Bryan Lanza, senior adviser to the Donald Trumpcampaign, believes negative stories about the former president are set to emerge, telling CNN that “these fake things coming out” are part of a predictable election-time strategy by the Democrats. “You’re going to have something come out in the next couple of days, I suspect, and then something coming out next week,” he said.
One new allegation against former President Trump comes from Stacey Williams, a former swimsuit model who accuses Trump of groping her at Trump Tower in 1993—over 30 years ago—while Jeffrey Epstein was present. Britain’s far-left Guardian is still seeking to substantiate the claims, with only a vague reference to two friends of Williams who claim she told them about the supposed incident years ago so far.
On Monday, Williams recounted her experience during a Zoom call organized by Survivors for Kamala, a group supporting Vice President Kamala Harris—whose husband currently faces allegations of publicly slapping an ex-girlfriend at a film festival in 2012.
Responding to Williams’s allegations, Trump’s campaign press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, dismissed them as “unequivocally false,” saying they were fabricated by Harris’s campaign to undermine Trump.
Lanza says the accusations follow a pattern of fabricated allegations: “This is a long playbook that the Democratic Party has done and they try to come up with somebody at the last minute to try to distract from the fact that they have yet to make their case of why Kamala Harris would have to actually be president.”
Bryan Lanza, senior adviser to the Donald Trump campaign, believes negative stories about the former president are set to emerge, telling CNN that "these fake things coming out" are part of a predictable election-time strategy by the Democrats. "You're going to have something come out in the next couple of days, I suspect, and then something coming out next week," he said.
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With the 2024 presidential election set to be decided in less than two weeks, speculation regarding the potential cabinet picks for both major party candidates is rife. One of the important roles the election victor will choose is who will serve as the United States Attorney General.
While neither former President Donald J. Trump nor Vice President Kamala Harris has publicly stated who they prefer for the role, presidential transition documents and conversations among lawmakers on Capitol Hill have given some idea of who Trump is considering. Among the names being circulated are at least three sitting United States senators, a former acting Attorney General, a conservative legal expert, the former chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a U.S. District Court judge. Here they are, in no particular order:
SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM!?
One name that was floated even before the 2024 election cycle kicked off in earnest is U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). While the pick would likely rankle conservatives and MAGA loyalists alike, Graham does have extensive legal experience and has been a close ally of Trump—even during the 2024 Republican primary.
Before his election to public office, Graham served in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps with the U.S. Air Force—eventually becoming the military service branch’s top prosecutor in Europe. After leaving active duty, Graham worked in private practice as an attorney for several years before being elected to the South Carolina State House of Representatives and, subsequently, the U.S. Congress.
From 2019 until 2021, Graham served as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and is currently its ranking member. The South Carolina Republican—known for being a bipartisan lawmaker—made waves for his unusually vocal criticism of Democrats over their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Graham would represent a wet and compromising approach to the Office of the Attorney General, representing almost no change from the public disaster that was Bill Barr. With Trump only being able to serve one more term, it would be a huge waste of time and indeed an unnecessary risk to appoint someone like Graham.
SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY.
Along with Sen. Graham, another member of the upper house of Congress said to be under consideration for Attorney General is Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO). Like Graham, the senior Senator from Missouri has extensive legal experience in private and government practices.
A graduate of Yale Law School, Hawley worked as a lawyer in private practice from 2008 to 2011 before joining the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty as an attorney. While at the Becket Fund, Hawley served on a legal team that won Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores—a Supreme Court decision that held privately-owned, for-profit companies were exempt from Obamacare’s contraception mandate.
In 2016, Hawley was elected as the Attorney General for the State of Missouri, where he served before defeating incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) in 2018. Sen. Hawley serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee and has developed a reputation as an aggressive and formidable interrogator of witnesses brought before the body.
SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT.
Joining Sen. Hawley as a contender for Attorney General is the junior Senator from Missouri, Eric Schmitt. The 49-year-old lawmaker succeeded Hawley as Attorney General for Missouri before being elected to the United States Senate in 2022. Also like Hawley, Schmitt has been an outspoken critic of the Biden-Harris DOJ and its partisan lawfare campaign against President Trump and his allies.
