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U.S. attorney scrutinizes ‘false statements’ by Mueller prosecutor who targeted Papadopoulos

The U.S. attorney for the nation’s capital sent a letter last week to a former member of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, scrutinizing the Mueller prosecutor’s role in targeting and convicting former Trump campaign associate George Papadopoulos.

Ed Martin, who has been the interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. since January 20, sent the letter to ex-Mueller prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky, who resigned from the Justice Department following Trump’s 2024 victory. Trump nominated Martin for the full-time position in March, while Senate Democrats have been seeking to delay or block his nomination.

“Declassified Federal Bureau of Investigation documents released under federal Freedom of Information laws have raised questions about the integrity and legality of your work as a federal prosecutor in the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation — a probe which failed to prove then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia and is now known to be falsely predicated,” the U.S. attorney told the former Mueller team member in a Monday letter obtained by Just the News and first reported by the New York Sun. Martin also raised questions about Zelinsky’s stint a decade ago teaching at a Chinese Communist Party-linked law school in China.

Zelinksy said in late February that “I’m excited to join a group of smart, talented, and fearless lawyers at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP.” His law firm bio notes that he “served as Assistant Special Counsel to Robert S. Mueller, III, where he led the Special Counsel Office’s investigation and prosecution of Roger Stone and George Papadopoulos.”

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Pentagon Denies New York Times Report with Anonymous Sources Accusing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of Leaking Yemen Strike Details in Second Private Signal Chat with Wife, Brother, and Lawyer

In yet another desperate attempt to undermine President Trump’s administration, The New York Times published a baseless report accusing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of leaking sensitive Yemen strike details in a private Signal chat.

The Pentagon has swiftly and forcefully denied these allegations, with Chief Spokesman Sean Parnell labeling the story as “fake news” driven by disgruntled former employees with clear motives to sabotage Hegseth and Trump’s agenda.

This latest attack comes on the heels of the firing of three former Pentagon officials—Dan Caldwell, Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll—accused of leaking unauthorized information.

The Times claims Hegseth shared details of a March 15 Yemen strike in a Signal group chat named “Defense | Team Huddle,” which included his wife, Jennifer, his brother, Phil, and his personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore.

The article further alleges that Hegseth shared similar details in another chat that mistakenly included The Atlantic’s editor, Jeffrey Goldberg.

These accusations, sourced from four anonymous individuals, lack any concrete evidence and reek of political vendetta.

The New York Times reported:

Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was mistakenly included, the newly revealed one was created by Mr. Hegseth. It included his wife and about a dozen other people from his personal and professional inner circle in January, before his confirmation as defense secretary, and was named “Defense | Team Huddle,” the people familiar with the chat said. He used his private phone, rather than his government one, to access the Signal chat.

The continued inclusion following Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation of his wife, brother and personal lawyer, none of whom had any apparent reason to be briefed on operational details of a military operation as it was getting underway, is sure to raise further questions about his adherence to security protocols.

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Mr. Hegseth created the separate Signal group initially as a forum for discussing routine administrative or scheduling information, two of the people familiar with the chat said. The people said Mr. Hegseth typically did not use the chat to discuss sensitive military operations and said it did not include other cabinet-level officials.

Mr. Hegseth shared information about the Yemen strikes in the “Defense | Team Huddle” chat at roughly the same time he was putting the same details in the other Signal chat group that included senior U.S. officials and The Atlantic, the people familiar with Mr. Hegseth’s chat group said.

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In the case of Mr. Hegseth’s Signal group, a U.S. official declined to comment on whether Mr. Hegseth shared detailed targeting information but maintained that there was no national security breach.

But according to the Pentagon, the entire narrative is nothing more than a politically motivated smear campaign aimed at derailing the Trump administration’s bold military leadership and undermining Secretary Hegseth’s credibility as he continues to clean house at the Department of Defense.

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MSNBC Suggests Trump Plans to Deport African-Americans

The latest racial-tinged conspiracy theory that the TDS-addled corporate state media is running with is that the Trump administration is developing plans to deport African-Americans, otherwise known as “people of color.”

Let the brutal ogre and former Kamala Harris press ops goon who has rebranded herself as a journalist, Symone Sanders, explain:

We’ve been talking about this all week, but Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, she penned an op-ed in The Nation this week. And her op-ed talked about that we think democracies are — the way they die is dramatically, through these wars, and blood is shed, and it’s cinematic in a sense. But really, the realistic way in which democracies die, is it is dismantled brick by brick, piece by piece. And she says that what we are seeing now with the lawlessness from this administration are really the canaries in the coal mine gasping for air. I’m paraphrasing here. But to me, that is why Kilmar Abrego-Garcia’s specific case, the case of the gentleman who’s a make-up artist out of California who was also sent to that prison, that’s what the more — the 75% of the folks who have been sent, the men who have been sent there that don’t have criminal records — that is why this is so important. If they can do it to them, if they can snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us. To be very clear, it’s going to be the people of color, and vulnerable communities that are next in line.

