Trump's Cabinet and Key Government Job Picks [Archive] - The Project Avalon Community Forum

rgray222

22nd November 2024, 00:53

Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has begun evaluating and rolling out picks for his Cabinet and other key positions. Even though he is moving at lightning speed some of his selections will certainly be caught up in (real, fake or perceived) scandal. The process is going to take many months if not a full year and the opposition party (Democrats) are not going to make it easy. There will be many fits and starts and we can expect to see some extraordinary drama as we move through the process.

The promise of change and the excitement of his second term is caught up and reflected in these selections. All of Trump’s Cabinet choices must be confirmed by the Senate, with the process set to begin in January

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Here is a recap of whom Trump has picked to fill the top jobs in his administration. (as of January 20, 2025)

Publicly announced

White House Chief of Staff – Susie Wiles (https://fortune.com/2024/11/21/donald-trump-susie-wiles-chief-of-staff-ice-maiden-baby-nickname-special-interests-lobbying/)
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations – Elise Stefanik (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/us/politics/trump-stefanik-un-ambassador.html)
National Security Adviser – Michael Waltz (https://waltz.house.gov/about/)
Border Czar – Tom Homan (https://abcnews.go.com/US/shock-awe-trump-border-czar-tom-homan-plans/story?id=115972346)
Ambassador to Israel – Mike Huckabee (https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/mike-huckabee)
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator – Lee Zeldin (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/climate/trump-chooses-lee-zeldin-to-run-epa.html)
Middle East Envoy – Steven Witkoff (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4987131-trump-steve-witkoff-middle-east-envoy/)
White House Counsel – William McGinley
CIA Director – John Ratcliffe (https://thehill.com/people/john-ratcliffe/)
Director of FBI - Kashyap "Kash" Patel (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?123843-Trump-s-Cabinet-and-Key-Government-Job-Picks&p=1644657&viewfull=1#post1644657)
Acting FBI Director - Brian Driscoll (https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-names-brian-driscoll-serve-acting-fbi-director-after-abbate-retirement)
Department of Government Efficiency – Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy (https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24301975/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-doge-plan)
Secretary of Defense – Pete Hegseth (https://nypost.com/2024/11/21/us-news/trump-defense-secretary-pick-pete-hegseth-addresses-alleged-sex-assault/)
Homeland Security Secretary – Kristi Noem (https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary/index.html)
Deputy Chief of Staff – Dan Scavino
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor – Stephen Miller (https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-california/)
Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs – James Blair
Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel – Taylor Budowich
Director of National Intelligence – Tulsi Gabbard (https://premierespeakers.com/speakers/tulsi-gabbard)
Secretary of State – Marco Rubio (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-taps-us-senator-marco-rubio-secretary-state-2024-11-12/)
U.S. Attorney General – Pam Bondi (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-pam-bondi-trumps-new-pick-attorney-general)
Secretary of Health and Human Services – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/trump-administration-rfk-criticisms)
U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York –Jay Clayton
Secretary of Veterans Affairs – Doug Collins
U.S Solicitor General – Dean John Sauer
Deputy Attorney General – Todd Blanche
Secretary of the Interior – Doug Burgum (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/climate/trump-burgum-for-interior-secretary.html)
Communications Director – Steven Cheung (https://www.newsweek.com/steven-cheung-sharpest-attacks-donald-trump-critics-1986841)
Director of Presidential Personnel – Sergio Gor
Press Secretary – Karoline Leavitt (https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/how-karoline-leavitt-rose-from-the-ranks-of-an-intern-to-become-donald-trumps-pick-for-white-house-press-secretary-11731738669930.html)
Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary – William Owen Scharf
Secretary of Energy – Chris Wright (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/climate/trump-picks-chris-wright.html)
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission – Brendan Carr (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-taps-fcc-member-brendan-carr-lead-agency-chairman-warrior-free-speech)
Secretary of Transportation – Sean Duffy (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/politics/sean-duffy-trump-transportation-dot.html)
Secretary of Commerce – Howard Lutnick (https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/politics/howard-lutnick-commerce-secretary/index.html)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator – Dr Mehmet Oz (https://abcnews.go.com/Health/dr-oz-cms-medicare-medicaid/story?id=116043014)
Secretary of Education – Linda McMahon (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/politics/linda-mcmahon-education-secretary-trump.html)
Ambassador to NATO – Matthew Whitaker (https://apnews.com/article/trump-matthew-whitaker-nato-ambassador-foreign-policy-173c814ab755ee39d58e7023ff8242a5)
Treasury Department Secretary - Scott Bessent (https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/scott-bessent-husband-5347936/)
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Dave Weldon (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?123843-Trump-s-Cabinet-and-Key-Government-Job-Picks&p=1643428&viewfull=1#post1643428)
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) - Russ Vought (https://www.newsweek.com/russ-vought-trump-cabinet-project-2025-1990588)
Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)- Scott Turner
Labor Secretary - Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer
FDA Commissioner - Dr. Marty Makary (https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/12/01/marty-makary-fda-appointment/)
Surgeon General - Dr. Janette Nesheiwat (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-surgeon-general-janette-nesheiwat_n_6744e07ce4b03df08651bf6f)
Deputy Assistant To the President and Director for Counterterrorism - Sebastian Gorka (https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/sebastian-gorka-trump-john-bolton-b2652612.html)
Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor - Alex Wong
Agriculture Secretary - Brook Collins
Director of the National Institutes of Health - Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/us/politics/jay-bhattacharya-nih-trump.html)
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - Jared Isaacman (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?123843-Trump-s-Cabinet-and-Key-Government-Job-Picks&p=1645158&viewfull=1#post1645158)
Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing - Peter Navarro (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?123843-Trump-s-Cabinet-and-Key-Government-Job-Picks&p=1645117&viewfull=1#post1645117)
Head of the Office of White House Counsel - David A. Warrington
Commission of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - Billy Long (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5023124-trump-names-billy-long-as-irs-head/)
Special Presidential Envoy For Hostage Affairs - Adam Boehler (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/trump-picks-adam-boehler-to-be-presidential-envoy-for-hostage-affairs.html)
Ambassador. Assostamt Secretary of State and Chief of Protocol - Monica Crowley (https://www.ustravel.org/press/us-travel-welcomes-nomination-monica-crowley-chief-protocol)
White House A.I. and Crypto Czar - David O. Sacks (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-appoints-former-paypal-coo-david-sacks-ai-crypto-czar-2024-12-06/)
Ambassador to China - David Perdue (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-taps-former-sen-david-perdue-ambassador-china)
Chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board - Devin Nunes (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-picks-truthsocial-ceo-devin-nunes-intelligence-advisory-board-rcna184272)
Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division - Harmeet Dhillon (https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/12/09/harmeet-dhillon-nominated-for-role-in-trumps-administration-n2648817)
Ambassador To Panama - Kevin Marino Cabrera (https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/25/politics/kevin-marino-cabrera-trump-ambassador-panama-canal/index.html)
Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence - Sriram Krishnam (https://www.axios.com/2024/12/27/sriram-krishnan-maga-civil-war-backlash)
Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace - Morgan Ortagus (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-not-enamored-with-morgan-ortagus-his-pick-for-mideast-peace-team/ar-AA1wVU2a)
U.S. Department of State Spokesperson - Tammy Bruce (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/trump-picks-fox-news-contributor-tammy-bruce-as/)
Director of Secret Service - Sean Curran (https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-sean-curran-trump-secret-service-director-nominee-personal-detail)

Here are a couple of links where you can read a brief bio about each candidate.
Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-picks-so-far-heres-who-advising-new-president
New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/politics/trump-administration-cabinet-appointees.html#
USNews: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/trumps-2024-picks-for-his-cabinet-and-administration-so-far
Fox News additional appointments: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/from-cdc-labor-secretary-see-trumps-top-picks-cabinet-roles

ExomatrixTV

22nd November 2024, 13:58

The 2024 US POTUS Election - and Now the Aftermath (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120811-The-2024-US-POTUS-Election-and-now-the-aftermath)

rgray222

23rd November 2024, 01:20

Who is Susie Wiles, the "ice maiden" who will be Trump's chief of staff?

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WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Republican President-elect Donald Trump named campaign chief Susie Wiles as his White House chief of staff on Thursday.
It was his first appointment since winning Tuesday's election against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. Here are some key facts about Wiles, who is set to run day-to-day operations at the White House:

DISCIPLINED OPERATION
Wiles, a longtime Republican strategist, is widely credited - along with co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita - with running the most disciplined and sophisticated of Trump's three presidential campaigns.
She did not always succeed at stopping Trump from going off-script, but she kept damaging media leaks to a relative minimum, launched a bold and successful strategy to win over some Latino and Black voters and led the former president to a decisive win.

PARTY ESTABLISHMENT
Wiles got her start working for Republican President Ronald Reagan's successful 1980 campaign. For years, she worked with some moderate Republicans who promoted dramatically different policies than those of Trump.
Early in her career, she worked for Republican U.S. representatives Jack Kemp, an ardent advocate of free trade, and Tillie Fowler, who was widely considered a moderate on several issues, including gun control.
She also served briefly as the manager of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr.'s 2012 presidential campaign. Huntsman was arguably the most moderate Republican in the field that year. He sharply criticized Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump's supporters.

WORKING FOR THE ENEMY
Later in her career, Wiles started working for more combative party figures, some of whom would become Trump allies, including U.S. Senator Rick Scott of Florida.
Notably, she was a key figure in Ron DeSantis' successful 2018 Florida gubernatorial campaign. She was dismissed by DeSantis after he took office.
When Trump and DeSantis squared off in the Republican presidential primary, she presided over an aggressive and successful strategy to portray her old boss as personally off-putting and out of touch on some key policy issues.

"ICE MAIDEN"
While Wiles is personally friendly, she is relatively little-known and enigmatic for a political strategist of her stature. She rarely gives televised interviews and avoids speaking engagements. Like many successful campaign managers, she can be ruthless when merited.
Her personality contrasted with that of LaCivita, who was notably garrulous and outspoken.
During his victory speech, Trump referred to Wiles as the "ice maiden."

PROMINENT FAMILY
Wiles is the daughter of Pat Summerall, who was a prominent football player and sportscaster. Summerall played in the National Football League for a decade and later announced 16 Super Bowls. He died in 2013.

Trump To Nominate Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary, a Former Soros Investment Advisor

President-elect Trump will nominate Scott Bessent to serve as Treasury Department secretary once he returns to the White House in January. Bessent, the founder and CEO of global macro investment firm Key Square Group, was a key economic policy adviser and fundraiser for the Trump campaign.

Having spent decades working alongside Soros—a prominent megadonor to Democratic causes—Bessent's evolution into a key supporter of President-elect Donald Trump marks a striking political shift. Once a reliable donor to Democratic campaigns, Bessent's contributions shifted rightward after he left Soros's firm.

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Bessent's relationship with Soros (https://www.newsweek.com/scott-bessent-connection-george-soros-trump-treasury-secretary-1984669) began in the early 1980s when he joined Soros Fund Management after graduating from Yale University. Known for his sharp analytical skills and strategic thinking, Bessent quickly advanced, becoming an influential part of Soros's team in London.
He then played a pivotal role in the "Black Wednesday" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday) trade of 1992, when Soros famously "broke the Bank of England" by betting against the British pound. This trade earned Soros's team over $1 billion and solidified Soros's reputation as a formidable figure in global finance.
Elon Musk advised against Bessent's nomination saying he would be business as usual.
Scott Bessent, the pro-tariff Wall Street veteran will become perhaps the most prominent voice shaping the Trump economy, with Bessent earning Trump’s nomination amid a high-profile power struggle for the post.
A South Carolina native and 1984 graduate of Yale University, the 62-year-old Bessent is the founder of the hedge fund Key Square Management, which had less than $600 million in assets under management as of the end of 2023.
Bessent, who lives primarily in Charleston, S.C., with his husband John Freeman and their two children, according to the Wall Street Journal, could be the first Senate-approved LGBTQ+ member in a Republican cabinet.
Bessent also has called for Trump to appoint the next Federal Reserve chairman next year, a year before the expiration of Fed chief Jerome Powell’s term.

Source- WSJ, Forbes, Newsweek and Investor D.

rgray222

23rd November 2024, 01:49

Trump picks former Florida Rep. Dr. Dave Weldon as Director of Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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Trump said Dr. Weldon would restore transparency within the agency

President-elect Trump announced that former Rep. Dr. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., is his pick as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"In addition to being a Medical Doctor for 40 years, and an Army Veteran, Dave has been a respected conservative leader on fiscal and social issues, and served on the Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee, working for Accountability on HHS and CDC Policy and Budgeting," Trump said in the Friday evening announcement.

"Dave also served in a leading role in Government Oversight and Reform Committee Hearings, addressing issues within HHS and CDC. Dave has successfully worked with the CDC to enact a ban on patents for human embryos," Trump said.

Trump said that Dr. Weldon will play a key part in "Making America Healthy Again," saying that he will work on correcting "past errors."

"Americans have lost trust in the CDC and in our Federal Health Authorities, who have engaged in censorship, data manipulation, and misinformation," he said.

Source and full story: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-picks-former-florida-rep-dr-dave-weldon-director-cdc

rgray222

23rd November 2024, 15:29

Trump taps a Fox News personality, a surgeon and a former Congressman to lead public health agencies

Dr. Makary strongly believes in natural immunity and resolutely opposes vaccination mandates and other public health measures.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated Dr. Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, selecting a surgeon and author who gained national attention for opposing vaccine mandates and some other public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, is the latest in a string of Trump nominees who have declared the U.S. health system “broken,” vowing a shakeup. As part of a flurry of nominations late Friday night, Trump also tapped doctor and former Republican Rep. Dave Weldon of Florida to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fox News contributor Janette Nesheiwat, meanwhile, is set to be the nation’s next surgeon general.

Some of Makary’s views align closely with the man who is poised to be his boss — prominent environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine organizer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump put forward as the next U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary.

In books and articles, Makary has decried the overprescribing of drugs, the use of pesticides on foods and the undue influence of pharmaceutical and insurance companies over doctors and government regulators, points that Kennedy has also harped on for years.

Source and full story: https://apnews.com/article/fda-trump-marty-makary-34424f5fefcbbc334c1983b025523aad

rgray222

23rd November 2024, 15:53

Trump Nominates Pro-Mask Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General

Dr. Nesheiwat is (or at least was) pro-mask during the pandemic and called the COVID vaccines “a gift from God.”

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But Dr. Nesheiwat has an impressive medical history:

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday chose family medicine doctor and Fox News contributor Janette Nesheiwat to be surgeon general, again showing preference for a television personality as the face of his incoming administration.

"Dr. Nesheiwat is a fierce advocate and strong communicator for preventive medicine and public health," Trump said in a statement. "She is committed to ensuring that Americans have access to affordable, quality healthcare, and believes in empowering individuals to take charge of their health to live longer, healthier lives."

She treated patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, tended to victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Joplin tornadoes, and has worked for the Samaritan's Purse disaster relief organization providing care in Morocco, Haiti and Poland, Trump said.

Many Americans will know her as a Fox News contributor who has discussed issues such as the mpox strain, the effects of alcohol and drug use, or natural disaster relief. As of Trump's announcement, she was no longer a Fox News contributor, a spokesperson for the cable network said.

Trump has plucked a number of presidential appointments from Fox News programs, both in his first term from 2017 to 2021 and since being elected again on Nov. 5.
Communication skills are important to the job's role as health educator, providing information on how to improve health and lower the risk of illness.

“Dr. Nesheiwat will play a pivotal role in MAKING AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN!” Trump said in the release.

Source:https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5005739-fox-news-contributor-janette-nesheiwat-tapped-as-trumps-surgeon-general/
Source: https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/trump-nominates-pro-mask-dr-janette-nesheiwat-for-surgeon-general/

ExomatrixTV

23rd November 2024, 17:23

rgray222

23rd November 2024, 17:26

Trump Names Former Professional Football Play to Secretary of Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Trump nominated Scott Turner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Turner_(politician)) as the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Turner, who is chair of the Center for Education Opportunity and is a former professional football player, previously served as executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (WHORC).

"Scott is an NFL Veteran, who, during my First Term, served as the First Executive Director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (WHORC), helping to lead an Unprecedented Effort that Transformed our Country’s most distressed communities," Trump said in a Friday statement. "Those efforts, working together with former HUD Secretary, Ben Carson, were maximized by Scott’s guidance in overseeing 16 Federal Agencies which implemented more than 200 policy actions furthering Economic Development. Under Scott’s leadership, Opportunity Zones received over $50 Billion Dollars in Private Investment!"

Turner, a former Texas state lawmaker, played nine seasons in the NFL as a member of the Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers and the Denver Broncos.

rgray222

23rd November 2024, 22:33

Owen Shroyer - The Truth about Matt Gaetz's withdrawal from AG Nomination:

https://1a-1791.com/video/s8/2/l/n/H/Z/lnHZu.gaa.mp4?u=3&b=0

source (https://rumble.com/v5rtcgb-owen-shroyer-the-truth-about-matt-gaetzs-withdrawal-from-ag-nomination.html)
rumble.com/search/all?q=John_Thune (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=John%20Thune) (NeoCon "Fake Republican" Senate Majority Leader John Thune (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thune) from South Dakota)
rumble.com/search/all?q=Susan_Collins (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Susan%20Collins) (NeoCon "Fake Republican" Senator Susan Collins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Collins) from Maine)
rumble.com/search/all?q=Lisa_Murkowski (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Lisa%20Murkowski) (NeoCon "Fake Republican" Senator Lisa Murkowski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski) from Alaska)

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

Staffers claim Senator Lisa Murkowski secretly supported ranked voting system in Alaska to ensure election victory (https://rumble.com/v1fihrj-august-10-2022.html)
Kelly Tshibaka Excoriates Lisa Murkowski 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-OVJNgVSsU)
Alaska's voting system was rigged in Lisa Murkowski's favor: Kelly Tshibaka (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWNcRyGVuI)
Murkowski campaign has more than 6 times the cash as rival Tshibaka
(https://alaskapublic.org/2022/02/01/murkowski-campaign-has-more-than-6-times-the-cash-as-rival-tshibaka/)

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Senator Susan Collins: 'I cannot support former President Trump':

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Senator Susan Collins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Collins) was also one of seven NeoCon Republicans who voted at an impeachment trial to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection after his supporters attacked the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

source (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/12/susan-collins-donald-trump-election)
GOP senator demands "extensive" vetting for Trump health appointees (https://www.axios.com/2024/11/20/collins-trump-health-appointees-extensive-vetting-senate)
Sen. Collins wants full confirmation process for Trump appointees (https://www.pressherald.com/2024/11/15/sen-collins-wants-full-confirmation-process-for-trump-appointees/)

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

John, I am not surprised that Matt Gaetz removed himself from consideration. I wonder if this was Trump's way of intentionally trolling the Democrats without any desire to appoint him Attorney General. Of all the cabinet positions the Attorney General is the one that is supposedly "independent" from the President. Nobody in their right mind actually believes that but most Americans "want" to believe that it is true.

