On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump revealed that he has selected David Warrington, his top campaign lawyer, to be his White House counsel in his upcoming administration.

The game was pulled from Steam in Britain after drawing the attention of counter-terrorism agents, but was still on sale at a discount in Canada during and after Black Friday. The game, Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, released following the Hamas invasion, allows players to recreate certain atrocities carried out, such as […]

Two Israeli influencers, one dressed as a Hamas supporter and the other as a Hamas militant, pretend to celebrate footage from October 7th, showing how the anti-Israel students were literally unable to stomach watching for more than a few minutes. Great video by @_danieltbraun showing the absurdity of colleage students who are pro Palestinian Free […]

California Mayor Bill Long of El Cajon, California, believes the influx of migrants will create a crime wave that will continue for decades. “I think the ramifications and repercussions of this border policy is going to be with us for the rest of my life,” Wells told immigration news outlet Border Hawk News in a recent […] The post El Cajon Mayor: Foreign Criminals Will Continue to Terrorize Americans No Matter Who Is President appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte credited President-elect Donald Trump for increased defense spending across the alliance on Wednesday. Rutte defended the president-elect during an interview on MSNBC where host Jonathan Lemire appeared to invite criticism of Trump over his relationship with NATO during his first term. “In 2018, then-President Donald Trump, at a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, came this close to pulling the United States out of that organization. He has repeatedly criticized NATO since then. How is the alliance preparing for his return?” Lemire asked. Rutte said that Trump was right to be critical of the organization at that time. “But, he was right in 2018 when he said that we had to spend more. And I think it is thanks to Donald Trump that NATO, if we could exclude for a second the U.S., is now at the 2% which was agreed in 2014,” Rutte said, referring to the agreement that all NATO countries spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense. “Not a lot happened between 2014 and when Donald Trump came on board in 2016 and 2017. Since then, we have massively, on the European side, increased our defense spending. So, this is thanks to Donald Trump,” he added. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The secretary-general was clear that the 2% target should be considered a floor, however, and encouraged NATO countries to spend “much more.” “We need to do more. We cannot stick at 2%. It has to be much more if, long-term, we want to keep deterrence against the Russians and others,” Rutte told Lemire. The United Kingdom foreign minister, David Lammy, echoed Rutte’s comments in remarks at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday. Lammy was in Brussels to attend a meeting of foreign ministers of the alliance. “I think Donald Trump is right to say that the 2% was set in some ways in less challenging times and all allies right across the family should be looking beyond that 2%,” Lammy said, according to Reuters. The British foreign minister said that the U.K. had set its goal for defense spending well above the 2%-of-GDP benchmark. “We’re going to 2.5%, but he’s right to challenge the alliance to come together and get beyond that,” Lammy said.

U.S. officials are urging Americans to use encrypted apps to protect their communications after telecommunications companies were comprised during a recent hack from communist China that is the largest breach in history. A senior FBI official, who asked not be identified, said during a call with reporters that “people looking to further protect their mobile device communications would benefit from considering using a cellphone that automatically receives timely operating system updates, responsibly managed encryption, and phishing resistant MFA (multi-factor authentication) for email, social media, and collaboration tool accounts.” Jeff Greene, an official with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), added: “Encryption is your friend, whether it is on text messaging or you have the capacity to use encrypted voice communication.” He added that the breach was so large in scale that it was “impossible” to know when officials would have a “full eviction” of Chinese hackers from U.S. systems. The warning from U.S. law enforcement comes after Microsoft cybersecurity experts dubbed the cyberattack from the Chinese government “Salt Typhoon” with “Typhoon” denoting that the operation is Chinese and “Salt” indicating that it is a counterintelligence operation. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The New York Times reported that the Chinese are believed to have hacked systems used by the companies to comply with court-authorized surveillance wiretaps, including Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act collection, one of the secretive measures the U.S. has to uncover networks of terrorists and spies. The Chinese hackers compromised the phones of numerous prominent individuals in politics and national security, including top elected leaders. NBC News reported that the Chinese stole call records and were able to target specific individuals and listen in to live phone calls. One of the concerns that officials had about the Chinese discovering who U.S. officials were communicating with was that it would give them a list of people to target in influence operations aimed at manipulating decision makers. Chinese hackers outnumber all of the FBI’s cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1. They are estimated to have up to 600,000 people involved in their espionage operations. “China’s hacking program is larger than that of every other major nation, combined,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who was nominated to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, said last month that the hack was the largest breach he’s ever seen.

On Wednesday, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) bowed out of the race to be the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, which has oversight of the Department of Justice, in the new Congress starting next year. Nadler, who has held either the chairman or ranking member position in the panel for the past several years, revealed his decision in a letter to colleagues while vouching for Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to take his place during the first half of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. “As our country faces the return of Donald Trump, and the renewed threats to our democracy and our way of life that he represents, I am very confident that Jamie would ably lead the Judiciary Committee as we confront this growing danger,” Nadler wrote. News: Rep. JERRY NADLER will be stepping down from race to be the top Democrat on House Judiciary Committee, making the difficult decision after speaking with staff and Rep. Jamie Raskin who announced his bid for the job. Here’s the letter he sent to colleagues, obtained by AP pic.twitter.com/Tgswdt8Yzu — Farnoush Amiri (@FarnoushAmiri) December 4, 2024 The announcement came amid reports of a push within the Democratic Party to pave the way for younger members to take on leadership roles after Republicans completed a 2024 election sweep that included the GOP keeping control of the House while winning back the Senate and the White House. Nadler is 77 while Raskin is 61. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Raskin, who led the January 6-focused impeachment inquiry against Trump and was a member of the now-defunct January 6 Committee, declared his candidacy to become the top Democrat on the judiciary panel earlier this week. In his own letter, Raskin spoke about combating Trump’s “MAGA” movement. “In the 119th Congress, the Judiciary Committee will be the headquarters of Congressional opposition to authoritarianism and MAGA’s campaign to dismantle our Constitutional system and the rule of law as we know it,” Raskin wrote to his colleagues, adding: “I hope to be at the center of this fight.” RELATED: Top Dem Claims He Hasn’t Seen ‘Proof’ Of The FBI Being Weaponized Against The GOP Raskin has held the role of ranking member on the House Oversight Committee for the past couple of years. With Raskin stepping away, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has expressed interest in taking his place, setting up a clash against Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA). “I’m having a lot of conversations with my colleagues,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters. “I think it’s incredibly important that we prepare ourselves fully for an incoming Trump administration as well as fighting for everyday working Americans.”