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Fetched: Wait, That’s How Many Messages the Secret Service Missed Regarding Trump’s Would-be Assassin at Butler? Fetched: Wait, That’s How Many Messages the Secret Service Missed Regarding Trump’s Would-be Assassin at Butler? Here’s a sharp conservative rewrite under 500 words: The Secret Service Missed 102 Radio Warnings About Trump’s Would-Be Assassin — and Nobody Has Been Fired One hundred and two. That’s the number of radio transmissions Secret Service personnel failed to receive during the Butler rally on July 13, 2024 — transmissions from local law enforcement warning about a suspicious person with a range finder and a long gun who had taken position on a rooftop with a direct line of sight to the stage where Donald Trump was standing. One hundred and two warnings. They received five phone calls and three text messages. Thomas Crooks fired eight shots anyway. Corey Comperatore is dead. Trump turned his head at exactly the right moment and survived by a fraction of an inch. The DHS Inspector General’s 64-page report, released two weeks ago, lays out the catastrophic communication failure in clinical detail. Local law enforcement was sending urgent alerts. The Secret Service wasn’t receiving them. Not because the alerts weren’t being sent — they were, repeatedly, 102 times — but because the agency tasked with protecting the President of the United States had a radio setup that couldn’t receive the transmissions local cops were broadcasting. Let’s be direct about what this means. This was not a situation where warnings went unheeded. This was a situation where the Secret Service’s own communication infrastructure failed so completely that over a hundred urgent messages about an active threat never reached the agents who needed them. An assassin climbed a roof within 500 feet of a presidential candidate and fired multiple rounds while law enforcement was frantically trying to alert Secret Service personnel who literally couldn’t hear them. We already knew a counter-drone operator was Googling the building’s location instead of monitoring his equipment. We already knew a site agent’s common-sense security proposal — using trucks to block the rooftop sightline — was rejected because it would interfere with camera angles. We already knew the lead agent on the ground was relatively inexperienced for an assignment of this magnitude. We already knew the supervisors who approved the security plan were subsequently promoted. Now we know the radio system didn’t work either. The question that nobody in a position of authority seems interested in answering is simple: who is actually accountable for any of this? Kimberly Cheatle resigned in disgrace after her performance before Congress. A handful of agents were suspended without pay. Sean Curran — who oversaw the agency when Butler happened — is now its director. Suspensions without pay are not accountability when a man is dead and the President survived by turning his head. Resignations under pressure are not accountability. Promotions for the people who signed off on a security plan riddled with fatal holes are the opposite of accountability. The Butler IG report confirms what the initial reporting already showed: this failure was total, systematic, and preventable at multiple points. One hundred and two radio warnings. Eight shots fired. One man killed. Two years later, the people responsible are still employed. Some of them are running the agency. That is not acceptable. It was never acceptable. And the American people deserve to hear someone in authority say so out loud. Want me to push this even harder, or is this the right level? same – https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/07/14/junes-inflation-report-is-good-news-for-americans-n2679392 Fetched: June Inflation Report Crushes ‘Experts’ Predictions, Biggest Win in Over Five Years Fetched: June Inflation Report Crushes ‘Experts’ Predictions, Biggest Win in Over Five Years Here’s a sharp conservative rewrite under 500 words: The Experts Said Inflation Would Drop 0.1%. It Dropped 0.4%. The Trump Economy Just Proved Them Wrong Again. They were wrong. Again. And not by a little. The June Consumer Price Index report landed Monday morning like a depth charge under every doomsday prediction the left and the financial press have been peddling for months. Consumer prices fell 0.4% from May — the biggest single-month drop in over six years, four times larger than what every Bloomberg economist surveyed had forecast. Annual inflation came in at 3.5%, well below the 3.8% experts predicted and down sharply from May’s 4.2%. Core CPI — the measure that strips out food and energy and is watched most closely by the Federal Reserve — came in at 2.6% year over year. Analysts expected 2.8%. It registered zero month over month. As in nothing. Flat. The smallest possible number. Stock market futures surged the moment the report hit. Maria Bartiromo called it an excellent number. The White House’s Rapid Response team was justified in pointing out that this is four times more negative than what the experts forecast. Because it is. Let’s be direct about what drove this. Gasoline prices fell nearly 9% in June — a direct consequence of the administration’s energy policy, the collapse in Iranian oil leverage following Operation Epic Fury, and a domestic energy sector that has been told in no uncertain terms that production is welcome again. When you stop treating American energy like a problem to be regulated out of existence and start treating it like the strategic asset it actually is, prices respond. This is not complicated. It is cause and effect. The timing is worth noting. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh heads to Capitol Hill today for Congressional testimony — his first since taking over from Jerome Powell. He is walking into that testimony with the best inflation number in years sitting on the table in front of him. The pressure to begin cutting interest rates, which have held American borrowers hostage for two years while the Fed tried to clean up the Biden administration’s inflationary catastrophe, just got considerably stronger. The left spent months predicting that Trump’s tariff policy would trigger an inflationary spiral that would devastate working Americans. The Wall Street Journal editorial board fretted. The economists warned. The media ran breathless segments about grocery prices and consumer confidence. The CPI report this morning is the data’s verdict on all of it: annual inflation has fallen nearly a full percentage point in a single month, beating every expert prediction by a margin that is impossible to wave away. Biden’s inflation peaked at 9.1%. Trump inherited that mess, inherited the high interest rates that followed, and is now delivering the fastest sustained inflation decline in recent memory — while the same experts who missed this number by 300% are still being quoted as authoritative voices on economic policy. The numbers don’t lie. The experts do. And the Trump economy keeps winning. Want me to push this even harder, or is this the right level? same – https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/07/14/the-iran-war-officially-restarted-last-friday-n2679360 Fetched: President Trump Officially Informed Congress That the War Against Iran Has Resumed Fetched: President Trump Officially Informed Congress That the War Against Iran Has Resumed Here’s a sharp conservative rewrite under 500 words: Iran Broke the Ceasefire. Trump Notified Congress. The