The Fifth Circuit on Monday overturned a lower court’s injunction against a constitutionally dubious law that requires the country’s estimated 32.6 million active companies to submit their private ownership information to a central database ran by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN.
The ruling means that all companies formed prior to 2024 must file a report with Treasury by next Wednesday, Jan. 1. Companies formed this year are required to file within 90 days of their formation.
“Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) has been reinstated along with its impending January 1, 2025 filing deadline,” the financial firm Brown Advisory said in a Tuesday press release. “These reports provide basic legal information about the company itself, the entity’s owners, and the individuals that create or register the entity.”
Forbes predicated there’s still a long legal battle ahead.
“Additionally, a potential new administration may take steps to limit the CTA administratively, adding another layer of uncertainty for businesses,” Forbes reported.
The cost of compliance with the law is estimated to be some $22.7 billion the first year and $5.6 billion per year thereafter.
The U.S. government and liberal activists have argued for decades that a central beneficial ownership registry is required to curtail money laundering. Critics have pointed out how the central registry would pose privacy risks and impose another layer of regulation on private businesses. Moreover, criminals wouldn’t voluntarily submit their personal information for such a registry.
There are six plaintiffs suing over the law, including two that don’t do business outside their respective states. Another plaintiff was the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, which is a non-profit political entity, but would have still had to register under the Corporate Transparency Act.
Roughly 5 million new companies are formed in the U.S. each year.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
(Headline USA) American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide Tuesday due to a technical issue just as the Christmas travel season kicks into overdrive and winter weather is threatening more potential problems for those planning to fly or drive.
Just before 7 a.m. Eastern time, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered all American Airlines flights grounded in the U.S. at the airline’s request. American had reported a technical issue affecting its entire system with millions traveling for the holiday.
American said in an email that the problem Tuesday morning was caused by a vendor technology issue that “impacted systems needed to release flights.”
American flights were cleared to fly by federal regulators about one hour after a national ground stop order was issued by the FAA.
There were 1,447 delays for flights entering or leaving the U.S. early in the day, with 28 cancellations. Snow was falling early in New York and Dallas–Fort Worth International, which is American Airlines’ main hub, was getting hit with rain.
Because the holiday travel period lasts weeks, airports and airlines typically have smaller peak days than they do during the rush around Thanksgiving, but the grind of one hectic day followed by another takes a toll on flight crews. And any hiccups—a winter storm or a computer outage—can snowball into massive disruptions.
That is how Southwest Airlines stranded 2 million travelers in December 2022, and Delta Air Lines suffered a smaller but significant meltdown after a worldwide technology outage in July caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.
Buttigieg’s lack of oversight—or even interest—in managing transportation issues has also helped fuel the travel chaos during the Biden administration, which also counts ships and trains among the victims of its transit malpractice.
Port backups early in the administration created a supply-chain issue that contributed to the rapidly escalating inflation crisis. Meanwhile, following a disastrous train derailment in Ohio—and a resulting chemical contamination—it took then-former Republican leader Donald Trump showing up in the town of Palestine to shame Buttigieg into doing the same.
Many flights during the holidays are sold out, which makes cancellations even more disruptive than during slower periods. That is especially true for smaller budget airlines that have fewer flights and fewer options for rebooking passengers. Only the largest airlines, including American, Delta and United, have “interline agreements” that let them put stranded customers on another carrier’s flights.
This will be the first holiday season since a Transportation Department rule took effect that requires airlines to give customers an automatic cash refund for a canceled or significantly delayed flight. Most air travelers were already eligible for refunds, but they often had to request them.
Passengers still can ask to get rebooked, which is often a better option than a refund during peak travel periods. That’s because finding a last-minute flight on another airline yourself tends to be very expensive.
The groundings couldn’t come at a worse time for the millions of travelers expected to fly over the next 10 days. The Transportation Security Administration expects to screen 40 million passengers over the holidays and through January 2.
Airlines expect to have their busiest days on Friday and Sunday, and on Dec. 26, Dec. 27 and Dec. 29.
