 of his companions from the Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel along with diocesan priest Emanuele Berenguer Clusella, who were “killed between the months of July and November 1936 in hatred of the faith, in various parts of Catalonia, Spain, in the context of the same persecution.”

Vatican News noted that the recognition of the clerics’ martyrdom “marks a step forward in the respective causes for canonization.”

RELATED: Young men flocking to Christianity in record numbers

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InfoVaticana reported that the Archdiocese of Barcelona initially got the ball rolling on these martyrs’ beatification decades ago, collecting testimonies and documentation regarding the circumstances of their deaths.

‘They are models of consistency with the truth they professed.’

This is hardly the first time that Pope Leo or his predecessors have recognized the heroic faith of Christians murdered by Spanish leftists in the 1930s.

Last year, for instance, Pope Leo recognized as martyrs 109 diocesan priests, one religious sister, and 14 lay Catholics killed during the conflict along with 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

In 2013, Pope Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, enraged leftists by announcing the beatification of over 520 martyrs, mainly clergymen, killed for their faith during the Spanish Civil War. This beatification further advanced the cause of their potential recognition by the Catholic Church as saints.

The process for canonization, or official recognition of sainthood, is as follows: First, a candidate who “lived a heroically virtuous life or offered their life” is recognized by the pope as “venerable.” The second stage is beatification, which requires a finding of “one miracle acquired through the candidate’s intercession.” Finally, for canonization, a second miracle is required.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops notes on its website that “all Christians are called to be saints. Saints are persons in heaven (officially canonized or not), who lived heroically virtuous lives, offered their life for others, or were martyred for the faith, and who are worthy of imitation.”

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI beatified 498 martyrs “who poured out their blood for the faith during the religious persecution in Spain in 1934, 1936 and 1937” and whose ages ranged from 16 to 78.

In 2001, Pope John Paul II beatified 233 martyrs killed during the Spanish Civil War, including Maria Teresa Ferragud, an 83-year-old woman who was savagely murdered on the feast of Christ the King in 1936 along with her four daughters, all of whom were nuns.

“The Church wishes to recognize these men and women as examples of courage and constancy in faith, helped by God’s grace,” Pope John Paul II, who was canonized in 2014, said at the time. “For us they are models of consistency with the truth they professed, while at the same time they honor the noble Spanish people and the Church.”

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The Dept. of Justice announced Tuesday the indictment of a former top aide to Anthony Fauci, who headed up the government’s pandemic response.

Seventy-eight-year-old David Morens allegedly violated records protocols in order to hide pandemic information from Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a DOJ press release.

‘The conspiracy was Tony Fauci and his assistants doing Xi Jinping’s dirty work and lying about COVID’s origins.’

Morens was a senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 2006 through 2022.

He allegedly agreed with a co-conspirator “in writing to intentionally hide from public view their communications by corresponding using Morens’s personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account.”

Morens allegedly received wine in exchange for his “shenanigans” and was allegedly offered other gifts, including meals at Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris, New York, and Washington, D.C.

In one alleged email to Fauci, Morens appeared to admit to his efforts to hide the communications.

“I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble,” the email allegedly read.

Fauci has denied any knowledge about the emails and claimed Morens was not his top adviser.

“These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most — during the height of a global pandemic,” read a statement from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

“As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19,” he added. “Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest — not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.”

Morens is charged with conspiracy against the United States, according to the DOJ, as well as destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting.

“In March of 2020, I made clear the virus almost certainly came from the Wuhan lab,” said former Trump State Secretary Mike Pompeo. “A massive campaign to undermine what we knew was undertaken. To call this an abuse of public trust is an understatement.”

RELATED: Fauci says its ‘irrelevant’ to him that people demonize him, is not afraid to testify at Congress

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) thanked the feds for holding “fraudsters” accountable.

