>>22913462 MAGA Trump Official Who Shuttered USAID & Wanted Deepest Cuts Fired After Clashes With RubioPN

MAGA Trump Official Who Shuttered USAID & Wanted Deepest Cuts Fired After Clashes With Rubio: Report

by Tyler Durden Monday, Apr 14, 2025 - 05:20 PM

One of the key architects of the Trump administration's campaign to slash foreign aid has been fired from the State Department after less than 90 days on the job, according to the WSJ, citing US officials.

Pete Marocco, who oversaw the closure of USAID and briefly led the foreign-assistance mission at State, worked closely with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),yet at times clashed with Secretary of State Marco Rubioaccording to the report.

"Pete was brought to State with abig mission—to conduct anexhaustive reviewof every dollar spent on foreign assistance," a senior administration official told the Journal. "He conducted that historic task andexposed egregious abuses of taxpayer dollars. We all expect big things are in store for Pete on his next mission," they continued, adding "He is no longer at State."

Marocco learned that his time at the State Department was coming to an end late last week, according to a person close to him. After a meeting at the White House, Marocco was told by State Department officials he was out at the agency, the person said, noting he had to hand in his agency badge and laptop. Another U.S. official saidit wasn’t Marocco’s choice to leave the department, adding that he was at times at odds with Rubio and his top advisers.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Marocco will leave the administration entirely or serve in a different role. Marocco didn’t respond to a request for comment. Marocco served in the first Trump administration in several capacities, including at the Pentagon, State Department, USAID and the Commerce Department. -WSJ

According to the report, Rubio and Marocco had disagreements over the scale and implementation of foreign aid cuts - with Marocco advocating for far deeper cuts, whileRubio and team pushed to keep several programs running.

According to Democrat Sen. Brian Schatz - ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommitte on State and Foreign Operations, said Marocco brought chaos to the agency. (When a democrat says that, he was too effective.)

"But with his exit, serious questions still remain about the influence he leaves behind and whether or not Secretary Rubio plans to take actions that advance the mission and credibility of the United States," Shatz said.

During his time in the department,Marocco oversaw the cancellation of 83% of foreign-aid programsand the closing of USAID, something Democrats and critics argued requires congressional approval.

In short - MAGA guy fired after Rubio and pals want to keep USAID money flowing. (Ok this is the start of appointees get scrutiny. Sundance had written a long article on Rubio and what he did in the Senate, opposing and trying to sabotage Trump, along with the Dems.)

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/maga-trump-official-who-shuttered-usaid-wanted-deepest-cuts-fired-after-clashes-rubio

"Ready To Start Production": AMD Prepares For First Made-In America Chip

by Tyler Durden Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025 - 10:40 AM

President Trump's 'America First' agenda—specifically, the revival of domestic critical supply chains to reinforce hemispheric defense—scored yet another win this week.

Reuters reported that Advanced Micro Devices' most advanced processor chips would soon enter series production at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) factory in Arizona.

"Our new fifth-generation EPYC is doing very well, so we're ready to start production," AMD Chief Executive Lisa Su told reporters in Taipei earlier, referring to the company's server-grade processor line, designed for data centers, cloud computing, high-performance computing, and enterprise workloads.

Shifting AMD's server-grade processor line to TSMC's Arizona facility marks the first time the U.S. company will produce these chips domestically, eliminating the supply chain risks associated with manufacturing at TSMC's Taiwan-based fabs.

"We want to have a very resilient supply chain, so Taiwan continues to be a very important part of that supply chain, but the United States is also going to be important and we're expanding our work there, including our work with TSMC and other key supply chain partners," Su said.

News that AMD's fifth-generation EPYC will be produced in America comes one day after Nvidia unveiled new initiatives aimed at strengthening America's chip manufacturing sector:

• Nvidia is localizing AI chip and supercomputer manufacturing in the U.S. for the first time, partnering with TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor, and SPIL.

• Over 1 million square feet of manufacturing space has been commissioned for Blackwell chips and AI supercomputers in Arizona and Texas.

