Over the past two weeks, The Gateway Pundit has covered the long-anticipated trial between Eric Coomer and Mike Lindell over allegations that Lindell defamed Coomer by platforming claims made that Coomer was “Eric from Dominion” on an Antifa call in September of 2020 where it was said that “Trump won’t win.  I made f***ing sure of it.”

During the trial, Joe Oltmann, who claimed to be on the phone call, testified that he had contemporaneous notes of the call.  However, Coomer’s attorneys argued there was no call.

During Oltmann’s cross examination, an affidavit from Tay Andersen in another case filed by Coomer not only confirmed the existence of the call, but also aligned with Oltmann’s notes in terms of what was discussed.

In the affidavit, Andersen stated that there was no “Eric from Dominion” on the call, however, the other topics mentioned were quite specific to Oltmann’s notes, including protests for Breonna Taylor and Antifa’s desires to go after Joey Camp for infiltrating their group’s events.

The Gateway Pundit reported on this the day the affidavit was revealed.  You can read up on the rest of the case here, here, and here.

Following a three hour deliberation on Friday, followed by all day today, the jury reached a verdict.

In the defamation case in Colorado federal court between former Dominion Voting Director of Product Strategy and Security, a jury found Mike Lindell and Frankspeech liable for defamation, saying he engaged in civil conspiracy to broadcast the defamatory claims.  Lindell was ordered to pay Coomer $2.3 million in damages, well short of the $62.7 million originally sought by Coomer’s attorneys.

MyPillow was not found liable.

NEW: MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell found liable for defamation for his statements about Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer. Federal jury orders Lindell to pay $2.3M, far less than the $62.7M requested by Coomer’s attorneys.

— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) June 16, 2025

Well, at least I was right about MyPillow… Sigh. pic.twitter.com/BL28YLDkeT

— Ashe in America (@AsheinAmerica) June 16, 2025

We will update as more information comes available.

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This article originally appeared on vigilantfox.com and was republished with permission.

At the G7 in Canada, President Trump didn’t just speak—he delivered a headline-making indictment.

Standing alongside Canada’s Prime Minister, he directly blasted Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau, accusing them of committing a “very big mistake” by booting Russia out of the G8. He warned that this move didn’t deter conflict—it unleashed it, and he insists it paved the way for the war in Ukraine.

Before the working sessions began, the two leaders fielded questions. The first topic: the ongoing trade negotiations between the U.S. and Canada. Trump didn’t hesitate to point out that the issue wasn’t personal—it was philosophical.

“It’s not so much holding up. I think we have different concepts,” Trump said. “I have a tariff concept, Mark [Carney] has a different concept, which is something that some people like.”

He made it clear that he prefers a more straightforward approach. “I’ve always been a tariff person. It’s simple, it’s easy, it’s precise and it just goes very quickly.”

Carney, he added, favors a more intricate framework—“also very good,” Trump said. The goal now, according to Trump, is to examine both strategies and find a path forward. “We’re going to look at both and we’re going to come out with something hopefully.”

When asked whether a deal could be finalized in a matter of days or weeks, Trump didn’t overpromise, but he left the door open. “It’s achievable but both parties have to agree.”

Then the conversation took an unexpected turn.

Trump went off script and straight to one of the most explosive foreign policy critiques of the day. Without any prompting, he shifted from trade to Russia’s removal from the G8, calling it one of the most consequential mistakes in recent memory.

Standing next to Canada’s Prime Minister, whose predecessor helped lead that push, Trump argued that isolating Moscow may have backfired. “The G7 used to be the G8,” he said, pointing to the moment Russia was kicked out.

He didn’t hold back. “Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in, and I would say that was a mistake because I think you wouldn’t have a war right now if you had Russia in.”

This wasn’t just a jab at past leaders. Trump was drawing a direct line from that decision to the war in Ukraine. According to him, expelling Russia took away any real chance at diplomacy before things spiraled.

