President Trump will participate in a roundtable event on American agriculture in western Wisconsin this afternoon. 

The event in Chippewa Falls, part of Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District, comes as Democrats target the congressional seat held by Rep. Derrick Van Orden.

Trump is taking his pro-American agriculture on the road ahead of the midterms.

Per CBS:

WCCO’s sister station in Milwaukee, WDJT, spoke with farmers and residents ahead of the president’s visit in Chippewa County, where he locked down more than 60% of the vote in 2024. Most said they support him and his policies, but many said they want to hear his “plans to help the little guy.”

“I have faith in it, you know what I mean?” said Chippewa Falls resident Peggy Peters. “I haven’t seen a whole lot recently, but I think it is going to happen, if that makes any sense. You know, something that is a work in progress, obviously. You know, he has a lot to do.”

“Under my leadership, we are making landmark investments to empower farmers to Make America Healthy Again by improving soil health, enhancing water quality, and strengthening our food and fiber supply — all while boosting long-term efficiency. We are forging a prosperous future defined by fair trade, new markets for homegrown commodities, and enhanced supply chain resilience to protect our Nation’s most cherished resources.” Trump said in a proclamation last week on National Agriculture Day.

“We are also putting an end to the era of excessive regulations that have stifled productivity, increased equipment costs, and left American farmers and ranchers behind. And to further support our incredible farmers, I proudly delivered over $40 billion in assistance after they endured years of unfair trade practices from foreign countries and failed policies from the previous administration,” Trump wrote.

“I will never waver in putting American farmers, American families, and the American people first.”

Trump has imposed tariffs on foreign agricultural goods to boost investment in American agriculture and support American farmers.

The event is scheduled to begin at 3 pm ET.

Watch live below:

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Senate Republicans on Friday passed a nearly $70 billion reconciliation package to fund immigration operations through the end of Trump’s presidency. 

RINO Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski was the lone Republican no vote.

The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday that Senate Republicans voted to advance the legislation.

The bill will finally fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), but this only comes after the Trump administration scrapped the $1.776 billion weaponization fund.

The bill will also not fund Trump’s military installations or security in the White House Ballroom.

Trump previously called for Republicans to pass the bill by June 1, but lawmakers revolted against the President’s agenda and held the funding for immigration agents hostage.

(VIDEO) Tim Burchett Eviscerates Senate RINOs for Refusal to Fund Government and Pass SAVE Act, Calls for Thune to be Replaced as Leader

The Senate voted on Friday morning to finally send the bill to the House of Representatives, where it is expected to pass next week.

Some Republicans reportedly expressed concerns because the bill does not prevent Trump from restoring his anti-weaponization fund to compensate victims of Biden-era lawfare.

Other attempts were made to block the construction of Trump's White House Ballroom entirely. Six Republicans, Susan Collins (ME), Jon Husted (OH), Jerry Moran (KS), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Dan Sullivan (AK), and Thom Tillis (NC), voted in favor of Democrat Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley's failed amendment to require Congressional approval for the construction. 

Per the Hill:

The Senate voted early Friday morning to pass a $69.5 billion budget reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement operations through 2029, overcoming the concerns of several Republicans who were upset the bill did not include language barring the Trump administration from creating a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to pay MAGA allies.

The legislation passed 52-47, taking Republicans one big step closer to ensuring that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol are funded through the end of President Trump’s second term.

The Senate finally passed the bill Friday morning after voting on a marathon series of motions and amendments to alter it over the course of more than 18 hours.

Those amendments would have added language to address affordability, or to block the Trump administration from building a White House ballroom and establishing the “anti-weaponization” fund. Several amendments saw vulnerable Republicans break with their party to vote in favor of the proposals.

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Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) went off on Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) during a Thursday committee hearing, where she shamelessly defended violent illegal alien criminals, including murderers, rapists, and fraudsters.

During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, titled “Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits,” Horino went on an unhinged tirade, accusing the Trump Administration of “terrorizing immigrant communities” and defending immigrants who are convicted of heinous crimes.

“I happen to be the only naturalized citizen sitting on this committee, and I am horrified by the implication that naturalized citizens basically get second-class citizenship,” she screeched. “As a naturalized citizen, I’m proud of it. I can’t think of a more undemocratic, un-American thing to do to someone who chooses to become a US citizen to hold this over their heads and treat us like second-class citizens.”

The hearing focused on Senator Schmitt’s Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation (SCAM) Act, which would expand the federal government’s authority to “revoke the citizenship of certain individuals who demonstrate through their involvement with fraud, other serious felonies, or terrorist organizations that they never met the statutory requirements for citizenship,” according to Schmitt’s office.

Hirono claims this would “impose even more requirements on naturalized citizens than we do on citizens.”

“We can talk about people 10 years later who commit murder, heinous acts, but the SCAM act also allows people to be prosecuted for welfare fraud,” she admitted in her attack on the bill. Still, she claimed that “anybody” could be accused of welfare fraud, and “24 million people who are naturalized in our country are going to be subjected to this kind of so-called oversight.”

“To say the least, it’s more than astounding. Should be unconstitutional,” she said.

WATCH:

Schmitt then went off on Hornio, slamming her for defending rapists, murderers, terrorists, and foreign fraudsters.

“Speaking of astounding, your comments are astounding, Senator,” Schmitt opened his comments. “You mention a few words: horrific. I think, to the American taxpayer, that’s been ripped off by people who came to this country to rip them off, that’s horrific.”

“You talk about bizarre,” he said as Hirono attempted to interrupt, then he fired back, “No, no, no. It’s my time now. It’s my time. You went over time. It’s my time.”

“Bizarre is the idea that you would be here in this committee defending violent murderers from being deported. That you would be defending violent rapists from being deported. That you would defend people who took advantage of the good people of this country, their taxpayer dollars. That is bizarre,” Schmitt continued after the interruption. “A terrorist who kills American citizens, you know what’s bizarre is your defense of that. So, forgive me if your 24 million Americans should be— or nationalized citizens, should be afraid, that’s ridiculous.”

“No, no, no, you have nothing but fear mongering. Here, what I’m saying in this bill is, if you do those things, the American people, if you take advantage of taxpayers– You’re not recognized,” he continued over Hirono’s repeated attempts to interrupt.

“If you commit a terrorist act, if you commit wholesale welfare fraud within 10 years, you’re damn right we’re deporting you! If you’re convicted— it’s not being accused of anything— if you are convicted in a court of law of these crimes, absolutely, we should not only convict you, but we should deport you. Gone!”

Schmitt concluded his scathing rebuke, telling the disgraced Senate Democrat, “And if you think that’s some sort of like negative assertion towards me, I’ll take it. I love it. That’s what we should be doing more of in this country because people are coming here, and they’re ripping off taxpayers, and I, for one, don’t want to see it anymore. And if you want to have that debate in public, we can do it, but that’s what this hearing is about: to examine the SCAM Act. So, I just like to expose a few of your lies in your most recent dissertation on the dias here.”

WATCH:

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Israel launched multiple strikes in southern Lebanon on Friday after agreeing to a ceasefire with the Lebanese government but not with Hezbollah. 

Fighting continued on Thursday into Friday after Hezbollah rejected a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, describing the agreement as “false” and an “illusion.”

CBS reported early on Wednesday,

Under the terms of the renewed ceasefire, Israel and Lebanon agreed Wednesday to create a number of “pilot” security zones inside Lebanon from which the militant group Hezbollah would be banned.

The ceasefire “is contingent on a complete cessation of Hezbollah fire and the evacuation of all Hezbollah operatives” from areas south of the Litani River.

Aoun that the implementation of the ceasefire could begin within 24 hours of final approval.

In practical terms, he is waiting to hear back from the two main Shia blocs – the Amal Movement and Hezbollah – before making an announcement about what lies ahead.

“A security framework under a false ceasefire that requires Hezbollah to stop firing and withdraw from the south while aggression continues under military pressure is surrender and defeat,” Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said, adding, “We are only concerned with a full cessation of aggression and a complete Israeli withdrawal.”

“We will fight the invaders until we expel them and stop their aggression.”

Trump, however, told reporters on Thursday that the group “didn’t reject” the proposal. “Hezbollah called us and said, ‘How about stopping?'” he said.

“I think you’re gonna see things happen over there,” he continued. “That’s been like a little bit of a different world, but it’s interconnected with Iran. And it would be really nice if Lebanon could have some peace. Lebanon’s been under attack for so many years. They’re always like an underdog. And it would be really nice if it could end.”

WATCH:

Israel went on to launch strikes in the south Lebanon city of Tyre, killing seven people, despite the ceasefire with Lebanon and actions by the Lebanese Army to implement the new deal with “pilot zones” to seize control from Hezbollah.

“One strike near the Jabal Amel hospital killed four people, wounded seven and lightly damaged the facility, while another elsewhere in the city killed three and wounded five, including two children, the source said,” CBS reports. 

Israel’s military further warned three villages north of the Litani River in southern Lebanon that it would be launching additional attacks. “Anyone who is near Hezbollah operatives, their facilities, or their weapons endangers their life!” they said.

This comes as negotiations between the US and Iran continue, with talks over a “largely negotiated” framework for a 60-day “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) that Trump announced late last month.

Iran has made a deal with the US contingent on an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.

President Trump confirmed in an interview on Tuesday that he recently went off on Netanyahu with vulgar language, including calling him “f*cking crazy” for continuing the war amid US-Iran negotiations. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon, you know? At some point, I said, ‘Bibi, we’ve got to stop this. You’ve got to stop it,’” he said.

Far-Left Media Claims Trump Unloaded on Netanyahu During Heated Call Over Lebanon Conflict

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Democrats are now calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, claiming that Trump fell asleep during his Oval Office announcement on Thursday. 