“Pointing out that COVID leaked from a lab in Communist China was never a conspiracy, it was common sense,” he said in a post on social media. “The conspiracy was Tony Fauci and his assistants doing Xi Jinping’s dirty work and lying about COVID’s origins.”

If convicted, Morens could face up to 20 years in prison for each count of destruction of records and possibly more for the other counts.

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Back in January, BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales released a bombshell report on an investigation into H-1B scams in Texas.

On Tuesday, Gonzales released another video of her investigation into an alleged H-1B farm posing as a day care and autism center — despite appearing to be non-operational when she visited.

‘If you are not leave, I will call the police!’

And her investigation took some unexpected turns after she stumbled upon a whistleblower who was able to blow the lid off the whole operation and confronted the owner outside the buildings.

Gonzales started the video outside Allen Infant Care Center, which used to be called Golden Acorn Academy, according to her investigation. The day cares, Gonzales explained, are owned by a holdings company called Golden Qi Holdings LLC, which is also allegedly affiliated with DFW ABA Center, reportedly an autism behavioral therapy center.

RELATED: ‘H-1B workers ONLY’: DOJ punishes company Sara Gonzales exposed for illegal hiring practices

She showed that the complex was almost entirely empty and, notably, apparently devoid of children. The playground appeared to require maintenance and to be overtaken with tall grass and weeds.

Gonzales alleged that, on top of having an associated day care and autism center, they have sponsored “37 H-1Bs” and “they have filled out 55 Labor Condition Applications,” citing USCIS data.

“The thing that is so curious about this [case] when you go digging in the data and the LCAs is that you wouldn’t think that a day care center would need, you know, ‘market research analysts’ or ‘supply chain analysts,'” Gonzales remarked.

“And yet, this company actually told the United States government that they needed foreign workers to fill those jobs,” she further alleged.

While this investigation may have looked like it would take a normal course at the outset, Gonzales ran into a whistleblower at the premises who claimed to be familiar with the operation and who explained “just how bad this one gets.”

The whistleblower alleged that the H-1B visa workers do not work on-site and that the immigration enforcement officials “know all about his H-1B visas,” claiming that the owner has been investigated three or four times in the last three years.

She also alleged that the owner sells visas and then underpays the holders of those visas when they get to the United States. She described the company as a “foothold” in an immigration scheme.

Gonzales also confronted a man who appeared to be the owner of the companies she was investigating.

The man spoke with her in broken English, attempting to get her to simply talk to his lawyers on the phone instead. However, Gonzales kept pushing him to explain his alleged “pay-to-play” visa operation.

After some questioning, the man retreated to what Gonzales described as a “metallic rose gold BMW” with butterfly doors.

“Hey, is your dad a member of the CCP?” Gonzales asked as he slammed the door of his car.

The man drove down the road, turned around, then yelled out the window of his BMW, “If you are not leave, I will call the police!”

“I’ll call the police on you for scamming my system!” Gonzales shouted after him as he sped away.

After the investigation on-site, Gonzales said that she and her team still have a lot of questions and will be referring their findings to USCIS and the Department of Labor.

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Former FBI Director James Comey has once again been indicted by the Department of Justice, this time for an infamous social media post that appeared to threaten President Donald Trump.

Comey posted a photo to his Instagram last May showing seashells on a beach writing the numbers “8647,” with the now-deleted post captioned, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” The phrase “86” in slang commonly refers to getting rid of something, and the number “47” is assumed to be a reference to Trump, who is the 47th president of the United States.

‘This indictment comes just days after a crazed gunman attempted to assassinate Trump.’

The basis of this second indictment is that the post could be considered a threat to kill Trump, a threat that Comey has repeatedly denied.

“It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down,” Comey said after deleting the post.

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This indictment comes just days after a crazed gunman attempted to assassinate Trump, rushing through a security checkpoint in the lobby of the Washington Hilton, where the president, several Cabinet members, and hundreds of attendees were seated at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The suspect, later identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen, allegedly opened fire and struck a Secret Serviceman wearing a bulletproof vest before being quickly subdued and apprehended.

