Jocelyn Benson was caught in a major scandal in Michigan in December.

As you may know, the current Secretary of State is running for governor to replace failed Democrat and buddy, Gretchen Whitmer.

Benson has a performance record that would make most normal individuals blush in shame. But not Jocelyn.

The Democrat Secretary of State has lost at least nine election-related lawsuits as she works to make elections less secure in the Wolverine state.

She is that bad.

Recently, information has resurfaced that Benson dropped NGO fraud charges against state AG Dana Nessel’s wife after she received a call from Nessel to do so!

Wall Street Apes tweeted out about this scandal this weekend.

Michigan House Oversight Committee Hearing

Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel’s wife had a criminal referral for NGO fraud and breaking campaign donations finance laws

AG Dana Nessel called the Michigan Secretary of State and asked for the charges be dropped… They were… pic.twitter.com/ySM84FnHhu

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) August 29, 2026

This evidence of the call was leaked to the Michigan House Oversight Committee late last year. Republicans hold the Michigan House majority with 58 representatives to 51 Democrat representatives.

Here are the facts on the incident:

Michigan House Oversight Committee hearings in December 2025 revealed that Attorney General Dana Nessel contacted Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to have a criminal case involving her spouse, Alanna Maguire, re‑evaluated.

The case centered on Bipartisan Solutions, a nonprofit accused of violating Michigan’s Campaign Finance Act by raising about $700,000 to support the Fair & Equal Michigan ballot committee. Maguire served as a co‑chair of that committee, creating a clear conflict of interest.

Michigan law gives the Secretary of State sole investigative authority under the Campaign Finance Act. If unresolved after 90 days, the matter may be referred to the AG for possible criminal enforcement, but the AG cannot conduct its own investigation.

In April 2020, Nessel’s office established a “conflict wall” barring her from involvement in Fair & Equal Michigan matters, and she acknowledged in writing that it would be inappropriate to oversee the case.

According to internal emails obtained by the Oversight Committee, Nessel told her staff that the AG had reached out directly to Benson, who agreed to “take this matter back for further review”. The AG’s chief legal director responded that the office had no legal authority to “restart” the process.

Nessel refused to appear before the committee.

So, the Oversight Committee voted 10–6 to find Nessel in contempt for failing to appear and cooperate, calling her conduct “impeachable” and suggesting she stepped around ethical firewalls to benefit people close to her.

I’d say!

So why are Jocelyn Benson and Dana Nessel still in office in Michigan?

Will these two ever have to face justice for their allegedly criminal actions?

And, does Michigan REALLY want to elect the slipper Jocelyn Benson as governor?

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War Room co-host Natalie Winters talked about China using AI to build models of US voters. She explained that it involved them looking at things like why they vote a certain way, understanding President Trump’s base, and even how they view China.

Winters explained that the AI models include mock US elections to determine potential outcomes.

“Walk me through your CCP story in this regards ma’am,” Steve Bannon asked.

“I think the AI issue really is the convergence right, of the decade. The CCP has spent deploying assets compromising people, setting up these information networks. You are seeing all those people be deployed right now,” Winters said.

“That is where the United States still retains most of our military edge over the Chinese Communist Party. Right, we are very advanced in comparison to where they are, so they want to basically square that gap, right, but AI is going to be the way that wars will be fought in the future, right, so that’s why you have got to look at this,” Winters explained.

“This is sort of an edge case application of it, though it is very mainstream in the Chinese academic and military research community, but this dovetails exactly with what President Trump was talking about in the Oval Office, what was it about a month ago, about the voter rolls, election influence, election intimidation,” Winters said.

“So, basically, you have two kinds of categories of the research that the PRC is conducting. One, is they are targeting and trying to understand the American voting bloc. The demographics, particularly trying to understand President Trump’s base, which I think is quite interesting, the kind of populist right as they call it, the MAGA audience. But also just more broadly what makes Americans tick, what makes them vote for certain candidates. How can you get turnout. What are their perspectives on China,” Winters commented.

“Then you have a more broader simulation tier which they are running, which is actually running mock US elections,” Winters said.

“If you wanted to influence American elections, this is how you would be doing it. Again, these are studies that are published, but not necessarily for public consumption,” Winters continued.

“They are basically testing which messages will move voters, predicting how people will react. They are mass producing essentially these bot farms,” Winters said.

“For example, during the 2024 race, researchers at Beijing University collected 1,000 Trump, Harris posts, and over 25,000 replies to them. So, they trained AI off of those models, the LLMs. They trained them to be able to respond to future posts from President Trump or Kamala Harris, or whoever, and be able to basically mock or simulate a reply from an American to most likely attack President Trump,” Winters explained.

“They say in their reporting that it can ‘help shape public opinion in the United States,’” Winters said.

“It’s about manipulating voters, manipulating their beliefs, their ability to turnout,” Winters said.

Watch:

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Former Fox News host and one-time Trump booster Tucker Carlson declared Friday that President Donald Trump should be removed from office “immediately” over nuclear policy in the Iran conflict.

