It appears more criminals are trying to run over DHS agents. Last Thursday in Portland, Oregon, two criminals attempting to run over an ICE agent were shot. Now, you’re not hearing quite as much about this story as the story in Minneapolis. That’s because it wasn’t some white lesbian activist. In this case, as the local news in Portland reports, the two people who tried to run over the federal agent were a suspected gangster and his prostitute, both of whom appear to have ties to Tren de Aragua. This is another example of body camera footage and the facts vindicating law enforcement, totally upending the liberal narrative. The same thing happened in Minneapolis. In fact, the Left’s attempt to gin up these kinds of stories against cops goes all the way back to the Michael Brown case. Here we have a very clear case: illegal immigrants associated with a particularly violent Venezuelan gang, running a human trafficking ring, trying to run over cops, who were then shot. It appears they weren’t killed, but they were stopped. And yet, the Police Chief in Portland, Bob Day, had a different take on law enforcement preventing Latin American gangsters from running them over: Watch: Portland Police Chief Bob Day deserves to be mocked. This is pathetic. pic.twitter.com/xFQM2Lqsqi — Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) January 10, 2026 Credit: @GuntherEagleman/CollinRugg/X.com And what I can say is there is an association with the two folks yesterday and TDA, Tren de Aragua. I hesitated to even share this information initially because I’m very aware of the historic injustice of victim blaming, oftentimes portrayed by law enforcement, including this very agency that I’ve represented so proudly for so many years — for just a moment, specifically to my Latino community. It’s sad and small, my goodness, that we even have to qualify these remarks, because I understand — or at least have attempted to understand through your voices — your concern, your fear, your anger. This information in no way is meant to condone or support or agree with any of the actions that occurred yesterday. What actions occurred yesterday? The actions that occurred were that Venezuelan gangsters, associated with a foreign terrorist organization, tried to run over a cop, and he shot them. He says, “I hesitated to even share this information initially because I’m very aware of the historic injustice of victim blaming…” The victim in this case being a Venezuelan pimp terrorist who was trying to run over a cop in America. He says, “This information in no way is meant to condone…” You don’t condone it? You should resign. You don’t condone federal law enforcement protecting itself against a terrorist trying to run them over? A pimp, Venezuelan illegal terrorist trying to run them over? You don’t condone that? Then you need to resign, because your judgment is severely impaired. Portland’s police chief then starts crying. Crying? Even the most sensitive woman, the most opposed to violence, a dainty little gal with a modicum of common sense would not cry in this situation. If one were to cry in this situation, it would be on behalf of the poor law enforcement officer almost run over by these animals. But no, he cries for the animals. WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show So how do we prevent more incidents like these? Allow federal law enforcement to vigorously enforce the law. Because if we don’t, one of two things will happen. Either these people are going to run amok, which will result in more rioting and a lot of dead leftist agitators, as happened during BLM. When the politicians told the cops to stand down, BLM burned down cities across the country. Dozens of people caught up in the mob violence were killed, many of them sympathetic to BLM. The other option is police and federal agents not allowing themselves to be run over — whether by agitators, white ladies in Minneapolis, or foreign gangsters. Those are the only two options. If you want fewer dead agitators, which I do, then allow law enforcement to do their job. I don’t celebrate the death of the lady in Minneapolis. I don’t even really celebrate when Tren de Arugula gang members are mowed down. I would much rather see them reformed. Let them repent and lead flourishing lives. So if you want those people not to be injured or killed, you need the law to be enforced. You need to smash some windows in the cars blocking ICE officers, move them out of the street, and let law enforcement do their job.

Former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino will return to the airwaves on February 2 with a new show streaming on Rumble. Bongino announced his return to podcasting on Monday after exiting the FBI at the start of the year. “The Dan Bongino Show,” when it returns, will be live-streamed exclusively on Rumble from 10 a.m. to noon ET. The show will bring “Bongino’s unique insider perspective back to his loyal audience following a year of government service,” according to a press release. After the livestream, the show will be released on all major podcast platforms. “The new version of The Dan Bongino Show will expand on its legacy with a renewed focus on Washington insights, behind-the-scenes details from his time in government, and a message of hope and resilience in the conservative movement,” the release says. Thank you all for allowing me to serve you. We’re back on air February 2nd at 10a ET, live on https://t.co/G2Wjvsa9dR. There’s a lot to talk about. ?? pic.twitter.com/6C4IEnXYMY — Dan Bongino (@dbongino) January 12, 2026 Bongino was a popular conservative podcaster before he returned to public service as the deputy director of President Donald Trump’s FBI. After joining the administration early last year, Bongino took part in major Justice Department cases, including the release of files related to the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Bongino also played a leading role in the investigation into the person who left pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican national headquarters in Washington, D.C., on January 5, 2021. Attorney General Pam Bondi noted in a press conference last month that arresting the suspected bomber was “the best birthday present” Bongino could have asked for. Bongino also reportedly clashed with Bondi throughout his tenure at the bureau over the handling of the Epstein files. Bondi teased potential bombshells to be revealed in additional documents made public, but the bombshells never materialized. Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel, before release of the files, warned that the documents did not contain smoking guns such as a list of all of Epstein’s acquaintances suspected of sexually abusing underage girls. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles criticized Bondi’s handling of the Epstein release last year. Wiles complimented Bongino and Patel, however. “The people that really appreciated what a big deal this is are Kash [Patel] and [FBI deputy director] Dan Bongino,” she said, referring to the release of the Epstein files. She noted that the pair had been among the loudest calling for transparency in the case.

