President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order as early as this week that would demand D.C. authorities clean up homeless camps and reduce crime.

Crimes mentioned in the executive order to receive harsher penalties include violent crimes involving guns and petty crimes like public urination, The Washington Post reported. The White House is in talks with the office of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, regarding what is contained in the order.

The directive would also reinstate an executive order Trump signed in 2020 that protected national monuments in particular, focusing on federal parks run by the National Park Service, the Post reported.

“It’s hard to argue with the Park Service doing more to help the city,” D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, a Democrat, told the Post. “Although the federal government needs to follow that up with resources that the Park Service would need.”

Crime decreased in D.C. in 2024 compared to 2023, a particularly violent year, but there are questions about the District’s crime reporting methods. The Metropolitan Police of Washington, D.C. (MPDC)’s reported crime data does not include “crime totals as reported to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System”, which itself has reporting issues.

Still, the MPDC’s website shows that homicides are on the rise in 2025 compared to this point in 2024 – seeing a 57% increase.

Trump has derided D.C. as a crime-ridden city, but on some issues, he and Bowser appear to be aligned, the Post reported, including a more aggressive approach to crime and increased resources for law enforcement.

“We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it and rebuild our capital city so there is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime,” Trump said on the campaign trail last year.

Axios reported that the White House has been reaching out to members of the D.C. community to find individuals who have been victims of violent crimes to attend an event on Friday, which could be the signing of the executive order.

The Post, meanwhile, expressed concerns that Trump could take away some of D.C.’s ability to govern itself, with two Republican members of Congress recently introducing a bill that would repeal “home rule” – giving the federal government more control over how D.C. operates.

New Jersey’s two Democratic senators on Sunday suggested their party could shut down the federal government to stop President Donald Trump from cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in government programs.

Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim told different news agencies that Democrats could refuse to pass a new spending bill by March 14.

“We are in a crisis right now, and Democrats will use every tool possible to protect Americans,” Booker said on CNN, according to The New York Times.

Kim suggested similar action on NBC, saying that if Democrats refused to pass a spending bill, they would blame it on Trump and Republicans by saying it was in opposition to spending cuts.

“I would be the last person to want to get to that stage,” Mr. Kim said of a possible government shutdown. “But we are at a point where we are basically on the cusp of a constitutional crisis.”

Shutting down the federal government could backfire on Democrats in a big way, however, as the government doesn’t fully shut down in such a situation. Essential services – like social security checks – continue to be disbursed, but every employee deemed “non-essential” is sent home. During the government shutdown in 2013, Americans discovered that just 6.6% of EPA employees were considered essential, for example. Citizens Against Government Waste also reported in 2013 that, on the whole, some 800,000 federal employees were deemed “non-essential” and put on furlough. “Essential” employees are determined to be those whose responsibilities include protecting public health, safety, or property. As CAGW wrote, by “allowing agencies to deem certain employees ‘non-essential,’ the government concedes that many employees are not vital to the agency’s mission.”

The government shut down twice during Trump’s first administration, once in January 2018 and again in late 2018/early 2019.

With Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) program auditing the federal government and looking for ways to cut spending, labeling government employees as “essential” or “non-essential” could be seen as putting a giant target on the backs of hundreds of thousands of employees.

The legality of Trump’s ability to reorganize the executive branch is a matter for the courts, and Democrats are certainly willing to use the legal system to keep government funds flowing, no matter how absurd the spending. As The Daily Wire reported, some of that spending went to DEI in Serbia, a DEI musical in Ireland, a “transgender opera” in Colombia, and a “transgender comic book” in Peru.

President Donald Trump’s interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia published a letter to Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees on Friday, vowing to take action against anyone who threatens them.

“Thank you for the referral of individuals and networks who appear to be stealing government property and/or threatening government employees,” attorney Ed Martin wrote in the letter. “After your referral, as is my practice, I will begin an inquiry.”

“Please let me reiterate again: If people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will investigate them and we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable,” Martin continued (emphasis original). “We will not rest or cease in this. No one should abuse American taxpayer dollars nor American taxpayer workers. [No one] is above the Law.”

Follow up.
Sent only via X: to ⁦@elonmusk⁩ pic.twitter.com/FVO7pDFf3Q

— Ed Martin (@EagleEdMartin) February 7, 2025

The letter on Friday comes after Martin sent a similar letter to Musk on Monday after meeting with the DOGE team over the weekend.

“I recognize that some of the staff at DOGE has been targeted publicly,” Martin wrote in the earlier letter. “At this time, I ask that you utilize me and my staff to assist in protecting the DOGE work and the DOGE workers. Any threats, confrontations, or other actions in any way that impact their work may break numerous laws.”

In that letter, Martin assured Musk that he would “pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people.” He also added that he would “not act like the previous administration who looked the other way as the Antifa and BLM rioters as well as thugs with guns trashed our capital city.”

Dear @elon, Please see this important letter. We will not tolerate threats against DOGE workers or law-breaking by the disgruntled. All the best. Ed Martin pic.twitter.com/jIgMPVbPT5

— Ed Martin (@EagleEdMartin) February 3, 2025

The first letter was met with backlash from various organizations, including the ACLU-District of Columbia.” The ACLU-DC sent a letter to Martin saying that he could “prosecute unlawful threats” but couldn’t “use the power of the State to punish or suppress disfavored expression.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), along with other organizations, also sent a letter to Martin raising concerns about his vows to punish those who work against DOGE.

“Threatening to prosecute First Amendment speech and activity is not only at odds with the U.S. Constitution, it is also entirely inconsistent with Musk’s own stated principles and the right of the American people to know what the government is up to,” FIRE wrote.

A grant from the National Science Foundation went to George Washington University to police so-called misinformation and harassment online.

The grant, which began in September 2022, allocated $5 million to GWU to address “the links between two significant problems impacting trust in contemporary communications systems: (1) The broad and rapid spread of misinformation and (2) abuse and harassment directed at members of expert communities,” the grant summary says.

“Misinformation-driven harassment campaigns have particularly large impacts on those at the forefront of efforts to accurately inform the public, including journalists, scientists, and public health officials,” the grant continues. “As a result, this harassment undermines confidence in pivotal sources of knowledge and reduces expert participation in the information ecosystem.”

The grant provides no examples of what “misinformation” needs to be corrected, what “harassment” took place, or even which “experts” were being harassed.

Given the timing of the grant, it is likely that the “misinformation” being targeted was the same “misinformation” the Biden administration warned against: Conservatives pointing out facts with which the Left disagrees. For example, for years the idea that the COVID-19 virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China was considered misinformation, yet now it is the dominating theory about where the virus originated. Combatting misinformation has always been less about actual misinformation and more about censorship.

In November, The Daily Wire reported that the Biden administration spent at least $267 million on research grants to combat “misinformation,” but the administration itself promoted misinformation.

