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A federal employee who was fired by President Donald Trump has dropped his court case in which he was trying to overturn the president’s decision and take back his job.

A report from MSNBC explains how Hampton Dellinger, of the Office of Special Counsel, has dropped his litigation.

The move comes after a court ruled against him.

He said he strongly disagreed with the court, but said he would abide by the ruling.

He also claimed, “This new ruling means that OSC will be run by someone totally beholden to the president for the months that would pass before I could get a final decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.”

The office is responsible for protecting whistleblowers in the government.

It was the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, one step below the Supreme Court, that paused a decision by a trial judge who said Trump could not immediately fire Dellinger.

Those three judges, appointed by Trump, Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush, said the order allowed Dellinger’s removal.

The fight already had been up to the Supreme Court, which put off a decision, allowing the trial judge, Amy Jackson, to rule in Dellinger’s favor.

A report at the Gateway Pundit explained Trump fired the Joe Biden-appointed Dellinger as part of his effort to bring efficiency to government.

Dellinger could have continued to fight, and the dispute may very well have ended up before the Supreme Court. But courts already have ruled several times in favor of a president’s right to dismiss those who work in the executive branch, leading Dellinger to suggest he probably wouldn’t win at the high court.

“I’m stopping the fight because, yesterday, circuit court judges reviewing the trial court decision in my favor granted the government’s request that I be removed from office while the case continues,” he said.

“I think the circuit judges erred badly because their willingness to sign off on my ouster — even if presented as possibly temporary — immediately erases the independence Congress provided for my position, a vital protection that has been accepted as lawful for nearly fifty years. Until now.”

He claimed that because he no longer would be there, the office’s “independence” was destroyed.

Director for Counter Terrorism National Security Council Sebastian Gorka discussed Wednesday evening on Fox News how he helped take down alleged Abbey Gate terrorist Mohammad Sharifullah, saying that President Donald Trump kept his promise to the families of the 13 U.S. service members who were killed in the attack.

During the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 under the Biden-Harris administration, a suicide bomber killed 13 service members and at least 170 Afghan civilians outside the Abbey Gate of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. During his joint address to Congress Tuesday evening, Trump announced that Sharifullah, who was allegedly involved in planning the bombing, was arrested by his administration.

On “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Gorka, who had been with the team at the time of Sharifullah’s arrest, was asked by Fox’s Jesse Watters to describe the takedown, specifically what led to nabbing the suspected terrorist.

“We just unleashed the hounds of hell,” Gorka said. “I came into office to run counterterrorism for Mike Waltz, the former Green Beret National Security Advisor to President Trump. In my first two weeks, I’d been told by the intelligence community, our special operators, that they’ve been surveilling bad guys, jihadis across the planet for four years, and the Biden administration just didn’t care. We said, ‘Well, we told the president, and he said, find them and kill them.’”

Gorka said he told the CIA, NSA and FBI that they need to find Sharifullah for Trump and the families affected, whether that be killing him or bringing him “to U.S. soil to face justice.”

“The NSA especially, we salute, you know who you are … The NSA team that found a certain piece of intelligence. We provided it to the government of Pakistan,” Gorka said as he thanked that country for taking the suspected terrorist down and arresting him.

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“Then our brave flight team members from the FBI went to Islamabad on Saturday. They interviewed Sharifullah, and he confessed not just to Abbey Gate, but to numerous other ISIS mass murders. We were there on the tarmac with Kash [Patel], Pam [Bondi], Tulsi [Gabbard], John [Radcliffe], with my counterterrorism team and about 100 other agents. It was like a movie. President Trump made the promises to the Abbey Gate 13 families. Last night at 3 a.m. at Dulles Airport, President Trump kept that promise.”

A Pakistani intelligence official familiar with the operation told ABC News that Pakistani special forces had recently captured Sharifullah on the Pakistani-Afghan border and extradited him to the U.S. by Tuesday evening.

Watters went on to ask Gorka what he said to the suspected terrorist as he met him face-to face Tuesday evening. Gorka described seeing the “pits of hell” in Sharifullah’s eyes.

