Wildfires are raging around Jerusalem and up and down Israel, forcing the evacuation of some communities and the closures of highways.

International help to fight the infernos is coming, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirming Italy and Croatia are expected to send three firefighting planes soon. IDF soldiers are on duty.

And other requests have been given to Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria.

There has been extreme wind and dangerous winds in recent days, and some reports attribute the flames to those conditions.

But a report in the Jerusalem Post suggests there’s another contributing factor: Terrorists who are urging people to “set” those fires.

“All you have to do is burn,” was one message from Hamas, which in fall of 2023 dispatched its terrorists to invade Isreal and killed some 1,200 civilians, kidnapping hundreds more.

“Youth of the West Bank, youth of Jerusalem, and those inside Israel, set their cars ablaze… Gaza awaits the revenge of the free,” the terrorist organization wrote, according to the Post.

The terror organization also posted on social media encouragement for Palestinians to “burn whatever you can of groves, forests, and settler homes.”

While more than a dozen people already have been injured, there have been no fatalities reported yet.

The Jenin News Network Telegram channel called on Palestinians to “burn the groves near the settlements,” the report said.

Estimates are that 220 fires have broken out across Israel over the past few days, under conditions that include heat and winds.

Dozens of homes have been destroyed.

“O, youth of the West Bank,” one online statement claimed. “Let us be the flame of freedom which will not die. Let us make their night – a burning day. Let us bring back to them the nightmares of the occupation, so they know that every day is a struggle for the resistance. Set fires of freedom everywhere. We will not give in and will not give up until we burn every piece of stolen land.”

The Post explained online, the fires were being called “Flames of the Flood,” a reprise of Hamas’ description of its terror assault on Israel as “Flood of Al-Aqsa.”

Another Palestinian “news channel” incited, “A call to the revolutionary youth and all the heroes of the West Bank. Settlers’ homes and the surrounding areas are your target. Burn them with your Molotov cocktails and set fire to the grass near the settlement outposts.”

Authorities have confirmed that some of the blazes appear to be arson.

Israel Fire and Rescue Commissioner Eyal Caspi announced the authority’s alert level has been raised to the highest level.

And the government confirmed Independent Day events have been canceled because of the threat from the flames.

Map of fires all over Israel right now, except in Palestinian territories.

Climate change is weird pic.twitter.com/8r70TJbfpq

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) April 30, 2025

A national state of emergency has been declared here in Israel due to the fires. Praying for everyone’s safety. pic.twitter.com/l8DdvyiKr7

— Montana Tucker (@montanatucker) April 30, 2025

Not only around Jerusalem, Fires started in Northern Israel as well.

It is now obvious that the dozens of fires were started by Palestinian terrorists to sabotage the Independence day celebrationd.

The monsters have succeeded.

Due to the emergency situation, all Independence… pic.twitter.com/97596dfWy2

— The Voice Of Truth (@thevoicetruth1) April 30, 2025

WILDFIRES NEAR JERUSALEM SPREAD FAST — ISRAEL CALLS FOR BACKUP

Massive brushfires are blazing again outside Jerusalem — and it’s gotten so bad, Israel just asked Greece, Croatia, Italy, Bulgaria, and Cyprus to send help putting them out.

The fires erupted (again) Wednesday… pic.twitter.com/a2yNR2vcTo

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 30, 2025

The administration of President Donald Trump has revealed plans to fix the Strategic Petroleum Reserve disaster created by Joe Biden’s administration while he was in office.

The SPR, created following the 1973 energy crisis, serves as an emergency stockpile of unrefined petroleum, maintained by the Department of Energy, to mitigate the impact of supply disruptions that may occur because of world events.

The petroleum actually is stored at four sites along the Gulf Coast.

Biden stunningly ordered up 1 million barrels were to be released per day for 180 days in order to mitigate price hikes that developed because of his economic policies, and the threat of reduce imports because of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Most previous releases had maxed out at some 10 million barrels.

Now U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has estimated it will take $20 billion and years to refill the reserve.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright revealed that Biden drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserves so rapidly—to drop prices before the election—that it damaged half the facilities.

The true damage done by the commissars actually running the country for Biden wont be known for years！ pic.twitter.com/dAbuiy08XK

— Sibyl (@ordinarygirl1) April 29, 2025

A report at Legal Insurrection described how, “The nation is still facing some issues related to Biden’s destructive and senseless energy priorities.”

