The mayor of the small town of Milner, Georgia, Craig Timmons, has admitted he secretly placed a GPS tracker on Police Chief Lamar Bunn’s city vehicle and set up a camera on private property aimed at City Hall after becoming concerned about work hours and timesheets.

The disclosure outraged the department, prompting Bunn and all five full-time officers to quit, with most of the reserve officers following, and City Manager Tausha Grose also stepping down.

Their resignations took effect on Wednesday, leaving the Lamar County Sheriff’s Office to cover law enforcement for the small town.

The city council later censured the mayor for not using proper channels and methods for his concerns. Members said Timmons should have first brought the issues to them as required by the city charter.

Timmons confirmed his actions to WSB-TV reporter Mark Winne, saying he bought the tracker with his own money and installed a camera at a car wash pointed at City Hall with the property owner’s approval.

Investigative reporter Mark Winne asked the mayor outright, “Did you place a tracking device on the police vehicle driven by the Milner police chief?”

“Yes sir, I did,” Timmons said.

Winne followed up, “Did you put a video camera out back of car wash pointed at the building where his office was?”

“Yes, City Hall, yes sir, and with approval from the property owner,” Timmons said.

The mayor said that his signature appears on the chief’s timesheets and that he believed there were problems with hours, stating, “The mayor’s position is not just shaking hands and kissing babies.”

Bunn told the council the tracker was placed without his knowledge or that of the council or city administrator and called it a violation of his rights.

Officers’ resignation letters cited a lack of trust, concerns about the mayor’s judgment and decision-making, and ethical issues.

Captain Craig Walton specifically called for an independent investigation into the mayor’s conduct.

WSB-TV reports:

Lamar County Sheriff Brad White says his deputies will continue to answer calls in Milner as they always have, but if the police department is absent long-term, the city will have to contract for police services with the sheriff’s office.

The mayor says he’s already getting unsolicited resumes for police positions and for city manager.

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A federal judge on Saturday tossed out President Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over an article claiming he gave Jeffrey Epstein a birthday letter.

In April, Florida-based US District Judge Darrin Gayles, an Obama appointee, tossed out the defamation suit but gave President Trump a chance to refile.

Trump’s legal team refiled the lawsuit, and Judge Darrin Gayles on Saturday dismissed it with prejudice.

This means Trump cannot refile the lawsuit; however, the president’s legal team will appeal the judge’s ruling.

The judge said Trump had “not plausibly alleged that the Defendants published the Article with actual malice.”

CNBC reported:

A federal judge in Miami on Saturday dismissed President Donald Trump’s amended defamation lawsuit with prejudice against media baron Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal, which had claimed the newspaper defamed Trump with a story saying the president had sent a “bawdy” 50th birthday letter to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The ruling comes roughly six months after Judge Darrin Gayles first dismissed the $10 billion lawsuit against Murdoch and the newspaper, which he owns.

By dismissing the suit with prejudice, Trump cannot file another amended version of the lawsuit in the district court. However, a spokesman for Trump’s legal team told CNBC on Saturday that the president plans to appeal the ruling.

“President Trump will continue to press forward in his powerhouse lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and all of the other defendants. The President will continue to hold those who mislead the American People with Fake News and smears accountable for their actions,” the spokesman said in a statement.

In July 2025, President Trump filed a libel lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters after the Wall Street Journal dropped a Jeffrey Epstein hit piece.

The case was filed in a federal court in Miami.

The Wall Street Journal previously dropped a ‘hit piece’ on President Trump.

According to the hit piece published by The Wall Street Journal, President Trump wrote Jeffrey Epstein a “bawdy” letter for his 50th birthday depicting a naked woman.

President Trump denied he wrote the letter.

Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly prepared a ‘special gift’ and collected letters written by Trump and other people.

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Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola is doubling down on the Dan Sullivan scandal, claiming that she had nothing to do with the fraudulent ballot-stacking scheme to disenfranchise Republican voters after it was revealed that her campaign coordinated the move. 

A man named Daniel J. Sullivan previously ran in the Senate primary as a Republican and is now running in the general election as a no-party-affiliated candidate after receiving just 2.5% of the vote. He is being propped up to confuse voters into voting for the wrong Dan Sullivan, giving Democrat Mary Peltola a victory in the solid red state.

Both federal and state prosecutors are investigating the matter.

