President Trump is not sitting silent after his beloved New York fell hard to communists backed by the Marxist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, three Mamdani-backed ‘democratic socialists’ swept congressional primaries in New York last night.

One of these victims was nepo baby and incumbent Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman. He was trounced by former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander in the race for New York’s 10th Congressional District.

Other wins by communists included state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, who crushed Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, and former Mamdani campaign staffer Darializa Avila Chevalier.

Chevalier upset five-term incumbent Democrat Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the leader of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

While observing the election returns, Trump warned that history shows that only further disaster awaits the Empire State.

“Many Communists running in badly failing Blue States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The votes seem to have them doing quite well against each other.”

“The bad news is that history has conclusively shown that the downtrodden States that they will soon be running will ONLY GET WORSE.”

The President also had a sarcastic and savage response to Goldman, who previously served as lead majority counsel in the first impeachment against President Trump in 2019.

Even though he tried unsuccessfully to prosecute me, and despite the fact that he is a major Slimeball, I feel sorry for FORMER Congressman Dan Goldman.

He is wandering aimlessly, together with the former husband of the great Kellyanne Conway, through a large field of Dumocrat Communists, trying so hard to find his way.

A very sad finish for a man who has no clue, and never did!!! President DJT.

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Former MSNBC host Joy Reid is done with Democrats until the party cuts all ties with Israel.

The far-left commentator made the remarks last week during an interview with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates on the “The Joy Reid Show” YouTube channel.

“To me, I, going forward, cannot vote for a Democrat who does not pledge to end this relationship” with Israel,” Reid said.

“This relationship needs to end,” she added.

Reid called Israel “a nuclear-armed expansionist power” and argued that American taxpayers should stop sending the country money.

“They don’t need our money, and they definitely won’t get my vote,” she said.

The interview took place Thursday, according to Fox News.

While pulling support for Israel is an idea that is growing more popular among Democrats, Reid has a long history of anti-Israeli statements.

She also reportedly has had issues with Jews dating back years.

In March of last year, the New York Post reported that a former MSNBC production assistant said Reid blamed Orthodox Jews for helping spread COVID throughout New York during the pandemic.

The former staffer, who is Jewish, said she was startled by the comments and later complained to a producer.

“They’re the reason why COVID is spreading across New York,” the former staffer said Reid told staffers on a conference call. “They don’t care about COVID or spreading it to others.”

Reid reportedly made the comment to about 20 people who were on the call.

The staffer told the Post, “No one called her out [saying] ‘Maybe we shouldn’t generalize.’ Imagine if you said that about any other group of people — even if it were true — saying that any other group didn’t care about COVID?”

The person added, “I remember feeling shocked — shocked by her ignorance and how anti-Semitic it sounded.”

The former Reid employee also gave insight into Reid’s alleged hypocrisy during her tenure at MSNBC, which has since been rebranded MS NOW.

“It was a very hypocritical atmosphere. It was completely contradictory,” the person said.

According to the source, Reid’s model was “speaking up for so-called marginalized groups but had no problem blaming Jews for spreading the virus.”

“It was very targeted racial issues [on the show] but other discrimination went ignored,” the person said.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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One of America’s top generals has abruptly announced he was resigning as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth continues to purge the Department’s failed senior leadership.

As The Associated Press reported on Wednesday, General Christopher Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa and commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command, surprisingly announced he was quitting his position after only a year and a half.

Per CBS News, Donahue had been clashing with Hegseth.

More from The Associated Press reported:

The Army’s commander of its forces in Europe and Africa — who was famously the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan in 2021 — is unexpectedly stepping down from his post after just 18 months in the job, the Army confirmed late Tuesday.

Gen. Christopher Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa and commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command, will relinquish his command on July 2, according to an Army statement provided to The Associated Press.

He is the latest in a line of nearly two dozen top military leaders to either retire or depart their jobs early under the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has undertaken an effort to thin the ranks of the military’s top brass with the mantra “less generals, more GIs.”

Donahue’s deputy, Maj. Gen. Christopher Norrie will temporarily take over his duties.

Donohue’s resignation comes as Hegseth sought to downgrade his post from four-star to three-star. As the Daily Mail notes, such a demotion strips the military’s highest rank of command.

