Monday, September 8, 2025

GOP Launches ANOTHER ‘Investigation, 2020’s ‘Transition Integrity Project’ Gets Strongly Worded Letter, No Subpoenas.

The House Oversight Committee has finally begun an investigation into the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), first reported on by The National Pulse in August 2020.

A strongly worded letter from Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), as first reported by The Post Millennial, reads:

“I am particularly concerned by the activities of TIP in 2020, and any similar endeavor in advance of the 2024 election, because this exercise seems to have been administered adjacent to the Georgetown University Law Center. As you know, Georgetown University operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding every year. It would be highly inappropriate for a university that relies on federal funding to conduct partisan political activity intended to undermine a lawfully conducted election.”

The George Soros-linked Brooks and TIP are under scrutiny for their exploration of “war games” examining a variety of election and transition scenarios from 2020. The exercises reached alarming conclusions, including the danger of expecting decisive results on “election night” and the potential for severe disruption of the administrative transition process.

In his letter, Sessions requested a comprehensive understanding of TIP’s 2020 project and its findings, including details on the over 100 participants, of whom only 15 have been publicly identified. He is particularly interested in uncovering any involvement of active or retired Department of Defense personnel.

Sessions also cited recent comments by Mary McCord, Executive Director of the Georgetown University School of Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protections, for her team’s preparation to challenge potential actions of former President Trump that may expand presidential power.

Sessions has given Brooks until April 24 to provide the requested information.

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The Next Orbán? ‘Illiberal’ European Leader Rankles EU, Leading to Threats.

Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, is attracting the same negative attention as Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán as he adopts similar policies against mass migration and the sanctions war with Russia.

The “illiberal” politician, whose Smer party is notionally democratic socialist but populist in practice, is already being threatened with sanctions, including the withholding of European Union funding.

This is to discourage Fico from becoming what German-owned POLITICO describes as “a thorn in the EU’s side,” like Orbán.

“The [European] Commission is way more inclined to not repeat the mistakes that happened in Hungary about a situation that was tolerated for way too long and Orbán was allowed to escalate,” warned European Parliament Vice President Martin Hojsík, referring to the EU’s unelected executive.

The pretext for action against Fico, as in the case of Hungary and, under its former conservative government, Poland, will likely come in the form of alleged “rule of law” violations.

Fico is abolishing the Special Prosecutor’s Office, which he accuses of having “significantly contributed to the violation of human rights” by abusing its power.

Liberal and left-wing figures within Slovakia and the wider European Union insist this is a “dangerous case of political interference,” while Fico’s supporters argue he is simply exercising his democratic mandate to reform Slovakia’s Deep State.

Fico began his third non-consecutive term as Prime Minister in late 2023, having served previously from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. Like Donald Trump, he was hit with a string of criminal charges — now dropped — after leaving office and is accused of governing on a platform of “revenge.”

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Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, is attracting the same negative attention as Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán as he adopts similar policies against mass migration and the sanctions war with Russia. show more

Sen. Tillis Reveals TikTok Death Threat: ‘I’ll Find You And Shoot You And Cut You Into Pieces.’.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina revealed he received a death threat over legislation forcing ByteDance to divest from TikTok.

The anonymous individual threatened to hurt Tillis should legislators proceed in ‘banning’ TikTok, citing loss of employment and entertainment options among her stated concerns. “Listen if you ban TikTok, I will find you and shoot you,” an unidentified woman said in a message to Tillis’s office. “That’s people’s jobs and that’s my only entertainment. And people make money off there too. Anyways, I’ll find you and shoot you and cut you into pieces. Bye,” she concluded.

Tillis said he reported the threat to law enforcement. He also accused TikTok of a “misinformation” campaign designed to trick people into believing that Congress seeks to ban TikTok. “TikTok’s misinformation campaign is pushing people to call their members of Congress, and callers like this who communicate threats against elected officials could be committing a federal crime,” Tillis posted on X (formerly Twitter). “The Communist-Chinese aligned company is proving just how dangerous their current ownership is,” he added.

In reality, the bill in question does not ban TikTok outright, nor is a ban the inevitable consequence should Joe Biden eventually sign the legislation into law. The bill gives ByteDance — TikTok’s parent company that has direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party — six months to divest from the popular app or see it banned in the U.S. Several parties, including former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, have expressed interest in purchasing TikTok should ByteDance divest.

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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina revealed he received a death threat over legislation forcing ByteDance to divest from TikTok. show more
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Biden Camp Has 2X More Cash on Hand Than Team Trump.

Joe Biden already has more than twice as much cash on hand as Donald Trump heading into the presidential election, as big capital lines up behind the Democrat and lawfare campaigns drain the coffers of the America First leader.

The Biden camp has boasted of bringing in $53 million in February alone, taking its war chest to $155 million.

