Merz’s competence is questioned in his own party.

When Olaf Scholz lost a no-confidence vote and was dismissed as German Chancellor back in February 2025, all of Germany let out a sigh of relief.

Scholz seemed the absolute worst leader for a Germany filled with illegal migrants, with a stagnant economy that is de-industrializing at a rapid pace.

But they haven’t seen Friedrich Merz yet.

Less than 18 months later, the failure of Chancellor Merz is depicted in his poll numbers – historical for all the wrong reasons.

ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll: 13% satisfied with Merz’s work as Chancellor; 84–87% dissatisfied. That’s the weakest rating for any incumbent chancellor in nearly 30 years of the poll.

RTL/n-tv Trendbarometer poll: 14% satisfied, 85% dissatisfied (Merz is ‘stable’ at recent lows).

So, you have a highly unpopular Chancellor, stuck in record-low favorability numbers.

Merz’s solution was to promote a reshuffle in his government, looking for a ‘fresh restart’.

Unsurprisingly, the move backfired, with intensified pressure on ‌Merz after his reshuffle angered his own ranks and put a spotlight on his government’s competence.

Many in his own CDU party doubt that he can be the man to oppose the right-wing surge at state elections in September.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz came under criticism from his own party members after a cabinet reshuffle, which was meant as a fresh boost for his leadership, turned into chaos https://t.co/8Nzsw9hDot

— Bloomberg (@business) July 27, 2026

Reuters reported:

“After a testing first year in office, Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc is trailing in national polls behind the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, and in several states.

[…] Merz’s personal popularity ⁠has sunk, according to a poll by broadcasting group RTL/ntv published on Tuesday, with only 15% of respondents satisfied with his performance, and only 49% of his ​own party’s supporters happy with him.

The AfD has also for the first time overtaken the conservatives on perceptions of competence and ability to solve Germany’s problems, the poll ​said.

‘The events of the past week have significantly damaged Merz’s standing within the CDU’, a member of the CDU federal executive board told Reuters.”

German President Steinmeier appoints new ministers in cabinet of Chancellor Merz. New ministers for health, transportation and management of the chancellory. Steinmeier said it is not unusual to change ministers. Reforms should go on. Merz‘s own party criticized the reshuffle. pic.twitter.com/Ez3gY7klu2

— Bernd Thomas Riegert (@RiegertBernd) July 29, 2026

Politico reported:

“Discontent in Merz’s party — the conservative Christian Democratic Union — has been mounting for two weeks now.

[…] No one is yet saying out loud that Merz should go. But if his party performs poorly in three state elections in September, the crisis will likely become much harder to contain.

[…] For now, Germany’s conservative politicians are holding back in public, at least until this fall’s elections: in Saxony-Anhalt on Sept. 6, then in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern two weeks later.

In private, however, talking about replacing the chancellor is no longer taboo.”

Read more:

Failing German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the Ropes as His CDU Party Plans ‘Palace Coup’ To Enthrone Young and Popular Hendrik Wüst in His Place

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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) dropped the hammer on Dr. Anthony Fauci during Wednesday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on the federal government’s catastrophic COVID response, waving a massive stack of papers in the disgraced former NIAID director’s face and exposing one of the most brazen lies of the pandemic.

Johnson zeroed in on Fauci’s August 29, 2021 CNN appearance where the so-called “science” declared there was “no evidence” ivermectin was helpful against COVID.

“You said there’s no evidence that ivermectin is helpful,” Johnson said. “On that exact same day… There was a website that was tracking the randomized controlled studies. Here they are showing 60, 70% efficacy of ivermectin. The same day you say there’s no evidence. There was all kinds of evidence.”

Johnson didn’t stop there. He pressed Fauci on whether he was involved in the FDA’s coordinated attack on the Nobel Prize-winning drug, and on the parallel sabotage of hydroxychloroquine, because the only way to secure emergency use authorization for the experimental mRNA shots was to claim no effective treatments existed.

Johnson: Loved ones had to go to hospitals, had to sue hospitals. Just, “Would you try it?” So I would want to know, to what extent were you involved in sabotaging hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin? And did you do that because you knew the only way you could get emergency use authorization for these experimental gene therapies was if there was no effective treatment? You couldn’t get the emergency use authorization. So is that why you helped sabotage these cheap generic drugs in favor of Remdesivir, which, by the way, nurses—are you aware of the fact that nurses called it “Run, Death Is Near”?

