Rubio, Vance outline the 'work of a generation,' next steps for the American renewal: 'This is a 20-year project'



Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed ways forward for the country under the Trump administration and beyond at the American Compass New World Gala on June 3.

Although the two Republicans, who appear to be contenders in the 2028 presidential election, hit different beats, they were largely singing the same tune about prioritizing Americans, strengthening the country, and abandoning the failed globalist thinking that has undermined security, prosperity, and dignity in the United Sates.

Their outlooks on the future provided some indication of the staying power of President Donald Trump's vision as well as how it might evolve in the years to come.

Returning to reality

Rubio kicked off his speech by countering the progressive notion that human nature changes over time, stressing that "technologies change, the clothes we wear change, even languages change, governments change — a lot of things change, but the one thing that is unchanged is human nature."

Rubio suggested that this static nature accounts for why history often repeats itself and helps explain humans' unshakable "desire to belong," which naturally scales up to nationalism, despite nationhood being a relatively "new concept" in the grand scheme of things.

"If you put humans anywhere — a handful of people anywhere — one of the first things they start doing is trying to create things that they can join or be a part of," said Rubio. "The advent of the nation-state is a normal evolution of human behavior because people think it's important to belong to something, and being part of a nation is important. And I think that's really true, obviously, increasingly in how geopolitical decisions are made."

'We've undermined our position in the world.'

Despite man's immutable desire to belong and the naturalness of this desire's expression in nationalism, Rubio suggested that many in the West nevertheless entertained the fantasy that the dissolution of the Soviet Union meant the inevitable and imminent universalization of liberal democracy — that "the entire world is going to become just like us"; that "nationhood no longer mattered when it came to economics"; "that right now the world would no longer have borders"; and that it didn't matter where things were made.

Rubio noted that this idealistic outlook "became part of Republican orthodoxy for a long time," which accounts for why the GOP long proved indifferent to the outsourcing of labor and the offshoring of productive capacity.

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The decades-long flirtation with liberal globalism "robbed a nation of its industrial capacity, of its ability to make things," thereby hurting the economy, hurting the country, robbing people of jobs, and eating away at the social fabric of the nation, suggested Rubio.

"What you find is because of all of those years of neglect, because of the loss of industrial capacity, we didn't just undermine our society, we didn't just undermine our domestic economy — we've undermined our position in the world," said the secretary of state, whose department recently signaled an interest in taking up the mantle of Western civilization.

'You can never be secure as a nation unless you're able to feed your people.'

Now that America and the rest of the world are facing a "crunch," the days of illusion are over, and geopolitics are adjusting accordingly.

Rubio indicated that the Trump administration is undertaking a reorientation of domestic and foreign approaches "to take into account for the fact that you can never be secure as a nation unless you're able to feed your people and unless you're able to make the things that your economy needs in order to function and ultimately to defend yourself."

Accordingly, Rubio suggested that the country moving forward needs to:

  • make decisions with the nation-state in mind and engage the world "in a way that prioritizes our national interest above all else";
  • guarantee America's access to the requisite "raw material and industrial capacity that is at the core both of the decisions that we're making and the areas that we're prioritizing"; and
  • rectify trade imbalances with fully developed countries.

While this direction is possibly good news for the American people, it bodes poorly for stubborn champions of the globalist dream.

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New York Times opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, for instance, recently complained about the MAGA vision for the future.

The MAGA movement is waging war on the nation's economic future, rejecting two generations of integration and interdependency with the rest of the world in favor of American autarky, of effectively closing our borders to goods and people from around the world so that the United States might make itself into an impenetrable fortress — a garrison state with the power to dictate the terms of the global order, especially in its own hemisphere. In this new world, Americans will abandon service-sector work in favor of manufacturing and heavy industry.

After presenting the possibility of a powerful, indomitable, and reindustrialized America as a terrifying prospect, Bouie stumbled upon the truth of the project under way, stating, "The aim, whether stated explicitly or not, is to erase the future as Americans have understood it and as they might have anticipated it."

Kicking bad habits

Oren Cass, founder of American Compass, pressed Vance about the project of "reshoring and reindustrialization" that the Trump administration is pursuing.

Vance noted that at its core, the project is about addressing "stagnating living standards" affecting normal Americans "who just want to start a family, work in a decent job, earn a livable salary, and have dignified work."

