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President Donald Trump signed an executive order meant to address the homelessness crisis in America on Thursday.

The order described the problem plaguing cities and then set out a plan to ease the crisis. The order said that under former President Joe Biden, the crisis had reached a historic rate of 274,000 people sleeping on the street on an average night.

‘The Trump administration will ensure that Americans feel safe in their own communities.’

“My Administration will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety,” the order reads.

The federal government will provide funding in order to prioritize “shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment.”

The order criticized billions of dollars of government funding that was spent on homelessness but did not tackle the root causes of the crisis.

“The overwhelming majority of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have a mental health disorder, or both,” it reads.

The order authorized U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek remedies to allow local governments to relocate homeless people from tents and other public areas into rehabilitation, treatment, and other facilities.

The order also ensures that federal spending isn’t wasted on programs that fund drug injection sites or illicit drug use.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt released a statement to Newsweek about the order.

“By removing vagrant criminals from our streets and redirecting resources toward substance abuse programs, the Trump administration will ensure that Americans feel safe in their own communities and that individuals suffering from addiction or mental health struggles are able to get the help they need,” she said.

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Predictably, many on the left have already attacked the order.

“The National Homelessness Law Center strongly condemns today’s executive order, which deprives people of their basic rights and makes it harder to solve homelessness,” reads a statement from the NHLC. “This executive order is rooted in outdated, racist myths about homelessness and will undoubtedly make homelessness worse.”

“Donald Trump intends to send the homeless and mentally ill to institutions or concentration camps, thus continuing his perfect imitation of Third Reich policies,” podcaster Jim Stewartson responded. “He’s taking his personal hell out on everyone else. It will get as dark as we let it.”

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A Christian mother will be able to begin the adoption process and continue her lawsuit against the state of Oregon after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in her favor on Thursday.

Jessica Bates said that she was inspired to become a foster mother to two children after her husband died in a car crash in 2017. She is a single mom to five biological children.

‘The Ninth Circuit’s decision upholds free speech and the free exercise of religion for Christian families hoping to foster or adopt and to open their loving homes to children in need.’

Bates went to Oregon’s foster care system, but she hit a roadblock when the Oregon’s Department of Human Services notified her that foster homes needed to respect children’s “sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression” as a matter of official policy.

She cited her Christian faith in rejecting that policy.

“I need to let you know I cannot support this behavior in a child,” she wrote in a note to DHS. “I have no problem loving them and accepting them as they are, but I would not encourage them in this behavior. I believe God gives us our gender/sex and it’s not something we get to choose.”

Bates filed a lawsuit against Oregon with the Alliance Defending Freedom, and in November a judge ruled against her, which led to the appeal to the Ninth Circuit.

“This Court questions whether plaintiff’s willingness to ‘love and support’ a child is sufficient to ensure that the child will feel loved and supported,” the ruling reads.

On Thursday, an appeals court said that she could be allowed to begin the process of adoption from foster care as the case continues through the legal system.

RELATED: Louisiana pastor fired from job at library after refusing to use person’s preferred pronouns

ADF senior counsel Jonathan Scruggs praised the ruling in a statement Thursday.

“Because caregivers like Jessica cannot promote Oregon’s dangerous gender ideology to young kids and take them to events like pride parades, the state considers them to be unfit parents,” Scruggs said. “That is false and incredibly dangerous, needlessly depriving kids of opportunities to find a loving home. The 9th Circuit was right to remind Oregon that the foster and adoption system is supposed to serve the best interests of children, not the state’s ideological crusade.”

The ADF said that the rule from Oregon meant that Bates was not even able to adopt children who share her religious beliefs.

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, the director of the Conscience Project, commented on the development in a statement to the Blaze.

“The sinister assault of progressive gender ideology on Oregon’s most vulnerable children was finally shut down,” she said. “The Ninth Circuit’s decision upholds free speech and the free exercise of religion for Christian families hoping to foster or adopt and to open their loving homes to children in need.”

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A California homeowner says she was shocked to find that vandals had spray-painted a hateful message on her massive pro-LGBTQ rainbow fence in San Diego.

Brittany Fuller told KNSD-TV that she found the graffiti on Tuesday on the 50-foot LGBTQ fence she painted at her home in the Scripps Ranch neighborhood.

Fuller believes the culprits might be teenagers from the neighborhood.

KNSD obscured the expletives of the message on its news report, but a social media post showed that it read, “F**k the F*gs.”

Fuller says that it’s been three years since she first had the fence painted in Pride colors and that it has been vandalized many times. She claims it has been tagged and that people have thrown eggs, fruit, vegetables, drinks, condiments, and even feces at the fence.

Security video showed a vandal spray-paint the camera before apparently hitting the fence.

Some of her neighbors rushed in to help her scrub the vandalism away.

“We’re all supposed to be a community here. Unfortunately, there is so much going on in the world, it is pulling us apart,” said Victor Barr, a neighbor who volunteered.

Fuller also believes the culprits might be teenagers from the neighborhood. She says that they left tire tracks that appear to belong to bicycles.

RELATED: 19-year-old charged with felony for vandalizing LGBTQ+ street mural by doing burnouts with his truck

Fuller says the message of the fence is “everyone is important, and everyone has the right to love who they want to love.”

Police are actively investigating the incident, according to San Diego police spokesperson Lt. Travis Easter. They have made no arrests but are considering it a hate crime.

The median home price in Scripps Ranch is $1.4 million, according to Zillow.

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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have in recent days continued to call for U.S.-based tech companies to reinvest in American workers instead of looking for workers overseas.

Trump made his comments while discussing the future of artificial intelligence, saying that if the United States is to win the race with its innovation, then it “will demand a new spirit of patriotism and national loyalty in Silicon Valley.”

‘That displacement and that math worries me a bit.’

“For too long, much of our tech industry pursued a radical globalism that left millions of Americans feeling distrustful and betrayed. … Many of our largest tech companies have reaped the blessings of American freedom while building their factories in China, hiring workers in India,” Trump said, adding that some companies have even engaged in censorship of Americans.

“Under President Trump, those days are over,” he said.

