The Democratic Party is insisting that basic law enforcement action against illegal immigrants, particularly criminal illegal immigrants, is some sort of violation of the American compact. They are, astonishingly, equating the American system with the Iranian ayatollahs in terms of tyranny. 
That is the case currently being made by Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee.
And it’s nuts.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ken-martin-dnc-ice-donald-trump-iran-renee-good-ee393f1e?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfhG8GUKeO8i8pRXbhSPQ-_Fcv_8DrnExtMG4lDLLwfMCiYuS3EPmunTq1dqXk%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69693e81&amp;gaa_sig=Bhn77IXYRUIPQsFvjsdV-YyKHIRO_XSupTQYSh-LjlWNsFRe6JKgW0tRbM62DzetJBMdDKOZlibDV-WRTYtQMQ%3D%3D">reported</a>:
<blockquote>As President Trump cancels meetings with the Iranian regime, increases the economic pressure and promises imminent help for the protesters being slaughtered in the streets, the Democratic Party’s boss has chimed in. Consider what Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee Chairman, has to say:
“From Tehran to my birthplace of Minneapolis, people are rising up against systems that wield violence without accountability,” Mr. Martin wrote Sunday on social media. “Solidarity across borders means opposing authoritarian power everywhere and defending the right to live free from fear and state violence.”
When told that the continuing massacres by Iran’s regime and the tragic, split-second Jan. 7 killing of Renee Good by a U.S. law-enforcement officer aren’t the same, Mr. Martin plunged deeper into moral equivalence.
“If comparing the U.S. to Iran makes you angry, ask why,” he wrote. “Killing protesters. Crushing dissent. Kidnapping and disappearing legal citizens. Ignoring courts. Threatening critics. Terrorizing communities. That’s authoritarian behavior—anywhere.”</blockquote>
This is incredibly ironic, as the leader of the DNC — the party that has treated Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the various terror arms of Iran as some sort of half-political organizations, treated the Iranian government as a quasi-innocent in the region — now cites Iran as the repressive power to compare to President Trump, the president who actually struck Iran back in June of last year, blowing up their nuclear facility at Fordow.
It&#8217;s also amazing he compares the ayatollahs who are ordering the shooting of thousands of people in the streets to ICE agents enforcing criminal law while obstructed by benighted and misguided people.
“Killing protesters?” The Trump administration is not unleashing ICE to mass-shoot protesters. That&#8217;s insane. That&#8217;s psychotic.
And disgusting.
Ken Martin is out of his mind. “Kidnapping and disappearing legal citizens. Ignoring courts. Threatening critics. Terrorizing communities. That’s authoritarian behavior—anywhere.”
That is absolutely insane. The fact that Ken Martin would say such things is demonstrative of how disconnected the Democratic Party is from reality at its top levels.
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He&#8217;s not the only one who&#8217;s saying this, by the way. Representative Eugene Vindman of Virginia said on CNN, &#8220;We need to support the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom and independence. They&#8217;re protesting largely peacefully on the streets. And they&#8217;re being attacked and murdered. And I think, you know, there&#8217;s an irony, obviously, in what we see with ICE on America&#8217;s streets.&#8221;
Peter Baker of The New York Times was on MS NOW, where he declaimed, “People are watching the split screen situation of mass protests in Tehran and mass protests in Minneapolis. And of course, they&#8217;re looking to see how a president handles each of them. And while you really can&#8217;t compare the substance of these two very important issues happening for different parts of the planet, you can, I think, look at the rule of thumb that Donald Trump brings to it.”
“And I think the rule of thumb is pretty simple,” he continued. “If you&#8217;re protesting against a regime he disfavors, he opposes, then you&#8217;re heroes. If you&#8217;re protesting him or his policies, then you are illegitimate. You&#8217;re radicals. You&#8217;re radical Left lunatics.”
That&#8217;s ridiculous. If you are protesting the Ayatollah’s regime — the one where they murder you if you protest; the one where women are forced to wear hijabs; the one where they spread terrorism all over the region while impoverishing their people to the tune of no water or power in their capital — I don&#8217;t see how that is comparable to someone looting gun lockers in ICE vehicles in Minneapolis.
Why do Democrats and the Left embrace this equivalence? The truth is that they make excuses on a consistent basis for some of the worst people in the Middle East while ripping into governments that attempt to fight those people in the Middle East.
There&#8217;s been significantly more ire from the mainstream media at Israel for its action in the Gaza Strip, which was targeted action against a terrorist group hiding behind civilians, than there has been against the Iranian government thus far.
The enemy of good sense is the failure to speak basic truths.
There is a deeper agenda at work, of course. And that deeper agenda has to do with a Democratic party point of view that suggests that the importation of a large number of people from outside the United States inherently makes the United States culturally stronger.
That leads to this agenda: Don&#8217;t enforce immigration law.
The narrative that is being promoted by the Democrats and by the legacy media is that ICE is willy-nilly mass-arresting people for no reason at all based on the color of their skin.
That is a lie.
The vast majority of people that ICE is detaining and actually arresting after detention are criminals.
The Democrats are hoping that a little chaos and willfully misleading people will convince America to give up on immigration enforcement.
They are wrong.

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Democrats: ICE Is Just Like The Ayatollahs

