The Patriot Post® · Monday Executive News Summary
Breaking the ceasefire: Hamas does not want peace. Immediately after the ceasefire entered into effect, Hamas terrorists crawled out of their tunnels to start killing Gazans who worked with Israel or who too loudly expressed opinions hostile to Hamas. Mohammed Nazzal, a senior Hamas member speaking from the safety of Qatar, told the media that the executions of Gazans were “exceptional measures” taken in wartime. Hamas upped the ante further by killing two IDF soldiers and launching an anti-tank missile at IDF forces. Israel responded with airstrikes on Hamas, aiming to destroy tunnel shafts and military structures. Israel announced the ceasefire had been “renewed” Sunday afternoon following the airstrikes. U.S. Vice President JD Vance will visit the region from Tuesday to Thursday in an effort to keep the ceasefire deal on track.
Trump commutes Santos’s sentence: On Friday, President Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of disgraced former Republican New York Rep. George Santos. After pleading guilty last year to wire fraud and identity theft in connection with his 2022 congressional seat victory, Santos was given a seven-year prison sentence, which he began serving in July. Santos appealed to Trump, arguing that it was “an over-the-top politically influenced sentence.” Trump apparently agreed, calling Santos “somewhat of a rogue,” then noting “there are many rogues throughout our country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison.” Trump’s action received a mixed response. NY Republican Rep. Nick LaLota contended that Santos “stole millions, defrauded an election, and his crimes (for which he pled guilty) warrant more than a three-month sentence.” Meanwhile, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green supported Santos’s commutation, stating, “He was unfairly treated and put in solitary confinement, which is torture!!”
Jack Smith gets referred: It looks like the tables have turned on former special prosecutor Jack Smith, as the Justice Department received a referral from Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn demanding that he be investigated for misconduct over having “spied on duly elected members of Congress.” Blackburn was referencing the recent revelation that nine Republican lawmakers, including herself, had their phone records subpoenaed in 2023 in an effort by Smith to gain information surrounding their calls and locations between January 4 and January 7, 2021. Blackburn called Smith’s actions a “weaponized witch hunt,” and the other GOP lawmakers targeted by Smith also note that they “have yet to learn of any legal predicate for the Biden Department of Justice issuing subpoenas to obtain these cell phone records.”
“Louisiana Man” participated in October 7 terrorist attack: The Leftmedia is at it again, this time propagating the idea that a “Louisiana man” was one of the October 7 terrorists in Israel. Despite the implication that a “Louisiana man” would also be an American, Mahmoud Amin Ya'qub al-Muhtadi was born in Gaza in 1991 and lived there until March 2024. The FBI has provided copies of al-Muhtadi’s phone records on 10/7, during which he tells another man to “get ready,” “the borders are open.” Al-Muhtadi told men to “bring the rifles” and asked for a full magazine to be brought to him. Al-Muhtadi’s cellphone pinged on a tower in an Israeli kibbutz where 60 people, including Americans, were killed. In September 2024, Joe Biden’s Customs and Border Protection welcomed al-Muhtadi to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where he set about finding a job and buying a gun.
Hundreds of federal agents doxed in suspected cyberattack: A cybercrime community known as “The Com” is believed to be behind publishing the personal data of more than 1,000 U.S. federal employees. On the encrypted messaging app Telegram, some users seemed to claim responsibility for the leak, saying, “Mexican Cartels hmu we dropping all the doxes” and asking for “1m” for the data. “The Com” is comprised of member groups such as Scattered Spider, which was behind a large ransomware attack on MGM Resorts. Scattered Spider collaborated with the Russian ransomware group ALPHV/BlackCat for the attack on MGM. The leaked information included the full names, official addresses, and some personal addresses of 680 DHS officials, 190 DOJ staff, and 170 FBI employees.
Trump says he’s cutting aid to Colombia over drug trafficking: On Sunday, President Trump accused Colombian President Gustavo Petro of being an “illegal drug dealer,” saying that he had failed to follow through on combatting large-scale narcotics manufacturing in his country even while receiving “large scale payments and subsidies from the USA” to do so. “As of today, these payments, or any other form of payment, or subsidies, will no longer be made to Colombia,” Trump stated. Trump has ratcheted up his efforts to combat illicit drug trafficking into the U.S., particularly from Venezuela. Likewise, he warned Petro to “close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Obama does ads for Dems: Republican candidates in the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia are making sizable gains in recent polling, showing that they have effectively closed the gap, bringing themselves to within margin-of-error territory with their Democrat opponents. Thus, Barack Obama has yet again entered the political scene. He has recently been doing ads for NJ Dem candidate Mikie Sherrill, who holds a shrinking lead over Republican Jack Ciattarelli. On Friday, Obama did an ad endorsing VA Dem candidate Abigail Spanberger, who suddenly finds Republican candidate Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears nipping at her heels. Obama has done ads in support of California’s effort to redraw its redistricting maps with the express intent of favoring Democrats. It’s no surprise that he has continued his habit of throwing off past presidential norms by weighing in on politics.
WH joins Bluesky and immediately trolls lefties: The Trump administration is committed to trolling leftists. So committed, in fact, that Trump’s team took to the leftie “safe space” of Bluesky to drop a troll video. Bluesky is one of several Twitter clones that popped up around the time that Elon Musk purchased the company. The official White House account on Bluesky posted a video of Trump looking presidential, mixed with cutaways to the “President Autopen” portrait in the presidential photo gallery and the now infamous “sombrero memes” of Hakeem Jeffries. Lefties filled the comment section with retaliatory memes and spurious claims that they want the Epstein files released.
Anglican Church splits: The Anglican Church left the straight and narrow long ago, but the appointment of Sarah Mullaly as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury sealed the deal. She supports all the worst woke garbage, including teaching that God is a woman, countering all biblical teaching and history. This has pushed the conservative conference of the Anglican Church over the edge. Just as Martin Luther posted his 95 theses to the church door in 1517, the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) posted its eight theses to the door of its website, officially proclaiming, “We declare that the Anglican Communion will be reordered. … We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority.” Channeling Luther, GAFCON nailed it with this line: “We have not left the Anglican Communion; we are the Anglican Communion.”
Headlines
Suspicious hunting stand found where Trump exits Air Force One at PBIA (Palm Beach Post)
John Bolton pleads not guilty to mishandling classified information (National Review)
Trump admin makes Supreme Court plea for National Guard in Chicago (Fox News)
Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit (CNBC)
Prince Andrew to give up Duke of York title, honors amid Jeffrey Epstein developments (Just the News)
KJP writes she couldn’t “stomach” being a Democrat anymore after party’s treatment of Biden (Fox News)
This photo should end Zohran Mamdani’s campaign (PJ Media)
Humor: SUCCESS: After weekend of “No Kings” protests, America will now still not have any kings (Babylon Bee)
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