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Could Donald Trump Be Speaker of the House?

At least three Republican Members of Congress have voiced their intent to back former President Donald Trump for Speaker of the House. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) said Tuesday he will nominate Trump for the Speakership. Reps. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) and Greg Steube (R-FL) both said they would support the nomination.

Trump, the presumed 2024 Republican nominee for President, appears to be open to serving as Speaker of the House for a short period of time while a more permanent replacement is decided upon – though he has emphasized he is focused on defeating Democrat Joe Biden and retaking the White House. In a post on Truth Social, Trump pledged to “…do whatever is necessary to help with the Speaker of the House selection process…” and ensure the selection is a “…Speaker who will help a new, but highly experienced President, ME, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

A Trump nomination for Speaker faces two potential obstacles besides the task of securing a 218 vote majority in the House of Representatives – something every Speaker nominee will face. First is the question of whether or not a non-member of the House of Representatives can serve as Speaker. Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution states: “The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.” It does not specify the Speaker has to be an elected member serving in the legislative body – meaning, in theory at least, a private citizen could be chosen. This is the view held by the government’s Congressional Research Service as no other officers of the House elected along side the Speaker are required to be members either.

Not all constitutional scholars agree with this interpretation however. The prior clauses in Article 1, Section 2 detail the precise requirements to serve as a member of the House or Senate and the procedure for electing members of either legislative body. Some argue these clauses govern all subsequent clauses in this section, meaning the Speaker must be a member of the House. Additionally, the first meeting of the United States Congress adopted rules requiring the Speaker to cast tie-breaking votes – and only elected-members of Congress can vote. Lastly, scholars note the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 specifically recognizes the Speaker as being an elected Representative in the House.

The last hurdle for a Donald Trump nomination for Speaker are two provisions in Conference Rules adopted by House Republicans at the start of this year. Rule 26 states any “….member of the Republican Leadership shall step aside if indicted for a felony for which a sentence of two or more years imprisonment may be imposed.” The Speaker is listed as a member of Republican leadership under Rule 2.

While the Republican Conference rules could simply be amended, it may not be necessary. The Speaker of the House, unlike other leadership positions, is enumerated as an officer of the House specifically by the Constitution, likely meaning any Conference restrictions – and punishments – regarding the Speakership could only be enforced against members who supported a candidate in violation of the rules and not the Speaker themselves.

So could Donald Trump be Speaker? Unfortunately the answer might have to be: we’ll see.

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At least three Republican Members of Congress have voiced their intent to back former President Donald Trump for Speaker of the House. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) said Tuesday he will nominate Trump for the Speakership. Reps. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) and Greg Steube (R-FL) both said they would support the nomination. show more
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Biden Says He Convinced Strom Thurmond on the Voting Rights Act. There’s Just One Problem…

President Joe Biden has claimed he managed to convince the late Democratic Governor of South Carolina, Strom Thurmond, to vote in favor of the Voting Rights Act after he left the Senate in 2009. The only problem is: Thurmond died in 2003. Actually, there’s another problem. The Act passed in 1965. Okay, there’s a third problem. That was eight years before Biden even became a Delaware Senator. Oh, and Thurmond didn’t vote for it. So, four problems.

Biden — who made the claim in a recent interview with ProPublica — was perhaps talking about the Voting Rights Act reauthorization in 1982. But that still doesn’t explain his comment, which he begins with: “When I left the Senate,” before going on to explain how he was “able to convince Strom Thurmond to vote for the Voting Rights Act.”

Biden has long been a fantasist and plagiarist, mixing up old stories and straight up inventing others. He recently claimed to have been at Ground Zero the day after 9/11, which even CNN called “another false claim about his own past.”

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President Joe Biden has claimed he managed to convince the late Democratic Governor of South Carolina, Strom Thurmond, to vote in favor of the Voting Rights Act after he left the Senate in 2009. The only problem is: Thurmond died in 2003. Actually, there’s another problem. The Act passed in 1965. Okay, there’s a third problem. That was eight years before Biden even became a Delaware Senator. Oh, and Thurmond didn’t vote for it. So, four problems. show more
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Trump’s Record on Abortion is Pretty Outstanding, Actually.

Critics of former President Donald J. Trump have suggested his approach to abortion is less than desired, citing clipped videos from an interview with Meet the Press, and fundamentally attempting to misrepresent his position and history on the subject.

