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‘Couldn’t find her reservation’: Trump hilariously roasts Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren in private dinner
President Donald Trump delivered another hilarious one-liner during a private dinner, this time aimed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Trump has repeatedly trolled the Massachusetts Democrat, namely for claiming she had Native American ancestry, plaguing her political prospects in 2020. Warren even went so far as to list her Native American heritage in university records, but she was quickly mocked when she revealed her actual genetic profile.
‘She “couldn’t find her reservation.”’
Warren released her DNA results in an attempt to combat ridicule, only to reveal that her Native American ancestry went back roughly 6-10 generations, equating to about 1/64th to 1/1,024th Native American.
The scandal quickly became the subject of mockery, with Warren later apologizing to the Cherokee Nation.
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Years later, the controversy remains a hilarious memory for many Americans, including Trump, who has made several references to it since.
Most famously, Trump branded Warren with the nickname “Pocahontas” in reference to the negligible Native American ancestry she made a focal point of her academic and political career.
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His trolling streak has only continued, with Trump referencing the classic nickname during a recent black-tie dinner. In addition to reviving the “Pocahontas” nickname, Trump joked about Warren’s absence from the dinner.
Warren was set to attend the dinner alongside other lawmakers, but Trump noted that she “couldn’t find her reservation.”
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DOJ demotes Trump’s top weaponization lawyer loved by MAGA
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the charge against government weaponization has reportedly been demoted from his role within the Department of Justice.
Ed Martin was initially recruited to serve as U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., but was later reassigned as the DOJ’s weaponization chief. Now, after nine months on the job, several media outlets have reported that Martin’s role has been narrowed but that he will continue serving as the U.S. pardon attorney.
His demotion may have been due to an ongoing feud with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“President Trump appointed Ed Martin as pardon attorney, and Ed continues to a great job in that role,” a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement.
Martin’s claim to fame came after the 2020 election, when he became a vocal defender of Trump and the January 6 protesters, many of whom he represented as an attorney.
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Martin’s brief time serving as interim U.S. attorney was focused on forwarding Trump’s agenda, kneecapping prosecutors who harshly punished January 6 protesters, and advocating for the Department of Government Efficiency.
Although Martin was popular with the MAGA base, he was a tough sell for the Senate. President Trump eventually pulled his nomination in May 2025.
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In the midst of Martin’s role change, reports suggested that his demotion may have been due to an ongoing feud with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, clashing with his staff over his “lack of productivity” and his “controversial social media posts,” according to CBS News.
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‘Lawless activism’: Foreign-born Biden judge strikes again, protects Haitians from removal
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a foreign-born, Biden-appointed, lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration’s immigration policy and helped the U.N. secure asylum for so-called refugees — obliged her fellow immigration activists on Monday, blocking the revocation of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status.
That status, which Haitian migrants have enjoyed since January 2010 and over 352,000 Haitian migrants enjoy today, was set to expire on Tuesday. Without Reyes’ intervention, the Trump administration would have been able to immediately repatriate many of those Haitians who have strained citizen resources and displaced American labor in cities such as Springfield, Ohio.
‘Temporary means temporary.’
Reyes, a Uruguayan native, claimed, however, that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not only violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause when terminating the TPS designation for Haiti but had likely done so “because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
Much of Reyes’ Monday ruling in the class-action lawsuit reads like a piece of immigration activist agitprop.
In addition to characterizing Haitian TPS holders as valuable contributors to American society and some class members’ removal back to Haiti as “devastating because they have no meaningful ties to the country,” Reyes questioned why it was necessary to let the status expire now:
Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our health care system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things — in the public interest is not one of them.
The foreign-born judge suggested further that while the Trump administration “contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS holders are speculative,” the State Department has issued travel advisories to Americans warning of the threats of kidnapping, crime, and civil unrest in the third-world nation.
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Noem determined last year after reviewing country conditions and consulting with the appropriate government agencies that the island nation no longer met the conditions for a TPS designation.
Reyes, the same judge who tried unsuccessfully last year to torpedo the War Department’s ban on transvestites in the military, makes no secret of her animus toward the American-born DHS secretary throughout her ruling, using her conclusion, for instance, to cast Noem as a cold-hearted ignoramus.
“Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side — or at least has ignored them,” wrote the Biden judge. “Does not have the law on her side — or at least has ignored it.”
Reyes’ fellow activists celebrated her ruling.
“This was the right decision. There is no evidence that the Trump administration took the time to make a clear-eyed assessment of the risks these families would face back in Haiti before moving to revoke TPS,” Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, said in a statement obtained by GBH News. “On the contrary, the revocation appears to have been driven by racial animus and political ideology.”
“We can breathe for a little bit,” Rose-Thamar Joseph, operations director of the Haitian Support Center in migrant-overwhelmed Springfield, Ohio, told the Associated Press.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in response to the ruling, “Supreme Court, here we come.”
“This is lawless activism that we will be vindicated on,” continued McLaughlin. “Haiti’s TPS was granted following an earthquake that took place over 15 years ago, it was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program, yet that’s how previous administrations have used it for decades.”
“Temporary means temporary, and the final word will not be from an activist judge legislating from the bench,” added McLaughlin.
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Jeffrey Epstein was BANNED from Xbox Live — for harassing other gamers
Whatever the scope of Bill Gates’ relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Microsoft seemingly had at least a few reasons to ban the shadowy financier and sex abuser from its gaming platform.
Although Epstein was first convicted of sexual abuse crimes in 2008, it appears he had several more years of gaming left in him.
‘”Severe, repeated, and/or excessive” mistreatment of his peers.’
