This weekend on the Bill Maher show, Byron Donalds, the Republican candidate for governor of Florida, absolutely mopped the floor with MSNOW contributor Molly Jong-Fast.

She tried to set him up on a question about vaccinations, and was clearly trying to portray Donalds as some sort of loon, but his reponse to her was so perfect and intelligent that she ended up looking like a complete moron.

Donalds even got applause from Maher’s liberal audience.

Transcript via the Vigilant Fox:

MOLLY JONG-FAST: “You’ve had to say some stuff. Like last week on Margaret Brennan’s show, you said rampant illegal immigration was the cause for this measles outbreak and not not being vaccinated. I’m curious. Like, I have three kids. You have three kids. Do you not vaccinate your kids?”

BYRON DONALDS: “My oldest son is 23 years old. The vaccination schedule for him was less intense than the vaccination schedule for my 15-year-old son. And if you have talked to my mom, the vaccination schedule for me, being 47 years old, was not nearly as intense as it is for newborns today.

“So I think there are parents, there are mothers who have real concerns about the frequency of vaccines for young infants into just being a toddler. And so I think the order that came out the other day from the White House was, well, let’s just spread the vaccination schedule back out. Let parents have an ability to make those decisions for their children with informed consent. And then the last piece is, let’s also make sure that the human body in its infancy can actually manage the amount of vaccines that are being put into their child. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.”

BILL MAHER: “I don’t either.”

JONG-FAST: “We have people dying of measles. We had two people in Ohio die of measles. We were almost eradicated from measles and now we have measles again, and there’s a reason for that. And the idea that you said illegal immigration causes—”

DONALDS: “Under the previous administration, more than 10 million people came into the country illegally, and I know for a fact, just like everybody else — you can read your notes too — they weren’t checking their vaccination schedules coming into the United States. That’s a fact. That’s number one.

“Number two, there was a measles outbreak in a couple of the detention facilities on the southern border. There was a measles outbreak in El Paso, Texas. There was also one in Chicago at another illegal immigration facility. Those are the facts.

“So when you let that many people come into your country, when we already know in other countries they don’t have the vaccination schedule that we have, and then when the Department of Health and Human Services is talking about American children, now you’re finding fault with vaccination schedules for American children? I don’t think that’s an accurate way to look at it.”

Watch the video:

MSNBC contributor tries to corner Byron Donalds on measles and demands to know if he vaxxes his kids.

His answer left her looking stupid. And Bill Maher even piled on at the end.

MOLLY JONG-FAST: “You’ve had to say some stuff. Like last week on Margaret Brennan’s show, you said… pic.twitter.com/pGLXrHqgkg

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) August 29, 2026

What a perfect response.

If Donalds keeps this up, he will easily win the race for governor of Florida.

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What if Democrats in Michigan held a convention and no one showed up? From the looks of the video below, that’s almost what happened this week.

You can see entire rows of seats sitting empty. Where are all of the people? Isn’t this supposed to be a big year for the Democrats? Aren’t they expecting a blue wave in November? This is not a good sign for them.

Some people have suggested that there are too many groups of people who did not feel welcome attending the event.

The Michigan GOP explained in a tweet:

BREAKING NEWS: HALF EMPTY CROWDS, FEARS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS, STIFLE MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT CONVENTION

JEWS, INDIAN-AMERICANS, AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY NOT WELCOMED BY EXTREME LEFT

JEWS: Michigan’s top Jewish Democrat, Attorney General Dana Nessel, skipped today’s convention over antisemitism fears.

INDIAN-AMERICANS: Indian-Americans in Michigan just spoke out against Abdul El-Sayed’s racist attacks against Second Lady Usha Vance.

THE BLACK COMMUNITY: Black voters have unanswered questions for Jocelyn Benson, who still refused to tell us what she knew and when she knew about the massive SPLC fraud scandal, where the group literally funded the KKK.

The uneasiness and discomfort of current Michigan Democrat Party delegates is on full display as multiple high profile Democrats—and countless rank-and-file Democrats—DECLINED to attend their convention today out of fear for their safety and wellbeing as the radical, extremist Left continues their FULL TAKEOVER of the Democrat Party.

