One of the alleged ringleaders of the plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House over the weekend was seen in his mugshot flashing a creepy smile after his arrest.
The smiling suspect, 31-year-old Omaha resident Abraham Alvarez, allegedly posted his sinister plans to target President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and trillionaire Elon Musk in a Signal chat dubbed &#8220;Hunters&#8221; where he used the moniker &#8220;Shepherd.&#8221; Law enforcement arrested Alvarez, who is reportedly not an American citizen, on Sunday at an old church in the town of Western, Nebraska, according to NBC’s Omaha, Nebraska, affiliate WOWT.
“i. Targets confirmed ii. 1. 2. VP 3. N 4. Musk,” he wrote in the chat, according to a criminal complaint.
Neither Musk nor Netanyahu appeared to have attended the event.
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The group allegedly planned to carry out the attack by detonating drones rigged with explosives over the event last Sunday before setting off a secondary strike on those evacuating with snipers.
In calling the shots, Alvarez allegedly assigned roles within the group, classifying certain members as “Sniper 1,” “Sniper 2,” “Sniper 3,” and “Drone Operator,” adding that he was “working” on drones “as we speak.”
Alvarez also shared his plans on June 10 for &#8220;the best action I see,&#8221; instructing members of the group to &#8220;position your teams in the purple dots (counter sniper and drones) Long range (circled area) (great shot) Easy out into the river&#8221; with a map of the nation&#8217;s capital attached, according to the complaint.
“They will try to close down the highways stick to meeting near the 495 bridge. Take the river south, there are back roads, you can also take the river,” he allegedly said in a follow-up message featuring a screenshot of the Potomac River.
He allegedly directed others to take back roads or the river to meet at a &#8220;pick up location&#8221; and pinpointed sites for drone launches and snipers. He also identified the Thomas Jefferson Memorial as the best escape route.
When other members of the conversation asked Alvarez about a &#8220;second wave&#8221; attack, he replied that &#8220;Several factions and militia have been notified,&#8221; according to the complaint.
&#8220;They will be the teeth and the Shepherds. I also sent out a mass call to action to all protest groups, that will bring numbers.(working on arming them). They will engage when they see the signal. Told them they know will know when they see it,&#8221; he wrote, according to the complaint, adding &#8220;at the same time, this day, several other ops are happening all at once. Keeps the enemy distracted while we cut the arteries.&#8221;
Alvarez identified an old church in Nebraska as a “fall back location” for the group, according to the complaint.
“They can grow the camp, and make a training ground we have the go ahead from the owner,” he allegedly wrote in the chat, adding, “grow your numbers, I will build your teams.”
“Train them, fall back location is NE in an old church,” he wrote, according to the complaint.
Another alleged attack plotter, 19-year-old Tycen Proper, said he learned of &#8220;an anti-government protest in Washington, D.C.,&#8221; through a TikTok from the user &#8220;Shepherd,&#8221; according to the complaint. It is not clear whether that was also Alvarez, who used the nickname in the Signal communications.
Proper also allegedly identified “Shepherd” as “the primary individual involved with planning” and “directly stated that Shepherd was the leader of the group and described him as aggressive in tactical planning.&#8221;
Authorities arrested both Alvarez and Proper, along with three others, for their alleged roles in forming the attack plans.
Some members of the group were said to have “expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions.”

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A concerned mother called authorities over her son&#8217;s alleged role in plotting an attack at the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House over the weekend after she noticed alarming behavior.
Officers responded to the family&#8217;s home on the evening of June 10 after the mother, Danielle Proper, called about a &#8220;disturbance&#8221; involving her son Tycen Proper, according to a criminal complaint. She grew concerned over his recent firearms purchases and communications with random individuals online who claimed to be military veterans and Christians.
The 19-year-old allegedly used $3,000 of his graduation money to purchase “several boxes of ammunition (estimated by law enforcement to be in the thousands of rounds of ammunition), two plate carriers with AR-style magazines, an AR-style rifle, and a bullpup rifle painted with an American flag.&#8221; The weapons were turned over to law enforcement.
Proper later admitted that he and multiple others were plotting to execute an attack involving explosive drones and snipers at the White House event Sunday, according to the complaint.<iframe style="aspect-ratio: 9/16; max-width: 220px; display: flex; justify-content: center; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/DtijUF01TWHV6XwVU3BFOpWQJ4lC01CHrK?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=33a8430f-ed29-41d4-80e2-a98082a95a9d&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=2026-6-16%20TikToks%20surface%20of%20White%20House%20UFC%20suspect&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2F9836b883-a12d-4398-b27b-174ce8e6d166.jpg&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
The suspect&#8217;s mother, an Ohio-based cosmetologist, broke her silence Wednesday, posting a Bible verse to her Facebook page.
&#8220;Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand,&#8221; the post read.
One user commented: &#8220;I can&#8217;t begin to imagine how difficult your choice, the right one, was, but you undoubtedly saved untold numbers of lives, including Tycen&#8217;s. You know we&#8217;re praying &#8230; We love you guys!&#8221;
Another wrote, &#8220;You have done the hardest thing but the Lord will hold you tightly in His tenderest care because of it!&#8221;
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She also shared a video of a Christian musician singing about her desperation for &#8220;help.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh God, I&#8217;m desperate, down on my knees, send help from heaven cause that&#8217;s what I need. Redeem this wreckage, restore my peace. I&#8217;m not asking I&#8217;m begging, Lord come through for me,&#8221; the musician sang.
Proper was arrested in Ohio and hit with four criminal charges, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, attempted murder against any officer or employee of the United States, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and receipt or transfer of a firearm used to commit a felony, according to the complaint.
Law enforcement authorities also arrested four others for their alleged roles in the plot.
Proper&#8217;s parents told authorities that the 19-year-old had recently quit his job and begun messaging online with unknown individuals about plans to carry out “missions” and “recons,” according to the complaint.
Proper&#8217;s family members said he had become increasingly isolated and recently made “sympathetic comments about Adolf Hitler” while “posting anti-Semitic comments on Facebook,” the complaint said.
Proper&#8217;s mother said her son&#8217;s conversations with his alleged coconspirators online led him &#8220;to lean heavily into his religion,&#8221; adding that &#8220;she believed that those individuals were using religion to manipulate and influence her son.&#8221;
Upon searching Proper&#8217;s phone, authorities found Signal groups “that laid out detailed plans” to carry out an attack in Washington, D.C., featuring maps of sniper positions and potential drone launch sites, according to the complaint. Proper later confessed to his leading role in “planning … a coordinated attack” during the UFC event at the White House.
Proper wrote in one of the chats on or about May 13 that he “got a possible target,&#8221; whom he identified as &#8220;Marsha Blackburn &#8230; senator for Tennessee,” saying they should target her for taking “money from the Israel pro Israel lobby and supports them,&#8221; according to the complaint.
On May 31, he allegedly sent messages saying, “These are people we’re going to focus on,” before sharing photos of Senator Jim Justice, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Rep. Carol Miller, and Rep. Riley Moore. The four images appeared to have been taken from the website “TrackAIPAC.com,” which shows how much cash each lawmaker received “from pro-Israel PACS.”

