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EXCLUSIVE: Unfazed by Lawfare, Kari Lake Notifies Unions of Mass Firings Incoming at USAGM

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United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Senior Advisor Kari Lake has issued reduction-in-force notifications to government worker unions, a source familiar with the situation told The Gateway Pundit.

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) were both put on notice this week that mass firings are incoming.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Lake was sworn in as a White House senior advisor to the agency until she can be hired as VOA Director. In an email to USAGM staff upon being sworn in, she notified them that she would be “reforming and modernizing the agency into something the American people are willing to support.”

Trump’s USAGM Senior Advisor Kari Lake Announces New Acting US Agency for Global Media CEO – Is Major Change Coming to The Agency? DOGE Incoming?

Lake was chosen by the President to lead the government's international news network, Voice of America (VOA), after a new USAGM CEO is confirmed by the Senate, which could be a years-long process.

Placing Lake in the USAGM as a White House Advisor with exclusive powers over the entire agency appears to be a masterful way to overstep the appointment process, which is typically started by the USAGM CEO and agreed upon by the International Broadcasting Advisory Board. President Trump's nominee for USAGM CEO, conservative writer Brent Bozell, is still awaiting Senate Confirmation, and a new bipartisan advisory board needs to be Senate-confirmed before Kari Lake can be approved as the Voice of America head.

The Deep State and far-left unions are probably wishing she were confined to VOA instead of overseeing the entire agency as she currently does.

As we previously predicted, the agency will effectively be "DOGE'd." Under Lake's leadership, we can be assured that far-left activism will be taken out of the newsroom, waste will be cut, President Trump’s executive orders will be followed, and taxpayer dollars will be put to good use.

And it's already happening. Earlier this month, Lake went to work and announced that she was reducing millions in costs, exposing suspicious activity, and eliminating positions at the USAGM, The Gateway Pundit reported. She further issued a letter terminating the federal grant for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which USAGM oversees.

Because of her efforts to do good with taxpayer money and following an executive order from the President aimed at reducing the operations of several agencies, including the USAGM, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty filed a lawsuit. In the lawsuit, they argued that the termination violated federal laws and the U.S. Constitution, which grants Congress exclusive authority over federal spending.

The Gateway Pundit reported this week that U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth obstructed the President and Kari Lake's efforts to DOGE the agency, saying that attempts to terminate employees of the globalist propaganda stations violated federal laws and the U.S. Constitution.

Lake and the Trump administration are also facing additional lawsuits, including one from six leftist VOA reporters backed by Reporters Without Borders and several labor unions, who are arguing First Amendment violations, in the far left Southern District of New York.

This is a developing story. 

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Black Lives Matter Activist in Boston Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charges – Scammed Donors to Fund Her Lifestyle

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A Black Lives Matter activist in Boston named Monica Cannon-Grant pleaded guilty to federal charges this week, admitting that she scammed donors and used their money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

Cannon-Grant was previously held up as an admired figure. The city of Boston named her the Bostonian of the year at one point for her ‘social justice activism’ and she was even recognized by the Boston Celtics basketball team for her efforts.

She is now facing a minimum of two years in prison.

The New York Post reports:

BLM-linked activist admits conning donors to fund her lavish lifestyle

A once-celebrated Boston social activist has pleaded guilty to defrauding donors — including Black Lives Matter — out of thousands of dollars that she used as a personal piggy bank.

Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, pleaded guilty Monday to 18 counts of fraud-related crimes that she committed with her late husband while operating their Violence in Boston (VIB) activists group, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.

The activist scammed money — including $3,000 from a BLM group — while claiming it was to help feed children and run protests like one in 2020 over the murder of George Floyd and police violence.

Cannon-Grant also conned her way into getting $100,000 in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits — which she used to pay off her personal auto loan and car insurance policy.

But she has now confessed to transferring funds to personal bank accounts to pay for rent, shopping sprees, delivery meals, visits to a nail salon — and even a summer vacation to Maryland.

Just amazing.

Here’s a local video report:

She should pay back every penny.

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Keith Olbermann Backpedals Furiously With Apology for Threatening CNN’s Scott Jennings – Jennings Responds (VIDEO)

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As the Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, former MSNBC host and generally unhinged leftist Keith Olbermann, appeared to threaten CNN’s conservative pundit Scott Jennings on Twitter saying, ‘You’re next motherf**ker.’

Well, Olbermann may have gotten a phone call or a visit from the FBI because today he walked back those comments with a full-throated apology.

RedState has an update:

To quickly recap, Scott Jennings, a Salem Media Network radio host and conservative CNN political commentator, reacted to breaking news on Monday that Kimmel had been reinstated by tweeting, “So basically his employer suspended him for being an insensitive pr**k, and we don’t live in an authoritarian regime? Got it.”

This enraged Olbermann, who proceeded to tweet what many, including Jennings, perceived to be a threat. “You’re next, motherf**ker. But keep mugging to the camera.” Jennings tagged Patel and included a screengrab of the tweets in response.

Though the FBI hasn’t commented as to whether an investigation was launched, Olbermann ostensibly appears to have thought twice about what he tweeted and deleted, apologizing profusely in tweets posted on Tuesday and claiming what he wrote was “misinterpreted”:

See Olbermann’s tweet below:

Scott Jennings, always a class act, offered this hilarious response:

Keith Olbermann really needs help. The guy is just so out of control.

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Where is Lance Twiggs? Kirk Assassin’s Transgender Lover Has Vanished

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Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson and roommate Lance Twiggs

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner – a male-to-female trans named Lance “Luna” Twiggs.

The FBI used Robinson’s texts with his transgender partner to solidify that Robinson was the assassin. Lance Twiggs has not been charged with any crime; however, federal authorities are still investigating.

Last week, Utah authorities released the text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his transgender lover, Lance Twiggs, sent shortly after Kirk’s assassination.

Utah County District Attorney Jeff Gray announced seven charges against Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson. They will also be seeking the death penalty.

Robinson was charged with:

– Count 1: Aggravated murder (capital offense)
– Count 2: Felony reckless discharge of a firearm causing bodily injury
– Count 3: Felony obstruction of justice for hiding the firearm
– Count 4: Felony obstruction of justice for discarding the clothing he wore during the shooting
– Count 5: Witness tampering for asking roommate to delete incriminating messages
– Count 6: Witness temperating for demanding trans roommate stay silent, and not speak to police
– Count 7: Commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child

Jeff Gray released the chilling texts between Tyler Robinson and his “love” Lance Twiggs.

Read the text exchange here:

Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 1
Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 2

Lance Twiggs was reportedly cooperating with the FBI, however, according to the Daily Mail he has seemingly vanished.

“If [Lance Twiggs] ever comes back, it will be in a body bag,” a neighbor said to the Daily Mail. “That’s not a threat – I’m just saying that there are so many people who want a piece of him he’d be mad to show his face in public again. This was a generational event.”

The Daily Mail reported:

The Trans boyfriend of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin has fled their former lovenest – and locals tell the Daily Mail they never want to see him again.

Lance Twiggs, 22, was led away for questioning when police swooped on the smart three-bed condo he shared with accused gunman Tyler Robinson, 22.

Shaken neighbors say the part time plumber has not been back to the $320,000 property in St. George, Utah – one declaring: ‘Good riddance. I never want to see either of them again.’

His beaten-up Infinity compact is still parked in his space with his work gear tossed across the back seat and a sandwich wrapper and a drink on the front passenger seat.

Upstairs lights have been left on for more than a week and notes and Amazon packages are piling up outside the home owned by Twiggs’s devout Mormon family.

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