Hollywood star Woody Harrelson torched Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and said Fauci has done some “extraordinary evil s**t” and knows it. During his recent appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, the 63-year-old actor and host both said they were hopeful that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who has been sworn in as President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services — could right some of the wrongs they attributed to Fauci. “Bobby (RFK Jr.), I really hope he’s able to do some good because he’s certainly a man on a mission,” Harrelson said. “And a man who cares deeply. And I think really heroic how much he stood up for things that he didn’t need to talk about … he just took one arrow after the other over it.” Rogan admitted he once bought into the “propaganda” against Kennedy and said that he too used to think RFK Jr. was a “kook.” He said then he read his book “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense)” and changed his mind. WOODY: “AZT was known to be a highly toxic, really ineffective drug. And of course that was the one they picked … That k*lled friends of mine … Fauci did some extraordinarily evil sh*t, and he knows what he did.” pic.twitter.com/nvxmaukv3X — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 23, 2025 “If all these things [RFK] is saying about Anthony Fauci during the AIDS crisis, if that’s not true, why is he not getting sued?” the podcast host said.  “I would sue the f**k outta him if he lied about me and said that I was vaccinating foster kids with experimental drugs that were killing them,” he added. “The Hunger Games” star criticized the fact that “Fauci was able to get these principal investigators from like all these respectable colleges and put them on these committees…” “He [Fauci] started with the AZT thing [to fight AIDS],” the three-time Oscar nominee said. “And, you know, AZT was known to be a highly toxic, really ineffective drug, and of course, that was the one they picked.” “And so they started using that again, and I don’t know how many people that killed,” he added. “That killed friends of mine. AZT was very toxic and they finally had to yank it. And now they use different chemical cocktails, but like, Fauci did some extraordinarily evil s**t. And he knows what he did.” The podcast host pointed out that the Matthew McConaughey movie “Dallas Buyers Club” dealt with the AIDS epidemic — and said that the villain in the movie was based on Fauci. “That was about people trying to seek alternative treatments to deal with AIDS … that’s Fauci, that’s AZT,” Rogan said. “Magic Johnson got on AZT and it was killing him and he got off of it.” Harrelson pointed out that Johnson is still alive, suggesting it was because he stopped taking the drug. Related: Woody Harrelson Explains Why He No Longer Carries A Cell Phone

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who jumped into action to protect Jackie Kennedy immediately after President John F. Kennedy was struck by an assassin’s bullets, died at his home in Belvedere, California, on Friday. He was 93. Hill’s death was announced by his publicist, Jennifer Robinson, The New York Times reported. The decorated Secret Service agent is known for jumping onto the back of the Kennedys’ limousine moments after the president was shot in Dallas in 1963. In video footage of the assassination, Hill — who was assigned to protect the first lady — is seen running toward the limo and jumping onto the back of the vehicle as Jackie reaches for his help. Hill pushed Jackie back into her seat, protecting her from potentially falling off the back of the limo. Kennedy aide David F. Powers later told the Warren Commission, which was tasked with investigating the assassination, that “Special Agent Clinton Hill saved [Jackie’s] life.” Powers added that Jackie “probably would have fallen off the rear end of the car and would have been right in the path of the other cars proceeding in the motorcade.’’ In the limousine, Hill recalled hearing the first lady say, “My God! They have shot his head off!” Hill then turned to the Secret Service agents in the car behind them and gave them a thumbs down, according to The Washington Post. After JFK’s death, Hill continued working in the first lady’s security detail through the 1964 presidential election. Hill said that he became close friends with both President Kennedy and Jackie and was often invited to their social gatherings as a guest, not just as an agent on duty. Hill retired from the Secret Service in 1975, but not before he became the assistant director in charge of all protective forces. Hill was also given the highest award given by the Treasury Department, which previously oversaw the Secret Service, 13 days after the JFK assassination for his “extraordinary courage and heroic effort in the face of maximum danger.” In an op-ed for the Times in 2010, Hill wrote about the assassination that changed the trajectory of American history. According to Hill’s account, immediately after the first shot rang out, he turned to locate where the sound came from and then “scanned the presidential limousine and saw the president grab at his throat and lurch to the left.” “I jumped off the running board and ran toward his car. I was so focused on getting to the president and Mrs. Kennedy to provide them cover that I didn’t hear the second shot,” Hill wrote. “I was just feet away when I heard and felt the effects of a third shot. It hit the president in the upper right rear of his head, and blood was everywhere. Once in the back seat, I threw myself on top of the president and first lady so that if another shot came, it would hit me instead.” In an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN in 2012, Hill said he’s “always felt a sense of guilt” for President Kennedy’s death on his watch. “I was the only agent present that had an opportunity to do anything because of the way everything happened,” Hill said. “When the shots came in from the right rear because I was on the left running board and my vision took me across the back of the president’s car, I saw the president grab at his throat and lunge to his left; I knew something was wrong. None of the other agents could do that because when they looked toward the shot, they looked away from the president’s car. So I was the only one who really had a chance, and that has [eaten] at me throughout the years.” In 2021, Hill married journalist and author Lisa McCubbin with whom he collaborated on multiple books including “Five Days in November” and “My Travels With Mrs. Kennedy.” Hill is survived by his wife along with his two sons, Chris and Corey, whom he had with his first wife, Gwendolyn Brown. He is also survived by five grandchildren and two step-grandsons.

