Report: Trump’s DOJ May Drop Case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams

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Report: Trump’s DOJ May Drop Case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The New York Times reported Wednesday that senior Justice Department officials are discussing the possibility of dropping their charges against New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, who was charged last year with accepting bribes from foreign interests.

Federal prosecutors under former President Joe Biden indicted Adams in September 2024 after he spoke out against the Democrat administration’s open border policies. Adams said the Biden administration downplayed the migrant crisis by comparing it to passing a “gallstone.” The New York City mayor suggested he wasn’t being “good Democrat” and said, “the party left me.”

Since then, Adams had been embraced by Trump, who’s now reportedly considering to have his DOJ drop the charges against the mayor.

“Senior Justice Department officials under President Trump have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of dropping their corruption case against [Adams],” the Times reported Wednesday, citing five people with knowledge of the matter.

“The officials have also spoken to Mr. Adams’s defense team since Mr. Trump took office, the people said. The defense team is led by Alex Spiro, who is also the personal lawyer for Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and one of the president’s closest advisers.”

The Times also noted that Adams attended Trump’s inauguration and said that he’ll keep his criticisms of Trump private.

Trump, for his part, said last month that Adams has been treated “pretty unfairly” by prosecutors, and that he was considering issuing a pardon.

On the campaign trail last year, Trump repeatedly suggested that Adams was being blackmailed by his own party into accepting Biden’s open-borders policies.

“I’m not even blaming the mayor. I think the mayor was told to take a back seat because they came after him like they’re going to indict him, and now he’s gone quiet. These are fascists, they’re terrible people. So I’m not blaming him,” Trump said of the situation last February—foreshadowing Adams’ eventual indictment that occurred in September.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Dem. Megadonor Offers to Fund NGOs Undermining Trump Agenda after Federal Grants Paused

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Dem. Megadonor Offers to Fund NGOs Undermining Trump Agenda after Federal Grants Paused

(Headline USA) The non-governmental organizations that the Biden and Obama administrations—as well as foreign governments—frequently used to circumvent U.S. laws on transparency, financing restrictions and even constitutional prohibitions on government overreach are having a panic attack after Presidnet Donald Trump on Monday announced a freeze on all federal loans and grants.

Nonprofits of all sizes are now grappling with how these changes will impact their missions—with some even stepping in to replace a very small part of the funding the U.S. government is withholding.

“The pause on federal funding is creating a tremendous amount of confusion, and we don’t have clarity about what happens from here,” said Fatimah Loren Dreier, executive director of the HAVI, an anti-gun activist group masquerading as a public health organization.

“And that confusion has ripple effects on communities that are particularly vulnerable to shifts,” she complained.

Although President Joe Biden’s reliance on such groups to misuse government funding for partisan activism may have violated the norms—if not federal law—such groups are reacting with shock that Republican leadership might dare to revoke the taxpayer-subsidized free-for-all.

A Biden-appointed judge has already paused Trump’s order until next Monday.

The U.S. government is the largest single globalist NGO funder, giving $ 13.9 billion in 2024, and largest supporter of United Nations agencies, meaning any changes to foreign assistance have sweeping impacts across geographies and issues.

The UN has faced harsh criticism for undermining the interests of the U.S. and its allies by actively supplying resources to illegal immigrants attempting to steal their way across the southern border, as well as allowing Hamas radicals to infiltrate some of the groups tasked with peacekeeping missions in the war-torn Middle East.

The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development are the main agencies that oversee foreign assistance, which Trump paused for 90 days to review if every grant and dollar aligns with his foreign policy.

Questions have arisen as to whether the department, which also oversees the CIA, may have merged its humanitarian arm with its covert operations in Ukraine and elsewhere, funneling USAID funds for espionage, color revolutions and other nation-building activities that would be in gross violation of their designated purpose.

That could include enabling seditious Trump “resistance” operatives to continue funding the Ukraine war by rerouting aid through sympathetic NGOs, despite Trump’s expressed desires to end the war.