Trump’s health is coming under increased scrutiny as the left tries to distract the country from the doped-up puppet they installed in the White House and gaslight everybody who knew Joe Biden was mentally incompetent.

Trump made an “Announcement on Beautiful, Clean Coal” on Thursday, during a more than one-hour-long event, where he fielded questions from the press for approximately 40 minutes. Biden didn’t even speak to the press.

Now, the Democrats are claiming that Trump “passed out” during the event, using a clip of Trump leaning back, with his eyes open, as Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin delivered remarks.

Trump appeared to look down during the speech, giving the impression that his eyes were closed for a second, but he was clearly never asleep.

WATCH:

Freshman Democrat blowhard Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) claimed in an X post, “Donald Trump fell asleep multiple times in the Oval Office today. AGAIN.” She continued, “That’s why I’ve called for the 25th Amendment, and dozens of my colleagues have done the same. Donald Trump is unwell and must be removed from office. It’s a national security crisis.”

Donald Trump fell asleep multiple times in the Oval Office today. AGAIN.

That’s why I’ve called for the 25th Amendment, and dozens of my colleagues have done the same. Donald Trump is unwell and must be removed from office. It’s a national security crisis.

Donald Trump fell asleep multiple times in the Oval Office today. AGAIN.

That’s why I’ve called for the 25th Amendment, and dozens of my colleagues have done the same. Donald Trump is unwell and must be removed from office. It’s a national security crisis. pic.twitter.com/1lHUUMvncd

— Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari (@RepYassAnsari) June 4, 2026

Left-wing “news” account HQNewsNow, formerly Kamala HQ, a propaganda arm of the failed Kamala Harris campaign for President, shared a portion of the clip on X, writing, “Trump appears to be completely passed out asleep during his 3pm Oval Office announcement.”

“How long until the @WhiteHouse says he was just ‘blinking’?” they added in a follow-up post.

How long until the @WhiteHouse says he was just “blinking”? https://t.co/kHh93iuNSr

— Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) June 4, 2026

The White House press office responded with a screenshot from the same post, clearly showing Trump’s eyes were open. “His eyes are literally open in the clip you posted, you dumbass mouth-breathers,” they wrote.

His eyes are literally open in the clip you posted, you dumbass mouth-breathers https://t.co/7VCNwVgQow pic.twitter.com/3zoCVEzsrY

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 4, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu confronted Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, accusing the President of sleeping, and Rubio went off on him. Lieu further claimed that Trump had been missing for eight days, which is a total lie.

“I can’t believe we’re in a Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in front of the House, at an important time in American foreign policy, answering questions from, supposedly, someone who thinks he’s a medical expert, when he’s not,” Rubio said, calling the claims “absurd and ridiculous.” He added,  “I’ve been on foreign trips with the President, that he doesn’t sleep in the whole flight, and everyone else is sleeping on the plane, and he’s, you know, wandering the hallways looking for someone to wake up and talk to. So, I don’t know what you’re referring to, but he has an incredible amount of energy.”

WATCH: Marco Rubio Nukes Dem Rep. Ted Lieu After He Pushes Hoax About Trump’s Cognitive Abilities and Says Trump’s Been Missing for 8 Days

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An Illinois highway was shut down in both directions on Thursday as bomb technicians and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives investigated a vehicle parked on the road. 

The highway was closed at approximately 10 am until 6:55 pm. According to authorities, a person was found dead inside the vehicle, which was surrounded by shell casings, according to CBS. Authorities have not released the cause of death.

Initially, the vehicle was seen on the Eisenhower Expressway in Cook County. Illinois State Police reportedly called in an “explosion.”

Video from the sky shows law enforcement officers, including one in a bomb suit, investigating the car.

Via Fox 32:

Another clip shows the traffic backup on the highway with bystanders exiting their vehicles.

The car can be seen with its sunroof and windows blown out and airbags deployed.

Via ABC 7:

Per NBC:

According to the Illinois State Police, the incident began about 10:05 a.m. in Westchester on I-290 westbound near Mannheim, with ISP requesting assistance from multiple local agencies.

Sky5 reporter Mike Lorber reported ISP called the incident an “explosion” multiple times in their dispatches.

As of 11:30 a.m., I-290 eastbound and westbound lanes were closed at Mannheim. Mannheim Road over I-290 was also closed, along with I-88 eastbound to the Tri-State Tollway near Oakbrook, ISP said.

“Motorists are asked to avoid the area and seek an alternative route,” ISP said. “Extended closures are expected”.

This is a developing story. 

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The House of Representatives passed a bill approving an additional $9 billion in aid to Ukraine and placing harsh sanctions on Russia. 

Meanwhile, Trump is pushing for both Russia and Ukraine to make compromises, and Zelensky calls for face-to-face negotiations with Putin in a letter sent to the Russian President.

Trump addressed the letter on Monday, saying, “I think it would be great if they met” and calling on them to “get it done.”

WATCH:

When asked later about what compromises he wants to see made, the President declined to say but said that “they’re going to make both make compromises,” which he suggested.

“I’ve been very strong on the fact that they’ve got to get that over with,” he said. “I want them each to make certain compromises. I think they’re going to do that.”

WATCH:

But some House Republicans couldn’t help but interfere.

The bill, which passed on Thursday, with 18 Republicans voting in favor, includes sanctions on Russian banks, oil, and mining companies, as well as a ban on Russian oil imports and 500% tariffs on all other Russian imports to the US.

It also authorized an $8 billion extension of Biden’s lend-lease program for Ukraine to purchase weapons. It also provides Ukraine with $1 billion in security and reconstruction aid.

Per CNN:

The House voted 226 to 195 to approve the package, which cracks down on Russia with new oil and gas sanctions, in its first big pro-Ukraine measure of Trump’s second term.

Speaker Mike Johnson has urged his members to oppose the measure, arguing in a closed-door meeting Wednesday that they should give Trump space to negotiate with Russia, according to a person in that meeting.

But ultimately, 18 Republicans – and one independent who frequently votes with Republicans – voted to pass the bill in what amounts to a rebuke of Trump’s posture toward Russia’s war in Ukraine, eager to send a message to their leadership after the party with Trump at its helm has drifted in recent years away from backing Ukraine as staunchly as it once had. The party is now fractured over the issue, with many Republicans arguing that the US should not send further aid to the war-torn country.

To even bring the bill to the House floor for a vote required a revolt against House GOP leadership. California Rep. Kevin Kiley, an independent who frequently votes with the GOP, was the final signature on a discharge petition — a procedural tool used to circumvent leadership and force votes on the floor. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a GOP centrist and co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, spent months working with Rep. Greg Meeks, a Democrat from New York, to land the 218 signatures needed to fast-track the bill to the floor without Johnson’s approval.

The following Republicans voted in favor:

All votes

Representative	Party	State	Vote
Bacon	Republican	Nebraska	Yea
Bresnahan	Republican	Pennsylvania	Yea
Carey	Republican	Ohio	Yea
Fitzpatrick	Republican	Pennsylvania	Yea
Garbarino	Republican	New York	Yea
Gimenez	Republican	Florida	Yea
Hurd (CO)	Republican	Colorado	Yea
Joyce (OH)	Republican	Ohio	Yea
Kiggans (VA)	Republican	Virginia	Yea
LaLota	Republican	New York	Yea
Lawler	Republican	New York	Yea
McCaul	Republican	Texas	Yea
Miller (OH)	Republican	Ohio	Yea
Murphy	Republican	North Carolina	Yea
Newhouse	Republican	Washington	Yea
Thompson (PA)	Republican	Pennsylvania	Yea
Turner (OH)	Republican	Ohio	Yea
Wilson (SC)	Republican	South Carolina	Yea

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President Trump sounded the alarm on California on Thursday, telling reporters, “They’re rigging the election,” as counting continues across the state and key races for California governor and Los Angeles mayor remain undecided. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt had surged on election night, taking an early lead over Democratic Councilwoman Nithya Raman and trailing incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass by a slim margin. The two top vote-getters will advance to a runoff if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote.

However, the late-arriving mail-in votes, which are expected to be roughly a third of the total vote, will take days to arrive under California’s lawless vote-by-mail system.

IT BEGINS: Spencer Pratt Overtakes Karen Bass in New Poll for Los Angeles Mayor

As of 2:47 pm ET, 62% of ballots in the Los Angeles mayor's race had been counted. Only Bass has been projected to advance to the runoff in November, where she will face either Spencer Pratt or Nithya Raman.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is currently in first place with 27.5% of the vote, but over four million ballots remain uncounted.

Trump, on Thursday, was speaking to reporters about the SAVE America Act, which will end no-excuse mail-in voting and require proof of citizenship to vote, and he highlighted the potentially incoming theft in California.

"You see what's happening in California. They're rigging the election," he said.

"We just don't want cheating in our elections, and you see it happening in California. Those numbers are coming down rapidly. They found a lot of mail-in ballots last night, shockingly. So, we don't want that."

WATCH:

Trump: We put in today, as you know, about Save America, the SAVE America Act. I don't know, someday the Senate and the House will get it done, although I must tell you the house has approved it about three times already. Save America Act.

You see what's happening in California. They're rigging the election. Now, maybe we caught them, and maybe they won't be able to get away with it. They tried with me. They did it successfully the second time. The third time, we made it too big to rig. Too many votes, they couldn't do it. They could only go— They sort of gave up at about 9:07 when they got slaughtered with the votes that came in. But no mail-in ballots, except for illness, disability, military, or travel.

So we're being very progressive, and we just don't want cheating in our elections, and you see it happening in California. Those numbers are coming down rapidly. They found a lot of mail-in ballots last night, shockingly. So, we don't want that.

Earlier today, Trump said in a statement on Truth Social, "Look what’s happening in California, the Dumocrats, right before our very eyes, are stealing the Vote," calling on Republicans to "finally" pass the bill.

