President Donald Trump promised on Monday to clean up crime and vagrancy in the nation&#8217;s capital by shifting more responsibilities over the district to the federal government. 
Trump made the announcement during a press conference at the White House, where he laid out a number of executive actions he was taking to fight violent crime, decrease homelessness, and otherwise clean up Washington, D.C. 
“I&#8217;m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation&#8217;s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse,” Trump said. “ This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we&#8217;re gonna take our capital back. We&#8217;re taking it back.” 
Trump on Monday invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act and declared a public emergency. This granted him to move the D.C. Police Department under the control of the Justice Department. DEA Administrator Terry Cole will head the department, per Trump&#8217;s orders. 
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and U.S. District Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro all appeared alongside Trump at the news conference.
The president also added that he was sending 800 National Guard troops to patrol the streets of D.C. Last week, the administration sent 500 federal agents into the district, including from the FBI, ATF, DEA, Park Police, the U.S. Marshal Service, the Secret Service, and the Department of Homeland Security. 
“The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on earth,” Trump said, adding that “the only language” that criminals understand is when you “knock the hell out of them.” 
The president added that he would like to see Republicans in Congress move to end cashless bail in the district, saying that the policy led to lawlessness in the streets. Trump added that he planned to improve infrastructure in the district and crack down on homeless encampments. 
“We&#8217;re going to replace the medians that are falling down all over the roads. We&#8217;re gonna replace the potholes,” he said. 
Burgum, who briefly spoke during the conference, said that Park Police had cleared over 70 homeless camps from D.C. since March 27. 
“We’re going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can&#8217;t walk on,” Trump said. “We&#8217;re moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people. Some of those people, we don&#8217;t know how they even got there.”

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‘We’re Gonna Take Our Capital Back’: Here’s Everything Trump Is Going To Do To Clean Up D.C.

‘We're Gonna Take Our Capital Back’: Here's Everything Trump Is Promising To Do To Clean Up D.C.

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The United States doubled its reward on information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday, offering $50 million.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the new bounty in a video statement, highlighting Maduro’s ties to drug cartels and calling the South American dictator a threat to U.S. national security.
“Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like TDA, Sinaloa, and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country. To date, the DEA has seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates with nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself,” said Bondi.
“The DOJ has seized over $700 million of Maduro-linked assets, including two private jets, nine vehicles, and more,” she added. “Yet, Maduro&#8217;s reign of terror continues. He is one of the largest narco traffickers in the world and a threat to our national security.”
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Today, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/StateDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StateDept</a> are announcing a $50 MILLION REWARD for information leading to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro. <a href="https://t.co/D8LNqjS9yk">pic.twitter.com/D8LNqjS9yk</a>
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/1953583017353466306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
The United States’ bounty on Maduro previously increased in January when the Biden administration increased it to $25 million. The higher bounty came after the United States accused Maduro of claiming victory over a fraudulent election last year.
The United States has not recognized Maduro as Venezuela&#8217;s lawful leader since 2019, after the dictator claimed victory over the “deeply flawed 2018 presidential election,” according to the Department of Justice.
The Department of Justice first placed a bounty on Maduro in 2020, set at $15 million.
During his first term, President Donald Trump began to <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-in-final-parting-shot-hits-venezuela-with-sanctions">ratchet</a> up pressure on Maduro. One of Trump’s last acts of his first term was to put in place sweeping sanctions on assets and people suspected of aiding Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA, of trading its fuel.
Venezuela’s economy has collapsed under the Maduro regime, with millions of residents fleeing the country. The regime has kept afloat almost entirely from the country’s oil industry. Venezuela possesses the world’s largest proven oil reserves.
Earlier this year, Trump reversed course on a decision to cancel Venezuela’s license to work with Chevron to export oil to the United States. Chevron first obtained the license to work in Venezuela in 2022, and Trump canceled the license in February.
The president <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-admin-allows-chevron-again-pump-oil-venezuela-reversing-ban">renewed</a> the license in July, reportedly as part of a prisoner swap that saw 10 American hostages returned to the United States from Venezuela.