Strikes Are Back On. The memorandum of understanding is dead. The ceasefire that Iran signed, violated within weeks, and then tried to renegotiate from a position of imaginary strength is officially finished. On July 10th, President Trump formally notified Congress under the War Powers Resolution that military operations against Iran have resumed — dating the restart of hostilities to July 7th, when CENTCOM launched fresh strikes after Iranian forces fired on and damaged multiple commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz along undesignated routes. Trump said it plainly: “The MOU was only a test for Iran.” They failed it. The letter to Congress is direct and unapologetic. The strikes are “limited, measured, planned, and executed in a manner designed to minimize civilian casualties.” Their objectives are equally clear: degrade Iranian military capabilities threatening American forces in the region, protect the homeland, secure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, and defend American allies and partners. No ground troops. No occupation. No nation-building. Just sustained, targeted military pressure until Iran stops being a threat. “United States Armed Forces remain postured to take further action, as necessary and appropriate,” the letter states, “to ensure the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran ceases being a threat to the United States and to our allies and partners.” That sentence is the entire policy in one line. And CENTCOM is executing it with exactly the kind of sustained, methodical pressure that makes it credible. Monday night marked the third consecutive night of American strikes against targets inside Iran — Bushehr, Chah Bahar, Jask, Konarak, Abu Musa, and Bandar Abbas, hitting coastal defense systems, missile and drone sites, and maritime capabilities with precision munitions over a five-hour mission window. More than 50,000 American service members are currently deployed across the Middle East. CENTCOM’s own words: “vigilant, lethal, and ready.” This is what it looks like when an American president means what he says. For decades, the pattern was identical: Iran provokes, America issues a strongly worded statement, diplomats convene in Geneva, a deal gets signed, Iran violates it within months, the cycle repeats. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden — every administration played a variation of the same losing game. Iran learned that American resolve had a shelf life and that if they waited long enough, the pressure would lift. Trump ended that calculation in his first term with Soleimani. He’s ending it again now with something considerably more comprehensive. The nuclear program is rubble. The air defenses are largely gone. The military and political leadership has been substantially reduced. And now, after Iran made the catastrophic miscalculation of firing on commercial shipping after signing a ceasefire, the strikes are back — with no indication they’re stopping until Tehran produces something more than a signature on a document it has no intention of honoring. Iran wanted a test. They got their answer Monday night over five Iranian ports. The war is back on. This time, America is fighting it to win. Want me to push this even harder, or is this the right level? same – https://redstate.com/bradslager/2026/07/14/its-a-new-week-so-time-for-a-new-kash-patel-is-fired-hit-this-ms-now-effort-is-among-the-lamest-yet-n2204304 https://redstate.com/bradslager/2026/07/14/its-a-new-week-so-time-for-a-new-kash-patel-is-fired-hit-this-ms-now-effort-is-among-the-lamest-yet-n2204304 Fetched: It’s a New Week, So Time for a New ‘Kash Patel Is Fired’ Hit – This MS NOW Effort Is Among the Lamest Yet Fetched: It’s a New Week, So Time for a New ‘Kash Patel Is Fired’ Hit – This MS NOW Effort Is Among the Lamest Yet Here’s a sharp, combative conservative rewrite under 500 words: Five MSNBC Reporters Just Filed a ‘Kash Patel Is Fired’ Story — and Got Scooped by the New York Times on Their Own Hit It takes genuine incompetence to file a breathless exposé about an FBI Director in crisis and simultaneously get beaten on the actual facts by the outlet you’re trying to out-scoop. MSNBC managed it anyway. Five reporters. One humiliation. Here’s what happened. Kash Patel had plans to fly to Chicago Friday — meetings during the day, his country-singer girlfriend performing at night. He was called into the White House unexpectedly. MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian, Carole Leonnig, Jacqueline Alemany, Vaughn Hillard, and Jake Traylor — five credentialed journalists with all the resources of a major television network — turned this into a story about Patel being on the verge of getting fired, citing: “people spoke on the condition of anonymity,” “according to two people with knowledge,” “several people said,” “some found it confounding,” “according to a person familiar,” “others cited,” “according to three people briefed,” “according to two other people with knowledge.” Count them. That’s eight separate invocations of anonymous sourcing in a single article. Not one person willing to put their name on any of it. Not one official quote from anyone supporting the central claim. And then — buried in the middle of this mountain of anonymous innuendo — the reporters admit they don’t actually know why Patel was summoned to the White House: “The precise reasons that Patel’s political bosses demanded he cancel his trip and report to the West Wing are unclear.” They published anyway. With five bylines. The New York Times — not exactly a Trump-friendly outlet — had no such problem finding out what Patel was actually doing at the White House all day. He was working the leak investigation into the compromised Air Force One communications during Trump’s NATO trip. An eight-hour workday. A specific, documented assignment. Nothing remotely resembling a firing. MSNBC’s battalion of reporters, with their extensive network of anonymous bitter cranks inside the administration and the Agency, couldn’t find any of this. The Times did. Because the Times apparently has sources who know things that are actually true, rather than sources who want Patel gone and are willing to manufacture a narrative to make it happen. This is not the first time. The Atlantic ran the Patel alcoholism story — blackouts in his office, sources everywhere, not a single witness willing to go on record, no official incident reports, nothing. It produced no consequences beyond briefly embarrassing everyone who ran with it. The pattern is identical every time: anonymous sources, dire warnings, dramatic framing, zero substantiation, and Kash Patel still running the FBI the next morning. Patel’s response to Dilanian’s reporting was a social media post calling him a “dumbass” and noting that his job is to lie while Patel’s is to protect the American people. Five reporters. Eight anonymous sources. One admission they don’t know what actually happened. Zero named officials supporting their claims. Business is good. Want me to push this even harder, or is this the right level? same – https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/07/14/it-doesnt-get-bigger-trump-drops-hint-on-thursdays-yuge-announcement-n2204313 Fetched: ‘It Doesn’t Get Bigger’: Trump Drops Hint on Thursday’s Yuge Announcement Fetched: ‘It Doesn’t Get Bigger’: Trump Drops Hint on Thursday’s Yuge Announcement Here’s a sharp conservative rewrite under 500 words: Trump Just Teased the Biggest Announcement of His Presidency — It’s Gotta Be About Election Integrity

