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Week in Review · October 20-24, 2025

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ANALYSIS

‘No Kings’ = No Clue

Douglas Andrews
The Left’s lame nationwide anti-Trump protest was populated by the usual suspects and produced the usual impact.

Exposing Margaret Sanger

Emmy Griffin
A new documentary from The Daily Wire, “The 1916 Project,” gives historical context to the leftist culture of death that has a stranglehold on American culture.

TDS Sets in With Ballroom, DOJ Settlement

Sophie Starkova
President Trump doesn’t take a paycheck, is privately funding the ballroom project, and will donate any money he receives from a settlement with the DOJ to charity.

Maybe There Are Nazis Everywhere

Nate Jackson
You can tell a lot about a political movement by how it handles its fringes, and Democrats and Republicans have dealt with that test very differently.

Dems Stir Brouhaha Over Trump’s Big Ballroom

Thomas Gallatin
With the now $300 million project expanding into tearing down and rebuilding the entire East Wing, Democrats insist that President Trump is destroying the White House.

The Most Delusional Demo of All

Mark Alexander
While Connecticut Demos Chris Murphy and Rosa DeLauro are leading the race for the craziest members of Congress, Murphy has already lapped DeLauro — twice.

The Meaning of ‘Right-Wing’

Michael Smith
Leftists accuse anyone who questions their agenda of being a “right-wing extremist,” but the truth is that “Right” has become synonymous with “truth.”

No Kings — Just Effective Presidents

Jack DeVine
Must we choose between canonizing Donald Trump and hating him? Why can’t we just be happy that he’s doing what we hired him to do?

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KJP’s Feet Get Held to the Fire

Emmy Griffin
While on her book tour, the former Biden spokesparrot got grilled by a usually friendly media about her old boss. Times are changing.

Why New York’s Mayoral Race Matters to All of Us

Nate Jackson
“It’s really a question of ‘Would I rather have a Democrat or a communist?’ And I would rather have a Democrat than a communist.”

UN Punts on Shipping Carbon Tax

Michael Swartz
After pushback from the Trump administration, the United Nations decided — for now — not to pursue its latest climate change income redistribution scheme.

President Trump’s Smithsonian Review Will Save American History

Gregory Lyakhov
When museums use public funds to push one ideology, they stop being neutral educational institutions and become political actors.

Policing Erika Kirk’s Grief Is Heartless and Hypocritical

Samantha Koch
The internet busybodies who’ve made it their business to decide how a widow grieves are not truly showing compassion or curiosity. Instead, they’re just mean.

The GOP Strategy for ObamaCare and the Shutdown

Thomas Gallatin
Are Republicans going to cave to Democrat demands on extending expiring ObamaCare subsidies? The answer is a likely nuanced yes and no.

Why NBA Gambling Arrests Matter

Douglas Andrews
The FBI arrested more than two dozen people in a multifaceted gambling operation that included current and former NBAers and the old-school Mafia.

Profiles of Valor: SSG Ty Michael Carter (USA)

Mark Alexander
Specialist Carter’s heroic actions and tactical skill were critical to the defense of Combat Outpost Keating, preventing the enemy from capturing the position and saving the lives of his fellow Soldiers.

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‘We Don’t Have a Monarchy … We Have a Presidency’

Walmart CEO Sets Trump-Deranged ABC Host Straight

They Sent Tim Kaine to Save Abigail Spanberger. It Was Brutal.

