By Wayne Allyn Root

I made an appearance on Steve Bannon’s fabulous “War Room” TV show yesterday, where I explained the idea I’ve been promoting and pitching for many weeks to President Trump…

This is the perfect moment for President Trump to declare a “National Security Emergency for Elections” to prevent Democrats from stealing the midterms.

I explained two things to Steve Bannon’s audience that many conservatives don’t seem to understand about this strategy.

First, many people are confusing my idea with an “Executive Order.” A “National Security Emergency” is a whole different animal. It’s far stronger than an EO. As such, it cannot be challenged in court. A “National Security Emergency” can only be overturned by a 2/3rds vote of both houses of Congress. This isn’t my interpretation. It’s a 1983 Supreme Court ruling.

It’s settled law.

So, President Trump can use a “National Security Emergency” as a sledgehammer to restore election integrity far more effectively than the SAVE Act ever could.

This idea is “The SAVE America Act- on steroids.”

Even more importantly, the President never needs Congress’s approval. He goes right over their heads.

Secondly, I want to point out that although I believe tonight in his address to the nation, President Trump will start to lay out his case for a “National Security Emergency for Elections,” he does not have to.

The President can declare a “National Security Emergency” at any time, without justifying his case. He just declares it- and it’s in effect. End of story. Game, set, match.

He is under no obligation to prove his case. And the only way for Democrats to stop it is a 2/3rds vote in both houses of Congress.

I believe this whole process starts tonight with President Trump’s address to the nation.

President Trump doesn’t have to lay out his case, but I’m now going to do it. Just so the American people understand why this is truly a legitimate emergency.

First, on the topic of foreign interference in US elections, it’s clear our election machines can be easily hacked and votes changed, and I have no doubt our enemies (like China and the CCP) are trying to rig and steal our elections every day.

Is anyone so blind and clueless that they don’t understand that billion-dollar, multi-national corporations and gigantic government agencies are being hacked every day, but voting machines aren’t? If you don’t see that as a threat to Democracy, you’re delusional.

But in the end, the strongest and simplest example of foreign interference in US elections is illegal alien foreigners voting right here inside America. When a country like Mexico or China sends its citizens here to influence our elections, that is the clearest example of foreign interference possible.

How do I know illegals are voting?

In Nevada, where I live, and 18 other states (plus Washington DC), illegal aliens can legally obtain driver’s licenses at the DMV. Once at DMV, federal “Motor Voter” laws mandate that they are instantly registered to vote, and by law, no one can ask for proof of citizenship.

And you want us to believe that once foreigners are legally registered to vote, they aren’t voting by the millions? That’s precisely why Democrats waved in tens of millions of illegals- to change the demographics of U.S. voters.

That’s precisely why Democrats give to illegal aliens billions of dollars in welfare, food stamps, free healthcare, and a hundred other government handouts- so they’ll vote loyally for Democrat candidates- who in turn will keep the welfare checks coming.

It’s called creating a massive conflict of interest.

That’s precisely why Democrats changed voting laws during Covid to introduce mail-in voting with no Voter ID. So that millions of illegal aliens could vote without ever leaving their homes, or risk encountering ICE agents.

But that’s not the only way Democrats are using “foreign interference” to steal elections.

Democrats use the U.S. Census to falsely count millions of illegal aliens, and then wind up gaining undeserved electoral votes and seats in Congress based on illegal population counts.

Democrats are sitting on stolen land in Washington DC.

Democrats are sitting in seats in Congress that don’t belong to them. Those seats are based on population counts that are inflated by millions of foreign non-citizens who are illegally in the U.S. and have no right to be included in the census count.

One last point about stolen elections.

This one is so obvious only a moron could miss it. It’s one in a billion. It’s an impossible coincidence that only Democrat candidates manage, again and again, to lose on election night, but then ultimately win days later, as late arriving ballots are counted.

It’s 100% Democrats who benefit from late arriving ballots.

Go back and look. No Republican has ever trailed on election night, only to win days later. It’s only and exclusively Democrats who manage amazing come-from-behind miracle victories.

This is yet another prime vehicle for stolen elections.

Here’s the scam: Democrats wait for final vote totals on election night. Then they go to work manufacturing enough fake ballots for days on end to overcome that election night deficit.

