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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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REVEALED: RNC Blew VA Referendum Due to Lavish Cornyn Spending and Misplaced Priorities.

Virginia voters have narrowly approved a Democrat-drawn mid-decade congressional gerrymander, handing Democrats up to four additional U.S. House seats. But how did Republicans lose, given the vote was so close, and given their massive funding advantage? We break it down here:

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Virginia voters narrowly approved a Democrat-drawn mid-decade congressional gerrymander by a margin of roughly 81,188 votes — 51.3 percent to 48.7 percent with more than 95 percent reporting at the time of publication. The constitutional amendment hands the Democrat-controlled General Assembly power to redraw Virginia’s congressional districts through October 31, 2030.
🗺️ THE MAP: HB 29 — passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Abigail Spanberger on February 20 — flips Virginia’s U.S. House delegation from 6-5 to 10-1. Net Democrat gain: up to four seats.
📊 COST PER VOTE: A snap analysis by The National Pulse shows the “Yes” (Democrat) side spent $62.3 million, divided by 1,545,736 votes (at the time of publication), which comes to around $40.30 per vote. Meanwhile, the Republican “No” side spent around $20 million, divided by 1,464,548 votes, for an average of $13.66 per vote. Democrats spent three times as much per head — and still only cleared 51.3 percent.
🪙 PENNY WISE: Closing the 81,188-vote gap at the “No” side’s own efficiency rate would have cost around $1.1 million — just over one percent of what the GOP burned on John Cornyn’s primary campaign against Ken Paxton in Texas last month. Even a generous real-world multiplier, accounting for diminishing campaign returns, lands at just $2 million to $4 million.
🏦 DRY POWDER: The Republican National Committee is sitting on roughly $109 million cash on hand — nearly $100 million more than the Democratic National Committee, which has just $15.9 million and is carrying $17.4 million in debt. Trump-aligned super PAC MAGA Inc. entered 2026 with more than $304 million in the bank, by itself. In fact, combining all the major Republican groups leaves the GOP with over $807M cash on hand in total. Which means they’d only have had to spend 0.25% of total funds to salvage Virginia.
💰 CORNYN CALCULUS: Republicans spent roughly $95.1 million on the Cornyn–Paxton primary in Texas. The “No” side in Virginia spent roughly $20 million. That is about five times more on a single Senate incumbent than on a referendum that could cost the party four House seats.
🏢 THE FIRM: Virginians for Fair Maps — the losing “No” campaign — was run by Mike Young, a partner at FP1 Strategies, which was founded by Chris LaCivita. LaCivita is simultaneously the senior campaign consultant for the Cornyn super PAC which has spent all that money attacking Ken Paxton, and pushing Trump to endorse Cornyn, who has repeatedly stabbed the President in the back. Ninety-five million dollars went one way. Twenty million went the other. And much of it through LaCivita’s own companies and partners.
💬 VA SOURCE: A Virginia source tells The National Pulse: “The money diverted to LaCivita’s groups and away from the Republican Party of Virginia/county parties was hard to accept. We had no money.
🗣️ KEY QUOTE: Sean Davis of The Federalist on X tonight: “Good thing Republicans spent $100 million on John Cornyn.”
⚖️ “FAIRNESS” FARCE: The ballot asked voters a convoluted question: “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?” On February 19, Tazewell Circuit Judge Jack Hurley ruled that the phrase was misleading and unconstitutional and blocked the referendum.
👨‍⚖️ SCOVA’D: The Supreme Court of Virginia had two chances to stop this — January and March — and twice punted past the election, writing that courts “generally should not prematurely enjoin an upcoming election.” The justices reserved the right to review the map de novo after the vote. Cold comfort: the seats are banked in November either way.
🧑‍⚖️ STILL IN COURT: Briefs are due to the Supreme Court of Virginia two days after tonight’s vote. The map could still be struck down — after the 2026 seats are already counted. Chaz Mizelle has an alternative idea, as we reported this morning.

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Airfare Hikes Hit 25% Amid Iran War Fuel Crisis.