A manifesto was later made public detailing Allen’s alleged political motivations to kill Trump and members of his Cabinet. In light of the third serious assassination attempt against Trump, the DOJ has indicted Comey for the second time.

Comey was first indicted in September for making false statements to Congress and for obstruction of a congressional proceeding. The indictment was later dismissed and is no longer active.

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A gang of youths ages 11 to 14 were caught on cellphone video last week mercilessly pummeling a lone victim on a street corner in Towson, Maryland.

Nine juveniles have been identified, and second-degree assault charges are pending against five of them after Baltimore County police officers responded to the incident, WBFF-TV reported.

‘You can see the kids are laughing. … They just don’t care, because no one is going to hold them accountable.’

Police said officers were called around 3:40 p.m. April 20 to the unit block of Lambourne Road for a “physical disturbance,” the station reported.

Police said it’s believed the incident stems from a verbal altercation in school and that the juveniles involved — who range in age from 11 to 14 — know each other, WBFF said.

Two juveniles under the age of 13 will not be charged, police told the station, which added that none of the juveniles are in custody as officers are trying to notify their parents.

The incident drew attention after video recorded outside the Towson Promenade appeared to show a group of juveniles surrounding and beating one victim. You can view unredacted video of the broad-daylight beatdown here, which shows a gang of youths repeatedly punching, kicking, and stomping the victim.

More from WBFF:

A second incident happened Tuesday involving some of the same students inside Dumbarton Middle School during a meeting with the School Resource Officer, police said. During the meeting, a student and their parent left the office and got involved in a physical fight with another student in a hallway. The parent was later trespassed from the school, authorities said.

Police are working with Baltimore County Public Schools, which is conducting its own administrative investigation.

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The April 20 incident occurred across the street from Towson Diner, and owner Nick Kourtsounis told WBFF in a separate story he’s frustrated by what he sees as ongoing juvenile violence in the area.

“This looks like nine on one, is what it looks like,” Kourtsounis told the station while viewing video presumably showing the attack. “I don’t see how that’s just middle schoolers being middle schoolers. That is a learned behavior, and I don’t know how you unlearn that, but something has to be done.”

He added to WBFF, “Where’s the accountability? That’s what we want. We want accountability, we want action, and this stuff about, ‘Oh, it’s just kids being kids’ — no, it’s not.”

Baltimore County resident Mary Shanahan told the station, “I’m very fearful for my life because you never know what they have in their backpacks, what they have in their pockets, what they’re going to say to you.”

A retired Baltimore County Police sergeant told WBFF in another story that the youths involved simply don’t care about consequences.

“You can see the kids are laughing. They’re looking at the camera, they’re looking around, but they’re committing the crime,” Mickey Hoppert, who retired from the Baltimore County Police Department after 20 years of service as an officer, told the station. “They just don’t care, because no one is going to hold them accountable. And unfortunately, somebody has to hold them accountable.”

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Yet another disgruntled leftist allegedly resorted to violence over the weekend when he set his sights on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

It was the third attempt on Trump’s life since his 2024 campaign.

And considering the right has been warning about the left’s obsession with political violence since before the first Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, BlazeTV host John Doyle isn’t surprised.

“Another day, another assassination attempt against President Trump, against conservatives,” Doyle says.

“I don’t like repeating myself. The problem with that is, now we are fresh out of things to say because we covered this during the first Trump assassination attempt, the other 15,000 Trump assassination attempts, the Charlie Kirk assassination, the violence throughout the first Trump administration,” he explains.

And the problem, Doyle warns, is only going to grow.

“If we don’t do something about it, like, yesterday, we’re going to be in a pretty bad position,” he says, especially considering that the left’s path to radicalization is mainstream.