The self-declared “most pro life president in US history” explained that he now prefers to leave the matter up to the states, and to “sit down with both sides… and negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years.”

This, after all, was the entire point of the Dobbs ruling, and indeed the U.S. Constitution. But critics who now demand a federal ban have turned on Trump in recent days. Those same critics, hardly coincidentally, are also vocal supporters of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential aspirations.

Using an issue like abortion in a primary against Trump is not just underhanded, it’s also embarrassing for them when confronted with Trump’s record.


1. Roe v. Wade

Trump’s most notable achievement on abortion actually came after he left office. Namely, to have the United States Supreme Court remove Roe v Wades constitutional protections in June 2022, by having appointed several conservative justices to the court.

Indeed, Trump oversaw the appointment of over 150 conservative justices while President, including 43 U.S. Court of Appeals judges and 99 District Court judges. Roe’s overturning alone makes him the most pro-life president in U.S. history, but the ruling itself  Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – itself guarantees the matter is returned to the people’s representatives, not federal agencies.

2. Removing Support and Funding for Planned Parenthood.

The Trump administration permitted states to defund Planned Parenthood of Title X funds in 2019, leading to a 63 percent reduction in “family planning” visits as well as a $809.4 million funding cut from the program. The move was recognized as a “major policy win for social conservatives looking to prohibit access to abortion.”

The former President overturned Obama-era and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rules to allow states to withhold or cut funding for Planned Parenthood within the first few months of his presidential term in 2017.

Trump also made it a requirement for health insurance companies to disclose if plans cover abortion and even canceled huge contracts for taxpayer-funded experimentation with body parts of aborted babies.

3. Department of Health for Human Services.

Trump introduced a new division at the HHS devoted to “conscience and religious freedom” in 2018, enabling healthcare workers to refuse to undertake specific roles, such as birth control or abortion, based on their religious convictions.

Under his oversight, the HHS published an updated five-year plan between 2018-2022, in which it dedicated its operations to “protecting the life of all Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception.”

4. Changing America’s International Stance on Abortion.

The Trump administration cut off all overseas funding for abortions and announced that there is no international right to abortion at a United Nations meeting in 2019.

The U.S., under Trump’s leadership, further removed funding for the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which has been “complicit in China’s oppressive population control activities, including birth limitation policies and forced abortions,” according to SBA Pro-life America.


That primary challengers would now try to hurl accusations of being “pro abortion” at Trump is self-evidently ludicrous. Especially since none of them were complaining when the above achievements were being racked up.

It speaks to something far darker at the heart of Never Trumpism, to use an issue like this as a cudgel against a man with the best record of any president, living or dead.

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Zelensky Orders All ‘Medical Women’ to Register for War Service.

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky is beginning to draft women for the Ukrainian war machine, beginning with those with some sort of medical background.

“All medical women, these are doctors, nurses, dentists, midwives, pharmacists, ages 18 to 60, will be required to register for military service starting October 1st,” reads a missive from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, citing a government decree.

“Such women perform military duty on an equal footing with men. The legislation does not distinguish between women and men conscripted into the military,” the missive adds, framing the draft as a triumph for sexual equality.

Some 60,000 Ukrainian women are already under arms on a voluntary basis, with over a hundred of them confirmed dead. They have faced significant problems with equipment and health issues in the field, and in some cases bullying and sexual harassment. One female platoon sergeant has alleged a senior male commander was intimidating servicewomen into having sex with him, threatening that he would start “sending their husbands who were also in the brigade to their deaths” if they refused him.

Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are already subject to conscription, and legally barred from leaving the country.

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9/11

The Fading Memory of America.

MANHATTAN, New York – In walking over 30,000 steps around New York on Sunday, September 10th 2023, it’s impossible to say “America has forgotten.” There are still some, albeit faded, banners that adorn windows on the Upper West, and Upper East sides. There is of course the hulking monument in the form of the Freedom Tower itself, and the gargantuan fountains at its feet. There’s also the swathes of charitable work associated with 9/11 – one of which I take part in every year.

But for all the heart wrenching memories of the past 22 years, it has begun to feel like the memory of 9/11 is fading. And it feels churlish to suggest this isn’t anything but natural. The passage of time. A new generation which has no living memory of the event now takes up residence in the neighborhoods surrounding the old trade center. Why would they remember? They were never around in the first instance.