RELATED: India agrees to take back illegal migrants to keep H-1B floodgates open

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Trump’s pressure on tech companies to hire Americans instead of foreigners comes amid the ongoing debate about the role H-1B visas play in the American workforce.

Vice President JD Vance touched on that topic during a recent appearance at the Hill and Valley Forum.

“You see some big tech companies where they’ll lay off 9,000 workers, and then they’ll apply for a bunch of overseas visas. And I sort of wonder; that doesn’t totally make sense to me,” Vance commented.

“That displacement and that math worries me a bit,” he continued. “And what the president has said, he said very clearly: We want the very best and the brightest to make America their home. We want them to build great companies and so forth. But I don’t want companies to fire 9,000 American workers and then to go and say, ‘We can’t find workers here in America.’ That’s a bulls**t story.”

RELATED: JD Vance: Rekindling statesmanship to secure America’s golden future

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The recent remarks by Trump and Vance are significant as the Republican base was thrown into a contentious debate over H-1B visas during the transition after the election. Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk pushed to keep those types of visas, arguing they are important because jobs would be left unfilled if they were to end. Other parts of Trump’s base noted that H-1B visas are rife with fraud and are yet another way to undermine American workers.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard dropped a bombshell about former president Barack Obama and other Democrats regarding their involvement in Russiagate — and President Donald Trump appears to be taking it very seriously.

“You look at those papers, they have them stone cold. And it was President Obama. It wasn’t lots of people all over the place, it was them too, but the leader of the gang was President Obama, Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him?” Trump announced, adding that he’s been “shielded by the press for his entire life.”

“Look, he’s guilty. It’s not a question,” he said. “This was treason. This was every word you can think of. They tried to steal the election. They tried to obfuscate the election. They did things that nobody’s ever even imagined.”

“Obama’s been caught directly. So, people say, ‘Oh, you know, a group.’ It’s not a group. It’s Obama. His orders are on the paper. The papers are signed. The papers came right out of their office. They sent everything to be highly classified,” he continued.

“Well, the highly classified’s been released. And what they did in 2016 and in 2020 is very criminal. It’s criminal at the highest level. So that’s really the things you should be talking about,” he added.

BlazeTV host Pat Gray wants to “see the proof.”

“Let’s see it. Let’s get it out there. So the Democrats can’t say that this is just a distraction, he’s just trying to deflect from the Epstein stuff,” Gray says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.” “Let’s see the evidence.”

BlazeTV contributor Jeff Fisher, aka “Jeffy,” chimes in, adding, “Do not send the paperwork to Pam Bondi.”

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A recipient of amnesty under the Obama administration had his protected status stripped after he apparently took the wrong exit and accidentally ended up in Mexico.

Erick Hernandez was reportedly driving two people from Los Angeles to the border on June 1 when he missed an exit in San Ysidro and ended up crossing into Mexico by accident. One of the restrictions on recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals amnesty is that they’re not allowed to leave the country without prior approval.

‘He’s afraid of returning to El Salvador. He doesn’t know that country. He hasn’t been there since he was a kid.’

“When that happened, he lost everything, basically,” his attorney, Valerie Sigamani, said to KNSD-TV.

“He no longer has DACA. His attempt to come back to the United States and say, ‘This was a mistake. It was an accident. I was not trying to leave the United States,’ was ignored,” she added.

She says that Hernandez was placed on expedited removal and has since been detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center.

Hernandez was brought to the U.S. when he was 14 years old, which allowed him to obtain DACA amnesty. He is originally from El Salvador, and his attorney says his parents have legal status in the U.S. His wife says she was trying to help Hernandez obtain legal status after they got married recently.

Hernandez has no criminal history, according to his attorney and his family.

His attorney also claimed that officials from Customs and Border Protection demanded a bribe from him to allow him to return to the U.S. She hopes that his participation in any investigation into the charges may shield him from deportation.

She has filed a report with the FBI, and KNSD reported that CBP did not respond to a request for comment about the accusation.

Blaze News reached out to DHS and ICE for comment and received a statement from a DHS spokesperson.

“DACA does not confer any form of legal status in this country. Any illegal alien who is a DACA recipient may be subject to arrest and deportation,” the statement reads.

The spokesperson identified the man as “Erick Hernandez Rodriguez” and referred to him as “an illegal alien from Mexico,” though ICE detention records indicate he is an El Salvador native.

The DHS statement said that Hernandez Rodriguez had “self-deported and then tried to illegally re-enter the U.S.” and confirmed that he was arrested “as he tried to illegally cross the southern border.”

RELATED: Supreme Court blocked Trump from ending DACA, so he just announced that the program will wind down instead

Blaze News reached out to Sigamani for a comment about the DHS statement.

Nancy Rivera, the man’s wife, says they have one child together and that he has been raising her two prior children. She also is expecting another child with Hernandez.

“I’m just worrying. I’m just worried that he’s, if he gets deported, like, how I’m going to manage everything by myself,” she said. “It’s just a lot of, you know, stress, anxiety that I have.”

Rivera says he’s the main breadwinner for the family and that it will be difficult to go on without him.

“He has a lot of hope. He feels like something good is going to happen. He’s a person of faith,” his attorney said. “But at the same time, he’s sad about the entire situation. He’s afraid of returning to El Salvador. He doesn’t know that country. He hasn’t been there since he was a kid, so he has no idea what it’s like to live in El Salvador.”

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Former Cleveland Indians Manager Terry Francona had interesting remarks about President Donald Trump’s supporters and his former team this week.

Francona is now the manager for the Cincinnati Reds, but he coached the Cleveland Indians between 2013 and 2023, a period that saw the team change its moniker to the Guardians.

The team name was changed after more than 105 years in 2021, when owner Paul Dolan said the team was “doing the right thing” after speaking with Native American groups and that the team was “headed in the right direction.”

Now, Francona has opened up about the name change.

‘And if you’re white, (you’re) probably just fine.’

Francona spoke to USA Today before a recent game against the Washington Nationals, and he said he was not courageous enough to go for the name change — it was actually the owner who was responsible.

“I wasn’t the one that had to kind of have the (fortitude) to do it. … Paul Dolan ultimately was the one that had to pull the trigger,” Francona recalled. “I was really proud of him, because I don’t think it was real popular with a segment of probably the older fans that kind of, I guess like Trump, ‘Why can’t it be like it used to be?'” he said.

