President Donald Trump struck a victorious tone on Sunday as he marked the first six months of his second term.
In a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114885422115933668" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Truth Social, Trump alluded to some of his accomplishments on the foreign policy and tariff fronts since returning to the White House after defeating then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
&#8220;Wow, time flies! Today is [the] Sixth Month Anniversary of my Second Term. Importantly, it’s being hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any President,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;In other words, we got a lot of good and great things done, including ending numerous wars of Countries not related to us other than through Trade and/or, in certain cases, friendship.&#8221;
He added, &#8220;Six months is not a long time to have totally revived a major Country. &#8216;One year ago our Country was DEAD, with almost no hope of revival. Today the USA is the &#8216;hottest&#8217; and most respected Country anywhere in the World.&#8217; Happy Anniversary!!!&#8221;
Trump notched legislative victories, most notably with the recent passage of the measure he dubbed the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; that included many of his spending and tax cut goals.
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JUST SIX MONTHS into President Trump’s second term, America is safer, stronger, and more prosperous.
We’ve cut taxes, secured the border, ignited the economy, and put America First at home and on the world stage.
And we’re just getting started. 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/pvlHwGaaEk">pic.twitter.com/pvlHwGaaEk</a>
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1946932526825849127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;JUST SIX MONTHS into President Trump’s second term, America is safer, stronger, and more prosperous,&#8221; House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1946932526825849127" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X, marking the occasion. &#8220;We’ve cut taxes, secured the border, ignited the economy, and put America First at home and on the world stage. And we’re just getting started.&#8221;
Also on X, the White House&#8217;s &#8220;Rapid Response&#8221; account shared clips of Sunday talk show hosts remarking on the whirlwind of events during the first half year of Trump&#8217;s second term.
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&#8220;Wow, a lot can happen in just six months,&#8221; says CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper.
&#8220;Today marks half a year since President Trump took office again — and already, his second term is shaping up to be even more consequential than his first.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/O9knuo6FSW">pic.twitter.com/O9knuo6FSW</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1946920402338410794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The state of our union is thinking, &#8216;Wow, a lot can happen in just six months,'&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1946920402338410794" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper. &#8220;Today marks half a year since President Trump took office, again — and already, his second term is shaping up to be even more consequential than his first. The president has followed through on promises to ramp up deportations, impose tariffs, target his political enemies — including the news media, reduce the federal bureaucracy, and slash U.S. aid to foreign countries.&#8221;
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ABC: &#8220;Today marks six months since President Trump returned to office for his second term &#8230; The President promised changes — and there is no question he has made them.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/63mbt4HrIQ">pic.twitter.com/63mbt4HrIQ</a>
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Martha Raddatz, co-anchor of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1946922182493213051" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Today marks six months since President Trump returned to office for his second term. It has been a head-spinning half year, from sweeping changes in the federal government, to mass deportations, and bombs dropped on Iran. The president promised changes — and there is no question he has made them.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump&#8217;s energy dominance agenda could raise the United States GDP by up to 1.9% within the next decade, according to a new report.
The White House Council of Economic Advisors released a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/The-Economic-Benefits-of-Unleashing-American-Energy.pdf">report</a> on the impact of Trump’s energy policies and deregulation on Thursday. Experts estimated that additional energy production alongside deregulatory policies could bolster economic growth in the United States, growing GDP “by at least 0.56-1.90 percent by 2035.”
“Unleashing energy abundance was key to the historic job, wage, economic, and investment growth that President Trump delivered during his first term,” White House spoeksman Kush Desai told The Daily Wire in a statement. “Energy abundance is again key for President Trump’s second term push to cement America’s dominance in AI and restore our industrial base, and the Administration is committed to pulling every stop to power the restoration of American Greatness.”
The report identified a few key weak points in the United States’ current energy production and distribution system, such as long delays for government approvals, aging infrastructure, and supply chains for critical minerals that run through “unreliable or adversarial sources.” But the United States sits upon a wealth of natural resources that contributed to the country being the “world’s leading producer of petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear power” in 2023.
Earlier this month, a Department of Energy report <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-releases-report-evaluating-us-grid-reliability-and-security">estimated</a> that blackouts across the United States “could increase by 100 times in 2030 if the U.S. continues to shutter reliable power sources and fails to add additional firm capacity.”
The Trump administration wants to accelerate U.S. energy production in part because the country’s budding AI industry uses massive amounts of electricity.
“By some estimates, executing a ChatGPT prompt can be 10 times more energy intensive than a Google search,” the report states.
