A Pennsylvania man is accused of scrawling a swastika into the side of a Tesla in what appears to be the latest act of far-left fury against the car brand led by Elon Musk.

The apparent act of vandalism occurred in the parking lot of the Planet Fitness in Doylestown around 9:30 a.m. on March 24, according to police.

‘Obviously, I have something against Elon Musk.’

The Doylestown Republican Committee shared video of a man vandalizing the Tesla vehicle on Facebook.

The suspect is seen in the video getting out of his Lexus, which is parked next to the Tesla, and looking all around before crouching down. However, the Tesla’s surveillance system caught the man marking a swastika into the side of the vehicle while he was ducking down to avoid being spotted.

Tesla vehicles have a “sentry mode,” a security feature that utilizes the car’s cameras and sensors to record activity around the vehicle when parked. In recent weeks, many Tesla vandals have been caught red-handed defacing electric vehicles by way of the sentry mode surveillance system.

Police said the suspect put “scratches into the side of the Tesla using an unknown object.”

The Tesla owner allegedly didn’t realize that his car had been defaced until he arrived at home. The alleged victim reviewed the sentry mode footage and saw what had happened in the Planet Fitness parking lot.

The Tesla owner notified the police.

A video allegedly shows the Tesla owner confronting the suspect, who is accused of carving a swastika into the car.

The suspect in the video, which was livestreamed to Facebook, said, “I can wipe it off with a towel — it’s not a key, it’s a crayon.”

“It didn’t even work,” the man told the owner.

The alleged suspect sings a different tune and gets very concerned when the Tesla owner explains that his car is being fingerprinted by the police “right now.”

The suspect urgently asks, “What do you mean it’s being fingerprinted?”

The Tesla owner said the police were trying to “track” down the suspect, but added that users on Facebook were able to track him down.

The Tesla owner insisted that the alleged suspect apologize for writing a swastika on his car.

“I’m sorry. I have nothing against your car, and I have nothing against you,” the suspect is heard saying on video, according to the New York Post.

The Tesla owner pressed the alleged suspect on why he would scratch a swastika in his car.

“Obviously, I have something against Elon Musk,” the alleged suspect says.

The Tesla owner fired back: “Does Elon Musk own that car?”

The alleged suspect confessed that his actions were “misguided.”

Police noted that the suspect — 55-year-old Chadd Ritenbaugh — was identified by his gym membership identification card and his Pennsylvania driver’s license.

The Central Bucks Regional Police Department said in a statement, “Planet Fitness staff was able to identify the suspect by his membership. The video camera at 09:24 hours on March 24, 2025, shows the suspect walking into Planet Fitness wearing the same clothes and carrying the same bag from the Tesla video camera footage. He scans his membership card with the front desk staff and proceeds into the gym.”

A criminal complaint was filed, and the Central Bucks Regional Police Department issued an arrest warrant for Ritenbaugh on Thursday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Ritenbaugh was hit with charges of criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, and two counts of harassment.

The Doylestown Republican Committee claimed that Democrats in the area have “embraced the left’s recent tactics of using intimidation, violence, and destruction.”

“Condemning political violence, intimidation, violence, destruction, and swastikas should be a no brainer. The silence of elected Democrats in the borough and township over this act speaks volumes,” Doylestown Republican Committee Communications Chair Ed Sheppard said. “It should worry every resident of Doylestown that the Doylestown Democrats have become so extreme that this kind of behavior & mentality now has a home here.”

The Bucks County Democratic Committee organized a protest against Elon Musk at the county’s only Tesla dealership on March 22.

Liberals are furious because Musk wants to slash wasteful and fraudulent spending by the federal bureaucracy by way of the Department of Government Efficiency.

There have been several acts of vandalism against Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and charging stations by left-leaning dissidents in recent weeks.

As Blaze News reported on Monday, a 61-year-old Tesla driver said this week that she was terrorized by a motorist while driving in Arizona.

A 70-year-old man at a Tesla protest has been accused of ramming a car into a counterprotester in Idaho.

A California man was allegedly caught keying a Tesla last month.

The FBI has responded to the terrorist threats against Tesla by launching a task force.

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Right-wing French politician Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to four years in jail and barred from running for public office for five years, which means she will not be eligible to run in France’s 2027 presidential election. The Paris court presided over by Judge Bénédicte de Perthuis found her guilty of embezzling over €4 million in European Union funds.

It’s a huge devastation, as Le Pen has been leading in the polls.

“Now that seems pretty convenient, doesn’t it?” says Glenn Beck, noting that Nicolas Sarkozy and François Fillon, two prominent right-wing French politicians, were also convicted of crimes in the last five years.

“It seems to be happening a lot in Europe, where they just seem to be finding these crimes,” he says skeptically.

