Trump drops 10,000 pages of RFK assassination files, exposing puzzling early death reports



Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that the Trump administration had released 10,000 new pages regarding the 1968 assassination of Democratic Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (N.Y.).

The long-since classified investigation documents were released as part of President Donald Trump's January 23 executive order directing the declassification of files on the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy, and Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

'In my view, these documents provide the background to more questions than answers.'

"The Executive Order establishes the policy that, more than 50 years after these assassinations, the victims' families and the American people deserve the truth," read a White House fact sheet on the action.

During an April 10 Cabinet meeting, Gabbard told Trump she had "over 100 people working around the clock" scanning the relevant files.

"These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades. They have never been scanned or seen before," she said.

Trump asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. how he felt about the news that the files on his father and uncle would be released in the coming days.

Kennedy responded, "I'm very gratified."

"I'm very grateful to you, Mr. President," he added.

On Friday morning, Gabbard told Fox News that the first batch of newly released files related to the government's investigation and "questions and theories that were being posed" concerning Sen. Kennedy's assassination.

The documents revealed that State Department cables were reporting on Kennedy’s death before it actually occurred.

Gabbard explained that the cables “showed different countries were sending messages to each other around Senator Kennedy’s assassination, saying that he had been assassinated, but that was before he was actually killed.”

"In my view, these documents provide the background to more questions than answers," Gabbard added.

"We're obviously not stopping here," she said. "We sent people out to hunt through different warehouses at the FBI and CIA, knowing there are likely other documents that have not yet been turned over to National Archives."

Gabbard noted that the second release would include more than 50,000 additional pages on the senator's assassination.

Kennedy Jr. responded to the document release, stating, "Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government."

"I commend President Trump for his courage and his commitment to transparency," he added. "I'm grateful also to Tulsi Gabbard for her dogged efforts to root out and declassify these documents."

A White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "Nearly six decades have passed since the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and these historic files have been hidden from the American people all this time — until now."

"In the name of maximum transparency, President Trump has released over 10,000 pages of the RFK files with more to come," the spokesperson continued. "There has never been a more transparent president in the history of our country than President Donald J. Trump. Another promise made and promise kept."

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The Kennedy assassination isn’t history — it’s a warning



Ben Shapiro recently asked, “Does it really matter who shot John F. Kennedy?” My answer is “yes and no.” If the question concerns whether finding out who shot Kennedy is the most pressing issue facing our country, I concur with Shapiro that the answer is clearly “no.”

But the release of 80,000 previously unseen documents isn’t just about who killed JFK. It’s about a long-standing pattern of deception, manipulation, and lawlessness from the highest levels of government — and that is one of the most pressing issues facing our country today.

The moment we stop asking questions is the moment when bad actors within our institutions know they can get away with corruption.

For over 60 years, the official narrative surrounding Kennedy’s assassination has been that Lee Harvey Oswald pulled off a near-impossible series of shots. The improbability of his success is heightened by puzzling facts, such as KGB reports that Oswald was a horrible marksman coupled with his subpar rifle.

This is the story we’ve been told to accept without question. But what we now know raises deeply troubling questions about what really happened and, more importantly, why the government is so determined to keep the whole truth from us.

Cracks in the narrative

The recent document release didn’t give us a smoking gun, but it did confirm a pattern of CIA malfeasance that should alarm every American.

We now have solid evidence that the CIA was running illegal domestic espionage operations — including spying on Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential nominee in 1964. If the intelligence agencies were willing to illegally surveil a major political figure back then, what do you think they’re capable of now?

The unchecked power of our intelligence agencies did not begin or end with the Kennedy assassination — it is a systemic issue that continues to this day.

For decades, the intelligence community has fought transparency at every turn. Each time a president promises to release the complete JFK files, the CIA steps in to block key documents.

The most recent example came under President Biden, when CIA Director William Burns personally urged the White House to keep certain records classified. Burns, notably, was one of several government officials who met with Jeffrey Epstein — three times.

The same agency now citing “national security” concerns over files from the 1960s is the same one tied to Epstein. That connection alone should raise serious questions for every American.

Corruption beyond JFK

This pattern of deception extends far beyond the Kennedy assassination.

