GLOVES OFF - Trump Goes Scorched Earth On Bitter RINO He's HAD IT
Thankfully, there is a group of anti-Trump RINOs departing Congress in January, and frankly, it can’t come a moment too soon. One of them is Texas ‘GOP’ Sen. John Cornyn, who appears to be on a revenge tour against the president on his way out the door.
Cornyn had no problem with the Anti-Weaponization Fund. Not one word of public objection. Not a single concern raised. Not even a raised eyebrow about the legal architecture or the settlement terms.
Then Trump endorsed Ken Paxton over him in the Texas Senate primary. Paxton won. And suddenly Cornyn discovered a principled objection to the very fund he’d been silent about for months.
Trump put it on Truth Social Friday morning, and the statement is worth reading in full because it names exactly what’s happening: “John Cornyn never had a problem with the so called ‘Fund,’ which will not benefit me, but rather the great American Patriots who were hunted down like dogs and whose lives were unfairly and illegally destroyed by the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, until after I decided to Endorse and Support his Republican Primary opponent in Texas.”
There it is. Laid out plainly. Documented. Timestamped. Cornyn’s objection to the Anti-Weaponization Fund materialized the moment he became a lame duck — which is to say, the moment he lost his primary to the candidate Trump backed. The people the fund was designed to help — the individuals targeted by Biden’s weaponized DOJ, the men and women whose lives were upended by politically motivated prosecutions — are now being used as leverage in John Cornyn’s personal score-settling operation.
Trump called it what it is: a situation where “there has perhaps never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation’s history” being weaponized by a departing senator against the administration that’s trying to help them. The irony that Cornyn is weaponizing the Anti-Weaponization Fund to settle a political grudge is not lost on anyone paying attention.
The mechanics of the obstruction are worth understanding. Blanche needs every Republican vote because not a single Democrat will support him. One Republican holdout is all it takes. Cornyn knows this. Tillis — doing his own version of the same thing — knows this too. Together they’ve turned Todd Blanche’s confirmation into a hostage situation, and the hostages are the Americans the Anti-Weaponization Fund was created to compensate.
Trump gave up his own substantial portion of the settlement — the money he personally could have received for the Mar-a-Lago raid and other documented abuses — specifically so it could go to help others. That’s the fund Cornyn is now blocking while claiming principle.
Trump’s closing line — “Thank you for your attention to this matter” — carries the distinct tone of a man who has already decided what happens next. The likely workarounds are keeping Blanche as acting AG, or pulling the nomination and resubmitting it to the new Senate in January when Cornyn is gone and Paxton is in.
Cornyn’s revenge tour ends January 3rd. The people he’s using as pawns deserve better than this from a senator spending his final months this way.
Trump-Endorsed GOP Candidate Wins Key Primary In Missouri
President Donald Trump’s endorsement continues to be the Midas Touch for candidates he backs in this year’s primary elections ahead of the fall midterms.
With that said, a Missouri Republican benefitted from his back during Tuesday’s primaries in the Show-Me State.
Missouri state Rep. Rick Brattin has won the Republican nomination for Missouri’s 5th Congressional District, according to projections by various media outlets.
Brattin emerged from a crowded Republican primary field and will face Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, an 11-term incumbent who was unopposed in his party’s primary.
The race is expected to draw national attention after last year’s redistricting made the district significantly more favorable to Republican candidates.
A Marine Corps veteran, Brattin was elected to the Missouri Senate in 2020 after previously serving in the Missouri House of Representatives.
President Trump endorsed Brattin on Monday, describing him as a “MAGA Warrior,” and Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) also backed his campaign.
Missouri’s 5th Congressional District has changed significantly following last year’s congressional redistricting.
Once centered on heavily Democratic areas surrounding Kansas City, the district was redrawn to extend more than 150 miles into central Missouri after state lawmakers divided the Kansas City metropolitan area among three congressional districts.
According to a CBS News analysis, the district’s electorate is now approximately 41% Democratic, compared with about 62% Democratic under its previous boundaries, making it considerably more competitive for Republicans.
Although Rick Brattin lives just outside the newly configured boundaries of Missouri’s 5th Congressional District, he represents part of the district in the Missouri Senate, according to The Kansas City Star.
If Brattin defeats Democratic Cleaver in November, Republicans would gain a seat that many national election analysts now rate as favorable to the GOP following last year’s redistricting.
A victory in the district could bolster Republican efforts to preserve their narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives during what many observers expect to be a competitive midterm election.
A Republican victory in Missouri’s 5th Congressional District would also end the congressional tenure of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a former mayor of Kansas City who has represented the district in the U.S. House since 2005.
