Articles by Cristina Laila

David Hogg / CBS
Here we go!
David Hogg has infuriated top Democrats, and they are now plotting to force him out as DNC Vice Chair.
In February, the DNC elected David Hogg, 25, as Vice Chair – and Democrats immediately had buyer’s remorse as the ‘twerp’ began threatening to primary certain Dem lawmakers.
Hogg has no experience in actually getting Democrats elected to office. He’s an online troll who is causing too much damage to the already ailing Democrat party, so now the Democrat leadership has the knives out for him.
Last week, TGP reported that Hogg vowed to spend millions to unseat his own party’s incumbents during primary season.

Hogg planned to allocate $20 million from his organization, Leaders We Deserve, to try to replace Democrat lawmakers in safe districts with younger and more progressive candidates.
Over the weekend, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries openly defied David Hogg’s strategy to oust his own party’s incumbents.
Hogg is done. This was the last straw for DNC leadership.

According to NOTUS, DNC Chairman Ken Martin is expected to unveil a new plan on Thursday during a call for DNC members. The plan will include an ultimatum for David Hogg: Stay neutral in the primaries or resign as Vice Chair.
David Hogg will be forced to choose between the group he founded, Leaders We Deserve, or stay neutral about the primaries and stay in his post.
Democrat insiders believe Hogg will abandon his position as DNC Vice Chair if given an ultimatum.

NOTUS reported:
A week after Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg unveiled a controversial plan to back primary challenges to longtime party incumbents, anger at the activist-turned-Democratic leader is only intensifying among party officials.
These Democratic critics say their fury at Hogg has grown amid what they see as his ill-conceived and insufficient efforts to make amends for his planned primary campaign — a campaign that, they say, threatens the DNC’s neutrality and its capacity to fight back against President Donald Trump.
Some Democrats have even said the DNC should consider changing its rules to force Hogg to either abandon the campaign or resign as vice chair.
The tension is expected to spill over during a regularly scheduled Thursday call for DNC members — a meeting that, some Democratic officials suggest, might turn into a forum for airing grievances about Hogg’s anti-incumbent pledge. […]

Judge Paula Xinis/ Wikimedia Commons
Judge Paula Xinis postponed discovery in Kilmar Abrego Garcia for one week in response to the Trump Administration’s request for a delay.
The judge did not give a reason for her decision to postpone the discovery.
“The Court has reviewed Defendants’ Motion to Stay and Plaintiffs’ Response. With the agreement of parties, the Court hereby ORDERS that discovery shall be stayed until April 30, 2025, at 5:00 PM,” the judge wrote.

JUST IN: Judge Xinis has postponed discovery in the Abrego Garcia case for a week, with the agreement of both sides. The reason is unclear but it follows a sealed filing from the government this AM. pic.twitter.com/10Vl3NmVBS
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 24, 2025

On Wednesday morning the Trump DOJ in a sealed motion asked the judge to pause discovery in the case for seven days.

On Tuesday evening Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, went off on the Trump Administration after a conference to address the government’s dispute over discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadorian national who was illegally residing in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration judge ordered Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the dangerous MS-13 gang, removed from the US.
Kilmar Abrego García, an MS-13 gang member recently returned to El Salvador.Photo courtesy of En Vivo – Screenshot from video.
Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison and the judge is trying to force the Trump Administration to reveal details of diplomatic discussions.

The judge accused the Trump Administration of defying her court order and ordered the government to provide more details by Wednesday about its decision to send Abrego Garcia to CECOT.
Judge Xinis accused the Trump Administration of acting in “bad faith” and ‘obstructing’ efforts to gather more information on its decision to send Abrego Garcia to CECOT.
“Defendants’ objection reflects a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations. The objection is overruled. Defendants are therefore ordered to supplement their answers in full compliance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Their answers must include facts responsive to the requests, not oblique and incomplete, non-specific characterizations,” Judge Xinis wrote in an 8-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit. […]

Michelle Obama/ screen image
No wonder why virtually no one is tuning into Michelle Obama’s new podcast.
The new venture, the “IMO” podcast, was launched by Higher Ground, the Obamas’ media company, and no one is tuning in.
Michelle Obama’s new podcast is just pretty much her whining about life at the White House and taking jabs at Barack Obama.
In her latest podcast episode, Michelle Obama whined about being a black woman.

This is the same woman who lives a billionaire jet-set lifestyle and was recently spotted carrying a $4,000 Bottega Veneta handbag.
“We don’t articulate, as black women, our pain, because it’s almost like nobody gave us permission to do that,” Michelle Obama said before her brother chimed in.
“Or, and we have to ask ourselves, the men in our lives is you know, why wait to be asked? You know? It seems like what we go through is obvious. Maybe we’re not actually complaining but we are actually living life out loud,” Michelle Obama said.