The report noted the SPR is the world’s “largest emergency crude oil stockpile with capacity to store about 727 million barrels.”

It currently is at about 395 million barrels.

CNBC: Is the price right to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve right now?@SecretaryWright: “Absolutely. We are refilling the Reserve now and we will continue to refill the Reserve the whole time I’m in office.” pic.twitter.com/RZNXzz87zB

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 28, 2025

The report said overall, the nation’s energy outlook is slightly brighter since Trump took office and issued an executive order declaring a “national energy emergency.”

That directed the Department of Energy to prioritize refilling the SPR.

Administration officials how have confirmed the reserve is being refilled, after being depleted “for electoral reasons.”

Wright explained. “And in fact, it was drained so fast, it did some damage to the facilities. And so, right now, we only can fill two of the four major salt caverns we have, so we are doing repair work on the other two. We’re slowly filling the other two, and I’m trying to get some funds through Congress that’ll give us a longer-term runway to fill the strategic petroleum reserve at the fastest rate we can.”

Biden’s officials had claimed they had purchased enough oil to replace what Biden ordered released.

A report in the Hill said Biden officials said they purchased 40 million barrels, and canceled the sale of 140 million barrels “accounting” for the amount taken out.

However, a report at OilPrice.com explained the details.

“On July 29, multiple news outlets reported that the Biden administration has replenished the 180 million barrels of oil it removed from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. One headline read, ‘U.S. Restores SPR to pre-2022 Levels,’” the report said.

“It is absolutely false that the SPR has been replenished,” it reported.

“The reporting seems to be a misreading of the following precisely-worded commentary by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm: ‘As promised, we have secured the 180 million barrels back to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve released in response to Putin’s war in Ukraine – and we accomplished this while getting a good deal for taxpayers and maintaining the readiness of the world’s largest Strategic Petroleum Reserve.’”

The report explained, “President Joe Biden inherited an SPR at 638 million barrels when he took office in January 2021. However, first in response to rising gasoline prices, and then as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden announced the most aggressive SPR drawdown in history. At its low point in July 2023, the SPR was drawn down by 288 million barrels, although some of that was due to congressionally-mandated sales. Since then, the Biden administration has made a few purchases to put oil back in the SPR. But, as of the week ending July 19, SPR levels had only risen 27.7 million barrels from the low point. That is only 9.6% of the oil that was removed from the SPR.”

As of the date of the OilPrice report, last fall, the SPR still was 260 million barrels below the level it was when Biden took office.

The report said the misleading statement from Granholm confirmed that politicians were “taking credit for barrels” of oil that hadn’t been delivered, meaning they took a “minor” purchase and made the impression they replaced 180 million barrels of oil that had been removed.

“So, it wasn’t that 140 million barrels were put back, they are saying they avoided depleting it by another 140 million barrels in the future. So, it is absolutely false that the SPR has been replenished to pre-2022 levels. This reporting is based on a misunderstanding of the DOE’s comments, which seem designed to imply that 180 million barrels were put back into the SPR.”

Politico had raised the question during the Biden drawdowns whether the reserve left the U.S. ready for a crisis.

It noted Biden “sold off more than 40 percent of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve” to minimize rising fuel prices.

“That’s fueling Republican accusations that Biden has left the U.S. vulnerable to a disruption of global oil supplies — at a time when Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel are stoking fears of a wider regional war disrupting fuel shipments from the Middle East,” the report said at the time.

“That’s Joe Biden’s fault for trying to lower the price of gas before the election,” House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., told the publication.

The Trump administration also has been aggressive in encouraging production of oil, which had been targeted for elimination by Biden.

After Elon Musk’s 130-day term as a special government employee ends on May 30, the billionaire entrepreneur’s attorney says he expects Musk to continue to play a “critical role” in the Trump administration.

“Obviously, Elon’s played a critical role leading up to the 2024 election, just even preparing for the transition of this administration,” lawyer Chris Gober told The Daily Signal. “My expectation is he will continue to play a critical role moving forward.”

Gober is a partner and CEO of Lex Politica, the law firm that represents Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other key figures involved in the legal and political process of establishing the Department of Government Efficiency.

