WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump welcomed King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the White House on Monday for a brief joint press conference in which he presented the British monarch with an autographed copy of the Declaration of Independence.
Trump fielded a question from a reporter about the longstanding relationship between the U.S. and England before bringing out what he called a "special limited edition" copy of the Declaration of Independence.
"We have here a copy of the Declaration of Independence," Trump said with a boyish grin. "And this one is really special because it's signed by me, your favorite president. My signature is even better than all those other signatures on it, believe me."
When asked by the press where he had gotten the copy, Trump revealed there were still a few of the original copies scattered around the country.
"This is one of 26 surviving original copies," Trump continued. "I don't know how a copy can be an original, but that's what they tell me. You know, Thomas Jefferson wrote it. Very special guy, Tom Jefferson. He wrote a lot. John Adams told him to, can you believe that? He wanted him to write it because John was obnoxious and disliked, not like Tommy. Everyone loved him. Even his slaves loved him, if you can believe it. He was quite a guy."
Charles reportedly took possession of the document with little acknowledgment, keeping a stiff upper lip as he did so to mask his pain.
At publishing time, President Trump had also gifted King Charles III with an autographed VHS copy of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
California transplants Steve and Timpani try to be the perfect Texas hosts for Brittuni's visit, but Steve quickly realizes he needs a sensible vehicle now that he's about to become a dad.
When a would-be assassin comes along, he doesn’t need to directly be encouraged to commit violence, he just needs to believe that his actions are acceptable under a media-pushed framework that murder can sometimes be OK if ‘proper’ justification is found.
would-be assassin with reported intent to target the Trump administration was caught on video charging through a security checkpoint during an event attended by the president and members of his cabinet. This marks yet another assassination attempt against Donald Trump, and like the others, Saturday’s attempt did not happen in a vacuum.
Just days before the attempted assassination, Marxist streamer Hasan Piker defended Luigi Mangione’s December 2024 alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson during an interview with the New York Times (NYT). He invoked Friedrich Engels’ concept of “social murder” to suggest that Thompson was guilty of “systematized forms of violence” through the health care system.
According to Piker, Thompson was “engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder.”
It was stunning commentary to say the least. But what was more shocking was that the Times’ Nadja Spiegelman described the interview as a “lively” exchange. There was no pushback against Piker’s defense and justification of murder, just the Times lending its name-brand “credibility” to the idea that some killings are justifiable.
That was April 22.
Four days later, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen was allegedly seen on surveillance footage rushing a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents Dinner while reportedly armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives. Gunfire hit one agent who was wearing a bulletproof vest and has since been released from the hospital. Allen’s now widely-reported manifesto describes his intent to target Trump administration officials — many of whom were present at the dinner.
It marks one of several assassination attempts against Trump in less than two years that did not happen in a vacuum. When people like Piker openly rationalize and justify murder, and then one of the most influential newspapers in the country treats it as some kind of thoughtful exchange rather than an abhorrent act, it sends a message that some violence can be excused.
And so when a would-be assassin comes along, he doesn’t need to be directly encouraged to commit violence, he just needs to believe that his actions are acceptable under a media-pushed framework that murder can sometimes be OK if “proper” justification is found. In fact, the manifesto making headlines after Saturday admits as much. Although it does not refer to Trump by name, it clearly accuses the president of being a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor” — unsubstantiated narratives often pushed by corporate media. Allen also reportedly wrote that he is not required to “yield [elected officials] anything so unlawfully ordered.”
“The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered,” the manifesto reads.
Then-candidate for Vice President Kamala Harris encouraged her supporters to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, “which provided bail money to the militant anarchists facing charges for setting fire to Minneapolis” during the deadly George Floyd riots, as The Federalist previously reported.Don Lemon (who had not yet been fired from CNN at the time) compared George Floyd riots to the Boston Tea Party. The Huffington Post published a mini-documentary claiming “Riots Built America.”
Moments after news broke that Charlie Kirk was shot, MSNBC Analyst Matthew Dowd called Kirk “one of the most divisive” figures and added: “Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions …You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.” Dowd was later fired.
And more recently, the propaganda press and left-wing outlets have run cover for anti-immigration enforcement rioters and other agitators like Renee Nicole Good. Video footage appeared to show Good charge and hit an ICE agent with her car before the agent shot her.
In the wake of Good’s death, The Atlantic published a piece saying, “No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor. No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors.”
When the Times and other outlets elevate arguments that justify, excuse, and implicitly encourage violence, they are actively lowering the bar for what is acceptable, and in doing so, they are implicitly giving a pass to more violence.
A Louisiana Democrat Mayor was indicted on Medicaid fraud charges.
Winnsboro Mayor Alice Wallace was indicted for Medicaid fraud in a $75,00 benefits scheme.
Wallace said she will be “vindicated” in a lengthy social media post.
“The devil is trying to embarrass and discredit leadership to possess power again through those who know nothing,,that way they can run it!!” Wallace wrote in a Facebook post.
Winnsboro Mayor Alice Wallace said that she will be “vindicated” of Medicaid fraud charges in a Facebook post following her arrest April 21 by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill with the town’s mayor’s election three weeks away.
