A new DC Cinematic Universe has taken flight with James Gunn’s “Superman.”

While critics from both sides of the political aisle argue over whether the film is “woke” (it’s not), I want to highlight a more meaningful — and largely overlooked — message at the heart of the story: the power of kindness in a cynical, chronically online world. Based on the knee-jerk backlash the movie has inspired online, it’s a message we clearly need.

Some have called this version of Superman ‘weak,’ but I see something else — something that’s been missing from many past iterations: humanity.

While this “Superman” couldn’t be more timely — it explores themes of individuality, idealism in the face of public scrutiny, cancel culture, and life in a social media-saturated society — it ultimately uses these themes to emphasize the timeless traits that have allowed the character to endure for almost a century.

Hassled hero

“Superman” centers on a younger Clark Kent (David Corenswet), who has been active as Superman for just three years. While beloved by many, others see him as a wild card and potential threat — especially after he intervenes in a war between two fictional nations, Boravia and Jarhanpur.

Superman protects the defenseless people of Jarhanpur from Boravian forces, but his actions anger the U.S. government, which fears conflict with Boravian allies. Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) seizes the moment, convincing the military to back his surveillance program, “Planet Watch,” as a pretext to go after Superman. He even unleashes a swarm of mind-controlled monkeys to flood the internet with anti-Superman propaganda — #supers**t trending like wildfire.

Meanwhile, Clark’s girlfriend and Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan), who knows his true identity, challenges him to explain his actions in a professional interview. It’s a complicated, very modern kind of pressure.

Here to help

What makes this Superman compelling is that he’s not driven by politics or power — he just wants to help people. All people. He doesn’t weigh the geopolitical consequences; he sees someone in danger and acts. That impulse, that moral clarity, is what defines him. It’s also what gets him into trouble.

This instinct is rooted in a message from his Kryptonian parents — a message that, when finally decrypted by Luthor, reveals their true plan: They hoped their son would one day rule Earth and repopulate it with Kryptonians. Even Superman didn’t know this. Suddenly, even his most selfless actions come under suspicion.

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‘Weakness’ or humanity?

Some have called this version of Superman “weak,” but I see something else — something that’s been missing from many past iterations: humanity. He’s not a flawless, all-powerful icon. He’s relatable. Grounded. Fallible. And when the world turns on him, his powers offer no protection from the sting of media outrage or public mistrust. Stripped of certainty, he holds fast to one thing: hope. Hope for a kinder world.

That perseverance — trying to do good even when it’s hard or unpopular — feels deeply human. Isn’t that what we all wrestle with? We want to be seen, to be understood, to be forgiven when we mess up. Especially in the age of cancellation, when any misstep is dissected in real time by a million strangers. Superman, in that sense, becomes a stand-in for anyone who’s tried to do the right thing and gotten burned for it.

There’s even a quiet Christ-like quality to his vision of the world. In one of the film’s most touching scenes, Lois and Clark reflect on their “punk rock” upbringings:

Lois: “You think everything and everyone is beautiful.”
Superman: “Maybe that’s the real punk rock.”

It’s a simple exchange, but it captures everything about this Superman. Like Christ, he sees not the brokenness of humanity, but its beauty and potential. He chooses to love us anyway. He chooses kindness — an underrated value that could very well heal our culture, breaking through our biggest political divides to help us realize we are all human beings made in God’s image.

Daring to believe

And that kindness changes people. Superman’s example inspires Metamorpho (Anthony Carrigan) and fellow Justice Gang members Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion) and Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced) to stand up for the innocent people of Jarhanpur. Meanwhile, Mr. Terrific (Edi Gathegi) joins Superman in stopping Luthor’s plot to destroy Metropolis.

Despite everything — public outrage, alien expectations, media spin — Superman doesn’t abandon his ideals. He doesn’t lean into resentment or vengeance. He chooses instead the simple truths taught to him by his Earth parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent (Pruitt Taylor Vince and Neva Howell). In the words of the former: “Your choices. Your actions. That’s what makes you who you are.”

James Gunn’s “Superman” resonates because it dares to believe the best in people. No matter your politics, race, or religion, most of us are doing our best — even when we fall short. And if that’s considered “weak” or “woke,” we should ask what we’ve really come to expect from our heroes.

If kindness is the new punk rock, then maybe punk rock is what will save the world. And who better to lead that charge than Superman?

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You spend, for argument’s sake, a full third of your life sleeping. Anything you spend 33% of your life doing is obviously very important, even if you aren’t fully conscious when you’re doing it.

And yet people are still surprised when I tell them they could revolutionize their health if they just took their bedtime habits a little more seriously.

These pillows are as American as apple pie.

Consider testosterone, the master male hormone, which men have to thank for libido, muscle mass, drive, and a willingness to put themselves in harm’s way to save a cute little kitten when no one else will. Most of a man’s testosterone is produced at night, so if a man doesn’t sleep properly, he’ll produce less testosterone.

One study, by a researcher called Plamen Penev, showed that if older men double their sleep from four to eight hours a night, they can double their testosterone levels. Just like that. I don’t think there’s another health intervention a man could make that would have such a drastic effect on his hormonal health.

There are many different things you can do — simple things — to improve the quality of your sleep. You can turn off your electronic devices a few hours before bed and start to darken your home, to simulate the natural diurnal rhythms that have governed sleep since time began. You can take a hot shower or bath before bed to lower your core temperature. Really: Doing that can send you off to the land of Nod up to half an hour earlier.

You can change your bedding, too. Of course you want to be comfortable, and if your bedding is itchy or too thick, you won’t be and you won’t sleep. But an under-appreciated aspect of your choice of bedding is whether or not it contains harmful chemicals.

Lab mice sleep on corn-cob bedding. A study showed that corn contains a substance that mimics the “female” hormone estrogen, and so lab mice get a huge dose of artificial estrogen while they sleep, through their skin. Enough, in fact, that it can interfere with reproduction and even make them sterile.

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There haven’t been many studies of the effects of bedding on human health, but we have every reason to believe most bedding, which is made of synthetic fibers and laced with nasty chemicals like fire retardants, is having a negative effect on our health. Dermal contact — through the skin — is one major route for harmful substances to enter the body, and if you have your face buried in a pillow that’s soaked in fire retardant, you’re inhaling that stuff all night long. Do you want to inhale fire retardant all night long?

But help is at hand. The Woolshire, a wonderful little family business up in Idaho, is making the most amazing organic virgin-wool pillows — not a single synthetic fiber or harmful chemical in sight — and what’s more, the company is doing so in a way that benefits its local community and the nation.

All Woolshire pillows are handmade, using antique American machinery and local wool that’s milled in one of the longest-running wool mills in the country, in Montana. These pillows are as American as apple pie.

Wool is a superior material, and not just for pillows. It makes you wonder why we ever stopped using it. I’ll let the good people at the Woolshire explain:

“Wool is naturally flame retardant, self-cleaning, and temperature regulating. It retains its loft, is moisture-wicking, and it is very cozy. It has been used by humans for its incredible properties since the Stone Age.”

