Day: February 4, 2026
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Epstein files EXPOSE Bill Gates — but the media is silent
Unless it’s President Donald Trump or a conservative on the chopping block, the media is likely to be silent about it, which is being demonstrated now with one of the latest Epstein files revelations — and it involves Bill Gates.
“I regret to inform you, I’m going to give you a headline that is rather disgusting, but I’m going to have to give it to you anyway,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says, before reading the Daily Mail headline, “Jeffrey Epstein says Bill Gates caught sexually transmitted disease from ‘Russian girls’ … then suggested secretly slipping Melinda antibiotics, new emails in DOJ release claim.”
“It is so crazy to me that the man who wanted to force everyone, wanted to make sure you got your injection, wanted to make sure that, you know, everyone was masked. I can’t remember how many times Bill Gates went out on CNN and MSNBC, and he was like, ‘You better mask up,’” Gonzales says.
“Bill, you could have covered yourself up just the same way you’re asking people to cover their mouths. You could have gave your ding-a-ling a mask, maybe prevented yourself from giving your wife an STD,” she laughs.
In draft emails that Epstein sent to himself, he accused Gates of contracting the sexually transmitted disease and then asking for Epstein’s help.
“I cannot believe that you have chosen to both disregard and discard our friendship developed of over the last 6 years,” one email begins.
“TO add insult to the injury you then subsequently with tears in your eyes, implore me to plase delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis. You also made it clear to me that I am not to refer to [REDACTED] as that is another topic that must remain between the two of us,” the email goes on.
Epstein went on to explain in another email that he was resigning from his position with BG3 and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
“During the past few weeks I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill,” Epstein wrote.
“From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall for bridge tournaments … I feel I owe it to my friends and future colleagues to admit a moral failure, to ask forgiveness and to move on with my life,” he continued.
While the document dump made it clear that Gates is at the very least an adulterer, it also gave Gonzales a better idea of who Epstein was — especially considering how much “pizza” was mentioned in the emails.
“I might do a deep dive at some point, but for now I will just say, there are a lot of mentions of pizza and going to go get pizza and leaving the island to get pizza and come back. And there are a lot of weird code words in there that I’m still putting together,” Gonzales says.
“I don’t think it was that Jeffrey Epstein really loved pizza as much as those emails claim. I think we all know what the code is. And obviously with the document dump, it’s going to take a while to put all of these pieces together,” she continues.
“One thing is clear: He was a really bad guy,” she adds.
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Pro-ICE billboard in San Francisco is making liberals implode: ‘It made me sick to my stomach’
A billboard message in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco has outraged many on the left just ahead of the Super Bowl weekend.
The ad in the famed Fisherman’s Wharf shows an ICE agent with the caption, “Defensive player of the year.”
‘It puts fear in me — that it’s desensitizing people to think that it’s OK to be people hurting people.’
One woman reacted negatively to the billboard in comments to KABC-TV.
“It made me sick to my stomach,” said Karen Guerrero, a woman from Chicago. “It puts fear in me — that it’s desensitizing people to think that it’s OK to be people hurting people.”
A group called American Sovereignty took responsibility for the sign.
“We are saluting the brave Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who work every day in defense of America with billboards and ads in San Francisco,” the group said on social media.
The sign was excoriated online as well.
“Who allowed this to happen? This is Sickening,” one user said.
“F**K ICE aka NEOGESTAPOS NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON OCCUPIED LAND,” another message reads.
“Patriots or Brownshirt thugs?” another critic said.
Others said they supported the message.
“They have a job to do too. That’s it,” said Scott Yurt, also from Chicago. “I don’t have a problem with them.”
More than 1.3 million visitors are expected in the area for the highly anticipated championship match between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium.
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Majority of Americans approve of Trump’s response to anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis: Harvard poll
While Democrats are trying to beat down President Donald Trump over lethal shootings by federal agents in Minnesota, a new poll shows that a slim majority approves of his response to the protests.
The online poll was conducted by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard and the Harris Poll and found that of all categories listed, Trump’s favorability was highest over the Minneapolis anti-ICE response.
