A Clinton-appointed judge has suddenly passed away after freeing a dangerous migrant earlier this week.

As The New York Post reported, a legal source in Miami and a law clerk for Chief Judge Marcia Morales Howard of the Middle District of Florida, confirmed that Senior District Judge John E. Steele passed away at the age of 77.

His cause of death remains unknown at this point.

Back on July 8, Steele, who was appointed to the bench by former President Bill Clinton, infuriated conservatives after issuing a ruling ordering the release of Cuban plane hijacker Maikel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.

The agency took him into custody in December 2025 and intended to deport him to Mexico.

Via The Post, here is exactly what Guerra Morales did:

Guerra Morales took over a Cuban commuter plane in 2003 and forced the crew to land at Key West International Airport.

He spent more than 20 years in prison for aircraft piracy and conspiracy to interfere with a flight crew.

Despite these facts, Steele ordered the Cuban native to be released again under supervision. This means agents must try to monitor him before they can deport him.

Steele claimed that ICE could not send Guerra Morales to Cuba because of an anti-torture convention, and that the agency had provided no evidence that he had communicated with Mexico about sending him there.

Following Steele’s ruling, Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) filed an article of impeachment against him. The House Resolution presented by the congressman alleged that the judge had committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

“This is exactly the kind of activist judicial overreach the American people are sick of,” Steube explained to Fox News. “Judge Steele had every legal justification to keep a convicted plane hijacker off our streets, and he chose to let him go instead.”

The Department of Homeland Security also issued a scathing response to the now-deceased judge for his outrageous decision:

“This activist judge forced ICE to release a criminal illegal alien who was convicted and sentenced to 22 years for hijacking a plane back into American communities,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “This is yet another example of an activist judge trying to thwart President Trump’s mandate from the American people to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS will continue to fight for the detention and removal of criminal illegal aliens who have no right to be in our country.”

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by Aaron Gentzler

One of the top minds in Washington is out with a shocking new prediction…

Jim Rickards has spent close to 50 years working at the highest levels of Wall Street… international finance and the U.S. government.

In that time, he’s built a reputation for making calls that first seemed crazy – yet proved to be correct.

Back in the summer of 2008, he warned of a “major market meltdown.” And very few people believed him.

Yet within weeks, $8 trillion in stock-market wealth was wiped out.

Then it happened again…

In 2016, one major election model gave Hillary Clinton a 99% chance of winning the presidency. That’s when Rickards went on multiple news programs to make a prediction that seemed insane.

He said Donald Trump would win…

And once again, investors who saw what was coming had a huge advantage.

Then along came 2020.

In January of that year – when the word “coronavirus” was barely in the news – he sent a confidential memo to a small group of his readers, warning of a “contagion.”

Three weeks later… the virus hit and the stock market plunged 30% — the fastest crash in history.

Now Rickards is back with a new warning…

“The weeks leading up to the 2026 mid-term elections could bring about the most turbulent times in modern history.”

What is he talking about? And what could it mean for America… your family and your investments?

Rickards recently sat down and walked us through his prediction… along with a few defensive moves he’s making with his own money.

For the time being, you can get the details, right here.

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is set to deliver a press briefing this afternoon, following Trump’s major speech on election fraud and foreign interference in US elections. 

In addition to the massive Chinese voter data breach, affecting 220 million US voters, China’s massive influence campaign on media and business leaders, manipulation of voting machines, and a complicit deep state intelligence community, Trump announced the results of a Department of Homeland Security investigation into states’ voter rolls.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump said that 278,000 illegal voters have been discovered on state voter rolls, but the number is “actually much higher than that,” Trump said, noting that Democratic states refused to comply with DHS’s investigation.

WATCH: Trump Announces Release of DHS Investigation Showing Nearly 300,000 Foreigners Are Illegally Registered to Vote – DHS Says They Found 400,000 DEAD Voters

According to a public report from DHS, the 278,000 illegal voters were found across just four states that provided the public data files to federal officials.

DHS has also found over 400,000 deceased registrants and over 28,000 non-citizens across states that shared their election files with the Department.

Trump announced near the end of his speech last night that Markwayne Mullin would hold a briefing today to discuss his department's investigations, including confirming cyber vulnerabilities in elections.

