FLORIDA FAFO: Vicious Left-Backed Judge Who BLOCKED Trump Presidential Library Is KICKED OFF THE BENCH by 30-Year-Old Conservative Attorney Destiny Alvarez

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz (left) was unseated by 30-year-old conservative attorney Destiny Alvarez (right) in Tuesday’s election.

Miami-Dade voters delivered a stunning rebuke Tuesday night, unseating Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz after she temporarily blocked the transfer of prime downtown Miami property designated for President Donald Trump’s future presidential library.

Conservative attorney Destiny Alvarez, just 30 years old, defeated the longtime incumbent in the nonpartisan race for the 11th Judicial Circuit’s Group 67 seat.

With all 767 precincts reporting, Alvarez received 113,215 votes, or 50.46%, while Ruiz finished with 111,142 votes, or 49.54%.

Alvarez defeated Ruiz by 2,073 votes and crossed the 50% threshold needed to avoid a November runoff, according to Florida’s official election-night reporting system.

In other words, Ruiz is finished.

The contest became one of Florida’s most politically explosive judicial races after Ruiz inserted herself into the fight over President Trump’s planned presidential library.

In October 2025, Ruiz issued a temporary injunction blocking Miami Dade College from transferring a 2.63-acre parcel beside the historic Freedom Tower for the library project.

The injunction came after left-wing activist Marvin Dunn sued the college, alleging its Board of Trustees failed to provide sufficient public notice before approving the transfer under Florida’s Sunshine Law.

The valuable Biscayne Boulevard property was appraised at more than $67 million and sits near Biscayne Bay and the arena used by the Miami Heat.

Ruiz later dismissed Dunn’s complaint after the college held another publicly noticed meeting and voted unanimously for the transfer a second time. The judge claimed her decisions were based strictly on Florida’s open-government law and were not political. WLRN reported that the complaint was dismissed without prejudice in December.

But the damage was done.

The high-profile ruling turned Ruiz’s otherwise sleepy reelection campaign into a referendum on activist judges, President Trump, and the rapidly changing political landscape in Miami-Dade County.

Although judicial elections in Florida are officially nonpartisan, the political contrast between the candidates could hardly have been clearer.

Alvarez is a registered Republican and a member of the Federalist Society. Her campaign emphasized that judges should follow the Constitution, apply the law faithfully, and refuse to “legislate from the bench.”

She also received backing from law enforcement and first-responder organizations, including the Miami-Dade Fraternal Order of Police, the Police Benevolent Association, the Hialeah Police Officers Association, and the South Florida Council of Firefighters, according to her campaign website.

Ruiz, meanwhile, was recommended by left-wing organizations, including the Miami Beach Democratic Club and the Miami Democratic Socialists of America.

Alvarez previously served as a Florida Gubernatorial Fellow and is the managing partner of the Miami office of Goede, DeBoest & Cross. She earned her law degree and undergraduate economics degree from the University of Florida.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet unanimously approved the parcel for the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation in September 2025.

Eric Trump said the future library would become an “icon” on Miami’s skyline and honor the 45th and 47th president’s historic political legacy.

The site’s location beside the Freedom Tower carries powerful symbolism. The landmark once served as a processing center for Cuban refugees fleeing the horrors of communism.

President Trump carried Miami-Dade County by approximately 13 points in 2024, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win the county since 1988.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier celebrated the result, posting simply: “Great win for the rule of law!”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/florida-fafo-left-backed-judge-who-blocked-trump/

REVEALED: Anti-American Socialist Hasan Piker’s Brother Reportedly Held TOP-SECRET Security Clearance — Worked on Air Force One and Nuclear “Doomsday Plane” at Boeing

Hasan Piker (left) and his younger brother, former Boeing aerospace engineer Murat Piker (right). 

While far-left Twitch millionaire Hasan Piker built an enormous following attacking the United States, praising communist dictators, and declaring that America “deserved 9/11,” his younger brother was reportedly working on some of the nation’s most sensitive military aircraft.

Murat Piker, Hasan’s younger brother and frequent livestream companion, spent more than a decade working as an aerospace engineer at Boeing, according to a bombshell report from the Washington Free Beacon.

His projects reportedly included the new Air Force One, the E-6B Mercury nuclear command aircraft, airborne surveillance systems, military drones, satellites, and Boeing spacecraft.

According to Murat’s public LinkedIn profile, he worked for Boeing Defense & Space and helped lead the mechanical design and integration of next-generation satellite structures.

“I hold a Master’s in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA and possess active Security Clearances,” his profile states.

A person familiar with Murat’s employment history told the Free Beacon that he held a “top secret” security clearance.

