President Trump on Sunday confirmed to reporters on board Air Force One that the US military is considering action against Iran amid the ongoing political uprising. 

“The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options,” Trump said after saying that Iran killing citizens is “starting to” cross the red line.

“We’ll make a determination.”

WATCH:

Reporter: On Iran, have they crossed your red line yet for a response?

Trump: They’re starting to it looks like, and there seem to be some people killed that aren’t supposed to be killed. These are violent, if you call them, leaders. I don’t know if they’re leaders or just they rule through violence, but we’re looking at it very seriously. The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options. We’ll make a determination.

The Trump administration previously bombed three Iranian nuclear sites last June in a massive attack using B-2 stealth bombers.

Following the attack, Trump floated the “politically incorrect” idea of regime change, saying, “if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???”

Now, it appears this is back on the table.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump signaled that he may help the people of Iran as citizens rise up against the regime and face brutal persecution and murder from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s thugs.

“Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before,” Trump said amid reports that a targeted attack against Iran is imminent as chaos and unrest erupt in the capital of Tehran.

“The USA stands ready to help!!!”

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer dropped a bombshell this week, suggesting that far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar sits “at the top of the suspect list” in the sprawling Minnesota fraud scandals involving taxpayer-funded daycare and healthcare programs.

The comments came during a pointed exchange with journalist Alison Steinberg, who raised serious concerns about whether members of Congress themselves may have benefited from money funneled through political action committees tied to fraudulent daycare and healthcare schemes.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn has leveled explosive allegations against Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, claiming that a lack of accountability regarding massive taxpayer fraud in Minnesota is linked to the Speaker’s own financial networks.

Minnesota has become ground zero for some of the largest pandemic-era fraud cases in U.S. history, involving the alleged theft of hundreds of millions of dollars intended to feed children and provide healthcare services.

Many of these cases have centered on networks tied to Somali-run nonprofits and daycare operations, fraud that went unchecked for years under Democrat leadership.

When asked how Americans can trust Congress to police fraud if lawmakers themselves are implicated, Comer made it clear that there is a formal mechanism to deal with corruption on Capitol Hill.

Alison Steinberg:
“There are reports that members of Congress are actually receiving daycare and health care clinic money funneled through various PACs. If this is true and widespread, how can the American people trust Congress to task and uncover the far-reaching tentacles of this fraud?

James Comer:
Any member of Congress that’s getting any money unethically or illegally—there’s an Ethics Committee, and it’s bipartisan. It’s an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, and that’s the committee that’s supposed to investigate members of Congress.

The Ethics Committee was created—we have in our rules that we’re not supposed to investigate other members. But the Ethics Committee has a staff, and that is their sole purpose for existence in life. I think the House Ethics Committee traditionally has been a lot harder on unethical behavior than the Senate Ethics Committee. That’s my opinion.

But anybody that has information on a member of Congress, bring that to the Ethics Committee, and they’ll investigate it. I don’t care if they’re a Republican or a Democrat. We need to hold them accountable.”

The exchange became even more explosive when Steinberg asked directly about Ilhan Omar.

Comer revealed that ethics complaints are expected to be filed against Omar and underscored that she declined an opportunity to address the allegations publicly.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that another Minnesota money pipeline just got shut down, and this one leads straight back to Rep. Ilhan Omar.

The funding, which was tucked into a federal spending bill, was purportedly destined for a “substance abuse clinic” in Omar’s home state of Minnesota.

During an interview on Fox Business, Senator Ernst detailed the absolute absurdity of the proposal, describing a trail of red flags that would make any honest taxpayer’s blood boil.

“What I uncovered the other day, in one of our spending bills making its way through Congress, was a $1 million earmark from Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

“This earmark was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals who share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork. Tons of red flags.

“So this is what we saw with the fraud involving the daycare centers. Now we see other earmarks coming directly from members of Congress where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well.

“I raised the issue, and fortunately, the House has now stripped that earmark out of that spending bill. But again, this is how easy money has been flowing to bad actors in Minnesota.”

Comer also made remarks that Omar’s husband may have financially benefited from entities connected to the Minnesota fraud networks.

The $30 million venture capital firm run by Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, has quietly removed the names and bios of its top officers and advisors from its website.

According to a bombshell report from the New York Post, Rose Lake Capital, founded by Mynett in 2022, scrubbed the details of nine key figures between September and October 2025.

The list included high-profile Democrats like former Obama Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli, ex-Senator and Obama Ambassador to China Max Baucus, DNC Finance Chair associate Alex Hoffman, former DNC treasurer William Derrough, and Keith Mestrich, the ex-CEO of Amalgamated Bank, which he once called “the institutional bank of the Democratic Party.”

Alison Steinberg:
What about Ilhan Omar?

James Comer:
She’s at the top of the suspect list in that, so we’ll see. But I can tell you, my members, there are going to be ethics complaints filed against Omar. She had an opportunity to come in here today.

[…]

There have been countless reports that her husband has profited in some way—she, in some way. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but she could have had an opportunity to come in here and defend herself. So hopefully you all may knock on her door and ask her some questions, and we’ll see what she has to say.

Minnesota Rep Marion Rarick says if any whistleblowers came forward to expose fraud, Democrats would make sure they lost their jobs, their homes, they’d be blacklisted from new jobs and they would TRACK THEIR CHILDREN

Democrats would try and take away kids for exposing fraud… pic.twitter.com/vyoBYeFyVh

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 9, 2026

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President Trump on Sunday trolled ousted Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and the Democrats by declaring himself the “Acting President of Venezuela,” following the January 3 US military operation to arrest Maduro.  

Maduro was captured in the dead of night, with no US forces being killed last Saturday morning.

He was indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges of Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machine Guns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States, the Gateway Pundit reported.

After a week full of outrage from the American left, celebrations by Venezuelans in America and across the world, and threats to other drug lords in South America, Trump took another victory lap by sharing a mock Wikipedia page with his Presidential portrait listed as Venezuela’s acting president.

Trump posted the image on Truth Social earlier:

Trump has not been shy about his seizure of an entire country, despite claims of colonialism and abuse of power.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump told reporters last Sunday that his administration will be in control of Venezuela when a reporter asked to clarify how the United States would run Venezuela until an election is held.

Trump told the reporter, “Don’t ask me who’s in charge, because I’ll give you an answer, and it’ll be very controversial.” He then declared, “We’re in charge,” later adding that oil companies are going to invest “a lot” of money and fix Venezuela’s infrastructure.

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(AUDIO) Trump Says US Troops Injured in Venezuela are “All in Good Shape” – “Don’t Ask Me Who’s in Charge. It’ll be Very Controversial… WE’RE IN CHARGE”

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