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Bezos‘s hand was forced.

I'd rather think he's seen the light. But who knows?

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Will be interesting, he's got the background for sure

Weren't both Clintons notorious for treating their protective details like shit and regarded them as barely above hotel bellhops?

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Weren't both Clintons notorious for treating their protective details like shit and regarded them as barely above hotel bellhops?

I've seen several documentaries on the USSS and the Clintons, best I can tell Bill was actually reasonably well liked, personable and not really that big of an A-hole. Unlike his wife who didn't want USSS or military personnel in her line of sight, ever.

James Woods is a national treasure....

#FangBanger - awesome...

https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/s.../1894798900026089718

I want to mention something about the 100+ intelligence employees that were fired for having foul and nasty chat rooms. I don't know if it is public knowledge, but those chat rooms were on a classified network called SIPRNET. These demons were hiding behind their security clearances. I bring it up because these people were using government systems that are in place to protect our nation's secrets to hide their dirty secrets. I am very glad they were exposed.

That’s a great BB headline! Hard to choose among so many, but I liked this one:

Trump Fired After Forgetting to Reply to Elon’s E-Mail

The Epoch Times

Now, one more amazing idea! Brings capital and investment in to the country.

“ Trump to Launch ‘Gold Card’ Visas That Would Grant Residency for $5 Million”

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And I believe they could absolutely, positively pull it off. When you let the private sector do something they're good at-- and where there's a profit motive to get it done as efficiently as possible-- things happen.

Private contractors have run immigration detention facilities for decades. Adding removal flights (staffed by contractor employees) would be a game-changer.

Side note, Blackwater never lost a protectee/principal when they were in the security business overseas with State or DoD. Lost a bunch of their own guys, but never somebody they had a duty to protect.

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1. Do it. Do it now.

2. Cue the pearl-clutching and "Literally Hitler" memes from the usual suspects.

Somebody call the whambulance!


White House kicks HuffPost, Reuters and foreign press out of first Trump Cabinet meeting

By NIKKI SCHWAB, CHIEF CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM AT THE WHITE HOUSE
PUBLISHED: 13:57 EST, 26 February 2025 | UPDATED: 17:16 EST, 26 February 2025

The White House kicked HuffPost, Reuters and a representative of the foreign press out of the traditional 'pool' Wednesday, making good on press secretary Karoline Leavitt's pledge to pick which outlets cover the president in confined spaces.

Ahead of President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting, the three reporters were told they weren't allowed to join the rest of the pool by press aides.

They were banished alongside the Associated Press' reporter and photographer, who were ousted from the pool indefinitely earlier this month over the wire service's refusal to use the term 'Gulf of America' instead of 'Gulf of Mexico'.

HuffPost's longtime White House reporter S.V. Date told DailyMail.com that the White House was aware ahead of time that he was scheduled to serve as the representative for print outlets - newspaper and online - for events at the White House Wednesday.

For decades, the White House Correspondents' Association, a membership organization made up of journalists from an array of outlets, determined a rotation for the daily pool.

On Wednesday, instead of allowing Date to join the pool, the White House had a reporter from Axios take his place.

'I will say this, I've been pooling now for 10 years, since the Obama administration,' Date told reporters in the briefing room.

'The number of times that the Obama White House, Trump White House 1, Biden White House and Trump White House 2 in the times that I've pooled so far have asked for a mistake to be corrected in one of my pool reports? Zero. None. Never,' he argued.

'The number of times that any of those White Houses have asked for a correction in one of my stories, that's also zero.'

'So, it's not about accuracy, it's not about competence, and I'll let them explain what it's about,' said Date, who penned a book about Trump entitled 'Useful Idiot.'

A White House official told DailyMail.com that the '[White House Correspondents' Association] pool that HuffPost was a part of no longer exists.'

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later expressed that HuffPost would remain in the White House's 'pool.'

Axios spokesperson Jake Wilkins told DailyMail.com that the outlet had not been informed about the circumstances under which the pool slot became available.

