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‘We will follow the facts’: James Comey indicted for lying, obstructing justice

Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, 2020 (Video screenshot)

In what undoubtedly will shake the foundations of the Democrats’ power structure in America and worry a lot of leftists who participated in the weaponization of the government against President Trump during his first term, a grand jury has indicted ex-FBI chief James Comey.

Comey, who recently promoted the “86-47” messaging presumed to mean “86” or destroy “47,” with Trump being the 47th president, was indicted on two counts – one count of lying and one count of obstruction of justice.

He already has been complaining how Trump has weaponized the government against his opponents, such as Comey. But Comey’s comments come in the aftermath of his participation, and the participation of multiple Democrat power figures, in the fraudulent “Russiagate” conspiracy theory that was assembled to try to keep Trump from being elected, or then to destroy him during his first term.

That conspiracy, now proven to be completely falsified, was based on a scheme by twice-failed Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton to tie Trump to Russia.

Comey’s FBI participated in that scheme, including launching an unfounded investigation of Trump.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said, “No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.”

No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) September 25, 2025

The charges followed Trump’s decision to remove Erik Siebert, then the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who sources insisted had doubts about charges against Comey.

Also in the equation is New York Attorney General Letitia James, who campaigned for office on the promise to “get” President Trump even before she assembled wild claims of fraud against him and his companies.

Her case penalizing Trump nearly $500 million came through a judge with confirmed anti-Trump agenda, and was reversed as unconstitutional at the appellate level.

Trump replaced Siebert with Lindsay Halligan, a former defense attorney.

CONFIRMED: JAMES COMEY INDICTED

Obstruction of Justice and PERJURY charges

LOCK HIM UP! pic.twitter.com/VCG88jQHHh

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 25, 2025

ABC said that federal prosecutors in Virginia claimed they could not establish probable cause to charge Comey.

Trump said, “Pam Bondi is doing a GREAT job as Attorney General of the United States. She is very careful, very smart, loves our Country, but needs a tough prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, like my recommendation, Lindsey Halligan, to get things moving.”

Reports called the charges a “most dramatic escalation” in what Trump opponents have claimed is retribution by Trump against those who attacked him when they were in power in government.

Comey, who in fact was fired by Trump during his first term, has vocally criticized Trump over and over.

He’s even claimed Trump is politicizing the justice system, a charge that Trump himself repeatedly has brought against Comey and other Democrats.

MAJOR BREAKING: DISGRACED former FBI Director James Comey has been INDICTED for obstruction of justice and making false statements, per ABC

LET’S GO!

PERP WALK HIM ON LIVE TV! pic.twitter.com/SSQzyXlFcX

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 25, 2025

CONFIRMED: JAMES COMEY INDICTED

Obstruction of Justice and PERJURY charges

LOCK HIM UP! pic.twitter.com/VCG88jQHHh

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 25, 2025

BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted just days after President Trump issued a public demand for the DOJ to act “now” to prosecute him, sources say. https://t.co/Q6ABvaegPj pic.twitter.com/DeyjbB1U2M

— ABC News (@ABC) September 25, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel didn’t apologize – maybe Van Jones will

Disney-owned ABC late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel did not apologize for offending much of the nation when he returned to his show after a one-week suspension. So much for the left-wing narrative that President Donald Trump ripped up the First Amendment and tossed Kimmel off the air.

The controversy began the Monday after Charlie Kirk’s assassination by a Trump- and Kirk-hating left-winger. Kimmel, however, said, “The MAGA gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

In Kimmel’s returning monologue, he was not just unapologetic, he was defiant. He flat-out denied any intention “to blame any specific group” for Kirk’s assassination. Kimmel said, “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.” He added: “Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions. It was a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make …”

Oh, so in truth, he was blaming Freddy Krueger. And shame on those who thought otherwise.

This means Kimmel and Kirk’s “kid” assassin have two things in common: Both are Trump-despising leftists, and both have been forgiven – the assassin by Erika Kirk at Charlie’s memorial, and Kimmel by Disney – without one iota of contrition.

