Tren de Aragua gang members are rushing the Texas border and attacking Border Patrol agents with knives, tire irons and broken bottles before Trump takes office next month.

According to The New York Post, the Venezuelan gang members illegally entered the US through El Paso last week and attacked border patrol agents who tried to stop them.

An informant told law enforcement that the gangbangers are planning on breaking into the US every night at 3 am.

The New York Post reported:

Knife-wielding Tren de Aragua gang members are mobbing border crossings at El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to break into the US — and have said they will attack border guards who try to stop them, according to a shocking Texas law enforcement memo leaked to The Post.

Last week, 20 of the Venezuelan gangbangers — armed with blades, tire irons and broken liquor bottles — tried to force their way into the US at a border gate, the missive from the Texas Department of Public Safety read.

Another attempt to break through is expected on New Year’s Day, the memo warned.

The brutal prison gang is becoming increasingly desperate to salt more members into the US before President-elect Donald Trump takes over, said Victor Avila, a retired agent for Homeland Security Investigations.

Texas authorities were alerted to the gangbangers’ attempts to force their way into the US by an anonymous informant, who said the violent border break-ins by the gang “would continue every night” around 3 a.m.

The tipster said the gang intends to “cause harm” to the Texas National Guard soldiers who are stationed there — “especially when they are left alone with no agents” to help them.

More on this story from Fox News:

BREAKING: Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that’s been terrorizing American cities, is planning a big last-minute border attack before President Trump takes office.

The gangsters are attacking border agents with knives, tire irons, and liquor bottles.

Last week, 20+ gang… pic.twitter.com/BYb7Ahf8jA

— George (@BehizyTweets) December 31, 2024

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Far left Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said she had a “great meeting” with President Trump this week.

According to Bowser they “discussed areas for the collaboration between local and federal government, especially around our federal workforce, underutilized federal buildings, parks and green spaces, and infrastructure.”

That is interesting since it was Mayor Bowser and Nancy Pelosi who refused to quell the violent George Floyd rioters in 2020 in the nation’s capital. The American left destroyed up to $2 billion in US property that year alone.

And it was Bowser and Nancy Pelosi who set up Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.

Kash Patel, the Former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense, joined The Epoch Times for an interview in July 2021, on the security planning and protests on Jan. 6 at the US Capitol in Washington DC.

During his interview, Kash admitted that Mayor Muriel Bowser turned down thousands of National Guard troops at the Capitol on January 6 for political reasons.

Chris Wray’s FBI also refused to notify the Trump administration and his cabinet secretaries that they believed there could be a situation like the mass protests at the Capitol that took place.

Nancy Pelosi also refused the National Guard at the US Capitol due to politics.

What did Wray, Bowser and Pelosi know — And when did they know it?

And now we know that Chris Wray’s FBI infiltrated the Trump rally and caused violence and mayhem at the US Capitol.

Via The Epoch Times and Kanekoa The Great:

Mayor Bowser then later openly lied to Congress under oath discussing her refusal for National Guard on January 6, 2021.

It Was a Set-Up: Both DC Mayor Bowser and Nancy Pelosi Turned Down National Guard on Jan. 6 – Chris Wray Refused to Tell Trump Admin “There Could be Situation”

One of the first investigations launched by the FBI, DOJ, or DHS, following President Trump's upcoming Inauguration should be against Pelosi, Bowser, and others who left our US Capitol open to mayhem on January 6, 2021, and who made this decision and when.

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War Room founder Steve Bannon called for a moratorium on all immigration, including eliminating student visas and H-1B visas to protect American citizens.

The video opens with a clip from MSNBC talking about Steve Bannon’s call for stopping H-1 Visas and legal immigration, which he was calling for back to 2016.

“Right now, I say we must demand a moratorium on all immigration, all the students, everything, a moratorium. We just got to settle down and figure this thing out because the system has been gamed for decades and decades and decades. And who pays the price? Who pays the price? The American citizen. Do you not have enough on your shoulders, is the anxiety not enough?” Bannon said.

Bannon also explained how US credit card debt is at an all-time high and compared it to the economic collapse of 2008, with the elites getting wealthy in the process.