Carlson made the explosive declaration Friday during a lengthy interview with Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned from the Trump administration in protest of the war with Iran.

The episode was ominously titled, “LEAKED: Pentagon Nuclear Plans Prove the US Is Out of Options,” with an entire chapter labeled, “Should Trump Be Impeached?”

Carlson said he had been “strongly opposed” to both of Trump’s first-term impeachments and called those efforts “absurd.” Then he drew a new line.

“The second any president actively considers first use of nuclear weapons, that person should be removed from office immediately, because that’s got to be the red line, destroying all of humanity with a nuclear strike,” Carlson said. “So why isn’t there an attempt to remove him from office, like, immediately?”

He added that “any leader of any country who suggests first use of nuclear weapons has forfeited his right to lead” and that “anyone who would even tolerate that kind of talk from any of his subordinates or employees is by definition unfit.”

WATCH:

Carlson argued that Trump’s public warnings of Iran’s “total destruction” amount to an implicit nuclear threat because, in his view, that level of devastation could not be achieved with conventional weapons. He also cited reported Pentagon discussions about tactical nuclear options.

But there is an important fact Carlson conveniently glossed over: The administration has not announced that President Trump authorized, or is preparing, a first nuclear strike against Iran.

During an August 5 appearance at the United States Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby explicitly said there was no announced change to America’s declaratory nuclear policy.

Colby said the administration’s objective was to provide the president with “credible, rational nuclear options” that would strengthen deterrence and prevent war.

In other words, the Pentagon is conducting contingency planning—the exact type of planning Americans expect the military to undertake as Russia and China expand their nuclear arsenals.

Carlson, however, leaped from strategic planning and Trump’s hardline warnings to Iran to demanding that the duly elected president be thrown out of office.

Carlson argued that Trump’s previous warnings about the “total destruction” of Iran amounted to an implied nuclear threat because, in Carlson’s view, such devastation could not be accomplished with conventional weapons.

That remains Carlson’s interpretation, not an announced White House policy or evidence that Trump has ordered preparations for a nuclear first strike.

Kent similarly claimed that the administration could eventually turn to nuclear weapons if its conventional options against Iran failed.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Kent resigned from the administration in March, claiming Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States and accusing Israel and its American supporters of driving the conflict.

This is hardly Carlson’s first attempt to turn his foreign-policy feud with Trump into a campaign to remove the president.

In April, The Gateway Pundit reported that Carlson and his brother discussed using the 25th Amendment against Trump. Carlson also apologized for helping elect Trump and claimed he would be “tormented” by his role in the president’s political rise.

Carlson later announced he was abandoning the Republican Party, calling continued support for the GOP “immoral.”

The feud erupted after Carlson labeled Trump’s military campaign against Iran “disgusting and evil.”

President Trump responded by declaring that Carlson had “lost his way” and was no longer MAGA. Trump later blasted Carlson and several other anti-war commentators as “Low IQ” troublemakers seeking cheap publicity.

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ICE overrode judge’s decision blocking José Serrano’s removal.

Ex-Ecuadorian minister José Serrano, accused of aiding a cartel murder presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in 2023, has been deported by ICE.

Ecuadorian conservative Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated at a campaign rally in August 2023.

Fernando Villavicencio was reportedly shot in the head three times.

Supporters of the popular conservative, Fernando Villavicencio, managed to capture a suspect after the assassination.

A grenade was also found at the scene.

The criminal gang “Los Lobos,” based in Ecuador, later claimed responsibility for the assassination.

José Serrano’s removal took place even after a US judge blocked Serrano’s removal arguing he may be tortured if returned to the South American nation.

The New York Post reported:

“José Serrano, who served as Ecuador’s interior minister under leftist former President Rafael Correa, was deported Friday and promptly mocked by President Daniel Noboa as the newest ‘guest’ of the country’s notorious El Encuentro mega-prison.

‘We said it, we delivered. José Serrano, Rafael Correa’s Interior Minister, is the new guest at El Encuentro’, he wrote on X.”

Watch: Serrano arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

#URGENTE
Guayaquil, así fue el arribo del Ministro del Interior en la época del correismo, José Serrano.

Visiblemente derrotado y bajo un fuerte operativo será trasladado a la Cárcel del Encuentro por el Caso del Magnicidio de Fernando Villavicencio y otras cuentas pendientes… pic.twitter.com/nHWHptGhUO

— We News (@wenewsec) August 29, 2026

“Noboa also took a shot at Correa, who ruled from 2007 to 2017 and lives with his family in Belgium, where he was granted asylum.

An Ecuadorian court convicted Correa in absentia in 2020 for receiving bribes for public contracts.”

Read more:

ICE to Deploy Boston Dynamics Robot Dogs for Its Enforcement Operations

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Far-left Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has apologized for remarks he made following an antisemitic attack on a Detroit-area synagogue.

El-Sayed acknowledged that his attempt to provide “broader context” in the immediate aftermath was a mistake.