After the confrontation, Fauci declined to answer the question, stating: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment.”

WATCH:

Fauci FRAUDULENTLY claimed ivermectin didn’t work so the government could inject the entire population with emergency-use-authorized gene therapies.

106 studies involving 200,000+ patients show ivermectin:

REDUCED mortality by 47%
REDUCED hospitalization by 34%
REDUCED cases by… pic.twitter.com/XilGajRpQW

— Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) July 29, 2026

The Gateway Pundi has been covering this for years. There are now 106 Ivermectin COVID-19 controlled studies showing a 62% lower risk of early treatment in COVID-19 patients.

The chart, titled “Ivermectin for COVID-19 – 106 studies with more than 200,000 patients,” claimed that pooled data from randomized controlled trials and observational studies showed significant reductions in mortality, hospitalization, ICU admission, viral clearance, and other serious COVID-19 outcomes among patients treated with ivermectin.

Johnson argued that this type of evidence was publicly available on the very day Fauci asserted there was “no evidence” that ivermectin was effective, calling the statement demonstrably false.

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By Wayne Allyn Root

You’re not connecting the dots. The GOP Senate isn’t connecting the dots. Even President Donald J. Trump isn’t connecting the dots.

Dr. Fauci was the centerpiece of the 2020 stolen presidential election.

Fauci, and China, and the CCP, and the Deep State, and the Democrat Party, are all connected.

This was the biggest conspiracy in world history.

But it wasn’t intended to turn into mass murder. The purposeful and planned Covid pandemic, first and foremost, was all about stealing the 2020 election. That’s the real crime. That’s the foundation of these crimes against humanity.

The millions of dead, injured and disabled in America, and around the world, are just a side effect of this scheme and scam.

The point wasn’t to murder millions. It was to destroy President Trump’s economy, cause crisis and chaos, and scare everyone with lockdowns, arrests, masks, and social distancing, which then opened the door for mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting and ballot drop boxes, with no Voter ID, in order to defeat Trump and steal his presidency.

The key piece of evidence is the PARDON.

Why did Biden (and his boss- the REAL President Obama) pardon a doctor? I understand why they pardoned a whole bunch of crooked Democrat politicians. That’s called politics. That’s “business as usual.”

But why pardon a doctor? Why give him a blanket pardon even though he was not charged with a single crime at this point

Even if Dr. Fauci did fund Covid…even if he is “the father of Covid”…even if we didn’t need lockdowns, or masks, or social distancing, or untested deadly vaccines…even if the economy was ruined and millions of Americans lost their jobs…even if millions of Americans died from a vaccine that was promoted as “safe and effective.” So what? Why were Democrats so desperate to pardon him? What’s this got to do with them?

The answer is EVERYTHING.

Why would Biden (and his boss Obama) care? That’s not their problem. They could pin it all on Fauci and let him take the fall. This wasn’t politics- this was healthcare-related, and medical malpractice. It had nothing to do with the Democrat Party, right? So, why pardon Dr. Fauci?

Because it had everything to do with the Democrat Party…and the stolen 2020 election.

What if this wasn’t malpractice by a lone wolf medical quack? What if it was politics all along?

What if it was a conspiracy involving Dr. Fauci working in concert with China, the CCP, the Deep State, and Democrat Party leadership to destroy Trump, scare the nation into compliance, and steal the presidency?

Dr. Fauci knows where all the bodies are buried. He can place Democrats at the scene of the crime.

I’m guessing no one planned for millions to die. They planned to make hundreds of billions of dollars off Covid, and defeat Trump, and steal the 2020 election, and then, once in control of the White House, make hundreds of billions more doling out government contracts.

But along the way, millions died from Covid, and millions more died from the vaccine gone wrong. It all spiraled out of control. Hence the desperate coverup, and mass censorship. Fauci is the key to it all.

If he spills his guts, everyone hangs.

Therefore, Democrats granted him the blanket pardon in order to protect the biggest election conspiracy in world history, which spiraled out of control into mass murder.

Sure, this is about Dr. Fauci’s litany of medical crimes…

*Fauci funded and literally invented the Covid pandemic that killed millions.

*Fauci shut down the nation with a lockdown that was never necessary.

*Fauci mandated masks, even though he knew masks do nothing.

