Tuesday, October 14, 2025
The Tom Homan Bribery Story Has the Press Convinced of His Guilt – Despite the Lack of Evidence
The Tom Homan Bribery Story Has the Press Convinced of His Guilt – Despite the Lack of Evidence
"But when it comes to the accusation of accepting a bribe, this is a severe charge, one that carries plenty of accountability. It also carries with it the need to have very firm proof. Something we have yet to see materialize."
. . . "The claim being reported is that the FBI set up a sting to target Tom Homan last summer. (Note the lack of outrage over the Biden administration targeting his opponents and weaponizing the DOJ.) Undercover agents were posing as businessmen from security companies with an interest in border/immigration policy. They allegedly paid Homan $50,000 in cash, placed in a Cava restaurant take-out bag. This exchange was recorded on surveillance, and the FBI was awaiting Homan sending administration contracts to these agents to establish that a bribe was paid.
"On first blush, this sounds really bad for Homan, as he was supposedly captured on tape accepting a bribe - but the details start to blur the accusations. First, Homan at the time was working as a private consultant, so striking deals of this nature are not uncommon (cash in take-out bags are not necessarily unique). The other disqualifying aspect is that in his role at the time, Homan had no power in issuing work contracts, though it would probably be argued that he could influence the process in some capacity.
"Now, the real questions emerge when looking at the details of this money exchange. Right now, there are competing claims that this handoff was captured on video, with others saying it is an audio recording of the bribe taking place. One question -- if this tape is purely audio, how would the mention of the restaurant bag being used come to be known, unless someone noted this out loud during the exchange? This is a ham-fisted way of getting that detail recorded.
"Yet here is where we get to the most disqualifying detail in all of this hysterical reporting – no one has actually seen or heard this claimed evidence.
"The story first broke with a shared MSNBC report from disreputable intelligence correspondent Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonning, who recently fled the Washington Post. Dilanian’s participation is all the reason to begin looking at this story with deep skepticism. He was a key participant in the Russian collusion hoax and is a known mouthpiece for the deep state intel community." . . .
California Schools Are About to See Waves of Children Flee After Gavin Newsom's 'Demonic' 'Kidnap' Bill
Ms Taft quotes a minister who recommends church or private school. We recommend you use your own informed judgement. TD. .
"While the world's attention was focused on the release of the Jewish hostages taken by Islamic Hamas monsters, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that would make it easy for strangers to kidnap children from his state's schools—without parental permission, naturally. While one story gloried in hostages freed from totalitarian barbarians, another set of totalitarians loosed a plot to take more.
"Think that's overwrought? Hold my beer.
"Newsom signed AB 495 into law on Sunday night and pretended that the law, proffered by a Democrat to hide kids illegally in the country from Immigration authorities, kept parental rights intact and preserved parents’ relationships with their own children. Instead, it made every child in California schools, preschools, and state-licensed childcare facilities a target.
"Newsom had the hubris and temerity to tout it as "a bill to protect parents’ rights and children."
"That is false. Indeed, it's worse than false. It's a license allowing anyone to take your child without your permission and act as that child's unapproved "guardian." As the California Family Council (CFA) put it, "Anyone falsely claiming kinship can easily sign the affidavit, access a child, obtain medical care, and enroll them in another school. Even the most basic safeguard of a notary is not required to confirm the true identity of the person accessing your child. AB 495 violates fundamentally constitutionally protected parental rights, endangers California’s children, and will be appropriately legally challenged and struck down.”
"And who would those guardians be? Who knows? Perhaps Joe Biden's NGOs, which worked with cartels to bring children over the border and watched them become sex slaves and underage workers in cartel companies to work off their debts. The Biden regime halted DNA matching to hide the trafficking of the children.
"The CFA says it's a license to steal." . . .
Who Will Democrats Hate Next Now That the 'Genocide' Is Over?
