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Trump Announces EU Trade Deal

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration reached a trade deal with the European Union Sunday after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Trump in Scotland, Reuters reported.

WATCH: Trump says U.S.-EU trade deal is one of the ‘biggest ever’ as tariffs drop

The deal would see the E.U. shoulder a 15% tariff on E.U. imports to the U.S. and on large-scale purchases of American energy and military equipment, according to the outlet. Trump on July 11 had written to von der Leyen that the U.S. would levy a 30% tariff on E.U. imports, decrying “long-term, persistent, and large” trade deficits.

The two leaders met in Turnberry, Scotland, according to a White House video of the two at a press conference there.

The E.U. would not impose tariffs on U.S. goods entering the supranational entity’s market, under the terms of the new deal, Trump said, according to NBC News.

Asked by a reporter if he could offer the E.U. lower than 15%, Trump said no. Europe had hoped for a deal without any tariffs imposed by both sides but European companies would still likely welcome the deal, according to Reuters.

Trump said the U.S. has had a great relationship with the E.U. “but it has been a very one-sided transaction, very unfair to the United States.”

The U.S. and the E.U. are the two largest global economies with a trade volume of $1.7 trillion between both economies and a combined market of 800 million people, von der Leyen told reporters. She expressed optimism that the new trade deal, if successful, would be the biggest deal each entity has ever made.

Trump went into the meeting only half-certain about making the deal and that there were three or four issues to address, according to the livestream. “I think the main sticking point is fairness,” he said.

The deal would be about rebalancing, von der Leyen said. “We have a surplus, the United States has a deficit, and we have to rebalance it,” she added.

The U.S. trade deficit with the E.U. stood at nearly $236 billion in 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It stood at just over $137.3 billion between January and May 2025 — up from $92,482.7 within the same period in 2024, according to the data.

The E.U. market is closed to American cars while the U.S. imports millions of cars from the E.U., according to Trump. While the U.S. imported 749,170 cars from the E.U. in 2024, the E.U. imported 164,857 cars from the U.S., according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association.

Trump praised von der Leyen for having “done a terrific job for them [the E.U.] — not for us — but she’s done a great job and she’s highly respected by us also.”

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John Oyewale

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The Spiritual Leader Of The Syrian Druze, Hikmat Al-Hijri, Calls On Trump, Netanyahu, Bin Salman And Abdullah II To Save The Druze Of The Al-Suwayda Governorate From The Syrian Government

Syria | Special Dispatch No. 12080

On July 13, 2025, clashes broke out in Al-Suwayda Governorate in southern Syria between Druze factions and Bedouin tribes following several mutual kidnapping incidents. The new Syrian government headed by Ahmed Al-Sharaa (aka Abu Mohammad Al-Joulani) quickly seized this escalation as an opportunity to intervene militarily in the governorate, which is not under its full security control, and sent troops to “enforce security” there.

In light of damage caused to its image by the massacres perpetrated against Alawite civilians on the Syrian coast in March 2025, with the participation of government forces,[1] the government stressed that the Syrian soldiers and security officers had been instructed to protect civilians and avoid harming them in any way.[2] But in practice, there were many documented incidents of Syrian forces firing indiscriminately at civilians, looting their property, torching their homes and humiliating them.[3] Dozens of Druze have been killed so far, including women and children.[4]

These developments prompted Hikmat Al-Hijri, the prominent spiritual leader of the Druze community in Syria, who is based in Al-Suwayda and is a known opponent of the Al-Sharaa government, to issue a statement on June 16 calling on world leaders – including U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu[5] – to “save Al-Suwayda.”

It should be noted that, in a statement he issued one day earlier, Al-Hijri actually called on the Syrian government to extend its control over the Al-Suwayda Governorate, welcomed the arrival of its forces there, and exhorted all the local armed factions to cooperate with these forces.[6] However, a short time later, when the government forces’ violence against the Druze civilians continued, he released a statement claiming that his previous “humiliating” statement had been issued “under coercion from Damascus and pressure from foreign countries.” He added that Al-Suwayda was facing a war and called to confront it.[7]

It should also be noted that this is not the first time the Syrian Druze have been attacked by the forces of the new government. In late April, following extreme incitement, armed action was perpetrated against them in the Damascus area and in southern Syria.[8]

The bodies of members of the Radwan family in the city of Al-Suwayda, 13 of whom were killed in their home by Syrian security forces (Source: T.me/nahermedia/49455, July 15, 2025)

The following is a translation of Al-Hijri’s July 16, 2025 statement:

“The Spiritual Leadership of the Monotheistic Muslims,[9] the Druze

“We call upon the free world and all the forces operating within it, upon [U.S.] President Donald Trump, [Israeli] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, [Saudi] Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman and His Royal Highness the [Jordanian] King Abdullah II, and upon anyone who has a voice and influence in the world, to save the Suwayda [Governorate].

“Our people are being exterminated and murdered in cold blood. The murderers do not distinguish between young and old, woman and child, doctor and sheikh. They destroy churches and houses of worship. These massacres are being perpetrated in front of the entire world, and silence continues to kill. We hold the international community fully responsible for fulfilling its humanitarian and moral duty of stopping this systematic [killing].

