Trump's Wins Now Need To Translate to Votes in 2026 And Beyond

posted by Allan J. Feiffer at American Thinker 

Donald Trump has seemingly raised Republicans and conservatives’ collective IQs, leading to us believing we are uber smart and invincible, even when we aren’t. As too many have found in the past, today’s winners are tomorrow’s losers.

We have midterms and another presidential campaign coming at us fast and furiously. Relying on the Dems to continue self-destructing is not a strategy. Eventually, Dems will find a new normal somewhere between out-and-out communism and soft socialism, with millions willing to vote for some version of that.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, President Trump will continue to deliver on his promises, stirring the pot, all while social media and mainstream media continue to portray his actions and strategies as variations of chaos, insanity, brutality, or meanness. Weak minds will swallow that tripe, reacting with emotional displays to counter Trump’s goal to make us more independent and genuinely free, requiring an ability to fail as well as succeed. Risk is a bedrock requirement for freedom.

Given the reality that elections are always won or lost on the margins, we should examine what allowed Trump to win in 2024. At the top of the list, I would put the following:

1.    Economic Disenchantment—inflation and the cost of living, coupled with a belief that no plan in place would fix the issues

2.    MAGA—half of Republicans identified with MAGA, with MAGA a movement, not just a philosophy. People understood and supported the underdog. Does MAGA survive going forward without Trump?

3.    The Anti-Progressive movement—little noticed (especially by Democrats) is the erosion of support for progressive tenets. It was becoming evident to all that progressivism was not living up to its hype, and they had nothing more substantive up their sleeve.

4.    Young people and Hispanics—gave President Trump a chance after their disenchantment with the Biden presidency, which saw them as guaranteed votes.

5.    President Biden and his Vice President—the gift that kept on giving, ultimately being the reason Trump won so broadly.

Democrats’ main message (their only message?) was that Trump is Hitler. Other than that, they lacked a unified and cohesive positive message to vote for Harris.

This time, Republicans need to articulate a unified, cohesive, and positive message to bring voters to the polls. This is the central question Republicans need to answer for the midterms and the next presidential run.

Trump has been on trial (literally and figuratively) since stepping onto that golden escalator in 2015. In a very real sense, he’s still on trial today.

Trump’s force of will, combined with strategic and tactical court victories, will likely enable him to navigate the midterms successfully. This outcome requires the Democrats to be, well, Democrats, paying homage to a communist candidate forecast to win the New York mayoral race.

Although Zohran Mamdani’s is a local election, it will not sit well with many Americans who were already predisposed to see the sky crumbling around them, save for Trump’s continued intervention. God willing, I think we will keep the House and Senate next year!

But winning isn’t everything. While Democrats boast about a “big tent” (big enough for Islamo-Nazis), it’s actually the Republicans who must consolidate people who have truly different expectations about what the government’s role is.

Many people who voted for Trump are not conservatives in the traditional sense; they are populists who voted for Trump’s vision and vibe, expecting him to fulfill their wishes and expectations. That’s always problematic when you arrive at the intersection of reality vs. wishes.

Our entire society has become obsessed with the idea that you can have it all with less than the historically required effort. Older Americans know better, but the under-45 crowd, now making up 58.8% of us, has been brainwashed to believe otherwise. The issue that will decide the next presidential race will revolve around how the next candidate can authentically articulate a path forward that is realistic, obtainable, and resonates with younger and more demanding voters. That’s a tall order!

I predict that delivering on the following issues will be pivotal to capturing votes from the under-45 crowd:

A. Housing affordability—government regulations (zoning, carrying costs, guest worker programs, and building codes) drive housing inflation.

B. The strength of the economy—even a modest recession, will peel away a lot of Trump’s new coalition of voters. Again, the FED usually is late in providing interest rate relief. Trump’s ability to appoint a new FED chair next year bodes well for interest rate relief, which will be like rocket fuel for our economy.

C. Creating a positive vision of America’s future—Trump’s continued and visible success in reordering our economy, returning to previous social norms, and uplifting messaging, backed up by deliverables that young people can see and feel.

D. Messaging reinforcement—the TikTok generation needs constant stroking and validation, lacking the traditional grounding of their predecessors. The under-45 crowd very much lives or dies on “what have you done for me lately?” In that sense, it’s a ruined generation.

