President Trump’s nominees to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) pledged to bring reform to their respective agencies.
In testimony delivered today before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, the designated FHFA director Bill Pulte noted his connection to the housing market began in his youth when he worked on his family’s homebuilding sites.
“I have seen firsthand the devastating consequences of bad policy on housing and the economy,” said Pulte. “In 2008, the housing crash nearly destroyed our family’s legacy company. In 2020, as a director of Pulte Homes, I witnessed how the Covid-19 pandemic placed our housing finance system under unprecedented strain.”
Pulte, the CEO of the investment firm Pulte Capital Partners, stated his “number one mission will be to strengthen and safeguard the housing finance system.” He also touched upon the hot-button topic of ending the federal conservatorship of the government-sponsored enterprises that has been in place since September 2008.
“Under President Trump’s leadership in his first term, Americans were able to realize the American Dream of homeownership through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and to that end, while their conservatorships should not be indefinite, any exit from conservatorship must be carefully planned to ensure the safety and soundness of the housing market without upward pressures on mortgage rates,” Pulte stated, adding “I will be laser focused on ensuring that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac operate in a safe and sound manner.”
In his testimony, the designated CFPB director Jonathan McKernan cited his work as a director with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and his “staff roles in the Senate, the Department of the Treasury, the FHFA, and even a short detail to the CFPB, all focused on the mortgage market, one of the key markets supervised by the CFPB.” Also noted his “nine years as a lawyer focused on banking and consumer financial laws” in a legal career that launched at the start of the 2008 financial crisis.
While noting the need for consumer protection, McKernan stressed the CFPB had issues that needed to be addressed.
“All too often, however, the CFPB has gotten in the way of its own mission,” he said. “It has acted in a politicized manner. It has pushed beyond the limits of its statutory authority. It has seized opportunities to expand its jurisdiction and power. It has offended our basic notions of fairness and due process when it has regulated by enforcement. And it has harmed consumers through higher prices and reduced choice when it has failed to strike an appropriate balance between costs and benefits in prescribing new regulations.”
McKernan added, “Even if you don’t agree with that view, it’s clear that the CFPB suffers from a crisis of legitimacy. This must be corrected if the CFPB is to reliably do what it’s supposed to do – look out for the American consumer. To that noble end, the CFPB needs to be made accountable to our elected officials and its past excesses need to come to an end.”
McKernan did not cite the need to shutter the CFPB, but instead promised to have the agency “take all steps necessary to implement and enforce the federal consumer financial laws and perform each of its other statutorily assigned functions. But the CFPB will do this by centering its regulation on real risks to consumers and by focusing its enforcement on bad actors.”
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Musk needs to have a system in place which checks out all of these agencies and they have to meet his checks and balances after start-up and don’t go back into the old system of operating.
An example would be to have a coded computerized check-up automatically engrained into each agency by Musk’s DOGE group when they spend the taxpayer’s money, i.e., don’t allow the final check to be printed until all the “t’s are crossed and the i’s have their dots.
An open-source researcher documented stunning Russian losses in one yearlong assault in Ukraine.
The losses occurred during Russian offensives to seize Avdiivka and now Pokrovsk.
Russian forces have yet to make decisive tactical gains in the region.
An open-source researcher who tracks visually confirmed military losses in Ukraine published new findings indicating that Russia has lost more than 1,800 armored vehicles, tanks, and other pieces of heavy equipment in a single yearlong assault, a staggering figure that raises questions about Russia’s ability to continue its advance.
In February, Russia seized the town of Avdiivka, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold, after a monthslong campaign that contributed to “some of the highest Russian casualty rates of the war so far,” according to British military intelligence.
Moscow’s losses — both in equipment and personnel — only continued to grow as it advanced in the western Donetsk region, an onslaught against Ukraine’s defended positions that contributed to the heavy toll in September; a US official recently said that month saw the highest Russian casualties in the entire war.
In early October, two key Ukrainian front-line towns, Vuhledar and Hrodivka, fell to Russia during its advance toward Pokrovsk, a strategic city serving as a road and rail hub to supply Ukrainian military outposts.