Liberal Student Stunned After Being Embraced by TPUSA Chapter

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QUOTES
Projection
“I don’t know what’s happened to the Republicans in the United States Senate. It’s as if they have all had their spines surgically removed.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren
“He needs to get off the sidelines, get off the golf course, and actually decide to end the shutdown that he’s created. … Donald Trump clearly wants the government shut down. He wants to inflict pain on the American people.” —House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries
“If anybody shouldn’t be paid, it’s Mike Johnson and the Republicans who are not doing their job.” —Rep. Jamie Raskin
Spin Doctor
“House Republicans are nowhere to be found. Literally have been on vacation for three consecutive weeks, have canceled votes for three consecutive weeks. They are in the legislative witness protection program.” —House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries, whose party shut down the government
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
“Shutdowns are terrible, and of course there will be families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have.” —Democrat House Whip Katherine Clark
“This does suck, and I’m sorry that we’re actually putting you in this situation.” —Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) admitting that Democrats are harming their constituents
Pot Calling the Kettle Black
“It’s hard to fathom someone more out of touch and oblivious to our nation’s struggles than the current president.” —Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer, a 74-year-old millionaire and career politician
The BIG Lies
“The idea that politics would play a role in big cases like this — it’s absolutely ludicrous.” —former Special Counsel/anti-Trump inquisitor Jack Smith
“Democrats are not for open border[s].” —Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker
Grandstanding
“I’m not gonna just sit back while [Trump is] literally turning this country into a dictatorial regime.” —Gov. JB Pritzker
Godwin’s Law
“This is what happened. People’s rights started getting taken away. People got accused of being ‘immigrants.’ This is before the Holocaust really took place. … This is how authoritarian regimes do it.” —Gov. JB Pritzker
Stranger Than Fiction
“The tables will turn someday. [Immigration agents] should recognize that maybe they’re not going to be prosecuted today, although we’re looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the Trump administration … because the statute of limitations won’t have run.” —Gov. JB Pritzker wanting to prosecute enforcers of U.S. sovereignty
“Black people, brown people of all stripes, whether you’re an Indian American or a Mexican American or whoever you are, go out in your place where you live and get a gun legally. Get a license to carry legally. Because when you have people knocking on your door, and taking you away without due process as a citizen, isn’t that what the Second Amendment was written for?” —Don Lemon arguing for armed people to fight back against ICE
Lack of Self-Awareness Award
“The notion … that the Democratic Party consists of terrorists, violent criminals, and undocumented immigrants just … makes no sense.” —Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
Weird Flex
“[Andrew Cuomo] couldn’t name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited. And what Muslims want in this city is what every community wants and deserves. They want equality and they want respect. And it took me to get you to even see those Muslims as part of this city.” —New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani
“My dad would not have pardoned me if President Trump had not won.” —Hunter Biden
“You could almost make a case that the true inheritor of the Sanders revolution is Trump. He’s the most socialist president of my lifetime.” —Jon Stewart
Inciting Violence
“We gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system. These ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out.” —a Chicago “No Kings” protest speaker
“My fantasy dream is that this nightmare ends in 2029, and I think we ought to have radical things. I think they all ought to have their heads shaven, they should be put in orange pajamas, and they should be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public should be invited to spit on them. All of these [Trump] collaborators should be shaved, pajamaed, and spit on. It’s a moral judgement.” —Democrat strategist James Carville
“Donald Trump has changed things, and people trying to do what’s always been done is not going to work. … If you hit me in my face, I’m not going to punch you back in your face; I’m going to go across your neck, because we can go back and forth fighting each other’s faces. You’ve got to hit hard enough where they won’t come back. … If they’re going to try to wipe us out in Texas, we need to wipe out every Republican in New York, in California, in Illinois.” —Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones
Pearl-Clutching
“People are actually upset that [Trump is] getting rid of DEI? He’s erasing white history, too, by tearing down the East Wing of the White House. He is attacking everyone. He is attacking U.S. citizens. He is at war with America, and we need to stand up. We need to bow up.” —Jolanda Jones
Non Compos Mentis
“That is not your building. You don’t own that building. … That is the people’s building.” —”The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg complaining about Trump’s White House renovations
“JD Vance wants to be president more than anything else. I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife. Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. We’ll come over here. We’ll save you.” —former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
“He’s scarier in certain ways [than Trump] … and he’s young and ambitious and agile in the sense that he is a chameleon.” —Jen Psaki on JD Vance
“Stephen Miller is a white supremacist. … And even though he’s Jewish, he’s like a Nazi Jew.” —podcaster Jennifer Welch
“He’s the Goebbels of the Cabinet, Stephen Miller. He’s a Nazi. Yes, he is, and he’s Jewish and he should be ashamed of himself.” —actor Robert DeNiro
“[Trump] is literally wiping his ass with the Constitution.” —Lenard “Charlamagne” McKelvey
“The fact that I have to spend even a moment’s time talking about somebody else’s text messages from years ago … is something that I am deeply unhappy about.” —Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger on AG candidate Jay Jones’s call for the deaths of Republicans
“There’s a lot of people who’ve never met a trans person. … And so there’s a real effort to engage in some level of fearmongering.” —Abigail Spanberger
“My politics is built on a belief in human rights for all people, and that extends … to queer and trans Ugandans.” —Zohran Mamdani
Tone-Deaf
“It’s carefully thought through. … We’re confident it’s going to be a great [halftime] show.” —NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell regarding crossdresser “Bad Bunny”
Race Bait
“We haven’t felt the same since Obama. And something broke in white people … when there was a competent, wonderful, black president … that was eating off the china, sleeping in the bed at the White House.” —Jennifer Welch
Yellow Journalism
“In Tel Aviv, watching the sunset at the beach on Sunday, hours before the expected exchange of hostages between Israel and Hamas.” —a New York Times image caption asserting Israel had Palestinian “hostages,” not Islamic terrorists
Who Wants to Tell Him?
“It especially bothers me being brought up Catholic … that Christianity has been co-opted and perverted in such a way. … I think about what Jesus would think of this stuff.” —Jimmy Kimmel


