President Trump joined Fox and Friends this morning for an interview following his historic peace summit at the White House, involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seven European leaders. 

Following a bilateral meeting with Zelensky on Monday afternoon, Trump met with Zelensky, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

During the meeting, Trump told the European leaders that Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to accept a deal that involves security guarantees for Ukraine.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump privately called Putin after meeting with the leaders while they were still at the White House. Following this call, the President announced that it was a success and that he is already arranging a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to finally end the Biden-era war between Russia and Ukraine.

“During the meeting, we discussed Security Guarantees for Ukraine, which Guarantees would be provided by the various European Countries, with a coordination with the United States of America,” Trump said.

“Everyone is very happy about the possibility of PEACE for Russia/Ukraine.”

“A Very Good, Early Step” – Trump Announces Meeting Between Putin and Zelensky and Later Trilateral Meeting in the Works! – Meeting Location to be Determined

Fox and Friends host Charlie Hurt asked Trump about the call with Putin on Tuesday morning, and he revealed that under Biden, Putin "had no communication with the White House for years as people died" and "wouldn't talk to the people from Europe."

"That was part of the problem," he said, describing the relationship as "fractured."

"In this case, two to tango. They have to have somewhat of a relationship. Otherwise, we're just wasting a lot of time," he said of the need for a meeting and to mend and develop relationships between Putin, Zelensky, and the rest of the leaders.

Trump also discussed his meeting with Putin in Alaska last week, noting that the good relationship between the two was evident, which was used to end the war. Meanwhile, Democrats are infuriated that Trump would have a working relationship with the Russian leader.

"We had the B2 fly right over President Putin, as he left his plane, and he looked up, he said, What the hell is that? That's a hell of a noise," Trump added, joking that "we didn't make it environmentally friendly."

WATCH:

Hurt: During the meeting yesterday, when you decided to call Vladimir Putin, what was the reaction among the other people in the room, and what was President Putin's reaction to being brought into a phone call in the middle of your meeting?

Trump: Well, I think they expected it. I didn't do it in front of them. I thought that would be disrespectful to President Putin. I wouldn't do that because they have not had the warmest relations. And actually, President Putin wouldn't talk to the people from Europe. I mean, that was part of the problem. They had no communication with the White House for years as people died, years with Biden and his people, no communication. Putin told me, years, it was years that he didn't speak to anybody from the White House, and it was a long time that he didn't speak to anybody from Europe.

No, it's a fractured relationship. And when I came in, I always had, despite the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, which truly was a very dangerous thing for our country. But despite that, I maintained a very good relationship. I mean, you saw that when he got off his plane, I got off my plane, there's a warmth there that you can’t— you know, there's a there's a decent feeling, and it's a good thing, not a bad thing. People would say, “Oh, that's such a terrible thing.” It's not a terrible thing. You know what? We've got the most nuclear weapons in the world, and the most powerful. He's got second.

Hurt: Can you describe for us how that happened? Did you just announce that you were going to go into the other room to make the phone call, and then you got up and left, and then came back?

Trump: I think they sort of knew at the end of the meeting I was going to call President Putin, and President Putin expected it, and he was there. Now, by the time I called him, was one o'clock in the morning in Russia... We had a very good call, and I told them that we're going to set up a meeting with President Zelensky, and you and he will meet, and then after that meeting, if everything works out, okay, I'll meet, and we'll wrap it up. But you know, it takes, in this case, two to tango. They have to have somewhat of a relationship. Otherwise, we're just wasting a lot of time. I don't want to be doing that. I just want to end it. I want to end it. You know, we're not losing American lives, we're not losing American soldiers. We're losing Russian and Ukrainian, mostly soldiers. Some people as missiles hit wrong spots or get lobbed into cities like Kiev and towns.