The Woolshire currently offers two products: its signature Woolshire pillow, with a variety of different fill depths, and a child’s pillow. I’m told the company will be expanding soon to offer other products, including a travel pillow, a prototype of which I’m lucky enough to own.

All my pillows are now Woolshire pillows, and, honestly, I’ve never slept better.

(Oh, and before you go to the website and order the best pillows money can buy, and then have the best night’s sleep of your life, take this promo code with you. Enter REN at checkout and get 10% off your order. Thank me later.)

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Alabama police have arrested seven people so far in a terrifying child sex trafficking ring that involved an underground bunker in the small town of Brent.

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said they opened an investigation into concerns about possible sex abuse on Feb. 4. Four months later, they announced arrests and unbelievable details about what they uncovered.

‘I know God’s forgiveness is boundless, but if there was a limit to it, I think we’ve reached it.’

Initially, police announced four arrests on Saturday related to investigation into the bunker and said that at least six children had been drugged and raped, according to Assistant District Attorney Bryan Jones. The storm shelter was being used as an underground bunker.

The four men arrested were identified as William Chase McElroy, Dalton Terrell, Andres Trejo-Velazquez, and Timothy St. John. Some of the suspects had allegedly confessed to their crimes, according to Jones.

“It’s just unimaginable that someone could do this to a child,” he said. “Children are defenseless, and they depend on adults to take care of them and protect them. And then when adults do these types of things to them, it’s just really horrific.”

McElroy was charged with four counts of first-degree rape, six counts of first-degree human trafficking, six counts of first-degree sodomy, and four counts of first-degree kidnapping.

Terrell was charged with six counts of first-degree rape, 12 counts of first-degree sodomy, and five counts of first-degree human trafficking.

Trejo-Velazquez was charged with six counts of first-degree human trafficking.

Timothy St. John was charged with two counts of first-degree rape, four counts of first-degree sodomy, four counts of human trafficking, three counts of first-degree kidnapping, one count of bestiality, and one count of aggravated cruelty to animals.

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On Wednesday, Bibb County Sheriff Jody Wade announced three more arrests.

Rebecca Brewer was charged with eight counts of human trafficking, eight counts of first-degree human kidnapping, and three counts of sexual torture.

Ricky Terrell was charged with one count of rape, but other charges are pending.

Sarah Louis Terrell was charged with one count of sexual torture and two counts of sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years old.

Investigators said that some of the offenders were parents of the victims, who ranged in age from 3 to 15 years old. The number of victims increased from six to ten.

“I’ve been in law enforcement for 33 years, and this is absolutely the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen when it comes to the victimization of children. I know God’s forgiveness is boundless, but if there was a limit to it, I think we’ve reached it,” Wade said.

Wade said that people would make “appointments” to pay for sexual assault of the children at the bunker.

Images from the underground bunker were released in hopes of jogging the memories of others who might have been similarly victimized.

“There were chairs and beds and things of that nature, and the children were drugged by Mr. Trejo and tied to the bed, into the chair, into a pole. And then people would come and pay money to have sex with these children,” Assistant District Attorney Bryan Jones said.

RELATED: Man serving life sentence for child sex abuse allegedly escaped prison with help of his mother, a former corrections officer

“It absolutely infuriates me. But we have to kind of put that aside and just do the job. That’s all we can do,” Jones said.

Investigators believe there may be even more perpetrators and victims to be discovered, and more charges may be filed against those already arrested.

“There are some allegations with individuals that we will have a hard time identifying, just because we don’t know their names. And the children were drugged, according to one of the co-defendants. And so they may not be able to recognize or be able to identify anyone,” Jones added.

Victims were handed over to the custody of the Alabama Department of Human Resources.

Brent is a small town of only about 2,900 residents in the center of the state.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released a top secret document — only ever seen by a handful of people — that appears to reveal the truth about Russiagate.

That is that Russia did not have dirt on Trump like the left claimed — but on liberal darling Hillary Clinton.

“It is explosive,” Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck says. “They said Russia was in the bag for Donald Trump, and he’s going to be a puppet because they have so much dirt on him as found in the Steel Dossier.”

But that couldn’t be further from the case, and the top secret document that reveals this has landed in Glenn Beck’s hands.

“The document details SVR, which is the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. And the reports from 2016, from Russia about the hacking of the DNC. Remember, they were hacked and nobody could figure out who hacked them,” Glenn explains.

“Out of that hacking, the Russian foreign service, at least, this is the information they got from intel on the Russia foreign service, that Obama and the Democratic leaders were, and I’m quoting, ‘extraordinarily alarmed about Clinton’s health,’ calling it a ‘potential serious negative impact on her chances,’” he says.

“Type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, deep vein thrombosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,” he continues, “intensified psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness.”

But that’s not all.

“She was also, according to the intelligence that they got from the Russians based on the DNC hacks, she was allegedly also on heavy tranquilizers every day, obsessed with power and afraid of losing,” Glenn says.

“Russia also knew about the alleged secret meetings where Clinton allegedly offered State Department favors to religious groups for campaign support,” he continues. “Ethical scandals galore, including pressure on the FBI over her email probe via high-ranking DOJ officials. Russia had all of this. All of this.”

“This is what the left always does,” he says, adding, “Whatever they’re accusing us of doing, they’re doing.”

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Last week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed evidence that the entire Russiagate hoax — a scheme to derail President Donald Trump’s first term — was manufactured by the outgoing Obama administration. At a press gaggle on Tuesday, Trump followed up by accusing Obama of “treason” for trying to rig the 2016 election and calling for severe consequences.

These revelations matter. But unless someone actually goes to jail, they won’t change anything.

MAGA supporters were furious over how the Epstein case was handled because they’re sick of elites skating free.

Democrats have shown they’re willing to jail political opponents — up to and including the president himself. Republicans, on the other hand, have proven utterly incapable of holding lawbreaking leftists accountable. Exposing treasonous acts is helpful, but if no one is punished, the corruption only deepens.

“Lock her up!” wasn’t just a chant at Trump rallies. MAGA supporters understood that the Clintons were deeply corrupt. They saw in Trump a candidate who might finally deliver justice. Elites gasped at the slogan, warning about the dangers of weaponizing the justice system. Then, with no sense of irony, they weaponized that very system against Trump to stop his re-election.

The lesson should have been obvious: Either cross the Rubicon, or don’t approach it at all. But don’t go fishing in it.

Americans are tired of watching the powerful get away with everything. In 2008, bankers crashed the economy and got bailed out. In 2020, Anthony Fauci and the biomedical regime imposed tyranny under the guise of public health. In 2020 and 2024, Joe Biden was propped up by a Democratic cabal that subverted the Constitution and jailed dissidents. The southern border was thrown open to reshape the electorate and lock in leftist power.

Kamala Harris nearly extended that reign — had she not turned out to be the dumbest, most tone-deaf, and most unlikable candidate ever smuggled onto a national ticket.

Yet through all of it, no one in power has paid a serious price for their crimes.