By 2030, AI data processing centers in the United States will use more electricity than the “production of aluminum, steel, cement, chemicals and all other energy-intensive goods combined,” according to the International Energy Agency.
With AI development could come meaningful increases in production.
“If half of U.S. businesses engage in widespread use of AI by 2034, the annual productivity growth of labor could be 1.5 percentage points higher starting in 2034 than it would otherwise be without widespread AI adoption. This boost in labor productivity could, in turn, increase GDP growth by 0.4 percent in 2034,” the report states.
The surging demand for electricity by AI data centers could lead to price spikes for energy consumers. In order to prevent that, the report states that the United States needs to build out energy production from relatively inexpensive, reliable sources, such as natural gas.
“[C]ombined-cycle natural gas power plants are currently the lowest-cost reliable power generation option in the U.S., with a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of about $30 per megawatt-hour,” the report states. The price for energy output from natural gas is much lower than renewables, which the report priced at “$45-$55 per MWh” because of the additional cost of building batteries to ensure reliable energy when solar panels and wind turbines are not able to generate electricity.
The Trump administration is also slowing the retirement of nuclear and coal plants to avoid large gaps in electrical production from lost sources. Other plants, such as Michigan’s Palisades nuclear power plant, may be revived and put back into the U.S. electrical grid.
In addition to protecting, reviving, and building energy production, the administration is also working through a slew of deregulatory plans to streamline government approvals and encourage quicker energy development, including reforms to landmark environmental regulations such as the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.

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The White House addressed speculation around President Donald Trump&#8217;s swollen legs and bruised right hand on Thursday.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump underwent medical testing and received a diagnosis of &#8220;chronic venous insufficiency&#8221; in his legs, but remains in good health.
&#8220;I know that many in the media have been speculating about bruising on the president&#8217;s hand and also swelling in the president&#8217;s legs,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at Thursday&#8217;s press briefing.
&#8220;So in the effort of transparency, the president wanted me to share a note from his physician with all of you today,&#8221; she said.
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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, following reports of swelling in the President&#39;s legs, per Karoline Leavitt
Luckily, it&#39;s nothing serious.
THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE HANDLED. NOT covered up like Joe Biden&#39;s illnesses!
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Leavitt read a memo from Dr. Sean Barbabella, a Navy doctor who serves as physician to the president
Barbabella wrote that in recent weeks, Trump noted &#8220;mild swelling in his lower legs,&#8221; and the president&#8217;s concern was &#8220;thoroughly evaluated by the White House medical unit&#8221; out of an &#8220;abundance of caution.&#8221;
Ultrasounds to assess blood flow in both of his legs found &#8220;chronic venous insufficiency,&#8221; which the president&#8217;s physician called a &#8220;benign, common condition, particularly in individuals over the age of 70.&#8221;
Chronic venous insufficiency involves blood pooling in the legs, sometimes causing varicose veins, and can be caused by prolonged standing.
Trump also got bloodwork done, including a comprehensive metabolic panel, a complete blood count, a coagulation profile, a blood clot test, a heart failure test, and testing for cardiac biomarkers, his doctor said.
&#8220;All results were within normal limits,&#8221; Barbabella wrote.
An echocardiogram also showed &#8220;normal cardiac structure and function,&#8221; the president&#8217;s physician said.
&#8220;Importantly, there was no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease,&#8221; Barbabella wrote. &#8220;No signs of heart failure, renal impairment, or systemic illness were identified.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s doctor also addressed recent photos of Trump showing bruising on the back of his right hand and said the culprits are aspirin and the president frequently shaking hands with people.
&#8220;This is consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin, which is taken as part of a standard, cardiovascular prevention regimen. This is a well-known and benign side effect of aspirin therapy,&#8221; Barbabella wrote.
&#8220;The president remains in excellent health, which I think all of you witness on a daily basis here,&#8221; Leavitt said.
The White House&#8217;s detailed report on Trump&#8217;s health comes after the last administration was not as forthcoming about President Joe Biden&#8217;s health.
Biden&#8217;s behavior during the last years of his presidency sparked concerns among the public that he might already be senile. His disastrous debate performance in June of last year solidified those concerns and led to Biden dropping out of the 2o24 presidential race.
Last week, Biden&#8217;s former doctor pled the Fifth before the House Oversight Committee, which subpoenaed him to testify in an investigation into the alleged cover-up of Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline.
Invoking the Fifth Amendment means someone is using their right not to be &#8220;compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.&#8221;
Then on Wednesday, a Jill Biden aide also pled the Fifth in the same investigation and declined to answer questions.