“These people get radicalized by normal media consumption. When right-wing people get radicalized, what does it lead them to do? Get married younger … spending more time in the gym, putting themselves out there, introducing themselves to people in their community. … That is what right-wing radicalization looks like,” he explains.

“And you have to go through several rabbit holes to get there. Left-wing radicalization is just spending too much time watching what is put in front of you, and then you declare war on normal white America in the most disgusting and vile and evil iteration possible every single time,” he continues.

And their war against “normal white America” won’t stop until it no longer exists.

“These people will not stop until we are absent from society. Now, I don’t know what that’s going to look like. I don’t know if that means we all get cut off from our libtard friends, our libtard family members,” Doyle says.

“The thing is, though, as these people feel more and more that they are being backed into a corner, they only get more violent,” he explains.

“And despite the fact that people assure me all the time on the internet that Donald Trump is not doing anything for us, well, I guess these people aren’t quite getting the memo, are they?” he asks. “Because they are only talking about killing us more, they are only killing us more, they are only trying to kill us more.”

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Would you ever spend so much on a house that you had no money left to furnish it?

It sounds absurd to me, as I imagine it does to you. But apparently, it’s fairly common these days. I don’t personally know anyone like this, but I do know enough people who are house poor that the extreme version seems at least plausible.

Financial overextension is, in one sense, a numbers problem. But it’s also something deeper.

Especially since we don’t see inside most homes. We drive by a place with six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and a five-car garage and assume wealth. We assume comfort. We assume it’s all filled in.

Chairs optional

That assumption is increasingly outdated. A big house doesn’t necessarily mean someone can afford it. It just means they’re willing — or able — to make the monthly payment. Everything else is optional.

That’s not entirely new. Mortgages have been around forever. But the willingness to stretch to the absolute limit — and beyond — does feel more common now than it used to.

You could point to low interest rates or lending practices. That’s part of the story. But I’m less interested in the financial mechanics than the cultural impulse behind it. Why do people feel the need to live this way?

Here comes the neighborhood

The obvious answer is keeping up with the Joneses. But even that has changed. It used to mean keeping pace with your neighbors, the people down the street. And even then, there was only so much of their lives you could see. There were natural limits.

Social media has erased those limits; now we all share one big neighborhood, in which everyone is empowered and encouraged to exaggerate their affluence. And that makes it much harder to remember what normal actually looks like.

Realism isn’t what’s rewarded on Instagram, TikTok, or X. Performative realism, maybe. But not the real thing. Spend enough time scrolling and you start to believe that everyone has the renovated kitchen, the extra cars, the perfect bathrooms. You start to feel like you’re behind.

So people stretch. They buy the house. They take on the payment. They tell themselves they’ll figure out the rest later. And in doing so, they become the next set of Joneses for someone else to chase.

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Empty rooms, empty souls

Once you’re on that treadmill, it’s hard to get off. You work more to afford more. You feel stressed because you’re always one setback away from trouble. You justify new purchases because you’ve “earned” them. And any attempt to scale back feels like failure — like slipping backward.

Keep that up long enough and you can end up in a strange place: the proud owner of a house you can’t really afford, with rooms you can’t afford to fill.

But from the outside, it looks great.

At bottom, this is materialism run wild — an inversion of priorities. Things elevated beyond their proper place. Consumption standing in for meaning. And it’s widespread enough that it’s hard to single anyone out for it.

There’s no simple fix at a societal level. But on a personal level, the starting point is obvious: Take an honest look at what you’re spending, why you’re spending it, and whether it’s actually making your life better — or just making it look better.

That’s not new wisdom. Most of our grandparents understood it.

Financial overextension is, in one sense, a numbers problem. But it’s also something deeper. A sign that our values are out of order. That we’ve lost track of what actually matters.

The empty, oversized house is a fitting image for the culture that produces it.

Big and impressive on the surface. Empty inside.

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“We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!”