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House Speaker Mike Johnson Goes Off on Democrats as He Weighs in on Schumer Shutdown (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit

House Speaker Mike Johnson was on “Fox News Sunday” to weigh in on the continued shutdown of the federal government which began on October 1st. Johnson explained that the Democrat party is intentionally keeping the government closed to support their Marxist base.

Speaker Johnson pointed out Rep Jeffries dishonesty in his version of events, being a guest on the same show prior to his own appearance.

“Thank you for your fact-based questions to my colleague. That was the art of distraction you just saw there. They are trying their best to distract the American people from the simple fact that they have chosen a partisan fight so that they can prove to their Marxist rising base in the Democrat party that they are willing to fight Trump and Republicans. There is no objective truth to everything he said there,” Johnson referring to Rep Hakeem Jeffries’ responses earlier on the show.

“The President himself offered to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries in the Oval Office, when I and leader Thune were sitting next to him that he would have that thoughtful debate. That is for tomorrow as soon as we get the government open,” Johnson explained the Republican effort to reach out to the Democrat party.

“Open enrollment starts in November. People are already getting notices about what they may pay. I mean that is something that has to be resolved,” Bream commented.

“They are eating up the clock in the month of October. They shut the government down October 1st. We had always been counting on using these using these four weeks in October to finish up those discussions. The great irony is it is they themselves that are doing it,” Johnson said.

“Their counterproposal to fund the government was 1.5 trillion dollars in new spending,” Johnson said.

“They wanted to claw back the elimination of fraud, waste and abuse that we took out of Medicaid to make it work better,” Johnson explained.

Speaker Johnson explained that one of the reasons why healthcare costs have gone up so drastically is because of Obamacare.

“The rural hospitals that are in trouble right now are not because of Republican policies. This is the legacy of what has happened under Obamacare,” Johnson said.

“You just heard the leader of the Democrats in the House acknowledge that Obamacare is unaffordable,” Johnson continued.

“Premiums have risen exponentially since 2010 and they’re not affordable. It was never designed to be affordable,” Johnson said of Obamacare.

“Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’” Johnson continued.

Watch:

— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) October 12, 2025

WATCH: @SpeakerJohnson reacts to the worsening impact of the government shutdown, as President Trump orders Sec. Hegseth to pay troops during the shutdown. pic.twitter.com/OyqzclI4OS

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Senator Markwayne Mullin on President Trump’s Nominees and Chuck Schumer’s ‘Political Extortion’ (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit

Senator Markwayne Mullin was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo to talk about President Trump’s nominees. He explained that the Democrats had no cooperation to confirm nominees and instead took advantage of the situation to try and waste more taxpayer money to get the votes.