Despite the heavy equipment losses, Russian forces have yet to make concrete tactical gains in the region, advancing only about 25 miles toward the key Ukrainian city.
A new report by the Institute for the Study of War said the reported losses amounted to at least five divisions’ worth of combat vehicles, citing an open-source X account tracking visually confirmed Russian vehicle and equipment losses.
Russian forces have also lost rockets, antiaircraft systems, and drones in its offensive along the eastern front. This is a breakdown of the heavy losses that could jeopardize Russia’s ability to expand its battlefield gains.See more
European leaders held emergency talks to discuss support for Ukraine on Sunday.
It came amid souring relations between the US and Ukraine, raising pressure on Europe to step up.
One quick way to raise “game-changing” cash would be to seize $218 billion in frozen Russian assets.
Amid growing tensions between Washington and Kyiv, calls are growing for Europe to take an unprecedented step that could unlock billions in funding for Ukraine.
Some world leaders and politicians, including former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, are urging European countries to seize the roughly $218 billion in frozen Russian central bank assets — now largely held in Brussels — and hand them to Ukraine.
“It is only fair that Russia should pay for the damage its war has caused,” Sunak wrote in an opinion piece for The Economist on Friday.
The question of funding was a hot topic on Sunday as EU and UK leaders met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for emergency talks in London to discuss support for Kyiv — just days after the latter’s unprecedented Oval Office clash with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Trump and Vance berated the Ukrainian leader on Friday in front of reporters and cameras. Zelenskyy ultimately left the White House without finalizing a minerals deal that would give the United States access to Kyiv’s mineral wealth in exchange for investment and what Zelenskyy hoped would be security guarantees.
The situation has fueled questions over how Europe can step up to help aid Ukraine’s defense efforts should the United States reduce, or cut altogether, its support for the war-torn nation.
For Europe to make up the difference would be an expensive prospect and one that could come with political repercussions — which makes the potential to unlock $218 billion in non-taxpayer money all the more attractive.
“We’ve got all of these different countries with their own internal political battles, and their own internal budgets, all trying to find more cash — and we’re sitting on a game-changing amount of funding,” Heather Buchanan, the chair of the Athena Foundation, an economic policy advisory nonprofit that supports the move, told Business Insider.
Europe’s ace card?
The EU holds the majority of the roughly $300 billion in Russian funds frozen by the United States and international allies after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. The funds have been earmarked for rebuilding Ukraine in peacetime.
Some of the interest earned on those funds has been transferred to Ukraine as loans. The UK’s chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, and Ukraine’s finance minister, Sergii Marchenko, signed a deal on Saturday to deliver another £2.26 billion, or about $2.8 billion, to Ukraine from the accrued interest, also as a loan.
But there’s now growing support for a long-considered option: seizing those frozen funds, which would allow them to be transferred directly to Ukraine for use in its defense.
In December, Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, called for the move — and it’s seen support in the past week from leaders in the UK, Estonia, Poland, and Finland.
On Saturday, a coalition of campaign groups and UK MPs brought together by the Athena Foundation called on the UK to get the ball rolling with the seizure of £25 billion, or about $31.4 billion, of Russian state assets now frozen in the UK financial system.
Adrian Karatnycky, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, wrote in Foreign Policy magazine in January that the full $300 billion in frozen assets could replace the US contribution to Ukraine for the next six or seven years if Trump were to cut support to Kyiv.
A nervous gambit
“The key blocker is that nobody wants to move alone,” Buchanan said.
But the White House’s recent moves have provided a “perfect storm” that is focusing minds, she added.
While many politicians are pushing for the move, some analysts warn that it should be a last resort because of the impact it could have on global economies.
For example, permanently confiscating Russian assets held in countries that aren’t at war with Russia could also “increase the risk perceived by several other countries,” Creon Butler, the director of Chatham House’s global economy and finance program, wrote last year.
Other countries — such as China, India, and Saudi Arabia — may “fear that at some point they could be subject to similar measures,” he wrote.
Sunak, writing for The Economist, has argued that those concerns are “overstated” and that this risk “can be contained.”