That’s what I was shouting in 1990 at some demonstration or another. I didn’t expect that by the 2010s, normal, straight America not only would have gotten used to it but would have adopted “queerness” right into their hearts and homes.

To be a young homosexual was to be indoctrinated into a myth of victimhood. All normal straight people want you beaten up or imprisoned, I was told.

In 2026, heterosexuals have taken on the sexual practices and signaling that used to be the exclusive province of gay men. Frequent casual sex (and bragging about it) and trawling apps for “hookups” are now common practices for many young straight people.

Everything is gay

Modern media reflects it. It used to be that you had to hunt for “art movies” if you wanted to see beefcake-on-beefcake action. Now you can’t turn on a sitcom, a drama, or a crime procedural without a gay sex scene or a monologue from a tedious young actress about how she’s not actually a girl.

What “normal” people today will do, including chemically and surgically mutilating their own children to “change their sex,” outstrips even the obscenity of all-night male clubs in New York City in the 1970s. For more than 10 years, young women — girls, really — have been parading down the street dressed and made up like drag-queen prostitutes. Young men boast about their “gooning” sessions (a reference to self-service alone at a computer) with no embarrassment.

America, take in the gayification of everything, everywhere, all the time.

Depravity on parade

The libertinism and sexual narcissism that the heterosexual world indulges in today is something we never used to see outside of the gay ghettos of major cities. And it happened remarkably quickly.

Where did this come from? Why did it happen?

I can tell you where it came from: gay men (and “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” but I repeat myself). As a 51-year-old celibate-by-choice homosexual who has gone conservative, it’s remarkable to watch conventional society adopt the destructive depravity that I now thank God I escaped.

I have seen things that can’t be described in these pages. And now I don’t have to describe them, because activities formerly relegated to dank basement clubs now parade down Main Street USA.

And I do mean parade. Have you been to a major city in June? What used to be called the “gay Pride parade” has been stretched from a few hours once a year into something called “Pride Month.”

And what originally began as modest call for dignity, privacy, and equal treatment has become a public flaunting of behaviors and subcultures that were once understood — even within the gay community — to belong behind closed doors.

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Pride goeth …

Now nothing is off-limits. Even the most disturbing fetishes are displayed in broad daylight, right there on the street you walk down with your kids. Why are parents bringing their kids to these bacchanals?

Pride, in its older sense, is the root of all sin — the elevation of the self beyond its proper bounds until it becomes its own authority. What is striking about modern Pride is how often it takes precisely that form: not “leave us alone,” but “see us, affirm us, celebrate us.”

As a naive 16-year-old from a troubled home, I got into gay rights activism way too early. Like the majority of kids from abusive homes, I went down a path of early alcoholism and promiscuous sex, supplied by gay adults who sit on the sidelines like buzzards waiting for roadkill.

My teen years came at the end of the AIDS crisis. That was a crisis brought on by gay men themselves, although I was too young to see it then. It was more satisfying to rail at President Reagan for not doing enough to save the “gay community” from its own debauchery than it was to put the blame where it belonged.

The trap of ‘acceptance’

To be a young homosexual was to be indoctrinated into a myth of victimhood. All normal straight people want you beaten up or imprisoned, I was told. Gay men “had to” meet each other in brambles and bushes for their assignations because society had “driven us into the shadows.” Gay men were dying of AIDS because the government wouldn’t do enough medical research, not because we were having anonymous, dangerous sex.

None of it was true. Gay men didn’t meet up for sex in park bushes because they couldn’t rent motel rooms, or they didn’t have apartments, or because society “drove us” to. They did it, and still do it, because gay men are inclined to dangerous sex, risk, and public promiscuity.

Having lived the “fabulous” gay lifestyle, I know it for the trap it is. Under the guise of “caring,” adults seduce vulnerable young people — often victims of abuse — into their world of narcissistic sexual self-indulgence and libertinism. Those young people grow up and repeat the cycle — ushering a new generation into this living death.

