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There’s a lot happening right now that billionaire-owned outlets are sweeping under the rug. Airports across the U.S. could soon shut down. A judge had one of Trump’s prosecutors removed from his courtroom. A majority of Americans think the Iran war was launched to distract from the Epstein files. And a general drank himself into a stupor and left behind top-secret documents.
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TSA Crisis Could Mean Shutdown of U.S. Airports
America’s airports are in trouble.
The Transportation Security Administration is stretched so thin that its own acting deputy administrator went on Fox News this week and said, flat out, that shutting down airports isn’t hyperbole. It’s a real possibility. Smaller airports especially.
Adam Stahl told Fox & Friends that officers “can’t afford to come in.” TSA workers have been going without full pay since a partial DHS shutdown kicked in on February 14th.
Three hundred and sixty-six TSA workers have already quit. Each replacement takes four to six months to train and certify. So every officer who walks out the door creates a gap that won’t be filled anytime soon.
The results are showing up at every major airport in the country. Three and four-hour security lines. People missing flights. TSA callout rates are spiking, including in major hubs like Houston, Atlanta and New Orleans.
The DHS shutdown happened after two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Democrats want to fund DHS agencies like TSA and FEMA, while cutting off ICE funding. Republicans insist on an all-or-nothing approach.
Judge Kicks Trump DOJ Prosecutor Out of Courtroom
Here’s a story that deserves far more attention than it’s getting.
A federal judge in New Jersey threw a top prosecutor out of his courtroom this week. Not metaphorically. Actually ejected him.
Judge Zahid Quraishi was presiding over a sentencing hearing when things unraveled fast. The head of appeals for the New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office, Mark Coyne, showed up without formally disclosing he’d be there. The judge told him he couldn’t address the court. Coyne spoke anyway. Judge Quraishi warned him again. Coyne spoke again. And the judge had security remove him.
The New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office has been in legal chaos since Alina Habba was disqualified from her previous role. Pam Bondi responded by appointing a three-person leadership team that a federal judge found last week to be unlawfully appointed. Judge Quraishi is now demanding those three people testify in court next month.
The concern isn’t just procedural. Last week, Judge Matthew Brann wrote that Trump’s reliance on illegal maneuvers to staff the New Jersey prosecutor’s office could mean scores of dangerous criminals walk free or get convictions reversed, because the law would be on their side.
Judge Quraishi didn’t mince words at the end of Monday’s hearing. He told the remaining prosecutor that the office had lost the confidence of the court, the New Jersey legal community, and the public.
More Than Half of Americans Think Trump Started War to Distract from Epstein
Posters popping up across Washington D.C. are calling the war in Iran not by its official name, “Operation Epic Fury,” but rather “Operation Epstein Fury.”
Another poster shows a fallen American serviceman in front of the Stars and Stripes saying U.S. troops shouldn’t have to “die fighting Iran for the Epstein class.”
Now, whether the war was launched to distract from those files is impossible to prove. But what’s striking is who is raising the question.
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie wrote that bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files disappear. Podcaster Joe Rogan said that bombing Iran makes everyone forget about everything.
A poll for progressive outlet Zeteo found that 52 percent of Americans believe Trump attacked Iran because of the Epstein headlines. That includes 26 percent of Republicans.
Republican strategist Rick Wilson summed it up bluntly: “For Trump, war is the ultimate political reset, no matter its cost.”
U.S. General Gets Drunk and Loses Secret Documents
A Pentagon watchdog report has found that the U.S. Army general who ran America’s Ukraine aid mission left classified documents on a train and drank himself into a concussion.
Major General Antonio Aguto Jr. headed the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine out of Germany between 2022 and 2024. Three anonymous complaints triggered a Department of Defense Inspector General investigation in June 2024.
The findings are remarkable.
In April of 2024, Aguto’s staff traveled to Kyiv carrying secret classified maps in an unsecured plastic tube. When they boarded the train home, the tube didn’t make it back with them. Ukrainian train security found it and returned it to the U.S. Embassy within 45 minutes, but the documents had been outside American control for over 24 hours.
Aguto accepted responsibility. But the alcohol findings are harder to explain.
The following month, Aguto attended a dinner in Kyiv that lasted nearly six hours. He and his companions drank from two bottles of strong liquor, violating U.S. European Command rules limiting personnel in Ukraine to two drinks in any 24-hour period.
He was visibly intoxicated when he left the restaurant. He fell multiple times that night and the following morning. Despite pleas from staff, he pushed through a meeting with the secretary of state, arriving late with a ripped jacket, a red mark on his forehead, and the smell of alcohol.
By mid-afternoon, a Kyiv hospital confirmed a concussion. Investigators concluded the concussion was caused by his drinking the previous evening.
Aguto has disputed some of the findings, citing medical conditions and claimed verbal authorization to drink during official Kyiv visits. Investigators rejected both defenses.
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I’m British Chris. Thanks for watching. We’ll see you next time.
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