“The mask has fallen from the face of the oppressive and tyrannical gang that rules [Syria]. We call upon our Sunni brethren to take a clear stand on what is happening to their fellow Syrians, for we have never been enemies or rivals and we can no longer coexist with a regime that can only rule with iron and fire and [wield] power through violence and abuse.

“Our call to you is not political, but humanitarian and moral. [Act] before it is too late. Save a people that is being murdered simply for asking to live in dignity.”[10]

SOURCES:

[1] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11872 – Syrian Journalists Warned Before HTS’ Massacres Against The Alawites: The New Regime Is Allowing Acts Of Vengeance Against Them; International Intervention Is A Necessity, March 11, 2025.

[2] T.me/sana_gov/133658, July 15, 2025; X.com/Murhaf_abuqasra, July 14, 2025.

[3] Facebook.com/Suwayda24, July 15, 2025.

[4] Syriahr.com, July 16, 2025.

[5] After the advent of the Al-Sharaa government, Israel declared that it would protect the Syrian Druze from any abuse by his forces. On several occasions it indeed attacked Syrian forces who were acting against the Druze, including in the present round of clashes.

[6] Facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089249525829, July 15, 2025.

[7] Facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089249525829, July 15, 2025.

[8] Facebook.com/Syriatvnews, April 30, 2025; T.me/news7al/39449, May 12, 2025.

[9] “Monotheistic Muslims” is a term the Druze apply to themselves.

[10] Facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089249525829, July 16, 2025.

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VIDEO: The Shadow War: Netanyahu and Trump vs. the Deep State

While the world watches the Trump-Netanyahu meetings in D.C., assuming they are focused mostly on Gaza, an underlying war for Israel’s future is unfolding behind closed doors, and it’s not just about Hamas or Iran. In a quiet but decisive alliance, Netanyahu and Trump are taking on the unelected deep states in both Jerusalem and Washington that have worked to sabotage their governments, paralyze military action, and undermine democratic control.

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Report: Trump, Netanyahu Prepare Comprehensive Middle East Peace Plan

A new Middle East.

The disgraceful and incompetent Biden Administration abandoned the historic Abraham Accords because of their intense hatred of President Trump and PM Netanyahu. Instead, they shamelessly appeased Iran and the Palestinian Authority. With President Trump and PM Netanyahu leading the destruction of much of Iran’s military capability and nuclear program, the Abraham Accords will soon expand to include Saudi Arabia and other Arab states.

The prospects for a re-shaped political, economic and cultural region are more plausible now than—perhaps—any time since the Iranian revolution of 1979. Seth Mandel: On CNBC on Wednesday, Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration’s globetrotting envoy, teased new additions to the accords: “we think we’re going to have some pretty big announcements on countries that are now coming into the Abraham Peace Accords. And we’re hoping for normalization across an array of countries that maybe people would have never contemplated, would come in. So we’re excited. We’re excited for that prospect that will also be a stabilizer in the Middle East” …. This is yet another boon of President Trump’s decision to bomb Iranian nuclear sites. He has followed through on his promises in the Middle East, giving him credibility and a certain amount of leverage in the region. He has won the favor of Riyadh and, for the moment, knocked Tehran out of the ring. So there is no way around the U.S. (and therefore Israel) if you’re looking for alliances in the Middle East. And wouldn’t you know it, Abbas has now reached out to Trump so he doesn’t get left behind. The Abraham Accords may have begun as a limited diplomatic framework. But in the years that have followed, they have continually defied those limits. They might one day soon become simply the status quo (Commentary).

Max Abrahams: Syria joining the Abraham Accords would arguably be more momentous than Saudi Arabia which is a longtime adversary of Iran, hasn’t been a top Israel adversary in war at the level of Syria or as complicit in sponsoring terrorism against Israel (Abrahams).

Report: Trump, Netanyahu Prepare Comprehensive Middle East Peace Plan

By Breitbart News, June 26th, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are putting together a comprehensive Middle East peace plan, beginning with an end to the war in Gaza within two weeks.

According to a report in Israel Hayom, a publication that is considered supportive of Netanyahu, the following elements would be included in the plan:

  1. Gaza hostilities will conclude within two weeks, ending conditions will encompass four Arab nations (including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates) to administer the Gaza Strip, replacing the murderous Hamas terrorist organization. The remaining Hamas leadership will face exile to other countries, while the hostages gain freedom.
  2. Multiple nations globally will accept numerous Gaza inhabitants seeking emigration.
  3. Abraham Accords expansion will bring Syria, Saudi Arabia, and additional Arab and Muslim countries to recognize Israel and establish official relationships.
  4. Israel will declare its willingness for future Palestinian conflict resolution under the “two states” concept, contingent upon the Palestinian Authority reforms.
  5. The United States will acknowledge limited Israeli sovereignty implementation in Judea and Samaria.

While the elements of the plan had reportedly been discussed before the 12 Day War between Israel and Iran, the success of that war and the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites cleared the path for the deal. Iran has been a major threat to Israel and Arab states alike.

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‘Two Very Simple Words’: Trump Makes His Stance On Iran Unequivocally Clear

President Donald Trump clarified his demands for the end of the conflict between Israel and Iran.

