'YOU'LL BE IN PRISON!': Letitia James confronted by heckler

The ‘Outnumbered’ panelists react to reports that the Department of Justice has launched a probe into New York Attorney General Letitia James, as protesters confront her publicly about the investigation during a town hall.

(I can’t wait until creatures like her are giving justice. She can shout all she wants, but guaranteed the government has a real case. I hope more are coming and it drags out for four years with more of the crimes she’s done. My research is that she has 3-4 more houses in the U.S. wait till they announce Bragg and Fani, same pattern there.)

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https://youtu.be/hp3jXSKuM64

'YOU'LL BE IN PRISON!': Letitia James confronted by heckler

The ‘Outnumbered’ panelists react to reports that the Department of Justice has launched a probe into New York Attorney General Letitia James, as protesters confront her publicly about the investigation during a town hall.

(I can’t wait until creatures like her are giving justice. She can shout all she wants, but guaranteed the government has a real case. I hope more are coming and it drags out for four years with more of the crimes she’s done. My research is that she has 3-4 more houses in the U.S.)

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'YOU'LL BE IN PRISON!': Letitia James confronted by heckler

The ‘Outnumbered’ panelists react to reports that the Department of Justice has launched a probe into New York Attorney General Letitia James, as protesters confront her publicly about the investigation during a town hall.

(I can’t wait until creatures like her are giving justice. She can shout all she wants, but guaranteed the government has a real case. I hope more are coming and it drags out for four years with more of the crimes she’s done. My research is that she has 3-4 more houses in the U.S.)

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https://youtu.be/hp3jXSKuM64

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GOP considers slapping big taxes on Gates Foundation and others

The move comes as GOP lawmakers scrounge for revenue to underwrite their megabill and amid criticism by the Trump administration of some foundations’ activities.

Benjamin Guggenheim

05/09/2025, 7:13PM ET

House Republicans are aiming to put big new taxes on private foundations amid their push to raise revenue for their sweeping domestic policy legislation, according to two people directly familiar with a GOP tax package that has yet to be publicly released.

Major philanthropies like the Gates and Rockefeller foundations would see the biggest tax increases under the draft proposal — private foundations with assets over 1 billion would get hit with a whopping 10 percent tax on their investment income.

Foundations with assets of $250 million to $1 billion would see tax rates of 5 percent, those with assets between $50 million and $250 million would pay 2.8 percent, and those with assets under $50 million would pay the existing 1.4 percent tax.

The details aren’t finalized and the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee could still change the details of the final bill draft before lawmakers vote on the legislation. A spokesperson for the committee did not immediately return a request for comment.

The new taxes come as the Trump administration continues to punish large institutions that Republicans perceive to be working against their agenda. Republicans are planning to slap major new endowment taxes on universities, and the administration has also gone after a slew of big law firms.

Philanthropic organizations have become increasingly nervous that they’ll find themselves in Trump’s crosshairs as well. Vice President J.D. Vance, in particular, has singled out large institutions like the Ford Foundation, telling Tucker Carlson in 2021 that they are “fundamentally cancers on American society but they pretend to be charities.”

“They fund critical race theory, they fund ridiculous racism,” said Vance. “We are actively subsidizing the people who are destroying this country and they call it a charity.”

The House Ways and Means committee is expected to release draft text of the sweeping GOP tax bill as soon as Friday. House Republican leaders are aiming for critical committees to vote on the major portions of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” next week.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/09/congress/republicans-consider-slapping-big-taxes-on-private-foundations-00340049

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Bill Gates plans to close his foundation, give away nearly all of his fortune over 20 years: I don’t want people to say, ‘He died rich’

Tom Huddleston Jr.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, UK, on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. The billionaire climate tech investor said artificial intelligence will "pay for itself" when it comes to its associated greenhouse gas emissions as the technology will help push forward the energy transition. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Bill Gates plans to give away nearly all of his personal wealth and shutter the Gates Foundation within 20 years, the billionaire announced in a blog post on Thursday.

“People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that ‘he died rich’ will not be one of them,” wrote Gates, 69. “There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people.”

The Microsoft co-founder, whose net worth Bloomberg currently estimates at $168 billion, has pledged for years to give away most of his wealth to his philanthropic foundation. His eventual goal is to drop “off of the list of the world’s richest people,” he wrote in a social media post in July 2022.

Now, Gates has set a specific timeline for disbursing his fortune: The Gates Foundation is set to close its doors on December 31, 2045. Since the Foundation’s launch in 2000, it has contributed more than $100 billion to global causes — particularly working to eradicate diseases and poverty, address climate change and expand access to healthcare and education.

Gates estimates the Foundation will be able to double that total, and hand out another $200 billion between now and 2045, depending on factors such as inflation and market performance, he wrote. He plans to increase its annual budget from $6 billion to $9 billion.

