President Trump is gearing up to fire a US Attorney who is refusing to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud.

Erik Siebert, the interim US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia is reportedly unwilling to charge Letitia James amid reports the DOJ hasn’t gathered enough evidence to bring an indictment.

Per CNN: “President Donald Trump intends to fire US Attorney Erik Siebert, who has been under pressure to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN.”

“It is not immediately clear if Siebert has been informed,” CNN reported.

Fox News also reported on Trump’s plans to push Siebert out:

U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert is being pushed out of his role as the top prosecutor of the Eastern District of Virginia, a move that comes as some Trump administration officials are seeking to bring charges in that district against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Siebert’s perceived unwillingness to bring charges against James, one of Trump’s top political nemeses, is the main reason for his ouster, according to multiple sources who spoke to Fox News.

Siebert, who has worked in the Eastern District of Virginia since 2010, has not yet been confirmed in the Senate and was on track to be. Now, according to one of the sources, the White House has told Siebert to resign or be fired.

TGP has extensively and exclusively reported on Letitia James’ mortgage fraud via Joel Gilbert:

1. Big Development: Is Letitia James Guilty of Mortgage Fraud? 
2. Mortgage Fraud Alert: Did Letitia James Marry Her Father?
3. The Letitia Files: Did Letitia James Illegally Hire a Nonprofit for Her 2013 Campaign?
4. Revealed: NY Attorney General Letitia James Declares Virginia Home Her ‘Principal Residence’
5. New for Letitia Files: Is Letitia James’ Rage Against Trump Really a “Daddy Issue?”

The Trump Administration recently criminally referred New York Attorney General Letitia James to the Justice Department over accusations of mortgage fraud.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) accused Letitia James of falsifying records, citing a 5-unit property in New York she claimed was only four units in order to get a more favorable loan.

TGP recently reported on this 5-unit property in Brooklyn that Letitia James purchased in 2001.

For more than 20 years, Letitia James repeatedly claimed her Brooklyn apartment building was a four-unit property on mortgage applications—despite official records proving it had five.

This is not a minor discrepancy. Lying to the bank about the unit count enabled Letitia James to secure more favorable loans, including a 2011 Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) loan that saved her tens of thousands of dollars annually.

DEVELOPING…

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The far-left transgender community can now claim yet another assassin or would-be assassin as one of their own.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, 29-year-old Nicholas Roske of California, who was arrested in 2022 in connection with a plan to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, pleaded guilty to the charge back in April.

Roske was charged with flying from California to the East Coast, where he took a cab to Kavanaugh’s home in Maryland in June 2022, so he could kill Kavanaugh because he was angry the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.

The Daily Wire now exclusively reported on Friday that a filing from Roske’s defense attorneys shows that he now goes by “Sophie Roske” and that his legal team will refer to him using female pronouns.

“The case is captioned as United States v. Nicholas John Roske,” lawyers for Roske say. “That name remains Ms. Roske’s legal name, and she has not asked to recaption the case. Out of respect for Ms. Roske, the balance of this pleading and counsel’s in-court argument will refer to her as Sophie and use female pronouns.”

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The transgender connection gets even more damning, however. A source in the case told The Daily Wire that Roske was using female identities online BEFORE the attempted murder, but is only now going by the female name reflected in the defense filings.

The reason for this is unclear.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi spoke out about the attack during an interview with the Daily Wire on Friday morning. She did not address Roske’s newfound ‘identity’ as a woman.

“This attempt against the life of a Supreme Court Justice was an attack on the entire judicial system that cannot go unpunished,” Bondi said. “This Department of Justice condemns political violence, and our prosecutors will ensure that this disturbed individual faces severe consequences for his deranged actions.”

According to the Daily Wire, the Department of Justice is recommending </>that Roske be sentenced to 30 years in prison.

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James Comey’s secret media mole Daniel Richman has been subpoenaed in a federal investigation into leaks.

Newly declassified memos reveal James Comey’s secret media mole Daniel Richman leaked classified information to The New York Times’s Michael Schmidt to help push for a special counsel in May 2017.

It was previously reported that James Comey penned nine memos stemming from his conversations with President Trump – and then leaked them through his Columbia University law professor ‘friend’ Daniel Richman.

Comey told the Senate Intel Committee in a June 2017 testimony that he asked a ‘friend’ of his to leak contents from memos he kept regarding his conversation with President Trump to the New York Times.