We’ve seen it in Benghazi, where Americans died, and the truth was buried under bureaucratic stonewalling. We saw it in the aftermath of 9/11, when former FBI agents alleged that the CIA was running an illegal domestic spy ring and even attempted to recruit two of the hijackers before the attack. And we’ve seen it in the blatant weaponization of intelligence agencies against political opponents — from the Russia collusion hoax to the unprecedented persecution of a sitting and former president.

In recent memory, critical evidence regarding the truth of what happened on January 6 — including text messages from Kamala Harris’ Secret Service detail — mysteriously disappeared. Or COVID-19, where intelligence agencies, including Britain’s MI6, have now admitted it was "beyond reasonable doubt" that the virus was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And yet for years, anyone who dared suggest such a possibility was smeared as a conspiracy theorist.

Always ask questions

Asking questions — whether it be about JFK’s assassination, Benghazi, COVID-19, or any other “conspiracy theory” — is critical. The moment we stop is the moment when bad actors within our institutions know they can get away with corruption. Rebuilding trust in our institutions begins with asking the right questions and identifying the infection to provide the proper remedy.

The intelligence community has operated with impunity for decades because we, the American people, have been conditioned to accept its narratives without question. The JFK files are not just about a 62-year-old assassination; they are a case study in how deep-state corruption endures and evolves.

If the CIA had nothing to hide, why is the agency still hiding it?

We need to rebuild trust in our institutions — not through blind faith but through real accountability.

America’s founders didn’t place their trust in government officials. They trusted the system of checks and balances designed to limit power. Those safeguards have eroded, but they can be restored.

We don’t need to believe in bureaucrats. We need a system that exposes the truth, prosecutes wrongdoing, and applies justice equally. Until that happens, public distrust will grow — and for good reason.

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Glenn Beck investigates JFK files, reveals chilling taped confession that alleges LBJ plot in assassination



Amateur sleuths, politicos, and others hoping to glean new insights from the latest trove of unredacted John F. Kennedy files were likely frustrated if they dove into the archives in search of names that might satisfy the lingering questions of who — if not Lee Harvey Oswald — actually assassinated the president and who else may have been involved in the murder plot.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck underscored in his "Glenn TV" Wednesday Night Special that while the JFK files are disappointing if approached with questions of who, questions about what — "What has been going down? What are they trying to protect? What is the source of most of this mess?" — yield illuminating answers.

Beck and his team, aided in part by artificial intelligence, parsed through the JFK files with the "what?" type of questions in mind, testing long-standing theories, highlighting patterns of institutional abuse, and identifying the significance of certain previously unreleased files.

Over the course of the special, Beck zeroed in on what-centric documents that should put to bed any remaining doubts that the CIA is (or at least until recently has been) an unchecked, meddlesome, and dangerous organization willing to interfere in American elections, businesses, and media reports.

Going beyond the archives, Beck handily demonstrated with a replica of the rifle Oswald supposedly used in 1963, along with the appropriate "CIA bullets," that the single-shooter narrative is plausible. Beck also spoke to Shane Stevens, the grandson of Billie Sol Estes — a Texas businessman with alleged ties to Lyndon B. Johnson — about an expert-authenticated recording in which an alleged associate of LBJ accused him of hiring a hit man to take out Kennedy.

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While the audio recording and Stevens' commentary fuel more who-questions, Beck made clear that the contents of the JFK files, the substance of which is not always readily apparent, nevertheless reveal much about the intelligence community of Kennedy's time — one that proved capable of routine wrongdoing, was familiar with Oswald, and grew more brazen in the months following the president's slaying — as well as the practices they wanted to keep hidden.

Off the reservation

Beck covered a lot of ground in his Wednesday special, discussing, for instance:

  • new evidence of the bad blood between JFK and the CIA that was brought to a boil after the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco;
  • the parallels between Kennedy's counter-moves against the CIA in the early 1960s and President Donald Trump's moves against the U.S. Agency for International Development in recent months;
  • indications that the CIA was tracking Lee Harvey Oswald from the moment he departed the Soviet Union;
  • the agency's connections to the establishment that sold Oswald the rifle that shot Kennedy, as well as to the ammunition used in the assassination;
  • the CIA's infiltration of the American media and businesses and its apparent attempted wiretap of then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; and
  • former CIA asset John Garrett Underhill Jr.'s allegation that elements of the agency killed the sitting president because he caught wind that they were "carrying on a lucrative racket in gun-running, narcotics and other contraband, and manipulating political intrigue" for their own ends.