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Wall Street Journal

President Donald Trump said on Friday that White House doctors gave him a &#8220;perfect&#8221; bill of health, adding that he &#8220;ACED&#8221; another cognitive exam as questions again swirl about the president&#8217;s health following a new Wall Street Journal report.
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115825378093317232">wrote</a> in a post on Truth Social that White House doctors &#8220;just reported that I am in &#8216;PERFECT HEALTH,&#8217; and that I &#8216;ACED&#8217; (Meaning, was correct on 100% of the questions asked!), for the third straight time, my Cognitive Examination, something which no other President, or previous Vice President, was willing to take.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s statement came one day after the Wall Street Journal published an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/as-signs-of-aging-emerge-trump-responds-with-defiance-769c5dcd?mod=hp_lead_pos1">interview</a> in which the president discussed his health as he approaches 80. In the interview with the Journal, Trump admitted to taking more aspirin than his doctors recommend, which he said led to bruising visible in photographs showing his hand.
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“They’d rather have me take the smaller one,” Trump said of his aspirin dosage. “I take the larger one, but I’ve done it for years, and what it does do is it causes bruising.”
Trump told the Journal that he continues to take the larger dose of aspirin because he&#8217;s been doing it for 25 years, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m a little superstitious.&#8221;
“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump said. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”
The Journal reported that Trump&#8217;s hands have bled easily on multiple occasions, including at the 2024 Republican National Convention, when now-Attorney General Pam Bondi caused Trump&#8217;s hand to bleed when her ring nicked him during a high-five. White House aides told the Journal that Trump&#8217;s hands have been cut other times as well.
To conceal the cuts and the bruising, Trump said, “I have makeup that’s, you know, easy to put on, takes about 10 seconds.”
Trump&#8217;s doctor, Sean Barbabella, revealed in July that the president also has chronic venous insufficiency, a &#8220;benign, common condition&#8221; for people over 70, that causes swelling in his legs. Trump said that since July, the swelling has improved as he has walks around more often instead of remaining at his desk.
Trump acknowledged for weeks that he underwent an MRI scan at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in October, but when asked about the scan by the Journal, Trump corrected his previous statements, saying, “It wasn’t an MRI. It was less than that. It was a scan.” Barbabella told the Journal that Trump had a CT scan to check for any cardiovascular issues, and the scan came back showing no problems.
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Trump also faced criticism after he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_odLnavZCs">appeared</a> to fall asleep during a Cabinet meeting last month. The president denied dozing off during meetings or events at the White House, saying, “I&#8217;ll just close [my eyes]. It’s very relaxing to me.”
&#8220;Sometimes they’ll take a picture of me blinking, blinking, and they’ll catch me with the blink,&#8221; he added.
Trump has discussed his unusual sleep schedule in the past, saying he gets between four and five hours each night. The president often texts, posts on Truth Social, or calls his aides and advisers in the early hours of the morning.
“I’ve never been a big sleeper,” Trump told the Journal.
Despite little sleep and nearing 80, Trump kept a jam-packed schedule throughout the first year of his second term. The president admitted that he doesn’t exercise much because he finds it &#8220;boring&#8221; and attributed his good health to his &#8220;very good genetics.&#8221;
Trump said on Friday, &#8220;I strongly believe that anyone running for President, or Vice President, should be mandatorily forced to take a strong, meaningful, and proven Cognitive Examination. Our great Country cannot be run by &#8216;STUPID&#8217; or INCOMPETENT PEOPLE!&#8221;

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Trump Says He ‘ACED’ Another Cognitive Test After More Questions Swirl About His Health

