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February 6, 2025
William Upton
Lawfare
Politics

Bannon Reveals Jack Smith’s Lawfare Team ‘Quite Upset’ Biden Didn’t Grant Them Pardons.

Former White House chief strategist and War Room host Stephen K. Bannon revealed former Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith and his team of federal attorneys, who waged a partisan lawfare campaign against President Donald J. Trump, are “quite upset that they didn’t get pardons” before former President Joe Biden left office last month. According to Bannon, the Biden DOJ lawfare specialists fear they will be the target of investigations by the department’s new leadership appointed by President Trump. Bannon believes this fear is justified.

“I think there’s going to be a lot of people that go to prison. I mean, I think a lot of people are going to go to prison for many, many years,” Bannon said in a recent interview with GBN America. He argued a sense of “arrogance” blinded Jack Smith and his team to the likelihood that Trump would win the 2024 presidential election.

“And I hear that Jack Smith’s team is quite upset that they didn’t get pardons,” Bannon revealed while offering Smith some advice: “I will just tell them, lawyer up. You know, you might want to check countries that don’t have [extradition] treaties with the United States, right? You might want to look at living the rest of your life there because investigations are going to happen.”

Bannon, himself a target of the Biden DOJ’s lawfare campaign against Trump and his allies, indicated that the beginnings of these investigations could already be underway, given who Trump appointed to the DOJ.

However, the former White House chief strategist cautioned that reviewing the Biden government’s lawfare efforts is a monumental task, and that President Trump and his DOJ may be better served appointing a special prosecutor to oversee the investigations and impanel a grand jury.

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Former White House chief strategist and War Room host Stephen K. Bannon revealed former Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith and his team of federal attorneys, who waged a partisan lawfare campaign against President Donald J. Trump, are "quite upset that they didn't get pardons" before former President Joe Biden left office last month. According to Bannon, the Biden DOJ lawfare specialists fear they will be the target of investigations by the department's new leadership appointed by President Trump. Bannon believes this fear is justified. show more
February 6, 2025
William Upton
Politics
TRUMP TRANSITION 2024/5

Democrats Delay Vote on Kash Patel’s FBI Director Nomination for ANOTHER Week.

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are delaying the vote to advance President Donald J. Trump’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director nominee, Kash Patel, for one more week. Under committee rules, the minority party can hold over a nomination vote for one additional week until its next meeting. The Judiciary Committee’s minority ranking member, Senator Dick Durbin (I-IL), was the lawmaker who made the “hold over” request.

The committee’s chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), blasted Democrat members for the delaying tactic: “Democrats are establishing a double standard by forcing us to meet this morning,” the Judiciary Committee chairman said, noting in the last Congress, Republicans did not force the committee to meet in person just to hold over nominations. However, Grassley relented, acknowledging: “The minority as well as myself has exercised their right and my right under the committee rules to hold over the nomination of Kash Patel to be Director of the FBI. So that nomination is held over.”

Sen. Durbin contends the delay is justified, claiming Patel made a “direct contradiction under oath” regarding his involvement with a choir comprised of individuals prosecuted and imprisoned by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) for their actions during the January 6 Capitol riots. Additionally, the Illinois Democrat contends the week delay will give lawmakers more time to review a book Patel wrote.

“It’s filled with grievances, filled with conspiracy theories, and filled with information about how he sided with the January 6th rioters against the police,” Durbin insisted after leaving the Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday.

Despite the Democrat “hold over” on his nomination, Patel appears to already have enough votes to be approved by the full Senate. A final confirmation vote could come as soon as next weekend.

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Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are delaying the vote to advance President Donald J. Trump's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director nominee, Kash Patel, for one more week. Under committee rules, the minority party can hold over a nomination vote for one additional week until its next meeting. The Judiciary Committee's minority ranking member, Senator Dick Durbin (I-IL), was the lawmaker who made the "hold over" request. show more
February 6, 2025
Politics

40,000 Federal Bureaucrats Take Trump’s Buyout Offer Ahead of Midnight Deadline.

