Roki Sasaki, the “Monster of the Reiwa Era,” will get his wish to pitch in the majors next season. The Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball announced
A Monster is coming to Major League Baseball, and the Yankees and Mets — and truly all 28 other teams — will be interested.
Roki Sasaki, the “Monster of the Reiwa Era,” will get his wish to pitch in the majors next season.
The Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball announced overnight they intend to make the star starting pitcher available through the posting system that will make Sasaki the kind of bargain even tiny markets can fit into a budget.
The right-hander throws 100 mph, is renowned for a devastating splitter and turned 23 last week. He is so determined to pitch in the majors that he will arrive before his dream contract arrives.
Gunfire erupted on Tuskegee University's campus Sunday morning as the streets were filled with students, alumni and community members celebrating the school's 100th homecoming.
One person was killed and several other wounded in a mass shooting at Tuskegee University’s homecoming Saturday night, as videos captured hail of gunfire ringing out across the Alabama HBCU.
Gunfire erupted on Tuskegee University’s campus as the streets were filled with students, alumni and community members celebrating the school’s 100th homecoming.
Videos shared on social media show rapid-fire shots ringing out as terrified attendees hide crouched on the ground behind cars.
Pelosi didn’t take kindly to the Vermont independent senator’s remarks, rebutting Sander’s claim and doubling down that the Democratic Party didn’t abandon the working class…
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore into Sen. Bernie Sanders who had derided the Democratic Party and its alleged issues with the working class that ultimately failed to support Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the White House.
In a scathing letter to his former party a day after the election, Sanders blasted the Dems for “abandoning” the working class and seemingly acting surprised they didn’t show up at the polling booths.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” the Democratic socialist, 83, said in a fiery statement on X.
“First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” the Democratic Socialist said.
Pelosi didn’t take kindly to the Vermont independent senator’s remarks, rebutting Sander’s claim and doubling down that the Democratic Party didn’t abandon the working class.
An American nurse’s trip to her “happy place” turned to tragedy when she was killed this week by a man she met at a nightclub in Hungary, police said Friday.
A manhunt erupted when Kenzie Michalski, 31, from Portland, Oregon, vanished from the Budapest night scene on Nov. 5, and police immediately suspected she had been murdered, according to Budapest police.
Security footage from the area showed Michalski on the night of her disappearance bouncing between different clubs with a man, who was later identified as a suspect.
The pair had met at a nightclub and danced before leaving for his rental apartment, investigators said.
The man allegedly tried to cover up the slaying by cleaning the apartment and hiding the nurse practitioner’s body in a wardrobe before stuffing her in a suitcase he purchased to sneak the body outside.
LTM then rented a car and drove to Lake Balaton, around 90 miles southwest of Budapest, where he dumped the body in a wooden area outside the town of Szigliget.
His internet history was riddled with searches on how to dispose of a body, police procedures in missing person cases, whether pigs really eat dead bodies and the presence of wild boars in the Lake Balaton area — as well as the competence of Budapest police.
The stunning murder occurred just one day after Michalski and her friend had concluded a trip through Europe.
Families gathered for an anti-Israel "rage playdate" outside Sen. Chuck Schumer's home on Saturday.
The NYPD wasn’t playing around with a group of anti-Israel protesters who brought their children Saturday to demonstrate outside Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home.
About 60 people gathered for what was billed as a “rage playdate” outside Schumer’s Prospect Park West building, where they had coloring pages about “Zionist bullies” and plead for President-elect Donald Trump to defund the Jewish state.
Weiner hasn’t held public office in more than a decade since he was ousted from his New York congressional seat in 2011 over a sexting scandal that involved several women and a minor.
Two years later, he was caught up in another sexting scandal while running for mayor.
After serving 21 months in prison for sexting a 15-year-old North Carolina girl, he was released in 2019 — and called himself “a very sick man” during his sentencing.
Weiner, who also went to rehab for sex addiction, was previously married to Huma Abedin, an aide to Hilary Clinton during her 2016 presidential run against Donald Trump.
When investigators searched his laptop over his sick messages — including selfies he sent when his then-4-year-old son was in the room, they discovered emails connected to the probe into the Democratic candidate’s email scandal.