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Mom Who Turned In Son Over UFC White House Plot Shares Heartbreaking Message

Now liberals are equating UFC with porn and lynching. God, they ruin everything.
They&#8217;ve gone completely off the rails. These people hate men. They hate women who like men. They hate patriotism, marriage, babies, traditional entertainment, and anything that looks like unapologetic joy. Except Joy Reid&#8217;s version of it, maybe. And did I mention they loathe men? This is where the Democratic Party stands in 2026: proving every single day that there&#8217;s no crawling back to sanity.
They&#8217;re not moderating. They&#8217;re not reflecting. They&#8217;re doubling down on the sneering, joyless, elitist nonsense that already cost them working-class voters by the truckload.
Take the recent White House UFC event on the South Lawn. Conservative writer Marc Thiessen <a href="https://x.com/marcthiessen/status/2066172759823065239">praised</a> it as Trump opening the doors to regular Americans — the kind who enjoy motocross rallies and monster truck shows. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opinion/ufc-freedom-250-fight.html">responded</a> by sneering that if you&#8217;re okay with that, you&#8217;re an elitist snob in reverse. Then she went nuclear: &#8220;Like Ultimate Fighting, porn is extremely popular, but I somehow doubt Thiessen would defend a Democratic president who invited a bunch of OnlyFans creators to the Oval Office while he was losing a war.&#8221;
Wild comparison. Is she on Hunter Biden’s crack? But somehow it got worse.
On Jim Acosta&#8217;s show, historian Heather Cox Richardson — the same one who treats every Republican breath as a constitutional crisis — actually said <a href="https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2066680661025468757/video/1">this</a> with a straight face: &#8220;It&#8217;s not really a stretch to say that the same impulse that created the UFC fight on the White House lawn is the impulse that really pushed lynching in the late 19th century.&#8221;
Lynching! And Perma-victim-Acosta just hmmed in agreement, like she&#8217;d dropped profound historical wisdom instead of a brain-melting false equivalence.
UFC fights equal lynching. UFC fights equal porn. Motocross rallies equal baskets of deplorables. Got it. By this logic, anything popular with normal Americans is automatically suspect or sinister.
They despise us. Not in the polite &#8220;we disagree on policy&#8221; way. The Left genuinely believes all Republicans are flannel-wearing hillbillies who enjoy combat sports, big trucks, and rowdy crowds, and that we’re the moral and cultural scum of the earth.
They would rather die than be caught enjoying the same things the rest of the country finds entertaining.
Motocross rallies are awesome. So are monster trucks. UFC is about as American as it gets — a nation born from fighters, revolutionaries, risk-takers, now celebrating disciplined, high-level athletic competition in a ring. Neither has a damn thing to do with lynching or porn. One is a consensual sport between trained professionals. The other was a racist mob murder. (Smells like the abortion movement in America if you ask me.)
Goldberg should sit this one out. The party lecturing America about sexual liberation has produced exactly what you&#8217;d expect. Gallup data shows Republicans are dramatically more likely to be married than Democrats, especially in prime family-forming years. The gap has widened over decades as Democrats have embraced lifestyles that de-emphasize marriage and family <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/646793/why-marriage-became-partisan.aspx">formation</a>. Institute for Family Studies <a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-growing-link-between-marriage-fertility-and-partisanship">research</a> consistently finds that conservatives and Republicans have higher fertility rates and are far more likely to have children. Liberal women, by contrast, show markedly lower completed fertility and higher rates of childlessness.
This isn&#8217;t random. It tracks with broader attitudes. Liberals have long led the charge on &#8220;sex-positive&#8221; culture that celebrates casual sex, delayed or rejected marriage, and the normalization of platforms like OnlyFans. Democrats poll more favorably toward expansive views on sexual liberation and non-traditional arrangements. The party that claims to champion &#8220;joy&#8221; and &#8220;inclusion&#8221; has produced a demographic reality of more single adults, lower marriage rates, and fewer babies — while sneering at the people who still value the opposite.
That&#8217;s why Democrats keep bleeding support. They&#8217;re <a href="http://substack.com/redirect/e3f842fc-a20e-4d7a-ac91-84c95c092ca6?j=eyJ1IjoiMjk0dHMifQ.cmJkfm0X0r0SrUjdPQSLO8z8KA2siPUsFk8HgV3kFag">hemorrhaging non-college </a>voters, men, and anyone who doesn&#8217;t want to be lectured about their entertainment choices or family decisions. The party that once claimed the lunch-bucket crowd now looks down its nose at them from coastal enclaves.
When Trump leaves office after his third term, they’ll have nothing left but the same tired hatred of the next guy. No positive vision. Just more pearl-clutching at monster trucks and cage fights and happiness.
Meanwhile, UFC is thriving. It&#8217;s one of the fastest-growing sports globally, with massive viewership, huge revenue, and broad appeal — especially among young men who need exactly the discipline, fitness, and male camaraderie it provides. Training in martial arts builds confidence, respect, and resilience. Plenty of guys who were drifting have found purpose in the gym and the cage. It&#8217;s popular across every demographic the Left pretends to speak for.
Of course they would hate it.
If liberals could drop the snobby nonsense for five minutes, they might notice that millions of normal Americans — including plenty who aren&#8217;t hardcore conservatives — enjoy UFC precisely because it&#8217;s raw, competitive, and unfiltered. It celebrates toughness and skill instead of fragility and grievance. But they can&#8217;t. They&#8217;re too far gone. They represent an increasingly angry, single, low-fertility, joy-allergic class that thinks the height of sophistication is comparing a sporting event to historical atrocities.
New York Times. Heather Cox Richardson. Jim Acosta. You suck at this. You don’t understand the country you claim to analyze. You don’t even like it. And every time you open your mouths to equate cage fighting with lynching or porn, you just remind the rest of us why normal people tuned you out years ago.
America was built by fighters.