"Since white liberals are the least self-aware people outside of junkies who smell of cigarettes and urine. . . "
"We have a ceasefire in Israel – and make no mistake, there is no country called “Palestine,” at least not yet – so the question comes up: who will Democrats hate next? They’ve hated Jews for so long that their anti-Semitism will continue; it’s a part of their DNA. But there won’t be anything Jews will be doing for the next little while that will be chant-worthy, so what is a progressive activist to do? Since dating or showering are out of the question, shifting their hate to other targets is pretty much all there is. But where?
White people. The old, trusted target is always at the ready for hate. White people, especially straight white men, are the worst, right? . . .
. . . "Democrats are about control, and whatever they can’t control – through convincing or threatening – they seek to destroy. They don’t understand the concept of persuasion, as they didn’t think themselves into their positions, they followed and felt. Thought it a bridge too far; it’s working without tools.
"Someone in their lives did these people a major disservice, either in their family or their education, and they’ve been taking it out on the world ever since. Now that they don’t have an easy cover story for their hatred of Jews, that hate has to go somewhere. The Democrat Party has spent too many hours fomenting this mob, they aren’t about to let it go away – it’s the only place in their party with any energy – so it has to go somewhere. The list of options is long and contains pretty much anyone who won’t conform to their demands. Watch your back."
The Man The Left Calls A ‘Nazi’ Just Signed A Peace Deal Protecting Millions Of Jews
The Federalist "President Donald Trump was heralded Monday as a hero by a grateful Israel that rejoiced in the return of the last living hostages." Drop the "Nazi schtick, boys...better switch to "Fascist".
It is curious then that the same man the American left has vilified as a “Nazi” and a “fascist” is being lauded as peacemaker and protector of millions of Jews.
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| Can any useful idiot find a picture of some Nazi doing this? |
"Monday was a day of rejoicing, of gratitude. For the families and friends of the 20 last living hostages freed after two years of hell, it was a day of fully breathing once again. The hostage release came as a very good sign that Hamas, the genocidal monsters responsible for the devastating two-year war with Israel, could at least come through on a principle term in a long sought ceasefire.
“This is the day the Lord has made known to us, and we will rejoice in it,” Zvika Mor, father of Eitan Mor, said after reuniting with his hostage son, according to reporting by the Times of Israel.
"Peace is suddenly a real promise for this war-ravaged portion of the Middle East.
‘Trump Made History’
"The man behind the deal, President Donald Trump, was heralded Monday as a hero by an effusively grateful Israel. At Tel Aviv’s oceanfront, Israelis marked the beach with a blocks-long banner — a massive blue silhouette of the 45th and 47th president and a heartfelt message: “Thank You” and “Home” in English and Hebrew. The warm welcome greeted Trump from the air as he arrived on Air Force One on a day for the ages. “Trump Made History”, declared a stretch of desert bathed in white paint. And signs on city buildings declared, “Trump Make Israel Again!”
"CNN, no fan of Donald Trump, was forced to acknowledge that tens of thousands of celebrants packing Hostages Square rapturously applauded the peace broker throughout his speech to the Knesset.
“There was a rapturous applause for President Trump. His entire more than one hour long speech was broadcast on that jumbotron behind me and when he finished speaking, I don’t know if you were able to hear it at all, they started playing ‘Simply the Best’ by Tina Turner,” CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward reported from Tel Aviv’s public plaza."... More...
Who Will Democrats Hate Next Now That the 'Genocide' Is Over?
President Trump Lights Up Antony Blinken For Giving Joe Biden Credit for Historic Peace Deal Between Israel and Hamas (VIDEO)
The Gateway Pundit "President Trump absolutely lit up Biden’s worthless Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a gaggle aboard Air Force One on Sunday.
"Trump departed the White House en route to the Middle East after he secured a historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas.
"Hamas is releasing the 20 living hostages, and Israel will withdraw to an agreed-upon line, thanks to President Trump’s courage and diplomacy.
"Meanwhile, Antony Blinken is giving Joe Biden credit for President Trump’s historic ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
" 'It starts with a clear and comprehensive post conflict plan for Gaza. It’s good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan the Biden Administration developed after months of discussion with Arab partners, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. It centers on temporary, transitional authorities for Gaza’s governance, security, humanitarian assistance, and rebuilding, led by Arab and international partners alongside Palestinians, backed by the United States, and ultimately handed over to full Palestinian control,” Blinken said on X." . . .