Even in an era of institutionalized brainwashing at our colleges and universities, many see the folly of the progressive messaging and actions that left our country in disarray. Obama’s campaign slogan, “Change You Can See,” should be repurposed and become the rallying cry for the 2028 Republican Presidential candidate.

President Trump must continue to deliver tangible results!

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The World Woke Up ~ VDH

posted by Victor Davis Hanson at Townhall 

In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo.

The unthinkable has become the banal.

Take illegal immigration -- remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under former President Joe Biden?

Recall the only solution was supposedly "comprehensive immigration reform"--a euphemism for mass amnesties.

Now, there is no such thing as daily new illegal immigration. It simply disappeared with common-sense enforcement of existing immigration laws -- and a new president.

How about the 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment?

Remember all the causes that the generals cited for their inability to enlist soldiers: generational gangs, obesity, drugs, and stiff competition with private industry?

And now?

In just six months, recruitment targets are already met; the issue is mostly moot.

Why? The new Pentagon flipped the old, canceling its racist DEI programs and assuring the rural, middle-class Americans -- especially white males -- that they were not systemically racist after all.

Instead, they were reinvited to enlist as the critical combat cohort who died at twice their demographic share in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How about the "end of the NATO crisis," supposedly brought on by a bullying U.S.?

Now the vast majority of NATO members have met their pledges to spend two percent of GDP on defense, which will soon increase to 5%.

Iconic neutrals like Sweden and Finland have become frontline NATO nations, arming to the teeth. The smiling NATO Secretary-General even called Trump the "daddy" of the alliance.

What about indomitable, all-powerful, theocratic Iran, the scourge of the Middle East for nearly 50 years?

Although it had never won a war in the last half-century, its terrorist surrogates -- Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis -- were supposedly too dangerous to provoke.

Now?

Most of their expeditionary terrorists are neutered, and their leaders are in hiding or dead. Iran has no air force, no real navy, no air defenses, and no active nuclear weapons program.

Its safety apparently depends only on the mood of the U.S. or Israel on any given day, not to fly into its airspace and take out its missiles, nuclear sites, generals, or theocrats at will.

What happened to the supposedly inevitable recession, hyperinflation, stock market collapse, unemployment spikes, and global trade war that last spring economists assured us would hit by summer?

Job growth is strong, and April's inflation rate is the lowest in four years. GDP is still steady. The stock market hit a record high. Trade partners are renegotiating their surpluses with the U.S.

It turns out that staying in the U.S. consumer market is the top priority of our trading partners. It seems their preexisting and mostly undisclosed profits were large enough to afford reasonable U.S. symmetrical tariffs.

For now, news of tax cuts, deregulation, "drill baby, drill" energy policies displacing Green New Deal strangulation, and $8-10 trillion in potential foreign investment has encouraged -- rather than deterred -- business.

Then there were our marquee elite universities, whose prestige, riches, and powerful alumni made them answerable to no one.

And now, after the executive and congressional crackdown on their decades of hubris?

Supposedly brilliant university presidents have resigned in shame. The public has caught on to their grant surcharge gouging.

Campuses have backed off their arrogant defiance of the Supreme Court's civil rights rulings.

They are panicked about the public exposure of their systemic antisemitism.

They are scrambling to explain away their institutionalized ideological bias and their tawdry profit-making schemes and mass recruitment of wealthy foreign students from illiberal regimes.

So, the mighty Ivy League powerhouses are now humbling themselves to cut a deal to save their financial hides and hopefully return to their proper mission of disinterested education.

What happened to the trans juggernaut of sex as a social construct and its bookend gospel that biological men could dominate women's sports?

People woke up. They were no longer afraid to state that sex is binary and biologically determined. And biological men who dominate women's sports are bullies, not heroes.

Where are the millionaire scamming architects of BLM now? Where is the "DEI now, tomorrow, and forever" conventional wisdom?

Where are Professor Ibram X. Kendi and his $30,000 Zoom lessons on how to fight racism by being racist?

They have all been exposed as the race hustlers they always were. Their creed that it is OK for supposed victims to be racist victimizers themselves was exposed as an absurd con.

So, what flipped everything?

We were living in an "emperor has no clothes" make-believe world for the last few years. The people knew establishment narratives were absurd, and our supposed experts were even more ridiculous.

