President Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy Meet at White House – 11:00am EST Livestream


Posted originally on CTH onFebruary 28, 2025 | Sundance

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today at the White House.  The Ukraine leader has traveled to the U.S. with a surety proposal for continued U.S. taxpayer funds.

President Trump and President Zelenskyy are scheduled to meet publicly at approximately 11:00am EST.  Livestream feeds below:

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REMINDER: Be Practical With DOJ/FBI Expectations


Posted originally on CTH on February 28, 2025 | Sundance

Just a reminder of a pattern that was clearly visible soon after the November election. The current status:

The Trump administration has some serious people doing extraordinarily important work. The CIA team are facing a challenge few can fathom and yet they appear to be making progress. When the details surface, they will hopefully get praise.

The State Dept team, obviously working closely with the CIA team, are likewise doing exceptional groundwork. Secretary Rubio does appear to be downsizing the tentacles of the geopolitical influence operation.

The DNI group (domestic IC) and DHS team also appear to be laying the groundwork for major changes and confronting decades of institutional wrongdoing. Tom Homan is working through the process and DHS praise and appreciation seem well warranted.

The economic team is first-in-class, and the emissaries are working the Economic Security and National Security dynamic. These policies enmesh with other operations and DJT/Lutnick are brilliantly coordinating a smooth outflow of positive global influence.

However, AS PREDICTED, don’t expect the DOJ/FBI silos to be anything except a hot mess. The appointed leaders have all the support needed, but the nominated heads generally do not seem to have any idea how to get their “arms around” the problems. The DOJ/FBI reform agenda is not likely to go anywhere.

Celebrate all the success in the areas where serious people are operating strategically. But be practical in looking for DOJ/FBI structural silo changes; that really is unlikely to happen. The Bondi/Patel partnership are the wrong leadership people for that type of change.

WASHINGTON – […] Patel has been spotted around Washington, including a party at the British ambassador’s residence on Wednesday. He also showed up to the regional meeting without a jacket. “I’m not planning on wearing a suit, and I don’t expect you to wear one,” Patel said.

Patel also appears to be bringing many stylistic changes to the job. He told officials he planned to spend a lot of time in Las Vegas, where he was living last year. He ordered new decor for his Washington office and asked for his personal trainer to be cleared to enter the building for his workouts. (WSJ Link)

“Man, this is effing crazy.” ~ FBI Director Kash Patel, After Swearing-In

AG Pam Bondi Appears on Fox News to Explain Delays in Delivering Epstein Material


Posted originally on CTH on February 28, 2025 | Sundance

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi reappears on Fox News to explain the mixup and delays in the delivery of the Epstein Files.  According to General Bondi, dastardly officials New York are to blame, and her strongly worded letter to “Kash” is likely to bring a change in the dynamic.

The files are again expected to be delivered to AG Bondi on Friday by 8:00am EST.  WATCH:

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President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer Joint Press Conference


Posted originally on CTH on February 28, 2025 | Sundance

At the conclusion of several bilateral breakout sessions British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Trump hold a joint press conference.  The largest issue on the table of conversation is the Ukraine-Russia peace agreement to stop the war and create the space for a ceasefire.

In addition to the Russia-Ukraine war, tariffs and the economic impacts from the tariff program was a key topic for media questions.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer Delivers King Charles III State Invitation for President Trump


Posted originally on CTH on February 27, 2025 | Sundance

During the initial press availability, President Trump welcomes British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to the oval office.

As part of the initial discussion, PM Starmer delivered a letter from King Charles III inviting President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to a state dinner at Windsor. President Trump accepted the invitation.

On the issue of a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire and negotiated peace deal, President Trump is non-committal to the U.S participating in a peacekeeping force, should that be the determined course of action.  President Trump again affirms how open lines of communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin is critical to stop the bloodshed and get to a place where a ceasefire is possible.

President Trump affirmed the upcoming round of tariffs are going forward on schedule both in North America and on the reciprocal tariffs that come later in April. WATCH: 

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I Hope Everyone Paid Close Attention to Bondi’s Epstein Mess Today, Because It’s Going to Go Downhill From Here


Posted originally on CTH on February 27, 2025 | Sundance

I will simply repeat that I hope everyone continues watching Pam Bondi’s unfolding mess in great detail. It’s going to get a lot worse as the issues get more serious.

