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CNN Leftists Melt Down When Facts Undercut Their Defense of Ilhan Omar

When conservative radio host Jason Rantz laid out the facts of the federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on CNN’s NewsNight Tuesday, the liberals on the panel couldn’t handle it.

Omar, of course, is under investigation for immigration fraud, and last week, federal agents executed a search warrant at her Washington, D.C., residence and seized her passport, computer, and phone. Liberals freaked out, even though a federal judge (who happens to be a Democrat) signed off on the warrant, and the investigation actually traces back to the Biden administration. Democrats want to frame it as Trump weaponizing the government against a political enemy, but that narrative simply doesn’t jibe with the facts. Investigators are reportedly looking at whether Omar misrepresented her age on immigration paperwork, along with the long-running claim that she married her brother. DNA evidence reportedly figures into the case.

Omar denies any wrongdoing, calls the whole thing political, and is desperately trying to raise money off the situation.

Liberal podcaster Leigh McGowan didn’t want to hear any of it. She treated the search as proof of tyranny and the left’s favorite f-word.

“He is acting kind of textbook fascist behavior-like, when you start going after your political enemies like this,” McGowan said. “It’s not an investigation looking for the truth. It’s a conclusion looking for a case, right?”

McGowan then turned the story toward herself, noting that she’s a naturalized citizen who criticizes the president. CNN’s Ana Navarro jumped in with, “As a second naturalized citizen at the table, please don’t give him any ideas.”

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Pharma PR Executive Leaked Insider Criticism of NIH Vaccine Injury Center to New York Times — Paper Neglected to Mention His Industry Ties

A pharmaceutical industry public relations (PR) executive who serves on an influential National Institutes of Health (NIH) board and is an academic colleague of Dr. Anthony Fauci leaked criticism of the agency’s new vaccine injury clinic to The New York Times — which reported the criticism without disclosing the PR executive’s industry ties, according to The Disinformation Chronicle.

Jack Leslie, a senior adviser and former chairman of Weber Shandwick, the world’s second-largest public relations firm, chairs the NIH Clinical Center Research Hospital Board. Weber Shandwick represents several major pharmaceutical companies.

The hospital board oversees the NIH Clinical Center in Maryland, which will house the agency’s new Vaccinology and Immunology Center (VIC). The center will focus on researching and treating vaccine injuries. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced its launch earlier this month.

Last week, the Times reported that the NIH hospital board unanimously approved a statement criticizing the new center and Kennedy, accusing him of undermining public trust in the hospital’s work.

According to The Disinformation Chronicle, Leslie leaked the statement to Times health policy correspondent, Sheryl Gay Stolberg. The newspaper published her story within hours but did not disclose Leslie’s ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

Paul D. Thacker, investigative reporter and author of The Disinformation Chronicle, told The Defender that he believes the Times published the story to discredit Kennedy and people who say vaccines have injured them.

“Everyone knows the pharma industry hates RFK Jr. So, it’s beyond perplexing that a New York Times reporter saw ‘news’ when PR man Jack Leslie said something denigrating about him, and spit on people harmed by their products. That’s what Big Pharma pays Weber Shandwick to do,” Thacker said.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the NIH, defended the new center in a statement to The Defender.

The VIC “reflects the Trump Administration’s commitment to restoring gold-standard science, transparency, and accountability to our public health institutions,” the spokesperson said.

“This work will help ensure that people who experience health problems following vaccination are taken seriously and studied with the same scientific rigor applied to other medical conditions,” the spokesperson added.

Pediatrician Dr. Elizabeth Mumper, who attended the center’s launch event earlier this month, called the VIC “long overdue.” She accused Leslie of using his “PR skills” and “background doing public relations for multiple vaccine manufacturers” to undermine an initiative intended to study and help people who have been injured by vaccines.

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Axios Uses Fake AI Image to Run Damage Control for Somali Politician Who Spoke Next to Upside-Down Flag

To defend a leftist politician who spoke in front of an upside-down American flag, Axios published a fake fact check claiming the video was “doctored” by AI and that, in reality, the flag was right side up.