Abdul El-Sayed and Jocelyn Benson have alienated countless Democrats who have real questions over Benson’s involvement with the SPLC funding of the KKK, and they are struggling with Democrat voters who do not share their views that disparage Second Lady Usha Vance and the belief that, “America deserved 9/11.”

See the video below:

BREAKING NEWS: HALF EMPTY CROWDS, FEARS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS, STIFLE MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT CONVENTION

JEWS, INDIAN-AMERICANS, AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY NOT WELCOMED BY EXTREME LEFT

JEWS: Michigan’s top Jewish Democrat, Attorney General Dana Nessel, skipped today’s convention… pic.twitter.com/CtocGGI9SH

— Michigan GOP (@MIGOP) August 29, 2026

Democrats have made a lot of mistakes this year. They embraced far-out candidates with repulsive ideas and offered the American people little more than hatred of Trump and socialism. Not exactly a winning combination.

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An Obama-appointed federal judge in Alaska delivered a major legal victory to President Donald Trump this week, dismissing a lawsuit brought by a coalition of powerful environmental organizations seeking to block Trump’s reversal of Joe Biden’s sweeping offshore drilling restrictions.

U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason dismissed the complaint on Monday, August 24, after determining that the environmental groups failed to establish a substantial risk of imminent harm.

Gleason was nominated to the federal bench by Barack Obama in 2011.

The case, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, et al. v. Trump, et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska under case number.

The plaintiffs included the Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Alaska Wilderness League, Oceana, Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, Healthy Gulf, Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, and Conservation Law Foundation.

The radical environmental coalition sued President Trump, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after Trump reversed Biden-era withdrawals of vast sections of the Outer Continental Shelf from possible oil and natural gas leasing.

During his final days in office, Biden attempted to lock away more than 625 million acres of federal waters from future energy production.

The massive withdrawal covered federal waters along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of America, and portions of Alaska’s northern Bering Sea.

President Trump rescinded the withdrawals on his first day back in office, allowing the affected areas to be considered as part of a future offshore oil and gas leasing program.

The environmental groups immediately ran to court, claiming Trump had exceeded his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and that his action created an imminent threat of environmental damage.

But there was one major problem: There was no imminent drilling activity.

The court found that there were no pending applications for geological or geophysical exploration activities in federal Outer Continental Shelf waters outside the Western and Central Gulf of America.

Judge Gleason concluded that the alleged environmental injuries depended on a chain of future government and industry decisions that had not yet occurred.

“Presently, the Court can only speculate as to whether any of the previously withdrawn OCS acreage will be included in any new oil and gas leasing program or proposed lease sale,” Gleason wrote in her 23-page dismissal order.

In other words, the environmental groups demanded that the court block President Trump’s energy policy based on activities that had not been proposed, approved, or scheduled.

The court refused.

Gleason granted the Trump administration’s motion to dismiss and ordered the clerk to enter final judgment and close the case.

“The court properly dismissed plaintiffs’ case, because they failed to show an imminent injury from President Trump’s reopening of the OCS,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Adam Gustafson said.

Gustafson explained that offshore energy development remains subject to an ongoing regulatory process and that political priorities or industry interest cannot turn a hypothetical injury into a concrete one.

Attorneys from the Justice Department’s Energy and Natural Resources Division handled the case. 

The dismissal was entered without prejudice, meaning the environmental organizations could attempt to bring another lawsuit if a specific lease sale or exploration project moves forward.

The court also did not decide the broader legal question of whether one president has the authority to reverse an Outer Continental Shelf withdrawal issued by a previous president.

The Trump administration had additionally argued that the case was not ripe, that President Trump had sovereign immunity, that the plaintiffs had no legal right of action, and that there was no final agency action subject to review under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Judge Gleason did not address those arguments because the plaintiffs’ failure to establish standing was enough to dismiss the case.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Biden moved during his final weeks in office to permanently block offshore energy development in a transparent attempt to obstruct President Trump’s energy-dominance agenda.