“Two very simple words, unconditional surrender,” Trump told Jennifer Griffin of Fox News on Wednesday.

“I’ve had it, I give up,” Trump added, referring to Iran. “You know, the three for 40 years they’ve been saying death to America, death to Israel, that to anybody else that they didn’t like. They were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies.”

Trump clarified that “war is very complex” and that “I wouldn’t say that we won anything yet,” but that they “sure as hell made a lot of progress.”

Trump posted Tuesday on Truth Social, calling for “unconditional surrender.”

“We’re not looking for long-term war,” Trump addressed his base on Wednesday at the installation of the White House’s new flag pole. “I only want one thing: Iran can not have a nuclear weapon.”

Trump warned that Iran’s access to a nuclear weapon could result in them using it on the U.S. and other nations, adding that they “would be a terror all over the world.”

“All I’m doing is saying you cannot have a nuclear weapon, and I tried to do it nicely, and then on day 61, I said, ‘Let’s go’ because we can’t let that happen. And I’ve been saying it for 20 years,” Trump concluded.

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James Comey Deletes ‘8647’ Post After Online Backlash Sparks Calls For Investigation

Former FBI Director James Comey deleted a post depicting ‘8647’ from his Instagram on Thursday after sparking online outrage from Republicans and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, who opened an investigation.

In a now-deleted post to Instagram, Comey uploaded a picture of shells that depicted four numbers, ‘8647,’ saying he found the ‘cool shell formation’ during his walk on the beach. Republicans swiftly called out the former FBI director, saying the message was a threat to President Donald Trump as the term ’86’ is commonly used to “get rid of” or “throw out.”

With backlash piling on from figures like Trump’s senior advisor Dan Scavino Jr. and Donald Trump Jr., Comey deleted his original post and added a new one saying he didn’t “realize” the association of the numbers.

“I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence of any kind so I took the post down,” Comey wrote.

WATCH: Former FBI director James Comey under investigation for Trump post

Prior to the takedown of his post, Trump Jr. took to X saying Comey is “causally calling for my dad to be murdered.”

“This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!!”

Scavino Jr., in another post on X, called the former FBI director a “POS,” alleging he “knows exactly what he’s doing.”

“Comey truly is a POS. While he’ll claim not to know what 8647 means, there’s no doubt that the former disgraced FBI Dir. knows exactly what he’s doing, with a plea to bad actors/terrorists to assassinate the POTUS’ while traveling internationally,” Scavino Jr. wrote. “Don’t let him get away with it!!”

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said on X that Comey is making “cringe posts,” adding that the country should be “grateful” he was removed from the law enforcement agency.

“James Comey held himself up as a bastion of fairness and moral rectitude,” Kirk wrote. “Now, he makes cringe posts like a childless 50-year-old liberal woman on Facebook. The entire country should be grateful Trump put this weirdo out to pasture.”

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also spoke out, asking how “many times” Democrats are “going to try to assassinate President Trump”?

Noem in response said Comey “called for the assassination” of the 47th president, adding that both DHS and the Secret Service will investigate the “threat and will respond appropriately.”

FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that the agency is aware of the post, adding they are in “communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran.”

“Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support,” Patel wrote.

Trump has yet to publicly respond to Comey’s post. The president left the United States and this week is conducting discussions in Saudi Arabia. During Trump’s 2024 campaign, he faced two assassination attempts, with the first leaving him injured by a bullet and one rally attendee killed.

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Ed Dept Opens Probe Into University Of California, Berkeley Over ‘Deep Involvements With Chinese Entities’

The Department of Education (ED) opened an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Friday over its reported ties to Chinese sources, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

ED claims the university has failed to report “hundreds of millions of dollars” it received from foreign government over a span of several years, prompting the department to initiate a records request, the DCNF was told. The foreign funding sparks concerns the school has “deep involvements with Chinese entities” and may be sharing information about research and “important technologies.”

The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2023 found “grave research security concerns” with UC Berkeley due to the school’s partnership with the CCP-controlled Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen government.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order requiring American universities to be more transparent about any foreign donations they accept. The order calls on Education Secretary Linda McMahon to seek information from universities about the source and purpose of foreign funding and make such details available to the public and also tasks the U.S. Attorney General with enforcing the disclosures and holding schools accountable.

UC Berkeley did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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Trump Blocks Social Security Benefits for Illegal Aliens

Illegals should never have been given our taxpayer funded Social Security dollars of any kind in first place, no thanks to Obama 3/Biden administration.

“Taxpayer-funded benefits should be provided only to eligible persons and must not encourage or reward illegal immigration to the United States.” – President Donald J. Trump.


Trump Blocks Social Security Benefits for Illegal Aliens

President Donald J. Trump has enacted a Presidential Memorandum to prevent illegal aliens and those deemed ineligible from accessing benefits provided through the Social Security Act. The directive involves a series of enforcement measures intended to safeguard taxpayer dollars, remove incentives for illegal immigration, and address instances of benefit fraud.

Key components of this initiative include the Social Security Administration (SAA) collaborating with at least 50 U.S. Attorney Offices to strengthen its fraud prosecutor program. Moreover, it establishes dedicated fraud prosecution initiatives for Medicare and Medicaid across 15 U.S. Attorney Offices. These steps aim to ensure benefits do not reach individuals who do not qualify.

