June USA Home Sales – Prices Rise and Buyers Back Out


Posted originally on Jul 13, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Existing home sales in the US unexpectedly fell 2.4% in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million units, missing expectations for a summer increase. At the very same time, the median existing home price reached another all-time record of $440,600, marking the 36th consecutive month of year-over-year price gains. Sales are falling because buyers cannot afford today’s prices, yet prices refuse to break because governments and central banks spent years distorting the market with artificially low interest rates and endless liquidity.

Families who bought before 2022 are sitting on mortgages below 3% and have little incentive to sell. The result is a frozen market where supply remains constrained, buyers cannot qualify, and prices remain historically elevated despite weakening demand.

Governments created this crisis through decades of intervention. They subsidized mortgages, manipulated interest rates, expanded sovereign debt, and encouraged speculation. Now everyone acts surprised that a young family earning a middle-class income cannot purchase the average American home.

Notice where the market is actually functioning. According to the National Association of Realtors, sales of homes priced above $1 million continue to outperform the lower end of the market, while first-time buyers remain historically underrepresented despite a modest improvement to 33% of June purchases. A healthy market normally sees about 40% of transactions coming from first-time buyers. When the entry level disappears, the entire housing ladder begins to fail because existing owners have fewer buyers to sell to.

Real estate moves in long cycles of confidence. Markets never travel in straight lines forever. The frenzy created after the pandemic was fueled by cheap money, not by sustainable economic growth. Now we are living through the adjustment phase. That does not necessarily mean a dramatic nationwide collapse in prices, because inventory remains constrained, but it does mean transactions will continue to suffer as long as governments refuse to allow markets to clear naturally.

The broader danger extends well beyond housing. When an entire generation cannot afford to buy a home, confidence in the economic system begins to erode. That is why support for wealth redistribution, rent controls, and socialism continues to grow. Governments created the housing crisis through intervention, and their answer is predictably more intervention.

Promoting WWIII at the Berlinale


Posted originally on Jul 13, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Zelensky is put on screen at the 2026 Berlinale Festival, which started on July 12th and runs to the 22nd, and receives a standing ovation. The Berlinale is a major film festival (like Cannes or Venice) that screens new films and gives out its own awards (Golden and Silver Bears). The mere fact that they put Zelensky on the screen is to promote war in Europe. This confirms the rising support for World War III. At the NATO Summit, Zelensky pushed to join NATO despite the fact that no one can join in wartime, since that would automatically trigger World War III.

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz holds the record for the MOST unpopular chancellor in Germany’s history, with his approval rating hitting 16%! French President Emmanuel Macron is either tied with former President François Hollande as the MOST unpopular French president of the past half century, or surpasses him in unpopularity, depending on the poll used. Outgoing United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer made history as the island nation’s MOST unpopular premier before his resignation, with an Ipsos poll finding just 13% of voters were satisfied with him, compared to 79% who were unsatisfied. The three of them have been pushing for war as a means to retain power, and they tell us we live in a democracy with no right to vote for them directly or for war.

This trio of idiots think that sustained pressure will eventually force Moscow to moderate its behavior, or that the system is heading towards collapse. Both assumptions misunderstand the nature of the pressures building inside Russia. Putin is the MOST restrained, but is being pushed to the limit. He either gets far more aggressive, or the risk will be that he is overthrown by a Russian version of John Bolton. They need this distraction because the EU crisis is building. I have reported that Italy’s GDP growth is down to 0.5% but Germany, nearly 25% of the EU by itself, has a GDP growth rate of just 0.8%. Our ECM has been warning of a MAJOR economic decline into 2028. With Ukraine bombing the Nordstrom Pipeline, then the sanctions imposed on Russia, these declines combine with climate change has ensured the EU economy cannot survive long-term and war is not going to help. This assume creating a new currency and funding the reconstruction of the EU will save the day.

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I have spoke even with US military. If such a scheme were targeting the USA, they would push the button. What the hell, if you are going to see your country destroyed, might as well take as many with you as possible. I cannot express the sheer stupidity in allowing Ukraine to carry out this war. The Minsk Agreement was to allow the ethnic Russian in the Donbas to vote. Since Ukraine is the motherland of ethnic cleansing, the EU and the US are deliberately denying the human rights of those in the Donbas to leave free of the tyranny of Zelensky who has outlawed their language and religion. Even the Pope has condemned Zelensky for outlawing Orthodox Christianity. Europe seems to have a death wish.