Look what’s happening in California, the Dumocrats, right before our very eyes, are stealing the Vote. I hope the Republicans are watching so that they can finally pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT! President DONALD J. TRUMP

In a follow-up post, Trump laid out the items within the bill.

THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!

1. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PHOTO I.D. (IDENTIFICATION!).

2. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP.

3. NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS (EXCEPT FOR ILLNESS, DISABILITY, MILITARY, OR TRAVEL!).

4. NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.

5. NO TRANSGENDER MUTILIZATION SURGERY FOR OUR CHILDREN.

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President Trump on Thursday told reporters that Joe Biden was “the same guy I had been watching for a long time” when he last met with Biden in 2024, denying that he was having cognitive health issues.  

Clearly, Biden was out to lunch for four years, but Trump says he was just “never the sharpest guy.”

This is a departure from Trump’s previous antics of imitating Biden on stage at his rallies. Trump used to routinely mock Biden for getting lost on stage during speaking engagements, once telling the crowd, “Does anybody think he’s going to make it to the starting gate? I mean, the guy can’t find his way off of a stage.”

“It wasn’t like he was ‘sharp as a tack,’ but no, he was the same guy,” Trump told reporters before referencing his debate against Biden in July 2024. “Something happened to him during the debate. It could have been me. I had a very good debate.”

“The question is, did he do badly because he choked or because he didn’t have it? I would say this, he did not have a good night,” Trump added.

When asked if he was “slowing down,” Trump said, “I thought he was fine. When I say fine, I mean, was he like talking to Doug Burgum? Was he like talking to Chris? Was he like talking to any of these monsters up here, all these tremendous politicians and environmental geniuses? Was he like talking to Andy Barr? No! He was fine.”

WATCH:

Decker: Jill Biden is out promoting a new book this week. When you met with Joe Biden, President Joe Biden, right here in the Oval Office on November 13, 2024, could you detect any cognitive decline in President Biden at that time?

Trump: No, not really. He was the same guy I had been watching for a long time. I mean, you could go back 40 years. I watched him 40 years ago, 30 years ago. He was never the sharpest guy. You do know that, right? It wasn’t like he was ‘sharp as a tack,’ but no, he was the same guy. He actually invited me here before the election, which was strange. You know, we weren’t here before, but also, as you know, we did the ritual, but he was fine as far as I was concerned. I don’t know, something happened to him during the debate. It could have been me. I had a very good debate. Nobody ever says that. They say that Biden did badly. What about me? Did I do well?  You know, there’s a reason he did badly. So, the question is, did he do badly because he choked or because he didn’t have it? I would say this, he did not have a good night.

Decker: During that time period when you met with him for about two hours, you didn’t feel he was slowing down?

Trump: He spoke softly, very softly, and as we started to speak, you know, I mentioned this to people. He spoke very, very softly, very low, and as we talked we got along really well, and he was fine. I thought he was fine. When I say fine, I mean was he like talking to Doug Burgum? Was he like talking to Chris? Was he like talking to any of these monsters up here, all these tremendous politicians and environmental geniuses? Was he like talking to Andy Barr? No! He was fine.

This comes as Joe’s wife, former First Lady Jill Biden, makes the rounds in news interviews to promote her new book and continues covering up Biden’s poor health while he was President.

In a recent interview, Jill Biden claimed that Joe’s debate performance against Trump “frightened” her and that she thought he was having a stroke when his brain broke on stage.

Trump responded to Jill’s comments with a zinger, asking, “Did my strong performance in that debate cause him to plain and simple ‘choke,’ leading to his ignominious defeat, or were other reasons the cause?”

“Nobody else knows the answer to that, BUT I DO!!!” the President said after trolling the notion that she believed Biden had a stroke but did nothing about it like “any good wife would.”

“Oh My God He’s Having a Stroke!” – Jill Biden Says She Was “Frightened” by Joe Biden’s Debate Performance and Thought He Was Stroking Out in New Shock Claim (VIDEO)

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The Arizona Supreme Court has denied Arizona Attorney General’s bid to revive her lawfare against 2020 electors in Arizona after an appeals court dismissed the case, saying Mayes misled and improperly improperly a grand jury. 

In April, 18 individuals, including Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, RNC attorney Christina Bobb, conservative attorney John Eastman, and Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, were indicted by Kris Mayes’ grand jury for challenging the stolen 2020 election and casting an alternative slate of electors for President Trump.

The charges include nine counts of conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and forgery. “Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” Mayes’s indictment alleged. President Trump was named “Unindicted Coconspirator 1.”

But her case fell apart after a far-left judge allowed the defendants to argue that the charges were politically motivated. The same judge later recused himself after he was busted bashing white men and making demands that other judges in Arizona support Kamala Harris against her conservative critics.

A judge later ruled that state prosecutors improperly presented the case to a grand jury and failed to inform jurors of the Electoral Count Act, which dictates the rules of electoral vote counting and exonerates the defendants. An appeals court sided with the lower court judge, refusing even to consider the case in September.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Mayes sought to revive her case by appealing to the state’s high court last November.

BOMBSHELL: Christina Bobb Exposes Names of Democrat Dirtbags Behind Alleged $200K Payments For Prosecution of GOP Electors

The court did not explain its decision to deny the appeal in its Tuesday order.

According to Politico, Mayes' spokesperson Richie Taylor said in a statement, "The Arizona Attorney General’s Office will return this case to the grand jury.”

“We decline to comment further at this time," he added.

Mayes has come under fire over an alleged bribery scandal involving Mayes and left-wing groups that paid her to prosecute the Trump electors. The Gateway Pundit reported that Mayes handed unprecedented prosecutorial authority to States United Democracy Center, a far-left nonprofit founded by Norm Eisen. States United sent a memo to Mayes in July 2023, building her entire case, even outlining “potential criminal charges” and “potential defenses,” as well as a deadline for Mayes to arrange the indictments under the statute of limitations.

In exchange for following their orders, the Democratic Attorneys General Association gave Mayes $200,000, according to a whistleblower memorandum filed with the Department of Justice by Christina Bobb in June 2025.

Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) has demanded a federal investigation into Mayes over the illegal scheme and the weaponization of her office. Still, the feds have taken no action.

This is a developing story.

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President Trump is scheduled to make an “announcement on Beautiful, Clean Coal” this afternoon in the Oval Office.

The President will reportedly announce a nearly $1 billion investment in energy infrastructure in over a dozen states using the Defense Production Act.

Per CBS:

Mr. Trump on Thursday is expected to announce $700 million in funding for coal plants and energy infrastructure during an afternoon Oval Office event dubbed “Beautiful, Clean Coal.” A White House official confirmed the details of the plan, which was first reported by Bloomberg.

Mr. Trump will invoke the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law that gives the U.S. president emergency authority over domestic industries, to distribute $75 million for a new coal export terminal in Oakland, California, and $425 million to support 13 existing plants across 10 states: West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Arizona, Oklahoman, North Dakota and Wisconsin.

The president is also expected to announce nearly $200 million in Department of Energy grants to build two new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia and to restart a coal plant in Maryland. The facilities in Alaska and West Virginia would be the first new coal plants built in the U.S. since 2013.

A White House official said the initiative will create thousands of jobs for miners, railroad workers, engineers and construction workers and save consumers $50 billion in energy generation costs.

The event is scheduled to start at 3 pm ET.

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Federal officials announced on Thursday new indictments against 14 defendants accused of Medicaid and COVID-19 relief fraud in Ohio. 

This comes after investigative reporter Luke Rosiak released a deep dive investigation last month into Somali fraud in Ohio, where he revealed the vast Somali Medicaid fraud ring in Columbus, Ohio, which is estimated to have stolen over a billion federal tax dollars.

Some of Rosiak’s findings include:

• A politician who founded an $11 million home health care company that he appeared to run part-time — without even mentioning it in his political biography — who funded his campaign with donations from other home health care owners.
• A woman who reinvented her janitorial LLC as a “health” provider, then billed Medicaid nearly $100,000 the first month.
• A landlord who bought airplanes after renting space to hundreds of home health care companies that billed Medicaid a quarter of a billion dollars.
• A million-dollar Medicaid business owned by a couple with repeated fraud, violence, and theft convictions.
• A man who went to prison for Medicaid fraud but told the government he was too broke to pay restitution, while his neighbors and associates preside over a poverty-program empire.
• An accountant who lost his license for stealing public funds, then opened a $7 million home health company using the address of a convicted money launderer’s teenage son.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Thursday that a total of 14 defendants have been charged today and over the past week for their involvement in “fraud schemes targeting over $50 million here in Ohio.”

This includes a 32-count indictment against two state employees and two other co-conspirators for $30 million in fraudulent therapeutic behavioral services, he said.

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Blanche: Today, we unsealed a 32-count indictment against two state employees and two other co-conspirators for allegedly billing $30 million to the government for therapeutic behavioral services that were never provided. We’ve also unsealed an indictment charging four defendants in a scheme to defraud a COVID program. Again, these programs, as we all know, were meant to benefit small businesses and individuals struggling because of the pandemic.

In total, between our state and federal partners, today we’re announcing charges that were either unsealed today or over the past week against 14 defendants allegedly involved in fraud schemes targeting over $50 million here in Ohio, and again, these numbers are staggering, but just the tip of the iceberg, both here in Ohio and nationwide.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz highlighted the staggering amount of home health care expenditures concentrated in Franklin County, Ohio. “A third of all of the money spent on home health care in the entire great state of Ohio is generated here,” he said, noting that nearly 300 home health care facilities are located in a several-block stretch of road. Oz further described the area as a “mecca for Somali populations” and a “hub for Nepalese and Bhutanese populations.”