'The complete disconnect between their views on foreign policy and economic policy made me realize, again, that we're governed by people who aren't up to the job.'

The vice president suggested that the offshoring of industry, an under-investment in technology, heavy industrial regulation, and high energy costs are among the factors that have made it difficult for "normal people who work hard and play by the rules to have a good life."

He also identified a "misalignment between the ... normal Americans and the talking heads in Washington" and an unworkable separation of the making of things from the innovating of things — a issue he raised in his March speech at the American Dynamism Summit — as problems warranting remedy.

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Blaze News previously noted that in his American Dynamism speech, Vance suggested that the Trump administration plans to help innovators wean off cheap foreign labor and begin on-shoring industry, partly by incentivizing manufacturing and investment inside the United States with tax cuts and other policy instruments; by erecting tariff walls around critical industries; by reducing regulations and the cost of energy; and also by enforcing immigration law and securing the border to drain the pool of cheap illegal alien labor.

In his conversation with Cass on Tuesday, Vance reiterated that America needs to effectively get innovators and labor back on the same page and in the same country and to ensure that educational institutions are equipped to supply them with talent.

Vance also criticized "pro-globalization" elements of the leadership class who are indifferent to "whether a given part of the supply chain existed here, or China, or Russia or somewhere else" yet frequently champion foreign entanglements fought with outsourced munitions and technologies.

"The complete disconnect between their views on foreign policy and economic policy made me realize, again, that we're governed by people who aren't up to the job," Vance told Cass, "until four months ago when the American people actually gave the country a government it deserved. And obviously we're in the very early days, but I think that we've done more in four months to solve these problems. But this is not a five- or a 10-year project. This is a 20-year project to actually get America back to common-sense economic policy."

When asked by NBC News' Kristen Welker last month whether he figured the MAGA movement could survive without him as its leader, President Donald Trump said, "Yes, I do. ... I think it's so strong. And I think we have tremendous people. I think we have a tremendous group of people. We talked about a number of them. You look at Marco, you look at JD Vance, who's fantastic."

Trump added that Vance is "a fantastic, brilliant guy" and "Marco is great."

A straw poll conducted at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February reportedly found that 61% of the over 1,000 attendees said they would support Vance as the future GOP standard-bearer.

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MAHA study unveiled: The truth behind autism



The Trump administration is shedding light on the chronic disease epidemic that’s affecting children all across America. Now that they have the data, the next item on the agenda is stopping it.

“Four months ago, I created the presidential commission to Make America Healthy Again, and today the commission officially delivers its first report on childhood health,” Trump said in a press conference.

“Here are just some of the alarming findings, and they really are alarming,” he continued. “More than 40% of American children now have at least one chronic health condition. Since the 1970s, rates of childhood cancer have soared, in many cases by nearly 50%.”


Trump went on to explain that in the 1960s, less than 5% of children were obese.

“Now, over 20% are obese,” the president explained. “Just a few decades ago, 1 in 10,000 children had autism. Today, it’s 1 in 31.”

“For the first time ever, this report examines some of the root causes that many believe are making our children sicker and our population sicker,” he continued, “such as the ultra-processed foods, over-medicalization, and over-prescription, and widespread exposure to potentially toxic chemicals.”

“Unlike other administrations, we will not be silenced or intimidated by the corporate lobbyist or special interest,” he added.

According to the report, Trump’s commission found that nearly 70% of children’s calories come from ultra-processed foods. They also found that there are thousands of environmental chemicals — many of which are linked to cancer, developmental disorders, and endocrine disruption.

Lifestyle also plays a massive role in the disease epidemic, with sedentary behavior, too much screen time, poor sleep, chronic stress, and over-medicalization being major factors.

While everything on that list needs to be remedied, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales believes one item in particular needs the most attention — and fast.

“I would 100% tackle the food first,” Gonzales comments on "Sara Gonzales Unfiltered." “You can choose not to vaccinate your children or yourself. You can choose to be a couch potato or not. You can choose whether or not you take medication.”

“But what you can’t choose is the fact that you need food to live, and if we don’t have any clean sources of food in this country, then it’s not going to matter what you do. You’re still going to be poisoned,” she adds.