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Liberal Anti-Trump Group Planning to Protest Nationwide Over Easter Weekend — Claims to Be Mobilizing Three Million People

The 50501 Movement, an anti-Trump protest organization, plans to hold a series of protests across the United States over Easter weekend.

The group claims to have 400 events scheduled nationwide on Saturday, in all 50 states. It also claims to be mobilizing over three million people.

“We are trying to protect our democracy against the rise of authoritarianism under the Trump administration,” Hunter Dunn, a spokesperson for the group, told the Washington Post.

The 50501 Movement’s name stands for “50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement.” It is self-described as being led by people who “have been on the front lines of justice, marching in support of Black Lives Matter, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and disability rights.”

The group first gained prominence with its initial protests on February 5, 2025, which saw over 80 protests nationwide.

In a post about the protests on their website, 50501 says, “April 19 will be a Day of Action: a nationwide grassroots response to authoritarian threats, political overreach, and the erosion of democracy.”

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Woke White Teacher Filmed Beating Asian Student Wearing MAGA Cap Fired from Washington State University

On a chilly February night in 2025, Jay Sani, an Indian-American student at Washington State University, stepped out of a bar wearing his red MAGA hat. The 28-year-old engineering student didn’t expect the night to take a violent turn, but it did.

According to reports, as Jay walked, two figures approached him.  Patrick Mahoney, a university instructor and vocal proponent of Palestinian causes, and Gerald Hoff, a graduate student and teaching assistant.

It is unclear what sparked the confrontation, but words were exchanged and, as seen on security footage, Mahoney lunged at Jay, ripping the hat from his head. Hoff joined in, and Jay was shoved to the ground as fists flew.

The security footage shows the two men throwing Sani to the ground, and while he lay bleeding, kicking him while he was defenseless.

Sani reported the incident to police and, when questioned, Mahoney and Hoff admitted to the attack, though they attempted to blame Sani for the attack, claiming the student “provoked” them.

Turning Point USA Frontlines reporter Jonathan Choe shared body cam video of the two attackers admitting to the incident.

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Jeb Boasberg’s “Criminal Contempt” Finding Makes Mockery of Separation of Powers

Jeb Boasberg, the chief judge of the D.C. District Court, sure has a knack for timing.

As the national conversation this week revolves around accusations the Trump administration is defying court orders by refusing to return an illegal El Salvadoran, er “Maryland father,” back to the U.S., Boasberg swooped in Wednesday afternoon with a lengthy opinion accusing the administration of “criminal contempt” for ignoring a set of orders he issued on March 15. (I first wrote about Boasberg’s contempt trap on March 19.)

In a series of hasty decisions that day, Boasberg, in another instance of fortuitous timing for foes of the Trump administration as I explained here, halted the deportation of illegal Venezuelans covered by the president’s Alien Enemies Act (AEA) proclamation, which Trump had been signed the night before. Boasberg issued two written temporary restraining orders—one prohibiting the deportation of five unnamed illegal Venezuelans represented in the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and another one turning the five plaintiffs into a class action suit protecting anyone in custody subject to the AEA.

And during an emergency hearing held that Saturday evening, Boasberg also issued what he describes as an “oral command” at around 6:45 p.m. to return planes carrying the newly-designated class of illegals. “[Any] plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States,” Boasberg told the Department of Justice attorney present at the hearing. “However that’s accomplished, whether turning around a plane or not embarking anyone on the plane or those people covered by this on the plane, I leave to you. But this is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately.”

The problem, as Boasberg appears to have known at that time, is that two planes carrying the AEA subjects had already departed and were out of U.S. territory. His “oral command” was impossible to obey or to enforce. (Complicating matters further is Boasberg did not include the “oral command” in his written order published about 40 minutes later.)

The alleged defiance of the two written orders—which were both vacated on April 7 by the Supreme Court after a majority concluded Boasberg’s courtroom was the wrong jurisdiction and the ACLU sought the wrong type of relief—and his “oral command” represent the basis of Boasberg’s contempt allegations. And Boasberg appears prepared to name a court-appointed attorney if the Trump DOJ refuses to bring charges against the yet-unidentified officials he accuses of contempt.