Yuriy Boyechko, who founded the New Jersey-based nonprofit, Hope for Ukraine, said he woke up to a barrage of messages on Sunday from the grassroots organizations he works with in Ukraine. They feared what would happen if USAID stops making grants there.

He pointed specifically to programs that send trucks—ostensibly hauling firewood—to rural areas that don’t have electricity, also known as “dark sites” in CIA parlance.

“I really don’t know how they’re going to get through the winter,” Boyechko said.

The organizations that make the deliveries are mostly volunteer run, Boyechko said, and don’t have the capacity to buy the “wood” or fuel needed to transfer it without regular funding from USAID’s office in Kyiv. He suggested that anyone who is concerned about the funding for “humanitarian aid” in Ukraine call their representatives or the White House.

“What made America great and what makes America great is generosity,” Boyechko said, echoing the rhetoric previously used by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“And this is not a good move for America, and this is not a good move for humanity as a whole,” he warned ominously.

USAID said “all programs and grants without a waiver approved by the Secretary of State,” are paused, but did not specifically say whether humanitarian aid to Ukraine would be halted.

In fiscal year 2023, the most recent data available, $68 billion had been obligated in U.S. foreign aid to programs that range from “disaster relief” to “health” and “pro-democracy” initiatives in 204 countries and regions.

It is not the first time Democrat megadonor Mike Bloomberg has stepped in after Trump announced he was withdrawing from the controversial Paris climate agreement.

The billionaire oligarch—who recently was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by Biden— pledged on Jan. 23 to fund the U.S. government’s share of the budget for the main offices of U.N. Climate Change.

He also covered the cost of the U.S. commitment from 2016 to 2019, in the amount of $10.25 million.

“Being able to step in to be nimble and quick, not to replace the role of government, but just to show what’s possible and to continue to move progress forward when governments are not, is really important to Bloomberg Philanthropies,” said Antha Williams, who leads its environment program.

The U.N. climate body was established as part of the Obama-era climate agreement, which demands that participating First-World nations drastically reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions or else pay money to the Third-World nations that are unable to compete. Major greenhouse-gas producers like China and India do not participate in the accord.

Williams said Bloomberg Philanthropies wanted to offer certainty to U.N. Climate Change that their budget would be met.

In addition to funding the U.N. Climate Change secretariat, Bloomberg Philanthropies will continue to support a coalition now named America is All In. It brings together local governments, companies and universities, who report on progress toward climate goals, which the federal government will stop doing after pulling out of the agreement.

Joanna Depledge, a historian of international climate negotiations, called that reporting “critical, as it provides a picture of trends in emissions and therefore progress made toward,” the Paris agreement targets.

Communication from USAID and the State Department with their grantees and contractors has been sparse, according to attorneys and consultants who work with foreign aid recipients.

The globalist propaganda publication Devex convened a webinar of “experts” on foreign aid on Monday to field questions about how to comply with stop work orders, how to manage cash flows, the likelihood of receiving a waiver.

Susan Reichle, a retired senior USAID officer, said organizations need to make the case that their work is important not just to the agency, but to the American people and to Congress.

“Every day that goes by that the U.S. is not leading and meeting its obligations, whether contractual obligations or cooperative agreements or grants, we are actually hurting our national security,” she said.

Some organizations are hit by both the pause on foreign aid and the order called the Global Gag Rule that prohibits nonprofits receiving U.S. foreign assistance from providing or promoting abortions.

MSI Reproductive Choices, an abortion activist group, did not sign onto the rule under the last Trump administration, meaning that it hasn’t won that much U.S. funding in recent years.

Still, a mobile “health clinic” they run in Zimbabwe is funded through the U.S. embassy there, and Beth Schlachter, senior director of U.S. external relations, said that work would stop unless another funder comes forward.

However, she said no amount of philanthropic funding can make up for the loss or pause of U.S. funds, meaning large donors are facing very difficult choices.