It almost reminds him of the way Donald Trump was indicted on 91 criminal counts across four separate cases during the Biden administration, all in an effort to thwart Trump’s 2024 presidential bid.

But the lawfare waged against him and his supporters wasn’t enough to stop the people from re-electing him. If anything, it only served to fuel the MAGA fire.

“The people get pissed off that you’re trying to make the decision for them,” says co-host Stu Burguiere of the lawfare staged against President Trump and likely Le Pen as well. “The French people get annoyed at that, I think. At least I know the American people do.”

“You’re exactly right. It actually galvanizes people because they no longer trust the system. They’re like, ‘What the hell? Why are you taking my choice away?”’ Glenn agrees.

The French people are capable of “[looking] at these allegations” and “[making] the decision” for themselves on whether Marine Le Pen can be trusted as president,” says Stu. “People did that with all the allegations against Donald Trump and they said, ‘You know what? I don’t see anything here.”’

But in France, the judges know better than the people, apparently.

“France, I know I don’t speak your language, but … you should probably wake up,” warns Glenn.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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The Trump administration deported multiple planeloads of suspected terrorists to El Salvador on March 15 to be imprisoned in the southern nation’s Terrorism Confinement Center. Attorneys for the government confirmed in a Monday court filing that one of the illegal aliens sent packing was removed “because of an administrative error.”

An article in the Atlantic concerning the accidental deportation apparently left certain bleeding-heart liberals with the impression that the deportee was an “innocent father” betrayed by his adoptive government.

Vice President JD Vance rained on liberal critics’ grief parade, pointing out they were rending garments over the deportation of a foreign national found by more than one immigration court to be a “danger to the community” and a member of the terrorist organization Mara Salvatrucha.

Vance’s suggestion that it was imprudent to throw a conniption over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s ouster prompted the critics to rage even more.

Background

After stealing into the U.S. illegally and without inspection in 2011, Salvadoran national Abrego Garcia traveled to Maryland, where his older brother lived.

Justice Department attorneys indicated that in March 2019, Abrego Garcia was summoned to appear in removal proceedings. During a bond hearing, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stated that a confidential informant flagged Abrego Garcia as an active member of MS-13. The illegal alien’s bond was denied with the court reportedly finding “that Abrego Garcia was a danger to the community.”

‘The Respondent is a gang member, and the Respondent has failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion.’

Abrego Garcia appealed that decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals, where an immigration judge determined in April 2019 that “the determination that the Respondent is a gang member appears to be trustworthy and is supported by other evidence in the record.”

“The fact that a ‘past, proven, and reliable source of information’ verified the Respondent’s gang membership, rank, and gang name is sufficient to support that the Respondent is a gang member, and the Respondent has failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion,” wrote the judge, adding that Abrego Garcia was a flight risk.

Lawyers for Abrego Garcia claim that the gang label is false; however, Justice Department attorneys underscored Monday that “Abrego Garcia is barred from disputing that, as a member of the criminal gang MS-13, he is a danger to the community.”

Although Abrego Garcia was found removable, he successfully secured a form of relief called withholding of removal in October 2019. The immigration judge responsible apparently agreed that Abrego Garcia had adequately established he would face persecution by Salvadoran gangs back home upon his return.

Unlike asylum, a foreign national granted withholding of removal is denied a path to citizenship, cannot petition to bring family members into the country, and cannot leave the country with an expectation of readmission. The American Immigration Council noted that unlike asylum, this form of relief also does not provide a recipient with a path to permanent residence or with permanent protection.

In their complaint demanding that the Trump administration ask El Salvador for Abrego Garcia’s return, lawyers for the illegal alien alleged that on March 12, ICE officers in Baltimore notified Abrego Garcia that his “status has changed” then arrested him.

Government attorneys indicated that after his detention, Abrego Garcia was questioned about his gang affiliations, transferred to a detention center in Texas, then, “because of an administrative error,” removed to El Salvador.

The Trump administration has argued that American courts lack jurisdiction to order Abrego Garcia’s return back from El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.

White knights

Just as liberals rushed to bemoan the Trump administration’s plan to deport Jeanette Vizguerra, a Mexican fugitive who stole into the U.S. illegally and was criminally convicted for using fake documents, they saw in Abrego Garcia another lost cause worth championing.

Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau shared a link to the Atlantic article on X, writing, “Any comment on this, @marcorubio? How about you, @JDVance? @elonmusk? You just admitted to accidentally sending an innocent father from Maryland to a torture dungeon in El Salvador. And you refuse to do anything about it.”

Favreau said in a subsequent tweet, “This is f***ing monstrous.”

‘The entire American media is going to run a propaganda operation today.’

Vance responded, “My comment is that according to the court document you apparently didn’t read he was a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here.”

“My further comment,” continued the vice president, “is that it’s gross to get fired up about gang members getting deported while ignoring citizens they victimize.”

