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This is an AI-generated (digitally composited/rendered) meme image showing three men in WWII-era U.S. Army officer uniforms standing side by side on a battlefield backdrop with smoke, fire, and tanks in the background. The man on the left, styled to resemble General George Patton, wears a helmet and has a stern expression. The man in the center is Donald Trump's face placed on a general's uniform with medals, ribbons, and stars, styled to look like a WWII general. The man on the right, styled to resemble General Douglas MacArthur, wears an officer's cap and is smoking a corncob pipe. Bold black text reading "Patton, Trump, MacArthur" appears at the top of the image on a white banner, implying a comparison or association between Trump and these two famous American WWII generals.

Text in image: Patton, Trump, MacArthur

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A news photograph of a man resembling Donald Trump and a woman resembling Melania Trump walking hand-in-hand out of a White House doorway onto a red carpet. He wears a navy suit with a purple/lavender tie; she wears an all-black skirt suit with a high-collar jacket. Two U.S. Marines in dress blue uniforms with white hats, gloves, and trousers stand at attention on either side of the doorway, each rendering a hand salute. The building's white exterior columns/facade frame the doorway, and the pair is walking forward toward the camera on a red carpet runner.

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A promotional graphic touting stock market performance. Bold black headline text reads "ANOTHER ALL TIME HIGH!" above a green speech-bubble-style box with the number "7,401+" in white. To the right is a circular photo of Donald Trump, shown from the chest up in a dark suit and blue tie, with a serious/frowning expression, in front of an American flag. Below the headline is a line chart labeled "S&P 500" showing the index's historical value rising from 1960 to 2026, with a green line climbing steadily (with dips around 2000 and 2008-2009) and ending at a green dot at the top right near the 2026 mark, illustrating a long-term upward trend culminating in a recent high.

Text in image: ANOTHER ALL TIME HIGH! 7,401+ S&P 500 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2026

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A political campaign graphic with a blue-to-maroon gradient background and a white border. It features two head-and-shoulders photos: on the left, a man with light blond/gray swept-back hair and a stern, unsmiling expression wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and blue tie; on the right, an older man with gray-blond hair, smiling broadly, wearing a dark suit, light blue shirt, and patterned blue tie. Below the photos is a "TRUMP VANCE / MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" campaign logo framed by stars, and a small circular seal in the bottom right corner.