“President Trump tweeted that Chuck Schumer was trying to extort his Republican colleagues, extortion on America. Can you tell us what happened as you tried to get across the finish line President Trump’s nominees?” Bartiromo asked.

“We have 61 nominees that have been voted out of the committee to report to the floor that’s got bipartisan support,” Mullin said.

“President Trump is the first President in history not to be able to have one single nominee go through by UC, that’s unanimous consent or by a voice vote,” Mullin said.

Senator Mullin explained that Chuck Schumer was exploiting the situation with the nominees to benefit his projects. He continually raised the cost which finally resulted in President Trump rejecting the offer since he wanted to protect the American taxpayer.

“We started at 800 million dollars for pet projects for Schumer and then they kept raising the number to 1.3 billion and a lot of this had a lot to do with money going to Gaza and keep in mind that Hamas has not even released the hostages,” Mullin continued.

“Then they kept dropping the number of nominees to the point where President Trump late last night just said, go pound sand,” Mullin said.

Senator Mullin also said that Schumer is trying to please the Democrat base because he is afraid that AOC will beat him in the next race for Senate.

“He can’t figure out how to sell this because he is running scared of AOC running against him, who can probably beat him in a Senate race in New York,” Mullin continued.

“This is a duly elected President, and his agenda was elected by the American people,” Bartiromo said.

Bartiromo asked Senator Mullin about having to pay for the confirmation of nominees and how that did not make sense.

“You have to pay to get President Trump’s nominees across and confirmed? I don’t get that. What do you mean the price kept going up?” Bartiromo asked.

“They wanted something in return and that is negotiating, right? You negotiate a little bit, but they kept changing their price because they never wanted a deal,” Mullin explained.

“When we get back, we’re gonna have to implement those rules change,” Mullin said.

Watch:

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Rep. James Comer and FBI to Bring CRIMINAL CHARGES Against ActBlue Operatives in Largest Money Laundering Scheme in U.S. History | The Gateway Pundit

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The hammer is about to drop on Act Blue, the Democrats’ golden goose of fundraising, as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) teams up with the FBI to expose what could be the biggest money-laundering scandal in American political history.

In an explosive interview with Benny Johnson, Comer laid out a damning case against the far-left fundraising juggernaut, accusing it of funneling billions in suspicious cash—potentially from foreign adversaries—into Democrat coffers under the guise of “grassroots” donations.

“We’re investigating ActBlue the same way we investigated the Bidens,” Comer said. “We’re starting with the suspicious activity reports—bank violations that flag financial crimes. And let me tell you, the evidence is overwhelming.”

As Comer’s investigation progresses, chaos is unfolding inside ActBlue. Key executives are resigning. Lawyers are jumping ship. Employees are getting locked out of their computers, sending frantic messages about whistleblowers.

Benny Johnson, conservative commentator and host, nailed the urgency of the situation: “When the lawyers flee, you know you’re cooked.”

Comer confirmed the exodus: “These people know what’s coming. If ActBlue was innocent, they’d be out there defending themselves, calling me a conspiracy theorist. Instead, they’re running for the hills.”

The chairman detailed how his committee began investigating ActBlue after discovering a flood of small-dollar donations from untraceable sources, many from elderly Americans who were unaware their names were being used to funnel cash into the Democrat machine.

And now, it looks like the walls are closing in. ActBlue is imploding as executives flee, lawyers quit, and insiders start turning on each other.

You can read The Gateway Pundit’s report on Act Blue here.

Transcript:

Benny Johnson:
Chairman Comer, I got to tell you, man, this thing is just rotten. It’s just rotten. I don’t know if we have the direct evidence just yet, but man, you sure can put the pieces together and say that ActBlue must be one of the largest money-laundering organs this side of the Biden family.

James Comer:
And that’s exactly how we’re going to investigate this—the same way we investigated the Bidens. We’re starting with the suspicious activity reports. These are the bank violations that, if anyone commits a financial crime, the banks will catch it.