Federal government employees have until midnight to decide whether to accept President Donald J. Trump’s offer of a buyout to voluntarily resign in exchange for eight months of pay and benefits. As of Thursday morning, approximately 40,000 government workers, amounting to roughly two percent of the federal civilian workforce, have accepted the buyout offer. Additionally, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officials say deferred retirement applications have increased and may rise further by the day’s end as employees finalize decisions.

Federal personnel were advised to submit resignations by emailing the word “resign” to their government accounts. OPM communicated to employees that while some agencies and military branches might experience workforce increases, most federal bodies are likely to downsize. This includes plans for restructuring, realignment, and potential reductions in force.

OPM is also suggesting it may initiate furloughs and a shift to at-will employment status for many workers. In addition, the federal government’s personnel office is also warning federal employees of possible changes in office locations due to consolidation and divestitures.

Despite these incentives, federal worker unions continue to advise members against accepting the offer. The unions have initiated a legal challenge to block the program, with a court hearing set for Thursday afternoon.

The Trump White House has projected that five to ten percent of the federal workforce might resign, potentially saving taxpayers nearly $100 billion.

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Federal government employees have until midnight to decide whether to accept President Donald J. Trump's offer of a buyout to voluntarily resign in exchange for eight months of pay and benefits. As of Thursday morning, approximately 40,000 government workers, amounting to roughly two percent of the federal civilian workforce, have accepted the buyout offer. Additionally, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officials say deferred retirement applications have increased and may rise further by the day’s end as employees finalize decisions. show more
February 6, 2025
William Upton
Politics
World

Rubio Skipping G20 in Johannesburg: ‘South Africa Is Doing Very Bad Things.’

President Donald J. Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, says he will not attend the globalist G20 summit in November this year, which is set to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rubio announced the decision late Wednesday, citing the South African government’s adoption of a bill authorizing the state to seize land belonging to white farmers without compensation.

“I will NOT attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg. South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change,” Sec. Rubio wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The Trump administration’s chief diplomat continued: “My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism.”

In late January, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa—of the African National Congress (ANC) party once led by Nelson Mandela—signed the land expropriation bill into law. In a statement, the South African leader defended the move, claiming the measure will be used to “expropriate land in the public interest for varied reasons,” including to “promote inclusivity and access to natural resources.”

Notably, most of South Africa’s farmers hail from the country’s white minority, with most being Dutch-descended Afrikaners. Similar expropriation measures enacted in neighboring Zimbabwe under its late dictator, Robert Mugabe, in the 2000s resulted in the murder of several of the country’s white farmers and a collapse in the country’s food production.

The National Pulse previously reported on President Donald J. Trump vowing to act if the South African government uses the law, stating he intends to cut off American aid until an investigation into the matter is completed. During his first term in office, Trump successfully intervened against an earlier attempt by South Africa to adopt a similar law.

Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett.

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President Donald J. Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, says he will not attend the globalist G20 summit in November this year, which is set to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rubio announced the decision late Wednesday, citing the South African government's adoption of a bill authorizing the state to seize land belonging to white farmers without compensation. show more
February 5, 2025
News
Politics

President Trump Orders Nearly All USAID Staff on Leave.

President Donald J. Trump will order nearly all federal employees with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on administrative leave this Friday. The move comes as the international aid agency faces increasing scrutiny over its disbursement of taxpayer dollars and allegations it funds nongovernmental organizations and other groups actively undermining American interests abroad.

According to a notice on the USAID website, the measure will affect all “direct hire personnel” from February 7 at 11:59 PM. However, those responsible for essential operations, leadership roles, and select programs will continue their duties. Employees not on leave will be informed by Thursday at 3:00 PM.

Last week, the Trump White House announced a freeze on all USAID disbursements after Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found concerning irregularities, including U.S. taxpayer dollars being given to organizations associated with foreign terrorist groups. Subsequently, President Trump named Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting director of the agency—a move believed to be a precursor to the USAID shutdown, with any critical programs being subsumed into the State Department instead.

“They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they’re not even a U.S. government agency, that… they’re a global charity, that they take the taxpayer money, and they spend it as a global charity irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not in the national interest,” Sec. Rubio said in an interview earlier this week. He continued, stating while initially it was hoped USAID could be reformed, it appears that is no longer possible: “Now we have basically an active effort—their basic attitude is, ‘We don’t work for anyone, we work for ourselves, no agency of government can tell us what to do.'”