Likewise, “harassment” has also meant criticism of “experts” anointed by the Left – who also agree with Leftist policies such as endless masking, rather than the doctors who spoke out against such policies.

A Daily Wire inquiry to George Washington University went unanswered prior to press time.

The grant to GWU went to creating “a socio-technical system that provides real-time support to experts experiencing online harassment” and would focus on “journalists” in the beginning, but expand to others.

The system would include: “(1) personalized assistance with digital safety and security, (2) support monitoring and reporting abuse, and (3) help identifying and building a community care system.”

That community care system would be “[g]rounded in best practices from trauma-informed care,” which has also been weaponized in certain situations. For example, colleges and universities use “trauma-informed care” to insist women claiming to be the victims of sexual assault are telling the truth because they exhibit the actions of some other women who have been victims. That translates into absurd levels of belief, including insisting that women who lie about details of the alleged encounter or continue to send loving messages to their alleged attacker are only doing so out of trauma.

Cancel culture — the practice of ruining someone’s career for not sufficiently adhering to Leftist principles — appears to be dying after decades of victimizing innocent people.

In what seems to be the first attempted cancelation of the new Trump administration, Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) announced on Wednesday that it was removing author Devon Eriksen’s book from consideration for an award. The SPSFC said that it made the decision because Eriksen violated the competition’s code of conduct — which had been published to X the day before this announcement.

“We apologize for the extended delay and radio silence. Devon Eriksen has been removed from the SPSFC effective immediately for violation of our code of conduct,” the SPSFC posted on X.

We apologize for the extended delay and radio silence. Devon Eriksen has been removed from the SPSFC effective immediately for violation of our code of conduct.

— The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (@theSPSFC) February 4, 2025

Eriksen is the author of “Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1,” a popular self-published book that has received glowing reviews, including one from the creator of Doom. He didn’t even enter the book into the competition; his wife did, thinking she might surprise him if he won. After seeing that he had been booted from the competition, he published a fictional account of learning that he had been entered into a competition without his knowledge and had somehow violated that competition’s code of conduct, which he never agreed to.

I was walking down the sidewalk the other day, relishing how warm weather comes early in Tennessee, when a weird little goblin with big eyes and floppy green ears jumped out of the bushes in front of me.

“You’re banned from the competition!” he proclaimed, with a self-satisfied… https://t.co/lRyhWclpXh pic.twitter.com/sgya1ote7I

— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) February 4, 2025

That code of conduct stated that contestants could not harass judges or other authors, which Devon didn’t do — and couldn’t do — since he didn’t even know he was entered. But one of the judges posted on Bluesky, in a message provided to The Daily Wire, that even though Eriksen “didn’t directly contact judges or other authors,” his posts were “driving away judges, authors and prospective contestants/members in huge numbers.”

The background on the situation was first reported by Jon Del Arroz on his Fandom Pulse Substack and was explained to The Daily Wire by Eriksen’s wife, Christine.

The SPSFC competition has been around for a few years and is currently in its fourth iteration. Nearly 200 books from independent authors are submitted and divided among various reviewers, each reviewing around 30 books. Each group then selects around four books as quarter-finalists, reads those four books, and selects two semi-finalists. Eventually, the list is narrowed down, and a winner is selected. There is no cash prize, but it allows the authors to collect reviews and publicity. According to Christine, Eriksen’s book had been selected as a quarter-finalist and was the only author to receive a “strong yes” in his batch.

After dozens of authors had been cut, at least one began complaining about Eriksen’s inclusion in the competition based on his numerous blog posts and tweets, which contain comments about immigration and transgenderism that frequently offend the Left. Dozens of people on Bluesky and the SPSFC discord started calling Eriksen a “nazi” for his posts and published some screenshots of them on Reddit along with a summary of the situation at the SPSFC.

Following the prolonged outcry, the SPSFC put together a code of conduct and then used it to boot Eriksen from the competition. But the code of conduct claims that its “goal is not to eradicate these ‘bad’ opinions” and that they are “not here to police people’s opinions,” they do just that after claiming Eriksen’s posts amount to “hate speech” and “backwards attitudes.”

Eriksen was not the only author targeted. E.J. Fisch, author of “Dakiti: Ziva Payvan Book 1,” who wasn’t even part of the SPSFC competition, spoke out against the handling of Eriksen and quickly saw her book dropped out of a promotion that is reportedly being run by one of the authors involved in the mob against Eriksen.

lol welp pic.twitter.com/2FBwiZgQFP

— EJ Fisch (@EJFisch) February 6, 2025

The announcement that Eriksen was booted from the competition was met with immediate backlash, with many other authors pulling their books from the competition.

Moe Lane, whose book “Ghosts of an Alien Wind” was in the competition, asked the organizers to remove his book from consideration, though his reasoning is unclear. His announcement was posted on the Discord for the competition and was shared with The Daily Wire. Other authors were more explicit about why they asked for their books to be removed from the competition.

Gregory Michael, author of “Chloe’s Kingdom,” asked for his book to be removed because “free speech is crucial.”

“Removal of [Devon Eriksen] over politics is upsetting,” Michael wrote on X. “Theft of Fire was likely the best book in the competition … I don’t agree with everything Devon tweets, but free speech is crucial. Please remove Chloe’s Kingdom [SPSFC]. Heist novels need to stick together.”

Removal of @Devon_Eriksen_ over politics is upsetting. Theft of Fire was likely the best book in the competition … I don’t agree with everything Devon tweets, but free speech is crucial. Please remove Chloe’s Kingdom @theSPSFC

Heist novels need to stick together 🚀💰 https://t.co/kVnKpMeJ6R

— Gregory Michael (@_GregoryMichael) February 4, 2025

G.S. Jennsen, author of “The Thief,” posted a lengthy letter on X outlining why she wanted her book removed from the competition as well.

“I have gone out of my way to steer clear of politics out of respect for all of my readers, no matter the issue or side, and I hope my actions today continue to reflect that commitment,” Jennsen wrote. “I don’t necessarily agree with the politics or public statements of the author whose book was removed from the competition. But I do disagree with both the book’s removal and what this action says about the leadership of SPSFC4.”

In light of recent events, I am withdrawing THE THIEF, which is currently a Quarterfinalist in @theSPSFC , from further consideration in the competition. More below.#SPSFC https://t.co/Hm1NEXTwPl pic.twitter.com/qMtYUjgHwq

— G. S. Jennsen (@GSJennsen) February 5, 2025

Jennsen also noted that since her book was being judged in the same group as Eriksen’s, “any future success that my book might have enjoyed would be tainted by the stain of this controversy.”

C.R. Walton, author of “Wilderness Five,” also noted that Eriksen’s removal had nothing to do with his actions relating to the competition, writing that the decision to drop him was “very clearly just caving to a hateful mob that hates the guy.” Walton also asked that his entry be removed from the competition.

