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Originally posted by chellim1:
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Trump has said that he may also consider invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used federal law that empowers the president to deploy U.S. military forces domestically to suppress insurrections, rebellions, or domestic violence when local authorities are unable or unwilling to maintain order.
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Originally posted by Ripley:
Prickster

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Originally posted by pbslinger:
If DT isn't the winner, they've lost all remaining credibility. If it's a co winner with a terrorist, I'm banning by curtailing my dynamite purchases.

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I want to begin by thanking you, President Trump and General Bondi for your transparency regarding the blatantly unconstitutional surveillance activities conducted on the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives by the Biden Administration during Operation Arctic Frost. Your willingness to expose these abuses is crucial to getting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) focused back on its core mission of delivering justice for all.

I’m writing to seek information regarding the surveillance of my private communications and phone records during this FBI investigation.

Please deliver the following information to my staff not later than November 1, 2025:

• All FBI and DOJ records that identify which members of the Biden Administration authorized or approved the surveillance of my phone records and communications as part of Operation Arctic Frost, including:
o The names of all DOJ officials who approved or were briefed on this surveillance;
o The names of all FBI officials involved in the authorization process;
o The name and title of any White House officials who were informed or involved in approving this operation.

• The entire data file collected on me, including:
o All phone records and data collected;
o If collected, any recordings or transcripts of my private communications.
• The legal statutes cited to justify the collection and all legal memoranda and documents used to gain approval of the surveillance.
• The names and titles of every official who had access to my data.
• All instances and dates where my data was accessed or viewed.
• Any individuals with whom my information was shared.
• Whether any of my communications were presented to Congressional committees, the Biden White House, or other agencies.
• Any grand jury testimony materials created or presented.
• Any instances in which National Security Agency (NSA) or other non-DOJ intelligence community personnel or resources were used in surveillance of me;
• Documentation of any other surveillance conducted by the FBI or DOJ from January 20, 2021 through January 20, 2025 on me related to my official duties as a United States Senator.

I believe that the surveillance of sitting United States Senators by the executive branch represents one of the most serious infringements on the separation of powers in American history. It seriously impinges on both my civil rights and my constitutional duties as a legislator, especially since this surveillance was directly connected to core legislative activities protected by the Speech or Debate Clause of the United States Constitution.
The American people deserve to know the truth about how the Biden Administration weaponized federal law enforcement against their elected representatives. Those responsible will be held accountable.

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Originally posted by 12131:
…The silence from the left is deafening. Lol.

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1 hour(s) ago
MSNBC panel lauds Trump over 'remarkable' Israel-Hamas peace deal

President Donald Trump's peace plan for the Middle East was praised by MSNBC panelists Jon Meacham, a presidential historian, and David Ignatius, a Washington Post columnist, on Thursday.

"As ever, it depends on how the chapter ends. But the beginning of this chapter is remarkable. And one of the things about honesty and citizenship and a sense of, I would say, maturity about what people in a democracy should do is even if someone with whom you disagree about 99 things, does the 100 really well, you should say so, because that's what intellectual honesty is. And so all credit to President Trump and his, as you say, unconventional team," Meacham told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

Hamas agreed this week to a peace deal pushed by Trump to end the war in Gaza and return the hostages, two years after the terror group attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Ignatius told the co-hosts that Trump was able to do what former President Joe Biden was not.

"I can remember in the month or so after Oct. 7, an Israeli senior official saying to me, ‘We are so disoriented and traumatized by this war, the United States is going to have to make decisions for us.’ Joe Biden could never do that, and Donald Trump was able to do it — did it at the decisive moment — when he said, essentially, this war must end and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, which many right-wing Israelis wanted," he said.

Ignatius said Trump's team, including Steve Witkoff, U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, reached out to the Arabs and developed important relationships.

"What’s interesting about that, Joe and Mika, is that it took ideas from all over the Arab world — from the UAE, from Qatar, from Saudi Arabia, from Tony Blair in Britain — and pulled them all together into a single plan with the U.S. weight of support behind it. That’s how we got here. And in each case, it’s Trump deciding these people, endless combatants, cannot do it on their own. ‘I’m going to intervene forcefully.’ Tragically, that is something that Joe Biden, for all his desire for peace, wasn’t able to do," he said.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Hanna Panreck

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Originally posted by jsbcody:

Too late, they lost ALL credibility when they gave one to Obummer for being Blackish...