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President Donald J. Trump will order nearly all federal employees with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on administrative leave this Friday. The move comes as the international aid agency faces increasing scrutiny over its disbursement of taxpayer dollars and allegations it funds nongovernmental organizations and other groups actively undermining American interests abroad. show more
February 5, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Politics

Pro-Migrant Catholic Charity Faces Major Layoffs Due to USAID Cuts.

A major Catholic charity may have to lay off as much as 50 percent of its staff due to being reliant on funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Donald J. Trump may shut down. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the top recipient of USAID, with the agency funding about half of the charity’s $1.5 billion annual budget.

In a staff-wide email sent on February 3, CRS president and CEO Sean Callahan stated that layoffs have already begun as the charity looks to cut programs. “We anticipate that we will be a much smaller overall organization by the end of this fiscal year,” Callahan stated.

From 2013 to 2022, CRS received a massive $4.6 billion in funding from USAID for various programs, including disaster assistance. The organization had around 7,800 employees across the globe as of 2018.

CRS also provides money toward migrants and refugees, as does Catholic Charities, another Catholic group. Last year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Catholic NGO Annunciation House, accusing its members of encouraging illegal immigration and hosting illegals.

The cut in staff at CRS comes after tech billionaire Elon Musk, recently appointed to lead President Donald J. Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), announced that President Trump intends to shut down USAID entirely.

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A major Catholic charity may have to lay off as much as 50 percent of its staff due to being reliant on funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Donald J. Trump may shut down. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the top recipient of USAID, with the agency funding about half of the charity's $1.5 billion annual budget. show more
February 5, 2025
Lawfare
Politics

FBI Agents File Two Lawsuits Seeking to Block Trump DOJ’s Review of J6 Cases.

Two groups of agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) filed separate lawsuits on Tuesday in federal court seeking to bar President Donald J. Trump and the Department of Justice (DOJ) from attaining the names of agents involved in the January 6 Capitol riot prosecutions. The agents allege that they believe President Trump intends to make the identities of FBI employees who were assigned to the January 6 cases public, which they contend could place them and their families in danger.

“Plaintiffs are employees of the FBI who worked on Jan. 6 and/or Mar-a-Lago cases, and who have been informed that they are likely to be terminated in the very near future (the week of Feb. 3-9, 2025) for such activity,” one filing, on behalf of nine anonymous FBI employees as a class action lawsuit reads. It continues, claiming the plaintiffs represent the interests of “…at least 6,000 current and former F.B.I. agents and employees who participated in some manner in the investigation and prosecution of crimes and abuses of power by Donald Trump, or by those acting at his behest.”

The second case is being brought by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association on behalf of seven anonymous agents and seeks a restraining order against the DOJ’s acquisition of the list of agents who investigated the January 6 cases. Anti-Trump attorney Mark Zaid is the lead counsel for the plaintiffs.

Meanwhile, the Trump White House has not indicated that it intends to release the names of the FBI agents, despite the claims made in the lawsuits. So far, the only action taken has been a request by the DOJ for the FBI to hand over a list of agents involved as part of a broader department review of partisan lawfare actions undertaken by the previous Biden government.

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Two groups of agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) filed separate lawsuits on Tuesday in federal court seeking to bar President Donald J. Trump and the Department of Justice (DOJ) from attaining the names of agents involved in the January 6 Capitol riot prosecutions. The agents allege that they believe President Trump intends to make the identities of FBI employees who were assigned to the January 6 cases public, which they contend could place them and their families in danger. show more
February 5, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Health
News
Politics

President Trump Signing Executive Order Banning Men From Women’s Sports.

President Donald J. Trump is signing a new executive order that will ban biological males from competing in women’s sports, press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Wednesday, February 5. Leavitt spoke at a White House press conference, stating the order was to defend the safety of female athletes and to uphold Title IX.

“This common-sense action from President Trump ends the disgusting betrayal of women and girls by the previous administration, who, for years, catered to radical activists who wanted biological males to be treated as women in workplace showers, competitive sports, prisons, and even rape shelters,” Leavitt said. “Gender ideology insanity is over,” she added.