Among his goals for the next two decades, he wrote:

•Further reducing the deaths of mothers and young children from preventable causes (lie)

• Helping eradicate diseases like polio, malaria, measles and Guinea-worm disease (Lie he killed more than anyone!)

• Funding advances in education and agriculture in African nations to help “hundreds of millions of people break free from poverty” Lying killer !

While Gates is “hopeful” the Foundation can meet those goals, he’s also realistic: “None of this progress is possible without partnership from governments,” he wrote. His announcement comes at a time when world governments, particularly the U.S., have been slashing their global aid budgets “by tens of billions of dollars,” he noted.

Gates expressed concern that philanthropic organizations like his won’t be able to fill the void in global aid left by recent government cuts.

“No philanthropic organization — even one the size of the Gates Foundation — can make up the gulf in funding that’s emerging right now,” he wrote. “It’s unclear whether the world’s richest countries will continue to stand up for its poorest people.”

‘Things will be better in the next 20 years’

Gates described the influences in his life that shaped his commitment to philanthropy, starting with his mother, Mary Gates, who died in 1994. She was a staunch believer in the idea that “to whom much is given much is expected,” Gates wrote.

After Microsoft became successful and Gates became, for a time, the wealthiest person in the world, his mother reminded him that he “was just a steward of any wealth” he accumulated, and that he had a moral and societal obligation to give back, he wrote. Gates’ father shared the same view and was co-chair of the Gates Foundation until his death in 2020.

Gates’ stance on philanthropy was also influenced by longtime friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett, who has already donated tens of billions of dollars to charities and has tasked his children with giving away 99% of his remaining wealth after he dies. Buffett “remains the ultimate model of generosity,” Gates wrote. “He was the first one who introduced me to the idea of giving everything away.”

Together with Buffett, Gates and now-ex-wife Melinda French Gates co-founded the Giving Pledge in 2010. Since then, more than 240 billionaires have signed it, committing to give away the bulk of their fortunes in their lifetimes.

In his post, Gates also cited the influence of Gilded Age steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, whose 1889 essay “The Gospel of Wealth” is considered a model for modern philanthropy. Reading that essay decades ago, Gates said that he was struck by the line “the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”

“I have spent a lot of time thinking about that quote lately,” wrote Gates, adding that it influenced his decision to move more quickly with his donations. “I

(https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/bill-gates-to-close-foundation-give-away-rest-of-wealth-by-2045.html

Trump administration ‘looking at’ suspending habeas corpus for migrants, Stephen Miller says 1/2

PUBLISHED FRI, MAY 9 20253:26 PM EDTUPDATED FRI, MAY 9 20256:37 PM EDT

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• Senior White House advisor Stephen Miller said that the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, the right to challenge a person’s detention by the government, for migrants.

• Miller was answering a reporter who asked about President Donald Trump entertaining the idea of suspending the writ to deal with illegal immigration into the United States.

• The writ has only been suspended four times since the U.S. Constitution was adopted, and in all but one case, Congress first authorized that action.

• Miller spoke hours after a federal judge in Vermont ordered the release of Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk from the custody of U.S. immigration authorities. She had challenged her detention with a habeas

White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller said Friday that the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus — the constitutional right to challenge in court the legality of a person’s detention by the government — for migrants.

Miller’s comment came in response to a White House reporter who asked about President Donald Trumpentertaining the idea of suspending the writ to deal with the problem of illegal immigration into the United States.

Asked when that might happen, Miller responded: “The Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in time of invasion.”

“So, I would say that’s an option we’re actively looking at,” he said.

A number of pending civil cases challenging the Trump administration’s deportation of undocumented immigrants in the United States are based on habeas claims.

The Trump administration has chafed at orders by judges blocking efforts to summarily deport immigrants, including alleged gang members, without court proceedings.

Miller spoke hours after a federal judge in Vermont ordered the release of Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk from the custody of U.S. immigration authorities.

Öztürk, who had been imprisoned for 45 days after the Trump administration revoked the Turkish citizen’s student visa based on an assessment that she “may undermine U.S. foreign policy by crearting a hostile environment for Jewish students and indicating support for a designated terrorist organization.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/trump-deportation-habeas-corpus-miller.

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Öztürk challenged her detention with a petition for writ of habeas corpus, which noted that she “has not been charged with any crime,” and which argued that her “arrest and detention are designed to punish her speech and chill the speech of others.”

Miller said that Trump’s decision on whether to suspend the writ of habeas corpus “depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”

Miller implied that “the right thing” is for judges to stop blocking the administration’s deportation of immigrants in cases where those people are exercising habeas writs.

The writ has been suspended only four times since the U.S. Constitution was ratified. And in all but one of those instances, Congress first authorized the suspension.

The idea of habeas corpus originated in English common law.

