What is currently happening to the Washington Post may soon be coming to the newsroom at CNN. The far-left, Russia collusion hoax pushing network has reportedly lost almost a third of its viewership since 2016.

It turns out the public eventually walks away if you keep on lying to them.

With the singular exception of Scott Jennings, the network pushes an anti-Trump agenda on a daily basis, 365 days a year. They have been due for a reckoning for some time now.

The Daily Mail reports:

CNN has lost nearly two-thirds of its viewership since 2016 amid growing fears network is circling the drain

CNN has lost nearly two-thirds of its primetime viewers over the past decade, figures show.

The decrease, from roughly 1.3 million in 2016 to 553,000 now, is fueling rumors of a possible network sale – something CNN’s up-for-grabs parent company has vehemently denied.

The results recorded this month by Nielsen are actually an improvement from January, when stars like Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett, and Kaitlan Collins only secured 488,000 sets of eyes.

The network’s daytime lineup has seen a similar decline as hosts such as Wolf Blitzer failed to move the needle, dropping from 752,000 to 433,000.

When compared to the same part of the year in 2021, the drops were even more pronounced – 71 percent for primetime and 73 percent during the day.

Several network executives told the Daily Mail that the results were worrisome, even amid broader industry trends.

A CNN source, meanwhile, blamed the poor showing on audiences consuming news through alternative means.

People are talking about this on Twitter/X.

Never has a tv news network so richly deserved it’s ignominious collapse into nothingness https://t.co/pGqxg1Dqfw

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) February 12, 2026

You mean four people screaming at one person while the host interrupts like a condescending child isn’t something people want to watch? https://t.co/KngWhbK5HN

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 12, 2026

Gosh I hope all those hoaxes they willfully aired were worth it! https://t.co/HlcPyWOHFK

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 12, 2026

You’re telling be being a mouthpiece for Democrats and condescending to over half of America isn’t popular viewing?!? https://t.co/IyglwNOhlu

— EducatëdHillbilly (@RobProvince) February 12, 2026

Ya hate to see it. They could always go work at the Washington Po…. wait, never mind. https://t.co/T4f8ouI8bY

— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) February 11, 2026

Just like the Washington Post, CNN earned this situation. A lot of people who still work for them should have been fired after the 2016 election. They were completely wrong back then and they still are today.

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The State Department has just reported to Congress that the far left group ‘Code Pink’ is linked to the Chinese Communist Party. This should come as a surprise to no one.

Code Pink began making a nuisance of themselves during the presidency of George W. Bush. They portrayed themselves as an anti-war group. Of course, once Obama became president and continued most of Bush’s foreign policy and the wars, they became curiously silent. Some of them were even guests at Obama’s inauguration.

Now that Trump, a Republican, is president again, they are back to their old tactics of showing up in places where they were not invited and being generally annoying.

This move by the State Department has the potential to change the game.

The New York Post reports:

State Department identifies Code Pink and other far-left groups as vectors of Chinese influence operations

The State Department transmitted a report to Congress Tuesday linking lefty nonprofits Code Pink and the People’s Forum to Chinese influence operations.

“Partisan hacks spent years peddling the phony Russia collusion hoax while turning a blind eye to the sprawling web of far-left activist organizations who push the agendas of the Chinese Communist Party,” Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers said in a statement provided to The Post.

“Organizations like Code Pink and the People’s Forum denigrate the United States, whitewash the violence of Marxist regimes, and run cover for China while enjoying an influx of cash from a donor network with connections to the Chinese Communist Party,” Rogers added.

“The State Department will pursue complete transparency for the donor and NGO networks that lobby for our adversaries and seek to weaken the resolve of the United States.”

The report on “Countering Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference” alleges that China “spreads propaganda through influence campaigns run by nonprofit organizations like Code Pink, the People’s Forum and groups linked with the notorious Singham network.”

This has been a long time coming.

I’ve long called for an investigation into Code Pink’s ties to the Chinese Communists.

I’m glad @StateDept is taking action. https://t.co/U1JkkbQOUd

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 11, 2026

Code Pink is a Chinese influence operation, tied to the Singham Network funding the violent uprisings across America with CCP cash.

Time to wake up to what’s really going on, America. https://t.co/3KhVm1Lyzr

— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) February 11, 2026

Update: the State Department just confirmed what we knew all along

Code Pink is a shill for the Chinese Communist Party https://t.co/5OmgOy1JU8

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) February 11, 2026

Will we be seeing less of these radicals now?