Text in image: CONGRESSMAN (ID-02) MIKE SIMPSON WINS! ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP! TRUMP VANCE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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joining me now to break that news, as he always does, is my favorite John Solomon, founder of Just The News. John, first of all, before we get into their latest and greatest, what is ActBlue specifically? It is the largest Democratic online fundraising machine in America. It moves hundreds of millions of dollars of small donations, online donations to Democrat and liberal causes, every election cycle. It is the juggernaut of the Democratic fundraising machine these days. I remember when we had Hurricane Harvey down in my neck of the woods in Houston, and Democrats famously fundraised to help those hurricane victims, and instead the money went to ActBlue. That's just how these people operate. Now, what's the latest and greatest? Well, there have been three investigations ongoing. There's one in the Senate, one in the FBI and Justice Department, and then one in the House. Yesterday, the House, three separate committees of the United States House of Representatives, the Judiciary Committee, the Administration Committee, and the Oversight Committee sent a letter to ActBlue saying, "Hey, we think you misled us. We think you've been lying about this, and we're going to bring you in for further depositions." Now, as part of that, they also released a report. The report said that all of the legal compliance officers for ActBlue, the lawyers who were supposed to keep ActBlue out of trouble, all took the Fifth Amendment when being questioned about the various practices designed to keep illegal foreign money and excessive donations from moving through the platform to Democrat and liberal causes. That is not a good sign if you're ActBlue, if you're lawyers, lawyer up and take the Fifth Amendment. The third element of that is that the report hinted at some pretty significant transactions. ActBlue became aware at various times that foreign money and other illicit transactions were coming through their platform but didn't tighten up their fraud prevention tactics. In fact, they did the opposite. They downgraded their fraud prevention tactics, almost seeming to enable fraud to occur on the platform easier. One of the things they got rid of and didn't use for most of the 2024 election campaign, that little three-number code that you have in the back of your credit card, that's probably the biggest, the CVV, it's called, the biggest fraud prevention opportunity that everybody has. If you don't have the code, you don't have the card, you're not the person. For some reason, ActBlue got rid of that for a long period of time until they were called out on it after a series of stories by Just The News in the summer of 2024. That was a really red flag. And if that isn't enough to make you suspicious about ActBlue, yesterday, the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, sued ActBlue saying that they had misled the state in its investigation and that they likely engaged in improper fundraising in the state. So there is a world of hurt surrounding ActBlue this moment. And meanwhile, donations on ActBlue look to be a little bit down this year compared to prior years. Okay. So you would know this much better than me. This sounds complicated, as in this sounds like something that's going to take a while to unravel and expose. And if people were expecting ActBlue's CEO, whoever that may be, to go to prison tomorrow, they're going to be sorely mistaken. Well, I think there's one issue that is very prescient and very time-sensitive, and that is that a couple of weeks ago in a New York Times article, a letter surfaced from the law firm that was representing ActBlue that made clear that ActBlue's own lawyers believed that ActBlue had misled Congress, had made a false representation or statement to Congress. That's not a hard case to bring. If that is true, and if the lawyer's evidence becomes part of that case, that could be a profound and quick potential prosecution. And then you might take that act as a prosecutor because you want to roll a person up or a couple people up to get them to cooperate against the larger enterprise. So I'd be watching for that part of the case to bubble up. Meanwhile, I think Casper Dell dropped a big bombshell in the Maria Bartiroma Sunday show. He said that the election meddling allegations are now part of the grand conspiracy case, the one that's looking at Russia collusion as election meddling, Ukraine impeachment as election meddling, the raid on Donald Trump's house in Mar-a-Lago as election meddling, and of course Jack Smith's antics before the '24 election. The fact that he said that now election integrity issues are part of that is a big, big shift. That is the first time we've heard that, and it appears to be that ActBlue is part of that election cheating, election concerns that are being investigated. It doesn't mean it happened, but that's clearly what they're looking at. Did they allow illicit foreign money or excessive donations to come into? So DOJ looks like it's got a hot iron right now. I think the nearest case, if they do make one, and it doesn't mean that the evidence will show this, but if the lawyers for ActBlue are telling the truth in that letter, ActBlue could have a charge of misleading or obstructing Congress come at it pretty soon. That'd be wonderful. Speaking of cash Patel, here's what else he had to say. I am never going to let this go, because they not only have personally attacked the presidency of the United States and President Trump, but they tried to thwart our elections and rig the entire system. And that is not something that is going to stop on, that is not something I'm going to allow on my watch. But you have to remember, they built this disease temple over 20 and 30 years. We've got all the efforts I can announce on your show that we've got all the information we need. We're working with our prosecutors at Department of Justice and Attorney General Todd Blanche, and we are going to be making arrests. And it's coming, and I promise you, it's coming soon. John, who? What? What's happening? Yeah, these are great questions. So let's remind everybody what I broke on Saturday, that Joe DeGeneva, former U.S. Attorney, former special counsel, former independent counsel, one of the few lawyers in American history to hold all three of those ties. He's a very accomplished prosecutorial lawyer. He just took over the grand conspiracy case in Fort Pierce, Florida. That is some heavy artillery if you're talking about a prosecutor who knows what he's doing. There are two cases pending right now. There's a case looking at whether John Brennan misled and obstructed Congress and whether