HOT MIC: “I’ll F***ing Kill You…” Les Wexner’s Attorney Caught Warning Wexner – Crockett Presses on Trump Questions (Videos)

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The House Oversight Committee released a five-hour deposition today of L Brands co-founder, Leslie Wexner. The Victoria’s Secret billionaire was allegedly one of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest associates, as the late sex-trafficker was tasked with managing large sums of money and was granted power of attorney over Wexner’s fortune.

Rep. Robert Garcia claims that “approximately…a billion dollars” was either given to or provided in stocks to Epstein by Wexner. Additionally, Wexner transferred a $56-77 million dollar home in Manhattan, the Herbert N. Straus House, to Epstein.

During the deposition released by the House Oversight GOP account on X, a question was asked of Wexner regarding Epstein having other clients in addition to him.

Wexner went on to give a long-winded answer about how Epstein operated and inventoried Wexner’s estate. “I didn’t count forks and spoons…Jeffrey said, ‘People could be walking out with forks and spoons.’ Gee, that’s a good idea. We should have an inventory.”

Wexner said he hired a house manager who had run the U.S. Embassy in Rome.

At the conclusion of his long answer, Wexner’s attorney leaned over and began to whisper in his ear. The mic was still hot and picked up the warning:

“I’ll f***ing kill you if you answer another question with more than five words, ok?”

Both Wexner and the attorney chuckled after they went back to their respective places at the table. Continue…

7,000 CDL Truck Driving Schools Removed or Given Noncompliance Notices In Last 60 Days — 5-Day Sting Finds Another 550

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On Wednesday, 550 CDL truck driving schools and training facilities were found in violation of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) standards.

These sham organizations received notices that they are to be removed from the registry of federally authorized truck driver training providers. Thousands more have been removed over the last couple of months.

Sean P. Duffy, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, was sworn into office by Trump in January, 2025. Over the last few months, Duffy has launched a serious crackdown across the country on CDL training mills (sham truck driving schools) and noncompliant training programs.

Over a recent 5-day period, FMCSA sent over 300 investigators to 50 states. Continue…

South Korean Court Sentences Former President Yoon Suk-yeol to Life in Prison for Leading “Insurrection”

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From our trusted source in South Korea–

The radical pro-Chinese administration in South Korea sentenced the former duly elected president, Yoon Suk-yeol, to life in prison on charges of leading an “insurrection” related to the December 3 emergency martial law declaration.

President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed from office by the pro-Chinese opposition.

The Special Prosecution had sought the death penalty. The court instead imposed life imprisonment, describing the case as a “serious destruction of constitutional order.”

The scale of the punishment is historic.

However, what deeply concerns many citizens is not only the severity of the sentences, but the legal reasoning behind them.

The court effectively recognized investigative authority for the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) in an insurrection case, despite the lack of a clear constitutional basis granting the CIO jurisdiction over such charges.

At the same time, contested evidence collection procedures by the prosecution were accepted as lawful.

This was not simply an application of settled law.

It was a reshaping of constitutional limits through judicial interpretation.

When the judiciary validates expanded state power in a politically decisive case, the balance of constitutional government shifts.

South Korea now appears to be reaching a point where internal institutional safeguards alone may no longer be sufficient to restore equilibrium. Continue…

New Mexico Launches Investigation Into Bodies of 2 Minors Allegedly Strangled to Death at Epstein Ranch After ‘Rough, Fetish Sex’

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/new-mexico-launches-investigation-bodies-2-minors-allegedly/

The allegations against late financier, pedophile, and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein continue to come out.

Although intense focus has been on Epstein’s various relationships with powerful politicians and businessmen, as well as what disgusting, evil acts took place on his island, Little Saint James, new information suggests his ranch in New Mexico could have been used similarly.

On Wednesday, Reuters reported that the New Mexico Department of Justice is investigating allegations stemming from documents released by the United States Department of Justice that the bodies of two foreign young women are buried there.