I come from a banking background, and I can tell you there are extensive security measures in place. Banks have auditors, compliance officers, and bank examiners. They catch suspicious activity, especially if it’s on a large scale with numerous transactions.

So what I tried to do back last summer was request the suspicious activity reports from Janet Yellen in the Biden administration. They would not reply to my request. We knew that ActBlue was processing a ridiculous amount of money.

Heck, my opponent—whom I beat by 50 points—raised several hundred thousand dollars on ActBlue, despite having zero chance of winning. If you ranked the races from 1 to 435, hers wouldn’t even be in the top 400 in terms of competitiveness. Yet she was still getting all these mysterious donations. You had House candidates whose campaign budgets were 80% funded by anonymous small donors on ActBlue.

James Comer:
So we smelled something. Obviously, it came out—what Rubio said—that they weren’t using the code on the back of credit cards, which allowed for fraud. It just didn’t make sense. Like the woman in that clip—she had $180,000 worth of donations.

We requested these violations, and they wouldn’t give them to us. After the election, Janet Yellen let a few of my staffers go in there. They saw that, yes, there were several hundred suspicious activity reports from various banks. We got to look at 12 of them. I can tell you, they were bad. They were exactly what we suspected.

We requested to see more, but they cut us off. Obviously, they were involved in the transition and all that. Now, we’ve got a new Treasury Secretary. We’re supposed to go in there next week or so to examine them all. But from what we’ve already seen—from media reports and the few bank violations we’ve reviewed—many of our worst theories regarding ActBlue are going to be confirmed.

That’s why so many people are hitting the exits at ActBlue right now.

Benny Johnson:
Really? It’s your investigation that’s causing this panic? Because I’ve seen ActBlue operate for decades, and I’ve never seen anything like this. Everyone’s leaving. The entire leadership is gone. The lawyers are fleeing.

Listen, man, when the lawyers are fleeing, getting locked out of their computers, and sending threatening messages about whistleblowers—you’re cooked, right?

James Comer:
You are. And I’m going to tell you my theory on this.

When you showed that clip of MSNBC saying, “Oh, within five hours, we’ve raised $27 million. What a movement!”—you know what? This goes back to the Biden investigation. The people protecting Biden colluded with the mainstream media. They fed them exactly what to say, exactly what to print.

The headlines would come out any time we were about to do a deposition. And lo and behold, from The New York Times to MSNBC, they would all have the exact same talking points. Word for word. Every time, they’d say, “No evidence. The deposition was a failure,” even before we swore the witness in.

And now, they’re colluding again, this time saying, “Oh, my gosh! Every Democrat in the United States is sitting at home, making numerous $100 donations to Kamala Harris and all the Democrats running in the purple seats across America!”

When the media all comes out at the same time, pushing the same talking points—that’s collusion.

James Comer:
Whoever’s behind the curtain—whoever was calling the shots at the White House—whoever was colluding with the media to misinform their viewers about ActBlue or the Bidens’ finances—that’s where the money is going to come from.

And I think we know some familiar names that will be at the root of this when it’s all said and done.

Benny Johnson:
So what you’re alleging here, Mr. Chairman, is that this is the largest money-laundering scam in the history of American politics?

James Comer:
Well, it could be. But I will tell you—it doesn’t make sense.

We’ve been requesting information from ActBlue for months now. If they were innocent, they’d be going on TV, trashing me. They’d be calling me a conspiracy theorist—just like they did during the Biden investigation.

But they’re not saying anything. They’re leaving. Their lawyers are leaving. And when the lawyers leave, that’s a pretty good sign that something bad is going on.

Benny Johnson:
We don’t need to speculate—we have the receipts.

Let me read just one example. Kerry Alberti—not trying to pick on this sweet 80-year-old woman from Richmond, Virginia. She lives in a rent-controlled apartment, $2,000 a month. A humble place.

She’s surely on Social Security, not living large. Yet, in the last 500 days, she’s made 22,619 donations—totaling $800,397. That’s nearly a million dollars donated by this little old lady on a fixed income.