But few -- until now -- had the guts to scream "the emperor is naked" to dispel the fantasies.

When they finally did, reality returned.

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Regarding the Jeffrey Epstein Matter

posted by Arthur Schaper at Townhall 

Serial pedophile, sex-offender, hob-knobber of the stars, the supposed key to bringing down all the corrupt elites in American government, finance, and culture, apparently really did kill himself, and there is no list.

At least that’s what AG Pam Bondi is telling us now.

How long ago was it when Bondi bounded before the cameras and told us that she had the list on her desk?

She released a bunch of documents in February, but this anti-climactic revelation did not amount to much, since others had already leaked those documents.

Now, there’s no list.

Sure …

And there is widespread outrage throughout the MAGA world, the general public, and just about anyone who has been following this sordid, horrid case.

What are we to make of all this?

Yes, conservative commentators and populist pundits have shared their cant or profundity on the cause. Let’s sift through their minds on the matter, and let’s see if we can make sense of it all.

Ben Shapiro, one of President Trump’s biggest initial detractors, has gone out of his way to defend his stake on the case. I respect his take, since there’s nothing to justify believing that Trump and his new cabinet are part of the very cabal that tried to stop him from getting elected.

More importantly, President Trump shared in 2024 that he was willing to release the Epstein files, BUT … there was a lot of phony stuff, in his words, and there is too much opportunity to unjustly impugn others simply because they had lunch with the creep. Bill O’Reilly confirmed this notion, sharing that he had spoken with Trump about the whole thing. This reasoning has merit. The last thing we need is more cancel culture due to guilt by association.

And yet, that does not resolve the surface-level dishonesty of Pam Bondi and team. She said that she had the files on her desk, didn't she?

Conservative historian Larry Schweikart’s take on this problem is also worth considering. Referencing the 2008 Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight,” Schweikart suggested that the Criminal Justice Avengers: Bondi, Patel, Bongino—are staging a head-fake of sorts, stating to the public that there is no “there there” regarding Jeffrey Epstein, the list, the high-profile human traffickers, etc.

It's all about throwing off the bad guys so they can keep catching the bad guys. I find this suggestion plausible. Over the last six months, the Trump Administration has ramped up its efforts to catch predators of all sorts across the country. Human trafficking is at an all-time low, not just at the border but around the country, and more of the bad guys preparing and peddling kiddie porn and child molestation are getting rounded up off our streets.

How else could Team Trump 2.0 accomplish these great feats except that they are making use of all the data from Epstein’s networks, lists, and other evidence? If the Trump enforcement team starts going public with everything, more of the bad guys could escape justice. As long as Team Trump gives the impression that they have finished with the Epstein evidentiary efforts, they can provide the criminal targets a false sense of security, then sweep down on them.

It’s more important to catch the bad guys, stop the abuse, and make America safe again. If Bondi and company have to risk appearing to be the bad guys for a while to catch the real bad guys, then so be it.

However, this line of thinking has not allayed the outrage on the Online Right or among MAGA populist commentators. Steve Bannon fears that the Republicans will not just lose their House Majority. Charlie Kirk and Matt Walshare losing patience with this, and they view the move to push aside the Epstein Exposure as a major failure.

What really bothers me, though, is that many of Trump’s most die-hard supporters throughout the campaign season are ready to throw him under the bus over this one issue. I suspect that many influencers, who have established their brand by promoting disturbing conspiracies and major failures of our institutions, are intent on bringing as much heat as they can to this issue because that’s their meal ticket. If they move on, people will stop watching and listening to them. That kind of motivation does not inspire respect or courage, and we need to stop allowing such motives to drive our main focus.

Don’t get me wrong: child exploitation of any kind is evil, and every malefactor connected to its persistence in our country must be brought to justice. But suppose they care so much about stopping the abuse and exploitation of children. In that case, they should be applauding the President and his leadership team for their unprecedented level of immigration enforcement. Illegal aliens around the country are not just getting rounded up and deported, but the human chattel slavery running across our once-porous border has all but ended now. In a recent ICE operation in Ventura County, immigration enforcement not only rounded up illegal aliens working on a marijuana farm, but they rescued alien minors exploited on that farm, and one of the illegals captured was a convicted sex offender!