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Florida woman allegedly attacks 72-year-old Trump supporter wearing MAGA hat, batters cop



A Florida woman attacked a Trump supporter wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, according to police. The woman also allegedly physically assaulted a police officer in the incident that occurred in a suburb of Tampa, Florida.

Laura Elizabeth Garrett, 33, was arrested by officers of the Largo Police Department on Tuesday night. Garrett was charged with battery on a person 65 years of age or older, battery on a police officer, and obstructing or resisting an officer without violence, according to Pinellas County Jail records.

'Police claimed that Garrett continued to be combative during her arrest, and she kicked and pulled away from officers.'

Garrett was released from jail on Wednesday evening.

Citing the arrest affidavit, WTVT reported that Garrett got into an argument with an elderly man wearing a MAGA hat around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday at a public park in Largo, Florida.

Garrett admitted to police that she had confronted the 72-year-old man because she wanted to question him about why he would support President Donald Trump, according to the arrest report cited by the television station.

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The argument escalated, and the blue-haired woman reportedly dumped the liquid contents of a can on his head.

The alleged victim told investigators that Garrett hit him on the back of the head and shoulder area with the can, according to the arrest affidavit.

The arrest affidavit, obtained by the Smoking Gun, stated that Garrett "did actually and intentionally touch or strike" the alleged victim.

"This incident was witnessed by an independent witness, who later provided a sworn statement," the arrest affidavit stated, according to Newsweek.

Garrett reportedly jumped over a fence and walked away from the alleged crime scene.

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Officers with the Largo Police Department later tracked Garrett down.

Police said Garrett was confrontational when officers attempted to arrest her.

According to the arrest affidavit, Garrett intentionally fell to the ground after she was handcuffed by police.

As an officer was moving the suspect toward police transportation, she allegedly used her legs to trip the officer. According to Fox News, this caused the officer to suffer bruising of his knees.

Garrett allegedly admitted to pouring a liquid on the Trump supporter but purportedly denied hitting the alleged victim with the can, Newsweek further reported.

The Largo Police Department stated that the case has been referred to the State Attorney's Office for prosecution.

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RFK Jr. roasts virtue-signaling Democrats on MAHA



In the months since being appointed health and human services secretary, RFK Jr. has wasted no time tackling the modern-day disease epidemic — especially when it comes to children.

“38% of our youth now are diabetic or pre-diabetic. That was zero when I was a kid. If anybody thinks that we did gold-standard medicine in this country, from these institutions, look at our children. They’re the sickest children in the world,” RFK said in a recent congressional hearing.

“Congressman DeLauro,” he continued, “you say that you’ve worked for 20 years on getting food dye out. Give me credit. I got it out in 100 days. I’ll give you credit, all right, so let’s work together and do something that we all believe in, which is have healthy kids in our country, for God’s sake.”


Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson and BlazeTV host Hilary Kennedy couldn’t agree more with RFK Jr. 's point.

“You and I both have kids,” Kennedy tells Peterson. “How can lawmakers like Rosa DeLauro pretend to have been crusading for children’s health when America’s youth have become visibly less healthy? It’s undeniable.”

Peterson points out that one of the reasons lawmakers have left children behind is that they “don’t have money behind them.”

“All these other interests do not care about the health of children,” Peterson says. “So RFK is very refreshing to see him at work.”

And RFK’s work couldn’t come at a better time, as in places like Utah, there’s an unexpected addiction plaguing Americans.

“It’s not drugs; it’s not alcohol. It’s soft drinks,” Kennedy explains. “And it’s because a lot of people that live in Utah happen to be Mormon, and they don’t drink alcohol. So they drink a lot of soda, and they have these concoctions they call ‘dirty sodas.’”

“You could drink ten of them and still drive home; there’s not any repercussions, other than now, we’re noticing that there is a rise in diabetes and other health conditions in these areas where soda is being consumed in such large quantities,” she continues.

“It’s just another example of why we need the MAHA movement to educate people,” she adds.

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Casey Means for surgeon general — and why we MUST support her



President Donald Trump’s nomination of Dr. Casey Means for surgeon general has divided those within the Make America Healthy Again movement, and Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” knows exactly where she stands.

“I support her very strongly, not because I agree with her on every single health-related conclusion that she draws,” Wheeler says. “But that’s OK, because I can’t think of a single doctor or person in the MAHA movement or political activist or politician that I agree with 100%. That just doesn’t exist.”