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Fired Insubordinate Officers Reveal Massive U.S. Military Resentment Against Elected Civilian Command

There is a cancer in America’s military ranks, and it must be expunged before it’s too late. That cancer lies in uniformed service members’ widespread rejection of the uniquely American concept of civilian control of the military and disregard for the absolute necessity that America’s military officers remain apolitical in the face of the constitutional will of the electorate.

Recent events reveal this cancer, and they include the relief for cause of Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield after she reportedly refused to hang photos of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on her headquarters’ customary “Chain of Command” board and reportedly told her subordinates in a town hall that she would “wait [the Trump administration] out” the next four years. They also include the relief for cause of Col. Sussanah Meyers, commander of the U.S. Space Force’s base in Greenland, after she openly questioned (to all of her subordinates via email) Vice President J.D. Vance’s official pronouncements regarding the United States, Greenland, and Denmark.

Since Trump’s inauguration, numerous other senior generals and admirals have been relieved by President Trump for various publicly unspecified reasons, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown; Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti; Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, the commandant of the Coast Guard; and Air Force Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command. Each of these four-star firings is publicly shrouded in a certain degree of mystery, but rumors abound that so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) played a part in one way or another.

Admittedly, a president firing his senior generals is not a new thing. Barack Obama fired his senior general in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stan McChrystal, after a Rolling Stone article revealed derisive comments by McChrystal and his staff regarding Obama’s leadership. Harry S. Truman fired one of America’s most famous and revered military leaders, Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, after MacArthur repeatedly disobeyed Truman’s orders regarding the Korean War. And Abraham Lincoln famously had no problem firing his senior Army generals in the heat of the Civil War. What made these firings so noteworthy, however, is that they were rare exceptions that proved the rule of America’s senior generals and admirals wholly respecting civilian control of the military.

What we see now is not Obama and McChrystal, Truman and MacArthur, or Lincoln and his failed generals. The widespread nature of the current problem looks and feels like something completely new in the American experience and appears to be pervasive across the force.

I am a retired U.S. Army colonel. My service record runs a typical gamut for an old colonel, with tours in tactical units (including service in Afghanistan and Iraq) interspersed with service at high-level military headquarters in and around Washington, D.C. Nowadays, I run an account on X with a little more than 200,000 followers. I offer commentary on political and social issues, with a particular emphasis on the military. As a result, I have many military followers, including some still on active duty. I offer active-duty service members a conduit to anonymously share disturbing military trends.

Since Trump’s inauguration, I have been flooded with reports of insubordination in the ranks toward Trump and Hegseth. Those reports range from fairly senior officers in the Pentagon showing open disrespect around the E-Ring coffee maker, all the way down to junior enlisted disrespecting their president and secretary of defense in the ship’s galley or the chow hall.

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Liberal media distorts immigration enforcement to attack Trump’s policies

Mainstream media outlets are scraping the bottom of the barrel in their attempts to portray the Trump administration’s enforcement of the Immigration and Nationality Act as racist and immoral. The corporate newspapers and the “Big News” online outlets are awash in sob stories about migrants who are now facing deportation because they broke American laws.

Every one of these articles suffers from two common flaws: They deliberately omit key facts and intentionally misrepresent the state of U.S. immigration law to create the impression that foreign lawbreakers are hapless victims of an unjust system.

One particularly egregious example is a piece recently published by The New York Times. Titled “‘Where’s Alex? A Beloved Caregiver Is Swept Up in Trump’s Green Card Crackdown,” the article tells the story of Luke, a severely autistic man from Falls Church, Virginia, and his caregiver Alfredo Orellana, a green card holder. Mr. Orellana has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and placed in deportation proceedings on the basis of a criminal conviction.

According to The Times, this is totally unjust because Mr. Orellana isn’t really a criminal, just a guy who made a small mistake while he was on drugs. Although the law says that “green card holders convicted of certain crimes can be deported,” The Times consulted unidentified legal experts who claim the “government has usually opted not to target those people unless they have committed particularly serious crimes.” Moreover, The Times claims the enforcement actions taking place are because “under Mr. Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has taken a sprawling view of who should be targeted for deportation.”

That narrative has a significant problem: It is utter, complete and total rubbish. Many criminal aliens were, in fact, given a pass by the Obama and Biden administrations. That wasn’t a policy decision; it was a willful, deliberate and patently unlawful refusal to comply with the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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Report Shows Network News’ Maximum Slant On Trump Tariffs

Stocks closed up Monday on Wall Street. You could almost hear the collective groan from the Trump-hating corporate media. 