Beck also touched on the CIA's surveillance of Barry Goldwater, citing it as another damning example of precisely how "out of control" the agency had become around the time of Kennedy's assassination.

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President Donald Trump was hardly the first Republican whose presidential campaign was infiltrated by politically motivated elements of the deep state on behalf of an incumbent Democratic president.

Barry Goldwater, a major general in the Air Force Reserve who long served as a senator for Arizona, was similarly surveilled when he ran for president against Lyndon Johnson following the Kennedy assassination. Whereas the FBI spied on Trump, in Goldwater's case, the CIA, which is prohibited by law from operating stateside, did most of the legwork.

Much has been said and written about the CIA's infiltration of Goldwater's 1964 campaign. The agency's infiltration of the Goldwater campaign has been public knowledge for roughly 50 years.

Everette Howard Hunt Jr., a 20-year veteran of the CIA who was a major agency player in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and ended up serving prison time for his role in the Watergate burglary, told Senate investigators in 1973 that he directed a spying campaign on Goldwater's 1964 campaign.

According to Hunt, the instructions concerning this espionage came down from his CIA superiors and in turn allegedly came "down from the White House." Hunt told investigators that he "dispatched a couple of people to the Goldwater headquarters to see what was going on."

The spies apparently obtained advance campaign schedules, news releases, and "any other information they could get," said Hunt. This information ultimately made its way up the chain at the CIA, including to a superior allegedly stationed at the Johnson White House.

In the special, Beck highlighted a 46-page document consisting of numerous memos — some marked "secret" and written by Scott Dudley Breckinridge Jr., the former deputy inspector general of the CIA — regarding Hunt.

'The audio sounds convincing.'

Breckinridge noted in a Dec. 20, 1973, memo marked "secret" that agency files showed that during the fall of 1964, when Hunt "was alleged to have been engaged in surveillance activities of Barry Goldwater," Hunt was in the CIA's Directorate of Operations, which is also known as the Clandestine Service.

"Our files showed Hunt was in DO Division ... and in August 1964 was assigned to the Washington field office," wrote Breckinridge.

Again, the what was telling: the CIA was running clandestine operations in the nation's capital with the apparent aim of keeping Johnson in power.

Haunting tape

In a portion of the special, Beck explored the theory of Lyndon B. Johnson's involvement with the assassination with former Nixon administration staffer Roger Stone. Beck proved more willing to entertain this particular theory on account of a haunting audiotape played in full for BlazeTV subscribers and in excerpted form on YouTube.

In January, Alex Jones of Infowars hosted Shane Stevens and played never-heard-before digital audio of Clifton Carter, the former executive director of the Democratic National Committee and an apparently close associate of LBJ, claiming in conversation with Stevens' grandfather, convicted fraudster Billie Sol Estes, that Johnson hired a man named Malcolm "Mac" Wallace to kill JFK.

"The audio sounds convincing," said Beck. "I didn't want to take anyone's word for it."

'I do believe it helps confirm the LBJ and Mac Wallace involvement.'

In addition to speaking directly to Shane Stevens about the audio and listening to the actual analog tape live, Beck indicated that his team "had a JFK assassination expert examine the original tape," whose input left him "convinced that it is an authentic recording."

Dory Wiley, JFK assassination expert and CEO of Commerce Street Holdings LLC, told the program in a statement, "I've known about these tapes for years. Estes made several copies and gave them to some of his closest friends."

"I believe them to be genuine," continued Wiley. "The voices sound like the Billie Sol Estes and Cliff Carter from other sources I have heard."

Wiley added, "I believe them to be correctly dated and recorded at the time Shane has declared, and I believe the accusations. This does not mean there wasn't involvement by the CIA, the Secret Service, FBI, Mafia, or others, but I do believe it helps confirm the LBJ and Mac Wallace involvement."

Clifton Carter appears to say in the audio, "Well, Sol, it's been a pretty touch-and-go situation. Lyndon and I have had quite a few unpleasant words here lately over the deal that he hired Mac Wallace to assassinate the president."