"Tomorrow, the Secretary of Homeland Security will hold a briefing to outline his department's recent work confirming cyber vulnerabilities in our electronic voting systems. They are bad," Trump said.

"We're in the process of informing governors, senators, and members of Congress of potential issues in their states. If you look at voting today, it's in such bad shape in so many states, and we are committing to fix it," the President continued.

"I've also ordered DHS to notify every state about non-citizens on their voter rolls and direct them to remove all ineligible voters from the lists immediately. But most importantly, addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress must pass the Save America Act."

WATCH:

Mullin's remarks are scheduled for 11 am ET.

Watch live below:

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A former enlisted service member turned chaplain, recounts his tumultuous journey through the “racist” challenges of navigating Veterans Affairs (VA) chaplaincy.

The Gateway Pundit spoke to Vincent Rentz (a pseudonym), who left the military in 2001, following eight years of active-duty service. Speaking on a condition of anonymity, he said he went on to pursue a college education and, together with his family, continued a small business.

However, in 2009, Rentz’s life took a significant turn when a friend suffered severe injuries in Afghanistan. This event served as “the calling,” the “catalyst” for him to embark on a new career as a military chaplain and as a VA chaplain. In 2018, along with being in seminary he took on the role of a chaplain intern at his local VA Medical Center (VAMC) in a program called Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) through an organization named Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE).

Encountering Partiality

Rentz noted that from the onset of the CPE class, he noticed bias and antipathy towards his core identities which he came to realize were biases rooted in Critical Race Theory (CRT), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

Rentz recounted one of his encounters as a CPE chaplain VA intern where a Black female CPE student openly expressed her “problem with White men and her distrust of them” during a group class. As one of a few White men present, he found the situation to be quite uncomfortable and wondered how her open bias was acceptable to the CPE Educator, who was also the Chief Chaplain at that VAMC. However, he noted that “everyone in the room just kind of let it go,” finding the situation to be very awkward, he simply regarded it as “a weird experience.”

He also realized that being a supporter of President Donald Trump as a conservative evangelical chaplain and a White heterosexual male made him “a target of wokeness,” while in the VA CPE program. The same female chaplain who had previously created the awkward moment in class questioned why he was wearing a small MAGA patch on the back of his hat. After some initial conversation, he then suggested that she may have underlying issues with racism.

He shared that following this remark, “the whole room blew up at me, and I was accused by the CPE Educator/Chief Chaplain that I was the racist one.” I was basically forced to apologize to her,” he said. The CPE Educator/Chief Chaplain began encouraging him to explore books on Critical Race Theory (CRT), specifically mentioning books like, White Fragility. The Educator indicated that once he embraced CRT, he’d be more equipped to interact with minorities.

Although Rentz would have preferred to pursue a mature, even Biblical, resolution to the concerns regarding Trump, racism, or whatever else it was, but he was never given that chance. Instead, a different situation developed within the program. Not only did situation become increasingly hostile toward him, but the female chaplain asked that he be forced out of the CPE program and also asserted that as a Black woman she “could not be racist”—which is, coincidently, a core tenant of CRT.

Being afraid of how the situation would affect his goal of becoming a chaplain, he sought help from the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) office, but he claimed that several levels of the EEO staff seemed to regard the complaint as unprecedented and frivolous because he was a White man making a complaint. As he talked to the EEO officer, he alleged she looked at him and said, “you do realize I’m Black, right.” The message to him was clear; Blacks could not be racist according to CRT. Regardless, he requested to continue as an intern but was not afforded the opportunity to stay in the CPE program at that VA.

Rentz remained resolute and continued pursuing his “calling”. After applying to CPE residency programs across the country at dozens of VAMCs, in June 2020, he was finally accepted into another VAMC CPE program.

“Sadly,” he contends, “it was even more biased, woke and racist.” For example, an inpatient White male veteran divulged that he was considering joining or supporting Black Lives Matter (BLM), and Rentz advised him to steer clear of any such fringe organizations because they could get him in trouble, and this led to him being placed on probation by the CPE Educator and the Chief Chaplain of the VAMC.

