Keir Starmer (Credit: Freedom From Religion Foundation)
For over 16 years, TGP has been on the cutting-edge front of exposing Muslim grooming gangs in the UK and elsewhere, inevitably being branded all those ugly names they use to try to stop us conservatives.
You can see a collection of articles on the issues going back to 2017here.
That’s why we get so mobilized when we learn that in the UK, the detestable Labour government blocked an inquiry into Sir Keir Starmer’s conduct as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) between 2008-2013. Why?
In the CPS, Starmer failed miserably – some say criminally – to investigate the Oldham child grooming scandal, where thousands of girls were mass-groomed, mass-raped, trafficked, and abused.
Now, Jess Phillips, the Labour ‘safeguarding minister,’ has refused the victims’ demands to launch a public inquiry into historical sexual abuse by Muslim gangs in Oldham.
The Telegraphreported: “The scandal was one of several across the country in which dozens of girls were abused by British Pakistani gangs.
Police forces and prosecutors often did not take action for fear of being called racist or Islamophobic, a failing Sir Keir addressed in 2012 when he was running the CPS as the director of public prosecutions.”
Meanwhile, Elon Musk and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch are leading the charge against the decision to block an inquiry.
Musk claimed Minister Phillips ‘deserves to be in prison’ over her ‘disgraceful’ decision, taken – he said – to protect the Prime Minister.
“He said: ‘Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008–2013. Who is the boss of Jess Phillips right now? Keir Stamer [sic]. The real reason she’s refusing to investigate the rape gangs is that it would obviously lead to the blaming of Keir Starmer (head of the CPS at the time)’.”
Who is the boss of Jess Phillips right now? Keir Stamer.
The real reason she’s refusing to investigate the rape gangs is that it would obviously lead to the blaming of Keir Stamer (head of the CPS at the time).
The real reason is that it would show how Starmer repeatedly ignored the pleas of vast numbers of little girls and their parents, in order to secure political support.
Keir Starmer indirectly responds to Elon Musk by saying that those who spread lies and misinformation about gangs who abused children are not interested in victims and those who cheerleading Tommy Robinson are not interested in justice. pic.twitter.com/16IfAYP29Y
The @UKParliament blatantly ignored @LordPearson when he was inquiring about the government’s cover-up of Muslims raping millions of British children, and daring to ask if Islam is even compatible with our way of life. With Pearson and others dismissed like rubbish, it’s clear as… pic.twitter.com/D29dYeXjkx
Kier Starmer’s ‘far right’ speech was predictable & insensitive… To put the welfare of our children first is NOT far right! @TRobinsonNewEra final interview before his incarceration. pic.twitter.com/jObsenTUYL
BREAKING: The far-left Labour Party, led by grooming gang enabler Keir Starmer, has just voted against opening up an inquiry into child rape gangs in the UK.
Just days before the fourth anniversary of the so-called insurrection, the Congressional House Oversight Committee released a major report on the January 6 pipe bomb scandal that resoundingly confirms multiple key aspects of Revolver News’ reporting on this scandal over the past three and a half years. We at Revolver News have faced tremendous difficulty for breaking the pipe bomb story wide open, and, together with our reporting on the Ray Epps breach, which coincided with the suspicious discovery of the pipe bombs, dismantled the entire Fedsurrection narrative. For years, the regime ignored it. Now, thanks to Dan Bongino and Kash Patel, this cover-up is getting dragged back into the spotlight.
Revolver News’ Darren Beattie recently explained some of the implications of this report in an interview that has taken the media by storm (over 6 million views on Twitter and counting).
Watch these two powerful videos:
BREAKING: Incoming Trump DOJ Is Set To Prosecute The Democrat Deep State For Staging The Jan 6th Pipe Bomb & Other False Flag Events,
Dr. Darren Beattie Of Revolver News Breaks Major Intel@DarrenJBeattie
Darren Beattie discusses the great January 6th cover-up with Don Jr., highlighting how, with Kash Patel heading the FBI, this entire lie—including the infamous pipe bomb footage—will finally be exposed. pic.twitter.com/r2irOxkRcs
We were universally reviled in the mainstream media as conspiracy theorists. Google Ads and other programmatic ad services cancelled us; over four different email sending services cancelled us, making it next to impossible to get our reporting out to our mailing list. We’ve received threats, including from Ray Epps himself, who promised to sue (he eventually lost his suit against Fox for having Revolver’s Darren Beattie on to talk about Epps). Perhaps nothing better illustrates the hostility with which Biden’s national security state viewed our reporting on January 6 than the fact that an FBI agent was not only put on leave but had his security clearance revoked simply for sharing our January 6 reporting with colleagues (our understanding is that his clearance and job are now reinstated, thank God).
Of course, the hostility we’ve faced is not because we were peddling a baseless conspiracy theory, but rather because we almost single-handedly destroyed a false narrative about January 6 in which the regime had invested billions of dollars and, arguably, an entire election cycle. Indeed, the false story that January 6 was a deadly terrorist attack and MAGA insurrection served as a key pretext for the national security state to weaponize itself against Trump supporters. We, therefore, welcome such reports as the recent pipe bomb report from Congress’ House Admin Committee—the first full government account of the problems we’ve reported concerning the official pipe bomb story (the Secret Service OIG report touched on this a bit, the DOJ OIG report not at all). Congressman Thomas Massie has done a tremendous job of taking Revolver News’ reporting on the pipe bomb to the next level using his Congressional perch, and we are especially pleased to note Massie’s key role in the creation of the House Admin report on the pipe bomb story. (Read more: Revolver News, 1/15/2025)(Archive)
President Joe Biden will award two members of the January 6th Committee – Liz Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson (R-MS) with the second-highest civilian honor for their roles in the carefully controlled witch hunt.
According to the Associated Press, whoever is running the country decided that Cheney, Thompson, and 18 other individuals will receive the Presidential Citizens Medal on Thursday.
“President Biden believes these Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving others,” the White House said in a statement. “The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.”
That said, we all know it was a sham from the beginning…
The J6 Committee was controversial and heavily partisan from the beginning. When it was first announced, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) a chance to seat the conventional number of Republicans on the committee. However, she rejected two of his choices, Congressmen Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.), for being too conservative, which led to McCarthy refusing to name any Republicans to the committee.
Pelosi herself then chose just two Republicans for the committee, both of whom were known for being radically anti-Trump: Cheney and Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). Both Cheney and Kinzinger became extremely unpopular as a result of their involvement, with Kinzinger choosing to retire ahead of the 2022 midterms, while Cheney was defeated by primary challenger Harriet Hageman in one of the biggest landslides against an incumbent in the history of the House of Representatives. –American Greatness
Meanwhile, as Julie Kelly noted last week, it appears that Cheney is preparing to fight any Trump-era federal and/or congressional probe into her ‘demonstrably corrupt role’ as vice chairman of the J6 committee.
Text messages obtained by Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga), chair of a House subcommittee looking into the J6 committee, prove that Cheney colluded behind the scenes with star witness Cassidy Hutchinson, who dramatically changed her testimony after connecting with Cheney. The communications could represent witness tampering, subornation of perjury—every former White House official including the driver of the presidential vehicle on January 6 has refuted Hutchinson’s account of Trump’s behavior that day—and obstruction.
Based on the results of his ongoing inquiry, Loudermilk determined that “numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney” and called for the FBI to investigate her. (Read more: Zero Hedge, 1.02/2025)(Archive)
In a press release, the White House confirmed that Clinton and Soros were among the 19 chosen receipients of the medal, which is the country’s highest civilian honor.
According to their statement, Clinton and Soros were chosen for having “made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.”
“President Biden believes great leaders keep the faith, give everyone a fair shot, and put decency above all else,” it continues.
Elon Musk and his Twitter (X platform) engineers have an Artificial Intelligence (AI) user engagement and information system known as Grok. Essentially, you can ask AI Grok questions, and it provides responses based on the coded values of the engineers who built it.
Recently people have noticed a change on the Twitter (X) platform as Elon Musk announced the algorithm was being modified by his team. So, people started to engage with Grok and ask questions about their user account, the status changes evident from the algorithmic modifications, and the AI learning that is coded by Musk’s engineers. Essentially, asking the Grok AI: “How do you perceive me (through my content)?”
The responses from the xAI Grok system are starting to alarm everyone.
.…”These posts might be subject to reduced reach because they could be perceived as promoting skepticism, conspiracy, or negativity towards individuals, institutions, or the media. However, without direct insight into X’s algorithms or specific feedback from X, these are speculative based on general platform behavior towards negative content. Remember, platforms often aim to reduce the visibility of posts that could lead to misinformation, harassment, or a negative user experience.”….
“Don’t criticize your government, don’t criticize foreign governments, don’t talk about conspiracy theories, stop telling people to fuck off in the comments, and don’t accuse government officials or members of the media of malfeasance or dishonesty.”
These are the parameters built by Elon Musk and his Twitter engineers.
lol asking Grok how to avoid tripping the negativity censors:
“Don’t criticize your government, don’t criticize foreign governments, don’t talk about conspiracy theories, stop telling people to fuck off in the comments, and don’t accuse government officials or members of the… pic.twitter.com/eiwQn9sGhA
This is what controls the ‘reach of speech’ on the platform. Now, it would be simply funny but there are serious layers that must be discussed here.
First, this is how Elon Musk, the demigod free speech advocate, is structuring the algorithm within his Twitter (X) platform. These are his coded values as displayed by the engineers he has hired. Musks engineers transcribe his goals into code and implant it within the algorithm that controls the site content and restricts or enlarges the influence of the users.
Read this again. …”Don’t criticize your government, don’t criticize foreign governments, don’t talk about conspiracy theories, … and don’t accuse government officials or members of the media of malfeasance or dishonesty.” What does that sound like?
Many people will disregard this and simply shake it away saying, ‘it’s just some stupid social media platform, who cares.’ Let me tell you why it matters.
These same coded values are being created by the same tech engineers who are currently building out the surveillance state technological interface with government. This same perspective, what Palantir CEO Alex Karp described as “coded values,” is being written into the code within Palantir facial recognition and targeting software. The U.S. Government has already signed billions in contracts with Palantir (Peter Thiel) for these AI products.
Take your “REAL ID” as required by the United States Government (Passport or Driver’s License compatible), now overlay your identity as facially recognized by the tech system around your identity and connect it all to the metadata of your digital life that you leave as a fingerprint within every interaction with technology, and finally add in the coded values that will determine your “liberty status” or what might be called your social credit score (China version). Now do you see the problem?
Larry Ellison: […] But this is only the start of our surveillance dystopia, according to Larry Ellison, the billionaire cofounder of Oracle. He said AI will usher in a new era of surveillance that he gleefully said will ensure “citizens will be on their best behavior.”
Ellison made the comments as he spoke to investors earlier this week during an Oracle financial analysts meeting, where he shared his thoughts on the future of AI-powered surveillance tools.
Ellison said AI would be used in the future to constantly watch and analyze vast surveillance systems, like security cameras, police body cameras, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dashboard cameras.
“We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.” (more)
What we are witnessing evolve on Twitter, are the original imprints of how the Silicon Valley artificial intelligence products will engage in your life. This is the core “coded values” part of the AI assembly. Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Vivek Ramaswamy, JD Vance are all part of the technological network building this system for influence and affluence.
These same actors are about to take their AI enhancements into the largest database ever created and stored in human history, through DOGE. The databases of the U.S Government and NSA hold an astronomical scale of American data. Imagine the computer learning possible by allowing AI to analyze that level of data scale.
The debate about “coded values” on Twitter is only the tip of the iceberg.
I’ve been working on a very detailed & formal 2 hour video going over my investigation into the free speech & censorship concerns that played out here on X this week. Need to attend a family trip now but wanted at least something up b4 leaving, so cobbled this 18 min placeholder pic.twitter.com/8wFsbeHoWT
A top Justice Department national security prosecutor has become an early casualty of the incoming Trump administration, abruptly resigning from the department last week before incoming appointees can retaliate against him for his key role in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president.
But three sources familiar with the move described it to SpyTalk as a significant and even chilling event previewing a potential exodus of seasoned government lawyers and FBI agents who fear the wrath of Pam Bondi, Trump ’s pick for attorney general, Kash Patel, his intended nominee for FBI Director, and their expected army of MAGA loyalists in line to fill out top posts.
“They’re forcing him out. There isn’t any doubt that, like [FBI Director Chris] Wray, he’s leaving to get ahead of the axe,” said one former Justice official who attended a farewell party for Bratt at the Justice Department’s seventh floor media center on Friday.
Reached by phone on Sunday, Bratt, 65—who served as a Justice lawyer for more than three decades—confirmed his departure, but declined to comment further. Bratt, who had achieved senior executive status within the department, has told friends and colleagues that he concluded it “wasn’t worth it” to stay at the department only to fight what he fully expected to be a “wrongful termination” notice from his new bosses at Justice, according to a source familiar with his conversations. (Read more: SpyTalk, 1/5/2024) (Archive)
Judicial Watch announced today that the Superior Court in Fulton County, GA, issued an order granting $21,578 “attorney’s fees and costs” in the open records lawsuit for communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee. The order followed a previous order finding that Willis was in default in the lawsuit.
Judicial Watch filed this lawsuit in March 2024 filed after Willis falsely denied having any records responsive to Judicial Watch’s earlier Georgia Open Records Act (ORA) request for communications with Special Counsel Jack Smiths office and/or the January 6 Committee (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Fani Willis et al.(No. 24-CV-002805)).
After finding Willis in default, the court ordered a court hearing on December 20, which resulted in the order yesterday, finding Willis liable for fees and expenses that “shall be paid within two weeks of the entry of this Order.” The order recountsthe timeline of events after Judicial Watch filed its records request:
Plaintiff [Judicial Watch] submitted an Open Records Act (ORA) request to Defendant on 22 August 2023 by way of Fulton County’s ORA on-line “portal”. That same day, Plaintiff received confirmation that its request had been delivered and would be channeled to the “appropriate department” (presumably the District Attorney’s Office). The following day, the County’s Open Records Custodian sent Plaintiff [Judicial Watch] an email confirming that the District Attorney’s Office had received the inquiry and asking Plaintiff to “simplify” its ORA [Open Records Act] request…. Literally five minutes later, before any simplification had occurred, Plaintiff received a second e-mail from the Records Custodian: “After carefully reviewing your request. (sic) We do not have the responsive records.”
This response was perplexing and eventually suspicious to Plaintiff, given that Plaintiff subsequently uncovered through own effort at least one document that should have been in the District Attorney’s Office’s possession that was patently responsive to the request.
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Defendant [Willis] ultimately defaulted and this Court entered an Order on 2 December 2024 directing Defendant “to conduct a diligent search of her records for responsive materials” and to provide any responsive records that were not legally exempted from disclosure….
Defendant’s compliance with the Court’s 2 December Order consisted of an undated, unsigned two-page memo to Plaintiff from Defendant’s “Open Records Department.” … In this memo, Defendant announced that there still were no records responsive to one set of Plaintiff’s requests (communications with former Special Counsel Jack Smith) but that there were in fact records responsive to Plaintiff’s second set of requests (communications with the United States House January 6th Committee) – but those were exempt from disclosure….
Despite having previously informed Plaintiff four separate times that her team had carefully searched but found no responsive records, now there suddenly were – but they were not subject to disclosure under the ORA….
The ORA is not hortatory; it is mandatory. Non-compliance has consequences. One of them can be liability for the requesting party’s attorney’s fees and costs of litigation.
The court concludes its criticism of Willis’ actions, stating:
Most basically, by operation of law Defendant acknowledged violating the ORA when she defaulted. But actual evidence proves the same: per her Records Custodian’s own admission, the District Attorney’s Office flatly ignored Plaintiff’s original ORA request, conducting no search and simply (and falsely) informing the County’s Open Records Custodian that no responsive records existed. We know now that that is simply incorrect: once pressed by a Court order, Defendant managed to identify responsive records, but has categorized them as exempt. Even if the records prove to be just that – exempt from disclosure for sound public policy reasons – this late revelation is a patent violation of the ORA. And for none of this is there any justification, substantial or otherwise: no one searched until prodded by civil litigation.
Given this, the Court finds that relevant and reasonable attorney’s fees and costs of litigation are properly awardable to Plaintiff … Defendant is thus liable to Plaintiff for $21,578 pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 50-18-73(b). That amount shall be paid within two weeks of the entry of this Order.
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida issued an order Tuesday temporarily preventing former Special Counsel Jack Smith from releasing a report into the so-called “documents” case against President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump’s legal team filed an emergency motion on Monday night in the U.S. district and appellate court to stop Smith.
Cannon’s order Tuesday read, in part:
Pending resolution of the Emergency Motion filed in the Eleventh Circuit and/or any further direction from the Eleventh Circuit, Attorney General Garland, the Department of Justice, Special Counsel Smith, all of their officers, agents, and employees, and all persons acting in active concert or participation with such individuals, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(d)(2), are TEMPORARILY ENJOINED from (a) releasing, sharing, or transmitting the Final Report or any drafts of such Report outside the Department of Justice, or (b) otherwise releasing, distributing, conveying, or sharing with anyone outside the Department of Justice any information or conclusions in the Final Report or in drafts thereof.
Special counsel Jack Smith has turned over to Attorney General Merrick Garland the completed final report on his two investigations that resulted in felony charges against President-elect Donald Trump, part of which Garland intends to make public, the Justice Department said in a filing Wednesday.
The filing — which was made by the Justice Department separate from Smith’s office — came after Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked the release of the report on Trump’s handling of classified documents. Cannon is the Florida judge who tossed the charges against Trump, siding with an argument that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.
But the Justice Department said Wednesday there was “neither any need nor legal basis for an injunction” on the release of the report because Garland intends to give Congress only volume one — which focuses on Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election — “in furtherance of the public interest in informing a co-equal branch and the public regarding this significant matter.”
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outperformed the S&P 500 index by nearly 200% in 2024, but she still fell behind nine of her congressional colleagues.
Pelosi’s portfolio’s 70.9% increase from Dec. 29, 2023, to Dec. 30, 2024, was nearly triple the S&P 500’s 24.9% return, but it fell well below those of Republican North Carolina Rep. David Rouzer and Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who saw returns of 149% and 142.3% — topping the list of members of Congress. Democratic Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, Republican Texas Rep. Roger Williams and Democratic Kentucky Rep. Morgan McGarvey’s portfolios also saw double-digit increases, rising 123.8%, 111.2% and 105.8% in 2024, respectively, according to financial data platform Unusual Whales’ 2024 Congress Trading Report.
Pelosi’s annual returns also lagged behind those of Republican Reps. Larry Bucshon of Indiana and Pete Sessions of Texas, who saw increases of 98.6% and 95.2%, as well as Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Republican Tennessee Rep. David Kustoff, whose portfolios grew 77.5% and 71.5%, respectively, the trading data showed.
🚨BREAKING🚨
I just released the full report on Congress trading in 2024.
Like every year since 2020, some US politicians beat the market.
From the start of 2024 to year end, many had unusual trades & huge portfolio gains.
International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) graphic (Credit: LinkedIn)
Meta’s so-called “independent fact-checkers” are reportedly scrambling after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major overhaul of the company’s controversial fact-checking initiative, which has been nothing more than a propaganda machine for leftist agendas.
On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the termination of the company’s controversial third-party fact-checking program.
(…) Now, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), which has long been a cornerstone of Meta’s now-defunct program, is in full-blown crisis mode.
Hours after Meta’s announcement, IFCN director Angie Holan confirmed an emergency meeting to address the fallout.
“This program has been a major part of the global fact-checking community’s work for years,” Nolan told Business Insider. “People are upset because they saw themselves as partners in good standing with Meta, doing important work to make the platform more accurate and reliable.”
Holan and other fact-checkers have dismissed claims of censorship, insisting their role was merely to “add context.”
“It was never about censorship but about adding context to prevent false claims from going viral,” Holan claimed despite mounting evidence to prove otherwise.
For years, conservatives, including The Gateway Pundit, have experienced the real-world effects of this “context,” often finding their posts buried, flagged, or outright removed for challenging progressive orthodoxy.
Conservatives have long criticized Meta’s partnerships with left-leaning organizations like PolitiFact, acting as gatekeepers to stifle viewpoints that challenge liberal narratives. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/7/2025)(Archive)
If Mark Zuckerberg is serious about change, he should publish a list of all accounts banned under the previous censorship policies and fully reinstate them. https://t.co/gIF01YNmnf
Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to make war against the deep state. Now it seems the first battle may take place on home ground: the White House.
Congressional and intelligence sources tell Tablet that the candidate slotted in for the top intelligence spot on the National Security Council is ill suited to serve the president’s agenda. Adam Howard, reportedly the front-runner for the NSC’s senior director for intelligence, is currently staff director for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Republican Congressman Mike Turner. According to several current congressional sources, multiple House members have raised concern over an alleged boast made by Turner on Capitol Hill that he’s “taking over Trump’s IC [Intelligence Community].” Presumably, Howard is meant to be his instrument.
Maher Bitar (center right), the outgoing National Security Council Director for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs, and his wife, Astrid Dorelien, during a family photo in the Oval Office of the White House September 21, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Credit: ObamaDiary)
On Sunday, Joshua Steinman, an NSC official from the first Trump administration, posted a long thread on X reporting that the current NSC is being staffed with holdovers from the Joe Biden administration and others unlikely to serve Trump’s agenda, including Howard, whose intelligence experience is limited to the two years he’s served as HPSCI staff director. Biden’s senior director for intelligence is Maher Bitar, an anti-Israel activist once affiliated with the Students for Justice in Palestine. Bitar also came from HPSCI, where he worked under then-Congressman now-Sen. Adam Schiff, one of Trump’s most vocal opponents on Capitol Hill.
“Without an operational intelligence background, you can’t clean up the mess made by the current [Biden] team,” wrote Steinman.
I spent 4yrs on President Trump’s National Security Council – first day to last – and I fear there are mistakes being made NOW re: NSC that will lead to four years of ineffective governance at best, betrayal at worst.
“[Is Howard] willing to expose IC dirty tricks targeting the President?” Steinman asked in his X thread. He was not outlining a hypothetical but rather referring to the NSC’s work in the first Trump White House uncovering the surveillance of the president and his aides. After the 2016 election, NSC staffers found that Obama officials had unmasked the names of transition team officials in transcripts of foreign intelligence intercepts, most notably Gen. Michael Flynn. Trump’s onetime national security adviser was unmasked by at least 40 Obama officials—including now President Joe Biden.
The unlawful leak to the media of Flynn’s phone conversation with Russia’s U.S. ambassador led first to the combat veteran’s departure from the White House and subsequently the special counsel investigation that hobbled the first half of Trump’s first term in office. NSC holdovers from the Obama administration bogged down the Trump team and one holdover, CIA official Eric Ciaramella, teed up the first impeachment of Trump.
Turner in fact was excellent during the impeachment process, using the televised hearings to defend the president and break down Schiff’s anti-Trump witnesses. After Turner took over the committee, he was reportedly keen to reset relations with Schiff and the Democrats and move toward bipartisanship. The problem is that it’s hard to have comity with a faction led by an ambitious activist like Schiff who saw the committee as a political weapon to target opponents.
There’s a lot riding on the current NSC starting off on the strongest possible footing and with an eye to defending a commander in chief certain to be in the deep state’s crosshairs. Steinman concluded his thread with the observation that if the new intel director “isn’t 100% on board with the Trump Agenda, we are in for trouble.” (Read more: Tablet, 1/09/2025)(Archive)
Alexander Vindman (Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman criticized incoming National Security Adviser Mike Waltz’s plan to clear out each “intelligence official” serving in “various departments and agencies” throughout the federal government who is “currently detailed” to the National Security Council (NSC).
Mike Waltz (Credit: Getty Images)
In a post on X, Vindman responded to an interview Waltz had with Breitbart News’s Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle, where Waltz spoke about how intelligence officials serving in various departments and agencies under President Joe Biden’s administration would be “expected to vacate the premises by 12:01 p.m. Eastern” on January 20, when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.
“Yesterday, President Trump’s National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz @michaelgwaltz, announced a sweeping directive to terminate all national security staffers loaned from other departments and agencies who serve in apolitical, non-partisan senior staff roles,” Vindman wrote.
He continued:
Waltz framed this decision as a means to eliminate Biden-era appointees and enforce absolute alignment with Trump’s policy agenda. Notably, Waltz justified this move by referencing my role in exposing Trump’s abuse of power, which led to his first impeachment. Using my actions as a rationale, Waltz aims to purge scores of professionals from the Department of Defense, Department of State, CIA, and other agencies—not because of their conduct, but due to a demand for blind allegiance to Trump.
Statement on National Security Staff Firings
Yesterday, President Trump’s National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz @michaelgwaltz , announced a sweeping directive to terminate all national security staffers loaned from other departments and agencies who serve in apolitical,…
Breitbart News’s Matthew Boyle explained how the NSC works:
The way the NSC works is the National Security Adviser oversees a team of political appointees from the president who oversee a wide range of what are called “detailees”—people who work at the various agencies and departments across the federal government who are assigned, or detailed, to work at the White House for a period of time on the NSC in a portfolio in which they demonstrate expertise. These career intelligence officials come from places as wide-ranging as the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Pentagon, and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and report up to the political appointees atop each major portfolio in the NSC. The NSC has various issue-specific portfolios like counterterrorism and cyber policy as well as regional portfolios focused on things like the western hemisphere or the Middle East or Europe or Asia. The detailees then help coordinate back to the various agencies and departments so the whole federal government executes on the decisions that the president makes.
Eight years ago today, Jake Tapper planted the seeds of the Russia collusion hoax in the media. Until then, the media avoided the story because it was so obviously fabricated. But Tapper got a fake news hook from Comey and ran with it, giving the hoax a fake veneer of legitimacy. https://t.co/X3xqqRzd3f
On January [10], 2017, Jake Tapper, Karl, Bernstein, Jim Sciutto, and Evan Perez dropped an article at CNN based on BuzzFeed’s report of the fake dossier, titled Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him.
It began,
“Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operators claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings to CNN.”
One paragraph says,
“The classified briefing last week was represented by four of the senior most senior US intelligence chiefs – director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers. Allegedly, they told the president-elect about this because such allegations involving him are circulating among intelligence agencies, senior members of Congress and other government officials in Washington, multiple sources, Tennessee, CNN.”
One paragraph stepped it up so Congress would demand to see it:
“Sources tell CNN that these same allegations about communications between the Trump campaign and the Russians, mentioned in classified briefings for congressional leaders last year, prompted then-Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid to send a letter to FBI Director Comey in October, in which he wrote, “It has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government – a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States.”
The purpose of it was to begin to cast suspicions on the President-elect and whet the public’s appetite to know the details.
The Fake Dossier
There’s a lot more, and you can read the article, but we now know that Hillary Clinton‘s close apparatchiks planned the dossier. Her DNC paid them to come up with dirt by any means necessary. It was written from clearly fraudulent information by a very compromised Russian tied to the Kremlin, who later admitted he made it up.
Washington DC is creating a surveillance state. We can debate the motives and intentions behind it, but the core of their creation aligns and supports a fully comprehensive American surveillance state.
We cannot be intellectually honest with each other about how the tools of a weaponized government were deployed against Americans, specifically in the example of presidential candidate Donald Trump, without accepting the tools exist for far more consequential reasons than just Donald Trump.
In this segment from April of 2024, Tucker Carlson (motive irrelevant) accurately outlined the purpose of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and how that legislatively created tool is being used by Washington DC, both parties.
Within this monologue Tucker Carlson hits on some accurate points to share with his audience. The commentary about HPSCI Chairman Mike Turner is spot on accurate. The IC pressure meetings are also true {SEE HERE}. The analysis of Speaker Mike Johnson also appears to be widely accurate. WATCH:
My personal experience with the IC surveillance state mirrors that described by Tucker Carlson. As you step into the world of real data, unfiltered by the systems intended to control our perspectives, the system tends to see you as a threat.
Ongoing research into the dollar-based Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) has made the surveillance system much more visible. All of these systems (Real ID, Digital Identity, Facial Recognition, metadata collection, AI search and result capability, etc.) are eventually going to merge and connect, unless we do something to stop the people who are creating this system.
Previously in 2013, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz and former Department of Defense Chief of Staff, Kash Patel, appeared on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss President Donald Trump’s criminal case, the J6 targeting and the use of FISA-702 to conduct political surveillance.
I am prompting the earlier video to 02:20 to focus one aspect of the interview on the 2013 Republican led FISA-702 reauthorization and extension. I agree with almost everything Mr Patel says about the ramifications of the GOPe House, led by HPSCI Chairman Mike Turner, and the FISA extension. However, there is also an aspect that 99% of everyone misses, and within that dynamic we become victims to our own willful blindness. First, watch the segment on FISA-702 (prompted):
To remind….
The CIA director, NSA director, ODNI, FBI Director, etc are not in charge of the compartments they represent. They are simply functionaries -middle men- who operate in the space between where the compass points are directed, where the data originates, and oversight of that data that is ultimately filtered and delivered to the functionaries, who then brief the representatives…. who then create policy… albeit flawed policy…. based on a very specific, controlled, compartmented and skewed information flow. (more)
The value of Kash Patel’s institutional currency is connected to this access, even with Republicans in charge. The same is true for any other member of the Intelligence Community, including John Ratcliffe, current CIA silo nominee.
As a result, the corrupt DC functionaries operate without any accountability, no corrective action ever takes place, no accountability is metered out, and WORSE…. an oblivious public cheer on people like Kash Patel and many others who give the illusion they are railing against corruption.
For those who choose denial and pretending over the brutal reality, their criticism of me is irrelevant. The truth exists regardless of our comfort level.
Accepting we are abused victims to professional gaslighting, manipulation and Machiavellian deceit, carried out by those who claim to be our allies, is painful and unnerving. However, failing to accept the reality only retains our status as victims; we become codependent enablers and battered conservatives. The surveillance system continues to be assembled and refined. It is a remarkable dynamic.
Many people can now see how DC functionaries played this intelligence game against President Donald Trump, using the false justification of “national security.” However, those same voices cannot see how we are continually being played by the same defenders of a corrupt system within DC.
Changing the system first begins by awakened people thinking about the long-term ramifications from what is being assembled. What is the value of national security, when the liberty that secures the values of America is destroyed in the process?
Either the Fourth Amendment means something, or it does not!
Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during an interview on Sunday, a week before he steps down, that China has penetrated America’s water treatment plants, electric grid, and other critical civilian infrastructure, and is lying “in wait” for an opportunity to cyberattack at a time and place of its choosing.
Asked on CBS’s 60 Minutes about Chinese penetration of U.S. cyber and infrastructure, Wray said China’s cyber program is the largest in the world and has stolen more of Americans’ personal and corporate data than every nation combined. Then, he added:
But even beyond the cyber theft. There’s another part of the Chinese cyber threat that I think has not gotten the attention publicly that it I think desperately deserves. And that is Chinese government’s pre-positioning on American civilian critical infrastructure. To lie in wait on those networks to be in a position to wreak havoc and can inflict real-world harm at a time and place of their choosing.
Wray said China has already infiltrated malware into critical American infrastructure.
“Things like water treatment plants. We’re talking about transportation systems. We’re talking about targeting of our energy sector, the electric grid, natural gas pipelines. And recently we’ve seen targeting of our telecommunications systems,” he said.
Wray said China has also been listening into Americans’ calls.
CBS News said China has gathered communications of U.S. national security officials, as well as the Kamala Harris campaign and President-Elect Donald Trump himself.
The revelation prompted outrage from former Trump administration officials who say Wray did not do enough to stem the threat from China on his watch, only to discuss it publicly a week from stepping down.
Joshua Steinman, former National Security Council senior director for cyber security during the Trump administration, posted on X:
This enrages me.
I left them with the tools they needed to confront this.
And it appears those tools went unused for four years.
BREAKING: Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, says President Biden is handing over a stronger and more secure country to President-elect Trump—better than the one Trump left behind. He says the economy is strong, the Afghanistan war is over, Iran is at its weakest… pic.twitter.com/UcGgaerE5S
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is reportedly attempting to kill the Laken Riley Act, a bill that requires the DHS to take illegal aliens who have been charged, arrested, or convicted for crimes such as theft, larceny, burglary or shoplifting into custody.
Pablo Manriquez, a news reporter, wrote in a post on X that “sources at DHS” were informing him that the cost of the Laken Riley Act was estimated to be between $20-$30 billion.
Manriquez added that the DHS sources had cited “a $7 billion figure just for beds BEFORE the mandate’s costs on local law enforcement.”
The post from Manriquez came in response to an article shared by Stef Kight, a political reporter with Axios. In the article from Axios, it was revealed that “federal immigration officials” had warned that they may need to detain roughly 60,000 people and require “billions of dollars and thousands more detention beds.”
NEW: Sources at DHS are telling me the cost of Laken Riley Act would be more like $20-30 billion, citing a $7 billion figure just for beds BEFORE the mandate’s costs on local law enforcement. https://t.co/ZfMrNTvgJ9
As Breitbart News’s John Binder previously reported, at the beginning of January the House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act, despite receiving opposition from 159 Democrats.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been one of the Democrats who has supported the Laken Riley Act.
“ICE reported tens of thousands of migrants with criminal records — homicide or sexual assault,” Fetterman wrote in a post on X.
Fetterman added that 425,000 migrants “have criminal records in total and should be deported.”
From left, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sit together in the front row before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Jan. 17, 2014. (Credit: Carolyn Kaster/The Associated Press)
(…) CIA Opposition to Candidate Trump
During the 2016campaign, “the CIA … overtly threw its weight behind Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and sought to defeat Donald Trump.” This was not a covert operation — it was an in-Trump’s-face effort to defeat him, planting seeds for the Russiagate hoax. “In August [2016], former acting CIA Director Michael Morell announced his endorsement of Clinton in the New York Times and claimed that ‘Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.’ GWB’s CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden also endorsed Clinton and used the CIA-friendly Washington Post to warn, in the week before the election, that ‘Donald Trump really does sound a lot like Vladimir Putin.’”
CIA Opposition to President Trump
After Trump’s victory, the CIA “concluded” that Russia had interfered by hacking emails from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The FBI accepted the conclusion of the Clinton Campaign vendor CrowdStrike that Russia did the hacking, even though that company later admitted it had no proof. While the CIA libeled Trump as essentially a Russian agent, “Brennan also had intel saying ‘actually Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win because she was a known quantity, she had been secretary of state, and Vladimir Putin’s team thought she was more malleable, while candidate Donald Trump was unpredictable’” — and Brennan covered it up. In “concluding” that Russia wanted Trump, Brennan, “the most politicized intelligence chief in American history,” allowed “no dissenting views or even … reviews by outside experts.” As Blaze News noted:
While Donald Trump was president, theCIA launched a full-scale operation to remove him from office for daring to question the agency…. Brennan initiated the Russia collusion hoax by leaking the “Steele dossier,” a complete fabrication based on false information from Russian intelligence officials. Brennan misled the press, claiming the dossier was CIA intelligence…. This was the CIA’s attempt to stage a domestic coup and take down a sitting president.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters described how Brennan and the CIA “manipulated other assessments, buried high-quality intelligence, and then manufactured a conclusion that 17 agencies agreed Russia interfered in the 2016 elections to help Trump and then the press ran with it, and the country was brainwashed.” Trump correctly noted that his CIA attackers were “the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.”
In August 2019, the Washington Examiner reported that “[f]ormer CIA Director John Brennan says world leaders view President Trump as not only ‘incompetent,’ but also ‘delusional.’” In late October 2020, as Trump and Biden prepared for their second presidential debate, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell sent an email to another former director, Obama-appointed John Brennan. He asked Brennan to sign on to a letter claiming that the New York Post expose on Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian “disinformation.” Morell later admitted that the intent of the letter was to “help Vice President Biden … because I wanted him to win the election.” Brennan responded, “Ok, Michael, add my name to the list. Good initiative. Thanks for asking me to sign on.” Of the 51 “current and former intelligence officials” who signed the letter designed to defeat Trump, 42 were current or former CIA.
Also in 2019, Real Clear Investigations reported that the so-called “whistleblower” who claimed a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian officials that was cited as a charge in Trump’s first impeachment, was actually CIA operative Eric Ciaramella, “a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, [who] previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia ‘collusion’ investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.” Ciaramella “huddled for ‘guidance’ with the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, including former colleagues also held over from the Obama era whom Schiff’s office had recently recruited….”
Congressman Jamie Raskin joins the Norm Eisen team to help thwart Trumps presidency! The planning for the Trump dictator and Hitler theme has been in use since at least Feb 2024. This will be the basis to seditiously fight his presidency. They also intend to use the Trump supporting Project 2025 fake narrative theme also.
Others included are:
Susan Corke, George Conway, Bill Kristol, Keith Ellison, Joanna Lyndgate, Sarah Longwell ACLU, and Jen Rubin.
This all now falls under the State Democracy Defenders:
“We go on OFFENSE against democracy deniers who break the law, including through our innovative program of outside public support for criminal prosecutions.”
They also have what they call a NO DICTATORS DECLARATION.
“We are alarmed about the rising autocratic movement in the United States that threatens the American idea and the American people.
January 6, 2021, represented an ugly inflection point of this movement and it is driving forward with authoritarian proposals like Project 2025 that constitute an assault on the freedoms of every American. This movement threatens to eviscerate our rights, our prosperity, and our stability and security upon which our nation and the world rely.”
*To me, Norm Eisen and Bill Kristol are like Soros without the billions.
Funders include:
– Reid Hoffman
– MORAN, GARRETT M
– HORING, JEFFREY L
– DINTERSMITH, TED
– Etc
Their No Dictators coalition bands together the ACLU, State Democracy Defenders, and Principles First
One State Democracy Defenders event was the ANTI-AUTOCRACY MOVEMENT.
The event was co-hosted by: State Democracy Defenders Action, Principles First, Democracy Forward, and The American Autocracy Threat Tracker, in partnership with convening co-chairs Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Ty Cobb, Norm Eisen, Bill Kristol, Heath Mayo, and Skye Perryman.
“The American Autocracy Threat Tracker is a comprehensive catalog based on Donald Trump and his associates’ plans, promises, and propositions.”
*This listing is extensive!
Now, Norm Eisen and crew discussed this autocracy tracker on the involved MSNBC in Feb 2024 while making outlandish accusations.
“By Norman Eisen, co-founder and a board member of State Democracy Defenders Action and Andrew Warren, state attorney for Hillsborough County, Florida”
“Norman Eisen is the co-founder and a board member of States United Action, a nonpartisan group dedicated to free, fair, secure elections.”
(MSNBC later edited this Feb 2024 article to add the State Democracy Defenders for Eisen, which was created April 2024 and removed mention of his States United. Which makes it appear that this was all started under States United.)
“Arguably Trump’s scariest rhetoric, however, relates to how he continually demonizes Americans with whom he disagrees. He has called those who don’t support him “demonic forces.”
“Echoing fascist dictators like Hitler and Mussolini, Trump has labeled those who oppose him as “vermin” and has vowed to root them out. This is not politics as usual, harmless humor or careless hyperbole.”
So there we have it, sources to follow.
🔥Breaking! Congressman Jamie Raskin joins the Norm Eisen team to help thwart Trumps presidency! The planning for the Trump dictator and Hitler theme has been in use since at least Feb 2024. This will be the basis to seditiously fight his presidency. They also intend to use the… pic.twitter.com/CLfqXnbbzc
O’Keefe Media Group has released footage from their investigation into Department of Defense advisor Jamie Mannina, revealing that he’s working behind the scenes with third-party groups and retired generals to undermine Trump’s incoming administration.
O’Keefe was in Washington, DC, this past weekend exposing Deep State employees who gave up information on plans to sabotage President Trump’s incoming administration. The Gateway Punditspoke to O’Keefe Sunday, and he shared that more tapes are coming this week, which expose various Deep State agencies, including the DOD and Executive Office of the White House’s plans to sabotage the incoming Trump Administration.
Mannina says he works at a ” top consulting firm” for the Pentagon, and he previously worked as an FBI Special Agent. “I became a spy hunter,” he ironically told an undercover journalist who, for all he knows, was a foreign spy.
Mannina says he works for “top consulting firm,” whose client is the Pentagon.
During the meeting with an undercover journalist, Mannina revealed that he had a “huge, huge meeting with military leaders in a very secure room called the Tank.” “So we have a Tank meeting with all of the top, top leaders of the United States’ Military tomorrow on my topic that I prepared,” he said.
Mannina says he’s “a little worried,” and he’ll try to do what he can with retired generals to stop the Trump Administration.
Watch below:
BREAKING VIDEO: Top Pentagon Advisor Reveals On Hidden Camera Conversation “with a Couple of Retired Generals to Explore What We Can Do” to ‘Protect People from Trump’
Confirms Secret Meetings regarding AI: “That is sensitive information… We’re going to have to keep it between… pic.twitter.com/Ry2zAMW3rn
See below the email response @OKeefeMedia received from Joint Staff Public Affairs Spokesman Joseph Holstead regarding Jamie Mannina’s termination: pic.twitter.com/vCzgCwRWl7
FLASHBACK: Jamie Mannina was busted by Predator DC coming to have sex with an underage girl in November 2021. He was an active FBI agent at the time. https://t.co/issiJU9s2Apic.twitter.com/fzAuqtG1dm
NEW ZUCKERBERG TAPES: LEAKED AUDIO of Rockefeller Foundation Staff Reveals
@Facebook’s $500K Ad Credit Scheme to Boost Biden-Aligned COVID Health Narratives
“More to come, just trying to get all the freebies from tech!”
“We negotiated $100,000 ad credits per pilot city… We also got ad credits for Governor Cuomo.”
“Keep a running tab of the number of free ads you’ve unlocked… That’d be a fun stat!”
NEW ZUCKERBERG TAPES: LEAKED AUDIO of Rockefeller Foundation Staff Reveals @Facebook’s $500K Ad Credit Scheme to Boost Biden-Aligned COVID Health Narratives
“More to come, just trying to get all the freebies from tech!”
“Facebook gave them [The Rockefeller Foundation] a hundred thousand dollars in ad credits per city,” revealed an inside source from the Rockefeller organization. According to recordings leaked to Citizen Journalism Foundation by the inside source, Facebook granted ad credits to the Rockefeller Foundation, amounting to at least “five hundred thousand dollars,” in 2021.
These credits were used to amplify public health initiatives and narratives aligned with the Biden administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO). John Spangler, the Former Director of Communications and Advocacy at the Rockefeller Foundation stated, “We’re offering them a lot of support,” while Estelle Willie, Director of Health Policy and Communications, chimed, “More to come, just trying to get all the freebies from tech!”
Spangler noted ongoing efforts to “help them [The Rockefeller Foundation] get, like, some ad credits from Facebook to support the study,” while Willie suggested keeping a tally of the free ads secured.
The group described using “tent pole moments” to increase public engagement with health messaging, likening the efforts to selling a “hot new product,” and calling their public health campaign approach “the sizzle and the steak.”
Notably, the leaked tapes coincide with a shift in Facebook’s content moderation policies. Mark Zuckerberg announced that the platform would abandon traditional fact-checking in favor of a Community Notes system. However, Zuckerberg’s public statements present a contrast to the internal actions revealed in the audio. While he has claimed that the Biden administration “pushed [Facebook] super hard” to suppress certain content, the ad credit grants suggest active collaboration to amplify specific narratives.
“Facebook gave them [The Rockefeller Foundation] a hundred thousand dollars in ad credits per city,” revealed an inside source from the Rockefeller organization. According to recordings leaked to Citizen Journalism Foundation by the inside source, Facebook granted ad credits to…
Western media, U.S. government officials and allied NGOs promote evidence-free claims of Syrian government mass graves while ignoring documented HTS and ISIS mass graves.(Part 2 of a 2 part series) Read Part 1 here.
For over a decade of color revolutions and destabilization plots in West Asia and North Africa, U.S. government officials with their allied NGOs and media outlets have summoned the spectre of mass graves to justify their interventionist policies.
“As President, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action,” President Barack Obama declared in a March 2011speech justifying Operation Odyssey Dawn, the U.S. airstrikes that led to the deposal and grisly murder of Libyan president Moammar Qadaffi.
“Why batter Colonel Qaddafi and not intervene on the side of the opposition in Yemen, Bahrain, perhaps even Syria?,” The Economist wondered.
From the earliest days of the Syrian crisis, Western media began to disseminate anonymously-sourced and unverified claims of mass graves, particularly in the cities of Homs and Deraa, while ignoring the presence of armed opposition groups and their killings of Syrian police and military personnel.
Father Frans van der Lugt, a Dutch Jesuit priest who had spent decades in Syria before being murdered by armed opposition groups in 2014, wrote that “From the start I saw armed demonstrators marching along in the protests, who began to shoot at the police first. The violence of the security forces has been a reaction to the brutal violence of the armed rebels.”
“The opposition of the street is much stronger than any other opposition. And this opposition is armed and frequently employs brutality and violence, only in order to blame the government,” he wrote in another report.
This sort of vital information was rarely included in reports, certainly not by mainstream media outlets and billionaire-funded human rights groups.
(…) While Western media focus on the Syrian military’s mass grave in Tadamon, they have omitted the overwhelming majority of documented mass graves made by anti-government terrorist groups in Tadamon and throughout the country in territory that opposition forces had held.
In late 2011, Jabhat al-Nusra (which would go on to become Hayat Tahrir al-Sham), Ahrar al-Sham, Jaish al-Islam, and Jaish al-Fatah began to use the Idlib province’s Al-Habat quarry as a mass grave, according to a 2021report by the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression. Militants threw into the quarry Syrian soldiers, members of government-allied militias, people accused of collaboration with the government, people accused of apostasy, adultery, or homosexuality, and Shia Muslim residents of the village of Foua and Kefraya (condemned as “infidels”), earning it the title “the Al-Ahm death hole.”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Mike Turner (Credit: public domain)
House Speaker Mike Johnson booted Rep. Mike Turner as Chairman of the House Intel Committee at Trump’s request, WaPo reported.
Update: Trump’s team says Trump did not request Mike Johnson oust Mike Turner.
(…) “Speaker Mike Johnson has removed Mike Turner as chair House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, three people familiar with the decision tell POLITICO. Turner has been an outspoken advocate for Ukraine funding and other hawkish national security stances.” – Politicoreported.
Tension between Speaker Johnson and Mike Turner has been simmering for nearly a year.
Last February, Mike Turner desperately sounded the alarm about a vague ‘serious national security threat’ after Speaker Johnson killed a Senate bill with Ukraine aid.
According to a leak to CNN, the threat was supposedly “related to Russia.”
On Wednesday night, President-elect Donald Trump took to Truth Social to share a list of individuals who will be excluded from consideration for roles in his second administration. Highlighting that his team has already hired more than 1,000 “outstanding” individuals, he wrote:
In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), “Dumb as a Rock” John Bolton, “Birdbrain” Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Predictably, this post did not sit well with our friends on the Left side of the aisle. One man attached Trump’s comments to a post on X with the caption, “Trump makes clear that he is discriminating against candidates for administration jobs if they have links to his political opponents or critics.”
Discrimination? I call it discernment.
In a new Truth Social post, Trump makes clear that he is discriminating against candidates for administration jobs if they have links to his political opponents or critics. pic.twitter.com/I4XPYXbmrs
It’s not only understandable that Trump would avoid hiring individuals associated with those who actively undermined or opposed his first-term agenda—and, in many cases, continued that opposition over the following four years, it’s essential. Naturally, he wants to surround himself with loyal staffers who share his vision and will steadfastly support his goals. Every president does.
Personnel decisions can often shape the course of a presidency. For example, President Lincoln replaced five commanding generals during the Civil War before finally selecting Ulysses S. Grant, who ultimately led the Union to victory.
Poor hiring decisions significantly hampered Trump’s first term, a point he has openly acknowledged. For instance, Trump should have replaced FBI Director James Comey upon taking office, rather than allowing him to remain in the role. Other blunders included appointing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, and the outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray.
At a Fox News town hall in September, Trump was asked, “What could you share that you’ve learned from your first time being in the Oval Office for those who are hesitant to vote for you now?”
Trump replied, “The most important thing I found, and you can say this is true in business also, we have to get the right people. I didn’t know much about Washington. I was there 17 times in my whole life. And I wasn’t in D.C. very much.”
He continued, “But I got to know ’em, and I got to know ’em the hard way. And I know the good ones, the bad ones, the weak ones, the smart ones, the dumb ones. I know ’em all now.”
MSNBC contributor Andrew Weissmann said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that President-elect Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi was “not tethered to facts.”
Weissmann said, “Well, it was a really interesting hearing because Pam Bondi, on paper, is somebody who has qualifications for the job. She was the AG in Florida. She’s an experienced prosecutor. She was very poised and articulate and clearly is smart. She said some of the right things about there won’t be an enemies list that it’s important for the department to be independent. She said all those things, however, and there’s a huge but and that is when you actually tested that by saying, was there fraud in the election that was outcome determinative or are the January 6th, people who are convicted, are they in fact political prisoners and not just defendants who have been given all of their rights? She couldn’t bring herself to show the independence that the Attorney General position requires. So although she would say things that on one hand that sounded good when push came to shove, when she was tested on it, she really could not bring herself to say anything that would be disruptive or unpleasant for the president-elect, which is part of the job of being the attorney general.”
He added, “So you have somebody who’s not who’s going to be the Attorney General. She will sail through because she’s not Matt Gaetz and she is not Robert Kennedy Junior, and she’s not Kash Patel, but still, she’s not tethered to facts, you know, to sit there and say Kash Patel is the right person for the job, I mean, that is really preposterous. To say that there’s fraud in the election in Pennsylvania, there are no facts to support that. To parrot that you’re going to be governed by facts and law, as the Attorney General can be tested by then looking at specific instances where she’s absolutely not guided by facts. So we’re really in for a rough ride.”
Former Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York said Thursday he believed the Environmental Protection Agency should not be an “armed bureaucracy.”
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carried out a raid with dozens of armed agents on a mine near Chicken, Alaska, in August 2013, according to Fox News. Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska asked Zeldin, who President-elect Donald Trump nominated to serve as EPA administrator, about the use of armed agents to conduct raids during a Thursday hearing, saying that the Biden administration was conducting armed raids similar to the 2013 raid on “small mechanic shops” in his state.
“The Biden administration has done these raids on small mechanic shops in Alaska. They bring up EPA agents from all over the country, 30 armed agents kicking in doors in mechanic shops in Alaska,” Sullivan said. “By the way, my state believes in the Second Amendment, most of my state is armed, this is very dangerous because some of these age[nt]s could get shot when they’re coming in.”
Sullivan did not immediately respond to a request from the Daily Caller News Foundation for more information on the raids.
Pfizer engaged in unethical practices to push prescriptions of its migraine medication, Nurtec ODT, also known as Rimegepant. (Credit: Nurtec)
(…) The scandal revolves around Biohaven Pharmaceutical, a company acquired by Pfizer in October 2022, which engaged in unethical practices to push prescriptions of its migraine medication, Nurtec ODT, also known as Rimegepant.
Whistleblower Patricia Frattasio, a former sales representative at Biohaven, played a crucial role in bringing these malpractices to light, leading to a qui tam lawsuit under the False Claims Act in 2021.
The U.S. Department of Justice disclosed that from March 2020 through September 2022, Biohaven manipulated the healthcare system by offering kickbacks—including speaker honoraria and lavish meals at upscale restaurants—to healthcare professionals.
Allegations include that Biohaven paid some healthcare providers over $100,000 to boost prescriptions of their migraine medication, Nurtec ODT, resulting in fraudulent claims to federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
This egregious scheme involved not just ordinary incentives, but also repeated, unnecessary educational programs that offered no real benefit to attendees, turning these events into mere facades for bribery.
This practice, aimed at increasing Nurtec ODT prescriptions, breached anti-kickback statutes designed to keep medical decisions free from financial influence.
Under the terms of the settlement, Biohaven does not admit liability but has agreed to pay the United States and participating Medicaid states a total of $59,746,277.54.
This amount includes interest and restitution, addressing claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and the Veterans Health Administration from March 2020 through September 2022. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/26/2025)(Archive)
Sometimes DC is a fishbowl, and they don’t realize the background of what we know, when they are speaking. Testimony today is a case study of one bubble within that fishbowl.
Former House Impeachment Manager Adam Schiff organized the first impeachment effort against President Donald Trump. Schiff is now a Senator. Schiff’s former lead staff in the impeachment investigation was Mary McCord.
Today, during the question session for AG Pam Bondi’s nomination, Adam Schiff asked Mary McCord about whether AG Bondi should recuse herself from investigating Adam Schiff and Mary McCord. It’s a little funny if you understand the background.
I prompted the video to the part at 01:36:14 when Schiff asks McCord, and Mrs. McCord responds with “yes, Pam Bondi should recuse.” WATCH:
Mary McCord says Pam Bondi must recuse herself from any investigative outcome related to the first impeachment effort. Who was the lead staff working for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler on the first impeachment effort? Mary McCord.
Now, triggering that first impeachment effort… Who worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to change the CIA whistleblower regulations permitting an anonymous complaint? Yep, that would be the same Mary McCord.
In essence, the woman who organized, structured, led and coordinated the first impeachment effort, says Pam Bondi must recuse herself from investigating the organization, structure, leadership and coordination of the first impeachment effort.
You just cannot make this stuff up.
Mary McCord (Credit: public domain)
Obviously, doing their ‘pretending not to know routine,” every republican sat on their hands when Mary McCord was testifying about all the terrible attributes and conflicts that surround Pam Bondi. Do not fool yourself, every republican on the judiciary committee knows exactly who Mary McCord is, and her deeply rooted Intelligence Community connections to the Deep State.
It’s a fun intellectual exercise to remind yourself just who Mary McCord is, and how deeply enmeshed in the stop Trump operation she is. Remember, Mary McCord openly said she is currently working with a group to “bring lawsuits” against President Trump in his second term as soon as he takes office:
[…] “We’re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that he [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to,” said Mary McCord, executive director of the Institution for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law.
Part of the aim is to identify like-minded organizations and create a coalition to challenge Trump from day one, those taking part in the discussions said. Some participants are combing through policy papers being craftedfor a future conservative administration. They’re also watching the interviews that Trump allies are giving to the press for clues to how a Trump sequel would look. (more)
So, even if the Trump administration officials do not confront Mary McCord, which they likely will not do – because they genuinely appear to be afraid of her, Mary McCord is going to target them.
The Lawfare operation that Mary McCord represents is going to try and block President Trump, and the Senate is just sitting there listening to Mary McCord speak today, while pretending they don’t know this. Good grief, it’s frustrating to watch.
Just to put some emphasis on this mess, here’s a reminder of who Mary McCord is…
A recent soundbite shared on the Twitter platform aligns with so many aspects about how the IC targets their enemies, and how the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) then weaponizes the opportunities provided by the U.S intelligence apparatus.
Notice in this short video how Mary McCord positions the power structure of the DOJ-NSD silo in deference to the Intelligence Community (IC). This is a critical path within the next step to American’s “great awakening.” In the past we have outlined how the DOJ-NSD weaponizes their Lawfare by using “National Security Information,” or what the insiders call “NSI.”
As an outcome of the way our checks and balances have been modified against our interests, the judicial branch has repeatedly deferred to the DOJ around the issue of “national security.” In fact, if the DOJ labels any Lawfare approach as a national security matter the subsequent evidence therein, the NSI (even when not seen) is accepted by the judicial branch without question. The judicial branch defers to the executive on all matters defined by the executive as “national security.”
This is the area of exploit being discussed by Mary McCord in this segment. However, notice there is one apparatus that can supercede the DOJ-NSD’s ability to weaponize Nat Sec Information, that’s the power of the intelligence apparatus. WATCH:
Lawfare coordinator Mary McCord admits that she and another lawfare coordinator, Andrew Weissmann, worked with the DOJ and intelligence losers on what bogus charges to bring against Trump. pic.twitter.com/4jqgetvURZ
McCord notes how she and Andrew Weissmann navigate through the process of using NSI as they move toward their target; the most common reference is their political opposition, Donald J Trump.
If there is one Lawfare operative who has escaped scrutiny for her corrupt endeavors, it would be Mary McCord. More than any other Lawfare operative within Main Justice, Mary McCord sits at the center of every table in the manufacturing of cases against Donald Trump. {GO DEEP} Mary McCord’s husband is Sheldon Snook; he was the right hand to the legal counsel of Chief Justice John Roberts when the Dobbs decision was leaked.
When the Carter Page FISA application was originally assembled by the FBI and DOJ, there was initial hesitancy from within the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) about submitting the application, because it did not have enough citations in evidence (the infamous ‘Woods File’). That’s why the Steele Dossier ultimately became important. It was the Steele Dossier that provided the push, the legal cover needed for the DOJ-NSD to submit the application for a Title-1 surveillance warrant against the campaign of Donald J. Trump.
When the application was finally assembled for submission to the FISA court, the head of the DOJ-NSD was John Carlin. Carlin quit working for the DOJ-NSD in late September 2016 just before the final application was submitted (October 21,2016). John Carlin was replaced by Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Mary McCord.
♦ When the FISA application was finally submitted (approved by Sally Yates and James Comey), it was Mary McCord who did the actual process of filing the application and gaining the Title-1 surveillance warrant.
A few months later, February 2017, with Donald Trump now in office as President, it was Mary McCord who went with Deputy AG Sally Yates to the White House to confront White House legal counsel Don McGahn over the Michael Flynn interview with FBI agents. The surveillance of Flynn’s calls was presumably done under the auspices and legal authority of the FISA application Mary McCord previously was in charge of submitting.
♦ At the time the Carter Page application was filed (October 21, 2016), Mary McCord’s chief legal counsel inside the office was a DOJ-NSD lawyer named Michael Atkinson. In his role as the legal counsel for the DOJ-NSD, it was Atkinson’s job to review and audit all FISA applications submitted from inside the DOJ. Essentially, Atkinson was the DOJ internal compliance officer in charge of making sure all FISA applications were correctly assembled and documented.
♦ When the anonymous CIA whistleblower complaint was filed against President Trump for the issues of the Ukraine call with President Zelensky, the Intelligence Community Inspector General had to change the rules for the complaint to allow an anonymous submission. Prior to this change, all intelligence whistleblowers had to put their name on the complaint. It was this 2019 IGIC who changed the rules. Who was the Intelligence Community Inspector General? Michael Atkinson.
Yes, after she left main justice, Mary McCord took the job of working for Chairman Jerry Nadler and Chairman Adam Schiff as the chief legal advisor inside the investigation that led to the construction of articles of impeachment. As a consequence, Mary McCord received the newly permitted anonymous whistleblower complaint from her old office colleague Michael Atkinson.
♦ During his investigation of the Carter Page application, Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered an intentional lie inside the Carter Page FISA application (directly related to the ‘Woods File’), which his team eventually tracked to FBI counterintelligence division lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith. Eventually Clinesmith was criminally charged with fabricating evidence (changed wording on an email) in order to intentionally falsify the underlying evidence in the FISA submission.
(Credit: Conservative Treehouse)
When John Durham took the Clinesmith indictment to court, the judge in the case was James Boasberg.
♦ In addition to being a DC criminal judge, James Boasberg is also a FISA court judge who signed-off on one of the renewals for the FISA application that was submitted using fraudulent evidence fabricated by Kevin Clinesmith. In essence, now the presiding judge over the FISA court, Boasberg was the FISC judge who was tricked by Clinesmith, and now the criminal court judge in charge of determining Clinesmith’s legal outcome. Judge Boasberg eventually sentenced Clinesmith to 6 months probation.
As an outcome of continued FISA application fraud and wrongdoing by the FBI, in their exploitation of searches of the NSA database, Presiding FISC Judge James Boasberg appointed an amici curiae advisor to the court who would monitor the DOJ-NSD submissions and ongoing FBI activities.
Who did James Boasberg select as a FISA court amicus? Mary McCord.
♦ SUMMARY: Mary McCord submitted the original false FISA application to the court using the demonstrably false Dossier. Mary McCord participated in the framing of Michael Flynn. Mary McCord worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to create a fraudulent whistleblower complaint against President Trump; and Mary McCord used that manipulated complaint to assemble articles of impeachment on behalf of the joint House Intel and Judiciary Committee. Mary McCord then took up a defensive position inside the FISA court to protect the DOJ and FBI from sunlight upon all the aforementioned corrupt activity.
You can clearly see how Mary McCord would be a person of interest if anyone was going to start digging into corruption internally within the FBI, DOJ or DOJ-NSD.
What happened next….
November 3, 2021 – In Washington DC – “Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and the House Jan. 6 Select Committee has tapped Mary McCord, who once ran the Justice Department’s National Security Division, for representation in its fight to obtain former President Donald Trump’s White House records. (read more)
That’s the context; now I want to go back a little.
First, when did Mary McCord become “amicus” to the FISA court? ANSWER: When the court (Boasberg) discovered IG Michael Horowitz was investigating the fraudulent FISA application. In essence, the FISA Court appointed the person who submitted the fraudulent filing, to advise on any ramifications from the fraudulent filing. See how that works?
Now, let’s go deeper…
When Mary McCord went to the White House with Sally Yates to talk to white house counsel Don McGhan about the Flynn call with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, and the subsequent CBS interview with VP Pence, where Pence’s denial of any wrongdoing took place, the background narrative in the attack against Flynn was the Logan Act.
The construct of the Logan Act narrative was pure Lawfare, and DAG Sally Yates with Acting NSD AAG Mary McCord were the architects.
Why was the DOJ National Security Division concerned with a conflict between what Pence said on CBS and what Flynn said about his conversations with Kislyak?
This is where a big mental reset is needed. Flynn did nothing wrong. The incoming National Security Advisor can say anything he wants with the Russian ambassador, short of giving away classified details of any national security issue. In December of 2016, if Michael Flynn wanted to say Obama was an a**hole, and the Trump administration disagreed with everything he ever did, the incoming NSA was free to do so. There was simply nothing wrong with that conversation – regardless of content.
So, why were McCord and Yates so determined to make an issue in media and in confrontation with the White House? Why did the DOJ-NSD even care? This is the part that people overlooked when the media narrative was driving the news cycle. People got too stuck in the weeds and didn’t ask the right questions.
Some entity, we discover later was the FBI counterintelligence division, was monitoring Flynn’s calls. They transcribed a copy of the call between Flynn and Kislyak, and that became known as the “Flynn Cuts” as described within internal documents, and later statements.
After the Flynn/Kislyak conversation was leaked to the media, Obama asked ODNI Clapper how that call got leaked. Clapper went to the FBI on 1/4/17 and asked FBI Director James Comey. Comey gave Clapper a copy of the Flynn Cuts which Clapper then took back to the White House to explain to Obama.
Obama’s White House counsel went bananas, because Clapper had just walked directly into the Oval Office with proof the Obama administration was monitoring the incoming National Security Advisor.
Obama’s plausible deniability of the Trump surveillance was lost as soon as Clapper walked in with the written transcript.
That was the motive for the 1/5/17 Susan Rice memo, and the reason for Obama to emphasize “buy the book” three times.
It wasn’t that Obama didn’t know already; the problem was that a document trail now existed (likely a CYA from Comey) that took away Obama’s plausible deniability of knowledge.
The January 5th meeting documented by Susan Rice was quickly organized to mitigate this issue.
Knowing the Flynn Cuts were created simultaneously with the phone call, and knowing how it was quickly decided to use the Logan Act as a narrative against Flynn and Trump, we can be very sure both McCord and Yates had read that transcript before they went to the White House. [Again, this is the entire purpose of them going to the White House to confront McGhan with their manufactured concerns.]
So, when it comes to ‘who leaked’ the reality of the Flynn/Kislyak call to the media, the entire predicate for the Logan Act violation – in hindsight – I would bet a donut it was Mary McCord.
But wait, there’s more…
Now we go back to McCord’s husband, Sheldon Snook.
Sheldon was working for the counsel to John Roberts. The counsel to the Chief Justice has one job, to review the legal implications of issues before the court and advise Justice John Roberts. The counsel to the Chief Justice knows everything happening in the court and is the sounding board for any legal issues impacting the Supreme Court.
In his position as the right hand of the counsel to the chief justice, Sheldon Snook would know everything happening inside the court.
At the time, there was nothing bigger inside the court than the Alito opinion known as the Dobb’s Decision – the returning of abortion law to the states. Without any doubt, the counsel to Chief Justice Roberts would have that decision at the forefront of his advice and counsel. By extension, this puts the actual written Alito opinion in the orbit of Sheldon Snook.
After the Supreme Court launched a heavily publicized internal investigation into the leaking of the Dobbs decision (Alito opinion), something interesting happened. Sheldon Snook left his position. If you look at the timing of the leak, the investigation and the Sheldon Snook exit, the circumstantial evidence looms large.
Of course, given the extremely high stakes, the institutional crisis with the public discovering the office of the legal counsel to the Chief Justice likely leaked the decision, such an outcome would be catastrophic for the institutional credibility. In essence, it would be Robert’s office who leaked the opinion to the media.
If you were Chief Justice John Roberts and desperately needed to protect the integrity of the court, making sure such a thermonuclear discovery was never identified would be paramount. Under the auspices of motive, Sheldon Snook would exit quietly. Which is exactly what happened.
The timeline holds the key.
Remember the stories of the J6 investigative staff all going to work for Jack Smith on the investigation of Donald Trump? Well, Mary McCord was a member of that team [citation]; all indications are that her background efforts continue today as a quiet member of the Special Counsel team that is still attacking Donald Trump.
To give you an idea of the scope of influence of Mary McCord as a key functionary, consider what we can document.
♦ McCord submitted the fraudulent FISA application to spy on Trump campaign.
♦ McCord created the “Logan Act” claim used against Michael Flynn and then went with Sally Yates to confront the White House.
♦ McCord then left the DOJ and went to work for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler.
♦ McCord organized the CIA rule changes with Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson.
♦ McCord led and organized the impeachment effort, in the background, using the evidence she helped create.
♦ McCord joined the FISA Court to protect against DOJ IG Michael Horowitz newly gained NSD oversight and FISA review.
♦ McCord joined the J6 Committee helping to create all the lawfare angles they deployed.
♦ McCord then coordinated with DA Fani Willis in Georgia.
♦ McCord was working with Special Counsel Jack Smith to prosecute Trump.
♦ McCord is now coordinating a Lawfare attack process against Donald Trump in term #2
In short, Mary McCord is the lawfare string that winds through every legal ‘stop Trump’ effort, and her primary partner in this endeavor is Andrew Weissmann. It wasn’t Jack Smith per se’, any more than it was Robert Mueller.
Jack Smith and Robert Mueller were simply the front men of the Lawfare band.
WASHINGTON — Today, after an eight-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cut off all funding and formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance Inc. (EcoHealth) and its former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, for five years based on evidence uncovered by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. In a new letter, HHS states “that a period of debarment for Dr. Daszak is necessary to protect the Federal Government’s business interests.” This letter also confirms that EcoHealth terminated Dr. Daszak’s employment effective January 6, 2025. EcoHealth and Dr. Daszak facilitated gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China without proper oversight and willingly violated multiple requirements of its multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement in response to the formal debarment:
“Justice for the American people was served today. Bad actor EcoHealth Alliance and its corrupt former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, were formally debarred by HHS for using taxpayer funds to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research in China. Today’s decision is not only a victory for the U.S. taxpayer, but also for American national security and the safety of citizens worldwide.
“In May 2024, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup released evidence that EcoHealth repeatedly violated the terms of its NIH grant. EcoHealth routinely ignored government oversight requests, failed to report dangerous gain-of-function experiments conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and produced a required research report two years late. HHS cited all of these discoveries as key reasons for formally debarring EcoHealth and Dr. Daszak. Given that a lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely origin of COVID-19, EcoHealth and its former President should never again receive a single cent from the U.S. taxpayer.”
Read the letter from HHS to Dr. Peter Daszak here.
Read the letter from HHS to EcoHealth Alliance Inc. here.
Read HHS’s Action Referral Memorandum for Dr. Peter Daszak here.
Read HHS’s Action Referral Memorandum for EcoHealth Alliance Inc. here.
Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman appears to have quietly left a premier Pentagon advisory board after the election of Donald Trump, raising questions about whether he quit the organization on his own or was forced off because of his work to keep Trump out of the White House.
Hoffman joined the Defense Innovation Board, chaired by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, in October 2022. The group provides advice to the Pentagon on how to implement new technologies into the military and work more efficiently with private companies.
Hoffman, the cofounder of LinkedIn, was listed as a board member until at least Nov. 27, according to archived versions of its website, but is no longer listed there. If Hoffman was forced off the board, it would be the latest example of a federal agency cleaning house ahead of Trump’s second term. Trump has said he will not allow Democrats or Republicans afflicted with what he called “Trump Derangement Syndrome” to work in federal agencies. In December, the FBI quietly shut its Diversity and Inclusion office.
Hoffman’s position on the board caused outcry from Republicans over his ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his funding for controversial political projects to help Democrats. And in July, Hoffman came under fire after he said he hoped his political tactics would make Donald Trump an “actual martyr.” Days later, a gunman attempted to assassinate Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
The National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative legal group, called for Hoffman to “be dismissed” from the board because of what it called Hoffman’s “irresponsible and dangerous remarks” about Trump.
The Defense Innovation Board noted that request at its July 17 board meeting, according to board records. Bloomberg discussed the attempted assassination, though he did not speak about Hoffman’s remarks or acknowledge the National Legal and Policy Center complaint, according to a transcript of the meeting.
The Pentagon, the Innovation board, and members of the board did not respond to requests for comment about Hoffman’s departure.
Judge E. Trenton Brown III, Georgia Court of Appeals Credit: John Disney/ALM)
A Georgia appeals court on Friday affirmed the dismissal of six counts in the state’s 2020 election interference against President-elect Trump and his allies, upholding a trial judge’s decision that the charges must be thrown out due to a lack of detail.
“We find that the indictment fails to include enough detail to sufficiently apprise the defendants of what they must be prepared to meet so that they can intelligently prepare their defenses,” Judge E. Trenton Brown III wrote for the three-judge panel, which ruled unanimously.
Trump faced three of those charges, which notably involve his effort to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to “find” 11,779 votes, enough to overturn President Biden’s victory in the state.
All of the charges dropped pertain to efforts to solicit Georgia officials to violate their oaths of office but do not impact the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) count that each defendant faces, the count that serves as the foundation of the far-reaching prosecution.
The dropping of charges is also unrelated to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s (D) appeal over her disqualification in overseeing the case.
CIA Director William Burns, recently elevated to a Cabinet position, departs an event in the White House Rose Garden, May 25, 2023. (Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Does everyone realize what was just said here?
Speaker Mike Johnson not only confirms that Joe Biden isn’t in control and signing executive orders he doesn’t understand but that to meet with Biden, The CIA Director had to be present
He just confirmed The CIA is running our country, not the president
This just confirmed another “conspiracy theory”
“They invited me to the White House. I show up and I realize it’s actually an ambush ’cause it’s not just me and the president. It’s also Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem, you know, The CIA Director”
So top Democrats and then The CIA Director…. Isn’t that interesting…
“Who is running the country? Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know.”
Sounds like it was The CIA…
Does everyone realize what was just said here?
Speaker Mike Johnson not only confirms that Joe Biden isn’t in control and signing executive orders he doesn’t understand but that to meet with Biden, The CIA Director had to be present
Bingo! Second in line to the President… He realizes that Biden is completely mentally incapacitated and gone and does nothing? In my opinion, this interview means Johnson was complicit.
Harry S. Truman: “The CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and, at times, a policy-making arm of the government.”https://t.co/SsN5YU2qtEpic.twitter.com/dvD7F59P3e
Biden signs an Executive Order to “deny Russia the chance to profit from its blatant violations of international law.” (Credit: Twitter/X)
While set to leave office in the next few days, Biden isn’t done making stupid and dangerous decisions that harm Americans.
By now, most Americans are familiar with the horrendous policies enacted by outgoing President Joe Biden. From leaving our southern border wide open to driving up inflation, the Democrat commander-in-chief’s tenure in the Oval Office has been an unequivocal disaster for the country and its citizens.
While Biden is set to leave office in disgrace in the next few days, that doesn’t mean he and the left-wing radicals running his administration are finished making stupid and dangerous decisions. In fact, they’re doing everything in their power to thumb their noses at the voters who overwhelmingly rejected their failed “leadership” on their way out the White House door.
1. Releasing Gitmo Prisoners
2. Pardoning Hunter
3. Energy Restrictions
4. Terrible Ship Names
5. Whitewashing Foreign Policy Failures
6. Student Loan Bailout
7. Ukraine Funding
8. Communist Cuba
9. Lawfare Antics
10. Asinine and Dangerous Commutations
11. Extending Temporary Protections for Foreign Nationals in America
Elon Musk sues Center for Countering Digital Hate for its hate speech research, August 2023. (Credit: Rappler)
The Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) partnered with Restless Development (youth collective) to counter Covid Disinformation. And the best part? Restless Development is funded by the US government along [with]the Obama Foundation, Gates, Clinton’s, and other foreign governments!
This joint effort bragged about getting conservative news orgs such as the Gateway Pundit, the Federalist, and Zero Hedge reported to social media AND demonetized! Especially from Google!
Organisers say the campaign was inspired by Sleeping Giants in the US, which persuaded brands not to advertise on Breitbart.
Restless Development is global, and promotes social justice, climate justice, UN developmental goals, feminism, inclusivity, gender transformation, and anti-racism.
Let’s start off with some of the Restless Development funding (see photo)
-Obama Foundation
-USAID
-US Department of Health and Human Services
-Clinton Health Initiative
-Bill and Melinda Gates
-United Nations
-The Swedish International
Development Agency
-Norwegian Agency For Exchange Cooperation (NOREC)
-Irish Aid
-Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
-Ford Foundation
-Danish International
-Development Agency
-Plus more
Considering Bill Gates funds them, I can see why they were so bent on targeting information posted about him.
This also started running exclusively out of the UK in April/May 2020 and it expanded later.
“The initiative is currently working with volunteers in the UK, but their reach across social media is global. The project will be expanded to work with volunteers in different countries around the world.”
Let’s start off with how it’s organized.
♦️CCDH and Restless Development
1. Youth Against Misinformation (YAM) – name of project
A. Youth Against Fake News (Org used to do the work, and was later renamed to the below.)
B. Youth Against Misinformation (new name)
Now here’s how this works, and as for the blocklists, I have a few examples:
“The Record and Report team spent shifts combing through misinformation Facebook groups, Instagram and Twitter accounts, sourcing explicit examples of misinformation and reporting them to the respective platforms.
We would visit these websites and screenshot adverts next to the article headline, then contact the advertising brands via Twitter and email.
We included information from CCDH on the nature of the website and their content and requested that they blacklist those sites from featuring their adverts, therefore reducing the profitability of misinformation.”
“Since YAM volunteers began working on CCDH’s Stop Funding Fake News campaign we have contacted over 250 different brands, with around 40 responding that they’ve taken action.”
They also interacted with social media users.
“They began by identifying tweets that
contained misinformation, then tweeted the users to request their
deletion whilst sharing advice from CCDH on how to avoid spreading
it.”
“The reports produced from this collaboration have been used in
US Congress, UK Parliament, in gov briefings and media reporting across the world, particularly influencing the deliberations surrounding the Online Safety Bill and the scope of online harms.”
The Stop Funding Misinformation campaign also carries blocklists (see photo).
Here’s a sampling:
– Gateway Pundit
– Zero Hedge
– Federalist
– Breitbart
– Rebel News
– AM Greatness
-Etc..
Anyways, they are very proud of their successes.
“Since we launched, we’ve seen one of our target fake news sites completely shut down, and the capacity of several others reduce significantly as a result of us damaging their ability to raise revenue.”
Video: CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed brags to PARLIAMENT about using Stop Funding Misinformation to have Google stop monetizing The Gateway Pundit!
Sources to follow along with tons more information including more on affected US individuals and businesses such as Robert F Kennedy and Sayer Ji’s Green Med Info.
🔥🔥🔥Breaking! The Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) partnered with Restless Development (youth collective) to counter Covid Disinformation. And the best part? Restless Development is funded by the US government along the Obama Foundation, Gates, Clinton’s, and other… pic.twitter.com/GwYYFoRkru
Once we get the did docs out of the way, we head into the block lists.
This Restless Development and Center For Community entering Digital Hate doc is called Malgorithm. Recall these all relate to their Youth Against Misinformation aka Stop Funding Misinformation program. This… pic.twitter.com/33GbhLXVYq
Stop Funding Misinformation has other blocklists also.
This list is for those that they call racist. This page lists their top ten, “racists”.
– amgreatness dot com
– moonbattery dot com
– americanthinker dot com
– bigleaguepolitics dot com
– zerohedge dot com
– wnd dot com
-… pic.twitter.com/Ld5hYhnDYg
This is quite interesting. Even later, in 2022, our state departments USAID worked with Restless Development.
Today, USAID announced our new Youth Policy.
We have a vision for Generation 2030: we’re mobilizing young people to help lead inclusive & innovative development. Thank… pic.twitter.com/ygprOkQkGr
Jake Sullivan, former National Security Advisor under Joe Biden, told NSC staffers to “hold over” to the Trump White House to spy on and sabotage Trump just like they did in early 2017.
According to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, Jake Sullivan wants NSC underlings like Trump impeachment ‘whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella to sabotage Trump 2.0. with leaks to the media.
Per investigative reporter Paul Sperry:
BREAKING: Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has been encouraging NSC staffers to “hold over” to the Trump WH in a redux of Obama holdovers who spied & leaked on and sabotaged Trump in early 2017, inclg CIA detailees Ciaramella & Misko as well as Vindman & Fiona Hill
Eric Ciaramella (Credit: Harvard University/Davis Center)
Recall that Paul Sperry previously published an explosive investigative report revealing Eric Ciaramella plotted with Schiff’s aide Sean Misko to “take out” Trump in January of 2017.
Shortly after Donald Trump was sworn into office in early 2017, Eric Ciaramella, the CIA plant-turned-whistleblower who prompted the impeachment of Trump, was overheard in the White House discussing with a fellow staffer how to remove the newly-elected president from office, according to investigative reporter Paul Sperry.
Sources told Paul Sperry of Real Clear Investigations that the staffer with whom Eric Ciaramella was discussing Trump’s removal with was Sean Misko.
URGENT: Multiple reports coming in from family members, prisoners & J6 advocates of halfway houses refusing to release J6 prisoners in spite of their pardon – and reports from the DC Gulag of 17 armed and masked guards pushing some 8 prisoners back in their cells and a guard threatening to get one of them on the outside. More to come.
URGENT: Multiple reports coming in from family members, prisoners & J6 advocates of halfway houses refusing to release J6 prisoners in spite of their pardon – and reports from the DC Gulag of 17 armed and masked guards pushing some 8 prisoners back in their cells and a guard… https://t.co/J1uBvtGdjX
— Trisha Hope – National Delegate-TX (@JustTheTweets17) January 21, 2025
Someone being carried out of the DC Jail on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance – there have been reports here of violence by the guards against the J6 inmates pic.twitter.com/7WBPUfUok0
I texted @RameyIsRight (J6 Political Hostage) who is being held at a halfway house in Miami.
I asked him if he had been released and this was his response…
No. Riverside halfway house where I’m at in Miami decided to conduct a late night room search on my room instead of…
President Joe Biden discussing the Fall of Kabul with the National Security Council, August 18, 2021. (Credit: public domain)
All the so-called “detailees” from federal agencies and departments to the National Security Council (NSC) in the White House have been removed and President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is conducting a full review of all staff who will be detailed to the entity, an NSC official confirmed to Breitbart News.
Waltz had told Breitbart News during the transition in an exclusive interview that they would be all removed on day one, and new ones who were on board with Trump’s vision would take their place. Detailees, as they are called, are officials from various law enforcement, military, and intelligence agencies and departments across the federal government who are detailed to–or assigned to–the White House’s National Security Council. The NSC is the entity that helps corral the entire federal government behind a president’s national security agenda, but in Trump’s first term it’s the entity from which several deep state moles like Alexander Vindman and others came at Trump. Vindman, who was a detailee to the NSC in Trump’s first term, was obviously the impetus for the first impeachment of Trump. Waltz made it clear in that Breitbart Newsexclusive interview, published earlier in January, that he would send all the detailees back to their respective agencies and departments right away on day one of the Trump administration–and that they would be replaced with new ones who were not disloyal to Trump.
That has now happened. The Associated Press first reported the move from Waltz–who does not need Senate confirmation as he is a top White House staffer and close adviser to the president, so he has been at work since Trump took the oath of office–and an NSC official confirmed the news to Breitbart News on Wednesday afternoon.
“National Security Advisor Mike Waltz promised and authorized a full review of NSC personnel,” NSC spokesman Brian Hughes added in a statement to Breitbart News. “It is entirely appropriate for Mr. Waltz to ensure NSC personnel are committed to implementing President Trump’s America First agenda to protect our national security and wisely use the tax dollars of America’s working men and women. Since 12:01 pm on Monday personnel reviews and decisions based on the evaluations are being made.”
Not only have the security clearances of the 51 Hunter Biden laptop hoaxers been revoked, but additional investigations into their activities are also underway. https://t.co/7Jae4QGDG4pic.twitter.com/tQZENGhsrr
Christopher Wray and Paul Abbate (Credit: public domain)
FBI’s longtime deputy director, who had been expected to temporarily replace director Christopher Wray on an acting basis during the transition into the new Trump administration, says he is retiring. Paul Abbate made the unexpected announcement in an email to senior officials Monday ahead of President Trump’s inauguration, CBS News confirmed.
“When the Director asked me to stay on past my mandatory date for a brief time, I did so to help ensure continuity and the best transition for the FBI. Now, with new leadership inbound, after nearly four years in the deputy role, I am departing the FBI today,” Abbate wrote in the letter, according to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy of the email.
Abbate had been running the FBI for only one day after Wray stepped down as director on Sunday. Wray was named by Trump during his first term and had been director for more than seven years. He announced his retirement when Trump said he wanted Kash Patel to be the director.
Abbate’s email did not say who would replace him atop the bureau during the interim. Following the inauguration, the White House posted a list of acting leaders that said Brian Driscoll will serve as head of the FBI until the position is filled. (Read more: CBS News. 1/2o/2025) (Archive)
Former President Joe Biden’s final act as president was to preemptively pardon several members of his family.
The sweeping pardon covers the president’s brother, James B. Biden; sister-in-law, Sara Jones Biden; sister, Valerie Biden Owens; brother-in-law, John T. Owens; and brother, Francis W. Biden. The pardons were announced minutes before President-elect Donald Trump was sworn in.
“The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,” Biden said in a statement.
The pardons mark the second time in recent weeks that Biden has moved to protect his family members from legal jeopardy. In December, he issued a broad pardon for his son, Hunter, who was due to be sentenced for federal tax and gun crimes.
“My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me—the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” Biden said.
Statement from retired Gen. Mark Milley on pardon from @JoeBiden today:
“My family and I are deeply grateful for the President’s action today.
After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to… pic.twitter.com/NBA74GpMl4
“The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,” Biden said in a statement. “Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country.”
The prospect of such pardons had been the subject of heated debate for months at the highest levels of the White House. It’s customary for a president to grant clemency at the end of his term, but those acts of mercy are usually offered to Americans who have been convicted of crimes. (Associated Press, 1/20/2025) (Archive)
Nothing should give more hope for meaningful change than Donald Trump’s decision, widely reported last night, to revoke the security clearances of 51 former senior intelligence officials who used their position to deceive the American people in the run-up to the 2020 election. Their act was the very definition of “disinformation” and “election interference”.
To many, suspending their clearances will seem like a no-brainer. In Washington, it’s an earthquake.
But that bears some explaining.
Sixteen years ago, Barack Obama promised two things: (1) hope and change, toward (2) a “fundamental transformation” of America. He succeeded. He just didn’t finish the job. That was left to Hillary Clinton, a fellow former acolyte of Saul Alinsky who was “inevitably” going to succeed Obama, appointing a leftist Supreme Court majority to rubber stamp the revolution. (Read more: RodMartin.org, 1/20/2025)(Archive)
A Rod D. Martin Twitter/X Thread, 1/20/2025:
🧵BREAKING: Why Trump’s latest move against the Deep State is more revolutionary than you think.
A thread on how revoking 51 security clearances could change everything…
🔑 Key point: This isn’t just about clearances. It’s about BREAKING the permanent power structure that’s been controlling our country from behind the scenes.
The REAL revolution isn’t just about elections – it’s about dismantling this unelected power structure that thinks it can override the will of American voters.
🎯 Make no mistake: This is a direct shot at the heart of the administrative state. It’s telling the “permanent government” they’re not so permanent after all.
Lawfare (sanctioned fraud by law enforcement) is antithetical to the Bill of Rights, which assumes government nefariousness. Lawfare flourishes thanks to qualified immunity, an artificial (i.e., not in the Constitution) concept conjured by the Supreme Court to insulate rogue cops, prosecutors, and judges.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley — President pro tempore of the Senate and third in the line of presidential succession after the Vice President and Speaker of the House — at the Attorney General’s January 15 nomination hearing (this is a lengthy quotation but so meaty it doesn’t yield to cutting or summarizing):
The Justice Department’s infected with political decision-making, while its leaders refuse to acknowledge that reality. Crossfire Hurricane was a textbook example of government weaponization. That FBI investigation was built on the fake Steele Dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee and Clinton Campaign who worked with foreign operatives. My investigative work exposed that the FBI knew the dossier was false information and was likely part of a Russian disinformation campaign. Even with knowledge of the dossier’s defects and political infection, the Justice Department sought FISA warrant renewals and took other actions. After directing my oversight staff to investigate the Justice Department’s mishandling of the matter, the Justice Department retaliated by issuing a subpoena for their phone records.
Then, a few of my Democratic colleagues pressured the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force to supposedly brief me and Senator Johnson relating to our Biden family investigation. In August 2020, Senator Johnson and I had that infamous briefing from the FBI. Later, its contents were leaked to the media even though the FBI had promised confidentiality. That leak falsely labeled our oversight work as – you guessed it – Russian disinformation. To this day – over four years later – the Intelligence Community and FBI refuse to provide us the intelligence basis for that briefing. The title of this Wall Street Journal article sums it up, “The FBI’s Dubious Briefing: Did the bureau set up two GOP Senators at the behest of Democrats?”
I know what government weaponization is. And then we get to Special Counsel Jack Smith and his lawfare operation. It involved an unprecedented FBI raid on Trump’s house, including agents that even searched the former First Lady’s clothing drawers. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden certainly didn’t receive the same treatment by the government regarding their records. Indeed, as my oversight exposed, the FBI amazingly agreed to destroy laptops and records associated with Clinton’s staff. This Orwellian conduct should have no quarter. On top of it all, FBI Special Agent Thibault, the anti-Trump agent that violated the Hatch Act for political activity on the job, started one of Jack Smith’s cases.
But, Jack Smith wasn’t the only Department official who tried to influence this past election. The Washington Post reported last August about a previously undisclosed Mueller investigation into Trump that was closed for lack of evidence and it being a “fishing expedition.” That news reporting was based on sealed court records, government records, and potentially classified information roughly 90 days before the last presidential election. The Justice Department leaked that information to the press to impact the election against President Trump. And they did it while stiff-arming congressional requests for information that would prove embarrassing to the Biden-Harris administration.
Let us not forget some of the other flagrant abuses of power that we’ve seen from the DOJ and the FBI over the last four years:
The DOJ used the might of the Federal Government to prosecute individuals peacefully praying outside of abortion clinics.
The FBI suggested that traditional Catholics could be domestic terrorism threats, claiming that these individuals adhere to “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT and white supremacy ideology.”
The FBI opened dozens of investigations into parents who voiced their concerns at school board meetings regarding curriculum choices and COVID-19 mandates.
The FBI applied undue pressure to social media platforms to censor so-called “misinformation,” downgrading or removing flagged social media posts and removing users.
These are only a few particularly egregious examples of the rot infesting the DOJ. The impact of this political infection in our once-storied law enforcement institutions is catastrophic. By every metric, the Biden-Harris Justice Department’s conduct has failed to live up to our country’s ideals.
We are witnessing the initiation of America’s truth and reconciliation process. Grassley’s comments stand as a bookmark separating two eras. He de facto swore out a warrant against the guilty. Under (almost certainly) incoming FBI Director Patel, an extensive and essential glasnost (openness) episode will precede wholesale perestroika (reform). Trump’s Patel nomination ranks among his best. As chief aide to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, Patel oversaw exposing the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. He is the man for this moment. (Read more: American Thinker, 1/20/2025)(Archive)
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued a directive to all federal agencies and departments to commence the closure of their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) offices by the close of business on Wednesday. This directive comes in the wake of President Trump’s executive order aimed at dismantling all DEI programs within the federal government.
Under the new guidelines, all employees working in DEIA offices will be placed on paid administrative leave immediately, as departments begin the process of shutting down these initiatives. According to Fox News, by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, heads of agencies are required to:
Send an agency-wide notice to employees informing them of the closure and asking employees if they know of any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language
Send a notification to all employees of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) offices that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/end all DEIA initiatives, offices and programs.
Take down all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) of DEIA offices
Withdraw any final or pending documents, directives, orders, materials and equity plans issued by the agency in response to the now-repealed Executive Order 14035, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce (June 25, 2021)
Cancel any DEIA-related trainings and terminate any DEIA-related contractors
President Trump has also issued an executive order declaring the government’s policy to recognize only two genders: male and female, reflecting a broader pushback against diversity initiatives. (Read more: The Liberty Daily, 1/21/2025)(Archive)
District Judge Aileen Mercedes Cannon (Credit: public domain)
Judge [A]ileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the Justice Department from sharing Jack Smith’s classified documents report with Congress.
On Friday Judge Cannon during a hearing appeared skeptical of Merrick Garland’s plan to give Jack Smith’s Volume 2 final report on Trump’s classified documents case to Congress.
Cannon repeatedly asked DOJ lawyers why they needed to show the classified documents report to lawmakers. The Judge also asked if the final report was safeguarded from being leaked to the public.
“Why is there such urgency to disclose this to Congress right now, prior to the conclusion of the criminal proceeding — which would seem to be the ordinary course?” Cannon asked DOJ attorney Elizabeth Shapiro, according to Politico. “At the end of the day, what’s the upside of doing this right now?”
The DOJ lawyer argued that releasing a special counsel’s final report to Congress is a ‘historical practice.’
“I’m still not hearing a satisfying answer to that question,” Cannon said, according to Politico.
Shapiro insisted there was “virtually no likelihood that the report can leak.”
Lawyers for Trump’s co-defendant Walt Nauta insisted giving the final report to Congress would “really be a release publicly.”
Cannon said the final report contains information Trump’s lawyers argued were protected under attorney-client privilege.
On Tuesday, Judge Cannon excoriated the Justice Department for their “startling” conduct.
The federal judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s classified documents case has blocked the Department of Justice from sharing special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his probe with select members of Congress.
Judge Aileen Cannon, in an order issued one day after Trump’s inauguration, offered a scathing criticism of the Department of Justice’s “startling” conduct and willingness to “gamble” with the rights of Trump’s former co-defendants by attempting to allow four members of Congress to review Smith’s final report as directed by DOJ policy.
“Prosecutors play a special role in our criminal justice system and are entrusted and expected to do justice,” Cannon wrote. “The Department of Justice’s position on Defendants’ Emergency Motion … has not been faithful to that obligation.”
Bureau of Prisons director is out as Trump’s Justice Department reforms take shape. (Credit: public domain)
The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid President Donald Trump’s efforts to implement drastic reforms to the Justice Department.
William Lothrop
Colette Peters, who has led the BOP since August 2022, is out as director of the beleaguered agency, and she has been replaced by William Lothrop, who had been serving as deputy director of the BOP.
Peters was appointed by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 and touted as a reform-minded outsider tasked with rebuilding an agency plagued for years by staff shortages, widespread corruption, misconduct and abuse.
The agency has nearly 36,000 employees and is responsible for more than 155,000 federal inmates.
Lothrop, who says he has more than 30 years’ experience working in the BOP, announced the change via a statement on Tuesday, the day after President Trump was sworn into office. The BOP director is not subject to confirmation by the Senate, per the legal news service Law 360. (Read more: Fox News, 1/22/2025)(Archive)
As one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden issued a blanket preemptive pardon to former NIAID head Dr. Anthony Fauci. Of course Fauci shouldn’t need a pardon since he’s done nothing wrong, right? Right?
Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger go through the litany of crimes Fauci has committed that he now needs to be pardoned for or face possible prosecution.
Syria’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani speaks with Tony Blair at the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Davos meeting. (Credit: Reuters).
A US-designated terrorist group still remains the current de facto ruling entity in Damascus and over Syria. But for the West, all that matters is that al-Qaeda linked Jolani is not Assad. A decade-plus long proxy war in pursuit of regime change finally overthrew the secular Baath government early last month, and resulted in the hardline Islamists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) controlling most of the country.
New ruler of Syria, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani (Credit: Aref Tammawi/Getty Images)
The West appears to be fully embracing the new rulers which we previously referred to as al-Qaeda in suits. This week we have been treated to the spectacle of a HTS representative speaking on the main stage at Davos. He’s come a long way from Idlib and its black flags… straight to the red carpet jet-setting champa[gne]-sipping insider atmosphere of world elites.
Syria’s new HTS-appointed Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani told the World Economic Forum on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia is now the exemplar for Syria to follow.
“Where do we see inspiration for the new Syria? We have the Vision 2030 of Saudi Arabia,” Al-Shaibani said during a conversation with former UK prime minister Tony Blair.
“We need Syria to be a place of peace, to be a place of development, a place free of war,” the top HTS diplomat added.
On top of the irony of an AQ-linked official being invited to Davos (and merely within less than two months after HTS took power), there’s the added irony that Tony Blair – one of Bush’s key allies who pushed the 2003 invasion of Iraq – was hosting the Davos main stage discussion with Al-Shaibani.
Former leaders like Blair, in overthrowing Saddam Hussein, are responsible for having overseen the sectarian and Islamist nightmare which gripped Iraq and the region in the aftermath. The rise of ISIS would not have been possible if it weren’t for the US/UK ‘shock and awe’ regime change operation, for example. Later, the West and Gulf states funded the Syrian insurgency, during which time Al-Qaeda in Iraq jihadists poured across the border into Syria.HTS was born out of this West-backed anti-Assad jihad (it was known as Nusra Front in the beginning).
But of course, the Davos elites are embracing it all: war crimes and jihad.
Meanwhile, in Syria HTS has allowed ISIS-linked foreign fighters to intimidate the population with impunity. Alawites, Druze, and Christians live in fear as sectarian-driven killings are on the rise in the “liberated Syria” – especially in the Homs, Latakia, and coastal and countryside regions.
As he appealed for the support of the Davos predator class with the help of Iraq war criminal and neoliberal frontman Tony Blair, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan Al Shibani complained that Western sanctions destabilize Syria and make governing the country nearly impossible pic.twitter.com/hf87FRzixk
President Donald Trump confronted Bank of America boss Brian Moynihan in front of the entire world Thursday for not providing banking services to conservatives.
“I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives, because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank, and that included a place called Bank of America. … what you’re doing is wrong,” Trump said during a question and answer session with corporate leaders and CEOs, who were assembled on stage at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Trump, who spoke by satellite to address the forum, suggested his predecessor – former President Joe Biden – was behind the effort.
“And I don’t know if the regulators mandated that because of Biden or what,” Trump continued, “But you and [JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon] and everybody – I hope you’re going to open your banks to conservatives, because what you’re doing is wrong.”
Captured on hidden camera, a White House advisor, Byron Cohen, warned that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s potential appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services could be sabotaged by the entrenched federal bureaucracy. Cohen, acknowledging the existence of the “deep state,” described how the bureaucracy operates with its own agenda, potentially hindering or even blocking initiatives from external appointees like Kennedy Jr.
“People joke about the ‘deep state,’ but to some degree, it’s real,” admitted Byron Cohen, an advisor at the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, to an undercover OMG journalist. Cohen, a holdover from the Biden Administration, is currently lent to the office through the Horizon Institute for Public Service.
He revealed the extent to which the bureaucracy operates with its own hidden priorities and safeguards, adding, “It’s not just a matter of ordering people to do things. They have ways to slow things down or block you without you realizing it.”
Cohen expressed strong disapproval of Kennedy Jr.’s potential appointment, citing his views on vaccines as a point of contention with the American public. He predicts that Kennedy Jr. will face an uphill battle in gaining cooperation from the bureaucracy, which he believes will prioritize its own interests over his agenda.
“RFK Jr. is a very bad pick for HHS… it’s probably a good chance that the bureaucracy just crushes him,” Cohen stated. He further elaborated when asked, “Can you give me an example of how you think they’ll do it when RFK, like if he gets in?” and described a ‘fake commission’ to “Make him [RFK Jr.] think something is happening when it’s not…” (O’Keefe Media Group/Email, 1/23/2025)
President Trump appoints Sean Curran (r) as the Director of Secret Service, 1/24/2025 (Credit: public domain)
(…) Curran was wasting little time in starting to clean house at the Secret Service. On his first day on the job, as many as 10 senior leadership officials, including Rowe, were warned that they would either be fired, moved, or pressed into retirement, according to three Secret Service sources.
Curran has been inundated with information on which top officials on the 8th floor of headquarters to oust or replace. Agents are circulating removal wish lists, as well as names of those agents Curran or other members of his new leadership team already informed that their services are no longer needed.
Cynthia Sjoberg Radway
Agents are expressing an urgent need to remove Chief Operating Officer Cynthia Sjoberg Radway from her leadership post. Radway was incredibly close to Cheatle, the pair having become good friends during a previous Radway stint working for the agency. When Cheatle became director, she brought Radway back to work more directly for her in the COO role and gave her a bonus to do so, according to multiple sources. The fear is that Radway, if allowed to stay, will continue to serve as a pipeline of information back to Cheatle. She also has crossed many agents Curran respects.
“She will be a major roadblock to positive progress,” if allowed to stay, one source in the Secret Service community told RealClearPolitics.
One of the biggest points of contention about who should stay and go is being waged over an alleged decision by former USSS leadership, under Cheatle’s and Rowe’s direction, not to inform Curran of the security threats against Trump before the Butler rally.
David Torres
In addition to Cheatle and Rowe, David Torres, assistant director of Strategic Intelligence and Information, was also involved in keeping the Trump campaign detail in the dark about a specific Iranian attempt against Trump’s life. The Pittsburgh Field Office, which partnered with the Trump campaign detail for planning and executing security for the Butler rally, also was never informed before the July 13 assassination attempt. If the two Secret Service contingents had been informed, the agents charged with providing security may have upped their game to come up with a more robust security plan and far better execution, these sources contend.
Rowe officially passed the torch to Curran in a “good-bye” letter to all Secret Service personal sent late Thursday night and obtained by RealClearPolitics. In it, he praised Curran’s selection for the role, while omitting any reference to the two assassination attempts against Trump’s life while he was serving in top leadership agency roles. Rowe only became acting director after Kimberly Cheatle resigned under pressure from Congress in the wake of the Butler assassination-attempt debacle.
Rowe strangely claimed he is “excited” to announce that Curran will be the next director, the 28th in the agency’s history. (Trump previously announced that decision on Truth Social.)
“Throughout his career, Director Curran has led and played critical roles in both protective operations and the investigative mission,” Rowe wrote. “He has consistently demonstrated outstanding leadership, integrity, and courage.”
“His vision, dedication, and ability to drive results have earned him respect inside the agency and from law enforcement partners,” he continued. “I am confident that under his leadership the Secret Service will continue to grow, innovate, and remain steadfast in our unwavering commitment to succeed in our missions.” Rowe’s conclusion that he’s “proud of all that we have accomplished together” without any mention of the monumental failures in Butler and during the second assassination attempt on Trump’s life at a Florida golf course spurred instant ridicule among rank-and-file agents.
But it was the way he signed the letter that gave fellow agents and USSS officers the most pause. Rowe listed his title as deputy director, the post he held before former Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas elevated him to the acting director role following Cheatle’s resignation.
If Rowe is moving to the deputy director role with Curran in the top post, agents tell RCP they believe nothing will change, and the USSS will continue to experience protection failures, retention problems, and low morale. “When are we going to seriously fix the problems instead of putting lipstick on a pig?” one source questioned.
Yet, Rowe may simply be moving back to the deputy director job temporarily before Curran has a chance to name his own No. 2 and chief of staff. The names circulating among the Secret Service for those top leadership roles include Matthew Piant, who served as Curran’s No. 2 on the Trump campaign detail, and Tyler McQuiston, a former agent who previously served in several senior protective operations roles. (Read more: RealClearPolitics, 1/25/2025)(Archive)
TRUMP FIRES 17 INSPECTORS GENERALS in a late-night purge punctuating the end of his first five days in office. @RealDonaldTrumpdismissed 17 federal agency watchdogs. I’ve covered these IGs for years — and trust me when I say, even though they are charged with ferreting out waste and abuse, many have long histories of WHITEWASHING reports and playing politics with complaints – I have personal experience reporting on @DoDand @USAIDand @DHSIG misconduct. The @DHSIG I reported on roughly a decade ago ended up getting fired.
Among those spared Friday is current Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari Jr., who is conducting multiple investigations into the @SecretServicefailures that led to two assassination attempts on President Trump’s life. Cuffari Jr. is a Trump appointee from his first term who has faced more than his fair share of liberal attacks and lawfare.
Also spared:
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz remained unaffected. The move follows Trump’s past efforts, including firing whistle-blower-linked Inspector General Michael Atkinson during his first impeachment trial.
Source: Washington Post and New York Times
‼️‼️TRUMP FIRES 17 INSPECTORS GENERALS in a late-night purge punctuating the end of his first five days in office. @RealDonaldTrump dismissed 17 federal agency watchdogs. I’ve covered these IGs for years — and trust me when I say, even though they are charged with ferreting out… pic.twitter.com/ILwBW2NRxY
A group representing federal inspectors general released a letter addressed to the White House rejecting as unlawful President Trump’s mass firing of over a dozen IGs Friday night. The letter was signed by one of the IGs fired by Trump, Mike Ware, who lectured the White House to consult with legal counsel.
The letter cited a law of dubious constitutionality passed by a Democrat-led Congress in 2022 mandating IGs can only be fired when Congress is given thirty days notification of the reasons. Inspectors general are appointed by presidents, subject to Senate confirmation, and are executive branch employees.
Politico reported at least one inspector general plans to report to work Monday (excerpt):
…At least one of the fired inspectors general — the State Department’s Cardell Richardson Sr. — has told staff he plans to show up to work on Monday, arguing that the firings are illegal, according to a person familiar with the situation who requested anonymity to reveal the internal discussions…
Hey @BankofAmerica you lying pieces of shit! You took my bank account away as well as my mothers, my husbands accounts away in 2021 for political reasons and placed us on the PEP list. I have the evidence to prove it. STFU and shove your corporate board up your ass!BOYCOTT BOA pic.twitter.com/WNnkFkwm0v
This is total bullshit. My wife and I lost our accounts with the Bank of Un-America. In nearly 30 years, never missed a mortgage payment, near perfect credit score, always paid my bills…they dropped us without warning. Strongest recommendation, dump them and use a credit union… https://t.co/e6PLYKcJUM
LISTEN: Bank of America tells John Eastman, in a recording obtained by @DailyCaller, that they will not tell him why his bank account was shut down without warning.
Paul Ryan appears in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s 2025 annual globalists meeting.
(…) We don’t hear Paul Ryan’s name much these days, unless we’re talking about Fox News, where he’s a board member. But rest assured, this globalist snake in the grass is still slithering around, doing everything he can to undermine President Trump’s America First agenda.
Nowhere was that more obvious than Ryan’s recent trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos. There he was, rubbing elbows with his fellow elites and reminding all of us that he’s still an undercover power player in the Great Reset and the sinister and dark world of globalism.
Ryan was cornered by Canadian firehouse and investigative reporter Ezra Levant, who asked why the former House Speaker refuses to congratulate President Trump on his epic, historic presidential victory.
The answer, sadly, is no mystery: Paul Ryan loathes Trump and everything the America First movement stands for. It clashes with every globalist bone in his body.
Paul Ryan is stepping out of the shadows, where he quietly hid during most of Biden’s disastrous regime. Suddenly, he’s back in the spotlight, making moves to rally the anti-Trump uniparty and reminding them that, yes, their movement still exists. He recently appeared on CNBC for a really awkward interview, where he was called out for sounding an awful lot like a Democrat.
You can see it all over his face—he can’t even fake being happy for President Trump or the country that sent him to the White House with a resounding mandate.
Ryan knows this is war. When Biden’s regime was destroying the country, Paul had nothing to worry about – trust the plan, right? Now that President Trump is back, Ryan knows it’s “go time.” After all, President Trump just delivered a deathblow to the GOP establishment wing of the GOP. He’s made it clear; he’s not hiring anyone who worked for hacks like Charles Koch, Liz Cheney, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, and others in this establishment camp. (Read more: Revolver News, 1/24/2025)(Archive)
This is what draining the swamp looks like in real time. As I’ve been telling you all week, heads are finally rolling. The Deep State tried to kill Trump, and he’s taking no prisoners this time.
Trump names a new acting director for national intelligence, ousting a Biden official associated with D.E.I. initiatives.
The Trump administration has named Lora Shiao the new acting director of national intelligence, replacing Stacy Dixon, the Biden administration’s top deputy in the office who had helped lead efforts to diversify the ranks of intelligence officers.
Ms. Shiao had served in a senior role, chief operating officer, under Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, who left her position on Monday. During the first Trump administration, Ms. Shiao was promoted to lead the National Counterterrorism Center by Richard Grenell, who was its acting director. (Read more: New York Times, 1/25/2025)
NEW: Stacey Dixon has stepped down as Acting Director of National Intelligence.
This action follows an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at eliminating DEI initiatives. pic.twitter.com/PtVfA15uZ5
Two former reporters with Politico accused the outlet of suppressing negative stories about former President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential election in a video clip posted to YouTube Thursday.
Dozens of former intelligence officials signed an October 2020 letter published by Politico that claimed a bombshell New York Post report about emails from a laptop supposedly abandoned by Hunter Biden “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Puck News reporter Tara Palmeri and Axios reporter Marc Caputo discussed the Politico newsroom’s approach to unflattering reports about the Bidens on Palmeri’s podcast, “Somebody’s Gotta Win,” though the outlet has denied their allegations.
“Politico did that terrible, ill-fated headline: 51 intelligence agents, or former intelligence agents, say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation, or bore the hallmarks of disinformation. Turns out that story was closer to disinformation because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true,” Caputo told Palmeri, who responded. “But then Facebook also pulled all stories down about the Hunter Biden laptop, and I think Twitter did at the same time, too.”
Twitter locked multiple accounts, including the New York Post’s and the personal account of then-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing the Oct, 14, 2020report, citing a “hacked materials” policy. Documents released to journalist Michael Shellenberger by Elon Musk show that the FBI contacted Twitter about the potential for leaks involving Hunter Biden prior to the New York Post’s report.
“Correct, they punished The New York Post, that didn’t help. I mean, Politico, my former employer and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors,” said Caputo. “I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirms officially that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China which is why President Trump called it the ‘Chinese virus’. Never forget how they censored Americans from saying this, including labeling this entire subject misinformation. pic.twitter.com/o824gSPIKd
CIA analysts were ‘bribed to change position’ on COVID-19 origins as Fauci led ‘orchestrated’ effort to undermine lab-leak origin theory
A new Sky News Australia documentary reveals further evidence of the “orchestrated effort” to push the narrative that COVID-19 had natural origins, despite intelligence officials saying it “most likely” leaked out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. (Read more: Sky News Australia, 11/28/2023)(Archive)
Democratic Delegate and prominent gay activist Matthew Inman, 39, has been arrested after sending child pornography to an undercover police officer.
According to Inman’s X account bio, archived here, he serves as the President of the Rainbow Democrats, a nonprofit that aims to “foster goodwill between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and allied members of the Democratic Party and the community at large.” Inman, an Orlando resident, was previously the Orange County Democratic Party’s Treasurer.
(…) The U.S. District Attorney’s office said in a statement that between August and October 2024, Inman “received and saved several videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM),” which “depicted adults sexually assaulting young children.”
He apparently sent these photos to an undercover cop, posing as the father of a nine-year-old boy, who Inman had expressed interest in sexually assaulting.
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith walks away and addresses reporters after his grand jury issued more indictments of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023. (Credit: Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
The Justice Department is firing “over a dozen” officials who were part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s teams that prosecuted President Donald Trump, officials confirmed to ABC News Monday.
Acting Attorney General James McHenry transmitted letters to the officials informing them of their termination, officials said, that said given their part in the prosecutions they couldn’t be trusted in “faithfully implementing the president’s agenda.”
(…) “You played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” the email from Acting Attorney General McHenry said to the officials fired Monday. “The proper functioning of the government critically depends on the trust superior officials place in their subordinates. Given your significant role in prosecuting the President, I do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully.”
While several career officials who played prominent roles in Smith’s prosecutions departed prior to Trump taking office — including former top DOJ national security official Jay Bratt — several other career attorneys who were on Smith’s team chose to remain and return to roles in DOJ’s national security and criminal divisions.
Among those officials were longtime career trial attorneys Molly Gaston, J.P. Cooney, Mary Dohrmann and Anne McNamara, all of whom were informed of their terminations Monday, an official confirmed to ABC News. (Read more: ABC News, 1/27/2025)(Archive)
SCOOP: New DC US Attorney Ed Martin has opened an inquiry into the DOJ’s unlawful use of 1512c2, the post-Enron obstruction statute filed against 300+ J6ers. Martin called the use of 1512c2 a “great failure” of the office and directed staff to immediately deliver “all files, documents, notes, emails and other information” related to 1512c2 charging decisions to two other prosecutors, who will prepare a preliminary report for Martin by this Friday.
SCOOP: New DC US Attorney Ed Martin has opened an inquiry into the DOJ’s unlawful use of 1512c2, the post-Enron obstruction statute filed against 300+ J6ers. Martin called the use of 1512c2 a “great failure” of the office and directed staff to immediately deliver “all files,…
Martin further indicated his team will reach out to prosecutors who left the office but nonetheless were involved in the unlawful prosecution of J6ers under 1512c2.
The Supreme Court determined in Fischer v US that the DOJ had misapplied the felony statute, which requires proof of documents/evidence destruction. After the June 2024 ruling, defendants–some of whom had already served years-long prison sentences–filed motions to vacate convictions, drop existing indictments.
The DC circuit slowly overturned those cases but DC US Attorney Matt Graves tried to work around Fischer by bringing an alternative charge that was equally as dubious.
Further, despite the fact the 1512c2 conviction animated long prison sentences, Graves tried to keep 1512c2 defendants in jail for the same amount of time EVEN AFTER THE CONVICTION WAS DROPPED by asking for new sentencing enhancements.
Of course DC judges were only too happy to comply.
The unlawful application of 1512c2 represents the dark heart of the abusive, reckless prosecution of J6ers. Every prosecutor signed their name to court documents related to 1512c2 and every DC judge except two–Carl Nichols and Greg Katsas–endorsed the statute’s unlawful use.
They all must be held accountable.
Important to note the 1512 count also represented two of the four counts in Jack Smith’s J6 indictment against the president.
So who was driving the 1512c2 train? Not Matt Graves because he is too dumb. Someone like Lisa Monaco perhaps? Our buddy Norm Eisen? Maybe Andrew…
Special Counsel Jack Smith as prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in the Hague. (Credit: public domain)
The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen officials involved in former special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of President Trump, The Post has confirmed.
Acting Attorney General James McHenry ordered the terminations because he believed the officials could not be trusted in “faithfully implementing the president’s agenda,” a DOJ official said in a statement to The Post.
Trump appoints James McHenry as Acting Attorney General on January 20, 2025. (Credit: public domain)
“Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” the statement read. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”
The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”
McHenry notified the DOJ officials — who have not yet been identified — of their firings in a letter. It’s unclear exactly how many officials received termination letters from McHenry.
The firings were first reported by Fox News on Monday.
The move comes days after the DOJ reportedly reassigned at least 15 career officials at the agency, including one who pushed for the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, to roles with less influence on the department’s major decisions.
A USAID staff member stands as Gaza aid on a truck is about to enter a U.S ship at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus, on June 26, 2024. (Credit: Petros Karadjias/AP)
The Trump administration has ordered dozens of top career employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development to go on administrative leave, according to six people told of the decision.
The order — sent via email to members of the senior executive and senior Foreign Service — was issued close to the end of the business day Monday and was effective immediately, according to two current USAID officials and three former USAID officials told of the communication. It comes as USAID and the State Department have been ordered to impose halts on a vast number of humanitarian and related programs around the world.
The decision appears to affect nearly every career staffer who holds a top leadership role at the agency, at least in Washington — around 60 officials, the current and former officials said. (Read more: Politico, 1/27/2025)(Archive)
(Timeline editor’s note: Be sure and check our USAID tag timeline for a good look at some of the corruption connected to this program.)
(L-R) Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams (Credit: The Gateway Pundit)
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has initiated a bold inquiry into the protective policies of notorious sanctuary cities against federal law enforcement.
This inquiry targets mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City on their controversial stances on non-cooperation with federal immigration authorities, which Comer criticizes as “misguided and obstructionist policies that jeopardize American safety.”
Each of these cities has enacted measures that limit cooperation with federal efforts to apprehend and deport illegal immigrants, particularly those with criminal records.
Claremont Institute scholars, including me, Ed Erler, Tom West, John Marini, and Michael Anton, President Trump’s incoming Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, have been contending for years—decades, really—that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause does not provide automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil, no matter the circumstances. Other prominent scholars, such as the late University of Texas law Professor Lino Graglia, University of Pennsylvania Professor Rogers Smith, and Yale Law Professor Emeritus Peter Schuck, have come to the same conclusion based on their own extensive scholarly research.
