All the global benefits Trump reaped by
grabbing Maduro
Posted By: Mercedes44, 1/16/2026 5:13:41 AM
A certain class of analyst purported to be scandalized by the American night raid on Venezuela that snatched away strongman Nicolás Maduro and his wife. By ordering the attack on a weak hostile nation, these people claimed, President Trump has given permission to every global bad actor to misbehave. China has been given a green light to invade Taiwan. Russia is finally free to trespass on . . . I don’t know, maybe Ukraine? Even by today’s declining standards, that line of analysis is pathetically shallow. Neither Xi Jinping nor Vladimir Putin look to the US for permission. The opposite is closer to the truth:
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced sweeping new sanctions Thursday on senior Iranian officials and regime-linked financial networks, saying Tehran’s ruling elite are “rats fleeing the ship” as they frantically wire tens of millions of dollars out of the country amid mounting unrest. At the direction of President Donald Trump, Bessent said the Treasury Department is sanctioning key Iranian leaders involved in the brutal crackdown on protesters, while moving to choke off the regime’s sanctions-evasion pipelines used to launder proceeds from Iranian petroleum and petrochemical sales.
If Minnesota officials don’t like President Donald Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, maybe they should do more to tamp down the insurrectionary activity in their state.
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was violently attacked by two illegal immigrants while making an arrest Wednesday night and shot one assailant in the leg in self-defense, anti-ICE activists — predictably enough — rioted.
In response to the unprovoked attack on the officer, Mayor Jacob Frey once again blasted ICE.
Imagine, he implored,
A certain class of analyst purported to be scandalized by the American night raid on Venezuela that snatched away strongman Nicolás Maduro and his wife. By ordering the attack on a weak hostile nation, these people claimed, President Trump has given permission to every global bad actor to misbehave.
China has been given a green light to invade Taiwan. Russia is finally free to trespass on . . . I don’t know, maybe Ukraine?
Even by today’s declining standards, that line of analysis is pathetically shallow.
Neither Xi Jinping nor Vladimir Putin look to the US for permission. The opposite is closer to the truth:
White House Border Czar Tom Homan warned leftist agitators interfering with federal immigration enforcement that he is urging the Trump administration to develop a plan to "make them famous."Inject that directly into my veins, please.
Homan's comments, which he made during an interview with Fox News personality Laura Ingraham on Thursday, appear to be a direct response to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who amped up the ongoing chaos in his state by inciting protesters to harass ICE agents.
Rather than turning down the temperature as street thugs continue to try to impede government operations, the governor posted a video encouraging the already unhinged to "film ICE agents"
With all the fraud constantly being exposed, it’s no wonder our national debt keeps increasing at an alarming rate — politicians overspend, and fraudsters suck up billions more. Our taxpayer-funded programs seem extremely vulnerable to fraud, including Medicare and Medicaid. Five ophthalmology practices in Florida have agreed to a $6 million settlement with the federal government over their fraudulent billing through a third-party for transcranial doppler ultrasounds (TCDs), according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). “These settlements are a continuing testament to the United States’ commitment to fight healthcare fraud and ensure that federal healthcare dollars are spent consistently with the law,”
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On Thursday afternoon, I wrote about how María Corina Machado visited the White House and had lunch with Donald Trump. While I was writing that article, some rumors were circulating about a big gesture she made, but I couldn't confirm them at the time. Now I can. The Venezuelan opposition leader, on behalf of her people, gave the president her Nobel Peace Prize. Not a replica. The real thing. Since the meeting was purposely kept private, I wasn't sure that a photo would surface, but one got out, and as of late Thursday night, both the White House and Machado have shared it on social media.
After years of Washington politicians lining the pockets of insurance companies and anointing them “essential partners,” President Trump has called out the insurance monopoly for what it is. “Let the money go not to the big fat cats and the insurance companies that made 1,700 percent over a short period of time,” President Trump said.
“Let the money go directly to the people, where they can buy their own health care.”
The big health insurance companies that have gorged themselves at the Obamacare trough are finally being put under the spotlight and held to account.
Timmy Macklin, father-in-law of Renee Good, said he doesn’t blame Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for her death. Macklin called the shooting of his former daughter-in-law a “hard situation all around” and said that “some bad choices” were made, during an interview with CNN on Tuesday.
