Coup central: Fulton County: ‘We Don’t Dispute’ 315,000 Votes Lacking Poll Workers’ Signatures Were Counted in 2020 –“When the law demands three signatures on tabulator tapes and the county fails to follow the rules, those 315,000 votes are, by definition, uncertified.” | 17 Dec 2025 | Earlier this month, Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified but were nonetheless still included in the final results of that election. The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a challenge filed by David Cross, a local election integrity activist. Cross filed a challenge with the SEB in March 2022. Cross alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia statute in the handling of advanced voting ahead of the November 2020 election, counting hundreds of thousands of votes even though polling workers failed to sign off on the vote tabulation “tapes” critical to the certification process. And Fulton County admitted to it. Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, told the SEB in the hearing that while she has “not seen the tapes” herself, the county does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.” Brumbaugh continued, “It was a violation of the rule.”

Georgia judge grants investigating board access to Fulton County 2020 presidential ballots | 24 Dec 2025 | A Georgia Superior Court judge has granted a state election board access to Fulton County’s 2020 presidential ballots and documents. The Republican-led Georgia Election Board last year reopened an investigation into how the county handled the 2020 election, FOX5 in Atlanta reported. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled Tuesday that the board will need to cover the costs of the ballots and documents.

Dominion Representative for Fulton County Was Kamala Harris’s Presidential Campaign Photographer | 30 Nov 2025 | Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign photographer, Aric Thompson, served as a Dominion Voting Systems (Dominion) technician representative in Fulton County. The photographer described Harris as his “long time client” – over four years, according to him. In a similar Facebook post, Thompson also mentioned that he was working with Democratic activist Stacey Abrams. “Now that I’m home, contracts have been signed and I’ve been vetted by security, I can spill the beans on my big shoot! I’ll be the official photographer for Senator Kamala Harris who is running for President in 2020!…Blessed!” Thompson was introduced as a Dominion on-site technician near the beginning of this year. He served as an elections systems representative throughout the primaries and the general election tabulations. His photography Facebook page confirmed that he was a representative for the Dominion tabulation machines during the vote counting.

Trump deploys troops and special ops aircraft to Caribbean as U.S. moves closer to war with Venezuela | 24 Dec 2025 | The United States deployed large amounts of troops and special operations aircraft to the Caribbean this week as tensions continue to escalate between Donald Trump and Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. The fleet includes no fewer than ten CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, C-17 cargo aircraft, as well as troops and other equipment which all arrived Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal. The troops could potentially be special operations as well, as the bases the aircraft came from house special ops units, though it is not yet clear what types of troops were being sent. At least 11 ships and 15,000 troops have already been deployed in the vicinity of the South American country.

Washington deploys more troops to Caribbean – WSJ –The U.S. has reportedly moved a large number of military aircraft and other equipment for possible war against Venezuela | 24 Dec 2025 | The U.S. is reportedly expanding its military posture near Venezuela by deploying additional forces to the Caribbean amid rising tensions between Washington and Caracas, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The movements include special operations aircraft and military transport planes, the newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing U.S. officials and open-source flight tracking data. According to the report, the deployments are intended to provide Washington with additional options for potential action against Venezuela, although no specific operation has been announced publicly. The outlet reported that at least ten CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft linked to US special operations units have flown into the Caribbean from bases in the continental US. Several C-17 cargo aircraft also reportedly transported troops and equipment to Puerto Rico on Monday, according to US officials cited by the paper.

New York Times columnist appears in new Epstein files days after writing column calling it a conspiracy | 18 Dec 2025 | New York Times columnist David Brooks, who criticized Democrats for releasing Jeffrey Epstein files, was pictured in the documents released today. On Thursday, the Democratic-run House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shared a slew of new pictures related to the investigations into the notorious sex offender over the years. Among the 68 photos, all shared without context, were two images featuring Brooks, who has worked at the NYT for more than two decades. In one of the snaps, Brooks was seen mingling with Google co-founder Sergey Brin while seated together at a table at an event for high profile individuals. The other image depicts the 64-year-old columnist alone, smiling into the camera. Both pictures are from the same 2011 “Billionaires” Dinner’ event, which Epstein — who had been released from prison for the first time two years earlier — also attended.