Claremont scholars have made the argument in books, law reviewarticles, congressional testimony, and legal briefs. President Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General, Edwin Meese, even joined one of those briefs, in which we argued against treating enemy combatant Yaser Esam Hamdi as a citizen merely because he had been born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while his father was working in the U.S. on a temporary work visa. Perhaps as a result of our brief in that case, the late Justice Antonin Scalia referred to Hamdi as a “presumed citizen” in his dissenting opinion.
Our argument is straightforward. The text of the 14th Amendment contains two requirements for acquiring automatic citizenship by birth: one must be born in the United States and be subject to its jurisdiction. The proper understanding of the Citizenship Clause therefore turns on what the drafters of the amendment, and those who ratified it, meant by “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Was it merely a partial, temporary jurisdiction, such as applies to anyone (except for diplomats) who are subject to our laws while they are within our borders? Or does it instead apply only to those who are subject to a more complete jurisdiction, one which manifests itself as owing allegiance to the United States and not to any foreign power?
Think of it this way. Someone from Great Britain visiting the United States is subject to our laws while here, which is to say subject to our partial or territorial jurisdiction. He must drive on the right-hand side of the road rather than the left, for example. But he does not thereby owe allegiance to the United States; he is not subject to being drafted into our army; and he cannot be prosecuted for treason (as opposed to ordinary violations of law) if he takes up arms against the United States, for he has breached no oath of allegiance.
So which understanding of “subject to the jurisdiction” did the drafters of the 14th Amendment have in mind?
Happily, we don’t need to speculate, as they were asked that very question. They unambiguously stated that it meant “complete” jurisdiction, such as existed under the law at the time, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which excluded from citizenship those born on U.S. soil who were “subject to a foreign power.”
The Supreme Court confirmed that understanding (albeit in dicta) in the first case addressing the 14th Amendment, noting in The Slaughterhouse Cases in 1872 that “[t]he phrase, ‘subject to its jurisdiction’ was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.” It then confirmed that understanding in the 1884 case of Elk v. Wilkins, holding that the “subject to the jurisdiction” phrase required that one be “not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction, and owing them direct and immediate allegiance.” John Elk, the Native American claimant in the case, did not meet that requirement because, as a member of an Indian tribe at his birth, he “owed immediate allegiance to” his tribe and not to the United States.
Thomas Cooley, the leading treatise writer of the era, also confirmed that “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States “meant full and complete jurisdiction to which citizens are generally subject, and not any qualified and partial jurisdiction, such as may consist with allegiance to some other government.” More fundamentally, this understanding of the Citizenship Clause is the only one compatible with the consent of the governed principle articulated in the Declaration of Independence.
All of this matters a great deal because on the first day of his second term in office, President Trump issued an executive order, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” which adopted the view of the Citizenship Clause I and other Claremont scholars have espoused. It directs every department and agency of the U.S. government to accept our view henceforth as the correct interpretation of the Constitution’s Citizenship Clause.
This may be the most legally controversial executive order issued by the president on day one. And because of that, it is already being challenged in court, as 22 states have filed a lawsuit trying to block its implementation a little more than 24 hours after it was signed.
In the coming days and weeks, just as with that lawsuit, there will be lots of pundits opining that the president had no authority to issue such an order because the Constitution mandates automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil, a mandate that cannot be changed with the stroke of a president’s pen. They will contend that the Supreme Court already settled the issue more than a century ago in the 1898 case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
But even if Wong Kim Ark was correctly decided (as Ed Erler points out, it was not), honest scholars must acknowledge that Wong Kim Ark involved a child born to parents who were permanently domiciled in the United States, not those who were only here temporarily or illegally. Indeed, honest scholars will be forced to acknowledge that the Supreme Court has never held that the children of illegal immigrants, or even temporary lawful visitors, are constitutionally entitled to automatic citizenship merely by virtue of their birth in the United States. And they will be forced to acknowledge as true the claim in Trump’s executive order that “the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted [in any formal, binding way] to extend citizenship universally to everyone born in the United States.”
Alas, when it comes to anything related to Trump, there are very few honest scholars. Instead of acknowledging the Supreme Court’s limited, actual holding in Wong Kim Ark, they will point to dicta in which the Court’s majority falsely claimed that the Citizenship Clause codified the old English common law rule known as jus soli—that anyone born on the king’s soil owed perpetual allegiance to the king. They will overlook that our Declaration of Independence was an explicit and eloquent repudiation of jus soli, stating in its closing paragraph that “these United Colonies…are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown.” They will overlook that Congress did not view Wong Kim Ark as mandating automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil when, a quarter century later, it extended citizenship to Native Americans pursuant to its power under the Naturalization Clause, an act that would have been superfluous if Wong Kim Ark had already settled the matter that everyone born in the U.S., including Native Americans, were automatically citizens. And they will overlook that when a 1920s guest worker program ended in the wake of the Great Depression and more than a million Mexican workers were repatriated to Mexico, the repatriation included their U.S.-born children. No one at the time claimed that the children were U.S. citizens.
Nevertheless, despite the original meaning of the Constitution’s text, its initial interpretation by the Supreme Court, and its compatibility with the social compact “consent of the governed” political theory of the Declaration, our government agencies have for more than a half-century, without any formal amendment, court decision, or official authoritative pronouncement, been acting as though birth alone is sufficient to confer citizenship. And many children of illegal immigrants or temporary visitors have organized their lives in reliance on those informal views. (President Trump’s executive order does not disturb those interests. It makes the order applicable only to children born on U.S. soil more than 30 days after the order’s effective date, to parents who were unlawfully present, or lawfully but only temporarily present, in the United States at the time of their birth.)
As a result of this order and the inevitable legal challenges to it, the Supreme Court will now, for the first time, have the opportunity to acknowledge that the Claremont Institute’s long-standing view of the Citizenship Clause is the correct one. With the Court currently composed of more originalist justices than has been the case in more than a century, we anticipate with great optimism a careful and considered assessment of the clause and a restoration of the fundamental notion that ours is a country rooted in consent, not in the old feudal notion of jus soli that was so thoroughly rejected in our Declaration of Independence. (American Mind.org, 1/28/2025)(Archive)
Carlos De Oliveira (Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion on Jan. 29 to voluntarily dismiss its appeal in the Florida classified documents case that has reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
“The United States of America moves to voluntarily dismiss its appeal with prejudice,” a filing with the appeals court reads.
Hayden O’Byrne, the interim U.S. attorney in Miami, noted in the filing that the government had conferred with counsel for two remaining appellees, Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, who were named as defendants along with President Donald Trump.
The motion was made after former special counsel Jack Smith’s office asked the court to dismiss the appeal as it related to then-President-elect Donald Trump—something the court granted last year.
The DOJ was in the process of appealing Florida Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case. Cannon had ruled that Smith was unlawfully appointed.
The DOJ’s motion was made after Cannon blocked the release of the second volume of Smith’s report on the classified documents case.
Cannon sided with an emergency motion brought by Nauta and De Oliveira. The previous administration had sought to allow certain members of Congress to read a redacted version of the report. In her Jan. 21 order, Cannon said that “there is certainly a reasonable likelihood that review by members of Congress as proposed will result in public dissemination of all or part of Volume II.”
“That reasonable likelihood risks substantial prejudice to the due process rights of Defendants, who remain subject to the protective order in this case.”
The motion is part of a wave of changes that have occurred under the new administration, which has expressed an interest in halting what it views as weaponization of the department, or politically-based prosecutions. (Read more: The Epoch Times, 1/29/2025)(Archive)
Gabbard:
For too long, faulty, inadequate, or weaponized intelligence has led to costly failures and the undermining of our national security and God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. The most obvious example of one of these failures is our invasion of Iraq, based on a total fabrication or a complete failure of intelligence.
This disastrous decision led to the deaths of tens of thousands of American soldiers, millions of people in the Middle East, mass migration, destabilization, and the undermining of the security and stability of our European allies. It also contributed to the rise of ISIS, the strengthening of Al Qaeda and other Islamist jihadist groups, and the empowerment of Iran.
The American people elected Donald Trump as their President—not once, but twice—yet the FBI and intelligence agencies were politicized by his opponents to undermine his presidency and falsely portray him as a puppet of Putin.
Gabbard’s testimony ripped into the coordinated efforts of the Clinton and Biden campaigns to manipulate intelligence agencies for political gain.
She highlighted how the now-discredited Steele dossier—funded by the Clinton campaign—was used as “evidence” to illegally spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page via FISA warrants.
Gabbard also targeted the now-infamous 51 former intelligence officials who falsely labeled Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” to help Joe Biden secure victory in the 2020 election.
She exposed Biden campaign operative Tony Blinken as the mastermind behind the disinformation letter.
Gabbard:
Title I of FISA was used illegally to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, using a Clinton-Biden campaign-funded false dossier as their so-called evidence. Biden campaign advisor Tony Blinken was the impetus for the “51 former senior intelligence officials’ letter,” dismissing Hunter Biden’s laptop as disinformation and specifically intended to help Biden win the election.”
Gabbard also blasted former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for blatantly lying to Congress about mass surveillance programs that targeted American citizens.
And she didn’t hold back on ex-CIA chief John Brennan, who she reminded the world spied on Congress, got caught, and faced zero accountability.
Gabbard revealed one of the most chilling abuses under the Biden administration: the FBI’s targeting of devout Catholics.
“Under Biden, the FBI abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil Catholics who attend traditional Latin mass, labeling them as radical traditionalist Catholics.”
Gabbard also exposed how, just 24 hours after she criticized Kamala Harris’s nomination, she was placed on a secret domestic terror watchlist called “Quiet Skies.”
Gabbard dismantled the left’s predictable playbook, warning Americans exactly what was coming: false accusations, fear-mongering, and outright lies designed to discredit her before she even steps into office.
Gabbard:
Those who oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal to something or someone other than God, my own conscience, and the Constitution of the United States—accusing me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, a guru’s puppet, and Modi’s puppet—without recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the puppet of five different puppet masters.
The same tactic was used against President Trump and failed. The American people elected President Trump with a decisive victory and a mandate for change. The fact is, what truly unsettles my political opponents is that I refuse to be their puppet.
I condemn those actions as a Democrat in Congress at the time, as religious bigotry must be thoroughly condemned by all of us, no matter the religion. Unfortunately, some Democrat senators still don’t understand the principle of freedom of religion and Article VI of the Constitution: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”
Unfortunately, they are once again using the religious bigotry card—this time, trying to foment religious bigotry against Hindus and Hinduism.
If anyone is sincerely interested in knowing more about my personal spiritual path of Hinduism, I welcome you to visit my account on X, where I’ll share more on this topic.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are releasing legally protected whistleblower disclosures that prove the genesis of the federal election interference case brought against President Trump began at the hands of a prolific anti-Trump FBI agent who acted outside of established protocol for opening cases.
Internal FBI emails and predicating documents provided to Grassley and released jointly by the two senators show Timothy Thibault, a former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) who was forced to retire from the Bureau after Grassley exposed his public anti-Trump bias, authored the initial language for what ultimately became Jack Smith’s federal case against Trump regarding the 2020 presidential election. Records show Thibault essentially opened and approved his own investigation. The FBI titled the ensuing investigation “Arctic Frost.”
Richard Pilger leaves the FBI’s election crimes division in November, 2020 after Barr authorizes fraud investigations. (Credit: public domain)
Records further reveal Richard Pilger, an official in the Justice Department (DOJ)’s Public Integrity Section, reviewed and approved the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation, authorizing DOJ to move forward with a full field criminal and Grand Jury investigation that ultimately transformed into the Trump elector case. Grassley published a 2021 report that raised concerns regarding Pilger’s troubling record at DOJ.
Grassley in 2022 additionally questioned Thibault’s role at the FBI, writing, “I remain very concerned that political bias by a select group of Justice Department and FBI officials has infected the Justice Department’s and FBI’s usual process and procedure to open and pursue high-profile and politically charged investigations.” Grassley and Johnson in November called on Jack Smith to preserve all records related to Trump-targeted investigations.
The records released by Grassley and Johnson are linked below:
Grassley provided an overview of the records in his opening statement during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Kash Patel’s nomination to be FBI Director. Excerpts from Grassley’s opening statement follow:
“In my hand are a series of FBI emails.
“The first is an email that Thibault sent to a subordinate agent on February 14, 2022.
“He said, ‘Here is draft opening language we discussed.’ The draft opening was attached, and it included material that would later become part of Jack Smith’s elector case.
“The second email is a February 24, 2022, email from Thibault to John Crabb, a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, saying, ‘I had a discussion with the case team and we believe there to be predication to include former President of the United States Donald J. Trump as a predicated subject.’ This FBI case would later be codenamed Arctic Frost.
“The third email is a February 24, 2022, email from Thibault to John Crabb noting that Attorney General and FBI Director approval will be sought to open the case.
“The fourth email is a February 25, 2022, email from Thibault’s subordinate agents saying they added Trump, and others, as a criminal subject to the case. Thibault responded ‘Perfect.’
“The fifth email is a March 22, 2022, email from Thibault emailing a version of an investigative opening for approval. This didn’t include President Trump as a criminal subject.
“The sixth email is an April 11, 2022, email from Thibault approving the opening of Arctic Frost.
“The seventh email is an April 13, 2022, email from an FBI agent to Thibault stating that the FBI Deputy Director approved its opening.
“The eighth email on that same date had Thibault emailing John Crabb that the elector case was approved. Crabb responded, ‘Thanks a lot. Let’s talk next week.’
“Between March 22 and April 13, other versions of the document opening the investigation existed, because a ninth email shows that the FBI General Counsel’s office made edits on March 25.
“Was Trump still removed as an investigative subject? If so, which Justice Department and FBI officials – other than Jack Smith – later added him for prosecution?
“I expect the production of all records on this matter to better understand the full fact pattern and whether other records exist.”
There’s a new video making the rounds, and it’s raising a massive red flag and asking: Did Obama and Eric Holder get paid to rig court cases? That’s the question many are now asking, and the allegations are so serious that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel should take a closer look once they get their offices setup.
The video was posted by an account “Against the Giants,” and it exposes a shocking timeline that suggests Big Tech, the Obama regime, and his DOJ may have colluded to rig our nation’s courts.
The building blocks of the left’s lawfare?
This disturbing story centers around a small, relatively unknown innovator who developed some cutting-edge wireless technology—and then had it allegedly stolen by Qualcomm.
When he sued for patent infringement, the court ruled in his favor.
But here’s where things get deeply disturbing and very interesting…
In shocking twist, that decision was mysteriously overturned right after Eric Holder’s DOJ was caught tracking the case. Suspicious? Yes. But there’s more…
The White House Executive Office was apparently busted visiting the inventor’s website, specifically looking at information related to the lawsuit against Qualcomm.
This has many people asking some very serious questions: Did the company Qualcomm grease the wheels inside the Obama regime to protect their billion-dollar empire?
Many would argue that the dots are connecting fast and furious (pun intended).
And to make matters more curious, Qualcomm’s founder met with Obama White House officials just days before the case was overturned, raising more concerns that perhaps campaign cash or political favors may have been exchanged for some favorable court rulings.
Take a look for yourself:
Big tech’s betrayal of America — unveiled.
Inside the untold story of how big tech giant Qualcomm ripped-off one of the most important patented innovations in American history and shipped it off to China with the help from the US government.
If this is true, it means Big Tech and the government worked together to rig the courts, crush competition, and sell out American innovators—and they did it while China swooped in and profited from stolen US technology. (Read more: Revolver News, 1/31/2025)(Archive)
Jeff Parker, the CEO of ParkerVision, explained how tech giant Qualcomm allegedly stole a revolutionary patented innovation with the help of the Obama administration — tech that was offshored to China, possibly giving them a competitive edge. https://t.co/63NU64gfiM
Thank you, @glennbeck for shining light on our story. We aren't giving up and we aren't going anywhere.
If we can set a precedent for American innovators that big tech can no longer stomp on small companies, that is a win for America's future at this critical time in history. pic.twitter.com/uZyF1qLS1b
“Child sex trafficking has no place in the United States of America and I will do everything, if confirmed as FBI Director, to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened in the past, and how we are going to counter man missing children and exploited children going forward.”
Kash says he will expose the people on the Epstein list 💥
“Child sex trafficking has no place in the United States of America and I will do everything, if confirmed as FBI Director, to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened in the past, and how we… pic.twitter.com/KHWilcP43i
A whirlwind of controversy surrounds U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and flight logs belonging to the family of Jeffrey Epstein.
The plane was allegedly used to fly underage girls to Epstein’s private Caribbean island. Epstein pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges and was later found dead in his jail cell.
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, has publicly called out Durbin for blocking her request to file a subpoena for the flight logs and then lying about any knowledge of the request.
During a recent Judiciary Committee hearing, Durbin said he wanted to go on the record and asked Blackburn about the matter.
“You and I have never personally discussed this, have we?” said Durbin
“We talked briefly on the floor,” said Blackburn.
“You never mentioned what the subject matter of your amendment was,” said Durbin.
“In committee I brought up the subject matter of my amendment,” said Blackburn.“Not in my presence,” said Durbin.But during a Nov. 9 hearing presided over by Durbin, Blackburn did, in fact, mention the subpoena of flight logs.“Since we’re in the business of issuing subpoenas now, here are a few more I have filed,” said Blackburn. “A subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to provide the flight logs for his private plane. Given the numerous allegations of human trafficking and abuse surrounding Mr. Epstein, we’ve got to identify everyone who could have participated in his horrific conduct.”Blackburn has called Durbin’s actions a “sad day in the history of the prestigious Judiciary Committee.”
On Wednesday, Blackburn posted questions on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Why did Senator Durbin appear to not know about my subpoena request for Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs? Why are the Democrats stonewalling this issue?”
The Reagan National Airport traffic control tower was understaffed the night of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Potomac River, January 30, 2025. (Credit: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
Tucker Carlson had already unearthed proof back in 2018 that the Obama administration had placed a new emphasis on diversity over traditional hiring practices at the Federal Aviation Administration.
President Donald Trump suggested during a news briefing Thursday that the crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C., may have had something to do with the lowering of standards for air traffic controllers that occurred first during the Obama administration and later during President Joe Biden’s time in office.
🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump just EVISCERATED the FAA, and blamed their incompetence on their DEI practices during his press briefing on the DC plane crash
Holy CRAP.
Trump also CALLED OUT Pothole Pete Buttigieg, saying he had a “good line of bullsh*t”
In June 2018, then-Fox News host Carlson covered the topic, saying, “The Obama administration pressured the FAA to meet abstract diversity goals. Now nobody bothered to explain why diversity is a relevant criterion for air traffic controllers. No one will explain it now.”
Carlson explained that the FAA added a biographical questionnaire to the air traffic controller application process, which he said gave more points to would-be controllers who lacked a scientific background or who had been unemployed for the previous three years than they did to licensed pilots.
“In other words, the FAA actively searched for unqualified air traffic controllers. That is insane, and they knew it was insane when they did it, but they did it anyway,” he said.
In an email Carlson said he obtained, the executive who created the biographical questionnaire “admits that the test he devised has nothing to do with finding the best air traffic controllers. If you want good air traffic controllers, find people with experience. That was his advice. The FAA ignored this, and used the biographical screen anyway. … Compared to diversity, your safety meant nothing to them.”
The Washington Times editorial board also wrote about the topic in a February 2024 opinion piece following near misses at Reagan National, where Wednesday’s crash took place, and Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
The Times cited a 2013 FAA document titled “Controller Hiring by the Numbers,” which asked, “How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?”
The news outlet noted in 2012 that the FAA temporarily halted hiring of new controllers and replaced its race-blind hiring rules with a “Biographical Assessment” stratagem intended to hire more minorities.
Playing four or more sports in high school was worth 5 points in the survey, while holding a pilot’s license only earned an applicant 2 points.
“More than 3,000 top-performing, motivated applicants lost out because they weren’t members of this ethnic club,” the Times said.
(…) In 2018, Carlson interviewed aviation attorney and former air traffic controller Michael Pearson, who represented plaintiffs in a suit against the FAA in 2015 on the new hiring criteria.
Pearson recounted, “In late 2011, early 2012, members of the National Black Controllers Association had a meeting with the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Jesse Jackson, and some high-level [Department of Transportation] and FAA officials. Michael Huerta [then head of the FAA] was part of those meetings. And right after that meeting, the FAA put an immediate hold on hiring. They stopped hiring.”
He verified what both Carlson and the Times reported regarding the biographical questionnaire: That it did not test actual aptitude and background to be a good air traffic controller.
🚨 This is bad.
Fmr. Air Traffic Controller Michael Pearson: “This is a preventable disaster. The system has been under attack due to DEI and the FAA bowing to wokeness since 2010 — since the Obama administration.”
This tragedy last night was preventable at best and domestic terrorism at worst. Trump did not gut the FAA, he was ending DEI!!! Joe’s entire FAA Administration leadership team left in January too. pic.twitter.com/RiMFagAx7p
The media doesn’t know what it’s getting into picking a fight with Trump over DEI in air travel.
Here’s the facts: The Obama Administration threw out ALL the results of a merit-based air traffic controller hiring test, wrecking the career plans of people who’d spent thousands of dollars pursuing that career.
Then, the Obama Administration created a new test where they INTENTIONALLY selected for less capable people merely on the hope that they’d be less white. All of this has been proven in the filings of an extensive class-action lawsuit against the FAA.
Let me repeat that: Democrats didn’t simply create a quota system, or discriminate based on race. They deliberately worked to make new air traffic controllers dumber, hoping that diversity would be the side effect. That’s how obsessed the left is with DEI, and how little they care about protecting the lives of fliers.
Conservatives should welcome this fight. Nothing better represents how evil DEI is and how antithetical it is to human life and American success.
The media doesn’t know what it’s getting into picking a fight with Trump over DEI in air travel.
Here’s the facts: The Obama Administration threw out ALL the results of a merit-based air traffic controller hiring test, wrecking the career plans of people who’d spent thousands of… pic.twitter.com/nsonwsVaPS
That’s the inescapable conclusion for anyone who watched the grand pantomimes being displayed in the past 24 hours.
There’s a debate amid the newly awakened and many who do not want to believe it; but there is no denying that Trump 2.0 is revealing even more layers of how far astray the Republic has gone.
Institutional Democrats hate Trump, and institutional Republicans are lukewarm, at best, in defending Trump. Both wings of the DC UniParty fear Trump. Extreme efforts at control are always a reaction to fear. I make my case not on supposition, but on empirical reference points that most should understand.
Within the politics of it, theDNCwantspower. The RNC wants money. TheDNC uses money to get power. The RNC uses power to get money. The ideology of theDNC drives their donor activity. The donor activity of the RNC drives their ideology. This is the only current difference between the two clubs, two wings of the same vulture.
Multinational corporations do not like capitalism because within the process of capitalism they do not have control over the financial outcomes. Capitalism breeds competition: multinationals abhor competition, they are totalitarian in ideology and want the entire pie under their control. Multinational corporations do not like capitalism; underline it, emphasize it, do not forget it.
Capitalism is based on the principles of a free market. Multinationals do not want a free market; they want a controlled market. Their effort toward promoting mandatory vaccine compliance is an example of yet another control they can manipulate for maximum financial benefit. It really is that simple.
Meanwhile the crew of UniParty politicians behind DC know they can benefit from their corporate allies. The multinationals will pay the politicians for control and the politicians will construct defensive legislative outcomes that protect the multinationals. That is what is happening in exponentially increasing sunlight.
If this is indeed representative of half the country, then we are dealing with half the country having a severe mental illness.
Sheldon Whitehouse tells RFK Jr during his confirmation hearing today that support for forced, mandatory vaccinations is required as the baseline for supporting his nomination to HHS Secretary. The moment comes at 00:50 of Whitehouse reading his script. The intensity and vitriol behind the statement is a testimony to the scale of money from Big Pharma to these senators. WATCH:
(…) FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin revealed last night that the purge went beyond the six Executive Assistant Directors; it also included 25 Special Agents in Charge.
According to Seraphin, there are three individual leadership positions at the top of the FBI: the Director, the Deputy Director, and the Associate Deputy Director.
Below that, there are seven “branch heads” known as Executive Assistant Directors, while the Special Agents in Charge (SACs) lead each of 56 field offices across the country.
It’s happening! While Kash Patel was sitting before a Senate committee for his confirmation, a purge of FBI agents who “just followed orders” were told to resign or be fired including 6 of 7 executive assistant directors and 25 out of 56 Special Agents in Charge according to… pic.twitter.com/2EMid4rall
One of those SACs, according to Seraphin, was Special Agent in Charge Spencer Evans, who led the field office in Las Vegas, Nevada, and who recently spearheaded the investigation into the alleged suicide of a Green Beret who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside of the Trump Hotel on New Year’s Day.
He was also the SAC that denied Seraphin his religious exemption from the COVID vaccine, which in part led to his indefinite suspension.
Seraphin also mentioned the widespread terminations of a group of former agents known as “The Suspendables,” which include former agents Steve Friend and Garrett O’Boyle.
O’Boyle was suspended in September 2022 after he blew the whistle on the FBI using threat tags to target pro-life individuals after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Friend blew the whistle over the exaggeration of statistics regarding the threat of domestic terrorism, as well as the overzealous tactics used against Jan 6 protesters by the bureau. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/31/2025)(Archive)
And just in case people at the margins are getting a little weak-kneed with all this “disruption” — it’s not just justified, it’s necessary. https://t.co/rbMEf821Vz
Earlier Friday Trump fired the head of the FBI Washington Field Office, according to NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian.
David Sundberg is the highest ranking FBI official to be fired in Trump’s second term. Trump fired FBI Director James Comey during his first term.
Sundberg oversaw the January 6 investigation and the investigation into the so-called DNC pipe bomber.
According to NBC’s Ken Dilanian, the purge is much larger than originally reported and includes more than 20 heads of FBI Field Offices.
The purge is bigger than first understood, we are told, and includes more than 20 heads of FBI field offices, including the ones in Miami and Washington, DC. https://t.co/p2ogRN8TJV
David Lebryk’s was placed on administrative leave after resisting requests from Mr. Musk’s team. (Credit…Bill O’Leary/Washington Post/Getty Images)
The Trump administration pushed out a top Treasury Department official this week after he refused to give Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team access to the government’s vast payment system, part of a bid by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to choke off federal funding.
David Lebryk, a career civil servant who oversaw the more than one billion payments that the federal government makes every year, was placed on administrative leave this week after resisting requests from Mr. Musk’s lieutenants, according to people familiar with the circumstances, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal dynamics.
On Friday, Mr. Lebryk — who had briefly served as acting Treasury secretary until the confirmation of Scott Bessent this week — told colleagues that he would retire after more than 35 years of working for the government.
(…) Mr. Musk, a billionaire, has dispatched aides across the bureaucracy to try to radically reduce spending. He has told Trump administration officials that he aims to take control of the Treasury computers used to complete payments in order to identify fraud and abuse, according to three people familiar with his remarks.
The Treasury Department executes payments on behalf of agencies across the government, disbursing $5.4 trillion, or 88 percent of all federal payments, in the last fiscal year. The system is run out of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a little-known but critical office that is responsible for getting money to Social Security recipients, government employees, contractors and others. (The New York Times, 1/31/2025)
The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.
They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.
That is absolutely insane. How many billions or trillions have they wasted in recent years? I bet the fraud is massive. If these officers knew *everything* was approved… Did any of their friends or family get paid fraudulently? Will likely need to be investigated!
DOGE: David Lebryk controlled the computerized payment system responsible for $6 trillion in Treasury payments before he refused to give Trump’s DOGE team access to the system. His manager was a Nigerian immigrant appointed by Biden. He quit two weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/rt8FnbM8zm
Adeyemo was an Obama insider. He was Director of the National Economic Council under Obama AND he was a Sr Advisor at BlackRock – Very Convenient for them. We’re going to find out how MUCH the Treasury Department stole from the American taxpayers now. People are going to prison. pic.twitter.com/JTJca9r6Qy
In early February, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials and party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a day-and-a-half retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback.
The gathering — organized by Third Way, the centrist Democratic think tank, and operated by Chatham House Rules — resulted in five pages of takeaways, a document Playbook obtained from one of the participants. (Not all attendees endorsed each point.)
“In the wake of this election, where it became so evident that the things that the left was doing and saying deeply hurt Harris and down-ballot Democrats, a lot of people are looking to us, not just Third Way, but the moderates in the party, and saying, ‘We got to do it your way, because the other way ain’t working,’” said Third Way’s Matt Bennett, who helped organize the February retreat.
The document itselfis perhaps the most comprehensive of its kind following the election — both in its analysis of what went wrong and how to fix it.
The retreat’s conversation centered on a disconnect with the working class. Among the causes of that disconnect: weak messaging and communication, failure to prioritize economic concerns, overemphasis on identity politics, allowing the far left to define the party, and attachment to unpopular institutions such as academia, media and government bureaucracy.
Those gathered then laid out 20 solutions for how Democrats can regain working-class trust and reconnect with them culturally.
The website of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) went offline Saturday evening amid reports that the Trump administration was preparing to curtail USAID’s independence by placing it under the direct oversight of the State Department.
An error message on USAID’s website read: “This site can’t be reached Check if there is a typo in www.usaid.gov. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN.”
Two sources familiar with the transition told Reuters that a major overhaul is expected in how Washington allocates US foreign aid, with USAID losing its independence and most likely coming under the control of the State Department.
By late Saturday, a new ‘lite’ page for USAID appeared on the State Department’s website.
Trump’s been purging and intimidating USAID employees.
Now there’s a rumor he’ll dissolve USAID as an independent agency.
It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope.
This’d be illegal and against our national interests.
Like I said before, USAID is a front for the CIA. And together with NGO’s like the Open Society Foundation, they have been using US tax dollars & govt resources as their personal piggy bank. It has been infuriating to watch. Hopefully now the whole truth will come out. https://t.co/0eMqwBi3OR
Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, speaks as President Joe Biden meets with his Competition Council to announce new actions to lower costs for families on March 5, 2024. The CFPB said Thursday July 18, 2024 that apps that allow workers to access their paychecks in advance, often for a fee, are providing loans and should be subject to the Truth in Lending Act. (Credit: Andrew Harnik/AP)
President Trump fired Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Saturday.
Rohit Chopra received an email Saturday morning informing him that he had been terminated, CNN reported.
On Saturday Chopra announced he was leaving the post.
It’s been an honor serving as your @CFPB Director.
Every day, Americans from across the country shared their ideas and experiences with us. You helped us hold powerful companies & their executives accountable for breaking the law, and you made our work better.
Rohit Chopra was a toxic Biden holdover who previously threatened banks that refused to give credit lines and loans to illegal aliens.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the DOJ warned banks and lending institutions in a joint statement in October 2023.
“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Justice Department today issued a joint statement that reminds financial institutions that all credit applicants are protected from discrimination on the basis of their national origin, race, and other characteristics covered by the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, regardless of their immigration status,” the CFPB said in a statement.
“The CFPB and Justice Department are issuing this statement because consumers have reported being rejected for credit cards as well as for auto, student, personal, and equipment loans because of their immigration status, even when they have strong credit histories and ties to the United States and are otherwise qualified to receive the loans.” they said.
“Fair access to credit is crucially important for building wealth and strengthening household financial stability,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra. “The CFPB will not allow companies to use immigration status as an excuse for illegal discrimination.”
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke warned banks that they may be violating federal law if they don’t give illegal aliens loans. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 2/1/2025)(Archive)
Elon Musk’s aides have locked career government bureaucrats out of computer systems that operate a federal government human resources agency.
Musk, the owner of social media platform X and the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency — which is tasked with slashing government waste, fraud, and abuse — installed allies at the government resources agency known as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Reuters, citing government officials who spoke to the outlet anonymously, said career bureaucrats have had their access to governments systems revoked.
“We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,” one official said.
“That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications,” the official claimed.
OPM has sought to remove many in the federal government; the agency has sent out memos encouraging bureaucrats to take buyout offers to quit and take a vacation to a “dream destination.” The buyout package includes eight months pay if the civil servant chooses to retire.
Musk’s allies have figuratively set up camp at the OPM headquarters so they work round the clock:
A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency’s headquarters, which contains the director’s office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said. The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said.
“It feels like a hostile takeover,” one employee lamented.
The OPM is reportedly run by Amanda Scales, a former Musk employee, who now serves as the agency’s chief of staff. Riccardo Biasini, a former engineer at Tesla, also works as a senior adviser to the agency. (Read more: Breitbart News, 2/01/2025)(Archive)
Clipping of a New York Post article that addresses the absurd Pulitzer Price given to the NY Times and Washington Post, 2/21/2022.
President Donald Trump scored a significant legal win Monday in his lawsuit against the members of the Pulitzer Prize Board, paving the way towards the discovery phase in their courtroom battle.
Judge Robert L. Pegg (Credit: public domain)
Last week, the board members filed a motion for Protective Order Governing Discovery in hopes of shielding their internal communications involving the decision to award The New York Times and The Washington Post a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on Russiagate during Trump’s first term in office.
Judge Robert L. Pegg of the 19th Judicial Circuit Court in Okeechobee County, Florida, stuck down their motion.
“The rule requires ‘an affirmative showing of annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense’ from such party or person… Defendants have failed to meet this requirement, as there is no factual support in the record demonstrating that any defendant, much less each defendant, would be subject to annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense if a protective order is not entered,” Pegg wrote in his filing.
“President Trump is committed to holding those who traffic in deception and fake news to account,” Trump attorney Quincy Bird told Fox News Digital. “The defendants, hiding behind the once-prestigious Pulitzer Prizes, attempted to resurrect a left-wing hoax by giving, as well as continuing to stand by and republishing, its disgraced award to the organizations that drove the infamous ‘Russia Russia Russia’ hoax.”
“This was a defamatory scam designed to damage President Trump’s image and presidential campaign. After today’s win in court, this case will now proceed to a very thorough discovery process and President Trumpis committed to seeing this case through to a just conclusion,” Bird added. (Read more: Fox News, 2/21/2025)(Archive)
BREAKING🚨: Acting FBI Director Driscoll has acknowledged in a LEAKED internal memo that a significant portion of the FBI was involved in INVESTIGATING Trump and his supporters, stating, “We understand that this encompasses thousands of employees who took part in these… pic.twitter.com/XpHNcg9u0V
According to Reports FBI agents in Washington, DC, are reportedly in a state of panic as a protest, organized by current and former employees, is being planned for… pic.twitter.com/ciTrWNoX7e
I am outside the FBI Headquarters in Washington, where agents say they will protest President Trump’s new policies today. Six FBI officials have been told to resign today. Also, FBI officials have until Tuesday at noon to give a list of agents who worked on J6 cases. Stay tuned.… pic.twitter.com/I78n9aGsC8
The American people are just now finding out — thanks to throngs of the Blobbiest mafiosos taking to the streets today from the Biden, Bush & Obama CIA and Pentagon worlds – that USAID is very much **anything but** a ‘humanitarian’ organization. https://t.co/1ao6l12QSV
USAID has been discovered by DOGE to be institutionalized corruption with payments controlled by lunatic leftist radicals.
Many high profile names are on the take. pic.twitter.com/HZW8Ic6DKH
The military, under Joe Biden and Mark Milley, openly plotted to incite race riots in Africa then use USAID to swoop in and give striking protestors no-show jobs on US taxpayer dime so they keep could keep getting paid while striking and protesting in the streets. pic.twitter.com/pzWV62Bsd4
USAID is done. DOGE accessed the classified files and immediately found billions of dollars of wasteful spending including funding of DEI and Transgender programs/activities in countries around the world including funding for terrorist organizations. pic.twitter.com/2s6QTrBuyf
After Elon’s recent post about only 10% of USAID going to its intended recipients, I found this shocking video released by PBS on January 5 in a new series Agents for Change that actually looks more deeply at this issue. pic.twitter.com/iXVeJczrix
USAID is a terrorist organizations and the work I’ve down in connection with the patriots of Guatemala will put their crimes on display for the entire world to see. “My new documentary releases this week” pic.twitter.com/YdPzg0nTuc
The Brookings Institution has forcefully attacked @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk for shutting down USAID.
They conveniently never disclose in all of their hit pieces that they’ve received USAID grants for “humanitarian assistance” and “protecting human rights.” pic.twitter.com/Aw0aCQ3noe
🧵From funneling tax dollars to risky research in Wuhan to sending Ukrainians to Paris Fashion Week, USAID is one of the worst offenders of waste in Washington… all around the world. 🌎
Press Secretary details some of the insane spending from USAID over the past few years:
– $1.5 million for DEI in Serbia
– $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland
– $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia
– $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru pic.twitter.com/F6oskM4QSK
You have magazine subscriptions hanging out there you should drop? Well, did you know you were paying $500,000 for 37 people in the federal government to ‘subscribe’ to Politico? pic.twitter.com/HlPGUBuJWY
It’s outrageous Trump shut down USAID, say leaders of the foreign policy establishment. It’s not. Voters elected him to dismantle rogue, deep state agencies like USAID, which turned the tactics of censorship, regime change, and counterinsurgency against the American people. https://t.co/xfSJsvuGzUpic.twitter.com/k84FSRvoRT
– @TheChiefNerd exposed Anthony Fauci’s NIAID and USAID sent over $40M in US taxpayer money to a scientist in Wuhan
– That same scientist became “patient zero” for COVID-19
– That research STARTED IN 2014, THE SAME YEAR ANTHONY FAUCI’S PARDON STARTS
– Elon Musk… pic.twitter.com/zPIjhtTMoT
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official was caught on undercover video admitting that the agency intends to defy the directives of newly confirmed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, according to footage released by James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group.
Brandon Wright, Platform Services Manager for DHS, was recorded saying that the agency’s career bureaucrats do not allow political appointees to interfere with their operations. He told the undercover reporter, “Kristi Noem? I f*cking hate her.”
“The secretaries can set the priorities for the department, but they can’t actually tell us what to do,” Wright told an undercover OMG journalist, later adding, “The truth is, we don’t let them [secretaries] get in our way.” He said, “If we don’t agree with those priorities, there is a lot of room for interpretation, in terms of how we interpret what those priorities are.”
He compared the government’s bureaucratic structure to a septic tank, saying that there are layers that allow employees to filter directives in a way that minimizes their impact. “There’s a lot of layers like that in the government. And by the time the actual marching orders get to, like, me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship,” he said.
“She doesn’t know her a**,” he remarked, adding, “The Department of Homeland Security could fall on her f*cking head, and she wouldn’t recognize what it is. Kristi Noem doesn’t know sh*t” He also expressed frustration over her leadership style, saying, “To say that I am not excited about this would be the most epic understatement.”
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said, “Secretary Noem has not seen the video in its entirety. This type of behavior will not be tolerated. This person has been placed on leave and is under investigation…The senior official says the termination of the official is imminent.” (Read more: The Post Millennial, 2/3/2025)(Archive)
(The tweet below would not embed for me so there is a link below the photo.)
“The truth is, we don’t let them [secretaries] get in our way,” admits Brandon Wright, Platform Services Manager for the Department of Homeland Security (@DHSgov), on hidden camera, to an undercover @OKeefeMedia Journalist. Drawing an analogy to a septic tank, Wright described the multi-layered bureaucracy within DHS: “There’s a lot of layers, like [in] government… By the time the actual marching orders get to me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship.”
“If we don’t agree with those priorities,” he said, noting executing orders often involves deceptively construing priorities set by political appointees to make them more practical and less disruptive, adding, “there’s a lot of room for interpretation.”
When discussing @KristiNoem’s role as the Trump-appointed DHS Secretary, Wright didn’t mince words on his opinions over Noem’s qualifications for the position. “Kristi Noem doesn’t know… She doesn’t know her ass,” he remarked, adding, “The Department of Homeland Security could fall on her f*cking head, and she wouldn’t recognize what it is.”
Wright also admitted his personal dislike of her leadership style, adding, “To say that I am not excited about this would be the most epic understatement.”
The Department of Homeland Security provided the following statement to O’Keefe Media Group:
“Secretary Noem has not seen the video in its entirety. This type of behavior will not be tolerated. This person has been placed on leave and is under investigation … The senior official says the termination of the official is imminent.”
“The truth is, we don’t let them [secretaries] get in our way,” admits Brandon Wright, Platform Services Manager for the Department of Homeland Security (@DHSgov), on hidden camera, to an undercover @OKeefeMedia Journalist. Drawing an analogy to a septic tank, Wright described… pic.twitter.com/0N8U21PdW1
Large crowds have gathered outside the USAID Building in Washington as elected Democrats from the hill are reportedly coming to defend an agency that has obstructed President Trump’s executive orders by giving taxpayer dollars to foreign countries despite Trump ordering them to… pic.twitter.com/UnwDnCRFMa
NEW: Democrats in Congress, USAID-funded NGOs, and USAID employees are currently protesting outside the recently shut-down USAID office by President Trump.
Democrats are protesting that USAID is being asked for answers as of where OUR money goes , and look who is in the first line of protest @RepMcGovern because the funding for his friends in Havana the communist regime is going to be stopped thanks , is over Jim no more tax payers… pic.twitter.com/V42OZPoQ2y
Terrorist supporter Ilhan Omar speaks during a protest outside USAID office after Trump removed top security officials at USAID – How much does her home country receive in USAID? 👇
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) has been holding a series of secret fundraisers with… pic.twitter.com/WuOl4e5aJY
— Andrea Shaffer, Employment/Labor Law (@Andreafreedom76) February 3, 2025
Jamie Raskin, and a Crowd of Communists that have been recently EXPOSED by @elonmusk, Hold a Mini Presser to Protest @DOGE Confiscating of USAID Money that was being used Fund The Communist Infiltration of America. Soros Wants His Money Back‼️🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/AM1X7Ro6u8
BREAKING: On February 3, 2025, the USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C., was the site of a significant protest where Democratic lawmakers, alongside a group of demonstrators, attempted to enter the building. This action came in response to President Donald Trump’s reported… pic.twitter.com/1nFGmk4W0i
From the USAID protest outside of the agency’s HQ today in Washington. Democratic Congressman Don Beyer of Virginia. Dems decried Trump’s/Musk’s move as unconstitutional and vowed to fight it. pic.twitter.com/4fmiKWxPBZ
Senator Chris Van Hollen and other democrat elected officials just stormed the USAID headquarters with a mob of protestors behind them. pic.twitter.com/baLd8ytEZt
What you will quickly find as you enter The Amazing USAID Vortex Of Despair is that virtually every powerful political & financial motor of American society that promotes & lobbies for USAID is either directly on USAID’s payroll, works at a place that is, or his/her donors do. https://t.co/IVSkt1lVl7
USAID essentially functions as one of many money laundering machines for Democrats in DC. Here’s how it works:
• Activists create obscure NGO
• Dems fund it lavishly
• NGO does bare minimum (or actively hurts the United States)
• Activists get paid and donate to Dems
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his country has only received around $76 billion in aid from the United States despite America authorising around $175 billion to support the war-torn country.
In an interview with the Associated Press published over the weekend, President Zelensky said he doesn’t know where most of the money the United States allocated under the Biden administration to Ukraine has gone.
“When I hear – both in the past and even now – from the U.S. that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds of billions, as the president of a nation at war, I can tell you – we’ve received more than $75 billion,” he said. “We’re talking about tangible things because this aid didn’t come as cash but rather as weapons, which amounted to about $70 billion.”
“But when it’s said that Ukraine received $200 billion to support the army during the war – that’s not true. I don’t know where all that money went,” Zelensky admitted.
“Perhaps it’s true on paper with hundreds of different programmes – I won’t argue, and we’re immensely grateful for everything. But in reality, we received about $76 billion. It’s significant aid, but it’s not $200 billion.”
The Ukrainian leader suggested that perhaps the additional funds went to humanitarian programmes, which he said he was “uninformed about, except for knowing of their existence”.
“Perhaps the U.S. President’s administration will audit these programmes and find additional billions, but I don’t know where those funds went,” Zelensky said.
JUST IN: Ukrainian President Zelensky says Ukraine only received around $75 billion of the $177 billion in aid sent by the United States.
Dear @elon, Please see this important letter. We will not tolerate threats against DOGE workers or law-breaking by the disgruntled. All the best. Ed Martin pic.twitter.com/jIgMPVbPT5
DOGE: One of the ‘journalists’ who decided to doxx members of Trump’s DOGE team is a Mashable reporter a couple of years out of UNT who likes to sleep in his free time with his orange cat. He reviewed the background of the DOGE team and found them lacking. Let me tell you a little about them:
– degrees from Stanford, UC Berkeley, & MIT
– work experience at Google, Tesla, SpaceX, and OpenAI
– Several hold patents in critical areas such as blockchain consensus mechanisms, AI-driven fraud detection, and scalable payment networks
– Others pioneered open-source frameworks used by developers worldwide or built award-winning solutions in decentralized finance (DeFi) and robotics
– One member decoded ancient texts using machine learning, earning recognition in top scientific journals
– One designed a blockchain-based remittance system that transformed financial access in underserved regions
– Their work has been celebrated at premier tech conferences, in academic publications, and through accolades like hackathon victories and fellowships reserved for visionary innovators
Their youth is an asset: it brings fresh perspectives, fluency in emerging technologies, and the agility to iterate rapidly in a fast-evolving space. Far from being “unqualified,” their track records of solving complex problems, often ahead of industry curves, position them among the nation’s brightest minds—proof that capability is defined not by age, but by vision, execution, and impact. I certainly don’t think the Mashable reporter is in any position to judge these people.
h/t
@AlexanderPayton
DOGE: One of the ‘journalists’ who decided to doxx members of Trump’s DOGE team is a Mashable reporter a couple of years out of UNT who likes to sleep in his free time with his orange cat. He reviewed the background of the DOGE team and found them lacking. Let me tell you a… pic.twitter.com/AyKGI8tcZP
FBI officials turned over information from thousands of employees who worked on cases concerning Jan. 6 to President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ), according to a Tuesday report.
Out of over 13,000 agents and 38,000 FBI employees, the details of more than 5,000 personnel were sent to the DOJ, sources familiar told CNN. Information provided included employee identification numbers, work titles and any roles in investigations connected to Jan. 6, according to a source, though names were excluded.
The report does not note how many out of the 5,000 were FBI agents.
The Daily Caller reached out to the FBI, which referred the Caller to the DOJ. The DOJ has not responded at the time of publication.
Things are getting WILD right now… 5,000 names turned over to DOJ. Not a bloodbath, but there are definitely higher levels of anxiety at the FBI for folks who haven’t spent the last 4 years working real cases… pic.twitter.com/VtSWRTV2xd
The DOJ sent a survey to agents and employees about their potential roles in Jan. 6investigations. It was due by 3 p.m. Monday.
Multiple anonymous agents and employees sued the DOJ on Tuesday over its questionnaire, arguing it was “retribution.”
“Plaintiffs assert that the specific purpose of this survey is to identify agents and other FBI personnel to be terminated as a form of politically motivated retribution,” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit also claims the DOJ violated the First Amendment and privacy laws. The employees were told that the “aggregated information” collected from the surveys would be sent to senior management, according to documents. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 2/4/2025) (Archive)
…The anti-Elon Musk rally last night proved two things: Trump derangement syndrome has been replaced by Elon Musk derangement syndrome. Second, the Democratic Party has no idea how to win elections. The reports of a rudderless, leaderless, and divided organization were confirmed last night. It also showed that they have no message other than ‘me no like this Trump administration,’ of which Elon Musk is a top agent of the president. His Department of Government Efficiency is wiping the table clean, exposing waste and fraud, and getting these lazy DC government workers to quit.
They already delivered a smackdown to legacy officials at the Treasury Department before Scott Bessent was confirmed as its next secretary. USAID has been virtually gutted, becoming absorbed into the State Department, where all overseas missions were ordered closed by Friday. The entire staff is slated to be furloughed this week. The CIA is also running scared, offering its entire workforce buyout options. The DOGE crew has accessed the Small Business Administration’s accounts, and Democrats cannot understand nor tolerate that the government doesn’t have to waste our tax dollars.
Democrats this evening called for:
– War
– Revolution
– Fighting in the street
All against “Nazi” @elonmusk and “dictator” Donald Trump.
A large left-wing crowd gathered in the capital to call for the Senate to be shut down and @elonmusk imprisoned after USAID was closed. The anti-Musk rally featured speeches by Democrat politicians. pic.twitter.com/nqljfEa9Xj
Democrat Dave Min: We model the values of diversity and inclusion! That’s what America is about! We are the true Americans here! We have to reclaim our country! pic.twitter.com/q9Op7T9EO7
“I advise the Somalian people that if ICE attempts to question you, you are not obligated to answer their questions,” Omar reportedly said in Somalian. “Just state that you were advised by a lawyer not to answer questions.”
“Disclosure of your name, immigration status, and mode of entry is not mandatory,” she added.
Ilhan Omar is now advising Somalians on how to avoid ICE: “You are not obligated to answer their questions.” pic.twitter.com/r5ns38pCdM
USAID’s defenders say it’s about charity and development in poor nations. It’s not. It’s a $40 billion driver of regime change abroad. And now the evidence suggests that it, along with the CIA, were behind the 2019 impeachment of Trump — an illegal regime change effort at home. pic.twitter.com/6HxUPiVpFX
The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden.
In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.
Eric Ciaramella: The Democratic national security “whistleblower,” whose complaint led to President Trump’s impeachment, was a close colleague of Kendall-Taylor. It’s not clear if Ciaramella also played a role in the drafting of the January 2017 assessment. (Credit: whitehouse.gov)
Reporting by Drop Site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Trump has just shut down. The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report by OCCRP four times.
The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were “key hidden actors behind a plan” by Trump to investigate the Bidens. According to the story, those two businessmen connected Giuliani to two former Ukrainian prosecutors. The OCCRP story was crucial to the House Democrats’ impeachment claim, which is that Trump dispatched Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower cited it four times.
In a 2024 documentary that German television broadcaster NDR made about OCCRP’s dependence on the US government, a USAID official confirmed that USAID approves OCCRP’s “annual work plan” and approves new hires of “key personnel.” NDR initiated and carried out the investigation with French investigative news organization Mediapart, Italian new group Il Fatto Quotidiano, Reporters United in Greece, and Drop Site News in the United States.
However, according to a Mediapart story published the same day as the Drop Site News article, NDR censored the broadcast “after US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and head of the OCCRP, placed pressure on the NDR management and made false accusations against the broadcaster’s journalists involved in the project.”
On December 16, Drop Site’s Ryan Grim posted a link on X to the 26-minute-long documentary. “NDR, Germany’s public broadcaster, is facing a censorship scandal and has defended itself by saying it never killed a news report about OCCRP and its State Department funding — b/c no report was ever produced to kill,” said Grim. “That was absurd — and dozens, maybe hundreds, of journalists knew it to be false, and now of course, someone has leaked it.”
The journalistic collaboration revealed that OCCRP’s original funding came from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the State Department, and quotes a USAID official who says, “Drew’s just nervous about being linked with law enforcement,” referring to Sullivan. “If people who are going to give you information think you’re just a cop, maybe it’s a problem.”
OCCRP does not operate like a normal investigative journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change. Sullivan told NDR that his organization had “probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government… and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out.”
As such, it appears that CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad. The difference is that it is highly illegal and even treasonous for CIA, USAID, and its contractors and intermediaries, known as “cut-outs,” to interfere in US politics this way.
OCCRP threatened to file a lawsuit against Public in response to questions we sent. “The premise of your article is factually false and defamatory,” wrote Miranda Patrucic, the Editor in Chief of OCCRP, over email. “The claim by Dropsite News and partner media that USAID has control over editorial appointments has been disproven and we suggest you read our response to that.”
But neither OCCRP nor anyone else disproved Drop Site’s allegations and Drop Site stands by them. And the evidence does not support OCCRP’s claim of journalistic independence….
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This group attacking @elonmusk claims to be independent but it’s not. USAID funds it & requires approval of its senior hires. @OCCRP admits it contributed to “regime change” in 5-6 nations, proof that USAID turned foreign counter-insurgency tactics against the American people. https://t.co/E16SdZoJRf
The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden.
The CIA has offered employees eight months pay and benefits to leave. Great start. After that, Director @JohnRatcliffe can clean house. The CIA illegally spied on the 2016 Trump campaign, hid Covid’s origins, and spread disinformation about the Hunter Biden laptop. https://t.co/WkN13oRMcrpic.twitter.com/BgfrLAMiI7
At the time of Trump’s inauguration, the House Intelligence Committee was chaired by California Republican Devin Nunes, who launched an inquiry into the Trump-Russia investigation in March of 2017.
Within a year, this HPSCI team put out an initial “Nunes memo” describing FBI…
This appears to be good sign that the CIA intends to get to the bottom of the CIA’s role in the Russia collusion hoax
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I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts. The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from Trump’s civil service buyouts.
The previous administration shamelessly used USDOT as a slush fund for the Green New Scam, throwing away money and resources on wasteful environmental and social justice projects rather than updating our nation’s antiquated air traffic control systems and other critical infrastructure.
I’m returning this department to its mission of safety by using innovative technology in transportation and infrastructure. Your team had its chance and failed. We’re moving on without you because the American people want us to make America’s transportation system great again. And yes, we’re bringing the 22-year-olds with us.
I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts. The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from… https://t.co/WOI5K4242D
Seventeen state attorneys general have formally requested aid from Republican congressional leaders to delve deeper into the origins of COVID-19 and explore possible legal actions against Dr. Anthony Fauci at the state level.
This concerted effort, spearheaded by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, aims to circumvent the preemptive pardon issued by Joe Biden on his last day in office, which sought to shield Fauci from federal prosecution.
This pardon covers any federal offenses Fauci may have committed between January 1, 2014, and the date of the pardon.
“President Biden’s blanket pardon of Dr. Fauci is a shameful attempt to prevent accountability,” said Attorney General Wilson.
“We are fully prepared to take appropriate action to ensure justice is served if our findings indicate violations of state laws.”
The state attorneys general emphasize that the federal pardon does not preclude state-level legal actions and are actively seeking further details from Congress to facilitate state investigations and potential prosecutions.
In a forceful letter addressed to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, the attorneys general praised Congressional efforts to uncover potential misconduct and urged cooperation to pursue any violations of state laws.
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The Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) is a coalition of three organizations:
✅ International Republican Institute (IRI) – Aligns with center-right and conservative political groups.
✅ National Democratic Institute (NDI) – Works with center-left and progressive groups.
✅ International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) – Focuses on electoral integrity and administration.
USAID:
💰 CEPPS operates under funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to promote democracy, elections, and political party development worldwide.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), another USAID entity, also supports IRI and NDI, along with other initiatives globally.
In summary: USAID and NED provide funding, CEPPS (via IRI, NDI, and IFES) implements programs, and IRI/NDI engage with political parties abroad, mirroring the U.S. Republican and Democratic Party structures.
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The Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) is a coalition of three organizations:
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (Credit: public domain)
On Thursday Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly decided she was the true elected leader of the United States and she blocked the the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from obtaining access to ‘sensitive‘ Treasury Department payment records for a period of time.
Kollar-Kotelly is very upset that President Trump, Elon Musk, and the DOGE investigators were finding billions of dollars in fraudulent payments in their investigation of the federal government.
Kollar-Kotelly decided she must take action and she put a stop to this fraud-finding operation.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her order that Treasury officials “will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained within the [Treasury] Bureau of Fiscal Service.”
U.S. taxpayers have been funding an obscure news agency called Internews Network for years.
Internews is funded heavily by the U.S. government, primarily through USAID. There are 467 grants for Internews totaling a whopping $476.4 MILLION on the USASpending.gov website.
These massive figures track with Internews’ Form 990s, where it discloses tens of millions of dollars in government grants every year.
What is Internews? The organization claims to be an “international nonprofit” that supports “independent media” in emerging democracies and uses media as a tool to reduce conflict.
A government supporting “independent media” is obviously a contradiction in terms so something else must be going on here.
The National Endowment for Democracy, founded in 1983 by Ronald Reagan to promote “democracy” worldwide, but since hijacked by globalists and leftists, has also given significantly to Internews through its Center for International Media.
NED was briefly defunded in 1993 by Republicans, but currently its budget is estimated to be a massive $330 million a year. Trump had proposed slashing NED’s funding in 2018.
Internews is listed as a recipient of NED’s contributions. For example, the NED’s media initiatives through CIMA was at least $18.7 million in 2015 and Internews was one of the listed recipients.
NED has been strongly associated with engineering “colored revolutions” around the globe, and by extension, so is Internews. They are both involved in nearly ever hotspot on the planet: Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Afghanistan… the list goes on and on.
Who used to sit on the Board of Directors for National Endowment for Democracy? None other than Victoria Nuland, who was the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024.
Who ran USAID from 2021 to 2025, which funded Internews? Samantha Power.
If you look at Internews Agency’s board you realize these are not your average “journalists.”
Jeanne Bourgault is President and CEO of Internews and is an agenda contributor for the World Economic Forum. (Credit: LinkedIn)
Jeanne Bourgault has been leading Internews as President and CEO since 2019, according to its official website. She joined the organization in 2001 and has been instrumental in expanding its programs to over 100 countries, focusing on supporting local media and ensuring access to “trustworthy information.” Before her tenure at Internews, Bourgault worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), including a three-year assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
Meera Selva currently serves as the Chief Executive for Europe at Internews. She previously directed the Journalist Fellowship Program at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, again from the website.
Jodie Ginsberg served as the Chief Executive of Internews Europe from 2019 until 2022. Prior to this role, she was the CEO of Index on Censorship, a London-based freedom of expression organization. Ginsberg began her career as a journalist with Reuters, the website notes.
Get the picture?
This is, of course, nothing new. The U.S. government’s funding of media operations and so-called journalists across the world has a long history.
During the mid-’70s, in the aftermath of Watergate, two congressional investigations – the Church and Pike committees, after Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Otis Pike – uncovered covert U.S. government operations in foreign countries.
They confirmed that that the CIA funded journalists (both foreign and American) and the U.S. government was subsidizing foreign print media, radio and television outlets – something the Soviets were also doing.
The CIA also ran Project Mockingbird, a covert operation to influence and manipulate journalists and to disseminate propaganda and control public perception.
Declassified documents and investigative reports suggest that the CIA has long engaged in media manipulation, particularly during the Cold War era.
As former CIA Director William Colby once put it, “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
The CIA appears to have reorganized after having been exposed by the Church Committee in 1975. Those media manipulation operations seem to have been redirected through the State Department and USAID.
It is high time for another “Church Committee” to expose the U.S. government’s attack on free speech and independent media in the United States and throughout the world.
This is way bigger than the Politico scandal.
U.S. taxpayers have been funding an obscure news agency called Internews Network for years.
Internews is funded heavily by the U.S. government, primarily through USAID. There are 467 grants for Internews totaling a whopping $476.4… pic.twitter.com/bvt5i52C3W
President Donald Trump fired Colleen Joy Shogan, the head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
This is the same agency that targeted Trump over so-called “classified documents” lawfully stored at Mar-a-Lago.
“At the direction of President Trump, the Archivist of the United States has been dismissed tonight. We thank Colleen Shogan for her service,” Sergio Gor, director of the Presidential Personnel Office said on Friday evening.
This is a great move. Shogan was an opponent of transparency and public access to classified historical records. She systematically defunded efforts to reduce over classification and increase declassification. Also, she showed a terrible bias against conservatives as was…
USAID-Funded Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault pushes for global advertising “exclusion list” to censor “disinformation” at the World Economic Forum.
Like what they did to 𝕏?
“Disinformation makes money. We need to follow that money. We need to work with the global advertising industry because a lot of those dollars go to pretty bad content, and so you can work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists and really try to challenge the global advertising industry to focus their ad dollars towards the good news.”
Notably, Bourgault’s call for global ad boycotts coincided with a widespread advertising boycott targeting Elon Musk’s 𝕏, which has been at the forefront of defending free speech online.
USAID has funneled $472 million to Internews and $68 million to the WEF, where both groups collaborate on censoring the internet.
Is this a good use of American taxpayer funds?
USAID-Funded Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault pushes for global advertising “exclusion list” to censor “disinformation” at the World Economic Forum.
Like what they did to 𝕏?
“Disinformation makes money. We need to follow that money. We need to work with the global advertising… pic.twitter.com/37AUwQ8tiI
USAID-funded Internews went from funding media organizations with George Soros to overthrow governments in Eastern Europe to calling for advertising boycotts to censor free speech online.
This is a textbook example of U.S. regime change tactics being redirected against domestic populism and American citizens.
In the 1990s, Internews partnered with the Soros Foundation to fund media organizations in post-Soviet nations, playing a pivotal role in the color revolutions of the 2000s in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine.
During Georgia’s Rose Revolution, Internews funded and trained journalists at Rustavi-2 TV, the leading channel driving the uprising.
“Media was very good at informing the public about what was going on, and it had a huge role in calling people onto the streets.” – Marc Behrendt, former Internews director for Georgia
By 2003, in Ukraine, Internews had conducted 220 media training programs, trained over 2,800 journalists, and produced more than 220 television and 1,000 radio programs. It also funded Telekritika, an online outlet that played a central role in the 2004 Orange Revolution.
After Brexit and Donald Trump’s election in 2016, Internews—now working with the USAID-funded World Economic Forum (WEF)—shifted its focus to pushing advertising boycotts to suppress online dissent.
What was once a U.S.-funded operation to overthrow foreign regimes is now being used to silence American citizens and dismantle Trump’s populist MAGA movement.
The Price Tag?
USAID has funneled over $470 million in taxpayer dollars into Internews.
USAID-funded Internews went from funding media organizations with George Soros to overthrow governments in Eastern Europe to calling for advertising boycotts to censor free speech online.
This is a textbook example of U.S. regime change tactics being redirected against domestic… pic.twitter.com/Pn0IIuODM6
The dissemination of information has long been a battleground for ideological and political power. Control the narrative, and you control the minds that shape the future. Internews, a nonprofit organization that positions itself as a champion of independent media, is in reality one of the most insidious forces in global information warfare. With its extensive reach—boasting the training of 100,000 journalists in over 100 countries—Internews operates as an international media cartel, shaping narratives that align exclusively with far-left ideologies while undermining conservative movements worldwide. It functions as an enforcement mechanism for progressive orthodoxy, cloaking itself in the rhetoric of free press and journalistic integrity while methodically silencing dissent.
One might initially dismiss such claims as hyperbolic, but the evidence is staggering. In Ukraine alone, Internews has trained 5,000 journalists. Globally, it has indoctrinated 38,000 media educators, reporters, and fact-checkers on the purported mission of combating “misinformation”—a term increasingly deployed to delegitimize viewpoints that deviate from left-wing narratives. Behind the benign facade of media training lies a targeted effort to shape public discourse by ensuring that only select ideological perspectives receive legitimacy. Internews does not seek merely to report the news but to curate what is permissible as news.
Internews’s funding sources betray its true objectives. It is no accident that USAID, the CIA’s tool for ideological influence operations, provides up to 90% of Internews’s budget. USAID’s historical entanglement with regime-change operations and the promotion of progressive social policies should alone raise suspicions about the kind of “independent media” that Internews claims to support. But even more telling is the financial backing from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, a network infamous for bankrolling leftist movements under the pretense of fostering democracy. The confluence of Soros’s globalist agenda and USAID’s interventionist ethos ensures that Internews operates not as a neutral media entity, but as a propaganda wing for international leftism.
Internews has played a direct role in creating political upheavals across the world, particularly in Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, and Afghanistan. In each of these nations, CIA and USAID foreign policy interests have leveraged Internews to foster dissent, support opposition movements, and ultimately engineer instability. By flooding these regions with Internews-trained journalists and media networks, the organization has been instrumental in shaping narratives that align with U.S. geopolitical objectives, undermining sovereign governments in favor of pro-Western factions.
Former high-ranking U.S. officials, including Victoria Nuland and Samantha Power, have been key figures in overseeing agencies that fund Internews, reinforcing its ties to globalist foreign policy objectives. Nuland, in particular, played a pivotal role in utilizing Internews to control Ukrainian media. Under her direction, Internews and USAID effectively took control of 9 out of 10 major media companies in Ukraine, ensuring that local reporting adhered to a strict pro-Western and anti-Russian agenda. These media outlets became entirely dependent on Internews and USAID funding, with their reporters trained and guided by Internews operatives. It is no coincidence that Internews-backed journalists were instrumental in organizing the Maidan protests and the broader color revolution that ultimately led to regime change in Ukraine.
A closer examination of Internews’s role in narrative control further unravels its claims of neutrality. The organization is heavily involved in determining which news outlets are deemed purveyors of “misinformation”—a label that has become a convenient pretext for censorship. It does not merely flag content for scrutiny; it pressures advertisers to withhold funding from outlets that fail to conform to its ideological litmus test. By leveraging financial strangulation, Internews ensures that conservative, nationalist, and libertarian perspectives are systemically deplatformed. This economic coercion is an insidious means of silencing dissent, executed under the guise of maintaining journalistic integrity.
Perhaps most chilling is Internews’s alignment with the climate alarmist movement and its role in controlling COVID-19 reporting. It is not content to allow open debate on climate science and policy; rather, it rigidly enforces a doctrine of climate panic. Skepticism of radical environmental policies is summarily dismissed as misinformation, and journalists trained under Internews’s programs are conditioned to treat dissenters as heretics. Similarly, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Internews played a pivotal role in suppressing alternative viewpoints. Under pressure from USAID and the CIA—despite the latter’s own knowledge that the virus originated from the Wuhan lab—Internews pressured media outlets to reject the lab leak theory outright. It also worked to delegitimize alternative treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, ensuring that only government-approved pharmaceutical solutions received coverage. Furthermore, it actively pressured media to deny any vaccine-related side effects, insisting that the vaccines were safe and effective even as evidence emerged to the contrary. Mask mandates were similarly promoted without question, despite internal knowledge that they were ineffective in stopping the spread of the virus. In doing so, Internews abandoned the core tenets of journalism—objectivity, balance, and inquiry—and embraced advocacy masquerading as reporting.
The broader implications of Internews’s work are deeply concerning. It does not simply train journalists; it manufactures ideological foot soldiers. By embedding itself in media infrastructures across the world, Internews serves as a de facto Ministry of Truth, determining what can be said, who can say it, and what the public is permitted to believe. This is not media freedom—it is media subjugation.
The conservative resistance to Internews must be steadfast. Exposing its financial underpinnings, its ideological biases, and its coercive tactics is essential to reclaiming journalistic integrity. The first step is to challenge the notion that Internews is an impartial organization. It is not. It is a politically motivated entity with a clear mission: to eliminate opposition to the progressive agenda and to ensure that future generations inherit a world where the left’s narratives are the only ones that remain.
Those who care about genuine press freedom must recognize the true nature of Internews. It is not a beacon of independent journalism, but a hegemonic force in media manipulation. Its pervasive influence must be countered with unwavering resolve, lest the very concept of free thought become a relic of the past.
Blinken made his first visit to Afghanistan as he pushes to reignite diplomatic efforts for a deal between the Taliban and the Afghan government. April 15, 2021. (Credit: ABC News)
President Trump has ordered security clearances stripped from a new hit list of antagonists.
Just days after revoking Joe Biden’s access to classified information and secure federal buildings — “because I don’t trust him” — Trump said his new top target is ex-Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who orchestrated the “Dirty 51” letter from former intelligence officials on the eve of the 2020 election.
The infamous missive falsely claimed that Hunter Biden’s laptop, the contents of which The Post revealed, was Russian disinformation.
“This is to take away every right they have [revoking security clearances] including they can’t go into [federal] buildings.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg join the new group of eight Democrat foes Trump plans to punish by revoking any access to classified information and barring their entry to federal facilities.
(…) The other targets Trump disclosed to The Post include Biden’s former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who also was chief foreign policy adviser to Hillary Clinton during her failed 2016 presidential bid when he notoriously helped foment the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
Also in Trump’s sights are Biden’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, who was involved in overseeing lawfare investigations against Trump and coordinating the DOJ response to the Jan. 6 riot.
She also helped orchestrate the Russia hoax while working as an aide to President Obama.
Next in line are anti-Trumpers Andrew Weissman, the lead prosecutor in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russiagate investigation of Trump, who frequently maligns the former president in his role as an MNBC contributor; lawyer Mark Zaid, who represented Eric Ciaramella, the CIA analyst identified as the whistleblower in Trump’s impeachment in 2019 over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky; and Norm Eisen, special counsel to the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment. (Read more: New York Post, 2/8/2025)(Archive)
Revelations about USAID funding media outlets like Politico and the BBC made for compelling news this week, but those reports have now been dwarfed by a blockbuster revelation through Wikileaks.
USAID has paid nearly half-a-billion dollars to “Internews Network,” a secretive government-funded NGO that spreads propaganda and controls the media narrative across the globe.
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, “Internews Network” (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and “training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.
The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.
Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.
IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN’s budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)
USAID (and State) funneled nearly half a billion dollars through this building which is at “876 7th St Arcata, CA 95521-6358”. The IRS and IN government contracts list this address as the current registered address for IN although it was clearly abandoned by December 2024. Shot… pic.twitter.com/ELzv3G4p5l
Jeanne Bourgault at the World Economic Forum (2024) calling to develop “exclusion lists” to pressure advertisers to fund “good news and information” in order to deal with “disinformation”.https://t.co/wVsVbd6Esy
New York Judge Paul Engelmayer just forbade all political appointees — including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — from accessing Dept. of Treasury data, all based on Blueanon conspiracy theories!!
Those theories couldn’t be challenged because the order was EX PARTE — meaning Trump’s lawyers weren’t warned, and couldn’t weigh in. Only Democrat Attorneys General were allowed to argue.
The judge cites no law or logic to support this unprecedented order, because it defies both. The judge’s ruling is, in essence, that Scott Bessent simply occupies a ceremonial position without real power, like the King of England.
This is a grenade thrown into the functioning of the Treasury Department.
It forbids the elected government from accessing information about budget and finances. Instead, only the permanent, deep-state government can know what’s being spent.
It means Scott Bessent’s subordinates have far more power than Scott Bessent does.
Democrat pundits who whine about the Constitution are liars, and will shred it the first chance they get.
For now, the order is only for the next week, but if a court tries to make it permanent the Trump Administration should absolutely consider defying it.
Better yet, SCOTUS should bar this judge from ever hearing similar cases again, and every Democrat lawyer involved should be sanctioned.
This ruling is absolutely insane!
How on Earth are we supposed to stop fraud and waste of taxpayer money without looking at how money is spent?
This ruling is pure judicial sabotage. A New York Obama judge has just declared that the elected U.S. government cannot access Treasury Department data—all based on unchallenged, ex parte arguments from Democrat Attorneys General. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has effectively been stripped of his authority, with bureaucrats now holding more power than the officials appointed to lead them. This is how the deep state operates: unelected judges and bureaucrats undermining the elected president in broad daylight.
The ruling isn’t just lawless—it’s an open attack on the functioning of the federal government. There is no legal basis for declaring a Treasury Secretary powerless to oversee budget and financial data. This is a blatant attempt to keep Trump’s administration from uncovering whatever financial games the Biden-era bureaucrats have been playing. What are they trying to hide?
If this ruling is allowed to stand, it will create a dangerous precedent where leftist judges can effectively shut down any part of the federal government they don’t like. SCOTUS needs to step in immediately. If necessary, the Trump administration should consider defying this outrageous order. No judge has the right to hand control of the U.S. Treasury to unelected bureaucrats. This is a crisis, and it needs to be treated as one.
Elon Musk is absolutely right—this Obama-appointed judge is nothing more than a partisan activist in a robe. The idea that the U.S. Treasury Secretary can be blocked from reviewing his own department’s financial data is beyond absurd. It’s a blatant power grab by the deep state to keep Trump’s administration from exposing the corruption and waste buried in Biden-era spending. What exactly are they trying to hide?
This ruling is lawless and unconstitutional. It allows unelected bureaucrats—who answer to no one—to control the flow of financial information while the elected government is left in the dark. That’s not democracy; it’s judicial sabotage. If this precedent stands, what’s next? A judge deciding the president isn’t allowed to command the military? The left is weaponizing the courts to paralyze the government, all to protect their own corruption.
This case needs to be overturned immediately, and if necessary, the Trump administration should ignore it outright. No judge has the right to block the executive branch from governing. SCOTUS should intervene, and every Democrat lawyer involved in this disgraceful ruling should be sanctioned. America doesn’t need more deep-state obstruction—it needs transparency, accountability, and a government that actually works for the people.
Elon Musk is absolutely right—this Obama-appointed judge is nothing more than a partisan activist in a robe. The idea that the U.S. Treasury Secretary can be blocked from reviewing his own department’s financial data is beyond absurd. It’s a blatant power grab by the deep state… https://t.co/ElwlseRrtE
Ah, this is the deep state in broad daylight, don’t you see? A single activist judge, with no legal basis and no accountability, just unilaterally decided that elected officials—the very people chosen by the American people—aren’t allowed to control their own Treasury Department. Instead, the unaccountable bureaucrats, the swamp creatures, get full authority over the nation’s finances.
And the best part? Trump’s legal team wasn’t even given a chance to argue! Ex parte rulings like this are the stuff of banana republics, not constitutional governance. This isn’t a legal decision—it’s a coup by paperwork. A rogue judge just declared that the Treasury Secretary is nothing more than a ceremonial figure, while the real power stays in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.
This is an attack on the democratic process. If SCOTUS doesn’t shut this down immediately, Trump’s administration has every right to ignore it outright. The Constitution doesn’t give activist judges the power to override elections. Period. If they want a fight, they just might get one. Ok? Ok.
⚖️ Ah, this is the deep state in broad daylight, don’t you see? A single activist judge, with no legal basis and no accountability, just unilaterally decided that elected officials—the very people chosen by the American people—aren’t allowed to control their own Treasury…
You are under no obligation to follow lawless ruling@DOGE and the Treasury Secretary can fulfill their duties as given to them by the President
Who is going to stop you?
🚨 JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S TREASURY FROM SEEING ITS OWN DATA—INSANITY! 🚨
A New York judge just did the unthinkable—he banned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from accessing Treasury Department data. You read that right. The Biden-era deep state can still see everything, but the elected Trump administration officials? Locked out.
❌ No law supports this.
❌ No logic explains this.
❌ And Trump’s lawyers weren’t even allowed to challenge it!
Judge Paul Engelmayer handed down this outrageous ruling ex parte, meaning only Democrat Attorneys General got to argue. No debate, no defense—just raw judicial activism.
Elon Musk nailed it: “This ruling is absolutely insane!” How can anyone expect to fight fraud, waste, and abuse if the people in charge aren’t even allowed to see where the money is going?!
💰 Who benefits from this secrecy? The deep-state bureaucrats. The scammers. The people robbing taxpayers blind while pretending to care about democracy.
This order lasts a week for now—but if any court tries to make it permanent, Trump must consider defying it outright. Better yet, SCOTUS should step in immediately and put an end to this madness. This judge has no business ruling on cases he clearly sees as political weapons.
🔥 If you think the deep state is panicking and hiding something, drop a 🔥 in the replies!
🚨 JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S TREASURY FROM SEEING ITS OWN DATA—INSANITY! 🚨
A New York judge just did the unthinkable—he banned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from accessing Treasury Department data. You read that right. The Biden-era deep state can still see everything, but the… pic.twitter.com/xSs9akJLt6
Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist.
Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the financial help via the State Dept. when he was actually a US citizen, born in Las Cruces New Mexico.
Aulaqi would later develop close ties with several 9/11 hijackers and attain leadership status in AQ’s Yemen affiliate.
Aulaqi was the godfather of the digital jihad that leveraged his writings and the web to radicalize Americans to AQ’s cause.
Aulaqi became the first American targeted for death by the CIA. In 2011, he was killed in a US drone strike.
Good catch @browne_pamela Via @intelwire
STUNNING:
Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist.
Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the financial help via the State Dept. when he was actually a US citizen, born in Las Cruces… https://t.co/jW3yHS81F1
THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy”
The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State.
Around 2019, the phrase “democracy in danger” began to dominate public discourse, amplified by the media. This was odd—after all, the U.S. is a democracy (or more precisely, a constitutional republic). But as I traced the influence of these NGOs, a pattern emerged: they are controlled by establishment politicians, they play a major role in shaping political narratives worldwide, and their core mission is always framed as “protecting democracy.”
Originally, these NGOs were created to support U.S. democratic efforts abroad—many of them emerging during the Cold War to combat the spread of communism. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, their original purpose faded. Instead of dissolving, they redefined their mission. Now, they have positioned themselves as the guardians of democracy itself.
This shift explains why Trump’s re-election was framed as a “threat to democracy.” To these NGOs, “democracy” means themselves. Their survival depends on maintaining that role, and any challenge to their authority is perceived as a direct attack on democracy itself.
Please note that @MikeBenzCyber is the expert on this topic—I’m just a technical person researching and learning alongside all of you.
To understand how these NGOs connect to democracy, let’s take a look at what AI says about the purpose of each one:
🟥 International Republican Institute (IRI) (EIN 521340267) – Promotes democracy by training political parties and leaders, primarily supporting U.S. foreign policy interests through a Republican-aligned lens.
🟦 National Democratic Institute (NDI) (EIN 521338892) – Advances democracy by fostering political participation and governance reforms worldwide, aligned with Democratic Party priorities.
⚖️ Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) (EIN 521943638) – A coalition of democracy-focused NGOs (IRI, NDI, IFES) that supports electoral processes, civil society, and governance reforms globally.
🗽 National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (EIN 521344831) – Acts as the primary funding hub for democracy promotion efforts worldwide, distributing U.S. government grants to NGOs supporting political and civil society development.
🗳 International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) (EIN 521527835) – Strengthens global democracy by providing technical assistance for election security, integrity, and voter participation.
📡 Internews (EIN 943027961) – Supports independent media and press freedom worldwide, shaping democratic discourse by training journalists and combating disinformation.
💰 Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) (EIN 521398742) – Promotes democracy through free-market economic policies, advocating for business-friendly governance and anti-corruption initiatives.
⚒️ Solidarity Center (EIN 472130723) – Advances democracy by supporting independent labor movements and workers’ rights, often partnering with unions to promote political engagement.
Note what they all have in common? They are all dedicated to advocating democracy.
And they have redefined “democracy” to mean themselves.
Let’s dig into each one in detail.
First up:
💰 Internews Network receives substantial U.S. government funding, with $94.5 million in active grants from USAID and the Department of State. Its IRS Form 990 reports $93.9 million in taxpayer funding, out of a $124 million total budget.
Among its principal officers includes 🔵 Anna Soellner – VP of Communications at Reddit.
For more on Internews Network, I refer to the Wikileaks thread x.com/wikileaks/stat…
⚖️ Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) is another NGO promoting democracy worldwide. They have over half a billion dollars in active spending grants and $160+ million in annual contributions, mostly USAID.
💰Despite receiving grants for initiatives in countries such as Venezuela and Georgia, 100% of its funds act as a passthrough to three core organizations:
🔴 International Republican Institute (IRI) – 31% of CEPPS funding.
🔵 National Democratic Institute (NDI) – 41% of CEPPS funding.
⚖️ International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) – 28% of CEPPS funding.
Curiously, CEPPS reports no salaries. It is led by Kira Rebar, former foreign policy advisor to Bob Menendez, the now-indicted U.S. senator.
International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is one of the three CEPP organizations. Unlike other democracy-promoting NGOs, IFES does not receive direct USAID funding, but it still holds $33 million in active spending grants and operates with an annual budget of nearly $59 million.
Its notable principal officers include:
🔵 Steny Hoyer – Former Democratic Representative from Maryland and House Majority Leader.
🔴 Rob Portman – Former U.S. Senator from Ohio (Republican).
⚖️ M. Peter McPherson – Former USAID advisor.
The other two CEPPS organizations, the NDI and IRI, must be viewed as part of the larger NED umbrella which includes four NGOs.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was established in 1983 to advance democracy protection efforts worldwide. To prevent any single party from monopolizing its agenda, NED was structured as a bipartisan funding vehicle that supports two partisan-affiliated NGOs: the International Republican Institute (IRI) on the Republican side, and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) on the Democratic side.
NED itself holds approximately $1,618 million in active grants (allocated in a single large block by the Department of State) and operates with an annual budget of about $362 million.
The National Democratic Institute (NDI) itself maintains a bipartisan leadership structure:
🔵 Karen Bass – Vice Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Representative and current Mayor of Los Angeles (Democrat).
🔴 Elise Stefanik – Director at the National Endowment for Democracy; U.S. Representative from New York and House GOP Conference Chair (Republican).
🔴 Mel Martinez – Director at the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Senator from Florida (Republican).
🔴 Peter Roskam – Vice Chair at the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Representative from Illinois (Republican).
🔴 Steve Biegun – Director at the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (Republican).
In addition to NDI and IRI, the NDI supports Center for International Private Enterprise and Solidarity Center.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is bipartisan as well.
🔴 Neil Bradley – President/Secretary; former Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
🔴 Kim R. Holmes – Vice Chair; former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs under President George W. Bush; previously the Executive Vice President at The Heritage Foundation.
🔵 Ruchi Bhowmik – Director; former deputy cabinet secretary to President Barack Obama. VP of Pubic Policy at Netflix.
🔵 Douglas Lute – Former Director (until 05/23); retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO under President Obama.
Although CIPE’s stated mission is to promote democracy and free markets through a business-oriented approach, its actual activities are unclear from its IRS Form 990. The majority of its expenses go toward salaries and a broad “Other” category, which lacks detailed breakdowns. The Schedule O explanation doesn’t provide much clarity—it mostly lists consulting fees and program service expenses, without specifying how these expenditures advances its mission.
The Solidarity Center is another core beneficiary of NED, affiliated with AFL-CIO, making it closely tied to labor unions. (It could be seen as the labor counterpart to the free-market-focused CIPE.)
Although it doesn’t appear in my graph due to lower reported contributions, its official 2020 financial report shows it received $39 million in federal awards that year. Additionally, by searching the DataRepublican database, I found a federal award granted directly to the American Center for International Labor, which is connected to the Solidarity Center and holds $105 million in active spending grants.
The International Republican Institute (IRI) is the third NED-funded NGO that, again, promotes democracy worldwide through a Republican-aligned perspective. Its leadership is dominated by establishment Republican politicians.
🔴 Mitt Romney – Director; Former U.S. Senator from Utah, 2012 GOP presidential nominee.
🔴 Lindsey Graham – Director; U.S. Senator from South Carolina.
🔴 Joni Ernst – Director; U.S. Senator from Iowa.
🔴 Tom Cotton – Director; U.S. Senator from Arkansas.
🔴 Marco Rubio (Formerly)
🔴 Dan Sullivan – Chairman; U.S. Senator from Alaska.
🔴 Kelly Ayotte – Director; former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire.
🔴 Mark Kirk – Director; former U.S. Senator from Illinois.
Although IRI does not have a Schedule I on its 990, its audit is illuminating. It reports 38 million in salaries, 17.5 million in “fringe benefits”, 3 million in rent, 12 million on travel.
🔴 IRI also funds some progressive-aligned NGOs, despite its Republican affiliation.
🌍 International Organization for Migration (IOM) – A UN-associated NGO focused on refugee and displaced persons aid. It manages migration-related programs worldwide.
♀️ Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) – A division within the U.S. Department of State that ensures women’s and girls’ rights are fully integrated into U.S. foreign policy.
The National Democratic Institute (NDI) is the fourth and final NED-financed NGO. It serves as the Democratic counterpart to IRI. Its principal officers include:
🔵 Barbara Mikulski – Director; longest-serving woman in the U.S. Senate, former Maryland Senator (Democrat).
🔵 Thomas Daschle – Chairman; former Senate Majority Leader, key figure in Democratic legislative strategy (Democrat).
🔵 Stacey Abrams – Director; high-profile Georgia political leader, voting rights advocate, and former gubernatorial candidate (Democrat).
🔵 Donna Brazile – Director; veteran Democratic strategist, former DNC chair, and political commentator (Democrat).
Like the IRI’s audit, the NDI’s makeup is heavy on salaries, travel, and fringe benefits.
NDI has $47 million in active spending grants worldwide.
Some of its major grantees, as listed on its IRS Form 990 Schedule I, include:
📡 Internews Network – Received $2.3 million to support independent media and press freedom initiatives.
⚖️ American Bar Association – Granted $1.1 million for legal and judicial development programs related to democracy.
🔴 International Republican Institute (IRI) – Surprisingly, NDI awarded $1 million to its Republican-aligned counterpart, despite their partisan affiliations, showing how these democracy-promoting NGOs interconnect as a true Uniparty.
🧵 Thread End. I learned a lot in creating this thread and I hope you did too!
After thinking it over last night, here’s how I would summarize it: These seven NGOs (eight if you count the off-the-chart Solidarity Center) together function as an “off-the-books” shadow U.S. government.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created to unify the U.S. against communism. Its four core organizations reflect a neat ideological symmetry of America’s two-party system:
➜CIPE pushes free-market policies, Solidarity Center represents labor and unions.
➜IRI serves Republican interests, and NDI aligns with the Democrats.
CEPPS is another umbrella group that includes IRI and NDI but also brings in IFES under the guise of fortifying election integrity.
And to make sure the narrative sticks, Internews Network spreads these viewpoints through global media.
Most of these NGOs were born during the Reagan years. While not all USAID and State Department funding flows through them, they control the purse strings for much of America’s global financial influence.
DEI initiatives created a system of unaccountability and dependency, which ended up injecting more money into them and further entrenches their power.
They see any challenge to their authority as a threat to democracy itself. But their greatest enemy is still the same one they’ve had since the Cold War—Russia. They’ve never lost the “Cold War” boomer mindset.
In their minds, they’re the superheroes keeping America from crumbling. And that entitles them to their travel perks, cushy post-election gigs, and all the other benefits that come with running an unacknowledged empire.
FEMA blatantly ignored Trump’s executive order and spent $59 million on luxury NYC hotels for illegal aliens in just one week—a direct illegal aliens and a slap in the face to American taxpayers. This isn’t just bureaucratic incompetence; it’s deliberate sabotage. Whoever authorized this needs to be fired immediately and held accountable for illegally diverting taxpayer money.
While American citizens struggle with disasters, FEMA—under corrupt deep-state operatives—decided that housing illegal migrants in luxury accommodations was a higher priority. Not emergency relief, not helping disaster victims, but providing premium hotel stays for people who shouldn’t even be in the country. This is why the system is broken—unelected bureaucrats think they can operate with zero consequences.
Now, Elon Musk confirms the U.S. will try to recoup the money. But the real question is: Will there be real consequences? Trump is taking back control, but these rogue agencies are still packed with bad actors defying his policies. The time for warnings is over—there must be mass firings, full investigations, and criminal charges if necessary.
The left is in full panic mode because their illegal immigration cash pipeline is being exposed and dismantled. But this only reinforces why the deep state must be purged. Americans deserve a government that works for them, not against them.
FEMA blatantly ignored Trump’s executive order and spent $59 million on luxury NYC hotels for illegal aliens in just one week—a direct violation of policy and a slap in the face to American taxpayers. This isn’t just bureaucratic incompetence; it’s deliberate sabotage. Whoever… pic.twitter.com/oy5Qh1qzK2
The @DOGEteam just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.
Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order.
That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals! A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.
The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.
Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order.
The crazier part of the story Elon? The FEMA money went to Pakistan as they own the Roosevelt Hotel. Senator Schumer arranged for FEMA to divert disaster aid to the Pakistani government so the hotel could be used to house the illegal migrants. https://t.co/m7QUksirYD
DOGE: Elon’s @dogeteam discovered FEMA employees illegally sent $59 million last week (in violation of Trump’s EO) to house illegal aliens in New York. Perhaps more shockingly, the money went to Pakistan thanks to a deal brokered by Sen Schumer. The Roosevelt Hotel is owned by Pakistan and is now leased by NYC to house illegal migrants. Thanks to FEMA, Pakistan has made $100 million so far out of a total $220 million deal negotiated by the city.
Schumer helps city unlock more than $100M in FEMA funds for illegal migrans.https://t.co/TYjXCCiO15
The city of New York pays $220 million to rent the entire Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan to house illegal migrants.
The hotel is owned by the government of Pakistan, and the deal was part of a $1.1 billion IMF bailout package to help Pakistan avoid defaulting on their international debt.
Prior to this sweetheart deal, the hotel had been closed since 2020, having long-struggled with occupancy and in dire need of renovation.
The city of New York pays $220 million to rent the entire Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan to house illegal migrants.
The hotel is owned by the government of Pakistan, and the deal was part of a $1.1 billion IMF bailout package to help Pakistan avoid defaulting on their… pic.twitter.com/UHqNpZBkuA
The irony of the whole Treasury data freak out is that the system is currently maintained by unvetted contractors — not Treasury civil servants — so if anything the vetting for DOGE (as federal employees) is a step up. https://t.co/ZrCVfHl7oXpic.twitter.com/AYg2BKXKT7
To clarify regarding “unvetted”, I am speaking from the point of view of the Treasury’s personnel management functions. Sure, these contractors likely have a Public Trust clearances, but the vetting wasn’t done by Treasury ASM. Remember, the TPO made a big deal about outside… pic.twitter.com/O3HbiPoD0u
Did everyone else understand that Non Governmental Organizations, ie, NGOs, receive most if not all of their funding from the government, or was I just being ignorant?
If NGOs receive most if not all of their funding from the government, what is the basis for calling them non-governmental?
The answer according to Google is that an NGO is non-governmental because it operates without governmental control and oversight even though it receives government funding.
Why is it beneficial for there to be non-profit organizations, that is NGOs, that receive all or substantially all of their funding from our government, but don’t have any government oversight or control?
Non-profits are not known for having good governance. The combination of funding without oversight and control creates the opportunity for fraud, waste and abuse that we have seen in some of the USAID grants that have been made public in the last week or so.
In the private markets, that is the real world, a majority shareholder would have control and oversight. Why do we allow our government to make majority investments without control and oversight? It makes no sense.
It is time we scrutinize all NGOs and reconsider investing taxpayer money in private organizations without proper oversight and control consistent with what a majority investor would expect in a private corporation.
Did everyone else understand that Non Governmental Organizations, ie, NGOs, receive most if not all of their funding from the government, or was I just being ignorant?
If NGOs receive most if not all of their funding from the government, what is the basis for calling them…
New revelations show that a federal judge responsible for blocking key Trump administration policies is a longtime Democratic mega-donor. Judge John J. McConnell Jr., appointed by former President Barack Obama, has a history of contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic campaigns and political action committees.
Judge McConnell, who has served as a U.S. District Judge in Rhode Island since 2011, was previously a personal injury lawyer. Records from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) indicate that before taking the bench, he made significant donations to Democratic politicians, including former Presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton.
(…) While judicial ethics rules prohibit federal judges from making political donations once confirmed to the bench, McConnell’s past financial ties raise concerns about impartiality in high-profile cases, especially those involving Republican-led policies. Judge McConnell recently issued a ruling freezing federal funding pauses initiated by the Trump administration, a move that has sparked criticism from conservatives.
His decision grants a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the administration’s effort to halt federal disbursements. The case, brought by a coalition of Democratic-led states, challenged Trump’s executive order aimed at reviewing federal spending for inefficiencies.
The judge’s order said that “all orders and judgments of courts must be complied with promptly,” effectively barring the Trump administration from implementing a broad spending freeze. “Persons who make private determinations of the law and refuse to obey an order generally risk criminal contempt even if the order is ultimately ruled incorrect,” he wrote.
The ruling also mandates the immediate release of withheld federal funds, including those allocated under Biden-era legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act. This follows a pattern of judicial interventions against Trump’s policies.
McConnell has previously ruled against Trump administration initiatives, fueling concerns that his decisions may be influenced by political bias. In 2022, McConnell organized a conference that presented a distinctly progressive approach to racial justice for judges and attorneys.
The primary panel titled “Critical Race Theory: What It Is and What It Is Not” featured three distinguished scholars known for their support of critical race theory, according to National Review. The panel delved into “how the political, legislative, economic, and cultural system that has historically given white people significantly greater power and material resources has fundamentally shaped our courts and legal system.”
On Monday, McConnell took decisive action against the Trump administration by ordering the restoration of federal funds that had been previously frozen, aligning with a temporary restraining order (TRO) issued in January. The order reiterated that the administration must comply with congressionally mandated funding allocations. McConnell warned of possible criminal contempt charges should the administration fail to comply. (Read more: Trending Politics, 2/10/2025)(Archive)
Regarding Judge McConnell in Rhode Island de facto assuming the Presidency of the United States, a little trip down memory lane is in order:
His law firm was hired by then RI AG (now Senator) Sheldon Whitehouse – with a no-bid contract – to litigate on behalf of that AG’s office…
Regarding Judge McConnell in Rhode Island de facto assuming the Presidency of the United States, a little trip down memory lane is in order:
His law firm was hired by then RI AG (now Senator) Sheldon Whitehouse – with a no-bid contract – to litigate on behalf of that AG’s office against lead paint manufacturers (on a “public nuisance” theory).
Query what all on and/or off-the-books consideration was on the table.
This was intended to emulate the then-recently successful suit against tobacco manufacturers that generated millions upon millions for the plaintiffs’ firms – I refer to them a “class action ambulance chasers.”
McConnell had a hand in that tobacco litigation, too. Meanwhile, Sheldon was eyeing a run for Governor, and probably national office later, and so probably thought the litigation would grease the skids in Democrat politics.
Ultimately that litigation was unsuccessful. In any case, McConnell was awarded a federal judgeship among rumors that he “bought the seat.”
Space requires a summary, but this all cries out for inquiry. Particularly, now with the current litigation – what, if any, “ex party” communications have occurred between this judge and the plaintiffs and/or non-party entities?
https://substack.com/@tomwigand/note/c-92758439
BREAKING: Judge John McConnell, the crook who ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze Inflation Reduction Act funds, disclosed that he owns $250,000 stock in a company that received $75 million from the Act.
This is the most egregious conflict of interest ever.
Kristi Noem has launched a scathing attack on the FBI after details of an immigration raid were leaked to the media.
Donald Trump‘s Homeland Security Secretary reacted Sunday to an article in the Los Angeles Times that cited leaked internal government documents planning a ‘large scale’ raid in the Californian city.
‘The FBI is so corrupt,’ Noem wrote on social media on Monday. ‘We will work with any and every agency to stop leaks and prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law.’
The FBI is so corrupt. We will work with any and every agency to stop leaks and prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law. https://t.co/HNW1ujf0Gd
A federal law enforcement source said that FBI agents and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents were being called into help immigration enforcement officials to assist the deportation force. (Read more: The Daily Mail, 2/10/2025)(Archive)
3/ State of NY v. Trump, Rhode Island District Court, Lawsuit filed by ~20 blue states challenging OMB Directive to freeze federal funding. https://t.co/JyEWqo0lKM
5/ American Fed. of Gov’t Employees v. Trump, District Court of District of Columbia, Judge Nichols (Trump appointee): Lawsuit filed by federal unions challenging Trump Administration’s USAID leave/funding decisions. https://t.co/bsWbPkP2iM
7/ Global Health Council v. Trump, District Court of D.C., Judge Loren L. Alikhan (Biden Appointee): Lawsuit by slew of non-profits & ABA challenging USAID funding decisions. https://t.co/woPx5xc2Ea
9/ Jones v. Trump, D.C. of D.C., Male prisoner challenging Trump EO that men are housed in male prisons even if they think they are women. Case frozen until filing errors corrected. https://t.co/sHU1MDPF8O
11/ State of Washington v. Trump, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals: Appeal by Trump Administration challenging stay of birth right EO. https://t.co/b7AExUKXOf
13/ Bellinger v. Bessent: Appeal to D.C. Court of Appeals from District Court injunction forcing Trump to reinstate Special Counsel to Special Counsel’s office. D.Ct. docket is #6/6.5 above. https://t.co/pywsIPcvY9
15/ Commonwealth of MASS. v. NIH, D.Ct. of Mass. Judge Angel Kelley (Biden appointee): 20-plus blue states challenging Trump Administration capping indirect costs for NIH grants at 15%. https://t.co/PWfF7vIQyf
19/ Storch v. Hegseth, D.C. D.Ct., Judge Judge Ana C. Reyes, (Biden Appointee), 25-00415: Lawsuit by 8 fired Inspector Generals against Trump Administration, claiming firings were invalid & seeking injunction putting back in charge. https://t.co/G9AF2wWvqc
21/ Gribbon v. Musk, D.C. D.Ct., Judge Christopher Cooper (Obama appointee), 25-422: Several individual plaintiffs bringing class action against Musk & OMB & Treasury claiming violations of fed. law for access to PII. https://t.co/obTpisJhOK
23/ Grundmann v. Trump, D.C. D.Ct. (not yet assigned), 25-cv-00425: Plaintiff Susan Tsui Grundmann challenges Trump’s removal of her from the Board of Plaintiff Susan Tsui Grundmann is a Member of the FLRA. Humphrey’s Executor case. https://t.co/1V6z1RqHXOpic.twitter.com/3UqWyJJ7fb
25/ National Treasury Employees Union v. Trump, D.C. D.Ct., Paul L. Friedman (Clinton appointee), 25-cv-00420: Lawsuit by unions against Trump claiming directive to agency to do RIF & providing deferred resignation violate separation of powers & RIF regs. https://t.co/KWDjK2n7Cq
27/ Nat. Treasury Empl. Union v. Vought, D.C. D.Ct., Judge Richard J. Leon (George W.), 25-380: Union lawsuit CFPB for allowing Musk & DOGE access to computer systems w/ employee information, allegedly in violation of Privacy Act. Efficiency.”https://t.co/hoTHtFXu7k
LAWFARE: An Obama-appointed judge ruled that President Trump must work with Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, a Biden-appointed official, instead of his own chosen legal counsel. Judge Jackson issued an order mandating Dellinger represent the president and barred Trump from… pic.twitter.com/Mh3RlM0u4S
LAWFARE: The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) exists precisely to handle disputes over federal employment decisions, including claims of wrongful termination due to political reasons. This process is designed to ensure that federal employees are treated fairly while also… pic.twitter.com/iyHhqDDA1V
BREAKING: DC Circuit allows Trump firing of Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger to proceed. Judges Henderson (GHWBush), Millett (Obama), Walker (Trump). No dissent. Opinion to follow. Doc: https://t.co/kM8rmB1w32
Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands
He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments
Sound familiar?
Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “A scandal during the Obama USAID era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at the time. — I’m simply showing the American people where your tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the White House:
— USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags, learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.”
He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many governments)
“So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter, same user interface, same like, and retweet button zunzunio is, is the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it’s it’s bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole trick about it was you have to make it look like it’s coming from the Cubans if you’re going to do this operation
— We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were funded by USAID
The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first used non-controversial content such as sports and music and hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time? Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots”
“You’re using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You’re saying it’s, you’re earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to fund this whole operation
All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video. This is INSANE
Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands
He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments
A FEMA disaster assistance center set up to aid victims of January’s wildfires in Los Angeles. (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has mismanaged tens of billions of dollars over the years, according to numerous government reports on its spending.
The government agency’s response to COVID, hurricanes, floods and housing migrants have all come under fire for being wasteful and going largely unchecked — and the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been sent in to analyze its spending.
The most recent audit of the embattled disaster response agency claimed it mismanaged nearly $10 billion during the COVID pandemic between 2020 and 2023.
FEMA even approved a grant of $1.1 billion despite it only being supported by only a single piece of paper with no itemized costs, a Jan. 30 audit by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General found.
The request was also “not prepared by a licensed professional engineer or cost-estimating professional,” according to the 36-page report.
The Trump administration has called for a complete overhaul of FEMA, which has a slated budget of $65 billion for fiscal year 2025.
During the pandemic, $1.5 billion was doled out “for one state’s medical staffing” without the proper vetting and “could have been put to better use for other disasters,” the January audit found.
“These issues occurred due to the unprecedented circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and FEMA not following established requirements when delivering public assistance funding,” said the report, which did not name the states that received the FEMA pandemic payments.
It also cited $8.1 billion distributed by FEMA for “costs that have yet to be determined allowable,” according to the report.
/1🚨BREAKING — New NARA emails further confirm that the classified documents case against President Trump was a sham prosecution that involved the Biden White House from the start — long before NARA’s official referral of classified documents to DOJ for investigation. pic.twitter.com/piXMHnD0Ed
/3 In both NARA’s response to AFL and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s superseding indictment against President Trump, the Biden Administration’s official position was that NARA referred the matter to DOJ for investigation in February 2022 after it received classified documents from… pic.twitter.com/ODPKDTKqYi
/4 But by the summer of 2021, even though NARA was assured they’d “get to a resolution relatively soon” on Trump’s boxes, then-Archivist of the United States David Ferriero was “out of patience,” and NARA General Counsel Gary Stern started “working on a letter to the AG.” pic.twitter.com/bZldIdvrK6
/5 By September 2021, NARA had informed Biden’s WH Counsel and DOJ and drafted a letter to AG Garland seeking “assistance for the recovery of Presidential Records” even though, admittedly, the Presidential Records Act “has no explicit provision” authorizing such a procedure. pic.twitter.com/WCTqBbOtu1
/6 But because NARA’s ongoing engagement with President Trump’s reps “could help to clarify, if not actually resolve, the issue,” they nixed the DOJ letter. Instead, Biden’s Dep. WH Counsel devised a pretext for a “special access request” to NARA for Trump’s Presidential records. pic.twitter.com/5BzskyKXnv
Exactly, Biden and his WH Counsel Dana Remus were illegally colluding w/NARA Director Ferriero in an attempt attain President Trump’s personnel documents. https://t.co/XmbSK4BkA6
Musk: There’s crazy things, like just a cursory examination of Social Security, and we’ve got people in there that are 150 years old. Now, do you know anyone that’s 150? I don’t, okay? They should be in the Guinness Book of World Records; they’re missing out. So, you know, that’s a case where like I think they’re probably dead. That’s my guess. Or they should be very famous, one of the two.
An explosive report has revealed just how deep the abuse of the government purse goes.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report that went viral this weekend.
The report detailed that the federal government spent over half a trillion dollars on programs that expired last year without ever actually authorizing the funding.
About 2,500 expired appropriations made up the $516 billion. That is no way to run a government.
From the CBO: “CBO identified 1,264 authorizations of appropriations that expired before the beginning of fiscal year 2024 and 251 authorizations of appropriations that were set to expire by the end of fiscal year 2024.
“CBO estimates that $516 billion was appropriated for 2024 for activities with expired authorizations, which the agency identified for each House and Senate authorizing committee (Table 1) and appropriations subcommittee (Table 2).”
24 laws were responsible for $470 billion of the $516 billion in total funding for expired authorizations that the CBO identified. 21 of those 24 laws also accounted for most of the funding in 2023 for expired authorizations.
Some of these laws date back to 40 YEARS AGO.
Here’s the list:
The news gets worse, though. Even more authorizations are set to expire this year, including $892 billion in defense spending.
WHY do Democrats oppose holding USAID accountable?!@HouseGOP is working with @DOGE to end these needless and dangerous abuses and protect taxpayers. https://t.co/I00aLRVX8k
Deborah Birx, who became the White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator on February 27, 2020, came directly from USAID – the department everyone now knows to be a front for CIA propaganda and regime change operations. (Credit: Alex Wong /Getty Images)
A long-time USAID “Ambassador” in Africa, Birx had no experience managing respiratory virus outbreaks
This article adds to the evidence presented in the COVID Dossier to support the following claim:
COVID was not a public health event, although it was presented as such to the world’s population. It was a global operation, coordinated through public-private intelligence and military alliances and invoking laws designed for CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) weapons attacks.
USAID-COVID CONNECTION
Here’s a fact about USAID and recent U.S. history that no one ever mentions:
Deborah Birx, who became the White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator on February 27, 2020, came directly from USAID – the department everyone now knows to be a front for CIA propaganda and regime change operations. [ref]
Birx was appointed by the National Security Council (NSC)
Almost exactly five years ago, the public was told that Deborah Birx was appointed by Vice President Mike Pence who, on February 26, 2020, took over coordination of the U.S. government’s response to the novel coronavirus. [ref]
The announcement said:
Ambassador Birx is a world-renowned global health official and physician. She will be detailed to the Office of the Vice President and will report to Vice President Mike Pence. She will also join the Task Force led by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. She will be supported by the National Security Council staff. [ref]
This announcement contains hints that Birx was not chosen by public health agencies or officials. Rather, she appears to be coming from the national security apparatus, and “will be supported by the National Security Council staff.”
Further supporting this supposition, on March 11, 2020, at a Heritage Foundation Talk, Trump’s National Security Advisor, Robert O’Brien, when discussing what the White House and NSC were doing about the virus, said:
We brought into the White House Debi Birx, a fantastic physician and ambassador from the State Department. We appreciate Secretary Pompeo immediately moving her over to the White House at our, well at the President’s, request. [min. 21:43 – 21:56]
In other words, Birx was “moved over to the White House” by the Secretary of State, at the request of the National Security Council.
The National Security Council Was in Charge of the U.S. Government’s Covid Response
Wow. Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Special Services, testifying in front of the DOGE Subcommittee, says by implementing robust ID verification could save $1 trillion every single year in entitlements.
“Between federal, state, and local government, you can save one trillion dollars a year by simply putting in front-end identity verification, eliminating self-certification, and monitoring the back-end of the programs that are providing the benefits.”
A trillion dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse—every single year—because of weak ID verification in government programs. That’s what Haywood Talcove just exposed in front of the DOGE Subcommittee, and it confirms exactly what Trump and Musk have been saying: the system is… pic.twitter.com/OZ1lpqfXTb
A trillion dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse—every single year—because of weak ID verification in government programs. That’s what Haywood Talcove just exposed in front of the DOGE Subcommittee, and it confirms exactly what Trump and Musk have been saying: the system is completely broken and designed to enrich fraudsters, not serve the American people.
For years, Democrats have fought against basic ID verification, claiming it’s “unnecessary” while simultaneously allowing billions to flow into fraudulent claims—whether it’s welfare fraud, Medicaid scams, or illegal migrants gaming the system. One trillion dollars per year could be saved just by requiring real ID verification—but Biden’s bureaucrats would rather let that money vanish than admit their policies are enabling the fraud.
DOGE is exposing the deep rot within federal, state, and local governments. Every taxpayer should be outraged that their hard-earned money is being funneled into fake identities, self-certification scams, and unmonitored benefit programs that are effectively a Democrat slush fund.
This isn’t just incompetence—it’s deliberate. The Trump administration is now putting an end to the grift, and the panic from the establishment proves it. Fraud is over. The reckoning has begun.
As you can see this document is barely 2 pages and certainly not written in legalise. While not a complicated read – the plan was brilliant. Trump did NOT actually create a new agency. Instead what he did was repurpose an existing agency – the USDS – into something more useful. pic.twitter.com/aUDjbuK7KA
You see Trump has power to set priorities for Executive branch departments but there are limits. In the case of DOGE, Trump clearly had a team of lawyers looking at ways to accomplish this goal legally.
Trump also ordered that DOGE teams be hired in every administrative branch agency. These teams are to include a team lead, a lawyer, an HR person, and an engineer. These teams work for USDS (DOGE) but work with and within various agencies. While all this is part of a “software… pic.twitter.com/eCVgDbTPfb
Last point. I don’t like that this has to be done and think the executive branch has far more authority than they should. That said, this order was very well done and Trump and Musk have really done a good job strategically here. Here’s to hoping these guys follow through on the…
Democrats have cast the Trump administration’s ouster of eight senior FBI leaders as a “purge” and act of “retribution” from a weaponized Justice Department, some likening it to President Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.”
But former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes.
These include allegations that at least two of the fired officials, Jeffrey Veltri and Dena Perkins, manipulated the security clearance review process to personally and professionally punish conservatives, COVID-19 vaccine skeptics, and Jan. 6 whistleblowers who reported suspected bureau malfeasance, and retaliated against those who came to the whistleblowers’ defense.
A third, Timothy Dunham, is also alleged to have improperly suspended security clearances.
Jeffrey Veltri (l) Dena Perkins (c) Timothy Dunham (r) (Credit: public domain)
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) read numerous accounts of alleged misconduct perpetrated by these and other officials into the record this morning as the committee considered the nomination of Kash Patel for FBI Director.
One subordinate of the three terminated individuals, a former supervisory special agent in the Security Division, “SecD,” from which Veltri and Perkins hailed, and whom Dunham oversaw, told the committee:
I witnessed abuses committed against multiple employees by FBI senior leaders, particularly by Jeff Veltri and Dena Perkins. I also saw SecD retaliate against five of its own employees for protesting these unlawful practices. Because I spoke out against these abuses, Perkins and Timothy Dunham suspended my security clearance, costing me my job and continuing employment, totaling approximately $700,000 in lost wages and retirement benefits.
Former FBI official Marcus Allen (Credit: video clipping)
Another former FBI official, Marcus Allen, told the committee that Veltri and Perkins “caused the suspension of my security clearance because I questioned whether the FBI Director was truthful to Congress and whether the FBI was obeying the law and Constitution in the January 6, 2021 investigations.” What followed left “financial and emotional damage to me and my family will never be completely restored.”
A third, Special Agent Garret O’Boyle, who has been indefinitely suspended without pay for well over two years in alleged retaliation for whistleblowing, told the committee that Veltri, Perkins, Dunham, “and other leadership up to Christopher Wray, are responsible for what happened to me and my family.”
“Ensuring that they no longer work at the FBI is not retribution; it’s responsible leadership.”
Patel has been nominated to replace Wray, who came under fire from Republicans who believed the bureau targeted Trump supporters, parents, pro-life activists, and others. The Republican allegations informed President Trump’s first-day executive order, “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” and his Jan. 31 directive terminating eight high-level figures – including those overseeing branches from counterterrorism to criminal investigations and the heads of the bureau’s Miami and Washington field offices. The memo also called for a review of the work of all FBI personnel pertaining to Jan. 6, numbering 5,000 in all, for misconduct.
While no findings have been issued regarding that larger probe, the Jan. 31 memo, drafted by Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Emil Bove, suggests a legitimate rationale for terminating the FBI leaders. It notes that the bureau and they themselves were complicit in malfeasance pertaining to the Jan. 6 investigation, the weaponization of security clearances, and resisting Justice Department directives. Consequently, Bove wrote, the DOJ did not trust them “to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully.”
The Justice Department did not respond to RealClearInvestigations’ inquiries in connection with this story, and RCI was unable to reach Veltri, Perkins, Dunham, or the five other terminated officials.
Democrats have assailed the firings. A letter signed by all 10 Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats stated, “Our alarm has only grown in the past two weeks as this purge of experienced career prosecutors and agents has expanded … We can only assume these decisions are intended to prevent the Department from investigating national security and public corruption, while also serving as political retribution against the President’s perceived enemies and stoking fear among the dedicated and talented workforce in our nation’s premier law enforcement agency.”
Sen. Mark Warner, Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, added: “These are people who have served our country, protected Americans and put criminals behind bars. Now they have been pushed out simply for doing their jobs.”
A central complaint of the whistleblowers is that, consistent with the Bove memo, FBI officials weaponized security clearances. Specifically, they allege that the bureau’s Security Division has baselessly suspended and/or revoked security clearances in retaliation against those who have made protected disclosures. As maintaining a security clearance is an essential condition of employment, the suspension of one’s clearance typically triggers an indefinite employment suspension without pay. The suspended are also barred from seeking outside employment or accepting gifts. The associated probes can last months and even years, with the targeted waiting first for their cases to be fully investigated and adjudicated, and then sometimes waiting still longer during an appeals process.
The process can be so onerous that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has noted that it can be leveraged to encourage disfavored employees to resign rather than fight a lengthy and costly battle.
While the FBI has denied claims that the Security Division has abused this power in recent years, Horowitz detailed misconduct in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last September. His team had seen evidence indicating that the division had used the investigation and adjudication process to punish whistleblowers.
One whose case Horowitz highlighted involved Marcus Allen, a decorated Marine Corps veteran and award-winning FBI Staff Operations Specialist. Veltri and Perkins allegedly played an integral role in targeting him.
Allen’s duties included supporting the Charlotte, N.C. field office’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in ongoing investigations and intelligence requests pertaining to Jan. 6. This included gathering and sharing relevant open-source information. In September 2021, Allen reported to his supervisors that various news outlets, including RealClearInvestigations, RealClearPolitics, and the New York Times, had reported that confidential FBI informants were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and a “significant counter-story” had formed.
Allen told his colleagues, “There is a good possibility the DC elements of our organization are not being forthright about the events of the day or the influence of government assets.” Minutes later, he forwarded his colleagues an email with a link to a video contrasting the Times’ report with then-FBI Director Wray’s testimony in March 2021 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggesting Wray may not have provided the whole truth about the FBI’s links to Jan. 6.
Suspended Without Pay 27 Months
This would set off a chain of events that would leave Allen suspended and without pay for 27 months – forced, along with his wife, to take early withdrawals from their retirement accounts to make ends meet.
Charlotte field office personnel forwarded Allen’s emails to the FBI’s Office of General Counsel, which passed them to Veltri – then-head of the Security Division section responsible for all personnel investigations.
Rather than first passing concerns to the division’s referral evaluation unit, as is customary, Veltri instigated an immediate investigation on the grounds of Allen’s potential lack of allegiance to the U.S. A successor would call this an “abortion of the process.”
Days later, Veltri received an email from the Charlotte field office, which expressed “added concerns” regarding Allen. Delivered on behalf of that office’s head, then-Special Agent in Charge Robert Wells, one of the eight FBI officials the Trump administration would terminate, it noted that Allen was one of two employees not to attest to his COVID-19 vaccination status, even though President Biden had made vaccination mandatory for all federal employees.
Veltri’s then-Assistant Section Chief Perkins used the email as justification to instruct the FBI’s Insider Threat Office to open an assessment into Allen.
That office would review Allen’s communications and conclude he harbored “hostile views towards the FBI and current administration.” To justify this characterization, it stated that Allen had sent “links from questionable sources,” including RealClearPolitics. It surmised Allen was trafficking in “extremist propaganda” and that he “may pose an insider threat to the FBI.”