It sets one’s mind wandering, as to who might be around today were it not for 9/11. Not just here in New York. Not just in D.C., or in Pennsylvania, or around the nation. But around the world too.

The 9/11 legacy isn’t limited to those who died on that day. But extends to the liberties that died alongside it, and the millions killed – Americans and otherwise – in the wars that ensued. Such a remembrance would’ve been heinous and impossible two decades ago. Honoring even the civilians dead in foreign battlefields would’ve felt like a betrayal. But now we know better, it is even more important to remember the scale of destruction caused by 9/11, its perpetrators, and those home and abroad who used it to destroy American liberties.

Temporary measures like the PATRIOT Act have never gone away. The U.S. government used 9/11 and a number of other “threats” to bear down further on their fellow citizens. Indeed the wide-scale persecution by the state of those who would’ve been thought of as nothing but red-blooded Americans on that day 22 years ago is a direct, knock-on effect of allowing for the security state to rank above American freedoms in the public conscious, and too in public policy.

For the younger generations, there has never been a time when you didn’t have to remove your shoes, your watch, your sunglasses, your computers, your dignity, simply to travel around your own country. It’s a memory they never had. It’s a thing they have no ability to remember.

So today, when I write about America “fading” memory – it’s not just the outnumbering of the American flag on many street corners of the United States – usurped by whatever latest multicultural, or pansexual offering there happens to be on display this year. It’s also the frustrating passage of time that attempts to wrest from us some of the memories so seared into our minds that it is almost impossible not to stop in our tracks and well up with grief. We all feel it. And we’re all allowed to feel it.

Don’t barely remember, today. Really remember. And talk about it to those who need to know.

We all said we’d never forget. Let’s keep our promise.

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MANHATTAN, New York – In walking over 30,000 steps around New York on Sunday, September 10th 2023, it's impossible to say "America has forgotten." There are still some, albeit faded, banners that adorn windows on the Upper West, and Upper East sides. There is of course the hulking monument in the form of the Freedom Tower itself, and the gargantuan fountains at its feet. There's also the swathes of charitable work associated with 9/11 – one of which I take part in every year. show more
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DeSantis Signs Megadonor/Lobbyist Law Allowing Radioactive Carcinogens in Florida Roads.

Governor Ron DeSantis just signed into law a bill allowing phosphogypsum, a radioactive carcinogen, to be used in Florida’s roads. The change in policy came after months of lobbying by some of the presidential candidates own, undercutting his campaign’s recent assertions that the Florida is not be affected by the demands of his cash cows. 

DeSantis has also recently raised money from leading World Economic Forum sources, as well as high profile China lobbyists, and Dominion Voting Systems‘ lawyers.

What is Phosphogypsum?

Phosphogypsum is a waste byproduct from the manufacture of fertilizer. It contains radioactive elements like uranium, thorium, and radium, while also emitting radon, a radioactive gas. The Florida bill, HB 1191, includes phosphogypsum as a “recyclable material,” allowing its use in construction, with the Florida Department of Transportation having until April 1st 2024 to conduct a study on its effects.

America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) controversially authorized use of the material in government road construction in October 2020 at the request of The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), but this was withdrawn in June 2021 after TFI failed to provide enough safety information.

Phosphogypsum in roads can even toxify the water supply, as rain and other potential runoff could transfer carcinogenic elements into aquifer systems.

Florida’s Swamp.

Getting Governor DeSantis to sign the bill was a success for lobbyists and special interest groups that have donated millions to the Florida man, including the Associated Industries of Florida, Ballard Partners, and lobbyist and GOP official Evan Power.

The Associated Industries of Florida (AIF) is a major DeSantis backer and were a special interest group pushing for the legislation. In his first four years in office, AIF contributed more than $2.1 million to “Friends of Ron DeSantis,” the governor’s fundraising committee. AIF also endorsed DeSantis’ 2022 campaign. 

Ballard Partners lobbied on behalf of Mosaic Fertilizer, and company President Brian Ballard is a major booster of DeSantis, even described as part of the Governor’s “inner circle.”

Ballard was a “co-chair” for both DeSantis’s 2018 and 2022 inaugurations, meaning he raised over $1 million for the Florida politician. His firm also has ties to DeSantis, with the Governor’s former chief of staff, Adrian Lukis, now serving as a partner there.