As some other authors, I’m distancing myself from @theSPSFC for its aggressive termination of @Devon_Eriksen_ for thoughts expressed on his own media channels completely unrelated to the competition.

No specifics of the violation are even given. It is very clearly just caving… https://t.co/XZkeHlzzup

— C. R. Walton (Scientist & Author) (@lithologuy) February 5, 2025

Zachary Forbes requested his book, “Slipspace: Terra Nullius” be removed from the competition as well, also writing a lengthy X post about how the SPSFC’s recently-introduced code of conduct “was done hastily and sloppily, left intentionally vague, for the sole purpose of banning one particular contestant.”

Personal announcement in regards to SPSFC

The left image below is an objective analysis of the their new ‘code of conduct’, written 2 (two) days ago…

It’s clear from any lens that this was done hastily and sloppily, left intentionally vague, for the sole purpose of banning one… https://t.co/pF7NVucixb pic.twitter.com/vnnbY3hDfV

— Zach Forbes (@ZachForbesBro) February 5, 2025

Steve Gavin also requested his book “Cosmic Strife Assault” be removed from competition, writing a short post on X calling the situation involving Eriksen a “mess.”

Thank you to the @theSPSFC judges and reviewers. I have watched the mess from afar and the disqual of @Devon_Eriksen_ and the CoC. This is not a political statement. Please remove my book from consideration in this contest. I wish everyone else the best of luck. pic.twitter.com/Bcf6zj8T6j

— Steve Gavin (@stevegavin09) February 5, 2025

Grace Walker publicly distanced herself from the SPSFC, seeking to have her book, “ASH (Rogues: Legends Book 1),” removed from the competition as well.

“Hot take: books should be judged by their quality, not by their authors,” Walker wrote, adding that she doesn’t “have to agree with everything someone says to support their right to free speech.”

Hot take: books should be judged by their quality, not by their authors.

On that note, I’d like to formally disassociate myself from the SPSFC & offer my support to those doing the same.

I don’t have to agree with everything someone says to support their right to free speech. https://t.co/Ig7UdgYs8y

— Grace Walker 📚🪐 (@gwalkerauthor) February 5, 2025

Danielle Ste. Just also cut ties with the SPSFC, although her book, “The Disk Mirror Solution (Galaxia Mortem Book 1),” had already been cut from the competition.

“As a science fiction author, I want to concentrate on writing science fiction people will fall in love with, not on passing a purity test whose requirements are only known to the gatekeepers,” Ste. Just wrote on X.

Watching the #SPSFC controversy over the past couple days has been disheartening.

As a science fiction author, I want to concentrate on writing science fiction people will fall in love with, not on passing a purity test whose requirements are only known to the gatekeepers.
1/4

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) February 6, 2025

Haldane B. Doyle, author of “Our Vitreous Womb,” announced he was also withdrawing from the competition, thanking the volunteer judges but saying he only wants “to participate in indie sci fi competitions that judge the books and not the authors, regardless of the criteria applied.”

I am officially withdrawing “Our Vitreous Womb” from the #SPSFC competition. I’m deeply appreciative of the volunteer judges @theSPSFC , but I only want to participate in indie sci fi competitions that judge the books and not the authors, regardless of the criteria applied.

— zeroinputagriculture (@zeroinputag) February 6, 2025

Even one of the competition’s judging teams decided to pull out of the competition — not because they agreed with what Eriksen had said — but because of how SPSFC handled the situation.

The eight authors — other than Ste. Just — who have so far withdrawn from the competition were quarterfinalists, meaning they had already advanced over about 30 other competitors in each of their respective judging groups.

Eric Kay, author of “Above Dark Waters,” wrote on X that his book had already been cut, but questioned why the people behind the competition couldn’t just cut Eriksen and write a nice review for his book, as they had done for Kay’s book.

“Because they wanted to make an example and keep purity and ‘do something’ above sense,” Kay wrote.

I was in the competition and was already cut. Why couldn’t they simply cut Devon at the Quarterfinals and write a nice review like below?

Because they wanted to make an example and keep purity and ‘do something’ above sense. pic.twitter.com/Nl1XjTathb

— Eric Kay (Hard Sci-Fi) (@Eric_K_PNW) February 7, 2025

The idea that fellow competitors would drop out of a competition in solidarity with one of their own is almost unheard of when it comes to these types of cancelations and shows the ideology of “cancel culture” may no longer be tolerated.

Christine Eriksen wrote on X that “cancelations are canceled” and pointed out that her husband’s book has had one of its best sales days to date.

Cancelations are ✨C A N C E L E D✨

A big thank you to everyone who’s shown support for @Devon_Eriksen_‘s unfair treatment in this. I was excited to submit Theft of Fire to a fun little competition, but when they created a CoC explicity to appease a mob and kick him out? 😭 https://t.co/jp57ZK5lMw pic.twitter.com/QIg4uANEXD

— Christine Eriksen (@AnEriksenWife) February 5, 2025

Other authors who dropped out of the competition said they had seen an increase in sales. Michael, who was the first to withdraw from the competition, noted that “Chloe’s Kingdom” was now #1 on Amazon, “not from winning a competition – but for standing up for free speech. Doing the right thing feels good.”

CHLOE’S KINGDOM is #1 on Amazon! 🚀 Not from winning a competition—but for standing up for free speech. Doing the right thing feels good.

To my new readers, I can’t wait for your thoughts & reviews! Oh, and did I mention there’s a raccoon? 🦝 pic.twitter.com/SPS0YGhdjw

— Gregory Michael (@_GregoryMichael) February 6, 2025

In a post shared with The Daily Wire, John A. Douglas, author of “The Black Crown,” commented that the SPSFC doesn’t “fully understand the schism kicking Devon out has caused in the indie author spaces.”

“DevonGate is a seismic shift in the indie landscape,” Douglas added. “And he didn’t even DO anything!’

Updated to include another author who dropped out, and another who had been cut but questioned the competition’s decision against Eriksen.

Three former University of Pennsylvania women’s swimmers have filed a lawsuit over biological males being allowed to use female locker rooms and participate in their competitions.

The students, who have since graduated, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday against their university, Harvard University, the Ivy League Council of Presidents, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The lawsuit is based on their experience with teammate Lia Thomas, a former male swimmer who started identifying as a woman and dominating female competitions.

The lawsuit, filed by Grace Estabrook, Margo Kaczorowski, and Ellen Holmquist, with support from the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), was provided exclusively to Fox News and has been reviewed by The Daily Wire. The women are seeking damages for “pain and suffering, mental and emotional distress, suffering and anxiety, expenses costs” and more for the institutions allowing Thomas and other trans-identifying men into women’s spaces and competitions, which they say violated their rights under Title IX. Title IX is a federal statute that prohibits discrimination based on sex, and was initially created to ensure women have equal opportunities for sports.

