Trump Nominates New Surgeon General, RIPS Senator Cassidy For Stonewalling Previous Nominee
April 30, 2026
President Trump on Thursday nominated a Dr. Nicole B. Saphier to be the next US Surgeon General.
Trump’s full statement:
I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier to be the next SURGEON GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Nicole is a STAR physician who has spent her career guiding women facing breast cancer through their diagnosis and treatment while tirelessly advocating to increase early cancer detection and prevention, while at the same time working with men and women on all other forms of cancer diagnoses and treatments.
She is also an INCREDIBLE COMMUNICATOR, who makes complicated health issues more easily understood by all Americans. Dr. Nicole Saphier will do great things for our Country, and help, “MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN.”
Congratulations Nicole, our Country has long been waiting for you! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Earlier Thursday President Trump ripped Senator Bill Cassidy (LA) for stalling his previous Surgeon General nominee:
For months, Senator Bill Cassidy (of the GREAT State of Louisiana!), a very disloyal person whose “TRUMP” Endorsement got him elected, but later voted to impeach “President Trump” on what has now proven to be a total Hoax and Scam, has stood in the way of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Nominee, Casey Means, for the important position of U.S. Surgeon General.
I nominated Casey, a strong MAHA Warrior, at the recommendation of Secretary Kennedy, who understands the MAHA Movement better than anyone, with perhaps the possible exception of ME!
Nevertheless, despite Senator Cassidy’s intransigence and political games, Casey will continue to fight for MAHA on the many important Health issues facing our Country, such as the rising childhood disease epidemic, increased autism rates, poor nutrition, over-medicalization, and researching the root causes of infertility, and many other difficult medical problems. Casey, thank you for your service to our Nation! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump told the Republicans in Louisiana to vote Cassidy out.
“Hopefully all of the Great Republican People of Louisiana, which I won, BIG, three times, will be voting Bill Cassidy OUT OF OFFICE in the upcoming Republican Primary! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Newly Released Text Messages: Biden DOJ Lawyers Caught Reveling in Plans to Target Catholic Nuns
April 30, 2026
Senator Grassley
The anti-Christian, and more prominently anti-Catholic, bias during the Biden administration continues to unfold.
Text messages recently obtained exclusively by Daily Wire and released by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) show that two of Jack Smith’s prosecutors, Joseph (JP) Cooney and Molly Gaston, texted each other, reveling in fantasies of prosecuting Catholic nuns.
Communications obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) show Joseph Cooney and Molly Gaston texting one another in February 2021 as they scoured media coverage of January 6.
The texts specifically reference a New York Times photo of religious sisters who attended the “Stop the Steal” rally, wearing traditional habits and veils, as well as big Trump scarves around their necks.
“I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,” Gaston wrote to Cooney.
“I’m with you,” responded Cooney. “Although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.”
Going after Catholics was entrenched in Joe Biden’s DOJ/FBI.
Under Biden, the DOJ weaponized the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 law that prohibits interfering with anyone obtaining or providing “reproductive health services,” as a punishment for the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
In 2023, the FBI warned against ‘radical traditionalist Catholic ideology’ in a memo posted to UncoverDC.com by former FBI special agent Kyle Seraphin.
The memo detailed that the FBI believes ‘white supremacy’ is found in the home of Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass.
In 2023, The Gateway Pundit reported that Chris Wray’s FBI was infiltrating Catholic parishes and engaging in outreach to Catholic leaders to spy on Americans practicing their Christian faith.
In January 2025, Gaston was fired by the Trump administration.
Cooney, who in February 2021 submitted a proposal to the FBI to investigate President Trump and individuals within his orbit, is running for Congress in Virginia.
SICK: Democrat Congressman Suggests that War Secretary Pete Hegseth Should Be EXECUTED (VIDEO)
April 30, 2026
Rep. Seth Mouton (D-MA) seemingly calls for War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s execution during an interview on CNN. Credit: CNN screenshot
A Democrat congressman is coming under fire for seemingly calling for Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s death during an interview.