“I don’t blame ICE. I don’t blame [Good’s wife] Rebecca. I don’t blame Renee,” he told Erin Burnett. “I just wish that, you know, if we’re walking in the spirit of God, I don’t think she would have been there.
An illegal Venezuelan migrant was shot in the leg by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis after he allegedly fled during a traffic stop and beat the “ambushed” officer with a snow shovel Wednesday evening, the Department of Homeland Security said.
The suspect was behind the wheel when he tried to get away from federal immigration officers at around 6:50 p.m. local time, but he crashed into a parked car, according to DHS.
The migrant then tried to escape on foot and “violently assault[ed] the officer” as the two wrestled on the ground, according to an X post from the agency.
"If you’re allowing Blackstone to come in and outbid a family of four from buying their home, now they get trapped in a one-bedroom apartment on the wrong side of town. Their entire life trajectory has been upended because a private equity institution came in and outbid them.”
– James Fishback, GOP candidate for governor of Florida, speaking to Pirate WiresWhat Fishback is describing is indeed, as he puts it, “the number one problem in America: affordability.” He goes on to explain what is an inevitable premise of nationalism: “If you can’t buy a home, you can’t get married. If you can’t get married, you can’t have kids. If you can’t have kids, what’s the point?” Criticizing a childless life and extolling the virtues and fulfillment of a life that includes having children is the point Fishback is referring to, but he would probably agree it is also the point, the reason, and the required element for preserving a nation.
– James Fishback, GOP candidate for governor of Florida, speaking to Pirate WiresWhat Fishback is describing is indeed, as he puts it, “the number one problem in America: affordability.” He goes on to explain what is an inevitable premise of nationalism: “If you can’t buy a home, you can’t get married. If you can’t get married, you can’t have kids. If you can’t have kids, what’s the point?” Criticizing a childless life and extolling the virtues and fulfillment of a life that includes having children is the point Fishback is referring to, but he would probably agree it is also the point, the reason, and the required element for preserving a nation.
Democrats Are Being Warned Not to Say
‘Abolish ICE’ Because it’s a Losing
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‘Abolish ICE’ Because it’s a Losing
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Democrats are being told not to say ‘abolish ICE’ because it will hurt their chances in the midterms. Of course, they want to say it and they believe it, they even want to do it, but it’s a losing political message and they know it.
It is basically ‘defund the police’ all over again, and even though they meant that one too, they know that it damaged them politically.
Saying ‘abolish ICE’ simply reinforces the idea that Democrats care more about illegal aliens than they do about American citizens, a concept that they have done nothing to dispel in recent months.
On Wednesday, after a closed-door meeting with American officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen held a press conference. His remarks sounded cautiously optimistic.
The narrative presented by the American president, as we've been reporting, is that Greenland should become an American possession. Needless to say, Denmark and Greenland aren't keen on the idea. While it seems unlikely that the United States would attempt to take Greenland by force, the big island does in fact occupy a vital strategic position in the North Atlantic; it's something worth trying to make a deal over.
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President Donald Trump's push to seize Greenland might be the least popular idea in American political history.
Is that hyperbole? If so, that's only because reliable and fast public polling is a relatively recent development within our 250-year experiment in self-governance.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday found a staggering 4 percent of Americans favor the idea of seizing Greenland with military force. Among Republicans, the idea is actually twice as popular: 8 percent say taking the island is a "good idea."
European troops arrive in Greenland as
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NUUK, Greenland — Troops from several European countries continued to arrive in Greenland on Thursday in a show of support for Denmark as talks between representatives of Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. highlighted “fundamental disagreement” over the future of the Arctic island.
Denmark announced it would increase its military presence in Greenland on Wednesday as foreign ministers from Denmark and Greenland were preparing to meet with White House representatives in Washington. Several European partners — including France, Germany, the U.K., Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands — started sending symbolic numbers of troops already on Wednesday or promised to do so in the following days.