Lobbyist Evan Power also pushed for the law change on behalf of the Florida Concrete & Products Association and the Florida Independent Concrete & Associated Products. His wife, Melissa, is the Chief Financial Officer of DeSantis’s presidential campaign. 

In a perfect example of the Florida Swamp, Powers is both a lobbyist for the Ramba Consulting Group while serving as Vice Chairman of the Florida Republican Party, meaning a leading Florida GOP party official is also paid to lobby Florida GOP politicians.

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Governor Ron DeSantis just signed into law a bill allowing phosphogypsum, a radioactive carcinogen, to be used in Florida's roads. The change in policy came after months of lobbying by some of the presidential candidates own, undercutting his campaign's recent assertions that the Florida is not be affected by the demands of his cash cows. 

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EXC: DeSantis Wouldn’t Fire Florida’s Own Fauci During COVID – Dr. Alonso.

Ron DeSantis refused to fire Dr. Alina Alonso, Palm Beach County’s hard-line, COVID-obsessed health director, who venerated Anthony Fauci as her “patron saint,” donated to Joe Biden during her tenure under Florida’s Governor, and even publicly gloated “I’m not being stopped [from pursuing mass vaccination],” while heckling DeSantis at the height of the pandemic, The National Pulse can reveal.

The news comes as the Florida Governor lashes out at former President Donald Trump for not firing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci. 

“Had I been president in 2020, Anthony Fauci would have been fired, and you’ve got to be willing to do it,” DeSantis told Tucker Carlson at the recent Family Leadership Summit. The DeSantis campaign have even created ads for the campaign theme, failing to mention that it was Vice President Mike Pence who appointed both Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx to his COVID task force.

Now it appears that DeSantis failed to fire his very own Fauci in the shape of Dr. Alina Alonso – a leftist apparatchik who worked for her department (since 1989) for almost as long as Fauci did in his (since 1984).

Dr. Alonso, known as “the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in Palm Beach County,” was given free rein during the COVID pandemic to enforce arbitrary restrictions upon millions of Floridians, including the implementation of mask mandates, establishment of a COVID hotline for lockdown snitches, and even creating an armed COVID compliance police force. Under her direction, Palm Beach County even shuttered playgrounds when other areas, including outside Florida, had already reversed on the matter. She was subsequently recognized as USA Today‘s “Woman of the Year” for her work in the country, and gloated: “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. I’m not being stopped.”

Under the advice of Alonso amongst others, DeSantis ordered major shutdowns of Florida’s beaches and businesses in both Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Palm Beach County has seen teachers suspended teachers for failing to comply with mask mandates, including one who was arrested and convicted. The locale also collected $24,500 in COVID-related fines and shut down a staggering 27 businesses during Dr. Alonso’s tenure. Yet, DeSantis did little to intervene, with one incident from July 2020 where Dr. Rivkees, then the Surgeon General, had contacted Alonso telling her to stay out of the business of reopening schools, but nothing else and certainly nothing further such as firing Florida’s own Fauci, as DeSantis claims he would’ve done had he been President in 2020. Her role lay directly beneath DeSantis’s handpicked Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo from July 2021.

Alonso very publicly called Dr. Fauci “a national hero and a source of inspiration,” as well as her “patron saint” in an interview with the Palm Beach Post. She even laughed off the idea that DeSantis was a more difficult executive to deal with than Donald Trump, telling a reporter, “[Dr. Fauci] has a harder job than me. I got a piece of cake here.”

Alonso made multiple donations to President Biden throughout her stint as Florida’s Fauci, including six donations of $25, two donations of $237.13, and one of $301.08 – all of which were publicly available at the time. She recently retired of her own volition, heralding the tenure – again, under DeSantis – of Dr. Jyothi Gunta, who Alonso herself claims: “will make a great new director.”

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Ron DeSantis refused to fire Dr. Alina Alonso, Palm Beach County's hard-line, COVID-obsessed health director, who venerated Anthony Fauci as her "patron saint," donated to Joe Biden during her tenure under Florida's Governor, and even publicly gloated "I'm not being stopped [from pursuing mass vaccination]," while heckling DeSantis at the height of the pandemic, The National Pulse can reveal. show more
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Asked About His Poor Polling, DeSantis Gloats About His Corporate Cash.

