Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform announced Wednesday that they have “received never-before-seen photos and videos of Jeffrey Epstein’s private island” — describing them as a harrowing glimpse behind the closed doors of one of the darkest criminal networks in modern American history.

They posted the materials with a simple message to the public:

“See for yourself. We won’t stop fighting until we end this cover-up and deliver justice for the survivors.”
 

According to Oversight Democrats, these files were provided by the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice as part of the Committee’s ongoing investigation into the Epstein operation. Additional records were also turned over from J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank, institutions that have been scrutinized for their past financial relationships with Epstein.

Democrats say they plan to release more documents to the public after a full internal review.

It’s worth remembering: President Donald Trump already signed legislation in November ordering the Justice Department to release Epstein-related files. The new images posted by House Democrats are the first major public drop since that directive.

The photos and videos show various rooms and structures across Little Saint James, Epstein’s infamous island in the U.S. Virgin Islands — the location tied to trafficking allegations, high-profile visitors, and years of unanswered questions.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the DOJ to release every unclassified record and investigative material linked to:

• Jeffrey Epstein
   
• Ghislaine Maxwell
   
• Individuals referenced in Epstein’s prior legal cases
   
• Alleged trafficking networks
   
• Internal DOJ communications regarding the Epstein investigations
   
• Records surrounding Epstein’s death
   

Files containing victims' names, child sexual abuse material, or anything tied to active investigations may be redacted — but the law demands that the rest be exposed to the American people.

Ranking Member Robert Garcia issued a statement claiming the images shed new light on Epstein’s world:

“These new images are a disturbing look into the world of Jeffrey Epstein and his island. We are releasing these photos and videos to ensure public transparency… We won’t stop fighting until we deliver justice for the survivors. It’s time for President Trump to release all the files, now.”
 

Garcia and his colleagues argue that the DOJ still holds records the public deserves to see.

The Committee confirmed it requested documents and communications from the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General regarding:

• Investigations or potential investigations into Jeffrey Epstein
   
• Investigations or potential investigations into Ghislaine Maxwell
   

This request was formally sent on November 18, 2025.

So here’s the bottom line:

• New images of Epstein Island are out — more disturbing details emerging.
   
• Trump already ordered full transparency — now the DOJ must comply.
   
• Democrats want credit for releasing images while simultaneously demanding Trump “release the files,” despite him already signing the legislation that forces the DOJ to do exactly that.
   
• Big banks are turning over documents.
   
• U.S. Virgin Islands DOJ appears to be cooperating.
   

But the question that continues to hang over all of this — the same question everyday Americans have been asking for years:

Who was protected? Who was involved? And why did so many powerful people walk away untouched?

PPN will continue following every document drop, every subpoena, and every attempt — political or otherwise — to bury the truth.

When the files come out, names will matter.
And so will the ones missing.

By Eddie Smith — Patriots Prayer Network

There are stories you come across that don’t just break your heart — they make your blood boil. This one out of the Netherlands is exactly that. It’s a reminder that when a culture refuses to confront evil, evil doesn’t slow down. It tightens its grip.

Dutch prosecutors are calling for up to 25 years in prison for a Muslim father and his two sons who allegedly murdered an 18-year-old girl — their own flesh and blood — because she dared to live like a normal Western teenager.

Her name was Ryan Al Najjar.
She was just 18.
And according to investigators, her family saw her as a “burden to be removed.”

Why?
Because she didn’t want to live under the suffocating rules of a “strict Islamic household.”
Because she wanted to live free.
Because she posted a TikTok video wearing makeup and without a headscarf.

And for that, her own family decided she needed to die.

Her body was found in a lake six days after she vanished.
Hands and feet bound.
Signs of strangulation.
Thrown into the water alive, according to prosecutors.
Sixty feet of tape wrapped around her body.

Let that sink in.

A young woman in a supposedly civilized Western nation… drowned because her father and brothers believed she brought them “shame.”

Authorities say the father, Khaled, coordinated the killing, then ran off to Syria like a coward — marrying another woman while his sons sat in Dutch jail facing the consequences.

His DNA was found under his daughter’s fingernails.

That means she fought.
She knew who was doing this to her.
And he did it anyway.

According to prosecutors, the immediate trigger was a simple TikTok video.
Ryan appeared without a headscarf.
She wore makeup.
She smiled.

Her family saw that as “shameful.”

That tells you everything you need to know.

