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“THE NEW YORK TIMES GOT CAUGHT!” – Trump Nukes the New York Times After Admitting to Getting Duped by Fake Pollster With Completely Fabricated Numbers

President Trump on Thursday lit up the New York Times, slamming the outlet for using bogus numbers from a “totally fake” pollster while speaking to reporters, then later warning that his defamation lawsuit is growing stronger by the day.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, a fake pollster called Wedgewood, which admitted to being an “entirely fabricated polling firm,” duped mainstream media outlets with bogus polls across multiple swing states as part of a social experiment. It was “far too easy,” Wedgewood said.

“Despite having no history, formal credentials, or real data behind the vast majority of our releases, Wedgewood Polling was added to major polling aggregators, including The New York Times, FiftyPlusOne, and VoteHub, and repeatedly treated as a legitimate data source,” the fake polling outfit, self-described as an “experimental project,” said in a statement.

“Our fabricated numbers were given instant credibility across national media platforms – including being cited on air and in reporting by outlets such as MS NOW. The ease with which unverified figures were absorbed into mainstream political narratives highlights a systemic breakdown in media vetting and data aggregation.”

The Times admitted to removing 15 polls from the firm after it “acknowledged that almost all of its work was fake.”

President Trump responded on Thursday when a reporter asked him why Democrats are doing “so well” in the polls.

“I don’t know if they’re close. I mean, I just saw that the New York Times used the poll numbers of a totally fake, you know, a group that said there were fake numbers against me,” Trump said.

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Far-left journalist Duncan Kinney admitted he painted “Actual Nazi” on the bust, then wrote it up as if someone else had done it.

Duncan Kinney, executive director of Progress Alberta and editor of The Progress Report, has pleaded guilty to one count of mischief over the 2021 vandalism of a statue at a Ukrainian community centre in north Edmonton.

Kinney admitted he spray-painted the words “Actual Nazi” in red on a bronze bust of Roman Shukhevych outside the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, according to Edmonton Journal reporter Jonny Wakefield, who was in court. Kinney also admitted he then wrote an article about the vandalism and presented someone else as responsible, Wakefield reported.

That article ran on The Progress Report on August 10, 2021, the same day as the vandalism. It said the graffiti was the work of “an unknown person or persons.”

Edmonton Police Service’s hate crimes unit charged Kinney with mischief under $5,000 in October 2022. He pleaded not guilty and fought the charge for about four years.

At the time, Kinney was in a public dispute with Edmonton police, who revoked his media accreditation in March 2022. He wrote that police were trying to silence The Progress Report.

Shukhevych’s wartime record is disputed. He served as an officer in a Ukrainian battalion under German command and later commanded the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose forces massacred thousands of Jews and tens of thousands of Poles. B’nai Brith Canada and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center have called for the bust’s removal. The complex has said the war-crimes evidence against him was manufactured by the KGB.

None of that was before the court. The plea concerns who painted the statue, and who then reported the vandalism as news without saying so.

On the same night in 2021, a monument to the 14th Waffen SS Division at St. Michael’s Cemetery was also painted red.

The Progress Report has not issued a correction to the 2021 article.

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CBS Tried to Trash Trump Again, Now They’re Facing Another Multimillion Suit, This Time from a 15-Year-Old They Trashed

In what appears to have been an attempt made over the summer to impugn President Donald Trump, CBS News published bad information that’s now poised to potentially cost it $20 million in damages.

While covering the vandalism occurring at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool over the summer, CBS News identified a detained 15-year-old Maryland teenager known as simply “JV” as one of the culprits.

But according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, “JV” was not, in fact, responsible for any vandalism.

“He was not arrested for vandalizing it,” the lawsuit states, as reported by Fox News. “He was not accused by law enforcement of vandalizing it.”

According to The Desk, the media-focused news site that first reported the lawsuit story, “JV” was riding an electric dirt bike near the pool on June 20 when he was briefly detained and handcuffed but soon after released without charges.

Despite “JV” being released without charges, CBS News ran a report the following day showing “JV” alongside the actual vandals, according to the lawsuit.

“CBS News broadcast and published a story to a national audience that placed JV’s image alongside the assertion that five people had been arrested for vandalizing and ‘sabotaging’ the Reflecting Pool, thereby falsely portraying JV as one of the perpetrators of a highly publicized federal crime,” the suit states.

