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White House says Trump 'trusts his physicians' following Biden's cancer announcement
[FoxNews] Questions have emerged about the timing of former president Joe Biden's 'aggressive' prostate cancer diagnosis.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [85 views] Top|| File under:


#2  So you’re saying that Joe never got chemotherapy in Delaware during the four years if his presidency.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/20/2025 6:36 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: badanov || 05/20/2025 18:50 Comments || Top||


Ex-Clinton aide reveals Hillary's appalling secrets
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …and blames her for 'Schindler's List' atmosphere

A former Clinton administration staffer claimed that Hillary Clinton was so detested during her husband's time in the White House that she was known as a 'Nazi schoolmarm' who made aides run in fear.

Buzz Patterson, the former Air Force Aide to Bill Clinton who carried the 'nuclear football' wherever the president went, took to X to reveal intimate details of the former First Couple.

He said he primarily lived in the White House and was 'always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill', which made him quickly learn that the mood of the day 'depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary.'

'We used to say that when Hillary was gone, it was a frat party. When she was home, it was Schindler's List,'' Patterson wrote in a scathing X post that has received over five million views.

Patterson served as Clinton's Senior Military Aide from 1996 to 1998, and his role saw him carry the 'Presidential Emergency Satchel' to allow the president to launch a nuclear strike from anywhere in the world.

He said in his X post that the day-to-day work for Clinton varied dramatically based on Hillary's whims, as he scathingly described her as 'evil, vindictive, profane' and 'a b****.'

'Among the military who served in the White House and the professional White House staff, the Clinton administration was infamously known for its lack of professionalism and courtesy, though few ever spoke about it,' he wrote.

'But when it came to rudeness, it was Hillary Clinton who was the most feared person in the administration. She set the tone.'

Patterson, an outspoken Donald Trump supporter, said he was warned from the get-go that Hillary Clinton was the most daunting figure in the White House, not her president husband.

'When I first arrived to work in the White House, my predecessor warned me: 'You can get away with pissing off Bill but if you make her mad, she’ll rip your heart out,'' he wrote.

'I heeded those words. I did make him mad a few times, but I never really pissed her off. I knew the ramifications.'

In a response to an X user asking what he did that 'pissed off' Clinton, Patterson said he once didn't let him go to a restaurant when he was hungry because the Secret Service hadn't swept it.

He said while these small issues could be brushed over by Bill, Patterson 'realized there were different rules for Hillary.'

'She instructed the senior staff, including me, that she didn’t want to be forced to encounter us,' he said, adding that staff were seen scrambling to avoid her 'no matter their position in the building.'

'Many a time, I’d see mature, professional adults, working in the most important building in the world, scurrying into office doorways to escape Hillary’s line of sight,' he wrote.

'She was the Nazi schoolmarm and the rest of us were expected to hide as though we were kids in trouble.'

Patterson served over 20 years in the Air Force and was deployed on tours to regions including Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda and Somalia.

But he said reverence for military service was scant in the Clinton White House, and recalled a time ahead of the 1996 election when Hillary 'attempted to ban military uniforms in the White House.'

'She was trying to craft the narrative that the military was not a priority in the Clinton administration,' he wrote.

'As a military aide, carrying the football, and working closely with the Secret Service, I objected to that. It simply wasn’t a matter of her political agenda; it was national security.

'If the balloon went up, the Secret Service would need to find me as quickly as possible. Seconds matter. Finding the aide in military uniform made complete sense. Besides, what commander in chief wouldn’t want to advertise his leadership and command?'

Patterson said Hillary 'finally relented because the Secret Service weighed in', but said the incident was a telling moment for his understanding of how the White House worked under the Clintons.

'The Clintons are corrupt beyond words,' he concluded the scathing X post.


Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [222 views] Top|| File under:

#1  made him quickly learn that the mood of the day 'depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary.'

Buzz very likely has a successful marriage.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/20/2025 5:32 Comments || Top||

#2  If Buzz had anything truly revelatory, he would be long dead.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/20/2025 6:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Better put him on "suicide watch".
Posted by: Rambler || 05/20/2025 8:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Snarkworthy at #2.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/20/2025 8:25 Comments || Top||

#5  The only people suprised are Dem voters.
Everybody else already knew.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/20/2025 12:31 Comments || Top||

#6  This business of ducking into offices so Hillary wouldn’t see you in the hallway corroborates a second hand story told to my wife and I back in the nineties by a relative living in Bethesda.
Posted by: Joluger+Omeremble1257 || 05/20/2025 23:22 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
DOGE: The United States Institute of Peace was anything but peaceful
[X] DOGE:
…deleting terabytes of evidence. Trump-hating Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the president had no right to shutdown the CIA front agency operating in the heart of Washington DC.
Posted by: Fred || 05/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [94 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let them work remotely from jail.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/20/2025 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  For the judge
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/20/2025 13:04 Comments || Top||


Attorney General Pam Bondi is eliminating the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section That Shields Members of Congress from Corruption Charges
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
…protection from a D.C. Based unit that shields them from corruption charges like bribery or fraud
Posted by: Fred || 05/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [121 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