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Trump Hikes Bounty On Venezuela’s Maduro To $50M

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Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly directed the creation of a grand jury investigation into allegations that former President Barack Obama and his team sought to gin up intelligence to create a narrative of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
Fox News <a href="https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1952460815774441677" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> Bondi signed a one-page order on Monday instructing a federal prosecutor, who was not identified, to take evidence to a grand jury. A Department of Justice (DOJ) spokesperson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-launching-grand-jury-investigation-russiagate-conspiracy-allegations-source" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the news outlet the attorney general is taking a Russiagate criminal referral sent by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard &#8220;very seriously&#8221; and believes there is a &#8220;clear cause for deep concern.&#8221;
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🚨BREAKING NEWS: <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AGPamBondi</a> signed an order directing a GRAND JURY to investigate an &#8220;alleged conspiracy&#8221; in the Russian Collusion Hoax saga.
Here we go. <a href="https://t.co/TdXmTFAAhP">pic.twitter.com/TdXmTFAAhP</a>
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1952460815774441677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment when The Daily Wire reached out, seeking comment on the report from Fox News. It had been known that Bondi previously had initiated a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-department-to-form-strike-force-to-assess-weaponization-of-intel-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“strike force”</a> tasked with evaluating the evidence relating to the Obama administration’s efforts to drive the Russia collusion allegations in response to various documents that were being disclosed to the public.
Just who might be named in the criminal referral was not clear as of press time, but Gabbard and now-President Donald Trump have been heavily critical of people such as Obama, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper over the creation of an intelligence assessment released in early 2017 and the &#8220;Crossfire Hurricane&#8221; FBI investigation into alleged Russia collusion.
“There’s no question in my mind that this intelligence community assessment that President Obama ordered be published, which contained a manufactured intelligence document — it’s worse than even politicization of intelligence,” Gabbard told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo in a &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375881194112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that aired last month. “It was manufactured intelligence that sought to achieve President Obama and his team’s objective, which was undermining President Trump’s presidency and subverting the will of the American people.”
Fox News reported that no charges or indictments have been filed as of Monday afternoon. The news outlet also emphasized how details of the grand jury, including where it is located and who may appear before it, were shrouded in secrecy.
Obama has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/trump-obama-treason-russia-miller.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back</a> on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-denies-bizarre-trump-claims-of-2016-election-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that his administration abused intelligence.
Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesperson for Obama, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-denies-bizarre-trump-claims-of-2016-election-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a statement last month that said the &#8220;bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.&#8221;
However, scrutiny is mounting after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evidence-of-clinton-russia-hoax-was-buried-in-back-room-at-fbi-kash-patel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disclosure</a> of records that indicate Hillary Clinton may have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-greenlit-russia-hoax-to-hide-email-scandal-declassified-docs-reveal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> a Russia collusion hoax against Trump during the 2016 campaign to distract from her email controversy. In addition, it was revealed that former special Counsel John Durham <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-durham-bombshell-obama-era-fbi-allowed-trump-russia-hoax-to-fester" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> the Obama-era FBI appeared to ignore intelligence that indicated Clinton&#8217;s campaign, its supporters, or Russian disinformation fueled allegations of ties between Trump&#8217;s camp and Moscow.
Top national security veterans from Obama&#8217;s administration rejected assertions of a &#8220;treasonous conspiracy&#8221; associated with the Russia collusion fiasco.
&#8220;The special counsel John Durham, who was appointed during Mr. Trump&#8217;s first term to investigate how the Russia probe was conducted, similarly found no evidence of an Obama administration conspiracy against Mr. Trump,&#8221; Brennan and Clapper <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/trump-obama-treason-russia-miller.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a New York Times op-ed. &#8220;But he affirmed the findings of the special counsel Robert Mueller, who conducted a separate investigation into the allegations, which found ample evidence of Russian interference in the election.&#8221;