But you know, if I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that's pretty— I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I hear I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons. Well, I think I saved a lot of lives with India and Pakistan; they were going at it. Planes were being shot down. That was going to be maybe a nuclear war if I let that go, and I did that through trade. I was negotiating with both of them. I said, I'm not going to make a trade deal with you guys until you get peace. And I got them on the phone. I made a peace deal and many, many deals, you know, six, actually seven, and then we took out the nuclear capability from Iran. That was a big one and those pilots and those planes, when people say— you know, we had the B2 fly right over President Putin, as he left his plane, and he looked up, he said, What the hell is that? That's a hell of a noise. We didn't make it environmentally friendly, okay.

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Transgender Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), formerly Tim McBride, accused President Trump of undertaking an “all-out assault” on free and fair elections and American Democracy. 

McBride is a member of the same party that rigged the 2020 election, wants illegal aliens to be able to vote, and installed Kamala Harris after conducting a coup against the duly elected presidential nominee, Joe Biden, last election cycle.

But she(?) says, “this president is taking notes from his favorite dictator,” calling Republicans’ perfectly legal efforts to gerrymander districts, which the Democrats have done for years, “illegal.”

“A president with popular policies wouldn’t need to illegally gerrymander districts, ban voting machines, or abolish vote-by-mail,” McBride said. “This is an all-out assault not just on free and fair elections—but on American democracy itself.”

This president is taking notes from his favorite dictator. Let’s be clear: a president with popular policies wouldn’t need to illegally gerrymander districts, ban voting machines, or abolish vote-by-mail. This is an all-out assault not just on free and fair elections—but on American democracy itself.

This president is taking notes from his favorite dictator. Let’s be clear: a president with popular policies wouldn’t need to illegally gerrymander districts, ban voting machines, or abolish vote-by-mail. This is an all-out assault not just on free and fair elections—but on…

— Congresswoman Sarah McBride (@Rep_McBride) August 19, 2025

This comes after President Trump announced on Monday that he is “going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and “Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper.”

“We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections,” Trump said on Truth Social.

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: President Trump Vows to Lead Movement to Rid the Country of Mail-in Voting and Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive Voting Machines!

He later told reporters in the Oval Office, "it’s time that the Republicans get tough and stop it because the Democrats want it. It’s the only way they can get elected."

"Because with men and women’s sports and with transgender for everybody and open borders and all of the horrible things. And now the new thing is they love crime. They’re fighting me on the fact that I’ve made Washington DC safe," he continued.

Per USA Today, "His comments and social-media post came after Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News on Aug. 15 that Putin, “smart guy, said you can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting.”

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This article originally appeared on vigilantfox.com and was republished with permission.

It’s not every day a famous action star like Chris Pratt sits down with Bill Maher.

Pratt isn’t known for politics—he tends to stay neutral on purpose.

But this time, he said something Hollywood won’t like.

And when RFK Jr.’s name came up, Pratt couldn’t keep his secret about where he really stands.

Action star Chris Pratt isn’t known for making his political views public. But on Monday, during Bill Maher’s podcast, he dropped some major hints about where he stands politically.

Right before the 2024 election, Pratt wrote this column describing how he sees things from “both sides” and wishing for the division to end. In that piece, he didn’t endorse either candidate.

As expected, his refusal to take sides angered liberals. Columns surfaced mocking Pratt for being too “milquetoast” and lacking the “courage and principles to outright endorse Kamala Harris” like his father-in-law, Arnold Schwarzenegger, did.

Writer Mike Redmond concluded bluntly: “He doesn’t want her to win.” And it turns out, Mike might have been onto something.

On Reddit, the attacks got nastier. Some called him “Crisp Rat,” while others told him to “go f*ck himself.” More piled on, saying, “When one side supports Nazis, there is not good on both sides.”

In the discussion, Guardians of the Galaxy was even renamed “MAGArdians of the Galaxy.”

On Monday, Pratt appeared on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast.

Maher recalled sitting down with RFK Jr. in 2023. He told Pratt that Kennedy, whether he is right or wrong, has stuck to his guns “more than anybody,” adding “you cannot move him” from his beliefs “with your bribes.”