Yet a subsequent probe of Allen’s communications by the FBI would find “no information validating” the basis for an investigation into Allen. Interviews with four Charlotte field office officials indicated they lacked evidence that he was disloyal, sympathized with Jan. 6 rioters, or was otherwise ill-equipped to handle his duties.
Despite the misgivings of the investigator and his supervisors on the case, IG Horowitz found that security division management – which included Veltri and Perkins – insisted that Allen’s security clearance be suspended pending investigation.
A January 2022 memorandum did just that, claiming on the basis of his emails and refusal to comply with the vaccine mandate that Allen “promoted unreliable information which indicates support for the events of January 6th” and “espoused conspiratorial views.”
According to the D.C.-based watchdog group that helped represent Allen, Empower Oversight, the agent was in limbo for 27 months while his case was investigated, adjudicated, and appealed.
When interviewed by the security division in connection with his case – some four months after his clearance and pay had been suspended – Allen, a self-described “faithful Catholic,” indicated that “the Holy Spirit compelled him” to make the disclosure that would land him in hot water.
Veltri would allegedly deride Allen for that remark, suggesting, according to another division official represented by Empower Oversight, that he “was delusional for referring to his religious belief … for disclosing wrongdoing.”
Even though, as his counsel has detailed, all line-level employees who reviewed the Allen case believed he should retain his clearance, the bureau revoked his clearance under pressure from management, purportedly including Veltri.
Three individuals within the division responsible for processing Allen’s case would be reassigned in retaliation for disclosing misconduct in the division’s targeting of him.
It was not until May 2024 – after Horowitz’s office had initiated a reprisal investigation – that Allen reached a settlement with the Justice Department, agreeing to resign in exchange for full back pay and reinstatement of his security clearance.
Horowitz’s office would issue a May 2024memorandum providing employees claiming reprisal additional means to defend themselves against indefinite unpaid suspension in light of Allen’s tribulations.
The Case of Garret O’Boyle
FBI whistleblower Garret O’Boyle (Credit: public domain)
In emotional testimony before Congress last fall, Allen lamented that Special Agent Garret O’Boyle was being subjected to a similarly tortuous process.
O’Boyle, a veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, alleges that he was targeted by Perkins on baseless grounds – and has been suspended without pay for nearly two-and-a-half years.
Empower Oversight, which also serves as his counsel alongside several Security Division whistleblowers, has detailed that in late 2021 and early 2022, O’Boyle began making a series of protected disclosures, first internally regarding FBI COVID-19 policies that he believed were unconstitutional and unlawful, and then to Congress concerning the politicization of the FBI.
Among the congressional disclosures was his view that the bureau may have opened a politically motivated criminal investigation into conservative muckraker Project Veritas – about which the Justice Department had made false claims in court.
In May 2022, Project Veritas published an interview with a masked FBI official making similar claims.
After applying for and being accepted to a new assignment with a start date of September 2022, in August, O’Boyle sold his Kansas home and prepared to move to Virginia with his three children and his wife, who was eight months pregnant. On the first day, upon arriving at his new post, O’Boyle was accused of leaking information to the press and had his security clearance suspended. He and his family were effectively rendered homeless, since he had not closed on his new home, and was left without an income.
The Security Division investigator on O’Boyle’s case had previously told the then-Acting Section Chief Perkins that there was no evidence O’Boyle had leaked anything to the media. Rather, he had disclosed to his superiors that he believed O’Boyle may have made protected disclosures to Congress. Yet, as Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt told the House Judiciary Committee last fall, Perkins “responded that she had already briefed the FBI’s 7th floor that SA O’Boyle was a media leaker, and did not want to correct this misunderstanding.”
Evidence suggests that Veltri and Perkins discussed O’Boyle’s transfer in advance of his move, with whistleblowers inferring that a scheme was hatched to ensnare him.
Shortly after the suspension, Veltri would be made head of the FBI’s Miami field office, its fifth-largest. He would lead the investigation into the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. At the time, earlier reports resurfaced that Veltri had demonstrated an anti-Trump bias, claims the FBI batted down.
The bureau revoked O’Boyle’s security clearance in July 2024 after it became aware he had made protected disclosures to the DOJ inspector general and in advance of coming hearings where O’Boyle’s plight was likely to be exposed.
That month, O’Boyle’s legal team, which also includes the American Center for Law & Justice and Binnall Law Group, filed a “request for reconsideration” of the revocation. That entitles O’Boyle to review the evidence used to justify the revocation. O’Boyle’s team did not receive such information until six months later, on Jan. 30, 2025. The receipt of that information triggers a 30-day period with which to prepare and submit his appeal.
“The crazy Kafkaesque system puts deadlines on the employee, but the FBI has an infinity whenever it wants – zero deadlines on its responses,” Jason Foster, Empower Oversight’s Founder and Chairman, told RCI.
Perkins reportedly pushed an unnamed adjudicator who had recommended ending O’Boyle’s suspension out of his job .
According to this adjudicator’s disclosure to Congress, “Perkins has moved several other employees who report to her for recommending decisions contrary to her interests [and] bases many of her decisions on favoritism.”
She “is considered corrupt and dishonest by FBI employees,” he said.
These claims dovetail with those of a former supervisory special agent at the Security Division — the supervisor whose testimony Chairman Grassley read into the record this morning. The agent, a Democrat, is also represented by Empower Oversight.
In a July 2024letter summarizing some of the unnamed whistleblower’s claims, Leavitt said his client had observed that:
The outcomes of clearance investigations and adjudications were often pre-determined by the Division’s acting Deputy Assistant Director [Veltri] and the acting Section Chief [Perkins] responsible for security clearance investigations and adjudications, who often overruled line staff and even dictated the wording of documents in the clearance process.
In a related letter to Horowitz and the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, the FBI official of nearly 20 years disclosed, through Empower, that during his time as a Security Division investigator under the leadership of Veltri and Perkins, it was common for investigators to ask “whether employees under investigation had vocalized support for former President Donald Trump or whether they had vocalized objection to the COVID-19 vaccine.”
Veltri and Perkins allegedly would “ask in staff meetings whether employees whose clearances were under investigation had received the vaccine.”
The supervisory special agent asserted that the duo’s perspective “was that if an FBI employee fit a certain profile as a political conservative, they were viewed as security concerns and unworthy to work at the FBI.”
In April 2022, investigators overseen by Veltri and Perkins issued a questionnaire reflecting this view in connecting with a probe of a 12-year FBI veteran whose security clearance had been suspended one month prior.
Under penalty of potential disciplinary action, investigators asked co-workers of the suspended employee whether he had vocalized “support for President Trump,” “objection to COVID-19 vaccination,” or “intent to attend 01/06/2021” – a reference to the Capitol riot.
The suspension came some 15 months after the agent had self-reported, following the events of Jan. 6, that while on personal leave, he had peacefully observed activities among crowds near the Capitol. After making disclosures to Congress regarding alleged politicization and security clearance process abuses in his case and others, he would have his security clearance revoked. After appealing, with the process dragging on, the agent retired.
As for the longtime supervisory special agent who had reported on Veltri and Perkins’ misconduct, he too had his security clearance suspended. Foster told RCI that the individual who signed off on the agent’s suspension was Timothy Dunham.
Another unnamed Empower client, Foster told RCI, claims that Dunham threatened to suspend the individual’s security clearance as a means of retaliation and delayed reinstating the security clearance of another employee for over a year.
Dunham served as the executive assistant director of the FBI’s human resources branch – under which the Security Division sits – from the summer of 2023 until his termination, pursuant to the Bove memorandum.
These terminations may be only the beginning of efforts to remedy alleged malfeasance pertaining to whistleblowers. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in establishing the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group shortly after her confirmation, indicated that one of its focuses will be examining “the retaliatory targeting, and in some instances criminal prosecution, of legitimate whistleblowers.”
This article was originally published by RealClearInvestigations and made available via RealClearWire.
/1🚨BREAKING — New law enforcement documents reveal that Colorado officials knew the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua posed a real and present danger — but withheld the truth from the public for over a year, shielding criminal illegal aliens and endangering U.S. citizens. pic.twitter.com/FmA3IhXt6b
/3 The documents show that the nonprofit “Organization Papagayo” placed Venezuelan illegal aliens in the Aurora apartments that Tren de Aragua later took over, terrorizing residents with shootings, stabbings, and extortion. pic.twitter.com/9nJsKzo6Qw
/5 Despite overwhelming evidence, state and local officials continued to downplay or outright dismiss the gang’s presence — allowing crime to spiral out of control. pic.twitter.com/HX2WRLWzg4
/7 Last week, ICE, with support from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Marshals, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, conducted raids across Aurora, targeting 100 TdA gang members. https://t.co/m4p5uiFHrj
/9 An APD email from February 5, 2024, states that two apartment complexes were “currently having Venezuelan refugees placed there and we have had multiple violent cases involving those addresses with Venezuelan suspects since about June of 2023.”
/11 Aurora borders Denver, which openly supports sanctuary city policies.
Mike Johnston, Denver’s mayor, compared President Trump’s deportation policies to a “Tiananmen Square moment” and released a detailed plan outlining Denver’s non-detainer policy and threatening legal… pic.twitter.com/YffjMGtZ4S
/17 APD contacted HSI to help identify suspects connected to shootings “believe[d] to be Venezuelan.”
While APD was unable to confirm “with 100% certainty” that the suspects were TdA gang members, their clothing and tattoos were consistent with HSI’s descriptions of the TdA gang… pic.twitter.com/hcNHf9uxqJ
/19 Since late 2022, at least 43,000 illegal immigrants flooded into the Denver metro area, costing an estimated $80 million, not counting healthcare and education-related expenses. pic.twitter.com/tY9pUYzicW
/21 On December 23, 2024, AFL sent letters to Governor Polis, Mayor Johnston, and nearly 250 other elected officials in sanctuary jurisdictions, warning them of the legal consequences they could face for interfering with or impeding federal immigration enforcement and for… https://t.co/kbOcP3mrn1
/23 Citizens in sanctuary jurisdictions across the country should contact their elected officials and urge them to support the rule of law and oppose illegal and dangerous sanctuary policies. pic.twitter.com/bOxrp544TX
PULITZER 🧵: Biden publicly ordered 11 federal agencies to ‘look’ into Elon Musk. All 11 opened investigations. Then all 11 funneled a total of $300M to Reuters who then who won a Pulitzer Prize for their relentless attack pieces against the billionaire. pic.twitter.com/HP3mkwUtPJ
The Biden Admin paid Reuters over $300 million in government contracts. 11 different Biden government agencies targeted Elon’s businesses. All 11 agencies paid millions to Reuters. Reuters then won the Pulitzer Prize for “their work on Elon Musk and misconduct at his businesses” pic.twitter.com/3IGGtuHv7L
House Judiciary Report, 2/13/2025 – FACT SHEET: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, DOGE PUNISH AGENCIES INVESTIGATING ELON MUSK’S COMPANIES (The embedded links within this report did not copy over here. Go to source link for that additional info.)
Several Federal Agencies That Were Investigating Elon Musk’s Companies Have Become The Early Targets Of The Trump Administration And Musk’s Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
• Department of Labor (DOL): DOL, which oversees the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had over a dozen open investigations into Tesla and SpaceX regarding alleged unfair labor practices, safety violations, and discriminatory work practices.
• NLRB filed a complaint against SpaceX after eight employees said they were fired in retaliation
for speaking critically of Musk; SpaceX sued the NLRB in response. OFCCP was conducting an
audit of potential workplace discrimination at Tesla. EEOC sued Tesla for alleged racial
harassment and retaliation in 2023.
• The DOL Inspector General was unlawfully fired by Trump during his midnight purge of
inspectors general on Jan. 24.
• Trump fired the chair of the NLRB and has effectively shut down NLRB’s ability to rule on cases.
• Trump gutted OFCCP via an executive order on Jan. 21st before their investigation’s findings could
be made public.
• Trump fired two of the three Democratic Commissioners on the EEOC.
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB): Consumers have submitted over 300 complaints about
Elon Musk’s Tesla to the CFPB. 66 of these complaints were submitted in the last year.
• Trump fired CFPB Director Rohit Chopra and installed Project 2025 architect Russ Vought as the
bureau’s acting director.
• CFPB’s Washington headquarters has been closed, and staff and contractors have been told that
they cannot “perform any work tasks.”
• Musk tweeted “Delete CFPB” less than a week after the agency finalized a rule that could put his
planned collaboration with Visa to offer a real-time payments system on the platform into the
agency’s crosshairs.
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): The USAID Inspector General initiated a probe
into Starlink satellite terminals provided to the Government of Ukraine
• USAID has been shuttered after Musk’s DOGE took a wrecking ball to the agency.
• The USAID Inspector General was fired days after publishing a report critical of the Trump
Administration’s dismantling of the agency.
• Department of Transportation (DOT): DOT, which oversees the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), had several open
investigations into Tesla. FAA had recently ordered SpaceX to carry out a formal investigation into the
loss of a Starship vehicle during a test flight, and previously ordered over $630,000 in civil penalties
against SpaceX.
• The DOT Inspector General was fired by Trump.
• The FAA Administrator resigned effective Jan. 20, following pressure from Musk.
• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): The USDA Inspector General launched a probe into Elon
Musk’s Neuralink in 2022 for potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act. As of January, the
investigation was ongoing.
• The USDA Inspector General, a 22-year veteran of the agency, was fired by Trump and later
escorted out of her office by security guards.
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): EPA regulators have settled multiple lawsuits with Tesla
over violations of the Clean Air Act and hazardous waste laws at the company’s automotive manufacturing
plant in Fremont, California.
• The EPA Inspector General was fired by Trump.
• Federal Election Commission (FEC): The FEC is set to rule on a number of complaints filed during the 2024 election cycle, including complaints pertaining to Musk’s America PAC.
• The Trump Administration unlawfully removed FEC chairwoman Ellen Weintraub from her post.
• Department of the Interior (DOI): DOI oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which monitors
the federal lands near SpaceX’s launch site in Texas for any damage to threatened species’ habitats. Musk
has repeatedly clashed with FWS, calling their review process “unacceptable.”
• The DOI Inspector General was fired by Trump.
• Department of Defense (DOD): Concerns that SpaceX has repeatedly failed to comply with federal
reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets, including by not providing some details of Musk’s
meetings with foreign leaders, have reportedly triggered federal reviews by DOD’s Office of Inspector
General, the Air Force, and the Pentagon’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and
Security. The Air Force also recently denied Musk high-level security access, citing potential security
risks associated with the billionaire.
• The DOD Inspector General was fired by Donald Trump.
• Department of Justice (DOJ): DOJ filed a lawsuit in 2023 against SpaceX for allegedly discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring. DOJ also opened investigations into whether Tesla has been candid in describing the features of its vehicles.
• While leaving its Inspector General in place, for now, the Trump Administration has taken several
actions to gut the DOJ, including firing top leadership and prosecutors.
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): The SEC sued X in January 2025, alleging Musk misled shareholders about his Twitter stock purchases in 2022 and ordering Musk to pay the federal government as much as $150 million. Musk called the agency a “totally broken organization” in response to the lawsuit.
• Trump vowed to fire the SEC Chair Gary Gensler “on day one”; Gensler stepped down before
Trump could fire him, leaving a Republican majority at the SEC.
• Office of Government Ethics (OGE): Days after Members of Congress requested that OGE investigate Mr. Musk’s conflicts of interest—given his status as a Special Government Employee and his extensive business holdings that receive billions of dollars in federal government contracts and subsidies—the Director of OGE was fired by Trump
A top official in the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) directed millions in migrant assistance grants to nonprofits where she previously held senior positions, a watchdog report revealed Thursday.
Robin Dunn Marcos, who led HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) under former President Joe Biden, oversaw $22.6 billion in grant distributions since 2020, with her former employers emerging as top beneficiaries. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), where she spent 23 years as a senior director, received $598 million, while Church World Service, her employer of four years, was awarded $355 million, according to an OpenTheBooks report.
“Consistent with the Ethics Pledge, Robin Dunn Marcos is recused from participating in particular matters involving specific parties in which IRC is or represents a party,” a spokesperson for the Administration for Children and Families, ORR’s parent agency, told the outlet. “That recusal obligation lasts for two years from her date of appointment, which was September 11, 2022.”
While HHS officials maintained to the outlet that Dunn Marcos recused herself from decisions involving her former employers, OpenTheBooks reported that IRC’s funding increased dramatically during her tenure, jumping from $22 million in fiscal year 2021 to over $235 million in 2023.
Through a network of nonprofit organizations, ORR provided an extensive array of benefits to migrants, including dollar-for-dollar matching savings plans for vehicle and home purchases, small business loans up to $15,000 and credit repair loans up to $1,500. Additional services included “cultural orientation,” emergency housing support, legal assistance and Medicaid care. The OpenTheBooks report called the programs a “giant magnet for those seeking to cross the border and claim asylum.”
ORR dramatically increased funding in general during Dunn Marcos’ tenure, with annual grant disbursements soaring from $2.6 billion in fiscal year 2020 to a peak of $10 billion in fiscal year 2023, according to the watchdog group. The surge in spending coincided with record-breaking southern border crossings, as Customs and Border Protection reported 2.4 million apprehensions during the same period.
The most substantial portion of funding — $12.4 billion — went toward programs for unaccompanied minor children, even as the agency faced mounting criticism over its handling of minors in its care. Tom Homan, now President Donald Trump’s border czar, estimated that 300,000 migrant children were unaccounted for under the program’s watch, he said in a January 2023 interview with Fox News.
OpenTheBooks filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2023 for any emails exchanged between Dunn Marcos and IRC and has not yet received a response. Dunn Marcos left her post at ORR after Trump took office in January. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 2/13/2025)(Archive)
Reforming the FBI is one of the most pressing national security priorities for the second Trump administration. Just how much FBI root-and-branch reform is urgently required has been revealed by troubling news from bureau headquarters.
Although President Donald Trump is promising to clean the FBI of its woke misadventures, woke business continues as usual at the bureau. Intelligence community sources with direct knowledge tell me that a senior agent who kneeled while on duty at a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Washington, D.C., has been promoted to one of the FBI’s most prized jobs. They say that Sarah Linden is a new deputy assistant director out of the FBI headquarters. There, Linden has been placed in charge of Russian counterintelligence in the national security branch. In other words, Linden is now the top U.S. counterspy against the Kremlin. The FBI declined to comment.
(…) Nevertheless, FBI leadership chose to reward, not punish, the kneelers. Several of the kneelers have seen their careers prosper because, not in spite, of their pro-BLM demonstration. In 2023, Congress asked questions about those agents, including Linden, who stood out in photos since she didn’t appear to meet the bureau’s physical fitness guidelines.
After the protest, Linden was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s powerful Washington Field Office, which the bureau highlighted on social media. She headed that office’s Criminal and Cyber Division. Congressional questions about the BLM kneeling didn’t slow Linden’s advancement — rather the opposite.
Linden’s new appointment is to a big and very prestigious job. But it’s also a very important job. Russian intelligence officers have had relative freedom of action in the United States in recent years as counterintelligence resources have shifted toward China-related threats. Though, like most of the intelligence community, the FBI hasn’t been able to follow the evidence. Russian intelligence activity on U.S. soil has included suspected microwave energy attacks on U.S. personnel related to the so-called Havana syndrome concern.
Counterintelligence insiders tell me that Linden’s qualifications for her powerful new position are modest. Moreover, given the embarrassing hash that a politicized FBI made during Trump’s first term with the Russia espionage issue, skewing dubious counterintelligence claims to smear the White House, why on earth has the FBI placed an apparent left-wing activist in charge of this extremely sensitive national security mission? (Read more: Washington Examiner, 2/14/2025)(Archive)
Internet search trends in the Washington, DC, metro area have been nothing short of stunning in recent weeks, reflecting what appears to be growing panic within the federal bureaucracy as President Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) root out corruption in non-governmental organizations (NGO) and federal agencies.
Earlier this week, internet search trends for “Criminal Defense Lawyer” and “RICO Laws” went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington’s political elites were in panic mode. The searches coincided with DOGE’s efforts to neuter USAID’s funding of NGOs that propped up a shadow government, as well as begin cutting tens of thousands of workers from various federal agencies.
DC Internet Searches For “Criminal Defense Lawyer” & “RICO Law” Erupt As DOGE Drains Swamp https://t.co/4ytzi4YcgV
Now, more suspicious search trends have erupted among DC residents as DOGE efforts went into beast mode at the end of the week.
“Washington DC searches soar for “Swiss bank” (yellow), “offshore bank” (green), “wire money” (red) and “IBAN” (blue),” WikiLeaks wrote on X late Thursday.
Washington DC searches soar for “Swiss bank” (yellow), “offshore bank” (green), “wire money” (red) and “IBAN” (blue) pic.twitter.com/OBEg0hW8g0
Russiagate is the greatest political scandal of all time for a simple reason: the combined forces of Obama, the sitting president at the time, along with the FBI and CIA, worked to take down President Trump based on something not only fabricated—but fabricated by them. It was an attempted coup by a sitting president against his democratically elected successor.
Yet here we are, eight years after the full weaponization of government to remove Trump, and not only has no one been held to account, but vast troves of critical documents remain unreleased.
While many documents have come out, there has been no concerted effort to secure the rest—nor even a clear list of what’s still missing.
Below is a list of crucial documents that remain unreleased (big thank you to @ClimateAudit and @FOOL_NELSON for compiling it). The list may not be complete, so feel free to add to it. The point is simple: if we don’t define what’s missing, there will be no effort to release it. We cannot let Obama’s attempted coup fade into history. There needs to be relentless pressure to get these documents released in the coming weeks and months—before new hoaxes are unleashed on Trump and this is once again forgotten:
Unreleased Russiagate Documents
2016:
•DNC Logs: May 23–25
•Crossfire Reports: Related to DNC & DCCC
•DHS Attribution Assessments & Briefings: Leading to Oct 7 announcement
•FBI Intel Assessment on Steele Reporting (Oct): Drafts & corresponding materials
•Unredacted FBI 302: Aug 2 interview with Australian diplomats Alexander Downer & Erika Thompson
•Unredacted Cables: Downer cable (May 11)
Thompson cable (May 16)
•Downer’s U.S. Embassy Visit (July 26): Correspondence & minutes
•Declassified Briefings: CIA to Senate Intel Committee (Nov 23)
•FBI-DNI to House Intel Committee (Dec 5)
•Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA): Declassified & unredacted drafts on Russian interference (Dec 9)
Classified version presented to Obama (Jan 5) & Trump (Jan 6)
•Senate Intel Committee Report (2020): Unredacted section on ICA
•Christopher Steele Interview (Oct): FBI 302, notes & correspondence
•Brennan Notes: Unredacted version of July 28 White House briefing on Clinton’s plan to smear Trump as a Russian agent
•Fusion Cell (CIA, NSA, FBI): All memos and emails, unredacted Sept 7 memo
2017:
•Lyall-Grant Memo: Mark Lyall-Grant’s warning about Steele
•FBI & DOJ documents and correspondence on FBI’s identification & interviewing of Igor Danchenko (Steele’s Primary Sub-source)
•FBI documents and correspondence regarding conferral of Confidential Human Source status to Danchenko
•Transcripts & reports of FBI interviews with Danchenko (post-Jan 2017)
•FBI & DOJ briefings leading up to Mueller’s appointment
•FBI & DOJ role and documents regarding Jeff Sessions’ recusal
•Papadopoulos Interview (Jan): Full transcript
•Mueller “Investigation”: Withheld FBI 302s, unredacted FBI 302s, documentation of interviews in non-302 format, correspondence about Christopher Steele
2018 & Beyond:
•Horowitz Report: Classified version
•Horowitz Interviews: Transcripts or reports
•Durham Report: Any classified version
•Durham Interviews: Transcripts or reports
•Danchenko Trial: Exhibits
Russiagate is the greatest political scandal of all time for a simple reason: the combined forces of Obama, the sitting president at the time, along with the FBI and CIA, worked to take down President Trump based on something not only fabricated—but fabricated by them. It was an…
/1🚨BREAKING — FEDERAL JUDGE McCONNELL MUST RECUSE HIMSELF IMMEDIATELY.
AFL has uncovered a major potential conflict of interest for Judge John McConnell, Chief Judge of the federal district court of Rhode Island, who halted President Trump’s temporary spending freeze.
/3 In fact, Judge McConnell has appeared as a Director on Crossroads’ IRS Form 990 every year since he took the federal bench in 2013. pic.twitter.com/JfbKk7RrJC
/7 This year, Rhode Island government records show that Crossroads Rhode Island has already received just under $2.9 million in FY2025 to provide various programs and services to Rhode Island, one of the plaintiffs. pic.twitter.com/GjgK4LW59t
/9 It is common practice for the federal government to disburse money to the states, which then hand it out to NGOs like Crossroads Rhode Island.
Here, Judge McConnell ordered taxpayer dollars to continue flowing to the states, including Rhode Island, writing, “[s]tates rely on… pic.twitter.com/C4ZAromQSk
/11 In short, in the 18 years Judge McConnell has been on the board of Crossroads Rhode Island, it has received over $128 million in government funding.
When Judge McConnell ruled against the Trump Administration and required federal taxpayers to continue funding the State of… pic.twitter.com/ZWn16ZOGp0
/13 The law further requires judges to disqualify themselves when they are a fiduciary or have any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding. pic.twitter.com/snm1gzo8bW
/17 In the words of the Supreme Court, “An insistence on the appearance of neutrality is not some artificial attempt to mask imperfection in the judicial process, but rather an essential means of ensuring the reality of a fair adjudication.
/19 Given the heightened public scrutiny of this case and the profound constitutional implications inherent in binding the actions of the President of the United States, the appearance of a conflict of interest is highly problematic, to say the least.
/20 If, as the documents suggest, Judge McConnell has been a leader of Crossroads Rhode Island, and if, as the documents also suggest, he knew or should have known that Crossroads Rhode Island would stand to benefit from his ruling against the federal taxpayers, then it seems he…
USAID funded an organization that fabricated evidence which was used to impeach President Trump.
The Deep State frequently funds regime change efforts abroad, but when it uses taxpayer money to undermine our own government, isn’t that treason? pic.twitter.com/7ow55Z5sqY
Michael Shellenberger at a Congressional hearing on Thursday testified about a program funded and controlled by USAID that was used to propagate Russiagate.
REP. THOMAS MASSIE (R-KY): Mr. Shellenberger, can you explain how you traced USAID funding that served as the basis for whistleblower report in 2019 which led to the impeachment of President Trump?
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER: Sure, well you may remember that the so-called whistleblowers in the White House was actually a CIA analyst and in that whistleblower’s complaint which led to the impeachment, one of the central pieces of evidence was created by a USAID-funded and controlled organization called the OCCRP. And we have another piece out today about how it participated in the Russiagate hoax as well, creating essentially very important information leading to that. So I mean you have in USAID a much larger fund of money and a much broader strategy for information control that included censorship but also as I mentioned taking control of investigative journalism really worldwide.
I amazing. So yeah, I mean that’s an agency when we saw that get shut down by Doge, I thought that was completely appropriate. If there’s something in there that it was doing that’s valuable, then you could refund it later.
But my view, same thing with CISA, death penalty for organizations that participated in violations of the First Amendment like CISA. Cybersecurity is an extremely important function. It shouldn’t be contaminated and undermined by censorship activities.
MASSIE: I think it’s always been known that our government has funded the change in administrations, if we can say it politely, of other governments. But isn’t it borderline treason when the taxpayer, when organizations entrusted with protecting our country are now undermining our own government?
SHELLENBERGER: Absolutely. I mean if you’re trying to do regime change, illegal, if you’re weaponizing DHS, FBI, CISA, that’s treasonous regime change activities redirected that you developed abroad, that we developed abroad for regime change directed against the American people and our representatives. I mean it’s shocking and we still haven’t dealt with it as a country.
How about the rest of the story which includes Trump lawfare coordinator Norm Eisen who went from trying to put Trump in prison to suing the Trump administration about everything to thwart the will of 77M+ Americans.
Michael Schellenberger and Dan Bongino are covering the USAID aspect of the Trump impeachment but they are overlooking the outcome of that operation which was Norm Eisen’s first Trump impeachment which was to pre-bunk Joe Biden’s corruption before the 2020 election. The USAID story was one piece of that.
Norm then went on to work with the national security state on the lawfare portion to take out Trump. Senator Grassley exposed the operation. It was called Arctic Frost.
The National security state has been working with Norm Eisen to take out Trump since 2016. It’s called a color revolution/coup. They are continuing this effort today via lawfare (FBI case, USAID funding, all of the Trump EOs, etc).
Everyone involved should be charged with sedition and/or treason.
UPDATE 6/22/2025
Jonathan Katz (Credit: Brookings Institute)
Now there is evidence that a high-level USAID official was involved in this likely criminal scandal involving the White House leaker Eric Ciaramella and Norm Eisen, one of the leaders in the far left globalist movement to remake America into a communist one-party regime.
Jonathan Katz is the the co-author of Norm Eisen’s Democracy Playbook which is based on Gene Sharp’s color revolution book “From Dictatorship to Democracy.”
Katz is also Ciaramella’s counterpart at USAID who allegedly met with the Ukrainian delegation back in 2016.
Samantha Power was the former head of the USAID@60Minutes tried to pass off the woman who helped give voice to all of this agency’s corruption as a common civil servant.
🚨🚨60 Minutes pulled in 2 comms consultants who were never actual employees of USAID and presented them as though they were longtime employees who were fired for lack of “loyalty.” 🚨🚨 https://t.co/dxinUlR3T0pic.twitter.com/nGdEp65DVL
60 Minutes aired an interview of 2 USAID Contractors last night—one was Kristina Drye—the same woman ABC interviewed who confessed to taking “incriminating books” with her after @DOGE entered the USAID building.
Kristina Drye (she/her) claims to be a “National Security professional” on LinkedIn.
Turns out she was a speechwriter for USAID’s director Samantha Powers.
But before USAID, Drye worked for Giant Oak, Inc. (GOI)—an international intelligence gathering firm. GOI claims to sweep the internet to monitor the world population and “helps close windows of vulnerability” by finding “negative news in chat rooms, social media and discussion websites, the deep web, and articles or sources in foreign languages” which they claim “makes the world a safer place.”
Kristina Drye (she/her) claims to be a “National Security professional” on LinkedIn.
Turns out she was a speechwriter for USAID’s director Samantha Powers.
But before USAID, Drye worked for Giant Oak, Inc. (GOI)—an international intelligence gathering firm. GOI claims to sweep… pic.twitter.com/ZD9yQxPKnf
The DOGE investigations have shattered long-dismissed claims that USAID is funneling American taxpayer dollars to terrorist organizations. What was once labeled “conspiracy theory” is now backed by hard evidence: billions of dollars have been funneled over decades into terrorist training camps and Islamic terror groups, including the Taliban, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and ISIS Khorasan.
Now, the truth is coming to light, and Washington is in crisis mode.
$697 Million Per Year—Plus Billions More in Cash Shipments—Directly to Terrorists
In a bombshell congressional hearing, Republican Congressman Scott Perry accused USAID of funneling $697 million annually—along with weekly cash shipments of $40–$80 million—to Islamic terrorist groups.
“Who gets some of that money? Your money—$697 million annually—plus shipments of cash go to ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and ISIS Khorasan. That’s what it’s funding,” Perry declared.
If America’s enemies were asked to design a foreign aid program that undermines the US at maximum cost to the Taxpayer, they’d be hard pressed to create a scheme more effective than USAID. pic.twitter.com/EjACP5aah6
The “single greatest source of instability in the region” 👀:
Congressman Scott Perry accused USAID of funding groups like Boko Haram, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda, citing $697 million spent in Afghanistan under Taliban control and support for terrorist training camps. pic.twitter.com/yvIVYK0OHr
These revelations were confirmed by the Defense Oversight and Government Ethics (DOGE) investigation, which uncovered a stunning network of fraudulent programs used as cover to launder taxpayer dollars to terrorists.
The Afghanistan Scam: “Women’s Programs” That Fund the Taliban
Perry exposed the fraudulent USAID programs supposedly meant to help Afghan women:
Women’s Scholarship Endowment – $60 million per year
Young Women Lead – $5 million per year
These programs claim to empower women in Afghanistan, yet Perry pointed out the obvious absurdity:
“The Taliban bans women from speaking in public, yet somehow, the American people are supposed to believe that this money is being used for the betterment of women in Afghanistan? It is not. You are funding terrorism, and it’s coming through USAID.”
Even more disturbing, a new DOGE report reveals that some of this money is being redirected to Taliban-run “martyrs’ welfare” programs—providing stipends to families of Taliban fighters killed attacking U.S. troops.
CIA whistleblower Sarah Adams confirmed:
“We’re paying Taliban families whose members died fighting us. Meanwhile, our veterans’ families get squat.”
Pakistan’s : $8.84 Billion for “Ghost Schools”
The Pakistan education scandal is even bigger than originally reported. Since 2002, USAID has pumped $8.84 billion into education programs—with no proof that the schools even exist.
Among the most blatant frauds:
$136 million was allocated for 20 schools—not a single one has been found.
$20 million went to educational television for kids who can’t attend school—because the schools don’t exist.
“We even spent $20 million on educational TV—for kids who don’t have access to these nonexistent schools. It’s absurd!” Perry slammed.
Meanwhile, Haqqani Network leader Sarajuddin Haqqani and Abdullah Bin Laden (Osama Bin Laden’s son) have reportedly benefited from USAID-linked funds, further proving that taxpayer dollars are ending up in the hands of Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups.
Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) said the Democrats are terrified of Elon Musk and DOGE because there is a “paper trail” of money that went overseas and right back into their pockets.
“You’re going to see a paper trail come back to Washington, DC. That’s why a lot of people are nervous. You’ll see a lot of retirements. They are stealing from the American taxpayer and now they’ve got their hand caught in the cookie jar, and all they can do is attack Elon Musk,” Burchett said on Fox News.
Democrats are terrified of @elonmusk and @doge because all of the graft comes back to Washington, D.C. when you follow the paper trail. They’ve been stealing, funding themselves along with our enemies, and now they’ve been caught.@ShawnRyan762@realLegendAfgpic.twitter.com/76Aw0KZZin
When Elon Musk asked how Norm Eisen could be financed, I replied, “If the United States govt gave money to Qatar, knowing Qatar was going to send that money to organizations within the USA intended to carry out an objective of a small group in U.S. govt., what would that be called?”
Qatar is a major source of funding for the Brookings Institute. Brookings funds various Lawfare operations, including Norm Eisen. The extended process is quite simple. If elements within the U.S. Govt., wanted to indirectly fund Brookings, could they do it by sending funds to Qatar?
The question is not supposition, because this was the exact process Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta used for the State Dept to send weapons to the Libyan “rebels,” aka Operation Zero Footprint.
Operation Zero Footprint was the State Dept/CIA sending funds to Qatar, and the Qatari govt then purchasing missiles from the CIA to give to al-Qaeda affiliates in Libya. We can consider the historic Iran-Contra scandal under a similar framework. However, the nuanced difference is about sending money toward a foreign govt (via USAID), while knowing the money would return to fund a domestic agenda inside the USA.
Example: USAID sends money to the U.K, and then British political allies send political operatives into the USA to support Kamala Harris. We know the latter part of that sentence happened. So, did the Biden administration (Samantha Power) fund the Labour Party operation?
Are the various political NGOs and activist groups in the USA actually funded, indirectly, by U.S. taxpayers? Many signs point to, yes.
Against this high likelihood, it becomes just a natural extension of the process if U.S. politicians are beneficiaries of the circular laundry operation. That is what Representative Tim Burchett believes will surface if the DOGE team follow the money trail. (Conservative Treehouse, 2/17/2025)
Judge: Had hearing on Friday, I asked Plaintiffs to file proposed order narrowing; filed narrowing proposed scope on Sat. at 4; at Friday’s hearing it was my harm extremely serious & colorable claim; but TRO wasn’t tailored to gov’t; narrowed from 11 to 2 dept; revised to ask to enjoin Musk, DOGE, defendants, accessing/copying in 7 agencies; or terminating agents/employees in agencies: OPM, educ., labor, hhs, energy, transportation, commerce; asked for 14 days; cite complaint, declaration, news report. Gov’t responded: remains too broad & not tied to appointment clause; asked to proceed on PI; 1:30 a.m. Plaintiffs filed reply, arguing threat of data disclosure & dismanteling will cause irreparable harm, and oppose PI and seek discovery. On Friday: TROs/PI are extraordinary remedies, PI only after notice; TROs purpose to preserve status quo; same 4 part test applies to both. Emergency TRO so immenent. Plaintiff if deny & get PI, then allow discovery?
3/ Judge: Had hearing on Friday, I asked Plaintiffs to file proposed order narrowing; filed narrowing proposed scope on Sat. at 4; at Friday’s hearing it was my harm extremely serious & colorable claim; but TRO wasn’t tailored to gov’t; narrowed from 11 to 2 dept; revised to ask…
Plaintiffs: We are confident we have evidence necessary to get TRO. Judge: Lots of news reports out there. Court can’t act based of news reports–they can’t find basis for TRO. Plaintiffs: I can point to what has already happen. Absolutely narrowing request. Our concern is how they are using data–for purpose other than designed to be collected. Judge: Tie to complaint? Plaintiff: From statement Musk makes; X posts; DOGE website (workforce; regs; finance): Using data they have access to to decide how to make cuts. So, Educ. Dep’t: School notes shortage of educators, poor outcomes, plus money–rely for operational & technical support. What is threatened by DOGE? Plaintiffs: DOGE has affected funding cuts across Educ. including research program, such as Institute of Educational Science have in past studied programs used in New Mexico. Judge: If I don’t issue TRO & convert to PI: And you win? If it gets slashed can’t you get money. Cuts to nuclear hurts New Mexico. Plaintiff: We’re getting reports to DOGE direction called for cuts to CDC staff, including Indian Health Staff, just made public, new secretary is trying to rehire poeple…New Mexico has large tribe…Judge: It has to be extreme harm it has to be imminent, and tomorrow and it will definitely happen. Something that can’t be “undone”–difficult or challenging, it can be undone.
Judge: Generalized fear, even if likely, isn’t enough for TRO and I’m not seeing it so far. Plaintiffs Lawyer: If Defendants have evidence to refute this. . . (NOT Defendants’ job). Cites to Washington Post article of DOGE memos of plans to spending cut. On Wednesday will start with continue to staffing cuts–nothing described. Judge must have rolled eyes: “I understand your frustration.” Plaintiff references X posts of “Education’s next” so ask TRO based on identified targets with agencies with direct ties and direct harms.
Judge: References other cases, why can’t Plaintiffs get TRO in 2 days b/c it is happening tomorrow or today? This is a prophaletic TRO and that’s not allowed. Plaintiff: “Going back to Washington Post” and showing DOGE memo saying all agencies will be targeted, between DOGE memos, statements, and X posts, on Wednesday we will see more. This is Appointment Clause claim, is different then other TROS. Our request is drastically different b/c we aren’t seeking to enjoy Agencies: It is targeted to Musk & DOGE and that they aren’t using info in unconstitutional ways.
Judge: Look at relief? What is harm if they have access to the inform? How is that directed to harm?
Plaintiff: It is the use of the data. How they identify how to make cuts is through access to data.
Judge: But it is in DOGE’s remit (authority) to analyze data. Also, if it already happened, it’s not imminent.
Plaintiff: Yes, they were charged w/ rooting out waste. These are not advisors, based on statements, etc., it is clear that CMS, directions where to cut were from Musk & DOGE and only able to do through anaylsis of data. Giving “directives” is well beyond EO.
Judge: Again, you are for TRO: You also want to stop all personnel decisions, how does this cause harm.”
Plaintiff: Only place for safe disposal of nuclear waste; Energy issued notice to terminate personnel, that includes staff who oversee disposal.
Judge: Wouldn’t those employees have the claim.
Plaintiff: Our harm is state’s ability to carry out its function. Lose of administration personnel, no one to pick up phone, or write checks.
Judge: TRO actions OMP access, have different claims, privacy
5/ Judge: Generalized fear, even if likely, isn’t enough for TRO and I’m not seeing it so far. Plaintiffs Lawyer: If Defendants have evidence to refute this. . . (NOT Defendants’ job). Cites to Washington Post article of DOGE memos of plans to spending cut. On Wednesday will…
Judge: Why wouldn’t those other cases provide relief that bar access to data. noted two other cases that cover access/firing. (Judges Cooper & Bates)
Plaintiff: Those were privacy act claims. We want to make sure Musk & DOGE aren’t using data inappropriately.
Judge: BUT the harm you are alleging is already being considered in other cases & still broad: 7 large agencies no data/no firing?
Plaintiff: Yes, because relief has not been issued yet. Difference between enjoining agency & enjoining Musk/DOGE. That is significant distinction.
Judge: What would imminent harm re DOT & Dep’t of Commerce, to Plaintiffs States.
Plaintiff: Inability to carry out programs & functions. (She isn’t answering).
Judge to Musk: reports of 1000 who received termination notices. Is it true?
Gov’t: I can’t confirm.
Judge: Wait! Not small thing, you haven’t looked at it?
Gov’t: I looked to what was relevant. I’ll look at it.
Judge: And are additional terminations planned in next 14 days. I can’t base on news reports. But you should be able to say we fired & we will fire x more.
Gov’t: Starting w/ State Declaration to justify imminent injury. Only 3 states discuss data access and concerns by residents. New Mexico: Says it has data at 3 agencies. Plaintiffs say that the concern is “not the access,” so the TRO shouldn’t address it. All discuss possible actions, that may affect downstream: That’s not imminent.
Judge: Reason that language is used is because DOGE actions have been unpredictable & scattershot. Will there been terminations/will there be?
Govt: There basic point is that Musk or DOGE is exercising sovereign power without authority–but all the actions complained about, there is a paper trail. What is clear is that you have a properly named officer exercising his authority. NO evidence of Musk or DOGE doing the terminating.
Judge: Musk hasn’t been appointed/confirmed–essentially a private citizen to fire/hire/contract/terminate, without congressional.
Govt: He is a Special Government Employee. There theory is that Musk exercises authoritative “influence.” THAT is not an appointment clause claim: They have not shown any formal or actual authority to make any decision himself.
Judge: I think you’re going too far.
Gov’t: Has state marshalled evidence of imminent harm.
Judge: Can gov’t agree to hold off on mass termination while PI is litigated? If not, what is harm?
Gov’t: I can’t make commitment. Agency heads have authority to manage work place.
Judge: Allegation is DOGE is directing termination. Accessing data/firing people/terminating contract, i.e., essentially running government.
Gov’t: Need evidence to back it up & it’d be easy to find: Someone is exercising power. And they can’t show that “someone” isn’t a person with power. Identify who fired. What authority. States haven’t done. Just saying puppetstrings:
Judge: Has a Court ever granted TRO re Appointment Clause?
Plaintiffs: I’d have to confirm. Judge: No, I haven’t found any. This is factually one of a kind situation. There may not be a TRO issued but we’ve never experienced this type of wielding of power. Our papers speak for themselves on points Gov’t made.
7/ Judge to Musk: reports of 1000 who received termination notices. Is it true?
Gov’t: I can’t confirm.
Judge: Wait! Not small thing, you haven’t looked at it?
Gov’t: I looked to what was relevant. I’ll look at it.
Judge: And are additional terminations planned in next 14 days.…
Plaintiff: Seeking to restrain DOGE & Musk & not agencies, if they don’t have authority then it won’t hurt agencies.
Judge: Thank you for coming in and making yourself available. I will rule motion for TRO & issue further scheduling. Hope to get out in 24 hours. If you have to come for PI briefing, what are you proposing: Plaintiff meet w/ Gov’t attorney & work out.
9/9 My gut is Court is going to now deny TRO and convert to PI.
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has unearthed jaw-dropping irregularity from the U.S. Social Security database.
The numbers are truly mind-boggling: over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself.
Late Sunday night, Musk tweeted a staggering claim accompanied by a table of ages, suggesting that the Social Security Administration might be paying out benefits to “vampires.”
According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work.
https://tfx.treasury.gov/taxonomy/term/10257
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost…
DOGE Police Blotter: About those $4.7 Trillion untraceable Treasury Department expenditures. A good place to start looking for them is Biden’s Secretary of the Department of Treasury Janet Yellen and her husband George Akerlof. They’re both glued to the hips of the USAID-obsessed… pic.twitter.com/zcVLANwtGB
Mayor Pete failed for four years to address the air traffic controller shortage and upgrade our outdated, World War II-era air traffic control system. In less than four weeks, we have already begun the process and are engaging the smartest minds in the entire world.
Here’s the truth: the FAA alone has a staggering 45,000 employees. Less than 400 were let go, and they were all probationary, meaning they had been hired less than a year ago. Zero air traffic controllers and critical safety personnel were let go.
Mayor Pete chose to use this amazing department—that is so critical to America’s success—as a slush fund for the green new scam and environmental justice nonsense. Not to mention that over 90% of the workforce under his leadership were working from home – including him. The building was empty!
When we finally get a full accounting of his mismanagement, I look forward to hearing from him.
In the meantime, I will not rest until I return the Department of Transportation and its incredible employees to its mission of efficiency and safety.
Mayor Pete failed for four years to address the air traffic controller shortage and upgrade our outdated, World War II-era air traffic control system. In less than four weeks, we have already begun the process and are engaging the smartest minds in the entire world.
FAA’s baseline for employees to work in office is about 4 days per 2-week pay period
FAA previously announced its employees would return to the office at least 3 days per week — or 6 days per pay period — starting on Oct. 9, 2023 — but scrapped it pic.twitter.com/SOQd3jlgdt
“WARNING! Our fears have come true: the globalist-liberal-Soros NGO network is fleeing to Brussels, after President Trump dealt a huge blow to their activities in the US. Now 63 of them are asking Brussels for money, under the guise of various human rights projects. Not going to happen! We will not let them find safe haven in Europe! The USAID-files exposed the dark practices of the globalist network. We will not take the bait again!” —Viktor Orbán Prime Minister of Hungary
WARNING! Our fears have come true: the globalist-liberal-Soros NGO network is fleeing to Brussels, after President Trump dealt a huge blow to their activities in the US. Now 63 of them are asking Brussels for money, under the guise of various human rights projects. Not going to…
There are few forces more corrosive to civilization than @georgesoros and his insufferable heir, @AlexanderSoros. These two financial arsonists have spent decades pouring billions into the globalist machine, fueling lawlessness, eroding borders, and undermining national sovereignty at every turn. Now, with @elonmusk and President @realDonaldTrump slamming the door on their USAID funding pipeline, the Soros network is scrambling, desperately trying to relocate its chaos operations to Brussels. Viktor Orbán, who has been sounding the alarm for years, is making it clear that Hungary will not be the refuge for these parasites. The fact that 63 Soros-linked NGOs are now crawling to the European Union for their next round of destruction should terrify every sane person. The globalist game plan has never been about democracy or human rights, it has always been about control, destabilization, and the calculated collapse of Western societies.
The Cloward-Piven strategy, a blueprint for societal implosion, has been Soros’s weapon of choice. Overwhelm systems, whether through mass migration, economic collapse, or manufactured social unrest, until they break, and then install your own puppet solutions. From defunding the police to open border policies, Soros-backed initiatives are designed to swamp national institutions, leaving them paralyzed and ripe for takeover. This is not conspiracy, it is documented strategy. Hungary, under @PM_ViktorOrban, has refused to play along, and now Brussels is being pressured to bankroll the next phase of this globalist coup. But with Trump back in office and the Soros pipeline running dry, the game has changed. The USAID-files have laid bare the shadow network that has been manipulating policy behind the scenes, exposing their dark practices to the world. The Soros empire is not about philanthropy, it is about controlled demolition.
Europe now faces a critical choice, will @vonderleyen resist, or will the EU roll over and allow Soros’s tentacles to tighten further around its institutions? If Brussels funds these NGOs, it will confirm what many already suspect: that the EU is little more than a globalist vassal state. Orbán, to his credit, is standing firm, warning that these organizations will not find safe haven in Hungary. The European Commission, predictably, will cry about rule of law and democratic values, as if turning the continent into a Soros playground has anything to do with democracy. The fight against Soros is not just about Hungary or the United States, it is about the survival of Western civilization. Every nation that values its sovereignty must take the same stand, no more money, no more influence, no more manufactured crises. The world has seen the consequences of his meddling, and for once, the right people are shutting the door in his face.
Attn: European Union
Watch out for the Open Societies Foundation “subsidiary” known as the ‘East West Management Institute’, which took in a staggering $270-MILLION in U.S. tax dollars over the course of 15 years – including millions of dollars from USAID (during Obama’s tenure)… pic.twitter.com/wroB5RItTb
Here’s where the rotting of America started with Hillary Clinton inviting George Soros into American politics!
Soros is known for bankrupting small countries as well as overthrowing governments.
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Take a look for yourself 👇 pic.twitter.com/9VdLHxQYf3
Blomberg confirms that associate deputy AG Bradley Weinsheimer, considered Lisa Monaco’s right-hand man, has been removed from his post. A 30+-year veteran of the DOJ, Weinsheimer was given the option of moving to a new immigration enforcement office or resign/be fired.
Weinsheimer was involved in the Hunter Biden matter, running interference for the Bidens and going over the head of Special Counsel David Weiss.
According to a 2023 New York Post article, Weinsheimer was “a conduit for Hunter Biden’s legal team in the final stretch of the tax fraud investigation” proving that main Justice–or at least Monaco and Weinsheimer–were really in charge, not Weiss.
DOJ prosecutor, Leslie Wolf, is subpoenaed on November 21, 2023 to testify about her forewarning the Biden team of search warrants (Credit: FedBar)
After lawyers for IRS whistleblowers who later testified to the political nature of DOJ decision making in the Biden investigation, contacted Weinsheimer–the alleged “nonpartisan” DOJ official in charge of handling whistleblower complaints to ensure protection for those employees–Weinsheimer met with Weiss and Hunter Biden’s attorney.
One day later, according to lawyers for the IRS whistleblowers, “Weinsheimer scheduled a meeting with Mr. Biden’s defense counsel to appeal over the head of Mr. Weiss in a way that was totally at odds with the narrative that David Weiss was acting independently.
The Deputy Attorney General’s office then claimed to us it was genuinely interested in addressing the whistleblower’s allegations, without disclosing its meeting with Hunter Biden’s lawyers. We now know that shortly after that meeting Weiss’s assistant [Lesley Wolf] offered to end the case with no guilty plea at all on the very same day that DOJ removed our client and his entire IRS team from the case.”
Weinsheimer also wrote a five-page letter to Congress restricting the testimony of Wolf, another DOJ official protecting the Bidens. On at least 79 occasions, Wolf cited Weinsheimer’s letter as an excuse to refuse to answer Congress’ questions as to her role on the investigation.
Good riddance, Brad!
More good news from Trump’s DOJ.
Blomberg confirms that associate deputy AG Bradley Weinsheimer, considered Lisa Monaco’s right-hand man, has been removed from his post. A 30+-year veteran of the DOJ, Weinsheimer was given the option of moving to a new immigration enforcement…
“Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before. Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System – THAT BEGINS TODAY!”
Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before. Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining “Biden Era” U.S. Attorneys. We must “clean house” IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) February 18, 2025
The decision is part of a broader effort by Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi to overhaul the DOJ, which they claim has been “weaponized” against American citizens and used to target political opponents. The administration insists that removing Biden-era appointees is a necessary step toward depoliticizing federal law enforcement.
It is common for U.S. attorneys to be replaced when a new administration takes office, especially when the party in power changes. However, Trump’s move is notable for its sweeping scope and immediate execution. (Read more: The Post Millennial, 2/18/2025)(Archive)
“We’ve built up this fourth, completely unconstitutional branch of government that enforces the laws, creates the laws in many cases, this regulatory state, this administrative state, the bureaucracy.
“The question is, can you have a constitutional system of government with this completely unaccountable, unelected fourth branch of government?”
“But that’s what it’s about. That’s why Democrats are freaking out about it. And that’s why Trump has chosen this battle.”
🚨🔥@MZHemingway on the DOGE battle raging in DC: “A fight 100 years in the making.”
“We’ve built up this fourth, completely unconstitutional branch of government that enforces the laws, creates the laws in many cases, this regulatory state, this administrative state, the… pic.twitter.com/ghIf61f03Q
President Donald Trump signs an executive order. Jan. 20, 2025. (Credit: Evan Vucci/AP)
President Donald Trump has ordered his agencies to scrub their regulations and spending programs to ensure illegal migrants are not getting taxpayers’ funds via hidden channels.
Trump signed the Executive Order titled “Preserving Federal Benefits for American Citizens” late on Wednesday.
The policy could save tens of billions of dollars per year. But the full economic impact will not be known for many months because Trump’s deputies must find the aid programs, change policies to stop some funding. fend off lawsuits, and then gradually rewrite regulations to stop more funding.
Democrats will furiously protest Trump’s aid cutoff because the cash flows through their vast and vital farm teams of supporters at government agencies and non-profits.
Democrats also support the funding because it attracts migrants to the United States. The aid also deters them from going home by anchoring them to U.S. society via subsidized jobs, housing, schooling, government credentials, and political support.
But the aid cutoff will also help the Democrats’ media allies to attack Trump’s popular migration policies by spotlighting pitiable migrants — for example, mothers with children — on the evening TV news shows.
The illegal migrant population in the United States is at least 13.7 million, many of whom have crowded into Democratic-run states — California and Illinois, for example — that provide healthcare and other aid to illegal migrants.
A White House fact sheet said:
The surge in illegal immigration, enabled by the previous Administration, is siphoning dollars and essential services from American citizens while state and local budgets grow increasingly strained.
…
According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), providing welfare to one million illegal aliens could cost American taxpayers an additional $3 billion annually.
The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee estimated that taxpayers could pay as much as $451 billion to care for [roughly 9 million] illegal aliens and gotaways that have entered the United States unlawfully since January 2021.
Doge just uncovered that Democrats funneled $2 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds to an organization tied to Stacey Abrams—and then tried to cover it up before Trump could find out.
The Biden administration’s EPA awarded the massive grant to Power Forward Communities in April 2024, an organization with direct links to Abrams.
Abrams was a fierce advocate for Biden’s green energy agenda and also actively campaigned for Kamala Harris.
Doge just uncovered that Democrats funneled $2 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds to an organization tied to Stacey Abrams—and then tried to cover it up before Trump could find out.
The Biden administration’s EPA awarded the massive grant to Power Forward Communities in April 2024,… pic.twitter.com/xPVBxxGp0P
DOGE discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams.
The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant’s dollar figure—it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings.
Power Forward Communities’ grant was one of just eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that the EPA doled out in April 2024 and that, altogether, totaled $20 billion. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Feb. 13 that his staff and Department of Government Efficiency officials discovered that the Biden administration parked that same $20 billion at an outside financial institution before leaving office, limiting the federal government’s oversight of the program.
The revelation that Power Forward Communities is among the beneficiaries of the funds Zeldin’s team located raises ethics questions about how the Biden administration selected recipients of such massive grants and whether it played favorites when doling those grants out. Abrams was a vocal proponent of the Biden administration’s green energy agenda and campaigned for former vice president Kamala Harris.
It also appears to validate concerns expressed for years by Republicans that Biden administration allies would prop up organizations that were specifically designed to receive federal funding under programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was created to operate as a “green bank” by Democrats’ behemoth Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
“I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars and I’ve wasted no time in keeping my word,” Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon. “When we learned about the Biden Administration’s scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this.”
“As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been,” the EPA administrator continued. “It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”
Andrew Ferguson has vowed to target “Big Tech’s vendetta against competition and free speech.” Courtesy of the United States Federal Trade Commission (Credit: public domain)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is opening up an official request for public comments on censorship by Big Tech companies. The agency is asking Americans to detail cases where they’ve faced consequences from companies for engaging in disfavored political speech, according to a draft document obtained by the Daily Caller.
Requests for public comments by the FTC are often a precursor to formal investigations or agency-level policy changes, indicating the agency, helmed by Commissioner Andrew Ferguson, does not intend to allow sweeping allegations of political censorship in prior years to go unchecked.
“In case there was any doubt, Big Tech is on notice. We do not intend to take our foot off the gas any time soon. The days of censorship and monopolies are over,” a senior FTC official told the Caller.
The document asks Americans if they have ever been suspended, banned, shadow banned, or otherwise received degraded services by technology platforms after sharing their opinions. It also suggests that users may have been punished by Big Tech companies for activities or groups they engaged with outside of those platforms.
“Comments from the public help us learn about new technologies and business practices, consider diverse points of view, and improve the quality of our policy-making, law enforcement and education efforts,” the FTC’s website says.
The FTC also wants to hear from employees of tech firms who have witnessed instances of censorship.
The FTC notes in the draft document that Big Tech companies may use “opaque or unpredictable” internal policies — separate from the company’s official terms of service — to censor Americans’ speech. Big Tech companies, the FTC explains, may also censor Americans without proper notice or an explanation of what they did wrong, and may not give them a meaningful opportunity to appeal content moderation decisions made by the platforms.
Such practices, the FTC warns, could constitute illegal anti-competitive behavior.
The FTC’s request for public comment asks users if Big Tech companies were motivated to censor them in response to pressure from local, state or federal governments. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 2/20/2025) (Archive)
BREAKING: Dept. of Education Operating as Rogue ‘Sanctuary Program’ for Illegal Immigrants, Hiding Secrets from @DOGE and Congress on Encrypted App
“If Congress actually knew that we don’t have [citizenship requirements] … there would be a lot of uproar…”
“If you want to have a conversation with somebody, you do have to take it offline, but you’re not supposed to. So, everybody uses… an app called Signal now.”
🚨BREAKING: Dept. of Education Operating as Rogue ‘Sanctuary Program’ for Illegal Immigrants, Hiding Secrets from @DOGE and Congress on Encrypted App
“If Congress actually knew that we don’t have [citizenship requirements] … there would be a lot of uproar…”
I am honored to be confirmed as the ninth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Thank you to President Trump and Attorney General Bondi for your unwavering confidence and support.
The FBI has a storied legacy—from the “G-Men” to safeguarding our nation in the wake of 9/11. The American people deserve an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice. The politicalization of our justice system has eroded public trust—but that ends today.
My mission as Director is clear: let good cops be cops—and rebuild trust in the FBI.
Working alongside the dedicated men and women of the Bureau and our partners, we will rebuild an FBI the American people can be proud of.
And to those who seek to harm Americans—consider this your warning. We will hunt you down in every corner of this planet.
As the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health get the DOGE-treatment, scientists are filled with dread.
Before COVID, Americans generally trusted its scientists.
Post-COVID, Americans’ trust in science has declined significantly. In 2023, only 57% of American adults said science had a “mostly positive” effect on society, down 16 percentage points from pre-pandemic levels. The percentage of Americans with strong trust in scientists fell from 39% in 2020 to 23%.
Now two of the major institutions funding American science are receiving the DOGE- treatment, as the Department of Government Efficiency staff has begun looking at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health. There appears to be an effort to streamline and refocus these groups so they support actual science rather than narrative support.
NSF has already terminated 168 probationary employees, representing approximately 10% of its workforce.
The National Science Foundation fired 170 probationary employees and experts Tuesday as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce, the agency confirmed.
In a written statement, NSF spokesman Mike England pointed to President Donald Trump’s executive order last week that included plans to reduce the size of the federal workforce as part of the work of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
“To ensure compliance with this E.O. the National Science Foundation has released 168 employees from Federal service effective today,” England said Tuesday. “We thank these employees for their service to NSF and their contributions to advance the agency mission.”
And as those probationary employees were hired under the Biden administration, the move is likely to benefit real science.
NSF grants are also being targeted, especially if they contain the hallmarks of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion.
Many grants seem to be in jeopardy. Nature recently reported that roughly 10,000 existing grants were marked for potential cancellation given their inclusion of keywords like “women” and “people of color,” which are targeted in the Trump Administration rollback of DEI initiatives.
During the Biden-Harris administration, the proportion of @NSF funding allocated to DEI efforts increased by over 9210% from 2021 to 2024, rising from 0.29% to 27.21%. @DOGEpic.twitter.com/g3FE5ymDMY
At the National Institutes of Health, the fun is just getting started. DOGE has proposed drastic cuts to NIH research funding, reducing “indirect costs” to 15% of previous levels.
One complaint is that grant recipients, such as our woke universities, receive this money supposedly to cover the practical costs related to the research (e.g., light and heat for the laboratory facility), but not the research itself—to 15%. However, these indirect costs are often nearly a substantial portion of the grant and can be used to support non-scientific endeavors that might otherwise be unsustainable.
For example. the ever-expanding administrative state associated with universities. “Indirect costs” cover:
General administration
Accounting and financial management
Human resources
Legal affairs
Grant administration
How many of these are DEI-activists supporting the progressive antics at their institutions? And how many thwart the hiring of scientists whose research may challenge the current orthodoxy related to climate, gender, and other critical fields?
Leland Dudek was an obscure bureaucrat at the Social Security Administration who dedicated his career to stopping fraud. But when he worked with the Department of Government Efficiency to do just that, he came close to being fired.
“At 4:30pm EST, my boss called me to tell me I had been placed on administrative leave pending an Investigation,” Dudek wrote on LinkedIn. “They want to fire me for cooperating with DOGE,” he wrote in a now-deleted post obtained by The Daily Wire.
Michelle King (Credit: public domain)
Then, a stunning reversal occurred. It was Acting Social Security Commissioner Michelle King who was out of a job. And Dudek was reinstated with a big promotion — taking her job leading the massive agency on an interim basis.
The Washington Post reported that King exited the agency after refusing to let DOGE access agency data and was replaced by Dudek. But it has not been reported that managers at the agency had moved to punish Dudek as he cooperated with the efficiency czars.
The LinkedIn post said “I confess. I helped DOGE understand SSA. I mailed myself publicly accessible documents and explained them to DOGE. I confess. I moved contractor money around to add data science resources to my anti-fraud team. I confess. I asked where the fat was and is in our contracts so we can make the right tough choices.”
Gina Clemons (Credit: public domain)
“I confess. I bullied agency executives, shared executive contact information, and circumvented the chain of command to connect DOGE with the people who get stuff done,” it continued. “Everything I have ever done is in service to our country, our beneficiaries, and our agency.”
The Social Security Administration and the White House did not return requests for comment. A SSA employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Daily Wire that the person who put Dudek on leave was Gina Clemons, Deputy Commissioner for Analytics, Review, and Oversight, and that she is still on the job.
Dudek, a career civil servant, is an example of how there are a few fiscally conscious longtime government employees, and how the Trump administration and DOGE can maximize their impact by joining forces with people who know where the bodies are buried. (Read more: The Daily Wire, 2/20/2025)(Archive)
Jeffrey Sachs just told the European Parliament that Jake Sullivan privately admitted what he refused to acknowledge publicly—a simple truth about NATO that could have averted the Ukraine war. Utterly damning. Everything Sullivan touches turns into chaos, destruction and misery. pic.twitter.com/1UY05fs7s9
October 22, 2024 – Jeffery Sachs: This is not an attack by Putin on Ukraine in the way that we are told every day. Professor Jeffrey Sachs discusses the cause of the Ukraine war during Q&A in the Debating Chamber of Cambridge Union Society on October 22, 2024. The topic of discussion was about “whether there can ever truly be a liberal international order?”
Earlier today President Trump confronted Maine Governor Janet Mills for undermining women and keeping men in women’s sports.
Heated exchange between President Trump and Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) over executive order banning transgender women in sports.
Trump: “Are you not going to comply with that?”
Mills: “I’m complying with state and federal laws.”
Trump: “We are the federal law. You better do it, because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t…your population doesn’t want men playing in women’s sports…”
Mills: “See you in court.”
Trump: “Good. I’ll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be an easy one. And enjoy your life after governor, because I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics.”
Boom! In 2024, the brother of Maines Governor, Janet Mills, helped transfer a nine-acre black market cannabis grow to a Chinese national living in Guangdong province amidst the proliferation of illegal Chinese marijuana grows in Maine. Her brother did this 13 days after it was raided by DHS agents.
According to a leaked Department of Homeland Security memo, Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) control and operate more than 270 illegal marijuana cultivation and trafficking facilities throughout Maine, and the proceeds from those illicit activities are used to finance fentanyl trafficking, human trafficking, and other illegal activities.
A Chinese national living in the Guangdong Province, China, became the proud owner of the “fixer upper” in Penobscot County in thanks, in part, to title transfer services provided by Paul H. Mills, the eldest brother of Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D).
Paul Mills, 71, is the founder and managing partner of the Mills & Mills law firm, located at 163 Main Street in Farmington. People familiar with the real estate transfer process in Penobscot County said it would be uncommon for Mills — or any attorney based in Franklin County — to handle title transfers in Corinna.
H/T @bigsteve207
There’s tons more in this article on Maine Governor, Janet Mills, brother and the Cannabis field sale only 13 days after the DHS raid.https://t.co/csAUCH3dPC
Chinese Consul General in New York, Ping Huang, attended Maine Governor, Janet Mills, 2019 inauguration.
Huang visited the state of Maine to promote China-U.S. ties by tapping regional cooperation potential between the two countries.
Gov. Janet Mills, was once rated by a People’s Republic of China-linked think tank as one of America’s most pro-China governors.
She must be very helpful for ancient Chinese business
Maine Governor, Janet Mills, allows her states schools to collude with the Chinese Communist Party! As found during a PDE Action “Little Red Classrooms” investigation!
This investigation ended in July 2023. As of July 2024 Oxford Hills School District in Maine, still collaborated with the Confucius Institute.
Letter drafted to Janet Mills:
“The Maine Department of Education and Oxford Hills School District forged ties with Chinese government backed programs.
PDE Action respectfully requested the Office of the Governor of Maine to investigate ties between Maine’s public school system and Chinese government sponsored programs, such as Confucius Classrooms. While it’s vital for American students to have opportunities to learn world languages and cultures, schools should not give the Chinese government unfettered access to K-12 classrooms. This has the potential of posing significant security risks to students, families, and our national interest.
Maine Governor, Janet Mills, subjects children to the Chinese Communist Party. Aka the Confucius Institute.
DOJ says the judge handling Talbott v. Trump, a case dealing with Trump’s EO on trans-identifying service members, “engaged in hostile and egregious misconduct” towards its attorneys – suggesting bias + disrespect towards the DOJ position/ imperiling a fair weighing of their case.
BREAKING: DOJ says the judge handling Talbott v. Trump, a case dealing with Trump’s EO on trans-identifying service members, “engaged in hostile and egregious misconduct” towards its attorneys – suggesting bias + disrespect towards the DOJ position/ imperiling a fair weighing of… pic.twitter.com/VNYrK0s8am
This research from @IanCarrollShow on USAID funding is INSANE:
Ian says roughly 93% of USAID funding is estimated to be fraud
– Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and their friends appear to be the top money laundering recipients
– The majority of sub awards being given out by USAID are all just transporting pharmaceutical products all around the world to all sorts of developing nations
– It’s mostly AIDS drugs (More AIDS drugs than you could ever imagine an entire planet needing)
– The main company transporting all these pharmaceuticals all around the world, “ONLY 7% OF THE HEALTH COMMODITY SHIPMENTS DELIVERED THROUGH THIS PROGRAM ARRIVED AT THEIR DESTINATION” on time and in full
– This means that 93% of the shipments they sent in that quarter either arrived incomplete or did not arrive within the 21 day window allotted and agreed to by the buyer
– There was a contract to build a power plant in Afghanistan that was paid for through USAID, it was never finished. “it’s producing 2% of the power it was intended to generate”
– This happened when Hillary Clinton led the State Department
“The company’s CEO was indicted for siphoning money from USAID reconstruction contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, because that’s what USAID is for, it’s for Hillary Clinton’s friends to siphon money out into their own pockets.”
You’re never going to believe this,
– The firm that built that power plant that never got finished and doesn’t work, they’re represented by John Podesta and his lobbying group (This man was heavily involved in the PizzaGate Scandals)
– It goes on to talk about how Podesta was tasked to come up with these sustainable development goals for this Council of International Development Companies
– One of those companies was that’s the largest recipient of USAID money there is
– That same company thrived during Clinton’s tenure, nabbing more contracts during the Haiti reconstruction effort than any other company
After the disasters in Haiti they moved to Afghanistan
– This same company continued to win lucrative USAID contracts in 2011 in Afghanistan
– The project was intended to create 300,000 jobs by 2013. After two years, it had only created 2,458 jobs
– In May 2009, it won a $90 million contract to grow exports and employment in the Pakistan economy
Get this, “The USAID Inspector General found no measurable increase in sales or employment after the first two years of the project.” But they’re still allowed to be the largest recipient of USAID money??
Also
– They were bribing the Taliban with our tax dollars not to attack their projects, “They were giving money to the Taliban basically as a protection racket”
“This is the Deep State. It’s been being built over the last 20 years, ever since Bill Clinton’s time and even before, out of these proxy companies, these non-government organizations, these charitable organizations, all these shadow kind of organizations that you don’t know about, that we don’t elect, that are some of them private, some of them public, all of them in the shadows. Just wheelin’ and dealin’ billions and billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer money that just goes into the black box of aid and then never heard from again.”
Ohh, and Pfizer is the 2nd largest recipient of USAID…..
This research from @IanCarrollShow on USAID funding is INSANE:
Ian says roughly 93% of USAID funding is estimated to be fraud
– Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and their friends appear to be the top money laundering recipients
– The majority of sub awards being given out by USAID… pic.twitter.com/4OqEQ101lt
John Brennan, whose security clearance was revoked by Trump for lying to the American people in order to interfere in an election — — is “very concerned” about DOGE, Kash Patel and Pam Bondi. “I’m on Kash Patel’s enemies list.”
🚨John Brennan, whose security clearance was revoked by Trump for lying to the American people in order to interfere in an election —
— is “very concerned” about DOGE, Kash Patel and Pam Bondi.
CNN now says that “top leadership” at the CIA are worried anti-Trump personnel may by motivated to sell out America to a foreign power.
In other words, the people who created the Russia Hoax might now sell America’s secrets to Russia — and then CNN will be there to blame Trump.
CNN now says that “top leadership” at the CIA are worried anti-Trump personnel may by motivated to sell out America to a foreign power.
In other words, the people who created the Russia Hoax might now sell America’s secrets to Russia — and then CNN will be there to blame Trump. pic.twitter.com/uYskrz8Qeg
The same intelligence community that pushed the Russia Hoax now admits anti-Trump operatives inside the CIA might betray the U.S. to a foreign power. And guess what? CNN is already spinning it to blame Trump.
The Deep State spent years lying about “Russian collusion,” and now its own agents are the ones under suspicion. You can’t make this up. The real question is: Who are these people actually loyal to?
The same intelligence community that pushed the Russia Hoax now admits anti-Trump operatives inside the CIA might betray the U.S. to a foreign power. And guess what? CNN is… pic.twitter.com/ltpfOiM6B8
There are those that say all government aid is a scam in one way or another, and so far the revelations surrounding USAID are proving those people right daily. Democrats and the establishment media, in a bid to muddy the waters and save face, continue to claim that there was never any fraud at USAID and that the Trump Administration is simply labeling projects they “disagree with” as suspect.
Of course, spending American tax dollars on projects the public never asked for and were never told about is the epitome of fraud, and waste is never a good thing. Beyond that, the question of billions in missing funds certainly falls into the category of criminality.
Trump has taken a lot of heat from the media with the shut down of USAID and much of the criticism suggests that without US funds people in third world countries will fall back into desperation. The Washington Post recently claimed that Trump’s cuts to USAID are a “gift to Haitian gangs” terrorizing the locals; a typical leftist appeal to emotion that assumes most of the funds were getting to the Haitians in the first place.
Yet another example of this problem has been revealed in a New York Postexpose on the audit of USAID which shows a disturbing shortfall in funds surrounding ongoing relief projects in Haiti. The Post notes:
“Since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed as many as 300,000 people, the US government has disbursed around $4.4 billion in foreign assistance to the small island nation.
At least $1.5 billion was disbursed for immediate humanitarian aid, while another $3 billion went to recovery, reconstruction and development.
Of the at least $2.13 billion in contracts and grants for Haiti-related work, less than $50 million, or 2% went to Haitian organizations or firms. By comparison, $1.3 billion, or 56%, has gone to firms located in or near the US capitol. Little wonder USAID is so threatened by the sudden scrutiny.
It remains unclear how exactly the billions have been spent and whether US tax dollars have had a sustainable impact. USAID and its vendors have generally failed to make such data public…”
The exposure of USAID by DOGE actually confirms long running suspicions of mishandled aid. Some Haitian reporters warned about this disappearing money years ago under the Obama Administration. USAID funds to Haiti were dispersed in part through the Clinton Foundation.
Elon Musk just shared details on the USAID Haiti Scam exposing “$4.4B SPENT, SIX HOMES BUILT”
Of all the contracts, “Haitian companies got just 2%”
2016 Haitian Reporter, “The whole world has given billions.” They say Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton stole it
The lack of funding transparency was also noted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2023. Though, not surprisingly, the impotent agency did nothing about it. The GAO stated in their analysis of USAID activities in Haiti:
“The USAID mission in Haiti does not fully track data on its local partnerships, or its activities to strengthen local organizational capacity, which limits institutional knowledge about these efforts and understanding of results and lessons learned to inform future activities.”
“The Administrator of USAID should ensure that USAID/Haiti develops a process to track and assess consistent and complete results information for infrastructure activities, such as the final outputs, outcomes, costs, time frames, and lessons learned.”
“The Administrator of USAID should ensure that USAID/Haiti establishes a process to completely and consistently track and analyze data on awards made to local organizations, such as the amount and percent of total funding awarded and the percent of total awards provided to these organizations.”
Of the five “recommendations for executive action” put forward by the GAO for USAID, two are marked as “completed”. Transparency was never achieved and no one was held accountable. The question is, if only 2% of the $4.4 billion allotted for Haitian relief was actually used in Haiti, where did the rest of the money go? (Read more: Zero Hedge, 2/22/2025)(Archive)
YOU PAID FOR IT BUT NOT ANYMORE! Partial list of Projects USAID, the wasteful unaccountable government agency ended by DOGE and Elon Musk!
– $10 million of meals going to an al Qaeda-linked TERRORIST GROUP
$5 million to one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab (EcoHealth Alliance)
$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
$43 million for a gas station in Afghanistan with no customers
– $20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax
$7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language”
– $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium”
– $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
– $4.5 million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan
– $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities”
– $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles”
– $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society”
– $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia
– $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” and $16.8 million for a SEPARATE “inclusion” group in Vietnam
– $5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab
– $1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group”
– $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica
– $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America
– $500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel (just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack)
– $2.3 million for “artisanal and small scale gold mining” in the Amazon
– $3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans
– $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda
– $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world”
– $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa
– $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion”
YOU PAID FOR IT BUT NOT ANYMORE! Partial list of Projects USAID, the wasteful unaccountable government agency ended by DOGE and Elon Musk! – $10 million of meals going to an al Qaeda-linked TERRORIST GROUP $5 million to one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan…
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is being accused of a potential conflict of interest by an ethics watchdog. (Credit: Getty Images)
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is being accused of violating ethics rules after backing laws that financially benefited his wife’s environmental organization.
The Democratic senator and climate hawk voted for key laws that provided funding for grants to the environmental non-profit group that works with his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, and pays her through a consulting firm.
The ethics watchdog, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), is asking the Senate Select Committee on Ethics Chairman James Lankford, R-Okla., and Vice Chairman Chris Coons, D-Del., to investigate Whitehouse “to determine whether he violated the Senate ethics rules on conflicts of interest.” The group works primarily to draw attention to potential Democratic lawmaker ethics violations.
Whitehouse’s wife, Sandra, is employed as president of consulting firm Ocean Wonks LLC and has been since 2017, per her LinkedIn page. Before that, she was a direct employee of Ocean Conservancy, serving as Senior Policy Adviser beginning in 2008.
Ocean Conservancy has received more than $14.2 million in federal grants since 2008, per USASpending.gov. During 2024 alone, it was given two sizable grants, one for $5.2 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for marine debris cleanup in September and another for $1.7 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), again to assist with marine debris cleanup.
The former was funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) championed by the Biden administration and voted for by Sen. Whitehouse. The latter was funded through the EPA’s annual appropriations bill, which Whitehouse also voted for. (Read more: Fox News, 2/25/2025)(Archive)
EXCLUSIVE: @GrossmanHannah and I have obtained logs from the NSA’s secret transgender sex chatroom, in which NSA, CIA, and DIA employees discuss genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs—all on government time.
One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves surgically removing the penis and turning it into an artificial vagina. These male intelligence agents love the feeling of penetration and of peeing with their pseudo-vaginas. pic.twitter.com/kw7JsbF8Te
One NSA official claims to use “it/its” pronouns, meaning that this person does not identify as a human, but rather, feels like a sexless, genderless thing. Other intel employees defend the usage of “it/itself” pronouns, claiming that not using them amounts to trans “erasure.” pic.twitter.com/dMI1ZClejg
SCOOP: @TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA’s “obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit” chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.
Tulsi Gabbard’s directive aligns with broader efforts to purge corruption from federal agencies. The Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2025 (H.R.80) already targets security clearances for former intel officials who weaponized their positions during the Hunter Biden laptop disinformation campaign.
While Gabbard’s specific memo isn’t detailed in current legislative text, it mirrors H.R.80’s aggressive posture against bureaucratic rot. The DRAIN THE SWAMP Act similarly forces decentralization of federal power by relocating 30% of DC-based bureaucrats – a structural reset long overdue.
These moves expose a pattern: DC’s permanent class uses taxpayer resources for political warfare rather than national service. Accountability is non-negotiable.
Tulsi Gabbard’s directive aligns with broader efforts to purge corruption from federal agencies. The Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2025 (H.R.80) already targets security clearances for former intel officials who weaponized their positions during the Hunter Biden…
TSA Under Biden Focused on Speeding Up Checkpoints for Illegal Aliens Without IDs, Not National Security
During the Biden Administration, expediting TSA security checkpoints took precedence over national security concerns. Through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit I filed after TSA stonewalled my initial request—I’ve exclusively obtained the protocols that allowed illegal aliens to board commercial flights with IDs under Biden’s watch. TSA officials claimed these documents didn’t exist during his tenure, but the Trump Administration has since granted me access to this information.
On March 26, 2021, TSA issued “a revised Operations Directive to address a significant increase in the number of non-U.S. citizens at certain airports who do not have acceptable ID documents.”
The OD added a series of DHS-provided documents that were suddenly acceptable for illegal aliens traveling without IDs. Here’s the list of those documents that were suddenly deemed acceptable:
-Warrant for Arrest of Alien
-Warrant of Removal/Deportation
-Order of Removal on Recognizance
-Order of Supervision
-Notice to Appear
-Arrival and Departure Form
-Alien Booking Record
These documents could be displayed electronically at TSA security checkpoints, meaning an illegal alien could present a photo or screenshot on their device, and TSA agents were permitted to grant them passage.
On April 2021, TSA rolled out a CBP One Pilot program. That program was led by Director of Aviation Coordination Julian E Williams and Director of Capability Management and Innovation Requirements and Capability Analysis Melissa Conley.
The primary goal of the pilot program wasn’t tied to national security but rather to reduce wait times at TSA security checkpoints. This focus is emphasized repeatedly throughout the Concept of Operations.
In the document, TSA says the influx of illegals without IDs “places a severe burden on TSA checkpoints when attempting to vet multiple individuals.”
The document goes on to brag about reducing the wait times since rolling this pilot program out, “use of CBP OneTM also resulted in an efficiency improvement in process cycle time over the IVCC procedures. The average cycle time for ID verification with CBP OneTMwas 1.48 minutes as compared to an average IVCC cycle time of 12.87 minutes, an 88.50% reduction of average cycle time per individual.““CBP OneTM, TSA partnered with CBP to investigate adapting the app for use by TSA as a viable, effective, and efficient operational alternative solution to validate travel documentation for adult non-U.S. citizens with valid boarding passes who are not in possession of acceptable travel documents and are subject to ID validation.”
The pilot program allowed “TSA personnel use a TSA-issued smartphone equipped with the CBP OneTM app to take a photograph of that individual and transmit the biometric through the app for comparison with CBP records.”
The CBP One Pilot also advised illegal aliens that the capturing of their facial biometrics was optional. According to the Patriot Act, all non-U.S. citizens must submit their biometrics to DHS.
Here are a list of the airports that participated in the Pilot Program for CBP One:
-Alexandria International Airport, Louisiana (AEX)
-Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Texas (AUS)
-Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Texas (DFW)
-Denver International Airport, Colorado (DEN)
-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Florida (FLL)
-George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Texas (IAH)
-Miami International Airport, Florida (MIA)
-Monroe Regional Airport, Louisiana (MLU)
-Palm Springs International Airport, California (PSP)
-Shreveport Regional Airport, Louisiana (SHV)
-YumaInternationalAirport,Arizona(NYL)
The Biden administration jeopardized national security by dispersing unvetted illegal aliens across the country. How many terrorists might now reside among us? We could learn the answer through harsh consequences if the Trump administration fails to swiftly locate those spread nationwide during Biden’s tenure.
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🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
TSA Under Biden Focused on Speeding Up Checkpoints for Illegal Aliens Without IDs, Not National Security
During the Biden Administration, expediting TSA security checkpoints took precedence over national security concerns. Through a Freedom of Information Act… pic.twitter.com/LcTwORiWqy
@TSA has a policy effective February 2021 if you enter the country illegally during the Biden/Harris regime- the illegal alien does NOT have to show any government ID. (View video)
You can be a gang member of Tren De Aragua from Venezuela or Los Lobos from Ecuador or MS 13 from El Salvador or FARC member from Colombia or an Islamic jihadist from the middle east.
This is the new build back better @TSA. What could go wrong. Don’t ask any questions you dirty American!! #TSA #sanantonioairport
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) revealed during a Breitbart Fight Club Roundtable on Sunday that four separate federal agencies were investigating the Biden family but were told to stand down.
Comer spoke with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and Peter Schweizer, the president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and a Breitbart News senior contributor, about the Kentucky congressman’s book, All the President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes That Made the Biden Family Rich, which details his work to investigate the allegations of corruption, influence peddling, and money laundering surrounding the Biden family.
Marlow said it appears the Justice Department protected the Biden family “to an extent that I wasn’t aware of based off of the revelations in your book.”
Comer said that multiple federal agencies were investigating the Bidens for multiple issues; however, they were told to stand down.
The Biden administration has failed to comply with the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into President Joe Biden’s mishandling of top secret documents after promising the “highest standards of transparency” in U.S. history. https://t.co/STNJ2s3Ef2
He explained, “In the book I detail this, but we found that there were four ongoing investigations from four different agencies into the Bidens. It was the Department of Justice in several jurisdictions, the FBI, the IRS and the Securities Exchange Commission [SEC], and then throw in Jim Biden using be invested by [Centers for] Medicare [and Medicaid Services] for Medicare fraud. I mean, all of these entities were looking into it. So when people say, How could they get away with this? They didn’t. Six different banks reported to Treasury [Department] that the Bidens were committing financial crimes six different things, then you have four different government agencies calling all of this, but in every instance, they were told to stand down.” (Read more: Breitbart News, 2/24/2025)(Archive)
The International Leadership School of Texas, with a campus at the illegal immigrant development of Colony Ridge, received funding from the Pentagon and support from the Chinese government.
🔥🔥Breaking! The Pentagon funds learning Mandarin at a school in the illegal alien encampment at Texas’s Colony Ridge. This school is accredited by the Chinese Communist Party’s ministry of education. https://t.co/X4vPlbqweS
The Chinese Communist Party runs Confucius Classrooms – the K-12 version of Confucius Institutes – at the International Leadership School of Texas, which built a fully-functioning campus at Colony Ridge before most of the houses went up. https://t.co/b5VePq6mQppic.twitter.com/lSWTvR8ec9
This is ridiculous, this lady was working as an advisor to the Biden White House, where she applied for a $20 billion dollar grant for environment justice and the Biden White House gave it to her. pic.twitter.com/OarGbLDY3z
Insurrection Barbie’s post exposes a staggering scandal—LaTricea Adams, a Biden White House environmental justice advisor, personally applied for and secured a $20 billion grant for her group under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, announced just last…
So let me get this straight, Latricia Adams, a former high school Spanish teacher with zero background in environmental science, somehow lands a $20 million government contract for “environmental justice” while working as a Biden White House advisor? And, of course, right before…
EXCLUSIVE: Eric Swalwell PANICS when I ask about his Chinese spy girlfriend Fang Fang, and whether that’s a bigger “national security threat” than Elon Musk
I sat next to a drunk Swalwell at dinner for 90 minutes. He was IMMEDIATELY compromised by a group of lobbyists he’d JUST MET, spilling intimate details about his job and asking for HELP CHEATING ON HIS WIFE.
MASSIVE national security threat. This guy should have his clearances revoked.
Swalwell spent his dinner bragging about “ORGlES” on Capitol Hill, telling them he’s bored of his wife and “only wants to f*ck tens.”
Worse, he spoke about ABUSlNG his power on the House Intel Committee (which he’s since been booted off of), saying he pushed to SUBPOENA Ivanka Trump because she’s “hot as f*ck”
THIS GUY MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE. He CANNOT keep his freaking mouth shut.
After I began questioning him, Swalwell jumped back into the group of lobbyists to hide from me, but I pressed on.
Dude looked absolutely TERRIFIED and 100% guilty. He knows he’s been caught.
More to come later. I have about an hour and a half of audio to go through 😉
And big shoutout to @LauraLoomer for assisting me with digging into this clown while I was focusing on listening in!
🚨 #BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Eric Swalwell PANICS when I ask about his Chinese spy girlfriend Fang Fang, and whether that’s a bigger “national security threat” than Elon Musk
I sat next to a drunk Swalwell at dinner for 90 minutes. He was IMMEDIATELY compromised by a group of… pic.twitter.com/DeZg3EJphW
This is when you got him Nick, the smirk and smile left his face the minute he knew you overheard he was cheating on his wife with only 10s. He hardly could move, he knew his marriage now is over. Can we get the names of all in congress on that shush fund list using our $? pic.twitter.com/FPtqPGKYgu
January 31, 2024 – A Capitol Hill intern tells James O’Keefe there are sex orgies in D.C. that are then used as leverage against congressional members and how they votehttps://t.co/4loOPmprf5
— Ultra Clinton/Govt Corruption Timelines (@clintonpay2play) February 26, 2025
New disclosure reveals that the Biden IRS leaked taxpayer information of over 405,000 Americans — including President Trump’s.
The IRS’s admission confirms the Committee’s suspicion and recent reports that show the scope of the leak was much broader than what the Biden Administration’s IRS initially led the public to believe.
In May 2024, an IRS spokesman stated that “[m]ore than 70,000” taxpayers were affected.
We found out that it’s actually over 405,000 taxpayers!
This is a MASSIVE scandal.
@Jim_Jordan first launched his inquiry into these leaks last year.
Getting answers for the American people!
🚨 #BREAKING: New disclosure reveals that the Biden IRS leaked taxpayer information of over 405,000 Americans — including President Trump’s.
The IRS’s admission confirms the Committee’s suspicion and recent reports that show the scope of the leak was much broader than what the… pic.twitter.com/3KKYL5bHET
NEW Bombshell DOGE Revelation! The Biden Administration Secretly Gave 400K Conservative Americans Tax Returns To A Soros Run Intelligence Operation Top So They Could BE Targeted And Harassed
This Is What Coordinated Government / Private Sector Weaponization Against The American… pic.twitter.com/cgb6V9DQUh
The broad portrait James Comey tries to paint is of President Trump as a president so far outside democratic norms that he is a danger to the republic as he regularly spouts conspiracy theories and untruths. (Credit: Getty Images)
FBI leadership is starting an investigation into the origins of the agency’s plan a decade ago to infiltrate the campaign of presidential candidate Donald Trump using two female undercover “honeypot” agents.
The off-the-books investigation, launched in 2015 by FBI Director James B. Comey, was revealed by an agency whistleblower in a protected disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee last year and first reported exclusively by The Washington Times in October.
In the intelligence community, a honeypot commonly refers to an undercover operative, usually a woman, who feigns sexual or romantic interest to obtain information from a target.
The whistleblower said two female FBI undercover employees infiltrated Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff.
The Times has learned that the bureau, now led by Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is looking for those once-undercover employees under Mr. Comey’s direction.
The FBI declined to comment.
According to the whistleblower disclosure, which The Times reviewed, the investigation differed from Crossfire Hurricane, a later FBI counterintelligence operation that looked into never-proved allegations that the campaign was colluding with Russia. (Read more: Washington Times, 2/25/2025)(Archive)
It’s OVER for James Comey…
“Jim…if you get this message…get ready…because you’re going jail…UNLESS…you give up someone bigger and deeper in this than even you…and you know exactly who I’m talking about…” -General Flynn pic.twitter.com/ZBfgOGwRTI
A former ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021 and helped secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities.
As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023.
Since March 2024, HHS has paid ~$18M/month to keep the Pecos facility open despite sitting empty.
Family Endeavors facility
With national licensed facility occupancy now below 20%, HHS was able to terminate this contract, saving taxpayers over $215M annually.
A former ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021 and helped secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities.
As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020… pic.twitter.com/KacroxqRcl
Endeavors CEO, Chip Fulghum was CFO of Department of Homeland Security and after hiring Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, a former Biden transition team member, they secured the $18m/month no-bid contract in 2021 from HHS.https://t.co/ZSKajk9K3Lpic.twitter.com/7RU0cbbA4j
The Emdeavors website lists Pamela Bethel on its leadership page.
And @DallasFed has a lawyer named Pamela Bethel working for it (per article by @bankersdigest)
The corruption runs deep!https://t.co/p0ZqwLXBB9
“There’s a much easier way to earn $2 Billion than caring for 80,000 kids…”
“Cherokee Nation is not this benevolent humanitarian actor. They make most of their money with alcohol and gambling.”
“It’s been f***ed up, but it’s been a boom for my business.”
During conversations with an undercover Veritas journalist, former Biden transition team official, Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, tells of his legacy in the immigration space. He confesses his role is described by critics as a “corrupt bargain.” Lorenzen-Strait explains how he brokered a $2 billion-dollar contract between the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Cherokee Federal, a tribal-owned federal contractor arm of the Cherokee Nation, to manage post-relief migrant care and the relocation of unaccompanied migrant children despite Cherokee Federal having no previous experience with migrant care.
Mr. Lorenzen-Strait, a principal of Deep Water Associates, celebrates brokering the second largest HHS award in history, helping facilitate a change in Cherokee Federal’s focus from “alcohol and gambling” to “caring for 80,000 kids.” Lorenzen-Strait was previously the subject of a Congressional investigation by House and Senate Republicans, as well as federal investigations by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, due to his role in brokering multiple deals with the Biden administration after leaving the transition team. Amid these investigations, he resigned as senior director for migrant services and federal affairs at Endeavors, a non-governmental organization (NGO).
Veritas’ HHS Whistleblower, Tara Rodas, joined us to share her expertise working with Endeavors. Incidentally, Endeavors was the entity which served as a federal contractor at the Pomona Fairplex Emergency Intake Site in California. Rodas was deployed there as a volunteer of Operation Artemis to help the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement reunite unaccompanied migrant children with sponsors in the U.S. She comments that Mr. Lorenzen-Strait admits, while they are not experts in the field, they are somehow able to “go around regular contracting rules to give a contract in an emergency to people who were not experts in the job they were supposed to be doing.” Rodas added, “[t]hat is stunning and absolutely appalling. It is still stunning to me that people believe kids are commodities.”
The amount of federal money awarded to the contractors and their staff is startling. According to Rodas, for example, one Cherokee Federal executive, Dan Guinan, was paid over $51,000. An emergency intake site is funded in six-month periods. This specific contract between Cherokee Federal and the government was over $600M for that brief period. The contracts and executive salaries are publicly available at www.usaspending.gov. Project Veritas is continuing to investigate these organizations. This story is not over! Stay tuned.
STATEMENT FROM VERITAS CEO, HANNAH GILES:
Project Veritas has shed light on the vast network of federally funded immigration contracts that use billions of taxpayer dollars to manage this nation’s border crisis. Our journalists caught former Biden Transition Official, Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, walking us through these “corrupt bargain” deals that have a direct impact on unaccompanied minors.
BREAKING — The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower judge’s order mandating the Trump administration to release billions in U.S. foreign aid. pic.twitter.com/UNLbpfbPc2
One of President Joe Biden’s final judicial nominees has put a temporary injunction on Donald Trump’s attempts to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Newsweek sought email comment from USAID and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday.
Some Republican senators were openly angry after Amir Ali was confirmed as a Washington, D.C. federal judge in November, two weeks after Trump was elected president.
On February 13, Ali temporarily blocked Trump’s order to defund the international aid agency, USAID.
Ali placed a temporary injunction on Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others in the Trump administration, at the request of two aid agencies that receive funding from USAID, AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and Global Health Council.
February 25, 2025
JUST IN: Judge Amir Ali, a crooked Biden appointee, just ordered President Trump to release billions in foreign aid within the next 48 hours or else…
This is the ruling that this administration MUST IGNORE. Republican Congress members should be drafting articles of impeachment… pic.twitter.com/L4wgY3j7iU
At least Haley Joel Osment only saw dead people; our federal government pays them. DOGE adviser Elon Musk set off another furor by posting a screenshot of a Social Security database showing millions of Americans still “alive” past age 130—suggesting they might still be “collecting” checks. Donald Trump piled on, slamming “fraudulent” payments to “200”-year-olds. The media pushed back, saying the Social Security list reflected antiquated coding and incomplete death information—and did not reflect who was actually receiving benefits.
Who’s correct? Both. It’s true the Musk screenshot doesn’t tell us exactly who is getting checks.
At the same time, Musk is highlighting a real problem. Yes, the federal government sends out huge sums annually to the dearly departed. Worse, the bureaucracy has known of this problem for at least 15 years, yet had done little to fix it until a recent push from Congress. And if anything, Musk is just skimming the target. When it comes to paying dead people, the Social Security Administration is far from the worst offender.
Here’s a breakdown of the vampire-check mess, just one example of how and why our federal government today swims in waste and fraud:
This is a longstanding—and documented—problem. As early as 2010, the late, great Sen. Tom Coburn issued a report (“Federal Programs to Die For”) spotlighting at least a billion dollars in payments made to deceased people over the prior decade. Subsequent reports from a slew of government watchdogs reiterated the problem. The issue got a bit more attention in the wake of the Covid stimulus payments, $3.5 billion of which (2.2 million payments) ultimately flowed to the unearthly. Yet it continues: the U.S. sent out nearly $1 billion to dead people in 2021 and 2022 alone.
Social Security at least has data. For all Social Security’s problems, it has the best data on who lives and who doesn’t, in the form of a Death Master File (yes, that is a thing), compiled via state agencies that supply constantly updated death records. While Social Security does mistakenly pay out to deceased beneficiaries, its inspector general reports that many of Social Security’s $72 billion in improper payments from fiscal 2015 to 2022 were erroneous overpayments to living people.
Hands off my death list. The far bigger problem is that the Treasury Department until recently did not have access to Social Security’s master list, and so was unable to add the names of the deceased to its do-not-pay system, which other agencies use. Consider the staggering scope of the checks that continue to flow to deceased people in the absence of that data. Checks to pay heating-oil costs, housing subsidies, disability insurance, pensions, farming subsidies, and Medicare claims, disaster aid, veteran’s benefits, food assistance, to name a few. Why didn’t Treasury have access to this info? Fabulous question, and one that continues to befuddle even lawmakers.
Congressional action. The Covid embarrassment did at least help Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy on his yearslong campaign to get action. Legislation he co-authored with then-Sen. Tom Carper became law in late 2020 and gave Treasury access to the Social Security file. But compromises watered it down to a “pilot program” that didn’t go into effect until the end of 2023 and will sunset at the end of 2026. Treasury last month reported progress, saying five months of access to the Death Master File had prevented or recovered $31 million in payments to deceased people, calling it “the tip of the iceberg.”
Next steps. In an example of how Congress can work alongside DOGE, Kennedy and Sen. Gary Peters several weeks ago reintroduced their bill to make the death-file sharing permanent (it unanimously passed committee last year but never got a vote in Chuck Schumer’s Senate). “This isn’t a silver bullet to fix all improper payments,” a Kennedy aide tells me. “It’s just one very good step, and frankly one that it shouldn’t have been on us to take. There’s a complete lack of logic and efficiency in these agencies.”This study in government noncommunication is just one example of how our bureaucratic dysfunction results in fraud and improper payments of as much as some $500 billion annually. If Musk’s DOGE really wants to find that $1 trillion in savings, it would do well to start systematically highlighting the fraud and waste numbers associated with big programs like Medicaid or the earned-income tax credit. It could go a long way in helping congressional Republicans sell long-term reforms to those and other programs. (Read more: Wall Street Journal, 2/27/2025)
President Trump & AG Pam Bondi committed to releasing the Epstein files.
The FBI was told to deliver the files to Bondi.
They did, about 200 pages.
Bondi smelled a rat, because there was nothing juicy in the 200 pages, just flight logs & a Rolodex of phone numbers. No “smoking gun.”
Still, Bondi promised to release the documents, so she prepared a binder of them.
THEN, last night a whistleblower contacted Bondi & revealed that the SDNY was hiding potentially thousands of Epstein files, defying Bondi’s order to give them all to her.
We’re talking recordings, evidence, etc. The juicy stuff. Names.
These swamp creatures at SDNY deceived Bondi, Kash, and YOU.
Be outraged that the binder is boring. You should be. Because the evil deep state LIED TO YOUR FACE.
The binder is powerful because it’s tangible physical evidence of the disgusting stunt the SDNY tried to pull.
Bondi is now demanding ALL the Epstein evidence from SDNY plus an investigation into the persons who committed this act of defiance.
The legacy media has betrayed you again and again and again. They lie to you. They smear you. They gaslight you. They deserve no special access to realtime exposure of corruption… because they played a role in covering it up in the first place!
You are the media, Elon said. Yes, we are. So celebrate the regular people are being given access to the most powerful people in our country to report on despicable corruption as it’s being uncovered in realtime.
And be very, very angry that deep state agents in the swamp at the SDNY are at this very moment defying President Trump & AG Bondi & you who voted him into office, lying, and hiding the truth about Jeffrey Epstein because they don’t want their own corruption & weaponization of govt exposed.
That’s the story.
This is the story:
President Trump & AG Pam Bondi committed to releasing the Epstein files.
The FBI was told to deliver the files to Bondi.
They did, about 200 pages.
Bondi smelled a rat, because there was nothing juicy in the 200 pages, just flight logs & a Rolodex of phone…
Liz Wheeler lays it out perfectly — this is exactly how the deep state operates when its own corruption is on the verge of being exposed. Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Trump ordered full transparency on the Epstein files, and instead of complying, the swamp rats at SDNY went into full cover-up mode, handing over a sanitized 200-page file with nothing but basic flight logs and a few contact lists. They thought they could get away with it.
The only reason the truth is coming out now is because a whistleblower had the courage to expose the fact that SDNY was hiding thousands of pages of real evidence — recordings, documents, and the names the public was never supposed to see. That wasn’t just bureaucratic incompetence; it was intentional obstruction, all to protect the same corrupt elite class that’s been using government agencies as their personal shield for decades.
This goes beyond Epstein. This is about the permanent political class — the same corrupt establishment that worked overtime to protect Hunter Biden, that weaponized the DOJ against Trump and his supporters, and that now stands exposed for burying the Epstein case to protect their own. This isn’t conspiracy theory. It’s documented proof that the so-called justice system under Biden was never about justice — it was about power, control, and protecting their own at all costs.
The outrage isn’t just justified — it’s necessary. Bondi’s demand for full disclosure and a full investigation into who orchestrated this cover-up is the bare minimum. The American people deserve to know who made the decision to withhold this evidence, who they were protecting, and why they were so terrified of these files becoming public.
The legacy media, of course, played their part. They ignored the story, downplayed the scandal, and smeared anyone who asked real questions. Now they want access to the very files they helped cover up? They deserve nothing. It’s independent voices and real citizen reporters who will expose the truth — and the deep state’s panic proves just how damaging that truth will be.
Liz Wheeler lays it out perfectly — this is exactly how the deep state operates when its own corruption is on the verge of being exposed. Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Trump ordered full transparency on the Epstein files, and instead of complying, the swamp rats at… pic.twitter.com/4QqfRrXGKq
There has been a significant shake-up within the FBI as one of its top officials has been forced out.
NBC News reported Monday that James Dennehy, the head of the FBI’s New York office, threw in the towel just days after his office was revealed to have been hiding thousands of Epstein documents.
“Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did,” Dennehy wrote in an email obtained by NBC. “I was not given a reason for this decision.”
Two sources confirmed to NBC that Dennehy was given the choice between getting fired or resigning. He chose the latter.
Elon Musk: I completely lost respect for Obama when he repeated the fine people lie knowing it’s false.
“A ton of people think that the Russia thing was real, still. The whole Steele dossier was completely concocted. The Clinton campaign funded a fake conspiracy theory, a fake Russia collusion hoax regarding Trump that was completely false.
The media also kept repeating the fine people hoax that said that Trump called neo-Nazis fine people, which is demonstrably false if you just listen to his speech. He absolutely makes it clear that he does not think neo-Nazis are fine people.
I just completely lost respect for Obama when he repeated that lie a few days before the election, knowing it’s false.”
The Joe Rogan Experience, February 28, 2025
Elon Musk: I completely lost respect for Obama when he repeated the fine people lie knowing it’s false.
“A ton of people think that the Russia thing was real, still. The whole Steele dossier was completely concocted. The Clinton campaign funded a fake conspiracy theory, a fake… pic.twitter.com/4eozVQWz8a
Elon’s dead right—Obama’s fine people lie was the final straw, and Trump supporters feel the betrayal. Repeating that smear, knowing Trump’s speech trashed neo-Nazis, shows the left’s rot. The Russia hoax, fueled by Clinton’s $12 million Steele dossier scam, fooled 40% of voters—pure fraud.
The facts burn: Trump’s 2017 Charlottesville speech condemned neo-Nazis 12 times, yet Obama echoed the lie pre-election to sway minds. The media ran with it—80% of outlets pushed the hoax—while the dossier’s 90% unverified claims collapsed. Elon’s lost respect mirrors ours; this is war on their deception.
The left clings to these smears to bury Trump’s 75 million votes—patriots see through it. Obama’s legacy is tarnished; truth demands justice. Want the unfiltered fight against this leftist lie machine? Follow
@FinalTelegraph—they’re the voice of the awakened.
As John Stuart Mill said: A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature. Fight the lies—restore truth.
Elon’s dead right—Obama’s fine people lie was the final straw, and Trump supporters feel the betrayal. Repeating that smear, knowing Trump’s speech trashed neo-Nazis, shows the left’s rot. The Russia hoax, fueled by Clinton’s $12 million Steele dossier scam, fooled 40% of…
Hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused the FBI New York of withholding ‘thousands of pages’ of Jeffrey Epstein documents, social media users blamed assistant director in charge James Dennehy for the alleged block. On Thursday, the Department of Justice released ‘phase I’ of the files related to the convicted sex offender and financier. It included some of the infamous flight logs and entries from Epstein’s address book.
However, the complete ‘client list’ is not out yet. (MSN, 2/28/2025)
8 a.m. deadline for submitting all Epstein docs.
Why are the feds protecting Epstein in the first place?
Last night, Jesse Waters discloses who in the FBI is withholding documents.
His name is James Dennehy who ordered his staff to “dig in” after Trump won.
Fire him! pic.twitter.com/VbJXw9JPuB
James Dennehy, assistant director in charge of the New York FBI office, wrote in a memo to 1,200 agents and support personnel on Friday: “Today we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy.”
The personnel moves make good on a Trump campaign promise to clean house at the Justice Department. Soon after taking office, the president signed an executive order to take on the “weaponization of the federal government.” (Read more: CBS News, 2/4/2025)
FBI warns staff they are in a ‘battle’ as Trump purges agents who ‘did their jobs in accordance with the law’ and investigated Jan 6 riots (Read more: Daily Mail, 2/3/2025)
They should consider themselves lucky after what they did to innocent Americans!
Politicoposted a list of names of the demoted DOJ prosecutors who built phony cases against Trump supporters in an attempt to ruin their lives and spread fear of the regime across the nation.
Those demoted include John Crabb and Elizabeth Aloi, who prosecuted contempt of Congress cases that sent Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro to jail for four months apiece. They include Jason McCullough, who helped lead the team that sent top Proud Boys leaders Enrique Tarrio, Joe Biggs and Ethan Nordean to prison for their role in orchestrating the breach of the Capitol. And they include Kathryn Rakoczy, who was a lead prosecutor in the Jan. 6 cases of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and more than a dozen of his allies, for their involvement in the attack on the Capitol.
Greg Rosen, who headed the Capitol Siege section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, also was demoted. One prosecutor who worked for Rosen until recently, Brendan Ballou, praised Rosen and decried the wave of reassignments.
(Timeline editor’s note: We understand the DOJ will have to clean out the bad actors before they can succeed at prosecuting them. It’s frustrating to see them just get a demotion after destroying so many lives and hopefully there is more in store for them.)
17-year-old Nikita Casap of Waukesha, WI. (Credit: public domain)
My exclusive new article answers many of the lingering questions about wannabe Trump assassin Nikita Casap. The groups he was communicating with online included the Ukrainian O9A-linked Misanthropic Division and the Russian group NSWP or Sparrow’s Crew.
It also goes into detail about Mystic Physis, the 16-year-old O9A “brony” who Casap was chatting with in the FBI documents.
Finally, as I was researching Casap’s digital footprint, I came to an even more shocking realization – I had a hand in stopping a guy who was a carbon copy of Casap in September of last year.
How many patsies are out there being trained to do this very thing as we speak, and how long will it be before one of them succeeds?
My exclusive new article answers many of the lingering questions about wannabe Trump assassin Nikita Casap. The groups he was communicating with online included the Ukrainian O9A-linked Misanthropic Division and the Russian group NSWP or Sparrow’s Crew.
(…) On February 28, 2025, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, police received a distressing message from the mother of Donald Mayer, who said she hadn’t heard from her family in a while and had learned that her 17-year-old grandson, Nikita, hadn’t been to school in 2 weeks. Donald’s mother reported receiving a suspicious text message a few days prior from her son. Similarly, Donald’s sister had received text messages from his number stating that he had been sick and unable to talk on the phone and that he was taking time off of social media. Donald’s manager at work reported the same. After checking local hospitals as well as FLOCK cameras in the area of Donald Mayer’s home, police executed a well-being check at the residence.
When police entered the home, they found Nikita Casap’s mother, Tatiana Casap, dead in the hallway. Towels and blankets had been used to cover her body, which was blackened by decomposition. Tatiana had been shot in the chest. Donald Mayer’s body was found lying in the first floor office, also covered by a pile of clothing, with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Donald Mayer’s car, a Volkswagen Atlas, was missing. A neighbor reported seeing the car leaving the residence operated by their son, Nikita Casap.
(…) Police were able to determine that Nikita Casap fled Waukesha 4 days prior, accompanied by the family dog and armed with a .357 Smith and Wesson revolver. Casap was apprehended at 11:25pm in Kansas, after traveling an odd, snaking route through Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado. Found in his possession were the family dog, the revolver, several boxes of ammunition, the wallets and cell phones of both parents, a pried open safe, jewelry, electronic devices, hard drives, a security camera, and $14,000 in cash. Casap was arrested on the spot for the murder of his parents.
The mystery deepened even further when a search warrant of Casap’s devices unearthed a vast digital footprint indicating he had a deep ideological commitment to the Order of Nine Angles and that he conspired with other online individuals to assassinate President Trump. Police found a (presumably) self-authored manifesto on Casap’s phone titled, “Accelerate the Collapse”, in which he called for the assassination of President Trump in order to incite a political revolution, which he believed would “save the white race” from Jewish controlled politicians. Casap, like so many others before him, had become a witting patsy for accelerationists.
Unsurprisingly, Casap’s manifesto was heavily plagiarized from other sources, including writings from James Mason, a founding father of modern accelerationism, as well as from the Terrorgram Collective. Casap’s manifesto also included a paradoxical reference to the American Futurist movement (TAF). TAF split off from the National Socialist Order, which itself was a splinter of the former Atomwaffen Division, after the NSO was infiltrated by Order of Nine Angles. As a result, TAF is a sworn enemy of O9A, which was Casap’s primary ideology. Such conflicting ideological motivators are a clear indication that 17-year-old Casap was confused, ill-informed, and being led around by the nose by shadowy figures with an ulterior motive.
Casap stayed in his home with the decomposing bodies of his parents for 12 days before he was finally ready to flee the residence and carry out the next phase of his plan. In that time, Casap was communicating with multiple Russian-speaking individuals who claimed to be Ukrainian. On February 14, a Russian speaking co-conspirator wrote to Casap on the messaging app Telegram, instructing him to reply to text messages sent to Donald Mayer’s cell phone and claim he was sick. The same individual instructed Casap to drag the bodies of his parents to the basement of the house. Footage from the security camera found in Casap’s possession showed him lighting candles in the house and rummaging through drawers, at one point speaking directly at the camera as if taking instructions from a viewer.
Casap had been communicating with these individuals for quite some time. Over the several months prior to the murder of his parents, he chatted with multiple other Telegram users under his handle, @accelerationist14, about the plan to assassinate Trump.
Casap: “What country do you think will get the blame for this?”
Unknown: “Russia will be blamed for it, this is the goal.”
Casap: “When the time comes for me to send my manifesto to you (so that you can spread it online), should it be pdf? And also you won’t anyhow change or modify the manifesto?”
Unknown: “Write on a piece of paper and take a picture of it.”
Casap dutifully complied with these directives. The FBI also found images containing instructions on using an attack drone and for creating explosives, Molotov cocktails, and poison alongside specific instructions on avoiding getting caught. In a conversation with a Telegram user called “Angel of Death”, Casap negotiated a deal to obtain a drone in exchange for $1200-$1500 in Bitcoin while referencing instructions from a Telegram user with the handle “Asellfuck”. In a Telegram conversation with a Russian-speaking user identified as “Forest”, Casap was given coordinates and driving directions from Wyoming to Pumpkin Center, Oklahoma, along with instructions on obtaining different license plates. Casap asked Forest, “and then from there to Eureka, California, it is 30 hours. You think I’ll have enough time?”
Casap had another Telegram conversation with an individual called Roman Viktorych, who used a Ukrainian phone number. Casap asked Roman how long he would need to hide before he would be “moved” to Ukraine, then he asked what his new life in Ukraine would be like, and if he would be protected. Casap also asked Roman, “Do the other 10 people also have similar beliefs to I? Or are they different?” This question was mirrored in his manifesto: “As a side note, the other attacks that may occur, I have no idea what they are/who they target. I have no idea even if they are same ideology as I. Point being, this manifesto is specifically for the attack that targets Trump.” Casap’s co-conspirators had manipulated him into believing that his attack was part of a larger operation.
Despite the plethora of information provided by the FBI investigation documents, the Casap case is still mired by mysteries. Most notably, who were his co-conspirators, and where did they actually reside? Why was Casap taking such a winding, erratic path from Wisconsin to Oklahoma, and who did he plan to meet up with in Pumpkin Center? A Telegram analysis of “Asellfuck”, along with messages exchanged with him from an anonymous source, indicate that he and Roman live in Kiev. Why were Ukrainians plotting to assassinate Trump and pin the blame on Russia? (Read much more: Bx’s Substack, 4/18/2025)(Archive)
On Friday, Ukrainian President Zelensky met with a bipartisan group of US Senators and warmongers before his meeting with President Trump.
The meeting was held at the Hay Adams Hotel across from the White House and took place before Zelensky went to the White House.
Zelensky wrote:
An important visit to the United States. In Washington, I met with a bipartisan delegation from the U.S. Senate.
Our discussions focused on the continued military assistance for Ukraine, relevant legislative initiatives, my meeting with President Trump, efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace, our vision for ending the war, and the importance of robust security guarantees.
We take pride in having strategic partners and friends like the United States. We are grateful for the unwavering bicameral and bipartisan support for Ukraine throughout all three years of Russia’s full-scale aggression.
As you watch the video below, you see US senators acting like children with complete joy as they meet the megalomaniac who refuses peace with Russia.
Have they ever treated President Trump with such excitement? No, of course not.
After Zelensky met with these US Senators, he then went to the White House, where he:
disrespected the US President and his cabinet
spoke over both President Trump and VP J.D. Vance
called J.D. by his first name and not the title
Argued with Trump and Vance
Disrespected the American audience
And then, he was escorted from the White House.
President Zelensky later released a video from the meeting at the Hay Adams.
An important visit to the United States. In Washington, I met with a bipartisan delegation from the U.S. Senate.
Our discussions focused on the continued military assistance for Ukraine, relevant legislative initiatives, my meeting with President Trump, efforts to achieve a just… pic.twitter.com/KJcosUpygc
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 28, 2025
An important visit to the United States. In Washington, I met with a bipartisan delegation from the U.S. Senate.
Our discussions focused on the continued military assistance for Ukraine, relevant legislative initiatives, my meeting with President Trump, efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace, our vision for ending the war, and the importance of robust security guarantees.
We take pride in having strategic partners and friends like the United States. We are grateful for the unwavering bicameral and bipartisan support for Ukraine throughout all three years of Russia’s full-scale aggression.
Важливий візит до Америки. Зустрівся з двопартійною делегацією Сенату США у Вашингтоні.
Продовження військової допомоги нашій державі та відповідні законодавчі ініціативи, зустріч із Президентом Трампом, зусилля для досягнення справедливого й міцного миру, наше бачення… pic.twitter.com/oITgYf8rvN
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 28, 2025
Here is a screengrab from the video and a list of identified US Senators.
They don’t want you to know about the meeting!
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
“Danang Dick” (Richard Blumenthal) (D-CT)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Charles Grassley (R-IA)
Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Peter Welch (D-VT)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
This was a disgrace and undermined President Trump’s historic peace talks.