He addressed the controversy Saturday while speaking before the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus, whose members had expressed concerns about his candidacy and links to Islamism.

In March, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove a truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, injuring a security guard in what authorities described as a targeted attack against Jews.

El-Sayed condemned the violence at the time, saying there was “never a justification for attacking innocent people,” but added that “violence is a cycle” and “hurt people hurt people.”

NYT: “‘I Made a Mistake’: El-Sayed Apologizes for Comment About Synagogue Attack” https://t.co/8nq2xq8XN3 via @NYTimes

— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) August 29, 2026

On Saturday, he apologized for including those remarks.

“I made a mistake,” El-Sayed said. “I should have issued a statement, of course condemning it, and it just should have been the full stop.”

“If my statement caused pain, I’m sorry. That was not what I intended.”

El-Sayed now apologizing for his statement post-synagogue attack.

Back in March, we reported how El-Sayed defended the rhetoric: “Leadership is being willing to say the thing if you believe it to be true that nobody else is going to say.” pic.twitter.com/c3eKAWvLOJ

— Max Cohen (@maxpcohen) August 29, 2026

Watch the clip below:

Abdul El-Sayed — who said “hurt people do hurt people” after the Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack on Temple Israel in Michigan — is now trying to defend his comment:

“What I was trying to do is offer context…” pic.twitter.com/t0jII95CMx

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 29, 2026

The apology comes as El-Sayed attempts to bolster relations with Jewish Democrats following his primary victory over pro-Israel Rep. Haley Stevens.

The 41-year-old has repeatedly attacked Israel, describing its government “evil,” while making opposition to the influence American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) a prominent part of his primary campaign.

He has also faced scrutiny over his close relationship with far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who campaigned alongside him during the primary, as well as his links to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and a variety of Islamists.

WATCH: “Out of Context” – Abdul El Sayed Defends Hasan Piker for Saying “America Deserved 9/11”, Blames “Cancel Culture” for Controversy

El-Sayed has since said Piker will not campaign with him ahead of November and emphasized that nobody outside his campaign speaks on his behalf.

“All Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence,” El-Sayed said in response to Piker’s remarks.

He will face Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers in November in a race that could help determine control of the Senate.

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Iceland has rejected a renewed push toward membership of the European Union, with voters on course to vote against reopening accession negotiations with Brussels in a bitter blow for globalist elites.

With results declared in five of the country’s six constituencies on Sunday morning, the “No” campaign held an unassailable lead of around 52.5 percent.

The result represents a significant setback for Iceland’s left-wing government, which called the referendum in an effort to revive accession talks abandoned more than a decade ago.

The question put to Icelanders was straightforward: “Should Iceland resume accession negotiations with the European Union?”

The referendum was not itself a vote on joining the EU.

A victory for the “Yes” campaign would merely have restarted negotiations with Brussels, with any eventual membership agreement requiring approval in a second referendum.

BREAKING: Iceland has rejected a government proposal to restart negotiations on EU membership

“Should negotiations on Iceland’s membership in the European Union start again?”

NO – 52.5%
YES – 47.5%

— Politics Global (@PolitlcsGlobal) August 30, 2026

Nevertheless, a “No” victory would effectively end Iceland’s membership ambitions.

The results revealed a typical geographic divide.

Reykjavík backed renewed negotiations, with “Yes” receiving 57.5 percent in Reykjavík North and 54.5 percent in Reykjavík South.

Rural Iceland, decisively rejected the proposal. More than 60 percent voted “No” in the South, Northwest and Northeast constituencies. 

Opponents of membership have argued that Iceland is already sufficiently integrated into the EU through its membership of the European Economic Area without surrendering sovereignty to Brussels.

Control over Iceland’s enormously important fishing industry was among the most contentious issues during the campaign, alongside immigration, agriculture, the economy and the country’s ability to determine its own laws.

It didn’t work out for Ursula. Iceland says NO to the EU.
Iceland has voted on EU membership negotiations. Just as the opinion polls predicted, the referendum results are very close. The “No” side is leading with 52.5 percent of the vote. The margin is just over 9,000 votes,… pic.twitter.com/FLXIdT42nL

— JB (@ladysweden) August 30, 2026

Iceland originally applied to join the EU in 2009 after its banking system collapsed during the global financial crisis.

Formal negotiations began the following year but were suspended after a Eurosceptic government took power in 2013.

The country subsequently informed Brussels in 2015 that it no longer wished to be regarded as a candidate, although EU has lobbied them aggressively to reverse that decision.

Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir’s Social Democratic Alliance favors closer European integration, but she pledged before the referendum to respect the public’s decision.

“It is obviously difficult when the margin is this narrow. I’ll be completely candid about that,” says Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir [@KristrunFrosta], regarding the country’s EU referendum. pic.twitter.com/ZfBAONmqUL

— TVP World (@TVPWorld_com) August 30, 2026

Only time will tell whether she makes good on that promise.

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