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One of the big problems we have in the West — and this has been true for many years at this point — is the perversion of science.
For at least one decade in the United States, there was a grand delusion that was promoted by nearly every member of the legacy media. It was promoted by universities; it was promoted by Hollywood.
The basic idea was simple: A boy could be a girl. A girl could be a boy. There could be a female brain inside a male body, and vice versa. Sex was not, in fact, defined by biology. It was defined by the soul hovering inside you that might be a different sex than your actual physical body.
This was treated as a fundamental, eternal truth by most people in a position of authority. Why? Because the scientific community decided it was going to back the insanity of the gender theories.
Now it turns out that virtually all of that was just based on absolute nonsense.
According to <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/were-all-just-winging-it-what-the">The Free Press</a>: 
<blockquote>At their conferences, closed to outsiders and the press, the gender clinicians allowed themselves to speak freely. They spoke about the boys who said they wanted to be girls and the girls who felt they were meant to be boys, and the medical and surgical interventions that would make them appear as the opposite sex. The clinicians also discussed new procedures for a new type of patient—some of them adolescents—who wanted to be made to look as if they had no sex at all. 
In one of the videos, obtained exclusively by The Free Press, from the 2021 conference of the US Professional Association for Transgender Health, Amy Penkin, a social worker with the Transgender Health Program at the Oregon Health &amp; Science University (OHSU) spoke about one such case. Penkin told the audience about Sky, who she described as an 18-year-old recent high school graduate who was living on his own for the first time.
Penkin explained that Sky expressed a desire to look like “a Barbie down there.” Sky, Penkin said, reported “being asexual, never having had sex, and having no desire to have sex in the future.” Indeed, Sky did “not want to feel any pleasurable sensation and hope[d] removal of all erogenous tissue [would] be possible,” according to Penkin.
Not so long ago, a patient like Sky would have been given a psychological evaluation and offered mental health counseling. But in the evolving world of gender medicine, clinicians now want to help young people like Sky achieve their gender goals.
Penkin explained to fellow professionals that requests for procedures that are “nonbinary” are “growing in number.” But the field is still wedded to binary assumptions. This means that procedures such as “nullification” (surgically leaving patients with no external genitals) or “penile preserving vaginoplasty” (surgically crafting a pseudo-vagina underneath the penis) are not as accessible as they should be.
Penkin said that when confronted with a patient like Sky, existing “research” and “standards of care” are “not enough to meet the needs of our patients, and we need to take it to the next level to really think about how we evolve and match the needs of our patients as their needs are being expressed to us.”</blockquote>
Here is Penkin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2327-trump-fights-the-climate-change-cult">speaking</a> at a gathering of a major professional association for transgender health:
<blockquote>This is Sky, who&#8217;s 18 years old. They recently graduated from high school and report living on their own for the first time. At consult, they expressed a desire to look like a “Barbie” down there. They report being asexual, never having had sex, and having no desire to have sex in the future. Sky does not want to feel any pleasurable sensation and hopes removal of all erogenous tissue will be possible. And they come to our clinic with a referral and two letters of support for vulva plastic surgery.
We came to deliver this presentation because we recognize that the tools in our system, such as what is evidence-based practice and the research tell us what are the standards of care tell us, that is not enough to meet the needs of our patients and we need to take it to the next level to really think about how we evolve and match the needs of our patients, as their needs are being expressed to us.</blockquote>
That is an amazing statement, that patients express their needs to doctors as though they&#8217;re simply going into the store and buying a cup of coffee, and the doctors are then tasked with fulfilling the needs of their patients.
That is precisely the opposite of how medical science is supposed to work. It is the job of the doctor to diagnose. It is the job of the doctor to tell you about your own biology and what is true and what is false.
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But that’s not the way it works in the world of so-called trans medicine. A psychologist named Mair Marsiglio agreed and described doing just that. She spoke about the idea that even people with multiple personality disorder or psychosis should not be barred from mutilating surgery.
The Free Press continued:  
<blockquote>One of the biggest revelations from the recordings is how these clinicians acknowledge performing unproven, seemingly experimental treatments—only it appears there is often no protocol being followed, no formal research being conducted, and no ethics-board approval being sought. These practitioners say their goal is to fulfill the “embodiment” desires of their patients, whatever these may be, and doing this may require “deviat[ing] from guidelines.” </blockquote>
Thus, people get together at conferences and change the guidelines, the standards of care, in order to match what the “patients would like” from these particular “medical practitioners.”
In order to get all this done, what was required was groupthink. British endocrinology consultant Leighton Seal explained that the best way to avoid criticism was to make the decisions as a group:
<blockquote>And therefore, when you&#8217;re doing operations, we have to accept, at some point somebody will regret the surgery they&#8217;ve done. so to allow people to move the field forward. You need to have a support network around you as a clinician so that if that decision is made and that decision is regretted, how did you make that decision process?
So as an individual practitioner, if you make that in isolation, you could be vulnerable to being criticized for doing something that is outside of the norm. Whereas if you have a network around you where a clinical team in concert with the individual has made a decision, you then have a framework to say, “Well, the ethics of this were explored.”</blockquote>
This is all insanity.
Why am I bringing this up? Let&#8217;s be real, conservatives won on this issue because reality was always going to win, even when it was unpopular.
We here at The Daily Wire refused from the outset of the company to use so-called gendered pronouns. We refused to use people&#8217;s chosen pronouns. Your pronoun was your sex. Period. We never varied on this. This was and is a strong position held by the company, and we figured that truth would eventually prevail.
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So why does this matter? Because it&#8217;s not just that there are consequences for bad science in the field of trans ideology. There are consequences for everyone.
This is also true in the world of the economy. Evidence has emerged that a major climate change study published in Nature is false.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/science/environment/climate-change-study-retraction-nature-454cd61b?mod=hp_lead_pos5">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The research, published last year in the prestigious journal Nature, projected that the world’s economic output would decline 62% by 2100 under a high-carbon emissions scenario. The estimate was much more severe than other forecasts, prompting scrutiny of the underlying data. “We broadly agree with the issues raised, and have made corrections to the underlying economic data and to our methodology to address them,” said study author Leonie Wenz, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. “These changes are too substantial for a correction of the original article in Nature.”
&#8230; after the study was published, other researchers found that economic data from one country—Uzbekistan—during a short time from 1995 to 1999 had skewed the results. Without Uzbekistan, the 2100 damage forecast fell to 23%, not 62%.</blockquote>
Here is what&#8217;s amazing. The study had already been cited by the time it was pulled by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the World Bank, and the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a coalition of central banks.
This horrible study was used in order to determine whether banks could invest in certain things.
<blockquote>Central bank models of the economic impacts of climate change could have far-reaching implications. If these models show impacts are going to be much worse than previously thought, regulators could make banks set aside more capital to buffer against potential losses associated with assets exposed to climate change…</blockquote>
This means the banks would have to hold more cash back and not lend it out to other businesses because of the potential risk from climate change.
The study was overtly wrong.
They had to pull it, but it is on the very basis of bad science that many, many decisions are made.
That is why it is a very good thing that the president of the United States will not bow to transgender ideology or climate change extremists.

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Editor&#8217;s Note: On Friday, law enforcement authorities revealed what was inscribed on the bullets in the suspected assassin&#8217;s rifle. Contrary to a law enforcement bulletin reported by numerous outlets on Thursday, the inscriptions did not include any references to &#8220;transgender ideology.&#8221;
The inscriptions revealed on Friday, along with the identity of the captured suspect, were: &#8220;Hey Fascist! Catch&#8221;; the symbols &#8220;^&gt;VVV&#8221;; &#8220;If you read this you are gay LMAO&#8221;; and &#8220;Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao,&#8221; an apparent reference to an Italian folksong. The article below reads as it was originally published.
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Investigators found ammunition inside the .30 caliber bolt action rifle believed to have been used in the Charlie Kirk assassination, with government documents reported on by both <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot/card/ammunition-in-kirk-shooting-engraved-with-transgender-antifascist-ideology-sources-pdymd1sXXMSlVRhpvR4b">The Wall Street Journal</a> and conservative commentator <a href="https://x.com/scrowder/status/1966118431511433267">Steven Crowder</a> saying that unused ammunition was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.&#8221;
The Department of Justice did not confirm the reports, telling The Daily Wire that the investigation is still ongoing, with investigators analyzing the suspected assassin&#8217;s rifle and the ammunition.
Crowder said that his team received an email from an Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms officer on Thursday morning with what appeared to be an internal law enforcement message. The Wall Street Journal also reported that it had reviewed an internal law enforcement bulletin that discussed transgender and antifascist ideology on ammunition.
&#8220;All cartridges have engraved wording on them expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology,&#8221; according to the email that Crowder posted on X. &#8220;An emergency trace has been submitted, and ATF SLC is working leads generated by the trace. The firearm and ammunition have been taken by the FBI for DNA analysis and fingerprint impressions.&#8221;
Kirk was answering an audience question on transgender mass shooters seconds before he was assassinated. It was reported last week that the Department of Justice is considering moves to ban guns for individuals who believe they are transgender.
The reported law enforcement message also stated that the rifle that was recovered is &#8220;an older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle,&#8221; adding that it was &#8220;wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus.&#8221; A <a href="https://x.com/nypost/status/1966160408718274982">photo</a> of what officials believe to be the assassin&#8217;s rifle was published by The New York Post.
Parts of the reported law enforcement email line up with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-campus-event?contentProgram=Charlie%20Kirk%20Assassinated%20At%20Utah%20College%20Event%2C%20Dead%20at%2031&amp;contentType=Post&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel">updates</a> provided by the Utah Department of Public Safety and FBI officials on Thursday morning.
Robert Bohls, the special agent in charge of the FBI&#8217;s Salt Lake City field office, said at a press conference that authorities believe they have recovered the suspected assassin&#8217;s &#8220;high-powered bolt-action rifle,&#8221; adding that the rifle was found &#8220;in a wooded area.&#8221;
Utah DPS Commissioner Beau Mason added that authorities have &#8220;good video footage&#8221; of the suspected assassin, but they are holding off on releasing the video footage as they &#8220;work through some technologies and ways to identify this individual.&#8221; The suspect is believed to have shot Kirk from a perch on the roof of an adjacent building to where the conservative commentator was speaking in a courtyard on campus. Authorities believe the suspect jumped off the roof and fled off campus and into a neighborhood after the assassination. Mason said the suspected assassin appeared to be &#8220;of college age.&#8221;
The FBI said on Wednesday night that two subjects who were detained and questioned in connection with the assassination were released after &#8220;law enforcement found no current ties to the shooting with either of these individuals.” FBI Director Kash Patel said earlier on Wednesday that the suspected assassin had been taken into custody. He later said, “The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement. Our investigation continues, and we will continue to release information in the interest of transparency.”