“No man shall be arrested or imprisoned…except by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land,” a provision in the Magna Carta, signed by King John in the early 13th Century, says.

The U.S. Constitution, in Article 1, section 9, says, “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”

Miller’s use of the word “invasion” reflects the Trump administration’s argument that the U.S. faces an “invasion” of undocumented migrants.

The administration likewise has claimed that there is a national emergency from the influx of the deadly opioid fentanyl into the U.S. that justifies the imposition of high tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico without prior authorization by Congress..

Miller said that Congress had stripped federal courts of jurisdiction over immigration cases with the Immigration and Nationality Act.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/trump-deportation-habeas-corpus-miller.html

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in an essay co-written with the attorney Neal Katyal for the National Constitution Center, noted that the clause in the Constitution addressing the possible suspension of the writ of habeas corpus “does not specify which branch of government has the authority to suspend the privilege of the writ.”

“But most agree that only Congress can do it,” the essay says.

“President Abraham Lincoln provoked controversy by suspending the privilege of his own accord during the Civil War, but Congress largely extinguished challenges to his authority by enacting a statute permitting suspension,” the article notes.

Glenn Loury: Ousted for Opposing Middle Eastern Wars, MLK Files, & the One Thing Malcolm X Got Right

For decades, conservative think tanks celebrated and supported black economist Glenn Loury.Then he expressed an unauthorized opinion on the Middle East and the Manhattan Institute dropped him in a second.

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https://youtu.be/lbDXrZdvXMk

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Towards then end of Tuckers interview is where Loury and Tucker switched to discuss why he was released from the Manhattan Institute; it was for even mentioning another side on how this war by Israel was decimating the Palestinians; unnecessary. Not at all justifying what happened on Oct 7; and Not in favor of Hamas or Hezbollah but every innocent Palestinian. This was profoundly enlightening of why the anti Zionist (free innocent protestors not the radical embedding in them) movement has occurred, in a balanced way that exposes the Zionist influence is so obvious in the U.S. His comments is why he was released from the Manhattan Institute, because his concern was for innocent Palestinians.

I never understood the whole war from the start. Not the violence on US campuses because there are is so much propaganda from forces that don’t want reconciliation. And how the U.S. institutions etc are pro Israel. I don’t take a side with the Hamas Hezbollah (nor radical Zionists) leaders but the innocent Christian and other Palestinian's. Sure get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah but not Palestine or innocents for Israel to own, which goes back to biblical times.

Very complex issue and discussion, but the very fact U.S. independent Think tanks mostly take the side and of Israel, not just defending themselves but complete destruction of Palenstine pinpoints exactly what anons have been saying forever, the U.S. leaders and institutions are owned by Zionists. PS Trump really pisses BiBi off, and BiBi has hated Trump forever. Its mutual

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Where is the investigation's on the FBI targeting Trump forever, and their still embedded Trump haters there?

U.S.-China tariff talks end for the night and will continue Sunday, source says

May 10, 2025 / 5:19 PM EDT1/2

Sensitive talks between U.S. and Chinese delegationsover tariffs that threaten to upend the global economy ended after a day of prolonged negotiations and will resume Sunday, a source briefed on the meetings confirmed to CBS News.

There was no immediate indication whether any progress was made Saturday during the more than 10-hour meeting between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Switzerland. The talks, which could help stabilize world markets roiled by the U.S.-China standoff, have been shrouded in secrecy and neither side made comments to reporters on the way out.

Based on Bessent's interview with Fox News last week, initial discussions were likely about "de-escalation, not about the big trade deal." The Treasury secretary said the U.S. and China have "shared interests" because the sky-high tariffs imposed by both countries last month are not "sustainable."

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is also in Switzerland alongside Bessent for the talks.

Several convoys of black vehicles left the residence of the Swiss ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, which hosted the talks aimed at de-escalating trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies. Diplomats from both sides also confirmed that the talks took place.

The talks were taking place in the sumptuous 18th-century "Villa Saladin" overlooking Lake Geneva. The former estate was bequeathed to the Swiss state in 1973, according to the Geneva government.

The hope is that the two countries will scale back the massive taxes — tariffs — they've slapped on each other's goods, a move that would relieve world financial markets and companies on both sides of the Pacific Ocean that depend on U.S.-China trade.

In an interview with NBC News last week, President Trump claimed Chinese officials "want to make a deal very badly. We'll see how that all turns out, but it's got to be a fair deal." The president also said he expected to lower tariffs on China "at some point."

Meanwhile, Chinese officials have said they are open to negotiating with the U.S. on trade, but pushed the Trump administration to drop its "unilateral" tariffs first.

Mr. Trump last month raised U.S. tariffs on China to a combined 145%, and China retaliated by hitting American imports with a 125% levy. Tariffs that high essentially amount to the countries' boycotting each other's products, disrupting trade that last year topped $660 billion.