Airfares have surged due to disruptions related to the Iran war, with airlines calling for government action to mitigate operational and financial challenges ahead of the summer tourist season.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: The ongoing conflict with Iran has caused significant disruptions to air travel, leading to surging airfares as airlines face higher fuel costs and reroute flights. A report from consultancy Teneo highlights a 24 percent increase in the lowest-priced economy tickets compared to last year, with long-haul routes particularly affected.
📺 DETAIL: Airspace restrictions and disruptions to oil supplies have forced airlines to use longer routes, increasing fuel consumption. Jet fuel prices have surged from $85-$90 per barrel to $150-$200 per barrel, with fuel costs accounting for up to a quarter of airlines’ operating expenses. Flights between Europe and the Asia-Pacific region have seen the steepest price increases, with tickets from London to Melbourne up 76 percent and Hong Kong to London up 72 percent compared to last year. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned earlier this month that prolonged conflict in the Middle East could lead to hundreds of thousands of flight cancellations if jet fuel shortages persist.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “It is vital that the government takes the right actions now to ensure the continuation of supply, as well as supports the UK aviation industry, which has been impacted by record-high jet fuel prices.” – A spokesman for Airlines UK.
🎯 IMPACT: Airlines have warned that prolonged or worsening conflict could lead to further flight reductions and fare hikes. British airlines, represented by Airlines UK, have requested government support, including tax cuts, flexibility in operational rules, and prioritization of jet fuel production to stabilize the industry.

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Tom Homan Says Deportations Will Rise Again, Contingent on Minnesota Cooperation.

White House Border Czar Tom Homan claims recent gains in Minnesota’s immigration enforcement, rejects claims the administration has surrendered, and predicts an increase in deportation numbers.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: White House Border Czar Tom Homan stated that deportation numbers will increase, rejecting claims that the administration surrendered to Democrats and pro-illegal immigrant activists in Minnesota in January. He highlighted the removal of over 4,000 migrants, primarily criminals, from the state, and increased cooperation with Minnesota county jails and the state prison system on immigration enforcement.
📺 DETAIL: In an interview on Monday, Homan explained that a recent dip in removals was tied to changes in how federal agents are deployed rather than a policy of reduced enforcement. “Minnesota, I see people say we surrendered. No, we didn’t,” he insisted, continuing: “We took over 4,000 people off the streets of that state, most of them criminals. Number two, we walked away with cooperation from just about every county jail and the state prison system, which means this: It’s safer for the officers. It’s safer for the community when we can arrest the public safety threat in the safety and security of the jail.” Homan added that “rather than sending a dozen people to go look for somebody,” creating a possible public safety threat, “now we’ve got one agent arresting one illegal alien in the county jail.”
🎯 IMPACT: While immigration detentions have dropped back significantly since the Minnesota operation was wound down, Homan argues increased cooperation between federal and local authorities in Minnesota will ultimately streamline immigration enforcement and see removals rise. Mass deportations were a key pillar of President Donald J. Trump’s 2024 election platform, and such a rise could reassure allies amid reports that the administration is scaling back its enforcement objectives and energize America First voters ahead of the midterms.

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Docs Show Biden FBI Pursued GOP Members ‘With No Evidence of Wrongdoing.’

New documents show the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the former Biden government pursued investigations into Republican lawmakers based on allegations prosecutors dismissed internally as “embarrassing” and lacking credibility.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has revealed documents showing that the FBI investigated Republican lawmakers following allegations made by former Democrat lawmaker Mikie Sherrill—now Governor of New Jersey—despite prosecutors internally acknowledging that the allegations lacked credibility.
📺 DETAIL: The probe, known as “Rampart Twelve,” began in January 2021 and was based largely on allegations from Mikie Sherrill that GOP lawmakers led would-be insurrectionists on “reconnaissance” tours of the Capitol prior to January 6. Targets of Rampart Twelve reportedly included Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ). Investigators obtained phone records for some lawmakers as part of the inquiry. However, text messages between prosecutors show skepticism, with one calling the allegations embarrassing and lacking credibility. Grassley and other Republicans argue that the investigation being launched despite no credible evidence of wrongdoing proves political targeting and misuse of federal law enforcement powers under the former Biden government.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “These bombshell documents reveal that bad actors at the highest levels of our government and intelligence agencies targeted broad swaths of the American Right and sitting members of Congress with no evidence of wrongdoing.” – Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO).
🎯 IMPACT: The revelations raise serious concerns about political bias within federal agencies under the former Biden government. They follow other revelations of misconduct at the FBI and other agencies targeting President Donald J. Trump and Republican members of Congress, such as the seizure of GOP lawmakers’ phone records via questionable subpoenas in the Arctic Frost investigation.

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UN Inspectors Say Iran Has Enough Uranium for 10-11 Atomic Bombs.