Widespread public acceptance keeps the cycle going and allows it to expand. Our society used to understand this instinctively and kept such behavior on the margins. But today it is the voice of decorum and restraint that speaks in lowered tones, as if it is the one violating a taboo.

Well, perhaps it’s time for America’s non-“queer” majority to have a liberation movement of its own. To leave the shadows, point to the boundary our country has always maintained between what is publicly acceptable (and encouraged) and what isn’t, and unapologetically proclaim: It’s here. It’s clear. Get used to it.

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Kirk Bangstad, the owner of Minocqua Brewing Company in Wisconsin and the treasurer of a federal super PAC of the same name, is among the American leftists who apparently savor news of violence against conservatives and other Americans with opposing political views.

Bangstad rushed, for instance, to state, “F**k Charlie Kirk,” immediately after the Turning Point USA founder’s assassination at Utah Valley University, then wrote weeks later, “May his soul never find peace.”

Beyond relishing in Kirk’s demise, Bangstad — a twice–failed Democratic political candidate who was ordered to pay a six-figure sum for defamation in 2023 and was charged with harassment last year — vowed in an alarming message posted in January to give fellow travelers “free beer, all day long, the day he dies.”

Though the post did not mention President Donald Trump by name, Bangstad’s remarks to reporters and subsequent posts made clear he was referring to Trump, whom he unsuccessfully attempted to block from the 2024 presidential ballot in Wisconsin.

In the post — made after Bangstad circulated a wanted poster for a federal agent, called for “regime change” in the U.S., and stated that “it’s just a matter of time” before “every ICE agent will face justice” — the brewer insinuated Trump’s death was imminent, writing, “Show us this post when it happens in a few months and we’ll make good on that promise.”

While Wisconsin Democrats were virtually silent about Bangstad’s extremist content earlier this year — content that the U.S. Secret Service previously told Blaze News was on the agency’s radar — they piped up after the brewer wrote the following last weekend after yet another attempt on Trump’s life, this time at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner:

Well, we almost got #freebeerday. Either a brother or sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a a [sic] positive news cycle. We’ll never know. Regardless, we stand at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens.

A spokesman for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — whose female reporter Bangstad has tasked his followers with hounding — that the radical brewer’s “rhetoric is completely unacceptable and should be retracted immediately.”

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“We’re not afraid to call out this sort of inappropriate behavior no matter where it comes from — our GOP colleagues should learn to do the same,” said state Democratic Party spokesman Phil Shulman.

“I denounce those who had any reaction to last night’s shooting other than outrage at the state of political violence in our country,” said former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is presently running as a Democrat for governor. “It’s completely unacceptable, and I am thankful for the actions of law enforcement who acted swiftly and bravely to keep everyone safe.”

A campaign spokeswoman for Democratic state Rep. Francesca Hong, who is also running for governor, told the Journal Sentinel that Bangstad’s post “is intentionally inflammatory and a symptom of the normalization of political violence.”

Missy Hughes, another Democratic candidate in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race, stated, “Such vile rhetoric is completely unacceptable and must be universally condemned.”

Even a former underling has turned against the brewer.

Rebecca Cooke, a Democrat running in Wisconsin for the U.S. Congress who worked for Bangstad during his failed 2016 congressional campaign, said, “This rhetoric is dangerous and unacceptable — showcasing just how broken our political system is.”

The criticism by fellow travelers appears to have broken Bangstad’s thin skin.

The brewer, who has apparently been selling voodoo dolls bearing the faces of Trump administration officials and “I wish it was free beer day” T-shirts, wrote on Facebook, “Leave it to the Corporate Dems and politically naive Democratic gubernatorial candidates to take the bait and condemn ‘political violence’ or ‘politically violent rhetoric’ after the 3rd questionably/arguable fake assassination attempt against Trump.”