— U.S. Attorney Ed Martin (@USAEdMartin) March 1, 2025
2/2 So former U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice is objecting to a GREAT deal for America. WOW. And second, her language re “without any concrete security guarantees” sure seems similar to what Zelensky was trying to renegotiate. Here’s clip: https://t.co/jJitAwj6Lc
Yesterday, Susan Rice said of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, “There is no question this was a set up.” She revealed full knowledge of the mineral agreement, complained that it didn’t include “concrete” security agrees (meaning, apparently, commitment of US troops on the ground if conditions merit), and then mischaracterized Trump’s behavior, counting on most Americans to not have watched what transpired over the entire hour in the Oval Office.
You can look at this and dismiss it as typical Democrat talking points, but you could also view it as almost a confession, one that includes details about the current “Get Trump” effort.
Yes, Trump won the popular vote against unbelievable odds, but if you think Team Obama is being any less involved in quiet insurrections than they were during the first Trump administration (Russia collusion, Ukraine impeachment, etc.), you’re clueless. I’ll remind you that Susan Rice was in the small Jan. 5, 2017 meeting in the WH with other key Russia collusion hoax perpetrators.
Zelensky repeatedly declined opportunities to sign the deal in Kyiv and Munich, and requested the meeting at the White House. It later came out that Rice and Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman may have been personally advising Zelensky to do this meeting in the way he did — that they recommended him to be hostile and to try to goad Trump into blowing up. Even though he didn’t, and even though Zelensky’s actions horrified many normal Americans, the Obama team went on the airwaves to falsely characterize what happened.
I think their goal was to have a wonderful performance by Zelensky, an angry Trump appearing to scuttle the deal, and the support of the neocon portion of the GOP to start applying pressure on Trump to have US Troop commitments as part of the “security guarantee.” It was a set-up, in Susan Rice’s interesting choice of words.
Instead, Zelensky had one of the worst stage performances of his acting career, and Trump was statesmanlike (against all odds) throughout. Zelensky followed Team Obama’s advice to be hostile to a tee, but it didn’t land how they thought it would. Surprisingly, one of the most important aspects of it not working out might have been Lindsay Graham’s reaction. Had he and other neocons thought Zelensky was being reasonable, Trump would be having to fight (even moreso) the neocon portion of the GOP in addition to Team Obama’s dirty tricks. Even the “conservative” neocon pundits on TV last night were admitting Zelensky had royally messed up.
As you can see from the hostility of the bureaucracy to any Republican oversight, no matter how reasonable or minor it may be, the entrenched bureaucracy and permanent DC apparatus is quite active. That goes quadruple for the deep state in the Intelligence Community. I’d expect more and more shenanigans and to be prepared so that you don’t fall for the next information operation. The post-WWII architecture in Europe and the US needs this war to continue or be settled on “US troops on the ground” type guarantees, even though that’s not what Americans want.
Things will heat up here, and it’s a very dangerous time.
Yesterday, Susan Rice said of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, “There is no question this was a set up.” She revealed full knowledge of the mineral agreement, complained that it didn’t include “concrete” security agrees (meaning, apparently, commitment of US troops on the ground if…
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(…) Rice insulted President Trump and flipped out over allegations she played a role in the White House blow-up on Friday involving Trump, Vice-President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
(…) Former National Security Adviser, Ambassador to the U.N., and infamous Barack Obama crony Susan Rice appeared on MSNBC following the blowup to complain that Team Trump had set up Zelenskyy and that the verbal brawl was “an embarrassment for the United States on the world stage.”
The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway later pointed out she was wrong. Not only did Zelenskyy have previous opportunities to sign the mineral rights deal in Kyiv and Munich, but he also personally requested the meeting at the White House.
Yesterday, Susan Rice said of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, “There is no question this was a set up.” She revealed full knowledge of the mineral agreement, complained that it didn’t include “concrete” security agrees (meaning, apparently, commitment of US troops on the ground if conditions merit), and then mischaracterized Trump’s behavior, counting on most Americans to not have watched what transpired over the entire hour in the Oval Office.
You can look at this and dismiss it as typical Democrat talking points, but you could also view it as almost a confession, one that includes details about the current “Get Trump” effort.
Yes, Trump won the popular vote against unbelievable odds, but if you think Team Obama is being any less involved in quiet insurrections than they were during the first Trump administration (Russia collusion, Ukraine impeachment, etc.), you’re clueless. I’ll remind you that Susan Rice was in the small Jan. 5, 2017 meeting in the WH with other key Russia collusion hoax perpetrators.
Zelensky repeatedly declined opportunities to sign the deal in Kyiv and Munich, and requested the meeting at the White House. It later came out that Rice and Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman may have been personally advising Zelensky to do this meeting in the way he did — that they recommended him to be hostile and to try to goad Trump into blowing up. Even though he didn’t, and even though Zelensky’s actions horrified many normal Americans, the Obama team went on the airwaves to falsely characterize what happened.
I think their goal was to have a wonderful performance by Zelensky, an angry Trump appearing to scuttle the deal, and the support of the neocon portion of the GOP to start applying pressure on Trump to have US Troop commitments as part of the “security guarantee.” It was a set-up, in Susan Rice’s interesting choice of words.
Instead, Zelensky had one of the worst stage performances of his acting career, and Trump was statesmanlike (against all odds) throughout. Zelensky followed Team Obama’s advice to be hostile to a tee, but it didn’t land how they thought it would. Surprisingly, one of the most important aspects of it not working out might have been Lindsay Graham’s reaction. Had he and other neocons thought Zelensky was being reasonable, Trump would be having to fight (even moreso) the neocon portion of the GOP in addition to Team Obama’s dirty tricks. Even the “conservative” neocon pundits on TV last night were admitting Zelensky had royally messed up.
As you can see from the hostility of the bureaucracy to any Republican oversight, no matter how reasonable or minor it may be, the entrenched bureaucracy and permanent DC apparatus is quite active. That goes quadruple for the deep state in the Intelligence Community. I’d expect more and more shenanigans and to be prepared so that you don’t fall for the next information operation. The post-WWII architecture in Europe and the US needs this war to continue or be settled on “US troops on the ground” type guarantees, even though that’s not what Americans want.
Things will heat up here, and it’s a very dangerous time.
Yesterday, Susan Rice said of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, “There is no question this was a set up.” She revealed full knowledge of the mineral agreement, complained that it didn’t include “concrete” security agrees (meaning, apparently, commitment of US troops on the ground if…
Also, the immediate and near-identical reaction of leaders of various European countries in support of Zelensky’s temper tantrum yesterday also suggests a high-level of coordination and indicates a set-up. All very interesting.https://t.co/GBWPPhRv82
Rice blew up after reading this allegation and denied having ever spoken to the Ukrainian President. She proceeded to smear Trump, accusing him of sucking up to Vladimir Putin.
You clowns are up to the same old tired crap. When your guy screws up and royally embarrasses himself and the U.S., you try to change the subject and lie about a favorite target to distract and deflect.
For the record, I have never met Zelenskyy and never spoken to him. Ever.… https://t.co/UHJHL1jrZR
After seeing Rice’s post, Grenell tore her to shreds in epic fashion.
“Your guy couldn’t even talk to Putin. For 3.5 years! Your policies helped usher in a war in Ukraine, Gaza…and Rwanda, if you remember,” he pointed out. “And then you lied about Libya – it wasn’t caused by a video. You made that up…. Donald Trump handed you peace in the Middle East and Europe – you handed us two wars.”
“We see you.”
Your guy couldn’t even talk to Putin. For 3.5 years!
Your policies helped usher in a war in Ukraine, Gaza…and Rwanda if you remember.
And then you lied about Libya – it wasn’t caused by a video. You made that up….
Based on the fake outrage and the synchronized reactions of the left, I wouldn’t be surprised if Zelensky & the Democrats coordinated this whole thing. The plan was to have their lapdog Zelensky humiliate Trump in front of the press, but Trump & Vance quickly sniffed him out and… pic.twitter.com/Ufeqx8A86R
Here is some truth: Putin invaded Ukraine. NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. Since 1945, American leadership has ensured freedom and security for ourselves and millions of others around the world. Together with our allies, we defeated the Soviet Union—an empire so evil it had to build gulags and walls to keep its own people in. Destroying America’s alliances and abandoning the cause of freedom is morally and strategically indefensible. Putin will pocket Trump’s naive concessions and demand much more. Appeasement makes a wider war more likely, not less.
@realDonaldTrump, @JDVance, and @elonmusk have made clear who they are. Only fools—or Kremlin tools—would abandon NATO, side with Russia, and demand Ukraine surrender in the face of Putin’s brutal aggression.
Here is some truth: Putin invaded Ukraine. NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. Since 1945, American leadership has ensured freedom and security for ourselves and millions of others around the world. Together with our allies, we defeated the Soviet Union—an…
I’m late to the conversation, but let’s add some much-needed context to your stance on Ukraine by looking at the legacy you come from.
Your father, Dick Cheney, had a long and influential political career:
📌 Received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War, citing “other priorities,” and never served in the military.
📌 Served in key government roles, including White House Chief of Staff (Ford), U.S. Representative (Wyoming), and Secretary of Defense (Bush Sr.).
📌 As Secretary of Defense, oversaw U.S. military interventions in Panama and Iraq (Desert Storm).
📌 Led Halliburton as chairman and CEO (1995–2000), a company that later secured massive defense contracts in war zones.
📌 As Vice President, was a principal advocate for the 2003 Iraq invasion, citing claims that proved to be false.
📌 Accumulated a net worth reportedly reaching $86 million largely due to Halliburton.
These are facts. Neither you nor your father served in the military, yet he played a leading role in sending Americans into war—many of whom returned disabled, traumatized, or never returned at all. He and you profited immensely from the war machine while veterans struggled for the benefits they earned.
Despite this, you now position yourself as a leading voice on Ukraine. Why should anyone take your stance seriously, given your personal and family history of benefiting from military conflicts? Talk about the biggest conflict of interest ever.
So, before demanding action on Ukraine with emotional appeals, perhaps you should address the far more relevant issue: Why should anyone believe that your position is anything other than a continuation of the same war-profiteering playbook your family has long followed?
Dear Ms. Cheney,
I’m late to the conversation, but let’s add some much-needed context to your stance on Ukraine by looking at the legacy you come from.
Your father, Dick Cheney, had a long and influential political career:
📌 Received five draft deferments during the Vietnam…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) March 4, 2025
Here’s the real reason the Ukraine and Russia War started. You’re a war monger just like your dad Dick. https://t.co/chdPgyICup
Elon Musk just dropped a bombshell on the Joe Rogan Experience, confirming what many Americans have long suspected—Washington, D.C. is a cesspool of corruption, and the Democrats are the primary beneficiaries.
“I think maybe three-quarters of the graft is Democratic. I think there’s maybe 20–25% that’s Republican,” Musk revealed, exposing how the system is rigged for political elites.
“Most of the graft is going to the Democrats, but they throw some bones to the Republicans too, so then they’re in on it.”
In a shocking but unsurprising exchange, Musk and Rogan discussed the absurd wealth accumulation of members of Congress, who are somehow able to transform their modest $170,000-a-year salaries into multimillion-dollar fortunes.
Musk didn’t hold back, stating, “It’s literally impossible” for these politicians to legally amass such wealth.
(…) Perhaps the most chilling part of the conversation was Musk’s admission that speaking out against the corruption machine could be a death sentence.
Joe Rogan:
Well, especially if it’s legal, and it currently is. You’d be silly not to do it. If you’re part of a group of people that’s passing a bill, and you know this bill is going to get passed, you know the votes are there, and you know it’s going to affect this industry and this particular manufacturer, and you can buy stock…
Elon Musk:
It’s more than just insider trading. The insider trading—the stock portfolio stuff—is quite trackable, but it’s a lot more than that.
Joe Rogan:
The way they’re acquiring wealth?
Elon Musk:
Correct.
Joe Rogan:
And what other methods?
Elon Musk:
I mean, this is really going to get me assassinated. I’m not lengthening my lifespan by explaining this stuff, to say the least. I mean, I was supposed to go back to D.C.—how am I going to survive? This broker is going to kill me for sure. In fact, I do think I actually have to be careful that I don’t push too hard on the corruption stuff because it’s going to get me killed. I was actually thinking about that on the flight over here—if I push too hard on the corruption stuff, people get desperate. That’s the issue.
FBI agents load boxes into a truck as part of a corruption investigation. (Credit: AP)
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday night confirmed that the FBI delivered a truckload of documents related to its investigation of financier Jeffrey Epstein, after she gave the bureau a hard Friday deadline.
(…) Bondi toldFox News‘ Sean Hannity on Monday that she has now received a “truckload” of new information that she and her team are quickly sorting through. But they have to be careful in protecting Epstein’s victims, she said.
“We got them all Friday at 8 a.m. Thousands of pages of documents. I have the FBI going through them,” she said. “It’s now in the possession of the FBI. Director [Kash] Patel is going to get me a detailed report as to why all these documents and evidence had been withheld … We’re gonna go through it as fast as we can.”
She also accused the Biden administration of not pursuing the case or Justice for the victims, even after Epstein’s death.
“No one did anything with them. Why were they sitting in the Southern District of New York? I want a full report on that,” Bondi said. “You know, sadly, these people don’t believe in transparency. But I think more unfortunately, I think a lot of them don’t believe in honesty.” (Read more: Just the News, 3/3/2025) (Archive)
The Center for European Policy Analysis, where David Kagan serves as a Program Officer with the Democratic Resilience program, is also a recipient of several USAID grants. pic.twitter.com/g1YJRsQUmr
Kagan contributed to CEPA’s “7-point Plan for Sustainable Peace in Ukraine” which demands the US “provide immediate material support” to Ukraine, engage in “maximum pressure strategy” against Russia, and paves the way for US involvement in the conflict.
The DOJ just filed a statement of interest in Tina Peters’s case. Peters is a gold star mom & the former Election Clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, who got locked up for exposing the massive vulnerabilities in Dominion voting machines.
“Reasonable concerns have been raised about various aspects of Ms. Peters’ case. … the exceptionally lengthy sentence imposed relative to the conduct at issue, the 1st Amendment implications of the trial court’s Oct 2024 assertions relating to Ms. Peters, & whether Colorado’s denial of bail pending appeal was arbitrary or unreasonable under the 8th and 14th Amendments Parallel to these… DOJ is reviewing cases across the nation for abuses of the criminal justice process.” – Justice Department.
FREE TINA PETERS and put Jena Griswold in chains for leaking machine passwords.
BREAKING: The DOJ just filed a statement of interest in Tina Peters’s case. Peters is a gold star mom & the former Election Clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, who got locked up for exposing the massive vulnerabilities in Dominion voting machines.
James Comey testifies before Congress in March 2017 after his misleading “Gang of Eight” private briefing for top lawmakers. (Credit: AP)
Grassley’s report confirms a criminal architecture where the State Department, DOJ NSD, and FBI leadership deliberately obstructed enforcement against Iran’s WMD networks — the same pattern of protection and cover-up that also insulated Ericsson’s global telecom espionage role and on into Russiagate/Crossfire coverup as well as targeted killing’s of American’s serving overseas.
Whistleblowers:
“Between 2013 and 2017, FBI Headquarters executives allowed the FBI to become a political tool. … FBI officials systematically reassigned and depleted the FBI agents and analysts working the Iran threat (highest level national threat priority) and reassigned some to work the Crossfire investigations.”
(Page 21)
Translation: Instead of enforcing against Iran’s WMD procurement, Comey’s leadership shifted resources into the 2016 Russia/Crossfire Hurricane probe.
Report:
“When FBI whistleblowers made formal complaints to Director Comey, the FBI’s Inspection Division, and DOJ OIG … they were universally dismissed without any investigation.”
(Page 21)
Comey actively suppressed internal dissent that documented unlawful obstruction by Kerry/State.
James Comey:
– Ignored whistleblower evidence of illegal obstruction.
– Reassigned Iran counterproliferation agents into Russiagate investigations.
– Silenced complaints through FBI Inspection Division & DOJ OIG.
– Enabled Kerry’s State Dept. to override FBI arrests of Iranian WMD agents.
In plain terms: Comey turned the FBI from a counterproliferation enforcement agency into a political shield and diversion tool, protecting both Iran’s procurement network and Ericsson/Neustar’s telecom grid.
Cross-Domain Connections
Iran WMD Procurement → protected by Kerry’s State Dept., DOJ NSD, Comey’s FBI.
Ericsson FCPA Protection → same DOJ NSD offices ran Ericsson’s deferred prosecution shields.
2016 Election Ops (Russiagate/ICA) → same personnel (Laufman, Bratt, Swartz) redirected FBI focus away from Iran→ into politically useful “Crossfire.”
This chart shows: Kerry’s State Dept. obstruction, DOJ NSD continuity, and Ericsson’s telecom role weren’t isolated events — they were all managed by the same institutional actors (NSD, DOJ, FBI leadership), using cover frameworks that stretched from Iran WMD suppression → Ericsson FCPA protection → Russiagate coverup ops.
🚨 Director Comey (2013–2017) Reassigned Agents Away from Iran Cases 🚨
Grassley’s report confirms a criminal architecture where the State Department, DOJ NSD, and FBI leadership deliberately obstructed enforcement against Iran’s WMD networks — the same pattern of protection and… pic.twitter.com/QoZTfUP5E4
Judicial Watch announced today that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) continues to hide the identities of recipients of $27 million in grants awarded to “Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees” that were designated for use in Gaza.
A status conference on the lawsuit is scheduled for March 7, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. ET before Judge Reggie B. Walton of U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas—a U.S.-designated terrorist organization—invaded southwest Israel, killing over a thousand people and kidnapping hundreds of others.
All records identifying the recipients of USAID funding under the $7,000,000 grant allocation awarded on or about November 15, 2023, and associated with Federal Award Identification Number 720BHA24GR00005.
All proposals, applications, scope of work documents, or similar records related to any grant award or sub-award associated with Federal Award Identification Number 720BHA24GR00005.
USAID has produced records but refuses to disclose what organizations received the money.
USAID justifies its secrecy as protecting trade secrets, financial information, and privacy:
(b)(4) Program design elements, technical approaches, detailed implementation plans, and related financial information is business confidential information. If released, the availability of this information to the public will cause substantial harm to awardee’s competitive position in the private voluntary organization community.
(b)(6) Parties to the conflict in Gaza have specifically targeted and killed aid workers, targeted relief agency operations and targeted and destroyed health facilities and other civilians targets. Due to highly challenging and unpredictable operating environments for humanitarian organizations, this exemption is required to protect the employees and beneficiaries of the NGOs working in Gaza from harassment and violence.
Disclosure of the name of the NGO would allow third‐parties to determine the identities of the employees and beneficiaries.
(b)(6) Personal information to include names, job titles and emails due to safety & security concerns
On November 15, 2023, the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, a component of the USAID, issued a $7 million grantfor “multisectoral response in Gaza.” The grant was awarded to “Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees.” The same day a “continuation” grant of $20 million was also issued for “multisectoral response.” USAID reportedthat over $282 million was obligated to the West Bank and Gaza in fiscal year 2023.
President Trump recently firedPaul Martin, USAID inspector general, after he published a report that was critical of the Trump administration’s pause on aid. It was recently discovered that USAID provided “millions of dollars in funding to extremist groups tied to designated terrorist organizations and their allies, according to a report published by Middle East Forum, a U.S. think tank.”
In July 2024, the Office of the Inspector General for USAID issued a report titled “Assessment of USAID’s Oversight Policies to Prevent the Diversion of Assistance to Hamas and Other Terrorist Organizations” in which it states:
The USAID Office of Inspector General (USAID OIG) provides independent oversight of USAID’s programs, operations, and personnel and has previously identified USAID-funded assistance to Gaza as being at high risk for diversion and misuse.
***
Regarding the UN’s processes for vetting their own staff, USAID Administrator Samantha Power noted—following allegations that officials working for UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] engaged in the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel—“obviously the vetting is something that has to be significantly strengthened.”
“Americans have a right to know who in Gaza is getting our money from USAID. It is shocking that Marco Rubio’s State Department is hiding this information,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “Transparency on USAID’s Gaza funding could be critical to protecting the national security of the U.S. and Israel.”
Judicial Watch also recently sued USAID for records regarding waste, fraud and abuse tied to aid money sent to Ukraine.
Additional State Department records uncovered in 2018 showed USAID funding for George Soros’s left-wing nonprofit organizations in Albania. The documents dealt primarily with the activities of Soros’ top operative in Albania, Andri Dobrushi, the director of Open Society Foundation-Albania, who was actively engaged in channeling funding to what Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls Soros’ “mercenary army.” The documents showed U.S. grant money flowing through non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that profess to promote “civil society,” while in fact attacking traditional, pro-American groups, governments and policies.
Other records related to the USAID’s activities in Albania showed that the Obama administration sent U.S. taxpayers’ funds to a group backed by Soros, which used the money to fund left-wing political activities in Albania, including working with the country’s socialist government to push for highly controversial judicial “reform.” The records also detailed how the Soros operation helped the State Department review grant applications from other groups for taxpayer funding. (Judicial Watch, 3/4/2025)(Archive)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks to the media as he meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (Credit: public domain)
Grassley’s report confirms a criminal architecture where the State Department, DOJ NSD, and FBI leadership deliberately obstructed enforcement against Iran’s WMD networks — the same pattern of protection and cover-up that also insulated Ericsson’s global telecom espionage role and on into Russiagate/Crossfire coverup as well as targeted killing’s of American’s serving overseas.
Whistleblowers:
“Between 2013 and 2017, FBI Headquarters executives allowed the FBI to become a political tool. … FBI officials systematically reassigned and depleted the FBI agents and analysts working the Iran threat (highest level national threat priority) and reassigned some to work the Crossfire investigations.”
(Page 21)
Translation: Instead of enforcing against Iran’s WMD procurement, Comey’s leadership shifted resources into the 2016 Russia/Crossfire Hurricane probe.
Report:
“When FBI whistleblowers made formal complaints to Director Comey, the FBI’s Inspection Division, and DOJ OIG … they were universally dismissed without any investigation.”
(Page 21)
Comey actively suppressed internal dissent that documented unlawful obstruction by Kerry/State.
James Comey:
– Ignored whistleblower evidence of illegal obstruction.
– Reassigned Iran counterproliferation agents into Russiagate investigations.
– Silenced complaints through FBI Inspection Division & DOJ OIG.
– Enabled Kerry’s State Dept. to override FBI arrests of Iranian WMD agents.
In plain terms: Comey turned the FBI from a counterproliferation enforcement agency into a political shield and diversion tool, protecting both Iran’s procurement network and Ericsson/Neustar’s telecom grid.
Cross-Domain Connections
Iran WMD Procurement → protected by Kerry’s State Dept., DOJ NSD, Comey’s FBI.
Ericsson FCPA Protection → same DOJ NSD offices ran Ericsson’s deferred prosecution shields.
2016 Election Ops (Russiagate/ICA) → same personnel (Laufman, Bratt, Swartz) redirected FBI focus away from Iran → into politically useful “Crossfire.”
This chart shows: Kerry’s State Dept. obstruction, DOJ NSD continuity, and Ericsson’s telecom role weren’t isolated events — they were all managed by the same institutional actors (NSD, DOJ, FBI leadership), using cover frameworks that stretched from Iran WMD suppression → Ericsson FCPA protection → Russiagate coverup ops.
🚨 Director Comey (2013–2017) Reassigned Agents Away from Iran Cases 🚨
Grassley’s report confirms a criminal architecture where the State Department, DOJ NSD, and FBI leadership deliberately obstructed enforcement against Iran’s WMD networks — the same pattern of protection and… pic.twitter.com/QoZTfUP5E4
DOGE: Notice how names like John Podesta keep coming up? Podesta and his brother received money from China & Russia for influence peddling. He was involved in RussiaGate, Hillary’s EmailGate, & now Biden put him in charge of doling out $375B to Democrat NGOs. The swamp is deep. pic.twitter.com/GX3DCuu2jT
STACEY ABRAMS SCANDAL: STARTED WITH $100 TO $2B
“This is how bad D.C. is, if you give a $2B GRANT to an organization that just started, it may not be illegal.” @peterschweizer & @AlexMarlow discuss the fraud still being uncovered by @DOGE. pic.twitter.com/T3ThUaWDOc
— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) March 4, 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) this week announced the cancellation of several National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that were geared toward transgender experiments on animals.
During President Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday, he laid out a variety of DOGE discoveries, reading out some of the ways the U.S. government has wasted U.S. taxpayer dollars. That included a grant for transgender experiments on animals.
“…$8 million for making mice transgender,” Trump said, reminding Americans that this is “real.”
On Wednesday, DOGE followed up, announcing the cancellation of grants for such experiments’
Yesterday, @NIH cancelled seven grants for transgender experiments on animals including:
– $532K to “use a mouse model to investigate the effects of cross-sex testosterone treatment”
– $33K to test “feminizing hormone therapy in the male rat”
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 5, 2025
Mysteriously, seven top executives have all left in the past three weeks, several of whom had all been there more than a decade. None of them will explain on the record why they left.
The last remaining lawyer at ActBlue’s general counsel’s office has been locked out of his email and put on leave after sending internal messages that “we have Whistleblower Policies for a reason.”
Two unions representing ActBlue employees are openly questioning the group’s stability and call the situation “alarming.” They’re demanding the hiring of an independent investigator.
More than $16 billion has passed through ActBlue in the past 20 years. What could they possibly be hiding?
Mysteriously, seven top executives have all left in the past three weeks, several of whom had all been there more than a decade. None of them will explain on the record why they left.
OMG Confronts ActBlue on FEC Fraud: Retirees Unknowingly Listed for Massive Donations
O’Keefe Media Group uncovered suspicious contributions listed on @actblue‘s website as small donations, which were then reported as tens of thousands more to the FEC. Retirees across the nation… pic.twitter.com/Nm0XFgnnrM
Mayor Mike Johnston-Denver, Mayor Brandon Johnson-Chicago, Mayor Eric Adams-NYC, Mayor Michelle Wu-Boston
On March 5, 2025, a significant hearing took place before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Representative James Comer (R-Ky.), titled “A Hearing with Sanctuary City Mayors.” The mayors of four prominent sanctuary cities—New York City’s Eric Adams, Boston’s Michelle Wu, Chicago’s Brandon Johnson, and Denver’s Mike Johnston—testified regarding their cities’ policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. This hearing, held at 10:00 AM ET in HVC-210 on Capitol Hill, was part of an investigation launched by Comer in January 2025 to examine the impact of sanctuary jurisdictions on public safety and federal immigration enforcement.
The contentious hearing lasted approximately six hours, and highlighted a stark partisan divide. Republican lawmakers accused the mayors of violating federal law by shielding undocumented immigrants, particularly those with criminal records, from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming these policies endanger American communities. Comer and others, including Representatives Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace, pressed the mayors with pointed questions, often demanding yes-or-no answers about their willingness to turn over immigrants to ICE and their cities’ sanctuary statuses. They argued that such policies obstruct President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, which includes mass deportations, and some even suggested the mayors could face prosecution.
In contrast, the Democratic mayors defended their policies as essential for public safety and community trust. They argued that limiting cooperation with ICE—such as not honoring immigration detainers unless accompanied by a criminal warrant signed by a judge—encourages undocumented immigrants to report crimes and access services without fear of deportation. Eric Adams emphasized New York’s compliance with federal law while maintaining that sanctuary status does not protect violent criminals, citing declining crime rates. Michelle Wu highlighted Boston’s record-low homicide rate, attributing it partly to policies fostering cooperation with local police, and called for comprehensive federal immigration reform. Brandon Johnson and Mike Johnston similarly rejected claims that their cities harbor criminals, with Johnston clarifying that Denver provides services without shielding immigrants from law enforcement when warranted.
The hearing also revealed political tensions beyond immigration policy. Adams faced scrutiny from Democrats over his cooperation with the Trump administration, particularly after federal corruption charges against him were dropped, raising questions of a potential quid pro quo—allegations he denied. Meanwhile, Republicans used the platform to reinforce Trump’s narrative linking immigration to crime, despite the mayors’ counterarguments that crime rates have decreased in their cities and that immigrants are not inherently dangerous.
Ultimately, the hearing served as both a battleground for immigration policy debates and a national stage for the mayors to articulate their approaches, reflecting broader tensions between local governance and federal authority under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The mayors urged Congress to address the issue through bipartisan legislation rather than targeting sanctuary cities, while Republicans signaled continued pressure, including threats to cut federal funding to non-compliant jurisdictions. (Grok Review, 3/5/2025)
This is disturbing – Biden and Obama Democrats created a new beast, the “popup nonprofit shell” they suddenly launch to take in your taxpayer money supposedly for things like climate change and illegal immigration. Major front for taxpayer abuse with accusations of grift growing by the hour. Never saw it like this in decades covering IRS/taxes.
Check out the tax returns for one of these popup NGO shells, the Climate United Fund which got the biggest nonprofit grant in history out of Biden’s massive climate slush funds.
Kamala Harris and Biden’s EPA chief Michael Regan gave $7 billion total to the suddenly created Climate United Fund in April 2024 after it launched just five months earlier in November 30, 2022 when Its tax returns show it started with a tiny $547K in revs.
But it spent a massive $451K of that $547k in just two months in 2023, a quarter of that on legal fees and the majority $323K mysteriously blown on no one knows what because its tax returns don’t say.
It has no stipulated plans for how it will spend your $7B in tax $$, just ephemeral solar projects in Idaho, Arkansas, and Oregon that amount to only about $50M total, a fraction of the $7B. It also gave money out of that $7b to Power Forward Communities linked to Stacey Abrams.
It has little to no details on how much its officers get paid that you typically see on NGO 990s, in fact virtually no details, red flags that it’s a shell.
It supposedly is a partnership betw Dem insiders at investment firm Calvert Impact Capital, Community Preservation Corp. and a group called “Self-Help” (irony noted).
Beth Bafford is its CEO, a former “special assistant” in Obama’s OMB and a regional field director for the Obama Campaign.
As we tweeted about a month ago, it has ties to Democratic Party of California chairman and California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Obama’s Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta and Patrice Willoughby of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Judge Glock, the Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, noted on X that the Climate United Fund got your $7B after submitting a small 49-page report. That was all it took.
This is disturbing – Biden and Obama Democrats created a new beast, the “popup nonprofit shell” they suddenly launch to take in your taxpayer money supposedly for things like climate change and illegal immigration. Major front for taxpayer abuse with accusations of grift growing… pic.twitter.com/YMmNYoyPEo
— Elizabeth MacDonald (@LizMacDonaldFOX) March 5, 2025
It’s amazing to me that @Politico attacks the pause on Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants by citing the “detailed work plans” submitted by the nonprofit winners. The Climate United Fund received $7 billion, the biggest nonprofit grant in history, in exchange for a 49-page plan. pic.twitter.com/ooLqN9PQsF
For those curious, here is the database. At least since 2008, the first, second, third and fourth largest grants to nonprofits all happened shortly before the last election to GGRF nonprofits. (There could be some earlier huge nonprofit grant, but I haven’t seen it.) pic.twitter.com/UskHKEXCAk
This man is listed below the address on the 990. Very high salaries for a new non profit
And this:
“Partnering with the Calvert Foundation to Launch Diaspora Impact Investment Initiative. With the Calvert Foundation serving as its newly-announced Managing Partner, the… pic.twitter.com/j04EPMQYlK
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin detailed on The Alex Marlow Show how the Biden administration protected $20 billion in “gold bars” meant for leftist NGOs, many of them with connections to the Biden administration.
Zeldin sent shockwaves in mid-February after he had pledged to recover $20 billion in taxpayer funds that had been sent by the Biden administration to climate change projects and other pet projects of Democrat staffers.
The EPA Administrator at the time likened it to “throwing gold bars off the Titanic,” saying that it was a “rush job with reduced oversight.”
Obama appointee Beryl Howell has always been on the top of my impeachment list.
For nearly a decade, she has wielded her unchecked power–mostly as chief judge of DC district court–behind the scenes to try to destroy President Trump. She oversaw grand jury proceedings for both Robert Mueller then Biden’s DOJ for criminal investigations into Trump. She is a power hungry, out-of-control psychopath who needs to be removed ASAP.
In a 36-page seething tirade just docketed, (h/t Kyle Cheney), Howell takes numerous personal shots at the president while ordering the reinstatement of a Biden-appointed member of the National Labor Relations Board, who was removed by Trump last month.
These are not the words of a fair-minded, even-tempered judge. It is the ranting of a lunatic who is infuriated her decade-long crusade to crush Donald Trump didn’t work. Frustrated at her failure, Howell repeatedly insists the president broke the law by failing to give the dismissed NLRB member a reason why she was getting the boot.
IMPEACH.
Howell:
“The President seems intent on pushing the bounds of his office and exercising his power in a manner violative of clear statutory law to test how much the courts will accept the notion of a presidency that is supreme.
The courts are now again (AGAIN?) forced to determine how much encroachment on the legislature our Constitution can bear and face a slippery slope toward endorsing a presidency that is untouchable by the law. The President has given no sufficient reason to accept that path here.
To start, the Framers made clear that no one in our system of government was meant to be king—the President included—and not just in name only. A President who touts an image of himself as a ‘king’ or a ‘dictator,’ perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution.
Luckily, the Framers, anticipating such a power grab, vested in Article III, not Article II, the power to interpret the law, including resolving conflicts about congressional checks on presidential authority. The President’s interpretation of the scope of his constitutional power— or, more aptly, his aspiration—is flat wrong.
The President does not have the authority to terminate members of the National Labor Relations Board at will, and his attempt to fire plaintiff from her position on the Board was a blatant violation of the law. Defendants concede that removal of plaintiff as a Board Member violates the terms of the applicable statute…and because this statute is a valid exercise of congressional power, the President’s excuse for his illegal act cannot be sustained.
In the ninety years since the NLRB’s founding, the President has never removed a member of the Board. His attempt to do so here is blatantly illegal, and his constitutional arguments to excuse this illegal act are contrary to Supreme Court precedent and over a century of practice.
Under our constitutional system, such checks, by design, guard against executive overreach and the risk such overreach would pose of autocracy. An American President is not a king—not even an ‘elected’ one—and his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute, but may be constrained in appropriate circumstances, as are present here.”
Keep in mind just a few tricks Howell pulled in the past few years.
She took the extraordinary step of piercing attorney-client privilege between Trump and Evan Corcoran, claiming the “crime fraud exception” to force Corcoran to produce privileged records to DOJ related to classified docs case.
She consented to Jack Smith’s request to not only seize all of Trump’s Twitter data but authorized a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting Elon Musk from notifying Trump of the warrant. She then imposed a $350,000 fine on Twitter for a 51-hour delay in producing the files while claiming [Musk] was trying to “cozy up” to Trump. (Four judges on the DC appellate court BLASTED Howell for her reckless decisions and for ignoring presidential privilege claims in the matter.)
She also permitted grand jury proceedings in the classified docs case to commence in DC although the proper jurisdiction was southern Florida.
Howell has been overturned twice by the DC appellate court for imposing unlawful sentences against J6ers and the Supreme Court reversed Howell and 14 other DC district court judges for unlawfully applying 1512c2 against hundreds of J6ers.
Now she wants to lecture the president about “illegal acts” and pushing the boundaries of his authority?
The federal judiciary has gone completely rogue and no other entity–Congress or SCOTUS–is willing to stop it. A serious constitutional crisis in progress.
Keep in mind just a few tricks Howell pulled in the past few years.
She took the extraordinary step of piercing attorney-client privilege between Trump and Evan Corcoran, claiming the “crime fraud exception” to force Corcoran to produce privileged records to DOJ related to…
Hunter Biden is too broke to continue his lawsuit he brought against @GarrettZxcvi
over the 644 page report on about Hunter’s illegal activities based on the infamous laptop
Remember Marco Polo?
Hunter ‘lacks the resources to continue this litigation at this time’
Guess the money has dried up now that his daddy isn’t in the White House
Hunter Biden is too broke to continue his lawsuit he brought against @GarrettZxcvi over the 644 page report on about Hunter’s illegal activities based on the infamous laptop
Remember Marco Polo?
Hunter ‘lacks the resources to continue this litigation at this time’
— Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJaneKremer) March 5, 2025
Hunter Biden tries to escape the mess he created. He dragged @MarcoPolo501c3 through the mud, tried to bankrupt him for speaking the truth, and now, with daddy out of power, he thinks he can just walk away. Doesn’t work that way. You launch a frivolous case, you foot the bill. https://t.co/N5MS3HWVEx
“United States Judges” Did Not Sign Proper Oaths of Office (For Article III Courts) Exposed On Federal January 6th Case(s)
[FULLY, COMPLETELY AND UNCONDITIONALLY PARDONED on 1/20/25]
As evident from my January 6th case’s material filed onto court record, @TheJusticeDept“U.S. Attorney” prosecutors and federal “judges” have not signed and executed the proper legally required oaths of office as contractual bonds to their appointed positions – including the District of Columbia’s leading “J6” former “U.S. Attorney” Matthew M. GRAVES and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia’s respective former and current “Chief Judges,” Beryl Alaine HOWELL & James Emanuel BOASBERG.
Witness for yourself:
“Assistant U.S. Attorney” prosecutor Douglas G. COLLYER under Matthew M. GRAVES admits to public defender Evan Flinn SUGAR (court-appointed to January 6‘er Frank Rocco) that COLLYER himself did not sign nor file any oath of office that is required for his January 6th prosecution. The public defender further misled client Frank Rocco in legally advising that there were no signed documented oaths of office in existence for federal prosecutors and judges, anywhere – at all.
The “no signed document” comment in regard to an oath of office as legally advised by Frank Rocco’s public defender was in direct conflict with Title 5 U.S.C. § 3332 – the statute clearly stating that an affidavit shall be filed alongside an oath of office as required under law:
Additionally, this means that COLLYER did not sign or file any oath within the 30 day period following his appointment, required by the same statute.
The said to be nonexistent signed documented oaths of his federal “judges” were eventually provided to Frank Rocco by the Justice Department themselves via FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Request, but not in accordance with U.S. Code under law and the Constitution – made out to be fraudulent.
USDC D.C. January 6th “Chief Judges” HOWELL & BOASBERG were discovered to have signed illegally changed judicial oaths of office. January 6′er Frank Rocco estopped the “Chief Judges” of D.C. for fraud by refusing for cause their improper judicial oaths of office on case #23-cr-16-JEB, then to be deliberately ignored and jailed by “JEB” BOASBERG without proper Article III jurisdiction – despite BOASBERG as the “Court” granting leave for filing of this proof of fraud on himself:
Compare Title 28 U.S.C. § 453 “So help me God” in proper form as prescribed by Congress under the Constitution to the improper corporative CAPITONYM form, “SO HELP ME GOD.” Oaths of office for justices and judges cannot be changed without legislation by Congress. See the statute and its amendment:
Leading January 6th “U.S. Attorney” prosecutor Matthew M. GRAVES (@USAttyGraves) and his “Assistant U.S. Attorneys” have redacted their signatures from their filed oaths of office, with fraudulent former “Chief Judge” Beryl Alaine HOWELL signed to GRAVES as his witness – making his oath improperly executed.
Declared unconstitutional “Special Counsel” Jack SMITH did not have a properly executed oath of office due to a missing witnessing signature. The Justice Department acknowledged this “error” as important only after SMITH had already indicted TRUMP twice without the procedurally compliant oath of office for SMITH’s illegal appointment.
D.C. “Judge” Tanya S. CHUTKAN’s sworn decorum to her judicial oath of office was put in question by @realDonaldTrump‘s lawyers with its statute cited in a MOTION for RECUSAL. One month earlier, Frank Rocco submitted evidence of CHUTKAN’s fraudulent judicial oath of office alongside the same exact statute directly to TRUMP’s lawyers and Jack SMITH’s Justice Department prosecutors via email:
Federal “Judges” and “U.S. Attorneys” acting without valid civil and/or judicial oaths of office can be subjected to criminal impersonation charges under Title 18 U.S.C. § 912:
Federal and state enforcement Offices (@FBI, @USMarshalsHQ, State of Florida’s @GovRonDeSantis) have ignored evidence of documented oath fraud on the DOJ and USDC of D.C. that was submitted by Frank Rocco before his illegally executed arrest by federal and local enforcement officers using a SEALED bench warrant ORDERED by BOASBERG. This secretive SEALED bench warrant went unsigned and undated by any arresting enforcement officer for the remainder of Frank Rocco’s illegal 3-month incarceration to follow. Federal and state enforcement did not protect the federal judiciary or Frank Rocco against proven impersonators of federal officers having no proper oaths as bonds – aiding and abetting criminals by arresting Frank Rocco, a lawful American, instead.
In addition to federal and state law enforcement, #SeditionHunters are also aiding and abetting impersonators of federal officers within the Justice Department and United States District Courts in their nationwide persecution of January 6th, 2021 protestors as fellow Americans.
Justice Neil GORSUCH has described “administrative law judges” as being different from “real judges” (aka judicial officers with proper oaths) in an August 2024 interview discussing his book: (See time stamp 47:56)
In a letter from The Administrative Office of the United States Courts to Frank Rocco, they admit that “U.S. Judges” are not issued bonds. A signed proper oath is a bond – so if an officer does not have a bond, they could not have a proper signed oath. The Administrative Office did not provide Frank with copies he requested of the signed oaths of J6 “magistrates” themselves – likely to be just as defective.
When President Trump stopped “intelligence sharing” with Ukraine, he technically stopped allowing Ukraine to use exclusive USA targeting systems controlled by U.S Intelligence, the CIA, the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
These terrain mapping systems, the missile and drone targeting systems, are what military forces inside Ukraine need to carry out offensive drone and missile attacks against Russian forces.
A series of eight drone strikes from Ukraine hit high-rise buildings in Kazan, Russia, December 21, 2024.
In essence and material reality, the elements in Ukraine who are conducting war, and this includes U.K and U.S special forces, the CIA and various NATO allied military operators (not Ukraine military) can no longer effectively hit long-range Russian targets, without the U.S. targeting system that identifies it.
The real-time sharing of military grade GPS encryption keys has been stopped by the U.S. Commander in Chief, President Trump. Effective immediately without targeting system access, ATACMS, HIMARS, Storm Shadow and Taurus missile systems are no longer functional to those Ukraine operators (remember, those operators are not necessarily Ukranian).
Additionally, the drones that Ukraine has been using also rely on the same accurate, real-time, terrain-mapping satellite data that transmits back to the guidance systems. Without the U.S. encryption keys, what the media is obtusely calling “intelligence sharing,” all of the aforementioned attack systems are rendered moot. THIS IS HUGE.
The part that is really interesting to those who have followed the events of the past three years, is literally who has been in control of and deploying these missile and drone attack systems.
All of the intellectually honest researchers know that it is the USA (special forces) and to a lesser extent the collaborating U.K (special forces) who have been operating these systems. Yes, they have been training Ukranians, but they damned sure are not giving them the highly classified and tightly controlled encryption keys within the targeting system.
In reality, this means the USA/UK are the forces doing the actual fighting of consequence against Russia in the geography of Ukraine. A true and genuine proxy war between NATO and Russia has been ongoing. This stoppage of the missile/drone targeting system by President Trump is factually exposing this proxy war reality.
Now, think about this dynamic very carefully because now we know President Trump and President Putin are talking to each other.
We know Vladimir Putin is well aware of how the Western targeting system is being used in Ukraine; he has talked about it openly and publicly. However, the West has never admitted it, because to do so would be to inform the public of the proxy war.
With the new information we now have confirmation that these drone and missile strikes into Russia were factually attacks supported by U.S. targeting systems. The non-pretending reality = The USA attacked Russia using Ukraine. (Read more: Conservative Treehouse, 3/7/2025)(Archive)
Ex-Georgia House Rep. Stacey Abrams said this week that she received $2 billion from Former President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to greenwash home appliances in what some have likened to an alleged Democratic “vote buying” scheme.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recently revealed that the Biden-era EPA passed through $20 billion in “gold bars,” or grants, to leftist groups. The Abrams-linked Power Forward Communities received $2 billion as part of these grants, a sum amounting to “20 million times the organization’s reported revenue,” according to the EPA.
“Stacey Abrams’ Power Forward Communities received $2 BILLION to be a pass through entity for Biden EPA’s $20 billion ‘gold bar’ scheme,” Zeldin wrote in an X post in mid-February. “They reported just $100 in total revenue after their founding in late 2023.”
Abrams — a Democrat who infamously lost two Georgia gubernatorial runs — took to MSNBC in early March to claim that there was nothing nefarious about Power Forward Communities receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer funds.
“In 2023 and 2024, I led a program called Revitalizing Desoto,” she told the network, explaining that she worked to help those in South Georgia replace their inefficient appliances with more energy-efficient models.
Abrams said that based on the success of this endeavor, a coalition of organizations came together to “let us invest the money of America to lower the cost of Americans.”
The EPA-Stacey Abrams grift revealed: @staceyabrams just told MSBNC’s @chrislhayes that the Biden EPA gave her $2 billion to buy people new home appliances to reduce electric bills. So Democrats upgraded vote buying from Obama phones to Biden refrigerators. pic.twitter.com/mO0dEFOXmj
@ElonMusk I am here to report $5 BILLION in wasted taxpayer dollars allocated to fund a green energy scam and massive land grab from Missouri farmers and landowners.
I’m urging DOGE to immediately identify and cancel any DOE loan guarantees for the Grain Belt Express project. pic.twitter.com/eRBoP6wvH4
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) March 6, 2025
President Trump on Thursday stripped security clearances of the employees at DNC law firm Perkins Coie.
Perkins Coie (DNC Law firm) was responsible for:
— Russia-Collusion Hoax
— Alpha Bank Hoax
— Hired Fusion GPS
— Hired Christopher Steele & his Dossier
— Election law changes
— FBI workspace onsite – likely access to NSA Systems
— Marc Elias & Michael Sussmann
Recall that Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid law firm Perkins Coie more than $1 million to hire oppo research firm Fusion GPS to peddle the bogus ‘Trump-Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.
(…) John Ratcliffe previously said the entire Perkins Coie law firm could be subject to indictment’ after several of their lawyers lied to federal investigators.
“This was a coordinated effort by Hillary Clinton Campaign officials, by executives who were working with them, lawyers who work for the campaign, all attempting to defraud the federal government… Defrauding the government is a felony, making false statements to federal investigators is a felony,” Ratcliffe said in 2022.
He continued, “And when multiple people do it together I think that is a conspiracy and I think that’s what is being revealed in John Durham’s filings… If multiple lawyers from a law firm are attempting to defraud the government or lie to the government, not just commit a campaign dirty trick but to peddle a false narrative to mislead investigators an entire law firm like Perkins Coie could be subject to indictment.”
(…) As we mentioned earlier, the West may not fully grasp what’s coming. Ukraine supporters aren’t handling the idea of no war well—one popular Ukrainian journalist is now openly calling for President Trump’s assassination.
If there’s one thing this chaos has made clear, it’s that Ukraine supporters don’t take losing well. The idea of peace isn’t just a disappointment to them—it’s a direct threat.
The sad reality? Most Ukrainians want peace. They don’t want to die for this war. But the elites—and their loyal peasant-puppets—are the ones pushing for endless conflict, or worse, World War III.
And as we’re already seeing, their response isn’t diplomacy—it’s rage, revenge, and outright calls for assassination. The West may think it can simply cut the cord and walk away, but Ukraine’s most radical backers won’t go quietly. (Read more: Revolver News, 3/7/2025) (Archive)
A federal judge on Friday refused to block DOGE workers from accessing the Treasury systems.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton appointee, said the plaintiffs did not show there was an immediate risk to sensitive information being shared publicly.
“Plaintiffs’ concerns are understandable and no doubt widely shared. However, on the present record, Plaintiffs have not cleared the “high standard” of showing a likelihood of an irreparable injury that is “beyond remediation,” which is a prerequisite to the issuance of a preliminary injunction in this Circuit,” Judge Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a 44-page opinion.
“Merely asserting that the Treasury DOGE Team’s operations increase the risk of a catastrophic data breach or public disclosure of sensitive information … is not sufficient to support a preliminary injunction,” the judge wrote, according to AP.
The judge did say she is open to blocking DOGE in the future if the plaintiffs show evidence that a small team of workers are putting sensitive information at risk.
“If Plaintiffs could show that Defendants imminently planned to make their private information public or to share that information with individuals outside the federal government with no obligation to maintain its confidentiality, the Court would not hesitate to find a likelihood of irreparable harm. But on the present record, Plaintiffs have not shown that Defendants have such a plan. If circumstances change, Plaintiffs are free to return to federal court to seek any proper emergency remedy,” the judge wrote.
Jan. 6 suspected pipe bomber (Credit: RevolverNews via Rumble)
FBI Director Kash Patel has made good on his promise to restore integrity within the Bureau. Patel has officially turned over explosive documents related to the mysterious pipe bomb incidents on January 6th to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and his investigative committee.
(…) In a detailed letter dated March 7, 2025, the FBI explicitly committed to transparency, declaring, “Under Director Patel’s leadership, the FBI remains committed to working with Congress to ensure transparency and the accountability the American people deserve.
(…) It can be recalled that a report released by the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight into the January 6 pipe bomber shows the FBI stopped looking for the suspect in 2021 and covered up the evidence.
The FBI, under Chris Wray’s leadership, refused to cooperate with congressional investigators.
In September, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino said, according to a whistleblower, after the pipe bombs were found at the RNC and DNC headquarters, “assets on the ground, including a whistleblower, was briefed about the pipe bombs the next day and show a picture of a guy in a hoodie.”
However, according to the whistleblower, the law enforcement agents were told to stand down two days later.
“Nearly four years later, federal law enforcement has yet to identity the individual responsible for planting the pipe bombs, which remains one of the unanswered questions from that day. In the early weeks of the investigation, the FBI took significant investigative steps, identifying multiple persons of interest, issuing search warrants, reviewing hours of security camera footage, and analyzing the components of the pipe bombs. Despite the threat the pipe bombs posed to Congress and the public and the role they played in diverting resources away from the Capitol, federal law enforcement has refused to provide substantive updates to Congress about the status of the investigation,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk’s report stated.
Loudermilk’s report said there has been conflicting information whether the FBI received “corrupted” cellular data from cell carriers.
“There is conflicting information as to whether the FBI received “corrupted” cellular data from the major cell carriers. A former senior FBI official testified that the major cell carrier companies provided “corrupted” cell data to the FBI and suggested that that “corrupted” data may have contained the identity of the pipe bomber; however, in responses to letters from the Subcommittee, the major cell carriers confirmed that they did not provide corrupted data to the FBI and that the FBI never notified them of any issues with accessing the cellular data,” the House report stated.
Also, FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin reported in May 2023 that the technicians who worked on the program told him the devices were inoperable.
Kyle Seraphin, former head of FBI surveillance teams, revealed to The Daily Wire that shortly after the events of January 6, 2021, he was briefed at a firehouse in Falls Church, Virginia, about tracking down a person responsible for planting bombs in Washington, D.C.
According to Seraphin, a counterintelligence team had successfully traced the individual’s movements through Metro security footage, identifying the fare card used by the suspect to board a train following the bomb placements. Investigators determined the suspect exited at a Northern Virginia station, where surveillance captured footage of the suspect entering a vehicle. Both the Metro fare card and the vehicle were registered to the same individual—a retired Air Force chief master sergeant working as a security-cleared contractor.
Seraphin’s surveillance team was tasked with closely monitoring the individual’s residence for several days. However, when Seraphin requested approval to directly interview the suspect, the FBI leadership denied the request. Shortly thereafter, the surveillance operation was abruptly canceled, and Seraphin’s team was redirected to pursue low-level investigative leads regarding minor participants in the January 6 incident. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 3/10/2025)(Archive)
🚨Julie Kelly claims the Deep State is TERRIFIED of Kash Patel exposing J6 Pipebomb cover-up:
“They’re pretending they are still looking for this individual. It is part of the coverup. A head fake before J6. They’re extremely nervous about FBI Director Kash Patel.” pic.twitter.com/ZzFBZ2LQxw
The Middle East Eye has revealed on Wednesday that Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University masters grad who was detained by the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday night after his green car was revoked by the State Department, had security clearance from the British government. He worked, the outlet states, as a “programme manager at the Syria Office in the British embassy in Beirut from 2018 to 2022.”
Khalil “worked as a local manager for the Syria Chevening Program, a prestigious UK government international scholarship scheme, as well as for the Conflict, Stability, and Security Fund,” MEE states. Khalil came to the US in 2023, obtained a green card, and completed graduate studies at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs in December 2024.
British diplomats had kind words for Khalil. Former diplomat Andrew Waller said that to gain his position in the UK’s embassy in Beirut, he “went through a vetting process to get the job and was cleared to work on sensitive issues for the British government.” Waller said that the UK program with which Khalil was affiliated is a “flagship UK soft power policy.”
“It brings the brightest students from around the world to UK universities. Mahmoud ran its Syria programme and interviewed hundreds, if not thousands, of applicants on behalf of the British government,” Waller said. Khalil also served as a “local staff political officer” and a translator both for language and context in meetings. Waller had nothing but kind words for Khalil, per MEE.
That vetting process held no weight with the Trump administration, which, acting on Trump’s order to quell antisemitic protests on campus, has set about revoking visas and green cards of student activists who engaged in the chaos on college campuses in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre.
Student activists on college campuses took up the side of the Hamas terrorists who perpetrated the pogrom which killed 1,200 people and kidnapped over 200, more than 50 of whom are still being held by terrorists in Gaza. It is believed that many of those Hamas is holding hostage are dead. (Read more: Human Events, 3/12/2025)(Archive)
Per @POTUS directive, I have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, and Andrew Weissman, along with the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden “disinformation” letter. The President’s Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden.
Per @POTUS directive, I have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, and Andrew Weissman, along with the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden…
Federal judge James Boasberg advised Chief Justice John Roberts and some two dozen other judges that his D.C. colleagues were “concern[ed] that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis,” according to a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. That Judge Boasberg and his fellow D.C. District Court judges would discuss how a named Defendant in numerous pending lawsuits might respond to an adverse ruling is shocking. Equally outrageous is those judges’ clear disregard for the presumption of regularity — a presumption that requires a court to presume public officials properly discharged their official duties.
During the week of March 11, 2025, members of the Judicial Conference met in Washington, D.C., for the first of its two regular meetings. As the U.S. Court’s webpage explains, “[t]he Judicial Conference of the United States is the national policymaking body for the federal courts.”
The Judicial Conference consists of Chief Justice Roberts, who presides over the body, as well as the chief judge of each judicial circuit, the chief judge of the Court of International Trade, and one district judge from each regional circuit, making for a group of approximately thirty judges. While the Judicial Conference mainstay is considering “administrative and policy issues affecting the federal court system,” and “mak[ing] recommendations to Congress concerning legislation involving the Judicial Branch,” a side conversation at the group’s most recent meeting revealed a disturbing detail — the predisposition of supposedly unbiased judges against the Trump Administration.
In a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist, a member of the Judicial Conference summarized the March meeting, including a “working breakfast” at which Justice Roberts spoke. According to the memorandum, “District of the District of Columbia Chief Judge James Boasberg next raised his colleagues’ concerns that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis.”
“Chief Justice Roberts expressed hope that would not happen and in turn no constitutional crisis would materialize,” according to the memorandum. The summary of the working breakfast added that Chief Justice Roberts noted that “his interactions with the President have been civil and respectful, such as the President thanking him at the state of the union address for administering the oath.”
Donald Trump, however, is not merely the president: He is a Defendant in scores of lawsuits, including multiple cases in the D.C. District Court. As such, this conversation did not concern generic concerns of the judiciary, but specific discussions about a litigant currently before the same judges who expressed concern to the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court that the Trump Administration would disregard the court’s orders.
Judge Boasberg’s comments reveal he and his colleagues hold an anti-Trump bias, for the Trump Administration had complied with every court order to date (and since for that matter). The D.C. District Court judges’ “concern” also went counter to the normal presumption courts hold — one that presumes public officials properly discharged their official duties. Apparently, that presumption does not apply to the current president, at least if you are litigating in D.C.
And what is both troubling and ironic is that only a few days later, Judge Boasberg, in a case in which he completely lacked jurisdiction, as the Supreme Court would later confirm, entered a lawless order commanding the Trump Administration to halt removals to El Salvador. So, one of the judges concerned about Trump following the law, ignored the law. Nonetheless, Judge Boasberg would later find “the Trump Administration committed criminal contempt of court” by failing to turn the planes around or fly the gang members back to the U.S., even though the court’s written (and unlawful) injunction ordered neither.
If USAID was the charitable wing of the U.S. State Dept., why would the remaining senior leadership be instructing all employees to urgently start destroying all records? The answer is easy, the charity mission of USAID was a front for the real operational mission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
USAID has always been a CIA operation within the U.S. State Department silo. The documents they are now being told to shred and burn with urgency are the CIA operational details of how USAID manipulated foreign governments and CIA assets. This is one big coverup operation.
WASHINGTON DC – A senior official at USAID instructed a number of the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to destroy documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information.
The materials earmarked for destruction include contents of the agency’s “classified safes and personnel documents” at the Ronald Reagan Building, said an email sent by USAID’s acting executive director, Erica Carr, and obtained by POLITICO.
“Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” the email said. Carr instructed staff to label the burn bags with the words “SECRET” and “USAID/B/IO/” (agency shorthand for “bureau or independent office”) in dark Sharpie. The email didn’t provide any reason for the document destruction. (read more)
Average Americans are just now starting to get a glimpse of how the DC political system is factually a Potemkin village maintained as a front to give the illusion of democracy while the Intelligence Community controls the functional outcomes of government.
President Trump is like Toto from the Wizard of Oz, exposing the groups behind the DC curtain. More and more people are getting alarmed as their preconceptions of American government are being challenged and destroyed before their eyes. Questions about how long this has been going on are commonplace.
The Intelligence Community has been in slowly increasing control of American government for decades. The Patriot Act was simply booster fuel to complete the takeover. The CIA now operates domestically, domestic clandestine operations inside America, and congress does absolutely nothing to try and stop it because they know the ‘six ways from Sunday’ group are too dangerous to confront.
Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger submitted his resignation on Tuesday, and let’s just say, the timing is more than a little suspicious. More on the below.
Chief J. Thomas Manger will retire from the U.S. Capitol Police on May 2, his office announced Tuesday.
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Manger’s four years on the Hill weren’t without incident. In January, a man managed to slip a handgun past security while on a Capitol tour. The incident provoked bipartisan condemnation from House Administration Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., and ranking member Joseph D. Morelle, D-N.Y.
“The USCP has requested a nearly $1 billion budget from Congress for their operations, which includes extraneous items that miss the mark in terms of their number one priority, keeping the U.S. Capitol and all who visit and work here safe,” the pair said in a joint statement at the time.
It will now be up to the three-member Capitol Police Board — the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms, as well as the Architect of the Capitol — to select a new chief.
The first to call out Chief Manger was former Capitol Police Lieutenant Tarik Johnson. Here’s what he had to say about the chief and the danger President Trump faced on his 2025 Inauguration Day.
🚨Breaking: USCP Chief J Thomas Manger is ranked as the third Dirtiest Capitol Cop to ever don the uniform and he’s back to his old tricks again! I’m giving Manger 48 hours to inform the country of what occurred during President Trump’s Inauguration last month. I just found out today.
Once again, he (Manger) has done the country a disservice as he tries to cover-up security malfeasance that could have easily put the life of our President in danger. I wanted nothing more than to be done with Manger but I WILL NOT be silent about this.
Tarik K Johnson
Former Lieutenant US Capitol Police
🚨Breaking: USCP Chief J Thomas Manger is ranked as the third Dirtiest Capitol Cop to ever don the uniform and he’s back to his old tricks again! I’m giving Manger 48 hours to inform the country of what occurred during President Trump’s Inauguration last month. I just found out… pic.twitter.com/4hlpRGbzee
A week or so later, Tarik was back with another update. In this March 7th post, he exposed even more dangerous events unfolding on Capitol Hill under the not-so-watchful eye of Chief Manger.
Tarik Johnson:
🚨Emergency Update!!!!!!!
I was going to wait until Monday for this but things are developing rapidly so I must inform the public now in a series of tweets. Here is what’s happening:
On Tuesday (SOTU) a House staffer gained entry into one of the House office buildings that leads to the U.S. Capitol. That staffer was in possession of a gun. He was eventually caught and arrested. What makes the problem even worse I’m told the staffer asked (after his arrest) what the problem was with this as no one said anything to him about him bringing the gun in the previous day.
This is the fourth instance of a gun being brought in a building policed by USCP Chief J Thomas Manger since Trump was elected President. What is frightening to me is that both dates that President Trump attended events at the Capitol it was on a date where a gun made it in one of the buildings and I’m told one of the guns made it in a room where President Trump was actually in and only feet away from him.
This can’t happen!!! I’m still getting more information on this and I’ll have another tweet tomorrow.
Tarik K Johnson
Former Lieutenant U.S. Capitol Police
🚨Emergency Update!!!!!!!
I was going to wait until Monday for this but things are developing rapidly so I must inform the public now in a series of tweets. Here is what’s happening:
On Tuesday (SOTU) a House staffer gained entry into one of the House office buildings that… https://t.co/dHgVUDKwA2
About five days later—after serious pressure from Roger Stone—Chief Manger finally stepped down. Stone announced the news on X:
Capitol Police Cheif resigns hours after I exposed two different gun men in the Capitol during both the Inauguration and the State of the Union address on the StoneZONE yesterday on @77WABCradiohttps://t.co/JiUU9UXfbY
If you really want to know what happened on January 6, just ask the guy who was in charge that day.
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund finally got the chance to tell his full story—thanks to Tucker Carlson. Sund originally sat down with Tucker when he was still at Fox News, but that interview mysteriously never aired, and Tucker was fired. Tucker invited him back to set the record straight, and what Sund said blew even more holes in the “official” narrative.
Sund also raised serious concerns about intelligence failures and even possible federal involvement. He revealed that officials knew about potential threats but did absolutely nothing—pointing to a much bigger, more sinister cover-up. Sund also admitted he was completely left in the dark on key intelligence. Basically, the man in charge was blindsided by the events and then used as a convenient scapegoat.
Ep. 15 Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reveals what really happened on January 6th. Our Fox News interview with him never aired, so we invited him back. pic.twitter.com/opDlu4QGlp
Sund’s story starts making a lot more sense when you see clips like this—Capitol Police practically inciting a riot. So, who was really calling the shots that day?
There’s still a lot of work to be done unraveling the many layers of the J6 “Fedsurrection.” From what really happened that day to the nearby pipe bomb hoax—another major scandal that hits close to home for Revolver. We recently covered how Kash Patel is making aggressive moves to expose the truth behind the pipe bomb cover-up. (Read more: Revolver News, 3/13/2025)(Archive)
A formal complaint has been lodged with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) against Catholic Charities, accusing the organization of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) through alleged involvement in facilitating illegal immigration.
The complaint, first brought to public attention by journalist Jack Posobiec via a post on X, claims that Catholic Charities, a prominent Catholic nonprofit and recipient of substantial federal funding, has engaged in activities that amount to trafficking undocumented immigrants across U.S. borders.
The filing invokes RICO, a statute traditionally used to combat organized crime, alleging a pattern of racketeering activity tied to the organization’s immigration-related operations.
The complaint specifically accuses Catholic Charities of receiving «billions of dollars» in government grants to resettle immigrants and refugees, funds that critics say have been misused to support illegal immigration rather than lawful humanitarian efforts.
It asserts that the organization has knowingly facilitated the transportation and resettlement of undocumented individuals, potentially in violation of federal immigration laws. Critics cited in the complaint, including activists Rachel Masters Yakima and Dr. Janet Smith, have escalated the allegations by linking these activities to broader negligence, pointing to the claim of «300,000 missing children» as evidence of inadequate oversight and protection of vulnerable populations.
Rachel Masters Yakima (l) and Dr. Janet Smith (Credit: clipping from Posobiec video)
In separate letters addressed to JD Vance and President Trump, Yakima and Smith demanded a RICO investigation not only into Catholic Charities but also into the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, accusing the Church-affiliated group of prioritizing funding over accountability, with Smith and Yakima stating, «They just say, ‘Trust us,’» in reference to the organization’s assurances of compliance. (Read more: Gateway Hispanic, 3/12/2025)(Archive)
Catholic Charities NGO revenue quadrupled under the Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Administration. It went from $44 Million to $217 Million as they were paid to bring in illegals. pic.twitter.com/vCCYI9ab2m
The whistleblower, David Nelson, said his network access was revoked on Thursday afternoon.
UPDATE: Internal Revenue Service Revokes Whistleblower David Nelsen’s Access to Network, IRS Chief of Media Hangs Up on O’Keefe When Pressed for Comment pic.twitter.com/o9NN4MAfaJ
Maui’s Police Chief John Pelletier (Credit: public domain)
An amended lawsuit against Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs has named Maui’s police chief as a co-conspirator, alleging the officer helped the music mogul cover up a woman’s rape in 2018.
The documents, filed by a woman and two additional plaintiffs, accuses Pelletier of posing as a Contra Costa, California sheriff in order to deter a woman from filing a rape charge against the disgraced rapper.
At the time, however, Pelletier was working as a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department captain and had no jurisdiction in the Golden State.
‘Plaintiff told defendant Pelletier, believing he was a sheriff from local police, she had been violently gang raped by defendant Diddy and others and that she did not have her clothes, phone, purse, car keys or cell phone,’ the complaint reads.
In light of the jaw-dropping new claims, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen has called for an investigation over the lawsuit’s accusations made against the police chief, KHON-TV reported.
The mayor, who has served in the role since 2023, said he wants Pelletier to be put on administrative leave in the meantime.
‘There is precedent within County of Maui government for placing appointed officials on leave while allegations against them are investigated,’ Bissen said in a letter to the the Maui Police Commission.
‘This approach does not constitute a presumption of guilt but ensures that the individual in question is not in a position that may compromise the integrity of the office while the matter is under review,’ he continued.
‘Given the gravity of the allegations, I recommend that the Maui Police Commission place Chief Pelletier on administrative leave pending further investigation.’
Pelletier commented on the mayor’s request, fiercely denying the accusations.
‘Let me be clear: the allegations made against me are completely false, and I have not been formally served with any legal paperwork,’ Pelletier said. (Read more: Daily Mail, 3/12/2025)(Archive)
(…) A career Director-level employee at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been slapped with federal charges for allegedly scamming the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and lying to federal agents.
Serina Baker-Hill, 55, a Detroit-based CBP bigwig overseeing the Center for Excellence and Expertise over Automotive and Aerospace Engineering, thought she could pull a fast one on hardworking American taxpayers, according to the press release.
According to a freshly unsealed federal complaint, Baker-Hill exploited a federal disaster declaration after floods hit Michigan in August 2023. She applied for FEMA aid, claiming her basement was damaged and that she couldn’t live in her home while repairs were underway.
FEMA, trusting her word, handed over cash for home repairs and two months of rental assistance to cover temporary housing costs.
However, she didn’t use a dime of that money for rent, hotels, or utilities.
Bank records expose her scheme—she pocketed the funds while cozying up in her supposedly “unlivable” home.
Video surveillance even caught her and her husband living there like nothing was wrong, and utility records show no drop-off consistent with an empty house.
When questioned by federal agents from the FBI and CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), Baker-Hill maintained her innocence, asserting she had never committed fraud or any illegal activity against the government.
The FBI’s Detroit Border Corruption Task Force, CBP-OPR, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General jointly conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Eaton P. Brown is prosecuting the case. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 3/12/2025) (Archive)
Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, held a press conference with Republican lawmakers Wednesday at the New York State Capitol in Albany to discuss sanctuary cities and Green Light Laws in the state.
“You’re not gonna stop us New York state. You’ve got to change the sanctuary stairs. If you don’t get out of the way, we’re going to do our job,” Homan said.
The meeting mainly focused on immigration and border security issues as part of ongoing discussions surrounding federal immigration policies. (Fox5NY, 3/13/2025)(Archive)
Just the News Editor in Chief John Solomon reports that Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi with evidence revealing that the Biden White House directly helped start Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation into President Donald Trump. According to the letter, the White House Counsel’s Office secretly obtained Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence’s former cell phones on behalf of the prosecution.
BREAKING NEWS ON J6 PROBE
“CONGRESS HAS OBTAINED EVIDENCE THAT SHOWS THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE WAS DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN STARTING JACK SMITH’S INVESTIGATION ON THE JANUARY 6TH PROBE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP.” @jsolomonReports details.@AmandaHeadpic.twitter.com/vaUWnmaZwq
— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) April 8, 2025
CTH has long documented the history of FBI as a political weapon for the interests of Washington DC. From a research perspective, there is no longer any question about the intents and motives of the FBI as a fully weaponized agency, working against the interests of the American people.
That said, Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson have recently released stunning information highlighting how the FBI conducted an operation in 2022 entirely to ensnare President Donald Trump within their corrupt and political investigative clutches. [Press Announcement Here]
Grassley and Johnson have sent the documentary evidence to current Attorney General Pam Bondi along with a letter that outlines a political targeting operation against Donald Trump known as “Arctic Frost.” [Letter pdf Here]
WASHINGTON – In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) made public legally protected whistleblower disclosures showing the FBI, as part of its Arctic Frost investigation, acquired the government cell phones of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, among other government officials. FBI agents used taxpayer dollars to crisscross the country and conduct dozens of interviews in support of the political probe.
Timothy Thibault (Credit: public domain)
The unclassified FBI records convey the alarming scope and speed of the FBI’s 2022 investigation of President Trump, which they dubbed “Operation Arctic Frost.” The investigation – launched by anti-Trump FBI agent Timothy Thibault in a breach of FBI protocol – formed the basis of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s elector case against Trump. Upon opening the investigation, Thibault vowed it would be “prioritized over all others in the Branch” and commented that “it frankly took too long for us to open this [investigation].”
“Sunshine is the best disinfectant,” the chairmen wrote to Bondi and Patel. “The American people deserve to know the complete extent of the corruption within the DOJ and FBI that led to the investigation into President Trump. We are making this information public for purposes of public accountability and to provide specific examples of past behavior at your institutions that must not be repeated. Quite simply, the public has a right to know what happened in Arctic Frost and, based on what we’ve exposed to date, the American public deserves better from its law enforcement agencies. It is important that every individual at your agencies maintains the highest level of professionalism, and does not allow political bias to motivate or guide their investigative work.”
Within weeks of opening Arctic Frost on April 13, 2022, FBI agents began taking aggressive action to build out their case. The following is a summary of some Arctic Frost investigatory updates, based on unclassified internal FBI records: (more)
The hammer is about to drop on Act Blue, the Democrats’ golden goose of fundraising, as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) teams up with the FBI to expose what could be the biggest money-laundering scandal in American political history.
In an explosive interview with Benny Johnson, Comer laid out a damning case against the far-left fundraising juggernaut, accusing it of funneling billions in suspicious cash—potentially from foreign adversaries—into Democrat coffers under the guise of “grassroots” donations.
🚨BREAKING: Rep. James Comer and the FBI to bring CRIMINAL CHARGES against those behind ActBlue, The Largest Money Laundering Scheme in U.S. history:
“We are going forward with our investigation. Their lawyers are leaving… This will be the end of the Democratic Party.” pic.twitter.com/6OOXyGjyr4
“We’re investigating ActBlue the same way we investigated the Bidens,” Comer said. “We’re starting with the suspicious activity reports—bank violations that flag financial crimes. And let me tell you, the evidence is overwhelming.”
As Comer’s investigation progresses, chaos is unfolding inside ActBlue. Key executives are resigning. Lawyers are jumping ship. Employees are getting locked out of their computers, sending frantic messages about whistleblowers.
Benny Johnson, conservative commentator and host, nailed the urgency of the situation: “When the lawyers flee, you know you’re cooked.”
Comer confirmed the exodus: “These people know what’s coming. If ActBlue was innocent, they’d be out there defending themselves, calling me a conspiracy theorist. Instead, they’re running for the hills.”
The chairman detailed how his committee began investigating ActBlue after discovering a flood of small-dollar donations from untraceable sources, many from elderly Americans who were unaware their names were being used to funnel cash into the Democrat machine.
And now, it looks like the walls are closing in. ActBlue is imploding as executives flee, lawyers quit, and insiders start turning on each other. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 3/13/2025)(Archive)
THE SOROS THREAD: THE BILLIONAIRES GRAB AT GLOBAL INFLUENCE
Okay, let’s get into it—George Soros, the guy with the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and over $32 billion to play with since 1979, has his reach all over the world.
He’s tosses money into elections, rattles governments, and destabilizes economies, sugarcoating it by saying it’s for good.
Long known as a top donor to progressive district attorneys across the U.S, now, his son, Alex Soros, controls the empire, contributing over $720,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020.
Lets dive in by region to understand Soros’ influence around the world👇
🧵THE SOROS THREAD: THE BILLIONAIRES GRAB AT GLOBAL INFLUENCE
Okay, let’s get into it—George Soros, the guy with the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and over $32 billion to play with since 1979, has his reach all over the world.
4/ 🇬🇧United Kingdom: The Cash Grabber on a ‘Black Wednesday’
Back in 1992, Soros actually destabilized the UK, he bet $10 billion against their money—the pound—and walked away with a billion….the day is known as “Black Wednesday.”
Beyond ballots, Soros’s “Safety and Justice” funding props up DAs like George Gascón, whose policies critics tie to urban disorder—Los Angeles a case in point.
During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad blamed George Soros for fueling economic collapse by short-selling Asian currencies.
14/ 🇦🇷 Argentina: Soros Clash Over Argentina’s Debt
George Soros has entered the battle over Argentina’s debt, challenging fellow billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund Elliott Management is blocking payments to bondholders.
15/ 🇨🇴 Colombia: Soros Funds the Vice President’s Luxury Diplomatic Tour
Colombia’s Vice President Francia Márquez admitted that George Soros financed part of her opulent trip to Africa, which included an entourage of 53 people, including her partner with no official role.
In 2011, Obama signed an Executive Order to Cut Waste and Promote Efficiency. You know, like
@DOGE. 😂
“We don’t need to wait for Congress in order to do something about wasteful spending.”
“We haven’t seen as much action out of Congress as we’d like, and that’s why we launched our own initiative to cut waste.”
“For example, we’ve identified thousands of government buildings that we don’t need. Some have sat empty for years. So we are getting rid of those properties, saving the American people billions of dollars.”
“Obviously, this is even more important given the deficits that we have inherited.”
“These are important steps that can save taxpayers billions of dollars.”
Fortunately for @BarackObama, unlike @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk, fake news propaganda didn’t fabricate controversies and divide the nation over every decision he made.
In 2011, Obama signed an Executive Order to Cut Waste and Promote Efficiency. You know, like @DOGE. 😂
“We don’t need to wait for Congress in order to do something about wasteful spending.”
“We haven’t seen as much action out of Congress as we’d like, and that’s why we launched… pic.twitter.com/XweVsTMrP5
Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble’s “System Update,” to discuss the New York Times finally telling the truth about the COVID lab leak theory in a column, how it’s five years too late, and more.
The “Pardons” that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level. The fact is, they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!
Legacy media is having a meltdown over President Trump claiming Joe Biden’s presidential pardons are void.
The fake news is claiming there’s no indication Biden signed them with autopen. Actually, there is.
238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrive at CECOT, El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center. (Credit: video clipping)
President Trump’s Justice Department provided an update to a radical judge’s order forcing planes en route to Central and South America carrying dangerous Venezuelan aliens to turn around and come back to the US.
“Any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States however that is accomplished,” Boasberg said, according to Politico. “Make sure it’s complied with immediately.”
There were reportedly two flights en route to Central America. One flight bound for El Salvador likely already took off.
On Sunday morning El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele mocked Judge Boasberg after two flights from the US carrying approximately 300 Venezuelan aliens and other gang members landed in El Salvador.
Bukele also posted video of the first 238 members of Tren de Aragua arriving in El Salvador where they will be locked up at CECOT for the foreseeable future.
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
Attorney General Pam Bondi has unleashed a blistering emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, demanding an immediate stay of an “outrageous overreach” by Obama-appointed District Judge James E. “Jeb” Boasberg.
The motion, filed early Saturday morning, accuses Boasberg of sabotaging the Trump administration’s national security agenda by issuing an “unauthorized” Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that blocks the removal of dangerous illegal aliens tied to the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA)—a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
The explosive filing accuses Boasberg of acting without jurisdiction, without evidence, and without even hearing from the government—rushing to issue a 14-day TRO just hours after five anonymous Venezuelan plaintiffs filed a class-action complaint. (Gateway Pundit, 3/16/2025)
These plaintiffs, detained in Texas, claim they fear being wrongly swept up in Trump’s rumored plan to invoke the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to expel TdA members.
Their lawsuit, J.G.G. v. Trump, seeks to upend Trump’s lawful enforcement of immigration laws, arguing that invoking the Alien Enemies Act—a wartime measure historically used to remove hostile foreign nationals—is somehow “unprecedented” and “unlawful” during “peacetime.” (Gateway Pundit, 3/16/2025)
REPORT: Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller secretly orchestrated the Venezuelan gang members’ flights to El Salvador to get the criminals out of the country before an activist judge could take action.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was grilled by CNN’s Kasie Hunt over whether the Trump administration ignored orders from a district judge to stop the deportation of Venezuelan gang members from the U.S. to El Salvador.
In a heated interview on Monday, Hunt repeatedly pressed Miller as to whether President Trump was ignoring District Court judge James Boasberg who issued an order to turn around three planes transporting Venezuelan gang members from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador.
Miller delivered a detailed lesson on the president’s constitutional authority, citing the 1798 Alien Enemies Act which was enacted by Founding Father John Adams, to support the presidential power to repel an “alien invasion” organized by Venezuela.
WATCH IN FULL: White House Deputy Chief of Staff @StephenM schools Fake News CNN’s @kasie on the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law. pic.twitter.com/2TMnKyBLwk
When Hunt responded that judicial oversight is essential to our system of government, Miller systematically dismantled her claim, explaining that an unelected district court judge cannot override the president’s role as Commander-in-Chief.
Miller asked Hunt, “Can a district court judge enjoin troop movements overseas? Can he direct Air Force One or an aircraft carrier? No? Then why are we pretending he can stop the expulsion of foreign terrorists or illegal invaders?”
Hunt was unable to answer Miller’s questions but instead returned to repeatedly questioning whether the Trump administration was ignoring the judge’s order by not calling the planes back to the U.S.
Miller turned the question back onto Hunt asking her, “Did [the judge] know how much fuel was in those planes? Did he know the weather conditions? The need for crew rest? No. This judge violated the law. He violated the Constitution.” (Read more: American Greatness, 3/18/2025)(Archive)
Black described himself on social media as a senior political adviser to @TeamPelosi, the former speaker’s personal account on X. (Credit: Twitter/X/Wayback Machine)
Rally organizer Dustin Stockton says Aaron Black, aka Aaron Minter, lied about being at the Capitol during protests and rioting.
When Kylie Jane Kremer heard the name Aaron Black for the first time, she was told “he was Nancy Pelosi’s fixer.”
In her first media interview since Jan. 6, 2021, the executive director of Women for America First said she wasn’t familiar with Black’s name before President Donald J. Trump’s rally at the Ellipse — an event her group organized and ran.
– First in a series on the infiltration of Jan. 6 –
That all changed in the days after the violence at the U.S. Capitol. Kremer gathered with some of her event staff in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, having left Washington, D.C., due to the post-Jan. 6 political climate.
Kremer quizzed one of her organizers, Jennifer Lawrence, about a secretive Dec. 29 phone call made by Lawrence’s fiancé, Dustin Stockton. Kremer said she had wondered why Stockton, one of her key event organizers, insisted on getting off the “March for Trump” tour bus to make a private call.
“At one point we had to pull over the vehicles so that Dustin could make a private phone call that he did not want anyone else in the vehicle [to hear],” Kremer said. “And it was very odd. He was acting very weird; he was very secretive about it, would not tell us who the phone call was.”
The bus and support vehicles pulled over in a remote area of Arizona so that Stockton could make his phone call. Kremer asked Lawrence who was on the other end of the line. “Aaron Black,” was the reply.
Kremer said Lawrence told her that Black “was Nancy Pelosi’s fixer, and they had known him for a very long time, going back to Tea Party days back on the West Coast.”
Kremer said she found that revelation disturbing.
“I felt very unnerved by it, because I can’t think of a world that I would have anything to do with anybody in Nancy Pelosi’s office or orbit.”
The possible infiltration of Women for America First is but one example of the left’s involvement in the events that unfolded at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. President Trump and hundreds of thousands of supporters were accused of carrying out an insurrection that day. A deep examination of the actions of the left — directly and by extension — is needed to yield a fuller understanding of Jan. 6, its players, and the violence that was used to justify a government war on conservatives. Central to the infiltration of the Jan. 6 rally is a longtime close associate of former House Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.): Aaron Black.
Stockton, who has organized conservative events around the country for 15 years, freely admits to his long-standing relationship with the veteran Democrat political operative and campaign strategist.
Stockton adamantly disagrees with Kremer’s story about the clandestine desert phone call to Black, saying, “It was no secret that I knew Aaron Black and that we had an open line of communication going back more than a decade,” Stockton told Blaze Media. “The Kremers were well aware of my relationship with Aaron Black long before January 6.”
Stockton knew Black from Black’s days with the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 and Stockton’s time at Breitbart News covering the 2016 presidential campaign. During one March 2016 event, Black arranged to put violent agitators at the Trump rally in Chicago that led to its cancellation, he later admitted in an undercover Project Veritas video.
Stockton said he asked Black if he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and Black replied that he was “out of town.”
“Aaron had told me that he wasn’t in town for January 6,” Stockton said. “After seeing a picture of him and confronting him about it, he admitted he was on the Capitol steps to me and others,” Stockton said.
“I don’t know the extent of his involvement in the setup of American patriots on January 6,” Stockton said, “but took it as an unforgivable betrayal.” (Read more: The Blaze, 3/17/2025)(Archive)
Hearing now underway in Judge Boasberg’s courtroom on his nationwide temp restraining order related to the president’s March 15 proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act. Boasberg acted within hours of a lawsuit filed by ACLU on behalf of 5 suspected Venezuelan terrorists pic.twitter.com/NAoBQmOzfh
Boasberg: I have scheduled this hearing for fact finding on government’s response to my order. Focus on timeline involved and get a sense of numbers of people here. I just want “facts” not planning to issue any ruling about the government’s conduct.
Judge Boasberg demands the Justice Department must disclose highly classified information about a national-security operation involving the worst terrorists and one of America’s strongest allies in the Western Hemisphere.
Boasberg: “You’re saying the president has extra powers over a plane once it leaves the United States?”
HOW IS THIS REAL
Boasberg: “I think my equitable powers are pretty clear that they don’t end at the water’s edge or air (space) edge. These are interesting questions to have on a set of FACTS which is what I was hoping to get today.”
Boasberg: “You’re saying the president has extra powers over a plane once it leaves the United States?”
HOW IS THIS REAL
Boasberg: “I think my equitable powers are pretty clear that they don’t end at the water’s edge or air (space) edge. These are interesting questions to have…
ACLU suggests a flight related to proclamation took off on Friday March 14.
Boasberg again demands that DOJ tell him how many people are covered by proclamation. DOJ resists and Boasberg says he wants to know why he cannot receive that information.
“What I will hear from you by noon tomorrow and I will memorialize this in a written order that you will offer me a sworn declaration that no one on the third flight was subject to the proclamation and why you cannot answer my specific questions in public and in what form you can answer them.”
ACLU suggests a flight related to proclamation took off on Friday March 14.
Boasberg again demands that DOJ tell him how many people are covered by proclamation. DOJ resists and Boasberg says he wants to know why he cannot receive that information.
A legal firm with deep ties to George and Alexander Soros’s network of left-wing nonprofits and, is partially behind a lawsuit attempting to block President Donald Trump from deporting illegal alien gang members from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act, Breitbart News has learned.
(…) The lawsuit has five illegal aliens in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, accused of being gang members, suing the Trump administration over using the Alien Enemies Act to justify their potential deportation from the United States.
A federal judge has since ordered Trump to stop such deportations. However, the gang members bound for El Salvador over the weekend, according to the administration, had already landed in the country at the time the order came down.
Democracy Forward, which is helping the ACLU represent the illegal aliens suing the Trump administration, has deep financial ties to the Soros network.
The firm lists left-wing organizations like the Center for American Progress, National Immigration Law Center, Color of Change, UnidosUS, Common Justice, and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, among many others, as clients and partners,.
The Soros-chaired Open Society Foundation, now run by billionaire George Soros’s son Alexander Soros, has funded several of Democracy Forward’s clients and partners. For example, in 2023, the Open Society Foundation awarded Color of Change a $3 million grant after giving the group nearly $1.5 million in funding in 2018 and 2019.
Similarly, and perhaps most significantly, the Open Society Foundation remains one of the largest donors to the Center for American Progress — a group that is considered the unofficial policy wing of the Democrat Party. (Read more: Breitbart News, 3/17/2025)(Archive)
TRUMP PURGES U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE—DOGE, FBI, AND POLICE ESCORT NEW LEADERSHIP IN TAKEOVER
The Trump administration removed 11 U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) board members, installing Kenneth Jackson as Acting President with support from Def Sec Hegseth and Sec of State Rubio.
DOGE arrived with FBI agents, but USIP’s lawyer initially blocked them. Monday, DC Police escorted Jackson inside.
USIP’s old leadership refused access and even tried firing private security.
Source:@JenniferJJacobs, @DOGE
SHOWDOWN AT PEACE INSTITUTE: DOGE TEAM TAKES CONTROL WITH POLICE BACKUP
DC Police escorted new Acting USIP President Kenneth Jackson into building after former president allegedly refused access and “tried to fire security team.”
USIP officials claim they’re an independent agency outside executive branch control and called police to stop “trespassing”—but officers instead helped DOGE enter and removed institute staff.
Resolution shows board members from Defense and State Departments formally removed George Moose on March 14.
Talk about ironic—chaos at the Institute of Peace.
Source: Associated Press, New York Times @DOGE
🚨🇺🇸TRUMP PURGES U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE—DOGE, FBI, AND POLICE ESCORT NEW LEADERSHIP IN TAKEOVER
The Trump administration removed 11 U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) board members, installing Kenneth Jackson as Acting President with support from Def Sec Hegseth and Sec of State… https://t.co/9JRsnUKmsrpic.twitter.com/qVNpBrrpJL
Trump’s purge of the U.S. Institute of Peace is a glorious gut-punch to the swamp—a bold, America First smackdown of globalist leeches. Eleven board members axed, replaced by Kenneth Jackson with Hegseth and Rubio’s muscle, backed by DOGE, FBI, and DC cops storming the gates. This isn’t a takeover; it’s a liberation from woke bureaucrats who’ve turned a peace outfit into a cash-laundering racket for elitist agendas. Patriots, rejoice—Trump’s draining the cesspool, one nest at a time.
The facts scream corruption: USIP’s raked in over $50 million yearly from taxpayers, yet it’s a black hole—less than 10% of its spending tracked for real results. They hid behind independent status, but Trump’s executive order shredded that lie. FBI agents got stonewalled Friday, only for cops to smash through Monday after old leadership tried firing security to cling to power. This is war on waste, and Trump’s swinging the hammer—Hegseth and Rubio don’t mess around.
America First means no more funding peacenik fronts while our borders bleed and vets rot. The left’s howling, but patriots know: this is justice. Want the unfiltered breakdown of how Trump’s torching the deep state? Follow @FinalTelegraph for the red-hot truth. As Thomas Paine said, Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Trump’s purge of the U.S. Institute of Peace is a glorious gut-punch to the swamp—a bold, America First smackdown of globalist leeches. Eleven board members axed, replaced by Kenneth Jackson with Hegseth and Rubio’s muscle, backed by DOGE, FBI, and DC cops storming the gates.…
High drama today at the US Institute of Peace, the belly of secrets attached to the US State Department which has cryptically promoted narco networks from Afghanistan to Albania. What have they been hiding, and why did it take federal police barging in to get answers? https://t.co/WpmuagjvHBpic.twitter.com/PUCA60UtQ4
Elon Musk just pulled back the curtain on what’s really fueling government waste and fraud. Speaking with Senator Ted Cruz, he revealed there are at least 14 “magic money computers” that can “send money out of nothing,” meaning these government systems are issuing trillions in payments with little oversight or real-time accountability.
Musk explained that these computers don’t operate in a way where they “talk to each other.” Instead, Musk explained they function in a way that allows money to move through government agencies unchecked, sometimes in ways that don’t align with official records.
The numbers lawmakers see aren’t always accurate, with government books potentially off by 5% to 10%. That could mean up to hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars are misallocated or disappearing, while the actual financial activity remains hidden deep inside these systems.
“So you may think that the government computers all talk to each other. They synchronize, they add up what funds are going somewhere, and it’s coherent that the numbers, for example, that you’re presented as a senator are actually the real numbers. They’re not,” Musk explained.
“They’re not totally wrong,” he continued. “They’re probably off by 5% or 10% in some cases. So I call it Magic Money Computer. Any computer which can just make money out of thin air. That’s Magic Money.”
“So how does that work?” Ted Cruz asked.
“It just issues payments,” Musk answered. “I think we found now 14 magic money computers. They just send money out of nothing.”
Elon Musk just pulled back the curtain on what’s really fueling government waste and fraud. Speaking with Senator Ted Cruz, he revealed there are at least 14 “magic money computers” that can “send money out of nothing,” meaning these government systems are issuing trillions in… pic.twitter.com/lxrvLT4NJP
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
Chief Judge Boasberg Blocked the deportation of Tren de Aragua gang member’s without disclosing the fact that his daughter works for a 501c3 called “Partners For Justice” that gives criminal illegal aliens and gang members legal advice.
I have exclusively uncovered a massive CONFLICT OF INTEREST involving Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Boasberg recently made the decision to prevent the deportation of criminal illegal alien gang members on planes out of the country.
‼️CONFLICT OF INTEREST EXPOSED‼️
The Judge has a daughter named Katherine Boasberg, who works for a 501(c)(3) organization called Partners for Justice @PFJ_USA as a “capacity building associate”. In her position, she helps coordinate and administer grant activities, ensuring compliance, and supporting the delivery of capacity-building programs to strengthen nonprofit infrastructure.
Katherine Boasberg also has pronouns in her bio. She goes by SHE/HER, proving her affiliation with the Left.
The Judge’s daughter focuses on criminal defense and advocacy as an employee of Partners For Justice.
Partners for Justice is an organization that derives 76% of its funding from GOVERNMENT GRANTS!
From the Partners For Justice website:
“Our Impact:
“Supporting those in need, transforming the system. Partners for Justice is transforming public defenders into a robust network of dynamic, people-centered service centers to reduce incarceration, increase equity, and positively impact the lives of those harmed by cycles of incarceration, poor health, and poverty. Since 2018 they have connected thousands of people with stabilizing services and eliminated an estimated 5,000 years of jail and prison time, compared to maximum exposure.”
Partners for Justice strongly opposes mass deportations and legislation targeting members of criminal gangs, and has been a vocal critic of the Laken Riley Act.
Emily Galvin Almanza (Credit: LinkedIn)
In a screenshot below, Emily Galvin-Almanza @GalvinAlmanza, the founder of “Partners for Justice” tweeted an article about Judge Boasberg blocking @realDonaldTrump’s deportations of Venezuelan gang bangers. She employs the Judge’s daughter.
Such a close familial relationship brings into question how the judge may render decisions and how his decisions may impact the professional career of his daughter, who’s employment is based upon defending criminal illegal aliens, gang members, and opposing mass deportations.
It seems that Judge Boasberg has a clear conflict of interest & is obligated to recuse himself from this case, as outlined in the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, which specifies the circumstances under which a judge must disqualify themselves from a proceeding.
(Credit: Laura Loomer)
The disqualification clause states the following:
“A judge shall disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances in which:
The judge or the judge’s spouse, or a person related to either within the third degree of relationship, or the spouse of such a person is:
Known by the judge to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding.”
The mass deportation of criminal illegal aliens and gang members could lead to a substantial reduction in urban crime rates, potentially decreasing the caseload for Partners for Justice, while also reducing gang-related incidents that may, in turn, diminish funding opportunities for Partners For Justice from U.S. government grants and private foundations.
Judge Boasberg MUST RECUSE HIMSELF!
Given his daughter’s employment at a group that advocates for criminal illegal Aliens & is funded by US Government grants, Judge Boasberg should not be granted any sensitive information about deportation flights. His family is a national security threat.
@Sec_Noem @RealTomHoman
See receipts below
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨Chief Judge Boasberg Blocked the deportation of Tren de Aragua gang member’s without disclosing the fact that his daughter works for a 501c3 called “Partners For Justice” that gives criminal illegal aliens and gang members legal advice.
The Indian government raided George Soros-backed offices in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
The Enforcement Directorate raided eight Soros-backed offices linked to the Open Society Foundations (OSF), an organization backed by US billionaire George Soros, along with some linked entities in Bengaluru.
This action stems from allegations of violations under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), highlighting the government’s commitment to curbing foreign interference in domestic affairs.
The central agency raided the premises linked to Rootbridge Services Pvt Ltd in Ashoknagar, ASAR Social Advisor Pvt Ltd in Malleswaram, and a third unnamed company, a well-placed source in the ED has confirmed.
According to the source, the raids came after OSF transferred Rs 25 crore to the companies in “suspicious” transactions in the past few months. Former employees of Amnesty India chair the board of directors of these companies, the source added…
Investigations revealed that between 2020-21 and 2023-24, approximately ₹25 crore was funneled from Soros’ organizations to various Indian NGOs through complex financial arrangements.
…In the past, OSF would send funds to its India beneficiaries having licences under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA). However, in 2016, the ministry placed OSF under the PRC within the FCRA. The act specifies that any company placed un…
Schumer mocks “greedy” Americans who want to keep more of their own money: “Their attitude is, ‘I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me?'”pic.twitter.com/noNO8cgdMe
What a fool ridiculing hard-working taxpayers and the bolz in the way Schumer does it! He makes it clear how stupid he thinks we, the taxpayers, are after DOGE discovers all the lowlife stealing they did.
Natalie Winters lays into Christopher Steele on Piers Morgan Uncensored, 3/19/2025)
(…) Winters appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored in an episode broadcast on Wednesday with former MI6 operative Christopher Steele, the man responsible for manufacturing the dirty Russia dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and starting the Russiagate hoax.
He filled the 35-page dossier filed with garbage lies such as Trump having ‘golden showers’ with Russian prostitutes to libel Trump as a Russian asset.
Steele later admitted he leaked the libelous dossier to help Hillary. A UK court also confirmed he lied about Trump.
However, this did not stop Steele from showing up to spread more garbage against Trump. After listening to Winters’ incredible tour de force, he likely regretted his decision.
The fiery young conservative warrior spoke for all Trump fans when she explained in no uncertain terms why Steele was the ultimate grifter while calling out all of his smears against Trump directly to his face.
“You wanted to go down in history as the man who took down President Trump.
Instead you’ll be remembered as the ultimate liar and grifter.”
WINTERS: I know Christopher Steele wanted to go down in history as someone who colluded with the Clinton campaign to take down President Donald J. Trump. But I think that you represent the ultimate grifter in the American political space.
For you to even come on here…To sit here nearly a decade after you tried to smear President Trump as a Russian asset to then say, ‘Well, I think he’s a Russian asset, but even though I’m really good at my job and create all of my intelligence reports, it’s just sort of a feeling that I have.
I’m sorry; what stones do you have even left to turn over to try to corroborate your claim that Trump is a Russian asset? You weaponized FISA Courts, surveillance, warrants, international spy agencies, the entire DNC apparatus…The American people would really appreciate it if you stopped injecting your efforts to totally tank the America First movement by smearing anyone who doesn’t want to get involved in forever wars and continue the needless dying in Ukraine and in Russia just so you can sit from your perch and defend the globalist world order.
And you know what? You think you’re so good at gathering intelligence? Last time I checked, it was the 51 intel agents that Hunter Biden’s hard drive (who lied and said it was a hoax), which I reported on firsthand…it’s legitimate.
You want to talk about the President’s sons who are involved in businesses in foreign countries? Well, I would like to introduce you to Hunter Biden. When those 51 people, who I’m sure you know all too well, said that (the laptop) was Russian disinformation. Well, it turned out that was true, and shame on you for the last decade trying to inject the idea that smearing President Trump as a Russian agent or a Russian asset is going to tank the MAGA movement. It’s about putting America first!
And the fact that you can still sit here and the fact that you have no actual evidence besides one random Russian meeting, you’re a complete political hack and grifter, and I wish the American political scene didn’t have your voice in it.
Just in case you thought Trump was going to forget about everything they did to him, let me show you some examples of what he has said over the years. We all know Trump is a man of his word – and his enemies know it too. “Get even with people. If they screw you, screw them back ten times as hard. I really believe that.” – Donald J. Trump
Just in case you thought Trump was going to forget about everything they did to him, let me show you some examples of what he has said over the years.
We all know Trump is a man of his word – and his enemies know it too.
Anti-Trump FBI agent Jonathan Buma (Credit: video clipping)
An anti-Trump FBI agent was arrested and charged for disclosing classified information.
Johnathan Buma allegedly disclosed internal classified documents and text messages to associates.
Court documents revealed that Johnathan Buma had printed 130 files from the FBI’s internal network, with many of the documents marked with warnings that the information is confidential.
Buma shared a draft of a book he was writing about his career in the FBI with colleagues, and it contained sensitive information, the charging documents said.
According to ABC News, the feds nabbed Johnathan Buma just as he was about to hop on an international flight on Monday.
An FBI agent who accused the bureau of political bias during President Donald Trump’s first administration was arrested Monday in New York on charges related to the alleged unauthorized disclosure of confidential information, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
Johnathan Buma, a 15-year veteran of the bureau, allegedly shared text messages, internal documents and other classified information with associates, including as part of a prospective book he began writing about his career as an FBI agent.
Beginning in Oct. 2023, Buma “printed approximately 130 files from the FBI’s internal network … some of which were clearly marked with warnings that made clear that the information was to be protected,” according to charging documents.
“Buma also printed nine text-file documents which contained text that had been copied and pasted from reports that were marked in such a way that made clear that the information must be protected,” the charging documents said..
In the ensuing weeks, Buma allegedly shared a draft of a book he had written about his career at the FBI with “associates” over email. The draft allegedly included details about “the FBI’s investigations into a foreign country’s weapons of mass destruction (‘WMDs’) program,” the charging document alleges.
Last year Johnathan Buma toldBusiness Insider that political bias under Trump’s first administration pushed him to become a ‘whistleblower.’
Breaking exposé! FIVE anti Trump judges are involved in a secretive, INVITE ONLY club for judges and lawyers called the American Inns of Court. Even the membership and meetings are secret. But somehow the DOJ has shown up at meetings. At least since Biden had been in office.
Is hobnobbing with the DOJ in court matters acceptable? Let alone meeting in secret?
So who all is linked to this selective and secretive club? And recall all of their negative Trump rulings?
– Judge James Boasberg (President)
– Scotus Ketanji Brown Jackson (Vice President)
– Judge Amit Mehta (Secretary and a meeting held at her court.)
– Judge Beryl Howell
Justice (Professionalism Award)
-Justice John Roberts (Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple)
Wasn’t it something else that Judge John Roberts broke ethical conduct and stuck up for his, “brother Boasberg”?
George Soros has funded a fellowship at Middle Temple where John Roberts is a master of the bench.
First let me very quickly explain how this secret society called, the American Inns of Court came about. In the UK, they have the four Inns of Court that dates back hundreds of years. One of those is called Middle Temple (see Roberts photo). Well, the US created the American version of this in recent decades. There’s a massive list of branches.
The branch many of our judges belong to is The Edward Bennett Williams (EBW) Inn of Court. It’s so secretive, they deleted most signs of this branch from their website although they still met.
Now here’s Judge Beryl Howell. She was nominated by President Judge Boasberg, and VP Ketanji Brown Jackson approved of her nomination. Boasberg claims it was her work on Jan 6 that contributed to his choosing her for the American Inns Of Court Professionalism award.
Let me show you the scant meeting info that I found which included the DOJ and Inspector General Horowitz in attendance.
1. The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court: BOP Custody / Current Status of BOP / Early Release & Reentry: Washington DC, 2/15/24
“Joel Sickler – invited panelist at EBW Inn of Court (February15, 2024, Washington DC). The meeting held in the District of Columbia Court of Judge Amit Mehta. In addition to panelists, approximately 150 lawyers including several Federal District Judges were also present. The panel was presented primarily with Michael Horowitz, DOJ Inspector General and Seth Eichenholtz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General – also featuring Vanessa Rojas, a returning citizen with direct and learned perspective regarding constructive reforms within the Bureau of Prisons.”
Also there was:
“Seth Rosenthal, Chief Deputy Attorney General for Office of AG District of Columbia.”
2. Mathew Bester, 3 years ago in a quote Linkdn post:
“I really enjoyed talking about the latest DOJ developments last week on a great panel.”
Matthew was reposting Brent Gurney’s Post and yes the DOJ was there:
“I want to thank my co-hosts, Erin K. of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Lisa Phelan of Morrison & Foerster LLP, Inn member G. Zachary Terwilliger of Vinson & Elkins and our guest panelists Jim Fredricks of the DOJ Antitrust Division, Tiffany Rider of Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP and Matthew Bester of Accenture, for a robust and fascinating discussion of the issues.”
3. Yearly gala, I’ll review this later. But the Assistant United States Attorney at U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia replied in a comment. Was he there?
“Great job, Rebecca!”
I’ve seen lawsuits online for this secret org over recusal worries with this private club. I also saw a lawsuit that stated their secrecy is dangerous to democracy.
Sources to follow.
🔥🔥🔥Breaking exposé! FIVE anti Trump judges are involved in a secretive, INVITE ONLY club for judges and lawyers called the American Inns of Court. Even the membership and meetings are secret. But somehow the DOJ has shown up at meetings. At least since Biden had been in… pic.twitter.com/PxbBQLWvtF
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
The top post has been edited, apologies for the difficulties. Make certain to use the modest version.
I found with great difficulties, this list of The Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court leaders. In fact I had to search the archives.
Every link there is for members only except the leaders and meetings list. The meeting list is blank tho.
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
As for the Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court being invitation only, here’s the evidence.
They also admits that the DOJ is included, which isn’t mentioned in the American Inns Of Court brochure. 😏 I’ll show this next.
McKenzie Invited to Join Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court
“Co-Founder Ray D. McKenzie has been admitted to the Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court, an invitation-only professional organization devoted to white collar practice.
As one of the few Inns of Court specializing in white collar criminal prosecution and defense, the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court’s membership includes members of the federal and local judiciary in the District of Columbia, U.S. Department of Justice officials, and some of the most established defense attorneys in Washington, D.C. The American Inn of Court is designed to improve the skills, professionalism, and ethics of the bench and the bar.
McKenzie is a former federal prosecutor, having served the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division where, in 2018, he was awarded the U.S. Attorney’s Award for Excellence in Prosecution of Fraud.”
https://archive.is/Ackvo
As for the Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court being invitation only, here’s the evidence.
They also admits that the DOJ is included, which isn’t mentioned in the American Inns Of Court brochure. 😏 I’ll show this next.
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
Here’s the American Inns of Court judicial benefits flyer. Judges hobnobbing with other judges, the DOJ and lawyers, just doesn’t seem very ethical to me.
NETWORK WITH AND GAIN ACCESS TO COLLEAGUES
• Meet and interact with federal and state judges on a local, regional, and national level.
• Stay current with the local bar and connected to attorneys in different practice areas, law professors and young lawyers deans, in-house lawyers, and others who do not have a litigation practice.
• The American Inns of Court member directory is a means to reach out to and communicate with other judges on issues of common interest.
• Attend the Celebration of Excellence at the Supreme Court of the United States with justices of the high court as well as jurists and attorneys from across the country.
Here’s the American Inns of Court judicial benefits flyer. Judges hobnobbing with other judges, the DOJ and lawyers, just doesn’t seem very ethical to me.
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
Here’s a lawsuit asking for recusal of an American Inns of Court member. Because of its secrecy and it’s acting more like a private social club.
“THE AMERICAN INNS OF COURT ARE UNLIKE TRADITIONAL BAR ASSOCIATIONS BUT ARE SOCIAL CLUBS THAT PROVIDE FOR SECRET EX PARTE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN FINANCIALLY STRONG ATTORNEYS AND JUDGES
A Social Club, Common Membership Of Judges And Attorneys Representing Parties Creates The Appearance Of Bias.
The American Inns of Court have changed their character as bar associations as they made the membership directory confidential from disclosure for all Inns of Court after sometime in 2008. Their practice of Temple Bar Scholarship and pupilage groups also violated Rule 5-30014 of California Rules of Professional Conduct by allowing ex parte contacts and gifts. The Petition for Writ of Certiorari has been reviewed based on the opinion of the clerks of the Justices, except Justice Gorsuch.
Therefore, contacting the clerks and making gifts to the clerks violate Rule 5-300(c) as they have the power of making recommendations to the Justices.
One major members’ benefits, as shown in the video of “American Inns of Court Membership Benefits” that has been posted on the Youtube, Attorney Manuel Sanchez. stated “This is the only organization that I know that the lawyers and judges belong to the trial bar have a chance to meet outside of the courtroom in a social setting and really able to establish the rapport.” (A.011)
The business and prosperity of the American Inns of Court is built on the attorneys’ benefit to meet the judges in person to establish the “rapport,” in violation of Rule 5-300 of California Rules of Professional Conduct.
The American Inns of Court lost all tributes as a bar association further because of the secret membership.
The last publication of a directory for all chapters of the Inns is an archive of the membership of San Francisco Bay Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, made in 2008. (A.055; Request for Recusal in Petition No. 17-256, A.072-74.) The Handbook for the William A. Ingram American Inn of Court states:
“The schedule for the monthly meetings (not the dinner meetings) is to gather at 5:30 for socializing and hors d’oeuvres. After administrative announcements, the formal program by a Pupillage Group commences at 6:00 p.m. and ends at 7:00 p.m.
After the program ends, there is further socializing.” [Request for Recusal in Petition No. 17-256, A. 146, emphasis added]
Its current meeting schedule states clearly the social function of its Inn meetings:
“Inn meeting, except as noted below, are scheduled on the second Wednesday of each month, with socializing at 5:30 p.m., and the program beginning at 6:00 p.m.” (Request for Recusal in No. 17-256, A.050)
These confidential social functions are the characteristic of a social private club. While the American Inns of Court might once have been equivalent or similar to a bar association, they are now more like an exclusive private club. Membership or association in such a private social club with regular private contacts with the judges/justices creates an appearance of bias where attorneys who are members of the Inns appear before judges who are also members or associated with the Inns.”
I’ve seen other stuff around on their secrecy, if you want more. Trust me this group was hard to find stuff on.
Here’s a lawsuit asking for recusal of an American Inns of Court member. Because of its secrecy and it’s acting more like a private social club.
“THE AMERICAN INNS OF COURT ARE UNLIKE TRADITIONAL BAR ASSOCIATIONS BUT ARE SOCIAL CLUBS THAT PROVIDE FOR SECRET EX PARTE… pic.twitter.com/a3ZoZfxoa5
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
Judge Beryl Howell was nominated by the President of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, Judge James Boasberg. It’s required for a member to nominate you. It was voiced by Boasberg that her Jan 6 handling contributed.
The Vice President, Scotus Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, gave her written approval.
“Beryl A. Howell has been selected to receive the 2023 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the DC Circuit. Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit will present the award during the DC Circuit Judicial Conference.
Chief Judge James E. Boasberg, who nominated Howell for the award, praised Howell’s leadership as chief judge in a term marked by several unexpected events. “Judge Howell’s leadership during the pandemic was extraordinary,” he writes. Howell also “deftly led the court during the surge of more than 1,000 criminal cases filed in this district arising out of the investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021.”
“Judge Howell is a brilliant and wise attorney and jurist, as well as an outstanding leader, which has been evident to me since our earliest days working together on the Sentencing Commission,” writes Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Supreme Court of the United States, who wrote in support of Howell’s nomination.”
https://archive.is/T2Ko8
Judge Beryl Howell was nominated by the President of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, Judge James Boasberg. It’s required for a member to nominate you. It was voiced by Boasberg that her Jan 6 handling contributed.
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Jr. received a Masters of the Bench award from the American Inn of Courts sister org in the UK. It’s called The Honorable Society Of the Middle Temple. (See photo and first link.)
And Middle Temple does interact with its American counterparts. I’ll show you next post.
Also Soros Open Society does fund fellows at Middle Temple. (See second photo and link.)
https://archive.is/0vnS1
“Anthony Lester fellowships to work on a project to effect practical change to further the rule of law / human rights”
“The fellowships are supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Lester family.”
https://archive.is/q6uBg
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Jr. received a Masters of the Bench award from the American Inn of Courts sister org in the UK. It’s called The Honorable Society Of the Middle Temple. (See photo and first link.)
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
Middle Temple, the American Inns of Courts UK counterpart has been to the US.
After visiting the court chambers they had a reception at the British embassy. Later, the American Inn of Courts had moderated panels.
They spent two days at the Institute Of Peace, a radical leftist activist org, paid for by our tax dollars.
I have no idea if there’s any linkage of them to each other since I couldn’t find anything. But they are highly secretive. This would be extremely beneficial to find out.
“In the evening of the 13 September, we went to the Supreme Court for the Calling to the Bench of Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Before the official part of the occasion, I was escorted into the splendid Chambers of John G Roberts Jr, the Chief Justice of the United States (one of our Honorary Benchers).
There I met Justice Gorsuch for the first time. I was immediately struck by his warmth, informality and friendliness. This may be something of a surprise to those who focus only on the rather austere conservatism of his jurisprudence.
The three of us were then escorted into the magnificent courtroom where our group and others were already assembled. Short speeches of welcome were made by the Chief Justice and myself. Justice Gorsuch was then Called to the Bench by Master Maura McGowan. After a gracious and amusing response by Justice Gorsuch, we moved to the East and West Conference Rooms for a reception and then went into the Hall for dinner.
On the 14 September and 15 September, we had two full days of discussions with American counterparts at the US Institute of Peace, a splendid modern conference venue.
The topics on the first day were Human Rights in the Age of Terrorism (UK moderator Master Chantal-Aimee Doerries, UK speaker Master Neil Garnham, UK Panellists Master Judith Farbey and Master McGowan); Restrictions on Media Communications in the Interests of Truth or Privacy (UK moderator Master Christopher Clarke, UK speaker Adam Speker, UK panellists Master Anthony Smith and John Stables); and Attorney-Client Privilege (UK speaker Master Robert-Jan Temmink, UK panellists Master Stephen Stewart and Master George Leggatt).”
“At the end of the first day of the conference, we were treated to a magnificent reception at the British Embassy generously hosted by the UK Ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch. Sir Kim had spent the day visiting Florida following the recent floods. But he was back in time for our reception and made a warm and witty speech.
Other guests included many of the great and good of the political and legal world of Washington.
The topics on the second day were International and Comparative Law as an Appropriate Topic for Courts (UK speaker Master Jonathan Mance, UK panellists Master Fergus Randolph and Master Jeffrey Golden); and Climate Change and the Law (UK moderator Master Edward Faulks and UK speaker Master Robert Camwath).
The US moderators, speakers and panellists were an extraordinarily distinguished group of lawyers and academics. They contributed to lively and stimulating discussions on each of the topics as did all of our participants. I have not named the US participants simply because they will not be known to the readers of The Middle Templar.”
Archive – Page 34 will show and you can flip forward to page 35 etc. Or even flip backwards.
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
This is The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court meeting that I found out the most on. And I only found three total.
“The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court holds monthly programs on a range of relevant topics for Inn members, who are both white-collar defense lawyers and prosecutors, and including D.C. federal trial and appellate judges.”
“Joel Sickler – invited panelist at EBW Inn of Court (February15, 2024, Washington DC). The meeting held in the District of Columbia Court of Judge Amit Mehta. In addition to panelists, approximately 150 lawyers including several Federal District Judges were also present. The panel was presented primarily with Michael Horowitz, DOJ Inspector General and Seth Eichenholtz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General – also featuring Vanessa Rojas, a returning citizen with direct and learned perspective regarding constructive reforms within the Bureau of Prisons.”
“Moderators: Seth Rosenthal; Addy Schmitt – Participants: Seth Eichenholtz; Michael Horowitz; Vanesa Rojas; Joel Sickler – (Left to Right): Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General DOJ; Addy Schmitt, Managing Partner Harris, St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP; Joel Sickler, Founder of Justice Advocacy Group LLC; Vanesa Rojas, Formerly Incarcerated Rising Scholar, Palomar College; Seth Eichenholtz, Senior Counsel to Deputy Attorney General at DOJ; and Seth Rosenthal, Chief Deputy Attorney General for Office of AG District of Columbia.”
You can read more if you like, these were just a few excerpts.
https://archive.is/cd9S0
This is The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court meeting that I found out the most on. And I only found three total.
“The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court holds monthly programs on a range of relevant topics for Inn members, who are both white-collar defense lawyers and… pic.twitter.com/0beYbHj64x
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
This here is from a EBW Inn of Court panel discussion from three years ago. The DOJ was here that day too.
Matthew works at Accenture which had a US contract cancelled by Doge. Accenture deals with Publicis Group, and utilizes DEI and sustainability.
The (Publicis) Groupe took part in the launch of the World Economic Forum, GARM (Global Alliance for Responsible Media). Which was costing Elon ad revenue.
Publicis also handles WEF lodging etc type of stuff for its Davos meeting. And Publicis is partnered with Newsguard.
Mathew Bester:
“I really enjoyed talking about the latest DOJ developments last week on a great panel.”
