Infamous J-6 instigator Ray Epps never served time for any crimes after the January 6, 2021, protests and riot at the US Capitol.

Ray Epps was listed as #16 on the FBI Most Wanted List for a few days after the January 6, 2021 protests until he was removed from the list.

Epps led the charge on the US Capitol and was up front when protesters broke through two bike rack barriers. And it was Ray Epps who pushed a giant MAGA sign at police, a crime that sent at least eight protesters to prison for several years.

Yet, Ray Epps was quickly removed from the FBI Most Wanted List in 2021 for some reason. We still have no idea why the FBI did this.

In 2025, investigative journalist Yehuda Miller, on behalf of The Gateway Pundit, made a FOIA request from the Department of Justice for any and all information regarding Ray Epps and January 6, including all communications and directives relating to the removal of Ray Epps from the wanted list.

We also requested all communications between the FBI and Ray Epps from Jan 1, 2020, through Jan 1, 2025, and all files, records, and communications relating to Ray Epps from Jan 1, 2020, through Jan 1, 2025.

On Thursday, we received a response to our FOIA request on Ray Epps.

The FBI rejected the FOIA request, saying, “While the existence of FBI records is acknowledged, the records are exempt from disclosure as processing these third-party records would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

What was that supposed to mean? They have the records, but releasing them may be “an invasion of Ray Epps’ personal privacy?”

“The FBI has completed its search for records subject to the FOIA that are responsive to your request. The records on third party individuals) you requested are categorically denied pursuant to FOIA exemptions (b)(6) and (b)(7)(C), 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 (b)(6) and (b)(7)(C). Please be advised that you have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure (relating to the operations and activities of the government) outweigh the personal privacy interests of these individual(s). While the existence of FBI records is acknowledged, the records are exempt from disclosure as processing these third-party records would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. As a result, your request is closed.”

As we looked further into this FOIA response, on page 4, the FBI explains that the documents were denied because, according to (b)(6), “personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy.”

This is a ridiculous excuse to deny these documents to the public. Of course, the public has a right to know who Ray Epps was working with and what the FBI knew about his role on January 6.  They just don’t want to disclose this.

The FBI also suggested there was not ample interest in the Ray Epps story with the general public:

“Please be advised that you have not sufficiently demonstrated the public’s interest in disclosure”

The FBI now claims they have 1,840 pages of records, 27 minutes of audio and 49 minutes of Video relating to Ray Epps.

Then Yehuda reveals that the FBI will not release all of the documents until June 2028!

Seven years after the Fedsurrection on the US Capitol.

What are they hiding?  I think we all know.

Here is Yehuda’s tweet on X.

For those who still care about Jan 6th.

The FBI now claims they have 1,840 pages of records, 27 minutes of audio and 49 minutes of Video relating to Ray Epps.

I am looking forward to the release.

Only problem, they say will take until approximately June 2028 to release. https://t.co/sUHUpm2eUB

— Yehuda Miller (@yehuda_miller) October 14, 2026

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Nancy Juanita Williams, a professional guardian operating Guardian & Associates in Oak Park, was charged in October 2021 with dozens of felony counts related to voter fraud across five courts in the Metro Detroit area, stemming from the 2020 election.

Investigators determined the guardian, Nancy Juanita Williams, 55, developed and implemented a plan to obtain and control absentee ballots for legally incapacitated persons under her care by fraudulently submitting 26 absentee ballot applications to nine identified city and township clerks, seeking to have absentee ballots for those individuals mailed directly to her. She also submitted separate voter registration applications for each person – all without knowledge, consent or understanding of the person under her care.

The charges included election law forgery and forging a signature on an absentee ballot application after she submitted applications for legally incapacitated adults under her care. Many of the applications were signed with an “X” and requested that ballots be mailed directly to her company’s address.

Officials said the activity involved applications for up to 26 wards submitted to clerks in multiple jurisdictions. Prosecutors filed the charges in the 28th District Court in Southgate, the 17th District Court in Redford Township, the 18th District Court in Westland, the 29th District Court in the City of Wayne, and the 46th District Court in Southfield.

Why did no one investigate the potentially fraudulent applications Ms. Williams submitted in Detroit? And if there was an investigation, why did they not report the applications they found in nursing homes and assisted living facilities that were “assisted” by her? 