United Nations inspectors assess that Iran has accumulated almost 1,000 pounds of near-weapons-grade uranium.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Iran is reportedly hoarding nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium enriched to 60 percent, which is close to weapons-grade level, according to a report by 60 Minutes, per the Wake Up Right newsletter. This stockpile could potentially fuel 10 or 11 nuclear bombs if further enriched, a process which would take a matter of weeks.
📰 DETAIL: United Nations inspectors have assessed that Iran’s uranium stockpile is just a technical step away from reaching the 90 percent enrichment needed for a nuclear weapon. Despite U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites last June, Iran has continued to advance its nuclear capabilities.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “The stockpile is enough for ‘ten to eleven nuclear bombs’ with just a little more enrichment,” said Harvard nuclear analyst Matthew Bunn. Scott Roeker, a former top National Nuclear Security Administration official. He added: “I don’t think that there is a lasting, durable solution to Iran’s nuclear program through military means.”
‼️ NOTEWORTHY: Bunn says Iran has been consistently dishonest about its nuclear weapons efforts for over 20 years, lying to international inspectors, but also implied skepticism that Trump’s strategy, given the lack of trust on both sides, will succeed.

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Israel Jails Soldiers Who Smashed Jesus Statue.

Two Israeli soldiers have been sentenced to military detention after destroying a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Two Israeli soldiers have been sentenced to 30 days of military detention after smashing a statue of Jesus Christ in Debel, a Christian village in southern Lebanon. One hit the statue with a sledgehammer while the other photographed the act. The image circulated widely on social media over the weekend, drawing sharp criticism from Christians worldwide, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announcing the punishments on Tuesday.
📺 DETAIL: On Sunday, a photo went viral of an IDF soldier smashing a statue of Jesus in the Christian village of Debel in southern Lebanon. Notably, Lebanon was a Christian-majority country until the late 20th century, and Joseph Aoun, the current President of Lebanon, is a Maronite Catholic. The IDF, which claims it is in Lebanon to fight Iran’s Hezbollah allies—who have been outlawed by Lebanon’s official government—expressed regret over the anti-Christian attack, insisting that it does not reflect the values of the IDF.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “The inquiry determined that the soldiers’ conduct completely deviated from IDF orders and values. The IDF expresses deep regret over the incident and emphasizes that its operations in Lebanon are directed solely against the Hezbollah terrorist organization and other terrorist groups, and not against Lebanese civilians.” – IDF statement posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday.
🎯 IMPACT: The IDF has launched a review to prevent similar acts of desecration. Beyond the two soldiers sentenced to military detention, six others present at the scene face disciplinary action for failing to intervene or report the incident. Israel is attempting to seize a portion of southern Lebanon in order to establish a security buffer zone.

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A Democrat Just Resigned From Congress Because She Didn’t Want to Face an Ethics Probe.

Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) is stepping down from Congress following allegations of ethics violations and federal charges involving COVID-19 relief funds.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) resigned from Congress “effective immediately” amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into 25 alleged violations, including campaign finance misconduct. She also faces federal charges for allegedly misusing $5 million in COVID-19 relief funds to purchase luxury items and fund her campaign.
📺 DETAIL: The allegations stem from Cherfilus-McCormick’s family healthcare business receiving $5 million in overpaid COVID-19 relief funds, which she is accused of funneling into her 2022 campaign. She denies both the federal charges and the alleged ethics violations. The Ethics Committee’s investigation involved 59 subpoenas, 28 witness interviews, and over 33,000 pages of documents. She cited an “unfair” process and lack of preparation time as reasons for stepping down, shortly before a congressional hearing was due to be held to consider her punishment.
🎯 IMPACT: Cherfilus-McCormick’s resignation avoids a potential expulsion vote in the House, where Republicans had pushed for her removal. The vacancy leaves her southeastern Florida district temporarily unrepresented.
📺 FLASHBACK: This resignation comes shortly after other lawmakers, including Rep. Eric Swalwell and Rep. Tony Gonzales, stepped down amid serious scandals.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “Rather than play these political games, I choose to step away.” – Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

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Democrat Senator Cheers Fake Iranian Naval Success.