This brings us to Van Jones, CNN political commentator. Several days after Kirk’s assassination, Jones wrote: “The day before he was horrifically murdered, Charlie Kirk sent me a direct message on X. He and I had been sparring publicly over the killing of a Ukrainian refugee and its relationship to race. He said the gruesome killing of a White woman by a Black man was motivated solely by anti-White hatred. I denounced those comments on CNN as unfounded. He went on TV and denounced MY denunciation. Then he unleashed a firehose of tweets, challenging my argument.”

But, plot twist, Jones said: “Then – in the middle of all this – Charlie Kirk reached out. He invited me to come on his show to talk with him. He wrote: ‘Hey, Van, I mean it, I’d love to have you on my show to have a respectful conversation about crime and race. I would be a gentleman as I know you would be as well. We can disagree about the issues agreeably.'”

After this exchange and, apparently, several days of reflection, Jones magnanimously concluded, “So it was not hard for me to condemn his murder – immediately, without qualification and in unconditional terms.”

Please excuse those of us who are neither moved nor impressed by this “brave” acknowledgment of Kirk’s decency. Anyone fortunate enough to have had even a passing relationship with Kirk will tell you about his willingness to engage civilly with whom he disagrees. So, Jones deserves a cookie for stating the obvious?

As for Kirk’s analysis on the Ukrainian woman killed on the Charlotte train by a black man, Kirk said: “Based on the information and the evidence we have, the attacker did say, ‘I got that white girl.’ The attacker racialized it in his own telling of the situation. … If a random white person on a subway took out a knife and stabbed a Black girl senselessly to death, there would be massive media coverage.”

For this, the day before Kirk’s assassination, Jones accused him of “race-mongering and hate-mongering.”

Jones’ characterization of Kirk was merely the latest in Jones’ yearslong record denouncing Trump, his voters and the policies Jones disagrees with as racist. On election night in 2016, when CNN declared Trump winner, Jones fired this cannon: “This was a white-lash against a changing country. It was a white-lash against a black president in part, and that’s the part where the pain comes.”

Thus, Jones helped spearhead the widely believed narrative that Trump only won because angry, paranoid, racist white voters elected him. No wonder polls going back several years show nearly 50% of Americans and over 80% of black Americans consider Trump “racist.”

Kimmel will not apologize. But maybe Jones will apologize for his role in maligning half the country as racists, fascists, white supremacists, Nazis, dictators, tyrants, Hitlers and a threat to democracy.

Larry Elder and Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk and the extraordinary power of martyrdom

I am not an American, but I am a Christian living in Spain who came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal savior because of the work of American missionaries. And this is the reason I do not want to remain silent in the face of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Looking at the events taking place in America and the West at large at this critical moment, one can easily conclude that the battle is not a political battle, nor is it an ideological one, nor a social one. The real crisis the West is going through at this pivotal moment is a spiritual and cultural one.

It is indeed spiritual warfare – a clash between the preservation of a Christian culture and the resurgence of a pagan one; between the advocacy of good and the advancement of evil; in a world where Christians are being persecuted, canceled, fined and even imprisoned for preaching the word of God in public, or for praying silently in the streets; in a world where artists of many disciplines produce works that desecrate and mock the Bible or the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; where pastors, religious leaders, and churches have to assign a significant part of their budgets for security to protect their lives and their buildings; where churches, children, and religious advocates are being targeted and brutally assassinated, for the only crime of being Christians.

In a world like this, it is obvious that the time of persecution for the Christians has begun. This means that we are going back to the very place where the Church was born, because, at the beginning of the Church, the very foundation, the cornerstone, was laid by the Lord Jesus Himself.

He was indeed the cornerstone – dishonored, rejected, mocked and killed, as it had been prophesied in Isaiah 53. Soon after that, the Lord’s followers had to walk in His steps and were also persecuted, crucified and thrown into the circus to be eaten by lions. The foundation of the Church was laid by hundreds, if not thousands, of Christians who followed in the Lord Jesus’ steps and paid with their lives for their faith in Him.