One woman, he said, is in jail after being accused and convicted for billing health care expenses for people who were dead! “She’s in jail, and she went to jail because she was accused and convicted of taking billing practices to a level we had not seen before,” Oz said. “Billing for dead people is a bad look in court, and it showed at her conviction when she was accused and appropriately taken out for doing things that we find reprehensible.”

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Oz: Unfortunately, this area around Columbus is responsible in Franklin County for 1/3 of all of the one and a half billion dollars spent on home health care in Ohio. Think about that. A third of all of the money spent on home health care in the entire great state of Ohio is generated here. That’s three times what you would expect. There’s a road very close to where we are– 288 home health care facilities in that several block area on that one road.

Again, it defies belief. Some of these buildings were vacant; you wouldn’t put anybody up in those buildings, not certainly, the place that would house home health care. Now, this is a mecca for Somali populations, it’s a hub for Nepalese and Bhutanese populations. These are insular groups, but we are naive to think that practices that were felt to be commonplace in other parts of the world wouldn’t come to this great country if we didn’t pay attention to some of the program integrity issues, which were ignored en masse with the prior administration

Oz further outlined actions that the Trump Administration is taking to crack down on the fraud, including the suspension of 49 “high-risk” Ohio home healthcare providers, a 6-month moratorium for new home health care providers and hospice care providers, a state-specific Medicaid fraud room, and giving states information on high-risk providers

“No more champagne on private jets for these people, no more new cars, no more luxury endeavors, and vacations. It’s done. We’re coming after you, wherever you are,” he said.

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In the schemes announced today, law enforcement seized nearly half a million dollars from bank accounts and nearly $1 million in luxury vehicles.

Per Fox:

Authorities allege the services were medically unnecessary or were not provided as represented. Prosecutors further claim that after one company lost its credentialing with the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the defendants continued submitting claims through another entity.

As part of the investigation, authorities seized three bank accounts containing roughly $469,000 and 14 vehicles valued at approximately $800,000, including six Mercedes-Benz vehicles, a Bentley, a BMW, a Jaguar, a Maserati, two Land Rovers, a GMC and a McLaren.

The Justice Department also announced on Thursday that its National Fraud Enforcement Division’s Health Care Fraud Unit secured six convictions in the last three weeks for fraudsters who stole over $1.1 billion.

Trial convictions were secured in the following cases:

• United States v. Blackman Trial Conviction (Industrial-Scale Telehealth Platform Fraud, $1 Billion):
• United States v. Mailyan Trial Conviction (Proactive Data Driven Lead for Botox Billing Fraud: Obstruction, Fabricated Records, $45 Million):
• United States v. Scott Trial Conviction (Home Health Kickback Network: Hospital Nurse Bribed via CashApp, Stolen Patient Identities):
• United States v. Brown-Arkah Trial Conviction (Substance Abuse Clinic as Narcotics Hub: Narcotics Diversion, Undercover Video, $52 Million):
• United States v. Popovych Trial Conviction (Physical Therapy Clinic Kickback Ring: Ambulette Drivers, Coded Texts, Falsified Records)
• United States v. Marks Trial Conviction (Nurse Prescribed Nearly 1 Million Highly Addictive Opioid Pills to Tennessee Community)

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Ohio State Senate Democratic Leader Nickie J. Antonio claimed she almost cried during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday because of the “lack of humanity” shown by investigative reporter Luke Rosiak, who testified on the Somali fraud scheme he uncovered in Ohio. 

“The level of hateful rhetoric based on false information is shocking to me,” the far-left legislator said after Rosiak noted a common theme with fraudsters in the state: They’re all African aliens. She wasn’t shocked by the massive criminal enterprise run by foreigners. She was shocked that someone said it out loud.

Rosiak released a deep dive investigation last month into Somali fraud in Ohio, where he revealed the vast Somali Medicaid fraud ring in Columbus, Ohio, which is estimated to have stolen over a billion federal tax dollars.

He was asked to testify at the first hearing of the House Oversight Committee Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, chaired by Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), on Wednesday.

Rosiak testified that out of hundreds of individuals and companies believed to be engaged in fraud, 100% had Somali or African names. “ou looked into hundreds of companies, and 100% you’re telling me, had names that were Somali, Bhutanese, or other of other sort of African origin derivation?” Gill asked Rosiak, who answered, “Correct.”

He further told Rep. Gill that the fraudsters in Minnesota are often “the same people” as those in Ohio. “They all have relatives in both places, and they move back and forth. First of all, I think there was $130 million in cash that transferred from the Columbus airport to the Minnesota airport, and then to Somalia, and so they’re moving basically briefcases of cash,” he testified.

“There’s one guy that had, basically, he racked up $30,000 in tax debts in Columbus running this daycare center and not paying his taxes, so then he started a home health care company in Minnesota, billed $35,000 in one month, and then dissolved the company.”

“Bhutanese people are systematically using Medicaid not only in Ohio but also in Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, and New York, and in other states, where they perceive that they will pay the family member, and they will pay for non-nursing services, and those are the two big vulnerabilities,” Rosiak concluded.

Brandon Gill concluded his examination of Rosiak, then turned to question State Senator Nicki Antonio, asking, “Has Somali immigration been good for Ohio?”

“You know, that’s really outside of my purview,” she responded before losing her mind over Rosiak’s testimony, which left her “shocked and appalled” and nearly in tears.

“As far as processing your question, and I’m— I have to say that I was almost brought to tears just now because the rate, and the level of hateful rhetoric based on false information is shocking to me. The lack of even humanity to group a group of people together, I am shocked!” she said. 

Meanwhile, Gill railroaded Antonio, saying over her unhinged rant, “72% of Somali immigrants are on welfare. They’re defrauding the state at an astounding rate, and I think that most Ohioans would have a problem with that.”

“I think it’s inhumane to allow your own state to be defrauded at an astounding rate. Billions of dollars taken out of pockets of working-class people, going to criminal fraudsters. I certainly have a major problem with that, and I think most Americans agree,” he said as she whined about how shocked she is and defended the third-world Somali fraudsters who are stealing our country.

Gill then shut down the meeting after his time ended and victoriously said, “It’s always fun on the Oversight Committee, always exciting.”

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As The Gateway Pundit reported, Gill announced last month after being tapped to lead the Oversight Committee’s new Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses that he was going to lead investigations to the billions of dollars in Medicaid fraud in Ohio and other states.

MORE:

House Oversight Officially Launches Full-Blown Investigation Into Massive Ohio Medicaid Fraud Scheme Allegedly Tied to Somali Networks — Rep. Brandon Gill: “Billions of Dollars” Stolen From Taxpayers

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Footage from the violent, bone-crushing attack on Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) by Code Pink head organizer Susie Benjamin circulated on social media on Wednesday, and Luna says it’s “more than enough evidence” to prove a criminal act. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Luna claimed Medea Benjamin assaulted her after questioning Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Thursday.

“The head honcho of Code Pink here on Capitol Hill decided to try to harass me as I was leaving my hearing with Rubio and smacked my arm,” she said. “I have no issues answering questions, but the moment you touch me, you cross a line.”

She went on to describe the incident, laughably claiming she was “physically hit” and that she would file charges.

However, video from the incident shows Benjamin tapping Luna on the arm as if to get her attention. Although Code Pink is indeed a radical left organization, and they were following the Congresswoman, it was hardly a smack as she alleged.

Instead of just ignoring them, Luna had engaged in a conversation with the activists until the “smack,” and Benjamin agreed to walk away after she was threatened with the Capitol Police. Luna rightfully shut the crazed leftist down, but going on to represent it as a malicious assault was silly.

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Luna later said in an interview with TMZ that Benjamin “smacked my arm” and that she was planning to press charges.

“There’s footage of this, they have multiple angles of this, there was multiple witnesses, we have people that filed statements as well, and I think that she’s going to be getting in a lot of trouble. You cannot do that to people,” she said.

“We live in a day and age when people feel like they can hurt people because they disagree with them politically. We’ve seen this happen to many conservatives, but I’m sure it also happens on the left as well. That’s unacceptable,” she added.

“We have more than enough evidence to hold this person accountable and responsible, and let this person be a symbol everyone else that come up here and try to hurt people because they disagree with them.”

When asked if she thinks the person will be arrested, Luna responded, “Yes, without a doubt,” adding, “You cannot hit people because they disagree with you.”

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President Trump provided an update on the war in Iran and ongoing ceasefire negotiations while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. 

Early in the press conference, Trump was asked by Newsmax’s Mike Carter to respond to Iran’s recent targeting of US forces and the overnight attack on Kuwait, which injured dozens of people. Trump suggested that the attack was “not a big deal” as US forces “nipped it in the bud very quickly.” He further maintained that negotiations are going “very well” and said that a deal could be finalized this weekend.

When asked how he defines a ceasefire, Trump responded, “It’s a different part of the world. You know, I’d say that part of the world ceasefire is when you’re shooting in a more moderate manner.” He added, “A ceasefire there is much different than a ceasefire in other parts of the world.”

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Carter: Given Iran’s attacks on Kuwait, this latest attack on Kuwait, is the ceasefire with Iran is still on?

Trump: Well, you know, there’s a reason for everything, and we hit them pretty hard the night before, and actually last night, and when it was explained to me, I said, all right, so we’ll do that, but we’ve been hitting them pretty hard a little bit, so there is a reason for certain things, and there’s usually a reason that sometimes makes sense. But they did something very, not a big deal, we got it, we nipped it in the bud very quickly, as we do with the greatest military in the world, but some people would say they were slightly provoked because we took a strong action for a different reason, so they were reciprocating. I hear the negotiation itself has gone very well, actually, very well. I mean, if it happens, and it might not happen, you know, who knows? But if it happens, it could happen like over the weekend.

Later in the press conference, Trump told reporters that Iran has agreed to allow the US to dig up and destroy its nuclear material, which was “buried underneath a mountain” after the Operation Midnight Hammer strikes last summer, he said. However, the agreement appears uncertain, as “sometimes” Iran is not on board.

