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Joe Biden was for eight years vice president of the United States. Then later four years president.

But he’s not sure of the name of the nation actually.

He mumbled it while preaching to a crowd of LGBTQ activists who gave him an award for his work toward their cause.

It came out something like “The United States of Amerigotit.”

Biden, while speaking to gay group, mispronounces ‘the United States of America.’ pic.twitter.com/F0PAa97SN1

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 5, 2025

Other comments included:

“Just be who you are. You are loved.”

BIDEN: “My message to young people is this: Just be you, you are loved.” pic.twitter.com/qb94TfeBsb

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 5, 2025

And, “Get up. Get up get up.”

BIDEN: “It’s time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What’s the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.” pic.twitter.com/hVaj0QgKJC

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 5, 2025

Biden was given the Chris Abele Impact Award at the LGBTQ Victory Institute’s leaders conference in Washington.

 

Much media coverage of the arrest of a man for placing pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., in 2021 has focused on the length of time it took to nab a suspect and the vigor with which the FBI under President Trump investigated the case.

But CNN’s Jake Tapper’s report about the arrest raised eyebrows online after he identified Brian Cole Jr. as a “30-year-old white man.” Cole is black.

WATCH:

CNN’s Jake Tapper labels the J6 pipe bomber suspect Brian Cole a “30 year old WHITE man.”

You can’t make this stuff up.
pic.twitter.com/BHSfoaH1Ln

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 5, 2025

A former Drug Enforcement Administration official who rose to the rank of deputy chief of the Office of Financial Operations under Barack Obama has been raided by the FBI and now is facing charges of conspiring to launder millions of dollars for a Mexican drug cartel.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York identified the suspect as Paul Campo, who along with a friend, Robert Sensi, was indicted on charges of “narcoterrorism, terrorism, narcotics distribution, and money laundering.”

The announcement was made by Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the district, and Terrance C. Cole, the chief of the DEA.

“As alleged, Paul Campo and Robert Sensi conspired to assist CJNG, one of the most notorious Mexican cartels that is responsible for countless deaths through violence and drug trafficking in the United States and Mexico,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton. As part of that support, the defendants laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars they believed to be CJNG drug proceeds, agreed to launder millions more, and even agreed to use their financial expertise to facilitate cocaine trafficking right here in New York City.

“By participating in this scheme, Campo betrayed the mission he was entrusted with pursuing for his 25-year career with the DEA. CJNG is a violent and corrupting criminal enterprise that New Yorkers want broken. I commend the extraordinary efforts of the DEA in aggressively pursuing CJNG and those who support their deadly and corrupt efforts, no matter who they may be.”

CJNG is the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion.

Federal authorities charged:

CJNG is a Mexico-based transnational criminal group overseen by Nemesio Ruben “El Mencho” Oseguera-Cervantes that controls a significant portion of the narcotics trafficking trade. CJNG illicitly transports cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and other controlled substances into the United States. CJNG also engages in money laundering and other criminal activities, including acts of violence and intimidation. On February 20, 2025, the United States Secretary of State designated CJNG as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

PAUL CAMPO worked for the DEA for approximately 25 years, first as a Special Agent in New York and eventually rising to become a high-level DEA official, specifically the Deputy Chief of the Office of Financial Operations. CAMPO retired from DEA in or about January 2016.

In late 2024, ROBERT SENSI began meeting with a confidential source working at the direction of law enforcement (“CS-1”), who was posing as a member of CJNG. SENSI told CS-1 that he had a friend who used to be in charge of DEA’s financial operations who could assist CJNG by laundering narcotics proceeds and providing CS-1 with sensitive DEA information about sources and investigations.

After these initial meetings, CAMPO and SENSI together met with CS-1 on several occasions. During these conversations, CAMPO and SENSI agreed to launder money for CS 1 by, among other things, converting cash into cryptocurrency and making investments in real estate. CAMPO and SENSI further advised CS-1 about fentanyl production and explored procuring commercial drones and military-grade weapons and equipment for CJNG, including AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, M4 carbines, M16 rifles, grenade launchers, and rocket-propelled grenades. As part of these discussions, CAMPO and SENSI often boasted about and relied heavily on CAMPO’s prior federal law enforcement experience and expertise regarding financial investigations and drug cartels.