The suspect accused of setting Mississippi’s oldest synagogue on fire admitted to starting the blaze because of the building’s “Jewish ties,” and even laughed about the horrific crime, according to an FBI affidavit, saying, “he finally got them.” The criminal complaint submitted by the FBI listed Stephen Spencer Pittman as the man who lit a fire inside Beth Israel Congregation and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Mississippi, over the weekend. Security video shows a man pouring what appears to be gasoline inside the synagogue in the early hours of January 10, according to the affidavit. Pittman’s father contacted the FBI, telling the agency his son admitted to the crime. Per the report, Pittman called the buildings he burned the “synagogue of Satan” and laughed as he described what he did. In his confession, he said he stopped at a gas station to get the fuel he used to start the fire, took his license plate off his car at the gas station, broke the windows of the synagogue with an axe, poured gas inside the building, then used a torch lighter to ignite the fire. The confession was further verified by burns on Pittman’s body as well as text messages and map data that put Pittman at the center of the arson, per the affidavit. Pittman texted his father before he started the fire. He sent a picture of the synagogue with the message “there’s a furnace in the back.” The suspect’s father “pleaded” with Pittman to come home, but his son was defiant and told his father he was due for a home run, and he “did his research.” Pittman was quickly arrested and charged with maliciously damaging or destroying a building by means of fire or an explosive, per the report that was filed in the U.S. District Court in Mississippi on Monday. The fire severely burned parts of the synagogue, including the library and administrative offices. RELATED: Mississippi’s Largest Synagogue Set Ablaze In Arson Attack, Suspect In Custody Two Torahs were destroyed in the fire, and five others were damaged. One of the Torahs that survived the fire over the weekend also survived the Holocaust and was stored in a glass case in the synagogue. Jackson Fire Chief RaSean Thomas said the station’s hearts are with the Beth Israel congregation. “We stand with this community and affirm that hate has no home here. Jackson is stronger when we stand together,” Thomas said. Monday, yellow police tape still blocked off entrances to the synagogue building, which still had broken glass and soot everywhere, per the Associated Press. The outlet reported that people had laid flowers on the ground at the building’s entrance. Beth Israel is Mississippi’s only synagogue in Jackson. It has a history of being the target of hate crimes dating back to the 1960s when the KKK bombed the synagogue. Antisemitic attacks have risen dramatically in recent years, from the Tree of Life shooting in 2018 to the Bondi Beach terror attack just before Christmas. The Anti-Defamation League reported over 9,000 documented anti-semitic attacks in 2024 alone — the highest number on record since they began tracking such data in 1979. Beth Israel is closed indefinitely as the synagogue is rebuilt.

