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Maybe Democrats expect Trump to make a big show of it, because that's what Democrats would do.
“We need to hold accountable the people and institutions who stole billions of our taxpayer dollars and weaponized the government against its people,” she said.
Because Canada is a very capable country, Trump probably had an army or air force official quietly offer Carney or the provincial governor assistance, choosing not to speak publicly so as not to detract attention from the people and situation who/that matter.
MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian was caught spreading fake news about FBI Director Kash Patel on live television Wednesday, adding to a long history of peddling propaganda such as the debunked Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
MS Now’s Peter Alexander paused his show Wednesday, announcing FBI Director Kash Patel “landed in Russia for a meeting scheduled to take place there. That’s according to two people familiar with the matter.”
MS Now’s Ken Dilanian joined, telling Alexander, “We don’t know what Kash Patel’s doing in Russia, and that’s one of the things concerning our FBI sources.”
The only problem with this scoop is that it was entirely false. Less than three hours after providing this breaking scoop, Dilanian was back on the network apologizing for the fake news, Mediate reported.
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Dilanian, like many others of the propaganda press, has a record of publishing dubiously sourced claims that hurt Republicans and help Democrats, with corrections coming only after the stories have shaped public debate. When the Hillary Clinton campaign commissioned the Steele dossier, a compilation of salacious rumors about then-candidate Donald Trump, during the 2016 election, the media was a key co-conspirator in what would become the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. ...
Dilanian was deeply involved in the Russia hoax. In April 2017 he and Carol Lee published a story about the June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort were also reportedly present.
“Two sources tell NBC News that Manafort’s smartphone notes from the meeting included the words ‘donations’ in close proximity to the reference to the Republican National Committee,” the report read. The report used this “evidence” to make the meeting appear more significant to investigators trying to determine if there was any collusion with Russia.
NBC News eventually issued a correction after Sen. Chuck Grassley’s team indicated the word “donation” was not present in the notes, though the outlet held that the “donor” may have been used. But as Lee Smith wrote in these pages, that “difference … nullified the thrust of the story, which was to suggest that Russia was funneling money directly to the Trump campaign.”
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Dilanian reported in October of 2017 that Sen. Richard Burr and Sen. Mark Warner had said “they had been able to corroborate some aspects” of the Steele dossier.
But as Smith reported in these pages, “neither Burr nor Warner suggested anything of the sort.” Instead, as Smith reported, Burr said that “the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it, who are your sources and subsources?” Dilanian further claimed that his sources “told NBC News the committee has corroborated parts of the dossier.”
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The day after the New York Post broke the laptop story, Dilanian swooped in with an “exclusive” spreading speculation that the laptop was “linked to a foreign intelligence operation.” ...
A National Guardsman suffered a non-lethal gunshot injury while attempting to break up a fight in Washington, D.C., not long before midnight on Sunday.
About seven or eight military personnel were attempting to break up the late-night fight at Capitol Hill, but only one of them received a serious injury. A criminal shot the guardsman instead of dropping his gun as ordered.
Jeffrey Carroll, the D.C. Metropolitan Police interim police chief, confirmed the details about the non-deadly shooting for members of the press. “The National Guard members told the individual to drop the firearm. He discharged a round at the National Guard members who returned fire at that suspect,” Carroll confirmed.
Less than a year ago, an Afghan terrorist shot two National Guardsmen in our nation’s capital. Rahmanullah Lakanwal killed Sarah Beckstrom and seriously injured Andrew Wolfe just before Thanksgiving 2025. Thankfully, Carroll’s comments indicate that the Guardsman injured in this latest shooting received a wound to the leg and will recover from it, as the New York Post reported.
These days, it's hard to tell which totalitarian regime had the more intrusive rules, but you do have to give it to the East Germans — the Stasi were a far more intimidating and professional secret police, while in the United Kingdom the authorities still send rather average Bobbies to try their intimidation tactics.QuoteA mother was referred to Prevent and visited by police at home because of her visit to Israel and her interest in“Jewish issues”.
In yet another shocking case, Holly Passmore, a mother of two from County Durham, was visited at home last July by two plain-clothes police officers who wanted to know why she had recently travelled to Israel.
The officers told Ms Passmore, who cares for her severely autistic nine-year-old son, that it was a “safeguarding issue”.
A police intelligence report seen by The Telegraph reveals that the referral said she “over-identified with the conflict between Israel and Palestine” and was “supportive of Israel to the point that she has travelled to Israel”. It also described her as having “MH” — meaning mental health — issues and being “vulnerable to negative influence”.
Three days after the visit, Ms Passmore lodged a complaint. Two more officers, including a superintendent, then came to her home.
“They said that, clearly, I’m not a terrorist,” she recalled, explaining that they were keen to reassure her that police did not consider her a threat or an extremist.
From a group of people who don't even attempt to follow the bible they sure do like to throw it in our faces a lot. I have never quoted bible verses to anyone unless I was certain the discussion was about God in the first place and no to hurt anyone.
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As condolences pour in, a Canadian notices Trump is silent.
I’m just going to say the quiet part out loud.
Canada has just experienced one of the worst peacetime tragedies involving its armed forces on Canadian soil. The scale of the devastation was so immense that emergency department physician Dr. Warren Thirsk of Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital described it as a disaster of the kind seen only once every 15 to 25 years. The influx of severely injured service members overwhelmed rural facilities and placed enormous strain on major metropolitan trauma centres.
And yet, not one word from the President of the United States.
Not one word of sympathy. Not one expression of condolence. Not even the basic courtesy of acknowledging the suffering of a neighbouring nation.
But there was time to endorse Netanyahu. There was time to rant about France burning. There was time for political posturing and public commentary on events elsewhere in the world.
But when Canada suffered a devastating tragedy? Silence.
Canada and the United States share a border, a history, deep economic ties, and a relationship that stretches back more than 200 years. We have stood alongside one another through wars, crises, and generations of uncertainty. Whatever our political differences, surely the loss and suffering of our people deserve at least a moment of recognition from the leader of our closest neighbour.
This isn’t about political allegiance. It isn’t about left versus right. It’s about basic human decency, respect, and the bare minimum of leadership.
A simple message of condolence costs nothing. It takes seconds to acknowledge another country’s suffering. Yet even that seemed too much to ask.
I know I shouldn’t let this bother me as much as it does. But it does. And I’m furious.
Because when a country is grieving, silence from a neighbour isn’t just silence. It says something about priorities. It says something about respect. And it raises a very uncomfortable question:
If The White House cannot find a single word of compassion for Canada in a moment like this, what exactly are we supposed to believe our relationship is worth?
💭 What is a 200-year friendship worth without basic decency?
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Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who served under John Brennan, to show her true colors.
The Michigan senator told students at the University of Chicago last week how she plans to use the power that will come to Democrats if they win Senate control in the midterms next month.
She wants to unleash a barrage of political investigations on Trump officials in order to frighten young people away from taking jobs in the administration. “The people around Donald Trump . . . have no immunity the way the president does . . . So you go after the people who do his bidding,” she told the audience during a live podcast recording Tuesday.
“I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him,” she continued.
“I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.’
“I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’
“I want that deterrence message.”
