‘They KNEW it wasn’t secure’: GOP Rep rips FBI over Butler report

Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., joins 'America Reports' to react to new findings on Thomas Crooks’ online posts, accusing the FBI of withholding files and ignoring security warnings ahead of the Butler rally.

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https://youtu.be/oKxT6mxH5oQ

Everything is Regurgitation of outrage, Congress knew the FBI, and no one else told them. All their committee meetings were pathetic. Why didn't Congress charge the liars of "Contempt of Congress". Congress is happy the FBI got caught, because they were cowards.

Republicans FIGHT BACK after judges block redistricting plan

Fox News' Brooke Taylor and 'Ruthless Podcast' co-host Josh Holmes join 'America's Newsroom' to discuss Texas' redistricting fight after judges blocked a red-leaning map and how the Supreme Court's ruling could impact upcoming midterms.

I blame the politicians in DC and in states, they never challenged judges that got way over their skies and authority when the persecuted Trump for years. Do you job and the tell the courts to stay in their lanes, or take them off the bench. Cowards whining.

https://youtu.be/nbmA77_AUrk

19 Nov, 2025 21:00

US peace plan proposes Ukraine ‘give up sovereignty’ – media

The proposal requires that Kiev relinquish territory, reduce its army, and recognize Russian as an official language, Axios and FT report

A US-proposed peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine conflict developed jointly with Moscow requires major concessions from Kiev and would amount to it giving up its sovereignty, Axios and the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Russia has not confirmed the proposal.

The framework agreement, containing 28 points,was delivered to Kiev this week by US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, according to people familiar with the matter, cited by various outlets. The sources saidWitkoff made clear that he wanted Vladimir Zelensky to accept the term.

According to FT, the proposed plan would require Ukraine to relinquish the parts of the new Russian regions in Donbass still under Kiev’s control,cut the size of its armed forces by half and abandon key categories of weaponry. A rollback of US military assistance is included in the framework.

One source told FT that accepting the conditions would amount to Ukraine giving up its sovereignty.

The document reportedlyalso stipulates recognizing Russian as an official state language in Ukraine and granting official status to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the largest Christian denomination in the country, which Zelensky’s government has cracked down on over its historic ties with Russia.

Moscow has accused Kiev of violating the rights of native Russian speakers, who make up a significant share of the population, citing it as one of the root causes of the conflict.

Russian officials insist any lasting settlement must address fundamental security demands, including that Ukraine maintain neutrality, stay out of NATO and other military blocs, demilitarize and denazify, and accept the current territorial reality.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not confirm the proposal and said thatthere is “nothing new” in the US-Russia talksbeyond what was discussed between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump in Alaska.

Senior Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev told Axios, which first reported on the plan, that it was more than a ceasefire arrangement, saying “we feel the Russian position is really being heard.”

A White House official told Politico the plan could be agreed by all parties by the end of this this month and possibly “as soon as this week.”

https://www.rt.com/news/628028-ukraine-conflict-peace-plan/

Hmm I wonder if the agreement was a result of Zelenky's involvement with the graft, and he was given an ultimatum to get off the hook for more serious crimes.

19 Nov, 2025 20:30

Europeans’ grandchildren would pay for new Ukraine loan – Orban

The Hungarian PM has called Brussels’ push for an additional €135 billion for Kiev “categorically absurd”

A push by the European Commission to raise an additional €135 billion ($156 billion) for Ukraine would burden future generations of Europeans with debt, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned. The remark comes as a major corruption scandal is unfolding in Kiev.

On Wednesday, Orban wrote on X that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had “once again asked the member states for additional funds to finance Ukraine and the war.”

The target sum, he argued, amounts to 65% of Hungary’s annual economic output and nearly three-quarters of the EU’s yearly budget. Such an “astronomical sum,” he added, “simply does not exist today.”

“The Brusselian ‘magic trick’ would once again be a joint European loan, a move that would ensure even our grandchildren would be burdened with repaying the costs of the Russian-Ukrainian war,” Orban wrote, describing the idea as “categorically absurd.”

Von der Leyen reportedly urged EU governments to reach a swift agreement to cover Ukraine’s military and financial needs for the next two years, outlining funding options including bilateral contributions, joint EU borrowing, and a reparations loan based on Russia’s immobilized assets.

Orban, in response, said Brussels’ strategy was like trying to “help an alcoholic by sending them another crate of vodka.” He noted that the proposal was evenmore “astonishing” at a “time when it has become clear that a war mafia is siphoning off European taxpayers’ money.”