James Comey lied and obstructed to Congress. There's been new evidence presented. The Brennan case has been tied up a little because the Senate, the John Thune Senate, the place where action goes to die, or as I like to call it, the grand old party of procrastinators, GOP, grand old procrastinators, they haven't yet complied with the request that came in back in January and February for the Senate to transmit certain evidence to the grand jury. But if John Thune can get that done, it will become a very important part of the case. And I think the decisions on whether to indict Brennan and Comey could be made in the next few weeks. When you saw Maria Bartiroma, the next question she said is, is it going to be in the next couple of weeks? And Cash Mattel said, yeah, I think so. That's consistent with what I've been hearing. There always can be a delay here and there. But I do think this spring the first decisions on who should be indicted for weaponization are going to be made down in Florida. Do you have a piece out, speaking of all this stuff, about intel agencies, the 2020 election, having, what did they say, vulnerabilities? What is all this? Yeah, it's an important piece of evidence. And you have to put it together with two or three other things that I've kind of squeezed out of the DNI in the last couple of months. And by the way, I want to thank Tulsi Gabbard personally for considering the specific requests I made for documents and declassifying them. She did that on her own. And it's a great act of transparency. We fight with government a lot, but she's been fantastic in getting us documents we've identified in our reporting that we believe are of national interest. Today, I want to remind everybody what we were told in December 2020 when Donald Trump was crying foul about the 2020 election. We were told it was the most secure election in American history. That is what people said on the record, on television, on camera. We now know that that was not the case. Another false narrative concocted by the bureaucrats in government, just like Russia collusion, just like Ukraine impeachment, like just all the other things that we've been talking about. We now know that China and Iran had hacked into the voter registration databases of multiple states. Iran at least won China multiple states. We were never told that. That is one of the largest breaches in American electoral history. We still don't know the names of all the states, though I'm now beginning to be told it's more than a dozen. So it's a massive breach. It's been kept secret for six years. It's only because Tulsi Gabbard's digging into this and Cass Patel's digging into it that we're now getting visibility. So we broke that story a couple of weeks ago. And what we broke this morning is the precursor warning that the intelligence community knew at the start of the 2020 election, in January and February of 2020, that these systems were vulnerable. Specifically, they flagged the voter registration data. And they described how a foreign power would likely use that data if they got it. They would file false ballots. They would potentially knock people off the voter registration list. They would assume identities and do influence operations on social media. That's exactly what would happen just three or four months later. The CIA, the FBI, the NSA began detecting evidence in the spring of 2020, just a few months after that document that made public today was written that China and Iran had done that. Iran stole 100,000 voter identities and used them for ballot influence operations. China, we believe, reached more than a dozen states' voter registration databases. And then we know, because of documents Cass Patel made public recently that we wrote and broke about, that the Chinese sent tens of thousands of fake driver's licenses to the United States in the summer of 2020. So they breached the databases. They get the identities. They send fake driver's licenses. And according to the FBI documents, their goal was to get ballots. The Chinese were going to get ballots and vote in the names of Americans, and try to swing the election to Joe Biden. That's what the FBI documents say. All of that was kept from us for the last six years. And certainly those records that are now out in public do not equate to the most secure election in American history. We were lied to. Final one for me, John, and it's a fairly important one. Do we know who kept that information from us at, say, the FBI? Because that's kind of a big deal. Yeah, listen, we know from the documents I got a few weeks ago that the FBI originally wanted to put an alert out and did quickly put an alert out when the driver's licenses were captured. They were stopped at an airport, and the FBI had a very reliable informant in China saying this was a plot to help Joe Biden. Within 24, 48 hours, their supervisors in the counterintelligence division ordered them to recall that report and destroy it. I want to repeat what I just said. They said don't pull it back from all the agencies you just sent it to and instruct those agencies to destroy the document. That sounds like a cover-up, because by the way, the evidence is held true to this day. They've re-vetted that informant multiple times. They have considered that informant to be reliable. And by the way, the government has in its possession the fake driver's licenses. They intercepted it. So it was a real plot. When it comes to Ukraine and the stuff we broke last week, we know it was the Inspector General, Michael Atkinson. When it comes to FBI documents, there's a heavy focus on the seventh floor, the leadership of the FBI at Chris Ray and people downstream from him. And also, there's a growing body of evidence, particularly in Arctic Cross, and there was a hearing today in the Senate, that the Washington Field Office, which is the second most prominent local office in the FBI after New York, those are the two big ones, that they have been involved in some really nefarious things in targeting Trump supporters without cause, without having a predicate or criminal case that made sense. And so those are the players. We're going to get more names as more documents get declassified. I think in mid-May, Tulsi Gabbard is likely to drop a giant bombshell showing just which states were breached by China, which voter data was compromised by China. Those states have never been told this will be an alert to those states, but think about what it might do in the Senate. Right now, John Thune can't move the Save America Act through the Senate. But maybe if some of those senators found that, hey, your state, your constituents, your voters were compromised by China in 2020, and you were kept in the dark for six years, maybe there would be some momentum in the Senate. We'll have to see how that plays out.

