Grand jury indicts James Comey + arrest warrant issued.
Charged with threatening the President over his “86 47” seashell Instagram post.
Will it ever see a Jury?
Can they prove intent?
https://t.co/1K64wM4BqX
Trump and RFK Enforce Price Transparency to Stop ‘Greedy Hospitals’ Raising Healthcare Costs
We need transparency in all of our HC costs.
I was told once by an ER doc that those with HC ins pay for all those who don't have it.
In other words, those costs are passed on to all of us.
Get rid of all the illegals taking advantage of our system, and the costs to all of us (including insurance companies) should drop drastically.
The fraud and waste in our HC system is huge!
All of these issues must be addressed.
From the article:
President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have worked to combat inflation and high healthcare prices by enforcing healthcare price transparency.
“Republicans are finally doing what was politically unthinkable for either party and moving to scrutinize the role of greedy hospitals in raising healthcare costs for all Americans,” a senior Trump administration official told Breitbart News in a written statement.
In February 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would empower patients with clear, accurate, and actionable healthcare pricing information. The executive order directs the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (HHS) to enforce healthcare price transparency regulations, which the Trump administration said was slow walked by the Biden administration.
The Departments will work to ensure that hospitals and insurers disclose actual prices, not estimates, and take action to make prices comparable across hospitals and insurers, including prescription drug costs.
The order ensures that a patient can easily shop for the best price per healthcare service.
The White House press release stated, “One patient in Wisconsin saved $1,095 by shopping for two tests between two hospitals located within 30 minutes of one another.”
Kennedy noted that, as of April 1, HHS will now require hospital executives to attest that the prices they have posted are accurate.
He wrote, “If hospitals mislead patients or fail to disclose actual prices, we will hold them accountable. Transparency drives competition — and competition lowers healthcare costs for every American.”
The order is particularly empowering as many hospitals have often failed to disclose prices so Americans can easily shop for the best price for their healthcare needs.
Former Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), now-governor of Indiana, said in 2024 that Trump’s healthcare price transparency rule would be “bigger than Obamacare.”
Since the start of Trump’s second term in office, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued 11 enforcement actions against hospitals that have not complied with the transparency orders.
The Paragon Health Institute, a think tank established by Trump first term health official Brian Blase, released a report that discussed how hospitals are driving up prices. It also detailed how current regulations often reward consolidation, opacity, and inefficiency rather than incentivizing competition, value, and accountability.
“This Administration is focused on fighting inflation, and no one has done more to raise costs than greedy hospitals. These hospitals are posing as charities and taking millions in nonprofit tax breaks. Meanwhile, they’re upcharging Americans while their CEOs take home tens of millions of dollars each year. It’s a total scam,” one former White House official said.
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All you do is post crap about Trump. These temporary gas prices would not be an issue if you were not taxing us to death to pay for people who should not be here in the first place.
Silence speaks volumes. 🇺🇸 When a leader can’t even give a simple "yes" to respecting the men and women on the front lines, it tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.
Border Patrol and ICE have some of the toughest jobs.
They have earned our respect!
Schumer’s silence is the loudest answer he could have given!
Analysts: SPLC Fraud, Money Laundering Charges Could Be The Tip Of The Iceberg
It seems the SPLC broke many banking rules and the paper trail will be easy to follow. 😉
They created fake companies, with zero employees etc.
They paid money to the hate groups they pretended to be targeting in order to create 'hate'.
They lied to donors, and much more.
This article takes a deep dive into how the fraudulent SPLC operated.
I'd say the SPLC is screwed, and it's by their own doing.
From the article:
Professionals who have experience with anti-money laundering laws are not shocked by the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). If the facts alleged in the indictment are true, they appear to support charges that are unremarkable and to be expected. Those allegations also strongly suggest the possibility of more indictments.
That reaction isn’t the loudest response, right now. Indicted for fraud, making false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, the SPLC is hinting broadly at a victimhood defense about being a left-wing organization politically targeted by a right-wing administration. Among the army of lawyers the SPLC has hired from multiple law firms, the racial justice nonprofit is now represented by the D.C. insider Abbe Lowell, who also represented Hunter Biden. Reuters describes Lowell’s boutique law firm as one that works “defending Trump targets.”
