Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent busted out the receipts during a hearing and raised some very serious concerns about a Democrat senator’s kid with a brutal question.

As The Hill reported, Bessent testified Wednesday morning before the Senate Finance Committee on President Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget request for the department.

The White House wants $11.5 billion in budget authority for the Treasury Department’s domestic programs in 2027. This marks a 12% decrease from 2026.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) decided to use the hearing to get personal with Bessent and the Trump Administration. Wyden had previously feuded with Bessent over the relase of deceased p*dophile Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records.

After getting smeared, Bessent pointed out that Wyden’s son, Adam, had an investment with Epstein.

Wyden accused Bessent of being a “capo” to what he described as “the most corrupt regime in American history.” But the Oregon Democrat then got completely blindsided by Bessent.

The Treasury Secretary then revealed that Adam Wyden’s largest investment was in Rick’s Cabaret, a high-end strip club.

So, Bessent had just one question:

“Did your son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility?”

What a savage.

WATCH:

BESSENT: “Sen. Wyden has slandered the Treasury building to cover up his son having an investment with Jeffrey Epstein.”

WYDEN: “Nobody is interested in the rambling of a capo in the most corrupt regime in American history.”

BESSENT: “Your son’s largest investment position… pic.twitter.com/N8KNmWxvMV

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 3, 2026

BESSENT: Senator Wyden has slandered the Treasury building to cover up his son having an investment with Jeffrey Epstein.

WYDEN: Let’s be clear: nobody is interested in the ramblings of a capo in the most corrupt regime in American history. We want to get some facts about this deal; that’s what we’re here for.

BESSENT: And we would like to hear what Adam Wyden and Jeffrey Epstein talked about. Your son’s largest investment position was Rick’s Cabaret, so did your son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility?

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Democrats spent Wednesday morning shouting at Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a hearing over the State Department’s budget.

Marco Rubio’s testimony to the House committee on Wednesday comes just one day after he had back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

Rubio testified before the House Foreign Relations Committee about the Trump Administration’s 2027 budget.

Democrat Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove shouted at Rubio about his role in shutting down USAID abuses.

“And giving contracts with no transparency is exactly the reason why you shut down USAID! So practice what you preach!” Rep. Kamlager-Dove shouted.

“Can I answer? Oh, she gets to scream now, too?” Rubio said.

“What kind of thing is this? What is this? You get asked questions for 5 minutes, and you don’t get time to answer? It’s not a hearing! What is this?” Rubio said.

Democrat Rep. Kamlager-Dove then stormed out of the hearing.

“Why is she leaving? I’m gonna answer her questions!” Rubio said, pointing to Rep. Kamlager-Dove.

The Democrat shouted at Rubio as she stormed out.

“Well, thank you for coming,” Rubio said.

WATCH:

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This article originally appeared on Iran So Far Away and was republished with permission. 

Some scandals explode. Others are filed.

The Khomeinist regime’s nomination to the United Nations Committee for Programme and Coordination belongs to the second category: a scandal processed through procedure, hidden under consensus, and passed through the room before anyone could properly ask why a regime that terrorizes women at home should be given proximity to women’s rights programming abroad.

On April 8, 2026, the United Nations Economic and Social Council — ECOSOC — quietly nominated the Islamic regime in Iran to the UN’s Committee for Programme and Coordination, known as the CPC. This is not a ceremonial committee invented to keep diplomats busy between receptions. The CPC reviews and helps shape UN program priorities in areas that include women’s rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention, according to UN Watch and reporting by the Jerusalem Post.

The UN’s self-contradiction now reads like a sly attempt to launder corruption as procedure. In December 2022, ECOSOC voted to remove the Islamic Republic from the UN Commission on the Status of Women for the remainder of its 2022–2026 term, after the regime’s crackdown on the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. The vote was 29 to 8, with 16 abstentions, as reported by UNifeed, Axios, and the U.S. State Department. Three and a half years later, the same UN system found a side door: not the same women’s commission, but another committee touching the machinery of women’s rights and human rights programming. The nameplate changed. The obscenity did not.

The nomination did not advance through a roll-call vote, public debate, or visible moral reckoning. It advanced by consensus — that useful diplomatic device by which everyone participates, and no one leaves fingerprints.