Despite the case spanning Wayne and Oakland counties, there is no public evidence that an investigation was opened into Williams’ activity in Detroit itself or into the broader 2020 election records in the city. Since there didn’t appear to be any effort to investigate whether or not Williams committed the same crimes in Detroit, where she was registered to vote, we decided to see how many applications Williams submitted with an “X” signature from nursing homes and assisted living facilities ourselves.

Jocelyn Benson used the charges against Nancy Williams to admonish the media for suggesting that elections in Michigan are neither safe nor secure and that election fraud in Michigan is far from “rare.”

“Our election system is secure, and today’s charges demonstrate that in the rare circumstances when fraud occurs we catch it and hold the perpetrators accountable. These charges also send a clear message to those who promote deceitful claims about widespread fraud: the current protocols we have in place work to protect and ensure the integrity of our elections. It’s time to share that truth and stop spreading lies to the contrary.”

Lies? Deceit? 

What about the 9 absentee voter applications with an “X” signature that were “voter assisted” by N. Williams by our team of volunteers during our research into Detroit’s 2020 election documents, Jocelyn? 

Over the past year, our team of more than 100 volunteers has reviewed nearly 1 million election documents from Detroit’s 2020 election, uploaded and organized by Phani Mantravadi, creator of Check My Vote. We obtained the documents after the City of Detroit lost a FOIA lawsuit filed by New Jersey citizen and elections activist Yehuda Miller.

When will Michigan media start asking Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson questions about our findings in Detroit’s 2020 election?  

Our project is 100% funded by individuals who are committed to helping us discover what really happened in Detroit’s 2020 election. Please consider donating any amount to help us continue our research by clicking HERE.

Three of the nine applications we identified as “voter assisted” by N. Williams resulted in absentee ballots being cast, and one individual voted in person.

Here are just a few examples of two absentee ballot applications with an “X” for a signature and the voter assist box filled out at the bottom of the form. These two examples are from the same nursing home in Detroit. According to the voter assist box, they were signed by N. Williams and mailed to her P.O.Box 48531, Oak Park, MI:

During our research, we discovered a highly unlikely situation. One of the Detroit “voters” whose application was “assisted” by Nancy Williams and signed with an “X” somehow signed her name on her absentee ballot envelope and, miraculously, didn’t need any assistance to vote.

Among the records we reviewed was an absentee ballot application and absentee ballot envelope for Pearl January.  According to her obituary, Ms. January, who died on August 25, 2025, had moved to Detroit from Arkansas to live with her son, Dwight Rashad, the alleged boyfriend of Nancy Juanita Williams. Pearl January was registered to vote at the same address as Nancy Williams. We found Ms. January registered to vote from Nancy Juanita Williams Detroit address. Both the application and the envelope for Ms. January contain handwritten signatures. We are not signature experts, but it’s certainly worth getting an opinion on whether or not the signatures on Ms. January’s 2020 absentee voter application and absentee envelope were written by the same person.

This is the signature and date on the absentee ballot application of the now-deceased Pearl January.

This is the signature and date of the now-deceased Pearl January on her absentee ballot envelope.

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the charges against Williams on October 11, 2021. In her statement to the public, Benson regurgitated a lie she frequently recites when faced with having to explain yet another discovery of mass fraud by an individual or group. Nessel is cut from the same cloth. Both promise election fraud is rare and that the person or group involved will face serious consequences for their actions. If the accused are Democrats, nothing ever happens to them.

“Our election system is secure, and today’s charges demonstrate that in the rare circumstances when fraud occurs we catch it and hold the perpetrators accountable.” Nessel said her office would “not hesitate to prosecute anyone who attempts to undermine our elections.”

Despite Benson’s claim of secure and safe elections, Williams faced dozens of felony counts, including election law forgery and forging a signature on an absentee ballot application.  All the professional guardian needed to do, however, was simply plead guilty in Wayne County Circuit Court on June 29, 2023, to seven counts of receiving payment to influence a vote, and like magic, prosecutors dismissed the remaining felony charges. She only received one year of probation and a $3,500 fine.

Although the conviction rested on Williams’s admission that she received payment for her work, neither the public court record nor any statement from Nessel or Benson identified who paid her. Why? Why would they hide this important piece of evidence from the public? Doesn’t the public have a right to know who was paying to influence the outcome of a federal election? 

The same pattern of felony charges being quietly reduced or dismissed appeared in the case of former Southfield City Clerk Sherikia Hawkins.

Hawkins faced multiple felony counts related to altering Qualified Voter File entries after the 2018 election, including forgery of a public record. Prosecutors dropped five felony charges; she pleaded no contest to misconduct in office and received no jail time. In both cases, the most serious felony allegations were resolved with limited public accountability.