Major revelations come and go. But with no accountability, they become little more than distractions. There may have been a time when shame alone could bring a public reckoning — but our current ruling class is incapable of shame. They don’t resign in disgrace. They don’t retreat. They wait for the news cycle to move on.

The scandals pile up like grains of sand in a desert, each one indistinguishable from the next.

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In this environment, exposing corruption becomes just another way to tranquilize the public. People think, “At least the truth is out there — maybe voters will care.” But what if the scandal is about rigging the vote in the first place? If Democrats can open the border, fabricate intelligence, and collude with media to tip elections, then what good is the ballot box?

Exposure, without punishment, doesn’t deter. It emboldens.

The left doesn’t hesitate to jail its enemies. January 6 protesters were locked up for years — including some who never entered the Capitol. Trump officials like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were arrested and imprisoned. Pro-life activists got comically inflated sentences for silent protests. The FBI threatened parents who challenged school boards. Douglass Mackey was convicted for making memes. Trump himself faced fabricated charges that could’ve put him behind bars for life — all to stop his return.

So why are Republicans so cowardly?

If what Gabbard alleges is true, then Barack Obama, James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, and Andrew McCabe conspired to destroy the American electoral system. They manufactured intelligence for the express purpose of overturning a legitimate election.

That is treason, plain and simple.

If these people are allowed to walk, they’ll know they’re untouchable. And they’ll act like it. Again.

Trump seemed genuinely surprised and angered by the backlash to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files. Some speculated it was because Trump himself was implicated, but that was always unlikely. If real dirt on Trump existed, the people fabricating charges against him would’ve used it. Instead, Trump kept comparing Epstein to Russiagate — and now it’s obvious why.

RELATED: Why the Epstein story cannot be buried

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He knew the Russiagate disclosures were about to drop and didn’t want them overshadowed by Epstein.

Still, the connection matters.

MAGA supporters were furious over how the Epstein case was handled because they’re sick of elites skating free. They’re sick of being ruled by people who break the law with impunity. Fauci. Epstein. The Clintons. Americans know they’re governed by some of the worst people on the planet, and they’re done pretending otherwise.

The country is crying out for justice.

But frankly, I don’t think the Trump administration will deliver it. I hope I’m wrong. But I doubt there will be any serious action taken against Obama or the rest of his old guard. Republicans talk tough but never follow through. Even after the left tried to jail and then attempted to assassinate the president, the GOP still wrings its hands over setting a bad precedent.

It’s a bad joke. And everyone knows it.

Revelations are fine. But none of this will matter until the Trump administration grows a spine and puts these people in prison where they belong.

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Democrats are outraged after finding out that Republicans are trying to rename a theater at the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., after first lady Melania Trump.

House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee passed a motion to change the name of the second-largest theater at the center to the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.”

‘It seems outrageous to me. There’s no public consensus around this.’

Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine accused Republicans of trying sneak in the “divisive” proposal.

“The Republicans have now given the president six times the normal amount of money to run the Kennedy Center, carte blanche over who will be on the board, and how different parts of the Kennedy Center — perhaps the whole Kennedy Center itself — will be named, and this amendment confirms that,” Pingree said at a hearing.

She further complained in a phone call statement to the New York Times.

“It seems outrageous to me. There’s no public consensus around this. It also leads me to wonder, does the president plan to rename the whole Kennedy Center after himself?” Pingree said.

Trump overhauled the center’s board in February and named himself the chair, angering many on the left.

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, also criticized the motion because he identified the first lady with “oppression,” rather than expression.

“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces — but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers,” Schlossberg wrote, quoting his grandfather, on Instagram.

“JFK believed the arts made our country great and could be our most effective weapon in the fight for civil rights and against authoritarian governments around the world,” he added. “The Trump administration stands for freedom of oppression, not expression.”

RELATED: VIDEO: Dancers protest Trump takeover of Kennedy Center in cringiest demonstration possible

ABC News noted that Democrats may be able to strip the bill of the naming provision because it would need 60 votes in the Senate.

One group protested against Trump seizing control of the institution by performing an interpretative dance against the “assault” on their constitutional rights, as they claimed.

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“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin went on a melodramatic rant regarding the news of CBS canceling Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show.” The liberal talk show host claimed that Colbert’s upcoming dismissal could be the start of the “dismantling of our Constitution.”

Colbert, 61, recently announced that CBS was canceling “The Late Show” in May 2026.

‘If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled.’

Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, said in a statement, “We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire ‘The Late Show‘ franchise at that time.”

Paramount Global stressed, “This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content, or other matters happening at Paramount.”

Inside sources allegedly told the New York Post that CBS is canceling “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” for financial reasons and not political, because the late-night show lost “between $40 million and $50 million a year.”

Colbert has an annual salary of $20 million, a person familiar with the show’s operations told the Wall Street Journal. “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” has a staff of 200 employees.

RELATED: Farewell to Stephen Colbert, fake laughs, and lame late-night bias

As Blaze News reported earlier this month, Paramount and CBS settled a lawsuit initiated by President Donald Trump regarding a “deceitful” “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris — who was the Democratic nominee running against Trump at the time. In the settlement, $16 million will be designated to Trump’s future presidential library and to the president’s fees and costs.

Before his dismissal, Colbert reacted to the settlement by skewering his own employer during a “Late Show” monologue: “I am offended, and I don’t know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company.”

However, the hosts of “The View” were skeptical that the dismissal of Colbert was driven by financial motives rather than political retribution because of the timing.

Hostin said, “My concern is, if it is political, then everyone should be concerned. People on the right should be concerned. People on the left should be concerned. Because it’s very clear that, if it is political, this is the dismantling of our democracy. This is the dismantling of our Constitution. Right?”

“The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason, and that is freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom to speak truth to power. If that is taken away, if the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled,” Hostin said to a cheering studio audience. “That means the very rubric of our democracy is being dismantled. And I think every single person should be really, really concerned about it.”

RELATED: Colbert gets canceled — by CBS, not conservatives

As outrage swelled over the cancellation of Colbert’s late-night show, Hostin rushed to praise progressive Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (Vt.), who are asking for answers about whether the decision was political.

Hostin declared, “We must protect our Constitution, and we must protect our democracy. This is bigger than just the cancellation of a television show!”

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Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, has officially been subpoenaed by Congress after making the claim last week that no one ever asked for her testimony in regard to Epstein’s trafficking operation.

“President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence. If Ghislaine Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and DOJ will hear what she has to say,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a post on X.

Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, has confirmed in a response that he and Maxwell “are in discussions with the government” and that “Ghislaine will always testify truthfully.”

“So, things are heating up in this,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments. “Despite the completely botched handling of this from the get-go, we may actually find some truth here.”

However, while Maxwell may be able to give some eye-opening answers and information, BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden is a little worried.

“If they’re talking about going to Ghislaine Maxwell, well, firstly, I’d say, check your camera, Ghislaine, right? Make sure that there’s not a minute gap, right? Because I’d be, like, a lot can happen in a minute,” Marsden says.

