Retaliation for refusing the once-mandated COVID-19 shot no longer has a place in today’s U.S. military. Careers were destroyed, and here’s one of the most egregious examples.

Joshua Zermeno enlisted in the Air Force in 2010. After a few years of serving as a B-52 strategic bomber mechanic, a previously earned mechanical engineering degree provided the opportunity to apply to Officer Training School (OTS).

After OTS, Zermeno was commissioned in the Air Force as a second lieutenant and began Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT). Finishing number two in his class, in 2015, he was then assigned to fly the RC-135, a reconnaissance aircraft.

In 2018, he was given the opportunity to transition career paths once again. He began working with rockets, assisting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), SpaceX, and other space-related entities.

In 2021, he was selected as one of the first officers to be commissioned into The United States Space Force, and his oversight on space lift operations continued to expand.

“Everything seemed to be going well,” Zermeno told The Gateway Pundit. “That is, until the [shot] mandate came down from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin [in August 2021].” He took objection to the now-rescinded mandate for “personal reasons,” and “that didn’t go well with the base commander,” he shared.

Within three weeks, he received a Letter of Reprimand (LOR). A few weeks after receiving the LOR, he received “a do not promote” guidance from his base commander.

“I was passed over for promotion to Major,” he explained. “Things just started spiraling out of control, and I received a second LOR.”

Without a religious exemption or religious waiver for the shot, Zermeno was essentially forced to apply to “voluntarily separate” using an administrative discharge process created specifically for service members refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.

To his surprise, “The Air Force decided it wasn’t in their best interest to separate me.” Rather, he was “kicked out” of government buildings and was assigned to remote, menial jobs.

Shockingly, after being denied voluntary separation, Zermeno was threatened with Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) punishment. “I was going to be put up against a discharge board in January [2023],” he explained.

But at the final hour, former Defense Secretary Austin rescinded the mandate on January 10, considering it “an unfair, overbroad, and completely unnecessary burden on our service members.”

“I was in the clear. This is over,” thought Zermeno. “But about a month later, I received a second ‘do not promote,’ for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine” he said.

“I was passed over [for promotion] and forced to involuntarily separate months after the COVID mandates were rescinded” he added, pointing out that “when they separated me, they labeled it for a failure to promote.”

Despite his harrowing experience, Zermeno still expresses interest in reinstatement.

“When I saw the Executive Order by President Trump to [‘make reinstatement available to all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged solely for refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and who request to be reinstated’], I immediately started reaching out to my previous base and no one knew what was going on.”

Zermeno then reached out to the Department of the Air Force, which is responsible for United States Space Force members. He was told “they have no guidance at all, and are waiting on guidance from the Department of Defense.”

Week after week, he continues to be told “they have no guidance on how to logistically make it happen.”

Will President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, or Air Force Secretary Gary Ashworth intervene? A former Air Force Captain who served honorably awaits the answer.

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A third term for President Trump would be a game-changer for America, solidifying the progress he is making in restoring economic strength, securing our borders, and putting America First. The radical left has spent years trying to tear down everything he built, but with another term, he could finish the job and ensure that the deep state and corrupt establishment never regain control.

While the 22nd Amendment technically limits presidents to two terms, there’s a long-shot possibility—one that I’ll reveal in this podcast—that could open the door for Trump’s return beyond 2028. It’s a conversation the mainstream media doesn’t want you to hear!

Former Trump Attorney and Constitutional Scholar John Eastman is our guest. Plus we go through the days topics you need to be aware of.

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Amid the volley of “now the truth can be told”-style stories coming out about the last days of President Joe Biden’s administration in the run-up to the 2024 election — and those are bad enough — we’re now getting them about the run-up to the 2020 election, too.

In fairness, we probably should have seen this coming; the Biden administration spent four years protecting the swamp at all costs and invoking the specter of the worst day in the history of all of humanity — Jan. 6, 2021, obvs — to ward off anyone who shined a light into the D.C. bog.

But now, thanks to a report from Catherine Herridge and Michael Shellenberger, two prominent independent journalists, we can see inside the FBI’s response to Hunter Biden’s laptop in regards to social media — and, surprise, surprise, it’s every bit as bad as we thought it would be.

The report said that federal investigators confirmed that, yes, they told Twitter the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop — i.e., that it was real — before Twitter throttled a story from the New York Post about its unseemly contents.