Last week, the Western-backed National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) announced a probe into a “high-level criminal organization” allegedly led by Timur Mindich, a former business associate of Vladimir Zelensky. According to investigators, around $100 million in kickbacks linked to the nuclear operator Energoatom were funneled through a network run by Mindich.

While the bloc regularly issues general warnings about corruption in Ukraine, EU officials have often refrained from addressing scandals that could reflect poorly on Zelensky and his inner circle.

Orban said recently the EU had already “burnt” €185 billion since the conflict escalated in 2022. The war “kills the EU economically,” he warned, adding that Brussels should instead pursue diplomacy with Moscow. (The EU is just as guilty of Ukraine, of graft and corruption, that’s why they won’t Admit Zelenksy’s corruption. Every country stole from themselves thru this whole war, IMO)

https://www.rt.com/news/628035-hungary-pm-orban-eu-plan-ukraine-funding/

19 Nov, 2025 18:17

Von der Leyen killing Kallas in EU ‘Game of Thrones’ – Le Monde

The two top officials are reportedly struggling for control over the bloc’s diplomatic and intelligence services

Two of the EU’s most powerful and controversial officials, European Commission President Ursula von derLeyen and the bloc’s Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas, are struggling for control of the EU’s diplomacy and intelligence services in a confrontation “worthy of ‘Game of Thrones’,” the French newspaper Le Monde has reported, citing sources.

Von der Leyen is steadily concentrating authority in her office at the expense of Kallas’ European External Action Service (EEAS) by creating new units such as the Directorate-General for Defense Industry and, reportedly, a spy unit, despite the existence of parallel bodies inside the EEAS, noted Le Monde.

Officials at the Intelligence and Situation Centre (INTCEN), which operates under Kallas’ EEAS,fear von der Leyen’s new spy agency will duplicate existing functions and weaken the foreign service, FT reported earlier this month.

According to Le Monde, the clash escalated this autumn when Kallas tried to appoint Martin Selmayr, a former top EU official, to a senior EEAS role to boost its influence.Von der Leyen reportedly saw it as “a declaration of war”and created a lower-ranking post for Selmayr, blocking the move.

“This latest affair confirms the Commission Presidency’s almost obsessive desire to concentrate all power and, consequently, to prevent any competing, even slightly autonomous, entity,”Le Monde writes.

Critics have long accused von der Leyen of an “authoritarian” and opaque leadership style, claiming she bypasses both member states and internal institutions to centralize control. The notion was central to recent attempts by opposition members of the European Parliament to depose her.

Kallas, who has secured her role largely through her anti-Russian rhetoric, has earned herself a reputation for gaffes, with insiders arguing that her tone has alienated partners and undermined the EU’s diplomatic standing.

One such example occurred in September whenKallas asserted that, “Chinese are very good at technology but they are not that good in social sciences,” adding that, “The Russians… are not good at technology at all, but super good in social sciences.”

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharovaridiculed the statement, by asking who launched rockets from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome if it’s true that Russians lack technological expertise, calling Kallas “critically uneducated.”

(Personally its hard to believe any of the EU leader have the education or experience to run the EU. This is how you know that EU is as corrupt as Ukraine, that's why they rely on them to do the Mafia role for them)

https://www.rt.com/news/628031-von-der-leyen-kallas-confrontation/

Great Freaking KEK

19 Nov, 2025 21:40

Brazilian official brands Germany’s Merz ‘Nazi’

The Rio de Janeiro mayor’s barb has come after the German leader spoke disparagingly of another Brazilian city that hosted a climate summit

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is a “Nazi,” the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, has charged.The now-deleted X post came in response to Merz’s disparaging comment about another Brazilian city, Belem, which has hosted the UN Climate Summit.

The German chancellor spent a single day at the international event earlier this month, and on his return to Berlin,he shared his impressionsof the town in northern Brazil with the attendees of a trade conference in the German capital last Thursday.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world,”Merz proclaimed, adding that “last week, I asked some journalists who were with me in Brazil: ‘Who among you would like to stay here?’ Not one hand raised. They were all glad that we had returned to Germany, especially from this place we had just been to.”

His remark has caused quite a stir in Brazil this week, with a number of officials expressing their outrage at what they perceived as contempt for the host country by a Western leader. In a post on X on Tuesday, Rio de Janeiro mayor Paesdescribed Merz as a “Son of Hitler! Tramp! Nazi!”The Brazilian official deleted the post soon afterward, writing in another message that the tirade was his “way of letting off steam today.”