Bondi Orders Grand Jury Probe Into Obama Russiagate Controversy: Report

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President Donald Trump today suggested that he wasn’t opposed to jailing Hillary Clinton for her role in the 2016 <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/27/us-news/cia-director-teases-more-files-tying-russiagate-to-hillary-clinton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russiagate conspiracy</a>.
The president’s comments came during an appearance on New York Post reporter Miranda Divine’s “Pod Force One” <a href="https://youtu.be/uDij8JJIS-A?si=ZSfbgfl0aYIONGA3">podcast</a>. The president was responding to the <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2025/4086-pr-15-25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declassified</a> information on Russiagate that was released earlier this month by his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
“We had Hillary Clinton down to whatever we wanted to do with her,” Trump said, noting that he “felt it was inappropriate” to prosecute her.
“She&#8217;s the wife of a president. She was a Secretary of State. We could’ve done a very big number.”
“And I said, we don’t want to be doing that…the concept of putting her in jail, indicting her, all the things that you have to do.”
He said that at the time, he wanted to focus on the country. “I said, no, no &#8230; we just won. We have to get back to — we want to heal.”
Trump said that he feels differently now.
“I was the one that killed it. And then they do the same thing to me. I just want to be fair.”
“Ultimately, it’s up to Pam,” he added, referencing Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Trump has consistently called the allegations that he colluded with Russia to prop up his campaign in the 2016 presidential elections a hoax and an act of “treason” that “put the country in danger.”
Gabbard stated in a <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2025/4086-pr-15-25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> accompanying the documents that she has referred all lawmakers involved to the DOJ for possible criminal prosecution.
“No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again,” she said.
“Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people.”
CIA director <a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/cia-ratcliffe-hillary-clinton-russiagate-obama-b2797356.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Ratcliffe</a> said that Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, former CIA director John Brennan, and former FBI director James Comey have all been referred to the Justice Department for investigation and could face prosecution, though Obama is likely protected under <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-scotus-immunity-ruling-likely-helps-obama-light-gabbard-dni-findings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presidential immunity</a>.
Bondi has appointed a <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/24/us-news/pam-bondi-launches-strike-force-after-declassified-intel-reveals-obama-admins-flawed-2016-trump-russia-probe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strike force</a> to investigate the documents.
“The Department of Justice is proud to work with my friend Director Gabbard and we are grateful for her partnership in delivering accountability for the American people,” she said.
“We will investigate these troubling disclosures fully and leave no stone unturned to deliver justice.”

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Trump Says He’s Open To Jailing Hillary for Russiagate: ‘I Just Want to Be Fair’

Russia Collusion Hoax

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Pam Bondi calling for an investigation into a Chinese firm suspected of engaging in &#8220;climate lawfare.&#8221;
Kobach wrote to Bondi that Energy Foundation China&#8217;s &#8220;environmental lawfare poses a growing challenge for American industry and the American consumer because it drives up energy costs. … It also weakens our national security and places us at a strategic disadvantage with our adversaries in China.&#8221;
The Kansas attorney general recently testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ted-cruz-exposes-chinas-plot-to-undermine-american-energy-a-coordinated-assault" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> on the same topic, alleging that Energy Foundation China — a San Francisco-based climate activist group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party — funnels money to American climate groups to drown American firms in climate-related lawsuits.
&#8220;It is evident that China&#8217;s asymmetric warfare against the United States extends to our nation&#8217;s courtrooms and state legislatures,&#8221; Kobach said in his <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/29618a0d-bcc1-b75b-d41b-439177ef3902/2025-06-25%20PM%20-%20Testimony%20-%20Kobach%20-%20updated.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> before the committee. &#8220;The CCP plainly has a strategy of driving the United States away from domestic energy sources and increasing U.S. dependence on sources that rely on a Chinese supply of solar panels, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies.&#8221;
The committee hearing, &#8220;Enter The Dragon– China and the Left&#8217;s Lawfare Against American Energy Dominance,&#8221; focused on the ways the CCP may be interfering with the American energy sector, which was detailed in a <a href="https://statearmor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/State-Armor-Who-is-Energy-Foundation-China-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by State Armor, a research group aimed at exposing CCP activity in the United States.
While the CCP develops green technologies like solar panels and windmills, it advocates for climate legislation in America through Energy Foundation China, hoping to make America dependent on imported Chinese-produced technology, according to the report.
Subcommittee Chairman Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) also noted in the hearing that another group is reportedly training judges to sway in favor of those pursuing restrictive climate policies.
Cruz noted that the Climate Judiciary Project, which claims to be impartial and uninvolved in litigation, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/climate-justice-group-deep-ties-judges-experts-involved-litigation-claims-impartiality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> trains and supports judges who preside over cases of climate litigation in ways that heavily influence their decisions in favor of the climate agenda.
Kobach wrote in his letter that, &#8220;The Senate hearing exposed that China&#8217;s ongoing asymmetric campaign against the United States extends to our nation&#8217;s courtrooms and state legislatures, and that the EFC plays a central role in that campaign.&#8221;
&#8220;This three-pronged strategy — foreign funding, mass litigation, and judicial indoctrination — is a full-spectrum assault on American energy independence,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;And while China drills and digs, we sue and shut down.&#8221;
&#8220;Every day, Communist China is waging a war on American energy to make us more reliant on technology that is built and controlled by the CCP,&#8221; State Armor founder and CEO Michael Lucci said in a statement to The Daily Wire. &#8220;As part of their strategy to control our energy grid and supply chains, they control non-profits and co-opt left-wing environmental groups to drive the CCP&#8217;s agenda through our own court systems and universities.&#8221;
Kobach concluded his letter to Bondi by calling for an investigation into Energy Foundation China&#8217;s deep-rooted connection to the CCP and its involvement in changing American climate legislation.
&#8220;I respectfully urge the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the actions of the EFC in America, including its ties to climate lawfare in the courts,&#8221; Kobach wrote. &#8220;It is important to learn the full extent of the CCP&#8217;s reach into the ongoing campaign of environmental lawfare in our state and federal courts.&#8221;
Lucci supported Kobach&#8217;s call for an investigation, adding that, &#8220;No sane country would allow its strategic adversary to severely damage its national security, control its energy supply chains, and insert kill switches into its energy grid, all driven through united front influence operations.&#8221;
&#8220;The evidence is clear,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;EFC should be permanently shut down.&#8221;