Even before the talks began, Mr. Trump suggested Friday that the U.S. could lower its tariffs on China, saying in a Truth Social post that "80% Tariff seems right! Up to Scott.″

Sun Yun, director of the China program at the Stimson Center, noted it will be the first time He and Bessent have talked. She doubts the Geneva meeting will produce any substantive results.

"The best scenario is for the two sides to agree to de-escalate on the … tariffs at the same time," she said, adding even a small reduction would send a positive signal. "It cannot just be words."

Since returning to the White House in January, Mr. Trump has aggressively used tariffs as his favorite economic weapon. He has, for example, imposed a 10% tax on imports from almost every country in the world.

But the fight with China has been the most intense. His tariffs on China include a 20% charge meant to pressure Beijing into doing more to stop the flow of the synthetic opioid fentanyl into the United States. The remaining 125% involve a dispute that dates back to Mr. Trump's first term and comes atop tariffs he levied on China back then, which means the total tariffs on some Chinese goods can exceed 145%.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-china-talks-tariffs/

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During Mr. Trump's first term, the U.S. alleged that claimed China uses unfair tactics to give itself an edge in advanced technologies such as quantum computing and driverless cars. These The allegations include forcing U.S. and other foreign companies to hand over trade secrets in exchange for access to the Chinese market; using government money to subsidize domestic tech firms; and outright theft of sensitive technologies.

Those issues were never fully resolved. After nearly two years of negotiation, the United States and China reached a so-called Phase One agreement in January 2020. The U.S. agreed then not to go ahead with even higher tariffs on China, and Beijing agreed to buy more American products. The tough issues — such as China's subsidies — were left for future negotiations.

But China didn't come through with the promised purchases, partly because COVID-19 disrupted global commerce just after the Phase One truce was announced.

The fight over China's tech policy now resumes.

Mr. Trump is also agitated by America's massive trade deficit with China, which came to $263 billion last year.

In Switzerland on Friday, Bessent and Greer also met with Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter.

Mr. Trump last month suspended plans to slap hefty 31% tariffs on Swiss goods – more than the 20% levies he plastered on exports from European Union. For now, he's reduced those taxes to 10% but warned he could raise them again.

The government in Bern is taking a cautious approach. But it has warned of the impact on crucial Swiss industries like watches, coffee capsules, cheese and chocolate.

"An increase in trade tensions is not in Switzerland's interests. Countermeasures against U.S. tariff increases would entail costs for the Swiss economy, in particular by making imports from the USA more expensive," the government said last week, adding that the executive branch "is therefore not planning to impose any countermeasures at the present time."

On Saturday, Bessent said trade talks with Switzerland were "very productive," and he was "optimistic about the speed of these negotiations," citing Mr. Trump's trade deal with the U.K. that's still being finalized.

"I am glad that we have agreed on accelerated trade talks, and we expect that a detailed Swiss proposal will be submitted to Ambassador Greer by next week," Bessent wrote on social media. "Swiss companies have indicated their interest in investing CHF 150-200 billion in new U.S. investments thanks to President Trump's policies, and we look forward to our continued talks."

The U.S. is Switzerland's second-biggest trading partner after the European Union – the 27-member country bloc that nearly surrounds the wealthy Alpine country of more than 9 million. U.S.-Swiss trade in goods and services has quadrupled over the last two decades, the government said.

The Swiss government said Switzerland abolished all industrial tariffs on Jan. 1 last year, meaning that 99% of all goods from the United States can be imported into Switzerland duty-free.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-china-talks-tariffs/

Why does the MSM call President Trump only use Mr. Trump in their reports?

‘Them White Motherf-ers’: Racist Agency Framed Its Lawyer After He Discovered Lawbreaking, He Says 1/4

Luke RosiakMay 9, 2025

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final part in a series of investigative reports on the African Development Foundation, which gained notoriety for resisting a review by the Department of Government Efficiency. Check out part one, part two, and part three.

A small, USAID-like federal agency called the African Development Foundation refused to hire white people, and treated white employees who did slip through so poorly that one soiled herself because she was afraid to leave her desk to use the bathroom, employees told The Daily Wire.

The agency violated so many rules and laws that its general counsel was flabbergasted — but when he called attention to it, officials framed him for violent threats and removed him from his jobwith a bizarre manifesto that called him “grimy” and “unwholesome,” the general counsel, Mateo Dunne, who is white, said.

The agency attracted attention by locking the doors to prevent auditors from the Department of Government Efficiency from seeing its books, and suing Elon Musk to prevent a takeover. The lawsuit is pending, but all of its employees have been laid off after the Trump administration gained access to the office space using U.S. Marshals.

From 2021 until February, the agency was led by CEO Travis Adkins, who came to it after a short stint at USAID as a Joe Biden political appointee.

