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Speaking directly to the media and taking questions.........what a concept. .

Do any BMT members in Vermont have more details ? A Washington state woman has been charged in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont, which happened days after authorities began watching her and a German companion who also died in the roadside shootout. Teresa Youngblut, 21, faces two weapons charges in connection with the murder of Border Patrol Agent David Maland, 44, who died Monday during the shootout in Coventry, a small town 20 miles from the Canadian border. According to an FBI affidavit, a border agent pulled over Youngblut and German national Felix Bauckholt on Interstate 91 to conduct an immigration inspection. At the time, Bauckholt appeared to have an expired visa, according to a DHS database. Youngblut, who had been driving Bauckholt's car, got out and opened fire on Maland and other officers without warning. Bauckholt tried to draw a gun but was shot. At least one border agent fired on Youngblut and Bauckholt. Investigators had been performing “periodic surveillance” of Youngblut and Bauckholt since January 14th after an employee at a hotel where they were staying reported concerns after seeing Youngblut carrying a gun, and she and Bauckholt wearing black tactical gear. Investigators tried to question the pair, who said they were in the area looking to buy property but declined to have an extended conversation. About two hours before the shooting, investigators watched Bauckholt exit a Walmart in Newport (north of Coventry) with two packages of aluminum foil. Then he was seen wrapping unidentifiable objects while seated in the passenger seat. During a search of the car after the shootout, authorities found cellphones wrapped in foil, a ballistic helmet, night-vision goggles, respirators and ammunition. They also found a package of shooting range targets, including some that had been used, two-way radios, about a dozen “electronic devices,” travel and lodging information for multiple states, and an apparent journal.

Hegseth is on point. Note he said Fort Bragg (the correct name), and not Fort Liberty. .

It has been reported that, in her youth, LA Mayor Karen Bass praised Fidel Castro and had close associations with Cuba. She traveled to Cuba in 1973 with an organization called the Venceremos Brigade to see Castro speak. In 2016, when Castro died, she referred to him as 'commandante en jefe' (commander-in-chief) saying his passing was a 'great loss to the people of Cuba.' She also reportedly gave a eulogy for a senior member of the Communist Party USA.

President Trump and Bass says people could go to their properties. But the reality is..........

The Trump administration has frozen the Department of Energy's activities pending a comprehensive review of its alignment with his priorities. A memo from acting Energy Secretary Ingrid Kolb says the freeze affects grants, loans, procurement, studies, and even personnel decisions, effectively bringing the agency’s $50 billion budget to a standstill. The halt is a direct shot at dismantling Biden-era climate policies. The DOE’s Loan Programs Office, holding $41.2 billion in conditional commitments to energy technology companies, now finds its purse strings tightly cinched. Other critical missions, like nuclear waste cleanup and maintenance of emergency crude reserves, are similarly on pause. The order mirrors an earlier Trump directive freezing funds tied to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and a bipartisan infrastructure law, both of which allocated billions for clean energy initiatives. Trump has made it clear that climate-focused spending is no longer a federal priority. The Interior Department issued a similar freeze on wind and solar project leases on federal lands and waters. While critics, including U.S. oil companies, have highlighted the President's seemingly contradictory approach to oil markets: pressuring OPEC to lower global oil prices while promoting "drill, baby, drill” in the states, his regulatory rollbacks and anti-renewable agenda appear to be a bone tossed to U.S. oil companies, clearing the way for fossil fuel development and potentially boosting their bottom lines, even as global oil dynamics remain a tug-of-war.

The honest truth is, I'm not on any social media. Colombia said they would send one specific aircraft, the presidential plane, to pick up their illegal aliens and transport them back home. Petro demanded the illegals be treated "with dignity", adding that he would "never allow Colombians to be returned handcuffed on flights". It appears Petro uses a KC767 (210 person capacity) for international flights, and a Boeing Business Jet (737) for regional flights.

