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READ IN FULL – Biden Family Associate Blows Whistle in Congress: ‘China Successfully Compromised Obama WH Through Joe and Hunter’.

Biden family associate Anthony Bobulinksi will testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability as well as the Committee on the Judiciary on Tuesday. Bobulinksi is expected to explain how he once worked with both Joe and Hunter Biden, and how the pair willfully allowed the Obama administration to be infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for cash.

“The Chinese Communist Party through its surrogate, China Energy Company Limited, or “CEFC” – a CCP-linked Chinese energy conglomerate – successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House,” Bobulinski will explain, in testimony reviewed by The National Pulse.

“It is also not a coincidence that CEFC used the Biden family’s weakest link, Hunter Biden, and the promise of large sums of money to the tune of tens of millions of dollars initially, and eventually the profits from investing billions of dollars in the United States and around the world,” he adds.

The full, expected statement, follows below:

Chairmen, Ranking Members, and Members of Congress,

Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you.  I am happy that the American people will finally hear the facts and evidence that I have been trying to outline for over four years, all backed up and supported by emails, texts, documents, records, pictures, and other evidence.  The facts we are going to discuss today are important for America’s national security, and I can only hope that everyone in this room and all representatives and officers of the U.S. Government take them seriously.

My name is Tony Bobulinski.  I am a proud American citizen who has honorably served the United States in several capacities.  For over six years, I was an officer in the United States Navy’s elite Naval Nuclear Power Training Command as a decorated Master Training Specialist Instructor.  I later served as the Command’s Chief Technology Officer, where I held a Q security clearance from the Department of Energy and from the National Security Agency.  When I left NNPTC, I was the number-one-ranked Direct Input Officer (DIO) in the entire command in my final Navy Fitness Report, or FITREP.

I am here today out of duty to God and country in a nonpartisan manner with only one party in mind, the party I served with honor and gratitude: the United States of America.  While I have made a few campaign contributions over the years to Democrats such as Congressman Ro Khanna, a member of the Oversight Committee, I am not a political person.  I come from a family with a long history of distinguished service in our nation’s military.  I grew up the son of a career Naval Officer, CDR Robert Bobulinski, whom I loved dearly.  I could not be prouder of my father’s long and distinguished service to our great nation.  His father, Alex Bobulinski, served our country in the Air Force for four years.  I am also the grandson of Army Intelligence Officer, Col. Fred B. Keller Jr., who, for more than thirty-seven years, fearlessly defended the United States all over the world and served in three different wars.  My only brother, retired CDR Mike Bobulinski, is a twenty-eight year combat-serving Naval Flight Officer, and my only sister, Stacia Bobulinski, has spent the last eighteen years serving U.S. military veterans across the country through the Veterans Administration to demonstrate her and our family’s gratitude to everyone who has risked their lives defending America.

I share my extensive U.S. military roots and background with you because they are the lens through which I view this exceptional country and my responsibility to it.  My deep commitment to America is also the reason I have elected to place myself and my family in the public eye to tell the truth before you today.  That comes at a great cost to my privacy and to my personal security and that of my family, among other things.  However, I am happy to pay that cost.  I am blessed to have been born and to grow up in the greatest country on earth.  I take that seriously.  Having been to over fifty countries around the world, I say that with the highest confidence.

For nearly four years, I have tried to tell the American people the truth about serious corruption at the very top of their government.  In return, I have been falsely accused of being a purveyor of “Russian disinformation” and a political surrogate.  My continuous efforts to inform the American people of the facts have been actively suppressed by both the United States Government and the so-called “mainstream” media.

I want to be crystal clear: from my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was “the Brand” being sold by the Biden family.  His family’s foreign influence peddling operation – from China to Ukraine and elsewhere – sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government.  Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability.

The only reason any of these international business transactions took place – with tens of millions of dollars flowing directly to the Biden family – was because Joe Biden was in high office.  The Biden family business was Joe Biden, period.  Other key players have made this point clear as well: Hunter Biden himself has adamantly stated it in a variety of communications, as did another Biden family business associate, Devon Archer, in his testimony last year.  Foreign nationals on the other side of these transactions – including from China, Ukraine and Romania – have also explained how and why these transactions took place.  Once again, I would call that extensive evidence.