Biden and Garland played the game well. Everyone knows that Garland would never have levelled all the charges against Trump without Biden's approval. Biden and Garland hid behind the cloak of independence and this allowed them to say the Trump indictments were not political. Everybody also knows that Matt Gaetz is a very political animal and Trump and Gaetz would never get away with this false pretence of independence. On the other hand, Pam Bondi and Trump will be able to successfully pretend that the Attorney General decides which criminals to prosecute without discussion from the White House.

Susan Collins can't see the future, she reflects her selfish wants and desires in her governance. This is a very narcissistic way of going about your job. I am quite sure that no amount of discussion or debate would ever allow her to change her mind.

ExomatrixTV

23rd November 2024, 22:36

rgray222

24th November 2024, 00:18

John, I am not surprised that Matt Gaetz removed himself from consideration. I wonder if this was Trump's way of intentionally trolling the Democrats without any desire to appoint him Attorney General. Of all the cabinet positions the Attorney General is the one that is supposedly "independent" from the President. Nobody in their right mind actually believes that but most Americans "want" to believe that it is true.

Biden and Garland played the game well. Everyone knows that Garland would never have levelled all the charges against Trump without Biden's approval. Biden and Garland hid behind the cloak of independence and this allowed them to say the Trump indictments were not political. Everybody also knows that Matt Gaetz is a very political animal and Trump and Gaetz would never get away with this false pretence of independence. On the other hand, Pam Bondi and Trump will be able to successfully pretend that the Attorney General decides which criminals to prosecute without discussion from the White House.

Susan Collins can't see the future, she reflects her selfish wants and desires in her governance. This is a very narcissistic way of going about your job. I am quite sure that no amount of discussion or debate would ever allow her to change her mind.

How can you be surprised or not if it was already well explained in the video of Owen Shroyer (https://rumble.com/v5rtcgb-owen-shroyer-the-truth-about-matt-gaetzs-withdrawal-from-ag-nomination.html)? Did you not watch it? ... But I also see the possible trolling factor too :)

Yes, I watched the video and I think that Shroyer is way off the mark. Gaetz was nothing more than a trial balloon to accomplish two important objectives. Trump was very intentionally poking Democrats in the eye, I would say mission accomplished. Secondly and more importantly it was to see exactly where and how deep the opposition was going to be for all the candidates when the hearings take place in the Senate in January. I would say mission accomplished.

It is not too difficult to understand that Gaetz was nothing more than a false flag, it took Trump less than 6 hours to name his successor.

If you watch this short CNN video (https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/politics/video/pam-bondi-attorney-general-doj-trump-digvid) you will see why Pam Bondi makes so much sense for Trump.

ExomatrixTV

24th November 2024, 22:42

Trump's Surgeon General Is Fauci Level Bad & Pam Bondi Is A Downgrade! Here's Why:

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How Janette Nesheiwat and RFK Jr Could Be Split On Vaccines (https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-janette-nesheiwat-vaccines-trump-1990592)

mountain_jim

25th November 2024, 15:34

One researcher's view:

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The corporate media seem to be locked-in on the narrative that Tulsi a “Russian asset”.

But none of them ever mention WHY.

It’s because of what she said about the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine.

The media leave out this detail, because they don’t want anyone digging further.

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but there are other reasons apparently.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senators-signal-trump-nominees-gabbard-hegseth-will-face-grilling-congress

Senators Signal Trump Nominees Gabbard, Hegseth Will Face Grilling In Congress

by Tyler Durden
Monday, Nov 25, 2024 - 09:00 AM
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,

Multiple Democratic and Republican senators on Nov. 24 signaled that they will grill President-elect Donald Trump’s choices to lead the Intelligence Community and the Pentagon.

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Earlier this month, Trump nominated former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to become his director of national intelligence (DNI) and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be his secretary of defense. Both positions require confirmation by the Senate.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Nov. 24 on CNN that his panel will have “lots of questions” for Gabbard, singling out her meeting as a congresswoman with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad as a point of contention.

“She met with Bashar Assad. We’ll want to know what the purpose was,” he said.

“We’ll want to get a chance to talk about past comments that she’s made and get them into full context.”

Also on Nov. 24, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) told the network that she believes Hegseth, a former Army National Guard officer, is “unqualified” to head up the Pentagon and also criticized the choice of Gabbard for DNI.

“I do think that we have a real deep concern whether or not she’s a compromised person,” Duckworth said, referring to the Assad meeting and her previous comments on Russia.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), a member of the chamber’s Judiciary Committee, told ABC News on Nov. 24 that she wants background checks on Trump’s Cabinet selections.

“They’ve got to get their background checks together. They’ve got to get qualified nominees,” Klobuchar said.

“I want to make a decision on each one of them on the merits, as I’ve done in the past, and I can’t do that without the background checks.”

However, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) told CNN that Gabbard could easily pass a background check because she is serving in the Army Reserve.

“There’s no document, there’s no background there for her to see, for anyone to see. She is a true patriot of the United States, and there’s no reason why the Democrats are going after her other than the fact they’re upset that she left their woke party,” he said, referencing the former congresswoman’s departure from the Democratic Party two years ago and her officially joining the Republican Party in October.

Hegseth has come under scrutiny in recent days after a 2017 police report revealed allegations - not charges - against the Fox News host.

The report states that a woman accused him of sexual assault at a hotel room in California; Hegseth has denied the allegations and has never been charged.

When he is nominated to head the Department of Defense after Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2025, he is likely to face questions over the matter.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), told ABC on Nov. 24 that Hegseth is a “very talented individual” and that the claims are just “allegations.”

According to the senator, Hegseth may help boost recruitment numbers or retain enlisted members.

“We have a huge recruitment problem, a huge retention problem in the military,” he said, noting that people have told him that some military officials have informed him that they will stay in the military as a result of the Hegseth announcement.

“That’s the type of inspirational leader we need to see. Don’t let these allegations distract us. What we need is real, significant change,” Hagerty said.

“The Pentagon has been more focused on pronouns than they have lethality the past four years. We need to get back to business, and I think Pete is just the person to do it.”

Last week, Trump’s first choice for U.S. attorney general, former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name from consideration and said he will not be returning to the House next year. Gaetz said he doesn’t want an ongoing House Ethics investigation into his conduct to become a distraction for Trump.

Before Gaetz’s withdrawal, multiple Republican senators said they would want to see the ethics report before deciding whether to confirm him. The president-elect named attorney Pam Bondi as his new nominee for U.S. attorney general.

Over the weekend, Trump named investor and hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to be the Treasury secretary and named former Trump official Russ Vought to be his budget chief.

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mountain_jim

25th November 2024, 20:19

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1860845066375360862

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REPORT: Hillary Clinton has been exposed in another MASSIVE hoax.

You may have noticed that the media has been branding Tulsi Gabbard as a “Russian asset.”

The sniff test will quickly tell you this is a hoax. But where did this baseless claim originate from? It all started with — surprise — Hillary Clinton.

Megyn Kelly explained how Clinton lamented Gabbard’s status as a “rising star” in the Democratic Party. Gabbard was smart, a person of color, articulate, a combat veteran, and beautiful—all qualities that Clinton longed for before her presidential run came crashing down in 2016.

As Gabbard’s popularity continued to rise, she launched her presidential campaign in 2019, championing a populist, anti-war message that challenged the Democratic establishment’s norms.

By October of that year, Clinton suggested in a podcast that Gabbard was being groomed by the Russians for a third-party run. The media quickly picked up on this story, the hoax began, and it has now resurfaced after her DNI nomination.

Watch as Megyn Kelly explains.

rgray222

26th November 2024, 01:33

Recess Appointments

Most (but not all) of this information came from a conversation I had with AI (chapGPT (https://deepai.org/chat/free-chatgpt)). I suspect that recess appointments may become a very hot topic in the coming months. This post is meant to be a reference or a very quick guide to those interested in recess appointments. This info only scratches the surface.

What positions need to be confirmed through the Senate appointment process?
According to a Congressional Research Service report (https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL30959.pdf), these presidentially-appointed positions requiring Senate approval can be categorized as follows:

Secretaries of the 15 Cabinet agencies, deputy secretaries, undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, and general counsels of those agencies: Over 350 positions
Justices of the Supreme Court: 9 positions (Supreme Court justices serve for life subject to death, retirement, resignation or impeachment.)
Certain jobs in independent, non-regulatory executive branch agencies, like NASA and the National Science Foundation: Over 120 positions
Director positions in the regulatory agencies, like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration: Over 130 positions
U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals: About 200 positions
Ambassadors to foreign nations: Over 150 positions
Presidential appointments to part-time positions, like the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Over 160 positions

What is a presidential recess appointment?
A Senate recess appointment is a provision that allows the President of the United States to appoint officials to certain federal positions without Senate confirmation when the Senate is in recess. This authority is derived from Article II, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution. These appointments are temporary and last only until the end of the Senate's next session. Recess appointments can be contentious, as they can circumvent the Senate's advise-and-consent role, and they are often used to fill vacant positions when political gridlock prevents timely confirmations.

What has Trump said about recess appointments during his second term?
President-elect Donald Trump is considering using recess appointments to bypass Senate confirmations for some of his Cabinet picks. This tool, which allows presidents to fill positions during a Senate recess, is gaining attention as Trump seeks to assert his power and speed up the process of setting up his team. Trump has told the Senate elect majority leader, John Thune and the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to be prepared to use recess appointments if it becomes necessary. Both said that they would be open to using recess appointments if the Senate appointment process does not work promptly.

Give a brief history of recess appointments.
Recess appointments have been a part of U.S. history since the founding of the republic, rooted in the Constitution's provision for such appointments by the President when the Senate is in recess. Here’s a very brief overview:

Early Use: The first recess appointment was made by President George Washington in 1789. He appointed a few officials to fill positions that required Senate confirmation.

19th Century: Recess appointments became more common, especially during periods of Senate inactivity or when partisan disputes hindered confirmations.

20th Century: The use of recess appointments continued, but the practice faced scrutiny during contentious political periods. The Supreme Court ruling in the 2014 case National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning limited the scope of recess appointments, stating that they could only be made during intersession recesses (the breaks between formal sessions of Congress), not during pro forma sessions.

21st Century: Recess appointments have generated ongoing debate, particularly regarding their use to bypass Senate confirmation processes during partisan gridlock.

Overall, recess appointments represent a balance between executive power and legislative oversight, reflecting evolving political dynamics in the U.S. government.

Pro Forma is used in an attempt to stop or slow down recess appointments what is it?
A pro forma session is a brief meeting of the Senate or House of Representatives during which no substantial business is conducted. These sessions are often held specifically to prevent the President from making recess appointments. When the Senate holds pro forma sessions, it typically does so every few days to maintain a presence and therefore is technically not "in recess" as defined by the Constitution.

When a pro forma session occurs, the Senate can block a recess appointment by demonstrating that it is still technically in session. This tactic became particularly prominent during periods of political contention when the White House and Senate leadership were at odds over appointments. By holding these pro forma sessions, the Senate ensures that it retains its constitutional role in the appointment process and limits the President's ability to make recess appointments.

What modern Presidents used recess appoints and why have they dramatically slowed down?

President Ronald Reagan made 243
George H. Bush made 77
President William J. Clinton made 139
President George W. Bush made 171
President Barack Obama made 32

Recess appointments, once a source of significant executive power and a flashpoint in presidential-Congressional relations, have all but vanished from modern politics. Since the Supreme Court’s 2014 Noel Canning v. NLRB decision, the Senate’s strategic use of pro forma sessions have blocked Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden from the conditions needed to make recess appointments. President-elect Donald Trump reignited this constitutional debate, calling on candidates for Senate Republican leadership to embrace recess appointments, stating “Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner.”

ExomatrixTV

26th November 2024, 03:41

Hilarious Moment Cnn Forced To Admit Donald Trump’s Skyrocketing Popularity After New Poll Released:

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Americans are in love with Donald Trump’s transition into the presidency following his election victory according to a new CBS News and YouGov poll released yesterday. CNN was forced to report on the impressive numbers.

mountain_jim

26th November 2024, 16:13

copying here

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1861277393438065064

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NEW: Rachel Maddow drives more viewers away from MSNBC with her defense of COVID lockdowns and forced vaccination.

“To lead the National Institute of Health, Trump's top candidate [Dr. Jay Bhattacharya] endorsed ‘herd immunity’ as the best way to address the COVID pandemic. Just a fancy way of saying, ‘Let's get everybody sick and see what happens. Cull the weak, cull the elderly.’”

On a related note, in March 2021, Maddow declared, “We now know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus STOPS with every vaccinated person... The virus does infect them. The virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else..”

I can’t believe she’s actually doubling down on this with her record.

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Rachel Maddow lied.

mountain_jim

26th November 2024, 16:30

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Let’s make this the funniest timeline

— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) November 25, 2024

mountain_jim

27th November 2024, 13:29

Trump War Room

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🚨 NEW: President Trump announces the nomination of @DrJBhattacharya to Director of the National Institutes of Health.

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The author of the Great Barrington Declaration @DrJBhattacharya
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Never lockdown again

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I'm so grateful to President Trump for this spectacular appointment. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the ideal leader to restore NIH as the international template for gold-standard science and evidence-based medicine.

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) November 27, 2024

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Trump’s new NIH Director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: “A relatively small group — a cartel almost — of very powerful scientific bureaucrats took over the whole apparatus of science, dominated the media, dominated the message to politicians.”

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This is Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s new NIH appointee, discussing myocarditis risks in young men after the COVID vaccine. A refreshing change from Fauci’s narrative.

rgray222

27th November 2024, 18:43

President-elect Trump appoints three key positions in White House offices

President-elect Trump announced three key appointments to White House offices, including two who served during his first term.

The announcement included the appointment of James Braid, who will return to the White House as the deputy assistant to the president and director of the Office of Legislative Affairs.

Braid worked in legislative affairs at the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first term, and since then he has served as the lead policy staffer for Vice President-elect JD Vance in the U.S. Senate.

Braid has also served as chief of staff for multiple members of Congress, and has taken on several other senior policy roles on Capitol Hill since 2015.

Trump also announced Alex Latcham will return to the White House as the deputy assistant to the president and director of the Office of Public Liaison.

Latcham previously served as special assistant to the president and deputy political director during Trump’s first term.

For the past eight years, Latcham served Trump as a senior deputy political director for his campaign and for the Republican National Committee.

The third person to be appointed is Matt Brasseaux, who will serve as deputy assistant to the president and director of the Office of Public Affairs.

Brasseaux worked as a deputy political director for the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee in 2024.

rgray222

27th November 2024, 18:46

Enemies lurking on American soil set their sights on President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks

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Trump Cabinet nominees, appointees targeted with ‘violent, unAmerican threats’

Nearly a dozen of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees and other appointees tapped for the incoming administration were targeted Tuesday night with "violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them," prompting a "swift" law enforcement response, Fox News Digital has learned.

The "attacks ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting,’" according to Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman and incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. One of the officials issued a statement describing his incident as having involved a "pipe bomb threat" with "a pro-Palestinian themed message."

Sources told Fox News Digital that John Racliffe, the nominee to be CIA director, Pete Hegseth, the nominee for secretary of defense, and Rep. Elise Stefanik, the nominee for UN ambassador, were among those targeted. Brooke Rollins, who Trump has tapped to be secretary of agriculture, and Lee Zeldin, Trump's nominee to be EPA administrator, separately revealed they were also targeted.

"Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and administration appointees were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them," she told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. "In response, law enforcement acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. President Trump and the entire Transition team are grateful for their swift action."

Local law enforcement officials responded to the threats and visited the homes of several nominees and appointees, Fox News Digital has learned. New York State Police said in a statement that members and K9 units "trained in explosives detection swept" Stefanik's home in Saratoga "and did not locate any explosive devices."

The FBI also issued a statement on Wednesday noting the bureau was "aware" of the spate of incidents.

"The FBI is aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting incoming administration nominees and appointees, and we are working with our law enforcement partners," it said. "We take all potential threats seriously and, as always, encourage members of the public to immediately report anything they consider suspicious to law enforcement."

Leavitt said Trump and the transition team "are focused on doing the work of uniting our nation by ensuring a safe and prosperous future."

"With President Trump as our example, dangerous acts of intimidation and violence will not deter us," she said.

Zeldin was among several officials who posted on social media or released statements about being targeted. He also revealed details about his particular incident.

"A pipe bomb threat targeting me and my family at my home today was sent in with a pro-Palestinian themed message," the Zeldin statement read. "My family and I were not home at the time and are safe. We are working with law enforcement to learn more as this situation develops. We are thankful for the swift actions taken by local officers to keep our family, neighbors, and local community secure."

Stefanik's office confirmed in a post on X that she was one of the targets of the incident.

"This morning, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, her husband, and their three-year-old son were driving home to Saratoga County from Washington for Thanksgiving when they were informed of a bomb threat to their residence," the post stated. "New York State, County law enforcement, and U.S. Capitol Police responded immediately with the highest levels of professionalism. We are incredibly appreciative of the extraordinary dedication of law enforcement officers who keep our communities safe 24/7."

Rollins, in a post on X, said her "home and family" were threatened.

"This morning, we learned that a threat was issued against our home and family," she wrote. "Thanks to the swift efforts by the @fortworthpd we were unharmed and quickly returned home. I want to express my deep gratitude to the law-enforcement professionals who did their utmost, in both speed and expertise, to protect us — as they protect our community every single day."

The threats come mere months after Trump survived two assassination attempts.

Just days before accepting the Republican nomination, Trump was shot at a rally on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. During the event, Trump was displaying a chart highlighting skyrocketing illegal immigration under the Biden-Harris administration. As he turned toward the chart, he was hit by a bullet that pierced the upper part of his right ear by the now-deceased would-be-assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks. Trump credits the chart for saving his life.