When someone is willing to kill their own daughter because she didn’t follow a religious dress code, you’re not dealing with “cultural differences.”
You’re dealing with a mindset that has no place in a free society.

Prosecutors say the brothers lured Ryan to a remote park, where their father showed up to finish the job. The murder scene was so isolated that “no one for miles around could have heard her.”

Imagine the terror she felt in those final moments.

This is the part no one wants to talk about — the dark side of importing strict, honor-based cultures into Western societies and pretending it will all work out in the name of “diversity.”

This is not diversity.
This is brutality.

Prosecutors are recommending:

• 25 years for the father
   
• 20 years each for the brothers
   

And that’s the minimum they deserve.

Whether Dutch officials can extradite Khaled from Syria is uncertain.
They say he remarried — probably to hide behind new legal protections.

A man kills his daughter over a headscarf… and then seeks refuge in another country that shares his worldview.

You don’t need a political science degree to understand what’s happening.

This isn’t about Islam vs. the West.
This is about right vs. wrong.
Good vs. evil.
Freedom vs. oppression.

A father and two sons believed they had the right to take a young woman’s life because she wanted to live free — the same freedom we take for granted every single day in America.

Her name was Ryan Al Najjar.
She deserved better.
She deserved life.
She deserved the freedom God intended for every human being.

And her story should shake every one of us awake.

Because evil doesn’t retreat on its own.
It advances until someone stands up and says:

Not here.
Not ever again. 

Venezuela announced Tuesday that it will resume accepting deportation flights from the United States — and it happened only after President Donald Trump’s administration demanded it.

This comes just days after Trump issued a serious warning, threatening to declare the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela fully closed. That pressure caused the Maduro regime to abruptly shut down the twice-weekly deportation flights on Saturday.

Now, on Tuesday, Nicolás Maduro reversed himself.

At the Trump administration’s request, the flights are back on.

Immigrants arrive at the airport outside Caracas on flights operated either by a U.S. government contractor or Venezuela’s state-owned airline. More than 13,000 migrants have been repatriated this year through these chartered flights — the most recent landing on Friday.

This program is one of the very few areas of cooperation between the U.S. and Venezuela, and even that exists only because of the hard pressure campaign coming from Washington.

For years, Venezuela outright refused to accept deportation flights from the U.S.
That changed earlier this year when Maduro finally buckled under Trump’s demands.

Tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela have escalated sharply. The U.S. has a large military presence positioned off Venezuela’s coast, and recent American strikes have been aimed at narco-traffickers operating near Venezuelan waters.

Trump has already signaled that the next phase could target land-based routes used by criminal networks:

“The land is much easier, much easier.
We know the routes they take.
We know where they live.
And we’re going to start that very soon too.”
 

When Trump says something like that publicly, it isn’t bluster. It’s a warning.

Dozens of U.S. bombers have deployed to the region, along with the USS Gerald R. Ford — the largest aircraft carrier on the planet. With that kind of firepower already in place, the world is watching closely to see whether Trump will authorize the next stage of military pressure against Maduro’s regime.

On Monday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced two additional airstrikes on alleged drug-smuggling vessels in international waters — another signal that Washington is tightening the screws.

According to the Miami Herald, Trump confronted Maduro personally during a recent call and issued a direct ultimatum:

Step down — or face potential U.S. military action.

Maduro responded the only way dictators ever do when their power is threatened:

• demanded global amnesty for himself
   
• insisted on keeping control of the Venezuelan military
   
• refused to agree to an immediate exit from power
   

In other words: he wants immunity, control, and time — the three things tyrants cling to when they know their days are numbered.

Here’s the truth:

• Maduro backed down because he had no choice. When Trump threatened to close Venezuelan airspace entirely, the regime folded and restarted the flights.
   
• 13,000+ deportees have already been returned — a number that only materialized once pressure from the White House became impossible for Venezuela to ignore.
   
• The U.S. military buildup is real, and Maduro is fully aware that it could escalate — fast.
   
• This situation is testing Venezuela’s limits, and every move shows how much leverage the U.S. has regained.
   

The big question now:

Is this simply deportation diplomacy — or is Venezuela bracing for something much larger?

PPN will keep tracking the deployments, the strikes, and the political chess being played behind the scenes.

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In a stunning move Wednesday, President Donald Trump issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife, Imelda — a pardon that strikes at the heart of what Trump called one of the most blatant abuses of power in modern political history.