It was at this point in the interview that Francona revealed he believes white people are more likely to be fine with the Indians’ name than others.

“I guess my retort would be, ‘There’s probably a lot of people in this country who don’t want it like it used to be.’ And if you’re white, (you’re) probably just fine,” he continued.

RELATED: ‘MAKE INDIANS GREAT AGAIN’: Trump threatens Washington Commanders’ stadium deal over woke name change

While Francona said, “That’s not how it’s supposed to work,” he claimed that he “didn’t even care what they made the name in Cleveland.”

“I really didn’t. I just know how I was in on those conversations, and we were trying to be respectful. And for that, I gave those guys a lot of credit.”

But according to a report from WEWS-TV, fans are actually clamoring for the name to come back.

In on-the-ground polling, one reporter had 47 baseball fans say they wanted the “Indians” name to return, while 12 preferred “Guardians.”

“It was always a woke choice, and there was no reason for this, and nobody that I ever talked to wanted it,” one fan told the outlet.

“It’s not racism or anything else. It’s just good ol’ tribe,” a fan named Derek added.

President Trump called for both the Cleveland Guardians and the NFL’s Washington Commanders to return to their old names on Sunday, saying, “Times are different now than they were three or four years ago.”

Trump even suggested withholding the authorization for the Commanders to get their new D.C.-based stadium if they do not revert back to the Redskins name.

RELATED: High school’s ‘Chief’ mascot to be retired after students argue it represents ‘colonialism,’ ‘cultural appropriation’ — but local Native American community disagrees

Guardians president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti told USA Today he was not “paying a lot of attention to” the idea of changing their name back to the Indians, and he said the team is “excited about the future” in terms of building the Guardians brand.

Francona added, “Not everybody’s gonna be happy. That’s never gonna be the case.”

“But I think as long as what you’re trying to do is respectful, you can go ahead and let people complain,” the 66-year-old concluded.

Baseball analyst Gary Sheffield Jr. told Blaze News that there are “bigger problems in the world” than the name change argument and that Francona is right to say the team is fine but that “the same could be said when they were the Indians. Folks were just fine.”

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The Department of Homeland Security revealed that the sanctuary city of New York City has ignored the vast majority of the 6,000 detainers sent by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for jailed illegal aliens.

Detainers allow federal agents to have illegal aliens being held in custody for local charges transferred over to them. This process allows people to be taken into federal custody safely and does not put agents at risk by having to find them out in public.

“Every New Yorker should know: their sanctuary politicians are working against law enforcement and RELEASING criminal illegal aliens with prior convictions for rape, murder, and drug trafficking back into their communities. In 6 months under President Trump and [Sec. Noem], ICE has issued over 6,000 detainers in NYC — a more than 400% increase compared to the Biden administration,” DHS said on Wednesday.

“Yet, NYC sanctuary politicians have honored only a handful of these detainers, sending violent criminals back onto the streets. [ICE] will continue to enforce the law and protect American neighborhoods,” DHS added.

“NYC freed SIX THOUSAND criminal illegal aliens from custody to commit more crimes,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said in response to DHS.

RELATED: Off-duty border officer shot in face allegedly by ‘Illegal Alien Monster’ with multiple arrests

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The reason why DHS is calling out New York City for its sanctuary policies is because the two suspects charged with shooting an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer during an attempted robbery were both illegal aliens who had been released by the Biden-Harris administration and had been released from the city’s jailing system.

One of the men, Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, a 21-year-old Dominican national, had been arrested in New York City four times before the shooting, but he was released without bail on each occasion. The CBP officer was able to shoot back and hit one of the men after being shot in the face and arm.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Thursday that the Department of Justice is suing New York City and Mayor Eric Adams for “continuing to obstruct law enforcement with sanctuary city policies. If New York’s leaders won’t step up to protect their citizens, we will.”

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” The order, which was set to go into effect on July 27, made it U.S. policy not to issue citizenship documents to a person whose mother was unlawfully in the country and whose father was neither an American citizen nor a permanent resident at the time of the person’s birth.

Liberals, apparently content to cheapen citizenship by dealing it out wholesale to children born to noncitizens on American soil, filed numerous legal challenges to prevent Trump from making good on his campaign promise to end birthright citizenship.

The challengers have won the various legal battles fought to date; however, the outcome of the war over this hot-button issue will likely be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in short order owing to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ Wednesday ruling, which upheld a nationwide pause on the enforcement of the policy.

‘This is still at a preliminary stage — not a ruling yet on the merits.’

On Jan. 21, the states of Arizona, Illinois, Oregon, and Washington filed a lawsuit in the U.S District Court for the Western District of Washington claiming that the executive order violates the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Immigration and Nationality Act. The complaint advanced by Democratic state attorneys general suggested further that Trump lacks the authority to determine who should and should not be granted American citizenship at birth.

In a move of the kind that the U.S. Supreme Court would later claim likely exceeds the equitable authority given to federal courts by Congress, Seattle-based U.S. District Judge John Coughenour granted a universal injunction, blocking the law’s implementation.

A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Appeals Court ruled 2-1 on Wednesday to keep in place Coughenour’s injunction.

The two judges in the 9th Circuit majority were both appointed by Bill Clinton. The lone dissenting judge was a Trump appointee who said the states had no legal right to bring the case.

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Ronald Gould, one of the Clinton judges, noted in the majority opinion, “We conclude that the Executive Order is invalid because it contradicts the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment’s grant of citizenship to ‘all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”’

Gould wrote further that the “district court did not abuse its discretion in issuing a universal injunction in order to give the States complete relief” and that the “universal preliminary injunction is necessary to give the States complete relief on their claims.”

The appeals court declined to tackle the individual plaintiffs’ claims as they are already covered by a class action in the case Barbara v. Trump.

On July 10, a U.S. district judge in New Hampshire granted class action status to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging Trump’s order, certifying the babies of illegal aliens and temporary migrants as a class.

Judge Joseph Laplante, a George W. Bush appointee, then issued a preliminary injunction in Barbara, temporarily shielding the supposed class from the order’s enforcement.