“Aggression and accusation is the MO of Trump and MAGA,” Bangstad wrote. “Flat-footed answers and retreat is unfortunately the MO of Corporate Dems and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Time to flip the scrip [sic] and for Democratic leaders and journalists to force Trump and his regime to prove they’re not lying before covering a story about political violence and yet another ‘would-be assassination attempt.'”

After claiming that his assertion that leftists need to “work on their marksmanship” was “hyperbole,” Bangstad wrote in a post on Tuesday, “The day ‘he’ dies will do a LOT to end that suffering. Sure, JD Vance will bring with him a more intelligent treachery to the world stage if Trump passes — but when the symbol of American weakness, ignorance, and bigotry finally breathes his last breath — the entire world will be able to breathe a little easier.”

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The controversial Trump-backed Gold Card visa program not only claimed to offer immigrants “residency in record time,” but promised up to $1 trillion toward reducing national debt.

However, during a heated congressional hearing, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has revealed that only one applicant has been approved so far.

“The process was recently resolved with DHS who runs the program, and they do a $15,000, the most serious vetting and analysis of any potential applicant in the history of the government. Usually it was $600. These pay $15,000 for an extraordinary vet,” Lutnick explained.

“So they have approved recently one person, and there are hundreds in the queue that are going through the process, but this is a new program, and they’ve just set it up, and they wanted to make sure they did it perfectly, and so we’ve worked through that,” he added.

“Sounds pretty rigorous if only one person has been OK’d for this,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments, shocked.

“I mean, no matter what you think of the program, that’s a failure, right?” he continues. “And I think the program would have been pretty good if we could have raised a trillion dollars.”

“Maybe it’s because DHS was closed and couldn’t do anything,” Jeff Fisher chimes in, adding, “But again, I’m OK with no one coming in.”

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Tesla is banking on travelers wanting to hang out with themselves rather than an Uber driver.

The company announced that its Texas production facility, known as Gigafactory Texas, is ready to start preparing for a world without drivers.

‘A personalized driverless experience.’

Elon Musk’s company is diving further into the autonomous auto sector by not only ramping up its production of driverless vehicles, but by pairing specific vehicles with its taxi app that will compete with existing services like Waymo and GM’s Cruise.

“Purpose-built for autonomy,” Tesla wrote on X, promoting its new line called Cybercab. The vehicles are a new production of a battery-electric Tesla with neither steering wheels nor pedals available inside the car.

It was first shown off in 2024 and boasted futuristic wireless charging capabilities, with a rumored target range of 200 miles per charge.

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Cybercab will be combined with Tesla’s existing Robotaxi app — launched in 2025 — to create “a personalized driverless experience.”

Currently, the rides are offered on Tesla Model Y cars, but Tesla expects its new autonomous rides to target customers who grow tired of their human experiences. In this sense, Tesla notes how their rides differ from some of the most annoying parts of riding in someone else’s car.

Heating and cooling settings are saved in the passenger’s profile in the app, which means vehicles will automatically adjust to their settings across different rides. Other features target the aggravation of having to hear another person’s music selection, as the Robotaxi allows riders to stream their own.

There are some limitations though. For example, children under 8 years old, which of course includes infants, are not permitted to ride in the taxis. Guests between 8 and 17 years old are permitted in the cars, but minors cannot ride in the vehicle alone, per Robotaxi Rider Rules.

Riders must also adhere to applicable laws regarding small children, meaning a child safety seat may be required (provided by the customer) to bring them along.

Pets are also not permitted unless they are service animals.

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Only three passengers at a combined weight of 800 pounds may ride in the vehicle at one time, and no one can sit in the front seat, Tesla says.

Smoking, vaping, and alcohol consumption are also not allowed.

The company also lists strict rules about recording or collecting any data from inside the vehicle.

“Instruments or equipment intended to record, measure, reverse engineer, collect information about, or conduct surveillance of any feature, equipment, component, or area of our Robotaxi are strictly prohibited.”

The service is currently only available to residents in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, Texas.