That would have placed the brother of one of America’s loudest anti-American socialist influencers inside the heavily vetted world of classified defense contracting.

Murat also admitted during a recent interview with Rolling Stone that he performed some work on Boeing’s VC-25B program—the official designation for the next generation of Air Force One.

“I actually worked on VC-25B a little bit,” Murat said. Hasan quickly undercut him: “Yeah… on the toilet. Don’t let him act like he did anything cool.”

However, the Free Beacon noted there is some dispute over the extent of Murat’s work on the presidential aircraft. A source familiar with the program claimed he was not formally assigned to VC-25B and did not possess the specific clearance required for the program.

Murat’s own statement to Rolling Stone nevertheless indicates he performed at least some work connected to the aircraft.

His public work history also reportedly lists the E-6B Mercury—often referred to as a nuclear “doomsday plane.”

According to the United States Navy, the E-6B provides nuclear command, control, and communications between the president, the secretary of defense, and U.S. Strategic Command.

The aircraft can maintain communications with America’s nuclear forces if ground-based command systems are destroyed or disabled. It is also equipped with an airborne launch-control system capable of directing the launch of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles.

In other words, this is not an ordinary passenger jet.

This aircraft was designed to help America survive—and retaliate—during a nuclear war.

Murat’s listed Boeing projects reportedly also included:

• The E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control aircraft
• The E-7 airborne early warning and control platform
• The Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
• Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft
• The ViaSat-3 communications satellite

Boeing declined to confirm the details of Murat’s assignments, citing privacy and national security concerns.

The company told the Free Beacon that security clearances are granted only after applicants complete the federal government’s background investigation and vetting process.

Murat frequently appeared on Hasan’s livestream while employed by Boeing. The brothers streamed together from Japan and France and discussed the ViaSat-3 launch in 2023.

Hasan Piker has built a massive following by attacking the U.S. military and American power. He has said he would “vote for Hamas over Israel every single time,” claimed he has “no issue with Hezbollah,” called Ultra-Orthodox Jews “inbred,” and suggested America “deserved” the 9/11 attacks.

He has served as a surrogate for progressive Democrat candidates in the 2026 cycle while living the high life in a multimillion-dollar home.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Piker campaigned with socialist Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong and vowed that “a Republican will never be elected” in Wisconsin once their movement seized control.

Piker also became a major surrogate for Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

Following El-Sayed’s primary victory, Piker lashed out at Democrats who had opposed the candidate, calling them “Islamophobic pieces of s**t,” The Gateway Pundit reported.

When NBC confronted El-Sayed about Piker’s infamous “America deserved 9/11” remark, the Democrat nominee attempted to dismiss the controversy as “gotcha politics” and “cancel culture,” as The Gateway Pundit previously documented.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez similarly refused to disown Piker when confronted about his statements.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/revealed-anti-american-socialist-hasan-pikers-brother-reportedly/ 

LATE BREAKING: Scott Jennings Being Courted to Replace Karoline Leavitt Reportedly - 'It's His if He Wants It... and He Does'

CNN commentator Scott Jennings is being pushed to replace Karline Leavitt as White House press secretary, according to a new report.

According to the Daily Mail, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is pushing for Jennings, 48, to replace Karoline Leavitt, who is stepping down to spend time with her family.

“It’s his if he wants it,” the Daily Mail quoted a source as saying. “And he does.”

The report said President Donald Trump is partial to having a female press secretary.

The report said Jennings and Wiles were meeting even before Leavitt’s plans were ever made public.

Over the weekend, Trump met with multiple potential candidates for the post at his Bedminster golf club.

Among those who met with Trump, the report said, were Trump’s former attorney, Alina Habba.

Habba, 42, real estate giant Bill Pulte, 38, and aide Natalie Harp, 35.

“They were all trying to get in front of him this weekend. It was like The Apprentice,” one source said. “It reeks of desperation.”

Other candidates listed by the Mail include former Department of Homeland Security press secretary Katie Zacharia, ex-DHS representative Tricia McLaughlin, Breitbart Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle, Republican National Committee representative Elizabeth Pipko, White House communications chief Steven Cheung, and former Kennedy Center representative Roma Daravi.

CNN tossed other names into the pot, including principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly; former Fox News host Monica Crowley — who is now the chief of protocol — Trump ally Jason Miller.

Other contenders include former principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields and former ESPN anchor Sage Steele.

CNN also suggested that Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, could be an option.

As noted by the Independent, Trump is making his own rules about the selection process.

On Sunday, during an interview, he asked Fox correspondent Alexis McAdams about the job.

“You,” Trump said when asked who he would pick. “How about you?”

