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 Trending Politics: A new batch of declassified documents reveals that President Joe Biden allegedly quashed an investigation into his family’s international business dealings right as opponents in Congress sought to expose them. CIA Director John Ratcliffe ordered the release of a report detailing how Ukrainian officials grew increasingly concerned over the Biden family’s business dealings in their country. In it, Biden, then the vice president, told CIA officials in 2015 he would “strongly prefer” that a summary of his family’s “corrupt” business dealings “not be disseminated” — a request that the Obama-era CIA honored at the time. In a statement, Ratcliffe cited the report as another example of the “politicization of intelligence” under the Obama administration. The discovery of the documents was made during a routine review of the agency’s historical files. Fox News reviewed the papers, which stated that Biden “expressed a preference to not share the report.” An email dated Feb...

Trending Politics:  JUST IN: Declassified Docs Reveal CIA Covered Up Biden Family’s ‘Corrupt’ Foreign Dealings At Joe’s Request A new batch of declassified documents reveals that President Joe Biden allegedly quashed an investigation into his family’s international business dealings right as opponents in Congress sought to expose them. CIA Director John Ratcliffe ordered the release of a report detailing how Ukrainian officials grew increasingly concerned over the Biden family’s business dealings in their country. In it, Biden, then the vice president, told CIA officials in 2015 he would “strongly prefer” that a summary of his family’s “corrupt” business dealings “not be disseminated” — a request that the Obama-era CIA honored at the time. In a statement, Ratcliffe cited the report as another example of the “politicization of intelligence” under the Obama administration. ... I don't believe the statute of limitations has run on what looks like illicit business practices.

  Newsmax: Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., told Newsmax on Tuesday that former members of the Biden administration should face criminal consequences following reports that Republican senators were surveilled by U.S. intelligence agencies. Tuberville's comments came after Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asserted Monday that the Biden administration's FBI targeted eight Republican senators as part of an election-related investigation, calling it "worse than Watergate." On "The Chris Salcedo Show," Tuberville said the allegations revealed "a government rotten to the core" and called for accountability. "Somebody needs to go to jail, somebody needs to be indicted," Tuberville said. "We've got to do something up here. You know this place, Chris, is rotten to the core. It is running on borrowed time." Tuberville said he was stunned to learn that American intelligence agencies might have targeted lawmakers. "When they start spy...

 Trending Politics: A newly released FBI document has ignited a political firestorm on Capitol Hill, with top Republicans accusing the Biden administration of weaponizing federal law enforcement against its political opponents. According to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the document shows that the FBI secretly conducted toll-record analysis on eight Republican senators as part of its controversial “Arctic Frost” investigation — a probe that later became Special Counsel Jack Smith’s “elector” case against then former President Donald Trump. Grassley published the document Monday morning, calling it proof that the FBI “spied” on sitting senators without proper justification. The one-page memo, dated September 27, 2023, is marked “UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO” and titled “CAST Assistance.” It reveals that the Washington Field Office authorized preliminary toll analysis — a review of call and text records — on limited phone numbers tied to several high-profile lawmakers. The memo lists Senators...

 Blaze: The Department of Homeland Security announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put a detainer on an illegal alien who is being charged with strangling his baby sister with a charging cord in Northern Virginia. The DHS explained that Alvaro Mejia-Ayala entered the U.S. as part of a family unit in 2016 and was released into the country by the Obama administration. On October 17, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration dismissed his immigration case, effectively allowing him to indefinitely remain in the U.S. illegally. Mejia-Ayala was previously arrested by local police for reckless driving in 2024, but he was released before ICE could lodge a detainer on him. "What kind of sick monster strangles a defenseless, innocent baby girl with a charging cord? This barbarism has no place in the U.S.," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement given to Blaze News. "ICE lodged an immigration detainer to ensure this heinous criminal is not released on...

 Federalist  Wire: ... In the shadowy corridors of the Biden White House, a former insider has blown the lid off a toxic environment dominated by ruthless cliques and backstabbing enforcers. Michael LaRosa, who once served as Jill Biden’s spokesman, unleashed a fiery takedown in a Fox News op-ed, painting a picture of a “cult” where loyalty was enforced with an iron fist and bullies ran the show unchecked. LaRosa didn’t hold back, calling out the “Biden Bubble” as a breeding ground for intimidation tactics that kept everyone in line. He pointed to Vice President Kamala Harris’s upcoming book as the spark that finally ignited public scrutiny of this mess. “Harris’s forthcoming book, according to recently released excerpts, says what insiders whispered for years: the Biden bubble was full of bullies,” LaRosa stated. He also said that Harris was “finally saying the quiet part out loud.” Drawing a sharp pop culture parallel, LaRosa likened the inner circle to high school tyrants. ...

