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Joe DiGenova
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Joe DiGenova, a former US Attorney under Reagan, will oversee the Spygate probe in Florida after the DOJ removed a Deep State prosecutor who was stonewalling and slow-walking charges against John Brennan.
The Justice Department on Friday removed Maria Medetis, a career federal prosecutor who was slow-walking charges against John Brennan.
Former CIA Director John Brennan is the “target” of the grand jury Russiagate probe in South Florida.
Last July, it was reported that former FBI Director James Comey and John Brennan were under FBI investigation over their involvement in Russiagate.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred Brennan and Comey for prosecution over the summer.
US Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones in the Southern District of Florida is in charge of the investigation.
On Friday, CNN reported that the DOJ abruptly removed Maria Medetis for stonewalling and slow-walking charges against Brennan.
“Maria Medetis Long on Friday notified attorneys representing people involved in the case that she was no longer handling the investigation, the people familiar with the matter said. She has led the politically sensitive probe for months amid demands from Trump to prosecute Brennan and other critics,” the outlet reported.
CNN reported that career prosecutors in the South Florida office are pushing back and claiming there isn’t a strong enough case to bring charges against Brennan.
“The career prosecutors and investigators handling the case have for months pushed back against demands to quickly bring charges against Brennan, CNN reported, and have signaled to Justice Department officials they don’t believe the case is a strong one. Still, they have continued to work toward possibly bringing it in federal court in Washington, DC,” CNN reported.
On Saturday, CBS reported that the DOJ brought in DiGenova to oversee the Spygate probe. He will serve as counselor to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to CBS News.
CBS News reported:
Joseph DiGenova, a conservative attorney who previously represented President Trump’s campaign when it challenged the results of the 2020 election, is being tapped by the U.S. Justice Department to lead an ongoing criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, a Justice Department official said on Saturday.
DiGenova, who will oversee the probe from the Southern District of Florida, is joining the team just days after Maria Medetis Long was removed from the case, CBS News previously reported. He will serve as counselor to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the official added.
Joe DiGenova and his wife, Victoria Toensing, worked on Trump’s 2020 election cases.
The couple represented Ukrainian businessman Dmitri Firtash, who was accused by the DOJ of bribery and racketeering. Giuliani, DiGenova, and Toensing also reportedly worked on gathering evidence of Joe and Hunter Biden’s corrupt dealings with Ukraine.
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Everything about California Governor Gavin Newsom is fake. Even the numbers on his book sales.
His new book is being touted by his allies as a best seller, but the main reason it’s selling so well is because his own political action committee has spent upwards of $1.5 million buying thousands of copies of it.
That’s one way to get on the New York Times best seller list. It’s not honest, but it’ll probably work.
Not a single thing about this man is genuine.
FOX News reports:
Newsom PAC bought thousands of memoir copies about his hardships, juicing sales
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political action committee spent more than $1.5 million buying thousands of copies of his new memoir — accounting for about two-thirds of all copies sold nationwide — according to campaign finance filings.
The PAC spending helped propel Newsom’s memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry,” onto the New York Times bestseller list and is raising new scrutiny as his national profile builds ahead of a possible 2028 presidential run.
In November, the Campaign for Democracy Committee launched a book campaign asking donors to contribute any amount to the PAC to receive the memoir when it was released on Feb. 24. Newsom spokesperson Nathan Click told the New York Times that the PAC bought about 67,000 copies—representing a substantial portion of the 97,400 total sold.
“We were thrilled with the response,” Click told the New York Times. “Our goal was to deepen the relationship between him and the millions of folks who have already expressed support for Governor Newsom’s work.”
The PAC made two payments totaling over $1.5 million to Porchlight Book Company, according to a FEC filing posted on Wednesday and reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Newsom probably sees nothing wrong with this. He is a member of the same party that busses in paid supporters for rallies and [rotests, after all.
Will Democrats really nominate this faker in 2028?

