Democrats in disarray as AOC tops 'pathetic' list of 2028 hopefuls



The Democrats are already getting ready for the 2028 election, but their choices aren’t looking so hot. And a list created by The Hill of their top 10 contenders couldn’t make that any clearer.

“It’s not a promising list. It’s not looking that good,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” comments, adding, “They literally have, at number 10, Stephen A. Smith.”

Stephen A. Smith is an ESPN personality who has spent his career discussing sports and getting into public scuffles with Jason Whitlock of “Fearless.” Smith has publicly toyed with the idea of running for president in several interviews — but the fact that he made it on to the list has Stu pretty hopeful for the Republican ticket.

“This is how pathetic this field is. This is how thin the bench is for the Democratic Party,” he says, before moving onto number nine on the list: Rahm Emanuel.


Emanuel was Barack Obama’s chief of staff. Stu notes that he has been relatively unheard of since the Obama era.

“It’s hard to imagine he would even have a chance,” he comments.

Pete Buttigieg also made the list at number eight, which Stu says “has got to be terrifying for you if you’re on the left,” while JB Pritzker came in at number seven.

“Who put together this list? This is a catastrophe,” he says, adding, “So far, this is a bunch of nobodies outside of Stephen A. Smith, who almost certainly won’t run.”

Whoever wrote the list certainly still has hope for a Kamala Harris presidency, as she made the list at number six, right after Governor Wes Moore (D-Md.) at number five.

“This one I see a lot of hype for,” Stu says. “Hasn’t really accomplished an awful lot, kind of an unknown nationally, but he’s generally a pretty good communicator.”

Shockingly, even Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) is a top contender at number four. Stu says he “has been a catastrophe for the state of California.”

“Let’s be honest about it. He was awful during COVID. He went out to dinner when he was trying to convince everyone else they needed to be in lockdown. That was just a total disaster. He almost got recalled,” Stu explains.

Number three isn’t much better.

“Gretchen Whitmer at number three is a disaster. She’s terrible,” Stu says, before getting to number two, who Stu admits is “a bit scary to the right.”

“It’s Josh Shapiro. Shapiro has handled a lot of the situations in his state pretty well,” he explains. “He did a pretty good job coming out talking about political violence; he kind of talked about it on either side of the aisle.”

“AOC, number one. The number-one possibility, according to The Hill, for 2028,” Stu says, shocked. “I will say, there is a path there. The path is that people really don’t like Donald Trump. The presidency goes terrible, and they’ll just reflect to whatever Democrat wins, and she’s seen as the only one taking this seriously.”

“But making AOC the voice of the left is a good thing for Republicans generally. But if things go very badly, like if there’s a massive economic crisis, then any Democrat will win,” he warns.

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Trump DOJ tells courts to pound sand, not their place to order MS-13 member back to US



An Obama judge ordered the Trump administration on April 4 to bring a deported MS-13 member — found by more than one immigration court to be a "danger to the community" — back to the United States. Days later, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the lower court's ruling in part, noting that the administration must "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return.

The Trump administration, ever defiant, effectively told the federal courts to pound sand, which is for the best because Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he does not intend to release Abrego Garcia.

Attorneys for the government indicated in a Sunday filing that while the high court had instructed the Trump administration to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return, "reading 'facilitate' as requiring something more than domestic measures would not only flout the Supreme Court's order, but also violate the separation of powers."

The Supreme Court previously recognized that some of the language in U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis' order was "unclear, and may exceed the District Court's authority," adding that the lesser court "should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs."

'They've done nothing.'

The attorneys for the government suggested in their Sunday filing that this deference on foreign policy matters should be more or less total, noting, "The federal courts have no authority to direct the Executive Branch to conduct foreign relations in a particular way, or engage with a foreign sovereign in a given manner."

"That is the 'exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations,'" continued the government lawyers. "Such power is 'conclusive and preclusive,' and beyond the reach of the federal courts' equitable authority."

The plaintiffs in the case want the Trump administration to issue demands to the Salvadoran government and send American personnel to a foreign nation and an aircraft into a foreign nation's airspace to recover a citizen of that nation.

"All of those requested orders involve interactions with a foreign sovereign — and potential violations of that sovereignty," said the government lawyers. "A federal court cannot compel the Executive Branch to engage in any mandated act of diplomacy or incursion upon the sovereignty of another nation."