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U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham Dead


Posted originally on Jul 12, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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The world is a little safer today. U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham died on Saturday, July 11th, 2026 at the age of 71 the day after he visited Ukraine’s drone production company, SkyFall, named after the James Bond Movie. SkyFall is a Ukrainian defense technology company involved in developing and manufacturing advanced unmanned systems for the military. It currently relies on Chinese components and hopes to replace that by year end.

It was both John McCain and Lindsey Graham that instigated using Ukraine to become their proxy war against Russia. If a Russian politician had appeared on January 6th in Washington telling the crowd to overthrow the government and Russia was with them, that would have sparked treason trials if not war. Yet that is what McCain did in Kiev telling the people to overthrow their government, the US was behind them, and this was their chance for peace, when they used the Ukrainian people as fools and cannon foddert.

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Senator Graham, notorious for his personal hatred of Russia as his former cohort John McCain, toured one of SkyFall’s production facilities during that trip to Ukraine. He lavished great praise on them stating that he was highly impressed by the technology and production capacity, stating that it would be a “huge mistake” for the US not to cooperate with Ukraine in the drone sector. Bring Russia to its knees and someone will nuke Kiev.

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It was McCain who was behind the fake story of the Magnitsky Act. Never in my life did I ever meet two people I honestly felt I needed a shower after shaking hands.

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George Washington Waged a War of Attrition


Posted originally on Jul 12, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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QUESTION: You said the the US is not certain of victory against Iran. Could you explain that view?

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ANSWER: George Washington did lose more battles than he won early on losing New York was his worst. Nevertheless, his overall record shows he understood that winning the war mattered more than winning every battle. He was seriously outnumbered. Once he understood that all he had to do was NOT lose!  He waged a war of attrition. He understood that maintaining a major force on foreign soil is a major logistical disadvantage. I have warned, that Iran is waging a war of attrition.

Washington may not have been formally educated in a university, that did not mean he was unread. He apparently read Roman history intensely. He was a brilliant strategist. His strength was in seeing the “big picture” and maintaining the army’s very existence. He embraced a “Fabian Strategy” of avoiding large, decisive battles that could destroy his army, instead choosing to fight smaller engagements and retreat when necessary to preserve his forces.

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The Fabian Strategy was developed by Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, a Roman statesman and general, during the Second Punic War (218-201BC). Fabius was appointed as dictator of the Roman Republic in 217BC, following devastating military defeats by the Carthaginian general Hannibal. To counter Hannibal’s superior military skill and strength, Fabius devised a new approach.

His core tactic was to refuse to engage Hannibal’s army in a major, decisive battle, as Hannibal had proven superior in such confrontations. Instead, Fabius employed a strategy of harassment and attrition. He kept the Roman army close to Hannibal’s forces, shadowing their movements while sending out smaller detachments to attack foraging parties and disrupt supply lines. This was what Washington adopted.

Fabian also ordered residents in the path of the Carthaginian army to burn their crops and take refuge in fortified towns, denying Hannibal the resources his army needed. This cautious approach allowed Rome time to recover its strength. It was initially unpopular with the Roman public, who saw it as cowardly, but after another Roman army was annihilated at the Battle of Cannae in 216BC, the value of his strategy was recognized, and it was adopted again.

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Further proof that Washington was self-taught in Roman History is his formation of the Order of the Cincinnati. Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was a two time Roman dictator. He was a Roman patrician, statesman, and military leader of the early Roman Republic who became a famous model of Roman virtue. The story of Cincinnatus that was recounted in Livy’s History of Rome and elsewhere, impressed George Washington but it is usually accepted that Cincinnatus was a historical figure who served as consul in 460BC and as dictator in 458BC and again in 439BC. He was the head of the army and handed back power when his term was up.

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George Washington did not create the Society of the Cincinnati. While he was deeply connected to it, the honor for its creation belongs to another Revolutionary War figure.That honor belongs to Major General Henry Knox, the Continental Army’s chief of artillery. Knox was the principal author of the Society’s founding document, the Institution. Washington became its first president.