In addition to these ongoing enforcement accomplishments, Trump has implemented broad economic reforms and addressed the cultural rot in American education, beginning with the woke corruption in America’s universities. He’s taking on the public school systems across the country, where child abuse has been institutionalized in the vile, explicit sex-ed curricula pushing LGBT indoctrination, and the new spate of teen books and graphic novels, filled with pornography and moral degradation.

We should not let the Epstein issue go away without waiting for more information and insight. At the same time, we shouldn’t disparage the ongoing successes. The Trump Administration is putting out multiple fires and fighting to restore many great things that have fallen into disrepair or disrepute in this country. Let’s give him a chance and let things work themselves out.

America Is Not A ‘Nation Of Immigrants’

This insidious slogan is once again being used by Republicans to justify another amnesty bill.

by John Daniel Davidson at The Federalist

A group of congressional Republicans have joined Democrats in an effort to push through an amnesty bill by performing two cheap tricks: repeat the tired trope that we’re a “nation of immigrants” and redefine “amnesty” as “dignity.”

The bipartisan bill, dubbed the DIGNITY Act, was introduced this week by Republican Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who has lately been on a media tour to promote what she calls, falsely, “a revolutionary bill that offers the solution to our immigration crisis.”

But of course Salazar’s bill isn’t “revolutionary,” and it doesn’t offer a solution to our immigration crisis. It offers amnesty wrapped in platitudes. The key part of the bill is an “earned opportunity for long-term immigrants to stay here and work.” How long-term? Five years. That means people who illegally snuck across our border as recently as 2020 would be allowed to remain in the United States forever — without any of the obligations and responsibilities that come with full citizenship. That’s amnesty, no matter what Salazar says.

It’s also a miscarriage of the rule of law. As my colleague Brianna Lyman noted yesterday, “no one deserves to be rewarded for violating our sovereign borders simply because they want to ‘pay taxes’ and ‘work.’” Billions of people all over the world would very much like to come here and pay taxes and work, our laws be damned. But our economy is not a possession of the world, it belongs to the American people. Foreign access to it, to the extent we allow it at all, should first and foremost serve the interests of the American people, not a contingent of foreigners who managed to get into our country and remain here for at least seven years without getting caught.

Lyman also correctly pointed out that we tried this one-time amnesty gambit before, in President Ronald Reagan’s 1986 immigration reform that gave amnesty to nearly three million illegals in exchange for vague promises about border security, which of course never materialized. When promoting his immigration reform, Reagan trotted out the line that we’re a “nation of immigrants,” which is exactly what Republican Rep. Mike Lawler said in support of the DIGNITY Act this week.

This is wrong. We’re not a nation of immigrants, we’re a nation of settlers. The people who founded America came to settle it, and settle it they did. They were not immigrating to an established nation, they were forging a nation out of a vast, largely unpopulated wilderness. Those who came after, in subsequent waves throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, most often pushed west, further into the wilderness, expanding the frontier of our nation and settling it along the way. Indeed the phrase itself, “nation of immigrants,” is nonsense. Immigrants by definition don’t create a nation, they become part of an established nation by assimilating into it.

The relevant history, as well as the difference between an immigrant and a settler, are clear enough. The thing to understand right now is why the “nation of immigrants” line is being deployed at all. I would suggest that it’s being deployed for the same reason it was deployed in 1986: as propaganda to justify mass amnesty for illegal immigrants and bolster the notion that it’s somehow “un-American” to insist on secure borders, assimilation, and citizenship.

Indeed, the Salazar bill throws out citizenship entirely. Instead of citizens who have solemn obligations to their adopted country, the tens of millions of illegal immigrants who have been here for at least seven years would, under the DIGNITY Act, constitute an entirely new legal class of non-citizens with “legal status” to live and work here, as though America is merely an economic opportunity zone.

This is a recipe above all for mass non-assimilation and, ultimately, civic conflict. Allowing foreigners to reside permanently in your country without requiring them to become citizens — with all that citizenship entails — means we will eventually have what Europe now has: huge enclaves of unassimilated foreign nationals whose loyalties lie elsewhere and whose customs and habits are alien to the host country. The European governments who have embraced mass immigration with the most zeal are now on what is probably an irreversible course to civil war.