The Hill reported that Xinis was enraged Friday upon learning of the administration's continued refusal to comply with her order.

"Have they done anything?" the vexed Obama judge asked Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign.

"Your honor, I don't have personal knowledge," said Ensign.

"OK, so they've done nothing," said Xinis.

Michael Kozak, senior bureau official in the State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, confirmed in a sworn statement Saturday that Abrego Garcia "is currently being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador."

Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, stole into the U.S. illegally and without inspection in 2011.

He was summoned in March 2019 to appear in removal hearings. During a bond hearing, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that a confidential informant flagged Abrego Garcia as an active member of the terrorist organization Mara Salvatrucha. The illegal alien's bond was denied, with the court finding he "was a danger to the community."

The following month, Abrego Garcia appealed the ruling to the Board of Immigration Appeals but was once again recognized as a gang member as well as a flight risk.

The judge stated, "The fact that a 'past, proven, and reliable source of information' verified the Respondent's gang membership, rank, and gang name is sufficient to support that the Respondent is a gang member, and the Respondent has failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion."

Abrego Garcia's lawyers maintain that the gang label is false.

Although found removable, Abrego Garcia managed to secure a form of relief called withholding of removal in October 2019.

As a result, he avoided removal until March 12, when ICE agents in Baltimore notified Abrego Garcia that his "status has changed," then arrested him.

Government attorneys indicated that after his initial detention, the illegal alien was questioned about his gang affiliations, transferred to a detention center in Texas, then removed to El Salvador.

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Obama judge orders Trump admin to bring mistakenly deported MS-13 member back to US



The Trump administration deported an illegal alien on March 15 who was found by more than one immigration court to be a "danger to the community" and a member of the terrorist organization Mara Salvatrucha.

While a prime candidate for removal, government attorneys indicated that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ultimately deported to El Salvador "because of an administrative error."

An Obama judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to bring the Salvadoran national back into the United States. On Sunday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis doubled down on her order, claiming that immigration agents "had no legal authority to arrest [Abrego Garcia], no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador — let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere."

Xinis appeared particularly concerned that Abrego Garcia, whose lawyers claimed he is not a gangster, has been placed in a facility that "intentionally mixes rival gang members without any regard for protecting the detainees from 'harm at the hands of the gangs,'" stating that the "risk of harm shocks the conscience."

The Obama judge further suggested that Abrego Garcia's detention at the southern nation's Terrorism Confinement Center "appears wholly lawless"; that "equity and justice compels" Garcia's return to the United States; that the "legal basis for the mass removal of hundreds of individuals to El Salvador remains disturbingly unclear"; and that the government's "jurisdictional arguments fail as a matter of law."

Attorneys for the government previously indicated both that U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis lacks the jurisdiction to make such an order and that the Trump administration cannot bring the gang member back as he is no longer in American custody.

On the matter of jurisdiction, the Obama judge asserted that the "United States exerts control over each of the nearly 200 migrants sent to CECOT," noting "the Defendants detained them, transported them by plane, and paid for their placement in the mega-jail until 'the United States' decides 'their long-term disposition.'"

Xinis claimed further that she "retains jurisdiction because Abrego Garcia challenges his removal to El Salvador, not the fact of his confinement."

'We suggest the Judge contact President Bukele.'

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, the lawyer for Abrego Garcia, told Xinis that he wants to see the Trump administration "put on a leash" to make sure his Salvadoran client is returned in a timely manner, reported CNN.

The Obama judge, apparently keen to oblige Sandoval-Moshenberg, has ordered the government to "facilitate and effectuate the return" of the MS-13 gangster by no later than 11:59 p.m. on Monday.

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, said in response to Xinis' order, "Marxist judge now thinks she's president of El Salvador."

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin underscored in an interview last week that Abrego Garcia "is actually a member of MS-13 who was involved in human trafficking. It's unbelievable the framing of this. Whether this man is in El Salvador or in a U.S. detention center, he should be locked up."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, "We suggest the Judge contact President Bukele because we are unaware of the judge having jurisdiction or authority over the country of El Salvador."

While the Trump administration has found itself dealing with multiple activist judges like Xinis, in this case it has also suffered from players taking shots on their own net.

