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While San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles collectively lost nearly a million residents, something remarkable is happening in America’s forgotten towns. Places like Superior, Arizona – population 3,000 – where a perfect storm of opportunity is brewing: It sits on federal land that could be the first target for Trump’s “Freedom Cities” initiative A vast copper deposit is on track to be approved, nearby A massive migration of Americans seeking affordable living is already underway Former CIA and Treasury advisor Jim Rickards believes this confluence of factors will trigger an economic boom unseen since the late 1800s. “What’s happening here isn’t just about housing,” Rickards told me. “We’re looking at potentially the greatest transfer of wealth in American history.” The implications are staggering. Americans who position themselves early could see massive wealth as these new boomtowns emerge. We’ve documented everything in our exclusive interview with Rickards, which you can watch, free of charge, right here. (Note: Thank you for supporting businesses like the one presenting a sponsored message in this article and ordering through the included links, which benefits WLTReport. We appreciate your support!  MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!)

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Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Wednesday they plan to release their own client list after the Justice Department in July announced it found no evidence of one. At a rally on Capitol Hill, Epstein victim Lisa Phillips said she and other survivors of Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell plan to release a list of those involved in the abuse. “Epstein was not just a serial predator; he was an international human trafficker,” Phillips said. “And many around him knew this, many participated, and many profited, and yet, he was protected. I know what it’s like to be trafficked to others, and I know the files contain the names of powerful men who have been shielded because of their fame or fortune.” “And let me announce now, several of us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list of names,” she added to the cheers of the crowd. “We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world, and it will be done by survivors and for survivors.” After the rally, the Epstein victims and their supporters joined some Republican and Democratic lawmakers for a press conference just outside the Capitol Building. Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke, calling on the federal government to release more information on the Epstein investigation. “[The] Washington establishment is asking the American public to believe something that is not believable,” Massie said. “They’re asking you to believe that two individuals created hundreds of victims and they acted alone and that the DOJ has no idea of who else might have been involved that nobody else did anything that rose to a criminal enterprise. The American people know that’s not true.” The DOJ said that it did not find evidence that Epstein had a client list or that powerful co-conspirators were involved in his child sex crimes. The DOJ also noted that the evidence showed that Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell in August 2019. President Donald Trump has blasted those focusing on the Epstein files, arguing that the issue is being pushed by the “Fake News” and “success-starved Dems.” During the press conference, Epstein accuser Jena-Lisa Jones said, “I remembered crying the entire way home, thinking about how I couldn’t ever tell anyone about what actually happened in that house. This guy was so rich and had so many pictures with so many famous people and no one would have ever believed me if I told them.” Jones told CNN that she met Epstein when she was just 14, and that he was her first sexual experience. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee released more than 33,000 pages of Epstein documents, but critics blasted the heavily redacted document trove. “What people are waking up and discovering right now is — the folks who stayed up all night to go through the 34,000 individual pages have found that they’re so redacted as to be useless,” Massie said. Khanna said during the press conference that less than 1% of the Epstein files had been released. “A nation that allows rich and powerful men to traffic and abuse young girls without consequence is a nation that has lost its moral and spiritual core,” he said. Wednesday’s rally and press conference was the largest gathering of Epstein’s accusers since a 2019 court hearing following the sex abuser’s death, The Washington Post reported. House lawmakers met with Epstein victims on Tuesday to discuss releasing more documents. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who supports a limited release of Epstein documents, praised the Tuesday document dump, saying, “There’s 33,000 documents that were released because of this administration. When we met with victims yesterday, they said that they don’t want their personal information to be out there, and they actually asked us to not put it out there, so obviously that was information that was withheld from that document release.” Massie also filed a discharge petition on Tuesday in an attempt to force a House vote on releasing the Epstein files. The discharge petition must receive 218 votes, a majority of the House, to move a vote forward. Khanna believes that all House Democrats would sign the petition, and is hopeful that at least six Republicans would also sign. Massie said he is two Republicans away from passing the discharge petition, along with Massie and Greene, Reps. Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Lauren Boebert of Colorado are the only Republicans to sign the petition.