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva suggested that Merz had only himself to blame for failing to enjoy the delights of Belem to the fullest, claiming that the Brazilian city compares favorably with Berlin.

In a post on X, the governor of Para state, where Belem is situated, Helder Barbalh wrotethat “it’s curious to see those who helped warm the planet find the Amazon’s heat strange.”

Speaking on Wednesday, the German chancellor stood by his controversial statement.

“I said that Germany is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and I assume President Lula will accept that,” Merz said.

While Merz’s choice of words has not created as much of a splash at home as it has in Brazil, some German politicians have still criticized him.

Katharina Droge from the Green Partylamented that the “image the Chancellor projected during his trip to Brazil was disastrous.”

https://www.rt.com/news/628038-germany-merz-brazil-city-comment-outrage/

19 Nov, 2025 13:27 (I called it earlier, the Ukraine war is almost done, because Zelensky was caught in graft! KEK)1/3

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US presses Kiev into peace amid energy graft fallout (as it happened)

Washington has reportedly been pressing Kiev into accepting a deal to end conflict with Russia while the Ukrainian leadership struggles with the fallout of a $100 million corruption scandal

The $100 million energy sector extortion racket reportedly run by Vladimir Zelensky’s former business partner is taking down key figures in his government and exposing his closest inner circle to extreme public anger.

The graft scandal kicked off last week, after the Western-backed National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) announced a probe into a “high-level criminal organization” allegedly led by Zelensky’s former business associate, Timur Mindich, who immediately fled the country. The affair has hit the country’s energy sector, prompting Justice Minister German Galushchenko and Energy Minister Svetlana Grinchuk to resign.

Other high-profile individuals implicated in the scandal include Zelensky’s chief-of-staff Andrey Yermak, former defense minister and current head of the National Security Council, Rustem Umerov, as well as former Deputy PM Aleksey Chernyshov.

19 November 2025

• 20:36 GMT :Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov hasreiterated Moscow’s readiness to negotiate, responding to a question about the call made by Erdogan to resume the Istanbul-format direct talk between Russia and Ukraine.

“Moscow is open to negotiations. The pause that has arisen is, in fact, due to the Kiev regime’s reluctance to continue this dialogue,” Peskov told reporters.

• 20:23 GMT:US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff was expected to meet Zelensky in Ankara to further discuss the US peace plan after he had briefed Umerov on it, Axios has reported, citing sources. The meeting was ultimately called off since it “became clear” that Zelensky was “not interested in discussing the Trump plan” and had brought another draft “which Russia will never accept,” an unnamed US official told the outlet.

• 19:20 GMT: Following the meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Zelensky signaled readiness to resume peace negotiations with Russia, stating Ankara was ready to provide a platform for the talks.

“President Erdogan today proposed formats for the conversation, which I supported, and it is important for us that Türkiye is ready to provide the necessary platform. We are ready to work in any other meaningful formats that can yield results.

Kiev unilaterally walked away from Istanbul-format talks early in the conflict. This year, negotiations in Istanbul resumed, yet largely boiled down to prisoner swaps and other humanitarian exchanges, цршду failing to provide a breakthrough on a permanent settlement.

https://www.rt.com/russia/627996-ukraine-corruption-zelensky-fallout/

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• 19:13 GMT: There are no new behind-the-scenes agreements between Russia and the US on the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.Moscow remains fully committed to the principles outlined during the Alaska summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, Peskov signaled when asked about Western media reports on the peace proposal purportedly conveyed to Kiev by Washington.

“There are no new additions to what we call the ‘Spirit of Anchorage” Peskov told Russian journalist Pavel Zarubuin.

• 18:17 GMT: Following multiple Western media reports of a US delegation pressing Ukraine into accepting a peace deal, the FT’s Kiev correspondent posted what sources have told him are details of the plan.

The “hasty US-Russia proposal” effectively amounts to “Ukraine’s capitulation” Christopher Miller wrote on X, claiming the scheme involves Kiev surrendering “certain weapons” and withdrawing from Donbass, as well as having its “army cut in half.” The proposals left Zelensky “displeased,” he added.

• 17:56 GMT:Ukraine is bound to end up with an “interim government” that will strike a peace deal with Russia to end the hostilities, Ukrainian MP Anna Skorokhod has said, speaking to a Ukrainian YouTube channel. Demands that Zelensky’s top aide Yermak be fired are about the survival and “self-preservation” of the Ukrainian leader, she suggested.