Jocelyn Benson also withheld information from clerks during the 2020 investigation into GBI Strategies. Michigan State Police and local authorities examined thousands of voter registration applications submitted in Muskegon and other jurisdictions that showed signs of fraud. One of Benson’s investigators, Corey Ames, worked with the Michigan State Police on the case. Clerks across the state were receiving packages of registrations from the operation, yet Benson’s office did not alert them to the ongoing investigation. The matter was later referred to the Biden FBI and resulted in no state-level or federal charges.

Nancy Juanita Williams is still facing federal charges for her alleged role in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from incapacitated wards of the Wayne County Probate Court. Williams, the owner of Guardian & Associates—an agency appointed as fiduciary in more than 1,000 probate cases—is accused of conspiring with 36th District Judge Andrea Bradley-Baskin, attorney Avery Bradley, and her boyfriend Dwight Rashad to systematically embezzle money that belonged to vulnerable people under court protection. The indictment alleges she helped take roughly $203,000 from one ward’s legal settlement and paid Rashad rent for wards who never lived in his facilities. She has pleaded not guilty. The case remains unresolved, and a jury trial is currently set for October 13, 2026.

A 2025 Detroit News investigation found that Bradley-Baskin, while under FBI investigation, was involved in the sale of at least five homes belonging to vulnerable people in the probate system—including incapacitated adults, the elderly, and those with mental health problems—often for far less than market value. In several instances, the homes were sold to Rashad after Bradley-Baskin proposed the sale or drafted the deeds, including a Dearborn Heights ranch flipped in less than a month for a 72% profit. Property records show Williams and her boyfriend, Rashad, were central to these transactions involving wards under Guardian & Associates.

Benson has spent years waving off election fraud as rare and insisting that anyone who raises concerns is spreading misinformation. The Williams case produced an admission that a guardian was paid to influence votes, an unnamed payer, felony charges that were quietly dropped, and additional applications tied to ballots that were actually cast. The Hawkins case produced felony charges that disappeared and no real punishment. The GBI Strategies investigation shows her office knew about a statewide operation sending fraudulent registrations to clerks and said nothing.

While Benson has repeatedly dismissed fraud as rare, Republican-led efforts in the Michigan Legislature and citizen researchers have continued to document irregularities that her office has not fully addressed. House Republicans have pressed for answers on the GBI Strategies operation, voter roll issues, and other discrepancies that surfaced after 2020. The Williams applications, the Hawkins case, and the unpublicized GBI investigation are part of a larger body of evidence that has been identified under legislative scrutiny rather than where it should be dealt with — the Secretary of State’s office.

Michigan voters now face a choice: Do they want a governor who continues to downplay and, in some cases, withhold information about election irregularities—especially when they involve her own party—or one who takes the evidence that has already been uncovered seriously?

In less than 3 weeks, we will know the answer to this question:

WILL MICHIGAN VOTERS REALLY CHOOSE AMERICA’S MOST CROOKED SECRETARY OF STATE AS THEIR NEXT GOVERNOR?

Charges against Nancy Juanita Williams – Wayne & Oakland counties

A link to an FBI form requesting information about wards of Guardian and Associates remains active.

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We now know why Ilhan Omar and her family lied on immigration forms and changed their name when they entered the United States.

Between 1981 and 1991, the Somali military in which Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar’s father served as a senior officer, executed a brutal and systematic campaign of genocide targeting the Isaaq people of the modern day Republic of Somaliland.

This was first reported back in July 2025 at the Somaliland Chronicle in July 2025 but received little attention.

The Somaliland Chronicle reported:

This dark chapter in Africa’s history, which was known as the Isaaq Genocide, was a merciless military campaign that resulted in the killing of over 200,000 Isaaq civilians. It also involved widespread forced displacement, scorched‑earth destruction of the second and third largest cities (Hargeisa and Burao), aerial bombardement of almost every other single city, town and village in Somaliland, and two decades of large‑scale red-terror style tactics against the civilian population of Somaliland…

…At the heart of this brutal military regime was Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar’s father. His rank, authority, membership of the regime Daarood clan, and 10+ years of having climbed the hierarchy in Somalia military to the rank of Colonel, placed him squarely in the Somali military’s command hierarchy during and at the height of its Isaaq genocide campaign. Based on his position, loyalty to the regime, and his role in the military, it is virtually certain that he had intimate knowledge of and involvement in the planning, conception, direction and execution of the genocide.