Daniel Richman confirmed to the Washington Examiner that he was Comey’s friend at Columbia. He has been referred to in the New York Times as a “longtime confidant and friend of Mr. Comey’s,” and his bio at Columbia’s website lists him as an “adviser to FBI Director James B. Comey.”

Not once did he ever disclose Daniel Richman was one of his personal lawyers or an unpaid employee of the FBI until right before his testimony.

In newly declassified memos, it was revealed that Comey shared classified information with Daniel Richman.

Richman told agents conducting the FBI’s “Arctic Haze” investigation that some of the classified information was all the way up to the SCI level [Sensitive Compartmented Information].

According to ABC News, Daniel Richman was subpoenaed and met with federal prosecutors this week.

ABC News reported:

A Columbia law professor who is a friend and adviser to former FBI Director James Comey was subpoenaed last week by federal prosecutors in connection with a criminal probe into whether Comey allegedly lied in testimony before Congress, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Daniel Richman has previously acknowledged his role as an intermediary between Comey and reporters in the wake of Comey’s 2017 firing by President Donald Trump during his first term over Trump’s anger with the FBI’s investigation into his 2016 campaign.

Richman met with federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday, sources familiar with the matter said.

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In China, the Party leads everything, and Xi Jinping is taking “everything” further than any leader since Mao.

Under Xi, China is building a new model of social governance that fuses Mao-era mobilization with modern digital surveillance. Before waging war with the U.S. over Taiwan, a campaign Xi sees as the rejuvenation and reunification of China, he must prepare the nation. Military expansion, a growing nuclear arsenal, and economic adjustments are underway. Yet economics remain his weakest point, where President Trump’s trade wars have dealt China major blows.

Xi has little control over Trump and limited means to offset the loss of the U.S. market or lure back foreign investment. For decades, U.S. capital fueled cheap manufacturing in China, but tariffs and restrictions have redirected investment to Southeast Asia, India, and even back to the U.S.

Analysts often focus on Xi’s control of the military and economy, but his social controls are just as critical. A war with the U.S. would bring hardship across daily life: conscription of young men and women, rationing of coal and electricity, loss of energy imports, wartime manufacturing, and reduced exports limited mostly to Russia and nearby states.

As a net food importer, China would face rising food insecurity, with the army fed first and civilians left behind. For centuries China’s vast population has been its greatest strength, but war could turn it into a liability unless citizens are conditioned to endure suffering and support the Party’s objectives without question.

From my own experience in the Burma war, Xi needs mothers with empty stomachs to accept their sons dying for Party goals, and families in cold, dark apartments to believe a malnourished or sick child is an acceptable sacrifice for the state.

On some level, the people’s acquiescence can be secured through threats, secret police, domestic intelligence, torture, gulags, and executions, methods China has used before and could use again. Yet aside from targeted persecutions, such as against the Uyghurs or Falun Gong, widespread violence has not been applied to the general population since the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976.

Instead, the CCP, like its Soviet counterparts, has relied on winning voluntary enlistment to the national cause. Persuasion, education, and the internalization of Party ideology are central to this effort. The CCP even borrows language from U.S. political discourse, claiming China is a country of laws and that people have rights under the constitution. The difference is that in the U.S. the Constitution is guaranteed and supreme, while in China it is subordinated to the Party.

Framed this way, the CCP presents its rule as both legitimate and protective, making citizens feel safe and convinced the Party acts in their best interests. Heavy propaganda reinforces the idea that the Chinese system is superior. When I studied in China, it was common to hear professors say, “Nigeria and India are democracies. Do you really want to live like that?” Whenever political debates, riots, or high-profile killings occurred in the U.S., they would say, “You see how much better the Chinese system is. We don’t have school shootings or assassinations.”

That claim is nearly true, but misleading. China experiences bombings and mass stabbings, often carried out by separatists. Yet because the Party controls the news, most citizens remain unaware.

Another point is that Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign has doubled as a tool to eliminate political rivals. Since coming to power in 2012, he has launched the largest such campaign in Communist Party history, purging millions.

More than 4 million cadres have been investigated, with about 2.3 million prosecuted and 1.5 million convicted. High-level targets include over 120 senior officials, nearly 500 investigated since 2012, and 58 removed in just the first three quarters of 2024. In that same period, 642,000 cadres at various levels were punished.