For the Christians of the early Church to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ meant being willing to die for Him – literally. But for them to die was a gain, and instead of being scared and accepting the spirit of defeat, they found strength in weakness. They knew their battle was not against flesh and blood. They knew that they were supposed to live and die for the cause of the gospel and the fulfillment of the great commission, which implied nothing else than the living out and the preaching of the Word of God. They knew their only enemy was sin and the devil, and that the only real battle they needed to fight was spiritual warfare. They knew it was in God that they could find their strength and their guidance to stand their ground and live up to the teachings of the Bible.

Dark times have certainly arrived for those who believe in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in the West. This resurgence of a neopagan culture has been going on for some time already, and it has had many names on the way and many mutations as well: Humanism, Illuminism, Post-Christianity, Postmodernism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Globalism and Wokeism. But let us not deceive ourselves. The cultural, political, philosophical and ideological wars raging in the West are, in reality, a spiritual battle that has now become open warfare.

Acts 4:29-31 states: “Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant, Jesus. After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.”

Likewise, there is no other hope for Christians in the West at this crucial hour. The power of God must be claimed and declared. The Lord’s power must be manifested, and his outstretched hand must perform the signs and wonders only He can. But we, the Church, the children of God, must humble ourselves in prayer and repentance and claim and expect the healing of our land. God is real and His love for this lost world as well, and so is His power to intervene even in moments of crisis, apostasy and persecution, while His children continue to be the light and testimony we need to be.

And we must not forget that, after Stephen’s death came the martyrdom of the apostles and the open persecution of the Christians, which inaugurated the outstanding growth of the Church. Yes, the Church continued to grow at such a rapid pace that, over the course of 300 years, a pagan Roman Empire was transformed into a Christian Roman Empire. As one martyr died, hundreds more gave their lives to God.

Lord, be with us as you were with the disciples of the early Church, as they paid with their lives for their faith in you and their obedience to your Word. Amen.

Haul prosecutor Jack Smith before a Miami grand jury

Eight months of all talk and no action in prosecuting Leftists has left President Trump frustrated. On Saturday night, Trump publicly criticized his attorney general, Pam Bondi, for achieving so little so far.

“Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that, essentially, ‘same old story as last time, all talk, no action. Nothing is being done,'” Trump posted. He added that the Left “impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING.”

Last week Trump posted, “Why was the wonderful Turning Point under INVESTIGATION by ‘Deranged’ Jack Smith and the Corrupt & Incompetent Biden Administration. They tried to force Charlie, and many other people and movements, out of business.”

And yet the response has been radio silence from Trump’s top advisers in holding Trump-haters responsible for their weaponization of government. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recently pointed out that when Democrats return to power, they will continue where they left off by weaponizing government further against Republicans.

The man who wrongly indicted Trump more than anyone, Jack Smith, is an apparatchik of the Deep State, and he may be impossible to indict in the anti-Trump swamp of Washington, D.C. The grand jury pool in that venue, where 95% of the residents voted against Trump in 2020, has already refused to deliver indictments in multiple smaller prosecutions there.

Smith’s principal wrongdoing was committed not in D.C., but in the Southern District of Florida, where the federal court is based in Miami. It was in that judicial district where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was wrongfully raided, and where an unjustified indictment was filed against Trump to try to derail his reelection campaign.

Ultimately, federal Judge Aileen Cannon tossed out the indictment because Smith was acting in violation of the Constitution. In other words, it was Jack Smith who violated the law by indicting Trump, and it does not matter whether then-Attorney General Merrick Garland authorized it because the Constitution is supreme.

Under federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 371, the crime of conspiracy is when two or more persons agree to do an unlawful act against the United States. Jack Smith agreed with others in his office to indict Trump, contrary to the Constitution as later held by Judge Cannon.

Neither Jack Smith nor anyone associated with the Deep State in D.C. would obtain the favoritism in Miami that they have been receiving from judges and juries in D.C. Miami-Dade County voted 55-44% for Trump in 2024, and Trump enjoys enthusiastic support from Cuban immigrants who are leaders in that community.

It is difficult to view Smith’s actions against candidate Trump last year as anything other than election interference, as Trump said in his winning campaign. By re-electing Trump, American voters agreed with him that he was innocent and the prosecutions of him were improper.