Weeks later, in September, another would-be-assassin hid in the bushes at Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The alleged gunman, Ryan Wesley Routh, had an AK-47-style rifle pointing through the fence toward Trump as the GOP nominee was golfing. Trump was rushed off the golf course by U.S. Secret Service agents unharmed.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-cabinet-nominees-appointees-targeted-violent-unamerican-threats

ExomatrixTV

27th November 2024, 21:13

Doctors’ Lobbying Group vs RFK Jr.’s Reforms!:

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Any professional group that is worried about Bobby Kennedy cannot be trusted.

Musk Warns “America Is Headed For Bankruptcy SUPER FAST!”:

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onawah

27th November 2024, 22:58

Trump Taps Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Co-author of ‘Great Barrington Declaration,’ to Lead NIH
by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
November 27, 2024
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/trump-taps-dr-jay-bhattacharya-co-author-great-barrington-declaration-lead-nih/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20241127

"The NIH — the “nation’s medical research agency” — oversees 27 separate institutes and controls a budget of nearly $48 billion. It is a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

President-elect Donald J. Trump late Tuesday nominated Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., professor of health policy at Stanford’s School of Medicine, to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The NIH — the “nation’s medical research agency” — oversees 27 separate institutes and centers and controls a budget of nearly $48 billion. It is a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

“I am thrilled to nominate Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, to serve as Director of the National Institutes of Health,” Trump announced on X. “Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve Health, and save lives.”

Bhattacharya, a vocal critic of COVID-19 lockdowns and a champion of academic freedom, said on X that he is “honored and humbled” by the nomination.

“We will reform American scientific institutions,” he wrote, “so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., founder of Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and Trump’s nominee to lead the HHS, praised the choice, which will need to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

“I’m so grateful to President Trump for this spectacular appointment,” Kennedy wrote on X. “Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the ideal leader to restore NIH as the international template for gold-standard science and evidence-based medicine.”

CHD CEO Mary Holland said, “CHD welcomes the nomination of Dr. Bhattacharya as a scientist of integrity. It is a great sign that he will now have the opportunity to lead this critical health institution.”

CHD Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker agreed. “I believe Dr. Bhattacharya will be an excellent director of NIH and will lead to a complete overhaul of the agency.”

Bhattacharya has long called for changes to NIH. In a January interview with The Washington Post, he said that NIH officials — especially Dr. Anthony Fauci — amassed too much power.

“I would restructure the NIH to allow there to be many more centers of power,” Bhattacharya told the Post, “so that you couldn’t have a small number of scientific bureaucrats, dominating a field for a very long time.”

Fauci directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division of the NIH, from 1983 to 2022. Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic said in a statement to the Post that Bhattacharya “is respected within the medical community and would ensure that public health returns to science-based solutions — not bureaucratic failed practices.”

The NIH awards roughly 50,000 grants annually to more than 300,000 researchers at over 2,500 universities, medical schools and other research institutions.

Trump also reveals his choice for HHS deputy secretary

Also on Tuesday, Trump announced on X his pick for HHS deputy secretary, Jim O’Neill.

O’Neill — who led earlier reforms at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — “will oversee all operations and improve Management, Transparency, and Accountability to, Make America Healthy Again,” Trump said on X.

Kennedy called O’Neill the “perfect partner” to help him “restore HHS to its incorruptible scientific research and public health priorities,” given his “rich experience in government and industry.”

Bhattacharya co-authored declaration against lockdowns

If confirmed, Bhattacharya, who holds a doctorate in economics and a medical degree from Stanford, will replace Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli.

He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. He has authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Bhattacharya co-authored the “Great Barrington Declaration,” a document criticizing lockdowns for the physical and mental health harms they would cause — especially for children.

He and his co-authors — all infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists — argued for a “Focused Protection” approach to COVID-19 that minimized social harm and mortality until society reached “herd immunity.”

The declaration stated:

“The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk.”

The document drew hundreds of thousands of signatures in support — but also drew criticism from top NIH officials, including Fauci and Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., then-director of NIH.

Former NIH leader called him ‘fringe’

In an email to Fauci obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Collins dismissed Bhattacharya and his co-authors as “fringe” experts and called for a “take down” of the declaration, the Post reported.

According to Newsweek, Bhattacharya said on Fox News last year that Fauci and Collins “created an illusion of scientific consensus around their ideas and marginalized anyone that disagreed with them even though there wasn’t a scientific consensus.”

He added, “It’s a pattern of behavior that reflects an abuse of power by American scientific bureaucrats at the very top of our scientific bureaucracies.”

Bhattacharya faced public criticism and censorship for his views, prompting him to become a plaintiff in the anti-censorship lawsuit Murthy v. Missouri.

Bhattacharya is known for fostering scientific debate, rather than delivering authoritarian policy edicts. In September, he organized an academic conference on pandemic policy for hearing and debating diverse perspectives.

Bhattacharya said during the event’s introduction that it’s in the “middle” of dialogue that we learn “what ought to be done … because no nobody has a monopoly on the truth.”

He has called for encouraging academic freedom among NIH scientists, doing more NIH studies that repeat other studies to increase confidence in science, and term limits for NIH leaders, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Calley Means, who co-authored “Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health,” called Bhattacharya a “bold, transformative pick.”

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There is nobody better in America with the intellect, first principle thinking, and moral clarity to get the NIH back to FOUNDATIONAL science.

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Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., senior research scientist at CHD, told The Defender that the financial entanglement of the U.S. government and pharmaceutical companies has created a “blindspot” that has stunted and distorted scientific research — especially research on vaccines.

“Dr. Bhattacharya is the perfect person to shine the light so bright on our willful ignorance that the world will never be the same,” Jablonowski said.

Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., is a reporter and researcher for The Defender based in Fairfield, Iowa."

onawah

27th November 2024, 23:21

Get To Know The Incoming Trump Cabinet: Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and More
Megyn Kelly
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"Megyn Kelly dives into the incoming Trump cabinet and other appointments, including Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Marty Makary as head of the FDA, Kristi Noem as Director of Homeland Security, Stephen Miller as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, and more."

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ExomatrixTV

28th November 2024, 14:50

FANTASTIC NEWS! Trump's BEST Appointment so far: NEW NIH DIRECTOR:

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This is the most brilliant man for the job: Dr Jay Bhattacharya (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Dr%20Jay%20Bhattacharya)

Fauci SMEARED Him & Now He’ll Be Running The NIH!:

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Dr Jay Bhattacharya (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Dr%20Jay%20Bhattacharya), a Stanford University-trained physician and economist, is has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump as the next director of the National Institutes of Health, after Bhattacharya reportedly impressed HHS nominee Robert Kennedy jr.

Jimmy discusses the Stanford physician’s support for the Great Barrington Declaration during the pandemic and what his appointment at the NIH might mean.

ExomatrixTV

29th November 2024, 02:23

How RFK Jr. and Elon Musk's DOGE Can Implement Change in Government:

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ExomatrixTV

29th November 2024, 22:34

Tulsi Gabbard FEARS Dems Because She'll CLEAN HOUSE At DNI: Michael Shellenberger:

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Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Michael%20Shellenberger) elaborates on his reporting about Democrats' fierce criticism of Tulsi Gabbard.

ExomatrixTV

1st December 2024, 11:53

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mountain_jim

1st December 2024, 13:25

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-nominates-kash-patel-fbi-director

Trump Nominates Kash Patel For FBI Director

by Tyler Durden
Authored...
After weeks of speculation, President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he's picked Kash Patel to replace Christopher Wray as the head of the FBI.

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Patel has been a longtime critic of the bureau who has called for shutting down the agency's Washington headquarters, cleaning house when it comes to top leadership, and bringing the nation's law enforcement agencies "to heel."

Kash Patel is no stranger to tackling big roles. He’s worked across defense, intelligence, and counterterrorism—now he might become CIA chief under Trump! What would a CIA led by Patel look like? pic.twitter.com/rP71IOTCsf

— Restricted Daily (@Restricted_on_X) November 12, 2024
According to a Saturday post to Truth Social (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113574572759738919), Trump called Patel a "brilliant lawyer, investigator, and “America First” fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People."

"He played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, standing as an advocate for truth, accountability, and the Constitution," Trump continued.

Patel has been open about what kind of changes he'd pursue if given the chance. His various proposals include reducing the FBI's footprint in Washington and “dramatically” limiting its authority. He hopes to curb the power of the Justice Department's Civil Division and jettison a Pentagon office that produces classified assessments of long-term trends and risks, arguing it is just a tool of the “deep state.”

Patel has said he also intends to aggressively hunt down government officials who leak information to reporters, and change the law to make it easier to sue journalists. During an interview with Steve Bannon in December, Patel said he and others “will go out and find the conspirators not just in government but in the media.” -AP

Patel has served as both a federal prosecutor and a public defender, and filled a number of administrative roles at the tail end of Trump's first term, including on the National Security Council and in the Pentagon.

And in a sign this is a good move - in 2021 when Trump floated Patel for deputy director of the CIA or the FBI, former AG William Barr said that would happen "over my dead body."

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said that no part of the FBI would be "safe" with Patel in a leadership position.

MELTDOWN: The fact that disgraced Andrew McCabe is against Kash taking over the FBI shows up that Kash is EXACTLY the correct person for the job. pic.twitter.com/YbDdj9LGXP

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 1, 2024

In response, Patel told the Washington Post: "Those calling me a danger, let’s just ask them for a proof, a piece of evidence that actually shows I’ve committed any constitutional violations or any ethical quandaries, and I’d love to hear their response to this."

Current FBI Director Christopher Wray will now either have to resign or be fired, assuming Patel makes it through Senate confirmation.

And as noted above, Patel has vowed to investigate and possibly prosecute regime-puppet journalists.

"Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you," Patel said last year. "Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out."

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mountain_jim

1st December 2024, 13:41

https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1863016594105831726

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Kash Patel will be our next FBI Director.

The deep state is gonna get crushed.

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 1, 2024

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1863109091830464738

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Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
This book is about to become a collector’s item!

🚨 Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy 🚨

https://amzn.to/3CTDN2L

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

“A brilliant roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor, to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People…we will use this blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of Government!” —Donald J. Trump

The highest levels of government have been infiltrated by an anti-democratic Deep State that can be defeated by refocusing our national security mission and relentlessly defending the truth.

A sinister cabal of corrupt law enforcement personnel, intelligence agents, and military officials at the highest levels of government plotted to overthrow a president. Even after they failed, they continue to secretly pull the levers of power without any accountability to the American people. This isn’t the synopsis of a fictional spy thriller. This is what is actually happening in the United States government.

In Government Gangsters, Kash Patel—a former top official in the White House, the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Justice—pulls back the curtain on the Deep State, revealing the major players and tactics within the permanent government bureaucracy, which has spent decades stripping power away from the American people and their elected leaders. Based on his firsthand knowledge, Patel reveals how we can defeat the Deep State, reassert self-government, and restore our democracy.

https://amzn.to/3CTDN2L

Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying book purchases.

mountain_jim

1st December 2024, 16:12

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1863110694398296084

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Clandestine
@WarClandestine
You might not agree with 100% of Donald Trump’s appointees, but it’s clear there is a gameplan in mind.

Kash as FBI Director is more proof that eradicating the Deep State is atop the agenda. Those claiming Trump is compromised, can be swiftly disregarded moving forward.

We have Elon and Vivek deleting 80%+ of the federal government, RFK Jr. in charge of health and the Covid reckoning, Tulsi in charge of all intelligence, Homan shutting down the border and deporting illegals, and now Kash is going to gut the FBI.

Sign me up. If you can’t get excited and/or hopeful about this, then you’re just blackpilling for the sake of blackpilling. Trump and his team are, at the very least, attempting to address the corruption and destroy the Deep State.

Will it work? We shall see. But it’s clear Trump is not messing around this time.

Jaak

1st December 2024, 22:55

I thouht the so called deep state are zionists/AIPAC and i dont see how Trump is going against them or anybody he is appointing to power. Quite the opposite.
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mountain_jim

4th December 2024, 17:32

https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1864355263626567926

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JUST IN: Donald Trump reveals the reason why he pulled the nomination of Chad Chronister for DEA chief.

"I did not like what he said to my pastors and other supporters.”

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) December 4, 2024

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The Florida sheriff also arrested a pastor for holding services during Covid.

Good riddance.

mountain_jim

4th December 2024, 17:51

https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1864344414681751557

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Jared Isaacman will be the next NASA chief. This pick was likely recommended by Elon.

Wall Street Mav
@WallStreetMav
Jared Isaacman will be the next NASA chief. This pick was likely recommended by Elon.

I suspect Jared will be looking for how to save NASA massive amounts of money. The SLS rocket, which the US Senate forced NASA to build, cost $28 billion so far and has only launched one time. It costs about $3 billion to $4 billion for each launch. Boeing is the prime contractor.

I would guess that the days are numbered for the SLS rocket.

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 4, 2024

mountain_jim

4th December 2024, 17:57

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1864344294489981172

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Charlie Kirk

@charliekirk11
BREAKING: President Trump has tapped first Trump administration veteran Peter Navarro to serve as Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
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#BREAKING: Trump selects Peter Navarro as Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing.

Trump says Navarro was "treated horribly by the Deep State" and that Navarro will advance Trump's "manufacturing, tariff and trade agenda."

mountain_jim

4th December 2024, 21:45

more about the Nasa appointment - I did not realize he just made the recent space walk so far from normal orbit heights

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-selects-actual-astronaut-lead-nasa

Trump Selects An Actual Astronaut To Lead NASA

by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Dec 04, 2024 - 03:25 PM
President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that he has selected billionaire entrepreneur and veteran SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

If confirmed, Isaacman would replace Bill Nelson, a former US senator from Florida who oversaw the space agency under the outgoing Biden administration.

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Here's Trump's statement on Isaacman's nomination:

I am delighted to nominate Jared Isaacman, an accomplished business leader, philanthropist, pilot, and astronaut, as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Jared will drive NASA's mission of discovery and inspiration, paving the way for groundbreaking achievements in Space science, technology, and exploration.

Over the past 25 years, as the Founder and CEO of Shift4, Jared has demonstrated exceptional leadership, building a trailblazing global financial technology company. He also co-founded and served as CEO of Draken International, a defense aerospace company, for over a decade, supporting the US Department of Defense, and our Allies.

Jared's passion for Space, astronaut experience, and dedication to pushing the boundaries of exploration, unlocking the mysteries of the universe, and advancing the new Space economy, make him ideally suited to lead NASA into a bold new Era.

Congratulations to Jared, his wife Monica, and their children, Mila and Liv!

Moments after Trump posted on X, Isaacman released his statement:

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Jared Isaacman

@rookisaacman
I am honored to receive President Trump’s
@realDonaldTrump
nomination to serve as the next Administrator of NASA. Having been fortunate to see our amazing planet from space, I am passionate about America leading the most incredible adventure in human history.

On my last mission to space, my crew and I traveled farther from Earth than anyone in over half a century. I can confidently say this second space age has only just begun. Space holds unparalleled potential for breakthroughs in manufacturing, biotechnology, mining, and perhaps even pathways to new sources of energy. There will inevitably be a thriving space economy—one that will create opportunities for countless people to live and work in space. At NASA, we will passionately pursue these possibilities and usher in an era where humanity becomes a true spacefaring civilization.

I was born after the Moon landings; my children were born after the final space shuttle launch. With the support of President Trump, I can promise you this: We will never again lose our ability to journey to the stars and never settle for second place. We will inspire children, yours and mine, to look up and dream of what is possible. Americans will walk on the Moon and Mars and in doing so, we will make life better here on Earth.

It is the honor of a lifetime to serve in this role and to work alongside NASA’s extraordinary team to realize our shared dreams of exploration and discovery.

Grateful to serve, Jared

Trump's decision to nominate Isaacman comes months after he and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis made history by performing the world's first commercial spacewalk (https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/welcome-back-planet-earth-spacex-polaris-dawn-crew-returns-after-historic-spacewalk) farther from Earth than any other astronaut in over half a century.

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That mission, called Polaris Dawn (https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/spacexs-polaris-dawn-crew-now-zero-g-ahead-historic-spacewalk), was partially funded by Isaacman to test Starlink technology and space suits.

Isaacman emphasized how America will maintain its space dominance: "We will never again lose our ability to journey to the stars and never settle for second place." This comment concerns the space race between the US, China, and Russia.

The NASA Administrator manages a budget of about $25 billion and will play a pivotal role in the upcoming Artemis moon mission in the coming years.

"There will inevitably be a thriving space economy — one that will create opportunities for countless people to live and work in space," Isaacman said, adding, "At NASA, we will passionately pursue these possibilities and usher in an era where humanity becomes a true spacefaring civilization."

Elon Musk's SpaceX is why America is far ahead in the global space race.

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rgray222

5th December 2024, 00:54

Hungarian born Sebastian Groka has been called a conman, huckster, islamaphobic and that is by people in his own party.

Trump’s counter terror pick Sebastian Gorka is a ‘conman’ who needs FBI background check, Bolton says

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When Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton appeared on CNN Friday night, he didn’t hold back when commenting on Trump’s pick for his counterterrorism director.

“Sebastian Gorka is a con man,” Bolton told host Kaitlan Collins.

“He needs a full-field FBI background investigation about his educational claims and things like that,” he added. “I think he is a perfect example of somebody who owes his position purely to Donald Trump, he doesn’t display loyalty, he displays fealty, and that’s what Trump wants.”

Boltson said Trump “doesn’t want Gorka’s opinions.”

“He wants Gorka to say, ‘Yes, sir,’ and I am fully confident that’s exactly what will happen, no matter what it is Trump says,” Bolton argued.

To hear Trump put it, Gorka has been a “tireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement” since 2015, according to the president-elect’s announcement on Friday.

Gorka, who was born in the UK to Hungarian parents, is “a legal immigrant” with “more than 30 years of National Security experience,” Trump said.

What Trump neglected to mention was that Gorka was pushed out of his White House role as a strategist to the president in his first administration.

Divisive and combative as he staunchly defended Trump, Gorka was one of the main backers of the then-president’s ban on refugees and people from several Muslim-majority countries.

Gorka’s views on Islam have been a source of controversy — specifically, comments he has made about violence being an intrinsic part of the Islamic faith. His academic credentials have also been questioned, as Bolton suggested on CNN.

“Obviously he’s not the expert he claims to be — obviously,” Hungarian newspaper editor Gabor Horvath told NBC News in 2017.

“He got his master’s degree and his PhD from the Corvinus University in Hungary. The Corvinus University is not a center for national security studies, certainly not internationally recognized studies of this kind,” he added.