Today the children of former Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, whose brutal regime has been linked to the deaths of as many as 200,000 people, are reportedly living quiet suburban lives in Columbus, Ohio.

According to an investigation by the New York Post, Barre’s son, Ayanle Mohamed Siad, and daughter, Deka Mohamed Siad, settled in the United States after their father was overthrown in 1991. Ilhan Omar’s father was a colonel in his regime.

As Alpha News reported in 2021:

Previous ponderings about the life of Omar’s father in communist Somalia have earned the ire of self-described “fact-checkers” like the people at Snopes, who criticized those drawing connections between Nur Omar Mohamed and Barre’s dictatorship in 2019. Since then, however, new facts (chiefly the account Faraton gave to Sahan Journal) have emerged, strengthening this connection.

The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly documented how poorly vetted Somali networks from the same clan-and-regime ecosystem have exploited American welfare and healthcare systems.

We previously reported that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s father, Nur Said Elmi Mohamed, served as a high-ranking official under the same Barre regime before changing names and entering the United States. Omar’s family story and her district’s massive Feeding Our Future and daycare scandals are part of the same pattern of failed refugee vetting and clan patronage transplanted onto U.S. soil.

Far Left Communist Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar’s father and other Somalian war crimes perpetrators are currently living illegally in the United States.

The Gateway Pundit has obtained information that is damning for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

Omar’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former dictator in Somalia, Said Barre.  Nur and other former Barre accomplices are living in the US illegally.

Omar’s father Mohamed, is living in the US.  He and other Somalians like Yusuf Abdi Ali, who killed thousands for Barre, escaped to the West and were not vetted properly before entering the country.  Barre was a dictator and was connected to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro as well as other dictators around the globe.

Ali is a convicted war criminal who did the killing himself.  Ali has been located in the US working as security at Dulles International Airport and driving for Uber in 2019.  He reportedly lived at one time in Alexandria, Virginia.  Ali was a Colonel in the Somalian Army’s 5th Mechanized Brigade in 1987 and was a graduate of the Pentegon’s Program for Foreign Officers in 1986.  He’s also a war criminal in response to his actions in Somalia.

Nur, Representative Omar’s father, appears to have been a party propagandist under the dictator and was responsible for ‘ideological’ aspects of the Red-Green revolution.  (He worked for the Marxist/Stalinist regime under dictator Baare as a teacher of teachers.) This could have included providing the ideological/political justification for the massacres of the late eighties.

It is not a secret that Ilhan Omar’s father illegally entered the United States.

The Nur family was well connected in the country led by the Marxist regime.  Young Omar went to kindergarten at age four, their family lived in a secure compound in Mogadishu.  When the regime was overtaken, the family caught a plane to escape the country.  The average GDP per capita in Somalia was only $187 dollars in 2010 twenty years after they fled the country when the regime fell. Obviously, Nur’s family was a privileged family.

https://twitter.com/MaxamuudAar/status/1150906290480267264

According to a 2016 article on Omar, when the Marxist regime was being overtaken the secure compound that the family lived in was under attack by 20 armed men, somehow the family escaped.  It is not clear how.  Either the family had superior armed guards within their compound or they bribed the attackers and sent them on their way (or the story is a complete fabrication).

Both Ali and Nur escaped Somalia after the fall of Barre.  Because they were no longer safe there and would have been put on trial and shot if caught, they exited the country. Both ended up in the US and both hid the fact that they worked for a totalitarian regime. Both lied on their Form N-400, Application for Naturalization about their communist background.  (They had to or they wouldn’t be here.)

As you can see below:

The Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.) contains a prohibition on naturalization for anyone involved, within the last ten years, with a group that advocates or teaches opposition to all organized government; or involved with the Communist Party or any other totalitarian party of the U.S. or any foreign state; or who advocates world communism or totalitarian dictatorship even without formal group membership. (See I.N.A. Section 313).”

Both Nur and Yusuf should be disqualified from permanent US residency and a revocation of their US citizenship should take place.

Representative Omar reportedly lied after she married her brother in order to assist him in obtaining US citizenship.

This would obviously disqualify Omar and her brother from legal citizenship.

It looks like illegal citizenship is all in the family for Omar and her family.  Like father, like daughter (like son).