Many flights during the holidays are sold out, which makes cancellations more disruptive than during slower periods. Even with just a brief outage, the cancellations have a cascading effect that can take days to clear up.
About 90% of Americans traveling far from home over the holidays will be in cars, according to AAA.
“Airline travel is just really high right now, but most people do drive to their destinations, and that is true for every holiday,” AAA spokesperson Aixa Diaz said.
Gasoline prices are similar to last year. The nationwide average Thursday was $3.04 a gallon, down from $3.13 a year ago, according to AAA. Charging an electric vehicle averages just under 35 cents per per kilowatt hour, but varies by state.
Doing so also requires travelers to wait hours, stop more frequently, and in bad weather, may result in battery fires or other equipment malfunctions—making even the nightmare at airports seem like a more palatable option.
Transportation-data firm INRIX says travel times on the nation’s highways could be up to 30% longer than normal over the holidays, with Sunday expected to see the heaviest traffic. Boston, New York City, Seattle and Washington, D.C., are the metropolitan areas primed for the greatest delays, according to the company.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Over the last two years, the Republican-controlled House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight found numerous inconsistencies and outright lies in the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, who was the Democrat-controlled January 6th Commission’s “star witness” in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021.
The Oversight Subcommittee apparently wanted to subpoena Hutchinson about her testimony. But according to a Tuesday report from Breitbart, House Speaker Mike Johnson blocked that from moving forward.
Breitbart noted that the Oversight Subcommittee’s recent final report on Jan. 6 mentions Hutchinson by name 268 times, but didn’t reference bringing her in for questioning.
“Johnson (R-LA) personally intervened to block the subcommittee from issuing a subpoena to Hutchinson,” Breitbart reported, citing an unnamed source. “Johnson, in a statement to Breitbart News, called that claim ‘clearly false.’”
The House Administration Subcommittee’s findings against Hutchinson are related to her June 28, 2022, testimony, when she said that she personally wrote a proposed Tweet on Jan. 6, 2021, for President Donald Trump to send advising rioters to leave the Capitol. The text of that proposed Tweet said, “ANYONE WHO ENTERED THE CAPITOL ILLEGALLY WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORITY SHOULD LEAVE IMMEDIATELY”—with the word ILLEGALLY scratched out.
This report confirms what my own Congressional sources have said: Johnson blocked a subpoena for Cassidy Hutchinson, who appears to have committed perjury and perhaps at the direction of Liz Cheney.
Johnson denied this is true. So the best way to come clean is to publicly demand…
At the time, Hutchinson testified that she wrote the note as dictated by then-Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows and Eric Herschmann, one of the President’s attorneys. However, Herschmann alleged that Hutchinson was lying, and that he was the one who wrote the note.
The House Administration Subcommittee said in October that it hired a handwriting analyst to review the note and determine who wrote it.
“After a thorough analysis, their certified handwriting analyst stated in the report that ‘the evidence supports my opinion that the handwriting that appears on the Questioned Document was written in the same hand as the exemplars [Herschmann],’” the House Administration Subcommittee said at the time.
“This new evidence provided by an independent, Certified Questioned Document Examiner, not only contradicts Ms. Hutchinson’s numerous claims that she penned the note, but also exposes the Select Committee’s willingness to accept all her testimonies without corroboration or further investigation,” Subcommittee on Oversight Chair Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., said in a press release.
The subcommittee also found that then-January 6th Commission Vice Chair Liz Cheney secretly communicated with Hutchinson, and may have pressured her to fire her attorney.
Additionally, Hutchinson was caught changing her testimony during the course of the Jan. 6 Committee hearings, as has been widely documented.
Specifically, Hutchinson testified on June 28, 2022, that Trump tried to control the steering wheel while being driven to the White House following his Jan. 6 speech. Additionally, she claimed that the former president lunged at another agent.
However, in her previous three transcribed interviews on February 23, 2022, March 7, 2022, and May 17, 2022, she did not mention that interaction, according to a later investigation from Loudermilk’s committee.