On Truth Social, Trump didn’t mince words:

“For years, the Biden Administration weaponized the Justice System against their Political Opponents, and anyone who disagreed with them.”
 

This has been the pattern from day one — the Biden White House turning the DOJ and FBI into political weapons, targeting conservatives, whistleblowers, journalists, parents at school board meetings, and even members of their own party if they dared step out of line.

And according to Trump, Cuellar became one of Biden’s targets the moment he refused to bow to the administration’s open-border orthodoxy:

“One of the clearest examples was when Crooked Joe used the FBI and DOJ to ‘take out’ a member of his own Party after Congressman Henry Cuellar bravely spoke out against Open Borders and the Biden Border Catastrophe.”
 

Trump continued:

“Sleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even his wonderful wife, simply for speaking the TRUTH… The Radical Left Democrats are a complete and total threat to Democracy! They will attack, rob, lie, cheat, destroy, and decimate anyone who dares to oppose their Far Left Agenda.”
 

And with that, Trump dropped the hammer:

“I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar and Imelda… Your nightmare is finally over!”
 

Back in January 2024, Cuellar tried to warn Democrats — including President Biden — that the border crisis would become a dominant election issue.

Cuellar, who represents a district that is nearly 80% Hispanic, told Fox News Digital:

“If they’re looking at the same polls I’m looking at, the American public doesn’t like what’s happening… the polls are showing that it’s an important issue.”
 

He even said out loud what Biden’s advisers refused to hear:

“It’s in the president’s best interest politically to come up with a solution on border security.”
 

For stating the obvious — for acknowledging what his voters were screaming from the rooftops — Biden’s DOJ turned its sights on him.

In May 2024, Biden’s Justice Department indicted Cuellar and his wife, accusing them of taking $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-owned energy company and a Mexican bank.

The DOJ claimed the payments were funneled through shell companies connected to Imelda Cuellar and that Cuellar allegedly used his office to influence U.S. policy.

Were these allegations true? The public never got a transparent answer.
But the timing was clear:

Cuellar criticized Biden’s border crisis — and suddenly the DOJ came knocking.

It’s become the Biden pattern:
Criticize the administration → get a subpoena.
Speak against the border disaster → get raided.
Challenge the narrative → get indicted.

The weaponization wasn’t subtle. Biden made the DOJ his political sword.

After Trump wiped the charges away, Cuellar issued a statement thanking the president:

“I want to thank President Trump for his tremendous leadership and for taking the time to look at the facts… This decision clears the air and lets us move forward for South Texas.”
 

He added:

“This pardon gives us a clean slate. The noise is gone. The work remains… God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.”
 

Trump also shared a heartfelt letter from Cuellar’s daughters titled “Request for Compassion and Clemency for our Parents.”
The letter praised their parents’ character, their service, and their desire simply to live the final years of their lives in peace after the ordeal:

“All we want now is for our family to heal… and to see our parents’ good names restored.”
 

Let’s call this what it is:

• Biden weaponized the DOJ against political opponents.
   
• Cuellar was punished for breaking ranks on the border crisis.
   
• Trump just reversed one of the clearest political prosecutions of the Biden era.
   

And here’s the irony:

A Democratic congressman who stood up for border security had to be rescued — not by his own party, not by Biden, not by the DOJ — but by President Donald J. Trump.

This pardon wasn’t just legal.
It was symbolic.

A message to every American:

The weaponization of the justice system ends when Trump is in charge — not when Biden is.

PPN will continue tracking every abuse, every reversal, and every case where justice is finally restored.

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Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — the same man the media keeps pretending is “stable,” “steady,” and “presidential” — just got blasted by an unlikely source: The Washington Post.

When even the Post starts calling you out, you know the scandal isn’t just big — it’s undeniable.

On Wednesday, the Post’s editorial board said Walz is “not helping himself by refusing to take responsibility” for one of the largest welfare fraud schemes in American history — a scandal that unfolded in plain sight under his leadership during COVID.

Just last week, the Justice Department brought charges against the 78th defendant in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Prosecutors say more than $250 million was ripped out of a federal child-nutrition program through fake meal sites, fake receipts, fake distribution centers, and fake autism clinics.

Over 50 convictions have already been secured.
Many of the individuals charged come from Minnesota’s Somali community, which has long operated inside Minnesota’s deeply unaccountable welfare ecosystem.

