Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-bodyguard and admitted lover is now facing a felony after deputies say he broke into her Cave Creek home, ransacked it, and destroyed more than $200,000 in property.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Sinema admitted in sworn court papers that her relationship with Matthew Ammel, 39, became “romantic and intimate” in May 2024, while she was still serving in the U.S. Senate and while he was still married. She detailed encounters in Sonoma/Napa, New York City, Washington, D.C., Aspen, and Phoenix.

In April, newly released texts showed Ammel’s then-wife, Heather Ammel, confronting Sinema directly: “Are you having an affair with my husband? You took a married man away from his family.”

Heather’s lawsuit accuses Sinema of destroying a 14-year marriage under North Carolina’s alienation-of-affection statute.

Earlier this month, a federal judge in North Carolina denied Sinema’s motion to dismiss, found her testimony “has not been credible” on several points, and allowed the homewrecker case to proceed.

Ammel is a retired Army veteran who joined Sinema’s security detail in 2022. Court records in the North Carolina case describe him as a troubled veteran with brain injuries who struggled after leaving the military.

Sinema’s campaign and related committees paid him more than $100,000 after she left office. His ex-wife has alleged Sinema showered him with gifts, concert tickets, and even encouraged psychedelic drug use.

Now the same man is accused of turning Sinema’s Arizona house into a crime scene over a refused social-media post.

Matthew Ammel was taken into custody last week and charged with criminal damage as a class 4 felony.

According to court documents first reported by AZFamily, Ammel entered Sinema’s home on August 30 while she was out of town and demanded that she post a video to her X account.

He allegedly threatened to destroy one of her paintings every 10 minutes until she complied. Sinema refused.

Investigators say Ammel then pulled about 22 paintings off the walls and threw them into her swimming pool. One additional painting was found near the front entrance, spray-painted.

He also smashed expensive liquor bottles and hurled a glass bottle at a wall-mounted mirror, shattering it. Deputies later found paintings floating in the pool and at the bottom.

The artwork alone was valued at $123,015. Combined damage to the home and pool is estimated at more than $200,000.

Sinema turned over text messages, recordings, and surveillance video. Deputies say the footage identified Ammel.

He was picked up from a behavioral health facility after a petition for an involuntary psychiatric evaluation and booked on the damage charge. He has since been released with an electronic monitor. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for October 5.

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Manhattan prosecutors walked into Harvey Weinstein’s sentencing hearing Wednesday and dropped a claim they had been sitting on: they say they have jailhouse recordings of the disgraced Hollywood mogul offering an unnamed podcaster $1.75 million to release videos meant to “contaminate the jury pool” and reach jurors before and after trial.

They refused to name the podcaster. They did not say anyone took the money.

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years on Wednesday by Justice Curtis Farber on the 2025 conviction for a first-degree criminal sex act against former Project Runway production assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haley in 2006.

The 74-year-old, rolled in by wheelchair from Rikers, pleaded for mercy, called himself “not a violent man,” and said he had “remorse” for Haley. The judge called him a “sexual predator” who threw away a titan’s legacy.

The Gateway Pundit reported the 15-year sentence earlier on Wednesday.

Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg told the court the recordings captured Weinstein offering the money so videos of witnesses could be released “to contaminate the jury pool and to reach the jurors before and after the trial.”

She accused him of a “scheme to disrupt the trial and instill fear in his victims.” She still would not identify the host.

According to The New York Post, there is only one podcaster who is publicly known to have conducted on-camera interviews with Weinstein from Rikers Island and released a series built around those jailhouse videos: Candace Owens.

Her 2025 Harvey Speaks series featured Weinstein insisting he was “wrongfully convicted,” attacking the #MeToo payout culture, and claiming the difference between “immoral” and “illegal.”

The interview is here:

Candace Owens pushed back on X, calling the speculation an “intentional smear.” She said she “was not paid or even offered payment” for her interview with Weinstein and denied receiving money from him or anyone associated with him.

Owens wrote:

“Would appreciate a community note on this intentional smear. For the record, I did not accept nor would I have ever accepted one red cent to cover this case.

I was not paid by Harvey Weinstein, or any Harvey Weinstein friend, business associate, corporation, PR firm or otherwise.

So that we are beyond clear here— I was not paid or even offered payment for my interview. I cover cases that I am interested in and I do it entirely for free, always.

And if any lawyer suggested otherwise, they are lying to cover for their lying ass clients. Any other questions?”

Would appreciate a community note on this intentional smear.

For the record, I did not accept nor would I have ever accepted one red cent to cover this case.
I was not paid by Harvey Weinstein, or any Harvey Weinstein friend, business associate, corporation, PR firm or…

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 23, 2026

Weinstein’s spokesman, Juda Engelmayer, called the prosecutors’ framing “patently untrue.” He said Weinstein “never offered or paid anyone $1.75 million to influence a jury,” that “no money was paid, no such deal was made,” and that treating jailhouse talk about media coverage as a criminal “scheme” was “inflammatory and misleading.”