“They threw Russia out, which I claimed was a very big mistake even though I wasn’t in politics then, I was loud about it.” For Trump, diplomacy doesn’t mean agreement—it means keeping adversaries close enough to negotiate.

“It was a mistake in that you spent so much time talking about Russia, but he’s no longer at the table. It makes life more complicated. You wouldn’t have had the war.”

Then he made it personal. Trump compared two timelines—one with him in office, and one without. “You wouldn’t have a war right now if Trump were president four years ago,” he said. “But it didn’t work out that way.”

Before reporters could even process Trump’s comments on Russia, he shifted gears again—this time turning to Iran.

Asked whether there had been any signs that Tehran wanted to step back from confrontation, Trump didn’t hesitate. “Yeah,” he said. “They’d like to talk.”

The admission was short but revealing. For the first time publicly, Trump confirmed that Iran had signaled interest in easing tensions. But he made it clear they may have waited too long.

“They should have done that before,” he said, referencing a missed 60-day negotiation window. “On the 61st day I said we don’t have a deal.”

Even so, he acknowledged that both sides remain under pressure. “They have to make a deal and it’s painful for both parties but I would say Iran is not winning this war.”

Then came the warning, delivered with unmistakable urgency. “They should talk and they should talk IMMEDIATELY before it’s too late.”

Eventually, the conversation turned back to domestic issues: specifically, immigration and crime.

He confirmed he’s directing ICE to focus its efforts on sanctuary cities, which he accused of protecting violent criminals for political purposes.

He pointed directly at major Democrat-led cities, saying the worst problems are concentrated in deep blue urban centers. “I look at New York, I look at Chicago. I mean you got a really bad governor in Chicago and a bad mayor, but the governor is probably the worst in the country, Pritzker.”

And he didn’t stop there. “I look at how that city has been overrun by criminals and New York and L.A., look at L.A. Those people weren’t from L.A. They weren’t from California most of those people. Many of those people.”

According to Trump, the crime surge isn’t just a local failure—it’s a direct consequence of what he called a border catastrophe under President Biden. “Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country. Of that, vast numbers of those people were murderers, killers, people from gangs, people from jails. They emptied their jails into the U.S. Most of those people are in the cities.”

“All blue cities. All Democrat-run cities.”

He closed with a vow—one aimed squarely at the ballot box. Trump said he’ll do everything in his power to stop Democrats from using illegal immigration to influence elections.

“They think they’re going to use them to vote. It’s not going to happen.”

Just as the press corps seemed ready for more, Prime Minister Carney stepped in.

The momentum had clearly shifted toward Trump, and Carney recognized it. With a calm smile and hands slightly raised, he moved to wrap things up.

“If you don’t mind, I’m going to exercise my role, if you will, as the G7 Chair,” he said. “Since we have a few more minutes with the president and his team. And then we actually have to start the meeting to address these big issues, so…”

Trump didn’t object. He didn’t have to.

By then, the damage (or the impact) had already been done. He had steered the conversation, dropped one headline after another, and reshaped the narrative before the summit even began.

By the time Carney tried to regain control, it was already too late.

Wherever Trump goes, he doesn’t just attend the event—he becomes the event.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation will not be bailing out so-called “sanctuary cities” that defy federal immigration laws or allow rioters to torch transportation infrastructure.

“The @USDOT will NOT fund rogue state actors who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement,” Duffy stated bluntly on X.

“And to cities that stand by while rioters destroy transportation infrastructure — don’t expect a red cent from DOT, either. Follow the law, or forfeit the funding.”

Duffy’s statement is a direct response to President Trump’s renewed call to crack down on Democrat-run cities that harbor illegal immigrants and enable chaos.

The @USDOT will NOT fund rogue state actors who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

And to cities that stand by while rioters destroy transportation infrastructure — don’t expect a red cent from DOT, either. Follow the law, or forfeit the funding. https://t.co/cCRi4ALT23

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) June 16, 2025

This hardline tactic follows Duffy’s April 24 directive—under the “Follow the Law” banner—threatening to cut funding for agencies embracing DEI programs or turning a blind eye to illegal immigration.