The Biden officials&#8217; refusal to testify has only fueled speculation about a cover-up and heightened concerns about the legitimacy of executive actions Biden took during his last years as president.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that President Trump&#8217;s Jeffrey Epstein &#8220;hoax&#8221; comment was in reference to Democrats seizing the Epstein hysteria after showing little to no interest in the case for years.
On Wednesday, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-epstein-story-is-kept-alive-by-pretty-bad-people-including-fake-news?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Says+Epstein+Story+Is+Kept+Alive+By+%E2%80%98Pretty+Bad+People%2C+Including+Fake+News%E2%80%99">blasted</a> his “past supporters,” whom he says have fallen for a “hoax” pushed by Democrats by focusing on the Epstein case.
Asked by Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich to clarify what Trump meant by calling the Epstein case a &#8220;hoax,&#8221; Leavitt said during Thursday&#8217;s White House press briefing, &#8220;The president is referring to the fact that Democrats have now seized on this as if they ever wanted transparency when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, which is an asinine suggestion for any Democrat to make.&#8221;
&#8220;The Democrats had control of this building, the White House, for four years, and they didn&#8217;t do a dang thing when it came to transparency in regards to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous crimes. It was this president who directed the Department of Justice and the attorney general to do an exhaustive review of all files related to Jeffrey Epstein, which they did,&#8221; she added.
Leavitt argued that the investigation into the Epstein files was led by &#8220;great patriots&#8221; and &#8220;some of the most trusted voices in the Republican Party movement,&#8221; referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. Last week, the DOJ concluded that it did not find evidence of a client list existing and concluded that Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell in 2019.
&#8220;They spent many months going through all of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein, and they concluded what they found in that memo, which they drafted and they released,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;So the president has been transparent. He has followed through on his promises to the American people, but he doesn&#8217;t like to see Democrats and the mainstream media covering this like it&#8217;s the biggest story that the American people care about.&#8221;
Democrats have <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-put-previous-misgivings-hit-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-rcna218608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latched</a> onto the issue to attack Trump, voting in the House to release the Epstein files, a move that Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-rejects-claims-of-blocking-epstein-files-a-misunderstanding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> a political stunt and a power grab.
Later during the press briefing, Leavitt said that Trump &#8220;would not recommend a special prosecutor&#8221; to look into the Epstein case, adding that &#8220;the idea was floated from someone in the media.&#8221; The president would be open to revisiting the case further if the DOJ or FBI find any new information, according to Leavitt.
Earlier this week, Trump called those focusing on the Epstein controversy &#8220;pretty bad people&#8221; and defended Bondi&#8217;s handling of the case. Conservatives criticized Bondi after she said in February that she had Epstein&#8217;s client list on her desk, but then clarified months later that she meant that she was reviewing the Epstein files.
A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-two-thirds-of-americans-believe-government-is-hiding-details-on-epstein-case-poll?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=More+Than+Two-Thirds+Of+Americans+Believe+Government+Is+Hiding+Details+On+Epstein+Case%3A+Poll">poll</a> conducted by Reuters/Ipsos this week showed that only 17% of Americans approve of Trump&#8217;s handling of the Epstein case. Among Republicans, 35% approved while 30% disapproved, and the rest said they were unsure or didn&#8217;t answer. Additionally, 69% of respondents said that the federal government is covering up details about Epstein’s alleged client list.

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UFC chief Dana White said the card he is planning for an event at the White House will be “the best card we’ve ever done to date.”
White appeared on the Spinnin Backfist podcast on Wednesday to talk about a UFC event he is planning for the lawn of the White House next year. President Donald Trump first announced the event during a July 4 rally in Des Moines, Iowa.
“We’re putting together the renderings. They should be done in the next 10 days, and then we’re going to fly out to the White House and present it to [Trump], see what he likes and what he doesn’t like and start working on it,” White said.
The UFC boss said the White House fight night will be a “one-of-one unique event that will never happen again.”
“I will blow the doors off this thing. I&#8217;m going to make this one of the greatest events of all time,” White said.
Of the fights he has planned for the event, White said, “it&#8217;ll be a full card, and it will be the best card we’ve ever done to date.”
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UFC at the White House<a href="https://twitter.com/danawhite?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaWhite</a>: “This is a one of one, unique event, that will never happen again, and I will blow the doors off this thing. I’ll make this one of the greatest events of all time… It will be the best card we’ve ever done to date.”