A conservative and populist politician, Schmitt checks a lot of the right boxes for an Attorney General nominee. Additionally, the junior Senator from Missouri has joined Trump on the campaign trail as a confidant, helping with the Republican nominee’s debate preparation ahead of Trump thrashing Joe Biden on CNN in June. Biden’s debate performance was so catastrophic he subsequently quit the presidential race.
As Missouri’s Attorney General, Schmitt worked to invalidate Obamacare. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he sued school districts and municipalities for overstepping their legal authority when implementing mask mandates.
FORMER ACTING AG JEFF CLARK.
One of the most interesting names being circulated is former acting U.S. Attorney General Jeff Clark. The former acting Attorney General in the final days of Trump’s first term in office, Clark has been one of the top targets of the Biden-Harris government’s lawfarecampaign against Trump and his allies.
Clark, a well-known and respected administrative lawyer, was appointed Assistant Attorney General during the Trump administration. During this time, he became concerned about potential voter fraud in the November 2020 election. He has drawn the ire of Democrats for simply authoring an unpublished legal memo on the constitutional actions Georgia state lawmakers could take to challenge the 2020 presidential election results due to allegations of voter fraud.
Two years ago, federal law enforcement agents acting on behalf of the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) raided Clark’s home—though the agency has yet to publicly state why the raid was conducted. Perhaps in anticipation of Clark’s possible appointment to Attorney General, Democrats have been pursuing an effort to strip the attorney from practicing law in the District of Columbia.
A documentary drawing attention to the dubious lawfare campaign against Clark was recently released to the public. Fearless Point of Attack: The Jeff Clark Story features numerous attorneys and others defending Clark, including law professor Robert Destro, who stated, “Jeff is being persecuted, I would argue, because he gave legal advice that he thought was good faith legal advice.”
MIKE DAVIS.
Conservative legal expert Mike Davis is another name that has begun floating around those close to the Trump campaign. Davis, the founder, and president of the Article III Project (A3P), previously served as Sen. Chuck Grassley‘s (R-IA) chief counsel for judicial nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Under Grassley’s chairmanship—and with the aid of Davis—the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmed a historic 85 federal judicial nominees put forward by then-President Trump to lifetime appointments. Among them were two United States Supreme Court Justices, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch.
In addition to his work on judicial and legal matters, Davis heads the Internet Accountability Project (IAP), a nonprofit group aimed at holding Big Tech accountable for its partisan political bias and economic distortions. Davis has been an outspoken proponent of religious liberty, and his deep ties to those in the MAGA and America First movements make him a fan favorite.
On social media, Davis has routinely pointed out the hypocrisy and unprecedented lawfare campaign pushed by Democrats through hyperbolic quips about the actions he’d take as “Acting Attorney General.”
JUDGE AILEEN CANNON.
A somewhat surprising name has also emerged from a leaked document related to Trump’s presidential transition team. The document, titled “Transition Planning: Legal Principals,” lists U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon as a possible choice for Attorney General.
Cannon, nominated by Trump as a federal judge in 2020, gained attention after dismissing a case involving 40 criminal counts against the former president regarding his handling of classified documents post-presidency. Cannon found many issues with the lawfare prosecution, ultimately ruling that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional. Smith was neither appointed by the president nor confirmed by Congress.
The U.S. District Court judge appears second on the attorney general list, following former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton.
FORMER SEC CHAIRMAN JAY CLAYTON.
Jay Clayton, the former chairman of the SEC, is considered a top contender for Attorney General. With extensive experience in several fields of law as a partner with Sullivan & Cromwell, Clayton has an impressive resume—especially regarding legal representation in the U.S. financial sector.
Clayton was one of the first appointments announced by then-President-elect Donald Trump, being tapped for the role of SEC chairman on January 4, 2017. Interestingly, Clayton’s nomination was endorsed by future Trump antagonist, former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. It was Vance’s office that colluded with Mark Pomerantz in its investigation of Trump regarding an alleged 2016 campaign finance violation and business record fraud.
The dubious case would later be prosecuted by Vance’s successor, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and is currently pending appeal. Some have speculated that Pomerantz pushed Bragg into the prosecution despite its legally questionable grounding.
Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.
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With the 2024 presidential election set to be decided in less than two weeks, speculation regarding the potential cabinet picks for both major party candidates is rife. One of the important roles the election victor will choose is who will serve as the United States Attorney General.
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Following President Donald J. Trump’s agreement to go on the Joe Rogan podcast, his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, is refusing to follow suit, according to her campaign spokesman Ian Sams. On Thursday, Sams stated, “We discussed the possibility with Rogan’s team, but due to current campaign scheduling, it won’t be feasible at this time.”
Reports earlier this month indicated that Harris’s campaign had been communicating with Rogan. His podcast, which had 14.5 million followers on Spotify and an even larger number of YouTube subscribers in March, appeals to a broad audience, including many young men—a demographic the Democratic nominee is struggling to appeal to.
President Trump is set to record an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience on Friday at Rogan’s Austin, Texas studio.
Rogan, who previously argued that foreign-born Americans should be able to run for the presidency and once advocated for a Star Trek-like communist utopia, has been critical of President Trump in the past, suggesting the president may be a “sociopath.” However, he admitted the former president was more mentally capable than Joe Biden, and he recently said that “Trump raising his fist and saying ‘fight!’ after getting shot is one of the most American f***ing things of all time.”
In recent weeks, President Trump has appeared on several major podcasts, including the Theo Von podcast and the Lex Fridman podcast.
Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has been on far fewer podcasts. On one, the sexually explicitCall Her Daddy, she justified not having any of her own children by saying she did not want to be “humble.”
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Following President Donald J. Trump's agreement to go on the Joe Rogan podcast, his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, is refusing to follow suit, according to her campaign spokesman Ian Sams. On Thursday, Sams stated, "We discussed the possibility with Rogan's team, but due to current campaign scheduling, it won't be feasible at this time."
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Illegal aliens cost American taxpayers over $150 billion in 2023, according to a new report.
The details: The report, conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), found that federal, state, and local governments spent $182 billion on services for illegalaliens in 2023, like education, law enforcement, and medical services.
That is only offset by the $32 billion in tax revenue the illegals generate.
This leaves U.S. taxpayers on the hook for the remaining $150 billion.
For perspective, $150 billion is more than twice the Department of Homeland Security’s annual budget.
Zoom out: Jodey Arrington, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, says the $150 billion figure is a “conservative estimate.”
The impact: According to FAIR, the Biden-Harris regime spent $67 billion, and the remaining funds were paid by state and local governments, leading to major cutbacks in services to American residents. For example:
Denver had to slash $45 million from its budget, including $8.4 million for police and $2.5 million for fire services, to cover the $90 million it earmarked for illegal alien support.
NYC has had to spend $2.3 billion on providing services to the 210,000 illegals who have settled there since 2022.
What do Americans think? A recent poll found that 54 percent support mass deportation of illegal aliens—an idea that was taboo just a few years ago.
Big picture: Kamala Harris recently told Telemundo that she supports a “pathway to citizenship” for the millions of illegal aliens currently in the country.
Grand jurors have indicted six foreign nationals accused of voting illegally in Ohio. Ahmed Aden, 35, from Columbus, along with Nicholas Fontaine, 32, of Kent; Van Thuy Cooper, 53, of Hilliard; Maria Dearaujo, 62, of Columbus; Ramesh Patel, 68, of North Royalton; and Lorinda Miller, 78, of Hudson, face accusations of voting despite being noncitizens between 2008 and 2020.
The defendants stand charged under Ohio’s illegal voting law, which prohibits individuals from voting without legal citizen qualifications or voting more than once in a single election. Illegal voting is classified as a fourth-degree felony, potentially leading to an 18-month prison sentence. “If you’re not a citizen, it is illegal to vote whether you thought you were allowed to or not, and you will be held accountable in the state of Ohio,” warned Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.
Yost’s office intervened following referrals from Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who, in August, brought attention to 138 cases of alleged illegal voting. Yost’s office focused on noncitizen cases, with special state prosecutors leading the investigations.
Federal law mandates that only American citizens can vote in federal elections. Still, the fact that people are not generally required to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote—or to present photographic identification when voting in person—has allowed noncitizens to circumvent the law sufficiently to change the outcome of elections.