“Credit card is 1.2 trillion dollars, face amount. Credit card companies just wrote off last quarter I think 78 billion dollars if my number is correct. Up 14 percent on write offs on credit card non-performing the highest since a thought of a random date, the highest since wait for a random date, you waiting for it, you ready for it? 2008, does that date ring a bell? Because that is the beginning of the collapse of the elites in this country, the financial collapse that they manufactured and they made a fortunate off of,” Bannon said.

Bannon also said the bailout of the 2008 financial collapse destroyed the working and middle class and concentrated wealth to the elites.

“Obama, the most progressive, the most progressive President in history did the most neo-liberal bailout, bailout the elites a greatest concentration of wealth happened on that watch and how they bailed it out and how they destroyed the working class and middle class,” Bannon continued.

Bannon also called out the elites and said that they lie to the American people and called for an honest debate on the issue of H1-B Visas instead.

“Here is what would we would like, enough respect to let’s have a debate. Let’s have a debate. Be upfront about it. You want lower wages I got it. You want lower wages because you get higher margins,” Bannon said.

He also called out elites that were not born in the United States lecturing Americans on how things ought to be done.

“We don’t need white guys from South Africa lecturing us on how the way things should be. Let me be blunt about that. I don’t think that country has got the greatest track record on earth,” Bannon said.

Bannon also called out Musk for the threats regarding the H-1B visa and how he forcefully said he would carry the fight to keep it active.

“What they are doing now is spamming like the twitter feed and you know and suppressing our twitter feed. Dude we’re banned everywhere, and the show is bigger than ever,” Bannon continued.

“Bring everything you’ve got ok, because we are not going to lose this fight,” Bannon declared.

“Here’s what we demand DOGE. DOGE the first thing at the top of your list, we want the complete eradication of this program all of it, not some of it, not reform some of it, all of it. Get rid of it,” Bannon demanded.

“Either citizenship means something, or it doesn’t. And the one way that you can get it to mean something is to stop bringing the world into people’s homes and to people’s own nation that they have helped build and generations of their families have helped build and helped defend and fight for and pay taxes for,” Bannon said.

Watch:

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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire

By Robert Moffit
Real Clear Wire

It seems President Biden won’t stop at letting his convicted son Hunter off the hook. The White House staff is reportedly pondering an unprecedented, pre-emptive set of presidential pardons for numerous officials who haven’t been formally charged or convicted of federal crimes but may be liable for indictment or conviction under the incoming Trump administration.

Prominent on that list is Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID).

Why Fauci? Team Biden is mum. But the most likely rationale is a possible perjury charge: Fauci testified under oath in congressional inquiries. At issue: Fauci’s responses to the crucial question of whether American taxpayers’ dollars were used to fund viral “gain-of-function” experiments – research designed to enhance transmissibility or virulence of a pathogen – in a Chinese laboratory.

That issue just resurfaced in a meticulous 520-page report issued by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. “Dr. Fauci’s testimony was, at a minimum, misleading,” congressional investigators concluded. “As established, at the time of Dr. Fauci’s testimony senior NIH (National Institute of Health) officials and the NIH website defined gain of function research as a ‘type of research that modifies a biological agent so that it confers a new or enhanced activity to that agent.’ Further witness testimony and a plain reading of Eco Health’s research conducted at the WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology) using U.S. taxpayers’ dollars confirm it facilitated an experiment that conveyed new or enhanced activity to a pathogen—thus, satisfying the definition of gain of function research.”

The Tangled Web

For over three years, congressional investigators have been trying to untangle a complex web of relationships, financial and otherwise, between NIH grantees and American scientists and subgrantees, including top scientists in China, particularly at the WIV, a center of coronavirus research. Congressional investigators have also struggled to get clarity on certain controversial lab experiments in China, especially those conducted under the auspices of the EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based recipient of substantial taxpayer funding courtesy of Fauci’s agency.

Over the period 2017 and 2018, researchers at the WIV, a subgrantee of EcoHealth, experimented with genetically engineered bat coronaviruses that made them more pathogenic. In that experiment, “humanized mice” (mice engrafted with human cells) were infected with these coronaviruses, and a number of them were sickened and died.