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One of the suspects accused of planning an attack on the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House hoped to target trillionaire Elon Musk, according to the group&#8217;s messages.
The alleged plotters hoped to carry out the attack by detonating explosive-carrying drones over the event last Sunday before conducting a sinister secondary strike with snipers on those evacuating.
In a Signal chat dubbed &#8220;Hunters,&#8221; a user with the moniker &#8220;Shepherd&#8221; posted his plans and gave orders to others around June 11, according to a criminal complaint. Investigators later identified &#8220;Shepherd&#8221; as 31-year-old Omaha resident Abraham Alvarez, who is reportedly not a U.S. citizen.
Law enforcement nabbed Alvarez Sunday at an old church in Western, Nebraska, <a href="https://www.1011now.com/2026/06/16/nebraska-man-arrested-connection-with-disrupted-attack-white-house-ufc-show/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSfh-1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe8S2lSqSCtcvX8oCXaOGFdfJ48w2gl8jP9KKblhHOYJXOv8hgx7tQwWoEJxI_aem_jraCzyvqlOvbwW9GCVyB_g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NBC&#8217;s Omaha, Nebraska, affiliate WOWT.
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&#8220;i. Targets confirmed ii. 1. 2. VP 3. N 4. Musk,&#8221; the message read.
While reports last week indicated that Musk would attend the UFC event at the White House, it does not appear that he made the trip.
Alvarez also appeared to assign roles within the group, classifying them as &#8220;Sniper 1,&#8221; &#8220;Sniper 2,&#8221; &#8220;Sniper 3,&#8221; and &#8220;Drone Operator,&#8221; adding that he was &#8220;working&#8221; on drones &#8220;as we speak.&#8221;
Investigators believed that the targets identified by Alvarez included President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Musk.
Alvarez allegedly identified a &#8220;fall back location&#8221; for the group to meet at an old church in Nebraska.
&#8220;They can grow the camp, and make a training ground we have the go ahead from the owner,&#8221; he allegedly wrote in the chat, adding, &#8220;grow your numbers, I will build your teams.&#8221;
&#8220;Train them, fall back location is NE in an old church,&#8221; he wrote, according to the complaint.
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Tycen Proper, 19, who was also arrested as part of the alleged plot, told authorities that he learned of &#8220;an anti-government protest in Washington, D.C.&#8221; through a TikTok posted by a user who also went by &#8220;Shepherd,&#8221; according to the complaint. It is not clear whether that was also Alvarez, who used the nickname on Signal.
Proper also identified &#8220;Shepherd&#8221; as &#8220;the primary individual involved with planning&#8221; and &#8220;directly stated that Shepherd was the leader of the group and described him as aggressive in tactical planning,&#8221; according to the complaint.
The radicalized teen allegedly wrote in one of the chats on or about May 13 that he “got a possible target Marsha Blackburn is senator for Tennessee,” saying the group should go after her for taking “money from the Israel pro Israel lobby.”
He also allegedly sent messages on May 31 saying, “These are people we’re going to focus on,” before sharing photos of Senator Jim Justice (R-WV), Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV), and Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV). The four images appeared to have been taken from the website “TrackAIPAC.com,” which shows how much money each lawmaker received “from pro-Israel PACS.”
Authorities arrested five individuals, including Alvarez and Proper, for their alleged involvement in the plot.
Some of the alleged attack planners were said to have “expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions.”

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UFC Attack Ringleader Hoped To Target Elon Musk

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Law enforcement officials discovered the alleged plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House over the weekend after a concerned mother called police, according to an FBI criminal complaint.
Officers showed up at the home of 19-year-old Tycen Proper on the evening of June 10 after they received a phone call about a “disturbance” from his mother. Proper would later tell investigators that he and multiple others planned to stage a terror attack involving the exploding drones and sniper rifles, FBI Task Force Officer Christopher Betts said in a criminal complaint. 
Proper and four other men have been arrested for their involvement in the alleged plot which appeared to be motivated in part by the government’s handling of the Epstein files. The complaint said that Proper’s mother told police she was “concerned about her son” due “to his recent conduct, including firearms purchases and communicating with certain individuals online.”
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After officers arrived at the home, they spoke with Proper and his parents. His father told police that he “had recently met random people online and had been planning &#8216;recons&#8217; with these individuals.”
In a later interview with the FBI, Proper’s mother claimed that he had “recently begun interacting with a group online that was comprised of individuals who claimed to be ex-military and Christian-based. She didn&#8217;t know the name of the group, but they expressed ultra-religious and anti-government sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions.” 
Proper’s mother also said “she observed him recently engaged in physical training” and “researching and mapping locations in the area just northwest of Washington, D.C.” 
“She stated that she also observed additional images and maps being sent to him from unknown individuals through texts and Discord messages, and she would overhear PROPER talking to these individuals verbally on his phone,” the complaint said. 
The FBI said that the plot aimed to target the wealthy and Republican politicians who the plotters accused of being compromised by Israel, including Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Senator Jim Justice (R-WV), Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV), and Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV). 
“The members of that group stated that they wanted to protect the United States, which they believed was headed in the wrong direction,” the FBI complaint said. “Members of that group believed that the United States needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuilt.”

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A teen became radicalized to the point of allegedly masterminding a plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House Sunday night.
Tycen Proper, with a group of nearly two dozen others, allegedly began prepping to carry out the attack with explosive-carrying drones before federal authorities learned of his desires and took him into custody.
Proper&#8217;s own mother, an Ohio-based cosmetologist, called authorities after his recent firearms purchases and communications with random individuals online who claimed to be military veterans and Christians, according to a criminal complaint viewed by The Daily Wire. The group allegedly planned to detonate explosive-laden drones over the UFC arena and to open fire as the crowd would evacuate.
Proper’s parents told law enforcement that their son had recently quit his job and started messaging online with unknown individuals about plans to execute “missions” and “recons,” according to the complaint. <iframe style="aspect-ratio: 9/16; max-width: 220px; display: flex; justify-content: center; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/DtijUF01TWHV6XwVU3BFOpWQJ4lC01CHrK?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=33a8430f-ed29-41d4-80e2-a98082a95a9d&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=2026-6-16%20TikToks%20surface%20of%20White%20House%20UFC%20suspect&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2F9836b883-a12d-4398-b27b-174ce8e6d166.jpg&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Family members also said the 19-year-old had become more isolated and had recently made &#8220;sympathetic comments about Adolf Hitler&#8221; while &#8220;posting anti-Semitic comments on Facebook,&#8221; the complaint said.
Proper&#8217;s mother has regularly posted about her son online and recently shared a photo from his graduation from the Knox County Career Center, saying she was &#8220;proud&#8221; of him.
Proper used $3,000 of his graduation money to purchase “several boxes of ammunition (estimated by law enforcement to be in the thousands of rounds of ammunition), two plate carriers with AR-style magazines, an AR-style rifle, and a bullpup rifle painted with an American flag,&#8221; which were later turned over to law enforcement, according to the complaint.
From the posts, it appears that she raised him in a devout Christian home and told federal authorities that she believed the individuals tied to the plot preyed upon her son by &#8220;using religion to manipulate and influence him.&#8221;
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In another post, Proper is seen wearing a shirt with the Bible verse &#8220;It is finished&#8221; on it.
Proper dubbed himself &#8220;a professional person, a geek,&#8221; adding &#8220;I&#8217;m very good with computers&#8221; in a 2021 TikTok post. That same year, he posted a video of himself playing &#8220;Squad,&#8221; which he described as a &#8220;realistic tactical shooter game. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been posting survival videos, shooter tactical videos called Squad &#8230; I&#8217;m posting total war videos,&#8221; he said in another TikTok video.
At the time, he also said in one video that he&#8217;s &#8220;not a type of person that gets into politics or any drama ever.&#8221;
When authorities searched Proper&#8217;s phone, they found Signal groups &#8220;that laid out detailed plans&#8221; to carry out an attack in Washington, D.C., with detailed maps highlighting sniper locations and potential drone launch locations. Proper later confessed to investigators that he took part in &#8220;planning &#8230; a coordinated attack&#8221; during the UFC event at the White House and admitted to being one of the group&#8217;s leaders.
Proper wrote in one of the chats on or about May 13 that he &#8220;got a possible target Marsha Blackburn is senator for Tennessee,&#8221; saying they should target her for taking &#8220;money from the Israel pro Israel lobby and supports them. &#8221;
On May 31, he sent messages saying, &#8220;These are people we&#8217;re going to focus on,&#8221; before sharing photos of Senator Jim Justice, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Rep. Carol Miller, and Rep. Riley Moore. The four images appeared to have been taken from the website &#8220;TrackAIPAC.com&#8221; and appeared to show how much cash each lawmaker received &#8220;from pro-Israel PACS.&#8221;
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Proper was arrested in Ohio and hit with four criminal charges, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, attempted murder against any officer or employee of the United States, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and receipt or transfer of a firearm used to commit a felony, according to the complaint.
At least 23 individuals are believed to have been part of the network plotting the attack. Some of the members were said to have &#8220;expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions.&#8221;
Along with Proper, authorities arrested four others, including Michael Alan Thomas and Bryan Omar Roa in California, for allegedly taking part in the plot.