The Oversight Subcommittee has recommended that the FBI investigate Cheney for potential witness-tampering charges.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Judge Aileen Cannon has agreed to delay alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh’s trial until September as he undergoes mental health evaluations as part of potential insanity defense.
Judge Cannon issued her order bumping Routh’s trial from February to Sept. 8 on Tuesday. Routh’s attorneys sought a delay until December on the grounds that they need more time to prepare for trial due in large part to the massive amounts of discovery, as well as Routh’s restrictive conditions in Miami federal prison. But Judge Cannon said a delay until December would be excessive “given the facts and circumstances.”
“Although Defendant needs adequate time to evaluate and prepare pretrial motions, nothing in the present record leads the Court to believe that any such motions will involve unusual complexity or require prolonged preparation or adjudication,” Judge Cannon said.
“Finally, although defense counsel represents a need to complete ongoing mental health screening, that process must be completed without delay to facilitate a speedy trial,” she added.
Judge Aileen Cannon has agreed to delay alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh’s trial until September as he undergoes mental health evaluations as part of potential insanity defense.
Cannon also told defense attorneys they must submit a notice of expert evidence of a mental… pic.twitter.com/WvnSLHIpqr
Cannon also told defense attorneys they must submit a notice of expert evidence of a mental condition or a motion for mental competency by Feb. 3. All pretrial motions are due by April 7, with a Sept. 2 pretrial conference scheduled the week before the Sept. 8 trial.
Judge Cannon’s Tuesday ruling comes on the heels of Florida’s attorney general charging Routh with attempted felony murder for a crash that seriously injured a 6-year-old girl after officials shut down traffic on Interstate 95 as they tried to apprehend him.
The multivehicle crash happened about 30 minutes after Routh’s arrest on I-95, according to the state’s investigation, but Moody said it was a result of his actions.
The girl, who was traveling with her family, had serious injuries, Moody said.
“When you couple those terrible injuries, together with his other criminal conduct, which we believe rises to the level of domestic terrorism, it turns his actions into an attempted felony murder case,” she told reporters.
Routh’s attorney declined to comment last Wednesday through a representative.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Christmas is, above all else, a time for putting aside the petty grievances and differences that separate us from one another and finding meaning in something greater than ourselves.
Some of the best works of literature and cinema about the season examine this spirit of selflessness, which can seem antithetical to “America First” values when cast in a particular light. But at its core, the spirit of Christmas is quintessentially the same as that which brought millions of people to the polls in November to re-elect Donald Trump.
Attempting to catalog all of the thousands of Christmas movies, of course, would be an impossible feat, but below is a list of nine (plus honorable mentions) that resonate particularly well with the MAGA message.
While the list leaves a lot open to interpretation as to what constitutes a “Christmas” movie or a “MAGA” movie, the one prerequisite was that the themes of both had to be prevalent enough to be immediately recognizable.
Thus, Rambo: First Blood may have included a scene with Christmas decorations in it, but it did not make the cut—even though it might be considered a MAGA classic—because the movie itself does not directly involve the holiday. And although the BB gun subplot in A Christmas Story may have promoted Second Amendment rights for some, that was not an explicit message so much as it was a sign of the times.
Feel free to share your suggestions in the comments or on our X account—and be sure to include your explanation for why they should make the list.
We will kick things off with the low-hanging fruit—the only Christmas classic (to date) known to include a cameo from future two-time President Donald Trump himself.
The sequel to one of the most beloved modern Christmas classics is now one of the most beloved MAGA classics due to Trump’s cameo appearance. Much of the film revolves around the iconic Plaza Hotel, which Trump owned at the time but went on to sell in 1995. (Maybe he found out that the desk clerk also moonlighted as a transvestite.)
Another memorable scene takes place at the Wollman Rink, a public ice-skating ring with strong ties to the former Manhattan real-estate magnate. And as an added bonus, the movie features an early appearance from MAGA-friendly comedian Rob Schneider as the bellhop.
