Former Congressman George Santos is stepping back into the spotlight with two major announcements—hosting a pre-White House Correspondents’ Dinner celebration featuring alternative media voices and revealing that he is joining the cast of FOX’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test Season 5.

Santos announced this week that he will host a pregame event ahead of the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD), saying the gathering will celebrate independent journalism, alternative media, and what he called the “unbreakable American spirit.”

“In preparation for the WHCD I am hosting a pregame event to get people ready for the big night,” Santos wrote. “As we all remember the tragic and unfortunate events surrounding the original date of the event. Now it’s time to celebrate the resilience of the evening and the President who said the show must go on.”

According to Santos, the event will bring together “alternative media personalities, influencers and citizen journalists” alongside government officials and elected leaders.

“I will be bringing together alternative media personalities, influencers and citizen journalists along with government officials and elected officials to celebrate the free press and the unbreakable American spirit,” he added.

The announcement comes as alternative media outlets continue gaining influence in Washington, often challenging the legacy corporate press that has long dominated events such as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

From Politics to Reality Television

Santos also revealed Wednesday that he is officially joining the cast of FOX’s “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” Season 5, which premieres September 24.

Sharing the news on X, Santos described the experience as life-changing.

“You guys I did a thing and I’m excited to share it with y’all! This experience changed my perspective in life and it was the most humbling thing I’ve ever done! Thank you @FOX for the awesome experience with the cast and crew from @SpecialForces.”

You guys I did a thing and I’m excited to share it with y’all!

This experience changed my perspective in life and it was the most humbling thing I’ve ever done!

Thank you @FOX for the awesome experience with the cast and crew from @SpecialForces pic.twitter.com/ez4YrIBN6Q

— George Santos (@Georgesantos) July 15, 2026

He followed up with another post, adding:

“I took my fat behind off the couch and tried something new! And it changed EVERYTHING! I can’t wait to share this experience with y’all!”

I took my fat behind off the couch and tried something new!

And it changed EVERYTHING! I can’t wait to share this experience with y’all!@SpecialForces pic.twitter.com/idxtM5U1Zx

— George Santos (@Georgesantos) July 15, 2026

FOX announced Wednesday that Santos will be among the 15 celebrity contestants competing in military-style endurance challenges set in the jungles of Malaysia. The season will feature actors, athletes, reality television personalities, and social media figures undergoing demanding physical and mental tests under the supervision of former special forces operators.

The official cast of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test season 5, premiering Sept. 24 on FOX. #SpecialForces pic.twitter.com/TCx6uCZmcR

— Reality TV News/Updates (@Realitytv__fan) July 15, 2026

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Pilots from the US Navy’s elite Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron conducted a breathtaking flyover at Pensacola Beach in Florida on Wednesday, which is now under review after the jets buzzed over the beach at low altitude, sending beach chairs and other objects flying. 

The Blue Angels said the jets were flying “lower than standard profiles,” describing the epic sight as a “disturbance.”

But video from the beach shows exuberant beachgoers reveling in the incredible moment, cheering, and even jumping up and down as the unforgettable flyover happens just feet above their heads.

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The incident is now under investigation by Blue Angels officials.

“The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, is aware of social media footage showing a low-altitude pass by a team aircraft over Pensacola Beach earlier today,” the Blue Angels said in a statement, as first reported by WEAR News.

“During an arrival maneuver, an aircraft flew lower than standard profiles, resulting in a disturbance on the beach that affected civilian chairs and umbrellas.”

The statement continued, “The safety of our hometown community, spectators, and our pilots is our highest priority. Team leadership is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the maneuver and conducting a thorough safety review to ensure all operations adhere to strict Navy and FAA safety standards.”

Beachgoers didn’t seem too upset about the flyover, however. Though chairs, tents, and hats went flying, spectators could be heard screaming joyfully as the Blue Angels flew right over them.

“I’ve been coming for ten years, and I’ve never seen a pass like that in my life. I literally thought we were gonna be taken out by Blue Angels, but it was amazing! That’s exactly how I want to go if it happens,” one woman told ABC affiliate WEAR News.

Another woman said, “All of our tents got knocked down, all of our legs got bent… it was worth it. It was awesome!” A young boy added, “I’m going to remember that for probably the rest of my life.”

A young girl in the group described it as “thrilling,” adding that it wasn’t what she expected to see.

More from ABC 3 News:

No injuries have been reported.

This comes after South Carolina Army National Guard pilots were reportedly suspended without explanation after flying low over South Carolina beaches and giving beachgoers an unforgettable sight, the Gateway Pundit reported.