This tweet prickled Favreau, Bill Kristol, Keith Olbermann, Politico’s Kyle Cheney, and other Trump administration critics.

Kristol, celebrant of Syria’s new Islamist rulers, claimed that Vance’s comment “is a lie.”

Kyle Cheney seized upon Vance’s wording that Abrego Garcia was a “convicted” gang member, noting, “The court filing does not say that. It says he was denied bond in 2019 over an informant’s claim he was in MS-13. That’s not a conviction.”

“Kyle Cheney, a ‘legal affairs reporter’ is apparently unable or unwilling to look at the facts here,” wrote Vance. “In 2019, an Immigration Judge (under the first Trump administration) determined that the deported man was, in fact, a member of the MS-13 gang. He also apparently had multiple traffic violations for which he failed to appear in court. A real winner.”

“It is telling that the entire American media is going to run a propaganda operation today making you think an innocent ‘father of 3’ was apprehended by a gulag,” wrote Vance.

‘He should be locked up.’

The vice president, sharing screenshots of the relevant court documents, noted further that: “1) The man is an illegal immigrant with no right to be in our country. 2) An immigration judge determined he was a member of the MS-13 gang. 3) Because he is not a citizen, he does not get a full jury trial by peers. In other words, whatever ‘due process’ he was entitled to, he received.”

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told NBC News in a statement Tuesday that Abrego Garcia “is a member of the brutal MS-13 gang — we have intelligence reports that he is involved in human trafficking.”

“Whether he is in El Salvador or a detention facility in the U.S., he should be locked up,” added the spokesperson. “Remarkable that The Atlantic and other MSM continue to do the bidding of these vicious gangs and ignore their victims.”

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United States District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco on Monday blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals living in the U.S.

Under the Biden administration, TPS eligibility was drastically expanded to foreign nationals from several countries, including Afghanistan, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, and Ukraine.

‘We need to follow the rule of law and not some advice from an activist judge who makes a foolish ruling.’

Through two separate designations in 2021 and 2023, the Biden administration granted TPS to roughly 600,000 Venezuelan nationals in the U.S., allowing them to apply for work authorizations and avoid deportation. Those designations were set to expire on April 7 and September 10, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

On his way out of office, Biden extended TPS expiration dates for nearly 1 million foreign nationals, including Venezuelans.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem moved to undo those last-minute extensions, reversing protections for the 350,000 Venezuelans whose status is scheduled to expire in April. She also announced a reversal for another 250,000 Venezuelans whose TPS will end in September.

The move sparked a legal challenge brought by the National TPS Alliance. On Monday, Chen blocked Trump’s DHS from stripping the protections, claiming it “smacks of racism.”

The Barack Obama-appointed judge wrote, “The Secretary made sweeping negative generalizations about Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries.”

“Acting on the basis of a negative group stereotype and generalizing such stereotype to the entire group is the classic example of racism,” Chen stated.

“The Secretary’s rationale is entirely lacking in evidentiary support,” Chen claimed. “There is no evidence that Venezuelan TPS holders are members of the [Tren de Aragua] gang, have connections to the gang, and/or commit crimes. Venezuelan TPS holders have lower rates of criminality than the general population. Generalization of criminality to the Venezuelan TPS population as a whole is baseless and smacks of racism predicated on generalized false stereotypes.”

Chen argued that the removal of TPS would “inflict irreparable harm” to the Venezuelan nationals, the U.S. economy, and community stability. He has postponed the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke TPS until he rules on the merits of the case.

Border czar Tom Homan responded to Chen’s ruling.

“It’s another activist judge making a stupid ruling,” he told Fox News.

Homan emphasized that TPS was intended to be used for a limited period of time to protect foreign nationals from conditions in their home countries, including armed conflict, natural disasters, or other extraordinary temporary conditions.

“TPS isn’t meant to be decades long,” Homan continued. “TPS needs to be temporary in nature. We need to follow the rule of law and not some advice from an activist judge who makes a foolish ruling.”

Homan contended that Chen’s decision was based on his “opinion” and not the rule of law. He noted that the administration will appeal the ruling.

Chen is the latest district judge to attempt to block Trump’s agenda. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued an emergency pause on the administration’s deportation flights.

The DHS did not respond to a request for comment from CBS News.

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Australian UFC fighter Jack Della Maddalena has garnered strong reactions from fans after he seemingly planned to host a fundraiser for his travel expenses ahead of his championship fight.

The 28-year-old is scheduled to fight for the UFC welterweight title at UFC 315 in May in Montreal, Canada, after No. 1 contender Shavkat Rakhmonov pulled out of the fight.

As reported by multiple outlets, Della Maddalena was scheduled to appear at a fundraiser for his own travel expenses in Perth, with the intention of paying for his entire team’s travel from Australia to Montreal.