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How A Radicalized Teen Masterminded The UFC White House Attack Plot

kash patel

It&#8217;s the emperor&#8217;s Dies Natalis. Peace treaties are being signed. And the gladiators are duking it out in the shadow of the People&#8217;s House to celebrate.
Welcome to America 250. Where the country is Rome-maxxing. And unlike the original, as long as the Optimates stay in charge, this Rome won&#8217;t fall.
Sunday night on the White House South Lawn, a <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK0bqUuXQAAxfnS?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900">spectacle</a> unfolded that was nothing short of triumphant. Hundreds of patriots gathered in absolute awe beneath &#8220;The Claw&#8221; — a 92-foot steel velarium — to watch some of the greatest fighters alive face off in the octagon. The entire evening felt God-ordained. Before the first bell, a double rainbow <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2066360031314870481">ripped</a> across the sky and arched over the crystal-clear reflection pool, as lightning shattered the sunset and broke the horizon into pieces. This believer will note that earlier in the day, a thunderstorm was forecast to drown the whole thing. Instead, it encircled Washington, D.C., as if the hand of God just gently waved it away. The American flag flew high. The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels roared in a rare &#8220;super delta&#8221; formation over the crowd. And an eagle <a href="https://x.com/UFC_AUSNZ/status/2065956132586463653/video/1">soared</a> above the People&#8217;s House like it had read the room. 
 
Americans of every stripe felt it. The vice president was <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK1S1GlXQAAQZHw?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900">hanging</a> out with the Holy Uncle, Pope Leo&#8217;s brother, at ringside. Jack Osbourne was taking <a href="https://x.com/ginamilan_/status/2066525396871385201">selfies</a> in the crowd; the son of British rock royalty, raised on American excess and correctly appreciating what London could never even dream up. D.C. residents flooded the National Mall to catch a glimpse of <a href="https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/2066496869765718371/video/1">“Uncle Trump!”</a> “Cousin Barron,” and the first-ever trillionaire, “Uncle Elon” in the front row. Dana White was <a href="https://x.com/UFConParamount/status/2066317927398150241/video/1">grinning</a> ear to ear as the national anthem rang out from inside the cage. Mark Zuckerberg sat ringside, completely transfixed, getting a front-row education in what the Right has been building while Silicon Valley was busy with content moderation policies. Young boys across the country were glued to the TV, watching men be men and remembering that&#8217;s something to aspire to.<iframe style="aspect-ratio: 9/16; max-width: 220px; display: flex; justify-content: center; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/fw02bnvtwq271RmPFH2GYP2XcfurX3Lw2?metadata-video-content-type=short&amp;metadata-video-id=09d9a2ee-f68e-40aa-a30c-cb2eb5effdd9&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=America%E2%80%99s%20recent%20wins%20this%20Flag%20Day%20&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fshorts%2F070f11dc-85c5-426d-8a66-c4a896250f24.jpg&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
It would be hard not to feel it. Americans are fighters at heart; it’s in our blood. We’re a nation born from revolutions, and our president knows it. Fight, Fight, Fight. 
And then Justin Gaethje, wrapped in an American flag, on Flag Day, put on one of the great performances in UFC history — pulling off a stunning fourth-round TKO upset of Ilia Topuria to become undisputed lightweight champion on the most historic stage in the sport&#8217;s 33-year history. Every single fight on the card ended in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBqj3cPhYOc">knockout</a>. Every. Single. One. He made his entrance through the Presidential Walk of Fame, past the bust of Teddy Roosevelt — the president who literally kept a boxing ring in the White House so he could host fights — and you can safely assume TR was smiling down from his likely nature-painted heaven. 
 
This is what patriot-maxxing looks like.
The tide is turning, and you can feel it in your bones. It&#8217;s cool to celebrate your country again. <a href="https://montanafreepress.org/2026/06/15/sean-omalley-has-never-stopped-being-a-montana-kid/">Montana-</a>born and bred Sean O&#8217;Malley dispatched his Canadian opponent with a <a href="https://x.com/UFConParamount/status/2066361089160347687/video/1">nod</a> of approval from the president and the first lady. The World Cup is wowing every European who crosses the ocean to visit. The Czech national team <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKyWcZ0XsAED0tZ?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900">showed</a> up to the traditional rodeo in Fort Worth — home of the world&#8217;s first indoor rodeo — draped in cowboy hats and grinning in tourist photos. Coca-Cola is making pro-America <a href="https://x.com/trumplicans2024/status/2066241930024169493/video/1">commercials</a> again. German tourists are falling in love and even getting to meet Ella Langley, the country artist who gave us the soundtrack of the summer. Even New Yorkers are in a good <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/knicks-run-away-with-first-nba-finals-win-in-53-years">mood</a>. It&#8217;s a miracle.
Gas prices are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-major-cost-is-falling-fast-after-trump-announces-iran-peace-deal">down</a>. Homicide rates are at decade-low <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leavitt-highlights-historic-crime-decline-as-murder-rate-hits-lowest-level-since-1900">numbers</a>. Middle-class Americans are getting <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-american-middle-class-keeps-getting-richer-7f57dcff">richer,</a> and citizens in every income bracket are actually <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-middle-class-is-dying-claim-doesnt-hold-up-against-one-key-reality">gaining</a> ground. Illegal border crossings are functionally over. The government is leaner, the fraud is disappearing, and the White House is bathed in red, white, and blue, instead of the <a href="https://x.com/rightsidefreee/status/2066340656033755365/photo/1">rainbow</a>.
But here&#8217;s the thing. That&#8217;s not why Americans feel the way they do right now.
They feel triumphant because President Trump has purged the apologetic rot. The culture of managed decline, the ideological mandate to be ashamed of your own country, the iron-fisted insistence that Americans adopt and celebrate a set of destructive, anti-American values or be canceled into silence — all of it has been cleared from the capital like the storm that missed the South Lawn. What&#8217;s replaced it is a roaring, unapologetic resurgence of American exceptionalism, and the whole world showed up in Washington this weekend to watch it.
It almost didn&#8217;t happen. We were one bullet, one slight turn of the head, away from none of this being possible. Without that, a tipsy Kamala Harris would have hosted off-key <a href="https://x.com/AF_Insight/status/2066339716060856673/video/1">progressive sing-alongs</a> ad nauseam. Flag Day would have meant a different kind of flag. America 250 would have felt about as patriotic as Greta Thunberg at a Canadian carbon credit summit. Our institutions, our founders, our national pride would have been continually <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK1jI1NXsAA6e9j?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900">mocked</a> and dismantled by those who believe the country&#8217;s greatest achievement is feeling guilty about itself.
And what did the Left offer last night? We’re still trying to make sense of it.
Ms. Rachel, the children&#8217;s YouTube personality who has spent recent weeks leading protest sing-alongs outside a Newark ICE facility, singing her walls down until &#8220;everyone is free&#8221; — was counter-<a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/2066317910784778665/video/1">programming</a> the UFC. Jane Fonda, Bette Midler, Joy Reid, and Robert De Niro <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdyVmofQxy4">staged</a> something called &#8220;Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment&#8221; at a New York City theater. It pulled a few thousand views on YouTube. De Niro <a href="https://www.aol.com/articles/robert-niro-says-t-love-180229198.html">informed</a> the audience that he &#8220;can&#8217;t love&#8221; his country. Joy Reid did what Joy Reid does. The whole thing was billed as their version of resistance.
It was about as threatening as a soggy pamphlet.
The Left couldn&#8217;t sell out a mid-sized concert hall while over <a href="https://krdo.com/news/2026/06/13/crowds-flock-to-white-house-ellipse-for-fan-event-ahead-of-ufc-fight/#:~:text=Organizers%20have%20allotted%20about%2085%2C000,I%20like%20the%20atmosphere.">85,000 </a>Americans stood on the Ellipse watching the greatest night in UFC history unfold live on the lawn of the White House. That contrast isn&#8217;t incidental. That is the entire argument.
They’re unable to comprehend the sort of joy that we are feeling right now. They can’t imagine why on God’s green earth we are animated about this Americanism. They don’t understand the <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK1D_-nXUAAFjTc?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900">aura</a> because they&#8217;re shrouded in hatred, convinced that American greatness is a myth worth unlearning.
They were wrong. Last night proved it, in high definition, with knockouts. 
 