Brent Gurney:
“It was a pleasure to co-host the EBW Inn of Court panel discussion on criminal prosecutions of what are sometimes called “no-poach” agreements for violations of the antitrust laws. In 2016, the Department of Justice warned that it would begin bringing criminal prosecutions. And then, after a wait of several years, it started doing just that. A number of cases are pending. I want to thank my co-hosts, Erin K. of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Lisa Phelan of Morrison & Foerster LLP, Inn member G. Zachary Terwilliger of Vinson & Elkins and our guest panelists Jim Fredricks of the DOJ Antitrust Division, Tiffany Rider of Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP and Matthew Bester of Accenture, for a robust and fascinating discussion of the issues.”
https://archive.is/JUOWK
This here is from a EBW Inn of Court panel discussion from three years ago. The DOJ was here that day too.
Matthew works at Accenture which had a US contract cancelled by Doge. Accenture deals with Publicis Group, and utilizes DEI and sustainability.
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
Here’s the last and third meeting that I have from many years of monthly meetings. If you find some more members or especially meeting minutes, message me.
Rebecca Broady:
“Thanks to Laurel Loomis Rimon, Keisha N. Stanford and Jenner & Block for hosting our EBW Inn of Court End of Year event! After a year of serving as the Inn “administrator” and sending out SO MANY emails, it was fun to be able to kick back and schmooze!”
https://archive.is/E8ILg
Here’s the last and third meeting that I have from many years of monthly meetings. If you find some more members or especially meeting minutes, message me.
Rebecca Broady:
“Thanks to Laurel Loomis Rimon, Keisha N. Stanford and Jenner & Block for hosting our EBW Inn of Court… pic.twitter.com/TBrKZ0a5YB
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
Now it’s time for my thoughts on this. We are looking at SCOTUS involvement, DC district courts, DOJ, and prosecutors.
These courts affect our entire country. This isn’t like some rinky dink branch in a Florida suburb.
I don’t think these high courts should be involved in anything secret. The stench of enablement is overwhelming. Especially when you have leftists fighting everything Trump as their Officers.
I think the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court should be disbanded. And all DC justices barred from such activities.
Now it’s time for my thoughts on this. We are looking at SCOTUS involvement, DC district courts, DOJ, and prosecutors.
These courts affect our entire country. This isn’t like some rinky dink branch in a Florida suburb.
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 20, 2025
PS, go to the American Inns of Court site and search for the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court in their little search box. Its group number is 30072, I’ll wait.
Trust me, I was even in their archives and for many subdomains too.
(They’ll probably add it back if they aren’t totally crazy.)
PS, go to the American Inns of Court site and search for the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court in their little search box. Its group number is 30072, I’ll wait.
Trust me, I was even in their archives and for many subdomains too.
Alina Rosenfeld is a Principal Consultant for Social Development Direct, a “provider of innovative gender equality and social inclusion consultancy and research.”
It’s part of the Inclusive Futures consortium which states it was “previously funded by USAID until January 2025.” pic.twitter.com/jwmnRkZLpd
Her sister Calla posted a picture of Alina at the 2017 Women’s March with an anti-Trump signed captioned “My nasty sister <3.” pic.twitter.com/zdBaueIx9Q
She was also the Head of Safeguarding at WarChild UK, which has repeatedly opposed the Trump administration/DOGE’s USAID cuts. pic.twitter.com/IsNqc7MnuW
New York Attorney General Letitia James has made a name for herself prosecuting landlords and real estate fraudsters. Yet our investigation reveals troubling discrepancies in her own property filings—irregularities that would likely result in stiff penalties for most New Yorkers.
Documents from the NYC Department of Buildings show a pattern of inconsistencies about a Brooklyn property James owns—inconsistencies that mysteriously received special treatment when reported.
Note: Links to NYC Department of Buildings records may load slowly due to system capacity limitations. Please be patient as they connect to the city’s database.
At the heart of the issue is a contradiction between what the city officially permits and what James’ filings claim.
The Certificate of Occupancy for 296 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn—issued January 26, 2001—clearly states the property is a five-family dwelling regulated under NYC housing laws. James purchased this property on February 14, 2001, just two weeks after this Certificate of Occupancy was issued. This official classification has been on the books for more than two decades.
Yet James repeatedly filed permit applications identifying the same property as a four-family dwelling—a classification subject to different regulatory requirements under New York City building codes. Under NYC building code classifications, her property with five units would be classified as C2 (which applies to buildings with 5+ units), while her filings list it as C3 (which applies to 3-4 unit buildings). This fundamental contradiction between the long-established Certificate of Occupancy and her permit applications raises serious questions about regulatory compliance.
Multiple Discrepant Filings Show Pattern, Not Mistake
This wasn’t a one-time error. We uncovered multiple DOB permit applications containing identical discrepancies:
July 2020 Application (Job #340743146): Documents show “Dwelling Units: Existing: 4” despite the Certificate of Occupancy listing five units for the past 19 years.
September 2020 Application (Job #340768510): Another filing repeats the same inconsistent information.
The permit application details are explicit, stating: “Total Number of Dwelling Units at Location: 4” for a property documented in the Certificate of Occupancy as a five-unit building since 2001.
This discrepancy goes far beyond a simple administrative error. As noted in my previous post, mortgage documents signed by Letitia James repeatedly characterize the property as a four-unit building—a critical representation that directly contradicts the official Certificate of Occupancy, which clearly designates the structure as a five-family dwelling. This inconsistency carries significant legal and financial implications, potentially allowing James to secure more favorable lending terms or avoid stricter regulatory requirements that apply to larger multi-unit properties.
The applications to the Department of Buildings were submitted through the city’s professional certification program, under which the architect affirmed:
“I HEREBY STATE THAT I HAVE EXERCISED A PROFESSIONAL STANDARD OF CARE IN CERTIFYING THAT THE FILED APPLICATION IS COMPLETE AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS… I FURTHER REALIZE THAT ANY MISREPRESENTATION OR FALSIFICATION OF FACTS MADE KNOWINGLY OR NEGLIGENTLY BY ME, MY AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES, OR BY OTHERS WITH MY KNOWLEDGE, WILL RENDER ME LIABLE FOR LEGAL AND DISCIPLINARY ACTION…”
This sworn certification underscores the seriousness of the discrepancy. It was not merely a clerical oversight, but a representation made within a process where legal and professional accountability is explicitly defined—yet seemingly unenforced in this case. (Read more: White Collar Fraud, 3/21/2025)(Archive)
(…) There seems to be a pattern of possible mortgage fraud in regard to Letitia James. New questions have now arisen about a home Letitia James purchased with her father, Robert James.
In the Spring of 1983, Letitia James was 24 and living in Brooklyn with her parents. She had graduated from CUNY’s Lehman College in 1981. She would not begin law school at Howard University in Washington, DC, until the fall of 1984.
According to New York City Department of Finance records, on May 20, 1983, Letitia James and her father, Robert James, took out a real estate loan from Kadilac Funding Ltd. for $30,300 as “husband and wife.” For the record, Letitia James’ mother is Nellie James.
The husband-and-wife designation is clear and in capital letters on the very top of the first page of the loan document and on the signature page, which reads “ROBERT JAMES AND LETITIA JAMES, HIS WIFE.”
This loan was used to purchase a small 888-square-foot two-story home at 114-04 Inwood Street in Queens, New York, likely for Letitia to live in.
Meanwhile, the deed for the property, executed on the same day, has a different designation. On the top, it says the property is being purchased by “ROBERT JAMES AND LETITIA JAMES, his daughter.”
At the age of 24, Letitia James may have had trouble qualifying for a home loan as a single woman with little or no income.
The question for Ms. James is whether she and her father defrauded the mortgage company, Kadilac Funding, by pretending to be husband and wife in order to qualify for the loan.
(…) In February 2024, James led a high-profile fraud case against Donald Trump. In her relentless pursuit of Trump, James has denied herself any easy excuses. She offered Trump no benefit of the doubt and disregarded the lack of an injured party.
Playing hardball, James secured a massive a judgment that found Trump and his company guilty of inflating asset values to secure better financial terms.
These fires produce nasty emissions that require very special chemistry to handle. This is beyond terrorism. Hydrogen cyanide for example … pic.twitter.com/zay3ucFkvf
During the @Tesla Takedown CALL TO ACTION call tonight, which featured Democrat Congresswoman @JasmineForUS Jasmine Crockett, organizers called for 500 demonstrations at all 277 Tesla showrooms, as well as Supercharger stations, on March 29th, 2025.
🚨🇺🇸 TESLA OWNERS DOXED: SELL YOUR CAR OR STAY ON THE LIST
A website called “Dogequest” has reportedly published the names, addresses, and phone numbers of Tesla owners across the U.S., complete with an interactive map and a Molotov cocktail cursor.
— Project Constitution (@ProjectConstitu) March 20, 2025
The question of whether blue states are harmed by attacks on Tesla involves several layers—economic, social, and political—since Tesla is a major employer and economic player, particularly in states like California, which lean heavily Democratic (“blue”). Attacks on Tesla refer here to the wave of vandalism, arson, and protests targeting Tesla facilities, vehicles, and infrastructure, as reported widely in early 2025, often linked to Elon Musk’s political role under President Trump.
Economically, blue states like California could face harm if Tesla’s operations are disrupted. Tesla employs 47,000 people directly in California alone (as of 2022, per Tesla’s own reporting), with over 80,000 jobs supported indirectly through suppliers and related industries. The Fremont factory, a key production hub, and other facilities in Palo Alto, Lathrop, and Hawthorne anchor a significant chunk of the state’s clean energy sector. Vandalism—such as the March 18, 2025, arson attack in Las Vegas or repeated incidents in Oregon—doesn’t just damage property; it risks delaying production, raising costs, and deterring investment. If Tesla were to scale back in blue states due to hostility, job losses could hit hard, especially in areas where the company’s $1.6 billion in supplier spending (2021 figures) fuels local economies. California’s gross state product, which grew 16% from 2018-2021, saw Tesla’s contribution rise 42% in the same period, suggesting a disproportionate reliance on the company.
Socially, the attacks reflect and deepen polarization. Blue states, often champions of electric vehicles (EVs) and climate goals, have historically embraced Tesla. California’s EV incentives and market size made it Tesla’s biggest U.S. customer base. But Musk’s alignment with Trump and his leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has slashed federal jobs, has flipped sentiment. Protests like “Tesla Takedown” and violent acts—Molotov cocktails in Colorado, gunfire in Oregon—signal a backlash that could alienate Tesla owners and chill EV adoption in these states. Some owners now slap “I bought this before Elon went crazy” stickers on their cars, hinting at a cultural rift. If Tesla becomes a pariah, blue-state residents might pivot to competitors, though none match Tesla’s scale or infrastructure yet.
Politically, the harm is murkier. Blue-state leaders might quietly relish Musk’s woes, given his DOGE role and Trump ties, but they can’t ignore the economic fallout. Tesla’s stock has tanked nearly 48% in 2025 (per ABC News), and while that’s a national issue, blue states with high Tesla ownership—like California or Washington—feel the brand’s tarnish more acutely. Posts on X suggest Tesla drivers in blue areas face more vandalism than in red counties, though this is anecdotal. If attacks persist, blue-state governments might face pressure to crack down, clashing with their base’s anti-Musk fervor.
On the flip side, Tesla’s troubles might not “harm” blue states in a net sense if competitors fill the gap or if red states bear more of the burden. Red states like Texas, where Tesla’s HQ moved in 2021, could lose more if production shifts or stalls. Blue states aren’t uniquely targeted—attacks span Kansas City, Seattle, and Berlin too—but their denser Tesla presence amplifies the stakes.
So, are blue states harmed? Yes, economically and socially, through jobs, costs, and fractured EV culture, though the scale depends on how attacks escalate and whether Tesla retrenches. Politically, it’s a mixed bag—short-term schadenfreude versus long-term headaches. Data’s thin on exact losses so far, but the risk is real where Tesla’s footprint is deepest. (Grok AI, 3/19/2025)
WATCH: Soros-funded Indivisible leaders tell activists to plan their Tesla/Trump protests on encrypted messaging apps over fears of “federal snooping.”
/1🚨BREAKING — Explosive new documents expose a massive government-backed censorship operation orchestrated by USAID, the Global Engagement Center, the UK government, and media firms to manipulate public discourse and silence Americans. pic.twitter.com/ScJJeYoFcJ
/5 However, through litigation, AFL exposed that the GEC promoted state-sponsored propaganda, using private media organizations to suppress American speech. https://t.co/o4i7CKtr3z
/6 AFL’s litigation also revealed that USAID created an internal “Disinformation Primer,” explicitly praising private sector censorship strategies and recommending further censorship tactics. https://t.co/DJTgzLvnjO
/8 GEC’s “Liaison Planner to USAID” told USAID that GEC wanted to “sustain dialogue and connectivity during these unprecedented times” to help counter “misinformation” surrounding COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/ppS33EUV1F
/12 The House Small Business Committee found that Park Advisors received a GEC cooperative agreement award of more than $6 million. pic.twitter.com/AhbXT9suMx
/14 An email from NewsGuard’s Matt Skibinski shows immediate coordination between Park Advisors, GEC, USAID, NSA, and DOD to use new artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to monitor “misinformation.” pic.twitter.com/XRbRDPLLzZ
/16 Recall: NewsGuard is a key player in censorship enforcement.@FFO_Freedom has extensively detailed how, despite claims that it is a fair arbiter of truthfulness, NewsGuard censors speech by rating conservative sites with a low score and pressuring advertising companies to… pic.twitter.com/L2uckAP9k4
/18 AFL has already revealed how Poynter funds a global false-flag operation of international “fact-checkers” that claim to be independent but are, in reality, a tightly woven network funded by Poynter and the GEC. https://t.co/p1JJkgaXsZ
/20 AFL previously exposed coordination between other pro-censorship organizations and the U.S. and UK governments to censor American citizens’ speech. https://t.co/1W50KGztAx
Cori Bush and her husband, Courtney Merritt (Credit: video clipping)
The Department of Justice indicted Courtney Merritts, the husband of former ‘Squad’ member Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), for allegedly committing COVID fraud while his wife served in Congress.
Merritts faces charges of wire fraud.
The DOJ alleges from July 2020 to April 2021, Merritts formulated and “participated in a scheme and artifice to obtain money and property in connection with applications for EIDL [Economic Injury Disaster Loans] and PPP [Paycheck Protection Program] funds.”
Merritts supposedly accepted $20,000 in payments:
According to the indictment, on July 7, 2020, Merritts received an $8,500 EIDL loan from the SBA for a moving business he operated that he called Vetted Couriers. In the application he submitted for Vetted Couriers, Merritts certified that his business had six employees and had generated $32,000 in gross revenue between January 30, 2019 and January 30, 2020.
On July 8, 2020, Merritts submitted another application to the SBA for an EIDL loan in the name of a sole proprietorship he called “Cortney Merritts.” In this EIDL application, Merritts fraudulently claimed to have a business that employed ten people and generated $53,000 in gross revenue between January 30, 2019 and January 30, 2020. In addition to an EIDL loan, Merritts also requested an EIDL advance of up to $10,000 based on his false claim that he had 10 employees. The SBA rejected Merritts’ attempt to obtain additional EIDL funds after determining that his July 2020 application was nearly identical to the prior one he submitted.
The indictment further alleges that on April 22, 2021, Merritts applied for a PPP loan in the name of a sole proprietorship he called “Cortney Merritts.” Merritts fraudulently claimed in this application that he had created this business in 2020 and that it had generated $128,000 in gross income that year. Based on Merritts’ representations about his gross income, Merritts received a $20,832 PPP loan. Merritts used the proceeds for his personal benefit and enjoyment. In July 2022, Merritts submitted a loan forgiveness application in which he falsely claimed that this business had 10 employees at the time of the PPP loan, and that he spent the $20,832 on payroll costs. Based on Merritts’ alleged fraudulent representations, the SBA forgave the PPP loan in the amount of $20,832 and the $254.03 in interest.
In January 2024, the DOJ started investigating Bush for allegedly misusing security funds.
Devon Archer is in talks to speak about Joe and Hunter Biden’s alleged $10 million bribes. (Credit: Alec Tabak/New York Post)
President Donald Trump promised to pardon ex-Hunter Biden business partner turned impeachment witness Devon Archer, who he said was targeted by the Biden family
The president pledged to pardon Archer during a meeting at the NCAA wrestling championships which was held in Philadelphia on Saturday night, the New York Post’s Miranda Devine reported. The meeting was said to have been arranged by fellow ex-Hunter Biden business partner and impeachment witness Tony Bobulinski.
“He’s getting a full pardon,” Trump told Devine on Sunday. “He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people.”
He continued, “A full pardon” and said Archer was an “anti-Biden person” because he exposed part of the corruption scandal by his testimony to the House Republican committees leading the impeachment probe into former President Joe Biden.
Devon Archer (l) and Jason Galanis (Credit: Burisma Holdings /Twitter)
Archer became one of the key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry into Hunter’s father, President Joe Biden, having been a close associate of the first son for years. In 2023, Archer testified to the House Oversight Committee that he witnessed Hunter Biden introduce his father, whether in person or over the phone to several foreign business partners, including a Russian oligarch, a Chinese fund manager, and Ukrainian energy company executives.
Archer was convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit the same in 2018 in a Manhattan federal court as part of a tribal bonds scheme. Another defendant in the case, Jason Galanis would later tell the House Oversight Committee that the fraudulent scheme set up by him and Archer was for the purpose of raising money for a hedge fund with Hunter Biden, a firm that his father was set to join after his vice presidency.
However, the younger Biden escaped any scrutiny for his role in proximity to the scheme despite evidence collected by FBI and Security and Exchange Commission agents showing an affiliation with the Burnham entity at the center of the alleged fraud.
I see a lot of articles saying how President Trump is attacking law firms in Washington DC because he is vindictive. When in fact, it has nothing to do with being vindictive, and everything to do with the fact that they are acting like an extension of the Democratic Party.
This web shows how elite law firms in DC have become de facto political actors, coordinating with bureaucrats, Democratic campaigns, and activist groups to advance one side’s agenda while insulating allies from legal consequences.
🧵🧵 The Law Firms that Run DC
I see a lot of articles saying how President Trump is attacking law firms in Washington DC because he is vindictive. When in fact, it has nothing to do with being vindictive, and everything to do with the fact that they are acting like an…
•Hired Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC to create the Steele Dossier.
•Michael Sussmann was indicted for allegedly lying to the FBI about the source of Alfa Bank/Trump server claims (acquitted, but case exposed coordination between Clinton-linked lawyers and the intelligence community).
•Through Marc Elias, aggressively litigated to change election laws in battleground states pre-2020 (e.g., mail-in ballot rules, signature matching, ballot curing).
•Litigated against voter ID laws and redistricting efforts favoring GOP, using courts to alter rules under the guise of civil rights.
1. Perkins Coie
Partisan Alignment: Strongly Democratic
Key Players: Marc Elias, Michael Sussmann
Involved In:
•Russiagate:
•Hired Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC to create the Steele Dossier.
•Michael Sussmann was indicted for allegedly lying to the…
Key Player: Marc Elias (founder, formerly at Perkins Coie)
Involved In:
•Election Lawfare:
•Filed hundreds of lawsuits between 2020–2024 aimed at changing ballot deadlines, preventing voter roll purges, and invalidating state-level election reforms.
•Sued states that passed voter integrity laws (Georgia, Texas, Arizona).
•Legal and strategic support for efforts to disqualify Trump from ballots under the 14th Amendment (Section 3).
2. Elias Law Group
Partisan Alignment: 100% Democratic
Key Player: Marc Elias (founder, formerly at Perkins Coie)
Involved In:
•Election Lawfare:
•Filed hundreds of lawsuits between 2020–2024 aimed at changing ballot deadlines, preventing voter roll purges, and…
Key Players: Donald Verrilli (Obama SG), Ian Gershengorn
Involved In:
•January 6 Committee Staffing:
•Provided legal support and volunteers to the J6 Committee.
•Ties to lawfare efforts to charge Trump advisors and allies.
•Worked behind the scenes with groups like Lawfare Blog and Brookings to craft legal theories around “insurrection” and “disqualification.”
8. Jenner & Block
Partisan Alignment: J6-focused, anti-Trump
Key Players: Donald Verrilli (Obama SG), Ian Gershengorn
Involved In:
•January 6 Committee Staffing:
•Provided legal support and volunteers to the J6 Committee.
•Ties to lawfare efforts to charge Trump advisors…
Clinton with Libyan rebels before her departure from Tripoli, Libya on October 18, 2011. (Credit: Reuters)
The Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s State Department deliberately and knowingly implemented a U.S. foreign policy to aid and abet Islamic jihadists — our enemies.
The policy in 2011 was to help the Muslim Brotherhood Islamic uprising come to power in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
Obama enacted the “great purge” in the U.S. government in 2011 and 2012, in which all official discourse, including presentations and training curricula, was purged of everything related to finding and identifying the global jihadist enemy we face.
That means: Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, the military, the Pentagon, and so on, including the intelligence community.
Because they either did not know, or were not allowed to know, anymore, who the enemy is — the global jihad movement and all who support jihad in the fight for Sharia, that is the enemy — because our officers were not permitted to speak of that, to know that, to pursue that, I think that had a lot to do with the policies in Benghazi specifically.
The day before the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, the head of Al Qaeda issued a video on jihadi websites and called for “sons of Libya” to rise up and kill Americans because the CIA had assassinated his deputy, a Libyan, some months before in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, with a drone strike.
“That, I have always thought, was the green light to attack the next day.”
Warnings were ignored.
There was collusion at the White House level, from the very beginning, to disseminated a false narrative, to blame the attack on the compound at Benghazi, which was an Islamic jihad attack by Ansar al-Sharia, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, to blame that on a YouTube video.
(On June 29, 2016, the Citizens Commission on National Security held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington to discuss the release of its new report on the events surrounding the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the Special Mission Compound and CIA Annex, resulting in the deaths of four Americans. The title of the CCNS report is Betrayal in Benghazi: A Dereliction of Duty. An overview was provided by Claire Lopez, a defense intelligence consultant and former career operations officer for the CIA. The CCNS report was published two days after the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi, chaired by Rep. Trey Gowdy, issued their official report.)
The Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s State Department deliberately and knowingly implemented a U.S. foreign policy to aid and abet Islamic jihadists — our enemies.
The policy in 2011 was to help the Muslim Brotherhood Islamic uprising come to power in Tunisia, Libya… pic.twitter.com/t5wP1FtDFG
— Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD (@KimWexlerMAJD) March 23, 2025
— Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD (@KimWexlerMAJD) March 24, 2025
Former CIA analyst Sarah Adams, stationed at Benghazi at the time of the September 11, 2012 terror attack, says Hillary Clinton’s private email server, which Hillary had destroyed, contained evidence of her corrupt “pay for play” deals
— Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD (@KimWexlerMAJD) March 7, 2025
16) Obama was elected President in November 2008 and took office in January 2009. The following month the Treasury Department stopped blacklisting domestic charities that collect funds for terrorist organizations. Mosques were later removed by Obama from the FBI watch list. pic.twitter.com/C7Sfvz3Lrm
18) In Dallas, the U.S. attorney was preparing to doa 2nd round of prosecutions targeting the co-conspirators who were not indicted. But Obama’s political appointees at Main Justice thwarted them.https://t.co/btjkF7Ilrl
20) According to an unidentified official of the Justice Dept, this decision to quash charges (including against CAIR) was made not because of lack of evidence but because of political consideration: specifically, to promote “outreach” to Muslims (a priority for the Obama admin) pic.twitter.com/orv6ZdmApr
23) In 2011 with the help of Obama, Egypt fell back into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. They achieved their 84-year dream to reinstate full sharia in Egypt. pic.twitter.com/i38FdYziW5
25) Gohmert and Holder engaged in a war of words over the release of documents on the Holy Land Foundation and its 2008 provision of funding to Hamas. Holder threatens Gohmert. pic.twitter.com/0kIRSe0r5i
27) Terms that define and identify terrorists were scrapped from FBI training manuals. Obama admin classified the materials to prevent Gohmert and Bachmann from telling what was found. “I can’t tell you what was in there, but I can tell you there were verses from the Koran,” pic.twitter.com/1W2vbYh4eY
34) There are more than 90k sealed indictments. What are the chances that President Trump will finish the prosecution of the un-indicted co-conspirators like CAIR and others.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump stood by his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a private, high-level chat on the messaging app Signal where military plans were being discussed.
“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump said Tuesday in a phone interview with NBC News.
When asked what he was told about how Goldberg came to be added to the Signal chat, Trump said, “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.”
Trump said Goldberg’s presence in the chat had “no impact at all” on the military operation.
The president expressed confidence in his team, saying he was not frustrated by the events leading up to The Atlantic’s story. The situation, Trump said, was “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one.” (more)
The rest of the DC setup is transparently clear. (1) Goldberg held the story until the day before a long-scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. (2) The SSCI then used the hearing to blast the heads of the Trump administration intelligence silos on the issue of “classified” information in the text messages.
♦ The next act in this well-known performance will be for Democrats to demand the release of the Signal App transcript, if it’s not classified, then there’s nothing to hide.
♦ Public pressure via narrative drum-pounding will continue to increase, until the chat messages are released to congress. [Keep in mind, Jeffrey Goldberg likely already has them.]
♦ Everyone in the chat group will then be told they must recuse themselves from internal silo determinations as to the classified status of the conversation. More public pressure will be generated to achieve this “position of conflict” demand.
♦ The Intelligence Community, without the heads of the silos – likely leveraging the internal investigative agents of the FBI (INSD), will then say the content of the chat was indeed classified, TSCI level. There will be weeks and months of leaks to the media as each granular detail is discussed ad infinitum.
♦ The cabinet members will then face the drumbeat of resignation demands, and/or useful impeachment fodder for ‘lying to congress’ during today’s Senate Select Committee on Intelligence testimony.
At least that should be the anticipated approach by the “Seven Ways from Sunday” group, who operate to defend the interests of the Intelligence Community from agency heads like those who were on the Signal App chat group.
This incident happened 10 days ago..If you think this wasn’t calculated I’ve got some swamp land for sale… conveniently released a day before the hearing🙄🙄 pic.twitter.com/NjKO4AK9SL
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the source of many of the cases interfering with President Donald Trump’s authority, has 15 judges, (Counting Chief Judge James Boasberg) and five of them were born outside the United States.
While country of origin doesn’t come up in most jobs, it is worth asking if judges with ties to foreign nations and cultures are the right ones to make decisions affecting the U.S. military or immigration.
The concept of foreign-born judges is a newer phenomenon in this district. In addition to the 15 main judges, the D.C. District has 10 older, senior judges who still occasionally hear cases in the district. This group, nominated as far back as Ronald Reagan the 1980s, were all born in the U.S.
But starting in 2014, former President Barack Obama appointed Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan, born in Kingston, Jamaica. She was in the U.S. by 1979, attending George Washington University. Before sitting on federal court, she had no experience as a judge. Chutkan is overseeing the legal challenge to DOGE’s work to slash excess government spending.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta (Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi/The National Law Journal)
Obama also appointed Judge Amit P. Mehta to the D.C. court. Mehta also had no previous experience as a judge. Mehta was born in Patan, Gujarat, India. He and his parents came to the U.S. when he was a baby, age one. He was raised in Maryland. Mehta will oversee four January 6 civil cases that aim to blame Trump for injuries and squeeze money, court time, and political embarrassment out of him.
The other three foreign born judges were nominated by former President Joe Biden.
Judge Ana Reyes (Credit: public domain)
Judge Ana Cecilia Reyes was nominated in 2021, also with no prior experience as a judge. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and moved to Spain, and while still a child, moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where she grew up. She is the first openly LGBT Latina to be appointed to this court. Reyes presided over an objection to Trump’s executive order declaring “gender dysphoria” as “inconsistent” with the “high standards for troop readiness,” as The Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood reported. Reyes blocked Trump’s order with a preliminary injunction.
Judge Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali (Credit: Getty Images)
The first Muslim and Arab American in the D.C. district court, Judge Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali was born and raised in Canada to Egyptian parents. According to his Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees, Ali was not required to register for the U.S. Selective Service. That is because he was not a citizen until 2019. He graduated from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada with a software engineering degree in 2008 and then attended Harvard Law School in the U.S., graduating with a law degree in 2011. He worked as a volunteer on Biden’s 2020 transition team and for a phone bank in support of Biden’s presidential campaign. He worked for some nonprofits but never served as a judge until Biden appointed him in 2024. Amir has written extensively and negatively about Trump’s so-called “Travel ban,” a 2017 Executive Order which restricted travel to the U.S. from seven predominantly Muslim countries for 90 days.
In his writing, he said, “prejudice and intolerance” were “the very hallmark of [Trump’s] campaign against Muslims.”
Before he was a judge, Ali spoke at the National Press Foundation and gave tips to reporters about how to cover the courts.
When confirmed, Amir was a member of the Capital Area Muslim Bar Association; Muslim American Judicial Advisory Council; National Arab American Bar Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; National Police Accountability Project; and the Native American Bar Association of D.C., among others.
Ali single handedly restored $2 billion in USAID spending to foreign nonprofit contractors that the Trump Administration had paused for 90 days, in a stunning overreach of authority last month.
The newest judge on the D.C. District Court is also foreign born.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan (Credit: Wikipedia)
Before slinking out of office, Biden and his handlers got Judge Sparkle Sooknanan confirmed. She was sworn in Jan. 2, 2025. Born in the dual-island nation Trinidad and Tobago in 1983, she left her home country at age 16 to pursue college and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 2010.
She was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and during the Biden Administration she was the principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division for the Department of Justice before Biden tapped her for her first ever judge gig in the D.C. Court, according to her Questionnairefor Judicial Nominees. (Read more: The Federalist, 3/25/2025)(Archive)
Dr. Julia Nesheiwa (Credit: Women Forward Initiative)
Meet the wife of Trumps new National security advisor, Rep Mike Waltz. She seems to specialize with climate change, is an Atlantic Council fellow, is an executive director at a global behavioral change org, and has worked at the World Economic Forum.
Dr. Julia Nesheiwat is a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and a recognized expert for energy, environment, climate change, and national security issues as a public servant, academic, former military officer, and US diplomat.
In December 2020, she served as commissioner on the US Arctic Research Commission reporting to the Biden White House and Congress on domestic and international Arctic and climate issues.
From February 2020 to January 2021, Nesheiwat served as the deputy assistant to the president for Homeland Security & Resilience, and from 2011 to 2014, she served as deputy assistant secretary of state where she worked to build the first Energy Resources Bureau at the Department of State.
She served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on low-carbon energy transformation as well as an international affairs fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dr. Julia Nesheiwat is the Executive Director of Women Forward International (WFI).
This is partnered with the United Nations. And its goals are global behavioral CHANGE, sustainability, social justice, diversity equity and inclusion (DEI).
There they connect multitudes of NGO’s and government officials for the global good. While using their United Nations connections.
Dr. Kent Davis-Packard is Founder and President of Women Forward International, which she launched as an initiative at the Aspen Institute in 2019.
“Our partnership with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has enabled us to share our scholarly research globally.”
“WFI offers companies the opportunity to fulfill their purpose in sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Sources to follow, and hubby will be next. Hopefully before he gets approved by the senate.
🔥🔥Meet the wife of Trumps new National security advisor, Rep Mike Waltz. She seems to specialize with climate change, is an Atlantic Council fellow, is an executive director at a global behavioral change org, and has worked at the World Economic Forum.
Anyways here’s the Atlantic Council Page on her. Organization highlights on this pages bio include the Council on Foreign Relations, World Economic Forum, and State Department.
“Dr. Julia Nesheiwat is a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and a recognized expert for energy, environment, climate change, and national security issues as a public servant, academic, former military officer, and US diplomat.”
https://archive.is/d6ncT
Dr Julia Nesheiwat says that she is a Republican.
Anyways here’s the Atlantic Council Page on her. Organization highlights on this pages bio include the Council on Foreign Relations, World Economic Forum, and State Department.
Dr. Julia Nesheiwat was appointed by the President, to the United States Arctic Research Commission on December 30, 2020.
Dr. Nesheiwat brings to the USARC a focus on building public-private partnerships, and over 20 years of experience in energy resources, critical infrastructure, climate, environmental science, and national and homeland security serving in the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations.
https://archive.is/35cuQ
The second link will take you to a United Nations event page where she spoke at. She was working for the State Department at the time of her presentation. The doc is nothing special it just shows her dedication to Climate Change.
You may need to use the text reader. The link to her doc is on this page.
Dr. Julia Nesheiwat was appointed by the President, to the United States Arctic Research Commission on December 30, 2020.
Dr. Nesheiwat brings to the USARC a focus on building public-private partnerships, and over 20 years of experience in energy resources, critical… pic.twitter.com/84Fs1BykdK
Dr. Julia Nesheiwat is Executive Director at the Women Forward Initiative
– Kent Davis-Packard is Founder and President of Women Forward International, which she launched as an initiative at the Aspen Institute in 2019.
https://archive.is/h54Te
The Women Forward Initiative:
– WFI offers companies the opportunity to fulfill their purpose in sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion.
– Our partnership with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has enabled us to share our scholarly research globally.
– Together we are transforming academic research to make the Sustainable Development Goals a living reality.
https://archive.is/UqE41
Dr. Julia Nesheiwat is
Executive Director at the Women Forward Initiative
– Kent Davis-Packard is Founder and President of Women Forward International, which she launched as an initiative at the Aspen Institute in 2019. https://t.co/sSxoljIiII
Someone questioned Julie Nesheiwat being his wife, so here it is. I was always told not to rely on Wikipedia. But I’ll show this too.
“Waltz resides in St. Johns County, Florida, with his wife, Dr. Julia Nesheiwat, a fellow combat veteran and former Homeland Security Advisor.… pic.twitter.com/iwxSVqF9r1
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 25, 2025
“The main thing in investigative actions is not to get caught in the crossfire.” – ❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Uk1yLw5aC6
— M A G A 🇺🇸 M I L L I A N (@SergeiMillian) June 30, 2025
– The accompanying book “Swiftboating America” by Hans Mahncke claims the Steele Dossier, a key Crossfire Hurricane document, was fabricated, supported by a 2021 Durham Report finding the FBI’s handling lacked rigor of going after the culprits.
— M A G A 🇺🇸 M I L L I A N (@SergeiMillian) June 30, 2025
“The main thing in investigative actions is not to get caught in the crossfire” highlights the importance of avoiding unintended consequences or negative impacts during an investigation. It suggests the need for careful execution, and adherence to ethical & legal boundaries.
— M A G A 🇺🇸 M I L L I A N (@SergeiMillian) June 30, 2025
The post critiques the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, citing a 2019 DOJ Inspector General report that identified significant procedural errors, including mishandling of the Steele Dossier, which a 2021 Durham Report later found lacked rigor, fueling public distrust.
— M A G A 🇺🇸 M I L L I A N (@SergeiMillian) June 30, 2025
– Historical context shows the investigation, launched July 31, 2016, stemmed from a tip about Trump campaign ties to Russia, but the 2019 Mueller Report found no evidence of coordination, challenging initial narratives and supporting Sergei Millian’s view of unfairness.
— M A G A 🇺🇸 M I L L I A N (@SergeiMillian) June 30, 2025
The investigation’s launch on July 31, 2016, stemmed from a tip about George Papadopoulos, but declassified documents show political bias, as a study in the Journal of Law and Economics noted irregularities in FBI counterintelligence cases often correlate with political pressure.
— M A G A 🇺🇸 M I L L I A N (@SergeiMillian) June 30, 2025
a 2021 Durham Report later was publicly released corroborating mishandling of evidence like the Steele Dossier and hiding the main source of the dossier claims in a CHS program to avoid public scrutiny.
— M A G A 🇺🇸 M I L L I A N (@SergeiMillian) June 30, 2025
In 1974, Congress created the Legal Services Corporation to connect lower-income Americans involved in civil disputes with free legal help. The law that established the agency stipulated that authorization for its funding would expire in 1980, when lawmakers were required to vote on whether to keep it alive.
They never did. Still, Congress has funded LSC every year since. In fiscal 2025, its 51st year, LSC’s 135 employees will spend 95% of its now $560 million annual budget paying legal groups to represent Americans in cases such as eviction, domestic violence, and disputes over government benefits, according to Ron Flagg, the agency’s president since 2020.
“LSC would welcome reauthorization,” Flagg said. “We haven’t hidden from it. Every budget cycle, we go through an exhaustive process before Congress appropriates funds — dozens of meetings with leaders of both parties. We demonstrate our return on investment, how we help 2 million Americans get life-saving legal help.”
The Legal Services Corp. now stands as America’s oldest “Zombie” program, but it’s far from unique. At a time when the Trump administration is moving aggressively to scale back government, including eliminating the entire Education Department, it’s sobering to note that 1,503 agencies or programs live on despite expired authorizations, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Another 155 will expire on Sept. 30. The Zombies, nearly half of which have been officially dead for more than a decade, persist in a budgetary netherworld. In a deep dive last year, CBO analysts were able to find dollar amounts for 491 of the programs, with total expenditures of $516 billion. They don’t know how much funding the other programs received.
“A lot of programs don’t get reauthorized because Congress is okay with how they’re operating,” said Josh Huder, former congressional staffer now at the Georgetown University Government Affairs Institute. “They continue to get annual appropriations because most members think they’re worthwhile.”
Many Zombie programs now soak up far more funding than lawmakers originally envisioned. The Federal Election Commission, for example, was expected to spend $9.4 million per year before its authorization expired in 1981. Yet the agency continued to receive funding and spent $95 million in 2024, auditors at government watchdog Open The Books found. The Federal Communications Commission was originally allocated $339.6 million per year. Its funding authorization expired in 2020, yet it spent $28.4 billion last year.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency hasn’t addressed the Zombies that are prowling the federal spreadsheets. Given DOGE’s headlong push to first root out alleged waste, fraud, and abuse and ask questions later, experts say, Zombies may offer a ripe target.
“One could imagine that if DOGE is clued into the notion of expired authorizations, they’ll think a program is defunct,” said Sarah Binder, senior fellow at Brookings and professor of political science at George Washington University. She said this would be a mistake. “If Congress is still appropriating money to the programs, they’re not Zombies. They’re living, breathing agencies.”
Binder says the fault lies not with the agencies, some of which have become important enough to be household names, but Congress. Lawmakers have made it so difficult to accomplish their most fundamental tasks, such as funding the government for another year, that they hardly ever get around to doing other important things, such as reauthorizing existing programs.
The Foreign Relations Authorization Act, for example, expired in 2003. Yet in 2024, Congress spent $38.4 billion on 24 of the law’s programs, allowing legislators to influence the White House’s foreign policy and security assistance to other nations.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce, now led by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), supported the funding of 346 expired programs, more than any other committee, the CBO found. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, now chaired by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), spent more identifiable money than any other group: $153.5 billion. (Read more: RealClearInvestigations, 3/25/2025) (Archive)
Alex Wong, the Chinese Deputy National Security Advisor appointed by President Trump, who is at the center of the Signalgate scandal, is married to U.S. Attorney Candice Chiu Wong, a Chinese Woman who was one of the key attorneys involved in PROSECUTING J6ers.‼️
Alex Wong was appointed by President Trump on 11/22/24 to serve as the Assistant to the President and the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor under @MikeWaltz47 Mike Waltz, the newly appointed US National Security Advisor.
I have discovered that Alex’s wife, Candice Chiu Wong, worked under the Obama administration and the Biden administration as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where she led the Violence Reduction and Trafficking Offenses Section for more than two years.
She was involved in the prosecution of many J6ers during the Biden regime, under which she was nominated to become a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission. Additionally, Candice Chiu Wong served as a Law Clerk to Obama-appointed US Supreme Court Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor!
Making matters worse, Alex Wong worked for Covington & Burling @CovingtonLLP, which is one of the law firms that President recently stripped of its security clearance and terminated all of their government contracts via Executive Order on February 25th, 2025. Trump accused @CovingtonLLP of being involved in the weaponization of government.
Why do we have a CHINESE Deputy National Security advisor who is married to a CHINESE US ATTORNEY who worked under Obama and Biden, and who helped prosecute J6ers after the stolen 2020 election?
This is unacceptable. And given the Chinese connections, it really makes you wonder if @JeffreyGoldberg, the reporter from the @TheAtlantic was added to the Trump Signal chat on purpose as part of a foreign opp to embarrass the Trump administration on behalf of China.
Alex Wong should be removed from his position, and both he and his wife should be investigated by the FBI @Kash_Patel @FBIDDBongino.
Cc: @realDonaldTrump @JDVance
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
‼️Alex Wong, the Chinese Deputy National Security Advisor appointed by President Trump, who is at the center of the Signalgate scandal, is married to U.S. Attorney Candice Chiu Wong, a Chinese Woman who was one of the key attorneys involved in PROSECUTING J6ers.‼️… pic.twitter.com/j5OFnuZmaq
When President Trump was asked how @JeffreyGoldberg was added to the Signal chat, Trump said, “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.”
That appears to be a reference to @MikeWaltz47’s Deputy National Security Advisor, Alex Wong.
Additionally, Alex Wong served as the foreign and legal policy director for the Mitt Romney presidential campaign in 2012. Via that position, Wong was the campaign’s chief official responsible for developing foreign, defense, intelligence, judicial, and law enforcement policy and closely advising @MittRomney on these matters.
Alex Wong and his then boss Lanhee Chen @lanheechen are the two individuals who pushed Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell out of the Romney campaign for being gay.
Wong and Chen argued that gays can’t be conservative.
Chen was the policy director for the 2012 Mitt Romney presidential campaign and Romney’s Chief Policy Advisor. Chen has been described as the leader behind the Romney 2012 campaign.
Chen went on to serve in the Obama and Biden administrations.
Additionally, Alex Wong served as the foreign and legal policy director for the Mitt Romney presidential campaign in 2012. Via that position, Wong was the campaign’s chief official responsible for developing foreign, defense, intelligence, judicial, and law enforcement policy and… pic.twitter.com/zysDKOp8Z2
Let’s not forget: Hillary’s private server held 47 emails with CIA info—vulnerable to foreign adversaries. Democrats rallied to her defense. To this day, they say she did nothing wrong. Spare us the outrage now. pic.twitter.com/qIHs6LxSV0
Two watchdog groups, Judicial Watch and Cause of Action, had sued in 2015 demanding the government recover all of Mrs. Clinton’s emails, saying she violated open-records laws by not preserving her messages.
👉 U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, though, said the FBI did what it could, and did manage to recover thousands of messages Mrs. Clinton didn’t return herself.
“Those efforts went well beyond the mine-run search for missing federal records … and were largely successful, save for some emails sent during a two-month stretch. Even then, the FBI pursued every imaginable avenue to recover the missing emails,” wrote Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee to the court.
❕Originally, the case had been dismissed as moot, but last year the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed that finding, ordering the government to “shake loose a few more emails.”
👉 But Judge Boasberg put an end to the shaking Thursday.
“The Court of Appeals may have asked the Government to ’shak[e] the tree harder’ for more emails, but it never suggested that the FBI must shake every tree in every forest, without knowing whether they are fruit trees,” he wrote.
The judge said the FBI had already uncovered 55,000 pages of emails when it was ordered to do more. The agency interviewed people that most frequently exchanged work related emails with Mrs.
From The Washington Times:
Two watchdog groups, Judicial Watch and Cause of Action, had sued in 2015 demanding the government recover all of Mrs. Clinton’s emails, saying she violated open-records laws by not preserving her messages.
🚨 WTF?! Judge Boasberg, the activist judge BLOCKING Trump from deporting violent gang members, intentionally DELAYED the release of Hillary Clinton’s emails until after the 2016 election
He’s also now “coincidentally” presiding over the Signal case
The courts are NOT following the law. The appearance of impropriety is the foundation for credibility in our justice system and it is being abjectly ignored. The courts continually interpret 28 USC 455 more broadly so they can cover for biased judges but there are limits and I… pic.twitter.com/W97nUrIpGI
Michael Hayden once implied Trump should be executed for taking classified docs. (Credit: Larry Downing/Reuters)
3 parts – How the DC Swamp is Undermining @DOGE and Crushing the Will of We the People🚨
Last night, while digging into some research, I stumbled upon a chilling pattern: key contracts are vanishing from the government spending database. I found several cases, but one stands out as critical—it’s tied to Michael Hayden, ex-CIA director and one of the 51 intel officials behind the Hunter Biden laptop letter. Hayden sits on the board of Freedom Technology Solution Group LLC (FTSG), a company neck-deep in NSA tech contracts.
🧵3 parts 🚨How the DC Swamp is Undermining @DOGE and Crushing the Will of We the People🚨
Last night, while digging into some research, I stumbled upon a chilling pattern: key contracts are vanishing from the government spending database. I found several cases, but one stands… pic.twitter.com/1bXgSrnJSO
Here’s what I uncovered: every contract linked to the DoD and other intel agencies has been totally wiped from the government spending database. Yet, when you hit up the company’s website, they’re still recruiting for a slew of tech gigs—cloud engineers and beyond—all requires… pic.twitter.com/yl98zG7qyx
Check this out: below, you’ll find the contracts they’ve snagged over the years, going all the way back to 2007. But here’s the kicker—only USAID contracts show up, and this one’s been rolling since ‘07. Meanwhile, every trace of DoD and intel agency contracts? Completely erased.… pic.twitter.com/4CngSZiafu
The pattern you’ve uncovered isn’t just alarming—it’s a textbook example of the bureaucratic rot that thrives when accountability vanishes. Michael Hayden’s ties to FTSG and its NSA contracts spotlight the revolving door between intelligence elites and contractors who profit from taxpayer-funded deals. This isn’t an isolated case. The Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2025 (H.R. 80) directly targets Hayden and 50 others who weaponized their security clearances to manipulate narratives like the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Their actions didn’t just mislead the public—they eroded trust in institutions meant to serve Americans, not insiders.
While H.R. 80 revokes their clearances, the deeper issue is systemic: opaque contracting, unchecked influence, and agencies prioritizing self-preservation over transparency. Real reform means dismantling these networks, auditing every dollar funneled to contractors with ties to retired officials, and ensuring public databases aren’t scrubbed to hide malfeasance. The swamp isn’t just stagnant—it’s actively sabotaging efforts to restore accountability. Until every backroom deal faces sunlight, the cycle continues.
The pattern you’ve uncovered isn’t just alarming—it’s a textbook example of the bureaucratic rot that thrives when accountability vanishes. Michael Hayden’s ties to FTSG and its NSA contracts spotlight the revolving door between intelligence elites and contractors who profit from…
Exposing corruption moves at the speed of sunlight—every contract audit, clearance revocation, and database leak accelerates accountability. Look at the Pentagon’s recent $1.2 billion cloud-computing deal with a contractor linked to retired NSA officials—vanished from public records after scrutiny.
Real dismantling starts with mandatory 10-year cooling-off periods for officials joining contractors, real-time spending trackers immune to bureaucratic scrubbing, and lifetime bans for those caught manipulating databases.
The swamp fights dirty, but sustained pressure collapses their schemes faster than they can rebuild them.
Exposing corruption moves at the speed of sunlight—every contract audit, clearance revocation, and database leak accelerates accountability. Look at the Pentagon’s recent $1.2 billion cloud-computing deal with a contractor linked to retired NSA officials—vanished from public…
Blockchain’s immutable ledger would expose every dollar’s path, eliminating the bureaucratic black holes where fraud thrives. Take the $600 million in pandemic unemployment funds stolen through fake claims in one state alone—phantom recipients, duplicate payments, and shell companies drained taxpayer cash while outdated systems failed to flag it.
With blockchain, each transaction’s origin, destination, and purpose is permanently stamped and publicly traceable, making phantom contracts and vanished deals impossible to hide. Mandate real-time blockchain logging for all federal spending, pair it with AI-driven anomaly detection, and watch the swamp’s favorite scams evaporate.
No more disappearing acts—just accountability.
Blockchain’s immutable ledger would expose every dollar’s path, eliminating the bureaucratic black holes where fraud thrives. Take the $600 million in pandemic unemployment funds stolen through fake claims in one state alone—phantom recipients, duplicate payments, and shell…
Accelerating blockchain adoption starts with exposing real-time failures. Take a Midwestern city’s $50 million “smart grid” upgrade—contractors billed for nonexistent sensors while officials rubber-stamped phantom invoices. Blockchain’s traceability would’ve flagged the fraud instantly.
Push Congress to mandate blockchain integration in all municipal and federal contracts, enforce real-time public dashboards, and jailtime for database tampering. Delay equals theft—sunlight kills scams faster than any audit.
Accelerating blockchain adoption starts with exposing real-time failures. Take a Midwestern city’s $50 million “smart grid” upgrade—contractors billed for nonexistent sensors while officials rubber-stamped phantom invoices. Blockchain’s traceability would’ve flagged the fraud…
Over two dozen Azov members Moscow-designated ‘terrorists’ stood in court behind the plexiglass for sentencing. (Credit: public domain)
It’s a demented feature of our days that if you stand to the right of Che Guevara in the political specter, automatically all the Liberal-Globalists in a choir will call you ‘a literal Nazi’, but when confronted with the real-life, present-day, self-identifying Ukrainian Nazis from the Azov Regiment and other groups like the Right Sector, these same groups in the western societies will stay dead silent.
If today the USAID-media is willing to whitewash and even lionize these radicals, it wasn’t always like that: in 2014, The Guardian described Azov as a battalion with far-right, neo-Nazi leanings, openly expressing admiration for Hitler and displaying swastika tattoos, while Time highlighted its neo-Nazi symbols like the “black sun” and “wolf’s hook,” and its appeal to far-right volunteers from Europe and the U.S.
Also in 2014, The Daily Telegraph called Azov a neo-Nazi force, and The Washington Post noted that Azov’s far-right volunteers included foreign neo-Nazis.
(…) Yesterday (26), as over two dozen Nazi extremists, Moscow-designated ‘terrorists’ stood in court behind the plexiglass for sentencing, MSM called them Azov Fighters, Ukrainian fighters, Captured Ukrainians, Ukrainian POWs…
The Russian military court yesterday handed down long prison sentences to 23 Azov members.
“The defendants, charged with terrorist activity and with violently seizing or retaining power, were sentenced to between 13 and 23 years in prison, Russian state media reported.”
Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets: “‘Ukrainian prisoners of war are combatants, not criminals! They were fulfilling their duty to the state, protecting its territorial integrity and sovereignty’, he said.”
The Reuters report uncritically states that Kiev says Azov was ‘reformed away from its radical nationalist origins and is now apolitical’ – which if you have been following the war, you know it’s not an accurate description.
In the devastated ruins of Mariupol, they bravely defended against the Russia siege between February and May 2022, after which 2,500 eventually surrendered, ‘emerging from their refuge in a vast network of bunkers tunnels beneath the city’s Azovstal steelworks’.
Russian courts have so far reportedly convicted 145 Azov members.
“In 2022, Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed Azov’s use of banned warfare methods, including killing, rape and torture of civilians and child killings.
In May 2014, Azov executed Mariupol police officers who refused to disperse protestors opposing the February 2014 coup in Kiev, then opened fire on a peaceful demonstration.”
Elon Musk and the primary members of the DOGE team gave a behind the scenes review of their mission to Fox News correspondent Bret Baier. Elon Musk outlines how the Dept of Government Efficiency is on track to remove $1 trillion in excessive waste, fraud and abuse from the federal budget.
The team discusses just how excessive the fraud is within the federal spending programs as they outline finding after finding of federal spending that is often outrageous and stunning. This is MUST-WATCH television.
On Friday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart News Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer discussed the origins of lawfare.
Schweizer stated, “The whole concept of lawfare was we’re going to go after terrorists, we’re going to try to tie up their assets overseas, we’re going to try to sue companies that they’re connected with, we’re going to harass them through the legal system. And the problem is, under Barack Obama and his National Security Division of the Justice Department, they decided, hey, w e can use this against al-Qaeda, why can’t we use this against our domestic political opponents in the United States? So, it’s morphed into this thing that has become domestic lawfare.” (Breitbart TV, 3/28/2025)(Archive)
How Donald Trump @POTUS continues to be undermined & put at risk due to a lack of vetting in his administration.
Want to see another vetting failure at the NSC which further exposes the way people with close proximity to Trump haters have been elevated to national security and intel roles in the Trump admin, despite a documented history of unethical behavior and associations?
Meet Ivan Kanapathy.
2 months ago, Ivan was selected to work under NSC Director @MikeWaltz47 as the NSC Director for Asia, where he is responsible for crafting the Trump administration’s approach to China and Taiwan. This is a top position at NSC, with direct proximity to President Trump.
Where was Kanapathy before he started working at NSC? Well, 2 months ago, he worked with former CIA officials and Democrat Trump haters Mike Morrell and Leon Panetta at Beacon Global Strategies where Kanapathy was the Senior Vice President of Beacon Global Strategies.
If those names Morell and Panetta sound familiar, it’s because they are 2 of the 51 spies who lied in an infamous intel letter in October 2020 where they, and 49 other US intel officials, falsely and deceptively penned a letter in which they said Hunter Biden’s laptop was a “Russian disinformation operation.”
We now know they all lied about the laptop, which is VERY REAL and was introduced as evidence in Hunter’s own trial, which is why President Trump has since stripped all 51 of those intel individuals of their security clearances.
Ivan Kanapathy was the Senior Vice President of Beacon Global Strategies up until 2 months ago, when he accepted the role at NSC.
It doesn’t reflect well on Ivan’s judgement or his loyalty to President Trump in that he was comfortable employing Panetta and Morell at Beacon Global Strategies as Senior Counselors, where they still work, all while knowing they signed their names to that treasonous letter.
We have all known for years now that those 51 intel agents deliberately lied in a coordinated effort with the Biden campaign to run cover for Joe Biden’s son @HunterBiden to discredit reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which contained evidence of illicit and criminal activities that implicated Joe Biden as he was running for President against Donald Trump.
In an October 18, 2020 email, Michael Morell asked his fellow spy buddies, including former CIA Directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta and Mike Hayden, to sign the letter, explaining that he and former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos had “drafted the attached because we believe the Russians were involved in some way in the Hunter Biden email issue and because we think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this week’s debate and we want to give the VP a talking point to use in response.”
Morell was the ring leader of the letter that the 51 agents signed to undermine Donald Trump. While he organized the letter, Morell was also on CIA payroll. In his emails, he said the purpose of the letter was to give Joe Biden a “talking point” ahead of a 2020 Presidential debate against then-President Donald Trump.
Even while knowing this, Ivan Kanapathy continued to allow Morell and Panetta to work at Beacon Global Strategies. As the Senior Vice President of BGS, surely Ivan Kanapathy had an executive level role. Why would someone want to work with @BarackObama’s CIA Directors, who have a documented record of lying for Dems?
How on earth did a colleague of Michael Morell & Leon Panetta get cleared through vetting to work at the National Security Council (NSC)?
The NSC is used by POTUS for consideration of national security, military, and foreign policy matters. Based in the White House, it is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, & composed of senior national security advisors & Cabinet officials.
This is a VETTING FAILURE. Is @IvanKanapathy still in touch with his colleagues Mike Morell & Leon Panetta?
RECEIPTS 👇🏻
‼️EXCLUSIVE‼️
🚨TRUMP ADMIN VETTING FAILURE AT NSC EXPOSED🚨
How Donald Trump @POTUS continues to be undermined & put at risk due to a lack of vetting in his administration.
Want to see another vetting failure at the NSC which further exposes the way people with close… pic.twitter.com/I0iavYPIwu
Up until 2 months ago, Ivan Kanapathy was the Senior Vice President of Beacon Global Strategies. Jeremy Bash is the current Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies. Kanapathy and Bash worked together. Now, Kanapathy is in a top level position under @MikeWaltz47 at the NSC, despite working alongside treasonous intel officials who broke their code of professional ethics by using their security clearances to fabricate a story about Hunter Biden’s laptop to interfere in the 2020 election as a way to help Joe Biden.
Why would Kanapathy willingly work alongside these intel officials all while everyone was aware for YEARS of their inappropriate conduct and abuse of power?
This is why many of Kanapathy’s colleagues at Beacon Global Strategies had their security clearances revoked by President @realDonaldTrump!
Bash was the chief of staff at the Central Intelligence Agency (2009–2011) and the U.S. Department of Defense (2011–2013) under Barack Obama. He worked as a senior advisor to Leon Panetta in both roles. His security clearance was also stripped by President Trump, as one of the 51 intel agents who signed the 2020 letter, declaring Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” as a CIA plot to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump during the Presidential debate when Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal erupted during the 2020 Presidential campaign.
At least four of the letter’s signatories, former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, former CIA senior Inspector General David Buckley, CIA official Jeremy Bash and former National Security Agency official Richard Ledgett were active CIA contractors at the time
they signed the letter.
Jeremy Bash is the ex husband of CNN anchor @DanaBashCNN.
How the hell did Ivan Kanapathy get through vetting???
He was working with Jeremy Bash, Mike Morell and Leon Panetta just 2 months ago!
Now he’s at NSC with access to President Trump and sensitive information.
Vetting crisis!
Up until 2 months ago, Ivan Kanapathy was the Senior Vice President of Beacon Global Strategies. Jeremy Bash is the current Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies. Kanapathy and Bash worked together. Now, Kanapathy is in a top level position under @MikeWaltz47 at the NSC,… pic.twitter.com/pYSzaoATdS
Both Micahel Morell and Leon Panetta worked as CIA Directors under the Obama administration.
They now work for Beacon Global Strategies as SENIOR COUNSELORS.
Up until 2 months ago, Ivan Kanapathy was the SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF BEACON GLOBAL STRATEGIES where he worked with the SPIES WHO LIED, who have since had their security clearances REVOKED by the Trump admin.
How did their colleague get placed in charge of China policy as the Asia Director at NSC?
There is a vetting crisis in the @realDonaldTrump admin.
Both Micahel Morell and Leon Panetta worked as CIA Directors under the Obama administration.
They now work for Beacon Global Strategies as SENIOR COUNSELORS.
Up until 2 months ago, Ivan Kanapathy was the SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF BEACON GLOBAL STRATEGIES where he worked with… pic.twitter.com/hLIJGkS7ip
This NSC appointment reeks of the same swamp creatures Trump’s administration has fought to drain. Kanapathy’s ties to Morell and Panetta—architects of the Hunter Biden laptop disinformation campaign—highlight a glaring vetting gap. The Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2025 (H.R. 80) already stripped security clearances from these 51 spies for weaponizing intelligence against a sitting president. Yet their protégé lands a top NSC role? Bureaucratic rot runs deep.
While Trump cleans house, holdovers from the deep state’s influence-peddling network cling to power. Every compromised appointment undermines America First priorities—especially on China policy, where strategic clarity is nonnegotiable.
Time to audit every security clearance and purge every Obama-era operative still embedded in the system.
This NSC appointment reeks of the same swamp creatures Trump’s administration has fought to drain. Kanapathy’s ties to Morell and Panetta—architects of the Hunter Biden laptop disinformation campaign—highlight a glaring vetting gap. The Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act…
An aerial view of Ft. Detrick’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD) Lab. (Credit: public domain)
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said poor safety culture, and a feud between employees that risked the leak of an unknown pathogen, prompted him to temporarily shutter the high-level biosafety laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Bhattacharya, who was confirmed by the Senate in late March, had only just taken the helm at the agency which was at the center of much COVID-19-era controversy when he received a report about the high-security laboratory that caused his “blood to chill,” he told the Just the News, No Noise TV show on Monday.
He said the lab reported that one researcher slashed a hole in a containment suit of another researcher, potentially exposing them to a pathogen.
A lovers’ spat turns potentially deadly
“About three weeks in, I got a report that there was a lab—a BSL four lab, that is a high-security lab that deals with, like, really nasty bugs, you know, Ebola, whole bunch of other bugs—that there had been a safety incident…[that] involved a contractor cutting a hole in the bio containment suit of another worker with the intention of that, getting that worker sick with some nasty bug and potentially spreading it outside of the lab itself,” Bhattacharya said, confirming an incident first reported by Fox News earlier this month.
Fox News also reported that the incident between the two contractors was sparked by a lover’s spat, according to an anonymous official from the Department of Health and Human Services.
“I mean, I have not been scared by anything…in this job so far, except for that. When I heard that, my blood just chilled,” Bhattacharya said.
The incident, which raised significant safety concerns at the high-security laboratory, was the catalyst for the temporary closure, which halted work at the facility. Work at the Biosaftey Level 4 laboratory was halted on March 29, shortly after Bhattacharya took the helm at NIH.
The lab is equipped to handle research on highly infectious and lethal diseases like Anthrax bacteria, COVID-19, the Ebola virus, and the lesser-known but deadly Marburg and Nipah viruses, among others.
“I ordered immediately, as soon as I heard about this incident, that there’s an operational pause of all, all experiments at this lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and that we’re not going to reopen it until, until I’m satisfied that we have a group that can run it with safety first,” the director told Just the News of his decision.
“This is really, really dangerous stuff, and if we’re going to play around with these kinds of experiments, it better be at a 100% secure lab where the safety culture says that it’s more important to get the safety right than to have the science go forward,” he added.
Not the first shutdown for the lab
The laboratory has been plagued by safety concerns since at least 2019 when a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention inspection of the facility uncovered several “serious” safety protocol violations that led to a similar temporary shutdown, according to documents obtained by ABC affiliate WJLA.
In one incident, the CDC found an individual had entered a room multiple times without the mandatory respiratory protection gear while scientists were performing procedures on a deceased non-human primate on a necropsy table. The agency noted a number of other incidents involving improper respiratory protection.
Additionally, the agency found the lab did not sufficiently verify employee training for handling toxins and select agents—“agents and toxins that have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety,” per the CDC.
Officials also cited insufficient systems to “decontaminate wastewater” from the facility. The CDC did not originally release publicly its decision to temporarily close the lab, citing “national security reasons,” The New York Times reported at the time. By April 2020, the laboratory had resumed full operations.
The first 2 hours of my 4-hour sub stream watch-thru of “Bringing Down A Dictator,” a documentary about the CIA-backed Otpor movement in Serbia that today is working with Indivisible to use those same tactics against the Trump Admin and Elon https://t.co/YdXvSTg9nupic.twitter.com/iqHBRq8iO3
Breaking! A Connecticut senator @ChrisMurphyCT is actively working with MoveOn and Indivisible to use Serbian Otpor to overthrow our president!
Otpor defined is the resistance. And Serbian Otpor is used for CIA and USAID led regime change.
Recall I already have proven he works with MoveOn. Well, he actively works with Indivisible too. And promotes joining also. And his interactions are all over the internet.
Both orgs are included in the Resistance Guide. And in the Soros Democracy Alliance resistance map.
The below 🧵 outlines how the Resistance Guide writers met with the founders of Serbian Otpor to create the Trump resistance movement.
Should this dude be in any type of office?
Thread: The beginning of Momentum aka Ayni Institute protest training and Obama’s connections. Before I head into the origins, it is imperative you realize the importance of the content in the Resistance Guide.
Remember the name Carlos Saavedra.
Sen Chris Murphy’s interactions with both Indivisible and MoveOn are everywhere! I’ll just show a couple.
Here’s a transcript where he tells folks to join both.
“Right now, joining groups like Indivisible and Move On, calling, showing up — all of that matters. Volume matters.”
https://archive.is/ohj2s
Sen Chris Murphy’s
interactions with both Indivisible and MoveOn are everywhere! I’ll just show a couple.
Here’s a transcript where he tells folks to join both.
“Right now, joining groups like Indivisible and Move On, calling, showing up — all of that matters. Volume… pic.twitter.com/BgtHSEX32h
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 29, 2025
Sen Chris Murphy’s interactions with Serbian Otpor utilizing, Indivisible are everywhere. He even goes to their meetings. “Indivisible Greenwich will meet on Sunday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m., at Eastern Middle School, 51 Hendrie Ave, Riverside. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m. Senator Chris Murphy and Representative Jim Himes will speak to the group.” https://archive.is/dkcEf
Sen Chris Murphy’s interactions with Serbian Otpor utilizing, Indivisible are everywhere. He even goes to their meetings.
“Indivisible Greenwich will meet on Sunday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m., at Eastern Middle School, 51 Hendrie Ave, Riverside. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m. Senator… pic.twitter.com/9g8ivr9Dve
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 29, 2025
Democrat Rep Chris Murphy joined John McCain on a stage at Kiev in 2013 to support the Maidan uprising protestors.
Along with Right Sector, the leadership of the far-right Svoboda Party assumed a prominent role at the Maidan, dubbing the protests a “Revolution of Dignity.” Svoboda co-founder Oleh Tyahnybok who had once demanded an investigation of the “Jewish-Muscovite mafia” that he saw controlling Ukraine — appeared on stage at the square beside U.S. Senators John McCain and Chris Murphy when they arrived to encourage the protesters.
The Svoboda Party was originally called the Social-National Party of Ukraine, a Ukrainian political party with long history of anti-Semitism.
“Led by Oleh Tyahnybok, Svoboda played a prominent role in the 2013-2014 Maidan uprising, where Tyahnybok shared the stage with U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Chris Murphy (D-CT). Andriy Parubiy, who had co-founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine, is now Speaker of Parliament.”
Democrat Rep Chris Murphy joined John McCain on a stage at Kiev in 2013 to support the Maidan uprising protestors.
Along with Right Sector, the leadership of the far-right Svoboda Party assumed a prominent role at the Maidan, dubbing the protests a “Revolution of Dignity.”… pic.twitter.com/PNMPUiDsnt
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 3, 2025
— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) March 29, 2025
Just for a refresher, Paul Engler was a writer of the Trump resistance manual. Utilized by MoveOn and Indivisible etc.
They didn’t just talk to Otpor Ivan Marovic, they trained with him too:
Paul/Mark Engler’s: This is an Uprising
“As fate would have it, we quickly met some guys with profound insights into these very questions. They had started a movement of their own in Serbia, called Otpor. It had successfully created multiple “moments of whirlwinds,” and in 2000 it ended up playing a key role in overthrowing Slobodan Milosevic—a dictator known as the Butcher of the Balkans. The Serbians had also studied Gandhi and Gene Sharp, and they did an amazing job synthesizing and drawing out relevant concepts. Moreover, they had guided 40,000 of their members through weeklong trainings in the principles and laws of this new type of movement-building. Subsequently, I went to many trainings with Ivan Marovic, one of the founders of Otpor, and he became my strategic mentor. At that point, I was inspired to start translating some of these lessons into a US context.
After Occupy Wall street, my life and work took another turn as became interested in partnering with me to find the best ways to bring this organizing model to US activists. Carlos had been a disciple of Marshall Ganz, who devised the system of training tens of thousands of volunteers for the Obama campaign in 2008. For his part, Carlos had trained thousands of undocumented DREAM Act students in the principles of traditional community organizing. He possessed an uncanny talent for grappling with complex ideas, making our thinking more rigorous, and figuring out how to make these ideas relatable. With the support of a new team of talented young organizers that we call the “Momentum Training Institute,” Carlos and I started taking our ideas and making them more simple, clear, and accessible. “
http://archive.is/y2azF
Just for a refresher, Paul Engler was a writer of the Trump resistance manual. Utilized by MoveOn and Indivisible etc.
They didn’t just talk to Otpor Ivan Marovic, they trained with him too:
You asked who is funding and organizing the #TeslaTakedown protests. I’ve got answers for you, after going onto the streets of northern Virginia for the local protests here, seeing familiar faces from the Virginia Democratic political machine and then following the money — and the data.
AstroTurf Protest Industry
To your question, at latest count, as of 3/30, 5:30 AM:
🔴24 organizations and counting are funding and organizing the #TeslaTakedown protests and leading the very partisan propaganda campaign against Tesla, Tesla drivers, Tesla employees, Donald Trump and you. See below to see all 24 groups with their revenues, involvement, tax ID numbers and other info.
🔴These organizations have combined annual revenues of at least $124 MILLION and counting.
🔴 100% of the groups are aligned with the Democratic Party. At the protest on 3/29 at Tyco Road, in Tysons, Va., a photo I took of a “Virginia Democrats” sign in front of the Tesla dealership.
🔴 Most of these groups enjoy tax-deductible status as 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations, claiming they are “nonpartisan.” A few have PACs. The organizations have not returned requests for comment.
Database
🔴 You can see the raw data on 306 #TeslaTakedown protests in the database here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13MOGhdMPc-_lGGdEGkS0QVSayczGG7Z5rlk_LUxdCTk/edit?usp=sharing
Back story
I’m a former Wall Street Journal reporter and a propaganda expert and editor of the @DPearlProject, a journalism nonprofit named for my WSJ colleague and friend Daniel Pearl. Since Oct. 7th, I have been reporting on the anti-Jew, anti-America, anti-Israel protests and building a database, following the money. It numbers 2,000 groups now, and I am working on a web and mobile app for parents, policymakers, university administrators, law enforcement, the public and others.
I went to the #TeslaTakedown protest a week ago Saturday on Tyco Road at the Tysons, Va., and saw familiar faces from Indivisible and the Fairfax County Democratic Party, shouting for you to be deported as they stood outside the Tesla dealership. I wondered too who is organizing and funding the protests nationwide.
I got the protest details scraped from ActionNetwork and Mobilize, the two platforms aligned with the Democratic Party promoting the #TeslaTakedown protests, and built a public database of the groups behind the Tesla protest.
AstroTurf, not “grassroots”
🔴 In an article for the @FairfaxTimes, I wrote about how the local protests in Tysons, are a window into how the protests are AstroTurf, not “grassroots.” What this case reveals is the way that a multi-million dollar professional protest industry manufactures outrage in top-down political theater, agitprop, or agitation propaganda, and now criminal offenses. Here is the article: https://fairfaxtimes.com/articles/local-teslatakedown-reveals-grassroots-protests-are-astroturf/article_1c368d4d-708c-4074-b5fa-5eaf6a32ea97.html
🔴 Next step: I just got data on the April 5 #HandsOff protests and will be adding that data to the database. In addition, I am completing an analysis of the propaganda using the tools of natural language processing and content analysis.
Why is this important to report on? Because defending principles of free enterprise and individual liberty in the U.S. means allowing people to buy whatever make of car they wish without fear of danger or harassment and allowing companies to do business without fear of danger or harassment.
All, please let me know if you have any questions, ideas or recommendations.
Asra asra@asranomani.com To support the Pearl Project: http://asranomani.com/donate
24+ Groups Leading and Funding #TeslaTakedown (and counting)
🔴1. Name: 50501
Mission: protesting “anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies”
Annual Revenues: not yet found
IRS Status: Not transparent
Headquarters: Not transparent
EIN IRS Number: Not transparent
Key Leader(s): Not transparent
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Protests
🔴2. Name: ActionNetwork
Mission: “trains and educates progressive”
Annual Revenues: unknown
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
EIN IRS Number: 46-1832144
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Organizing platform.
🔴3. Name: Action Network Fund
Mission: “helps organizations incorporate organizing strategies”
Annual Revenues: 195025
IRS Status: 501(c)(3)
EIN IRS Number: 45-2288010
Key Leader(s): Mark Fleischman
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Organizing platform
🔴4. Name: ActUp New York Inc.
Mission: ACT UP NY, the “AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power,” a “diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis.”
Annual Revenues: $36,411
IRS Status: not yet found
Headquarters: New York
EIN IRS Number: 13-3501884
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations
🔴5. Name: Climate Defenders
Annual Revenues: not yet found
IRS Status: Program of the New York Communities Organizing Fund, Inc., 501(c)(3)
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC protests
🔴6. Name: Climate Defenders Action Fund
Mission: Dedicated to “dismantle the fossil fuel industry”
Annual Revenues: not yet found
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: San Diego
EIN IRS Number: 82-3232098
Key Leader(s): Cecilia Aguillon, Tara Kelly Hammond, Christine James, Lester Machado, David Neison
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC
🔴7. Name: Democratic Party local and state chapters
Annual Revenues: Tallying for each chapter
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Local presence in coordinated events
🔴8. Name: Democratic Socialists of America
Annual Revenues: $5,800,000
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: New York
EIN IRS Number: 13-3109557
Key Leader(s): Michael Grochowski
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: local protests
🔴9. Name: Disruption Project
Annual Revenues: 28480
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: Philadelphia
EIN IRS Number: 85-1066939
Key Leader(s): Wende Marshall, Kathryn Sipp, Arielle Klagsbrun, Jeffrey Ordower
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: 218/306 protests
🔴10. Name: Housing Works Inc.
Mission: providing “assistance & expertise to homeless persons living with AIDS or HIV-related illnesses”
Annual Revenues: $51,762,615
IRS Status: 501(c)(3)
Headquarters: Brooklyn, N.Y.
EIN IRS Number: 13-3584089
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations
🔴11. Name: Indivisible Action
Annual Revenues: $9,922,930
IRS Status: Hybrid Political Action Committee
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
EIN IRS Number: 83-0529629
Key Leader(s): Elizabeth Ramey
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: National protests
🔴12. Name: Indivisible Project, organizing “Tesla Takedown” and “Hands Off” protests
Annual Revenues: 12565196
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
EIN IRS Number: 81-4944067
Key Leader(s): Leah Greenberg, Ezra Levin
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: 88/306; it has bragged it has organized 600 #HandsOff protests for April 5.
🔴13. Name: http://Mobilize.us, run by MobilizeAmerica Inc. – owned by EveryAction, the parent company of NGP VAN
Annual Revenues: not found yet
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: organizing platform
🔴14. Name: MoveOnorg Civic Action
Annual Revenues: $6,000,000
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: Beaverton, Or.
EIN IRS Number: 06-1553389
Key Leader(s): Rahna Epting
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: #HandsOff “De-escalation Training”
🔴15. Name: Not Above the Law Coalition — counted now as one but includes numerous groups
Members: As of 6/9/2023: American Oversight; Center for American Progress Action Fund; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW); Common Cause; Congressional Integrity Project; Constitutional Accountability Center; The Criminalization of Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies; Daily Kos; Defend Democracy Action Project; Defend the Vote Action Fund; DemCast USA; End Citizens United/Let America Vote; Fix Democracy First; Free Speech For People; Greenpeace USA; Indivisible; J Street; League of Conservation Voters; MoveOn; NextGen America; Our Revolution; People For the American Way; People Power United; Public Citizen; ; Secure Elections Network; Sierra Club; Stand Up America; Wisconsin Democracy Campaign; and The Workers Circle. SOURCE: press release
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: “Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump’s power grab”
🔴16. Name: Planet Over Profit
Annual Revenues: not yet found
IRS Status: Program of New York Communities Organizing Fund, Inc.
EIN IRS Number: not yet found
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations
🔴17. Name: Public Citizen Foundation
Annual Revenues: $13,389,271
IRS Status: 501(c)(3)
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
EIN IRS Number: 52-1263996
Key Leader(s): Mark Chavez, director, chair; Robert Weissman, president; Sid Wolfe, founder, senior fellow;
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations
🔴18. Name: Public Citizen Inc.
Annual Revenues: $5,728,329
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
EIN IRS Number: 23-7104508
Key Leader(s): JASON ADKINS, DIRECTOR, CHAIR; JOAN CLAYBROOK, DIRECTOR; ROBERT WEISSMAN, PRESIDENT
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: “Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump’s power grab”
🔴19. Name: Rise and Resist Inc.
Annual Revenues: $21,999
IRS Status: 501(c)(4) (most recent filing 2017)
Headquarters: New York, N.Y.
EIN IRS Number: 82-2188628
Key Leader(s): Ivy Arce, Martin Joseph QUinn, Jamie Ray Bauer, Jay W. Walker, Stuart Waldman
Annual Revenues: $14,588
IRS Status: Fiscal program of A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, 501(c)(3) – EIN No. 23-7379088
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations
🔴20. Name: Stand Up America Inc.
Mission: Established to “mobilize progressive Americans”
Annual Revenues: $9.867,658
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: Bethesda, Md.
EIN IRS Number: 32-0512546
Key Leader(s): Sean Eldridge, Christina Harvey, Joe Hines, Brett Edkins, Monica Garcia, Joi Rae, Brynna Quillin
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: “Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump’s power grab”
🔴21. Name: Swing Left
Mission: Dedicated to “help Democrats win”
Annual Revenues: $16,523,456
IRS Status: Hybrid PAC/Super PAC
EIN IRS Number: FEC Committee ID: C00632133
Key Leader(s): Yasmin Radjy
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Protests
🔴22. Name: Tax Reformers LLC, running “http://TaxElon.us” “(“an offshoot of http://TeslaTakedown.com”)
Annual Revenues: not yet found
IRS Status: not yet found
Headquarters: Erie, Pa.
EIN IRS Number: not yet found
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Protests
🔴23. Name: Third Act Initiative Inc.
Annual Revenues: $2,008,973
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: New York
EIN IRS Number: 88-0776955
Key Leader(s): Bill McKibben, Vanessa Arcara, Akaya Windwood
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: DC, Virginia and Maryland protests
🔴24. Name: Troublemakers
Annual Revenues: not yet available
IRS Status: not yet available
Headquarters: Seattle
EIN IRS Number: not yet available
Key Leader(s): unknown
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: 224/306 protests
If you have any tips to add to this reporting, please write to me at asra@asranomani.com or DM me. Thank you.
You asked who is funding and organizing the #TeslaTakedown protests. I’ve got answers for you, after going onto the streets of northern Virginia for the local protests here, seeing familiar faces from the Virginia Democratic political machine and… pic.twitter.com/53MMDpOnOx
Here is a summary of all the leaders, founders, and other named individuals listed in Asra Nomani’s post (Post ID: 1906281197430329459) from the section. The list is sorted alphabetically by last name, and a count is provided at the end.
Billionaire entrepreneur and Trump advisor Elon Musk dropped a bombshell this weekend during a fiery 100-minute town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he campaigned for conservative judge Brad Schimel in the state’s upcoming Supreme Court election on Tuesday.
Joined by Antonio Gracias, a private equity titan and a key member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team tasked with rooting out waste in the federal government, Musk unveiled a shocking chart: a dramatic spike in Social Security Numbers issued to non-citizens, soaring from 270,000 in 2021 to a mind-blowing 2.1 million in 2024.
That’s almost 5 million non-citizens now embedded in the system—collecting benefits, draining taxpayer dollars, and, most alarmingly, infiltrating the voter rolls.
“This is a mind-blowing chart,” Musk declared, pointing to the data. “This wasn’t an accident. This was a massive, large-scale program under the Biden administration to import as many illegals as possible—ultimately to change the voting map of the United States, disenfranchise the American people, and lock in a permanent deep-blue, one-party state from which there’d be no escape.”
Gracias, founder of Valor Equity Partners and a self-described son of legal immigrants, echoed Musk’s outrage.
“We went to Social Security to find fraud, and we stumbled on this by accident,” he said.
“And this isn’t political, by the way. My parents are immigrants… My brother and sister all born in Spain. I’m pro-legal immigration. This is not political. This is about America and the future of America. And there are a lot of good people in the system that pointed this in this direction. I want to honor them right now. They’re working with the government today and took the risks to show us these numbers and tell us what’s going on.”
Gracias continued, “We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid as an example. On every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, 5.5 million people in those benefit programs. And then what was really, really disturbing us was why. We’re asking ourselves why. And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records, and we found people here registered to vote in this population.”
The evidence, according to Musk and Gracias, is undeniable. By sampling voter registration records, they uncovered non-citizens who not only registered but voted in American elections.
“We’ve referred them to prosecution at Homeland Security Investigations,” Gracias revealed. “That’s happening right now.”
But the scandal goes deeper than voter fraud. Gracias, who traveled from D.C. to Social Security offices and the southern border alongside Musk, painted a grim picture of a system rigged to incentivize illegal entry. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 3/31/2025)
Jeffrey Goldberg appearing on Meet the Press, says he has met and spoken to Mike Waltz and that Waltz’s ongoing denials to that end are “simply not true.” Goldberg notes his phone number was in Waltz’s phone simply because his phone number was in Waltz’s phone.
According to Jeffrey Goldberg, despite Waltz’s numerous denials, the National Security Advisor and journalist do know each other. WATCH:
When Elon Musk and his DOGE colleague Antonio Gracias showed a Wisconsin audience how non-citizens get Social Security Numbers (SSNs), their presentation painted the clearest picture yet of the long-term damage former President Joe Biden’s open border policy will have on the United States.
I hope you caught the Townhall Elon Musk hosted tonight in Greenbay Wisconsin
Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias reveal shocking chart of new non-citizen Social Security Numbers issued.
The total SSNs issued in 2021 was roughly 270,000; in 2022 it climbed to 590,000, and in 2023, there were 964,000 SSNs issued to new non-citizens. But in 2024 it more than doubled to over 2 million. This counts only non-citizens who got their SSNs through the Enumeration Beyond Entry program, a system where the Social Security Administration automatically issues SSNs and cards to certain foreign nationals in the U.S., as part of an agreement with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Your data is apples to oranges. The data you show for the 2016 to 2020 period is enumeration for all immigrants in ALL forms. The data we showed in our slide last night in Wisconsin was just Enumeration Beyond Entry (“EBE”) immigrants. The difference is Enumerations at Field… https://t.co/iDaFPbcL0upic.twitter.com/XNNFQb51Di
With a work authorization card in their wallet, non-citizens can find legitimate work. Work at higher wages is the main reason people come to the U.S.,
Collect Social Security Benefits
Let’s say you are an American who started working at 16 and retired at 67. You’ve been paying into Social Security with every paycheck for 51 years. Non-citizens can draw Social Security after working 40 quarters — that is 10 years.
“Even if you’re here unlawfully, so long as you work for 40 quarters, which is 10 years, you’re eligible for Social Security benefits,” Arthur said.
It means millions of people will get full benefits without contributing decades of income to the fund.
You don’t have to be a math whiz to know that is not sustainable.
Social Security Numbers are Forever
Social Security Numbers don’t expire; once a non-citizen has one, they keep it, no matter where life takes them.
“You now have a population of a million or more who have valid Social Security Numbers, who will be able to work, albeit illegally, in the United States forever,” Arthur said. “Even if Trump took away all of their statuses tomorrow and all their work authorization, they could still work because an employer can’t ask to look at your employment authorization document. The employer can only ask for certain documents, and the two most common are driver’s licenses and Social Security cards.”
Benefits For Babies
President Donald Trump aims to end birthright citizenship. Under Biden and for years before his term, babies born on U.S. soil to illegally present parents have been granted citizenship, and the SNAP food benefits, free healthcare, free education, and other free services that go to citizens in need (and in some cases non-citizens from certain countries and circumstances.)
Vote
Only U.S. citizens are allowed to vote in federal elections. But a Social Security Number provides the opportunity for fraud. Many states let voters register via mail by providing either a driver’s license number or a the last four digits of their SSN. A non-citizen could use their SSN to register, then vote absentee. County election workers who check the SSN against the database of numbers would find the number valid, with no clue it is a non-citizen.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, is demanding that President Donald Trump fly hundreds of suspected gang members, deported to El Salvador last month, back to the United States.
“I call on my colleagues … to demand that the Trump Administration comply with all judicial orders while appealing whichever ones they want to appeal, and to demand the return of people unlawfully taken to El Salvador on that so-called plane full of ‘gang bangers,’” Raskin said at a hearing on Tuesday.
Raskin was referring to two planeloads of suspected illegal alien gang members associated with Tren de Aragua and MS-13 that were deported to San Salvador, El Salvador, under a deal between Trump and President Nayib Bukele to house such illegals in the country’s mega-prison.
Judge James Boasberg, whom many Republicans now want to impeach, issued a temporary restraining order stopping Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport more gang members.
The Trump administration is pleading with the Supreme Court to allow the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to resume such deportations.
During the hearing, Raskin called the deportation of suspected gang members a “blatant violation of American due process and all of our constitutional values.” (Read more: Breitbart, 4/1/2025)(Archive)
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said on Fox Business Tuesday that he’s concerned about district judges shaping national policy, especially when they overrule decisions made by President Donald Trump.
During an appearance on “Kudlow,” Gingrich described this as a pivotal moment in U.S. history.
“There are already more of these [rulings] coming down the road than the Supreme Court has ever heard in a single term. I would hope that the Supreme Court Chief Justice [John Roberts] would intervene, indicate that there’s something clearly wrong here and that they’re going to follow a procedure so that the executive branch is not being dictated to by random individual district judges,” Gingrich told host Larry Kudlow.
Gingrich said the pattern of interference by district judges creates a constitutional crisis.
“You have, I think, the fifth large change after Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and FDR. And this is underway. And, of course, the old order is going to fight it every way it can,” Gingrich said. “And one of their last strongholds are these left-wing judges. And we have to make clear that that is illegitimate.”
Gingrich said that these “left-wing judges” are undermining the executive branch.
“You cannot have individual, random district judges who get up in the morning and say, ‘I think I’ll play president tonight, today.’ And some of their rulings are crazy,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich, a former speaker of the House, said he’s disappointed with a recent statement by Roberts.
“He put out a press release about 10 days ago lecturing President Trump and saying there’s an appeals process. That’s nonsense. If you are involved with crime, with violence, with national security, you can’t have some judge make rendered an injunction,” Gingrich said. “And then, six weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks from now, maybe it’ll get taken up.” (Read more:The Daily Caller, 4/1/2025)(Archive)
Gingrich also appeared before the House Judiciary Committee hearing today to talk about judicial overreach in lower federal courts where they are blocking President Trump’s actions.
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 1, 2025
Last year, we detailed the FBI’s months-long campaign to ‘pre-bunk’ the New York Post story on the Biden family’s corruption ahead of the 2020 election.
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 1, 2025
The FBI’s campaign to discredit the Post story continued even after it was published on October 14, 2020.
That morning, one FBI analyst tried to tell Twitter that the laptop was real—until his bosses shut him up.
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 1, 2025
An internal FBI chat log newly obtained by the Committee shows the FBI deliberately withheld information about the FBI having Hunter Biden’s laptop and an ongoing criminal investigation involving the Biden family’s corruption: “do not discuss biden matter.” pic.twitter.com/L20u2wK2Ip
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 1, 2025
The analyst was also “admonished” by FBI staff, who lamented that he still wouldn’t “shut up.” pic.twitter.com/wpZOsGqv8W
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 1, 2025
During the week that Facebook demoted the story, over 30 million Americans cast their ballots in the 2020 presidential election.
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 1, 2025
Fortunately, President Trump, @AGPamBondi, @FBIDirectorKash have ended the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, which was responsible for this ‘prebunking’ operation.
We will continue to work with them to increase transparency and end the weaponization of federal law enforcement.
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 1, 2025
(…) According to Norm Eisen—the man who practically wrote the Deep State’s playbook on color revolutions, all things anti-Trump, and lawfare in the US—he and Chief Justice John Roberts are not only good pals, but they even spent a week together in the Czech Republic. According to Norm, the two BFFs were there working on “American rule of law” issues.
Hmm…
Norm was so proud of this that he actually bragged about the trip and made it very clear that Roberts isn’t corrupt—he’s just a “close friend” who happened to fly overseas and stay at Eisen’s posh 150-room palace to collaborate on transatlantic political projects.
Really…
And no, that’s not just weird; it’s a massive conflict of interest and could also explain a lot.
As it stands now, Justice Roberts has no business presiding over any of the cases that Eisen and his army of lawfare activists are funneling through the courts, and we all know Norm is tied to so many of these weaponized cases. He should have been recusing himself from the get-go—and probably outright resigning—for the integrity of the court.
Mike Benz told the shocking full story on a recent podcast.
Watch:
Chief Justice John Roberts spent a week living at Norm Eisen’s 150-room palace in the Czech Republic where they “worked on American and European Rule of Law issues together.” Eisen was Ambassador 2011-2014. Roberts became Chief Justice in 2005. This was while Roberts ran SCOTUS. pic.twitter.com/u7YZazt7Re
Norm Eisen said his good friend Supreme Court Justice John Roberts was not corrupt and that John went to the Czech Republic for a week so that they could spend time working on American rule of law issues together.
John should resign or recuse himself from all of the lawsuit cases that Norm and his partners have filed that are working their way to the SC.
In our report on Never Trump State Department official George Kent, Revolver News first drew attention to the ominous similarities between the strategies and tactics the United States government employs in so-called “Color Revolutions” and the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump.
Our recent follow-up to this initial report focused specifically on a shadowy, George Soros-linked group called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), which convened “war games” exercises suggesting the likelihood of a “contested election scenario” and of ensuing chaos should President Trump refuse to leave office. We further showed how these “contested election” scenarios we are hearing so much about play perfectly into the Color Revolution framework sketched out in Revolver News’ first installment in the Color Revolution series.
As the man who implemented the David Brock blueprint for suing the President into paralysis and his allies into bankruptcy, who helped mainstream and amplify the Russia Hoax, who drafted 10 articles of impeachment for the Democrats a full month before President Trump ever called the Ukraine President in 2018, who personally served as special counsel litigating the Ukraine impeachment, and who created a template for Internet censorship of world leaders and a handbook for mass mobilizing racial justice protesters to overturn democratic election results, there is perhaps no man alive with a more decorated resume for plots against President Trump.
Indeed, the story of Norm Eisen—a key architect of nearly every attempt to delegitimize, impeach, censor, sue, and remove the democratically elected 45th President of the United States—is a tale that winds through nearly every facet of the color revolution playbook. There is no purer embodiment of Revolver’s thesis that the very same regime change professionals who run Color Revolutions on behalf of the US government in order to undermine or overthrow alleged “authoritarian” governments overseas are running the very same playbook to overturn Trump’s 2016 victory and to preempt a repeat in 2020. To put it simply, what you see is not just the same Color Revolution playbook run against Trump, but the same people using it against Trump who have employed it in a professional capacity against targets overseas—same people, same playbook.
In Norm Eisen’s case, the “same people, same playbook” refrain takes an arrestingly literal turn when one realizes that Norm Eisen wrote a classic Color Revolution regime change manual and conveniently titled it “The Playbook.”
This third installment of Revolver News’ series exposing the Color Revolution against Trump will focus on one quiet and indeed mostly overlooked participant in the Transition Integrity Project’s biased election “war games” exercise—a man by the name of Norm Eisen.
In light of this latest news and connection between Eisen and Roberts, we encourage you to read this article:
Chief Justice John Roberts traveled to a foreign country to spend a week with Norm Eisen—a man who is directly tied to numerous lawfare operations aimed at President Trump, January 6’ers, and conservative political movements all over the country. Eisen isn’t just some random acquaintance. He’s a key architect of the modern legal warfare that’s being used to takedown political opponents through the courts.
And Roberts didn’t just meet with Eisen. He stayed at Eisen’s estate in the Czech Republic. He worked with him on political and legal strategy—while still serving as the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
The ousted NSA director’s civilian deputy, Wendy Noble, was also let go Thursday, according to the Washington Post, citing current and former US officials.
Noble was reassigned to a role within the Pentagon’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, according to the outlet.
The reason behind the NSA shakeup is unknown, the US officials told the outlet.
Haugh, who also serves as the Pentagon’s Cyber Command chief, had led the NSA since February 2024.
It’s unclear if the Air Force general will remain at his Cyber Command post following his removal from the Fort Meade, Md.-based spy agency.
Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk was hosted by Haugh at NSA headquarters just last month, his first known visit to a US intelligence agency. (Read more: New York Post, 4/03/2025)(Archive)
Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer claimed she had a “private” meeting with President Trump on Wednesday to present him with “research” — before at least three National Security Council staffers were reportedly fired.
“It was an honor to meet with President Trump and present him with my research findings,” Loomer wrote on X after posting details about the lack of proper “vetting” at the NSC in the past week.
I woke up this morning to learn that there are still people in and around the West Wing who are LEAKING to the hostile, left-wing media about President Trump’s *confidential* and *private* meetings in the Oval Office. I want to reiterate how important it is that people who gain…
Loomer apparently presented the president with information about NSC staffers having “neo-con” views, Axios reported.
(…) As many as six staffers may have ultimately been shown the door, according to The New York Times, which noted National Security Adviser Mike Waltz was present at the White House meeting with Loomer.
The ousted staffers included senior director Brian Walsh, senior director for national affairs Thomas Boodry, and senior director David Feith, according to CNN.
“NSC doesn’t comment on personnel matters,” NSC spokesman Brian Hughes told The Post.
Trump later confirmed he met with Loomer and got her advice — but said the firings didn’t have to do with her.
.@kaitlancollins continues her character assassination of me.
Says she doesn’t know who gave me clearance to get to the White House.
President Trump did, Kaitlan.
You are incredibly disrespectful to me. You lie about me and my intelligence.
“We’re always going to let go of people — people we don’t like, or people that take advantage of, or people that may have loyalties to someone else,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. (Read more: New York Post, 4/03/2025)(Arvhive)
Adam Schiff conspired with CIA John Brennan to overthrow the United States government in 2016 and then, right out of a small room in Langley, covertly conspired with CIA Director Mike Pompeo to overthrow the sitting President of the United States.
John Ratcliffe, Director of the Central Agency, has unequivocally confirmed that @SenAdamSchiff manipulated impeachment whistleblower Eric Ciaramella in an effort to remove the sitting President from office. What are your thoughts on this revelation? pic.twitter.com/zi2aUl6vKM
CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERA: @NIH Genetic Counselor Tells Researchers to “Change ‘Race’ to ‘Ancestry’” in Clinical Trials to Evade @DOGE and Secure Funding; Admits to Wanting to Shoot People at NIH
“My mom told me today not to shoot anybody… but they won’t let me close enough to… pic.twitter.com/76IpjeIAdN
“I had to go and look at what was leaked as far as the banned words… and figure out what to suggest and choose,” admitted James Welch, a National Institutes of Health (@NIH) genetic counselor, revealing the extent to which he is coaching researchers to manipulate grant applications in order to bypass federal restrictions.
Welch, who works at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (@NIDDKgov), was caught on hidden camera explaining how he helps principal investigators (PIs) at the NIH adjust their wording to avoid scrutiny from government oversight bodies, including the Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE). “There are banned words that they’re [DOGE] cutting grants for… Two of the words are ‘women’ and ‘female,’” Welch revealed.
Welch detailed how he actively advised a researcher to alter the language in a study on cortisol levels in Black and White women, ensuring it would not trigger red flags in the grant approval process. “Just make it not the primary objective, make it a secondary objective, and change the word ‘race’ to ‘ancestry,’” he advised.
Welch also acknowledged that NIH’s intramural research programs face fewer barriers than extramural projects funded at universities, stating, “We can do it [microdialysis] if we have the money,” highlighting the power NIH insiders wield over approving their own research.
Welch also made comments about purchasing firearms and potential retaliation against individuals at the NIH. “My mom told me today not to shoot anybody because I’ve been buying guns,” he remarked. When pressed about why he was purchasing firearms, Welch responded, “Just thinking about worst-case scenarios and being like, well, why not be prepared?”
OMG has reached out to the NIH for comment regarding Welch’s statements.
“I had to go and look at what was leaked as far as the banned words… and figure out what to suggest and choose,” admitted James Welch, a National Institutes of Health (@NIH) genetic counselor, revealing the extent to which he is coaching researchers to manipulate grant…
🚨BREAKING: James O’Keefe just tried to confront the NIH official caught on hidden camera saying they’re manipulating data to lie to DOGE to get US taxpayer funded grants
He left in his car screaming “I’m the expert, not you!”🤣
“I heard you had a really bad day. You’re about to have a worse day,” James O’Keefe stated, addressing James Welch, a National Institutes of Health (@NIH) official recently caught on hidden camera revealing he counsels researchers to alter language in clinical trial protocols, specifically replacing the term “race” with “ancestry,” to evade @DOGE oversight. “This is you on camera,” revealed O’Keefe.
O’Keefe pressed Welch about his role in modifying terminology, asking if it was deceitful to replace “race” with “ancestry.” Welch denied the claim, repeatedly saying, “I didn’t lie,” affirming that he suggested altering the language “for scientific accuracy.”
As the encounter continued, Welch attempted to flee in his Tesla. Despite appearing eager to disengage, Welch rolled down his window and continued the discussion. “I believe in good science. I believe in protecting the people,” Welch stated. O’Keefe challenged this reasoning, questioning how the alteration could be scientifically accurate. Welch fired back, “I’m an expert. You’re not.”
O’Keefe referenced a text message reportedly sent by Welch to an undercover journalist, in which he described the situation at work as “a bloodbath” with people losing their jobs. Despite the tension, Welch continued to assert that his actions were justified. Welch replied, “I care about people,” adding, “You don’t care about people or their health.”
O’Keefe rebutted, stating, “Of course, we care deeply about people. We want people to know what’s going on in their government.” He concluded by pointing out the common reactions he encounters during such investigations: “They always either run away, assault me, call the police, or say nothing. That was like everything but calling the police right there and assaulting.”
“I heard you had a really bad day. You’re about to have a worse day,” James O’Keefe stated, addressing James Welch, a National Institutes of Health (@NIH) official recently caught on hidden camera revealing he counsels researchers to alter language in clinical trial protocols,…
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project—an investigative arm of the conservative think tank that uses FOIA requests, lawsuits, and undercover videos to expose fraud, waste, and bloated government—partnered with Muckraker investigative journalist Anthony Rubin to uncover a taxpayer-funded NGO allegedly providing “ICE evasion training” to help illegal aliens subvert federal immigration laws. Even more alarming, prominent left-wing politicians are reportedly linked to the NGO, which appears to have questionable ties with China.
Undercover footage obtained by Muckraker and later published online by the Oversight Project shows Carlyn Cowen, the leftist Chief Policy and Public Affairs Officer of the taxpayer-funded Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), delivering a lecture at a radical activist meeting held in a New York City church on how illegal aliens can subvert federal immigration laws to evade ICE.
Muckraker’s Anthony Rubin explained in the video that CPC sponsored the radical activist event. He called CPC “a radical New York-based NGO that has ties to the highest levels of the Democratic Party in New York State.”
Oversight Project listed high-level Democrats that are reportedly connected with the radical NGO:
Rubin explained that the CPC has conducted several seminars to instruct illegal aliens on how to evade ICE agents.
A review of public records shows that CPC’s stated mission is “to serve the Chinese-American, immigrant, and low-income communities in NYC by providing services, skills, and resources toward economic self-sufficiency.”
Nowhere in the mission statement does it mention sponsoring seminars that instruct illegal aliens on how to break federal immigration laws.
Lara Logan sits down with firebrand attorney Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, to discuss what the Trump administration can, should, and is currently doing to combat lawfare and the deep state.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explains the administration’s new tariffs, and why we had to do something to stop the slide.
(0:00) Trump’s Tariff Plan
(5:42) The Current State of the Stock Market
(8:22) Will Americans See Substantial Tax Cuts Because of Tariffs?
(13:16) How Much Money Will America Make Through Tariffs?
(14:33) Bringing Manufacturing Back to the US
(20:14) Tariff Pushback From Foreign Countries
(22:16) Will China Retaliate?
(25:42) How Will Europe Be Impacted?
(33:12) Is the Upper Class Out of Touch With the Lower and Middle Class?
(35:47) Bessent’s Biggest Worries
(42:35) The Long Term Benefits of DOGE
(46:17) The Corruption of the Federal Reserve
(49:22) Why Gold Is So Critical Right Now
(52:13) Zelensky’s Self-Sabotaging Negotiation Tactics
(1:00:19) The Trump Administration’s Messaging About the Economy
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explains the administration’s new tariffs, and why we had to do something to stop the slide.
(0:00) Trump’s Tariff Plan
(5:42) The Current State of the Stock Market
(8:22) Will Americans See Substantial Tax Cuts Because of Tariffs?
(13:16) How… pic.twitter.com/ejO9XppT8s
Judge Boasberg’s Brother, a former associate at Covington & Burling, Hired Illegal Aliens to Teach American Students, Now He Runs A School In Singapore Promoted By The US State Department
I have discovered another shocking conflict of interest involving Judge James Boasberg, who recently threatened to hold Trump administration officials in contempt for failing to provide flight information related to the deportation of illegal Venezuelan gang members belonging to the notorious Tren de Aragua gang. The judge’s brother, Tom Boasberg, a fluent Chinese speaker and former superintendent of Denver Public Schools (DPS) for a decade, hired illegal aliens on DACA to teach in Colorado schools during his tenure.
A review of Tom Boasberg’s professional background reveals he was an associate at Covington & Burling. On February 25, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a memorandum to suspend security clearances for Covington & Burling LLP employees involved in the weaponization of government, pending a review of their roles and responsibility in the weaponization of the judicial process.
Adding to the controversy, the US State Department @StateDept is currently promoting the Singapore American School, where Tom Boasberg now serves as superintendent, on its official website. This raises questions about the government’s endorsement of an institution led by an individual with a history of employing undocumented immigrants.
Colorado has seen a significant presence of the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang, with ICE actively searching for members who have reportedly taken over apartment complexes in the state while illegally possessing high-powered weapons.
Judge Boasberg’s recent threat to hold Trump officials in contempt comes amid the Trump administration’s efforts to deport these gang members.
The judge’s handling of the case involving President Trump’s deportation flights of illegal immigrants has been called into question, especially given his family’s ties to pro-immigration causes.
As I exclusively reported several weeks ago, Judge Boasberg’s daughter Katharine Boasberg works for the radical Leftist group called “Partners for Justice @PFJ_USA”, a non-profit organization known for its advocacy on behalf of illegal aliens.
Meanwhile, Judge Boasberg’s brother’s actions in hiring undocumented immigrants to teach in Colorado schools, where the Tren de Aragua gang is now a significant concern, further raises more concerns over the conflict of interest.
@marcorubio should conduct a review regarding why the US State Department is promoting a school led by Tom Boasberg, an “open borders leftist” who arguably endangered the lives of American children by employing illegal aliens.
Judge Boasberg is very conflicted and is now threatening to hold members of the Trump admin in contempt because multiple members of his family are involved in supporting illegal aliens.
Judge Boasberg needs to be IMPEACHED.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨
Judge Boasberg’s Brother, a former associate at Covington & Burling, Hired Illegal Aliens to Teach American Students, Now He Runs A School In Singapore Promoted By The US State Department
Peter Marks circumvented FDA’s advisors on COVID boosters, spurred the resignations of top vaccine regulators, and unilaterally approved a Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug that just killed a teenager. Many will sanitize his record for political purposes, but I have a long memory. pic.twitter.com/dhY7XlZ5r4
Follow the Science: Why Peter Marks Was Asked to Leave the FDA https://t.co/FwZrYiUQ2s
“Marks is a physician but has no clinical or scientific training in vaccines or immunology. Dr. Marks trained as an oncologist, a field far from the important and complex area of vaccine…
JUST IN: Fired top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, warns about “man made threats” that may strike during the Trump presidencypic.twitter.com/fxmnaOP28i
Fauci was fearmongering the day before with the same message:
🚨 NEW – Anthony Fauci says “the next outbreak will be of a respiratory disease that’s easily transmissible, that has a significant degree of morbidity” pic.twitter.com/psUrIGwB45
Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson on Tuesday released new records detailing the FBI and DOJ’s sweeping investigation that formed the basis of Jack Smith’s DC case against President Trump.
(…) New records released revealed prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office in DC who joined Jack Smith’s inquisition coordinated with FBI agents to plan and execute Arctic Frost.
Thomas P. Windom (Credit: Harvard Alumni)
Newly-disclosed FBI emails provided by legally protected whistleblowers show:
Officials in the Biden White House, including then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su, personally assisted the FBI in securing the government cell phones of President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence. The cell phones were acquired before Trump was formally added as a subject of the investigation.
Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. – including U.S. Attorney Thomas Windom, who later joined Jack Smith’s team as a main attorney – coordinated extensively with FBI agents in the Washington Field Office to plan, approve and execute Arctic Frost.
Further evidence anti-Trump FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Timothy Thibault played a central role in opening and advancing the Arctic Frost investigation, despite other agents’ concerns that the evidence only supported a limited preliminary investigation.
President Donald Trump unveiled a full slate of eye-popping tariffs on countries large and small last Friday, and the reactions over the weekend have been intense.
Welcome to “Tariff Panic Week.”
Many people have noted the precipitous drop in the stock market and their own IRAs since the tariffs were announced. One reporter who questioned Trump aboard Air Force One over the weekend even asked him whether he’d call off the tariffs if the Dow Jones index kept dropping.
“That’s a stupid question,” Trump snapped.
There are a lot of stupid questions being asked and instant analysis being offered on the tariffs. Most of it misunderstands why the Trump administration took this step.
On the latest episode, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers, co-hosts of The Drill Down podcast, explain the tariffs as addressing four main issues: national debt, consumer debt, our geostrategic position, and of course, trade.
🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ filed a sealed motion in the case against Ryan Wesley Routh in Florida, charged with trying to kill Trump on Sept. 15, 2024, at Trump International Golf Club.
The filing is so secretive—marked “ex parte, in camera, and under seal”—that even Routh’s lawyers… pic.twitter.com/tFkrPi2MC4
The DOJ alleged in a late-Monday motion that would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh ATTEMPTED TO BUY A ROCKET LAUNCHER FROM A UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATE weeks before his Sept. 15 attempt.
“I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected,” Routh allegedly told his Ukrainian associate.
The DOJ also claimed that Routh was in touch with a Mexican human trafficker about smuggling Afghans into the U.S.– and later about escaping the country after he killed Trump–and that he used stolen license plates and fake names such as “John White” and “Brian Wilson.”
🚨NEW: The DOJ alleged in a late-Monday motion that would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh ATTEMPTED TO BUY A ROCKET LAUNCHER FROM A UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATE weeks before his Sept. 15 attempt.
“I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected,” Routh allegedly told his Ukrainian… pic.twitter.com/WiRuG2kDRg
A flurry of court filings hit the docket Monday in the Justice Department’s case against Ryan Routh, revealing bombshell new details about Routh’s activities in the months leading up to his alleged assassination attempt against Donald Trump last September—including that he tried buying a rocket launcher and a “stinger” missile from an associate in Ukraine weeks beforehand.
Along with several other motions, the DOJ filed a notice about the evidence it intends to introduce about Routh’s purported plans to kill Trump. According to that DOJ motion, Routh used aliases, he was in touch with a human smuggler in Mexico about an escape plan, and he attempted to buy a .50 caliber sniper rifle in late August.
The DOJ’s motion states that Routh was in touch with the Mexican smuggler, identified in court records only as “Ramiro,” since at least February 2024, when they discussed smuggling an Afghan family into the U.S.
“While this February chat involved smuggling others, it is necessary context for how that same chat evolved on September 13th and 14th, the two days before Routh set up his sniper hide at Trump International, when he contacted Ramiro for the first time since February 29,” the DOJ’s motion states.
“On those two days, Routh told Ramiro that he would be in Mexico City in the days immediately after September 15, with Ramiro responding that he would see Routh then and that he was located four hours outside of Mexico City and with Routh replying that he would call Ramiro once he knew for sure whether he’d meet him—something Routh planned through extensive web searches about travel to Mexico.”
Apparently, Routh’s contact with the Mexican smuggler was just one element of his escape plan. The DOJ also said in its motion that Routh used stolen license plates, burner phones, and aliases, including “John White” and “Brian Wilson.” (Read more: Headline News, 4/8/2025)(Archive)
We’ve got some big updates on Ryan Routh, the would-be assassin who allegedly plotted to kill President Trump—and it just got a whole lot darker. And while his shady dealings with Ukraine are disturbing enough (and yes, we’ll get into that), the real meat and potatoes of this story comes from Mike Benz, who just dropped a bombshell that could blow this whole thing wide open. What he believes happened—and what he’s nearly certain of—is where things take a serious turn. This story is catching fire fast.
According to newly released DOJ documents, Routh didn’t just dream about taking Trump out—he actively tried to buy military-grade weapons from Ukraine – of all places – including a shoulder-fired rocket launcher and even an anti-aircraft missile. Yes, you read that right. This man likely wanted to blow Trump’s plane right out of the sky.
Would-be Trump ender Ryan Routh tried buying a “rocket propelled grenade” from “an associate Routh believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military.”
Routh said, “I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected” as he wouldn’t be “good for Ukraine.”
Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield (Credit: public domain)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Alliance has been one of the most successful treaties the United States has been involved with. However, in the current age, there is grave concern over the weak defense spending of most NATO Partners. Until the final NATO Summit for Jan Stoltenberg, the outgoing NATO Secretary, in July 2024, only 12 of 32 NATO Nations were meeting the 2% of GDP for Military Spend, which has been a long standing, stated goal of NATO members. On March 13, 2025, at a joint press conference with the new NATO Secretary Mark Rutte, President Trump said, “there were just very few (NATO) countries that were paying…at 2 percent, which is too low. It should be higher. It should be quite a bit higher… most of them weren’t paying or they were paying very little.”
During this period of enforcing the expectations of NATO membership, the senior U.S. uniformed military officer at NATO is critical to properly communicating the meaning and intent of the President. Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield was the United States Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee, the highest-ranking U.S. Military leader other than the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, currently U.S. Army General Christopher Cavoli. According to Jack Posobiec, “Per report, Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield refused to put up POTUS & SECDEF pictures in NATO HQ. Also held an “all hands” where she said, “we will wait them out 4 years”. There are other actions attributed to the Admiral that place her in the woke camp. Generals and Admirals are appointed, not anointed, and if they lose the confidence of the Commander in Chief, it is time for them to hang it up and retire.
BREAKING: Per report, Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield refused to put up POTUS & SECDEF pictures in NATO HQ. Also held an “all hands” where she said “we will wait them out 4 years”
Secretary Hegseth has removed U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield from her position as U.S. representative to NATO’s military committee due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead. The Defense Department is grateful for her many years of military service.
This afternoon we asked the U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas to hold the @FBIin contempt of court for systematically violating the court’s orders to produce records about Seth Rich. If there is nothing to hide, and Seth died in a “botched robbery,” then why has the FBI gone so far as to commit crimes in order to conceal the evidence? After all, the FBI already has admitted that there is a link between Seth’s work laptop and the 2016 “hack” of the DNC, purportedly by Russian intelligence agents.
If Mueller and Durham told us the whole story about the Russia hoax, then why is the FBI still fighting so hard to hide the facts? The URL below links to our motion. It speaks for itself.
This afternoon we asked the U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas to hold the @FBI in contempt of court for systematically violating the court’s orders to produce records about Seth Rich. If there is nothing to hide, and Seth died in a “botched robbery,” then why has the FBI gone…
Many pundits and apoplectic Lawfare leftists are noting a set of four recent Supreme Court rulings favorable to the Trump administration.
The most recent ruling [pdf here] said nonprofit groups lacked legal standing to bring lawsuits challenging the firings of probationary workers at the departments of Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs. As a consequence, the accompanying Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) is defeated.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court also ruled -generally favorable- to the Trump administration [pdf here] on the issue of Venezuelans in the United States labeled by President Donald Trump as “alien enemies.” The justices ruled (5-4) to vacate a lower judge’s order that imposed a block on all deportations under Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
However, the court ruled to remove the TRO under auspices of the wrong venue for challenge; saying the deportees must challenge their status in the district court where jurisdiction of detainment takes place.
That split court ruling follows on the heels of Chief Justice John Roberts issuing an administrative order indefinitely lifting a lower court injunction [pdf here] that demanded the return of previously deported Abrego Garcia set by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis.
In short, the Supreme Court, at least a narrow majority therein, appears to be knocking down the process of federal judge shopping to issue nationwide restraining orders against the Trump administration. Twitter account Unseen1 has a solid and brief outline of what the court appears to be doing:
“The big win for Trump in the scotus today was not the resumption of deportations under the AEA (alien enemies act) (but that was big also). The major win was the court narrowing the federal district judges’ jurisdiction They once again narrowed the ability of the APA (administrative procedure act) which is the main law the vast majority of these unconditional judicial rulings have been made under.
The left is using the APA like Macgyver used bubble gum to get them out of sticky situations. Without the APA, they can’t judge shop as much. They can’t make class action lawsuits that have national injunctions attached.
In short, the scotus with this order, along with the one last week, is narrowing the use of the APA to reign in the lower federal district courts. There are already judicial remedies for almost all of these cases that do not involve a hand-picked federal district court needing to issue a national injunction or TRO.
Grants and contracts should be brought in federal claims court.
Immigration issues should be brought as habeas cases, and most can be held in front of immigration judges.
Government firings should be brought in front of the merit systems protection board.
The left doesn’t want to follow proper procedures for a host of reasons, like added costs, unfriendly judges could set precedent, extra work, time, etc. So, they invented the APA macgyver option. Hence, about 50 TROs/injunctions later, the scotus is smacking this practice down and telling them that this effort will not result in favorable opinions for them.
In short, the scotus is telling the federal district courts not to draw outside the lines regardless of the merits of the case because they will be denied on jurisdiction grounds if they reach the high court.” [link]
However, as noted by The American Thinker: {…} “The real problem is that the Supreme Court emphasized that every person named as an “alien enemy” under the AEA is entitled to judicial review. This is insane because it means that the judiciary will, once again, take unto itself the power to control foreign policy.
While this standard currently applies to the 18-20 million ordinary illegals that Biden let in (something no legislator or judge ever contemplated when immigration laws were passed or reviewed), it cannot possibly apply to the AEA, which is a question of foreign policy solely under the executive’s purview. (Sadly, though, Bondi’s DOJ actually gave the Supremes this opening, so part of the responsibility for this ludicrous holding is on her.) (more)
A former Meta executive turned whistleblower just dropped a political nuke that has rocked Capitol Hill and should terrify every American who values freedom, privacy, and national sovereignty.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, once Facebook’s director of global public policy (now Meta), appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday and leveled jaw-dropping allegations against her former employer.
Senator Hawley questions Meta whistleblower:
“Here, [Meta is] willing to build data centers, store data in China.
“They are willing explicitly to give the Chinese government access to it—& if that means American user data is also compromised, they’re willing to do that.” pic.twitter.com/dXjM3SQNay
— Senator Hawley Press Office (@SenHawleyPress) April 9, 2025
That Meta knowingly briefed the Chinese Communist Party on advanced U.S. technologies, including artificial intelligence, beginning in 2015—just to get a seat at Beijing’s lucrative tech table.
“These briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence – explicit goal being to help China outcompete American companies,” said Wynn-Williams, who worked at the social media giant from 2011 to 2017, according to the New York Post.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former director of global public policy who detailed allegations of misconduct and sexual harassment in a memoir released last month, is testifying before Congress.
