Anthony Sabatini

Saying, “We’ve got to start talking to independent voters,” here is Swamp talk for “run to the middle.” Running to the middle is not what got Trump popularly elected in 2024, but it is what got Republicans crushed in the midterms. Bold conservatism is what will attract independent voters and win elections.

An Army sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimands War Secretary Pete Hegseth's group for laughing and talking loudly after the Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington. "All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times," the sentinel shouts. Follow: @AFpost

White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller moves to end Susie Wiles’ tight grip on administration communications, granting Cabinet secretaries greater control over their messaging. A former Trump official alleges Wiles used threats of media retaliation to enforce compliance, describing her approach as “absolute control.” Follow: @AFpost

Brooke Rollins' former senior advisor, Jordan Bonfitto, became a lobbyist at Invariant in November '25 - and now lobbies on USDA issues. Invariant's clients include a giant list of big food and ag - like Bayer, McDonald's, Aramark, National Pork Producers, McCain Foods, PepsiCo, Danone, Corn Refiners Association, and Campbell's. He's on more than half of the firm's USDA accounts (shocking! haha). His clients paid the firm $1.18 million last quarter alone. In fact, Rollins' first chief of staff, Kailee Tkacz Buller, came to USDA straight from running the seed oil lobby. Before that she worked at the Corn Refiners Association (high fructose corn syrup) - and that group is now an Invariant client. It's all a giant cesspool money making operation. That's not even getting into her $300k AFPI bonus the year she was nominated (up from $50k)….

Weird scooplet: On his way out the door after a bajillion scandals, Rep. Cory Mills will hold a congressional hearing about a pipeline project in Syria—where he went several times, mostly without revealing funding—and one of his expert witnesses is *a woman Cory has been seeing*

Palantir CEO Alex Karp said he was happy to see Trump say that immigration enforcement has gone “too far,” echoing his private beliefs. Follow: @AFpost

Congratulations Jim Jordan, House Minority Leader-elect.

NEW: Susie Wiles’s son-in-law, Bret Worley, scrubbed LinkedIn posts bragging about securing a lucrative carve-out that protected the hemp industry, the Daily Caller has learned Read more for @DailyCaller 👇

A former top aide to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in an interview Sunday with CBS News' "Face the Nation," alleged that lobbying firm Ballard Partners "controlled" White House policy, and claimed its rise to become the top-earning lobbying firm "did not happen by accident." President Trump's former chief of staff, Susie Wiles, worked at the firm for nearly a decade as a managing partner, leaving in 2019. Wiles and Brian Ballard have both called the claims false. Ballard Partners' more than $88 million in lobbying revenue last year was, at the time, the most any firm had reported since the Lobbying Disclosure Act took effect in 1996, even after adjusting for inflation, a CBS News analysis of Senate lobbying disclosures found. Through the first three quarters of 2026, the firm has already surpassed that, reporting more than $98 million. cbsn.ws/4k8zPXN

Pollster Mark Mitchell, an adviser to Vice President JD Vance, says former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles warned him to stop criticizing Pfizer, which he calls "Ballard Partners' number one client." Mitchell says the warning came after his November 2025 post noting Pfizer had made $74 billion in profits since its Covid vaccine launched, and that he was told to stop "making these people angry." Wiles spent nearly a decade as a managing partner at Ballard Partners, which reported a record $88 million in lobbying revenue in 2025 and more than $186 million since Trump returned to office. Follow: @AFpost

Katie Wiles, daughter of former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, is a partner at Continental Strategy, whose reported federal lobbying income rose from $1.8 million in 2024 to more than $27 million in 2025 and reached $35.7 million in the first nine months of 2026. Continental promoted Katie to director in its Jacksonville and DC offices on November 8, 2024, one day after President-elect Trump named her mother chief of staff. The promotion added lobbying and business development to her existing communications role. The firm holds a $35,000-a-month lobbying contract with the government of Republika Srpska, the pro-Russian Bosnian Serb entity. During an August 2026 trip that Continental says was for a separate US corporate client, Katie was photographed holding a rifle at a shooting range alongside the entity’s interior minister, Željko Budimir. On September 21, 2026, Susie Wiles met at the White House with Željka Cvijanović, the Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s three-member presidency. A White House official says Continental partner Alex Garcia, not Katie, arranged the meeting. The developments come amid allegations by former HHS senior adviser and MAHA advocate Calley Means that Susie Wiles’s office stalled MAHA policies while courting industry money for the midterms. Means also says Continental’s revenue surge was “tied to Katie Wiles working there.” A Wiles spokesperson calls the claims “outrageous, defamatory, and provably false.” Continental calls the claims about the firm “inaccurate and baseless.” Follow: @AFpost

The Polk County Young Republicans are pleased to announce that @jamesfishback will be coming to Lakeland! Event is open to the public, you won’t want to miss it!

NEW: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin open to a “bipartisan immigration deal that includes DACA permanent legal status” according to POLITICO.

🚨JUST IN🚨 Florida Governor-Elect Byron Donalds and Lieutenant Governor-Elect Bryan Avila have announced the members of their Transition Team. The Transition Team includes: Manny Kadre, Chairman of Transition Ryan Smith, Executive Director Tarren Bragdon, Policy Chair Teresa Ressel, Senior Advisor

Florida Atlantic University (@FloridaAtlantic) just filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B IT Systems Technician Salary: $67,001 Nobody in Florida was qualified for this job.

Hundreds of migrants, mostly Hondurans, left the Mexican border town of Metapa de Dominguez in a caravan and walked to the city of Tapachula in Chiapas state. Migrants told Reuters they foresaw a weakening of President Trump's anti-migrant policies after the midterm elections

I want everyone in the White House to know that Susie is executing a systematic strategy to throw President Trump under the bus. Below is Susie’s stenographer sharing her leaks that it was not in fact Susie who was captured by Ballard, but the President. Brian Ballard said in writing he didn’t lobby Susie or White House staff on glyphosate. Since Ballard’a disclosure below said he personally lobbied the White House in the quarter of the EO’s release, he is either lying or throwing President Trump under the bus. Which one is it @BallardFirm James Blair is angrily texting saying “my problem is obviously with President Trump” and sending quoted to media blaming him for the corporate capture in the first two years Additionally, Ballard is running a public relations campaign to explicitly defend Susie Wiles and say that President Trump is the sole reason the administration has caved to the tobacco and pesticide industries. What’s most demonic is that Susie and Ballard are taking aim at the foundational claim I’ve made that she and her cronies on K street didn’t prioritize corporate interests to a larger degree than Americans voted for. Ballard is actually making the argument with a straight face they didn’t materially coordinate with Susie to rig policies. The Joe Rogan episode has caused cultural impact because everyone watching knows it’s true. Susie - I’m not intimidated and you will not scare me. Again, please stop sending me emotional texts. This is not personal - this is civilizational. If America doesn’t move on from the revolting version of politics you represent, our country will cease to exist. A lot of Americans feel that. To current and former leaders in the admin - it is time to speak out. It is time to speak to the press about what you saw. The weapon we have is truth. Let’s identify the problem - so Stephen Miller and President Trump can solve it. Whatever side of the aisle we are on, we should pray for Stephen Miller’s to exorcise Susie’s culture of corruption from the admin and get us on a posture advocating for voters, not Ballard.