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John Thune is sending the Senate home until June. Trump's reconciliation bill? Unfinished. SAVE America Act? Abandoned. He’s throwing a fit over President Trump’s compensation fund for targets of the Biden DOJ, but you know what these Senators had no problem with? A $500k slush fund for THEMSELVES after they got spied on. Not for the innocent Americans who were illegally surveilled for years. They did nothing to stop lawfare against American citizens. The second it happened to THEM, they demand half a million dollars each. Republicans have a trifecta and can’t get anything done. The base is watching. Thune is a disgrace.

John Thune and a group of Senate Republicans caved to the Democrats today on DHS funding because they got mad at President Trump's anti-weaponization fund. Yet these very same senators, just a few months ago, fought tooth and nail to pay themselves $500,000 because the FBI spied on them. They'll protect themselves, but not the innocent, everyday Americans who were targeted by the Biden administration. This is why folks hate Washington.

🚨 JUST IN: Heartbreaking… The elderly “Trump House” owner in California is NOT expected to survive after being BRUTALLY BEATEN outside his home. Maria Sheron says there is “no hope” for her husband Kerry, a 69-year-old Army veteran known for flying Trump and USA flags everywhere. The violence on the LEFT has to stop! H/T @CollinRugg

@GovNedLamont You've destroyed CT and now you act like you give a shit? This is your fault!

Eversource wants $25 more/month from CT families while reporting $1.69B in profit and delivering shareholders a 23% bump. Does that sound like a struggling company? PURA must protect ratepayers, not corporate bottom lines.

Here it is: A hidden-camera 🔥🔥 bombshell: This is Democrat Joel Caldwell of the “Coalition for the People’s Agenda,” a Fulton County ballot-harvesting NGO chief—caught on tape admitting it all. Democrats are stuffing ballot drop boxes with fraudulent votes, and it’s all caught on videotape. He also admits this is how they rigged the 2020 election and why Democrats fight to the death against voter ID. • They pay people to illegally ballot-harvest. • They bribe ballot counters and election officials. • They forge and falsify ballots. And the Atlanta mayor straight-up stole the election. He says it all himself—on tape. Joel Caldwell: “That’s what happened in 2020, ’cause that’s when the ballots—they started stuffing them ballots and people stuffing them ballots, and they got videotape of them, but nobody talks about it. That’s why Trump was making that big deal about it, because you see it on videotape. It’s like, come on. We see the man pull up and put a hundred ballots in this box. You know? You can’t do that sh*t. So groups were paying people to do just that—drop off ballots.” He continues: That’s why Democrats fight to the death against voter ID laws. Joel Caldwell: “That’s why the Republicans are always trying to fight the ballot—you know, that’s the whole argument, because Republicans are the ones who put out that kind of stuff, so they want voter IDs and stuff. Democrats are fighting voter ID laws. It’s a two-sided thing. That’s what they’re fighting over. Republicans are trying to say, ‘Hey, look, we got proof of this sh*t.’ And the Democrats are like, well, we don’t want voter ID laws, and we want to make it where you can just drop your ballot off—online voting and different things they try to come up with.” 📝 Pass the SAVE America Act.

@GovNedLamont Crook

Voting rights are under assault by the federal government. Not in Connecticut. Everyone deserves access to the ballot, whether or not you can leave work early or find a ride. Today, I will be signing legislation expanding absentee ballot access to every eligible voter. 🗳️

