Whistleblower explains why Kash Patel is THE guy to fix the FBI



One of Donald Trump’s most exciting picks for his incoming administration is Kash Patel, who will lead the FBI.

And FBI whistleblower Steve Friend is thrilled by the pick.

“I’ve been on record for a long time now believing that the FBI has to be shattered into a thousand pieces and scattered to the wind,” Friend tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“If there is one person, though, who can possibly make the demo into a reno, it is Kash Patel,” he continues.

“He brings a great perspective being someone who is not just a prosecutor who actually helped prosecute the war on terrorism over at JSOC and saw intelligence and rooted out the corruption when he was part of the Russiagate expose that went on, but he’s also a public defender, which is very unique because historically, the FBI director is a federal prosecutor,” he explains.


Because of his unique skill set, Friend believes that “he has a healthy respect for the amount of power that is at the fingertips of the FBI.”

“The fact that they’re able to take people’s freedom away, if they indeed make the process the punishment, that they’re able to do that,” he continues, adding, “So I’m really enthused by that.”

Friend has been in “back channel conversations with him” and knows that Patel is “willing to take up things like ‘let’s get rid of the intelligence apparatus that exists for the FBI.’”

“There’s no reason they need to be spying on the American people. They’re a police force, they shouldn’t be a secret police force,” Friend says, noting that Patel “needs to get rid of the quota system.”

“The fact that the FBI is rewarding and incentivizing agents, senior executives, to push on their underlings to go and arrest the right number of people or open the right number of cases so that they can get five-figure bonuses,” he comments, disturbed. “And let’s revamp the way we’re doing our hiring practices so that we’re merit-based.”

“And I just have to point to the last three position holders over at the FBI directorship,” he continues, noting James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Christopher Wray, who were all working against Trump and the American people for the last few years.

“It’s hardly a nonpartisan position at this point, and the fact that Kash Patel is wearing his politics on his sleeve, I think is actually just refreshing. Because it’s transparent,” he adds.

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Biden opened the door for AVALANCHE of Trump pardons



Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, which covers every federal crime that he’s committed in the past decade, is taking the news cycle by storm — and for good reason.

“It is absolutely unprecedented,” Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist, tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “We believe this is the most expansive, the most broad and wide-ranging pardon ever issued in American history.”

Even Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal was only for five years of crimes, while Hunter’s spanned a whopping eleven years.

“You can go back even further, if you want to look at pardons given to Confederate generals after the Civil War, people who literally waged war against the United States, theirs were not as expansive as this,” Davis explains, adding that “to see his son get the biggest, most widest-ranging pardon in American history, it’s shocking to me.”


While it’s shocking — and blatantly corrupt — Hunter’s pardon isn’t all negative.

“If they were worried about J6 protesters maybe being pardoned before this happened, they don’t need to worry about that any more, because that’s 100% going to happen. By doing a pardon of this nature for the president’s son, it basically makes it impossible for Democrats to complain or argue about any pardons going forward,” Davis says.

However, Democrats like Gerry Connolly seem to be catching on and are already insisting that there should not be sweeping pardons like Hunter’s in the future.

“It’s interesting that this is coming from the Democratic side, because they know at some point,” Savage says, “Republicans are going to be back in office.”

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Trump should follow Biden’s lead— and PARDON January 6 prisoners



Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter despite numerous pledges not to do so while some January 6 protesters whose crimes don’t even hold a candle to Hunter’s are still sitting in jail.

Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters numerous times that this wouldn’t happen, even going so far as to act exasperated when she was asked.

“It’s still a no, it will be a no. It is a no, and I don’t have anything else to add,” she said in one of many press conferences, and in another, she said, “We’ve been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is no.”

Eric Eggers, vice president of the Government Accountability Institute, believes this “decades worth of grace for Hunter” has created “grace and space” for Joe Biden himself.


“These are business dealings in which Joe Biden wouldn’t have just been adjacent,” he tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “Joe Biden was considered an employee of some of Hunter Biden’s businesses when he wasn’t the vice president. So I think by pardoning Hunter, Joe Biden essentially has pardoned himself.”

“We all knew this was going to happen, it’s not a surprise. If it is a surprise, you kind of need to check yourself,” Peterson comments. “But at the same time, actually watching it happen is interesting because there’s fallout politically.”