• Mass production of these chips is expected within 12–15 months.

• Total AI infrastructure by Nvidia could total $500 billion over the next four years.

Restoring U.S. chipmaking capacity is critical for several reasons, but national security stands above all. China can easily disrupt chip supply chains in Taiwan—something that could send shockwaves around the world, impacting U.S. defense production of missiles, tanks, and other critical systems, many of which rely on chips fabricated overseas.

If the U.S. intends to compete—and win—in the 2030s, the ongoing expansion of domestic chip manufacturing is not just welcome news; it's essential for survival.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/ready-start-production-amd-prepares-first-made-america-chip

I'm glad I bought AMD years ago for a couple of bucks.

British PM Starmer Purges Historical Artworks; Replaces Them With 'Diverse' Dawbings

by Tyler Durden Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025 - 09:25 AM Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer has removed scores of historical artworks from 10 Downing Street and replaced them with objectively awful drawings in the name of ‘diversity’.

The works Starmer ordered pulled down as part of the cultural purge include portraits of William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, William Ewart Gladstone, Margaret Thatcher, Sir Walter Raleigh, and past British monarchs including Elizabeth I.

The leftist leader has replaced paintings of those historical figures with what can only be described as ugly doodles by ‘modern artists’.

The Daily Mail reports:

Sir Keir Starmer was last night accused of being in thrall to ‘the wokerati’ after the full list of the paintings removed from No10 since he moved in was revealed.

Portraits of historic figures such as Elizabeth 1, Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Shakespeare were among the 69 works of art ‘deinstalled’ from the Government Art Collection since the election.

The revelation comes after a long Freedom of Information battle with the Tories.

Among their replacements are Altar, a scene from the 2023 Falmouth Reggae Festival in Cornwall by Denzil Forrester.

Other paintings include All Things Being Equal, by the Nigerian abstract artist Nengi Omuku, which ’employs the human body as a medium to convey internal experiences’ by ‘using oil paint on strips of Sanyanan indigenous fabric from pre-colonial Nigeria‘.

Then there is Almond Clasp by the British-Ghanaian Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, who specialises in ‘brooding portraits of Black life’, and Still (III) by Christina Kimeze, who currently has an exhibition ‘inspired by the resurgence of roller skating in Black communities’.

10 Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister isn’t even open to the British public, so this move by Starmer isn’t even a virtue signalling stunt.

It’s presumably just because he can’t stand to be surrounded by British historical culture.Indeed, he described the Thatcher portrait as “unsettling” and remarked that he did not want to be stared down upon by a painting.

Just look at what was chosen as a replacement.

It looks like an 8 year old did it.

They’re laughing at us.

Other ‘art’ Starmer chose to buy with taxpayer money and display:

Hands up Brits, who identifies with that one? No?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/british-pm-starmer-purges-historical-artworks-replaces-them-diverse-dawbings

Somali Criminal Allowed To Stay In UK Because Deportation Would "Stress" Him Out

Tyler Durden Apr 15, 2025 -Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

In yet another incredulous case, the British justice system has decided in its infinite wisdom that a Somali criminal will be allowed to stay in the UK because returning him to his home country would cause him too much “stress”.

Yes, really.

The Telegraph reports that a judge in the upper immigration tribunal ruled that the asylum seeker would suffer “stress” if deported to his homeland,which would worsen his mental health, thereby breaching article three of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which protects against persecution and inhumane treatment.

The unnamed man,jailed for unspecified crimes, is a schizophrenic who hears voices, and has also been dependent on alcohol for almost twenty years, according to the report, another factor which led to him being allowed to stay in the country since arriving way back in 1999.

The Home Office has argued that the man,who has been granted anonymity, would be able to get medications he needs in his home country,but the judge still ruled against them.

The man is described as having a “high level of vulnerability” and “complex needs” with “the severity of his mental health problems closely linked to his stress levels and use of alcohol,” according to the tribunal.Lawyers assigned to the guy argued that he has “no real prospect” of returning to Mogadishu and making a living and that any financial support he would receive would be “limited”, and that he has a “history of being financially exploited”.