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Oops! MS Now Faceplants!… Far Left Loons Report Kash Patel Has Landed in Russia for Mysterious Talks -Except That He’s at Liberty University

MS Now is as dependable today as they always were.

On Wednesday, the far-left network reported that Kash Patel had landed in Russia for mysterious talks.

Top MS Now justice and intelligence reporter Ken Dilanian broke the breathtaking news this afternoon in a MS Now breaking report.

Ken Dilanian: “We don’t know what Kash Patel is doing in Russia. And that’s one of things that is concerning our FBI sources. They don’t know either. The FBI is not saying anything about this. I asked them for a comment on our reporting. They have not gotten back to me. What we know is there’s a two-day trip scheduled. He’s going to Moscow and St. Petersburg… It has not happened since 2018 when Robert Mueller went to Russia to talk about counter-terrorism cooperation.”

But the surprise was on the loons at MS Now.

The FBI this afternoon released photos of Kash Patel at Liberty University.

Unfortunately for MS Now, the FBI posted photos of Director Kash Patel at Liberty University.

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Poland’s President Says Tusk Invented CIA Report To Scare Poles And Cash In Politically

Polish President Karol Nawrocki in an interview with the daily Rzeczpospolita accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk of inventing a CIA report in order to threaten Poland with a Russian attack and garner political capital.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki in an interview with the daily Rzeczpospolita published on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk of using a CIA report that he himself had invented in order to scare Poles with warnings of a Russian attack and cash in politically. His comments have placed Poland in a very difficult situation with its allies, Nawrocki said. “When I’m meeting partners from around the world, I hear the question directly: do you know something more than we do. That is a very dangerous situation,” he added.

Nawrocki said the main aim of such messages is a so-called “rally-around-the-flag effect,” in which citizens who fear an enemy back whoever is in power. He stressed that he has just as much information as Prime Minister Tusk has, and possibly even more. He also underscored that the level of the threat from Russia has not changed in the last six months. “The only thing that has changed is that one politician persistently uses this threat for his own political gain,” said the head of state.

This dispute over Tusk’s CIA report dates back to the beginning of September. After a meeting of the leaders of the Visegrad Group in Bratislava the Prime Minister declared that he had received “a fairly precise report directly from the head of the CIA” on possible events in the next few months. According to the report there could be provocations at border crossings and also attempts at sabotage from within. In response, Marcin Przydacz, head of the president’s international policy office, wrote on X that there was no secret CIA report on any desk. He called it an invented lie meant to get the public worked up, and said none of the news channels that ran it for two days ever checked the facts.

So, this is what is left of the so-called proof. National Security Bureau chief Bartosz Grodecki said that Tomasz Siemoniak, the minister coordinating the special services, was his source for information that he in turn shared with President Nawrocki. Wirtualna Polska concluded that the verbal readout of the conversation with CIA Director John Ratcliffe was all there was, and that no document ever reached the president’s desk. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Bosacki stressed that there was no lie and no exaggeration on the part of the prime minister. After the interview, Prime Minister Tusk wrote on X that Nawrocki does not see a growing Russian threat, and thanked him for his honesty.

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BUSTED! Far-Left ABC News Caught Spreading Defamatory Lies About Trump’s Sons — Then Quietly Deletes Fake News Hit Piece Without Issuing a Retraction or Apology

The Corporate Fake News Media has reached a brand-new, shameful low, and this time, Disney-owned ABC News needs to be sued straight into bankruptcy.

On Wednesday, the radical hacks at ABC News published a completely fabricated, malicious hit piece targeting Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.

The mainstream media propaganda outlet falsely claimed that the Trump brothers’ conservative venture capital firm, 1789 Capital, had taken a massive, multi-billion dollar stake in the defense technology company Anduril.

On Wednesday, October 7, ABC published a story under the headline “Trump sons’ investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election.”

The hit piece claimed that 1789 Capital, the venture firm where Donald Trump Jr. is one of six partners, had taken a “major stake” in defense tech company Anduril out of a $2.5 billion funding round.

It further asserted that Anduril went on to score more than $6 billion in lucrative Pentagon contracts directly tied to this investment, including a massive new shipyard deal, implying pay-to-play favoritism under the Trump administration.