Worse, the reduction of the nation to an economic opportunity zone, which is the end that Salazar’s DIGNITY Act would serve, will mean the degrading of citizenship for everyone, including the native-born, and eventually the abolishment of the nation as such. Why? Because the vitality of our nation depends on the faithfulness of its citizens to discharge their duties — to vote, to be informed about public affairs, to serve on juries, to hold office if needs be, and to serve in the armed forces to defend the country in times of crisis. If citizenship becomes some kind of ceremonial honorific that newcomers don’t really need to get along and even do well in America, then there’s no need to have citizens at all. We will all just be cogs in a GDP machine, and America as such will cease to exist.

Ultimately, the DIGNITY Act is woefully misnamed. The only real dignity America can offer to foreigners is the dignity that comes with full U.S. citizenship. Without that, illegal immigrants and citizens alike will be reduced to nothing more than wage-earners for a global empire. Earlier generations of Americans — whether settlers, native-born, or immigrants — would have called this by its true name: slavery.

Rubio Shuts Down the Election Lectures: U.S. Won’t Play Global Referee

Townhall 

According to an internal directive delivered on Thursday and signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Department of State will no longer be assessing the fairness of foreign elections to ensure fairness. The Department will also cease publicly commenting on foreign elections, citing the Trump Administration's emphasis on respecting national sovereignty.

The order, as analyzed by the Wall Street Journal, said that any messaging on foreign elections should focus on congratulating the victorious candidate, and “should avoid opining on the fairness or integrity of an electoral process, its legitimacy, or the democratic values of the country in question.”

The order stated that “The President made clear that the United States will pursue partnerships with countries wherever our strategic interests align.” This includes partnerships with countries that may not share the United States' democratic values. 

Historically, the United States has commented on the integrity of foreign democratic elections, in an effort to exert influence and guide countries worldwide toward democratic values. Both current and former diplomats say when the U.S. weighs in on a foreign election, it can tip the scales, especially in smaller or developing countries. Opposition leaders and human rights groups treat those statements like ammunition, using them as leverage on ruling regimes, dictators, and tyrants.

Nicole Widdersheim of the Human Rights Watch criticized the decisions, stating:

Stifling the observation and truth at the embassy level will only leave the U.S. government in the dark on the nature of the leadership they are dealing with. Lastly, often it is the public in these situations that risk life and limb to speak out against unfair and credible elections, whereas the U.S. embassy may be the only entity able to shine a light on the bad and unfair processes.

President Trump, in a speech in Saudi Arabia during his visit in May, spoke out against America's historic policy of judging internal foreign affairs like elections, citing nation builders as a chief argument against continuing along that path.

The so-called nation-builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they didn’t even understand themselves. They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves.

How This GOP Senator Reacted to the Dems' Tantrum on the Judiciary Committee Was Pure Gold

Townhall 

We’re better. It’s plain and simple. It didn’t always used to be this way—Republicans were adrift in the social media game during the Obama years. But we’ve adapted, and we’re better. Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee stormed out in protest over the nomination of Emil Bove for a federal judgeship. They claim rules were broken. Leah wrote about this performance art today:

“You are a good man. You are a decent man, why are you doing this? What is Donald Trump saying to you that are making you do something which is violating the decorum of this committee, the rules of this committee, the decency and the respect that we have each other to at least hear each other out?” Booker asked. 

“This is unjust. This is wrong," he continued. "It is the further deterioration of this committee’s integrity with a person like this. What are you afraid of?” 

Who cares? Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) didn’t, proceeding with the vote as if nothing was happening, which was hilarious. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) went on a prolonged tirade about the rules and process, though conceding that Republicans would likely advance Bove anyway. So, you admit the GOP can do this, but you’re mad they’re not taking the extra steps to do it or something. It’s funny because Democrats would eschew the rules to force their whack jobs through for a vote. 

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) had the best tweet to sum up this circus act by using Otter’s speech from Animal House to mock them. It’s perfect: 

We’re all tired of their theatrics. It’s time for the adults to do work, kids. Sit down and shut up.

Republican Says Her Amnesty Bill Will Help Illegals Treat America Like A Piggy Bank Forever

The  Federalist

On Tuesday, a group of Republicans joined Democrats to reintroduce the DIGNITY Act, which would provide mass amnesty to illegal aliens living in the country.