Nature is healing.  Nowhere is it more healing than right now at MSNBC.  Joy Reid is apparently losing her show at MSNBC and leaving the network completely. But MSNBC insists they are going to continue with their leftist views. They are not going to move toward the center. Genius-level ideas from the leadership over at MSNBC. They are reportedly going to move Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary to Joe Biden, to anchor one of the primetime hours during the week. She could be named anchor of MSNBC’s 9 p.m. hour, where Rachel Maddow is currently holding court. Joy Reid is apparently going to be replaced by Symone Sanders-Townsend, who was a press secretary for Bernie Sanders before being a press secretary for Kamala Harris; Michael Steele, the former RNC chairman who has moved far to the Left; and Alicia Menendez. The leadership over at MSNBC suggests they are going to add Politico’s Eugene Daniels and NYU law professor Melissa Murray to the network’s lineup as well. So they are continuing to move over to the Left. This reflects a serious problem in the Democratic Party: They do not know which way to move. They are stuck because of identity politics and, largely, because of immigration. They are now stuck in a rut of their own making, and it is very difficult to break out of that rut. As a result, Democrats are thrashing against the box of reality. Former Bill Clinton pollster Mark Penn points out the Democratic Party is more unpopular than they’ve been any time in his lifetime, saying, “I have never seen anything like this. This is a record low for the Democratic Party in terms of favorability.” Democrats are trying to figure out exactly to whom they should turn in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory and the fact that he’s now steamrolling through his agenda. Do they turn back to the supposedly moderate types, the Joe Biden types? Or should they double down on Kamala Harris, who is still wandering the landscape. Democrats themselves are torn as to how to approach the Trump administration. On the one hand, they want to go back to resistance-style anger. They want to just scream at the wind — a lot. The problem for them is that they can’t find a point of consolidation because much of what Trump is doing right now is quite popular. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show So, they’re stuck in a weird in-between. On the one hand, they want to preach that Trump is non-empathetic and more empathy is needed. But people don’t see the Democrats as empathetic. At a town hall event in Roswell, Georgia, a Democrat woman went on a rant over the weekend that got a lot of attention from the Left. She blustered: It’s clear from all the writings of our founding fathers that our great republic was never meant to be ruled by a dictator nor a king. It’s clear from all the writings of our Founding Fathers that our great Republic was never meant to be ruled by a dictator, nor a king. … So you can imagine my shock and pure horror when I woke up to find that our president had given himself unprecedented executive powers, and then, within a few days, named himself King to his followers. … Tyranny is rising in the white House, and a man has declared himself our king. So I would like to know. Rather the people would like to know what you, congressman, and your fellow congressman are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House. All of this rings hollow. It is sound and fury signifying almost nothing at this point because the Democratic Party does not know what it stands for. On the one hand, they want to say they are for everyone. On the other hand, they want to push identity politics. On the one hand, they want to talk about no dictatorship. On the other hand, they want government to control every part of Americans’ lives. On the one hand, they want to rave that Trump is breaking down foreign policy. On the other hand, they want to surrender almost everywhere. So which is it? In the end, the answer is that, for Democrats, their future hinges on one thing: Trump’s failure. If Trump fails, they win. It’s that simple. They don’t have anything else. Their only point of consolidation is if Trump and his administration fail at making America succeed. That is the only way that they have a pathway back to power. Democrats are betting that it’s all going to fall apart for President Trump. And massive collapse doesn’t appear to be on the horizon — unless there is some sort of serious economic problem. And that is why the central focus of the Trump administration right now must be on bringing down inflation; it must be on economic growth. That’s what the central focus has to be. Yes, we want to see President Trump keep all of his promises — and he will with regard to immigration. Sure, we would like to see President Trump bring an end to the war in Ukraine in a reasonable fashion. But the thing that Americans care most about — and this is always true — is their economic well-being. We have a real estate bubble because fewer people are selling their homes and demand has remained. We have a stock market bubble which is likely to break at some point. These are the worries the Trump administration has to deal with. Inflation is driving both of those things because the currency was wildly inflated over the course of Biden’s tenure. Inflation remains at 3% right now, which is 50% higher than the Federal Reserve generally prefers. That means interest rates are unlikely to come down, which means it will be tough to get a loan. At the same time, someone who has a loan will not want to spend their money on inflated assets. This is a bit of a sticky patch for the American economy. Productivity gains will help; more competition, less regulation, more investment in newer things will help. But DOGE alone is not going to solve these fiscal