Axios just retracted that fact check.

Naturally, Axios would like us to believe its fake fact check was an honest mistake, but Normal People know two things about dishonest, leftist outlets like Axios: 1) their “mistakes” only ever fall one way, and that’s to benefit the left, and 2) Axios was in a panic to defend a leftist, so they rushed to publish this — something Axios would never do for a Republican.

Oh, and 3) fact-checking is a hoax, a leftist psyop, a disgraced profession that has spewed more lies than Joe Isuzu.

Side note: Fai is currently a Washington County Commissioner. Officially, she holds a non-partisan office, but she is a leftist.

On October 10, Washington County, Oregon, Commissioner Nafisa Fai spoke at a Somali event in Minneapolis. A few days later, the End Wokeness X account published a portion of that speech that clearly showed her speaking with an upside-down American flag behind her.

“Oregon politician Nafisa Fai just held a rally in MN, speaking Somali, with an American flag UPSIDE DOWN,” wrote End Wokeness. “Enough with the pretending already. These are not Americans.”

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Washington Post Accidentally Reveals More Evidence Implicating Ilhan Omar In Fraud

Buried in a report aimed at discrediting ongoing probes into Rep. Ilhan Omar, The Washington Post divulged fresh evidence suggesting her previous marriage to her alleged brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was a sham.

In recounting the first Trump administration’s ultimately inconclusive investigation into some of the same issues federal officials are examining anew concerning the congresswoman’s background, the Post reveals that Elmi once filed a petition to have his residency status, derived from his marriage-based green card, shifted from conditional to permanent. According to the newspaper, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) “requested additional evidence due to concerns over the validity of his marriage,” at which point Elmi pulled his application.

This immediately raises three questions: What was it in that application that gave immigration officials pause? Why was it that Elmi dropped his bid to obtain permanent residency if the marriage was legitimate? And did authorities in the first Trump administration vigorously pursue these issues, and are they vigorously pursuing them now to the extent there are potential legal issues arising therefrom not bound by statutes of limitation?

While the Post mentions this matter in passing, there is critical additional context here that the newspaper omitted, which ties Elmi’s abandonment of his permanent residency push to Omar.

Elmi almost certainly filed and then withdrew an I-751 petition. Under federal law, typically, within the 90-day period before “the second anniversary of the date on which an alien obtained” a green card, such aliens must file an I-751 to remove conditions on their residency. Absent circumstances like death or divorce, petitioners must file jointly with their spouses.

Elmi and Omar did not legally divorce until 2017, years after he had left the U.S. and returned to his native United Kingdom. The alleged siblings were married here in 2009. Even if it took an exceptionally long period of time for Elmi to receive his marriage-based green card, that period plus two years almost assuredly would have fallen long before 2017. So presumably, they would have filed their petition jointly.

Per the current instructions for filing an I-751, petitioners must show evidence that their marriage “was entered in ‘good faith’ and was not for the purpose of circumventing immigration laws.” To do so, they must provide a number of supporting documents, like the birth certificates of children, contracts demonstrating joint occupancy/residency, “financial records showing joint ownership of assets and joint responsibility for liabilities,” and “other documents” and sworn affidavits demonstrating one’s marriage is legitimate.

When filing jointly, one’s spouse needs to sign, affirming, under penalty of perjury, that the petition and all supporting documents are “complete, true, and correct.”

Enter Ilhan Omar, and key facts that The Washington Post and others appear to have missed. As I documented in my 2020 book, American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party, during the 2018-19 period, then-State Rep. Ilhan Omar faced an ethics probe resulting in a finding that she had improperly spent $3,400 in campaign funds.

Part of that improper spending centered on legal fees, including to immigration lawyers. Omar hired those attorneys to help her with “crisis management” beginning in August 2016, when, following her historic primarying of a 44-year Democrat-Farm-Labor incumbent in Minnesota House District 60B, word first began swirling that Elmi was Omar’s brother, and her marriage to him constituted a marriage/immigration fraud scandal.