Unfortunately, some of its other actors, including Macaulay Culkin and Daniel Stern, have attempted in recent years to use the movie’s renewed relevance as a platform for petty political attacks, and any royalties from it benefit them as well.
Honorable mention: While stylistically very different and not specifically centered around Trump himself, MAGA fans might also consider watching A Lion in Winter, the star-studded 1968 Oscar-winner about an aging ruler who—like Trump—has three sons and must decide who is best fit to carry on his dynasty.
The 1985 box-office smash came at the very peak of the Ronald Reagan era, just two years before the famous Berlin speech that saw Reagan urging Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” and four years before the official fall of the Soviet Union. It was the last of the Rocky films to be directed by Trump-backer Sylvester Stallone (who fittingly described the Republican leader as a “Dickensian” character) until 2006’s Rocky Balboa.
While the Cold War-jingoism resonated with Republicans during the Reagan era, Stallone’s climactic victory speech also underscores the ideas of mutual respect and healthy dialogue as a means to peace.
“In here, there were two guys killing each other, but I guess that’s better than 20 million,” Rocky Balboa says after his defeat of Ivan Drago. “I guess what I’m trying to say, is that if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!”
He then wishes his son a Merry Christmas, as the fight took place on Christmas Day. Although the holiday does not figure prominently into the plot, it is one of several action movies whose inclusion of Christmas elements has sparked debate.
However, because the Soviet Union was typically hostile toward religion and did not formally recognize Christmas as a holiday, Balboa’s sacrifice in forgoing the holiday season for the greater good of his country may have been an important reminder that many of those in uniform did not have the luxury of returning home for the holidays.
Honorable mention:The aforementioned Rambo: First Blood has holiday decorations, but the ever-controversial Die Hard, set during the Christmas season, is the best known of all the Christmas “action” movies that have audiences divided, featuring rogue cop John McClane (portrayed by Bruce Willis—another rare Hollywood Republican) taking on a network of terrorists in New York City.
Ref star Denis Leary unfortunately made the decision in a 2016 appearance with late-night host James Corden to attack Trump by rewriting the words to his 1990s gag song “A**hole” for that year’s campaign against Hillary Clinton. It was a hamfisted attempt at comedy then, and it has aged particularly poorly given Trump’s resonance with the American voting public—many of them the same blue-collar types whom Leary tried to appeal to with his updated Archie Bunker schtick.
Leary’s 1994 holiday hit The Ref also aged poorly for its other star, Kevin Spacey, but those able to suspend their disbelief can appreciate the fantastic comedic timing that Spacey and co-star Judy Davis have as a bickering couple on the verge of divorce. There may be one or two obligatory Republican “digs” slipped into the script, but those only accentuate the absurdity of an affluent and insufferable New England family that loves to virtue-signal but finds itself utterly out of touch with anything beyond their own selfish needs and desires—until the outside world forces its way into their lives.
Leary, as a cat-burglar caught in the middle of a hostage situation gone awry, is the perfect foil for the limousine liberals, presaging the “Tea Party” movement that would arrive 10 years later.
Honorable mention:While the only reference to American politics in 2003’s Love Actually may be the scene with Billy Bob Thornton as a Bill Clinton/George W. Bush hybrid of an uncouth, self-serving American president, the movie’s other plots have become well known for their anachronisms—including toxic, anti-MeToo workplaces, trans/LGBT humor and fat shaming, plus a kid gatehopping past airport security and not getting shot. For those who don’t know the holiday classic by heart, consider pouring everyone a cup of spiked eggnog and turning it into a fun drinking game every time something happens that you could never get away with 20 years later.
Like other selections on the list, the star of this early Coen Brothers movie, Tim Robbins, is an outspoken leftist in real life, which can make it difficult to identify with the character. Yet, it also serves as a reminder than many of the classically liberal values once embraced by the Left have now been embraced and appropriated by MAGA-style populism.
