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Gavin Newsom cries political witch hunt — but are feds focused on an alleged $1.5M nonprofit pipeline to wife’s business?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has accused President Donald Trump of “coming after” him and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, claiming that the president directed the Department of Justice to investigate the couple.

Newsom posted a video on social media on Monday, stating that he and his wife had “joined Donald Trump’s hit list” because the governor is “considering running for president.”

‘It has been apparent ever since their maskless dinner party at the French Laundry during COVID that the Newsoms feel themselves above the law.’

Newsom, who referred to Trump as “the most corrupt president in American history,” claimed that federal agents had “knocked on the doors of family, friends, and former employees.”

“Not because they found a crime, because they’re simply trying to find one,” Newsom stated, adding that the federal agents were “digging through years and years of random documents.”

“To get me, he’s coming after my wife, Jen, a public servant, a woman who’s dedicated her life to supporting women and girls,” Newsom continued.

“We have nothing to hide,” he added.

Newsom’s office stated that it believes grand jury subpoenas had been issued for records to financial institutions, ABC News reported. The governor’s office submitted a public records request seeking “all documents and records” from the DOJ that pertain to Newsom and his wife from the beginning of the second Trump administration.

RELATED: ‘Come after me’: Gavin Newsom challenges Trump after claiming DOJ is investigating his wife

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A source familiar with the situation informed Blaze News that multiple ongoing investigations relating to Newsom have been initiated since last year by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of California. One of those investigations concerns Siebel Newsom’s tax activities, and a separate probe concerns Newsom’s former chief of staff and potentially current staff members, the source confirmed. Local sources and whistleblowers reportedly triggered the investigations.

Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker, leads two tax-exempt nonprofits, the Representation Project and the California Partners Project. She also runs a film production company, Girls’ Club Entertainment LLC, and works as a director for her family’s private foundation, the Siebel Family Charitable Foundation.

The Sacramento Bee previously reported potential conflict-of-interest concerns related to one of Siebel Newsom’s nonprofits, writing, “In 2015, the year Newsom announced he would run for governor, the Representation Project’s contributions increased by 30% to almost $1.6 million.”

The Representation Project’s tax filings show that the nonprofit funneled over $1.5 million to Siebel Newsom’s for-profit production company from 2015 through the first quarter of 2025. Siebel Newsom has received roughly $150,000 to $160,000 annually as the founder and chief creative officer for the Representation Project, which reported revenue of $1.2 million from April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025.

It is unclear whether Siebel Newsom receives compensation from the other two nonprofits, though tax filings from the Siebel Family Charitable Foundation indicate she does not draw a salary there, and she is not listed on the tax filings for California Partners Project.

Tax documents from 2015 to 2023 showed that the Siebel Family Charitable Foundation gave $35,000 in charitable donations, classified as “support,” to the Representation Project.

RELATED: VIDEO: Gavin Newsom’s wife explains how she’s raising children to ‘deconstruct’ the ‘limiting narratives’ about gender

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“It has been apparent ever since their maskless dinner party at the French Laundry during COVID that the Newsoms feel themselves above the law,” Michael Chamberlain, the director of the government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust, told Blaze News.

“What is interesting is that the accusations of financial corruption originated in Sacramento,” Chamberlain continued. “If the governor of a one-party state like California is feeling heat from his own capital, it would be no surprise if people tended to ignore his protestations of politicized justice and believe there may be some egregious self-dealing going on.”

The second alleged investigation is likely tied to Dana Williamson, who previously served as Newsom’s chief of staff and is a former consultant for current Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Xavier Becerra. Williamson pleaded guilty in May to three counts related to campaign finance fraud, filing a false tax return, and lying to federal investigators.

Williamson was caught up in a scandal in which she was accused of conspiring with Sean McCluskie, Becerra’s former chief of staff, and a Sacramento lobbyist to funnel $225,000 from Becerra’s state campaign account to McCluskie. McCluskie also accepted a plea deal.

Williamson’s lawyer stated that she “never had any direct communication with Xavier Becerra about this.” Becerra’s campaign has insisted that he was unaware of the scheme.