Erez Reuveni, the acting deputy director of the Department of Justice's immigration litigation division, was placed on administrative leave Saturday for bungling the case and failing to "follow a directive from [his] superiors," according to a letter sent to the lawyer and obtained by the New York Times.

Reuveni, 15-year veteran of the division, furnished Xinis with commentary that she made good use of in her Sunday ruling. He said that Abrego Garcia's deportation should never have taken place and expressed frustration with having the case land on his desk.

"At my direction, every Department of Justice attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States," Attorney General Pam Bondi told the Times in a statement over the weekend. "Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences."

It's unclear whether Reuveni's replacement will do a better job fighting to keep foreign gang members out of the homeland.

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Biden admin hindered efforts to cancel grants to climate groups under criminal investigation



In the wake of President Donald Trump's landslide electoral victory, the Biden administration apparently reworked an Environmental Protection Agency grant agreement with an Obama administration staffer's climate alarmist group in order to make it difficult for the incoming administration to reclaim a $7 billion award.

Climate United Fund, one of the recipients of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program that is now under criminal investigation and getting axed by the Trump EPA, is now apparently exploiting that strategic hindrance in a desperate effort to get its hands on the money promised by the Biden administration.

Background

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency announced the discovery last month that the Biden administration parked roughly $20 billion at Citibank as part of a climate-branded scheme created under the Inflation Reduction Act that was "purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight" for the benefit of fellow travelers.

The agency indicated on March 2 that it was cooperating with the Department of Justice and FBI's ongoing criminal investigation into the matter and that it had also referred the "concerning matter of financial mismanagement, conflicts of interest, and oversight failures" in the GGRF program to the EPA's Office of Inspector General.

One of the intended recipients of the funds was a new nonprofit linked to staunch Biden ally Stacey Abrams, the failed gubernatorial candidate who sided with alleged domestic terrorists in 2023 and was slapped in January with what the Georgia State Ethics Commission indicated was likely "the largest Ethics Fine ever imposed by any State Ethics Commission in the country related to an election and campaign finance case."

The Abrams-linked nonprofit, Power Forward Communities, was awarded a $2 billion grant last year as part of the GGRF program despite being just a few months old and having no history of competently managing funds.

Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of the energy advocacy organization Power the Future, told Blaze News that the obligation of billions of taxpayer dollars to PFC and other brand-new climate groups with minimal or no track records of accomplishments "screams corruption and is absolutely worthy of IRS and DOJ investigations."

'EPA has determined that these deficiencies pose an unacceptable risk to the efficient and lawful execution of this grant.'

"I've always enjoyed the show 'Shark Tank,' and since I spend about half my life on the road and I'm in hotels a lot, it's kind of my go-to program to watch at nighttime," said Turner. "The sharks always ask about earnings before they make an investment, and that's usually where they will decide what they're going to do. Stacey Abrams' group had received $100 in donations and then got a $2 billion grant. The math tells me that that is a 20 million-times earnings investment. I've never never seen a shark make an investment at 20 million times earnings."

"It shows you the frivolity of the people in these agencies, the true political nature of grant-making, and it also explains the ire these folks have towards Elon Musk and DOGE — the ire that's turned into complete violence," continued Turner. "This is their lifeblood, and it's being taken away from them, but it never should have been theirs to begin with."

Climate United Fund's money troubles

Climate United Fund, an organization formed in 2024 and led by Beth Bafford, a former special assistant in the Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget, similarly planned to ride the last gravy train out of the Biden administration.

According to court documents, the FBI recommended that Citibank freeze CUF's account in late February, citing "credible information" that it was among a number of accounts that had "been involved in possible criminal violations" including wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

On March 4, the Treasury Department directed Citibank not to disburse funds from the GGRF accounts, including that belonging to CUF, citing the EPA's "concerns regarding potential fraud and/or conflicts of interest related to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund."

When it discovered that it couldn't drain its slush fund and that it might not ultimately receive any of its $6.97 billion GGRF award, CUF — like other groups impacted by the EPA's funding freeze and grant terminations — filed a lawsuit on March 8 against both the EPA and Citibank, alleging that the "EPA has acted to prevent Citibank from dispersing [sic] funds, harming Climate United, its borrowers, and the communities they serve."