The discovery led the FBI to reopen the investigation of Clinton, just days before the 2016 election — a move Clinton blamed for her stunning loss to Trump.
Every time Anthony Weiner rears his head, The Post is there to capture the disgraced ex-congressman-turned-convicted pervert — and sum up his latest antics with its stroke-of-genius front-page headlines.
There is long list of the paper’s famous covers on Weiner — but these are some of the most unforgettable classics.
As his sexting scandal grows, Weiner pulls out of two high-profile summertime parades involving constituents who have long supported him, drawing fire from all over.
Democratic National Committee finance member Lindy Li trashed Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed bid for the White House, calling her loss to President-elect Donald Trump a “$1 billion disaster.”
Ms. Li told “Fox & Friends” on Saturday that she and other Democrats feel that Campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon “misled” them into wasting millions of dollars.
“The truth is, this is just an epic disaster — this is a $1 billion disaster,” Ms. Li said. “They’re $20 million or $18 million in debt. It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that.”
She added, “I have friends I have to be accountable and explain things to because I told them it was a margin-of-error race. I was promised, Jen O’Malley Dillon promised all of us that Harris would win. She even put videos out saying Harris would win. I believed her, my donors believed her, and so they wrote massive checks.”
Mr. Trump’s resounding victory over Ms. Harris has had Democrats searching for what went wrong.
The brass on the seventh floor at FBI headquarters in Washington are walking around in a daze and wary of a housecleaning since President-elect Donald Trump won his reelection on Tuesday, according to inside sources.
The Washington Times learned through several anonymous bureau sources that senior executives who run the agency were “stunned” and “shell-shocked” by Mr. Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
“You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?” the first FBI source said, referring to the agency’s physical fitness requirements. “Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door.”
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and Deputy Director Paul Abbate have little chance of remaining at the bureau by the time Mr. Trump is sworn into office, sources say.
FBI employees also recall when Mr. Trump fired former FBI Director James B. Comey in 2017, five months after the president was sworn in.
“It’s a countdown for Wray because [people here] don’t think he will stay to get fired after what Trump did to Comey,” the first source said. “Trump will say, ’Yeah, fire his ass. Don’t let him take the plane home,’” a reference to Mr. Comey finding out about his termination while flying to California on the bureau’s airplane.
Mr. Trump appointed Mr. Wray as FBI director in 2017 after firing Mr. Comey. The director’s term is for 10 years, but serving a full term depends on gaining the confidence of the president.
A Jan. 6 defendant said he spent four months in solitary confinement in federal prison, harsh conditions that could have been avoided in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Justice Department overreached when it charged hundreds of the U.S. Capitol defendants with felony obstruction.
John Strand, who was released early from prison last week, said federal prison officials in Miami locked him in solitary confinement for four months of his term over accusations ranging from publicly revealing online how far he had to walk to reach a computer, to helping other Jan. 6 defendants in prison receive support from outside groups.
“It’s kind of like your entire existence is within a giant concrete shoe box,” Mr. Strand, 39, said of the cell where he served his sentence at the Miami Federal Correctional Institution. “It’s covered on all sides. There’s supposed to be a window, there’s usually some sliver of excuse for a window, but it’s not much of a window to the outside, so it’s almost windowless.”
Mr. Strand was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison after a Washington, D.C., jury found him guilty of a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanor violations stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol.
But the obstruction charge was erased after the Supreme Court ruled last month in the case of another Jan. 6 defendant that the government was misapplying the obstruction statute. Federal prosecutors had filed the charge against multiple other defendants in the attack at the Capitol, including Mr. Strand.
“I think what happened, after the first ‘Joker,’ there was a lot of talk like, ‘Oh, this was loved by incels. This was loved by the wrong kinds of people. This sent the wrong kind of message. Male rage! Nihilism!’ All these think pieces,” said Dillon, who played a guard at Arkham Asylum in the 2024 film.
“And then I think, ‘What if we went the other way,’ and now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing to a point where it’s insane,” he added.