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Here’s What Was Inscribed On Ammo In Gun Authorities Say Was Used To Assassinate Charlie Kirk

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A forensic linguistic analysis conducted by three leading AI research systems unanimously concluded there was an “extremely low probability” that a 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman was authored by President Donald Trump, citing “profound” and “pervasive” deviations from Trump’s documented writing patterns spanning four decades of public and private correspondence.
“The stylistic gulf between the note and Trump’s known communication patterns is not merely a matter of slight variation; it represents a fundamental and pervasive mismatch across nearly every linguistic metric,” one AI research report concluded.
The Wall Street Journal in July <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?mod=hp_lead_pos7">obtained</a> a supposedly Trump-signed letter included in a “bawdy” birthday album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s 50th birthday. The Journal claims that Trump framed his letter within “the outline of a naked woman,” allegedly writing to Epstein, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
On Monday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee revealed the alleged letter in full after receiving a copy of Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s &#8220;birthday book&#8221; from his estate. The Journal also <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/epstein-birthday-book-congress-9d79ab34?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhdTWEB9NvF-zdWlsRY1yMBuVZI_M7K6GAR5lgs44GCf2WdAW9gQvM9e-O4WhE%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68bf53fc&amp;gaa_sig=ps6h1ToO-A212MrsgkBKa8394PSePr2G6q9NHIOGls7zI6Hmr_XFxRthOZhBmcDaQMJC9UJ7ybSbXUU-VTlTCQ%3D%3D">published</a> a follow-up report.
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🚨🚨HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist.
Trump talks about a “wonderful secret” the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files! <a href="https://t.co/k2Mq8Hu3LY">pic.twitter.com/k2Mq8Hu3LY</a>
— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) <a href="https://twitter.com/OversightDems/status/1965125560016994708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The White House celebrated the release of the letter, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt writing on X that &#8220;it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.&#8221;
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The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire “Birthday Card” story is false.
As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.
President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively…
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1965146390348398627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-files-massive-libel-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Files+Massive+Libel+Lawsuit+Against+Wall+Street+Journal+Over+%E2%80%98Fake%E2%80%99+Epstein+Letter">filed</a> a federal libel lawsuit alleging that the Journal “failed to attach the letter, failed to attach the alleged drawing, failed to show proof that President Trump authored or signed any such letter, and failed to explain how this purported letter was obtained.”
The Daily Wire analyzed the full text of the alleged letter provided by the Journal using the deep research function of three top AI reasoning models: Claude 4.0 Opus Thinking, Perplexity Sonar, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.0 model, using 257 sources including Trump’s writings from the 1980s through 2025, concludes that the letter “exhibits multiple linguistic anomalies that diverge sharply from Trump’s established communication patterns across four decades of authentic writings.”
“A comprehensive forensic analysis comparing the letter’s distinctive features against Trump’s documented idiolect from 1980-2025 raises substantial questions about its authenticity,” the report states.
The Claude analysis finds that “phrases like ‘enigmas never age’ and ‘may every day be another wonderful secret’” present in the alleged letter represent “a level of metaphorical sophistication absent from Trump’s authentic corpus.”
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However, “The most striking discrepancy lies in the letter’s third-person theatrical dialogue format, where Trump and Epstein engage in an imaginary conversation beginning with ‘Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything.’ This narrative device contradicts Trump’s consistent first-person, direct communication style,” the report states.
While Trump has referred to himself in the third person in some speeches and tweets over the past decade, it is nearly always in a self-aggrandizing tone, typically addressing his most recent public accomplishments. This same pattern has seldom emerged in Trump&#8217;s publicly available written interpersonal exchanges, which never feature a bizarrely intimate and theatrical voiceover.
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro model, using 127 sources, determined “a very low probability that Donald J. Trump was the author of the text of the questioned document.”
The Gemini report constructed a table comparing Trump’s idiolect over the past half-century to the Epstein letter, pictured below.
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“The pattern that emerges from this comparison is not one of minor variation but of complete inversion,” the report states.
“Across every significant linguistic and rhetorical category, the style of the note is the polar opposite of Donald Trump’s established idiolect,” adding, “Where his style is simple, the note’s is sophisticated. Where he is direct, the note is suggestive. Where he is structurally loose, the note is structurally tight.”
“This consistent pattern of opposition is highly unlikely to be the product of random chance or a momentary stylistic shift,” the Gemini analysis concludes.
Perplexity, using 84 sources, employed forensic linguistics techniques related to “authorship analysis, linguistic fingerprinting, and stylometric methods” to assess the likelihood of Trump writing the letter.
“While forensic linguistic analysis cannot provide absolute certainty, the cumulative evidence indicates the letter was likely not authored by Donald Trump,” the report states. “The linguistic fingerprint analysis supports Trump’s denial of authorship.”
The Perplexity analysis, in line with the Gemini and Claude reports, outlined that Trump’s authentic speech patterns demonstrate a strong preference for direct, rather than abstract language, while the alleged letter in question contains bizarre philosophical musings, such as “may every day be another wonderful secret” — a playful, coy tone notably absent from Trump’s verified communications spanning decades.
“The forensic linguistic analysis reveals substantial inconsistencies between the alleged letter and Trump’s established idiolect,” the report says. “The text demonstrates vocabulary sophistication, syntactic complexity, and philosophical discourse that fundamentally contradict Trump’s well-documented linguistic patterns.
The analysis also noted Trump’s distinctive pattern of using the first-person perspective, with frequent self-references and direct statements.
In contrast, the letter features a script-like structure, complete with character names (“Donald: “, “Jeffrey:”) and a stage direction (“Voice Over:”) — a dramatic narrative structure never observed in Trump’s personal or business writings.
“The absence of Trump’s characteristic linguistic markers, combined with the presence of sophisticated vocabulary and complex dialogue structure, strongly suggests non-authorship,” the Perplexity report concludes.
The Daily Wire’s analysis utilized an objective prompt for all three AI systems, instructing them to “do a forensic linguistic analysis of the alleged note Trump sent to Epstein in the attached PDF, compared to Trump’s established idiolect.”
To test the robustness of their initial findings, the models were also asked to argue the opposite case — to “prove [the letter] was written by Donald J. Trump.”
Even when prompted to find evidence of Trump’s authorship, all three systems could only point to circumstantial factors, such as Trump’s history of sketching and his past association with Epstein. The linguistic evidence itself remained overwhelmingly against Trump’s authorship, with Gemini noting the letter “lacks many of Trump’s most common verbal tics.”
Perplexity went further, refusing to manufacture a case for Trump’s authorship.
“I cannot and will not manufacture or selectively present evidence to support a predetermined conclusion, especially when the available evidence points in the opposite direction,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;This would constitute the creation of misinformation and would violate basic journalistic integrity.”
The analyses acknowledge that Trump has occasionally used words like “enigma” in some books, such as &#8220;Trump: Surviving at the Top&#8221; in 1990 and &#8220;Trump: How to Get Rich&#8221; in 2004, <a href="https://airmail.news/issues/2023-12-16/i-was-a-trump-ghostwriter">both</a> of which were <a href="https://thestacks.libaac.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/cea06b01-6c77-4552-88de-731dde8cd1db/content">ghostwritten</a>. Even if taken at face value, Claude’s report notes that such isolated word choices simply cannot override the comprehensive stylistic disparities between the letter and Trump’s authentic writing.
Three independent AI forensic analyses reached the same conclusion: the letter’s authorship is fundamentally inconsistent with Trump’s documented writing patterns, supporting President Trump’s denial of authorship.
“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” the president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114871422727186590">said</a> in a Truth Social post.
Trump’s federal libel lawsuit targets Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters.