Gober sat down with The Daily Signal for his first interview since revamping Lex Politica.

Musk has the legal authority to remain at DOGE after his term as a special government employee ends on May 30, said Nicole Kelly, Lex Politica senior counsel.

“The question is not whether Elon Musk will stay at DOGE, but whether he has the legal authority to do so after May 30,” Kelly told The Daily Signal. “The answer is yes. But regardless of whether he stays involved or not, I believe his relentless drive to reform the federal government will endure, inspiring current and future administration employees to carry forward DOGE’s mission with unwavering dedication.”

Musk has said he would spend “a day or two per week on government matters for as long as the president would like me to do so, as long as it is useful.”

Despite criticism from the Left, DOGE is constitutional because President Donald Trump has the authority to appoint staff to implement his agenda, said Lex Politica partner and political law co-chair Steve Roberts.

“Creating temporary entities and positions is a common practice for presidents,” Roberts told The Daily Signal. “President Trump’s historic win last November created a mandate, and DOGE was created in response to the American voters wanting to cut the regulatory state. The constant media attacks just show how successful of an ongoing effort it is.”

The media have failed to report on the waste being exposed by DOGE because it doesn’t fit the narrative that the majority of Americans support creating efficiency, Gober said.

“It is what the people want. It’s what the people are going to get,” he said. “And I think that even long after, even if Elon leaves, I think what you’re going to see is what we’ve changed—the spirit of our desire to create and a more efficient government to go detect the waste and actually just make some changes in Washington.”

Musk’s involvement with DOGE was critical to “set the tone,” Gober said. Stories have circulated about Musk sleeping on the floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

“He leads by example, so long after he’s gone, I think that’s the tone that will continue to persist,” Gober said. “I think it’s absolutely critical we have that kind of urgency within our own federal government of the people working there. That is important that he did that, and I think it will prove important long after he is gone.”

The left-wing media don’t recognize Musk’s desire “to fundamentally change the country and how important that is to him.”

“I know there’s a lot of people who want to be detractors,” Gober said. “I want to challenge them because they don’t agree with what he’s doing. But I think the one thing you just have to recognize is the patriotism that he exhibits. And I think it’s something to be admired whether you agree with him or not, that he is doing this for the right reason, and that is the care of this country.”

Trump has changed politics, and the movement he created won’t end in 2028, Gober said.

“There’s going to be effects of how we do business and how politics is run, and with that law firms, corporate America, all the industries, they need to also catch up to that and evolve,” he said.

Lex Politica, which represents conservative political action committees, members of Congress, governors, and state attorneys general across the country, is a law firm “built for the moment,” according to Gober.

He said traditional big law firms are becoming obsolete due to their efforts to silence conservative movements and voices.

“They can hide behind conflicts in order to keep from offending the sensitivities of their own lawyers or their clients,” Gober said. “And I think that’s what we’re looking to build, is a law firm that’s unapologetic about who we represent, about what we do, and the victories we bring home for our clients.”

From thinking through the legal and strategic considerations of DOGE, to ensuring lobbying and legal compliance for campaigns, Lex Politica lawyers have been the go-to legal counsel on prominent issues, Roberts said.

“While some firms dance around politics, we’re stepping in with a firm that says what it believes and can act in the best strategic and legal interests of our clients,” he said. “We’re here for clients who want to go on offense when needed, not just play defense.”

As the Trump administration on Tuesday celebrates 100 days in office, the Lex Politica team is eager to continue serving its clients as they join the administration’s efforts to ensure America continues to thrive, said Jessica Furst Johnson, Lex Politica partner and political law co-chair.

“Politicians are making bold moves to align with the current state of our country,” Johnson told The Daily Signal. “Lex Politica is equipped to walk alongside our clients and help them win, providing counsel to some of the most influential figures on matters big and small.”

[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]

 

The administration of President Donald Trump has killed a Joe Biden plan that involved persecuting a multi-generation South Dakota ranching family with huge legal fees and even threats of jail.

“No family farmer or rancher should have to go through what the Maude family did,” explained Buck Wehrbein, a Nebraska cattleman and president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. “The targeted prosecution of the Maude family was way out of line for the U.S. Forest Service, and this was a clear example of government overreach that had direct, catastrophic impacts for a hardworking fifth-generation ranching family.”