“I just looked him in the eyes, and I looked into his eyes. I saw the pits of hell. I saw darkness in that man’s eyes, the likes of which I’d never seen before. I just felt good for the families,” Gorka said. “President Trump spoke to those families privately before the joint session from the White House. I was there with National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.”

“We gave them just a little bit, a little bit of closure for their loved ones when we brought that walking piece of human filth evil to justice last night,” Gorka added. “I salute everyone, the FBI, the agents of CBP, the marshals, the pilots. God bless what you did for America. This is why elections matter, Jesse, because of that man being in a supermax and paying a penalty for the murder of American war fighters.”

During both former President Joe Biden’s and former Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the 2024 presidency, the two leaders were heavily criticized for their handling of Abbey Gate, particularly regarding the families of the slain service members. In a September 2024 interview with Fox News, two fathers of the Gold Star service members called out Harris and Biden for “gaslighting” families and ignoring them over the past three years since the incident.

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Rapidly-increasing levels of non-English speaking students in schools across the nation may be contributing to the abysmal reading scores reported in recent years nationwide.

Data from the 2024 Nation’s Report Card released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in January revealed that not only have test scores, particularly in reading, fallen nationwide, but the percentage of English learners in K-12 schools has been rising dramatically in nearly every state. English learners in both 4th and 8th grade underperformed students in every other demographic measured by the NAEP, including low-income students and students with disabilities.

Among 4th graders, 60% of economically disadvantaged students and 78% of disabled students scored below average on the reading assessment compared to 79% of English learners, according to the report. The comparison is even more drastic among 8th grade students, with 84% non-English speaking students scoring below average compared to 61% of low-income students and 79% of students with disabilities.

In Texas, English learners made up only 7% of 4th grade students tracked by the NAEP in 1998, a number that rose to 23% by 2024. In New Mexico that number was 13% in 1998 and 18% by 2024, and in California 4th grade English learners make up 22% of students in 2024, up from 16% in 1998.

Test scores in these states are some of the lowest in the country, with New Mexico’s reading scores ranking at the very bottom of all states, according to a U.S. News list using the NAEP’s data. Texas is ranked at 41 while California also remains in the bottom half at number 29.

Overall, 4th grade students scored an average of 215 on the reading assessment in 2024, testing substantially below the proficiency score of 238, according to the data. Among English learners, that number was even lower at 185 nationally, 194 in Texas, 181 in California and 173 in New Mexico.

Removing English learners from the mix, those averages rise to 219 nationally, 217 in Texas, 221 in California and 207 in New Mexico. The NAEP’s benchmark for a “basic” reading achievement level is a minimum score of 208.

Test scores have fallen nationwide in recent years, with one-third of eighth graders failing to reach the NAEP’s reading assessment benchmark in 2024, the largest percentage ever recorded. About 40% of fourth grade students tested below NAEP’s reading proficiency, the largest percentage since 2002.

While non-English speaking students are partly to blame for the tanking test scores, several other factors are also contributing to this trend.

Many schools failed to recover from the learning losses suffered after months of remote learning due to the prolonged school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many schools did not return to in-person instruction until the fall of 2021 at the behest of teachers unions.

In recent years many schools also shifted their focus to efforts other than education, such as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT) initiatives. The Trump administration has since made moves to root out these ideologies.

Illegal immigration skyrocketed under the Biden administration, with hundreds of criminal illegal migrants flooding into the U.S. through the southern border since former President Joe Biden took office. President Donald Trump has since declared an emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border, facilitated the arrests and deportations of thousands of illegal immigrants and controversially issued a directive allowing for criminal illegal aliens to be arrested on school grounds.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday postponed 25% tariffs on most goods from Mexico for a month amid widespread fears of the economic fallout from a broader trade war.

Trump’s announcement comes after his Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, said earlier Thursday that tariffs on both Canada and Mexico would “likely” be delayed. No change was announced regarding new tariffs imposed on Canada, another major trading partner.

It is the second time Trump has postponed tariffs since he first unveiled the import taxes in early February. The reprieve would apply to goods from Mexico that are compliant with the trade agreement Trump negotiated with Canada and Mexico in his first term— which will likely cover the vast majority of imports.