There is no evidence that this particular Wuhan-EcoHealth experiment was, in itself, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Several scientists examining the case concluded that the viruses used in this specific set of experiments were too far removed from SARS-CoV-2 to have originated it. Nonetheless, in the EcoHealth case, the virulence of the coronavirus had clearly been enhanced. And, in his Jan. 5, 2024, testimony, as cited by the subcommittee report, Acting NIH Director Lawrence Tabak agreed that this case was clearly “generic” gain-of-function research.

Examining the evidence, including the testimony of top NIH officials, the subcommittee thus concluded that EcoHealth was, in fact, facilitating gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the WIV.

The Big Questions

The central questions are these:

• Did the American taxpayers inadvertently fund dangerous gain-of-function research in China?
• Did Dr. Fauci and his colleagues know that its grantee (the EcoHealth Alliance) and its subgrantee (the Wuhan Institute of Virology) were conducting such research?
• Did they fully comprehend the grave dangers involved in such experiments?
• Did Dr. Fauci truthfully respond to congressional investigators concerning these matters?

Complicating the problem is that the technical term “gain of function” has more than one meaning, and various viral gain-of-function experiments have very different levels of risk.

There is a difference between (a) the broader or generic NIH definition of gain-of-function research (cited by the subcommittee) that “modifies” a biological agent that confers “new or enhanced activity to that agent” and (b) the P3CO Framework (2017) that imposes funding restrictions on “potential pandemic pathogens.” The latter is a subset of pathogens that are highly transmissible, have the potential of an “uncontrollable spread, and are “highly virulent” and likely to cause “significant morbidity and mortality” in humans. This is a narrower category, or subset, of gain-of-function research. And that category is subject to funding restrictions.

Based on the record, these definitional differences are at the heart of the Fauci controversy. On May 11, 2021, Fauci told the Senate that his agency did not fund coronavirus gain-of-function research in China. His credibility came into sharp focus on July 20, 2021, during a contentious Senate hearing. Warning him that lying to Congress was a crime, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) again asked Fauci whether his agency funded viral gain-of-function research in China, and Fauci repeatedly denied it.

Following a bitter exchange and dissatisfied with Fauci’s responses, the next day, Sen. Paul requested Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate the truthfulness of Fauci’s sworn testimony. Garland ignored the request. On July 14, 2023, Sen. Paul renewed the request. Again, no response. Citing new circumstantial evidence, on Aug. 8, 2023, Sen. Paul then asked Matthew Graves, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, to investigate the matter. Again, no response.

Competing Definitions

Today, Fauci claims that he and Sen. Paul were talking past each other in using different definitions of gain-of-function research. For example, in his Jan. 8, 2024, sworn testimony to House investigators, Fauci summarized his position:

I said that the NIH subaward to the Wuhan Institute was not to do gain of function research. I was referring specifically to the operative definition of gain of function at the time, which is the P3CO framework. And the P3CO framework is a policy and a framework that came out of a policy guidance from 3 years of discussions led by OSTP (the Office of Science and Technology Policy), the National Academies of Sciences, and multiple scientific working groups that came out with a very precise definition. And the precise definition was any experiment that is reasonably anticipated to result in the enhancement of a – and by enhancement it is meant an increase in the transmissibility and or pathogenesis of a PPP. And what a PPP is, is a potential pandemic pathogen. So, if you enhance it, it’s referred to as an “ePPP.” …So, when I was asked the question, did the grant that was a subaward to Wuhan fund experiments that enhanced PPP, that was what I was referring to when I said we do not fund gain of function – gain of function according to the strict definition, which I refer to as the operative definition of gain of function. So, when someone asks me, as a scientist, are you doing gain of function, is that gain of function, I always apply it to the operative definition of gain of function.