An op-ed inThe New York Times once referred to him as “The Islamophobic Huckster (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/opinion/the-islamophobic-huckster-in-the-white-house.html?_r=0) in the White House.”

Trump’s then-White House chief of staff John Kelly reportedly pulled Gorka’s security clearance when he was on vacation, making it impossible for him to do his job, HuffPost noted at the time.

This time around, Trump has suggested sidestepping the background check process usually conducted by the FBI to get his nominees and appointees into their expected roles.

Gorka has dismissed the threat of white nationalism, and instead argued that Islamist extremists constituted the biggest threat to the US.

His supposed ties to the Nazi-connected Hungarian political group Vitezi Rend have also worried some during his first short stint in the White House. The group collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War and reformed following the end of the country’s Communist government in 1989, according to HuffPost.

Jewish outlet The Forward reported in March 2017 that Gorka was a member of the group. Gorka wore the group’s insignia at Trump’s first inaugural ball, later saying that the medals he wore belonged to his father, who was handed them as “a declaration for his resistance to [Communist] dictatorship,” Gorka told Breitbart, one of his former employers.

Before coming to the US in 2008, Gorka moved to Hungary in 1992 and worked for the country’s Ministry of Defense before becoming an adviser to Prime Minister Viktor Orban in 1998.

Gorka ran for mayor in the small town of Piliscsaba in 2006, coming in third place. Several members of the community told NBC News that he was a member of Vitezi Rend; one of the group’s leaders told CNN that the organization was never connected to the Nazis and that Gorka was not a pledged member.

Source and read the full story: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/sebastian-gorka-trump-john-bolton-b2652612.html

mountain_jim

5th December 2024, 15:32

If Bolton said it, I would immediately believe the opposite. Bolton is a neocon warmonger.

(I admit I did not even read the post above yet, as I have to leave soon, so he may be right here, but Bolton is toxic in the extreme, in my view).

ExomatrixTV

6th December 2024, 01:31

SHOCKING: Trump Picks New Head of NASA, Jared Isaacman:

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Trump's decision to make billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman next NASA administrator is going to radically change the space industry. Just another example of why we're about to see the most transformative Presidency since the founding of the country. Jared heading NASA is not going to be 'business as usual'... 2025 is going to be insane!

mountain_jim

6th December 2024, 14:52

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1864873380459221460

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Congratulations @DavidSacks!!

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 6, 2024

Alecs

6th December 2024, 19:21

What is net worth of Trump's Cabinet? The staggering wealth of his nominees revealed

"Donald Trump is on course to assemble the richest cabinet in American history, with a number of billionaires sending its total net worth soaring over $9 billion - not even including Elon Musk. "

Read more details (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14144531/Trump-cabinet-net-worth-musk-lutnick-mcmahon.html) in this DailyMail article . . .

rgray222

7th December 2024, 01:56

List of Ambassadors appointed by Trump 2016 & 2024

Trump has been busier than most people realize. This is quite a list. You can view the full list from the source link.

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Flag of American Ambassadors

Ambassadorships are often used as a form of political patronage to reward high-profile or important supporters of the president. The most visible ambassadorships are often distributed either in this way or to the president's ideological or partisan confreres. Most ambassadorships, however, are assigned to foreign service officers who have spent their career in the State Department. Regardless, all ambassadors must be formally appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. While all ambassadors serve at the president's pleasure and may be dismissed at any time, career diplomats usually serve tours of roughly three years before receiving a new assignment; political appointees customarily tender their resignations upon the inauguration of a new president.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_appointed_by_Donald_Trump

ExomatrixTV

9th December 2024, 06:27

EMFs and Autism Trump and RFK jr

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ExomatrixTV

9th December 2024, 19:59

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mountain_jim

11th December 2024, 18:41

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1866902551481946264

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⚠️Holy ****⚠️

Bolton said the quiet part out loud!

Last night, Bolton admitted that the establishment fear Tulsi Gabbard because of her position on the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine!!!

This is why they are so afraid of her.

SHE KNOWS THE BIG SECRET!

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) December 11, 2024

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Clandestine
@WarClandestine
A man-made pathogen killed 7+ million people, shut down the world economy, and expanded government tyranny.

The only people who are not interested in finding out who is responsible, are:

-The US government
-Big Pharma
-Leftwing corporate media

It’s obvious, isn’t it?

rgray222

11th December 2024, 20:28

I know that I am getting a little off track here, but John Bolton will undoubtedly have a loud dissenting voice when we move through the actual Senate hearings to confirm or reject Trump's nominees.

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Bolton has worked for several administrations pawning himself off as a diplomat when in fact his real goal always was and still is to get and keep America firmly engaged in war. There is no doubt whatsoever that he is in the pockets of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, General Dynamics and other major government contractors. Here are a few facts about john.

Bolton wrote an op-ed for the New York Times headlined, “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran.” It was riddled with Bolton’s characteristic falsehoods, all to make the case for unprovoked war.
Bolton strenuously supported the Vietnam War, but just as strenuously opposed the idea of him personally having to fight it. Before graduating from Yale, he enlisted in the National Guard to be sure he avoided combat. He later explained, “I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy,” suggesting that he was generously providing an opportunity for someone who did want to die like that. Bolton shortly went on to intern for Vice President Spiro Agnew.
Bolton wrote another op-ed this time for the Wall Street Journal calling for yet another unprovoked war, this time with North Korea.
Bolton argued that presidents should now be able to ignore the war powers clause of the Constitution, which reserves the right to declare war to Congress and attack other countries whenever they feel like it.

John Bolton is not a man you want anywhere near the reigns of power.

mountain_jim

11th December 2024, 21:20

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-director-chris-wray-resigns

FBI Director Chris Wray Resigns

by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Dec 11, 2024 - 02:08 PM
Before President-elect Donald Trump could say "You're Fired!" - FBI Director Christopher Wray has resigned, and will leave his post at the end of President Joe Biden's term.

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https://x.com/catturd2/status/1866928879069229362

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Jack Poso 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
THE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI RESIGNED JUST 1 DAY AFTER THE IG REPORT SHOWED THEY WERE SPYING ON KASH PATEL

WE CAN ALL SEE WHAT IS GOING ON HERE

https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1866932010591326684

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Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
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Kash Patel coming for Chris Wray’s job like

Jaak

12th December 2024, 11:44

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rgray222

14th December 2024, 17:46

We could see sparks fly when the Senate takes up Kimberly Guilfoyle's (Donald Trump Jr.'s former girlfriend) nomination for Ambassador to Greece.

The View called this nomination:
The Best Break-Up Outcome Possible.

The ultra-liberal site Slate headlined it this way:
This Has to Be the Funniest Possible Way to Deal With Kimberly Guilfoyle

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Here is the slate story

Poor Kimberly Guilfoyle. Or … lucky Kimberly Guilfoyle? The former Fox News host has received either a demotion or a promotion, depending on how you look at it. As of this week, it seems as if longtime rumours that she’s no longer in line to be President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law are bearing out. But in true “when one door closes, a window opens” fashion, instead, she’ll be the United States’ next ambassador to Greece.

Trump announced the appointment on Tuesday, the same day a British tabloid published photos of Guilfoyle’s once and possibly still current fiancé, Donald Trump Jr., out with another woman, Florida socialite Bettina Anderson. Don Jr. and Guilfoyle got engaged in 2020, and although no one has officially confirmed a split, this week’s photos follow months of speculation about the status of the conservative power couple.

While banishing one of his children’s exes to another country does sound like something Trump would do, that’s probably not what’s going on here. I mean, maybe for Ivanka, but for Don Jr.? Nah: If anyone is being rewarded, it’s probably Guilfoyle. She’s been a loyal soldier to Trump for a long time, and she arguably kept Don Jr. out of his hair for six years. Ambassador to Greece is a plum gig—in Trump’s eyes, it’s an important country but also a vacation country—and giving it to Guilfoyle is a way of thanking her for her service. (Unnamed Trumpworld sources are also advancing the idea that Greece will be strategically important because of developments in Syria. Maybe Guilfoyle will have more luck with peace in the Middle East than Jared Kushner ever did?)

For Guilfoyle, it’ll be just another wrinkle in an interesting political evolution. From 2001 to 2006, she was married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, and back then she looked every bit the prim political spouse. After the two divorced, she found her way to Fox News, and eventually the MAGA orbit. Will she do another political 180 to match the next person she dates? Just one more reason to stay tuned for her ambassadorship.

Source and full story: https://slate.com/life/2024/12/donald-trump-kimberly-guilfoyle-greece-son-bettina-anderson.html

Bill Ryan

14th December 2024, 20:47

Trump Appoints former Fox Anchor Kari Lake to Lead Voice of America

https://zerohedge.com/political/trump-appoints-former-fox-anchor-kari-lake-lead-voice-america

onawah

15th December 2024, 02:07

Elon is not what he seems. This report came out last year, but still very few seem to be aware of who and what he really is.
Elon, X, and the Epitome of a Front Man
Greg Reese
Jul 26, 2023
(Video at the link)

"The illusion of choice will make your financial enslavement less painful
Elon Musk announced over a year ago that he planned to convert Twitter into an everything app like China’s WeChat. An app to do everything including online banking and finance.

Last April Musk announced that Twitter Inc. has been renamed to X Corp., he created a new Artificial Intelligence company known as X.AI and he partnered with eToro for stock and crypto exchange.

The media would have you believe that Elon Musk is an independent billionaire genius whose dream is to revolutionize banking. But this story is demonstrably false. The facts tell us that Elon Musk is a frontman for the same old same old. But because he says there are only two genders he has gained the trust of a radicalized people in a time of war, without ever having to explain his lies.

Musk says he grew up poor but his family was rich with emeralds and had a history of abuse and witchcraft. Telltale signs of multi-generational mind control.

Musk received tens of thousands of dollars from his parents to launch his first business venture. A digital phone book known as Zip2. Outside coders were hired to write the entire thing because Elon couldn’t code. Zip2 sold for millions and went nowhere. But Elon made 22 million dollars and with the help of the mainstream media, launched his new persona as a quirky pop-star genius. He then acquired x dot com and announced he would create an online bank known as X. He partnered with banking experts who all left the company after accusing Elon of lying to the media about the product. Which is all he did.

Elon Musk is believed to have co-founded PayPal. This is false. In 2000 Musk sold his failing x dot com business to Confinity, a company founded in 1998 by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin. All Musk reportedly did there was insist on changing the company’s name to X. He was forced out but somehow managed to get them to agree in writing to remove all references to ‘founders’ from the company website.

Musk made nearly two hundred million off the sale of PayPal, a company that he contributed nothing to, and then used that money along with the illusion of being a successful businessman co-founder to buy his way into Tesla.

Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard, who developed the Tesla Roadster. When Tesla accepted millions from Elon, it came with the condition that he be named chairman of the company. Even though he only contributed money, Musk was unable to hide his anger that the media wasn’t giving him credit for Tesla Motors. And after forcing Eberhard out of the company he re-wrote their history to have himself listed as an original co-founder.

This obvious fake persona of a billionaire quirky genius has worked so well that few even question SpaceX. The official story is that Elon, who has absolutely no experience with rocket science, came up with the idea for SpaceX while traveling to Russia with the CIA's Michael Griffin of In-Q-Tel. Shortly after this conversation, Griffin was made administrator of NASA where he launched the COTS program that privatized NASA’s rocket program. And awarded two-hundred and seventy-eight million dollars to SpaceX who had never made or flown any rockets. Musk then partnered with rocket engineer Tom Mueller, who went on to produce rocket technology that has clearly been developed for years in the private sectors of the military-industrial complex.

Elon's companies have received billions in government subsidies over the last two decades. Money that was later spent on the purchase of Twitter. Where he immediately began the process of turning it into an everything app with its own banking system. Or rather, the ruling class cabal that pulls his strings is turning Twitter into an everything app with its own banking system. And that should be alarming. But he says there are only two genders, and families are good, and people love a hero.

They don’t need to chip you to control you. We already have iris scanners and palm scanners. A cashless society will do the job. And for many, Elon’s X will be preferable to Amazon’s palm scanners. The illusion of choice will make your financial enslavement less painful."

https://gregreese.substack.com/p/elon-x-and-the-epitome-of-a-front

norman

15th December 2024, 02:22

mountain_jim

15th December 2024, 12:14

https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1868017478749835311

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Devin Nunes — the courageous fighter of the Intel community’s horrific Russia Collusion Lie — will now be chairman of Trump’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 14, 2024

Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
@drawandstrike
·
15h
You smell that?

It smells like..

ACTUAL CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.

The one thing they've NEVER had. They've only PRETENDED to have it before now.

Trump is serious about this.

rgray222

29th December 2024, 16:01

Trump names ambassador to Panama after suggesting US control of Panama Canal

https://www.foxcharleston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/trumpcabera-crLwCf.jpeg

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his pick for US ambassador to Panama.

Trump named Miami-Dade County Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera as his choice for the post after suggesting that the US should take control of the Panama Canal – a proposal he first floated over the weekend while claiming that Panama is “ripping off” American ships that pass through the waterway.

“I am pleased to announce that Kevin Marino Cabrera will serve as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, a Country that is ripping us off on the Panama Canal, far beyond their wildest dreams,” Trump said in a statement. The president-elect added Cabrera, who also worked for his presidential campaign in Florida, “will do a FANTASTIC job representing our Nation’s interests in Panama!”

Trump on Wednesday continued to tease US territorial expansion in social media posts, criticizing the operation of the canal and doubling down on suggestions the US should absorb Canada and Greenland, a territory controlled by Denmark.

In a sardonic Christmas message, Trump claimed Chinese soldiers are operating the Panama Canal and reiterated his criticism that Panama is exploiting US vessels that use the waterway.

“Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in ‘repair’ money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about ‘anything,’” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network.

In the same message, Trump called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “governor,” again insinuating Canada should become a US state. He also suggested the citizens of Greenland “want the US to be there, and we will.”

Source, full story: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/25/politics/kevin-marino-cabrera-trump-ambassador-panama-canal/index.html

Inversion

7th January 2025, 02:53

It was either Tony (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117788-Tony-Rodrigues-talking-about-Space-Programs&p=1482431&viewfull=1#post1482431) Rodrigues or James Rink that said those that reached a high level during a twenty and back program were rewarded with jobs at Fox News. Bill Bixby played Dr. David Banner in the series The Incredible Hulk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_(1978_TV_series)) that ran from 1977-82. It aired on CBS which has the All-Seeing Eye logo. That meshes well with Elon's Mars obsession and Buzz (https://harbour.space/computer-science/articles/Next-in-Space-We-take-Mars) Aldrin's T-shirt that says, "Get your *SS to Mars."

dailymail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14256837/trump-picks-fox-news-host-tammy-bruce-state-department-post.html)

President Elect Donald Trump has chosen yet another Fox News veteran to join his administration as woke crusader Tammy Bruce is headed to the State Department.

So far, Fox alums joining Team Trump include" Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth, border 'czar' Tom Homan, national security advisor Michael Waltz, Israel ambassador pick Mike Huckabee, director of national intelligence hopeful Tulsi Gabbard, would be Attorney General Pam Bondi and several others.

imdb (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2161935/bio/) (Tammy Bruce)

After finding her girlfriend Brenda Benet's dead body with a gunshot wound to the head, she had a breakdown and was sent to the hospital where she remained for a few days. Benet's ex-husband, Bill Bixby, quietly paid her entire hospital bill.

Lone Wolf (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118606-James-Rink-Book-s--Videos&p=1498075&viewfull=1#post1498075)

P331. Stan Lee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee) was given the information about the hulk program from the CIA and was meant as soft disclosure.

rgray222

7th January 2025, 14:53

Trump vows to replace head of National Archives as top prosecutor in classified documents case leaves DOJ

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1000w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-09/240913-department-of-justice-doj-mn-0850-5038c3.jpg

As Donald Trump gears up to take office this month, two agencies involved in the criminal case that accused the president-elect of mishandling classified documents face turnover in key roles.

Jay Bratt, a lead prosecutor in the documents case, which has since been dismissed, left the Justice Department last week, a spokesperson confirmed Monday.

Bratt, a senior national security official assigned to special counsel Jack Smith’s office, retired Friday after 34 years at the department.

NBC News has reported that Smith and his team planned to resign before Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

Meanwhile, Trump said Monday that he intends to replace Colleen Shogan as head of the National Archives.

“We will have a new archivist,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt.

In response to a request for comment, the Archives said in a statement Monday night that Shogan "has had a strong working relationship" with Trump and his team.

"We look forward to continuing that relationship with the new administration," the statement said.

Source/Full Story: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-vows-remove-head-national-archives-top-prosecutor-classified-doc-rcna186494

Vangelo

12th January 2025, 14:26

The "Doctors" Behind the Latest RFK Jr. Attacks
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson questions the legitimacy of a letter opposing RFK Jr., and discusses societal decline due to ideological and systemic failures.
https://rumble.com/v688fvd-the-sloppy-doctors-behind-the-latest-rfk-jr.-attacks.html?mref=a7pkx&mc=efx0g
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mountain_jim

12th January 2025, 16:58

https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1878467694715982334

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On Fox News this morning, Kansas Senator Roger Marshall told Maria Bartiromo that there’s enough votes in the Senate to confirm every single one of President Trump’s nominees.

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) January 12, 2025

rgray222

15th January 2025, 16:17

A few of the highlights of the Pete Hegseth hearings.

Hegseth's opening statement
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mountain_jim

16th January 2025, 15:50

ok this is not real but I laughed actual tears :lol: (only 34 seconds to watch)

https://x.com/DefiantWorld/status/1879700094511112355

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https://x.com/catturd2/status/1879874699418869799

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The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
·
16h
To Improve Senate Confirmation Hearings, Democratic Women Replaced By Rabid Hyenas

ExomatrixTV

18th January 2025, 01:29

rgray222

18th January 2025, 14:03

grapevine

18th January 2025, 15:05

Steve Bannon: Nigel Farage as Prime Minister would take US relations to the next level

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCfT1MfO2KM&ab_channel=GBNews (8:31)
Nigel Farage and GB News are in the US for President Trump's inauguration. Fingers crossed all goes well. GBN Presenter Beverly Turner talks about "an almost spiritual shift . ." and I think she's right.

rgray222

18th January 2025, 15:43

Who is Sean Curran? Head of Trump's personal detail to be nominated for Secret Service director

Sean Curran, the head of President-elect Trump's personal Secret Service security detail, is expected to become the agency's next director.

