☕ Daily Brief: A Worsening Migrant Invasion

WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

🚨 El-Sayed’s mother worked for terror-tied charity. Investigative journalist Natalie Winters reported that the mother of Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed worked for IARA-USA, the American office of a Sudan-based network later blacklisted by the Treasury Department for supporting Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas, and the Taliban.

💣 Trump threatens to bomb Oman. With the 60-day memorandum of understanding expired, President Trump told Fox News that Iran should "put up the white flag of surrender" and warned Oman not to interfere in the Strait of Hormuz, saying "we'll bomb the sh** out of them" if they do.

🕵️ Swalwell took illegal donations from a Chinese spy. A newly surfaced FBI memo reveals former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) received illegal campaign donations from suspected CCP operative “Fang Fang” in 2013 and 2014. The memo also noted that "Swalwell considered their physical relations to be casual, but believed that Fang was interested in a closer, romantic relationship.”

🎓 Pentagon orders 30 universities to audit foreign ties. The Department of War ordered Harvard, MIT, NYU, and other universities to audit their financial and research ties to 130 flagged institutions in China, Russia, and Iran — or risk losing federal funding.

ASK THE EDITORS

Q: Why would the CCP be allowed to purchase a building in Washington, DC? I understand capitalism and that sellers have a right to sell, but isn’t there some regulation barring these kinds of questionable purchases? — Pam from Missouri

A: For those who missed it, we reported a story yesterday that a Chinese Communist Party intelligence official bought a property just 600 feet from the White House, in what is undoubtedly a national security risk.

But right now, shockingly, there's no law preventing this. The main tool, CFIUS (the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States), mainly reviews foreign purchases near military bases and defense sites, but not commercial buildings near places like the White House.

Some states have passed their own laws restricting foreign nationals tied to China, Russia, or Iran from buying property near sensitive sites, but DC doesn't have that kind of law, and neither does the federal government in this case.

So even though it boggles the mind, this purchase was completely legal — even though it of course should not be.

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