According to UN Watch, the United States was the only ECOSOC member state to object. The chair repeatedly invited objections. The U.S. alone took the floor to disassociate itself from the consensus. The rest stayed silent.

Canada, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, the United Kingdom, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany did not stand up and say no. Some later reached for the familiar procedural excuse: Iran had been put forward by the Asia-Pacific regional group. That is a fact, not an alibi. ECOSOC members still had the chance to object. They did not.

This is what diplomatic cowardice looks like when it wears a nice suit.

The Khomeinist regime is not a government with “concerns” attached to it. It is not a difficult partner, a misunderstood state actor, or a regime going through a rough patch. Its character is not hidden. Its methods are not theoretical.

In January, the world saw again, in real time, the regime’s ease in slaughtering Iranians. The January 8 and 9 massacre of innocent citizens, followed by continuing executions of protesters and other Iranians at the hands of the remaining goons of the Shia Mafia, should have ended every polite fiction.

The terror is also far from confined to Iran. The regime has long exported its methods to Europe and beyond through plots, assassinations, intimidation, and hostage-taking. Yet even then, Western governments found room for silence.

The UN’s own human rights mechanisms have documented the regime’s violent repression of peaceful protests and its institutional discrimination against women and girls. In March 2024, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran found that such repression and discrimination had led to serious human rights violations. And yet this same regime was allowed to move closer to a UN committee connected to the architecture of women’s rights and human rights programming.

That is the scandal. Not only that Iran was nominated, but that the act passed with barely a murmur. No major Western media storm followed. No rolling CNN outrage cycle or New York Times moral symposium. No Washington Post banner treatment or Reuters alarm bell dominating diplomatic coverage. The issue appeared mostly through UN Watch, the Jerusalem Post, and scattered secondary reports.

That silence is useful. It is how the UN bureaucracy launders the reputations of tyrannies without appearing to do so. Authoritarian regimes understand the machinery. They know democratic governments are often more afraid of “disrupting consensus” than of betraying principle. They know Western diplomats would rather preserve the ritual than defend the rule.

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New Jersey Democrats have nominated a man who traveled with Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, testified in his defense at the largest terrorism trial in American history, and volunteered with an organization the U.S. Treasury Department and the 9/11 Commission identified as part of Osama bin Laden’s covert financial network.

The candidate is Dr. Adam Hamawy, a plastic and combat surgeon from Princeton, New Jersey, who won a crowded Democratic primary in the heavily Democratic 12th Congressional District, where Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman is retiring. He will face Republican Gregg Mele in the November 3, 2026, general election in a district Democrats have held comfortably for years. If elected, Hamawy would be New Jersey’s first Muslim member of Congress.

Hamawy has been endorsed by Senators Tammy Duckworth and Bernie Sanders and Representatives Ro Khanna, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib, as well as leftist organizations including Justice Democrats and Our Revolution.

Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the “Blind Sheikh,” obtained a doctorate in theology from Al-Azhar University in Cairo and co-founded al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya in the 1970s to advocate militant action against the Sadat regime.

Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya militants participated in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, whose killing Abdel-Rahman had legitimized by issuing a fatwa.

He was arrested but acquitted of direct involvement. Despite being on U.S. terrorist watch lists, Abdel-Rahman entered the United States in 1990 through a combination of bureaucratic incompetence, name-transliteration errors, and Cold War-era intelligence priorities that had not yet fully pivoted to Islamist threats.

He settled in the New York area, preaching at mosques in Brooklyn and Jersey City. He issued a fatwa declaring it lawful to rob banks and kill Jews, and his sermons condemned Americans as “descendants of apes and pigs.” An FBI informant recorded him stating that acts of violence against civilian targets in the U.S. were not illicit.

The network that supported the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the men who mixed the chemicals, rented the van, and scouted the target, were Abdel-Rahman’s devoted followers who attended his sermons and viewed him as their spiritual guide.

He was never charged with the bombing itself but was its ideological engine. In 1995, he and nine followers were convicted of conspiring to wage “a war of urban terrorism against the United States,” including plots against the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, and the United Nations.

Abdel-Rahman subsequently forged an alliance with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. The fatwa he smuggled out of prison, calling on Muslims to destroy American, Jewish, and Christian economies, burn corporations, sink ships, and shoot down planes, was later credited by bin Laden as theological justification for the September 11 attacks.

