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🔵 Trump-Zelensky Deal
Citizen Frank
February 26, 2025
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, February 26.
President Trump confirmed on Wednesday that the U.S. and Ukraine have reached a minerals deal and that he still expects Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit the White House on Friday.
Comments from Zelensky earlier on Wednesday had seemed to put the deal and the visit in doubt.
The deal is designed to allow the U.S. to tap into Ukraine’s minerals and other natural resources and establish a joint fund for rebuilding Ukraine. It has the potential to reduce tensions between the U.S. and Ukraine after a public squabble last week.
FBI leadership is starting an investigation into the origins of the agency’s plan a decade ago to infiltrate the campaign of presidential candidate Donald Trump using two female undercover “honeypot” agents.
The off-the-books investigation, launched in 2015 by FBI Director James B. Comey, was revealed by an agency whistleblower in a protected disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee last year.
In the intelligence community, a honeypot commonly refers to an undercover operative, usually a woman, who feigns sexual or romantic interest to obtain information from a target.
President Trump on Tuesday revoked any security clearances held by Covington & Burling law firm employees who provided pro bono services to former special counsel Jack Smith, who prosecuted Trump in a pair of since-ended criminal cases.
“This is a good one. Is everybody listening? Deranged Jack Smith — we’re going to call it the deranged Jack Smith signing or bill,” Trump said in the Oval Office.
“The weaponization of our system by law firms, even pro bono work they’re doing just in order to clog up government, stop government, and nobody knows about it more than me, and hopefully that’ll never happen again.”
After a long day of arm-twisting and internal party clashes, House Republicans on Tuesday narrowly passed their plan to advance President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.
The GOP plan was passed by a vote of 217-215, after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had to convince several Republican holdouts including Reps. Victoria Spartz of Indiana, Tim Burchett of Tennessee and Warren Davidson of Ohio to come on board with the proposal.
After the House plan passed on Tuesday night, Trump congratulated Johnson.
President Donald Trump announced a new visa program for investors coming to the United States on Tuesday that would cost applicants $5 million.
Trump, touting the project as a “Gold Card” program mimicking the Green Cards permanent residents get, told reporters in the Oval Office that it would be up and running in two weeks.
The announcement came as other immigration routes expanded during the Biden administration are being curtailed, particularly for those from Central and Southern America. Trump has advocated for legal immigration, particularly work-based visas, which he has said help bring money and jobs into the country.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has announced that over 100 intelligence officers will be fired after they engaged in sending sexually-explicit messages in National Security Agency (NSA) chat rooms while “on government time.”
Gabbard’s announcement follows after journalists Christopher F. Rufo and Hannah Grossman announced in an X post that they had “obtained logs from the NSA’s secret transgender sex chatroom, in which NSA, CIA, and DIA employees discuss genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs—all on government time.”
Rufo shared a thread of evidence, exposing the details of the explicit discussions in the chat rooms, which were “supposed to be used for government work,” but were instead utilized “to discuss fetishes, kink, and sex, all legitimized as ‘DEI.’”
A Democratic U.S. senator is being accused of voting for millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to go to a consulting company owned by his wife.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust called on the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island “to determine whether he violated the Senate ethics rules on conflicts of interest.” The alleged conflict of interest relates to funding that benefited the Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit linked to his wife, Sandra Whitehouse.
The senator’s wife has been the president of consulting firm Ocean Wonks LLC since 2017 and directly employed at Ocean Conservancy since 2008 as a senior policy adviser. The complaint says that Ocean Conservancy paid the senator’s wife through the consulting firm.
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