This was in the final days of the 2020 election cycle — and while social media eventually eased restrictions on sharing stories about the contents of the laptop, the damage was done in the interim. Eventually, according to the report, the FBI settled on a lie of omission, refusing to answer whether the laptop was real.

From the Herridge/Shellenberger report:

In 2024, an FBI official admitted to House investigators that an FBI employee had inadvertently confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop to Twitter on a conference call the morning of October 14, 2020, the day the New York Post published a story about it.

“I recall that when the question came up, an intelligence analyst assigned to the Criminal Investigative Division said something to the effect of, ‘Yes, the laptop is real’,” testified the then-Russia Unit Chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force in a closed door transcribed interview.

“I believe it was an (Office of General Counsel) attorney assigned to the (Foreign Influence Task Force) stepped in and said, ‘We will not comment further on this topic.’”

Now, with the GOP in control of both houses of Congress and the White House, FBI officials have coughed up “internal chat messages that show Bureau leadership actively silenced its employees.”

The heavily redacted reports indicated that Elvis M. Chan, a San Francisco-based special agent who liased with social media conglomerates, was told that there was a “gag order” on discussion of the problematic laptop.

In another message, Chan is instructed to say that “official response no commen(t).” The reason, bureau officials said, was that there was evidence of criminality on the computer.

Chan asked, “actually what kind of case is the laptop thing? corruption? campaign financing?”

A redacted message began, “CLOSE HOLD —,” followed by plenty of blacked out text.

Chan responded, “oh crap … ok. It ends here.”

Another employee told him, “please do not discuss biden matter,” according to the report.

This is a CatherineHerridgeReports @C__Herridge / Public Investigation

In 2024, an FBI official admitted to House investigators that an FBI employee had inadvertently confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop to Twitter on a conference call the morning of October 14,… pic.twitter.com/lf96noyAHU

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 1, 2025

As Herridge noted in her report, the bureau “had a special task force to counter foreign election interference, [which] could have set the record straight by confirming the laptop was real and the subject of an ongoing criminal probe. Instead, FBI leadership allowed the false narrative about the laptop to gain momentum.”

BREAKING: FBI Imposed “Gag Order” About Hunter Biden Laptop After Employee Accidentally Confirmed Its Authenticity To Twitter

Newly released internal FBI chat messages reveal senior bureau officials actively shutting down discussion of the laptop’s credibility days before the… pic.twitter.com/PzaCUG6B7L

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) April 1, 2025

While this isn’t entirely a surprise — the Post reported in 2023 that Twitter was informed on the day of the Post’s report that the laptop is real — this is the first time that we’ve seen definitive evidence that this was someone who blurted out the truth on a call before the FBI brass actively told them to lie.

Furthermore, they told everyone else to keep lying, as well, and their social media ambassador basically said that he wasn’t going to say anything even though the contents of the laptop were in the public domain.

Of course, at that point, the narrative was that the contents were a fakery; the Biden camp essentially suborned dozens of intelligence officials to sign a letter to that effect without anyone correcting it. To say that this went a long way toward silencing any talk about the laptop — even after social media stopped throttling shared stories about it — is an understatement.

Remember, when you hear these “now the story can be told”-type missives, what officialdom is saying is, “OK, now I guess we can stop lying to you.” This is why the swamp needs to be drained with all due speed and never allowed to get even the slightest bit marshy again. Now that Kash Patel is director of the FBI, it’s high time we went back and unredacted these messages to find out who was really behind this outrageous cover-up.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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On Tuesday, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill approving the sale of Ivermectin over the counter without a prescription.

Arkansas Senate Bill 189 authorizes Ivermectin for human use to be sold without prescription or consultation with a healthcare professional.

Arkansas is the second state to make the drug available without a prescription, joining Tennessee.

State Senator Alan Clark (R-Lonsdale), who co-sponsored the bill, argued in committee, “I’m more trusting of my constituents’ and friends’ common sense than I am of the medical industry at the moment.”

During the height of the pandemic, the Biden regime demonized the use of Ivermectin to treat Covid and other health concerns despite the fact that the drug has been safely used in humans since 1966.

In December 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a stern warning to Americans: “Never use medications intended for animals on yourself or other people. Animal ivermectin products are very different from those approved for humans. Use of animal ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in humans is dangerous.”

Yet by March 2024,  101 Ivermectin COVID-19 controlled studies showed a 62% lower risk in early treatment in COVID-19 patients.

In 2022, a group of brave doctors filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the agencies’ unlawful attempts to block the use of Ivermectin in treating COVID-19.