The Chinese Communist Party through its surrogate, China Energy Company Limited, or “CEFC” – a CCP-linked Chinese energy conglomerate – successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House.  This process started in the Fourth Quarter of 2015 and continued through when Joe Biden left office in January 2017 to March of 2018 when CEFC Chairman Ye was detained for corruption in China, never to be seen again.  Note that on October 21, 2015, Joe Biden announced that he would not seek the Presidency in 2016.  It is not a coincidence that CEFC’s aggressive approach to the Biden family happened around the same time.  It is also not a coincidence that CEFC used the Biden family’s weakest link, Hunter Biden, and the promise of large sums of money to the tune of tens of millions of dollars initially, and eventually the profits from investing billions of dollars in the United States and around the world.

Before we begin this in-depth testimony under penalty of perjury and charges of Obstruction of Congress, I would like to highlight a few critically important facts:

    1. Joe Biden was aware of the CEFC transaction, enabled it and had a constitutional responsibility and obligation to the American people to shut it down before it began.  This is because CEFC had been identified as a known surrogate of the Chinese Communist Party by the U.S. Government and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York as far back as 2016, possibly earlier.  I would encourage Congress to gather all of the exact facts and dates.  It is clear to me that alarm bells should have been going off in the Obama-Biden White House and that Joe Biden should have been aware that his own administration had red-flagged CEFC as a tool of the Chinese Communist Party.  This should have made any business transaction with CEFC a non-starter. I personally met with Joe Biden in Los Angeles in May of 2017 multiple times to discuss the broad contours of our business dealings.  The only reason Joe Biden met with me privately during the Milken Institute Global Conference and seated me at his head table was because I was a business associate of the Biden family.
    2. Joe Biden’s immediate family members were enriched to the tune of tens of millions of dollars from some of our most dangerous adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party and players from Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan and other foreign nations and entities.  It is my educated belief dating back to Q clearance briefings I received in the Navy and continuing through recent discussions with experts, that under U.S. corruption laws, political office holders can be held as responsible as the immediate family members who are receiving money directly.  This makes common sense and Americans understand this.  The facts we are going to discuss today appear to me to present disturbing evidence, which these committees should thoroughly investigate, with respect to possible violations by Joe Biden of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity statutes, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
    3. The Biden family – Joe’s son Hunter and his brother Jim – knowingly and aggressively defrauded me as the CEO of SinoHawk Holdings and as a member of Oneida Holdings, LLC at the end of July 2017.  They put Joe Biden and the rest of the Biden family smack in the middle of a $9 Billion transaction between Russia and China involving Qatar (specifically, the Qatar Investment Authority), and helped CEFC navigate through various issues before Patrick Ho, a CEFC executive, was arrested for corruption in New York in November 2017.  Joe Biden’s status as the head of the family served an enforcement role – for example, when Hunter stated deliberately that his father Joe was sitting right next to him while demanding immediate payment of the $10 million CEFC had committed to the Biden family, as well as when Hunter demanded CEFC circumvent SinoHawk Holdings.  The Biden family violated their fiduciary duties to SinoHawk and Oneida as they enriched themselves at the CEFC trough.
    4. United States law enforcement appears to have been singularly unwilling to speak with me or to hear the facts we will be discussing today.  I have never been contacted to provide testimony nor asked to speak with anyone connected with Joe Biden’s administration, including his Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, or local law enforcement.  That includes U.S. Attorney David Weiss for the District of Delaware or any of the several grand juries I now know were convened after my name became publicly known.  On October 23, 2020, I voluntarily walked into the Washington Field Office of the FBI with several phones containing years of encrypted communications between me and numerous members of the Biden family and their associates.  That conversation, which was subject to False Statement statutes, lasted many hours, and was never followed up upon by anyone in government or law enforcement in any way.  Rather, when the House Ways and Means Committee recently released the FBI 302 report of that meeting, Hunter Biden’s lawyers laughably tried to use a single note-taking error by a junior FBI agent to accuse me, falsely, of lying about my attendance at a meeting with Hunter Biden and CEFC in Miami.  I was crystal clear to the agent in my interview that I was physically in Miami during that time for other things and did not attend the actual CEFC meeting.  Hunter Biden’s lawyers should focus their energy on the facts and the extensive indictments Hunter is fighting versus creating smoke screens and distractions with their empty threats.  I have only told the truth, I continue to tell the truth, I have the facts and, as we will discuss today, I also have the receipts to back them up.