To further combat identity fraud, the SSA Inspector General has been tasked with examining income records for people aged 100 and over with inconsistencies in their Social Security information. Additionally, the agency is exploring whether to reinstate civil monetary penalties for those committing Social Security fraud, a measure that has been dormant for several years.

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), American taxpayers incur expenses surpassing $182 billion yearly due to the presence of approximately 20 million illegal aliens and their offspring, based on both federal and state expenditures. Despite some illegal aliens contributing taxes, reports suggest they remain a net fiscal burden, estimated at roughly $150.7 billion.

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MARKET SOARS: Trump Raises Tariffs on China to 125% But Announces 90-Day Pause For Countries Who Reached Out to Negotiate

President Trump issues a 90-day pause on tariffs “and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period of 10%,” except for China. Isolating China.

Checkmate.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Do not retaliate and you will be rewarded. So every country in the world wants to come and negotiate. We are willing to hear you. We are going to go down to a 10% baseline tariff for them and China will be raised to 125% due to their insistence on escalation.

BREAKING: Trump Issues a Tariff Pause, Smacks China Again

By: Katie Pavlich, Townhall, April 09, 2025 1:33 PM

President Donald Trump issued a 90-day pause on tariffs for countries coming to the negotiation table with the United States Wednesday afternoon, sending the stock market soaring.

“Based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the USTR, to negotiate a solution to the subiects being discussed relative to Trade, Trade Barriers, Tariffs, Currency Manipulation, and Non Monetary Tariffs, and that these Countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

In addition, Trump increased tariffs on China as the Chinese Communist Party plays a game of chicken with their economy and trade negotiations with the United States.

“Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable,” Trump said.

Since announcing reciprocal tariffs from the White House Rose Garden last week, more than 75 countries have asked for negotiations on trade.

Market soars.

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No ceasefire deal comes out of Trump-Putin talks, but here’s what they did agree on

The positions of Moscow and Washington may gradually converge to the point where World War III can be avoided, but the danger is that time is not on our side. 

President Trump’s nearly three-hour phone conversation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Tuesday failed to produce a ceasefire in the Ukraine war, but it did produce some other areas of common ground.

Key areas of agreement to come out of Tuesday’s talks included a ceasefire on attacks aimed at the energy infrastructure of both Russia and Ukraine.

The White House announced in a read-out of the conversation:

“The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace. These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East.”

Here’s a list of points the two leaders discussed and saw eye-to-eye on:

  • They agreed to continue working toward a ceasefire in Ukraine.
  • The leaders agreed the movement toward peace will begin with a cessation of attacks on energy infrastructure.
  • The presidents agreed to start maritime ceasefire talks on the Black Sea, which will begin immediately in the Middle East.
  • Putin and Trump agreed that the future of improved relations between the US and Russia has huge upside.
  • The future of relations between the two countries includes “enormous economic deals” and geopolitical stability.
  • The leaders also discussed the need to stop proliferation of strategic weapons.
  • And, the two leaders shared the view that Iran should never be in a position to destroy Israel.

The neocon warmongers in Washington, London and Paris will be not be happy with the news coming out of this highly anticipated phone conversation between Trump and Putin. They wanted to hear that Trump sold out Putin and slapped him with new sanctions while issuing an angry statement afterwards that threatened perpetual U.S.-funded war in Ukraine, including the insertion of Western troops.

But nor will the antiwar factions be totally happy, either, because apparenty the fighting will continue and the U.S., at least for now, will continue to send weapons and munitions to its Ukrainian proxy.

Trump seems to be taking a middle ground that neither ends the war quickly (something that could happen in a matter of weeks if the U.S. stopped the flow of armaments to Ukriane), while avoiding any new antagonistic moves against Russia and doing his best to forge some kind of normal relations with the world’s biggest owner of nuclear weapons. This ultimately plays in Russia’s favor, because it has the superior fighting force in Ukraine, with or without U.S. weapons in the hands of its opponent. It will just take longer and cost more lives to defeat Ukraine under the current status quo.

The deputy leader of Russia’s State Duma, Alexei Zhuravlyov, told RT that the positions of Moscow and Washington may gradually converge to the point where there is “no space” for Ukraine between them.

“We will negotiate only and exclusively with the US,” he said, referring to the ongoing talks between Putin and Trump.

In other words, the whole Ukrainian military infrastructure was created by Western globalists specifically for the purpose of destroying U.S.-Russian relations, and out of the international fallout from those disintegrating relations will come World War III, depopulation and a complete global reset. The big winner if this were to play out in accordance with Western globalists’ strategic plan, would be China. If the U.S. can pry Russia away from China, something that will take patient persistence and cannot be done overnight, the globalists will lose and the world will be a safer place. The question is, can Trump pull this off before it is too late?

Time appears to be on the globalists’ side. China and Russia are not natural allies. They were driven together by years of glolbalist policies coming out of Washington, London, Paris and Berlin. Trump will not be able to drive them apart in a few weeks. So I would say the risk of World War III breaking out on Trump’s watch is still over 50 percent. But if Kamala Harris had won, the chances would have been near 100 percent.