The new conservative era is off to a good start and so far it appears that Trump Admin 2.0 is not messing around. Perhaps the biggest complaint about the 2016 Trump Administration was how quickly a nest of Neo-Con swamp creatures slithered their way into his cabinet. In interviews with podcasters like Joe Rogan, Trump would later regret his reliance on establishment GOP advisers who helped him to fill the thousands of cabinet positions required for a presidential transition.
It was this same cabal of advisers that would help to sabotage his efforts to institute federal reforms, secure the border, clear out corruption and ultimately some of them tried to help the Democrats destroy him. As the saying goes, in a revolution always be sure to save a magazine for your so-called "allies".
By some miracle Donald Trump has received a second chance to make things right and it looks as though he learned some valuable lessons from the internal sabotage that took place during his first term. There's little chance we will be seeing ghouls like John Bolton, Anthony Fauci or Mike Pence haunting the halls of the White House in 2025. In fact, Trump recently put swirling rumors to rest that he might be including Neo-Cons like Mike Pompeo and NIkki Haley in his newest administration.
He made the announcement on November 9th on his Truth Social account, rejecting any notions that they would be working with him for his second term.
"I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation," Trump posted on social media. "I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our country."
It's a surprisingly cordial message that sets a much needed standard.
This is welcome news for a lot of conservatives and independents looking for a true break from the Deep State and a fresh start for America. The announcement helps to put to rest public concerns that the policies Trump campaigned on would be diluted by establishment cronies the moment he entered the Oval Office. For those unaware, Pompeo has a nasty reputation as an anti-liberty bureaucrat and a warhawk. To illustrate the Pompeo problem, Tucker Carlson relates his own encounter with the office of the former CIA Director and Secretary of State:
To be sure, Pompeo plays the game and says what conservatives want to hear when it's necessary, and his policies tend to run concurrent to his predecessors, but that's the issue; the old Neo-Con guard is a dinosaur that needs to go. Republican strategist Roger Stone issued a stark warning to President-elect Donald Trump on Friday: Trump should not trust the former cabinet member.
"Now that Trump is back on top, it becomes far more difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff," Stone wrote on his website. Stone went on to single out Pompeo and Trump's former UN ambassador—and onetime 2024 Republican rival—Nikki Haley.
These "neocons have positioned themselves to get highly influential roles within the second Trump administration," Stone wrote, "and this sinister fifth column has the potential to be more harmful to Trump's America First agenda than his leftist opinion within the Democrat Party."
Some may recall that Nikki Haley was thoroughly raked over the coals by Vivek Ramaswamy for her neo-con tendencies during the Republican Primaries.
Japanese star pitcher Roki Sasaki to be made available to MLB teams with Mets, Yankees interested
Roki Sasaki, the “Monster of the Reiwa Era,” will get his wish to pitch in the majors next season. The Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball announced
A Monster is coming to Major League Baseball, and the Yankees and Mets — and truly all 28 other teams — will be interested.
Roki Sasaki, the “Monster of the Reiwa Era,” will get his wish to pitch in the majors next season.
#sports #mlb #baseball #rokisasaki
The Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball announced overnight they intend to make the star starting pitcher available through the posting system that will make Sasaki the kind of bargain even tiny markets can fit into a budget.
The right-hander throws 100 mph, is renowned for a devastating splitter and turned 23 last week. He is so determined to pitch in the majors that he will arrive before his dream contract arrives.
Tuskegee University homecoming becomes a warzone: 1 dead, several wounded in mass shooting
Gunfire erupted on Tuskegee University's campus Sunday morning as the streets were filled with students, alumni and community members celebrating the school's 100th homecoming.
One person was killed and several other wounded in a mass shooting at Tuskegee University’s homecoming Saturday night, as videos captured hail of gunfire ringing out across the Alabama HBCU.
#news #tuskegee #crime #shooting
Gunfire erupted on Tuskegee University’s campus as the streets were filled with students, alumni and community members celebrating the school’s 100th homecoming.
Videos shared on social media show rapid-fire shots ringing out as terrified attendees hide crouched on the ground behind cars.
Police responded to a shots fired call at 1200 West Montgomery Road, West Commons, one of the school’s apartment complexes.
