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“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0
The liberal media is truly beyond parody.
The once great magazine ‘Newsweek’ recently published a story about a poll that clearly made it sound like a majority of Americans want Trump to be impeached again, yet if you actually read the story, it is almost immediately clear that the story and the poll are completely bogus.
The article even admits that one of the two groups behind the poll is called ‘Impeach Trump Again.’
They sound objective, don’t they? You couldn’t make this up.
Look at Newsweek’s tweet about the story. This is so misleading.

Over half of Americans want Congress to impeach Trump now, according to a new poll. One in seven Republicans backs it. https://t.co/PbDK7vgXut
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) April 8, 2026

From the story:
Fifty-two percent of registered voters back impeachment compared to 40 percent opposed, according to the survey of 790 voters commissioned by two groups opposing his Iran war and other policies. The finding includes one in seven Republicans supporting removal proceedings.
The survey’s two sponsors were Impeach Trump. Again. and Free Speech For People, two progressive advocacy groups.
What an absolute joke.
Newsweek got called out on Twitter/X.

We surveyed 790 Democrats from a Democratic pollster firm and blah blah blah. Dumbasses.
— Ava- I Love My USA! (@WEdwarda) April 8, 2026

This is classic advocacy polling sponsored by a group literally named ‘Impeach Trump. Again.’ and run by a progressive pollster.
Far from a neutral snapshot of America.
— Bret Seufert (@bret8202) April 8, 2026

This is a push poll-style survey commissioned and funded by explicitly anti-Trump progressive organizations actively campaigning for impeachment. They polled 800 people. Mostly those affiliated with their cause.
— the truth is hard (@truthishard__) April 8, 2026

According to a bullshit poll. I don’t even have to ask Grok to know it’s a left wing organization, and probably has a huge margin of error with a small sample size
— Joel Schamber (@JoelSchamber) April 8, 2026

Give me a break with these ridiculous polls.
The survey’s two sponsors were Impeach Trump. Again. and Free Speech For People, two progressive advocacy groups. They polled 790 voters commissioned by the two groups opposing the Iran war.
— Kristi Stahr (@KristiMStahr) April 8, 2026

It’s so absurd. Did Newsweek think no one was going to actually read the article?
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Screencap of YouTube video.
When Republican Glenn Youngkin was Governor of Virginia, he successfully attracted a handful of huge investments to the state. Big companies decided that they wanted to do business there.
Now, the new Governor Abigail Spanberger is trying to take credit for these investments. Is anyone surprised?
Lots of people in Virginia already have buyers’ remorse over Spanberger, who completely misrepresented herself during the campaign.
This is just another example of dishonesty.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Abigail Spanberger Takes Credit for $7.1 Billion in Business Investments Secured by GOP Predecessor Glenn Youngkin
Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) took credit for over $7.1 billion in business investments to the Old Dominion—investments that were actually secured by her Republican predecessor, Glenn Youngkin.
Spanberger’s Monday announcement listed four bipartisan bills she signed that detail the capital investments from Avio USA, Hitachi Energy, Eli Lilly, and AstraZeneca, which involve building new facilities and will bring more than 3,200 jobs building rocket motors, producing critical electrical grid infrastructure, and manufacturing pharmaceuticals. The legislation provides financial incentives for each company.
“From my very first day in office, I have been working to create a stable business environment so companies can hire, expand, and continue to invest in our Commonwealth,” Spanberger said in the announcement. “Attracting new businesses and jobs to Virginia is a core focus of my administration — and I’m proud of the hundreds of millions of dollars in investment we have already announced this year.”
All four companies, however, announced their forthcoming investments last year while Youngkin was governor, as reporter Nick Minock of 7News DC first noted in a Wednesday X post. All four companies also included quotes from Youngkin when announcing the investments in 2025. AstraZeneca’s CEO specifically thanked “Governor Youngkin and his team for their energy and vision,” saying the company “found in Virginia an amazing team that moves at incredible speed to build a better future for this Commonwealth and the American people.” Hitachi said its new Virginia facility came “with the support of Governor Youngkin” as well as “the Trump Administration’s White House AI Action Plan.” Hitachi, Eli Lilly, and AstraZeneca announced their investments before Spanberger won in November.
Spanberger’s approval rating is sinking like a stone.