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Trump Assassin Thomas Crooks had Encrypted Messaging Accounts in Belgium, Germany, New Zealand

Trump’s shooter Pennsylvania trained at the same gun range used by DHS agents and had an encrypted messaging account in Belgium, where NATO is headquartered. Sounds completely normal.

But no media investigation or coverage. No media on the Trump assassination attempt at all. The Trump assassination story disappeared faster than Jimmy Hoffa.

Trump shooter Thomas Crooks had encrypted messaging accounts in Belgium, Germany, New Zealand

Josh Christenson, Aug. 21, 2024:

CHICAGO — Trump rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks used encrypted messaging accounts on various platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany, according to a member of a congressional task force investigating his assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), one of 13 lawmakers tapped to serve on the House bipartisan task force, told reporters at a Wednesday press conference at the Trump Hotel Chicago that the “overseas accounts” piqued his suspicion immediately regarding the shooter’s motives.”

“Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aid need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad – where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?” asked Waltz.

“That’s a question I’ve had since day one,” the Republican panel member said, before pivoting to bash the US Secret Service and FBI for declining to release the full findings of their investigation into the July 13 shooting at a Trump rally.

Both agencies are conducting their own probes of the assassination attempt, along with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General.

Crooks, 20, opened fire onto the main stage minutes after Trump, 78, mounted it to warm up the crowd, striking the former president in the right ear, killing rallygoer Corey Comperatore, 50, and seriously wounding two others, David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 54.

New photos from local law enforcement — who confronted but did not stop the shooter in time — show Crooks sitting on a wall and looking and at his phone moments before he climbed onto the roof of the AGR International building and took aim.

Butler officers on the ground at the rally had labeled him “suspicious” well before that.

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The Left’s Apparent Coup d’état against Trump, Version 2.0

Assassination attempt against DJT, the GOP candidate and likely next president of the United States.


Much to the Left’s chagrin, Donald Trump appears to be unstoppable.

The Dems and their allies have tried everything—impeachments, a stolen election, the Mar-a-lago raid, multiple bogus “lawfare” cases—to keep him out of the White House. Why wouldn’t they go for broke and try to kill him, as he’s clearly poised to become the 47th President of the United States?

Apparently, they did.

If so, this was their second coup d’état against him—this one coming in anticipation of his winning the 2024 election. The first was the stolen election as a result of the Color Revolution in 2020, leading up to the faux “insurrection” on January 6th that provided cover for the real insurrection: the overthrow of our government and our legitimately elected President.

As new facts emerge about the assassination attempt on Trump, the picture appears to go far beyond “mere incompetence.”

For example, we learned this from Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, a very caring person adamant about protecting…her staff:

That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.

Placing Madame DEI Cheatle as Director of the Secret Service was tantamount to putting Inspector Clouseau—one of actor Peter Sellers great comedic triumphs—in charge of the operation. After all, Clouseau could be counted on to put the Marx brothers in key positions as counter-snipers, so instead of Cheatle’s agents guarding the rooftop from would-be assassins, they sat inside the adjacent building like fireman drinking coffee and playing cards in the fire station, while the assassin clambered up to the roof, his backpack full of ammo and a rangefinder, and his AK-15 in tow, in full view of many bystanders who kept unsuccessfully trying to alert law enforcement.

Then for the local police, we have the Keystone Cops or Three Stooges, one of whom hoists his buddy up to the roof to check things out. He takes a peek, and upon seeing the assassin—who of course points his rifle at him—he panics and promptly falls to the ground. Does he, or do Moe or Curly immediately contact Clouseau and tell him to get Trump off the stage and to safety? Not a chance. That is, either the Stooges hopelessly bungled their chance to save the day, or they did contact the Secret Service D-Team, who then fumbled the ball themselves.

This grossly unfunny comedy of errors nearly resulted in the death of former President Donald Trump.

ENTER THE PATSY

Many believe God Himself protected Trump, causing him to move his head a few millimeters out of harm’s way. Dan Bongino says Trump saved his own life. Either way, the D-team put Trump in the crosshairs and kept him there for the potential kill shot.

But even with Clouseau at the helm and the total absence of real security in the environs, nothing would have happened without one more essential ingredient: a shooter.

It’s not as if dozens of would-be assassins were waiting in the wings for such a golden opportunity. In fact, no one could have known in advance that Trump would be a sitting target from a nearby unsecured rooftop. No one, that is, who hadn’t participated in the planning and orchestration of  the assassination plot.

So how did Thomas Crooks, an unprepossessing skinny kid barely out of his teens, know that he’d have an easy time getting past all the layers of security at this particular Trump rally with its crowd of some 50,000 people?

How did he know that particular rooftop would be unsecured? How did he know he could cart a rifle across an open field—while riding his bicycle no less, that he’d conveniently stashed in his van—and lurk suspiciously by the side of the AGR building before eventually climbing onto the roof, and that no law enforcement officer would holler, “Hey son, what are doing there? Trying to climb onto that roof? Hand over that gun!” and detain or arrest him on the spot?

How did he know he could carry his AK-15 in broad daylight and position himself on the roof to take a kill shot aimed at Trump’s head with no interference?

