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.
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. 🤔
As President Trump departed the White House, he paused to answer brief questions from the assembled press pool. Video Below:
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The former Qatar lobbyist for Ballard Partners, former political consultant and former 2024 campaign manager for candidate Donald Trump who became the Chief of Staff and gatekeeper of the White House, has been removed as Chief of Staff following the 2026 midterm election.
President Trump has appointed Stephen Miller, a wartime consigliere as the Chief of Staff effective Monday.
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Mrs Wiles famously took the position of Chief of Staff on the condition that she could “keep the crazies” away from President Trump. Wiles became the gatekeeper to the White House controlling every point of access to the president.
One of the issues of concern when Wiles initially took office was her career as a lobbyist, consultant, campaign manager and donor organizer, gave her a career perspective predisposed to view finance as a key for influence and access. Those concerns never really diminished. Mrs. Wiles returns to her comfortable place in the political operation.
Mrs Wiles relayed her message of departure via X Platform:
A DSA/Leftist think tank led by former Biden, Warren and Sanders congressional aides has assembled a 182-page strategic blueprint mapping out Democratic congressional investigations in the House and Senate targeting President Trump’s family, corporate allies and donors. {SOURCE}
This is one aspect to a coordinated plan, isolate – ridicule – marginalize.
The document, obtained and analyzed by Fox News Digital, names Tesla, Apple, Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Oracle and others as targets for potential hearings. It also names Palantir’s Alex Karp and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong individually.
However, the important point, the blueprint goes beyond corporate targets, urging scrutiny of Trump’s personal finances, his tax arrangements, cryptocurrency businesses and alleged preferential treatment of corporate donors.
The primary targets, not expressly outlined (yet) due to the strategy they are deploying, are Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, the Trump Media organization and Trump Holdings. These targets will get a J6 style corruption investigation, including subpoenas and alternate investigative resources.
A longtime Democratic Senate staffer familiar with the process says Democratic majorities on these committees already plan to exclusively focus on targeting business allies and individual donors to the president, including those who donated to the new White House ballroom.
.…the document also mention plans for restricting corporate ownership and pricing practices”…
Unfortunately, as noted in the initial predictions for 2027 legislative expectations it appears the ability of President Trump to execute an America-First economic policy is going to be targeted. Incoming Democrat committee leaders are intending to write laws reversing President Trump’s tariff ability, starting with Canada.
The Wall Street Journal, a media outlet who have long been against U.S. protective tariffs, are outlining the Democrat plan. Considering the likelihood of a Presidential veto the democrat plan includes attaching legislation to the tariff authority repeal that will stimulate Republican support.
Congress can override a presidential veto with a two-thirds majority, or 290 votes in the House and 67 votes in the Senate given all members are voting. As of Thursday evening, Democrats had captured 253 House seats and 54 Senate seats.
This is where we evaluate internal leftist politics. Some democrats support tariffs, particularly in states where industrial manufacturing, auto plants, steel and aluminum are critical sectors to their economy. However, caution here is advised as you may remember the ‘blue dog’ democrat coalition that was against Obamacare were eventually crushed by the weight of the socialist movement within the Democrat party.
(Via WSJ) – Democrats are eyeing President Trump’s trade war with Canada as the first target in a campaign to roll back his administration’s tariff agenda, according to the party’s senior trade lawmaker in the Senate.
“There is overwhelming support for repealing the tariffs on products from Canada,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.), the Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee, who added that he was “already talking” with colleagues about legislation to push against Trump’s second-term levies after he gains control of the committee in January.
During an executive order signing, President Trump takes questions from the White House press pool on the results of the midterm election and anticipated legislative action for 2027.
As noted by President Trump, should the Democrat controlled congress seek to restrict or remove his tariff authority, much of the inbound domestic investment would stop. This would be very detrimental to the economic health of the nation; however, ideologically the DSA led congress may not care. WATCH:
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Ron DeSantis appears with pro-Ron Laura Ingraham who previously attended his 2024 three-day Palm Beach resort primary campaign ‘influencer’ event. Ingraham is a big time Ron DeSantis promoter and supporter.
In this interview Ingraham clears the decks for DeSantis to blast congress for not supporting President Trump’s agenda. What DeSantis outlines is true, many just wish he had found this strength of voice when the events were unfolding – instead of waiting until now. WATCH:
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This is Governor Ron DeSantis moment to shine!
Following a very predictable political outcome (given the history) Deputy Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is now reported to have resigned her position in the Dept of Justice Civil Rights Division.
VIA FOX NEWS – Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday as the Department of Justice’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, sources told Fox News.
Dhillon, who assumed office in April 2025, ran the Civil Rights Division. (source)
Dhillon was previously Team DeSantis. She will resurface thusly.
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