When will we see arrests for:

Epstein related crimes?
The cover-up and handling of C-19 Vax.
Theft of $$$ Billions by various Gov officials.
Violation of Civil Rights.
Open Borders Drug & Human trafficking.
Sex Crimes.
Dept Of Ed promoting perversion.
To name just a few
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/20/2025 5:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Is the Public Integrity Section the one that is charge of all the blackmail material?
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/20/2025 6:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's see...we have the United States Institute for Peace which it seems is anything but peaceful and the DoJ Public Integrity Section which has no integrity at all. It's funny the way they name these organizations.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/20/2025 11:53 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ USAID (United States Agency for International Development.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/20/2025 11:59 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ National Endowment for Democracy
Posted by: SteveS || 05/20/2025 12:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
US Rep McIver charged, Mayor Baraka gets charges dropped in NJ ICE case
[X]


Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [114 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
I feel the DOJ is sending the wrong signal.

It needs to start making some examples, as warnings to other such liberal idiots.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/20/2025 5:34 Comments || Top||


#3  She should have received a vigorous hickory shampoo application followed by a Taser joyride before being cuffed and hauled away.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/20/2025 12:31 Comments || Top||


Dem Rep. Eugene Vindman hit with FEC complaint after campaign promoted twin brother's book
[NY Post] Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-Va.) was slapped with a campaign finance complaint Monday, accusing him of using campaign money to promote a book authored by his twin brother, Alexander — a key witness in President Trump’s first impeachment.

According to the complaint by Americans for Public Trust (APT), Eugene’s campaign team touted Alexander’s book “The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine” in fundraising email blasts sent Feb. 27 and March 7 of this year.

The Post previously reported that Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show that Eugene’s campaign paid $38,783 to a South Florida bookstore where Alexander was concurrently signing copies of the tome as a “fundraising expense.”

“It is clearly illegal to use campaign resources for personal use, and that is just what Representative Vindman has done,” said Americans for Public Trust executive director Caitlin Sutherland.

“Rep. Vindman misused campaign resources to help promote his brother’s book all the way to the New York Times bestseller list. The tens of thousands of campaign dollars spent to subsidize his brother’s spurious book should be immediately investigated by the FEC.”

FEC rules state that using campaign assets, such as donor lists, for book promotion or other monetary benefit is usually classified as “prohibited personal use.”

The Feb. 27 email blast by Eugene’s campaign bore the subject line “Alex’s New Book” and encouraged recipients to purchase a copy, saying that it “reveals profound truths.”

The March 7 email again promoted “The Folly of Realism” and urged recipients to “claim your copy,” according to the complaint.

“Vindman for Congress has significantly subsidized the marketing costs that should be borne by Alexander Vindman and his book’s commercial publisher,” APT’s filing stressed, citing FEC rules stipulating that campaign funds can’t be converted “by any person to personal use.”

The Post reached out to Eugene Vindman’s office for comment.

Ten days after the book’s Feb. 25 release date, Eugene’s campaign made a $7,809.55 payment to Books & Books in Coral Gables, Fla., followed by a second payment of $30,972.97 processed on March 20.

The Coral Gables store previously confirmed to The Post last month that Alexander Vindman held book signings at that location and noted that a member of one of Eugene Vindman’s team had asked her earlier in the day what she would do if a reporter came around asking questions.

Campaign payments to the store were listed as a “fundraising expense,” but the store worker wouldn’t specify whether Eugene’s team had actually held fundraising activity there.

Two days after the first payment, on March 9, Alexander Vindman posted on X about signing copies of his tome at Books & Books.

On March 21, a day after the second payment of $30,973, Eugene posted that he was participating in a chili cookoff in Caroline County, Va. on the day the check cleared.

Alexander Vindman’s book briefly made the New York Times “hardcover nonfiction” bestseller list during the week ending March 16.

Eugene Vindman won a close race to represent Virginia’s 7th District last November with a message centered on fighting against corruption, highlighting his efforts to assist his twin brother in testifying against Trump.

The Post previously reported that the now-congressman eschewed questions last year about whether his taxpayer-funded trips to Ukraine played a role in his business ventures of trying to sell weapons to Kyiv.

Eugene told the Prince William Times that as of late 2023, he had made 14 trips to the war-torn country, funded by the “Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group” State Department program.

But during that time, his company, Trident Support LLC, worked to sell the Ukrainian government a weapons system. That firm also used the same PO box as Vindman’s congressional campaign.

Vindman raked in $125,000 from Trident early last year despite reports that he did not earn a salary from the company, financial disclosures show.