On Saturday Trump replaced the U.S. attorney for the all-important Eastern District of Virginia, where federal workers have commonly been prosecuted in the past. This district includes the federal court in Alexandria, just across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., with a reputation of convicting nearly every time.

That is the pro-conviction venue where liberals prosecuted Trump adviser Paul Manafort, but the charges were so bogus that the jury deadlocked on most of them such that complete verdicts could not be reached. Ultimately President Trump pardoned Manafort for everything.

Contrast the ferocity with which the DOJ went after Trump, Manafort and many other advisers to Trump with the inaction by the DOJ in investigating and prosecuting liberals. Trump’s newly appointed U.S. attorney for eastern Virginia, which includes D.C. suburbs, is hopeful.

Historians should notice the similarity with President Abraham Lincoln’s frustration over the inaction by his first commanding general during the Civil War, George B. McClellan. Lincoln finally quipped in a letter, “If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time.”

Ultimately, Lincoln found an outsider from Missouri, Ulysses S. Grant, to replace McClellan to lead the Union Army. As an outcast, Grant was what Lincoln needed to win the Civil War as Grant then fully used all available resources to accomplish the mission at hand.

Neither Jack Smith nor others on his team who indicted Trump in Florida were pardoned by President Biden’s autopen. And while a doctrine of immunity protects prosecutors in their advocacy role, immunity does not protect them from accountability for their investigative and administrative work, as the Supreme Court held in Buckley v. Fitzsimmons (1993), and the Court could likewise deny immunity to Smith.

Prosecutors are the first to declare that “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Jack Smith’s team insisted that no one is above the law, and neither are they.

Magistrate judge: Suspect accused of pointing laser at Trump’s helicopter doesn’t need to be in custody

A man has been charged with a felony under a federal law that makes it illegal to point a laser at an aircraft.

The reasoning isn’t complicated. Lasers, even those hand-held pointer units, can blind a pilot, even injure his eyes, and when the pilot is in control of a jet the consequences can be dire.

In this case, it was President Donald Trump’s helicopter that allegedly was the target.

So Jacob Winkler was charged.

But now a magistrate judge, Zia Faruqui, has decided that Winkler doesn’t need to be kept in custody.

Investigative reporter Julie Kelly confirmed, “He [Faruqui] just denied Trump DOJ’s request to detain Jacob Winkler.

Speaking of DC Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui–he just denied Trump DOJ’s request to detain Jacob Winkler, who used a red laser against a a Secret Service officer then pointed it at the president’s helicopter as he took off from the White House last week.

“The red laser beam hit…

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) September 25, 2025

Police reports confirmed, “The red laser beam hit Officer Santiago’s eyes and briefly disoriented him. At this time, Marine One flew at a relatively low height and directly above Officer Santiago and [Winkler’s] location. Marine One was close enough that the rotor noise was loud, and the aircraft appeared large overhead. Officer Santiago approached [Winkler] after being flashed in the face with the red laser. Upon approach, [Winkler] looked up, oriented the same red laser pointer at the direction of Marine One and activated the red laser beam.”

A report at the Gateway Pundit explained the situation.

“Radical magistrate judge denied the Justice Department’s request to detain a man who tried to take down Marine One with a red laser pointer.”

The federal complaint said Winkler immediately was handcuffed, but it also noted the danger of “risk of flash blindness and pilot disorientation,” especially in a presidential helicopter flying at low altitudes.

Winkler was charged with 18 U.S. Code § 39A, a law that prohibits aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.

The penalties under the law could be up to five years in prison.

 

Stop the killing, for now: Planned Parenthood in 1 state halts abortions to avoid funding cuts

Congress, and President Donald Trump, decided that the abortion industry in America should not be getting taxpayers’ money all the time.

The lawmakers adopted and Trump signed his “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that cut the tax cash flow to abortionists.

So nationally, they sued, alleging in court papers they have a constitutional right to funding from taxpayers.

That’s still yet to reach a final resolution, but for the interim, according to a report from the Washington Examiner, Planned Parenthood Wisconsin is halting abortions next week, to avoid funding cuts.

Trump’s plan bans Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood facilities that provide abortions. The facility in Wisconsin is the first Planned Parenthood to halt its abortion services, representing a victory for the anti-abortion cause, the report said.