When Biden officially announced the 625-million-acre withdrawal on January 6, 2025, Trump called the move “ridiculous” and promised to reverse it immediately upon returning to office.

Trump kept his promise on day one.

Now, the environmental left’s attempt to use speculative claims and courtroom lawfare to preserve Biden’s anti-energy legacy has suffered a significant setback.

Drill, baby, drill!

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The Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group released a bombshell report detailing how the Biden-era FBI expanded an investigation of one dangerous criminal suspect into a disturbing intelligence operation targeting Catholic priests, traditional Catholic churches and constitutionally protected religious beliefs.

The 231-page Richmond Domain Perspective Report concludes that personnel responsible for the disgraceful intelligence product have now been removed.

“The FBI personnel involved in the creation of the Richmond Catholic Memo have been terminated from their positions,” the report states.

The Justice Department did not publicly identify the terminated personnel.

The DOJ announced Thursday that investigators reviewed more than 1,800 pages of internal emails, intelligence assessments and investigative records concerning the FBI Richmond Field Office’s infamous January 2023 memorandum.

The report reveals that FBI personnel:

• Opened investigative “Guardian” assessments on two Catholic priests.
• Examined the priests’ travel and communications.
• Pulled airline and credit-card information.
• Searched one priest’s phone at Boston Logan International Airport.
• Followed that priest from the airport to a private residence.
• Conducted surveillance outside another residence associated with him.
• Proposed cultivating Catholic clergy and church leaders as “tripwires” and sources.
• Considered elevating the Richmond memo into a national intelligence product for senior FBI leadership.
• Continued revising the project even after FBI headquarters ordered the original memo removed from bureau systems.

The FBI eventually closed both assessments after finding no national-security threat or evidence linking the priests to violent extremism.

“This Department of Justice will not tolerate a weaponized bureaucracy that chills First Amendment activity,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

“The individuals who developed the Richmond Domain Perspective are no longer with the Department, and our Working Group’s efforts to investigate weaponization under the previous Administration will continue.”

It Started With One Legitimate Criminal Investigation

The FBI’s original investigation involved an individual identified only as “Target 1.”

Unlike the Catholic priests who were later swept into the investigation, Target 1 presented legitimate and serious warning signs.

According to the report, Target 1 vandalized vehicles, assaulted police officers, threatened minorities and law enforcement, promoted mass violence online and attempted to acquire or construct weapons despite being a convicted felon.

Agents searching his home recovered ammunition, firearm components, a 3D printer, lock-picking equipment and more than six fully assembled Molotov cocktails.

Target 1 was ultimately sentenced in 2025 to more than eight years in federal prison for possessing destructive devices.

But the FBI’s focus began to shift after agents learned that Target 1 had briefly attended Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, a traditional Catholic church affiliated with the Society of St. Pius X.

The chapel’s priest told agents that Target 1 was not a church member, was not Catholic and had attended only three or four catechism classes.

The priest reportedly described Target 1 as a white supremacist with “crazy views about race” whose positions would have to change before he could join the church.

In other words, the church was not radicalizing the suspect. The priest was rejecting his extremist beliefs.

That did not stop the FBI.

FBI Opened Assessments on Two Priests

The Richmond Field Office interviewed the first priest twice in November 2022.

During the second conversation, the priest told agents, “I don’t want to be involved,” and raised concerns about violating his relationships with people at the church.

On January 5, 2023, the FBI opened a Guardian assessment on the priest to determine whether he was recruiting or radicalizing Target 1.

The FBI cited the priest’s position at the chapel and the religious activities of his uncle—another traditional Catholic priest—as grounds for further scrutiny.

Agents examined the first priest’s travel history and compared it with the travel of his uncle. The FBI found no evidence that the priests had traveled together or had been in the same foreign location simultaneously.

The bureau then opened a second Guardian assessment on the uncle on January 20, 2023.

The FBI claimed the second priest’s publicly available sermons and speeches reflected views comparable to Target 1’s—specifically citing alleged anti-establishment, anti-Semitic and anti-abortion positions.