*Fauci invented and mandated “social distancing” out of thin air, even though it had zero purpose.

*Fauci demonized the one drug that worked effectively and cheaply versus Covid- Ivermectin. Millions died because of this fraud alone.

I personally beat Covid in 48 hours with Ivermectin- and never missed one hour on TV or radio. Ivermectin instantly turned my bout with Covid into a mild cold.

Yet Fauci demonized Ivermectin as a drug for horses, pigs and cows, to keep anyone from trying it, and forced pharmacies to refuse doctor’s prescriptions (while Americans were sick and every hour mattered).

*By blocking the use of Ivermectin, Fauci made himself and his friends in Big Pharma hundreds of billions of dollars with the Covid vaccine- because it was granted “emergency use authorization.”

*This also allowed Fauci to mandate Remdesivir as the official drug to treat Covid in hospitals- even though it killed thousands of patients. Remdesivir is so deadly that nurses across America nicknamed it “Run Death is Near.”

*Fauci also demanded schools be shut down, retarding children’s education, even though studies showed not one child in all of America ever died of Covid, unless they had childhood cancer.

*And we now know from Fauci’s own diaries that he got a serious blood clot in his lung after getting the Covid vaccine. Yet he covered up his life-threatening illness- because blood clots were a side effect of the vaccine.

The crimes go on and on. So do the questions.

*Why isn’t Dr. Fauci on trial for his life? If found guilty, this evil monster deserves the death penalty for fraud, mass murder, and crimes against humanity.

*Why was Fauci pardoned?

*Why were Senate Democrats so desperate to protect Fauci at Wednesday’s Senate hearing? Why did he take the 5th to every question?

*What does Fauci know that poses such a threat to Democrats?

*Yes, Fauci received a pardon. But if it was an autopen, can it be revoked? Can a blanket pardon be legal when no crime has yet been charged?

*Even if the pardon is legal, Fauci can still be indicted and prosecuted on the state level by Republican Attorney Generals. Why isn’t that happening?

Millions died because of Fauci’s funding of Covid. Millions more died because of the untested vaccine mandated under Fauci and Biden. Fauci is guilty of mass murder and crimes against humanity on a scale of Hitler and Josef Mengele.

But I’m betting that’s not the main reason for this Democrat cover-up. The real crime they’re so afraid of is the stolen 2020 election. It’s all tied together. Fauci is the key.

Fauci knows where all the bodies are buried. He can bring the whole Democrat Party and Deep State down.

The right questions weren’t asked at that US Senate hearing. It’s all about the pardon, and the stolen 2020 election. Connect the dots.

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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday voted to keep rates unchanged.

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted 9-3 to keep rates at the range of 3.5% to 3.75%.

CNBC reported:

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged Wednesday, but the central bank’s latest policy decision could still have significant implications for household budgets.

Higher energy prices stemming from the Iran conflict may have lasting inflationary effects, which likely contributed to the Fed’s decision to leave rates on hold as policymakers wait to gauge the economic fallout, economists said. The dynamic could also lead policymakers to consider raising rates at their September meeting, even as President Donald Trump has said that the U.S. “should have the lowest interest rate in the world.”

“It’s very difficult to read the chairman and know his view of the path forward,” said Eugenio Alemán, chief economist at Raymond James, referring to new Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh.

However, any move toward higher rates would increase borrowing costs for consumers at a time when affordability pressures are already mounting. “Consumers will remain stressed going forward, and if they start increasing interest rates, conditions are going to deteriorate further,” Alemán said.

The FOMC issued a statement:

The Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent, in support of the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate. The Committee is continuing its policy of maintaining ample reserves in the banking system.

Economic activity is expanding at a solid pace despite elevated uncertainty that owes, in part, to the conflict in the Middle East. Productivity growth and capital investment are strong. Job gains have kept pace with the workforce, and the unemployment rate has changed little.

Inflation remains elevated relative to the Committee’s 2 percent goal, in part reflecting supply shocks that have driven price increases in certain sectors, including energy. The Committee will deliver price stability.

Voting against the monetary policy action were Beth M. Hammack, Neel Kashkari, and Lorie K. Logan, who preferred to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point at this meeting.

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh held a press conference at the conclusion of the July meeting.

WATCH:

WATCH LIVE: Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivers remarks after interest rate decision https://t.co/KGiV9pyInd

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 29, 2026

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