There’s also a debate among analysts over whether the assets should be kept available as a bargaining chip for any future peace talks.
Legal complications must also be considered, as the assets of a foreign nation are normally protected against seizure by a host country.
But the leading lawyer Paul Reichler previously argued to Congress that such protection falls apart when a host state carries out “egregiously wrongful conduct,” as he said Russia had.
“If Congress has the power to authorize the executive to freeze a foreign state’s assets, it must also have the power to authorize the executive to transfer them,” he said.
Buchanan told BI that such a move does require legislation but that “that’s what lawmakers are for,” adding that meeting a satisfactory legal standard could be brought about “quite quickly.”
A further worry is the prospect of retaliation by the Kremlin, whose State Duma is discussing a draft bill allowing it to confiscate foreign property in response to similar moves from “unfriendly countries,” Reuters reported.
Striking a psychological blow
Buchanan said passing the cash to Ukraine would send a “crystal clear” signal to Russia that this money isn’t coming back — potentially dealing a strong psychological blow to a country whose economy and labor market are already deeply strained by the war.
The question is whether Western leaders will take the leap.
“It’s just political will at this point,” she added.
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In the annals of government reform efforts, the efforts of Elon Musk and his task force of DOGE techies are more than tough love.
Because the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has (mostly) been given access to the books of government agencies, it has spotted billions of dollars in questionable grants, make-work programs, and outright gifts to politically connected activists who provided political support to their government paymasters. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers discuss a few examples, but also address a deeper question: “So what?”
“Even if the cuts DOGE has found are drops of water in the ocean of the U.S. national debt,” says Schweizer, “they shift the conversation.”
From a $324,000 grant to enhance “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming within Integrated Pest Management” at the agriculture department to a $3 million Department of Education report that showed that its previous reports were not being used, the details are eye-popping even where the amounts are not. The General Services Administration purchased 37,000 WinZip licenses for employees, DOGE found, although its file shrinking functions have been part of the Windows operating system for years, for example.
Schweizer stresses that the stories show not just bureaucratic inertia, but efforts by the political class to launder money. At the Environmental Protection Agency, new director Lee Zeldin unearthed a $2 billion grant to a start-up nonprofit group associated with Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams.
The $2 billion was used for the “decarbonization of homes” in low-income communities and paid for new household appliances, such as water heaters, induction stoves, solar panels, EV chargers, and weatherization, according to an April 2024 press release from Power Forward Communities as reported by Fox News.
Zeldin also identified a potential “conflict of interest” payment of $5 billion to the former director of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund under President Joe Biden. “All this money was put up front,” Zeldin said. “It was going to their friends on the left.”
The CEO of Stacey Abrams’s “Power Forward” nonprofit was a man named Timothy Mayopoulos, a lawyer and businessman and also a former political appointee under the Obama administration to Fannie Mae.
The problem with this kind of grant-making, Schweizer points out, is that little of the money actually gets to the people it is supposed to help. “By the time it gets to the double-wide trailer for better insulation, a huge percentage of it has gone to these politically connected cronies,” he says.
This kind of “nest-feathering” is nothing new. In his book Throw Them All Out, Schweizer pointed out that under the Obama administration 80 percent of the grants and loans given to green-energy startup companies were given to companies associated to members of the Obama campaign’s finance committee.
“This is why DOGE is important,” Schweizer says. “It is exposing the money-laundering operations.”
In his book Clinton Cash, Schweizer reported how the Clintons steered USAID funds to help their foundation’s benefactors. Among them was an Irish entrepreneur named Denis O’Brien. His company, Digicel, got a $2.5 million contract in earthquake-ravaged Haiti to create digital banking services.
“It was called the Haiti Mobile Money Initiative. This was a dual grant award from USAID and the [Bill and Melinda] Gates Foundation. So, they funded a cell phone banking system,” he explains. “Now, it just so happens that there’s a guy who runs a cell phone company in Haiti, who is a very good “Friend of Bill.” He adds that Bill Clinton made a series of speeches in Ireland that were sponsored by O’Brien, and the Clinton Foundation received a donation.