When asked about Blinken saying that it was the Biden administration that developed the peace deal President Trump: Everybody knows that’s a joke pic.twitter.com/6761bBRUBs
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) October 12, 2025
With all things considered, why is our press like it is?
"She was told to do this by management. Fire this person already. To say Israeli hostages were treated well AFTER TWO YEARS IN CAPTIVITY by these monsters means Amanpour has no business being on the air unless she’s employed by @mehdirhasan - who is also worthless." Joe Concha
"If you're not a person who hates Israel and who has routinely shown sympathy for their terrorist enemies, Monday was a good day, with the surviving hostages being released as a result of the historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas, brokered by President Trump and members of his administration.
"But Monday was not a good day for CNN's longtime chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour, a British-Iranian "journalist" whose name has become synonymous with Israel- and America-bashing.
"As RedState reported earlier, Amanpour was one of the sour-faced media figures who, while talking about the hostages being released, seemed to fret about Hamas supposedly losing their "leverage" in the deal. What was inarguably worse, however, was her claim that the hostages were "probably being treated better than the average Gazan, because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had."
"For context, here's what she said Monday morning:
And I think for sure, people who start to talk to the hostages who have only just been released, will find that it will take a long, long time for them to recover physically, but also mentally. It’s been a terrible, terrible two years for them, because not only are they there — you know, they’re probably being treated better than the average Gazan, because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had. Now, Hamas has given up all of its leverage, by the way, by giving them all up. So that is a victory for the Israeli side.
"The backlash against Amanpour's comments was intense, so much so that she tried to walk them back later, reading the following remarks from a teleprompter:" . . .
In what universe is Christiane Amanpour living?
. . . "Hamas hates Israelis. They hate Jews. They want to destroy them, and somehow, they’re treated as if they’re on extended stay at the Ritz-Carlton. Terrorists don’t reason, you boob. They admitted they would commit more October 7 attacks, even though that invasion led to a war they couldn’t win. It’s laughable. And Amanpour isn’t alone—CBS News’ Lesley Stahl asked a former Israeli captive if he was really starved by Hamas in March: “Do you think they starved you or they just didn't have food?” . . .
Freed Israeli hostages recount brutal beatings, starvation and years underground in Hamas captivity . . . “Even after the video that shocked the entire country, his captors kept starving him,” he told Ynet.
"He said that shortly before his release, Hamas guards began feeding him slightly more than usual.
“He realized they were trying to fatten him up, so he ate slowly and carefully,” Avishai said.
“He’s still weak, thin — but he’ll be fine. He’s starting to eat.”
Robert Reich and the Cult of Cowardice
The politics of perpetual comfort, where emotion replaces action and empathy excuses inaction, is poison.
"Robert Reich has become the poster child for everything that makes the modern Democratic Party unbearable — moral panic dressed as principle, weakness masquerading as wisdom. He speaks like a man convinced that cowering is a form of courage. Every post, every column, every clipped video carries the same tone: a sermon of despair delivered from behind a screen.
"His recent newsletter, America’s Trauma, reads like the diary of a nervous breakdown with a Wi-Fi connection. Reich likens Trump’s presidency to collective abuse, calls his followers “lapdogs,” and paints the entire country as a therapy session gone wrong. To read him is to feel smothered — not by Trump, but by Reich’s own hand-wringing. There is no conviction, only complaint. No leadership, only lament. He mistakes emotional exhaustion for moral depth, as if sighing loudly enough might change the course of the country.
"Some dismiss him as just a writer, a retired bureaucrat playing pundit. But that’s precisely the problem — he’s not. Reich’s voice carries weight. He has 1.4 million followers hanging on his every anxious word. He’s taught generations of students at Berkeley, he’s a regular on MSNBC, a contributor to The Guardian, and he shapes the moral tone of the Democratic Party’s intellectual class. He’s not fringe but part of the furniture. When Reich speaks, others echo. His words filter through podcasts, think tanks, and campaign talking points. He embodies the mood music of a movement that confuses vulnerability with virtue, self-pity with substance. His handwringing is contagious.