The DOJ previously sued to block certification of Alaska’s Senate race if the Democrats’ decoy, Daniel J. Sullivan, causes incumbent Senator Dan S. Sullivan to lose.

The lawsuit seeks to prevent certification if Sullivan loses but would have won “had all votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan been cast instead for Senator Sullivan and Alaska’s rank-choice process played out accordingly.”

It was later revealed by the New York Times, however, that Dan J. Sullivan was recruited by Peltola’s campaign to rig the election. According to text messages and documents reviewed by the outlet, in the summer of 2025, a Peltola staffer was tasked with finding as many Dan Sullivans in Alaska as possible so they could add a second Dan Sullivan to the ballot.

The Times further reported that the plan involved traveling to “far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.” Daniel J. Sullivan was found in “a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea.”

According to the Associated Press, Peltola held a rally in Alaska’s capital of Juneau on Thursday and opened with, “I just want to clear the air. I knew nothing about any other candidate on the ballot except for me and the incumbent. That is all I have ever known about. I am not interested in tricking voters.”

Peltola addressed the scandal again during a rally in Anchorage on Friday, where she claimed, “I am so deeply offended by these accusations about having any involvement with anyone else’s candidacy.”

“I’m not out soliciting more competition,” she claimed, as if her voters would have picked one of the two Dan Sullivans on the ballot.

WATCH:

Trump said this week that Peltola’s campaign committed “voter fraud at the highest level” and should be removed from the race and face criminal charges.

“I think Dan Sullivan, the fake Dan Sullivan, and Mary Peltola should be — number one, they should be taken off the ballot, and number two, they should be prosecuted,” he said.

WATCH:

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Daniel J. Sullivan has disappeared as the Justice Department pursues a criminal investigation involving more than 40 subpoenas.

US Attorney for the District of Alaska Michael Heyman announced “a significant surge of law enforcement assets to Alaska,” and there are “several attorneys in my office” assisting with the investigation.

BREAKING: Alaska Senate Decoy Candidate Dan Sullivan DISAPPEARS as US Attorney Announces Surge in FBI Agents to Investigate Peltola Campaign Scandal (VIDEO)

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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced that Homeland Security Investigations has presented a “large case” to the Justice Department in the ongoing federal investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar, and that the probe is not limited to the Minnesota congresswoman.

Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Mullin stated, “This isn’t just a case that’s targeting one individual. This is a large case that we have presented to the DOJ, and the DOJ is leading the investigations.”

Mullin added that HSI agents “did a lot of investigation to be able to present the case to them.”

WATCH:

DHS CHIEF: OMAR PROBE IS A ‘LARGE CASE’ AIMED AT MORE THAN ONE PERSON
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says the federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar reaches beyond the Minnesota Democrat. “This isn’t just a case that’s targeting one individual. This is a large case that we have presented to the DOJ, and the DOJ is leading the investigations,” Mullin told Fox News on Friday.

Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Oct. 12. Mullin said they “did a lot of investigation to be able to present the case.”

Investigators are looking at whether Omar committed immigration fraud by marrying Ahmed Elmi, a British citizen alleged to be her brother, and whether she made false statements on government documents.

The same day, the New York Post reported that on a certified copy of Omar’s 2009 marriage license from Hennepin County, her surname was crossed out and replaced with “Elmi,” then changed back to “Omar.”

Asked last week by MS NOW’s Chris Hayes whether she married her brother, Omar said, “Not to my knowledge.”

Mullin pushed back after former President Barack Obama blasted the probe. “We’re not weaponizing. We’re not using political theater on this,” he said.

Omar denies any wrongdoing, and her lawyers have demanded the “immediate return” of everything agents seized. https://t.co/vKHaip72AQ

— AmericaToday.com (@ATNewsChannel) October 31, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit has been covering, Omar is currently under an active federal criminal investigation into possible false statements on immigration and naturalization documents.

On October 12, Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at her Washington, D.C., residence and seized phones, notebooks, and other items.

An October 21 Justice Department court filing refers to the congresswoman as “Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.”

Agents are also investigating whether Omar or her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, intentionally lied about her birth date on paperwork so she could gain citizenship through him as a minor when he was naturalized in 2000, despite being a legal adult.

Prosecutors told a court that grand jury subpoenas have gone to more than a dozen recipients, including relatives.

The grand jury is seated in Minnesota.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has said several investigations involving Omar are underway, including a separate review of her financial disclosures.

