Things to Keep an Eye On
Trump goes to bat for Bibi in corruption case, Stephen Miller's Palantir stake, WhatsApp banned in Congress, Ted Cruz's Israeli advisor, Sinaloa murdering FBI informants, and birthright citizenship
Team Bibi ventriloquizes Trump to sandbag his corruption trial
While President Trump may have been a total slave of the Israelis since he gave up his eldest daughter to the Jewish mafia, he reached new lows of vile servility this week, with reporting in Israel suggesting his Truth Social posts about letting Benjamin Netanyahu off from his corruption charges were written by people in Bibi’s camp, ventriloquizing the President of the United States. Who exactly we do not know, perhaps it was his slumlord hobgoblin Stephen Miller.
Now, any discussion of Jewish puppetry risks a perilous proximity to forbidden tropes, which is why it is best left to Israeli publications. Certain types of puppets are way out—marionettes, absolutely not. Too many strings, and strings are definitely tropes. Unfortunately for the president’s fundamental aperture, that leaves us with the kind of puppets that involve a big ol’ fist where the sun don’t shine.
To be fair to the president, in the Republican Party it is rather normal, even passé, for politicians to be fisted in this way, since none of the major conservative institutions are ever able to draw any line with the Israelis. That’s why the people who wish to defend their own country’s interests get fucked, and the mediocre and unprincipled tend to succeed.
We’re in the middle of what’s likely to be the final Boomer crashout. This is the generation that thinks they understand how the world works, but sold their country and their children’s futures to Israel for the last 25 years. How many 300-pound Fox News watchers attacked the bulk slop aisles in their mobility scooters at Walmart this week with a Winston Churchill speech in their otherwise empty heads? Over the course of their adult suffrage, their country has gotten poorer, their children will be worse off, and they have handed it over to other people—a generation of cuckolds.
Why the Israelis would be any more likely to listen to Trump on the question of Bibi’s trial than they were about ceasing the strikes on Iran is a bit of a mystery, but perhaps Trump is just trying to get comfortable asking anything of them at all, it being presumptively anti-semitic to the national media to do so.
If it’s not clear at this point the Steve Witkoff part of the negotiations has been a bit of a ruse, intended to assuage Trump’s actual base of support, which doesn’t want more war. All the people who hated Trump in 2016, all the people who played a huge role in the Iraq War, selling it and managing it, loved the Iran strikes. It was also done at the behest of the government which, we also found out this week, was luring Palestinians in Gaza with the hope of food, then shooting them.
If Hegseth was sidelined, and he appears to have been along with Tulsi Gabbard, and Vance was against the strikes, then they were almost certainly a production of Eric Kurilla, John Ratcliffe, and maybe Stephen Miller—which is to say, a production of the people in the White House who can be relied upon to carry Bibi’s water because they’ve been groomed by the Israelis for many years. By contrast, Steve Bannon, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the great Michael Savage have been saying it’s time to break from the Likud line. Savage even tweeted that it might be time for regime change in Israel.
Trump is going to have to make some decisions here, is he America first, or Israel first? Bibi has already denied that he has signed on to an American-led plan to finally end the war in Gaza. There are ways to be nice about it and give him a way out, but Trump probably is going to have to directly throw Bibi under the bus.
Stephen Miller’s stake in Palantir
From this week, via Migrant Insider:
Stephen Miller, the influential Trump administration aide behind its hardline immigration policies, holds a substantial financial stake in Palantir Technologies — a key tech contractor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — raising new ethics questions, according to a report published Tuesday by the Project on Government Oversight.
Miller, who served as President Donald Trump’s senior advisor on immigration and homeland security, disclosed owning between $100,001 and $250,000 of Palantir stock as of mid-March, according to financial disclosure forms obtained by the watchdog group. Ethics experts told POGO that Miller’s dual role crafting enforcement policy and investing in Palantir, which provides “mission-critical” data services for ICE, could amount to a troubling conflict of interest.
WhatsApp banned for House staffers
It’s being banned because it probably has Israeli backdoors, given that it’s owned by the Likud-run Facebook:
The U.S. House's chief administrative officer informed congressional staffers Monday that messaging app WhatsApp is banned on their government devices, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The ban, which centers on the vulnerability of staffers' data, comes as Congress is also taking steps to limit the use of AI programs it deems similarly risky.
Child pornography charges for Thomas Pham LeGro
A Washington Post guy involved in the Roy Moore reporting:
Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, made his first appearance today in U.S. District Court for allegedly possessing child pornography. LeGro, a journalist at the Washington Post and resident of the District of Columbia, was arrested yesterday and taken into custody following a search of his home.
The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. Pirro thanks FBI Assistant Director in Charge Steven J. Jensen and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department for their ongoing efforts in this investigation.