Schweizer reported in Clinton Cash that in September 2010, weeks after Digicel applied to receive the grant, Bill Clinton gave three speeches in Ireland and Jamaica that were sponsored by O’Brien. The Clinton Foundation received a donation after the speeches, and the foundation’s records show that O’Brien personally donated between $5 million and $10 million sometime between 2010 and 2011.
And, naturally, the Biden family repeated the pattern. Funds from a USAID program during the Obama administration to enhance oil and gas production in Ukraine went to the Ukrainian company Burisma for a “municipal energy reform project.” The funding arrived a few months after Burisma put Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter on its board of directors, despite his having no experience in the oil and gas business.
“This is legal graft,” Schweizer says. “You figure out a way to do it. So, you are crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s, but you are basically manipulating and funneling that money to other entities.”https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=SHDI5110788113
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“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” Dr.Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
“Freedom of the press also comes with a responsibility to report the news accurately.” President Donald John Trump.
What the bootlicking, legacy dregs of the mainstream media are worth, as they continue to lie, distort and deceive.
In 2016, then Private Citizen Donald John Trump announced his intention and subsequently garnered an upset for the ages. He was, and once again being treated in an overwhelmingly hostile, hideous and unfavorable manner by the troglodyte dregs of the cosmopolitan biased, cultural supremacist, corporate legacy mainstream media. Throughout the course of the 2024 Presidential Election cycle, similar to 2016, and continuing in a most amped manner, including into a successful act two, POTUSDJT has been attacked by the bootlicking dregs of the mainstream media in the most insidious manner. Aside from the vile and vicious name calling, there have been a number of events reported by the mainstream media that cited unverified “unnamed sources” that turned out to be false, then recanted or leaked to the media…see ICE raids in Colorado and the DOJ knows who the leakers are.
Since the election, the bootlicking dregs of the mainstream media are spreading half-truths and sensational headlines in order to get more clicks and higher ratings, which have sunk faster than the Titanic. To that end, numerous reporters, tech staff and producers from MSNBC have been fired due to hideous ratings. After the 2016 presidential election, numerous personnel from the Clown News Network (CNN), had admitted on film that they were ordered by their bosses to go after POTUSDJT. As the campaign season progressed, then candidate POTUSDJT coined the term “fake news,” which is still very much in use today by our Chief Executive.
However, as former President Donald John Trump campaigned once again as the identified underdog, this time against Kamala Harris, who easily was the least qualified candidate, and most incompetent candidate the DNC presented after torpedoing DementiaJoe, after his disastrous presidential debate. Once and again, POTUSDJT made it loud and clear that CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, The Washington Post and The New York Times were tools of the radical, extremists of the progressive liberal left as they covered up Biden’s cognitive decline with ongoing statements that he was sharp and articulate, while making presidential decisions. Once and again, POTUSDJT had proven to be absolutely correct.
Included in the progressive liberal left was non-other than the dishonest, hypocritical, self-centered and self-serving, misogynistic, overrated and over the hill people who consider themselves talented entertainers. Part of this gaggle is one George Clooney, who hasn’t done anything worthwhile in forever. Clooney, along with a plethora of Hollywood “celebrities” who supported and endorsed DementiaJoe during rallies and financially. After the debate Clooney was one of the first from Hollywood to jump ship pining for Biden to remove himself from running for re-election. Clooney published an opt-ed calling out DementiaJoe. Eventually Clooney told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who is an ardent leftist, that the Biden coverup was the fault of the Democratic Party and that of the mainstream media. He admitted that Biden was just not capable of serving another four years and was not sharp. Clooney finally caught on after the horse had left the barn.
Furthermore, in spite of the phenomenal job he is doing during round two, including his knowledge, love and respect of American History, and the American citizen in general, as opposed to his predecessor who was decidedly anti-American, as was his joke of an administration. In 2017, POTUSDJT had morphed the colloquial term “Yellow Journalism” into the more commonly used term, “Fake News.” Yellow Journalism as defined by Wikipedia, or yellow press, “is an American term for a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering or sensationalism.” There are two major events in American History of which yellow news set the trend and will be briefly cited. In other words, “Fake News.”