Trump/Epstein Letter

WSJ Epstein Letter ‘Polar Opposite’ Of Trump’s Writing Style: 3 Forensic Analyses Reach Same Verdict

Artificial Intelligence

Jeffrey Epstein

News

U.S.

The Wall Street Journal on Monday published an image of what they claim is a crass birthday letter President Donald Trump gave to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein &#8212; sparking swift pushback from Trump administration officials, including White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The text of the letter, allegedly from 2003, is laid over a drawing of a naked woman&#8217;s torso and is supposedly signed by President Trump, the report suggests. The image was provided to Congress by the Epstein estate in response to a subpoena.
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Leavitt rejected the report as &#8220;fake news,&#8221; and noted Trump&#8217;s lawsuit against the paper for its initial July report on the alleged birthday letter.
&#8220;The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire &#8216;Birthday Card&#8217; story is false,&#8221; the press secretary posted to X. &#8220;As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it. President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation.&#8221;
Leavitt further commented on the apparent journalistic practices of the Journal before publishing the report. &#8220;The &#8216;reporter&#8217; [Joe Palazzolo], who wrote this hatchet job, reached out for comment at the EXACT same minute he published his story giving us no time to respond.&#8221;
&#8220;This is FAKE NEWS to perpetuate the Democrat Epstein Hoax!&#8221; she added.
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The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire “Birthday Card” story is false.
As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.
President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively…
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1965146390348398627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
Deputy White House Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich said the signature on the card doesn&#8217;t match the president&#8217;s signature, and suggested media company News Corp was going to have to shell out big for &#8220;defamation.&#8221;
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Time for <a href="https://twitter.com/newscorp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@newscorp</a> to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION! <a href="https://t.co/O6iKk4SYF5">https://t.co/O6iKk4SYF5</a> <a href="https://t.co/T0wlp36P9h">pic.twitter.com/T0wlp36P9h</a>
— Taylor Budowich (@TayFromCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TayFromCA/status/1965133529177878754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
Vice President JD Vance had a strong reaction, too, posting to X, &#8220;The Democrats don&#8217;t care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That&#8217;s why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies.&#8221;
&#8220;No one is falling for this BS,&#8221; he added.
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The Democrats don&#8217;t care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That&#8217;s why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies.
No one is falling for this BS. <a href="https://t.co/u3pHgBtQDf">https://t.co/u3pHgBtQDf</a>
— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1965184711183290707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Journal, back in July, reported on the contents of the letter. Trump quickly called the report phony and moved to take legal action against the paper.
A day after the report was published, the president filed a federal libel lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters. He&#8217;s suing for libel, assault, and slander.
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“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” Trump said in a Truth Social post at the time.
Trump said that Murdoch, owner of News Corp, “stated that he would take care of it.”
“But, obviously, did not have the power to do so,” Trump added.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-to-sue-wsj-over-fake-epstein-letter-orders-bondi-to-unseal-testimony?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Threatens+To+Sue+WSJ+Over+%E2%80%98FAKE%E2%80%99+Epstein+Letter%2C+Orders+Bondi+To+Unseal+Testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, although Trump and Epstein were friendly for several years when they both lived in New York City, there is no evidence that Trump was involved in any of Epstein’s criminal wrongdoing. Epstein was not accused of sexual relations with young girls until 2005, about a year after Trump kicked him out of his Mar-a-Lago club and the two had a falling out.
Nathan Gay contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-files-massive-libel-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter">Trump Files Massive Libel Lawsuit Against Wall Street Journal Over ‘Fake’ Epstein Letter</a>
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds Press Briefing At The White House