Regarding the drones, in one meeting, CS 1 explained to CAMPO, “what we do with the drones, we put explosives and we just send it over there, boom”; in another conversation, CS 1 asked SENSI how much C-4 explosive the drones could carry, to which SENSI responded, in sum and substance, approximately six kilograms, which is enough to “blow up the whole f—— . . . I don’t want to say.”
As part of the scheme, CAMPO and SENSI agreed to launder approximately $12,000,000 of CJNG narcotics proceeds; laundered approximately $750,000 by converting cash into cryptocurrency; and provided a payment for approximately 220 kilograms of cocaine on the understanding that the payment would trigger the distribution and sale of the narcotics worth approximately $5,000,000, for which CAMPO and SENSI would (i) receive directly a portion of the narcotics proceeds as profit; and (ii) receive a further commission upon the laundering of the balance of the narcotics proceeds.

Cole said, “The indictment of former Special Agent Paul Campo sends a powerful message: those who betray the public trust—past or present—will be held to account to the fullest extent of the law. The alleged conduct occurred after he left DEA and was unrelated to his official duties here, but any former agent who chooses to engage in criminal activity dishonors the men and women who serve with integrity and undermines the public’s confidence in law enforcement. We will not look the other way simply because someone once wore this badge. There is no tolerance and no excuse for this kind of betrayal.”

Campo and Sensi each face a count of conspiring to commit narcoterrorism, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years.

Other charges are conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaince, conspiring to provide material support and resources to CJNG, a desginated foreign terrorist organization, and money laundering.

BREAKING: Paul Campo, a former high-ranking DEA official under Obama, INDICTED for conspiring to launder $12 MILLION to support Foreign Drug Cartels pic.twitter.com/mK5VAZpJx6

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 5, 2025

BREAKING – The DEA’s chief financial director under Obama, Paul Campo, who resigned in 2016 ahead of Trump’s administration, had his Virginia home raided and has been charged for agreeing to launder $12 million for the CJNG, a Mexican cartel, while acting in his role at the DEA. pic.twitter.com/KL0tz6RsBn

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) December 5, 2025

JUST IN: DEA Agents Swarm Home On Gray Street In Oakton

Armed federal agents on Thursday swarmed the Oakton home of Paul Campo, a former senior executive at the DEA.

About 15 unmarked cars, including some with emergency lights, set up a perimeter around the property.

“One… pic.twitter.com/yGeE61WPDL

— SANTINO (@MichaelSCollura) December 5, 2025

A foundation commentary has credited a Japanese lawmaker with saying “what the West won’t.” And that is that a nation must not rewrite its laws to accommodate Muslims.

The stunning verdict was unleashed in a statement made by Mizuho Umemure, a member of Japan’s upper house.

The question arose because Muslims there, in a nation dominated by Shinto and Buddhism, are insisting on having more land for their burial locations.

The island nation already has a 99.9% cremation rate for several reasons, the scarcity of land, the possibility of hygiene problems when earthquakes churn up burial grounds and expose bodies, and more.

She suggested that Japanese traditions must be the priority and if someone dies in Japan, but wants a particular burial, the body can be repatriated to a home country.

A statement at the RAIR Foundation noted her dedication.

“Japan’s famously reserved political culture erupted in rare bluntness this week when Mizuho Umemura, a member of Japan’s upper house and rising figure in the Sanseitō party, delivered a firm rejection of expanding Muslim burial plots in Japan. Her remarks, now going viral, came during a November 27, 2025, session of the Health, Labour and Welfare Committee,” it explained.

The report added, “She said openly what most Japanese politicians avoid acknowledging: Japan’s funeral practices are not simply ‘tradition’ — they are rooted in public health, national history, and cultural continuity. And they will not be rewritten because of foreign demands. Within hours, millions of Japanese praised her for saying what they feel but cannot express under modern speech restrictions: Japan will not be bullied into changing its identity.”

She noted Muslim calls for “dedicated burial sites” but that raises questions of public health, land use and social harmony. Further, she said, “cultural” agendas actually impact Japanese society as a whole.”