But over the past decade, schools have allowed biological men to self-identify into women’s sports, taking hundreds of medals from women.

The three women now suing have argued that being forced to change clothes in front of Thomas, who still has male genitalia, left them “repeatedly emotionally traumatized.” It can take around 30 minutes for a competitive swimmer to get into their skintight swimsuits, meaning the women had to spend at least that much time in a vulnerable position in front of a biological man, who was also changing.

“The UPenn administrators told the women that if anyone was struggling with accepting Thomas’s participation on the UPenn Women’s team, they should seek counseling and support from [UPenn’s student wellness center] and the LBGTQ center,” the lawsuit says.

“The administrators also invited the women to a talk titled, ‘Trans 101.’ Thus, the women were led to understand that UPenn’s position was that if a woman on the team had any problem with a trans-identifying male being on her team that woman had a psychological problem and needed counseling,” the lawsuit added.

The former swimmers also allege that the administrators told them not to publicly speak out about the situation, or risk consequences.

“The UPenn administrators went on to tell the women that if the women spoke publicly about their concerns about Thomas’ participation on the Women’s Team, the reputation of those complaining about Thomas being on the team would be tainted with transphobia for the rest of their lives and they would probably never be able to get a job,’” the lawsuit says.

The women are suing Harvard as well as UPenn because Harvard hosted the NCAA women’s championship, where Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, and 400-yard freestyle relay as a senior.

Thomas has continued to fight to be allowed to compete against biological women, even attempting to be allowed to compete in elite women’s races post-college, but a legal challenge was denied last year, The Daily Wire reported.

On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order to keep biological men out of women’s sports.

A prominent ethics watchdog has filed an IRS complaint against two organizations affiliated with failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, The Daily Wire has learned.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a nonprofit that promotes ethics and transparency in government, filed the complaint against the New Georgia Project (NGP) and its lobbying arm, the New Georgia Project Action Fund (NGPAF). Abrams founded NGP, which was meant to register new voters, in 2013, when she was still in the Georgia House of Representatives.

Abrams left the organization in 2017, leaving it to Raphael Warnock, who left when he was elected to the United States Senate.

Because of its 501(c)(3) status, NGP is “absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office,” according to the IRS. The NGPAF, as a 501(c)(4), must not engage in political activity as its primary activity and must be “operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare,” which it can do by “promoting in some way the common good and general welfare of the people of the community,” according to IRS statute.

“Federal law is very clear and strict in that when an organization receives the benefits of nonprofit status, those running it are absolutely prohibited from using it as a political campaign organization,” said FACT Executive Director Kendra Arnold. “This is a straightforward case because the nonprofits admitted to raising and spending millions of dollars for campaigns.”

FACT wrote in its complaint letter to the outgoing IRS commissioner that a recent case before the Georgia State Ethics Commission established that NGP and its lobbying arm engaged in campaign activity on behalf of Abrams during her failed 2018 gubernatorial bid, as well as other candidates.

“[A]dvocating for Representative Stacey Abrams’ election for Governor of the State of Georgia during the primary and general election, also with Sarah Riggs-Amico, John Barrow, and Charlie Bailey and other state wide candidates for public office during the general election,” case documents say, according to FACT. “These expenditures included, but were not limited to canvassing activities, literature expressly advocating for the election of candidates, social media engagement, and operating field offices with paid staff where those electioneering activities were organized.”

The Georgia State Ethics Commission found that NGP and NGPAF violated multiple state laws, and the organizations admitted to these violations. The committee found that the organizations failed to disclose more than $4 million in campaign contributions and another $3 million in expenditures during the 2018 election cycle.

The organizations agreed to pay a $300,000 fine for those violations, NBC News reported in mid-January.

Following the fine, dozens of people have been laid off from the organizations, Fox News reported.

Now, FACT wants an IRS investigation into the organizations.

“The illegal nature of this extensive activity also demonstrates that New Georgia Project Action Fund’s primary purpose was political activity,” the organization wrote in its complaint. “As established in the State Ethics case, the groups are not acting in accordance with federal law and we respectfully request the IRS investigate this matter fully and, if appropriate, revoke the organizations’ status as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) and (4) organizations and impose financial penalties.”

NGP did not immediately respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.

READ THE FULL FACT LETTER HERE

A recent fire at one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities poisoned a vital nature reserve in Northern California.

High levels of nickel, manganese, and cobalt were found in the soil within 2 miles of the Vistra Moss Landing Power Plant and Energy Storage Facility, KQED reported, citing measurements taken by scientists at San Jose State University. Those heavy metals were found in soil samples shortly after the facility caught fire on January 16.

The fire burned for several days, NBC Bay Area reported, and noted that the increase in toxic metals related to baseline measurements that had been conducted prior to the fire. Initially, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under then-President Joe Biden, along with local authorities, claimed the fire at the energy storage facility released no toxins.

Local officials said they didn’t detect higher levels of pollutants, KQED reported, and a company hired by the power facility also found no evidence of heightened toxic metals. A Facebook group of nearly 3,000 people in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, however, contains allegations that people are suffering from headaches, sore throats, nausea, and other conditions they believe are linked to the fire.

Dr. Ivano Aiello, the chair of San José State’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, told KQED that his lab tested soil within two miles of the Elkhorn Slough nature preserve and found that samples from around 100 locations showed concentrations of three toxic heavy metals hundreds of times higher than before the fire. He noted that the fire caused the increase in findings because the heavy metals were only found in the top layer of soil, suggesting they were recent.

“They are clearly the type of material from a battery, so you can link directly the occurrence increasing of this toxic heavy metal to the source, which is a battery,” he told the outlet. “The line of evidence from a scientific perspective is pretty solid. There’s no other explanation as to why before the concentrations were much lower and now are much higher, and those elements are linked to those nanoparticles.”

Though local outlets have covered the story, it has not received national attention, possibly because the facility was used to store solar power during the day and provide it to consumers in the evening. Had the facility been a nuclear power plant, the story would likely have become international news.

Today, however, the same voices who would otherwise oppose nuclear power for the threat it poses to crops and nature are silent about their preferred energy source causing damage to the surrounding area.

Two anonymous federal workers filed a lawsuit during the first week of the Trump administration to stop the implementation of a new email distribution system that would send communications to the entire civilian federal workforce.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has been testing a system allowing Trump administration officials to send emails to 2.3 million federal employees at once, the agency’s website announced. The announcement was posted on January 23, just two days after President Donald Trump was inaugurated.

Bloomberg Law reported that the feature would allow senior members of the Trump administration “to communicate directly with staff across the government, rather than relying on managers to distribute information.” It could help communicate the administration’s orders more clearly and cut down on malicious compliance, where federal agencies target popular and necessary programs to make the administration look bad.

