Attorney General Pam Bondi abruptly dropped off CPAC’s high-profile Summit Against Human Trafficking this Wednesday, claiming she suffered a “torn cornea” and couldn’t make it.

The announcement was read live on stage by Acting Assistant AG Matthew Galeotti.

Galeotti:
“Thank you all for being here with us today and for having me. I do have a note from the Attorney General—Attorney General Pam Bondi—that I wanted to share, which is the following:

‘I’m sorry to miss all of my CPAC friends today, especially Matt and Mercy Schlapp, Senator Blackburn, and the wonderful team at the Tim Tebow Foundation. Unfortunately, I am recovering from a recently torn cornea, which is preventing me from being with you. I truly wish I was able to join you and support all of the work being done on this critical issue.’”

The announcement came just hours after WSJ allegations that she’d told President Trump his name appears multiple times in Jeffrey Epstein’s sealed file trove.

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday dropped another Trump-Epstein hit piece after the DOJ asked three different courts to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein’s sex trafficking cases.

According to The Wall Street Journal, US Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Trump in May that he is mentioned in the Epstein files.

However, Bondi said the information about the several people who appeared in the Epstein files is “unverified hearsay.”

“When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a “truckload” of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times, according to senior administration officials,” The Wall Street Journal reported.

“In May, Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the White House that his name was in the Epstein files, the officials said. Many other high-profile figures were also named, Trump was told. Being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing,” WSJ said.

The Justice Department responded with fire.

“This is a collection of falsehoods and innuendo designed to push a bullshit narrative and drive clicks,” according to Gates McGavick.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined Maria Bartiromo on Mornings with Maria this week.

Bessent broke the news that President Trump’s pro-growth policies are driving a major CapEx comeback.

According to Investopedia, CapEx, or capital expenditures, refers to the money a company uses to acquire, upgrade, or maintain physical assets. CapEx investments are essential for a business’s growth.

Thanks to President Trump, business investment is surging in the United States at the fastest pace since 1997!

Scott Bessent cheered the news on Mornings with Maria:

Treasury Secretary Bessent:  Maria, this is a combination. It’s the tariff’s bringing back manufacturing to the US. It’s the full expensing in the One Big, Beautiful Bill, which I think is one of the most important things that we did.

Companies can do 100% expensing for equipment, 100% expensing for factories. If you bring your factory back here. I think we had big pent-up demand.

We are in the middle of this incredible AI boom that I don’t know whether you want to say this is the third, fourth, fifth industrial revolution. We’re seeing the hyperscaler spend like we never have before.

I think what’s really gone unheralded here is the Trump administration’s emphasis on deregulation. We are making it possible to build things in America again. For years, if you wanted to build a factory, a pipeline, a transmission grid, you were held up by permitting. President Trump has given, whether it’s EPA, the Energy Interior, a mandate that these permits should get out within a month. So America is building things again.

I tell you, this is the way that countries get rich and stay rich is through long-term investment and productivity.

Here is Scott with Maria earlier this week.

.@POTUS is driving a major CapEx Comeback.

Tariffs are bringing manufacturing back to the U.S., and the full expensing in the One Big Beautiful Bill is paving the way for sustained growth.

Add in the AI boom, as well as President Trump’s emphasis on deregulation, and we’re… pic.twitter.com/Gpt8OFfmNt

— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) July 22, 2025

It is remarkable what President Trump, Secretary Bessent, and his team have accomplished in just six months in office!

According to Secretary Bessent, business equipment production jumped 11% in the second quarter after a huge 23% gain in quarter one. This is the strongest back-to-back growth since 1997!

Business equipment production is up nearly 17% annualized through the first half of the year—the fastest pace since 1997. This CapEx Comeback was jumpstarted by the OBBB, which made investment spending retroactive to Inauguration Day.

Higher capital investment drives… https://t.co/j94co4fp5F

— Deputy Secretary Michael Faulkender (@TreasuryDepSec) July 22, 2025

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A video circulating on social media has ignited fierce controversy: a U.S. citizen, identified as “Kyla” in some descriptions, can be heard shouting extremist slogans during a trip to Iran. In the video, the individual expresses gratitude for the hospitality of the Persian nation and ends with strong declarations: “Death to the U.S. Death to Israel… and fight against Zionism and imperialism.” The message has sparked outrage among conservative circles, who are demanding that any American calling for the destruction of their own country be stripped of citizenship and deported.

Context and Content of the Video

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Affluent liberals fill their empty lives with so many strange activities that ordinary people view them as curiosities of nature. Like exotic zoo animals, they seem singularly unaware of the impression they leave on those who watch them.

Of course, that analogy has limits. After all, even zoo animals know better than to humiliate themselves by tussling with Vice President J.D. Vance.