Adkins’ former assistant, who is black, said in a sworn affidavit that “On at least three occasions, Mr. Adkins told me that he wanted his entire team (to include the General Counsel) to consist only of Black people. He wanted all of his direct reports to be Black.”

“He was very adamant in only hiring African Americans, mainly female, and he told me many times he would not hire a white person or a veteran. I said that’s discrimination, and he said ‘I’m the president and CEO, I can do what I want,’” the assistant told The Daily Wire on condition of anonymity. Adkins is also a lecturer at Georgetown University.

The African Development Foundation was created by Congress in 1980 as a board whose members are appointed by the president of the United States to six-year terms, who in turn appoint a CEO to run day-to-day operations. The board chair was Jack Leslie, a white former staffer to former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) who was appointed to the board by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Adkins bragged about concealing operations from the board, saying “them white motherf—ers, they don’t need to know… I don’t think I should tell them sh–,” according to the assistant.

A junior employee disappeared a few months after she took complaints to the board, and the assistant asked what happened to her; Adkins replied, “I just put the white b—h on a contract and then the contract ended,” the assistant said.

The situation was the same under the prior CEO, C.D. Glin, a former Peace Corps DEI officer and later an Obama political appointee to the Peace Corps who led the agency from 2016 to 2021. “C.D. [Glin] literally said to me that he needed to hire black people,” another employee told The Daily Wire on condition of anonymity. “Virtually everyone he hired in programs was black.”

In 2021, the agency had to pay a settlement after it laid off a white senior executive without paying her severance or following federal rules, and she alleged it was because of her race. It conducted a “reduction in force” that was targeted at her, and falsely claimed she didn’t have the qualifications to shift into another job, even though many of those jobs had actually reported to her.

In previous installments in this series, The Daily Wire reported how its agency’s CFO received payments to his personal bank account from a company to which he steered $1 million. The agency gave money to African grantees and then instructed them to re-route it to the agency’s employees and friends in America, and even pushed a for-profit multi-level marketing scheme run by a board member on poor Africans.

“I think USADF deserved the fate that it received, because if it couldn’t be run correctly, then it shouldn’t be run at all.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/them-white-motherf-ers-racist-agency-framed-its-lawyer-after-he-discovered-lawbreaking-he-says

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Retaliation

In a government agency, the job of the general counsel is to ensure that rules and laws are followed.Glin ensured that the role was either empty or filled with junior lawyers with no experience in government, even though the agency engaged in complex international finance.

After he departed as CEO in May 2021, there was a brief period in which the agency had no permanent leader, and a traditional general counsel managed to slip through.When Mateo Dunne, a white former high-level Defense Department executive, took the job, he was appalled by how little the African Development Foundation seemed to care about laws and rules.

The lawyer set out to interview employees about conflicts of interest, purchase card abuse, contracting fraud, and a toxic workplace environment. In a matter of days, the evidence started stacking up.He told the acting CEO, Elisabeth Feleke, that outside lawyers would have to be brought in to document the full scope of the lawbreaking.

Instead, Feleke ordered him to stop the investigation, told him to change the preliminary findings, and falsely told the board the probe was complete, he told The Daily Wire. Dunne stopped investigating, but sent his preliminary report to the board.

He soon learned that despite nearly uniform agreement that Glin had been abusive, the organization wasn’t getting a fresh start. The board agreed to hire a decades-long friend of Glin’s, Travis Adkins, to replace him. When Adkins entered the office for the first time, Glin enveloped him in a bear hug.

Adkins later testified under oath that he was selected to lead the African Development Foundation without even applying for the job, and that he couldn’t recall when or how he managed to be selected.

As Adkins’ start date neared, Dunne prepared to show him the lawbreaking he had found so that Adkins could reform the agency.But it seemed that Adkins already knew, and his first priority was shutting Dunne’s investigation down.

Within hours of Adkins being sworn in as president and CEO in January 2022, he put Dunne on leave and cut off his access to evidence before he could even speak, video shows.

“You will be on administrative leave the very moment that we hang up this call. You will have a box mailed to your home to allow you to send back to us any USADF-issued equipment,” he told Dunne. “You are not to contact any of the members of the USADF staff. And again, your access to all of our data and systems will be closed down immediately.”

Dunne replied: “I had prepared this slide deck to introduce myself and what I’ve done at USADF. This conversation obviously went a different way … I guess I have a couple of questions.”

“We’re not going to do questions and answers,” Adkins said. “We’re not going to have a back and forth about this.”Dunne was never told why he was placed on paid leave, which Adkins acknowledged was the first step in a discipline process.

Internally, the agency sought to build a justification for firing the white lawyer, with chief of staff Brandi James compiling a 75-page manifesto that called Dunne “Adversarial, Belittling, Calculating, Combative, Condescending, Deceitful, Defensive, Grimy, Sinister, and Unwholesome.”