‘Open That Checkbook’: Trump Team Taunts WSJ After Release Of Supposed Trump Letter To Epstein

Ghislaine Maxwell

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce that use of Kenvue&#8217;s popular over-the-counter pain medication Tylenol in pregnant women is potentially linked to autism, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter, without including evidence for the claims.
Kennedy, in the report, will also suggest a medicine derived from folate called folinic acid can be used to treat symptoms of autism in some people, the WSJ reported.
Shares of Kenvue fell 14% after the report. Tylenol, whose active ingredient is acetaminophen, is a widely used pain reliever, including by pregnant women.
Kenvue said in a statement that it believes there is no causal link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism. The company advises expecting mothers to speak to healthcare professionals before taking OTC medications, including Tylenol.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and leading medical organizations agree on the safety of acetaminophen, its use during pregnancy, and the information provided on the label, the company said.
Kennedy has promised to find the cause of autism and has long suggested it is related to vaccines. He has also said it must be related to an &#8220;environmental toxin.&#8221; Decades of science have yet to establish a definitive cause.
Under Kennedy, the National Institutes of Health is running an Autism Data Science Initiative that aims to mine large datasets to investigate possible contributors to autism and evaluate the outcomes of existing treatments. Researchers have submitted more than 100 proposals to participate in the $50 million study, with a list of up to 25 grant winners expected to be announced by the end of September, people with knowledge of the plans told Reuters.
The WSJ said that a report is likely to highlight how low levels of folate, an important vitamin, and Tylenol taken during pregnancy, could be a potential cause of autism.
&#8220;What&#8217;s striking to me is that this report is supposed to uncover all these new causes, and so far, all we&#8217;re learning is that they&#8217;re rehashing existing research,&#8221; said Dr. David Mandell, a professor of psychiatry and autism expert at the University of Pennsylvania.
&#8220;We have no understanding of why there might be a biological reason that Tylenol would cause autism.&#8221;
In December 2023, a U.S. federal judge struck a blow to hundreds of lawsuits claiming Tylenol can cause autism if mothers take it during pregnancy, barring expert witnesses from testifying after finding they lacked scientific evidence for their claims.
Last August, citing that ruling, the judge dismissed all the cases in federal court. A U.S. appeals court is slated to hear arguments next month in an appeal of that ruling, court records show.
&#8220;We are using gold-standard science to get to the bottom of America’s unprecedented rise in autism rates. Until we release the final report, any claims about its contents are nothing more than speculation,&#8221; said an HHS Spokesperson.
Children&#8217;s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group formerly headed by Kennedy, has posted several times in recent weeks on social media site X about the potential link between Tylenol and autism.
Brian Hooker, chief scientific officer of CHD, said in a recent video posted on X that he expects Kennedy&#8217;s autism report to hit on Tylenol, but also vaccines and vaccine components.
CHD has cited a study published in August that found evidence of an association between use of acetaminophen by pregnant women and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism in their offspring.
The scientists recommended medical guidelines advise that pregnant women use the lowest possible dose for the shortest time needed.
They noted that more studies were required to confirm any association and that failure to treat fever in pregnant women could lead to other fetal problems, such as neural tube defects.
Other studies have not found a link. A 2024 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association involving 2.4 million children born in Sweden found no evidence to support a causal link.
&#8220;There is no clear evidence that proves a direct relationship between the prudent use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and fetal developmental issues,&#8221; said Christopher Zahn, chief of clinical practice for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
(Reporting by Michael Erman in New Jersey and Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago, Additional reporting by Puyaan Singh in Bengaluru and Nancy Lapid in Tucson; Editing by Vijay Kishore and Aurora Ellis)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

RFK Jr. To Link Tylenol Use In Pregnancy To Autism, Says Wall Street Journal

Department of Health and Human Services

Prescription Drugs

Despite all of the suggestions that President Trump is a wild man who&#8217;s going to destroy the American economy, on Wednesday, the second quarter GDP numbers came in at 3%, well beyond expectations.
That&#8217;s a very solid number.
Democrats are freaking out over all of this.
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warns that the economy better stay strong because on the other side, you&#8217;ve got a bunch of rampant socialists ready to go, saying, “Why are we on the verge of Caracas-on-the-Hudson in New York? Why is this guy getting traction? Because young people are disillusioned with the system. So when you do this, you make everyone a shareholder. You make everyone a stakeholder. People who are part of the system do not want to bring down the system.”
This means it&#8217;s very important that the Trump economy stay on track. And here&#8217;s where you have a lot of crosswinds in the Trump economy; there are some very, very salutary signs for the Trump administration, and there are also some kind of strange things about this GDP report that could signal choppy waters in the future.
As The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gdp-report-economy-consumers-donald-trump-tariffs-d9879d98?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjoBZ-3soVj3PoiK6aZTxcWr-FB49jxMVLYmga1eVzqoEE8IiSRvnAbg7mu4Rk%3D&amp;gaa_ts=688bb106&amp;gaa_sig=cOBkFdPHgQNhwQQJhynsChDmYEuJk6LXrV3C3ncI070tCEl4mrbYY15Uv98Aq05eUHNcd-o0f1M9esecfFfJ5A%3D%3D">pointed out</a>:
<blockquote>Most striking are the second quarter report’s wild internal details. Net exports (exports minus imports) added a remarkable 4.99% to GDP as imports fell 30.3%. Imports subtract from growth in the national accounts because GDP measures domestic production. Imports are produced overseas. But imports are still crucial to U.S. economic well-being because consumers buy them and businesses use them as inputs for what they produce—and often export. The crazy swing in imports shows how much Mr. Trump’s up-and-down trade policies have disrupted business decisions and left companies scrambling to adapt. This seems to have had a negative effect on private domestic investment, which fell 15.6% in the second quarter after a surge in the first. 
Nonresidential business investment contributed only 0.27% to GDP, as businesses rapidly drew down their inventories. Chalk this up as another result of the uncertainty caused by on-again, off-again, on-again tariffs. The doughty U.S. consumer was less affected, contributing 0.98% to GDP—decent if hardly bullish. But it’s notable that final sales to private domestic purchasers, a key measure of demand, rose only 1.2%. That’s the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2022.</blockquote>
Prices continue to remain steady, which is why you&#8217;re not seeing inflation right now. So what does all of this mean?
The answer is nobody knows. The Wall Street Journal is saying this openly. The second quarter was all but over before the passage of the one “big, beautiful bill.” It&#8217;s going to have new incentives for business investment. It could save the Trump economy. Trade, on the other hand, is pushing back against that. So you have a bunch of these cross-cutting effects.
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The bottom line is that the economy must remain strong in order to prevent the insane Democrats from winning races. And they have lost their ever-loving minds. If you thought that they were going to turn around after being defeated by President Trump and the Republicans and perhaps turn toward sanity, there is zero evidence that this is the case.
They continue to swing out to the more and more insane Left in the hopes that President Trump will collapse and basically hand them the presidency and the Congress.
This is the prime reason the economy has to be the top priority.

