Republicans should know by now what happens when they step into left-wing lion’s dens like ABC’s “This Week.” But on Sunday, Vice President J.D. Vance didn’t just survive the ambush […]

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President Donald Trump cast his vision for a prosperous Middle East as he spoke before world leaders in Israel and Egypt.  

Together, Israel and America will “build a legacy that all the people of this region can be proud of,” Trump said while standing before the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, only hours after the 20-remaining living hostages were set free after two years in Hamas captivity. 

With a ceasefire holding between Israel and Hamas that the U.S. played a central role in brokering, and negotiations underway for a permanent end to the war, Trump called for lasting peace and collaboration in the Middle East.  

“So instead of building fortresses to keep enemies at bay, the nations of this region should be building infrastructure to weave your commerce closer together, because you’ve got to compete with a big world out there in commerce,” Trump said.  

“Instead of making weapons and missiles, the wealth of this region should flow to schools and medicine, industry, and frankly, the new hot thing, artificial intelligence,” the president continued.  

The Abraham Accords is the central tool Trump spoke of to bring about collaboration and prosperity in the Middle East.  

“It’s my firm hope and dream, frankly, that together, the Abraham Accords will turn out to be everything that we thought they would,” Trump said.  

The Abraham Accords, which were signed during Trump’s first administration, normalized relations between Israel and four other nations, Morocco, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan, although the agreement with Sudan has been affected by the Sudanese Civil War. The accords aim to foster peace and healthy trade relations between Israel and counties in the Middle East and North Africa, and are named after Abraham, a significant religious figure for Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike.    

The nations who chose to join the Abraham Accords are now “among the most successful in the region,” Trump said as he urged additional counties to enter the agreement, a sentiment the president further stressed during the “Summit for Peace” held in Egypt Monday immediately following Trump’s visit to Israel.  

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi greeted Trump in Sharm el-Sheikh, about 300 miles southeast of Cairo for the meeting that drew leaders from about two dozen nations, including Britain, Canada, France, Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Egypt, Quatar, and Turkey. Netanyahu did not participate in the summit due to a Jewish holiday.  

Trump described the participating nations as “among the most powerful counties in the world,” and the “richest.”  

“We have achieved together in recent days a change that really is historic, and it’s going to be remembered forever,” Trump said of the peace deal between Israel and Hamas which mediators from Egypt, Quatar, Turkey, and the U.S. led the way in negotiating.  

“The momentous breakthrough that we’re here to celebrate tonight is more than the end of the war in Gaza, it’s, with God’s help, it’ll be the new beginning for an entire beautiful Middle East,” Trump said.  

Trump urged the nations in the region to “join the Abraham Accord,” telling world leaders there is now “no excuses.”  

“We don’t have a Gaza, and we don’t have Iran as an excuse. That was a good excuse, but we don’t have that anymore,” Trump said. 

Discussions of peace and greater collaboration in the Middle East come about four months after the U.S. crippled Iran’s nuclear program, which posed an immediate threat to Israel and region, through three major targeted strikes.  

“All the momentum now is toward a great, glorious, and lasting peace, and our commitment to fulfilling the 20-point plan we developed together will be the crucial foundation for achieving that bright future,” the president said.  

Trump proposed a 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza in early October. Israel immediately agreed to the plan and Hamas accepted parts of the plan, leading to the ceasefire and hostage deal.  

The subsequent phases of the peace deal are “being worked on right now as we speak, and we’re actually in stage three and four,” Trump said.  

Trump and world leaders are expected to work together on long-term goals for a stable government in Gaza through a “Board of Peace.”  

“We’ve all agreed that supporting Gaza must be done to lift up the people themselves, but we don’t want to fund anything having to do with bloodshed, hatred, or terror,” Trump said, adding, “We’re going to make sure that the Middle East is going to be a safe and secure place.”  

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The state of Minnesota told the Trump administration on Friday that it would not provide a "substantive response" to a demand the state ban transgender-identifying males from female sports and spaces. 

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WASHINGTON — In a better world, Democrats would be running at full speed away from Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee in the Virginia attorney general race. As the National Review reported Oct. 3, in 2022, Jones, a former lawmaker, actually fantasized about killing Todd Gilbert, the then-Republican Speaker of Virginia’s House of Delegates, because Gilbert had praised a recently deceased moderate Democrat lawmaker.