“Given the breadth of what’s just happened in the last week, it’s not as if other donors are only looking at gaps in reproductive health services now,” she bemoaned. “They’re looking across the range of their development concerns.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Ex-Democrat Senator ‘Gold Bar Bob’ Sentenced Gold Bribery Scheme

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Ex-Democrat Senator ‘Gold Bar Bob’ Sentenced Gold Bribery Scheme

(Headline USA) Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes of gold bars, cash and a car and what his lawyers said made him a “national punchline” and earned him a new nickname: “gold bar Bob.”

U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein in Manhattan announced the sentence after Menendez tearfully addressed the judge, saying he’d lost everything he cared about, except for his wife.

“You were successful, powerful, you stood at the apex of our political system,” the judge said. “Somewhere along the way, and I don’t know when it was, you lost your way and working for the public good became working for your good.”

Prosecutors had requested a 15-year prison term for the Democrat who was convicted of multiple charges including acting as an agent for Egypt for selling his once-considerable clout in Washington for bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Given a chance to speak before he was sentenced, Menendez broke down several times as he described his accomplishments.

“You really don’t know the man you are about to sentence,” Menendez told Stein as he stood before him with his hands in his pockets, except when he wiped his face with a tissue.

“Your honor, I am far from a perfect man. I have made more than my share of mistakes and bad decisions,” he added. “I’ve done far more good than bad. I ask you, your honor, to judge me in that context.”

Attorney Adam Fee told Stein to give Menendez credit for a “lifetime of extraordinary public service and personal sacrifices.”

“Despite his decades of service, he is now known more widely as gold bar Bob,” Fee said.

Menendez’s lawyers had said prior to the sentencing that their client deserves less than two years in prison, citing his decades of public service and a life largely well-lived after the son of Cuban immigrants rose from poverty to become “the epitome of the American Dream.”

But Fee said the defense team decided to ask that Menendez get no more than eight years after hearing Stein earlier in the day give substantial prison terms to two New Jersey businessmen convicted of paying bribes to the senator. Fred Daibes, a real estate developer, got seven years and a $1.75 million fine. Wael Hana, an entrepreneur, got eight years a $1.25 million fine and was ordered to forfeit $125,000.

Prior to the announcement of his sentence, Daibes, 67, tearfully told Stein the jury verdict had left him “borderline suicidal,” and requested leniency so that he could care for his 30-year-old autistic son.

Hana told the judge, “I am an innocent man.”

“I never bribed Senator Menendez or asked his office for influence.”

The judge, though, said the jury’s verdict was “very, very substantial.”

A third businessman pleaded guilty and testified against Menendez at a trial last year.

Menendez resigned from the Senate after his conviction last year, though he lost much of his power in fall 2023 when the charges against him were revealed and he was forced to surrender his powerful post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The trial traced Menendez’s dealings with Egyptian officials and his quest to aid three men who showered him with lucrative gifts found during a 2022 raid on the Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home he shared with his wife, Nadine.

FBI agents who searched the house found $480,000, some of it stuffed inside boots and the pockets of clothing hung in the couple’s closets. They also seized gold bars worth an estimated $150,000.

Prosecutors said Menendez had “put his high office up for sale in exchange for this hoard of bribes,” including by serving Egypt’s interests as he worked to protect a meat certification monopoly Hana had established with the Egyptian government.

Among other things, Menendez provided Egyptian officials with information about the staff at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and ghostwrote a letter to fellow senators encouraging them to lift a hold on $300 million in military aid to Egypt.

Prosecutors said that for other bribes, Menendez attempted to persuade a federal prosecutor in New Jersey to go easy on Daibes, a politically influential real estate developer accused of bank fraud.

And at the trial, another businessman, Jose Uribe, testified that he helped Nadine Menendez get a Mercedes-Benz convertible after the senator sought to pressure state prosecutors to drop criminal probes of his associates.