“She could do the job,” he said to Leavitt. “What do you think, Karoline? I like it. I’ve always liked you. That’s why I’m doing this. I don’t do this that often.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/late-breaking-scott-jennings-courted-replace-karoline-leavitt-reportedly-wants/

Records Reveal Abdul El-Sayed’s Mother Worked for Charity Later Hit With Terror Sanctions

A set of old federal court records just landed in the middle of Michigan’s U.S. Senate race.

They show that Fatten Elkomy, the biological mother of Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, worked with a Missouri charity whose worldwide network was later designated by the U.S. Treasury Department over alleged support for Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas and Taliban fighters.

That is a serious connection. But there is also a line the evidence does not cross: Elkomy was never charged with terrorism-related activity, and the records reviewed for this report do not accuse her of knowingly financing terrorists.

The revelation exploded across social media after the documents resurfaced:

 

The U.S. government’s proposed exhibit list in United States v. IARA places Elkomy’s name on multiple records from the Islamic American Relief Agency. The filing identifies the underlying letters, ledgers, bank-transfer authorizations and Bates-numbered evidence that prosecutors intended to offer at trial.

One exhibit describes a December 1999 letter from Elkomy concerning an $8,801 transfer to Arab Bank in Amman, Jordan. Another lists a January 2001 letter from Elkomy to an IARA official.

A separate exhibit describes an April 2000 letter from Elkomy involving a $58,995.60 sponsorship transfer, alongside child-sponsorship ledgers for Jordan and Iraq.

Federal prosecutors filed the exhibit list in May 2010 as part of the criminal case against IARA and several associated defendants.

The descriptions matter. They show that Elkomy was involved in the charity’s financial paperwork, but they characterize those particular transfers as support for orphans, refugees or sponsored children.

They do not say she sent money to al-Qaeda, Hamas or the Taliban.

A current post circulating one of the records put the documentary trail front and center:

The charity’s broader history is where the story gets much darker.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated IARA’s worldwide network and five senior officials under Executive Order 13224 in October 2004.

Treasury identified the network by several names, including Islamic African Relief Agency, Islamic Relief Agency, ISRA and Islamic American Relief Agency. It said the organization maintained more than 40 offices around the world, including one in the United States.

The department alleged that IARA’s international offices provided direct financial support to bin Laden, commingled funds with organizations tied to him and participated in a program that assisted Taliban fighters.

Treasury also said overseas branches provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to bin Laden in 1999. It separately accused the network of serving as a conduit to Hamas in Europe and supporting Al-Ittihad al-Islamiya, another designated terrorist organization.

Those were allegations against the global organization and named senior officials. Elkomy was not one of the five officials Treasury designated.

Here is how the controversy is now being framed as Michigan voters look toward November:

The U.S. branch’s legal troubles continued long after the designation.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri announced in 2016 that IARA had pleaded guilty to conspiracies involving sanctions violations, money laundering and obstruction of federal tax administration.

The plea covered one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, one money-laundering conspiracy count and one tax-obstruction count from a 2008 indictment.

Prosecutors said the U.S. office took in between $1 million and $3 million in annual contributions from 1991 through 2003 and operated with roughly six full-time employees plus 10 to 12 part-time workers.

The case centered on $1.375 million that IARA admitted it secretly funneled to Iraq while federal sanctions were in force. Prosecutors said money was carried into Iraq as cash or used to buy items in Jordan that were then transported across the border.

IARA also admitted that it solicited tax-deductible donations for Iraq projects without disclosing the transfers in its annual IRS filings. The organization agreed to terminate itself and surrender its remaining property.

Again, Elkomy was not charged in that prosecution.

The timing makes the resurfaced records politically explosive. Bridge Michigan identifies Elkomy as El-Sayed’s biological mother and notes that he was raised in Michigan by his father and stepmother.

The 41-year-old was born in Rochester Hills, attended Michigan public schools and earned degrees from the University of Michigan, Oxford and Columbia. His career took him through public-health work and academia before he led Detroit’s health department and later Wayne County’s health and human-services department.

El-Sayed ran for governor in 2018 and finished second to Gretchen Whitmer in the Democratic primary. This year, the Bernie Sanders-backed progressive defeated establishment favorite Haley Stevens for the party’s Senate nomination.

He is now running for an open seat in one of the country’s most closely watched battlegrounds. Republican Mike Rogers will face him in November.

Nothing in the federal material reviewed here ties El-Sayed himself to IARA’s operations. The records concern his mother’s work, not any action by the candidate.

The underlying documents are real, the Treasury designation was real, and IARA’s guilty plea was real.

Michigan voters are going to hear much more about all three before Election Day.

https://wltreport.com/2026/08/19/records-abdul-el-sayed-mother-charity-terror-sanctions/