problems. It’s very good to talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, but those three elements amount to a negligible percentage of actual federal spending. To unshackle the economy and see productivity gains, business growth, and an economic boom, the kinds of programs that no one is politically willing to target must be targeted. The single most important op-ed of the last five years was penned by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington and former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm in September of last year. In it, they discussed what is actually driving America’s systemic national debt. The actual systemic drivers of the debt, as Arrington and Phil Gramm pointed out, are in the means-tested social welfare spending programs — precisely the things that neither party actually wants to touch, such as Medicaid, food stamps, refundable tax credits, Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, federal housing subsidies, and almost 100 other programs. What’s actually to bring long-lasting success is not going to be cutting around the edges. It’s not going to be posturing. What’s actually to bring long-lasting success is what is most politically difficult. But if nobody’s willing to do it, then basically we’re just going to end up in a leftist populist horseshoe where, despite all the talk about innovation, government just continues to grow and gobble up an increasing portion of Americans’ earnings and savings where a smaller and smaller percentage of the population is actually working while the government continues to spiral out of control in terms of growth. And productivity does not actually outpace all of the spending of government and the taxation of government. That is the problem President Trump is facing. The easy route for Democrats to take when things fall down because of all these giant programs that they themselves have enshrined is just to claim that capitalism failed. At some point, Congress, particularly, is going to have to stand up and President Trump is going to have to start pushing for some real systemic change on the regulatory side. He’s going to have to push for some real systemic change when it comes to these means-tested welfare programs. If the premise of the current American political moment is that we are in a moment of scarcity with scarce resources, that we are in danger of being out-produced by countries like China, that the American budget is too large, that our tax burden is too high, and that we’re spending too much money, then we have to look at the right places. Looking at the wrong places does not lead to solving the problem, and then things will go from bad to worse. And that’s the only hope Democrats have.

On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel was reportedly sworn in as acting chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi fired ATF chief counsel Pamela Hicks, saying, “These people were targeting gun owners. Not going to happen under this administration.” In March 2023, the Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs and the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance discussed with expert witnesses how the ATF under the Biden administration reversed guidance that protected gun owners. The committee said the ATF was “potentially subjecting individuals and small businesses to felony prison sentences and exorbitant fines if they do not comply with a new final rule.” Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) pointed out that the ATF’s final rule targeted law-abiding gun owners while violent criminals who never registered their illegally obtained firearms were not targeted. He asked attorney Matthew Larosiere, “Do folks that kill other people apply for permits when getting a gun?” “Certainly not in my experience,” Larosiere responded. “Do criminals go out to their local gun shop and fill out the paperwork, and pray to the good lord that they’re not found out to be criminals when they purchase a gun,” Perry pressed. “I think it would be odd for them to do that, so no,” Larosiere answered. In May 2024, over 20 states sued the Biden Department of Justice and the Biden administration ATF, accusing them of rewriting the definition of which people were required to become a federal firearms licensee. “Until now, only those who repetitively purchased and sold firearms as a regular course of business had to become a licensee,” they wrote. “But through the Final Rule, defendants will now presume that anyone who sells or resells even one firearm with the intent to profit (no matter how little), combined with other (nebulously defined) evidence, is a firearms dealer who must become a licensee. This would put innocent firearms sales between law-abiding friends and family members within the reach of federal regulation. Such innocent sales between friends and family would constitute a felony if the seller did not in fact obtain a federal firearms license and perform a background check.