“Come have a beer with Jack Della Maddalena,” an Australian restaurant called the Riverton Bar & Grill wrote on a since-deleted Instagram post.

“Jack will be fighting for the UFC welterweight championship in Montreal on the 10th of May and RBG is having a Fundraiser Dinner on the Monday the 14th of April for his team,” the post continued. “All profit from the tickets will go towards getting the full team out to Montreal to support Jack on his mission for UFC gold. A world title shot for Perth’s finest MMA son.”

The company then took its post a step further and criticized the UFC after revealing its tickets would start at $150.

“Believe it or not the UFC do not pay for anyone or anything but 6 nights accommodation and flights for 2. The rest of the team are expected to pay their own way.”

Strangely, the end of the post was written in first person, revealing it may have been provided by one of Della Maddalena’s team members:

“We will be taking the full team for this huge fight,” the post concluded.

As TalkSport reported, the flights for Della Maddalena’s listed team of four could cost thousands per person. That outlet estimated between $1,200-$7,700 per plane ticket, while Google Flights listed the cheapest roundtrip at $3,500.

Regardless of the price, fans were split in their reactions, with some saying this was evidence of the UFC not paying fighters enough.

“This is just said, it’s literally a title fight and the UFC won’t pay,” one fan reportedly wrote.

“Its absolutely insane that someone fighting for a ufc championship has to do fund-raisers to get their team to the fight,” another fan argued, according to BJPenn.com.

Other fans were not so forgiving of the Australian and said he makes more than enough to cover his trip and should pay out of his own pocket for his extended team to fly over.

“I don’t know if I side with JDM on this,” a fan pondered. “He’s not running his business well if this is what he’s going through. He’s not special or deserves special treatment over the rest.”

“Social media believes anything an account posts, disregarding how much the fight purse is or what the contract was that got [negotiated],” another sports fan wrote.

One fight fan called the fundraiser “pitiful,” and said the expenses were a “pathetic” reason to host such an event.

“Jack Della Maddalena having a fundraiser so his team can be there is pitiful. There’s literally hundreds of more important causes. What a pathetic thing to have a fundraiser for. I hope Belal ruins him.”

Just a couple of days after the backlash, the hosting venue announced it had canceled the event citing the fighter’s commitments.

“Unfortunately due to Jacks training commitments. The event will be postponed to after Jacks fight and when he brings the strap home! Thank you to who supported him. All ticket purchased will be refunded.”

The wording from the company was certainly strange and made no mention of the previous post that listed the event as a fundraiser.

Della Maddalena has not publicly posted any statements regarding the matter.

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A radical pro-Hamas student at Cornell University has opted to leave the United States after his lawsuit against the Trump administration did not go the way he’d hoped.

On March 14, the State Department reportedly revoked the student visa of Momodou Taal, a 31-year-old British and Gambian citizen studying Africana Studies at Cornell, and ordered him to report to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as Blaze News previously reported.

‘I have lost faith that … the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs.’

The next day, Taal and two other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and Secretary Kristi Noem. The lawsuit asked U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Coombe to review two Trump executive orders targeting foreigners living in the U.S. who “bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles” and who engaged in “anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on university and college campuses.”

Taal and his fellow plaintiffs argued that these executive orders violated constitutional protections regarding free speech. Taal hoped Coombe would halt enforcement of the executive orders and intervene in his particular immigration case.

Judge Coombe, a Biden appointee, denied both of those requests last Thursday.

Rather than continuing to fight, Taal elected to show himself out of the country. “Today I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high,” he wrote in a message posted to social media on Monday.

In his statement, he also railed against the government of the country where he tried to stay. “Trump did not want me to have my day in court,” he claimed.

“Given what we have seen across the United States, I have lost faith that a favourable ruling from the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs,” Taal continued. “I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted.”

Then, after slamming the American judiciary for failing to provide him the reassurances he wanted, Taal further warned: “We are facing a government that has no respect for the judiciary or for the rule of the law.”

‘We are in solidarity with the armed resistance in Palestine from the river to the sea.’

Considering the accusations that Cornell officials have leveled against him, Taal may be the one out of step with the rule of law in America. According to a letter issued by the university last April, the foreign radical repeatedly engaged in disorderly conduct, disrupted university activities, ignored university officials’ lawful directives, and made unauthorized entry to various private spaces at Cornell.

Roy Stanley, the unit chief of the Counterterrorism Intelligence Unit at ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations’ Office of Intelligence, also said in a sworn statement that Taal faced multiple suspensions from Cornell “due to his disorderly behavior and long-term pattern of disregarding the rights of other students and the general public and was in fact banned from campus for a period of time while one suspension was being reviewed.”

Following the horrendous terror attacks on innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023, Taal made a string of statements to show his support for Hamas and the Palestinian cause.