Over the same month, the Trump team raised $39.3 million across its official campaign committee, the Republican National Committee, a supportive super PAC, and his leadership PAC, Save America.

An astonishing $53 million in legal expenses has been sapped from Trump’s war chest since early 2023, as the Biden-controlled Justice Department and various Democrat law officers and activists target him in a sweeping lawfare campaign.

Biden outspent Trump substantially in 2020, with the Democrat and his allies accounting for around 61 percent of the $2.74 billion spent on the presidential contest.

Hillary Clinton also outspent Trump in 2016 by an even greater margin of almost two-to-one — but still ended up losing by a 77-vote landslide in the Electoral College.

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Joe Biden already has more than twice as much cash on hand as Donald Trump heading into the presidential election, as big capital lines up behind the Democrat and lawfare campaigns drain the coffers of the America First leader. show more

Most Americans Want to Stop Sending Weapons to Israel.

Over half of Americans believe the U.S. government should stop supplying weapons to Israel.

A recent YouGov poll commissioned by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) found that 52 percent of Americans believe the Biden regime “should stop weapons shipments to Israel until Israel discontinues its attacks on the people of Gaza.”

The poll revealed a slight split along partisan lines. Sixty-two percent of those who voted for Biden in 2020 agreed with stopping weapons shipments, while only 14 percent disagreed. Conversely, 30 percent of Americans who voted for Trump in 2020 wish to stop weapons shipments to Israel. Sixty percent of those who did not vote in 2020 wish the government to stop sending weapons to Israel until a ceasefire in Gaza is reached.

Israel’s military action in Gaza has reportedly resulted in over 30,600 Palestinians dead and approximately 72,000 wounded. Moreover, the conflict has triggered significant internal displacement in Gaza, with a markedly inadequate supply of food, water, and medication for 85 percent of Gaza’s population.

As concerns mount over the escalation of conflicts in the Middle East, many believe the U.S. should assume a hands-off approach to the Israel-Hamas dispute, considering the potential implications on wider regional stability. Such restraint echoes the sentiments of American voters in requesting a temporary halt in supplying weapons to Israel.

Once a stalwart supporter of the Israeli war effort, the Biden regime has been increasingly distancing itself from Israel in an attempt to woo Arab, Muslim, and progressive voters.

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D.C. AG Drops Charges Against Gold Star Parent Who Heckled Joe Biden.

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb has declined to press charges against Steve Nikoui, the father of an American soldier killed during President Joe Biden’s disastrous 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Nikoui was arrested after causing a disruption in the State of the Union address, shouting “Abbey Gate” during President Biden’s speech.

Nikoui was invited to the State of the Union by Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL). Following his vocal outburst, he was escorted out of the House chamber and arrested by Capitol Police. According to Rep. Mast, he extended the invitation to Nikoui as a way of “reminding President Biden of the damage he has done to national security and American families.” After a public outcry in defense of the Gold Star father, Schwalb’s office confirmed that it would not pursue the case against Nikoui any further.

Kareem Nikoui, Steve Nikoui’s son, was among those who tragically lost their lives during the U.S. military’s hasty exit from Afghanistan in 2021. Despite the Biden government’s insistence that there would be an orderly withdrawal from the country, the U.S.-backed Afghan military was quickly overrun by Taliban forces.

As the Taliban surrounded the Afghan capital of Kabul, President Biden rushed around 6,000 additional troops to the country in a haphazard effort to secure the airport and evacuate U.S. citizens and assets. The cry of “Abbey Gate” during the address referenced the site where Nikoui’s son — along with 12 other American service members — lost their lives in Kabul.

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Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb has declined to press charges against Steve Nikoui, the father of an American soldier killed during President Joe Biden’s disastrous 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Nikoui was arrested after causing a disruption in the State of the Union address, shouting “Abbey Gate” during President Biden’s speech. show more

French Finance Minister Says He Won’t Fly Boeing.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he now avoids Boeing aircraft due to safety concerns.

“I now prefer flying in Airbus over Boeing – my family too, they care about me,” Le Maire said at the Europe 2024 conference in Berlin. Guillaume Faury, the chief executive officer of Airbus SE — Boeing’s lead competitor — was in the audience.

Faury distanced himself from Le Maire’s remarks, saying he was “not happy with the problems of my competitor,” adding: “Aviation attracts a lot of attention on safety. What I take is humility, not complacency.”

Safety concerns regarding Boeing’s aircraft have been growing after several high-profile accidents involving the company’s  737 MAX line. Following two fatal crashes and an episode of uncontrolled decompression in an airplane, the model was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for further inspections.