At sentencing, Abdel-Rahman declared: “This is an infidel country. It has an infidel White House. It has an infidel Congress. It has an infidel Pentagon. And this is an infidel courthouse.” He died on February 18, 2017, at FMC Butner, North Carolina, serving life imprisonment plus 15 years.

Hamawy met Abdel-Rahman in 1991 and, according to a 1995 court transcript, visited him at his home and accompanied him on a 13-hour van trip to a conference in Detroit, sharing a hotel room with the sheikh at the destination.

The presiding judge later stated that Hamawy “was more than a casual traveling companion of Abdel-Rahman,” noting he had met the sheikh after Abdel-Rahman had already been charged with providing spiritual authority for the Sadat assassination, attended several of his sermons, visited him at home before trial, and provided translation services.

Hamawy served as Abdel-Rahman’s translator at a 1993 press conference in which the cleric denied involvement in the World Trade Center bombing.

The November 29, 1991, conference in Detroit, the First Annual Conference of the Islamic Charity Project International, held at the Westin Hotel, was titled “Towards a Global Islamic Economy.”

The speakers were not economists. The featured speakers were leaders of jihadist organizations: Abdel-Rahman, head of Egypt’s Gamaa Islamiya; Ahmed Nofal, a leader of Hamas; and Hassan al-Turabi, leader of Sudan’s National Islamic Front.

Abdel-Rahman’s address, entered into evidence at trial as Government Exhibit GX-388, was titled “The Best Way on Supporting Jihad.” Its opening sentence declared jihad “the pinnacle of Islam.” Eleven minutes in, Abdel-Rahman described Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as “the loyal dog of America.” The U.S. government successfully argued this was a solicitation to murder.

Four years later, Hamawy took the stand for the defense at that terrorism trial. He greeted Abdel-Rahman in the courtroom with “Asalam Alaykum,” receiving a reciprocal greeting.

On direct examination by defense attorney Lynne Stewart, Hamawy described the Detroit conference as “an economy conference.” Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald then began cross-examination. When asked whether he recalled Abdel-Rahman discussing Mubarak that weekend, Hamawy answered: “No. Not really.”

Fitzgerald then asked whether he recalled the sheikh calling Mubarak “the loyal dog of America in the Middle East.”

Hamawy answered: “He referred to him that way several times, yes,” but said he did not recall it happening that weekend. Fitzgerald handed him Government Exhibit 388T, the official conference transcript. Hamawy confirmed the passage. Forty seconds earlier he had answered “no, not really.”

According to Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the only thing that had changed was the document in front of him.

Fitzgerald pressed further. When asked whether Abdel-Rahman spoke about jihad rather than economics, Hamawy replied: “it wasn’t jihad in specific.” The speech opens on waging jihad as an obligation, returns to it mid-speech as the only cure, and closes with a Quranic verse threatening divine punishment on Muslims who decline jihad. When shown the passage about conquering “the land of the infidels.”

When asked whether the transcript refreshed his recollection, Hamawy responded: “Yes, but you’re kind of taking it out of context.” Fitzgerald then asked the most direct question: “Was this a trade war, or was it jihad?”

Hamawy answered: “It was a struggle in the sake of God, yes. It was a jihad.” The witness called to portray the conference as an economics event had told the jury, in his own words, that its main address was a jihad speech.

Fitzgerald turned to the second speaker. When asked whether he had ever heard Ahmad Nofal affiliated with Hamas, Hamawy answered “No” and then “Never.”

Nofal was known internationally as a Hamas leader. His Detroit speech, which Hamawy admitted personally observing, defended Hamas in its clash with the PLO and called Jews “Shylocks” and “the sons of Satan.”

Emerson notes that Hamawy’s memory failures followed a consistent pattern: he recalled granular detail about the van trip to Detroit, who was driving, what vehicle, whose homes they stopped at, what each passenger wore, where each one sat, but could not recall the substantive content of a forty-minute religious speech at the destination, with every failure running in the defendant’s favor.

When Fitzgerald asked whether Abdel-Rahman gave speeches on tolerance toward Jews and Christians, Hamawy acknowledged: “usually when he spoke in public he spoke about jihad, that’s what he spoke about.” Abdel-Rahman was convicted on every count, including seditious conspiracy and soliciting the murder of Mubarak, the count Hamawy had been called to rebut.