How is that possible?

James Comer:
Well, she’d have to have a pretty big credit card limit to do that.

Whether it’s through a credit card or a wire transfer to ActBlue, it all starts at a bank. And that’s the key to money laundering—it has to go through a bank.

If one bank—or multiple banks—are seeing this kind of suspicious activity, they will flag it. If her usual credit card bill is $350 a month, but suddenly she’s putting $15,000 a month in ActBlue donations, the banks will notice.

All that information is sitting in the Treasury. And you might ask, “Why is it in the Treasury?” Well, the FBI should be looking into it. There could have been an investigation started long before the Trump administration.

But at the end of the day, I think what you’re going to see here is that there was a cover-up—just like what we found with the Bidens.

James Comer:
It wasn’t just Biden’s crimes—it was the government cover-up.

With ActBlue, federal agencies knew this money was being laundered. It’s not humanly possible to raise that much money. There aren’t enough Democrats in America to make that many small-dollar donations adding up to billions of dollars.

It’s not possible.

Benny Johnson:
Even polling shows that over decades, the left is not a generous group. They like to say they’re generous, but they aren’t. Conservatives are twice as likely to donate—probably because they’re more successful and have extra capital.

But what you’re alleging, Mr. Chairman, is that the corporate media creates a fake story about an overwhelming grassroots movement to give cover for a massive money-laundering operation—potentially involving foreign entities like China or Iran.

Am I getting this right?

James Comer:
Yes, and because they didn’t require that credit card code Marco Rubio mentioned, it made it easier to do.

What you’ll see is: the Biden administration didn’t cooperate with our investigation before the election. They stalled, and now that we’re in a new administration, we’re going to dig deeper.

And if ActBlue goes down—if people go to prison—if there are frog marches for ActBlue executives—the Democrat Party is finished.

Benny Johnson:
They’ll have to rebuild from the ashes. If ActBlue collapses, the Democrats have no party left.

James Comer:
Exactly. ActBlue is their financial lifeline. Without it, it’s over.

WATCH:

You can read The Gateway Pundit’s report on Act Blue here.

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WATCH: Speaker Mike Johnson Finally Announces No More Aid to Ukraine: “We’re Going to Wait and Take the New Commander in Chief’s Direction” | The Gateway Pundit

House Speaker Mike Johnson announced in a Wednesday press conference that the House would not approve any more aid to Ukraine in light of President Trump’s victory and upcoming inauguration.

This comes after a second threat against Johnson of an attempt to elect a new Speaker.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, some Freedom Caucus members believe Mike Johnson has been an “abysmal failure” and want to replace him.

Earlier this year, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) tried to oust Johnson as Speaker with a Motion to Vacate following his repeated broken promises, especially regarding wasteful spending and foreign aid to Ukraine.

The attempted ouster came after Johnson led Republicans to give up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and voted to send an additional $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to Ukraine, a move that President Trump expressly opposed. All of this furthered Biden’s agenda.

However, only 11 Congressmen voted for Greene’s Motion. 196 Republicans and 163 Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and current Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, voted to keep Mike Johnson as Speaker.

But it appears that Johnson may be taking steps in the right direction, and hopefully, it stays that way.

Johnson also recently showed that he does have a spine when he declared that “A man is a man, and a woman is a woman” before enacting Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) proposed rule prohibiting biological men from using women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill.

Johnson was asked Wednesday whether he would follow Biden’s request and attach an additional $24 billion to a continuing resolution, and he said he will “wait and take the new Commander in Chief’s direction on all of that.”

Watch below:

Johnson: There are developments by the hour in Ukraine, I think, as we predicted, and as I said to all of you weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected, it will change the dynamic of the Russia war on Ukraine, and we’re seeing that happen. So, it is not the place that Joe Biden to make that decision now. We have a newly elected president, and we’re going to wait and take the new Commander in Chief’s direction on all of that, so I don’t expect any Ukraine funding to come up now.

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The Donald’s First Hire Proves Just How Different Trump 47 Will Be From Trump 45 | The Western Journal

If you want to see how a president-elect is going to govern, don’t look at their promises. Look at their first hire: chief of staff.