A recent example is Trump’s pause on certain federal spending, specifically focusing on “ending DEI, the green new deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations that undermine the national interest.” The pause specifically exempted programs like Social Security and Medicare, but Democrats and their media allies insisted those programs were being targeted and that the most vulnerable of citizens were being targeted.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), for example, claimed “Trump shut off Medicaid” because the website portal went down following his announcement.

It is unclear why the portal went down, but White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt immediately issued a statement saying, “No payments have been affected – they are still being processed and sent.”

The pause on such funding has been blocked by a federal judge anyway, The Daily Wire reported.

The two workers who filed the lawsuit to stop the all-staff emails argue that the feature could violate privacy laws and that the OPM must first conduct a review to see how the system collects personal information.

The lawsuit seems to stem from a Reddit post where a self-described OPM employee claimed that incoming political appointees have “sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov’t employees” and that the information must be sent to a woman who works for Elon Musk, who heads up Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency and is attempting to streamline the federal government and cut wasteful spending. The lawsuit provides no evidence this is actually the case.

The lawsuit further argues that such a system could be open to hacking, without remembering that OPM was hacked in 2015 during the Obama administration, and nearly 22 million people inside and outside the federal government had their personal information stolen.

Almost every business in America has the ability to send all-staff emails and no one has thought to sue over privacy concerns. The argument that the government needs to go through a bureaucratic process just to send an email was also mocked online. Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle said the lawsuit was “playing into Trump’s hands.”

“‘My employer, the Federal government, can’t mass email me until there has been a systematic bureaucratic review of how much information the Federal government, which employs me, will need to send the emails’ is not a valid complaint, and if this actually works, it would 100% justify blowing up the bureaucracy and replacing it with people who aren’t idiots,” McArdle posted on X.

C’mon, guys, this is just playing into Trump’s hands. “My employer, the Federal government, can’t mass email me until there has been a systematic bureaucratic review of how much information the Federal government, which employs me, will need to send the emails” is not a valid… https://t.co/Rf2l7XZAVB

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) January 29, 2025

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With President Donald Trump following through on his campaign promise to deport illegal immigrants, the media and left-wing politicians have begun a campaign to turn the American people against the administration.

The latest example comes from Chicago Public Schools (CPS), which falsely claimed on Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had shown up at Hamline Elementary School but were denied entrance, ABC 7 reported. The federal officials were actually from the U.S. Secret Service and investigating a threat.

Before the truth came out – and even after – Democrats accused the Trump administration of conducting “raids” on elementary schools. Hamline Elementary School principal Natasha Ortega released a statement saying, “We will not open our doors for ICE, and we are here to protect our children and make sure they have access to an excellent education.”

Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker repeated the false accusation on X, calling the situation “cruel” even though it never happened.

“After a week of Republicans sowing fear and chaos, the first reports of raids in Chicago are at an elementary school,” Pritzker posted. “Targeting children and separating families is cruel and un-American.”

Alderman Raymond Lopez justified the false information after it was revealed ICE wasn’t involved by saying, “This scenario is precisely what I was fighting so hard to avoid with my colleagues on the City Council this past month: giving immigration officials an excuse to come into our communities.”

Fox News’ Bill Melugin noted that it appeared no one spreading the false information had reached out to the Department of Homeland Security or ICE, saying that both denied that ICE agents came to the school or were even in the area.

In an updated announcement issued after the initial false claims spread, CPS admitted that it was Secret Service agents who had come to the school. School officials said they assumed the agents were from ICE because their identification showed they were part of the Department of Homeland Security – which also oversees the Secret Service.

“While this was a misunderstanding in terms of the specific branch of DHS, the school’s response demonstrates that our system, in partnership with community organizations, is prepared and ready to keep our students and staff safe,” CPS said in a statement published by ABC 7.

Secret Service told the outlet they were investigating a threat and had gone to a house, where they were told the person they were looking for was at the elementary school.

Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson noted after the truth came out that it is “imperative that individuals not spread unverified information that sparks fear across the city.”

Trump has barely been in office for a week, but the Left has already attempted to manufacture disapproval of the policies that got him elected. On the day of his inauguration, media outlets shared a video of a woman at the border supposedly crying because she could not gain asylum by illegally crossing the border.

So far, ICE has arrested 1,300 illegal immigrants, Border Czar Tom Homan told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo.

“Over a thousand of them are criminals. Who are the other ones? They’re either fugitives who’ve been through immigration court, have been ordered to be removed but didn’t, became a fugitive, or collaterals,” Homan told the host. “Look, I said from day one, no one’s off the table. If you’re in the United States illegally, you’ve got a problem. But we are concentrating on public safety threats first. That just makes sense.”

A teenager in Southport, England, who fatally stabbed three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class has been sentenced to life in prison.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, received his life sentence on Thursday and must serve a minimum of 52 years, meaning he will be 70 years old before he has a chance to be freed, The Guardian reported. Rudakubana was 17 when the attack took place.

The judge in this case said Rudakubana would probably “never be released and he will be in custody for all his life” following the “savage” murder of three girls and attempted murder of eight more people, including two adults who intervened to try and stop him.

The Guardian also revealed that Rudakubana’s parents had called the police on him four times in the past six months due to his behavior. In one incident, he had a knife with him on a bus, but police officers merely took him home and told his mother to keep him away from knives.

The court on Thursday also heard how Rudakubana had stabbed some of the victims dozens of times, in some cases with enough force to break their bones. He also chased some of the young girls as they ran from him. Bebe King, 6; Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7; and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9; each died due to the attack. Crown Prosecutor Deanna Heer told the court that the attack on two of the young girls could only be described as “sadistic.”

Though Judge Julian Goose said it was unlikely Rudakubana would ever be released from prison, he wasn’t sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole because he was nine days short of his 18^th birthday when he attacked the young girls in July 2024.

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Rudakubana interrupted the sentencing twice, loudly proclaiming to need medical assistance. In one incident, he claimed his “chest is hurting” and needed “to speak to a paramedic.” When the judge tried to proceed, Rudakubana interrupted him by yelling, “Don’t continue! Don’t continue! Don’t continue!” according to The Guardian.

On the day of his sentencing, the BBC released a taxi dashcam video showing Rudakubana heading to Southport prior to the attack. He refused to pay for the cab and can be seen wearing a hoodie pulled up over his head as well as a surgical mask.

Before the sentencing, Briain’s Prime Minister Kier Starmer released a statement saying a review of “our entire counter-extremist system” would occur, The BBC reported.