On Wednesday, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) went on CNN to speak about Hegseth’s testimony before the House of Representatives regarding the Iran War. Hegseth went viral earlier in the day for slamming another Democrat for calling the conflict a quagmire.
The interview took a turn after host Erin Burnett played a clip from an exchange Moulton had with Hegseth over the War Secretary saying he would give “no quarter” to America’s enemies, including shooting drug mugglers on boats.
Moulton called this a “war crime” and told Burnett that Hegseth was a war criminal and should be tried for war crimes.
“Do you believe that the Secretary is guilty of war crimes?”
“Absolutely… The Allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing. And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed.” pic.twitter.com/5XeR7BEQvg
MOULTON: On top of that, we then have the strike where they came back and hit it again…Just to purely kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage.
You know, it’s interesting Erin, another historical analogy back in World War II the allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing.
And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed.
Just imagine the uproar if a Republican had suggested that Biden’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin should have been put to death over what happened in Afghanistan back in 2021.
The corporate media, though, will simply brush off Moulton’s despicable statement about Hegseth and pretend nothing happened.
CRINGE: James Comey Plays Victim After 2nd DOJ Indictment | Drew Hernandez
April 30, 2026
Former FBI Director James Comey released a video statement on Substack Tuesday defending himself after a federal grand jury indicted him for a second time over an Instagram post prosecutors say threatened President Donald Trump. In the video, Comey opened by saying, “Well, they’re back – this time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago, and this won’t be the end of it,” before insisting that “nothing has changed with me.”
He reiterated, “I’m still innocent, I’m still not afraid, and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary, so let’s go,” casting the new case as a test of judicial independence rather than his own conduct.
The indictment charges Comey with two felony counts for allegedly using a 2025 Instagram photo of seashells arranged as the numbers “86 47” to convey a threat to “take the life of, and inflict bodily harm upon,” the president and to transmit that threat in interstate commerce.
Comey has attempted to claim he viewed the shell arrangement as a political statement he stumbled upon on a beach walk, claimed he did not realize some people associated “86 47” with violence, and noted that he took the post down because he opposes violence of any kind. In his new video, he argued that the prosecution is “not who we are as a country” and “not what the Department of Justice is supposed to be,” suggesting the charges reflect a political vendetta from Trump’s DOJ rather than a good‑faith application of the law.
Clips of Comey’s remarks were quickly repackaged on Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms, where short news reels about the “86 47” case drew significant viewership and rapid-fire comment threads. Under one widely shared Instagram reel summarizing the indictment and Comey’s video response, the top comments simply read “Guilty,” as users echoed Trump allies’ claim that the shell photo was a veiled threat against the president.
Earlier uproar over the same image had already drawn angry posts from conservative figures such as Donald Trump Jr., while officials like former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Comey on social media of “calling for the assassination” of Trump and vowed that agencies would “respond appropriately.”
Echoing those sentiments after the new indictment, right-leaning commentators and politicians amplified the case online by arguing that a former FBI director “should be held accountable and put behind bars for this,” even as Comey and his supporters attempt to portray the prosecution as a dangerous overreach with serious First Amendment implications.
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Jihadist Network Identified as U.S. Homeland Threat Expands Control in Mali
April 30, 2026
A jihadist network is expanding across West Africa’s Sahel region, where the U.S. lost its last regional counterterrorism base in 2024. JNIM, an al-Qaeda affiliate, has combined insurgency with shadow governance, a model analysts compare to HTS in Syria. Photo courtesy of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.
A jihadist network the U.S. government has specifically identified as a homeland threat is seizing control of a West African nation the size of Texas and California combined. In his posture statement to Congress, AFRICOM commander General Michael Langley warned that if ISIS and al-Qaeda groups, including JNIM, the al-Qaeda affiliate that on April 25, 2026, launched the largest coordinated attack in Mali’s history, continue their expansion, they will pose a direct threat to the U.S. homeland.
In a State Department press briefing, Langley stated directly that JNIM and other violent extremist organizations in the Sahel “have aspirations of attacking the United States homeland.”