“The company is one of the largest manufacturers to receive an investment from Donald Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump, but they are not the only one,” according to the now-deleted article.

“An ABC News analysis found defense companies backed by the president’s sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to the government’s official contract reporting,” the outlet said.

Naturally, the Far-Left smear machine immediately went into overdrive. Radical California Governor Gavin Newsom and a army of unhinged Democrats quickly weaponized ABC’s outright lies, pushing the viral hit piece across social media to frame the First Family.

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Fact Check: ICE DID NOT Arrest 500 U.S. Citizens for Immigration Violations

Claims that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested more than 500 American citizens since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025 misrepresent the findings of an October 6, 2026, ProPublica investigation.

The report identified 506 U.S. citizens detained by federal immigration agents between January 2025 and September 2026. It did not establish that ICE formally arrested 500 citizens, that all the detentions were immigration arrests, or that 500 Americans were mistakenly identified as illegal immigrants.

The ProPublica investigation counted anyone held against their will by immigration agents for any period of time. That included people who were temporarily prevented from leaving until they showed ID or proof of citizenship.

Under that definition, a citizen briefly detained during an immigration raid could be counted alongside someone formally arrested on suspicion of assaulting a federal officer. Although both encounters may constitute detention under the Fourth Amendment, they are not necessarily equivalent to a formal criminal arrest.

ProPublica’s own headline described more than 500 American citizens as having been detained, rather than arrested. Public and social media sources misquoting the original article have changed the terminology from detention to arrest, materially altering the meaning of the findings.

More than 100 Americans were detained after federal agents questioned their citizenship. A much larger category involved more than 300 Americans detained after allegations that they assaulted, obstructed, or interfered with federal immigration officers. These encounters frequently occurred during immigration raids, protests, or confrontations involving people inhibiting immigration enforcement activities.

Being an American citizen does not provide immunity from arrest for violating federal criminal law. Title 18, Section 111 of the United States Code makes it a federal offense to forcibly assault, resist, impede, intimidate, or interfere with designated federal officers performing their official duties. Therefore, an American citizen accused of assaulting an ICE officer may be arrested and prosecuted under federal criminal law.

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Egypt Arrests, Disappears Entire Newsroom Over ‘Fake News’ Allegations

Egyptian authorities have detained the entire newsroom of one of the country’s only independent media outlets in a move that rights groups have denounced as a “first” and an “alarming escalation” on free speech.

On September 28 and 29, security forces raided the homes of the six journalists – Mohamed Ashraf Abu Emeira, Abdallah Qadry, Islam Barakat, Omar Helal, Mohamed Mahmoud and Mohamed Adel – who constitute the entire team working for Matsada2sh (Arabic for “Don’t believe”). The arrests bring the number of journalists detained in Egypt to 24.

“It is a first in Egypt: an entire newsroom behind bars,” press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said, criticising the authorities for failing to reveal the journalists’ whereabouts.

“It’s a violation of the Egyptian Constitution, even though this is common practice. Journalists detained in Egypt are often forcibly disappeared for several days before being officially charged and brought before a court,” the group added.

According to multiple accounts by rights groups, the officers confiscated the phones and laptops belonging to the journalists as well as those of their family members during the raids. They also did not present any arrest warrants and refused to disclose where the journalists would be held.

The interior ministry later published a statement confirming the arrests and accusing the journalists of running an unlicensed platform that is “run from abroad” and of spreading “fake news”.

It also accused its journalists of being affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest opposition group that has been outlawed under the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi since 2014.

One of the platform’s editors was previously detained in 2023 over similar allegations but was released two days later.

Matsada2sh was founded in 2018 as a fact-checking outlet that corrects misleading or inaccurate information by various sources, including those by official government sources or opposition media.

“Independent journalism is critical in any free society and Egyptian authorities’ failure to allow free exercises of expression to thrive flies in the face of a purported commitment to dialogue, transparency, anti-corruption, and regional leadership,” more than 80 rights groups and independent media outlets said in a statement.

“The crackdown on the Matsada2sh platform and these arrests are alarming escalations on independent media and freedom of expression that cannot be allowed to stand.”

One of the founders of Matsada2sh, Abdelrahman Mansour, who is not based in Egypt, told the Associated Press on Thursday that the families do not know where the journalists are.

