Trump’s War on Cartels: U.S. Military Preps Lethal Strikes in Mexico
Robert Semonsen, Gateway Pundit, Aug. 21, 2025
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/trumps-war-cartels-u-s-military-preps-lethal/)
The Trump administration has issued directives for the U.S. military to develop plans for lethal operations targeting Mexican drug cartels, according to investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein’s reporting.
These plans, initiated in late spring 2025, involve Northern Command (NORTHCOM) preparing strike options by mid-September.
Military sources indicate the focus is on transnational criminal organizations, particularly the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels.
President Trump designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations early in his term, enabling broader national security responses.
The State Department formally labeled groups like Cartel de Sinaloa and Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion as Foreign Terrorist Organizations in February 2025.
This classification aligns with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s view that cartels should be treated as armed terrorist entities rather than mere drug traffickers.
U.S.-Mexico military relations remain cooperative, with ongoing joint training and intelligence sharing. However, any unilateral U.S. action inside Mexico raises sovereignty concerns for both governments.
High-level meetings, including a July 2025 session at NORTHCOM headquarters, emphasized the need for coordinated responses to shared threats.
NORTHCOM Commander Gen. Gregory M. Guillot highlighted in February 2025 congressional testimony that cartels pose a direct threat to U.S. sovereignty through drug trafficking and migration facilitation.
He noted increased intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance efforts approved by the Department of Defense. Guillot also stressed closer operational compatibility between U.S. and Mexican forces than ever before.
The CIA has expanded drone reconnaissance over Mexico to identify fentanyl production sites, supporting the administration’s anti-cartel campaign.
Previous operations in Mexico involved the Joint Special Operations Command for targeted actions. Now, NORTHCOM’s Special Operations Command North is preparing target packages for potential air, drone, or ground strikes against high-value cartel assets.
Fentanyl trafficking by these cartels has contributed to a severe public health crisis in the United States. Provisional data show over 82,000 drug overdose deaths in the 12 months ending January 2025, following a dip to about 80,400 in 2024.
The intelligence community’s March 2025 threat assessment identified Western Hemisphere-based transnational criminal organizations as the most immediate danger to American security.
In April 2025 testimony, Gen. Guillot acknowledged that fentanyl-related deaths have not decreased significantly despite enhanced intelligence foundations. He requested more ISR resources and expanded authorities for advise-and-assist operations with elite Mexican units.
Mexico’s government has permitted limited U.S. special forces training, such as deployments in early 2025 for counter-cartel preparation. Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Colby Jenkins described these efforts as vital to denying cartels their objectives. Despite this, full approval for U.S. military strikes remains uncertain due to political sensitivities.
The administration views cartel activities as an invasion threat, justifying preparations similar to post-9/11 counterterrorism measures. Sources indicate President Trump’s focus on results prioritizes national security outcomes over potential diplomatic challenges.
Military planning integrates coordination with the FBI, homeland security agencies, and intelligence community. Potential operations could involve direct action by special forces, akin to U.S. strikes in other regions.
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NY Appeals Court Tosses Trump’s $500 Million Penalty In Letitia James Case
Jon Dougherty, Conservative Brief, Aug. 21, 2025
(https://conservativebrief.com/appeals-trump-james-94421/)
A New York appellate court has overturned the $500 million civil fraud penalty imposed on former President Donald Trump in the case brought by Attorney General Letitia James.
In its decision, the Appellate Division ruled that the disgorgement order amounted to an excessive fine in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The ruling marks a major legal victory for Trump, wiping away one of the largest financial penalties he has faced in years.
The case stemmed from James’s 2022 lawsuit accusing Trump and his company of inflating property values to secure favorable loans and insurance terms. A trial court initially found Trump liable for fraud, leading to the imposition of the $500 million penalty earlier this year. Trump’s legal team appealed, arguing that the fine was disproportionate and unconstitutional, Fox News reported.