In Jay Jones’ world, civility is a capital offense.

In the 2022 texts Jones exchanged with a former colleague, Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner, he volunteered that if he had two bullets and could use them against Gilbert, Hitler and/or Pol Pot, “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”

“Jay, please stop,” Coyner replied.

But he did not stop.

Jones also offered that he believed Gilbert and his wife, Jennifer, are “evil” and “breeding little fascists.” The National Review also reported that Jones wrote that he wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her child die in her arms to see how parents feel when their children are victims of gun violence. He wrote, “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

So if Jones, 36, actually is elected to be Virginia’s top lawman, he would be the rare statewide officeholder who won’t only wish for awful things to happen to Republicans—but also to their children.

No surprise. Jason Miyares, the Republican incumbent AG, told Fox News that Jones “is wholly disqualified for this office. Because when I took this office, I swore an oath not to a political party but to protect all Virginians — Republicans, Democrats and Independents.”

Miyares did not say what I can’t help but think—that he, Miyares, is not an out-of-control nut job, unlike Jones, who is.

This is where some readers might mention Donald Trump’s outrageous statements over the years. Point taken, but the media reported on Trump’s crude rhetoric about immigrants ad nauseam. So voters knew what they were getting and were free to interpret his statements for themselves.

There has been little mention of the Jones story from major networks, other than Fox News.

One exception is The Associated Press, which ran two stories, one with the headline: “Trump’s GOP seizes on violent rhetoric from Virginia AG candidate as high-stakes elections loom.”

So the story is not the violent fantasies of a Democrat, but that Republicans are making an issue of it.

Jones has other skeletons in his closet. In 2022, he was convicted of reckless driving—he was driving 116 miles per hour. That’s 46 mph over the 70-mph speed limit. His sentence was a $1,500 fine and 1,000 hours of community service. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that he spent 500 of those hours working for his own political action committee.

After the text story broke, Jones issued a statement in which he blamed President Donald Trump and Miyares, not himself.

“Like all people, I’ve sent text messages that I regret and I believe that violent rhetoric has no place in our politics. Let’s be clear about what is happening in the Attorney General race right now: Jason Miyares is dropping smears through Trump-controlled media organizations to assault my character and rescue his desperate campaign. This is a strategy that ensures Jason Miyares will continue to be accountable to Donald Trump, not the people of Virginia. This race is about whether Trump can control Virginia or Virginians control Virginia.”

His real mistake was revealing who he is deep down—and leaving a paper trail.

Later, Jones posted a more contrite response.

The deadline to remove a name from the ballot has passed, so fellow Democrats have little incentive to push Jones to get out of the race.

Arlington GOP Chairman Matthew Hurtt noted that a recent poll showed Jones up. “I’m not a poll denier, but I will say, since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, it’s hard to peg who are likely voters.” Kirk’s willingness to mix it up stands in sharp contrast to Jones’ shoot-’em-in-the-head remarks.

The Virginia Law Enforcement Sheriffs’ Association and Fraternal Order of Police of Virginia have called on Jones to get out of the race. Hurtt added, “As voters are starting to clue in, they’re realizing that Jay Jones is an untenable selection.”

Hurtt also noted that, given Jones’ remarks about shooting a Republican in the head, gun control groups like Giffords Pac and Brady Pac and Prevent Gun Tragedies PAC might want to rethink their endorsements, which remain on the Jones campaign website.

Hurtt noted Americans have spent the last few weeks thinking about the Sept. 10 assassination of Charlie Kirk, the youthful conservative who loved talking with folks who disagreed with him and treated them with respect.

Unlike the affable Kirk, when Jones reached across the aisle to Coyner, he wrote that he would like to shoot the speaker—”a POS”—in the head and hoped his wife could watch their child die.

Did I mention Jones’ campaign slogan is “Fighting for Virginia families”?

Really, his slogan should come from the very texts he wrote: “Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.”

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President Donald Trump has accomplished what others have only talked about or tried and failed to do, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Monday during his press conference.

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