“She’s got every reason to sit down and spill the beans on all these people that just threw her under the bus. And she’s looking at dying in prison,” he continues. “So, you want to get out, right? If she can get out in five years and be protected — because that’s what she is going to have to be, protected, clearly — it’ll be interesting to see where this goes.”

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A judge has denied the Department of Justice’s request to release transcripts from two of the investigations into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, but others are still being considered in separate requests.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ made the request from several federal courts to release material from the Epstein case after a public furor over disappointing revelations from Trump officials on the case.

Rosenberg cited rules set by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and noted that the government conceded.

U.S. District Court Judge Robin Rosenberg of the Southern District of Florida said the “court’s hands are tied” in her ruling to keep the transcripts sealed from grand jury investigations in 2005 and 2007 into Epstein. Rosenberg cited rules set by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and noted that the government conceded.

Epstein’s confidante Ghislaine Maxwell is serving 20 years in prison over sex trafficking charges.

Epstein was convicted in 2008 but received a slap on the wrist, whereas further charges in 2019 were dropped when he was found dead in his Manhattan prison cell while awaiting trial.

Rosenberg’s ruling applies to the investigations from West Palm Beach, but other requests have been made for grand jury transcripts from New York investigations into Epstein in 2019 and one of Maxwell in 2020.

The judges in those cases are not bound by the rules set by the 11th Circuit.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did not say whether they would appeal the decision and added only that she would “let this president speak to whether he wants to see an appeal.”

Maxwell has indicated that she would truthfully reveal what she knows if she were called to testify before a congressional panel about what she saw as Epstein’s accomplice.

RELATED: Former Israeli prime minister responds to accusations that Israel orchestrated Jeffrey Epstein ‘blackmail ring’

President Donald Trump has lashed out at some of his supporters who have demanded that more information be released about the infamous pedophile case.

“[Democrats’] new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bulls**t,’ hook, line, and sinker,” Trump said Wednesday. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”

The next day, he ordered the request to be made to release the grand jury information.

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Convicted killer Bryan Kohberger was sentenced on Wednesday for the murder of four University of Idaho students. During the sentencing hearing, the families rightfully lambasted Kohberger for taking the lives of the young college students.

Kohberger — who confessed to the grisly crimes — was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences for the stabbing murders of 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves, 21-year-old Madison Mogen, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, and 20-year-old Xana Kernodle. Kohberger, 30, was also sentenced to 10 years in prison for burglary. The judge ordered Kohberger to pay $290,000 in financial penalties to the victims’ families.

‘A dead killer doesn’t kill again, so while I’m disappointed the firing squad won’t get to take their shots at you, I’m confident that the men in prison will have their way with you in more ways than one.’

During the sentencing hearing, Judge Steven Hippler blasted Bryan Kohberger as a “coward” who “slithered through the sliding glass door at 1122 King Road,” according to ABC News.

“This unfathomable and senseless act of evil has caused immeasurable pain and loss. No parent should ever have to bury their child. This is the greatest tragedy that can be inflicted upon a person,” Hippler stated before announcing Kohberger’s sentence.

Hippler said, “Parents who took their children to college in a truck filled with moving boxes had to bring them home in hearses lined with coffins.”

RELATED: ‘Deal with the devil’: Killer Bryan Kohberger spared death penalty by taking plea deal. Family of one victim explodes.

Steve Goncalves (Left) / Kristi Goncalves (Right). Photo by Kyle Green-Pool/Getty Images

Hippler acknowledged that we may never know the motive for why Kohberger murdered the four college students in the early morning hours on Nov. 13, 2022.

“As we sit here today, this case is ending, and we are now certain who committed these unspeakable acts of evil,” Hippler stated. “But we don’t know, and what we may never know, is why.”

“I share the desire expressed by others to understand the ‘why,'” Hippler continued. “But upon reflection, it seems to me, and this is just my own opinion, that by continuing to focus on why, we continue to give Mr. Kohberger relevance. We give him agency, and we give him power.”

“The need to know what is inherently not understandable makes us dependent upon the defendant to provide us with a reason, and that gives him the spotlight, the attention, and the power he appears to crave,” he said. “Yet, even if I could force him to speak, which legally I cannot, how could anyone ever be assured that what he speaks is the truth?”

Hippler asked, “Do we really believe after all this, he’s capable of speaking the truth or of giving up something of himself to help the very people whose lives he destroyed? Rather, I suspect the so-called reason would be dished out in enticing, self-serving, and aggrandizing untruthful bits, leaving people wanting more information, more insight, and thus enhancing even further the power he seeks to hold.”

‘A delusional, pathetic, hypochondriac loser who thought you were so much smarter than everybody else.’

Hippler said, “The more we struggle to seek explanation for the unexplainable, the more power and control we give to him. In my view, the time has now come to end Mr. Kohberger’s 15 minutes of fame.”

When Kohberger was asked to explain why he senselessly murdered the four college students, he responded, “I respectfully decline.”

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump urged Kohberger to reveal his motives for the quadruple murder.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday, “If it were up to the president, he would have forced this monster to publicly explain why he chose to steal these innocent souls.”

“We are so sorry for the grief and the pain you have experienced at the hands of such a vicious and evil killer,” Leavitt said. “Our nation grieves with you, and we will never forget the precious souls who were lost in this horrific act of evil.”

RELATED: Chilling details revealed in Idaho college murders case — including frantic texts from roommates and new DNA evidence

The families of the slain victims delivered powerful remarks during Kohberg’s sentencing.

KCPQ-TV reported that Steve Goncalves said during the sentencing, “Today, we are here to finish what you started. Today, you’ve lost control. Today, we are here to prove to the world that you picked the wrong families, the wrong state, the wrong police officers, the wrong community.”

“You tried to break our community apart. You tried to plant fear. You tried to divide us. You failed,” he continued. “Instead, your actions have united everyone in their disgust for you.”

The heartbroken father called Kohberger a “complete joke.”

‘Joy is harder to find. Laughter feels foreign. The world moves forward, but I’m suspended in places of sorrow and rage.’

Alivea Goncalves — Kaylee’s older sister — told the courtroom, “Every day I’m angry.”

“I’m left shouting at the inside of my own head everything I wish I could say to you,” the bereaved sister stated.

“I won’t stand here and give you what you want. I won’t offer you tears. I won’t offer you trembling,” she continued. “Disappointments like you thrive on pain, on fear, and on the illusion of power. And I won’t feed your beast. Instead, I will call you what you are: sociopath, psychopath, murderer.”

She called Kohberger a “coward” and a “delusional, pathetic, hypochondriac loser who thought you were so much smarter than everybody else.”

“No one is scared of you today. No one’s intimidated by you. No one is impressed by you. No one thinks that you are important,” Alivea Goncalves declared. “You orchestrated this like you thought you were God. Now look at you, begging a courtroom for scraps.”

Alivea added, “The truth, is you’re as dumb as they come, stupid, clumsy, slow, sloppy, weak, dirty.”

RELATED: Court docs say DNA of Idaho murder suspect found on knife sheath. College roommate frozen in shock coming face-to-face with killer. Expert profiler believes Bryan Kohberger is an incel.