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‘Climate Lawfare:’ Kansas AG Asks Justice Department To Investigate Chinese Climate Firm

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The Department of Justice on Tuesday <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/28/james-boasberg-justice-department-complaint-00480938?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=00000155-9c90-dad1-ad7d-fed474bb0000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a misconduct complaint against James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, for “improper” comments he made about President Donald Trump at a meeting of federal judges in March.
Boasberg claimed at the biannual closed-door meeting of the Judicial Conference of the United States that he was concerned the Trump administration “would disregard rulings of federal courts, leading to a constitutional crisis.”
The <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26033573-dojboasbergcomp072825/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a>, authored by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s chief of staff Chad Mizelle, alleges that Boasberg strayed from traditional topics to “attempt to improperly influence” the other justices, many of whom are presiding over active litigation involving President Trump.
“These comments have undermined the integrity of the judiciary, and we will not stand for that,” Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1949974166205034753" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote on X</a>.
Boasberg has come under fire for his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-blocking-deportations-of-venezuelan-gang-threatens-trump-admin-with-consequences?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Judge+Blocking+Deportations+Of+Venezuelan+Gang+Threatens+Trump+Admin+With+%E2%80%98Consequences%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempts to block</a> the Trump administration’s deportation policies, filing a temporary restraining order blocking the administration’s efforts to deport hundreds of illegal aliens and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5329777/tren-de-aragua-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-venezuelan-gang" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tren de Aragua</a> members to El Salvador, citing an abuse of due process.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-obama-appointed-judge-trying-to-stop-trump-from-deporting-criminal-illegals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Obama appointee</a>, who threatened the Trump administration with “consequences” if it continued its deportations, later had his order vacated by the Supreme Court. Last month, the Supreme Court made a landmark ruling against the constitutionality of <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/nx-s1-5448821/universal-injunction-supreme-court-executive-order-birthright" target="_blank" rel="noopener">universal injunctions</a>, which lower courts were using to unilaterally block executive orders from being enforced.
The Justice Department’s complaint alleges that, following the conference, Boasberg “began acting on his preconceived belief that the Trump administration would not follow court orders.”
The complaint alleges that “Boasberg rushed the government through complex litigation, sometimes giving the Trump Administration less than 48 hours to respond and threatening criminal-contempt proceedings and the appointment of an outside prosecutor against senior Trump Administration officials for failing to comply with an order that had already been vacated.”
The Judicial Conference serves as the policymaking body for the federal court system and is headed by Chief Justice John Roberts. Its 27 members include each of the chief justices of the 13 federal circuits and a district judge from each circuit.
It is strictly reserved for discussing policy issues related to the federal courts, such as &#8220;budget, security, and facilities.”
“Although his comments would be inappropriate even if they had some basis, they were even worse because Judge Boasberg had no basis,” the complaint reads. It claims that the Trump administration has “always complied with court orders,” noting that Boasberg failed to provide examples of noncompliance alongside his remarks.
University of California, Berkeley law professor John Yoo criticized Boasberg in a recent interview for using an “inappropriate setting” to “try to get the Chief Justice of the United States to give his opinion on whether there is a constitutional crisis between the courts and the presidency.”
He said that Bosenberg was “trying to entrap the Chief Justice of the United States and get him on the record and join him to almost approve what he’s doing to spark this fight with President Trump.”
The complaint requests an investigation into Bosenberg’s conduct. If Bosenberg is found to have engaged in “willful misconduct,” the Justice Department is asking for a public reprimand and consideration of impeachment by the Judicial Conference.