When reached for comment, Gov. Newsom’s office referred Blaze News to previously published statements and provided a fact sheet that accused Trump of turning the DOJ “into a political weapon against his opponents.”

“Unable to uncover evidence of a crime, Trump’s DOJ then shifted to searching for a crime that does not exist at the president’s directive,” the fact sheet reads.

The White House deferred comment to the DOJ, which declined to provide a statement.

The Representation Project, California Partners Project, and the Siebel family’s wealth management advisory firm did not respond to a request for comment.

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Boyfriend of Florida woman mauled to death by dogs has now been arrested over what police found in his trailer

A harrowing story about a woman mauled to death by her neighbor’s dogs got even worse after her grieving boyfriend was arrested weeks later.

Donnell Smith tearfully recalled to news outlets how he found Jodi Cowan, his partner of 25 years, brutally mauled on May 19 outside their home in Brevard County, Florida.

‘Jodi Cowan lost her life because of the inactions of Linda Cutler, … and now because of the inactions of Donnell Smith, … three dogs have now died.’

He said that she was in a pool of her blood and that he had to use his knife to drive off the dogs that were trying to drag her away, as Blaze News previously reported.

Police later arrested their 29-year-old neighbor, Linda Cutler, on a charge of manslaughter and said the dogs would likely be euthanized.

Weeks later, Smith himself was arrested after an investigation into the report of a foul smell coming from a trailer that he owned with Cowan.

When police opened the trailer, they found the decomposing remains of three dogs. Deputies said there was no sign of water, food, or air conditioning in the trailer.

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said they believe the dogs had been abandoned June 2 and died before their remains were found nine days later.

He was charged with abandonment of an animal, animal cruelty, and other related crimes. He was released after posting a bond of $15K for the four counts.

“Jodi Cowan lost her life because of the inactions of Linda Cutler, … and now because of the inactions of Donnell Smith, … three more dogs have now died because of this,” Ivey said.

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Police also said that Cutler feigned a heart attack during her arrest and had to be transported to a hospital according to their policies.

Smith had previously been asked if he would be able to forgive Cutler for the horrendous death of his partner.

“I’ll have to think about that one,” he responded. “I’m not vindictive towards her. I don’t want anything evil happening to her, but to forgive her is gonna take a little work.”

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MLB’s Pride police strike out against Christian players

For years, June looked like the American Ramadan: an entire month dedicated to the state religion of LGBTQ politics, complete with mandatory observances across every major institution.

Gay men exposed themselves to children at parades while police looked on. Transgender activists went topless on the White House lawn while Joe Biden declared that transgender youth “shape the soul of America.” The spectacle was grotesque, but the LGBTQ movement kept winning, and its radicals assumed they could do whatever they wanted without consequence.

For too long, conservatives pretended the state could remain neutral while the left captured every major institution. That fantasy is over.

Donald Trump’s 2024 victory shocked the cultural radicals who expected the country to keep swallowing the agenda. Trump did not end wokeness, but his mandate signaled a limit to what the public would tolerate. Movies and television still push woke pieties. Democrats still advance insane views on child transition. But the most outrageous excesses of Pride Month have begun to recede. This June, far fewer institutions seemed eager to signal total loyalty to the rainbow regime.

Professional sports remain among the stubborn exceptions.

Hockey and baseball teams still drape their social media in rainbow colors and hold Pride nights at their stadiums. On the surface, this makes little sense. Sports audiences tend to be male, more conservative, and far less interested in radical LGBTQ propaganda than the professional class that runs these leagues. Pride branding does not attract these fans. It alienates them.

So why keep doing it?

Because the point is not profit. The point is domination.

The leagues maintain their public worship of homosexuality because it irritates their middle-American audience. Hollywood did something similar with “Joker.” The first film made a fortune, but elites hated that disaffected young men embraced it. So the sequel humiliated and destroyed the main character. The studio cared more about punishing the audience than pleasing it.

Sports owners increasingly behave the same way. They despise the people who make them rich and would rather lecture them than serve them.

San Francisco is hardly a conservative stronghold, so no one should be surprised that the Giants held a Pride night and required players to wear LGBTQ-themed uniforms. The team redesigned its logo in rainbow colors and placed it on player caps, as it has done before.