It was under Biden’s administration that a dispute arose over a fenceline on land the family had ranched for more than a century.

Family members actively were involved in discussions to do an assessment of the problem, if there was one, and reach a resolution.

But then the U.S. Forest Service dispatched armed federal agents to serve each Maude family member with a federal summons for theft, even though the management of the boundary line and parcel in question hadn’t been changed since the early 1900s.

The result was that Charles and Heather Maude each was facing claims of “theft of federal property” and threatened with 10 years in jail and fines up to $250,000, according to a NewsDakota report.

“Charles and Heather Maude are public lands ranchers who for decades held a federal grazing permit and were permittees in good standing,” said Public Lands Council President and Colorado rancher Tim Canterbury, who also holds a federal grazing permit.

“As permittees, we are required to work collaboratively with the government, but when federal agencies view ranchers as the enemy, it threatens the trust that every single rancher has in their federal partners. The public outcry we saw on behalf of the Maudes goes to show that public lands ranchers everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief that the USDA under Secretary Rollins is no longer trying to slap handcuffs on hardworking farmers and ranchers.”

It was Trump’s U.S. secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, who now has confirmed that the charges are dropped and the case over.

Thanks to the work across President Trump’s Cabinet, we have taken bold action to put farmers first by dropping criminal charges against the Maude Family of South Dakota.

The political prosecution regime of the Biden Administration is no more. We are ending government regulation…

— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) April 28, 2025

That announcement said, “We have taken bold action to put farmers first by dropping criminal charges against the Maude Family of South Dakota. The political prosecution regime of the Biden administration is no more. We are ending government regulation through prosecution.”

“This case was an unfortunate example of the imbalance of power between family ranchers and a formidable federal government. Put simply, the Maude family was expected to bear the burden of an inefficient and unfair Forest Service process, and their story had a chilling effect on ranchers’ trust in federal land management agencies they interact with daily,” said Kaitlynn Glover, executive director of the PLC.

“Both the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Public Lands Council are pleased that our months-long campaign to find a good solution for Charles, Heather, and their kids has finally become a reality.”

A report from HPJ said the family runs a small cattle and hog operation, and the dispute involved a few acres of federal land.

The Maudes were alerted by the United States Forest Service that fencing on their property blocked access to the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, the report said, and “in good faith agreed to a survey of the property lines. After the survey was completed, the Maudes lives were turned upside down by the Biden administration where a simple civil dispute turned into what Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rolllins said was an unnecessary criminal prosecution.”

U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said the Department of Justice needs to spend its resources and efforts on prosecuting criminals and getting drugs off the streets, the report explained.

Sid Miller, the agriculture commissioner in Texas, said, “The U.S. Department of Justice’s choice to dismiss the criminal charges against Charles and Heather Maude is a long-awaited action that highlights the damage caused by the Biden administration’s harmful federal overreach. This marks a significant triumph for land rights, the diligent families that sustain this nation, and basic common sense. The Maudes, as fifth-generation ranchers, have responsibly managed their land for many years under the supervision of the very agency that sought to portray them as criminals.

“This was never a criminal matter; it was a land use disagreement that should have been resolved through dialogue and respect, rather than threats of prison and financial ruin. What occurred in South Dakota serves as a chilling reminder of how easily bureaucratic power can spiral out of control and jeopardize the livelihoods of honest agricultural producers.

“I am thankful that under the Trump administration, the rights of rural Americans are finally being honored, and sensibility has returned to our national government,” he said.

A possibly “brutal” punishment is looming for yet another judge accused of helping an illegal alien escape, according to a new report.

In just the past few days, an ex-judge in New Mexico and his wife were arrested for harboring illegal aliens, and a Wisconsin judge was suspended from her duties and arrested for enabling an illegal alien criminal to avoid arrest by waiting ICE agents.

Now a Daily Mail report reveals a hearing is scheduled for a Boston judge, being paid more than $200,000 a year by taxpayers, who is accused of letting “a twice-deported illegal immigrant slip out a side door of her courtroom to avoid ICE agents.”

The report said Shelley Joseph, being paid to be a Boston Municipal Court judge, is facing removal from the bench when a hearing is held on June 9 over the April 2018 stunt.