The Home Office has a program to offer financial support to foreign criminals being deported through theFacilitated Return Scheme. In other words, the government even offered to pay for the guy’s rehabilitation in Somalia.

“Evidence from doctors suggested the man could “become well” if he abstained from alcohol and complied with his medication,” the report notes.

Yet, Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Ian Jarvis said “I conclude that the weight of the evidence before the Tribunal indicates that the [man] will very quickly become noncompliant with his medication.. without the 24/7 support and monitoring which he currently receives in the United Kingdom.” The judge upheld the appeal and ruled that the man’s mental health would “seriously deteriorate” if he were returned to Somalia.

Commenters on the report were not impressed by the judge’s decision:

The report further notes that its another in a long list of convicted foreign criminals attempting and in many cases succeeding in halting their deportations by claiming breaches of their human rights.

There are currently a record 41,987 outstanding immigration appeals, largely on human rights grounds.

As we highlighted last month, a convicted pedophile has escaped deportation from the UK to his native country of Pakistan after a judge ruled that he would face “inhuman or degrading treatment” there for being an alcoholic.

This case follows similar incidents, including one just last month where another Pakistani pedo was permitted to remain in the UKwith a judge ruling that deportation would be “unduly harsh” owing to the fact that his family in Pakistan took a “dim view” of his crimes.

Conservative MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke urged that “The Government needs to stop dangerous criminals being allowed to stay in this country.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/somali-criminal-allowed-stay-uk-because-deportation-would-stress-him-out

New York Times Lies About Why Kash Patel Suspended Analyst Key To FBI Corruption

By: Joy Pullmann April 14, 2025 (pic 1)

The Times’ Adam Goldman is a paid shill for the world’s worst people, not a reporter.

Times continues to cover up government corruption, on April 11 hitting

FBI Director Kash Patel for suspending analyst Brian Auten nearly a decade after Auten helped Democrats frame Donald Trump as a Russian asset. The NYT headline reads,“F.B.I. Suspends Employee on Patel’s So-Called Enemies List,” not something accurate such as “FBI Suspends Employee Who Illegally Abused Government Power To Protect Democrat Presidential Candidates.” (pic 2)

Predictably, other corporate media outlets took the same corrupt angle, notably an April 12 NBC article by “Fusion Ken” Dilanian and Alexandra Marquez. (pic 3) (pic 4)

Dilanian is known as a Democrat propaganda mouthpiece, particularly for spreading lies created by the Hillary Clinton campaign to smear Trump as a Russian asset. Those lies came from probable Russian assets such as Christopher Steele dossier source Igor Danchenko, meaning Clinton and Dilanian may have used actual Russian propaganda to falsely accuse their political enemies of … spreading Russian propaganda. Dilanian once described the now widely discredited Steele, whom the FBI paid for information, as “James Bond.”

The Clinton campaign paid Steele to fabricate lies about Trump in a “dossier” that Democrat operatives in the government helped launder through U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies, including the FBI. Auten was the top FBI “analyst” assigned to verify the dossier. His team, he testified to Congress in 2020, could not verify any of its salacious allegations that included the infamous “golden showers” nonsense.

So Auten knew the “dossier” was full of lies as early as 2017. Yet Auten’s “Crossfire Hurricane” FBI team still used the unverifiable, false materialto back secret warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, fueling further leaks of false information that saddled Trump’s first term with investigations and clouds of public suspicion.

A December 2019 inspector general report found Auten pushing the use of the dossier he knew to be unverified to obtain a surveillance warrant on the Trump campaign. According to the report, Auten, identified as“Supervisory Intelligence Analyst,” helped spread the unverified “dossier” to other top U.S. agencies, including the CIA, NSA, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the White House.

“According to the Supervisory Intelligence Analyst (Supervisory Intel Analyst) [Brian Auten], the team had not corroborated the reporting concerning Carter Page’s activities by the time of [spy warrant] Renewal Application No. 1 (or subsequent renewal applications), other than confirming Carter Page’s travel to Russia in July 2016,” the IG report states.