James, who campaigned on holding Trump accountable, had cast the case as a landmark effort to demonstrate that no individual or corporation is above the law. Trump, by contrast, denounced the lawsuit as politically motivated and part of what he has called a broader campaign of “lawfare” against him.
The appellate ruling does not erase the underlying fraud finding but significantly reduces the financial consequences for Trump. It remains unclear whether James will seek further review from the state’s highest court.
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The decision quickly sparked political reactions. Trump allies hailed the ruling as vindication, saying it underscored what they describe as prosecutorial overreach by James and other Democratic officials. Critics, however, stressed that the court left the fraud finding intact and argued that Trump’s conduct had already been clearly established.
Beyond the political fallout, the ruling carries significant implications for Trump’s business empire. The reversal of such a large financial penalty eases immediate pressure on his company’s liquidity and borrowing power, which could have been severely strained had the judgment stood.
BREAKING! Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook Exposed in Multi-State Mortgage Fraud Scheme Tied to Deep State Real Estate Laundering — Trump Demands Immediate Resignation as QFS Audits Confirm Elite Financial Crimes!
Ethan White, Gazetteller, August 21, 2025
(https://gazetteller.com/breaking-federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook-exposed-in-multi-state-mortgage-fraud-scheme-tied-to-deep-state-real-estate-laundering-trump-demands-immediate-resignation-as-qfs-audits-confirm/)
August 21, 2025 — The noose is tightening around the global elite’s neck, and the Lisa Cook mortgage fraud scandal is just the latest unraveling thread. This is not just about one corrupt Federal Reserve Governor. This is about an entire financial crime network protected under Biden’s fake regime, planted to rig the economy against the American people. But now that President Trump is back in the White House, the gloves are off—and the criminal exposure is just beginning.
Lisa D. Cook, the Biden-appointed Fed Governor, didn’t just lie on a mortgage. She knowingly and willfully manipulated federal housing regulations to secure loans under false pretenses—textbook mortgage fraud, weaponized for elite benefit. But her crime isn’t isolated. This is part of a much bigger system—a rigged game played by Obama-era leftovers, Soros-funded pawns, and central bank puppets still trying to drain America while they can.
Cook claimed two separate properties as her “primary residence”—one in Michigan (June 2021), and another in Georgia (just two weeks later). That’s impossible unless she has the ability to bi-locate like a Vatican Jesuit, which ironically isn’t far off considering the esoteric games these elites play behind closed doors.
Let’s get blunt. This wasn’t a clerical mistake. This wasn’t a “misunderstanding.” This was fraud committed by a sitting Federal Reserve Governor—a woman who signs off on interest rate policy that affects 330 million Americans. And it wasn’t just fraud—it was fraud designed to cheat the system for elite gain, while the rest of us are crushed under record-high mortgage rates, inflation, and manipulated housing shortages.
Bill Pulte, now at the helm of the FHFA after Trump cleaned house earlier this year, filed the criminal referral straight to the DOJ. Pulte exposed that Cook not only lied about her “primary residence” to lock in better terms, but she hid the rental income from that Georgia property in her federal disclosures. In 2022, the condo was listed for rent. In 2022 and 2023, zero income was reported.
That’s not just unethical. That’s a cover-up.
Let’s ask the real question: Who else knew? Who helped her? Who approved her application? What bank officer looked the other way?
Cook’s defenders are already falling back on the old Deep State script: deflect, deny, and cry victim. She went public saying she wouldn’t be “bullied” into resigning. That’s the same language used by every entrenched criminal who gets caught in a federal web but thinks their globalist handlers will bail them out. They won’t. Not anymore. Not under Trump.
And let’s be clear: this isn’t just about one mortgage.
The Fed has been used for decades as a laundering machine for the elite. Since 1913, it’s been the hidden weapon of the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Trilateral Commission. While Americans were forced into endless wars and inflation cycles, these people funneled billions through black budget pipelines—often using real estate as the easiest vehicle to move dirty money.