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Justice Department Files Misconduct Complaint Against Anti-Trump Judge

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WASHINGTON—The FBI is investigating the Saturday night beating of a man and woman in Cincinnati, The Daily Wire has learned.
The FBI launched an investigation into the matter at Attorney General Pam Bondi&#8217;s direction, a Justice Department official shared with The Daily Wire on Monday evening. The official also said the bureau is already conducting interviews with suspects.
The news comes after Vice President JD Vance and other members of President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-calls-for-man-caught-in-viral-video-punching-woman-to-be-jailed-for-a-very-long-time">condemned the incident</a>, which took place Saturday night at the Cincinnati Music Festival.
<a href="https://x.com/still_hustling/status/1949142756196065519">Footage showed</a> a violent mob throwing a man to the ground and kicking and punching him, then punching a woman in the face and apparently knocking her unconscious. The video quickly went viral online, and the city’s police chief vowed to identify and find the culprits responsible for the “cruel and absolutely unacceptable” behavior.
<div id="attachment_953485" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-investigating-brutal-cincinnati-mob-beating-interviewing-suspects/vice-president-jd-vance-speaks-on-passage-of-president-trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill-2" rel="attachment wp-att-953485"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-953485" class="wp-image-953485 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2226783517-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2226783517-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2226783517-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2226783517-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2226783517.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Vice President JD Vance in Canton, Ohio. (Photo by Maddie McGarvey-Pool/Getty Images)</div>
“What I saw, and I haven’t seen the full context, but what I saw a mob of lawless thugs beating up on an innocent person and it’s disgusting,” Vance <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1949850196143174059" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said of the incident</a>. “And I hope every single one of those people who engaged in violence is prosecuted to the full extent of the law.&#8221;
&#8220;And they will be,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They will be so long as law enforcement in the state of Ohio take their jobs seriously.”
Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police President Ken Kober also condemned the violence, including the people who watched the mob beat the two individuals without attempting to help.
“The violence this video shows downtown is disgusting,” Kober told the local news outlet <a href="https://www.fox19.com/2025/07/27/ll-cool-j-brings-surprise-guest-stage-during-final-night-cincinnati-music-festival/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WLWT</a>. “What’s equally disgusting is those who chose to watch and record instead of calling 911, attempting to defuse the situation or render aid.&#8221;
&#8220;I have full faith in the Central Business Section Investigators — they will make arrests in the near future,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It will then be the responsibility of the court system to hold these violent thugs accountable.”