However, as word of the suspension went viral last week, War Secretary Pete Hegseth chimed in, vowing to “fix this.”

Hours later, Chief Pentagon Spokesman and Hegseth Senior Advisor Sean Parnell announced, “Effective immediately, the suspension of all involved South Carolina pilots has been lifted.”

MORE:

JUST IN: Pentagon Reinstates Apache Helicopter Pilots Involved in July 4 “Salute From the Shore” Flyover

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A Memphis restaurant is facing intense backlash after its owner openly admitted that he refused to serve four uniformed members of the Tennessee National Guard and says he has absolutely no regrets.

According to local reports, four members of the Memphis Safe Task Force, who were simply trying to get a meal while in uniform on Saturday night, were denied service at Tamboli’s Pizza & Pasta in Midtown Memphis.

Restaurant owner Miles Tamboli later confirmed the decision in a public statement.

Tamboli defended his actions by arguing that the National Guard’s deployment has made residents fearful and cited criticism of the federal task force operating in Memphis. He also referenced the recent fatal shooting involving National Guard members and a civilian that remains under investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Read his full statement to Action News 5:

On Saturday night we declined to serve four uniformed members of the Memphis Safe Task Force, and I stand behind that decision completely.

I love this country and I love this city, and that is exactly why I made this call. I want Memphis to be safe. Every business owner does. And the honest truth is that Memphis was already getting safer before this Task Force ever arrived.

Crime was at a 25-year low through the first eight months of 2025, according to the Memphis Police Department’s own data, later confirmed by an independent Tennessee Bureau of Investigation audit. That progress was earned by the people of this city. It was not delivered by soldiers.

What the Task Force has actually done is make this city harder to live in. Its own records show that the overwhelming majority of its arrests began with routine traffic stops, not violent crime. Families in this city are now afraid to drive to work, afraid to take their kids to school, afraid to be seen.

Our own schools reported that fear drove children to stop showing up to class. And this month a 20-year-old Memphian named Tyrin Johnson was shot and killed by National Guard troops during a foot chase, with no body camera footage and no answers for his family. None of that makes us safer. It makes us less safe, and it does the most damage to the people who were already struggling.

Being pro-safety means telling the truth about what actually protects a community, and it is not soldiers trained for combat doing the work of police officers.

That mismatch is dangerous for the people of Memphis and dangerous for the troops themselves, who were sent here to do a job they were never trained for.

The founders wrote their objection to standing armies among the people into the Declaration of Independence itself, because they understood that a free country does not let the military police its own citizens. That principle is older than any political party, and I am not willing to abandon it because it became inconvenient.

Months ago I joined dozens of other local businesses in a public commitment to stand against the military policing our streets, an act of patriotism and conscience both, and I would make the same decision tomorrow.

Following the backlash, Roy Tamboli, the father of restaurant owner Miles Tamboli, publicly defended his son’s decision.

Roy Tamboli wrote:

“I support my son Miles at Tamboli’s, who explained his opinion here:

‘I have friends in the NG and I have respect for them. They do really important work in national defense and disaster response—and that’s what they’re trained for. In a defense capacity, they are trained to kill, not to de-escalate. That’s why they shouldn’t be here. Turning them away is a protest against that, not against them as people. At the end of the day, I’m sorry those boys didn’t get their pizza, but I’m sure they will be okay.’

I also understand that without social media hatred, the tech giants would not be billionaires. Internet addiction is the new plantation that many are struggling to escape from.”

As The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively, President Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force has been a massive success.

The multi-agency operation involving the Tennessee National Guard, U.S. Marshals, and federal partners has surpassed 10,000 arrests, seized more than 1,700 illegal firearms, located missing children, and driven sharp drops in violent crime across the city.

Homicides, robberies, carjackings, and overall crime have plummeted under the deployment that Democrats and local activists have fought tooth and nail.

These four young Guardsmen are the same type of heroes who recently fatally shot an armed thug during a pursuit in Memphis, the kind of criminals who actually make the city unsafe.

Yet a pizza shop owner in Midtown decided they weren’t welcome to sit down and eat, and now his father is defending the decision by saying the troops are “trained to kill.”

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President Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, had an opportunity during his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday to demonstrate the independence and resolve that many conservatives expect from someone who would oversee America’s intelligence community.

Instead, many MAGA supporters came away with the opposite impression.

Rather than pushing back against Democratic questioning from Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA), Clayton appeared to quickly concede Warner’s framing of one of the most contentious political issues in modern American history – the integrity of the 2020 election.