“After speaking with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, I have agreed that Mexico will not be required to pay Tariffs on anything that falls under the USMCA Agreement,” Trump said on Truth Social. “I did this as an accommodation, and out of respect for, President Sheinbaum. Our relationship has been a very good one, and we are working hard, together, on the Border.”

The U.S. Supreme Court, which stunningly and deliberately interfered in President Donald Trump’s management of the executive branch, over which he is given authority by the U.S. Constitution, is facing a backlash over its decision.

“We’re now urging Congress to offset that wasted $2 billion from the federal judiciary’s $9.5 billion FY2025 discretionary budget,” announced a spokesman for the Article III Project, Mike Davis.

The dispute is over just a portion of the massive spending fraud and waste that Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency found in its agenda to eliminate fraud, waste and criminal activities in federal spending.

Ordered halted were payments of some $2 billion that had been authorized by Joe Biden, but reversed by President Trump.

The groups that were to get the funds sued, and the Supreme Court, 5-4, said those payments should go forward.

Davis’ organization pointed out that Justice Samuel Alito expressed that he was “stunned” by the decision.

“In a 5-4 decision, SCOTUS sided with an activist D.C. judge to sabotage the presidency and spend $2 billion in foreign-aid money over the President’s objection. According to SCOTUS, the waste, fraud, and abuse at USAID must continue,” the organization said.

“The D.C. District Court is out of control. This radical Biden judge and his fellow tyrants-in-robes need to be reined in. If SCOTUS won’t do it, we will. The Article III Project will draft legislation to bring much-needed reforms to the D.C. District Court. That court’s authority needs to be delegated to local D.C. crimes and not national policies.”

A commentary at Federalist went even further.

It suggested that since the ruling was so far out of alignment with the Constitution, Trump might ignore it.

“The Supreme Court’s shocking decision on Wednesday to allow a D.C. district court judge to order the Trump administration to disburse $2 billion in federal grant money is a major blow to the separation of powers undergirding our constitutional system of government,” the commentary said. “But the thing about separation of powers is that they stand or fall together. All three branches of our government — legislative, executive, and judicial — have to respect the Constitution’s clear separation of powers. If one of them doesn’t, there’s no reason that the others should.”

It continued, “Put another way, if the Supreme Court can simply disregard the Executive branch’s constitutional authority and allow it to be usurped by an inferior federal court, which is what happened, then there’s no reason the executive branch under Trump should pay any attention to what the Supreme Court says in this case, because it’s trying to assert an authority it simply doesn’t have.”

The Federalist explained that what had happened was purely routine: “As part of an administration-wide effort to crack down on fraudulent and wasteful federal spending, President Trump ordered a review of all federal grants, and also ordered that payments on all grants should be paused while the review is ongoing.”

But the lawsuit was filed and the Supreme Court divided 5-4, insisting that those cash troves be handed out.

The decision was by three leftists on the Supreme Court plus Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

“The majority didn’t give a reason for this denial, which is too bad, because the ruling should trigger a constitutional crisis,” the report said.

But Alito’s “blistering dissent” was clear: “Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic ‘No,’ but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned.”

It was the district judge, Amir Ali, who claimed “for himself executive authority to disburse federal funds and determine the time and manner in which the funds will be disbursed — powers clearly vested not in the judiciary but in the executive branch, that is, with President Trump.”

That alone, the report said, should be enough for Trump to ignore the ruling.

“But there’s other problems too, like the fact that the lower federal court in this case lacks jurisdiction. Contract disputes with the federal government are only supposed to be heard by the Court of Federal Claims, not a D.C. district judge. Among other things, this means Ali’s order requires President Trump to violate existing federal law.”

And it noted that “the most serious problem,” stems from “this pernicious notion that any district judge, anywhere in the country, can dictate to the executive branch what it must or must not do, under the guise of issuing a temporary restraining order or a universal injunction in a pending case.”

This is the reason that leftists go judge-shopping when they have a case, to find an activist who already agrees with their agenda.

Years ago already, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that violates the Constitution.