Still, “We have with Space Force, we have cameras from every angle of that. Those three sites are being watched at all times,” Trump said. “If anybody went there, we’ll see exactly what’s happening, and we’ll blow it up a little bit further.”

“As of this moment, it’s agreed that we will go in with them, we will get it, and we will destroy it. It will be destroyed,” he added.

When asked about the negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and Israel’s war in Lebanon, Trump assured reporters that the shooting between Israel and Hezbollah would cease, but that he’d “like to have a separate thing,” meaning a deal with Iran without contingencies on an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire. “I’d like to separate it, I’d like to have a separate thing, because it is separate,” he said.

Trump further stated, “Immediately upon signing the memorandum of understanding, the Hormuz Strait will open, and it’ll open up quickly, and we’ve already had our mine sweepers there.”

“Now, that’s subject to a couple of areas being cleaned out, also of mines, which we don’t think there are any, so it’ll happen very quickly, and we’ll take the Southern route anyway, but immediately upon signing, we open up the Hormuz Strait,” he continued.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, negotiations between the US and Iran are ongoing with continued talks over a “largely negotiated” framework for a 60-day “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) that Trump announced late last month. Included in the proposal would be a 60-day ceasefire extension, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, concessions from Iran on nuclear enrichment, and an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.

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As The Gateway Pundit reported, Iran launched an overnight strike on Kuwait, which killed one person, injured at least 63, and caused heavy damage to the international airport. US forces also intercepted a wave of Iranian suicide drones targeting US personnel.

This comes after the US launched “self-defense” strikes and intercepted more Iranian missiles and drones on Tuesday night, testing the fragile ongoing ceasefire.

MORE:

U.S. Military Launches Precision “Self-Defense Strikes” in Southern Iran – Neutralizing IRGC Threats to American Troops After Radical Regime’s Latest Provocations

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President Trump went off on CNN while speaking about the $1.776 billion weaponization fund on Wednesday, crediting CNN for the persecution of his supporters and lashing out at Collins twice for her “hatred” of conservatives despite apparently being a former right-winger.

“You used to be a conservative,” he said during a scathing rebuke of her work and the disgraced news network.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday confirmed that Trump’s weaponization fund has been scrapped after RINO Senators threatened not to fund ICE and border patrol.

Trump was asked to explain why he decided to scrap the fund, and CNN got caught in the crossfire.

“I love it. I think, it’s so important,” Trump said of the fund, noting, “what happened to great people, great American people, the way they were victimized, the way they were savage, you have suicides, they killed themselves, they went bankrupt, they were weaponized by the Biden administration by a bunch of thugs, including Obama people, and like nobody’s probably ever been.”

“Look, they raided my house, Mar-a-Lago. That never happened. Nobody ever thought of anything like that. It turned out that it was a total fake. Everything about it was fake and corrupt. We have all the information here. The good advantage to sitting here is we can get information that you wouldn’t get. So, what we have and what we are going to be showing over the coming weeks and months, you’re not even going to believe,” he added before eviscerating “very corrupt” CNN and CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins.

“Some of you will believe it, like CNN will believe it, because they knew what was going on. They’re crooked as hell,” he said, blasting Collins as a “corrupt reporter.”

“She’s a young, beautiful woman, never smiles. I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes, like she has hatred because we have borders, because we have a strong military, because we cut our taxes, because we do things that everybody wanted,” he said.

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Later, when Collins asked Trump whether the fund is “dead” or “on hold,” Trump responded, “I’d have to ask the lawyers. I don’t know,” then proceeded to berate her, saying she “should be ashamed.”

“People like you have abused our people so badly. The fake news, like CNN, like the New York Times, and like others, have abused our people,” he said. When she tried to interrupt, Trump fired back, “Wait a minute, be quiet!”

“You should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be a conservative,” he said before humiliating her in front of the press corps. “She was a conservative from Alabama. Can you believe it? But CNN, in particular, CNN does such false reporting, but now they have new ownership, so maybe it will straighten it out. I doubt it, but it’s hard to straighten garbage out.”

Trump concluded his epic condemnation of Collins by telling her that his supporters “have been abused by you and by others, and by the politicians, by the Dumocrats; they’re dumb people, they want to have open borders, they want to have transgender mutilation of your children, they want to have men playing in women’s sports, they want to have high taxes.”

“There’s something wrong with them, there’s something wrong with you. It’s a shame,” he said.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday went off on Rep. Ted Lieu for accusing President Donald Trump of falling asleep in cabinet meetings, having a decline in cognitive abilities, and being missing for eight days as the Democrats try to distract the country from the doped-up puppet they installed in the White House.

“You have been at multiple meetings with President Trump. In a moment, I’m going to show you a video of one of these meetings. It is from last December. It’s a cabinet meeting. I’m going to ask you to focus on President Trump, and you will see that he is sleeping while you are talking.”

“Oh my God,” Rubio said, laughing before the clip played. He went on to describe Lieu’s line of questioning as “false” and “outrageous,” telling him, “Show me all the videos you want!”

“That’s false,” Rubio said of the accusation that Trump was asleep. “I’ve never seen him fall asleep. On the contrary, the guy doesn’t sleep,” he added joking that it’s a “big problem because he calls me at two in the morning, he calls me at five in the morning.”

Lieu accused Rubio of lying under oath, then proceeded to play another video from a cabinet meeting, where Trump appeared to have his eyes closed briefly, and again accused Trump of sleeping and Rubio of lying.

Lieu continued to play a clip of Trump allegedly sleeping at a Memorial Day ceremony and another where he makes contradictory statements about Iran’s military.

“So, Secretary Rubio, instead of holding North Korean-style cabinet meetings where everyone goes around the room kissing Donald Trump’s ass, I’m going to ask you to come clean with American people and the White House as well. There’s something wrong with Donald Trump’s health or cognitive abilities,” he declared. “There’s a reason he keeps going to the hospital and they keep giving him cognitive tests. We have not seen the President in eight days. The American people deserve the truth.”

It should be noted that Trump gave an hour-long interview to the New York Post yesterday and another to Fox just days prior. While the President has not done any public events recently amid the Iran war negotiations, Lieu’s assertion that Trump has not been seen in eight days is a flat-out lie.

As Rubio attempted to respond to the “absurd and ridiculous” accusations, telling the Congressman he can’t believe he’s being asked about the President sleeping in a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Lieu interrupted, saying, “Just keep lying, Secretary Rubio, just keep lying.”

“The truth of the matter is, we had a cognitively impaired president in office a few years ago,” Rubio fired back, noting again that the President doesn’t sleep.

“I’ve been on foreign trips with the President, that he doesn’t sleep in the whole flight, and everyone else is sleeping on the plane, and he’s, you know, wandering the hallways looking for someone to wake up and talk to. So, I don’t know what you’re referring to, but he has an incredible amount of energy,” he said.

“I’m just telling you, you may not like his policies, you may not like his policies, you may not like the decisions he’s made, but I assure you, this is not a president that sleeps or is cognitively impaired in any way, shape, or form, and, in fact, is incredibly active, much more so in many cases than much younger people that are around him.”

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Transcript below:

Lieu: Secretary Rubio, have you been at more than one meeting where President Trump has fallen asleep.

Rubio: That’s false. That’s false. I’ve never seen him fall asleep. On the contrary, the guy doesn’t sleep, which is a big problem, because he calls me at two in the morning, he calls me at five in the morning, and you know, I like to sleep a little bit, maybe not 12 hours, at least six. So, he works— the other day, he was at the Oval Office until 12:30am. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Lieu: I’m going to show you in a moment a video that shows you just lied to Congress.

Rubio: Oh, okay.

Lieu: So, this is a video of a cabinet meeting, literally from last month, where Donald Trump is sleeping while you are talking. Please show this video… You are literally talking about issues of war and peace, and Donald Trump is sleeping right next to you.

Rubio: No he’s not.

Lieu: If Donald Trump cannot stay awake at these important meetings, where the cameras are rolling, imagine what he’s like when the cameras are not there. So, I’m going to ask you, have you been at classified meetings where Donald Trump has fallen asleep?

Rubio: I’ve never been in any meeting where— and the things you’re showing me now, he was not falling asleep, and I think it’s outrageous that I’m before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives, asking questions about sleep!

Lieu: So, you’re lying again, you’re lying consistently to Congress. You’re lying to Congress, Secretary Rubio. So, I’m going to show you another video in a moment.

Rubio: Show me all the videos you want!

Lieu: The president’s inability to stay awake on the job has caused other countries to perceive him differently. They mock him, they see he is weak and he is feeble. This is a video of a French news channel talking about Donald Trump falling asleep at a Memorial Day ceremony. Please show this video… Donald Trump’s inability to stay awake on the job shows that there’s something very wrong with his health of cognitive abilities, and in fact, on a number of occasions Donald Trump will contradict himself in literally the same meeting or interview. In this video I’m about to show, it shows that Donald Trump says the Iranian military is both destroyed and not destroyed at the same time, something that Dina Titus alluded to. Please show this video…

So, Secretary Rubio, instead of holding North Korean-style cabinet meetings where everyone goes around the room kissing Donald Trump’s ass, I’m going to ask you to come clean with American people and the White House as well. There’s something wrong with Donald Trump’s health or cognitive abilities. There’s a reason he keeps going to the hospital and they keep giving him cognitive tests. We have not seen the President in eight days. The American people deserve the truth. I yield back.

Rubio: I don’t even know how to respond to that, other than to tell you that it’s absurd and ridiculous, and I can’t believe we’re in a Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in front of the House, at an important time in American foreign policy…

Lieu: Just keep lying, Secretary Rubio, just keep lying.