Spreading the victimhood narrative, journalists in legacy media are suggesting that the prosecution is a faked-up political hit built on shaky legal ground; MS Now calls the charges “nakedly political.” Joining that chorus, Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page reads undertones of menace in an indictment that he describes as “murky.”
It’s not murky. You can read the indictment here. https://t.co/Kb8lYoRIqu
Among other things, the SPLC is accused of creating accounts at two banks for fake businesses that “were never incorporated, had no bona fide employees, and conducted no actual business.”
That’s hard to do. The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, updated after 9/11, creates extensive anti-money laundering “know your customer” rules that require banks to identify new customers and be sure a business is both real and representing its activities in an honest way. You can read the regulatory requirement for a “customer identification program” yourself, and look at bank websites to see what kinds of documents you have to show a bank to open a new business account: articles of incorporation, tax forms, permits, personal identification to show who is opening the account, and so on.
Kevin Sullivan is a retired New York State Police detective who served on multijurisdictional fraud task force investigations, and is also the author of an anti-money laundering (AML) guidebook for businesses. In retirement from law enforcement, he’s the president of an AML training academy. An investigation into allegedly fake bank accounts, he told The Federalist, has to start with a basic question: “How the heck did these businesses obtain an account in the first place?”
Well before anyone could begin using bank accounts in questionable ways, Sullivan said, “warning signs should have appeared at the account opening due diligence phase. Prospective banking customers that lacked appropriate verifying information, such as, never incorporated, no bona fide employees and no actual business, should never have been accepted as a customer by any financial institution.”
One of a short list of things has to have happened, the Texas A&M law professor and AML scholar William Byrnes told The Federalist, if the SPLC opened bank accounts for businesses that didn’t exist: banks ignored their legal obligations and opened accounts without knowing their customers, banks had insiders who sneaked around the requirement because of a relationship with the people opening the fake accounts, or the people opening the fake accounts showed the bank forged business documents.
“If the allegation is correct,” Byrnes told The Federalist, “then it’s one of those three.”
Speaking to those possibilities, the indictment specifically alleges that the bank accounts were associated with fake documents delivered by SPLC employees: “Employee-1, and others, signed these documents containing false and misleading statements for the benefit of the SPLC.”
In any case, the documents that were allegedly used to open the accounts would be retained by the banks. Regulators routinely visit banks to check on their compliance with “know your customer” laws, Byrnes says, and to evaluate a bank’s recordkeeping on customers. Whatever paperwork the bank had when they opened the SPLC’s allegedly fake business accounts would still be on hand for federal prosecutors to use in court.
This is one of the other shoes that might still drop. Asked if the paperwork retained by the bank would identify the individual who allegedly opened the accounts on behalf of the SPLC, Byrnes didn’t hesitate: “One hundred percent. Absolutely.” If prosecutors have accurately described the activity alleged in the indictment, those individuals also face the distinct possibility of being personally indicted. “Because some human being faked the documents,” Byrnes said, and opening a bank account for a fake business using fraudulent documents is a crime, or possibly several.
The “know your customer” expectation goes deeper: A bank is expected to know its customers, but also to have some sense of the customer’s customers and business. A business account should have a history of transactions that look like the kind of transactions that the type of business would be expected to do. As an example, a business identifying itself to its bank as a single small convenience store probably shouldn’t execute a bunch of seven-figure transactions. The cash flow at a small photography studio should look like the cash flow at a small photography studio.
“Electronically, every bank has at least some minimum software that looks for these anomalies,” Byrnes said, and transactions that don’t make sense can trigger a suspicious activity report to the federal Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) – a bureau of the Department of the Treasury. FinCen evaluates suspicious activity reports, then passes on significant reports to regulators and law enforcement agencies.
The SPLC allegedly opened bank accounts for fake businesses that didn’t do the type of work those businesses were supposed to be doing: a supposed photography studio that just made payments to informants, a rare books warehouse that just made payments to informants, and so on. Those are the kinds of anomalous transactions that tend to trigger suspicious activity reports, which can end up in front of law enforcement agencies.
If the indictment correctly describes these letters, then the SPLC admitted to a bank, in writing, to opening accounts for businesses that didn’t exist. “That’s certainly an admission of fraud against the bank,” Byrnes told The Federalist. Remember that a Chicago Tribune columnist is calling the indictment “murky,” and read the government’s description of the SPLC’s letter to its bank again.