'We had nothing to do with the decision to remove HuffPost and were unaware of that decision when we accepted the spot,' Wilkins said.

Ahead of Reuters' exclusion, the top editors at all three wire services - the Associated Press, Reuters and Bloomberg - sent out a joint statement protesting the White House's decision to limit access.

'It is essential in a democracy for the public to have access to news about their government from an independent, free press,' the statement said. 'We believe that any steps by the government to limit the number of wire services with access to the President threatens that principle.'

'It also harms the spread of reliable information to people, communities, businesses and global financial markets that heavily depend on our reporting,' the statement read.

Traditionally, a reporter from each of the wires has always been included in the pool.

The Associated Press has already sued three members of the administration to regain access but a judge this week didn't immediately rectify the situation.

The White House interpreted that as a win, trolling the AP by having the TVs in the briefing room on Monday night read: 'Victory - Gulf of America.'

Leavitt, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich were all named in the suit.

On Wednesday, with Reuters and the foreign pooler gone, the White House also added a representative from the 'new media.'

White House staff selected Chris Bedford from The Blaze, the conservative news site originally founded by former Fox News personality Glenn Beck.

'We want more outlets and new outlets to have a chance ot take part in the press pool, to cover the administration's unprecedented achievements up close, front-and-center,' Leavitt said Tuesday when explaining the White House's unprecedented decision to control which reporters made up the pool.

She continued: 'As you all know for decades, a group of D.C.-based journalists, the White House Correspondents' Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the president of the United States in these most intimate spaces.'

'Not anymore,' the 27-year-old press secretary said.

'I am proud to announce that we are going to give the power back to the people who read your papers, who watch your television shows and who listen to your radio stations,' Leavitt said. 'Moving forward the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team.'

The announcement has been slammed by press freedom advocates.

Eugene Daniels, this year's president of the WHCA, said in a statement that the Correspondents' Association had been blindsided by the White House's announcement.

'To be clear, the White House did not give the WHCA board a heads up or have any discussions about today’s announcements,' he said.

He also argued that the Trump White House wasn't increasing access but rather picking and choosing which reporters got closest to the president.

'This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States,' Daniels said. 'It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president.'

'In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps,' Daniels offered.

He also noted that the WHCA has expanded 'its pool rotations to facilitate the inclusion of new and emerging outlets.'

'Since its founding in 1914, the WHCA has sought to ensure that the reporters, photographers, producers and technicians who actually do the work – 365 days of every year – decide amongst themselves how these rotations are operated, so as to ensure consistent professional standards and fairness in access on behalf of all readers, viewers and listeners,' Daniels said.

Fox News Channel's Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, a WHCA board member, publicly chastised the White House's decision.

'This move does not give the power back to the people - it gives power to the White House,' she wrote on X.

'The WHCA is democratically elected by the full-time White House press corps,' she explained. 'WHCA has determined pools for decades because only representatives FROM our outlets can determine resources all those outlets have - such as staffing - in order to get the President's message out to the largest possible audience, no matter the day or hour.'

Fox News and Newsmax also signed onto a letter supporting the AP that was organized by the WHCA.

The National Press Club's President Mike Balsamo said in a statement that the White House's move represented a 'direct challenge to the independence of a free press in the United States.'

'The press pool, working weekends, holidays and often at great personal cost, should never be replaced by a handpicked group of insiders,' Balsamo said. 'We urge the White House to reverse course immediately and preserve the integrity of the press pool for the good of our democracy.'

The New York Times' Peter Baker compared the White House's moves to Kremlin's and received a heated response from Leavitt.

'Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access,' Baker posted to X.

Leavitt clapped back by posting a clown emoji.

'Give me a break, Peter,' she wrote. 'Moments after you tweeted this, the President invited journalists into the Oval and took questions for nearly an hour,' she argued. 'Your hysterical reaction to our long overdue and much needed change to an outdated organization is precisely why we made it.'

She then made the attack personal.

'Gone are the days where left-wing stenographers posing as journalists, such as yourself, dictate who gets to ask what,' she told Baker.