On April 24, 2025, Secretary Duffy released a formal letter to all recipients of federal transportation funding.

Grant recipients must comply fully with all federal laws—this includes constitutional protections, federal statutes, and relevant regulations. Non-compliance may result in enforcement actions or loss of funding.

“Federal grants come with a clear obligation to adhere to federal laws,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “It shouldn’t be controversial – enforce our immigration rules, end anti-American DEI policies, and protect free speech. These values reflect the priorities of the American people, and I will take action to ensure compliance.”

Key Letter Excerpts:
“As recipients of such DOT funds, you have entered into legally enforceable agreements with the United States Government and are obligated to comply fully with all applicable Federal laws and regulations. These laws and regulations include the United States Constitution, Federal statutes, applicable rules, and public policy requirements, including, among others, those protecting free speech and religious liberty and those prohibiting discrimination and enforcing controls on illegal immigration. As Secretary of Transportation, I am responsible for ensuring recipients of DOT financial assistance are aware of and comply with all applicable legal obligations.”

On Immigration
“In addition, your legal obligations require cooperation generally with Federal authorities in the enforcement of Federal law, including cooperating with and not impeding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other Federal offices and components of the Department of Homeland Security in the enforcement of Federal immigration law. DOT has noted reported instances where some recipients of Federal financial assistance have declined to cooperate with ICE investigations, have issued driver’s licenses to individuals present in the United States in violation of Federal immigration law, or have otherwise acted in a manner that impedes Federal law enforcement. Such actions undermine Federal sovereignty in the enforcement of immigration law, compromise the safety and security of the transportation systems supported by DOT financial assistance, and prioritize illegal aliens over the safety and welfare of the American people whose Federal taxes fund DOT’s financial assistance programs.”

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Shakira: «An immigrant in the U.S. means living in constant fear.
And it’s painful to witness. I just hope they can be treated — that all of us can be treated — based on principles of fairness and freedom.
The very same principles that shaped this nation and so many other great and powerful nations around the world, which have been built by the hard work of immigrants.

What worries me most is that this country, like many others facing immigration issues, finds a humane solution to those problems.»

Shakira, the Colombian artist, shares her opinion on how the United States should treat illegal immigrants on American soil. Let’s see when she decides to speak out about her own drunk president and the failed state of Colombia.

It’s incomprehensible how, to this day, far-left activists remain determined to advocate for the human rights of criminals while completely forgetting the human rights of the victims of these criminal illegal immigrants.

Unfortunately, there are countless examples where illegal immigrants have committed serious crimes such as rape and murder. Yet states like California continue to defend and shelter these criminals. And not only that — they are now obstructing ICE from doing its job, which is to protect American citizens by removing illegal immigrants from the streets.

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Anarchy in LA Exposes the Brute Pragmatism of Progressive Politics

Guest post by Marly Hornik, CEO USA4Freedom (aka United Sovereign Americans).

Violent rioters may have done this country a great service over the past couple of weeks. It probably wasn’t in the socially “just” way they intended, however. They have exposed the raw political calculations eating away at our foundation.

Defending the latest round of brick-based activism are the “Progressives”. By peddling a cart full of utopian fantasies, they’ve amassed great power over the last century. These empty, feel-good promises are based on the ruse of asserting the need to protect “rights” not enumerated in the US Constitution.

As an example, the right to acquire and protect property is guaranteed, but not property ownership. Progressives centralize power by claiming that property ownership, or “freedom from want” as delivered up in President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, is a prerequisite for liberty, a sneaky way of turning a deliberately limited government into an unlimited opportunity for legally-endorsed plunder.

Alleging the right to a roof over one’s head, for example, creates the need for endless experts determining the specifications and materials by which that roof must be constructed, presumably before birth, preventing injustice via big government instead of localized charity.

By pretending the money needed to provide property and pay all these experts is an infinite resource without cost, Progressives have backed themselves into an immigration crisis. Mass immigration, despite its burden in chaos and civilizational unraveling, is the only way we can afford progressivism.