As I said, Ted Cruz’s foreign policy shop is run by Israeli intelligence
Grayzone expands, the Texas senator’s foreign policy advisor is the sister of the Israeli Trump fired from the NSC:
On June 18, former Fox host Tucker Carlson published a video which, though marketed as an interview, was more of a snuff film. Over the course of two hours, Carlson can be seen rhetorically disemboweling his debate opponent, US Senator Ted Cruz, on the politician’s determination to see the US attack Iran on Israel’s behalf.
While Cruz presents himself as a Christian Zionist moved by his own zealotry to support Israel, the politician’s Tel Aviv-driven policy line can also be traced back to his Senior Advisor for Policy and Communications, an Israeli-born Zionist lobbyist named Omri Ceren.
Sinaloa was able to kill FBI informants in Mexico
They were probably doing the same here. Via the Guardian:
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report.
The incident was disclosed in a justice department inspector general’s audit of the FBI’s efforts to mitigate the effects of “ubiquitous technical surveillance”, a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.
Guilty plea in Boss Lifestyle Ponzi scheme
Via DOJ:
A social media finance influencer pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to federal crimes related to a real estate Ponzi scheme.
Tyler Bossetti, 31, of Columbus, received more than $23 million in investments from victim investors throughout the United States and abroad. In total, dozens of investors lost more than $11 million.
He pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and aiding in a false tax filing.
According to court documents, from 2019 until 2023, Bossetti widely publicized what he described as a real estate investment program. The defendant, through his company Boss Lifestyle LLC, guaranteed large rates of return for short-term investments. He advertised the investments, often promising thirty percent or more rate of return, through social media, especially Facebook and YouTube.
New York PPE fraud charges
There’s a lot of these:
A federal grand jury in Brooklyn yesterday returned a second superseding indictment that added charges against Linda Sun and her husband and co-defendant Chris Hu related to a fraudulent scheme involving procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE) by the New York State (NYS) government at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the scheme, Sun steered contracts to vendors with whom she had undisclosed personal connections, and she and Hu received millions of dollars from the vendors, including some in the form of kickbacks, which Sun did not disclose to the NYS government. The new charges against Sun and Hu include honest services wire fraud, honest services wire fraud conspiracy, bribery, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Additionally, Hu is charged with tax evasion. The defendants will be arraigned on Monday, June 30, 2025.
Guilty plea in ‘woman of many hats’ case
This one was in the federal workforce:
Between October 2021 and May 2025, Baker worked as a management and program analyst for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. According to court documents, from October 2021 through July 2024, Baker held multiple full-time government contractor positions to perform human resources services for other federal agencies but did not seek approval from HUD to engage in this outside employment. Through this years-long scheme, Baker billed the government more than 24 hours in a single day between her employment with the federal government and contractors. The estimated loss to the government was $225,866.
Supreme Court stays nationwide injunctions over birthright citizenship
All the Supreme Court did this week was overturn a nationwide injunction to forestall enforcement of Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of non-citizens. The actual birthright citizenship question has not yet been ruled upon:
A divided Supreme Court ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left unclear the fate of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.
The court on Friday issued decisions on the final six cases that were left on its docket for the summer, including emergency appeals relating to Trump’s agenda.
Various legal scholars have written that the question Trump’s executive order concerns is probably a loophole Congress ought to close. Naturalization laws are clearly in the purview of Congress based on the Constitution. With this Supreme Court, all Congress would have to do is pass a resolution saying that the children of illegal immigrants need to be naturalized for them to be citizens, and that’s probably not something the Supreme Court would interfere with.
It’s also consistent with the idea of a nation being a people bound by law. The Roman civitas could be granted and taken away, and there were lots of gradations to it. If it were assumed that a freed slave were automatically a citizen, there would have been no need for the 14th Amendment in the first place, and it seems like an insult to the cause of African-American advancement to presume this was meant to make children of, for instance, a birth tourism racket, citizens as well.
The Republican Congress can codify Trump’s executive order if they want to. There would probably be some defections from the cheap labor lobby’s Republicans, though. It’s a little bit absurd to wait decades for these Talmudic inquisitions about what exactly it means to be subject to the normal jurisdiction of the United States. It can mean whatever Congress decides it means. Congress is just dysfunctional and they won’t say.
If the Supreme Court punts, and says for instance that the 14th Amendment was intended to grant citizenship to freed slaves, and is therefore agnostic on the question of the citizenship of children of illegal immigrants, then there’s a political fight in the midterms, in which Democrats will be in a position of having to run on passing a law to grant citizenship to all of them. That would be extraordinarily unpopular. One way or another the Dems are going to end up paying a political price for their radicalism about this stuff.
That paragraph about Boomers - chef’s kiss.