For instance, anyone who bought the hopey-changey rhetoric of Barack Obama should have been wary when he announced that then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel would fill the role that helps a president fill all the other rolls. As a writer for Chicago Magazine noted back in 2013: “Once, he sent a pollster a dead fish. Another time, he repeatedly stabbed a steak knife into a restaurant table.” The next eight years, rather unsurprisingly, held a lot more dead-fish-and-stabbed-steak politics than it did hope-and-change-type stuff.

In the case of our new president-elect, former President Donald Trump, there’s no shortage of prognostications of what Trump 47 will look at compared to Trump 45. In that vein, I give you a chief-of-staff comparison: Susie Wiles vs. Reince Priebus.

On Thursday evening, Trump announced he was tapping Wiles, his campaign manager, for the all-important position.

“Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history, and was an integral part of both my 2016 and 2020 successful campaigns,” he said.

“Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected. Susie will work tirelessly to Make America Great Again. It is a well deserved honor to have Susie as the first-ever female Chief of Staff in United States history,” he continued.

“I have no doubt that she will make our country proud.”

 

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This is how The Washington Post described her: “Wiles, 67, has led Trump’s operation since 2021 — when he was widely viewed as a pariah after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters. Unlike some advisers, she has rarely battled with him and has maintained a close rapport.”

“Trump entrusted her to manage the campaign’s budget and hiring for the 2024 campaign, and regularly referred to her as a ‘winner.’ Trump has often been solicitous of her opinion, asking for her thoughts in meetings. She is largely unfazed by his mercurial anger, people close to her say.”

Ignore the typical WaPoist slant about “mercurial anger” and the like. This is what the same publication had to say when Trump named his chief of staff in the days following his 2016 upset of Hillary Clinton.

“In choosing Priebus, 44, Trump has tapped a Washington insider who is viewed as broadly acceptable by vast swaths of the Republican Party. Priebus was recommended by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and will be a bridge between the White House and the Republican-led Congress, as well as the heads of Cabinet agencies,” the Post reported at the time.

“The choice signals Trump’s willingness to work within the very establishment he assailed on the campaign trail. Priebus, a lawyer and longtime Wisconsin political operative, has been head of the RNC since 2011 and is well liked within Washington after years of forging ties with Republican leaders and lawmakers.”

And how did trying to meet the establishment halfway work? Not well, as draining the swamp from within the swamp is a lot harder than doing it from a certain remove. Priebus was one of a number of lukewarm Republicans who entered the Trump administration and ended up being disappointments.

Heck, he wasn’t even the worst RINO chief of staff Trump hired; that honor goes to John Kelly, the former general and Homeland Security secretary most recently seen peddling highly dubious last-minute October surprise claims about Trump’s purported admiration for Hitler’s generals that nobody outside of the Democratic bubble seemed to really buy.

The point is that, when Trump was elected in 2016, he didn’t have a whole lot to choose from, inasmuch as his vision of a broader Republican Party — one that appealed more to the working class and to a sense of cultural conservatism as opposed to laissez-faire economics and deference to party elites — hadn’t exactly caught on with the wider GOP yet. Bringing in establishment figures as a bridge, however, only made things worse, as the appointees were nonentities at best and willful obstructionists at worst.

This time around, there’s no mistake that the party has changed. Liberals like to call it a cult of Trumpism, but the fact is that Trump has merely won both voters and party members over to his vision of America. And this time, there’s going to be little compromise with hand-wringing RINOs, most of whom were usually heard during this campaign cycle — if at all — onstage with Kamala Harris.

Her thorough trouncing in both the electoral and popular vote is also the trouncing of the establishment Republican vision. No more Reince Priebuses, no more John Kellys, nothing like that. In hiring Susie Wiles, Trump has set the tone for a smoother, more functional White House this time around, with no RINOs trying their best to wrest the keys of power from the president.

Source: The Donald’s First Hire Proves Just How Different Trump 47 Will Be From Trump 45