“So when I’m analyzing these picks, I say, ‘Does this person get it?’ And because I’m not looking for identical ideological conformity, I ask, ‘Is this person a net positive to the MAHA movement? Are they more right than they are wrong? And when I look at these different people through those two lenses,” she continues, “that tells me whether someone is going to be effective in this position.”


“And so, applying this framework to Casey Means, the answer to me seems very obvious. The answer to me is, ‘Casey Means gets it,’” she adds.

And Means made that clear in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, where she made it clear that lifestyle, processed food, and environmental toxins are a massive part of the skyrocketing disease epidemic.

“Casey Means is not only very passionate but very knowledgeable about ridding the United States and our families, our neighborhoods, our food, of these very pesticides,” Wheeler says.

However, Means has come under fire for her medical credentials — or lack thereof — but Wheeler doesn’t see a problem with it.

“I don’t care whether she has an active medical license,” Wheeler says. “Some of the best health care practitioners don’t have medical licenses, because to have a medical license doesn’t mean that you have a monopoly on health-related knowledge. It means that you’ve been given a pat on the head by medical schools, which are funded by and bought off by Big Pharma.”

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Let’s build a statue honoring Pat Buchanan



The life of an unheeded prophet rarely ends in comfort and often courts danger. Pat Buchanan endured both with the resolve of a warrior. As the most prominent paleoconservative in American politics, Buchanan stood so far ahead of his time that today’s MAGA agenda looks like a photocopy of his 1992 presidential campaign platform. From the culture war to working-class economics and immigration, Buchanan served as the American Cassandra — right about nearly every major question yet scorned by Republican elites.

Republican pundits and politicians dismissed him as a bigot, a racist, an anti-Semite — even likening him to a Nazi. Many of the loudest voices came from within his own party. But Buchanan never bent. He held the line. Decades later, nearly all his predictions have come true. He kept the torch of paleoconservatism burning when no one else would — and that torch lit the fire of the MAGA movement.

Buchanan took on the thankless task of warning his party and his country about the real dangers ahead, long before anyone in power was ready to listen.

Born in 1938 in Washington, D.C., Buchanan rose to prominence as a newspaper columnist and editor before joining President Richard Nixon’s White House as a speechwriter and political strategist. He later became a fixture on TV with shows like “Crossfire” and “The McLaughlin Group” and did a second tour at the White House as Ronald Reagan’s communications director from 1985 to 1987.

Buchanan could have coasted on that résumé. He didn’t. Instead, he broke with the GOP’s managerial, globalist consensus and challenged it head-on. In 1992, he ran against George H.W. Bush in the Republican primary, furious over the president’s betrayal of his “no new taxes” pledge. But Buchanan’s campaign wasn’t just about tax policy. He warned against endless foreign wars, the abandonment of Christianity, the hollowing out of American industry, and the long-term consequences of mass migration.

In his famous “culture war” speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, Buchanan didn’t just warn Republicans. He challenged the entire direction of the American ruling class.

“My friends, this election is about more than who gets what. It is about who we are,” he said. “It is about what we believe and what we stand for as Americans. There is a religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as was the Cold War itself, for this war is for the soul of America.”

After two more failed presidential bids, Buchanan returned to writing and commentary. He published several influential books, including “The Death of the West” and “Suicide of a Superpower,” launched the American Conservative, and penned columns for VDARE. At every turn, he tackled controversial topics — foreign intervention, demographic transformation, and the destruction of the American middle class. While neoconservatives dominated Republican politics, Buchanan stood firm, laying the groundwork for the civil war now raging inside the GOP.

Most voters aren’t driven by ideology. They want a politics that serves their families, communities, and country. Conservatism shouldn’t revolve around abstractions but should exist to preserve a way of life. Despite the “conservative” label, Republican leadership made clear it cared only about cutting taxes and waging endless wars.

Then came Donald Trump, who bulldozed the GOP establishment by campaigning to secure the border, protect American workers, and end the forever wars. Trump won on Buchanan’s platform.