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FBI Investigating Brutal Cincinnati Mob Beating, Interviewing Suspects

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The Justice Department subpoenaed Boston Children’s Hospital for alleged healthcare fraud related to sex-change surgeries for minors, <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusive-boston-childrens-hospital-subpoenaed-by-doj-over-gender-transition-procedures-for-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review</a> reported Monday.
The department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-subpoenas-doctors-and-clinics-involved-performing-transgender-medical?utm_source=semafor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> earlier this month that it was investigating hospitals “involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children” for “healthcare fraud, false statements, and more.”
“Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in the memo.
In <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January, Trump</a> signed an executive order banning federal funding for sex-change surgeries for minors. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a rule change this month to implement the order. In May, CMS sent a letter to hospitals requesting “financial data for all pediatric sex trait modifications” that are “paid, in whole or in part, by the federal government.”
Some hospitals have <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/kaiser-permanente-to-pause-transgender-surgeries-for-teenagers-nationwide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paused</a> programs or even <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/l-a-childrens-closes-trans-youth-center-under-pressure-from-trump-admin-joins-growing-list-of-closures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed</a> their clinics offering gender transition interventions to minors following Trump’s executive orders.
However, according to whistleblowers — including adults who regret their sex-transition surgeries and surgeon Eithan Haim — others are finding ways of getting around the ban.
Whistleblower testimony claims that hospitals use deceptive billing codes to hide sex change surgeries for children while making insurance claims under federal programs like Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
The hospital didn’t address the specific allegations.
“Boston Children’s Hospital is committed to providing safe, evidence-based, and compassionate care to every patient and family we serve,” a Boston Children’s Hospital spokesman told National Review.
The hospital has a history of politically motivated healthcare.
While the hospital has <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/boston-childrens-hospital-warns-employees-far-right-online-harassment-rcna43376" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> performing sex-change surgeries on minors, an <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/7/1943" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine by faculty members claims that its Center for Gender Surgery is “the first pediatric center in the United States to offer gender-affirming chest surgeries for individuals over 15 years old and genital surgeries for those over 17 years of age.”
Last year, Boston Children’s faced backlash after halving its assessment time for children requesting life-altering transgender medical interventions. Laura Edwards-Leeper, who was the founding psychologist for the hospital’s gender clinic, the first of its kind in the United States, called the decision “<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14035429/boston-children-hospital-doctor-fury-transgender-surgery.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crazy</a>.”
Boston Children’s is one of three hospitals currently being <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-launches-probes-against-3-childrens-hospitals-genital-mutilation-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigated</a> by the FBI for potential violation of a federal statute that condemns female genital mutilation.
The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to 20 medical establishments in total. While it did not reveal the names of the establishments in its memo, the <a href="https://coloradosun.com/2025/07/18/childrens-hospital-colorado-subpoena-gender-affirming-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Children’s Hospital Colorado</a> has stated that it is also under investigation.