Washington beat an overwhelming opponent the same as Fabian defeated Hannibal – a war of attrition. Just because the US may possess the largest military, history is consistent in this regard. That does NOT guarantee a victory no matter what century we examine.

Interview: Bushfires of WW3, Debt Crises, AI Gulag, & Revolution


Posted originally on Jul 12, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

Mitch McConnell Releases Image and Statement


Posted originally on CTH on July 12, 2026 | Sundance

The Office of Senator Mitch McConnell has released a picture and statement intended to answer questions about the status of the Kentucky senator.   However, many are questioning the content.

Personally, the accompanying image doesn’t really matter much – it is reported to be AI enhanced, but who can tell.  However, the message that accompanies the picture?  Well, that text is total BS and did not come from McConnell.

You can tell McConnell did not write it by the way it is written (particularly paragraph #2), and more importantly, there is no mention of condolence following Senator Lindsey Graham’s death.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following note to constituents regarding his hospitalization and recovery:

“To my fellow Kentuckians –

“When you elected me to a seventh term and made me our Commonwealth’s longest serving Senator, you did so trusting that I’d keep showing up to fight for you every day. And over the past several weeks, Elaine and I have appreciated both your well wishes and your honest questions about what was keeping me away from the Senate.

“You all know how folks of my generation often hesitate to share the vulnerability that comes with growing older. Even in the public eye, I feel that same instinct – I can’t help it.

“But at the same time, I’ve had more than my share of experience with physical vulnerabilities. Surviving childhood polio meant spending my entire life with mobility challenges. They haven’t exactly gotten easier to manage with age. And last month, I took a fall which landed me in the hospital.

“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia.

“I can assure you that I’ve been a good patient. At my age, I tend to do what my doctors tell me to do. I’ve submitted to every test they can think of to help figure out what caused this incident. And I’m continuing to do everything they ask to speed my recovery. In fact, with signs of continued progress, I’ve been able to move from hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I’ll keep regaining my strength.

“As much as it frustrates me, this process takes time. And on the advice of my doctors, I won’t be able to return to the Senate floor to vote quite yet. But rest assured that, in the meantime, I’m not taking a break from the Senate business that matters to you. I’ve been working closely with my legislative staff on current issues, and with my Kentucky team who help me provide timely constituent services across our Commonwealth. I’ve also been keeping in touch with my Senate colleagues on the appropriations process, midterm politics, and everything in between.

“You’re right to expect your representatives to work hard for you. And part of my decision to retire at the end of my term this coming January was being honest about the demands of Senate work. But I still have unfinished business to complete on your behalf, and I have every intention of finishing the job you elected me to do.

“I’ll keep working hard to get back on the Senate floor as soon as possible. And I’ll keep you posted on the progress of my recovery. Until then, I’m so grateful for your prayers and well wishes.”

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From the Office of the Attending Physician:

“Senator McConnell has experienced several falls throughout the year that have been attributed to his post-polio condition. He was admitted to the hospital four weeks ago after falling at home and sustaining minor injuries.

“A comprehensive evaluation by a multidisciplinary team determined that he had no fractures, cardiac abnormalities, stroke, tumor, or hemorrhage. Early in his hospitalization, he developed pneumonia, which responded rapidly to antibiotic treatment.

“The remainder of his hospital stay focused on physical therapy and strategies to reduce his risk of future falls. He has been medically cleared to continue fully participating in his intensive physical therapy program.”

Comrade Suspicious Cat remains, well, increasingly suspicious.

Sunday Talks – Jake Tapper vs NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker


Posted originally on CTH on July 12, 2026 | Sundance

NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker appears on CNN with Jake Tapper to discuss the recent 2026 NATO assembly in Ankara, Turkey.   Tapper asks Whitaker about the New York Times report on Airforce One and subsequent DOJ subpoenas, and Whitaker doesn’t take the bait, “not in my purview.”  WATCH:

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In Memoriam – The Most Interesting Revelation Released by Senator Lindsey Graham


Posted originally on CTH on July 12, 2026 | Sundance 

Many people have specific citations for the impact of Senator Lindsey Graham. Several people have noted his importance in releasing information associated with the fraudulent “spygate’ and “Russiagate” operations. However, to me, the most interesting release from Senator Lindsey Graham was the release he could never again mention.