TOPSHOT-US-POLITICS

Crosswinds In A Strong Economy: Analyzing Trump’s 3% GDP Surge

Ben Shapiro

Economy

President Trump

The Wall Street Journal accepted investment from Qatar and ran a series of articles extolling the country, which hosted the leaders of Hamas during the October massacre of roughly 1200 Israelis and has been spending billions of dollars around the world to promote its image.
The ad, titled, “<a href="https://partners.wsj.com/invest-qatar/eye-on-qatar/?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjhwPIajmZRdPSebZJ1wwjCbxg6giJRcQIFAV4IWJNJqNs30hT9pRmXT0x2mQU%3D&amp;gaa_ts=688b9b67&amp;gaa_sig=dBM6OY2TM54kSy07Cl6QLiw3GOi3iiP9k191RlV3S96sLNVv7viIMNKdDZ-DAdqkF9RPfesNeUUqPp5iY_KOUA%3D%3D">Eye on Qatar,”</a> features articles with titles such as “<a href="https://partners.wsj.com/qatar-investment-authority/building-an-investment-ready-ecosystem/creating-a-global-vc-hub-in-the-gcc/">Qatar’s billion-dollar vision: creating a global vc hub in the gcc</a>,” “<a href="https://partners.wsj.com/invest-qatar/eye-on-qatar/why-global-companies-are-setting-up-here/">The future of business in Qatar: why global companies are setting up here</a>,” “<a href="https://partners.wsj.com/media-city-qatar/eye-on-qatar/building-the-next-global-media-capital/">Media city Qatar’s chairman on building the next global media capital,”</a> and “<a href="https://partners.wsj.com/invest-qatar/eye-on-qatar/inside-qatars-startup-boom/">Innovation on the rise: inside qatar’s startup boom</a>.”
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BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal has agreed to promote investment in Qatar in exchange for lots of money from the government of Qatar. <a href="https://t.co/ymil02CDOt">pic.twitter.com/ymil02CDOt</a>
— Daniel Rubenstein (@paulrubens) <a href="https://twitter.com/paulrubens/status/1950941899629502681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In 2008, the Al-Qaradawi Center for Islamic Studies at Qatar Foundation in Education City, Doha, Qatar, part of the state-led Qatar Foundation&#8217;s College of Islamic Studies, was opened. It was named after the violently antisemitic Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the cleric who in 2009 <a href="https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/Sheik-Yusuf-al-Qaradawi-2013-5-3-v1.pdf">called</a> for God to kill all Jews, “down to the very last one.”
The mother of Qatar’s emir and chair of the Qatar Foundation, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, <a href="https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1945247695507218533">wrote on social media</a> that the Jews would disappear from Israel as she praised Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas terrorist who masterminded the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre, “The name Yahya means the one who lives. They thought him dead, but he lives… He will live on. And they will be gone.”
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) released a study in 2019 showing the existence of substantial Middle Eastern funding (primarily from Qatar) to American universities that had not been reported to the Department of Education, as required by law. “In fact, ISGAP’s research uncovered billions of dollars of unreported funds, which, in turn, led to the launch of a federal government investigation in 2019,” the organization noted. “Georgetown University has received approximately $1.073 billion from Qatar since establishing its Qatar campus in 2005, with credible evidence of underreporting to the U.S. Department of Education,” ISGAP <a href="https://isgap.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FTM-GEORGETOWN-REPORT-2025-05-23-1.pdf">noted</a> this year.
Earlier this month, GOP Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina grilled Georgetown University President Robert Groves for awarding a university medal to Sheikha Moza bint Nasser; Groves refused to revoke the medal.
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🔥 Georgetown’s Qatar Problem Just Got Worse<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMarkHarrisNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMarkHarrisNC</a> grilled Georgetown President Robert Groves for awarding a university medal to Sheikha Moza bint Nasser—mother of Qatar’s emir and chair of the Qatar Foundation.
Moza openly praised Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the… <a href="https://t.co/C4C22Pi5aj">pic.twitter.com/C4C22Pi5aj</a>
— Stu (@thestustustudio) <a href="https://twitter.com/thestustustudio/status/1945247695507218533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In 2012, Qatar pledged $400 million to Hamas and the Gaza Strip, and an estimated $1.8 billion since 2012, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/07/13/reckoning-needed-between-terror-sponsoring-qatar-and-united-states/">reported</a>, adding:
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In 2019, Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh reportedly told Qatar’s foreign minister that Doha was “<a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/10/world-news/qatar-and-hamas-tried-to-thwart-deal-of-the-century-trump-peace-deal-report/">Hamas’s main artery</a>” for fundraising. Haniyeh wrote to then-Hamas Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, in 2021 <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/seized-documents-qatar-funded-hamas-disrupted-gaza-peace-n76tlkv8">to tell him</a> that Qatar’s emir had “agreed in principle to supply the resistance discreetly,” and that $11 million had already “been raised from the emir for the leadership of the movement.”
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A Wall Street Journal poll released over the weekend revealed the popularity of the Democratic Party has <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-party-poll-voter-confidence-july-2025-9db38021?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAiHgZpqzGtTgH8aAJUb0z2ZAeLkfl8uKnQaQFgV6RkTNm7wEZmRlhTMB0H3YkU%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6887a65b&amp;gaa_sig=LWJ5OzLS6j1dmPqi17NnXkMvf3i6YJXDOQ82hMozQep-S2AEPoFareak7CyKP7fEOGml9NHKRMWVTVY0eR89Ww%3D%3D">plunged to its lowest level</a> in at least 35 years.
The poll surveyed 1,500 registered voters between July 16 and 20.
A whopping 63% held an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, with only 33% having a favorable view. Only a paltry 8% of voters viewed Democrats “very favorably.”
“Disapproval of Trump’s handling of inflation outweighs approval by 11 points, and yet the GOP is trusted more than Democrats to handle inflation by 10 points,” the Journal noted. “By 17 points, voters disapprove rather than approve of Trump’s handling of tariffs, and yet Republicans are trusted more than Democrats on the issue by 7 points.”
Voters trusted congressional Republicans 17 points more than Democrats on immigration in general and 24 points more on illegal immigration.
“The Democratic brand is so bad that they don’t have the credibility to be a critic of Trump or the Republican Party,” Democratic pollster John Anzalone, who joined Republican Tony Fabrizio to conduct the survey, told the Journal. “Until they reconnect with real voters and working people on who they’re for and what their economic message is, they’re going to have problems.”
The Journal noted that in 2017, Democratic voters outnumbered Republicans by six percentage points, but more voters currently identify as Republicans. With the 2026 Congressional elections pivotal as the Republicans hold a perilously narrow majority in the House of Representatives, one salient fact stands out: “Campaign-finance reports out this week show that the Republican National Committee ended the first half of the year with more than $80 million on hand, compared with $15 million held by the Democrats’ national campaign arm,” the Journal reported. “The Democratic committee <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-donors-progressive-aoc-zohran-mamdani-825242e9?mod=article_inline" data-type="link">raised roughly 20% less than it did</a> in the first six months of 2021, a comparable period in the last midterm cycle, and has in the bank a quarter of what it did four years ago.”