Kristi Goncalves — the mother of Kaylee Goncalves — stated during the sentencing, “When you murdered my daughter, Kaylee Jade Goncalves, you didn’t just take her life, you shattered others.”

“You attacked what you could never be. And in doing so, you left a trail of devastation far beyond that house. You stole my peace,” the grieving mother explained. “You’ve altered my every waking moment, every sleepless night, the way I view the world, people, safety, trust. It’s all been changed by your cruelty.”

Kristi Goncalves revealed, “I no longer recognize parts of myself. Joy is harder to find. Laughter feels foreign. The world moves forward, but I’m suspended in places of sorrow and rage. You’ve taken from me something that can never be restored. The grief sits with me every day, some days quietly, and other days so loud it drowns out everything else. The emotional toll you’ve inflicted on me is immeasurable. I live with a constant ache with birthdays that are now memorials, with holidays that feel hollow, with empty chairs that scream louder than words ever could. I am forever changed.”

She told Kohberger that he is “pathetic” and “not good at anything.”

“A dead killer doesn’t kill again, so while I’m disappointed the firing squad won’t get to take their shots at you, I’m confident that the men in prison will have their way with you in more ways than one,” Kristi Goncalves proclaimed. “You will finally get what you wanted — physical touch. Just probably not how you were expecting it.”

The heartbroken mother described the convicted killer as a “loser” and an “absolute failure.”

“May you continue to live your life in misery. You are officially the property of the state of Idaho, where your fellow inmates are anxiously awaiting your arrival,” the mother stated. “But it’s okay, because they’re there to help you. Hell will be waiting.”

“A quick message from our youngest daughter: Aubrey wanted to say, ‘You may have received A’s in high school and college, but you’re gonna be getting big D’s in prison,'” Kristi Goncalves stated, which caused the courtroom to erupt in gasps and laughs.

The family of Kaylee Goncalves told ABC News after the sentencing hearing that “the details are more horrific than we can imagine” and that she was stabbed 34 times.

RELATED: FBI reportedly instructed police to pull over Idaho murder suspect to obtain images of hands. Bryan Kohberger switched license plates after slayings of college students.

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Hunter Biden is making news again, this time for his inflammatory podcast interviews, most notably his appearance on Andrew Callaghan’s podcast, “Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan.” On July 21, Hunter sat down with the famous YouTuber for a three-hour, expletive-laden interview, during which they broached a number of subjects, including Hunter’s addiction, the 2024 election, his father’s disastrous, career-ending debate performance against Trump, and his disdain for certain Democrats.

Their conversation is “absolutely and completely bizarre,” Glenn Beck says .

But perhaps the most bizarre moment occurred when the duo discussed illegal immigration. Glenn plays the cringeworthy clip of Hunter’s wild defense of illegal immigrants.

“All these Democrats say, ‘You have to talk about and realize that all these people are really upset about illegal immigration.’ F**k you! How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you have food on your f**king table?” Hunter spat, implying that illegal immigrants are worthy of admiration because of “the f**king sheer just grit and will” it took for them to illegally cross our borders.

Then his vitriol turned to Donald Trump. “He’s somehow convinced all of us that these people are the criminals. White men in America are 45 more times likely to commit a f**king violent crime than an immigrant,” he said, before blaming Democrats like David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel for urging the party to address illegal immigration as a legitimate issue that’s important to the public.

“I absolutely love the fact that Democrats will take the point of view that this is who cleans the hotel room … washes your dishes … [picks] your food,” Glenn laughs. “The Democratic slogan should be: Democrats — helping you have cheap food since 1810.”

Glenn’s co-host Stu Burguiere thinks it’s hilarious that Hunter of all people is asking a question about who cleans hotel rooms. “Who cleans your hotel room? God, considering what he’s done to hotel rooms, I hope nobody,” he laughs. “We got to have [illegal immigrants] here to clean the meth dust off the cabinets.”

“Because it gives them dignity,” Glenn quips.

Glenn then plays a satirical ad capturing what the Democratic Party would sound like if it were actually honest about its defense of illegal immigration:

To the hands that scrub my seven-bedroom D.C. home for $4 an hour so I don’t have to, thank you. To the hands that flip burgers to keep Americans fat and stupid so they’ll keep voting for me, thank you. And to the hands that smuggle cocaine into the country for the cartels, thank you — and Hunter Biden says he’s especially grateful. To the hands that build our bridges, hurry the f**k up. My constituents have been waiting for this since 2023. And to the hands that clean the hotels where I host Chinese businessmen for top-secret meetings, thank you. We couldn’t survive without your cheap labor. I mean, we could. The market would just raise wages, but if we can just take advantage of you and secure more votes at the same time, why not?

“[Democrats] are for slavery; [they’re] just negotiating the price,” Glenn says.

To see footage from Hunter’s interview, including his defense of crack cocaine, and to hear more of Glenn and Stu’s commentary, watch the video above.

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While Democrats continue to feign outrage over President Donald Trump’s handling of the Epstein files, House Republicans are taking action.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) officially subpoenaed Ghislaine Maxwell, who co-conspired with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June 2022 and is working alongside the Department of Justice to facilitate the deposition at the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee on August 11.

‘Transparency is the way that we disinfect.’

Although the Trump administration has tried to turn the page on the Epstein saga, House Republicans have been vocal in their pursuit for transparency.

Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee told Blaze News that he would “absolutely” want to see Maxwell testify before Congress.

“Heck yeah,” Burchett told Blaze News. “Get her up there. Let’s talk.”

RELATED: Radical transparency needed to expose, destroy weaponization of intel community, Gabbard says

“Transparency is the way that we disinfect Washington, D.C.,” Republican Rep. Mike Haridopolos of Florida told Blaze News.

Other members, like Republican Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina, cautioned that Maxwell’s testimony might be unreliable while she continues to appeal her case.

“I don’t know what kind of witness she’s going to be and how reliable even what she’s going to tell you is,” Harris told Blaze News. “If it’s going to involve cutting a deal or something like that, I don’t know. … But no question, the information she would have and the insights that she would have would be very valuable and interesting for the American people to hear.”

RELATED: Charlie Kirk outlines ’10 immediate credible action items’ Pam Bondi can take on Epstein case

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As Maxwell’s legal team continues to appeal her case, the DOJ has also been speaking with her legal counsel to meet with Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator.

“This Department of Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from the responsibility to pursue justice wherever the facts may lead,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement Tuesday.

“President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence,” Blanche added. “If Ghislaine Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say. Therefore, at the direction of Attorney General Bondi, I have communicated with counsel for Ms. Maxwell to determine whether she would be willing to speak with prosecutors from the Department.”

“I anticipate meeting with Ms. Maxwell in the coming days. Until now, no administration on behalf of the Department had inquired about her willingness to meet with the government. That changes now.”

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Prosecutors say the man who was caught on video violently throwing rocks at federal agents during the anti-ICE rioting in Los Angeles was arrested after he fled to Mexico.

