Natalee Holloway Murderer’s Deadly Twist: Trump’s DOJ Releases Docs on FBI Decisions That May Have Cost a Life Under Eric Holder

The Western Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Documents obtained by journalist and Newsmax hostGreta Van Susteren reportedly show that the Obama administration had an opportunity to arrest convicted murderer Joran van der Sloot during a sting operation, only days before he committed a second murder.

The award-winning journalist intends to publish FBI documents she obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request,as well as with the help of former Attorney General Pam Bondi, that show the FBI “bungled” the sting and then “kept it quiet” from the public.

Susteren also intends to release video footage of the sting itself. She made the announcement on Facebook.

Released to her courtesy of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, the newdocuments and video reportedly show that the Obama FBI “bungled” a sting operation by failing to arrest Van der Sloot in 2010 for the murder of Natalee Holloway.

Twenty days before Van der Sloot murdered Stephany Flores Ramírez on May 30, 2010, an intermediary working for the FBI paid van der Sloot an initial $25,000 out of $250,000 ($10,000 in cash, $15,000 wired) in exchange for information about Holloway’s remains, according to NPR. The information turned out to be false.

The Obama DOJ, then under the direction of Attorney GeneralEric Holder, subsequently waited until June 3, 2010 before charging Van der Sloot with extortion and wire fraud. By then, Ramírez was dead.

Critics have long maintained that the ObamaFBI should have immediately arrested Van der Sloot when they had the chance.

It’s not yet clear what Susteren’s documents and video will show. She noted in her Facebook post that“some” of the FBI documents are “handwritten” and make mention of Holder “warning them not to screw it up.” Screw what up? Reportedly the “cover up.”

In a post published to the social media platform X, Susteren stressedthat it’d taken her years to retrieve the documents.

Holloway was an 18-year-old Alabama high school graduate who went missing on May 30, 2005, while on a post-graduation trip in Aruba.She was last seen early that morning leaving a popular nightclub in the company of Van der Sloot, then 17, and two other young men, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.

Aruban authorities conducted an extensive investigation and detained Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers based on the suspicion that they were involved in Holloway’s murder.However, they were released because investigators lacked enough evidence to bring formal charges.

In late 2007, Aruban prosecutors closed the close against the three without filing any cases.Holloway’s body has never been found. At her father’s request, an Alabama court issued a legal declaration of her death in early 2012, according to CNN.

Van der Sloot was eventually convicted of Ramírez’s murder in Peru in 2012 and sentenced to 28 years in Peruvian prison. In 2023, he received 18 additional years for trafficking drugs while incarcerated.

In 2023, he pleaded guilty in relation to the extortion and wire-fraud charges filed by the Obama administration years earlier.As part of the deal, he purported to tell the authorities what really happened with Holloway — that he’d bludgeoned her with a cinder block on an Aruba beach and disposed of her body in the ocean.

Susteren recently alleged that this admission from Van der Sloot was a lie:

Despite the admission, Van der Sloot was never charged in or convicted of Holloway’s murder.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/natalee-holloway-murderers-deadly-twist-trumps-doj-releases/

Russia guaranteed to win Ukraine conflict – John Mearsheimer

No amount of Western weapons can overcome Moscow’s “massive advantage in air power,” the international relations expert has said

Published 25 Jul, 2026 00:40 | Updated

Russia is guaranteed to win the Ukraine conflict,and no amount of Western weaponry – including Patriot air defense systems sought by Kiev– can change that, international relations scholar John Mearsheimer has said.

Ukraine is “highly vulnerable” to Russian strikes that can cripple its economy and leave it a “dysfunctional” state, the University of Chicago professor told the Daniel Davis Deep Dive podcast on Thursday.

Kiev has relied heavily on Western military aid throughout the conflict, now in its fifth year. Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly pressed allies for more weapons, particularly Patriot systems,while blaming delays in deliveries for Ukraine’s battlefield setbacks.

According to Mearsheimer,the belief that more Patriots or other Western arms can reverse the course of the conflict is an illusion.

“The Russians are pretty much free to attack any target in Ukraine and they don’t have to worry at all about a Patriot missile or any other kind of missile knocking down the incoming missiles or the incoming drones,” he said.

With Russia enjoying a “massive advantage in air power” and Ukraine struggling with manpower shortages, “theRussians are going to win this war” and “Ukraine is going to emerge as a dysfunctional rump state,”he argued.

Mearsheimer pointed to recent Russian strikes on the Ukrainian port of Odessa as evidence of Moscow’s strategy. “It looks to me like the Russians have basically cut off Odessa as a port of exit for Ukraine,” he

Earlier this week, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had struck fuel depots and port infrastructure in Odessa, Nikolaev, Izmail and Chernomorsk used to receive and store military cargo, claiming nearly 30 vessels serving the Ukrainian military were hit.

On Thursday, Ukrainian outlet Strana reported that maritime traffic had effectively stopped, with no ships entering the country’s Black Sea ports the previous day. It said the Russian strikes were retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian Black Sea ports.

The attacks have made shipping to Ukraine increasingly risky, Strana added, noting that shipping giant Maersk recently suspended operations at the port of Chernomorsk.

Mearsheimer also argued that the US conflict with Iran would further reduce European military and financial support for Kiev.

“I think events in Iran and just the course of the war between Ukraine and Russia is creating a situation where Ukraine’s future looks highly bleak,” he said.

https://www.rt.com/russia/643448-russia-guaranteed-win-ukraine-mearsheimer/

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Rep. Tim Burchett: I've talked with President Trump about UFO disclosure | Reality Check

In a one-on-one interview with NewsNation's Joe Khalil, Congressman Tim Burchett of the UAP Caucus sheds light on recent briefings he's received on UFOs. Burchett also details his conversations with President Donald Trump about UFOs and shares thoughts on the string of missing individuals with ties to national security secrets. He says,"America is just ready" to hear what the U.S. government knows.

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https://youtu.be/SU2plmsCzt4

April 17, 2026