In the wake of the stabbing, the suspect was falsely accused of being a Muslim asylum seeker, even though he was born in Cardiff, Wales, and moved to Lancashire, England. The belief that an asylum seeker committed the vicious attack led to riots against the influx of immigrants across Britain. Those who initially believed Rudakubana was an asylum seeker believed this in part because authorities took so long to identify him, something that is typically done when a protected class commits a crime.

A male sex offender who last year claimed to be transgender has been arrested for allegedly exposing his genitals to girls in the Washington Liberty High School girls’ locker room.

Richard Kenneth Cox, 58, faces multiple charges in Arlington County, Virginia, including making an obscene display of his genitals in a public place and loitering within 100 feet of a high school after being convicted of a crime that prohibits him from being near minors, WJLA reported. Cox was a Tier III sex offender, required to be on the list for life after exposing his genitals to a child under the age of 14 in the early 1990s.

Cox was arrested at a fitness center on December 6 for trespassing and providing a false identity, Fox 5 DC reported. He also faces charges of indecent exposure and indecent liberties with children after he allegedly exposed his genitals in the women’s locker room at this fitness center on November 30 and December 2. In the December incident, Cox allegedly exposed his genitals when an adult and two children were present.

Some of his current charges also stem from an incident on October 21, 2024, when an unnamed victim entered the girls’ locker room and saw him exposing his genitals. WLHS has an inside pool that is open to the public and managed by Arlington Public Schools, WJLA reported. APS also manages pools at Wakefield High School, where Cox is also alleged to have exposed himself in October and November.

Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Francisco Durán emailed families Wednesday night, after WJLA first reported the story, and included a statement about keeping an inclusive community.

“We take the safety and trust of our community very seriously,” Durán wrote. “We are fully committed to ensuring our environments and shared spaces balance the need to welcome community members to our pools, from our youngest residents to our most senior, while also maintaining critical safety measures.”

Later in the statement, Durán added that the APS “will continue to foster an inclusive community for all, including those who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community.”

Durán also noted that the incidents “did not occur during school hours and while part of the same facility, school and pool entrances and exits are separate.”

New: The @APSVirginia Superintendent sent a message to the community in response to my reporting on a convicted child sex offender who was allowed access to an APS girl’s locker room because he identified as transgender and allegedly exposed himself to children again.

My story:… https://t.co/6380s1cQOc pic.twitter.com/itH8YMkpC9

— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) January 22, 2025

WJLA reviewed court documents and discovered that Cox announced last year that he was transgender. A woman also told the outlet that she told a manager about Cox using the girls’ locker room in September 2024 but was told Cox was allowed to use that room because he identified as transgender.

In response to a WJLA inquiry, APS said it “permits pool patrons to access restrooms and facilities that correspond to their gender identity.”

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Cox’s sex was listed as male in court documents last year but is now listed as female. In June 2024, he was charged with indecent exposure for allegedly exposing his genitals in the women’s locker room of a Planet Fitness, but that charge was dismissed for unknown reasons.

“Nudity alone is not indecent, or we could not have public locker rooms at all,” Cox wrote in a motion to dismiss the charge against him. “And the question of whether it is indecent for a transgender person to be nude in the locker room that they identify with has also been answered by our courts, our legislatures, and public opinion, and the answer is, No. So whatever it is that my accuser calls ‘indecent,’ other than the anti-trans discrimination that she harbors in her own mind, it has not been and cannot be proven to the court.”

In 1992, Cox was convicted of taking indecent liberties with children in Arlington. The charges stemmed from an incident during which Cox masturbated in front of children in a gymnasium.

In letters he wrote after the conviction obtained by WJLA, Cox acknowledged that he has “compulsions to expose myself in public places.”

Cox is currently in custody at the Arlington County Detention Facility, Fox 5 reported, as authorities continue their investigation.

Seven police officers in San Antonio, Texas, were shot after responding to a call about a “suicide in progress” on Wednesday night.

Police were contacted by a family member of the suspect, NBC News reported, who has since been identified as 46-year-old Brandon Scott Poulos. When the first officers arrived at the apartment complex, a woman said there was a man inside who was shooting, WOAI reported.

Poulos then reportedly walked out of the apartment and began shooting, hitting one officer in the leg. The suicidal man then shot six more officers while barricaded inside the property, NBC reported. The seven wounded officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The suspect died during the encounter, but it is unclear whether he shot himself or was shot by police, the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) told NBC.

During the encounter, police evacuated residents from the apartment building, and resident Joseph Loredo told WOAI that he first heard a pop before hearing other noises and recognizing them as gunfire. He ran from his apartment and found an officer on the ground.

“When I went outside, I saw one of SAPD officers had been shot,” Loredo told the outlet. “It looked like a leg wound because they were putting a tourniquet on him and then they dragged him away.”

“I caught on video when [police] was actually firing back,” Loredo added. “Then I saw the [shooter] actually shoot a few of the officers. I witnessed this. That is when SAPD actually returned fire.”

Loredo also told the outlet that he saw Bexar County Sheriff’s deputies arrive on the scene followed by the SWAT team, who surrounded the area once the suspect barricaded himself in the first-floor apartment.

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Around 2:45 a.m., after an hours-long standoff and negotiations, SWAT entered the apartment to find Poulos dead from a gunshot wound.

“SWAT arrived on the scene and the suspect barricaded himself inside the apartment for several hours,” Police Chief William McManus said in a Facebook post. “At the end of the event the suspect was found to be deceased, we don’t know if he was shot by a self-inflicted wound or whether or not he was shot by squad officers.”

McManus also said that Poulos had been arrested on January 18 for violating a protection order, three assault charges, and driving while intoxicated. He was out on bond when the shooting occurred.

All of the injured officers are expected to make a full recovery.

More than 460 illegal immigrants were arrested in the first 33 hours of the Trump administration, including those with criminal histories.

Between midnight on January 21 and 9 a.m. on January 22, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants, Fox News Digital reported. Among the arrested include those with criminal histories of sexual assault, domestic violence, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, and those with drug and weapon offenses.

Those arrested came from a large array of countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal, and Venezuela, Fox reported. The illegal immigrants were arrested across the country, including in California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, and Utah.

In addition to the arrests, ICE issued more than 420 detainers – a request from ICE to be notified when an illegal immigrant is released from custody. In the past, these detainers often have been ignored by “sanctuary cities” who announce they will defy federal law and protect illegal immigrants from deportation.

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Fox provided some examples of the illegal immigrants that have been arrested so far under the Trump administration:

• Jesus Perez from Mexico, charged with aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
• Kamaro Denver Haye from Jamaica, charged with promoting a sexual performance by a child under the age of 17 and for possessing a sexual performance by a child under the age of 16.
• Jesus Baltazar Mendoza of Mexico, convicted of second-degree assault of a child.
• Andres Orjuela Parra, convicted of “sexual penetration with a foreign object on an unaware victim.”
• Multiple MS-13 gang members, people wanted by Interpol, as well as murder and rape suspects.

