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Widow of Corey Comperatore, the Firefighter Killed at Trump’s Butler Rally, Claims Shooting Was an “Inside Job”

Helen Comperatore, the wife of slain firefighter and Trump supporter Corey Comperatore sat down with NewsNation recently and gave her thoughts on the Trump Butler Rally shooting.

Former fire chief Corey Comperatore was shot and killed on July 14, 2024 while attending Trump’s Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Since the shooting, numerous questions have been raised about the Secret Service’s security failures at the rally.

Among the most talked about is why agents did not secure the rooftop from which 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to open fire on President Trump and several rally attendees.

Helen Comperatore, in a sit-down interview, claimed the security lapses were due to the shooting being an “inside job.”

Helen stated, “I don’t believe there was another shooter there, but I believe he (Crooks) was working with somebody. I believe it was an inside job inside the government.”

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Jim Jordan Fights UK Plan to Force Legacy Media Into Feeds

Britain’s government has decided that a functioning adult with thumbs and a phone cannot be trusted to pick your own news. So it has drawn up a plan to pick it for you.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport published a paper on June 23 proposing that social media platforms and video sharing sites be forced to push a hand-picked list of broadcasters to the top of your feed.

The list runs BBC, ITV, STV, Channel 4, S4C and Channel 5. The government files them under “public service media.” You might file them under the channels people have spent two decades scrolling away from.

Now the argument has crossed the Atlantic. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan sent Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy a letter on July 14 warning that the plan “would serve as a major threat to online speech and expression and infringe on the rights of American companies and their users.” He wants a briefing by 10 a.m. Washington time on July 28.

We obtained a copy of the letter for you here.

The platforms being ordered around are American. Their users are everywhere. A British minister rewriting how YouTube ranks video reaches straight into feeds in Ohio and Osaka.

The DCMS says the goal is to help people “discover trusted news sources” and to fight “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

Translated, the state has chosen your news and would rather you stopped wandering off. Who gets to decide what counts as “trusted”? The same government running the scheme, of course.

The paper leans on real numbers. Ofcom found that social media is now the main news source for 51 percent of adults and 75 percent of people aged 16 to 24. People left. The government’s response is not to ask why they left. It is to guarantee the approved broadcasters a spot at the top while everyone else scraps for whatever attention is left over.

The trick lies in the technology. On television, “prominence” is old furniture. You can legally park BBC One near the top of the channel guide, and the Media Act 2024 dragged that habit onto smart-TV home screens. A recommendation feed works nothing like a channel list. It sorts content in real time by what you personally watch, click and share. Forcing “prominence” onto that means reaching into the ranking and hoisting chosen publishers above where your own behavior left them. Less a nudge, more a shove.

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Trump to Accuse China of Meddling in US Elections in Thursday Night’s Speech – Evidence Beijing Compromised US Voter Data – CIA Withheld Info: Report

President Trump to reveal China’s role meddling in US elections during Thursday’s speech, according to CBS News.

Trump will be delivering a speech on Thursday at 9 ET.

President Trump will be joined by CIA Director Ratcliffe, Acting DNI Bill Pulte, DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin and FBI Director Kash Patel.

The president will reportedly unveil evidence showing Beijing compromised US voter data and the CIA knew about it but didn’t share the information with him during his first term.

BREAKING via @CBSNews: Part of Trump’s speech Thursday night will touch on previously unreported Chinese meddling in U.S. elections, sources told me. Some evidence shows Beijing compromised U.S. voter data — and evidence the CIA knew about the action and didn’t share that…

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) July 15, 2026

CBS News reported:

Part of President Trump’s speech Thursday night is expected to touch on previously unreported alleged Chinese meddling in U.S. elections, according to sources familiar with the matter.

One component: Allegations that Beijing compromised U.S. voter data and evidence the CIA knew about the action and didn’t share that information with Mr. Trump during his first term.

The audience for the primetime speech is expected to include members of the president’s cabinet. Among those invited are the heads of CIA, FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Department of Homeland Security, as well as other agencies and staff. Some cabinet members will not be there due to scheduling conflicts.

Asked for comment on the contents of the president’s address, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “As usual, anonymous sources are speculating about what President Trump will say during his speech on Thursday evening. The truth is, nobody knows yet what President Trump will ultimately say, which is why everyone should tune in.”

A White House task force will be releasing classified intelligence documents related to the 2020 election, according to a leak to MS NOW.

According to MS NOW, Trump will speak about the newly declassified intelligence.