Our declining birthrate (a likely casualty of the apparent right to freedom from pregnancy) is in a death spiral with Social Security and Medicare. In order to have enough young workers paying into these and other federal benefit programs, Progressives have gambled with American identity and sovereignty, on the assumption that most of the 20 million new illegals want jobs and a stable life from which government administrators can then siphon.

While Los Angeles endures riots, the real resistance to military protection for Americans trapped in the unraveling dystopian lie called “California” is that Progressive parasites need more hosts. Disguised as caring people, Governor Gavin Newsom, LA Mayor Karen Bass and many others make sure America continues to put themselves first.

The platform of freedom to medically repress also needs voters, exploiting those who are pitiful, grateful for crumbs and not yet wise to the dangerous destiny toward which they’re being relentlessly dragged. While American schoolchildren were forced to comply with medical mandates during Covid in the name of public health, illegals flooding the border were not similarly burdened. Such demands could have made them think twice about coming, or sending their children. Certainly it would have reduced their political allegiance to those who opened the border.

Are illegals actually voting in California? USA4Freedom, a national election validity organization, has studied official data obtained from Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office and finds the answer is absolutely yes.

In one deep-dive study of Orange County, over 60,000 votes were counted from “voters” who do not have a Social Security number. Seventy-four thousand came from individuals who can’t be traced back to a US identity, meaning they lack a footprint at banks, utility companies, schools and other essential civic touchpoints. Somehow, another 76,500 were added to the pile with no corresponding voter at all.

If not illegal aliens and fake people, who exactly is voting these ballots? What madness have Progressives gleefully hitched our wagons to in the name of perpetuating a utopian piggybank?

Accurately measuring the scale of this disaster is challenging, but gracious attempts offer an uncertainty range in actual votes counted statewide of at least 35% and as high as 48%.

The USA4Freedom data and analytics team is comprised of 95 professional, experienced and credentialed big data auditors. The only records reviewed come directly from election officials. USA4Freedom looks at whether voters, votes, counts and records are legitimate—because if they are not, it’s a crime as defined by the Department of Justice.

As the numbers in official records speak for themselves, the group makes no speculative claims. There is no need to stoke the fires of partisan rage. It is simply impossible to call recent California elections accurate and compliant. The State of California is in a breach of contract with the legally qualified citizens of California and the United States, the only people authorized to choose representatives.

The Trump administration is working overtime to renew the principle of limited government. At USA4Freedom, we are fighting to secure this legacy and secure a legally-valid 2026 midterm election. We are working nationwide on key litigation and advocacy efforts that will secure Congress and restore legitimate representative government.

Please join us and support our efforts—choose victory, not regret.

Marly Hornik is the co-founder and CEO of USA4Freedom. She has coordinated more than 10,000 volunteers to audit elections in 21 states, advocate for legally valid elections to over 700 local representative bodies across America, and file federal lawsuits in nine states demanding that the voters, votes, and counts be lawful and accurate.

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Despite President Donald Trump’s Department of Veterans Affairs and Navy moving to end cruel animal testing, the National Institutes of Health, under Director Jay Bhattacharya, has renewed millions in funding for controversial experiments, including THC tests on monkeys at Harvard, tick bites on beagle puppies, and Anthony Fauci’s notorious “Monkey Island,” prompting criticism from watchdog group White Coat Waste.

Last month, Gateway Pundit reported how President Trump’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, confirmed the department will end primate testing before a 2026 deadline set by Congress.

Following years of campaigning by the watchdog organization White Coat Waste, President Trump’s first administration set the VA on the path to ending testing on dogs, cats and primates after WCW exposed how the agency was giving puppies heart attacks, injecting monkeys with angel dust, crippling kittens, drilling into cat’s skulls, and much more.

Also in May, Trump’s U.S. Navy banned all testing on dogs and cats. The Navy credited WCW, as well as journalist Laura Loomer, the Department of Government Efficiency, and Senator Rand Paul, “for bringing the issue of animal abuse to our attention, leading to the Navy’s decision to ban medical research testing on cats and dogs.”