Rubio: … answering questions from, supposedly, someone who thinks he’s a medical expert, when he’s not. The truth of the matter is, we had a cognitively impaired president in office a few years ago. That’s a cognitively impaired president, but I don’t like to talk about that, because it weakens America. This president we have, this is a guy that literally doesn’t sleep; he works day and night, long hours, every single day. I don’t know if you haven’t seen him in eight days. I saw him yesterday, I didn’t see him today, but yesterday, because I was in Congress, the day before. I talk to him at all hours of the day and night. He works inhumane hours.

I’ve been on foreign trips with the President, that he doesn’t sleep in the whole flight, and everyone else is sleeping on the plane, and he’s, you know, wandering the hallways looking for someone to wake up and talk to. So, I don’t know what you’re referring to, but he has an incredible amount of energy. I’m just telling you, you may not like his policies, you may not like his policies, you may not like the decisions he’s made, but I assure you, this is not a president that sleeps or is cognitively impaired in any way, shape, or form, and, in fact, is incredibly active, much more so in many cases than much younger people that are around him. Those are facts. I see it every day. You’re not going to agree, because you have another narrative that you want to push, but those are the facts.

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Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA) became unhinged during a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Wednesday, where he began screaming at Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Ukraine. 

Keating began his unhinged ravings by attacking Marco Rubio over President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and Chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to replace Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence.

The deranged leftist went off, attacking Pulte for his lack of experience in the intelligence field and criminal referals against Democrats committing Mortgage fraud.

“He couldn’t even conduct himself appropriately as the federal housing finance director,” Keating screamed, accusing Pulte of “misuse of confidential information” and targeting Trump’s political enemies.

Keating then took aim at Elias Irizarry, a January 6 defendant who served 14 days in prison after being convicted of a misdemeanor for entering the US Capitol and now serves in the Department of War’s Office of Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict and counterterrorism under Assistant Secretary Derrick Anderson.

In a statement, acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez described Irizarry as “a qualified, patriotic young professional,” adding, “We are proud to have him as a political appointee.”

But Keating fumed, accusing Irizarry, who peacefully attended the January 6 protest and was targeted by Biden’s weaponized DOJ, of participating “in one of the most significant incidents of domestic terror in our country’s history.” He added, “I think it’s shameful the people that are being appointed, and I think it’s also shameful some of the people that have been retired— been fired.”

Keating then began screaming about Iran, tying the ongoing conflict to Ukraine, and losing his mind over Rubio not mentioning Ukraine in his opening remarks of the hearing.

“In your opening remarks that you took us all over the world, and you mentioned 15 different incidents where you have interceded, 15, the top 15! Not once did you mention Ukraine when you were prioritizing the achievement that’s there! Now, let me go on,” he shouted as his five minutes for questioning was coming to an end.

Rubio hilariously trolled him with a reminder, saying, “try to stay under five minutes,” causing Keating to become even more unhinged.

“Oh, yeah try to stay— Yeah, please. It’s not funny. It’s not funny, Secretary,” he yelled before Rubio fired back, “What’s not funny is that you can’t even answer questions here.”

After failing to reclaim the time lost from Rubio daring to try to answer to his crazed tirade, Keating cried to Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL), “What goes around comes around, Mr. Chairman.” He then continued his rant about Ukraine, demanding more military aid for Ukraine.

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War Room host Steve Bannon went off on Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin this week after he called former Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino “irrelevant” and claimed not to know who he is.

Bovino resigned as Border Patrol Chief in March after helping to lead the execution of President Trump’s mass deportation promise. Bovino has said he had a plan to deport 100 million illegal aliens from the United States and criticized CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott and Border Czar Tom Homan for lacking the experience and willingness to do so.

He has also been increasingly critical of Markwayne Mullin in light of the ongoing insurrection at the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey, where violent leftist rioters have taken over.

After Mullin slighted Bovino and purported not to know anything about him, Bannon went off on his War Room podcast, slamming Mullin for capitulating to the mob. “You don’t know who he is, and he’s irrelevant to you? You better find out who he is, because you don’t know what you’re doing on your job,” Bannon said, noting that the “savages” rioting against ICE are “going to keep coming.”

“I thought we made Antifa a terrorist organization. Why has Treasury not shut down all sorts of funding? Why are all of them not rounded up? That’s that’s not a peaceful protest, that’s not people trying to be there and peaceful protesting. No, that is a riot, that is an act of terrorism. When are we going to stop having press conferences and start doing it?” he continued. 

“Bovino did it. Bovino told you it’s 100 million people, 100 million illegal alien invaders, and he was for mass deportations. If you haven’t talked to him, maybe you should sit down and talk to him because clearly that’s at that would have, would have a better take on what’s happening right now. Now you’re just taking incoming.”

Bannon further criticized the Trump Administration’s “compromise” in originally saying they’re going after every illegal alien in the country, to now targeting “the worst of the worst,” illegal aliens who have already committed heinous crimes– while here illegally.

“Now we’re just not going to get down to bad hombres, we’re going to get down to the worst hombres, and then we’re going to get down to capital crime hombres, and then you’re not going to have anybody deported. The American people voted for mass deportations. The American people want mass deportations,” he said.

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You don’t know who he is, and he’s irrelevant to you? You better find out who he is, because you don’t know what you’re doing on your job. There should be tougher enforcement up there in New Jersey. That’s Fort Apache right there. The more you show weakness, these people are savages, they’re like dogs and animals, the more they smell, they can feel weakness and fear.

They’re going to keep coming. I thought we, I thought we made Antifa a terrorist organization. Why has Treasury not shut down all sorts of funding? Why are all of them not rounded up? That’s that’s not a peaceful protest, that’s not people trying to be there and peaceful protesting. No, that is a riot, that is an act of terrorism. When are we going to stop having press conferences and start doing it?

Bovino did it. Bovino told you it’s 100 million people, 100 million illegal alien invaders, and he was for mass deportations. If you haven’t talked to him, maybe you should sit down and talk to him because clearly that’s at that would have, would have a better take on what’s happening right now. Now you’re just taking incoming.

And any compromise from them, they’re going to keep pressing it, and so now we’re just not going to get down to bad hombres, we’re going to get down to the worst hombres, and then we’re going to get down to capital crime hombres, and then you’re not going to have anybody deported. The American people voted for mass deportations. The American people want mass deportations.

The American people will come out in the fall and support mass deportations. Tap dancing around this is not going to get people going door to door and canvassing and saying ‘yes, we fully support this program, and we will do whatever needs to be done and support you and support the political class that sorts this problem out.’

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Mullin snubbed Bovino during a press conference on Monday, saying he’s “never met the guy” and describing him as “irrelevant.”

Bovino responded, calling BS on Mullin’s claims. “When you’re ready to fulfill @POTUS’ promise of mass deportations, let’s talk,” he wrote on X.

MORE:

(VIDEO) Democrat Senator Andy Kim Pepper Sprayed by ICE During Memorial Day Riot at ICE Facility

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Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) on Wednesday made himself look like a fool after accusing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of spreading racism on the internet. 

During a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing, Thanedar told DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, “I’m very concerned that your department is promoting White nationalist, anti-immigrant sentiments on official social media accounts,” pointing to a quote from a song that outraged leftist groups.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), “On Jan. 9, multiple accounts run by DHS communications staff shared an image with the caption “We’ll have our home again” on Facebook and X (the website formerly known as Twitter). The image included the phrase and a picture of a man in a cowboy hat riding through a snowy field as a military plane flies overhead, as well as a link to apply to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).”

What a crime!

“When will you stop DHS from using its social media accounts to spread bigoted and racist words and imagery promoting great replacement theory?” Thanedar asked. But when pressed by Mullin to specifically state what the issue was, it became clear that Thanedar had no idea what he was talking about and was only relying on left-wing sources to attack DHS.

“Colorado Fusion Center says ICE White nationalist messaging could lead to violence. There is just numerous reports,” he said without clarifying what was alleged. The so-called report, a March bulletin from the Colorado Information Analysis Center, reportedly claims that “violent extremists” might perceive “White Supremacy Ideology in ICE Recruitment Materials, Leading to a Potentially Increased Threat Environment,” according to the Intercept.

“Tell me exactly what message you’re talking about now. Don’t give me what some poll that is ran by the left is talking about. Tell me what you’re actually specificly saying that DHS said… Yeah, you don’t want to talk about it because, but you want to throw out racism all the time to my department, which isn’t true,” Mullin then fired back before Thanedar moved on to accusing ICE agents of “ignoring the rule of law, engaging in unprofessional behavior, and using unjustified force, including shooting and killing an American.”

“It’s interesting to me how you always point out the behavior of our ICE agents, but you don’t point out what caused it by the so-called peaceful protesters, which is a lie,” Mullin told the whackjob Congressman.

WATCH:

Transcript below:

Thanedar: I’m very concerned that your department is promoting White nationalist, anti-immigrant sentiments on official social media accounts. One post quotes a song embraced by neo-Nazis, and state law enforcement agencies have raised concerns that your post will motivate white supremacist violence. When will you stop DHS from using its social media accounts to spread bigoted and racist words and imagery promoting great replacement theory?

Mullin: It’s interesting how you make those claims and give no facts, but yet your party is the one that’s supporting the guy that’s got a Nazi tattoo.

Thanedar: I have the facts, I have the facts, sir.

Mullin: No, there is no facts. You throw out nationalism, Nazism, and that’s exactly what causes the hatred and violence that happens to our officers every single day, and you should be ashamed of using that phrase.

Thanedar: Well, look, no, I, it’s not my words.

Mullin: It is your words.

Thanedar: Look here. Here’s Colorado Fusion Center.

Mullin: Did you endorse a candidate in Maine that’s a Nazi?

Thanedar: Let me reclaim my time, sir. Colorado Fusion Center says ICE White nationalist messaging could lead to violence. There is just numerous reports.