The Washington Post wrote:

“The governor is not helping himself by refusing to take responsibility for the welfare fraud that happened in plain sight. Residents… opened fake food distribution centers and autism centers to funnel resources away from the neediest.”
 

The numbers they cited were staggering:

• Autism centers grew 700% from 2018–2023
   
• Funding exploded 3,000%
   
• From $6 million → $192 million
   

No sane person believes autism cases suddenly spiked 700%.
This was a massive cash grab — and Walz acted like he never saw it coming.

On Sunday, Walz went on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” and when asked if he’d take responsibility for the fraud… he spun, dodged, and then played the “don’t demonize communities” card.

Walz said:

“Certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail… Minnesota is a generous state… but to demonize an entire community… it’s lazy.”
 

Lazy?

The Post fired back, saying WALZ was the one being lazy — ignoring obvious fraud, ignoring the numbers, ignoring the warnings, and expanding welfare programs with no safeguards.

Translation:
Minnesota became a criminal playground on Walz’s watch.

The Post didn’t stop at fraud.
They took aim straight at Walz’s brand of bloated, big-government progressivism:

“Those charged with fraud had their sights set on the state’s vast and unaccountable welfare programs: European-style entitlements that were shockingly easy to scam.”
 

This is the same welfare model Democrats are trying to force on the entire country.

And they’re shocked criminals exploited it?

The Post reminded readers that Kamala Harris only won Minnesota by four points in 2024 — despite having Walz on the ticket. That’s a red flag for Democrats who see Minnesota as an unshakeable blue fortress.

Washington Post columnist Jim Geraghty said Walz is “crumbling” politically, and any 2028 dreams he had are evaporating.

Yes, the Post lectured Trump for his blunt Truth Social post and for ending deportation protections for Somalis in Minnesota, calling it “morally bankrupt.”

But here’s what they refuse to acknowledge:

Trump was the only one talking about the real cause of the problem — unchecked fraud, abuse of public funds, and sanctuary policies creating a no-accountability zone.

Trump didn’t create the conditions that allowed this fraud.
Walz did.
And Biden’s federal welfare structure enabled it.

Let’s break down what’s really happening:

• Walz oversaw the largest welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota’s history.
   
• The fraud grew so massive that even the Washington Post couldn’t ignore it.
   
• Walz expanded the welfare system while removing the guardrails.
   
• Community leaders, whistleblowers, and state officials raised red flags — Walz ignored them.
   
• The federal government under Biden weaponized the DOJ for political targets, but when it comes to fraud, corruption, and abuse inside sanctuary-state welfare systems?
  They look the other way.
   

And here’s the part the media will never say:

This scandal is exactly what happens when you build a government with no accountability, no oversight, and no consequences — then hand it unlimited federal money.

Minnesota is the preview.
Walz is the architect.
Biden is the enabler.
The fraud is the result.

PPN will keep covering the pieces the mainstream media ignores — especially the parts that expose how this welfare machine continues failing the people it claims to help.

As the Trump administration continues deadly precision strikes against cartel-linked narco-terrorist boats in the Caribbean, War Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a meme that sent the political class into meltdown.

The meme?
A parody children’s book cover showing Franklin the Turtle in a helicopter firing an RPG at a cartel drug boat — with the caption:

“Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists.”

Hegseth shared it jokingly with:
“For your Christmas wish list…”

While normal Americans laughed, Washington’s professional outrage machine did what it always does.

Democratic Senate candidate Seth Moulton rushed to call Hegseth a “disgrace.”

Former Rep. Justin Amash claimed,
“There’s nothing Christian about war crimes.”

Neither addressed the reality: the Trump administration is targeting cartel boats linked to designated terrorist organizations responsible for flooding America with fentanyl and killing tens of thousands of Americans every year.

Hegseth doubled down, reminding critics that these operations are both lawful and necessary:

“These highly effective strikes are intended to be lethal, kinetic strikes. The intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people. Every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization.”
 

Translation:
This isn’t a joke. This is war against the cartels — and America is finally fighting back.

Here’s the truth the pearl-clutchers won’t say:

• The cartels are killing more Americans than any foreign enemy in modern history.
   
• These boats aren’t “victims.” They are part of a terror network.
   
• Trump and Hegseth are doing what weak administrations refused to do: hit them before they hit us.
   
• A meme is not the controversy — the real scandal is how many politicians still defend the cartels by attacking the people stopping them.
   

PPN will continue tracking every strike, every operation, and every political battle surrounding this new war on narco-terror.

