Secret Service Detains Man Attempting to Breach White House Complex

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You can’t help but wonder what goes on in the heads of those idiots who keep trying to breach the White House. The People's House has snipers, dogs, heavily armed agents, and who knows what else, so your chances of ending up dead are high. There have been several invaders who have gotten alarmingly far over the years, however, so maybe they’re thinking, “I could get lucky.”

Or maybe they’re just insane and aren’t thinking much at all.

On Thursday, we saw yet another attempt, this one by an unknown male who jumped a construction barrier near the White House but was quickly taken down by the Secret Service. One officer suffered a cut and is being evaluated. 

Video from the scene shows the moment he crossed the line and got into a physical struggle with agents. One Secret Service agent was hurt during the fight.

The suspect was taken into custody right away. Officials have not yet released his name or any details about why he tried to get past the barrier. The White House is one of the most protected places in the country, but security breaches like this still happen from time to time.

This latest incident comes at a busy time for the Trump administration. Many people online are now talking about how important it is to keep the president and the White House safe. The quick action by the Secret Service stopped the situation before it could get worse.

Source: Fox News, Nick Sortor

Here's the official statement from the Secret Service:

Anthony Guglielmi, Secret Service chief of communications, said in a statement to Newsweek via email: "Shortly after 11:30 a.m., a man was quickly detained by uniformed U.S. Secret Service police officers after jumping over a construction bollard near the Treasury Building on the northeast side of the complex. Officers encountered the individual near a pedestrian gate, where he engaged in a physical altercation before being taken into custody. One officer sustained a laceration. Both the officer and the suspect underwent medical evaluation for non-life-threatening injuries."

Incidents like this one are hardly uncommon, which is hardly surprising, considering that the Democrats are inciting political violence at seemingly every turn:

They’ve upgraded the main fence many times over the years, but that doesn’t seem to stop the crazies:

According to the White House Historical Society, US President Thomas Jefferson was the first to put a fence around the White House. Over the years, the fence has been updated and fortified, with the wrought-iron fences of the 19th century being replaced in the 1930s by a steel fence with tall bronze spears atop it. In 2019, work started to upgrade the existing six-foot fence to a 13-foot fence.

I like this guy’s idea:

Energy Org. Chief Warns Europe Could Run Out of Jet Fuel in '6 Weeks,' Makes Cringe Musical Reference

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There are appropriate times to make references to music or musicians, but when your entire continent might be about to suffer a major financial jolt, it comes across as mostly cringe.

Such was the case on Thursday, when Fatih Birol, the head of world energy organization, the International Energy Agency, threw out a musical pun that would fall flat in any standup routine. And what was his dire pronouncement, in the wake of Iran's shutting the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S.' blockade of Iran's ports, in an exclusive interview with AP published on Thursday? 

Europe is about to run out of jet fuel, and suffer inflationary chaos in the energy sector, he said, estimating that it would happen less than two months from now:

“In Europe, we have maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” he said. “If we are not able to open the Strait of Hormuz ... I can tell you soon we will hear the news that some of the flights from city A to city B might be canceled as a result of lack of jet fuel.”

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The impact will be “higher petrol (gasoline) prices, higher gas prices, high electricity prices,” said Birol, speaking in his Paris office looking out over the Eiffel Tower.

Here's where his lame pun came in:

“In the past there was a group called ‘Dire Straits.’ It’s a dire strait now, and it is going to have major implications for the global economy. And the longer it goes, the worse it will be for the economic growth and inflation around the world."

As RedState wrote earlier on Thursday, Europeans might be waiting on Iran to make the right choice on things, for oil to return to regular flow to them. SecWar Pete Hegseth did not mince words during a morning press conference:

...The United States Navy controls the traffic going in and out of this strait because we have real assets and real capabilities. And we're doing this blockade, performing it with less than 10% of America's naval power.

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As our negotiators have said, Iran can choose a prosperous future, a golden bridge. And we hope that you do, for the people of Iran. In the meantime, and for as long as it takes, we will maintain this successful blockade. But if Iran chooses poorly, then they will have a blockade and bombs dropping on infrastructure, power, and energy.

The Iranian regime's closing the Strait didn't help things, either, with an estimated one-fifth of world oil supply stifled by it.

We also need to see the fine print on President Trump's remarks Thursday on Iran supposedly agreeing to end its goal of obtaining a nuclear weapon through uranium enrichment.

In the interview with the Associated Press, Birol continued with the usual Eurobabble class warfare about who "will suffer the most" if the holdup on oil shipments continues much longer:

Economic pain will be felt unevenly and “the countries who will suffer the most will not be those whose voice are heard a lot. It will be mainly the developing countries. Poorer countries in Asia, in Africa and in Latin America,” said the Turkish economist and energy expert who has led the IEA since 2015.

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“Some countries may be richer than the others. Some countries may have more energy than the others, but no country, no country is immune to this crisis,” he said.

He shared what he has been hearing from world goverment officials on the possible "challenges" ahead:

Birol added: “Many government leaders tell me that if Hormuz is not open until (the) end of May, many countries — starting from the weaker economies — are going to face huge challenges, and this will go from the high inflation numbers to coming close to slow growth or even to recession in some cases.”