The FAA’s six-week audit of Boeing’s 737 production found “multiple instances” of failures to meet quality control requirements. The FAA failed Boeing on 33 of 89 product audits and recorded 97 instances of Boeing noncompliance. Spirit AeroSystems — which makes the 737 Max’s fuselage — failed seven of 13 product audits.

Earlier this month, Boeing whistleblower John Barnett — who raised safety concerns about Boeing production issues — was found dead from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound. However, before his death, Barnett warned a friend that “if anything happens to me, it’s not suicide.”

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Populist Leader Marion Maréchal: Europe Is ‘Digital Colony of U.S., Economic Colony of China, Demographic Colony of Africa.’

Leading French populist Marion Maréchal has lamented Europe’s loss of independence in various spheres and warned mass migration could lead to it being effectively transformed into another country.

“I wake up at 34 years old in a European Union which has become a digital colony of the United States, an economic colony of China, [and] a demographic colony of Africa,” she said, adding that it is also “on the way to becoming a colony of Islam.”

Muslims accounted for around a tenth of the French population as of 2019-20. France has also suffered more radical Islamic terror attacks than any other European country, including the November 2015 attacks in Paris that saw 130 murdered and over 410 injured in a series of suicide bombings and mass shootings, and the July 2016 attacks in Nice that saw 86 killed and over 430 wounded by a North African migrant driving a heavy truck.

Maréchal is the niece of Marine Le Pen, the longtime leader of National Rally (formerly National Front) who contended for the French presidency in 2012, 2017, and 2022.

Maréchal served as a National Assembly member — roughly equivalent to a U.S. House Rep. — for National Rally from 2012 to 2017, but is now a candidate for Reconquest, a rival populist party headed by “French Tucker Carlson” Éric Zemmour.

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Leading French populist Marion Maréchal has lamented Europe’s loss of independence in various spheres and warned mass migration could lead to it being effectively transformed into another country. show more

RBG Awards Canceled After Late Justice’s Family Objects to Murdoch and Musk Presence.

The planned Washington, D.C., gala for the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award — set to honor Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken, Martha Stewart, and Sylvester Stallone — has been canceled, according to the Opperman Foundation, which was organizing the event. The cancellation comes after the family of the late Supreme Court Justice objected to Murdoch and Musk receiving the awards.

Objections to Murdoch and Musk being named as awardees were raised by Ginsburg’s children, James Ginsburg and Jane Ginsburg, as well as former Ginsburg clerk Trevor Morrison. The trio argued that the proposed honorees did not align with the principles espoused by the late Justice.

The initial focus of the award was to honor “an extraordinary woman” each year, a tradition from which the Opperman Foundation this year when it selected male honorees without conferring with the Ginsburg family. It remains unclear whether the selected honorees will still receive awards in the absence of the ceremony, as the foundation has made no further information available. The drama surrounding the awards caused the Library of Congress to dissociate itself from them, stressing its role as only the planned venue.

Ginsburg’s family primarily objected to the selection of Murdoch and Musk due to political reasons. Murdoch is the founder of NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News. Musk is known for his stalwart defense of free speech and promotion of right-wing causes. “I think she’d be appalled,” James Ginsburg said in an interview. “When you think about trying to create a more just society, which, of course, was mom’s ultimate goal, those are probably about the last names that would come to mind.”

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The planned Washington, D.C., gala for the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award — set to honor Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken, Martha Stewart, and Sylvester Stallone — has been canceled, according to the Opperman Foundation, which was organizing the event. The cancellation comes after the family of the late Supreme Court Justice objected to Murdoch and Musk receiving the awards. show more

Texas Law Allowing State to Arrest and Deport Migrants on Hold AGAIN After Fifth Circuit Ruling.

A Texas law making illegal border crossing a state crime punishable by arrest and deportation is once again suspended after the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order reinstating a previous hold.

The Supreme Court extended a stay on the Texas law, SB4, indefinitely on Monday, pending further deliberation. Conservative justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett intervened on Tuesday, however, allowing SB4 to go into effect on grounds the stay had been administrative rather than a “stay pending appeal.”

Now, the Fifth Circuit has issued a new stay, which came late on the same day the SCOTUS justices issued their ruling.

The Joe Biden regime has been fighting SB4 — passed as a result of its refusal to control immigration — tooth and nail, arguing the power to secure the border (or not) belongs to the federal government alone.

The Mexican government reacted to the SCOTUS ruling with fury, saying it “condemns the enforcement of the SB4 law in Texas, which aims to stop the flow of migrants through criminalization.”

They claimed SB4 would contribute “to family separation, discrimination and racial profiling that go against the human rights of the migrant community.” They vowed they would not accept any migrants Texas attempted to deport back into Mexico.

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A Texas law making illegal border crossing a state crime punishable by arrest and deportation is once again suspended after the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order reinstating a previous hold. show more