The Colombian government now agrees to allow US military flights carrying deported illegal aliens to land and offload there. Today's events make clear to the world that America is respected again. The tariffs and sanctions which the Trump administration had threatened to impose on Colombia, should it not comply, would be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement. President Trump expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt

President Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council, made up of relevant federal leaders and distinguished individuals selected by Trump from outside government. to evaluate FEMA. The council will hold its first public meeting within 90 days, and submit a report to President Trump within 180 days of the first meeting.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Colombian President Gustavo Petro had initially authorized the deportation flights and then cancelled them "when the planes were in the air." President Trump "has made it clear" that the US will "no longer be lied to nor taken advantage of". Rubio says US sanctions and tariffs to be imposed on Colombia will illustrate that the administration is "unwavering in our commitment to end illegal immigration and bolster America's border security. It is the responsibility of each nation to take back their citizens who are illegally present in the United States in a serious and expeditious manner." The consequences for Colombia in a trade war with the US could be grave, as the US is the Latin American country's number one trading partner. According to the US state department, more than $39.3 billion in bilateral goods and services were exchanged in 2022 with large investments in the mining and manufacturing sectors. The US's primary imports from Colombia include crude oil, coffee, and cut flowers.

Is the Air Force trying to embarrass Trump? Nothing wrong with the Tuskegee Airmen nor the WASPs. Associated Press / January 26, 2025 The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military, to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI initiatives. The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of DEI courses they took during basic military training. In a statement, the Air Force confirmed the courses with those videos had been removed and said it “will fully execute and implement all directives outlined in the Executive Orders issued by the President, ensuring that they are carried out with utmost professionalism, efficiency and in alignment with national security objectives.” The problem may not be with the historical videos themselves, but that they were used in Air Force basic military training DEI coursework. However, the lack of clearer guidance has sent the Air Force and other agencies scrambling to take the broadest approach to what content is removed to make sure they are in compliance.

She thinks outside the box. And to win, you must have such people.

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as director of national intelligence, will have a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. “I do hope though that we won’t see anyone questioning her patriotism. You know, Hillary Clinton has basically called her a traitor in the past. This is a woman who served more than 20 years in our nation’s army. She’s passed five different background checks. I reviewed the latest one. It’s clean as a whistle. It’s fine for people to have policy differences and ask questions about those differences. I hope no one would impugn Ms. Gabbard’s patriotism or her integrity.” Committee Chair Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)

President Trump is imposing a 25% tariff on all goods coming from Colombia, to be raised to 50% in one week's time, because Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to allow two U.S. military illegal immigrant flights (80 prisoners per aircraft) to enter Colombian air space on Sunday and land. President Trump also announced a travel ban and immediate visa revocations on Colombian government officials, and all allies and supporters. All party members, family members, and supporters of the Colombian government also will face visa sanctions. I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people. Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the national security and public safety of the United States, so I have directed my administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures. These measures are just the beginning, We will not allow the Colombian government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the criminals they forced into the United States! President Trump It was reported that Mexico also blocked one flight this week. But on Saturday night, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “Thanks to President Trump: Yesterday, Mexico accepted a record 4 deportation flights in 1 day! This comes in addition to unrestricted returns at the land border, the deportation of non-Mexicans, & reinstatement of Remain-in-Mexico. Mexico has also mobilized 30K National Guard."

