Trump’s Minions Are Reuniting for a Turning Point Conference

Turning Point USA’s AmeriFest returns this December, and the speaker lineup is as soon as again a correct who’s who of the MAGA-verse.

The occasion, which happens in Phoenix, Arizona, from December 17 to 20, will once again be headlined by Vice President JD Vance. Previous press secretary Karoline Leavitt, previous White House consultant and reactionary activist Steve Bannon, previous Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines, previous governmental prospect Ben Carson, conservative provocateur Nick Shirley, previous Representative Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump Jr., Erika Kirk, and a host of other popular voices on the right will likewise be speaking.

Significantly missing from the list of renowned speakers is Tucker Carlson, as he was a big part of the factor in 2015’s AmeriFest— the very first given that TPUSA creator Charlie Kirk’s assassination– was mostly not successful. Carlson entered a back-and-forth with conservative analyst Ben Shapiro in 2025 after Shapiro called him and Candace Owens “charlatans who declare to speak in the name of concept however really traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty.”

Carlson reacted by assaulting Shapiro’s fealty to Israel, and the whole occasion ended up being a plain representation of the major rifts within the conservative motion. This year will follow what will likely be a not successful midterm election efficiency by the Republican Party, which might in turn effect the nature of the occasion.

The United States released sanctions on the International Criminal Court Friday, simply hours after President Donald Trump lost the Nobel Peace Prize to among the organization’s previous judges.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed the sanctions cutting the court off from any U.S.-based monetary services, innovation business, and U.S. currency. The Trump administration set a six-month timeline for U.S. business to unwind their service with the war criminal activities tribunal.

“We will prohibit deals with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and debilitating its capability to run versus us,” Rubio stated in a video declaration on social networks. “The United States and the American individuals are exempt to the jurisdiction of this phony ICC.”

Rubio has formerly argued the court has actually ended up being “extreme and severe,” though Trump has outright confessed Rubio’s project versus the ICC is suggested to secure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

U.S. authorities kept that these sanctions had actually remained in the works for months, and the timing so near the Nobel Prize award event was simply coincidental, according to the Associated PressThese sanctions are precisely the kind of petty habits we’ve come to anticipate from a president who’s invested years pleading for the prominent award.

Rather, the award went to Navi Pillay, a South African human rights legal representative with a decades-long profession. In 2015, Pillay led a United Nations commission that discovered the Israeli federal government had actually dedicated a genocide versus Palestinians in Gaza. The Nobel committee stated Thursday that Pillay had actually been “critical in making sure that war criminal offenses, criminal offenses versus mankind and genocide are prosecuted.”

Pillay took an instant shot at Trump after she discovered she had actually won the award Friday. “Thank you quite. If you clap a bit more I might share this reward with Trump,” she stated, triggering the space to appear into laughter.

Trump assaulted the ICC after it provided arrest warrants versus Israeli federal government leaders, consisting of Netanyahufor war criminal activities and criminal offenses versus mankind in Gaza. Ever since, the U.S. has actually approved court authorities and district attorneys, along with other global leaders who record and speak up about Israel’s criminal activities, consisting of U.N. Special Rapporteur for Palestine Francesca Albanese.

The White House has actually picked its brand-new press secretary: MAGA interactions consultant Katie Zacharia.

The 42-year-old was formerly the senior interactions consultant at Trump Media & & Technology Group, the moms and dad business of Truth Social; a regular analyst on Fox News, Newsmax, and CNN; and a previous staff member of Fix California, a not-for-profit established by previous acting director of nationwide intelligence and long time Trump ally Ric Grenell.

The news of Zacharia’s ascension to the White House inner ring was initially reported by The New York Times and verified by CBS News

As a media analyst, Zacharia has actually shared her most severe takes, consisting of that the abortion tablet mifepristone came directly from Nazi Germany.

“The abortion tablet, Mifepristone … is linked to the maker of the fatal gas Zyklon B, utilized worldwide War II prisoner-of-war camp,” she composed on X last fall. “Zyklon-B was initially utilized as a pesticide and marketed by the German Corporation for Pest Control, now referred to as Detia Degesch GmbH. Degesch, in which German chemical business I.G. Farben had a 42.5% interest and on whose board of 11 it had 5 seats, was the sole manufacturer of the gas. According to the New York Times, ‘I.G. Farben played so crucial a function in Hitler’s war maker and in the Holocaust that it happened called “the devil’s chemist.”‘ It produced Zyklon B, the gas-chamber toxin, amongst numerous other items, and its factories made use of more than 35,000 servant labourers, numerous from Auschwitz. It even developed a prisoner-of-war camp of its own to enhance effectiveness.”

It’s unclear where she created this psychopathic conspiracy, as mifepristone was really established by a French researcher and not authorized for sale in France till the 1980s. The business history Zacharia meant is a lot more complex: The business that established Zyklon B was ultimately, after years of mergers and spin-offs, taken control of by the international pharmaceutical business Sanofi. Sanofi likewise got the business that produced mifepristone, Roussel Uclaf, in the late 1990s.