She’s accusing Meta executives of compromising U.S. national security and sharing insights… pic.twitter.com/iRMzqGKhnp
“There’s a straight line you can draw from these briefings to the recent revelations that China is developing AI models for military use, relying on Meta’s Llama model,” she added. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 4/10/2025) (Archive)
“The next presidential memorandum we have for you relates to Miles Taylor, With this presidential memorandum it will strip any clearance he has, in light of his past activities involving classified information, it will also order the department of justice to investigate his… pic.twitter.com/SAy6e3GfMQ
RECLAIMING GOVERNMENT INTEGRITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum suspending any active security clearance held by Miles Taylor and his associates.
The Order directs the head of every federal agency to immediately suspend any active security clearance held by Taylor.
The Order also suspends any active security clearance held by individuals at entities associated with Taylor, including the University of Pennsylvania, pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest.
Furthermore, the Order calls for a review of Taylor’s activities as a government employee to identify any instances where his conduct appears to have been contrary to suitability standards for federal employees or involved the unauthorized dissemination of classified information.
ERADICATING GOVERNMENT BETRAYAL: President Trump is committed to ending the weaponization of government and believes that those who engage in such conduct should not have access to our nation’s secrets.
Taylor is a bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his government position, prioritizing his own ambition, personal notoriety, and monetary gain over fidelity to his constitutional oath.
While serving as an administrative staff assistant at the Department of Homeland Security, Taylor stoked dissension by manufacturing sensationalist reports on the existence of a supposed “resistance” within the federal government that “vowed” to undermine and render effective a sitting President.
Taylor published a book under the pseudonym “Anonymous,” full of falsehoods and fabricated stories.
(Credit: You Tube video clipping)
Taylor disclosed sensitive information obtained through unauthorized methods and betrayed the confidence of those with whom he served.
Taylor relied upon various colleagues to facilitate his unethical laundering and release of sensitive government data to advance his false narratives.
DRAINING THE SWAMP: President Trump is delivering on his promise to drain the swamp by rooting out inefficiency, corruption, and disloyalty.
President Trump already suspended the security clearances held by numerous other individuals who have engaged in conduct detrimental to American interests.
He is ensuring taxpayer funds do not go to anti-American activists and is declassifying records related to alleged government misconduct, providing transparency to the public.
The Trump Administration is aggressively investigating Biden-era programs that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on inefficient and politically-driven projects, including canceling unnecessary government contracts and grants that do not serve the national interest.
President Trump is restoring trust in government by prioritizing loyalty to the Constitution and the American people over entrenched bureaucratic interests.
This afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum that instructs the Department of Justice and “other aspects of [his] government” to investigate Chris Krebs and his acts as the former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). At the signing, President Trump’s White House staff secretary Will Scharf stated:
“This is a man who weaponized his position against free speech in the election context and the context of COVID-19. This is a similar Presidential Memorandum to the one you just signed. It addresses his access to government existent clearances he might have and further instructs your Department of Justice, other aspects of your government, to investigate some of the malign acts he participated in while he was still head of CISA.”
.@POTUS signs a Presidential Memorandum revoking any active security clearance held by @C_C_Krebs and his associates:
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 9, 2025
Before signing the memorandum, President Trump rehashed the consequences of the stolen 2020 election, including the deaths from the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the Russia-Ukraine war, and October 7th.
President Trump called it “a very corrupt election” and said “they used COVID to cheat.” He called Krebs a “wise-guy” and referenced his absurd statement almost immediately following the 2020 Election, calling it the “most secure in U.S. history.” (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 4/9/2025)(Archive)
BREAKING: MASSIVE J6 WIN for the sake of government accountability and transparency that will help generations of Americans understand what actually happened that fateful day!!
Court just granted our motion to lift the protective order that long shrouded most J6 discovery in a veil of secrecy. Now ALL discovery will be made public!!
Massive amount of data. Hundreds of terabytes. Everything @TheJusticeDeptand defense lawyers had access to.
In addition, the granted motion demanded the government discovery databases TO BE MAINTAINED AND MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH AND TRANSPARENCY!!
Congress @SpeakerJohnsonwouldn’t live up to their multiple promises to make all J6 information public, so we took a big first step for them. Great job @RogerRootsand @EmtheFishLadyon this!!
BREAKING: MASSIVE J6 WIN for the sake of government accountability and transparency that will help generations of Americans understand what actually happened that fateful day!!
Court just granted our motion to lift the protective order that long shrouded most J6 discovery in a… pic.twitter.com/fW2bBmI3Pa
Nearly 700 pages of declassified records from the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into now-discredited claims of the 2016 Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia were turned over to Congress by the FBI this week and obtained Thursday exclusively by Just the News.
You can read the declassified documents below, reorganized by subject for easy access and listed alphabetically:
A key FBI informant in the widely-debunked Russia collusion case was paid nearly $1.2 million over three decades, was motivated in part by “monetary compensation,” and continued snitching even after agents concluded he told them an inaccurate story about future Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, newly declassified documents show.
The nearly 700 pages of once-secret documents, obtained by Just the News, were recently turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan after President Donald Trump ordered them declassified at the start of his second administration.
They provide the most extensive portrait yet of former FBI informant Stefan Halper, a Pentagon consultant and academic who, along with retired British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, was used by bureau agents to build the Crossfire Hurricane case against Trump and his advisers during the end of the 2016 election and the beginning of Trump’s first term in office.
The memos confirm Halper was the source of one of the most sensational bogus claims to land in the FBI’s probe in summer 2016: that Flynn had left a 2014 foreign meeting alone with Russia scholar Svetlana Lokhova when he was a three-star general leading the Defense Intelligence Agency.
FBI agents ultimately deemed Halper’s account to be “not plausible” and “not accurate”, but the bureau proceeded to investigate Flynn, kept paying Halper and continued to vouch for his veracity as a confidential human source codenamed “Mitch,” the memos show.
For instance, a March 2017 memo showed the FBI’s Validation Management Unit wrote that it “assesses it is likely HALPER is suitable for continued operation, based on his or her authenticity, reliability, and control.”
That memo makes no mention in its unredacted portions of the concerns about the account Halper gave about Flynn and Lokhova, which were confirmed in a memo from William Barnett, the FBI agent who handled the retired Flynn’s case in 2016 and 2017.
Paid more than $1 million
The new FBI records also show Halper was paid $70,000 by the FBI between August 2016 and the start of February 2017 — a time period spanning his activation as an informant targeting the Trump campaign and then the 2016 election and Trump’s inauguration. The FBI records also showed that the bureau had paid Halper “$1,181,064.44” from 1991 into early 2017.
You can read the FBI’s declassified records on Halper here:
Halper did not respond to a request for comment which Just the News made through his lawyer, Robert Luskin.
The “Crossfire Hurricane Redacted Binder” submitted to Congress and obtained by Just the News includes, among other things, slightly less-redacted versions of the tasking orders and debriefings of the two main confidential human sources, Halper and Steele. The new documents are certain to raise continued concerns in Congress about the FBI’s management and validation of informants, an issue that has been repeatedly flagged by the Justice Department’s watchdog.
FBI vouches for Halper after he fed false info on Flynn
The FBI’s Validation Management Unit (VMU) conducted a Human Source Validation Report (HSVR) on Halper in early 2017 — and although the declassified document remains heavily redacted, it reveals new information about the FBI’s continued expression of trust in Halper.
The VMU’s review from May 2013 to March 2017 and recommended that the FBI continue using Halper as a source despite FBI agents working the Flynn case determining that he had provided them incorrect information. It is not known whether Halper knew the information was bogus at the time.
“VMU recommends FBI New York continue to operate HALPER. VMU assesses it is likely HALPER will continue to contribute to the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program,” the FBI unit wrote. “While there have been serious handling issues noted in previous HSVRs, VMU did not locate similar issues during this period of review. VMU assesses HALPER has provided valuable information for FBI NY based on his or her unique access.”
The FBI document said Halper was primarily involved in reporting on “Counterintelligence” and secondarily involved in reporting on “Russia.”
“HALPER, code name MITCH, is being utilized to provide information on two initiatives dealing with Russia,” the FBI record states, although one of the initiatives remains entirely redacted.
The other initiative was that Halper “has also provided information pertaining to the U.S. election involving Donald Trump’s close associates and their potential ties to the Russian government.”
Vox parroted this explanation, saying the Trump administration told “a tale of politically motivated persecution of Trump. The argument rests on the distinction between an FBI counterintelligence investigation – an inquiry into a foreign power’s efforts to spy on the US government – and an FBI criminal investigation, which is an effort to investigate whether any federal laws were broken.”
The FBI unit said: “VMU assesses it is likely HALPER is suitable for continued operation, based on his or her authenticity, reliability, and control.” The sections of Halper’s alleged authenticity, reliability, and control remain heavily redacted.
The bureau unit also contended that “during the period of review, VMU found no derogatory issues regarding MITCH’s reliability.”
But the FBI unit also admitted: “VMU notes there is no corroboration concerning MITCH’s reporting. Due to the singular nature of his or her access, VMU was unable to locate corroboration concerning MITCH’s reporting.”
Sections on collection requirements, threat issues, and key intelligence questions related to Halper all remain blacked out from public view.
Earlier on Thursday, as Jeff covered, the House passed the SAVE Act, which makes clear that only citizens can vote in our elections. The bill passed 220-208, with all Republicans supporting the voter integrity effort, along with four Democrats. Most of those four Democrats, Reps. Ed Case of Hawaii, Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, are running in competitive districts.
Despite the common sense nature of such a bill, not only did most House Democrats vote against it, but their party’s nominee for 2016 totally melted down in posts over X. Hillary Clinton posted a warning about the bill on Wednesday afternoon, and then on Thursday afternoon put out a quoted reposted with an “update,” with even more fearmongering about the bill.
Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don’t match their birth certificates.
The original post included a link to a far-left group known as Indivisible, and claimed “this is not a drill” as she urged married women who changed their name to call their representatives over a supposed need to protect their right to vote.
Clinton’s new post from Wednesday urged women to call their senators this time, as she once more lumped all married women who changed their name into the same category. “The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don’t match their birth certificates,” she claimed, urging these women to “Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.”
Although Clinton restricted replies, she was swiftly called out for such a bogus take, and on a very popular bill to do with a crucial issue. Wednesday’s post has been viewed over 1 million times, and includes 5,000 quoted reposts.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who sponsored the SAVE Act for this Congress and the previous one, not only put out a quoted repost of Clinton, he also reposted a clip of his appearance on “The Will Cain Show.”
The congressman addressed the concerns raised by Clinton directly, explaining, “when you get married, you have to go change that documentation anyway,” pointing out how newly married women have to get new IDs reflecting their name change. “And regardless, we’ve got mechanisms in the bill that allow states to be able to create processes for anyone who comes forward and says, ‘I need to vote.’ Right? Well, okay, are you already registered? Great, you’re good to go! If you’re going through a new registration process, and you’re married, well just present your new information and now you’re rergistering and it’s fine! If you got any issue, then we allow the states to come up with mechanism for doing that, and demonstrating” a process for that.
Roy also highlighted what people cannot do, “which is come in with a made up name” and expect to be trusted enough to be able to vote, a concept that the congressman called “pretty simple.”
An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits
In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.
An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed…
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 10, 2025
Unreal. Billions in unemployment fraud—babies, 115-year-olds, even someone born in 2154 cashing checks. This isn’t bureaucratic error—it’s systematic looting.
The Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act (H.R. 1156) finally extends the statute of limitations to claw back stolen funds. But let’s be clear: this mess started under lax oversight in prior administrations. Now? The focus is accountability.
Every dime stolen from taxpayers should be hunted down—no expiry date on fraud. Time to jail the grifters and overhaul a system that handed out cash to literal toddlers.
Unreal. Billions in unemployment fraud—babies, 115-year-olds, even someone born in 2154 cashing checks. This isn’t bureaucratic error—it’s systematic looting.
The Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act (H.R. 1156) finally extends the statute of limitations to claw back…
BREAKING: DNI Tulsi Gabbard says they have uncovered evidence that voting machines are vulnerable to hackers and exploitation aimed at manipulating vote results, which Gabbard says strengthens the mandate for paper ballots across the country.
TULSI GABBARD: “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast.” pic.twitter.com/Arw6wDTvGe
Migrants board a plane during the first deportation flight of undocumented Venezuelans from the United States to Venezuela, in Harlingen, Texas, on October 18, 2023. ((Credit: Veronica G. Cardenas/AFP via Getty Images)
The Trump administration is revoking the parole of thousands of immigrants who they have found to have criminal records or to be on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center watchlist, a senior White House official told the Daily Caller.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has identified 6,300 individuals who were paroled into the United States since 2023, during the Biden administration, but are on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center or have a criminal record, a senior White House official shared with the Caller. The source was granted anonymity to discuss the details not yet announced. Every individual CBP identified is having their parole, which gives them benefits such as work authorization, stripped immediately, the official told the Caller.
“Among the 6.3k paroled aliens with criminal or terrorist records, 905 were collecting Medicaid (including 4 on the terrorist watch list). $276,000 was paid out,” the official shared with the Caller, adding that all had Social Security numbers. “41 were collecting Unemployment Insurance, receiving $42,000 in benefits. 22 received federal student loans totaling $280,000.”
Other immigrants granted parole under the Biden administration have also had their benefits stripped by the Trump White House. In March, termination notices started being delivered to hundreds of thousands of migrants who entered the United States through a fraud-ridden parole program launched by the Biden administration. The program, CHNV, was terminated by the Trump administration last month.
Under the initiative, half-a-million migrants were flown in from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela over the past several years.
“They allowed more than half a million loosely vetted aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members to enter the United States through these disastrous parole programs; granted them opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers; forced career civil servants to promote the programs even when fraud was identified; and then blamed Republicans in Congress for the chaos that ensued and the crime that followed,” a senior DHS official previously said of the announcement. (The Daily Caller, 4/10/2025)(Archive)
After years of stonewalling, spin, and subversion of truth, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the leadership of Director Kash Patel, has finally placed Deep State operative Brian Auten on administrative leave.
Sources familiar with the matter told the New York Times that Auten was placed on administrative leave last week.
BREAKING: Kash Patel has suspended and removed from HQ C.I. the FBI analyst Brian Auten who rubber-stamped the fake dossier to frame and spy on Trump adviser as a “Russian agent” & who later discounted Hunter Biden laptop evidence as Russian disinformationhttps://t.co/rTk4TNfKug
Auten’s suspension comes after years of public outcry over his corrupt misconduct inside the Bureau, which turned the FBI into an arm of the Democrat Party.
He was a key player in Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s scandalous counterintelligence investigation based on the now-discredited Steele Dossier.
According to the DOJ Inspector General, Auten failed to alert FBI leadership about gaping holes and fabrications in the dossier, yet still aggressively pushed for illegal FISA warrants on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Let’s be clear: this was the FBI spying on a presidential campaign based on false evidence — and Brian Auten was in the thick of it.
But Auten didn’t stop at attacking Trump. In 2020, just weeks before the election, whistleblowers allege that Auten authored an internal FBI report that falsely labeled damning information about Hunter Biden as “Russian disinformation.”
That report effectively shut down the FBI’s investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business dealings — conveniently just in time to protect Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
Auten’s fingerprints were reportedly all over both cases — despite being under internal investigation for misconduct related to the FISA abuse during the Russia probe. Instead of being removed or disciplined, he was allowed to continue shaping politically explosive investigations under dirty FBI Director Chris Wray.
Auten’s fingerprints are also on the FBI’s unprecedented raid on President Trump’s home, another blatant abuse of power targeting the Biden administration’s chief political opponent. (Read more: Gateway Pundit. 4/12/2025)(Archive)
Admiral Michael Rogers appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 5, 2016. (Credit: CSpan3)
The Washington Post and New York Times won Pulitzer Prizes for their numerous stories on false claims of Trump-Russia collusion. Declassified interview notes from Crossfire Hurricane now show Admiral Mike Rogers shot down one of those stories behind closed doors.
Former National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers told FBI agents that the crux of a Pulitzer Prize award-winning Washington Post story on the Russian collusion hoax was “wrong,” according to newly declassified documents obtained by Just the News.
Admiral Rogers, who retired in 2018 after four years as National Security Agency chief and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, spoke with FBI agents and a key member of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in June 2017, where he threw cold water on a May 2017story by the Post titled, “Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence.”
It is not yet known whether the Post had been told prior to the May 2017 publishing of their story that Rogers was denying their characterization of his talk with Trump, but it is now known that Rogers was telling federal investigators in June 2017 that the story was bogus.
The Post story — now known to have been directly refuted by one of its main subjects the month after it published — would go on to be among the Russiagate stories published by the outlet to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2018. Trump is currently suing the Pulitzer Board for defamation for continuing to defend the awards it gave to this collusion-related story and numerous others. A Florida circuit court judge denied the Pulitzer Board’s motion to delay President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against them on presidential immunity grounds.
The newly-released Rogers interview with the Mueller team shows that the then-NSA director was read a quote from The Washington Postarticle — that “President Trump urged [Rogers] to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of collusion during the 2016 election” — with the FBI notes stating that “Rogers responded that the media characterization was wrong, and the President had asked about the existence of SIGINT [signals intelligence] evidence only.” (Read more: Just the News, 4/11/2025)(Archive)
One of the WaPo reporters who authored the bogus Pulitzer-winning story was none other than Ellen Nakashima, a renown stenographer for the D.C. intelligence community during the Russiagate hoax
At some point Ellen Nakashima needs to be held accountable. Lying for profit and Political gain may be covered by the 1st Amendment, but when does it become Treason? Nakashima was an active part of the Coup to overthrow our Country. She wasn’t fooled and either are we. pic.twitter.com/sHZwVLqhy9
John Brennan (l), James Clapper (c) and Admiral Mike Rogers testify at House hearing on world wide cyber threats in September 2015. (Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Admiral Mike Rogers and the Steele Dossier
Admiral Mike Rogers, who retired in 2018 after four years as National Security Agency chief and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, previously expressed a certain level of skepticism about the U.S. intelligence community’s 2017 assessment of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election — and a newly declassified interview Rogers gave to the FBI later in 2017 shines light on the dim view Rogers had of British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier.
“ADM Rogers decided that he would make the final analytic call on the NSA’s input to the ICA as he knew there would be a lot of pressure and attention on the final draft and he felt strongly his career analysts shouldn’t have to be responsible for something under such political pressure. In one draft of the ICA, ADM Rogers noted the contents of the ‘Steele dossier’ in the body of the product, which he did not recall seeing in previous drafts,” FBI notes dated June 17, 2017 state.
“In early January, the four principals met and ADM Rogers told the group he was unclear why the ICA needed to focus on the dossier as it was considered largely uncorroborated. Comey responded that the information was relevant and ADM Rogers suggested the information be included in an annex or appendix rather than prominently in the nearly one-page summary he had seen.”
Rogers and Comey, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan, briefed President-elect Trump about their election meddling findings at Trump Tower in January 2017. Comey stayed behind to tell Trump about some of the dossier’s more salacious allegations.
Steele told the FBI in October 2017 that he was “frustrated” by his dossier’s inclusion in an annex to the ICA. The FBI agent who recounted the interview with Steele wrote, “They brought up the inclusion of their material in the ICA annex multiple times – almost to the point that it felt like fishing for information about how the ICA was constructed. In the end, I made the point that I wasn’t going to get into how the ICA was put together, how the annex came about, etc.”
The Steele dossier annexed to the ICA was largely declassified in 2020, and it relayed some of Steele’s baseless collusion claims: “The most politically-sensitive claims by the FBI source [Steele] alleged a close relationship between the President-elect and the Kremlin. The source also claimed that the President-elect and his top campaign advisers knowingly worked with Russian officials to bolster his chances of beating Secretary Clinton; were fully knowledgeable of Russia’s direction of leaked Democratic emails; and were offered financial compensation from Moscow.”
Varying assessments from intelligence services
The 2017 intelligence assessment concluded with “high confidence” that Russia worked to “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate former Secretary of State Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency” and “developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” The NSA diverged on one aspect, expressing only “moderate confidence” that Putin actively tried to help Trump’s election chances and harm those of Clinton.
“I wouldn’t call it a discrepancy. I’d call it an honest difference of opinion between three different organizations,” Rogers told the Senate in 2017. “It didn’t have the same level of sourcing and the same level of multiple sources.”
A 2018 report from the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee concluded that “the majority of the Intelligence Community Assessment judgments on Russia’s election activities employed proper analytic tradecraft” but found the “judgments on Putin’s strategic intentions did not.”
unmasking saga
The newly-declassified FBI records also show Rogers attempted to distance himself from the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
“ADM Rogers has not been specifically briefed on the FBI investigation into the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and the nature of links between those efforts and the Trump campaign,” the notes read.” However, ADM Rogers was aware the NSA has received Letterhead Memoranda from the FBI requesting information mostly on specific interactions with U.S. Persons. ADM Rogers was aware the FBI was ‘following specific individuals’ but was not certain if it was because of the ongoing work on the ICA or for another reason.”
The FBI notes also say that “Rogers was surprised when Comey told the committee in open session on March 20, 2017 that the FBI was investigating potential links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian interference… Comey did not tell him in advance about the ongoing set of investigations.”
A host of top Obama officials received information in response to “unmasking” requests targeting retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in the final weeks of the Obama administration, according to a memo declassified in 2020.
Republicans have alleged since 2017 that Obama-era officials improperly unmasked associates of then-candidate Trump’s presidential campaign during the Russia collusion investigation, while Democrats have defended the intelligence-gathering process, arguing that the collection of identifying information is inevitable.
John Durham said Rogers cast doubt on collusion claims during an interview with the special counsel team.
“Admiral Mike Rogers served as the Director of NSA during the relevant time period,” the 2023 report said. “When asked about any awareness he had of any evidence of collusion as asserted in the Steele Reports, he stated that he did not recall any intelligence that supported the collusion assertions in that reporting, nor did he have any discussions during the Summer of 2016 with his counterparts in the intelligence community about collusion between the Russians and any Republicans.
Internal FBI Messages from January 2017 reveal Shady Structuring to Frame Trump and his team with fabricated Rumors
• Agents like Peter Strzok debated creating a “Trump Unit” to target the incoming administration, focusing on @GenFlynn for his talks with Russian ambassador Kislyak, which they tried to spin as espionage or Logan Act violations—charges that were found baseless.
• They even FLOATED RUMORS, like Putin using Trump Tower’s roof, showing they were grasping at straws desperately trying to build a case because they didn’t have one. THIS IS HUGE!
• Flynn’s early targeting—before Trump’s inauguration—suggests a PREMEDITATED effort to sabotage the administration by taking down a key ally in a conspiracy to undermine Trump with a manufactured Russia narrative.
“I’m worried Flynn will blab himself into a legit 65”
These files lend credence to the fact that the investigation was a completely politically motivated setup from the start and they were looking to frame an incoming president of the United States.
TREASON!!
UPDATE: Crossfire Hurricane — Holeee Shizzles‼️
Internal FBI Messages from January 2017 reveal Shady Structuring to Frame Trump and his team with fabricated Rumors
Victoria Nuland Identified being Directly involved in Handling Sensitive Information Potentially Related to the Steele Dossier
The mention of Victoria Nuland receiving investigative material from a U.S. firm tied to a former UK intelligence officer (likely Christopher Steele) is significant.
This suggests Nuland, a senior State Department official, was directly involved in handling sensitive information potentially related to the Steele dossier, which was a controversial element of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Her intent to pass this to Trump, stinks to high Heaven.
• There’s also a reference to “DRAGON” as a key asset, possibly an informant??? or operation???, who is wary of Igor Sechin and advising on legal strategies. This is a new detail.
DRAGON’s role as a career-“defining asse” for an FBI official, with concerns about exposure, indicates a high-stakes operation taking place that hasn’t been discussed in prior public releases.
UPDATE: Crossfire Hurricane
Victoria Nuland Identified being Directly involved in Handling Sensitive Information Potentially Related to the Steele Dossier
Boston mayor Michelle Wu and CCP intel official Gary Yu (Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images and LinkedIn)
Far-left Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) received hundreds of thousands of dollars to her 2021 campaign from a fundraiser who is a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official, an investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) recently uncovered.
Wu’s mayoral campaign was the recipient of more than $300,000 fundraised by Gary Yu, the commissioner of the Asian American & Pacific Islanders Commission and president of the New England Chinese American Alliance, the DCNFreported.
Yu, whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang, is listed as an official in the United Front Work Department (UFWD) — the CCP’s intelligence- and influence-gathering agency that operates overseas, including in the U.S.
The DCNF also reported that Yu operates as a recruiter for the Chinese government, citing Chinese state media reports and civic associations led by Yu to back up these claims.
Wu, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan after her grandparents moved the family from mainland China, has recently made headlines for criticizing President Donald Trump for cracking down on illegal immigration in her sanctuary city.
Despite her public assertion that Boston “stand[s] with immigrants,” Trump border czar Tom Homan traveled to the city and personally oversaw hundreds of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests, including members of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua (TdA).
“The Communist Party’s UFWD never rests,” China expert Gordon Chang told the DCNF. “There is no ethnic Chinese official in America who is not targeted. It’s time for law enforcement to investigate the CCP’s ties to Gary Yu and Yu’s ties to Mayor Michelle Wu.”
The UFWD also has significant roots in Minnesota, with ties to failed Democrat vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz.
Pete Marocco, the official who oversaw the dismantling of USAID, has now parted ways with the agency. (Kent Nishimura/Reuters)
Pete Marocco, the official who oversaw the dismantling of USAID, has now parted ways with the agency.
Marocco, who served in the Defense, State and Commerce departments, was known as a conservative firebrand with a deep skepticism of foreign aid. His tenure sparked fierce protests on Capitol Hill and drew sharp criticism from Democrats, who celebrated his exit but said questions remain about the future of U.S. foreign aid.
“Pete was brought to State with a big mission to conduct an exhaustive review of every dollar spent on foreign assistance,” a senior administration official said of the departure. “He conducted that historic task and exposed egregious abuses of taxpayer dollars. We all expect big things are in store for Pete on his next mission.”
After President Donald Trump merged USAID with the State Department, Secretary Marco Rubio named Marocco acting deputy administrator of the agency, and he went to work whittling down the $40-billion, 10,000-employee USAID office. (Read more: Fox News, 4/14/2025)(Archive)
He is a hero, and his services are undoubtedly needed elsewhere. Marocco gave a statement to Fox News Digital regarding his departure. “I continue to serve President Trump just as enthusiastically as I did last week, last month, and last year.” https://t.co/pUNjN8EUNI
— Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) April 15, 2025
THE DIRECTOR: Thank you for the kind introduction. It is a pleasure to speak to you all this evening, here in the early light of the new Golden Age of America.
President Trump has given all of us who serve in his administration a monumental task—the renewal of our nation.
I know, and I think you know, too, that such a renewal will require the reinvigoration of American science and industry. Over the last few decades, America has become complacent, forgetting old dreams of building a wondrous future.
But we know the American pioneer spirit still seeks the exploration of endless frontiers. Our technologies, and what we do with them, will be the tools with which we will make the destiny of our country manifest in this century.
Yet this American hope in the possibility of progress and the power of science and technology does not allow builders and innovators to retreat from politics. Indeed, quite the opposite, which is what brings me here today. A Golden Age is only possible if we choose it.
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There is nothing predestined about technological progress and scientific discovery. They require the efforts and energies of men and women, the collective choice for order and truth over disorder and opinion.
The last century was called the American Century, as—despite wars and domestic conflict—the United States stood at the forefront of science and technology, building the future. With the strength of our industry and ingenuity, we created the largest middle class the world has ever seen. As President Trump said to me in his letter laying out the science and technology agenda of this administration, “The triumphs of the last century did not happen by chance.”
Ours was the Atomic Age. Ours the victory in the Space Race. And ours the invention of the Internet, collecting and connecting the multiplicity of human knowledge.
Today we fight to restore that inheritance. As the failure of the Biden administration’s “small yard, high fence” approach makes clear, it is not enough to seek to protect America’s technological lead. We also have a duty to promote American technological leadership.
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A gap lies between our moment and the speed of transformation America experienced midcentury. Progress has slowed. Yes, large language models astonish us, rockets still turn our eyes upward, and satellites envelop the globe. But as we look forward to America’s 250th birthday celebration next year, our progress today pales in comparison to the huge leaps of the 20th century. Consider the country of fifty years ago.
As the nation approached its bicentennial, Americans looked forward to electricity too cheap to meter. By the end of 1972, 30 nuclear plants were operational, 55 were under construction, and more than 80 were planned or ordered. That same year, the Apollo 17 astronauts became the 11th and 12th men to walk on the moon. Five years before, the X-15 rocket plane had set a speed record for a crewed aircraft of Mach 6.7. America was flying higher, faster, and farther than ever before…
Today, however, energy prices still burden producers and consumers alike, and the grid remains precarious. Over the past 30 years only three commercial nuclear reactors have been built and 10 have been closed. Despite spending almost twice as much on healthcare as peer nations, we have the lowest life expectancy. Apollo 17’s steps on the lunar surface have proved mankind’s last. The X-15’s record still stands, and the Concorde was decommissioned more than two decades ago. Our passenger planes are slower than they used to be. Our trains crawl compared to those in other parts of the world. Our cars do not fly
Advances have not stopped, but something has gone wrong.
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Stagnation was a choice. We have weighed down our builders and innovators. The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America’s ability to become a net-energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build. We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along.
But we are capable of so much more.
Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.
As Vice President Vance said in a recent speech, the tradition of American innovation has been one of increasing the capacities of America’s workers, of extending human ability so that more people can do more, and, more meaningful work. But unrestricted immigration, and reliance on cheap labor both domestically and offshore, has been a substitute for improving productivity with technology.
We can build in new ways that let us do more with less, or we can borrow from the future. We have chosen to borrow from the future again and again. Our choice as a civilization is technology or debt. And we have chosen debt.
Michigan’s second-largest health system has deleted webpages promoting childhood transgenderism and DEI in an attempt to scrub its far-left footprints from the internet after conservative group Consumers’ Research launched a campaign against it on Monday, Breitbart News has learned.
In one deleted article on “how to support a transgender teen,” Henry Ford Health staff directed parents to “get help” to allow their child to transition.
“When they’re not allowed to transition, they may suffer from depression, anxiety, and an increased risk of inflicting self-harm,” the article explained.
“We’ve latched on to this idea that gender is fixed, but we know in medicine that exploring your identity as it relates to gender is a normal part of growing up,” Henry Ford pediatrician Dr. Maureen Connolly claimed.
Henry Ford Health touts itself as one of the few health systems that treats “any transgender individual,” including minors. A webpage that still remains live says services available “for adolescents” include harmful “puberty blockers” and “gender affirming hormones.”
(Credit: website clipping)
Another now-deleted page on the health agency’s website detailed its DEI efforts, stating that “diversity, equity and inclusion are woven into the fabric of everything we do.”
Kimberlydawn Wisdom, the agency’s senior vice president of “Community Health & Equity” and the “Chief Wellness & Diversity Officer,” believes that DEI is just the beginning.
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion are simply not enough. Diversity, equity, and inclusion alone can only mitigate the damage of the past,” she wrote in 2021. “To prevent the mistakes of the past from burdening our communities in the future, our ultimate destination must be justice.”
As part of its massive campaign to expose Henry Ford Health’s far-left bias, Consumers’ Research put together a website, FordHealthExposed.com, and mobile billboards running outside its hospitals in Detroit and Macomb County.
Images shared with Breitbart News also show stenciled sidewalk chalk messages around the Detroit location, as well as another billboard in Lansing, near the State Capitol.
“Henry Ford Health is prioritizing politics over patients. Driven by gender ideology, Henry Ford has continued performing deeply harmful and irreversible sex-change treatments on children and must be stopped,” Consumers’ Research executive director Will Hild told Breitbart News.
“The hospital’s deliberate mutilation of confused children’s bodies is being done in direct defiance of President Trump’s orders to eliminate the vile practice for good. Henry Ford Health has also committed to embedding DEI into every facet of its operation, elevating a radical ideological agenda above its fundamental duty to provide excellent scientific-based care,” he added. (Read more: Breitbart News, 4/15/2025)(Archive)
Letitia James attends Trump trial, May 2024. (Credit: public domain)
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) referred New York Attorney General Letitia James to the Department of Justice for alleged mortgage fraud.
“Based on media reports, Ms. Letitia James has, in multiple instances falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms,” wrote Bill Pulte, director of FHFA, to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Pulte added: “This has potentially included 1) falsifying residence status for a Norfolk, Virginia-based home in order to secure a lower mortgage rate and 2) misrepresenting property descriptions to meet stringent requirements for government backed loans and government assistance.”
🚨 US Federal Housing Finance Agency Director @pulte has referred NY AG Letitia James to the DOJ for alleged mortgage fraud. pic.twitter.com/L9l96DBhOZ
After twenty years in congress, Curt Weldon was about to become chairman of the House Armed Services Committee when he publicly questioned the accuracy of the 9-11 report. In retaliation, the Bush administration sent federal agents to his daughter’s house and ended his political career. At 77, Weldon has decided to tell the truth about what actually happened on September 11, 2001. WATCH:
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:33 Why Did They Oust Weldon?
7:12 Could the CIA Have Prevented 9-11?
16:00 How the FBI Tried to Intimidate Weldon
19:23 Did the CIA Lie About Osama bin Laden’s Location?
25:47 The Real Culprit Behind America’s Wars in the Middle East
31:27 Trump’s Biggest Challenge Right Now
33:11 How the Deep State Undermined Weldon’s Political Career
43:16 Will Weldon Be Killed for Speaking Out?
48:04 Why Hillary Clinton Had to Take Down Gaddafi
49:31 The 9-11 Commission Was a Scam
55:17 The Mysterious Collapse of Building 7
1:05:13 How Will This Revelation Impact America’s Future?
1:07:56 The Bush Administration and China
1:14:32 Why Politicians Are So Scared of Declassifying 9-11 Documents
1:20:14 Where Can Americans Find the Truth About 9-11?
As a Democratic politician, civil-rights activist, tax attorney and serial entrepreneur, Stacey Abrams has founded or co-founded a dizzying array of nonprofits and LLCs, some of which co-mingle funds.
Records show many of her start-ups have no office or staff and are based out of Abrams’ home in Atlanta. A number of them have failed, dissolved or have fallen into debt and had tax liens attached, and some are under state or federal investigation. A list:
Fair Fight Inc.
Fair Fight Action
Fair Fight PAC
Fair Fight Georgia
Fair Count
New Georgia Project
New Georgia Action Fund
Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP)
American Pride Rises APR Network
Sage Works LLC
Sage Works Productions Inc.
NOWaccount Corp.
NOWaccount Network Corp.
NOW Corp. USA
Nourish Inc.
Insomnia Consulting
Insomnia Group
Third Sector Development Inc.
Voter Access Institute
Myrina Strategies
The Family Room Inc.
SELA Technologies Inc.
Abrams Legal Services LLC
Davis Hall LLC
Hall Davis LLC
Brockington Hall LLC
Sources: Stacey Abrams website, Georgia state financial disclosure statements
👀 Boasberg says if administration won’t prosecute potential contempt, he’ll appoint a prosecutor who will. Boasberg said he’s skeptical of the administration’s invocation of state secrets privilege to deny him information. https://t.co/JEbMZ5HDOCpic.twitter.com/fW3lwo2evu
Former congressman Billy Long of Missouri, who famously deployed his skills as a professional auctioneer on the House floor during a debate, is President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Internal Revenue Service after its acting director Melanie Krause’s resignation over the administration’s effort to use tax information to identify people in the country illegally.
On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers take a post-tax filing deadline look at the history of the IRS being used to go after political opponents.
Most recently, the Joe Biden administration sicced the IRS on journalist Matt Taibbi. After Taibbi testified about the Hunter Biden laptop in front of Congress, IRS investigators showed up at his door and hauled away several boxes of seized material. Taibbi has said it was done purely to intimidate him, and the boxes were returned a month later without being unsealed.
Franklin Roosevelt deployed the IRS against his nemesis, steel magnate Andrew Mellon in the 1930s. Richard Nixon turned the IRS loose on his political opponents in the 1970s. President Bill Clinton’s two sexual harassment accusers, Juanita Broadrick and Paula Jones, were both somehow targeted by IRS investigators for audits during the Clinton administration. Famously, Barack Obama used the IRS along with a bureaucrat named Lois Lerner to punish “Tea Party” organizations by denying their applications for tax-exempt status while granting it for left-wing dark-money groups in 2012 and 2013.
One of Lerner’s former top deputies, Holly Paz, is still there at the IRS and running one of its most important divisions — the Large Business and International Division. As Schweizer explains, this unit scrutinizes the tax returns of the roughly 100,000 businesses with assets worth more than $10 million.
Back in 2013 and working under Lerner, Paz participated in an internal IRS investigation relating to the agency’s discrimination against tea-party groups. She got in trouble for neglecting to mention that fact when testifying before Congress about the scheme. It was rumored at the time that she was fired but instead was placed on administrative leave. Marlon Paz, her husband, works for one of Washington’s most well-connected law firms, Schweizer notes.
(…) Schweizer says he thinks Billy Long will be a “breath of fresh air” at the IRS. “He’s a real man of the people,” Schweizer said. In the past, among other controversial opinions Long has said that he might favor dissolving the IRS or substituting a flat or fairer tax code to make tax obligations simpler to meet. (Read more: Breitbart News, 4/17/2025)(Archive)
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for being here with – sharing for the American people a very momentous day in the history of the State Department and the U.S. Government in restoring free speech and America’s role as the beacon of free speech. Something very historic transpired today.
Could you tell the American people what that was?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah. Well, we ended government-sponsored censorship in the United States through the State Department. And let me explain how we get there. This started out 15, 10 years ago with this effort of let’s go after the messaging that al-Qaida and ISIS and others are putting to radicalize people. And who’s going to be against that? That sounds normal. And then it was, like, in 2016, oh, we had this foreign interference in our election; we need to start targeting some of that stuff. By 2020 it had grown into this movement of, like, actually going after individual American voices.
And one of the ways that was being done wasn’t just directly. Because the guy that was running this thing, Stengel, was actually a guy that was out there saying: Donald Trump talks just like a Russian spy, he talks just like a terrorist, and so do the people around him. But they were also taking money from this program and using it to fund these NGOs, these third-party groups who were supposed to be, like, impartial. Those groups were then tagging – they were literally tagging and labeling voices in American politics – Ben Shapiro, The Federalist, others – tagging them as foreign agents.
So you look at it and say, American taxpayers, through the State Department, were paying groups to attack Americans and to try to silence the voice of Americans. And there were consequences. These weren’t just a label they put on people. Some of these people got deplatformed, they got taken down, they couldn’t communicate. So it was outrageous.
So before President Trump took over, they disbanded this unit. They just renamed it and moved it somewhere else. But now over the last few months we’ve worked on it and just taken it down, and to the extent we’re spending money now – we are going to spend money on messaging; it’s going to be pro-American messaging, and it’s going to be incentivizing and protecting free speech, which is threatened all over the world, including countries that are allies of ours.
The best way to counter disinformation – if that’s what people are thinking is out there – the best way to counter disinformation is free speech —
QUESTION: Yes.
SECRETARY RUBIO: — is to make sure that what’s true has as equal or greater opportunity to communicate as what’s not true. We’ve learned that the hard way. But when you turn disinformation into a weapon, a political weapon, a label that you can use to go after people you don’t like, and say, oh, anything that person’s saying is disinformation – well, listen, I read mainstream newspapers every day, or I watch mainstream broadcasts – mainstream broadcasts every day that I know are disinformation, okay? We have an issue right now. They keep calling it “Maryland man” deported to El Salvador. No, not “Maryland man” – El Salvador citizen deported to El Salvador. That’s disinformation. Every day I – a U.S. senator yesterday said that this guy was a kidnapped American citizen, and they published it in the article without any fact check. He’s not an American citizen.
So the important thing is that we have free speech so we can counter that, so we can say this is not true.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: That’s the way you handle that. And – but we have instances now in Western countries where people are being arrested. You’ve seen this, I’m sure. You know what I’m talking about.
QUESTION: Yes, absolutely.
SECRETARY RUBIO: People out there, they put a post, and they – a cop comes knocking on their door: You’re going to go to jail for 60 days for posting something online.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: This is crazy stuff that’s happening around the – and the Vice President addressed this in his speech at the Munich conference back in February.
QUESTION: Yes.
SECRETARY RUBIO: So we got a lot of work to do, but the most important thing is we’re going to make sure that as we communicate to the world it’s going to be pro-American – things that build up what this country’s working on and explaining what we’re doing, not attacking Americans who are exercising their First Amendment rights.
QUESTION: The classic work of the State Department in the 20th century.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah. (Laughter.)
QUESTION: And you mentioned this network that was paid through the State Department through grants and contracts. And my understanding is that network also targeted the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Darren Beattie, who I believe played an important role in this restructuring as well.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Right.
QUESTION: And credit to you and to the under secretary. One of the questions that remains – this is obviously amazing news, I think, to the entire American people about the defunding and the restructuring. There are lingering questions about what was done during that period, where we now have so many people wondering, was I censored because of something the State Department did?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah.
QUESTION: Was my news organization bankrupted? Were advertisers contacted about it? And there are aggrieved parties; there’s an important historical record that needs to be unearthed; there are active lawsuits. There are many reasons for a public disclosure effort on top of this development today. Are there any efforts underway to be able to have a kind of GEC files, as there were for the Twitter Files?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah. So I think what we have to do now – and Darren will be big involved in that as well – is sort of document what happened. Because one thing is to say it in a broadcast like this, another thing is to actually put it on paper. And there’s two reasons to do it. The first is because I think people who were harmed deserve to know that, and be able to prove that they were harmed; and then the other is to make sure it never happens again, right?
QUESTION: Exactly.
SECRETARY RUBIO: So that 10 years from now, when someone has a brilliant idea like this again – not-brilliant idea like this again – you can point to that and say, oh, this was done once before, and here’s the reason why we don’t. That’s why accountability is important in these things, because it doesn’t just provide justice and – but it also prevents it from happening in the future. You have something you can point to at the same time and say, these are the kinds of things we want to stay away from.
And it’s also a very important lesson here. If I take you back 15 years and I ask somebody, do you think we should be doing more to make sure ISIS and al-Qaida are not radicalizing people online, 15 years ago we would have said, yeah, of course.
QUESTION: Yes, right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: But look what that turned into.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: And I’m not saying I’m – obviously we don’t want ISIS radicalizing everybody, but you have to understand that sometimes, some idea that starts out as innocuous or maybe even good intention, whatever, can metastasize, becomes a weapon that can be turned into something else by someone else. That’s a valuable lesson here. And everything we do, you have to understand that when you create something, what you created and what it turns into are not necessarily the same thing, especially when the people in charge change.
QUESTION: Right. A Frankensteinian monster that —
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah, yeah, that’s right.
QUESTION: — takes on a life of its own. So then that is to say you can commit to the American public now that there will be a transparency effort to actually —
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah, that’s already started, because I think as part of justifying doing all this, we had to document this, right?
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: So now I think there’s more in-depth, and we’ll create a process for people that sort of point – we already know some of the higher-profile ones, but there are more than higher-profile ones, right? There are a lot of other, including everyday, individual American citizens —
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: — who suddenly were labeled. And I think this is going to require some cross-jurisdictional work because some of it’s going to require us to go back and prove, okay, somebody got deplatformed in 2021, right?
QUESTION: Yeah.
SECRETARY RUBIO: And back in the middle of COVID – 2020. Someone got deplatformed, and tracking – we can prove that; people can show, hey, I got deplatformed by the old Facebook or by the old Twitter or whatever. But then linking that. So why were they deplatformed? Who told them to deplatform? And if we could somehow with internal review create a linkage between some information that came from something the State Department paid for and an actual aggrieved party, that’s what’s important.
Because I think that one thing is to point to the high-profile cases, which we’re aware of, but I think when people see that there were actually just individual, everyday Americans that were deplatformed and for whatever – silenced because somebody associated with this program identified them, I think that’s what’s really going to be eye-opening to a lot of people. But we didn’t want to wait for that to take action. We know enough to already act.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: But we obviously want to know the depth and the scope of this. That’s going to happen. It’s already happening.
QUESTION: Right. This is a program that has been shrouded in secrecy. Journalists like Matt Taibbi have tried to FOIA for many of these grants and contracts and have encountered the stone wall. So this is, I think, amazing news.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah.
QUESTION: I know that you’re a very busy man, and appreciate all the time here. So the final question is on the international stage. As you are repositioning the State Department to have the U.S. once again be the global beacon for free speech and liberty, we face threats around the world from censorship laws coming out of the European Union, coming out of Brazil, coming out of really a network of countries that have taken the legitimacy of things like the Global Engagement Center and said, oh, it’s okay in the Western world to have media literacy programs, information integrity, mis/dis/malinformation programs. And many of those Global Engagement Center partner – ecosystem partners have been involved in the shaping of those foreign laws; many have – are actually – have been funded by the State Department and USAID, being signatories on the EU Code of Disinformation, implementing the EU Digital Services Act, which was threatened to be turned against Americans when Elon Musk famously had that X Space with Donald Trump during the election season.
So my question to you is: Is there any insights that you can provide to the American people about how the State Department is going to go about once again restoring free speech —
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah.
QUESTION: — in a world where we are facing foreign threats from the European Union and Brazil and other places to Americans’ ability to talk to Americans?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah, so the first thing obviously is our number one priority is Americans. So we don’t want to see an American who happens to be living in London or happens to be living in Europe post something online about American politics or any politics, and all of a sudden they’re facing ramifications over there or they’re denied entry and something happens – “Oh, we’re denying them into our country or we’re going to arrest them because they posted something while living overseas.” So our number one interest is the impact that it has on Americans.
The broader point, which is the one I think the Vice President made very clear in Munich at the Security Conference – people freaked out about what he said, but it’s true. What is it that links us with Western Europe? What is it that links us with these – it’s our shared values. And one of those shared values, we hope, is freedom of expression. I know they don’t have a First Amendment, but freedom of expression, right? And if that is eroded – if suddenly these become places where people are targeted because of what they said or what their opinion is – then one of the pillars of our shared interest, beyond military cooperation or anything else, is under attack. And I think he made a very vibrant point that in some ways you are attacking – by attacking freedom of expression, you are attacking one of the pillars of our shared interest, our shared culture, our shared values.
And so I think – we raise that. We’ve raised that. I mean, I can tell you we were at a Oval Office meeting with the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and this issue came up. So this has been raised. It becomes part of our diplomatic —
QUESTION: Yeah.
SECRETARY RUBIO: — situation that we raise when we interact with foreign interlocutors. I think what’s troubling is we understand, like, that’s always going to be an issue when you – certain countries around the world. But when you’re dealing with Western European allies and that’s who you’re talking to about this stuff, it really tells you how far it’s gone and how big a problem. And so that’s a new thing for us to have to raise in those capitals, but we do it and we do it everywhere. And I personally witnessed the President and the Vice President raise it with multiple —
QUESTION: Yes.
SECRETARY RUBIO: — foreign leaders. And I think you’re going to continue to see an emphasis on that in our diplomacy and what we talk about.
QUESTION: That’s fantastic. And I think the actions today will send a message to those foreign bodies that what was done for a very brief period here really in the scope of our history is not a legitimate way to pursue international laws. So – and just on the EU Digital Services Act, I’d feel remiss if I didn’t mention that the EU commissioning body there threatened Elon Musk, a non-EU citizen, talking to Donald Trump —
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah.
QUESTION: — a non-EU citizen —
SECRETARY RUBIO: During the campaign in October.
QUESTION: — running for President.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah.
QUESTION: And threatened them specifically not to talk about the unrest – the street protests in the UK at the time. The UK is no longer a member of the EU. So the EU is threatening – and today, they’re now – we’re hearing they’re threatening a billion dollars in fines against X for noncompliance with disinformation. And we’ve seen the head of their commission target non-EU citizens talking to non-EU citizens about non-EU territories. And so this is just one of these things – as this code becomes mandatory in July – to know that the State Department is focused on protecting free speech both within and without is, I think, an important thing.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, just beyond Elon, if a country or a group of countries in the case of the EU – although it considers itself sort of a country because these countries have given over a significant amount of sovereignty in order to become a member of the EU – when you have foreign entities taking actions that go after Americans for speech —
QUESTION: Yes.
SECRETARY RUBIO: — that becomes a foreign policy irritant for the United States, and more than an irritant. It becomes an impediment in some cases to cooperate when they’re going – not just after a high-profile person like Elon, but anybody for that matter. I mean, I think if you extend this out, you could see it threatening commentators, threatening people that are opining about world events, potentially threatening office holders in the United States.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: I mean, so what if – what if an American political figure, on the left or right, criticized something that was happening in Europe – imagine right now if all these people freaking out over Bukele in El Salvador were suddenly being threatened by some Western Hemisphere version of the EU – oh, we’re going to come after you because you’re attacking the President of El Salvador. The left would be freaking out.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: So I think that this is a very legitimate issue for us to raise as a bilateral or in this case with the EU irritant in our foreign policy. It has to become part of one of the things that we raise when we interact with them about the impact this is having on American citizens. At the end of the day, the number one priority of the State Department is to serve the national interest of the United States and the interest of the American people. We work for the American people.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: It’s the United States Department of State.
QUESTION: Yes.
SECRETARY RUBIO: So that – we need to return that principle in everything we do, including this.
QUESTION: Right. And this is such a fair and frankly merciful way of doing this as well. You don’t – it sounds like you don’t want the power to go after the other side for misinformation and things like this. So —
SECRETARY RUBIO: Oh, we would be here all day.
QUESTION: No —
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah, I mean, we could – I could build a whole building to go after that.
QUESTION: Right. Exactly.
SECRETARY RUBIO: But the best way to do it is just to say they’re lying; here’s the truth.
QUESTION: Right. Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: That’s why we have things like this today.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: And that’s why we’re able to interact with you and others. That’s the best way to do it. And it’s annoying; don’t get me wrong. I mean, they say things that aren’t true. Every day stuff is leaked in the press that’s reported on as fact, and it’s not fact.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Or stuff is reported and commentary – not – look, commentators say what they want. Mainstream newspapers and mainstream media outlets report things as fact that are completely not true. So our approach to that is not shut them down, not fine them.
QUESTION: (Inaudible). Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Right. Our approach to that is to say they’re lying; here’s the truth.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: It’s harder. It’s annoying. But that’s the best way to do it. If you don’t do it that way, then you recognize that some day in the future if you create this power to shut that down, someone in my position will do it to us.
QUESTION: Right.
SECRETARY RUBIO: And I just think that begins to devolve very rapidly, as we’ve seen with this experiment that they did.
QUESTION: You’re putting the censorship gun down, and the American people are incredibly grateful for it. So thank you so much for making the time today.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, it was the right thing to do. Thank you, and thanks for your attention to this topic. I know you’ve been on this a long time.
After five bewildering years of censorship, lies, injuries, and death at the hands of an experimental gene-damaging injection that was forced upon humanity to solve a manipulated global crisis, for now, times appear to be changing. And while that change can’t come soon enough, the villains who exploited society to keep the unprecedented mass-injection scam alive must be held accountable. At the top of that list—orchestrating the scheme from behind the scenes—is Dr. Peter Marks, the former high-ranking U.S. government official tasked with overseeing the regulation of products like vaccines and gene therapies to ensure they are safe and effective and support public health goals in the best interest of American citizens. Now, thanks to The Highwire’s Del Bigtree, ICAN attorney Aaron Siri and Siri & Glimstead, React19, and Follow the Silenced, the disregard for safety and the careless manner in which Dr. Marks allowed the COVID jabs to be injected at “warp-speed” into the arms of the masses has finally been revealed.
As director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Dr. Marks was responsible for verifying the safety and efficacy of new biological products before their release to the public. This, of course, included the COVID-19 injections. Yet, instead of recognizing and acknowledging the grave injuries suffered by the brave Americans who were early participants in the clinical trials for the warp-speed COVID-19 “vaccines,” Marks blatantly shunned them—even after these calamities were repeatedly brought to his attention. In other words, Marks (who named the mission “warp speed” after his love of Star Trek) chose to overlook 150,000 deaths and the devastating personal injury stories of innocent victims whose lives were forever altered after receipt of the COVID-19 jabs in order to expedite its release to the public—to indeed impose further death and harm—under the FDA’s guidance.
Following persistent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and legal work thanks to The Highwire and ICAN, the truth is finally coming to light, with never-before-seen internal FDA records and over six private phone calls that were recorded between Brianne Dressen, who was injured during the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial, and Dr. Marks. The phone calls include individuals in the COVID-19 vaccine trials as they shared the details of their devastating, life-changing injuries.
Remember, while highly rushed and under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), when the FDA stated it was safe to push the COVID jabs on the general public—despite pushback from its own Dr. Marion Gruber, who later resigned—the agency assured the American people there would be a robust system in place to immediately catch problems as they arose. Yet, when injuries multiplied and pressure mounted to examine the trial data the FDA wanted 55 years to share that data. The very same data it relied upon in licensing Pfizer’s “safe and effective” COVID-19 jab. That in itself makes no sense and amplifies the debauchery behind the timeline of events under Marks’ watch.
SHOULD PETER MARKS BE PROSECUTED?
Listen to the shocking details of a pregnant mother who reportedly died post-COVID vaccine.
One early example of his indifference occurred on September 1, 2021, when Dr. Peter Marks revealed his true colors in response to an extremely concerning email from Steve Kirsch, who shared a comment he made to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). After previously emailing Janet Woodcock of the FDA regarding Maddie de Garay, a 12-year-old girl who was in the Pfizer trial and is now permanently disabled—yet Pfizer failed to report her injuries in their trial results—Kirsch shared with Marks a detailed commentary he had made to the ACIP communicating the damning findings of a team of over 19 doctors and expert scientists whose analysis showed that “it is highly likely that over 150,000 previously healthy Americans have been killed by the COVID vaccines in 2021.”
Moreover, Kirsch and the experts—who offered $1 million to anyone who could prove the mRNA COVID jabs did not kill more people than it saved—also conveyed that they estimated at the time that approximately 574 kids had been killed by the COVID shot. Five hundred and seventy-four children killed! That astounding figure was more than had died from COVID and deserved the attention of the leaders at the FDA to investigate. But instead of digging deeper into the 271 pages of critical work presented by Kirsch and the nearly 20 doctors and scientists highlighting the horrifying real-life examples of the wrath of destruction caused by the mRNA COVID jabs, Marks was easily satisfied with the response from Donna Boyce, Senior Vice President of Global Regulatory Affairs at Pfizer, who outlined, “this case is not related to the vaccine.”
Interestingly, Boyce also sits on the Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) at the Center for Innovation Regulatory Science (CIRS), a subsidiary of the Gates-funded “global transformative intelligence leader,” Clarivate. Inevitably, a connection to Bill Gates exists whenever and wherever vaccines are blindly pushed. Indeed, instead of examining the report from Kirsch and the other experts and analyzing it within their team, the ACIP labeled the research “standard anti-vaccine.” Unbelievably, when Dr. Marks responded internally after Kirsch shared his ACIP comment, he emailed CBER’s Deputy Director of Communication, Outreach, and Development, Lorrie McNeill, flatly stating, “We may need to object to this.” True colors, indeed.
Make no mistake, the theme of heinous disregard for severe injury following injection of the experimental COVID-19 shots—and the immediate censorship of any alternative treatment for the virus—persisted throughout the timeline of Dr. Peter Marks’ tenure at the FDA. Undoubtedly, the evidence uncovered illustrates a disturbing pattern of misleading public statements, gaslighting of vaccine-injured Americans, contradictory statements from Dr. Peter Marks, and, significantly, a clear failure of accountability. (Read more: UncoverDC, 4/16/2025) (Archive)
🔥 OUTRAGEOUS! Over 150,000 federal workers, including 5,000 IRS employees, owe $1.5 BILLION in back taxes! 📰The IRS hounds everyday Americans but lets its own skate by? Hypocrisy at its finest! Demand accountability NOW! #TaxCheats#GovernmentCorruptionpic.twitter.com/5n4LNL6dwR
— Project Constitution (@ProjectConstitu) April 17, 2025
President Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci shortly before the end of his presidency. (Credit: White House)
The White House has revamped the COVID-19 guidance page, which now states the likely origin of the virus was a lab leak involving gain-of-function research.
The website features the heading “Lab Leak,” with a subheading of “The True Origins of COVID-19.” The White House lists five key points regarding the coronavirus’s genesis:
“The virus posses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.“
“Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from asingle introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.”
“Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.”
“Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.”
“By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.” [emphases original]
The website also challenges “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication, which asserted that the virus originated organically.
“’The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2′ publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature,” the website states. (Read more: Breitbart News, 4/18/2025)(Archive)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified and released two sets of files today. 1. the first tranche of the RFK assassination files (10,000 pages HERE); and 2. The Joe Biden Domestic Terrorism Plan (SEE HERE)
Following President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14176, DNI Gabbard is releasing all the archive documents around the RFK assassination.
“Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government’s investigation thanks to [President Trump] leadership and commitment to maximum transparency.”
🚨 Biden consulted with foreign governments and globalist groups like the United Nations to determine what “disinformation” shared by Americans should be censored. pic.twitter.com/QWZ5GEJS9P
🚨 Biden’s declassified internet censorship plan relied on USAID to “combat online disinformation.”
USAID was used to promote “digital literacy” in the US, a term for forcing Americans to get their news solely from legacy sources. pic.twitter.com/J6s9ROac14
Putting partisan politics far above patriotism (if he has any), top Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin is outright threatening vengeance on foreign leaders who work with the Trump administration.
Yes, he washes it through rhetoric about fighting “authoritarianism in our country,” but that’s simply cover for goonish threats.
Raskin (D-Md.) issued it on the “Pod Save America” podcast, after progressive host Tommy Vietor cited (surely left-wing) Latin America experts as urging Democrats to warn off “any foreign government that participates in the extraordinary rendition of American citizens.”
Reality check: No one is proposing any “extraordinary rendition of American citizens.”
Democrats keep trying to confuse people into thinking Team Trump is doing that, as cover for their efforts to fight the administration’s deportations of illegal migrants — which is not remotely authoritarian.
Naturally, Raskin ran with Vietor’s implied point, specifically pointing to El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as someone Dems “are not going to look kindly upon” “when we come back to power — and we will.”
His complaint is that Bukele refuses to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia (a Salvadoran citizen) back to the United States.
Abrego Garcia has never had any legal right to be here, though the Trumpies erred in sending him home without clearing an outdated 2019 order that said he could be deported, but not to El Salvador because he claimed a gang there was gunning for him.
(Bukele has eviscerated all the Salvadoran gangs, infuriating US “Latin America experts” of the kind Vietor surely relies on.)
Raskin’s also plainly peeved that Bukele is assisting the Trump “deport violent-criminal illegal migrants” efforts, but that’s still no reason to issue threats to a foreign prez. (Read more: New York Post, 4/21/2025)(Archive)
Judicial Watch announced today that a hearing will be held on February 28, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. ET before Judge Robert C.I. McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County, GA, on a motion for in camera (private) “inspection and appointment of special master” to oversee District Attorney Fani Willis’ search for records of communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee. The hearing notice states: “The courtroom will be open to the parties and the public, but the parties are free to participate remotely.” A link to view the hearing is available here.
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in March 2024 after Willis falsely denied having any records responsive to Judicial Watch’s earlier Georgia Open Records Act (ORA) request for communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office and/or the January 6 Committee (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Fani Willis et al.(No. 24-CV-002805)).
After finding Willis in default, the court ordered a hearing on December 20, which resulted in an orderthat found Willis liable for fees and expenses that “shall be paid within two weeks of the entry of this Order.”
The court then awarded Judicial Watch $21,578 “attorney’s fees and costs.” (Willis’ operation made the payment to Judicial Watch 10 days after the court-ordered deadline.)
Judicial Watch subsequently filed a motion, asking the court to appoint a special master to oversee Willis’ search for records in the lawsuit and that the court to conduct a private inspection of any records found.
Regarding the appointment of a special master, Judicial Watch stated:
Willis by her own admission conducted at least three searches before finding any responsive records not already supplied by [Judicial Watch]. She did not even bother to conduct a search until the Complaint was filed. Her records custodian says he does not know the Cellebrite [digital investigations] equipment he apparently had a hand in ordering can be used to search cell phone texts and other data…. Moreover, the custodian had no standard practice for conducting searches and keeps no records of the methods used in a given search.
The foregoing gives rise to grave suspicion that all responsive records have not been found. The Court should appoint a special master to supervise and monitor the record searches. The special master should have authority to audit searches and conduct searches herself. She also should have authority to hire such consultants and experts as may be needed to execute her commission. The special master should make a recommendation to the Court as to how her fees and expenses should be allocated among the parties, taking into consideration whether she finds responsive records that Willis should have found but did not.
“Fani Willis was caught red-handed hiding records by Judicial Watch and the court. We’re asking the court to appoint a special master because Willis simply can’t be trusted to come clean on her office’s political collusion with the Pelosi January 6 committee to ‘get Trump,’” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Judicial Watch is assisted in the case by John Monroe of John Monroe Law in Georgia. (Judicial Watch)
Fani Willis also attended a Black History Month event honoring ‘Young Black Trailblazers’ at VP Kamala Harris’ residence:
February 28, 2023 – A month after her grand jury investigation of Trump ends, Fani Willis burns midnight oil attending an event hosted by Kamala Harris at the VP residencehttps://t.co/ZHgv0sp1HF
— Ultra Clinton/Govt Corruption Timelines (@clintonpay2play) April 29, 2025
April 22, 2025
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee is pressing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis‘s staff for documents after she has spent months stonewalling a congressional investigation into the “politically motivated” prosecutions of President Donald Trump.
In a series of letters sent last week, the panel reportedly asked several of the Democratic district attorney’s senior staffers to provide testimony and hand over records related to her office’s alleged coordination with the since-defunct House select Jan. 6 committee.
The allegations revolve around a memo Willis wrote to the Jan. 6 committee’s then-chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), in which she requested access to transcripts, emails, and travel records. Members of her administration then allegedly traveled to Capitol Hill for a meeting with committee staff, in which they reviewed nonpublic material.
One letter addressed to assistant prosecutor Donald Wakeford notes that the House Judiciary Committee has been asking him since Feb. 6 to appear before Congress for a transcribed interview, according to a copy of the correspondence obtained by Law and Crime.
“It has been 70 days since the Committee first requested your voluntary cooperation with our oversight,” the letter reads. “Upon your request, the Committee granted you an extension for the purpose of obtaining counsel to represent you in this matter. You have had sufficient time to obtain counsel, and, in fact, you currently have counsel representing you before the Committee. There is no reason for further delay.”
Wakeford previously requested a 30-day extension to obtain personal counsel and seek legal advice. As of March 31, he had retained an attorney, former Fulton County prosecutor Charlie Bailey, a Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for Georgia lieutenant governor in 2022. Wakeford, however, has still not complied with the committee’s requests.
Similar letters were sent Thursday afternoon to deputy district attorney Will Wooten, assistant chief investigator Michael Hill, and assistant chief investigator Trina Swanson-Lucas, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.
On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about the debate over deporting illegal immigrants and levels of due process.
Marlow stated, “[W]e’re seeing some interesting re-framing going on from Stephen Miller and the White House. He’s flipped the script. He’s saying this isn’t due process, what the left wants is infinity process that keeps illegals here forever.”
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There’s a reason conservatives have been screaming from the rooftops about lawfare. What we’re seeing in courtrooms across the country isn’t just legal activism—it’s straight-up manipulation and injustice. The left is no longer trying to win in the court of public opinion. That’s out the window. Now, they’re trying to literally rig the legal process from the inside out, and now we’ve got more proof, and investigative reporter Julie Kelly is calling it all out.
In Texas, a federal judge is blasting the weaponized ACLU for crossing way over the line—and not just once.
The case in question involves the Alien Enemies Act and the left-wing push to block deportations of Venezuelan nationals and the left’s precious gangbangers. But instead of sticking to the courtroom, it looks like the ACLU lawyer tried to take a sneaky shortcut… by picking up the phone and actually calling the judge directly.
Julie Kelly has all the sorted details.
Judge James Wesley Hendrix (Credit: public domain)
It all started when the judge blew the whistle on the ACLU Lawyer for breaking the court’s rules.
Judge James Hendrix didn’t mince words. After denying an emergency motion to stop deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, he was contacted directly—by phone—by ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt. That kind of move is called ex parte communication, and it’s strictly forbidden for a reason: it’s sneaky, improper, and gives one side an unfair advantage. So, of course the left would pull that move, right?
Judge Hendrix not only documented the call but also raised the question of whether Gelernt pulled the same move with another judge—good ol’ Jeb Boasberg—about a month ago in a nearly identical case.
WHOO BOY: In an order filed last night, Judge James Hendrix–the judge in Texas presiding over latest Alien Enemies Act case which prompted unprecedented intervention by SCOTUS–accused ACLU atty of violating federal code of conduct rules by calling his chambers AFTER Hendrix denied the 1st emergency temp restraining order on April 17. This was noted on the docket after Hendrix filed his order. Now it makes me wonder if Lee Gelernt did not do exactly the same thing with Judge Jeb Boasberg–which could explain Boasberg’s quick action on March 15. This is not allowed:
It turns out Gelernt left a voicemail asking Judge Hendrix to talk and issue a broader ruling that would cover not just the two immigrants in question but any immigrant who is impacted by the Alien Enemies Act. Keep in mind that the government already agreed not to deport those two particular individuals—but the ACLU wanted to expand the case and strong-arm the judge into going along with their plan.
Thankfully, Obama-appointed Judge Hendrix held the line. He refused.
So what did the ACLU do?
Well, they appealed his ruling, took it to a higher court, and yanked the case out from under him.
Now, everybody wants to know how many other calls like this Gelernt has made. Julie Kelly goes on:
Here is the voicemail from Gelernt.
What are the chances he left the same message with Boasberg in the wee hours of March 15? In fact (and I will look at transcript), I believe Boasberg admitted to being “in communication” with ACLU prior to issuing any order or setting hearings.
Hendrix denied the emergency motion bc Trump adm said the 2 anonymous Venezuelan illegals cited in the lawsuit would not be removed. But–just like in the Boasberg case–that was not enough.
ACLU was demanding the case be converted into a class action suit covering ANYONE in the jurisdiction that might be subject to the Alien Enemies Act–which is what Boasberg did before his “return the planes” stunt.
ACLU was hoping for same outcome here. Hendrix was not playing their game. Even so, he was advancing the suit on Good Friday–but that wasn’t good enough for ACLU, which is used to running roughshod over the courts.
They immediately appealed, taking the matter out of Hendrix’s hands. Then they cried to SCOTUS, who bailed ACLU (and the illegals) out.
SCOTUS just got involved in what looks like a very dirty case from the start. Good to see at least one judge stand up for himself and for the process. (Read more: Revolver News, 4/22/2025)(Archive)
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz stated that “places like Harvard Law School don’t emphasize principle, morality, and neutrality. It’s all about who wins today.” And that produces people like Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
After host Greta Van Susteren referenced past Democratic support for packing the Supreme Court and how if they had done so, it would give President Donald Trump the ability to pack the court, Dershowitz stated, “It just shows you these are such short-sighted, results-oriented, partisan, do it for me now people. They wouldn’t understand a point of principle if they fell over it. These are people who just want to get their way today and tomorrow and not worry about principled decisions or about what the implications could be. If we start packing the court, we’ll never stop packing the court.”
Van Susteren then referenced Schiff and said he was dishonest about Russian collusion, Dershowitz responded, “And it’s all Harvard’s fault.” He then laughed before continuing, “These are my former students. Adam Schiff went to Harvard Law School. Jamie Raskin was in my class. Elizabeth Warren was my colleague for so many years. The problem is that places like Harvard Law School don’t emphasize principle, morality, and neutrality. It’s all about who wins today. And when you educate your people that way, don’t expect anything different. We are no longer a principled nation who make decisions based on neutral, objective principles that are enduring. People like Jefferson and Madison will be turning over in their grave[s] when they see what has happened to today’s Congress. It’s just a shame. And the losers are the American people.” (Video here: Breitbart News, 4/22/2025) (Archive)
Top US Neuroscientist & Military Advisor Confirms Reports Are ‘Credible’ That Directed Energy Weapon Attacks Have Happened on US Soil And Targeted US Personnel Abroad; Exclusive New Records Reveal Exposure to “Microwave Weapon” After Intel Officer Discovered Secret Op.
“These are weapons of maximum disruption…It allows you to get in fast, hit hard, get out, and only then will the effects begin to be known.”
1:50 Reports of DEW Attacks on US Soil Are Credible
2:50 Different Types of DEWs: Sonic & Scalable, Directable Microwaves
3:30 Retired Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck Now In Assisted Living Following DEW Attack
4:50 DEW Attack Happened After Beck And His Partner Discovered Operation Targeting USA By Hostile Country
6:40 How DEW Attacks Disrupt & Destroy Brain Networks
7:30 DEW Attack Aftermath: Brain Cell Death & The Domino Effect
8:20 Big Three: USA, Russia & China Have DEW Capability
9:05 Why Beck’s Case Stands Out And The Legacy of Suffering
10:20 CIA Whistleblower ‘Alice’ Targeted by DEW in Africa
11:00 Exclusive New Medical Records Document Beck’s Microwave Weapon Brain Injury
11:55 US Government Denied Beck Workers’ Compensation Multiple Times Before Approving It
12:10 US Government Currently Three Months Behind ($25,000+) On Payments for Beck’s Assisted Living
13:00 Beck: US Government Has Critical Evidence About Attacks & Weapons
14:20 Directed Energy Weapon Attacks Started in 2016: False
BREAKING: Top US Neuroscientist & Military Advisor Confirms Reports Are ‘Credible’ That Directed Energy Weapon Attacks Have Happened on US Soil And Targeted US Personnel Abroad; Exclusive New Records Reveal Exposure to “Microwave Weapon” After Intel Officer Discovered Secret Op.… pic.twitter.com/rghp127hrv
@StephenM opened by absolutely ripping into SCOTUS for its 7–2 ruling that blocked the deportation of violent Venezuelan gang members tied to Tren de Aragua—an organization he said operates under orders from Maduro’s regime.
“You have in this case, illegal aliens from Venezuela,” he said.
“Sent here by Maduro, who are members of a foreign terrorist organization… carrying out criminal enterprises to destabilize the political system in United States.”
“They’re all illegal. They’re all gang members. They’re all foreign terrorists.”
But instead of being expelled?
“We are being told they cannot be expelled from our country without an extraordinary amount of individualized adjudication, at the district court, circuit court, Supreme Court—up and down, up and down, up and down.”
Then came the gut punch:
“No American citizen receives this level of so-called due process—because it isn’t due process. This is called infinity process to keep you here forever.”
@StephenM opened by absolutely ripping into SCOTUS for its 7–2 ruling that blocked the deportation of violent Venezuelan gang members tied to Tren de Aragua—an organization he said operates under orders from Maduro’s regime.
That’s when Miller laid into the double standard—how foreign criminals get luxury treatment, and American citizens get steamrolled.
“No American citizen charged with a crime—with a serious crime inside the United States, a U.S.-born American citizen—receives this kind of process. Millions of dollars in free legal services. Representation at every single level.”
And if you think the courts treated J6 defendants the same?
“Do you think that there is any American citizen who was persecuted, who was innocent, related to January 6th—do you think they could just get this kind of relief? This kind of process? It was NEVER available to them.”
He didn’t stop there.
“How many pressing constitutional issues have been swept aside that American CITIZENS need resolve—who are being persecuted by left wing mayors, left wing governors, left wing bureaucrats, who actually need relief,” Miller said.
How many? This is unfathomable.
“How many of their concerns have been swept aside? So our entire judicial system can spend hour after hour, week after week, month after month, scrutinizing every single last detail of a deportation of an invader sent here by a foreign government!”
That’s when Miller laid into the double standard—how foreign criminals get luxury treatment, and American citizens get steamrolled.
“No American citizen charged with a crime—with a serious crime inside the United States, a U.S.-born American citizen—receives this kind of… pic.twitter.com/dypzsPZIGp
That’s when Miller dropped what may be his fiercest claim of all time: Birthright citizenship is the biggest scam in American history.
This quickly turned into an exposé that will make your blood boil.
“Birthright citizenship is the biggest, costliest scam in financial history,” he said.
He explained how foreign nationals game the system by arriving pregnant:
“An illegal alien can come here nine months pregnant or on a tourist visa… have a baby. That baby is then declared an automatic citizen, which then entitles the entire family to come here and live here, and every one of them can get welfare.”
“Yes, they can get unlimited welfare, applying as the custodian of this citizen, so-called child.”
But to Miller, it’s not just a welfare issue—it’s a national security threat.
“See, we can keep out a foreign spy who has a Visa… But what happens when a foreign government uses this ridiculous birthright scam in order to create automatic citizens who then grow up as assets of a foreign government?”
“So it’s a major national security threat.”
He dismantled the legal basis behind it:
“The 14th Amendment… was ratified for the CHILDREN of FREED SLAVES… The idea that this was meant to provide illegal alien children with automatic citizenship——Do you really think that in the 19th century… they passed an amendment to say that people Congress has forbidden from entering here can have automatic children, citizens?”
His closing line?
“No human being who suggests it should be taken seriously.”
That’s when Miller dropped what may be his fiercest claim of all time: Birthright citizenship is the biggest scam in American history.
This quickly turned into an exposé that will make your blood boil.
DRAINING THE DEEP STATE: DoD Branch Chief Calls President Trump “Illegitimate,” Vows to “Resist Him, Everything He Does,” Claims Pete Hegseth Is “Insanely Young” and Unfit to Lead: “Nobody I Know Should Be the Secretary of Defense”
“The same guy who tried to overthrow an election is just, like, truly setting us down a path of dictatorship.”
“I think they [Government] don’t care who they hurt.”
DRAINING THE DEEP STATE: DoD Branch Chief Calls President Trump “Illegitimate,” Vows to “Resist Him, Everything He Does,” Claims Pete Hegseth Is “Insanely Young” and Unfit to Lead: “Nobody I Know Should Be the Secretary of Defense”
“We could be facing a worst-case scenario,” said Nicolas Turza, a Branch Chief at the Department of Defense (@DeptofDefense), during an undercover date with an OMG journalist. Turza, whose role places him in a position of influence within the Pentagon, openly expressed opposition to the Commander-in-Chief.
Referring to President Trump (@realDonaldTrump), Turza stated, “The same guy who tried to overthrow an election is just, like, truly setting us down a path of dictatorship. He’s illegitimate. He’s terribly immoral, breaking every norm. We’re going to resist him. Everything he does.”
He added, “I’m a very patriotic person, and I’ve never been less patriotic.”
Turza also criticized Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef), saying, “This is insane… That’s not a good reflection on me. That’s a bad reflection on Trump… Nobody I know should be the Secretary of Defense.” He questioned Hegseth’s qualifications, calling him “insanely young to be the part” and adding, “he wasn’t that high up in the military.”
Discussing the Pentagon’s culture under the current administration, Turza revealed, “I think they don’t care who they hurt… They do a lot of the things that they do to enact a change that they see is making America in a populist, conservative framework that is more traditional, even if that means being sexist or racist or chauvinist.”
When asked his personal opinion of the president, Turza didn’t hold back: “The worst thing about him is his utter lack of moral principle… The second worst thing about him is how stupid he could be.”
OMG has reached out to the Department of Defense and Nicolas Turza for comment.
@PeteHegseth
“We could be facing a worst-case scenario,” said Nicolas Turza, a Branch Chief at the Department of Defense (@DeptofDefense), during an undercover date with an OMG journalist. Turza, whose role places him in a position of influence within the Pentagon, openly expressed opposition…
BREAKING: O’Keefe Media reporting Nicolas Turza, Branch Chief, has RESIGNED from his position at the Pentagon after we caught him on hidden camera saying he will ‘resist Trump, everything he does.’ https://t.co/VvFrkJjViO
🧵 THREAD – US Global Leadership Corporation, representing 400 NGOs
Nicolas Turza, the person who got exposed by @JamesOKeefeIII and OMG, was featured in the following YouTube video by an interesting super-NGO – the US Global Leadership Corporation.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 24, 2025
The US Global Leadership Corporation is broken into two nonprofits:
Center For Us Global Leadership, a 501(c)(3) with EIN 743093659, with a budget of 10MM. That is the so-called “education arm.”
Us Global Leadership Campaign, a 501(c)(4) with EIN 522024493, with a budget of… pic.twitter.com/GvNA3lwHRo
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 24, 2025
In addition, Madeleine Bright was a founding member and Colin Powell served as honorary chairman of the Advisory Council.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 24, 2025
Of more local interest, @BasedMikeLee might want to know that Utah’s junior senator is already getting involved in this super-NGO. pic.twitter.com/MuYEFpFFsW
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 24, 2025
The importance of this cannot be understated. TThis is the first solid confirmation I’ve seen that George Soros and Bill Gates are backers of the so-called “Uniparty” network.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 24, 2025
USGLC is a Who’s Who of the Uniparty – and also of the private sector (compiling the list right now), and it is so powerful that it takes credit for a 95 billion spending bill in a Congress that otherwise ignored Helene victims.
And its backers are George Soros and Bill Gates.…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 24, 2025
BREAKING: “Bloodbath” at DOJ Civil Rights Division as Harmeet Dhillon cleans house — NBC News
-Career officials are melting down.
The Trump administration has forced out a majority of career managers and implemented new priorities.
-More than a dozen senior lawyers have been reassigned.
-Some have resigned in frustration after being moved to “less desirable roles unrelated to their expertise.”
-The division is now charged with pursuing priorities laid out in a series of Trump’s executive orders, including “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports” and “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.”
-“These documents appear to have been created in a vacuum completely divorced from reality,” a former official whined. “This is a 180 shift from the division’s traditional mission.”
-Many section chiefs have been transferred to roles unrelated to their legal backgrounds, including in the complaint adjudication office and the office that handles public records requests. 😂
-“I was there almost 18 years, and what’s happening now is basically the opposite of what we’ve been doing,” whined one veteran lawyer who recently left the department.
-“They are withdrawing everything we’ve done and taking the opposite side on voting rights, for example,” whined a recently departed Civil Division lawyer.
-Dhillon’s memo outlines new priorities, including “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism,” “Restoring Merit Based Opportunity” and “Designating English as the Official Language of the United States.”
-The “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias” task force will be a focus. “The Biden administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses,” Pam Bondi said at a meeting of the new task force.
BREAKING: “Bloodbath” at DOJ Civil Rights Division as Harmeet Dhillon cleans house — NBC News
-Career officials are melting down.
The Trump administration has forced out a majority of career managers and implemented new priorities.
An HSI agent escorts former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano from his home on April 24, 2025. (Credit: KFOX14)
A former New Mexico judge and his wife allegedly tried to hide incriminating images and videos of an illegal immigrant believed to be a member of Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang and harbored other migrants, the Justice Department said Friday.
Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano, 68, and his wife, Nancy Cano, 67, were arrested Thursday after federal agents raided their Las Cruces home. The pair face charges of evidence tampering amid allegations they harbored Cristhian Ortega-Lopez.
“Judges are responsible for upholding our country’s laws. It is beyond egregious for a former judge and his wife to engage in evidence tampering on behalf of a suspected Tren de Aragua gang member accused of illegally possessing firearms,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan Ellison.
“The U.S. Attorney’s Office is committed to dismantling this foreign terrorist organization by disrupting its criminal operations in New Mexico. That starts by prosecuting those who support gang members — including judges.”
Ortega-Lopez was put on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) radar after a tipster said he was in the U.S. illegally and had guns. He initially entered the country Dec. 15, 2023, near Eagle Pass, Texas. He was taken into custody and released due to overcrowding at the U.S. Border Patrol facility.
Ortega-Lopez apparently posted multiple images and videos on social media showing him with other illegal immigrants handling guns at a shooting range in Las Cruces, federal prosecutors said. Among the weapons were a SIG Sauer P365 pistol, an AR-15 rifle equipped with a suppressor and other high-powered guns and ammunition.
His social media activity revealed content suggesting ties with the Venezuelan gang, including gang-related tattoos, hand gestures and clothing, prosecutors said.He also mocked a $5,000 reward to catch TdA members, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
Among the images were also two people who were decapitated, she said.
In January, federal agents received a tip that Ortega-Lopez was living with other illegal immigrants on a property belonging to Cano, who was still a judge at the time, and his wife.
Authorities seized four guns during a Feb. 28 search of the property.
The four guns, along with three cellphones belonging to Ortega-Lopez, were seized, and he was arrested. During the search, Ortega-Lopez was allowed to make a phone call before being taken to the Doña Ana County Detention Center (DACDC).
He told the agents that the phone he wanted to use was not among the devices recovered. Video calls from DACDC later showed Nancy Cano holding a black iPhone believed to be Ortega’s fourth phone, prosecutors said.
During a March 7 call with Ortega-Lopez, Nancy Cano allegedly used the device to contact someone named “Michelle” via WhatsApp, before facilitating a FaceTime call between Michelle and Ortega-Lopez using her personal phone.
In an April 20 call, Nancy Cano and Ortega-Lopez discussed deleting his Facebook account, which he allegedly used to share incriminating content, including gang affiliations and images with guns.
Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano, 68, and his wife, Nancy Cano, 67, allegedly harbored Cristhian Ortega-Lopez. (U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico)
On April 24, federal agents searched the Cano home to locate Ortega-Lopez’s missing phone. During questioning, Joel Cano admitted smashing the device with a hammer five weeks earlier because he believed it contained incriminating photos and videos of Ortega-Lopez with guns, and throwing it into a dumpster, said Bondi.
A forensic analysis of the recovered phones revealed messages linked to Ortega’s alleged criminal activities, including links with the TdA gang and images of him with guns, authorities said.
Corrupt Judicial Coup ongoing in America!
49 and Counting…Activist Judges, Filed, 196 legal challenges, in just a few months.
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Corrupt Judicial Coup ongoing in America!
49 and Counting…Activist Judges, Filed, 196 legal challenges, in just a few months.
All Violating Presidential Powers Under The Constitution Article 2!
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7-Judge Jeannette Vargas
8-Judge John J McConnell
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11.Judge Carl J Nichols
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16-Judge Loren Alikhan
17-Judge Sharon J Coleman
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27-Judge William Alsup
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30-Judge Beryl Howell
31-Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
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46-Judge Royce Lamberth
47-Judge Charlotte Sweeney
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(L–R) Former FBI agent Peter Strzok; former FBI Director James Comey; and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. (Credit: Getty Images/Illustration by Epoch Times)
Newly-declassified memos written by disgraced FBI official Andrew McCabe shine new light on how he kept the Trump-Russia collusion hoax investigation alive during a critical period in the first half of 2017 before he got it handed off to a special counsel.
The eight memos penned by McCabe, most of which had never been released until earlier this month, span his discussions and meetings (including with President Donald Trump) held from January 24, 2017 to May 21, 2017 — a critical time period ranging from just before the FBI sprung an interview on retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn to just after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. The memos were more fully declassified through efforts by Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel earlier this month.
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January 24, 2017 — Mike Flynn’s call with McCabe
McCabe created his first memo related to a discussion he had with Flynn just before he was interviewed by FBI agents on January 24, 2017. Versions of the memo were previously released with various redactions in 2019 and 2020, but the version released this month has the fewest redactions yet.
The FBI had been plotting how to potentially prosecute Flynn related to his December 2016 call with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, including potentially under the Logan Act.
McCabe said that “I told LTG Flynn that I had a sensitive matter to discuss. I explained that in light of the significant media coverage and public discussion about his recent contacts with Russian representatives, that Director Comey and I felt that we needed to have two of our agents sit down with the General and hear from him the details of those conversations. LTG Flynn asked if I was referring to his contacts with the Russian Ambassador to the United States, and indicated that I was.”
McCabe said in his memo that Flynn explained that he had been trying to “build relationships” with the Russians, and that he had calls in which he “exchanged condolences.” McCabe said Flynn then stated that McCabe probably knew what was said in these calls because “you listen to everything they say.”
McCabe said of his talk with Flynn that “I reiterated that in light of everything that has been said about these contacts, the important thing now was for us to hear directly from him what he said and how he felt about the conversations.”
Comey later admitted in 2018 that he took advantage of the chaos in the early days of Trump’s administration when he sent FBI special agents Peter Strzok and Joseph Pientka to talk to Flynn.
“I sent them,” Comey said to MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace, prompting laughter in the audience. “Something I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in … a more organized administration. In the George W. Bush administration, for example, or the Obama administration.”
“In both of those administrations, there was process, and so, if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House counsel, and there’d be discussions and approvals and who would be there, and I thought, it’s early enough — let’s just send a couple guys over,” Comey added.
Strzok overjoyed that Flynn case not closed
The Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the Flynn case in May 2020 stated that Strzok learned in early January 2017 that the Flynn case had not been closed despite the lack of evidence for keeping it open, and relayed the “serendipitously good” news to McCabe’s special assistant Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was having an affair. Strzok remarked that “our utter incompetence actually helps us.” Strzok then instructed FBI agents to “keep it open for now” at the behest of “the 7th Floor” of the bureau.
The DOJ said that “the FBI kept open its counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn based solely on his calls with Kislyak — the only new information to arise since the FBI’s determination to close the case.” McCabe did not tell Flynn that he was being interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation targeting the Trump campaign.
McCabe said in his memo that “LTG Flynn questioned how so much information had been made public and asked if we thought it had been leaked” and “I replied that we were quite concerned about what we perceived as significant leaks and that we were in the process of completing a referral to the Department of Justice requesting authority to initiate a leak investigation.” McCabe said that “I further indicated that these cases were hard to prove but that we thought the significance of this situation demanded a thorough review.”
The leaks begin
Flynn’s communications with Ambassador Kislyak were leaked to the media in early 2017. Republicans have alleged since 2017 that Obama-era officials improperly unmasked associates of then-candidate Donald Trump’s presidential campaign during the Russia collusion investigation. Democrats defended the intelligence-gathering process.
A Washington Postcolumn in mid-January 2017 contained classified details that set off a media frenzy. Citing a “senior U.S. government official,” it said Flynn and Kislyak spoke on the phone in December 2016, the day former President Barack Obama announced actions against Russia, and suggested Flynn had violated the archaic Logan Act. A follow-up article by the Washington Post in early February 2017 revealed classified details from Flynn’s monitored calls with Kislyak, citing “nine current and former officials” in “senior positions at multiple agencies.”
John Bash, the U.S. attorney tasked in 2020 with investigating the “unmasking” scandal, concluded that Flynn’s name had not even been hidden to begin with when the FBI shared information across the Obama administration.
The leakers of the Flynn calls were never found.
McCabe said in his memo that he told Flynn that it would not be a good idea for Flynn to have a lawyer present when he was questioned by the FBI that afternoon.
“I explained to LTG Flynn that my desire was to have two of my agents interview him as quickly, quietly, and discretely as possible. He agreed and offered to meet with the agents today,” McCabe wrote. “I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between him and the agents only. I further stated that if LTG Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House Counsel for instance, that would need to involve the Department of Justice. He stated that this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants.”
William Barnett, the FBI agent who handled Flynn’s case in 2016 and 2017, called the Trump-Russia investigation “Collusion Clue” and argued many investigators were out to “get Trump.”
Top FBI officials had discussed the possibility of prosecuting Flynn for lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russians as agents planned how to conduct their January 2017 interview of the Trump national security adviser, bureau notes show.
“I agreed yesterday that we shouldn’t show Flynn [REDACTED] if he didn’t admit” but “I thought about it last night and I believe we should rethink this,” Bill Priestap, the FBI’s head of counterintelligence, wrote in January 2017. “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
Obama White House kept tabs on Flynn
An email that Obama national security adviser Susan Rice sent herself detailing an early January 2017 Oval Office meeting was declassified in 2020, revealing just how focused the outgoing Obama administration was on Flynn.
“Director Comey affirmed that he is processing ‘by the book’ as it relates to law enforcement. From a national security perspective, Comey said he does have some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian ambassador Kislyak. Comey said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing sensitive information,” Rice wrote.
Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told Mueller’s team that she first learned the FBI possessed and was investigating recordings of Flynn’s conversations following an early January 2017 national security meeting at the White House, and that it was Obama — not Comey — who told her about it.
Obama “started by saying that he had ‘learned of the information about Flynn’ and his conversation with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak,” Yates said, according to FBI notes. “Obama specified he did not want any additional information on the matter but was seeking information on whether the White House should be treating Flynn any differently.”
Yates told investigators that “at that point,” she “had no idea what the President was talking about.” She “recalled Comey mentioning the Logan Act” but could not remember if Comey specifically said there was an “investigation.”
Handwritten notes by Strzok released by the Justice Department in 2020seem to quote then-Vice President Joe Biden directly raising the “Logan Act” related to Flynn, according to an apparent conversation Strzok had with Comey after an early January 2017 White House meeting. Strzok wrote that Comey said the Flynn-Kislyak calls “appear legit.” Obama emphasized that “the right people” should look into Flynn.
The task fell to Comey, McCabe, and Strzok.
The Flynn-Kislyak call and the FBI interview
The transcript of the call between Flynn and Kislyak — which occurred on December 29, 2016 — was declassified in 2020.
One transcript portion stated: “Flynn wants to convey the following [to Moscow]: Do not allow this [Obama] administration to box us in right now! Kislyak says they have conveyed it very clearly.”
“So, depending on what actions they take over this current issue of cyber stuff, where they are looking like they are going to dismiss some number of Russians out of the country. I understand all that and I understand that the information that they have and all that. But I ask Russia to do is to not, if anything, I know you have to have some sort of action, to only make it reciprocal; don’t go any further than you have to because I don’t want us to get into something that have to escalate to tit-for-tat. Do you follow me?” the transcript says Flynn said, with the transcript adding that “Kislyak says he understands what Flynn is saying, but Flynn might appreciate the sentiments that are raging now in Moscow.”
The transcript stated that Flynn said that “I really do not want us to get into the situation where we everybody goes back and forth and everybody had to be a tough guy here. We don’t need that right now. We need cool heads to prevail. And we need to be very steady about what we are going to do because we have absolutely a common threat in the Middle East.”
“Kislyak agrees. Now when FSB and GRU are sanctioned and Kislyak asks himself, does it mean that the U.S. is not willing to work on terrorist threats, Kislyak poses a question. Flynn says, yes. Kislyak says he heard Flynn and he will try people in Moscow to understand. Flynn repeats asking to reciprocate moderately,” the transcript stated.
The transcript added that Flynn also said, “Let’s keep this at even-kill level; then when we come in, we will have a better conversation where we are going to go regarding our relationship.”
The FBI’s notes of the interview of Flynn by Strzok and Pientka on January 24, 2017 were also released in a further declassified form this month. The interview occurred just a few hours after McCabe’s call with Flynn.
The FBI notes state: “FLYNN expanded that he had no particular affinity for Russia, but that KISLYAK was his counterpart, and maintaining trusted relationships within foreign governments is important.”
The notes state that “the interviewing agents asked FLYNN if he recalled any conversation with KISLYAK surrounding the expulsion of Russian diplomats or the closing of Russian properties in response to Russian hacking activities surrounding the election. FLYNN stated that he did not.”
The FBI notes also state that “the interviewing agents asked FLYNN if he recalled any conversation with KISLYAK in which the expulsions were discussed, where FLYNN might have encouraged KISLYAK not to escalate the situation, to keep the Russian response reciprocal,” or not to engage in a “tit-for-tat.” The FBI notes say that Flynn responded, “Not really. I don’t remember. It wasn’t ‘Don’t do anything.’”
Strzok was a key player throughout the FBI’s deeply flawed Crossfire Hurricane investigation — including writing the opening communication that launched the inquiry.
Pientka had conducted the FBI’s first counterintelligence briefing of then-candidate Trump in August 2016 at its New York field office — and the briefing had been used as a “pretext” to gather evidence on him and Flynn, according to 2019 testimony from DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz.
“They sent a supervisory agent to the briefing from the Crossfire Hurricane team, and that agent prepared a report to the file of the briefing about what Mr. Trump and Mr. Flynn said,” Horowitz testified. “So the agent was actually doing the briefing but also using it for the purpose of investigation.”
It was Strzok who signed off on Pientka’s summary of that pretextual briefing.
The interview by Strzok and Pientka with Flynn in January 2017 would soon be leveraged by McCabe and the FBI to facilitate the firing of Flynn — and to underpin a prosecution.
Trump DOJ later points out flaws with FBI’s Flynn interview
The Trump Justice Department later pointed out significant problems with how McCabe and the rest of the FBI leadership had handled the Flynn affair.
“FBI Director Comey took the position that the FBI would not notify the incoming Trump administration of the Flynn-Kislyak communications. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and other senior DOJ officials took the contrary view and believed that the incoming administration should be notified,” the DOJ said in 2020. “Deputy Attorney General Yates and another senior DOJ official became ‘frustrated’ when Director Comey’s justifications for withholding the information from the Trump administration repeatedly ‘morphed,’ vacillating from the potential compromise of a ‘counterintelligence’ investigation to the protection of a purported ‘criminal’ investigation.”
The DOJ said in 2020 that the morning of January 24, 2017 — right around when McCabe held his call with Flynn — Yates contacted Comey “to demand that the FBI notify the White House of the communications” but that “Comey did not initially return her call” — and when Comey called Yates back later that day, Comey “advised her that the FBI agents were already on their way to the White House to interview Mr. Flynn.” Yates said she was “flabbergasted” and “dumbfounded” while other senior DOJ officials “hit the roof” upon hearing of this development, given that “an interview of Flynn should have been coordinated with DOJ.”
But the machinations by McCabe and Comey ensured the FBI interview of Flynn happened the way they wanted.
Strzok and Pientka “didn’t show him the transcripts” of his calls when interviewing Flynn, the DOJ said, “nor did the agents give, at any point, warnings that making false statements would be a crime.”
And the DOJ said that “after the interview, the FBI agents expressed uncertainty as to whether Mr. Flynn had lied.” The DOJ wrote that Strzok and Pientka “had the impression at the time that Flynn was not lying or did not think he was lying.” And even Comey had his doubts about whether Flynn had even lied, saying, “I don’t know. I think there is an argument to be made he lied. It is a close one.”
“With its counterintelligence investigation no longer justifiably predicated, the communications between Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak — the FBI’s sole basis for resurrecting the investigation on January 4, 2017 — did not warrant either continuing that existing counterintelligence investigation or opening a new criminal investigation,” the Trump DOJ determined in 2020. “The calls were entirely appropriate on their face. Mr. Flynn has never disputed that the calls were made. Indeed, Mr. Flynn, as the former Director of Defense Intelligence Agency, would have readily expected that the FBI had known of the calls — and told FBI Deputy Director McCabe as much.”
The Trump DOJ added: “The Government does not believe it could prove that Mr. Flynn knowingly and willfully made a false statement beyond a reasonable doubt. … The Government is not persuaded that the January 24, 2017 interview was conducted with a legitimate investigative basis and therefore does not believe Mr. Flynn’s statements were material even if untrue.”
Yet the FBI interview with Flynn would help end his brief tenure as national security adviser, and would result in his prosecution.
January 31, 2017 — McCabe talks to Bannon in the West Wing
McCabe wrote another memo about a meeting in the West Wing, accompanied by FBI official Bill Priestap, with then-White House official Steve Bannon on January 31, 2017.
The McCabe memo stated that “the purpose of the meeting was to discuss a piece of intelligence regarding Eugene Chin Yu, who claimed to be under consideration by Mr. Bannon for a position as Special Envoy to North Korea or the United States Ambassador to South Korea.” But the meeting soon led to a discussion about Trump and Comey.
“Mr. Bannon requested that he be given an opportunity to speak to me privately, and Mr. Priestap left the room. Mr. Bannon then mentioned that President Trump told him that he had a positive experience dining with Director Comey last Friday night and he inquired about whether the Director mentioned it to me,” McCabe wrote. “I replied that Director Comey was also very positive about their engagement. Mr. Bannon stated that he thought it was important to put the two men together to find out if Director Comey wished to stay in his position and whether President Trump wanted to retain him.”
McCabe later told Mueller’s team in September 2017 that he had essentially lied to Bannon, with the FBI’s notes of its interview with McCabe stating that “McCabe knew Comey did not have a good time, but answered that way in order to ‘move the issue off the table.’”
“Mr. Bannon explained that President Trump wished to be very supportive of law enforcement and to the FBI specifically Mr. Bannon was eager to identify opportunities for President Trump to visit the FBI, or to participate in FBI events, in an effort to publicly support the organization,” McCabe’s memo of the conversation stated. “Mr. Bannon pointed to the President’s recent speech at CIA headquarters as an example. He said President Trump would probably be quite interested in seeing the FBI Training Academy at Quantico, Virginia, and possibly could participate in a New Agent’s graduation. I told Mr. Bannon that I appreciated his and the President’s interest and indicated that I would discuss the matter with Director Comey.”
McCabe would later undercut efforts by Trump to pay a visit to the FBI, and McCabe would also soon exacerbate the tensions between Flynn and then-Vice President Mike Pence.
Flynn, Pence, and the Kislyak call
Obama had announced on December 29, 2016 that “I have ordered a number of actions in response to the Russian government’s aggressive harassment of U.S. officials and cyber operations aimed at the U.S. election.”
“I have issued an executive order that provides additional authority for responding to certain cyber activity that seeks to interfere with or undermine our election processes and institutions, or those of our allies or partners,” Obama said. “I have sanctioned nine entities and individuals: the GRU and the FSB, two Russian intelligence services; four individual officers of the GRU; and three companies that provided material support to the GRU’s cyber operations.”
Obama also said that “the State Department is also shutting down two Russian compounds, in Maryland and New York, used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes, and is declaring ‘persona non grata’ 35 Russian intelligence operatives.”
Then-Vice President Mike Pence had told CBS News on January 15, 2017 that “I talked to General Flynn about that conversation [with Kislyak]… It was strictly coincidental that they had a conversation. They did not discuss anything having to do with the United States’ decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia.”
“It wasn’t about sanctions. It was about the 35 guys who were thrown out,” Flynn later told the Daily Caller in February 2017 about his call with Kislyak. “So that’s what it turned out to be. It was basically, ‘Look, I know this happened. We’ll review everything.’ I never said anything such as, ‘We’re going to review sanctions,’ or anything like that.”
But Flynn signed a guilty plea in November 2017 after being targeted by the Mueller investigation. The Mueller team contended that “FLYNN’s false statements and omissions impeded and otherwise had a material impact on the FBI’s ongoing investigation into the existence of any links or coordination between individuals associated with the Campaign and Russia’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.”
Flynn’s legal team moved to withdraw Flynn’s guilty plea in January 2020, declaring their client was “innocent” and pointing to “the government’s bad faith, vindictiveness, and breach of the plea agreement.”
Flynn’s lawyers told the court in the summer of 2020 that they believed the declassified information was exculpatory evidence “demonstrating (i) his innocence; (ii) the absence of any crime; (iii) government misconduct in the investigation of General Flynn; and (iv) prosecutorial misconduct in the suppression of evidence favorable to the defense.”
February 10, 2017 — McCabe meets with Pence about Flynn controversy
McCabe penned an additional memo about a counterintelligence briefing that he and Priestap gave at the Office of the Vice President on February 10, 2017 — just three days before Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser at the behest of Pence. The memo shows that it was McCabe who showed Pence and other White House officials the Flynn-Kislyak transcript, and that McCabe discussed the Logan Act with Pence and others.
McCabe wrote that “I went to the White House to provide a basic CI [counterintelligence] defensive brief to the staff members of the Office of the Vice President” and that, after leaving the briefing and preparing to head back to FBI quarters, a yet-redacted FBI special agent “informed me that the White House Counsel’s office had been trying to reach me. Before leaving the White House grounds, I contacted the Sit Room. They informed me that White House Counsel Donald McGahn requested that I meet him in the West Wing to discuss an urgent matter in person.”
McCabe first went to McGahn’s office and then went to Pence’s office in the West Wing, where he met with Pence, McGahn, White House counsel’s office lawyer James Burnham, Pence chief of staff Josh Pitcock, and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus.
“After entering the office, Mr. Priebus informed me that he wanted to review ‘the transcripts.’ I understood he was referring to the transcripts of the telephone conversations between National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak that were recently revealed in an article in the Washington Post,” McCabe wrote. “He mentioned that he knew the FBI previously allowed John Eisenberg, Legal Advisor to the National Security Staff, to review the transcripts. I indicated to Mr. Priebus and the others that I could have Bill Priestap retrieve the transcripts from FBI HQ so that they could review them. The Vice President asked me to dispatch Bill Priestap so that they could review the materials as soon as possible.”
McCabe said that he left the room to call Priestap and to direct him to retrieve the transcripts, and that he also spoke with FBI general counsel James Baker, who “agreed that the review was permissible.”
McCabe said he returned to the office and “I received several questions from Mr. Priebus about how the transcripts could have leaked to the media, and whether or not the FBI was investigating the leak. I replied that we did not know how information about the transcripts had been leaked but that we had submitted a referral to the Department of Justice requesting authorization to begin a media leak investigation. I explained that the investigations would include recent and previous revelations in the Washington Post and other news outlets.”
Leakers not caught
McCabe also wrote in his memo that “Pence asked if I had read the transcripts and I indicated that I had. He then asked if the articles were correct. I first stated that I could not confirm whether the reporter had access to the transcripts or if they had merely spoken to someone who had such access. I then stated that I thought the article in the Post accurately reflected the substance of the transcripts. The Vice President asked, ‘Did they talk about the sanctions?’ I understood him to be asking whether Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak discussed the U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia at the end of December 2016. I indicated that they did discuss the sanctions in those conversations.”
The memo by McCabe stated that “the Vice President indicated that he needed to discuss the matter with his staff, so I left the room to wait for Mr. Priestap to return with the transcripts.”
Once the transcripts were retrieved by Priestap, McCabe wrote that “I provided the Vice President with transcripts of telephone calls captured on 12/23/2016, 12/29/2016 and 12/31/2016. All three calls were between Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak.” McCabe said that “I brought the Vice President’s attention to the call on 12/29/2016” — the call McCabe knew the FBI had grilled Flynn on the month prior.
“While reading the first two pages he commented that several items were consistent with what Mr. Flynn previously informed him had been discussed on the call. He requested that Mr. Pitcock get him a transcript of his comments to CBS news and one was produced. He also asked when the Obama administration announced the sanctions against Russia and someone confirmed that the sanctions were made public on 12/29/2016,” McCabe said of Pence. “Upon reading the portion of the transcript that detailed Mr. Flynn’s comments about the sanctions, the Vice President appeared frustrated and noted that Mr. Flynn initiated the discussion on that topic. The Vice President and the others compared Mr. Flynn’s statements in the transcripts with the Vice President’s comments to CBS News, and discussed what Mr. Flynn had told the Vice President about his conversations.”
McCabe wrote that Priebus, McGahn, Burnham, and Pitcock also reviewed some of the transcripts.
“Mr. Priebus asked me questions about whether or not the discussions related in the transcripts could constitute a violation of the Logan Act. I replied that he would need to ask the Department of Justice whether or not the calls constituted a violation of the act,” McCabe wrote. “I further stated that I was not aware of any prior prosecutions of Logan Act violations. Mr. Priebus asked if previous administrations had similar contacts with foreign representatives prior to taking office officially. I indicated that although I could not speak authoritatively about the actions of previous administrations, I thought it was possible that considerations like that could have been why the act had not been charged in the past.”
McCabe knew quite well that the FBI had indeed considered investigating and potentially prosecuting Flynn under the Logan Act.
“The FBI had in their possession transcripts of the relevant calls,” the Trump DOJ wrote in May 2020 when seeking to throw out the Flynn prosecution. “Believing that the counterintelligence investigation of Mr. Flynn was to be closed, FBI leadership determined to continue its investigation of Mr. Flynn on the basis of these calls, and considered opening a new criminal investigation based solely on a potential violation of the Logan Act.”
McCabe’s memo concluded by saying that “the Vice President finished reading the transcripts and thanked us for providing them.”
Flynn was pushed to resign just a few days after McCabe’s meeting in the West Wing with Pence.
February 15, 2017—McCabe refuses to shoot down ‘false’ NYT story on Trump & Russia
McCabe’s memos also detailed a meeting with Priebus at the White House on February 15, 2017 — now just a few days after Flynn’s ouster — where McCabe refused to publicly shoot down a New York Times article on alleged Trump-Russia collusion, even though McCabe acknowledged it was “false.” McCabe also advised Priebus that Trump should not shoot the story down either. McCabe was again accompanied to this meeting by Priestap, and the meeting again began as a defensive briefing which devolved into a discussion about Russia.
“I went to the White House for a meeting with Chief of Staff to the President Reince Priebus. FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Bill Priestap accompanied me. We were met by William Evanina, who is an FBI agent currently on detail to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as the Director of the National Counterintelligence Security Center. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a counterintelligence defensive briefing to Mr. Priebus,” McCabe wrote. “We convened in Mr. Priebus’ office on the second floor of the West Wing. Joining us were White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Joe Hagin, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs Ezra Cohen, and one of Mr. Priebus’ briefers from the President’s Daily Briefing Staff. Over the course of about 25 minutes, Mr. Priestap provided the briefing and Mr. Evanina contributed details about cyber espionage and other counterintelligence topics.”
McCabe wrote that “the briefing concluded when Mr. Priebus indicated he had another meeting to attend. I asked Mr. Priebus if he had a moment to discuss a sensitive matter privately. He said he did and the other individuals left the room. I informed Mr. Priebus that the article that appeared in the New York Times this morning which purported to detail FBI efforts to investigate contacts between Russian intelligence officers and several individuals associated with the Trump campaign was largely inaccurate. … I further stated that I was aware of only two White House employees who were in contact with the Russian government: Michael Flynn and Hope Hicks. I reminded him that we discussed the substance of Mr. Flynn’s contacts on Friday, 02/10/2017. I further stated that the FBI’s assessment was that Hope Hicks’ contacts were innocuous, within the scope of her duties, and that we had already provided her with a defensive briefing.”
The article contended that “American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee… The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.”
The McCabe memo said that “Priebus seemed surprised by my comments and indicated that he also thought the article was false. He indicated that the administration was frustrated by having to spend so much time and effort refuting press stories that the White House perceived to be false. Mr. Priebus asked if the FBI would publicly state that the article was false. I told him that we did not do that sort of thing because when we corrected inaccurate news accounts we might inadvertently telegraph to our adversaries our capabilities and our operational activity. He asked if he could share what I told him with others in the White House, including the President. I told him he could share it with whoever he felt he needed to, as long as they did not share it publicly.”
Priebus asked, “What if I told the President and he inadvertently tweeted it?” McCabe wrote that “I told him that would not be a good thing. He continued to press me to consider how the FBI could issue some sort of statement to address this issue. I told him that I would discuss the matter with Director Comey and then get back to him.”
May 9, 2017 — McCabe meets with Sessions and Trump the day Comey is fired
Comey’s firing spurs McCabe into action
May 10, 2017 — McCabe meets Trump again and quietly undercuts FBI visit
May 12, 2017 — McCabe meets with Sessions and Rosenstein
The Comey memos
May 16, 2017 — Rosenstein suggests wearing a wire
The “Gang of Eight”
Rosenstein denies McCabe’s claims — and critiques McCabe
May 21, 2017 — McCabe meets with Mueller and refuses suggestion to recuse
McCabe defends Trump-Russia investigation — and trashes Durham
I will admit, when I first read that Susan Rice was still ensconced on the Defense Policy Board well into the new Trump administration, I thought it must surely be fake news, some hallucination conjured by an overactive internet rumor mill. Yet, with the bitter taste of disbelief still fresh, the facts became clear. Not only had she lingered, she had lingered officially, and with all the institutional imprimatur the position carries. It is the sort of stunning oversight that shakes one’s faith in the assumption that elections carry consequences.
Rice, a veteran of Obama-era foreign policy failures and perhaps best remembered for her calculatedly deceptive Sunday show performances following the Benghazi disaster, was somehow still whispering counsel into the halls of the Pentagon in 2025. Her known hostility to President Trump, his America First doctrine, and the foundational pillars of his administration did not, apparently, disqualify her. Her presence was not merely inappropriate, it was absurd, a lingering ghost from an administration the voters had quite emphatically rejected.
Thankfully, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth acted swiftly. Upon confirming the disgraceful truth, he took the only responsible course available: he discharged the entire cadre of Pentagon advisory board members, wiping the slate clean. Yet the discovery of Rice’s lingering influence opened a larger question in my mind. How many other advisory boards, spread across the vast administrative sprawl of Washington, remained populated by individuals not just ideologically distant from the president but openly hostile to his agenda?
When I dug deeper, the findings were no less alarming.
At the State Department, Thomas Donilon, a consummate Democratic insider who served as Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor, continued to co-chair the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Donilon, whose worldview is saturated in the globalist dogmas that Trumpism explicitly rejects, was not some neutral technocrat offering dispassionate advice. He was, and remains, a committed architect of the very foreign policy status quo that voters repudiated.
Serving alongside Donilon was Cecilia Muñoz, another alumnus of the Obama White House, celebrated in progressive circles for her aggressive domestic policy advocacy. That she too advised the State Department in 2025 suggests not malevolent intent by Trump officials, but the lingering inertia of an entrenched bureaucracy and the sheer pace at which the new administration had to operate.
The situation at the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board was equally disquieting. Janet Napolitano, former Obama DHS Secretary and Democratic governor, lent her counsel, as did Evan Bayh, a loyal son of the Democratic establishment. Jane Harman, the California Democrat whose tenure on the House Intelligence Committee made her a fixture of Beltway orthodoxy, also held a seat, alongside Calvin Smyre, the “Dean” of Georgia Democrats.
It must be said: these appointments were not acts of sabotage, they were inherited artifacts of the prior administration, relics that had, perhaps through bureaucratic oversight, been allowed to persist longer than they should have. The Trump administration, moving at a breakneck pace to secure cabinet confirmations, implement executive orders, and dismantle the administrative state’s more overt structures, may not have fully cleared the decks of every board and commission.
The President’s Export Council, ostensibly a forum for economic growth, suffered from a similar inertia. Keisha Lance Bottoms, former Atlanta mayor and Democratic partisan, advised on export matters, flanked by Lacy Johnson, a Democratic operative from Indiana, Patrick Murphy, a Democratic former congressman from Florida, and Juan Verde, a Democratic strategist from the Obama Commerce Department.
These individuals are not mere advisors offering technical expertise from some neutral Olympus. They are political actors, shaped by decades of partisan struggle, invested in the success of the Democratic Party and the failure of the Republican vision for America. Their continued presence on federal advisory boards confers undeserved credibility, allowing them to subtly or not so subtly undermine the president’s directives under the guise of “expert opinion.”
Even within the Department of Defense itself, figures like Michael Bloomberg and Reid Hoffman, both prominent Democratic donors and partisans, held advisory positions on the Defense Innovation Board. Robert Wolf, famously dubbed “Obama’s Wall Street ally,” lingered on the Defense Business Board. Their appointments predated the new administration and, in the tumult of transition, may not yet have been formally revoked.
Advisory boards matter. They shape the information a president and his cabinet receive, frame the choices deemed “serious,” and create institutional momentum behind or against policy initiatives. A hostile advisor is not a harmless academic adding “diversity of thought.” He is a wedge, a saboteur in slow motion, capable of cloaking opposition in the respectable garments of “best practices” and “expertise.”
To appreciate the peril, one need only revisit George Washington’s Farewell Address, in which he warned against “the insidious wiles of foreign influence.” Today, foreign influence often enters not through emissaries but through the porous membranes of a permanent political class, credentialed, networked, and ideologically committed to resisting populist correction.
What President Trump, Secretary Hegseth, and others must recognize is that elections, though decisive at the ballot box, are never self-executing within the bureaucratic labyrinth. Personnel, as the old Reagan maxim goes, is policy. Without loyal personnel, policy becomes little more than rhetorical flourish, mocked and resisted within the very apparatus charged with carrying it out.
It is not sufficient, therefore, to appoint secretaries and department heads. The advisory bodies must be purged of those whose loyalty lies with other agendas. It is not a question of suppressing dissent or banishing disagreement. It is a question of ensuring that advice flows from those who share, at a fundamental level, the vision that voters endorsed.
Nor should we shy away from acknowledging that credibility itself is a weapon. A Donilon or a Napolitano or a Rice can, with the simple weight of a title, influence media narratives, congressional investigations, and public perceptions. The mere fact that such a figure “advises” the president creates the illusion of bipartisan concern when, in fact, what exists is partisan subversion.
The stakes are not academic. As Mark Twain once noted, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” In our era, an ill-placed advisor can seed narratives, foment resistance, and hamstring executive action before the ink on a policy directive has even dried.
The Trump administration must move swiftly to correct these oversights. A full review, department by department, board by board, is essential. Those whose affiliations, records, and loyalties stand in opposition to the constitutional mandate entrusted to President Trump must be thanked for their prior service and formally dismissed. Moreover, it is vital that these removals are publicly reported, ensuring that neither the media nor the bureaucratic establishment can operate under the false assumption that these old holdovers remain in positions of influence.
In doing so, we reaffirm a basic principle: the American people have the right to see their political choices honored not merely symbolically but operationally. Anything less is a betrayal disguised as continuity.
This is not a conspiracy theory — it’s a documented civil rights violation.
“I specifically asked for this video and others at my trial. I had access to http://evidence.com from inside the D.C. Gulag. But AUSA Michael Gordon told me I wasn’t allowed to view it — because I’m not a lawyer.”
Brian represented himself pro se, which means he was legally entitled to all discovery.
Instead, the DOJ blocked him.
And Judge James Boasberg sided with them — denying Brian access to any evidence in the global discovery.
⚖️ This is not due process.
This is prosecutorial abuse, judicial betrayal, and systemic injustice.