  Federalist Wire: ... Explosive new FBI documents, unleashed by Sen. Chuck Grassley on Tuesday, are shining a harsh light on fresh bribery claims tied to Joe Biden and his son Hunter, pointing to scandals that might have been swept under the rug by federal investigators. These files capture two key interviews from 2017 and 2019, where FBI informants spilled the beans on the Biden clan’s alleged connections to a shady foreign bribery plot involving Mykola Zlochevsky, the big shot behind Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings energy firm, as detailed in copies examined by the New York Post. Informants claimed Zlochevsky was ready to dangle $100 million in “shares and guaranteed profits from gas sales” to then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, all to k*ll off an “Interpol investigation” into Burisma—where Joe and Hunter supposedly had cash parked through a Latvian “shell company.” They also accused Joe Biden of personally stepping in to chat with Poroshenko “to protect the interests” of Hunt...

DC DailyJournal: President Trump didn’t hold back, blasting the Biden administration for turning the Justice Department into a political weapon aimed at crushing conservative voices like Charlie Kirk and his powerhouse organization, Turning Point USA. In a post on Truth Social post late Tuesday, the president called out the “deranged” Special Counsel Jack Smith—who led two bogus prosecutions against him before quitting in January—and slammed the “corrupt and incompetent Biden administration” for their desperate bid to shut down the nonprofit that’s been a thorn in the side of the radical left. “They tried to force Charlie, and many other people and movements, out of business,” Trump said in his Truth Social post. “They Weaponized the Justice Department against Sleepy Joe Biden’s Political Opponents, including ME!” This outburst came hot on the heels of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley dropping bombshell files that exposed the FBI’s witch hunt against dozens of Republ...

Newsmax: President Donald Trump late Tuesday night accused former President Joe Biden's administration of having tried to force conservative leader Charlie Kirk and his organization, Turning Point USA, "out of business" through a wide-ranging election probe led by special counsel Jack Smith. His comments on Truth Social came after Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed earlier in the day that Kirk's organization had been one of the Republican-linked groups targeted by Arctic Frost, the FBI's investigation that began with Smith's electors charge against Trump. "Why was the wonderful Turning Point under INVESTIGATION by 'Deranged' Jack Smith and the Corrupt & Incompetent Biden Administration?" Trump posted on his Truth Social page. "They tried to force Charlie, and many other people and movements, out of business. They Weaponized the Justice Department against Sleepy Joe Biden's Political Opponents, inc...

 Daily Signal: ... From March 2024 to March 2025—a period mostly covering the final year of the Biden administration —BLS overestimated job numbers by 911,000. In other words, for that period, the nation added a stunning 911,000 fewer jobs than were originally reported, the largest such error on record. Let that sink in. But it’s a lot worse than that. Over the last three years, the BLS has overcounted nearly 3 million jobs that didn’t exist. These aren’t random errors when every revision skews in the same direction . Even more troubling, the BLS numbers released last week pointed in opposite directions. One survey showed 22,000 jobs created while the other suggested nearly 300,000. Which is it? By relying on faulty data and skewed reporting methods, BLS essentially invented millions of jobs that weren’t there. That flawed data was then used by the Biden administration and the legacy media to promote a job market that didn’t exist, instead of reporting the weak jobs’ recovery. ...

 Victor Davis Hanson: Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises. Yet they are all self-inflicted — and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides. These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage. Indeed, they are destroying the very civilization that was soon envisioned to be heaven on earth. The global-warming hysterics could not just entertain gradual transformations away from dependencies on traditional fuels and power generation. Instead, elites have demanded catastrophic and near-instant “net zero” mandates. That radicalism entailed transitioning to unreliable and costly solar and wind energy. Fuel and electricity prices then soared. The green socialist elite cared little that shutdowns of nuclear, coal, natural gas and oil power generation would cripple industry, reduce living standards and impoverish Europe. Germany, once the economic powerhouse of Europe, became a shell of its former self. The same efforts accelerated in the O...

 Real Clear Politics: Tuesday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped a bombshell that should terrify economists and workers alike: They hallucinated nearly one million jobs that never actually existed between March 2024 and March this year. While some revisions are normal, this is a record-setting high in either direction. For the last eighteen months, we’ve been making policy decisions based on phantom positions that existed only in government spreadsheets. Revisions to estimated job creation statistics are standard procedure – the BLS always adjusts preliminary estimates when more complete data arrives. But the scale of what’s been happening lately is unprecedented: May’s numbers were slashed by 125,000 and June’s by 133,000, a combined quarter of a million phantom jobs on top of yesterday’s numbers, that simply never existed. Any doubt that the Federal Reserve will begin cutting interest rates has all but vanished in light of these revisions. This is their go-to play...

 DC Daily Journal: ... The American people have been fed a lie about Joe Biden’s economy, and the truth is finally breaking through. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, revealing that the U.S. economy added 911,000 fewer jobs from April 2024 to March 2025 than previously claimed. This isn’t just a minor tweak—it’s the largest downward revision in BLS history, exposing the hollow promises of Biden’s alleged economic recovery. The Trump administration is rightfully sounding the alarm, calling for a complete overhaul of the broken system that propped up these false numbers. “Today, the BLS released the largest downward revision on record proving that President Trump was right: Biden’s economy was a disaster and the BLS is broken,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared. Her words cut through the fog of Washington’s spin, laying bare the reality that the Biden administration’s job numbers were a mirage, designed to mislead hardworking Ame...