New Mexico Department of Justice spokeswoman Lauren Rodriguez says her state’s DOJ has request a copy of the document making this claim with unredacted information.

“We are actively investigating this allegation and are conducting a broader review in light of the latest release from the U.S. Department of Justice,” she said.

The Zorro Ranch is the target of a larger investigation by the state trying to uncover the extent of Epstein’s abuse on the property. Continue…

Over 1,100 Geese Mysteriously Found Dead in New Jersey Waters (Videos)

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Residents living along New Jersey waterways are disturbed after spotting a large number of dead geese floating in the water.

According to local outlet NJ, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has received reports of over 1,100 dead geese between Saturday and Monday.

Wildlife pathologists are currently conducting tests on the geese to figure out what caused the birds to become sick.

Pathologist Patrick Connelly speculates the deaths may be due to avian bird flu.

Connelly stated, “With migratory waterfowl coming into the state this time of year and large congregations of flocks, we have many susceptible hosts in close quarters, and this disease can spread rapidly and kill these animals quickly.” Continue…

JUST IN: President Trump to Direct Pentagon to Release Government Files Related to Aliens and UFOs

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President Trump on Thursday ordered the Pentagon and other agencies to declassify and release government files related to aliens and UFOs.

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Trump said on Truth Social. Continue…

Billionaire Les Wexner Under Oath Tells Lawmakers Jeffrey Epstein Was a Financial Adviser for The Rothschild Family (VIDEOS)

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Footage of billionaire Les Wexner being questioned by the House Oversight Committee over his relations with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been made public.

Les Wexner was sworn under oath on Tuesday, and during his nearly five-hour-long testimony, he denied having witnessed or having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.

Wexner, however, did reveal how he initially trusted Epstein as his personal finance manager.

The former Victoria’s Secret CEO shared that he trusted Epstein as his financial advisor due to “his experience at an industrial level, like working at a big company like Bear Sterns, and his personal work for the Rothschild Family in France.”

Wexner continued, “Specifically, I spoke to Élie de Rothschild. I mentioned that earlier. So he represented their whole family.” Continue…

Budapest Suspends Diesel to Ukraine Until Kiev Regime Repairs Druzhba Pipeline Transporting Russian Oil to Hungary – Slovakia Also Stops Energy Transfers to Kiev (VIDEOS)

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Hungary and Slovakia no longer fueling Ukraine’s society and war effort.

With the constant position by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán against military help to Ukraine, as well as against Kiev joining NATO and the EU, he became an enemy of Volodymyr Zelensky’s regime.

So, it was hardly surprising when Zelensky’s goons blew up the Druzhba (‘Friendship’) pipeline that carried Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia through Ukrainian territory – even though Budapest and Bratislava both help Kiev in humanitarian ways, and with diesel and energy supplies.

Now, on the verge of the elections in Hungary, even the globalist European Union is pleading with Zelensky to repair the pipeline, lest PM Orbán gets to use this very potent political argument against Kiev and Brussels.

So yesterday (18), we learned that Hungary is suspending its shipments of diesel to Ukraine until the Druzhba pipeline is repaired and the Russian oil supplies to the country are restored.

Associated Press reported: Continue…

MAJOR BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs in 6-3 Decision

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The US Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Trump’s tariffs in a 6-3 decision.

Chief Justices Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch sided with the three liberal justices.

Conservative Justices Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh sided with President Trump.

Roberts wrote the majority opinion.

The Supreme Court said President Trump does not have the authority to impose the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

Fox News reported: Continue…

Semi-Truck Driver Who Ran a Red Light and Killed Elderly Indiana Man Identified as Illegal Alien From India: Singh Sukhdeep

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The semi-truck driver who killed an elderly man in Hendricks County, Indiana, on Wednesday has been identified as Singh Sukhdeep, an illegal alien from India.

The accident happened around noon in Avon, according to Fox 59.

