Brandon Newsom out of a job with Navy after bashing Trump

Brandon Newsom, the former head (or director) of business operations in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy at the Pentagon, is no longer employed by the Department of the Navy. He didn't so much as quit as he needed to leave under the circumstances, following the release of undercover hidden-camera footage in which he criticized President Donald Trump and discussed plans to reverse administration policies.

The footage was recorded by conservative activist James O’Keefe and published online on July 22, 2026. 

In the video, Newsom (who described overseeing corporate operations such as HR, IT, and security) referred to Trump as a “textbook narcissist.” He called the ongoing war with Iran “completely stupid” and “driven by one man’s ego,” as if his plan didn't involve his own high-level ego. 

He said he hoped to “stay and stick it out” at the Pentagon “so that way, when the time comes, I can undo whatever’s been done” by the Trump administration. Kind of egotistical if you ask me. 

Specific policies he mentioned included religious/prayer services at the Pentagon (objecting to “one specific” service) and changes to employee “schedule policy” that he said stripped protections.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao placed Newsom on administrative leave “effective immediately” after the video emerged, stating that the Department of the Navy “takes the conduct shown in this video extremely seriously” and that such statements and apparent intent to undermine policies set by elected leaders were “inappropriate and incompatible with the standards expected of Department personnel.” 

On or around July 26, 2026, Cao confirmed: “The individual is no longer employed by the Department of the Navy.” It is unclear from reports whether Newsom resigned or was terminated; the Pentagon referred questions to the Navy.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.  

News outlets have noted the context of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s efforts under the Trump administration to reverse what it describes as “woke” policies (including DEI programs) in the military, along with other personnel and cultural changes at the Pentagon. 

Some reports indicate O’Keefe presented the encounter as occurring during a “gay date,” with O’Keefe in disguise. Newsweek and other outlets have stated they have not independently verified the recording.

This is the dominant recent news involving the name Brandon Newsom as of late July 2026. (Note: A different individual, a former Holmes County, Florida, commissioner also named Brandon Newsom/Brandon Brown Newsom, faced felony charges related to bail bond activities in 2025, was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis, and has been linked to local political activity, but that is separate and older.)

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MO AG suing IBM for alleged discrimination against Asians, Whites, and Men

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey

Missouri's Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, has filed a lawsuit against the huge technology company, International Business Machines (IBM). He claims that IBM is unfair in how they hire people, preferring certain groups over white, Asian, and male applicants. Bailey says that IBM even forces workers to follow these rules by linking their pay to how well they meet diversity goals.

[H/T The Daily Wire]

Bailey told conservative outlet The Daily Wire that he wants this lawsuit to stop what he calls "corporate racism" at IBM. He says that the company's "diversity modifier" system unfairly connects executive pay to meeting targets that are biased against white, Asian, and male applicants.
“But if he or she fails to meet it, IBM swings the stick: they lose part of their bonus and, eventually, their job,” the lawsuit says.

“We will not tolerate racist employment policies in the state of Missouri. That’s the plain text of the Missouri Human Rights Act,” Bailey explained.

“It has come to my attention that IBM has adopted an unlawful policy that blatantly favors applicants of a certain gender or skin color over others, and that managers within the company who refuse to comply with said policy face adverse action, including and up to, termination,” Bailey said.

In a secret video posted by journalist James O'Keefe, IBM’s CEO, Arvind Krishna, reportedly admitted that the company was hiring based on race. In the video, Krishna said that he expected all executives in the company to increase the number of underrepresented minorities by 1%.

“You got to move both forward by a percentage that leads to a plus on your bonus,” Krishna said about hiring… pic.twitter.com/UUK26HX8IP

Krishna warned that people who didn't hire more employees from different races would lose part of their bonuses.

Paul Cormier, who used to be the CEO of Red Hat, a part of IBM, talked about the company's DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion--or--Didn't Even Interview) policies. Cormier said that some leaders didn't meet the company's standards and were held accountable, so they no longer worked for the company.
“We’re going to hold, we are continuing to hold, and going to hold even more of our executives accountable for all of this and they will have metrics around this,” Cormier added.

Bailey’s lawsuit said tying a “quota system to bonus compensations” is “a cudgel against those who do not fall in line.”

The Attorney General said that IBM's "discriminatory practices" were not just because of a few mid-level managers. Instead, he explained that these practices were a deliberate decision by the most powerful people at the company. He stated, "At IBM, there's a culture of racism from the top leaders downward. We're not just talking about some mid-level manager, but about the CEO of the entire company, who threatened his top executives with punishment if they didn't follow his racist policies."
“Missourians deserve answers as to why one of the largest technology and consulting companies in the world, with offices based in Missouri, is discriminating against both prospective and current employees,” he added.