Missouri Republicans had long discussed redrawing the Kansas City area’s congressional boundaries as the state became increasingly Republican.
Last fall, the state legislature approved new congressional maps as part of an unusual mid-decade redistricting effort.
The move came after Texas Republicans adopted a new map at the urging of Trump and California Democrats approved changes to several of their own districts.
Under Missouri’s current map, one congressional district in the St. Louis area is considered Democratic-leaning, while the state’s remaining seven districts generally favor Republicans.
The new maps have been challenged in court by opponents who argue the districts are not sufficiently compact and violate the Missouri Constitution.
However, the Missouri Supreme Court has allowed the congressional map to remain in effect, CBS News reported.
Meanwhile, Democrats are dealing with a left-wing socialist insurgency within their party.
Far-left candidate Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, defeating the more moderate Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens after one of the most closely watched and expensive Democratic primary contests of the 2026 election cycle.
El-Sayed will take on Republican Mike Rogers in November’s general election, Conservative Brief reported this week.
Immediately after the race was called on Wednesday, El-Sayed called out his opponents for attempting to use his full name as some sort of smear.
The son of Egyptian immigrants — whose full name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed — went after Rogers and other Republicans during a victory speech for using his full name in social media pieces.
“But right now, as bitter and as divisive and as cynical as the campaign against us might have been, I want us to realize that there is so much more that unites us now,” El-Sayed told supporters.
Senate Confirms New CDC Director Amid Disease Outbreaks
Senate Democrats have nearly universally opposed every single person nominated by President Donald Trump for a position within his administration, and that continued on Wednesday regarding his pick to head up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Worse, Senate Democrats – along with a couple of Trump-deranged RINOs on their way out of the chamber in January – nearly tanked the nomination amid a parasite-linked outbreak that is causing diarrhea in victims.
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as the next CDC director, filling the agency’s top leadership position as public health officials respond to multiple disease outbreaks across the country.
Schwartz was confirmed largely along party lines.
Her confirmation comes amid a Cyclospora outbreak linked to contaminated lettuce that has affected multiple states.
She becomes the latest person to lead the CDC during President Trump’s second term, following a period of frequent leadership changes at the nation’s primary public health agency.
Schwartz’s nomination faced significant scrutiny before reaching the Senate floor, Fox News reported.
During her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, lawmakers questioned whether she would maintain the CDC’s scientific independence while serving under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., particularly on issues involving vaccine policy.
Among those raising concerns was HELP Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., whose support was instrumental in Kennedy’s confirmation as HHS secretary last year.
Cassidy questioned whether Schwartz would make decisions based on scientific and medical evidence or defer to the administration’s policy positions.
When she was pressed during her initial confirmation hearing about whether she would push back on politically motivated policies, Schwartz told Cassidy, “The secretary will absolutely allow me to be CDC director.”
“I feel like I’m having to go after this question a little bit more firmly than I feel like I should,” Cassidy said.
“You can be CDC director and just take orders. We need a CDC director that will actually stand up to crazy, stupid things being said that undermine faith in immunization,” Cassidy, who was defeated in a GOP Senate primary earlier this year by a Trump-backed Republican said.
That changed, though, and Schwartz cleared her committee test, Fox noted.
Cassidy said the agency “needs someone who understands that the way to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases is to reassure the public that vaccines are safe and effective.”
“I’m confident that she knows what she is doing and will stand against those who do not,” he said.
Schwartz is the second CDC director to receive Senate confirmation during the current Congress.
Her predecessor, Susan Monarez, served in the position for approximately one month.
Although Monarez received strong public support from President Trump during her confirmation process, she was later replaced following what reports described as disagreements with Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.
In a rare display of unity, the Senate on Tuesday passed S. 494, the National Plan for Epilepsy Act, by unanimous consent.
The bipartisan measure, sponsored by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), directs the Department of Health and Human Services to create a coordinated national strategy aimed at preventing, diagnosing, treating, and ultimately curing epilepsy.
The bill passed without objection after clearing the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee earlier.
It now heads to the House for consideration.
Epilepsy affects nearly 3 million American adults and more than 450,000 children.
One in 26 people will develop the disorder in their lifetime.
It causes recurring, unprovoked seizures and carries a significantly higher risk of early death, especially for those with uncontrolled seizures. Healthcare costs tied to epilepsy exceed $54 billion annually.
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Schmitt, co-founder of the Senate Epilepsy Caucus, has long made the issue personal. His son lives with the condition.
“Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders in the United States, and as the father of a child living with the condition, the fight to cure epilepsy is deeply personal to me,” Schmitt said.