‘The problem with existing society and Muslim people – what happens in Europe and America – we have to learn from it,” she warned.

The commentary noted that Miyagi Prefecture in Japan recently rejected plans for a Muslim burial site, and while, “media spin portrayed it as ‘xenophobic,’” the objections aligned with important factors.

Those include public-health concerns, environmental impact, and a refusal to alter local norms for a religious minority.

 

 

The grand jury transcripts from federal sex trafficking cases involving Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell, have been cleared to be made public.

The Los Angeles Times confirmed that U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith cited a new law specifically authorizing those records to be released in issuing an order.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump, and compels the Department of Justice, FBI and prosecutors to, by Dec. 19, release the boxes of material that accumulated while investigating Epstein.

The DOJ wants documents from three Epstein cases: a 2006-2007 Florida grand jury review of his actions, his 2019 sex trafficking case in New York, and the 2021 sex trafficking case involving Ghislaine Maxwell, which also developed in New York.

According to a Fox report, the new federal law overrides the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) which provides for grand jury secrecy.

The records will be released on the orders of the DOJ.

According to the Gateway Pundit, the new law applies to “unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials that relate to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Congress overwhelmingly supported the bill, and President Trump explained, “We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat ‘Shutdown.’”

JUST IN: Judge unseals Epstein grand jury records in south Florida. Judge Rodney Smith (Trump) says law Congress passed & Trump signed overrides background grand jury secrecy. Doc: https://t.co/PUcz0JNrWS

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) December 5, 2025

Trump previously has called for action.

“Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged by the Trump Justice Department in 2019 (Not the Democrats!), was a lifelong Democrat, donated Thousands of Dollars to Democrat Politicians, and was deeply associated with many well-known Democrat figures, such as Bill Clinton (who traveled on his plane 26 times), Larry Summers (who just resigned from many Boards, including Harvard), Sleazebag Political Activist Reid Hoffman, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (who asked Epstein to donate to his Campaign AFTER Epstein was charged), Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, and many more.”

He continued, “Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to pass this Bill in the House and Senate, respectively. Because of this request, the votes were almost unanimous in favor of passage. At my direction, the Department of Justice has already turned over close to fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress. Do not forget — The Biden Administration did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him.

“Democrats have used the ‘Epstein’ issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories, including THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TAX CUT BILL, Strong Borders, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, lowering Prices, Biggest Tax and Regulation Cuts in History, ending EIGHT Wars, rebuilding our Military, knocking out Iran’s Nuclear capability, getting Trillions of Dollars INVESTED in the U.S.A., creating the ‘HOTTEST’ Country anywhere in the World, and even delivering a HUGE DEFEAT to the Democrats on the recent Shutdown Disaster.”

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

Trump issued the executive order ending guaranteed citizenship for children of illegal aliens or migrants on temporary visas in January on his first day in office.

The Trump administration urged the justices to take up the case in September after lower courts held his order unconstitutional.

“The Clause was adopted to confer citizenship on the newly freed slaves and their children, not on the children of aliens temporarily visiting the United States or of illegal aliens,” the administration’s petition states.

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The Trump administration could have a tough time making all of former President Joe Biden’s autopen actions “null and void,” which likely means he will face litigation, legal experts warn.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, “Any and all Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts, signed by Order of the now infamous and unauthorized ‘AUTOPEN,’ within the Administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., are hereby null, void, and of no further force or effect. Anyone receiving ‘Pardons,’ ‘Commutations,’ or any other Legal Document so signed, please be advised that said Document has been fully and completely terminated, and is of no Legal effect.”

Clemency may be the only question, since Trump can overturn any Biden executive order whether the president signed it personally or by autopen.

“The autopen is only the instrumentality of fraud,” Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told The Daily Signal. The Oversight Project began analyzing and investigating Biden’s use of the autopen while he was still in office.

“The president has caught the ball and is pushing as hard as possible,” Howell added. “The Department of Justice is the last missing link to take action. This could be an important step in meeting the promise for more accountability.”

The office of Joe Biden did not respond to a request for comment.

Here are three keys to know what’s next.