Senator Graham released a highly compartmented letter [STILL ACTIVE LINK] that proved the depth of the fraud targeting President Trump. The letter formally outlined a complete governmental fraud using all three branches of government, and as a consequence it could never be discussed in public.

In/around April 2020 (the letter is technically undated) the Senate Judiciary Committee (Graham and Feinstein) along with the Senate Intelligence Committee (Burr and Warner) received a copy of a letter previously transmitted secretly by the Mueller-led Dept of Justice to the FISA Court in July 2018.

BACKGROUND: The Mueller led DOJ (Rosenstein compliant, Sessions recused) had previously sent a notification to the FISA Court, July 12, 2018, saying despite the Office of the IG investigation showing clear manipulation of Carter Page FISA application process, there was still “sufficient predication” to believe the FISA warrant was appropriate.

The Mueller team were covering their ass, and racing against the clock while hiding information from the public. The letter clearly establishes in July 2018 the Mueller team were lying to the FISC.

After the December 2019 OIG Horowitz report that exposed how the Mueller probe, DOJ and FBI having clearly manipulated information to continue using the FISA warrant, despite information showing the warrant was obtained using fraudulent information, the FISA Court demanded the DOJ, now under Bill Barr, inform the Legislative Branch (Judiciary Committee) of the July 12, 2018, lie told to them by the Mueller team.

The DOJ had to comply and send the secret letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. That’s how Graham received a copy of it in early 2020, which he then made public.

Until that moment in 2020, no one knew the Mueller team was saying one thing to the FISA Court, and another thing entirely to the media and public.

The FISC was angered, but the only oversight mechanism they had was to force the DOJ to give a copy of the letter to the Judiciary Committee.

The Judicial Branch (Judge Collyer) demanded the Executive Branch (AG Bill Barr) send the Mueller team letter to the Legislative Branch (Judiciary Committee).

Unfortunately, no one (except Graham) ever brought this up in the subsequent hearings on the matter, and when John Durham testified about his review, he was not questioned about it.

The Mueller team (Weissmann and McCord) successfully used the silo process to hide the deception, and John Durham was instructed by AG Bill Barr NEVER to investigate internal DC actors within the Legislative or Executive branches for their conduct, participation or role in the Trump targeting effort.

Bill Barr was trying to protect corrupt institutions, specifically the DOJ and FBI – and by extension the Mueller team, against sunlight upon their corrupt activity.

The lengthy letters remains -to this day- sitting in the Judiciary Committee data library (link below), as a permanent physical record of a direct lies told to the FISC by a corrupt DOJ, and to this day no one has been held to account.

The 2020 cover letter itself is undated, because Bill Barr was trying to coverup what had taken place.

READ FOR YOURSELF.

Amid a series of documents released by the Senate Judiciary Committee [SEE HERE] there is a rather alarming letter from the DOJ to the FISA Court in July 2018 that points toward an institutional cover-up.   [Link to Letter]

Before getting to the substance of the letter, it’s important to put the release in context.  After the FISA Court reviewed the DOJ inspector general report, the FISC ordered the DOJ-NSD to declassify and release documents related to the Carter Page FISA application.

In the cover letter for this specific release to the Senate Judiciary and Senate Intelligence committees, the DOJ cites the January 7, 2020, FISA court order:

Keep in mind that prior to this release only the FISA court had seen this letter from the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD).  As we walk through the alarming content of this letter I think you’ll identify the motive behind the FISC order to release it.

First, the letter in question was sent by the DOJ-NSD to the FISA Court on July 12, 2018.  It is critical to keep the date of the letter in mind as we review the content.

Aside from the date the important part of the first page is the motive for sending it. The DOJ is telling the court in July 2018: based on what they know the FISA application still contains “sufficient predication for the Court to have found probable cause” to approve the application.   The DOJ is defending the Carter Page FISA application as still valid.

However, it is within the justification of the application that alarm bells are found. On page six the letter identifies the primary participants behind the FISA redactions:

As you can see: Christopher Steele is noted as “Source #1”.  Glenn Simpson of Fusion-GPS is noted as “identified U.S. person” or “business associate”; and Perkins Coie is the “U.S-based law firm.”

Now things get very interesting.

On page #8 when discussing Christopher Steele’s primary sub-source, the DOJ notes the FBI found him to be truthful and cooperative.