Yes, the FBI included opposition to abortion in an assessment purportedly concerning violent extremism.

Agents also pulled the second priest’s flight and credit-card information after learning he planned to travel overseas.

When the priest returned through Boston Logan International Airport on January 31, 2023, Customs and Border Protection subjected him and a companion to secondary screening. His phone was searched to determine the extent of his contact with his nephew.

FBI personnel watched the priest leave the airport, followed his vehicle to a private residence and later conducted surveillance outside another residence associated with him.

The report specifically describes this as “surveillance not requiring a court order.”

But after the Richmond memo leaked, both Guardian assessments collapsed.

The FBI closed the assessment on the second priest on February 10, 2023. The first priest’s assessment was closed five days later because agents had identified no federal violation or national-security threat.

FBI Analysts Started With a Theory—Then Searched for Evidence

The report reveals that an FBI Richmond analyst first proposed a document examining the supposed “increasing intersection” between “rad-trad Catholics” and domestic violent extremists in September 2022.

The analyst admitted at the time that the proposal depended on “finding sufficient additional evidence beyond” Target 1.

Rather than evidence producing the theory, the theory came first.

Analysts then searched FBI databases for cases that could support it.

They located only two additional individuals—one in Portland and another in Milwaukee—whom they believed fit their proposed narrative.

The Portland individual was already dead. Information concerning him came partly from a dossier produced by the Anti-Defamation League.

The Milwaukee case involved another violent individual who reportedly attended a church associated with the Society of St. Pius X.

The new DOJ report concludes that investigators never found evidence connecting traditional Catholic organizations themselves to domestic extremism.

The analysts also used material obtained from a foreign law-enforcement agency concerning the SSPX Resistance. According to the Justice Department, the FBI relied on foreign intelligence and activist organizations without adequately assessing their credibility or possible bias.

Still, analysts pushed forward.

Before they had even located the Portland and Milwaukee cases, one analyst proposed transforming the document into a Strategic Perspective: Executive Analytic Report, or SPEAR, that could reach senior FBI executives because the subject allegedly had “national application.”

A draft SPEAR was eventually sent to a domestic-terrorism analyst at FBI headquarters.

The national project was abandoned only after the Richmond memo was leaked publicly on February 8, 2023.

Memo Suggested Turning Churches Into FBI “Tripwires”

The Richmond memo claimed with “high confidence” that racially motivated violent extremists displayed an increasing interest in “radical-traditionalist Catholic” beliefs.

However, the new report says its authors never established a baseline demonstrating that any such increase had occurred.

The memo identified supposed “catalyzing events” that could unite violent extremists and traditional Catholics, including political disputes over abortion, immigration, affirmative action and LGBT policies.

These are mainstream political and religious issues debated by millions of Americans.

The memo also listed the names, addresses and telephone numbers of Catholic chapels and a seminary near Richmond.

It recommended that agents engage church leaders and recruit congregations to act as “suspicious activity tripwires.”

Agents also proposed approaching the Diocese of Richmond to help “sensitize” parishes to alleged warning signs of radicalization.

The document relied on the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center’s designation of nine Catholic organizations as supposed “hate groups.” It did not independently explain why those groups qualified or adequately address the SPLC’s long record of controversial and retracted designations.

The FBI’s own Directorate of Intelligence later concluded that the memo treated the supposed connection between traditional Catholicism and violent extremism as fact “without substantiation.”

An internal tradecraft review determined the document virtually labeled the religious ideology itself violent and extremist without offering supporting evidence.

The Counterterrorism Division separately said its threat assessment did not align with the Richmond Field Office’s conclusion and that it saw no significant connection justifying additional FBI intelligence collection.

FBI Created Chilling Slide Deck Profiling Latin Mass Catholics and “Conservative Family Values”

The FBI did not stop at reviewing criminal evidence.

According to the Weaponization Working Group report, personnel in the Richmond Field Office devoted government resources to studying Catholic theology and constructing an internal presentation titled “Traditionalist Catholicism Overview.”