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A political meme with a side-by-side comparison. The left image, captioned "What They Do," shows an aerial view of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall (with the Washington Monument in the background) under an overcast gray sky, with the pool empty/drained and its banks covered in litter, debris, and what appear to be tents or encampments along the tree-lined edges. The right image, captioned "What We Do," shows the same Reflecting Pool and Washington Monument at sunset with a colorful orange/pink sky, the pool filled with clean blue water reflecting the monument, manicured green lawns, and no visible debris or encampments.

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A political campaign graphic with a blue-to-red gradient background. It announces an election win for a congressman, featuring a photo of Donald Trump (serious/stern expression, looking at the camera) on the left and a photo of a smiling man in a suit and red tie on the right, identified as Jimmy Patronis. A "TRUMP VANCE / MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" campaign logo appears at the bottom center between the two photos.

Text in image: CONGRESSMAN (FL-01) JIMMY PATRONIS WINS! ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP! TRUMP VANCE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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A screenshot of a social media post (appears to be a Truth Social repost/quote) from an account named "Nicole Parker USA" (@nicoleparkerusa), whose profile picture shows a blonde woman in a teal top. The post includes a caption and an attached photo of a green highway exit sign photographed against a blue sky, with an airplane icon on the sign, and utility poles/streetlights and trees below. The post is timestamped 12:42 PM · Aug 24, 2026, with 228 Views listed.

Text in image: Nicole Parker USA @nicoleparkerusa Look what I just passed by 🇺🇸 EXIT 69 Belvedere Road President Donald J Trump Int'l Airport EXIT ONLY 12:42 PM · Aug 24, 2026 · 228 Views

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This Smithsonian's race to the bottom, that's the focus of tonight's angle. All right, since its founding, the Smithsonian and its National Museum of American History were intended to showcase American greatness, makes sense. January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson stated the mission perfectly. >> Here for all to see and for all to absorb will be exhibited the pageant of history of a youthful nation. The victory of the freedom and the genius of our country. Here, young children see with their own eyes, yes, even to touch with their own hands, the ripe fruit of America's historical harvest. >> Unfortunately, as any angle viewer knows, for years, the Smithsonian has been used not to showcase our genius, the genius of our heritage, but instead to spread anti-American propaganda. Our great national museums have turned into political instruments to divide the spirit and discourage our citizens. So how did this happen? Just as a fish rots from the head, so did the Smithsonian. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch announced on September 8th that he would retire at the end of the year. He knew what was coming. He knows that we're on to him. Now, during his tenure, the Smithsonian has replaced an accurate depiction of America's story, its heroes and founders with naked left-wing activism. In their exhibits, at their seminars, and in their teaching materials, their radicalism, their support for illegal aliens, for abolishing eyes, for encouraging race essentialism, and for radical gender ideology. But now we're learning that under Mr. Bunch, the Smithsonian's misdeeds went far beyond just anti-American programming. In an EEOC filing, the DOJ has identified more than 30 Smithsonian internships, fellowships, hiring practices, training programs that appear to discriminate on the basis of race in violation of federal law. For example, the Smithsonian's Latino Curatorial Initiative used dedicated federal funds to place 20 curators and other professionals in positions across the Smithsonian on the basis of their Latino identity, while its related internship selected zero non-Latino interns in all of 2023. In fact, Bunch's own past statements demonstrate that DEI has been his obsession for years. And now we see institutionalized discrimination across the entire Smithsonian. In 2000, Bunch wrote an article published by the American Alliance of Museums issue of what was called Museum News, arguing that the museum field was awash in whiteness, and that museums needed to change the racial composition of their staff, writing that, "Until we change the tint and tone of our workforce, we're just dancing around the edges of our greatest failure." Wow. But Bunch's race essentialism dates back even further. These were his comments about why he attended Howard University. I went to Howard in part two because I remember saying I was tired of white people. I was just tired of trying to fit in, tired of the questions, tired of the dating issues. And I said, "Go to Howard." Later in that interview, he went on to say that, "Look, he realizes that white people aren't all bad." Well, thanks. But he's the same guy who said the museum again field, the whole field was awash in whiteness. So it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that under Bunch, the Smithsonian has institutionalized racial discrimination. And throughout the entire museum ecosystem, from boards to professional accreditation. My hope is that boards are just the tip of the iceberg. They're the people that make determinations that can really short-circuit some of the change that you want to do in a museum. I've always argued that a museum is only as gifted as its staff, but it can only go as far as the boards allowed. All the boards were important. Don't you love the music? It makes discrimination so much more palatable. Now, as a result of this, in May of 2019, the American Alliance of Museums made Bunch co-chair of its excellence in DEAI Task Force. It charged the embedding racial discrimination more deeply into its standards and excellence programs, including, by the way, accreditation. And in 2022, Bunch's Task Force issued its final report stating that diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion must be at the center of how we understand and practice excellence in our institutions. And he also called for moving the profession away from what it called white dominant characteristics of perfection, risk aversion, and conflict avoidance. Yes, Bunch's Task Force identified perfection as a supposedly white dominant characteristic. Now, this explains why DOJ and EEOC has identified more than 30 programs and practices that, according to the agencies, appear on their face to violate federal nondiscrimination law. Now, at something called the Delaware STEM Equity Conference back in 22, Smithsonian Director Carol O'Donnell explained how Secretary Bunch drove that DEI mission. Secretary Lonnie Bunch is a lifelong educator who has dedicated his career to diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and belonging. His grand challenge in education is to answer this question. How do we dismantle structural and systemic racism? To ensure equity in education, the following has to be true. The principles of diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and belonging must be integral in the conception, design, and implementation of all of our work. I love how she's reading. And the acronym keeps getting longer and longer. I'm just sticking with DEI. So they do have DEI on the brain. Throw in accessibility and whatever the B word was. Anyway, woke gobbledygook, all of it. It means nothing. It teaches kids nothing except resentment and division. Now, after President Trump issued his executive order disbanding DEI and federal offices, the Smithsonian knew it had to do something. But rather than just stop, it did a sneaky rebrand. For the annual summit of the Smithsonian Science Education Center, they replaced the word diversity with the words leadership and skilled. Come on, guys. You're not fooling anyone here. So Bunch's departure gives the Smithsonian an opportunity for a new beginning. The question is no longer who will replace him, but what kind of Smithsonian will come next? The Smithsonian should open its records to appropriate scrutiny and make clear what was done, why it was done, and what's going to change. It's time to recommit to President Johnson's vision of a national museum of American history that showcases the victory of freedom and genius of our country. And that's the angle.