🚨 CONNECTICUT'S UNTOUCHABLE DEMOCRAT POWER COUPLE: The Lamonts’ Pattern of Self-Dealing Demands an Immediate FBI Investigation and Full Forensic Audits For years, Connecticut taxpayers have watched in frustration as Governor Ned Lamont and his wife, Annie Lamont. co-founder and managing partner of the high-powered venture capital firm OAK HC/FT, appeared to blur the lines between public service and private profit. While mainstream media briefly touched on isolated “potential conflicts” during the COVID-19 pandemic, independent journalists Tony DeAngelo (@TonyDeAngelo7) and Professor Bob Swick (@SwickSpeak) have relentlessly documented a deeper, more troubling pattern: no-bid state contracts funneled to OAK-backed companies, official business conducted on a private family office server, suspicious Cayman Islands offshore vehicles tied to university foundation money, and a network of FOI-exempt nonprofits that shielded decision-making from public view. These are not ancient history. As recently as April and May 2026, DeAngelo has publicly detailed how the Lamonts allegedly began “scanning and deleting emails” on their family office server covering Sema4, AdvanceCT, Digital Currency Group (DCG), the UConn Foundation’s Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund, and more, right after his reporting broke. Yet no subpoenas have flown. No forensic audit of the server has occurred. No legislative committee has demanded documents. The Connecticut GOP and legacy media have largely looked the other way. Enough is enough. The people of Connecticut deserve transparency, accountability, and, given the scale of potential public corruption, a full FBI investigation backed by independent forensic audits. The Sema4 Scandal: No-Bid Contracts, Post-Contract Investments, and $67 Million+ in Alleged Gains The clearest example remains the 2020 COVID-testing contracts awarded to Sema4 (later rebranded GeneDx), a Stamford-based genomics lab in which OAK HC/FT held a significant stake. State records show Sema4 received approximately $17.2 million in May 2020, followed by an $8.4 million no-bid add-on later that year, with contracts worth tens of millions overall when including prior and subsequent deals. OAK HC/FT had invested in Sema4 *before* the first major contract and, critically, *increased* its investment in July 2020, *after* the state deal was signed and as testing volume surged. When Sema4 (now renamed GeneDX) went public in 2021, OAK’s stake was reportedly valued at over $66–67 million, according to SEC filings and DeAngelo’s analysis. The Lamonts pledged any family profits would go to charity and claimed none were realized (the stock later plummeted). The Office of State Ethics issued a formal clearance based on recusal and disclosure. But here’s what was never examined under oath: Did the no-bid awards and state imprimatur directly inflate Sema4’s valuation and reputation, benefiting OAK’s limited partners and the Lamont family’s broader wealth? DeAngelo has repeatedly noted the timing, the dollars, and the absence of competitive bidding, all while the governor’s office insisted it had “no role.” This was not an isolated favor. Similar patterns appear with other OAK portfolio companies, including early investments in Digital Currency Group (which later received state relocation incentives) and questions around AI legislation in 2025 that critics say treated OAK-linked firms more favorably. The Private “Family Office” Server: Official Business Hidden from FOIA and the Public Even more alarming is the alleged use of a private Lamont family office server for state business. DeAngelo has reported, with specific references to COVID-era communications, that Ned and Annie Lamont routed discussions involving Sema4 contracts, AdvanceCT meetings, DCG, UConn Foundation investments, and CTInnovate through non-.gov accounts. Recent CT Insider reporting confirms the governor used personal email and phones for official matters, forwarding state emails privately and creating documented gaps in public records. DeAngelo’s April 2026 reporting explicitly warned that the Lamonts had a “head start” on scanning and deleting relevant emails once the story surfaced. No independent forensic recovery has been attempted. Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act is meaningless if the governor’s inner circle simply operates outside the official system. This is not a minor administrative slip. It is a potential obstruction of public oversight into how taxpayer dollars were awarded. Cayman Islands, UConn’s Horsebarn Hill Fund, and Offshore Timing Layer on the offshore dimension. Annie Lamont’s OAK HC/FT has documented Cayman Islands partnerships and structures. DeAngelo has highlighted the UConn Foundation’s massive “Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund” (a Cayman-based vehicle with an Ugland House address holding tens of millions) and its suspiciously timed investments aligning with Sema4’s IPO and OAK’s stake. Public university foundation money funneled through opaque offshore entities, potentially propping up companies that directly enriched the First Lady’s firm. No state auditor or legislative committee has demanded the full investment ledgers, timing charts, or limited-partner disclosures. Add the Tidal River Network, a “philanthropic” women’s/minority VC initiative co-founded by Annie Lamont and a relative of former Gov. Malloy, and Saudi ties via Sanabil Investments as a limited partner in OAK funds. Each layer adds opacity and potential influence peddling. AdvanceCT: The FOI-Exempt “Shadow Government” for Secret Deals DeAngelo has described Advance_CT as the Lamonts’ preferred vehicle for routing COVID business and high-level meetings, conveniently exempt from FOIA. This nonprofit structure allegedly allowed self-dealing and contract steering while evading sunlight. Swick has repeatedly tied such nonprofits into a broader “nonprofit-industrial complex” enabling elite capture in Connecticut. Why This Demands FBI Involvement and Forensic Audits — Now Connecticut has seen other Lamont-era scandals, including FBI probes into former officials like Kosta Diamantis for alleged no-bid contract steering, school construction fraud, and the State Pier fiasco. Yet the Lamonts themselves have faced zero comparable scrutiny on the Sema4/OAK pattern. The Office of State Ethics offered an opinion, not an investigation. The governor’s office issues denials and recusal lists. Taxpayers are left with unexamined windfalls, deleted records, and offshore vehicles. While Governor Ned Lamont publicly released his 2021 tax returns in October 2022, revealing an eye-popping $54 million in adjusted gross income, the vast majority from investment and capital gains, the public remains completely in the dark about First Lady Annie Lamont’s finances. Because the couple files separately (“Married Filing Separately”), Annie Lamont’s substantial earnings, distributions, and partnership income as co-founder and managing partner of OAK HC/FT Partners stay entirely shielded from disclosure. This convenient arrangement lets Ned project selective transparency while the full scope of the family’s wealth, and any potential profits tied to the very venture capital firm at the center of no-bid COVID contracts, offshore vehicles, and state-favor allegations, remains hidden from Connecticut taxpayers. This is not “gotcha” politics. It is a systemic failure of accountability that erodes trust in government. Every Connecticut family struggling with high taxes, crumbling infrastructure, and post-COVID economic fallout has a right to know whether public dollars were steered to enrich the First Family’s venture capital empire. The call is clear: * The FBI’s New Haven field office and U.S. Attorney must open a public corruption probe into potential wire fraud, honest-services fraud, and conflicts involving state contracts, the private server, and offshore flows. * The Connecticut State Auditor and Legislature must immediately subpoena the family server (or what remains), full OAK portfolio vs. state spending cross-checks, UConn Foundation investment records, and Advance_CT meeting logs. * Forensic IT recovery experts should examine the private server for deletions and backups. * All OAK HC/FT portfolio companies must be mapped against every state grant, loan, contract, or policy favor since 2019. Governor Lamont and Annie Lamont have every right to defend themselves in public, under oath, with full documentation. But the era of “trust us, we recused” and “no profits realized” is over. Connecticut cannot afford another decade of elite impunity. Taxpayers have funded enough. It is time for real sunlight and real consequences if the allegations hold. Contact your legislators, the Attorney General, and federal authorities today. Demand the FBI investigation and audits Connecticut deserves. The Lamont era of unaccountable power must end where every other public official’s does: at the rule of law. @FBIDirectorKash @FBINewHaven @DAGToddBlanche @AAGDhillon

