JUST IN: House Changes Rules, Makes It Harder to Oust Johnson From Speakership
January 3, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson with the gavel
On Friday, Mike Johnson won the speakership on the first ballot after Reps. Ralph Norman and Keith Self switched their votes following a break.
Johnson almost failed on the first ballot after Reps. Massie, Self and Norman voted for other Congressmen.
After a brief break, Johnson convinced Rep. Self and Norman to switch their votes.
The 119th Congress changed the rules to make it harder to oust a speaker.
It will now take nine GOP lawmakers to force the vote to oust a sitting speaker.
“Now that he is elected, Johnson faces a tough legislating challenge with the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years,” CNN reported.
“However, in a key victory for Johnson, the House made it harder to oust a speaker. Included as part of the sweeping package was a procedural change that will require a minimum of nine GOP lawmakers to force a vote to oust a speaker. Previously, it only required one member to force a vote,” CNN reported.
BREAKING
Mike Johnson’s First Act as U.S. House Speaker in the 119th Congress:
Adopt Nancy Pelosi’s House Rule for Motion to Vacate
And Speaker Johnson took Nancy’s rule and made it WORSE!
HAHA: Liz Cheney Makes an Embarrassing Mistake While Responding to Trump’s Explosive Comments Regarding Her Receiving an Undeserved Medal from Biden
January 3, 2025
A thin-skinned Liz Cheney could not help herself in firing back at President Trump on Friday over his savage remarks regarding the medal she received from Joe Biden and ended up making a huge error in the process.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Biden awarded the second-highest civilian medal to 20 individuals on Thursday. These included the leaders of the January 6th select committee, Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), along with two of his longtime friends/cronies, former Senators Ted Kaufman (D-DE) and Chris Dodd (D-CT).
The award, known as the Presidential Citizens Medal, is generally given to Americans who have “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.” The Biden regime’s view of service is persecuting their enemies and having the right kind of relationship with Old Joe.
This reality was not lost on Trump as responded to this blatant mockery of the award with fire earlier Friday afternoon:
“Biden gave Liz Cheney a Medal yesterday, even though she has proven to be totally corrupt,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “She, “Bennie” Thompson, and the rest of the Unselect Committee, destroyed and deleted all evidence from their crooked investigation of January 6th.”
“Cheney has the distinction of losing her Congressional seat by the largest margin in History!” he added. “The people of Wyoming understood how bad for our Country she was, but Biden rewarded her only because she hated “TRUMP.” She’s a Warmonger of low intelligence.”
“All she wants to do is kill people in “Endless Wars,” with no gain other than to defense companies,” Trump continued. “Liz Cheney, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, Bennie Thompson, and the rest of these dishonest Thugs have gotten away with horrible things under the pretense of January 6th. Nancy Pelosi refused to accept the help which was offered for security.”
“She is responsible, and admitted as much, for all to see, on her daughter’s tape. They have destroyed the lives of many people, and are rewarded by getting Biden Fake Medals. This is not America. January 20th cannot come fast enough. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Cheney soon noticed Trump’s remarks and proceeded to issue a lie-filled, childish response on X Friday evening.
“Donald, this is not the Soviet Union,” Cheney wrote. “You can’t change the truth and you cannot silence us. Remember all your lies about the voting machines, the election workers, your countless allegations of fraud that never happened?”
“Many of your lawyers have been sanctioned, disciplined or disbarred, the courts ruled against you, and dozens of your own White House, administration, and campaign aides testified against you,” she added. “Remember how you sent a mob to our Capitol and then watched the violence on television and refused for hours to instruct the mob to leave? Remember how your former Vice President prevented you from overturning our Republic?”
“We remember. And now, as you take office again, the American people need to reject your latest malicious falsehoods and stand as the guardrails of our Constitutional Republic — to protect the America we love from you.”
Donald, this is not the Soviet Union. You can’t change the truth and you cannot silence us. Remember all your lies about the voting machines, the election workers, your countless allegations of fraud that never happened? Many of your lawyers have been sanctioned, disciplined or… https://t.co/sGLYo6i4Xz
Besides Cheney’s deranged screed, TGP readers will notice the embarrassing mistake she made while responding to Trump’s comments. It turns out that the X account, pictured at the bottom of her post, she thought was Trump’s is actually an account that re-posts all of his statements from Truth Social.
Had Cheney bothered to look before angrily tweeting, she would have seen this as well.
X users quickly saw Cheney’s huge error and immediately dunked all over her on this along with her stupid post.