This week in America, we saw visiting Japanese traditions celebrated alongside our own. We saw Scots in kilts, Czechs in cowboy hats, and Germans singing along to country music. We saw the beauty of distinct cultures, each formed separately and mutually appreciated, all showcasing the best of what they&#8217;ve got on American soil. This is what we fight for. This sense of freedom, pure patriotism, unadulterated oomf. The understanding that here you can do anything and be anyone. That excellence is not a liability. That strength is not something to apologize for.
Caesar didn&#8217;t apologize. He gave the citizens a vision of absolute, unyielding greatness. Let the critics call it bread and circuses. The history books will record this weekend as the moment America 250 looked the world in the eye and remembered exactly who it is.
The rot has been cleared. The boundaries are secure. The era of managing decline is over.
If we can keep the Left out of our way, we can keep it.

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America-maxxing 250 Years In The Making

America 250

The UFC held its once-in-a-lifetime “UFC Freedom 250” event on the White House South Lawn Sunday night, an event that featured patriotic walkouts, a Thunderbirds and Blue Angels flyover, and a string of must-see fights. 
The most anticipated fight of the night was saved for last, as Justin Gaethje looked to pull off one of the most miraculous wins in the history of the UFC over Ilia Topuria, who is a two weight class champion and is coming off of knockouts of all time greats in the sport against Alexander Volkanovski, Max Holloway, and Charles Oliveira.
Many doubted Gaethje, the American, whose odds closed from around 4-1 to even 6-1 on some sites. This didn&#8217;t stop Gaethje.
Following three rounds of domination and a near-doctor’s stoppage at the end of the third, Topuria’s corner threw in the towel at the end of the fourth round, earning Gaethje his first ever undisputed lightweight championship in arguably the biggest upset in the history of mixed martial arts.
“I’m from America, 250 years ago we were way bigger than 6-1 dogs, and look at us thriving now,” Gaethje stated in his post-fight interview.
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New UFC lightweight champion Justin Gaethje dropped a legendary line after his HISTORIC upset over Illia Topuria.
Joe Rogan pointed out that he was a 6-1 underdog going into the fight.
GAETHJE: “Hey, I’m from America. 250 years ago we were WAY bigger than 6-1 dogs!”
“And look… <a href="https://t.co/3d3AMKp3RQ">pic.twitter.com/3d3AMKp3RQ</a>
— Overton (@overton_news) <a href="https://x.com/overton_news/status/2066394830654054709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2026</a></blockquote>
The card consisted of seven matches including two title fights in the heavyweight and lightweight division. President and CEO of the UFC Dana White scheduled some of the biggest names in the sport to compete in the historical event, including Sean O’Malley, Michael Chandler, and Alex Pereira.
All seven fights finished via knockout (KO) or technical knockout (TKO), making it one of the most entertaining cards in the history of mixed martial arts.
Festivities began with a flyover from the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels during the national anthem. Diego Lopes and Steve Garcia set the tone early by engaging in exchanges in the center of the octagon.
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Halfway through the second round, Lopes caught Garcia with a handful of beautiful shots, knocking him down and finishing the fight on the ground. While the Brazilian defeated an American in this bout, Bo Nickal was able to kick things off for the Americans, a sign of good things to come for the main event. Nickal defeated his opponent Kyle Daukaus by TKO in the first round, being the first of four Americans to win at UFC Freedom 250. 
American fan-favorite Michael Chandler stepped into the octagon next, but Brazilian star Mauricio Ruffy finished Chandler after a series of head kicks and straight shots at the end of the first round.
The United States was able to get back in the win column with fireworks in the ensuing fights. 
Heavyweight Josh Hokit defeated Derrick Lewis by TKO in the second round before cutting a Randy Savage/Hulk Hogan-esque promo, finishing with a comment for former first lady Michelle Obama.
“And lastly, Michelle Obama is a man,” Hokit yelled over the <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/2066354899068015048?s=46">microphone</a>. “Am I right, America?”
The unforgettable moments continued as America’s own “Suga” Sean O’Malley earned a walk-off knockout over Canadian fighter Aiemann Zahabi, saluting to the crowd before the referee could even call the fight.
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Sean O’Malley hit a salute before Aiemann Zahabi even hit the ground 😳
Insane walk off emote 💀
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— Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) <a href="https://x.com/HappyPunch/status/2066362805758881971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2026</a></blockquote>
O’Malley’s knockout ended the final of the non-title fight matches, prompting the second flyover over the night, this time from a B-1 Lancer.
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— New York Post Sports (@nypostsports) <a href="https://x.com/nypostsports/status/2066366430698959320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2026</a></blockquote>
Later in the night, France’s Ciryl Gane delivered another exciting win, knocking out fan-favorite and former middleweight and light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira in the beginning of the second round, who was looking to be the first fighter to be a champion at three different weight classes.
UFC Freedom 250 also included the fan fest, where mixed martial arts fans from across the country met up in the nation’s capital to attend meet and greets, other festivities, and the watch party, all taking place at The Ellipse. White estimated that nearly 200,000 people were in the park over the two-day event.
The massive event at the White House and surrounding areas led to backlash on social media. 
Members of the Left argued that the event was highly political, complaining that President Donald Trump was ruining the integrity of the South Lawn, even leading to a lawsuit being filed to stop the event, stating it was a “corrupt spectacle.&#8221; Following the event, White shot down any remarks suggesting that politics took over.
“I did all the media. We went to New York, I did far-Left. I did far-Right. I did down the middle. I did it all,” White said during the <a href="https://x.com/jedigoodman/status/2066419209991831775">press conference</a>. “I believe if you are an American, no matter where you sit politically, tonight was a proud night to just sit around and enjoy the 250th birthday of America.”
White has already expressed the uniqueness of the event, explaining that nothing like it would ever happen again. 
&#8220;This was an amazing experience,&#8221; White <a href="https://x.com/HappyPunch/status/2066412444424048645">said</a>. &#8220;This was a one of one that will never happen again. &#8230; I can&#8217;t afford it. There&#8217;s no f*cking way we can do this again.&#8221;