But holdovers from the Obama and Biden Administrations appear to be preventing this kind of progress at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A Barack Obama-era NIH staffer, Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer, has been appointed by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya to be the NIH’s Acting Deputy Director for Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives. Earlier this month, Kleinstreuer told NPR that the NIH has “no intention of just phasing out animal studies overnight.”

The NIH has renewed several controversial animal testing projects initiated by Dr. Anthony Fauci and other NIH staff members.

Gateway Pundit has learned that the NIH has re-upped grant funds for THC experiments on young monkeys at Harvard University’s McLean Hospital that WCW exposed through a Freedom of Information Act request and that Gateway covered in April. The NIH has committed five more years of taxpayer funding to the project, which was initially scheduled to end on April 30, 2025, and has now received nearly $4.5 million.

The Daily Caller recently reported that, “Virologist Jeffery Taubenberger, a longtime Fauci ally who for more than a decade has defended the practice of enhancing viruses known as gain-of-function (GOF) virology, ascended to the top of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) on April 24.”  Taubenberger now runs NIAID, the NIH division that Fauci helmed for nearly four decades.

This may explain why, as Gateway Pundit reported in late April, NIAID recently renewed funding for Dr. Anthony Fauci’s infamously cruel “Monkey Island” off the coast of South Carolina. Media reports have been highlighting the public safety issues posed by the taxpayer-funded monkey colony that confines over 3,300 primates who are bred and then shipped to labs for deadly and horrific “maximum pain” research. Documents obtained by WCW show an estimated 500 to 600 monkeys are taken from the island each year and sent to NIH and other government labs, where they’re infected with viruses, mutilated, and killed.

As Laura Loomer reported, NIAID has also renewed grants for tick bite experiments on 400 beagle puppies at the University of Columbia-Missouri that were uncovered by a WCW investigation.

Right in NIH’s own headquarters, the agency is also still paying for experiments that drill into monkeys’ skulls and damage their brains with acid, isolate and chain the monkeys in tiny cages, and then terrorize them with rubber snakes and “jumping” toy spiders. The tests have been continuously funded for nearly five decades and the NIH has spent over $62 million on them.

WCW was the first to expose never-before-seen videos from inside the NIH “Fear Factory” laboratory through a successful 2019 FOIA lawsuit against the NIH. The investigation and their work with Congress to shut the lab down prompted officials to alert Dr. Fauci and former NIH Director Francis Collins about the experiments “targeted by White Coat Waste.”

WCW President and Founder Anthony Bellotti told Gateway Pundit, “As the watchdog that first exposed Fauci’s funding for beagle abuse, Monkey Island, and transgender mice, we’re alarmed that the NIH continues to renew these and other multi-million-dollar Biden-Fauci boondoggles. President Trump’s message is clear: cut NIH’s wasteful spending. But Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and bureaucrats at the NIH either didn’t get Trump’s memo—or they’re ignoring it. While Trump’s Pentagon and V.A. are cutting and banning cruel pet and primate experiments following WCW investigations, Biden-Fauci holdovers at NIH are defiantly doubling down on animal testing. Under Bhattacharya, the NIH is renewing payouts to animal labs where kittens have their eyes sewn shut and beagles are poisoned, blinded and infested with ticks. It’s pouring more money into primate abuse and promoting Biden and Fauci holdovers who are undermining Trump’s promise to drain the NIH swamp. The solution to the NIH’s animal testing addiction is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”

In May, the NIH announced it shut down its last in-house beagle testing lab following a nine-year WCW campaign. Notably, documents show that the NIH had defended the deadly dog lab in an email to Congress just weeks before it was shuttered.

Though the Trump-haters at PETA keep making the media rounds trying to claim victory for this and other WCW wins, WCW remains the only animal advocacy organization to shut down any government primate lab in nearly a decade, any government dog testing labs in almost 20 years, and any government cat lab in the last 40 years.

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