The victim was identified as a “non-university individual,” the university told The Post.
Several people were injured including Tuskegee students and were transported to nearby hospitals.
Nancy Pelosi tears into Bernie Sanders for claiming Democrats 'abandoned' working class amid Harris election loss: 'I don’t respect him saying that'
Pelosi didn’t take kindly to the Vermont independent senator’s remarks, rebutting Sander’s claim and doubling down that the Democratic Party didn’t abandon the working class…
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore into Sen. Bernie Sanders who had derided the Democratic Party and its alleged issues with the working class that ultimately failed to support Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the White House.
#democrats #politics #nancypelosi #berniesanders #election
In a scathing letter to his former party a day after the election, Sanders blasted the Dems for “abandoning” the working class and seemingly acting surprised they didn’t show up at the polling booths.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” the Democratic socialist, 83, said in a fiery statement on X.
“First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” the Democratic Socialist said.
Pelosi didn’t take kindly to the Vermont independent senator’s remarks, rebutting Sander’s claim and doubling down that the Democratic Party didn’t abandon the working class.
American nurse killed by man she met in Budapest nightclub during vacation to ‘happy place’: police
An American nurse’s trip to her “happy place” turned to tragedy when she was killed this week by a man she met at a nightclub in Hungary, police said Friday.
A manhunt erupted when Kenzie Michalski, 31, from Portland, Oregon, vanished from the Budapest night scene on Nov. 5, and police immediately suspected she had been murdered, according to Budapest police.
Security footage from the area showed Michalski on the night of her disappearance bouncing between different clubs with a man, who was later identified as a suspect.
#crime #nurse #europe #death #murder
While in custody, the 37-year-old Irish man, only identified by the initials LTM, confessed to the killing and led police to her body.
LTM allegedly told cops the murder was an accident and occurred while they were engaged in an “intimate encounter.”
The pair had met at a nightclub and danced before leaving for his rental apartment, investigators said.
The man allegedly tried to cover up the slaying by cleaning the apartment and hiding the nurse practitioner’s body in a wardrobe before stuffing her in a suitcase he purchased to sneak the body outside.
LTM then rented a car and drove to Lake Balaton, around 90 miles southwest of Budapest, where he dumped the body in a wooden area outside the town of Szigliget.
His internet history was riddled with searches on how to dispose of a body, police procedures in missing person cases, whether pigs really eat dead bodies and the presence of wild boars in the Lake Balaton area — as well as the competence of Budapest police.
The stunning murder occurred just one day after Michalski and her friend had concluded a trip through Europe.
Anti-Israel protesters bring kids to ‘rage playdate’ outside Schumer’s home, clash with NYPD for lacking permit
Families gathered for an anti-Israel "rage playdate" outside Sen. Chuck Schumer's home on Saturday.
The NYPD wasn’t playing around with a group of anti-Israel protesters who brought their children Saturday to demonstrate outside Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home.
#newyork #chuckschumer #israel #protesters #police #palestine
About 60 people gathered for what was billed as a “rage playdate” outside Schumer’s Prospect Park West building, where they had coloring pages about “Zionist bullies” and plead for President-elect Donald Trump to defund the Jewish state.
But the NYPD quickly moved the protesters away and blocked off the street because the agitators had not gotten a permit.
Parents clashed with officers, calling them “dictators” and yelling “KKK NYPD.”
“I will sue the s–t out of you,” one organizer told an officer.
Others chanted, “Schumer, Schumer you will see, Palestine will be free” and held signs that read, “Israel kills Palestinian children.”
“Chuck Schumer enables genocide,” one an organizer claimed.
Disgraced ex-congressman and convicted sex pest Anthony Weiner mulls return to NYC politics
Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner has his eyes on another political run — this time setting his sights on the New York City Council.
“I’m thinking about it. I’m wrestling with it,” Wiener, 60, said on his weekly 77WABC radio show Saturday, City & State New York reported.
#newyork #anthonyweiner #sexscandal #politice #citycouncil
“I love doing this job on the radio, but I want to be of service,” he said.
Weiner hasn’t held public office in more than a decade since he was ousted from his New York congressional seat in 2011 over a sexting scandal that involved several women and a minor.