Hat Tip Yaacov Apelbaum

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Europe depends on the United States for intelligence because it never built the systems the U.S. operates. It has no missile early-warning satellites, few reconnaissance satellites, and no EU-level intelligence service capable of collecting intelligence. It relies on U.S.-built AWACS aircraft and surveillance drones, along with a U.S.-sponsored NATO fusion centre. Funded European replacements are not expected to become operational until 2029 or the early 2030s.

On the evening of October 12, Russia fired five Iskander-M ballistic missiles at Kyiv from its Bryansk region, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. The missiles hit civilian infrastructure. In a Facebook post, Zelensky said, “There was no warning from our partners regarding this strike.” He did not identify the partner involved.

Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said Ukraine receives intelligence from partners on Russian strategic aviation, ships in the Black and Caspian Seas, and ballistic missile launches from Russia’s northern regions and occupied Crimea. He said this information sometimes fails to reach Ukraine, cited technical issues, and noted that this was not the first such instance. The Air Force is investigating why it received no launch information.

The EU’s Institute for Security Studies reported that U.S. satellites provide round-the-clock intelligence across the entire front line. It concluded that Europe’s ability to match the quality and quantity of that intelligence is limited.

Europe’s own defense also relies on American support. NATO’s Intelligence Fusion Centre, which provides all-source intelligence to the alliance, is a U.S.-sponsored organization.

Space-based missile launch warnings for Ukraine and NATO come from American satellites. The U.S. Space Force has launched 12 satellites carrying SBIRS or STSS missile-warning payloads. Its replacement constellation, Next Gen OPIR, will add five more. Allies receive the data through the Shared Early Warning System, a U.S.-only program that distributes American missile-warning data to select foreign nations.

Europe has no operational equivalent. The EU’s space-based early-warning program, ODIN’S EYE, began in 2021 as a €7.5 million EU-funded study, followed by a €90 million design-phase contract in 2023. Germany and France have since signed an agreement to implement the system. Their joint JEWEL framework targets initial capability in the early 2030s.

NATO’s airborne surveillance fleet is also American-built. The alliance’s 14 AWACS aircraft are Boeing E-3 Sentries. NATO chose the Boeing E-7 as their replacement in 2023 but abandoned the plan after the U.S. Air Force withdrew in July 2025.

In July 2026, NATO selected Saab’s GlobalEye, with replacement aircraft due by 2035. NATO also collectively owns five U.S.-built RQ-4D ground surveillance drones, based on the U.S. Air Force’s Global Hawk.

European countries operate reconnaissance satellites, but in small numbers. France operates three CSO optical satellites and three CERES signals intelligence satellites.

Germany’s military operates the three-satellite SARah radar system alongside five older SAR-Lupe satellites. SARah’s satellites were launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets, illustrating dependence on American launch services. Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, has no satellite system of its own and depends on commercial satellite operators.

Much of the commercial imagery available to the West is purchased through Washington. In May 2022, the National Reconnaissance Office awarded imagery contracts to Maxar, Planet and BlackSky, with options extending through 2032. Maxar’s contract is worth up to $3.24 billion and BlackSky’s up to $1.02 billion, according to company filings. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency separately awarded Maxar a contract worth up to $192 million to supply imagery to unidentified allied nations.

European governments also purchase imagery directly from American companies. In January 2025, the Netherlands Ministry of Defense awarded Maxar a €13.6 million contract for four years of platform access, including the ability to task its satellites. Ukraine could still buy commercial imagery directly during the March 2025 suspension of its access to the U.S. government portal.

The main European commercial alternative is Finland’s ICEYE. Germany funded additional ICEYE radar imagery for Ukraine through a contract with Rheinmetall.

The intelligence spending gap between the U.S. and Europe is enormous. For fiscal year 2026, the U.S. requested $81.9 billion for the National Intelligence Program and $33.6 billion for the Military Intelligence Program, totaling $115.5 billion. That compares with about £4.6 billion for Britain’s agencies, €1.51 billion for Germany’s BND, and €1.3 billion for France’s DGSE and DRSD. The fiscal year 2027 U.S. military intelligence request rose to $50 billion.

The EU has no intelligence-collection service or budget of its own to close that gap. Its civilian intelligence body, the EU Intelligence and Situation Centre (INTCEN), has no collection capability and no separate budget; its staff and funding come from the European External Action Service. INTCEN analyzes only the intelligence that member states voluntarily provide.

An earlier attempt by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to establish an EU intelligence-collection service was blocked by national governments. The EU Satellite Centre, the EU’s geospatial intelligence agency, operated on an overall budget of €34 million (approximately $38 million) with 141 staff in 2018.