The military has been hit hard. Sixty-three generals were expelled in what is described as the largest purge in modern Chinese history. Of the 79 generals promoted under Xi, 14 have already gone missing or been investigated during his third term alone.

Outcomes vary: roughly 80 percent receive light penalties, 10–13 percent face severe punishment, and most high-ranking officials are jailed in relatively lenient “luxury prisons,” a far cry from the executions and banishments of Mao’s era. The campaign has focused almost entirely on government, Party, military, and state-enterprise officials, not private citizens.

The CCP frames its purges as protecting the interests of citizens and the nation. After all, under communism any money stolen by leaders is considered to belong to the people, so the Party claims it must safeguard citizens’ rights and property. The irony is that while communism claims to eliminate hierarchy, it is itself highly hierarchical. When convenient, the state can label generals, politicians, or even senior party leaders as “class enemies,” just as it once did with landlords and entrepreneurs.

For ordinary citizens, social governance is increasingly framed through the language of security. Outwardly, the state emphasizes law-based governance, rights protection, and public service. In reality, these are tightly interwoven with propaganda, surveillance, and the security apparatus. After three decades of building up digital surveillance, China now has one of the world’s most powerful policing systems, seamlessly embedded in daily life.

Since 2019, the CCP has launched a wave of patriotic and defense education policies designed to reshape public consciousness around loyalty, security, and readiness to “struggle.” These measures include the morality and patriotic education outlines, curriculum reforms in 2020–21, the 2023 Patriotic Education Law, and the 2024 National Defense Education Law. Unlike earlier efforts in the 1990s and 2000s, today’s campaign is broader and deeper, saturating all levels of education with Xi Jinping Thought and the concept of “comprehensive national security.”

From kindergarten through university, textbooks stress patriotism, cultural confidence, and loyalty to the Party, even weaving ideology into science classes with references to “red genes.” Academia itself is being reshaped with new Xi Jinping Thought and national security research centers, while scientists are explicitly tasked with serving national goals. As Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang declared in 2024, patriotism is now regarded as the “spiritual essence” of scientific work.

This patriotic push extends beyond schools and universities. Community organizations hold exhibitions, lectures, and defense-preparedness activities. Businesses increasingly require new employees to undergo defense training. Meanwhile, the Ministry of State Security uses social media to run anti-espionage campaigns, framing vigilance in strongly nationalist and anti-Western terms. Together, these initiatives exploit the narrative of external threats to strengthen internal unity and discipline.

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Chaos erupted Friday morning at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago, where approximately 100 protesters gathered to oppose the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration enforcement initiative dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz.”

Federal agents deployed tear gas and pepper balls to disperse the crowd after demonstrators attempted to block vehicles from entering and exiting the facility, leading to at least two detentions.

The protest began around 5 a.m. CT, with activists linking arms and chanting against deportation raids in the area.

As a vehicle tried to leave the center shortly after 8:30 a.m., authorities responded with chemical irritants, forcing protesters and nearby journalists to scatter amid clouds of smoke.

Video footage captured the chaotic scene, showing demonstrators coughing and running from the gas, with some accusing agents of treating the area like a “warzone.”

Among those involved were prominent local figures, including Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, who criticized the lack of prior notification about the operation to state officials. Progressive Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, running for Illinois’ 9th District, was physically shoved to the ground by agents during the confrontation.

The more they try to silence us, the louder we make our voices heard. I stand with the Illinoisans who are speaking out against injustice and defending our neighbors from the cruelty taking place at Broadview and across our state. pic.twitter.com/R08nAIvoEi

— Juliana Stratton (@JulianaStratton) September 19, 2025

Mask wearing Illinois Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh (D) just got BODIED by ICE after trying to f*** with them

Immediate FAFO pic.twitter.com/0CR6Bsj8wK

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 19, 2025

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss reported being tear-gassed alongside other peaceful protesters, calling it a “terrifying escalation.”

Federal forces just tear gassed myself and the other peaceful protestors here at the Broadview ICE facility. This is a terrifying escalation, but we will not back down. pic.twitter.com/15VvI6jZE8

— Daniel Biss (@DanielBiss) September 19, 2025

“Operation Midway Blitz” is part of a broader federal crackdown on illegal immigration, focusing on individuals with criminal records or outstanding warrants. ICE officials have explained that the actions as necessary to dismantle trafficking networks and enhance public safety, amid rising tensions in sanctuary cities like Chicago.

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