The arrests followed President Donald Trump’s promise to crack down on illegal immigration, which exploded under the Biden administration. On his first day in office, Trump signed multiple executive orders to complete the construction of the border wall, terminate former President Joe Biden’s mass humanitarian parole policies, and reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” program.

Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, has also signaled a tough stance on illegal immigration. On Tuesday, Homan announced that ICE had been searching for criminal illegal immigrants as part of the first phase of Trump’s mass deportation program, The Daily Wire reported.

“ICE teams are out there as of today,” Homan told Fox News host Trace Gallagher. “We gave them the direction to prioritize public safety threats. That’s what we’re looking for. We’ve been working with a target list.”

Harvard University has settled two lawsuits alleging the school mishandled anti-Semitism on campus following President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding from colleges and universities that allow anti-Israel protesters to spread anti-Semitism on campus. The settlements were announced separately on Tuesday, The Harvard Crimson reported, and include an undisclosed monetary amount and a clarification of Harvard’s policies about what constitutes anti-Semitism.

The Crimson suggested that the definition of anti-Semitism – from the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) – is “controversial” and “classifies certain criticisms of Israel as antisemitic” without providing evidence.

The IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism explains that “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

The IHRA goes on to explicitly state that “criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.” The organization also provides examples of anti-Semitism, including denial or downplaying of the Holocaust or “holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.”

The Crimson does note that one of the examples is the claim that the “existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.” The outlet suggested that this definition “could allow Harvard to crack down on pro-Palestine student protesters who have condemned Israel’s war in Gaza and policies toward Palestinians, often in harsh terms.”

Those “harsh terms” included an “apartheid wall” that included a quote from the leader of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, The Daily Wire reported. A sign repeating the Palestinian slogan “from the river to the sea” – a phrase calling for the elimination of Israel – was also displayed at the Harvard anti-Israel camp.

The settlement also includes a stipulation that Harvard partner with an unnamed university in Israel, in direct defiance of a demand by anti-Israel protesters who demanded the university cut all ties with Israel (but no other countries).

The two settled lawsuits came from a group of six Harvard students and the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education. The student-led lawsuit, filed jointly with the group Students Against Antisemitism, accused the university of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by allowing mobs of anti-Israel protesters to occupy campus buildings and threaten violence against Jewish students, The Daily Wire reported. It also accused administrators and professors of allowing anti-Semitism and dismissing students who objected to it.

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“Harvard, America’s leading university, has become a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment,” the lawsuit said. “Mobs of pro-Hamas students and faculty have marched by the hundreds through Harvard’s campus, shouting vile antisemitic slogans and calling for death to Jews and Israel.”

The Brandeis Center lawsuit accused Harvard of “deliberately” ignoring anti-Semitism and cited specific examples, including an incident that occurred after the devastating October 7, 2023, attacks against Israel by Palestinian terrorists.

Trump has condemned the treatment of Jews on college campuses across the country.

“What’s going on at the colleges — Columbia, NYU, and others — is a disgrace,” Trump told reporters in April 2024. “It’s really on [former President Joe] Biden. He’s got the wrong signal, he’s got the wrong tone, he’s got the wrong words. He doesn’t know who he’s backing. And It’s a mess.”

India’s government has signaled that it will work with the incoming Trump administration to take back at least 18,000 citizens residing in the U.S. illegally.

Those illegal immigrants already have been identified by the U.S., Bloomberg reported, and India will begin the process of verifying their status and bringing them back overseas. The total number of Indian illegal immigrants living in the U.S. could be far higher, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

The move by India comes as President Donald Trump has threatened repercussions if countries don’t take back their citizens who are living illegally in the U.S. Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on countries like China and Mexico if they don’t meet certain U.S. demands. India, for example, was one of the countries Trump threatened to impose tariffs on if it tried to move away from the U.S. dollar, The Daily Wire previously reported. Trump specifically targeted Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), which now includes Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Egypt, and Ethiopia.

“The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER,” Trump said in a post on social media. “We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy.”

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India hopes that by cooperating with the Trump administration on illegal immigration, the U.S. will protect the process for Indian citizens to legally immigrate to the U.S. through student visas and the H-1 B program for skilled workers, Bloomberg reported. The outlet noted that three-quarters of the 386,000 H-1B visas granted in 2023 went to Indian citizens.

Complying with the U.S.’s immigration demands could also help India’s agreements with other countries, Bloomberg reported. India is currently facing a job shortage. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made migration agreements with multiple countries over the past few years, including Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and others.

“As part of India-US cooperation on migration and mobility, both sides are engaged in a process to deter illegal migration. This is being done to create more avenues for legal migration from India to the U.S.,” Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, told Bloomberg. “The latest deportation of Indian nationals from the U.S. by a chartered flight is a result of this cooperation.”

 

A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, woman has pleaded guilty to lying about nearly being raped and kidnapped at a grocery store parking lot in April 2024.

Anjela Borisova Urumova, 20, pleaded guilty to seven counts, including creating a false alarm, making false reports, and tampering with or fabricating evidence, ABC 6 reported. As is typical in cases where women lie about these types of crimes, Urumova is not receiving a harsh punishment, even though her lies led to an innocent man being imprisoned for a month.

A judge deferred Urumova’s sentencing so that she can undergo a pre-sentence investigation, which involves talking to Urumova and her family and looking at her background to see if there were any extenuating circumstances the judge can use to reduce the sentence. This will likely result in her getting little to no jail time.

The man Urumova lied about, Daniel Pierson, will likely serve more jail time being falsely accused than Urumova will serve as an actual criminal. Pierson was arrested and charged with multiple felonies after Urumova falsely claimed he tried to rape and kidnap her at the parking lot of a Redner grocery store. Urumova claimed that a man came up behind her and attacked her, tried to pull down her pants, and punched her in the face before she was able to get away.

Shortly after Pierson was arrested, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the Middletown Township Police Department received a tip that led them to investigate the incident further, the DA’s office previously reported.

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This time, the police actually did a basic investigation by obtaining surveillance video from the retailers near the alleged attack. They also conducted a forensic review of Urumova’s phone. The surveillance footage and her cellphone data found multiple inconsistencies in her claims. Investigators confronted Urumova with this information, and she admitted she lied. She told investigators that she targeted Pierson because she had seen him and his truck in the past.

After it was discovered that Urumova lied, she was arrested and charged with one count of creating a false alarm, one count of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, two counts of false reporting, and three counts of unsworn falsification to authorities. Her bail was set at $30,000.

The charges against Pierson were withdrawn after Urumova was arrested. Now, around eight months after her arrest, Urumova has admitted to her actions and pled guilty to all counts. The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry before press time.

Some of the people who received preemptive pardons from President Joe Biden have previously condemned the idea of President Donald Trump issuing such pardons.