“The legislation acknowledges a key truth: most undocumented individuals are not seeking citizenship at all costs, but rather the dignity of living and working legally, contributing to society, paying taxes, being safe from deportation, and traveling to see family during the holidays,” a press release from Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, a so-called Republican, states.

By the bill’s own admission, “most” illegal aliens don’t want to become Americans in any real sense. They want the benefits of living here without the responsibilities of citizenship. They want access to our job market, our economy, public services, schools, hospitals — but none of the civic ties, assimilation or actual loyalty that citizens are expected to uphold, which is precisely the problem with mass migration.

Mass migration — whether legal or illegal — treats America not as a nation with a specific culture, language, heritage and people to be protected, but merely as a global economic opportunity zone for anyone who wants to cash in. There’s no concern for the cultural, social, or economic impacts on the communities forced to absorb this endless influx of illegal aliens. Which is precisely why Salazar’s statement — that “most” illegal immigrants don’t even seek citizenship — is so troubling.

Citizenship is a covenant that requires civic responsibility and obligations, which is what tethers the American people to one another and creates a sense of belonging that is worth fighting for. If citizenship is reduced to being merely an option rather than a requirement for participation and reaping the privileges of our republic, then civic responsibility will also erode. Citizenship binds people together through shared duties, loyalties and sacrifices. To live indefinitely in legal twilight — enjoying the protections, privileges, and prosperity of America without accepting the obligations of citizenship — is to hollow out the very meaning of belonging to a nation and reduces the nation down to a global marketplace.

Under Salazar’s un-American proposal, the nation itself will dissolve because people are merely inhabitants of a land rather than citizens of a particular nation that requires some responsibilities and obligations.

This is not to suggest, of course, that Salazar’s proposal should place illegal aliens on a path to citizenship. Such a move would only compound the first offense, that is, giving illegal aliens legal status. Illegal aliens violated our laws when they entered and remained in the country unlawfully. The correct response to widespread lawbreaking is not to rewrite our statutes to accommodate the offenders but to double down on standing law.

Further, one basic requirement to enter the social compact is following our already established laws. Those who illegally entered and remained are people who have demonstrated they are unfit for the responsibilities of being part of the social compact. Citizenship is grounded in mutual obligation and sacrifice, as well as respect for the norms and institutions of our republic. To disregard these laws is to disqualify oneself from ever joining the compact.

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Mexican Illegal Alien Arrested for Claiming False Kidnapping by ICE Agents

Conservative Treehouse 

This story is representative of just how desperate the political left and media have become over the issue of deporting illegal aliens.

41-year-old Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, of South Los Angeles, who is an illegal alien, participated in a scheme to falsify a rather elaborate story claiming to have been kidnapped by ICE agents.  The woman and a group of co-conspirators, including her lawyer, fabricated a story and held press conferences claiming she was abducted by ICE agents.  The entire story was false, and she was arrested for fabricating the scheme [DOJ Announcement Here]

🚨 WOW! An illegal in California has been charged for STAGING A KIDNAPPING & attempting to FRAME ICE

The "kidnapping" hoax is DIRECTLY out of the Democrats' playbook. Their rhetoric enabled this.

Mexican national Julie Calderon pretended she was taken by ICE in a Jack in the… pic.twitter.com/CQxA5PIYBM

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 17, 2025

DOJ – LOS ANGELES – An illegal alien from Mexico has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with orchestrating a phony kidnapping – which she blamed on federal agents or people working with federal agents – to generate public sympathy and solicit donations, the Justice Department announced today.

[…] According to an affidavit filed with the complaint filed Wednesday, an attorney representing Calderon’s family held a press conference on June 30 to announce that Calderon had reportedly been kidnapped five days earlier at a Jack in the Box restaurant parking lot in downtown Los Angeles and brought to San Ysidro, where “she was presented to [a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] staffer” and “presented with voluntary self-deportation paperwork.” The attorney then said Calderon refused to sign the paperwork and demanded to speak to a judge and a lawyer. In response, “she was punished” and was sent to a warehouse in an undisclosed location.

The press conference garnered media attention and stoked fear in the community. Meanwhile, Calderon’s daughter set up a GoFundMe page, requesting $4,500 and stating that Calderon “was taken by masked men in an unmarked vehicle…when she was on her way to work.” According to the complaint, this entire story was fabricated. (read more)