Trump advisor Stephen Miller appeared on Fox News, and he reminded the men and women of ICE that the administration had their back, no matter how much Democrat politicians and leftist agitators tried to attack them. (Snip) At this point, Democrats are completely off the rails. We've already seen some of the crazy comments from people like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
But I guess Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) wanted to try to challenge them for the worst possible take. This is truly insane. Democrats have lost their minds.
Governor Tim Walz encouraged Minnesota residents to carry their phones at all times to record federal immigration actions, promising during a statewide address on Wednesday night that "accountability is coming" for abuses by Federal officers. Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution" (snip.) "News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities," Walz said.
President Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act against Minnesota if the state declines to stop rioters from attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
Under the Insurrection Act, the president can deploy the military and federalize the National Guard in response to civil disorder or an armed rebellion against the US government.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me,” Trump warned on Truth Social.
Former vice president Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff purchased an $8 million mansion in an exclusive oceanside Malibu neighborhood last month. The move came after Harris spent years warning that such communities could be threatened by the "climate crisis."
A real estate listing for the mansion, reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, says the luxury pad is "perched in a prime coastal location" with "breathtaking ocean views." The property sits right near a coastline that—according to climate scenarios endorsed by Harris—is at risk of facing extreme flooding. A climate model issued by the Biden-Harris administration determined that Point Dume State Beach, the beach a short walk
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson managed to completely butcher the English language, leading to widespread mockery online.
As CBS reported, the Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday on whether laws from Idaho and West Virginia that ban biological males from playing in girls’ and women’s sports violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and the landmark law known as Title IX.
Two bio males, Lindsay Hecox of Idaho and Becky Pepper-Jackson of West Virginia, sued their respective states, claiming they discriminate based on sex and transgender status. They claim the states’ laws ban every ‘transgender’ female from school sports, and treat them worse than others.
This is, of course, not true.
Fox News host Griff Jenkins told Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey point-blank on Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are in his city to detain illegal immigrant criminals.
Frey called on ICE to “get the f*** out” of Minneapolis in the aftermath of Renee Good’s death, who was shot by an ICE agent after she appeared to accelerate her car toward the officer during an enforcement operation.
Jenkins and Frey sparred on “Fox & Friends” while the host noted that ICE operations have ramped up across the U.S. to arrest illegal immigrants who crossed the border during former President Joe Biden’s administration.
“Mr. Mayor, you ask ICE to get the
As Minneapolis police failed to respond to violent unrest Wednesday night, rioters smashed into ICE vehicles, ripped out weapons lockers, and — according to video posted online — made off with a rifle and ammunition before fleeing the scene. The video shows the tattooed face of a man making off with what appears to be a rifle case removed from the vehicle.
Rioters took to the streets with impunity Wednesday night after the second officer-involved shooting in Minneapolis in the past week. A federal law enforcement officer was forced to shoot an illegal alien from Venezuela after he allegedly violently assaulted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer attempting
Multiple reports out of Minneapolis indicate that leftist rioters in the city are revealing the names and locations of federal law enforcement agents on livestreams using documents recovered from looted vehicles.
The reports came after the Department of Homeland Security says one of agents shot a Venezuelan immigrant in the leg after he fled a targeted traffic stop and proceeded to attack the officer, NBC News noted.
The move also comes after a week of unrest following the death of Renee Good, a woman who was shot after she ran her SUV into an ICE agent during a confrontation with officials during immigration enforcement operations in the city.
It's no understatement to say that the 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" changed the direction of public policy. And in fact, that's exactly what failed presidential candidate Al Gore intended the film to do. Fortunately for him, he found a willing audience of Hollywood celebrities and left-wing media outlets to uncritically promote his ideology and activism.
Unfortunately for him, 2006 is now far enough in the past that we can test some of the predictions, claims, and statements of fact he makes in that film. So that's exactly what we did.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) urged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to “round up all” of the criminal illegal aliens.
During an interview on Fox News Channel’s The Will Cain Show, Fetterman spoke about the recent shooting in Minneapolis, where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has claimed that Good “weaponized her vehicle” against ICE agents who were trying to get their vehicle unstuck.
“Round up all the criminals,” Fetterman said. “Deport them. They shouldn’t have ever been here, and they definitely have to go.”
While Fetterman expressed that the incident is “a tragedy,” he pointed out that it is “very clear”