Although Laplante paused his decision to allow for the Trump administration to appeal, absent such an appeal, his order has reportedly gone into effect.

Dr. John C. Eastman, founding director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, told Blaze News that “the 9th Circuit decision is still only a preliminary decision, affirming a nationwide preliminary injunction for the States, which it found to have standing. Both of those parts of the decision are somewhat in tension with the Supreme Court’s decision on June 27 in the CASA case, but not entirely foreclosed by it.”

‘Those born to parents who did not agree to abide by U.S. laws are not citizens.’

“I suspect we’ll see if a request for stay filed with the Supreme Court in short order,” continued Eastman. “But again, this is still at a preliminary stage — not a ruling yet on the merits, only on the ‘likelihood’ of the merits.”

In contrast, Gerald L. Neuman, the J. Sinclair Armstrong professor of international, foreign, and comparative law at Harvard Law School, suggested the 9th Circuit Court’s ruling “is clearly correct.”

“As the opinion explained, the meaning of the Citizenship Clause is well-settled, and Congress shared that understanding when it adopted the INA in 1952,” Neuman told Blaze News. “The dissenting judge on the panel did not disagree with this conclusion on the merits of the case, but raised procedural objections to the court’s ability to make its decision in the case before it.”

Should the Supreme Court rule in the challengers’ favor, Neuman indicated it “might base its decision directly on the constitutional provision, or on the statute, or on both.”

RELATED: ‘Complete madness’: Court blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship policy with universal injunction by another name

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When asked about the significance of this case, law professor Gregory Germain of the Syracuse University College of Law told Blaze News, “I doubt that any of these lower court cases will be significant because I believe the Supreme Court will ultimately take the case and settle the question.”

“I disagree with the 9th Circuit that the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause is clear on its face,” said Germain. “The clause on its face contains a limitation on birthright citizenship, requiring that the child be ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the U.S. Why was that language put in the Constitution if it was intended to be meaningless? So that language means something — the issue is what it means.”

Germain noted that the Supreme Court held in the case U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark that:

children born to permanent residents were subject to the jurisdiction of the United States even though the parents were citizens of China. But the Court also held that children of foreign soldiers occupying U.S. land or diplomats (or Indians) were not “subject to the jurisdiction” and not citizens. So the Court recognized that there were some exceptions to birthright citizenship, but did not clearly define them.

The Syracuse University law professor opined that it would be “perfectly rational” to say that children born on American soil to parents who have agreed to abide by American laws are citizens but “those born to parents who did not agree to abide by U.S. laws are not citizens.”

Germain said that would be “consistent with Ark, because the parents were permanent residents who agreed to abide by U.S. law to obtain that status, and would rationally distinguish foreign soldiers and diplomats (both of whom are subject to U.S. law in many circumstances, even though they never agreed to abide), but also illegal aliens.”

By adopting this approach, German indicated that the Supreme Court would have to “split the baby, so to speak, on Trump’s executive order”: Kids born to foreign nationals who are legally in the country and who agreed in visa applications to abide by American law would qualify, but children of aliens illegally in the country would not qualify for citizenship.

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There it is: There was no Russian plot to help Trump win in 2016. None at all. It was a campaign lie, first publicly unleashed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager exactly nine years ago today. It was investigated by the CIA, it was found severely wanting, it was dismissed, and it was resurrected by an angry President Barack Obama and his CIA ally John Brennan.

Everything that came after was smoke and mirrors. The framings, the recusals, the deleted files, the special counsel, the hearings, the testimonies, the impeachment, the prison sentences. All of it was based on the one essential, base assumption that somewhere down there, Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to be president of the United States and had worked to make it happen. And that part was not true.

Every time any one of their lies or obfuscations was exposed, they’d dig down deeper into the dirt and the weeds.

For nine long years, thousands of reporters, politicians, editors, staffers, judges, and pundits poured millions of hours into every detail. They studied, theorized, talked endlessly, brought charges, and wrestled over a narrative that was false at its core.

I personally spent thousands of hours editing and writing and talking about people like Carter Page, Stefan Halper, Christopher Steele, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, Sergey Kislyak, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Konstantin Kilimnik, Robert Mueller, Adam Schiff, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Glenn Simpson, Alexander Downer, Michael Horowitz, James Clapper, John Brennan, James Comey, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, and Kevin Clinesmith.

Remember that nefarious Russian spy Carter Page? FBI lawyer Clinesmith eventually pleaded guilty to deleting the part of the surveillance warrant application admitting Page was actually a CIA asset. That was four and a half years ago. He got probation for ruining that young man’s life from a guy named Judge James Boasberg – the same activist Democrat judge still issuing insane rulings to undermine President Trump.

Few people in the Democratic Party press want to talk about things like that, of course. Every time any one of their lies or obfuscations was exposed, they’d dig down deeper into the dirt and the weeds, muddying the clarity and throwing out confusing details.

They’re still trying!

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pressed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on why her conclusions contradicted the Senate Intelligence Committee’s findings. That report — approved by then-Chairman Marco Rubio — acknowledged no evidence of collusion but insisted Russia had “meddled.”

What the committee didn’t have were the emails and internal records Gabbard declassified. They relied instead on the testimony of John Brennan and James Comey — two men now exposed as liars.

The Washington Post ignored those revelations and instead focused on whether Gabbard believes current Secretary of State Rubio lied.

The Associated Press followed suit, parroting the claim that “everyone knew” Russia interfered in the election. Its goal, along with many of its media allies, is to shift the conversation and bury the real lie: that the so-called interference aimed to help Trump win.

In reality, Russia stood to benefit more from a Clinton presidency.

Remember the oft-repeated claim that 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed the Kremlin tried to take down Hillary Clinton’s campaign? That turned out to be false. Only the CIA signed off on the assessment. And now we know even the CIA didn’t believe it. At President Obama’s direction, Brennan concealed that inconvenient fact from the final report.

Russian intelligence knew Clinton was physically, mentally, and emotionally unstable. They knew her campaign used sedatives to manage her manic episodes and fits of rage.

Putin understood how worried Democratic insiders had become. He held onto that damaging information — something that truly could have swung the election. He didn’t want to humiliate Clinton. He wanted leverage after she won.