And Lisa Cook? She’s neck-deep in the Obama financial network. Her rise through academia, funded by Gates-backed fellowships, her strategic posting in the Fed, and her positioning on race-based economic “equity” panels weren’t coincidental—they were globalist chess moves. She wasn’t picked to fix the system. She was picked to guard it.
But with Trump back in power since January 2025, and with the National Economic Security & Reformation Act (NESARA) quietly gaining operational traction behind the scenes, that system is collapsing. The QFS audits now running under Treasury oversight—after Trump absorbed the Fed into the Treasury earlier this year—are beginning to surface names, dates, transfers. Cook’s name didn’t just “pop up” because of Pulte. It was already being watched.
Pulte was the public tip of the spear, but insiders confirm: Cook was already red-flagged during QFS backtrace operations in Q2 of 2025. Her fraudulent filings triggered multiple inconsistencies in residential loan routing, specifically tied to Atlanta-based holding groups with ties to known laundering entities out of Chicago.
This gets even darker.
Sources embedded within the QFS monitoring team revealed that Cook’s mortgage filings linked to a pattern of real estate loans tied to shell companies in Georgia and Illinois—two states where Dominion voting servers were forensically mirrored earlier this year during Trump’s military cybersecurity sweeps. It’s all connected: fraud, finance, elections, and Federal Reserve actors all feeding from the same poisoned trough.
That’s why Trump didn’t hesitate to call for her resignation the moment this went public.
“Cook must resign, now!!” Trump posted on Truth Social, wasting no time. He knows. He’s already seen the unredacted files. This is a war for the republic, and the enemy isn’t hiding anymore—they’re embedded inside the very system we were told to trust.
We’re not just witnessing corruption. We’re watching the crumbling of a Babylonian tower built on debt, lies, and elite immunity. And Trump—real President Trump—is tearing it down brick by brick.
Lisa Cook’s mortgage fraud is just the beginning.
Ask yourself: how many more Federal Reserve board members are laundering property? How many “nonprofits” are acting as pass-through entities for IMF-backed real estate buys? Why do the same Fed appointees always sit on panels with BlackRock and World Economic Forum operatives?
Because it’s all one beast. One machine. And it’s being dismembered in real time.
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DECLASSIFIED BOMBSHELL: State Dossier Exposes Clinton Foundation Corruption — FBI Wanted Full Investigations, But Obama’s DOJ SHUT IT DOWN — Just Declassified by FBI Director Kash Patel!!!
Medeea Greere, AMG News, August 21, 2025
(https://amg-news.com/declassified-bombshell-state-dossier-exposes-clinton-foundation-corruption-fbi-wanted-full-investigations-but-obamas-doj-shut-it-down-just-declassified-by-fbi-director-k/)
Declassified FBI memo proves multiple field offices were investigating the Clinton Foundation for pay-to-play schemes tied to Clinton Cash — until Obama’s DOJ shut it down. Clinton crimes buried, corruption metastasized. Kash Patel shines light on the truth.
“DECLASSIFIED DOSSIER” — KASH PATEL PULLS THE TRIGGER ON THE CLINTON COVER-UP
The date is October 17, 2017. The document: an FBI internal work memo — never meant to see the light of day.
The revelation: multiple FBI field offices were actively investigating the Clinton Foundation for bribery, pay-to-play, and foreign influence-peddling schemes.
For years, Americans were told it was “conspiracy.” For years, the media mocked anyone who dared to question the Clintons’ so-called “charity.” But now, thanks to FBI Director Kash Patel, the truth is in the open. This isn’t just a paper trail. It’s a DECLASSIFIED BOMBSHELL that confirms what patriots already knew:
The FBI wanted to nail the Clintons. The evidence was mounting. The case was real. And then — the Obama DOJ ordered it killed. This isn’t oversight. This is treason in slow motion.