He couldn’t know. And it’s likely he wouldn’t have dared to try unless…someone had recruited him. Someone who may have told him this would be a perfect opportunity for him to make his mark on the world, or to save “our democracy,” or some equally duplicitous lure.

Someone likely set him up. Could that someone hail from deep in the bowels of the Biden administration? As Chuck Schumer once famously said regarding Trump: “Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”

Saturday, July 13th was arguably “way number six.”

We’ve also learned that a counter-sniper actually spotted Crooks and labeled him “suspicious” twice — the second time, he was on the rooftop!

That counter-sniper took a photo and sent it to the command center at 5:45pm, 26 minutes before Crooks fired on Trump! So now we have the smoking conspiratorial gun before the smoking AK-15.

Only this FUBAR mess-up was far from Clouseau-style good-natured bumbling—it was apparently a treasonous plot for a coup-d’état in advance of the upcoming election Donald Trump is on track to win.

As FDR once said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

And to add insult to injury, shameful DEI Kim Cheatle predictably stonewalled Congress when called to account, reminiscent of Harvard’s DEI former president. These “equity” mediocrities apparently lack the brains to understand they’ve brought disgrace upon the institutions that hired them, as well as the integrity to step down before they’re asked to do so.

Kimberly did finally did resign—only when pushed hard— after what The Hill called her “disastrous appearance before Congress,” only to leave us with another stonewaller, Acting Director Ronald Rowe.  At least we did get the satisfaction of watching several Senators rake him over the coals. Now we need to see all those responsible fired and/or prosecuted for malfeasance, or worse.

O’BIDEN INVOLVEMENT?

As for possible advance planning, consider this:

President Biden siphoned off A-team Secret Service members to provide protection for his wife Jill, who just happened to be “campaigning” for him in Pittsburgh that very day, which led to the brilliant decision to leave Trump with the D-team (as in DEI) leftovers.

According to whistleblowers who later contacted Senator Josh Hawley, many were not even Secret Service but rather DHS agents who “were unfamiliar with the standard protocols typically used at these types of events…”.  Anyone smell a rat?

And what stunningly bad optics for Jill’s meaningless mini-event for her rapidly deteriorating husband to compete with Trump’s rally–unless the optics were about “plausible deniability” rather than campaigning. After all, Biden had to have a reason for robbing Trump of the best Secret Service detail.

Mission accomplished.

But since we know Ol’ Joe—who finally dropped out of the presidential race, no doubt over Lady MacBiden’s screaming objection—is non compos mentis, we can assume that as much as he hates Trump and the MAGA millions, he wouldn’t have been the mastermind who may have concocted such a bold and nefarious plan. That would more likely be the puppeteer manipulating the vacant Biden: Obama himself. Could he have been the key architect of the assassination attempt—the Dems’ dream come true—or at least the one to greenlight it, along with the treasonous IC’s (US Intelligence Community’s) collaboration? Cui bono? Food for thought…

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In terms of evidence of premeditation and planning, consider this: the day before the rally, July 12th, Austin Private Wealth company allegedly shorted some 15 million shares of Trump’s media stock. If true, some insiders would have made a double killing on July 13th—billions in profits had Trump died, as well as ridding themselves of the leader who stands in the way as they attempt to take down America. Now the company claims it was a mere bookkeeping error, off by a multiplier of 10,000. Nothing to see here—mistakes do happen.

And if Ryan Cole is correct, mainstream TV stations livestreamed the rally—which he calls an out-of-the-ordinary, very surprising choice—precisely to capture the assassination in real-time to shock and demoralize the MAGA millions. As Roger Stone also asked, rhetorically, when does CNN cover Trump rallies live? Never. How is it they were on hand for this one—dumb luck?

The coincidences and anomalies are rife, but history tells us the investigation is bound to be pro forma. The FBI, essentially investigating itself, will find what they’ve already told us: “The FBI is treating the incident as a lone-wolf attack and is investigating it as a possible case of domestic terrorism.” We’ve heard that song before.

Afterwards, we can expect the files to be classified for the next 50 years as per the JFK playbook—unless we successfully elect Donald Trump, who had damn well better clean out the three letter agencies this time ‘round—as if his life, and our nation’s sovereignty, depends on it!

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‘An Absolute Miracle’: Trump’s White House Doctor Releases Medical Update After Shooting

Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, Donald Trump’s White House doctor, released a medical update on the former president Saturday, one week after the former president was nearly assassinated during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Trump was grazed in the ear by a bullet just minutes into his remarks, having turned his head at a critical moment to look at a chart detailing rates of illegal immigration.

Dr. Jackson wrote that Trump is “doing well” since the shooting in a letter addressed to “concerned citizens of the United States” on X (formerly Twitter).

“I have been with President Trump since that time, and I have evaluated and treated his wound daily. He is doing well,” Jackson wrote. “As reported and witnessed by the entire world, he sustained a gunshot wound to right ear from a high-powered rifle used by the would be assassin.”

Trump still suffers “intermittent bleeding” which requires “dressing to be in place,” according to Jackson. The GOP nominee was seen wearing a white bandage over his ear since his first public appearance Monday at the Republican National Convention (RNC). Supporters of the former president have since been observed wearing similar bandages as accessories in a show of solidarity.

