EPA chief Lee Zeldin says revelation ‘extremely concerning’
DOGE discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams.
The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant’s dollar figure—it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings.
Power Forward Communities’ grant was one of just eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that the EPA doled out in April 2024 and that, altogether, totaled $20 billion. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Feb. 13 that his staff and Department of Government Efficiency officials discovered that the Biden administration parked that same $20 billion at an outside financial institution before leaving office, limiting the federal government’s oversight of the program.
The revelation that Power Forward Communities is among the beneficiaries of the funds Zeldin’s team located raises ethics questions about how the Biden administration selected recipients of such massive grants and whether it played favorites when doling those grants out. Abrams was a vocal proponent of the Biden administration’s green energy agenda and campaigned for former vice president Kamala Harris.
All of the people involved in @GovKathyHochul’s meeting today to discuss removing @ericadamsfornyc as Mayor of NYC are clients of Judge Merchan’s daughter
Last night, I reported on the conflict of interest that exists in that NY Governor Kathy Hochul has called for a meeting with @bradlander, the Democrat primary opponent of Eric Adams to discuss his removal from office.
In addition to inviting Brad Lander to the meeting, Hochul also invited Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who is also a client of Authentic Campaigns, the consulting firm run by Judge Merchan’s daughter Loren.
Kathy Hochul, Brad Lander, and Hakeem Jeffries have collectively sent MILLIONS of dollars to the personal home residence of Loren Merchan, the head of Authentic Campaigns and the daughter of NY Judge Juan Merchan.
The right term is Jewish Supremacism. An honest, moral Jew or Israeli is not included in the danger of Jewish Supremacy. What are the ratios of one to the other? That is a separate question. The ratio is probably high enough that all Jews in power or who seek power should be morally required to disavow Jewish Supremacy in any form. Not sure how this affects the Jewish religion today, which is based on the ‘chosenness’ of ancient Israelites. But this should be discussed and openly addressed by all Jews in the world today insofar as their public actions may be affected by their reasoning on this. With savage irony, it does appear that genetically, modern Palestinians are the world’s closest descendants of ancient Israelites. ABM
Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could make him the most powerful president in history by using an obscure Constitutional theory to enact his vision of presidential authority.
The new order seeks to ‘reign in independent agencies’ by seizing various departments that normally act in accordance with Congress and bring them under control of the executive branch in the White House.
The order also states that the president and attorney general will interpret the law, leaving Trump free from Congressional and judicial oversight.
Observers suggest that Trump is using unitary executive theory which grants the president a wide swath of authority.
The conservative theory argues that Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which delineates presidential powers, gives the president sole authority over all the executive branch’s officials and employees.
The unitary executive theory also claims the president has robust powers to override Congressional oversight on restrictions such as the ability to fire the heads of independent agencies.
Trump’s new executive order grants him power over various agencies such as The Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Trump’s first term proved the need for something like this. I support a strong presidency as long as Trump is in charge and as long as he does what needs to be done — clean the corruption, treason and woke rot out of the government. The NSA should already have detailed information on the gigantic parasite which has infested our government and nation. Whether Trump eradicates this parasite quietly or openly with fanfare, I do not care. I just want it gone. We live in an age of very rapid technological development. I believe it is best to face it straight on and use technology for the best as defined by American law and Western values. I trust Trump to be able to do this more than any other president in living memory. The choice before our nation today is do-or-die, as I see it. ABN
The Trump administration is experiencing an unprecedented move by federal judges who are overstepping their constitutional limits and ordering Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) against President Trump. The judicial activism is in support of ongoing Lawfare operations within the deepest ranks of the administrative state.
Remember, Lawfare in its purest form is not designed to win the final legal battle. Instead, it is a construct to use the law to create obstacles that will eventually fall under higher judicial review; but the larger intent is to impede the presidency, stall the inevitable, and maintain morale for the political activists and their media support systems. Lawfare is a political construct intended to manipulate public opinion.
In the Dellinger v Bessent case, where President Trump has fired Hampton Dellinger at Treasury, a three-judge District of Columbia, Circuit Court, have intervened and maintained a TRO against President Trump blocking him from removing Dellinger from his position as Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel, at the Treasury Dept. [CASE pdf HERE]
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C. issued a temporary restraining order on February 12, restoring Dellinger to his position pending a further, preliminary order. The District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the administration’s appeal in a 2-1 decision on Saturday, saying it was premature, given that Jackson’s order was only temporary.
Judge Florence Pan and Judge J Michelle Childs, both activist robed women, ruled to maintain the TRO and deny injunctive appellate relief. Judge Gregory Katsas dissented from the Lawfare decision saying while TRO’s are not usually appealable, in this instance the TRO violates the Article II constitutional power of the President to conduct his official duties. [Dissent Outlined Below] Katsas would have granted the government’s stay.
Regardless of the DC Circuit Court decision, Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris has now filed an “APPLICATION TO VACATE THE ORDER ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND REQUEST FOR AN IMMEDIATE ADMINISTRATIVE STAY” with the Supreme Court. [pdf HERE] The application by Acting SG Harris relies heavily on the dissenting opinion of Judge Katsas.
Before getting to the dissent opinion which frames the application to the Supreme Court, it is worth noting that President Trump’s Solicitor General nominee, Dean Sauer, is still in limbo. In fact, the Senate Judiciary Committee has taken NO ACTION since receiving the nomination from President Trump on January 20, 2025. SEE HERE and SEE HERE
Considering that President Trump is under a Lawfare assault that will inevitably lead all the cases to the United States Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has taken no action toward the confirmation of Solicitor General Dean Sauer.
This is not accidental.