Mullin: Tell me exactly what message you’re talking about now. Don’t give me what some poll that is ran by the left is talking about. Tell me what you’re actually specificly saying that DHS said… Yeah, you don’t want to talk about it because, but you want to throw out racism all the time to my department, which isn’t true.

Thanedar: Mr. Secretary, we got numerous reports. I want to move quickly to ICE training under Christie Noem, new ICE agents received 42 days of training, rather than the standard 72 days, to meet President Trump’s demand. We saw the efforts effects of this training shortage with ICE agents often ignoring the rule of law, engaging in unprofessional behavior, and using unjustified force, including shooting and killing an American. When will DHS revert back to the 72 day training requirement for new ICE agents? When will ICE agents who received less training have to retake or recertify courses they were exempt from because of the accelerated training schedule?

Mullin: It’s interesting to me how you always point out the behavior of our ICE agents, but you don’t point out what caused it by the so-called peaceful protesters, which is a lie… I will answer the question. July 1, we bring it back up. We had to rewrite the curriculum. All trainings starting July 1 will be back up to the regular standards.

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President Trump confirmed in an interview on Tuesday with the New York Post’s Miranda Devine that he was “perturbed” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week over Israel’s attacks in Lebanon, which jeopardized the fragile ceasefire with Iran.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Iran suspended talks with the US on Monday over Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon. Trump made phone calls to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hezbollah representatives to end the fighting, and he reportedly went off on Netanyahu, calling him “f**king crazy.”

When asked about the exchange on Miranda Devine’s Pod Force One podcast, Trump confirmed he had used those terms. “I wouldn’t say angry; I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon, you know? At some point, I said, Bibi we got to stop this. You’ve got to stop it,” he said.

“But I have a very good relationship. We’ve done well, done well together,” Trump added. “I’m a wartime president, he’s a wartime prime minister, very important part of the world, and I think we’ve done very well. We’ve, we’ve gotten along very well together.”

Trump further responded to claims that Netanyahu and Israel tricked him into attacking Iran, telling Devine, “He tricked me? I mean, I’m the one that started it, because again, I don’t want to bore anybody, but I started, because we can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”

“If I didn’t do that. Attack, Iran would have had a nuclear weapon, and they would have used it almost immediately,” he added. “If I didn’t do that. Attack, Iran would have had a nuclear weapon, and they would have used it almost immediately.”

WATCH:

Devine: Axios reported that you had a phone call with Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, in which you were angry with him. You said, ‘Are you effing crazy? What are you effing doing? I helped you stay out of jail.’ Is that true? Did you speak to him in those terms?

Trump: I did. I wouldn’t say angry; I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon, you know? At some point, I said, Bibi we got to stop this. You got to stop it. But I have a very good relationship. We’ve done well, done well together. He always says we could never have done it, but everybody knows that we could have never done it without the United States, but we’ve, we’ve, I’ve worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot, and I’ve worked very well with him. We had a, you know, where he— I’m a wartime president, he’s a wartime prime minister, very important part of the world, and I think we’ve done very well. We’ve gotten along very well together.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump “lashed out” at Netanyahu in an “expletive-laden” phone call, according to Axios.

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Highly popular reality TV star-turned-mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt appears to be on track to advance past the open primary for Los Angeles Mayor to face Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the November runoff election. 

That is, if they don’t rig the election with fraudulent late mail-in ballots.

Pratt is currently leading Democrat LA City Councilwoman Nithya Raman and trailing Karen Bass by a slim margin.

The two top vote-getters will advance to a runoff if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote.

NBC’s Steve Kornacki is reporting live on the results tonight.

Roughly 40% of the vote totals were released at approximately 11:20 pm ET, showing Spencer Pratt in second place, trailing incumbent Mayor Karen Bass by just 10 points in the three-way race. He further led Nithya Raman by nearly eight points, putting Pratt in a position to force a runoff between himself and Bass.

Kornacki reports that the in-person vote is expected to swing heavily away from Bass and in favor of Pratt. “If Pratt does do well there, as we’ve seen with Independent and non-Democratic candidates in the past in LA, he could narrow that margin with Bass, and I think more critically for him, he could add to that pad between himself and Raman,” Kornacki said.

Still, the late-arriving mail-in votes, which are expected to be roughly a third of the total vote, could take days to arrive under California’s lawless vote-by-mail system.

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At 11:45 pm ET, after in-person mail-in ballot drop-offs, Pratt had closed in on Bass and extended his lead over Raman with 30.3% of the roughly 310,000 votes counted. Additional vote totals are expected to be released throughout the night at 12 am ET and 1 am ET.

Pratt is expected to force a runoff election, according to the polls.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, a new poll conducted between May 26 and May 28 showed Pratt actually leading Bass in deep-blue Los Angeles.

IT BEGINS: Spencer Pratt Overtakes Karen Bass in New Poll for Los Angeles Mayor

This is a developing story. 

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US Central Command announced on Tuesday evening that US forces defended against Iranian attacks and executed “self-defense” strikes against an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island.

The US strikes on Qeshm Island came “in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East, June 2,” CENTCOM said.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, negotiations between the US and Iran are ongoing this week as Trump reportedly seeks amendments to the “largely negotiated” framework for a 60-day “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) that he announced last weekend. Included in the plan would be a 60-day ceasefire extension, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, concessions from Iran on nuclear enrichment, and an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.

But the fragile ceasefire continues to be tested.

Central Command wrote in a statement on Tuesday:

U.S. forces successfully defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, and conducted self-defense strikes on Qeshm Island in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East, June 2.

Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors; however, all failed to hit their intended targets. Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart enroute, and three missiles launched at Bahrain were immediately intercepted by U.S. and Bahrain air defense forces.

Moments earlier, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces shot down three one-way attack drones launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters. American forces also conducted self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island.

No U.S. personnel were harmed. CENTCOM forces remain vigilant and ready to defend against unwarranted Iranian aggression during the ongoing ceasefire.

https://t.co/ASAXrUeRGd

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 2, 2026

This comes after CENTCOM announced earlier that US forces had disabled a Botswana-flagged oil tanker as part of its blockade enforcement actions.

“A U.S. aircraft ultimately disabled the vessel by firing a Hellfire missile into the ship’s engine room, preventing the tanker from reaching Iran,” CENTCOM wrote.

US Central Command Disables Oil Tanker with Hellfire Missile (VIDEO)

President Donald Trump maintained that peace negotiations between the US and Iran "have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today," amid reports that Iran suspended talks with the US over Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon on Monday.

Trump made phone calls to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hezbollah representatives to end the fighting. He later announced that "all shooting will stop."

Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to hold talks at the US State Department on Tuesday, though fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued on Monday night and Tuesday morning.

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz revealed on Tuesday that his agency has identified now $2 billion in fraudulent healthcare payments that have been given to illegal aliens.

“The number has doubled from what I said last year. We’re about $2 billion,” he told The Gateway Pundit during a White House press briefing, adding that some states are cracking down on the fraud.

“The good news is that many states realize this is a problem, and they themselves have stopped doing this.”

“Some states don’t do as good a job as other states. That’s why we’re looking to individual states for leadership, for better ideas, to deal with many of these social problems that unfortunately begin to pile up over time. And they threaten the very foundation of our social net that supports all of us,” he added.

Oz further touted Vice President JD Vance’s work in exposing the fraud for criminal referral with his White House anti-fraud task force. While speaking at an anti-fraud roundtable with state attorneys general and White House officials last month, Vance revealed staggering numbers his team had discovered, including over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans, more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements, $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent government contracts, and $60 million in student aid fraud.

“He’s taking this seriously. He’s going at it and he’s doing what’s best for the American people by making some tough decisions,” Oz said of Vance.

WATCH:

Conradson: Last October, you announced that you had found over $1 billion in federal tax dollars going to illegal aliens. How much money, how much has that amount increased as of today?

Oz: The number has doubled from what I said last year. We’re about $2 billion. The good news is that many states realize this is a problem and they themselves have stopped doing this. Listen, it’s the same basic story again and again. We, as a nation, make a decision because we’re one people. Individual states have to take that decision and use it to the best of their ability. Some states don’t do as good a job as other states. That’s why we’re looking to individual states for leadership, for better ideas, to deal with many of these social problems that unfortunately begin to pile up over time. And they threaten the very foundation of our social net that supports all of us.

That’s why this matters so much. If you quiz the Vice President, he grew up in an environment where he saw people abuse this. I know that’s the case of people who are on the task force right now, the anti-fraud White House task force. So, there’s a passion about this and for good reason. And the President calls the Vice President, Eliot Ness. He wants him — you know, he likes the fact that he’s taking this seriously. He’s going at it and he’s doing what’s best for the American people by making some tough decisions.

Oz further told reporters that California alone owes $2 billion to the federal government for giving illegal aliens full coverage, including dental and vision benefits through Medicaid. “We’ve actually told California they owe us $2 billion. We’ve got half of it back already, but I’m confident we’ll get the rest,” Oz said.

“Just to put it in context, in California, if you’re on Medi-Cal, the Medicaid program in California, until this administration, you got full dental and full vision benefits,” he added. “Now, I’m for those benefits, I like them, but we don’t give that to Medicare patients. So we should at least be equitable, and all of us together should decide what we are going to do as a nation.”

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As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Oz previously revealed in October that CMS had identified “more than a billion dollars” in fraudulent healthcare funding for illegal aliens.

“A billion dollars paid by U.S. taxpayers for illegal immigrants in about half a dozen states. We’re just getting started—it’s going to be significantly more money than that,” Oz said.

MORE:

OUTRAGEOUS: Trump CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz Uncovers Over $1 BILLION in Fraudulent Healthcare Spending for ILLEGAL ALIENS Including Murderers and Rapists (VIDEO)

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz was asked to give medical advice to people who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome on Tuesday.