Once you begin pulling at the threads suggested by the indictment, a long list of other questions comes up pretty quickly. If the SPLC made payments to informants through fake shell companies, were the payments reported to the IRS with 1099s? Did the recipients pay taxes on the payments? What are the legal implications when a non-profit corporation makes payments to people through shell entities that are not registered as non-profit corporations? There are a considerable number of avenues for further investigation.
Byrnes shrugs at the claims of a politicized prosecution. “Fraud is fraud,” he said. If the SPLC used fraudulent documents to lie to banks and obtain accounts for businesses that didn’t exist, they will have created a substantial paper trail as evidence of crimes that are not obscure or rarely noticed. Maybe another administration wouldn’t have chosen to pursue the case, he said, but “that doesn’t mean that the crimes aren’t being committed.”
In court, the SPLC was first represented by William Athanas, a lawyer specializing in white collar crime who divides his practice between Birmingham and the District of Columbia. By email, the Federalist asked Athanas a series of questions about his client, starting with this one: “Does the SPLC agree that it opened bank accounts for fictitious businesses that ‘were never incorporated, had no bona fide employees, and conducted no actual business,’ or does the SPLC dispute that claim?” Athanas did not respond before publication time.
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A montage of RECENT liberals cheering for the assassination of our president.
Why are WE the ones being labeled extremists by the democrat party when their OWN base are the ones repeatedly carrying out assassination attempts and massacres?
Why does MAGA always get the blame?!
There has never been a political party more bereft of critical thought than the modern Democrat Party. You know this when they resort to lying and slandering:
👉 The latest assassination attempt was staged
👉 Trump is a rapist and pedophile
👉 Trump is senile and his health is failing
👉 Trump had no authority to start the Iran War
👉 Trump is a danger to "democracy"
Turn these asshats off. Don't pay any attention to them. It is nothing but straight up deflection. Because they literally cannot tell you what they'd do to improve one thing. Continue to follow me for more sage observations! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Sharing this statement from President Trump—this is where things stand right now. People are tired of the questions and the doubt around our elections. It’s time to fix it and move forward with real solutions like passing The Save America Act.
Who’s with me?
It's a general overview of your wasteful spending. Many people with money & a majority of middle class are leaving the state. A few more years of this will leave most of the state in crime & squalor while a few elites live high on the hog. There will be no middle class.
The American Left Is In Thrall To Political Violence. It Has To Be Destroyed
The political violence from the left cannot be denied. 😉
From assassination attempts to months of violent rioting - all done by the left!
This is not a 'both sides' issue, by any stretch of the truth.
What we have is a war against conservatives and our values.
Why is that? 🤔
It's because they are told to hate us by the media, leftist educators and those on the left side of the aisle in Congress.
They can no longer deny it!
They've made it far too obvious.
From the article:
Left-wing political violence won’t end unless it’s actively stopped. We are not going to argue our way to peace.
In the immediate aftermath of the fourth assassination attempt on President Trump this past weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, we heard the familiar chorus of voices in the corporate media and political establishment calling for calm, for unity, for lowering the temperature, toning down the rhetoric. We heard the same thing after Charlie Kirk’s assassination last September, and after Trump was shot in the face by a would-be assassin on the campaign trail in July 2024.
As always, the people saying this pretend it’s a “both sides” problem, that the political left and right are both at risk of becoming dangerously violent, and that for the sake of our democracy we all need to calm down.
What nonsense. There is only one side in America today that has a persistent and very real-world problem with political violence, and everyone knows it’s the left.
It’s the left that has produced four would-be assassins of President Trump. It’s the left that produced Charlie Kirk’s assassin and the sneering online hordes who celebrated his murder. It’s the left that produced Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood, and overnight became a folk hero to his fellow travelers.
The left riots and burns down cities in a way that makes Jan. 6 look tame, and the corporate press justifies it as a form of political speech. The left regularly threatens conservative speakers and events, forcing organizers to provide a level of security that liberal events never need. The left foments violence not just by spreading false propaganda about conservatives but by funding the supposed right-wing extremists they warn about, as the recent federal criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center has shown.