The report called Dunne a “danger to USADF’s mission and staff.”But the details made clear that the risk was not to anyone’s life, but rather the livelihoods of law-breaking bureaucrats. The dossier faulted him for his “insistence on tying up staff time on investigatory digs.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/them-white-motherf-ers-racist-agency-framed-its-lawyer-after-he-discovered-lawbreaking-he-says

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The evidence of insubordination was that he had investigated apparent spending on luxuries and personal items by top staff, whenActing CEO Elisabeth Feleke said, “I have not given Mateo direction or mandate to investigate credit card fraud.”

“Them white motherf—ers, they don’t need to know… I don’t think I should tell them sh–.”

As evidence of Dunne “circumventing and breaching USADF protocols,” the dossier complained that Dunne notified Glin that he had not filed years’ worth of mandatory Office of Government Ethics conflict-of-interest forms, carrying a $600 penalty, even though Feleke told him not to raise the issue. As general counsel, Dunne was the agency’s “designated ethics officer” and required to do so by the government-wide ethics office. The forms would have revealed that the African group had paid money to a group associated with Glin, and refusal to file them can carry criminal penalties.

Adkins went as far as implying that Dunne had threatened to kill him, alluding to something “being sent to people regarding the death of government officials, as all of us are government officials.” This, it turned out, was a fantastical distortion of Dunne sharing a sentimental quote from a New York governor acknowledging the passing of a former legislator.

Then a new comment appeared on the agency’s profile on the employer-review site GlassDoor that said, under “Advice to Management”: “die.” The post was attributed to “General Counsel.” The African Development Foundation sicced four different law enforcement agencies on Dunne for making death threats.

The former Sunday school-teaching lawyer said he was framed. “If I was going to do an anonymous post I would obviously not put my job title in there,” he said.

Adkins was forthright with the board’s chair, Jack Leslie, about what was really going on. He wrote to Leslie that Dunne was placed on leave for his “efforts to damage USADF’s reputation via the Office of Inspector General…Dunne conducted an unauthorized, backward-focused investigation that unsettled staff. … He then began leveling accusations that USADF senior leadership was ‘interfering’ with his investigations and General Counsel functions.”

Lies

The African Development Foundation never told Dunne what he was being investigated for, or formally moved to fire him, which would require proving that he did something wrong. It simply left him on paid leave indefinitely, violating a law that limits investigative leave to 90 days. After six months, in July 2022, he quit to take another job.

An agency’s top lawyer calling attention to rampant lawbreaking, only for him to be removed from duty, is as remarkable a case of whistleblower retaliation as the government has seen. Dunne provided documentation to the Office of Special Counsel, which exists to investigate whistleblower retaliation. But it closed his file when the employee he’d been working with left her job, he said.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/them-white-motherf-ers-racist-agency-framed-its-lawyer-after-he-discovered-lawbreaking-he-says

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He filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging discrimination on the basis of his race and retaliation.In August 2024, an administrative law judge dismissed his case, even though he had an affidavit from a black employee saying that Adkins had told her repeatedly that he did not want any white people working for him. Dunne is appealing in court.

Dunne deposed African Development Foundation staff in the course of that lawsuit. In his sworn testimony, Adkins denied saying he wouldn’t hire white people — but also claimed he didn’t know how many people worked for him, that he could only remember the names of two, and that he didn’t know what race various employees were.

Adkins’ sworn testimony was repeatedly contradicted by documents and the testimony of other employees.

Adkins had told the board that a government-wide human resource office had “recommended Mr. Dunne immediately be placed on Administrative Leave for misconduct and performance.” A representative of that office testified that it was not true.

He denied plotting to remove Dunne as general counsel before he even started as CEO in an effort to spare his friend Glin and officials like Mathieu Zahui, the chief financial officer, and a target of the investigation.

But discovery in the lawsuit showed that Zahui had written during that time period that “The board and the incoming president would like to explore the possibilities of a do-over” on the general counsel hire.

Adkins did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire.

Dunne said it has been painful to watch some turn the African Development Foundation into a “martyr,” seemingly to avoid acknowledging that DOGE’s scrutiny was warranted, when no one cared to fix it, though signs were abundant that it was broken.

He said he left his job at the Defense Department to come to the African agency “because I wanted to help people,” but found that widespread rule-breaking was short-changing both Africans and low-level staff.

“I think USADF deserved the fate that it received, because if it couldn’t be run correctly, then it shouldn’t be run at all.If the leaders of that agency couldn’t act, and members of the foreign policy establishment wouldn’t act,” he said. “It’s an indictment of the entire system.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/them-white-motherf-ers-racist-agency-framed-its-lawyer-after-he-discovered-lawbreaking-he-says

DHS spokesperson threatens arrests of House Democrats who were at N.J. ICE facility

Tricia McLaughlin accused members of Congress of assaulting and even body-slamming ICE officers. A congresswoman who was present denied the allegation.

