Dear and Respected President Trump:
Thank you for your unwavering support. With the backing of the United States and a strong, strategic alliance between our nations, we will once again set our country on the path of security, prosperity, development, and hope for millions of Colombians.
Our two countries share fundamental values of freedom, democracy, and respect for the rule of law. Together, we will wage an uncompromising, all-out war against narcoterrorism, organized crime, and all the structures that threaten the freedom, security, and well-being of our peoples. There will be no room for impunity, nor for those who seek to subjugate our nations through violence and fear.
Working hand in hand, we will strengthen hemispheric security, drive economic growth, and build a future full of opportunities for the coming generations.
Colombia and the United States, united by friendship and the principles we share, constitute an indestructible force in defense of freedom, the defeat of narcoterrorism, and the prosperity of our continent.
Together, we must safeguard democracy. I have already denounced the “vote buyers” and “narcopolitics” before the State Department. United, we will stop these would-be dictators.
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Querido y respetado presidente Trump:
Gracias por su apoyo irrestricto. Con el respaldo de los Estados Unidos y una alianza sólida y estratégica entre nuestras naciones, retomaremos el camino de la seguridad, la prosperidad, el desarrollo y la esperanza para millones de colombianos.
Nuestros países comparten valores fundamentales de libertad, democracia y respeto por la ley. Juntos libraremos una guerra frontal y sin concesiones contra el narcoterrorismo, el crimen organizado y todas las estructuras que amenazan la libertad, la seguridad y el bienestar de nuestros pueblos. No habrá espacio para la impunidad ni para quienes pretenden someter a nuestras naciones mediante la violencia y el miedo.
Trabajando de la mano, fortaleceremos la seguridad hemisférica, impulsaremos el crecimiento económico y construiremos un futuro de oportunidades para las próximas generaciones.
Colombia y Estados Unidos, unidos por la amistad y los principios que nos identifican, son una fuerza indestructible para defender la libertad, derrotar al narcoterrorismo y garantizar la prosperidad de nuestro continente.
Juntos, debemos cuidar la democracia, he denunciado a los “compra votos” y a la “narcopolitica” ante la Secretaría de Estado; unidos detendremos a los aprendices de dictadores. @realDonaldTrump
(A.D.L.E) 🇨🇴🐅
To all my single girls: don’t just marry an attractive man, marry a Godly man.
LADIES, MARRY A MAN WHO:
- Can lead you in the ways of the Lord
- Is going to take you to Church
- Is going to read the Bible with you every day
- Is going to pray with you and for you
- Will say “as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”
1. Brandon Gill is a hero
2. The SPLC is a hate group
3. The fact that the SPLC struggles to condemn a Nazi tattoo—solely because it’s on the body of a radical leftist endorsed by Democrats as a U.S. Senate candidate in Maine—only confirms SPLC’s status as a hate group
🚨 BREAKING: The Florida Supreme Court has DECLINED to intervene in a Democrat lawsuit attempting to BLOCK Florida’s new Congressional map, 6-1
Democrats are stacking up the losses 🤣🔥
The new 24R-4D map will add 4 US HOUSE SEATS for Republicans in November
LFG!
h/t @scotus_wire
They say it takes a village, well I made a promise to mother on her death bed that I would make sure my nephew graduated from high school. Mission accomplished. Now he is on his way to an Electrical apprenticeship program so he continue his goal of becoming an electrician.
Hang on a minute…What?? Why is @ASU threatening to use eminent domain on this 89 year old man’s house that has been there longer than AZ has been a state? I feel a fist fight comin’ on👇
A staff member from the Texas Veterans Land Board's Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen recently took this beautiful photo of a fawn resting in front of a gravestone. Apparently, the doe leaves her fawns in the cemetery while she forages for food. The cemetery staff has been in touch with US Army Veteran Albert Ragsdale's family to share this touching image.
Austin Metcalf’s mother had this to say about the Karmelo Anthony sentencing:
“You may have been given sentence of 35 years, you should feel lucky.. I’ve been sentenced to a lifetime without my son.”
JD Vance has officially referred Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to the US Department of Justice for criminal investigation — for knowing about the $250 million Medicaid fraud for SIX YEARS and doing nothing.
Vance says whistleblowers inside Walz's own office were called racists and xenophobes for raising concerns about where taxpayer money was going.
This sets a precedent — mayors and governors who KNEW and did nothing can ALL be brought up on charges.
I stopped by the new Reflecting Pool. It is simply glorious. There were a thousand people, everywhere, taking pictures and just enjoying its beauty. Thank you President Trump for restoring our city’s national treasure.
Today, after two years of advocating and fighting for children across the country, I will get to see my legislation signed into law by @potus.
When I introduced the Renewed Hope Act, I did it because I could not look away from the reality that 89,000 children are still waiting to be found — and that the investigators working around the clock to find them were severely outnumbered.
Today, that changes. This investment will put new analysts and investigators to work identifying those children and bringing their abusers to justice. I am grateful to @TimTebow and the @tebowfoundation for their tireless advocacy — their voice helped make this moment possible, and I look forward to watching these resources reach the hands of the law enforcement heroes who will use them to bring these children home.
Sec. Burgum: "How fitting, as we go into our 250th, that President Trump is personally getting involved and making sure that our capital reflects the greatness of our country — because decline is a choice, and President Trump has shown a blueprint for every American city."
Thoughts?
As the day of the UFC event draws near (Sunday the 14th), the left will increasingly lose their minds over it - including the imminent failure to keep it from happening in the first place via the courts.
👉 Something they were promised would be the case.
And then, after the festivities conclude, the Claw will be disassembled, the area cleaned up, and the lawn replaced as though the event never happened. Well, save for the memories of what promises to be an epic evening.
It's at this point that, not unlike with the reflecting pool, or the Ballroom currently under construction, all their tears and angry protestations won't have amounted to a hill of beans.
All they will have ended up accomplishing is helping marginalize themselves and repelling Moderates and Independents from their cause.
Advantage: America
Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?
You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.
I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.
In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.
I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.
Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.
Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).
His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.
Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.