I sit here before two of the premiere committees of Congress: Oversight and Judiciary.  I implore each and every one of you to remove your partisan hats today and focus on one party: the United States of America.  I hope your focus will be on a thorough and extensive investigation and exposure of all of the facts and evidence – and on answering the question of how we as a country allowed the White House to be infiltrated by our most existential adversary, the Chinese Communist Party.  I also hope you will hold the complicit parties, including Joe Biden, accountable for their actions, as well as enact new laws that prevent this kind of deep corruption from ever happening again.

God Bless America. I am ready for your questions.

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Canada Estimated to Have Killed Nearly 100k Citizens by Assisted Suicide.

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WHAT HAPPENED: Canada’s euthanasia program may have killed up to 92,000 people, according to new estimates.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Canadian government, Canadian medical professionals, and the Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Alex Schadenberg.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The estimate was published on December 5.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Canada is becoming the world leader in killing its citizens. It is normalizing and medicalizing killing.” – Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Alex Schadenberg

🎯IMPACT: Medically assisted suicide has become a leading cause of death in Canada and now accounts for five percent of all deaths nationwide when abortion is not taken into consideration.

IN FULL

Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) program continues to grow, with estimates suggesting that more than 92,000 people have died through the practice since its legalization in 2016. Official federal data reported 16,499 MAID deaths in 2024, a 6.9 percent increase from the previous year. That brought the confirmed national total to 76,475 through the end of 2024, but analysts say the pace of cases in 2025 likely pushed the true cumulative figure past 92,000.

MAID now accounts for just over five percent of all annual deaths in Canada. The vast majority of cases involve people whose natural death is considered reasonably foreseeable, though a smaller share of patients qualify under an expanded track for those whose death is not imminent. “Canada is becoming the world leader in killing its citizens. It is normalizing and medicalizing killing,” Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Alex Schadenberg said.

The rising number of requests has prompted concern from some medical professionals, who report that demand is straining available resources and contributing to long wait times for assessments. According to recent reports, providers in several regions say the number of applicants has outpaced the capacity of clinicians willing or able to participate.

Critics argue that MAID eligibility criteria have broadened too quickly and that vulnerable people may face subtle pressure to consider MAID when support services are limited or unavailable. Several disabled Canadians, including veterans, have been offered MAID despite not suffering from any deadly illness or disease.

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Ukrainian Refugee Tortured, Burned Alive for Crypto.

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WHAT HAPPENED: A Ukrainian student was burned alive in his father’s Mercedes in Vienna, Austria, with police suspecting extortion over cryptocurrency.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Danilo Kuzmin, a 21-year-old student, and two Ukrainian suspects, aged 19 and 45, who were arrested in connection with the murder.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The incident occurred last Wednesday in Vienna, under a bridge where the burned car was found.

🎯IMPACT: The case highlights concerns over cryptocurrency-related crimes and cross-border cooperation in criminal justice.

IN FULL

Austrian authorities are investigating the killing of 21-year-old Ukrainian student Danilo Kuzmin, who was found burned in the back seat of his father’s Mercedes beneath a bridge in Vienna. Police believe he was attacked and forced to transfer a significant sum in cryptocurrency shortly before his death.

Kuzmin, the son of Sergei Kuzmin, the deputy mayor of Kharkov (Kharkiv), had lived in Vienna for several years after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His body was so badly burned that investigators initially could not identify him; confirmation came only after friends and relatives filed missing-persons reports.

A post-mortem examination showed that he suffered blunt-force injuries, including trauma to the head and broken teeth. Forensic officers concluded he likely died from suffocation or heat shock caused by the fire. A melted petrol canister was found inside the vehicle, which runs on diesel, leading investigators to conclude the blaze was set intentionally.