“District courts, including the one here, have begun imposing universal injunctions without considering their authority to grant such sweeping relief,” wrote Thomas at the time. “These injunctions are beginning to take a toll on the federal court system — preventing legal questions from percolating through the federal courts, encouraging forum shopping, and making every case a national emergency for the courts and for the Executive Branch.”

He said it appears the Supreme Court must address the schemes.

There’s already a recent precedent for the president to ignore a Supreme Court ruling: Joe Biden did it with his massive cash-handout scheme in which he relieved borrowers of the responsibility of paying back student loans, instead demanding that taxpayers shoulder that financial burden.

Remember when the Supreme Court told Biden “No” and he continued on like it never happened?

Why can’t Trump do that?

It’s, as they like to say, “precedent.” pic.twitter.com/mG0nCMsNxC

— Joshua Lisec, Ghostwriter (@JoshuaLisec) March 6, 2025

A Canadian lawyer is leading efforts to explore the possibility of Alberta joining the United States, as President Donald Trump continues to push for closer ties with Canada’s energy-rich province.

“There’s literally hundreds of Albertans that are reaching out and volunteering to join our delegation,” Jeffrey Rath said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday.

Rath and a small group of Albertans are planning to travel to Washington, D.C., to discuss potential pathways for Alberta, including independence with economic ties to the U.S., territorial status, or full statehood.

He believes the movement will gain traction as dissatisfaction with Canada’s federal leadership grows.

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is facing legal pushback for allegedly censoring conservative Christian real estate agents for their personal beliefs.

Critics are slamming NAR’s ethics code, specifically Article 10-5, for serving as a “weaponization tool” that’s been used to further conservative Christian “persecution.” Several of these realtors claiming their rights and businesses have been targeted are now pursuing legal action against the NAR or other parties involved.

Virginia realtor and broker Wilson Fauber, Arizona realtor Chad DeVries and Georgia realtor Julie Mauck, all self-professing conservative Christians, have filed lawsuits or have said they intend to file against the NAR, their local realtor associations or individuals who brought ethics complaints against them under the NAR’s Article 10-5.

Fauber has discussed taking legal action against the NAR and the Virginia Association of Realtors (VAR) after they both ruled that he was guilty of “hate speech” for posting a Bible verse with commentary ten years ago on his personal Facebook page.

Fauber served clients and was active in ministry for 44 years until the National Association of Realtors informed him in early 2024 that someone had filed an ethics complaint against him for his Facebook post, citing that it was discriminatory against the LGBT community.

“This originated in 2015 when I reposted and restructured one of Franklin Graham’s posts,” Fauber, 70, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. On Feb. 13, 2015, Fauber reposted Rev. Franklin Graham’s Article that cited the Bible verse Leviticus 18:22, which Fauber said was the “centerpiece of the case.”

The Virginia Realtors conducted a hearing in December, which ruled that Fauber was guilty of violating Article 10-5 of the NAR Ethics code. Fauber and his lawyer Michael Sylvester, with the Founding Freedoms Law Center, filed an appeal which led to a second hearing on Feb. 13. The appeals panel affirmed the original ruling, and their decision is final.

“The sum of this is: a religious realtor is being punished for expressing his faith-based opinions on an important moral issue,” Sylvester told the DCNF.

The VAR deemed Fauber a “discriminator” and he has been “ordered” to “undergo multiple re-education programs,” according to a Founding Freedoms Law Center press release.

The NAR “politely declined” to provide a comment to the DCNF, and the VAR did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

“I’m being told by my trade organization what I can and cannot talk about that’s wrong. And I’m fighting,” Fauber said. “I’m fighting, and I’m going to continue to fight.” Fauber added that he was willing to take the case to the Supreme Court.

I will not stop fighting for the protection of freedom of speech. This includes the freedom to preach and teach the Bible. pic.twitter.com/jlBuRB9wxc

— Wilson L. Fauber (@WilsonFauber) February 22, 2025

“They found me guilty of hate speech, that is wrong. I didn’t discriminate against anyone, and I’m not guilty of hate speech,” Fauber continued. “I’ve not directed my remarks or scriptures towards any individual.”