WATCH:

Michelle Obama: “As black women, we don’t articulate our pain” pic.twitter.com/UHoI7ZryTy
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 23, 2025

Last week Michelle Obama and her podcast guest whined about “toxic masculinity.”
The IMO podcast is not climbing the charts like Michelle Obama thought it would.
In one of the episodes, Michelle Obama complained that her biggest pet peeve about Barack Obama is that just before they would have to leave the house to go to an event, Obama would have to use the bathroom and make them late.
WATCH:

Michelle Obama claims that Barack Obama was not “financially sound” when she married him. Barrack was a Harvard Law graduate working as a civil rights attorney for a major Chicago law firm when they married in 1992. My God, Michelle Obama is such a phony narcissist. https://t.co/Eb4WHrLu0t
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) April 2, 2025 […]

O’Keefe Media Group Defense Department Branch Chief calls President Trump “illegitimate”
The O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released undercover video of a Defense Department Branch Chief attacking President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Nicolas Turza, a Department of Defense Branch Chief, called President Trump “illegitimate” and vowed to “resist him, everything he does.”
Turza also attacked Hegseth and said the 44-year-old is “insanely young” and unfit to lead.
“The same guy who tried to overthrow an election is just, like, truly setting us down a path of dictatorship. He’s illegitimate. He’s terribly immoral, breaking every norm. We’re going to resist him. Everything he does,” Turza said about Trump.

“I’m a very patriotic person, and I’ve never been less patriotic,” he said to the OMG journalist.
Turza then attacked Pete Hegseth.
“Ultimately [Hegseth] is my boss. But this is insane. I actually know Pete Hegseth. And this is so crazy. Like, that’s not a good reflection on me. That’s a bad reflection on Trump. Like, nobody I know should be the Secretary of Defense,” Turza said.

He continued, “Like, he’s insanely young to be the part, like, and he wasn’t that high up in the military. He used to be in the DC National Guard.”
When asked about his opinion about Trump, Turza said, “The worst thing about him is his utter lack of moral principle… The second worst thing about him is how stupid he could be.”
James O’Keefe said Hegseth has never even heard of Nicolas Turza.
WATCH:

DRAINING THE DEEP STATE: DoD Branch Chief Calls President Trump “Illegitimate,” Vows to “Resist Him, Everything He Does,” Claims Pete Hegseth Is “Insanely Young” and Unfit to Lead: “Nobody I Know Should Be the Secretary of Defense”
“The same guy who tried to overthrow an… pic.twitter.com/rSU9Od5l6j
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 23, 2025

Hegseth has reportedly seen O’Keefe’s video on Turza.

NEW: Laura Loomer reporting Pete Hegspeth has SEEN today’s video of branch chief
Department of Defense officials are handling the situation…. https://t.co/6vp9duAdMa
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 23, 2025 […]

Tulsi Gabbard tore into the intelligence community’s corruption.
ODNI Tulsi Gabbard criminally referred two intel officials to the Justice Department for leaking to The New York Times and the Washington Post.
And a third criminal referral is “on its way,” Fox News reported.
An ODNI official told Fox News that they are “aggressively investigating other leaks.”
Fox News reported:
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred two intelligence community professionals to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution Wednesday over alleged leaks of classified information, Fox News Digital has learned.

An ODNI official told Fox News Digital that the intelligence community professionals allegedly leaked classified information to the Washington Post and the New York Times. A third criminal referral is “on its way” to the DOJ.
The official told Fox News Digital that intelligence community professionals should take the move “as a warning.”
“Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation’s security at risk and must end,” Gabbard told Fox News Digital. “Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”

“Today, I referred two intelligence community leakers to the Department of Justice for criminal referral, with a third criminal referral on its way, which includes the recent illegal leak to the Washington Post,” Gabbard said. “These deep-state criminals leaked classified information for partisan political purposes to undermine President Trump’s agenda.”
The Trump Administration is not putting up with leakers this time around.
Last month DHS Chief Kristi Noem said her investigators have identified two leakers within the Department of Homeland Security and are preparing to refer them to the Justice Department for felony prosecutions.

“These individuals face up to 10 years in federal prison,” Noem said.
Last week three Pentagon officials who were caught leaking to the media were fired. […]

DC Judge Beryl Howell, a rank partisan and unhinged Trump-hater (Screenshot: United States Courts)
On Wednesday, Judge Beryl Howell excoriated DOJ lawyers and signaled that she may permanently block President Trump from taking action against Perkins Coie.
Last month, President Trump stripped security clearances of the employees at DNC law firm Perkins Coie.
Recall that Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid law firm Perkins Coie more than $1 million to hire oppo research firm Fusion GPS to peddle the bogus ‘Trump-Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.
Former British spy Christopher Steele compiled over a dozen memos alleging the Russians had blackmail on Trump and that his associates were conspiring with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election.