Singh ran a red light and crashed into a Chevrolet pickup truck. The Chevrolet truck then collided with a Chrysler Sebring.

The driver of the Chevrolet, 64-year-old Terry Schulz, died at the scene.

In a heartbreaking development, a witness to the accident who was almost struck by the semi-truck said she got out of her vehicle and prayed over Mr. Schultz as he took his last breath.

Singh was taken into custody by ICE on Wednesday.

On Thursday, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin revealed that Singh was caught and released at the order in 2018 by Trump Admin 1.0 when Singh was a minor.

Singh Sukhdeep received his CDL from the red state of Indiana in May 2025, according to Bill Melugin. Continue…

Boeing Moves Defense HQ from Virginia After Radical Gov. Spanberger’s Election

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On Wednesday, aerospace giant Boeing announced it will return its Defense, Space & Security headquarters to St. Louis following almost a decade in Virginia.

The move comes only weeks after radical Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) took office.

Steve Parker, Boeing Defense, Space & Security CEO, said in a statement, “It’s important for leaders to be side-by-side with our teammates, listening to their feedback and acting to remove obstacles as we continue to stabilize and strengthen our business.”

“The headquarters move, coupled with our senior leaders being based at and spending their time at major engineering, production and manufacturing centers across the U.S., reflects our continued focus on disciplined performance across our business.”

Fox News reports that Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe celebrated the move as a major “win for the heartland.” Continue…

Zelensky’s Main Political Rival, General Zaluzhny Opens up About Their Rift, Blames Ukrainian Leader for Failure in 2023 Counteroffensive

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s the Ukrainian electoral race on?

Valery Zaluzhny reportedly never liked Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky.

And, what’s more, ever since getting ousted as the head of Ukraine’s army and appointed as the country’s ambassador to Britain two years ago, Valery Zaluzhny has been considered as the top political rival to Zelensky.

Associated Press reported: Continue…

Elusive COVID Justice: Where Are the Prosecutions?

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A year and change into the Golden Age — a deep, and thus far unquenched, thirst for justice among a huge portion of the MAGA base notwithstanding — the administration has prosecuted precisely zero COVID criminals.

What’s more, the Department of Justice, when Pam Bondi isn’t promising to prosecute Americans for “hate speech” or rolling out new schemes to cover up the Epstein, hasn’t scrounged up the time or energy to bother even investigating any of them.

No prosecutions, no investigations, no press releases.

Nothing but radio silence.

The guy running HHS, RFK Jr. wrote a big, beautiful book elaborately detailing the rampant criminality of Fauci and many, many of his co-conspirators.

And yet, nothing.

Rather, AG Pam Bondi seems far more interested in prosecuting phantom “hate speech” crimes and covering up for the Epstein class.

Were she inclined to do the job the base that put her in office would like her to do, however, she would have a plethora of legal implements at her disposal. Continue…

Ford Carrier Group Enters Mediterranean To Join Biggest US Build-Up Since 2003 Iraq War

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Open source monitors as well as US and Middle East media have confirmed that the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, has entered the Mediterranean Sea, having sailed passed the Strait of Gibraltar on Friday.

This is the second carrier strike group expected to soon operate directly in the CENTCOM area of responsibility, amid the massive military build-up and pressure campaign against Iran. It was sent from the Caribbean earlier this month, extending its planned deployment. Continue…

London Mayor Khan Under Fire As BBC Exposes Scale Of Grooming Gangs

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is facing renewed criticism after a major BBC investigation found that vulnerable girls as young as 14 are being lured into forced sex by gangs operating across the capital.

The investigation, based on weeks of reporting and interviews with dozens of people, including five survivors of gang-based violence, concluded that exploitation by organised groups is rife in parts of London.

Some victims told the BBC they were raped by multiple men as “payment” for unpaid drug debts run up by gangs that controlled them. Others said they had been groomed solely for sex. The investigation also found that girls were often drawn into criminal activity such as drug dealing, weapons trading, and phone theft before being sexually exploited.