Gavin Newsom just used his own PAC to buy $1.5 million worth of his own book. Even more comically, that accounts for 2/3 of the entire print sales. pic.twitter.com/ZvHJqScCB4
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) April 16, 2026

JUST IN: Gavin Newsom reportedly used $1.5 million from his PAC to boost own book sales, with roughly 67,000 donors receiving copies — about two-thirds of total print sales.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) April 17, 2026

Gavin Newsom PAC Bought Thousands of Books to Boost Sales https://t.co/3AgdjujzJu pic.twitter.com/97g7OOwjvz
— TMZ (@TMZ) April 17, 2026

Newsom certainly won’t be embarrassed about this. He is incapable of feeling shame.
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Obama’s hideous new presidential library is set to open in June and unsurprisingly, it’s not going to be cheap. What is surprising, is how much the tickets will actually cost to get in the door.
In addition to having to show an ID, tickets are a whopping $30 for adults. Thirty dollars per ticket!
Does that come with a meal or a few drinks?
We’ve heard that they’re paying some hefty salaries at the library but $30 per ticket seems a bit ridiculous.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
The Obama Presidential Center is finally here. Prepare to pay up.
Barack Obama’s new presidential center isn’t a cheap date, and neither is his adopted hometown.
When it opens June 19, it will set at least three modern-era records for a former White House occupant: time taken to be completed, project cost and the price to get inside.
At $30, adult admission to see the 44th president’s story is more than at any other U.S. presidential library, a Wall Street Journal review shows. That is 59% higher than the average for presidents from John F. Kennedy through George W. Bush.
The top admission for the Obama Presidential Center is in keeping with the record expense of the project in a city known for complex and costly urban development, steep taxes and premium cultural attractions.
Despite the price, Chicago is certain to become a Democratic mecca for those eager to reconnect with their party’s most popular living former president. The center is expected to attract approximately 700,000 visitors annually and be an economic engine for the city, while also potentially helping transform the surrounding lower-income neighborhood.
The crowds and fundraising success (the Obama Foundation has disclosed donors of $1,001 or more) contrast with the struggles of the next Democratic president after Obama.
John Nolte of Breitbart News has a theory about this:
My guess is that after the initial excitement, that $30 price tag combined with all the cost and hassle involved in driving and parking in Chicago will slow traffic considerably. That leaves an awfully expensive infrastructure to maintain. But, not to belabor the point, we are talking about Democrats here, so I’m sure there is some scheme planned where the presidential library becomes a “Learing Center” or a phony hospice that bilks we the taxpayers out of billions.
They’ll have to keep the grift going somehow, right?
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Eric Swalwell has really done it now. Even Rosie O’Donnell has lost faith in him.
The far left former comedian recently posted a video to social media in which she compares Swalwell to Bill Clinton and then says that he broke her heart.
The good news for Sawlwell is that this is the least of his problems at this point. He should probably be more worried about trying to stay out of prison.
Breitbart News has details:
Rosie O’Donnell ‘Heartbroken’ over Eric Swalwell Scandal, Compares Disgraced Democrat to Bill Clinton: ‘Men Suck’
Rosie O’Donnell says she is “heartbroken” over former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)’s sexual assault allegations, declaring “men suck” after comparing the disgraced Democrat’s scandal to former President Bill Clinton.
“Can we talk a little bit about Eric Swalwell?” O’Donnell said in a Monday TikTok video. “I know that guy, in the ‘What kind of way?’ Like, spoke to him on the phone a couple times, donated money to him, I believe.”
“Talked about him in some public appearances years ago, about how I believed in him, and his cute little family and two kids, and standing up to all those people when he berates them for their moralist behavior,” the comedian continued.
“And then all this comes out about him, and it’s heartbreaking to me,” she added. “And I wrote him. I wrote him a little message, and I said, ‘You know, Bill Clinton broke my heart, and now you did, too.’ You know the conclusion I’ve come to? Men suck.”
Here’s the video:

Eric Swalwell broke Rossie O’Donnell’s heart!
Sorry guys now she believes that all men suck! pic.twitter.com/65pe5sCcdN
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) April 16, 2026