Donohue is famous for being the American service member to leave Afghanistan during the 2021 withdrawal from the country. He commanded Delta Force units in Iraq and Afghanistan before leading the 82nd Airborne Division from July 2020 to March 2022.

Last May, Hegseth ordered the new examination of the withdrawal. It’s not yet known what specific new information the review is seeking.

Donohue is the latest of several other prominent generals to be ousted.

Back in April, Hegseth terminated the following military figure: Army Chief of Staff General Randy George, the Army’s chief of chaplains, Major General William Green Jr., and the head of Army Transformation and Training Command, General David Hodne.

These firings came after the ousting of over a dozen generals and admirals since Hegseth assumed office.

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On June 21, far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella defeated leftist senator Iván Cepeda to become Colombia’s new president. De la Espriella, a political newcomer endorsed by President Trump, ran on a platform of tougher security, ending peace talks with rebel groups, expanding oil and gas production, and lowering taxes, directly reversing the policies of outgoing leftist President Gustavo Petro.

With the shift in Colombia, nine Latin American countries now have right-leaning governments, a regional trend that began accelerating in late 2023 and has continued through mid-2026. Conservative and right-wing forces have dominated Latin America’s political leadership since 2025 for the first time in many years, with the proportion of Latin Americans identifying as center-right reaching its highest level in more than two decades.

The Biden presidency coincided with the peak of the second Pink Tide in 2022-2023, when only five countries, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Uruguay, stood outside leftist control. As a result, roughly 13 of Latin America’s 18 major countries had left-leaning or center-left governments.

Of those, at least seven were openly socialist or further left. Peru’s Pedro Castillo ran on an explicit socialist platform before being jailed after attempting to dissolve the government. Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, a former M-19 guerrilla, became the country’s first left-wing president in its 212-year history. Honduras’s Xiomara Castro governed as a self-described democratic socialist, while Bolivia’s Luis Arce maintained the MAS movement’s socialist agenda financed through state extractivism.

Venezuela under Maduro, Cuba under Díaz-Canel, and Nicaragua under Ortega had largely abandoned electoral democracy, operating as socialist or communist one-party states. Brazil under Lula, Chile under Boric, Argentina under Fernández, and Mexico under AMLO and his successor Sheinbaum occupied the softer center-left.

The shift back to the right has been reinforced by President Trump, who has forged strong relationships with many of Latin America’s conservative leaders. The trend began with Javier Milei’s libertarian victory in Argentina in November 2023. Milei modeled much of his campaign on Trump. Rather than adopting the slogan “drain the swamp,” he wielded a chainsaw at rallies to symbolize his pledge to slash public spending and cut through government bureaucracy, earning him the nickname “the Chainsaw President.”

His slogan, engraved on the chainsaw, was “¡Viva la libertad, carajo!” or “Long live liberty, damn it!” The symbol gained international attention in February 2025 when Milei gifted a red chainsaw to Elon Musk at CPAC. Musk waved it above his head onstage and declared, “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.”

The blue wave continued through Panama and El Salvador in 2024 and gathered momentum in 2025 with right-wing victories in Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, and Chile. Costa Rica added to that count in February 2026, when right-wing candidate Laura Fernández won the first round with 48.6% of the vote. Runner-up Álvaro Ramos Chaves also belonged to the center-right.

Colombia followed in June 2026, and Peru appears set to do the same, with conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori projected to win pending final certification. The last major test of whether the wave holds is Brazil, where Lula faces Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round of the October 2026 election.

In addition to coinciding with President Trump’s second term, the decline of socialism in Latin America accelerated following USAID cuts enacted by the Trump administration. On January 20, 2025, his first day back in office, Trump signed Executive Order 14169, “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” imposing an immediate pause on foreign assistance pending review.

By March 10, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that 83 percent of USAID programs had been eliminated, representing 5,200 contracts. On July 1, 2025, USAID formally ceased operations and was absorbed into the State Department.

USAID and the State Department had been responsible for roughly 90 percent of the approximately $3 billion annual U.S. democracy aid budget globally, with the National Endowment for Democracy accounting for the remainder. That funding supported NGOs, civil society organizations, media projects, and election-monitoring programs across Latin America for decades, consistently backing left-wing causes and left-leaning governments.