“We’ll have an interim government, “anti-crisis,” “anti-corruption,” call it whatever you like, a government for several months that will ready the country for elections, conclude negotiations, and sign a peace agreement,” Skorokhod has stated.

• 17:42 GMT: Ukraine’s cabinet has tapped Lyudmila Slugak as interim Justice Minister to replace departed German Galushchenko, having previously served as his deputy with responsibility for “issues of Eurointegration.”

• 17:23 GMT: Ukrainian officials embezzled at least $4.7 million in goods and services related to Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), which is now controlled by Russia, Kiev lawmaker Vladimir Ariev has claimed. Moscow overtook the running of the plant, Europe’s largest, in March 2022, but that did not stop procurements for the facility through Ukraine’s Energoatom, the state-owned company at the epicenter of the ongoing graft scandal.

Purchases listed as being for the plant continued until late August 2022.

The MP had previously suggested that even larger figures were involved, claiming Energoatom raked in some $9.5 million in procurements for ZNPP.

https://www.rt.com/russia/627996-ukraine-corruption-zelensky-fallout/

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• 16:34 GMT: Faction leader of Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, David Arakhamia, has downplayed an open letter being circulated by a fellow party member, dismissing it as a private opinion. The letter, backed by an unspecified number of the ruling party’s lawmakers, declared support for the opposition and demanded the dismissal of the government and all officials implicated in the corruption scandal.

“This is a statement by individual members of parliament, and they have the right to do so. However, I would like to point out that it should not be taken as the position of the entire faction. Since neither the faction nor the party has ever made such statements,” Arakhamia stated.

• 16:16 GMT: Failure to oust Yermak will result in a political backlash from the notorious Zelensky ally with “a brutal purge of the political perimeter,” jailed Ukrainian opposition MP Alexander Dubinsky has warned.

Should Yermak stay in power then former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, widely regarded as one of the key figures behind the ongoing parliamentary push against Zelensky’s inner circle, is bound to end up behind bars, Dubinsky warned.

Renegade MPs with Zelensky’s Servant of the People party will be “easy to deal with,” and giving them a couple of ministerial positions would silence the dissent, the lawmaker suggested.

https://www.rt.com/russia/627996-ukraine-corruption-zelensky-fallout/

Personally I think the US revealed all the crimes of Zelensky they know of, which are much bigger that the last graft, he was offered to leave peacefully and will never be charged. But everyone will know never to deal with him again.

(All us anons that commented on Ukraine, told the board numerous times the EU was promising Zelensky, something that they never would do, here it is. Shit they are even losing EU offer. Next comes all the complaints of EU countries on how much they stole from their countries, in other matters.)

19 Nov, 2025 17:37

EU won’t fast-track Ukrainian membership – senior MEP

Kiev’s possible entry hinges on fulfilling bloc requirements and resolving the conflict, David McAllister has told Izvestia

The EU has no plans to accelerate integration of Ukraine into the bloc, the chairman of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has said.

David McAllister told Izvestia on Wednesday thatUkrainian membership would only be possible after the conflict with Russia is resolved, stressing that Kiev’s application to the bloc must remain strictly merit-based.

Ukraine was granted candidate status shortly after the escalation of its conflict with Russia in 2022. While Vladimir Zelensky has urged the bloc to advance the process,Brussels has instead floated 2030 as a target.

The European Commission’s insistence on stronger anti-corruption laws has been brought into the spotlight by revelations of a reported $100 million extortion racket involving Vladimir Zelensky’s inner circle, months after he tried to take control of the agencies overseeing the investigation.

Kiev’s accession “cannot be accelerated beyond its merits,”McAllister said, addingthat entry must be based on “full compliance with the Copenhagen criteria, rule of law and institutional readiness.” Full membership will be possible only after “establishing peace.”

The debate is not about “bypassing” conditions but ensuring progress can translate into “faster steps” where strict preconditions are met, McAllister argued.

Admission requires unanimous approval from all 27 EU states. Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland, have voiced opposition, citing concerns over costs, security, and institutional readiness.

Russia says it doesn’t oppose Ukraine joining the EU but has condemned what Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the bloc’s shift into an “aggressive military-political bloc” and an “appendage of NATO.”

Although the bloc has consistently issued generic statements condemning corruption in Ukraine, EU officials have often declined to speak out on scandals that are seen as damaging to Zelensky and his inner circle.

https://www.rt.com/news/627995-ukraine-eu-membership-scandal/