Abigail Spanberger has the worst favorability rating after 80 days in office of any Virginia Governor of the 21st century. pic.twitter.com/l2hA7l5ApH
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 6, 2026

From The Hill:
Spanberger drop in approval rating ‘stunning’: Sabato
Political scientist Larry Sabato said Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D) drop-off in voter approval is “stunning” months into her first term at the helm of the Old Dominion State.
Her approval rating sat at 47 percent, with 46 percent of voters disapproving and 7 percent expressing no opinion, in a poll from The Washington Post and the Schar School of Policy and Government.
The rating is 13 percentage points below the average for Virginia governors analyzed by the Post since the 1990s.
“A drop of that margin is stunning, and it should be greatly disturbing to the governor and the governor’s staff if it’s repeated in other surveys,” Sabato told ABC 7 News.
The people of Virginia were warned. Make better choices next time.
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Haitian illegal alien murders Florida gas station clerk
President Trump went off on Joe Biden and radical liberal judges after a Haitian illegal alien brutally murdered a female gas station clerk in Fort Myers, Florida.
As TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported, a female gas station clerk in Fort Myers, Florida, was savagely beaten to death with a hammer last week by Rolbert Joachim, an illegal alien from Haiti who illegally entered the US on Joe Biden’s open border invitation in 2022.
The victim, Nilufar Yasmin, was a mother of two from Bangladesh.
Shocking video of the fatal beating was posted to social media by the Department of Homeland Security.
President Trump also posted the video of the brutal murder and went off on Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Full statement from President Trump:
An Illegal Alien Criminal from Haiti, who was released into our Country by the WORST President in History, Crooked Joe Biden, and the Radical Democrats in Congress, just beat an innocent woman to death with a hammer at a gas station in Florida.
The video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see. This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, “Temporary Protective Status,” a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way.
This one killing should be enough for these Radical Judges to STOP impeding my Administration’s Immigration Policies, and allow us to END THIS SCAM ONCE AND FOR ALL.
To my fellow Republicans, and frankly all Common Sense Americans, NEVER FORGET that Joe Biden and the Democrat Party turned the United States of America into a dumping ground, allowing Tens of MILLIONS of Criminals, Lunatics, and the Mentally Insane from all over the World to pour into our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked through our wide Open Borders.
As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World, and that is what happened over the four years of Democrat Control.
We are rapidly trying to reverse this decline through Deportations, but if the Democrats are ever given another chance at power, they will immediately REOPEN the Border, and allow America to once again be a Safe Haven for Criminals. Please say a prayer for this innocent woman’s family.
We will ensure quick and severe JUSTICE is served in this case! I don’t recommend you watch this tape, because it is so terrible, but felt I had an obligation to put it up so that people can see what Democrats are protecting, and wanting to come into our Country, even now, after all we’ve been through. Again, viewer discretion advised — Not for children!
WATCH (graphic warning):