Fauber argued that the opposite is true. “Hate is being directed toward me because I am a Bible-believing Christian,” Fauber added. “I continue to affirm I believe the Bible from cover to cover.”

The association is the largest trade organization in the United States, with 1.5 million realtors.

Details of the consequences of the ruling are not yet public, though the NAR has the power to fine Fauber from $5,000 to $15,000 and effectively end his career as a broker. Fauber could lose his membership to the NAR, VAR and his local association of realtors. Expulsion from the NAR means that Fauber loses access to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), an essential communication and listing tool for those in the real estate industry.

While the NAR is not a governmental agency, they can make a case that Fauber is unworthy of his license to the government.

To be found guilty of an ethics violation is as serious as embezzlement in the real estate business, according to Rob Hahn, managing partner at a real estate consulting firm for 15 years and renowned real estate blogger.

Hahn confirmed the necessity of the MLS to those in the real estate business. “The MLS is like LexisNexis for lawyers,” Hahn told the DCNF.

Hahn has interviewed many others in the real estate business facing similar “persecution,” as he termed it. “No one’s ever been charged with making anti-white statements, no one’s ever been charged with making anti-Christian statements, even though the Code of Ethics makes it clear you can’t discriminate on the basis of religion,” Hahn said.

The business owner argued that there are already protections outlined in the ethics code, so Article 10-5 does not serve to protect clients from unequal service.

New on Notorious R.O.B.: Repeal the Speech Code, NAR. #realestate #FreeSpeech. A post four years in the making. When the right thing to do is the smart thing to do, the only thing to do is… to just do it. Repeal SoP 10-5.https://t.co/XyZiIA8OQN pic.twitter.com/R7He6hEzOp

— Robert Hahn (@robhahn) November 7, 2024

Hahn has platformed Fauber and Arizona realtor Chad DeVries, both conservative Christians suffering consequences after they expressed their biblical worldview on LGBT issues. Both made their sentiments outside of work time, on personal social media accounts and not in reference to any specific individual. Both have served clients for decades in the business and have even worked with gay clients.

“My gay clients are some of my best clients,” DeVries told Hahn on his “Notorious Rob” podcast. DeVries also noted in the interview that he has two gay children that are married to members of the same sex. After DeVries reposted several memes about LGBT issues on his personal Instagram account, someone filed an ethics complaint against him. He is now suing the Arizona Association of Realtors (AAR) and four other realtors who brought the 10-5 complaint against him.

“We used to be able to laugh in this country,” DeVries continued. “Who determines what post is right or wrong?”

Ryan Heath, DeVries’ lawyer, told the DCNF that “everyone should have the right to speak freely without fear” and that the AAR is doing this for “ideological purposes, which is rather upsetting.”

The AAR did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

Hahn has also interviewed Montana realtor Brandon Huber, another pastor accused of “hate speech” for refusing to participate in a Missoula “Kids Eat Free” food bank event because his church did not support the use of LGBT inserts in the lunches that read “pride,” “love always wins” and “love is love.” Huber also filed a lawsuit against the Missoula Organization of Realtors in 2021, which a Missoula judge dismissed in 2022.

In 2023, former Republican Montana state Sen. Keith Regier sponsored Senate Bill 243 to ensure that Christian realtors could freely express their faith, which was “largely in response” to Huber’s case, according to the Daily Montanan.

Another Christian realtor and minister Matt Moore from Minnesota left the real estate industry in 2021 over this same issue. “My current broker will not allow me to continue working under her … if I continue to speak publicly about LGBTQ+ issues,” he told Faithwire.

Georgia realtor Julie Mauck told the DCNF that she also lost the support of her broker for a time after some members of a pride group accused her of saying that “everybody in the LGBT community were pedophiles,” which she denies ever saying.

Mauck said this all stems from her protesting a “sexually explicit” book, “Flamer,” at her local library that was to be placed in the children’s section in July 2023. The Moms for Liberty activist noted that the protesters didn’t ask for the book removed from the library, but to be moved to the adult section and only accessible to children if given parental permission.

Mauck said that local Facebook groups had posted her information and links to report her for an Article 10-5 ethics violation for this, and provided screenshots reviewed by the DCNF.