Mullin has rejected claims of political motivation, saying the department is “enforcing our nation’s laws” and “not weaponizing” or engaging in “political theater.”

The New York Post obtained a certified copy of Omar’s 2009 marriage license application from Hennepin County, Minnesota. On the form, dated February 12, 2009, her surname was initially written as Omar, then crossed out and changed to Elmi, then crossed out again and reverted to Omar.

The couple checked the box indicating they were not related by blood or adoption.

Omar has repeatedly denied the allegations against her.

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Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 70 that “Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.” He did not mean a government that smothers enterprise. He meant one with the vigor to clear the path for it.

In Federalist No. 12, he called commerce “the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth.” No administration in a generation has taken those twin ideas more seriously than the one in the White House today, and the proof lies in the race to build machine intelligence.

Last July, as he signed a trio of AI executive orders, President Donald J. Trump announced that it would be American policy to “do whatever it takes to lead the world in artificial intelligence.”

He warned that if you regulate AI too much, “you kill the source of American genius and technological power.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it more bluntly: “Winning the AI Race is non-negotiable.” The AI Action Plan that followed rests on three pillars: innovation, infrastructure, and international partnerships. It calls for faster permitting, federal land for data centers and power plants, and relief for builders from needless regulatory burdens.

In November, the Genesis Mission order pulled federal scientific data and national laboratory supercomputers into one effort that White House science officials call the largest federal scientific push since Apollo. As OSTP Director Michael Kratsios told Congress in January, “We are approaching AI not with fear, but with responsible boldness.” The administration also moved to replace a tangle of conflicting state rules with a single national standard, which is the very idea the Constitution was written to protect: one American market rather than fifty.

The market answered. In the second quarter, AI-related private business investment ran at about $1.5 trillion a year, up 25 percent from the year before. The largest technology companies are tracking roughly $750 billion in capital spending for 2026. Overall business investment is up 6.1 percent over the past twelve months. Companies do not pour that kind of money into a country that is hostile to builders. They bring it where the government has promised to get out of the way.

The administration has also asked the builders to carry their own weight. In March, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon joined the President at the White House and pledged to build or buy their own power for new data centers and to keep the costs off household electric bills. More than 250 companies have signed the First Lady’s pledge to fund AI education for young Americans, committing hundreds of millions of dollars. These are examples of private enterprise taking responsibility, not Washington issuing orders.

Then there is the part ordinary Americans can touch. On September 29, the President launched America.gov, an AI-powered front door to the federal government. “With America.gov,” he declared, the federal government “no longer stands in your way. It stands only at your service.” A citizen asks a question in plain English, and the site searches some 29,000 federal websites and answers only from official sources. There is no account to create, no advertising, and no saved conversations. The Chief Design Officer, Joe Gebbia, says the goal is for people to “never go back into the maze.”

At the launch, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz showed a woman who had spent over a year trying to enroll in Medicare. The site, he said, “explains what applies to Lisa’s situation and guides her through the decisions.” Secretary Rubio described the coming passport process this way: “No printing forms, no drugstore hostage photo, no appointment, no line.” Applications are slated to arrive through Login.gov in December, and the State Department aims for the vast majority of Americans to be able to apply this way by the end of 2027.

In early 2027, the site is scheduled to move from answers to actions, including benefits enrollment and tracking. An executive order requires every agency with a public service used by more than 100,000 people to plug in. The President’s goal is that what you need from your government will be “accessible at your fingertips.”

This is Hamilton’s point. A free market is not a passive thing. It needs a government with the energy to serve it: to clear the permits, to open the land, to build the front door, to stay out of the way of the builders. “A feeble executive,” Hamilton warned in Federalist No. 70, “implies a feeble execution of the government.” The sin of a weak government is not that it does too much. It is that it does everything badly.

Healthy skepticism is part of being a free people, and honesty requires it. Electricity prices are up 6.3 percent over the past year, and the data center pledge is voluntary. America.gov’s first phase is mostly answering questions, and critics say it is not yet a leap beyond earlier one-stop shops. These promises must be kept, and voters should hold the administration to every one of them.

But the direction is unmistakable. The Trump administration has chosen to back the people who build, to carry the costs on those who profit, and to hand the results to the citizen. Hamilton would have recognized the project. The country has chosen energy over feebleness, and the next chapter belongs to those who build.

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