Artificial Distinction

Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield considers this entire episode an exercise in semantic hair-splitting:

Under the P3CO Framework, the target category is a set of pathogens found in nature that are already dangerous to human beings, and enhancing them through gain-of-function experimentation, federally funded or not, would simply make them more dangerous. Under the Framework’s definition, there would not be a funding restriction, for example, on gain of function research on viruses found in nature that are not yet dangerous to humans. So, under the P3CO Framework, you could conceivably conduct a gain of function experiment on viruses not yet dangerous to humans, but deliberately designed to make those viruses dangerous to humans by enhancing their transmissibility and pathogenicity, and that research still would not be considered “gain of function” for the regulatory purpose of restricting federal funding.

As Redfield further explains, “From the standpoint of public health and safety, this distinction is artificial. If you take a virus in the wild, enhance its transmissibility and pathogenicity to humans, through gain-of-function experimentation, you are endangering humanity. Period. In short, by leaning on this regulatory distinction between the generic definition and the Framework, you are insisting on a technical distinction that does not make a real difference in terms of public safety.”

Congressional investigators had, and have, every reason to be suspicious. Note that as of Oct. 19, 2021, the NIH defined “gain of function” research as “a type of research that modifies a biological agent so that it confers a new or enhanced activity to that agent.” That clear and concise definition disappeared from the NIH website “on or about” Oct. 20, 2021, following an inquiry on EcoHealth funding and coronavirus research in Wuhan from Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

With the incoming Trump administration, congressional investigators should have unrestricted access to unredacted documents, reports, memos, and emails, as well as more unfiltered testimony than even the impressive House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has been able to extract from the uncooperative Biden administration. That flood of evidence will shed more light on the unresolved COVID-19 controversies.

A Disservice

In the meantime, President Biden should not offer any type of blanket pardon to Dr. Anthony Fauci for what he may or may not have done. A preemptive pardon, without indictment or conviction, presumes that Fauci may have done something wrong. His testimony has been consistent, even though it may have been “misleading,” as the House subcommittee report contends. By granting some sort of blanket pardon, Biden would only be further clouding his reputation.

The inept Biden administration’s repeated failures to do the right thing and respond fully and respectfully to legitimate congressional requests has created another problem that a preemptive pardon cannot resolve. If Fauci’s responses to Sen. Paul were truthful, Attorney General Merrick Garland could have quickly complied with Sen. Paul’s initial request, reexamined Fauci’s testimony, determined that a perjury charge was unwarranted, and dismissed the entire controversy. Having refused that simple expedient, Garland did a disservice to Dr. Fauci and the public. By reexamining the case, with full access to any documentary evidence, perhaps the new attorney general can put this matter to rest.

More work for Pam Bondi.

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Tragedy struck over the holidays in the Peach State as an elderly judge took his own life inside his own courtroom.

WSAV reported Tuesday that 74-year-old Judge Stephen Yekel, an Effingham County state court judge, committed suicide in a county courtroom. Effingham County Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie said Yekel was discovered around 10 am by a deputy but reportedly shot himself late Monday night or early Tuesday.

The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Yekel committed suicide.

Making things even worse, Tuesday was supposed to be Yekel’s final day on the bench. He lost his re-election bid earlier this year.

Yekel was appointed to the bench by Kemp in June 2022 after serving as a lawyer for more than 45 years. WSAX notes he worked as a special agent for Georgia’s Alcohol & Tobacco Tax Unit and was an investigator at the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office.

Yekel previously tried to quit his position before killing himself, but Kemp refused to accept his resignation.

Interestingly, officials revealed that a note was sent to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s office. However, the details of this message have not been released to the public at this time.

The Daily Mail reports that Yekel’s life had been turned upside down following his re-election loss including the loss of his best friend and dealing with a wrongful termination lawsuit.

Yekel and his ex-wife Lisa also had financial problems due to a failed daycare business. They divorced last year.

“He did everything he could to avoid bankruptcy,” Lisa Yekel said. “Unfortunately, I had used his life savings to keep the daycare open.”

In addition to his ex-wife, Judge Yekel leaves behind four children: Sean, Ashleigh, Blake, and Brett.

The Effingham County courtroom has been closed following the judge’s suicide. It will reopen on January 2.

WSAV notes that the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office is leading the investigation into Judge Yekel’s death. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) will perform an autopsy.

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