1. ‘Proving That Biden Didn’t Know’

When matters are litigated, the burden will be on the Trump administration to prove Biden was unaware of actions taken in his name, warned Stewart Whitson, director of federal affairs for the Foundation for Government Accountability, a watchdog group.

“The challenge for the Trump administration is going to be proving that Biden didn’t know,” Whitson told The Daily Signal. “That could be proven through eyewitness testimony. It could also be proven through accessing documents, such as emails, that might suggest the president didn’t know.”

A strong starting point for the Justice Department to gain search warrants and compel testimony would be the evidence obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Whitson said.

In October, the committee issued a report titled, “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” based on interviews with 14 senior Biden White House staffers.

The investigation found that senior Biden staff exercised presidential authority or facilitated executive actions without direct authorization from President Biden himself, including through misuse of the autopen.

The committee found instances where executive actions were executed without clear record of the president’s approval. The committee also identified questions surrounding the issuance of pardons and commutations during the final days of the Biden presidency. This included pardons for Biden family members where the autopen was used without confirmed presidential authorization.

Former White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told the committee he didn’t know who was in charge of the autopen.

“Without sufficient recordkeeping, it is impossible to verify that the autopen was used properly,” the oversight committee report says. “Further, recently uncovered documents and witness testimony indicate that even when a verbal decision was ‘memorialized’ in an email, it does not prove that President Biden had made the decision himself.”

2. Clemency ‘Easiest to Undo’

During his Biden’s four years in office, the White House issued 4,245 acts of clemency. That’s more than the previous record of 3,796 held by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Of those, 96% were granted between Oct. 1, 2024, and Jan. 20, 2025.

These included pardons of five Biden family members, along with pardons for former National Institutes of Health official and former White House advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, and House members on the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.

A Biden Justice Department attorney raised concerns about what he called “highly problematic” pardon review process for what the White House characterized as nonviolent offenders.

Biden’s own words during a New York Times interview published in July, reveal that he was aware of “categories” of people with clemency, but not individuals. He did say he was aware of some pardons for Milley and the Jan. 6 committee members.

Biden’s comments to the Times should make the clemency “the easiest to undo,” said Howell of the Oversight Project.

“You don’t need to take the Oversight Project’s word for it. Biden told The New York Times after the Oversight Project forced him out of the basement, that he authorized broad categories for pardons, and the staff picked the names. So that was definitely not done by Biden,” Howell explained.

It could depend on the definition of categories, said Paul Kamenar, counsel for the National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group.

“If Biden told someone ‘pardon everybody on the January 6 Committee,’ that’s a broad category but it’s also finite,” Kamenar told The Daily Signal. “To say, ‘all or most nonviolent drug offenders’ would be more of a problem.”

3. What Will Litigation Look Like?

To reverse the pardons, the Justice Department would have to act, and then courts would resolve the question, legal experts said.

“If Biden never authorized it, it’s an invalid pardon anyway,” Kamenar explained. “The way this gets settled is if Adam Schiff or someone pardoned gets arrested, and he comes back to say, ‘I was pardoned.’ The government could then come back and produce evidence that, ‘No, Biden didn’t authorize the pardon.’”

Schiff, now a California Democrat senator, was previously a member of the House Jan. 6 committee.

Other clemency issues will be more difficult to litigate if it means reincarceration or returning old penalties, said John Malcolm, director of the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

“This is totally unprecedented territory,” Malcolm told The Daily Signal. “Normally pardons and grants of clemency, for example, are not subject to challenge since a president’s pardon power is plenary.”

“Here, the issue will be litigated when Trump takes some action that runs contrary to what Biden did–such as seeking to reincarcerate someone who was pardoned or granted clemency or setting an execution date for one of the 37 death row inmates whose sentences Biden commuted–and then we’ll see what a court does,” Malom added.

Trump’s move is a key first step, said Whitson of the Foundation for Government Accountability.

“The bigger threat that President Trump has brought to the public’s attention is the idea of unelected staffers exercising power they don’t have,” Whitson told The Daily Signal. “It could be at the behest of a well-funded organizations or even foreign funding pushing unelected bureaucrats to act.”

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

FBI Director Kash Patel is back in the safe zone again. The on-again, off-again MAGA media lynch mobs gunning for Patel to be ousted from the key Cabinet post over his perceived mishandling of several high-profile investigations and unmet demands for transparency have crested and fallen too many times to count during his tumultuous nine months in office.