The EPA, which proved willing to battle it out in the court, subsequently notified the plaintiffs that it was terminating their grants, stating that "following a comprehensive review and consistent with multiple ongoing independent federal investigations into programmatic fraud, waste, abuse, and conflicts of interest ... EPA has determined that these deficiencies pose an unacceptable risk to the efficient and lawful execution of this grant."

'They're just fighting for their own entity's survival because they don't want to get a real job.'

According to the grant agreement between the climate groups and the EPA, the awards can be terminated only if:

  • "a grant recipient engages in 'substantial' noncompliance such that 'effective performance' is 'materially impaired'";
  • "a recipient engages in 'material misrepresentation of eligibility status'"; or
  • "for 'waste, fraud, or abuse.'"

An Obama judge ruled Tuesday that the EPA could not reclaim the Biden-era grants. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan did not, however, enable CUF and other climate alarmist groups to withdraw the billions of taxpayer dollars they believe they are owed.

The climate groups' efforts to get their hands on the taxpayer funds have dragged some questionable details about the grants into the light.

EPA's diminished agency

Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner highlighted that a month after Trump crushed Kamala Harris at the polls, the Biden Environmental Protection Agency amended its grant agreement with Climate United Fund, making it harder to revoke the award.

Eric Amidon, chief of staff of the EPA, noted in a Monday court filing that the agency's grant agreement with CUF originally issued in August did not "define the terms 'materially impaired' or 'waste, fraud, and abuse,' and used the terms in a manner that left EPA with significant discretion to administer the agreement." However, Amidon noted that in December 2024, the EPA issued an amended grant agreement to CUF that altered its compliance and termination provisions and defined the above terms.

As a consequence of the changes, the EPA effectively lost its contractual authority "to find CUF in immediate noncompliance for failing to report the expenditure of grant funds, audit results, and project status"; "to oversee subrecipient compliance with statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements"; and to spend grant funds only on allowable activities," said Amidon.

Amidon also indicated that the Biden administration's post-election definitions for "materially impaired" and "waste, fraud, and abuse" further tied the EPA's hands, restricting the agency's ability to terminate the award "absent evidence of severe criminal or civil violations."

Climate United Fund has leaned on the agreement in its lawsuit against the EPA and Citibank.

"This is absolutely intentional," Turner told Blaze News, referring to the broader alleged "gold bars" plot. "This was all very deliberate in preparation for what the Trump administration would do."

Brent Efron, a former EPA special adviser for implementation, was caught on hidden camera before Trump took office claiming that the agency was dumping billions of dollars in grants to nonprofits to make sure the Biden administration's climate initiatives remained afloat even after the Democrats lost their footing in the White House.

"Now it's how to get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump administration] come in," said Efron. "It's like we're on the Titanic and we're throwing gold bars off the edge."

"In the grants process, grants can always be amended by the grantor. I deal with donors who want to fund certain projects, and circumstances change, and therefore the nature of the grant changes. That's understandable," said Turner. "But it's never been about an election, and that's the only criteria that changed with some of these groups that were awarded grants — Trump was now going to be president. And so it does raise a larger question: What was the grant ever about? What was the grant's nature? Because if it was combatting racial disparities in the climate space or whatever the phraseology they used, none of that has changed. Only thing that changed was the political circumstances, and so changing the grant based on politics sort of de facto proves that the nature of the grant is purely political."

Turner suggested that the groups now fighting over the frozen slush fund are "fighting for the quality of life that the taxpayers were awarding them. They're not fighting for groups. They're not fighting for maligned or marginalized individuals. They're just fighting for their own entity's survival because they don't want to get a real job."

Blaze News reached out to the EPA for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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'This is war': Trump signals he's playing hardball with invocation of Alien Enemies Act, disappointment of Obama judge



The Trump administration made clear with two decisions over the weekend that it is now playing hardball when it comes to throwing terroristic illegal aliens out of the country and dealing with apparent judicial overreach.

Wartime measure

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing his secretary of state to ready foreign terrorist organization designations for Tren de Aragua and Mara Salvatrucha, better known as MS-13, gangsters as well as other international organizations that "threaten the safety of the American people, the security of the United States, and the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere."

Trump also directed his attorney general and the secretary of homeland security to:

take all appropriate action, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to make operation preparations regarding the implementation of any decision I make to invoke the Alien Enemies Act ... in relation to the existence of any qualifying invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States by a qualifying actor, and to prepare such facilities as necessary to expedite the removal of those who may be designated under this order.

Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio named nine gangs and cartel organizations, including TDA and MS-13, to be designated as terror groups.

On Saturday, the president similarly went the distance, invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

'TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States.'

In the event of a declared war with a foreign nation or "any invasion or predatory incursion" perpetrated or attempted against the U.S., the president is enabled under this law to order the apprehension, restraint, detention, and removal of "all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nature or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized."

The Congressional Research Service noted that this particular law was enacted as part of a broader set of controversial national security measures known as the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Unlike the Alien Act and the Sedition Act, which did not ultimately survive, the Alien Enemies Act found no objection from either James Madison or Thomas Jefferson. The Supreme Court held that the absence of objection to the law by the generation that drafted the Constitution evidenced its constitutionality.

The first time the law was invoked was during the War of 1812. It was last used during World War II.

Citing his duty to protect the American people and his constitutional authority to do so, Trump declared that "TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States. TdA is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela."

"I proclaim that all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of TdA, are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies," added Trump.

When asked aboard Air Force One on Sunday evening whether he feels he is using the law appropriately, given that it was previously used only during times of war, Trump said, "Well, this is a time of war."

"Biden allowed millions of people, many of them criminals, many of them at the highest level. They emptied jails out — other nations emptied their jails into the United States. It's an invasion, and these are criminals," said Trump. "They invaded our country. In that sense, this is war."

Slow on the draw, Obama judge

Hours after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, an Obama judge responding to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward ordered a pause to deportations under the 227-year-old law. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg was, however, not fast enough.

Two planes loaded with apparent Tren de Aragua terrorists were apparently already airborne, one plane taking deportees to El Salvador and the other taking deportees to Honduras.

Rubio indicated that the Trump administration "sent 2 dangerous top MS-13 leaders plus 21 of its most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador. Also, as promised by @POTUS, we sent over 250 alien enemy members of Tren de Aragua which El Salvador has agreed to hold in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars."

Upon learning that they had already left the nation, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg impotently ordered that the planes be sent back to the U.S., reported ABC News.

'If the Democrats want to argue in favor of turning a plane full of rapists, murderers, and gangsters back to the United States, that's a fight we are more than happy to take.'

"You shall inform your clients of this immediately: Any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States," Boasberg said during a hearing on Saturday. "However that's accomplished, turning around the plane, or not embarking anyone on the plane. … This is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately."

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele tweeted on Sunday morning, "Oopsie... Too late."

Bukele later shared footage to X Sunday showing alleged terrorists being hauled off airplanes, indicating that they were "immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center."

— (@)

Critics clutched pearls over the Trump administration's deportation of alleged terrorists, claiming the president had flouted the Obama judge's orders.

Mark Zaid, a liberal attorney whose security clearance Trump revoked last month, wrote, "Court order defied. First of many as I've been warning and start of true constitutional crisis. Ultimately will lead to Trump impeachment proceedings."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt indicated that the "administration did not 'refuse to comply' with a court order. The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory."

"Moreover, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear — federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President's conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion," continued Leavitt. "A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrying foreign alien terrorists who were expelled from U.S. soil."

Leavitt told Axios, which originally reported that the White House "defied a judge's order," that "if the Democrats want to argue in favor of turning a plane full of rapists, murderers, and gangsters back to the United States, that's a fight we are more than happy to take."

In a Sunday court filing, government attorneys indicated that gang members subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act were ejected from the country before Boasberg issued his order and further noted that "going forward, and in the absence of appellate relief, Federal Defendants will continue to protect the United States using authorities other than the Proclamation."

Even though the initial narrative pushed by Axios and seized upon by Trump critics turned out to be wrong, the whining continued.

Steve Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, told the Associated Press that while Boasberg's verbal directive to turn around the planes was not part of his formal order, the Trump administration had still violated the "spirit" of the order, incentivizing "future courts to be hyper specific in their orders and not give the government any wiggle room."

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Obama's former right-hand man Rahm Emanuel posturing for presidential run: Report



The list of potential Democratic presidential candidates for 2028 continues to grow.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to have aspirations of podcasting his way from his crime-ridden state to the White House. Newsom's fellow governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania is also considered a contender — at least by the Washington Post. Among the numerous other middling prospects keen to throw their hats in the ring is Minnesota's honesty-impaired governor, Tim Walz, who recently indicated that he would run "if the circumstances are right."