The news outlet had previously revealed that IBM was discriminating against white people, Asian people, and men. They offered an internship that was only available to people from certain backgrounds. This opportunity, which was for “underrepresented minorities,” stated that applicants should be “African American, Hispanic, or Indigenous.”

Another IBM internship, called the “Internship for Undergraduate Women,” stipulated that “applicants must be female, including all students who present or identify as women and/or trans women.”

David Bernstein, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, said that these internship programs “clearly violate Title VII,” which bars race and sex-based employment preferences.

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James O'Keefe on paid administrative leave from Project Veritas: WTH?

In echoes of woke students having their college presidents removed, the Board of Directors at Project Veritas removed their founder, James O'Keefe, and placed him on paid administrative leave for an indefinite period of time. 

Anyone who follows the conservative organization, Project Veritas, knows how crucial O'Keefe is to the organization's philosophy and his removal appears antithetical to their cause. 

Obviously, it's a power play as the board is considering whether O'Keefe should be cut from his leadership position, former and current employees have told Matt Couch.

An internal message sent by the organization's executive director, Daniel Strack to Project Veritas employees said that O’Keefe would be taking “a few weeks of well-deserved PTO.” He didn't have the guts to be honest with them.

An image of the message [see below] was shared by a source familiar with the organization’s internal operations, and its authenticity was confirmed by a current employee. 

When reached for comment on his personal cell phone, O’Keefe said nothing in response and did not respond to follow-up calls and text messages. Through a Project Veritas spokesman, Strack later released a statement on behalf of the organization.

“Like all newsrooms at this stage, the Project Veritas Board of Directors and Management are constantly evaluating what the best path forward is for the organization,” the statement read in part. It did not directly address questions about O’Keefe’s employment status. “There are 65+ employees at Project Veritas dedicated to continuing the mission to expose corruption, dishonesty, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions,” the statement read. “To our supporters: We hear you, we care about you, and we will never give up.”

A meeting of the Project Veritas board is scheduled for Friday, when O’Keefe’s potential removal is set to be discussed, according to one source familiar with the matter. It’s absolutely insane we’re even having to write this, James O’Keefe is Project Veritas!

This is obviously a crazy, developing story. 

[H/T Matt Couch]

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Project Veritas' James O'Keefe to sue CNN for defamation

Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe said on Tuesday during "Hannity" that he plans to sue CNN [aka the Compromised News Network] for defamation.

"Ana Cabrera is the host that lied about us and said that we were taken down for, she mentioned misinformation, that’s just simply not so," O’Keefe said. "Actual malice is the standard in the United States, we believe we can win against CNN so ... I’m announcing on your show, I’m going to sue CNN for defamation."

O'Keefe believes that "a lot of people" should start suing the news media for the same reason.

"It’s disgraceful what they’re doing, it’s disgusting, now they’re caught," he said.

It's unclear what comments made by Cabrera that O'Keefe plans to sue the network over, but it would be interesting if he did and actually won the suit, like Nick Sandmann did in the 2020 Covington Catholic H.S. kids case and won an undisclosed settlement from the network.

O’Keefe recently revealed the first installment of what’s billed as a three-part #ExposeCNN campaign. The first part featured a CNN technical director, Charles Chester, who spoke candidly to an undercover journalist about political motivations he believed the liberal network had during the 2020 presidential election, boasting the outlet helped defeat Trump's second presidential run. Chester even called CNN "propaganda."

O’Keefe has since teased additional undercover videos of Chester making comments about the network’s agenda, with the next installment expected to focus on coronavirus coverage.

O’Keefe previously released audio of CNN’s internal editorial meetings, which he recorded without permission, so you know it's an accurate depiction of what the scumcrumpets at CNN really think of conservatives and Trump.

Project Veritas describes itself as a whistleblower watchdog group and had previously released undercover video of news producers, politicians, and members of private political organizations making statements while unaware they are being recorded.

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'Network admits what the 'BS' stands for in CBS News

"All the News that fits our narrative"

CBS "News" has admitted that a video they recently played was partially staged  while denying they didn't know it was staged when they were staging it to make it look as if the Cherry Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan was crowded due to the pandemic.

The BS piece showed a clip in which myriad vehicles were staged in line for COVID-19 testing. 