UFC Freedom 250: Topuria v Gaethje

American Upset Caps Off Wild UFC Night

Dana White

The UFC fights scheduled to take place at the White House on Sunday evening had to be pushed back an hour due to approaching thunderstorms.
The seven scheduled fights are expected to go on for approximately four hours, and the UFC is prepared to enforce 30 minute delays for lightning — but the likelihood of thunderstorms in the area was high enough that the organization opted to <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/sports/ufc-freedom-250-delayed-for-an-hour-due-to-looming-thunderstorms/">push everything back</a> one hour. Live coverage was still set to begin at 8p.m. ET, but the first fight was delayed until 9p.m.
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As The New York Post reported, &#8220;Weather Channel projections called for a 57 percent chance of scattered thunderstorms in the 8 p.m. hour and a 100 percent certainty of thunderstorms in the 9 p.m. hour.&#8221;
Dana White addressed the possibility of weather-related delays earlier in the week, saying, &#8220;I don’t care if it snows, rains, whatever; we’re going. And even lightning. You guys all played sports when you were growing up — whenever there was lightning, you’d sit the lightning out, and then when it was over, you played. That’s what we’ll do.&#8221;
The Weather Channel posted the forecast earlier on Sunday, prompting a defiant response from the White House: &#8220;Rain or shine, we’re celebrating our great country no matter what. GOD BLESS AMERICA!&#8221;
Eric Trump gave fans a sneak peek of the UFC set-up from the roof of the White House just hours ahead of the event: &#8220;All right, guys, UFC starts in a couple hours. Here&#8217;s what it looks like from the top of the White House.&#8221;
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Once the fights <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/sports/ufc-freedom-250-live-updates-full-card-highlights-and-winners/">get started</a>, any lightning strikes within an eight-mile radius of the White House will trigger an automatic 30-minute delay.

President Trump Hosts UFC Freedom 250 Fight Topuria v Gaethje At The White House

White House UFC Fights Delayed As Storms Threaten

White House UFC Fight Delayed As Storms Threaten

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WASHINGTON — The United States government is investigating inexplicable &#8220;glowing orbs&#8221; that move at high speeds and have repeatedly appeared around the country over the past few years, newly released Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) documents show.
The Daily Wire was briefed on these Unidentified Aerial Phenomena documents by senior administration officials ahead of the documents&#8217; Friday release. This is the third tranche of documents released as part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts to be transparent with the country on UAP activity.
In the latest drop, numerous documents detail FBI interviews with people describing activity in the northeastern United States. Videos and interviews detail glowing orbs in the sky, both red and white, that move across the landscape.
FBI agents also interviewed a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and four other members of his unit in June 2024 who described seeing a &#8220;potato&#8221; shaped, translucent but shimmering object in the sky that vanished after about two minutes. That incident took place near the Cheyenne Mountains in Colorado.
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In another account, which took place in the west, a currently serving senior U.S. intelligence officer describes how he and two pilots saw &#8220;glowing orbs&#8221; from up close and far away as they sought to investigate the orbs from a helicopter. He also says they saw a high-speed object moving low to the ground, which seemed to split in two and speed off in different directions.
That official&#8217;s account, which was originally released in the first tranche of the UFO files on May 8, includes infrared imagery taken by federal officials from the ground.
<h3>The North East UAP Sightings</h3>
The FBI conducted interviews in February 2026 with two individuals who reported seeing bright orbs outside their home in the northeast in 2025. As one of these individuals was returning to his home around 9pm at night and pulled into the driveway, that person noticed an &#8220;intense bright light hovering below the tree line in the middle of their backyard.&#8221;
That person got out of the car and &#8220;stared at the strange light for a few moments before reaching back&#8221; into their car to get their phone and take a video of what they were seeing.
Inside the house, their spouse was waiting for them to arrive home. When the second individual saw on the security camera that their spouse had arrived and was standing next to their car looking into the sky, the second person went outside to join them and see what they were looking at.
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NEW: According to the newly released UAP files, in July 2025, an eyewitness was returning home from work and &#8220;observed an intense bright light in their backyard as they parked their car.&#8221;
&#8220;The light was hovering approximately 25 feet off the ground, below a tree line near the… <a href="https://t.co/KhCKnV2DeN">pic.twitter.com/KhCKnV2DeN</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/2065417316091809848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2026</a></blockquote>
&#8220;[Redacted] described the light as a red sphere that was about one meter in diameter,&#8221; the FBI report states. &#8220;[Redacted] described the red color as being brilliant and beautiful, and that [redacted] had never seen anything that color of red before.&#8221;
Inside the sphere, according to the viewers, &#8220;there appeared to be what [he/she] described as a &#8216;white plasma sun&#8217; about the size of a basketball.&#8221;
As they watched, the orb moved up and to their left, they told the FBI. Then they noticed that there was a &#8220;second, identical orb, hovering above the first one.&#8221;
&#8220;The orbs then moved together towards the west above the tree line. [Redacted] stated that from the start of the observation to when the orbs traveled out of sight, they exhibited both a change in altitude and a change in direction. The orbs were silent and moved in a smooth motion. They moved in tandem as if they were flying in formation or were tethered together.&#8221;
As the orbs moved out of sight, the two individuals saw them either merge together or just become so close that they looked like one orb.
The Department of War also released video footage that they captured of the orbs &#8220;beginning at the point when they were above the trees and moving away from their backyard.&#8221;
Some weeks later, they said they saw several white orbs moving over the house from the west to the east, according to the FBI report, at a much higher altitude than the previous red orbs. They described these new ones &#8220;as appearing the size of a dime held at arm&#8217;s length.&#8221;
In another incident, one of the two individuals who spoke to the FBI said they had witnessed something strange near power lines in 1987, describing a &#8220;red light circling around itself at night&#8221; that hovered and then landed near the power station.
&#8220;Since then,&#8221; the report stated, &#8220;[redacted] has always been interested in the topic of UAP.&#8221;
Footage released by the department, which was captured by a private citizen on an iPhone, shows an incident in October 2024 in the northeastern United States where an eyewitness said that he or she observed &#8220;a light source below the horizon, hovering above a pond at an estimated distance of 2,700 feet.&#8221;
&#8220;The luminous object resembled a &#8216;plasma-like sphere&#8217; intermittently changing shape and luminosity,&#8221; the department says. &#8220;At times, the primary light source appeared to separate into smaller luminous points. A luminous point below the primary source hovered just above the water and did not appear consistent with a surface reflection.&#8221;
&#8220;The object remained generally stationary for approximately 45 minutes before disappearing,&#8221; the description adds. &#8220;The eyewitness did not hear any sound from the objects.&#8221;
The FBI found that individual to be &#8220;highly credible,&#8221; the War Department website notes.
<h3>The Western UAP Sightings</h3>
A senior U.S. intelligence officer documented how he and two pilots observed alarming UAP activity in the western United States in 2025. Aboard a helicopter, he was investigating &#8220;loud thuds heard in the mountains on the test range, which coincided with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings reported over the previous several nights.&#8221; They were looking for possible debris or objects that could explain recent &#8220;orb-like sightings.&#8221;
Towards the end of their search, the senior intelligence officer says that he received a message from their Joint Operations Center (JOC) that radar had detected hits a few miles away from their position, where UAP activity had been noticed on previous nights.
&#8220;I relayed this to the pilots, and we altered course to intercept,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;What followed was a series of close UAP encounters lasting over an hour.&#8221;
Ground teams were reporting that they had seen something &#8220;super-hot,&#8221; low to the ground, and moving at a high speed, first east, then south, then splitting in two and changing direction.
When the helicopter arrived, they scanned the area, and then the ground team &#8220;suddenly radioed that the object had risen from the ground, approached within ten feet of the helicopter, dropped below us, and then sped away.&#8221; The pilots watched the object split into two, as a smaller object emerged from it, &#8220;before it accelerated out of sight.&#8221;
&#8220;We briefly pursued but broke off, unable to match its speed,&#8221; the senior intelligence officer wrote. The Joint Operations Center informed them that several fighter jets that were already on a training mission in their area were headed their way to help identify the UAP.
The JOC then directed the helicopter towards more nearby radar detections — and here the senior intelligence officer described something even more alarming.
&#8220;We took up a hovering position at approximately 700 feet above ground level (AGL). In the distance, we saw countless orange orbs swarming in all directions against the backdrop of the mountain.&#8221;
The officer and pilots could see the swarming orbs for several minutes before they faded, he wrote. Then they were redirected to their previous position based on fresh radar hits.
&#8220;I provided the coordinates to the pilots, and we moved to intercept, hovering again at 700 feet AGL. Through NVGx, the pilots and I (using the naked eye) observed two large orbs flare up side-by-side, close to the helicopter — stationary and just above the rotor disk to our right. They were oval-shaped, orange with a white or yellow center, and emitted light in all directions.&#8221;
&#8220;After a few seconds,&#8221; he wrote, &#8221; a third orb flared up below the pair, followed by a fourth below that, forming a total of four or five in a &#8216;T&#8217; formation under the original view. The entire event lasted 10-15 seconds. I didn&#8217;t take photos, as I was focused on assessing what it was and whether it posed a threat.&#8221;
As the pilots considered landing due to the objects&#8217; proximity, they could see the fighter jets approaching by their blinking navigation lights. Just then, the helicopter occupants spotted the orbs appearing again, &#8220;directly above the fighters.&#8221;
&#8220;They flared up one at a time in a horizontal formation, matching the jets&#8217; speed and flight path. After 10-15 seconds, they dimmed sequentially and disappeared. This repeated several times as the jets transited the airspace and eventually landed.&#8221;
&#8220;I remarked to the pilots that it seemed the same orbs flaring up and down around us for several minutes, forming a distinct triangle before vanishing.&#8221;
At this point, low on fuel, the helicopter decided to return to the JOC.
&#8220;After landing, I briefly spoke with them — mostly to express thanks,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We were virtually speechless after these observations. I then entered the JOC for a quick debrief before driving home.&#8221;
<h3>The Cheyenne Mountain Sighting</h3>
Near the Cheyenne Mountains in Colorado in 2022, a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer and four other members of his unit said they observed a UAP as they exited their office building on a 50-degree day when there were no clouds and very little humidity.
&#8220;The object was &#8216;potato&#8217; shaped with distinct edges and appeared to look painted in a creamy/whitish opalescent color,&#8221; says an FBI forensic sketch interview dated June 2024. &#8220;It was somewhat translucent with a slight shimmer.&#8221;
&#8220;The object was made up of what can best be described as articulating fish scales or panels that were non-symmetrical, non-overlapping, and irregular shaped,&#8221; the report continues. &#8220;The object itself was perfectly still but each panel on the object shifted in slow waves starting at different points of origin but at the same time.&#8221;
The object vanished after about two minutes, according to the observers. They told the FBI that in the space of time it took to turn their heads, the object had vanished without a shadow.
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WATCH: New UFO Release Contains A Potential Breakthrough