The core signals intelligence partnership also excludes continental Europe. Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its members share signals intelligence: information collected by intercepting communications and electronic emissions, including radio, radar and telecommunications traffic. France and Germany are not members.

NATO’s shared budget does not cover these capabilities. The alliance’s common-funded budgets total up to €5.3 billion (approximately $5.93 billion) for 2026. The U.S. share is 14.9 percent, the same as Germany’s. NATO states that national contributions are the largest component of its funding. The American satellites, early-warning network, and intelligence agencies on which the alliance relies are funded through U.S. national budgets.

Europe has begun funding replacements, but delivery remains years away. The EU’s IRIS² secure communications constellation has a €10.6 billion budget (approximately $11.86 billion), with deployment scheduled for 2029–2030.

Germany plans SATCOMBw4, a network of about 200 military satellites valued at €10 billion. The first approximately 40 satellites could enter service from 2029, as part of €35 billion in German space security spending planned through 2030. France has contracted a successor to CERES, due by 2032. Until these systems become operational, Europe will remain dependent on U.S. intelligence and face significant gaps if Washington restricts access.

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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman came loaded for bear Tuesday night and left New York’s disastrous Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul on defense for the full hour of their only gubernatorial debate.

With the race tightening into a dead heat and early voting weeks away, Blakeman repeatedly forced Hochul to answer for her sanctuary-state policies, sky-high costs, and record of failure while she defaulted to blaming President Trump and refusing accountability.

A Pollfinity survey released the day of the debate showed Hochul clinging to a razor-thin 47%–44% lead, with the rest undecided or supporting others.

One of Blakeman’s strongest moments came when he confronted Hochul over the crushing financial burden facing New York families.

The Republican pointed to the dramatic differences between neighboring Pennsylvania and New York, arguing that the Empire State’s energy policies have left residents paying the price.

“On the Pennsylvania side of the border, people are driving around in brand-new Cadillac Escalades,” Blakeman said.

He contrasted those vehicles with the aging, rusted trucks he said New Yorkers were driving because of Hochul’s policies.

The exchange highlighted a central argument of Blakeman’s campaign: New Yorkers are being squeezed by high taxes, soaring utility bills, and an increasingly expensive cost of living.

Hochul defended her administration’s record while attempting to blame President Trump for utility bills.

“Kathy, Donald Trump didn’t raise utility rates 48 times. You did! Donald Trump didn’t increase our utility bills by 50% since you became governor. You did!” Blakeman fired back.

WATCH:

Hochul defended her administration’s record while attempting to blame President Trump for utility bills.

@NassauExec Bruce Blakeman: “Kathy, Donald Trump didn’t raise utility rates 48 times. You did! Donald Trump didn’t increase our utility bills by 50% since you became governor. You did!” Blakeman fired back. https://t.co/Egvux1aWGK

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) October 14, 2026

Blakeman: “I’ve said it many times, so I’ll repeat it. When you look at your energy bill, get your energy bill out tonight. Only about 30% of your payment actually goes for energy. The rest goes for taxes. Yes, Kathy Hochul taxes your energy bill as well, and excessive delivery costs that are merely trying to masquerade rate hikes and her slush fund, where she collects money every month from you, billions of dollars, and invests in science projects like wind turbines in the middle of the ocean or solar farms in upstate New York that are taking away our rich farmland, which, by the way, are covered under snow three months out of the year.

“It’s very expensive. She’s paying billions of dollars to foreign corporations for these. And guess what? That’s why we’re in an energy crisis.

“I would extract the natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. We’ll get rid of that green energy scam of Kathy Hochul, and I will cut utility bills in half, just like they did in Pennsylvania.”

WATCH:

.@NassauExec Bruce Blakeman EXPOSES Kathy Hochul for hiking up costs on New Yorkers:

“When you look at your energy bill…only about 30% of your payment actually goes for energy, the rest goes for taxes — yes, Kathy Hochul taxes your energy bill as well.” https://t.co/Z4S6qVssr0

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 13, 2026

The most devastating exchange came when Blakeman confronted Hochul over the human cost of her sanctuary policies. He listed specific cases enabled by her refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement:

• A 14-year-old girl raped in New York by an illegal migrant.
• Four Irondequoit residents killed recently by an illegal migrant, including two children under the age of five.
• Two Nassau County women in their 30s killed by an illegal migrant.