As Millennial and Gen Z conservatives came of age under Trump, many sought intellectual roots for the movement. They found them in the paleoconservatives: Paul Gottfried, Samuel Francis, and, most of all, Pat Buchanan. Clips of Buchanan’s speeches and passages from his books now go viral across social media, revealing a man who diagnosed America’s decline with uncanny foresight. He has become, retroactively, the elder statesman of the New Right — an inspiration to a generation of conservatives eager to challenge the party line and reclaim their country.

Buchanan’s return to prominence hasn’t gone unnoticed by establishment conservatives or the legacy press. Neoconservatives have taken to calling Trump supporters the “Buchanan right” — a clumsy insult aimed at discrediting the movement by association. The Atlantic recently ran a hit piece titled “The Godfather of the Woke Right,” recycling the slur peddled by James Lindsay. The article begrudgingly acknowledged “Suicide of a Superpower” as a formative text for the MAGA right but framed this influence as toxic — an engine of xenophobia and racism.

In a time when the GOP sold out to neoconservative globalism, Buchanan held the line. He took on the thankless task of warning his party and his country about the real dangers ahead — mass migration, national decline, foreign entanglements — long before anyone in power was ready to listen. For his efforts, he was ridiculed, condemned, and cast aside.

That must never happen again. We won’t let it happen again. The term “Buchanan right” shouldn’t be a smear — it should be a badge of honor.

While the left tears down statues of America’s founders, the right should start building. We must erect monuments to the men who stood firm when it mattered most. The first should be Pat Buchanan. We can no longer elect him president — but we can honor him now, while he’s still here to see it. Let’s build the monument he deserves — one that pays tribute to the man who carried the torch through the wilderness and lit the way for the movement that would Make America Great Again.

The MAHA fear of the ‘psyop’ and why for the sake of the future — it must end



President Donald Trump surprised the country with a new pick for surgeon general this week, announcing that he is now nominating Dr. Casey Means for the coveted position.

“Casey has impeccable MAHA credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans,” President Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

“Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History,” he added.

Means and her brother, Calley Means, have risen to mainstream fame after playing a significant role in shaping the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda. Before skyrocketing to fame, the Stanford-trained physician became a wellness influencer and co-wrote a book about the chronic disease epidemic with her brother, “Good Energy.”


Despite her long list of credentials and advocacy for a truly healthy America, conservatives are skeptical of the nomination — accusing Means of being a “psyop.”

“I first heard about Calley Means through Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson,” Steve Deace of the “Steve Deace Show” says of Casey’s brother. “If Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are now places where the CIA goes to drop psyops, by the end of today, close of business, you guys are all going to be receiving a ‘goodbye cruel world’ note from me.”

“I saw a lot of those posts in my social media feed yesterday. Now, I’m not against investigating these people, vetting these people, but you know, we’ve talked a lot about vindication and the thirst trap of vindication,” Deace continues, noting that he understands why people are suspicious.

“When you’ve been marginalized for as long as people like you guys have, you kind of have an embedded identity because of that, and the temptation is to view bandwagon jumpers as suspicious and traitors,” he explains.

And unless the MAHA movement can realize they don’t need to be so afraid of everything and everyone, the MAHA movement won’t last long.

“At some point, you have to move beyond perpetually grieved and frustrated. I’m just telling you, in this world, you cannot govern without aligning with people who weren’t there with you from the start, and you’re going to have to risk being betrayed,” Deace explains.

“Just like, ‘Hey, if you want to get married, if you want to find the right one, you’re going to have to risk getting your heart broken,’” he adds.

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'The Circus' creator: 'I got to pull back the curtain' on Charlie Kirk



Mark McKinnon, political strategist to George W. Bush and John McCain and creator of “The Circus” on Showtime, was caught off guard in the last election.

McKinnon, who admits he was a “radical lefty in college,” was shocked to see just how strong the conservative presence within Gen Z was — and how these conservatives used platforms like TikTok to spread their message.

“Suddenly on TikTok this guy named Charlie Kirk started popping up everywhere,” McKinnon tells James Poulos of “Zero Hour,” noting that he “had a very conventional notion and wisdom about Gen Z and how they were, how they acted, and how they’re likely to act in that election.”

And that conventional wisdom was wrong.


“And then I saw these TikToks of Charlie Kirk showing up on these college campuses with mostly young men — but not all young men — but lots of them in red hats, and it got my attention,” he continues.