There's an issue with this clarion call from the energy group executive director on a fuel crisis, though. Airlines don't seem shaken. In the story linked above, the AP spoke to several companies, including U.S.- based Delta Air Lines, the Netherlands' KLM, and easyJet in the U.K. The latter two airlines said "they were not experiencing current fuel shortages, without commenting further on the IEA’s warning."

Delta was quoted as saying it "was aware of the continent’s 'potential jet fuel supply issue' and monitoring the situation, although it didn’t expect immediate impacts." 

And whose fault is it that the situation is where it is, when Europe mostly turned its back on the U.S. starting in March. 

The timing on this could not be worse, if it happens, with the high season for tourism just about to begin in May/June. Hotels and other local businesses depend on the higher costs associated with the premium travel window to keep their figures in the black.

Our sister site Hot Air wrote on Thursday about a similar issue in Australia, although that continent has few natural sources of oil and must import most of it. That doesn't excuse importing your economy's lifeblood from China, which has drastically pulled back on shipments recently, or handicapping yourselves by enacting energy mandates, and cutting back on coal and gas, while pushing the use of green energy.

GOP Takes Top Spots in Crowded California Governor Race Following Swalwell's Ignominious Exit

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Former Representative Eric Swalwell (I still get a tingle up my leg every time I write or say that, especially the "former" part) is now officially just an ordinary citizen, having resigned in disgrace from Congress and abandoned his gubernatorial ambitions. While Democrats are hurling recriminations at each other over the whole thing, California's governor's race is heating up; Swalwell's departure from the race has left them dazed and confused.

The two leading Republicans in the race may be positioned to take advantage of that. A new Emerson College poll has some interesting results - but the California GOP shouldn't get too happy just yet. First, look at this graphic:

That's got to have a few grins plastered on some Republican mugs around the once-Golden State, but we should point out that the two Republican candidates, Trump-endorsed Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco, together only grab 31 percent of the vote. Now, that might be enough if the Democrats retain their current disarray and their extensive roster of candidates. But we shouldn't depend on that; there are two reasons why.

First, Democrats may be nuts, but they aren't stupid. (Well, not all of them are.) One thing they are good at, probably because of their collectivist mindset, is sticking together. The primary is still over six weeks away; that's plenty of time for California Democrats to get their feces cohesive and coalesce around one or two candidates, which could be enough.

Second, remember, in 2024, Kamala Harris overwhelmingly won California's electoral votes, in an election cycle where the winds were at Republicans' backs, and she was running as a selected, not elected, candidate, the worst presidential candidate in American history, and she still took California by 58.5 to 38.3 points. Those great numbers in this Emerson poll may well be the GOP ceiling.

The actual poll is here. It shows the two GOP candidates polling pretty equally among Republicans: 

“Hilton and Bianco continue to split the Republican vote, 48% supporting Hilton and 40% Bianco, while independents are more fragmented: 16% support Steyer, 15% Hilton, 14% Bianco, and 10% Porter.”

Here, also from the poll, is the list of things that Hilton and Bianco should hammer the Democrats on, every day; these are Republican strengths.

The economy is the top issue for California voters at 41%, followed by housing affordability at 20%, threats to democracy at 10%, crime at 6%, immigration at 6%, and healthcare at 6%. 

These are the issues that may well be able to drag in enough of all those undecided voters to tip the balance.

Here's the fun part: In most elections, we would want our state organizations to gather behind one candidate, the best candidate, and unite. But this time, it may well be better to keep both in the race, and hope that Democrats stay as fractured as they are - which doesn't seem likely. But if these numbers are still in place when the primary comes off?

California's 2026 primary election is on June 2nd. Could this primary result in the November gubernatorial election offering California voters the choice between a Republican and a... Republican? It may not be likely, but boy, talk about California Democrats being hoist by their own petard. One would be able to detect all the Republican schadenfreude from orbit.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard Outlines Reason for Criminal Referral of Trump Impeachment Collaborators

Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, appears for an interview with Katie Pavlich to outline the importance of bringing all of the information about the Intelligence Community targeting of President Trump to the public.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and We the People want to see accountability for the Machiavellian conduct.  The intelligence community targeted President Trump and people within the CIA ran an operation to remove him.  These people have names and titles that have remained hidden, DNI Tulsi Gabbard is putting those names, specific names into the public psyche so we can have a full understanding of what took place.

Now, for many here this may seem like information we have all known about; however, Gabbard is providing the receipts, the actual evidence, of how these IC operations took place.  WATCH:

DNI Gabbard is showing how specific people within government weaponized their positions to conduct some of the most insidious schemes in modern U.S. history.  The criminality of those schemes is for others in Main Justice to determine, but the evidence of those schemes is clear.

I am thankful that people are now starting to use the new information to review past timelines. [SEE HERE] What they will discover is that Michael Atkinson’s work with Mary McCord and the Lawfare network are not isolated events. This is a continuum of targeting against Donald Trump using all of the intelligence levers at their disposal.

Michael Atkinson and Eric Ciaramella are the current names, but beside them sits Mary McCord, Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Barry Berke, Dan Goldman, Benjamin Wittes and many others from the Lawfare community.  They intersect with various high level government officials in Main Justice, the FBI, the CIA, NSA and various intelligence agencies.

This is the nest of Deep State and Tulsi Gabbard is exposing it.