In a world in which inspectors general more often act to cover up agency misconduct rather than resolve it,the IG publicly confirmed multiple ethical and procedural lapses by Auten and his FBI team. The IG dinged Auten and his team for using information they knew was unreliable to obtain secret surveillance warrants, using the FBI for political purposes instead of legitimate law enforcement purposes, withholding evidence about Steele’s unreliability from other intelligence agencies, not investigating leaks of sensitive information, and ignoring obvious conflicts of interest and ethics checks regarding Steele’s claims.

“Our review found that FBI personnel fell far short of the requirement in FBI policy that they ensure that all factual statements in a FISA application are ‘scrupulously accurate,’” the report says. “We identifiedmultiple instances in which factual assertionsrelied upon in the first FISA applicationwere inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation, based upon information the FBI had in its possession at the time the application was filed.”

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/14/new-york-times-lies-about-why-kash-patel-suspended-analyst-key-to-fbi-corruption/

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All this ought to be enough to fire Auten from federal employment and relieve him of any law enforcement duties forever.Other career agents testified to Congress that Auten and his team likely committed multiple federal crimes worthy of prosecution, including perjury and fraud. Yet he remained in an FBI position senior enough to also help fix the Hunter Biden laptop scandal for Democrats’ next presidential candidate, Joe Biden.

While the IG was preparing that report, Auten used FBI resources to find any tips coming to FBI offices around the country about the Biden family corruption ring, andto dirty up those more than 40 whistleblowing sources with false accusations they were “foreign disinformation,” according to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

This was the same false claim intelligence agencies used to pressure social media monopolies into mass censorship of information that does not boost spy agency propaganda schemes, such as Russiagate, including public knowledge of Hunter Biden’s laptop. The laptop provided reams of evidence that the Biden family traded political favors to foreigners in exchange for millions.

The utterly amazing thing is the FBI continued to employ Auten for more than five years after the public disclosure of potential crimes he committed on its payroll, not that Patel decided to put a maliciously partisan, likely criminal FBI employee on leave!

Yet the same NYT that helped the FBI and other intelligence agencies lie to Americans about Spygate, Biden corruption, and numerous other items of public importanceclownishly claims in its April 11 article that “The reasons for the suspension [of Brian Auten] remain unclear.” It further alleges Auten’s suspension is political retaliation rather than the potential beginnings of bringing justice to those who dangerously sought to turn the United States into an intelligence dictatorship.

The reporter bylining this article, Adam Goldman, is a Times national security reporter who “has been a journalist for more than two decades.” He cannot not know all of this background or he wouldn’t have this job, and he still wrote a ridiculously idiotic story claiming Auten’s firing is only explainable by political retribution.

This means Goldman is a paid shill for the world’s worst people, not a reporter of any kind. He’s not just a hack; he has no morals at all. New York Times, delenda est.

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/14/new-york-times-lies-about-why-kash-patel-suspended-analyst-key-to-fbi-corruption/

Polling shows growing number of Republicans identify with the MAGA movement

More than one-third of registered voters identified themselves as MAGA supporters in March's NBC News poll. That includes 71% of Republicans.

April 14, 2025, 4:00 PM EDT By Ben Kamisar

As President Donald Trump nears the 100-day mark of his second term, recent polling from NBC News shows how he has consolidated the Republican Party not just around himself, but also around his broader “Make America Great Again” movement.

Thirty-six percent of registered voters identified themselves as MAGA supporters in the March NBC News poll. It’s a significant increase from past NBC News polling — up from 23% of respondents in a merged sample of all of NBC News’ polling across 2023 and 27% of respondents in a merged sample of NBC News’ 2024 polling.

The overall share is powered by the 71% of Republicans who now call themselves MAGA supporters.

NBC News’ polling already showed signs of a shift afoot between the beginning of the 2024 presidential primaries and the final weeks before Election Day, as the GOP consolidated around Trump. In January 2024, days after Trump won nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, just 20% of registered voters said they aligned with the MAGA movement. But in NBC News’ combined polling in October and early November, that number had ticked up to 29%.