Menendez has insisted that he is innocent of any crime, saying repeatedly that his interactions with Egyptian officials were normal for the head of the Foreign Relations Committee, and that he always put American interests first. He denied taking any bribes and said the gold bars belonged to his wife.

Nadine Menendez faces trial in March on many of the same charges as her husband after spending the last year battling breast cancer.

Menendez’s lawyers, in a presentence submission, said he had already suffered greatly.

“Unsurprisingly, Senator Menendez’s conviction has rendered him a national punchline and stripped him of every conceivable personal, professional, and financial benefit,” his lawyers wrote. “Bob is now 71, with his long-built reputation in tatters. He has suffered financial and professional ruin.”

In court papers, the lawyers described how Menendez devoted much of his life to his country and his community after he was scarred by the early loss of his father, who killed himself when Menendez was 23 after he was unable to pay off gambling debts.

They described a 50-year history of public service in heroic terms, tracing a career in which Menendez was mayor of Union City, New Jersey, a state lawmaker, a member of the U.S. House and then a senator from 2006 to 2024.

Yet he also had the distinction of being the only U.S. senator indicted twice.

In 2015, he was charged with selling his influence to a wealthy Florida eye doctor and entrepreneur who prosecutors said lavished him with luxury vacations and campaign contributions. But the jury in that case couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. Federal prosecutors dropped the case rather than put him on trial again.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Fed Aims to Flex Its Muscle on Interest-Rate Decisions, Despite Trump Call for Cuts

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(Headline USA) President Donald Trump may want lower interest rates, but the Federal Reserve will almost certainly keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at its two-day policy meeting that ends Wednesday.

It is likely to be a quiet start to an eventful year for the central bank. Trump said last week in Davos, Switzerland that he would bring down energy prices, then “demand” that the Fed lower borrowing costs.

Later, when asked by reporters if he expected the Fed to listen to him, he said, “yes.”

The Fed also faces its own self-inflicted challenges in achieving its economic objectives. Inflation remains above its 2% target: Its preferred measure is at 2.4%, though core prices—considered a better gauge of where inflation is headed—rose 2.8% in November from a year ago.

Fed officials, led by Chair Jerome Powell said in December that the central bank has entered a “new phase,” in which it expects to move more deliberately after cutting its key rate to 4.3%, from 5.3% in the final three meetings of 2024.

In December, Fed officials signaled they may reduce their rate just twice more this year. Goldman Sachs economists believes those cuts won’t happen until June and December.

A cut in March is still possible, though financial markets’ futures pricing puts the odds of that happening at just one-third.

As a result, American households and businesses are unlikely to see much relief from high borrowing costs anytime soon. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage slipped to just below 7% last week after rising for five straight weeks. The costs of borrowing money have remained high economywide even after the Fed reduced its benchmark rate.

That is because investors expect healthy economic growth and stubborn inflation will forestall future rate cuts. They recently bid up the 10-year Treasury above 4.80%, its highest level since 2023.

Another reason for caution among Fed policymakers this year is that they will want to evaluate any changes in economic policy by the Trump administration. Trump has said he could slap tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico as early as Feb. 1. During his presidential campaign he threatened to impose taxes on all imports.

Trump’s plan also calls for tax breaks and incentives on domestic manufacturers, which could potentially offset the increases in foreign goods—assuming the domestic manufacturers pass the savings on to consumers.

The Trump administration has also said it will carry out mass deportations of illegal immigrants, which could push up inflation by reducing the economy’s ability to produce goods and services. At the same time, some economists say Trump’s promises to deregulate the economy could lower prices over time.

When Trump imposed tariffs on a limited number of imports in 2018 and 2019, Fed economists expected the biggest impact to fall on economic growth, with the inflationary impact being relatively minor. As a result, when growth did slow, the Fed ended up cutting its key rate in 2019, rather than raising it to fight off any inflationary impact.

On Wednesday, Fed officials could also change the statement that they release after each meeting to upgrade their assessment of the labor market, a signal that rate cuts may be delayed.