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Trump first broke the news of the White House UFC event in front of a cheering crowd in Iowa. The president said he wants the event to take place on July 4 during the United States’ 250th birthday.
“We’re going to have a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House,” Trump <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/mixed-martial-arts/ufc-trump-white-house-fight-card-2026-rcna216982">said</a>. “We have a lot of land there.”
“Every one of our national parks, battlefields and historic sites are going to have special events in honor of America 250. And I even think we’re going to have a UFC fight,” Trump said.
The president added that he expects up to 25,000 people to attend the spectacle.
Trump has long been a fan of UFC and friend to White, its CEO. Trump became the first sitting president to attend a UFC fight when he spectated UFC 244 at Madison Square Garden in 2019.
In succeeding events he has attended, Trump has been met with loud cheers from fans and warm greetings from athletes. In 2023, former UFC star Jorge Masvidal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fans-go-wild-as-trump-appears-at-ufc-fighter-leads-lets-go-brandon-chant">called</a> Trump the “greatest president in the history of the world” before announcing his retirement from the sport.

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The White House is conducting a review of potentially more than one million documents approved through the autopen process under former President Joe Biden.
The White House Counsel’s Office is leading an investigation into the former president and his staff’s use of the autopen. The White House has already assembled tens of thousands of documents from Biden’s term turned over by the National Archives for review, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-investigating-biden-use-autopen-sprawling-probe-incompetent-senile-former-president">Fox News</a>.
“Joe Biden was the worst, most incompetent, and senile president in our country&#8217;s history,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News. “It has been widely reported that Joe Biden handed the power of the presidency to an autopen controlled by unelected leftist staffers, who were allowed to make terrible decisions that destroyed our country.”
“The Trump White House is committed to finding the answers to the many outstanding questions the American people still have about how business in the Biden White House was conducted,” she said.
White House officials expect to review potentially more than one million documents from the Biden administration that were approved via autopen. One official said that the review is aimed at providing transparency to the American people about Biden’s health and his understanding of the substantial number of documents that bear the former president’s signature.
“What did the former president direct, versus what he did not,” an official said, according to Fox News. “The only time a legitimate use of the autopen should happen is if the president said he wanted something done, or if he was asked for his approval.”
Biden was recently revealed to have not specifically approved thousands of prisoners and convicts that he granted pardons and clemency to in his final days in office. The former president told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html">The New York Times</a> in an interview published on Sunday that he directed his staff to prepare a list of convicts that fell under certain criteria, such as those who were convicted of low-level drug offenses.
After compiling the list, White House staff used the autopen to grant relief to thousands of convicts in the president’s name. Staff did not run the final list past Biden before granting presidential relief.
Biden asserted to the Times that he “made every decision” despite the loosely supervised autopen process. The former president defended the use of the autopen in his final days in office because “we’re talking about a whole lot of people” who were given amnesty.
The White House review is running parallel to two other investigations into Biden&#8217;s autopen run by the House Oversight Committee and the Department of Justice. The White House Counsel&#8217;s Office is coordinating with the Justice Department in the review.

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The White House on Tuesday rebuffed media claims that the Trump administration was gutting funding for life-saving HIV/AIDS treatments. 
A senior administration official told The Daily Wire that cuts to PEPFAR, global health funding provided by the United States to combat AIDS and HIV, were not impacting essential life-saving services. The official noted that there were some targeted cuts to ideological aspects of the program. 
&#8220;America remains the most generous country in the world because President Trump has a humanitarian heart, and we urge other nations to dramatically increase their humanitarian efforts,&#8221; the official told The Daily Wire. &#8220;PEPFAR continues to support lifesaving HIV testing, care and treatment, and prevention of mother to child transmission services approved by the Secretary of State.&#8221;
The official&#8217;s comments come as some media outlets, such as NPR, have claimed that the Trump administration is gutting AIDS relief.
The official noted that 86% of PEPFAR funding was going to direct treatment activities, and that over 18 million people were still benefitting from the program across 40 countries. The official added that there have been some &#8220;limited cuts&#8221; to &#8220;LGBTQ education and capacity building&#8221; aspects of the program, but &#8220;not core life-saving care.&#8221;
At the same time, the White House called for other countries to step up their contributions to fighting HIV/AIDS.
&#8220;We’re already working with countries and other partners to ensure that they shoulder a greater share of the burden where they can. We continue to make targeted investments in mother to child prevention, and other key areas of focus,&#8221; the official told The Daily Wire. 