SEE IT: Fox Weather Reporter Saves Woman In Flooding Vehicle During Helene

Updated: POLITICS

The sudden arrival of Hurricane Helene has resulted in seven deaths and left millions without power across the American Southeast. However, a Fox Weather reporter on the scene made a fortunate rescue, saving a woman trapped in a submerged vehicle. Meteorologist Bob Van Dillen is being hailed as a hero for rescuing a woman from her car in Atlanta, Georgia. After calling 911 and discovering that first responders wouldn’t arrive in time, Van Dillen abandoned his live broadcast to wade into waist-deep floodwaters.

He carefully guided the woman out of her vehicle as the water surged rapidly. Following the rescue, he shared the dramatic experience with the hosts of Fox & Friends. “I know that we’re swamped here with all of the 911 calls, because there are so many high-water rescues that we’ve already documented so far… [she] called 911 and, five minutes, 10 minutes, and you could hear screaming, right? You could hear through my live shot, real loud,” he said on Friday morning. “That’s her car right there. So I just said, ‘You know what? I realize I’m with you guys on the air, but I can’t let it go.’”

Van Dillen said it took all his professional strength to “drop everything,” including his live shot, and dive into the breach. “I took my wallet out of my pants, and I went in there, waded in, got chest deep,” he recalled. “You know how it is. I was concerned that one, maybe there was a nice swift current, but the current really wasn’t that bad. But, the water temperature I was afraid of, too. The water temperature is probably about 80 [degrees]. So, all of those things were working pretty nicely, so, that being said, the water came up to about my chest.”

“She was in there, she was still strapped into her car and the water was actually rising and getting up into the car itself, so she was about, almost neck deep submerged in her own car.” Asked by Janice Dean what would have happened if he hadn’t stepped up, Van Dillen replied simply, “She would have drowned.”

“You know, I don’t know,” Van Dillen humbly said. “I told her ‘OK, undo your seatbelt,’ she undid her seatbelt. I said, ‘Let me have your phone, let me have your bags,’ then put [her] on my back and we walked in… she’s fine, she was in shock,” Van Dillen said. “She was cold, shivering, so I gave her one of my shirts and she was in our car, just warming up, about 20 minutes later the fire department came, saw that we were OK and went on to the next rescue, wherever they’re going,” he continued. “Her husband just picked her up about five minutes ago.”

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