Isn’t it just typical that Rosie reduces the entire problem to men?
Did all men commit these alleged assaults or just one man, Rosie? Also, do women never do awful things?
She’ll never change.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is currently embroiled in some sort of feud with the city council over a raise for tipped workers and it’s not going the way he wants so he is lashing out.
This week, while he was remarking on the situation, he suddenly veered into the topic of reparations and then claimed that the restaurant industry has ties to slavery.
How was this man elected mayor of a major city? It really seems like there’s something wrong with him.
FOX News reports:
Chicago mayor links restaurant industry to ‘slavery’ as tipped wage fight intensifies
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson linked the restaurant industry to “slavery” Wednesday as he defended his push to eliminate the tipped wage, doubling down after surviving a City Council effort to block the policy.
Johnson’s remarks came after the Chicago City Council failed to override his veto of a measure that would have halted the city’s phaseout of the subminimum wage for tipped workers — a policy set to raise base pay to the full minimum wage by 2028 that is opposed by restaurant owners who warn it could drive up prices and cut jobs.
He called on Chicagoans to “challenge city council not to do stuff like take wages away from Black and Brown people,” saying that most workers in the service industry who rely on tips are minorities.
“You just watched the entire city council, in transparency, try to take wages away from the very people who are part of an industry that has its ties to slavery is hiding from that,” Johnson said. “I am boldly declaring that we need reparations in this city, and that’s why I’m funding it.”
What is he even talking about?
Here’s the video:

Brandon Johnson today on his administration’s transparency regarding his Reparations Task Force:
“I’m a black man in America calling for the reparations of black people!”
Johnson then asserted the restaurant industry is tied to slavery. pic.twitter.com/KOOBo6igc2
— Chicago Contrarian (@ChicagoContrar1) April 15, 2026

Where is the reparations money going to come from? He spent it all on illegal aliens.

He always call’s for reparations when he knows there isn’t any money left. This distracts the people that would ask “Where all the money go?” The answer? ILLEGAL ALIENS
— Christos Blanco (@sickofdischit) April 16, 2026

How did Chicago ever manage to elect such a severely mentally challenged imbecile?
— MedMusicVibes (@MusicMed31309) April 15, 2026

He has been worse than Lori Lightfoot, and that’s really saying something.
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Former first lady Jill Biden attempted to pay her way onto HBO’s controversial show about gay hockey players, bidding $35,000 for a walk-on role in and dinner with the cast.
The entertainment publication Variety cited sources on Thursday who said she was outbid for the perk package on “Heated Rivalry,” which ultimately went to two bidders at $125,000 each.
After Variety posted an item about Biden’s bid on the social media site X, she responded with a post of her own.
“Guess I won’t be heading to the cottage after all—but it was worth a shot!” she wrote, referring to a location that’s played a pivotal role in the series. “What a wonderful evening supporting @LGBTCenterNYC.”

Guess I won’t be heading to the cottage after all—but it was worth a shot! What a wonderful evening supporting @LGBTCenterNYC https://t.co/umwzNLQAfn
— Dr. Jill Biden (@DrBiden) April 17, 2026

The live auction was held at the NYC LGBT Community Center.
The first season of the show saw Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams play National Hockey League rivals who later form a romantic relationship.
Season two of “Heated Rivalry,” adapted author Rachel Reid’s series “Game Changers,” is expected to premiere on HBO Max in April 2027.
Show creator Jacob Tierney, and his producing partner Brendan Brady, were honored at the live auction, with the center’s CEO Carla Smith hailing them as visionaries.
They have “elevated and centered queer characters as fully realized leads whose desires, conflicts and tenderness are treated with dignity,” she said before the event, according to Variety.
“By championing our voices, they have brought queer joy and storytelling to the mainstream media and have created work that affirms and advances our community,” Smith added.
Biden’s bid was curious, however, given reports from last year that stated her husband — former President Joe Biden — was struggling to make money off his presidency.
“Biden, 82 years old, is charting a postpresidency that is less lucrative than what he’d expected when he left office,” The Wall Street Journal reported last year.
“Options for big jobs are limited by his advanced age, his unpopularity in Democratic circles and companies — concerned about retribution from President Trump —that aren’t offering speaking gigs.”
“The result for Biden,” the report continued, “is a leaner next chapter that lacks the well-funded foundations, plans for exquisite libraries and full calendar of paid speeches his peers enjoyed.”
The Wall Street Journal also wrote that Joe Biden has also had trouble getting groups and political organizations to meet his speaking fee demands, which range from $300,000 to $500,000.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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Conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are not planning to retire this year amid speculation that Trump could appoint at least one more justice to the high court.
Fox News reported that Alito, a George W. Bush nominee, is not expected to step down from the bench.
CBS News later reported that Clarence Thomas is not planning on retiring this year either.
President Trump’s interview with Maria Bartiromo sparked chatter about the justices.
Trump told Bartiromo that he is prepared to name replacements.
“It could be two, could be three, could be one. I don’t know — I’m prepared to do it, but when you mention Alito, he is a great justice,” Trump told Maria Bartiromo this week.