The memos were made into a largely debunked dossier that was eventually published by BuzzFeed on January 10, 2017.
Perkins Coie and Hillary Clinton were behind the hoax.
Judge Beryl Howell blocked part of President Trump’s executive order barring employees from DNC law firm Perkins Coie from entering federal buildings.

Beryl Howell granted Perkins Coie’s request for a TRO for part of Trump’s executive order and said the president violated the law firm’s due process.
During a hearing on Wednesday, Beryl Howell accused DOJ lawyers of acting like 3-year-olds who throw temper tantrums.
The judge compared Trump’s executive action against Perkins Coie and other law firms to the “Red Scare.”

Excerpt from ABC News:
A federal judge appeared inclined Wednesday to enter a permanent ruling barring the Trump administration from implementing an executive order targeting the law firm of Perkins Coie, after repeatedly pressing a government attorney over whether President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to target the legal community run afoul of the Constitution.
At Wednesday’s hearing, Deputy Associate Attorney General Richard Lawson repeatedly sought to defend the executive order as lawful, arguing that Trump’s views about the firm reflected his right to free speech and that the administration has broad discretion to raise national security concerns about a law firm’s work.
But Howell was highly skeptical of those defenses and only grew more frustrated as Lawson refused to answer direct questions about the purpose of the executive order.

“The purpose was not to force Perkins to its knees?” Howell asked.
“I don’t view it that way,” Lawson replied.
At one point in the hearing, Judge Howell chastised the government for a memo sent to government agencies in the wake of her initial temporary restraining order that included “extra language” stating that the administration took the position Trump’s executive order was lawful and they believed her TRO was “erroneous.”

“I’ll be honest — it struck me as sort of a temper tantrum by the Department of Justice and OMB,” Howell said, referencing the Office of Management and Budget. “Worthy of a three year old — not the Department of Justice and OMB.”
The Trump DOJ previously moved to disqualify corrupt Judge Howell from the Perkins Coie case for repeatedly demonstrating “partiality against and animus towards the president.”

In its motion to disqualify the judge, the Trump DOJ included recent video of Beryl Howell going on a crazy tirade against Trump.
WATCH:

The federal Judge who blocked President Trump from firing bureaucrats and stripping Perkins Coie’s security clearances is on tape going on a crazy tirade against Trump.
She melts down about the rise of “authoritarianism” and the “big lie.” pic.twitter.com/VPMgDQa71D
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) March 14, 2025

Late last month, Beryl Howell rejected the Trump DOJ’s motion to disqualify her from the Perkins Coie case. […]

Scott Bessent, Elon Musk
Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly got into a heated shouting match within ear shot of Trump last week over a dispute about the IRS, according to Axios.
On Friday, it was reported that Acting IRS Commissioner Gary Shapley was OUT at the agency after an internal struggle with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Gary Shapley/ Screenshot: CBS Evening News / Youtube
Gary Shapley, the whistleblower who came forward and exposed the political interference in the Hunter Biden tax fraud investigation, was named interim IRS Commissioner after Melanie Krause resigned.

BIG NEWS: Gary Shapley, the IRS whistleblower who exposed the DOJ’s cover-up of the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden, is now Acting IRS Commissioner.
Congratulations, Gary—your courage and professionalism will transform the IRS. pic.twitter.com/DhotnPsCUU
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) April 16, 2025

Krause stepped down amid controversy over a data-sharing agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Shapley is reportedly being replaced after an internal struggle with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
The New York Times reported last week that Bessent approached Trump and told him Shapley was put in his position at the IRS without his knowledge.
According to reports, Shapley was placed at the IRS on Elon Musk’s request without Bessent’s knowledge.

Last Thursday night Laura Loomer tweeted about Scott Bessent’s previous attack on Elon Musk.
Elon Musk responded to Laura Loomer’s X post: “The strong Soros affiliation is concerning.

The strong Soros affiliation is concerning
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 18, 2025

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt referred Axios to a previous statement to the New York Times: “it’s no secret President Trump has put together a team of people who are incredibly passionate about the issues impacting our country.”

