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It is unusual for five living presidents to be together in one place. Before 1991, there was only one other period in United States history, around 1861, when more than five presidents were even alive at the same time.... President-elect Trump has been talking almost nonstop to former President Barack Obama since the two sat down next to each other a few minutes ago. The conversation seems to be mostly one sided, with Obama listening and responding with shorter answers. Joe and Jill Biden have arrived and taken their seats in the front row next to the vice president and Doug Emhoff. While the cathedral is largely full, the congressional section has a lot of empty seats. ADDED: There are 5 living Presidents and the oldest is the current President! https://althouse.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-funeral-for-president-jimmy-carter.html

Hoo Boy: Karen Bass' Old Post About Ted Cruz Cooks Her, As Democrats Desperately Reach for a Deflection Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass finally returned from her taxpayer-funded escapade to Africa on Wednesday, and she's been feeling the heat ever since. She left for the inexplicable photo-op even as fires were already kicking up near her city, leaving a void of leadership during a crucial time. Since touching down back in America, Bass has faced numerous questions about why she was even in Ghana in the first place. Remember, this was an "official" trip paid for by taxpayers. Why does the mayor of California's largest city need to be part of a delegation to a third-world African nation? https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/01/09/hoo-boy-karen-bass-old-post-about-ted-cruz-cooks-her-as-the-press-desperately-reaches-for-a-deflection-n2184129

CROOK. Nancy Pelosi’s Stock Portfolio Explodes In Value, Beats Market By Nearly 200% by Owen Klinsky Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi beat the S&P 500 by nearly 200% in 2024, continuing her streak of outperforming the stock index. Pelosi’s portfolio grew 70.9% between Dec. 29, 2023, and Dec. 30, 2024, compared to the S&P 500’s 24.9% return for the period, according to financial data platform Unusual Whales’ 2024 Congress Trading Report. The former speaker’s 2024 investment results exceeded her stellar 2023 performance, when she secured a return of 65.5% — outperforming that year’s S&P 500 return of 24.8% by approximately 164%. https://www.lucianne.com/2025/01/08/nancy_pelosis_stock_portfolio_explodes_in_value_beats_market_by_nearly_200_142990.html

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FBI Is Still Hiding Details of Russiagate, Newly Released Document Shows By Aaron Maté, As Donald Trump re-enters the White House on a pledge to end national security state overreach, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is still hiding critical details on the Russia conspiracy investigation that engulfed his first term. In response to a Freedom of Information request filed by RealClearInvestigations in August 2022, the FBI on Dec. 31, more than two years later, released a heavily redacted copy of the document that opened an explosive and unprecedented counterintelligence probe of the sitting president as an agent of the Russian government. The Electronic Communication, dated May 16, 2017, claimed to have an “articulable factual basis” to suspect that Trump “wittingly or unwittingly” was illegally acting on behalf of Russia, and accordingly posing “threats to the national security of the United States.” The FBI’s “goal,” it added, was “to determine if President Trump is or was directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with, the Russian Federation.” It additionally sought to uncover whether Trump and unnamed “others” obstructed “any associated FBI investigation” – a reference to Crossfire Hurricane, the initial FBI inquiry into the Trump campaign’s suspected cooperation with an alleged Russian interference plot in the 2016 election. ... and by Jim Baker, the FBI general counsel. While Crossfire Hurricane, which was formally opened on July 31, 2016, had by that point focused on members of Trump’s orbit, the May 2017 probe was specifically targeted at the president himself during his fourth month in office. The investigation of Trump was undertaken at the behest of then-acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, one week after Trump had fired his former boss and mentor, James B. Comey. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/01/06/fbi_is_still_hiding_details_of_russiagate_newly_released_document_shows_1082631.html

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Incoming Border Czar Celebrates Discovery of Cartel Drug Smuggling Tunnel Under Mexico-Arizona Border by Bob Price Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan celebrated the discovery of three drug smuggling tunnels used by Mexican cartels along the Arizona border. U.S. and Mexican law enforcement teamed up and used drone technology to discover the tunnels. Homan posted a report on social media calling the discovery “great news.” The incoming Trump administration border czar described a joining operation between “American and Mexican officials. “This is one of three recently found since last year alone, with this one being found with the help of a drone,” Homan stated. https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/01/06/incoming-border-czar-celebrates-discovery-of-cartel-drug-smuggling-tunnel-under-mexico-arizona-border/ Trump's border czar plans weekly White House briefings to announce arrests and deportations crackdown by Rob Crilly The man who will take charge of Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigrants wants to hold weekly White House briefings on arrests and deportations. Tom Homan, who will become border czar when Trump is sworn into office on January 20, said Sunday evening that he planned to enforce the law 'without apology.' Trump has tasked him with sealing the southern border, launching a massive deportation program and tracking down what he claims are 300,000 missing undocumented children. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14254933/trump-border-czar-briefing-tom-homan.html