President Trump reveals he’s ready to name replacements for SAMUEL ALITO and CLARENCE THOMAS if the two conservative Supreme Court justices retire
“It could be two, could be three, could be one. I don’t know — I’m prepared to do it.” pic.twitter.com/011gUHmHRw
— James A Stamulis (@stamulis_james) April 16, 2026

Fox News reported:
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is not expected to step down this term and has already hired all four law clerks for the upcoming annual term despite speculation the high court justice was weighing retirement, multiple sources said.
Alito “is not stepping down this term and is in the process of hiring the rest of his clerks for the next term,” a source told Fox News Digital. Two other sources told Fox News that Alito is not retiring this term, which lasts until the Supreme Court’s new year kicks off in October.
Justices tend to hire their clerks two to three years in advance, although that process is not necessarily indicative of a justice’s retirement plans.
The revelation that Alito is reportedly not planning to step down comes after President Donald Trump told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo he is “prepared” to appoint up to three Supreme Court justices if vacancies arise. Trump added he has a shortlist of nominees in mind, though he did not mention any names.
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President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran has “agreed to everything” and will work with the United States to remove its enriched uranium.
The president told CBS News in a phone interview that the removal operation will not involve U.S. troops on the ground.
“No. No troops,” he said. “We’ll go down and get it with them, and then we’ll take it. We’ll be getting it together because by that time, we’ll have an agreement and there’s no need for fighting when there’s an agreement. Nice right? That’s better. We would have done it the other way if we had to.”
The other way would have involved troops going in and seizing the material.
“Our people, together with the Iranians, are going to work together to go get it. And then we’ll take it to the United States,” he said of the enriched uranium.

BREAKING: President Trump tells CBS News Iran has “agreed to everything,” including the removal of enriched uranium. https://t.co/eac5lIcNUD
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 17, 2026

Axios had previously reported that several proposals were in discussion, with one being the possibility of the uranium being moved to a third-party country.
Iran had sought an agreement allowing them to “down-blend” their enriched uranium.
“A top priority for the Trump administration is ensuring Iran can’t access the stockpile of nearly 2,000kg of enriched uranium buried in its underground nuclear facilities, in particular the 450kg enriched to 60% purity,” Axios explained.

FOX NEWS ALERT: Peter Doocy reports President Trump just told CBS News the Iranian regime has AGREED to allow U.S. personnel to enter Iran to collect and extract leftover uranium.
“This explained why it is he’s so confident a deal is about to be closed with the Iranians.”… pic.twitter.com/hvhw2KluLW
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) April 17, 2026

Most commercial nuclear power plants use 3 to 5 percent enriched uranium, and 90 percent is often the threshold associated with nuclear weapons, according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
Before the outbreak of the war, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News that in March, Iranian negotiators boasted to him that they had enough enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear weapons.