Pratt agreed, saying, “Yeah, you’re right. That’s a virtue.”

Next came a moment Pratt probably wishes he could take back, as it’s bound to upset Hollywood and his liberal fanbase.

Pratt began by saying it’s “a great thing” for RFK Jr. to get “terrible, toxic stuff out of our kids’ food,” something he believes should be supported on a bipartisan basis.

He said if Kennedy just did that, then “that’s amazing.”

That’s when Pratt delivered a brutal zinger, calling out how absurd it is for Democrats to have an “allergic reaction” to RFK Jr. cleaning up the food supply:

“I’d hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration is something I’d be having an allergic reaction to. To be like, ‘Oh, well, if they do it, I don’t want it to happen. I’ll put Clorox in my children’s cereal myself.’”

“Come on,” Chris urged Democrats. “Be reasonable here.”

Let’s hope these statements don’t wind up threatening Chris’s movie career. If he had said the opposite, Hollywood wouldn’t bat an eye.

But by breaking from the script and speaking his mind, Pratt reminded people that common sense doesn’t have to come with a party label.

If you’re wishing ill on the guy cleaning up the food supply just because he’s not “on your side,” that says a lot more about you than RFK Jr.

As Kennedy says, “There is no such thing as Republican children or Democratic children”—and we should all want them to be healthy.

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What if the “grassroots” political movements reshaping American cities aren’t grassroots at all, but rather illegal tax-exempt charity funded operations disguised as community activism?

In his July 2025 article, How Elite Money Flows Through Working Families Party Network, forensic investigator Sam Antar exposes a hidden financial web he calls “grassroots laundering”. His case study: the rise of Zohran Mamdani in New York City politics.

What Antar uncovered is a political machine powered not by working-class donations, but by a $2+ billion network of tax-exempt nonprofits that illegally converts taxpayer money and billionaire philanthropy into political power.

Antar reinforced these findings with extensive new documentation in Why the IRS Must Investigate the Tax-Exempt Syndicate that Weaponized Mamdani’s Campaign.

In this report, he demonstrates how the nonprofits network systematically blurs the line between charity and politics, and undermines the very foundations of campaign finance law with a reoccurring four-step money laundering cycle.

Here is how tax-deductible charitable donations and government grants are illegally converted into leftist political activity, according to Antar:

1. Tax-Deductible Funding: Billionaires and major donors donate to 501(c)(3) charities, receiving tax breaks. Government grants then add hundreds of millions more.
2. Transfers: These charities then quietly shift money to their 501(c)(4) political affiliates, often sharing staff and infrastructure as well.
3. Political Spending: The 501(c)(4)s then funnel money into PACs and Super PACs, funding political campaigns like Zohran Mamdani’s.
4. Feedback Loop: Once elected, Democrat officials expand government funding to the very charities that helped elect them, perpetuating the cycle.

At the center of Mamdani’s scheme, Antar writes, is a charitable façade led by nonprofits like Make the Road New York, a 501(c)(3) organization, which received $16.1 million in taxpayer grants, over half its revenue, in 2023.

By law, such groups are barred from engaging in partisan politics. Yet, as Antar shows, resources then flowed from Make the Road New York directly into its political sibling, Make the Road Action, a 501(c)(4), which can legally engage in political activity under the (c)(4) banner. This seamless pipeline between supposedly independent entities is at the heart of the money laundering scheme.

For example, on June 11, 2025 Make the Road Action (c)(4) contributed $45,697.14 to the Working Families Party (WFP) National PAC. That same day, the PAC reported an “in-kind” expenditure for the identical amount, labeled as “Phone Bank Services.” The statistical likelihood of this exact amount being coincidental is so small that Antar calls it a near certainty of illegal coordination.

Further, during Mamdani’s 2025 mayoral campaign, two supposedly independent PACs, including the WFP National PAC and “New Yorkers for Lower Costs”, spent $2,022,238 boosting his candidacy, more than the Mamdani campaign’s own fundraising of $1,708,494. Out-of-state tech billionaires provided over 70% of one PAC’s funding.