So the Kremlin didn’t release the goods. Instead, it pushed internet memes.

Now, the truth is out. The Russia narrative was a lie — just one in a long line exposed over the past nine years.

The politicians, the press, and the former intelligence brass who sold that lie lied about this, too. They’ll keep their Pulitzers and their paychecks. But they forfeited their credibility — and any hope of an honorable mention in the history books.

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Mark Levin can’t help but notice the correlation between Democrats and mortgage fraud. But he isn’t surprised. “So many of them are crooks,” he scoffs.

The most severe case is perhaps New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is currently being investigated for a host of mortgage-related crimes.

Not only did James allegedly list her father as her husband on mortgage documents for a Queens property to secure more favorable loan terms, but she’s also been accused of falsely claiming a Virginia property as her primary residence in 2023 to secure a mortgage, defying New York’s residency rules that require her, as the attorney general, to live in the state.

On top of that, there are allegations that James misrepresented her Brooklyn brownstone as a four-unit property on mortgage applications, despite official records indicating it has five units, to get a better loan.

When she was caught by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, James blamed racism.

“She’s now stereotyping black people as mortgage crooks,” Levin says. “No, black people are not mortgage crooks. You are, Letitia.”

“And so is Adam Schiff,” he adds.

It appears that while the Democratic California senator was trying to undermine Donald Trump with lies and malevolent plots, he was simultaneously sweeping his own crimes under the rug. Earlier this year, FHFA referred Schiff to the Department of Justice when it found that he likely committed mortgage fraud when he reportedly claimed both his Maryland and California homes as primary residences on loan documents from 2003 to 2020 to secure lower mortgage rates.

“Can you imagine being this thug? Concocting a whole Russian collusion thing against the president, spending two years trying to take out the president of the United States … when you knew in your past the allegation is that you committed mortgage fraud?” Levin comments.

To be expected, Schiff has called the accusations baseless and written off the criminal referral as nothing more than political retaliation.

But President Trump is serious about Schiff facing justice.

“Mortgage Fraud is very serious, and CROOKED Adam Schiff (now a Senator) needs to be brought to justice,” he wrote on Truth Social, calling Schiff “a low life.”

“I agree with all that,” Levin says.

To hear more of his commentary, watch the clip above.

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The Metropolitan Police Department is embroiled in controversy over allegations related to its reported crime statistics.

The Washington, D.C., department placed Police Commander Michael Pulliam on paid administrative leave in May after a police union accused the MPD of deliberately manipulating crime data, several law enforcement sources told WRC-TV.

‘This is deliberately done.’

Pulliam, who is under investigation, denied the allegations.

Gregg Pemberton, the chairman of the D.C. Police Union, a branch of the Fraternal Order of Police, explained to WRC how the statistics are manipulated to make it appear that crime has declined. The union also warned about a larger trend of supervisors instructing employees to engage in such practices.

“When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense,” Pemberton said. “So instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification.”

Pemberton stated that crimes that should be reported as involving a suspect armed with a dangerous weapon have instead been documented as felony assaults.

RELATED: Metropolitan Police Department refuses public access to Jan. 6 use-of-force reports

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“When management officials are directing officers to take reports for felony assault, or if they’re going back into police databases and changing offenses to felony assault, felony assault is not a category of crime that’s listed on the department’s daily crime stats,” he continued. “It’s also not something that’s a requirement of the FBI’s uniform crime reporting program. So by changing criminal offenses from, for example, ADW bat or ADW gun to felony assault, that would avoid both the MPD and the FBI from reporting that as a part one or a felony offense.”

Pemberton claimed that union members had reported that the directive came from command staff who want to ensure that the “classifications of these reports are adjusted over time to make sure that the overall crime stats stay down.”

“This is deliberately done,” he told WRC.

Pemberton called the MPD’s reported severe drop in crime “preposterous,” adding that there is “absolutely no way.”

“Last year they suggested that it went down 34%,” he said.

As of Thursday morning, the department’s crime data stated that violent offenses are down 26% when compared to the same time last year. A breakdown of those violent offenses included a 47% decline in sexual abuse and a 28% decline in robberies.

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Chief Pamela Smith told WRC that the department cannot comment on an ongoing investigation; however, she did address the union’s allegations.

“The Metropolitan Police Department is committed to upholding the trust and the confidence of the public,” Smith said. “Any irregularity in crime data brought to my attention will be addressed immediately. I do not condone any official reclassifying criminal offenses outside the guidelines set in MPD policy. Any allegation of this behavior will be dealt with through our internal processes, which will ensure those members are held accountable. I have the utmost confidence in the command staff leadership currently in place across the Metropolitan Police Department.”

The union’s allegations follow comments earlier this month from President Donald Trump, who stated that he was considering having his administration run Washington, D.C., due to the local leadership’s inability to significantly reduce crime.

“We have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to,” Trump stated. “We could run D.C.”

He noted that White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is “working very closely” with Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) to reduce crime.

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Texas Democrat Rep. James Talarico recently claimed on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that the Bible supports abortion — and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey couldn’t find his reasoning more wrong, or more ridiculous.

During his viral appearance, he asked that pro-choice Christians “who respect the bodily autonomy of women” be “given the space to make our theological argument” because he believes that “there is a lot of biblical evidence to support that opinion.”

“What do you think is the biblical evidence to support the opinion of being pro-abortion?” Rogan asked.

“In Genesis, God creates life by breathing life into the first human being, which we later call Adam. That life starts when you take your first breath. And that is actually the mainline position in Judaism, is that that’s when life starts,” Talarico explained.

“Something interesting that Jesus does throughout his ministry is he is breaking first-century norms about women, talking with women, learning from women,” he continued.

Talarico went on to reference Mary, the mother of Jesus, to support his pro-abortion views “because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent.”

“Okay, so his three defenses basically boil down to ‘God breathed life into Adam, so therefore life doesn’t start until first breath.’ And then, I’m sorry, I’m not trying to laugh because it’s a serious thing, but it’s so ridiculous,” Stuckey says. “‘Jesus talked to a woman at the well for a long time, and therefore he’s pro-abortion.’”