Blakeman asked point-blank: “Will you apologize to that 14-year-old girl, whose life is forever changed and her family, and the families of those who were killed? The ones that’ll never get to sit another Thanksgiving dinner, never be able to open their presents under the Christmas tree? Will you apologize to them, and will you please return Sheridan Gorman’s parents’ calls to talk to you about your sanctuary policy?”

Hochul dodged, offering only generic platitudes: “You know, any crime is heartbreaking. There’s a family left with a huge hole in their heart. And I abhor all crimes, regardless of the perpetrator…”

She never apologized or addressed the specific victims or the parents whose calls she had not returned. Blakeman also noted she had spent roughly $8 billion on illegal migrants while giving them more benefits than many New Yorkers receive.

Blakeman has long said he rejected sanctuary policies in Nassau County and would end them statewide.

Bruce Blakeman: “We have an epidemic of crime from these illegal migrants. There are 16,000 detainers out there for people who committed 52,000 crimes in our state, and you won’t let local law enforcement cooperate with ICE to pick them up and get them out of this state. This never would have happened, Kathy, if it weren’t for your policies.”

“You have invited criminals to come into our state and prey on our communities. And now you won’t let local law enforcement cooperate with ICE in an orderly way like we did in my county. We didn’t have any incidents in my county because we were allowed to cooperate with local law enforcement. But you took that tool away. The reason why that happened is because of you, Kathy Hochul, and your immigration policies where you actually invite people into our state, give them free everything, and you don’t care whether they’re criminals or not.”

WATCH:

Republican New York gubernatorial candidate @NassauExec Bruce Blakeman confronted Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul over illegal immigration.

“We have an epidemic of crime from these illegal migrants. There are 16,000 detainers out there for people who committed 52,000 crimes in our state, and you won’t let local law enforcement cooperate with ICE to pick them up and get them out of this state. This never would have happened, Kathy, if it weren’t for your policies.” https://t.co/Q9To6kedsF

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) October 14, 2026

Blakeman also challenged Hochul over state spending on migrants, contrasting the cost of migrant assistance with funding for law enforcement.

The Nassau County executive defended his public safety record and said his administration provides police officers with the resources necessary to protect residents.

Blakeman: “U.S. News & World Report says I have the safest county in America. So I back law enforcement, and I back the laws of both our federal government and our state government. And I give our law enforcement professionals the tools they need to keep us safe. But you say you spent $4 billion on law enforcement. Well, you spent $8 billion on illegal migrants and gave them more benefits than New Yorkers get. How does that make any sense?”

WATCH:

.@NassauExec Bruce Blakeman: “I back law enforcement…[Kathy Hochul] spent $8 BILLION on illegal migrants and gave them more benefits than New Yorkers.” https://t.co/nhmcMnLtrk

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 13, 2026

Another fiery moment came when Blakeman confronted Hochul over New York’s criminal justice laws, retail theft, and her handling of the state’s prison staffing crisis.

Blakeman: “Well, first of all, she’ll never give Donald Trump any accolades for sealing our borders. Maybe that’s why the shootings are down. Maybe that’s why all the fentanyl deaths are down. Not by anything that you did. But let me say this about crime.

“If you walk into any CVS or Walgreens and you want to buy a bottle of shampoo, in Kathy Hochul’s world, you got to ring a buzzer. A store clerk has to come out, unlock a glass door for you to buy a bottle of shampoo in New York State. It’s because we have a revolving door of criminality: cashless bail, Raise the Age, the HALT Act. And you talk about militias? You’re the only one on this stage that has a militia.

”You have two: the National Guard and the State Guard. And you have the National Guard at the cost of $1 billion a year to the taxpayers because you fired corrections officers who said, ‘These prisons are not only unsafe for corrections officers, they’re not safe for the prisoners.’ And you fired them and put the National Guard in there. You’re the one that used the militia, not me.”

WATCH:

.@NassauExec Blakmean confronted Hochul over New York’s criminal justice laws, retail theft, and her handling of the state’s prison staffing crisis.

“If you walk into any CVS or Walgreens and you want to buy a bottle of shampoo, in Kathy Hochul’s world, you got to ring a buzzer. A store clerk has to come out, unlock a glass door for you to buy a bottle of shampoo in New York State. It’s because we have a revolving door of criminality: cashless bail, Raise the Age, the HALT Act.”
https://t.co/w3SlKkHs03

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) October 14, 2026

Blakeman also hammered Hochul over the dropped “Cornell 7” sexual assault case. As an ex-officio trustee of Cornell and the governor who oversees roughly $150 million in annual state funding to the university, she failed to demand an independent investigation after the local district attorney dropped the charges.

