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.

WATCH:

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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RINO Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters on Wednesday, as the House was working to pass the SAVE America Act a third time, that the bill is probably not going to pass in the Senate. 

During Senate Republican leadership’s weekly press briefing on Wednesday, Thune laughably claimed he’d be “willing to do just about anything because I think we are all here in favor of the Save America Act.” He then dismissed the idea of terminating the filibuster to ensure its passage.

“It’s also very unlikely that the Senate Republicans are going to vote to get rid of the legislative filibuster,” Thune said, suggesting he’s not even going to try. Instead, he blamed the Democrats for his leadership failures, telling reporters, “The issue here is the Democrats, and we ought to be going after them.”

President Trump has previously called Thune out for being a weak leader and “playing it too soft.” “Well, he’s only a couple of votes short, but that’s what being a leader is,” Trump said of Thune’s claim that he doesn’t have the votes to nuke the filibuster in March. “That’s part of being a leader. You have to get the votes.”

Meanwhile, House Republicans passed the SAVE America Act once again on Wednesday as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), The Gateway Pundit reported.

During the press conference, Thune also expressed insecurity over the Byrd rule, which liberal Obama-era Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough previously weaponized to strip the SAVE Act from the Senate’s budget reconciliation bill in June.

Trump has also previously questioned Thune’s leadership abilities, calling him out over his repeated refusal to exercise his right as leader and fire MacDonough. “I cannot understand it. A leader has the right to fire the person at will and put somebody else there,” Trump said late last month. “We get so many negative rulings from her, the parliamentarian. She’s been there for years, and she was put there by Harry Reid and Barack Hussein Obama.”

But somehow, it’s the Democrats’ fault that the SAVE America Act and other conservative legislation keep failing in the Republican controlled Senate.

WATCH:

Reporter: Senators Mike Lee and Rick Scott are both calling on the Senate to stay in session and bypass any recesses or weekends to get the SAVE America after cross the finish line. Is that something that you’re open to supporting?

Thune: Well, if I thought there was a path to getting a positive result or a positive outcome, I’d be willing to do just about anything because I think we are all here in favor of the Save America Act. The folks that have consistently block voted against it are all the Democrats in the United States Senate, and I think that’s unlikely to change. And it’s also very unlikely that the Senate Republicans are going to vote to get rid of the legislative filibuster.

So, we’ve had five votes on it. We have voted on the entire Save America Act. We have voted on photo ID as a separate issue. We have voted on photo ID and registration, or citizenship to register. We’ve had that amendment. We’ve had a vote on boys competing in girls’ sports. We’ve had five now votes on the Save America Act or individual components of it, and none of which got a single Democrat. To me, the issue here is the Democrats, and we ought to be going after them for opposing something that’s popular across this country, not just with Republicans but with Democrats as well.

President Trump previously went off on Senate Republicans after the Democrats revealed their plans to nuke the filibuster when they reclaim the Senate with radical left candidates, expand the Supreme Court, and impose term limits on justices.

Trump has been demanding that Republicans nuke the filibuster since October 2025, but Thune refused to listen. Now, the Democrats are going to overhaul our system of government.

Trump said he will no longer call the Democrats “Dumocrats,” and “The title of DUMB will revert to the Republicans who allowed this horrible calamity to happen to our Party, and our Nation, itself.”

(VIDEO) Trump Calls Out Senate RINOs and John Thune for Refusal to Fire Parliamentarian and Pass SAVE America Act After SCOTUS Ruling on Mail-in Ballots

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Bill Maher recently sat for an interview with National Public Radio and criticized the organization as ‘extreme far left’ right to the face of their own journalist, who seem a bit taken back by the suggestion.

Maher is right, of course. It’s why conservatives have been calling for the defunding of tax dollars to NPR for years.

One need look no further than NPR’s now famous non-coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop to know where NPR stands politically.

Maher deserves credit for calling them out.

Breitbart News reports:

HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher scolded NPR as being “different from what it used to be” and a news network that’s now “on the far extreme of the left.” Maher made his critical comments about NPR to NPR host Steve Inskeep during the network’s latest episode of Newsmakers.

“The audience is a little more diverse than you might think,” Inskeep said when Maher alluded to the left-leaning of the NPR audience.

“Really? I’m surprised you even had me on!” Maher responded.

“What I always want people to do but it’s so hard to get people to do these days is just engage with argument,” Maher told Inskeep. “You can hate me, whatever, for whatever your reasons — you know, I’m too old, whatever I am. Are you engaging with the argument? Tell me if I’m wrong about something. And then we’re gonna be cool.”

“But that’s not what either extreme does in this country anymore,” Maher continued. “And maybe I’m wrong, but I think of this place as the far extreme of the left.”

Watch the clip below:

NEW: Bill Maher *BLASTS* NPR to NPR’s Steve Inskeep’s face

“I’m surprised you even had me on! Because I just think of this place as so different than what it used to be … I think of this place as on the far extreme of the Left.” pic.twitter.com/U0LPg2hPee

— Jason Cohen (@JasonJournoDC) July 15, 2026

During the same interview, Maher defended conservatives, saying that the left has a condescending attitude.

NEW: Bill Maher to NPR: “What the right wing hates the most about the left is their condescending attitude — and I don’t blame them.” pic.twitter.com/eYkh6CKLu8

— Jason Cohen (@JasonJournoDC) July 16, 2026

Bill Maher may be a liberal, but at least he talks to people on the right.

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Join the VOTER GA Online Watch Party and Online Briefing After President Trump’s Speech Thursday Evening

Guest Post by Martel Maxim

In 2006 VoterGA was formed as an all-volunteer organization with a focus of restoring election integrity in Georgia. 

Under the outstanding leadership of Garland Favorito and his associates, the group has made significant contributions towards keeping the election malfeasance in Georgia in check, and recently chalked up a huge win when the FBI seized the 2020 ballots in Fulton County.  Had they not initiated this effort, the reality of the below photo would not exist.

It was the diligence of VoterGA that resulted in preserving those 2020 ballots with a ruling that ironically occurred on January 6, 2021.  The evidence gathered from the seizing of those ballots has been an important focus that will likely weigh into the contents of President Trump’s address to the Nation on July 16.

Because of the continuing commitment of VoterGA to make a difference when it comes to the honesty of elections, they are hosting a nationwide watch party featuring President Trump’s address, followed by an Online Briefing along with a Q&A session.

If you would like to participate, please click HERE for the signup page.  Please note that the timezone listed is Eastern Time.

This is your opportunity to be a part of perhaps the most important Presidential address to our nation, as America MUST have honest and transparent elections as demanded by the Constitution.

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