“CLINTON CASH” — THE BOOK THAT BURNED THROUGH THE DEEP STATE’S LIES
The declassified memo names it directly: the allegations at the heart of “Clinton Cash.”
That book ripped the mask off the Clinton Foundation, exposing how foreign governments, dictators, and corporate oligarchs used donations to buy political favors, approvals, and access to America’s highest office. Uranium One. Foreign speaking fees. Saudi donations. Cash for weapons deals. All roads led to the Clinton Foundation.
The FBI didn’t stumble onto this. They had a roadmap, backed by research, financial records, and testimony. Field offices in Washington, New York, Little Rock, Los Angeles — all circling the same rotten core: the Clinton Foundation wasn’t a charity. It was a money-laundering operation for global power.
And yet, instead of unleashing a full-force criminal investigation, Obama’s DOJ hit the brakes.
OBAMA DOJ — THE PROTECTIVE SHIELD FOR CLINTON CRIMES
The memo doesn’t lie. It shows how career FBI agents expressed interest in following the evidence, preparing to predicate a full investigation. And then the DOJ — under Obama — stepped in, not once, not twice, but systematically.
Whenever agents wanted to pursue leads, DOJ lawyers interfered. Whenever evidence was prepared, DOJ officials dismissed it as “ancillary.” Whenever the Clinton Foundation was about to be exposed for what it truly was, the order from the top was the same:
“Shut it down.”
Let that sink in. This wasn’t law enforcement. This wasn’t oversight. This was political obstruction of justice at the highest level. Obama’s DOJ wasn’t protecting the law. It was protecting the Clintons.
And in doing so, it wasn’t just killing an investigation. It was burying the Republic under the weight of corruption.
THIS ISN’T A “SMOKING GUN.” THIS IS THE ENTIRE ARSENAL.
For years, defenders of the Clintons demanded a “smoking gun.” Something undeniable. Something irrefutable. Well, here it is — and it’s not just a smoking gun.
It’s the whole arsenal:
FBI field offices in multiple states.
Leads tied directly to “Clinton Cash.”
Documented foreign bribes disguised as donations.
DOJ officials on record as blocking the cases.
This isn’t incompetence. This isn’t oversight. This is intentional sabotage of justice. And what did the Clintons do once shielded? They metastasized. They enriched themselves. They deepened their global ties. They laughed in the face of accountability, because they knew the system had been rigged to protect them.
KASH PATEL — THE LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
The only reason we are seeing this today is because of Kash Patel.
Patel, now serving as FBI Director, has been a relentless warrior for truth. Unlike the cowards who buried the Clinton cases, Patel chose to declassify the evidence. He tore down the wall of secrecy that shielded the Clintons for decades and handed the American people what they always deserved: the truth.
In a swamp filled with liars, Kash Patel is proof that there are still men of courage, willing to risk everything to expose corruption. His decision to declassify this memo is not just transparency. It is a direct act of war against the Clinton machine and the Deep State that enabled it.
Patel shines as the light that pierced the Clinton darkness. And the establishment will never forgive him for it.
FINAL VERDICT
- The Clinton Foundation wasn’t a charity. It was a global crime syndicate.
- The FBI knew. The evidence existed.
- And Obama’s DOJ killed the case.
But now, thanks to the courage of Kash Patel, the truth is public.
This is not a “smoking gun.” It is the entire arsenal of proof — and it indicts not just the Clintons, but the entire corrupt system that shielded them.
- The question is no longer “Did the Clintons break the law?”
- The question is: Will America finally hold them accountable?
The Clintons cannot run. The DOJ cannot hide. The American people have the file now. And with Kash Patel leading the charge, the days of Clinton impunity are numbered.