BREAKING: JACK SMITH LEFT THE DOOR OPEN 🚨 @jsolomonreports says newly uncovered FBI documents show prosecutors moved to dismiss Trump’s Jan. 6 case “without prejudice” while preserving evidence through 2030 — allowing charges to potentially be revived later.

Senator Ron Johnson just took three minutes to EXPOSE in stunning detail the vast government conspiracy to cover up Covid vaccine reactions. He called out the mainstream media for REFUSING to report on it while the CIA whistleblower listened intently. JOHNSON: “This is what we uncovered, this is what is now being covered up by the legacy media.” “On March 1st of 2021, Dr. Peter Marks, head of the CBER — organization at the FDA that approves vaccines and also supposed to surveil those vaccines post-market for safety — was given a multi-page briefing by the main data mining analysts within FDA working with the inventor of the algorithm they used to analyze the VAERS, the vaccine adverse event reporting system.” “That briefing told Dr. Marks that the current algorithm because of the nature of the massive number of claims coming into VAERS. From 1990 until 2020 on average 280 deaths were reported in VAERS associated with vaccine. 2021 it was over 21,000. Nothing to see here.” “26 days later a new state-of-the-art algorithm developed by the inventor of the original algorithm was presented to senior FDA officials showing 49 cases of extreme masking, 25 safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, Bell’s Palsy, different types of strokes.” “Month after month after month they continued to do this data mining, they continued to show additional safety signals.” “Did Peter Marks, did Anthony Fauci, did President Biden go to the American public and say hang on here, we’ve got some data, we’ve got some concerns? No! No! They blamed the unvaccinated for continuing the pandemic. This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. We need to mandate this.” “This is what government does and what the deep state does... I need the mainstream media, CBS, ABC, CNN, to step forward and start covering what is a MAJOR scandal!” “How many thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands of people are permanently disabled or possibly lost their life because our FDA hid the fact that there were safety signals SCREAMING at them with the covid injection?” The FDA literally hid safety signals that were screaming at them.