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According to a bombshell report from Semafor, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is actively considering tapping tech visionaries and wealthy investors, including free-speech champion Elon Musk, to build a powerhouse investor syndicate for Paramount’s massive takeover merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

If completed, this game-changing deal would bring both CBS and the ultra-left propaganda outlet CNN under the exact same corporate umbrella, with Musk holding significant backing and ownership stakes.

Larry Ellison, David’s father and the Oracle billionaire who personally guaranteed more than $40 billion of the equity financing for the deal, has a long relationship with Musk.

Larry Ellison put $1 billion into Musk’s 2022 takeover of Twitter, now X. He also invested in Tesla and served on its board.

The same family that bought Paramount, installed Bari Weiss at CBS News, and spent the last year ripping the activist rot out of “60 Minutes” is now looking at bringing in the man who bought Twitter and ended the old regime’s censorship operation.

The merger itself is nearly across the finish line. After a year of bidding wars, shareholder votes, Trump DOJ approval, and a last-ditch lawsuit from California AG Rob Bonta and a coalition of Democrat state attorneys general, the sides reached a settlement this week. The deal is expected to close in early October, according to The New York Times.

The Gateway Pundit has tracked this fight from the beginning.

In February, Paramount won the bidding war after Netflix walked away. Warner Bros. shareholders later approved the sale despite the usual Hollywood tantrum about “narrowing the range” of films, which in practice meant fewer lectures and more movies people actually want to watch.

In July, a Biden-appointed judge in Oakland issued a temporary restraining order after Bonta and 11 other mostly Democrat AGs sued to kill the deal. The Gateway Pundit reported that Paramount was already looking at packing up and leaving California over Bonta’s lawfare.

TMZ later reported that L.A. and state officials were told Paramount planned to announce it was leaving California. Ellison had already moved headquarters from New York to Los Angeles after buying Paramount. Bonta’s lawsuit was the thanks he got.

Meanwhile, Bari Weiss, brought in after Paramount bought The Free Press, has been doing exactly what the old CBS newsroom feared. She fired the far-left executive producer of “60 Minutes,” dumped anti-Trump correspondents, and started treating the show like a news program instead of a Democratic Super PAC.

CNN staffers have already been bracing for the same treatment. Reports earlier this year said Ellison and his team were considering giving Weiss some oversight of CNN after the merger. Mark Thompson, CNN’s editor-in-chief, reportedly told Paramount he would not share control. The newsroom is not happy.

Now add Musk’s name to the conversation and watch the panic intensify.

Semafor reported:

Paramount, looking to firm up its financial picture as it digests Warner Bros. Discovery, is looking for fresh sources of cash. Executives at the company have discussed asking Elon Musk to become part of a syndicate of equity investors into Paramount, according to people familiar with the matter.

[…]

The size of a potential Musk investment could not be determined. A spokesperson for Paramount declined comment. Musk did not return a request for comment.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass recently claimed that there is really no need for an election for governor in California because a Republican ‘cannot win’ in the state.

So much for that sacred ‘democracy’ that Democrat are always talking about.

Bass also mocked Republican Steve Hilton’s accent. Isn’t that hateful? Don’t Democrats constantly lecture the rest of the country for not being inclusive enough? This woman is an utter fraud.

PJ Media Reports:

Democrats have spent years warning us that democracy hangs by a thread every time Americans head to the polls, and Democrats are the party that is protecting it.

Well, somebody forgot to tell Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, because she just declared California’s governor’s race over, and that an election isn’t necessary.

Bass sat down with former ESPN personalities Jemele Hill and Cari Champion on the Flagrant and Funny podcast to talk about her reelection campaign, her runoff, and the Palisades and Altadena fires. During that conversation, Bass revealed what Democrats really think about “our democracy.”

“That’s why the governor’s race is over. Our governor’s name is Xavier Becerra,” Bass said. “You don’t need an election on November 3. A Republican cannot win in this state.”

Then she took a shot at Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, the British-born former Fox News host. “And yet, a Republican with a British accent?!” she added.

See the video below:

Karen Basura says we don’t need an election because a Republican cannot win, and Xavier Basura is “already the governor”. This is so revealing.

This is what happens when you have one-party rule: these politicians take you for granted and don’t even TRY to earn your vote. Becerra… pic.twitter.com/Mg9RrPW8WP

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 23, 2026

In the tweet below, Spencer Pratt comments on this:

Karen Basura says we don’t need an election because a Republican cannot win, and Xavier Basura is “already the governor”. This is so revealing.

This is what happens when you have one-party rule: these politicians take you for granted and don’t even TRY to earn your vote. Becerra isn’t even campaigning. If you democrats actually want your politicians to DO something for you, you need to hand them an L once in a while, to keep them honest so they actually TRY to earn your vote.