Law enforcement officers were violently attacked during the rioting that rocked L.A. for several days in June. More than a month later, one alleged attacker has been apprehended.

‘We got him. He was arrested today at the US-Mexico border.’

“You may remember Elpidio Reyna, a subject who allegedly threw rocks at federal officers during immigration operations in California June 7. We got him. He was arrested today at the U.S.-Mexico border,” said Dan Bongino, deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Reyna, who is a 40-year-old resident of Compton, was charged with assault on a federal officer, a felony, according to U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, who added that the suspect would appear in court Wednesday.

“He was taken into custody by a U.S. Border Patrol officer who was inside one of the vehicles damaged in the attack — a brave law enforcement officer who could have been killed in last month’s dangerous and reckless attack,” Essayli said.

An FBI notice about Reyna said the officer had been injured in the rock attack. Reyna faces eight years in prison if convicted.

Bongino posted video of the man, who was recorded flinging large rocks at vehicles driven by federal agents.

RELATED: Trump admin pulls troops from Los Angeles after being accused of ‘militarization’ by California lawmakers

As previously covered by Blaze News, video from inside the vehicles showed the violence aimed at federal agents.

“To anyone who thinks they can attack federal officers and hide behind a mask or helmet, Reyna’s arrest today proves we can find and charge anyone who violates federal law. Don’t touch our officers,” Essayli warned.

“More to come. Those who attack America’s police officers can run but they can’t hide,” Bongino added.

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New York City residents were shocked to find that e-bikes from migrants delivering food had taken over an entire city block.

Residents told the New York Post that the e-bike takeover began small but has exploded into dozens and led to the migrants hiring a guard to watch the bikes against theft overnight.

‘I was shocked. It was like somebody put out the word and everyone swarmed.’

Gig jobs for food delivery are very popular with illegal aliens because they can rent a vehicle and invent work-arounds to avoid work verification requirements on the online apps.

According to NYC locals, the e-bikes at the East Village block exploded to 50 overnight. The unsanctioned lot is located on 11th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A in Manhattan.

“It’s not great to look at, but I understand that they need to make a living,” said one resident, identified only as Dave L., who had resided on the block for two years. “I was shocked. It was like somebody put out the word and everyone swarmed.”

The Post documented 50 e-bikes with food delivery boxes on one night. The report also said the lot was located only 200 feet from a school for students in grades 6-12 and near the Lower East Side playground as well.

The report included comments from Andre, a migrant from Mongolia who keeps his bike at the lot.

“There’s a lot of work in the East Village, not like the Bronx,” he told the Post. “So I come here to work.”

When asked if he worries about his bike being stolen, he responded: “Everyone shows respect.”

RELATED: Fed-up restaurant worker flips street vendor’s food cart; businesses sue San Diego over vendors, some run by illegal aliens

Another migrant confirmed to the Post that someone watched over the bikes during the evening to prevent theft.

Some of the residents didn’t object to the e-bike lot.

“It’s not any more of an eyesore to me than a car is,” said a resident named Margaret.

Residents in San Diego were not as sanguine when migrants overwhelmed brick-and-mortar businesses with food carts. The animosity led to an aggressive confrontation between a restaurant worker and a food cart vendor that was caught on video and went viral on social media.

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While Democrats are raging over mass deportation efforts by the current administration, a video showing the real reason those on the left want more migrants has gone viral years after it was recorded.

In the resurfaced video of Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York, she says that in her district, they need to bring in migrants to increase the population in time for redistricting. The video is from a 2021 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing where she questioned a government official about the Biden administration’s reaction to Haitian migrants escaping the chaos in their home country.

‘I love it when they’re dumb enough to accidentally admit the truth.’

“I’m from Brooklyn, New York. We have a diaspora that can absorb a significant number of these migrants,” said Clarke in the video.

“When I hear colleagues talk about, you know, the doors of the inn being closed, no room in the inn, I’m saying, you know, I need more people in my district, just for redistricting purposes, and those members could clearly fit here,” she added.

Video of the comment went viral on social media earlier this week, and a longer video of the entire exchange from 2021 is also available online.

The open admission that Democrats needed migrants in order to strengthen their political control was lambasted by many on social media.

“The liberal border policy has always been about apportionment and gerrymandering and boosting the electoral college by inviting illegal immigrants to be counted in the Census. It’s perfectly constitutional to NOT count them for those purposes,” responded former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Jay Town.

RELATED: Did your state just sue the Trump administration to keep benefits flowing to illegal aliens? Here’s the list.

“The hypocrisy is staggering. … These politicians will sell out the very principles they claim to uphold just to cling to power. It’s disgusting, and it’s a clear sign of a party that knows it can’t win on merit alone,” replied one detractor.

“I love it when they’re dumb enough to accidentally admit the truth,” said another account.

“Rep. Yvette Clarke straight-up admitting she’s gaming the system with migrants for redistricting is like a chess player bragging about smuggling extra queens onto the board,” said another critic.

The deportation efforts of the Trump administration are likely to increase greatly after Republicans passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which included billions in extra funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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In classic feminist fashion, WNBA players chose to wear shirts that read “pay us what we’re owed” as they took the court at their All-Star Game in Indianapolis.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” isn’t surprised, noting that after showing up in their shirts, they “immediately pivoted to playing the worst All-Star Game in the history of professional all-star games.”

“They took the court in T-shirts. ‘Pay us what you owe us. We’re underpaid. This league has lost millions of dollars, but we’re underpaid,’” he says. “And then they served up a doo-doo sandwich to sports fans.”

“They got this entire thing, and the sports media has this entire thing backwards that they are owed something. This has been a charity welfare league for 30 years. Has never turned a profit. And they’re taking the court, ‘Pay us what you owe us,’” he continues.

And Whitlock isn’t kidding. The league reportedly operated at a $40 million loss last year and hasn’t been profitable since its inception in 1997.

“This is a sign of how desperate they are. This is a sign of how delusional they are. This is a sign of how dumb they are. Dumb, desperate, and delusional. Why are they that way?” Whitlock asks.

“Because they’re allowed to be that way by the sports media,” he says, explaining that ESPN’s own website reflects how little they actually care about their fans.

“Our mission: To serve sports fans. Anytime. Anywhere,” its website reads. “Our values: People are our most valuable resource, and care and respect for our employees and each other will always be at the heart of our operations. We embrace diversity to best serve all sports fans worldwide.”

“ESPN does not care one iota about sports fans,” Whitlock says, adding, “The athletes don’t care one iota about sports fans.”

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After nearly eight months of wrangling over jurisdictional and turf issues, a new Jan. 6 select subcommittee will begin oversight and investigation work on Sept. 2, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday.

The new investigation panel will be a subgroup of the House Committee on the Judiciary, chaired by U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who did extensive investigative work on Jan. 6 issues during the 118th Congress that closed on Jan. 3, 2025.

‘January 6th was the fulcrum event for the weaponization of government.’

The subcommittee, which will have full subpoena power, will be known as the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding Jan. 6, 2021. During the previous legislative session, Loudermilk’s Jan. 6 work was under the auspices of the Committee on House Administration and its chairman, Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.).