"President Trump will be naming Sean Curran, who heads his personal detail, to be Secret Service Director," the president-elect's son, Donald Trump Jr., announced on X Friday.

"Sean is a great patriot and will stop all the insanity once and for all. There’s not a better person to be in this position!"

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/01/720/405/gettyimages-2161923146-scaled-e1737143167787.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
Former President Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage during a rally July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. Secret Service Agent Sean Curran is standing to his right. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Curran was among the group of heroic agents who rushed on stage to shield Trump with their bodies during a failed assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left two dead and the candidate with an injury to his ear.

Curran appears next to Trump in a series of photos showing the former and future president returning to his feet, blood running down his face and raising a fist, prompting cheers from the audience.

Three bystanders were shot. They were firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, who died from his injuries; David Dutch, 57; and James Copenhaver, 74, both of whom survived.

In the aftermath, Trump praised the members of his personal detail and defended them from criticism.

"Trump wanted someone he could trust, and they clearly have formed a bond after Pennsylvania," said Bill Gage, a former Secret Service agent under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

"Even with all of the mistakes in Butler, the mistakes were from the advance team. The agents assigned to Trump and Curran performed exactly as trained."

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-sean-curran-trump-secret-service-director-nominee-personal-detail

ExomatrixTV

18th January 2025, 17:18

'Never Seen Anything Like It Before In American History': Hawley Blasts Biden DOJ At Bondi Hearing:

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At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Josh%20Hawley) (R-MO) questioned former Florida AG Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump's nominee for Attorney General.

Both Republicans and Democrats are guilty of wrongdoing and politicizing issues for political gain but this video shows how far the Democrats had taken the abuse of power. Oddly enough the video has nothing to do with all the Trump court cases or the abuse of free speech. This should be mandatory for all Americans to view.

:focus:

Ted Cruz Fires Back At Judiciary Democrats Over Their Lines Of Questioning Of Pam Bondi:

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At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned former Florida AG Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump's nominee for Attorney General, and slammed Democrats' lines of questioning.

John Kennedy Sounds Off On Attorney General Garland's Trump Probe At Pam Bondi Hearing:

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At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) questioned former Florida AG Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump's nominee for Attorney General.

'My Colleagues Have Learned Nothing—Nothing!': Marsha Blackburn Hammers Dems At Pam Bondi Hearing:

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At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) questioned former Florida AG Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump's nominee for Attorney General.

One side is calm, cool, collected and has facts, the other side yells, slanders, and lies while providing zero facts.

rgray222

20th January 2025, 23:08

Trump names Brian Driscoll to serve as acting FBI director after sudden Abbate retirement

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/01/720/405/fbi-director-driscoll-2.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
Brian Driscoll joined the FBI in 2007. (FBI)

President Trump named Brian Driscoll to serve as acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday, marking one of his first moves on Inauguration Day.

According to the FBI website, Driscoll became a special agent in 2007. He has experience working in the agency's New York field office and also worked on the FBI's SWAT team.

The White House's announcement came shortly after FBI acting director Paul Abbate retired on Monday, reportedly just minutes before Trump took office. Christopher Wray stepped down from the agency on Sunday, and Abbate only held down the acting director post for a day.

"When the director asked me to stay on past my mandatory date for a brief time, I did so to help ensure continuity and the best transition for the F.B.I. Now, with new leadership inbound, after nearly four years in the deputy role, I am departing the F.B.I.," Abbate said in an email obtained by the New York Times on Monday. "I have complete confidence in you and in your ability as a team to continue to carry out our mission of protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution."

Last week, then-FBI director Wray named Driscoll as the special agent in charge of the FBI field office in Newark, New Jersey. In a press release published on Jan. 14, the agency noted that Driscoll "most recently served as the commander of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and Critical Incident Response Group's (CIRG) Tactical Section chief."

"In March 2011, Mr. Driscoll was selected as an operator for FBI's HRT," the press release noted. "Ultimately, he became an HRT team leader, responsible for the planning and execution of tactical solutions in furtherance of FBI global operations."

"He also collaborated with foreign law enforcement and military partners to conduct operations and training, strengthening FBI global partnerships."

Driscoll’s time as acting director will presumably end when Kashyap "Kash" Patel is confirmed as the FBI’s next director by the U.S. Senate. Patel was nominated by Trump in November, who called him an "America First fighter."

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/11/720/405/kash-patel-3.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

"Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People," Trump's statement read. "He played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, standing as an advocate for truth, accountability, and the Constitution."

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-names-brian-driscoll-serve-acting-fbi-director-after-abbate-retirement

mountain_jim

25th January 2025, 14:52

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1883104099111141710

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https://x.com/zhenryaz/status/1882988079327191545

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Zach Henry
@zhenryaz
Mitch McConnell just voted NO on President Trump’s secretary of defense nominee

This led to VP Vance having to rush down to cast a tie-breaking vote, only the 2nd such vote in U.S. history

As Republican Senators gather around to congratulate Vance, notice McConnell walk over and SHAKE HANDS with the Democrats

If you thought RFK Jr and Tulsi was going to be easy—think again.

The GOP Establishment isn’t going down without a fight. Get ready.

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
·
11h
Now it’s time for Trump to crush, with extreme prejudice, the entire Mitch McConnell staffer-fundraiser-lobbyist network in D.C. Ban them from all admin jobs and appointments, PNG their clients, and cut them off from all RNC/congressional campaign contracts.

Mark (Star Mariner)

25th January 2025, 15:24

Mitch McConnell just voted NO on President Trump’s secretary of defense nominee

He should be nowhere near a position of influence. He's even less fit to serve than Biden!

1883153091211735408
C3
@C_3C_3
BREAKING:

Mitch McConnell.
https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/1883153091211735408

Mark (Star Mariner)

25th January 2025, 16:11

Meet Arabella Advisors, a democrat consulting firm with its fingers (and dark dollars) and many, many pies. Allegedly, they are behind a fake campaign to denounce RFK Junior.

This from Jillian Michaels...

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Jillian Michaels
@JillianMichaels
How crazy is this… The supposed letter signed by “over 17000” doctors denouncing @RobertKennedyJr
is actually fake. Take a look.
https://x.com/JillianMichaels/status/1882822251722280963

Edit:
And the plot thickens:
Humanspective
@Humanspective
You're not going to believe this.....Bill Gates is funding Arabella
1882860519713030615
https://x.com/Humanspective/status/1882860519713030615

mountain_jim

25th January 2025, 19:21

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/noem-confirmed-dhs-secretary

Noem Confirmed As DHS Secretary

by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Jan 25, 2025 - 01:25 PM
The Senate on Saturday confirmed Kristi Noem as President Donald Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security, meaning that the South Dakota governor will be in charge of a massive agency established after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and has since had a long record of civil liberties and civil rights abuses.

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/Kristi-Noem_SD-1200x800-700x420_0.jpg?itok=LIcZdMM7

Noem was confirmed by a final vote of 59-34. Of note, the Trump ally who is in her second term as governor received support from several Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee when it voted 13-2 to advance her nomination earlier in the week. Republicans have also expressed confidence in Noem's ability to lead border security and immigration enforcement, AP reports.

Meanwhile back at the swamp:

"Fixing this crisis and restoring respect for the rule of law is one of President Trump and Republicans’ top priorities," sid Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Friday. "And it’s going to require a decisive and committed leader at the Department of Homeland Security. I believe Kristi has everything it takes to undertake this task."

Democrats' primary opposition to Noem revolved around how to handle border enforcement and immigration under Trump - with figures like Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) vowing to vote against Noem, suggesting instead "bipartisan solutions to fix the mess at our border" vs Noem, who he said "seems headed in the wrong direction."

The homeland security secretary oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services. Beyond those agencies, the department is also responsible for securing airline transportation, protecting dignitaries, responding to natural disasters and more.

Trump is planning major changes to how the department functions, including involving the military in immigration enforcement and reshaping the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Those plans could immediately put Noem in the spotlight after the new president visited recent disaster sites in North Carolina and California on Friday. -AP

Noem was repeatedly asked by Senators during her confirmation hearing whether she would administer disaster aid to states even if Trump asked her not to, to which she replied that she would "deliver the programs according to the law and that it will be done with no political bias."

Noem was notably a state House Rep. for eight years before becoming governor in 2019.

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mountain_jim

25th January 2025, 20:03

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1883232930467880997

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Jack Poso 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
·
47m
UPDATE: Stacy Dixon OUT

full image

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GiKVgNdXoAAmbWY?format=jpg&name=medium

mountain_jim

26th January 2025, 15:35

https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1883471264716886100

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Confirmation hearings this week

— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) January 26, 2025

larger image for dates/times to be clearer - these are the big 3 in my view

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GiNvIi_XMAA4wO9?format=jpg&name=900x900

mountain_jim

27th January 2025, 14:29

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1883873600811471035

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.@JohnBrennan is one of the 51 traitors who conducted Treason by covering for the CCP Agent in the White House these last 4 years @JoeBiden and the person interviewing him is a Lincoln Project Schill. —@IvanRaiklin

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) January 27, 2025

mountain_jim

27th January 2025, 17:09

https://x.com/_emergent_/status/1883743363058614482

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This is the strongest endorsement for @Kash_Patel I have ever seen.

If Undercover Feds in pajamas don't want him confirmed - he's the man for the job! 💯🎖

— Emergent Perspective (@_emergent_) January 27, 2025

Gain of Fauci
@DschlopesIsBack
·
Jan 25
NEW: Patriot Front urges "fellow conservatives" to say no to Kash Patel being confirmed as their new FBI Director

mountain_jim

27th January 2025, 20:35

https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1883501747592663504

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Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
Bernie Sanders reveals to all the world that he is just another Pharma whore.

Camus
@newstart_2024
Senator Bernie Sanders Warns: RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary Could Plunge Us Back into the Dark Ages of Child Mortality
" I think the point of what we're trying to do today is to make it clear that we potentially face a massive health hazard. Maybe especially, for our children. And I think the point that senator Markey made a moment ago what was it? At 8 at, back in 1900, 18% of kids never made it to 5."

"That's just an enormous, reality that has to be addressed. So in other words, we have made with all of the problems that we have today, and there are many. We have made enormous progress in public health and in saving children's lives."

"And what in a sense I'm hearing from all of you is that is in danger, that we may revert back to those terrible days when so many children died at the age of 1 or 2 or 3."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GiUlhn1WQAA06Sa?format=jpg&name=900x900

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GiUGRW8aYAA_bOs?format=jpg&name=900x900

mountain_jim

27th January 2025, 20:51

https://x.com/drawandstrike/status/1883965602118942739

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If they block RFK Jr., pretty sure the GOP RINO's expect Trump to just move on.

He won't.

He'll force the entire Congress into recess and make his appointments that way.

— Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) January 27, 2025

Bret Weinstein
@BretWeinstein
Donald Trump decisively won the election because he galvanized his MAGA base with the Medical Freedom and Unity movements. If the Senate fails to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr, that will constitute a declaration of war on our massive coalition. It won’t be forgiven or forgotten, and those who stand in Kennedy’s way will be driven from their seats.

mountain_jim

28th January 2025, 15:40

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1884011516565020766

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If we want reckoning for Covid, it’s imperative that we get RFK Jr. and Tulsi confirmed.

RFK Jr. and Tulsi were the two most vocal public figures about US-funded bioweapon development in Ukraine.

They know where this trail ends, which is why the establishment fear them.

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) January 27, 2025

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1884053289756680547

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KanekoaTheGreat reposted
Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
·
14h
RFK JR: “For 30 years, CDC and NIH have looked at this autism epidemic and said we know it’s not vaccines but we don’t know what’s causing it. Well we’re going to find out what’s causing it, and we’re going to do that in a couple of months.”

Confirm 👏 This 👏 Man

https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1884235501315711190

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Charlie Kirk

@charliekirk11
I’m told that the vote for Tulsi Gabbard might be done privately in a SCIF - with the vote tallies kept secret from the American people.

This is outrageous and wrong.

The American people deserve to know how THEIR Senators vote on Trump’s nominees!

mountain_jim

28th January 2025, 20:39

https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1884292411385602436

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The NY Times has zero credibility and this just makes it more obvious than ever.

The NY Times is controlled by the Deep State and they are desperate to stop Tulsi.

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) January 28, 2025

Jack Poso 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
·
3h
BREAKING: Just heard NYT has another hit piece prepped on Tulsi after the rest all failed. They're so desperate they're going to claim she was on the No Fly List because she is secretly an agent of Hezbollah! Somehow an Army Lt Col is Hezbollah. Good luck with that, guys!

JD Vance
@JDVance
·
3h
The lies keep coming. The press seems to have an unlimited supply.

mountain_jim

28th January 2025, 21:24

https://x.com/Patri0tContr0l/status/1884100998043508825

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Patri0tsareinContr0l
@Patri0tContr0l

Adam Schiff went on Maddow tonight to panic about @Kash_Patel’s confirmation as FBI Director:

“The last person you want is someone like Kash Patel… dishonest, untrustworthy, lacking in character…” 😂

Hahaha project much? You can’t stop what’s coming to you no matter how many more lies you tell. Tick tock, Adam!

Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
@drawandstrike
·
50m
Nothing can stop what his coming.

Schiff has spent his entire life 'shaping his reality' with his lying mouth.

He lives in a bubble.

Well he should prepare himself.

Someone is gonna is going to brutally pop that bubble soon...

grapevine

29th January 2025, 13:34

BREAKING NEWS: US Senators voting AGAINST RFK receive PRIMARY THREAT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20BUza4QSfs&ab_channel=Dr.SuneelDhand (5:48)

Alecs

29th January 2025, 14:46

LIVE: RFK Jr. Testifies at Senate Confirmation Hearing for HHS Secretary - 1/29/25

Begins 10am EST U.S.

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mountain_jim

29th January 2025, 15:16

https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1884595407985975435

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100% right 👇👇👇

"Every attack on @TulsiGabbard is a smear concocted by those desperate to prevent the change voters demanded in November." - @charliekirk11

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 29, 2025

rgray222

29th January 2025, 15:22

If you want to see who is in the pocket of Big Pharma and the Big Food Processing Companies just watch who is the most vocal and vehement when they question RFK Jr.

Senators Who’ve Raked In Millions From Big Pharma To Question RFK Jr. In Double Hearings

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In a make-or-break moment to ‘make America healthy again,’ Trump’s pick to lead the crusade at HHS will be questioned Wednesday and Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be grilled in public hearings held by lawmakers who’ve pocketed more than $10 million from the pharmaceutical industry.

In a make-or-break moment for the movement to “make America healthy again,” Trump’s nominee to lead the crusade at HHS, environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill Wednesday and Thursday. Kennedy will appear before the Senate Finance Committee first, and the Health, Education Labor & Pensions Committee second.

“There are a series of industries that actually make money from keeping us sick,” Kennedy said in an interview with Dr. Phil last year, which the host re-shared this week. “You would think they want us healthy but they actually make more money if we get sicker. And of course, with the pharmaceutical companies, if you have a chronic illness then you’re a lifetime patient.”

Kennedy said the diabetes drug Ozempic in particular is being relied on to induce weight loss for a nation where more than two-thirds are overweight and 40 percent are obese. In November, the Biden administration proposed an 11th-hour rule to cover the medication under federal insurance programs. If confirmed as HHS secretary, Kennedy would decide whether to approve the $35 billion handout for drug manufacturers or terminate the proposal. Kennedy, however, has been a consistent critic of the medications now recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for obese children as young as 12.

“A sick child,” Kennedy said in his August endorsement speech of Trump, “is the best thing for the pharmaceutical industry. When American children or adults are sick with a chronic condition, they’re put on medication for their entire life.”

Kennedy’s persistent antagonism of the pharmaceutical giants led to a shock in their stocks upon his nomination to lead the nearly $2 trillion agency in charge of regulating the drug industry. HHS holds jurisdiction over the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), making HHS a primary recruitment ground for the industry’s revolving door of influence, which Kennedy has pledged to eliminate.

On Wednesday, Kennedy will face his first round of questions before lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee who’ve received roughly $7 million from drug companies between 2019 and 2024, according to a Federalist analysis of industry donations compiled by OpenSecrets. Members of the Senate Health Committee, who will question Kennedy Thursday, have received more than $5.6 million in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, or nearly $4.4 million around a similar timespan once excluding Sens. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn, who also serve on the Finance Committee.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., received more contributions from the drug makers than any other member of either party across both committees, with more than $691,000 between 2019 and 2024, according to OpenSecrets. Sen. Cassidy, a physician who has been one of Kennedy’s most vocal critics by targeting past skepticism of vaccines, came in a close second with nearly $673,000 from pharmaceutical interests in the same five-year period.

Read the full story: https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/28/senators-whove-raked-in-millions-from-big-pharma-to-question-rfk-jr-in-double-hearings/

Delight

29th January 2025, 17:05

I can hardly stand listening to this hearing. It is toxic sludge from dispicable people. RFK Jr is so calm.

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Dial 202-224- the last 4 numbers indicated above.

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SilentFeathers

29th January 2025, 17:42

Delight

29th January 2025, 17:42

I am cautiously optimistic!

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mountain_jim

29th January 2025, 17:49

I also had to stop listening live, for my own mental well-being. I hope someone in this hearing reads out the pharma contributions per antagonistic panel member.

Delight

29th January 2025, 17:49

I can hardly stand listening to this hearing. It is toxic sludge from dispicable people. RFK Jr is so calm.

I agree, its beyond disgusting listening to these pathetic activists and hypocrites who call themselves democrats.

Trumps likely going to have to do recess appointments to get Kennedy, Patel, and Gabbard in place.

This is so amazingly absurd but I cannot laugh, only whimper.

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A meme within minutes!

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Bill Ryan

29th January 2025, 18:33

I also had to stop listening live, for my own mental well-being. I hope someone in this hearing reads out the pharma contributions per antagonistic panel member.I can't watch it either.

Chris Martenson said in this video (https://youtube.com/watch?v=E1ghn1MgBCg) a couple of months ago:
They're damaged human beings at best, demonic at worst.
He's now made up his mind. A few minutes ago, at the start of his weekly analysis livestream The Signal Hour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDsUGn1jqOk), referring to the ongoing RFK hearing, he stated with total seriousness:
I'm going to call it like I see it. They're demons.
We're facing actual demons.

mountain_jim

29th January 2025, 18:34

https://x.com/calleymeans/status/1884610468565631299

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Astounding. Reporters at RFK hearing have pre-written negative headlines.