Y'all remember that little trial against Trump in Georgia, and the whacky DA that thought she was invincible...

Well... would you look at that, and, so Fani can't cry racism, look at the judge that did the order..

https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1894841826408046683

Nothing will stop that harpy’s screech of “waycism”.

Supreme Court Pauses Wednesday Night Deadline for Trump Admin to Restart Foreign Aid Payments
The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal at the high court Wednesday night asking the court to halt the midnight deadline.

The Supreme Court on Feb. 26 temporarily paused a federal judge’s order giving the Trump administration until midnight to resume $2 billion in foreign aid payments.

The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court Wednesday night asking the court to halt the midnight deadline until the motion is resolved.

Chief Justice John Roberts said the order will remain on hold until the Supreme Court weighs in more fully on the matter.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...&ea_med=desktop_news

Pam Bondi announces Epstein flight logs are expected to be released on Thursday

https://justthenews.com/govern..._campaign=newsletter

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday night announced that the Justice Department is expected to release more information about alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, including his flight logs.

The House Federal Secrets taskforce pushed the Justice Department to release information on Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. His alleged partner Ghislane Maxwell has been convicted of multiple crime, including sex trafficking, in connection to Epstein. The financier was previously convicted of sex offenses.

Bondi told Fox News' Jesse Watters that the delay in releasing the information, including his client list, is because there are over 250 alleged Epstein victims, whose identities and personal information needed to be protected.

"Tomorrow ... I think you're going to see some Epstein information being released by my office," she said. "What you're going to see hopefully tomorrow is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information. But it's pretty sick what that man did."

The announcement was praised by the taskforce's chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna, who led the calls for more transparency from the department when it comes to Epstein and President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

"Well done! This is the transparency the American people ASKED FOR!" She posted on X.

The development comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month that declassifies records related to the assassinations of JFK, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.



Supreme Court agrees to Trump admin's request to delay midnight deadline to unfreeze foreign aid

https://justthenews.com/govern..._campaign=newsletter

The Supreme Court on Wednesday night agreed to delay a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments.

The Justice Department filed the emergency application on Wednesday, stating that it would not be able to meet the deadline because it would take weeks to pay out the money, per CNN.

“The court’s 11:59 p.m. 30-some-hour deadline thus moved all the goalposts,” acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote in the application. “It is not tailored to any actual payment deadlines associated with respondents’ invoices or drawn-down requests, or anyone else’s. And it has thrown what should be an orderly review by the government into chaos."

The deadline was imposed by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, after plaintiffs stated that the Trump administration was slow to act on his order to restore funding for USAID and State Department contracts from the Biden administration according to The Hill.

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Use the DOGE savings to fund this…and do it now.

From the article posted above by 12131. . .

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'So, it's not about accuracy, it's not about competence, and I'll let them explain what it's about,' said Date, who penned a book about Trump entitled 'Useful Idiot.'

Looks like S.V. Date, who up until recently was HuffPo’s long-time White House reporter, was served up a good helping of FAFO!!

What a maroon!!

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Pam Bondi announces Epstein flight logs are expected to be released on Thursday

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday night announced that the Justice Department is expected to release more information about alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, including his flight logs.

Bondi told Fox News' Jesse Watters ...

Don’t get Stuck in the Epstein Weeds, Instead Ask: Why is the United States Attorney General on Fox News Every Day?

I’m going to skip the nonsense Pam Bondi keeps feeding the gullible masses about the Epstein “information”, or whatever she is labeling it this time. Instead, I am going to highlight the purpose of Pam Bondi through a very simple observation:

Why is United States Attorney General Pam Bondi on Fox News every day?

The answer is because she’s performative, not substantive. Just as she saw her primary job in Florida as managing public perceptions, she is doing the same as United States Attorney General.

https://theconservativetreehou...ery-day/#more-269608

Someone needs to ask the AG why these Epstein files have been sat upon for so long. Who has been blocking their release and why? Everyone whose fingerprints are on this needs to be outed and asked about it.