More got done in LA in the few months that I was campaigning than in a decade or more, all because I put a little fear in this vile reptile. Now that there’s no opposition in the race, that’s over for LA, and voters will get nothing.

Karen Basura says we don’t need an election because a Republican cannot win, and Xavier Basura is “already the governor”. This is so revealing.

This is what happens when you have one-party rule: these politicians take you for granted and don’t even TRY to earn your vote. Becerra… pic.twitter.com/Mg9RrPW8WP

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 23, 2026

Democrats have destroyed California. They do not deserve to continue doing so.

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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the Trump administration to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, ruling that President Donald Trump’s ban on the outlets was likely unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee from 2017 and the same judge who forced the White House to give CNN’s Jim Acosta his pass back in 2018, signed a Temporary Restraining Order in the early hours of Thursday morning.

The outlets only had to post a laughable $1 bond.

The order directs administration officials, excluding President Trump personally, and those acting with them to return and reinstate the affected passes. The order covers credentials revoked on or about September 18.

The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday that Judge Kelly appeared skeptical during a hearing on Trump’s media ban.

A lawyer for the outlets accused the Trump Administration of banning the news organizations “completely out of the blue” and urged the judge to immediately restore their access.

“I think it is fair to say that process … wasn’t followed here, talking about predeprivation process,” Judge Kelly said, according to CNBC.

Judge Kelly concluded the hearing without issuing a ruling but said he will rule ‘soon.’

President Trump said he expects to lose the case even though it is assigned to one of his appointees.

“…We’ll go for appeal because Fake News people and publications that only write negatively, and who violate our National Security by writing false and defamatory stories with unknown “sources” shouldn’t be allowed access to the most important Office…” Trump said.

And he is right.

Early Thursday, Kelly’s ruling rests on the outlets’ Fifth Amendment due process claim. He found they were likely to show that their passes were revoked without prior notice or an opportunity to respond, and that the White House had not established clear standards beforehand for conduct that could lead to revocation.

The administration argued that the ban was justified by national security concerns. But Kelly said the record offered little factual support for that claim, including no explanation of how the cited reporting damaged national security or how restoring the passes would endanger it.

The ruling is temporary. The restraining order lasts 14 days while the case continues, and the court plans expedited briefing on whether to issue a preliminary injunction. The order requires the plaintiffs to post a $1 bond by October 1. It does not resolve the full lawsuit or finally decide every claim.

As The Gateway Pundit reported Friday, President Trump announced the ban on Truth Social:

I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them “alive.” Seems like corruption to me!), from the White House as a result of their constant “reporting” FAKE NEWS!

Over the weekend, the Secret Service deactivated the passes and turned reporters away. The three outlets raced to court Monday. 

Kelly made clear he is bound by D.C. Circuit precedent whether he likes the result or not. The White House had argued those older cases were wrongly decided. The judge’s response: “this Court is bound by D.C. Circuit precedent, full stop.”

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have both pointed out the screaming hypocrisy. The Biden White House quietly yanked hard passes from more than 440 journalists with barely a peep from the same press corps now screaming “First Amendment emergency.”

Conservative outlets never got the special White House workspace access these three now demand as a constitutional right.

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The city of Los Angeles is now reporting an outbreak of the disease Typhus. It is connected to fleas on rats which are flourishing in the city’s numerous homeless encampments.

California has the highest tax rate in the country. Why? What do people get for paying such high taxes? They get preventable diseases because their leaders are worthless.

There’s really no excuse for this at all.

NBC News in Los Angeles reports:

Flea-borne typhus rising in LA County with latest case reported in Wilshire Center

Typhus, a flea-borne bacterial disease, is on the rise in Los Angeles County, with the latest localized case reported in the Wilshire Center neighborhood, public health officials said Tuesday.

The disease is spread to humans by infected fleas that commonly live on rats, opossums, stray cats and other animals. Common symptoms include headaches, chills, muscle aches and rash.

The Wilshire Center case is the second localized typhus outbreak this year, according to the LA County Department of Public Health.

There were at least seven symptomatic cases linked to the outbreak, health officials said. Six of the seven patients had to be hospitalized at one point. All have recovered, the department said.

So far this year, 109 flea-borne typhus cases have been reported in Los Angeles County.

See a video report below:

NEW: A flea-borne typhus outbreak is under investigation in L.A.’s Wilshire Center after 7 people got sick and 6 were hospitalized.

The disease, historically associated with earlier eras of poor sanitation, is re-emerging in L.A. County.

Health officials say fleas are the key… pic.twitter.com/Pv3TiVi3we

— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) September 23, 2026

This is what years of one-party rule have brought to the people of Los Angeles.

The homeless population was allowed to explode and now they’re dealing with medieval diseases. Why are the taxes so high in California? What are the people getting for all of the money they send to the city and state?

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