Boston judge set to face hearing for helping illegal migrant slip out of court to avoid ICE agents in 2018 https://t.co/0B6I5qezpA pic.twitter.com/dHuZLFS66s

— New York Post (@nypost) April 30, 2025

“She has been accused of allowing Jose Medina-Perez, an illegal immigrant originally from the Dominican Republic, walk out a back door of the Newton District Courthouse to avoid getting arrested by the ICE agents on duty,” the report said.

She was indicted by former U.S. Attorney Andrew Leiling, but those charges were dropped when she agreed to refer herself to the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct and that organization, in a report called “scathing,” determined she committed “willful judicial misconduct.”

She further failed “to cooperate and be candidate and honest” with investigators.

Massachusetts judge Shelly Joseph thought she was being a tough resistance fighter in helping an illegal alien evade ICE by letting him out the courthouse back door. Here’s her expression upon being indicted for abetting federal lawbreaking pic.twitter.com/a6zTJIpudl

— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 27, 2019

The report said the hearing will be an opportunity for lawyers for the judge, and lawyers for the commission to present evidence to a hearing officer who has the authority to take away her job.

Medina-Perez was arrested for drug possession and being a fugitive from justice and went to a Newton District Court hearing on April 2, 2018. The commission found Joseph found out that ICE agents were on hand, and had a “civil immigration detainer” to take custody of the illegal alien.

“The defense attorney for Medina-Perez allegedly colluded with the trial court officer to let his client sneak out a ‘sally-port door’ in the lockup downstairs to avoid the ICE agents, the commissioners said,” according to the report.

Part of the evidence is that Joseph ordered a clerk to shut down the courtroom recording system and she held an off-the-record discussion with the lawyers in the case.

On the record, she then granted a defense request to let Medina-Perez “go downstairs” to a lockup, but he fled through a sally-port door.

WND has reported on the two other judges caught in recent cases.

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a warning.

“No one’s above the laws in this country,” she said. “And if you are destroying evidence, if you’re obstructing justice, when you have victims sitting in a courtroom of domestic violence and you’re escorting a criminal defendant out a back door, it will not be tolerated, and it is a crime in the United States of America. Doesn’t matter who you are, you’re going to be prosecuted.”

Pam Bondi on judges arrested for alleged interference with immigration enforcement: “No one is above the law.” pic.twitter.com/6YABhh0u5Y

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 25, 2025

The latest arrest was of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, who was taken into custody by the FBI for allegedly hiding a previously deported illegal immigrant in her jury room in order to stop him from being arrested by ICE, and on Tuesday was relieved of her official duties.

This judge broke her oath to uphold the law https://t.co/tjlPThrfyW

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2025

Fox News reported Dugan was charged with obstruction.

In an interview on “American Reports,” Bondi explained how the Trump administration will handle judges who obstruct and block federal efforts to secure the border and remove illegal aliens.

“We are going to prosecute you, and we are prosecuting you. I found out about this the day it happened,” she said.

“We could not believe, actually, that a judge really did that. We looked into the facts in great depth… You cannot obstruct a criminal case. And really, shame on her. It was a domestic violence case of all cases, and she’s protecting a criminal defendant over victims of crime.”

Dugan is accused of protecting illegal alien Eduardo Flores-Ruiz after his criminal court hearing before Dugan just days ago.

“Dugan demanded that the (federal) officers proceed to the chief judge’s office and – after his hearing ended – escorted Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out a restricted jury door, bypassing the public area where agents were waiting in order to help him avoid arrest, per the complaint,” the report said.

Bondi pointed out then Flores-Ruiz fled on foot, creating a threat to the public.

The earlier arrests were of ex-New Mexico Magistrate Judge Joel Cano, and his wife, Nancy Cano.

They allegedly harbored suspected Tren de Aragua terror group member Cristhian Ortega-Lopez.

Milwaukee judge ‘temporarily relieved’ of official duties after allegedly aiding illegal alien

AG Pam Bondi warns judges who are subverting president’s security agenda

President Donald Trump on Wednesday unleashed another scathing attack on deceptive news agencies, saying CBS News, its “60 Minutes” program, and the New York Times “have to pay a price” for “their likely unlawful behavior,” as reports emerge that CBS and its parent company Paramount are caving to Trump’s legal action against them.