Two years later, he was caught up in another sexting scandal while running for mayor.
After serving 21 months in prison for sexting a 15-year-old North Carolina girl, he was released in 2019 — and called himself “a very sick man” during his sentencing.
Weiner, who also went to rehab for sex addiction, was previously married to Huma Abedin, an aide to Hilary Clinton during her 2016 presidential run against Donald Trump.
When investigators searched his laptop over his sick messages — including selfies he sent when his then-4-year-old son was in the room, they discovered emails connected to the probe into the Democratic candidate’s email scandal.
The discovery led the FBI to reopen the investigation of Clinton, just days before the 2016 election — a move Clinton blamed for her stunning loss to Trump.
Anthony Weiner covers and headlines we’re particularly proud of
It’s a hard job, but somebody’s got to do it.
Every time Anthony Weiner rears his head, The Post is there to capture the disgraced ex-congressman-turned-convicted pervert — and sum up his latest antics with its stroke-of-genius front-page headlines.
There is long list of the paper’s famous covers on Weiner — but these are some of the most unforgettable classics.
As his sexting scandal grows, Weiner pulls out of two high-profile summertime parades involving constituents who have long supported him, drawing fire from all over.
DNC official calls Harris campaign a '$1 billion disaster'
Democratic National Committee finance member Lindy Li trashed Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed bid for the White House, calling her loss to President-elect Donald Trump a “$1 billion disaster.”
#politics #dnc #kamelaharris #election #campaign #trump
Ms. Li told “Fox & Friends” on Saturday that she and other Democrats feel that Campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon “misled” them into wasting millions of dollars.
“The truth is, this is just an epic disaster — this is a $1 billion disaster,” Ms. Li said. “They’re $20 million or $18 million in debt. It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that.”
She added, “I have friends I have to be accountable and explain things to because I told them it was a margin-of-error race. I was promised, Jen O’Malley Dillon promised all of us that Harris would win. She even put videos out saying Harris would win. I believed her, my donors believed her, and so they wrote massive checks.”
Mr. Trump’s resounding victory over Ms. Harris has had Democrats searching for what went wrong.
FBI brass 'stunned' and 'shell-shocked' over Donald Trump reelection
The brass on the seventh floor at FBI headquarters in Washington are walking around in a daze and wary of a housecleaning since President-elect Donald Trump won his reelection on Tuesday, according to inside sources.
The Washington Times learned through several anonymous bureau sources that senior executives who run the agency were “stunned” and “shell-shocked” by Mr. Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
#fbi #trump #election #harris #unitedstates #politics
“You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?” the first FBI source said, referring to the agency’s physical fitness requirements. “Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door.”
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and Deputy Director Paul Abbate have little chance of remaining at the bureau by the time Mr. Trump is sworn into office, sources say.
FBI employees also recall when Mr. Trump fired former FBI Director James B. Comey in 2017, five months after the president was sworn in.
“It’s a countdown for Wray because [people here] don’t think he will stay to get fired after what Trump did to Comey,” the first source said. “Trump will say, ’Yeah, fire his ass. Don’t let him take the plane home,’” a reference to Mr. Comey finding out about his termination while flying to California on the bureau’s airplane.
Mr. Trump appointed Mr. Wray as FBI director in 2017 after firing Mr. Comey. The director’s term is for 10 years, but serving a full term depends on gaining the confidence of the president.
John Strand, Jan. 6 defendant, said he endured four months of solitary in federal prison
A Jan. 6 defendant said he spent four months in solitary confinement in federal prison, harsh conditions that could have been avoided in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Justice Department overreached when it charged hundreds of the U.S. Capitol defendants with felony obstruction.
#jan6 #supremecourt #johnstrand #politics #justicedepartment
John Strand, who was released early from prison last week, said federal prison officials in Miami locked him in solitary confinement for four months of his term over accusations ranging from publicly revealing online how far he had to walk to reach a computer, to helping other Jan. 6 defendants in prison receive support from outside groups.
