Late Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden’s administration of attempting to shut down conservative activist Charlie Kirk and his group, Turning Point USA, by using an expansive election investigation directed by special counsel Jack Smith.
Trump’s remarks, posted on Truth Social, came after Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, disclosed that Kirk’s organization was among the Republican-affiliated entities swept into the FBI probe known as Arctic Frost, which originated from Smith’s case regarding Trump’s electors.
“Why was the wonderful Turning Point under INVESTIGATION by ‘Deranged’ Jack Smith and the Corrupt & Incompetent Biden Administration?” Trump wrote. “They tried to force Charlie, and many other people and movements, out of business. They Weaponized the Justice Department against Sleepy Joe Biden’s Political Opponents, including ME!”
Trump went on to allege that “they allowed the daughter of a Judge, on one of the corrupt trials against me, to become the biggest fund raiser for Biden and [former Vice President] Kamala [Harris], making many Millions of Dollars for herself and her family, but with her father, the Judge, not only refusing to RECUSE himself, but putting a gag order on me, not allowing ANY talk about their family corruption and unprecedented conflict of interest. Every leading legal analyst and pundit said this trial was wrong and should not have been allowed to go forward. But it did because of a Corrupt Judge who will hopefully pay a very big price for his illegal actions, someday!”
When Grassley opened Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on FBI oversight, he began by offering a prayer for Kirk and commending FBI Director Kash Patel for his leadership, while Patel faced questioning from lawmakers.
The Iowa senator then charged that the FBI had been “infected with politics” under Biden and argued that Arctic Frost went far beyond a routine election matter.
He asserted the operation had become “a vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and Department of Justice prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.”
Trump has consistently argued that both Smith and the Biden administration used the Justice Department as a political weapon against him and those in his orbit.
Arctic Frost, launched in 2022 under FBI Director Christopher Wray, served as the foundation for Smith to file criminal charges against Trump.
“Some examples of the groups the Wray FBI sought to place under political investigation included the Republican National Committee, Republican Attorneys General Association, and Trump political groups,” Grassley said Tuesday. “On that political list was one of Charlie Kirk’s groups, Turning Point USA. In other words, Arctic Frost wasn’t just a case to politically investigate Trump.”
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Click HERE to join the Neki Kapayim annual Maamad Hashava!Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem harshly criticized her predecessor during a sit-down with “Pod Force One,” released Wednesday, accusing Alejandro Mayorkas of having left the southern border wide open to drug cartels and human traffickers.
“I don’t know how he slept at night,” Noem told The NY Post’s Miranda Devine, claiming that Mayorkas was following “direction” from the Biden White House, where Vice President Kamala Harris was designated as the “border czar.”
“I don’t know how he slept at night knowing the vulnerabilities he was creating for this country and the people he was letting in and allowing to undo us,” the 53-year-old added.
During President Joe Biden’s administration, border encounters reached historic highs, with more than 8 million migrants entering the country — among them criminals, gang members, and individuals flagged on terrorism watchlists.
“I think one of the biggest disservices they did to the country was not fulfill the mission of what the department was established for; it literally is to secure the homeland,” Noem said.
“And he opened the doors and said, ‘Come on in. If you are from an evil foreign government or a terrorist organization or a gang, you’re more than welcome, and we’re going to ignore our laws and treat you better than we do the American citizens.’”
In February 2024, House Republicans impeached Mayorkas, charging that he had willfully failed to uphold federal immigration laws and misled Congress when he described the border as “secure.”
“They didn’t even try to close the border,” Noem remarked on the podcast.
“That’s what I think. Knowing you were doing nothing and watching, if you watched, the inhumanity of what was happening at the border.”
The Democrat-majority Senate later declined to hold a trial, effectively acquitting Mayorkas and shielding Biden’s DHS chief from removal.
Since President Trump’s return to the White House, more than 300,000 illegal entrants have been deported, with most believed to have criminal histories.
Inside the country, authorities estimate another 2 million migrants with criminal records remain at large.
Meanwhile, under the Biden administration, more than 320,000 minors who crossed the border alone became unaccounted for after being transferred from government-funded housing organizations to private sponsors — some of whom were not vetted and were linked to crime and gangs.