This time, a few players found a way to resist.

Pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker wore the required Pride caps but wrote “Genesis 9:11-16” beside the logo. The passage refers to God giving mankind the rainbow as a sign of His promise never again to flood the earth.

RELATED: MLB sends subtle threat to SF Giants pitchers over Pride Night biblical protest: ‘We have warned the players’

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It was a clever protest. The players wore the mandated symbol of the regime. They did not directly attack LGBTQ activists or the Pride agenda. They simply recontextualized the rainbow, turning a celebration of homosexuality into a reminder of God’s love, covenant, and dominion. The shift was subtle but devastating. It seized the frame and subverted the intended message.

Activists were predictably outraged. They could not tolerate faithful Christians finding a tactful way to register dissent. They demanded punishment, claiming the players had “politicized” the event.

That complaint sounds absurd until you understand the real rule. This is not hypocrisy. It is hierarchy.

Pride night itself is political. Professional athletes routinely wear political messages for approved causes such as Black Lives Matter. Leagues have no problem turning games into ideological performances when the message serves the left. The issue is not whether Major League Baseball should remain neutral. The issue is that only one form of politics is allowed.

The warning to the Giants pitchers was an assertion of raw power over players and fans. It told Christians that they may be forced to wear the symbol, but they may not interpret it according to their own faith. They may participate in the ritual, but they may not confess a higher authority.

Major League Baseball understood its dilemma. The protest was too careful to cast easily as hateful. The players had worn the required uniform. A severe punishment would look vindictive. But the league also needed to placate activists who treat every Christian objection as heresy.

So the league chose the worst possible middle ground. It reportedly warned the three players that they had violated a rule and could face consequences if they did it again. Fans and Christians will see the warning as a bigoted attack because that is what it is. LGBTQ activists will see it as insufficient punishment for disobedience.

The decision may also bring legal trouble. Major League Baseball operates in Florida and is subject to that state’s law. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier noted on social media that the policy appears to show religious discrimination by the league. He warned that Major League Baseball would be hearing from his office soon.

Good.

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This is why conservatives must obtain political power and use it. Progressives will not stop discriminating against Christians. They will not leave believers alone. They will demand submission, call it inclusion, and punish anyone who remembers that the rainbow belonged to God before activists turned it into a corporate loyalty oath.

For too long, conservatives pretended the state could remain neutral while the left captured every major institution. That fantasy is over. Someone will dictate the culture. Someone will decide which beliefs are honored, which are tolerated, and which are punished.

Christians should not seek persecution as proof of virtue. They should seek victory as the proper end of political life. If corporate sports leagues want to conscript players into Pride rituals and punish faithful dissent, they should face lawsuits, investigations, and political consequences.

The rainbow is not theirs. It never was. It’s ours. The lesson should be obvious by now: Neutrality never survives contact with a militant faith. If Christians refuse to defend their symbols, the regime will gladly steal them and demand gratitude for the theft next June too.

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The utopia trap: Glenn Beck warns America is living this disturbing experiment that ENDS in extinction

What happens when every problem disappears? In one of the most unsettling social experiments ever conducted, scientist John Calhoun created a perfect paradise for mice — complete with unlimited food, safety, and comfort.

“1968, a scientist comes out, and he’s decided he’s going to make utopia, not for people, but for mice and rats. OK? His name was John Calhoun. He worked at the National Institute of Mental Health, and he wanted to answer the question that I think should interest all of us,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck explains.

That question is, “What happens with a society when every problem is removed?”

“So he builds this paradise. It’s a mouse world. Unlimited food, water that never runs out, no predators, no disease, perfect temperature, endless nesting material. Every danger, every want, every stressor that a mouse has ever faced in the history of mice — completely gone. The only thing he gives them, besides protection, was each other and time,” Glenn says.

Calhoun put four male and four female mice into the experiment, and “at first, it’s mouse heaven.”

“They breed. The population doubled about every 55 days,” Glenn explains. “And he called this the strive period. It was heaven, and it was working exactly as designed. But by day 300 or 315, something like that, there were more than 600 mice thriving in a space that he had built to hold nearly 4,000.”