May 10, 2025, 4:59 PM EDT

Protesters and security stand in front of Delaney Hall.

A spokesperson forthe Department of Homeland Security on Saturday suggested the Trump administration could pursue arrests of the House Democrats involved in an incident at a New Jersey Immigration and Customs Enforcementdetention facility on Friday and accused them of assaulting ICE officers.

“I think that we should let viewers know there will likely be more coming,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN on Saturday morning.

“We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body-slamming a female ICE officer,” McLaughlin said.

Her comments were in response to a question from CNN’s Victor Blackwell, who asked whether others were arrested Friday in addition to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who was charged with trespassing.

Asked whether that meant a member of Congress could be arrested in connection with Friday’s events, McLaughlin told Blackwell, “This is an ongoing investigation, and that is definitely on the table.”

She added that ICE was in possession of video evidence documenting the incident.

Later on Saturday, McLaughlin posted a video on X showing chaos outside of the detention facility, writing, “We will not tolerate assault against our ICE law enforcement agents. By members of Congress or anyone else.”

Her remarks came one day after three members of Congress — Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver, all New Jersey Democrats — visited the Delaney Hall detention facility to conduct oversight, according to statements from two of the lawmakers.

“As Members of Congress, we have a legal right to conduct oversight at any DHS facility without prior notice, as we have already done twice this year. Throughout every step of this visit, ICE attempted to intimidate everyone involved and impede our ability to conduct oversight,” Menendez said in a statement Friday. “This is like nothing I’ve ever seen before, and I am shocked and disturbed that something like this happened in our community.”

And McIver said in a statement that the lawmakers were met with “contempt, disrespect, and aggression from ICE.”

“From roughing up members of congress to arresting the mayor of our state’s largest city, there is no version of today that does not show the blatant abuses of power of the Trump administration,” she added.

None of the three members of Congress mentioned seeing any kind of violence against ICE officers during their visit to the facility.

And in a post on X on Saturday, Watson Coleman denied McLaughlin’s allegations, writing, “The notion that I or any of my colleagues ‘body slammed’ armed federal officers is absurd. DHS is lying because they know their agents were out of line.”

“They have to resort to lies because their conduct is indefensible on the merits. They can threaten us all they like, but their lies are still lies. We will not be intimidated,” the congresswoman added.

A spokesperson for DHS referred NBC News to the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey for comment. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney, Alina Habba, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Spokespeople for Menendez and McIver also did not immediately respond to a request for comment about McLaughlin’s remarks.

Baraka appeared on CNN directly after McLaughlin and called her allegations of assault “ridiculous.”

“I’m waiting for them to show a video,” he added.

Baraka pointed out that Watson Coleman, 80, is an older woman, “who probably couldn’t lift any of them.”

“None of those people body-slammed any officer,” Baraka added.

The Newark mayor also denied the charges that he was arrested on on Friday, telling Blackwell, “I was not trespassing at all. I mean, we’re in court, so we’ll argue that in the court.”

(Stupid people they don’t think ICE has videos)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/dhs-spokesperson-threatens-arrests-house-democrats-nj-ice-facility-rcna206052

DOGE says it deactivated 500K government credit cards in latest audit update

WASHINGTON (TNND) —

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Wednesday it had deactivated more than 500,000 government credit cards.

DOGE in February said ituncovered these unneeded government cards had processed 90 million transactions, amounting to $40 billion in spending for fiscal year 2024. The average transaction with a federal card was $441, according to the General Services Administration (GSA).

In its latest update on the audit process of these cards,DOGE said it expanded its efforts to 32 government agencies.

“As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do,” it wrote via X.

A graph attached to the post shows 12 agencies are listed at 90% audit completion or higher. Among them are the General Services Administration, Department of Education and Social Security Administration.

DOGE head Elon Musk wrote in March thecards appeared suspicious due to their seemingly unlimited use.

“There are still almost twice as many credit/purchasing cards as people in the government, and the limits are $10,000!” Musk posted via X. “A lot of shady expenditures happening.”

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/doge-says-it-deactivated-500k-government-credit-cards-in-latest-audit-update

I hope all of them go to jail, but first everything they own is confiscated for retribution. They should check on overseas bank accounts too.

Gulf diplomatic sources debate if Trump will announce US recognition of Palestinian state

Saudi Arabia will host a Gulf-US summit in mid-May during Trump’s Mideast visit. Speculation swirls over a major announcement on a Palestinian state, and peaceful US-Saudi nuclear cooperation

Saudi Arabia will host a Gulf-US summit in mid-May, part of US President Donald Trump's first visit to Saudi Arabia during his second term. This follows the summit held on May 21, 2017, during Trump's first term.