“And I would love to see actual justice occur in some way,” he adds.

Savage agrees, noting that a large part of the conservative response on social media platforms like X was focused on January 6.

“If they’re going to do that, then Donald Trump should push for the pardons for J6ers immediately,” Savage says.

“Yeah, and I mean, I don’t think they’re comparable. One is terrible injustice and the other is the government acting in a way that’s not compatible with the Constitution. If it helps, great. Like, if it helps people make the case, yeah, let’s do it,” Peterson adds.

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The REAL reason Joe Biden pardoned Hunter



Joe Biden isn’t leaving the White House quietly.

With less than two months left in his term, the president issued a full and unconditional ten-year pardon for his son Hunter Biden.

This includes any of the crimes he may have committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024.

“This covers Hunter’s felony convictions for gun charges, tax offenses, and even overlaps with his time with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. But we were told by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly that this wouldn’t happen,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” comments.

“Let’s be clear: This isn’t a pardon. This is a decade's worth of salvation and forgiveness,” Eric Eggers, vice president of the Government Accountability Institute, responds. “This is also an affront to the integrity of our democracy, and it’s just the latest admission that Joe Biden and the Biden administration have been lying to the American people for the last four years.”


“It started in the fall of 2020, when the FBI worked in conjunction with Big Tech to help suppress the accountability of the Hunter Biden business dealings in the first place, which allowed Joe Biden to even become president, so he could later pardon Hunter Biden,” he continues.

“What are the big crimes that are actually being covered up here?” Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson asks Eggers, who cites the Foreign Agent Registration Act.

“Joe Biden begins this period of grace for his son, January 2014; the month before that, Hunter Biden rode on Air Force 2, with his then-vice President father, Joe Biden. Together, they travel to China,” Eggers explains, noting that at the time, Hunter had zero international business experience.

“He gets this $1.5 billion private equity deal, a joint partnership with essentially the communist government of China, never been done before,” Eggers continues. “This began this international ravaging of the dark corners of shady businesses that wanted to curry favor with American political elites. It’s called ‘elite capture.’”

“These are business deals that would have involved Joe Biden. So by creating this decade's worth of grace for Hunter,” he concludes, “this is the closest Joe Biden has come to creating grace and space for himself.”

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Some states STILL COUNT late mail-in ballots after Election Day



The Pennsylvania Senate race was finally called when Democrat Bob Casey conceded that the Democrats were attempting to count ballots that had no date or the wrong date. Luckily, the Supreme Court sided with the RNC.

But how do we prevent voting in a federal election from getting to this point in the future?

“What we need is a voter’s election integrity bill of rights, because these crazy laws are really infringing on the voting rights of people who go to the polls, do it right,” Cleta Mitchell, senior legal fellow for the Conservative Partnership Institute, tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“There are a number of principles that we’re sort of coalescing around that need to be both in federal law and in state law,” she continues. “Only citizens vote, voter ID for every kind of voting, make sure that all ballots are received by the time the polls close on Election Day, make sure that there’s transparency and accountability.”


“This situation needs to be corrected. It’s way past time to do that,” she adds.

Illinois is one state that has pushed the boundaries regarding election integrity, allowing mail-in ballots to be counted up to fourteen days after the election.

“Do you think that this is something where the Supreme Court, or the courts, might not ultimately decide in the right direction? It just seems so egregious, but people now, they’re kind of used to it, in our corrupt system, allowing these mail-ins to come in after the fact,” Peterson comments.

“Judicial Watch has filed suit in both Illinois and also Mississippi, and the Fifth Circuit ruled that receiving ballots after the time the polls close on Election Day violates the federal statute,” Mitchell responds.

“I think that one of the things that we need to do is say that there’s a beginning and an end when we as a country vote, pretty much at the same time,” she continues. “We might have to make some accommodations for people to vote in person early if they’re going to be out of state.”

“I think we need to get rid of this universal vote by mail, this universal sending of ballots to people whether they requested them or not,” she adds.

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Denver mayor vows to blockade mass deportations. Will he go to jail?



The answer to that question is yes, Mike Johnston will likely go to jail if he opposes the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.

But it looks as if Johnston is okay with that.

In a recent article, Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas outlined Johnston’s plans to resist mass deportations, even if it means he winds up behind bars.