But on Thursday, Patel instantly regained any lost footing after announcing the arrest of the alleged Jan. 6, 2021, pipe-bombing suspect.

In a major breakthrough in one of the FBI’s most high-profile unsolved cases, the FBI Thursday morning arrested Brian Cole Jr., 30, in his family’s Woodbridge, Va., home and accused him of placing pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, D.C., the day of the U.S. Capitol riot. Cole has been charged with transporting an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction using explosive materials, according to court documents. The bombs never detonated, and there’s a lingering question about whether they were capable of doing so.

Regardless of the level of danger, the pipe bombs have fueled a flood of conspiracy theories over who planted them and why no law enforcement officers found the device placed at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, even though the Secret Service had swept the site before then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s visit that day.

As video footage of FBI agents surrounding Cole’s house played on several cable TV stations, Patel, surrounded by Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, and a phalanx of top federal law enforcement officials gathered under the klieg lights at the Justice Department press room for a victory lap on the arrest. The Trump administration investigators had pinpointed Cole not because of any new tip, but just old-fashioned police work, Patel said. Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s FBI let the case gather dust for years, Trump officials argued.

“This cold case languished for four years until Kash and Bongino came to the FBI,” Bondi told reporters Thursday.

An affidavit signed by an FBI agent who worked on the case and released to the public showed that the FBI tracked Cole’s bomb-making equipment to purchases at Home Depot and Walmart. It also said Cole’s cell phone pinged in the area of the Republican and Democratic Party headquarters on the night of Jan. 5, 2021, when video showed a shadowy individual in a hoodie planting the bombs. His car, according to the affidavit, was also a half mile from the bombs on the same night.

The suspect’s motives remain a mystery, but reports surfaced Thursday afternoon that the alleged bomber had anarchist leanings.

While critics, including former FBI agent and podcaster Kyle Seraphin, cast doubt that the evidence against Cole Jr. was anywhere near conclusive, Bondi and others, including U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, heralded the arrest as a bombshell achieved through diligence and constant coordination between law enforcement agencies.

“This execution was flawless in terms of teamwork, resilience, and just a good, old-fashioned way of police getting the job done,” Patel told reporters, noting it was Bongino who led the months-long investigation. “When you let good cops be cops, this is what happens. I’m eternally grateful to the team behind me, to the leadership at the FBI who made this possible.”

Bongino praised Trump for setting the tone and giving them marching orders to “go after the bad guys and stop focusing on other extraneous things not related to law enforcement.”

Indeed, for many critics, especially those on the right, the FBI that Kash and Bongino inherited had become politically weaponized against Trump and conservatives to the point it public trust in the agency was at historic lows. Under Biden, the FBI had produced internal directives to investigate parents who criticized local school boards, including Catholics and pro-life individuals, and had spent an inordinate amount of time and resources interrogating and arresting individuals who entered the Capitol during the January 6, 2021, riots, even those who played no role in the violence.

When Patel and Bongino arrived at the FBI, MAGA world cheered, but expected instant reforms and transparency on some of the most controversial law enforcement matters, including the Jeffrey Epstein underage sex trafficking scandal. Transparency on the Epstein case proved much harder to achieve, as rumors for months have swirled that a number of prominent politicians on both sides of the aisle, including former President Bill Clinton and even Trump himself, could be exposed for involvement.

Bondi followed her promise to release the Epstein files with an embarrassing White House scene in February in which the attorney general handed out binders of what she inaccurately cast as newly declassified Epstein information to pro-Trump influencers who would later complain that they contained previously released files.

Bongino was so unhappy about the “Bondi binders” and the public backlash over them that he considered leaving his job in July after a heated confrontation with the attorney general, followed by a threat to quit unless Trump fired Bondi. The ultimatum, which leaked to the press, fueled speculation over who would survive the next few weeks, Bondi or Bongino.

The ugly spat subsided, and both Bondi and Bongino survived. But dissent from the left and the right against Patel and Bongino had ebbed and flowed during his nine months on the job with reports as recent as last week that Patel was on thin ice and set for removal. The rumors of Patel’s imminent departure reached a crescendo heading into and over the Thanksgiving weekend until the White House poured cold water on the reports that Trump was poised to fire Patel.