Jackson revealed the bullet “came less than a quarter of an inch” from entering Trump’s head, producing a “2 cm wide wound that extended down the cartilaginous surface of the ear.”

Jackson said there was “initially significant bleeding” which resulted in “marked swelling” of Trump’s “entire upper ear.”

Trump was initially treated at Butler Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania, according to the letter. Jackson said the local hospital “provided a thorough evaluation for additional injuries,” including a CT scan of the former president’s head.

Trump will undergo further medical evaluation, including “a comprehensive hearing exam, as needed.” He will also have a follow-up visit “with his primary care physician as directed by the doctors” who initially evaluated his gunshot wound, Jackson disclosed.

“In summary, former President Trump is doing well, and he is recovering as expected from the gunshot wound sustained last Saturday afternoon,” Jackson wrote. “I am extremely thankful his life was spared. It is an absolute miracle he wasn’t killed.”

Jackson revealed he is traveling with Trump for a Saturday rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The doctor said he will remain with Trump to “provide any medical assistance he needs” until returning Monday to Washington, D.C. and ultimately to his home in Amarillo, Texas.

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JULIANNA FRIEMAN

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‘You Owe President Trump Answers!’: Video Shows GOP Senators Confront Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle

Video shows Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and John Barrasso of Wyoming confront U.S. Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle Wednesday at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer subpoenaed Cheatle on Wednesday to appear in a hearing on July 22 to answer questions regarding the attempted assassination of 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on July 13 during a Pennsylvania rally.

Fox News’ Aishah Hasnie reported that the U.S. Secret Service director was in a “luxury suite” before she was spotted and confronted by Republican senators, including the 72-year-old Blackburn and Barrasso, who demanded answers before following her around the event.

Secret Service snipers spotted failed assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof 20 minutes before Trump took the stage, according to ABC News. Video shows Cheatle, who refused to resign, providing no explanation when an outraged Barrasso asked her why the former president was put in harm’s way.

Blackburn chided Cheatle for doing nothing despite knowing “an hour out” that a “potential threat” was at the rally. The Tennessee senator asked Cheatle why she allowed Trump to take the stage in the presence of a potential threat.

“I don’t think that this is the forum to have this discussion,” Cheatle said.

The senators erupted at Cheatle’s response, with one heard saying the Secret Service director “hung up” on them earlier. Cheatle said she did “not want to take away from” the RNC, to which Barrasso replied, “We can find a place to go right now.”

“Thank you very much,” Cheatle said as she began to make her exit.

“No, no, no. We’re going with you,” Barrasso shot back as he and Blackburn followed her out.

“This is exactly what you were doing today on the call — stonewalling!” Barrasso said.

“This was an assassination attempt! You owe the people answers! You owe President Trump answers!” Blackburn shouted.

On Tuesday, Cheatle told CNN in an interview that the Secret Service was “solely responsible” for security at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally.

“The buck stops with me. I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary,” Cheatle said. “It was unacceptable and it’s something that shouldn’t happen again.”

Trump was shot in the ear during his rally in Butler County. One attendee was killed and two others were injured, including one man who was put in a medically induced coma due to the severity of his wounds.

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Secret Service’s Explanations For Security Failures Ahead Of Trump Assassination Attempt Aren’t Adding Up

Secret Service’s explanations for the security failures surrounding the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday aren’t adding up, according to security experts and former Secret Service agents.

Emerging details highlight what seems to be a disconnect between local officials and Secret Service, while making it more apparent that there were major oversights. Many key questions hinge on the responsibilities delegated to local police, who U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle confirmed during a Monday interview with ABC News were inside the building the shooter fired from, though nobody was stationed on the rooftop.

Cheatle explained a decision was made not to put anybody on top of the building because the “sloped” roof made it unsafe, but security experts and former Secret Service agents who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation emphasized not having someone on the roof was a “big failure” and didn’t believe Cheatle’s explanation was sufficient.

“Let’s just say the local law enforcement officers [and] the Secret Service agree that it’s just not safe to keep someone up there for a couple of hours,” former Secret Service agent Anthony Cangelosi told the DCNF. “Then the question is, well, how do we maintain its integrity otherwise? It’s not like you just throw your hands up and say ‘can’t do that.’”

Cangelosi said there is no “justifiable reason” for failing to cover the roof, suggesting they should have found solutions like putting another platform up or getting an officer on a lift.

Peter Yachmetz, retired FBI agent and principal security consultant at Yachmetz Consulting Group, pointed out that the shooter was moving around on the “unsafe” roof prior to the incident.

“The slope didn’t affect him,” Yachmetz told the DCNF.

Law enforcement reportedly spotted the shooter on the roof 30 minutes before shots were fired, WPXI reported Monday. After the incident, a witness described watching a man climbing onto the roof and trying to warn a police officer, claiming officials responded with confusion. (RELATED: Authorities Reportedly Spotted Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Nearly 30 Minutes Before He Opened Fire)

“The reality is, regardless of the spin, that particular roof should have been under constant surveillance and or posted,” former secret service agent Tim Miller told the DCNF.