The Gateway Pundit reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ultimately agreed to remove all its previous social media posts and consumer advisories that specifically addressed the use of ivermectin for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19.

Those who spoke publicly about using Ivermectin were mocked, canceled, and attacked.

CNN, The New York Times, ABC, and other fake news outlets attacked popular podcaster Joe Rogan for taking “horse dewormer” when he announced using the effective medication to battle Covid.

A Department of Justice attorney was caught on undercover video admitting that the FDA’s campaign against the use of ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment was not only misguided but also an overreach of its authority.

Fourteen states, including North Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Alabama, Maine, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Idaho, and Georgia are currently woking to provide Ivermectin over the counter.

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A federal judge ended the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday.

US District Judge Dale Ho, a Biden appointee, sent shockwaves after he dropped the DOJ’s case against Eric Adams.

The DOJ wanted to drop the federal charges against Adams without prejudice which means they could refile them in the future. Judge Ho dismissed the case without prejudice and ended the case permanently.

Judge Ho also blasted Trump’s DOJ officials and accused them of a quid pro quo.

“Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the Indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions,” judge Ho wrote in his order.

“Taking a step back from the particulars of this case, DOJ’s immigration enforcement rationale is both unprecedented and breathtaking in its sweep,” the judge wrote, according to NBC News.

“DOJ cites no examples, and the Court is unable to find any, of the government dismissing charges against an elected official because doing so would enable the official to facilitate federal policy goals,” he said.

Adams was recently indicted on charges including wire fraud, bribery and conspiracy out of the Southern District of New York, becoming the first sitting New York City mayor to face criminal prosecution.

According to federal prosecutors, Adams accepted $10 million in illegal “straw” campaign contributions and bribes from foreign countries, including Turkey, Israel, China, Qatar, South Korea, and Uzbekistan, going back nearly a decade.

“For nearly a decade, Adams sought and accepted improper valuable benefits, such as luxury international travel, including from wealthy foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official seeking to gain influence over him,” the indictment reads.

In February, the Trump Justice Department moved to drop federal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

President Trump’s then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove instructed federal prosecutors in New York to drop the case.

Acting US Attorney for the SDNY Danielle Sassoon abruptly resigned just a few days after she was ordered to drop charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams.

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President Trump is livid after learning that four Senate Republicans are reportedly prepared to vote to sabotage his tariff policy on Canada.

As Fox News reported, leftist Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) has sponsored a resolution joint resolution that would terminate the national emergency Trump declared regarding illicit drugs and Canada. Trump has argued tariffs are necessary not just to curb the drug flow but also to rebalance an unfair trading relationship between the two countries.

The Senate is scheduled to vote on Kaine’s resolution this afternoon. While passage would not mean the tariffs evaporate, considering the House is unlikely to ever vote on the measure, voting against Canadian tariffs would hand the Democrats a powerful talking point and humiliate Trump in the process.

To add insult to injury, the vote is taking place on what Trump has declared “Liberation Day,” where he is set to unleash new reciprocal tariffs to bring back American jobs.

Only four GOPers need to join all 47 Democrats in backing Kaine for the resolution to win approval in the Senate. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine appear ready to defy Trump.

Paul is a co-sponsor of Kaine’s resolution, while Murkowski told Politico she will vote for it. The outlet reports Collins is “very likely” to join them while McConnell has repeatedly criticized Trump’s tariffs.

In a Truth Social post this morning, Trump demanded the four Republicans back off and hold Canada accountable for allowing fentanyl to flow freely into America.

“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy,” Trump wrote.

Trump added that by flirting with joining the left, the four GOPers are playing with the lives of ordinary Americans and right into the hands of the Democratic Party. He further vowed to veto the measure if it ever reached his desk.

“They are playing with the lives of the American people, and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels,” he stated. “The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, in that it is not going anywhere because the House will never approve it and I, as your President, will never sign it.”

Trump closed his rant by accusing the Republicans of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) and being disloyal to him, the Republican Party, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD).

“Why are they allowing Fentanyl to pour into our Country unchecked, and without penalty?” Trump wondered. “What is wrong with them, other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly known as TDS?”

Who can want this to happen to our beautiful families, and why? To the people of the Great States of Kentucky, Alaska, and Maine, please contact these Senators and get them to FINALLY adhere to Republican Values and Ideals. They have been extremely difficult to deal with and, unbelievably, disloyal to hardworking Majority Leader John Thune and the Republican Party itself. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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