— Calley Means (@calleymeans) January 29, 2025

as seen here, with many other X posts

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-rfk-jr-confirmation-hearing-hhs-secretary-nicole-shanahan-goes-scorched-earth

Watch Live: Unhinged Democrats Badger RFK Jr. During Wild Confirmation Hearing

mountain_jim

29th January 2025, 18:43

https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1884650055233396853

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Autism Capital 🧩
@AutismCapital

🚨TILLIS: "Are you a conspiracy theorist?"

RFK JR: "That is a pejorative that is applied to me mainly to keep me from asking difficult questions.

I was told that I was a conspiracy theorist for saying that COVID vaccines wouldn't prevent transmission, now they admit it.

I was called a conspiracy theorist because I said red dye causes cancer, now the FDA acknowledges it.

I was called a conspiracy theorist because I said fluoride lowers IQ, now they have published a study showing a inverse correlation.

I can go on for a week."

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1884668646443933849

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Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

JUST IN: Billionaire Nicole Shanahan vows to fund primary challengers of 13 specific U.S. Senators who don't support RFK Jr's confirmation, calls them out by name.

Good.

"I will make it my personal mission that you lose your seats in the Senate if you vote against the future health of America's children."

"To senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis, James Lankford, Cory Booker, John Fetterman, Bernie Sanders, and Catherine Cortez Masto..."

"This is a bipartisan message and it comes directly from me. While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won't if you vote against him."

"I will personally fund challengers to primary you in your next election, and I will enlist hundreds of thousands to join me."

Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson
Democrats who take millions of dollars from Big Pharma are viciously attacking RFK Jr. with blowhard, virtue signaling speeches.

Every one of them supported COVID vaccine mandates, forced masking and remained silent when Dr. Fauci got a pardon.

These politicians are evil. They have no moral high-ground. No proof of ever making a single day better for regular Americans. They have NO desire to protect the health of America's children. Most politicians are freaks and degenerates who will do anything for money.

These Senators are unworthy of leading a serious, moral, healthy nation.

RFK Jr. is a good man who wants to help save children.

Confirm RFK Jr.

mountain_jim

29th January 2025, 18:53

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George
@BehizyTweets
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RFK Jr's confirmation hearing is officially OVER. The entire room just erupted in cheers for him. Now the Senate MUST vote to confirm!

"Mr. Kennedy, I look forward to working with you." - Chairman Mike Crapo.

mountain_jim

29th January 2025, 19:29

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1884673013712392634

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Toby Rogers
@uTobian
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2h
I'm a LIFELONG straight party ticket Democrat. And after watching this hearing today I can never vote for any of them ever again. I'm appalled and disgusted by what this Party has become.

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1884645515217756261

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Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) just absolutely nailed it at the RFK Jr. hearing. Masterclass.

JOHNSON: Here's somebody from the left on many issues - RFK Jr. - coming together with President Trump on a common issue... something Americans desperately want. Finding out - what causes autism, chronic illness? Mr. Kennedy, I know what's in your heart. I thank you for what you're doing here. Can't we come together as a nation and do this? [Speaking to Democrats] Aren't you getting tired of this?

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Anna Matson
@AnnaRMatson
Maggie Hassan (D) just accused RFK Jr of selling out his values.

Hassan has received 2 million from the healthcare industry.

Donors include Grail, Option Care Health, Metlife, Elevance Health, Molina Healthcare, Gilead, and so many more.

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Clandestine
@WarClandestine
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3h
The Dems are, unsurprisingly, making complete asses of themselves in these confirmation hearings.

Trump didn’t even have to give them this. He could have just used recess appointments, but he wanted the world to see the Dems throw a fit.

Mission accomplished 😂

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SilentFeathers

29th January 2025, 22:01

mountain_jim

30th January 2025, 00:17

https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1884749588520677719

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RFK jr is hilarious.

🔊

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) January 29, 2025

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Lindsay Penney
@TexasLindsay_

Senator Warnock (D-GA) took a WHOPPING $1,763,425.00 in cash from Big Pharma in 2021. Look forward to primarying you in the future since I now live in Georgia.

Americans deserve better.
You give Reverends a bad name.

SilentFeathers

30th January 2025, 02:51

What's really mind-blowing is that there's a good possibility a qualified Bobby Kennedy won't get confirmed to head the HHS but 4 years ago these pathetic imbeciles confirmed an unqualified over-weight man in a dress to head the Dept. of HHS.

mountain_jim

30th January 2025, 15:18

Tulsi live now (10:18am EST for me, not sure how long it's been going)

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mountain_jim

30th January 2025, 15:22

mountain_jim

30th January 2025, 16:42

not watching but this is the Kash hearing in progress

(replacing previous version with this one - at just before noon EST they have recessed, so this video shows this morning's hearing and is no longer live)

https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1884969777493323934

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Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
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Amy Klobuchar just became the latest Senate Karen to get wrecked at a hearing.

Kash Patel completely dismantled her dishonest attacks

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GijjAbvW4AAlcV1?format=jpg&name=medium

Amy Klobuchar — you just made the list. ✅

mountain_jim

30th January 2025, 17:00

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1884994026774102455

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Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
🔥HOLY SMOKES: Tulsi just took apart The Russia Hoax, the Dirty 51 laptop letter, Clapper, Brennan, weaponized FBI in her opening statement — and then it got personal:

"Just 24 hours after I criticized Kamala Harris and her nomination, I was placed on a secret domestic terror watch list called Quiet Skies."

"The bottom line is this must end."

🔥 Out of the gate

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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
@drawandstrike
Watch the eyes of several of the men in the background.

What do you notice?

At what points do you see a visible reaction?

It's like watching an exorcism when a demon hears the name of 'Jesus'.

They worked SO HARD to sell these fictions...to cast these illusions to destroy their targets.

Her true and powerful words are 'breaking the spell' the corrupt DOJ/FBI/CIA has weaved in DC.

Nothing can stop what is coming.
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Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson
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1h
🚨Tulsi Gabbard LAYS OUT the Deep State’s corruption against Trump:

"The FBI and intelligence agencies were politicized by his opponents… Illegally obtained a warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page funded by Clinton campaign.”

https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1884994931166495172

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Trump War Room

@TrumpWarRoom
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1h
DNI Director-designate
@TulsiGabbard
Democrats have accused me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, a guru’s puppet, Modi’s puppet — but what truly unsettles them is I refuse to be THEIR puppet. 🔥

complete opening statement (I think - later update, no this one still chops early)

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1884999136346268020

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Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Tulsi Gabbard unleashes on the deep state, the 51 intelligence officials, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party in her opening statement.

One of the best opening statements I’ve seen.

“Democrats have accused me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, Modi’s puppet, but what truly unsettles them is I refuse to be their puppet.”

https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/1884995433371496682

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Leading Report
@LeadingReport
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1h
BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard on how ‘faulty, inadequate, or weaponized intelligence’ led to the disastrous Iraq War.

Delight

30th January 2025, 17:41

RFK Jr is a critical asset IMO to the future of health by cleaning up HHS policies. The following people receive contributions for their complicity in disgusting negligience and actual intention to harm.
Call their offices and let them know that they will not be forgiven if they refuse to appoint him.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GijbyJYWcAAKPSm?format=jpg&name=large

rgray222

30th January 2025, 18:24

So many Senators have taken money from big pharma that there would be no one left to question candidates if they all recused themselves. Elizabeth Warren (https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=2020&ind=H04&recipdetail=M&sortorder=U) is one of the worst of the bunch. A very sad state of affairs.

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/azxxp1m_460svav1.mp4

mountain_jim

30th January 2025, 19:26

https://x.com/Surabees/status/1885037872371167702

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Senator @Eric_Schmitt absolutely torching Biden's Department of Justice at the Kash Patel hearing 🔥

"This country was founded on the idea that people could say what they wanted, they could believe what they wanted and the government wouldn't come after them."

— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) January 30, 2025

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1885034246978363640

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The REAL Politically Savvy 🇺🇸

@patriot_savvy
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1h
Kash confirms that Nancy Pelosi denied National Guard involvement on January 6th. God, this is glorious!!! EXPOSE THEM ALL!!!

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1885028613839299002

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Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson
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1h
🚨MASSIVE BREAKING: Kash Patel vows to DESTROY child sex trafficking networks and pursue Jeffrey Epstein's Client List:

“The American public will know what happened in the past and how we are going to counterman missing and exploited children.”

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1885024777741427056

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Catturd ™
@catturd2
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1h
Because he didn’t.
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Breanna Morello
@BreannaMorello
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1h
Kash Patel refuses to say President Trump lost the 2020 election!

https://x.com/_emergent_/status/1885033922305618208

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mountain_jim

30th January 2025, 19:42

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Clandestine
@WarClandestine
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2h
Kash and Tulsi are performing so strongly in these hearings, it’s not even fun.

The Dems are doing their normal histrionics trying to score political points, but Kash and Tulsi shut down their attempts with such ease.

It’s like watching Alabama vs. Mercer. Complete domination.

https://x.com/_emergent_/status/1885036629598879770

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mountain_jim

30th January 2025, 20:50

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1885023474684420234

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See new posts
Conversation
The Vigilant Fox 🦊

@VigilantFox
Senator Loses Control as RFK Jr. Schools Her on Bad Science

KENNEDY: “NIH has overseen, over the past several years, the decline—the precipitous decline—of American health. There are 91,000 people at HHS. And are you suggesting that some of them should not be held responsible for that decline?”

ALSOBROOKS: “I ask the questions. And the question is really whether you intend, as you said, to substitute essentially your judgment for the judgment of these professional scientists.”

KENNEDY: “Of course, I’m not going to do that. What I’m going to do—listen, The New York Times just did an article last week talking about the fraud, the 20-year fraud, 800 fraudulent studies produced by NIH on amyloid plaques, and not allowing any other hypothesis about the cause of Alzheimer’s disease.”

ALSOBROOKS: “How will you decide, Mr. Kennedy? Which scientists are they? The ones who disagree with you?”

KENNEDY: “The ones who are corrupt. The ones who have been doing science like the amyloid plaque studies that were fraudulent.”

After losing control of the narrative, Alsobrooks resorted to mocking Kennedy for not having a medical degree. Ironically, Biden’s HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, did not have one either.

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Viva Frei

@thevivafrei
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So Pocahontas @ewarren who cries about Presidential Immunity supports big-pharma immunity.

Noted.

She's a pharma whore just like Bernie Sanders.

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Concerned Citizen
@BGatesIsaPyscho
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Jan 29
“He may bankrupt the vaccine manufacturers & then no-one gets a vaccine”

https://x.com/thevivafrei/status/1885031852580212824

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Viva Frei

@thevivafrei
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2h
Congratulations @SenatorHassan.

It takes a lot to unlock the “dumbest comment of the day” award, but you did it!

Chris Martenson
@chrismartenson
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Jan 30
I have suddenly become a stark raving one issue voter. Anybody who votes against RFK is permanently unworthy to hold any public office. This isn't left v right. It's right v wrong.

mountain_jim

31st January 2025, 14:53

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Clandestine
@WarClandestine
It was subtle, but Tulsi was indirectly asked about her speaking out on the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine 👀

Sen. Bennet (D-CO), very carefully asks Tusli about her stance on Russia’s “legitimate security concerns” and how she is repeating Russia’s justification for invading Ukraine, which includes their accusations of US-funded bioweapon development in Ukraine.

Bennet is consciously avoiding saying any buzzwords like “biolab”, or “bioweapons”, because the Dems know that people like me are waiting for them to bring it up. They are being very careful about how they question her about this subject, without bringing more attention to the secret they are already desperately trying to cover up.

Tintin

31st January 2025, 14:57

Tulsi Gabbard, a class act in so many ways, and her opening statement at her Senate confirmation hearing:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1885108903240663040/pu/vid/avc1/720x406/PA0n_lkeQ-8KHTW4.mp4?tag=12

mountain_jim

31st January 2025, 15:33

https://x.com/MargoinWNC/status/1885270917548290230

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Shocking information from the newest Senator from Florida!

The FBI and the DOJ obstructed the state of Florida from investigating Trump’s assassination attempt in Florida!

— Margo (@MargoinWNC) January 31, 2025

mountain_jim

31st January 2025, 16:44

https://x.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1885326359712444626

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Thank you, @Kash_Patel, for pledging to work with me to release the Epstein flight logs!

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) January 31, 2025

ThePersistence
@ScottPresler
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22h
Kash Patel just affirmed if he is confirmed as FBI Director, he will help to reveal everyone that was involved in working w/ Jeffrey Epstein to build a sex trafficking ring.

It makes you question why democrats are vehemently opposed to Kash.

Mark (Star Mariner)

31st January 2025, 19:50

It makes you question why democrats are vehemently opposed to Kash.

For the same reason, I assume, they vehemently opposed RFK Jr.

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TrumanCash

1st February 2025, 18:40

This is Tulsi Gabbard's full Senate hearing for Director of the Office of National Intelligence which is well worth listening to, IMO, as she stresses the importance of following the US Constitution.

I've revealed why it is so important to me personally and to all of us in my two posts here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?52786-MATRIX-REVEALED-Analysis-Solutions&p=1652906&viewfull=1#post1652906

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djG4VRXisw8

onawah

1st February 2025, 19:24

Tulsi BRUTALLY Exposes Intel Community In Confirmation Hearing
The Jimmy Dore Show
1.48M subscribers
Feb 1, 2025

"During her confirmation hearing to become Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard exposed some of the most egregious lies and failures of the intelligence community — information the vast majority of Americans have never been exposed to before.
Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the shocking revelations contained just in Tulsi’s opening statement."

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onawah

1st February 2025, 20:17

Candace Owens DESTROYS Caroline Kennedy Over RFK Jr.
The Jimmy Dore Show
1.48M subscribers
Jan 30, 2025

"Caroline Kennedy has called her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a "predator" and "unqualified" to be the new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary just hours before he was scheduled to appear for confirmation hearings in the Senate.

In a video posted to social media, Caroline Kennedy not only criticized RFK for lacking “any relevant government, financial, management, or medical experience," and that “his views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed,” but she also brought up her cousin’s long-ago heroin addiction.

Online commentator Candace Owens took Caroline Kennedy to task for her criticism, keying in particular on Kennedy’s allegations that RFK as a youth would put mice and baby chicks in a blender before feeding them to his pet hawk."

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mountain_jim

2nd February 2025, 15:28

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Catturd ™
@catturd2
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One of the biggest traitors in U.S. history.
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The Gateway Pundit
@gatewaypundit
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Calm Before the Storm: Will John Brennan May Be First Criminal Deep Stater Arrested?

READ: https://thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/calm-before-storm-will-john-brennan-may-be/

mountain_jim

2nd February 2025, 16:00

https://x.com/jstylman/status/1885883454971162809

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Phenomenal analysis, @walterkirn.

— Joshua Stylman (@jstylman) February 2, 2025

Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd

MUST WATCH: Walter Kirn Reveals the 'Magic Show' That Went on at RFK Jr's Confirmation Hearing

"I was sitting 5 feet to the left of @RobertKennedyJr in the very front row ... I got to see [Bernie] up close ... Based on what I saw, there is nothing there but a complete fabrication of attitudes ... What Bernie was doing when the shot wasn't on him was not listening at all ... He was waiting his turn to do his act ... And it was astonishing because it was transparently at every turn in the service of pharma interests."

Full Episode w/
@walterkirn
:
@thedarkhorsepod

@BretWeinstein

mountain_jim

2nd February 2025, 19:53

https://x.com/_emergent_/status/1886087851437093051

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The argument against @RobertKennedyJr's confirmation:

— Emergent Perspective (@_emergent_) February 2, 2025

mountain_jim

3rd February 2025, 19:37

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DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
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1h
This is how you know the USAID money laundering is really important to them
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Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
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BREAKING: Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) to "stall" all Trump nominees until USAID is up and running again - WSJ

SilentFeathers

4th February 2025, 14:21

Looks like Tulsi might actually get confirmed, I didn't think she would.....

BREAKING NEWS: Tulsi Gabbard Wins Backing Of Key GOP Senator Susan Collins
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rgray222

4th February 2025, 15:50

RFK Jr. has been approved along party lines. The Democrats were loathed to approve a former Democrat with the name Kennedy to a cabinet post for a Republican President, especially one with the name Trump. Not one Democrat voted for their former colleague.

Senate panel advances RFK Jr.'s nomination to be health secretary

The Senate Finance Committee voted along party lines to send Kennedy’s bid to lead the Department of Health and Human Services to the full chamber.

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1000w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-01/250129-RFK-aa-1057-b42f35.jpg

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cleared a key hurdle Tuesday after a Senate panel voted to advance his nomination to be health and human services secretary to the full chamber.

In a vote along party lines, the Senate Finance Committee pushed through Kennedy’s nomination after he managed to allay concerns raised by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., over his past anti-vaccine stances.

Cassidy, a doctor, signaled he held serious reservations over whether Kennedy was qualified to lead the vast agency, saying he was “struggling” with his decision after questioning him at two confirmation hearings last week. In addition to the Finance Committee, Cassidy serves as chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

In a statement posted to X before Tuesday's vote, Cassidy said he had "very intense conversations" with Kennedy and the White House over the weekend, specifically thanking Vice President JD Vance "for his honest counsel."

"With the serious commitments I’ve received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the issues we agree on like healthy foods and a pro-American agenda, I will vote yes," Cassidy said.

A scion of the storied Democratic family, Kennedy ran for president 2024, first as a Democrat and then as an independent, before dropping out to endorse Trump. While hitting the trail for Trump, Kennedy branded a "Make America Healthy Again" campaign, where he railed against food manufacturers and unhealthy ingredients in the nation’s diet.

Full Story: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-panel-advances-rfk-jrs-nomination-health-secretary-rcna190438

meat suit

4th February 2025, 18:36

So far so good,
Not being familiar with the process in the US, what else needs to happen for RFK to get the job?

norman

4th February 2025, 19:52

https://x.com/GenFlynn/status/1886169235774144846
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General Mike Flynn
@GenFlynn
FINAL WARNING:

THIS IS MY FINAL WARNING AS IT RELATES TO CONFIRMATIONS OF
@realDonaldTrump
‘s NOMINEES. IF THERE ARE PEOPLE INSIDE OF THE ODNI, THE CIA, OR THE FBI THAT ARE WORKING TO SUBVERT THE NOMINATIONS OF
@TulsiGabbard, @Kash_Patel or @RobertKennedyJr
, I AM WRITING TO LET YOU KNOW, YOU BETTER STOP NOW AND THINK BEFORE YOU GO ANY FURTHER. THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE READY TO BE WHISTLEBLOWERS AND THERE IS SO MUCH REPORTING CURRENTLY FLOWING OUT (NOT CLASSIFIED LEAKS!), BUT LEAKS OF SUBVERSIVE AND TREASONOUS BEHAVIOR. THIS HAS TO END AND TRUST IF IT DOESNT, YOU WILL BE CAUGHT AND YOU WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.