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy (D) sparked outrage after tweeting “awesome” in response to a false report claiming Iranian vessels had bypassed a U.S. blockade.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) faced backlash after tweeting “awesome” in response to a report claiming 26 Iranian ships bypassed a U.S. blockade. Later debunked as Iranian propaganda, the report falsely suggested a U.S. failure in enforcing its military strategy. Murphy faces accusations of rooting for a foreign adversary.
📺 DETAIL: On Monday, it was reported that 26 Iranian ships had managed to evade a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. In response to the report, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted “awesome”. However, the report was later exposed as baseless, with no reliable evidence of vessels leaving Iranian ports or passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Following online backlash, Murphy followed up on his initial post, claiming it was just a sarcastic comment on President Donald J. Trump’s handling of the Iran war.
🎯 IMPACT: Murphy’s comments have invited criticism that he is using his position to undermine U.S. interests and align with foreign adversaries. The Democrat has a history of taking divisive foreign policy stances, holding a meeting with Iranian officials in Germany in 2020, and extensively criticizing U.S. foreign policy. Following this meeting, he was accused of collusion.
📺 FLASHBACK: Murphy’s comment comes as the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is due to expire on Wednesday. Accusing Iran of violating the ceasefire on “numerous” occasions, President Trump announced on Tuesday that he expects U.S. military action to resume.

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Top MAGA Lawyer Hands Trump a Killer Response to Virginia’s Gerrymandering.

President Donald J. Trump’s former lawyer, Chad R. Mizelle, has suggested a novel way Republicans can push back against Democrat gerrymandering in Virginia, which could turn the tide of the November midterms.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Former counsel for President Donald J. Trump, Chad R. Mizelle, has suggested he should counteract Virginia‘s Democrat-initiated congressional gerrymandering efforts by issuing an executive order putting parts of Virginia back under federal control for the first time since 1847.
📰 DETAIL: Mizelle explains in an April 21 article that both Arlington and the city of Alexandria were given to the District of Columbia in 1790, along with a piece of Maryland, to form Washington, D.C., but were given back to Virginia in 1847 when D.C. abolished slavery, while the Old Dominion did not. According to Mizelle, President Trump could declare that act unconstitutional through an executive order, as it was used to protect slavery. This move would then prevent Virginia Democrats from enacting a congressional redistricting scheme, which Virginians are voting on in a referendum today, though the issue would likely go to the Supreme Court first.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “It will not only neutralize the president’s political opponents’ move to stack Congress against him—thus protecting him from another likely sham impeachment – but, most importantly, it will save a great number of red Virginians from having their votes canceled out by deep blue D.C.-adjacent liberals.” – Chad Mizelle.
🎯 IMPACT: If President Trump restores Alexandria and Arlington to D.C., it will remove a major section of blue voters from Virginia and provide more balance to the midterm elections. Without this, the redistricting scheme in Virginia could see the Democrats claim around 90 percent of the state’s congressional seats with only around half of the popular vote.

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‘F**k Right Off’ – Leftist, Muslim Minister Blasts ‘White Liberals’ Who Attacked Her for Talking Tough on Immigration.

Britain’s Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood defended her tough rhetoric on immigration during a podcast recording in London, saying that “white liberals” attempting to guilt-trip her for talking tough on immigration could “f**k right off.”

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Pakistani-heritage British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood—roughly equivalent to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary—faced hecklers during a podcast recording in London, England, on Monday, where she was accused of adopting the immigration policies of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. Mahmood reacted furiously, telling the hecklers to “f**k right off” and blasting “white liberals” trying to “put me in a box.”
📺 DETAIL: During the recording of Matt Forde’s Political Party podcast at London’s Duchess Theatre, Mahmood, of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s far-left Labour Party, was accused of “out-Reforming Reform,” as her party pays lip service to immigration control by advancing new restrictions on migrants’ rights to claim indefinite leave to remain (ILR). She claimed to recognize public concerns over immigration as “perfectly valid,” adding, “I do think there is that element of it which is: ‘How dare you, a brown woman, say a thing that we white liberals think you’re not allowed to say?’ Well, I’m saying it.”
💬 KEY QUOTE: “I’m not going to let a tin-pot racist or some random heckler or anybody else claw away at the foundations of who I am as a person. I’m a proud Englishwoman. I’m a proud Brit, I’m a hugely proud Muslim. That is the absolute core of my life… [T]his [heckler] can just f**k right off, because I know I belong in my own country. You’re not going to be able to do that to me.” – Shabana Mahmood
🎯 IMPACT: Net immigration has reduced since Labour regained office after 14 years of Conservative Party rule in mid-2024. However, this is largely a function of numbers dropping since the aberrant post-pandemic “Boriswave” years under former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as well as a sharp increase in emigration. Gross immigration remains near historic highs, and illegal immigration via small boats crossing the English Channel has reached record-breaking levels.

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Britain's Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood defended her tough rhetoric on immigration during a podcast recording in London, saying that "white liberals" attempting to guilt-trip her for talking tough on immigration could "f**k right off."

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