In 2024, USAID awarded a $2 million grant to Asociación Lambda in Guatemala to fund sex-change operations and related treatments, including hormone therapies and puberty blockers. It also funded transgender-themed artistic initiatives in Colombia and Peru, while its Democracy, Rights and Governance election-integrity arm operated alongside those programs.

The defunding of that apparatus removed the infrastructure that had sustained left-wing political movements across the region for decades. El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally vilified by the left for incarcerating gang members and transforming his country into one of the safest in the region, confirmed the dynamic from the inside, posting on X that “the majority of these funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas, and destabilizing movements.”

Those making the causal argument raise a second-order question: even where USAID was not directly funding left-wing political movements, did the flow of U.S. dollars allow socialist governments to sustain themselves longer than their own disastrous economic policies would have permitted?

Under socialist governments, decades of central planning, protectionist policies, and extensive state subsidies and interventions left poverty largely undiminished and income distribution across Latin America largely unchanged. With roughly $1.7 billion per year flowing into the region through NGOs, public institutions, and UN programs, left-wing governments in countries such as Bolivia, Honduras, Ecuador, and Colombia did not have to fully absorb the costs of their own economic failures.

Food-security programs, poverty-alleviation funding, and civil-society grants funded by Washington effectively subsidized social stability in countries whose governments were simultaneously hostile to U.S. interests.

In 2024, USAID transferred approximately $45 million to the UN World Food Programme to support Venezuelan migrants across Latin America, aid that relieved pressure on host governments regardless of their political orientation but also reduced the visible human cost of regional economic mismanagement driven by Venezuela’s socialist collapse.

In Peru alone, USAID allocated approximately $135 million in 2024 for food security, anti-narcotics operations, job creation, environmental protection, public health, and democracy-building. That portfolio supplemented government service delivery and reduced the political accountability that would otherwise have fallen on the incumbent government.

NGOs receiving USAID funding distributed services, employment, and resources through networks aligned with left-wing political movements, functioning as a parallel welfare state that reinforced incumbent support without appearing on any government budget.

Americas Quarterly noted the irony that some of the Latin American leaders most hostile to USAID, including Evo Morales, Hugo Chávez, and Rafael Correa, owed part of their political rise to USAID-supported aid infrastructure.

For decades, USAID funding coincided with a rise in left-wing governments coming to power in Latin America, then the funding stopped, and so did the left’s dominance.

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Democrat Scranton, PA, Mayor Paige Cognetti is hoping to flip a red congressional seat blue by unseating Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA). But a resurfaced video from 2020 exposes a gun-grabbing posture that some voters may not be aware of.

In the video, taken from a virtual town hall, Cognetti supports disarming police and emulating Japan’s gun-control laws to take away guns from citizens.

Japan has some of the strictest gun control laws in the developed world.

The Firearms and Swords Control Law 1958 states that no one shall possess a firearm except under narrow, strictly regulated exceptions. Handguns are banned with almost no exceptions for ordinary citizens.

Cognetti told the town hall audience, “I would love to get to a world where a country where we don’t have or police don’t have firearms and where we don’t have firearms that citizens aren’t carrying them either.”

“I’ve lived in Japan for a couple years. There are no guns there and it’s lovely.”

She continued, “We don’t have to worry about some of these things because there are no guns there. That would be something that would be a great reality for us to live in.”

Watch:

Cognetti repeated her fantasy during an interview with the Black Scranton Project, saying, “I do want to get to a point where we don’t have to worry about any officers having holsters or guns in them.”

“That is ideally where we get in our whole country.”

National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Reilly Richardson told the Daily Caller News Foundation, “Political opportunist Paige Cognetti wants to rip firearms away from law-abiding citizens while simultaneously making life easier for criminals.”

“Pennsylvanians know Cognetti will go to great lengths to strip them of their constitutional rights.”

WFMD notes that Bresnahan’s campaign manager, Peter Brath, weighed in on the comments in February, saying Cognetti “has repeatedly shown a stunning disregard for the safety of her constituents, including the very law enforcement officers sworn to protect them.”

“She downplays rising gang violence and murders, wants to disarm the police, and was recently caught partying in New York City just days after the brutal machete murders of two women and a service dog devastated the community.”

“Time and again, Mayor Cognetti refuses to get her priorities straight. The people of Scranton deserve better,” Brath added.

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