[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Donald Trump signaled Friday which American city he would federalize next after doing so in Washington, D.C.
'When we're ready we'll go in and we'll straighten out Chicago, just like we did D.C.,' Trump told reporters Friday afternoon during a World Cup event.
The president indicated that the plan wasn't fully in action, as he hadn't yet reached out to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
He did call the Democrat names in the Oval Office.
'Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor. Grossly incompetent and we'll straighten that one out probably next, that will be our next one after this and it won't even be tough,' Trump said.
'And the people in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to go. They're wearing red hats, just like this one. But they're wearing red hats,' Trump said.
The president was sporting a 'Trump Was Right About Everything' red ball cap and standing alongside Vice President J.D. Vance, who was screamed at by angry D.C. residents this week amid a visit to Union Station to check on the National Guard troops stationed there.
Despite polling reflecting the opposite, Trump pushed that his federal intervention in major Democratic cities was wanted.
[KhaamaPress] The U.S. revoked the security clearance of former Afghanistan envoy Tom West and 36 officials, citing misuse of intelligence, politicization, unauthorized disclosures, and breaches of professional standards.
The U.S. National Intelligence Agency has revoked the security clearance of Tom West, former Special Representative for Afghanistan, along with 36 other current and former officials.
In its statement, the agency accused them of politicizing intelligence, misusing classified information, and acting against national security priorities. It added that they had failed to meet professional standards.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in a separate post that those who place personal interests above their oath to the Constitution “destroy the sacred trust” they promised to uphold.
She emphasized that security clearance is a privilege, not a right, and accused the officials of manipulating intelligence, unauthorized disclosures, and serious breaches of professional conduct.
Tom West was appointed in October 2021 after Zalmay Khalilzad stepped down. He had previously served as Khalilzad’s deputy during the Doha peace negotiations with the Taliban.
During his tenure, West faced criticism from human rights and women’s rights activists who accused him of whitewashing the Taliban and helping create conditions for global engagement with the group.
He resigned from his post in 2024 and now works with the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His case illustrates Washington’s growing push for accountability and the protection of sensitive information.
Mr.West was included in this list from three days ago, courtesy of Frank G:
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The moment Trump is out all these people are right back in.
"We need professionals, not political Trump appointees."
A purge like Stalin had never seen.
[JustTheNews] Was a major investigation derailed? "Can’t talk about the CF," an IRS memo states in recounting how IRS agents suddenly cut off contact with whistleblowers providing information after months of cooperation.
Years after the FBI was forced to shut down multiple corruption probes of Bill and Hillary Clinton's charity, the IRS under President Donald Trump began a criminal tax investigation into the Clinton Foundation and its dealings with other players on the global charity stage, but then abruptly stopped working with whistleblowers in spring 2019, according to IRS memos and internal emails reviewed by Just the News.
"Can’t talk about the CF," a memo states in recounting how IRS agents suddenly cut off contact with two whistleblowers they had been working with for weeks. One of the whistleblowers was a decorated former federal money laundering analyst who had testified before Congress about issues like terrorism financing.
The documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, add a new body of evidence about the federal government's concerns about the former first family's famous global charity as well as a persistent narrative of federal agents being thwarted in their pursuit of investigations tied to major Democratic Party figures.
John Moynihan, a retired Drug Enforcement Agency financial crimes analyst, and Larry Doyle, a corporate tax compliance expert, had spent years researching the Clinton Foundation, testifying to Congress about it and providing the IRS with evidence of alleged financial wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation.
THE WHISTLEBLOWERS' CASES
Moynihan and Doyle are currently pursuing two separate whistleblower cases involving the Clinton Foundation in U.S. Tax Court, one of which is tentatively slated for trial on Dec. 1. That case includes references to documents from an IRS criminal investigations division investigation.
The memos show the duo submitted multiple IRS Form 211 “Applications for Award for Original Information” — which could have given them a financial reward if taxpayer funds were recovered as a result of what they had unearthed and shared with the IRS about the Clinton Foundation.
A Just the News review of related notes and internal IRS emails shows several meetings between the whistleblowers and the IRS between January and April 2019. The IRS appears to have moved from a serious initial interest in pursuing the Clinton Foundation’s potential wrongdoing to slamming on the brakes, allegedly claiming that such an inquiry couldn’t and wouldn’t be launched after all. All investigative activity had petered out by July 2019.
The whistleblowers filed applications for awards for original information with the IRS related to five of the non-profits listed in information they presented to IRS agents -- called a "whiteboard chart" -- in mid-February 2019. The whistleblowers also filed an application for an award for original information with the IRS related to the Clinton Foundation itself in early March 2019. The whistleblowers then filed new applications for awards for original information with the IRS related to five of the non-profits on the whiteboard chart in early June 2019.
The whistleblowers took notes of their half-dozen meetings with IRS criminal investigators with meeting dates ranging from late January to mid-April 2019. The notes focused in large part on the Clinton Foundation (“CF”) as well as on the Clinton Health Access Initiative (“CHAI”).
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[JTN] U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco extended his previous injunction to cover additional locations, after his original order blocked the administration from pulling funding for more than a dozen other cities and counties.
The Justice Department earlier this month released a list of sanctuary cities, states and counties that it was monitoring based on each location's actions and policies that impede enforcement of federal immigration statutes and regulations.
The Trump administration has also sued multiple states and cities over their sanctuary policies, including New York, Colorado, Illinois, Los Angeles and several New Jersey cities.
Orrick determined in his initial injunction from April that portions of President Donald Trump's executive orders, which instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not to fund sanctuary jurisdictions, were unconstitutional.
The judge's new order prohibited the administration from imposing immigration-related conditions on two federal grant programs, in addition to the initial order's instruction not to "directly or indirectly [take] any action to withhold, freeze, or condition federal funds” based on a jurisdiction's sanctuary status.
The White House has not commented on the latest ruling so far, but the Justice Department appealed the first ruling.
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Congressional abdication of its responsibilities in supervising federal courts under its jurisdiction NEEDS to be the #1 issue in the 3 Nov 2026 election. I predict this won't happen.
[IsraelTimes] Matthew Miller tells Israeli TV show US wanted to declare publicly that Netanyahu was ‘completely intransigent,’ but saw Sinwar pull back from talks when detecting US-Israel strain.
It does not occur to the gentleman in question that Bibi saw clearly exactly how bad the Biden-negotiated deals were for Israel and the hostages, and that is why he balked. Long and full of stories that don’t say what he thinks they do.
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It's a very important part of Israel's PM job to derail enthusiasms of USDS - who are Ivy League Globalist scum: almost as hostile to Israel as they're hostile to US.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