Paul Revere
In connection with the 1765 Quartering Act, British troops had been stationed in Boston since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation, including the Stamp Act as an example. On March 5, 1770, on Devonshire Street near the Olde State House in Boston, British soldiers shot and killed several Colonial citizens while under attack from a mob. The incident was heavily publicized and promoted by the Sons of Liberty, lead by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. This was to push the idea of revolution against the Crown. There were ongoing stressful and tense relations between the citizens of Boston and the assigned soldiers. An angry mob surrounded a British sentry, who was being harassed and verbally threatened. Eight reinforcements arrived, and were eventually hit by rocks, clubs and snowballs. The soldiers fired, without orders, killing three and mortally wounding two.
A few days after “The Boston Massacre,” Henry Pelham, a Boston artist, depicted the event. Revere, the aforementioned member of The Sons of Liberty, and a well known silversmith, closely copied Pelham’s image, and is often miscredited as its originator. The Boston Gazette published the image, which was widely circulated and became an important and very effective piece of anti-Crown propaganda. Additionally, anonymous pamphlets were published describing the event from significantly different perspectives. Fake news 18th Century style.
On a side note, John Adams, who was a prominent New England attorney, a Son of Liberty, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Second POTUS, defended the soldiers, including their commander, Captain Thomas Preston. All but two, including Preston, were acquitted. The two guilty soldiers received a scarlet letter on their hands.
Captain Sigsbee
As the 19th Century was coming to a close, the United States was an emerging world power and increasing global influence. On the evening of February 15, 1898, the United States warship USS Maine, under the command of Captain Charles Dwight Sigsbee, exploded in Havana Harbor. The Maine was dispatched to protect American interests during the Cuban Revolution against Spain. Without any warning, she exploded and foundered, killing nearly three quarters of her crew. The cause(s) of the Maine’s explosion and sinking was investigated by President William McKinley administration’s appointed naval board of inquiry. The consensus of the board was that Maine was destroyed by an external explosion from a mine.
Nevertheless, popular opinion in the country, encouraged by inflammatory articles printed in the “yellow journalism” newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, blamed Spain. The phrase, “Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!” became a rallying cry for action, from which became the Spanish-American War. The military action started after President McKinley requested a Declaration of War, starting on April 21, 1898. While the sinking of the Maine was not a direct cause for action, it served as a catalyst, accelerating the diplomatic disagreements between the US and Spain.
Major General Wesley Merritt (April 16, 1836-December 3, 1910) USMA Class 1861
The Spanish-American War would serve to be the first overseas conflict fought by the US. It involved major campaigns in both Cuba and the Philippine Islands, generated by yellow news. By the way, one of my heroes, Major General Wesley Merritt, led the American AEF into the Philippines.
Admiral Hyman Rickover
On side note, in 1976, Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear Navy, commissioned a private investigation into the Maine’s explosion, and National Geographic continued the investigation in 1999, using computer simulations. All the investigations agreed that an explosion of the forward magazines caused the destruction of the ship, but different conclusions were reached as to how the magazines could have exploded. McKinley’s leading Naval ordnance expert, Captain Philip R. Alger, USNA Class of 1880, took this theory further by suggesting that the magazines were ignited by a spontaneous fire in a coal bunker. The wreck of the Maine was eventually refloated, taken out to sea, and sunk in order to remain on eternal patrol. Yellow news took us to war in 1898.
Captain Philip Alger
In present time, the progressive extremists of the liberal leftist establishment are pulling the strings of the belligerent and bellicose mainstream media, just as a puppeteer would do. We do know for certain that the extremists of the liberal left lost their collective minds, “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” ever since POTUSDJT was duly elected in 2016, and their irrational actions and accusations are nonstop, continuing with the two false accusations of Russian collusion and calls of a Constitutional crisis with DOGE and attempting to garner a ceasefire leading to peace with the Ukraine and Russia. The bootlicking dregs of the cosmopolitan biased, cultural supremacist corporate mainstream media are still calling POTUSDJT a racist and a bigot, as the hypocritical and hysterical left still cannot wrap their arms around the fact that Harris lost. Now they are continuing with amped up attacks. Yellow news to fake news!