“It’s kind of like your entire existence is within a giant concrete shoe box,” Mr. Strand, 39, said of the cell where he served his sentence at the Miami Federal Correctional Institution. “It’s covered on all sides. There’s supposed to be a window, there’s usually some sliver of excuse for a window, but it’s not much of a window to the outside, so it’s almost windowless.”
Mr. Strand was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison after a Washington, D.C., jury found him guilty of a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanor violations stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol.
But the obstruction charge was erased after the Supreme Court ruled last month in the case of another Jan. 6 defendant that the government was misapplying the obstruction statute. Federal prosecutors had filed the charge against multiple other defendants in the attack at the Capitol, including Mr. Strand.
'Joker 2' actor slams 'terrible' sequel and calls it 'the worst film ever made'
“It’s not even hate-watchable. That’s how terrible it is,” said comedian Tim Dillon.
Comedian Tim Dillon only has a brief role in “Joker: Folie à Deux,” but he has strong opinions about the movie.
The 39-year-old called the DC sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga “the worst film ever made” on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week.
#timdilllon #joker2 #movies #sequel
“I think what happened, after the first ‘Joker,’ there was a lot of talk like, ‘Oh, this was loved by incels. This was loved by the wrong kinds of people. This sent the wrong kind of message. Male rage! Nihilism!’ All these think pieces,” said Dillon, who played a guard at Arkham Asylum in the 2024 film.
“And then I think, ‘What if we went the other way,’ and now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing to a point where it’s insane,” he added.
Neo-Cons Not Welcome: Trump Publicly Rejects Mike Pompeo And Nikki Haley
The new conservative era is off to a good start and so far it appears that Trump Admin 2.0 is not messing around. Perhaps the biggest complaint about the 2016 Trump Administration was how quickly a nest of Neo-Con swamp creatures slithered their way into his cabinet. In interviews with podcasters like Joe Rogan, Trump would later regret his reliance on establishment GOP advisers who helped him to fill the thousands of cabinet positions required for a presidential transition.
#politics #trump #neocons #washington #gop #war
It was this same cabal of advisers that would help to sabotage his efforts to institute federal reforms, secure the border, clear out corruption and ultimately some of them tried to help the Democrats destroy him. As the saying goes, in a revolution always be sure to save a magazine for your so-called "allies".
By some miracle Donald Trump has received a second chance to make things right and it looks as though he learned some valuable lessons from the internal sabotage that took place during his first term. There's little chance we will be seeing ghouls like John Bolton, Anthony Fauci or Mike Pence haunting the halls of the White House in 2025. In fact, Trump recently put swirling rumors to rest that he might be including Neo-Cons like Mike Pompeo and NIkki Haley in his newest administration.
He made the announcement on November 9th on his Truth Social account, rejecting any notions that they would be working with him for his second term.
"I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation," Trump posted on social media. "I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our country."
It's a surprisingly cordial message that sets a much needed standard.
This is welcome news for a lot of conservatives and independents looking for a true break from the Deep State and a fresh start for America. The announcement helps to put to rest public concerns that the policies Trump campaigned on would be diluted by establishment cronies the moment he entered the Oval Office. For those unaware, Pompeo has a nasty reputation as an anti-liberty bureaucrat and a warhawk. To illustrate the Pompeo problem, Tucker Carlson relates his own encounter with the office of the former CIA Director and Secretary of State:
To be sure, Pompeo plays the game and says what conservatives want to hear when it's necessary, and his policies tend to run concurrent to his predecessors, but that's the issue; the old Neo-Con guard is a dinosaur that needs to go. Republican strategist Roger Stone issued a stark warning to President-elect Donald Trump on Friday: Trump should not trust the former cabinet member.
"Now that Trump is back on top, it becomes far more difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff," Stone wrote on his website. Stone went on to single out Pompeo and Trump's former UN ambassador—and onetime 2024 Republican rival—Nikki Haley.
These "neocons have positioned themselves to get highly influential roles within the second Trump administration," Stone wrote, "and this sinister fifth column has the potential to be more harmful to Trump's America First agenda than his leftist opinion within the Democrat Party."
Some may recall that Nikki Haley was thoroughly raked over the coals by Vivek Ramaswamy for her neo-con tendencies during the Republican Primaries.