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France Approves Ukraine to Produce SCALP Missiles, Aster-30 Interceptors, Confirms First 16 Rafale Fighter Jet Deliveries

France has approved a major expansion of its defense cooperation with Ukraine by allowing the local production of several French-designed weapons and confirming a delivery timeline for the first batch of Rafale fighter jets.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the decision on July 13 following a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in Paris, where leaders discussed continued military support for Ukraine.

Under the new agreement, Ukraine will receive licenses to manufacture Aster-30 air defense interceptor missiles, SCALP long-range cruise missiles, and AASM Hammer precision-guided bombs on its own territory. France said the move is intended to strengthen Ukraine’s domestic defense industry and reduce dependence on continued deliveries of finished weapons from abroad.

The decision marks the first time France has approved local production of these advanced French-designed systems in Ukraine. Macron said the agreements build on discussions held with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and previous understandings reached last year.

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Liberal Journal ‘The Atlantic’ Claims the Era of the Democrat ‘Manly Man’ is Back

Democrats have a serious problem with men. We saw it during the 2024 election, as men abandoned the Democrat Party in droves and voted for Trump and Vance.

The reasons for this are pretty obvious. The left has been demonizing men for years, calling masculinity ‘toxic.’ At a certain point, men began getting the message that they are not welcome in the Democrat Party and they left.

The liberal media knows this and is going to try to help the Democrats if they can. That’s what this Atlantic article is all about.

From the piece:

Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland when he delivered a message that, coming from a Democratic House candidate in the year 2026, sounded almost provocative. “There’s nothing wrong with being masculine,” Poindexter told me. It’s okay, he said, to be “a manly man.”

Poindexter’s own manliness credentials are fully in order. The 46-year-old started working in a machine shop as a teenager and spent years hauling furniture across the country before finding stability as a union ironworker. He drives a Ram Big Horn pickup truck and built, with his buddy turned campaign manager, a shed in his backyard. Now Poindexter is running for Congress, trying to flip a Republican-held seat in Ohio with a pitch aimed at a constituency that has abandoned the Democratic Party over the past two decades: men…

Critiques such as Poindexter’s have gelled into a consensus over the past two years, repeated ad nauseam by starchy senators and governors with an eye toward running for president in 2028. Closing the gender gap now seems to be an official electoral strategy for Democrats. A couple of months ago, I got a call from a party operative who pitched a story on the Democrats’ effort to “win back the manosphere.” The operative ran through a list of a half dozen candidates in key House districts who “are engaging culturally in male spaces”—a bit of gobbledygook that I took to mean “manly men,” or perhaps “guy’s guys,” but that also reflects the sort of anthropological distance that points to the depth of the party’s problem. After all, an ironworker probably wouldn’t describe himself as “engaging culturally in male spaces.”

Does everyone remember the famous ad featuring Men for Kamala? How did that go over?

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NYU scholar argues philosophical case against men competing in women sports

Called a ‘dictator’ for his position

Philosophy, not “empirical studies,” can prove why men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports, according to a New York University scholar.

Professor Daniel Kodsi laid out his case in a new paper in the Journal of Controversial Ideas and expanded on his arguments in comments to The College Fix. The paper and comments came prior to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling affirming that states can prohibit gender-confused men from competing in women’s sports. 

Kodsi and his co-author, John Maier, wrote this paper based on a version of an amicus brief they helped write in the Supreme Court case.

The paper argues “that it is justified to exclude male people, and only male people, from certain spaces—sports teams, leagues, events and competitions—set aside for female athletes.”

“More generally, it argues that it is justified to organize sports around the biological distinction between male people and female people,” they wrote.

Kodsi told The Fix via email that his paper’s argument was not based on scientific studies, but solely on philosophical reasoning.

“A key point we attempt to drive home is that no ‘empirical studies’ are needed to establish that men who identify as women may justifiably be excluded from women’s sports, just as no empirical studies are needed to establish that adult athletes from Switzerland may justifiably be excluded from junior sports,” he said.

His argument is focused on promoting women’s rights within their sports, not motivated by unjust discrimination against men.

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Former Obama White House Counsel – and Goldman Sachs’s Former Top Lawyer – Kathryn Ruemmler Testifies Before Congress, Says She Was ‘Used’ by Jeffrey Epstein

The Epstein stain is very hard to get rid of.

Among the many people exposed by the DOJ document releases as being connected to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was former Barack Obama White House Counsel and former Goldman Sachs chief legal officer Kathryn Ruemmler.

We have reported here on TGP about how the evidence of her close relation ship with Epstein led to her resignation from her job at Goldman Sachs.