"It's been hectic in every way, but we've lived through it this far and I guess we'll continue to do so," Carter appears to say. "Lyndon should have never issued that order to Mac. But we've had our differences and I'm true blue to Lyndon, as I've always been and tried to carry out every order that he's ever given me. But this is one I'll probably never be able to forget."

When pressed about his delay in releasing the audio, Stevens told Beck his grandfather tried on more than one occasion to "release the truth" but came to fear for his life.

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JFK docs: Internet makes hay of suicided spook's supposed confession that CIA killed Kennedy



President Donald Trump made good on another campaign promise this week with the release of thousands of additional files related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. By 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 2,182 files totaling 63,400 pages were uploaded to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration's website in accordance with Trump's Jan. 23 executive order.

Academics, amateur sleuths, and others keen for additional insights into precisely what happened on Nov. 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza are currently poring over the documents. Already, a few files have stood out, including a provocative document that wasn't exactly a secret.

Numerous influencers seized upon the document numbered 104-10170-10145 in the latest tranche as new proof that the Central Intelligence Agency allegedly killed a sitting president.

The contents of the document — a July 19, 1967, CIA memo marked secret — consist of excerpts from a June 1967 article in Ramparts, a now-defunct leftist magazine that was deeply antagonistic of the CIA and suspected by the FBI of "acting as the agent of a foreign principal" during the Cold War, along with notes about the persons and allegations referenced in the article. The allegations contained therein were discussed at length in a Playboy interview with a district attorney months later.

'They say he attributed the Kennedy murder to a CIA clique.'

The Ramparts article noted that John Garrett Underhill Jr., better known as Gary Underhill, "left Washington in a hurry" following the assassination, then showed up to a friend's house in New Jersey in an agitated state. Underhill, who served with the Military Intelligence Service during World War II and then worked on special projects for the CIA, supposedly told his friends that a cabal of CIA agents was responsible for the assassination and indicated that he feared for his life. Six months later, he was found dead of a gunshot wound in his Washington apartment — this, Ramparts noted, was ruled a suicide.

According to the excerpt of the article included in the memo:

The friends whom Underhill visited say he was sober but badly shook. They say he attributed the Kennedy murder to a CIA clique which was carrying on a lucrative racket in gun-running, narcotics and other contraband, and manipulating political intrigue to serve its own ends. Kennedy supposedly got wind that something was going on and was killed before he could "blow the whistle on it." Although the friends had always known Underhill to be perfectly rational and objective, they at first didn't take his account seriously. "I think the main reason was," explains the husband, "that we couldn't believe that the CIA could contain a corrupt element every bit as ruthless — and more efficient — as the mafia."

The article noted further that Underhill was on a first-name basis with senior officials both in the Pentagon and the CIA and served as one of the agency's "'un-people' who perform special assignments." The leftist magazine spiced things up with the suggestion that Underhill had also been a one-time friend of Samuel Cummings of Interarmco, "the arms broker that numbers among its customers the CIA, and, ironically, Klein's Sporting Gods of Chicago, from whence [sic] the mail-order Carcano allegedly was purchased by Oswald."

Before meeting with Jim Garrison, a district attorney from Louisiana who investigated the assassination, Underhill was found dead in his apartment with a bullet wound behind his left ear. His death certificate stated he "shot self in head with automatic pistol" on May 8, 1964.

The wound's location behind Underhill's left ear has prompted some suspicion it wasn't actually a suicide, especially since Asher Brynes, his writing partner who found his body, indicated that "Underhill was right-handed," according to the Ramparts article.

Paul Ogle, apparently an old friend of Underhill's, indicated in a letter months after the apparent suicide that, "Gary had been, for a short time, under psychiatric treatment about a year and a half ago. He unfortunately, did not carry on with it and deteriorated to quite an extent."

'I don't believe it and I don't disbelieve it.'

The agency memo provides some of its records on Underhill and Cummings, noting, for instance, that "CIA memoranda of February and October 1949 show that there was interest by the New York office of OO, Contacts Division, in using [Underhill] as a contact for foreign intelligence. Name checks were conducted with various military members of the intelligence community, but these yielded insufficient information, and OO was advised that contact should be developed with caution, on a limited basis, and that Subject was not to receive information classified higher than confidential."