SilentFeathers

5th February 2025, 01:58

Pam Bondi confirmed as Attorney General.

Gcppqo1_u9w

bojancan

10th February 2025, 03:05

Very interesting!
It was a lot of talking about Shein, a company accused of using forced labor...

Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form says were received in exchange for consulting services.

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, owns stocks valued between $1 million to $5 million in a company that controls Shein, a controversial ecommerce and fashion giant founded in China, according to lobbying and corporate records from three countries reviewed by WIRED. They show that Patel began consulting for Shein one month before the company also retained the services of a lobbying firm where Pam Bondi, Trump’s newly confirmed US attorney general, worked at the time.

In a legally required financial disclosure, Patel told members of the US Senate—who are expected to vote on whether to confirm him next week—that he does not plan to divest his stake in Shein if he becomes the leader of the FBI. He was allotted shares in the fast-fashion company, which is reportedly valued to be worth $50 billion, in the form of what are called “restricted stock units”

RSUs are often given to company employees, who typically cannot cash them out until a certain amount of time has passed or other conditions are met. Patel disclosed that his Shein RSUs began vesting on February 1 and are expected to be paid out quarterly.

Legally, an official like the head of the FBI would not need to divest or recuse until a clear conflict of interest emerges, says Jordan Libowitz, vice president of communications at the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “However, the optics of the situation are not great,” he says. “So we would recommend divestiture or recusal from any matter involving Shein upon taking office.”

An official working for Trump’s transition team said that Patel has gone “above and beyond” in answering questions from lawmakers. “The Senate has evaluated all potential conflicts and concerns,” Arjun Mody said in an email to WIRED. Shein did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In his financial disclosure, Patel said he began working as a consultant for an entity in the Cayman Islands called Elite Depot Ltd. in April 2024, which he described as a “fashion management company.” A WIRED review of corporate registration filings, lobbying disclosures, and other public records from the US, UK, and Cayman Islands shows that Elite Depot functions as a parent company for Shein.

Shein, which is known for selling low-priced clothing made in China, was under intense scrutiny in Washington over its alleged unethical business practices when Patel began consulting for the company. Amid the controversy, Shein was struggling to obtain approval from financial regulators to go public in New York. In February that year, then-senator Marco Rubio of Florida, now Trump’s secretary of state, urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission to halt Shein’s planned IPO.

In a financial audit Shein submitted to regulators in the UK—where it is currently trying to IPO after its attempts at a US listing were stalled—the company said its “ultimate controlling party is Elite Depot Limited, a company registered in the Cayman Islands.” Public filings submitted to Congress by three different political lobbying firms working on Shein’s behalf in Washington similarly describe Elite Depot as having a 100 percent ownership stake in the fast-fashion giant.

Elite Depot’s directors include Xu Yangtian, the name of Shein’s founder, and Donald Tang, the name of the company’s executive chairman, corporate records from the Cayman Islands viewed by WIRED show. (The list of directors was also reported on social media by journalist Roger Sollenberger.).....

“These ties between Patel and Shein are truly shocking,” wrote Rush Doshi, a professor at Georgetown University who specializes in China foreign policy issues and served on former President Biden’s National Security Council, in a social media post. “Especially amid reports that DOJ/FBI is going to reduce focus on [China] influence efforts in the US.”

If he becomes the head of the FBI, Patel could oversee a range of law enforcement activities that could have substantial effects on Shein’s business, including investigations into the company’s supply chains or its handling of consumer purchasing data. Shein has an estimated 17.3 million active customers in the US.

Patel would also be privy to sensitive national security information at the FBI, and his holdings in a company with operations in China could make him a target for espionage. In written responses to questions from lawmakers, Patel vowed he would “not participate personally and substantially” in matters that to his knowledge would have a direct financial impact on Elite Depot.

Patel isn't the only member of Trump's orbit that Shein has courted. One of the lobbying firms that it hired to curry favor among US lawmakers has numerous ties to the president and his administration. Ballard Partners, which filings show first registered as a lobbyist for Shein in May 2024, formerly employed both Bondi and Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff. While the filings don’t indicate that Bondi ever lobbied for Shein directly, she was employed by Ballard Partners until being sworn in as attorney general earlier this week.

Bondi’s first actions after taking office included disbanding the Department of Justice’s Foreign Influence Task Force, a group established during Trump’s first term in office to root out foreign political lobbying and influence campaigns orchestrated by countries like Russia and China. Bondi said the move would free up resources for “more pressing priorities.”

https://www.wired.com/story/kash-patel-elite-depot-shein/

mountain_jim

11th February 2025, 14:09

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1889204614882373744

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US biolabs in Ukraine mentioned 👀

Schiff reveals once again why the Deep State are so afraid of Tulsi. He says Tulsi has “pushed out Russian propaganda about US biolabs in Ukraine”.

Schiff is panicking. His fear confirms we are over the target.

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) February 11, 2025

TrumanCash

12th February 2025, 16:28

WATCH LIVE: Tulsi Gabbards' confirmation vote set for Wednesday. President Donald Trump is on the cusp of seeing his 14th Cabinet member be confirmed in the Senate.

Gabbard is slated for a final Senate confirmation vote to serve as Trump's director of national intelligence, after a planned vote for midnight was moved.

Votes are being counted now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTq2uLqCCpc

Yeas: 52 Nays: 48 -- Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence

Following the vote, the Senate also plans to take a procedural vote on whether to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as Health and Human Services Secretary. The US Senate is still on track to confirm RFK Jr. on Thursday.

President Trump’s FBI nominee, Kash Patel, will clear the committee on Thursday. Then, his confirmation vote will be sent to the floor of the US Senate.

I guess I can email Tulsi now and ask her what she is going to do about military/intelligence cahooting with Grays and Reptilians in DUMBs.

T Smith

12th February 2025, 18:50

Schiff is panicking. His fear confirms we are over the target.

He'll be fine. He got his pardon. If he knew what was good for him, he'd quit while he's ahead and ride off in the sunset to write one of his b-quality screenplays. I'm sure he has plenty of contacts in Hollywood he could bribe or blackmail to produce it.

mountain_jim

12th February 2025, 21:25

https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1889715681064616199

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Tulsi Gabbard got maliciously placed on a watchlist by the intelligence agencies.

She is now their boss.

Incredible.

— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) February 12, 2025

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Tulsi Gabbard was under surveillance by the intelligence community under Biden

Now she's in charge of intel

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 12, 2025

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mountain_jim

13th February 2025, 15:11

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1889866127804866610

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WATCH: Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) takes the oath of office as the 8th Director of National Intelligence

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 13, 2025

https://x.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1890013719339606409

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Tulsi Gabbard 🌺
@TulsiGabbard
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Thank you @realDonaldTrump for the privilege and opportunity to serve our great country and the American people as your Director of National Intelligence.

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1889792995697815574

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Clandestine
@WarClandestine
After swearing Tulsi in as DNI, Trump says that he spoke with both Putin and Zelensky, and says everyone wants peace.

Notice the timeline: Soon after Tulsi was confirmed this morning, Trump started posting about the ongoing negotiations with Russia.

Are they related? Perhaps.

Maybe Trump was waiting for his highest-ranking intelligence position to be officially confirmed before proceeding to this next phase of the negotiations with Russia/Ukraine.

Given Tulsi’s comments on the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, and the establishment’s claims that she is a Russian asset, it seems there might be some strategic timing going on here by Trump. A lot of dots are connecting.

Clandestine
@WarClandestine
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18h
Back in Feb. 2022, I was banned from social media and smeared by the entire left-wing MSM, for reporting on the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine.

I called Reps, Senators, public figures etc., seeking legal help.

You know who the ONLY person to respond to me was?

Tulsi Gabbard.

https://x.com/liz_churchill10/status/1889725935496147248

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Liz Churchill
@liz_churchill10
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22h
Good Luck Deep State.

“Mitt Romney called me a Treasonous Liar when I said there was U.S.-funded, DoD-funded Biolabs in Ukraine…” -Tulsi Gabbard with Tucker Carlson.

TrumanCash

13th February 2025, 15:34

WATCH LIVE: Senate Vote to Confirm RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary Live Feed at 10:30 ET

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote on RFK Jr.’s confirmation this morning at approximately 10:30 am ET.

The Senate will also vote on the confirmation of President Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins.

This afternoon, the Senate is expected to vote on Motions for Cloture in the confirmation of Secretary of Commerce Nominee Howard Lutnick and Small Business Administrator nominee Kelly Loeffler.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-live-senate-vote-rfk-confirmation/

Robert Kennedy Jr confirmed Secretary of HHS.

Yeas: 52 Nays: 48

ulli

13th February 2025, 16:29

https://x.com/AVPac_US/status/1890074773436416442
YAY!!!
RFK Jr. has been confirmed.

mountain_jim

13th February 2025, 16:57

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/maha-rfk-jr-confirmed-lead-hhs-despite-traitor-mcconnell-siding-democrats

MAHA: RFK Jr. Confirmed To Lead HHS Despite 'Traitor' McConnell Siding With Democrats

by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Feb 13, 2025 - 11:17 AM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as the Director of Health and Human Services on Thursday, despite Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-INO) as the sole Republican to vote against him.

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/rfk%20ss_0.JPG?itok=mdOXLi1Q

The vote - which is ongoing, came after a heated battle in the Republican-controlled Senate, which voted 53-47 on Wednesday to invoke cloture, setting up the final confirmation showdown. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic and former environmental activist, only needs a simple majority of 51 votes to secure the position.

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/yesaaa.JPG?itok=h4-__uxM

Kennedy’s nomination has been a political firestorm from the start. His past claims linking vaccines to autism and other harms sparked a fierce backlash from Democrats, who grilled him in contentious confirmation hearings last month. But despite their objections, Kennedy managed to navigate the political minefield, thanks in part to key Republican senators who were initially hesitant but ultimately threw their support behind him.

A GOP Divide Over RFK Jr.

With Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee refusing to advance Kennedy’s nomination, pressure fell on Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). Cassidy, a physician himself, had expressed concerns about Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric but ultimately gave him the green light, citing a long list of commitments Kennedy made to ensure transparency and oversight.

“These commitments, and my expectation that we can have a great working relationship to make America healthy again, is the basis of my support,” Cassidy said.

Kennedy also won over GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), both of whom had initially been skeptical. Murkowski admitted she remained wary of Kennedy’s stance on vaccines but pointed to his pledges to work with Congress and make data-driven policy decisions.

One of the biggest question marks was Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), a staunch proponent of vaccines who contracted polio as a child. While McConnell voted to advance Kennedy’s nomination, all eyes were on whether he will break ranks with his party during the final confirmation vote.

Beyond vaccines, Kennedy has vowed to shake up HHS by tackling Big Pharma and the food industry, shifting the agency’s focus to chronic disease prevention and diet reform. His ‘Make America Healthy Again’ plan includes overhauling dietary guidelines, cracking down on ultra-processed foods, and addressing the root causes of the nation’s health crises.

“Our country is not going to be destroyed because we get the marginal tax rate wrong. It is going to be destroyed if we get this issue wrong,” Kennedy declared, warning of the dangers of chronic diseases.

From Political Outsider to Trump’s HHS Pick

Kennedy’s political arc has been quite interesting, to say the least. A lifelong Democrat, he frequently invoked his family’s legacy - his father, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy. But in recent years, he’s built strong alliances with right-wing figures, particularly over his vocal opposition to vaccine mandates.

Kennedy made headlines last August when he abruptly dropped his independent presidential bid and endorsed Trump, a move that shocked many in the Democratic establishment. After months of criticizing Kennedy, Trump embraced him, calling him “a man who has been an incredible champion for so many of these values that we all share.”

Trump wasted no time in rewarding Kennedy’s loyalty, nominating him for one of the most powerful roles in the federal government.

Kennedy’s confirmation comes just one day after another lightning-rod nominee, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, was confirmed as director of national intelligence in a 52-48 vote. If Thursday’s vote goes as expected, RFK Jr. will soon take the reins at HHS.

mountain_jim

13th February 2025, 16:58

https://x.com/AVPac_US/status/1890074773436416442
YAY!!!
RFK Jr. has been confirmed.

https://x.com/AVPac_US/status/1890074773436416442

1890074773436416442

American Values 🗽
@AVPac_US
RFK Jr. is OFFICIALLY confirmed.

This is the moment MAHA has been waiting for.

America’s decline into disease and debt ends TODAY.

This is what We The People can accomplish when we refuse to back down!

🧵THREAD

mountain_jim

13th February 2025, 17:01

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1890079205431668760

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Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
BREAKING: Kash Patel has been voted out of the Committee for FBI Director!

Next step - Full floor confirmation vote!

Let's get it done, @SenateGOP; America is watching!

mountain_jim

13th February 2025, 17:07

:)

https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1890085136752160943

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Sacrifices he had to make.😉
Thank you, RFK Jr.

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 13, 2025

Autism Capital 🧩
@AutismCapital
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4m
Think about all the pain he had to endure to get this far.

https://x.com/RealJessica05/status/1890074919985377732

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Jessica 🇺🇸

@RealJessica05
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43m
“I asked God for 19 years to put me in a position where I could end the chronic disease epidemic and bring health back to our children, and in August, God sent me Donald Trump.”

That’s our new HHS Secretary 🙏

https://x.com/NicoleShanahan/status/1890079739039088818

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Nicole Shanahan

@NicoleShanahan
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34m
CONFIRMED!

Congratulations, Bobby.
Congratulations, America.
Thank you, President Trump.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gjr237gX0AAu6bA?format=png&name=small

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1890080574964175262

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Clandestine
@WarClandestine
·
1h
RFK Jr. has been confirmed as the new Secretary of HHS!

Now we can begin enacting the COVID reckoning and making America healthy again!

These two men have been attacked by the Deep State more than anyone, and now they will finish the job JFK started.

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1890105607098888436

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Catturd ™
@catturd2
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45m
😂😂😂 Rolling Stone - Brought to you by Pfizer.
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Five Times August
@FiveTimesAugust
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LET THE COPE BEGIN!

mountain_jim

13th February 2025, 18:21

https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1890085855634812971

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Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal
🚨🇺🇸BROOKE ROLLINS CONFIRMED AS U.S. AGRICULTURE SECRETARY

The Senate has officially confirmed Brooke Rollins to lead the USDA, securing a huge win for American farmers.

With tariffs, supply chain issues, and food security on the line, agricultural groups pushed for her quick confirmation—and now she’s set to take action.

Rollins, a staunch America First advocate, is expected to fight for fair trade, boost rural economies, and cut red tape.

Source: RFD TV

jaybee

13th February 2025, 21:08

https://x.com/AVPac_US/status/1890074773436416442
YAY!!!
RFK Jr. has been confirmed.

QriN6mMrVhA

that's for Tulsi Gabbard as well.....

:)

(and all Trump's other picks for his team...)

mountain_jim

13th February 2025, 21:26

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1890131960598606138

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Dan Scavino

@Scavino47
·
1h
🚨MOMENTS AGO🚨

@RobertKennedyJr has officially been sworn-in as Secretary of @HHSGov, in the Oval Office…

updated with

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1890143552169992663

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Rapid Response 47

@RapidResponse47
WATCH: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. gives remarks in the Oval Office after being sworn in as the Secretary of Health & Human Services:

"For 20 years, I've gotten up every morning and prayed that God would put me in a position where I could end the childhood chronic disease epidemic."

mountain_jim

14th February 2025, 17:37

:)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gjskr7YXAAAODAP?format=jpg&name=900x900

mountain_jim

17th February 2025, 19:51

https://x.com/Scavino47/status/1891508141654700041

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🚨COMING SOON🚨

— Dan Scavino (@Scavino47) February 17, 2025

Moemers

17th February 2025, 20:13

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjmlpYVXMAAAPQx?format=jpg&name=small

i have also had this on my boarding pass on 3 separate trips...didn't know they were even using this anymore.

mountain_jim

18th February 2025, 19:47

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1891925639256482290

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See new posts
Conversation
The Vigilant Fox 🦊

@VigilantFox

IT’S HAPPENING: RFK Jr. Vows “NOTHING Is Gonna Be Off Limits” in Chronic Disease Investigation

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just made a bold pledge that has the entire health establishment on notice: “NOTHING is gonna be off limits” in his investigation into the chronic disease epidemic.

Kennedy named the industries and products that will face the heat, including the childhood vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, glyphosate, other pesticides, ultra-processed foods, artificial food additives, SSRIs and other psychiatric drugs, PFAs, PFOAs, and microplastics.

He also promised to investigate topics once considered untouchable, saying, “Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formally taboo or insufficiently scrutinized.”

“Whatever belief or suspicion I have expressed in the past, I’m willing to subject them all to the scrutiny of unbiased science. That is gonna be our template—unbiased science,” Kennedy continued.

He then issued a call for scientific honesty, suggesting that health agencies had previously abandoned studies to protect powerful interests in the past.

“Let’s use protocols that we all agree on in advance and not alter the outcomes of the studies when they’re halfway through, and that look inconvenient,” Kennedy stated.

This is the investigation Big Pharma and Big Ag have feared for decades. Let’s see who panics first.

Video:
@Holden_Culotta

mountain_jim

20th February 2025, 17:43

https://x.com/AwakenedOutlaw/status/1892618988053500283

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The Senate just voted 51-47 for Cloture to move forward with a final vote to confirm Kash Patel at 1:45 PM EST.

It's happening!!

— AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ (@AwakenedOutlaw) February 20, 2025

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1892614990781165883

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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Wow, the public outrage is high 🤣🤣
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Brenden Dilley
@WarlordDilley
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This is peak Democrat party 2025.

Five assholes huddled around a microphone with zero constituent support, trying to block a patriotic American (@Kash_Patel) from doing his job.

Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
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30m
JUST IN: HUGE protest of corrupt Democratic politicians has erupted in front of the FBI building to protest Trump's nomination of Kash Patel for FBI Director.

https://x.com/Ultrafrog17/status/1892612755850736127

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Green Lives Matter
@Ultrafrog17
The reason why Adam Schiff is panicking outside the FBI building this morning:

Kash Patel told us that Adam Schiff is the worst criminal in Congress in the last 250 years.