The doctor did not have a cure. “Treating stupid is really hard, and it becomes a real problem,” he said.

Oz took the podium at a White House press briefing this afternoon, subbing in for White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is currently on maternity leave.

Various top administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, have stepped in as one-time Press Secretary.

Lindell TV correspondent Cara Castronuova asked Dr. Oz how to treat crazed, Trump-obsessed liberals on Tuesday, and he was stumped.

“I am concerned about folks who have focused their entire life energy on disliking the president,” he said.

“It’s disheartening to see people lost in that way, but treating stupid is really hard.”

WATCH:

Castronuova: Do you have any medical advice for the Americans out there that are suffering from a very serious ailment called Trump Derangement Syndrome?

Oz: I am concerned about folks who have focused their entire life energy on disliking the president. It’s disheartening to see people lost in that way, but treating stupid is really hard, and it becomes a real problem and these folks are off.

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz will take the podium at a White House press briefing this afternoon.  

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is currently on maternity leave, and top administration officials are stepping in to fill her spot at the podium.

In the past, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have delivered the briefing.

Oz will likely highlight his work with Vice President Vance’s anti-fraud task force to bust fraudsters abusing Medicare and Medicaid benefits, as well as the success of TrumpRX.gov, the new government-sponsored prescription drug platform to lower costs for US drug consumers.

Last month, Oz joined Vance to announce that the federal government is suspending 800 fraudulent hospice care providers deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements to California.

Vance Announces Federal Government is Deferring $1.3 Billion Dollars in Medicaid Reimbursements to California, Suspends 800 Hospices (VIDEO)

This also comes amid new requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries to prove they are working in order to prevent welfare abuse.

Per the Hill:

Oz’s turn at the podium comes a day after the Trump administration issued a final rule requiring most Medicaid beneficiaries ages 19-64 to provide proof they are working, complete community service or participate in a work program to be awarded benefits.

The press briefing is scheduled to begin at 1 pm ET.

Watch live below:

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Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued on Monday after President Trump pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale back strikes in Lebanon amid negotiations to end the war with Iran. 

The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah placed US talks with Iran in jeopardy on Monday.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Iran suspended talks with the US over Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon. Trump made phone calls to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hezbollah representatives to end the fighting.

U.S. Military Launches Precision “Self-Defense Strikes” in Southern Iran – Neutralizing IRGC Threats to American Troops After Radical Regime’s Latest Provocations

It's being reported that Trump went off on Netanyahu for stalling peace talks between the US and Iran, calling him “f**king crazy" and accusing him of ingratitude. "You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” Trump reportedly fumed at Netanyahu.

Still, despite Trump announcing that "all shooting will stop," the shooting continues, with Israel announcing that operations will continue outside of the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

Per CNN:

Israel continued to launch strikes on areas in the south of Lebanon, according to the Lebanese state news agency (NNA). Meanwhile, Hezbollah announced it targeted an Israeli tank in Nabatieh district in the early hours of Tuesday.

Lebanon’s embassy in Washington said Hezbollah had confirmed it would refrain from attacking Israel in exchange for Israel ceasing strikes in Beirut.

While US President Donald Trump said that “all shooting will stop,” Israel said in a statement that it would continue operations in southern Lebanon but tacitly announced that, for now at least, it would not strike Beirut.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz went on to say that President Trump backed the strikes in Southern Lebanon. “The Americans endorsed this principle and informed the Lebanese government and all relevant parties: Israeli communities will be matched by Beirut,” he claimed.

Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the US are now engaged in high-stakes talks at the State Department in Washington, DC.

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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin snubbed the legendary former Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino during a press conference on Monday, saying he’s “never met the guy” and describing him as “irrelevant.”

Bovino resigned as Border Patrol Chief in March after he was pulled out of Minneapolis, following the fatal officer-involved shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The Trump Administration further withdrew hundreds of agents from Minneapolis and dampened immigration operations amid public outcry and violent riots in the aftermath of the incidents.

Since then, Bovino has been a vocal critic of the Trump Administration’s immigration enforcement tactics, led by new DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin, Border Czar Tom Homan, and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott, who he argues have caved to the radical left.

In a recent interview with Vox Europa, Bovino describes Trump as “the best President I’ve ever worked for,” but slams Trump’s inner circle for not “providing him the ground truth.”

The “worst of the worst” strategy being pushed by top immigration officials, he argues, “is a mere one tactic in total spectrum immigration enforcement.”

“Tactics are not strategy and confusing the two at the political/bureaucratic level has produced disastrous results throughout history. ‘Worst of the Worst’ has its place in an immigration system already well under control where a tweak here or an arrest there will keep said system running efficiently,” he states. “We are nowhere near status quo now, and treating the current catastrophe facing our country is indicative of their status quo, unqualified bona fides in implementing an overarching immigration strategy.”

Bovino further argues that at least 100 million illegal aliens currently reside in the United States, pointing to past estimates, which have remained largely unchanged over the decades, and his experience as a 30-year Border Patrol veteran. “Understanding what middle America looks like in terms of illegal aliens, coupled with firsthand knowledge of the border, all juxtaposed against my own and current research, leads me to understand that 100 million illegal aliens live in the United States. This includes visa overstays and all types of illegal aliens,” he says. “Remember, the United States was the world’s illegal alien dumping ground for 4 years under puppet Biden.”

Bovino has also been publicly critical of officials on social media and in various interviews.

During a press conference to discuss attacks against ICE agents and honor the heroes involved in the September 2025 sniper attack in Dallas, Texas, Mullin was asked about Bovino’s criticisms.

“I never met the guy. I never met the guy,” he said. When a reporter pressed him for a response, Mullin added, “No. He’s irrelevant to me. I don’t know who he is,” before moving on to another question.

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Bovino responded to Mullin’s disregard, calling BS with a clip from AMC’s hit show Breaking Bad. “When you’re ready to fulfill @POTUS’ promise of mass deportations, let’s talk,” he wrote on X.

When you’re ready to fulfill @POTUS’ promise of mass deportations, let’s talk @SecMullinDHS https://t.co/IMmTcOrSab pic.twitter.com/uCZ9GfWdIF

— Gregory K Bovino (@GregoryKBovino) June 2, 2026

Bovino has become increasingly critical of the Department of Homeland Security and the Trump Administration’s handling of the mass deportation promises made on the campaign trail, especially in light of the insurrection at the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey.

“I don’t know who’s holding these guys back, but basic riot control starts with gas. This should’ve been over in 15 minutes. We’re now on day three,” Bovino said last week in response to rioters obstructing traffic and clashing with ICE, while blasting Secretary Mullin as weak.

“Secretary Mullin’s inaction is putting his own agents, the facility, and the detained aliens at risk. Hesitation isn’t compassion — it’s dangerous weakness,” he said.

While speaking to The Gateway Pundit recently, Bovino slammed Markwayne Mullin, Tom Homan, and “most especially” Rodney Scott as “disastrous.”

“How has no one shown up for them in NJ? Who’s leading there? There’s no one in those chaotic crowds leading,” he said.

“Just WILLY NILLY doing the best they can. Poor agents hanging right out to dry while Mullin bounces a ball at DHS HQ and telephones about state and locals.”

Meanwhile, the clashes between rioters and law enforcement at of the ICE facility in New Jersey have continued since May 22, with leftwing terrorists violently assaulting federal agents.

(VIDEO) Democrat Senator Andy Kim Pepper Sprayed by ICE During Memorial Day Riot at ICE Facility

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Wackjob “economist” and former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman called for supporters of the President to be eradicated through “deMAGAfication,” openly admitting that he wants to replicate Germany’s post-World War II denazification in the United States.  

Following World War II, countless German soldiers and civilians were detained in internment camps slaughtered with full backing from the US. Krugman thinks the more than 77 million who elected Trump should face the same consequences.

“The president of the United States is mentally ill, but everybody knows that,” he said to kick off the vlog posted on Sunday.

“If you have been following uh some of the news, you may know that Trump’s mental deterioration, which was obvious, has been obvious for quite a while, got even more extreme in the past few days,” he continues, describing the United States as “the world’s formerly greatest power” and Trump as a “a lunatic who has far more power than any previous president.”

So, he argues, “we really need to do a thorough purging of the United States. We need a deMAGAfication.”

“I’m not going over the top by using a word that’s very similar to the denazification that we pursued successfully after World War Two in Germany,” he added.

Via Bannon’s War Room:

Krugman: Obviously, we need to defang Trump as much as possible, and make sure that neither he nor anybody who follows in his footsteps has power after the next two elections. But beyond that, we really need to do a thorough purging of the United States. We need a deMAGAfication, and that is, you know, I’m not going over the top by using a word that’s very similar to the denazification that we pursued successfully after World War Two in Germany.

And we need something, it’s not just the mock ideology, but the whole structure of hugely unequal power, hugely unequal wealth that made this horrific moment possible. It’s not going to be easy, but, and maybe it’s not going to be doable. We have to try.

This has to be turned around, and we should not, above all, whitewash or forget this moment. This is where a lot of forces in America have been leading. And if we don’t do something beyond just getting rid of Trump, it’s going to happen again,” Krugman further argued.

This is not the first time Krugman has called for the death and demise of conservatives. The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on Krugman’s absurd lies, violent rhetoric, and moral corruption over the years.

Krugman has repeatedly shown hatred toward Republicans.

Krugman pushed election denialism on behalf of Hillary Clinton, saying it’s “patriotic” to call Trump “illegitimate.”

Krugman once called Florida seniors “white supremacists” and expressed hope that COVID-19 would kill them.

Krugman has also been found with child pornography on his computer. In defense of himself, Krugman suggested it was QAnon hacking his IP address and that he wasn’t watching child porn.

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