The official also said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has approved $1.3 billion in funding to fight HIV/AIDS, of which at least 60% will go towards the purchase of anti-retrovirals and other commodities.
&#8220;But Secretary Rubio has kept life-saving and high-impact aid programs ongoing, with cuts targeting wasteful DEI programs, capacity building, waste and bloat at the United Nations and left-wing NGOs and other activities that saved no lives,&#8221; the official added. 
The official said the prioritizing of &#8220;high-impact lifesaving&#8221; aid would serve &#8220;as a catalyst for private and partner country investment.&#8221;
&#8220;President Trump’s peace through shared prosperity approach will ultimately lead to higher standards of living and greater impact from U.S. engagement around the world,&#8221; the official noted.

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It&#8217;s time to talk about the biggest conspiracy and cover-up in modern American history.
No, I&#8217;m not talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
I am talking about the cover-up that was right in front of us that actually does go all the way to the top.
That cover-up, of course, involves the fact that the president of the United States was mentally deficient for several years and that someone else — we don&#8217;t know who — was actually running the country. 
The smoking gun to that effect was presented on Wednesday in front of Congress. Doctor Kevin O&#8217;Connor, who was former President Joe Biden&#8217;s White House physician, constantly invoked his rights under the Fifth Amendment and physician-patient privilege before the <a href="https://x.com/gopoversight/status/1943063181490032905?s=46">House Oversight Committee</a>.
That is insane.
O’Connor was asked about what he knew and when he knew it about Joe Biden&#8217;s health condition, and he pled the Fifth. He was asked if he was ever told to lie about the president&#8217;s health, whether Biden as president was unfit to execute his duties as president, and he consistently invoked physician-patient privilege and the Fifth Amendment.
Exasperated, one GOP rep asked, “Doctor O&#8217;Connor, is it your intention to decline to answer all questions put to you today by the Committee on the basis of the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination?”
O’Connor again stated, “On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer based upon the physician-patient privilege and in reliance on my right and the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.”
Okay, this is insane.
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He was claiming, based on two different things, that he would not testify. One, of course, is physician-patient privilege, the idea that you are supposed to keep secret health information that you and your doctor exchange. The doctor is not supposed to talk publicly about that.
But physician-patient privilege should probably not extend to public statements that you make about the health of the president of the United States because you&#8217;re violating patient privilege by even saying that much. If you make a statement that the president is healthy and the president has the following conditions, that&#8217;s a violation of physician-patient privilege.
In any other context, if your doctor went to a bar today and started talking about your specific health issues, even if he said you&#8217;re totally healthy and fine, that would be a violation of physician-patient privilege.
But that&#8217;s exactly what Kevin O&#8217;Connor did. He put out public statements about the health of the president of the United States. Thus, asking him about that should not be an issue.
As far as the Fifth Amendment, which protects against self-incrimination, he was saying that if he spoke, he could find himself in danger of a perjury trap or in danger of committing a crime, which is absolutely astonishing.
Remember, the original question here was, “Were you instructed to lie about the president&#8217;s health at any point?”
That is not a question about the president&#8217;s health. That&#8217;s a question about the lies surrounding the president&#8217;s health. So if he says yes, he might have committed a crime when he told the American people something false or told Congress something false.
We have an explicit amendment to the Constitution that is designed to oust people who are mentally incompetent from this office, which means all members of the Biden cabinet were complicit in the cover-up of his health condition. All Biden cabinet members were complicit in the reality that the president of the United States was not actually the president of the United States. That&#8217;s a scandal. That&#8217;s a cover-up, and requires a much deeper investigation.
It was all out in public view. There was tremendous evidence for it. Yet in 2024, O’Connor said Biden’s mental cognition was “excellent.”
Congress can easily solve this problem. All they have to do is grant him immunity, because then the Fifth Amendment concern goes away. If they say, “Anything you testify on today cannot be used as the basis for your future prosecution,” he can no longer claim the Fifth Amendment because the Fifth Amendment only applies in arenas where you could theoretically be prosecuted for the things that you are saying.
There are also other ways around this. According to the Congressional Research Service, “Under federal statute, when a witness asserts the privilege, the full House or the committee conducting the investigation may seek a court order that 1) directs the witness to testify and 2) grant the witness immunity against the use of his or her testimony.”
So that is presumably the next step.
We already know there was a cover-up. The only question is, who told O&#8217;Connor to cover up the health condition?
Was it Jill? Was it Joe who did that? Also, why was everybody else in the White House complicit in this cover-up? And who the hell was the president of the United States for multiple years?