The slide deck was attached to a January 20, 2023, email from a Richmond intelligence analyst—just three days before the infamous Catholic memo was published.

The presentation provides a stunning look inside the ideological framework the FBI used while developing its theory about traditional Catholics.

One slide titled “Core Ideology and Beliefs” listed the following supposed “core concepts” of traditionalist Catholicism:

• Traditional Latin Mass.
• Conservative family values and roles.
• Rejection of modernity.
• “Discontinuity and Disruption.”
• A “tendency toward isolationism.”

That’s right. The Biden FBI included attending the Traditional Latin Mass and believing in conservative family values in an intelligence presentation developed while the bureau was exploring connections between Catholics and violent extremism.

Another slide, titled “On Earth as it is in Heaven,” examined Catholic integralism and claimed it involved creating a “totalitarian, anti-pluralist Catholic nation,” rejecting religious neutrality and subordinating government to Catholic principles.

The FBI presentation then outrageously declared the ideology “comparable to Islamist ideology.”

A third slide labeled “A Step Further” described what the FBI called “Radical-Traditionalist Catholicism.”

Among the identifying characteristics listed by the bureau were:

• Belief that mainstream Catholicism is “illegitimate.”
• “Hardline positions” on abortion and LGBT issues.
• Opposition concerning interreligious dialogue.
• Apocalyptic or eschatological language.
• “Rigid fundamentalism” or integralism.
• An alleged “undertone of anti-Semitism.”

Once again, the FBI placed constitutionally protected religious and political positions, including opposition to abortion and radical LGBT ideology, inside an intelligence presentation associated with domestic-extremism analysis.

The FBI even constructed its own taxonomy of non-mainstream Catholic movements.

A slide titled “Schools of Thought” divided Catholics into five categories: “Canonically Regular,” “Irregular Status,” “Sedeprivationist,” “Sedevacantists” and “Conclavists.”

The bureau named organizations including the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, the Institute of the Good Shepherd, the Society of St. Pius X, the Priestly Society of St. Josaphat, the Society of St. Pius V and the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen.

The slide deck contained a boilerplate disclaimer claiming the FBI did not investigate or collect information on Americans solely for engaging in First Amendment-protected activity.

But the report states that none of the reviewers flagged substantive constitutional concerns.

The draft memo was even sent to an FBI employee described as a “former seminarian” for a review of “all things Catholic.”

Rather than objecting to the government scrutinizing Catholic doctrine, a supervisory analyst suggested adding Virginia’s proposed 15-week abortion restriction as a potential “catalyzing event” where traditional Catholics and violent extremists might supposedly find “common cause.”

These slides expose how far the Richmond Field Office had strayed from investigating criminal conduct.

Federal agents were no longer concentrating solely on threats, weapons or violence. They were constructing charts about the Latin Mass, conservative families, Vatican II, abortion and Catholic theology, and feeding those religious distinctions into a domestic-extremism intelligence project. This was religious profiling dressed up as national-security analysis.

FBI Headquarters Scrambled After the Leak

Following the public leak, FBI headquarters ordered the Richmond memo removed from internal systems.

Internal emails show how urgently senior leadership wanted it erased.

“The 7th Floor is breathing down my neck on this one,” one FBI lawyer wrote while pressing for its removal.

During the 15 days the memo remained accessible, it was opened by 19 intelligence analysts from 13 field offices, four agents and two task-force officers from two offices, three senior intelligence analysts from three offices and a chief division counsel from another field office.

But even after headquarters ordered the memo deleted, one of its original authors continued working on the project.

On March 17, 2023—more than a month after the leak—the analyst wrote, “I spent today tinkering with the DP,” and circulated suggested changes.

So much for shutting down the operation.

Minimal Discipline—Then Positive Performance Reviews

An April 2023 internal review concluded that the memo improperly equated traditional Catholic beliefs with violent-extremist ideology, failed to account for biased sources and created the appearance that the FBI investigated Americans based on religious affiliation.

The review found no evidence of malicious intent or an improper purpose, but concluded that the personnel involved showed poor professional judgment and failed to follow FBI standards.