Detectives believe Kuzmin was lured to an underground garage at a luxury hotel, where he was beaten and forced into the car. A large cryptocurrency transfer was detected leaving his digital wallet around the time of the attack, and security footage captured a 19-year-old suspect buying a petrol canister shortly before the murder. A second suspect, aged 45, was later identified. Both men fled to Ukraine immediately after the killing but were arrested by local police the following evening.

Austrian officials have agreed to allow Ukraine to prosecute the suspects domestically, while Viennese investigators continue to collect evidence to support the case.

The suspected extortion fits into a wider pattern of criminals targeting victims through digital assets. In recent years, cryptocurrency-related crime has surged, with U.S. authorities reporting billions in losses tied to fraud, extortion, and investment schemes. Americans lost more than $5.6 billion to crypto-related scams in 2023 as criminals increasingly exploited the speed and irreversibility of blockchain transactions. Law enforcement agencies have warned that the decentralized nature of cryptocurrency, combined with its global reach, makes recovering stolen funds extremely difficult once a transfer is executed.

The broader cryptocurrency market has also faced sharp volatility. Global digital asset valuations recently plunged by more than a trillion dollars within a matter of weeks amid concerns about speculative excess and fears that an artificial intelligence-driven bubble could trigger deeper instability.

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U.S. Weapons Abandoned by Biden Are Now the ‘Core’ of Taliban’s Military Machine: Report.

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WHAT HAPPENED: The former Biden government left billions in military equipment in Afghanistan, now forming the “core” of the Taliban military.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The U.S. government, the Taliban, and the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR).

📍WHEN & WHERE: Following the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Despite nearly $90 billion in U.S. appropriations for security-sector assistance, Afghan security forces ultimately collapsed quickly without a sustained U.S. military presence.” – Acting SIGAR Gene Aloise

🎯IMPACT: Billions in U.S. taxpayer-funded military equipment are now in Taliban hands.

IN FULL

The office overseeing U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan has released a final forensic audit concluding that billions of dollars in American weaponry and military infrastructure, left behind after the 2021 U.S. withdrawal, now form the “core” of the Taliban’s military force.

The audit, by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), finds that U.S.-supplied weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment worth at least $7.1 billion ended up in Taliban hands. These were provided over two decades of war and reconstruction, spanning four U.S. administrations after the 2001 invasion triggered by the 9/11 attacks.

According to SIGAR, the U.S. had poured roughly $144.7 billion into Afghanistan between 2002 and mid-2021. Some of those funds went toward building roads, schools, and infrastructure. However, the bulk of this spending, nearly $90 billion, was devoted to security assistance: equipping and sustaining the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) with weapons, vehicles, training, pay, bases, and other support.

Between 2002 and 2021, the U.S. gave the ANDSF hundreds of thousands of weapons, tens of thousands of vehicles, and more than 160 aircraft. Pentagon records from late July 2021, about two weeks before the Taliban seized Kabul, showed the Afghan Air Force had 162 U.S.-supplied aircraft, 131 of them functional.

As U.S. forces withdrew in August 2021 amid a botched evacuation by then-President Joe Biden, the ANDSF collapsed almost immediately. SIGAR’s 2025 report points out that after two decades and massive investment, Afghan forces were never able to operate independently.

With the U.S. withdrawal, morale collapsed, bases were abandoned, and the Taliban easily absorbed the leftover arsenal. Any remaining equipment, facilities, or stockpiles evidently fell under Taliban control—a major bone of contention for President Donald J. Trump, who believes strongly that the equipment should have been evacuated.

Even after the Taliban takeover, the U.S. continued sending humanitarian and development assistance to Afghanistan, millions more dollars, some of which reportedly benefited the Taliban-controlled government.

In light of these findings, SIGAR will cease operations in January 2026, per the conditions of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

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Trump Admin Probes Race-Based Federal Contractor Program Over Rampant Fraud and Abuse.

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WHAT HAPPENED: The Small Business Administration (SBA) has mandated that companies benefiting from minority contracting preferences must submit detailed financial records to address potential fraud and abuse within the program.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler and federal contractors.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The directive was issued on Friday, with compliance required by January 5. The program review began in June 2025.

