Quick Takes from the Past 24-48 Hours

The following is an installment of Trump-Vance team accomplishments (each article is linked for further info):

1. Patel Shocks Intel Community, Announces He Is Moving FBI Out of Hoover Building

I didn’t know that I was going to do this, but I’m going to announce it on your show anyway – This FBI is leaving the Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce.

Kash Patel, in an interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo on Friday, pointed out the poor logistical planning involved in having a third of the FBI workforce located in Washington, D.C.

So, we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out.

He Explained:

I think when we do things like that, we inspire folks in America to become intel analysts and agents and say, ‘We want to go work at the FBI because we want to go fight violent crime, and we want to get sent out into the country to do it.

Further:

In the next six to nine months, we’re going to do that hard.

And:

We want the American men and women to know if you’re going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, we’re going to give you a building that’s commensurate with that, and that’s not this place.

2. Senator Markwayne Mullin Just Ended the Media Freak Out Over Trump’s Qatar Plane

According to the Senate Armed Services Committee member, Senator Mullin, negotiations to accept the plane for use as a temporary Air Force One until the new Boeing models arrive actually began under the previous administration. The Left is burned again!

Mullin appeared with CNN’s Jake Tapper and was grilled on whether he had any concerns about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo endorsing the legality of accepting the luxury jet. He dismissed it as a non-controversy.

Mullin asked:

The real question is, Jake, why is this an issue? Could you explain to me why this is a big issue? Because I can’t figure it out.

Further:

The last time I checked, we were okay when France gave us the Statue of Liberty.

Tapper countered that Congress authorized the acceptance of the Statue and promptly played the ‘I’m not the one saying it’s an issue; it’s these others’ card. The two argued back and forth on the matter before Mullin dropped what would amount to a bombshell.

Mullin revealed:

What the media isn’t telling you and what no one’s talking to you about is this same 747 has been in negotiations for a year.

Further:

The Biden administration is the one that started these conversations.

And:

It didn’t start in the Trump administration. Why? Because we need a backup for Air Force One.

Because right now, the President of the United States is flying around on a 40-year-old plane and there is no backup for it.

3. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Demands Comey Be Put Behind Bars for ’86 47′ Threat; Plus Ed Martin Gives His Legal Opinion

Comey issued a thinly veiled call to violence against the President when he posted a picture of a seashell arrangement reading “86 47,” claiming to have stumbled upon the display during his walk on the beach.

The “86” portion of the message means to “get rid of,” though some believe it means to remove a person through violent means. Comey has denied knowledge of the nefarious meaning, which seems far-fetched for the former head of the FBI. Additionally, this was already a very public debate in 2020 when Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer had an “86 45” display on her desk.

He knew what he was doing.

Gabbard went scorched earth on Comey during an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters, having said his social media post was a “veiled call to action to murder the sitting president of the United States.”

The former Democrat congresswoman stressed the importance of taking the comments seriously, especially with the context of two assassination attempts against President Trump in the past year.

She said:

The dangerousness of this, Jesse, cannot be underestimated.

**ADDITIONAL**

Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed Martin said former FBI Director James Comey is going to prison after he posted an assassination threat against President Trump.

He knew… He’s got a problem. Perjury traps are next. Going to jail on one or the other.

WATCH:

4. Five House Republicans Vote NO—Largest Tax Increase in American History Looms

The House Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee—led by Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO)—previously released the text of a monumental new tax reform package titled “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill.”

The bill, strongly backed by President Trump, is aimed at delivering historic cuts to American families, workers, and small businesses.

The 389-page bill includes a long list of pro-growth, America-First provisions that echo many of the successful features of the 2017 Trump Tax Cuts—this time with added firepower. This includes no taxes on tips and overtime.

But five GOPers in the House Budget Committee shot it down primarily over cost concerns.

One particular gripe was the Medicaid “cuts” and the expiration of several wasteful ‘green’ energy tax credits were pushed back several years, while most of the “goodies” were delivered up front.

• Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia
• Rep. Chip Roy of Texas
• Rep. Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
• Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina
• Rep. Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania

5. White House Slams Episcopal Church for Racist Double Standard After Refusing to Resettle White South African Refugees

The controversy erupted after the church’s presiding bishop, the Most Rev. Sean Rowe, announced in a sanctimonious open letter that the denomination would refuse to help resettle white Afrikaner families from South Africa, despite their documented persecution, farm murders, and political targeting under the post-apartheid regime.

Instead of offering compassion, the Episcopal Church, chose to wrap itself in the language of “racial justice” and walked away from helping victims of violence and displacement simply because they were not politically convenient.

Even more hypocritical, just last year, the Episcopal Church proudly bragged about aiding illegal immigrants who broke U.S. immigration laws.

But when the federal government legally classified 59 white Afrikaners as refugees under international standards, suddenly the church wanted nothing to do with it.

Deputy White House Press Secretary Anna Kelly spoke to The Daily Signal:

The Episcopal Church’s decision to terminate its decades-long partnership with the U.S. government over the resettlement of 59 desperate Afrikaner refugees raises serious questions about its supposed commitment to humanitarian aid.

Any religious group should support the plight of Afrikaners, who have been terrorized, brutalized, and persecuted by the South African government.

The Afrikaners have faced unspeakable horrors and are no less deserving of refugee resettlement than the hundreds of thousands of others who were allowed into the United States during the past administration.

President [Donald] Trump has made it clear: refugee resettlement should be about need, not politics.