In reality, CBS got nailed by Project Veritas.

Like CNN's Jim "I Love Me" Acosta, the event was kabuki theater to fake a message that went along with their agenda.

“Our insider witnessed the whole thing and came to Project Veritas, because he knew we would protect him,” James O’Keefe, founder of the organization, said. “The insider told us that medical personnel were taken away from treating patients and making the line longer for actual patients wait for the COVID-19 test.”

And all the while the two-fisted, hard-hitting, investigating "reporters" at CBS had no clue they were being tricked.

Project Veritas said O’Keefe asked the insider: “You’re telling me you’re a hundred percent certain that CBS News, CBS News Corporation — national — staged a fake event. They faked the news. They faked the reality and broadcasted that to all of their audience last Friday on ‘CBS This Morning.'”

O’Keefe said the insider replied, “a hundred percent. Absolutely.”

The organization quoted its anonymous insider, (whose name was not used for obvious reasons) saying, “based on my knowledge, CBS News had asked Cherry Health to fabricate a line to obtain newsworthy footage, I was given this knowledge from a colleague at Cherry Health.”

“After reviewing their response, I can say definitively that the majority of the line shown in their footage is fake. After CBS had gotten the shot they wanted the entire line dispersed and drove in separate directions,” the insider said.

So what part of "they didn't know" did they not know? Who was driving which vehicle? How much gas was in each vehicle's tank?

“Some [vehicles] did U-turns, others parked in nearby parking and the rest just drove through the testing site without being tested,” the insider explained.

“As I stated previously, the nurses did exclaim frustration as it caused an unduly long wait time for a patient that actually needed the testing.”

But thankfully, there were no immediate emergencies waiting intervention.

An accompanying video included a comment from a man labeled as Nick Ross and identified as a corporate cleaning site supervisor at the facility.

“Apparently the news crew wanted more people in the line because they knew it was scheduled,” Ross said.

“We pretended. There were a couple of real patients, which made it worse,” Alison Mauro-Lantz, a registered nurse, was recorded on hidden camera as saying.

“We had no clue that we’re going to have to, like, do fake patients,” another woman, also identified as a nurse said in the video.

But when Project Veritas asked Cherry Health President and CEO Tasha Blackmon, she lied and said the facility never created a line for the cameras.

“We and CBS News had nothing to do with that line,” Blackmon said.

CBS said it never did such a thing, and blamed the medical center.

“CBS News did not stage anything at the Cherry Health facility. Any suggestion to the contrary is 100% false. These allegations are alarming,” the network said in a statement to Project Veritas. 

What they must have meant was that none of the people in the vehicles worked for CBS News directly--an honest mistake if you're Brian Stelter.


“We reached out to Cherry Health to address them immediately. They informed us for the first time that one of their chief officers told at least one staffer to get in the testing line along with real patients. No one from CBS News had any knowledge of this before tonight. They also said that their actions did not prevent any actual patients from being tested. We take the accuracy of our reporting very seriously and we are removing the Cherry Health portion from the piece.”

So, at least their lie didn't cause any actual people from being tested, so it was only a white racist lie.

But Blackmon said she was innocent of any subterfuge as her nose grew three times its normal size.

“Let me be clear: We are not aware of CBS staging anything as part of their visit to our site,” she said, as her shnozzola grew another inch. “I have never spoken with the president of CBS, or any other CBS executive.”

“I can assure you that I did not instruct any staff to get in their cars and line up and I have no idea when it was filmed or who was in each car.”

The question therefore is, who instructed staff to get in their cars and line up?

“How many more stories have staged events to support a media outlet’s narrative,” O'Keefe said. “CBS News was caught because someone stepped forward. We need more insiders to come forward — especially as our leaders make decisions during this pandemic based on what they see in the news.”

O’Keefe said that seeing fake news on TV is as common as President Trump's use of the words, "tremendous," "very, very," "they should be ashamed," and "good job."

And to Project Veritas I say: "Good job."


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New Project Veritas video unmasks CNN

James O'Keefe

Project Veritas released a video showing CNN producer John Bonifield admitting that there is no proof to the CNN Russian narrative.

"I mean, it's mostly bulls**t right now," Bonifield said. "Like, we don't have any giant proof." 

Then he confirms that the whole CNN stance is about ratings, not truth. "It's a business, people are like the media has an ethical phssss. . . All the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school you're just like, that's adorable. That's adorable. This is business."

So, boys and girls, don't get your hopes up that CNN will ever represent honest journalism. It's all about the money and the ratings and the liberals who make up their stories will never have a nice thing to say about President Trump.