One year before taking the witness stand, Hamawy traveled to Bosnia in the summer of 1994 and volunteered with the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), a Chicago-based nonprofit. Jewish Insider recovered this from a 1996 Newark Star-Ledger interview through a print archive, unreported for thirty years.

BIF was formed in 1992 when a Philippine-based group founded by bin Laden’s brother-in-law Mohammed Jamal Khalifa merged with a Saudi charity.

While BIF publicly described its mission as humanitarian relief, its Arabic-language fundraising appeals characterized it as a “trustworthy hand for the support of both the mujahideen and refugees” fighting in Bosnia.

In May 1993, Saudi Arabia, wary of BIF’s Al-Qaeda ties, shut down the foundation’s operations in the kingdom and detained its leader, Adel Batterjee, in what was reportedly the only pre-9/11 instance of the Saudis closing an Islamic charity.

According to FBI agent Robert Walker’s court testimony, BIF operated in tandem with Al-Qaeda across multiple nations, providing “logistical support,” and bin Laden used it in the early 1990s to transfer money to bank accounts held by purported relief organizations in countries where Al-Qaeda members were conducting operations.

The 9/11 Commission identified BIF’s Sarajevo base as part of an “impressive array of offices” that covertly provided financial and other support for terrorist activities established by bin Laden.

When Bosnian and American authorities raided BIF’s offices in 2002, they found weapons, correspondence between chief executive Enaam Arnaout and bin Laden, an organizational chart of Al-Qaeda, and the “Golden Chain,” a handwritten list composed by bin Laden in 1988 naming Al-Qaeda’s 20 main financiers. The U.S. Treasury Department and the United Nations Security Council continue to list BIF among entities sanctioned for terrorist connections.

Zenica, where Hamawy reported working, was where the Bosnian Army had recently established its “El Mujahedin” unit for foreign fighters.

The European Court of Human Rights found that BIF was among the organizations providing funds and assistance to that unit. Federal prosecutors accused BIF of funneling funds and weapons to Bosnian fighters and foreign mujahideen groups active near Zenica.

In May 1995, the Military Security Service of the Bosnian Muslim Army warned its own superiors that known Arab-Afghan mujahideen in the Balkans were connected with BIF activists, and that BIF had abused its humanitarian role by making conversion to Islam a precondition for receiving aid.

The federal indictment against Arnaout alleged that Al-Qaeda’s goal in Bosnia was to establish a base for operations in Europe against the United States.

Hamawy told the Star-Ledger he found BIF through the “Bosnian mission to the United States.” Records indicate the counselor at that mission was New Jersey native Saffet Catovic, who later became public spokesman for BIF when federal agents first raided its offices in December 2001.

FBI affidavits linked BIF’s Bosnian director to Afghan militant commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who was in turn linked to Abdel-Rahman, another ally of bin Laden who allegedly encouraged his followers to wage jihad in Bosnia. Last fall, Catovic hosted Hamawy on a YouTube panel about Gaza, and members of Catovic’s family have donated to Hamawy’s congressional campaign, per FEC records.

Hamawy has not been accused of terrorism-related wrongdoing in connection with the Bosnia trip. At the time of his work with BIF, the organization had not yet been publicly identified as having ties to Al-Qaeda, U.S. terror designations came years later, after September 11.

Beyond the Blind Sheikh record, Hamawy’s endorsement and funding network is concerning. CAIR Action endorsed him alongside the New Jersey Muslim Civic Coalition Action and Americans for Justice in Palestine Action. The FBI has suspended all formal contacts with CAIR due to evidence of a relationship between CAIR and Hamas, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization.

CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial. CAIR’s executive director Nihad Awad, who endorsed Hamawy, said he was “happy to see” the October 7 Hamas massacre; the Biden White House condemned his statements.

American Priorities PAC, a newly formed super PAC positioned as a counter to AIPAC, committed to spending up to $2 million on Hamawy’s behalf and had already spent more than $1.5 million in television and digital advertising by primary day.