The probation led him to being required to do additional assignments which, in his opinion, seemed like they were aimed at changing his pastoral identity and to give him an unsustainable retaliatory workload. He was later dismissed from the program in 2021 for “academic reasons” but rather, he contends, was only an excuse to dismiss him for not conforming to CRT and DEI woke ideologies in the VA ACPE CPE system.

“Yet, God had a vote in it as well,” Rentz reveals. “On the same day I was asked to leave the program, I was offered a job at another VA because I had earned enough CPE credits to be eligible.” About two years later, after becoming a board-certified Chaplain (BCC) by the National Association of Veteran’s Affairs Chaplains (NAVAC) and with the Association of Certified Christian Chaplains (ACCC),  he decided that he was morally obligated to try to make a difference in the VA CPE system that was, in his estimation, racist and CRT-driven. He then applied for the VA’s National CPE bridge program so that he could gain enough credits to become a CPE Educator Candidate in the VA system.

A Corrupt System

Rentz found that the CPE program at the VA National level with VA National level CPE Certified Educators were not only more ideologically aligned with CRT and DEI than the local level VA CPE programs but realized that “they were corrupt and nepotistic as well which is apparent when you look at the demographics of VA chaplaincy”.

“It was horrible,” Rentz admits. “If you don’t change your beliefs to match their CRT brainwashing and gaslighting, you are blackballed.” In one example, he recounts an incident where a fellow CPE student was pressed to describe a disruptive and violent patient he was dealing with and he innocently described him as “an animal in a cage,” meaning the patient was extremely agitated and ready to attack him.

“Because this patient happened to be Black, the educator flipped out on him, accusing him of being a racist though it was clearly not the intent of the statement,” he explains. “By the time this experience was over, the White male chaplain was coerced into saying he was a racist.”

For Rentz, this was not reality, and it was contrary to what he hoped he would have experienced. “The educator even instructed us that there is no such thing as right or wrong,” he shares. “Instructing chaplains that there is no right or wrong leaves them ethically impotent at least.”

The “corruption” lies in the fact that the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) has been the only entity that has been the recipient of VA CPE education funds—currently about six million per year—for decades. Paid educators in the VA system are ACPE certified educators and belong to the Association of Professional Chaplains (ACP), some of whom are even board members, he noted.

“These VA compensated ACPE and APC VA CPE certified chaplain educators have actively thwarted other, more Christian friendly, CPE education organizations from being recognized by the VA,” Rentz claimed. “ACPE/APC therefore continues to be the only CPE organization that has access to the millions the VA allots for chaplain education in the VA system.” He argues that “if that isn’t a conflict of interests, then nothing is.”

According to him, it has become nearly impossible for more non-progressive Christ-centered chaplains and organizations to gain access to the VA and the VA funding. In fact, he points out an instance where an ACPE educator candidate was told by an ACPE educator that to become a certified ACPE CPE educator that he needed to do one last thing, “deny the belief that Jesus is the only way to the Father.”

The Big Picture

Rentz asserted, “One of the jobs of a VA Chaplain is to protect from proselytization, yet ACPE educators in the VA are doing just that as they coerce potential VA Chaplains into denying and changing their beliefs and confusing them in their morals and ethics.”

This is “only the tip of the proverbial iceberg,” he contends. “There are many other chaplains in the VA that have stories of this CRT/DEI racism and corruption.” However, he asserts, they are afraid that they will be persecuted and jeopardize their jobs if they speak out publicly. What’s more, Rentz says, many chaplains that are seeking to be VA chaplains are fearful that they will be denied getting a VA job if they don’t comply with the ACPE/APC CRT coercing.

As he navigates the tension between his faith and the prevailing VA culture of CRT, DEI and corruption, Rentz remains committed to his calling, seeking to foster a more authentic, Biblically grounded, Christocentric approach in his passion to care for veterans.

Retired Air Force Lt Col and military defense attorney Davis Younts was asked for his perspective based on his experience representing military members of the past two decades. Younts shared that the experiences of Rentz at the VA are “chillingly similar” to what many of his military clients have faced within the Department of War.  “Progress has been made during this administration but there are still many senior military leaders who were indoctrinated with Marxist race theory in college before entering military service and that the indoctrination continued during the Obama and Biden administrations.”