As irresponsible as ever, the Pravda Press have pumped up their doom-and-gloom coverage of President Trump’s tariff policies to DEFCON 1. Per usual, the usual left-bending media suspects have used the tariff battles and the volatile markets as a cudgel to politically pound Trump with, churning “recession” chatter while all but ignoring positive news in the U.S. economy. 

A new report from media tracker NewsBusters shows just how slanted the coverage has been. 

‘Intensions Clear as Day’

On April 4, the day the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported hiring in March had surged by a stronger-than-expected 228,000 jobs, the broadcast networks over the 24-hour period devoted 62 times more coverage on the Trump tariffs and market declines, according to the report, exclusively provided to The Federalist. 

“Nobody’s faulting the media for covering an ongoing trade war or a dramatic dip in the stock market. But when they can’t even spare a full minute to cover an incredibly positive jobs report, they make their intentions clear as day,” Bill D’Agostino, Media Editor for NewsBusters and Senior Research Analyst for the Media Research Center’s News Analysis division, told The Federalist. 

The hyperbolic networks devoted 10 times more coverage to the tariff story than to last week’s report of declining consumer prices . While the Consumer Price Index dipped, led by lower prices at the pumps, ABC News had nothing to say about the aggregate CPI decline, NewsBusters found. The broadcast news network did air 16 seconds on slightly rising egg prices, according to the report.  

Corporate news outlets in general couldn’t help but drown the good news on inflation in worries over Trump tariffs.  

“U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly fell in March amid cheaper gasoline and used motor vehicles, but the benign inflation reading is unlikely to be sustained after President Donald Trump doubled down on tariffs on imported Chinese goods,” Reuters proclaimed in an April 10 story. 

Broadcast coverage of the tariffs between April 2 and April 11 totaled 422 minutes and 45 seconds — more than 7 hours-worth.  

Total tariff coverage by the three networks, according to NewsBusters’ review: 

› ABC: 148 minutes, 41 seconds

› CBS: 130 minutes, 5 seconds

› NBC: 143 minutes, 59 seconds

Meanwhile, the networks devoted a measly 45 seconds to the April 4 jobs report over the 24-hour period, compared to 46 minutes, 50 seconds of tariffs coverage. Total jobs report coverage by the three networks vs. tariff reporting:

› ABC: 14 seconds (vs 17 min 53 sec tariffs)

› CBS: 20 seconds (vs 12 min 7 sec tariffs)

› NBC: 11 seconds (vs 16 min 50 sec tariffs)

The networks spent a total of 173 seconds covering March’s Consumer Price Index decline over the 24-hour period beginning on April 10.  Meanwhile they, devoted nearly 31 minutes to tariff talk over the same period. 

Total CPI coverage by the three networks vs. tariff reporting:

› ABC: NONE (vs 11 min 54 sec tariffs)

› CBS: 9 sec (vs 13 min 28 sec tariffs)

› NBC: 165 sec (vs 5 min 27 sec tariffs)

D’Agostino asserts the flood of tariff coverage isn’t born out of a concern for the economy; it’s about damaging the Trump administration’s image. The song remains the same for an accomplice media that has spent the past decade trying to crush Trump and the MAGA movement. 

“Every news item we study, it’s always the same story. The corporate media are only ever on the hunt for bad news about the President,” the media analyst said. 

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The Truth About the Military Parade: It’s for the 250th Anniversary of the Army Not Trump’s Birthday

Once again, the media and Twitter pundits are misrepresenting President Trump.

They claim he wants a military parade in his honor, but the truth is, the event is meant to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army—it just happens to fall on his birthday.

Critics keep pointing out that Trump never served in the military. Ironically, neither did Biden, Obama, or Clinton, yet Democrats never questioned their right to serve as commander-in-chief.

Trump’s veteran status is irrelevant; he is the president, and as commander-in-chief, it is both logical and appropriate for him to preside over a major military anniversary parade.

Liberals have compared the proposed parade to military displays in Russia or North Korea—completely missing the point that allies like Britain, France, and others also hold large military parades or include the armed forces in major national celebrations.

They’re also complaining about the parade’s proposed budget, calling it wasteful—despite consistently opposing efforts to cut actual government waste. It’s telling that they only seem to care about spending when it involves honoring the military.

Where veterans should truly be outraged is in how the media, in their effort to attack Trump, are downplaying the significance of the Army’s 250th anniversary—as if this isn’t a major milestone, or as if the Army hasn’t done enough for this country to deserve recognition. That’s the real insult.

The idea for a parade first emerged in 2017 after President Trump attended France’s Bastille Day celebration and expressed admiration for their display of military strength.

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