Please give your participation trophy back before you go to prison! We saw you roll your eyes and try to pull away from Biden when he was presenting you the medal of traitor pic.twitter.com/2IZBrIVCAF
You, Liz, are a traitor and an evil person. You will go down as a traitor to the country who put her petty grievance and desire for revenge ahead of the nation. You, your husband, and McCain will be regarded as lower than Benedict Arnold.
‘We Have a Plan’: Mexican President Says She Will Accept Trump’s Mass Deportations – Including of Foreign Nationals
January 3, 2025
Claudia Sheinbaum / Daily press briefing
Mexican President Claudi Sheinbaum has indicated that she is ready to accept millions of illegal aliens set to be deported under the incoming administration.
During her daily press briefing, Shenbaum said that in cases where the U.S. would not return them to their home countries, Mexico would be willing to accept them. v
“We can collaborate through different mechanisms,” she said, although did not mention any specific details about what this may entail.
“There will be time to speak with the United States government if these deportations really happen, but we will receive them here, we are going to receive them properly and we have a plan,” she continued.
JUST IN: Mexican President Sheinbaum says she will allow President Trump to use Mexico as a deportation hub, even for non-Mexican migrants.
Sheinbaum, who like Donald Trump was only recently elected to the presidency, has previously refused to confirm whether Mexican authorities would cooperate with efforts to deport the millions of Mexicans and other foreign nationals living in the U.S. illegally.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Sheinbaum’s government were developing an application to help warn illegal aliens residing in the U.S. about the threat of imminent deportation.
In a press release, Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the app will alert the “consulate closest to their location about situations of imminent detention, notify family members who have previously been selected, as well as report to the Foreign Affairs Secretary.”
“The foreign affairs secretary was emphatic in pointing out that to deport someone from the United States you need a court order, a final sentence of deportation or removal, and that is where the consular team will be very aware that due process is complied with,” it continued.
Meanwhile, Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs Juan Ramon De la Fuente warned that they will defend the human rights of its citizens in compliance with international law.
“In case you find yourself in a situation where detention is imminent, you push the alert button and that sends a signal to the nearest consulate,” he said.
“We want to tell our fellow countrymen that they are not alone and they will not be alone.”
Mexico’s reluctance to help the U.S. in any deportation efforts is largely a result of the considerable economic benefits their migrants bring.
In 2023, Mexican migrants living in the U.S. sent a staggering $63.3 billion back home in remittances, marking a 7.6 percent increase from the previous year.
‘Justice Delayed is Justice Denied’ – Will President Trump Pardon January 6 Prisoners in the First Hour?
January 3, 2025
By Jason Sullivan & Patricia Tolson, Guest Contributor for The Gateway Pundit
Source: UNLEASHED.NEWS
Date: January 3, 2025
On January 6, 2025, a J6 political prisoner will be hosting a pardon press conference in Washington, D.C., to tell “the other side” of the January 6, 2021, protest story and to make a direct appeal to President-elect Donald Trump that “no man should be left behind.”
The event—dubbed as the “Official J6 Pardon Press Conference”—will be held in the Hyatt Regency Grand Ballroom in Washington, D.C., just miles from the United States Capitol where the protests took place four years earlier. On Jan. 20, Donald J. Trump will be at the same location, where he will place his hand on the Bible to swear the oath of office before returning to the White House for another four years as the nation’s 47th president.
BREAKING: Dozens of Jan 6 Patriots are being DENIED by their PO’s from attending the Official J6 Pardon Press Conference in DC on Monday January 6, 2025!!!!
ONLY 18 DAYS AWAY from EVERYONE getting pardoned & these soul sucking Probation Officers are acting like Petty Tyrants… pic.twitter.com/WK83Pdkx0Y
— Jake Lang – January 6 Political Prisoner (@JakeLangJ6) January 2, 2025
Trump has vowed that he will pardon J6 political prisoners. The question remains, will it be some or all of them?
Those in the J6 community are praying for the latter.
The organizer of the event is Edward “Jake” Lang, a J6 protester who has been incarcerated for the past four years—without a trial.
During a phone interview from the Washington D.C. Jail, Lang told Unleashed News that the purpose of the event is to tell the other side of the J6 story to counter the biased perspective told to the world by the January 6 Select Committee.
Liz Cheney, the former Republican representative from Wyoming who served as vice chair on the Committee, communicated with Cassidy Hutchinson—a disgruntled, first-term White House aide to then-President Donald Trump—via the encrypted Signal app without the knowledge of Hutchinson’s attorney. The communications, including an exchange of messages to arrange calls, were made just prior to Hutchinson’s explosive and subsequently debunked public June 2022 testimony before the Select Committee, according to a report released March 11, 2024, by House Republicans.