 Red State: ... In a statement on Tuesday from the White House, it said that, "The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just revised down their jobs numbers from April 2024 to March 2025 by 911,000 jobs — the biggest revision on record and another blunder in the lengthy history of inaccuracies and incompetence at BLS." ... ... The Biden administration is looking more inept as the Trump administration digs into the numbers. It appears that they may have been fabricating the numbers for political purposes.

 Federalist Wire: ... Newly uncovered documents expose President Joe Biden’s detachment from critical clemency decisions, with aides scrambling to create a paper trail suggesting his involvement in thousands of pardons and commutations signed by autopen in his final days. National Archives records reveal internal memos showing Biden’s team worked to portray him as the decision-maker, despite evidence he was largely uninvolved. House Oversight Committee aides highlighted on social media, “Internal emails reveal Biden didn’t review thousands of pardons granted in his final days and even his own White House lawyers were scrambling for proof he approved them.” This raises serious questions about the legitimacy of the process, particularly as Biden’s autopen signed off on clemency for felons, including violent offenders, without his direct oversight. Biden’s administration issued over 4,200 pardons—more than any other president—using three autopen-signed warrants, including pre-emptive ...

 Just the News: The same intelligence community watchdog who aggressively pursued a dubious complaint that triggered the Ukraine impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump repeatedly ignored a whistleblower’s evidence of the intelligence community's abuse of authority in the Russiagate scandal for years, according to newly declassified memos, obtained by Just the News. In fact, the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s office even told the Russiagate whistleblower it believed there may be merit to his claims but couldn’t figure out how to alert federal prosecutors to his evidence of possible criminality, the memos show. “At that 2022 meeting, the IC IG staff stated to me –for the first time - that the IC IG lacked a mechanism or authority to convey potentially relevant whistleblower information, regarding potential criminal activity, to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel,” reads a memo summarizing the whistleblower’s years-long quest to bring the alleged w...

Blaze:   Border czar: Trump built the most secure border in American history  The president’s enforcement cut illegal crossings by 96% and rescued children from trafficking, while Biden’s reversal brought record deaths and lawless chaos. ...  As of today, we have the most secure border in the nation's history. I don’t take credit for that. The credit goes to President Trump for signing the executive orders that ended catch-and-release, reinstated Remain in Mexico, and put into place the agreements and policies that worked. And the greatest credit belongs to the men and women of the United States Border Patrol, the finest I’ve ever met. ... Trump demonstrated that the border can be secured, while Biden's policy was a disaster for the country and the migrants.  The Democrats are going to have to change their tune about the border if they ever hope to regain power.  I grew up on the border well before the Biden regime, and Trump is returning the area to control of ...

 DC Daily Journal: ... A shocking video from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, revealed former President Joe Biden’s fragile state, with a deep, red gash across his forehead as he exited a church. The 82-year-old’s wound, barely hidden by his thinning white hair, exposed the truth his inner circle worked tirelessly to conceal: Biden’s physical and mental decline. “I was a little surprised cause it’s a noticeable scar,” said Fred Karger, who filmed the footage and shared it on X on September 2, speaking to Inside Edition . This raw image of a frail Biden shatters the false narrative of vitality pushed by his team, proving what President Trump and his supporters have long claimed: the Left orchestrated a deliberate cover-up to hide Biden’s unfitness for leadership. The gash, fresh and prominent, ties to Biden’s recent Mohs surgery for skin cancer, as confirmed by his representative to The Post on September 4, 2025. “It looks fresh, a little hair combed over the scar. It looks to me like som...

 NY Post: One of the bitter fruits of President Joe Biden’s single term in office is this: An administration obsessed with policies designed to reduce income inequality actually widened the gap between rich and poor. That’s the conclusion from Unleash Prosperity’s advance analysis of Census Bureau data on household incomes through the end of 2024. These Census Bureau income numbers include business income, investment income, dividends, wages, salaries and most cash government welfare benefits, including Social Security. ... We found that median real household income rose by more than $6,400 under Trump, roughly 11 times the small $550 gain under Biden. ... One of the things I remember the most from the Biden administration is how their reckless spending caused inflation, driving up the cost of everything from gas to groceries, as well as other goods such as clothing. 

 DC Daily Journal: ... President Donald Trump kicked off Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting with a powerful focus on the economic wins fueling a historic surge for American workers. He announced that the average worker has seen a $500 wage increase in 2025, with blue-collar wages rising at their fastest pace in 60 years—a milestone that signals robust growth for the backbone of America’s economy. “The wages for blue-collar workers are now rising at the fastest rate in 60 years, which is so important to all of us around this table. The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year,” Trump stated. This wage growth isn’t just a number—it’s outpacing inflation, giving workers more bang for their buck as their incomes climb faster than the cost of everyday goods. Trump tied this economic stability to America’s booming energy sector, giving a nod to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright for their standout efforts. “There’s no inflation because ...