Sunny Rinker{⭐}

One day. Three places. One administration showing the world what American leadership looks like. In Athens, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood on the Pnyx — the hill where ancient Athenians once gathered to govern themselves — with the Parthenon rising behind him, and spoke on the stakes of Western civilization. He told our allies the West did not rise by accident. It rose on courage, duty, loyalty to one’s own people, and the refusal to be ashamed of who we are. From the birthplace of democracy, the message was clear: America is not apologizing for the civilization that built the free world. At sea, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth welcomed the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln after a record deployment — more than 260 days without a port call — and awarded the crew the Presidential Unit Citation. Those men and women carried American strength where it was needed, and they are headed home to San Diego. That is what a nation that honors its warriors looks like. And in San Antonio, President Trump stood with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at Freeman Coliseum, rallying voters for the Senate race that will help decide who holds the line at home. Strength abroad means nothing if we lose the country that projects it. From the Acropolis, to the flight deck, to a Texas coliseum — diplomacy, the military, and the ballot box. The Trump administration is representing the United States worldwide, and right here at home. God bless our sailors. God bless Texas. And God bless the United States of America.

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Federal prosecutors in Miami have charged, and in several cases convicted, people for using fraudulent COVID relief money — including Paycheck Protection Program loans — to help finance the July 7, 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. THE KILLING Moïse, 53, a former banana exporter, was shot to death around 1 a.m. in the bedroom of his private home in Pétion-Ville, above Port-au-Prince. Attackers, mostly former Colombian soldiers, entered after a firefight with security. He was hit multiple times. First Lady Martine Moïse was wounded and flown to Miami; their children hid in the house. Some of the attackers posed as U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents to get onto the grounds. Haiti has not had an elected president since. The plot was organized largely in South Florida in early 2021. Prosecutors say the aim was to remove Moïse and install a handpicked successor, Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Florida pastor and dual Haitian-American citizen, so the plotters could get infrastructure and security contracts in Haiti. The original idea was reportedly a kidnapping; it became a killing. About two dozen former Colombian soldiers were recruited, along with Haitian contacts. They flew from Bogotá in June 2021. THE PPP MONEY This part is in Justice Department filings and trial evidence, not only in Vance’s remarks. • Keegan Harricharan of Coral Springs and Jacob Israel fraudulently obtained about $840,827 in PPP loans starting in June 2020. Israel and associates took about $126,124 in kickbacks. • In April and May 2021, Harricharan met in South Florida with others in the plot. • Between May 18 and May 28, 2021, about $175,000 in PPP fraud proceeds and other funds went into his company, TNR Holding Group, then to Walter Veintemilla, who redistributed it. • Veintemilla’s firm, Worldwide Capital Lending Group, extended a $175,000 loan to Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU), a Doral security company, financed with PPP and Economic Injury Disaster Loan proceeds. That money paid for lodging, transport, and gear for the Colombian team, including ballistic vests. • An FBI forensic accountant later put the whole operation’s visible financing at roughly $343,000 from loans, cards, wires, and pandemic relief. On May 8, 2026, a Miami federal jury convicted Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla, and James Solages. Veintemilla was the financier; after the killing he called a co-conspirator and said “the rat is in the box.” Harricharan pleaded guilty to money-laundering conspiracy and was sentenced on July 23, 2026, to 20 years. In September 2026, 18 more defendants were flown from Haiti to Miami. A Southern District of Florida grand jury has indicted about 30 people; prosecutors say more than 40 have been charged in the wider case, and a dozen convicted, including five serving life. Sanon, the intended replacement, has pleaded not guilty and was headed for trial. U.S. jurisdiction rests on the planning and financing having happened in South Florida. WHAT IS STILL OPEN The U.S. cases cover the Florida organizers, the money, and some of the mercenaries. Haitian investigators and human-rights groups have said the local inquiry never fully traced who ordered or paid for the killing inside Haiti. A 2024 account from Pierre Espérance of Haiti’s RNDDH said the financial side of the Haitian case was blocked. So the PPP trail explains part of the cash that moved the mercenaries. It does not, by itself, name every intellectual author. Vance has been using the case as an example in the administration’s broader PPP-fraud push. In mid-September 2026 he spoke in Kansas City about suspending roughly 870,000 people from future federal loans and cited on the order of $39 billion in suspected PPP and disaster-loan fraud. The Haiti link he is pointing at is the one the Justice Department has already put in front of a jury.

Don’t turn our country over to COMMUNISTS. Vote Republican on 11/3….and take a couple of friends or family members to the polls with you.

.@billmaher is still insufferable. Also not wrong here. youtu.be/nz5meCQoCXE?is=SKYH…

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