In December, the statement included a mildly pessimistic take: “Labor market conditions have generally eased, and the unemployment rate has moved up but remains low.”

In the summer and fall, employers slowed their hiring. The rise in the unemployment rate had unnerved Fed officials and was a big reason they reduced their key rate by an unusually large half-percentage point in September.

Earlier this month, Fed governor Chris Waller cited weaker hiring as evidence that the Fed’s key rate is “restrictive,” meaning it is acting as a brake on the economy and should bring down inflation over time. If rates are restrictive, that means the Fed would have more room to cut them if inflation were to decline further.

Yet this month, just a few days after Waller’s remarks, the December jobs report showed that hiring accelerated and the unemployment rate slipped to a low 4.1% from 4.2%.

The healthier employment numbers suggested that hiring has at least levelled off. If it stays as strong as last month, the improved job gains would suggest the Fed’s rate isn’t restrictive at all, and few, if any, rate cuts are needed.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-FBI Agent Responds to James O’Keefe’s Entrapment Accusations

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EXCLUSIVE: Ex-FBI Agent Responds to James O’Keefe’s Entrapment Accusations

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In March 2023, former FBI agent and ex-Project Veritas contractor Jared Wise messaged his former colleague, James O’Keefe, with a proposal to secretly record agents talking about the bureau’s politically motivated investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising.

Weeks later, Wise was arrested for his own involvement with Jan. 6. Adding insult to injury, O’Keefe went on to publicly accuse Wise of trying to entrap him.

But when O’Keefe aired his accusations against Wise, the Project Veritas founder didn’t disclose that the two knew each other and previously worked together. Instead, O’Keefe portrayed Wise as a total stranger who may have been cooperating with the FBI to entrap him.

Now that his Jan. 6 criminal woes are over—he went to trial earlier this month, but the DOJ dropped the case on the same day as Donald Trump’s inauguration—Wise said finally feels free to respond to O’Keefe’s allegations. In an exclusive interview with Headline USA, Wise responded to what he feels are defamatory remarks from O’Keefe.

“The idea I was trying to entrap him on behalf of the FBI is 100% ludicrous and false. I haven’t yielded an inch to the FBI in my J6 trial,” he said, adding that his proposal to O’Keefe was entirely legal. “In fact, it was the opposite: I was purposely obstinate.”

From FBI to Project Veritas and Jan. 6

After a roughly 13-year career with the FBI that saw him work for the FBI New York Field Office’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, Wise left the bureau in 2017. About a year later, Wise worked as a Project Veritas contractor from February to May 2018, helping a group of Project Veritas operatives who were assigned to infiltrate teacher unions in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kentucky.

Wise said he didn’t think he left Project Veritas on bad terms with O’Keefe—as evidence by the fact that O’Keefe purportedly invited him to one of his events in 2020.

“We crossed paths once or twice after I left and before I contacted him [in 2023] with my proposal, and it was friendly,” Wise said. “I think he’s done fantastic work, and I’ll give James credit: He created a whole industry. But once I got there, I told him I think they’re reckless. I just would have done things differently.”

Wise said he decided to contact O’Keefe in 2023 because he recently spoke to an active-duty FBI agent, who was disgruntled about the bureau’s Jan. 6 work.

“I think the agent just reached out to me in good faith and complained about things I saw. He just wanted to vent. He didn’t say anything improper. I don’t think he knew I had any connection to Jan. 6 because I hadn’t been arrested yet,” Wise told this publication.

Wise said his conversation with the FBI agent inspired him to reach out to O’Keefe, who was still with Project Veritas. O’Keefe declined to pursue the project, according to Wise.

Then, when O’Keefe left Project Veritas and started a new venture, O’Keefe Media Group, Wise said he reached out to him again—spurring O’Keefe to publicly accuse him of entrapment.