This is an incredibly misleading statement to the FISA court because what the letter doesn’t say is that 18-months earlier the sub-source, also known in the IG report as the “primary sub-source”, informed the FBI that the material attributed to him in the dossier was essentially junk.  That primary sub-source was Igor Danchenko.

Let’s look at how the IG report frames the primary sub-source, and specifically notice the FBI contact and questioning took place in January 2017 (we now know that date to be January 12, 2017):

Those interviews with Steele’s primary sub-source Denchenko took place in January, March and May of 2017; and clearly the sub-source debunked the content of the dossier itself.

Those interviews were 18-months, 16-months and 14-months ahead of the July 2018 DOJ letter to the FISC.   The DOJ-NSD says the sub-source was “truthful and cooperative” but the DOJ doesn’t tell the court the content of the truthfulness and cooperation.  Why?

Keep in mind this letter to the court was written by AAG John Demers in July 2018.  Jeff Sessions was Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein was Deputy AG; Christopher Wray was FBI Director, David Bowditch is Deputy, and Dana Boente is FBI chief-legal-counsel.

Why would the DOJ-NSD not be forthcoming with the FISA court about the primary sub-source?  This level of disingenuous withholding of information speaks to an institutional motive.

By July 2018 the DOJ clearly knew the dossier was full of fabrications, yet they withheld that information from the court and said the predicate was still valid.  Why?

It doesn’t take a deep-weeds-walker to identify the DOJ motive.

♦ In July 2018 Robert Mueller’s investigation was at its apex.

This letter justifying the application and claiming the current information would still be a valid predicate therein, speaks to the 2018 DOJ needing to retain the validity of the FISA warrant…. My research suspicion is that the DOJ needed to protect evidence Mueller had already extracted from the fraudulent FISA authority.  That’s the motive.

In July 2018 if the DOJ-NSD had admitted the FISA application and all renewals were fatally flawed Robert Mueller would have needed to withdraw any evidence gathered as a result of its exploitation.  The DOJ in 2018 was protecting Mueller’s poisoned fruit.

If the DOJ had been honest with the court, there’s a strong possibility some, perhaps much, of Mueller evidence gathering would have been invalidated… and cases were pending.

The solution: mislead the court and claim the predication was still valid.

This is not simply a hunch, because that motive also speaks to why the FISC would order the current DOJ to release the letter.

Remember, in December 2019 the FISC received the IG Horowitz report; and they would have immediately noted the disparity between what IG Horowitz outlined about the FBI investigating Steele’s sub-source, as contrast against what the DOJ told them in July 2018.

The DOJ letter is a transparent misrepresentation when compared to the information in the Horowitz report. Hence, the court orders the DOJ to release the July letter so that everyone, including congressional oversight and the public can see the misrepresentation.

The court was misled; now everyone can see it.

The content of that DOJ-NSD letter, and the subsequent disparity, points to an institutional cover-up; and as a consequence the FISC also ordered the DOJ to begin an immediate sequestration effort to find all the evidence from the fraudulent FISA application.  The proverbial fruit from the poisonous tree…. And yes, that job fell upon Bill Barr.

Bill Barr could not follow that FISC instruction because doing so would have opened up the entire Mueller operation to further scrutiny.  The FISC told Barr to sequester evidence fraudulently obtained by false affidavits to the court.  However, by early 2020 the Mueller cases were complete.

Reopening the cases would have been catastrophic to the institutional credibility that was predicated on the special counsel.

Two more big misstatements within the July letter appear on page #9.  The first is the DOJ claiming that only after the application was filed did they become aware of Christopher Steele working for Fusion-GPS and knowing his intent was to create opposition research for the Hillary Clinton campaign.  See the top of the page.

According to the DOJ-NSD claim the number four ranking official in the DOJ, Bruce Ohr, never told them he was acting as a conduit for Christopher Steele to the FBI.   While that claim is hard to believe, in essence what the DOJ-NSD is saying in that paragraph is that the FBI hoodwinked the DOJ-NSD by not telling them where the information for the FISA application was coming from.  The DOJ, via John Demers, is blaming the FBI.

The second statement, equally as incredulous, is at the bottom of page nine where the DOJ claims they had no idea Bruce Ohr was talking to the FBI throughout the entire time any of the FISA applications were being submitted.  October 2016 through June 2017.