Mauck was found guilty in her first ethics hearing but appealed the committee’s findings and won the appeal. With support from the Coalition for Liberty, Mauck and her lawyer, Jonathan Vogel, are now going on the offensive and suing those who tried to “cancel” her, ruin her career as a realtor and to “otherwise harm her reputation,” according to the lawsuit. Mauck’s opening brief is due March 20.

“We fully support the NAR Code of Ethics that protects Americans from housing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity,” an official from the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance told the DCNF in a statement. “Because REALTORS are public facing as they work to attract and best serve clients, we believe those who publicly discriminate in any facet of their lives are in violation of Article 10 of the NAR Code of Ethics.”

Critics of Article 10-5 also point to how Christian realtors don’t feel safe to express their beliefs, yet many realtors’ associations freely express support for LGBT events. One example is the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (CAAR), which hosted a “fair housing symposium” that featured a “drag show and fireside chat” sponsored by CAAR’S DEI committee in November 2024.

EXCLUSIVE: Charlottesville Realtors go wokehttps://t.co/U0vM6101cE

— Rob Schilling (@SchillingShow) November 15, 2024

Leigh Brown, long-time North Carolina realtor and author told the DCNF that “NAR needs a DOGE. Big time.” Brown was the vice president of advocacy in 2021 at the NAR and ran for the position of first vice president before she was “blocked from the ballot” for “social media posts deemed offensive.”

“I’m a conservative Christian,” she said. “If I had been a conservative Christian who kept my mouth shut, they might not have gone after those social posts.”

Brown said she teaches the ethics code and affirms that though there were a few real cases of discriminatory language from realtors that led to the amendment of Article 10-5 in 2020, it has since become a “weaponization tool.”

“The current way the language is structured in 10-5 is not helpful,” Brown said. Critics like Brown and others say that the problem is that it is too “broad” and that some realtors are targeted more for their speech than others. “It’s very Animal Farm.”

Brown stepped down from the NAR board as she did not feel she could “effectively serve” an organization that could “treat a member like it’s treated” her, though she noted that she must keep her membership in order to continue her business.

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Hunter Biden, documented by congressional investigators to be among the Biden family recipients of tens of millions of dollars in a years-long influence peddling operation while Joe Biden was vice president, then president, now is claiming financial distress.

The claims appear in his demand to drop a lawsuit that he brought against a former White House aide to President Donald Trump.

A report in the New York Post explains that Hunter Biden, 55, cited plunging sales of his artwork and his book, as well as a California fire that burned a home he was renting.

And “significant debt.”

He had sued Garrett Ziegler in 2023 with a long list of claims that he illegally accessed and circulated embarrassing contents of the laptop Biden had abandoned at a repair shop.

Ziegler obtained access to the information in the abandoned computer and published it on his website Marco Polo.

Hunter Biden’s legal action accused Ziegler of violating data laws by accessing “tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings” from the laptop.

In fact, it was the details in that laptop, which have been confirmed as true, that prompted the FBI to interfered in the 2020 presidential election by falsely claiming that the information was “Russian disinformation,” when it was not. The bureau told media organizations to suppress the truth, they did, and a subsequent polling showed that likely was a key factor in Joe Biden’s election win that year.

“[Hunter] has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range,” his court filing states.

“While I was aware that my financial position had significantly deteriorated over time, it was not until the past month that I realized I had to take drastic actions to alleviate this situation,” Hunter Biden charged.

“In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000. Similarly, for my book sales, in the six month period before the statements (April 1, 2023 through September 30, 2023), based on the September 30, 2023 statement, 3,161 copies of my book were sold, but in the six months after the statements, only approximately 1,100 books were sold.”

Even worse, he’s not getting invitations, and paychecks, to talk to people.

“Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened,” he said.

He further complained about the work he must to do fto ind another residence, as his rental was torched by the Pacific Palisades fire.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, a popular legal commentator and expert on the Constitution, was one of those who had been threatened by lawyers acting on behalf of Hunter Biden to suppress his own comments.

He explained, “Hunter spent years suggesting that the laptop images and emails might be Russian disinformation (with the help of obliging mainstream media), (but) the contents were found to be authentic by courts and agencies.”