The American people were lied to. Anybody who was involved in the Joe Biden cabinet that refused to make a move to invoke the 25th Amendment to oust him as president of the United States for mental incompetence needs to be effectively barred from politics forever.
Anyone who&#8217;s a cabinet secretary who rose to that level — the Pete Buttigiegs of the world, for example — needs to be held accountable for not having tried to invoke the 25th amendment, because the American people were robbed of having a president of the United States that they actually elected.
The fact that O’Connor is taking the Fifth Amendment is demonstrative of the lengths to which people surrounding the president will go to maintain their hold on proximity to power.
They shouldn’t get away with it.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday ripped into “stupid” wind turbines and solar farms for killing wildlife, destroying landscapes, and being inefficient.
The president tore into the green energy industry for over five minutes during a cabinet meeting, attacking wind and solar for being too intermittent and reliant on subsidies to be viable energy sources.
“Wind is a very expensive form of energy. It&#8217;s very bad for your beautiful surroundings, the plains and the valleys and the birds dying all over the place, you know, the whole thing is a disaster,” <a href="https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1942630630325420417">said</a> Trump.
“Those big solar fields, they&#8217;re taking our farmland. Our farmers are, like, mortified by it. They hate it,” he continued. “It&#8217;s very, very inefficient and very ugly, too. You know, probably better than a windmill, but you go around and you see all these things that are 3 miles long by 3 miles wide, and you say, ‘What the hell is that?’ And it&#8217;s a lot of plastic from China. It&#8217;s plastic, black plastic from China.”
China is the global leader in green energy manufacturing with around “60% of the world’s manufacturing capacity for most mass-manufactured technologies,” including solar cells, wind systems, and batteries, according to the <a href="https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-technology-perspectives-2023/clean-energy-supply-chains-vulnerabilities">International Energy Agency</a>.
China has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/climate/china-clean-energy-power.html">invested</a> heavily in renewable energy as it seeks to curb its reliance on oil imports. It also continues to build coal-fired power plants to meet its energy needs and is the world’s largest <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092915/5-countries-produce-most-carbon-dioxide-co2.asp%5C">polluter</a>.
Trump last signed the landmark “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that included the president’s priorities for his energy agenda, including encouraging fossil fuel development and cutting tax credits and subsidies for green energy.
“We&#8217;ve reintroduced clean, beautiful coal because, you know, you can do a lot with coal now, clean beautiful coal and natural gas and all of the other things that we have. But we don&#8217;t want wind and we don&#8217;t want solar because they&#8217;re a blight on our country,” said Trump. “They hurt our country very badly, and smart countries don&#8217;t use it.”
“We need the kind of thing that&#8217;s going to fire up our plants, and it&#8217;s not going to be wind, you know. It’s very intermittent, as you probably know. But they&#8217;ve spent a fortune. They&#8217;ve spent trillions of dollars on this stuff,” he continued.
Trump ended his monologue expressing regret that “wind” has not proven itself to be a significant source of energy “because it sounds so good, doesn&#8217;t it? ‘Wind, wind.’ But it&#8217;s not.”
It&#8217;s these ugly machines, and they&#8217;re all made – you&#8217;ve got to see – some are a little taller, a little shorter. They&#8217;re made by different companies. They have different stocks. They have different blades. They have different everything. It is so horrible,” said Trump.
“If you look at smart countries, they don&#8217;t use it. Smart countries don&#8217;t use it, and we&#8217;re now a smart country. We&#8217;re a brilliant country. We&#8217;re not smart. We&#8217;re brilliant now. We&#8217;re going to be a brilliant country. We have to be, because we have to catch up for some really stupid people that did a bad job,” he added.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Monday that he has nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Netanyahu presented Trump with a letter the Israeli leader sent to the Nobel committee recommending the president to win the lauded peace prize. The prime minister handed the letter to Trump during a meeting at the White House.
“I want to express the appreciation and admiration, not only of all Israelis, but of the Jewish people and many, many admirers around the world for your leadership, your leadership of the free world, your leadership of a just cause, and the pursuit of peace and security, which you are leading in many lands, but now, especially in the Middle East,” said Netanyahu. “The president has an extraordinary team, and I think our teams, together, make an extraordinary combination to meet challenges and seize opportunities.”
“But the president has already realized great opportunities. He forged the Abraham Accords. He&#8217;s forging peace as we speak in one country, in one region after the other,” he continued. “I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee. It&#8217;s nominating you for the Peace Prize, which is well-deserved, and you should get it.”