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Disgraced attorney and former anti-Trump pundit Michael Avenatti has moved to Hollywood, California, to finish out his prison sentence in a halfway house following his conviction for various financial crimes.
Avenatti has been ordered to serve over two years in the halfway house in addition to participating in mental health treatment, and he must also stay away from unlawful controlled substances, TMZ reported.
He is projected to be fully released in September 2028 and must pay restitution of almost $6 million.
Avenatti was a frequent guest on CNN and represented Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump.
He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison back in July 2021 for attempting to extort Nike and for defrauding multiple clients, according to the Justice Department.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said at the time that “Michael Avenatti used illegal and extortionate threats and betrayed one of his clients for the purpose of seeking to obtain millions of dollars for himself.”
“Not only did Avenatti attempt to weaponize his law license and celebrity to seek to extort payments for himself, he also defrauded his own client. Avenatti will now serve substantial time in prison for his criminal conduct,” Strauss added.
In June 2022, he was sentenced to 48 months in prison for identity theft and for defrauding Daniels by stealing part of her book advance, as well as spending almost $150,000 on personal and business expenses, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said.
“Lawyers have a duty to be loyal and advocates for their clients,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams remarked. “Far from being a loyal advocate for his client, Michael Avenatti stole his client’s identity and her money in order to line his own pockets. Now, Avenatti will serve a substantial prison sentence for his brazen crimes and betrayal of his client.”
A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California said that Avenatti was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison back in December 2022 for stealing millions of dollars from clients and for tax fraud.
The sentence came after he defrauded clients, one of whom “was a paraplegic with mental health issues,” and for obstructing IRS efforts to collect a tax debt from a business he owned.
United States District Judge James V. Selna, who sentenced Avenatti, said the disgraced lawyer “has done great evil for which he must answer” and ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of nearly $11 million to four different clients and the IRS.
“Michael Avenatti was a corrupt lawyer who claimed he was fighting for the little guy. In fact, he only cared about his own selfish interests,” United States Attorney Martin Estrada said.
Estrada added, “He stole millions of dollars from his clients — all to finance his extravagant lifestyle that included a private jet and race cars. As a result of his illegal acts, he has lost his right to practice law in California, and now he will serve a richly deserved prison sentence.”
CNN, and other anti-Trump networks, constantly showered praise and adulation on Avenatti and gave him coveted spots of air time.
Back in 2018, former CNN host Brian Stelter even suggested he’d make a strong candidate for president.
“And looking ahead to 2020, one reason I’m taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news,” he told Avenatti.
In June 2025, Avenatti managed to get his prison term reduced following a resentencing hearing after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated his 14-year sentence back in October 2024, Fox News reported. He was disbarred in California in February 2025.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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56-year-old Hunter Biden challenged Don Jr. and Eric Trump to a cage fight on Thursday.
“Hey guys, Hunter Biden here. I just got a call from Andrew Callaghan. He asked me to come out on the Channel 5 Carnival Tour at the end of the month,” Hunter Biden said.
“I think we start in Phoenix and then we go to San Diego and we end in Albuquerque,” he said.
“And I think he’s trying to organize a cage match, me versus Eric and Don Jr. I told him I’d do it. 100 percent in, if he can pull it off, and if he can’t, I’m still coming, and I think he’s got a lot of surprises up his sleeve,” Hunter said.
I hope I see you guys out there,” he said.
WATCH:

Hunter Biden is joining the Channel 5 live tour! You can get your tickets now! You might even see him in a live cage match against Don Jr. & Eric! https://t.co/UG6ocv5yfh pic.twitter.com/z8iRERGPri
— Channel 5 (@Channel5iveNews) April 9, 2026

According to The Daily Mail, Hunter Biden is reportedly living abroad, is $17 million in debt and can’t pay his lawyers.
In the meantime, he has been attacking the Trumps and conservative media figures on various podcast appearances.
In November, Hunter Biden lashed out at President Trump, Charlie Kirk and superstar reporter and author Miranda Devine during an interview on the “Wide Awake Podcast.”
Hunter attacked President Trump in a profanity-laced tirade.
“This motherf*cker!” Hunter shouted before claiming Joe Biden kicked Trump’s ass.
“The way that [Trump] talks about my dad. F*ck him! And again, sorry for my language,” Hunter Biden said.
He continued, “He is obsessed! And I tell you the reason why he’s obsessed — because unlike anyone else, my dad kicked his ass like a rented mule and beat him by seven and a half million votes. Got more votes than anyone who has ever run for president of the United States of America at 81 million votes!”
“That’s why he hates my dad, because he beat him. He literally has to change history. Everything with them is projection or confession. ‘Biden Crime family’..what a goddamn joke!” Hunter said.
Hunter also attacked “Laptop From Hell” author Miranda Divine.
The New York Post’s Miranda Devine was one of the leading reporters on Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell.
Twitter censored The New York Post shortly before the 2020 election.
“There’s no ethics in what someone as horrendously ugly as Miranda Devine, physically and in terms of her ethics, does –and that goes for Daily Mail but they’re whores,” Hunter Biden said.
The New York Post’s Miranda Devine was one of the leading reporters on Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell.
Twitter censored The New York Post shortly before the 2020 election.
“There’s no ethics in what someone as horrendously ugly as Miranda Devine, physically and in terms of her ethics, does –and that goes for Daily Mail but they’re whores,” Hunter Biden said.
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President Donald J. Trump oversees Operation Epic Fury at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL, March 1, 2026. (White House photo by Daniel Torok)
The Iranian regime is once again proving why it cannot be trusted.
Despite a delicate ceasefire agreement, Iran is already backsliding, attempting to choke off the world’s oil supply and reportedly shaking down tankers for “tolls” in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday that Fars News Agency, the official propaganda arm directly linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported that tanker traffic is now “suspended” after Israel continued hammering Hezbollah.
PBS journalist Elizabeth Landers confirmed that President Trump told her directly: Israel’s war against Hezbollah in Lebanon is NOT part of the ceasefire deal.
According to reports from Fox News’ Trey Yingst, the Strait of Hormuz is now effectively a hostage of the Iranian Navy.