“And then number three, ‘God asked Mary’s consent before impregnating her,’” she continues. “All three of these passages, according to James Talarico, are secretly about abortion, but ‘thou shalt not murder’ is not.”

“There’s so much wrong with this, even beyond that. Number one, Adam was made from the dust. God created Adam from the dust, so he was literally not alive when God breathed life into him. Babies in the womb are alive,” she adds.

And while some on the side of pro-choice might dispute that babies in the womb are living, Stuckey explains that “if they’re not alive, you don’t need to have an abortion.”

“But poison is used to kill that child. Forceps are used to kill that child. That child is stripped of its amniotic fluid in abortions to die. They’re not just removed,” she says. “They are killed via pill, via poison, via dismemberment to ensure fetal demise.”

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Beloved professional wrestler Hulk Hogan has passed away at the age of 71.

Real name Terry Bollea, the Augusta, Georgia, native was apparently visited by paramedics early Thursday morning at his home in Clearwater, Florida.

A group of police cars and emergency medical teams were reportedly spotted parked outside of Hogan’s home, according to TMZ, and the WWF and WWE legend was carried out on a stretcher into an ambulance.

‘You are in my childhood Hall of Fame.’

Unfortunately, operators stated that Hogan had suffered “cardiac arrest.”

The WWE said in a statement that it was “saddened” to hear about Hogan’s passing.

“One of pop culture’s most recognizable figures, Hogan helped WWE achieve global recognition in the 1980s,” the statement read. “WWE extends its condolences to Hogan’s family, friends, and fans.”

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TMZ had previously reported that Hogan was near death but was told by sources close to the situation that the wrestling icon was simply dealing with symptoms from a neck procedure he had in May. Hogan’s wife, Sky, had denied rumors he was in a coma and said his heart was “strong” after the surgeries.

Hogan’s wrestling career started in the mid-1970s with Hogan eventually reaching icon status through the WWF, a company that later rebranded as WWE, and a slew of Hollywood movies.

His movie debut was in “Rocky III” in 1982, which led to him starring in movies like “Suburban Commando” and “Mr. Nanny” in the 1990s.

Hogan later was part of the massively impactful wrestling group the NWO while working for WWE’s main competitor, the now-defunct WCW.

RELATED: Hulk Hogan reportedly helped teenager out of a car wreck after witnessing highway crash in Florida

Hogan made his support for President Donald Trump clear in recent years and was just one of the many stars to appear at the 2024 Republican National Convention last July. In a widely publicized moment, Hogan ripped off his America-themed shirt mid-speech to reveal his “Trump Vance 2024” T-shirt.

Fans reacted to the news of Hogan’s death with positivity but also mourned the wrestling world’s loss.

Donald Trump Jr. posted to X, “R.I.P to a legend.”

“A true American patriot!” an X user exclaimed.

“You are in my childhood Hall of Fame,” another fan wrote.

Hogan leaves behind his daughter, 37-year-old singer Brooke, and his son, Nick, a 34-year-old reality television star.

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Less than a day after the Trump administration announced its ambitious plan to lead the world in the AI industry, news broke that China has accessed high-tech AI chips on the black market despite U.S. industry protections, threatening America’s competitive advantage in the cutthroat industry.

The Financial Times reported on Thursday that China has been selling and receiving cutting-edge AI chips on the black market despite Trump’s export controls and tariffs to curb Chinese access to leading technologies.

‘Trying to cobble together data centers from smuggled products is a losing proposition, both technically and economically.’

The report went on to say that more than $1 billion worth of NVIDIA B200 chips has been sold on the black market in China. Lawyers familiar with the trade rules told FT that while it is legal to sell and receive restricted chips within China, on the condition that the proper tariffs are paid, entities selling and sending them to China would be violating U.S. regulations.

The report indicated that NVIDIA was not aware of these illegal sales by third parties.

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“Trying to cobble together data centers from smuggled products is a losing proposition, both technically and economically,” a NVIDIA spokesperson told Blaze News. “Data centers require service and support, which we provide only to authorized NVIDIA products.”

The Trump administration has lessened its restrictions on older chips, such as the H20 chip, but chips like the B200 and the B300, the latter of which has reportedly been advertised in China but has not yet been released, are crucial to maintaining U.S. supremacy in the technology world.

The U.S. has been attempting to “win the AI race,” as AI czar David Sacks said in a White House press release for the American AI Action Plan on Wednesday. While the plan does provide for greater cooperation with friends and allies on the world stage, it also prioritizes protecting the American AI industry and maintaining a competitive edge in AI development.

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On Sunday, the second Trump administration turned six months old.

President Trump’s first four years in the White House were already a big success, which is why I fought so hard to bring him back for a second go-round. Yet I think Trump’s second has already surpassed it in just one-eighth the time.

The administration hasn’t just said the right things. It has done the right things.

Completely and instantly securing the U.S.-Mexico border after the four-year Joe Biden invasion is one of the most important and impressive accomplishments in American presidential history. TV news said the president’s tough trade talk would crash the economy in days; instead, the stock market hit record highs this very week, and blue-collar wages are rising faster than they have in nearly 60 years.

Under any other recent president, I am convinced the June Iran crisis would have ballooned into a full regime-change war, with far more money spent and many American lives lost. But under President Trump’s measured hand, America managed to strike a crippling blow to Iran’s nuclear program while suffering zero casualties and even bringing a ceasefire between Iran and Israel as part of the bargain.

Celebrating wins, big and small

Yet when I think about the events of the past six months, it’s not the big wins I think about the most — it’s the small ones. They’re the triumphs that don’t necessarily grab the largest headlines, but they show that this administration really is committed to systematically throwing out the suffocating groupthink and stagnation that have ruled in D.C. for decades.

Time and time again, this administration has been doing things that past Republicans could and should have done, yet inexplicably never did. For instance, back in 1981, the outgoing Jimmy Carter administration engineered a court ruling that abolished the federal government’s hugely successful hiring aptitude test because it was (you already knew this was coming) racist. Presidents Reagan, Bush 41, or Bush 43 could have fought to restore merit-based hiring. Yet they never did. Subsequently, over 45 years, our government went rotten as diversity, equity, and inclusion replaced merit.

