Trump is intolerant of terrorist activity, says Steve WitkoffThis is amazing really, Witkoff is a Patriot of high order
Special Envoy Steve Witkoff opens up about securing the release of Marc Fogel from a Russian prison on 'Hannity.'
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(Hannity should really stop talking.)
https://youtu.be/XKb4Whp7zFE
>>22576793 President Trump confirms the rumors that DOGE will be auditing the IRS for corruption and wastePN
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Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
President Trump confirms the rumors that DOGE will be auditing the IRS for corruption and waste.
"The IRS will be looked at like everybody else. Just about everybody will be looked at. They're doing a helluva job… I call it the force of super geniuses.
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1890135540500164834
Top-ranking NIH official forced to retire under Trump administration
Feb 12, 2025
A top-ranking scientist at theNational Institutes of Health, Dr. Lawrence Tabak, was forced to retire this week, multiple people familiar with the move say, marking the highest-profile departure of a health official under the Trump administration so far this year.
Tabak's retirement, which he told colleagues was effective Tuesday, ends a decades-long tenure serving at the federal medical research agency, including multiple years as the acting director of the NIH during the COVID-19 pandemic.He also served as the agency's top ethics official.
An email circulated among NIH staff from Tabak did not explain why he was abruptly stepping down, which multiple people familiar with the decision said came earlier than he was planning. One person said he did not plan to retire until at least the fall.
Tabak told one federal researcher that he said he "found it necessary to retire today from federal service."A former colleague said Tabak, who should have been the second-in-command at the agency, had been excluded from key meetings.(Buddy of Fauci I bet, and he was the top ETHICS Officer)
Tabak and spokespeople for the National Institutes of Health did not immediately return requests for comment.
"He has helped shape important policy decisions at NIH over four administrations. He has guided NIH through complex issues and will be sorely missed," acting NIH Director Dr. Matthew Memoli said in an email Wednesday afternoon to NIH staff announcing the retirement. (anyone praising him are now a target)
The departure follows years of intense scrutiny of Tabak from Republican lawmakers at multiple congressional hearings, when he faced questioning over issues like the agency's oversight of "gain-of-function" research on viruses, which can make them more dangerous and is supposed to be tightly controlled, as well as grants to the EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Under the Biden administration, the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Servicesfound in a review of grants dating back to 2014 that the NIH missed opportunities to avoid paying for $89,171 in costs to the groups that should not have been allowed, like vague employee bonuses. It also faulted the NIH for not doing more to ensure its funds did not go towards gain-of-function research.
Tabak's retirement also comesamid ongoing court battles over a decision last week to make steep cuts to the amount of money for facilities and administration coststhat the federal government has agreed to pay for in medical research.
A federal judge has for now temporarily blocked those cuts nationwide, pending further arguments in lawsuits brought by medical colleges, universities and state attorneys general.
Several scientists have come out to praise Tabak, who was often tasked as the agency's principal deputy director to handle difficult problems at the NIH.
"Larry was brilliant at deflecting credit away from himself in order to raise up colleagues, mentees, and those who might otherwise have lacked a voice," posted Carrie Wolinetz, a former senior adviser to the NIH director.
In addition to his administrative duties, Tabak also continued to lead a team within the NIH publishing biochemistry research.
Jordan Lara, a research fellow in Tabak's lab at the NIH, praised him for having "always made time" for mentorship and scientific research.
"He would work 80 hours a week regularly with no days off. He truly gave himself up for the American public. it's absolutely insane to have him cast out like this and to paint him as anything other than a dedicated public servant," said Lara in a message.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-official-dr-lawrence-tabak-forced-to-retire-trump-administration/
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
According to Barak Ravid, an unnamed U.S. official has told him that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plane is turning around due to a crack in the windshield and it is “not a safety concern.” The secretary will switch planes and then restart the flight to Munich, Germany. He was flying to Ukraine for talks…hmmm
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1890221152913813610
Susan Crabtree
@susancrabtree
🚨SECRET SERVICE SCOOP: A woman special agent trainee on Wednesday shot herself in the leg at the Secret Service's Rowley Training Centerand was airlifted to a Baltimore hospital emergency room, according to multiple sources in the Secret Service community.
Developing…I'll provide more details about the circumstances of how and why this occurred when they become available.
The incident occurred amid deep concerns that the Secret Service's DEI policies contributed to the failures on J13and created an opening for Thomas Crooks to assassinate Trump and kill rallygoer Corey Comperatore.
Under the Biden administration's sweeping DEI executive order, former Secret Service Dir. Kimberly Cheatle signed onto the 30x30 national DEI initiative.