“We don’t know if this is a set-up. We don’t know if he’s cooperating with the FBI to try to get me, to try to hurt me—because perhaps he could ensure me in some legal issue if I do an undercover investigation into the FBI,” O’Keefe said in a video on Twitter/X—failing to disclose his previous professional relationship with Wise. O’Keefe again accused Wise of a possible entrapment scheme on a Twitter/X “spaces” event later that day.

Wise said he was taken aback by O’Keefe’s unfounded accusations. He requested a retraction from O’Keefe twice, but was ignored. He also drafted a lawsuit against O’Keefe, but never filed it—largely because of his then-looming J6 criminal trial.

“I was serious about suing, but it’s too late now. There’s a one-year statute of limitations in Oregon. It’s ironic: I wrote it with intent to file, and then as we approached the one-yr limit, we had J6 hearing. The judge set the first trial date, and I didn’t have energy to file lawsuit. I should have done it earlier, I guess,” he said.

Even though it’s too late for a lawsuit, Wise said he wants to set the record straight.

“Going through this experience was horrible, and then to see people like James and [attorney] William Shipley make false accusations on Twitter. It’s really disappointing to see that coming from your own side,” he said—referring to Shipley’s false statement that he was asked to leave the FBI.

“One of my biggest fears was people thinking I was undercover. It became pretty clear that was not what I was doing. I’ve bucked [the DOJ] and fought them every second of this process,” he added.

Wise said he plans to reveal more information about Jan. 6 to reporter Julie Kelly soon. O’Keefe did not respond to a media inquiry for this story.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

‘Enemy of the People’: Reporter Runs Pre-Written Headlines at RFK Jr. Hearing

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‘Enemy of the People’: Reporter Runs Pre-Written Headlines at RFK Jr. Hearing

(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) A Daily Mail reporter appeared to run a pre-written negative headline Wednesday at the Senate confirmation hearing of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services.

A woman who is believed to be Sarah Ewall-Wice, the Daily Mail’s senior U.S. politics reporter, was spotted live-blogging on a laptop under the headline “RFK Jr. faces grilling on ‘anti-vaccine’ comments and animal ‘mutilation’ at confirmation hearing: Trump live updates,” before the actual hearing started, according to footage shared on social media by Kennedy ally and health advocate Calley Means.

The Daily Mail reporter was seen writing her unflattering report in video posted at 9:32 a.m. by Means, just 28 minutes before Kennedy’s hearing began at 10 a.m.

“Astounding. Reporters at RFK hearing have pre-written negative headlines,” Means wrote on X.

The post reached First Son Donald Trump Jr., who put the “corrupt” mainstream media on blast.

“Just when you think the fake news couldn’t get more corrupt. Enemy of the people!!!” he wrote.

Neither Means nor Trump Jr. named the Daily Mail reporter responsible for the preemptive hit job, but Headline USA was able to trace back the coverage to Ewall-Wice’s byline. Video posted by Means showed an article titled “Pam Bondi moves forward in confirmation process with committee vote” beneath her headline on Kennedy, which led to the Daily Mail’s coverage.

The Daily Mail made several live-blog posts once the confirmation hearing began, featuring Kennedy’s key clashes with senators and special guests who attended. Ewall-Wice ran headlines including “Kennedy opening statement disrupted by protester as he declared he is not an anti-vaxxer” and “Kennedy: I don’t want to take food away from anybody.”

Other Daily Mail reporters, such as Chief Campaign Correspondent Nikki Schwab, wrote for the website’s live blog during Kennedy’s confirmation hearing as well.

Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by Headline USA, the Daily Caller, The Federalist, and the American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.

Google Divorcee Vows to Kick Senators Who Vote Against RFK Jr. Out of Office

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(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Nicole Shanahan, the former running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., threatened Tuesday to fund primary challengers to U.S. senators who vote against Kennedy’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

Shanahan, who has a net worth of over $1 billion due to her divorce from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, urged her followers to call their senators and convince them to vote for Kennedy in video shared the eve of his confirmation hearing.