🚨 DEEP STATE DEEP FREEZE: Biden FBI’s ‘Arctic Frost’ Memos Reveal They Didn’t Drop the Case Against Trump — They Cryogenically Preserved It Until 2030 to Strike the Moment He Leaves Office, Assuring President Trump Dies in Prison! 💥 Scholars of the Republic have seen this playbook before—from the Star Chamber to the Soviet show trials—but never in the land of the free. In the final weeks of the Biden administration, the FBI’s CR-15 squad and Jack Smith’s own deputy special counsel didn’t shutter their politically charged “Arctic Frost” probe into the 2020 election. They did something far more sinister: they closed the file on paper… while secretly placing every shred of evidence—search warrants, covert recordings, grand-jury transcripts, discovery materials—under a litigation hold until at least February 1, 2030. That’s over a year after President Trump’s second term ends. Dismissed “without prejudice.” Not because the evidence was weak. Smith’s team explicitly affirmed they “stand behind the merits” of the prosecution and refused to exonerate Trump or his co-conspirators. They simply hit pause—knowing DOJ policy bars indicting a sitting president. A loaded prosecutorial kit, frozen in time, waiting for the next friendly administration to thaw it out and reload. This wasn’t sloppy bureaucracy. This was calculated, high-level lawfare: a sleeper-cell indictment engineered to detonate the moment constitutional protections lapse. The same bureau that once claimed impartiality now memorialized its belief in Trump’s criminality… then hid the arsenal for future use. They are hanging on to Trump dying in prison like a death cult clings to its final prophecy — refusing to let go even as the evidence of their lawfare fraud thaws in the sunlight and their Arctic Frost scheme melts into irrelevance. It’s not justice they crave. It’s ritual sacrifice: the ultimate validation of years of weaponized persecution, the fantasy that one man’s slow demise behind bars would somehow retroactively legitimize their two-tiered tyranny. They treat the idea like a cherished relic, polishing it daily on cable news, because without that macabre endpoint, their entire narrative collapses into the partisan hit job it always was. The Republic wasn’t built for vengeful clerics in prosecutor robes. Time to defrost the rule of law — for everyone. The weaponization wasn’t a bug. It was the operating system. Sunlight is the best disinfectant—and accountability the only cure. The American people deserve to know how their government plotted to turn the rule of law into a partisan guillotine. Read the memos: justthenews.com/government/cou… #NoOneDiesInPrisonForPolitics #LawfareFail #ArcticFrostExposed #DeepStateDeepFreeze #LawfareExposed #WeaponizedDOJ #RuleOfLawRestored #TrumpSetup #BidenFBIPlot 📽️ Watch John Solomon lay it out in real time below 👇

@JoJoFromJerz If you're stupid, you're stupid. Your post is stupid.

So in case anybody’s counting, today he called not one, but two female reporters “stupid.” He is going to continue to do this. He’s going to start calling them far worse. Because nobody fucking stops him.

🚨 CIA Whistleblower reveals that despite a majority of CIA scientists concluding COVID leaked from a lab in Wuhan, Anthony Fauci was able to convince high-ranking intel officials to change the assessment from a lab leak to neutral.

BOMBSHELL: Here is the entire opening statement from CIA whistleblower James Erdman lll. He testifies that Dr. Fauci's role in the COVID cover-up was INTENTIONAL. He stacked the intelligence community's analysis with conflicted scientists funded by NIAID who pushed the natural origin lie while obfuscating facts around a lab leak from Wuhan, China. CIA managers retaliated against analysts who refused to go along with the middle-of-the-night rewrite that buried the lab leak conclusion. Wow.