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Florida Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar has written DHS asking them to spare migrants who entered the country under Biden's humanitarian parole program. Salazar represents a district in Miami-Dade County, which has the highest share of immigrants of any county in the nation (54.3% immigrants and 93% of them were born in Latin America). Salazar asked DHS to protect migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) who entered the country under the CHNV parole process. Per CBP, 531,690 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans arrived under Biden's humanitarian parole program as of December. The Trump administration is giving ICE the power to deport migrants who were allowed into the country temporarily under Biden-era programs including CHNV parole and the CBP One app. (The Biden administration created the CHNV program in January 2023, allowing nationals from those countries to stay in the U.S. temporarily, up to two years, allegedly due to urgent humanitarian reasons and heightened instability. But taking people from those countries is a recipe for trouble. They should have remained and fixed their countries, orchestrating revolutions for better countries they can be proud to call "home".) I strongly urge you to ensure that all Cubans paroled in under the CHNV program eligible for or with pending applications for the Cuban Adjustment Act are protected from deportation until their cases are fully resolved. Additionally, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians who arrived under the CHNV program, have no criminal record, and have applied for asylum through the proper legal channels should also be protected until their cases are fully resolved. Although President Biden originally created this program on dubious legal grounds and brought individuals here without a plan for their future, they were still enrolled under programs offered to them. Maria Elvira Salazar The DHS says: The Biden-Harris Administration abused the humanitarian parole program to indiscriminately allow 1.5 million migrants to enter our country. This was all stopped on day one of the Trump Administration. This action will return the humanitarian parole program to its original purpose of looking at migrants on a case-by-case basis.

The Biden administration pushed through the pork-ridden Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 which included hiring 87,000 more IRS agents. The act had little to do with debt reduction, and the expense of 87,000 new agents would put the country further into debt. On day one, President Trump signed an executive order to stop the hiring of all federal civilian employees until his administration can determine that it is in the national interest to do so. Speaking in Las Vegas today, the President said: They hired, were trying to hire 88,000 new [IRS} workers to go after you, and we're in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we move them to the border. I think we're going to move them to the border where they are allowed to carry guns. You know, they're so strong on guns. But these people are allowed to carry guns. So we will probably move them to the border.

After years of denial under the Biden administration, the CIA today revealed its belief that COVID-19 was likely leaked from a Chinese lab. CIA assesses that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting. Under Biden and COVID czar Anthony Fauci, the government was adamant that the lab leak possibility was nothing more than a conspiracy theory. President Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, has believed that the virus came from a lab. He testified before the House Select Subcommittee in 2023 that he didn't feel agencies were being fully truthful when it came to the origins of the virus. Speaking then, he said that he and other Trump officials had encountered illegitimate roadblocks when looking into the cause. One of the things that I’ve talked about a lot is addressing the threat from China on a number of fronts, and that goes back to why a million Americans died and why the CIA has been sitting on the sidelines for five years in not making an assessment about the origins of COVID. That´s a day-one thing for me. I've been on record in saying I think our intelligence, our science, and our common sense all really dictate that the origins of COVID was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. CIA Director John Ratcliffe

The existing inspector generals are virtually worthless. They may bring a few minor things to light but accomplish next to nothing. The whole system needs to be revamped. They are toothless and protect the institution instead of the citizens. Former Trump lawyer and ally Sidney Powell

The man was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts and the American people still said he's closer to normal than what we see on the left. Why? Because when you talk about the transgender community, for example, and you're talking about issues that pertain to less than one percent of the population, the Democratic party came across as if that was more of a priority than other issues. So when he shows up on week one on Capitol Hill, he says "this is what we're going to do through an executive order" even though it's going to be shot down through the courts. But he's saying "I kept my promise". Then you turn around and look at the left and you say "What promises did you keep? What voter out there can look at the Democratic party and say "There's a voice for us, somebody who speaks for us, that goes up on Capitol Hill and fights the fights that we want them fighting on our behalf?". They didn't do that and that's why their behinds are home, and that man is back in the White House. He's doing what he said he was going to do. He promised you he was going to do these things and he walked into office and that's exactly what he's doing. ESPN analyst Stephen Smith

President Trump on Friday demanded that California Democrats require voter ID at the polls, and send more water from Northern California to other parts of the state, in exchange for federal disaster aid. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/24/trump-la-disaster-aid-salvo-riles-californias-delegation-00200586

The Karen Bass regime was telling homeowners they had to wait 18 months to rebuild. She wanted a long drawn out haz-mat show. President Trump said these people want to rent a dumpster and start tonight. He easily embarrassed her, forcing her to say the homeowners could start cleaning up their properties immediately and begin reconstruction. Had the President not gone to LA, those homeowners would be suffering thru 18 months of California bureaucracy. .