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An aerial photograph of a riverside golf course. The layout shows green fairways and greens with white sand bunkers, bordered and cut through by ponds/water hazards, next to a wide river lined with dense forest on the far bank and low hills in the distance. Small clusters of spectators in white attire are visible walking along cart paths and gathered near tented structures and a small grandstand/viewing platform along the fairways, suggesting a professional golf tournament is in progress. The sky is blue with scattered clouds. No text or logos are visible in the image.

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- And Melania, you're now engaged. Congratulations. - Thank you. - That's very exciting. (audience applauds) That's all I got you, is that little tiny thing right there on your finger? (audience laughs) Look at the size of that. That's just, I can, how many carrots is that? - I don't know, I never think about it. - You don't think about carrots? - No, I don't think about that. - I bet you do. I bet you know exactly how many carrots it is. - I do, actually. - See. - Yeah, I thought it was good, but anyway, so, next question. - And where did you two meet? - We met in New York. - Mm-hmm. - It was Fashion Week, and it was party, big party, so we met there. - And now he comes over and says what? - You came over and he said, "What did you say?" I think he said-- - He said, "Give me your number immediately." I want your phone number. It's very crude, but sometimes it works. - It's just that easy? - It's very direct. - I want your phone number? - No, no, it's very direct. And you either get slapped, or you get the number. In her case, I didn't get slapped. I didn't get the number. I worked on it for about a month, and then finally I was able to find-- - Really? - Yes. - Where she lived and everything. - As a person, as a man, what's the best thing about him? - He's a man I love. - And what's the worst thing about him? - I hate the worst thing. - How are you doing, First Lady? - Oh, look at you. Is this the greatest First Lady? People love our First Lady, right? Look at the elegantest First Lady of the year. - I want to also thank my beautiful wife, Melania, First Lady. (audience applauds) - Happy Mother's Day, everyone. (audience applauds) - I would like to thank my husband, America's director. (audience applauds) Donald Trump. ♪ We once I was 20 years old ♪ ♪ Soon we'll be 30 years old ♪ ♪ That my songs have been sold ♪ ♪ We've traveled around the world and we're still roaming ♪ ♪ Soon we'll be 30 years old ♪ ♪ I'm still learning about life ♪ ♪ My woman brought children for me ♪ ♪ So I can sing them all my songs ♪ ♪ And I can tell them stories ♪ ♪ Most of my boys are with me ♪ ♪ Some are still out seeking glory ♪ ♪ And some I had to leave behind my brother ♪ - First Lady, you know the First Lady of the year. (audience applauds) Everybody knows, this is, as you know, Navy One, by the way, for the day. Only for the day. But one day, Navy One, like Air Force One, this is Navy One. Thank you, thank you, everybody. Thank you, Toby. ♪ It was a big, big world ♪ ♪ But we thought we were bigger ♪ ♪ Pushing each other to the limits ♪ ♪ We were learning quicker ♪ ♪ By 11, smoking herb and drinking, burning liquor ♪ ♪ Never rich, so we were out to make that steady figure ♪ ♪ Once I was 11 years old ♪ ♪ My daddy told me ♪ ♪ Go get yourself a wife or you will be lonely ♪ ♪ Once I was 11 years old ♪ ♪ I always had that dream like my daddy before me ♪ ♪ So I started writing songs ♪ ♪ I started writing stories ♪ ♪ Something about that glory ♪ ♪ Just always seemed to pull me ♪ ♪ 'Cause only those I really love ♪ ♪ Will ever really know me ♪ ♪ Once I was 12 years old ♪ ♪ My story got told ♪ ♪ Before the morning sun went light from snow ♪