Attorney General Pam Bondi delivered a failing performance today with a ridiculous theatrical “Epstein Binders” exhibition delivered to White House assembled “influencers.”  [They look like idiots]

A group of highly followed people from social media, were apparently recruited by someone in/around the orbit of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to visit the White House. I’m told the undiscussed agenda was to introduce the influencers to JD Vance, as part of the preliminary operation for Vance ’28 [Similar to Pushaw and DeSantis in ’22].

Attorney General Pam Bondi, always looking for the best performance for public imagery, took the opportunity of their visit to give the influencers an exclusive insider series of “Epstein Files” custom printed in a binder for them. However, the Epstein files delivered are nothing more than simple documents already in the public [Online pdf].

After talking for the past several days about her intention to reveal explosive Epstein files, Bondi way overpromised and severely underdelivered.  Then again, when it’s a performance, that tends to happen. But wait, it gets worse….

AG Bondi then generated a letter for public consumption, blaming the FBI New York Field Office for hiding and withholding Epstein materials.  Apparently, the Attorney General was unaware that Gislaine Maxwell was prosecuted in New York and all the Epstein evidence was co-located with the trial venue as some of the post-conviction legal arguments and appeals are taking place.

You really cannot make this stuff up…

AG Bondi has egg on her face, and instead of taking a breath – thinking carefully about the stupidity of her own actions and claims in the past week, she immediately starts blaming the FBI in New York for holding evidence of the Epstein case that took place in New York.

Again, Bondi is not a serious person, and Bondi is certainly not an intellectual legal powerhouse.   Pam Bondi is the Sean Hannity of U.S. Attorney Generals.

Back to the White House…..

Prior to receiving their binders of nonsense, the Social Media influencers (another group of not exactly bright legal or scholarly minds) assembled for discussion and consultation.  If the pictures remind you of the Pushaw operation in Florida on behalf of Ron DeSantis, there’s likely a reason for that.

We shall probably hear more from all of these names as the JD Vance operation moves forward toward 2028.

[…] The National Pulse earlier reported that influencers were caught off guard when presented with the binders during a routine policy briefing session at the White House on Thursday morning.

The morning meetings included stops by Vice President J.D. Vance and President Donald Trump. Social media influencers also had a quick tour of the Oval Office, where FBI Director Kash Patel, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, and other members of the Cabinet and senior administration officials were present. President Trump is understood to have handed out White House memorabilia such as Presidential Challenge Coins and pens.

As the group moved from the Oval Office, several of the influencers present held up their binders for the assembled press, most of whom were there to cover the British Prime Minister’s visit to the White House.

Only after this media moment were the social media influencers told that AG Bondi did not want the public to know about the distribution of the binders, a caveat that came too late. One of the sources I spoke to called the entire incident a “clusterfuck,” with many of them resenting the fact that social media influencers are getting the blame for not releasing more information when they were asked not to, but only after the assembled media had taken pictures and video of them. (more)

Don’t get Stuck in the Epstein Weeds, Instead Ask: Why is the United States Attorney General on Fox News Every Day?


Posted originally on CTH on February 27, 2025 | Sundance

I’m going to skip the nonsense Pam Bondi keeps feeding the gullible masses about the Epstein “information”, or whatever she is labeling it this time.  Instead, I am going to highlight the purpose of Pam Bondi through a very simple observation:

Why is United States Attorney General Pam Bondi on Fox News every day?

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The answer is because she’s performative, not substantive.  Just as she saw her primary job in Florida as managing public perceptions, she is doing the same as United States Attorney General.

To the extent that she needs to lie, manipulate, spin, twist and conflate narratives in order to manage public perceptions, she will do that. It’s not hard to see.  She facilitated the manufacturing of false witnesses in Florida and was perfectly willing to watch a transparently innocent man go to prison.  Everything is through the filter of performance.

I expect absolutely nothing from this person. Nothing.  However, I welcome the brightest spotlight she can assemble to bear on herself.  Let the world watch, learn and see exactly who Pam Bondi is.

The three amigos are Bondi, Patel and Bongino.  I hope they are super successful, and I hope everyone watches all of their accomplishments with great interest.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Discusses Visa ‘Gold Cards’, Reciprocal Tariffs, Budget Balancing Priorities


Posted originally on CTH onFebruary 26, 2025 | Sundance

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is at the operational center of the MAGAnomic policy hub.  Secretary Lutnick is the pivot point to the technical systems that will pay down the deficit and balance the USA budget. {Direct Rumble Link Here}

In this lengthy interview with Bret Baier, Secretary Lutnick talks about some of the policy proposals, direct actions of the government and economic systems that he and President Trump are putting into place that will grow Main Street and fuel the golden era in American economic growth.  Well worth watching: 

April 2nd, 2025, begins the reciprocal tariff program for all nations.