The summit, hosted by Saudi Arabia in its capital, Riyadh, was preceded by numerous predictions regarding the announcement that Trump referred to, describing it as a "very important announcement" during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House on Tuesday, May 6.

In addition to what Trump intends to announce, the summit's agenda and the deals and agreements expected to take place have become the talk of the town, ranging from security and military deals to technology deals and artificial intelligence deals.

All Gulf leaders are scheduled to participate in the Gulf-US summit, with the exception of King Salman bin Abdulaziz, who has not participated in public events or meetings for a long time due to his health conditions.

Will Donald Trump recognize a Palestinian state?

A Gulf diplomatic source=, who declined to be named or disclose his position, told The Media Line,"President Donald Trump will issue a declaration regarding the State of Palestine and American recognition of it, and that there will be the establishment of a Palestinian state without the presence of Hamas."

The source also added, "If an announcement of American recognition of the State of Palestine is made, it will be the most important declarationthat will change the balance of power in the Middle East, and more countries will join the Abraham Accords."

The source confirmed that economic agreements will certainly be present, but many of them have already been announced, and we may witness the Gulf states being exempted from tariffs.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee denied the statements made by this sourceon X/Twitter Saturday afternoon, saying that Israel has no better friend than the US.

Ahmed Al-Ibrahim, a former Gulf diplomat, told The Media Line,"I don't expect it to be about Palestine. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and King Abdullah II of Jordan have not been invited. They are the two countries closest to Palestine, and it would be important for them to be present at any event like this."

Al-Ibrahim also said, "There will be major deals coming, perhaps similar to what happened at the 2017 Gulf-US summit, with Saudi deals worth more than $400 billion. Let's not forget that the UAE announced investments in the US worth more than $1 trillion, and Saudi Arabia announced investments worth more than $600 billion."

He continued, "This is clear because President Donald Trump intends to visit the UAE and Qatar after concluding his visit to Saudi Arabia. These are two important economies with significant financial resources and major investments in the United States."

Ahmed Boushouki, a Saudi political analyst, told The Media Line,"This is about major economic deals that will take place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Perhaps US President Donald Trump hinted at this when he told the American people to 'buy stocks now, before his big announcement in the next two days.'"

Regarding the news of a peaceful US-Saudi nuclear cooperation to generate electricity in Saudi Arabia, Boushouki said, "Saudi Arabia has had a program announced since 2010, and it has been discussed several times before. International companies are now working to implement these projects in Saudi Arabia."

Plans are currently underway in Saudi Arabia to build the kingdom's first nuclear reactor, with several international companies competing to design and build the reactor. Meanwhile, the neighboring Gulf country, the United Arab Emirates, already owns the Barakah reactor and is the only Arab country with a four-reactor nuclear power plant, in collaboration with a Korean company.

https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-853387

May 9, 2025

Politics & Policy

Hegseth cancels Israel trip to join Trump on Air Force One

Barak Ravid

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth canceled his trip to Israel, which had been planned for Monday, in order to join President Trump on Air Force One for his trip to the Middle East, according to three Israeli and U.S. officials.

Why it matters:Trump inviting Hegseth to travel with him to the Middle East is a signal that the president continues to embrace his secretary of defense even amid the storms that have surrounded him over the last three months.

• In an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker last week Trump said Hegseth "is doing a very good job" and that his job as secretary of defense is "totally safe."

Behind the scenes: According to an Israeli official Hegseth's trip plan to Israel has been ready for several days.

• He was supposed to meet his counterpart, Israel Katz, and prime minister Netanyahu. Briefings aboard an Israeli navy ship off the coast of Gaza were also on the agenda, the official says.

• The plan was for Hegseth to travel to Saudi Arabia from Israel on Tuesday and join Trump's visit.

• But on Thursday, Hegseth's team notified the Israeli ministry of defense that the trip is canceled because president Trump asked Hegseth to travel with him from Washington to Saudi Arabia on Air Force One, an Israeli official said.

• Two U.S. officials confirmed this account.

State of play: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick are also scheduled to join Trump's trip.

What they're saying: Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote on X that Hegseth "did not cancel his trip to Israel."

•"He was asked to join President Trump's Middle East trip next week & is honored to do so. SECDEF very much looks forward to visiting our ally Israel soon," Parnell added.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/09/pete-hegseth-trump-israel-middle-east

‘BASELESS’: Pam Bondi slammed by AG Letitia James’ attorney over probe

Former U.S. Attorney Jay Town joins to discuss the Justice Department’s investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James following fraud allegations

Why does Abbe Lowel defend criminals like Hunter and James

5:21

https://youtu.be/Xfe0n9EvctY

How Trump made US-UK deal ‘a billion dollars better’

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells 'Jesse Watters Primetime' about upcoming U.S.-China talks and how the Trump administration secured a trade deal with the United Kingdom.

3:00

https://youtu.be/6XeT1rY-MEA