Irish comedian Graham Linehan said he was arrested in London on Monday over social media posts deemed “transphobic.” The 57-year-old celeb, who is best known for appearances in popular British comedies like “The IT Crowd” and “Father Ted,” said he was rushed to the hospital after being taken to jail due to high blood pressure likely caused by stress. Linehan said he was greeted by law enforcement after he stepped off a flight from Arizona to London.  “The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three posts on X,” he wrote in an op-ed for The Free Press. “In a country where pedophiles escape prison, where knife crime is out of control, the state had mobilized five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for these three posts.” Linehan said many law enforcement officers he encountered during the ordeal exhibited “bafflement” and seemed to have “absolutely no idea” what his alleged crime was. But then, during an interview with one of the officers, the tone changed. “He asked about each of the posts in turn, with the sort of earnest intensity usually reserved for discussing something serious like. . . oh, I don’t know—crime?” Linehan wrote. “I explained that the post about punching a trans-identified man in a female-only space was a serious point made with a joke. Men who enter women’s spaces are abusers, and they need to be challenged every time.” “The officer mentioned the term trans people. I asked him what he meant by the phrase. ‘People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth,’” he continued. “‘Assigned at birth?’ I responded. ‘Our sex isn’t assigned.’ He called it semantics. I told him he was using activist language.” The Irish comedian said a nurse checked his blood pressure, and it was in “stroke territory.” He was transported to the hospital and was put under observation. Linehan said the arresting officers offered him bail on the condition that he stop posting on X. “I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to the hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online—all because I made jokes on X,” he wrote. “The UK has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women, and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad.” The posts in question include one that says, “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.” Another has a photo of a trans activist gathering and includes the caption, “A photo you can smell.” The third one says, “I hate them all. Misogynists and homophobes. F*** em.”

Just days ago, Rudy Giuliani made headlines for surviving a car accident after stopping on the side of a highway to help a woman reporting domestic violence. This recent act of public service from “America’s Mayor” reflects a lifetime of public service, from taking down the Mafia in the Southern District of New York’s famed 1980s “Commission Trial,” to prosecuting high-profile terrorism cases that were tied to the first World Trade Center bombing in the 1990s with Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy. Unfortunately, that history of fearless, nonpartisan justice stands in sharp contrast to the SDNY’s posture today, where partisan lawfare seems to dominate. That’s why it’s so encouraging that a group of judges ruled in late August that Trump appointee Jay Clayton can remain in place as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Clayton has the potential to restore the SDNY back to its former glory during the Giuliani years. He is a longtime Republican who clerked for a Reagan-appointed judge and served as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission during the first Trump administration. For far too long, the SDNY has seemed to specialize in partisan lawfare. For example, SDNY Judge Lewis Kaplan presided over journalist E. Jean Carroll’s 2019 civil lawsuit against Trump, which accused the sitting president of rape and defamation. Carroll couldn’t remember what year the alleged assault took place, never mentioned it in her diary, and claimed that the numerous similarities between her account and a 2012 “Law and Order” episode were an “astonishing” coincidence. But despite all these holes in Carroll’s story, the Left saw a chance to undermine Trump and leaped at it. Democrat billionaire megadonor Reid Hoffman funded the entire lawsuit through his nonprofit American Future Republic, and it was anti-Trump commentator George Conway who urged Carroll to sue in the first place. Kaplan not only oversaw this farce but also put his thumb on the scale for Carroll. He ruled male DNA found on Carroll’s dress inadmissible, even after Trump offered to provide a sample. He admitted additional defamation charges that punished Trump for defending himself on social media. He even interrupted a line of questioning from Trump’s lawyer in a way that signaled clearly to the jury where his sympathies lay. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images The SDNY also conveniently charged New York City Mayor Eric Adams with bribery shortly after he started speaking out against the Biden administration’s open border policies. When the Trump administration ordered the charges dropped, multiple prosecutors resigned in outrage after failing to make a single peep about the lawfare campaign against Trump. These partisan prosecutions even extend to the realm of antitrust enforcement. The SDNY is currently playing host to a Biden-era Justice Department lawsuit against Visa. Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland accused the company of driving up “the price of nearly everything” by monopolizing the debit transaction market. In fact, it was Biden’s own inflationary policies that were driving up prices. Visa, which has a high market share because of its popularity but nothing close to a monopoly, just provided a handy scapegoat. Meanwhile, the district always seems to drop the ball when it comes to getting actual justice for actual victims. They failed to charge crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried until his whole fraudulent empire was collapsing around him, even though the writing was on the wall long before the crash. By that point, it was already too late. Bankman-Fried was the largest single donor to Democrats in the 2022 midterms, ploughing over $40 million into PACs that helped Democrats keep the Senate and hold Republican gains in the House to historic lows. Damian Williams, then the U.S. attorney