“Kathy Hochul has already prejudged this case… Where were you? What did you do for the trustee of Cornell University?” Blakeman charged. “You were the governor of the state. You funded Cornell University to the tune of $150 million a year. As a partner of the state of New York and as a trustee and as governor, you didn’t call for an independent investigation. When you find out that the district attorney was dropping the case… Shame on you.”

Hochul’s response fell flat: “That’s pretty pathetic to blame me for what happened in a fraternity.” Blakeman pressed: “Why didn’t you call the investigation afterwards? Do you deny that you were a trustee there?”

Blakeman saved some of his sharpest attacks for the final stretch of Tuesday night’s sole New York gubernatorial debate, unloading on Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul’s cozy alliance with radical New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

While Hochul spent most of the hour trying to hang President Trump around Blakeman’s neck, the Republican challenger flipped the script and forced her to answer for embracing a democratic socialist who has made Jewish New Yorkers feel less safe.

WATCH:

.@NassauExec Bruce Blakeman: “Zohran Mamdani is an antisemite. The first thing he did as Mayor — with all the issues that face New York City — the first thing he did was sign an executive order to water down the definition of antisemitism.” https://t.co/XiVVDDbmlw

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 14, 2026

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A Trump-appointed federal judge on Tuesday night handed a major victory to the Fake News industrial complex, blocking President Donald Trump’s effort to ban CNN, MS NOW (the rebranded failure formerly known as MSNBC), and Politico from the White House.

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, appointed by Trump in 2017, granted a preliminary injunction that indefinitely maintains access for reporters from the three outlets. The order prevents administration officials (except the President himself) from enforcing the September 18, 2026, revocation of their “hard pass” credentials while the lawsuit proceeds. Plaintiffs were required to post a laughable $1 nominal bond.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump announced the ban on Truth Social on September 18, stating he was “proud to announce that, effective immediately,” he was banning the outlets “as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS.”

He specifically called out MS NOW’s name change due to “lack of viewership and credibility” and Politico’s “illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription” from the Biden administration—“an All Time Record… to keep them ‘alive.’ Seems like corruption to me!”

Trump warned that “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow” and argued media should not be allowed to constantly report “FICTION and LIES” about the President, the administration, or the country.

When asked the next day about a “particular reason,” Trump said it was “really just cumulative stories over the last two years” of outlets that “purposely write negative news” to “diminish the Republicans and a Republican administration.” He added he would “love it” if they “could straighten themselves out.”

The outlets sued, alleging Fifth Amendment due process violations and First Amendment retaliation and viewpoint discrimination.

Kelly, who previously ruled in favor of Jim Acosta’s hard pass in 2018, found the plaintiffs likely to succeed on all three claims.

In a 26-page decision, Kelly cited D.C. Circuit precedent (Sherrill v. Knight and Karem v. Trump) holding that hard passes create a protected liberty interest requiring adequate process, including advance notice of standards and sanctions.

The court emphasized Trump’s own statements as evidence of a causal link between the outlets’ negative coverage and the ban.

Kelly wrote that “President Trump likely banned Plaintiffs from the White House because he believes that their reporting is generally inaccurate and biased against him.”

He rejected the administration’s later national security justifications as “post-hoc,” noting Trump’s initial announcement and follow-up comments focused on “Fake News,” negativity, and election coverage rather than classified information.

Even while ruling against the administration, Kelly wrote: “no one should interpret the Court’s decision to suggest that President Trump’s concerns about accuracy and fairness in the media’s reporting are unfounded, or that the government is powerless when its true aim is to protect national security when classified information is unlawfully disclosed.”

This is not the first time Judge Kelly has ruled against the Trump White House in a high-profile press-access dispute.

In November 2018, Kelly ordered the administration to temporarily restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s White House press credential after an explosive confrontation during a presidential press conference.

Now, nearly eight years later, Kelly has again intervened in a dispute between Trump and CNN.

As The Gateway Pundit reported on September 24, Kelly previously issued a temporary restraining order restoring White House access to CNN, MS NOW, and Politico.

That order required administration officials, excluding Trump personally, to reinstate press credentials that had been revoked around September 18.

Trump has previously said the case would likely go to appeal because outlets that “only write negatively” and traffic in unnamed sources “shouldn’t be allowed access to the most important Office anywhere in the World.”

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