Professional hit job🎯: The massive opportunity dump on Trump’s former future daughter-in-law and ambassador to Greece leaves one very, very important question — who is behind it?
📰Attack — first came a well-researched and packaged Wall Street Journal story about Kimberly Guilfoyle asking for a donor to pay off $100,000 of her Amex bill — complete with screenshots
Then, the donor became available to all the cable channels
This all just happened to break while Marco Rubio was in Greece
📰Then comes another Wall Street Journal story with leaked audio from her time at Davos.
⁉️Everybody on TV is asking whether Guilfoyle can keep her job — the real question is who is behind trying to get her fired!
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Sound the alarms🚨: The head of NATO just announced we’re ready to fight tonight.
I don’t remember the last time a NATO commander spoke like that
💣Over the weekend, there were wild developments in Europe
Russians ignored the ceasefire on Ukrainian energy sites
Ukraine attacked Russian data centers
Possible assassination attempts on the Polish prime minister and defense minister
New cyberattacks on French grocery stores
All of this points to an emboldened Vladimir Putin
Look back🔙: We haven’t reached this kind of crisis since the Berlin Airlift or the fall of the Soviet Union.
🤔Think about the diesel deal Trump made with Putin on Friday. Trump can have two of three things:
He can have Vladimir Putin
He can have the Iranians pushed and squeezed on their best behavior
Or he can have low gas prices for the midterms
Warning⚠️: The less people respect America, the worse it is.
Tonight📺: The host of “History Uncensored,” Bianca Nobilo, joins me.
Money, Politics, Oxygen and Life
💰Money is to politics what oxygen is to life — yet for the next three weeks, all we will hear is how much money Republicans are spending.
Yes, Republicans will spend a bunch of money — Elon Musk is reportedly spending $366 million
🤷How much are Soros and others spending? How much did Harris spend and lose? About a billion!
Then, there is this from The Wall Street Journal:
“The Crew of Virtually Unknown Donors Powering the Rise of the New Left”
Now tell me — what do you notice about all the names?
The same people complaining about money never said a word during Obama’s massive fundraising hauls.
Important‼️: Outside money almost always goes to negative ads about the other side.
Advantage Republicans.
Tonight📺: Republican strategist Tiffany Smiley, executive producer of “The Circus” Mark McKinnon and former Bernie Sanders campaign strategist Corbin Trent
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Oh, the Humanity 🤦
‼️Federal agents raided Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home this morning in D.C. — the pearl-clutching did not disappoint.
🤦We told you this would happen — the same people that are crying about Omar were praising he raid on Mar-a-Lago and celebrating the made-up charges against Trump.
🤷If it is political retribution, two wrongs don’t make a right — using the DOJ to settle political scores is bad for the country.
It was bad when Biden’s DOJ did this to Trump and not sure what we’re doing when we do it back to people.
My prediction💭: Three years from now, there’s going to be an awful lot of raids on GOP congressmen’s houses…
Americans see this and are rightfully angry at both sides.
Flipside🔄: We don’t know for sure if this raid was to settle political scores, considering Omar’s close proximity to the Somali fraud cases and the long-running issues of her and immigration.
📰The New York Times reports, “The Justice Department under the Biden administration also opened an investigation into Ms. Omar in 2024 that examined her finances, campaign spending and interactions with a foreign citizen, as The Times previously reported. Previous federal inquiries — including one seeking to establish whether Ms. Omar married a sibling to get him a green card — ended without any charges. Ms. Omar has called such claims ‘absurd and offensive.’”
Tonight📺: Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tom Dupree
The MESSY Cleanup Tour 🧹
‼️Abdul El-Sayed’s inability to answer my simple question of whether Israel or Iran is a bigger threat to America has completely changed the conversation in Michigan’s Senate race.
The question — what poses a bigger threat to America, Iran or Israel, and why? — is something out of a 5th-grade history class. He couldn’t and wouldn’t answer it — so El-Sayed had to go on “Meet the Press” this weekend to play cleanup.
🚨This calls into question what is disqualifying anymore
Any decent person should consider him unqualified for the U.S. Senate or disqualified based on his associations.
📰Here are just some headlines on El-Sayed and his ties:
“El-Sayed campaign backed by over $100,000 from dozens of members of group with alleged terror ties”
“Democratic Senate candidate El-Sayed’s mother worked for Hamas, Taliban-linked group”
Must watch📱: Mike Rogers’ new ad on El-Sayed’s terrorist connections
After meeting El-Sayed, he reminds me a lot of the Muslim Brotherhood crew that I hung out with during my time in the Middle East
They aren’t necessarily terrorists themselves, but they are certainly terrorist enthusiasts or adjacent
So to have somebody like this in the U.S. Senate is terrifying
Tonight📺: Audrey Fahlberg headlined, “Abdul El-Sayed’s Unanswered Questions” in the Free Press and joins me tonight.
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