(pb) >>22600472 @SenTomCotton is working behind the scenes to stop Trump’s pick, Elbridge Colby, from getting confirmed at DOD

This would be a reason.

Senator Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) serves as a Director at the International Republican Institute (IRI), one of eight core NGOs aligned with the political establishment. While IRI is closely tied to the Republican Party, its agenda and interests fundamentally conflicts with President Trump’s policies.

Funded primarily by taxpayers, IRI received $130,689,289 last year, much of it from USAID. Though Senator Cotton is unpaid for his board role, the organization directs substantial public funds toward expenditures like travel ($12,173,741) and pensions and fringe benefits ($14,232,108).

As I’ve noted before, IRI has funded refugee resettlement through grants to the UN-affiliated International Organization for Migration and has backed other progressive initiatives.

Anyone affiliated with IRI is advancing the interests of the global elite, not the priorities of U.S. citizens or Republican constituents—unless they choose to resign from the IRI.

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1891268479770321034

Trump Has Become 21st-Century George Patton

Victor Davis Hanson | February 05, 2025

'It’s Aug. 1. Third Army has been activated and you are going full blast to the Rhine River and you’re not going to stop. Remember what [Gen. George] Patton said, “Audacity—l’audace, toujours l’audace, l’audace—audacity,” Always audacity, more audacity; encore l’audace. And you cannot stop, you’ve got them completely in disarray. They’re floundering. They’re screaming.'

I’d like to talk about this frenzied activity of Donald Trump’s and the reaction that the Democrats are exhibiting. Remember Donald Trump, almost by fiat, has said that the USAID [United States Agency for International Development] should be cancelled. He sent Elon Musk in. It has this huge $50 billion budget.

It’s been released that they were subsidizing everything from trans festivities overseas to gay comic books. But what was very interesting was there was a $40 million-plus grant to the Wuhan virology lab and channeled, apparently, through EcoHealth [Alliance], Peter Daszak’s organization. This is important because under testimony, we were under the impression that Anthony Fauci only had his hands on $600,000.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/05/trump-has-become-21st-century-george-patton/