“He is more than qualified. He’s proven, principled, and prepared to lead. I’ll share a list below of key senators. If they represent your state, they need to hear from you,” she said.

Shanahan gave an example of her power by describing the time she cut two “large checks” to then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., which helped Democrats take two seats in Georgia away from Republicans.

“The two candidates I helped elect, Sen. Raphael Warnock and Sen. Jon Ossoff, please know I will be watching your votes very closely,” she said. “I will make it my personal mission that you lose your seats in the Senate if you vote against the future health of America’s children.”

The billionaire philanthropist made clear that she was sending a “bipartisan message” and name-dropped 11 more lawmakers who could be on the chopping block if they vote against Kennedy.

“And more than that, I also want to say to Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), this is a bipartisan message, and it comes directly from me,” Shanahan said in her video posted on X.

She added, “While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won’t. If you vote against him, I will personally fund challengers to primary you in your next election, and I will enlist hundreds of thousands to join me.”

Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by Headline USA, the Daily Caller, The Federalist, and the American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.

Trump Pulls Plug on Taxpayers’ $50 Million in CONDOMS to Gaza

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Trump Pulls Plug on Taxpayers’ $50 Million in CONDOMS to Gaza

(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) President Donald Trump pulled the plug on American taxpayers forking over $50 million earmarked for condom distribution in Gaza, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Tuesday during her first briefing.

The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, and the Office of Management and Budget identified the Biden administration’s move to waste millions sending condoms to the Middle East just shortly before the plan was set in motion, according to Leavitt.

“DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza,” Leavitt told reporters from the podium. “That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.”

Trump shut down all federal spending via executive order, which Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer flipped out about by calling it “a dagger in the heart of average American families.”

Fox News host Jesse Watters suggested safe sex was not a priority for members of Hamas who make “condom bombs.”

“Condoms cost a couple pennies when you buy them in bulk,” Watters said. “You can buy 500 million condoms with that kind of cash. That’s enough to give every guy in Gaza 1,000 condoms.”

Watters said the U.S. was egging on “both sides of the war” by funding Israel’s Iron Dome and Hamas’s makeshift bomb-making. X influencer Libs of TikTok expressed the same view, adding that “Biden was going to fund terrorism.”

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, took to social media to express his outrage at Leavitt’s reveal. He wrote on X, “Why was the U.S. government about to send $50 million for condoms in Gaza? If we stuck to the Constitution, this crap wouldn’t happen.”

Actor James Woods said “impregnating goats in Gaza” should not be a concern of American taxpayers. Meanwhile, activist Robby Starbuck suggested the Biden administration was laundering taxpayer money.

“There’s only like 2 million people there. The math is not mathing. Money laundering?” Starbuck wrote. “Think about how much they have to hate us to spend our money on this crap.”

Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by Headline USA, the Daily Caller, The Federalist, and the American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.

‘No, No, No,’: CNN Anchor Self-Implodes as He Suggests US Needs Illegal Aliens for Slave Labor

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‘No, No, No,’: CNN Anchor Self-Implodes as He Suggests US Needs Illegal Aliens for Slave Labor

(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) CNN anchor Jake Tapper self-imploded as he suggested the U.S. needs illegal migrants to pick the crops Tuesday during an interview with Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff.

Tapper became the latest Democrat talking head to peddle four-year-delayed concerns about grocery prices, linking the cost-of-living crisis to Trump’s mass deportations.

The CNN anchor asked, “These migrants do jobs many Americans do not want to do. So, how do you, how does President Trump make sure that the effort to deport people who are not in this country legally doesn’t end up hurting Americans who want safe borders, absolutely, but also don’t want to see even more higher prices in groceries?”

Miller swiftly dismissed Tapper’s suggestion that Trump could be responsible for surging inflation by calling out the CNN host’s apparent support for illegal migrant slave labor.