Marines Arrest Traitor James Clapper
Michael Baxter, Real Raw News, August 20, 2025
(https://realrawnews.com/2025/08/marines-arrest-traitor-james-clapper/)
United States Marines on Tuesday arrested former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, the same day the current DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, stripped his security clearances based on evidence that he and his ex-boss, Barack Hussein Obama, hade orchestrated the bogus Russia Gate scandal to impugn Donald Trump’s character as he was running his first presidential campaign.
A White Hat source in General Eric M. Smith’s office told Real Raw News that they received the green light to seize the 84-year-old Deep Stater 30 minutes after Gabbard revoked his security clearance. The arrest went down at Clapper’s Bethesda, Maryland, residence, while he was reportedly recording anti-Trump sound bites to be aired on CNN the following evening. Clapper, a lifelong spook, had earned three million dollars annually as CNN’s national intelligence “expert.”
The grizzled geezer, our source said, refused to open his door when Marines shouted through his Ring home security camera, instead saying his “impregnable” home was protected by double deadbolt-locked doors and bulletproof windows. “I’m calling the police,” the old bastard told the Marines.
But the Marines had already deployed cell phone jammers, devices that disrupt and block communication between phones and cell towers, and had disabled the internet node that provided cable/net service to Clapper and nearby residents. The Marines figured they’d have Clapper in custody before Spectrum acknowledged a local outage and sent repair technicians to the area.
Clapper’s reinforced doors might’ve survived small arms fire, or even a battering ram, but not shaped C4 charges placed beside the hinges.
“Exit the house, unarmed, with your hand above your head, or we’ll blow the door open,” the Marine in charge shouted, knowing that Clapper was watching through his cameras the Marines placing explosives on the front and rear doors.
“You can’t do this to me,” Clapper said. “I’m James Clapper.”
“You’d better stand away, Clapper, we’re coming in,” the Marine commander said.
“No, no, don’t do it, I’m coming out. I’ll fight this in court,” Clapper replied, finally opening his door and stepping onto his porch, where Marines subdued him and put him in the rear seat of an unmarked SUV.
“I have powerful friends,” Clapper said.
“Princess Leia said to Darth Vader in Star Wars,” the Marine retorted, “but this is reality, not fiction.”
Our source said Clapper was taken to a JAG processing center.
“He’ll go to GITMO for trial and his crimes will be made known,” our source said.
ODNI Mass Purges Deep Staters, Obama and Biden Holdovers, and 90-Year-Old Geezers Who Were Still Collecting Government Checks
Michael Baxter, Real Raw News, August 21, 2025
(https://realrawnews.com/2025/08/odni-mass-purges-deep-staters-obama-and-biden-holdovers-and-90-year-old-geezers-who-were-still-collecting-government-checks/)
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) went on a firing spree yesterday, terminating nearly half its staff, including 61 employees over 80 years old who had never retired and were still collecting checks despite not having set foot in an office or done any work since 2013.
When Donald J. Trump retook the Oval Office in January, he ordered Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who oversees 18 alphabet agencies, to weed out Obama and Biden-era holdovers who had entrenched themselves in the government. Exposing Deep Staters has been a painstaking task that involved repeatedly polygraphing and interviewing thousands of personnel. The ODNI’s colossal effort, though, culminated in yesterday’s purge; scores of disloyal workers were escorted by security from 37 federal buildings across the country.
Not all potential traitors, however, were in their offices when Tulsi Gabbard began issuing termination notices. The ODNI’s investigation revealed that 61 employees long past mandatory retirement age hadn’t retired and were still collecting paychecks even though they hadn’t shown up for work for, in some cases, 20 years.
Take, for example, ancient Johnaton Lee, who joined the ODNI after earning a Ph.D. in criminology from Hofstra University in 2008. A late bloomer, Lee was 47 when he finished school and got the job, and spent the entirety of his career at the ODNI’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia. In 2015, Lee fell ill and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a chronic, debilitating, incurable disease. The ODNI director at the time, James Clapper, whose arrest RRN reported yesterday, offered Lee early retirement and full pension benefits, but Lee refused and insisted he could still perform his duties. Clapper applauded Lee’s resolve, even after Lee was confined to a wheelchair, lost his ability to speak coherently, and began working remotely from home.