Trump sued CBS, alleging the network deceptively edited its Oct. 7 interview with Kamala Harris to help the vice president sound better during the 2024 race for the White House. Now Paramount executives are reportedly nearing a deal with Trump to settle the claims, according to Mark Steffen at Trending Politics.

Steffen reported: “The offer, set to be discussed Wednesday in the first mediation between both camps, is a tacit acknowledgement of how desperate the entertainment company’s upper echelon has become to end Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit.

“During an April 18th meeting, Paramount allegedly outlined financial parameters for a potential settlement with the president, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. The exact dollar amount is unclear, but reaching a consensus would pave the way for both sides to seek dismissal of the suit.”

Trump said Wednesday on Truth Social: “The case we have against 60 Minutes, CBS, and Paramount is a true WINNER.”

“They cheated and defrauded the American People at levels never seen before in the Political Arena. Kamala Harris, during Early Voting and, immediately before Election Day, was asked a question, and gave an answer, that was so bad and incompetent that it would have cost her many of the Votes that she ended up getting.

“It was a disastrous answer! 60 Minutes and its corporate parents, in order that this not have a negative impact on her, removed and deleted Kamala’s entire answer, every word of it, and replaced it with a response that she gave later on to an entirely different question.

Remember Kamala’s word salad answer about Israel on 60 Minutes? It’s gone.

This is what many Americans will now see. pic.twitter.com/H4w7btDv6x

— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 8, 2024

“The new answer was not good, but it didn’t show Gross Incompetence like the one that was removed by 60 Minutes. In other words, 60 Minutes perpetrated a Giant FRAUD against the American People, the Federal Elections Commission, and the Federal Communications System.”

Trump continued: “Despite all of the above, and Paramount’s/CBS’/60 Minutes’ admittance to this crime and, with other similar corrupt removals of answers to questions, the Failing New York Times, which is Fake News both in writing and polling, claims that ‘people’ said that the case is baseless.

“They don’t mean that, they just have a non curable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, possibly to the point where the Times’ interjection makes them liable for tortious interference, including in Elections, which we are intently studying. The bottom line is that what 60 Minutes and its corporate owners have committed is one of the most egregious illegalities in Broadcast History.

“Nothing like this, the illegal creation of an answer for a Presidential Candidate, has ever been done before, they have to pay a price for it, and the Times should also be on the hook for their likely unlawful behavior. It is vital to hold these Liars and Fraudsters accountable!”

Is the news we hear every day actually broadcasting messages from God? The answer is an absolute yes! Find out how!

As WorldNetDaily reported in October, CBS was named in a federal complaint for its decision to make Harris look coherent, as it was accused of “significant and intentional news distortion.”

CBS News released a statement at the time, indicating: “Former President Donald Trump is accusing ’60 Minutes’ of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false.”

“’60 Minutes’ gave an excerpt of our interview to ‘Face the Nation’ that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response. When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on ’60 Minutes’ was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.”

Howard Kurtz, the former Washington Post media writer who left CNN to join Fox News in 2013, blasted “60 Minutes” as “blatantly unethical” for its “pathetic response.”

“This is a pathetic response by ’60 Minutes’ after a week of silence,” Kurtz told Martha MacCallum of Fox News.

‘Pathetic’: #Media expert shreds #60Minutes response about deceitful editing of #KamalaHarris interview

‘It’s blatantly unethical, and if someone on my staff did that, they’d be looking for a new job’#Trump #Election2024 #MediaBuzz @HowardKurtz @marthamaccallum @MediaBuzzFNC pic.twitter.com/gs2PTnJmyX

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) October 21, 2024

“It basically says, ‘Yeah, we did it. So what?’ They talk about making Kamala Harris sound more succinct, in other words, making her look better by switching up the answers as you just saw. You can’t have a different part of an answer to the same question.”

“It’s blatantly unethical, and if someone on my staff did that, they’d be looking for a new job,” he continued.

Trump himself previously hammered CBS for its deceptive editing, calling it “the single greatest scandal, in my opinion, in broadcast history.”