“I’m not afraid of that,” he said when asked about potential incarceration.

Now, Rosas joins Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight” to shed light on how far-left Democrats plan to buck the will of the people when it comes to illegal immigration.


Rosas says that Democrats may act shocked and horrified about mass deportations, but they should know that this is what happens when an administration opens the borders for years, creating a border crisis.

From financial strain to human trafficking and immigrant gangs, mass deportations are the only logical solution, but still, Democrats plan to protect those who broke the law to be here at the expense of their own citizens.

It’s this very mentality that caused deep blue cities to shift toward Trump during the election.

And that shift from blue to red might increase when they see their leaders continue down the same path of making Americans second-class citizens behind illegal immigrants.

“If they want to continue doing this, that's fine, but they're going to continue to do it at their own peril in the next upcoming elections,” says Rosas.

However, a different kind of peril awaits them in the meantime, and his name is Tom Homan.

“[Homan] just announced states refusing to follow the federal mass deportation plan could lose federal funding. Do you think that that's going to happen? Do you think these states are going to go toe-to-toe and fight the feds on this?” Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson asks.

The answer to that is possibly. Johnston did threaten to deploy local law enforcement to the county line to stop the feds from carrying out mass deportations in the Denver area.

If he proves good on these words, he’s going to come face to face with Homan, who Rosas says is “a very serious individual.”

“As someone who knows Tom, he's been chomping at the bit for this for many years now,” he tells Jill and Peterson. “If Democrat leaders and cities want to actually take that extra step and obstruct them … from doing [mass deportations], you're doing it to someone who's Tom Homan, and that's someone that I would take very, very seriously.”

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‘They’re in a bubble’: How Jaguar TANKED an already-failing brand



Not only did British auto manufacturer Jaguar release a bizarre ad campaign featuring androgynous models — but the ads featured no cars.

“I have no idea what Jaguar is trying to sell us in that ad and who thought this was a good idea,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” tells Matthew Peterson and WILL agency founder Isaac Simpson.

Simpson notes that in order to understand the ad, we also have to understand that Jaguar is a “failing brand” and that the brand has “been really struggling for a very long time.”

“So they’ve decided to switch everything over to EV, and they’re going to be 100% electric vehicles, and then not only that, they’re going to charge twice what they’re already charging for their cars,” Simpson explains.


This is where an ad like the one just released comes in as well as its rejection of its iconic logo that features a jaguar to one that just says “Jaguar” in futuristic handwriting.

“Clearly, they asked their marketing team to create a radical new approach to their branding,” Simpson says.

“I don’t think this was an ‘any publicity is good publicity situation,’” he continues. “I think that they’re in a bubble, and I think that the people that create the ads for this particular brand are just living in a bubble as we’ve seen so many times, time and time again with Bud Light and so many other brands.”

According to Simpson, the brand director, who was in charge of this campaign, is “the kind of guy who goes on stage, and he’s wearing a sheer, see-through shirt.”

“You could imagine the type of guy this is,” he says, adding, “They’ve just chased away all the people who would say, ‘Don’t do this.’”

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FEMA and NC National Guard abandon North Carolinians living in TENTS as winter looms



Hurricane Helene had devastating effects on Western North Carolina. Many residents are still displaced. Some of them are even living in tents right now.

Why then has FEMA and the North Carolina National Guard ceased operations in areas most impacted by Helene?

Mercury One executive director JP Decker joins Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight” to share what the nonprofit is doing to fill the gap in the government’s absence.

“The devastation is still there. Nothing has really changed in regards to some of those buildings in Asheville or Black Mountain,” says Decker, adding that there’s still “20- to 30-feet tall piles of debris.”

By the looks of the North Carolina National Guard’s social media pages, however, it would seem that they’re working tirelessly to help the victims.

But when Decker was on the grounds with Mercury One, “There was no FEMA, there was no National Guard.”

In addition to other nonprofits, he says, “It was the everyday person who was standing in the gap and doing what the government should have been doing.”

Making matters worse is the fact that the city of Asheville, North Carolina, recently installed a single-unit public bathroom that cost a pretty $400,000.

“This shows how important local government elections are when you have people who are willing to do something like this when there's people that are suffering and living in tents,” says Decker.

Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson points to a recent article written by Blaze News investigative journalists Steve Baker and Joseph Hanneman, in which they report the same story.

“The Army, Air Force, and National Guard have pulled most personnel from Western North Carolina. The temporary shelter need is 'extremely urgent' as winter looms,” they wrote.

Baker, who spent time in North Carolina helping with relief efforts, has a difficult time speaking about the tragic abandonment of the North Carolinians.

“We made relationships with these [government employees] and became very friendly with them. We were seeing each other every day; we were going out to the disaster relief site ... going out with their dog teams, going out with their people, helping recover bodies and also help removing debris and clearing people's property,” he says. “And then to see these forces removed ... I get very emotional about this.”

“Last week ... I drove over a 100 miles through the most devastated areas in the western part of the state and mile after mile after mile, tent after tent after tent, where people won't leave their property because they're afraid they're going to lose it if they leave,” he recounts. “And not one military vehicle, not one troop on the ground.”

Shocked at what he was seeing, Baker said he called the public affairs offices to inquire about the egregious abandonment.

He was met with responses, such as, “You’re right, Mr. Baker. We withdrew.”

But when Baker asked the obvious follow up question — Why? — he was met with silence.

“There is no answer because there is no logical answer,” he tells the panel.

To hear more of the story, watch the clip above.

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Feminists fight back against the transgender agenda — but they’re the ones who started it



Transgenderism has seeped into even the highest levels of government, which has recently made waves as Reps. Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) have taken it upon themselves to fight it.

Mary Rooke, author of the Daily Caller column, believes that these transgender “rights” Johnson and Mace are fighting actually all started with women’s rights.

“I’ve been thinking about this for a really long time,” Rooke tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “One of the major things that I’ve come up with is the fact that it’s born and bred transgenderism.”

“Because of feminism, and its fight to erode the distinction between the sexes, there’s no longer a protected space for either one,” she continues. “I think that if our society can go back to a time, whenever common sense, and respect, and understanding of the dignity between the sexes can then become the focus of the conversation, then we can bring it back around where women don’t have to fight this hard to keep men in dresses out of our bathrooms.”


What’s so insane about this fight is that these spaces that men are attempting to infiltrate are places where young children and teenagers often frequent.

“This is just the insanity that we’re at right now, because we’ve no longer allowed men to come and protect us,” Rooke says.

While she appreciates representatives like Mace fighting this, Rooke is still skeptical.

“Whenever you dig into her history, she was the one that fought to tear down this space for men. She is the first graduate of the Citadel, which is a military college over there in the South, and she uses this as a point of pride for her,” Rooke explains.

“‘Look at me, I was able to break down this door of sexism, I was able to break down this door of misogyny, and here I am now being able to stand and fight for women,’” she continues. “What she doesn’t understand is that her fight was not against sexism and misogyny. In fact, what her fight actually did was remove spaces where men can be formed.”

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Officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt had SHOCKING track record



On January 6, 2021, Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, who was unarmed. Despite the lawsuit Babbitt’s family filed against Byrd and an eyebrow-raising disciplinary track record, Byrd has been repeatedly rewarded.

Not only was he given a “$36,000 retention bonus, more than $21,000 in security upgrades at his personal residence, and instructions that [he] not sit for a fitness-for-duty evaluation after Jan. 6, 2021,” Byrd was also “promoted from lieutenant to captain in 2023,” according to a recent article by Blaze News investigative journalist Joseph Hanneman.

Now Hanneman and fellow Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker join Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News Tonight” to break it down.


Byrd has “a history of carelessness with weapons,” says Hanneman. The most notable of these is the incident when Byrd “fired his service weapon at fleeing vehicles near his home while his neighbor was in the line of fire,” which was recently reported by a congressional oversight committee.

Byrd also “left his service weapon on the toilet tank in the Capitol Visitor Center.”

However, there are “three more case files” on Byrd, but these have magically “disappeared.”

“The records are missing,” says Hanneman, adding that from what he understands, the contents of these missing reports make the incidents we already know about “look rather tame.”

But Byrd’s incomplete record isn’t the only mystery. There’s also the conundrum of Frick and Frack — “the unidentified men near Ashli Babbitt when she was shot.”

To learn more about the scandals surrounding the death of Ashli Babbitt, watch the episode above.

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