One Metropolitan Police officer described young girls and women as the “lowest rung” within gang hierarchies, saying they were groomed and exploited “for everything.”

Public debate over grooming gangs in the U.K. has often focused on northern towns such as Rotherham and Rochdale. A government-commissioned report last year found that in Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire, there was evidence of “disproportionate numbers of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds amongst suspects for group-based child sexual exploitation.”

Further investigations have found the same in other towns and cities, including Telford, Oxford, Derby, Birmingham, Halifax, Peterborough, and countless others.

Last year, Khan said there was no “indication of […] grooming gangs” of the type seen in Rotherham operating in London. Following the BBC findings, a spokesperson for the mayor said he wanted to support police to tackle “all child sexual exploitation in the capital, including grooming gangs.” Continue…

Matt Taibbi: Epstein Files Are "Uniquely Destructive" To Both Political Parties

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This week I interviewed Matt Taibbi at a moment when, as he put it, “this is a pretty weird time.” He had just learned that his outlet, Racket News, had been investigated by the British government using what he described as “human intelligence sources and all kinds of crazy stuff.”

“It’s been pretty weird,” he told me. What struck him most was how normalized this kind of pressure has become. Governments, he said, now routinely “hire out private intelligence firms and private PR firms to devise strategies to undermine negative press.” If you’re doing adversarial reporting, he added, “you’ll get swept up in this. So you probably have been, you just don’t know it.”

From there, we moved into the Epstein story, which has become a political third rail. I asked him whether bipartisan silence around certain issues should worry people. Taibbi said most of what happens in Washington is already bipartisan; the public just doesn’t see it. “The thing that we call the news,” he said, is “a sliver of disagreement” between parties. The rest—“98% of the business that’s done there”—happens with quiet agreement. Continue…

US & Chinese Fighter Jets In Rare Brief Face-Off Near Korea

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US and Chinese fighter jets engaged in a brief aerial standoff over waters near the Korean Peninsula this week, according to South Korean media, in a rare and dangerous incident that underscores ongoing simmering tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Yonhap, citing military sources, reported that China scrambled aircraft on Wednesday after roughly 10 US jets took off from an American airbase in South Korea for planned drills. The US had reportedly filed its flight plan in advance.

F-16 fighters assigned to US Forces Korea (USFK) launched from Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, about 60 kilometers south of Seoul, and flew near the overlapping air defense identification zones (ADIZ) of South Korea and China. The US aircraft did not enter China’s ADIZ, according to the report, but alarm bells still went off for the Chinese PLA military. Continue…

FBI Director Kash Patel Says Bureau Uncovered Antifa Funding Sources

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FBI Director Kash Patel said on Feb. 18 that the law enforcement agency uncovered what he said are funding sources tied to antifa organizations, suggesting that more enforcement actions could come against the left-wing movement.

“Whether it’s antifa or any other violent criminal organization—we know their operations don’t exist alone; they operate with heavy funding streams,” he wrote in a post on X, along with a clip from an interview with former deputy director Dan Bongino, on his show.

Patel said that the FBI is “finding them and those who fund their criminal activity.”

The FBI chief did not provide more information about the organizations, the source of the funding, or specific donors who may be involved. However, he said the FBI is looking into any financial backers linked to violence committed by alleged antifa operators.

Agents are looking at whether funding was sent through U.S.-based nonprofit groups and whether any of those nonprofits had tax-exempt status. They are also evaluating potential foreign funding streams, he said.

“Money doesn’t lie,” Patel told Bongino in the interview, saying that the FBI is right now “following the money” and that the law enforcement agency is “starting to arrest people who used their funds to incite violence in the guise of political peaceful protest.” Continue…

Police Continue Searches of Former Prince Andrew’s Home After Arrest

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Police searched the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor again on Friday, a day after he was arrested and held in custody for nearly 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Continue…