Trump accepted the letter, responding that “coming from you in particular, this is very meaningful.”
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The two leaders met at the White House to discuss developments in the Middle East just weeks after the two worked together to take down Iran’s nuclear program.
Israel hit numerous military and nuclear program-related targets around Iran during what the White House later called the “12-Day War.” Trump ordered a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities that targeted Iran’s fortified facility built underground at Fordo, as well as two other sites. The ordinance delivered by U.S. B-2 bombers and submarines finished off the strikes against Iran’s nuclear program.
Last month, Pakistan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-mentum-from-iran-to-big-beautiful-bill-prez-scores-landmark-victories-in-past-two-weeks">nominated</a> Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize “in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent India-Pakistan crisis.”

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WASHINGTON—Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard established a special task force in April aimed at restoring transparency and accountability to the Intelligence Community, and fixing the broken system that has allowed weaponization to run rampant throughout the United States government.
That task force is named the &#8220;Director&#8217;s Initiatives Group,&#8221; or DIG, and it is tasked with executing President Donald Trump&#8217;s intelligence-related executive orders. According to an Office of the Director of National Intelligence official, DIG includes some of the best and brightest minds in the intelligence community.
So far, the ODNI official shared, DIG has exposed how the Biden administration weaponized the intelligence community against Americans by releasing formerly classified documents showing how the Biden administration targeted political opponents through its &#8220;Domestic Violent Extremism agenda.&#8221;
DIG also identified and terminated intelligence community employees who were using their roles to push ideology, and revoked the security clearances for the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden &#8220;disinformation letter,&#8221; as well as former President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Jake Sullivan.
The task force has also led the intelligence community in locating and de-classifying documents that pertain to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
<div id="attachment_943569" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-tulsi-gabbard-is-draining-the-rotten-intelligence-community/senate-intelligence-committee-hearing-on-worldwide-threats-3" rel="attachment wp-att-943569"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-943569" class="wp-image-943569 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2206315219-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2206315219-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2206315219-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2206315219-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2206315219.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Intelligence leaders testifying on worldwide threats (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)</div>
DIG has also finalized plans for organizational changes that it hopes will lead to reducing government waste and saving money.
Gabbard&#8217;s team believes the heavy pushback it is receiving is proof positive that they are on the right track to taking on the &#8220;rotted intelligence community.&#8221;
They aren&#8217;t done, however.
According to an ODNI official, DIG has plans to obtain previous intelligence community assessments of election infrastructure showing the vulnerabilities in the 2022 and 2020 elections.
DIG also plans to conduct forensic analyses of past elections to investigate vulnerabilities in the American election infrastructure, the official shared.
The task force also plans to interview whistleblowers with firsthand knowledge and evidence of the politicization of intelligence, such as the Russian Collusion hoax and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
&#8220;The task force&#8217;s job is to understand how the intelligence community has failed in areas like this, hold accountable those who actively allowed or participated in it, and provide recommendations for oversight that will prevent it from happening again,&#8221; the ODNI official said.
Another DIG plan: to further declassify examples of the Biden administration&#8217;s use of the &#8220;domestic terrorist&#8221; label to help Americans understand how the previous administration leveraged the security state against political dissidents.
DIG also will investigate how free speech has been restricted by looking into organizational and funding links between the intelligence community and the tech sector, the ODNI official shared, and it will also investigate how the intelligence community contributed to United States tax dollars funding gain-of-function research around the world.
These are only a few of the items that Gabbard&#8217;s task force is focused on, the official shared with The Daily Wire. A number of other sensitive and classified projects are also in the works, and when Gabbard can share more, the official said, she will.
The task force includes members of the ODNI, CIA, NSA, FBI, and the Defense Department. All members have Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance, and are required to take polygraphs within 90 days of reporting for duty. The task force is carried out and authorized under 50 USC Sec. 3024, a provision that states a duty to provide national intelligence that is &#8220;timely, objective, independent of political considerations&#8230;based on all sources available to the IC.&#8221;
The official shared with The Daily Wire that ODNI is utilizing its oversight authority, which has never been done before.
Under Gabbard&#8217;s watch, intelligence community officials &#8220;should expect that someone will be actively checking their homework, ensuring analytical integrity and unbiased collection, and compliance with constitutional and statutory mandates.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump has scored some of the biggest wins of his administration in the past two weeks to be capped with what may be his signature legislative win of his second term.
Congress passed the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” on Thursday, sending the legislation to Trump’s desk in time for the July 4 deadline that the president had set. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called the bill a “key cornerstone of America’s new golden age” after he and Trump worked late into the night whipping votes to get the package through the House on Thursday afternoon.