For conservatives who believe serious questions remain about election integrity, mail-in voting procedures, cheating, and foreign interference in the 2020 election, Clayton was disappointing in his exchange:

SENATOR WARNER: Just acknowledge that Joe Biden was the president, was fairly duly elected.
JAY CLAYTON: I’ve acknowledged, Senator, that Joe Biden was the president. I’ve acknowledged that.
SENATOR WARNER: And fairly and duly elected.
JAY CLAYTON: And fairly and duly elected under our process. Senator, I’m not, I’m not an election denier. Joe Biden was certified as the president of the United States.
SENATOR WARNER: Election denial is something that we cannot have. So I will take that as you do not deny that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
JAY CLAYTON: Yeah, I’m not, I’m not.

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To many Trump supporters, the issue was not simply Clayton acknowledging that Joe Biden was certified and served as president.

The concern was that he appeared willing to adopt Warner’s framing, appeared to cower to Senator Warner, and did not insist that millions of Americans continue to have doubts about the integrity of the 2020 election, including President Trump.

Just as notable was Jay Clayton’s use of the phrase “election denier.”

That terminology has become a staple of Democratic political messaging over the past several years. Conservatives frequently point out that Democrats have used labels such as “climate denier,” “election denier,” and other similar terms not merely as descriptive language but as political branding intended to marginalize opponents rather than engage their arguments.

Many conservatives expected a Trump nominee to reject that characterization altogether.

Instead, Clayton volunteered the label himself.

For many in the MAGA movement, this was more than an isolated hearing exchange. It reinforced concerns that Jay Clayton may be more of an institutional figure than the disruptive outsider Trump supporters hoped would lead the nation’s intelligence agencies.

Those concerns are not new. Clayton’s résumé reflects extensive experience within elite legal, financial, and regulatory circles—precisely the type of establishment background that MAGA voters have grown skeptical of in recent years.

As I previously reported, Clayton has received praise from prominent establishment figures, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. That unusual overlap raised eyebrows among many conservatives when his nomination was announced. In the Gateway Pundit, I previously examined those relationships in:

• Bombshell: Letitia James Endorses Trump’s DNI Nominee Jay Clayton
• Letitia James Praised Jay Clayton for His Leadership and Personal Integrity

The timing of Wednesday’s hearing also amplified the significance of Clayton’s testimony.

President Trump has announced that he intends to deliver a national address Thursday evening regarding what he says will be evidence of serious corruption involving the American electoral system.

Separately, former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was publicly involved in oversight activities related to election records in Georgia. News reports and political commentary have also speculated that President Trump’s upcoming presentation may discuss allegations involving foreign interference beyond Russia, including reports concerning possible activities by China and Iran.

Yet there was Jay Clayton insisting in a Senate hearing that Joe Biden was fairly elected and he was not an election denier.

Many conservatives were hoping Trump’s nominee for DNI would demonstrate skepticism toward the political assumptions advanced by Democratic senators and emphasize that intelligence agencies should aggressively investigate any credible allegations of election-related misconduct or foreign interference.

Instead, Clayton appeared eager to reassure Warner that he agrees with him.

After years of disputes involving the FBI, the intelligence community, censorship controversies, the Russia investigation, and repeated battles over election integrity, many conservatives are looking for leaders who project confidence, independence, and a willingness to challenge institutional narratives.

Instead, to many watching Wednesday’s hearing, Jay Clayton did not project that image. Confirmation hearings often provide a glimpse of how nominees will govern once in office. Clayton’s hearing performance raises questions about whether he possesses the resolve to lead an intelligence community that the President has said desperately needs fundamental reform.

Joel Gilbert is a Los Angeles-based film producer and president of Highway 61 Entertainment. He is the producer of the new film Roseanne Barr Is America. He is also the producer of: Dreams from My Real Father, The Trayvon Hoax, Trump: The Art of the Insult, and many other films on American politics and music icons. Gilbert is on Twitter: @JoelSGilbert.

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A newly released 799-page report titled “An Attack Upon U.S Critical Infrastructure” details the 2020 election corruption and beyond.

It provides a list of 18 prioritized and recommended election investigations, along with 8 search warrants. Entities named include Runbeck Election Services, Elections Group LLC, The Office of Georgia SOS, Tyler Technologies, Associated Press, and many others.

All assertions in the report are drawn from forensic analyses, sworn legislative testimony, court filings, IG investigations, vendor invoices, open-source intelligence, government communications obtained through litigation and FOIA, and more.

The Full Report contains 9 sections. This is followed by “Appendix A,” which provides the detailed findings and sources. Also available is the shorter 10-page Executive Summary.