In essence the claim there is that Bruce Ohr was working with the FBI and never told anyone in the DOJ throughout 2016 and all the way past June 29th of 2017.  That denial seems rather unlikely; however, once again the DOJ-NSD is putting the FBI in the crosshairs and claiming they knew nothing about the information pipeline.

Bruce Ohr, whose wife was working for Fusion-GPS and assisting Christopher Steele with information, was interviewed by the FBI over a dozen times as he communicated with Steele and fed his information to the FBI.  Yet the DOJ claims they knew nothing about it.

Again, just keep in mind this claim by the DOJ-NSD is being made in July 2018, six months after Bruce Ohr was demoted twice (December 2017 and January 2018).  If what the DOJ is saying is true, well, the FBI was completely off-the-rails and rogue.

Neither option speaks well about the integrity of either institution; and quite frankly I don’t buy the DOJ-NSD spin.

Why?

The reason is simple, the DOJ is claiming in the letter the predication was still valid… if the DOJ-NSD genuinely didn’t know about the FBI manipulation, they would be informing the court in 2018 the DOJ no longer supported the FISA application due to new information.  They did not do that.  Instead, in July 2018, they specifically told the court the predicate was valid, yet the DOJ-NSD knew it was not.

The last point about the July 2018 letter is perhaps the most jarring.  Again, keep in mind when it was written Chris Wray is FBI Director, David Bowditch is Deputy and Dana Boente is FBI chief legal counsel.

Their own FBI reports, by three different INSD and IG investigations; had turned up seriously alarming evidence going back to the early 2017 time-frame; the results of which ultimately led to the DC FBI office losing all of their top officials; and knowing the letter itself was full of misleading and false information about FBI knowledge in/around Christopher Steele; this particular sentence is alarming:

“The FBI has reviewed this letter and confirmed its factual accuracy?”

Really?

As we have just shared, the July 2018 letter itself is filled with factual inaccuracies, misstatements and intentional omissions.  So who exactly did the “reviewing”?

Here’s the Full Letter I strongly suggest everyone read the 14-pages slowly.  If you know the background, this letter is infuriating…

There is no apple, it’s all worms!

Nancy Mace Wants to Replace Lindsey Graham


Posted originally on CTH on July 12, 2026 | Sundance

Nancy Mace tried to defeat Senator Lindsey Graham in 2014; she placed 5th in the primary.  Nancy Mace tried to run for governor this year, she placed 5th in the South Carolina primary.

Not many people think highly of Nancy Mace. However, Nancy Mace thinks very highly of herself [SEE HERE].  After learning of Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden death, Mace immediately began positioning herself to take the South Carolina senate seat.

Mace is set to vacate her coastal House seat early next year, having given up her post to unsuccessfully run for governor this year. Her political future was uncertain following her fifth-place finish in that primary, but the newly open seat offers her a lifeline to extend her tenure in Washington.” (more)

Yuck.

But watch out for Ms. Nikki elbowing her way into position.

BLOOD IN THE WATER – […] Republicans will now race to replace Graham on the November ballot in a special primary election in mid-August, according to state law.

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday morning, President Donald Trump said he was already considering who he might back in the race.

“I have somebody that I think would be great, but I don’t want to say it now because it’s just, you know, it’s too soon with Lindsey,” he said. “I don’t want to even talk about anybody, but I do have somebody that I think is really good.”

A special candidate filing period will open up on July 21 for Republicans interested in running for Graham’s seat, and will remain open for a week, according to state law and the state Republican Party. A primary would be held on August 11, with a runoff if no candidate reaches 50 percent of the vote on Aug. 25.

The winner of that contest will face Andrews in November for a full, six-year term that would start in January of next year. (more)

President Trump Reminds Jake Tapper to Stay on Task – Focus on Lindsey Graham


Posted originally on CTH on July 12, 2026 | Sundance 

President Trump called in to CNN State of the Union for a discussion of the legacy of Senator Lindsey Graham.  After a few minutes, Jake Tapper begins to go off subject into other matters of material interest to himself.  President Trump rejects the effort and reminds Tapper do not disrespect the moment and stay on the subject of Lindsey Graham. WATCH:

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