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This isn’t the first time someone tried to assassinate President Trump. In the seven months since Charlie Kirk was gunned down, the violent rhetoric from the left has only gotten worse.

I resigned from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office after Kirk’s murder in order to warn the public about the violent consequences of the inflammatory rhetoric promoted by Democrats and amplified by the media.

Before almost every prior assassination attempt, that same toxic rhetoric was deployed. After almost every attempt, Democrat leaders and media figures issued predictable calls for calm and unity. Yet shortly thereafter, the rhetoric resumed, and another attempt followed. One of them succeeded.

The pattern has become so predictable that wild conspiracy theories about ‘false flag’ operations are now proliferating.

The public has largely forgotten the earliest attempts on Trump’s life. On June 18, 2016, Michael Steven Sandford tried to grab a police officer’s pistol during a Trump speech at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in order to shoot him. On September 6, 2017, Gregory Lee Leingang stole a forklift from an oil refinery and tried to ram Trump’s motorcade.

In both cases, the attempts were preceded by heated rhetoric. Former Democrat presidential candidate and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley labeled Trump a “fascist demagogue.” After the Charlottesville incident, allegedly partially funded by the SPLC, MSNBC commentator Nicolle Wallace stated that Trump was giving “safe harbor to Nazis” and “white supremacists.”

These early failures did not deter the pattern. The rhetoric continued, and more attempts followed.

In July 2019, New Jersey Democrat Senator Cory Booker stated that Trump was “worse than a racist” and compared Trump to noted segregationist Democrat George Wallace.

On September 1, 2022, in his Philadelphia “Soul of the Nation” speech, Joe Biden declared that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa stated that Trump “channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) consistently paints Trump as a fascist and a threat to democracy. In November 2023, Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan wrote that “a Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable.” “With each passing day, it will become harder and more dangerous to stop it by any means, legal or illegal.”

After this unrelenting barrage, with Trump and conservatives being branded as racists, fascists, and existential threats to democracy, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired shots at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. The shooting grazed Trump’s ear and killed firefighter Corey Comperatore.

Democrats responded with familiar calls to lower the temperature and some easy condemnations of political violence, but actions speak louder than words.

A New Jersey columnist continued to label Trump a “fascist threat to democracy” only eight days after the assassination attempt.

On September 15, 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested while hiding in the bushes with a rifle near the course where Trump was golfing.

The rhetoric only intensified.

On October 23, 2024, Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris agreed that Trump is a fascist, and she repeated the widely discredited statements of John Kelly that Trump praised Hitler. Media outlets continued to praise and encourage the dangerous and biased labels.

The labeling of Trump and conservatives as Hitler and Nazis and the comparison of ICE to the Gestapo are numerous and easy to find.

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On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University. Once again came the public statements condemning political violence and calling for unity. But the rhetoric did not subside.

Within two weeks of his death, columnists repeated the lie that Kirk was a white supremacist promoting racist, anti-immigrant, transphobic violence and criticized anyone for mourning or honoring him.

Within a month of his death, Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) called Kirk’s views “vile.”

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) called Trump a “wannabe Hitler.” Kamala Harris called Trump a “tyrant” and compared him to a “communist dictator.” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) claimed Trump was an existential threat requiring vigilance against “totalitarian” moves.

Less than 10 days ago, that dangerous rhetoric was repeated by Camden County Commissioner Louis Cappelli Jr., who publicly labeled Trump a “cult leader and traitor.”

Saturday, another individual attempted to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The pattern has become so predictable that wild conspiracy theories about “false flag” operations are now proliferating. This confusion makes confronting the real problem harder.

The cycle will not stop until more Americans — regardless of party — call out the poisonous rhetoric and insist on debating ideas, not demonizing opponents as enemies who must be stopped by any means.

Political violence has no place in America. Words have consequences. It’s time to choose debate over demonization before more innocent lives are lost.

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