That’s how coordinated expenditures and same-day circular transactions were able to masquerade as “grassroots support” for Mamdani from ordinary New Yorkers.

Antar traces all these operations across a sprawling constellation of organizations: the Working Families Organization, the Center for Popular Democracy, the Tides Foundation, and George Soros’s powerful Open Society empire.

Together, these groups distribute over $693 million annually. The Tides Foundation (501(c)(3)) sent $4.55 million to the Working Families Organization, while its political arm, Tides Advocacy (501(c)(4)), contributed $295,173.

Antar cites an independent audit by Deloitte and Withum who confirmed that these groups shared staff, payroll systems, and even office space, shattering the legal independence required for tax-exempt status. Antar concludes these groups function as a single political machine under the guise of tax-exempt charities.

The corruption was not only financial, but also personnel-based. Tascha Van Auken, a senior WFP operative, became Mamdani’s 2025 campaign Field Director with nearly $80,000 in payments. Executives like Theodoro Oshiro and Daniel Altschuler drew salaries from both charitable and political entities while simultaneously holding political posts in 501(c)(3) organizations.

“The entire leftist campaign infrastructure is illegal under the tax code,” Antar says.

Meanwhile, regulators failed to police these abuses. A New York Campaign Finance Board member had been a 15-year WFP veteran, while a senior staffer openly declared support for Mamdani’s campaign, rendering oversight meaningless.

Antar’s findings expose Mamdani’s movement not as a grassroots uprising at all, but rather as a carefully engineered illusion to fool voters – a campaign built upon deception rather than democracy. Mamdani simply weaponized charitable organizations, taxpayer dollars, and billionaire money to evade campaign finance laws while manufacturing the appearance of popular support.

Antar warns, “This is not just about campaign finance violations – it’s about the erosion of public trust when democratic narratives are scripted by hidden elite machinery and sold as the people’s will.”

Accordingly, Antar believes a comprehensive IRS investigation is needed, and reports he has filed a whistleblower complaint with the IRS. Thanks to Sam Antar, the Mamdani machine may soon face scrutiny as one of the most brazen political funding scandals in New York City’s modern history.

Joel Gilbert is a Los Angeles-based film producer and president of Highway 61 Entertainment. He is the producer of the new film Roseanne Barr Is America. He is also the producer of the films: Dreams from My Real Father and There’s No Place Like Utopia and many other films on American politics. Gilbert is on Twitter: @JoelSGilbert.

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The Department of Justice will deliver partially redacted files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation to the House Oversight Committee starting this week, Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) announced.

“Officials with the Department of Justice have informed us that the Department will begin to provide Epstein-related records to the Oversight Committee this week on Friday,” Comer said in a press release.

This comes after the committee sent subpoenas to probe the government’s handling of the case and the powerful individuals tied to the late pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Comer and the House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to the Department of Justice for records related to Epstein and deposition subpoenas to a high-profile list of former federal officials.

The sweeping list includes former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, and multiple former Attorneys General.

House Oversight Subpoenas Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, James Comey, Merrick Garland, Bill Barr, and Other Deep State Operatives in Relation to Epstein Files — Deposition Schedule Released

Former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr sat for his deposition on Monday and, according to Comer, testified that he has never seen anything in the Epstein documents that would implicate President Trump.

President Trump has also asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the sealed grand jury transcripts and any credible evidence in the documents.

However, an Obama-appointed federal judge denied the Justice Department’s bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury transcripts from a Florida investigation, the Gateway Pundit reported.

The subpoena sent to the DOJ also requests "all communications between President Biden and/or Biden Administration officials and the Department of Justice related to Jeffrey Epstein."

"There are many records in DOJ’s custody, and it will take the Department time to produce all the records and ensure the identification of victims and any child sexual abuse material are redacted," Comer said.

"I appreciate the Trump Administration’s commitment to transparency and efforts to provide the American people with information about this matter.”

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