Anyone who can’t see this massive voter fraud scam is blind, deaf, dumb, bribed, playing for the other team, or scared like a little sissy.

So, yes, damn straight we have foreign interference in US elections…and illegal aliens voting by the millions…and hacked voting machines…and fake ballots used to tip the scale for days after our GOP candidates win elections fair and square…and then presto, like magic, we lose.

All of these scams prove the need for a “National Security Emergency” to protect our Democracy (as Democrats put it).

Democrats are scared to death of my idea for a “National Security Emergency.” Because they know they can’t stop it. And without stolen elections, Democrats can’t win.

If you don’t accept that, you’re a “Stolen Election Denier.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV shows on Real Americas Voice TV- “America Speaks” weeknights and “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on weekends, and his daily video podcast “WAR Zone Live presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily at 4 PM ET/1 PM Pacific at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Illegal Immigrants Have Made America Great.” It’s 100+ blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

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Fedorov reportedly had a troublesome relationship with Top General Syrsky.

Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky continues with his latest government reshuffle, this time dismissing the popular defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov, generating turmoil and even calls for protests.

Fedorov brought a technology overhaul to Ukraine’s military but was also known for clashing with top generals.

Politico reported:

“The government resigned earlier this week, and Zelensky will not submit Fedorov’s name as the next defense minister, an MP from the ruling Servant of the People party told POLITICO after a faction meeting on Wednesday.

‘The reasons are obvious: conflict with army command and failed military mobilization reform’, the MP said on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal political issues. They added that they supported Zelensky’s decision, saying: ‘Fedorov did only an imitation of reforms, just slides’.”

In the meantime, Ukrainian press reports that Zelensky’s dismissal of Fedorov is drawing a ‘wave of criticism from soldiers, veterans, and civil society figures.’

The Kiev Independent reported:

“Dmytro Koziatynskyi, a war veteran who was a leading organizer of last summer’s mass protests against a law curbing the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies, called for a new demonstration.

‘The defense minister is being removed in the middle of effective — finally effective! — reforms, replaced by someone under whom any hope of reform can be forgotten’, he wrote on Facebook.

He urged Ukrainians to gather at Ivan Franka Square at 9:01 a.m. — after Ukraine’s daily minute of silence to honor fallen soldiers and civilians killed in the war — to protest what he called a pattern of ‘replacing effective ministers with convenient yes-men’, adding: ‘We will never defeat Russia as long as the same total stagnation and corruption rule our army and our ministries’.”

UPDATE: large protests in Ukraine against the firing of Fedorov.

Large-scale protests erupt in Ukraine after Zelensky dismisses Defense Minister Fedorov

Protesters see Fedorov as a rare figure willing to fight military corruption

The last time Ukrainians came out to protest was a year ago, when Zelensky tried to tighten his grip over the… https://t.co/BWROA3LZGd pic.twitter.com/uPRdDFHBuX

— The Other Side Media (@TheOtherSideRu) July 16, 2026

Read more from July 2025:

‘Zelensky Is the Devil’: Second Day of Protests Intensify in Ukraine for Independent Anti-Corruption Agencies – Foreign Allies Start to Turn on Kiev Regime’s Leader (VIDEOS)

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Various witnesses were called in to testify on the second day of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing.

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft was one of the witnesses who testified on Thursday morning on the second day of confirmation hearings for Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche.

John Ashcroft served as the US Attorney General under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. Ashcroft also had a distinguished career in Missouri politics that spanned decades.

Democrat Senator Adam Schiff tried to bait Ashcroft into attacking Todd Blanche, but it failed miserably.

“Mr. Blanche has said he believes that the president has both the right and the duty to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies. Do you subscribe to that view?” Schiff asked Ashcroft.

84-year-old John Ashcroft buried Adam Schiff.

“I believe that the Attorney General of the United States has the right and responsibility to enforce the law uniformly, and if the law has been broken by the President’s ‘enemies,’ he has a duty,” Ashcroft said.

“They do not become exempt from following the law merely by their enmity to the president of the United States. As a matter of fact, the people who break the law are in enmity with the people of the United States, whose expression of what is the law has been developed in this body and the Congress of the United States, so we used to call people who break the law, ‘public enemies,’” Ashcroft added.