“That’s the peak. Something starts to go horribly wrong. Growth slows for no physical reason. They can’t figure it out. All of a sudden. And in all 25 experiments, exactly the same thing,” he says.

“There’s no role left for a mouse to fill. And a creature with no role, no struggle, no purpose, starts to come apart. The males who had nothing to fight for either turned violent or vanished into apathy,” he continues. “Let me ask you something. What’s happening in our society right now?”

Glenn points to the young men growing up who have nothing to fight for, explaining that they’ve also turned violent and apathetic.

“Then you have the moms. The mothers stopped mothering. They abandoned their young. They began attacking their young. They forgot about their children. The whole intricate social order that made a mouse a mouse completely dissolved in 25 identical experiments 25 times,” he explains.

“Then came the most haunting part of the experiment, I think. There’s a new kind of mouse that appears. This mouse didn’t fight. They didn’t court. They didn’t mate. They didn’t compete. They wouldn’t engage with others at all,” he says.

These mice were called “the beautiful ones” because they spent all their time grooming themselves instead of foraging or fighting.

And with their emergence, the population began to decline.

“On day 600, in a world still overflowing with food, the last baby is born,” Glenn says. “Day 600. After that, nothing. Not one mouse, not ever. And on day 920, the last mice, the last of the mice dies in paradise.”

“And Universe 25 becomes the 25th tomb,” he adds.

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‘He is a friend’: Knicks owner makes big decision on White House invitation to NBA champs

The New York Knicks will become the first champions of the National Basketball Association to accept an invitation from the White House under President Donald Trump.

The team’s owner confirmed the decision after the Knicks players participated in the championship parade through New York City on Wednesday.

‘Look, I invited the president to come down for the game. He is a friend. I’ve known him for 30 years.’

James Dolan made the comments while appearing on a radio show on WFAN New York.

“Thank you for asking me that. We just did receive an invitation from the White House, which we accepted,” Dolan said.

“We still have to figure out the details, et cetera, but yes, of course,” he added. “Look, I invited the president to come down for the game. He is a friend. I’ve known him for 30 years, and I’m very proud to bring the team to the White House.”

Trump attended the third game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden and watched as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Knicks. The team bounced back to defeat the Spurs and take the title for the first time in 53 years.

Every team that has won the NBA championship has declined to meet Trump, beginning with the Golden State Warriors in 2017. Warriors star Stephen Curry said he had no interest in going to the White House, prompting the president to retract the invite.

“Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team,” the president replied in Sept. 2017. “Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!”

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The president is a New York City native and longtime Knicks fan.

“Well, I’ve been a Knicks fan for a long time, and I’m also a Jim Dolan fan,” the president said. “He’s a nice guy, OK? He spent a long time wanting to win, and he’s a competitive guy. He’s got a team that’s amazing.”

Three other NBA championship teams visited the White House during former President Joe Biden’s one and only term in office: the Bucks, Warriors, and Celtics.

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Allie Beth Stuckey exposes ‘Yesteryear’ as a Hollywood plot to demonize Christian women

“Yesteryear” is a time-travel novel being made into a film that supposedly crushes the “tradwife” movement through a Christian influencer’s journey back to a time void of scrolling and comfort.

Anne Hathaway, who will star in the film, posted a clip of herself on social media promoting the new book, which is when BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey really began to understand the true message behind it.

“That means that this book is conveying a message that Hollywood wants us to hear, Hollywood wants us to believe, that the media wants us to believe,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.”

“And that is why so much has been ginned up around this because it is echoing a sentiment that is not only very popular already among a lot of liberal women, the progressive intelligentsia, and Hollywood, but it is also trying to convince us of something. It is also trying to scare us away from something,” she continues.

In the book, which is written by Caro Claire Burke, an influencer named Natalie is monetizing her happy, doting-wife, homestead life — even though it couldn’t be further from the truth.

“Her husband is a part of this political dynasty, but also he’s secretly cheating on her. And she is pretending to her Instagram followers to be a farmer, to be a stay-at-home mom, but really she’s outsourcing all of these responsibilities to other people, but making money off of this fake persona,” Stuckey explains.