Detailed evidence of the correspondence, which began in April of 2022, was released by Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil Oct. 15, 2024.
The March House report also alleges that a forensics team found that 117 files had been either deleted or encrypted on January 1, 2023—just days before Republicans took control of the House—and that the January 6 Select Committee neglected or withheld evidence from its Final Report.
The appointment of Cheney as Vice Chair of the Committee was also highly unusual. That position is typically reserved for a member of the same party as the committee chair, who was Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss).
House Republicans have called for an investigation into the proceedings of the Jan. 6 Select Committee and its members.
On Jan. 2, outgoing President Joe Biden awarded Cheney and Thompson the Presidential Citizens Medal for their contributions to the Select Committee. The award is typically bestowed to Americans who have “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.”
Cheney is among those being considered by Biden to be a recipient of a preemptive pardon before he leaves office. According to US News and World Report, “issuing blanket pardons could leave the impression to some that crimes were committed.”
“No Man Left Behind.”
Lang is excited about his event, and hopeful that Americans will finally hear their story and realize that “a great injustice has been done.”
Jake Lang
“This is going to be the antithesis of the J-6 Select Committee sham,” Lang told Unleashed. “It’s going to be a place where our family members, our community leaders, our organizers and our advocates are going to be able to speak out on behalf of the J-6 prisoners, the hostages, and tell all of the people in President Trump’s administration, why we all should come home. There should be no delay. Justice delayed is justice denied, and we deserve to come home on day one.”
Among the many guest speakers at the event will be Jim Hoft (the Editor and Founder of The Gateway Pundit), Lara Logan (former Host of 60 Minutes and J6 Investigator), and Sari Lang, Jake Lang’s mother.
Other speakers will include investigative journalist Ann Vandersteel, and Gateway Pundit lead reporter Cara Castronuova.
Social media influencers Isabella Maria Deluca, Matt Wallace, and Behizy will also be in attendance.
Lang said he will “be there” as well.
“I will be there,” he said. “I mean virtually. I will get a video feed in there somewhere, somehow. It’s going to be a beautiful event.”
The event will be live-streamed, starting at 10 AM on January 6, through Gateway Pundit’s accounts on X and Rumble.
“Hoping Beyond Hope”
Lang was arrested on January 16, 2021 and faces 13 charges, including “Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon” (Count 6), “Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon, Inflicting Bodily Injury” (Count 7), “Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds, with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon” (Count 10), and “Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds, with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon” (Count 12).
A video posted on X also shows Lang wielding an aluminum bat, which he used to strike the shields of the officers. The bat never came in contact with the officers.
Asked about the incident, Lang says he was trying to get the police to back up to prevent more protesters from being hurt or killed. Having been denied a trial for four years, Lang has been unable to present his defense against the many charges stacked against him.
Lang pleaded not guilty to all counts on Feb. 9, 2021. While offered a plea deal—which would have limited his incarceration to nine years—Lang refused.
It was during the protests on Jan. 6, 2021, that Lang tried to save the life of Roseanne Boyland, who died after being crushed beneath a pile of bodies as police shoved them on top of each other. Lang repeatedly pleaded with the officers to stop, to no avail. Lang did manage to help a fellow protester named Phillip Anderson. A video posted on X shows Lang dragging Anderson’s body from the pile. Anderson credits Lang with saving his life.
While Trump has said the pardons will be granted on a case-by-case basis, Lang insists that Trump’s pardons should be based to the principle of “No man left behind.”
“I don’t know if ‘demand’ is the right word, but it’s hoping for beyond hope, and we will not be satisfied until no man is left behind in the gulag, and every man comes home, regardless if they have violent charges or not,” Lang said.
“They Had No Choice”
During a Dec. 8 interview with Kristen Welker on Meet The Press, Trump was asked if he planned to follow through with his promise to pardon January 6 prisoners.
“We’re looking at that right now,” Mr. Trump replied. “Most likely, yeah.”
“Those people have suffered long and hard,” he explained.
While January 6 prisoners have “suffered” and had their lives ‘destroyed,” Trump noted that people like “the scaffold man” and Ray Epps were never prosecuted for their efforts to incite the crowds to riot.
Black Lives Matter protesters, who burned down half of Minneapolis—including a police station—and took over a large portion of Seattle following the death of George Floyd, suffered no consequences.
“They destroyed the beautiful limestone exterior of the courthouse in Portland,” Trump added, reminding Welker that the BLM protesters killed people in Portland and Seattle.
While the BLM protesters suffered no consequences, Trump noted that the January 6 prisoners “are living in hell.”
“And I think it’s very unfair,” he said. “So yeah, most likely, I’ll do it very quickly.”