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A meme-style image with a bold red headline "The Fed Building" and blue subtext "When will it ever end?" above a street-level photograph. The photo shows an ongoing construction/renovation project on a Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. — a partially glass-clad modern facade attached to an older stone/columned building section, with a construction crane, orange traffic cones, and metal crowd-control/security barriers lining the sidewalk. In the foreground, a black Cadillac XT6 SUV with a "Sterling" (Virginia) license plate drives down the street under a clear blue sky with scattered clouds. Other vehicles, including a van labeled "G&M Services LLC," are parked near the construction site, and a large green tree is visible on the right side of the image.

Text in image: The Fed Building When will it ever end?

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A news/official-style photograph taken in the White House Oval Office, in front of a gallery wall of gold-framed presidential portraits. Four people stand in a row behind a low wooden coffee table that holds a small model airplane (a "United States of America" livery jet resembling Air Force One) on a stand, positioned over a round rug bearing the presidential seal. From left to right: a woman in a dark navy long qipao-style dress with a brooch, a man in a dark navy suit with a red tie (resembling Chinese President Xi Jinping), a man in a dark navy suit with a magenta/pink tie giving a thumbs-up gesture with his right hand while smiling (resembling Donald Trump), and a woman in an all-black jacket and skirt with blonde hair (resembling Melania Trump). Two cream-colored damask sofas flank the table on either side. Gold table lamps with white shades, decorative gold urns/objects, and a small bronze bust sit on wooden side tables in the background beneath the portrait wall.

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doors all we could not have wrote a script better oh my god the fireworks of land oh oh tonight's fun

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A political campaign graphic with a blue-to-red gradient background bordered by a thin white frame. It features a composited close-up photo of Donald Trump (serious/stern expression) on the left and a smiling Black man in a navy suit with a red tie and American flag pin on the right. At the bottom center is a "TRUMP VANCE / MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" campaign logo flanked by star icons.

