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British Red Devils perform for President Trump & UK Prime Minister

On the second day of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom, the two briefly parted ways for separate events.

President Joe Biden is shocked by the fact that he is not getting the speaking engagements he expected nor is he getting the income from them that he expected. He is having a difficult time securing speaking engagements in the year following his presidency, according to a report. The newest reported speaking arrangement woes continue […] The post Joe Biden Is Struggling for Cash, His Library Is In Jeopardy appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris wanted to pick then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate in 2024, but decided against it because she wasn’t “a straight white man,” according to an excerpt from her new book.  In portions of her new memoir published by The Atlantic on Wednesday, Harris wrote that the openly gay Buttigieg was her “first choice” for her vice presidential running mate. However, she said she felt that a ticket with Buttigieg would present a level of diversity America wasn’t ready to embrace. Harris wrote that Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man.” “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk,” Harris wrote. “And I think Pete also knew that—to our mutual sadness.” Harris’s book, called “107 Days,” is set to be released on September 23. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was Biden’s transportation secretary. He is reportedly considering a run for president in 2028. Earlier this year, he opted not to run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, reportedly to position himself better for a run for the White House.  Harris wrote that Buttigieg “is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them.” In the end, Harris chose Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.  The first portions of her book, released earlier this month, Harris attacked former President Joe Biden, claiming his re-election bid was driven by ego and that his team actively sought to undermine her. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” she wrote of Biden’s decision to run for re-election. “The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”

During a fiery showdown on Wednesday, FBI Director Kash Patel pushed back against repeated taunts from Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), declaring he would “call bulls*** on your entire career in Congress.” Despite the fact that Patel, as FBI Director, has a massive job supervising and keeping the country safe, Swalwell began by maligning Patel because Patel said he had not read all of the voluminous Epstein files. Patel pointed out, “What I’ve been doing is been busy providing the safest country this country has seen in modern U.S. history in historic speed because the men and women of the FBI are given the resources to reduce the homicide rate, to reduce the drug trafficking rate, to reduce the amount of children that have been trafficked…” Swalwell then obsessed on the number of times President Donald Trump’s name might have been mentioned in the Epstein files, speculating hyperbolically, starting with 1000, 500, and finally 100, which Patel denied. When Swalwell claimed that it was Patel’s job to know the exact number, Patel fired back. “My job is to provide for the safety and security of this country. My job is not to engage in political innuendo, so you can go out to the sticks and get your 20-second hits and your fundraising article,” adding, “Your fixation on this matter and baseless accusations that I’m hiding child pedo files is disgusting.” Swalwell still wouldn’t let go of the issue, asking repeatedly if Patel had told Attorney General Pam Bondi that Trump’s name was in the Epstein files, even insulting Patel by saying each word slowly in separate syllables, as if he were speaking to a child. Patel replied, “Why don’t you try spelling it out. Use the alphabet. A B C D E F, don’t want to do it?” “You’ve played this cute shell game where you say you can’t release everything because the court has said that it legally is not allowed to be released, but the court calls bulls***,” Swalwell accused. Finally, Swalwell moved on, saying, “Let’s move on, director. You wrote a book called ‘Government Gangsters.’ You identified 20 individuals in that book. You put me on that list, at the top of the list. Thank you. My children find it flattering. Twenty of those individuals have been investigated or have had adverse actions. Director, considering that you have identified these people as, ‘government gangsters,’ will you recuse yourself from making any investigation decisions about these individuals?” “Anyone that has been terminated at the FBI has been done because they failed to meet the muster and their constitutional obligation,” Patel fired back. “No, no. I’m going to borrow your terminology and call bulls*** on your entire career in Congress. It has been a disgrace to the American people.” Heated exchange between Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and FBI Director Kash Patel on Epstein Files. FBI Director Patel: “I’m going to borrow your terminology and call bullshit on your entire career in Congress. It has been a disgrace to the American people.” pic.twitter.com/diIuX7rYGu — CSPAN (@cspan) September 17, 2025

The illegal immigrant shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Chicago last week was previously given a second chance of staying in the United States by the Biden administration, which granted him a deportation waiver despite a past arrest, federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire. The Biden administration granted Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez reprieve despite his 2013 arrest by the Chicago Police Department for reckless driving, assault, speeding, and lacking a license and insurance, the sources said. Villegas-Gonzalez struck the ICE agent with his vehicle on Friday while the feds were conducting an operation at Franklin Park. Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images The suspect was asked to stop his vehicle, but continued driving, hitting the agent and “subsequently dragging him as he fled the scene,” an ICE spokesman told NBC 5 Chicago. “Fearing for his life,” the agent shot the driver. The ICE agent sustained severe injuries, but remained in stable condition after being dragged “a significant distance,” said Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. Former assistant ICE chief for New York Scott Mechkowski told The Daily Wire that Villegas-Gonzalez should’ve been deported more than a decade ago. “The ICE agent’s split second decision to shoot saved his own life and possibly other lives when Villegas-Gonzalez floored it, dragging him. It was pure self-defense against a man who’d been shielded for years by Chicago’s insane sanctuary policies letting a 2013 assault suspect roam free,” said Mechkowski. “Sanctuary cities don’t protect innocent people, they shield killers in waiting, and when enforcement finally fights back like our agents did, it’s the only thing standing between us and blood on the streets. He should have been removed in 2013,” Mechkowski added. John Nacion/WireImage via Getty Images The agent and suspect were taken to a hospital before Villegas-Gonzalez was pronounced dead. President Donald Trump commenced “Operation Midway Blitz” last week, flooding the Windy City with feds to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.” Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Anti-ICE activists have flocked to the streets of Chicago in response to the effort. Federal agents forcibly removed some of the protesters who staged a recent sit-in at an ICE facility on Friday, ABC 7 Chicago reported. Trump has also vowed to send in the National Guard to support ICE’s efforts in Chicago, drawing backlash from Democratic leaders in the sanctuary city. The president and Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker have sparred since the effort began. “It’s disturbing that the President is hellbent on sending troops onto America’s streets. Using those who serve in uniform as political props is insulting. None of this is normal,” Pritzker wrote on X Friday.

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