“This idea of an influencer not being who she is portraying herself to be for money, like we understand it. It resonates with us,” she continues.

Natalie is then transported back to 1855 where she is forced to live the life that she’s monetizing without the comfort, and it only gets darker from there.

“You can see that, OK, there is almost a malice behind this story and how it is written and the punishment that is doled out that seems to me, ideological,” Stuckey says. “It seems to me, personal.”

“I think she wanted her to become a caricature because I believe to this author that Natalie represents conservative Christian women, and she does not want the reader to have empathy for the different facets of conservative Christian women,” she continues.

In fact, according to Stuckey, Burke “explicitly says this is a critique of America.”

“This is a critique of America as a Christian nationalist nation,” she says, before pointing out that the author got much of her source material from ex-religious communities on Reddit.

“There are bad people who use religion certainly as a way to perform and then to mask hypocrisy. All of that is true, but Reddit is not the place to go for these testimonies or for an objective rendering of what these worldviews are like,” Stuckey says.

“So it doesn’t surprise me that Caro Burke has these feelings when she is consulting Reddit in her descriptions of what a Christian conservative woman is,” she adds.

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‘Pure evil’: Gay couple raped adopted baby boy before brutally killing him

A teacher who claimed his adopted baby had accidentally drowned in a bath has been convicted of sexually assaulting the boy before murdering him.

Jamie Varley, 37, took time off work in order to adopt Preston Davey with his partner, 32-year-old John McGowan-Fazakerley, according to the Lancashire Constabulary in the U.K.

‘For the first nine months of his life, Preston was a happy and healthy child, but by the end he was a broken shell.’

In July 2023, the boy was found dead only 13 months after he was born.

Preston had been placed into emergency foster care just days after he was born and was adopted by Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley when the boy was 9 months old.

Prosecutors said the couple subjected the child to sexual and physical abuse before his death four months later.

Police grew suspicious about Varley’s story about an accidental drowning after a post-mortem examination found 40 injuries on the body of the child. At trial, prosecutors said the boy’s hair was dry, he was wearing a diaper, and there was no evidence he had swallowed any water, the BBC reported.

They found instead that he had died of acute upper airways obstruction, police said, likely from having an object or objects forced in his mouth, the BBC noted. He also suffered a cardiac arrest.

Before he died, Preston suffered regular abuse, even after medical staff noticed suspicious injuries to the boy during the three times he was taken to the same hospital for treatment. The couple was able to explain away the incidents. Social workers had also seen the boy.

Police said indecent photographs and videos of the victim were found on Varley’s phone, and one indecent video had been shared with his husband via Snapchat.

A jury found both men guilty on all counts. Varley was found guilty of murder, sexual assault of a child, taking incident child images, and child cruelty, among others. McGowan-Fazakerley was found guilty of allowing the death of a child, child sex assault, and cruelty to a child.

They will be sentenced Thursday.

Sky News published police camera video of Varley pretending to be distressed after calling police about the boy’s death. He was wearing a Jurassic Park shirt at the time.

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Detective Chief Inspector Andy Fallows described the couple as “pure evil” in comments about the case.

“Almost from day one, they set about abusing Preston and making his short life a harrowing tale of misery and pain,” Fallows said.

“For the first nine months of his life, Preston was a happy and healthy child, but by the end he was a broken shell,” he added. “This was due to the sordid and wicked acts of Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley.”

Officials are reviewing “the handling of Preston’s safeguarding,” the BBC reported.

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‘Too many people are being killed’: Trump blasts Israel over Lebanon strikes as Iran peace deal hangs in the balance

President Donald Trump has been highly critical this week of Israel’s conduct in Lebanon — especially after deadly Israeli airstrikes in Beirut over the weekend nearly blew up the U.S.-Iran peace deal.

“Too many people are being killed,” Trump said at the G7 summit in France on Tuesday. “And you don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody, because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they’re not all Hezbollah.”

‘The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon.’

Between March 2 and June 14, at least 3,783 people were killed and 11,699 were wounded during Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah on Lebanese soil, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. At least 28 Israeli soldiers have reportedly perished in the conflict, and four civilians were killed in Hezbollah attacks.