Barack Obama's old right-hand man Rahm Emanuel — the Democrat who famously said at the outset of the 2008 financial crisis that "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste" — is apparently now also preparing to run, ready to exploit the crisis in the Democratic Party to distinguish himself from the pack.

Emanuel is a Democratic operative who fundraised for Bill Clinton ahead of the 1992 presidential election, then later served as his adviser, championing NAFTA; represented Illinois for three terms in the House; served as Obama's chief of staff from 2009 to 2010; and served as Biden's ambassador to Japan.

Between his stints with the Obama and Biden administrations, Emanuel served as mayor of Chicago for eight years, during which time he oversaw an explosion in the city's crime and rat infestation rates; secretly used a personal email domain for government work; dropped the ball on affordable housing promises; and saw 60% of his top 103 campaign donors receive city contracts, zoning changes, pension work, business permits, regulatory help, or other consequential benefits, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis.

Emanuel recently told Politico, "I'm not done with public service, and I'm hoping public service is not done with me."

The liberal publication previously propped up by federal subscriptions indicated that Emanuel's behavior since returning home from Japan hints at ambitions of pursuing higher office. He has sought to maximize his visibility, appearing on podcasts, securing a CNN contract, and consistently spilling ink in his Washington Post column.

'He understands how to win.'

Emanuel has also made his rounds on the lecture circuit, addressing deep-pocketed audiences at the Chicago Economic Club and at the Realtors Political Action Committee President's Circle conference last month. He is apparently set to speak at West Point as part of a broader service academy tour, which will allow him to test the waters with other voter demographics.

Politico suggested that Emanuel's recent efforts to play to opinion polls is further evidence that he is testing the waters. He has embraced popular Republican positions on gender ideology and the need to remedy bureaucratic bloat in the federal government, while criticizing the Democratic Party's leftist fetishes, which helped Kamala Harris lose in November and alienated American voters.

It appears that elements of the Democratic establishment are receptive to the idea of Emanuel as a candidate.

"Who has more relevant experience?" former Obama adviser David Axelrod told Politico. "He understands how to win and speaks bluntly in an idiom that most folks understand."

Axelrod apparently characterized Emanuel as the "remedy, not the replica, of a president with little interest in governance and the chaos that flows from that," according to a paraphrase from Politico.

While Politico appears convinced that Emanuel might try for the top seat, it appears that the 65-year-old Democrat is open to securing power at virtually any level. The Chicago Tribune reported that Emanuel has not ruled out running again for Chicago mayor or seeking the Democratic nomination for Illinois governor next year if Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) does not run again.

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Leaked documents reveal INSANE DEI plan for NASA



From reckless spending and warmongering to importing illegal immigrants and carving children up in labs, calling it “care,” it’s hard to say which part of living under the Biden-Harris regime was the worst.

The insidious cancer that is diversity, equity, and inclusion certainly makes the top five, though.

Once the administration rubber-stamped the fundamentally flawed system that champions racial division, underperformance, and cultural Marxism, while trashing merit and free speech, it spread like a disease throughout the federal government and then across the country.

There was no place that was safe from the poison of DEI — not even the moon.

In Glenn Beck’s latest Wednesday Night Special, he shares the disturbing contents of newly leaked documents that reveal NASA’s dangerous plan to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in its Artemis mission and “put the first woman and first person of color on the Moon.”

The 99-page file, Glenn says, “was leaked exclusively to my team at TheBlaze by two NASA scientists.”

The document outlines NASA’s plan to return to the moon, and yet “there’s no science” in it and there’s “not even a breakdown of cost,” he explains. That’s because the document wasn’t produced by scientists but rather by “public relations gurus,” who use “emotional appeal, psychology, and PR” to manipulate our feelings.

In his first term, President Trump set the U.S. on a path to return to the moon, but when Biden took office, he changed the trajectory. Suddenly it wasn’t about going to the moon again; it was about getting certain people to the moon. “Science [was] replaced by cultural Marxism and DEI.”

The whistleblowers who leaked the documents, Glenn says, unfortunately cannot be on the show or reveal their identities because “they’re still afraid for their jobs, even though they’re now in the private sector.”

