Attorney General Todd Blanche appears on CNN to counter the leftist narrative advanced by passive-aggressive stenographer for the media, Dana Bash.  The video and transcript are below:

[Transcript] Dana Bash – 0:00 Here with me now is Attorney General Todd Blanch. Thank you so much for being here this morning, sir. Uh, President Trump said, quote, “I am ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act.” End quote. Are you going to follow that order and investigate Democratic members of Congress? And what is the criminal act you think he’s referring to?

AG TODD BLANCHE – 0:23 Well, what we’ve seen over the past several days and even over the past several weeks are outright threats. many many byele elected members of Congress and some senators against anybody that’s conservative and anybody that that happens to be a Republican. They’ve threatened donors. They’ve threatened uh individuals who are in college and might want to work for conservative institutions or for a conservative government or for President Trump. And that is extremely troubling and it should be troubling to everybody in this country. And over the last several days, we’ve seen it that rhetoric even rise up to the point where they’re already before they’re even in power, they’re already talking about investigations and impeachments with no basis, no facts, just out there running around. That that should be something that that President Trump is very concerned about and and certainly I am as well.

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In the modern world of AI and subsequent datacenter buildouts, the number one priority surrounds the singular term “compute.” A massive, seemingly unquenchable, need for expanded computing power.

In order to attain these levels of compute, hardware containing large numbers of data-processing microchips are needed. That’s where Nvidia and Jensen Huang come into the picture, providing the chips.

The US intelligence community discovered that Taiwanese-American Jensen Huang, CEO of one of the largest companies in the world, was involved in a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, a suspected Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based AI/cloud infrastructure company.

According to media and federal investigations, Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, helping Chinese companies locate and access AI chips and circumvent U.S. export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg)

The US intelligence community concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. According to the Financial Times, the intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year.

Over the last year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips via the U.S. Dept of Commerce, Bureau of industry and Security (BIS). The BIS has permitted the export of H200 chips to China and has not enforced stronger export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia.

Although the Commerce Dept leadership (Howard Lutnik?) was presumably briefed on this relationship by the U.S. intelligence community, The Bureau of Industry and Security has seemingly taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia.

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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency.

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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Politically and also in real terms, leftists don’t build anything of value. Instead, their focus is always to tear down the things built by others.  From monuments to ideas, leftists are destroyers.

After Tuesday’s midterms, the media says Trumpism is finished. Susan Kokinda looks at the next chapters of the color revolution playbook, and at how President Trump is already positioned to outflank them. In his November 5 message, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth names the “sacred cows” his department tore down, while three impeachment resolutions, including one from Rep. Thomas Massie, target him. Senate Democrats, led by Ron Wyden, want to repeal the Canada tariffs and take the tariff power away from the President, just as October’s jobs report shows 19,000 new manufacturing jobs. And at the Kennedy Space Center on November 6, President Trump laid out the other revolution: Artemis III, Americans back on the Moon, a nuclear-powered spacecraft for Mars, and a new U.S. Space Academy. WATCH:

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Arriving in Palm Beach President Trump took time to answer questions from the assembled press pool.  Newly appointed Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are with President Trump in Mar-a-Lago.

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Things clarify quickly when sunlight breaks through the shadows.

Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to Trump’s 2024 campaign and a political broker for online influence operations, first revealed the issue last week when he publicly stated he had paid Laura Loomer to generate content on her X account.

The Washington Post then followed up and interviewed four other people who provided receipts of payments made to Laura Loomer for her to promote content on social media.  Most intellectually honest observers of events already surmised the pay for influence was happening with Loomer, the reporting confirms it.

(WaPo) – The right-wing activist Laura Loomer has been paid by private clients to make political posts on social media without publicly disclosing the payments, according to a former campaign aide to President Donald Trump and three others familiar with the arrangements, shedding light on what they say is a business practice of one of the Trump administration’s most influential online firebrands.

The allegations were made by Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to Trump’s 2024 campaign, and three other people who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Two of the three people said they had paid Loomer directly to post political messages on her X account, where she has 1.9 million followers. The third said they had overseen clients who paid her to post on the account. The three spoke on the condition of anonymity.

[…] Bank transaction emails and a wire transfer statement reviewed by The Washington Post appear to show four payments totaling more than $60,000 sent to Loomer and a Florida-based company registered in her name, King Breaker Media, since May of last year.

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President Trump proactively sends this message out via Truth Social:

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One might even ponder if President Trump is requesting an investigation of the matter.  Perhaps even a ‘special counsel’ investigation of the matter. 🤔

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report for October shows remarkable job gains of +165,000 with revisions to August and September +84,000 higher than previously reported. [BLS Data Here]

Employment in professional and business services increased by 70,000 in October along with an upward trend in professional, scientific, and technical services (+33,000), in administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (+28,000), and in management of companies and enterprises (+9,000).

Health care added 42,000 jobs in October; transportation and warehousing added 25,000 jobs. Manufacturing employment continued to trend up in October (+19,000) and has increased by 101,000 since December 2025. Job gains occurred in computer and electronic product manufacturing (+7,000), machinery manufacturing (+4,000), and primary metal manufacturing (+4,000).

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(MSM) – “Demand for labor is skyrocketing,” Kevin Hassett, director of President Trump’s National Economic Council, said in an interview, noting that not only was the jobs report strong, but initial jobless claims are also at their lowest since World War II, and more people are leaving their jobs because they have higher confidence in finding a new one.

The economy added 165,000 jobs in October, compared with expectations of around 70,000, as the unemployment rate edged down to 4.1%, compared with expectations of 4.2%. (more)

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