The Lebanese government estimated that by late April, over 21,000 Lebanese homes had been destroyed and over 40,000 housing units had been damaged.

After Israel launched new strikes in Southern Lebanon on Wednesday, Trump resumed his criticism, stating both that “the Lebanon piece is something we’ll have to work on a little bit” and that Israel could “do a much better job on it.”

Trump further marveled that there still is a Lebanon “with all they have been through” and emphasized that there must be an end to the war in the country.

RELATED: Inside the rift: Trump claims Netanyahu has ‘no f**king judgment’ after strike threatens Iran peace deal

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After multiple outlets published what was alleged to have been a leaked draft of the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran, a senior Trump administration official read in a briefing with reporters a transcript of the actual “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran,” which apparently states in the first of 14 points:

The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon and other provisions of this paragraph.

The deal also requires, among other things, that:

the U.S. and Iran respect one another’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs; the U.S. and Iran commit to negotiating and securing a final deal within the next 60 days;the U.S. remove its naval blockade within the next 30 days and remove its forces from the proximity of Iranian territory within 30 days of the final deal;Iran make arrangements for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days “only from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa”;the U.S. will work with regional partners “to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least $300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran”;the U.S. will take steps to terminate all types of sanctions against Iran;Iran reaffirm that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons, and the two parties will further discuss the matter of enrichment and related matters “based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final deal”;the U.S. Department of Treasury will, upon the signing of the MOU, issue waivers for the exportation of Iranian oil, petroleum products, and derivatives and all associated services until sanctions are fully terminated;the U.S. will take steps to “make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MOU.”

While President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have reportedly already signed the MOU digitally, a formal signing is scheduled to take place on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland.

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World Cup fans from Scotland drink Boston dry — and then clean up after themselves

The World Cup fans from Scotland acquitted themselves with dignity and class after drinking the town dry, according to at least one Boston city worker.

Thousands of soccer fans from Scotland swarmed into Boston to march in their kilts to the stadium for the World Cup, visited a Boston Red Sox game, and then emptied the bars of beer.

‘We’ve been here for over 30 years, and we’ve never seen anything like it.’

Some taverns in Boston told WBTS-TV that the “Tartan Army” drank so much beer they ran out of certain brands.

“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Billy DeCain of the Sam Adams Boston Taproom, which had to place emergency calls for beer supplies.

“Pretty much everything. We ran out of everything,” said Paul Morris of the White Bull Tavern.

“The White Bull Tavern, there was no beer,” Scottish fan Dave Orr said. “The Scottish fans just drank the place dry, and all they had was Bud Light.”

Hennessy’s Bar said it tripled the sales they got for St. Patrick’s Day and completely ran out Saturday.

“We’ve been here for over 30 years, and we’ve never seen anything like it,” said Noelle Somers, Hennessy’s COO.

The Tartan Army cheered on its team to victory against Haiti on Saturday with a score of 1-0. Afterward, about 5,000 fans marched in a victory lap to Fenway Park, where they cheered on the Red Sox to win 6-3 over the Texas Rangers.

And then they cleaned up after themselves.

Boston Parks and Rec worker Dana Bell told WBTS he was astounded by the Scots’ drinking and their cleanliness.

“They deep, man! And they can drink too! What? Are you kidding me, man? They must not got no water over there in Scotland!” he joked.

“After they’re gone, I’m one person cleaning up after them, man, and it ain’t that bad,” he continued.

He added: “They came, conducted themselves with class, dignity, man. And they like our city, so … I’m happy they came, man.”

A Scottish man named John told WBTS they wanted to be respectful to their hosts.

RELATED: New York Democrats get annihilated with backlash after revealing which World Cup team they’re rooting for

One Scottish fan did gently chide Americans for their lack of imagination in their lone soccer chant.

“Scotland’s got a million songs; we’ve got loads,” Brian Davidson said. “I think you need to get some new songs, though. You seem to only have one song, ‘USA! USA!’ You need some more imagination. What’s happening?”

Scotland will play Morocco in Boston on Friday. Hopefully the bars have prepared.

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