That’s when McKinnon decided to go to a Charlie Kirk rally in Atlanta, Georgia.

“It was fascinating. It was really interesting, and it really opened my mind about what was happening with that cohort, for one thing. But also Kirk himself,” he says, “was very diplomatic and very cordial to me and invited me in.”

“I got to pull back the curtain and saw the whole operation and how it worked, and you know, his model is really interesting because he invited these crowds just all through social media,” he continues, noting that you couldn’t walk through the plaza the rally was held in because it “was so packed.”

Not only was it packed, but Kirk made sure to answer “every single question that was asked.”

Kirk even chose questions from clear leftists over those who were wearing red hats, despite being non-confrontational.

“Charlie’s a fascinating case,” Poulos comments. “Coming out of that kind of Ben Shapiro moment where it was like, ‘Click to watch the libtards get destroyed with facts and logic,’ you know, Charlie went in a slightly different direction.”

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Washington State U. punishes instructor, staffer charged with beating up Trump-supporting student of color wearing MAGA hat



Washington State University said it fired a staff member and relieved a graduate student instructor of teaching responsibilities after they were charged with physically attacking an undergraduate student of color who supports President Donald Trump and was wearing a Make American Great Again hat when he was assaulted.

According to a video report from Turning Point USA's Frontlines, WSU junior engineering student Jay Sani said WSU instructor Patrick Mahoney and staff member Gerald Hoff ambushed and physically attacked him outside of the Coug, a campus bar, on Feb. 28. The attack was captured on surveillance video and is included in the Frontlines video report, which you can view here.

In a Facebook post describing the attack, Sani said Mahoney 'crumpled' up his MAGA hat and 'threw it into the street, and yelled ... words to the effect of "go get it bitch."'

Phil Weiler, WSU's vice president for marketing and communications, sent Blaze News the following statement Friday:

Washington State University (WSU) is aware of an off-campus incident that occurred in February involving a WSU staff member, graduate student, and undergraduate student. After an investigation by the Pullman, Washington, police department, the WSU staff member and graduate student were arrested and charged with fourth-degree assault. In accordance with WSU policies, the staff member’s employment was terminated, and the graduate student was relieved of all teaching responsibilities.

While WSU remains committed to the freedom of speech and expression for all members of our university community, it will not tolerate acts of violence or hate speech. The university continues to review all complaints with the utmost of seriousness.

Sani said he was wearing a red Make America Great Again hat at the time of the attack and that Mahoney "ripped the hat off my head." In a Facebook post describing the attack, Sani said Mahoney "crumpled" up his MAGA hat and "threw it into the street, and yelled ... words to the effect of 'go get it bitch.'"

Sani said he threw his food at Mahoney's face but that Mahoney and Hoff ganged up on him, saying Mahoney "grabbed my chest and slammed it on the concrete as I was falling" and "punched me a bunch of times on the back" and that Hoff "kicked me a bunch of times too."

The Frontlines report includes images of Sani's "multiple scrapes and bruises" resulting from the two-on-one beatdown.

The video report also shows Pullman police catching up with Mahoney and Hoff on bodycam video timestamped in the early morning hours of March 1, just hours after the attack.

"I seen this guy f**king on campus before," Mahoney says on police bodycam video in reference to Sani. "I know he's, like, [a] f**king right-wing dude."

Mahoney also tells police, "I, like, grabbed his hat, threw it, and said, like, 'Go get it.'" Hoff admits to police that "we did grab him and bring him to the ground."

However, Mahoney is heard actually telling cops that he didn't hit Sani and that "I don't think I did f**king something illegal, right?"

A voice — presumably an officer — is heard saying on the bodycam clip that "it's unwanted touching," after which Mahoney says, "It's unwanted touching. I don't know what that is, right?"

Mahoney adds on the bodycam clip that Sani "wanted to fight" and "f**king got what was coming to him, right?"

You can view the complete police bodycam video here of officers interviewing and arresting Mahoney.

The Frontlines video report said Mahoney is a WSU graduate student and instructor who teaches a freshman-level political science class — and is a "notorious far-left activist who hates conservative values and is a regular at pro-Hamas protests in the city."