When asked by Fox News host Will Cain about his struggling poll performance with Republican voters, the Florida Governor pivoted to boasting about his fundraising haul, mostly provided by corporate donors including many linked to globalist ideology, as questionable election practices.

Fox’s Cain predictably soft-balled DeSantis, telling him how much he likes him, before asking: “Why is it in your estimation the numbers have not reflected your success in Florida?”

DeSantis’s non-answer was more of an answer than you might first think.

“Did you just see the news today about the record fundraising haul we’ve had? Nobody’s been able to match that in the history of modern presidential politics,” DeSantis said. “So we’ve got a huge amount of support to be able to take the case to the people.”

In other words: cash is more important than sentiment amongst likely Republican voters.

DeSantis’s cash haul has come mostly from a transfer of cash from his Florida campaign, as well as globalist donors such as Ken Griffin.

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When asked by Fox News host Will Cain about his struggling poll performance with Republican voters, the Florida Governor pivoted to boasting about his fundraising haul, mostly provided by corporate donors including many linked to globalist ideology, as questionable election practices. show more
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‘The Campaign Trail’: CIA’s Will Hurd Gives a Masterclass in How NOT to Campaign.

In the first episode of The National Pulse’s exclusive new podcast, The Campaign Trail, editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam covered a range of key moments from the ongoing fight for the Republican nomination, picking out Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) alumnus Will Hurd’s pitch to the Faith and Freedom Coalition as a masterclass – in how not to do it.

Hurd began his speech by quipping about being Jason Bourne, before descending into a list of his negative attributes, including being “a Momma’s boy”, growing up with a speech impediment, giant head, and big feet, being relentlessly bullied, and having a last name that rhymes with “nerd”. While the CIA man evidently hoped to win over a crowd that had mostly never heard of him by being self-deprecating, Kassam explained why the strategy was unwise.

“That, I think, is probably a misguided way to get up on stage and assert yourself as somebody who could be the leader of the free world, especially as World War III is looming,” said Kassam, a veteran of many high-profile campaigns, including the Brexit referendum and breakthrough election performances by Nigel Farage.

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In the first episode of The National Pulse's exclusive new podcast, The Campaign Trail, editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam covered a range of key moments from the ongoing fight for the Republican nomination, picking out Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) alumnus Will Hurd's pitch to the Faith and Freedom Coalition as a masterclass – in how not to do it. show more
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Biden’s Border Team Are All Quietly Resigning…

Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security John Tien quietly resigned this week, in an unexpected move buried in the news cycle under the Trump indictment and missing submersible. Tien follows Customs and Border Protection chief Chris Magnus, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting chief Tae Johnson, and US Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, all of whom bowed out in recent months.

Officially, Tien says he wants to spend more time with his family. It’s a euphemistic rationale, especially as just weeks ago he was giving interviews about his “new challenge” in the job, claiming he has “a responsibility to be both seen and heard.”

But like Magnus, Johnson and Ortiz, he is unlikely to be seen or heard from again, at least in this government.

Speculation will necessarily abound, but Biden’s border has arguably been the most colossal failure of his three years in office thus far, and there’s plenty to pick from.

Moves to prevent an embarrassing surge in border crossings ahead of an election year may be informing the departures. After all, Tien recently refused to confirm that he believes crossing the border illegally should even be a crime.

Magnus, meanwhile, resigned in November amidst pressure to reduce crossings – instructions contrary to his belief in sanctuary cities and states, and a distraction from his priorities of increasing female recruitment and clamping down on agents’ social media posts.

Ortiz, at Border Patrol, is said to have sought retirement, having only landed the gig in 2021, after 32 years of service.

“After a 32-year Border Patrol career spanning multiple Sectors, HQ tours, and overseas assignments in Afghanistan, I have decided to retire from federal service on June 30th,” he said in May.

Illegal crossings have been at (or near) record highs for much of 2022 and 2023. It was widely expected, including by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, that this situation would dramatically worsen with the expiration of Trump-era Title 42 border controls in May.

Hastily reinforced Title 8 controls criminalizing illegal entry have so far prevented the worst of the catastrophe, but migrants presenting themselves at points of entry have hit an all-time high as a side-effect.

Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.

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Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security John Tien quietly resigned this week, in an unexpected move buried in the news cycle under the Trump indictment and missing submersible. Tien follows Customs and Border Protection chief Chris Magnus, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting chief Tae Johnson, and US Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, all of whom bowed out in recent months. show more
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