Wallace is charged with six counts of government benefits fraud in what Murrill described as a Medicaid fraud scheme in which the mayor is accused of illegally securing $75,000 in benefits from 2021 through 2026.
Wallace declined to comment when reached by USA Today Network by phone April 22, but an April 21 post on her Facebook page said, “They just energized Team Wallace…”
“It’s election time; what else you got! I’m still standing!!” the post said.
LBI found that Wallace fraudulently received Medicaid benefits for herself and a dependent between 2021 and 2026. Wallace did not report to LDH a change in household income, failed to disclose her marital status, and intentionally misrepresented the availability of health insurance provided through her employers.
Agents found that Wallace failed to notify LDH that she was employed from 2021 through 2022, where she received a salary and was offered health coverage insurance. From 2022 through 2026, Wallace was employed by the Town of Winnsboro, Louisiana, as the elected Mayor, and did not report to LDH that employment, income, or availability of medical health coverage as required.
LBI’s investigation revealed that Wallace and her dependent continuously utilized Medicaid program benefits from 2021 through 2026, while she received a salary that would have made her ineligible to receive benefits from the State of Louisiana and the LDH programs. The LDH Medicaid Fraud Division found that Wallace fraudulently received benefits for a combined loss of claims of approximately $75,000.00.
LBI obtained an arrest warrant for Alice Wallace through the 19th Judicial District Court of Louisiana, in that she intentionally committed:
6 Counts – LA.R.S. 14:70.9 – Government Benefits Fraud
Wallace was arrested for knowingly concealing and failing to disclose material facts affecting her and her dependents’ continued eligibility to receive benefits from the Louisiana Department of Health Medicaid program. Those six counts pertain to the years of 2021 through 2026, in which Wallace was known to be employed, received an income, failed to disclose that income as required, and continued to receive benefits.
“Our Louisiana Bureau of Investigation has arrested Winnsboro Mayor Alice Wallace for 6 counts of Medicaid fraud in a $75,000 benefits scheme,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said.
“It doesn’t matter who you are—if you defraud the hardworking taxpayers of Louisiana, you’re going to jail,” she said.
Two of the eight ‘informants’ paid millions by the Southern Poverty Law Center can be un-hooded by The Post as a suburban mom from Georgia and a one-legged “true believer” from Alabama.
One of the SPLC’s so-called informants was an Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan organization, who remained a committed racist until his death in 2023 aged 50.
Bradley Scott Jenkins was high-up enough in the organization to call himself the leader of the “true Klan” and never displayed any signs of reform or subverting the KKK’s message — the stated aim of the SPLC’s ‘informant’ program — according to his son, Noah Jenkins.
Bradley Scott Jenkins (right, with prosthetic leg) is referred to as “F-unknown” in court documents. He is one of eight hate group leaders the SPLC is accused of funneling millions of dollars to.
Jenkins, whose official title was Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, had at least one meeting with an FBI agent approximately 15 years ago, his son Noah Jenkins, 24, admitted to The Post.“When I went to the rallies with him as a kid, I never saw anything that made me think he wasn’t a true believer,” Noah, 24, told The Post of his father, who lost his left leg due to medical complications.
Jenkins, who died an unemployed father-of-three at 50, was one of the ‘informants’ referred to as “F-unknown” in the indictment against the SPLC. The UKA is believed to continue with a new leader.
He was seemingly happy to take the nonprofit’s money while revitalizing the UKA, a once-defunct Alabama-based KKK splinter group, described on the SPLC’s website as a “millennial reboot of what was once a serious domestic threat.” In the 60s UKA had been responsible for many racist attacks and “the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., which resulted in the deaths of four little girls in 1963.”
In a 2012 interview, Jenkins claimed he was against violence.
“We are weeding out the people who only joined the Ku Klux Klan to participate in violence. If that’s what they want, they have no place here. We are a family organization,” he told Vice.com
April Chambers (center) was married to KKK Exhalted Cyclops Harley Henson when the couple sued the state of Georgia in 2012 over an Adopt-a-Highway program.
The indictment alleges the SPLC paid over $3 million to hate group leaders, like the Ku Klux Klan, while promoting those very figures in order to solicit money from frightened donors.
The Alabama-based non-profit has been charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering conspiracy for allegedly engaging “in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website.”
Alabama-based SPLC has been charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering conspiracy for allegedly engaging “in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced on April 21.
Patel charged that far from using spies to dismantle the hate groups, the SPLC gave them over $3 million to keep promoting their ideologies, so they would have something to point to and seek donors to fight against. The nonprofit has amassed some $800 million to do so, its charity forms show.
“The SPLC was … manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said at a press conference.
“There’s no information that we have that suggests that the money that they were paying to these informants and these members of these organizations, they then turned around and shared what they learned with law enforcement,” he told Fox News on April 21.
Noah — who is not affiliated with the KKK or UKA — added he had suspicions his father could have been an informant, recalling how he one went with him to meet an FBI agent approximately 15 years ago.
The SPLC also had a “field source” who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Va., the indictment alleges.