“Glory to the Resistance,” he posted to social media. He also added that “colonised peoples have the right to resist by any means necessary.”

“We are in solidarity with the armed resistance in Palestine from the river to the sea,” he told the Cornell Daily Sun.

Then, when others simply asked him to condemn the terrorist tactics of Hamas, he cried racism. “I think it’s quite racist, Islamophobic that before I’m allowed to have a view on genocide, I have to condemn a terrorist organization,” he said at the time, though he did condemn “the killing of all civilians no matter where they are and who does it.”

While Eric Lee, Taal’s attorney, did not respond to a request for comment from CNN regarding Taal’s self-deportation, he did post a message on social media decrying America — but then strangely suggested he has since put Taal’s case behind him.

“I feel like a stranger in my country. What is America if people like Momodou are not welcome here?” Lee wrote. “Onward to the next fight.”

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An anesthesiologist is accused of attempting to kill his wife by trying to throw her off a picturesque cliff in Hawaii, according to reports.

Dr. Gerhardt Konig — a 46-year-old anesthesiologist from Maui — was charged Wednesday with second-degree attempted murder of his wife.

‘Arielle expressed that she did not feel comfortable taking a picture with him that close to the edge, so she declined and began to walk back.’

The doctor and 36-year-old wife — Arielle Konig — had been married since 2018 but had been struggling with their relationship for the last few months, KITV-TV reported.

She claimed her husband accused her of cheating on him in December.

The New York Post reported that the pair had been “participating in both couples and individual therapy and counseling” in an attempt to salvage their marriage.

Therapy reportedly helped the couple’s relationship, and Gerhardt allegedly planned a weekend getaway to Oahu to celebrate Arielle’s 36th birthday.

The couple arrived in Maui on March 23, according to court filings.

The next day, Arielle said her husband suggested that they hike a trail near the Nu’uanu Pali Lookout.

“This breathtaking viewpoint, perched 1,200 feet above sea level, offers sweeping views of the lush Windward Coast, the turquoise waters of Kāne‘ohe Bay, and the picturesque town of Kailua,” according to Hawaii.com. “It’s one of the most stunning scenic stops on O‘ahu and a must-visit destination for both first-time visitors and locals alike.”

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, “Ms. Konig, in her court filing, noted the topography of the trail: ‘narrow ridge sections with steep drop-offs on both sides.’ She said she became uneasy and told her husband she didn’t want to go any farther.”

Arielle told police that her husband wanted to take a photo with her at the edge of the cliff. However, she allegedly was uncomfortable with the idea, and she moved away from the cliff.

“She mentioned that while on the trail, Gerhardt was standing close to the edge and asked her to take a selfie with him,” an officer with the Honolulu Police Department said. “Arielle expressed that she did not feel comfortable taking a picture with him that close to the edge, so she declined and began to walk back.”

Arielle allegedly said of her husband, “He was yelling something to the effect of, ‘Get back over there, I’m so [expletive] sick of you,’ and continued to push me.”

The wife told investigators that at first she thought her husband was joking but then “quickly realized he was seriously trying to make me fall off the cliff.”

Arielle claimed that she threw herself to the ground and away from the edge of the cliff — but then Konig allegedly climbed on top of her.

Arielle — a renowned nuclear engineer — alleged that she told her husband to think about their children, ages 2 and 5.

According to court documents, Arielle said her husband grabbed a bag and pulled out two syringes then tried to inject her.

“I do not know what was in the syringe, but Gerhardt is an anesthesiologist and has access to several potentially lethal medications as part of his employment,” Arielle said.

Police immediately issued an all-points bulletin for Dr. Konig and shut down the trails during a multi-hour manhunt.

Gerhardt also was accused of grabbing a rock and bashing Arielle in the head. He allegedly tried to push her off the trail and then punched her.

The alleged assault is said to have ended only because two women on the trail heard the commotion.

The first woman — identified only as “Amanda” — told police she started walking up the trail around 10:30 a.m. and 10 minutes later allegedly heard a female screaming: “Help! Help me!”

According to the court affidavit, the woman alleged that she saw Arielle on her back “with a man on top of her hitting her on the head.”

The hikers recalled Arielle shouting, “He is trying to kill me! He is hitting me in the head with a rock!”

Amanda claimed that Arielle’s attacker stopped assaulting her once he realized he was being watched.

The hikers reportedly yelled that they were calling 911, and the assailant fled the crime scene.

According to the court filing, Arielle also claimed to have learned that her husband had called one of his adult children from a previous marriage on FaceTime.

Arielle alleged in the court filing that Konig told his child, “I just tried to kill Ari, but she got away.”

The wife said her husband was covered in blood, and Arielle allegedly needed assistance from the hikers to go down the trail.

She was transported to the Queen’s Medical Center in critical condition with multiple facial and head injuries.