And that he must be investigated for his role in the whistleblower impeachment hoax.

"The guy that found and manufactured the evidence was the prosecutor in the case against the target of the investigation.
That is the ultimate conflict of interest.
He knew what he was doing and he thought he would never get exposed."

I love it when Adam Schiff panics outside of the FBI building because he knows that Kash knows where all the bodies are buried.
@Misty_G_17

mountain_jim

20th February 2025, 19:25

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-confirms-kash-patel-lead-fbi

Senate Confirms Kash Patel To Lead FBI

by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Feb 20, 2025 - 02:24 PM
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel to lead the FBI.

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/kash-patel.jpg?itok=60Dk8Vu0

Patel had widespread support of Republicans - even Mitch McConnell (!), who argued that the Trump nominee would reform the nation's top law enforcement agency after decades of corruption.

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/patel%20yeas.JPG?itok=sk3bGQ-1

"Mr. Patel should be our next FBI director because the FBI has been infected by political bias and weaponized against the American people. Mr. Patel knows it, Mr. Patel exposed it, and Mr. Patel has been targeted for it," Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said last week during a committee meeting to discuss Patel's nomination, before the panel advanced Patel in a party-line vote.

Democrats, meanwhile are positively spooked...

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1892598844606787745

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Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
JUST IN: Adam Schiff, who deceived the public for 8 years by weaponizing his position against his political enemies, says Kash Patel is a political hack who will weaponize his position against his political enemies.

The irony.

In 2023, Schiff was called out to his face on CNN for intentionally lying to the American people.

Instead of coming clean, he doubled down.

Meanwhile, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) - who notably blocked the release of the Epstein client list that Patel has vowed to expose, held a press conference outside FBI headquarters on Thursday, slamming what he called Patel's "bizarre political statements" spanning Jan. 6, to retribution - and accused Reepublicans of "willfully ignoring red flags on Mr. Patel," who he argued has "neither the experience, the judgment or the temperament" to be FBI chief for the next decade.

"Mr. Patel will be a political and national security disaster," said Durbin.

Patel, a vocal critic of the FBI, has worked in several roles during the first Trump administration, including acting deputy director of national intelligence. In prior comments, Patel said he wanted to clean out the bureau's headquarters in Washington DC as part of a mission to dismantle the Deep State.

Jeff Carlson
@themarketswork
Ask Adam Schiff why he's still withholding the October 2019 transcript of former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson.

Eight hours of closed-door testimony. All but guarantee it will answer a number of important questions surrounding Trump's 1st impeachment.

< more earlier stuff at link >

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1892656035724202150

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https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/1892654671195488257

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Clandestine
@WarClandestine
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9m
The only people who are upset about Kash being appointed, are swamp rats, and their brainwashed sheep.

That tells me all I need to know. He is the perfect man for the job.

The hunters have become the hunted.

TrumanCash

20th February 2025, 19:26

Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director

Yeas: 51

Nays: 49

May the arrests begin.

54464

54463

mountain_jim

20th February 2025, 20:44

https://x.com/drawandstrike/status/1892675308186210600

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He was confirmed about 40 minutes ago and 17 minutes ago he made his first X post from his official FBI Director account.

Amazing.

— Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) February 20, 2025

FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash

I am honored to be confirmed as the ninth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Thank you to President Trump and Attorney General Bondi for your unwavering confidence and support.

The FBI has a storied legacy—from the “G-Men” to safeguarding our nation in the wake of 9/11. The American people deserve an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice. The politicalization of our justice system has eroded public trust—but that ends today.

My mission as Director is clear: let good cops be cops—and rebuild trust in the FBI.

Working alongside the dedicated men and women of the Bureau and our partners, we will rebuild an FBI the American people can be proud of.

And to those who seek to harm Americans—consider this your warning. We will hunt you down in every corner of this planet.

Mission First. America Always. Let’s get to work.

mountain_jim

20th February 2025, 20:48

https://x.com/JoeLang51440671/status/1892673397265404094

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JoeLange
@JoeLang51440671
Did you all see this?
Susan caught the image on Kash’s tie.
It’s a guy on a paddle board.

Certainly, you remember this story:

“The paddleboarder who died near the Obamas’ Martha’s Vineyard estate was the ex-president’s chef.”

https://bostonherald.com/2023/07/24/massachusetts-state-police-recover-body-of-missing-paddle-boarder-from-marthas-vineyard-pond/amp/

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence!😉

SilentFeathers

20th February 2025, 20:54

mountain_jim

20th February 2025, 21:28

a reminder

Aaron Maté
@aaronjmate
The FBI was weaponized to frame a presidential candidate turned president as a Russian agent. Adam Schiff was the leading Congressional proponent of this historic fraud, and Kash Patel was the leading Congressional investigator to expose it. That's why Schiff is now freaking out about Patel taking over the FBI.

It's in Democrats' political self-interest to come to grips with this, rather than to continue to enable its resident Russiagate fraudsters.

Greg Price
@greg_price11
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Kash Patel was once spied on by the FBI as he worked as a congressional staffer to expose the Russia Hoax, the illegal FISA warrants, and how the bogus Steele Dossier was funded by Hillary’s campaign.

He now officially runs the FBI.

https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1892680432589660378

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He is perfect for this. https://t.co/RH26MhiipW

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 20, 2025

Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹
@saras76
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“I’d SHUT DOWN the FBI Hoover Building on Day One and reopen it as a Deep State Museum.”

🔥🔥

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James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
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If the only thing FBI Director Patel accomplishes is putting Schiff in prison for life, he will make history as the greatest ever.

AutumnW

21st February 2025, 00:13

I hope Patel locks Hillary up. That would make me so happy. YES!YES!

Mark (Star Mariner)

21st February 2025, 23:18

If I was 'one of them' right now, I'd start digging my bunker, the deepest ever. Or catch the next TR-3B to the moon, or wherever the hell they go...

:fire::fire:
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https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1893069017574719569
Defiant L’s
@DefiantLs
Kash Patel's first statement as FBI director...

mountain_jim

22nd February 2025, 19:23

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1893377690612236609

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🚨 Tulsi Gabbard receives a real-life Captain America Shield upon her arrival at the Office of Director of National Intelligence

This is insanely badass.

Follow @DNIGabbard who is doing incredible work.

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 22, 2025

Catturd ™
@catturd2

That’s a Wonder Woman shield.

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Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson
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Tulsi receives a heroes welcome into the building to assumed her role as Director of National Intelligence.

This is incredible to see.

full images

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkZ-ayKXoAAELTx?format=jpg&name=small

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mountain_jim

22nd February 2025, 19:36

https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1893381752619401256

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HOMAN at @CPAC: "Let me start off by saying this: If I offend anybody today, I don’t give a sh*t."

Perfect man for the job. h

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 22, 2025

mountain_jim

22nd February 2025, 19:56

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.

Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.

https://x.com/OldeWorldOrder/status/1893388690036081010

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old meme - vivek was still there

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vivek-ramaswamy-addresses-sudden-exit-from-doge-i-think-thats-incorrect_n_6798be48e4b035ecd67cb456

When asked Monday by Fox News anchor Jesse Watters if Musk had fired him from DOGE, which purportedly aims to slash unnecessary government spending, Ramaswamy claimed he left to pursue “elected office” soon — and adamantly denied being ousted.

“I think that’s incorrect,” he told Watters. “But what I would say is, we had different and complementary approaches. I focused more on a constitutional law, legislative-based approach. He focused more on a technology approach, which is the future approach.”

“No better person to lead that technology, digital approach than Elon Musk,” Ramaswamy continued. “But when you’re talking about a Constitutional revival, it’s not just done through the federal government — it’s done through Federalism, where states also lead the way.”

https://x.com/GenX_Sam/status/1893387739237691528

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Bill Ryan

22nd February 2025, 19:59

Tulsi receives a heroes welcome into the building to assumed her role as Director of National Intelligence. I'd love to see a video of her welcome... is there one?

(And yes, it's a Wonder Woman shield :muscle::))

~~~

I'd quite like to add this to the Avalon Smilie collection, but it might be a little too risqué! :ROFL:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/Wonder_Woman_icon.jpg

mountain_jim

22nd February 2025, 20:02

Also want the video - have not located one yet

Mark (Star Mariner)

22nd February 2025, 21:33

I'd quite like to add this to the Avalon Smilie collection, but it might be a little too risqué! :ROFL:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/Wonder_Woman_icon.jpg

I think it's fine. The kids' show version was no less revealing and I wasn't corrupted as a lad at all (well, actually I probably was, but I make no complaints). ;)

https://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/v1723869863/sanity-new/wonder-woman-lynda-carter.jpeg-134806362.jpg

Can be replaced if need be, but here it is (with transparent background suitable for any theme)

:wonder:

Bill Ryan

22nd February 2025, 21:43

This is better still. (But it's not an emoji icon :))

https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/Tulsi_as_Wonder_Woman_sm.jpg

:focus: :focus: :focus:

onawah

22nd February 2025, 23:19

I think that vow must include the polio "vaccine", though apparently RFK had to obfuscate in order to get confirmed.
I'm confident he will be clear with the truth once the time is right.
Meanwhile, I pray for his safety!

See: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?124169-Day-1-of-Trump-s-Presidency...-and-all-the-days-that-follow&p=1657305&viewfull=1#post1657305

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@VigilantFox

IT’S HAPPENING: RFK Jr. Vows “NOTHING Is Gonna Be Off Limits” in Chronic Disease Investigation

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just made a bold pledge that has the entire health establishment on notice: “NOTHING is gonna be off limits” in his investigation into the chronic disease epidemic.

Kennedy named the industries and products that will face the heat, including the childhood vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, glyphosate, other pesticides, ultra-processed foods, artificial food additives, SSRIs and other psychiatric drugs, PFAs, PFOAs, and microplastics.

He also promised to investigate topics once considered untouchable, saying, “Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formally taboo or insufficiently scrutinized.”

“Whatever belief or suspicion I have expressed in the past, I’m willing to subject them all to the scrutiny of unbiased science. That is gonna be our template—unbiased science,” Kennedy continued.

He then issued a call for scientific honesty, suggesting that health agencies had previously abandoned studies to protect powerful interests in the past.

“Let’s use protocols that we all agree on in advance and not alter the outcomes of the studies when they’re halfway through, and that look inconvenient,” Kennedy stated.

This is the investigation Big Pharma and Big Ag have feared for decades. Let’s see who panics first.

Video:
@Holden_Culotta

mountain_jim

22nd February 2025, 23:37

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kash-patel-already-making-huge-changes-fbi

Kash Patel Is Already Making Huge Changes At The FBI

by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Feb 22, 2025 - 03:45 PM
Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com (https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/02/21/boom-kash-patel-is-already-making-huge-changes-at-the-fbi-n4937220),

Newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel is on fire.

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/ec5a9e99-92ca-4674-9b54-ae4f05ff.jpg?itok=lJ6a6nJO

After his swearing-in, he gave a not-so-subtle speech, showing that he’s ready to handle the media’s smears.

“I know the media's in here, and if you have a target, that target’s right here,” he said, pointing to himself.

“It's not the men and women at the FBI.”

“You've written everything you possibly can about me that's fake, malicious, slanderous, and defamatory," he continued.

"Keep it coming — bring it on. But leave the men and women, the FBI out of it. They deserve better.”

He also promised that a new day at the FBI has started.

“I promise you the following, there will be accountability within the FBI and outside of the FBI, and we will do it through rigorous constitutional oversight — starting this weekend.”

Kash continued, “I am living the American dream, and anyone that thinks the American dream is dead, just look right here. You're talking to a first-generation Indian kid who's about to lead the law enforcement community, the greatest nation on God's green earth.”

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He wasted no time turning his bold rhetoric into action. Following his blistering speech on Friday, he ordered (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/21/fbi-agent-transfers-kash-patel-sworn-in/)the transfer of 1,500 agents and staff from the bureau’s Washington, D.C., headquarters to field offices across the country.

Roughly 1,000 will be sent to high-crime cities that the Trump administration designated, where they can focus on fighting crime instead of political games. Another 500 will be reassigned to Huntsville, Ala., which is widely seen as D.C.’s version of exile.

This is just Patel’s first move, and if any Democrats want to shed a bunch of tears over the move, they can, but they can’t claim they shouldn’t have expected it. As the Washington Post reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/21/fbi-agent-transfers-kash-patel-sworn-in/), Patel made this plan known during his confirmation hearings.

Patel, in his 2023 book, vowed to shutter the Hoover headquarters building and turn it into a “museum to the Deep State.” He’s made similar recommendations at his confirmation hearing and in appearances on conservative TV news shows.

“One of my biggest personal recommendations is … you send those 7,000 agents in the headquarters building down range to chase down rapists, to chase down murderers, to chase down drug traffickers and let the cops be cops on the streets across America,” Patel said during an August appearance on “Stinchfiled Tonight.”

During his confirmation hearing last month, Patel was asked about his previous comments suggesting he wanted the FBI’s headquarters emptied out and shuttered. His responses did not directly address whether he would actually shut the building down or seek to transform it into a museum, but suggested that he believes the FBI’s workforce in Washington should go out into the country.

“A third of the workforce for the FBI works in Washington, D.C.,” Patel said. “I am fully committed to having that workforce go out into the interior of the country, where I live west of the Mississippi, and work with sheriff’s departments and local officers.”

It's day one and he’s already making changes. It’s glorious to see.

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Beautiful. Now when does Schiff get perp walked?

Merkaba360

23rd February 2025, 15:04

Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director

Yeas: 51

Nays: 49

May the arrests begin.

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Two Republicans didn't vote for Cash Patel, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. Surprisingly Mitch McConnell voted in favor of Patel.

Mitch is a bit "wishy washy" LOL

Mitch just announced he wont run again. So, maybe he is just voting whatever they want to try and make all happy and sneak out the back door into retirement.

Bill Ryan

24th February 2025, 11:56

I didn't know this had happened. (!) (I can hardly keep up :))

https://zerohedge.com/political/fbi-freak-out-dan-bongino-named-deputy-director

FBI Freak Out as Dan Bongino named Deputy Director

On Sunday evening, President Donald Trump announced that former Secret Service agent and conservative talk show host Dan Bongino will become the new deputy director of the FBI - the agency that helped Obama and Hillary Clinton set Donald Trump us with the Russia Collusion hoax - which included leaks to the press, fabricating evidence, and die-hard deep state servants who vowed to destroy our president.

And now - Bongino and newly minted FBI Director Kash Patel are in charge...

https://x.com/dbongino/status/1893839865864745168
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Mark (Star Mariner)

24th February 2025, 12:13

A shocking development. Bongino is one of the most based podcasters out there; the Dems will be reeling over this! :laughs:

mountain_jim

24th February 2025, 12:29

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-freak-out-dan-bongino-named-deputy-director

FBI Freak Out As Dan Bongino Named Deputy Director

by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 - 11:20 PM
On Sunday evening, President Donald Trump announced that former Secret Service agent and conservative talk show host Dan Bongino will become the new deputy director of the FBI - the agency that helped Obama and Hillary Clinton set Donald Trump us with the Russia Collusion hoax - which included leaks to the press, fabricating evidence, and die-hard deep state servants who vowed to destroy our president.

And now - Bongino and newly minted FBI Director Kash Patel are in charge...

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/keyart_jpg%282%29a.jpg?itok=gxyBVTyY

https://x.com/dbongino/status/1893839865864745168

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...which is not sitting well with current and former agency officials - or deep state journalists like NBC's Ken Dilanian, who reports that the FBI Agents Association struck out against Bongino's selection.

Without naming Bongino directly, the Association lashed out over the fact that the Deputy Director has typically been an active Special Agent.

"The FBI Deputy Director should continue to be an on-board, active Special Agent—as has been the case for 117 years for many compelling reasons, including operational expertise and experience, as well as the trust of our Special Agent population," reads a memo obtained by WNBC's Jonathan Dienst.

As the WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-selects-dan-bongino-as-deputy-fbi-director-10d0e8c4)notes,

The announcement sent shock waves through the FBI, whose new director Kash Patel had offered Republican senators private assurances that he would name a special agent with bureau experience to be his deputy, rather than a political outsider. Patel was sworn in at the White House on Friday.

Leaders of the FBI Agents Association, who met with Patel in January, said the new director had agreed that the deputy should be a current special agent...

Ken Dilanian echoed this sentiment, complaining on X that Bongino "has never spent a day working at the FBI, but he has spent many hours spouting baseless falsehoods about the bureau."

In other words, the right people are freaking out right now.

https://x.com/HansMahncke/status/1893848940379775045

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mountain_jim

24th February 2025, 13:01

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1893876844987814073

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Flashback to 02/02/25, new FBI Deputy Director, Dan Bongino, talks about the purge at the USAID.

He references one of my posts about the Trump admin “knowing where the bodies are buried”.

Now he joins the Trump team in the hunt.

Let the games begin!

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) February 24, 2025

Clandestine
@WarClandestine
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Trump names Dan Bongino as next Deputy Director of FBI!

He will be Kash’s next in command, and will help lead the upcoming FBI purge.

Dan certainly knows how the game is played and where the bodies are buried.

We now have two MAGA pitbulls in charge of the FBI. 😈

https://x.com/thevivafrei/status/1893843283345858666

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Viva Frei

@thevivafrei
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The **** @dbongino knows about the pipe bombs…

It’s going to be one hell of a year.

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A Collection of Snowflakes
@Snowman_in_CO
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Wow, we might actually get some answers on the DC pipe bombs

Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
@drawandstrike
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This 'journalist' was one of the major spreaders of all the SpyGate hoaxes and lies.

He's a CIA stenographer.

Ken Dilanian
@KenDilanianNBC
Traditionally, the deputy FBI director has been a career FBI agent. That is particularly important when the director has no experience at the FBI. Donald Trump tonight announced he is appointing as deputy director Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and prolific conspiracy theorist. He has never spent a day working at the FBI, but he has spent many hours spouting baseless falsehoods about the bureau, such as that the FBI lied when they said they don’t have a suspect in the pipe bombs as outside the RNC and DNC on 1/15/21. Current and former FBI officials are appalled—and extremely concerned for the national security of the country.

Tim Pool

****ing Seethe you smearmonger

Look how "journalists" expose themselves as deepstate cucks the moment we get real accountability

Journalism my ass

update

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkjTBRLXkAARBMD?format=jpg&name=900x900

Catturd ™
@catturd2
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Dan Bongino is giving up millions of dollars a year and a #1 podcast to serve his country and reform the corrupt FBI.

Not many people would have the honor and integrity to do this.