FBI accused of ‘corrupting’ Epstein jail footage after his death, bombshell memo claims | 23 Dec 2025 | A new bombshell memo unsealed in the latest trove of Epstein documents claimed that the FBI may have “corrupted” Jeffrey Epstein’s prison footage. A memo from the facilities manager at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York said that “FBI took the sixteen (16) hard drives out of the RAID without it finishing the rebuild” and that “might have corrupted any data on the drives.” The FBI came to the jail to retrieve surveillance footage on August 10, 2019, according to the memo. That same day officials were reportedly working to repair the the recording system… FBI agents took 18 hard drives from the facility, including two that were being replaced and 16 that were inside the jail’s data storage device — known as a Redundant Array of Independent Disks or RAID.

FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid Mar-a-Lago for classified documents, bombshell files show | 16 Dec 2025 | The FBI did not believe agents had probable cause to raid President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 — but former President [sic] Joe Biden’s Department of Justice approved the search anyway, according to newly released records. An FBI official even noted that agents had spent six “counterproductive” weeks trying to establish they had grounds for a search warrant but they were eventually overruled by the DOJ, with one top official grouching that he “frankly [didn’t] give a d-mn about the optics.” “We haven’t generated any new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft,” one official in the FBI’s Washington Field Office groused in a July 13, 2022, email… The bombshell details were lodged in internal records released Tuesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, posted on X that the records were “shocking,” emphasizing that the “FBI DID NOT BELIEVE IT HAD PROBABLE CAUSE to raid Pres Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home but Biden DOJ pushed for it anyway.”

At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent, top prosecutor says | 18 Dec 2025 | A top prosecutor suggested on Thursday that the total amount of fraud in Minnesota could be 9 billion or more. According to First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, 14 Medicaid services under audit and deemed “high risk” for fraud have cost the state 18 billion since 2018. Thompson said a substantial amount of m-ney billed across those programs is fraudulent, but the exact amount is still under investigation. Minnesota Department of Human Services Inspector General James Clark released a statement, saying speculation of the amount of fraud occurring is “shocking.”

Minn.’s Somali social-services scammers may have stolen $9 billion – nearly Somalia’s entire economy | 21 Dec 2025 | A staggering 9 billion may have been stolen in Minnesota’s sprawling social-services scam orchestrated mainly by members of its Somali community — a figure nearly equivalent to the entire economy of Somalia. The enormous new estimate is a nearly nine-fold increase from the swiped 1 billion previously suspected, according to federal prosecutors. It also accounts for roughly half of the 18 billion in total federal funds provided to the Minnesota-run services since 2018, the feds said — as Democratic Gov. Tim Walz continues to take heat for his handling of the debacle. By comparison to the 9 billion figure, Somalia’s entire GDP was under 12 billion last year, according to the World Bank.

Judge Boasberg orders Trump admin to allow Venezeulans deported to El Salvador to return to U.S. | 22 Dec 2025 | Federal District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled Monday that the Trump administration must allow Venezuelan men who were deported earlier this year to return to the United States to fight allegations they were part of violent gangs. The group of men challenging their deportations include migrants who were deported to a prison in El Salvador under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in March, over allegations that they were members of Tren de Aragua. Boasberg ruled in June that they could challenge the allegations.

Pennsylvania Councilman: Biden’s Migrants Draining Ambulance Resources With Daily Car Crashes | 18 Dec 2025 | Charleroi, Pennsylvania, Councilman Larry Celaschi says Joe Biden’s administration dumping thousands of Haitian migrants in his small community has spurred a crisis of strained public resources as the non-English speakers cause daily car crashes and rack up unpaid ambulance bills. This week, Celaschi testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee on the impact that Biden’s mass migration agenda has had on the small town of Charleroi, which had a population of about 4,000 residents before being forced to absorb 2,000 to 3,000 mostly Haitian migrants from 2021 to 2024. The results, Celaschi testified, have been disastrous for the small community as car crashes occur daily because of non-English speaking drivers, ambulance resources are drained, schools are overcrowded, and quality of life declines. “Federal agencies and nongovernmental organizations placed individuals into our housing, schools, and neighborhoods without providing proportional investments in policing, emergency medical services, housing inspections, translation services, healthcare capacity, or infrastructure,” Celaschi’s written testimony states.