Police immediately issued an all-points bulletin for Dr. Konig and shut down the trails during a multi-hour manhunt.

Gerhardt was found and arrested around 6 p.m., police said.

Konig is being detained at the Oahu Community Correctional Center.

His bail initially was set at $5 million. However, Arielle wrote to the judge that she is afraid for herself, her children, and the rest of her family if her husband is released, and the judge on Friday ordered him to be held without bail.

Arielle on Thursday filed a restraining order against her husband. She told the court that Gerhardt had become prone to “extreme jealousy” and “has attempted to control and monitor all of my communications.”

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Planned Parenthood admittedly did everything in its “power to keep Donald Trump from the White House” in the lead-up to the 2024 election. Having failed miserably, the organization — not only the single largest provider of abortions nationwide but also a top provider of sex-change services — may now lose some of its federal funding.

Last week, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesman told the Wall Street Journal that the agency was considering an immediate freeze of $27.5 million in grants to Planned Parenthood. On Monday, the abortion conglomerate announced that nine of its affiliates received notice of the Trump administration’s plans to withhold Title X funding effective April 1.

Title X, the national family-planning program funded through the HHS Office of Population Affairs, is intended to support “a broad range of services related to achieving pregnancy, preventing pregnancy, and assisting women, men, and couples with achieving their desired number and spacing of children.”

Roughly $286 million was awarded in fiscal year 2024 through the program, with many millions of taxpayer dollars going to regional Planned Parenthood outfits.

Over three-quarters of Planned Parenthood affiliates — around 300 facilities — presently receive funds through the Title X program. They have demonstrated, however, that they can go without federal funds.

Planned Parenthood pulled out of the program during the first Trump administration because it refused to comply with the administration’s requirement that Title X-funded clinics refrain from referring women for abortions.

Planned Parenthood ‘overtly encourages illegal aliens to receive care.’

Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson stated at the time of the withdrawal, “We refuse to let the Trump administration bully us into withholding abortion information from our patients.”

The Washington Post noted that the abortion conglomerate latched back on to the taxpayer-funded program in 2021 after the Biden administration let recipients once again refer women for abortions.

Politico reported that the notices sent to the Planned Parenthood affiliates on Monday indicated their funding was being “temporarily withheld” on account of “possible violations” of federal civil rights law and Trump’s executive orders, including his prohibitions on promoting DEI and “taxpayer subsidization of open borders.”

In the notices, Amy Margolis, deputy director of the Office of Population Affairs, reportedly cited race-based commitments and comments on the clinics’ websites and in their public documents as evidence of their noncompliance, suggesting the writings “paint a picture of Planned Parenthood that suggests it is engaged, across its affiliates, in widespread practices across hiring, operations, and patient treatment that unavoidably employ race in a negative manner.”

Margolis also indicated that the abortion outfits’ funding is being withheld because Planned Parenthood “overtly encourages illegal aliens to receive care.”

It is unclear whether the clinics’ active promotion of abortion may also constitute noncompliance, given Trump’s executive order prohibiting “the use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.”

The Washington Post indicated that the White House did not respond to a request for comment.

‘Stop funding abortion and “gender transition” industries that gravely violate human dignity.’

While the Title X family planning program was explicitly written to exclude abortion, the Charlotte Lozier Institute indicated that “today, Planned Parenthood and other abortion centers use these funds to support their abortion businesses.”

HHS has reportedly given Planned Parenthood 10 days to fall in line with Trump’s executive orders.

HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon told Politico that the department has temporarily withheld payments from 16 Title X providers “to ensure these entities are in full compliance with Federal law and applicable grant terms, and to ensure responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.”

“President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping health care access from people nationwide, and not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” McGill Johnson said in a statement. “Planned Parenthood Action Fund will fight to get this funding restored and to keep politicians out of health care.”

Prior to the clinics learning that they might soon lose some of their federal funding, over 150 groups united under an initiative called Defund Planned Parenthood urged Congress to cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood through the budget reconciliation process, reported the Daily Signal.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops similarly implored House and Senate lawmakers to defund Planned Parenthood in a March 27 letter.

“We call upon you to stop funding abortion and ‘gender transition’ industries that gravely violate human dignity,” wrote Bishops Robert Barron and Daniel Thomas. “Instead, we urge you to prioritize the needs of struggling families so they can flourish.”

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While 33 weeks pregnant with her second child, Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” began experiencing what she calls a “strange symptom” — when she’d lie down to take a nap, her heart would start racing.

When she reached out for medical help, none of the midwives she’d been working with were on call — so she had to seek help from a midwife who was “not particularly natural-minded.”

“As you know, medical providers look at things through a lens of liability. Again, you can blame them as individuals or you can blame the system, because how else are they supposed to operate when we have such a litigious society,” Wheeler tells Dr. Stu and midwife Blyss on the “Birthing Instincts” podcast.