Aliens

Pentagon

WASHINGTON — One of Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s most trusted advisers is set to depart President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration by the end of this summer, flanked by the highest praise from the vice president and top cabinet officials.
Jacob Reses told Vance several months ago that he planned to leave the administration after he and his wife learned they were expecting their first child. Reses has served as Vance&#8217;s chief of staff since January 2025 and has worked closely with him since Vance&#8217;s 2022 Senate campaign in Ohio.
&#8220;Jacob’s been by my side for my whole career in public life,&#8221; the vice president <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-vance/vance-chief-staff-jacob-reses-leave-trump-administration-rcna349586">said</a>. &#8220;I can’t imagine having been on this life-changing journey without him. From day one of my time as a Senator-elect, I could not have asked for a more loyal and discerning advisor and friend as my chief of staff.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ll miss him dearly, but he won’t be far, and I plan to keep his counsel close until our paths cross again,&#8221; added Vance, who gave a toast at Reses&#8217; wedding in January.
Prior to his time working with Vance, Reses worked for Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, and for Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri.
Reses <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jacob-reses-jd-vance-trump-republican-reformer.html">has been described</a> by The New York Intelligencer as &#8220;one of the most influential Republican operatives in Washington,&#8221; focused on &#8220;helping the president’s heir apparent build the intellectual and ideological scaffolding for the post-Trump Republican Party.&#8221;
During his time at the White House, Reses earned the trust and praise of many of Trump&#8217;s top officials, including White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff.
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Wiles called Reses &#8220;an important part of our White House leadership team&#8221; who has &#8220;served the vice president with absolute distinction,&#8221; as well as humility, discretion, and loyalty.
&#8220;He will be missed in the halls of the West Wing, but he will always be a friend and ally we can all rely upon, and I hope will come back often,&#8221; Wiles said.
Rubio said Reses served Vance and the whole administration with distinction.
&#8220;He understands the moment we’re in, and he spent every day fighting to deliver results for the President,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;His intellect, leadership, and humor will be missed.&#8221;
Bessent called Reses&#8217;s counsel &#8220;invaluable,&#8221; while Blanche described him as &#8220;tough, smart, hardworking, and loyal—the perfect combination to succeed in the Trump White House.&#8221;
Witkoff, who traveled with Vance during foreign policy negotiations, praised Reses&#8217;s presence during those efforts.
&#8220;Don’t let Jacob fool you — beneath his kind exterior, he’s a killer,&#8221; he said on Thursday. &#8220;It’s been a delight to get to know him through the vice president, and our foreign adventures from Israel to Pakistan have been historic.&#8221;
&#8220;He commands respect in every room he walks into, and I’ve been proud to have him by my side in negotiating some of the toughest deals for the President,&#8221; Witkoff said, adding, &#8220;We haven’t seen the last of him.&#8221;