“Everyone on this team knew the risks when they went to work every day, but it’s unacceptable for the government to make false accusations and forcibly disappear journalists just because they’re afraid of a free press,” AP quoted Mansour as saying. “Their families are worried, we’re worried, we just want them released unharmed.”

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Sunny Hostin Lied About Being Holdout Juror Who Kept Cannibal Out of Prison

Sunny Hostin bragged on Tuesday’s episode of The View that she was the lone holdout who kept Daniel Rakowitz, the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park, out of prison, but it appears that she lied.

People who sat in that room and the papers that quoted them in 1991 describe an unemployed man who liked the $15 a day and the free meals as the lone holdout in the case.

The Post reports:

But 35 years ago, jurors told The Post, Newsday, the Daily News and the Associated Press that the actual holdout was an unemployed man who wanted to keep the trial going so he could continue getting paid by the court for his civic duty.

A law enforcement source from the time also told The Post this week that the holdout was a man.

“He was unemployed and liked the $15 a day and the three free meals,” juror Valerie Holmes told Newsday in the aftermath of the verdict.

“He liked that we were arguing on and on.”

Holmes reiterated the claim to The Post and The Daily News, describing the holdout as being “very determined” and “manipulative” man determined to get his way.

“From day one, this particular person was determined that the jury was going to find Rakowitz not guilty by reason of mental disease,” jury forewoman Lois Markle told the AP at the time.

Meanwhile, Hostin was quoted as a juror on the case in multiple news clips at the time — but she did not identify herself as the holdout, nor did any of the fellow jurors who talked to the press after the trial.

In a statement to Newsday at the time, under her legal name Asunción Cummings, Hostin also contradicted her current claim.

“We had to compromise. But it is obvious to me he butchered the body and he literally got away with murder. He attempted to commit the perfect crime,” Hostin told the paper.

Hostin claimed she was the holdout during a discussion on The View about the Lindsay Clancy mistrial in Massachusetts, where one juror refused an insanity verdict in the case of the mother who brutally strangled her three children to death.

Hostin said she wanted Clancy to be found not guilty by reason of insanity.

“The reason I felt so strongly about this holdout juror is because I was a holdout juror in the Daniel Rakowitz case. I don’t know if people remember it, the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park,” Hostin said.

Joy Behar asked, “The guy who ate the victims?”

Alyssa Farah Griffin said, “You got this guy off?!”

“That’s how much I believe in the insanity defense. He fed her body parts to the unhoused,” Hostin explained.

“All that being said, it was so clear to me in the jury room. We were sequestered for nine days. One juror threw a chair at me, they were so angry with me. But, one by one, I picked them off. I said, ‘What about this? What about that?’ We ended up, all 12, unanimously voting that he was not criminally responsible on reason of insanity. He is still in a mental institution being treated. That’s a different type of prison, and he’s being treated because he’s sick.”

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Trump Responds to “Ford’s Theater Hoax” After MS Now Claims Trump Planning to Attach Name to Ford’s Theater

President Trump on Wednesday responded to reports that he seeks to affix his own name to Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC, the site of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. 

Trump called the story, first published by MS Now, “a ridiculous lie.”

Notably, MS Now is one of the three outlets that Trump banned from the White House last week, citing the “FICTION and LIES” they report.

MS Now reported on Tuesday,

As President Donald Trump fights to rename the Kennedy Center after himself, administration officials are circulating a list of government sites that could have his name affixed to them in some way, according to people familiar with the effort.

One landmark that has emerged in the discussions among administration officials has raised eyebrows: Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.

It is unclear how seriously the theater is being considered or how the administration would attach Trump’s name to it. One administration official said the idea had been discussed, but they didn’t know where it stood. The prospect sparked a flurry of discussion over the past week among people responsible for the historic site.

The discussions underscore how much of a priority honoring the president has become inside parts of the Trump administration — even as the Iran war nears its eighth month, diesel prices hit an all-time high, the midterm elections approach in six weeks and most Americans disapprove of the president’s job performance.

Trump responded to the report on Wednesday, calling it “FAKE NEWS” and blasting the Democrats and leftist journalists as “Degenerates and Losers who make up lie after lie.”

“Who would possibly want a name on such a tragic place? The Dumocrats suffer from serious Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trump said.

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