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Whoopi Goldberg of ‘The View’ Urges Military Members to Vote Against Trump: ‘You Know What Needs to be Done’

On the ABC “News” program The View today, host Whoopi Goldberg complained about people who have been let go from the U.S. Military on Trump’s watch, then urged military members and their families to vote against Trump.

This open cheerleading for one party in the midterms is a clear violation of FCC rules, but that’s just the way things are on this show. They do it all the time and seem to pay no price for it.

It is also hilarious to hear Whoopi Goldberg and her cohosts acting as if they are big supporters of members of our military when it’s so clearly just about politics.

Transcript via NewsBusters:

GOLDBERG: The qualified people. And this, I hope, fires people up because listen, no matter where you sit, you want qualified people doing the job. You want — I don’t care who you are. You know?

And I really believe that people are fed up with people who haven’t worked as hard as they have, who haven’t gotten to where they’ve gotten, only to be dusted off and thrown away. People are not happy. And I believe —

NAVARRO: And to your point, it’s the damnedest thing he’s gotten rid of all the unqualified women. I mean, I’m not shedding tears for Kristi Noem or Pam Bondi or Katie Zacharia or any of them. But all the unqualified MEN are still there, one is running a war and the other is running the Health Department.

GOLDBERG: Yes, they are. Yes, they are.

HAINES: One is running the country.

NAVARRO: And one is running the country too.

GOLDBERG: That’s right. And if you’re – If you’re a family of a soldier, if you have military in your family, you know what needs to be done. Because you can’t go around disrespecting the military. They do all the stuff we don’t do. We can’t continue to allow people to treat them the way they have been treated. There’s just so, so many things that we have to shift. And it’s — you know? And this isn’t right nor left. This is nobody wants this for their military. Nobody. Nobody wants this. It’s enough, I think. It’s enough. So, make sure you get out there and vote.

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‘60 Minutes’ Trashes Trump’s Battle For Election Integrity: ‘Using His Power to Intimidate People Who Run Our Elections’

CBS News 60 Minutes host Lesley Stahl introduced a segment on election integrity Sunday evening by condemning President Donald Trump’s attempt to ensure non-citizens do not vote in the nation’s elections.

“The midterms are just two weeks away, and President Trump is using his power to intimidate the people who run our elections, putting the voting system under remarkable stress,” Stahl said, citing the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent lawsuit against the state of California after determining that its voter list reveals more than 20,000 likely aliens are registered to vote in the state.

“[I]t’s the latest in a sequence of actions that has bred an erosion of faith in the integrity of our elections,” Stahl asserted. “Our story focuses on how state and local election officials are being pressured in a way that is stoking that distrust.”

Stahl started her story with video of FBI agents in Fulton, Georgia removing ballots – a scene that was portrayed in the segment as an alarming invasion by federal law enforcement, even though the official she interviewed admitted that “they had a valid warrant, signed by a judge.”

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BBC Game Rewards Kids For Supporting Open Borders

The BBC’s education platform, used by nearly 1.7 million schoolchildren every week, is gamifying open borders. In a Roblox-hosted game called Increasing Immigration aimed at pupils aged 11 to 14, choosing to deport migrants living in the UK without proper visas loses points on the economy and public health.

Players are warned: “This can be potentially dangerous for them [the immigrants]. Don’t expect this to be unchallenged!”

Grant them an amnesty instead and the message is clear. “This will make them very happy.” Economy and public health scores rise.

A separate scenario tells geography pupils that allowing people to pass through the border easily “could really help grow our economy.” Selecting open borders yields three economy points and two public health points. Rejecting it as “too radical” scores nothing.

Instructions open with the claim: “We don’t have enough people of working age to keep our society running smoothly. We should try to attract migrant workers and incorporate them into our economy.”