TGP reported on the Library of Evidence used for this report, which proves President Trump’s assertions that our elections can be stolen.

This new report documents 824 findings bearing directly on the security of the 2020 election. It covers the effects on 12 U.S. States and the activity from nine nations.

Of these findings, 553 are established facts, 155 are disputed facts, and 116 are reasonable, analytically supported inferences.

Patrick Colbeck, primary author and COO of the Election Crime Bureau, said: “The report is proof that the narrative ‘there is no evidence of election fraud’ is itself a deliberate fraud, as the report demonstrates.”

In other words, anyone who claims there is no evidence of 2020 election malfeasance is just not a credible person.

This report is organized by ten converging vectors, proving that malfeasance occurs in almost every aspect of our election system. In January 2017, our elections were deemed “critical infrastructure”.

They are one of the 16 sectors whose physical and virtual assets are so vital to the Nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, economic security, public health, and safety.

Mr. Colbeck stated: “The report has been shared with numerous DOJ and elected officials.”

TGP confirmed that detailed presentations were given to at least one Congressman, along with key election integrity groups.

According to Colbeck, the report has had “near-zero mainstream media coverage” even though it’s the most extensive election report ever produced.

Here’s an example from page 72:

3.2.5 – Remote Access Findings. Live absentee ballot processing was remotely taken over. The Election Management System was left on the internet during the count. On October 23, 2020, a Fulton County poll worker reported that the computers for absentee ballot processing had been remotely accessed. The remote party was in control and deleted data. In emails, the incident was documented by the Chief Investigator of the GA SOS Investigations Division, but no criminal referral followed.

These 799 pages are the foundation to justify rapid federal and state investigations. They also supply an evidentiary basis for identifying, prosecuting, and deterring anyone responsible.

Our failure to respond to these election manipulations and attacks invites repetition and jeopardizes our constitutional government.

The report highlights dozens of “Key Takeaways”, and other important “Observations”. We list several below.

KEY TAKEAWAY (Components)
“The machines contained Chinese components. The data center ran on Huawei. The code was maintained in Serbia. The poll worker files lived on a server in Beijing. The CIA analysts declined to report Chinese interference in writing, on the record, for political reasons. Iran was charged. The E.O. 13848 sanctions trigger was never pulled. By every measurable layer of the system, a foreign adversary had a path in. And the intelligence architecture built to close that path was deliberately left open.”

KEY TAKEAWAY (Certification)
Certification was not a checkpoint – it was a closing mechanism. In every decisive battleground state, officials certified results over missing records, statutory violations, mathematical impossibilities, and canvassers operating under duress. The last institutional brake on a defective election was never applied; it was bypassed, coerced, or falsified out of the way.

KEY TAKEAWAY (Challenges)
“They didn’t need to rig the count. They needed the pre-election challenge to be too early, the post-election challenge to be too late, the discovery request to be denied, the forensic sample to be too small, the protocol order to never arrive, and the attorney who kept filing to lose her license. By the time the public was told the courts found no evidence, the courts had made certain they never would.”

Section 2.3 discusses the 64 lawsuits. Plaintiffs couldn’t get records from government agencies or NGO’s. Judges evaluated evidence without ordering discovery, often because they found initial evidence (affidavits, expert reports) to be speculative or inadmissible hearsay. Judges just didn’t want election cases in their courtrooms.

REMOTE ACCESS
The Federal Government contracted with an NGO called the “Center For Internet Security” to secure our electronic voting systems – while we are told they are not connected to the Internet.

NGO FUNDING
“Private money selected the jurisdictions. Private operatives ran the operations. Private attorneys defended the officials. Private NGOs built the voter lists. By 2020, elections in key cities weren’t administered by the government — they were administered by a privately funded network that answered to its donors.”

RECORD DESTRUCTION
“Without the adjudication logs, you can’t know who changed the votes. Without the ballot images, you can’t verify the count. Without the EMS database, you can’t trace the chain of custody. Without the drop box videos, you can’t confirm the deliveries. Each record destroyed was a question that can never be answered. That may have been exactly the point.”

PRIVILEGED ACCESS
“In Michigan, only vendors could inspect the machines. In Wisconsin, only private operatives controlled the ballot room. In Georgia, only NGO volunteers had untrained access to the voter registration system. Across 2020, the people with the most access to your election were the people with the least accountability to you.”

As extensive as this list of findings may be, not all were released. Whistleblowers and other investigators are encouraged to share their findings with TGP or the Election Crime Bureau at nexus@electioncrimebureau.com.

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