Whether it’s the electronic or print media, the false, vile and evil things being reported have just gotten more bizarre. There remains criticism of how he consumes Diet Coke, including having a soda button on his desk. Big deal. The man puts in all kinds of crazy hours, in a nonstop schedule, as opposed to DementiaJoe’s late to rise, early to bed schedule, with naps in between. The puppets from the unprepossessing mainstream media had questioned President Donald John Trump’s mental acuity and former CNN troll April Ryan had audacity to ask Admiral/Doctor Ronnie Jackson, POTUSDJT’s (along with GW Bush and Obama) White House personal physician, if the POTUS was a drug addict. The fake news at its worst.
Admiral/Doctor (Ret.) and now Representative Ronny Jackson(R-TX)
In short order, President Donald John Trump(#47) once again has a big job ahead of him as he continues to undo the damage inflicted on the country by Biden, Harris, USAG Merrick Garland, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and the rest of the most corrupt, sorriest, dirtiest administration since President Ulysses Grant, although it was no fault of Grant. Yet as the layers of corruption and treason are being peeled away to open the public’s eyes, the bootlicking dregs of the corporate mainstream media still absolutely refuse to address the crimes against the country and the lawfare committed against POTUSDJT.
A picture is worth a thousand words!
Furthermore, Representative Auntie Maxine (D-CA) remains a screamer as she is encouraging “pushing back” and harassing White House staff, while verbally threatening POTUSDJT, for which she should be censured. Violence has been promulgated by her hateful and harsh words, which her followers adhere to. She is out of touch with America and out of touch with reality and ignored by the mainstream media. It’s become quite apparent that extremist liberal leftist politicians are going to sit idly by while these acts of aggression continue to happen when all they have to do to stop it is condemn and censure those responsible. Like Auntie Maxine. Nothing reported by the mainstream media. Nothing done by Congress.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
The mainstream media has taken to their familiar playbook when covering the Trump administration 2.0. They employ loaded questions, spin the coverage, and harbor a hostility that runs deep for many of the bootlicking dregs of the mainstream media covering the White House, the Pentagon and other government agencies. This act is getting old. As a case in point, during a recent presser Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was taking questions from reporters about recent leadership changes at the Department of Defense. The atmosphere in the room was thick as Hegseth was peppered for details about POTUSDJT’s military leadership nominations. One member of the media encouraged by the hostile media environment, took the road to a fiercely intense line of questioning that took an accusatory tone. Hegseth, not one to take crap from anyone, offered a response that left the room quiet. The question posed: “Mr. Secretary, why did you select an under-qualified retired lieutenant general to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?” Hegseth returned fire: “I’m gonna choose to REJECT your unqualified question!” The changes have outraged the swamp bureaucracy with dismissals of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of the Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force. And the removals are neither racist or misogynistic. How about plain incompetence or lack of qualifications. This is the exact response that would not happened under the DementiaJoe administration without any accountability.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt
The White House announced that its press staff will determine which media members are eligible for the White House press pool rather than the White House Correspondences’ Association. Press secretary, Caroline Leavitt announced this major shake up during the recent briefing. She added that the outlets who have been denied access to the pressers would be added to the press pool rotation. There have been news outlets denied to partake in White House pressers having been blocked by the legacy mainstream media outlets. Leavitt kicked open the door to new media members not only those who harshly criticized President Donald John Trump. The first two additions were Breitbart News’ Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle, and Axios co-founder Mike Allen. They were the first new media members to sit in the seats for beginning the press briefing and were presented with the first questions that traditionally go to the Associated Press, who were removed from the White House press conferences, due to their confrontation agenda. The AP filed a restraining order against Leavitt, the White House, deputy chief of staff, Taylor, Budowhich, and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, for removing the outlet from accessing designated events. A federal judge denied the restraining order. This is the bootlicking dregs of the legacy corporate mainstream media getting a dose of their own medicine. The leftist media has spun their last story as the White House is finally taking a stand against the rampant misinformation. And let’s not forget that Biden conducted only a handful of pressers which were a bad joke, where he would take three or four questions from preselected reporters, whose names and photographs were printed on a cheat card.