The legislation makes permanent Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, as well as eliminating some taxes on tips and Social Security. It also includes a $150 billion boost to border security and deportation measures, and another $150 billion toward new defense spending. The bill encourages a boom in fossil fuel energy production while cutting tax credits for green energy and electric vehicles. The bill tightens rules and implements work requirements to receive Medicaid.
“President Trump is racking up win after win – making this the best two weeks for everyday Americans in decades. On the world stage and on the home front, President Trump has delivered on his promises like no other President before. It’s clear that President Trump was right about everything, Americans still aren’t tired of winning, and our country has never been HOTTER!” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told The Daily Wire in a statement.
Other wins for the president from the past two weeks include:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">The June jobs report <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-effect-u-s-adds-147k-jobs-beating-projections-for-fourth-straight-month">released</a> on Thursday showed the United States added 147,000 jobs last month, outpacing expectations and showing positive job growth in the country for four months straight. The U.S. economy has added nearly 700,000 jobs since January.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Border encounters in the month of June again <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-saw-fewer-migrant-encounters-last-month-than-one-single-day-under-biden-homan-says">plunged</a> to the lowest level in decades, surpassing a previous decades-long low set in March. Federal authorities tallied just 6,070 encounters with illegal aliens at the Southern Border last month, and stopped all from entering the United States.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">The Supreme Court last week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-limits-nationwide-injunctions-in-birthright-citizenship-fight">delivered</a> a major win to the Trump administration, restricting the ability of district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions that have thwarted policies from the White House. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the 6-3 majority that “federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch; they resolve cases and controversies consistent with the authority Congress has given them.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-announces-major-trade-deal-with-vietnam-days-before-tariff-increases">announced</a> a trade deal with Vietnam on Wednesday just days before the president’s 90-day pause on Liberation Day tariffs expires. According to Trump, American producers will have duty-free access to Vietnam’s market while Vietnamese goods will have a 20% tariff to enter the United States. “Transshipped” goods sent to the United States via Vietnam from other countries will be tariffed at 40%.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">The S&amp;P 500 and NASDAQ both <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/us-stock-futures-steady-investors-await-payrolls-data-2025-07-03/">closed</a> at record highs on Thursday.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Gas prices hit the lowest level in four years heading into the Independence Day holiday weekend. The national average for a gallon of gas stood at $3.16 on Thursday, a $0.35 drop from a year ago, according to data from <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/">AAA</a>.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Last week, NATO countries <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-triumphs-nato-bows-to-u-s-pressure-with-5-defense-pledge">agreed</a> to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP at Trump’s urging, with the lone exception of Spain.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">United States bombers and submarines delivered strikes against three nuclear sites in Iran in a June 21 surprise attack dubbed “Operation Midnight Hammer.” The Pentagon has said the strikes “obliterated” nuclear facilities at Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan and <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/07/03/us-strikes-set-back-irans-nuclear-program-up-to-2-years-dod-says/">set</a> Iran’s nuclear program back at least one to two years.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Following the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-end-of-israel-iran-war-an-important-reset-moment-for-middle-east">brokered</a> and held together a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Last week, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-brokers-peace-agreement-between-rwanda-and-congo-at-white-house">hosted</a> leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the White House to broker a peace agreement and end a 30-year conflict between the two countries.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Pakistan <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1936235634286268493">nominated</a> President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize on June 20 “in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent India-Pakistan crisis.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Trump <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/trump-golden-share-us-steel-nippon-merger.html">secured</a> a “golden share” of U.S. Steel last week as part of an $14 billion deal for Japan’s Nippon Steel to acquire the U.S. steel manufacturer. The “golden share,” made official in an amended corporate charter filed with the United States last week, grants Trump and future presidents broad veto power over key decisions made regarding U.S. Steel, including changes to the company name or selling production locations in the next decade.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Under pressure from the White House, the University of Pennsylvania has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/upenn-agrees-to-strip-medals-from-lia-thomas-as-part-of-sweeping-white-house-deal">agreed</a> to bar males from competing in female sports or using female “intimate facilities.” The school will also adopt “biology-based definitions” for “male” and “female” that comply with the president’s executive orders. The university will also strip trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas of the titles he won on the women’s team while returning “misappropriated” awards to female athletes.</li>
</ul>

TRUMP-MENTUM: From Iran To Big, Beautiful Bill, Prez Scores Landmark Victories In Past Two Weeks

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