Two Senate Republicans are standing in the way of efforts to eliminate a major DEI program that gives no-bid federal contracts to “socially disadvantaged” groups, a letter obtained by The Daily Wire shows. Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan wrote to agencies saying that a race-based program that removes competition for federal contracts for racial minorities “has reflected conservative, market-based principles by empowering small businesses to compete, grow, and succeed.” They said a Republican request that agencies review past contracts for “potential fraud” was “premature” and “unsupported by established facts.” The Trump administration’s Small Business Administration moved to rein in the federal minority contracting program, known as 8(a), after a black businessman bribed a USAID official for half a billion dollars in contracts — a bribe the official could make good on only because contracts to minorities can be handed out at will instead of based on a showing of best value. In October, James O’Keefe’s Citizen Journalism Foundation captured officials from a white-led, but ostensibly Native American contractor, bragging about how they got a $100 million contract using minority preference and simply found someone else to do the actual work for a small portion of that. Follow-up reporting featured members of the Native American tribe bemoaning that outsiders were abusing the tribe’s name to enrich themselves, while tribe members lived in poverty. Alaska Natives get even more preferential treatment than black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans, allowing them to run multibillion-dollar defense contractor companies while getting benefits initially designed for small, disadvantaged firms. In December, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, which has jurisdiction over the program, wrote to agencies asking them to “immediately pause all 8(a) sole-source contracting” and “examine all 8(a) set-aside contracts awarded by your agency since FY 20 for any violation of laws and regulations,” noting that the Biden administration raised the goal for minority contracts to 15%. For years, inquiries have flagged fraud and abuse in such arrangements, but Alaska Republicans have used their disproportionate power in the Senate to make the topic off-limits. The now-deceased Ted Stevens was an Alaska Republican who chaired the Senate’s Appropriations Committee for years, and Murkowski now sits on the committee. Before the DEI craze captured Democrats, it wasn’t partisan to point out waste and abuse. In 2010, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) found abuse similar to what was highlighted by O’Keefe. But Murkowski “immediately sprung into action, lodging objections” to McCaskill’s effort to reform the program. McCaskill folded, but said, “Reform in this area is going to happen. It’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when.” In the time since, little has changed. In 2011, The Washington Post reported that a D.C. lawyer named Paralee White had used the Alaska program to land more than $500 million in military contracts and pay her family members lavish salaries. The Post noted, “Significantly for White, the subsidiaries set up by the corporations to receive contracts did not have to operate in Alaska or even be run by natives. They just had to be 51 percent owned by Alaska Natives, and they could hire nonnative subcontractors to do much of the work.” In another case, a Bethesda, Maryland, man was paid $15 million to run an Alaskan government contractor for three years, while Alaska Natives received a total of $682,000 in dividends in 2009, or $305 each. The company won a contract to make military uniforms, which it manufactured in Puerto Rico instead of Alaska. Sullivan and Murkowski did not publicize their letters to federal agencies, which goes against Republican orthodoxy when it comes to DEI and fraud and waste. A spokesman for Murkowski, Joseph Plesha, did not respond when The Daily Wire asked about the letter. The inquiry asked: “Do you think the SBA and agencies have done a sufficient job rooting out abuse? If not, what are some examples that you’ve uncovered through your oversight? Do you support 8(a) for all minorities or only Alaskan natives?” It also asked whether the type of Alaska Native Corporation that Murkowski holds up as a success includes Bowhead, virtually all of whose executives are white men. Bowhead is technically an arm of an Alaskan tribe, but it is headquartered in the D.C. suburbs, and its family of high-tech defense contractors looks and operates like Northrop Grumman or Lockheed Martin — but without having to compete with them on price. A spokeswoman for Sen. Sullivan, Amanda Coyne, also did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry requesting data showing that such firms were actually staffed by Alaska Natives. The letter said the 8(a) program “reduces administrative burden, shortens acquisition timelines, and avoids the delays and litigation risks that often accompany large-scale procurements. Further, as two Senators who care about the readiness of our military, we consistently hear from top Pentagon officials that the 8(a) Program provides flexibility and timeliness in procuring weapons systems that strengthen our country.” The reason that some government officials like using 8(a) contracting is that they do not have to bother with competing for the work, a process designed to get the highest quality and lowest cost. Instead, they can simply choose who they want to give it to. At times, that includes the implicit understanding that the supposedly disadvantaged firm will subcontract much of the work to a traditional firm. The 8(a) program is also facing court challenges, particularly after recent Supreme Court decisions made it likely that elements of it are unconstitutional. Multiple injunctions have been put in place by judges, and a lawsuit by lawyers from the Center for Individual Rights and the Wisconsin Institute for Life and Liberty has recently been filed on behalf of white people who were left out in the cold. Dan Lennington, the director of the Wisconsin group’s Equality Under the Law Project, told The Daily Wire, “There is simply no question that the 8(a) program has been the source of significant waste, fraud, and abuse. The program was designed for ‘economically disadvantaged’ small business owners, yet our clients have reported that these limits are not enforced and easily evaded, meaning that high net-worth individuals often scoop up preferences and sole-source contracts.” “Moreover, the Section 8(a) program has been tainted with unconstitutional racial preferences, including racial preferences for ‘Alaska Natives,’ which Senators Murkowski and Sullivan undoubtedly support. Federal law defines this category based on ‘blood,’ ‘bloodlines,’ and ‘minimum blood quantum,’ all of which constitute unconstitutional racial categorizations. SBA should vigorously enforce the President’s Executive Orders, which require all agencies to eliminate racial preferences, including those remaining in Section 8(a),” he