Donald Trump's Winning Wednesday

Duane Patterson 6:30 PM | July 24, 2025
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You know the clip by now, right? 

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Did you happen to catch what took place just on Wednesday? No? Well, here's a little list. 

  • Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard didn't just go after the deep state, she started right at the very top of it, implicating directly former President Barack Obama as signing off on the fabrication of a knowingly false intelligence assessment against Donald Trump to interfere with the 2016 election, and then to hamstring his transition as President-Elect. 
  • Columbia University inevitably capitulated in a deal with the Trump administration to end legal action and restore federal funding. It cost them dearly. $221 million dollars in penalties, and included in that settlement is an end to masked student protests, stepped up penalties and punishment of the Butler Library riot participants, compliance that all student visa holders with disciplinary actions are to be reported to ICE, and an end to Jewish discrimination as well as racially discriminatory hiring and admittance practices.



  • Never Trump Washington Post columnist Philip Bump got bumped from the paper in a methodical buyout of the paper's biggest headaches. The purge today followed departures of Jen Rubin and Taylor Lorenz.

Remember this? 

Don't have to worry about that anymore. 

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  • The Supreme Court once again handed down a 6-3 decision that both reaffirmed that the Constitution's vision of Article II responsibilities actually means something, and simultaneously putting Humphrey's Executor on life support. The President may resume firing commission appointments. In this instance, three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
  • After DNI Gabbard rolled the bus over former President Obama at the press briefing, she jammed it in reverse, turned the wheel, and thumped over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president in 2016. Remember this disturbing image from a curtailed campaign stop?

We now know, thanks to newly-declassified documents by Gabbard, that Secretary Clinton was tranqued to the bejesus belt just in order to get through her day, her mental health was in such poor shape. She also suffers from Type II diabetes and ischemic heart disease, or not enough blood flow. We were told by the campaign liars and their lying allies in regime media that it was hot out, she was dehydrated, and she was exhausted. In reality, the new intelligence information released demonstrates that Clinton achieved the disqualification trifecta.

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Clinton was physically, mentally, and emotionally unable to run for the presidency, let alone be president had she visited the Rust Belt a few more times and eked out a win. 

  • House Oversight has announced they're going to issue subpoenas to both Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify about their relationship history with Jeffrey Epstein. I'm not saying it will amount to much, but it sure could turn out to be entertaining as hell. Pro tip to the House Republicans? When Bill starts speaking, make sure in his line of sight, you put the hottest looking young lady staffer you can find in order to distract him. Trust me. Billy Jeff will do the rest of your deposition work all by himself. 
  • Kaiser Permanente threw in the towel nationwide on its practice of offering gender reassignment surgeries to those under the age of 19. They're done. No mas.
  • The Department of Justice, in the wake of the Gabbard intel revelations being referred over for possible prosecution, announced the formation of a task force as a first step to digest and analyze the trove of material. Could it lead to a special counsel? Who knows? But a task force running around asking questions isn't going to make those in the deep state very comfortable for the foreseeable future.
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  • Donald Trump signed three executive order on artificial intelligence, setting guardrails, but also opening up the pathway for U.S. dominance in the AI space for a long time to come.
  • CNN, hellbent all day to make Trump's connection to Epstein The story, was reduced to Bob Dole in 1996 status by day's end, adopting the 2025 equivalent to his "Where's the outrage" line.

John King admitted nobody is turning against Trump. CNN is just not influencing the news cycle the way they once did, and this is after a day when they were pressing really hard to change the narrative from the rampant corruption Gabbard outlined which CNN aided and abetted. People just don't buy what Resistance media is selling, unless it's with those watching already predisposed to hate Donald Trump. The needle is not moving. 

  • Chuck Grassley in the Senate released documents Wednesday that show Barack Obama also was right in the thick of it when the FBI was investigating potential criminality of Hillary Clinton's private email server. The documents, including the existence of thumb drives containing Obama and Clinton emails, show that Obama inserted executive privilege in order to hide evidence and prevent the FBI from doing a thorough investigation.
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So much for the Obama scandal-free presidency. 

  • Pew Research just released a survey that by a single point, more Americans identify as a Republican than a Democrat.

The last time Pew showed Republicans leading Democrats in party affiliation was in late 2023. The last time before that? 1994. Both elections that followed were big for Republicans. 

  • Planned Parenthood just announced the closing of their 18th abortion mill this year alone. After losing over a billion dollars in funding thanks to Congressional action recently and signed into law by Donald Trump, this latest closure in Texas will thankfully not be the last one.
  • NPR editor-in-chief Edith Wilson hit the streets after the rescission package signed into law by the President stripped the Democratic radio network of their federal funding.
  • Donald Trump climbed into the Beast Wednesday afternoon for a little drive across town to see Jerome Powell at the Fed. He felt a little one-on-one time with Too Late Powell was in order.
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Maybe the President wanted to check out the $2.5 billion in renovations to the new building. And while he was there, maybe they had a little chat about Fed policy on interest rates. In any event, there's nothing like the most powerful man in the world paying you a visit when he's displeased in your recent performance. Do not be surprised if the coming rate cut happens sooner rather than later after this social call.  

  • Finally, Punchbowl News is out with a list of their own - up to 8 red states are now poised to undergo mid-decade redistricting to reflect population migration into their states.


Democrats are threatening to respond in kind, but they have a problem doing that. In California's case, redistricting is done by independent commission, codified in the state's constitution. Without just throwing it out lawlessly, Democrats in Sacramento are powerless to do anything about it. And in other blue states, Democrats have already redistricted Republicans within an inch of their political lives. Most of them have lost population in the last five years, and simply don't have the numbers of people living there with which to further carve up districts. 

The danger to Republicans, of course, is these potential 15-17 seats are only opportunities. Those opportunities can and will be squandered unless candidate recruitment yields quality men and women to run in those new districts. If 15 Tom Massie's end up running, the redistricting plan could backfire badly. But with good candidates resonating a winning message and agenda for growth and rule of law, and sprinkling in about a billion dollars of campaign cash available from the President and another $40 million from Speaker Mike Johnson's campaign PAC, the conditions are ripe for Republicans to add to their razor-thin margin in the mid-terms next year. 

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Add it all up? A Wednesday so full of winning that it should exhaust everyone. And yet, today is a new day. And upon introspection, I find myself thirsting for more. I do not believe I'm suffering from a winning hangover from yesterday. I'm certain I can bounce back and handle even more winning today. Winning, I'm discovering, is like ice cream. There's always room for a little more.

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