Text in image: REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR FLORIDA STATE REPRESENTATIVE (FL-HD-87) JON MAPLES WINS! ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP! TRUMP VANCE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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The 76-day period you're talking about, that's the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office, is that right? That is correct. And during that short period of time, 76 days, how much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy? From the loan program office in loans and commitments, 93 billion dollars. Well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years. So how do you vet and do due diligence on a loan in 76 days? One loan, much less 93 billion dollars. How do you do it? I think it's probably pretty clear it wasn't done in many cases. As I mentioned, I'm told I'm holding back clearly in place stuff. There are lots of funds that have gone out the door and commitments that were made from businesses that provided no business plan, no numbers about their own financial solvency or how this project worked. So you're telling me that the Department of Energy in the 76-day period before their boss was going to leave office gave our loan money to entities that had no business plan? Correct. No financials? Correct. A number of those were before the 76-day period as well. I've come in with great concern about how this institution, this great American institution has been run and how American taxpayer money has been handled. I'm sorry everyone's upset that we're taking some time to do it, but what we've seen and what the record shows is just responsible. I'm not upset. A lot of people say you haven't returned your calls. Could it be that you and your colleagues have returned the calls but the people calling just didn't like the answer? Could that be a possibility? I'm not aware of that. I give my cell phone number to any senator that wants it and I return my calls. Has your department gone dark? Somebody said your department's gone dark. Is it dark over there? It doesn't look dark behind me. I don't see any of you sitting on your hands. Somebody made that charge. I see everybody's hands. Let me ask you something else, Mr. Secretary. Does anybody ever come to the Department of Energy to get some of this free money and lie to you? I have not experienced that, but I think it's a reasonable assumption that that has happened. Does anybody ever come to you? Is it conceivable that some of these folks that heard about this free money came to you with a half-baked idea? I think it's very conceivable. In fact, I've seen such plans that were half-baked would be charitable. You said plans that didn't have a business plan, right? Correct. A promise to develop one, to find a location. Just give me the money and I'll develop the plan later. Correct. And now you're going back through, not money that's already been contracted, but you're going back through and checking each one of these loans and these grants to make sure there was no stealing, aren't you? We are. We are. Make sure there was no incompetence, aren't you? Is that correct? We're looking at that, and yeah, my blood pressure is rising right now, just thinking about what we have seen and what did happen at the Department. And you're going to tell some of these boondoggles no, aren't you? That's correct. And they're going to be upset, aren't they? That's correct. And they ought to be upset, shouldn't they? I don't think they should be upset. I think they should be ashamed. I am. It's rare that I'm speechless, but I want to be sure I understood the people running the Department of Energy for President Biden's administration shoveled 93 billion dollars, not million, 93 billion dollars out the door in 76 days. And it just happened to be the time between when President Trump was elected and President Biden, their boss was leaving. Is that right? It is correct and distasteful confidence undermining. My God. Look, I hope you take whatever time you need to go through all of these projects penny by penny. I mean, I've heard this testimony today. Well, it'll cost jobs in my state. If somebody steals 50 million dollars and goes and spends the money in their state, that's going to stimulate the economy, isn't it? Yes, it will. But that's still stealing, isn't it? And it's still illegal, isn't it? Yes. I mean, they were spending money at the Department of Energy like it was ditch water. Their budget went from 60 billion dollars to 160 billion dollars since fiscal year 2021. It just sounds to me like there were a lot of people coming to the Department of Energy who had all four feet and their snout in the trough. And I hope you'll turn down the boondoggles and refer the thieves to the Department of Justice. We will indeed. Senator, the one complication in there too is mixed in there are good companies doing good things honestly with credible plans. And you're trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. Yes, that's what we're trying to do. That's our job. And we're doing it. But there's a lot of chaff.

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An editorial/article graphic. A black-and-white cutout photo of an older man's face (upper portion showing forehead, eyebrows, eyes, and ear, resembling Donald Trump) is shown peering down over the top of a globe, positioned against a pale beige background with concentric red/pink circular shapes behind him. The globe shows the North Atlantic region, including Greenland, Arctic Ocean, Baffin Bay/Labrador Sea, and parts of North America/Canada with visible place labels. Bold dark pink/magenta text at the top on a white banner reads "His Hemisphere," suggesting this is a header image for an article about the man's (apparent) territorial or geopolitical focus on the Western Hemisphere or Arctic/Greenland region.

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A screenshot compiling four separate X (Twitter) posts, each praising Donald Trump's State of the Union address. From top to bottom: Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich, verified, with a "Subscribe" button) says President Trump weaving stories of real Americans throughout his speech was phenomenal, with a small flag emoji. Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon, verified) calls the State of the Union a two-hour clinic in American patriotism, mentioning the Olympic men's hockey team and a 100-year-old veteran, and says Trump gave the nation a massive morale boost. Below that, a post shown as reposted by John Ziegler, from John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud, verified), says Trump produced the best series of midterm campaign ads live during #SOTU on illegal immigration, that Democrats "fell for it completely," calling the videos "devastating," and ends with "Brilliant. Masterful." followed by fire, American flag, and clapping-hands emojis. At the bottom, Mollie (@MZHemingway, verified, with a "Subscribe" button) says a friend was sad they only get two more Trump SOTUs.

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A campaign graphic with a blue-to-red gradient background and a white border. Large bold text announces a Senate election win. Below the headline text are cropped head-and-shoulders photos of a man with light-colored hair, orange-toned skin, and a serious/frowning expression, wearing a dark suit and blue tie, next to a woman with layered blonde hair wearing a dark blazer over a patterned blue scarf and pearl earring, smiling slightly. At the bottom center is a "TRUMP VANCE / MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" logo framed by a white rectangle and rows of small white stars.