Jack Smith’s Top Hatchet Man in Trump Classified Documents Case Abruptly Resigns From Justice Department by Christina Laila Jack Smith’s top hatchet man, Jay Bratt, abruptly resigned from the Justice Department last week, according to Deep State reporter and fake Trump-Russia dossier peddler Michael Isikoff. Jay Bratt was one of the main prosecutors who spearheaded the Mar-a-Lago raid, he threatened a lawyer defending Trump’s valet driver and admitted the DOJ tampered with evidence. Jay Bratt tried to bribe Stanley Woodward and threatened him with a sinking judicial nomination if he didn’t get Walt Nauta to testify against Trump. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/breaking-jack-smiths-top-hatchet-man-trump-classified/

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Confirm Pete Hegseth Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.) has privately told President-elect Donald Trump that he believes that Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to run the Pentagon, has the votes to be confirmed. We hope that's the case. Hegseth brings impressive academic credentials combined with real-world experience—in his case, a distinguished record of service in the Army, where he did tours in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq that earned him two Bronze Stars. "Daily life in the States distorts our perspective, we get petty and particular; but from Iraq, America shines on the horizon, her flaws minimized by distance and her virtues magnified by comparison," he wrote friends in a moving letter from Iraq in 2006. Hegseth, who ran two nonprofit organizations when he returned from the Middle East and went on to become a Fox News anchor, doesn't have the traditional qualifications of a secretary of defense, but he does have the confidence of the president, the sine qua non of success in a Trump administration. He has given us a window since his nomination in mid-November into how and why he has endeared himself to Trump, demonstrating an ability to push back and shut down false narratives in the press. He has a fighting spirit that saved his nomination from an early demise just weeks ago. By his own admission, Hegseth is not a bureaucrat or a typical striver who has led his life with an eye toward career advancement. Like Trump, he is a thrice-married man who has been in the public eye for decades; unlike the president-elect, Hegseth says he is a reformed man who has found God. His confirmation hearing next week will no doubt offer Democrats the opportunity to take some more swings at him, but there is no reason Republicans should flinch. Most importantly, in an administration that will include aides and advisers with divergent views on foreign policy, including some who represent the Republican Party's resurgent isolationist wing, Hegseth is clear-eyed about the multitude of threats our country faces. https://freebeacon.com/columns/confirm-pete-hegseth/

YES, RISING INFLATION AND A FLAT ECONOMY WILL DO THAT: Wow, Democrats Lost the Capitol Riot Narrative Big Time. In the four years since the Capitol riot, Democrats have tried incessantly to turn it into a national tragedy akin to 9/11 and/or the Pearl Harbor attack. With the goal of preventing Trump from being able to seek the presidency again, they even called it an insurrection (it wasn’t) and accused Trump of inciting it (he didn’t). Their efforts failed, and Trump was reelected on November 5, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win the national popular vote since George W. Bush. Oh what a sweet victory it was. On Monday, Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris was certified, and once again, Democrats proved they just can’t let their phony baloney narrative go. I won’t bother posting all the tweets from Democrats waxing philosophical about the difference between January 6, 2025 and January 6, 2021, but I will show you this cringey post from Sen. Chuck Schumer and some silly “moment of prayer” he and a few other January Sixth-copalians held on Monday. They’re really trying hard, aren’t they? The problem for them is that it’s not working. Despite all their efforts, that day didn’t leave the lasting political scar on the public Democrats had hoped for. Despite the massive media coverage, congressional hearings, and the general pushing of the narrative that the riot was an “insurrection,” most Americans have moved on. CNN’s chief data reporter Harry Enten laid out the data starkly: back in early 2021, a majority of voters—56 percent—believed Trump’s actions on January 6 should disqualify him from the presidency. That figure included those who supported removing him from office. But by 2023, the percentage dropped to 47 percent, flipping the narrative. As Enten put it, “This nine-point shift was tremendous,” because it took the issue from a majority stance to a minority one. Trump captured the overwhelming support of the other 53 percent, effectively neutralizing the talking point. A deeper dive reveals an even more striking reality. In January 2021, 48 percent of voters blamed Trump for the Capitol riot. By December 2023, that number had fallen to just 37 percent. Fewer Americans blamed Trump, fewer thought it made him ineligible to lead, and, perhaps most tellingly, far fewer cared enough to remember it. When asked about their biggest memory of Trump’s first term, only 5 percent of Americans pointed to January 6. Among Republicans, it was a meager 2 percent. Pardon me while I laugh hysterically for a moment. Enten captured the sentiment perfectly: “Folks—fewer folks thought he was responsible… and more than that, as it went into the rear-view mirror, far fewer folks thought that it was their number one memory.” Simply put, the public has moved on. {snip} The bottom line? January 6 has become a historical footnote for most Americans, far from the game-changing issue Democrats envisioned. While they may have bet big on the riot defining Trump’s legacy, voters seem to have made up their minds: it’s time to move on. https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/06/wow-democrats-lost-the-capitol-riot-narrative-big-time-n4935726

Along with 77 other million Americans. You need to self-reflect on your self destructive anger, We are doing fine. . Back to the thread:

Actually he will be the Secretary of Defense.