And DementiaJoe didn’t hold a presser until two months into his one and only term. On the other hand President Donald John Trump has taken more than 1,000 questions from reporters and is available every day. He invites reporters into his suite on Air Force One, conducts impromptu press conferences in the Oval Office while signing executive orders and holds regular press conferences that exhaust every question.
Ick!!!
Furthermore, there’s an old Klingon saying that: “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” In this case, the self-revenge was taken against the mutts at CNN and MSNBC. There are more people working at each network than are watching on a daily basis. With their ratings in the toilet, that left the network executives to go Elon’s DOGE on the personnel, yet their on air “talent” harshly criticize President Donald John Trump’s promise to shrink the Federal Government that Biden bloated at our expense. As a case in point, MSNBC took the ax to Joy Reid‘s show and canceled it. Reid did not lose her show because of being a documented homophobe, a demented liar or a divisive racist who spews conspiracy theories. This kept her in the game. The show was canceled because Reid’s ratings were in the trash. Reid saw a 47% drop from the 1.4 million viewers prior to the 2024 election. The 25-54 age bracket tanked to 52,000, which determines advertising rates. When President Donald John Trump resoundingly won the 2024 election after stomping the word salad Harris, Fox News’ ratings and viewership spiked north, while taking chunks of CNN and MSNBC‘s audiences. Apparently both networks viewership got tired of being lied to and hearing ridiculous and unfettered conspiracy theories…see the Hillary Clinton funded Russian collusion story.
Additionally, as reported by the New York Post, “CBS News has come under fire for its alleged media bias and editorial decision making.” In October 2024, during the presidential election, “60 Minutes” showed an interview with then VPOTUS Harris. She was asked numerous questions about the Biden administration’s policies towards Israel. Apparently, CBS released two separate clips previewing the broadcast which showed Harris giving two very different answers. The broadcast that was aired had one of her answers condensed. Then candidate Trump sued CBS News and Paramount, the parent company, making the claim that the edits were intended to deceive the public in order to make Harris more concise and succinct, which goes against her usual mindless word salads. This is now facing mediation in an attempt to prevent the case from going to trial. Go figure that a leftist network would try to fix Harris in the same manner that they attempted to hide Biden’s cognitive decline. Fake news!!
Harris-CBS’ Tim Walz
And let’s not forget that in just over one month President Donald John Trump has met with the mainstream media at least 50 times and answered than Biden did in four years…without the use of cheat cards, teleprompters and pre-arranged questions, with pre-arranged reporters, who were pre-identified on the aforementioned cheat cards with photos. Moreover, POTUSDJT held the first Cabinet meeting of his presidency 2.0, which was open to the media. The hourlong meeting covered various topics and issues, ending with Trump answering reporters’ questions on Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan, the House Republicans’ budget plan, and more.
Zelenskyy came to the meeting with his hands out expecting billions more, as if Biden was still in the White House. He found that there was a new sheriff in town, who puts America first. Zelenskyy crossed his arms, pouted like a spoiled child who didn’t get his way and was sent to his room. Yet, Zelenskyy knows that he must make the deal in order to have American interests in the Ukraine, which really is the security he wants. This would give Putin second thoughts at any further escalation, while keeping the draconian Communist Chinese Republic in check. And the knuckleheads from the mainstream media and the radical, progressive left fail to see the global picture as President Donald John Trump seeks peace, while Biden was adhering to the whims of the industrial military complex, feeding the fight.