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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell at the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in Tallahassee, Florida.
At around 9 a.m. ET, Blanche arrived at the federal courthouse, shaking his head and saying “no” when asked if he had anything to say before his meeting with Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse">sentence</a> for helping Jeffrey Epstein sex traffick young girls. 
It is not clear what Blanche will discuss with her. 
In a statement <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1947622027587723365">posted</a> to X by Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this week, Blanche said that President Donald Trump told them to release “all credible evidence” regarding information about Epstein’s illicit activities. 
“If Ghislaine Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say,” he said. 
This week, Maxwell’s attorney <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-todd-blanche-meeting/">said</a> they were in discussion with the government about a meeting and stated that “Ghislaine will always testify truthfully.” 
Despite this, in 2022, the Department of Justice <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ghislaine-maxwell-engaged-significant-pattern-dishonest-conduct-doj/story?id=124017081">doubted</a> that Maxwell could be truthful, with court papers accusing her of a pattern of dishonesty and a failure to take accountability for her crimes. Ahead of Maxwell’s trial in 2021, the feds revealed that prosecutors did not consider working out a plea deal with her in exchange for testimony. 
Defense Lawyer Duncan Levin described Blanche’s meeting with Maxwell as unusual. 
“If Todd Blanche, now running the DOJ and formerly Trump’s personal lawyer, is personally meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell in prison, it suggests something far outside the norm,” he said, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/24/us-news/deputy-ag-todd-blanche-will-meet-with-ghislaine-maxwell-within-hours-sources/">according to</a> the New York Post. “This isn’t some career prosecutor following protocol. It’s a direct line from Trump’s inner circle to one of the most infamous inmates in the country.”
The meeting comes just one day after the House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena for Maxwell to address Congress. The deposition will occur at the prison on August 11th, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-subpoenas-epstein-associate-ghislaine-maxwell">reported</a> by The Daily Wire.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly informed President Donald Trump earlier this year that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
During a May briefing on the Epstein case, Bondi informed Trump that his name and the names of other high-profile figures had come up in her reexamination of the Epstein documents that have not been made public, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/trump-epstein-files-named.html">reported</a>, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjsr5JwlFG5_hitg6eyWvb2sbXUBl5zWTOwyLsrdoBUU9KsrzebEvD02IJHmw%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6882630b&amp;gaa_sig=02QLyZ6Azwi9tJ8UJ1Mqnn1va5uIw1eenxHbeDWxESYBVt9hFKDzdPEmHOGblBJFS-M53xNQ48h-igGCC0XG9w%3D%3D">citing</a> administration officials and people familiar with the discussion.
&#8220;As part of our routine briefing, we made the president aware of the findings,&#8221; Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, said in a joint statement. &#8220;Nothing in the files warranted further investigation or prosecution.&#8221;
It was already known that Trump&#8217;s name appears in documents related to Epstein — his name showed up in files that have been made public. The files reportedly contain hundreds of names, and a name&#8217;s appearance does not indicate wrongdoing.
Trump and Epstein socialized in the early 2000s, but Trump reportedly <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510604-book-claims-trump-barred-epstein-from-mar-a-lago-after-financier-hit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2007 for harassing a club member’s teenage daughter. In 2020, Trump <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510604-book-claims-trump-barred-epstein-from-mar-a-lago-after-financier-hit/">said</a> he was “not a fan” of Epstein and “threw him out” of Mar-a-Lago, adding that they had not spoken in 15 years.
Epstein was found dead at 66 in what was ruled a suicide in his Manhattan jail cell back in 2019. He was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges after being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-predator-prowling-the-streets-the-trial-of-ghislaine-maxwell">accused</a> of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, as well as procuring underage girls for prominent men on his private island in the Virgin Islands, Little St. James.
At the briefing, Trump <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjsr5JwlFG5_hitg6eyWvb2sbXUBl5zWTOwyLsrdoBUU9KsrzebEvD02IJHmw%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6882630b&amp;gaa_sig=02QLyZ6Azwi9tJ8UJ1Mqnn1va5uIw1eenxHbeDWxESYBVt9hFKDzdPEmHOGblBJFS-M53xNQ48h-igGCC0XG9w%3D%3D">reportedly</a> said he would defer to the Justice Department on whether to release any more Epstein files. Bondi told Trump that senior Justice Department officials were not planning on releasing any more because the files contained child pornography and victims&#8217; personal information.
White House spokesperson Steven Cheung <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-told-bondi-appeared-multiple-times-epstein-files/story?id=124014441">called</a> it &#8220;fake news&#8221; when asked this week whether Bondi had told Trump that his name is in the files.
&#8220;This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media, just like the Obama Russiagate scandal, which President Trump was right about,&#8221; Cheung said.
The Trump administration&#8217;s decision not to release any more Epstein files has frustrated parts of Trump&#8217;s base.
On July 7, the Justice Department posted a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl">memo</a> stating that it had done an &#8220;exhaustive review&#8221; of the Epstein files and found no incriminating “client list” or &#8220;credible evidence&#8221; that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals, and &#8220;no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.&#8221;
However, on Tuesday, Blanche said he plans to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein&#8217;s former girlfriend, who was sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking.
&#8220;If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say,&#8221; Blanche <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1947622027587723365">said</a> in a statement.