It calls for all law enforcement agencies in the country to have at least 30% of their forces be women by the year 2030. One of the reasons? Because women make fewer arrests. This 30x30 initiative and the way Cheatle is implementing it in hiring decisions and training qualifications was a major focus of an online petition and its whistleblowers’ concerns that it was impacting Secret Service training, readiness, and performance. This petition was circulating BEFORE the assassination attempts against Trump.
I'm told by the time Cheatle leftunder pressure from Congress after J13,she boosted women agents and uniformed officers to 24% – just 6% shy of the 30x30 pledge.
I'll provide more info on the 30x30 pledge in additional linked posts.
https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1890171303472013327
Citizens Free Pres
KARA SWISHER BURSTS OUT LAUGHING - SHE KNOWS IT'S TRUE
Even democrats are embarassed by the dems from Congress protesting, the look retarded
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1890224602875588799
Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
TOM HOMAN REFERS AOC TO DEPT OF JUSTICE FOR INVESTIGATION.
Gunther Eagleman™
8:48 PM · Feb 13, 2025
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https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1890216452764103059
Send the congress people to DOJ for threatening Elon's and anyone's life too, this are legislatures, they cannot be allowed to raise riots in the streets and release a demand for weirdos to shoot anyone. They should be arrested by DC police.
Federal judge blocks Trump order on health care for transgender youth
The lawsuit filed by families and LGBTQ advocates challenges an order that aims to end federal support for gender transition care for people under 19.
February 13, 2025 at 3:30 p.m. EST14 minutes ago
A federal judge on Thursday blocked executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that target transgender people and their health care, giving temporary relief to LGBTQ individuals and their families, who braced for legal battles to continue.
U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hursongranted a temporary restraining order after a hearing in federal court in Baltimore. The government is expected to appeal the decision, which legal experts said could ultimately go to the Supreme Court.
“This is a population with an extremely higher rate for suicide, poverty, unemployment, drug addiction,” Hurson said during the hearing. Abruptly stopping their health treatments, he said, would be “horribly dangerous for anyone, for any care, but particularly for this extremely vulnerable population.”
Transgender minors and advocacy groups sought an injunction to roll back orders Trump signed to officially recognize only male and female sexes and to attempt to end federal support for providers of gender transition care for people under the age of 19.
The latter order prompted some hospitals to suspend or scale back gender transition care, leaving patients and parents reeling. Trump’s orders are part of a broader effort by the administration to bar transgender people from everyday life, including sports and military service.
Seven anonymous transgender individuals younger than 19 sued the Trump administrationon Feb. 4, along with advocacy groups PFLAG, which represents parents, families and friends of LGBTQ+ people, and GLMA, which supports LGBTQ+ health-care providers. Lambda Legal and the ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of the groups in federal court in Baltimore.
In a separate lawsuit, attorneys general in Washington state, Oregon and Minnesota argue the Trump order on gender-affirming care represents an attack on transgender youths and their families, as well as on doctors and medical institutions providing critical care. A hearing on that case is set for Friday in Seattle.
In a court filing, the Justice Department argued that the president has legal authority “to condition certain federal grant funding on his policy preferences” and that the federal agencies being sued “have not finally implemented the [executive order] directives, let alone revoked any particular grants relied upon” by the plaintiffs. It also argued that “many states and other countries have gone further and enacted laws and policies to restrict gender-affirming care for minors.”
The gender transition care order seeks to cut federal funding,including public insurance payments from Medicare and Medicaid, for health providers that offer such care to people under 19. A loss of federal dollars could jeopardize care for not just transgender young people, LGBTQ+ advocates say. (so our money is paying for this destruction)
Within days of the order, hospitals in the D.C. region and beyond paused care. Some halted all treatment, while others blocked prescriptions of puberty blockers and hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgeries. The moves drew protests, including a rally in Baltimore ahead of Thursday’s court hearing.
Kristen Chapman, one of the plaintiffs in the suit filed by families, moved with her daughter to Virginia in July 2023 to access care banned in their home state of Tennessee. The day after Trump’s order denying care to transgender young people, her 17-year-old daughter’s appointment at Children’s Hospital of Richmond was canceled, the mother has said.
In the past five years, more than half of states have already banned doctors from offering transition health care to minors, including medication. Yet most transgender children do not take medication to assist with their transition
https://archive.is/t355g#selection-557.0-590.0
(There is going to be massive impeachments of federal, state, circuit and state judges this year. They are just exposing themselves0
@RapidResponse47
WATCH: Education Secretary-designate Linda McMahon's full opening statement before the Senate HELP CommitteeTeaching children they may be pan sexual
10:42 AM · Feb 13, 2025
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https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1890063961904800001