It involves a corporation (with the great Paul Newman as a member of its board of directors) that selects Robbins’s character as its top executive in hopes of tanking the stock to permit a corporate buyout. But Robbins generates an idea that is both deceptively simple and wildly appealing, leading the scheme to backfire.
The movie is set over Christmas, with its climax occurring on New Year’s Eve, and has some yuletide thematic elements at the end appearing to echo stories like A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life.
Honorable mention:Others have pointed out in the past that when the full set of facts is taken into consideration, the true hero of It’s a Wonderful Lifeis Henry Potter, a stockholder in the Bailey Building and Loan company who is forced to pay the price for its bad business decisions. Like Trump, Potter falls the victim to a socialist plot that uses propaganda and lawfare to slander him into submission. Although the movie ends with George Bailey having prevailed, there are hints that a world where Potter never existed would be far worse than one where Bailey never existed.
Why it counts: Globalist elites’ excesses/depravity
Stanley Kubrick’s final movie, based on Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella “Dream Story,” changes the events from a Mardi Gras celebration to a Christmas one, adding more to the surreal quality of the cinematography.
The 1999 Tom Cruise film has secured a unique place in pop culture, even inspiring a recent AI tribute by the Dor Brothers that featured world leaders attending a similar masked ball.
Kubrick also drew much of the film’s aesthetic from accounts of a real-life 1972 black-tie ball hosted by Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild that was heavy on Satanic symbolism.
Theories about members of the globalist elite engaging in such bizarre behavior, often connected to Satanic undertones and sex-cults, have continued to snowball in recent years, ranging from the secret cover-up of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list to the rumors of the Clinton–Podesta Pizzagate conspiracy, to the accounts of cocaine-fueled orgies involving members of Congress and the annual Davos conference hosted by the World Economic Forum.
Honorable mention:Rod Serling’s 1964 made-for-TV adaptation of A Christmas Carol, titled Carol for Another Christmas was a star-studded propaganda piece commissioned by the United Nations to persuade Americans that the UN did not have a communist agenda in the aftermath of the JFK assassination. It resurfaced in 2012 after Turner Classic Movies began re-airing it. But hindsight makes the propaganda all the more obvious and blatant, perhaps exposing just how left-wing globalist groups like the UN have used Hollywood to undermine American interests.
Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam directed this 1985 dystopian tale (released just weeks after Rambo IV) about a cog in the system who, shortly before Christmas, discovers a serious mistake caused by a literal bug in the machinery. The discovery sends him into a Kafkaesque spiral of tension-escalating plot twists. While trying to break free from the system, he is himself detained and tortured, with the ending leaving it ambiguous as to whether freedom in this society is truly attainable.
Honorable mention:The Nativity Story, a 2006 retelling of the birth of Jesus, conveys the familiar tale with an emphasis on the Magi (not to be confused with MAGA), the three wise men who arrived on Jan. 6—known to Christians as the celebration of the Epiphany. King Herrod of Judea sought help from the visiting Oriental trio in locating the Jewish messiah, whom he feared would supplant him as ruler. Although the king resorted to drastic measures—demanding the slaughter of innocent babies, much like the modern Left’s abortion agenda—the Magi refused to cooperate, making them the original J6 political dissidents.
The 2002 third installment in the comedic series that coined the phrase “Bye Felicia” finds friends Craig (portrayed by red-pilled rapper Ice Cube) and Day-Day forced to get jobs as security guards after a thief dressed as Santa steals all their Christmas presents. The movie also features a turn from Terry Crews (another red-pilled actor, best known for his role as President Camacho in the modern cult classic Idiocracy) as a newly-released inmate who picked up homosexual tendencies while incarcerated.
Honorable mention:Jim Varney’s redneck hero Ernest P. Worrell returns to his most famous role in 1988’s Ernest Saves Christmas, in which the hero becomes Santa Claus after the original Santa leaves his magic bag in the back of Ernest’s cab in Orlando.