It’s natural to sympathize with Lee’s plight; he was stricken with a sickness most people wouldn’t wish on their worst enemy. But immobility hadn’t stopped him from espousing disgust at anyone opposing Obama. Lee, with his limited speech, had told Clapper that Obama ought to suspend the 2016 presidential election so he could remain in power.
It’s unclear and impossible to fathom how Lee stayed employed from 2017 to 2021, by which time he had clearly shown his true colors and was bedridden. Yet he still received direct deposits, $14,175/month as a GS-15 federal employee.
Those payouts continued throughout Biden’s illegal presidency and stopped only yesterday when ODNI personnel showed up at Lee’s home and handed his nurse a notice of immediate dismissal.
Another example is 86-year-old Fredrick Raymond Oaks, who until yesterday had been with the ODNI since 2009. Oakes is a computer programmer and a graduate of the California Institute of Technology. After graduating, he worked exclusively for the government, first as a CIA analyst (2005-2007), then as a “target package” designator for the Air Force—he helped program RQ-1 Predator drones. In March 2009, he joined the ODNI and took part in compiling Obama’s “enemies list,” an encyclopedic catalogue of patriots critical of Hussein’s autocratic rule over the country. Like Lee, he had slipped through the cracks and avoided termination until Trump’s current government began a deep dive into employee files. Oaks, who has smoked four packs of cigarettes a day for the last 60 years and now survives only on supplemental oxygen, was canned along with many government geezers who long survived their expiry dates.
An ODNI source familiar with the firings told Real Raw News, “It’s really unimaginable, but we had dozens and dozens of folks in their 80s and even 90s still getting paid, and even while getting social security checks. If this is going on here, I’d bet it’s happening all over the government. We’ve kicked out 60, but, man, I bet more are out there.”
BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules 5-4 Trump Can Slash $783 Million in DEI-Linked NIH Grants – Roberts Sides with Liberals
Cristina Laila, Gateway Pundit, Aug. 21, 2025
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/breaking-supreme-court-rules-5-4-trump-can/)
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-4 that the Trump Administration may proceed with the termination of $783 million in DEI-linked NIH grants.
Chief Justice Roberts sided with the liberal justices – and Amy Coney Barrett actually voted with the conservatives.
Last month The Trump Administration asked the Supreme Court to block a court order from Boston-based Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee. Judge Young previously ordered the NIH to immediately restore the more than 800 grants halted by the Trump Administration.
DOJ Solicitor General John Sauer cited a recent Supreme Court ruling that allowed the Department of Education to block millions of dollars in grants that funded DEI policies.
Sauer told the Supreme Court in a petition that this case “presents a particularly clear case for this Court to intervene and stop errant district courts from continuing to disregard this Court’s rulings.”
According to SCOTUS Blog Saur wrote: “As this Court explained yesterday,” Sauer wrote, “when lower courts face materially identical stay requests, this Court’s emergency orders ‘squarely control[].’ Our judicial system rests on vertical stare decisis” – that is, the idea that lower courts should adhere to the precedents set by higher courts – rather than on “a lower-court free-for-all where individual district judges feel free to elevate their own policy judgements over those of the Executive Branch, and their own legal judgments over those of this Court.”
The Supreme Court lifted the lower court’s order blocking the Trump Administration from terminating the grants.
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JUST IN: Biden-Appointed Judge Orders Release of ‘Teens’ Who Violently Attacked Ex-DOGE Employee Edward Coristine, AKA “Big Balls”
Cristina Laila, Aug. 21, 2025
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/biden-appointed-judge-releases-teens-who-violently-attacked/)
DC Superior Court Judge Kendra Briggs, a Biden appointee, released two of the ‘teens’ who attacked former DOGE member Edward Coristine, AKA “Big Balls.”