Last weekend, The Telegraph, a British newspaper, citing anonymous sources, claimed that the “mood is miserable” inside Patel’s “chaotic” FBI. Rank-and-file FBI agents were reportedly angered by several perceived blunders, including that Patel had prematurely announced that the FBI had thwarted a potential terrorist attack in Michigan on Halloween, in what critics said allowed suspects to flee. Back in September, during the furious manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s assassin, he claimed a killer was in custody when he wasn’t.

Democrats have always taken a dim view of Patel’s leadership at the FBI. Buoyed by reports that the White House was losing patience with the director, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker reminded Patel during a September hearing that a capricious boss might bring his career to an end.

“I don’t think you’re fit to head the bureau, but here’s the thing, Mr. Patel, I think you’re not going to be around long,” Booker said.” I think this might be your last oversight hearing.”

Patel fired back that the senator was “an embarrassment.”

Over the last month, prominent conservative voices have started to pile on.

In mid-October, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson published a bombshell report showing that Trump shooter Thomas Crooks had a much larger and far more anti-Trump digital footprint than the Biden-era FBI had portrayed.

The New York Post’s Miranda Devine advanced Carlson’s reporting by releasing even more of Crooks’ social media activity – including his visits to DeviantHub, a well-known gender-bending website frequented by furries. Even though the FBI declined to comment for the Devine’s report, a few days later Patel unsuccessfully tried to poke holes in the reporting in interviews with other reporters.

Just last week, Patel also announced a “full force” “coast-to-coast” manhunt for the National Guard attacker when the murderer was already in custody. Patel subsequently clarified that the comments were related to a broader investigation into potential accomplices or a wider plot, and not the announcement of a new manhunt for the already apprehended primary attacker.

Then on Dec. 1, Devine published a report from “an alliance” of anonymous active-duty and retired FBI agents and analysts claiming that the agency was a “rudderless ship” under Patel and Bongino, who were more concerned with building “personal resumes” and engaging on social media than reforming the agency.

The alliance’s report also included an embarrassing tale about Patel refusing to disembark from a plane in Utah the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination until he was given an FBI raid jacket and then ended up wearing a woman’s jacket. Patel has denied parts of the story, arguing that he needed a rain jacket because he had no time to pack before heading to Utah after Kirk’s killing.

The alliance planned to send its 115-page report to Congress later that week. The same group had previously issued damning reports on the Biden-era FBI warning about crippling DEI and the political weaponization of the agency.

Bongino fired back at the report, arguing that it was the work of disgruntled “deep-state” FBI agents who were angry over the reforms he and Patel had instituted.

Patel then touted several major reforms during his short tenure and a long list of accomplishments, which included the arrests of 25,000 violent criminals, a 100% increase from last year, and the location and identification of 6,000 victims of child trafficking. Patel also argued that espionage arrests are up 35% under his watch, while fentanyl seizures have increased by 31%.

Still, as of Wednesday, the future of Patel’s and Bongino’s tenure felt rocky at best – until the big announcement that the pair, with the help of key senior FBI agents, had cracked the J6 bomber case.

A source close to the White House and familiar with the president’s thinking described Patel as “a guy with nine lives because anytime you think you have him, he comes back around and does incredible work.”

The administration has repeatedly and strongly dismissed reports that Trump was considering moving on from his FBI director. To quell the rumors last month, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted a photo of Trump and Patel giving the thumbs-up in the Oval Office.

After the arrest of the suspected J6 pipe bomber, the same source suggested that another beleaguered Cabinet member look to the FBI director as an example for managing presidential expectations – that “maybe Pete Hegseth needs to start taking pages from Kash Patel’s book.”

Why keep Patel around? It’s simple, the source said. He puts more points on the board for the administration than he takes off with controversies.

“If there’s talk about whether or not they’re going to drop you, but you keep on winning, even by a small margin, a win is still a win,” the source added, “and the GM is not going to fire you.”

Another source close to White House and familiar with Trump’s thinking argued that Patel, Bongino, Bondi, and even U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro are working closely and cohesively to “make America safe again.”