Smirking suspect in brutal murder of cabbie dumped in NYC reservoir is illegal migrant – feds | 20 Dec 2025 | The man who allegedly confessed to strangling a cabbie in a fare dispute and then dumping his body in a city reservoir upstate is an illegal migrant from Guatemala, The Post has learned. Santos Paulino Vasquez-Ramirez illegally crossed the border in 2013 at Hidalgo, Texas, under President Obama, and later ignored a final removal order issued in 2016 under the first Trump administration, according to sources and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials. The accused killer — who was photographed by The Post last week grinning in the back of a patrol car — has at least three prior arrests on his rap sheet, including two DWIs and a criminal mischief for breaking a deli window, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. Vasquez-Ramirez, 27, confessed to barbarically throttling Zhunio-Orbez, 65, in a chokehold after the hack picked him up at the Brewster MetroNorth station in Putnam County, according to the county sheriff’s office.

Elderly Seattle woman has eye gouged out in random attack by repeat thug – as cops admit ‘he’s notorious’ | 22 Dec 2025 | Sickening footage shows the moment an elderly Seattle woman had her eye gouged out after she was randomly bashed in the head with a board by a “notorious” repeat-offender thug. Jeanette Marken, 75, was permanently blinded in her right eye after the alleged perp, Fale Vaigalepa Pea, 42, struck her with a piece of wood riddled with bolts and screws earlier this month, KOMO reported. The horrifying clip from downtown Seattle captured the attacker approaching the unsuspecting woman from behind as she waited patiently to cross the street just outside the King County Courthouse. The violent offender used both hands to swing the piece of wood as hard as possible, bashing his victim and then calmly strolling away. Pea, who was slapped with an assault charge over the latest incident, has racked up a long list of prior arrests for assault, property destruction and unlawful use of weapons. He was booked eight times this year alone in the King County jail, but none of them resulted in felony charges, records show.

Nasdaq seeks to extend trading hours, as Wall Street gears up for 24/7 move | 15 Dec 2025 | Nasdaq one of the world’s largest exchanges that is home to tech companies Nvidia, Apple and Amazon, is planning to submit paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to roll out round-the-clock trading of stocks, as it looks to capitalize on a global demand for U.S. equities. Investor demand for nonstop trading in U.S. stocks has surged in recent years, prompting regulators to introduce new rules and green-light proposals from major exchanges to enable trading beyond normal market hours. The U.S. stock market represents almost two-thirds of the market value of listed companies globally, while total foreign holdings of U.S. equities reached 17 trillion last year, according to data compiled by Nasdaq.

Democrats’ voter edge in key swing state nearly vanishes: ‘A historic shift’ | 16 Dec 2025 | Democrats have been dealing with declining voter rolls in a number of states, but one key battleground state in particular appears to be on the verge of flipping from a state that, for decades, has had more registered Democrat voters to one with more registered Republicans. There were almost three-quarters of a million more registered Democrats in North Carolina than Republicans 10 years ago. As of today, that difference is just over 1,000, according to the latest count by the North Carolina State Board of Elections… According to Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters, North Carolina “is undergoing a historic shift” and Democrats’ advantage has “crumbled.”

Trump spreads holiday cheer to millions of U.S. workers with two new federal holidays around Christmas | 18 Dec 2025 | President Donald Trump has delivered a Christmas gift to federal employees with an additional two federal holidays. Trump announced on Thursday he had signed an order ensuring federal employees would get both Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas off from work. “All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, and Friday, December 26, 2025, the day before and the day following Christmas Day, respectively,” the order stated.