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) blasted Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Wednesday ahead of the Senate’s consideration of the SAVE Act, which passed in the House with unanimous GOP support earlier. 

This comes after Thune recently reportedly dismissed the idea of a standing filibuster to override the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold. “There aren’t anywhere close to the votes” to change the rule, he said.

He further told reporters that the plan “doesn’t have a future.” He added, “Is there another way of getting there? We’ll see.”

Thune hasn’t even signed on to co-sponsor the bill, and it’s unclear whether he’d even vote to mandate documentary proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.

Luna described Thune’s position as “very disturbing” and said he agrees with Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that a vote shouldn’t even be held on the Senate floor.

She further slammed him for riding Trump’s coattails and ignoring Republican voters and the majority of Americans, who support voter ID requirements.

“if you’re going to depend on President Trump’s coattails to get elected to office, if you are going to say that you’re Republican, and then if you’re going to turn around and complain that I’m bullying you in the house for wanting to pass the SAVE Act, which is common sense legislation, very low hanging fruit, and the right thing to do, then maybe you should consider getting a different job,” she said. 

WATCH:

Gaetz: Congresswoman, you have been trying to shoehorn the SAVE Act into just about every piece of legislation south of a Mother’s Day resolution, and we just got word from Senate Majority Leader John Thune that he is not going to force Democrats to stand up and do a talking filibuster. What does that say about his leadership in the Senate?

Luna: I think that it’s very disturbing that he is not listening to not just what the Republican voting base wants, but America in general. This Act, voter ID is one of the biggest bipartisan issues, I think, from banning insider trading, that we’ve seen in a while, and yet, you have both John Thune and Chuck Schumer agreeing on this issue that they don’t want to put it on the floor, which is very odd.

I think, that if you’re going to depend on President Trump’s coattails to get elected to office, if you are going to say that you’re Republican, and then if you’re going to turn around and complain that I’m bullying you in the house for wanting to pass the SAVE Act, which is common sense legislation, very low hanging fruit, and the right thing to do, then maybe you should consider getting a different job.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the US House of Representatives voted to pass the SAVE Act, sending it to the Senate for final approval.

Rep. Luna and other GOP lawmakers have called for the Senate to invoke the standing filibuster, which would only require 50 votes for passage, instead of the 60 votes needed under the “zombie filibuster.”

Even one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), voted in favor of the legislation.

MORE:

BREAKING: US House Votes to Pass the SAVE Act to Require Voter ID and Proof of Citizenship in Elections – ONLY 1 Dem Votes Yes

This is a developing story. 

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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) grilled Attorney General Pam Bondi on her handling of the Epstein files before accusing her of perjury and demanding she resign during a House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Wednesday. 

Bondi testified before the Committee in an oversight hearing after the Department of Justice released an additional 3 million Epstein Files in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed into law last November.

Bondi and the DOJ have faced heavy scrutiny over the heavy redactions, namely of the names belonging to potential Epstein affiliates, clients, and coconspirators in the latest document dump.

Rep. Lieu began his questioning focusing on a photograph of former Prince Andrew with an Epstein victim, accusing her of attempting to “protect” Prince Andrew by closing the investigation into Epstein’s coconspirators and patrons of Epstein’s sex trafficking ring last July. But when asked why she shut the investigation down, a rattled Pam Bondi attempted to once again deflect, stating, “I don’t believe you asked Merrick Garland these questions when he was Attorney General and sat before you twice.”

But Ted Lieu fired back, agreeing that former Attorney General Merrick Garland and his predecessors “dropped the ball,” and slamming Bondi for “protecting” Epstein affiliates and coconspirators.

Lieu then asked the scrambling Attorney General if President Trump was ever at a party with Epstein and underage girls present, and she took a whole seven seconds to muster a response, stating, “This is so ridiculous and that they are trying to deflect from all the great things Donald Trump has done. There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime.”

While this is likely true, her performative outrage and refusal to answer the question was not a good look. It also teed Lieu up for his next statement, where he hurled a bogus accusation at the President, perfectly.

After accusing Bondi of potentially lying under oath, causing her to shout back, “Don’t you ever accuse me of a crime,” Lieu finished by referencing an apparent FBI tip that accused Trump of raping a girl, who later died of suspicious causes. “as we sit here today, there are over 1000 sex trafficking victims, and you have not held a single man accountable. Shame on you. If you had any decency, you would resign right after this hearing completely!” he then concluded.