“Disagreements are a normal part of any healthy policy process,” her statement said. “And ultimately everyone knows they serve at the pleasure of President Trump,” Leavitt said.
Secretary Bessent’s office did not immediately respond to The Gateway Pundit’s request for comment. […]

Kilmar Abrego García, an MS-13 gang member recently returned to El Salvador.Photo courtesy of En Vivo – Screenshot from video.
The Trump DOJ responded to a federal judge’s order demanding more details on its decision to deport MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador’s CECOT prison.
On Tuesday evening Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, erupted on the Trump Administration after a conference to address the government’s dispute over discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case.
The judge accused the Trump Administration of defying her court order and ordered the government to provide more details by Wednesday about its decision to send Abrego Garcia to CECOT.
On Wednesday the Trump DOJ in a sealed motion asked the judge to pause discovery in the case for seven days.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadorian national who was illegally residing in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration judge ordered Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the dangerous MS-13 gang, removed from the US.
A dispute over discovery in the Abrego Garcia deportation case escalated after the government maintained that providing certain details are an invasion of diplomatic discussions.
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Monday accused the government of stonewalling its effort to obtain more details on Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador.

On Tuesday, Judge Xinis accused the Trump Administration of acting in “bad faith” and ‘obstructing’ efforts to gather more information on its decision to send Abrego Garcia to CECOT.
“Defendants’ objection reflects a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations. The objection is overruled. Defendants are therefore ordered to supplement their answers in full compliance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Their answers must include facts responsive to the requests, not oblique and incomplete, non-specific characterizations,” Judge Xinis wrote in an 8-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit. […]

James O’Keefe
The O’Keefe Media Group is getting ready to drop a video exposing resistance inside the Pentagon.
On Tuesday evening James O’Keefe said his team is going to release the new video on Wednesday.
“Detectives came to the home of one of my reporters today to try to intimidate me. More on that soon,” O’Keefe said on X. “Nothing stops.”
“We’re releasing video of resistance inside the Pentagon, tomorrow!” he added.

Detectives came to the home of one of my reporters today to try to intimidate me. More on that soon.
Nothing stops.
We’re releasing video of resistance inside the Pentagon, tomorrow!
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 23, 2025

James O’Keefe did not drop any additional hints about his upcoming video. However, the new footage comes amid a leaks probe at the Pentagon.
As previously reported, three Hegseth aides placed on leave amid a probe into leaks were officially fired last Friday.
And the leaks keep coming.

Following the terminations, the contents of another Signal group chat with Pete Hegseth were leaked to The Wall Street Journal.
More information on this Signal chat group was leaked to NBC News after Hegseth attacked the leakers while attending the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday.
According to the latest leak, the information Hegseth shared in the Signal chat group came from a top general who leads US Central Command.

Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla sent Hegseth the ‘sensitive’ information over secure system. According to the latest leak, Hegseth shared some of the information in the Signal chat group.
Hegseth went on Fox & Friends on Tuesday and attacked the leakers.
“I’m here because President Trump asked me to bring war-fighting back to the Pentagon every single day,” Hegseth said on Fox & Friends on Tuesday.

“If people don’t like it, come after me, no worries. I’m standing here, the warfighters are behind us, our enemies know they’re on notice, our allies know we are behind them, and that in this dangerous world, for the American people, is what it is all about.”
“What was shared over Signal, then and now, however you characterize it, was informal, unclassified coordinations for media coordination, other things. That’s what I’ve said from the beginning,” Hegseth said.
WATCH:

MUST WATCH: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth IS ON FIRE
“I’m here because President Trump asked me to bring war-fighting back to the Pentagon every single day.
If people don’t like it, come after me, no worries. I’m standing here, the WARFIGHTERS are behind us, our enemies… pic.twitter.com/AN5WaSwExc
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 22, 2025 […]

On Tuesday afternoon, a Los Angeles jury convicted an Orange County, California, judge of second-degree murder for shooting his wife.
As previously reported, a judge who sat on Orange County Superior Court in Southern California was drunk when shot his wife dead in August 2023, prosecutors said.
Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, 74, was accused of fatally shooting his wife Sheryl during an argument in their Anaheim Hills home on August 3, 2023.
Ferguson previously pleaded not guilty to a murder charge.

The judge’s lawyer says it was an “accidental shooting.”
Orange County Judge Jeffrey Ferguson wife Sheryl
Ferguson and his wife got into an argument at dinner and that’s when he “pointed his finger at his wife in a manner mimicking a firearm,” Orange County Deputy District Attorney Christopher Alex told the Los Angeles court in 2023.
The two continued to argue when they got home and that is when Ferguson retrieved his pistol from his ankle holster and shot his wife Sheryl in the chest one time.

Prosecutors said Ferguson reeked of alcohol when he was arrested by police and told them, “Oh man I can’t believe I did this.”
According to court documents, Ferguson texted his colleague after the shooting, “I just lost it. I just shot my wife. I won’t be in tomorrow. I will be in custody. I’m so sorry.”
Ferguson’s case was moved to Los Angeles because of his professional relationships with judges in Orange County, KABC reported.

Ferguson is facing 40 years in prison after a jury convicted him on Tuesday, KABC reported.
More on this story from KTLA 5:
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