And yesterday (15), Ruemmler testified before the House Oversight Committee, calling the convicted sex offender a ‘masterful liar’.

She said Epstein used her to ‘legitimize’ himself, but had to acknowledge that he ‘referred paying clients to her law practice.’

The New York Post reported:

“Ruemmler, who resigned as Goldman’s top lawyer earlier this year after previously undisclosed communications with Epstein became public, told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday that she maintained years of dealings with him because of those business relationships.

‘I did not see any evidence of ongoing criminal conduct or misconduct of any kind by Epstein during the time I dealt with him’, Ruemmler told lawmakers in her opening statement, adding that she ‘would have immediately reported him to law enforcement’ had she seen evidence that he was abusing women or girls.”

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reveals up to 10% of US budget stolen each year

Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are being squandered on waste, fraud, and abuse each year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shockingly claimed in a recent interview.

Somewhere between 5-10% of the total federal budget gets gobbled up by wrongdoers each year, Bessent said, citing data from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

“If we can narrow that number, President Trump asked for a $500 billion increase in the defense budget to fortify the 10 to 20 years of neglect,” Bessent told journalist Christopher Rufo in a recent interview.

“If we need to flex up our military budget, if we can get rid of this waste, fraud, and abuse, we can finance a safer, sounder US with that, without taking on more debt. Sounds like a pretty good outcome to me.”

A GAO analysis found that between $233 billion and $521 billion was lost annually due to fraud during fiscal years 2018 through 2022.

Since fiscal year 2003, improper payments — separate from fraud — have likely cost taxpayers about $2.8 trillion, the GAO also found.

Federal spending has jumped dramatically in the time since the GAO study was conducted, meaning fraudulent expenditures could’ve shot up in the time since as well. 

Washington spent about $7.01 trillion in fiscal year 2025 and ran a deficit of about $1.8 trillion. Interest payments on the $38 trillion national debt totaled about $970 billion, more than what the US spends on its military.

Last week, Trump declared that he would like Congress to prepare a $1.5 trillion military budget due to “troubled and dangerous times” on the global stage.

Trump had tapped tech tycoon Elon Musk to helm the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which was tasked with tackling wasteful government spending.

Musk departed that role this past spring, and DOGE has since wound down.

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Far-Left Ro Khanna’s Own Video From the Scene Completely DESTROYS His ‘Detained by Violent Settlers and IDF’ Hoax — No Detention Visible as He Lied About Coordinating with Israel

Far-left California Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna is once again exposed as a serial fabricator after his team who accompanied him released video of the West Bank incident that flatly contradicts his dramatic claims of being “detained” by armed settlers and the IDF.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Khanna tried to sneak into a closed military zone in the West Bank for an anti-Israel photo-op without proper coordination.

The Israel Defense Forces have disputed Khanna’s characterization of the incident, stating that troops responded after receiving reports that Israeli civilians were blocking foreign visitors’ vehicles and that soldiers dispersed those civilians. The IDF has also said Khanna’s visit had not been coordinated with Israeli authorities.

He then ran to the cameras claiming violent settlers with American-made M4s and IDF soldiers detained him and other Americans, blocked their vehicle, laughed at them, and showed “arrogance of power.”

He demanded prosecutions and used the episode to push his usual America-last narrative against Israel

Now the video his own side released tells a different story.  The footage simply does not support the narrative he sold to the media.

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Correcting the New York Times ACIP Reporting on Vaccine Injury

Seeing Sunday’s New York Times headline titled “Confidential Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Track Covid Vaccine Harms,” a reflexive question flashed in the minds of even the most staunch defenders of legacy vaccine policy – is the NY Times about to dismiss the Covid vaccine-injured?

For those who don’t care to read the outlet’s reporting, here are what the authors chose to add as closing words:

“The basis of supposed Covid vaccine injury syndrome is even less persuasive and thus even less directly relevant to vaccine policy…”

For experienced readers, seeing who the article’s lead author is should have caused pause immediately. When it comes to journalistic integrity, Apoorva Mandavilli is not who comes to mind.

In an October 6, 2021 NYT article titled ”A New Vaccine Strategy for Children: Just One Dose, for Now,” Mandavilli stated that 900,000 US children have been hospitalized due to Covid. She was forced to correct the glaring error when the real number was found to be slightly more than 63,000.

In 2022 Mandavilli reported on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation of Pfizer’s Covid shot for kids aged 5-11. The NY Times initially reported, “Nearly 4,000 children aged 5 to 11 have died from a Covid-related condition called multisystem inflammatory syndrome during the pandemic.”

Mandavilli was again forced to add a correction

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