Now, this administration is finally acting to bring back merit in government. Imagine that! From Harvard to Hennepin County, this administration has begun toppling the race- and sex-based discrimination that had taken root all over America in flagrant defiance of both our Constitution and historic American values. It is purging DEI commissars from federal agencies, imposing uniform standards on the military, and sending out warnings to the private sector as well. This isn’t superficial — it’s the destruction in detail of a rotten, anti-American ideology.

It would have been easy for Donald Trump to make a few speeches and sign a couple symbolic orders about “protecting women’s sports” — past Republican administrations would have settled for exactly that. But this administration has genuinely done the work to protect American children from the transgender mania, one of the great evils of our time.

Actually delivering on promises

Across America, health care providers are ending their involvement in child mutilation and similar treatments because of the dramatic increase in regulatory hostility from this administration. Children’s National Hospital in D.C., Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Stanford Medicine, and others have stopped providing surgeries or puberty blockers to minors in the face of this administration.

Where it matters most, the Trump administration has stepped up to save children from predators calling themselves “doctors.”

For my entire life, Republicans loved to make a show of complaining about America sending billions in aid to foreign countries. But they never stopped it — until Trump. He actually delivered by cutting USAID down to size and keeping more of America’s money in America. The same goes for defunding NPR, PBS, and Planned Parenthood: long years of talk, until the Trump administration fought to make it actually happen.

RELATED: In 6 months, Donald Trump has done the impossible

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It was obvious for almost 20 years that the TSA’s policy requiring passengers to remove their shoes before boarding a flight was a pointless bit of security theater, yet Presidents Bush, Obama, and Biden all kept the policy in place anyway. This administration finally got rid of it.

While the Biden administration treated the cryptocurrency industry as a borderline criminal enterprise, Trump signed the GENIUS Act, which positions America to lead this innovative industry.

The administration hasn’t just said the right things. It has done the right things, in detail, to ensure its promises are delivered at the micro level. The administration even made showerheads great again. And it’s that commitment to the small things and common sense that will pay dividends over the next three and a half years. Because an administration that cares about the details of governing will make all of America great too.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on RealClearPolitics.

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Lawn and car guys are celebrating after Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin’s latest push for deregulation.

Zeldin shared a letter Thursday encouraging manufacturers to “produce cans that best meet consumer needs,” including gas cans “with vents to facilitate fast and smooth fuel flow.” This push comes in response to regulations previously implemented by former President Barack Obama in 2009 that removed vents in gas cans in order to reduce vapor emissions.

The vents originally prevented a vacuum from forming inside the gas can, allowing it to pour gasoline smoothly. Since the regulation was rolled out, consumers and retailers have expressed frustration with the new design, which often causes gasoline to spill.

‘Pointless government regulations have ruined many commonsense products, and everyone knows it.’

“Gas cans used to POUR gas,” Zeldin said in a Thursday post on X. “Now they just DRIBBLE like a child’s sippy cup. The Trump EPA’s message to gas can makers: VENT THE DARN CAN and let it FLOW BABY FLOW!”

RELATED: Exclusive: Lawn and car guys will cheer after Chip Roy introduces bill slashing gas can regulations

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Phil Robertson, the late star of “Duck Dynasty,” demonstrated the inefficiency of the EPA-compliant gas cans, mocking the regulations on the “dangerous piece of equipment.”

“The safest gas can delivered on earth,” Robertson said sarcastically as the gas slowly dripped out of the can. “Reminds me of my prostate last night. I’m just not getting the flow that I once had.”

RELATED: Trump administration takes aim at Obama-era climate change regulations

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas has been leading the charge in the House with his Gas Can Freedom Act. Blaze News first reported Roy’s bill in February, which aimed to “eliminate the unnecessary federal regulations that have made gas cans dysfunctional.”

“Pointless government regulations have ruined many commonsense products, and everyone knows it,” Roy told Blaze News in February. “The federal government does not need to be involved in every aspect of our lives, and we never needed them involved in our gas cans.”

RELATED: Chip Roy reveals to Glenn Beck possible motive behind Elon Musk’s scathing review of the ‘big, beautiful bill’

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As of now, no legislative actions have been taken on Roy’s bill beyond its introduction in the House. Roy remains committed to the bill and is urging his colleagues to take up the legislation.

“Let’s get it passed and cut these burdensome regulations FOREVER.”

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Texas A&M is facing backlash after an internal email by Alan Sams, the university provost and executive vice president, asked recipients to contact the university police if they saw ICE on their campus.

The email’s subject line was “Correcting Misinformation Regarding Immigration Enforcement Activity.”

“I’m reaching out today to address concerns related to immigration enforcement and the university that are circulating among faculty, staff, and our graduate student community. As stewards of our employee and student data, the university cannot share personal information about individual students or employees except as permitted by law, such as directory information,” Sams wrote.

“Your safety, well-being, and privacy are of the utmost importance. We take great care with personal issues or concerns raised by our faculty, staff, and students, and we investigate situations fully and confidentially,” he added.

“Oh, read between the lines there guys,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Come and Take It.” “Confidentially. Wink wink, nudge nudge. We won’t tell ICE. Don’t worry, your secret is safe with us.”

“And then, of course, they go on to passive-aggressively scold people who may be, I don’t know, sharing that there are people there who are illegal,” she adds.

“Please keep in mind that sharing partial or inaccurate information about individual situations can inhibit investigations and can be damaging to the individual involved. While we may not be able to comment on specific situations due to student or employee confidentiality, we will always take care to try to stem the spread of incomplete or inaccurate information, and we hope you will, too,” the email continued.

Sams went on to explain that “the university does not proactively share information with immigration authorities,” before adding, “if you are ever concerned about your safety, see something suspicious or encounter a federal law enforcement officer on campus, we ask that you immediately contact the university police department.”

“In other words,” Gonzales says, “we don’t intend to cooperate with ICE. If you’re an illegal here, your secret is safe with us until there is literally nothing else we can do about it because we really, really love illegals here at Texas A&M more than American citizens.”

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As the 2026 primaries begin to take shape, one swing state in particular has remained on the GOP’s radar.

After Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced his retirement in June, all eyes turned to Tar Heel State native Lara Trump. Although the Republican nomination would have undoubtedly been hers to claim, Lara passed on the opportunity to scoop up the Senate bid.

‘Despite Cooper’s popularity in the purple state, Republicans have maintained a steady winning streak in North Carolina.’

Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley, who previously co-chaired the RNC alongside Lara Trump, will instead be running for the North Carolina Senate seat, reportedly with President Donald Trump’s blessing.

Although neither candidate has issued a formal announcement, Whatley is expected to face off against former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

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Despite Cooper’s popularity in the purple state, Republicans have maintained a steady winning streak there. Since 1990, Democrats have won only two terms to represent North Carolina in the Senate. Since 1980, the swing state also voted for a Democratic presidential candidate only one time — in 2008, when former President Barack Obama was on the ticket.

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One GOP operative told Blaze News that Republican Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, had previously met with Whatley to discuss a potential Senate bid. The NRSC has also been floating Whatley as a potential candidate since January, and internal polling has indicated that a “pro-Trump Republican” would be the strongest candidate, according to the GOP operative.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published a report on Wednesday that appeared to confirm the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference was a work of fiction comprising misquotes, unreliable reports, lies of omissions, and straight-out falsehoods.

Rather than admit fault or come to terms with the role it played in perpetuating an apparent hoax on the American people — one that set the stage for years of Russian-collusion smears, two congressional impeachments, multiple arrests, and greater tensions with a pre-eminent nuclear power — the liberal media is now desperately trying to both downplay the gravity of the newly declassified House Intelligence Committee majority staff report and spin the conclusions therein.

Refresher

The House Intelligence Committee report is a product of congressional investigators spending over 2,300 hours reviewing the ICA and its source reports, conducting dozens of interviews, and comparing the ICA analytic tradecraft against well-established intelligence reports.

According to the report, the intelligence community had no credible evidence of Russia working to help Trump win.

What’s more, the report — which Gabbard indicated provides evidence of a “treasonous conspiracy” — claimed that the ICA, which was released by the Obama administration just weeks before President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017:

incorporated dubious claims despite high-level protest within the intelligence community; leaned on the bogus Steele dossier while failing to mention it was produced in part for the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign and had Russian links; omitted narrative-killing evidence such as Moscow’s withholding of damning information about Hillary Clinton’s health issues, which if released could have helped Trump; and propped the narrative that Russian President Vladimir Putin “aspired” to help Trump win on “one scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence” from a “substandard report” that CIA officers initially omitted but were ordered by then-CIA Director John Brennan to include despite protest.

The report also indicates that the Obama administration leaked falsehoods from the ICA to the media, which publications like the Washington Post dutifully printed.

Liberal media turns on another gaslight

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins did her apparent best on Wednesday to distract from the damning contents of the report by making its release about an imagined interpersonal drama between the president and his director of national intelligence.

‘Who was saying that?’

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Collins suggested in question form that Gabbard was “only releasing these documents now to improve [her] standing with the president after he said that [her] intelligence assessments were wrong,” referencing Trump’s assertion last month that Gabbard was wrong in suggesting there was no evidence that Iran was constructing a nuclear weapon.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt asked Collins, “Who was saying that?”

Leavitt later added, “The only people who are suggesting that the director of national intelligence would release evidence to try to boost her standing with the president are the people in this room, who constantly try to sow distrust and chaos amongst the president’s Cabinet, and it is not working.”

The Washington Post, one of the chief proponents of the Russian collusion narrative, appears to have adopted a different strategy in attacking the report and its credibility.

Earlier in the week, the Post pushed an article asserting that Gabbard’s “seditious conspiracy” claim is “based on thin gruel.”

The article strategically assigned greater weight to the conclusions of previous investigations, including the Senate Intelligence Committee’s multi-volume report on the ICA, which “found the ICA presents a coherent and well-constructed intelligence basis for the case of unprecedented Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” and that “Moscow’s intent was to harm the Clinton campaign, tarnish an expected Clinton presidential administration, help the Trump campaign after Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, and undermine the U.S. democratic process.”

Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner noted that the problem with Democrats and the media using conclusions of the Senate Intelligence Committee report to contradict the newly declassified House report and Gabbard’s corresponding claims is “it’s not clear that the Senate had the same level of access to source material” that CIA Director [John Ratcliffe] now has.”

“The conclusions about the Steele dossier not being a significant source for the ICA and about the CIA not wanting it included, for example, appear to come from interviews,” continued Bedford. “Brennan just denied again that he wanted it in the ICA when the committee interviewed him in 2018. But Ratcliffe’s memo is based on actual emails from 2016, which tell a completely different story.”

Bedford was referencing the declassified memo released last month by Ratcliffe, which criticized the 2017 ICA and identified “multiple procedural anomalies” in its preparation.

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The Associated Press effectively told its readers not to believe their lying eyes in an article titled “Gabbard’s claims of an anti-Trump conspiracy are not supported by declassified documents.”

RELATED: If no one goes to jail, the coup was a success

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Like the Post, the AP leaned on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report to suggest there were no politically motivated aspects in the Obama administration’s assessments, but it also refuted arguments that Gabbard did not appear to be making.

Gabbard told Fox News that there “was a shift, a 180-degree shift, from the intelligence community’s assessment leading up to the election to the one that President Obama directed be produced after Donald Trump won the election that completely contradicted those assessments that had come previously.”

Gabbard was referencing how the ICA concluded in early January 2017 that Russia was trying to boost Trump — yet just weeks earlier, the FBI’s director of counterintelligence and the DNI’s national intelligence officer made no such claim in their briefing to Congress on Vladimir Putin’s supposed leak operations.

The AP insinuated, however, that Gabbard was alternatively referring to the intelligence community’s consistent view that there were Russian efforts to manipulate the vote count and concluded “there was no shift.”

Despite the article’s framing, the AP acknowledged that “the material declassified this week reveals some dissent within the intelligence community about whether Putin wanted to help Trump or simply inflame the U.S.”; however, the AP suggested that the dissent detailed in the House report was business as usual and glossed over the fact that the debate concerned violations of analytic tradecraft standards and the inclusion of unreliable or false information.

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