Younts believes that it will take time to time to successful counter the efforts of progressives and Marxists to take over government agencies and believes that identifying and drawing attention to the “divisive and destructive indoctrination within government agencies is an important first step.”

While “DEI is DEAD at DOD,” according to War Secretary Pete Hegseth, this assertion does not appear to apply to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins, who interestingly holds a Master of Divinity degree from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and has served as a chaplain for the Navy and Air Force Reserve. Rentz hopes that Collins will act to end the ugly face of corruption and of CRT and DEI in the VA, much like Hegseth has done in the War Department.

Chaplain Rentz emphasized that his views are his own and do not reflect those of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Freshman GOP Senator Bernie Moreno walked the halls of Congress and took multiple questions in the same time period.

Moreno was first elected to the Senate in the 2024 election cycle, defeating Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown, while being on the same ballot as President Trump, who won Ohio by 11 points.

Moreno has served in the Senate since January 2025 and will be up for reelection in 2030.

The Gateway Pundit and several reporters caught up to Moreno as he walked through the basement of the Russell Senate Building; he was then asked questions on various topics.

WATCH: Sen. @berniemoreno takes multiple questions while walking through the halls of the Senate Russell Building.

Topics range from crypto, data centers, @patrickjwitt‘s upcoming resignation from the White House, state Attorney General lawsuits, and Iran. @gatewaypundit pic.twitter.com/ZOOk5SG6PL

— Myles Morell (@MorellMedia) July 17, 2026

Moreno starts by talking negatively about what he calls “Dumb, lazy politicians” on Capitol Hill.

“Can’t be hopeful because there’s dumb, lazy politicians here. Because when they can’t solve a problem, they find a bill,” Moreno told TGP.

Moreno continued the conversation by shifting to data centers and continued with his opposition to them:

“I don’t blame communities for being against data centers because they’re gonna suck up all your electricity, raising your electricity costs, take your taxpayer dollars, pollute your rivers, and then screw you over in the community for a benefit. Why would you want that?”

For the record, Patrick Witt, who is President Trump’s crypto advisor, is set to leave the White House this month. Witt will be on military leave.

Moreno is confident that before Witt leaves the White House, the Senate will pass the Digital Market Clarity Act, which is currently stalling in the Senate. The act would settle a longtime conflict between two regulators and give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission authority over most crypto trading.

“I think 95% is resolved. I think the RCA is landing a spot. With ethics, you gotta get the Democrats to take yes for an answer. It’s very hard sometimes,” Moreno told TGP.

Moreno took the opportunity to blast Senate Democrats on an idea they had for the bill:

“And some of the ideas they had were just kinda frankly dumb, like having State Attorneys General be able to sue the Department of Justice. One of the things we asked, ‘why don’t you think through that a little bit more and see what would happen if there’s a Democrat federal official that you want a red state Attorney General to go after you to make a name for themselves?’ Is that really good public policy? So it’s kinda dumb.”

Moreno shifts the conversation back to crypto and tells the Gateway Pundit that he doesn’t believe this issue should not be partisan:

“If you think about crypto and providing regulations for digital assets, why is there a Democrat view versus a Republican view? I think a lot it comes from just a total lack of understanding, of knowledge of how this works.”

Moreno ended the conversation by talking about the ongoing conflict in Iran.

The Gateway Pundit’s Alicia Powe then asked Moreno if he believes the conflict will be resolved soon. Moreno expressed confidence in President Trump’s handling of the war and reminds everyone that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.

Fourty-Seven years. It’s not gonna be resolved easily. But the Iranians have made a major miscalculation in that they forget they are dealing with President Trump. They still think they’re dealing with dopes like Obama and Biden. That’s the difference, and they’re finding out. So look, at the end of the day, they will never have a nuclear weapon. Either they are gonna act like a normal nation, or they are gonna continue to get pummeled,” Moreno told the Gateway Pundit.

After walking down the hallways of the Russell basement for almost 5 minutes, answering questions on multiple topics, Moreno got onto the elevator and parted ways with The Gateway Pundit and the other reporters who were present.

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