#Trump: ’60 Minutes and #CBS should lose their license’ for ‘single greatest scandal in broadcast history’ #media #Election2024 @mariabartiromo pic.twitter.com/uumW8UtulO

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) October 13, 2024

“’60 Minutes’ and CBS interviewed Kamala, and she’s incompetent. She gave them the dumbest answer anyone’s ever heard. So they took that answer out, the whole answer they threw out, and they took another answer that she gave to a totally different question and inserted it. And supposedly, they did this a number of times. And they got caught. ’60 Minutes’ and CBS should lose their license for that.”

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‘Pathetic’: Media expert shreds ’60 Minutes’ response about ‘deceitful editing’ of Kamala interview

CBS named in federal complaint over its decision to make Harris look coherent

WATCH: CBS busted AGAIN for deceptively editing news to favor Democrats

WATCH: ’60 Minutes’ uses deceptive editing to make Kamala Harris look coherent

WATCH: Trump sounds alarm about ‘bigger problem’ on Election Day

It’s 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, and his administration has continued to move at “Trump speed.”

The president has signed a record-breaking 142 executive orders, taking actions such as ending the “catch and release” policy on illegal immigration, declaring a national energy emergency, cutting DEI-related funding and policies, and downsizing the federal bureaucracy, among others.

He also signed into law the Laken Riley Act against illegal alien crime and oversaw the deportation of more than 139,000 illegal immigrants to secure the southern border.

But, predictably, the corporate media have spent the 100 days making the story about themselves.

On Tuesday afternoon, the White House sent out an article titled “100 DAYS OF HOAXES: Cutting Through the Fake News” that mocked the corporate media’s main-character syndrome. The release lists more than 50 of the most hilarious and deceptive media hoaxes.

Unsurprisingly, the first hoax mentioned was a story from CNN.

When CNN attempted to “fact-check” Trump’s joint address to Congress on March 4, it initially rated the president’s claim that the Biden administration spent millions of taxpayer dollars on “making mice transgender” false.

The White House, however, brought the receipts on March 5. An article on the White House website titled, “Yes, Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments,” listed and linked to the government funded experiments.

The Biden administration gave $455,000 to a study, “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses”; $2,500,000 to “Reproductive Consequences of Steroid Hormone Administration” on mice; and $3,100,000 to a study that looked into “gonadal hormones as mediators of sex and gender influences in asthma” in mice.

In total, the Biden administration wasted $8 million of taxpayers’ hard-earned money on these experiments.

CNN was forced to update its story to say the claim is not false, but “needs context”:

An earlier version of this item incorrectly characterized as false Trump’s claim about federal money being spent for ‘making mice transgender.’ The article has been updated with context about the spending, which was for research studies on the potential human health impacts of treatments used in gender-affirming care.

Another one of the media hoaxes listed by the White House was a story from The Associated Press that claimed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “very good friends.”

The story, initially titled “Gabbard Says Trump And Putin Are ‘Very Good Friends,’ Focused On Strengthening Ties,” was pulled down, before the AP published it with the following correction:

This story was updated on March 17, 2025, to delete erroneous reporting that U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘are very good friends.’ Gabbard was talking about Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

When the Daily Caller News Foundation asked for comment, a spokesperson for the AP said the story was pulled because “it did not meet [its] standards.”

The ordeal enraged Alexa Henning, a DNI spokesperson, who accused the media of malicious incompetence.

The @AP is total trash. DNI @TulsiGabbard was referring to PM Modi & President Trump and this is the headline they publish.

This is why no one trusts the maliciously incompetent and purposefully bias media. If this isn’t a clear example of pushing a solely political narrative,… pic.twitter.com/1chFZQqTEd

— Alexa Henning (@alexahenning) March 18, 2025

Olivia Coleman, Gabbard’s press secretary, posted on X that she attempted to contact the AP about the story before the correction was made, but “have so far heard nothing regarding their literal fake news article about the DNI.”

I emailed @AP and @DavidKlepper and have so far heard nothing regarding their literal fake news article about the DNI.

Won’t hold my breath. https://t.co/ZBK2mcakBG

— Olivia Coleman (@DNIspox) March 18, 2025

Media hoaxers have come for Vice President JD Vance as well. An April 22 post on X from The Daily Beast claimed Vance “broke one of the most notorious Vatican rules during his Easter weekend visit” with Pope Francis the day before the pope’s passing.

