Smoking gun or SETUP? Is the FBI LYING about Iran's Trump plot?



A Pakistani national has been charged with “murder for hire” in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former president Donald Trump.

According to a detention memo, the 46-year-old named Asif Merchant had spent time in Iran before flying from Pakistan to the U.S. to recruit hitmen — however, the person he contacted was a confidential informant working with the FBI.

Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” isn’t convinced that the FBI is telling Americans the truth.

“Interesting, now they’re capable of finding people who want to assassinate Donald Trump? Now they’re capable of rooting these things out? And just how interesting that he just ran into this FBI source? What are the odds,” Gonzales says.

Jason Buttrill, Glenn Beck’s chief researcher and former intelligence analyst for the DoD, also has some questions.

“The assassination threat against Donald Trump specifically from Iran has been around since they took out Soleimani. There should have been an increased Secret Service presence, significantly beefed up, around him ever since that,” Buttrill says.

“I also have questions in a completely different direction,” he continues. “They said that he had planned to set this in motion and then leave right as the attack was about to happen, so that he could get out of the country.”

“Well, he was arrested on the 12. What happened on the 13?” Buttrill asks, adding, “It is suspicious.”


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STOLEN VALOR: Tim Walz allegedly LIED about his military service; abandoned his unit



While some call Tim Walz “Tampon Tim,” others call him a liar and a traitor.

The Minnesota governor has allegedly misrepresented his military service after reportedly abandoning his unit before a deployment to Iraq.

Thomas Behrends went in his place.

“I needed to hit the ground running and take care of the troops — and tell them we were going to war,” Behrends told the New York Post. “For a guy in that position, to quit is cowardice.”

Behrends is a 63-year-old farmer in Brewster, Minnesota, and believes the Democratic vice presidential candidate is a “traitor” for his reported actions.

“When your country calls, you are supposed to run into battle — not the other way,” the retired command sergeant major said. “He had the opportunity to serve his country, and said ‘Screw you’ to the United States. That’s not who I would pick to run for vice president.”

Walz’s alleged failed leadership in battle has translated well to his failure to lead the state of Minnesota.

“As of August 1 in Minnesota,” Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show” says, “you cannot put a 12-year-old in the front seat of a car, but you can give a 12-year-old gender-reassignment surgery. And I’m not making that up.”

Deace only lives two hours away from Minnesota, but he says the state is “across the dimensional plane.”

“They’re just completely different. Largely white states, largely rural, but in terms of the culture there, Minnesota is California, and it’s one state over,” Deace says, adding that the Harris-Walz ticket is an extremely frightening one.

“We’re being exposed, and we are being tested. What you have with the Kamala-Walz ticket is everything Barack Obama ever fantasized about and maybe wasn’t willing to say himself; they’re saying it out loud. And they have like none of his charm or popularity while saying it.”

“This will be the biggest worldview difference election I’ve ever voted in,” he adds.


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Child predators and the DEATH penalty: Robby Starbuck’s mission to STOP the war on children



Child predators are every parent's nightmare. Director and creator of “The War on Children,” Robby Starbuck, knows this all too well.

He also knows that the number of child predators is growing.

“We just had an operation here in Tennessee that was announced this morning,” Starbuck tells James Poulos of “Zero Hour.” “In this operation, they were able to come up with over a quarter million images of child sexual abuse. That’s stunning. In one operation, in one state.”

“They expect that number to grow,” he adds.

While most Americans can agree that child predators deserve harsh sentences, Starbuck wants to take it a step further, telling Poulos that there’s no incentive for these possessed individuals not to hurt children.

“The incentives not to do that, what are they exactly?” he asks. “One hundred years ago, if a man was caught raping a child, he wouldn’t be alive much longer. And that’s why, you know, we spearheaded here in Tennessee, a law change. And it was a law change made to ensure that we challenge bad precedent at the Supreme Court. And that was to give the death penalty to child rapists.”

While predators currently do not get the death penalty for raping a child, Starbuck believes that might be about to change.

“I believe the Supreme Court of today has a makeup where they’re going to do the sensible thing and affirm that you can in fact punish a heinous criminal like this with death instead of paying to keep them alive to the tune of millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars,” he tells Poulos.

“No society can survive if their incentives are all wrong,” he adds.

Starbuck isn’t alone in his assessment of where we’re at as a society and where we'll remain if we don't make a change. Poulos has also recognized the darkness.

“In some ways, it’s become a weirder and darker place, this country, than it has been in a long time,” he says.


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HILARIOUS: Watch Joe Biden have 'Mitch McConnell reboot moment' at Juneteenth celebration​



Joe Biden can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to people making fun of his goof ups. Sara Gonzales certainly isn’t going to give him a break, especially after seeing his painful conduct at the White House’s Juneteenth event.

“Joe Biden was looking rather vigorous last night at his Juneteenth celebration,” she says sarcastically.

In the footage from the event, Biden has what Sara calls “a Mitch McConnell reboot moment” where he seemed totally frozen while guests danced happily around him.

Later, as guests were clapping along in sync to a song, poor Joe tried to keep up, but his clapping was always off beat.

Biden “doesn't just [lack] rhythm; he doesn't have memory,” sighs BlazeTV contributor Jaco Booyens.

“He does have poop in his diaper probably,” laughs Sara, hinting at the recent rumor that Biden pooped his pants at the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy.

All jokes aside, the reality is Joe Biden — a man in serious cognitive decline — is running for another four-year term.

“Worst case scenario he wins, there's no way he's going through those four years,” says Rippaverse Comics founder Eric July — a valid point considering Biden could barely get through his Juneteenth speech, during which he slurred his words incoherently.

“[Playing] a vinyl backwards” is how Booyens describes Biden’s muddled words.

See for yourself in the clip below.


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Jason Aldean accused of promoting LYNCHING and RACISM in a song with ZERO race-related lyrics



CMT removed Jason Aldean’s recent release “Try That in a Small Town” after the song sparked mass controversy because of its alleged promotion of lynching and racism.

Granted the lyrics have zero mention of race and the music video focuses almost exclusively on white people committing crimes, how are the wokeists justifying their accusations?

“Apparently the video was filmed in front of a courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, where a white mob lynched a young black man, Henry Choate, from the building in 1927,” Sara Gonzales explains.

Aldean “must be a history expert,” she adds sarcastically.

A closer analysis of the lyrics and music video will reveal that the song actually speaks out against left-wing rioting, violence against law enforcement, gun control, and soft-on-crime approaches.

“There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it – and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage – and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music – this one goes too far,” Aldean said in a statement following the scrutiny.

While Sara thinks Aldean’s defense of his song is certainly justified, Jason Buttrill thinks that the only thing the country star owes to the people vilifying his song is a big “suck it.”

“They want you to capitulate in front of the entire world stage” Jason says, “and it doesn’t matter if you do, because they won’t accept your capitulation” anyway.

Regardless, it appears that millions of non-woke fans are rallying to support Aldean and his song. Despite being pulled by CMT, “Try That in a Small Town” has hit #1 on the iTunes charts, surpassing Taylor Swift and K-pop stars alike.

Perhaps Aldean owes a thank you to all his critics, then?

“The appropriate response [is] ‘thanks for making me a ton of money and making me #1 on the charts,'” Rob Eno says.


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