Abortion business chief Tanya Atkinson said, “Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will continue to provide the full spectrum of reproductive health care, including abortion, as soon and as we are able to.”

She said her corporation now is fighting for funding through “every available option through the courts, through operations, and civic engagement.”

Planned Parenthood’s announcement confirmed they are trying to destroy as many unborn children as they can between now and Tuesday, as the law is scheduled to take effect on Wednesday.

Planned Parenthood officials repeatedly have claimed they get only a part of their income from abortion and taxes, the taxes amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

But they also have complained that half of their operations may have to close down if they are no longer getting paychecks from taxpayers forced to fund the anti-life ideology.

 

Love and hate

Corporate America caught: How Instacart may be breaking the law to avoid hiring Americans

Most Americans assume that when a company posts a job opening, it actually wants someone to apply. That’s how the labor market is supposed to work.

But in the world of immigration sponsorship, job postings sometimes serve a very different purpose: checking a box for the government, while keeping American workers in the dark.

Under the Department of Labor’s PERM process (Program Electronic Review Management), employers seeking to sponsor foreign workers for green cards must first prove they tried to hire Americans. The law requires them to place ads, review resumes and certify that no qualified U.S. worker was available before moving forward with sponsorship.

Yet most Americans have never seen these ads – because employers often place them where no one is likely to look. They thus satisfy the letter of the law while ensuring the jobs are already earmarked for someone else. That’s where Jobs.Now, a U.S. worker advocacy group, stepped in. By republishing these hidden ads online, Jobs.Now gave them the visibility the law intended, visibility that many employers have quietly worked to avoid.

Instacart’s heavy hand

When Jobs.Now reposted one of Instacart’s PERM ads to make it visible to the public, the publicly traded San Francisco-based company didn’t thank the website for the free advertising. Instead, Instacart sent a trademark complaint letter.

The letter, transmitted by a third-party enforcement firm, accused Jobs.Now of “infringing Instacart’s intellectual property rights” and even suggested the group suspend their web domain. The company reserved the right to pursue monetary damages, all because an advocacy group had posted a job listing that Instacart itself was legally required to advertise.

The real issue – and what Instacart’s ads expose

Why such a heavy-handed response? The answer may lie in Instacart’s job advertisements and recruitment practices tied to the PERM program. Federal rules, written decades ago, force employers to place notices in old-school newspapers and state workforce sites. But the intent of the law is clear and companies must make a “good faith” effort to recruit Americans before turning to foreign workers. That means actually trying to reach U.S. applicants, not burying ads where no one will look, or setting up recruitment processes designed to avoid finding U.S. candidates.

How Instacart blocked Americans

Jobs.Now’s reposting exposed the truth: Instacart’s job ads were nowhere to be found on the company’s career page, LinkedIn, or any platform where real applicants look for work. Instead, the posting was buried in a classified newspaper, directing candidates to mail paper resumes to “Global Mobility,” a department that does not hire Americans but oversees visa processing for foreign workers.

That distinction is critical. In 2025, almost no one applies for a tech job by mailing in a paper resume. And even if an American did, his or her application would never reach a hiring manager. It would be funneled straight to the immigration team whose role is not to recruit talent, but to record why no U.S. worker was deemed “qualified.”

The two-track system

The Department of Justice has already gone after companies for similar practices. Facebook paid $14 million and Apple paid $25 million in settlements for requiring mailed resumes and reserving jobs for foreign workers through the PERM process.

Like Facebook, Apple forced applicants for PERM positions to submit paper resumes by mail instead of through its online portal, and it left those jobs off its public-facing career site. Investigators found that Apple’s practices weren’t consistent with the way it usually hired, which was overwhelmingly through digital systems designed to attract a wide pool of candidates.

In both cases, the DOJ made clear the issue wasn’t that companies were using the PERM process; that’s allowed by law. The issue was that they intentionally set up a two-track system: one for normal jobs where Americans could apply easily and another for PERM jobs where the process itself made it virtually impossible for Americans to compete.