continued. Murkowski and Sullivan’s letter read: Fraud, waste, and abuse have no place in federal programs, and any participant who violates the law should be held fully accountable. However, we write to express serious concern with recent, unsubstantiated attacks on the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 8(a) Business Development Program and the request that federal agencies halt all 8(a) sole-source awards absent verified findings of wrongdoing. On December 8, 2025, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship sent letters to 22 federal agencies urging a pause on future 8(a) sole-source awards and a review of prior awards based on allegations of “potential fraud.” These requests are premature, unsupported by established facts, and risk significant harm to federal missions and thousands of compliant small businesses that lawfully participate in this program. Broad, sensationalized allegations leveled before the completion of any investigation amount to a presumption of guilt and undermine fundamental principles of due process. For more than 40 years, the 8(a) Program, authorized under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, has been one of the federal government’s most effective tools for promoting entrepreneurship and economic mobility for disadvantaged communities. Participating firms routinely deliver high-quality, specialized services, achieve strong Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) performance ratings, and provide agencies with cost-effective, timely procurement options. The program reduces administrative burden, shortens acquisition timelines, and avoids the delays and litigation risks that often accompany large-scale procurements. Further, as two Senators who care about the readiness of our military, we consistently hear from top Pentagon officials that the 8(a) Program provides flexibility and timeliness in procuring weapons systems that strengthen our country. We fully support targeted, evidence-based oversight that identifies and removes bad actors. We cannot support sweeping actions that jeopardize thousands of legitimate businesses, many of which perform mission-critical work for your agency and others across the federal government. Accordingly, we urge you to continue utilizing the 8(a) Program consistent with existing law and regulation, while allowing any appropriate reviews to proceed in an orderly and fact-driven manner. For decades, this program has reflected conservative, market-based principles by empowering small businesses to compete, grow, and succeed, rather than expanding government dependence on bureaucracy. Editor’s note: Luke Rosiak testified to the Senate Committee on Small Business about 8(a) contract abuse.

WASHINGTON—The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good after she blocked federal officers with her car and then drove toward him with her vehicle has the staunch backing of the White House, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday. Leavitt reiterated President Donald Trump’s position on the incident as she spoke to reporters outside the White House on a frigid Monday afternoon, tearing into protestors for opposing the ICE operations in Minneapolis — operations intended to make their community safer. “All weekend long, you had agitators and violent American citizens out in the streets of Minneapolis ‘protesting,'” Leavitt said. “Protesting what, exactly? Apparently, they are protesting the removal of heinous murderers and rapists and criminals.” The White House press secretary praised the ICE agents who continue doing their work despite the backlash from left-wing protestors. She specifically emphasized that the Trump administration has the back of the ICE agent who shot 37-year-old Good, described by her neighbors as a “warrior” member of an “ICE watch” group. “ICE is doing an incredibly important job that’s not just important to our homeland security, but our national security,” Leavitt said. “This administration will continue to stand wholeheartedly by the brave men and women of ICE, including that officer in Minneapolis who was absolutely justified in using self-defense against a lunatic who is part of a group, an organized group, to interject and to impede on law enforcement operations.” WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 12: U.S. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks to reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House on January 12, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) She added, “It’s disgusting what we have seen from the Left, and I think that it just shows you where the modern-day Democrat Party stands today in protecting illegal alien pedophiles and rapists and murderers over law-abiding American citizens and our brave men and women who serve in law enforcement.” The ICE agent who is currently under heavy scrutiny was previously dragged over 100 yards down the street as he chased an illegal immigrant who was convicted of “repeatedly sexually abusing his 16-year-old stepdaughter,” the Daily Wire’s Jennie Taer previously reported. The officer repeatedly tried to de-escalate the situation and gave the suspect the opportunity to comply, court documents show. According to the Department of Homeland Security, there has been a 1,300% increase in assaults on ICE agents, a 3,200% surge in vehicle attacks on ICE agents, and an 8,000% increase in death threats against ICE agents. DHS blames this rise in violence against ICE agents on the “malicious rhetoric of sanctuary politicians.” Democrats across the board argue that the ICE agent killed Good without justification. Top voices like Zohran Mamdani outright accused the ICE agent of murdering Good, former presidential candidate Kamala Harris said the “Trump administration’s explanation of this shooting is pure gaslighting,” and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has repeatedly characterized ICE and their activities as dangerous to the public, telling ICE to “get the f*ck out of Minneapolis.” Meanwhile, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were quick to back the agent, citing videos of the incident showing that he shot Good after she drove her car into him. “I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota,” the president said in a post on Wednesday. “It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.” Trump said at the time that “the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis.” “They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE,” he argued. “We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!” As for Vance, the vice president took the podium at the White House press briefing on Thursday and aggressively defended the administration’s immigration enforcement, backing the ICE agent and calling on reporters to pray for the man facing so much backlash, arguing that the agent “wishes he was not put in the position where he had to fire a gun to defend his own life.” “The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace,” he told the White House press, “and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.”