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A black-and-white photograph showing two men in suits outdoors, with blurred trees in the background. In the foreground, an Asian man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and patterned tie, gestures outward with his right arm raised and extended, mouth slightly open as if speaking. Behind him to the left stands a man with light-colored, swept-back hair, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and a striped tie with a small flag pin on the lapel, looking forward with a neutral/serious expression. Part of another person's head is visible faintly between them in the background, and a third partial figure with a lapel pin is visible on the right edge of the frame.

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An infographic styled as a U.S. Department of Homeland Security graphic. A blue header bar has the DHS seal and "Homeland Security" wordmark on the left, the title "UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN UPDATE" in the center, and a second seal (Office of Homeland Security Statistics) on the right. Below are three horizontal rows, each with a label on the left and a large number in a colored box on the right: maroon for the "MISSING under Biden" figure, blue for the "FOUND under POTUS 47" figure, and black for the "FOUND last month" figure. At the bottom is a section on southwest border encounters, with a "Since Jan 21 2025" tag and two light-cyan boxes giving UAC encounters and smuggler arrests. The graphic asserts that 478,886 unaccompanied children went missing under Biden and that 163,445 have been found under Trump's second term. It is a government-style data graphic, not a news photo.

Text in image: Homeland Security UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN UPDATE Data from U.S. Department of Homeland Security as of 10/17/2026 Total UAC MISSING under Biden 478,886 Total UAC FOUND under POTUS 47 163,445 Total UAC FOUND last month 6,151 UAC ENCOUNTERS AT THE SOUTHWEST BORDER SINCE JAN 21 2025 UAC Encounters | 6,607 Smuggler Arrests | 3,972 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY STATISTICS

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- If we don't make the final deal, their nuclear program is still destroyed. They're still much weaker as a country. So my attitude is America wins either way. But I do think that what the president has done is asked us to do something that frankly, nobody in 47 years of dealing with the Iranians has done, which is offer them an opportunity to fundamentally transform how they behave with the West. They've been the largest state sponsor of terrorism basically since they began as a nation, or at least as an Islamic Republic 47 years ago. He's saying, look, if they're willing to change, we're willing to change too. If they're not willing to change, we still fundamentally have all the cards and I think it's a good place for us to be. - But their program isn't destroyed. The nuclear program isn't destroyed. I mean, I don't know any of our objectives. And look, I said I-- - What part is not destroyed? - Well, we didn't get in there. The whole thing was we have to get in there and see. Other us, we wouldn't be doing this. - Well, let me say-- - And we didn't. - First of all, so a nuclear program, and I'm hardly a nuclear scientist, I'm a lowly politician. But the thing that you have to destroy is their ability to enrich uranium, which has been destroyed. You have to destroy their ability. Well, because you need functioning centrifuges that can actually spin and we know they're born. - Well, we gotta get in there and we gotta get the dust. And we didn't get in there, so how do we get the dust? - So that's actually a separate question. So there's the highly enriched stockpile, which by the way was allowed to accumulate over 20 years of previous administrations. That enriched stockpile is something that we wanna get, but Bill, if we never get it, and the president wants it, and we are gonna get it, but if we never got it, it's buried deep underground and they don't have the ability to turn it into a nuclear weapon. So the program is functionally destroyed. We're just talking about can we set them back even further through these negotiations. - Okay.

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>> Beautiful reflecting pool in Washington DC, but in recent years. It's been neglected and it's been really really ugly kind of swampy people found snakes in there, you know kind of make sense right. Dirty swampy the swamp. Watch this piece of news going back a lot of years. >> And there's this folks snapping photos of the reflecting pool, it's really slightly of this and and what's disgusting it doesn't it's not right algae. >> It's not like wet dog down here, you know, my dog came home from the stream, you know, we sound like this and it's gross. >> The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool reopened at the end of August to great fanfare after a 34 million dollar renovation that lasted nearly 2 years, but less than a month later, the famous pool of water is full of out my gosh and that was in 2012 who was a president back then Obama. Now look at this president Trump says he can fix it he knows it I know he can he's done similar things let's put that true social up he has promised to do it he's done it before this is kind of what in a way put president Trump on the map. It reminds me of the woman ring situation. Anybody know the woman ring. Yeah, president Trump fix the woman ring the city was trying to do it for 15 years. President Trump did it in about 6 weeks and mayor Koch who hated Donald Trump had to give him credit it was an amazing moment. >> You perform a great public service. >> It just right that got it all want to say that but this credit he did because it was a great public service.

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