A team of “experts” handpicked by the U.N. Human Rights Council — one of the world’s most politically compromised bodies — has issued a report accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.

The same U.N. that seats dictators on human-rights panels.
The same U.N. that looks the other way when actual genocides unfold under openly hostile regimes.

This new report demands that countries “stop the genocide” and punish those responsible — escalating an already volatile situation and isolating Israel even further on the world stage.

Israel has rejected the allegations as an antisemitic blood libel, and many world leaders agree only a court can make such a determination. But the accusation is spreading, and the effects are global.

Over the last 23 months, the Gaza conflict has produced horrific images — including starving children and entire neighborhoods destroyed. International outrage has grown, especially among Western nations who once stood firmly with Israel.

A new Israeli offensive in Gaza’s largest city has triggered criticism even from Israel’s European allies, some of whom have gone so far as to call the operation “genocide.”

But the core question the U.N. is pushing is far more extreme:

Is the very nation created in response to genocide now committing it?

This is the narrative shaping headlines — and it’s one Israel claims is built on distortion, manipulation, and political bias.

Israel points out that Hamas’ October 7th attack — where militants murdered 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 others — was itself genocidal in intent and execution.

Israel also argues it abides by international law and urges civilians to evacuate before operations. Hamas, meanwhile, embeds fighters and infrastructure inside hospitals, schools, and civilian hubs.

Israeli leaders say the genocide claim is not a legal argument — it is a smear campaign meant to delegitimize the Jewish state.

Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry claims over 65,000 Palestinians have been killed — roughly half women and children — but does not differentiate between civilians and Hamas fighters. Independent verification is nearly impossible.

The U.N.’s 1948 Genocide Convention describes genocide as intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
U.N. experts are arguing Israel meets that definition based on:

• siege conditions
   
• mass casualties
   
• destruction of civilian infrastructure
   
• displacement of Palestinians
   

Israel says this ignores Hamas’ tactics, battlefield realities, and the context of war.

Dozens of genocide scholars across the world now use the term publicly — including Brown University professor Omer Bartov, who originally rejected the label but reversed his stance after the fall of Rafah.

Spain’s prime minister called Israel’s actions “genocide” and “extermination.”
Two Israeli human-rights organizations have also adopted the term.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused Israel of intentionally inflicting conditions that amount to genocide.

Whether justified or not, the use of this term — repeated globally — is shifting public perception at a historic scale.

A large bloc of legal scholars, historians, and world leaders reject the term:

• Israel says it’s a political weapon.
   
• President Trump said he’s seen no evidence of genocide.
   
• The Elie Wiesel Foundation says Israel’s actions are self-defense.
   
• Holocaust scholars argue the accusations are built on antisemitic tropes.
   
• The European Union and U.N. leadership say only courts can decide.
   

The Auschwitz Memorial even warned against cheapening the term “genocide” through political usage.

South Africa has brought a case accusing Israel of genocide to the ICJ, and roughly a dozen countries have joined.
But even if Israel loses:

• The ICJ cannot punish anyone.
   
• Only the U.N. Security Council can act.
   
• And the U.S. has veto power.
   

Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant — not for genocide, but for “starvation as a method of warfare,” allegations Israel denies.

Even countries not using the word “genocide” are distancing themselves:

• Germany and the U.K. have halted certain arms exports.
   
• The EU Commission president has called for suspending trade ties.
   
• Cultural and athletic groups have pushed to exclude Israel.
   
• Protests have erupted across major European cities.
   

The political cost is mounting — and the label “genocide” carries a weight that lasts for generations.

Let’s be clear:

• The U.N. Human Rights Council is one of the most politically biased bodies on Earth.
   
• Their “experts” often operate with prewritten conclusions, not neutral investigations.
   
• The genocide accusation is being used as a political weapon — not a legal finding.
   

Israel is fighting a terror organization that hides behind civilians, operates from hospitals, and intentionally manufactures suffering to win global sympathy.

Is there tragedy? Yes.
Is there devastation? Yes.
Is there propaganda? Absolutely.
Is this a simple case with clean lines and easy heroes and villains? No — and anyone pretending otherwise is selling you a narrative, not truth.

But the U.N. is not asking for truth.
It’s asking for judgment.

And judgment — without context, without legal process, without accountability — is not justice.
It’s politics.

PPN will continue covering the global fallout, the legal battles, the shifting alliances, and the propaganda machinery shaping public perception around this conflict.