The move came after President Trump signed an executive order shortly after his inauguration recognizing only two sexes, male and female.

The order has already been challenged by a transgender inmate currently residing in a women’s prison despite the inmate being biologically male. The lawsuit was initiated by inmate Maria Moe, who alleged the order intentionally discriminates against transgenders as it looks to both transfer biological males to men’s prisons and to halt federally subsidized sex changes. Some estimates suggest up to 15 percent of inmates in U.S. women’s federal prisons are biological males.

President Trump has also ordered a halt to the transitioning of minors, which includes both reassignment surgeries and hormone therapies. Despite this, leftist New York Attorney General Letitia James has ordered hospitals in her state to ignore the order and follow state law instead.

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President Donald J. Trump is signing a new executive order that will ban biological males from competing in women's sports, press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Wednesday, February 5. Leavitt spoke at a White House press conference, stating the order was to defend the safety of female athletes and to uphold Title IX. show more
February 5, 2025
William Upton
Politics

Congressional Democrats Are Already Trying to Impeach President Trump… AGAIN.

Representative Al Green (D-TX), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus known for making bloviating speeches while simply casting a vote, is filing articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump. The actual charges are unclear, though in a meandering floor speech, Rep. Green appeared to justify the move by falsely claiming President Trump is committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza while alluding vaguely to “dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.”

Notably, this will be at least the third attempt by Congressional Democrats to impeach Trump. During his first term in the White House, Democrats held two impeachment votes against the America First leader. In each instant, the Senate found the impeachment charges adopted by the House Democrats unconvincing and voted against conviction and removal.

“And I rise today, Mr. Speaker, here with a ‘To Whom it May Concern’ message. To whom it may concern, ethnic cleansing in Gaza is not a joke. Especially when it emanates from the President of the United States—the most powerful person in the world,” Green declared on the House floor on Wednesday, seeming to be serious in believing that Trump intends to commit crimes against humanity. “I rise to announce that the movement to impeach the President has begun,” he continued.

“I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the President for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done,” the Texas Democrat said, claiming that his impeachment move is a “grassroots” action. Green concluded with a bizarre claim that “nobody knows more about [impeachment] than I.”

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Representative Al Green (D-TX), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus known for making bloviating speeches while simply casting a vote, is filing articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump. The actual charges are unclear, though in a meandering floor speech, Rep. Green appeared to justify the move by falsely claiming President Trump is committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza while alluding vaguely to "dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done." show more
February 4, 2025
Data
Politics

Trump Reaches Peak Popularity Amidst Aggressive Second Term Start.

President Donald J. Trump continues to ride a wave of public popularity following his landslide 2024 election victory in November. Recent polls show Trump’s public approval rating hitting a historic high, with data from Real Clear Politics indicating 48.8 percent of voters have a favorable impression of the America First leader, above the 47.9 percent who view him unfavorably.

The wave of support for Trump is largely driven by his aggressive implementation of the America First agenda he campaigned on. President Trump has signed a bevy of executive orders during his first two weeks in the White House, launching a mass deportation operation to address the country’s illegal immigration crisis, a partial shutdown of the U.S. border with Mexico, and the imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods.

Additionally, tariff threats against Canada and Mexico brought the two American neighbors into alignment with President Trump’s efforts to crack down on illegal border crossings and the illicit drug trade—especially the trafficking of fentanyl.

President Trump’s fast-paced enactment of his agenda is garnering broad support among the American electorate. A recent survey found that 39 percent of registered voters now say they view Trump more favorably as he’s taken unprecedented action to reverse American decline under former President Joe Biden.

The National Pulse previously reported that survey data suggests nearly two-thirds of Americans support the actions taken by President Trump during his first week in office. Additionally, a majority of Americans say they approve of Trump’s cabinet picks.

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President Donald J. Trump continues to ride a wave of public popularity following his landslide 2024 election victory in November. Recent polls show Trump's public approval rating hitting a historic high, with data from Real Clear Politics indicating 48.8 percent of voters have a favorable impression of the America First leader, above the 47.9 percent who view him unfavorably. show more