for the SDNY, made it clear that these donations from SBF and his cronies were funded with “stolen customer money.” The people SBF defrauded might get their money back, but voters have no such remedy. There’s no way to un-air the ads his ill-gotten gains bankrolled. The sex trafficking case against rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs provides another example of the SDNY’s failure. Maurene Comey, the lead prosecutor on the case, botched it so badly that the Justice Department fired her just weeks after the verdict came down. Although Combs was convicted of prostitution offenses and faces up to 20 years in prison, the jury found him not guilty on the more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Incidentally, Comey also worked on district’s prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. That case ended with a conviction and a 20-year prison sentence but left so many unanswered questions that it’s difficult to call it an unqualified win. During her confirmation hearings, Attorney General Pam Bondi promised to end “partisan weaponization” and “restore confidence and integrity to the Department of Justice – and each of its components.” The SDNY is a particularly dysfunctional component that’s been fouling the gears of our justice system for far too long. By ending the disastrous tradition of “blue slips,” the administration can take a major step toward the restoration of truly impartial justice. There is no better way to honor the now recovering “America’s Mayor” than by restoring one of his top legacies back to its former glory. * * * James Skyles is a legal policy analyst and the principal of Skyles Law Group. He has written for some of the largest legal publications in the United States, including Law.com and Law360. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from deporting suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua under the Alien Enemies Act.  In a 2-1 decision, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with three illegal immigrants accused of being members of Tren de Aragua. The majority said that the wave of illegal immigrants from Venezuela who have entered the United States in recent years should not be considered an invasion under the terms of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. In March, President Donald Trump invoked the 18th-century law to classify members of Tren de Aragua as alien enemies to be removed under the 227-year-old statute. “A country’s encouraging its residents and citizens to enter this country illegally is not the modern-day equivalent of sending an armed, organized force to occupy, to disrupt, or to otherwise harm the United States. There is no finding that this mass immigration was an armed, organized force or forces,” wrote Judge Leslie Southwick.  The case is likely to end up before the Supreme Court. Judge Andrew Oldham wrote a dissenting opinion criticizing the majority and arguing that federal judges were usurping Trump’s lawful authority.  “The majority’s approach to this case is not only unprecedented — it is contrary to more than 200 years of precedent. It reflects a view of the Judicial power that is not only muscular — it is herculean. And it reflects a view of the Executive power that is not only diminutive — it is made subservient to the foreign-policy and public-safety hunches of every federal district judge in the country,” Oldham wrote.  Oldham said that the danger that Tren de Aragua posed to the United States was clear based on their record of kidnappings, murders, rapes, and theft in the country. The Trump appointee also questioned the practicality of allowing judges to hold up the process of declaring an invasion.  “Does that mean the United States could be beset by a predatory incursion for the entirety of the Trump Administration and that the President would remain powerless to act until given the green light by one or more federal judges?” he wrote.  The Trump administration classified Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization in February, saying that it “has conducted kidnappings, extorted businesses, bribed public officials, authorized its members to attack and kill U.S. law enforcement, and assassinated a Venezuelan opposition figure.” On Tuesday, Trump announced that the U.S. military took out a boat leaving Venezuela with 11 members of Tren de Aragua allegedly transporting drugs headed for America. The strike took place in international waters. 

President Donald Trump had a blunt, dismissive response to a viral video that purported to show someone repeatedly throwing garbage out a White House window, as he pointed out the video was likely AI-generated. The video was posted by an anti-Trump account and looked like this: What is going on here? pic.twitter.com/Sy0lRUEXPq — PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) September 1, 2025 “There is a video that is circulating online now of the White House where a window is open to the residence upstairs, and somebody is throwing a big bag out the window. Have you seen this?” Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked at a White House press conference on Tuesday. “No, that’s probably AI-generated,” Trump answered. “Actually, you can’t open the windows. You know why? They’re all heavily armored and bulletproof.” “So that’s a fake, a fake video?” Doocy queried. “It’s got to be because I know every window up there,” Trump answered. The last place I’d be doing it is that because there’s cameras all over the place, right? Including yours. … In fact, my wife was complaining about it the other day. She said, ‘Love to have a little fresh air come in.’ But you can’t. They’re bulletproof. Number one, they’re sealed. And number two, each window weighs about 600 pounds. You have to be pretty strong to open them up.” “It’s the kind of thing they do.” Trump continued. “And one of the problems we have with AI, it’s both good and bad. If something happens really bad, just blame AI. But also, they create things, you know, it works both ways. If something happens that’s really bad, maybe I’ll have to just blame AI. But there’s truth to it because I see so many phony things. I  saw something (AI-generated video) as I was growing up from the time I was a baby till now. I said, ‘Who did that?’ It was AI-generated. So, it’s a little bit scary to be honest with you.” “But those windows are all very heavily sealed,” he concluded.