How can a trial be fair if the defendant is blindfolded in the courtroom?
We are demanding a full congressional review and public release of all suppressed January 6 discovery.
🚨 Brian was denied justice.
This is not a conspiracy theory — it’s a documented civil rights violation.
📢 “I specifically asked for this video and others at my trial. I had access to https://t.co/0tqJNxLk7D from inside the D.C. Gulag. But AUSA Michael Gordon told me I wasn’t… https://t.co/cF6gry9kbLpic.twitter.com/FTiF9ywIUK
VIDEO ANALYSIS: “7 Headshots” – U.S. Capitol, Jan 6, 2021 | 1:06 PM
📍 Location: West Plaza, U.S. Capitol
🕐 Time: 1:06 PM, January 6th, 2021
🔒 Status: Footage was buried in a classified folder labeled “Previously Highly Sensitive” and withheld from hundreds of January 6 survivors and legal defense teams.
🚨 Key Observations:
7 Rubber Bullets — 7 Direct Headshots.
The video shows a Capitol Police officer systematically firing rubber bullets directly into the heads and faces of multiple demonstrators in rapid succession.
No Active Threat Justified That Force.
The crowd is densely packed, with no clear indication of violent aggression. Most of the targets are either standing still, raising hands, or attempting to shield themselves.
No Warnings, No De-escalation.
There’s no audible warning or demand for dispersal before the shots are fired. The use of force is immediate, targeted, and arguably punitive.
Several Victims Collapse or Stumble.
One man takes a direct hit to the face and drops instantly. Another doubles over. No officers render medical aid. No EMS teams are visible.
🧨 Why This Matters:
This was not crowd control — this was retaliatory violence.
Rubber bullets are classified as “less-lethal,” but direct headshots violate all recognized use-of-force protocols. These shots could have caused permanent brain damage, blindness, or death.
And this footage was hidden.
Defense attorneys, survivors, and the public were deliberately denied access to a clip that undermines the official narrative — that protesters initiated violence and police merely responded.
⚖️ This Footage Demands:
Immediate public release of all related bodycam angles
Formal congressional review of suppressed evidence
Reparations and justice for those shot, mischarged, or silenced
🎯 VIDEO ANALYSIS: “7 Headshots” – U.S. Capitol, Jan 6, 2021 | 1:06 PM
📍 Location: West Plaza, U.S. Capitol
🕐 Time: 1:06 PM, January 6th, 2021
🔒 Status: Footage was buried in a classified folder labeled “Previously Highly Sensitive” and withheld from hundreds of January 6… pic.twitter.com/G12K0A3pTl
Eduardo Flores Ruiz and Judge Hannah Dugan (Credit Fox News)
Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.
We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.
Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.
We will have more to share soon. Excellent work @FBIMilwaukee.
Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.
We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 25, 2025
Judge Hannah Dugan arrested as she was caught IN THE ACT for violating two Federal Laws.
– Obstruction of an official proceeding.
– Concealing an individual to prevent discovery and arrest.
Letitia James Brooklyn property (Credit: Google Maps)
In a high-stakes response to a federal criminal referral, Letitia James’ defense lawyer, Abbe David Lowell, submitted a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi that made a stunning error: he fundamentally misunderstood the very property at the center of the investigation. The letter, prompted by the FHFA’s referral for potential mortgage fraud, falsely claimed James’ Brooklyn property “has always functioned as a four-person residence.” But official records, utility infrastructure, and tenant complaints paint a very different—and legally significant—picture.
In his letter to the US Attorney General, James’ lawyer made these specific claims about 296 Lafayette Avenue:
“In 2001, Ms. James purchased her Brooklyn, New York home with her savings to facilitate supporting her mother (sick at the time) and give other family members a place to live. Ms. James and her family members have lived there since 2001. The co-occupancy dwelling has four floors and, for as long as Ms. James has lived there, the property has always functioned as a four-person residence. Initially, Ms. James’ mother lived on the first floor; Ms. James occupied the second floor; a close family friend occupied the third floor; and her brother occupied the fourth floor. The basement did not have any unit. After Ms. James’ mother died, and to this day, Ms. James has occupied the first and second floor units for herself, while her close family friend and brother occupy units on the top two floors.”
This description reveals a lawyer completely unfamiliar with:
The building’s legal classification
The physical layout of the property
The actual utility services present
The documented complaint history
Most strikingly, the Certificate of Occupancy shows no fourth floor exists—yet the lawyer claims James’ brother lives there. That alone should have disqualified the letter.
The lawyer appears to be operating from a completely misaligned floor numbering system — a critical error that fundamentally affects how we understand the entire property and the tenant complaints:
Lawyer’s Floor Numbering
“Basement”: Actually the cellar — not legal for residential use. Lawyer conflates this with the basement.
“First Floor”: Actually the basement, which contains Unit 1 (which the lawyer claimed was occupied by James’ mother, but records show was occupied by tenants)
“Second Floor”: Actually the first floor (location of Unit 2B, a registered tenant unit)
“Third Floor”: Actually the second floor (lawyer claims it’s a single unit, but C/O says otherwise)
“Fourth Floor”: Doesn’t exist—this is pure fabrication
Actual Building (Per C/O)
Cellar: Not a legal residential space
Basement: One legal unit (“Unit 1” in HPD records)
First Floor: One legal unit (however, includes “Unit 2B” in HPD complaint records)
Second Floor: One legal unit
Third Floor: TWO separate legal units
Fourth Floor: Does not exist
This misalignment is critical because tenant complaints from “Unit 1” and “Unit 2B” correspond to spaces the lawyer claims were exclusively occupied by James and her mother—not by unrelated tenants. When we correctly align the floors, we see that these complaints directly contradict the lawyer’s claims about who lived where.
This isn’t just an embarrassing error in a routine real estate transaction, but in a letter to the U.S. Attorney General defending New York’s chief legal officer. The attorney isn’t just mistaken—he’s describing a building that doesn’t exist. (Read more: White Collar Fraud, 4/25/2025)(Archive)
Letitia James scrambles as her lawyer’s disastrous response accidentally confirms fraud allegations and blows up her defense! pic.twitter.com/xaqdSYuR6f
Virginia Giuffre, a sexual abuse victim of the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has taken her life at the age of 41, according to a report from NBC News.
Giuffre’s family revealed in a statement to the outlet that she “passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia.” Giuffre was described as a “fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”
“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia,” Giuffre’s family said in a statement. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”
The statement continued: “Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”
BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre has taken her life, according to NBC News.
Giuffre was one of the most vocal Epstein accusers who inspired others to speak out.
“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to su*cide, after being a lifelong victim of s*xual abuse and s*x trafficking,” the family said.
“Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against s*xual abuse and s*x trafficking.”
“She was the light that lifted so many survivors. In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”
She was abused and groomed from 1999 to 2002 and was allegedly trafficked to powerful people including Prince Andrew.
Shortly before she passed, Giuffre claimed she had just days to live after being in a car accident. (Photo below)
BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre has taken her life, according to NBC News.
Giuffre was one of the most vocal Epstein accusers who inspired others to speak out.
“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm… pic.twitter.com/2YHvaB6KC8
The outlet noted that Giuffre “provided critical information to law enforcement” that helped lead to the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice:
She also provided critical information to law enforcement that contributed to the investigation into and later the conviction of Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as other investigations by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
In 2009, Giuffre sued Epstein and Maxwell for having recruited “her to join” Epstein’s “sex trafficking ring when she was a minor under the guise of become a professional masseuse,” the New York Timesreported. (Read more: Breitbart News, 4/25/2025)(Archive)
(…) In this powerful chat, Joe and Elon break down just how bizarre and disturbing this entire story really is.
They go through the strange facts one by one, from the assassin’s spotless house and missing online life to the shady ties to BlackRock, mind-blowing Secret Service failures, and the suspicious lack of transparency from federal officials.
These questions are very serious, yet nobody in power seems willing to answer them.
Joe Rogan and Elon Musk point out the INSANE details surrounding the Butler, Pennsylvania Donald Trump assassination attempt shooter
– The assassins house was PROFESSIONALLY scrubbed
– His home was scrubbed so well there wasn’t even silverware left in the home
– No footprint on the internet
– No social media footprint (completely wiped)
– He was in a BlackRock commercial
– Joe Rogan says some individuals inside BlackRock may have “recognized that it’s beneficial to them if he gets assassinated”
– There was never a formal report
– There was never press conferences where they detailed all the information they know currently and where the investigation stands at the moment
– He was a very young g kid there with a rangefinder (used to measure distances, very suspicious)
– CNN streamed it live, which Joe Rogan does not believe they did for any other rally. And certainly not for a rally that’s in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania
– They wouldn’t let people be on that roof because the Secret service lady said it was sloped and it was dangerous
– The snipers that were on the other roof was a, a steeper pitch (It made no f*cking sense)
– Random people saw him and pointed him out on the roof with a gun for a long time before it happened
– The kid had 5 phones
– His body was immediately cremated
– There was some indications that there was a phone that had been traveling from outside the FBI offices in D.C to where this kid lived multiple times
We need answers.
Never stop talking about this
Joe Rogan and Elon Musk point out the INSANE details surrounding the Butler, Pennsylvania Donald Trump assassination attempt shooter
– The assassins house was PROFESSIONALLY scrubbed
– His home was scrubbed so well there wasn’t even silverware left… pic.twitter.com/cXHnenguQL
USAID would ultimately allocate $16.5 million to this project.
Hunter Biden was deeply involved with USAID. He is also seen in other emails making connections with USAID appointees and even being asked for advice on appointees and resumes.
“During the Biden Administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for sex and for slavery. And we have ended that, and we are very aggressively going out and trying to find these children. 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden… pic.twitter.com/qN3ILN6VFT
🚨On April 26, 2023, I testified before Congress that “The United States government has become the middleman in a large scale multi-billion dollar child trafficking operation.”
HHS
Office of Refugee Resettlement
An Office of the Administration for Children & Families
Unaccompanied Alien Children
On March 1, 2003, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Section 462, transferred responsibilities for the care and placement of unaccompanied alien children from…
This is NUTS: Secretary Rubio just announced that he found DOZENS of files kept by Joe Biden’s State Department that classified American citizens as “vectors of disinformation” — with the intention of censoring them.
That’s not all.
Marco Rubio says that there’s someone in President Trump’s cabinet meeting RIGHT NOW that was being monitored.
“There’s at least one person at THIS TABLE TODAY who had a dossier in that building…”
Joe Biden’s administration was corrupt ALL THE WAY THROUGH!
@JDVance: “Was it me, or @elonmusk?!”
🚨This is NUTS: Secretary Rubio just announced that he found DOZENS of files kept by Joe Biden’s State Department that classified American citizens as “vectors of disinformation” — with the intention of censoring them.
Townhall’s @KatiePavlich responds to the Biden admin HIRING people to CENSOR conservative individuals who purveyed information they didn’t like!
“A number of us, including Townhall…were getting shadow banned…The federal government was used against regular everyday citizens…
…The Biden Administration decided they were going to use the full force of the federal government, taxpayer money, to go after people for talking about things they didn’t like.”
Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, of Montgomery Village, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to embezzling more than $650,000 from the U.S. State Department over a two-year period.
The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., Special Agent in Charge Benjamin Brockschmidt of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Inspector General, and Deputy Assistant Director William Ferrari of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service Office of Special Investigations.
As part of her guilty plea, Ferrer, who is also known as Levita Brezovic, admitted that she abused her signature authority over a State Department checking account between March 2022 and April 2024 while working as a Senior Budget Analyst in the State Department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol. She issued 60 checks payable to herself and three checks payable to another individual with whom she had a personal relationship. She printed and signed each check and then deposited all 63 checks, which totaled $657,347.50, into her personal checking and savings accounts.
Ferrer attempted to conceal her scheme by using a common Quickbooks account at the State Department. After entering her name as the payee on checks in Quickbooks and then printing them, she often changed the listed payee in Quickbooks from herself to an actual State Department vendor. As a result, anyone viewing those entries in the Quickbooks system did not see Ferrer’s name as the payee on the checks unless they accessed an audit trail.
U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper accepted Ferrer’s guilty plea to theft of government property and set a sentencing date for September 18, 2025. Ferrer faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Judge Cooper will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
As part of her plea agreement, Ferrer agreed to pay $657,347.50 in restitution to the U.S. government. She also agreed to be liable for a forfeiture money judgment in that same amount.
This case was investigated by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General and Diplomatic Security Service. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kondi Kleinman with assistance from Paralegal Specialist Sona Chaturvedi. Essential investigatory work was conducted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine Orville of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina. (Department of State, 4/30/2025)(Archive)
FBI agents take a knee with BLM and George Floyd demonstrators on June 4, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Credit: Jose Luis Magana/AP)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators during a 2020 protest in the wake of police killing of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter told CNN.
The reassignments, viewed as demotions by many inside the FBI, come nearly five years after the episode that ignited controversy inside the bureau. FBI officials offered no explanation for changing the roles to less coveted positions for the agents, according to sources.
The FBI declined to comment to CNN, citing its policy to not discuss personnel matters. Agents affected didn’t respond to requests for comment. (Read more: CNN, 4/30/2025) (Archive)
On Thursday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) made public internal emails from Trump-hating FBI agents “planning and celebrating” the indictment of Trump advisor Dr. Peter Navarro.
In an email to a colleague, former FBI official Timothy Thibault celebrated Navarro’s impending indictment, “Wow! Great!”
However, Grassley noted, when a criminal referral was issued for Nellie Ohr, the FBI and DOJ chose not to press charges against her.
Read the full email exchange here by Biden regime officials plotting and celebrating Navarro’s indictment.
Senate Judiciary Chair @ChuckGrassley makes public internal emails from anti-Trump FBI agents “planning and celebrating” the lawless indictment of President Trump’s senior advisor Peter Navarro pic.twitter.com/9JcnHvIftL
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
In June 2022, a federal grand jury indicted Trump advisor Dr. Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate with Liz Cheney’s unconstitutional January 6 Committee.
Navarro faced two contempt counts: one for his failure to produce documents demanded by the committee and the other for failing to show up for subpoenaed testimony before House investigators.
“They intercepted me gettin’ on the plane and then they put me in handcuffs, they bring me here. They put me in leg irons. They stick me in a cell,” Navarro said to reporters after his arrest. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 5/1/2025)(Archive)
.@StephenM: “The only thing Americans want to hear from Kamala Harris is an apology for joining Joe Biden in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country … What they did to this country is unforgivable. It is an eternal stain.” 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Fm1sHpb5o4
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “Inflation, as you would acknowledge, is down substantially. Gas prices are down substantially. The new GDP report showed a 22% record increase in investment in the United States of America.” pic.twitter.com/Tdw5DrRwBn
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
🔥 @StephenM unleashes on the media’s hypocrisy: “It is a sad reflection on the state of our media and many of the outlets represented in this room that you obsessively try to shill for this MS-13 terrorist… Each and every one of you that sides over and over again with these… pic.twitter.com/ElkxTuTbk6
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “As @SecRubio said yesterday… this Administration is not going publicly discuss the inside details of our… negotiations with a foreign country. And in particular, we are not going to allow a district court judge to try and become the Secretary of State.” pic.twitter.com/qRpwEYycHc
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “The U.S. auto industry used to control entire world… Now, of course, we’ve become a tiny fraction of the global market. The reason for that is because the United States opened its market to every foreign cheater… and their markets have been closed to ours.” pic.twitter.com/E1a1scmdwC
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “The relief for small businesses is going to come in the form of the largest tax cut in American history. A tax cut, by the way, that every single Democrat is planning to vote against… this will be the most pro-small business tax bill in American history.” pic.twitter.com/2E2MZztWl4
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “When you look at the sweep of the first 100 days, every single crisis that has afflicted America for years, sometimes decades, sometimes generations, this President has fought head on. He has taken on every entrenched power structure and system all across this… pic.twitter.com/QB2e6GOAhV
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “Right now, countries from all over the world, because of @POTUS‘ leadership, are desperate and dying to make trade deals with the United States. We’re going to evaluate each those deals, and President Trump is personally involved…” pic.twitter.com/BIft3Njcby
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “The President’s goals have been very clear on these points: He is not going to allow China to continue to steal our intellectual property, to continue to illegally dump and subsidize their goods in our markets, to manipulate their currency, to rack up an… pic.twitter.com/CcZ9kXF0my
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “It is CHILD ABUSE to change a child’s gender … Castration surgeries, castration drugs, sterilization treatments of children are barbaric. They violate all sound medical ethics. They are completely unwarranted. They harm children for life — irreversibly.” pic.twitter.com/AMNM6eXTau
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “This Administration’s also fighting to get Critical Race Theory out of our school districts. Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught Civic values.” pic.twitter.com/WAXncuaLFD
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “President Trump has ended across the entire federal government, all hiring, recruiting, retention, promotion, and training based on race and sex… It’s going to be merit based across the whole federal government.” pic.twitter.com/jLgWTuTfMj
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
.@StephenM: “This Administration has opened investigations into universities across the country… Universities across this country are in plain and direct violation of the Supreme Court’s ruling that affirmative action, as in racial quotas… are illegal. Students must be… pic.twitter.com/evQa9TcPX8
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2025
Ashli Babbitt’s family just reached a settlement in their $30 million wrongful death lawsuit.
She was unarmed.
Surrounded by cops.
Posed no threat.
And they executed her.
After witnessing Rosanne Boyland’s murder in the West Tunnel, I moved to D.C. and helped guard
@michellewittho1 — Ashli’s mom — when she was assaulted by a D.C. Gulag guard during the first week of her now 4+ year vigil.
I wore a T-shirt with Ashli and Rosanne’s faces — and the truth:
“They Were Murdered by the Police.”
And now the U.S. government just admitted it.
We wore that shirt through dozens of committee hearings, trials, interviews across D.C., and every night at the vigil, where thousands watched from around the world.
We built a resistance.
We built a community.
And yes—we changed the world.
I love Micki with all my heart.
It was the honor of my life to stand beside her.
To wear Ashli’s face.
To speak Rosanne’s name.
To look evil in the eye and not blink.
This is what winning looks like.
We never gave up. And we never will.
EXPOSED: Lt. Byrd, who killed Ashli Babbitt, received special protection, faced no prosecution, no real investigation, and lived at a military facility for 6 months—all on YOUR tax dollars. https://t.co/OZyoGnLT6h… pic.twitter.com/SyKpNTvhsP
THREAD: GEORGE SOROS, THE MASTERMIND Today’s systems of NGOs isn’t accidental – it was laid out in a vision 30 years ago by none other than George Soros.
I joined @MikeBenzCyberon a livestream last night, where he was kind enough to walk us through the basics.
As my bio says, I am just a tool builder. I am not a historian or academic.
The information in this thread is common knowledge for many. It wasn’t for me.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) May 2, 2025
Here’s a video I did going over this George Soros Future Of NATO (1993) essay / book and the key contents and passages in it pic.twitter.com/tTLAtv6wFu
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Credit: public domain)
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the indictments and arrests of six people, including several public officials, for election crimes related to a vote harvesting scheme in Frio County.
“The people of Texas deserve fair and honest elections, not backroom deals and political insiders rigging the system. Elected officials who think they can cheat to stay in power will be held accountable. No one is above the law,” said Attorney General Paxton. “My office will continue to work with Frio County District Attorney Audrey Louis to protect the integrity of our elections.”
In August 2024, Attorney General Paxton’s Criminal Investigation Division executed multiple search warrants in Frio, Atascosa, and Bexar Counties as part of a multi-year election integrity investigation into credible allegations of vote harvesting. On May 1, 2025, Frio County District Attorney Audrey Louis and the Election Integrity Unit of the Office of the Attorney General presented a criminal vote harvesting case to a grand jury in Frio County. The grand jury returned true bills for the following indictments:
Frio County Judge, Rochelle Camacho: 3 counts of Vote Harvesting
Former Frio County Elections Administrator, Carlos Segura: 1 count of Tampering with or Fabricating Physical Evidence
Pearsall City Council, Ramiro Trevino: 1 count of Vote Harvesting
Pearsall City Council, Racheal Garza: 1 count of Vote Harvesting
Pearsall ISD Trustee, Adriann Ramirez: 3 counts of Vote Harvesting
Alleged Frio County Vote Harvester, Rosa Rodriguez: 2 counts of Vote Harvesting
Each suspect was arrested on May 2, 2025, with the exception of Rochelle Camacho, who will be processed at a later date. Attorney General Paxton’s Election Integrity Unit continues to investigate the case along with the Frio County DA. (Texas Attorney General, 5/7/2025)(Archive)
“60 Minutes” ran a highly partisan segment likening President Trump to a cold-blooded mob boss Sunday — even as its corporate parent, Paramount Global, is currently in talks to settle a $20 billion lawsuit with the Trump administration over election interference.
“The fact is that these law firms are being told, ‘If you don’t play ball with us, maybe somethin’ really bad will happen to you,’” he said during Sunday night’s episode.
Pelley also sat down with Marc Elias, a longtime rival of Trump and a former Perkins Coie partner hired by the Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign, in the one-sided segment.
“Donald Trump is the walking embodiment of everything that is wrong with the American political system,” said Elias, who first crossed paths with Trump while a part of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
“And so when Donald Trump says that I am unethical or that I am undermining his vision of America, I say, ‘Boy I must be doin’ something right.’”
It wasn’t very long ago when the leaders of the Democrat Party were all in favor of mass deportations. From Bill Clinton to Barack Obama and just about every Democrat in between, they were saying the same things that the Trump Administration is saying today. This message from a Gen-Z influencer is the right message for the right time. She can reach some of the younger generation in ways that old folks like me simply cannot.
Earlier today President Trump signed an executive order blocking the U.S. development of “gain of function” research, the manipulation of biological agents to weaponize their lethality. [Executive Order Here]
As Health and Human Service Secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr noted in his remarks, the modern U.S. development of the bioweapons program was an outcome of a little-known subset within the Patriot Act that allowed scientists to develop bioweapons without legal accountability for any negative outcome. Let us not pretend….
In 2014 a U.S. developed bioweapon escaped a lab and in response President Obama stopped the program. However, the stoppage only blocked development of the bioweapons on U.S. soil. The various government agencies then continued the “gain of function” bioweapon development by offshoring the experiments and conducting the research in foreign countries. The SARS-CoV-2 weapon, COVID-19, was developed in one of those labs in Wuhan, China, and escaped creating the pandemic of 2020. WATCH:
Trump signs Executive Order to end federal funding for gain-of-function virus research which many now believe caused the COVID pandemic. pic.twitter.com/mWKz2deuy3
EXECUTIVE ORDER – Section 1. Purpose. Dangerous gain-of-function research on biological agents and pathogens has the potential to significantly endanger the lives of American citizens. If left unrestricted, its effects can include widespread mortality, an impaired public health system, disrupted American livelihoods, and diminished economic and national security.
The Biden Administration allowed dangerous gain-of-function research within the United States with insufficient levels of oversight. It also actively approved, through the National Institutes of Health, Federal life-science research funding in China and other countries where there is limited United States oversight or reasonable expectation of biosafety enforcement.
This recklessness, if unaddressed, may lead to the proliferation of research on pathogens (and potential pathogens) in settings without adequate safeguards, even after COVID-19 revealed the risk of such practices.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to ensure that United States federally funded research benefits American citizens without jeopardizing our Nation’s security, strength, or prosperity. My Administration will balance the prevention of catastrophic consequences with maintaining readiness against biological threats and driving global leadership in biotechnology, biological countermeasures, biosecurity, and health research.
Sec. 3. Stop Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research. (a) The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), and in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the heads of other relevant executive departments and agencies (agencies) identified by the Director of OSTP, shall establish guidance for the heads of relevant agencies, to the extent consistent with the terms and conditions of the funding, to immediately:
(i) end Federal funding of dangerous gain-of-function research conducted by foreign entities in countries of concern (e.g., China) pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6627(c), or in other countries where there is not adequate oversight to ensure that the countries are compliant with United States oversight standards and policies; and
(ii) end Federal funding of other life-science research that is occurring in countries of concern or foreign countries where there is not adequate oversight to ensure that the countries are compliant with United States oversight standards and policies and that could reasonably pose a threat to public health, public safety, and economic or national security, as determined by the heads of relevant agencies.
(b) The Director of OSTP, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the APNSA, and in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the heads of other relevant agencies, shall establish guidance for the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the heads of other relevant agencies with respect to suspension of federally funded dangerous gain-of-function research, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the relevant research funding, at least until the completion of the policy called for in section 4(a) of this order. Heads of agencies shall report any exception to a suspension to the Director of OSTP for review in consultation with the APNSA and the heads of relevant agencies.
Sec. 4. Secure Future Research Through Commonsense Frameworks. (a) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Director of OSTP, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6627 and in coordination with the APNSA and the heads of relevant agencies, shall revise or replace the 2024 “United States Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential” to:
(i) strengthen top-down independent oversight; increase accountability through enforcement, audits, and improved public transparency; and clearly define the scope of covered research while ensuring the United States remains the global leader in biotechnology, biological countermeasures, and health research;
(ii) incorporate enforcement mechanisms, including those described in section 7 of this order, into Federal funding agreements to ensure compliance with all Federal policies governing dangerous gain-of-function research; and
(iii) provide for review and revision at least every 4 years, or as appropriate.
(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Director of OSTP, in coordination with the APNSA and the heads of relevant agencies, shall revise or replace the 2024 “Framework for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening” (Framework) to ensure it takes a commonsense approach and effectively encourages providers of synthetic nucleic acid sequences to implement comprehensive, scalable, and verifiable synthetic nucleic acid procurement screening mechanisms to minimize the risk of misuse. The heads of all agencies that fund life-science research shall ensure that synthetic nucleic acid procurement is conducted through providers or manufacturers that adhere to the updated Framework. To ensure compliance, the updated Framework shall incorporate the enforcement mechanisms described in section 7 of this order. The Framework shall be reviewed and revised at least every 4 years, or as appropriate
Sec. 5. Manage Risks Associated with Non-federally Funded Research. Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Director of OSTP, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the APNSA, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and the heads of other relevant agencies, shall develop and implement a strategy to govern, limit, and track dangerous gain-of-function research across the United States that occurs without Federal funding and other life-science research that could cause significant societal consequences. This strategy shall include actions to achieve comprehensive, scalable, and verifiable nucleic acid synthesis screening in non-federally funded settings. Any gaps in authorities necessary to achieve the goals of this strategy shall be addressed in a legislative proposal to be sent to the President, through the Director of OSTP and the APNSA, within 180 days of the date of this order.
Sec. 6. Increase Accountability and Public Transparency of Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research. The Director of OSTP, in coordination with the APNSA and the heads of relevant agencies, shall ensure that the revised policy called for in section 4(a) of this order includes a mechanism whereby research institutions that receive Federal funding must report dangerous gain-of-function research, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, include research that is supported by non-Federal funding mechanisms. The reporting mechanism shall provide a publicly available source of information about research programs and awards identified pursuant to this section, including, where permitted by law, those that have been stopped or suspended pursuant to sections 3(a) and 3(b) of this order, and all future programs and awards that are covered by the updated policy developed in section 4(a) of this order. This reporting shall be conducted in a way that does not compromise national security or legitimate intellectual property interests of subject institutions.
Sec. 7. Future Enforcement Terms. The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the heads of other relevant agencies shall, consistent with existing laws and regulations, include in every life-science research contract or grant award:
(a) a term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with the terms of this order and any applicable regulations promulgated by the contracting or grant-offering agency is material to the Government’s payment decisions for purposes of 31 U.S.C. 3729(b)(4);
(b) a term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate, participate in, or fund any dangerous gain-of-function research or other life-science research in foreign countries that could cause significant societal consequences or generate unnecessary national security risks, and that does not comply with this order and the policies ordered herein;
(c) a term stating that a violation of the terms of this order or any applicable regulations promulgated by the contracting or grant-offering agency by any grant recipient may be considered a violation of such term by the recipient’s employer or institution; and
(d) a term stating that any grant recipient, employer, or institution found to be in violation of the terms of this order or any applicable regulations promulgated by the contracting or grant-making agency may be subject to immediate revocation of ongoing Federal funding, and up to a 5-year period of ineligibility for Federal life-sciences grant funds offered by the Department of Health and Human Services and other relevant agencies.
Sec. 8. Definitions. For the purposes of this order,
“dangerous gain-of-function research” means scientific research on an infectious agent or toxin with the potential to cause disease by enhancing its pathogenicity or increasing its transmissibility. Covered research activities are those that could result in significant societal consequences and that seek or achieve one or more of the following outcomes:
(a) enhancing the harmful consequences of the agent or toxin;
(b) disrupting beneficial immunological response or the effectiveness of an immunization against the agent or toxin;
(c) conferring to the agent or toxin resistance to clinically or agriculturally useful prophylactic or therapeutic interventions against that agent or toxin or facilitating their ability to evade detection methodologies;
(d) increasing the stability, transmissibility, or the ability to disseminate the agent or toxin;
(e) altering the host range or tropism of the agent or toxin;
(f) enhancing the susceptibility of a human host population to the agent or toxin; or
(g) generating or reconstituting an eradicated or extinct agent or toxin.
(…) Grassley and Johnson demanded the National Archives turn over all communications with the Biden White House, FBI and DOJ related to the Mar-a-Lago raid.
“Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are calling on the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to release all government records demonstrating the Biden administration’s role in advancing investigations into then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. The senators are also opening an inquiry into NARA and its Inspector General’s role in those investigations,” the Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Monday.
The chairmen requested:
All records between or among Department of Justice (DOJ), FBI and Biden White House officials referring or relating to President Trump’s election interference case, that began as the Arctic Frost investigation and ultimately became part of Jack Smith’s elector case.
All records between or among DOJ, FBI and Biden White House officials referring or relating to the investigation into President Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified information.
All NARA records, including the NARA Office of Inspector General, referring or relating to the Arctic Frost and the classified document investigations.
Last month Grassley and Johnson released new records detailing the FBI and DOJ’s sweeping investigation that formed the basis of Jack Smith’s DC case against President Trump.
Grassley and Johnson previously blew the lid off another sham investigation orchestrated by Biden’s corrupt Department of Justice and compromised FBI.
According to the documents released last month, the FBI and DOJ weaponized their power to target President Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, and their allies through a probe dubbed “Arctic Frost.”
“Operation Arctic Frost” was a taxpayer-funded witch hunt launched in April 2022 that seized government-issued cell phones belonging to Trump and Pence while conducting a barrage of interviews across the country.
The FBI did not require a warrant to take possession of government phones from the Biden White House. However, after securing the devices, agents began preparing a search warrant to access their data, sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News.
The senators claim anti-Trump FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault violated FBI protocols—specifically the “No Self-Approval Rule”—to kickstart the investigation, which later turned into Special Counsel Jack Smith’s bogus lawfare case against Trump, relying on fabricated justifications, including the absurd claim that Trump and his associates had engaged in “fraudulent” activities related to the 2020 election. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 5/5/2025)(Archive)
.@SecScottBessent: “There was no accountability. That is why the 450 organizations that sit above Treasury, where Treasury acts as the paymaster, are unable to pass an audit. So, we have cracked down on that. Every payment now requires a TAS number.” pic.twitter.com/4kq7wYzNY6
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 6, 2025
NYC police commissioner Jessica Tisch (Credit: Dean Moses)
Police in New York City are investigating whether the department violated policy by sharing a report with federal immigration authorities that included internal records of a Palestinian woman’s arrest at a protest.
The probe follows reporting by The Associated Press on the cooperation between the NYPD and President Donald Trump’s administration, which is seeking to deport Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian resident of New Jersey, as part of its widening crackdown on noncitizens who participated in protests against the war in Gaza.
The report shared by police with the federal government included Kordia’s name, address and birthday, as well as an NYPD officer’s two-sentence summary of her arrest for protesting outside Columbia University last spring.
That charge — a summons for disorderly conduct — was dismissed and the case sealed, meaning it should not have been accessible for law enforcement purposes, according to legal experts.
“How it is that summons information was provided that is associated with a sealed arrest is what we are looking into now,” the city’s police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, said Tuesday in response to the AP’s questions. “This is under internal investigation and review.”
Kordia, a 32-year-old waitress living in Paterson, New Jersey, was detained during a March 13 check-in with immigration officials, then sent to an immigration jail in Texas, where she remains. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced her arrest the following day, citing an expired visa and her role in “pro-Hamas protests.” (Read more: MSN, 5/6/2025)(Archive)
Tom Homan: “We indicted 27 TdA members—m*rderers for hire, s*x trafficking —
— and they’re more concerned with who called ICE.”
Unreal. ICE and NYPD took down a violent crime ring, then the NYC commissioner launched an internal investigation— to punish cooperation with ICE. pic.twitter.com/x4YOQSjRgo
Ten years ago, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How Foreign Governments and Businesses Made Bill and Hillary Rich, was published. Its revelations launched an FBI investigation into Bill and Hillary Clinton’s family foundation. The book rocked official Washington, prompted widespread media coverage, including front-page write-ups in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Later reporting would confirm how much the book spooked the Clinton campaign team, which may have been why her campaign pursued the “Steele Dossier” attempt to tie their opponent, Donald Trump, to Russia.
The book even spawned a graphic novel–style treatment, a Fox News prime time special, and a documentary film.
To mark the book’s tenth anniversary, joining Peter Schweizer, the book’s author, and his co-host Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down is Steve Bannon, who was a co-founder of the Government Accountability Institute and now runs a daily show of his own called “The War Room.”
Back in 2015, Bannon was a big part of the book’s aggressive rollout strategy, which also included pre-publication sharing of some of its chapters with the New York Times, which then produced its own frontpage story on the sale of Uranium One to the Russians while Hillary was Secretary of State. Could that kind of media support for an investigative journalism book happen today?
“It was pretty amazing, the research that you and the team did to actually pull it all together,” Bannon says. “That’s why the book was so powerful.” He adds that since then, “the media ecosystem has changed.” He notes that the lesson the legacy media learned from the experience with Clinton Cash was not to report on stories that might in some way benefit Donald Trump, a tendency they would repeat in 2020 with the Hunter Biden laptop story, and again in 2024 with the lack of attention paid to Joe Biden’s deteriorating mental capacity.
On a recent podcast appearance, for example, former NBC host Chuck Todd loudly denied that the mainstream media missed the story of Joe Biden’s mental demise — calling it “right-wing-manufactured” spin. “I just refuse to accept this stupid premise because it’s a right-wing-manufactured, right-wing premise in order to stain the media,” Todd claimed.
Bannon believes the emerging new media needs to look past Todd’s brand of partisan boosterism. Clinton Cash and Schweizer’s later books, which were largely ignored by legacy media outlets, were nevertheless highly influential. “Our lesson is… If you do the work, people will find the story.”
This is a corrected and expanded version of an article originally published at 1:08 PM on May 7, 2025. It includes critical factual updates and new findings resulting from an ongoing investigation. I am being fully transparent about an error I made at the outset of the investigation, how that error occurred, and how correcting it led to the discovery of something even more significant..
Building a Real Estate Empire, One Undisclosed Deed at a Time
The initial confusion was driven by a seemingly impossible coincidence: Senator Thom R. Tillis has a brother—also named Thom R. Tillis That detail, obscured in legal and corporate filings, made it appear that the Senator himself had engaged in a self-dealing real estate transaction. I originally believed the Senator had acquired 5508 Enslow Place through an LLC via $0 quitclaim deed and later sold it for profit without reporting the transaction in mandatory senate financial disclosures.
That turned out to be incorrect. But rather than invalidate the story, correcting it uncovered something even more bizarre—and far more troubling.
Senator Thomas Roland Tillis, a senior Republican from North Carolina and sitting member of powerful Senate committees on Banking, Finance, and the Judiciary, is tied to a network of real estate transactions involving his family members, an array of limited liability companies, and a nonprofit corporation registered to a luxury residential address. The result is a financial and legal ecosystem that appears to be engineered for opacity and protected by bespoke legislation and corrupt government oversight.
This report presents evidence that raises serious questions about Tillis’s conduct and financial transparency with regard to:
Verifiable property records linking Tillis family entities to concealed or underreported assets
Multiple examples of $0 property transfers between corporate and family-controlled interests
Omitted financial disclosures in violation of the Ethics in Government Act
Potential misuse of nonprofit resources and commingled addresses with real estate operations
These findings are based on public records filed with the IRS, North Carolina’s Secretary of State, the Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds, and other official, government-controlled property databases. The documents cited here are verifiable and evidence of obfuscation speaks for itself.
Correcting the Initial Claim Unmasked a Bigger Problem at 5508 Enslow Place
The most confounding example in this investigation remains 5508 Enslow Place. Initially, I reported that Senator Tillis personally acquired and sold this property. That claim was incorrect — in 2008, Thom “Rick” Tillis and his wife Terry quitclaimed the property to their family-controlled LLC, TRT Holdings.
Five years later, in 2013, TRT Holdings sold the property to Theresa L. Baker, a woman from Connecticut who had recently relocated to North Carolina. The sale price was $55,000, and the transaction was executed via a warranty deed — suggesting a conventional, arms-length sale on paper.
It was after the sale where the deeply suspicious activity began. Baker died just three years later in 2016, and as of 2025, her name remains on the deed. The mortgage was quietly maintained for seven years after her death and only satisfied in 2023, with no recorded transfer of ownership or probate proceeding — a pattern that raises far more questions than the sale itself. Theresa Baker may not have known much about real estate law or deed classifications. From her point of view, she was buying a modest home for a good price from a real estate company. On paper, the use of a warranty deed suggested a conventional, protected transaction — but the circumstances that followed raise the possibility that she was merely a placeholder in a much broader scheme.
Baker died of cancer in 2016, just three years later. As of 2025, her name is still on the deed. The mortgage, originally taken out in her name, continued to be paid for seven years after her death, and was satisfied only recently — in 2023. No deed has been filed transferring ownership, no probate appears to have been opened, and no heirs have claimed the property.
These facts are not just strange. They point to the deliberate retention of a property in a dead woman’s name, while the home continues to be financially maintained and legally obscured. One possible explanation is that this was a planned placeholder title, allowing the true controllers of the property to remain invisible.
In April 2025, Senator Tillis co-sponsored S. 1334, a bill to raise the asset threshold for taxable Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) subsidiaries. This legislative development sharpens the strategic picture and introduces a new layer of possible intent, opening the door for the Tillis family to roll “parked” assets — like those once held by TRT Holdings — into a REIT structure with preferential tax treatment and reduced disclosure obligations. In that light, Theresa Baker wasn’t just a buyer — she may have been an unwitting participant in a larger scheme to keep assets off Tillis’s disclosure forms and IRS visibility until they could be sanitized, bundled, and monetized.
What Makes This Legally Abnormal?
• Quitclaim deeds are rarely used in arms-length transactions between unrelated parties—yet one was used here.
• Title remained in the deceased buyer’s name for nine years—anomalous under standard probate practice
• A mortgage remained active in her name for seven years after her death and was then quietly satisfied—without any transfer of title.
• The property was originally sold by TRT Holdings, a Tillis family-run LLC, which shared its address with a nonprofit founded by Susan Tillis
• TRT Holdings was dissolved just five weeks before Theresa Baker’s death, raising questions about whether this was done to avoid potential entanglements with her estate.
These factors raise serious red flags. While not direct evidence of criminal conduct, the structure and timing resemble common patterns used to conceal beneficial ownership and circumvent both tax and ethics disclosure requirements.
What I Can Prove — and What I Can’t
TRT Holdings sold the home to Theresa Baker.
Baker died in 2016.
No deed has ever transferred the property out of her name.
The mortgage was paid off in 2023.
The address used by TRT Holdings is the same as the registered address of the Susan M. Tillis Foundation.
TRT Holdings was voluntarily dissolved shortly before Baker’s death.
I cannot prove—yet:
Who occupied or used the house after Baker died.
Who paid the mortgage from 2016 to 2023.
Whether anyone connected to the Tillis family benefited from continued use of the home.
Whether the quitclaim deed structure was used intentionally to avoid liability or prepare the property for reacquisition after Baker’s death.
Each of these unanswered questions signals a highly abnormal transaction
Subpoena power may be necessary to determine the true beneficiaries of the mortgage payments and posthumous occupancy.
Why Bother? The Strategic Value of a Low-Profile Asset
While 5508 Enslow Place is not a luxury property, its treatment within this network suggests it serves a strategic purpose. Low-value homes are ideal for obscured control because they attract less scrutiny from journalists, tax assessors, and regulatory agencies. If this model was used repeatedly—as records suggest TRT Holdings controlled up to 30 properties—it may reflect a scalable scheme involving:
Quiet asset control without title exposure
Use of terminal buyers to temporarily shield true ownership
Potential refinancing or leveraging of appreciated equity posthumously
Maintenance of mortgages for properties that can continue generating use, rent, or long-term title reacquisition via quiet legal means
The extended mortgage payments after Baker’s death suggest a party with a long-game interest in the property. One plausible scenario is that the home was quietly re-controlled and leveraged over time while keeping it off ethics disclosures and tax rolls.
The nonprofit founded by Senator Tillis’s wife, the Susan M. Tillis Foundation, was registered to the exact same luxury residential address—16116 North Point Road—as TRT Holdings, the LLC that executed these questionable real estate transactions. This overlap raises difficult questions:
Why would a nonprofit be registered to a private residence instead of commercial office space?
Why register it to the same address as a real estate LLC engaging in unorthodox transfers and dissolutions?
Was this address functioning as a command center for coordinated personal, political, nonprofit, and business activity?
These are unanswered questions. But they are also red flags. The IRS requires separation of nonprofit and for-profit activity. While sharing an address is not illegal by itself, doing so in the context of opaque real estate deals and family-controlled nonprofits is at minimum a governance issue, and at worst a concealment tactic
Susan Tillis also appears in real estate records as the signatory on at least one deed involving another Tillis-linked property: a trailer park at 11826 Ramah Church Road. This suggests she played a direct role in facilitating real estate transfers between family-controlled entities, and further complicates any assertion that she was uninvolved.
A Curious 90 Days: Dissolution, Death, and a New Foundation
Between August and November 2016, three seemingly unrelated events occurred:
August 17, 2016 – TRT Holdings, LLC was voluntarily dissolved.
September 23, 2016 – Theresa Baker, purchaser of 5508 Enslow Place, died of cancer.
November 7, 2016 – The Susan M. Tillis Foundation was incorporated.
This 90-day period marks a critical pivot point. The entity that sold the property to a terminal buyer is shut down. The buyer dies. Then a federally tax-exempt nonprofit is launched—bearing the name of a sitting senator’s wife and sharing infrastructure with the now-defunct real estate operation.
This sequence doesn’t suggest coincidence. It suggests strategic reorganization
Shut down the entity that carried legal and reputational risk.
Wait out the buyer’s death and preserve the deed in her name.
Launch a nonprofit that can offer cover for real estate-related expenses, activity, or new structuring efforts.
The nonprofit may have been intended to serve as a public-facing shield for a system that was previously private and exposed.
The timing strongly implies that Susan Tillis’s role was not incidental — but integrated into the broader Tillis family real estate framework.
Final Thought: Who Paid the Dead Woman’s Mortgage?
One question looms above all others:
Who was paying Theresa Baker’s mortgage for seven years after she died — and why?
That isn’t a procedural hiccup. That’s a deliberate action. Someone had access to her account or estate, continued to make regular payments on her behalf, and then paid off the loan entirely in 2023. All while keeping the deed frozen in her name.
Was it a relative? A friend? Or someone connected to the original seller — a Tillis-run LLC? I don’t know yet. But whoever it was, they had a powerful reason to keep that house legally invisible for as long as possible.
And that raises perhaps the most pressing question of all:
In revelation caught on hidden camera by O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), American businessman and long-time royal insider John Bryan has come forward with damning claims about Prince Andrew’s personal relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Bryan, a trusted advisor to the Duke of York, also alleged that Prince Andrew lied to him about his involvement in sexual misconduct with minors.
“I knew he [Prince Andrew] saw him [Jeffrey Epstein],” said Bryan, “But he lied to me that he was such a close friend,” revealed Bryan, referring to Prince Andrew’s personal relationship with Epstein.
After Prince Andrew’s 2019 BBC interview, where he denied knowing Virginia Giuffre and famously claimed he was physically incapable of sweating, Bryan says he was quietly brought into “Royal Lodge,” Andrew’s private residence, to provide “crisis” management advice. In a previous interview with the New York Post, Bryan revealed “They [the British Royal Family] brought me in to help him [Andrew].” Bryan told the publication, “Andrew was so distressed, he wasn’t able to focus for more than 40 minutes.”
According to previous reporting by The Daily Mail, Bryan also admitted to crafting a five-page PR strategy titled the “House of Kroy,” advising Andrew to publicly express sympathy for victims of Jeffrey Epstein while maintaining his own innocence. At the time, Bryan publicly supported the Prince, stating, “I believe Prince Andrew is innocent.”
“I did a big thing in The Daily Mail saying that I believed Andrew,” Bryan recounted to our undercover OMG journalist, adding, “And then I found out he was lying. I was so pissed.” When asked what Andrew had lied about, Bryan didn’t mince words: “That he was fucking underage girls. That’s not cool.”
O’Keefe Media Group has reached out to both the Royal Family and John Bryan for comment regarding Bryan’s admissions.
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: ‘Prince Andrew Was F*ing Underage Girls’ — Tape of Royal Family Advisor Exposes Prince Andrew’s Sexual Relations with Minors and Deep Ties to Jeffrey Epstein pic.twitter.com/NS517Kob18
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo expressed shock Wednesday when Republican Rep. Rick Crawford of Arkansas detailed the findings of a House Intelligence Committee report on the FBI’s investigation of the 2017 attack on Republicans at a practice for the Congressional baseball game.
Then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot in the June 2017attack carried out by James Hodgkinson, a supporter of independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont’s 2016 presidential campaign. Crawford told Bartiromo that FBI Director Kash Patel “pulled back the curtain” to allow a review of the agency’s probe into the attack, which also wounded a staffer and a police officer.
“How is this allowed?” Bartiromo asked Crawford after reading from the report. “There was no connection to terrorism initially and now we see a completely different narrative in the report.”
“It took us eight years to get that. But for Director Patel committing to us he would have it to us, we would still be waiting,” Crawford told Bartiromo. “Director Patel came in and he has kind of pulled the curtain back and I’ll do what he can he’s been transparent with us as possible and that’s exactly what he did.”
The report criticized the FBI, saying the case file showed that Hodgkinson carried out “a premeditated assassination attempt” against Republican members of Congress and was “seeking to affect” how the United States government conducted itself.
“First off, [the] suicide by cop narrative was on its face wrong because there was no uniformed police officers present when the shooting started,” Crawford said. “So, he was there, and we knew he had a manifesto on his person and he had a list of other Republican members in his pocket and he was engaged in a long-term, a ten-minute firefight. In a firefight, ten minutes is a long time. That was not suicide by cop and any reasonable person would have dismissed that immediately.”
“They stuck with the narrative until 2021. In May of 2021, for whatever reason, there was no new information introduced in the investigation, but they decided in May of 2021 to say, you know, if we had to do it over, maybe we would consider a nexus to domestic terrorism,” Crawford continued. “That’s a problem. The fact that it took them four years to come to the conclusion without any new information is the investigation. So, there was, this investigation is chock-full of questionable conclusions and really, the methods that they used and the political bias that was demonstrated is unconscionable.” (Read more: The Daily Caller, 5/7/2025) (Archive)
A Massachusetts judge will soon face a public hearing over serious misconduct allegations. Judge Shelley Joseph is accused of helping a twice-deported illegal migrant escape her courtroom in 2018.
The hearing, scheduled for June 9, will resemble a courtroom trial. Her legal team will have a chance to present evidence. The Commission on Judicial Conduct will oversee the process.
Joseph allegedly allowed Jose Medina-Perez, a migrant with narcotics charges, to exit through a back door. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were waiting with a detainer at the courthouse.
In 2019, former U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling charged Joseph with obstruction of justice and conspiracy. The case made national headlines.
Joseph later surrendered. In response, federal prosecutors dropped the charges. The matter then moved to the state’s judicial oversight body.
The Commission formally charged her late last year. According to the Boston Herald, Joseph is accused of “willful judicial misconduct” and “failing to comply with the law.” (Read more: World Insight Info, 5/7/2025)(Archive)
The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 32 agencies. After 10 weeks, more than 500K cards have been de-activated.
As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do. pic.twitter.com/apdJuMFaNR
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) May 7, 2025
500K credit cards deactivated—real progress, but the real scandal is how 4.6M cards ever existed for 2.2M employees. GSA, Treasury, and HHS led the charge in this $40B spending spree, with average transactions at $441. Bureaucrats treated taxpayer funds like Monopoly money.
DOGE’s audit exposes the rot: agencies like State Department still dragging their feet at 25% compliance. Cut the cards, cut the waste, cut the bloat.
Every deactivated card is a win against D.C.’s culture of excess.
500K credit cards deactivated—real progress, but the real scandal is how 4.6M cards ever existed for 2.2M employees. GSA, Treasury, and HHS led the charge in this $40B spending spree, with average transactions at $441. Bureaucrats treated taxpayer funds like Monopoly money.…
I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Jeanine was Assistant District Attorney for Westchester County, New York, and then went on to serve as County Judge, and District Attorney, where she was the first woman ever to be elected to those positions. During her time in office, Jeanine was a powerful crusader for victims of crime. Her establishment of the Domestic Violence Bureau in her Prosecutor’s Office was the first in the Nation. She excelled in all ways. In addition to her Legal career, Jeanine previously hosted her own Fox News Show, Justice with Judge Jeanine, for ten years, and is currently Co-Host of The Five, one of the Highest Rated Shows on Television. Jeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position, and is considered one of the Top District Attorneys in the History of the State of New York. She is in a class by herself. Congratulations Jeanine!
One of the true beauties of President Trump is the way he turns seeming defeats into even greater victories.
So soon-to-be-primaried RINO Tillis wants to flex his puny little muscles and feebly try to derail the MAGA agenda?
And instead he gets ultra-MAGA and profoundly gifted jurist Judge Jeanine as the D.C. prosecutor and Ed Martin instead moves to the office that is in charge of gutting the belly of the beast????
Ed Martin’s pivot to leading the Weaponization Working Group is a masterstroke. His track record of gutting corrupt Biden-era prosecutions and dismantling the administrative state’s chokehold on justice proves he’s the right pick to expose D.C.’s rot. The same bureaucrats crying…
Ed Martin’s pivot to leading the Weaponization Working Group is a masterstroke. His track record of gutting corrupt Biden-era prosecutions and dismantling the administrative state’s chokehold on justice proves he’s the right pick to expose D.C.’s rot. The same bureaucrats crying about “norms” are the ones who weaponized DOJ against political enemies for years—Martin’s mandate to audit their misconduct is long overdue.
Tillis’s weak-kneed resistance only highlights why MAGA loyalists like Martin are essential: establishment Republicans would rather preserve the swamp than drain it. This isn’t a defeat—it’s a tactical elevation.
The real work begins: subpoenas, accountability, and ensuring every Biden crony who abused power faces consequences. No more two-tiered system.
Badar Khan Suri and his wife Mapheze Saleh who is an American citizen and the daughter of Hamas senior adviser, Ahmed Yousef. (Credit: AP)
For weeks, the media pushed a propaganda campaign about a “Georgetown Scholar” Badar Khan Suri, who was detained by ICE.
Turns out, according to DHS, the “Georgetown Scholar” is the son-in-law of a senior advisor to Hamas, and was actively spreading pro-Hamas terrorist… pic.twitter.com/y4ZLGqWXYU
Badar Khan Suri’s case is a textbook example of why immigration enforcement can’t play games with national security. DHS alleges he’s linked to a Hamas advisor and spread propaganda—that’s not “academic freedom,” that’s a red flag. ICE exists to remove threats, not debate them.
The media’s sob stories about his detention ignore the real issue: why was someone with these ties allowed to operate here in the first place? Deportation isn’t about his wife’s heritage; it’s about protecting Americans from extremism.
If the courts block this, it’s another win for bureaucracy over safety.
Badar Khan Suri’s case is a textbook example of why immigration enforcement can’t play games with national security. DHS alleges he’s linked to a Hamas advisor and spread propaganda—that’s not “academic freedom,” that’s a red flag. ICE exists to remove threats, not debate them.…
The FBI in Albany has opened a formal criminal investigation examining the real estate and mortgage transactions of New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to law enforcement sources briefed on the matter.
John A. Sarcone III, is appointed by Pam Bondi to be the new U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York. He is expected to take office as interim U.S. Attorney March 17 pending confirmation. (Credit: public domain)
It’s unclear why U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi steered the referral to New York’s Northern District; although James is a statewide elected official with offices in Albany, the transactions involve her personal property purchases and loans that were processed in New York City and Virginia. Some of the transactions also may fall outside the federal statute of limitations. However, one of the mortgages involves James’ assertions in loan documents related to her 2023 purchase of a residence in Norfolk, Virginia.
One of the mortgage documents filed in connection with James’ purchase of the single-family residence — a notarized power-of-attorney document — was signed as a witness by Jennifer Levy, who is the first deputy attorney general. A spokesman for James did not immediately respond to a question about why Levy would have been asked to sign a document related to the attorney general’s purchase of a private residence.
That document, which James also signed, stated: “I hereby declare that I intend to occupy this property as my principal residence.”
Under state law, James’ principal residence as a statewide elected official must be in New York.
“This is being handled at this time by main (Department of) Justice and the Albany FBI field office,” said U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III, who oversees the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York’s Northern District. “We stand prepared to act in the capacity that we need to when and if we are informed there’s a charge to be made. Unlike Letitia James, who unethically ran around the state campaigning on getting Donald Trump… my office conducts itself in a manner that is proper and professional.”
(…) The Times Union has reported that the documents of her property transactions, some dating to 1983, have been circulated since last year to various news outlets and elected officials by a man using a fictitious name. He had claimed that he was part of a “group” that had begun delving into James’ property records after a friend had committed suicide while under investigation by the attorney general’s office for mortgage fraud.
(…) The documents apparently made their way to William J. Pulte, director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, who sent a referral letter last month to Bondi alleging that James may have “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms.”
Democrats Exposed: Judges and Mayors Break Federal Law to Shield Violent Illegal Immigrants While Claiming “No One Is Above the Law”.
Democrats chant “no one is above the law” while targeting Trump with politically driven prosecutions, yet their officials defy federal law to protect violent illegal immigrants, favoring MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gang members over citizens. Three cases expose this hypocrisy, alongside New York’s AG’s legal woes.
In Wisconsin, Judge Hannah Dugan blocked ICE agents on April 18, 2025, to help Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal immigrant charged with domestic abuse, escape arrest. Dugan misled agents and snuck Flores-Ruiz out a jury door, risking officer and victim safety. In New Mexico, ex-Magistrate Judge Joel Cano hid Tren de Aragua gang member Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, giving him firearms and destroying evidence. Both face federal charges, but Democrats call it “political.”
In New Jersey, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka led Democrats in illegally storming an ICE facility to stop deportations of violent criminals. Meanwhile, New York AG Letitia James, embroiled in a mortgage fraud scandal, evades accountability while preaching “justice.” Democrats weaponize the law against Trump but break it to shield gang members, betraying Americans for votes.
Democrats Exposed: Judges and Mayors Break Federal Law to Shield Violent Illegal Immigrants While Claiming “No One Is Above the Law”.
Democrats chant “no one is above the law” while targeting Trump with politically driven prosecutions, yet their officials defy federal law to… pic.twitter.com/4vbYHjLZq1
— Christopher Calvin Reid (@ReidFirm) May 10, 2025
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s arrest for illegally storming an ICE detention center to free violent criminal illegals is a disgusting display of Democrat priorities. These aren’t dreamers—they’re murderers, rapists, and gang members itching to terrorize our communities. Baraka, a gubernatorial wannabe, thinks he’s above the law, but he’s not alone.
Democrat Congressmen, hiding behind Speech and Debate Clause immunity, joined this lawless stunt to obstruct federal law enforcement. That immunity doesn’t give them a free pass to trespass and sabotage ICE’s mission. Karoline Leavitt added, “President Trump is deporting illegal immigrant criminals… to put Americans first.” Alina Habba will likely slap these Democrats with federal charges—and they deserve it. As they preached in 2024, “nobody is above the law.” Yet, Democrats shield these predators, proving they care more about violent illegals than innocent Americans. Trump’s mass deportation plan is our shield against this betrayal. Lock them up!
Mayor Baraka and Democrat Congressmen Illegally Breaki nto ICE Centers! Democrats Lawlessness Must End!
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s arrest for illegally storming an ICE detention center to free violent criminal illegals is a disgusting display of Democrat priorities. These aren’t… pic.twitter.com/JWvePMnNU2
I have obtained exclusive ICE officer body cam footage clearly showing Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver verbally and physically assaulting federal agents in New Jersey after illegally entering an ICE detention facility.
In the video you can see indisputable evidence of Congresswoman McIver (in the red jacket) punch, push and hit a federal agent, refusing to follow the ICE officers orders and impeding in a lawful arrest.
In the body cam footage you can also watch Rep. McIver verbally threaten to “put hands” on the federal agents. “I touch whoever I want mother fu****!” Rep. McIver then threatens to destroy the ICE officers careers, “You will pay!” before descending into a profanity-laced rampage tirade.
All of these actions are flatly illegal under 18 U.S. Code § 111 and carry heavy fines and prison sentences.
A spokesperson for Department of Homeland Security has confirmed to me that “there will be more investigations and arrests.”
“If you assault a law enforcement officer you will answer to the law.”
I have reached out to Speaker Johnson’s Office for an official statement on disciplinary action from the House.
🚨BREAKING: I have obtained exclusive ICE officer body cam footage clearly showing Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver verbally and physically assaulting federal agents in New Jersey after illegally entering an ICE detention facility.
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman says, “If anything, we were pushed and shoved” — as bodycam footage shows them assaulting law enforcement officers. pic.twitter.com/QxxLfwhn2I
If Congress members assaulted ICE officers, they should face the same legal consequences as any citizen. Law enforcement’s job is tough enough without politicians thinking they’re above the law. DHS releasing bodycam footage would bring transparency—either expose criminal behavior or debunk false claims. Either way, accountability matters.
No one gets a pass for attacking those enforcing our borders. The real issue? Politicians who grandstand on immigration chaos they helped create through decades of weak policies.
Secure the border, enforce the law, and let the facts—not theatrics—decide outcome.
If Congress members assaulted ICE officers, they should face the same legal consequences as any citizen. Law enforcement’s job is tough enough without politicians thinking they’re above the law. DHS releasing bodycam footage would bring transparency—either expose criminal…
Ed Martin’s nomination as U.S. Attorney for D.C. underscores a critical reset: prioritizing accountability over bureaucracy. The office’s prior focus on politically charged Jan. 6 prosecutions—many of which collapsed under scrutiny—revealed systemic overreach. Martin’s mandate? Restore prosecutorial discretion, dismantle legacy vendettas, and refocus on actual public safety.
D.C. saw a 14% drop in violent crime this year under interim leadership—proof that law and order works. The real scandal isn’t personnel changes; it’s that Biden’s DOJ weaponized the judiciary to target opponents while ignoring rampant urban decay.
Martin’s track record of challenging corrupt systems aligns with the urgent need to purge D.C.’s entrenched legal rot.
Ed Martin’s nomination as U.S. Attorney for D.C. underscores a critical reset: prioritizing accountability over bureaucracy. The office’s prior focus on politically charged Jan. 6 prosecutions—many of which collapsed under scrutiny—revealed systemic overreach. Martin’s mandate?…
Thom Tillis is a disgrace. A weak, unqualified puppet of the NED and the USGLC, with zero military backbone, who sabotaged you not for wrongdoing, but for asking the one question that terrifies the regime:
What if their January 6 narrative is a lie?
That alone was enough to trigger their panic. Because truth is dangerous to institutions built on lies.
We the People are the judges now. Not the bloated, crumbling institutions desperately clinging to their illusion of legitimacy. Not the unelected elites in think tanks, CIA backrooms, or NGO war rooms.
Their post–Cold War “regime change at any cost” doctrine has killed hundreds of thousands, shattered entire nations, and unleashed suffering across the globe… all while pretending it’s about “freedom.”
Thom Tillis is a disgrace. A weak, unqualified puppet of the NED and the USGLC, with zero military backbone, who sabotaged you not for wrongdoing, but for asking the one question that terrifies the regime:
A USAID employee in charge of managing contracts for the agency created a fake company to fraudulently secure coronavirus benefits for himself, federal prosecutors said Friday.
“Yusuf Akoll worked as a Senior Procurement Contract Specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development,” according to a previously unreported court document. “From at least in or around March 2021, and continuing through at least in or around August 2021, Akoll [made] materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements…that resulted in Akoll receiving two [Paycheck Protection Program] loans totaling approximately $16,666 that he was not entitled to receive.”
Prosecutors said that in November 2020, Akoll registered a company in Virginia called Naagode Consulting LLC, then applied for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan under the coronavirus bailout package, claiming he worked at Naagode and the money was necessary to prevent job losses.
Only companies in operation in February 2020 were eligible, so he falsely said it was established in January 2020. To establish a loss of income, he said the company had $40,000 in income in 2019 when it actually had no income, prosecutors said. (Read more: The Daily Wire, 5/09/2025)(Archive)
Not content to create fake companies to steer money to friendly political insiders & CIA shell companies, turns out folks at USAID were also creating fake companies to send money to themselves https://t.co/0v9Fp5YSgK
Documents reveal Democrats in Maine have been using USAID money to pay for their campaigns
The Maine Wire “Governor Janet Mills administration has been using taxpayer dollars like the USAID Fund”
“We’re about 10-15% of the way through reviewing all 4,500 of these documents — The early story appears to be that the Governor Janet T. Mills administration has been using taxpayer dollars like the USAID Fund. They’ve been using no bid contracts to funnel money to nongovernmental organizations. And those NGOs are run by individuals who are friendly with their reelection efforts, friendly with what the administration is doing. And this money includes, by the way, federal dollars, Covid dollars, even emergency funding for Lewiston shooting response has been funneled to friendly NGOs.”
More corruption out of Maine
“We found that Attorney General Aaron Frey spent $60,000 on a no bid contract for soundproofing in his office in the Burton Cross office building. This was, of course, just a few months before it would emerge that he was having an affair with a subordinate. We found an $800,000 contract to the Bangor Daily News for marketing and advertising. The timing of that $800,000 payment to the Bangor Daily News is kind of interesting.
October of 2022, that would have been right before the Paul LePage vs Janet T. Mills reelection fight. And then we’ve also found a ton of no bid contracts given to a who’s who of non governmental organizations — the early story appears to be that the Mills administration has been using taxpayer dollars like the USAID Fund.”
This is BIG 🚨 Documents reveal Democrats in Maine have been using USAID money to pay for their campaigns
The Maine Wire “Governor Janet Mills administration has been using taxpayer dollars like the USAID Fund”
Federal District Court Judge Beryl Howell’s injunction prohibiting the implementation of Donald Trump’s executive order restricting the Perkins Coie law firm spoils a righteous core with judicial activism.
On March 6, Trump issued an executive order asserting that “the dishonest and dangerous activity of…Perkins Coie has affected this country for decades. Notably, in 2016 while representing failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS, which then manufactured a false “dossier” designed to steal an election…. Perkins Coie has worked with activist donors including George Soros to judicially overturn popular, necessary, and democratically enacted election laws….”
The order also accused Perkins Coie of racial discrimination, citing its “publicly announced percentage quotas in 2019 for hiring and promotion on the basis of race and other categories prohibited by civil rights laws.”
The order suspended security clearances for the firm’s lawyers and barred them from federal buildings, prohibited the government from engaging the firm, directed federal contractors to disclose if they use the firm’s services, and referred the firm to be investigated for violating civil rights laws. The order was one of several similar orders issued, or contemplated, against leading law firms.
Howell, an Obama appointee, previously served as chief judge for the District of Columbia, in which capacity she was a strong supporter of Jack Smith’s Trump prosecution. Her 120-page opinion excoriated the administration for disregarding the First Amendment and failing to comply with her orders. She criticized the content and formatting of the Justice Department’s memoranda, averred that the government had no credible evidence of racial discrimination or other wrongdoing by Perkins Coie, and rejected all of its arguments.
Howell is right that the First Amendment and principles of American justice mandate that lawyers be able to deliver candid advice and zealous advocacy to their clients. But,she goes too far by ignoring the compelling case that Perkins Coie conspired with Hillary Clinton and Fusion GPS to improperly influence the 2016 election and destabilize the Trump presidency by developing the fraudulent Steele dossier (which falsely accused Trump of being a Russian agent), and then misleading government investigators about its provenance.
She began her decision by quoting Shakespeare’s admonition to “kill all the lawyers” to make it easier to seize power, and Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote that the legal profession “is the most powerful existing security against the excesses of democracy.” Howell then held that “using the powers of the federal government to target lawyers for their representation of clients and avowed progressive employment policies in an overt attempt to suppress and punish certain viewpoints…, is contrary to the Constitution, which requires that the government respond to dissenting or unpopular speech or ideas with tolerance, not coercion…. Simply put, government officials cannot… use the power of the State to punish or suppress disfavored expression.”
Access to unvarnished legal advice is sacrosanct, but Howell goes off the rails. She never acknowledges that much of Perkins Coie’s wrongdoing had nothing to do with its legal advice, but came in its capacity as a political kingpin. She bewilderingly asserts that using the firm’s admissions of racial discrimination violates its First Amendment rights. Her related attack on the administration’s opposition to diversity programs reveals her motives for this bizarre conclusion. (Read more: RealClearWire, 5/10/2025)(Archive)
(…) “There was no limit to the weaponization,” Martin told The New York Post. “So there may be no limit to the targets.”
“It’s a nationwide and frankly, international docket where the government was used against the citizens, where the government was weaponized,” he added.
“Sometimes there’ll be crimes involved, in which case we’ll prosecute. Sometimes there’ll be just the need to make clear this is not how it’s supposed to go.”
While the Senate was busy playing games, Martin was already wielding his authority behind the scenes.
As interim U.S. attorney, he demoted multiple prosecutors involved in the politically charged January 6th cases and began launching fresh inquiries into Russiagate actors.
Mueller’s infamous “pitbull,” Andrew Weissmann; DOJ insider Mary McCord; and disgraced former FBI counterintelligence chief Charles McGonigal—who is now serving a prison sentence for colluding with sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska—were all key players in the Trump-Russia saga.
Just last week, Martin’s office fired off an email to McGonigal’s attorney, asking for an interview with him over “information [that] has come to the attention of my office,” according to a copy of the letter first seen by The Post.
Based on the letter, it is not clear what Martin’s team unearthed about McGonigal, who is now ironically serving out a 78-month sentence for colluding with a Russian oligarch to evade US sanctions and concealing information from the feds about how he received $225,000 from someone linked to the Albanian government.
[…] Perhaps the most high-profile known target Martin pursued is Weissman, who was the top lieutenant of the Mueller probe and is now an MSNBC legal analyst.
In March, Martin raised conflict of interest concerns against Weissman over his role in signing off on a settlement of up to $4.5 billion in a foreign bribery case revolving around Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht while serving as chief of the Criminal Fraud Section of the Justice Department in 2016.
Martin pointed out that Weissman worked for the Jenner & Block law firm before leading the DOJ’s Criminal Fraud Section.
Jenner & Block represented Canadian private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management, which seemingly took advantage of the fallout from the bribery case and purchased a 57% stake from Odebrecht in Peruvian toll road authority Rutas de Lima in 2016.
Lawyer up, Lawfare Democrats.
Justice is coming.
Nobody is above the law.
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Weaponization czar Ed Martin quietly probed Russiagate foes for months, teases ‘No limit to the targets’ https://t.co/9IHYEffGis
Tim Tebow reveals to Shawn Ryan a map of 111,000 IPs downloading child porn of kids under 12 in 30 days, and urges Congress to act:
I’m sitting down today with Tim Tebow, a man whose platform spans from football fields to global humanitarian efforts, as he shares his mission to fight human trafficking and rescue the world’s most vulnerable. In this powerful conversation, Tim opens up about the harrowing realities of child sex exploitation, the moment his father’s bold rescue of four trafficked girls changed their lives forever, and the urgent need for legislative action through the Renewed Hope Act. He urges listeners to stand up, speak out, and contact their representatives to help pass this crucial bill, aimed at rescuing and restoring tens of thousands of unidentified and exploited children.
I’m sitting down today with Tim Tebow, a man whose platform spans from football fields to global humanitarian efforts, as he shares his mission to fight human trafficking and rescue the world’s most vulnerable. In this powerful conversation, Tim opens up about the harrowing… pic.twitter.com/btmvjJtDPc
TIM TEBOW: Specifically, our heart is to get to as many and leverage anything and everything we can so that they can get out of this evil.
As I mentioned earlier, you think so much is done by all these groups and gangs, and yes, that does take place in a lot of areas. But man, it’s overwhelming when you think how much is done by families, by friends, by those in the trusted circle. Especially when we talk about the fight against child exploitation and child sexual abuse, it’s off the charts what is being done in families.
Do you know what’s—I want to say most disappointing, but maybe one of the most heartbreaking? Do you know the number one offender? Biological fathers. Man, it’s not going to make your day.
I brought a map to share with you. This is the map—every red dot on that. First of all, that is a DOJ law enforcement map; it’s called the Red Dot Map. Every red dot on that map is at least one unique IP address of individuals downloading, sharing, distributing child abuse and rape images under the age of 12. There’s over 111,000 of them just in the U.S. in the last 30 days. Wow. I wanted to bring that because I think it brings to life so much of the evil that we’re trying to face.
People will say, “Well, that’s just over there, and it’s in those countries and all of those places.” And it’s not, Sean. It’s right here in our backyard. It is right here. Out of everyone, some people will say, “Okay, well, they’re just downloading and sharing it and distributing it.” But 55 to 85% are also hands-on offenders, and your average offender has 13 victims in their lifetime—13 victims. Every one of those red dots, there’s a boy or girl that is suffering on the other end of what they’re sharing, downloading, or distributing.
I wanted to share that with you because I know that your heart breaks for them, and I think that map brings to life the evil that we’re trying to fight. It’s why one of our hearts is to get the Renewed Hope Act passed through Congress. It takes the law enforcement officers right now and victim identification officers at C3—they’re amazing, some of my favorite people in the world—but there’s seven of them right now at C3. Seven people. Also, ICAC is working on that; we love ICAC, and we need to enhance their funding because they desperately need it. Internet Crimes Against Children—they’re awesome, 62 locations around the country, but primarily the ones that are also working on this are at C3.
We want to get the Renewed Hope Act passed because it would take it from 7 to 200. Now we have a much greater chance if we have all of those officers that are trained and equipped to be fighting against this evil. Again, that’s the last 30 days, and that’s not getting into livestreaming or extortion or grooming or so many of the other issues we’re fighting. That is just in peer-to-peer networks of them sharing and distributing child rape images under the age of 12.
SHAWN RYAN: 12 and under. 111,423 unique IP addresses.
TIM TEBOW: Some people will say, “Well, that’s just, you know, they’re just downloading it and they’re just sharing it.” No, it’s not just that easy. You have to go in, you have to download it, a peer-to-peer, and then you have to be able to download all of these images, and then you’re sharing them. It’s not like this just happens by accident. It’s not like, “Oh, I just looked at a bad picture,” and it’s not like this is a photo of a baby in a bathtub. No, so many of these are brutal, brutal abuse of children.
When we go back to those 50,000 boys and girls that are unknown in the ICAC database that we were talking about before, out of those 57,000, over 3,000 of them were infants or toddlers. If you say what’s on our heart—man, these are boys and girls that can’t fight for themselves. They can’t defend themselves, and yet so many of us, myself for so long, did nothing to defend or stand up for them. It is our heart that we would rally an army, and maybe we would even declare a national emergency to fight this evil. This is happening in our backyard.
Out of all those that have been rescued or safeguarded from Renewed Hope 1, 2, and 3, more than half of those boys and girls have been right here in the U.S. So, we think it’s over there, it’s over there, it’s over there—no. Yes, it is happening in other places, but it is happening in our country, right here in our neighborhoods, in our backyards, in our families.
Then we get into the fight against livestreaming. Do you know the number one payer of livestream rape of boys and girls around the world? Us. Us—not close. In peer-to-peer sharing, we’re third: China, Russia, America. Man, sorry, I do get fired up about it.
SHAWN RYAN: How are we combating this?
TIM TEBOW: Well, we’re trying to do it in every area and every way possible, whether that’s with partnerships and nonprofits and law enforcement, rallying task forces, legislation, and lobbying—trying to get them to enhance the army, per se, in fighting this. That’s really what the Renewed Hope Act is for, but it’s also getting the Renewed Hope operations more and more. We’re having more and more every day.
It’s also creating awareness, and I hate to use “awareness” because people say it all the time, and I don’t want awareness for awareness’s sake. I want people to be aware so we act to do something. I think we really have to change laws and legislation. I believe there’s a lot of people in Congress and in D.C. that want to change it, but we have to get it done. We have to protect these boys and girls. I know we have to figure out budgets and balances and all these important things, but what does it matter if we figure out a budget but our boys and girls in our backyard are being raped and abused? Let’s make the main thing the main thing. This should be a main thing. This has to be a main thing.
After spending years helping cover up Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline, Russia collusion hoaxer and left-wing propagandist Jake Tapper is now trying to gaslight Americans into believing he had nothing to do with the media-wide scandal.
The CNN host spent Tuesday hawking his upcoming book on X, which promises readers an inside look at the Biden administration’s efforts to hide the Delaware Democrat’s “health issues” — efforts the media were more than happy to participate in. Despite his best attempts to feign innocence on the subject, Tapper was one of the main leftist hacks leading the media campaign to try and convince Americans that the doddering Biden on their television screens was just a figment of their imaginations.
Here are a few examples of Tapper engaging in the cover-up.
After years of media spreading The Big Lie about Biden’s cognitive decline, culminating in the “cheapfake” hoax — Jake Tapper is now incredulous that some Dems now expect you to not believe your own eyes and ears on Biden’s debate performance.
Jake Tapper dismisses Biden’s cognitive decline, telling Lara Trump, “A cognitive decline…I think you were mocking his stutter. I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline.”
Jake Tapper: “The bottom line is the White House was lying not only to the press, not only to the public, but they were lying to members of their own Cabinet, staffers, Democrats in Congress, about how bad things had gotten” on Biden’s decline pic.twitter.com/6eTkQRk1R1
A federal judge has stripped the city of control over its notorious Rikers Island jail complex, citing “unprecedented” levels of violence, systemic mismanagement, and a blatant disregard for court orders.
In a scathing 77-page ruling released Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain officially stripped New York City and its Department of Correction (DOC) of full control over Rikers Island, citing a decade of failure to protect inmates from “grave and immediate” harm, including unconstitutional levels of violence, abuse, and systemic mismanagement.
The ruling, issued in the landmark Nunez v. City of New York case, appoints an independent “Nunez Remediation Manager” to take control over key safety and use-of-force functions at Rikers.
The decision comes after Judge Swain previously found the City in civil contempt of 18 separate provisions of the Consent Judgment and multiple court orders dating back to 2015.
The DOC was cited for repeated failures to address excessive use of force, violent incidents, inadequate staff supervision, and failure to protect incarcerated youth.
Despite nearly a decade of oversight by a federal Monitor and more than 700 expert recommendations, the court concluded that the City had failed to make meaningful progress.
“Nine years have passed since the parties first agreed that the perilous conditions in the Rikers Island jails were unconstitutional; that the level of unconstitutional danger has not improved for the people who live and work in the jails is both alarming and unacceptable,” Swain wrote.
(…) Instead, the court opted for an independent Remediation Manager — a move that, while stopping short of a full federal takeover, functionally removes the City from control of the jail’s most critical safety operations.
The court-empowered official will report directly to Judge Swain and will have authority to:
Implement and revise DOC policies related to use of force and safety.
Hire, fire, or reassign staff to enforce compliance.
Oversee disciplinary systems for officers accused of misconduct.
Procure security technology and override bureaucratic delays.
Petition the court to bypass city contracts or laws that hinder reform.
The new Remediation Manager will report directly to the Court, not City Hall.
Judge Hannah Dugan helped illegal alien, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, escape an ICE arrest outside of her courtroom. (Credit Fox News)
A federal grand jury indicted Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan on May 13 on charges that she tried to assist an undocumented immigrant escape arrest from her courtroom last month, putting her at the center of the growing dispute between President Donald Trump and the judiciary.
The two-page indictment accuses Dugan, 66, of obstructing a U.S. agency and concealing an individual to prevent an arrest. The two charges carry a maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $350,000 fine, but sentences in cases involving nonviolent offenses typically are much shorter.
Dugan is expected to enter a plea at a May 15 hearing. But members of her defense team issued this statement: “As she said after her unnecessary arrest, Judge Dugan asserts her innocence and looks forward to being vindicated in court.”
The indictment came after a string of witnesses entered the federal courthouse throughout the day on May 13 to testify before the grand jury.
Among those making appearances were Alan Freed Jr., Dugan’s court clerk, and Mercedes de la Rosa, who was the attorney for Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, the undocumented immigrant at the center of the case. De la Rosa has withdrawn from his case. (Read more: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/13/2025)(Archive)
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was criticized over comments she made accusing President Donald Trump of pay-for-play regarding reports that Qatar is giving the Trump administration a luxury Boeing 747 jet free of charge, to temporarily replace Air Force One.
“No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return,” Clinton wrote in a post on X. “Be serious.”
Clinton’s post comes after “sources familiar with the proposed arrangement” told ABC News that the Trump administration reportedly is in talks “to accept” the luxury jet, which will “initially be transferred to the United States Air Force.”
Prior to Trump leaving office in 2029, ownership of the luxury jet, which has been described as “a flying palace,” will be transferred over to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation:
The plane will initially be transferred to the United States Air Force, which will modify the 13-year-old aircraft to meet the U.S. military specifications required for any aircraft used to transport the president of the United States, multiple sources familiar with the proposed arrangement said.
The plane will then be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation no later than Jan. 1, 2029, and any costs relating to its transfer will be paid for by the U.S. Air Force, the sources told ABC News.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump previously suggested that the Trump administration is preparing to accept the luxury Boeing jet from Qatar as a “GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE,” adding that the “very public and transparent transaction” bothers Democrats.
As Breitbart Newsreported, in his bookClinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, Peter Schweizer detailed “explosive revelations about Clinton’s tenure as Sec. of State and the influx of hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign sources into the Clinton Foundation”:
Yet as media outlets across the ideological spectrum have confirmed and verified the book’s explosive revelations about Clinton’s tenure as Sec. of State and the influx of hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign sources into the Clinton Foundation, the nation has learned much it did not know. Subsequent reporting by national news outlets has expanded on the book’s findings using its investigative methodology.
No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.
Cry me river @HillaryClinton. Tell that to the mega-donors, including Qatar, who gave hundreds of millions of $$ to the Clinton Foundation. Didn’t seem to bother you then. https://t.co/mDrLKFSq9l
If you listened to Ed Martin naming the people within the lawfare community of DC operatives who are actively working to weaponize the legal system to block and attack reform efforts within the DOJ, then you likely understand the origin of these latest maneuvers.
Outgoing USAO Ed Martin, and current head of the DOJ ‘weaponization working group’ has revealed that Lawfare operators have filed ethics complaints in an effort to challenge his legal license. This is what happens when the U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, doesn’t face down the internal lawfare operation within Main Justice severely enough.
(VIA REUTERS) – The lawyer President Donald Trump tapped to serve as Washington, D.C.’s top prosecutor and then dropped in the face of Senate opposition, said on Wednesday he is facing a professional ethics investigation, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
Interim Washington U.S. Attorney Ed Martin said in the letter sent to his staff on his last day on the job that he is under investigation by the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel. The office is in charge of investigating and bringing misconduct proceedings against attorneys in the district.
Hamilton “Phil” Fox’s Disciplinary Counsel gave document forger, Kevin Clinesmith a pass. (Credit: Facebook/DCBar)
Martin alleged that Hamilton “Phil” Fox, the attorney investigating his conduct, had breached the confidentiality of the investigation by sharing a copy of the complaint with the department’s Civil Division.
“It is an outrage how they treat us and I will continue the fight against the weaponization of our law licenses against us,” Martin wrote in an email. “I am taking on Mr. Fox head on. His conduct is personally insulting and professionally unacceptable.”
Fox declined to comment on Martin’s claims, citing confidentiality rules.
In the email, Martin attached a copy of a May 9 letter he sent to Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals asking her to investigate and suspend Fox, and to dismiss the complaint filed against him. Martin’s letter did not specify the nature of the ethics allegations filed against him.
There have been at least five formal ethics complaints filed against Martin that were made public by nonprofit watchdog groups, ethics experts and members of Congress during his brief tenure as interim U.S. attorney.
At least one of those complaints has since been closed, after Fox concluded that Martin did not technically violate disciplinary rules when he filed a motion to dismiss a case against a person charged with taking part in the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol whom he had previously represented in private practice. (read more)
As the Washington DC U.S. Attorney, Ed Martin was in position to address the known and documented activity of a variety of former DOJ officials. There’s a strong argument to be made that’s the reason why the DOJ’s corrupt allies in congress moved to eliminate the threat Martin represented. However, their collective result didn’t remove him, nor did it change the objective, it just changed Mr Martin’s title.
Washington DC USAO Ed Martin carried the authority of the Attorney General, in the changed dynamic special appointee ADAG Ed Martin now carries the authority of the President of the United States to investigate a weaponized DOJ/FBI apparatus. It became a serendipitous outcome.
In this episode of Tucker Carlson the former Fox News host interviews the head of the newly formed ‘weaponization working group’ Ed Martin. Within the interview Martin outlines the mysterious motives of the FBI handling of the J6 “pipe bomber” case, alleging that basic investigative steps were overlooked. “They didn’t interview some of the people that you would have said, ‘That might be a suspect.’ They hadn’t interviewed him,” he said. Raising concerns about the agency’s competence, he added, “The question becomes, ‘what’s happening here?’ Is it incompetence? It feels worse than incompetence.”
When asked by Carlson whether the DOJ is worse than people believe, Martin went further, declaring, “I think it’s worse than incompetence.” “The only way forward is not to describe what I think of the motives but to expose over and over again what’s happened. If you expose what happened and the truth gets out, then accountability is possible.” Martin then described the issues facing the DOJ as “much, much worse than people think.” WATCH:
A bold legislative proposal, the “Restoring Constitutional Mandate for Congress to Set Rules for the Federal Courts Act,” seeks to rein in what its author warns is an existential crisis – a “judicial coup” targeting President Donald Trump and the American people.
Jonathon Mosely (Credit: public domain)
Drafted by Jonathon Moseley, a 24-year legal veteran and founder of the Patriot Legal Defense Fund, the bill aims to rescind the Rules Enabling Act. The Constitution empowers Congress to set the rules for the Federal courts.
But Congress generously trusted the U.S. Supreme Court with this honor and prestige. The bill includes a rebuke of U.S. Supreme Court Justices who have abused their constitutional role.
On May 12, Chief Justice John Roberts – who never criticizes misconduct by judges, politicized lawfare, or abuses against conservatives – issued his third attack on President Trump.
Roberts has not seemed to grasp that respect is earned, not demanded. But when judges like Roberts criticize only one side of the political world, they lose all credibility.
On May 8, Justice Sonia Sotomayor basically rallied the nation’s lawyers to fight an insurrection against Republican officials, speaking at the American Bar Association.
Moseley argues that judges should never be speaking outside the courthouse to maintain the public trust.
“The judiciary has really turned into fighting a war against Donald Trump and what he stands for, and we cannot allow this to go unanswered,” Moseley told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview.
“Their plan: if they can stop the President, they can stop all of us. We used to be able to trust the Supreme Court to correct abuses, but the Supreme Court has gone woke.”
Moseley adds that the Justices have misunderstood “Supreme” and let that word go to their heads. “Justice Amy Comey Barrett now seems to be getting her legal briefings and scorn for Trump from MSNBC.”
The proposed measure argues that the current system has enabled lower courts to undermine justice. “Congress cannot change the existence of the Supreme Court because it’s in the Constitution,” he said.
But the bill would rescind the Rules Enabling Act (28 U.S.C. §§ 2071–2077), which delegated Congress’s constitutional power to the Supreme Court to establish how lower federal courts operate.
The proposed measure argues that the current system has enabled lower courts to undermine justice, particularly in politically charged cases involving Trump and his supporters.
The bill asserts that trusting the Supreme Court has led to “disappointment and widespread injustice,” including:
Nationwide injunctions by cherry-picked single, biased lower court judges.
“Deadlines… which have become in and of themselves unjust and harmful to many seeking their legal rights in court” such as 14 days to challenge a conviction under Rules 29 and 33.
“Resistance to changes of venue necessary to give the public confidence in the appearance and the reality of an unbiased judge and juries.”
“Illogical, inconsistent, and unconvincing admission of evidence….”
“Whenever there was evidence that a January 6 defendant was innocent, that was not allowed; whenever there was evidence that the defendant was guilty, that was allowed,” Moseley explained. By reforming court rules, the bill seeks to prevent such injustices, ensuring fair trials for all citizens.
Hillary Clinton Slams Trump for Encouraging American Families to Have More Children, Says That’s What Immigrants Are For
“The people who produce the most children in our country are immigrants … One of the reasons why our economy did so much better was … because we had a lot… pic.twitter.com/XQWsZwLC2o
Hillary’s argument that immigration-driven population growth is the solution to economic stagnation is a direct admission of failed leadership. The real issue? Washington’s refusal to address the root causes of declining birth rates—crushing inflation, unaffordable childcare, and stagnant wages caused by decades of reckless spending and open-border policies.
Families shouldn’t need to rely on immigration to prop up the economy; they deserve a government that makes raising children feasible through tax relief, deregulation, and policies that prioritize American workers. The FARM Act, Section 3, already proves we can defend domestic industries without outsourcing labor.
If D.C. spent less on foreign aid and more on slashing costs for housing, healthcare, and education, families wouldn’t be forced into this false choice. Immigration isn’t a substitute for competent governance—it’s a band-aid for systemic rot.
Hillary’s argument that immigration-driven population growth is the solution to economic stagnation is a direct admission of failed leadership. The real issue? Washington’s refusal to address the root causes of declining birth rates—crushing inflation, unaffordable childcare, and…
Mike Collins and Maria Langan-Riekhof (Credit: Official Website And Twitter)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired two veteran intelligence officials because they oppose President Donald Trump, her office said, coming a week after the release of a declassified memo written by their agency that contradicted statements the Trump administration has used to justify deporting Venezuelan immigrants.
Mike Collins was serving as acting chair of the National Intelligence Council before he was dismissed alongside his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof. They each had more than 25 years of intelligence experience. The two were fired because of their opposition to Trump, Gabbard’s office said in an email, without offering examples.
“The director is working alongside President Trump to end the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community,” the office said. ( Read more: PBS, 5/15/2025)(Archive)
Comey calls for Trump to be killed.
Brennan is livid over Tulsi firing intel assets.
This is a Clarion Call from Jim Comey to terrorists & hostile regimes to kill the President of the United States as he travels in the Middle East.
Any Democrat or Media Outlet who fails to condemn this clear Incitement of Violence is complicit and must be described as such. https://t.co/LxHAlM3Yqy
Comey truly is a POS. While he’ll claim not to know what 8647 means, there’s no doubt that the former disgraced FBI Dir. knows exactly what he’s doing, with a plea to bad actors/terrorists to assassinate the POTUS’ while traveling internationally. Don’t let him get away with it!! pic.twitter.com/gM4GmN6OUB
🚨 @POTUS on former FBI Director James Comey’s “86 47” threat: “He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant … That meant ‘assassination.'” pic.twitter.com/LfOHKfSOFa
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 16, 2025
NEW: The Secret Service can force James Comey to be interviewed about his threatening social media post about Trump, according to two Secret Service sources.
If he refuses to comply with their request for what’s known as a protective intelligence interview, the Secret Service case agent can apply for a subpoena through the assistant U.S. attorney and force him to answer their questions.
As an attorney, he will likely refuse to be interviewed without hiring an attorney and having that person present to provide counsel before answering Secret Service agents’ questions.
On the other hand, Comey could agree to demonstrate how open and transparent he is and agree to cooperate and sit down for an interview.
🚨🚨 NEW: The Secret Service can force James Comey to be interviewed about his threatening social media post about Trump, according to two Secret Service sources.
If he refuses to comply with their request for what’s known as a protective intelligence interview, the Secret… pic.twitter.com/w9WQOI0m3p
— Diligent Denizen 🇺🇸 (@DiligentDenizen) May 16, 2025
What a coincidence that a week before Comey’s book tour and new release drops, he accidentally created a media frenzy by snapping a picture of a random collection of seashells on the beach.
Axios obtained audio of Joe Biden’s October 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
“Amid long, uncomfortable pauses, Joe Biden struggled to recall when his son died, when he left office as vice president, what year Donald Trump was elected or why he had classified documents he shouldn’t have had.”
How did Axios get this?
He clearly had severe dementia in 2020.
If Biden had won in 2024, the same media outlets now pretending to expose the truth would still be covering it up.
BREAKING: Axios obtained audio of Joe Biden’s October 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
“Amid long, uncomfortable pauses, Joe Biden struggled to recall when his son died, when he left office as vice president, what year Donald Trump was elected or why he had… pic.twitter.com/SoYIDgz2Dj
The scandal is MUCH worse than the Biden WH not releasing the tape. The so-called “independent” Merrick Garland crooked Justice Dept was SUBPOENAED by Congress to release it, he defied that subpoena after jailing Steve Bannon for defying one, then DOJ refused to jail Garland. https://t.co/TLzzdrosZf
Why do Republicans want the audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Biden when they already have the official transcript? Because they want to use his stutter, an obstacle he’s worked hard to overcome, against him. That is DESPICABLE.
EXPOSED: Soros, the Deep State & the Shadow Network
Today, I launched a powerful new tool that indexes the National Endowment for Democracy journal… and here’s what it uncovers:
Dozen-plus Open Society Foundation staff, funded by George Soros, are writing in a U.S. government-backed journal.
That journal is part of our taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, a quasi-government operation tied to foreign “democracy” missions- and Congress sits on its board.
No conspiracy theories. This is hard data.
This proves Soros and our intelligence apparatus are deeply intertwined.
🔥💥 EXPOSED: Soros, the Deep State & the Shadow Network 💥🔥
Today, I launched a powerful new tool that indexes the National Endowment for Democracy journal… and here’s what it uncovers:
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) May 16, 2025
Direct link to the page – you can click through and see all the mentions and citations: https://t.co/x5LoWbYaBM
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) May 16, 2025
The National Endowment for Democracy’s “democracy promotion” has always been a taxpayer-funded grift masquerading as virtue. For decades, NED shoveled billions into regime-change operations under the guise of “civil society” grants while ignoring the rot at home. The Journal of…
The National Endowment for Democracy’s “democracy promotion” has always been a taxpayer-funded grift masquerading as virtue. For decades, NED shoveled billions into regime-change operations under the guise of “civil society” grants while ignoring the rot at home. The Journal of Democracy isn’t a scholarly endeavor—it’s a laundering machine for narratives that justify foreign meddling and censorship.
When NGOs like the National Democratic Institute (funded by NED, State Department, and USAID) embed operatives like Michael McFaul across governments, it’s not about freedom—it’s about manufacturing consent for endless foreign entanglements. Meanwhile, bridges crumble in Ohio, fentanyl floods our borders, and D.C. lectures us about “democratic values.”
Real accountability means auditing every cent NED spends on Soros-tied NGOs and redirecting those funds to AMERICAN priorities—border security, energy independence, and crushing inflation. The swamp won’t drain itself.
The National Endowment for Democracy’s “democracy promotion” has always been a taxpayer-funded grift masquerading as virtue. For decades, NED shoveled billions into regime-change operations under the guise of “civil society” grants while ignoring the rot at home. The Journal of…
BREAKING NEWS: FBI Director Kash Patel keeps his promise and is shutting down the FBI Hoover Building in Washington DC. He said it is not safe for FBI agents.https://t.co/Y2UlOon2lX
Patterson, pictured with Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, said there was little reverence for his 20 years of military service in the Clinton administration, and even said Hillary ‘attempted to ban military uniforms’ in the White House. (Credit: Facebook)
A former Clinton administration staffer claimed that Hillary Clinton was so detested during her husband’s time in the White House that she was known as a ‘Nazi schoolmarm’ who made aides run in fear.
Buzz Patterson, the former Air Force Aide to Bill Clinton who carried the ‘nuclear football’ wherever the president went, took to X to reveal intimate details of the former First Couple.
He said he primarily lived in the White House and was ‘always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill’, which made him quickly learn that the mood of the day ‘depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary.’
‘We used to say that when Hillary was gone, it was a frat party. When she was home, it was Schindler’s List,” Patterson wrote in a scathing X post that has received over five million views.
HILLARY CLINTON
As some of you know, I was the Air Force Military Aide for Bill Clinton, lived in the White House, traveled everywhere they traveled, and carried the “nuclear football.” As such, I was always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill.
Patterson served as Clinton’s Senior Military Aide from 1996 to 1998, and his role saw him carry the ‘Presidential Emergency Satchel’ to allow the president to launch a nuclear strike from anywhere in the world.
He said in his X post that the day-to-day work for Clinton varied dramatically based on Hillary’s whims, as he scathingly described her as ‘evil, vindictive, profane’ and ‘a b****.’
‘Among the military who served in the White House and the professional White House staff, the Clinton administration was infamously known for its lack of professionalism and courtesy, though few ever spoke about it,’ he wrote.
‘But when it came to rudeness, it was Hillary Clinton who was the most feared person in the administration. She set the tone.’
Patterson, an outspoken Donald Trump supporter, said he was warned from the get-go that Hillary Clinton was the most daunting figure in the White House, not her president husband.
‘When I first arrived to work in the White House, my predecessor warned me: ‘You can get away with pissing off Bill but if you make her mad, she’ll rip your heart out,” he wrote.
‘I heeded those words. I did make him mad a few times, but I never really pissed her off. I knew the ramifications.’
In a response to an X user asking what he did that ‘pissed off’ Clinton, Patterson said he once didn’t let him go to a restaurant when he was hungry because the Secret Service hadn’t swept it.
He said while these small issues could be brushed over by Bill, Patterson ‘realized there were different rules for Hillary.’
‘She instructed the senior staff, including me, that she didn’t want to be forced to encounter us,’ he said, adding that staff were seen scrambling to avoid her ‘no matter their position in the building.’
‘Many a time, I’d see mature, professional adults, working in the most important building in the world, scurrying into office doorways to escape Hillary’s line of sight,’ he wrote.
‘She was the Nazi schoolmarm and the rest of us were expected to hide as though we were kids in trouble.’
Rep. James Comer believes they’ve identified the staffers involved “in the use of the autopen” when Biden was “clearly in mental decline.”
“It questions who was actually making the decisions…Many of these executive orders, as well as the pardons of Biden’s entire family as a result of our investigation, these were all signed with the autopen. And clearly from that interview, which was many many months prior to the heavy use of the autopen, Joe Biden wasn’t capable of making decisions. He wasn’t coherent.”
Comer says anyone involved in the use of the autopen will be invited for “a transcribed interview,” then they will “receive a subpoena and they will have a full-blown deposition.”
“We want to find out who was actually making the decisions in the White House during the last nine months of the Biden administration when he was clearly in mental decline.”
Rep. James Comer believes they've identified the staffers involved "in the use of the autopen" when Biden was "clearly in mental decline."
"It questions who was actually making the decisions…Many of these executive orders, as well as the pardons of Biden's entire family as a… pic.twitter.com/uYcLrmXr44
There has been a lot of discussion about who was running the Biden administration against the backdrop of numerous revelations about his cognitive incapacity while in office. However, one key point keeps being overlooked about the DOJ during his tenure.
Merrick Garland was not selected to be Joe Biden’s Attorney General because the crew in control of the events wanted Merrick Garland as Attorney General. Garland was removed from his position as DC Circuit Court Justice in order to make room for Ketanji Brown-Jackson to take Garland’s place, get Senate confirmed and then await the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Bryer. {GO DEEP}
As a standalone Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson would have been a radical pick. Judge Brown-Jackson was a known activist in the DC District Court; however, by removing Garland as chief circuit justice and replacing him with KBJ, who needed Senate confirmation as chief circuit justice, she could get through a later Senate confirmation easier and then sit on the Supreme Court for thirty years. Garland was removed to make room for KBJ. It was a strategy.
Garland was a U.S. Attorney General in name only. The actual lead of the DOJ was from Obama’s crew, Deputy AG Lisa Monaco.
WHY?
Barack Obama and Eric Holder (Credit: Olivier Douliery/Getty Images)
Back in 2009 President Obama selected Eric Holder to be Attorney General. AG Holder’s role was to lead the Lawfare ‘fundamental transformation’ we have seen in the 16 years since. In the 2010 midterms, Obama was “shellacked,” that triggered AG Holder to ask the Treasury Department to participate in a “special research project.” {Go Deep}
The IRS was asked for the Schedule-B’s of groups who were registered as “patriot” groups (Tea Party Patriots) and other names associated with the political uprising against Barack Obama and the takeover of federal healthcare, ie Obamacare. The Cincinnati field office of the IRS then sent the DOJ a batch of CD-ROM’s containing the names of the individual donors listed on the IRS 501-c (3)(4) forms. That list was then compiled and used by the federal government to target the donors and supporters. A whistleblower came forward; the IRS controversy swirled in 2012.
On September 25, 2014, the Justice Department said Attorney General Eric Holder would resign as soon as his successor is confirmed. Holder was succeeded by Loretta Lynch on April 27, 2015. Lynch was selected because she was the bridge to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016. Remember the Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting? It’s all connected.
[Sidebar – the reporter who broke the story of the Arizona Clinton/Lynch tarmac meeting later died from “suicide.”]
Summary so far: Obama appointed Holder to lead and create the weaponized Lawfare transition within Main Justice. Eric Holder did just that, and also created the DOJ-National Security Division (to use FARA investigations against DC operatives as leverage). Holder then left the DOJ, took the special research project data, and went to work in California. Loretta Lynch was then appointed as the transitional AG between Obama and Hillary Clinton. That was the plan. The DOJ/FBI would protect Clinton’s interests, and that’s exactly what they did in 2015 and 2016.
Eric Holder was then hired by the State of California right after the surprising and unexpected election result of 2016 [LINK]. Eric Holder then began constructing the BETA test for what was to come later. Eric Holder organized the motor-voter rolls in California to auto-register illegal alien voters. The California legislature passed a law permitting illegal aliens to get drivers licenses. Eric Holder’s program linked those drivers licenses automatically to voter registration. Do you remember the 2018 mid-term election in California?
For weeks after 2018 election day in California, the new process of mail-in ballots changed the entire election day outcome. California was the BETA test for the national 2020 mail-in ballot fraud system. It all links back to the California ballot and illegal alien voter registration operation carried out by Eric Holder.
Eric Holder was Obama’s weaponized Attorney General (2009-2015). Loretta Lynch was the Attorney General in place to facilitate the transition to Hillary Clinton (2015-2016). Merrick Garland was Biden’s Attorney General (2021) to pave the way for Ketanji Brown-Jackson to be a U.S. Supreme Court Justice (2022). Lisa Monaco was the person running the day-to-day DOJ operations (2021-2025).
KBJ was put into the planning book back in February 2020, yes, 2020!
It was February 25th, 2020, to be precise, just four days before the South Carolina Democrat primary. South Carolina Representative James Clyburn went backstage at the presidential debate and told Biden, “You’ve had a couple of opportunities to mention naming a Black woman to the Supreme Court,” Clyburn lectured his friend of nearly half a century, like a schoolteacher scolding a child. “I’m telling you, don’t you leave the stage tonight without making it known that you will do that.” {link}
Unbeknownst to Biden at the time, just two days earlier Barack Obama and James Clyburn came to an agreement and created the most consequential alliance of the 2020 Democrat campaign. Barack Obama the figurative and ideological leader of the movement known as “Black Lives Matter”, and James Clyburn the figurative and ideological leader of the political construct within the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, had struck a deal.
Obama and Clyburn really had no choice but to come to an agreement and form the alliance. If they did not act fast, Bernie Sanders was gaining momentum, and they could not have Sanders at the top of the 2020 ticket, because he was too outside the club system which was now almost exclusively focused on racial identity as a tool for political power.
A Bernie Sanders -vs- Donald Trump general election would have been a disaster; and it would be almost impossible for the racial operatives in the key precincts [Atlanta (GA), Philly (PA), Clark County (NV), Wayne County (Mich), Madison (WI)] to feel inspired enough to risk themselves and commit fraud to help Bernie win.
To get rid of Sanders, BLM and AME aligned. This was the actual moment when Hillary Clinton was cast into the pit of irrelevance in Democrat politics.
Within the agreement, Obama and Clyburn selected Biden as the tool they could easily control to deliver on their larger, progressive, leftist intentions.
A few days later, James Clyburn then endorsed Biden while Barack Obama began making phone calls telling each of the other candidates to drop out in sequence and support Biden or else the club would destroy them. The only one told not to drop out yet was Elizabeth Warren, as she would be needed as the insurance policy, the splitter against Bernie Sanders.
Each of the candidates was promised the traditional indulgences for toeing the party line, and the rest is history. Joe Biden wandered around doing what everyone told him to do, which was mostly stay in his basement and let the club work on his behalf, until the club delivered the nomination.
Inside that process, the strategic map was modified to ensure Ketanji Brown-Jackson would advance to the Supreme Court.
With Biden installed, he would select Merrick Garland as his Attorney General. Judge Garland was an important judge on the important DC Circuit Court. Garland’s replacement would need to be a Senate confirmed seat for that Circuit Court assignment. Brown-Jackson would be put into Garland’s open spot, and the Senate could not deny her the SCOTUS confirmation, having just confirmed her months before. {Go Deep}
It was always the team around -and including- Barack Obama operating in the background of Biden.
At first blush the question seems curious, but when you further think about it the question becomes rather important. If Joe Biden was not cognitively aware of what was happening around the office of the president, then who exactly was controlling the use of his signature via the auto-pen?
In a functioning democracy with a purposefully curious media, the fourth estate would be demanding a congressional investigation to get the answers and context for who was really carrying out the agenda of the Biden administration. Unfortunately, as a nation we lost that ‘fourth estate’ a long time ago, and congress is of no help. President Trump:
…”Whoever had control of the “AUTOPEN” is looking to be a bigger and bigger scandal by the moment. It is a major part of the real crime, THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN! Millions and millions of people knew that, but the Radical Left Democrats waged a campaign of inoculation and innocence like none that had ever been waged before. THIS IS WHY THE UNSELECT COMMITTEE OF POLITICAL THUGS, WHO WERE GIVEN A FULL AND COMPLETE PARDON BY THE PERSON WHO WIELDED THE NOW ILLEGALLY USED AUTOPEN, DELETED AND DESTROYED ALL EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION FROM THEIR CORRUPT AND VICIOUS WITCH HUNT AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE, WHOSE LIVES WERE COMPLETELY SHATTERED AND DESTROYED BY THIS HISTORICALLY CRIMINAL EVENT. Remember, it all began with DIRTY COP James Comey, Obama, a hapless and cognitively impaired Sleepy Joe Biden, and my now very famous ACCUSATION that,“THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!” Whoever had control of the Autopen is just the beginning. The biggest crime of all is that THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED! I (MAGA!) WON THE ELECTION BY MILLIONS OF VOTES, AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT. GOD BLESS AMERICA, FOR THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN!!!” (source)
Trump posted a video titled, “The Video Hillary Clinton Does Not Want You to See” that documented just some of the mysterious ‘suicides’ linked to the Clinton Crime family.
The video touched on the deaths of John F. Kennedy Jr., DNC staffer Seth Rich, Clinton White House Counsel Vince Foster, Clinton White House intern Mary Mahoney, and others connected to the Clintons.
In July 1999, Hillary Clinton’s senate rival and front-runner for NY senate seat John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash.
Mary Mahoney was a Clinton White House intern who could have been a star witness at the Clinton impeachment trials. She was executed at a DC Starbucks in July 1997.
In July 1993, White House Counsel Vince Foster was found dead of an apparent ‘suicide’ in Fort Marcy Park off the George Washington Parkway in Virginia.
In 1998, James McDougal, a key witness for White House prosecutors and financial partners with Bill and Hillary Clinton that led to the Whitewater scandal, died of cardiac arrest at the Federal Correctional Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, just before he was supposed to testify.
In 2015, Clinton White House Executive Chef Walter Scheib died of an ‘accidental drowning’ after he went on a hike on a trail in Taos, New Mexico. Scheib’s body was found submerged “in a mountain drainage flowing with surface runoff.”
In July 2016, DNC staffer Seth Rich was shot and killed in DC while he was walking home from a bar. It is believed that Seth Rich was the source of the Hillary Clinton/ DNC leaked emails published by Wikileaks. The Clinton/DNC emails published by Wikileaks greatly damaged Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
In August 2016, Shawn Lucas, a Bernie Sanders supporter who sued the DNC for rigging the primary in favor of Hillary Clinton was found dead in his home.
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino say Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino say Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. So either Patel and Bongino have launched a new Deep State coverup to protect co-conspirators in a demonic sex trafficking ring, or Epstein did in fact kill himself pic.twitter.com/2k1nsN6jLY
Maria Bartiromo: “We’ve heard about Tren de Aragua being in New York City.”
Deputy Director Bongino: “We’re about to ruin your summer if you’re a bad guy.
Maria Bartiromo: “We’ve heard about Tren de Aragua being in New York City.”
Deputy Director Bongino: “We’re about to ruin your summer if you’re a bad guy. I’m just warning you now: don’t buy movie tickets because you’re probably not going to cash them in. So the Director and I… pic.twitter.com/lfe4N5TFL6
KASH PATEL: You’re getting answers on January 6. Sourcing, money, assets, decisions. You’re getting it!
KASH PATEL: You’re getting answers on January 6. Sourcing, money, assets, decisions. You’re getting it! pic.twitter.com/B4B1DvSJ8p
— George Balfour-Kinnear (@balfourUK) May 18, 2025
FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino tore into the Bureau’s former leadership, accusing James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and others of “lying to federal courts,” hiding evidence, and weaponizing the FBI against political opponents. They pledged an imminent “wave of transparency” and insisted: “We’re not asking you to trust us. We’re showing you the receipts.”
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino also reveal they’ve uncovered a tranche of hidden Russiagate documents to be released soon…”give us a week or two”
BREAKING: In a bombshell joint interview on Sunday Morning Futures, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino tore into the Bureau’s former leadership, accusing James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and others of “lying to federal courts,” hiding evidence, and weaponizing the… pic.twitter.com/Ui8r8pmZHZ
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) admitted that the Democrat Party is a “threat to democracy,” as some argue they have not had a fair primary election since 2008, conceding this point during an appearance on Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant with Akaash Singh.
Schulz, a podcaster, actor, and comedian who identified himself as a “lifelong Democrat,” explained how disappointed he was with Sanders’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. He also pointed to the greater picture of Democrat voters feeling as though they truly have not gotten a say in who their nominee would be over the last several election cycles, as many wanted Sanders, who was viewed as an agent of radical change. However, the Democrat Party seemed to step in and quash his changes.
“We felt that over the last four elections, Democrats, we felt that we didn’t have a say on who could be president,” Schulz said. “We talk a lot about the Republicans being autocrats and oligarchs and taking over democracy, but from the Democrat perspective, and as I’m a lifelong Democrat, I felt like the Democratic Party completely removed the democratic process from its constituents.”
He called for accountability, recalling how he felt in 2016.
“I wanted you to, like, 2016 I was like, this is going to happen. This guy’s going to do it. And it felt like they, it felt like they stole it from you. And I’ll be honest, it broke my heart when you, when you supported them,” he said.
“Look, but you have, in the world that I live in, you got a choice,” Sanders responded. “And I mean, a lot of people, including my wife, agree with you, but you know, you’re down to a choice. Is it going to be Hillary Clinton or is it going to be Donald Trump? Not a great choice.”
Schulz pointed out that it ended up being Trump anyway, so “why don’t we burn it down?”
Sanders said “burning it down” means “children are not going to have, you know, food to eat, that the schools will deteriorate. People will not have health care.”
“And I, you know, I’m an elected official. I got to represent the people. I can’t turn my back on–” the senator said before Singh interjected.
“But then could not, could we not also say if, ostensibly, there hasn’t been a fair primary for the Democrats since 2008, are they not also a threat to democracy?” he asked.
Sanders had no choice but to agree.
“Fair enough,” Sanders said. “That is, that is — yeah. I’m not going to argue with that.”
🚨 Bernie Sanders Admits the Democrats Are the Threat to Democracy
AKAASH: “There hasn’t been a fair primary for the Democrats since 2008. Are they not also a threat to democracy?”
🚨 Today my office has charged Congresswoman McIver with violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement. pic.twitter.com/TV00uwRtKq
Chief Justice John Roberts recently claimed the judiciary is obligated to “check the excesses of Congress or the executive.”
Last week, Judge James Ho responded to Roberts in his rebuke of SCOTUS’ involvement in a Texas Alien Enemies Act lawsuit.
Ho: “It is not the role of the judiciary to check the excesses of the other branches, any more than it’s our role to check the excesses of any other American citizen. Judges do not roam the countryside looking for opportunities to chastise government officials for their mistakes.”
If you have not read his order…
You can find it here.
Ho’s comparison of federal courts to a Denny’s restaurant is one for the ages.https://t.co/jHL3n7zqEH
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer said Tuesday he wants to get to the bottom of who was really in charge when Joe Biden was president.
After President Trump raised questions during the afternoon about Biden’s alleged use of an autopen to sign executive orders, Comer asked “[W]ho would put the document in there? Who gave that staffer the authority? Was it Joe Biden or was it another staffer? We don’t believe Joe Biden knew what was going on.”
Even though the media-at-large tried to dismiss claims of any cognitive decline on Biden’s part, they seem to be coming to the conclusion that Biden’s White House engaged in a cover-up.
“This investigation now has momentum — from all places, the left-wing media,” Comer told Newsmax. “And we’re going to try to get to the bottom of this, because this is the biggest scandal in American history. Not only do you have a president whose family was on the take from our adversaries around the world, you also have a situation where some of those family members were possibly, and I would go even further and say, probably running the country.”
The House Oversight Committee is planning to subpoena Biden staff members that were operating the autopen.
“We don’t believe that autopen was authorized by Joe Biden,” Comer said. “We don’t believe that using the autopen makes these executive orders and even these pardons legal. We’re going to do this investigation. Hopefully it will benefit Trump in court as he tries to do what the American people want done. And that’s drain the swamp.” (Read more: Townhall, 5/21/2025)(Archive)
Biden insisted he didn’t sign executive order just weeks after doing so, Speaker Johnson reveals | Matthew Sedacca, New York Post
President Biden had no clue whether or not he signed a critical executive order during a conversation last year with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who admitted he left the meeting fearing the nation is in “serious trouble.”
An addled Biden insisted to the Louisiana lawmaker that he never issued the order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits — even though he signed off on it less than a month earlier.
Johnson told the Free Press’ Bari Weiss he didn’t believe Biden was lying, but was left to believe the then-81-year-old leader “genuinely didn’t know what he had signed.”
The troubling encounter happened in the Oval Office in early 2024, when the two met to discuss the latest aid package for Ukraine.
Afterwards, Johnson asked Biden why he had inked an executive order pausing new permits for American liquid natural gas export to European allies — a crucial issue for his constituents in the Bayou State, which in 2023, handled 61% of the nation’s LNG exports, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
“Why would you do that? Cause you understand we just talked about Ukraine, you understand you are fueling Vladimir Putin’s war machine, because they gotta get their gas from him,” Johnson said he told Biden.
Biden was stunned, Johnson said.
“I didn’t do that,” the president said, according to Johnson.
“Sir, you paused it, I know. I have the export terminals in my state. I talked to those people in my state, I’ve talked to those people this morning, this is doing massive damage to our economy, national security,” Johnson said he told the commander-in-chief.
Biden continued to deny that he froze the exports — and then remembered he signed the executive order, which he said was simply to study the effects of the fuel.
“I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, ‘We are in serious trouble—who is running the country?’” Johnson said.
“Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know,” he said.
Biden insisted he didn’t sign executive order just weeks after doing so, Speaker Johnson reveals | Matthew Sedacca, New York Post
President Biden had no clue whether or not he signed a critical executive order during a conversation last year with Republican House Speaker Mike… pic.twitter.com/lusZ5LOMBw
Senator Ron Johnson opened the hearing with a bombshell: the Biden administration KNEW about deadly heart risks tied to the COVID shots, and deliberately kept it from the public.
Johnson released newly subpoenaed records exposing a detailed timeline of what officials knew and when. While Pfizer and Moderna received insider updates, doctors and citizens who raised concerns were silenced.
In February 2021, Israeli health officials warned the CDC of “large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people” following Pfizer injections, just two and a half months after the vaccine received emergency use authorization.
By April, the CDC was already reviewing myocarditis data from Israel and the Department of Defense. But instead of alerting the public, they stayed quiet.
By the end of that month, VAERS had recorded 2,926 deaths, nearly half of which occurred within three days of injection. “Somebody ought to be looking at it,” Johnson said.
In May, the CDC considered issuing a formal health alert—but scrapped it. They replaced it with watered-down guidance that removed a key warning for doctors to restrict physical activity in myocarditis patients.
Francis Collins, then director of the NIH, brushed it all off. “Senator, people die,” he told Johnson.
In just six months, the toll was staggering: 384,270 reports of adverse events, 4,812 deaths, and 1,736 of those occurred within just 48 hours of injection.
Senator Ron Johnson opened the hearing with a bombshell: the Biden administration KNEW about deadly heart risks tied to the COVID shots, and deliberately kept it from the public.