Materials elsewhere state that concerns migrants will take jobs from locals “likely arises from prejudice.” The site lists twice as many benefits of migration as disadvantages.

Housing set aside for migrants scores positively. Almost every option aligned with border control produces negative results.

BBC Bitesize is promoted by almost every UK state school and reaches half of children aged four to 16.

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Far-Left LA Times Accidently Makes Damning Admission in Headline While Attempting to Stoke Fear Over Voter Turnout by Attacking ICE

The corporate media consistently spreads so much misinformation that when they tell the truth, it’s often by accident. This was the case in a recent Los Angeles Times headline that was attempting to attack ICE.

On Friday, the far-left Los Angeles Times published an article bemoaning the possibility that ICE raids have the potential to impact voter turnout, citing so-called immigration advocates.

The headline strongly implies that illegal aliens do vote, because a citizen would have nothing to fear from ICE.

And we all know which party the illegals are voting for.

“Surge in ICE raids is aimed at discouraging voter turnout, immigration advocates say,” the LA Times headline reads.

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Sunny Hostin Humiliates Herself As She Smugly Tries to Fact-Check Joe Rogan on Biden’s Open Borders Disaster

The View’s Sunny Hostin humiliated herself after she tried to fact-check Joe Rogan on Joe Biden’s open borders disaster.

“It was insane to not only leave the border open but to give people instructions on how to get in and also transport them to cities and then put them up in hotels,” Joe Rogan said.

Rogan continued, “Was it cheap labor? Was it to turn these people into citizens and permanently voting your side because you helped them get in?”

Rogan also criticized Joe Biden’s mandatory Covid vaccine policies.

Joe Rogan did criticize Trump over the ongoing Iran war and said that he ran on ‘no new wars.’

Sunny Hostin smugly fact-checked Joe Rogan and claimed the border wasn’t open under Joe Biden because one time Biden told the illegals “don’t come.”

Factcheck: The border was WIDE OPEN under Joe Biden. More than 20 million illegal aliens flooded over the border while Joe Biden and his ‘border czar’ Kamala Harris were in charge.

Factcheck: The Biden Regime provided a CBP One mobile app for illegal aliens that gave them instructions on how to get in the US so they could get housing and benefits.

Factcheck: Republican governors like Abbott only moved the illegal aliens to Democrats state since they support open borders.

Illegal border crossings immediately halted after Trump was sworn into office in January 2026.

US border apprehensions in fiscal year 2026 decreased by 95% compared to the annual average under the Biden Regime.

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British Government Reportedly Plotting Internet Tax to Prop Up BBC

The left-wing UK government is reportedly planning to introduce an internet tax to prop up the financially struggling BBC public broadcaster.

Currently, everyone who watches broadcast television in Britain must pay the government an £180 ($239) annual licence fee, whether they watch the BBC or not. The fee was originally used to fund the BBC’s radio broadcasts, but was later expanded to incorporate TV following the Second World War. Now, amid the rise of streaming services, the left-wing Labour Party government is said to be planning on extending the effective tax to the internet.

According to The Independent, which cited a Whitehall source, plans to change the BBC’s charter will be made public before Christmas, with the present agreement set to expire in December of next year.

The source said the so-called “YouTube tax” will be imposed on internet-based video platforms to stop people from avoiding the television licence fee by watching content on computers, phones, or tablets. This comes as about two million people have stopped paying the BBC television licence fee over the past five years, and 539,000 over the past year, up to April.

If the government imposed an internet fee, an estimated three to four million more people would likely be on the hook to fund the BBC. Yet this would still likely be insufficient to meet the broadcaster’s budget shortfalls.

Nevertheless, the civil service source told the Independent that the additional money could be spent countering “conspiracy theories and fake news” that they claimed helped Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party rise in working-class regions of Britain.

This negative attitude by the civil service and the BBC towards Reform may reflect the party’s vow to abolish the BBC licence fee altogether and force the broadcaster to compete on an even footing with private media.

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