He explained, “Years ago, I wrote about how the Biden team had decided to use a scorched earth strategy to target critics. Various people, including myself, were threatened with lawsuits—actions that could drain the targets of hundreds of thousands of dollars and tie them up in court for years. In my case, I received a letter from [Bryan M.] Sullivan that I could face a defamation action if I do not retract (or if I repeat) my criticism of [lawyer Kevin] Morris’s representational relationship with Hunter. I responded by immediately revealing the contents of his letter and repeating those allegations. Sullivan and Morris never sued.”

Turley pointed out, “Hunter has reportedly received millions not just from alleged influence peddling over the years, but from friends in the forms of loans and support. Throughout those years, he has continued to live a relatively extravagant lifestyle. One line of income was created through his art sales. However, there were reports of a collapse in the value of Hunter’s art with the departure of his father from office. With the loss in the value of his influence, there was a telling drop in the demand for his art.”

He noted, “What they seem most concerned about is that Ziegler will now seek fees and costs from Hunter. (Previously, Hunter was able to secure such costs from Ziegler for a filing that the court found meritless.) The motion … provides new insights into how Hunter’s financial situation has declined due to his father and his family’s political influence.”

Turley confirmed the filing also notes Hunter Biden may be reviewing other lawsuits “he has brought … against other targets.”

Joe Biden issued a blanket pardon for Hunter for anything offense he committed over a period of some 11 years covering the time when Joe Biden was vice president and president.

Hunter Biden had been convicted of gun felonies, and had pleaded guilty to tax felonies.

 

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., held a press conference Thursday addressing election integrity issues.

He was joined by Rep. Chip Roy of Texas in front of the United States Capitol to argue for the passage of the SAVE Act. The acronym stands for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.

“We want you to be an American citizen to vote in American elections,” Roy said. “This bill, the only thing it would do is prevent illegal aliens and noncitizens in elections.”

Roy also addressed allegations the SAVE Act takes away married women’s right to vote. Those who believe this to be true point to many who are married no longer having the same last name as on their birth certificate. But the bill allows any “REAL ID compliant” identification to qualify under its requirements. Most state drivers’ licenses are now REAL ID compliant.

The SAVE Act would require all applicants registering to vote to present a government ID to prove their citizenship. Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Oka., accused the Clinton administration of relaxing ID requirements which allowed people to “assert” they are citizens, rather than have to provide documentation. Brecheen said that it’s time to return to a system that requires proof.

“America is an outlier on this 46 out of 47 countries require proof before you can vote,” he claimed.

Founder of the election integrity network, Cleta Mitchell, and famed conservative activist Pastor Lorenzo Sewell also spoke. Mitchell decried inaction in shoring up the security of America’s voting process, saying, “We need to save our elections so we can save our country.”

Behind the podium – on the front of which a sign read “Election Integrity = Civil Rights” – were surrogates from states such as Georgia and Michigan. It is in those states, many still say, there were election irregularities in 2020, when the United States shifted to a fraught mass mail-in ballot system due to the coronavirus pandemic.

These instances are only the latest in a decades-long erosion in trust in America’s elections. In 2000, a Gallup poll found that more Americans thought then-President Elect George W. Bush won that year’s race illegitimately rather than legitimately. That came after a hotly contested race in Florida over punch hole ballots was decided by the Supreme Court in favor of Bush.

The SAVE Act, introduced by Mike Johnson, aims to prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections. This act implicitly acknowledges that illegal immigrants have been participating in the voting process pic.twitter.com/wQ7nquacjb

— Jake (@JakeCan72) May 8, 2024

Passing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act should be common sense: if you’re not an American citizen, you don’t get to vote. The fact that most Democrats oppose it reveals an uncomfortable truth about their motives on immigration policy. pic.twitter.com/VCpHX5BgG9

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) July 11, 2024

March 6, 2025: 12:33 p.m.:

White House confirms Trump will not sign order to abolish Department of Education today

JUST IN: President Trump is NOT signing an Executive Order to abolish the federal department of education today.

This was just announced by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) March 6, 2025