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The Justice Department announced the formation of a new &#8220;strike force&#8221; on Wednesday that would be tasked with evaluating and assessing the evidence — compiled by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — relating to former President Barack Obama and his administration&#8217;s efforts to drive the Trump-Russia Collusion narrative.
According to a press release, the Justice Department intended to explore what legal steps should be taken once the evidence had been evaluated — and would be working alongside Gabbard to ensure that nothing was missed.
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The press release, which came from the office of Attorney General Pam Bondi, read as follows:
<blockquote>Today, the Department of Justice announced the formation of a Strike Force to assess the evidence publicized by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and investigate potential next legal steps which might stem from DNI Gabbard’s disclosures.
This Department takes alleged weaponization of the intelligence community with the utmost seriousness.</blockquote>
Bondi added her own comment as well, saying, &#8220;The Department of Justice is proud to work with my friend Director Gabbard and we are grateful for her partnership in delivering accountability for the American people. We will investigate these troubling disclosures fully and leave no stone unturned to deliver justice.&#8221;
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After dropping an initial trove of documents earlier in the week, Gabbard announced on Wednesday that a House Intelligence Committee related to the matter had been declassified and released to the public. That report, she said, offered even more evidence that several key figures within former President Obama&#8217;s administration had actively colluded to manufacture the chosen narrative.
&#8220;New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history. Per President @realDonaldTrump&#8217;s directive, I have declassified a @HouseIntel oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election,&#8221; Gabbard posted. &#8220;In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him.&#8221;
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A federal judge in Florida denied the attempt from President Donald Trump&#8217;s Department of Justice to release grand jury transcripts from the investigation into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg, an Obama appointee, said in a 12-page opinion on Wednesday that she does not have the legal authority to release the transcripts, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/23/epstein-transcripts-florida-judge-justice-department/">reported</a>. Last week, at the behest of Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi requested that grand jury testimony be released in both Epstein&#8217;s case and the case of his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
&#8220;For the reasons set forth below, Eleventh Circuit law does not permit this Court to grant the Government’s request; the Court’s hands are tied—a point that the Government concedes,&#8221; Rosenberg&#8217;s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/439be34e-b5e9-4cc1-93a1-a7d892b473cc.pdf?utm_medium=referral_home&amp;utm_source=webview&amp;utm_campaign=atp_2507%3Aa%3Brct_2406%3A2%3Bdr_2503%3Apersonalized&amp;no_nav=true&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_3">opinion</a> stated.
The judge added that the Justice Department did not provide sufficient arguments for unsealing records that are protected by rules that &#8220;emphasize a presumption of secrecy&#8221; and protect participants from disclosing information given to a grand jury.
Rosenberg&#8217;s decision does not mark the end of the Trump administration&#8217;s attempts to unseal Epstein&#8217;s or Maxwell&#8217;s grand jury transcripts. The DOJ sent three total requests to judges in Florida and New York seeking to unseal records related to the Epstein investigation, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-denies-justice-department-request-unseal-epstein-grand/story?id=124008233#:~:text=A%20federal%20judge%20in%20Florida,a%20public%20order%20released%20Wednesday.">reported</a>.
The DOJ <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-requests-judge-unseal-grand-jury-testimony-in-epstein-maxwell-cases-at-trumps-behest?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=DOJ+Requests+Judge+Unseal+Grand+Jury+Testimony+In+Epstein%2C+Maxwell+Cases+At+Trump%E2%80%99s+Behest">moved to release</a> the records of witnesses in the case in an effort to address the &#8220;extensive public interest&#8221; and controversy over the Trump administration&#8217;s July 6 memo, concluding that there was no “credible evidence” to prove that Epstein kept a client list or that he blackmailed powerful people who supposedly took part in Epstein’s sex crimes.
A significant portion of Trump&#8217;s base, along with some Republican lawmakers, are calling on the administration to be more transparent on the Epstein investigation. Bondi was criticized for her handling of the case after she said earlier this year that she had Epstein’s client list on her desk, but recently clarified that she meant she had the Epstein files on her desk for review.
The DOJ said on Tuesday that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is expected to meet with Maxwell soon and determine if she will provide the Justice Department with any more information on Epstein.
“President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence. If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say,” Blanche said.
Republicans in the House are also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-panel-votes-to-subpoena-ghislaine-maxwell?author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=House+Panel+Votes+To+Subpoena+Ghislaine+Maxwell">attempting</a> to get more information on the Epstein investigation and voted on Tuesday in favor of subpoenaing Maxwell to appear for a deposition. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), however, said Monday that lawmakers should give the Trump administration some “space,” and the House is expected to go into its August recess at the end of the week.

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