Made during the peak of the COVID-19 hysteria, this 2021 movie, with an ensemble cast led by Keira Knightley, begins as the typical “home for the holidays” comedy set at a British country estate. However, it later takes a genre-bending turn that is as jarring and drastic as the arrival of the pandemic was in March 2020. It is one of the few on this list that may have spoilers, so viewers who don’t mind dampening the holiday spirit (definitely not one to watch with the kids) should see it for themselves.
Honorable mention: The Stephen Spielberg-produced Gremlins, written by future Harry Potter director Chris Columbus, remarkably is considered a kid-friendly movie—or, at least, it was when it first came out in 1984. However, it too blends heartwarming and nostalgic family comedy with significantly darker elements after a specimen of Chinese origin, the mogwai, makes its way to small-town America. A scientist (biology teacher Mr. Hanson) then ignores the rules for containing it, leading to a catastrophic epidemic that seems a lot like the gain-of-function research advocated by ex-COVID czar Anthony Fauci.
With the exception of The Nativity Story, none of the films listed connect with the religious component of the Christmas holiday. That has much to do with its commercialization and sanitization by Hollywood and others to make it more profitable.
I, for one, take no issue with the idea of everyone sharing in a seasonal yuletide spirit regardless of belief (this year, Christmas happens to coincide with the start of the relatively minor Jewish holiday of Hannukah), just as the MAGA movement is one of inclusivity.
But ultimately, there is only one thing that “Christmas is all about,” and nobody articulates that as well as Linus in this 1965 animated classic, which has prevailed over all the efforts by the Left to memory-hole it.
Honorable mention: Aliens, envious of Earth’s culture, travel there to kidnap two children, along with Santa Claus, but later decide that it is unreconcilable with their own culture in 1964’s Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, which was made for an estimated budget of around $200,000. They attempt to sabotage Santa’s toymaking industry and to replace Santa with one of their own kind, but the plan fails, much as the Left’s so-called Great Replacement strategy via open borders cannot conquer the Western cultures they are seeking to supplant with their reverse-colonization scheme.
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., recently teased conservatives at the Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix on Dec. 22 by saying that he may run for the seat of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., after President-elect Donald Trump nominated Rubio for Secretary of State.
“We have been asked which perch I will be fighting from next, and some of you throughout this conference have even given me a few suggestions… It seems I may not have had enough support in the United States Senate,” he said, referring to the RINOs in the Senate opposing his nomination as attorney general, which resulted in him withdrawing his nomination.
Gaetz then suggested that he should “just run for Marco Rubio’s vacant seat in the United States Senate.”
“Enjoyed some of those folks, and my friend Steve Bannon and others have suggested that I return to the House of Representatives on Jan. 3, but I would remind Steve when he got out of prison, he didn’t punch a guard on the way out,” he joked.
Gaetz previously said that he doesn’t plan to return to Congress, stating that even though he would continue fighting for President-elect Donald Trump, “eight years is probably enough time in the United States Congress.”
Gaetz then stated that he would enjoy being a regular American citizen.
“It was [President] James Madison who said that the most powerful position in America would not be congressman or senator or even president, but that of a citizen because we put such an obligation on the citizenry to ignite the patriotism that the country needs,” he said.
Gaetz also mentioned during his speech that he may run for governor of Florida to replace Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., which he also suggested before the event.
The National Review’s anonymous source also alleged that DeSantis doesn’t consider replacing Rubio with Gaetz.
The recent news came after Gaetz announced he would become a host on OAN, which many conservatives found disappointing. Many pointed out that it would waste his talent since Gaetz’s supporters wanted to see him as attorney general or senator and that people no longer watch cable TV.
Lara Trump also recently stated that she wouldn’t be running for Rubio’s seat, crushing some conservatives’ hopes to see her in the Senate.
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump recently suggested that the United States buy Greenland because it would benefit the country’s and the world’s security and freedom.
Trump suggested buying Greenland in one of his Truth Social posts, where he announced Ken Howery, a well-known entrepreneur, investor and former U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, as his choice for United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark.