The vast majority of Americans want proof of citizenship and photo ID requirements to be introduced, but the Democrats—who benefit disproportionately from noncitizens voting illegally—are bitterly opposed to such safeguards.
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Grand jurors have indicted six foreign nationals accused of voting illegally in Ohio. Ahmed Aden, 35, from Columbus, along with Nicholas Fontaine, 32, of Kent; Van Thuy Cooper, 53, of Hilliard; Maria Dearaujo, 62, of Columbus; Ramesh Patel, 68, of North Royalton; and Lorinda Miller, 78, of Hudson, face accusations of voting despite being noncitizens between 2008 and 2020.
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Local election officials in Mesa County, Colorado, have initiated an investigation following the discovery of at least 12 stolen mail-in ballots for the 2024 election, with some counted as valid votes. On Tuesday, officials in this predominantly Republican county identified the issue through signature verification processes. One particular ballot raised suspicion when a voter tracking their ballot found it had been cast despite the fact they never received it.
Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Bobbie Gross, a Republican, stated that the office is dedicated to maintaining election integrity and is actively investigating the fraud attempt. According to state officials, three ballots were accepted as legitimate votes and cannot be invalidated, but the voters can submit another ballot. It has been acknowledged that the signature verification system flagged these ballots, yet an election judge—now reassigned—approved them.
Jena Griswold—Colorado’s Secretary of State and a Democrat—admitted that counting these ballots was regrettable but insisted the state’s election system functioned as intended. Officials did not disclose which candidates were marked on the affected ballots.
Currently, over 27,000 votes have been counted in Mesa County, a region where former President Donald J. Trump secured a significant victory in 2020.
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Local election officials in Mesa County, Colorado, have initiated an investigation following the discovery of at least 12 stolen mail-in ballots for the 2024 election, with some counted as valid votes. On Tuesday, officials in this predominantly Republican county identified the issue through signature verification processes. One particular ballot raised suspicion when a voter tracking their ballot found it had been cast despite the fact they never received it.
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As the presidential election approaches, Gallup polling indicates strong support among American adults for requiring voters to prove their citizenship and show vote identification. An overwhelming 84 percent want to require voters to show photo ID to cast their ballots, and 83 percent support a proof of citizenship requirement for first-time voter registration.
The poll reveals partisan differences in attitudes toward election integrity. Democrats are more inclined to support measures that making voting easier—and more open to fraud—such as early voting and automatic registration. Republicans support ID and proof of citizenship more strongly, and their support for early voting has fallen noticeably since 2016.
Currently, 47 states plus the District of Columbia offer early voting, and 36 states require some form of voter identification. All states provide voter registration at motor vehicle agencies, as federal law mandates. Around half of states have adopted automatic voter registration systems.
The Republican-controlled House recently passed a bill requiring citizenship proof for voter registration, but the Democrat-controlled Senate is declining to hold a vote on the legislation, and the Biden-Harris White House has vowed to block it.
Democrats dismiss conservative concerns around election fraud and, in particular, noncitizen voting by claiming it is against the law and, therefore, not an issue. However, weak vetting means noncitizens can and do vote without great difficulty, with research suggesting they have done so in sufficient numbers to alter election outcomes—in favor of the Democrats.
84% of American voters favor photo identification requirements at their voting place.
As the presidential election approaches, Gallup polling indicates strong support among American adults for requiring voters to prove their citizenship and show vote identification. An overwhelming 84 percent want to require voters to show photo ID to cast their ballots, and 83 percent support a proof of citizenship requirement for first-time voter registration.
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A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official has been implicated in promoting illegal immigration through social media, as detailed in a report by the American Accountability Foundation. Wilson Osorio, serving as associate counsel with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), allegedly used platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram to engage with and advise potential border crossers, according to the watchdog group’s findings.
In these social media interactions, Osorio reportedly conducted interviews with illegal immigrants, encouraging them to discuss their earnings, journey to the U.S. and experiences of entering and living in the country unlawfully. Since the report’s release, Osorio appears to have adjusted his online presence by making his TikTok and YouTube accounts private and removing his LinkedIn profile.