Posted by: Frank G || 05/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [94 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Deport the Vindman Bros. to Ukraine!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 05/20/2025 4:21 Comments || Top||

#2  "Betrayed" Ukraine?
He doesn't know what a traitor is.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 05/20/2025 5:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Why would they be paying to promote the book to begin with? I thought the book deal was the payoff.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/20/2025 6:48 Comments || Top||


AOC's district had a 70% increase in crime
[X]
Posted by: Fred || 05/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [45 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like they need to buy a combine for their whirlwind.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/20/2025 6:38 Comments || Top||


Rep. Jeffries says it's ''inappropriate to look backwards'' and ask questions about the coverup of Biden's health problems
[X]It’s about the most American thing ever to be cynical about, and mock, our political leaders, a tradition that predates the formation of this great nation by going on two centuries.
Posted by: Fred || 05/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [205 views] Top|| File under:

#1  inappropriate to look backwards

Slavery! Slavery! Slavery!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 05/20/2025 4:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't look back

When it calls into account the LSD's:
$$$$$ Fraud,
illegal auto-pen signed Exec Orders & Pardons,
Subversion of the US Constitution,
Illegal detentions,
Gov abuse of power,
Rigging of the State and Federal court systems,
various Treasonous acts,
and a White House ran by a puppet regime.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/20/2025 5:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Don’t look back at all those vacation days in Delaware with no visitor log?
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/20/2025 6:39 Comments || Top||

#4  At the same time his team introduce 'reparations' legislation.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/20/2025 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  “What can be, unburdened by what has been,” -KH
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/20/2025 10:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Schumer in a interview went with "Moving Forward" also..new mantra.
Posted by: Ulailet+Thud3602 || 05/20/2025 10:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Reminiscent of the way they started the MoveOn.org website after Bill Clinton admitted to lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. It must be a standard part of their playbook.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/20/2025 11:58 Comments || Top||

#8  "Move forward" appears to be the latest dem talking point. When you hear it mouthed by multiple operatives, you can rest assured it is an approved release from the central autorities.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/20/2025 14:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Afraid a lot more backwards looking is on the way Hakeem: "🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: It was just revealed in the Diddy freak off trial that former President Obama used to meet with the man that used to pick up drugs for Diddy and confirms that he met with Obama and other former Presidents. The hole just got deeper than we ever imagined."

https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/1924830422665400506
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/20/2025 14:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Inappropriate to look backwards….. as bogus charges are brought against Trump on 20+ years ago activity…. After changing the statute of limitations?!?!
Posted by: Airandee || 05/20/2025 15:39 Comments || Top||

#11  But it was necessary to see Trumps tax records to see if something could be used against him? Hypocrites.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 05/20/2025 15:47 Comments || Top||


CBS News CEO unexpectedly steps down: ‘It's become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward'
[NY Post] Embattled CBS News boss Wendy McMahon was pushed out on Monday after less than two years – including a $20 billion lawsuit brought by President Trump that has stalled parent company Paramount’s $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.

McMahon, who was given the title of CEO of CBS News, Stations, and CBS Media Ventures in 2023, has opposed settling the lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris in the heat of the presidential campaign that Trump alleges was deceptively edited to aid the former vice president.

“It’s become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward,” McMahon said in a memo sent to shell-shocked staff.

CBS CEO George Cheeks,
“They call him Sweet Cheeks, donchaknow, because he’s such a sour pickle of a man.”
/not even a little bit sorry
one of three executives in charge as Paramount awaits approval of the merger from the FCC, said McMahon had decided to “step down.” She will remain at the network for “a few weeks to support the transition,” he added.

McMahon, 51, offered a curt reply in her farewell note.

“To George: Thank you for this opportunity.”

McMahon’s tenure was marred by her widely-panned overhaul of the evening news, plummeting ratings at both the nightly newscast and the morning show, and internal turmoil over editorial standards.

“This is not a surprise. It was just a question of when,” said one person familiar with the matter. “It’s a bit late to stand up for journalism given what she’s done to CBS News — it’s not even the ratings, it’s the quality of the journalism.”

Paramount’s controlling shareholder Shari Redstone supported McMahon’s removal, a source close to the situation told The Post.

In recent weeks, she has pushed to settle the bitter legal battle as the two sides have gone into mediation – leading longtime “60 Minutes” producer Bill Owens to quit.

The media heiress and daughter of the late Sumner Redstone stands to make about $2 billion from the Skydance deal.

Posted by: Frank G || 05/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [114 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...TRANSLATION:

1: CBS is involved in a VERY high stakes business deal which requires Federal approval.
2: They got caught putting their thumbs on the scale bigtime, and if this goes to court the business deal goes away and CBS will take a hammer to it's bottom line, because they WILL lose - and even an out of court settlement would be a horror, because the President isn't going to let them off the hook with the money and a mealy-mouthed apology. They'll have to admit it. So,
3: As Lord Blackadder used to say, "Someone's for the chop."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 05/20/2025 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2  The company and she couldn’t agree on which road to take off the cliff.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/20/2025 6:43 Comments || Top||

#3  How much does the news division cost CBS? Offer that as that to OAN or Newsmax on a three year contract to see if the other 50% of America may tune in rather than try chasing the remainder with 3 other outlets.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/20/2025 7:37 Comments || Top||

#4  If they would just report the news without all the damn lies and their loony, liberal opinions they might see an improvement in their ratings.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/20/2025 11:27 Comments || Top||

#5  As it is, I wish they would agree on a road off the cliff because I'd like to see them plunging into the ravine.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/20/2025 11:29 Comments || Top||



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