Mahoney also "has strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, progressive pro-labor groups, and is someone who publicly touts his admiration for the communist party," the video report adds, citing Sani. The video also points out a hammer and sickle pin seen on Mahoney's jacket lapel in his WSU headshot:

Patrick MahoneyPatrick Mahoney (Image source: Washington State University website)

In reference to Sani's skin color, he added in his Facebook post, "To make it clear, I hate to say this, but I'm brown, but forget it. I'm an engineering student that wants to get the degree and move on. So what if I like someone that you don't like. We have the 1st Amendment, and it's not okay that just because you don't like that person, I should be attacked for it. You had a chance in November to oust [Trump], but you didn't."

A Frontlines reporter knocked on Mahoney's door to inquire if he wanted to comment on the assault but that he replied, "No, go away," from behind the closed door.

The Frontlines video report added that "we were unable to reach Hoff to get his side of the story, but found his LinkedIn account indicating that he's employed at WSU. Again, the school would not comment on Hoff's status, either."

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Video: Bartender grabs baseball bat, pounds it on floor, demands female Trump supporter leave bar — because of her MAGA hat



Cellphone video caught the tense moments in an Indianapolis bar Friday when a bartender grabbed a baseball bat, pounded it on the floor, and demanded that a female supporter of President Donald Trump leave the establishment — because she was wearing a "Make America Great Again” hat.

The bar, however, issued a statement saying the Trump-supporting woman and her friends "misgendered and harassed" an employee, among other claims.

With that, the first bartender picks up a baseball bat and pounds it on the floor while telling Hensley, 'I'm not f**king around. Get out of my bar.'

Elise Hensley told WISH-TV that she and her friends went to the popular Chatterbox jazz bar, which they had done on several other occasions — but this time, the station said a few of them chose to wear MAGA hats.

“We went up to the bar, before we could even get a word out or order a drink, he just looked at me, and he said, ‘No.' And I said, ‘Excuse me?’ He said, ‘Absolutely not,’ he said, ‘Your hat. You need to leave right now,’” Hensley recounted to WISH.

Hensley told the station she left the bar but soon after decided to go back inside and ask why she was kicked out. WISH said Hensley took video of the interaction. You can watch and listen to the following video from an X user:

"No! No! We're not answering questions! Get out of the bar!" the bartender yells.

"Why?" Hensley asks.

"Because you're a Trump supporter," the bartender replies.

"I know, but don't you guys want our money?" Hensley asks.

"No! Actually we don't. Get out of my bar right now," the bartender responds before pointing presumably toward the exit.

"You're not welcome," a second bartender is heard saying.

With that, the first bartender picks up a baseball bat and pounds it on the floor while telling Hensley, "I'm not f**king around. Get out of my bar."

"Are you serious?" Hensley asks.

"I'm dead serious," the bartender replies. "Out."

"Because I'm wearing a Trump hat?" Hensley asks incredulously.

"Yes," the bartender answers.

"That's wild," Hensley remarks.

"I don't care," the bartender says. "Get out."

"We can call the police, or you can just leave,” the second bartender is heard saying.

"You know this is, like, discrimination, right?" Hensley states.

A good deal of laughter erupts, and the first bartender hollers, "Oh, boo hoo! Boo f**king hoo! Get out of my bar."

With that, the video soon ends.

Hensley told WISH on Sunday, “I wore that hat because I do love our president of the United States. He is our president. I do appreciate that, and I don’t think I find anything wrong with me wanting to wear a Trump hat because he is our president.”

The station said Chatterbox did not respond to its request for an interview but did release a statement on Instagram. It reads, in part:

On Friday, March 14th, a group of individuals visited Chatterbox and intentionally misgendered and harassed a Chatterbox employee, resulting in them being asked to leave by our staff. They then continued verbally assaulting our patrons and staff, threatened our establishment, and returned to record a video which has now been posted on multiple social media platforms.

The Chatterbox is home to a diverse group of staff and patrons. We do not tolerate dehumanizing or disrespectful language or symbolism in our establishment. We have a right, by law, to refuse service to anyone who disrupts our business.

We look forward to continue being a home for people who love music and appreciate our community.

Hensley told WISH she didn't misgender or harass anyone at the bar.

“They probably have every right to kick me out,” Hensley told the station. “If you don’t want me at your bar, that is what it is. But also, the man that was with me was an African American male. He was wearing a Trump hat.”

You can view WISH's video report here about the incident.

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