A large majority, 60%, said they believed Democratic politicians had encouraged resistance to ICE officers performing their job.
Fifty-one percent of respondents approved of Trump on that issue, 47% approved of his fighting crime in the cities, and 46% said they approved of the president on immigration.
He scored least favorably on the issues of tariffs and handling inflation, at only 39% approval.
The president’s overall approval rating slipped to 45% in the poll after reaching a high of 52% in Feb. 2025.
A large majority, 60%, said they believed Democratic politicians had encouraged resistance to ICE officers performing their job, and only 43% said they supported politicians encouraging that resistance. Fifty-seven percent said they opposed politicians encouraging resistance.
The respondents were polled after the lethal shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and anti-ICE agitator who interrupted federal agents while armed with a gun. Respondents could have also known about the lethal shooting of Renee Good, who blocked ICE agents with her vehicle and swerved into one agent after being confronted.
Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino left Minneapolis after the shootings, and the president sent Tom Homan, his border czar, to oversee the operation and report directly to the president.
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The polls also found that the Republican Party’s approval rating slid to 44% after reaching 52% in the last year. While Democrats enjoyed their highest approval rating in about the same time, they only reached 44% approval.
Both had a higher approval rating than Congress, at 35%.
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Libs and RINOs fall for third Epstein nothingburger — schizo tips and golf course lies backfire bigly on Trump haters
Last Friday, the Department of Justice released another round of Epstein-related documents, videos, and images, some of which accuse President Trump, whose name appears thousands of times, of egregious crimes, including sexual assault of underage girls, sexual misconduct involving minors at events/parties, threatening to kill children, and involvement in Epstein’s sex-trafficking activities.
One particular FBI-compiled spreadsheet summarizing unverified public tips and allegations regarding President Trump has amassed tens of millions of views on X alone.
“People were claiming, like, ‘Finally, we have a smoking gun on Trump,’ … but the problem with that claim is that it’s just, like, not true at all,” BlazeTV host John Doyle scoffs.
He explains that anyone can file a report with the FBI, which keeps meticulous records of every piece of information — true or not — it receives. The viral document with all the salacious allegations against President Trump is exactly that — records of unverified claims.
“Like, if I file a report today saying that I saw Hillary Clinton shape-shift into a lizard person and board a UFO, that doesn’t mean it’s true,” he laughs. “It just means that I told the FBI that. Maybe I believed it was true; maybe I wanted to sow seeds against people I don’t like. Whatever. The point is, it goes on the record.”
“A low-info, maybe low-IQ schizophrenic, just bored — I can see how that kind of person could read these reports and not know that they contain unsubstantiated information, unsubstantiated allegations,” he adds.
One of the allegations that’s garnering a ton of attention, for example, accuses President Trump of funding or hosting underage sex parties at a Trump-owned golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, around 1995-1996, with extreme claims of some victims being murdered and buried behind the facility.
However, President Trump didn’t purchase the golf course in question until 2002. Further, in the FBI tip summary document, there is a note next to this golf course report stating: “Complainant was spoken to and deemed not credible. Additional research showed 3 separate incidents involving police which requested in mandatory psychiatric evaluations.”
Even still, “that did not stop tons of liberals [and] retarded right-wingers from claiming that Trump was somehow involved in this, like, sex trafficking, rape murder ring out of one of his golf courses,” Doyle sighs.
But the golf course report isn’t even the most ridiculous accusation some people are interpreting as undisputed fact.
For example, one alleged male victim referenced in the documents made a number of wild claims, one of them being that while on a boat with Epstein, his feet were cut with a scimitar that miraculously left no scars. He also claimed that he witnessed babies being dismembered and eaten and that he was raped by Jeffery Epstein, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
However, a note in the report shows that the FBI agents who assessed this complainant described him as emotionally unbalanced, unemployed, living with his mother, and having ingested hallucinogenic mushrooms. They ultimately recommended dismissing the case because he could offer no evidence, corroboration, witnesses, or supporting details.
“The retard right and the liberals see these emails, and they’re like, ‘See! We freaking told you Jeffrey Epstein was eating babies, and Trump was friends with him,’” but they fail to read “the next part, [where] it says it’s literally not true,” Doyle says.