While most were likely gearing up for the Christmas season at the time, Epstein may have been hitting Microsoft’s online gaming platform Xbox Live hard around the holidays. It was Thursday, December 19, 2013, when Epstein got an email from the service that informed him he was getting permanently banned. The document has been made available by the Department of Justice.
The email to Epstein was labeled a “Notice of permanent enforcement action” for “Harassment, threats, and/or abuse” from xlcm@microsoft.com, which has been noted online as Xbox’s official policy and enforcement team.
The ban came as a result of “severe, repeated, and/or excessive” mistreatment of his peers, the email said. It also provided a list of Epstein’s possible conduct that could have initiated the ban:
- Threats of death, harm, property damage, or any other act of violence or vandalism
- Verbal abuse or profanity directed at other players
- Griefing
- Extortion or manipulation
- Libel, defamation, or slander
- Display or transmission of personally identifiable information, such as name, address, phone number, or IP address
- Stalking
But that wasn’t all.
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That same day, Epstein received another email to his connected account, jeevacation@gmail.com; the sender has been redacted.
This email informed him that he had been permanently suspended from Xbox Live due to the New York Attorney General’s partnership with Microsoft, which prohibits the service from having “New York registered sex offenders” on its platform.
This was done to “minimize the risk to others, particularly children,” the email stated.
While Epstein was already a registered sex offender years prior, it seems that he did not join the Xbox platform until 2012.
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This is evidenced by a 2012 “Welcome to Xbox LIVE” email he received, which was also made available by the DOJ.
Other video game-related emails include Epstein asking his assistant Lesley Groff if he has “an Xbox 360 Kinect?” in 2014, and there is another email from 2016 that talks about setting up an Xbox One that was purchased as a gift.
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Another secret Chinese biolab found on US soil?
Following the discovery that Chinese communist agents were coordinating intimidation, espionage, and coercion campaigns out of illegal police stations in the United States, officials found something potentially more threatening in Reedley, California: a Chinese biolab containing deadly pathogens including Ebola.
The secret Chinese lab apparently was not one of a kind.
‘These items, importantly, were consistent in appearance to the items found and described in the Reedley, California, lab investigation.’
SWAT officers with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department raided a home in the city’s northeast end on Jan. 31, discovering a suspected illegal biolab apparently linked to the Chinese national who owned the Reedley site.
Footage shows local and federal agents massing outside a Sugar Springs Drive residence near Washington Avenue and Hollywood early Saturday morning while drones patrolled overhead.
A tactical robot dog explored the interior and conducted air sampling before members of the LVMPD’s All-Hazard Regional Multi-agency Operations and Response team made entry.
The main house was home to three renters who were safely removed and are apparently not targets of the investigation. The locked garage was home to “refrigerators, a freezer, laboratory-type equipment, and numerous containers holding unknown liquid substances,” according to police.
The apparent biological materials, which were carefully collected over the course of the weekend along with other evidence, were initially transported to a Southern Nevada Health District facility for safe storage, then taken to an FBI lab for testing.
LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill indicated on Monday that “these items, importantly, were consistent in appearance to the items found and described in the Reedley, California, lab investigation.”
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McMahill noted further that “the home was owned by the same individual connected to a prior, illegal bio-lab investigation in Reedley, California, that occurred in 2023.”
That individual is Jia Bei Zhu.
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party noted in its report on the Reedley biolab that the California lab operated under the direction and control of Zhu, a Chinese citizen associated with communist regime-linked companies as well with Chinese military-civil fusion entities.
‘This can’t keep happening.’
Zhu, a wanted fugitive from Canada, where he is the subject of a $330 million judgment for stealing American intellectual property, illegally entered the United States under the false identity of “David He,” said the report.
While unlawfully in the U.S., Zhu set up a network of companies and accumulated a vast supply of potential pathogens including including Ebola, COVID-19, HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, which he is accused of keeping and poorly storing at one or more unlicensed and unregistered labs.
In addition to thousands of samples of potentially dangerous diseases and hundreds of boxes of medical devices subject to a U.S. Food and Drug embargo, the Reedley lab was home to roughly 1,000 mice that were genetically engineered to mimic the human immune system.
One lab worker reportedly told local officials that the transgenic mice were altered “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.” Dead mice were apparently disposed of “without the use of a licensed medical waste hauler.”
According to the congressional report, the Reedley biolab received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from Chinese communist banks.
Zhu was arrested by federal agents on Oct. 19, 2023, and indicted the following month for allegedly distributing adulterated and misbranded COVID-19 test kits and making false statements to authorities about his identity. He was slapped with additional charges in 2024 for alleged conspiracy and wire fraud.
Zhaoyan Wang, Zhu’s supposed lover and business partner, was charged with helping facilitate the alleged fraud through Universal Meditech Inc. and Prestige Biotech Inc. — biolabs she operated in Reedley and Fresno. Wang is also a Chinese national.
McMahill indicated that Zhu, who has a trial hearing scheduled for Feb. 23, remains in federal custody.
The LVMPD also arrested the property manager of the Vegas residence, 55-year-old Ori Solomon, on a charge of disposing and discharging hazardous waste. Solomon was booked into the Clark County Detention Center.
On Saturday, the FBI searched a second Vegas home on Temple View Drive but found no threat at the location. The FBI also revisited the Reedley lab on Sunday, reported KFSN-TV.
Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) said in response to the latest lab discovery, “This can’t keep happening.”
“The federal government must do more to stop illegal labs from operating in our communities,” added Kiley.
Kiley and fellow California Reps. Jim Costa (D) and David Valadao (R) have called for a hearing on their Preventing Illegal Laboratories and Protecting Public Health Act of 2025.
Editor’s note: The headline of this article has been edited after publication for clarity.
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