The PAC raised $3.8 million from just 12 donors in its first three months, with every contributor giving at least $50,000. Its largest donations came from Omer Hasan and Mohammed Waqas, two tech workers who both made six-figure donations to a super PAC backing Zohran Mamdani during the 2025 New York City mayoral election.

Other funders include Silicon Valley angel investor Tariq Afaq Ahmed and Amir Nathoo, a Tech for Palestine board member who was once banned from LinkedIn after comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.

American Priorities has pledged to spend $10 million throughout the 2026 midterms installing pro-Palestinian candidates in Congress.

Despite this record, Hamawy won Tuesday’s primary with 27.4 percent of the vote in a field of 13 candidates. He will face Republican Gregg Mele in November in a district that Democrats have held comfortably for years, making his nomination consequential well beyond New Jersey.

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War Room host Steve Bannon went off on Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin this week after he called former Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino “irrelevant” and claimed not to know who he is.

Bovino resigned as Border Patrol Chief in March after helping to lead the execution of President Trump’s mass deportation promise. Bovino has said he had a plan to deport 100 million illegal aliens from the United States and criticized CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott and Border Czar Tom Homan for lacking the experience and willingness to do so.

He has also been increasingly critical of Markwayne Mullin in light of the ongoing insurrection at the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey, where violent leftist rioters have taken over.

After Mullin slighted Bovino and purported not to know anything about him, Bannon went off on his War Room podcast, slamming Mullin for capitulating to the mob. “You don’t know who he is, and he’s irrelevant to you? You better find out who he is, because you don’t know what you’re doing on your job,” Bannon said, noting that the “savages” rioting against ICE are “going to keep coming.”

“I thought we made Antifa a terrorist organization. Why has Treasury not shut down all sorts of funding? Why are all of them not rounded up? That’s that’s not a peaceful protest, that’s not people trying to be there and peaceful protesting. No, that is a riot, that is an act of terrorism. When are we going to stop having press conferences and start doing it?” he continued. 

“Bovino did it. Bovino told you it’s 100 million people, 100 million illegal alien invaders, and he was for mass deportations. If you haven’t talked to him, maybe you should sit down and talk to him because clearly that’s at that would have, would have a better take on what’s happening right now. Now you’re just taking incoming.”

Bannon further criticized the Trump Administration’s “compromise” in originally saying they’re going after every illegal alien in the country, to now targeting “the worst of the worst,” illegal aliens who have already committed heinous crimes– while here illegally.

“Now we’re just not going to get down to bad hombres, we’re going to get down to the worst hombres, and then we’re going to get down to capital crime hombres, and then you’re not going to have anybody deported. The American people voted for mass deportations. The American people want mass deportations,” he said.

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You don’t know who he is, and he’s irrelevant to you? You better find out who he is, because you don’t know what you’re doing on your job. There should be tougher enforcement up there in New Jersey. That’s Fort Apache right there. The more you show weakness, these people are savages, they’re like dogs and animals, the more they smell, they can feel weakness and fear.

They’re going to keep coming. I thought we, I thought we made Antifa a terrorist organization. Why has Treasury not shut down all sorts of funding? Why are all of them not rounded up? That’s that’s not a peaceful protest, that’s not people trying to be there and peaceful protesting. No, that is a riot, that is an act of terrorism. When are we going to stop having press conferences and start doing it?

Bovino did it. Bovino told you it’s 100 million people, 100 million illegal alien invaders, and he was for mass deportations. If you haven’t talked to him, maybe you should sit down and talk to him because clearly that’s at that would have, would have a better take on what’s happening right now. Now you’re just taking incoming.

And any compromise from them, they’re going to keep pressing it, and so now we’re just not going to get down to bad hombres, we’re going to get down to the worst hombres, and then we’re going to get down to capital crime hombres, and then you’re not going to have anybody deported. The American people voted for mass deportations. The American people want mass deportations.

The American people will come out in the fall and support mass deportations. Tap dancing around this is not going to get people going door to door and canvassing and saying ‘yes, we fully support this program, and we will do whatever needs to be done and support you and support the political class that sorts this problem out.’

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Mullin snubbed Bovino during a press conference on Monday, saying he’s “never met the guy” and describing him as “irrelevant.”

Bovino responded, calling BS on Mullin’s claims. “When you’re ready to fulfill @POTUS’ promise of mass deportations, let’s talk,” he wrote on X.

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