Trey Yingst:State media reports that Iran has halted the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz after Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon earlier today. We know two vessels were able to go through this passageway, but again, state media is reporting that the Iranians are choking off the strait.
I just got off the phone with a senior Israeli official who was sounding the alarm about this action by the Iranians, saying, “Only just a few hours into this ceasefire, the Iranians are already showing that they are trying to leverage their control over the strait and put pressure on global energy trade.”

The Trump administration initially pushed back on claims that the Strait had been fully shut down.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the reports as misleading, arguing that Iran’s public messaging doesn’t match what’s happening behind closed doors. She pointed to increased traffic and private assurances that the Strait remained open.
Forbes reported:

“White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said reports the strait is closed are “a case of what they’re saying publicly is different privately—we have seen an uptick in traffic in the strait today,” she said, adding, “it has been relayed to [Trump] privately” that the strait remains open “and these reports publicly are false.””

But mounting evidence suggests otherwise.
Shipping data and international reports indicate that traffic remains severely restricted, with vessels hesitant, or outright unable, to pass due to Iranian control and threats.
President Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday to put the radical regime on notice:

“There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait — They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now!”

In a follow-up post, Trump called the regime’s behavior “dishonorable” and warned that the current blockade of energy exports is a direct violation of ongoing negotiations.
“Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz. That is not the agreement we have!”

More from New York Post:
Trump posted on his Truth Social late Wednesday that US forces would remain in the region until Tehran made good on its agreement.
“It was agreed, a long time ago, and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary – NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS and, the Strait of Hormuz WILL BE OPEN & SAFE,” the president said.
[…]
Around 820 commercial vessels remain trapped in the Gulf, with just five having exited on the first day of the cease-fire Wednesday, according to global ship tracking firm Kpler.
“All U.S. Ships, Aircraft, and Military Personnel, with additional Ammunition, Weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy, will remain in place in, and around, Iran, until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with,” Trump warned Iran late Wednesday in his Truth Social post.
“If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the ‘shootin’ starts,’ bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before.”
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An adult illegal alien who was charged for groping minor teen girls at a high school in Virginia was found guilty on nine assault charges on Thursday.
As reported last month, parents were outraged after an 18-year-old illegal alien groped over a dozen girls “in between their legs” at a high school in Fairfax County, Virginia.
The alien, identified as Israel Flores Ortiz, is turning 19 soon and is only in the 11th grade.
Why have authorities allowed a 19-year-old man – who is in this country illegally – to sexually assault minor teen girls in the hallways at school for several months??
“There’s a group of about 12 individuals that have reported this assault,” one mother told 7News.
“It was all perpetrated by a single individual who is a stranger to the girls. He just sneakily walked up behind them and put his hand in between their legs,” she said.
“It was not just a butt smack or a butt grab. It was a groping of a private area. It had been occurring for several months,” she added.
ICE told WJLA reporter Nick Minock that Israel Flores Ortiz illegally entered the US in 2024 on Joe Biden’s open border invitation.
Flores Ortiz was charged with nine counts of assault and battery – a misdemeanor!
Parents are outraged that Flores Ortiz was not charged with sexual assault.
WATCH:

WATCH: Parents are furious after they say a male student, who is in the country illegally, groped several girls in between their legs in the hallway at Fairfax High School in Virginia. The male student will be 19-years-old soon.
ICE says he crossed the southern border in… pic.twitter.com/w0hHIhEe2Q
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) March 13, 2026

On Thursday, a judge found Flores guilty on nine assault charges.
Flores will be sentenced next month. It is unclear how much time he will serve in prison.