The punishment was little more than a slap on the wrist.

Employees involved in drafting, reviewing and approving the memo were admonished, ordered to undergo additional training and told the matter would be reflected in their performance evaluations.

But the new report shows Richmond leadership continued defending them.

During a July 2023 staff meeting, the Richmond special agent in charge reportedly apologized to personnel involved in the memo.

When one analyst apologized for what others had endured because of the document, the special agent in charge responded that the scandal would make “a great chapter in your memoirs some day!”

The Richmond office later arranged access to employee-assistance counselors for staff members and their families following congressional hearings on the scandal.

At the end of the fiscal year, employees deeply involved in producing the memo received performance ratings ranging from “Consistent” to “Exemplary.”

Gateway Pundit Reported on the Scandal From the Beginning

The Gateway Pundit reported on the leaked Richmond memorandum in February 2023 after former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin exposed it.

The Gateway Pundit later reported that the scandal extended beyond the Richmond Field Office and that bureau personnel had coordinated with employees in Portland, Milwaukee and at FBI headquarters while developing the intelligence product.

In December 2023, The Gateway Pundit reported that the FBI had interrogated a priest and a church choir director during the investigation.

The Gateway Pundit also reported in April 2025 that Richmond Special Agent in Charge Stanley Meador remained employed despite overseeing the field office during the memo’s approval.

The newly released report does not name the employees who have since been terminated.

A limited DOJ Inspector General review released in 2024 found no evidence that analysts were ordered to connect a specific religion with violent extremism or that they made discriminatory comments. That review, however, expressly acknowledged its limited scope.

The new Weaponization Working Group report examined a much larger record and concluded that the FBI conducted improper and unjustified intelligence and law-enforcement activity.

“History will rightly judge the Richmond Catholic Memo as a grave failure of the FBI Richmond Field Office” to protect Americans’ First Amendment rights, the report concludes.

FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau would not tolerate weaponization and that publicly releasing the underlying information was a necessary part of holding those responsible accountable.

What began as a legitimate investigation of one genuinely dangerous individual became a sprawling intelligence exercise that scrutinized priests, churches, religious doctrine and conservative political beliefs.

Under the Biden administration, the FBI did not merely investigate a violent suspect.

It treated his brief contact with a Catholic chapel as an excuse to place faithful Americans and their priests under the federal microscope.

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE.

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Newly obtained documents reportedly show that Dr. Anthony Fauci instructed an aide to permanently delete an email concerning controversial gain-of-function research years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The emails, obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, date back to 2012, when Fauci was defending experiments that made a highly dangerous strain of bird flu transmissible through the air.

Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier conducted the experiments with funding from Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Fouchier described the resulting virus as “probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make.”

Eight years before COVID emerged, a journalist issued a prophetic warning that risky viral research could usher in “doomsday” and damage the reputation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Anthony Fauci groused in an email to an aide about that warning, then instructed the… pic.twitter.com/QdsWusepAT

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 28, 2026

The experiments triggered debate over whether the potential benefits of gain-of-function research justified the potentially catastrophic consequences of an accidental laboratory escape.

New York Times science writer Phil Boffey was among those sounding the alarm, warning of an “engineered doomsday” capable of killing “hundreds of millions of people.”

Boffey also suggested that the NIH had its own reputation at stake because it had financed the experiments.

That criticism apparently irritated Fauci.

“Phil Boffey is really off base here,” Fauci wrote to then-NIH Director Francis Collins on March 4, 2012. “He is acting like a mischievous guy.”

The following morning, Fauci complained about the article to his subordinate.

“Clearly, people are getting to Phil Boffey and he is swallowing it,” he wrote.

Fauci then gave an explicit instruction concerning the correspondence.

“Please delete this e-mail and then delete from the deleted file,” Fauci wrote from his government email account.

The revelation raises further questions about Fauci’s handling of federal records.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has previously highlighted two other instances in which Fauci allegedly sought to delete government communications.

Fauci testified before Congress in 2024 that he had not destroyed official records.