The story, titled “JD Vance Ripped for Embarrassing Gaffe During Vatican Visit,” alleged Vance broke the rule that “visitors are ‘forbidden’ from taking photographs in the chapel.” The Daily Beast buried a crucial detail in paragraph 14: “A source close to the situation told the Daily Beast that the Vatican gave special permission for the photographer in question to take pictures inside the Sistine Chapel.”

These Fake News losers buried this in the 14th paragraph https://t.co/IDgxt4I3dZ pic.twitter.com/D3JxsI0fgB

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 24, 2025

At a pace of at least two hoaxes a day during Trump’s first 100 days, the media are on track to push nearly 3,000 false narratives by the time he leaves office in January 2029.

[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]

Conservative American writer David Horowitz lost his battle with cancer, passing away Monday at 86 years old, according to an announcement on his X account.

For over 40 years, Horowitz was a strong advocate and defender of conservatives, founding the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 1988, among his various accomplishments in politics. A six-minute video was posted on his X account by the Freedom Center, detailing the conservative’s life.

“On behalf of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, we are very saddened to announce the passing of the Center’s founder, David Horowitz. After a lengthy battle with cancer, David passed yesterday at the age of 86. David Horowitz, 1939-2025. Requiescat in pace,” the post stated.

On behalf of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, we are very saddened to announce the passing of the Center’s founder, David Horowitz. After a lengthy battle with cancer, David passed yesterday at the age of 86.

David Horowitz, 1939-2025. Requiescat in pace. pic.twitter.com/F47yooJL3K

— David Horowitz (@horowitz39) April 29, 2025

Horowitz was born in New York on Jan. 10, 1939 and raised by schoolteacher parents who “remained steadfast in their commitment to” the “progressive left” and “its Marxist version of a liberated society,” according to the Freedom Center’s video. While continuing in his Marxist ideology through college, Horowitz became editor of a magazine called “Root & Branch,” which published essays embodying the political vision of the new left.

By 1969, Horowitz had become “disturbed at the direction” of the movement he had long supported, saying he had “realized, even at that time, you couldn’t really remake the world as the left intended without totalitarian coercion,” the Freedom Center said. After growing close to Black Panther leader Huey Newton, it was the 1975 death of bookkeeper Betty Van Patter that triggered Horowitz’s transformation toward conservatism.

“In a vignette that Horowitz wrote at the request of the New York Times Magazine, Horowitz recounted the stages of his metamorphosis. Being at the center of a heroic myth inspired passions that informed my youthful passage and guided me to the middle of my adult life, but then I was confronted by a reality so inescapable and harsh that it shattered the romance for good,” the Freedom Center said.

After casting his first Republican ballot in 1984 for former President Ronald Reagan, Horowitz went on to author books on riots and American political culture, as well as create the Freedom Center’s online journal, “FrontPage Magazine.” Horowitz had written several op-eds for the Daily Caller over the years, with some calling out American universities and their pushback against free speech.

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A locally run Republican Party building in New York has been vandalized just weeks after similar attacks were reported in two locations.

The New York State Republican Party said in a Tuesday press release that its Albany headquarters was defaced with “Nazi imagery” days after “an initial act of vandalism that included swastikas.” The incident comes just days after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it is prosecuting a leftist suspect in a recent arson attack on a New Mexico GOP building as Republican leaders call for civility.

“This was not a random act of vandalism — it was an escalation of political hatred deliberately aimed at intimidating Republicans and silencing our voices,” Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik said in the press release. She called the vandalism “a disgusting criminal act and a direct threat to the hardworking staff of the New York Republican Party.”

A photo obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation showed the word “Nazis” written on a pillar along with an arrow pointing upward at the building. The New York GOP told the DCNF that the vandalism occurred overnight. The organization posted on X that it also found swastikas taped to the building on April 16 with a sign that read, “If this is not what you stand for, prove it.”

The DOJ announced April 14 it had charged self-described “queer” scientist with property damage offenses for allegedly firebombing the Albuquerque, New Mexico GOP headquarters on March 30 and later a Tesla dealership.

The Albany Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.

“We must never tolerate political violence, regardless of the target,” Stefanik said. “It’s time to restore respect, dialogue, and decency to our political discourse.”

Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York accused Democratic leaders of “creating a climate of hostility that emboldens and encourages these acts” with “reckless rhetoric.”

“Any form of political violence or intimidation is unacceptable, and the perpetrators must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Lawler said.

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