💬KEY QUOTE: “We’re committed to thoroughly reviewing every federal contract, contracting officer, and contractor—while working alongside federal law enforcement.” – Kelly Loeffler

🎯IMPACT: Companies failing to comply with the new requirements risk losing their eligibility for federal contracts. The program may also face broader re-evaluation due to recent legal challenges.

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The Small Business Administration (SBA) has implemented a new policy requiring companies benefiting from the 8(a) minority contracting program to submit detailed financial records. This move comes as part of efforts to address long-standing concerns of fraud and abuse within the program, which many have criticized as a discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative and a vehicle for corruption.

SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler stated that the program, which was expanded under the Biden government to allocate 15 percent of contracting dollars to minorities, has been misused as a “pass-through vehicle for rampant abuse and fraud.” The agency plans to work with federal law enforcement to ensure compliance and transparency.

The new requirements, which include uploading bank statements, payroll registers, and subcontracting agreements in a computer-friendly format, aim to identify companies that subcontract work to non-disadvantaged firms while keeping a cut as middlemen. Firms failing to comply by January 5 risk losing their eligibility for federal contracts.

The program has faced scrutiny following investigative reports, including a video exposé by James O’Keefe, which revealed that firms like ATI Government Solutions acted as “pass-through” entities. ATI received a $100 million contract, retained $65 million, and subcontracted the actual work for $35 million. Following the revelations, the SBA suspended ATI and related firms.

Additionally, recent criminal cases have highlighted the misuse of the program. In one instance, a USAID official and two contractors pleaded guilty to fraud involving over $500 million in contracts.

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Federal Judge Grants DOJ Request to Release Epstein Grand Jury Documents.

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WHAT HAPPENED: A federal judge in Florida ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking cases, citing a new federal law.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: U.S. District Court Judge Rodney Smith, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the Justice Department.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The ruling was made on Friday in Florida, with a December 19 deadline for full compliance under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

💬KEY QUOTE: The law “explicitly bars withholding records solely to prevent embarrassment or reputational harm to public figures, government officials or foreign dignitaries.”

🎯IMPACT: This marks the first successful unsealing of Epstein-related grand jury records under the law, with further cases pending in New York.

IN FULL

A federal judge in Florida has ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the original 2006–2007 federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, ruling that a newly enacted law overrides longstanding secrecy rules.

On December 5, Rodney Smith, a U.S. District Court Judge, granted the request from the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) to unseal documents from the grand jury proceedings. The approval marks a reversal of an earlier decision this year, when another federal judge declined a similar DOJ request.

The ruling is a direct result of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a new law signed in November 2025 by President Donald J. Trump, which requires the release of nearly all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials related to Epstein’s case. The law also allows redactions to protect victims’ identities and sensitive or ongoing investigations, but bars the government from withholding material simply to spare public figures embarrassment.

With the Florida transcripts cleared for release, attention shifts to two pending requests concerning other major Epstein-related cases: the 2019 federal sex-trafficking case against Epstein in New York and the 2021 case against his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. The Justice Department must respond by Monday to filings from victims, Epstein’s estate, and Maxwell’s legal team outlining their objections. Those cases have yet to see final rulings.

It remains unclear exactly when the now-approved transcripts will be made public, but the law sets a deadline of December 19 for the wider release of related materials.

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Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of Birthright Citizenship.

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WHAT HAPPENED: The U.S. Supreme Court will decide on President Donald J. Trump’s plan to end automatic birthright citizenship.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: President Trump, Solicitor General D. John Sauer, and the Supreme Court justices.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The announcement was made on Friday, with arguments likely to take place in April and a decision expected by the end of June.

💬KEY QUOTE: “The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their children, not to the children of illegal aliens, birth tourists, and temporary visitors.” – D. John Sauer

🎯IMPACT: The decision could redefine birthright citizenship and affect immigration policy in the U.S.

IN FULL

The Supreme Court is set to rule on President Donald J. Trump’s initiative to end automatic birthright citizenship for children born on U.S. soil, a move that has sparked significant debate and legal challenges. The justices announced their decision to take up the case, with arguments anticipated in April and a ruling expected by the end of June.