Underhill had apparently also brought the CIA's attention to photographs of Soviet military subjects that a man named Herman Axelbank was trying to sell in 1949.

The memo indicated that Cummings also worked for the CIA, "traveled abroad extensively, buying foreign weapons," bought weapons for the CIA "intended for resistance elements behind the Iron Curtain," and "engaged in sharp practices in his conduct of business and was also extremely difficult to control."

According to the memo, the Office of Security "recommended against [Cummings'] use by Domestic Contact Service as a source, and in December 1964 the CI Staff advised that it had no operational interest in Subject."

Citing the memo, the popular X account Geiger Capital concluded, "The CIA assassinated JFK, the sitting President of the United States."

ZeroHedge shared the document, writing, "Interesting."

"This seems to be the biggest doc so far from the JFK files," wrote Joshua Philipp, a senior reporter at the Epoch Times.

Underhill's story similarly appeared to be news to evangelical media personality Lance Wallnau, who tweeted, "From the JFK data dump, we have a mysterious death of a CIA whistleblower who believed the agency was involved with the assassination."

Although many online were quick to pounce on the memo, it contains virtually nothing revelatory about Underhill's allegations and demise, which were discussed in Garrison's October 1967 interview with Playboy.

When asked whether he believed Underhill was murdered, Garrison said, "I don't believe it and I don't disbelieve it. All I know is that witnesses with vital evidence in this case are certainly bad insurance risks. In the absence of further and much more conclusive evidence to the contrary, however, we must assume that the plotters were acting on their own rather than on CIA orders when they killed the President."

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Karoline Leavitt says DOJ is ‘working diligently’ on Epstein files after Daily Caller question

Leavitt said she does not have a timeline for the release of the files

The Mob Wanted Kennedy Dead. But Did They Do the Unthinkable?

Tell me what you think about Lee Harvey Oswald, and I'll tell you how you vote. Every year since 1963, Gallup has polled Americans on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In the weeks after Kennedy's killing, less than 30 percent of Americans believed that Oswald acted alone and 52 percent believed that "others were involved in a conspiracy." In the 2023 poll, those numbers were 29 percent and 65 percent.

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Entertainers exit stage left as Trump works to make Kennedy Center great again



A handful of entertainers at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., have decided to hit the exits now that President Donald Trump has taken the center over.

The Kennedy Center dates back to 1958, when President Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, signed a bill making it America's "National Cultural Center." Because of its legislative origins and public funding, the Kennedy Center effectively remains under the control of the president, who has the power to appoint members to its board of trustees.

Now that Trump is back in the Oval Office, he has attempted to rid the center of some of the woke capture. "Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP," he wrote on Truth Social last week.

Trump also promised to usher in a new "Golden Age in Arts and Culture" at the Kennedy Center, which Trump characterized as "an American jewel."

"THE BEST IS YET TO COME!"

To that end, Trump fired all 18 board members nominated by Democrat presidents. The ousted members include former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and former Biden adviser Mike Donilon, both of whom were appointed just before President Joe Biden left office, NPR reported.

In their place, Trump has appointed several MAGA allies, including his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance. By Wednesday, the board had unanimously voted Trump to be chairman.

In response, the center issued a statement, noting that while these shake-ups were unusual, they were by no means illegal. "There is nothing in the center's statute that would prevent a new administration from replacing board members; however, this would be the first time such action has been taken with the Kennedy Center's board," the statement said.

'America voted against paying attention to your public tantrums a few months ago.'

In revamping the performing arts center, Trump has merely exercised his prerogatives as president and begun fulfilling a major campaign promise to rid the swamp of leftist ideology. However, several entertainers obviously disagreed with the drag-free direction the center is heading and decided to show themselves out.

Shonda Rhimes, the 55-year-old TV executive best known for "Grey's Anatomy," was the among the first to announce her resignation. On Wednesday, Rhimes posted to Instagram a screenshot of an article about her resignation as well as a brief quote from the center's namesake, President John F. Kennedy: "If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

Ben Folds — best known as the lead singer of Ben Folds Five, whose song about the pain of abortion, "Brick," was a smash hit in the mid-1990s — tendered his resignation from the center's National Symphony Orchestra as well. "Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today, I am resigning as artistic director to the NSO," he posted to Instagram.