Fact check @ChrisVanHollen ⬇️

Sitting down? Odds of Trump winning these states before counting stopped on election night… GA: Up 8% and 83% in: 99% PA: Up 16.2% and 64% in: 99% Mi: Up 10.4% and 59% in: 97% Wi: Up 4.9% and 82% in: 97% Odds of losing all 4 states? 1 in 11.1 million or 0.000009% Stolen.

We’re mobilizing cancer patients to inform Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy and @realDonaldTrump President Trump that @DrMakaryFDA Dr. Makary’s refusal to approve ANKTIVA for lymphopenia is based on personal bias rather than science. By following Vinay Prasad's lead and blocking this treatment, Dr. Makary is ignoring the needs of dying patients. We are demanding immediate action to prioritize lives over personal vendettas. $IBRX @DrPatrick @LoriMills4CA42

“If Vladimir Putin is truly some existential threat and the next Hitler that's gonna roll through Europe, you would think... they (European allies) would step up. $30 billion for bureaucrats in Ukraine - That's where American tax dollars were going” - Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) SEN. ERIC SCHMITT (R-MO): I actually think it's interesting that Ukraine just came up because we've heard, from my colleagues on the other side, discussion about the cost of what the ongoing American effort. There was never a, never a discussion about the $200 billion we were sending to a foreign country that's not even in NATO. Never. In fact, when amendments were offered for independent audits of how that money was spent, there was bipartisan opposition to that kind of oversight. So I find it really rich now that there's a complaint that we're not spending money on Ukraine, and by the way, $30 billion for salaries for bureaucrats, pensions, and social safety net programs, and government operations to keep the state functioning during wartime. That's where American tax dollars were going, $30 billion for bureaucrats in Ukraine, and we just heard a speech for more money for Ukraine, yet the $1.5 trillion for this country is being balked at. I've seen Ukraine flags all over this capital for three years. At the same time, the same people call the President of the United States of this country a Nazi. So, Forgive me if I feel like we've lost our bearings a little bit. So, I'm all for the America first agenda. I'm all for us realigning our priorities. I'm all for the national defense strategies that says our core strategic interests are the homeland, the Western Hemisphere, and the rising threat in China, and that means our European allies should step up. If Vladimir Putin is truly some existential threat and the next Hitler that's gonna roll through Europe, you would think... By the way, he can't take Kyiv, so you can't have it both ways. He hasn't made it to Kyiv, but they would step up. And we better start demanding that, 'cause if we wanna meet the challenges of the 21st century and China, our priorities, our focus has to be somewhere else. It doesn't mean abandonment. It just means a true partnership with our European allies, who for very, very long time have not stepped up. PETER HEGSETH, U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Well, thank you, Senator. First of all, I wanna fully associate myself with the first two and a half minutes of your comments, and I appreciate that perspective very much so. I would note $30 billion for bureaucrats in Ukraine is more than the bill that we've talked about today, for a existential and critically important war to ensure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon. That's worth noting.

💪🏼 TRUMP HAS THE RECEIPTS and he’s LOCKED and LOADED!! 🚨 UKRAINE WAS LAUNDERING AMERICAN TAX PAYER MONEY INTO BIDEN’S 2024 CAMPAIGN TO COUP AMERICA! JOHN SOLOMON: Intercepted intel confirms they were plotting to BUY THE ELECTION and keep the grift rolling. 2024 was their last desperate swing at overthrowing us from Kiev. They didn’t just STEAL 2020. They tried to BUY 2024 with our own money. A country dwarfed by America in every metric acting like they own us. WHERE DOES THIS ARROGANCE COME FROM? 🤔

@LeaderJohnThune @SenateGOP What is wrong with you? Past the Save America Act & stop deflecting.

Protecting our borders and deporting criminal illegal aliens are essential components of our country’s security. Unfortunately, Democrats don’t agree. Republicans will continue to work to ensure that our borders are secure and that dangerous criminals are not on our streets.