“As a Co-Founder of PayPal and venture capital fund, Founders Fund, Ken turned American Innovation and Tech leadership into Global success stories, and that experience will be invaluable in representing us abroad,” he wrote.
Trump then suggested that buying Greenland is an “absolute necessity” for the United States and “national security and freedom throughout the world.”
Trump’s recent comments came after he suggested the U.S. should take back the Panama Canal. Trump also recently mocked Canadians by suggesting that the U.S. should annex the country and make it one of the American states.
Conservatives enthusiastically responded to Trump’s suggestion regarding Greenland.
“IT’S HAPPENING,” popular Trump impersonator Shawn Farash wrote.
Others became so enthusiastic about the idea that they suggested that buying Greenland is long overdue, considering that “America has been spilling blood and spending treasure for the benefit of Europeans for over a century now.”
“I’m loving Trump’s foreign policy. We SHOULD take back the Panama Canal. We should take Greenland, too. What the hell are the Danes going to do about it? Go to the UN? NATO? Lmao. WE ARE NATO,” @ChristianHeiens wrote. “It’s time for the vassal states to pay tribute.”
I’m loving Trump’s foreign policy.
We SHOULD take back the Panama Canal.
We should take Greenland too. What the hell are the Danes going to do about it? Go to the UN? NATO?
Lmao. WE ARE NATO.
America has been spilling blood and spending treasure for the benefit of Europeans…
Famous cartoonist Scott Adams also responded to the recent news by proposing that Trump “hold a town hall in Greenland to pitch the idea of them being part of The United States (whatever that looks like) and let the country vote on it.”
“Non-binding, of course,” he added. “Denmark subsidizes Greenland with half a billion dollars per year. That’s cheap by American standards.”
I’d like to see President Trump hold a town hall in Greenland to pitch the idea of them being part of The United States (whatever that looks like) and let the country vote on it. Non-binding, of course.
Others also joked about Trump taking over England.
You guys are forgetting Trump’s Art of the Deal thing. Threaten to invade Canada, Greenland, and Panama and then it won’t seem so bad when we only take over England.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An aide for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez allegedly attacked conservative journalist Nick Sortor as he pressed the lawmaker about President Joe Biden’s immigrant crisis in New York City.
The apparent attack occurred on an unknown date after Sortor waited for Ocasio-Cortez in the hallways of a congressional building, asking her about the impact of the massive wave of illegal immigrants on her congressional district.
“Your district is really suffering under the pressure of the border crisis,” Sortor told Ocasio-Cortez before one of her aides jumped in and blocked him from asking further. He recorded the altercation.
The aide appeared to be Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff and former Bernie Sanders staffer, Mike Casca. Her office did not immediately respond to Headline USA’s request for comment, which was sent after business hours.
“I’m trying to get through the door, man,” Casca claimed, to which Sortor replied, “Don’t touch me.”
Ocasio-Cortez walked upstairs as Sortor reiterated his questions: “Your district is very much suffering through Biden’s border crisis. Why would you not…” Casca intervened again, this time seemingly physically blocking Sortor.
“Get out of my way,” Sortor pleaded, while the aide replied, “Excuse me, sir!”
Sortor repeated, “Get your hands off me! Stop touching me!”
Once he bypassed the seemingly aggressive aide, Sortor pressed Ocasio-Cortez further: “Are you talking to the Biden administration about fixing the border?”
Although the video does not show Sortor’s hands, Ocasio-Cortez glanced sideways and raised her hand, saying, “Sir, don’t touch me. Sir, don’t touch me.”
Her aide intervened again, this time with a smirk, saying, “Thank you!”
Ocasio-Cortez briefly turned back and accused Sortor of touching her on the stairs.
“I did not touch you. I have it on video!” he fired back.
Sortor later shared the video clip on X, where it amassed over 5 million views.
“I confronted AOC at the Capitol over her refusal to condemn the Biden Migrant Crisis, which led to a migrant setting an innocent woman on fire today,” Sortor explained.
He added, “She responded by falsely accusing me of assault, and even got the Capitol Police involved, who agreed I never touched her.”