Welker pointed out that 169 of the January 6 prisoners “have pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers.
“Because they had no choice,” Trump said.
Ultimately, Trump told Welker that he would be “acting very quickly” to pardon the January 6 prisoners, saying they were prosecuted by a “corrupt system,” given sentences spanning decades, and have already been incarcerated for years in squalid conditions.
He vowed he would act on “the first day.”
In a Dec. 12, 2024, interview with Time Magazine, after being chosen as TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year, Trump indicated a sense of urgency with the promised pardons. While saying he’s going “to look at eachindividual case,” he made it clear he would “do it very quickly,” and that “it’s going to start in the first hour” that he’s in office.
“Has the law been equally applied?”
While Trump acknowledged the disparate treatment between Jan-6 protesters and the BLM/ANTIFA protesters who burned cities and were responsible for the deaths of others, Lang also noted the imbalance in how they “were given leniency and kid-glove treatment” while Jan-6 protesters—who burned nothing and killed no one—were arrested by swat teams, given a laundry list of charges, had their bank accounts drained by legal fees, with many being given decades of prison time.
In the meantime, people like Montez Terriel Lee, Jr.—who broke into a business called Max It Pawn on May 28, 2020, during the “mostly peaceful” protest in Minneapolis, poured accelerant, set it ablaze, and intentionally burned it to the ground—received leniency.
On July 20, 2020, the charred remains of 30-year-old Oscar Lee Stewart were discovered in the rubble.
Despite the death of Stewart in the fire set by Lee—and Lee’s prior convictions of burglary, assault, violation of no contact order, and theft of property—court documents show that the government argued that leniency should be shown to Lee in sentencing because he was simply “caught up in the fury of the mob.”
In addition, while Lee burned down a small business and was responsible for the fiery death of Stewart, he was granted a trial within roughly 578 days.
Lang has been sitting in prison for 1,447 days—including than 180 cumulative days being forced to sit in solitary confinement—without a trial.
“Has the law been equally applied?” Lang asked rhetorically. “We have a 14th Amendment right to equal application of the law. We believe that because nobody has been afforded a fair trial, we’ve all been cruelly and unusually punished. We’ve been collectively prosecuted.”
Lang’s biggest grievance is that he and many others in the Jan-6 community believe they were set up by the federal government” in an orchestrated event to paint Donald Trump and his supporters as domestic terrorists.”
“We were all entrapped,” he insisted. “So, all of the convictions, prosecution, witch-hunts and arrests have been fruit of a poison tree, and therefore no Jan-6ers deserve to remain in prison, whether they have assault charges or not.”
The DC Bias
Lady Justice holding a sword and scales – public domain image
There is credibility to Lang’s charge that January 6 prisoners have not received fair trials in Washington, D.C. While many have filed motions in court to have their trials moved to another district, all have been denied.
As of December, around 1,265 people had been arrested in connection with the Jan-6 protests. They have been charged with crimes ranging from misdemeanor trespassing to felony charges like seditious conspiracy.
So far, around 170 Jan-6 protesters have been convicted, and about 710 have pleaded guilty. Only two have been acquitted.
While many have refuted claims that the D.C. juries are biased, proof came out in January of last year to put those denials to rest.
A survey—commissioned by Lang and conducted by Triton Polling and Research between Jan. 1-8 2024—reveals the extreme level of bias among potential jurors living in Washington DC toward anyone who participated in the Jan. 6 protests at the Capitol. Funding came from the J-6 Legal Fund, which Lang started to help cover the legal expenses of J6 prisoners.
Of the 422 “jury eligible residents” surveyed, nearly 70% described Jan-6 protesters as “insurrectionists” (27.5%), “criminals” (13%), “domestic terrorists” (14.9%), or “traitors” (11.6%).
Asked if they thought the Jan-6 protest was “an act of terrorism,” 63.6% said they “strongly agree.” Just 8% said they “strongly disagree.”
Nearly half agree or somewhat agreed that the punishment for terrorism, “imprisonment or death,” would “be a fair punishment,” and nearly 70% said they strongly or somewhat agree that anyone who participated in the protest “should serve prison time,” regardless of what they did.
Over 80% said they would serve as a juror if called, and almost 40% said they “strongly” (26.1 percent) or “somewhat” agree (13 percent) that they wanted to be on that jury “to make sure the defendant is found guilty and held accountable for the events of that day.”
Jonathan Gross is a defense attorney who is representing many of the January 6th defendants. In an interview with Unleased, Gross said, “These trials should not be held in DC.”