The Iranian negotiators apparently said “they had the inalienable right to enrich all their nuclear fuel that they possessed,” Witkoff said.
“We, of course, responded that the president feels we have the inalienable right to stop you dead in your tracks,” he added.
“In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us, directly, with no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60 percent, and they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance,” Witkoff recounted.
He explained that 60 percent enriched uranium can be brought to weapons grade in roughly one week in a nuclear facility.
Witkoff noted, “They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.”
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz initiated on Monday was costing Iran up to $435 million a day, including $276 million in lost exports.
The blockade, coupled with weeks of air strikes from the U.S. and Israel, which devastated Iran’s steel and petrochemical facilities, has the country’s economy on the brink of collapse.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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A judge ordered Alec Baldwin to face a civil trial over negligence after he fatally shot a producer on the set of ‘Rust.’
Baldwin shot and killed 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins and injured 48-year-old Joel Souza on the movie set of ‘Rust’ in Santa Fe, New Mexico in October 2021.
Serge Svetnoy, a lighting technician who was almost hit with a bullet while on the set of Rust filed a lawsuit and claimed he suffered emotional distress.
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge on Friday allowed the lawsuit to move forward.
Alec Baldwin was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins.
NBC News reported:
A judge ruled on Friday that a civil case against actor Alec Baldwin over alleged negligence on the “Rust” set in 2021 can proceed to trial this fall.
Serge Svetnoy, a gaffer on “Rust,” first filed a lawsuit in November 2021, alleging that he narrowly missed being hit while on set that day. He claimed that cost-cutting and corner-cutting measures on the Western meant that Baldwin, armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and other producers “were consciously aware of the wrongfulness and harmfulness of their conduct.”
He alleges that he suffered from emotional distress due to negligence on the part of Baldwin and Rust Movie Productions.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maurice Leiter allowed Svetnoy’s claims for punitive damages, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress to move forward.
In a case filed by Santa Fe prosecutors, Alec Baldwin was previously charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins.
In July 2024 Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice which means prosecutors cannot refile the case.
Alec Baldwin’s defense team accused state prosecutors of concealing evidence. In a stunning move, the judge dismissed the charges in the middle of the trial!
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The radicalization of hysterical-sounding young leftist women alone justifies the dismantling of the American education system.
Conversely, the rightward shift among Gen Z men offers hope for the future.
In a short video posted across social media, a backpack-wearing young man, surrounded by other backpack-wearing young men, calmly explained to two young female abortion supporters why their bodily autonomy argument cannot hold water.
“I’m against you guys telling women what to do with their bodies,” one young woman said.
“We can’t have a moral opinion?” one of the men asked.
“Not on my body,” the woman replied.
Then, a very calm and rational young man interjected.
“Wait, I just have a question for you,” he said. “So, the Holocaust. Was the Holocaust wrong?”
Warning: This video contains vulgar language and profanity that may be offensive to some viewers.

You proved his point pic.twitter.com/OvZ35z9CrC
— Abolitionists Rising (@AbolitionRising) April 17, 2026

At that point, a second young woman grew animated and acted as if the young man had asked something unreasonable.
“The Holocaust was f***ing wrong, yeah, okay,” she replied.
“Yeah, exactly,” the young man said. “You’re condemning Nazis for killing Jews when you’re not a Nazi or a Jew. It’s something that doesn’t involve you. How can you have a moral opinion on something that doesn’t involve you and then tell me — ?”
The first young woman, now louder and more agitated, interrupted and threw the young man’s question back at him.
“How can you have a moral opinion on something that doesn’t involve you?” she shot back. “You are a man. So just f***ing keep your d*** in your pants until you’re married.”
The young man, to his credit, ignored the vulgar outburst.
“You just proved my point,” he replied.
“What is your point?” the first woman asked, hand on her hip in a dismissive posture.
“I’m saying that you can have a moral opinion on things that don’t directly involve you. You’re saying that the Holocaust is wrong; it’s because murder is wrong. Me saying that abortion is wrong is also saying that murder is wrong.”
The exchange was part of a street outreach from Abolitionists Rising. One of the men with the Christian anti-abortion group wore a shirt that read, “Stop Ignoring Child Sacrifice.”
In sum, one could scarcely imagine a clip that more thoroughly encapsulates the modern abortion debate.
On one side, we see hysterical and brainwashed young women ranting about bodily autonomy. On the other side, we see a young man calmly explaining why he has a right to insist that they not murder their babies.
Moreover, in tone and substance, the young man sounded like slain conservative Christian icon Charlie Kirk. The apparent college setting accentuated the comparison.
If this clip is any indication, then Kirk left America’s young men in a very good place.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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