Earlier this month, 19-year-old Edward Coristine was severely beaten in DC after he jumped into action to save his significant other’s life.
Trump posted a photo of Coristine after he was beaten bloody by the mob of teens. The President has since federalized DC to crack down on crime.
A police report revealed more details about Edward Coristine’s heroic actions defending his girlfriend from a pack of 10 teens during an attempted carjacking early Sunday morning.
According to the police report, Coristine pushed his girlfriend into the car and shut the door to shield her from the approaching mob. The 19-year-old was assaulted by 10 juvenile thugs after he shielded his girlfriend.
The two unidentified 15-year-olds who were arrested in connection with the attempted carjacking were ordered released by the Biden judge.
Judge Briggs released one teen to a youth shelter and the other to his mother.
“The fact that this court is stepping you down from Youth Services Center is a serious step,” Judge Briggs told the teens during a hearing in DC Superior Court, according to The Washington Post.
The Washington Post reported:
Two teens charged in the attempted carjacking of a former U.S. DOGE Service staffer earlier this month will be moved into less restrictive detention on orders from a D.C. judge, despite a prosecutor’s objection.
The hearing took place as President Donald Trump’s D.C. police takeover stretches into its second week — an extraordinary flex of federal power ignited in part by the Aug. 3 attack on Edward Coristine, a software engineer who began work in the federal government as a protégé of Elon Musk.
Police arrested the 15-year-old boy and girl from Maryland after the attempted carjacking in Northwest Washington. The teens were being held at the Youth Services Center, or YSC, a facility in D.C. that holds young offenders before and after their court hearings as they wait to be placed in rehabilitation centers.
The teens appeared Thursday in front of Judge Kendra D. Briggs in a hearing in D.C. Superior Court that shed little light on the alleged crime or those accused of committing it.
The girl will move to a youth shelter house, the boy to his mother’s home. Both will be subjected to, among other restrictions, electronic monitoring and a 24-hour curfew — “school and home, that’s it,” Briggs said.
White House Reporter Recounts Harrowing Story of How She Was Robbed at Gunpoint, Punched, and Pistol-Whipped in Broad Daylight in Washington, DC
Jordan Conradson, Gateway Pundit, Aug. 21, 2025
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/white-house-reporter-recounts-harrowing-story-how-she/)
Iris Tao, a 26-year-old White House reporter for Epoch Times sister outlet NTD revealed in a story on Wednesday that she, like many others, was a victim of a horrific, violent robbery in Washington, DC.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump declared a “public safety emergency,” citing high crime and unsafe streets in the nation’s capital, and federalized the DC police force last week. He further authorized the use of National Guard troops and deployed federal agents across the city to tackle the rampant crime, homelessness, and illegal immigration crises.
The then-24-year-old Iris Tao said the Trump Administration’s federal takeover and crackdown on crime in DC reminded her of the traumatizing morning in 2022, when she was violently mugged outside of her apartment at 8:30 in the morning. She was beaten and robbed by a masked man that morning.
But if you ask leftists and local Democratic leaders, they’ll say everything is ok now because violent crime in 2024 hit a 30-year low. However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, this data appears to have been falsified and manipulated at the direction of Metropolitan Police commander Michael Pulliam, an allegation which is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice. It has been alleged that many crimes go unreported, and serious felony reports have often been downgraded to make it appear that violent crimes and felonies are less frequent.
Iris says the numbers, whether real or fake, don’t matter because “lived experience tells a different story,” pointing to the thousands victimized by violent crime last year and the more than 100 DC homicides to date in 2025. “These are not just numbers. Each one is a person. A life cut short. A family changed forever,” Iris writes.
Because of this, Iris, expecting her first child to be born this year, does not plan to stay in Washington, DC, much longer— at least not until “both the numbers and the stories prove that the city has truly changed.”
Like most parents, she wants to give her child a hometown where “he can walk freely, play safely, and live without fear.”