"And the contagion has spread. This is the problem with so many men in the modern Democratic Party: they sound like patients, not patriots. They apologize before they speak. They talk endlessly about trauma, anxiety, and “healing the nation,” yet never once speak of duty, courage, or sacrifice. The party of Roosevelt and Kennedy has become a chorus of counselors.
"Reich, once Labor secretary under Bill Clinton, was supposed to be a man of ideas — a policy mind with genuine backbone. But over the years, the spine snapped. Now, instead of offering solutions, he offers symptoms. Every crisis is cast as emotional injury; every disagreement, a wound. He doesn’t teach resilience but instead normalizes fragility. There’s a kind of narcissism in it — a belief that to feel deeply is the same as to act bravely.
"And he’s not alone. Look at the Democrats’ supposed “model men.” Pete Buttigieg talks like a management seminar, smooth but soulless. Tim Walz had — and still has — the air of a defeated school principal pleading for silence in a rowdy classroom. Even Van Jones, one of the steadier voices on the left, slips into therapy talk when the moment calls for strength. These are not leaders built for the ugliness of politics. They are mediators in a world that demands fighters. They are spokesmen for a party that brings hand sanitizer to a knife fight and then wonders why it keeps bleeding." . . .
Forget the rumours, this is the real deal behind Trump’s peace plan
While the Israeli air raid on Hamas leaders in Doha failed in its aim of assassinating them, it was brilliantly successful in a more important respect: ending the war
On what basis and why did you claim this originally, Ms Amanpour?
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| The Federalist Papers |
"Sometimes the received wisdom is correct. But sometimes it is dangerously wrong – and the received wisdom over the Gaza deal is one of those times.
"According to most analysis doing the rounds, all that really happened was that President Trump decided that enough was enough after Israel’s failed attempt to assassinate Hamas leaders in Doha last month, and told Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to the same deal that has effectively been on the table for over a year.
"It's no wonder that this is the take: it fits perfectly with other received wisdom that because Netanyahu had to keep Smotrich and Ben-Gvir in his coalition to save his own political skin, he needlessly prolonged the war and the ‘genocide’.
"It's all very convenient, since this version of events also brings together many of the threads that form the basis of so much of the hostility towards Israel. It is indeed correct that Netanyahu has strived to keep his coalition together. But it does not follow that this meant he kept the war going for longer than was necessary. Convenient it may be: it’s also wrong.
"I have spent the past few days speaking to military and political sources in Israel and elsewhere and a very different picture emerges – one which makes far more sense than the version of events which has taken hold. Central to all of it is that while the Israeli air raid on Hamas leaders in Doha failed in its aim of assassinating them, it was brilliantly successful in a more important respect: ending the war. Far from being the final straw that turned Trump against Netanyahu, the air raid was the moment the corner was turned towards peace.
"First, the Israeli bombing showed Hamas’ leadership that there is nowhere where they can be truly safe from either the IDF or the Mossad. Qatar has long been Hamas’ refuge, where its leaders can live in luxury with their billions, safe in the knowledge that the US ally, with its US airbases and role as mediator and honest broker in the region, is off limits. The air raid destroyed that safety cushion for Hamas leaders.
"But even more significantly, it put the fear of God into the Qataris themselves. They immediately went running to Trump for protection. Which put the Qataris exactly where they needed to be. You can have your guarantee of US protection, Trump responded, on one condition: you deliver up Hamas.
"The Qataris are nothing if not realists. They were not going to risk their own security, and US wrath, for a denuded Hamas, so they had no hesitation in doing this. Hamas may still exist. It may still have weapons. It may still have terrorists. But it is as close to being wiped out (for now) as is realistic – all the more so since the IDF entered its last significant enclave in Gaza City, a move which was opposed by almost all those purveyors of the received wisdom."...More... More links on this here
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