The Charlottesville event, which turned deadly after opposing groups of demonstrators clashed, was a major fundraising milestone for the SPLC.
“I always thought he was working with someone. I thought maybe he got into trouble and was threatened by [law enforcement] to become an informant to avoid jail or something,” he added.
He also doubted Jenkins had profited much from the SPLC. “He never had a new vehicle or anything like that. I guess he went out to eat more than my mother,” he said.
A second person IDed in the indictment, also known an “F-unknown,” is believed to be a suburban Georgia mom named April Chambers.
Another informant, “F-30,” matches the description of Paul Mullet and is described in the indictment as a National Socialist Party of America leader, “the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.” F-30 was secretly paid $70,000 between 2014 and 2016 according to the DOJ.
When reached by phone and asked if he was F-30, Mullet bluntly told The Post “I’m not answering any questions right now. No Comment” before hanging up.
In 2012, Chambers, a member of the KKK along with her Exalted Cyclops hubby Harley Henson, sued the state of Georgia over their KKK group’s attempt to join the state’s “Adopt-A-Highway” program.
While that lawsuit was ongoing, the indictment alleges Chambers was paid in excess of $3,500 by the SPLC. It’s unclear how that money would help fight racism.
The KKK claimed in their lawsuit they just wanted to pick up litter on the highway and “keep the mountains beautiful” and the issue went all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court, before the adopt-a-highway program was shut down.
Donations to the SPLC went gangbusters after Charlottesville, from $51 million to $133 million while the DOJ now alleges the anti-racism org was paying instigators. Pictured here: SPLC boss Margaret Huang.
One Neo-Nazi leader told The Post he was accustomed to FBI infiltration but that learning of the SPLC being in his ranks was a “curveball.”
Chambers — who also goes by her married name, Henson — now appears to run 1776 Cleaners, a home cleaning and handyman service in Georgia. She did not respond to The Post’s request for comment and it is unknown if she is still a member of the KKK.
Since the indictment, Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and National Socialist groups ensnared in it have been throwing accusations around about who among them was making hundreds of thousands off the lefty nonprofit, which saw its annual revenue surge from $51 million to $133 million after Charlottesville.
The SPLC indictment identifies one informant who was involved in litigation over an Adopt-a-Highway program while married to an Exalted Cyclops in the Klan.
“This was a new one. Usually, it’s feds that are the problem. The SPLC was a curveball for me,” Burt Colucci, leader of the neo-Nazi National Social Movement (NSM), told The Post on learning his group had an SPLC payee among them.
One of his members, a motorcycle enthusiast identified as “F-27’ in the indictment, received over $300,000 from the SPLC.
“It’s someone I was in Iraq with and who I know very well. This person was thrown out [of NSM] several years ago,” Colucci said, stopping short of naming him.
“He was worrying about getting extra shekels [money]. I used to fight with this individual. He was a big information collector. He wanted to see people’s driver’s licenses, social security numbers.”
Schoep is now a reformed neo-Nazi who preaches about the downsides of extremism after leaving the movement in 2019.
Another ‘informant,’ “F-30,” is described in the indictment as a National Socialist Party of America leader, “the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan” who was secretly paid $70,000 between 2014 and 2016 and “was featured on the SPLC’s ‘Extremist File’ webpage.”
That resume matches up perfectly with the SPLC website’s Extremist File entry on National Socialist Party of America boss Paul Mullet.
When reached by phone and asked if he was F30, Mullet bluntly told The Post “I’m not answering any questions right now. No Comment” before hanging up.
The SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Va., the indictment alleges, and that the group oversaw racist online posting from its sources.
Rumors continue to swirl online that ‘informant,’ “F-37” — who was paid $270,000 by the SPLC between 2015 and 2023 and helped organize the deadly Charlottesville event — was Unite The Right head Jason Kessler.
Unite The Right founder Jason Kessler told The Post that he’s not one of the SPLC moles and that he left political organizing in 2019.He vehemently denied to The Post he was an SPLC rat, saying he left political organizing around 2019 and has since lived a quiet life running a moving company in Virginia.
“People keep thinking that chat was some elite group of operators,” Kessler told The Post of a discussion group mentioned in the indictment.
“Anyone could join with a link. You had all these anonymous trolls in there. No one was a serious person.”
Many in the neo-Nazi community remain unfazed by the news.
“I’m not shocked at all about it, they’ve done that sort of thing before. They’ve been after me for years,” Jeff Schoep, the former head of the NSM who left in 2019 and has since become a reformed Nazi, preaching about the dangers of extremism, told The Post.
“[The SPLC] contacted me a number of times over the years but I wouldn’t talk to them because I didn’t trust the organization,” he said.
Those who felt they’ve been victims of SPLC smears are quietly gloating as the nonprofit heads to federal court.
“They use pain and suffering to raise money,” Gavin McInnes, founder of the pro-Trump men’s group The Proud Boys — a frequent SPLC target — told The Post.
“We’ll never know if we have a Nazi problem because they added a bunch of decoys to the mix. Are we overrun with Nazis or not?” he asked.
“This caused permanent damage to the American psyche.”