A shift among Republicans moving more into Trump’s camp is primarily driving this movement, with a 16-point increase in GOPers identifying with the MAGA movement between the two polls right before the 2024 election (55%) and March (71%). There’s also been a similar shift among college-educated men, from 21% in 2024 to 37% in March — also a 16-point increase.

(Of course NBC had to add this paragraph in the article)

It’s the kind of pro-Trump consolidation that led to him matching his best-ever approval rating (47%) in NBC News' March poll, though a majority of registered voters,51%, still disapproved of his job performance.

“All of that shift is coming from Republicans,” said Bill McInturff, a Republican pollster with Public Opinion Strategies who conducted the survey along with Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates.

“Look at this transformed party, where in 14 months we’ve gone from 40% of Republicans from saying they identify as MAGA to 71%,” McInturff continued.

The NBC News poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters from March 7-11 via a mix of telephone interviews

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/polling-shows-growing-number-republicans-identify-maga-movement-rcna201071

Trump’s DOJ Tapped To Investigate Defiant Maine Over Men In Women’s Sports

By: Breccan F. Thies April 14, 2025 (I don’t understand why Democrats, especially weak and defiant Democrats choose to fight with President Donald J. Trump, they seem to never learn anything)

As the state of Maine continues to defy federal civil rights law and allow men to compete in women’s sports, an initial investigation by the Education Department has been referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for “further enforcement action.”

The Justice Department taking over the investigation is an escalation in the fight between the federal government, which is trying to force Maine to comply with Title IX civil rights law to protect women and girls in sports, and Democrat Gov. Janet Mills, who wants to continue the practice.

“The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a press release. “The Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department.Governor Millswould have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded inthe old idiom — be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Education is continuing with its plan to terminate federal education funds to the Maine Department of Education (MDOE).

The referral to the Justice Department comes after an investigationfinding Maine in violation of Title IX, the state refusing to sign a resolution agreement with the federal governmentwhich requires various concessions like blocking men from competing against women, and having a “final warning” issued telling the state to comply or have the issue raised to the Justice Department.

Maine claims, however, that Title IX — which was expressly created to protect women and girls in sports and education — actually does allow their safety and opportunities to be stripped by males.

(KEK, they are nuts) “Nothing in Title IX or its implementing regulations prohibits schools from allowing transgender girls and women to participate on girls’ and women’s sports teams,” Sarah Forster, the state’s assistant attorney general, said according to ABC News. “Your letters to date do not cite a single case that so holds. To the contrary, various federal courts have held that Title IX and/or the Equal Protection Clause require schools to allow such participation.”

While the Biden administration’s Title IX regulations would have allowed what Forster is describing, they were summarily rejected by a federal court for doing the exact thing Maine claims is permitted: Change the definition of sex to claim “transgender girls” (aka boys) are really female and belong on girls’ sports teams.

“Correction: ED referred Maine to DOJ over MALE ATHLETES not over ‘transgender athletes’ (whatever that may mean),” Candice Jackson, deputy general counsel of the Department of Education, said in response to a news headline. “It’s almost as if the media is helping gender activists limp along on this 80/20 losing issue by using obfuscatory language to hamper public awareness of plain facts.”

Maine has been under investigation and found in violation of Title IX from multiple different federal agencies. While the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) froze federal funding for certain programs over the matter, Maine federal district Judge John Woodstock, a George W. Bush appointee, ordered Friday that USDA unfreeze the funding.

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/14/trumps-doj-tapped-to-investigate-defiant-maine-over-men-in-womens-sports/

(Why isn't the FBI and Agriculture Appointee investigating the numerous Chinese Pot Growing farms there? Isn't that against Federal Law?)

>>22914572 I really don't understand how Harvard and other Universities and Colleges don't understand how determined PDJT is, haven't they watched the last 9+ years, he will never give up.

They can scream injustice all they want, but he 's the President and will use the power to apply the law.