“Hundreds of January 6 defendants filed motions to transfer venue arguing that someone perceived as a Trump supporter cannot get a fair trial in DC where 95% of the jury pool voted for Biden and Harris in 2020 and 2024,” Gross asserted. “All Americans should be concerned because whether you’re Republican or Democrat, you don’t want to be tried in a district where the majority of the jury pool believes that you’re deplorable because of your political beliefs.”
“God Willing”
Jake Lang
While the entire Jan-6 community waits, and hopes, that they will all find freedom on January 20th, Unleashed asked Lang what he personally envisioned happening on that day.
He imagines two scenarios. The first is where he sees himself walking out of the prison to the waiting arms of family, friends, some supporters, and perhaps a few members of the press.
The second possibility is the one he prays for the most.
“I have what my heart is telling me for a long time, that we are being liberated on day one, and Trump is going to have us as one of the main components of the inauguration celebration,” Lang reflected with hope.
“I believe the Bible is going to be in his right hand, and a pen signing our pardon is going to be in his left hand, and we will make an appearance,” he described of his dream further. “If you guys are looking for me at the inauguration, I’ll be the guy in the orange jumpsuit, hugging Trump, hanging on to his side just crying tears of joy from the instrument that God’s using to liberate me and my brothers, who have suffered four long years of incredible oppression, and sensory deprivation and estrangement from our families and communities and all the horrible tortures we’ve endured.”
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WATCH: FBI Releases Suspiciously Doctored Video of January 6 Pipe Bomber After House Report Reveals Bureau Engaged in Massive Coverup
January 3, 2025
January 6 DNC pipe bomber – Photo: FBI
Four years later…
The FBI on Thursday evening released *new* footage of the January 6 pipe bomber after Rep. Loudermilk released a report revealing the bureau engaged in a massive coverup operation.
For years we’ve been told an unidentified suspect planted pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, the night before the Capitol riot.
The FBI still ‘can’t find’ the person who planted the bombs.
A new report released Thursday morning by the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight into the January 6 pipe bomber shows the FBI stopped looking for the suspect in 2021 and covered up evidence.
Later Thursday evening, the FBI released new information on the January 6 pipe bomber and offered a $500,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the suspect.
The FBI says the January 6 pipe bomber is approximately 5’7″ tall.
We also announced that we believe the suspect is approximately 5 feet, 7 inches tall. pic.twitter.com/iCZH99stre
The FBI on Thursday released suspiciously doctored video from ‘camera 1’ of the pipe bomber supposedly planting the bomb at the park bench at 7:52 pm.
WATCH:
On January 5, 2021, the suspect placed pipe bombs near the offices of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee. As part of our renewed call for tips, #FBIWFO posted previously unreleased video of the suspect placing a bomb near the DNC. pic.twitter.com/Fe9RHCsZYL
The FBI previously released footage from ‘camera 2’ showing the suspect planting the pipe bomb at 7:52 pm from another angle which was obstructed by a bush:
Here we PROVE the FBI is withholding critical footage that would show whether or not the pipe bomber planted the bomb when they said he/she did
Why is the DNC so uninterested in finding out who this DNC pipe bomber is? Why has Kamala Harris covered up her presence at the DNC on… pic.twitter.com/lXEfedlxzB
In 2021, the FBI released footage from camera 1 but it showed the pipe bomber at 7:43 pm. The suspect then got up from the park bench, walked the perimeter of the DNC building and came back to the park bench to plant the bomb.
Even more suspicious–in 2021, the FBI posted this clip, which is from the very same camera as the new clip the FBI posted last night attempting to show the “pipe bomber” set down the device.
This is at 7:43pm. The time stamp of new clip is 7:52.
It appears the new footage released from the FBI was intentionally slowed down (doctored):
WATCH:
But in a similar side by side posted by the FBI last night in its clean-up press release, the faster camera is intentionally SLOWED DOWN to make it appear both cameras are in sync. (Note the cheesy music and voice over.) pic.twitter.com/M3VnYUy0kk
Here is extraordinary side by side footage of camera 1 and camera 2 showing the FBI manipulated the video:
Here is the comparison btw Camera 2: The original FBI clip is bottom right, the slowed down clip posted last night is on top right.
Why is the FBI manipulating video–which appears to be the case in the slow camera footage as well–without disclosing that fact to the public? pic.twitter.com/rRqJrFnzqk
Revolver News’ Darren Beattie posted a video explaining how the FBI manipulated the DNC security footage of the pipe bomber by only posting 1 frame per second (FPS) rather than 15 frames per second.
WATCH:
Here we show that the DNC surveillance footage is completely corrupted to prevent us from having a clear shot of the suspect. pic.twitter.com/ax7Yw6LHZJ
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