This midwife began insisting that Wheeler had a blood clot, which Wheeler and her husband, who’s a medical provider, had already ruled out.

“She wouldn’t see me until I went to the emergency room to make sure that I didn’t have a blood clot before she would listen to my baby’s heartbeat, and it turned out to be a six-hour experience,” she explains, adding, “Of course, I didn’t have a blood clot.”

However, during the six-hour workup, it was discovered that Wheeler had some form of infection, which she had no symptoms for.

“I was just looking to get home, but they had me hooked up to the straps and they were like, ‘You’re having contractions every two minutes,’” she says, recalling that this is when they said they needed to do a cervical check on her.

“This is the moment that if I could redo everything about this situation, I should have been like, ‘Trust yourself Liz, trust your body, trust your intuition, trust your knowledge, decline it and go home and go to bed.’ That’s what I should have done,” she continues.

“It was the most painful, most excruciating, most brutal cervical check I’ve ever experienced,” she says. “Within 90 seconds of that cervical check I had a real contraction, it put me into labor, and I started having active labor contractions coming every 90 seconds where I couldn’t speak.”

This is when the hospital, because it doesn’t have an advanced NICU for babies born before 36 weeks, called an ambulance to haul her off to another hospital.

When Wheeler’s doula showed up, she began rubbing Wheeler’s back.

“I ended up falling asleep while she was rubbing me, and the contractions stopped. They completely stopped,” Wheeler explains. “I spent the next three days in the hospital, them monitoring me. They gave me another shot of that steroid, which, by the way, totally tweaked me out for like a week.”

Wheeler ended up carrying the baby for several more weeks and was able to give birth without needing the NICU.

“Here’s the thing that really triggered me. They were blaming the pre-term labor on this [infection], and I was like, ‘No, this preterm labor was because of this really, yes, really vigorous, really invasive, cervical check,’” she says.

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An illegal alien accused of brutally murdering a Georgia mother of five earlier this month now faces several new charges, including for allegedly performing sexual acts on his victim’s corpse.

“David Hector Rivas-Sagastume, an illegal alien RELEASED by the Biden administration, has been charged with killing Camilia [sic] Williams, a mother of five and a grandmother in a gruesome attack,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. “This illegal alien should have NEVER been in our country in the first place.”

A DHS spokesman confirmed to the Daily Caller that Rivas-Sagastume, 21, stole into the United States on March 17, 2021, then was paroled into the country.

“A judge ordered him removed on July 11, 2023,” continued the spokesman. “On March 18, 2025, he was being arrested by the Cobb County Police Department for capital murder and other crimes. ICE has lodged an immigration detainer with the Cobb County Jail.”

Arsene Williams, the victim’s brother, told WAGA-TV, “In March 2025, my sister lost her life because the system failed to deport him after they had him in custody.”

Cobb County Police officers were dispatched at 8:25 a.m. on March 13 to a residential area in Marietta, Georgia, following the discovery of 52-year-old Camillia Williams’ body in roadside bushes. Following a days-long investigation, authorities identified Rivas-Sagastume as the likely killer, charging him with felony murder and aggravated assault.

‘Deportation is not enough, GIVE HIM THE DEATH PENALTY!’

The arrest warrant alleges that Rivas-Sagastume physically assaulted Williams, rendered her unconscious by way of a chokehold, then knelt on her neck until she was dead, reported WAGA.

“He was kind of stalking her, waiting for her to be by herself, then he strangled her,” said Arsene Williams.

Rivas-Sagastume, who allegedly dumped Williams’ body in the Atlanta suburb, has since been charged with malice murder, aggravated sexual battery, and necrophilia.

Responding to the updated charges, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) wrote, “These are the folks the Left are defending. Deport. Them. All.”‘

“In Georgia, we are mourning the tragic and completely avoidable murder of another Georgia woman because of Democrat’s [sic] open border and cartel first policies!” tweeted Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R). “Deportation is not enough, GIVE HIM THE DEATH PENALTY!”

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said in a statement, “Those who commit acts of violence against our people will face the full weight of our justice system, and if they are here illegally, we will not hesitate to work with our federal partners to ensure their removal from our state and country.”

Last year, Kemp ratified legislation requiring law enforcement agencies in the state to notify federal authorities when illegal aliens are arrested. Last month, the Georgia Senate passed a bill that would enable local government officials and authorities in so-called sanctuary cities to be held civilly liable for crimes committed by noncitizens.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, Cobb County is not a sanctuary county. However, upon taking office in 2021, Democratic Sheriff Craig Owens ended the county’s 287(g) partnership with federal authorities, which ICE claims “enhances the safety and security of our nation’s communities by allowing ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) to partner with state and local law enforcement agencies to identify and remove criminal aliens who are amenable to removal from the U.S.”