The latest disclosure comes after separate documents revealed NIAID’s cooperation with the CIA on sensitive virus and biological-threat research during Fauci’s tenure.

New Documents Confirm Fauci’s NIAID Provided Cover for CIA Bioterrorism Research — CIA Helped Obtain the Viruses and Controlled What Data Could Be Shared

Those records showed an interagency arrangement under which the CIA’s Biological Technology Center worked with NIAID on “forensic microbiology.”

This included provisions allowing the CIA to assist in obtaining biological agents and restricting NIAID from releasing certain research data without CIA approval.

Fauci ultimately succeeded in pushing for Fouchier’s controversial bird-flu research to be published in full.

Fouchier would later participate in private discussions with Fauci and other scientists about the origins of COVID-19 and contributed arguments to the influential “Proximal Origin” paper, which argued against a laboratory origin being likely.

The Gateway Pundit has long reported on the numerous controversies and alleged misconduct surrounding America’s most influential health official and the pressure on the former NIAID director now appears to be mounting.

Several weeks ago, Fauci’s former senior adviser, David Morens, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States by concealing information about the origins of COVID-19 and attempting to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

After an FBI investigation with our DOJ partners, Dr. Fauci’s associate, David Morens, just pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a scheme to avoid FOIA requests and the Federal Records Act connected to COVID-19 research grants.

The FBI uncovered that Morens, Co-Conspirator 1,… pic.twitter.com/IR7TCUm10m

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 18, 2026

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Muslim Bangladeshis vow to grind city to a standstill.

Besides the ongoing struggle for remigration across Europe, there’s also a pressing need to force those migrants that won’t be expelled to assimilate to the local values, and also pull the breaks on the rapid Islamization of their societies.

That is what a small-town mayor near Venice, Italy, is doing. The mayor recently blocked the construction of a large mosque in the historic Christian city.

So, the Muslim migrant workers are threatening to go on strike, after the mayor’s actions.

The Telegraph reported:

“Bangladeshi migrants make up about a quarter of the employees at the Fincantieri shipyards, which are among the largest in Europe. Bars, cafés and restaurants often employ Bangladeshi immigrants, meaning a strike would also affect tourism, they say.

They want to construct the white-walled mosque on the site of an old sawmill in the nearby town of Mestre, which is located on the mainland. The migrants say their 10,000-strong community deserves to have a spacious, elegantly built place of worship.

[…] Prince Howlader, a representative of the Bangladeshi community, said: ‘Enough – we are tired of being given the runaround by the city council. If they don’t let us build our mosque we will protest in the streets.”

Notizie.it reported:

“As reported by Corriere del Veneto, the project concerns the area of ​​the former sawmill in via Giustizia, near Mestre station, purchased by the association ‘Giovani per l’umanità’ with the aim of creating a place of worship at its own expense.

The land, valued at approximately €1,5 million, is currently used for commercial purposes, and a €150 down payment has reportedly already been made. To build the mosque, a zoning change is therefore required, transforming the area into a zone designated for activities of collective interest.

[…] However, with the arrival of new mayor Simone Venturini, elected at the end of May, the situation has changed. The mayor maintains that ‘the conditions aren’t right’ to begin the process and still considers the planned structure too imposing.

This stance has provoked a harsh reaction from Prince Howlader, president of Youth for Humanity, who said the issue has been dragging on for about fifteen years. ‘We are ready to put a stop to everything’, he stated, announcing the possibility of protests. The Bangladeshi community represents a significant portion of the workforce employed at Fincantieri in Marghera, as well as in restaurants, kitchens, hotels, and other tourism-related businesses. ‘If we go on strike, Fincantieri will come to a halt in Venice, Mestre, and Marghera, along with all tourism—kitchens, restaurants, and hotels’ Howlader warned.”

Read more:

BLOODY WEEKEND: Horror Footage Shows Intoxicated Morrocan Man Plowing Car Into Pedestrians in Italy, Stabbing Passerby Before Being Arrested – Several People Injured in Suspected Terror Attack

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