And speaking of the Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy conference with POTUSDJT didn’t go as initially planned, as Zelenskyy was not only disrespectful to President Donald John Trump, but also to the Office of the President and the US. So, signing a treaty that would make available that country’s minerals and other resources, while continuing to receive military assistance, and attempting to reimburse the billions that DementiaJoe had authorized has been put on hold. Under George W. Bush, in 2008, Russia invaded Ossetia and Georgia. In 2014, under the Obama administration, the Russians invaded the Donbas and Crimea…and got blankets. Three years ago, February 24, 2022, under DementiaJoe, who was actually correct about the Russian invasion and did nothing for months, the Russians once again crossed the border and tried to take Kyiv. There has been fighting since. From 2017-2021 the Russians did not cross the border. Why? Because none of the three aforementioned presidents were in office. President Donald John Trump was. Peace through strength!
Trump demanded a share of Ukraine’s rich mineral deposits, as recompense for the more than $175 billion the United States has given to the country in military and civilian aid since the 2022 Russian invasion.
But isn’t fascinating that in under two months President Donald John Trump has the Ukraine-Russia war on the verge of ending? Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) slammed Zelenskyy for arguing with President Donald John Trump and Vice President JD Vance during an explosive Oval Office meeting, telling reporters Kyiv’s leader should consider his political future.I wonder if Biden will attempt to take credit for any peace initiatives taken by the current administration. This stuff usually goes on behind closed door with a brief statement, but this was for the public to see. And of course, the unprepossessing, bootlicking dregs of the corporate mainstream media and the radical, progressive liberals opened their stale playbook criticizing POTUSDJT. They still got nothing else, as they fail to understand POTUSDJT’s agenda. Zelenskyy met with the President with his hands, expecting more money and when he didn’t get his way, Zelenskyy crossed his arms and had a childish hissy fit. The only thing he didn’t do was stomp his feet. He thought that he could bully President Donald John Trump, like DementiaJoe. Zelenskyy failed to grasp that there’s a new sheriff in DC.
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Moreover, during the week of February 24-28, 2025, President Donald John Trump hosted two major pressers with French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer. Imagine two major pressers with questions and answers not predetermined. And as for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Well, the expected mineral deal has been put on hold. And when President Donald John Trump ends the presser, it goes on until reporters essentially run out of questions, while never hearing him ask for permission to get additional questions ala DementiaJoe.
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As it stands right now, the Democratic Party, as we knew it, no longer exists. The current group is a socialist disaster that wants to destroy American exceptionalism, dissolve the country as we know it and rewrite our history. Of course the mainstream media is promoting a failed philosophy. Venezuela anyone? Fake news!
To quote Greg Gutfeld: “The contrast that reflects the difference between each party’s souls is that the soul of the Republicans is spontaneity. The soul of the Democratic Party is choreography…creating artificial, strictly manufactured narratives that make honesty impossible. Trump’s honesty is hard to fake because you can’t lie on the fly. You can’t mastermind a coverup when you answer every question quicker than a magic eight ball that just did an eight ball. What do the Dems have? Overwhelmed by reality, they have the same load bearing phrases: “Dictator” “Fascist” “Authoritarian.” It’s like a prerecorded message coming from a windup doll that no child wants to play with anymore. If they don’t figure something new, they will end up on the trash heap at the local dump.” But the results from the 2024 election have clearly demonstrated that has already occurred. Trump is far more disciplined and cranky this time around as he answers questions.
The resistance from the radical, progressive left and the bootlicking dregs of the corporate mainstream media, who are the malignant narcissists, are still trying to shove lies down America’s throat. And both groups have not learned from the 2024 Election Day referendum that now sees President Donald John Trump, with his highest pol numbers, a strong administration of non-bureaucratic outsiders, who adhere to an America First agenda, and in just a matter of weeks have clearly demonstrated just how weak, feeble, corrupt, incompetent, inept and fragile DementiaJoe was as his cognitively bankrupt abilities were covered up and lied about. But who was running the country?
So, the question that must be addressed is whether the bootlicking, grody dregs of the cosmopolitan biased, cultural supremacist corporate mainstream media is serving the needs of the American people or are they serving the extremists of the radical, progressive, liberal leftist establishment? I think it’s a clear answer that the extremists of the liberal left are so desperate to destroy President Donald John Trump, they would take the whole country down with them! The idea of patriotism and “America First” doesn’t exist for the extremists of the liberal left…only chaos. Oh My!!
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