Soprano opera singer Renee Fleming, who won more than a dozen Grammys and was featured on the soundtracks of major films like "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and "The Shape of Water," also stepped away from her role as artistic adviser at large.

"I’ve treasured the bi-partisan support for this institution as a beacon of America at our best," she said in a statement. "I hope the Kennedy Center continues to flourish and serve the passionate and diverse audience in our nation’s capital and across the country."

After she was given the hook, former President Deborah Rutter likewise issued a lengthy statement full of histrionics about the inimitable importance of arts and culture. "Much like our democracy itself, artistic expression must be nurtured, fostered, prioritized, and protected," she wrote. "It is not a passive endeavor; indeed, there is no clearer sign of American democracy at work than our artists, the work they produce, and audiences' unalienable right to actively participate."

Richard Grenell, ambassador to Germany during Trump's first term, has since been appointed interim executive director. "RIC, WELCOME TO SHOW BUSINESS!" Trump posted to Truth Social Monday night.

For his part, Blaze Media Align managing editor Matt Himes seems excited about the departure of so many anti-Trump, "self-important celebrities" who have "spent the last decade ruining" everything from music and literature to comedy and commercials.

"Go ahead and quit, but America voted against paying attention to your public tantrums a few months ago," he told Blaze News in a statement. "You guys are like phones going off in a theater once the lights go down. Time to put yourselves in airplane mode so the rest of us can enjoy the show in peace."

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REVEALED: The dark history of USAID



President Donald Trump and the DOGE team have begun unraveling the absurd spending of taxpayer dollars by investigating USAID — and it appears it’ll never end.

USAID was created by President John F. Kennedy in an executive order that made it a tool of American foreign policy to combat Russian or Soviet communist subversion worldwide, and it was supposed to stay that way.

Once the Cold War ceased to be a threat, USAID had to find a reason to exist.

“It lost its sense of mission and lost its focus. It started looking for new functions, and in looking for new functions, it brought on more and more and more contractors, and it became an entity of its own,” J. Michael Waller, who subcontracted with USAID in the late '80s and early '90s, tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”


“I never wanted anything to do with them after the mid-90s when I saw they were becoming a club of friends and cronies in the Washington Beltway area and all their friends around the country and around the world, and then you had people in USAID making top government salaries leaving to become top contractors with USAID and getting paid a ton more money,” Waller explains.

“It became this sense of careerism,” he continues, “where you work your way to the top in order to become a contractor, and you leave your say $150,000 a year job to become a contractor for $250,000 a year. And then if you start up your own contracting company with USAID you’re allowed to make a 10% profit on top of the gross value of the contractor.”

Federal law allows CEOs of government contractors to make over $600,000 a year.

“If you’re paying yourself as a CEO, you get your CEO salary, plus all of that profit margin, so you can become a millionaire in a very short time,” he adds.

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GOP rep to head task force to declassify JFK files, Epstein client list



Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida announced Tuesday that she was appointed to chair a new task force aimed at declassifying federal secrets.

The task force will focus on declassifying records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Luna will also be investigating materials pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein's client list, documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, the origins of COVID-19, and UFOs.

'This will be a relentless pursuit of truth and transparency, and we will not stop until the American people have the answers they deserve.'

"For far too long, the federal government has not answered these questions," Chairman James Comer, who appointed Luna to the post, said during a press conference Tuesday. "This creates distrust in our institutions. That ends today."

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna talks to reporters following a House Republican caucus meeting in the basement of the US Capitol on December 20, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"This will no longer be a task force that makes bold promises only to fade into irrelevance or send strongly worded letters," Luna said during the press conference. "This will be a relentless pursuit of truth and transparency, and we will not stop until the American people have the answers they deserve. We will cut through the bureaucracy, challenge the stonewalling, and ensure that the American people finally get the truth that they have been denied for far too long."

This task force emerged following President Donald Trump's historic executive order requiring the declassification of documents related to the assassinations of King and the Kennedys. Since then, the FBI has uncovered over 2,400 records tied to the assassination of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

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Leftists tried to destroy Trump — instead, they made him a legend



Achieving legendary status is no small feat.