Aside from her paid media gigs, Zacharia likewise had a short stint working under ex– Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, working as a representative for the firm in between February and March, according to her LinkedIn

Because time, Zacharia assaulted Senator Richard Blumenthal on social networks, implicating the Connecticut Democrat of spreading out “fear-mongering lies” about ICE’s takeover at airports. In the exact same post, she admired the company’s arrest record, declaring that it was “brave” for getting rid of “violent criminal unlawful alien predators.”

She wasn’t constantly so opposed to immigrants. From August 2012 to June 2013– soon after she got her J.D. from Pepperdine Caruso Law– Zacharia worked as the supervisor of fundraising and interactions at Empathy for Migrant Childrena not-for-profit devoted to assisting the kids of immigrant employees.

Zacharia will change Karoline Leavitt, who left the function in August to sign up with Fox News as an on-air factor.

The comms professional definitely has her work cut out for her. Zacharia will stroll into a Trump administration that is currently drowning in an ocean of scandals, damaged by current tidal bores that consist of reports of Trump authorities helping pro-Russia federal governments, the president’s repeat invites for Iran to strike American cities, taxpayer-funded propaganda, and the White House’s choice to cancel $810 million in congressionally appropriated funds, which critics have actually argued breaks federal law.

Just time will inform if she can tidying the mess.

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Even Republican legislators are revolted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s strategy to livestream a federal execution.

Hegseth validated Thursday that the Pentagon strategies to livestream the military shooting team execution of founded guilty Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Undoubtedly Democrats were outraged by the strategy, however even a couple of Republicans weren’t on board with turning state-sponsored murder into a phenomenon.

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis stated that Hegseth’s choice was “beyond revolting.”

“Public executions are what overbearing dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do. It needs to not be occurring in America,” he composed in a post on XIn his brand-new book, Tillis composed that verifying Hegseth was the “most significant remorse” of his profession.

Georgia Representative Austin Scott likewise opposed the choice. “I definitely support the sentence of death, however live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America is much better than that,” he composed on Xdescribing the violent Islamist ideology.

In an action to Hegseth on X, previous Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger put it more candidly: “There will be a day, and quickly, when no one will acknowledge even understanding you.”

Laura Loomer, the self-proclaimed Islamophobe who recommends the president, voiced her assistance for the strategy directly out of an extremist’s playbook.

is remarkable. Genuinely incredible. I can’t wait to view Nidal Hasan’s live-streamed execution for his act of Islamic terrorism. We are really fortunate to have! I elected more dead jihadists!” she composed on XIn truth, she voted to make our nation more like the violent programs she declares to dislike.

Globally, public executions are unusual, however they still take place in Afghanistan and Iran, according to The GuardianIn 2025, the Taliban performed 6 public executions, and the Islamic Republic performed 11.

Senate prospect Ken Paxton took almost 1,000 service journeys throughout his period as Texas Attorney General, costing taxpayers countless dollars along the method. Just one in 6 of them in fact involved work.

A brand-new report from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reveals that Paxton has actually taken nearly 1,000 journeys out of state considering that 2015, accompanied by Texas cops each time at an expense of $3.3 million to his constituents. His security information alone cost $24,000 a month, while his predecessor Greg Abbott’s expense $7,400 a month. Of those 1,000 journeys, research study just connected 138 of them to real company. Paxton didn’t even tape them.

Paxton took 53 journeys to Florida, 24 journeys to Utah– where his household trust owns homes– and 19 journeys out of the nation, all on the taxpayer’s penny. Paxton did not provide any particular description for his absence of service records for the journeys.

“Throughout his profession, Ken Paxton has actually dealt with various security hazards originating from his bold work as Attorney General combating on behalf of individuals of Texas,” stated his workplace in a declaration. “Those dangers are a direct outcome of him handling the cartels terrifying Texans and a few of the country’s most harmful violent lawbreakers.”

Beyond being an outright abuse of public funds, particularly provided the number of journeys he required to his residential or commercial properties, this is an indication that Paxton cares more about his political workplace and its advantages than he does about his real constituents, who are spending for those advantages.

“If you’ve got all these additional journeys, it ends up being fairly and ethically troublesome,” previous National Association of Attorneys General executive director Chris Toth informed ProPublica. “The ethical concern is whether a genuine security function has successfully end up being a taxpayer-funded aid.”

Paxton has actually been followed by crises of his own producing the whole of his time as attorney general of the United States, along with his candidateship for Senate. From his indictment and suspension to his supposed affair and subsequent divorce, and after that his questionable, leak-filled Senate project, the GOP could not have actually picked a weaker prospect to field versus James Talarico in Texas to safeguard its Senate bulk.