Trump, whom Doyle calls “a media genius,” knew all along that this was bound to happen. He was well aware that releasing the files would ignite hysteria in “low-info people,” who would see his name in wild, unverified claims and assume they’re reading facts.
This is why Democrats pushed so hard for the Epstein files to be dropped, Doyle argues.
They may package their petitioning as genuine concern for the abuse of children, but that falls flat when you consider that their party platform is built on “the abuse of children — whether directly because of stuff like the transgender grooming or indirectly by the facilitation of mass third-world migration, which famously participates in things like trafficking children [and] sexually abusing children,” he declares.
“Is it just the same thing that it’s always been, which is anything to attack Trump because Trump is literally the only thing standing in between the global leviathan that is the left and American patriots?”
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All optics? Democrats claim ‘historic victory’ flipping deep-red Texas Senate district — but here’s what they omit
Democratic allies and legacy media outlets are celebrating Taylor Rehmet’s victory in Texas Senate District 9’s special runoff as a historic upset for Republicans — but they fail to note that Rehmet will likely never even cast a vote unless he wins again later this year.
Mark Lucas, the founder of Veteran Action, stated that a progressive political action committee funded by George Soros spent $500,000 to flip the Texas Senate race in a district where President Donald Trump secured a 17-point victory.
‘The Democrats were energized. Too many Republicans stayed home.’
“My org @VeteranAction is incredibly important to counter the left’s attempt to chip away at the veteran vote — something the GOP cannot afford to take for granted,” Lucas wrote. “Meanwhile, the radical left is investing heavily to recruit veteran candidates to retake the House in 2026. They will quickly impeach Trump and obstruct our AMERICA FIRST agenda.”
George Soros’ Open Society Foundations provided $2.58 million in grants to VoteVets Action Fund from 2019 to 2024, according to the foundation’s website. The grants included support for the organization’s advocacy of “progressive, diplomacy-first foreign policy,” “congressional war powers,” and “preventing executive abuse.”
On January 31, VoteVets announced in a post on X that it was proud to have endorsed and financially supported Rehmet with “over $500K” in an independent expenditure.
Rehmet defeated Republican opponent Leigh Wambsganss, securing a 14-point victory.
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VoteVets celebrated Rehmet’s victory in flipping the district blue in the special runoff election, noting that a Democrat had not been elected in decades.
Legacy media outlets and Rehmet’s Democratic supporters have portrayed the election as a massive political upset for Republicans.
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Despite the substantial funds the Democrats invested in the race, it seems these efforts were primarily for show, as the seat will be contested again in November 2026 for a full four-year term. Further, the Republicans in the Texas Senate hold a solid majority, and the legislature is not in session until January 2027.
The Texas Scorecard noted that the special election runoff saw low turnout, with just under 95,000 ballots cast, representing roughly 15% of all registered voters.
Rehmet and Wambsganss are expected to run against one another again in the November election.
Wambsganss called the January 31 election results “a wakeup call for Republicans in Tarrant County, Texas, and the nation.”
“The Democrats were energized. Too many Republicans stayed home. … Mr. Rehmet and I will face each other again in November, and I fully expect the results to be different,” she stated. “The dynamics of a Special Election are fundamentally different from a November General Election.”
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Asia Rose Simpson highlights mental health in winning answer at Miss World Philippines 2026
During the final round of the competition, which was the Q&A portion, Asia Rose Simpson was asked: “Do you believe social media has helped or hurt society?”
Krishnah Gravidez performs ‘A Million Dreams’ as she takes final walk as Miss World Philippines
Krishnah Gravidez has officially ended her journey as Miss World Philippines.
Wife assumes post of acting mayor in Minglanilla, Cebu
The first councilor of the Municipality of Minglanilla, Cebu has assumed the post of acting mayor, following a one-year preventive suspension served by the Office of the Ombudsman against Mayor Rajiv Enad and eight councilors of the town.
Son of late Libyan leader Gaddafi has been killed, sources say
The most prominent son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has been killed, sources close to the family, his lawyer Khaled el-Zaydi and Libyan media said on Tuesday.