“The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their children, not to the children of illegal aliens, birth tourists, and temporary visitors,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in a court filing on behalf of the Trump administration. He added: “Yet, long after the Clause’s adoption, the mistaken view that birth on U.S. territory confers citizenship on anyone subject to the regulatory reach of U.S. law became pervasive, with destructive consequences.”

President Trump, shortly after his inauguration, signed an Executive Order aimed at denying U.S. citizenship to children of illegal immigrants and foreigners on temporary visas. The administration argued that the order was necessary to deter illegal immigration and “birth tourism.”

However, the policy was immediately met with legal challenges. In July, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that found the birthright citizenship order unconstitutional, citing an 1898 Supreme Court decision that has long been interpreted as ensuring citizenship to nearly everyone born in the U.S. Subsequently, the Department of Justice filed an appeal with the Supreme Court.

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Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi Part Ways.

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WHAT HAPPENED: Vanity Fair will not renew Olivia Nuzzi’s contract following a series of controversies and a problematic book launch.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Olivia Nuzzi, Vanity Fair, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ryan Lizza, and Mark Sanford.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Nuzzi’s contract is set to expire at the end of 2025; controversies span the last year.

🎯IMPACT: The decision highlights growing scrutiny of journalistic ethics and conflicts of interest within media.

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Disgraced journalist Olivia Nuzzi and Vanity Fair magazine have mutually agreed to part ways when her contract expires at the end of this year. Nuzzi, who has faced a series of scandalous allegations involving Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC), was dismissed from her position as the Washington correspondent for New York magazine last October over lapses in journalistic ethics.

While Nuzzi‘s alleged digital romantic relationship with Kennedy Jr. caused her departure from New York magazine, it appears allegations leveled by her ex-fiancé, Ryan Lizza, that she slept with Mark Sanford during his brief two-month-long 2020 presidential campaign had a role in her latest employment change. Nuzzi, in her newly released book, American Canto, details her digital “affair” with Kennedy Jr, which she states only existed in the form of phone calls and text messages. She makes no direct mention of Sanford. The book has received overwhelmingly negative reviews.

In a series of posts on Substack, Lizza accuses Nuzzi of both professional and personal misconduct. Besides the alleged affairs, Lizza claims his ex-fiancée attempted to “catch and kill” negative stories about Kennedy Jr. and fancied herself an informal advisor to his independent presidential campaign.

Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi in September on a short-term contract to serve as the magazine’s West Coast editor.

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Trump Admin Mandates Visa Checks for Foreign Tech Workers Tied to Censorship Efforts.

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WHAT HAPPENED: The U.S. State Department has issued new guidelines directing consular officers to screen foreign tech workers for records of censorship or silencing lawful expression before granting H-1B visas.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: U.S. consular officers, foreign tech workers, and the State Department.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The guidance was distributed to U.S. embassies on December 2, according to Reuters.

💬KEY QUOTE: “If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible.” — State Department memo

🎯IMPACT: The new rules could significantly affect foreign tech workers, particularly in sectors like social media and financial services, as well as companies relying on H-1B visas.

IN FULL

The U.S. Department of State circulated a cable this week directing U.S. consular officials to screen foreign H-1B applicants in the tech industry to determine if they’ve participated in efforts to suppress free speech. According to the memo, consular officers are to reject visa applications for individuals found to have ties to online content or political censorship.

Issued on December 2, the order appears to be part of the Trump administration’s sweeping reforms to U.S. immigration policy. H-1B visa eligibility requirements have not previously taken into consideration an applicant’s involvement in censorship and speech suppression operations.

Consular officials are instructed to review the resumes, social media profiles, and other documents submitted by visa applicants for evidence that they or their family members have worked for organizations specializing in combating so-called disinformation, online safety compliance, content moderation, or fact-checking. “If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible,” the State Department order states.

The U.S. tech industry draws a significant part of its workforce from the H-1B program, which allows American companies to hire supposedly high-skilled labor from foreign countries. However, the visa program is often abused by firms to import cheap labor, particularly from India, which often undercuts the wages of American workers.