In a series of clips posted Tuesday to the social media platform X, a small group of dimwitted malcontents assembled on the ritzy island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, to protest Vance’s arrival ahead of a massive private fundraiser for the Republican National Committee.

Admittedly, the phrase “dimwitted malcontents” reads as uncharitable, especially from a Christian.

Nonetheless, one simply must read the signs they carried in order to appreciate the magnitude of their idiocy.

First, like all good, rich, white liberals, they pretended to love immigrants. And by “immigrants” they meant “illegal immigrants.”

“Fund Ukraine Not ICE,” one woman’s sign read.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, of course, do not arrest legal immigrants. So the denizens of uber-wealthy Nantucket showed their exquisite liberal sensibilities by supporting the lawbreaking kind.

Second, some women held signs that referred to Vance’s “childless cat ladies” comment, which liberals and their allies in the establishment media tried to turn into a controversy early in the 2024 presidential campaign, shortly after Vance accepted now-President Donald Trump’s offer to serve as his running mate.

Examples of feline-themed protest signs included “My Cat Respects Women” and “Cat Women Scratch Back.”

One wonders how the vice president survived the trauma of such vicious barbs.

Finally, the rich morons freely protesting on the side of a road imagined themselves in an authoritarian hellscape.

“It’s Looking a Lot Like 1930s Germany Right Now,” one sign read, while another contradicted that observation by declaring “This Is Not 1938 Fascist Germany.”

In between those two fools, another sign read “Big Brother Is Watching,” a reference to George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.” The sign featured a picture of the vice president.

Hilariously — you cannot make this up — the protester holding that anti-authoritarian sign sported the cloth mask of the COVID cult.

Moreover, one sign impressively combined two different strands of lunacy.

“Even Cats Know J.D. Is a Lying Fascist,” the sign read.

WARNING: The following posts contains vulgar language that may offend some readers. 

Protestors have assembled on Cliff Road, the street leading toward the GOP fundraiser that Vice President JD Vance will attend tonight pic.twitter.com/Iq2hX43f9P

— Nantucket Current (@ACKCurrent) July 22, 2025

Another video showed the protesters jeering when the vice president’s motorcade passed. Conveniently, it was a small enough gathering that one could easily hear individual protesters’ voices.

Protesters greeted Vice President JD Vance as he arrives at the Republican National Committee fundraiser on Nantucket pic.twitter.com/7ykiFLuQZ8

— Nantucket Current (@ACKCurrent) July 22, 2025

End Wokeness, a prominent conservative account on X, described the group as “all elderly cat ladies.”

Protestors waited to boo JD Vance today in Nantucket. They were all elderly cat ladies. pic.twitter.com/eORxBgaRt2

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 23, 2025

Meanwhile, Vance helped raise a $3 million in donations, a Nantucket record for the RNC, per the New York Post.

That should help soothe the vice president’s lacerated feelings over having incurred the wrath of rich cat ladies who think they live in a fascist state.

Fortunately for the protesters, they did not have to confront Vance directly. After all, that has not worked out very well for Democrats and their establishment media allies.

Thus, deprived of that spectacle, one can only marvel at affluent liberals behaving strangely in their natural habitat.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Update: MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia is currently in custody after a rogue Obama judge ordered him to be released from a Tennessee prison.

As reported earlier: A Tennessee-based federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia – and a Maryland judge, appointed by Barack Obama, immediately blocked ICE from detaining Abrego Garcia.

Last month, a federal magistrate judge in Tennessee agreed to delay the release of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia so he doesn’t get deported.

A federal grand jury in Tennessee recently indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”

He was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.

The DOJ previously told the Court that Abrego Garcia will be deported to a ‘third country’ that is not El Salvador after he is released from a Tennessee jail.

On Wednesday, US District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, an Obama appointee, ordered Kilmar Abrego released from prison.

Judge Paula Xinis, also an Obama appointee overseeing the civil suit filed by Abrego Garcia’s wife, immediately barred ICE from taking Abrego Garcia into custody.

The Department of Homeland Security responded to the lawless judge’s order.

This is a LAWLESS judge.

This MS-13 gang member, human trafficker and illegal alien will never walk America’s streets again. https://t.co/ExxDKVlZNc

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 23, 2025

Later Wednesday, the DOJ said Abrego Garcia is still in custody.

Abrego Garcia’s release conditions are paused for 30 days, subject to further notice. Abrego Garcia “shall therefore remain in the custody of the United States Marshal pending further order..”

Abrego Garcia remains in @USMarshalsHQ custody. https://t.co/gSTgS4gfox pic.twitter.com/9CsBWBVAt1

— Chad Gilmartin (@ChadGilmartinCA) July 24, 2025

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