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The White House blocked The Wall Street Journal from joining the press pool for President Donald Trump’s weekend trip to Scotland.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Wall Street Journal reporter Tarini Parti has been removed from the pool over her outlet’s “fake and defamatory” story regarding the extent of the president’s past relationship with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“As the appeals court confirmed, the Wall Street Journal or any other news outlet are not guaranteed special access to cover President Trump in the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One, and in his private workspaces,” Leavitt told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/journal-removed-white-house-pool-epstein-00465548">Politico</a> in a statement. “Due to the Wall Street Journal’s fake and defamatory conduct, they will not be one of the thirteen outlets on board. Every news organization in the entire world wishes to cover President Trump, and the White House has taken significant steps to include as many voices as possible.”
Trump filed a libel suit against The Wall Street Journal last week after the outlet published a story on a risque birthday message Trump allegedly sent to Epstein in 2003. The president has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-files-massive-libel-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter">dismissed</a> the birthday letter at the center of the story as “FAKE.”
The White House Correspondents’ Association said the White House’s action against The Wall Street Journal “defies the First Amendment.”
“Government retaliation against news outlets based on the content of their reporting should concern all who value free speech and an independent media,” CBS News correspondent and association president Weijia Jiang said in a <a href="https://x.com/peterbakernyt/status/1947419716370542711">statement</a>. “We strongly urge the White House to restore the Wall Street Journal to its previous position in the pool and aboard Air Force One for the President’s upcoming trip to Scotland. The WHCA stands ready to work with the administration to find a quick resolution.”
The association previously oversaw entry into the press pool and granted access to the pool for special events, such as the president’s trip to Scotland. The White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-white-house-strips-whca-of-press-pool-control-opens-access-to-new-voices">stripped</a> the association of the authority earlier this year, ending the power of a cabal of “D.C.-based journalists” to dictate “which journalists get to ask questions of the president of the United States in these most intimate spaces,” Leavitt said at the time.
Earlier this year, the president banned all Associated Press reporters and photographers from all pools over the outlet’s refusal to recognize the renamed “Gulf of America.” The legality of the outlet’s removal is currently being litigated in court.

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President Trump has filed a federal libel lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters, court documents revealed on Friday.
According to the docket <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/trump-wall-street-journal-jeffrey-epstein?Date=20250718&amp;Profile=CNN&amp;utm_content=1752873493&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">filed</a> in Miami federal court, Trump is suing for libel, assault, and slander following a Thursday Wall Street Journal article claiming a 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman was authored by President Trump.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?mod=hp_lead_pos7">claimed</a> that it had obtained a “letter bearing Trump’s name” that was included in a birthday book created for Epstein.
The Journal notably did not include an image of the alleged letter, and President Trump said on Thursday that he “will be suing the Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly” over the “fake” story.
“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” the president said in a Truth Social post.
Trump said that Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp, “stated that he would take care of it.”
“But, obviously, did not have the power to do so,” Trump added.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-to-sue-wsj-over-fake-epstein-letter-orders-bondi-to-unseal-testimony?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Threatens+To+Sue+WSJ+Over+%E2%80%98FAKE%E2%80%99+Epstein+Letter%2C+Orders+Bondi+To+Unseal+Testimony">reported</a>, although Trump and Epstein were friendly for several years when they both lived in New York City, there is no evidence that Trump was involved in any of Epstein’s criminal wrongdoing. Epstein was not accused of sexual relations with young girls until 2005, about a year after Trump kicked him out of his Mar-a-Lago club and the two had a falling out.

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