Beginning in July, Osorio’s posts include the stories of individuals who have successfully navigated life in the United States after entering the country illegally. For example, one Instagram video highlights the success of a Honduran immigrant in the restaurant industry. Another video features an illegal immigrant offering advice to other illegal border crossers, cautioning them about potential dangers.
Additional posts have described experiences of illegal immigrants obtaining work permits and citizenship. Some testimonials describe financial achievements made possible by work in the U.S. despite initial illegal entry.
The report emerges amid heightened scrutiny of border security under the Biden-Harris government, which has witnessed a substantial influx of migrants. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), over 7.8 million migrants entered the country illegally, with thousands convicted of serious offenses. However, some estimates place the real number of illegal aliens at over 20 million.
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A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official has been implicated in promoting illegal immigration through social media, as detailed in a report by the American Accountability Foundation. Wilson Osorio, serving as associate counsel with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), allegedly used platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram to engage with and advise potential border crossers, according to the watchdog group's findings.
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Major figures in the Democratic Party appear to be putting distance between themselves and Vice President Kamala Harris in the closing days of the 2024 presidential election. Notably, David Axelrod, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, blasted Harris’s Wednesday night town hall event on CNN as a “word salad city”—referring to the vice president’s penchant for rattling off nonsensical responses.
A paid CNN contributor, Axelrod noted that Harris often delivers “word salad” responses when she is unwilling to answer questions directly. Even worse, the former top Obama advisor noted that Harris was either unable or unwilling to distance herself from President Joe Biden’s unpopular policies—something he considers a misstep.
“When she doesn’t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word salad city,” Axelrod said after the televised event. He continued: “And she did that on a couple of answers. One was on Israel. Anderson [Cooper] asked a direct question, ‘Would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?’ And there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question he was asking.”
Top Democrat strategist David Axelrod on Kamala Harris’ town hall performance:
“When she doesn’t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word salad city”
“She would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration’s policies and that’s a mistake”
“On immigration, I thought she missed an opportunity because she would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration’s policies, and that’s a mistake. Sometimes you have to concede things,” Axelrod continued, adding: “You do want to relate to the people in front of you. She didn’t do a lot of that. She didn’t ask them questions. She didn’t address them particularly. She was giving set pieces too much.”
Harris has seen her campaign stall in the closing weeks of the 2024 election, with internal finger-pointing spilling out into the public. The National Pulse previously reported that Harris’s chaotic Pennsylvania campaign has alienated local Democratic leaders in Philadephia and jeopardized the chances of Democrats winning the critical battleground state. Image by Gage Skidmore.
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Major figures in the Democratic Party appear to be putting distance between themselves and Vice President Kamala Harris in the closing days of the 2024 presidential election. Notably, David Axelrod, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, blasted Harris's Wednesday night town hall event on CNN as a "word salad city"—referring to the vice president's penchant for rattling off nonsensical responses.
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A recent report from the House Judiciary Committee reveals that nearly one million illegal immigrants may remain in the United States indefinitely, with their cases dismissed or closed due to administrative measures by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Released Thursday, the report indicates that administrative actions during the Biden-Harris government have resulted in many cases being terminated without deportation proceedings.
The report, based on information given to the committee, indicates that over 700,000 cases have been dismissed or closed in immigration court under the current government. The DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review reported over 109,000 cases were completed in Fiscal Year 2023 without a decision on the merits. Additionally, the DHS did not file necessary documentation for around 200,000 cases, allowing many individuals to remain indefinitely in the country.
In response to the substantial backlog of cases facing approximately 700 immigration judges nationwide, a 2022 DHS memo directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorneys to prioritize case closures and dismissals for non-security threats. Concurrently, a 2021 memo from Biden-Harris Attorney General Merrick Garland reinstated the use of administrative closure, focusing on high-priority cases. The House committee has criticized the measures, as they can result in some migrants living in the U.S. on an ongoing basis but uncertain about their legal status.
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A recent report from the House Judiciary Committee reveals that nearly one million illegal immigrants may remain in the United States indefinitely, with their cases dismissed or closed due to administrative measures by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Released Thursday, the report indicates that administrative actions during the Biden-Harris government have resulted in many cases being terminated without deportation proceedings.
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