The 2026 Homeland Security Threat Forecast named JNIM specifically among groups capable of sustaining training infrastructures, facilitating cross-border fighter movement, and inspiring or directing strikes abroad from Sahel safe havens. The CFR’s Global Conflict Tracker assessed that the growing strength of violent extremist organizations in the Sahel poses significant security and financial risks to the U.S. and Europe.
The Soufan Center’s 2026 threat forecast concluded that JNIM, which has effectively conducted an insurgency while building shadow governance structures, will likely continue to expand with only minimal state resistance.
That expansion has been enabled, in part, by the junta’s own conduct. Mali is governed by Gen. Assimi Goïta, who seized power in a 2020 coup, staged a second coup in 2021, dissolved all political parties in May 2025, and in July 2025 granted himself a five-year presidential mandate, renewable indefinitely. According to ACLED data, Russian fighters and Malian soldiers killed at least 918 civilians in the previous year, compared with 232 killed by JNIM and the Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP) combined.
The Africa Center reports that since 2023, civilian fatalities linked to Malian security forces and their Russian partners have far exceeded those attributed to militant Islamist groups, a pattern that has driven rural populations toward JNIM for protection and fueled the group’s recruitment. With political parties banned and elections indefinitely deferred, there are no domestic channels through which grievances can be addressed.
The U.S. spent more than two decades and hundreds of millions of dollars attempting to prevent exactly this outcome. U.S. counterterrorism investment in Mali dates to the immediate aftermath of 9/11. In 2002, the State Department launched the Pan Sahel Initiative to assist Mali, Niger, Chad, and Mauritania in detecting and responding to suspicious movement of people and goods. Funded at nearly $8 million over two years, it deployed the 10th Special Forces Group to train rapid-reaction companies of roughly 150 soldiers in each partner nation.
In 2005, Congress approved $500 million for the successor Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative over six years, with Mali as a primary recipient. Of the $230 million obligated between 2005 and 2007 alone, approximately 74 percent went to Sahel countries, including Mali, according to a GAO audit. The initiative was later absorbed into AFRICOM, which has sustained operations and training across the continent since 2008.
Mali’s political collapse unfolded in two stages. On August 18, 2020, senior military officers led by Goïta launched a coup from the Kati military base outside Bamako, citing the government’s ineffectiveness and corruption in handling the northern conflict. Goïta was initially installed as vice president of a transitional government, with a civilian figurehead as president and a promise to hold elections within 18 months.
A second coup followed in May 2021, when Goïta arrested the transitional president and prime minister and assumed the presidency himself after a dispute over whether to cooperate with France or Russia. By the end of 2021, hundreds of Wagner Group mercenaries had deployed across Mali, prompting France, Canada, and European partners announced a full troop withdrawal by mid-2022, citing Wagner’s presence. By December 2023, more than 15,000 French, EU, and UN troops had departed from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
Prior to the coups, the U.S. maintained training missions and cooperative security locations across Mali, Niger, and the broader Sahel. This included a $110 million drone base in Niger that served as a regional hub for counterterrorism operations. Niger’s July 2023 coup proved the most consequential, as Washington was ultimately forced to hand over its last military base there to local authorities in August 2024. The loss of Niger’s basing, combined with the earlier exclusion from Mali, has effectively ended persistent U.S. counterterrorism coverage across the central Sahel.
Mali’s collapse is the product of compounding failures. These include the expulsion of French forces and UN peacekeepers, the turn to Russian mercenaries who alienated the population through civilian killings, the destruction of political legitimacy under an indefinitely extended military junta, and the steady geographic expansion of jihadist networks. These groups have now demonstrated the capacity to strike simultaneously across 1,500 kilometers of territory.
The Soufan Center assessed after the April 25 attacks that having a country the size of Mali under the control of a terrorist group would set off alarm bells from Washington to Paris. Yet both the U.S. and France are not currently postured to respond. Counterterrorism budgets and personnel continue to be rolled back, and a general sense of terrorism fatigue has set in across the U.S. government, despite repeated warnings from its own intelligence and military leadership of a growing threat to the homeland.
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