As it is, the press won’t even admit the left’s predilection for political violence, even though the reality of it is borne out nearly every week — and not just in the form of trans mass shooters targeting Christian schoolchildren and churches. When Jimmy Kimmel’s show was briefly suspended last year following Kimmel’s vile commentary on Kirk’s assassination (including his false assertion that Kirk’s assassin was MAGA), a man shot up an ABC affiliate station in Sacramento. To be clear, the alleged shooter (a former legislative director for the California Federation of Teachers) was outraged at ABC for suspending Kimmel, not at Kimmel for lying about Kirk’s assassin.
Kimmel isn’t even an outlier on the American left. He’s representative — a normie leftist. Minutes after the assassination attempt at the WHCD, Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt blamed Trump for almost getting murdered, saying the president is “poisoning the rhetoric” in America, and that he’s a “vile and disgusting man.” The idea that Trump has it coming is a mainstream view on the left. Tune into CNN or The View, and you will hear versions of this violence-inspiring rhetoric spewing forth from the mouths of supposedly respectable, establishment liberals.
And yet somehow whenever there’s a high-profile act of political violence from the left — this time not from a nutjob but a man who simply believes all the mainstream left’s conspiracy theories about Trump and decided to act on them — we get the same brain-dead “both-sides” scolding from figures on the establishment right.
This time around, it was Princeton professor and professional nice guy Robert P. George, who took to X the day after the assassination attempt to ask if everyone, “right or left, MAGA or anti-MAGA, Republican or Democrat,” could just “stop catastrophizing and trying to get everyone on your side worked up into a rage?” What we need to do, George insisted, is talk it out and make sure we don’t demonize each other. “We need to argue with our political adversaries — passionately perhaps — but with respect for their humanity and dignity. We don’t need to destroy them. That mustn’t be our aim.”
The left is manifestly trying to destroy the right, to kill prominent conservatives and Republicans. But Professor George insists you mustn’t destroy them first, just argue with them.
It takes a certain trained submissiveness to respond to recurring leftist political violence in this country with such extreme supineness. It’s as if George thinks we’re in an argument with people who simply want a marginally higher tax rate, and things have gotten a little heated.
Under these circumstances, yes, we need to destroy them, we need to stop them. If that means dismantling institutions controlled by the left, then we must dismantle them. If we have to change the law to do that, or apply the law to its fullest possible extent, then by all means we need to do that. To paraphrase Aragorn, war is upon us whether we would risk it or not. We are not going to argue these people out of their commitment to political violence. They are resorting to unjust force, and only just force will stop them.
Anything less means allowing them to carry on a campaign of violence and terror against us and our families. Maybe Professor George, ensconced in his ivory tower, is OK with that. He knows they will not come for him. Not at first, anyway.
But I’m not OK with it. And you shouldn’t be, either.
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Dollar General nObama is sticking to his demand that major changes happen to ICE and CBP before he will reopen the government. The only change I want to ICE is more deportations. Hey @RepJeffries - say this young student's name: LAKEN RILEY! STFU and do your job! 🖕
President Trump's Justice Department has charged top former advisor to Anthony Fauci, David Morin, with conspiracy to conceal federal records to bury evidence of a COVID-19 lab leak from Wuhan and restore corrupt EcoHealth grants that funded it all with YOUR stolen taxpayer dollars!
Anthony Fauci's inner circle is finally being hauled in! Who's excited to see Dr Fauci in handcuffs too?!
I completely agree , no one has an automatic right to the public airwaves, especially for dark “jokes” that clearly alluded to the President’s death.
We all knew exactly what Kimmel meant with the “expectant widow” line, even if it wasn’t a literal direct threat.
That said, it falls short of unprotected incitement and any FCC license action here risks unconstitutional government encroachment…
Private firing for being a toxic liability is fair game, but ABC lacks both the morals and the ethics to do it.
Can we give a HUGE ROUND OF APPLAUSE to @nickshirleyy for all his hard work exposing all this fraud WHILE being attacked by the very same corrupt politicians that were responsible for this fraud?!
Let this be an inspiration to all of you here — you're all meant to accomplish so much more than you're being told you can!
I have about a 3 hour post to write on that subject. 😮💨
As @Aaronlewismusic sings in his awesome song, Country Boy:
"Now two flags fly above my land
And really sum up how I feel
One is the colors that fly high and proud
The red, the white, the blue
The other one's got a rattlesnake
With a simple statement made
"Don't tread on me" is what it says
And I'll take that to my grave"
For me, "These colors don't run!" 🇺🇸