Throughout America’s relatively brief history, countless men and women have risen to legendary status. They all share a common trait: They overcame overwhelming odds against powerful forces determined to destroy them.

While there are too many to list, this against-all-odds formula is evident in every one of them.

Many legendary figures emerged during the founding of our nation, but pre-eminent among them is our first commander in chief, George Washington.

Legend has it that despite fighting in numerous battles for independence, the closest Washington ever came to being shot was when his horse was struck beneath him. Not even the might of the British Empire could bring down the man often described as “divinely appointed and protected.”

Today, his face is immortalized on the nation’s most widely used currency and carved into stone on Mount Rushmore.

Trump refused to wilt. He stood tall when his enemies expected him to fall.

Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, James Madison, and many others from the founding era pledged to each other “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” Their sacrifice secured victory and a place in history.

The phrase, “All gave some, some gave all,” aptly describes the sacrifices of military men and women, especially in America’s early days. Consider 21-year-old Nathan Hale, who, just before the British hanged him, reportedly declared, “I regret that I only have but one life to lose for my country.” Few statements in history are as legendary.

Davy Crockett’s legacy extends beyond his colorful turns of phrase. His words — “Be always sure you’re right, then go ahead” and “You can all go to hell, and I will go to Texas” — are memorable, but his defining moment remains his last stand at the Alamo. The image of Crockett, clad in a coonskin cap, swinging his musket against an overwhelming Mexican army, embodies heroism.

President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre cemented his place in legend. Freeing the slaves was his greatest achievement, but his martyrdom ensured that his brief presidency would be etched into the hearts of future generations.

The legends of the Old West loom large in American history. One of my favorite movies, “Tombstone,” brings those figures to life, with Kurt Russell portraying Wyatt Earp and Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday.

Earp, a heroic lawman, survived numerous gunfights — including the famous shootout at the O.K. Corral — without ever sustaining a single flesh wound from an outlaw’s rifle or six-shooter. His near-invincibility only added to his legendary status.

Not every legend, however, belongs to the side of law and order. Criminals like Bonnie and Clyde, along with Wild West gunslingers like Billy the Kid, carved out their own place in history. Though they were outlaws, they lived and died on a plane that set them apart from ordinary men.

Which brings us to Donald J. Trump.

At the risk of sounding like a sycophant, my assessment of Trump’s stature and achievements is both fair and obvious. His battles against entrenched opposition set him apart, making his case for legendary status undeniable.

In my lifetime, only two other presidents rise to that level: John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Interestingly, like Trump, Reagan "dodged a bullet," though he survived an actual assassination attempt. I deeply admire both men and their monumental achievements, but that admiration does not make me a blind follower.

Trump is not known for delivering sharp, poetic phrases like Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.” His memorable lines tend to be more unconventional than profound. Consider, “They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. ... They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” That doesn’t quite measure up to “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” for sure.

Worth noting, though, “eating the dogs" and other offbeat quotes from Trump may lack a bit of polish, but the fact that memes and songs — even books like the “Donald the Caveman” series — were created to celebrate what the president has said and done, and these all point to yet another indicator of legendary status, highlighting deeds and misdeeds of the folk hero.

Yet, when the moment calls for a rallying cry, few in history have matched the impact of Trump’s simple yet powerful exhortation: “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

After enduring years of relentless attacks from the deep state and its operatives — including blatant lies, distortions of truth, unfounded impeachments, nonstop lawfare, attempts to bankrupt and imprison him, a billion-dollar campaign to destroy him, and even assassination attempts — Trump’s enemies unwittingly opened the door to his greatness.

Had he shrunk in the face of these relentless assaults, he would have faded into irrelevance. A what-might-have-been existence would have awaited him, wandering the grand halls of Mar-a-Lago beneath its opulent crystal chandeliers, his legacy dimmed by defeat.

But Trump refused to wilt. He stood tall when his enemies expected him to fall.

Will the attacks meant to destroy him ultimately serve a greater purpose? Just as Joseph’s trials in Egypt were transformed for good, will history use Trump’s struggle to fulfill a greater destiny? His love for his country, his faith, and his unique role in history may yet serve to “act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with God” (Micah 6:8).

Love him or hate him, recognize his struggle or not, at this moment in American history, Donald J. Trump has earned the title of legendary.