“In this particular instance, we did share support for that particular site and that the Secret Service was responsible for the inner perimeter,” Cheatle told ABC News Monday during an interview. “And then we sought assistance from our local counterparts for the outer perimeter. There was local police in that building — there was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the building.”

However, a local law enforcement official told The New York Times Tuesday that the local forces were in an adjacent building, not the one the shooter was firing from.

The discrepancies in their accounts only add to the uncertainties surrounding who was responsible.

CBS News reported Monday that there were three snipers stationed inside the building shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks fired from, citing a local law enforcement officer. One of the snipers saw Crooks looking through a rangefinder in the minutes before he fired and radioed command post, according to CBS News.

The Butler Township Police Department declined to confirm the report to the DCNF, stating that there is an ongoing investigation by the FBI.

Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe declined to offer additional comments Tuesday, telling the DCNF he is “backing away from media requests for comment and opinions.”

“There are too many questions being posed that I do not have first hand knowledge of and too many fingers being pointed,” he said. “I am in charge of the Deputy Sheriffs and no other law enforcement agency. My Deputies performed their duties at their assigned areas and went above and beyond after the shooting started and ended in the their actions to help people and assist police in clearing the nearby buildings.”

Slupe previously confirmed to CNN that an armed Butler Township officer encountered Crooks before he shot at Trump, but retreated down the ladder after Crooks pointed his gun at him. He told KDKA-TV there was a security failure, but noted “there is not just one entity responsible.”

“The Secret Service plays a key role in protecting, in this case, former President Trump, but they don’t act alone,” he told the outlet. “The Secret Service receives support from local police departments.”

Pennsylvania State Police, however, did confirm they had no members “inside the building or staging in it.”

“The Pennsylvania State Police provided all resources that the United States Secret Service (USSS) requested for former President Trump’s rally in Butler on Saturday, July 13th, including approximately 30 to 40 troopers to assist with securing the inside perimeter,” Pennsylvania State Police Lieutenant Adam Reed told the DCNF. “Among PSP’s duties at the rally, the Department was not responsible for securing the building or property at AGR International.”

Reed said he could not say when an officer witnessed the shooter, as it was not a state trooper who saw him.

Former secret service agent Jeffrey James explained to the DCNF that protection “works in a series of concentric circles.” Typically, there is an inner circle of secret service agents, a second circle that mixes both agents and local law enforcement, and an outer ring that is largely state and local partners.

If the agent in charge of the site told a local law enforcement officer on the outer perimeter that the building is his responsibility, then anything that happens is on the officer.

“But if that agent didn’t find one of the local law enforcement partners and give very clear, direct directions…then it’s going to be the responsibility or the fault of that agent for not delegating that,” he told the DCNF.

It’s unclear what instructions the Secret Service gave to local law enforcement.

Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger told The Washington Post Tuesday that “Secret Service was in charge” and that “it was their responsibility to make sure that the venue and the surrounding area was secure.”

“For them to blame local law enforcement is them passing the blame when they hold the blame, in my opinion,” Goldinger told The Washington Post.

However, the Secret Service released a statement on Tuesday pushing back against assertions that they were blaming local law enforcement for the tragedy that unfolded on Saturday. “Any news suggesting the Secret Service is blaming local law enforcement for Saturday’s incident is simply not true,” the statement posted to the Secret Service’s X page said.

“I am having difficulty reconciling the answer the Director gave in her ABC interview with the official statement made on social media,” Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said in a press release on Tuesday. “Our goal is to provide whatever assistance the Secret Service needs to perform their mission and to do so with mutual respect, trust, and accuracy.”

A RealClearPolitics report suggested Sunday that resources were diverted away from Trump’s rally to an event where First Lady Jill Biden was speaking. Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the United States Secret Service, denied this was the case.

Questions also remain about why Crooks was not taken out sooner. Cangelosi explained to the DCNF that counter-snipers can face challenges due to their distance from the target.

“With counter snipers, you’re usually so far away, it’s not usually clear whether an individual is an imminent threat, ” Cangelosi said. “It’s harder to discern. Once they discern whether that person is a threat to life or serious bodily injury, they can take the shot.”

Yachmetz questioned why drone coverage was not utilized.

“A drone strategically placed a few thousand feet above could have oversaw the entire venue,” he said.

“In my opinion, a detailed, in-depth very specific investigation must be conducted of all procedures [and] this entire matter by a non-biased outside investigative group (possibly of retired agents),” Yachmetz told the DCNF, emphasizing the investigation must not be “politically motivated.”

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer announced Monday that Cheatle would testify at a committee hearing on July 22. President Joe Biden said Sunday that he directed an “independent review” of the events.

The FBI told the DCNF it has “nothing additional to provide at this time beyond previously-issued statements.” The Bureau said Monday that it gained access to Crooks’ phone and “has conducted nearly 100 interviews of law enforcement personnel, event attendees, and other witnesses.”

Trump suffered a wound to his ear, and two were killed, including Crooks and 50-year-old ex-volunteer fire chief, Corey Comperatore. Two other attendees were also wounded in the attack.

The Secret Service did not respond to a request for comment.

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KATELYNN RICHARDSON

Contributor. Wallace White and Owen Klinsky contributed to this report.

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