On Monday, Biden preemptively pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and members of the January 6 Committee, including Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).

Kinzinger and Schiff have both claimed in the past that accepting a presidential pardon would amount to an admission of guilt, but both have been quiet after receiving their own preemptive pardons.

Just two weeks ago, Kinzinger said on CNN that he didn’t want a pardon because “the second you take a pardon, it looks like you’re guilty of something.”

“I’m guilty of nothing besides bringing the truth to the American people and, in the process, embarrassing Donald Trump,” Kinzinger continued.

🚨Now-pardoned Adam Kinzinger said he didn’t want one two weeks ago:

“The second you take a pardon, it looks like you’re guilty of something.”pic.twitter.com/LVqqD7vAnZ

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 20, 2025

Kinzinger said something similar in a social media post on June 23, 2022.

“Some of my colleagues failed to uphold that oath & requested pardons from the Trump Administration,” Kinzinger wrote on X. “More to come, but the only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you’ve committed a crime.”

As Members, we take an oath to support & defend the Constitution. Some of my colleagues failed to uphold that oath & requested pardons from the Trump Administration.

More to come, but the only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you’ve committed a crime. pic.twitter.com/BLKWo5XpUD

— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) June 23, 2022

Schiff also denounced presidential pardons on July 23, 2020, after Trump pardoned his former political consultant, Roger Stone. In that case, Stone had been investigated, tried, and convicted when Trump pardoned him. Biden’s pardons preempt any investigation or trial.

“The power to pardon can be used to right a wrong, give people a second chance, or provide leniency when it’s deserved,” Schiff posted on X. “Or, if you’re Trump, it can be abused to reward a crony who lied to cover up your misconduct. We must prevent future abuse of the pardon power. And we will.”

The power to pardon can be used to right a wrong, give people a second chance, or provide leniency when it’s deserved.

Or, if you’re Trump, it can be abused to reward a crony who lied to cover up your misconduct.

We must prevent future abuse of the pardon power. And we will. https://t.co/MBYumpnT1D

— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) July 23, 2020

Fauci thanked Biden for the pardon but claimed he committed no crime – without saying he would reject it.

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“I really truly appreciate the action President Biden has taken today on my behalf,” Fauci told ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl. “Let me be perfectly clear, Jon, I have committed no crime, you know that, and there are no possible grounds for any allegation or threat of criminal investigation or prosecution of me.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci tells me he appreciates the pardon, but he committed no crime:

“I really truly appreciate the action President Biden has taken today on my behalf. Let me be perfectly clear, Jon, I have committed no crime, you know that, and there are no possible grounds for…

— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) January 20, 2025

Biden has now preemptively pardoned his son, Hunter, his brothers and sister and their spouses, and political allies who investigated Trump. The pardons come years after Biden himself suggested such pardons were something he would never grant.

“Now in terms of the pardons, you’re not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons,” Biden told CNN in 2020. “Nor are you going to see in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets. You know, it’s going to be a totally different way to which we approach the justice system.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) once called the possibility of President Donald Trump pre-emptively pardoning members of his inner circle “a gross abuse of the presidential pardon authority.”

Schumer made these remarks in late 2020, less than two months before President Joe Biden was inaugurated. Now, on the same day Trump is inaugurated for a second term, Biden has preemptively pardoned multiple people.

“The president’s reportedly asking his staff whether he can issue pre-emptive pardons for himself, his family members, Rudy Giuliani,” Schumer said in 2020 in prepared remarks on the Senate floor. “There’s a simple answer: No. No, Mr. President, that would be a gross abuse of the presidential pardon authority.”

“But I have a more important question: Just how long are our Republican colleagues going to indulge the president in this nonsense?” Schumer continued.

On Monday, as his last act as president, Biden issued pre-emptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, the January 6 Committee, and several family members. Fauci’s pardon dates back to January 2014 and protects the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from “any offenses against the U.S. which he may have committed or taken part in.” The pardon protects him from these offenses while he was the head of NIAID, the White House Coronavirus Task Force, the White House COVID Response Team, or as Biden’s chief medical advisor.

As of this writing, Schumer has said nothing about Biden’s pardons, though he has posted about Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A Daily Wire inquiry to Schumer’s office went unanswered as of press time.

In December, Biden’s own Justice Department wrote in a court filing that those charged with crimes relating to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol would be admitting guilt if they accepted a presidential pardon from Trump.

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“[A] pardon at some unspecified date in the future — which is purely speculative at this juncture — that pardon would not unring the bell of conviction,” the DOJ wrote. “In fact, quite the opposite. The defendant would first have to accept the pardon, which necessitates a confession of guilt.”

Biden himself warned about preemptive pardons in a 2020 interview with CNN, The Daily Wire reported.

“Now in terms of the pardons, you’re not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons,” Biden said at the time. “Nor are you going to see in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets. You know, it’s going to be a totally different way to which we approach the justice system.”

In his message Monday about the pardons, Biden said that the “issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.”

President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to issue an executive order to suspend the security clearances for the 51 national security officials who claimed that the report about Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.

Trump will sign the executive order as part of his Day One agenda, which is expected to include signing more than 200 executive actions, including ones that eliminated DEI from federal offices and defined biological sex, Fox News reported.

In mid-October 2020, just ahead of a debate between Trump and President Joe Biden, 51 intelligence officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, signed a letter claiming the recently discovered laptop belonging to Hunter Biden had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The letter went public on October 19, 2020, shortly after the New York Post published a bombshell report detailing the laptop showed evidence that the elder Biden was involved in his son’s shady business dealings.

At the debate, Trump mentioned the laptop and, because of the letter, Biden was able to say that “50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan.” Biden also added that “Four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage.”

But the laptop has been deemed authentic, including during Hunter’s gun trial. The 51 former intelligence officers have refused to apologize or admit they were wrong.

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Further, in 2023, emails revealed that former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell asked members of the intelligence community to add their names to the letter for the express purpose of giving Biden a talking point at the debate, The Daily Wire reported at the time. Brennan was one of the people Morell reached out to, and responded by saying: “Ok, Michael, add my name to the list. Good initiative. Thanks for asking me to sign on.”

Morell also told congressional Republicans that a call from Biden’s then-campaign adviser, Antony Blinken, had prompted the letter. Morell also testified that the chair of the 2020 Biden campaign, Steve Richetti, called him after the debate to thank him for getting the letter out.

Morell told congressional Republicans that the letter had two intents. “One intent was to share our concern with the American people that the Russians were playing on this issue; and, two, it was [to] help Vice President Biden,” he explained, according to a transcript of his testimony.

Democrats accused Republicans of cherry-picking Morell’s testimony, claiming “no part of that interview demonstrates that Tony Blinken or any other Biden campaign official asked Mike Morell to write a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop.”