The EU and NATO Collective Face Indefatigable Will of Godzilla Trump


Posted originally on CTH on February 26, 2025 | Sundance

They don’t stand a chance, truly.  Despite a few glimpses of possible hope that appeared and disappeared like twinkling remnants of a week-old glitter particle from the happy moment, the entire confab of European Commission participants, NATO alliance members, World Economic Forum pontificators and U.N. supporters of World War Reddit, are not going to force President Trump to put U.S. military troops on the ground in Ukraine to protect their investments.

The group is once again facing the indefatigable pragmaticism of President Trump.  Ukraine peacekeeping security is a European issue that should be solved by European peacekeepers, not Americans.

Every member of the EU/NATO assembly, at varying degrees of self-embarrassment, admits publicly now that none of them want to participate in securing Ukraine without U.S. military troops leading the effort.  It’s almost ridiculous how entrenched they appear to be on this issue.  Does NATO/EU not have any confidence in their own military ability?

CEASEFIRE- In order for the larger conflict to be resolved, there first needs to be a ceasefire – a cessation of hostilities.  President Trump and President Putin have discussed this exact point.  President Trump has also engaged President Zelenskyy on this issue; however, Zelenskyy is far less willing to end the physical hostility.

The strange assumption that looms in the background, the visibility of something you can see on the face of Trump when he talks about it, is that Zelenskyy fears the ceasefire more than he fears losing thousands more Ukrainians in the bloodshed.  This is a current dynamic that needs increased scrutiny, because right now not enough people are noticing. Zelenskyy really seems to fear a ceasefire.

CTH has long outlined the greatest fear amid the EU/NATO/WEF collective, is that somehow the United States and Russia will form a strategic alliance.  In fact, Marco Rubio stunningly shared that public goal of President Trump in his initial remarks after meeting his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The New World Order the WEF/NATO/EU continually talk about, filled with the new definitions of “western democracy” where elections are controlled by Intelligence Community operatives (see ongoing operations in Romania), apparently cannot exist if the USA and Russia are allies.  Stop for more than a few moments and think about that; we have yet to figure out exactly why.

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer is one of the insufferable dolts who will not allow his military to participate in the security of a ceasefire/peacekeeping force WITHOUT U.S. troops.

(WASHINGTON DC) – […] Starmer is one of three leaders flying in to make his case at the White House this week, after French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday and ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday.

The U.K. has offered up its armed forces for a possible Europe-wide peacekeeping force in Ukraine after the war.

In return, Starmer has been coordinating with allies to ask for a U.S. “backstop” — a security guarantee that would both safeguard peacekeeping troops if Russia chose to retaliate and prevent the situation from escalating. (more)

Emmanual Macron on Monday was desperate to ensure that President Trump would did not specifically rule out the USA putting military troops into Ukraine.  The political pretzel twisting that Macron exhibited in his effort to make sure there would remain a chance for U.S. troops, made the French President look silly.

Obviously, between the entire assembly they have the military forces to carry out a peacekeeping mission during a ceasefire, so why are they so desperate to avoid being responsible for it?

WASHINGTON (AP) — A planned meeting between European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Secretary of State Marco Rubio was abruptly canceled Wednesday due to “scheduling issues,” coming as political tensions have increased between Europe and the United States.

Officials from both sides blamed scheduling challenges for preventing the pair, who last met at the Munich Security Conference in Germany last month, from meeting in Washington.

However, European officials said they were caught off guard, and, notably, Kallas had previewed her planned talks with Rubio just two days earlier.

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has thrown the partnership between the U.S. and Europe into turmoil by pledging to charge higher taxes on imports from Europe that he says will match tariffs faced by American products. EU officials have traveled to Washington trying to head off a trade war.

Top Trump administration officials also have warned Europe that it must start taking responsibility for its own security, including Ukraine, and sidelined the Europeans from their initial talks with Russia on ending the war. In a remarkable shift, the U.S. split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations this week and joined Moscow in voting against a Europe-backed Ukrainian resolution. (more)

President Trump Holds First Cabinet Meeting – 11:00am Livestream


Posted originally on CTH on February 26, 2025 | Sundance 

Continuing with a process that originated in the first term, President Trump again allows cameras into the beginning of his cabinet meetings so the press pool can participate in the event.

Today, President Trump holds the first cabinet meeting of his second term with DOGE leader Elon Musk participating.  The anticipated start time is 11:00am EST.  Livestream Links Below:

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