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) then allowed Bondi to respond during his time for questioning, and she went off on Lieu, claiming that he “didn’t want to talk about all the crime that is happening in his state” and pointing to the state of California’s illegal policy of stonewalling federal authorities and allowing violent criminal illegal aliens back onto their streets. “That’s why they are deflecting. That’s why they’re trying to talk about the Epstein files. That’s currently happening in his home state!” she shouted.

But Ted Lieu is not law enforcement or a local official who creates policy in California. If she were concerned about these sanctuary city policies that harbor criminal illegal aliens in violation of federal law, then she would take action against the state of California, not play political theater in a Congressional hearing.

Matt Gaetz would have handled Lieu like a professional. It’s too bad he’s not the Attorney General.

WATCH:

Lieu: I’m going to show you two photos of former Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew attended various parties with Jeffrey Epstein. Under the law Congress passed, you were allowed to redact photos to protect the victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. You redacted the photos of this victim’s face because you were following the congressional law. Is that correct?

Bondi: I’m sorry that we redacted the victims face?

Lieu: Because you were following the congressional law, correct?

Bondi: Yes.

Lieu: Okay, you have now established that we— please put the photos back up— that we are looking at a sex trafficking victim. Under the federal Victims Trafficking Protection Act, not only is Jeffrey Epstein guilty, but anyone who patronizes Epstein’s sex operation is also guilty of a crime. That’s why I find it absolutely despicable that you sought to protect Epstein’s clients like former Prince Andrew. Last July, you closed the case on Epstein’s abusers. The July 2025, memo from your Department of Justice stated, quote, “We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.” These two photos— please put the photos back up— these two photos staring you in the face are evidence of a crime and more than enough evidence to predicate an investigation against former Prince Andrew. So, I ask you, Attorney General. Pam Bondi, why did you shut down this investigation last July, and why have you not prosecuted former Prince Andrew?

Bondi: I don’t believe you asked Merrick Garland these questions when he was Attorney General and sat before you twice.

Lieu: I agree with you. During the during the Biden administration, I called for people looking at Epstein files. Merrick Garland dropped the ball, as did Attorney General Bill Barr, as did Alex Acosta, a whole string of failures, but you are in charge. You have the power to change things, to hold these men accountable, and you’re doing the opposite. You’re protecting them. So, I want to move on to another man. I want to move on to another question.

Bondi: Can I answer that, though? Can I answer your question about protecting Prince Andrew?

Lieu: You answered the question.

Bondi: You’re saying no! I love this.

Lieu: I want to discuss another man, Donald Trump, who is all over the Epstein files, like former Prince Andrew. Here’s the video… Like former Prince Andrew, Donald Trump attended various parties with Jeffrey Epstein. I want to know, were there any underage girls at that party or at any party that Trump attended with Jeffrey Epstein?

Bondi: This is so ridiculous and that they are trying to deflect from all the great things Donald Trump has done. There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime. Everyone knows that. This has been the most transparent presidency. He’s the one that asked that those files be released–

[Crosstalk]

Lieu: Okay, I’m gonna put up another document from a witness who called the FBI’s national threat operation center because I believe you just lied under oath. There is ample evidence in the Epstein files—

Bondi: Don’t you ever accuse me of a crime!

Lieu: I believe you just lied under oath, and this is on videotape. You said there’s no evidence of crime. I’m showing you, here is a witness ,statement who called into the FBI’s threat operation center. He drove Donald Trump around in a limo. He overheard what Donald Trump said to Jeffrey on his cell phone. He was so angry, he was gonna stop a limo and hurt Donald Trump. And he met a girl who said she was raped by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. She later had her head blown off, and officers at the scene said that could not have been suicide. No one, no one, at the Department of Justice interviewed this witness. You need to interview this witness immediately. Epstein should rot in hell. So should the men who patronized his operation. And as we sit here today, there are over 1000 sex trafficking victims, and you have not held a single man accountable. Shame on you. If you had any decency, you would resign right after this hearing completely!

[Crosstalk]

Bondi: This is what Congressman Lieu didn’t want to talk about. He didn’t want to talk about all the crime that is happening in his state. California refuses to honor [detainers] because of its dangerous sanctuary city policies. The refusal means California has released 4,561 criminal Illegal aliens, criminal illegal aliens onto its street. The crimes of these aliens include 31 homicides, 661 assaults, 574 burglaries, 184 robberies, 1,489 dangerous drug offenses, 379 weapons offenses, and 234 sexual predator offenses. That’s why they are deflecting. That’s why they’re trying to talk about the Epstein files. That’s currently happening in his home state!

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