Glenn instead shares some quotes from these anonymous sources:

  • “I was told to be seen and not heard in all meetings related to science — as a scientist.”
  • “I was just pretty shocked at how meticulous they were in controlling the narrative and already pre-idenitifying protagonists, antagonists.”
  • “The way that they would cherry-pick these rags-to-riches stories of these astronauts, a lot of it was centered around DEI.”
  • “NASA, in my opinion, has become a glorified DEI program.”

The leaked Artemis playbook reveals “Who [NASA wants] to build massive appeal with and get to participate.”

Big shock incoming …

They’re targeting “underserved and underrepresented groups,” including “BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, and People of Color] youth.”

“In other words, it's not a mission to the moon; it's a marketing campaign for social activism,” says Glenn. “NASA isn't trying just to inspire the next generation of astronauts; they're going to sell an ideology.”

The document, in an effort to employ emotional appeals, outlines the Artemis mission’s “antagonists,” as if their plan to go to the moon were a story in a children’s book.

“The unaware public,” “skeptics who control the budget,” “conspiracy theorists,” and “dissatisfied NASA employees,” among others, are considered threats to the mission.

“I've never seen anything like this from America, and it would make Bernays and Goebbels proud because it was designed to stimulate widespread behavioral changes among individuals,” says Glenn, asking, “When did NASA get into that game?”

Could it be that the space agency is motivated by a “lucrative endgame”?

To hear more about NASA’s leaked documents, including the agency’s plan to get rich off its Marxism-infused Artemis program, watch the episode above. To go through the documents yourself, head over to glennbeck.com

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‘Clean energy’ has blood on its hands — how an Obama-era project KILLED thousands of animals



Liberals have long pushed “clean energy” solutions — many of which are now turning out to be anything but “clean.”

The $1.6 billion Ivanpah “clean energy” project under the Obama administration is one of them, as it’s now shutting down after killing thousands of birds and tortoises all while secretly relying on natural gas to operate.

“I want to share with you one new development made possible by the clean energy incentives that we’ve launched this month. In the Mojave Desert, a company called Bright Source plans to break ground on a revolutionary new type of solar power plant,” Obama said in a 2010 statement.

“It’s going to put about a thousand people to work building a state-of-the-art facility, and when it’s complete, it will turn sunlight into the energy that will power up to 140,000 homes, the largest such plant in the world. Not in China, not in India, but in California,” he added.

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The Ivanpah plant stretches over 3,500 acres.

“The plant has long been criticized for the environmental trade-offs that came with large-scale energy production in the sensitive desert region. Rays from the plant’s mirrors have been blamed for incinerating thousands of birds. Conservation groups tried to stop construction on the site because of threats to tortoises,” an Associated Press article reads.

“Now, we were told this was a huge success for the environment. We were told it was going to save the environment. But at the same time, we were incinerating tortoises,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” says.

“I mean, these poor little tortoises just trying to make their way across the desert, just really, really slow, and then they’re getting cooked by 9,000-degree light beams,” he continues, adding, “It is exactly what you’d expect from a government program.”

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End of endless war? How Trump might finally save Christians in the Middle East



The Middle East has long been home to seemingly endless wars and Christian hostility, and now with Trump in office, Jacob Siegel, senior writer at Tablet magazine, believes that might change.

“I think what he’s saying to Israel is, ‘Win now because I want this over soon. I don’t want to be presiding over endless warfare in the Middle East,’” Siegel tells James Poulos on “Zero Hour.”

“You could just compare the Trump years to the Biden years, right, this is the most recent live example that we can contrast. So what was the Middle East like for Christians between 2016, when Trump took office, versus 2020 to 2024? It was more peaceful, it was more stable,” he continues.


Siegel also notes that of the prisoners currently being released from Syrian prisoners, there “seem to be actually a very high percentage of Christian names on that list.”

While he doesn’t believe that the Christians spread throughout the Middle East are as unified by their faith as they might be within their own country, he does expect Trump’s second term to unify them in something else.

“What will be common for all of them is that if the second Trump term is anything like the first Trump term, the whole region will be more peaceful,” he explains. “Islamists in Syria under Turkish offices, who might for ideological, theological reasons attack Christians, they’re going to think twice if there is a credible deterrent because Trump is in office.”

“That’ll be an advantage for all the minorities in the Middle East,” he adds.

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