The National Pulse reported in late May that Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the department would adopt a new policy to block U.S. entry for foreign officials and their families involved in censoring Americans or interfering with U.S. tech companies.

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Trump Admin Brands Europe’s Fine on X an Assault All Americans.

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WHAT HAPPENED: The European Union’s unelected executive, the European Commission, fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) $140 million for alleged violations of the bloc’s Digital Services Act.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Elon Musk, and the European Commission.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The fine was announced on Friday by the European Commission.

💬KEY QUOTE: “The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on [X], it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over.” – Marco Rubio

🎯IMPACT: Rubio framed the fine as a broader attack on American technology companies and free speech, signaling growing tensions between the U.S. and EU over digital regulations and censorship.

IN FULL

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has condemned the European Commission’s decision to impose a $140 million fine on X (formerly Twitter) on December 5, saying the penalty is “not just an attack on [X], it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.” He added: “The days of censoring Americans online are over.”

Vice President J.D. Vance also commented on the situation the day prior, saying, “Rumors swirling that the EU [C]ommission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.”

The fine, the first under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), targets three alleged violations: supposedly deceptive use of X’s blue checkmark verification badge, insufficient transparency in its ad database, and blocking researchers’ access to certain public data.

The Commission, an unelected body that serves as the EU’s executive and the main initiator of EU-level legislation like the DSA, argued that by allowing users to purchase blue checkmarks, X misled others into believing those accounts were in some way officially verified. It also stated that the platform failed to meet the required transparency standards for advertising and data access, obligations set out in the DSA to ensure safety, accountability, and public interest oversight.

The DSA requires platforms operating in the EU to remove illegal or so-called harmful content, ensure transparency in advertising and moderation, and provide independent access to data for researchers and regulators.

Critics, including U.S. officials and some tech‑industry observers, argue that such regulation masks a censorship regime. For instance, the U.S. State Department recently denounced the DSA as “Orwellian,” saying it effectively enables European governments to police political expression online.

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ICE Captures Violent Somali Criminals in Major Minnesota Enforcement Operation.

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WHAT HAPPENED: Federal immigration authorities arrested violent Somali offenders, including a gang member and a pedophile, in a targeted operation in Minneapolis.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Abdulkadir Sharif Abdi, Sahal Osman Shidane, and Minnesota sanctuary leaders.

📍WHEN & WHERE: This week in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Sanctuary policies and politicians like Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey allowed these pedophiles, domestic terrorists, and gang members to roam the streets and terrorize Americans,” said Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

🎯IMPACT: Several violent offenders were removed from the streets, and attention has been drawn to alleged fraud and misuse of taxpayer funds in Minnesota.

IN FULL

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions in Minnesota this week saw an estimated 500 Somali nationals with standing deportation orders arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Among those detained by ICE agents were a number of Somali gang members and one Somali convicted of criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Around 100 ICE agents deployed to the state by President Donald J. Trump took part in the immigration enforcement operation.

Notable apprehensions include Abdulkadir Sharif Abdi, a former member of the Gangster Disciples and current member of the Vice Lord Nation gang. A criminal illegal immigrant from Somalia, Abdi has prior convictions for fraud, receiving stolen property, vehicle theft, and multiple probation violations, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Another illegal Somali arrested by ICE was Sahal Osman Shidane, convicted of criminal sexual conduct involving a minor aged 13-15. The enforcement operation also saw Rudy Arendondo Jarillo, an illegal immigrant from Mexico previously convicted on felony human smuggling charges, taken into custody.

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin criticized Minnesota’s sanctuary policies, stating, “Sanctuary policies and politicians like Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey allowed these pedophiles, domestic terrorists, and gang members to roam the streets and terrorize Americans.” She further emphasized, “ICE law enforcement are risking their lives to protect Minnesotans while their own elected officials sit by and do nothing. No matter when and where, ICE will find, arrest, and deport ALL criminal illegal aliens.”

The Trump administration has also focused on Minnesota following reports of widespread fraud tied to the state’s Somali population. Allegations include the theft of billions in taxpayer funds, with money funneled through fake nonprofits and shell companies, some reportedly linked to Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab.

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