“I’m sure it’s not your position, Jake, you just asked a question that we should supply Americans’ food with exploited illegal alien labor. I obviously don’t think that’s what you’re implying,” Miller began.

Miller said only 1% of illegal migrants work in agriculture, adding that most illegal migrants are sent to U.S. cities.

He did not allow Tapper to get away with his spin that only illegal migrants can pick crops for Americans, a narrative that ex-Biden surrogate Jenna Arnold propagated hours later by claiming U.S. women would never drink a blueberry smoothie again under Trump.

Tapper tried to interject, to which Trump’s attack dog responded by saying, “No, no, no. But I’m explaining this. It’s important to understand.”

The CNN host accused Miller of changing the subject. Miller said he would take 30 minutes explaining his point if he had to, insisting that he was addressing exactly what Tapper said.

“I’ll do the whole answer. The illegal aliens that Joe Biden brought into our country are not full-stop doing farm work. They. Are. Not,” Miller said. “The illegals he brought in from Venezuela, from Haiti, from Nicaragua, they are not doing farm work. They are in our cities collecting welfare.”

Miller explained that Trump supports a guest worker program for foreigners looking to do farm work. He added that farming would soon become automated, which would render their dispute irrelevant.

“There’s no universe in which this nation is going to allow the previous president to flood our nation with millions and millions of illegal aliens who just get to stay here,” Miller said.

Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by Headline USA, the Daily Caller, The Federalist, and the American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.

Neo-Nazi Trans Terrorist’s Lawyer Fears ‘Bloodbath’ if Client is Returned to Men’s Prison

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Neo-Nazi Trans Terrorist’s Lawyer Fears ‘Bloodbath’ if Client is Returned to Men’s Prison

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Transgender prison inmate Donna Langan is no stranger to bloodbaths. The ex-Nazi bank robber has close ties to the perpetrators of the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing, which killed at least 168 people, including 19 children, in the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history.

Some 30 years later, Langan’s lawyer is claiming that her client faces a different type of bloodbath, this one not so literal. According to attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen, there’s going to be a bloodbath if Langan is returned to a men’s prison under the new Trump administration.

“It’s going to be incredibly dangerous,” Meltzer-Cohen told the DailyMail about Langan, who currently resides in female prison and who made history in 2023 as the first federal inmate in U.S. history to receive a government-approved sex change.

The DailyMail reported last week that Langan is one of many transgender inmates who are terrified of being sent back to men’s prison in the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order for that to happen. Trump’s order also stipulates that federal money will no longer be used for prison sex changes.

While the Daily Mail reported that “hundreds” of transgender inmates could be sent back to men’s prison, Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said in 2023 that all but 11 inmates are currently in jails based on their biological sex.

Peter said at the time that inmates must undergo a “complex, serious evaluation from degreed medical doctors and psychologists” before they can be placed in a female prison. She added that two inmates have received taxpayer-funded sex changes.

It’s not clear how Trump’s executive order will affect two pending lawsuits from state inmates for sex changes. Those inmates, Jonathan C. Richardson and David Cassady, both advance their lawsuits to the point where their respective prisons have agreed to provide them with sex changes—thanks in part to the fact that Biden’s Justice Department filed amicus briefs on both of their behalf.

They’ve yet to receive the sex changes, and their lawsuits are still open.

Meanwhile, Langan continues to hold secrets of the Oklahoma City bombing as the 30th anniversary of the attack approaches.

When he was arrested in 1996, Langan told authorities that his fellow neo-Nazi bank robbers were involved in the attack. However, the U.S. government ignored Langan’s allegations about the OKC bombing, and went as far as to suppress Langan’s testimony about the matter.

Researchers have speculated that the government has ignored Langan and the other Nazi bank robbers’ connections to OKC because many of them were federal informants. Admitting the robbers helped carry out the attack would raise grave questions about government foreknowledge and possible complicity with OKC, according to criminologist Mark Hamm, who wrote about Langan and OKC in his 2001 book, In Bad Company: America’s Terrorist Underground.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

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