New: A judge found the illegal immigrant student accused of groping girls in Fairfax High School hallways GUILTY on nine assault charges, not guilty on three charges, and the judge dismissed one charge. https://t.co/nNMofERTvS
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) April 9, 2026

On Thursday, after a long day in court, a ninth grader who was sexually assaulted by Flores told WJLA’s Nick Minock that she is constantly looking over her shoulder because she is afraid she will be groped again.
WATCH:

WATCH: After court, I spoke to a 9th grade girl from Fairfax High School who was groped by 18-year-old Israel Flores Ortiz TWICE.
Thirteen girls came forward and testified Ortiz touched their private parts in school. Ortiz is a junior. He will be 19-years-old in June. He’s… https://t.co/UsHhChSrPF pic.twitter.com/4eaQqkGIIn
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) April 9, 2026

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Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev
The world is on fire, but the US-Russia talks don’t stop.
All eyes are glued to the Middle East, but in the meantime, the normalization of diplomatic and economic ties between the US and Russia continues unabated.
Early Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had already alluded to this fact.

‘Contacts between Russia and US on the Ukrainian issue continue informally and confidentially’ — Lavrov pic.twitter.com/GzkzNXT8Km
— RT (@RT_com) April 9, 2026

Later in the day, it arose that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev ​is reportedly in the US right now, and ‌is meeting members of President Donald J. Trump’s administration.
Discussions are being held on a peace ​deal for Ukraine and on economic ​cooperation.

Putin’s envoy Dmitriev is IN US, meeting Trump admin members — Reuters
for talks on ‘peace deal for Ukraine and Russia-US economic cooperation’ pic.twitter.com/V5F1gHr2Bt
— RT (@RT_com) April 9, 2026

Reuters reported:
“The visit comes before the ​U.S. decision on whether to extend ​sanctions relief on Russian oil, which expires on April 11 and could also be on the agenda.
The United ​States issued a 30-day waiver for countries ​to buy sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products currently ‌stranded ⁠at sea, in what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described as a step to stabilize global energy markets roiled by ​Iran war.”

Putin’s special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, is in Washington for talks on Ukraine and economic cooperation with the US, – Reuters.
The visit comes on the eve of Washington’s possible decision to extend sanctions relief on Russian oil, which expires on April 11. pic.twitter.com/qZwIY8jVHu
— MAKS 25 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) April 9, 2026

Witkoff and Kushner were involved in the negotiation of the sanctions waiver
The ​sanctions relief was the result of a call between Trump and Putin on ​March 9. After that, Dmitriev went to the US to meetings with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
Read more from December 2025: PEACE PERSEVERES: Putin Envoy Kirill Dmitriev Heading to Miami To Meet Trump Negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner Over the Weekend
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US District Judge Paul Friedman, a Clinton appointee on Thursday once again sided with The New York Times and ordered the Pentagon to restore press access.
Last month Judge Friedman ruled that the Pentagon’s new press policy restricting press credential of reporters is unconstitutional.
In October, Pentagon reporters turned in their badges after they refused to sign Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s new security rule.
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded that reporters agree by 5 p.m. Tuesday to a new policy, under which they would need to pledge to not obtain or use any unauthorized material, even if the information is unclassified — or hand over their press badges in the next 24 hours,” The Hill previously reported.
By that afternoon, Pentagon reporters turned in their badges.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Journalists begin leaving Pentagon after refusing to sign Trump administration agreements on rules of access.
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 15, 2025

The reporters turned in their badges and left the building.

The journalists who cover the Pentagon had to choose today between signing a pledge that would make it impossible to do independent journalism and turning in their Pentagon press badges. Almost all of them turned in their badges and left the building. pic.twitter.com/xqO3HTsY9A
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) October 15, 2025