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, which coordinated with DHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, at least 7,300 cases of trafficked migrant children were never investigated.
“We knew children were going missing,” Noem said.
“We knew they were raping our girls at the border and trafficking our little boys. And they knew all that was going on and watched.”
“[They] watched the same child cross the border over and over again with a different group of adults and they just went to bed at night,” she continued.
“And as a mom and a grandma, that’s the stuff that I don’t know how they did that. I don’t know how they sat there and facilitated that.”
The Trump administration has since rescued 13,000 minors, while HHS continues to investigate thousands of cases tied to trafficking, fraudulent sponsorships, and other alleged exploitation.
In another part of the interview, Noem spoke about time she spent with Border Patrol agents who were “demonized” after Biden, Mayorkas, and Harris falsely accused them in 2021 of whipping migrants with their horses’ reins in Texas.
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“Our nation saw horrifying images that do not reflect who we are,” Mayorkas said at the time, while Harris claimed the episode reminded her of “times of slavery.”
Noem told “Pod Force One” she “just wanted them to know that their previous leadership had ridden over them, but I was going to ride with them, and I was going to be a part of helping them do their jobs again.”
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CLICK HERE TO HELP US REACH OUR GOAL!In an opinion column published Tuesday in The Guardian, London’s Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, criticized President Trump for fueling “divisive, far-right politics” across the globe in recent years.
“We must unite to take on the reactionary populists and nativists who are exploiting economic concerns, the atomisation of modern life and a growing distrust of political and media institutions – something we have seen in countries across Europe and, of course, in the US,” Khan wrote.
“President Donald Trump and his coterie have perhaps done the most to fan the flames of divisive, far-right politics around the world in recent years,” Khan continued. “When he came to the UK on his first state visit, I highlighted how the president had deliberately used xenophobia, racism and ‘otherness’ as an electoral tactic.”
Trump landed in England on Tuesday evening for a state visit. His itinerary includes a meeting with King Charles III and other royals at Windsor Castle, located about 25 miles outside of London. He is also scheduled to sit down with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with topics on the agenda expected to include tariffs, the war in Ukraine, and the conflict in Gaza.
In his editorial, Khan urged British leaders to “ensure our special relationship includes being open and honest with each other.”
“At times, this means being a critical friend and speaking truth to power – and being clear that we reject the politics of fear and division,” Khan wrote, later declaring, “Those who seek to divide us will find a city determined to defend its liberal, democratic values more fiercely than ever.”
Trump has previously attacked Khan, calling him a “stone cold loser” on social media in 2019.
“.@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly ‘nasty’ to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom,” Trump said on X at the time.
“He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me,” Trump added.
Khan has also weighed in on American politics, noting last year that world leaders were paying close attention to the U.S. presidential contest between Trump and then–Vice President Kamala Harris because of its global impact.
“What I’d say in a respectful way to Americans is: I don’t think you realize that the rest of the world is watching because we’ve got skin in the game,” Khan told Politico at the time.
{Matzav.com}The Pentagon has announced updated grooming regulations requiring all members of the armed forces “to be clean shaven and neat in presentation for a proper military appearance.”
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell explained that, after “a rapid force-wide review of military standards,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “recently directed the Services to implement the following grooming standards for facial hair.”
“The grooming standard set by the U.S. military is to be clean shaven and neat in presentation for a proper military appearance,” Hegseth said, as quoted in Parnell’s statement.
Earlier this month, President Trump issued an order renaming the Department of Defense as the “Department of War,” portraying the change as a demonstration of America’s resolve. He also remarked that the long and costly wars of previous years under the old name were the product of political correctness.
The executive order signed by the president authorized both the official use of the new title and Hegseth’s position being retitled secretary of War. A permanent change, however, will still need Congressional approval.
“Commanders must apply consistent criteria and appropriately consider the Department’s interests in safety and uniformity when authorizing individual exceptions,” Parnell stated on Monday.
“Military medical officers will provide a written recommendation concerning a shaving waiver to the commander who is the final approval authority. Service members with an approved shaving waiver will participate in a medical treatment plan,” he added.
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