This incident marked the second time Sortor was assaulted by an aide to a leftist figure. Previously, an MSNBC worker pushed him as he pressed Maggie Vespa about her false reporting on Haitian nationals in Springfield, Ohio.
🚨 NEW: I PERSONALLY confronted the MSNBC “reporter” here in Springfield, Ohio who is now on TV with Lester Holt blaming President Trump for his own ass*ss*nation attempt
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan surprised many by allowing a Jan. 6 defendant to attend the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.
Eric Peterson will be able to witness Trump take the oath of office for the second time on Jan. 20, 2025, after Chutkan, an Obama appointee, approved his request to travel to Washington, D.C.
Peterson pleaded guilty last month to what the Biden administration alleges was an unlawful protest inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. He is expected to be sentenced on Jan. 27 and faces up to one year in federal prison.
Chutkan permitted Peterson to remain free pending sentencing but imposed significant travel restrictions. He is based in Kansas City, Missouri, according to the New York Post.
The judge’s decision is especially surprising given her leftist record presiding over other Jan. 6 cases, including the Biden-led indictment against Trump related to his remarks about the events of that day.
Peterson’s attorney, Michael Bullotta, filed the special request, emphasizing that his client was not accused of committing any violent acts during his eight minutes inside the U.S. Capitol.
Prosecutors from the Biden administration claimed that Peterson was aware the building was “off-limits,” as he walked past a police officer.
Peterson is one of more than 1,500 Americans aggressively prosecuted by the Biden administration’s DOJ for their participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol protest.
In contrast to the Jan. 6 cases, Democrats and leftist rioters have engaged in worse acts, including arson and looting. Yet, these individuals have faced little to no consequence for their actions, critics suggest.
The DOJ has claimed that the protesters, including those who merely entered the Capitol, obstructed the proceedings of the 2020 election certification.
This broad interpretation of the law by the DOJ came under scrutiny from the Supreme Court, which ruled that prosecutors must establish that defendants impaired the integrity of an official proceeding before they can be charged with those crimes.
Before this ruling, the DOJ filed felony charges against some individuals who entered the Capitol.
So apparently they had to cancel the 2nd drone show at #LakeEolaPark tonight and I wonder if the drones that got knocked out during the 1st show was the cause 😬 #Orlandopic.twitter.com/xxySjbkohy
The video showed several drones falling from the sky during its synchronized performance at Lake Eola Park.
The mother of the boy, Adriana Edgerton, told WESH her son was having open heart surgery after sustaining injuries from the event.
Edgerton described the aftermath of the incident.
“Everyone’s natural instinct was to duck and scatter, and before we realized it, my daughter found my son on the floor unconscious,” she said. “He had blood coming out of his face.”
She added his mouth was cut, and there was damage to one of his heart valves.
The Christmas drone show at Lake Eola in Orlando last night experienced severe malfunctions, with drones plummeting out of formation into the lake, and at least one crashing into the crowd.
“Drone arrays and light shows are subject to FAA regulation,” it read. “Typically, these events require a waiver to the regulation that prohibits operating more than one drone at a time.”
The FAA ensured it has a rigorous process while reviewing drone events.
“We thoroughly review each drone show application to make sure the flying public and people on the ground will be safe,” it added.
The company behind the drones, Sky Elements Drones, expressed its sympathy over the accident in a statement with People magazine.
“Sky Elements Drones wants to extend our sincere hope for a full and speedy recovery to those impacted at our Lake Eola show in Orlando on Saturday, Dec. 21,” it read. “The well-being of our audience is our utmost priority, and we regret any distress or inconvenience caused.”
The company added it is working with FAA and City of Orlando to determine how the incident occurred.
The city of Orlando released a similar statement expressing its sympathy and determination to get to the bottom of what occurred, according to Click Orlando.
“Our thoughts are with the family and all those impacted by the outcome of this event,” the statement said. “The City remains in contact with the vendor and FAA who will conduct a thorough investigation.”