“For all this talk about Pam and Kash being on the outs, you don’t have this level of success if there is a dysfunctional relationship between the FBI, the DOJ, and the D.C. attorney,” the source said.

A senior Senate Republican brushed aside “the online back-and-forth” that had consumed Patel in recent weeks, dismissing the controversies as “Beltway chatter.”

The results, particularly the arrest of the alleged J6 pipe bomber, not Patel’s pugnacious social media posts, speak to his record leading the FBI so far.

“It’s obvious that Patel and Bongino are prioritizing public safety above everything else,” the aide told RCP before adding that the arrest is “a major example of how that leads to success.”

‘Sheer incompetence’: Biden administration sat on D.C. bombing suspect evidence for years

One portion of a massive lawsuit triggered by an agenda by state officials in Colorado to mandate transgender ideology for all public schools has been settled, and it will allow a Colorado Springs-based district and multiple other plaintiffs to keep boys on boys’ athletic teams, and girls on girls’ athletic teams.

According to a statement from the district, D-49, the fight with the Colorado High School Activities Association has been settled.

The problem is that Colorado law and the CHSAA bylaws demand that students be put on sports teams based on the ideology of “gender identity,” not their sex at birth.

That was a common scheme during the tenure of Joe Biden in Washington, as he promoted transgenderism up and down the scale of government.

However, President Donald Trump confirmed on being elected to his second term that the government recognized only male and female, setting up a conflict between federal policy and standards adopted by Democrats and other leftists in the extremist state.

It’s so far left that it is run by Democrat Gov. Jared Polis, a homosexual and advocate for the ideology, Democrat majorities in the state House and Senate, and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that is so extreme it even tried to banish Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot before being squashed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The case components against the Colorado Civil Rights Division and leftist state Attorney General Phil Weiser will continue,

District 49 officials said their goal is to protect fairness, safety, and privacy for student-athletes.

“The agreement allows D49 to maintain biological sex-based policies for sports, locker rooms, and overnight accommodations while continuing to participate fully in CHSAA-sanctioned activities. The district views this outcome as an important step in restoring local control and upholding federal protections for all athletes,” the district’s statement said.

It means, “Separate sports teams for biological boys and girls” and keeping “locker rooms and overnight travel accommodations separated by biological sex.” Further, there will be no CHSAA penalties for those practices, and the district will comply with Title IX and the Constitution “while rejecting mandates that put student privacy at risk.”

Supt. Peter Hilts said, “By reaching this agreement, they’ve recognized the need to protect fairness in competition and privacy in school facilities for our female athletes. We appreciate their willingness to engage in thoughtful dialogue and reach a resolution that puts students first. This settlement is a major step forward, but our work isn’t done.

“We will continue litigation against the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and the Attorney General’s Office to ensure every district in Colorado has the freedom to protect girls’ sports, safeguard student privacy, and uphold the spirit of Title IX. I encourage school boards across the state to follow our lead and adopt similar policies that ensure equal opportunity and safety for all students.”

Denver Channel 7 pointed out the resolution means the activities group cannot punish schools, teachers or students if they determine they would rather forfeit a game than play against a team with a transgender, “where they felt it created an unsafe or unfair condition.”

The CHSAA was caught between the demands of the leftists in Colorado and federal precedent and priorities.

The CHSAA now will not consider policies that comply with Title IX as “unsportsmanlike conduct” or worse, and shields public statements “that biological males have competitive or safety advantages in girls’ sports from being classified as violations of CHSAA’s ethics or sportsmanship rules.”

On social media, Rep. Jeff Crank said, “Biological men NEVER belong in biological women’s sports, period. The Colorado High School Activities Association finally made the right decision and will STOP penalizing school districts that protect women’s sports.”

An official for One Colorado, which advocates for multiple alternative sexual lifestyle choices, complained that the decision would mean excluding children from sports, but in actuality the result will only exclude males from sports teams for females, and vice versa.

The case was triggered because state officials, with their leftist agenda, forced the school to choose between following federal obligations, or complying with the social agenda of the state.

According to the science of the dispute, being male or female is embedded in humans down to the DNA level and does not change.