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired back at a reporter during a brief exchange on Monday, telling him in no uncertain terms that he would not answer a question if he believed the framing to be unfair. The reporter questioned the recent nomination of Air Force Lieutenant General Dan “Razin” Caine to be the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a move that was announced by President Trump on Friday. Trump said that Caine had been “passed over” for promotion during the Biden administration, but that he planned to rectify that situation. In the days since his nomination, however, critics have questioned Caine’s qualifications. WATCH: Reporter: “Mr. Secretary, why did you select an under qualified retired lieutenant general to be the next chairman of joint chiefs of staff?” SECDEF: “I’m gonna choose to REJECT your unqualified question” ????? pic.twitter.com/TV3orOf8ry — DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) February 24, 2025   “Mr. Secretary, why did you select an under-qualified retired lieutenant general to be the next chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff?” the reporter asked. Hegseth didn’t even let him finish asking the question before he shot back, “I’m gonna choose to REJECT your unqualified question.” Hegseth has defended President Donald Trump’s decision to fire Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, now the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arguing that Trump was just doing as other presidents have before him in choosing the military’s civilian leadership. “There is civilian control of the military. Nothing about this is unprecedented. The president deserves to pick his key national security and military advisory team,” Hegseth said, adding that neither he nor Trump believed Brown to be “the right man for the moment.” Trump nominated Caine to take Brown’s place, saying in part, “General Caine is an accomplished pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur, and a ‘warfighter’ with significant interagency and special operations experience. During my first term, Razin was instrumental in the complete annihilation of the ISIS caliphate. It was done in record setting time, a matter of weeks. Many so-called military ‘geniuses’ said it would take years to defeat ISIS. General Caine, on the other hand, said it could be done quickly, and he delivered.”

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When it comes to giving illegal aliens sanctuary, services, and second chances, “Just say, ‘No’” is not in the Democrat–Left’s vocabulary—apparently not even for child rapists. “It’s hard to believe there are any jurisdictions out there that wouldn’t cooperate with [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] when it comes to illegal aliens charged with forcibly raping children, but in Massachusetts, it’s just routine,” my indefatigable Fox News colleague Bill Melugin reports. Jose Fernandez-Perez (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Guatemalan illegal alien Jose Fernandez-Perez, 49, faced three counts of aggravated child rape and three counts of forcible child rape.  The Essex County, Mass., Superior Court’s response? “Whatever!” A judge ignored ICE’s request to hold Perez for pickup. Instead, the court freed Perez on bail in July 2022. The Boston Herald wondered: “How is letting child rape suspects walk a win?” Last November, Somerville, in Middlesex County, officially renewed its vow to keep illegal aliens cozy, no matter how wickedly evil they are. “The city of Somerville has a proud, long-standing history of welcoming and supporting generations of immigrants,” a City Council resolution declared “and has continually upheld values of equity, inclusion, and support for all community members.” Melugin saw plenty while covering President Joe Biden’s illegal-alien invasion. But this outrage stunned him. “How does somebody charged with so many counts of aggravated forcible child rape even get released on bail in the first place?” Melugin asked a local law enforcement source. “The response I got was, ‘Welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.’” Thankfully, under President Donald Trump’s leadership, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement finally arrested Perez in the Middlesex County city of Framingham on Feb. 2. “He is exactly the type of alien we are targeting with our ‘worst first’ policy,” said acting Boston Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. Alas, the Democrat-Left’s softness toward illegal-alien child rapists goes far beyond Massachusetts. “The Dallas [Texas] Police Department is not assisting any federal agency on detaining people that [sic] are either documented or undocumented in the city of Dallas,” interim Police Chief Michael T. Igo said Feb. 12. He added via X: “There’s no room for fear in our community.” Igo’s words are less than flaccid, given the news from Texas’ most populous city. Houston-based U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents escorted a thrice-deported Mexican illegal alien named Nestor Flores Encarnacion, 58, across Laredo’s Juarez-Lincoln Bridge on Jan. 23. Encarnacion faces child-rape charges in Veracruz, Mexico. On Feb. 13, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Houston arrested Mexican illegal alien Rogelio Hernandez. He had been convicted of child sexual assault. This weepy attitude also has overrun the Golden State. “We’re deporting people without a single penny to their name into abject poverty or homelessness, many of them back to places they haven’t known,” whimpered Angelica Salas, executive director of Los Angeles’ Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. “These people are products of our society.” According to The Los Angeles Times,” Salas “believes all deportations should be suspended until the immigration system is reformed.” Meanwhile, “Operation ‘Return to Sender’ took place in Kern County,” a group called Courage California announced via Facebook. “News of the raids quickly spread fear and panic among immigrant communities across the state, with many people sharing information on social media and urging family members to stay home, which many farmworkers did.” Salas and Courage California should aim their tears and “fear and panic” at those who U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested elsewhere in their state. Ariel Rene Romice-Patino (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Per Fox News’ Adam Shaw, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement San Francisco arrested Ariel Rene Romice-Patino in January. This Mexican illegal alien was convicted of child sexual exploitation and sentenced to 62 months in prison. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement San Francisco also handcuffed Magdaleno Zenen Hernandez Garcia. This illegal Mexican was convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child aged 14 or younger. Unfortunately, abundant examples confirm that illegal-alien child rapists strolled Easy Street during the Biden-Harris Democrat-Left’s sanctuary/leniency regime. Trump’s inauguration fixed this: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Buffalo, N.Y., brought in Pedro Julio Mejia, a Dominican illegal alien convicted of sexual conduct against a child. Drug Enforcement Administration officers in Denver, Colorado, arrested illegal alien Erick Daniel Escobar-Alvarenga, wanted in his native El Salvador for child sexual assault. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Knoxville, Tenn., and other officials snagged Horacio Mejia-Villegas, 37, in Lexington, Kentucky. The previously deported Guatemalan illegal alien’s extensive rap sheet includes child rape. Kamaro Denver Hayen (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement New York captured Jamaican illegal alien Kamaro Denver Hayen for efforts to “promote a sexual performance by a child less than 17 years of age and possessing sexual performance by child less than 16 years of age.” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement St. Paul, Minn., grabbed Cristofer Alexander Ramirez-Olivia, a Honduran illegal alien convicted of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Salt Lake City, Utah, arrested a Mexican illegal alien named Jesus Perez. He is accused of aggravated sexual abuse of a child. Sheriff Trump is back. So is Deputy Sheriff Tom Homan. Illegal alien child rapists should expect deportations, rather than the Democrat-Left’s hospitality. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Democrat-Left: Soft on Illegal Alien Child Rape appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As the Trump administration is homing in on how trillions of tax dollars are being misspent, the Government Accountability Office is set to report to Congress about wasteful spending in Medicaid, improper payments to federal program beneficiaries, and outdated information technology systems.  The House Oversight and Government Accountability Committee is holding a hearing on the GAO’s 2025 High-Risk List. The list and the hearing take on heightened significance as President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative ferrets out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal agencies. “DOGE has taken note of GAO’s critical work in identifying trillions of dollars lost to improper payments made by programs like Medicaid and unemployment insurance,” House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is set to say in his opening remarks at the upcoming hearing on Tuesday, according to excerpts obtained by The Daily Signal. “And now, DOGE is taking action to address the root causes of improper payments. DOGE has also recognized GAO’s reports on the need to modernize IT for a more efficient and effective federal government.” Comer has said the Republican majority on the committee is excited to work with the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative—led by SpaceX, Tesla, and X owner Elon Musk—to cut improper payments and other waste.  “Americans want more than another report telling them about all the problems in Washington,” Comer said. “They want action to right the ship. And that is just what President Trump, DOGE, and Republicans in Congress are doing for the American people.” Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, who heads the GAO, will testify about the report’s findings to the House panel. The GAO is a nonpartisan watchdog agency in the legislative branch. The hearing is set to begin at 1 p.m. on Tuesday.  The GAO publishes a High-Risk List at the start of each new Congress to update lawmakers on the 38 areas that present a financial risk of loss of at least $1 billion to taxpayers. “Despite the excellent reports by GAO each year, there continues to be rampant waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government,” Comer said in the comments.  “Now, more than ever, GAO’s work tells us that we need more data, more tracking of funds, more oversight, and yes, more efficiency to know exactly where taxpayer money is going,” his opening remarks say.  However, DOGE critics have argued that lawmakers interested in cutting wasteful spending should rely on the existing GAO and inspectors general, rather than an entirely new entity working in the White House.  “If President Trump was serious about promoting government efficiency, he would have prioritized strengthening these already existing independent government watchdogs that reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in the government—including improper payments,” Donald Sherman, executive director of the liberal watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told the Oversight’s Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency.  “He could have issued an executive order directing his Cabinet and federal agencies to expeditiously implement the thousands of open GAO and inspector general recommendations outstanding in the executive branch,” Sherman said. In a Feb. 12 press release, the White House called out The New York Times for claiming there is no proof for “sweeping claims” of fraud in federal government spending by pointing to a GAO report released last April that found, “No area of the federal government is immune to fraud. We estimated that the federal government could lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.” The post Comer: DOGE Follows GAO in ‘Identifying Trillions of Dollars Lost’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.