Why Instacart’s response matters

The key question now is why Instacart chose to file a trademark complaint when Jobs.Now was, in effect, providing free visibility for a job posting Instacart was already legally required to advertise?

If the postings are legitimate, wider visibility should mean more qualified Americans applying. But the company’s legal maneuver suggests something else: that these ads may not truly be about recruiting U.S. workers at all, but about protecting a visa pipeline while keeping the door closed to the very people the law was designed to protect.

Turning the tables on corporate abuse

At its core, the PERM system was designed to test the U.S. labor market. Sharing those job ads publicly and encouraging qualified Americans to apply isn’t just lawful, it’s exactly what the process requires. When companies or their attorneys try to suppress that visibility with trademark claims or intimidation tactics, they may be crossing a legal line of their own.

Federal law, under INA §1324b, makes it an unfair immigration-related employment practice to intimidate, threaten, coerce or retaliate against anyone for exercising or helping others exercise their rights under the statute. That protection extends to advocates who assist U.S. workers in seeing or applying for jobs. Trying to prevent circulation of these ads could be interpreted as obstruction of compliance evidence. And suppressing access to recruitment ads could make the labor market test fraudulent, since U.S. workers cannot reasonably find and apply.

What began as a trademark threat could end up flipping the script on Instacart. By trying to muzzle the lawful sharing of job ads, it may have invited even sharper scrutiny, not only of how the company recruits, but of how it responds when Americans shine a light on the very system meant to protect them.

 

WATCH: Dennis Prager on Charlie Kirk, in 1st interview since serious injury

A video has been released of PragerU founder Dennis Prager discussing the impact of the life of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated by an alleged leftist gunman, during a fee speech event in Utah.

It is his first videotaped interview since suffering an injury in a fall at his home in late 2024:

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Due to his recovery, Prager did not attend the memorial service for Kirk last Sunday.

He has stated his intention of returning to his position as a nationally syndicated radio host.

The columnist founded the Prager University Foundation in 2010 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization promoting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through free educational content for all ages, according to PragerU’s website. The organization produces podcasts, videos, and interviews on history, politics, and current events.

Mifepristone: RFK Jr. launches review of abortion pill safety risks, adverse events

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (Official White House photo by Joyce Boghosian)

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched an investigation into the risks of the abortion drug mifepristone, the Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed Thursday.

In a letter to 22 Republican attorneys general dated Sept. 19, reviewed by the DCNF, Kennedy and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary said the FDA is conducting “its own review of the evidence, including real-world outcomes and evidence, relating to the safety and efficacy of the drug.”

The attorneys general had urged the FDA in July to reassess the safety of the abortion pill, which now accounts for nearly two-thirds of abortions annually and is increasingly common even in states with restrictions.

“The concerns you have raised in your letter merit close examination. This Administration will ensure that women’s health is properly protected by thoroughly investigating the circumstances under which mifepristone can be safely dispensed,” Kennedy and Makary wrote.

They added that the review was prompted by “the lack of adequate consideration underlying the prior [Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS)] approvals, and by recent studies raising concerns about the safety of mifepristone as currently administered.”

One such study, conducted by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, analyzed insurance data and found nearly 11% of patients reported a “serious adverse event” after taking the abortion pill — including hemorrhaging, sepsis, fallopian tube rupture, and infection — compared to the 0.5% rate listed on the drug label.

A separate peer-reviewed study, not cited by Kennedy, concluded there is no scientifically valid basis for the oft-repeated claim that mifepristone is safer than Tylenol.

“HHS is committed to studying the adverse consequences reported in relation to mifepristone to ensure the REMS are sufficient to protect women from unstated risks. Therefore, through the FDA, HHS will conduct a study of the safety of the current REMS, in order to determine whether modifications are necessary,” Kennedy and Makary added.

The requirements for obtaining the abortion drug were significantly reduced under the Biden administration, with the FDA permanently eliminating an in-person dispensing requirement for the abortion pill in 2023. The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the FDA’s regulations brought by doctors and pro-life medical associations in 2024, finding they lacked standing to sue.

During a DCNF investigation in June, five online abortion providers supplied pills for “future use” without a doctor verifying key medical information, like the stage of pregnancy.

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