Establishment of a Jan. 6 committee was a high priority of President Donald J. Trump, and it took the president’s persuasive skills to smooth over the disputes that delayed formation of the subcommittee. Final details were hashed out during recent meetings at the White House, senior officials told Blaze News.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told Blaze News that establishment of the committee is a milestone.

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

The new Jan. 6 subcommittee will have a full slate of issues to explore. Getty Images

“This is an important development,” Fitton said. “The challenge is the investigation must turn inward on the House! Who protected [Lt. Michael] Byrd? Who made decisions and when about U.S. Capitol security measures? What about collusion with Biden DOJ, Fani Willis, etc., to jail Trump and other Americans?”

“There is no comparable congressional corruption and abuse in American history,” Fitton said.

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, said establishment of the J6 committee is long overdue.

“January 6th was the fulcrum event for the weaponization of government,” Howell told Blaze News. “It provided the supposed moral cover and justification for some of the worst abuses by law enforcement and the intelligence community in United States history.

Long overdue

“This committee should have been stood up long ago, particularly when it became evident that the supposed Weaponization Subcommittee was an unserious exercise, but better late than never,” Howell said. “There is much work ahead, and I expect there to be many fights over the enforcement of subpoenas. The Oversight Project stands ready to assist in any way we can.”

Although the subcommittee won’t officially begin work until after the August recess, some key staff are expected to remain in Washington setting the foundation for the first investigations to launch once the House is back in September.

The new Select Subcommittee comes into being amid a very different atmosphere in Washington than during the previous Congress, thanks to the election of President Trump last November.

Lack of cooperation from the Biden Department of Justice and FBI stymied the work of the former Subcommittee on Oversight that ceased operation with the closing of the 118th Congress.

The subcommittee has its work cut out on major Jan. 6 issues, including identifying the pipe bomber, exposing how many federal agents and informants were involved in the crowds at the U.S. Capitol, weaponization of the FBI and DOJ against more than 1,600 now-former Jan. 6 defendants, and public release of the rest of the Capitol Police CCTV security video.

The panel will also be tasked with investigating the killing of protester Ashli Babbitt and the questions that still surround former Capitol Police Lt. Michael Leroy Byrd.

Recently departed Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger apparently ignored November 2024 demands from Loudermilk’s subcommittee for more details on Byrd’s significant disciplinary history and efforts by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to financially help the man who gunned down the 14-year Air Force veteran.

RELATED: Feds settle multimillion-dollar lawsuit in the death of Ashli Babbitt

A densely packed crowd gathers on and around the West Plaza of the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. Justice Department

Loudermilk revealed in a Nov. 20, 2024, letter that the Office of Professional Responsibility files on three incidents involving Byrd were somehow missing. Manger was asked to explain that, but sources told Blaze News that Manger never responded to Loudermilk’s letter.

Blaze News reached out to USCP for comment. The story will be updated if we receive a response.

Serious questions remain about the DOJ report that cleared Byrd in the Babbitt shooting. The Biden DOJ used the wrong legal standard to justify not pursuing charges of excessive force against the 30-year Capitol Police veteran.

The death of protester Rosanne Boyland has also not been given attention by Congress in its work to date.

There are also many loose ends that were left behind by the Democrat-controlled Jan. 6 Select Committee empaneled by Pelosi in 2022. Witness transcripts, videos, and other materials that should have been preserved by the committee were destroyed. No one has been held to account for the destruction of legislative investigative records.

Loudermilk’s new subcommittee could also examine the apparently perjured testimony given by two former Capitol Police officers in the 2022 trial of the first group of Oath Keepers prosecuted by the Biden regime.

A Blaze News investigation proved that Officer Harry Dunn and Special Agent David Lazarus gave false and conflicting testimony on the witness stand regarding an alleged confrontation between a group of Oath Keepers and Dunn.

Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.

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Two successive releases of explosive documents exposing the truth about the Russia collusion hoax mark a radical new trend aimed at ending the weaponization of the U.S. intelligence community, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Wednesday.

After releasing the second tranche of documents exposing the Barack Hussein Obama administration’s apparent attempted coup against then newly elected President Donald J. Trump, Gabbard warned that there is much more evidence to come.

‘The Obama administration overstated Russia’s capabilities and intent.’

In a statement to Blaze News, Gabbard said she is “executing a mandate for transparency and accountability that is necessary to win back the trust of the public and restore faith in our intelligence community. The only way to end weaponization is to expose it.”

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence provided Blaze News with the following analysis of “myths vs. facts” of the Russia collusion hoax.

MYTH: The Russian collusion hoax never included claims that Russia hacked the election.

FACT: Russia’s alleged “hack” of the 2016 election was a main driving factor in the Russian collusion hoax. On December 9, mere hours after the now infamous secret White House meeting, media headlines read, “Russian Hackers Acted to Aid Trump in Election, U.S. Says.”

From that day forward, Americans were subjected to a coordinated media campaign, carried out by Democrats and Obama’s intelligence community, to push the lie that Russia hacked the 2016 election. As of 2018, 66% of Democrats still believed Russians had changed vote totals.

MYTH: DNI Gabbard’s release argues that Russia did not interfere AT ALL in the 2016 election.

FACT: DNI Gabbard’s release shows that the Obama administration knew these adversarial countries could not and did not carry out interference campaigns that would have overturned or compromised the vote count or threatened the overall functionality of our election.

RELATED: Explosive declassified report: Russia DID have secret dirt on the 2016 election — but it wasn’t about Trump

President Barack Obama knew that Russia did not materially impact the 2016 presidential election but pushed that narrative to harm President Donald Trump, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says.Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images

Rather than tell the American people this, the Obama administration hid the truth and spread lies about Russia’s capabilities and intent to the fake news media. Clearly, the administration wanted Americans to believe the vote count was altered to justify its Russian collusion witch hunt.

MYTH: DNI Gabbard’s release conflates Russia’s inability to “hack” the 2016 election with Russia’s ability to conduct cyber activities that influence American public sentiment.

FACT: The Obama admin actually conflated (or some would call it flat-out lied) about this distinction to advance the Russian collusion hoax. Prior to the Secret WH meeting, the Obama administration was in agreement that the goal of any Russian cyber activity was to undermine public confidence in the vote outcome, not to change the vote count.

After the secret White House meeting, the Obama administration overstated Russia’s capabilities and intent and downplayed the country’s limits to the public in order to advance the narrative that Russia could have/may have/did hack the election.

MYTH: The Steele dossier was not used in the Obama administration’s January Intelligence Community Assessment of the November 2016 election.

FACT: ODNI’s whistleblower documents, CIA’s recently released tradecraft review, and the Senate intelligence report all contain evidence that the discredited Steele dossier was included in the ICA. Based on this fact alone, any argument that Obama’s January ICA was not heavily politicized collapses under the weight of its own delusion.

MYTH: DNI Gabbard is politicizing intelligence and turning on her own workforce.

FACT: This is a broken system that cannot be fixed without transparency into what we did wrong in our past and the execution of the radical change Americans voted for.