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Vance’s Most Trusted Adviser To Depart Trump Administration

J.D. Vance

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House game-planned how to message the Jeffrey Epstein files during the summer of 2025, Dan Bongino was growing increasingly frustrated and angry.
He understood the vast interest in Jeffrey Epstein online, and he had repeatedly sounded the alarm to Trump&#8217;s team that the outcry over the DOJ&#8217;s bungling of the Epstein files was gaining momentum, as Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman reported for their book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.”
Back in July 2025, the president wasn&#8217;t yet interested in releasing the files. The DOJ had briefed him on the contents of what they had, noting that much of it included child sexual abuse material and that a lot of the raw records contained unverified and unsubstantiated information, including about the president and some of his friends. The White House viewed the conversation as toxic and unnecessary (the president would later call out Democrats&#8217; new fixation on the files as a &#8220;hoax&#8221;).
Trump&#8217;s advisors argued at the time that the president had weathered every possible media storm — and he could weather this Epstein one as well. Ultimately, the House and Senate would vote to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025, and Trump would sign it into law the same month. The files would be released in massive dumps in December and January.
But during the summer of 2025, Bongino repeatedly told the White House that Team Trump wasn&#8217;t grasping how big of a deal the Epstein drama was, telling White House advisors, according to The New York Times: “It’s not an online story. You don’t understand.”
Things came to a head when the DOJ and FBI put out a memo saying that they had concluded that there was no evidence Epstein had a client list. It also said that Epstein&#8217;s death was a suicide, that the Trump administration wouldn&#8217;t be releasing any more information about the Epstein case, and that no further investigation was warranted.
At the same time, they also released 11 hours of video footage from the Manhattan jail where Epstein was found dead. That surveillance video actually made matters worse, since it was missing a pivotal minute, from 11:58:58 to midnight on the night that Epstein died. That missing minute was later released, but it had only fueled angry speculation about a coverup.
Bongino was enraged by the memo and by the handling of the entire situation. He had argued to Patel that it would not at all align with their transparency promises, the NYT reports, and he pushed hard for the FBI seal to be left off the letter. While Patel reportedly agreed with Bongino on many points, he ultimately went along with what the DOJ and White House wanted.
In what Haberman and Swan described as a &#8220;volcanic mood,&#8221; Bongino shouted at Bondi in a Justice Department meeting with FBI staff.
“You f*cked this thing up from the start,” Bongino allegedly yelled at the former attorney general. “The way you’ve been talking about this — that dumb f*cking charade with the Epstein files, the ‘They’re on my desk’ nonsense, all the promises to the folks out there.”
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Bongino and Patel were reportedly called into a Situation Room meeting with Susie Wiles, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, and Taylor Budowich two days later. Wiles immediately asked Bongino if he had leaked a story about Epstein and Trump to ABC News, the New York Times reports.
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“I’ll tell you what,” Bongino reportedly replied. “I’ll give you $100,000 cash right now. I’m not kidding. Walk out to West Exec, put that reporter on speaker and get him to admit I leaked it. A hundred thousand dollars.”
When Wiles started to tell Bongino that &#8220;we all got ourselves into this,&#8221; he allegedly cut her off, saying, “No, no, no, no, no. We didn’t get ourselves into anything. I warned you guys about this the whole time, and you ignored me. And exactly what I said was going to happen happened. And now you’re pretending I was in on this. I was never in on this.”
His response startled the rest of the group, particularly given that Wiles was the White House chief of staff. Wiles reportedly pressed forward, telling Bongino, “Going forward, we’re all in. We’re all going to agree to move forward. Are you in or not?”
He reportedly responded: “No, I’m not. This is not my plan. I’m not part of this going forward. Forget it. I’m out of here.”
And, in an even more shocking move, Bongino &#8220;stormed out of the Situation Room and onto West Executive Avenue, where he climbed into the back of Patel’s armored SUV and directed the driver to take him to FBI headquarters.&#8221;
MAGA world lit up with rumors that Bongino would resign. Sources close to Bongino at the time <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bondi-or-bongino-bongino-wont-remain-at-fbi-if-bondi-keeps-job-source-says">told Daily Wire</a> that he was threatening to leave the bureau if Bondi remained on the job, effectively issuing an ultimatum.
Patel also wanted Bondi gone, sources close to the FBI chief told The Daily Wire, saying that Patel would consider leaving the FBI if Bongino left.
“Blondie f*cked this whole thing up,” Bongino told a confidant, The New York Times reported. He was using a nickname for the attorney general coined by outspoken Bondi critic Laura Loomer. “She was the one on TV saying over and over they had all this stuff. There was never anything.&#8221;
&#8220;We were always clear about that,&#8221; Bongino emphasized, according to the Times. &#8220;But now everyone thinks we did something wrong. And I gave up everything.”
He stayed on until January 2026, when he resigned from the bureau and returned to hosting his &#8220;Dan Bongino Show.&#8221;
&#8220;Dan did a great job,&#8221; Trump told reporters, as news of Bongino&#8217;s departure broke. &#8220;I think he wants to go back to his show.&#8221;
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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi had made things difficult for Patel and Bongino when she promised in a February 2025 Fox News interview that the Epstein list was &#8220;sitting&#8221; on her &#8220;desk right now to review.&#8221;
Her possibly greater misstep occurred during a White House briefing with influencers on the president&#8217;s agenda, according to the NYT. During that briefing, Bondi and her team walked into the Roosevelt Room carrying boxes and handed out binders to the influencers that she described as &#8220;The Epstein files.&#8221;
Swan and Haberman write that &#8220;the blood pressure of other officials in the room skyrocketed&#8221; — they did not know what was in the binders, and the binders hadn&#8217;t been vetted by the White House.
The president was about to meet with Prime Minister Keir Starmer before the press, and the news might possibly blindside him.
&#8220;One official, opening the binder, began flipping through pages to see if Trump’s name was mentioned anywhere,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;A few pages in, right in the middle of the page, there it was.&#8221;
The binders didn&#8217;t actually contain anything meaningfully new, but after the influencers took photos in front of the White House holding them, word spread like wildfire on social media. Not only did the influencers feel duped by the lack of substance in the binders, but many of Trump&#8217;s supporters were seething on social media over what they saw as Bondi playing showman with the files without releasing anything meaningful.
The Epstein files, which will have all been released as of July 2026, include many mentions of Trump&#8217;s name but have not been found to include substantiated allegations against the president.
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NEW: Photo obtained by <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> shows Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein together. To my knowledge, this photo hasn’t been reported.
Massive trove of Epstein files are expected to be released tomorrow. <a href="https://t.co/OvFFbUQlXq">pic.twitter.com/OvFFbUQlXq</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/2001876204299960657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
The DOJ noted that the batch released in January contained numerous “sensationalist” claims submitted right before the 2020 election, in an apparent attempt to stop Trump from winning the presidential election. Many of those claims don&#8217;t even include callback numbers, such as one graphic claim that the president raped a 13-year-old girl.
“Just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein,&#8221; White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Daily Wire on Wednesday.
&#8220;And by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him,&#8221; she added.

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