The Pentagon Press Association previously released a statement blasting Hegseth.
“Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution,” the PPA said.
“The Pentagon Press Association’s members are still committed to reporting on the US military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening US commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all,” the statement said.
The Pentagon press pool now includes conservative outlets, including The Gateway Pundit.
The New York Times filed a lawsuit to stop the Pentagon from enforcing its new policy.
Judge Friedman blocked the Pentagon from enforcing its new policy and said it violated the First Amendment.
“The Court recognizes that national security must be protected, the security of our troops must be protected, and war plans must be protected. But especially in light of the country’s recent incursion into Venezuela and its ongoing war with Iran, it is more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing—so that the public can support government policies, if it wants to support them; protest, if it wants to protest; and decide based on full, complete, and open information who they are going to vote for in the next election,” the judge wrote in a 40-page opinion last month.
The Pentagon left in place some of the restrictions after Friedman’s March order.
On Thursday, Judge Friedman ordered the Pentagon to lift the restrictions and fully restore press access.
“The Court cannot conclude this Opinion without noting once again what this case is really about: the attempt by the Secretary of Defense to dictate the information received by the American people, to control the message so that the public hears and sees only what the Secretary and the Trump Administration want them to hear and see,” Friedman wrote.
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Some elected Republicans have perfected the art of gaslighting their voters while stabbing them in their backs.
For instance, Rep. María Elvira Salazar, a Republican from Florida, insisted on Thursday against all evidence that her proposed “DIGNIDAD Act” did not mean amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Meanwhile, conservatives on X, who cannot agree on much lately, united in their disdain for Salazar’s amnesty bill.
In July 2025, Salazar tried in vain to guilt President Donald Trump into supporting her proposal.
Conservatives opposed her then, and they oppose her now. But that did not stop the lawmaker from pushing amnesty as “dignity.”
“There’s a fundamental misconception about what ‘amnesty’ really means,” Salazar wrote Thursday. “Amnesty is looking the other way: no consequences, no accountability, just more chaos. That’s the system we’ve had for decades. The Dignity Act ends it with enforcement, accountability, real penalties, and ZERO tolerance for criminals. That’s not amnesty. That’s law and order!”

There’s a fundamental misconception about what “amnesty” really means. Amnesty is looking the other way: no consequences, no accountability, just more chaos. That’s the system we’ve had for decades.
The Dignity Act ends it with enforcement, accountability, real penalties, and… pic.twitter.com/2SfE5msOPj
— Rep. María Elvira Salazar (@RepMariaSalazar) April 9, 2026

Data analyst Jennica Pounds, who goes by “DataRepublican” on X, expressed disbelief that Salazar tried to justify her amnesty nonsense.
“Really? You got schooled in the true institutional meaning of ‘Dignity’ and you’re doubling down on it?” Pounds wrote.

Really? You got schooled in the true institutional meaning of “Dignity” and you’re doubling down on it?
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 9, 2026

Meanwhile, “MOM of DataRepublican” entered the conversation and predicted a fresh wave of illegal immigration should the bill pass.
Then, Salazar tried to counter that assertion by posting more misleading claims.

No it won’t. It actually locks in permanent enforcement measures (border security, mandatory E-verify, and ends catch and release for asylum seekers).
None of these are currently codified in law, and until they are, they can keep being changed by the Executive. And therefore… https://t.co/5nuGrqqgOY
— Rep. María Elvira Salazar (@RepMariaSalazar) April 9, 2026

Happily, Salazar received no discernible support on X.
Many users simply pointed to the bill’s text or to Salazar’s own words and called her out on her gaslighting.

@data_republican is right, and there is no way you’re going to be able to frame this to make it acceptable to the American people who actually understand what your bill says. pic.twitter.com/UGAYbpmx8k
— Amber (@AmberGirl3) April 9, 2026

You’re the one who admitted this bill is a step towards granting illegal aliens CITIZENSHIP.
“Give them dignity. At some point in the future, another legislator will write another law to give them a path to citizenship.”
Your words.
The dignity act is an amnesty bill. You can… pic.twitter.com/ffA02LGtde
— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) April 9, 2026

Of course, conservatives have long suspected amnesty proponents of sinister motives.
“Maria Salazar needs her slave labor!!!” one user wrote.

Maria Salazar needs her slave labor!!!
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) April 9, 2026

In truth, nearly all Democrats and some Republicans, particularly their donors, do regard illegal aliens as cheap labor.
Whether Salazar does too, we cannot say. But we can say that American patriots should regard her amnesty bill — not to mention her lame efforts to justify it — as beneath contempt.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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