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One of Florida’s most well-known sheriffs is sounding the alarm that as more police officers and sheriff’s deputies are given federal immigration powers to arrest illegal aliens, the federal government will quickly run out of capacity.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told members of the State Board of Immigration Enforcement that part of the problem is while county jails have space for illegal immigrants, they are only supposed to hold them for up to 48 hours. If it is longer than two days, Judd said the national detention standard becomes “onerous” and state officials have “been at loggerheads” with ICE, according to NBC Miami.

‘When we put the pedal to the metal and get up to the speed limit, there is no way on God’s green earth they can handle this capacity.’

“We asked simply for a waiver that we could house these folks according to the Florida model jail standards. After all, if it’s good enough for those that are innocent until proven guilty, and they’re United States citizens, certainly those housing rules should be sufficient for those that are in this country illegally,” Judd continued.

While Florida has helped increase holding capacity for detainees with Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades, it is “a drop in the bucket.”

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“The speed we’re operating at is like cruising down the road at 20 miles an hour. When we put the pedal to the metal and get up to the speed limit, there is no way on God’s green earth they can handle this capacity,” Judd added.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) made it clear he wants Florida to house people who are set to be deported quickly and not hold people for months at a time: “At the end of the day, the ability to house and process these illegals is the responsibility of the federal government. … I don’t think that’s what our role is. Our role is to assist with deportation.”

Judd said local police being able to arrest illegal aliens during their daily patrols will be “like shooting fish in a barrel” due to the large number of people not authorized to be in the United States who reside in Florida.

With participation in the 287(g) program being mandatory for law enforcement agencies in Florida, the SBIE said both the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Capitol Police are recent additions to the program.

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The vast funds the Department of Homeland Security received in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to carry out mass deportations is supposed to help address the detention space shortage.

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The January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment regarding imagined Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election set the stage for years of Russian-collusion smears, two congressional impeachments, multiple arrests, and a costly years-long investigation. It also helped further sour the relationship between the world’s top two nuclear powers.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published on Wednesday an eye-opening House Intelligence Committee majority staff report, which confirms the ICA was a work of fiction drawn up by the Obama administration with the aim of kneecapping the democratically elected Republican president — a fiction that Democrats like Sen. Adam Schiff (Calif.) and their friends in the liberal media were more than happy to treat as gospel truth.

Gabbard told reporters during Wednesday’s White House press briefing that she has referred the documents to the Department of Justice and FBI so that they can “investigate the criminal implications.”

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Gabbard noted that the newly declassified report “exposes how the Obama Administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election.”

“In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him,” the director added.

Gabbard certainly did not oversell the damning nature of the report and its findings.

After comparing the ICA analytic tradecraft against well-established intelligence community standards, spending over 2,300 hours reviewing the ICA and its source reports, and conducting numerous interviews, congressional investigators concluded that the Obama administration’s assessment:

Misrepresented reports that vociferous Trump critic and then-CIA Director John Brennan had ordered the publication of “as reliable, without mentioning their significant underlying flaws”;”Ignored or selectively quoted reliable intelligence reports that challenged — and in some cases undermined — judgments that Putin sought to elect Trump”;Violated analytic standards when citing British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier — a political opposition research report paid for in part by the Clinton campaign that Brennan included in the ICA despite high-level credibility concerns and internal opposition;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 Brennan to include despite protest;Failed to consider alternative explanations of Putin’s intentions indicated by intelligence that was actually reliable; Was written by five CIA analysts handpicked by Brennan; andWas rushed out by Brennan “in order to publish two weeks before President-elect Trump was sworn in.”

The disparity between the raw intelligence available to the Obama administration at the time and what was ultimately presented in the ICA is jarring.

For instance, the 2017 assessment stated: “As early as February 2016, a Russian political expert possessed a plan that recommended engagement with [Trump’s] team because of the prospects for improved U.S.-Russian relations, according to reporting from [redacted] government service.”

‘Critical information that undermined source credibility and veracity of key reporting was omitted from both the ICA text and the subsequent briefings.’

The ICA failed to mention that this supposed plan “was just an email with no date, no identified sender, no clear recipient, and no classification.”

The relevant raw intelligence came with this context warning: “The CIA can neither independently vouch for [redacted] vetting or validation of the ultimate source nor the ultimate source’s access to the reported information. The document contains no classification. The document did not carry a specific date or identify the originator.”

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The Obama administration was evidently so desperate to paint Trump as Putin’s man that they apparently neglected to mention that:

A longtime Putin confidant told a sensitive contact both that he did not care who won the election and that “Russia was strategically placed to outmaneuver either one”; Reliable evidenced showed key Putin advisers saw significant downsides to a Trump presidency; and Russia withheld compromising material about failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with the possible intent to exploit it once she was in office.

“Significant reports cited in support of judgments of Putin’s intentions were not quoted accurately, were not quoted in context, or were selectively quoted to omit evidence that undermined ICA major judgments,” the report said. “Moreover, critical information that undermined source credibility and veracity of key reporting was omitted from both the ICA text and the subsequent briefings of the document to the President-elect, the U.S. Congress, and the White House staff.”

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Congressional investigators found some of the apparent lies of omission and flat-out lies in the ICA particularly egregious.

The report noted that in the case of the Steele dossier, the ICA “claimed the source ‘collected this information on behalf of private clients’ while failing to note those clients — the DNC and the Clinton campaign — were Candidate Trump’s political opponents, information known to the FBI at the time.”

In addition to this intentional omission “based on analysis of the testimony of Steele’s FBI handler, Fusion GPS officials, and media exposures of the relationship,” the ICA “also excluded that the political messaging firm that hired the dossier author, Fusion GPS, was also working on behalf of Russian interests to uncover information that was shared with the Kremlin, raising serious counterintelligence concerns over possible Russian influence on the dossier,” the report said.

‘To this day, our country is more polarized than ever before, and the Russia hoax played a role in that.’

In early December 2016, the FBI’s director of counterintelligence and the DNI’s national intelligence officer for Russia briefed Congress on Putin’s supposed leak operations but made no mention of the foreign leader aspiring to elect Trump. However, Obama weighed in on Dec. 6, 2016, reportedly ordering a rewrite of the intelligence community’s assessments.

A month later, Obama’s underlings allegedly came up with a product Democrats would exploit nearly a decade.

Had Trump not retaken the White House, such findings may have never come to light, which might explain the fanatic support for Kamala Harris expressed by some of those implicated in the documents.

Gabbard, who underscored during the White House press conference the leading role former President Barack Obama took in this alleged “treasonous conspiracy,” emphasized on X that “the Russia Hoax was a lie that was knowingly created by the Obama Administration to undermine the legitimacy and power of the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.”

Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), who is the current chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in response to the report, “The Russia hoax will go down as one of the most troublesome events in U.S. history.”

“A President of the United States was falsely accused, and a nation had to endure lies fabricated by rogue personnel within their own Intelligence Community,” continued Crawford. “To this day, our country is more polarized than ever before, and the Russia hoax played a role in that.”

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