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DECLASSIFIED: Federal Prosecutors Secured Evidence From FBI Brass That Comey Authorized Classified Leaks – But Declined to Bring Charges
Cristina Laila, Gateway Pundit, Aug. 21, 2025
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/declassified-federal-prosecutors-secured-evidence-fbi-brass-that/)
Newly declassified memos reveal federal prosecutors secured evidence from FBI brass indicating that former FBI Director James authorized classified leaks shortly before the 2016 election, but they declined to bring charges.
According to the memos obtained by Just The News, an investigation by the US Postal Inspection Service Agents revealed former FBI General Counsel James Baker and Comey’s Chief of Staff James Rybicki were involved in leaking the classified information to The New York Times in October 2016.
The specific classified information was not identified.
“The USPIS Investigation also revealed Baker disclosed USG classified information to the NYT under the belief he was ultimately instructed and authorized to do so by then FBI Director James Comey,” one summary memo reads, according to Just The News. “For example, during interviews, Baker indicated FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki instructed him (Baker) to disclose the information to the NYT, and Baker understood Rybicki was conveying this instruction and authorization from Comey.”
Just The News reported:
Federal prosecutors gathered evidence from James Comey’s top lieutenants that he authorized the leak of classified information to reporters just before the 2016 election but declined to bring criminal charges, according to recently declassified memos that call into question the former FBI director’s testimony to Congress.
The bombshell revelations involving ex-FBI general counsel James Baker and ex-Comey chief of staff James Rybicki were memorialized in documents that FBI Director Kash Patel discovered earlier this year, but the passages were originally redacted by the Justice Department in versions sent to Congress earlier this month.
Attorney General Pam Bondi intervened and eliminated the redactions, dispatching new versions of the memos this week to the House and Senate Judiciary committees, officials told Just the News.
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BLACKOUT FILES: Gates, Bezos, and Thiel EXPOSED — Funding the World’s Largest Pedophile Network, Turning Schools Into Grooming Labs Under a Total Media Blackout
Medeea Greere, AMG News, ugust 21, 2025
(https://amg-news.com/blackout-files-gates-bezos-and-thiel-exposed-funding-the-worlds-largest-pedophile-network-turning-schools-into-grooming-labs-under-a-total-media-blackout/)
Parents beware: declassified testimony reveals Gates, Bezos, and Thiel are bankrolling a pedophile grooming empire inside America’s schools. This isn’t philanthropy. It’s predation, protected by a total media blackout.
CLASSROOMS TURNED INTO HUNTING GROUNDS — THE GLOBALIST BLUEPRINT
The most sacred place in America — the classroom — has been hijacked. Parents send their children to school believing they are sending them into the care of educators. But in reality, they are delivering them into the hands of a machine designed by globalist billionaires: Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Peter Thiel.
These men are not “philanthropists.” They are architects of a grooming empire. Their billions don’t fund education — they bankroll social experiments that reduce children to test subjects in a vast laboratory of control.
Every tablet, every “STEM program,” every “equity curriculum” hides a darker purpose: data collection, identity breakdown, and psychological conditioning. What should be classrooms of learning have become grooming labs, funded and operated at the highest levels of global wealth.
Strip away the shiny brochures and glossy PR campaigns, and the truth emerges: these programs are not about preparing children for the future. They are about destroying the future by corrupting the child.
Teachers forced to implement billionaire-backed modules admit that the goals are chilling:
To force children to reject their identity and family heritage.
To coerce them into questioning their gender before they even understand biology.
To normalize the concept of adult–child “consent” under the disguise of “progressive tolerance.”
This is not accidental. It is the deliberate dismantling of innocence. A system designed to break children down so they can be rebuilt into compliant subjects of a globalist order.
And all of it flows from the money pipelines of Gates, Bezos, and Thiel — men who pose as innovators, but whose true legacy is the corruption of childhood itself.
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