“So my view is that whether a person has been a political supporter or not of the President of the United States is NOT the determining factor regarding prosecution,” he said.

“It’s whether a person has violated the law and in enforcing the law, the Attorney General is carrying out the will expressed in the Congress,” he added.

WATCH:

Todd Blanche sparred with Adam Schiff on Wednesday after the Democrat senator accused him of violating ethics rules.

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For years, the media has tried to paint everyone who attended the January 6 protest with the same broad brush. But the reality is much more complicated.

This week, NPR aired a lengthy interview with former J6 defendant Isaac Thomas and his attorney, Steven Metcalf, exploring the experiences that ultimately led Thomas to Washington, D.C. on January 6 2021.

The conversation was about far more than politics. It was about what can happen when the very institutions that are supposed to protect people instead become the source of their trauma.

As TGP readers know, Thomas spent much of his childhood in Michigan’s foster care system. During the interview, he shared how years of abuse and constant moves from one placement to another left him feeling abandoned by a system that was supposed to keep him safe.

Those experiences, Thomas says, completely changed the way he looked at government and authority.

By the time he was 18 years old, Thomas had little faith that the people in power were looking out for ordinary Americans. As that distrust grew, so did his interest in conservative politics. He eventually made the trip to Washington to attend President Trump’s January 6 rally.

One of the most emotional moments of the interview came when Thomas described something that almost seems impossible to believe.

While being held in the D.C. Jail as a January 6 defendant, Thomas was forced to testify by Zoom during the sentencing hearing of the man convicted of sexually abusing him and four other children while they were in foster care.

It was a surreal moment.

On one hand, Thomas was a victim helping prosecutors hold his abuser accountable. On the other hand, he was being returned to a jail cell hundreds of miles from home because of his involvement in January 6. That contrast raises difficult questions about the institutions Americans are asked to trust.

According to Thomas, when government agencies fail vulnerable citizens and when people feel abandoned by the very system that was supposed to protect them, it should not be surprising that many eventually lose faith in those institutions. For some, that distrust eventually extends into politics.

Thomas acknowledges that his story is unique, but he believes it helps explain why many Americans have been drawn to President Trump’s movement. In his view, it was not one speech or one election that changed their minds. It was years of watching institutions that they were told to trust fail them or the people they love.

Whether you agree with Thomas’s politics or not, the interview offers a perspective that is rarely heard in the national conversation surrounding January 6. Rather than focusing only on what happened that day, it explores the life experiences that shaped one participant’s worldview

Thomas and his attorney continue to fight his civil cases in court, including his case against Michigan’s Foster Care system and for J6 restitution. The court costs have been making things very difficult because Isaac has to pay his legal fees out of his own pocket.

You can donate to his foster care legal defense fund here if you would like to pitch in.

Listen here:

Or here.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold a press briefing this afternoon as President Trump prepares to deliver a primetime speech this evening. 

This will be Leavitt’s first press briefing since taking maternity leave in May.

President Trump announced on Monday that he would deliver a primetime address to the nation tonight, where he is expected to discuss newly declassified intelligence on Chinese interference in the 2020 election. The president will reportedly be joined by CIA Director Ratcliffe, Acting DNI Bill Pulte, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and FBI Director Kash Patel during his address.

Reports suggest that a White House task force is also expected to release classified intelligence documents related to the 2020 election after the FBI raided the Fulton County, Georgia, election office earlier this year.

On Tuesday, Trump confirmed his speech will center on elections, adding, “It’s really, really big news, and our country has to shape up.”

“We’ll be discussing other things too,” Trump said.

WATCH:

Today’s press briefing and the President’s speech also come amid escalations in the Iran war. US Central Command forces have launched five consecutive days of strikes, including two attacks against Iranian military targets on Wednesday. Trump has said strikes will continue through the week, while threatening to escalate the war further by targeting Iran’s energy, oil, and transportation infrastructure next week.

Video of CENTCOM strikes released on Wednesday:

Trump has further refused to rule out a ground invasion of Iran and suggested that he would take over Iran’s oil export hub of Kharg Island.

The press briefing is scheduled to begin at 1 pm ET.

Watch live below:

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