However, according to Bonifield, business is booming. "Trump is good for business right now," he said.

He goes on in the video to explain that the coverage instructions comes straight from that bald-headed stooge, CEO Jeff Zucker:

"Just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN (Jeff Zucker) said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we're done with that, let's get back to Russia."

Bonifield acknowledged: "I haven't seen any good enough evidence to show that the President committed a crime."

"I just feel like they don't really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the President is probably right to say, like, look you are witch hunting me.  You have no smoking gun, you have no real proof."

James O'Keefe, CEO of Project Veritas, said "To report not on facts, but instead on narratives that yield high ratings, is exactly the definition of fake news. We said we are going after the media, and there is a lot more to come."

Trump was correct about fake news. 

Journalism is gone where the heroes went.

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2 Clintonites out after video sting exposes violence incitement, fraud

Scott Foval, the national field director of Americans United for Change, got his walking papers on Monday as did Robert Creamer, head of Democracy Partners; although Creamer claimed that he was "stepping back" from trying to get Hillary Clinton elected as the first felon and female president. 

Undercover video showed discussions of "busing" in voters and inciting violence at Republican rallies.

"I am unwilling to become a distraction to the important task of electing [Hillary] Clinton, and defeating Donald Trump in the upcoming election," Creamer wrote in a statement. 

The Democratic National Committee denied any knowledge of the schemes discussed in the video, and if you believe the DNC, you might be interested in this bridge I have for sale in Brooklyn. 

Snuffies like Creamer and Foval don't commit such egregious acts without the blessings of the campaign.

"The practices described in the video by this temporary sub-contractor do not in any way comport with out long standing policies on organizing events, and those statements and sentiments do not represent the values that the Committee holds dear," DNC interim Chairwoman Donna (CNN) Brazile said of Foval.

The two "Rigging the Election" videos were produced by James O'Keefe, a controversial activist. The videos were 32 minutes total in time and were released in two, edited portions on Monday and Tuesday. 

An undercover filmmaker posed as a campaign donor and is seen trying to engage Foval and Creamer in talking about voter fraud and other schemes. Creamer doesn't go for it, but Foval sings like a bird.

"It's a very easy thing for Republicans to say, 'Well, they're busing people in' . . .We've been busing people in to deal with you f***ing a**h***s for 50 years and we're not going to stop now, we're just going to find a different way to do it," Foval brags. He implies that using personal vehicles for each voter arouses less suspicion than busing large numbers of people from out of state at one time.

Foval also talks about planting people at Republican rallies for Trump. The people chosen are there to incite violence and are trained and given scripts to stick to, said Foval.

"I mean honestly, it is not hard to get some of these a**h***s to pop off," he said. "It's a matter of showing up, to want to get into the rally, in a Planned Parenthood tee-shirt. Or, Trump is a Nazi, you know? You can message to draw them out, and draw them to punch you."

Foval was not referring to himself getting punched, but mentally ill people work well in that area.

Foval worked as a sub-contractor for Creamer's group, which was contracted with the DNC since June of this year. But a DNC source, sounding a lot like Sergeant Schultz on "Hogan's Heroes" said that Foval was not a DNC employee. 

["Vee see nuthink. Vee know nuthink. He ees no vurker uf hours. Go from here."]

That bridge is still for sale.

Zac Petkanas, a Clinton campaign spokesman said, "While Project Veritas has been known to offer misleading video out of context, some of the language and tactics referenced in the video are troubling [especially now that it's public] even as a theory or proposal never executed."

Make an offer and the bridge is yours.

Creamer is shown in the video being asked about getting around voter registration laws for Hispanics, but later said in a statement that none of the schemes described in the conversation on video ever took place. ["We just like to talk about stuff without actually doing stuff."]

O'Keefe has been criticized for heavily editing and manipulating his videos in the past. In 2010, while attempting to gain access to Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in Louisiana, he was caught and arrested. He was charged with a misdemeanor and sentenced to 3 years probation.

"The discredited source of these videos, James O'Keefe, is a convicted criminal with a history of doctoring video to advance his ideological agenda," Brazile said. "We are in the process of conducting an internal investigation to determine whether he and his cohorts committed any illegal activities in this well-funded operation."

Well, Ms. Brazile, if a burglar breaks into a home and sees someone about to be murdered and reports it and stops the murder, the burglar is still a burglar and the murderer is still a murderer. But at least the murderer was caught, just like Foval and Creamer.

We aren't buying your bridge.


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