The Center for Immigration Studies noted, “Simply honoring detainers is not the same as being a proactive partner with federal law enforcement.”

The Daily Caller indicated that the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to its request for comment regarding whether it intends to honor the detainer request placed on Rivas-Sagastume.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem noted, “This illegal alien should have never been in our country in the first place. President Trump and I are putting the safety of Americans FIRST.”

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LeBron James’ influence extends far beyond the basketball court. The superstar’s voice is regularly heard in the social and political arena as well.

Is everything LeBron spouts off indicative of his personal beliefs? Or is he just being controlled by his puppet masters?

Jason Whitlock speculates it’s the latter.

The first person who comes to Jason’s mind is Adam Mendelsohn, longtime adviser and spokesperson for James.

“You’ll hear a lot of stories out front that it’s Rich Paul and Maverick Carter. … That’s LeBron’s inner circle, but behind the scenes everybody knows Adam Mendelsohn is who controls Lebron James,” he says.

Mendelsohn, along with Ari Emanuel, the CEO of media agency giant Endeavor: “They run the clown show,” Jason argues, adding that these two are experts at working with “useful idiots like LeBron James.”

Even something like LeBron cursing on national television knowing there are children watching is “not an accident,” he says.

Back in 2024, the Los Angeles Times ran a story titled “LeBron Inc: The collective that’s bigger than basketball.” The celebratory piece named Rich Paul, Maverick Carter, Randy Mims, Savannah James (LeBron’s wife), Paul Wachter, and Adam Mendelsohn, along with others, as the key players calling the shots in LeBron’s life.

“This is like the diversity, equity, and inclusion list of who’s controlling or influencing or helping LeBron James,” says Jason.

After heralding Paul, Carter, and Mims as LeBron’s “brothers from different mothers,” the article almost half-heartedly mentions Mendelsohn, who Jason argues should be, if truth were important to the L.A. Times, front and center in the piece.

To hear more of Jason’s analysis, watch the clip above.

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A woman and her five reported lovers are facing serious criminal charges after they allegedly kidnapped and tortured a man at an Ohio Red Roof Inn.

Aaron Bradshaw, 49; Austin Bradshaw, 23; Michael Esqueda, 28; Martina Jones, 28; David Cessna, 26; and Chance Johnston, 27, were all arrested March 21. A grand jury on Thursday indicted all six suspects. They all were charged with one count of kidnapping, three counts of felonious assault, and two counts of tampering with evidence.

‘His injuries were results of being struck with a baseball bat, struck with fists, elbows, stomping on him when he was on the ground, which over time resulted in multiple fractured bones.’

Citing the police report, the Kansas City Star said a dogfight broke out at Jones’ home, and she attempted to break up the melee, but she ended up breaking her arm.

Jones allegedly told Austin Bradshaw, Aaron Bradshaw, Esqueda, Cessna, and Johnston that a 26-year-old man broke her arm.

Police claimed Jones ordered the five men to beat and assault the victim.

The men then punched, kicked, and beat the 26-year-old with a metal baseball bat for several hours, according to a police report.

Police suspect that the victim was assaulted and kidnapped March 14.

Court docs say the group held the kidnapped man against his will for over a week at a Red Roof Inn in Maumee.

The man reportedly was forced to stand for “extended periods of time,” was allowed to eat and drink only one time a day, and slept for a total of 10 hours over seven days.

The group allegedly told the victim that if he tried to escape, they would “beat his [expletive].”

On March 21, the suspects allowed the 26-year-old to leave the motel to go to the Speedway convenience store, police said.

“When he was there, he made contact with an individual, who got in contact with the victim’s mother,” stated Maumee Chief of Police Josh Sprow.

The 26-year-old’s mother reportedly rushed to the Red Roof Inn to help her son.

Officers with the Maumee Police Department responded to the hotel.

The victim sustained injuries all over his body and was transported to a local hospital, police said. He’s expected to survive his injuries.

The Blade reported that prosecutors told the judge that the victim suffered serious injuries as a result of the abuse, including broken bones, but “the totality of those injuries has not been determined.”

“He was being essentially tortured, assaulted, over the time frame of a week,” stated Sprow. “His injuries were results of being struck with a baseball bat, struck with fists, elbows, stomping on him when he was on the ground, which over time resulted in multiple fractured bones.”

Assistant city prosecutor Andy Lastra called the case “extremely disturbing.”

Investigators determined that Jones was in romantic relationships with the five male suspects and has multiple children with them.

“It’s clearly a strange situation when you have multiple adult men involved in a relationship with a female, and then this whole felonious assault/kidnapping taking place. Definitely not something that is normally happening in our city,” Sprow noted.

All six suspects have been detained at the Lucas County Corrections Center and were given a $200,000 bond, according to court records.

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