The U.S. Solicitor General is the fourth highest ranking member within the Dept of Justice. The task of the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) is to supervise and conduct government litigation in the United States Supreme Court. All Supreme Court litigation is channeled through the Office of the Solicitor General and is actively conducted by the Office. The United States government is involved in approximately two-thirds of all the cases the U.S. Supreme Court decides each year.
Senator Chuck Grassley well understands the importance of Solicitor General Sauer during this critical time. However, Senator Grassley is also in direct opposition to President Trump on the issue of tariffs.
Chuck Grassley receives major funding for his personal wealth from Big Ag and multinational lobbyists. Grassley is intentionally slow walking the OSG nomination in order to impede President Trump and support the Lawfare efforts against him.
Grassley, like most of the republican Senators in the upper chamber, are ideologically and financially opposed to President Trump agenda. MAGA supporters need to understand exactly what is happening in the background.
NeverTrumpers are praising Danielle Sassoon for resigning from the DOJ’s Southern District New York rather than comply with the new DOJ policy against weaponized investigations and prosecutions. Usually they emphasize her affiliations … a few quick thoughts…
1) if you do not want to comply with a policy, the right thing to do is resign. I don’t know why she said nothing as DOJ did Russiagate, false FISA warrants, cartoonish overprosecution of J6ers, Mar-a-Lago raid, refusing to enforce border laws, etc. but nevertheless, if she wanted to continue what had been deemed a political prosecution, she can resign.
UPDATE: I hope this means he is going to eradicate the parasite. It is a very strong statement. Saving our country requires eradicating the parasite. ABN
I have written about the Trump Doctrine for several years; however, as we enter this critical inflection moment perhaps a revisit is worthwhile to consider.
What you will notice from President Trump’s responses to questions during foreign leader engagements is the unique nature of his honesty. In the most consequential of ways, President Trump is the most consequential foreign policy leader in generations. We forget that during Trump’s first term in office, the headlines about North and South Korea were not about conflict, but rather about the possibility of unification on the Korean peninsula.
President Trump executes a unique doctrine of sorts, where national security is achieved by leveraging U.S. economic power. It is a fundamental shift in approaching both allies and adversaries; summarized within the oft repeated phrase: “economic security is national security.”
The Trump Doctrine using economics to achieve national security objectives and global peace is a fundamental paradigm shift. Modern U.S. history provides no easy reference for the effective outcome.
President Trump doesn’t just represent an office or title, nor does he simply represent the majority of the American people; President Trump’s voice is the voice of every ordinary person, what the non-English speaking world defines as “simple people,” and he channels a global message from the majority to the top of the highest power structures.
[I highly recommend this article. It provides a clear summary of Trump’s politics and why they are the way they are; why he does what he does. ABN]
This is lawyerese I can get behind. Habba rips DC politicians a new one. Clearly stated, savage takedown; just what we voted for and want. Looks like we are going to see real prosecutions coming from this. ABN
UPDATE: Terrific speech, right on the money. If Vance can keep this up and follow through with decisive action, I will be impressed. He’s an excellent rhetorician but in politics words only mean so much. Let’s see what happens. We have to closely watch every potential MAGA candidate who might take over after Trump. Vance is high on the list. He appears to not be another Mike Pence. Speaking of traitors, at least some of the main actors who threw open our border under Biden and lied about it need to be held accountable. Some of their crimes were as serious as they get. You were in charge of protecting but did the opposite and used citizens tax money to pay for your perfidy. Basically, you acted like a general in a foreign army at war with USA. ABN
On Trade, I have decided, for purposes of Fairness, that I will charge a RECIPROCAL Tariff meaning, whatever Countries charge the United States of America, we will charge them – No more, no less!
For purposes of this United States Policy, we will consider Countries that use the VAT System, which is far more punitive than a Tariff, to be similar to that of a Tariff. Sending merchandise, product, or anything by any other name through another Country, for purposes of unfairly harming America, will not be accepted. In addition, we will make provision for subsidies provided by Countries in order to take Economic advantage of the United States. Likewise, provisions will be made for Nonmonetary Tariffs and Trade Barriers that some Countries charge in order to keep our product out of their domain or, if they do not even let U.S. businesses operate. We are able to accurately determine the cost of these Nonmonetary Trade Barriers. It is fair to all, no other Country can complain and, in some cases, if a Country feels that the United States would be getting too high a Tariff, all they have to do is reduce or terminate their Tariff against us. There are no Tariffs if you manufacture or build your product in the United States.
For many years, the U.S. has been treated unfairly by other Countries, both friend and foe. This System will immediately bring Fairness and Prosperity back into the previously complex and unfair System of Trade. America has helped many Countries throughout the years, at great financial cost. It is now time that these Countries remember this, and treat us fairly – A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR AMERICAN WORKERS. I have instructed my Secretary of State, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of the Treasury, and United States Trade Representative (USTR) to do all work necessary to deliver RECIPROCITY to our System of Trade!
President Donald Trump has begun firing the remaining federal prosecutors appointed by Joe Biden.
In addition, by removing remaining Biden appointees, Trump is paving the way for a new emphasis within the prosecution system, such as the removal of illegal immigrants.
Since the Bill Clinton era, it has been routine for incoming presidents to fire the previous administration’s federal prosecutors, known as U.S. attorneys.
There are 93 attorneys general that cover all areas of the U.S. They oversee all federal prosecutions in their district.
The sources told Bloomberg that the firings were relayed in a one-sentence message informing the U.S. attorneys that they had been terminated, effective immediately, at the direction of President Donald J. Trump.
Bloomberg also reported that exiting U.S. attorneys were given two days to explain why staff lawyers they have hired in recent years should be retained by the Trump administration.
The White House has especially targeted staff lawyers who prosecuted Trump supporters for taking part in the January 6, 2021 gathering at the Capitol.
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