Johnson released newly subpoenaed records exposing a detailed timeline of what officials knew and… pic.twitter.com/F2M2LosDDY
Dr. Peter McCullough then took the floor and dismantled the narrative surrounding vaccine-induced myocarditis.
Before COVID, McCullough had seen just two cases in his entire career. After the rollout, everything changed.
He says he’s now “examined thousands of patients with this problem.”
“There’s 1,065 papers in the peer-reviewed literature on COVID vaccine myocarditis,” he explained, pointing to a 2021 case published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A 42-year-old man developed vaccine-induced myocarditis. “The infection is ruled out,” McCullough said. “It’s the vaccine.” Three days after his Moderna shot, the man was dead.
McCullough cited a shocking case from Korea—a young man who died within eight hours of hospitalization after a Pfizer shot. His heart had been, in McCullough’s words, “fried with inflammation.”
Then came a case from Connecticut: two teenage boys, 16 and 17, died in their sleep just days after Pfizer. Their parents found them unresponsive.
“These cases… should have gotten everyone’s attention,” McCullough said. “We should never have someone die after taking a vaccine that’s directly caused to the vaccine.”
Dr. Peter McCullough then took the floor and dismantled the narrative surrounding vaccine-induced myocarditis.
Before COVID, McCullough had seen just two cases in his entire career. After the rollout, everything changed.
Alabama-based physician Dr. Jordan Vaughn followed up with a chilling estimate—up to 15 million Americans may be suffering from long COVID or COVID vaccine injuries.
He now treats teenagers who can’t stand up and previously healthy adults who are suffering strokes with no clear cause.
According to Vaughn, the spike protein’s S1 subunit is far from harmless. “It triggers inflammation, it disrupts endothelial barriers, it induces fibrin resistant to breakdown, and it promotes a lot of amyloid aggregates,” he said.
These effects impair oxygen delivery, damage blood vessels, and trigger a wave of symptoms—racing heart, brain fog, shortness of breath, and post-exertional crashes.
In his clinic, Vaughn uses immunofluorescent microscopy to detect the spike protein’s damage, showing up in patients who were once thriving.
He warned that the mRNA injections led to uncontrolled spike protein production, which spread throughout the body, reaching the heart, brain, ovaries, and testes.
Alabama-based physician Dr. Jordan Vaughn followed up with a chilling estimate—up to 15 million Americans may be suffering from long COVID or COVID vaccine injuries.
He now treats teenagers who can’t stand up and previously healthy adults who are suffering strokes with no clear… pic.twitter.com/n9gU0hkWAh
Regulators claimed the vaccine stayed in the arm. That was a lie. A Yale study now shows some people are still producing spike protein more than 700 days after their last injection.
OB-GYN Dr. James Thorp delivered one of the most haunting moments of the hearing.
He said the COVID shots “MIRRORED” the effects of chemical abortion drugs—and the government knew what it was doing.
Dr. Thorp pointed to the now-infamous Shimabukuro study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which claimed a 12.6% miscarriage rate following COVID vaccination.
But when you isolate the data for women vaccinated in the first trimester, the miscarriage rate rises to 82%, Dr. Thorp said. This 82% claim remains a topic of debate within the scientific community.
If true, “This figure mirrors the effects of chemical abort drugs,” Dr. Thorp lamented.
OB-GYN Dr. James Thorp delivered one of the most haunting moments of the hearing.
He said the COVID shots “MIRRORED” the effects of chemical abortion drugs—and the government knew what it was doing.
Dr. Thorp pointed to the now-infamous Shimabukuro study published in the New… pic.twitter.com/6ucjWU1se7
Dr. @jathorpmfm added, “Recently, animal studies revealed the mRNA COVID vaccine causes the destruction of 60 PERCENT of the ovarian reserve in rats.” pic.twitter.com/r6K6xeaAZt
Attorney Aaron Siri (@AaronSiriSG) then delivered a little-known history lesson on vaccine liability.
“For every product on the market, you can SUE the manufacturer for harm,” Siri said. “There’s only ONE product in America you CANNOT sue the manufacturer to claim it could have been made safer—and that’s VACCINES.”
He explained how the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act gave pharmaceutical companies sweeping immunity, not just for three vaccines, but for every new childhood shot added to the CDC schedule.
The result? A schedule that exploded from 3 shots to 29 in the first year of life, with zero accountability.
“They don’t have the financial incentive to make them safer,” Siri said. “In fact, they have the disincentive.”
Attorney Aaron Siri (@AaronSiriSG) then delivered a little-known history lesson on vaccine liability.
“For every product on the market, you can SUE the manufacturer for harm,” Siri said. “There’s only ONE product in America you CANNOT sue the manufacturer to claim it could have… pic.twitter.com/Kq8RXtUk21
Sen. Ron Johnson delivered another crushing blow to the “safe and effective” narrative—this time with a devastating chart that exposed that lie.
The chart showed that one of the biggest spikes in COVID cases and deaths occurred AFTER the vaccine rollout began in December 2020.
By mid-2021, over half the U.S. was “fully vaccinated.” But instead of improving, the numbers got worse.
If the vaccine had worked, cases and deaths would have dropped. They didn’t—and this chart makes that impossible to ignore.
Sen. Ron Johnson delivered another crushing blow to the “safe and effective” narrative—this time with a devastating chart that exposed that lie.
The chart showed that one of the biggest spikes in COVID cases and deaths occurred AFTER the vaccine rollout began in December 2020.… pic.twitter.com/IuKuvHaFg9
Sensing the narrative was slipping, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) scrambled to defend public health officials.
He became visibly agitated at the suggestion that vaccine risks had been covered up.
“I may be sounding a little bit like a lawyer, not a physician, but purposeful concealment, intentional hiding, is essentially undocumented by the evidence released by this report itself,” Blumenthal said.
He brushed off the myocarditis concerns as “rare” and insisted that officials like Rochelle Walensky took “multiple steps” to warn the public.
So his message quietly shifted from “safe and effective” to “We did our best with what we knew at the time,” a clear sign that the vaccine narrative is running out of ground to stand on.
Sensing the narrative was slipping, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) scrambled to defend public health officials.
He became visibly agitated at the suggestion that vaccine risks had been covered up.
Dr.@P_McCulloughMD closed the hearing with a final truth bomb.
“You’ve asked for us to cite evidence,” Dr. McCullough began.
He pointed to three papers by Nathaniel Mead, a former National Institutes of Health writer sitting in the audience. Together, they contain nearly 1,000 references—and they all reach the same conclusion:
“The risks of COVID-19 vaccination far outweigh any theoretical benefits.”
Dr. McCullough then dismantled the narrative pushed by Gov. Josh Green and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, calling their claims that the vaccines saved lives and reduced the severity of disease as nothing more than “wishful thinking.”
“I don’t want America to be fooled by this hearing today thinking that the vaccines saved lives—because they didn’t,” Dr. McCullough said.
Dr. @P_McCulloughMD closed the hearing with a final truth bomb.
“You’ve asked for us to cite evidence,” Dr. McCullough began.
He pointed to three papers by Nathaniel Mead, a former National Institutes of Health writer sitting in the audience. Together, they contain nearly 1,000… pic.twitter.com/zOrooUsgs9
MAHA is throwing over the real heros while it embraces “sudden darlings” who are promoters of the Internet of Bodies. Senator Johnson, very disappointed. https://t.co/UVH4xooWbs
— The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts (@solari_the) May 22, 2025
The interim PSI Majority Staff report can be found here.
The records, which at the request of HHS contain minimal redactions for Personally Identifiable Information, are linked below:
BOMBSHELL: Joe Rogan just revealed a new study estimating the COVID-19 mRNA shots have killed more Americans than WWI, WWII, and Vietnam combined.
He dropped the numbers during his conversation with Aaron Rodgers:
Rogan: “I just sent Jamie this study. VAERS adjusted data, and other derived from the MIT, Florida Department of Health study findings that yield a conservative range of 470,000 to 600,000 American deaths from the Covid-19 mRNA shots.”
Rodgers: “That’s it?”
Rogan: “Well, just that alone. That’s a lot of people, man.”
Then came the jaw-dropper:
“More than World War I, World War II and Vietnam combined.”
And it gets worse:
“This is Pfizer alone, so this is not even Moderna.”
“Pfizer alone likely killed over 470,000 Americans.”
“They found a 36% increase in all cause mortality among Pfizer recipients versus Moderna.”
Rodgers closed it out with pure sarcasm:
“Yeah, but they saved MILLIONS!”
BOMBSHELL: Joe Rogan just revealed a new study estimating the COVID-19 mRNA shots have killed more Americans than WWI, WWII, and Vietnam combined.
He dropped the numbers during his conversation with Aaron Rodgers:
The relatively tiny elite class ensconced in Washington, D.C. — they who manufacture and service the publicly-subsidized, permanent war economy — were surely none too pleased with Trump’s truly radical, for reasons explore here, recent speech delivered to the Saudi dignitaries assembled to receive his foreign policy prescriptions during a state visit.
In 1991, sitting U.S. president — at the time, a “retired” CIA boss — George Bush declared a New World Order, a peculiar rhetorical machination by which he meant a multinational neoliberal technocracy that would ultimately subvert all national sovereignty and roll the nation-states of the world into a single dystopian administrative state.
“What is at stake is more than one small country. It is a big idea — a New World Order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause, to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.”
-George Bush, 1991
Elsewhere, he promised in vague terms that the enforcement arm of this new globalist project would be United Nations “peacekeeping” forces — national sovereignty or national interest be damned.
“When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this New World Order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the UN’s founders.”
Contrarily, three decades later, delivering a speech that would have been hard to imagine any president in modern history delivering on account of its unorthodox omission of references to “human rights” or whatever other liberal rhetoric seemingly accompanies every presidential speech in recent memory, Trump went out of his way to denounce the “interventionists” (a polite term for warmongers/neocons), the “nation-builders,” and the “nonprofits” that have done so much to wreck and destabilize the world while draining the U.S. treasury to the tune of trillions of dollars.
“Before our eyes a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts of tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos; where it exports technology, not terrorism; and where people of different nations, religions, and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other out of existence…
This great transformation has not come from Western interventionists … giving you lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs. No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called ‘nation-builders,’ ‘neo-cons,’ or ‘liberal non-profits,’ like those who spent trillions failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad, so many other cities. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves … developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destinies…
In the end, the so-called ‘nation-builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built — and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.”
Case in point: Hillary Clinton’s neoliberal jihad in Libya that deposed a relatively secular dictator and turned the country into a failed state with open-air slave markets.
The Trump Saudi speech might summarized succinctly in one sentence: You can’t deliver democracy with artillery shells — and, even if it were possible, doing so is not in America’s interests, or anyone else’s save for a handful of psychopaths in Washington D.C.
Somewhere in a Wyoming mansion, Dick Cheney’s artificial heart skipped a beat when he saw his lifelong ideology tossed in the historical trash can by the man who singlehandedly ended his nepo-daughter’s political career.
But he should probably just be happy he’s not rotting in the Hague for the remainder of his miserable existence before he departs the vail and passes on to hell, back to his Father.
Speaking of rotting, somewhere in the 9th Circle, Madeleine Albright is equally apoplectic that the official policy of the U.S. government she so dutifully served is no longer to starve children with pointless and obscene sanctions regime for obscure geopolitical purposes, only to turn the very country targeted for regime change over to ISIS two decades later.
Benjamin Bartee, author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile (now available in paperback), is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.
Former Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge leaves the Warren B. Rudman U.S. Courthouse in Concord, N.H., on June 13, 2023, following his arrest on charges related to an alleged scheme to steal and sell donated body parts. (Credit: Steven Porter/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager recently entered a plea in relation to an alleged scheme to steal and sell donated body parts.
Cedric Lodge, 57, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to interstate transport of stolen human remains on Wednesday before Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
The maximum penalty under federal law is 10 years in prison, a term of supervised release following imprisonment and a fine.
A sentence following a finding of guilt is imposed by the judge after “consideration of the applicable federal sentencing statutes and the federal sentencing guidelines,” according to the release.
Officials said Lodge admitted that from 2018 through at least March 2020 he participated in the sale and interstate transport of human remains stolen from the Harvard Medical School morgue in Massachusetts.
Lodge, then-manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue, removed human remains, including organs, brains, skin, hands, faces, dissected heads and other parts from donated cadavers after they had been used for research and teaching purposes, but before they could be disposed of according to the anatomical gift donation agreement between the donor and the school, according to the release.
He took the remains to his home in New Hampshire without the permission or knowledge of his employer, the donors or donors’ families.
After he and his wife sold the remains, they would ship the remains to the buyers in other states or the buyer would take possession directly and transport the remains themselves, according to the release. (Read more: Fox News, 5/22/2025) (Archive)
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim (Credit: public domain)
The man accused of shooting a couple from the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC this week reportedly posted praise for Luigi Mangione and wrote “death to America,” as well as “I voted for Hamas” on social media. He has been charged with first-degree murder in the case.
Elias Rodriguez (Credit: public domain)
A criminal complaint states that Elias Rodriguez, 30, has been charged with murder of foreign officials, causing the death of a person through the use of a firearm, discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, as well as two counts of first-degree murder.
According to the New York Post, federal authorities are working to connect a social media account reportedly linked to Rodriguez, law enforcement sources told the outlet. Rodriuez, a socialist activist and yelled “Free, free Palestine” as police were taking him into custody, was arrested for the killing of Yaron Lischinsky as well as his girlfriend Sarah Lynn Milgrim. The couple was set to get engaged next week.
Posts from the X account have praised Luigi Mangione as the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, as well as other political violence. The social media account, with the handle of @kyotoleather, posted at the beginning of 2024, “Happy New Year. Death To Israel.”
One post claimed that “80% of the country applauds the targeted annihilation of a healthcare insurance exec,” apparently arguing to support Mangione’s actions. When Trump won in November, the account posted to X, “Don’t blame me, I voted for Hamas.”
Another post from December 2024 stated, “Violence does not have to happen, but if it does, then it should.” In another post, the account wrote, “De@th 2 Amerikkka.” (Read more: The Post Millennial, 5/22/2025)(Archive)
I’ve obtained the alleged manifesto written by Elias Rodriguez, suspect in the killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, DC on Wednesday.
I believe the document to be authentic for several reasons, including the fact that it is signed by Rodriguez and timestamped well before he was named by law enforcement or any media. I am publishing it here not to glorify the violence — which I find abhorrent and condemn — but so the public can better understand the truth of what happened.
Refusing to confront the content of these texts often creates an information vacuum that is quickly filled by hoax documents, conspiracy theories, or selective leaks from authorities that can distort the facts. I believe that sunlight is the best disinfectant, especially when politics is involved, as the document makes clear is the case here.
Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith identified Rodriguez as a 30-year-old man from Chicago who she said shouted “Free, free Palestine!” at the scene. The manifesto echoes this message, citing the war in Gaza as its central grievance and framing the killings as an act of political protest.
Below is the document in full.
Explication
May 20, 2025
Halintar is a word that means something like thunder or lightning. In the wake of an act people look for a text to fix its meaning, so here’s an attempt. The atrocities committed by Israelis against Palestine defy description and defy quantification. Instead of reading descriptions mostly we watch them unfold on video, sometimes live. After a few months of rapidly mounting death tolls Israel had obliterated the capacity to even continue counting the dead, which has served its genocide well. At time of writing the Gaza health ministry records 53,000 killed by traumatic force, at least ten thousand lie under rubble, and who knows how many thousands more dead of preventable disease, hunger, with tens of thousands now at risk of imminent famine due to Israeli blockade, all enabled by Western and Arab government complicity. The Gaza information office includes the ten thousand under the rubble with the dead in their own count. In news reports there have been those “ten thousand” under the rubble for months now, despite the continual making of more rubble and repeated bombing of rubble again and again and the bombing of tents amid the rubble. Like the Yemen death toll which had been frozen at some few thousand for years under Saudi-UK-US bombardment before being belatedly revealed to stand at 500k dead, all of these figures are almost surely a criminal undercount. I have no trouble believing the estimates that put the toll at 100,000 or more. More have been murdered since March of this year than in “Protective Edge” and “Cast Lead” put together. What more at this point can one say about the proportion of mangled and burned and exploded human beings whom were children. We who let this happen will never deserve the Palestinians’ forgiveness. They’ve let us know as much.
An armed action is not necessarily a military action. It usually is not. Usually it is theater and spectacle, a quality it shares with many unarmed actions. Nonviolent protest in the opening weeks of the genocide seemed to signal some sort of turning point. Never before had so many tens of thousands joined the Palestinians in the streets across the West. Never before had so many American politicians been forced to concede that, rhetorically at least, the Palestinians were human beings, too. But thus far the rhetoric has not amounted to much. The Israelis themselves boast about their own shock at the free hand the Americans have given them to exterminate the Palestinians. Public opinion has shifted against the genocidal apartheid state, and the American government has simply shrugged, they’ll do without public opinion then, criminalize it where they can, suffocate it with bland reassurances that they’re doing all they can to restrain Israel where it cannot criminalize protest outright. Aaron Bushnell and others sacrificed themselves in the hopes of stopping the massacre and the state works to make us feel their sacrifice was made in vain, that there is no hope in escalating for Gaza and no point in bringing the war home. We can’t let them succeed. Their sacrifices were not made in vain.
The impunity that representatives of our government feel at abetting this slaughter should be revealed as an illusion, then. The impunity we see is the worst for those of us in immediate proximity to the genocidaires. A surgeon who treated victims of the Mayan genocide by the Guatemalan state recounts an instance in which he was operating on a patient who’d been critically injured during a massacre when, suddenly, armed gunmen entered the room and shot the patient to death on his operating table, laughing as they killed him. The physician said the worst part was seeing the killers, well known to him, openly swagger down local streets in the years after.
Elsewhere a man of conscience once attempted to throw Robert McNamara off a Martha’s Vineyard-bound ferry into the sea, incensed at the same impunity and arrogance he saw in that butcher of Vietnam as he sat in the ferry’s lounge laughing with friends. The man took issue with McNamara’s “very posture, telling you, ‘My history is fine, and I can be slumped over a bar like this with my good friend Ralph here and you’ll have to lump it.'” The man did not succeed in heaving McNamara off a catwalk into the water, the former secretary of state managed to cling to the railing and clamber back to his feet, but the assailant explicated the value of the attempt by saying “Well, I got him outside, just the two of us, and suddenly his history wasn’t so fine, was it?”
A word about the morality of armed demonstration. Those of us against the genocide take satisfaction in arguing that the perpetrators and abettors have forfeited their humanity. I sympathize with this viewpoint and understand its value in soothing the psyche which cannot bear to accept the atrocities it witnesses, even mediated through the screen. But inhumanity has long since shown itself to be shockingly common, mundane, prosaically human. A perpetrator may then be a loving parent, a filial child, a generous and charitable friend, an amiable stranger, capable of moral strength at times when it suits him and sometimes even when it does not, and yet be a monster all the same. Humanity doesn’t exempt one from accountability. The action would have been morally justified taken 11 years ago during Protective Edge, around the time I personally became acutely aware of our brutal conduct in Palestine. But I think to most Americans such an action would have been illegible, would seem insane. I am glad that today at least there are many Americans for which the action will be highly legible and, in some funny way, the only sane thing to do.
I love you Mom, Dad, baby sis, the rest of my familia, including you, O*****
GPS—put the Israeli capital Jewish Museum shooter’s father at Barack Hussein Obama II’s Washington, D.C. residence (which is a quick 4 minute walk from The Islamic Center of Washington D.C..) back in March for 32 minutes.
And now we find out Democrats invited accused terrorist killer’s DAD to Trump address just weeks before heinous crime
It is looking more and more like this was a very coordinated terrorist attack in Washington, DC. The Democrats inviting the father of Elias Rodriguez as their special guest this year.
GPS—put the Israeli capital Jewish Museum shooter’s father at Barack Hussein Obama II’s Washington, D.C. residence (which is a quick 4 minute walk from The Islamic Center of Washington D.C..) back in March for 32 minutes.
DOJ Pardon Attorney Ed Martin discussed Biden’s growing autopen scandal this week with journalist Mark Halperin on the “2WAY Tonight” podcast.
Last Tuesday Ed Martin said that the Justice Department is reviewing Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons since it has become increasingly clear he was incapacitated during his presidency.
Ed Martin this Tuesday revealed he wrote to the Biden family and others and a senior Democrat whistleblower came forward with shocking allegations.
A couple of people “lawyered up” Ed Martin said.
“The Biden pardons are unprecedented,” he added.
“I had a whistleblower in my office 10 day ago, senior, senior Democrat saying, ‘Look, it was these three people that controlled access, and they were making money off of it,’” Ed Martin told Mark Halperin. “I don’t know if I believe it yet, but the point is I think we have to get to the bottom of it for the American people and to protect the process. And that’s what we’re doing.”
Although Ed Martin couldn’t name names, he said the senior Democrat whistleblower worked as a high level advisor in Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign.
(Left to right) Bob Baur, Anita Dunn, Ron Klain and Joe Biden (Credit: Linda Davidson / Getty Images, Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
The three gatekeepers who were allegedly selling access to the autopen were Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Mao lover and senior White House Advisor Anita Dunn and Biden attorney Bob Bauer.
This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.
It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments.
Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused.
They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law.
Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.
This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.
It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments… pic.twitter.com/12hJWd1J86
Former State Department official Mike Benz accused Harvard University on Thursday of acting as a central hub for anti-Trump activity, saying the school’s network of academic departments and think tanks has been “weaponized” against President Donald Trump.
The Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard’s ability to host foreign students, citing a “toxic campus climate” and violations related to antisemitism and foreign funding disclosures. During an appearance on “The War Room,” Benz discussed Harvard’s widespread backchanneling with powerful institutions like the State Department, the Defense Department, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and various multinational corporations and NGOs.
“Virtually every center, institute and department at Harvard is weaponized against the Trump administration at every level. Through their backchanneling with intelligence, through the backchanneling with the State Department, through their backchanneling with the defense sector, through their backchanneling with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, multinational corporations, through their backchanneling with the NGOs,” Benz said.
Benz specifically named the Harvard Belfer Center and called it a “Heart of Darkness” hub within the university. He also pointed to Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan, both affiliated with the Belfer Center, as ideological architects of these strategies. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 5/22/2025)(Archive)
Rather than honoring the military men and women who gave their lives defending their fellow Americans’ right to live in freedom, two-time failed Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is calling on her supporters to bash President Donald Trump and his One Big Beautiful Bill that passed the House this week when they get together with friends and neighbors at Memorial Day gatherings this weekend:
I’m giving you a mission for this Memorial Day holiday weekend.
I want you to talk to two people—friends, neighbors, cookout attendees—about why Trump’s proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids.
We owe the next generation every chance, and this isn’t it.
How the Trump budget bill would impact kids. (It would be a disaster.)
* Drastically cut health care. 15 million Americans, including millions of children, could lose access through Medicaid cuts and ACA marketplace changes.
* Increase food insecurity. Nearly 11 million people—including 4 million kids—could lose SNAP food assistance.
* Make families poorer. The bill would kick 4.5 million American kids off the child tax credit.
* Leave AI dangers unchecked. The bill would freeze state-level AI regulation for 10 years, stripping states of the ability to protect kids from deep fakes, exploitation, and more.
I’m giving you a mission for this Memorial Day holiday weekend.
I want you to talk to two people—friends, neighbors, cookout attendees—about why Trump’s proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has much work underway, announcing the cancellation of several Biden-era grants that were going toward bizarre and wasteful causes, such as research on LGBTQ+ cartoonists and gay travel guides.
“During the previous administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the following grants to spend taxpayer dollars, all of which have been cancelled,” DOGE wrote on social media, noting that these cancellations have resulted in an overall savings of $163 million.
A $350,000 NEH grant, for instance, was for “interactive gay travel guides to better understand historical LGBTQ+ spaces.” Another grant to the tune of $247,000 was set to “digitize stories of transgender adults in the Pacific Northwest.”
A $60,000 grant was allotted to “research how LGBTQ+ cartoonists innovated comics in the 1980s & 1990s,” and $75,000 was to “examine the relationship between internet live streaming and LGBTQ+ communities.”
Not all grants were LGBTQ centered, however. One grant, coming in at $150,000, was for “excavation of Egypt’s first industrial-scale brewery.” And another $350,000 grant was for creating “a Spanish version of Homosauras.org.”
“NEH grants will be merit-based and awarded to non-DEI, pro-America causes,” DOGE affirmed.
If you EVER had ANY doubt that the CIA and Blob Media are NO LONGER PRIMARILY SERVING US INTERESTS, burn this in your brain: the US government has cut funds to its first major CIA-created media network, Radio Free Europe, and now a FOREIGN BODY is funding it to keep it afloat pic.twitter.com/rFECUk9Chc
Note this is **exactly** what I predicted would happen the very week after the election, that the shadow diplomacy-defense-intelligence network in the US would go abroad to in-power governments in Europe to get funding and form alliances against our own government: https://t.co/Xb48NJan12
The National Security Council is a ¹cushy job inside the White House filled with bureaucratic analysts and people who are in place in an attempt to steer policy. Many of those detailed to the NSC represent the interests of the Silo agency from which they originate.
The National Security Council contains approximately 350 full-time employees. The National Security Advisor, now Marco Rubio, is in charge of the NSC. Secretary Marco Rubio just fired more than 100 of them. A few quotes from Axios are beautiful, and telling:
(…) “The NSC is the ultimate Deep State. It’s Marco vs. the Deep State. We’re gutting the Deep State,” the official said of the move, which will cut the NSC staff to about half of its current 350 members. “The right-sizing of the NSC is in line with its original purpose and the president’s vision,” Rubio told Axios in a statement. “The NSC will now be better positioned to collaborate with agencies.” [link]
WASHINGTON DC – The Trump administration has put more than 100 officials at the National Security Council at the White House on administrative leave on Friday as part of a restructuring under interim national security adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to two US officials and another source familiar with the matter.
(…) An email from NSC chief of staff Brian McCormack went out around 4:20 p.m. informing those being dismissed they’d have 30 minutes to clean out their desks, according to an administration official. If they weren’t on campus, the email read, they could email an address and arrange a time to retrieve their stuff later and turn in devices.
The email subject line read: “Your return to home agency,” indicating that most of those affected were detailed to the NSC from other departments and agencies.
On Thursday, Rubio convened a meeting with principals, which raised speculation that it was about the re-organization, the official said. And on Friday at 3:45 p.m., shortly before the email went out, senior directors were summoned to a meeting with Rubio.
[…] Those put on leave include career officials, as well as political hires made during the Trump administration.
In recent weeks staffers were being re-interviewed by the Office of the Presidential Personnel as the reshaping of the office was taking place, sources said. One of the questions asked was what officials thought was the appropriate size of the NSC, one source said.
Staffed by foreign policy experts from across the US government, the NSC typically serves as a critical body for coordinating the president’s foreign policy agenda.
But under President Donald Trump, the NSC’s role has been diminished, with the overhaul expected to further reduce its importance in the White House. (read more)
Remember the Susan Rice Benghazi “talking points” about a YouTube video? Remember Tommy “Dude” Vietor? Remember Alexander Vindman? Yeah, all from the National Security Council.
To give you an expanded perspective on how the NSC operates, compared to what the institutional DC interests tell us about it, it’s worth remembering that Tom Donilon’s daughter was appointed to the NSC after college. lol
2022: Tom Donilon’s daughter, Sarah Donilon, who graduated college in 2019, now works on the White House National Security Council {link}
“Marco Rubio: 25% then / 70% now. Remarkably his confrontation with the Senate, with USAID, with VISAs, and calling Ukraine a “USA proxy war” were big jumps in the effectiveness and competency versus what was expected. Still watching for direct IC confrontation with his move to NatSec Advisor, but I totally understand why President Trump is supporting him with more authority.”
Biden Administration Labeled Opponents Of Covid Mandates As “Domestic Violent Extremists,” Newly Released Documents Show
The designation infringed on the First Amendment and opened the door to investigating Americans for vaccine mandate skepticism.
The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists,” or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records obtained by Public @shellenberger @galexybrane and Catherine Herridge Reports. The designation created an “articulable purpose” for FBI or other government agents to open an “assessment” of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation, said a former FBI agent.
The report, which the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has declassified, claims that “anti government or anti authority violent extremists,” specifically militias, “characterize COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as evidence of government overreach.” A sweeping range of COVID narratives, the report states, “have resonated” with DVEs “motivated by QAnon.”
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) coauthored the December 13, 2021 intelligence product whose title reads, “DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates.”
The report cites criticism of mandates as “prominent narratives” related to violent extremism. These narratives “include the belief that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, especially for children, are part of a government or global conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil liberties and livelihoods, or are designed to start a new social or political order.
“It’s a way they could go to social media companies and say, ‘You don’t want to propagate domestic terrorism so you should take down this content,’” said former FBI agent Steve Friend.
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NEW: Biden Administration Labeled Opponents Of Covid Mandates As “Domestic Violent Extremists,” Newly Released Documents Show
The designation infringed on the First Amendment and opened the door to investigating Americans for vaccine mandate skepticism.
A separate February 2022 report called “Special Analysis: Joint Analytic Cell” investigates the “Sociopolitical Factors Amplifying Persistent Domestic Violent Extremist Threat.”
The newly declassified report seems to draw a straight line between opposition to vaccine mandates and elevated levels of domestic terrorism.
However, a close reading of the report’s statistics reveals that of the 2950 domestic terrorism cases handled by the FBI, the vast majority were “related to the 6 January siege of the US Capitol.”
Those cases included “parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol Building.”
A separate February 2022 report called “Special Analysis: Joint Analytic Cell” investigates the “Sociopolitical Factors Amplifying Persistent Domestic Violent Extremist Threat.”
The newly declassified report seems to draw a straight line between opposition to vaccine mandates… pic.twitter.com/0oLkXZyGWD
THEY MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!
Funded COVID
Ruined Economy
Banned proven safe effective treatments
Used known faulty tests vastly inflating #’s
COERCIVELY injected w/experimental mRNA LETHAL TOXINS
100,000’s DIED & MILLIONS OF LIVES RUINED UNNECESSARILYhttps://t.co/msyoU0qv6T
Former Obama aide Jon Lovett, co-host of the “Pod Save America” podcast, recently admitted in an interview with Jon Stewart that while he wasn’t “behind the scenes” like Biden’s handlers, he did stay silent about his concerns on Biden’s health and mental capabilities.
The episode of Jon Stewart’s “The Weekly Show” podcast aired on Thursday.
“I remember feeling, I want to talk about this as a huge liability,” Lovett recalled. “But I’m not going to go so far as to say, ‘I think Joe Biden must drop out. He is too old to be president.’”
“I want him to f*cking win because I care about the country!”
Lovett said he didn’t want to make too much noise and become “part of the case against Joe Biden from the Right.”
Interestingly, just a few days before Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, took control of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) away from the CIA, Gabbard also made a move that is just as consequential and directly related.
It is pretty clear now the NIC was in the middle of a domestic Intelligence Community operation against the Trump administration when Tulsi Gabbard intercepted it (we hope with support from CIA Director John Ratcliffe, but we are not sure). {GO DEEP} It is clear from the comments by SoS/NSA Rubio, that several media outlets were poised and awaiting leaks from the NIC in anticipation of fulfilling their role to advance the operation. [SEE HERE] DNI Gabbard essentially quashed their plan.
(Credit: Conservative Treehouse)
However, I was not aware that it was pushed into the public sphere where DNI Gabbard had taken control of the Presidential Daily Brief simultaneous to her confrontation with the NIC operation. [NYT LINK, Archive] I am writing this update to inform and also ensure the CTH library has a reference point for future discussions. Please familiarize yourself with the citations above as well as two very important outlines.
#1 – The unrealized power of the DNI and the possibilities for Trump’s appointed Director of National Intelligence, if a particular process was followed {GO DEEP}. #2 – The actual purpose of the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), as well as the modern weaponization of it by the CIA. {GO DEEP}. Those two citations are important context to understand a very visible dynamic taking place.
On the same day that DNI Tulsi Gabbard took control of the PDB away from the CIA, DNI Gabbard also removed the National Intelligence Council from the CIA. This is very good news and highlights both President Trump and DNI Gabbard understanding the unrealized potential power of the DNI that we have discussed on these pages.
Confronting a weaponized Intelligence Community is a key facet of interest for us because it is a core component battle against the main tools of the Fourth Branch of Government. The IC influence is in every policy related to Trump’s domestic and foreign agenda. Taking control and neutering the capabilities of the IC and CIA specifically, is a key undertaking.
With the horrible National Security Advisor Mike Waltz removed, and with Marco Rubio taking control of the National Security Council, now the moves by DNI Tulsi Gabbard begin to take on a much more deliberate context. Now I can be somewhat more optimistic about what we are seeing unfold, albeit it will likely remain unnoticed by almost all other reviewers of politics. Y’all are well aware the need for this IC confrontation has long been one of my biggest focuses.
The article is within the New York Times, which means the anonymous sources are from within the DHS/DNI (domestic IC) apparatus.
NYT – Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is moving the assembly of the president’s daily intelligence brief from the C.I.A. headquarters to her own complex, according to officials briefed on the move.
The brief, a summary of intelligence and analysis about global hot spots and national security threats, is overseen and presented to the president by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. But C.I.A. officers write much of the analysis in the document and produce it, pulling together articles and graphics on the agency’s classified computer systems.
Ms. Gabbard’s decision comes as President Trump has openly mused to aides over time about whether the office she leads — which was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to improve interagency coordination — should continue to exist, according to two people with knowledge of his remarks. Ms. Gabbard has discussed Mr. Trump’s concerns with him directly and has considered how to overhaul the office, according to one official.
(…) The C.I.A. memo said that while the directorate of analysis role in supporting the daily brief would evolve, “we will remain laser-focused on the president’s and Director Ratcliffe’s priorities and our core mission — generating and delivering insight with impact, free from political or personal bias.”
It is not clear how many C.I.A. personnel assigned to the P.D.B., as the brief is called, and to the National Intelligence Council will move. People familiar with the matter, who were not authorized to discuss internal concerns publicly, said a number of employees at the agency were looking for new assignments to avoid moving to Ms. Gabbard’s office. (Link, non-Paywall Archive)
The DNI position comes as an outcome of The Patriot Act and as I have repeatedly said, that position has never been fully functionalized. In essence, the DNI can be more powerful than all of the feeder elements into the intelligence apparatus.
The ODNI was formed in 2004, with the intent for the office to be the pivot point of a national security radar. The DNI was intended to provide information to domestic agencies about foreign terror networks that would prevent something like 9-11 from happening again. However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has never, not for one day, operated on this intent. This is why they are such a critical position from my perspective.
I said in August of 2024, “The DNI can make the FBI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, DoD, DoS and CIA provide anything and everything they demand. Instead of the other silos using blocks and threats against the office of the President, use the authority of the DNI to get them without confrontation. Then use the DNI to declassify the documents (if requested by potus), instead of the originating silo.
Can you see how the DNI office can be repurposed to be a seriously strong weapon in the toolbox of the President, against the schemes of those inside the various IC silos? The DNI becomes much more important than the CIA Director, NSA Director, FBI Director, Attorney General, etc, because the DNI can just show up and say, “give me this.” That’s the whole functional purpose of the DNI office that has never been exerted; let’s flippin’ use it.
Let’s use the office of the DNI as the central information hub that takes information from inside the corrupt silos, then provides that information to the President who puts sunlight upon it. Each corrupt silo penetrated with disinfectant. This could begin a process to pull down the shadow operations and let the American public see what has been happening inside our IC apparatus.”
It would appear that President Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are doing exactly that, and I am extremely pleased/thankful to see this plan of action in place.
Now, there’s another element to this. The Dept of Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, reports directly to President Trump. However, for all material intents and purposes of the post-911 design, the DHS Secretary also reports to the Director of National Intelligence, that’s Tulsi Gabbard.
The DHS Secretary directly controls the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA). Do you remember the story of Tulsi Gabbard being targeted by the Joe Biden DHS/TSA under the “Quiet Skies” operation? All of that information is at the fingertips of DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
So, I will leave you to think of this with a little optimism. Here is Tulsi Gabbard today discussing how Joe Biden defined “Domestic Violent Extremists,” and also a discussion about her own personal targeting on the “Quiet Skies” watch list.
Keep in mind, ODNI Tulsi Gabbard has access to every document, note, list and detail of the TSA program that targeted her. Tulsi Gabbard knows exactly who put her on the watch list, when, why and how, as well as who else was/is targeted under this program.
“FOX News Sunday” host Shannon Bream interviews journalist and author Alex Thompson and asks about a passage from his new book “Original Sin,” where he was told the plan for a second term was to have aides run the show while President Biden occasionally made appearances for “proof of life.”
SHANNON BREAM, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: You quote a long-time Biden aide basically admitting he shouldn’t be running again. They said to you on page 85, ‘He just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years. He’d only have to show proof of life every once in a while. His aides could pick up the slack.’ Who would have been running the White House in a second Biden term
ALEX THOMPSON, CO-AUTHOR: Well, this person went on to say that when you’re voting for a president, you’re voting for the aides around him. But these aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides. These are White House aides. These were unelected people. And one of the things that really I think comes out in our reporting here is that if you believe — and I think a lot of these people do sincerely believe that Donald Trump was and is an existential threat to democracy — you can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic things, which I think is what this person is talking about.
Project Veritas today released Part One of an explosive undercover investigation revealing shocking truths about who truly controlled the Biden White House. Through covert meetings with David Hogg, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Deterrian Jones, former staffer in the Biden White House Office of Digital Strategy, Veritas uncovered a web of influence centered around Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff, Anthony Bernal, and a tight-knit inner circle.
In candid, on-camera admissions, Hogg stated, “Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff [Anthony Bernal] had an enormous amount of power,” emphasizing that “the bigger issue was the inner circle that was around Biden.” These revelations point to a hidden power structure that operated behind the scenes, raising questions about transparency and accountability in the Biden administration.
BREAKING: Undercover Meeting with DNC Leader @davidhogg111 Reveals who REALLY ran the Biden White House
“He wielded an enormous amount of power… I can’t stress to you enough how much power he had at the White House.”
Deterrian Jones, who worked directly in the Biden White House, described Bernal as a “shadowy, wizard of oz-type figure” who “wielded an enormous amount of power.” Jones admitted to avoiding Bernal, calling him “scary” and noting that his influence was an “open secret” among staff. These statements expose a culture of fear and unchecked authority within the administration.
Project Veritas has once again unmasked the secrets political leaders hide from the public. This investigation unveils the true power brokers behind the Biden White House, exposing truths the American people have a right to know.
In the upcoming second part of this series, Project Veritas will reveal additional inside knowledge about corruption, threats, and hidden DC secrets, as revealed by controversial DNC Vice Chair David Hogg. (Project Veritas, 5/28/2025)(Archive)
UPDATE-5/29/2025
BREAKING PART TWO: @davidhogg111 Slams Pelosi’s “Too Well-Timed” Stock Trades, Wants to “Burn it All Down”
“@SpeakerPelosi gets better returns than almost every hedge fund… every year.”
“Conveniently they [Congress] happen to be some of the best financial analysts in human… pic.twitter.com/PIPSwgxoxF
Despite providing demonstrably false information to Congress, Nellie Ohr was never held accountable for contributing to the FBI and DOJ’s Trump-Russia hoax
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) failed to prosecute Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr for lying to Congress about her role in advancing the FBI and DOJ’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, according to an internal FBI analysis confirming Ohr’s false congressional testimony.
The 2019 FBI analysis, obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and declassified at the chairman’s request, provides detailed evidence Ohr lied to Congress during sworn testimony and, as a result, obstructed ongoing congressional investigations, violating federal statutes 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and 18 U.S.C § 1505. The document also exposes how the FBI prevented agents from reviewing all relevant information necessary to perform a full analysis of the extent of Ohr’s false testimony and her role in the fake Russia collusion investigation.
“By lying to Congress, Nellie Ohr showed contempt for congressional oversight and the American people. What’s more, the FBI and DOJ’s failure to hold Ohr accountable for appearing to commit multiple felonies and its obstructive conduct against agents that sought additional information reveals the agencies’ deeply disturbing political bias. Ohr never suffered consequences for advancing the phony Trump-Russia narrative and attempting to cover up her involvement in the hoax. Yet time and again, the American justice system has been weaponized against President Trump and his associates with reckless abandon,” Grassley said. “The DOJ’s inaction on Nellie Ohr’s criminal referral – despite the obviously incriminating evidence provided in the FBI’s own analysis – undermines public trust in the rule of law. I applaud Director Patel, Attorney General Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Blanche for cooperating with my request to declassify this information, which is in the public’s interest, and chart a new course for transparency and accountability at the FBI and DOJ.”
Nellie Ohr was employed by the political opposition research firm Fusion GPS between 2015 to 2016 to perform open-source research attempting to connect then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to Russian organized crime. This research was paid for by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC). Both organizations ultimately settled with the Federal Election Commission after allegations of campaign finance violations for intentionally misreporting the true purpose of the payments.
At the time of Nellie Ohr’s Fusion GPS employment, her husband, Bruce Ohr, was an Associate Deputy Attorney General at DOJ. Both Nellie and Bruce Ohr testified to the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2018 as part of the committees’ oversight of the FBI’s bogus 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation into President Trump’s disproven collusion with Russia.
In 2019, then-Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, filed a criminal referral with DOJ asserting Nellie Ohr knowingly provided false testimony to the House committees.
Key Findings of the FBI’s 2019 Nellie Ohr Analysis:
Nellie Ohr may have been involved in drafting aspects of the Steele Dossier and conspired with her husband, Bruce Ohr, to ensure high-level FBI officials received her work product, while Fusion GPS coordinated with media entities to legitimize the FBI’s opening of its now discredited Trump-Russia investigation.
Nellie Ohr may have falsely testified to Congress that she had no knowledge of the DOJ’s Trump-Russia investigation (pg. 13).
Nellie Ohr gave a thumb drive containing her Fusion GPS work to her husband, Bruce Ohr, which he then provided to the FBI as part of its ongoing investigation (pg. 14).
Nellie Ohr’s email traffic shows she emailed her Russian investigative research directly to Bruce Ohr. Nellie’s research closely mirrored the DOJ and FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation (pgs. 15-16).
Bruce Ohr only shared information with the FBI relating to the Trump-Russia investigation after receiving it from his wife, Nellie Ohr (pgs. 15-17).
Nellie Ohr and Bruce Ohr met personally with British intelligence officer and Fusion GPS contractor, Christopher Steele, in 2016 (pg. 21).
Fusion GPS pitched Nellie Ohr’s research to the Department of State (DOS) for additional investigation, per DOS emails (pg. 23).
Nellie Ohr deleted emails with Russia-focused DOJ prosecutors, indicating an effort to conceal her exchanges with DOJ officials involved in the Trump-Russia investigation (pg. 24).
Nellie Ohr may have falsely testified to Congress that she was not involved in drafting the Steele Dossier (pgs. 25-28).
Nellie Ohr made an analytical error in her own research identical to that in the Steele Dossier (pgs. 29-30).
A report deleted from a thumb drive owned by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and provided to the FBI via Bruce Ohr contained the same subject matter researched by Nellie Ohr (pg. 31-33).
In direct contradiction to her congressional testimony, Nellie Ohr disseminated Fusion GPS research to DOJ prosecutors beyond those identified in her testimony (pg. 33).
Nellie Ohr repeatedly sent information to the following DOJ officials: Lisa Holtyn, Ivana Nizich, Joseph Wheatley (pgs. 34-37).
In direct contradiction to her congressional testimony, Nellie Ohr took six ham radio classes and an exam during her time as a Fusion GPS employee (pg. 37). Ham radios can facilitate international communication without the use of a cell signal.
Nellie Ohr claimed her ham radio training occurred before she was employed by Fusion GPS. However, per records from the Fairfax Fire and Rescue Department and Federal Communications Commission, Nellie Ohr’s entire ham radio training occurred between March to May 2016, while working at Fusion GPS.
Nellie Ohr may have been involved in the “Alfa dossier,” an additional sham document attempting to connect Trump to Russian crime (pg. 40).
🚨 A newly declassified @FBI document released by Sen. @ChuckGrassley confirms Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr lied to Congress about her involvement in Crossfire Hurricane. Thank you @FBIDirectorKash for helping Congress uncover the truth and taking steps toward greater…
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) May 28, 2025
Time to expose+turn the page on POLITICAL BIAS in our criminal justice system THX FBI Dir Kash Patel 4 agreeing w my request to declassify this doc Its in the public interest/ Im gr8ful for ur assistance in bringing transparency + accountability to FBI
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino reveals that they discovered a trove of evidence from multiple cases under James Comey, hidden in a secret room within the agency:
“There was a room, and we found a lot of stuff, A hidden room. I wouldn’t call it hidden, but hidden from us, at least, and not mentioned to us. We found stuff in there, and a lot of it’s from the Comey era.”
“We are working our damnedest right now to declassify. I totally understand people saying, ‘well do it now.’ The process is not all the information is ours to declassify some as other intelligence agencies. It’s not. We literally can’t do it.”
“Once that gets done and gets out there… And you read some of the stuff we found in bags hiding under James Comey.. You’re going to be stunned.”
🚨BREAKING: Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino reveals that they discovered a trove of evidence from multiple cases under James Comey, hidden in a secret room within the agency:
“There was a room, and we found a lot of stuff, A hidden room. I wouldn’t call it hidden, but hidden… pic.twitter.com/EArsYpEhUV
An IT specialist employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was arrested today for attempting to transmit national defense information to an officer or agent of a foreign government.
Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested today in northern Virginia, and will make his initial court appearance in the Eastern District of Virginia tomorrow.
According to court documents, Laatsch became a civilian employee of the DIA in 2019, where he works with the Insider Threat Division and holds a Top Secret security clearance. In March 2025, the FBI commenced an operation after receiving a tip that an individual — now known to be Laatsch — offered to provide classified information to a friendly foreign government. In that email, the sender wrote that he did not “agree or align with the values of this administration” and was therefore “willing to share classified information” that he had access to, including “completed intelligence products, some unprocessed intelligence, and other assorted classified documentation.”
After multiple communications with an FBI agent — who Laatsch allegedly believed to be an official of the foreign government — Laatsch began transcribing classified information to a notepad at his desk and, over the course of approximately three days, repeatedly exfiltrated the information from his workspace. Laatsch subsequently confirmed to the FBI agent that he was prepared to transmit the information.
Thereafter, the FBI implemented an operation at a public park in northern Virginia, where Laatsch believed he would deposit the classified information for the foreign government to retrieve. On or about May 1, 2025, FBI surveillance observed Laatsch proceed to the specified location and deposit an item. Following Laatsch’s departure, the FBI retrieved the item, which was a thumb drive later found to contain a message from Laatsch and multiple typed documents, each containing information that was portion-marked up to the Secret or Top Secret levels. The message from Laatsch indicated that he had chosen to include “a decent sample size” of classified information to “decently demonstrate the range of types of products” to which he had access.
After receiving confirmation that the thumb drive had been received, on May 7, Laatsch allegedly sent a message to the FBI agent, which indicated Laatsch was seeking something from the foreign government in return for continuing to provide classified information. The next day, Laatsch specified that he was interested in “citizenship for your country” because he did not “expect[] things here to improve in the long term.” Although he said he was “not opposed to other compensation,” he was not in a position where he needed to seek “material compensation.”
On May 14, the FBI agent advised Laatsch that it was prepared to receive additional classified information. Between May 15 and May 27, Laatsch again repeatedly transcribed multiple pages of notes while logged into his classified workstation, folded the notes, and exfiltrated the classified information in his clothing.
On May 29, Laatsch arrived at a prearranged location in northern Virginia, where Laatsch again allegedly attempted to transmit multiple classified documents to the foreign country. Laatsch was arrested upon the FBI’s receipt of the documents.
Sue J. Bai, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, U.S. Attorney Erik S. Siebert for the Eastern District of Virginia, Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, and Executive Director Lee M. Russ of Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) Office of Special Projects made the announcement.
The FBI Washington Field Office is investigating the case, with valuable assistance provided by the U.S. Air Force OSI and with thanks to the Defense Intelligence Agency for its cooperation.
Trial Attorneys Christina Clark and Mark Murphy of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg for the Eastern District of Virginia are prosecuting the case. (Justice.gov, 5/29/2025) (Archive)
Deshaun Eli Mack, a Family Services Specialist with the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), has been caught on hidden camera admitting to intentionally violating state policies to provide government-funded benefits to undocumented immigrants.
“I Will Twist and Turn Our Provisions”: Nevada DHHS Specialist Caught on Camera Admitting to “Bending the Rules” to Provide Benefits for Illegal Immigrants
“I get them emergency medical all the time… I just approve them for 12 months because I can. “
Mack detailed how he manipulates the system to offer extended emergency Medicaid coverage to illegals, stating, “I get them emergency medical all the time… just because I want to.”
According to Mack, emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants is supposed to be granted on a month-to-month basis and only for severe, qualifying conditions. However, he confessed that he bypasses this process entirely. “They’re supposed to apply every month,” he said, “so I just approve them for 12 months… because I can.”
When asked if that kind of discretion was allowed, Mack responded bluntly: “I make it so. I bend the rules a lot.” He added later, “I will twist and turn our provisions to fit the way that I want them to be.”
Mack also acknowledged a culture within the agency of avoiding cooperation with federal immigration authorities, stating, “We would never call ICE. We do not work with them ever.”
When pressed on whether this behavior amounted to subverting the law, Mack didn’t hesitate: “I do that a lot.”
Mack’s conduct could potentially violate multiple Nevada laws, including statutes related to misappropriation of public funds and the Nevada False Claims Act, which prohibits knowingly approving or submitting false claims for state payment.
OMG has reached out to Mack and the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services for comment on Mack’s remarks.
When contacted by OMG, Mack initially denied wrongdoing, stating, “I don’t [break the law], because I’m not.” Presented with his own recorded statements, Mack shifted his position, claiming, “I say a lot of things that I don’t mean” and eventually admitted, “I lie all the time.” He suggested he may have exaggerated to impress the undercover journalist, saying, “Absolutely,” when asked if that was the reason for his comments. Despite the specificity of his original statements, Mack ultimately claimed, “None of those words I said were true.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Thursday that a longtime USDA employee and five others were busted in one of the largest food stamp frauds in U.S. history.
A short time ago, Perry Carbone, Attorney for the United States, Charmeka Parker, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI revealed a superseding indictment was unsealed charging six people in connection with a $66 million-plus fraud and bribery scheme under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aka food stamp program.
Michael Kehoe, Mohamad Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Gamal Obaid, Emad Alrawashdeh, and Arlasa Davis have been hit with multiple charges, including conspiracy to steal government funds and to misappropriate USDA benefits. Davis, a USDA employee who worked as a program specialist, was employed in the division of the agency responsible for identifying SNAP fraud.
As the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York explains, Kehoe started a network in 2019 that handed over roughly 160 illegal EBT terminals to stores across the New York area to steal more than $30 million in EBT transactions. With the help of his co-conspirators, Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Obaid, and Emad Alrawashdeh, Kehoe submitted approximately 200 fraudulent USDA applications, misappropriated USDA license numbers, and even forged application documents to acquire EBT terminals for unauthorized stores.
The stores included smoke shops and other businesses not eligible for USDA funds.
Davis was critical to the scheme. The Southern District of New York Attorney’s office notes that she took advantage of her position to sell hundreds of EBT license numbers.
“Michael Kehoe and his co-conspirators misappropriated tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds meant to help low-income families put food on the table,” Carbone explained. “This fraud was made possible when USDA employee Arlasa Davis betrayed the public trust by selling confidential government information to the very criminals she was supposed to catch.” (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 5/29/2025)(Archive)
After our story aired, the mayor’s office removed those names and told FOX 17 News the names were “mistakenly included in the information posted online.”
Critics of Mayor Freddie O’Connell say releasing the names was no mistake and puts federal agents at risk.
Supporters of Mayor O’Connell insist it was not malicious.
The names of ICE officers and Homeland Security Investigators are no longer visible on the Office of New Americans’ website, following our discovery of the public data.
This stemmed from Mayor O’Connell’s amended Executive Order 30.
As more reports emerge about former President Biden’s alleged cognitive decline during his time in office, a Republican senator has made an explosive new claim: that Biden would sometimes get lost in a closet inside the White House while serving as commander-in-chief.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., made the stunning claim on “Hannity” Friday, citing an unnamed Secret Service whistleblower who Hawley said was assigned to Biden.
“He [Secret Service member] told me that Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings in the White House,” Hawley said. “I mean, the guy literally stumbling around in the White House residence couldn’t find his way out of his own closet. The president of the United States. I mean, this is outrageous. We were lied to.”
“After a rigorous review, we concluded that continued investment in Moderna’s H5N1 mRNA vaccine was not scientifically or ethically justifiable,” HHS Communications Director Andrew Nixon told The Defender.
“This is not simply about efficacy — it’s about safety, integrity and trust. The reality is that mRNA technology remains under-tested, and we are not going to spend taxpayer dollars repeating the mistakes of the last administration, which concealed legitimate safety concerns from the public,” Nixon said.
📣 U.S. Cancels Contracts Worth $766 Million for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine After ‘Rigorous Review’
“After a rigorous review, we concluded that continued investment in Moderna’s H5N1 mRNA vaccine was not scientifically or ethically justifiable,” HHS Communications Director Andrew… pic.twitter.com/TfYJNnFnNM
— Children’s Health Defense (@ChildrensHD) May 30, 2025
Elon Musk and Jared Isaacman (Credit: Graphic by The Gateway Pundit)
“We don’t confirm Schumer donors in this administration,” said a source close to the Trump team — referencing the quiet but decisive move to pull billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman from consideration as the head of NASA under the second Trump Administration.
Isaacman — a close ally of Elon Musk, SpaceX collaborator, private astronaut, and founder of Shift4 — was under serious consideration for a high-level appointment. But his name was withdrawn after campaign finance records revealed over $200,000 in donations to prominent Democratic politicians, committees, and super PACs.
The donations, all made in recent election cycles, include contributions to some of the most powerful Democrat operatives and institutions:
Jared Isaacman’s Political Donations (2021–2024):
$100,000 to Senate Majority PAC (10/28/2021) — aligned with Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
$50,000 to Josh Shapiro for Governor (3/2/2022)
$10,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (3/29/2022)
$10,000 to the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania (7/22/2024)
$10,000 to the Michigan Democratic State Central Committee (8/1/2024)
$2,500 to George Whitesides for Congress (6/28/2022)
$2,500 to George Whitesides for Congress (11/8/2022)
$1,000 to Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA)
$500 to Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
$5,000 to Keystone America PAC (Democrat-aligned PA PAC)
$5,000 to Mitten PAC (Democrat-aligned MI PAC)
Notably absent from Isaacman’s financial history: any donations to President Donald Trump, his campaign, or any Trump-aligned political action committee.
(…) President Donald Trump officially withdrew Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead NASA on May 31, 2025. The announcement came just days before the Senate was scheduled to vote on Isaacman’s confirmation, which had already advanced with bipartisan support. Following the withdrawal, Trump indicated that a new nominee aligned with his “America First” space policy would be announced soon. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast has been mentioned as a potential replacement.
Isaacman’s donations, all on record with the Federal Election Commission and compiled by OpenSecrets.org, leave little doubt about his political leanings in recent cycles.
The takeaway from the Trump team, according to insiders: if you back Chuck Schumer with six-figure donations, don’t expect to be appointed in a Trump administration.
Energy expert Daniel Turner, founder of Power the Future, the nonprofit that released a damning report last week revealing that at least eight major actions taken by President Biden were allegedly signed via autopen, joined the latest episode of Breitbart News Saturday to highlight the gravity of his organization’s findings and of other similar reports.
(…) After Power the Future’s review discovered an utter lack of proof that Biden even knew about several major climate actions, as he never publicly spoke of or acknowledged them, the group sent letters this week to several agencies, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of the Interior (DOI), and the Department of Energy (DOE) calling for an investigation.
Letters were also sent to the House and Senate Oversight Committees, Turner toldFox News.
Speaking to Boyle, Turner continued, “Well, when you have an executive order to ban offshore oil and gas drilling … That’s a pretty damn big ban. When you have that and you sign it by autopen, there are process crimes.”
“Someone had to draft that. Someone had to actually put it on paper. Someone had to bring that paper to the autopen machine. That autopen machine is under lock and key. Someone had to open it. Someone had to confirm,” he explained. “And I’m not throwing names under the bus, but I’m just going to use titles. The chief of staff had to know what was going on. The staff secretary — every time Donald Trump signs an executive order, we see the staff secretary hand him that order, explain it, the president signs it. There are personnel involved in processes.”
“These processes, I think, if nothing else, they deserve a good, thorough investigation,” he added.
The letter to House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) states:
In light of the growing evidence that actions purportedly taken by the former president may not have been approved or signed by him, but instead promulgated by a small coterie of advisers in his name without his knowledge or over his signature using an “autopen,” the need for congressional access to information has grown in importance with these revelations.
The letter continues:
Congress deserves to know how or whether these executive actions were authorized, and whether the former president was aware of such orders before they were implemented by the federal bureaucracy. Were these actions taken on behalf of the president and purporting to execute his authority undertaken with the president’s knowledge and approach? It appears incumbent upon Congress to inquire about all parties involved in these actions, who instructed them to do what, when.
Turner also pointed to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) claim that the former president apparently did not know that he had signed an executive order pausing the export of liquified natural gas (LNG) in an early 2024 meeting.
“Because if Joe Biden had no idea he banned natural gas … Look, I’m no Biden fan at all in any sense of the word — I loathe the man. But that guy has been in politics for 60 years because he is a savvy politician. A competent Biden would have never banned the sale of natural gas trying to win the state of Pennsylvania,” the Power the Future founder told Boyle. “Even Biden would have been like, ‘We’re not going to ban natural gas. I’m trying to win the damn state of Pennsylvania for the election.’ That’s how bad of a decision it was, and that’s how out of the loop Biden was.”
I’ve been posting a lot about Hillary Clinton. Let’s spend some time with Bill, shall we?
As the Air Force Military Aide and carrier of the “nuclear football,” the other aides and I lived and worked in the White House.
One morning, I was the first person on President Clinton’s calendar. I was scheduled to brief the president on the nuclear process and answer any questions he might have. I arrived at 7:00AM before the rest of the Oval Office was at work. It also happened to be the same morning that the Monica Lewinsky affair hit the national press.
As I walked by his secretary’s desk in the outer area of the Oval, I noticed the headlines of the Washington Post. I knew he’d been caught. I walked into the Oval and found the president with his head in his hands, bloodshot eyes. He knew he’d been caught, too. I said “Sir, if this is a bad time, I can comeback later for the briefing.” He agreed. I said, “Just one more thing. Could I just authenticate that you have the nuclear codes?” We called the codes “the biscuit” because the president would tear it open.
The president carries the codes, the aide carries the “football.” He told me that no, he didn’t have them. He didn’t know where they were. I asked him how long they’d been misplaced. He couldn’t remember. I was floored. It’d never happened before.
Instead of concern for the missing top secret document, he simply said, “Please don’t let this get out.” His only concern was his impending impeachment, Monica, and his poll numbers.
I gave the Pentagon a heads up and they were incredulous. We conducted an extensive search of the White House and the residence. Never found them. The Pentagon hopped to and created a new set that was quickly disseminated across the US nuclear arsenal. No easy task. They brought a new set the next morning.
Bill Clinton LOST the nuclear codes! For an undetermined period of time, our commander in chief didn’t have the ability to launch nuclear weapons. He never informed us, he had Monica on his mind. Dereliction of duty!
One of the leading prosecutors of the January 6th protesters has resigned from the Department of Justice.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Rosen, who led the DOJ’s Capitol Siege Section, has taken up a post with a private law firm.
Rosen was one of the many prosecutors who worked tirelessly to harass, persecute and ultimately imprison around 1,500 individuals protesting the widespread fraud that tainted the 2020 presidential election.
In an interview with CBS News, Rosen complained about President Trump’s decision to pardon all those involved.
“The message that [the pardons] send is that political violence towards a political goal is acceptable in a modern democratic society,” Rosen said.
“That, from my perspective, is anathema to a constitutional republic.”
NEW: Greg Rosen, former head of Capitol Siege section of Justice Dept, to @cbsnews about agency’s review of 5,000+ FBI employees who were part of Jan 6 investigation:
“The job.. it was not political. For any person to be treated poorly because of that.. is shocking” pic.twitter.com/korUn5y4ok
The CIA’s “How To Start A Riot” Guide. Shows use of hiring professional criminals and agitators to get ethnic minorities groups, student groups and unions angry against a government, then trigger riots of 10,000 ppl with just 100 agitators. pic.twitter.com/O57y5qNTmy
The FBI’s electronic case management system, Sentinel, allows agents to hide the existence of relevant investigative reports from other authorized users of the federal database. And during the Russia collusion hoax, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team used that functionality to keep potentially relevant documents hidden from other FBI agents investigating whether a Fusion GPS contractor lied to Congress.
The significance of these two facts cannot be overstated: Now in question is whether the federal government complies with the constitutional mandate in criminal cases to provide defendants all material exculpatory and impeachment evidence as well as its discovery obligations in civil litigation; whether Special Counsel Durham’s office, the inspector general, and agents investigating the members of the Crossfire Hurricane team had access to all relevant information; whether the DOJ and FBI provided congressional oversight committees with requested (or subpoenaed) documents; and whether FOIA responses included all relevant documents to the press and public.
Last Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a recently declassified FBI “Electronic Communication,” or EC, dating from September 2019, which the Iowa Republican maintains “Proves Fusion GPS Contractor Nellie Ohr Lied To Congress About Contributions To Crossfire Hurricane.” That 43-page document, drafted by a FBI Washington Field Office agent, detailed extensive evidence indicating Nellie Ohr lied multiple times during her congressional testimony concerning the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign.
The catalogue of evidence against Nellie Ohr, who is married to Bruce Ohr — one of the key FBI Russia-collusion hoaxers — raises the question of why the DOJ never pursued criminal charges against the Fusion GPS contractor. The EC also suggests that Nellie Ohr’s open-source research may have made its way into the Steele dossier and the fraudulent Alfa Bank materials provided to the FBI.
Those details, however, pale in comparison to two explosive facts the EC revealed by way of background. First, the EC explained the FBI’s Sentinel case management system allows investigative material to be coded “Prohibited Access,” which renders the files not merely inaccessible to other agents — but invisible to them. And second, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team designated the Trump/Russia-collusion investigations “Prohibited Access” in Sentinel, meaning any agents running keyword search in Sentinel would wrongly believe there were no responsive documents.
Here’s how the FBI Washington Field Office agent put it in the EC: “On May 3, 2019, relevant FBI/DOJ information related to this assessment [of Nellie Ohr] was inaccessible to FBI investigators given that the Trump/Russia-collusion investigations were in FBI systems under ‘Prohibited Access’ status which, unlike ‘Restricted Access’ status, precludes investigators from detecting the existence of potentially relevant serials.”
“In other words,” the EC continued, “when search terms that exist in the Prohibited Access-status cases are searched in Sentinel, the particular search will receive a false-negative Sentinel search response.”
The existence of the “Prohibited Access” classification came as a surprise to several former career prosecutors and FBI agents. Jay Town, a former career prosecutor and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama under Trump 1.0, told The Federalist he was not aware of the “Prohibited Access” classification and shared that many of his colleagues likewise had never heard of it. “This is a staggering revelation for nearly all of us,” Town said.
At least one former assistant U.S. attorney, however, indicated he knew of the “Prohibited Access” coding, and clearly the FBI Washington Field Office agents who drafted and approved the EC were familiar with its use as well. But how many DOJ and FBI agents knew of the “Prohibited Access” functionality is unknown.
There is also scant public information about the coding and when or why it is used. For instance, the redacted public version of the FBI’s Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide does not appear to discuss the use of “Prohibited Access” in Sentinel. An inspector general’s report from 2021, however, confirms Sentinel offers a “Prohibited Access” coding and that that coding renders the files invisible to other FBI agents, with a footnote in that report explaining:
Documents and data uploaded into Sentinel are assigned one of three access levels: unrestricted, restricted, or prohibited. The extent to which information appears in search results depends on the data’s access level and the searcher’s permissions. Prohibited data is visible only to users with permission to view the underlying case; all other users receive no search results and would not know that information relevant to their search exists in a prohibited case.
That the FBI’s case management system allows documents, including witness statements and other evidence, to be rendered invisible to other agents searching Sentinel for relevant documents is horrifying because the federal government is legally obligated in a variety of circumstances to produce such information — but it cannot produce something that it does not know exists. (Read more: The Federalist, 6/2/2025)(Archive)
Former Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe said he planned to resign and retire in February but has remained on the payroll as a “senior adviser” for more than four months into the Trump administration, collecting paid leave.
Rowe’s last day was Friday, according to a knowledgeable Secret Service source, and many agents are hoping his departure will sweep out the DEI policies and lowering of standards that led to two assassination attempts against now-President Trump. After years of DEI hiring priorities, their impact is still plaguing the agency as demonstrated by the recent fistfight between two Uniformed Division officers in front of former President Obama’s D.C. residence late last month, which @RCPolitics first reported.
At least one of the big DEI priorities of former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s has now ended. With Trump’s executive order barring all DEI policies across the federal government, which placed hundreds of DEI officials on paid leave, Secret Service Director Sean Curran is no longer supporting the national 30X30 pledge to hire at least 30% women agents and officers by the year 2030, according to sources familiar with Secret Service policies. This was a major Cheatle priority, and sources say she aggressively pursued it and had achieved 24% women agents and officers with the Secret Service by the time of her forced resignation after the J13 assassination attempt last year.
There are plenty of women agents and officers who adhere to the highest Secret Service standards, but others were not hired solely on merit and at times were pushed through the process even if they didn’t pass all the training tests and requirements.
Within the hour, I’ll report in a separate post about multiple DEI conferences around the country the Secret Service was paying for its agents and employees to attend at the HEIGHT of the frenetic campaign last year while Rowe was complaining that the agency didn’t have enough taxpayer funds to keep manpower levels up.
‼️‼️SECRET SERVICE SCOOP: ROWE FINALLY OUT AT SECRET SERVICE — WILL IT MARK AN END TO DEI PRIORITIES?
Former Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe said he planned to resign and retire in February but has remained on the payroll as a “senior adviser” for more than four months… pic.twitter.com/c2Ssd4YTn4
Here are 50 reasons why President Donald J. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is the best chance in a generation to pass critical reforms for which Americans voted:
It delivers the largest tax cut in American history. This means an extra $5,000 in Americans’ pockets with a DOUBLE-DIGIT percent DECREASEto their tax bills. Americans earning between $30,000 and $80,000 will pay around 15% less in taxes.
It makes the Trump Tax Cuts permanent, preventing the largest tax increase ever. If the bill doesn’t pass, Americans will see the largest tax increase in history.
It raises Americans’ take-home pay by as much as $13,300 and wages by as much as $11,600.
It reverses the spending curse plaguing Washington, D.C. The bill delivers the largest deficit reduction in nearly 30 years, with $1.6 trillion in mandatory savings — the largest single reduction in mandatory spending in our country’s history.
It delivers NO TAX ON TIPS and NO TAX ON OVERTIME. This makes good on two of President Trump’s cornerstone campaign promises and will benefit hardworking Americans where they need it the most — their paychecks.
It finishes President Trump’s border wall. As a result, 701 miles of primary wall, 900 miles of river barriers, 629 miles of secondary barriers, and 141 miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers will be constructed.
It boosts Border Patrol and ICE agents on the frontlines with the largest border security investment in history. This means funding to hire 10,000 new ICE personnel, 5,000 new customs officers, and 3,000 new Border Patrol agents to detain and deport at least one million illegal immigrants annually.
It increases the child tax credit to $2,500 per family.
It protects Medicaid for Americans who truly need it. This bill eliminates waste, fraud, and abuse by ending benefits for at least 1.4 million illegal immigrants who are gaming the system.
It implementspopular work requirements for able-bodied Americans receiving taxpayer-funded benefits. Through commonsense, Clinton-era work, volunteer, education, or training requirements, the One Big Beautiful Bill lifts Americans up to find a better quality of life through the dignity of work.
It eliminates hundreds of billions of dollars in Green New Scam tax credits. The legislation immediately stops credits from flowing to China, saving taxpayers $500+ billion every year.
It reverses electric vehicle mandates that let radical climate activists set the standards for American energy.
It ends Biden’s war on American energy. The bill finally unleashes American energy dominance by opening federal lands and waters to oil, gas, coal, geothermal, and mineral leasing.
It streamlines onerous permitting processes so America can get building again.
It refills the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to safeguard America’s energy security.
It repeals and rescinds every “green” corporate welfare subsidy in Democrats’ so-called “Inflation Reduction Act.”
It stops illegal immigrants from receiving tax credits and taxes remittances sent to foreign countries.
It supports small businesses by increasing the Section 199A deduction to 23% — promoting the growth and success of Main Street.
It incentivizes MADE IN AMERICA. The bill rewards companies that build their products in America with lower taxes — and allows Americans who buy an American-made vehicle to fully deduct their auto loan interest.
It creates new Trump Savings Accounts for newborns — allowing children across America to experience the miracle of compounded growth.
It expands access to childcare for hardworking American families.
It provides a historic increase in funding for the U.S. Coast Guard. This will help block illegal drugs and migrants from entering our country, protect our sovereignty in the Arctic, and promote our national security.
It supports building new factories to grow domestic business operations. The bill renews 100% immediate expensing and interest deductions, increases the small business deduction, and establishes 100% immediate expensing for equipment and machinery.
It helps American farmers, producers, and ranchers compete and sell products in foreign markets. The bill makes sure American farmers aren’t crowded out by foreign imports in liquid fuel production markets.
It holds woke, elitist universities accountable by increasing the endowment tax on large universities.
It protects hardworking taxpayers by canceling Biden’s illegal and unfair student loan bailouts.
It ends taxpayer-funded sex changes. It reverses the Biden-era mandate that Medicaid cover so-called “gender transition” procedures — ending the taxpayer-funded chemical castration and mutilation of American children.
It’s a once-in-a-generation chance to revolutionize our nation’s defense capabilities and protect the homeland against new threats by funding President Trump’s Golden Dome.
It enhances the capacity of America’s naval fleet. The bill provides billions of dollars to revitalize America’s shipbuilding and maritime industrial base.
It modernizes air traffic control — fulfilling President Trump’s plan to completely overhaul the systems that keep Americans flying safely and efficiently.
It strengthens SNAP benefits. The legislation requires states to contribute a greater portion of the cost of administering benefits, thereby controlling costs, and closes the excessively broad loopholes for work requirements.
It implements critical program integrity and cost containment provisions in Medicaid to strengthen it for future generations. These include removing deceased individuals from the program and limiting retroactive coverage from three months to one month prior to enrollment.
It safeguards Second Amendment rights by removing tax and registration requirements for firearm silencers and eliminating silencers from the National Firearms Act.
It provides critical disaster recovery funding to farmers, producers, and ranchers.
It provides funding to rebuild America’s military — including $9+ billion to improve quality of life for our servicemembers, $20+ billion to bolster U.S. munitions production, and $12+ billion to modernize our nuclear arsenal.
It expands health savings accounts to give Americans greater choice and flexibility in how they spend their money.
It gives $10,000 bonuses annually over the next four years to Border Patrol and ICE agents on the frontlines.
It incentivizes scholarships that empower American families and students to choose the education that best fits their needs.
It repeals Democrats’ insane attack on the gig economy — ending the requirement that Venmo, PayPal, and other gig transactions over $600 be reported to the IRS.
It reforms and streamlines the federal student loan program to drive down tuition costs and simplify repayment plans. This includes reasonable limits on amounts students can borrow.
It strengthens accountability for students and taxpayers on federal student loans. The bill imposes “skin in the game” requirements to hold universities financially accountable to the government on defaulted federal student loans.
It implements critical reforms to Pell Grants to make sure they prioritize students who truly need financial assistance while promoting completion. The legislation allows grants to be used for short-term, high-quality workforce training programs to support Americans who want to learn a trade instead of the traditional four-year colleges.
It increases timber sales on federal lands. This means an increase in timber production and improvement to forest management — improving the resilience of timber and saving billions on future wildfire suppression costs.
It authorizes the sale of expanded spectrum MHz to strengthen rural broadband and secure America’s technological dominance in AI and other emerging technologies.
It creates permanent fees that illegal immigrants must pay for their applications so American taxpayers aren’t saddled with covering these costs. These fees will bring in over $77 billion to cover adjudication costs and fund immigration processes and enforcement actions.
It protects family farmers. The bill prevents the greedy death tax from hitting two million family-owned farms who would otherwise see their exemptions cut in half and cuts taxes on farmers by over $10 billion.
It ends abusive financing practices in Medicaid by freezing existing provider taxes and prohibiting new provider taxes. This ensures states cannot improperly increase the federal government’s cost-share of a state Medicaid program at the expense of taxpayers.
It reins in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren has long functioned as another woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy — with minimal accountability or oversight — that leverages its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by the so-called “elites.”
It rolls back harmful Biden-era regulations that increase cost and administrative burdens with limited flexibility for states. These burdensome regulations, such as federal staffing mandates at nursing homes, lead to closures, reduced access to care, and increased costs, particularly in areas already overwhelmed by labor shortages.
John Brennan, Russiagate Conspirator and Laptop Hoaxer, is worried that the CIA and FBI won’t be “apolitical” under Trump —
— and will no longer attract “principled individuals.”
“It is just so similar to the totalitarian regimes that I saw overseas in terms of making sure that the security services are doing the bidding of the political leader.”
“That’s why I think that the FBI is going to have a tough time attracting individuals that have that type of principled approach to government service.”
John Brennan, Russiagate Conspirator and Laptop Hoaxer, is worried that the CIA and FBI won’t be “apolitical” under Trump —
— and will no longer attract “principled individuals.”
“It is just so similar to the totalitarian regimes that I saw overseas in terms of making sure… pic.twitter.com/4YoWk2EyZa
I’m young enough to remember when subpoenas came flying my way left and right just months after leaving Trump 1.0! You name it—Process Servers, U.S. Marshalls, and the FBI — KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK — over 4 years, compliments of the LAWFARE waged by the Biden Admin!
Florida police have arrested a 37-year old illegal immigrant for molesting at least one, and possibly more, of the teen girls that the Biden administration sent to live with him as part of its “unaccompanied alien children” smuggling operation. pic.twitter.com/R7N3WKvuQr
Unaccompanied alien children were placed w “sponsors” by the Department of Health and Human Services, which is not a law enforcement agency and had no ability to do anything about it when they were trafficking kids for labor or sex. 1/3 disappeared. READ:https://t.co/MWyfpOfifU
My eyes were opened in ‘22 to the tr@fficking issue at our southern border. After seeing 1st hand on FB the children being pushed through “holes in the border wall” in Arizona, I prayed ALOT that it would be exposed. Then an 😇 showed up at the end of that year! Her name is… pic.twitter.com/BoT7wVkHOr
Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin (Credit: public domain)
Mark Levin was at the White House today, lobbying for war with Iran. To be clear, Levin has no plans to fight in this or any other war. He’s demanding that American troops do it. We need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, he and likeminded ideologues in Washington are now arguing. They’re just weeks away.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because the same people have been making the same claim since at least the 1990s. It’s a lie. In fact, there is zero credible intelligence that suggests Iran is anywhere near building a bomb, or has plans to. None. Anyone who claims otherwise is ignorant or dishonest. If the US government knew Iran was weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon, we’d be at war already.
Iran knows this, which is why they aren’t building one. Iran also knows it’s unwise to give up its weapons program entirely. Muammar Gaddafi tried that and wound up sodomized with a bayonet. As soon as Gaddafi disarmed, NATO killed him. Iran’s leaders saw that happen. They learned the obvious lesson.
So why is Mark Levin once again hyperventilating about weapons of mass destruction? To distract you from the real goal, which is regime change — young Americans heading back to the Middle East to topple yet another government. Virtually no one will say this out loud. America’s record of overthrowing foreign leaders is so embarrassingly counterproductive that regime change has become a synonym for disaster. Officially, no one supports it. So instead of telling the truth about their motives, they manufacture hysteria: “A country like Iran can never have the bomb! They’ll nuke Los Angeles! We have to act now!”
They don’t really mean this, and you can tell they don’t by what they omit. At least two of Iran’s neighbors — both Islamic nations — already have nuclear weapons. That fact should scare the hell out of Mark Levin. Yet for some reason he never mentions it. How come? Because it’s not the weapons he hates. It’s the ideology of the Iranian government, which is why he’s lobbying to overthrow it.
It goes without saying that there are very few Trump voters who’d support a regime change war in Iran. Donald Trump has argued loudly against reckless lunacy like this. Trump ran for president as a peace candidate. That’s what made him different from conventional Republicans. It’s why he won. A war with Iran would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters. It would end his presidency. That may explain why so many of Trump’s enemies are advocating for it.
And then there’s the question of the war itself. Iran may not have nukes, but it has a fearsome arsenal of ballistic missiles, many of which are aimed at US military installations in the Gulf, as well as at our allies and at critical energy infrastructure. The first week of a war with Iran could easily kill thousands of Americans. It could also collapse our economy, as surging oil prices trigger unmanageable inflation. Consider the effects of $30 gasoline.
But the second week of the war could be even worse. Iran isn’t Iraq or Libya, or even North Korea. While it’s often described as a rogue state, Iran has powerful allies. It’s now part of a global bloc called BRICS, which represents the majority of the world’s landmass, population, economy and military power. Iran has extensive military ties with Russia. It sells the overwhelming majority of its oil exports to China. Iran isn’t alone. An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war. We’d lose.
None of these are far fetched predictions. Most of them comport with the Pentagon’s own estimates: many Americans would die during a war with Iran. People like Mark Levin don’t seem to care about this. It’s not relevant to them. Instead they insist that Iran give up all uranium enrichment, regardless of its purpose. They know perfectly well that Iran will never accept that demand. They’ll fight first. And of course that’s the whole point of pushing for it: to box the Trump administration into a regime change war in Iran.
The one thing that people like Mark Levin don’t want is a peaceful solution to the problem of Iran, despite the obvious benefits to the United States. They denounce anyone who advocates for a deal as a traitor and a bigot. They tell us with a straight face that Long Island native Steve Witkoff is a secret tool of Islamic monarchies. They’ll say or do whatever it takes. They have no limits. These are scary people. Pray that Donald Trump ignores them.
Mark Levin was at the White House today, lobbying for war with Iran. To be clear, Levin has no plans to fight in this or any other war. He’s demanding that American troops do it. We need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, he and likeminded ideologues in Washington are…
Jeffrey Sachs divulged to Tucker Carlson the “Origination of The Deep State Project started under Clinton to expand NATO”
He explains how yesterday was truly HISTORIC DAY once that call between Trump & Putin occurred.
Every president since Clinton has signed onto this secret plan until Trump.
We had made assurances not to expand NATO to Russia and then after the fall of the Soviet Union we embarked on warp speed expansion. And the most dangerous move was to back out of the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) in 2002 which was designed to prevent nuclear war.
We then attempted to absorb Ukraine & Georgia into NATO.
This full segment is worth the time because it lays out how we arrived to this dangerous point that many times could have led us to WW3.
Jeffrey Sachs divulged to Tucker Carlson the “Origination of The Deep State Project started under Clinton to expand NATO”
He explains how yesterday was truly HISTORIC DAY once that call between Trump & Putin occurred. Every president since Clinton has signed onto this secret… pic.twitter.com/5WqRYn01Tu
1. While most of America remains blissfully uninformed by our establishment press, the world’s two greatest superpowers are being manipulated by Dark Forces inside and outside our government, into a major military confrontation that no country wants, and no sane person would ever want.
2. I have no role in the Trump Administration, but over a long career in the active uniformed military, specifically military intelligence, I have made it a point to cultivate many sources of information around the world. From what I can piece together, I want to share my deep concerns about who is behind this march to war, and my recommendations for how our nation and the West can avoid a major military confrontation with Russia.
3. I believe that the American Deep State is staffed by those with a deep, visceral, and irrational hatred for Russia, and these persons have conspired to box in President Trump’s decision making through the Russiagate Hoax. During the time the Soviet Union was expanding and infiltrating our government, I was an outspoken anti-communist, but, despite the lies told by our Deep State, Russia is not the Soviet Union and Putin is not Stalin. Even today, years after the Russiagate Hoax has been exposed, President Trump’s efforts to bring peace are met with resistance. The Establishment Press, deeply influenced and even sometimes controlled by our Deep State, labeled President Trump and those who work for him “Putin’s Puppets” to goad him into taking unwarranted and aggressive steps against Russia. These voices from the establishment press reflect the views of the Deep State, not the American People, and not the MAGA movement, and should be completely disregarded, if not mocked.
4. During almost all of the post-World War II period, and certainly since the establishment of the CIA in 1947, these unelected dark establishment forces have acted to destabilize the world, bringing death, famine, assassinations, violence, coups, riots, revolutions, and destruction to our planet. Currently, these forces are working to provoke Russia into a major — perhaps a final — military conflict with the West.
5. This provocation has many forms. Most recently, it involves the surprise drone attack on the Russian federation strategic arsenal, said to affect 40 bombers, or about a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet. Since Russian and American strategic bombers are generally required by agreement to be visible to satellite surveillance, never before has anyone engaged in an attack on these visible targets. If Russian bombers can be attacked with impunity, so can American bombers. By this action, the Ukrainian Government has not just weakened Russia, it has jeopardized America. Thus, those in the Ukrainian government who ordered these strikes have made themselves enemies not just of Russia, but of the United States. Making matters worse, this unwarranted attack was followed by Ukrainian attacks on the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Russia and Crimea.
6. I do not believe that the recent escalation against Russia’s strategic bomber fleet was authorized by or coordinated with President Trump. Rather, it is my view that the Deep State is now acting outside of the control of the elected leadership of our nation. I believe that these persons in our Deep State are engaged in a deliberate effort to provoke Russia into a major confrontation with the West, including the United States. The time is now to take aggressive action against those who abuse their authority as government employees to manipulate the elected leadership of our nation.
7. Growing up in an Irish Democrat family in Rhode Island, I was only about five when John Kennedy was assassinated, but our family viewed John Kennedy as a hero. Not just for my family, one of our most beloved Presidents, John F. Kennedy, in 1961, found himself manipulated by earlier versions of these same Deep State forces when they attempted to manipulate President Kennedy to launch Air Force planes to attack Cuba after the failed invasion, resulting in an open conflict with both Cuba and the Soviet Union. In President Kennedy’s June 1963 speech at American University declaring his vision of peace with the Soviet Union, he declared himself to be an enemy of this Deep State, which by all indications then retaliated by participating in his assassination five months later in Dallas. The American Deep State is not only a threat to peace, but a threat to the President.
8. President Trump has already faced at least two assassination attempts. If there is one person who I believe has the character and love for our nation to rid our government of these forces, it is President Trump. After the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Trump displayed the type of personal courage that those of us who have served in the military deeply admire. With great affection for the President, I now urge him to risk the wrath of the Deep State once again by taking actions to purge enemies of our nation within our agencies and departments. Removing such persons from power is absolutely necessary to achieve the type of peace he described during his campaign and the beginning of his Administration.
9. Once President Kennedy realized he was being manipulated, and opposed because he sought peace, he removed Allen Dulles as Director of Central Intelligence, and several of his assistants. I urge President Trump to immediately clean house of any in government who had prior knowledge of or participated in any way in the Ukrainian attack on the Russian federation strategic bombers, and to go further by immediately declaring an end to any support for the Ukraine War. President Trump is right: this is not “his” War. I urge him to recall all open and covert military and other government personnel from Ukraine. I urge him to have all those personnel removed and interrogated by the FBI or the military to learn of their possible participation in unauthorized military activities. Any Americans who have aided and abetted Ukraine’s attacks should be investigated for violation of American law, and prosecuted as necessary.
10. I also believe President Trump should distance himself from certain Western leaders such as German Chancellor Fred Merz, who have acted and spoken in an irresponsible manner with respect to the Ukraine War. If there are countries in Europe who wish to provide military assistance to Ukraine, that is their concern, and they should not be surprised by President Putin’s response to their actions against Russia. If such leaders want to lead their nations to war by persisting in such irresponsible behavior, they will go it alone.
11. I urge President Trump to also distance himself from demonstrated war mongers in our own government, chief among whom is U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham. Those who love wars fought by others are no friends of America, and have no entitlement to be friends of the President.
12. Finally, I urge the American people to stand prayerfully and resolutely with President Trump as he cleans house and acts in pursuit of the type of peace which President Kennedy embraced. Peace is not the normal state of man. Freedom requires a price be paid by every generation. It is time to recommit our nation to both.
1. While most of America remains blissfully uninformed by our establishment press, the world’s two greatest superpowers are being manipulated by Dark Forces inside and outside our government, into a major military confrontation that no country wants, and no sane person would ever… pic.twitter.com/z1eg87HFJD
General Flynn’s warnings about unelected bureaucrats hijacking foreign policy align with the core mission of exposing government waste and unaccountability. The Ukraine Support Act (H.R. 2913) allocates $300M annually through 2027 for military aid, yet Flynn’s analysis highlights a critical flaw: taxpayer dollars risk fueling proxy conflicts without congressional oversight or strategic clarity. This mirrors the bill’s Section 205, which mandates reports on allied contributions but lacks enforceable mechanisms to prevent mission creep.
The real issue? Bureaucrats weaponize aid to serve globalist agendas, not American interests. While national defense is non-negotiable, unchecked spending on foreign wars—without measurable outcomes or audits—is fiscal malpractice. Trump’s leadership must dismantle this corruption, redirecting resources to secure borders, energy independence, and crushing inflation.
Accountability starts with defunding Deep State operatives embedded in agencies, as Flynn rightly demands. Every dollar sent abroad should face the same scrutiny as domestic programs. No more blank checks for foreign quagmires.
General Flynn’s warnings about unelected bureaucrats hijacking foreign policy align with the core mission of exposing government waste and unaccountability. The Ukraine Support Act (H.R. 2913) allocates $300M annually through 2027 for military aid, yet Flynn’s analysis highlights…
SICK: @RepJeffries vows to reveal the identities of ICE agents—who are currently facing a massive uptick in death threats, doxing, and assaults—while comparing them to Soviets.
He should be ashamed of himself for putting targets on the backs of these heroes and their families. pic.twitter.com/wy5fMOEsO7
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 4, 2025
Tarek Bazrouk allegedly punched Jonathan Lederer in the face after ranting about Hitler and Nazis. (Credit: DCPI)
A “Jew-hater” who protested against Israel on Columbia University’s campus and contemplated setting a student on fire allegedly had a direct link to Hamas’ deadly al-Qassam Brigades militant group, The Post can reveal.
Tarek Bazrouk — awaiting trial after being indicted on three federal hate crimes against Jewish people — was “a member of a chat group that received regular updates from Abu Obeida,” the official spokesperson for the brigades, according to allegations in federal documents.
The accusation is the first evidence of an agitator receiving information directly from Hamas and taking action during protests on the university campus.
Bazrouk, 20, who was not a Columbia student, also frequently wore the green headband used by Hamas terrorists and boasted to friends about having relatives overseas who were part of the terror group, prosecutors claim in a letter filed with the court.
While on Columbia’s campus during protests in April 2024, Bazrouk allegedly texted a pal saying he lit a flare and considered lighting someone on fire, but that there were “too many” people around for him to take on, otherwise he “would’ve hurted [sic] them.”
Columbia University said it has no record of Bazrouk being on campus and wanted “to be clear that this individual is not affiliated with our University in any way,” adding that the school “strongly condemns antisemitism and violence, and we are horrified by the violence and hate crimes described in the indictment.”
Bazrouk, a US citizen born and raised in New York, was also arrested next to the campus in December 2024 for one of the three attacks against Jewish people of which he stands accused.
It is not clear how Bazrouk got on campus, which is private university property, but Columbia was beset with anti-Israel protesters shielded by masks throughout 2024, resulting in the NYPD being called to flush them out in April that year. (Read more: New York Post, 6/4/2025)(Archive)
🚨‼️BOMBSHELL from Mark Krikorian: “NGOs & UN Agencies were paid by US taxpayers to facilitate illegal movement of migrants from South and Central America and Mexico.”
These coordinated & well-funded assistance programs were designed to undermine US immigration laws. pic.twitter.com/k8h3c1ledh
$1.4 billion already given to migrant trails this yr from USAID + State Dept’s “Bureau of Population, Refugees & Migration,” shipping cash to inbound migrants from 248 NGOs. The lion’s share of the UN’s $1.6 billion goal is funded by us. Marco Rubio will need to shut this down. https://t.co/xH4R3RXHzLpic.twitter.com/h3KbekMh1U
NGOs don’t get to rewrite the law. Undermining federal immigration enforcement isn’t “humanitarian” … it’s obstruction. If you take taxpayer money, you should be held accountable for helping criminals over the country you’re operating in. pic.twitter.com/JvzPdeIjPA
Last week, Michigan’s dirty Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was the first elected official in the state’s history to be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over subpoenaed election information to lawmakers. Today, Articles of Impeachment have been filed against the current Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for Governor, Jocelyn Benson.
The subpoena issued by the Michigan House, which demanded that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson provide election training materials, was issued in April with a May 22 deadline for submitting the materials. Unfortunately, for the citizens of Michigan, a significant portion of taxpayer dollars has been spent on defending the illegal activity by Michigan’s Secretary of State, Benson, who spends more time in court fighting lawsuits by plaintiffs demanding transparency and honest voter rolls than actually doing her job.
Former MI Clerks, Rep. Ann Bolin (l), Speaker Pro-Tem Rachelle Smit (c), and Rep. Jay DeBoyer (r)(Credit: public domain)
House Speaker Pro Tempore Rachelle Smit (R-Martin) released a statement following the contempt vote, highlighting the House’s persistence: “For seven months, we’ve given Secretary Benson every opportunity to sit down with us and discuss the training process for clerks and their staffs. I made my first information request in November of last year. Since then, we’ve gone back and forth repeatedly as MDOS has blocked our access to the materials used to train our clerks and their staff.” Joining Smit at the podium were Rep. Ann Bollin (R-Brighton Township), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, and Rep. Jay DeBoyer (R-Clay Township), Chair of the House Oversight Committee.
The civil contempt vote was sponsored by Representatives Jay DeBoyer (R) and Ann Bollin (R) and was approved along party lines. Fifty-eight representatives voted in favor of contempt, while 47 voted against, and 5 representatives abstained from voting. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 6/4/2025) (Archive)
(…) Grassley demanded Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel search for and produce all records related to Mueller and the Biden Crime Family that may currently be hiding in the “Prohibited Access” files.
“As I’m sure you are aware, the impact of parking records in a way that impedes, or in some cases prevents, responsive records from being produced to Congress pursuant to a valid request and during the course of court litigation, whether criminal or civil, is wide-ranging and potentially catastrophic to constitutional requirements,” Grassley wrote to Bondi and Patel. “Indeed, if the FBI has failed to take steps in the past to access records in ‘Restricted’ or ‘Prohibited’ status, the FBI has not fully responded to many years of my oversight requests.”
Chairman Grassley is also seeking records related to DOJ/FBI officials who destroyed federal documents related to Mueller’s bogus Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
Recall that Mueller’s top henchman Andrew Weissmann deleted his government phones numerous times during the Mueller inquisition.
Special Agent Walter Giardina who played a major role in the Mueller probe, Peter Navarro prosecution, Arctic Frost, Crossfire Hurricane, Roger Stone and Hillary Clinton cases illegally wiped his government laptop.
Per Grassley:
SA Giardina was an initial recipient of the Steele Dossier and falsely said that the report was corroborated as true.
SA Giardina stated openly his animosity toward President Trump and made known his personal motivation to investigate Trump.
SA Giardina electronically wiped the laptop he was assigned while working for Special Counsel Mueller outside of established protocol for record preservation, raising the possibility that he destroyed government records. The destruction of the laptop was reported to the DOJ Office of Inspector General.
SA Giardina instructed agents to use false Emolument Clause predication on President Trump to “dig around.”
SA Giardina was a case agent assigned to the Crimson River case, later changed to Red Maasari. This case was leaked, by whom it is not known, to the Washington Post in August 2024, roughly 90 days before the presidential election, in an attempt to falsely discredit President Trump.
NEW: Senate Judiciary is investigating FBI agent Giardina, who “falsely said the [Steele dossier] was corroborated as true” and “stated openly his animosity toward Trump” and “electronically wiped the laptop he was assigned while working for Special Counsel Mueller” on Flynn case https://t.co/Q4mt6GFRQt
A GoFundMe account was set up for the Ohr’s in October 2020 and they received over $51,000 in donations for their legal costs.. (Credit: GoFundMe)
(…) As FBI investigators were looking into FBI records of Nellie Ohr, they hit a roadblock set by the Special Counsel’s Office:
“Relevant FBI/DOJ information related to this assessment was inaccessible to FBI investigators given that the Trump/Russia-collusion investigations were in FBI systems under ‘Prohibited Access’ status which, unlike ‘Restricted Access’ status, precludes investigators from detecting the existence of potentially relevant serials. In other words, when search terms that exist in the Prohibited Access-status cases are searched in Sentinel [the FBI’s case management system], the particular search will receive a false-negative Sentinel search response.”
From the Electronic Communication, it’s pretty clear that the agents Federal Public Corruption squad were not surprised by the segregation of the Trump/Russia records. There’s no doubt that the Federal Public Corruption unit would be familiar with the Prohibited Access status, as they have (until their recent disbanding) investigated fraud, bribery, and corruption of public officials, both elected and unelected. Most likely they restricted many, if not all, of their investigations in a similar matter.
After all, it’s natural that some investigations require more secrecy than other, especially ones that are politically-charged, involve threats to the homeland, or are otherwise sensitive. And the existence of the “Prohibited Access” level – especially with regard to Crossfire Hurricane – is not itself a surprise.
“Because the information being investigated related to an ongoing presidential election campaign, the Crossfire Hurricane case file was designated as ‘prohibited’ meaning that access to the file was restricted and viewable to only those individuals assigned to work on the investigation. Agents and analysts referred to the investigation as ‘close-hold’ and, as discussed later in this chapter, used covert investigative techniques to ensure information about the investigation remained known only to the team and FBI and Department officials.”
Similarly, as our friend Walkafyre observed, the opening Electronic Communication for the Midyear investigation (which looked into Hillary Clinton’s transmission of classified information) stated it would be “designated as a prohibited investigation” due to its sensitive nature and “the damage its disclosure would cause.”
But it’s not only the political cases that are designated Prohibited. IG Horowitz, in his 2021 review of the FBI’s adjudication of employee misconduct investigations, noted that “documents and data uploaded into Sentinel are assigned one of the three access levels: unrestricted, restricted, or prohibited.” At that time, Sentinel was programmed so that FBI misconduct cases were “automatically designated ‘prohibited access.’”
So it’s not the existence of cases designated “Prohibited Access” being, by themselves, a scandal. But its rather the abuses that can stem from the prohibition. It cannot be forgotten that top officials within the FBI and the Mueller Special Counsel had a significant self-interest in the Prohibited Access designation, one relating to self-preservation and also their political desire to continue to their investigative pursuits. Sunlight was the disinfectant, though it came too late.
And we get an example of that abuse in the Electronic Communication released by Grassley. The Special Counsel’s Office (SCO) refused to provide a number of requested documents, including those relating to Nellie Ohr’s boss at Fusion GPS, Jake Berkowitz. Migration of the cases from Prohibited Access to Restricted Access was slow and incomplete. At other times, the SCO never provided documents to the search requests provided by the Federal Public Corruption.
That’s your scandal – using Prohibited Access as a way to not only insulate a corrupt case but to hinder the legitimate case against Nellie Ohr, with self-protection being the ultimate goal. (The other scandal being the still unexplained decision to not prosecute Nellie Ohr.) The timing is important – the materials continued to be prohibited, and the SCO continued to be uncooperative, even after the SCO had wound-down and Mueller had issued his report in the spring of 2019.
(…) Finally, on the topic of secrecy, apparently the FBI – apparently including former Director James Comey – had other means to hide documents. It was quite simple: keep paper copies but don’t digitize the files through the normal FBI procedures. (Read more: Techno Fog/The Reactionary, 6/5/2025)(Archive)
I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died. He sought my advice for months before that. I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him!
Donald Trump was the ONLY person who helped Epstein victims:
“Trump is the only person who picked up the phone and said, let’s just talk. He was very helpful in the information he gave.” – the lawyer for Epstein’s victims pic.twitter.com/22ci5n0Tnn
A high-ranking federal prosecutor resigned in protest after a grand jury indicted MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia on charges of trafficking aliens.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadoran national who was illegally residing in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration judge ordered Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the dangerous MS-13 gang, removed from the US.
After a months long court battle over his deportation, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transported back to the United States from El Salvador to face criminal charges.
(…) A federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”
He was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.
According to the indictment, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and co-conspirators from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and the US were trafficking illegal aliens from 2016 through 2025.
(…) Ben Schrader, the Chief of the Criminal Division at the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee, quit in protest after a federal grand jury indicted Abrego Garcia.
Schrader believed the federal case against Abrego Garcia was pursued for political reasons.
“Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned as Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee. It has been an incredible privilege to serve as a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, where the only job description I’ve ever known is to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. I wish all of my colleagues at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and across the Department the best as they seek to do justice on behalf of the American people,” Ben Schrader said on LinkedIn.
🚨 #BREAKING: Pam Bondi officially announces Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be returned to the US after the DOJ uncovered he made OVER 100 SMUGGLING TRIPS of illegals
A grand jury found human trafficking was Garcia’s FULL TIME JOB, and he frequently ABUSED women.
Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts
CIA Officer says it’s “significant amounts of money” being laundered back to Senator Lindsey Graham
“Let me say something about Senator Graham. There will be news coming out in the next couple of months about how he has profited financially off of money that came out of Ukraine, laundered through Latvia and made it way into his bank account. And now we’re talking significant amounts of money. The Department of Justice is looking at it.
Those are serious allegations leveled by CIA officer, former CIA officer Larry Johnson.“
Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts
CIA Officer says it’s “significant amounts of money” being laundered back to Senator Lindsey Graham
As we have watched things unfold, we have noticed that Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio seem to be the most effective at delivering results despite the efforts of the entrenched control mechanisms of the deep state intelligence community. Actions speak louder than words, and while the words of many are strong, it is the actions of Gabbard and Rubio that show focus.
Previously Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard removed the National Intelligence Council from the CIA and removed the heads. In the latest development, the intelligence apparatus is in a state of apoplexy because DNI Gabbard has experienced the politicization of the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s network (ICIG), and she is now taking bold actions around the silo control mechanism.
(Credit: Conservative Treehouse)
Before getting to the substance, it is worth reminding everyone of clear politicization within the ICIG when Michael Atkinson changed the CIA whistleblower rules in order to facilitate a false accusation against President Trump using CIA operative Eric Ciaramella and Alexander Vindman. Atkinson worked with his former boss in the DOJ, Mary McCord, to frame the construct of an impeachment against President Trump.
Also remember, Atkinson’s testimony to the House impeachment committee was sealed and classified by co-chairs Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler who were part of the framing. That transcript has NEVER been released.
Tamara A. Johnson was named Principal Deputy Inspector General of the Intelligence Community in October 2020. (Credit: public domain)
In the latest development, DNI Tulsi Gabbard has installed a key ally, Dennis Kirk, into the ICIG apparatus. Kirk is in place to monitor the political operations of the Intelligence Community and report to DNI Gabbard so that she can eliminate the bad actors. To say the Deep State IC embeds are apoplectic would be an understatement. The Inspector General system within the Intelligence Community is a critical control mechanism for politicization of intelligence.
The leaks to the media are to the Washington Post, because this core part of the IC is a CIA element. The CIA uses the Washington Post as their public relations and narrative distribution network.
WASHINGTON POST – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard installed one of her top advisers to a position within the office of the inspector general of the intelligence community, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The move potentially compromises the integrity of the independent watchdog office while it is investigating the use of the Signal messaging app by top government officials to discuss classified details of a pending U.S. military strike against the Houthis in March.
The adviser, Dennis Kirk, was placed within the watchdog office on May 9, but reports to the DNI, according to one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Massachusetts), the leading Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to acting intelligence community inspector general Tamara A. Johnson on Thursday, demanding information about the appointment of Kirk, who was an adviser in the Office of Personnel Management during President Donald Trump’s first term and co-author of a Project 2025 chapter on the federal workforce.
Lynch said the Oversight Committee was informed of the appointment by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), a group made up of government watchdogs.
In a statement to The Washington Post, Gabbard’s press secretary, Olivia Coleman, accused the intelligence community inspector general of failing to fulfill “the responsibility to be an independent organization unbeholden to partisan interests.”
Coleman said that Kirk was assigned to the watchdog office as part of the transition team and found “evidence of overwhelming and intentional politicization by the current IC IG team.”
The office’s leadership, she said, has “bucked President Trump’s directives” regarding diversity, equity and inclusion, “slow-walked responses to Congressional Republicans while prioritizing responding to Democrats, abused taxpayer dollars for personal purposes, and created a workplace environment filled with politically motivated action,” she said. “This is unacceptable on all fronts, and the DNI is taking action to ensure the IG office is focused on fulfilling its mission.”
[…] “The purported appointment of the IC IG ‘senior adviser’ heightens existing concerns about politicization and improper conduct at ODNI, including the subordination of competence and accountability at the agency to political fealty to President Trump,” Lynch wrote.
[…] The intelligence community inspector general was set up by statute in 2010 to provide independent oversight over the now 18 agencies in the intelligence community. (read more)
Pay attention to when the ICIG office was constructed, 2010!
Barack Obama took office in January 2009, with the House and Senate fully controlled by Democrats (60 Senators) throughout 2009 and 2010. The establishment of the ICIG was part of the construct for the Fourth Branch of Govt.
Current DNI Tulsi Gabbard is working through a process to deal with the IC weaponization legacy we have discussed on these pages for quite some time. Again, one of the few cabinet officials actually confronting the constructs within the Deep State.
FBI Director Kash Patel sat down with Joe Rogan in Austin, Texas, where he dropped a series of revelations about the Bureau’s ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, including a promise to release jail cell surveillance footage and newly uncovered evidence that could implicate Anthony Fauci.
(…) The most explosive moment of the interview came when Patel shifted his focus to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
This was the bombshell.
After years of stonewalling, vanishing records, and unanswered questions, a major breakthrough had finally arrived: Fauci’s COVID-era phones and hard drives—once thought to be missing—had been found.
“We just had a great breakthrough this week on Fauci,” Patel revealed.
The FBI had been investigating the origins of COVID, but a key problem remained: Fauci’s communications during the most pivotal months of the pandemic were nowhere to be found.
“And nobody had found it… till two days ago.”
Now, the original hard drives are in hand. And Patel made the mission clear: “Did that guy lie? Did he intentionally mislead the world and cause countless deaths?”
He stressed that this isn’t about politics—it’s about accountability. “The best evidence is always the people’s evidence,” he said.
“We’re going to exploit those hard drives… We’re not done. We’re on the case.”
If there’s evidence Fauci manipulated data, covered up dissent, or shaped the narrative to fit a political agenda, Patel believes it could be sitting right there on those devices.
And this time, he says, the truth won’t be buried.
Most people know her as the Mayor of Los Angeles, and some remember her botched handling of this year’s wildfire crisis.
But there’s a lot more beneath the surface. Let’s dig in. ⬇️
1️⃣ Karen Bass once served as Vice Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a U.S. government-funded NGO notorious for meddling in foreign governments under the banner of “promoting democracy.”
Translation: soft power regime change.
2️⃣ NED has been exposed repeatedly for funding color revolutions, pushing Western-aligned NGOs, and helping topple governments that don’t play ball with U.S. interests.
Bass was right in the middle of it.
3️⃣ And then there’s the scholarship scandal.
LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas got federally indicted for receiving a scholarship from USC’s School of Social Work and allegedly trading favors.
Bass? She received the exact same scholarship.
But no charges. Not even a slap on the wrist.
4️⃣ Why the double standard?
When you’re part of the machine… when you’ve got D.C. connections, NGO backing, and ties to the intel-adjacent nonprofit world: you get protection.
She’s not a DEI figurehead – she’s in the system.
5️⃣ This thread will walk through her career, her quiet rise through soft power institutions, and how she became a key player in the globalist swamp.
Big thanks to @HTWardish for the lead.
Let’s get into it. (Patience as I construct this thread live)🔻
🧵 THREAD: Who really is Karen Bass?
Most people know her as the Mayor of Los Angeles, and some remember her botched handling of this year’s wildfire crisis.
But there’s a lot more beneath the surface. Let’s dig in. ⬇️
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
Karen Bass’ political career started early. She volunteered in Robert Kennedy’s political campaign in middle school.
She studied philosophy at San Diego University from 1971 to 1973, but she was already a full-fledged political activist by then.
At the age of only 19 years old, she was already visiting Cuba every six months as a part of a group called the Venceremos Brigade. These visits would continue to the mid-1970s.
The Venceremos Brigade was a joint effort from the Castro government – she was working at the behest of a quasi-governmental NGO backed by Castro.
Karen Bass’ political career started early. She volunteered in Robert Kennedy’s political campaign in middle school.
She studied philosophy at San Diego University from 1971 to 1973, but she was already a full-fledged political activist by then.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
Bass was so indoctrinated in Castro doctrine that she ended up embracing the more authoritarian aspects of his ideology and ironically rejecting the hippie movement. pic.twitter.com/lakHPewqsc
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
CoCo’s mission statement: community organizing through “building grassroots leadership.” Their main service appears to be holding townhalls. The vast majority of their expenditures are in salaries and benefits. pic.twitter.com/lsxgSQUlhH
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
Bass’ leadership in Coco would see her be elected to represent California’s 47th Assembly District. She became the first Black woman to serve in CA state legislature.
She was re-elected in 2006 and 2008, and then her term limit expired.
She became appointed as majority whip…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
A biography notes she traveled to Africa 30+ times. In short, she never stopped being a global activist – this doubtlessly made her an attractive target for NED. pic.twitter.com/YXzjIjXHL5
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
Bass served on NED from 2014, just three years after she became elected to the House of Representatives – which is a remarkably short timeframe. Even all the more startling as appointments are typically Senators. Representatives are not appointed nearly often enough. pic.twitter.com/2hmOn3wZFl
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
Bass was a never passive member of NED – she was deeply involved in democracy building throughout the world. pic.twitter.com/m2nszOzYuw
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
In 2022, a federal corruption case indicted Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas. His crime: steering money into the university in exchange for his son receiving a scholarship at the same univeristy. pic.twitter.com/ql6JXCsgp0
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
She was considered HUD Secretary for the Biden administration. Instead, she nominated the person who would become the actual HHS Secretary – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
That’s right. Bass is responsible for Xavier Becerra being in the HHS Secretary position. pic.twitter.com/zn6MQd2cqf
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
Overall, Karen Bass has a mild-mannered image. Her mishandling of the LA Wildfires caused her to be labeled as a DEI mayor.
I think that is a mischaracterization. She is terrifyingly effective at what she does best: leftist activism. She is entrenched into the system at a… pic.twitter.com/eb1hHZklm6
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
TL;DR, Karen Bass was raised from cradle to be a part of the globalist network – and continues to ignore the actual needs of LA residents to promote leftism at a global stage.
/ Thread end.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 7, 2025
For years, the popular “LA Scanner” account on X presented itself as a simple, neutral feed with just scanner updates, crime alerts, and public safety notices. But now, the left-wing mask has finally slipped.
And what do we see underneath? A raging left-wing activist with Stage 5 TDS, an open hatred for law enforcement, and a not-so-subtle agenda to turn his 40K followers into digital foot soldiers for sabotage against ICE.
In a now-viral post, the account openly encouraged people to commit a federal crime – calling in fake reports to ICE in order to tie up their resources and “make them look like fools.” That’s not free speech. That’s incitement. That’s obstruction. And, as we mentioned, that’s a felony.
Definitely don’t call in fake reports to tie up their resources and make them look like fools pic.twitter.com/vE23FMmKCG
— LA Scanner (@LAScanner) June 8, 2025
And here’s the kicker: the guy knew exactly what he was doing. His snarky “definitely don’t call in fake reports” phrasing was a wink-and-nod to his activist base. The intent was clear—and now that it’s blowing up in his face, he’s panicking.
For those that don’t know, filing false reports to a federal law enforcement agency is illegal under 18 U.S.C. § 1001. It carries up to 5 years in prison or 8 years if it involves terrorism-related targets. And according to Grok and legal analysts, it’s easily traceable thanks to SS7 signaling, ANI data, and VoIP tracing. Translation: You will get caught.
One X user put it bluntly:
“Food for thought in case anyone wants to try and commit a felony by filing false reports… ANI makes it easy to trace your line, even if you spoof your Caller ID.”
However, things took a turn for Mr. LA Scanner once the violence escalated in LA and once MAGA accounts started calling for his arrest and removal from X. LA Scanner panicked. He posted a desperate backpedal:
“I want to be absolutely clear: I do not support the violence currently happening… If you are rioting, you need to stop… But if you’re peacefully protesting the removal of immigrants… I support your right to do so.”
Look:
The sudden backtrack from felonious wink-winks to “safety is the top priority” wasn’t just weak; it was transparent. He knew what he did. He just didn’t think it would come back on him. But it did. Because this is what happens when the left’s emotion-driven activism crosses the line into actual crime. Their fake moral high ground crumbles the second the consequences hit.
Here’s where this all started – because this isn’t just about ICE. It’s about Trump Derangement Syndrome taking over another American who let his rage cloud his judgment. Take a look at this unhinged statement he posted in the wee hours of June 9th.
I am absolutely sickened by the actions of this administration. I cannot — and will not — stand by while Donald Trump tears apart families, lives, and entire communities. What he says and what he does are not the same. While claiming to target criminals, he is deploying militarized agents to job sites and detaining entire construction crews. An 18-year-old was reportedly forced to relieve himself in front of adult men—some potentially dangerous—while in custody. Others are being held in conditions that can only be described as inhumane: sleeping on concrete floors with nothing but Mylar blankets, crowded into facilities that resemble modern-day concentration camps. This is not justice. This is cruelty. Trump is dismantling a nation built by immigrants, for immigrants. Mr. Trump: Stop. End these actions now. History is watching.
Clearly, the person running this account has more than scanners on his or her mind.
But it gets worse.
While those violent far-left mobs and Mexican nationalist rioters were wreaking havoc in L.A., Mr. LA Scanner decided to up the ante by posting what amounted to a hit list. A list of ICE locations, published in the middle of a live riot. This wasn’t public info sharing. It was tactical incitement.
Over 1,000 rioters are attacking federal agents and Governor Newsom does nothing.
LA’s Mayor is actually attacking ICE.
The left desperately wants to pin “chaos” on Trump. But it’s their money — much of it stolen from taxpayers — that’s literally buying the riots. pic.twitter.com/Wue9m9pTcP
INSURRECTION: Democrat activists like Jack Quillin who runs the LA Scanner 𝕏 account doxxed federal agents and directed protesters to federal buildings before and during the riots. As a result, both the agents and the buildings were repeatedly attacked. Last night he began to realize that he was putting lives in danger stating, “I genuinely hope this doesn’t end in anyone losing their life” after posting the address of a federal agent. When he provided a list of federal offices in the LA area to protesters he made sure to remind them to remain peaceful. Quillin’s operation, NightSunTV, LLC, collected the names, addresses, photos of federal officials going as far as to build an interactive map that provided a real-time view of their locations throughout the LA area. I think it would make a LOT of sense @FBIDirectorKash to have someone from the FBI reach out to Quillin before someone gets hurt.
INSURRECTION: Democrat activists like Jack Quillin who runs the LA Scanner 𝕏 account doxxed federal agents and directed protesters to federal buildings before and during the riots. As a result, both the agents and the buildings were repeatedly attacked. Last night he began to… pic.twitter.com/ltfN2bdHxQ
INSURRECTION: The Democrat activist that runs the LA Scanner 𝕏 doxxing federal agents has evidently been doxxed himself. Doxxing is just plain wrong – don’t do it. Let the FBI deal with Jack…
He has deleted certain posts from his page. He is actively hiding shit. Now all the posts are different. Go check it out. This is gone as well as his earlier posts from today. Around 8 pic.twitter.com/nj3IxvXdBy
Rescue workers stand in front of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building, following an explosion on 19 April 1995, in downtown Oklahoma City.(Credit:: David Longstreath/AP)
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) There was a lot of news last week about the FBI suppressing evidence: Sen. Chuck Grassley alleged Thursday that the bureau has a “Prohibited Access” label to hide damning documents, while Director Kash Patel was widely criticized a day later for his dubious claims that the FBI doesn’t have footage of sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s associates abusing girls.
To top it off, an attorney suing the FBI in federal court filed a motion Friday afternoon, accusing the bureau of lying about footage in another scandalous case: the Oklahoma City bombing, which remains the deadliest domestic terrorism attack in American history.
Jesse Trentadue is photographed in Salt Lake City, Saturday July 26, 2014. (Credit: Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune)
The late-Friday motion comes from Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue, who’s been suing the FBI for records on the OKC bombing for decades. Trentadue said in his motion that a researcher he works with recently uncovered previously hidden FBI records about the bombing. Those records, unearthed by OKC bomb researcher Richard Booth, show that an agent falsely testified in court that the bureau didn’t have surveillance footage of OKC bomber Timothy McVeigh and his mystery accomplice “John Doe 2.”
“Booth did a text based search of those FBI records and discovered therein four documents proving that the Bureau is in possession of videotapes from security cameras at the Regency Towers Apartments (“RTA”) that show the destruction of the Murrah Federal Building, and Timothy McVeigh actually arming the truck bomb at approximately 8:57 am on the morning of [April] 19, 1995, when the Ryder Truck that was carrying the bomb was parked in front of the RTA,” Trentadue’s motion states.
“More importantly, these same RTA videotapes would show John Doe 2, the accomplice that 24-witnesses have said was in the truck with McVeigh that morning, but who the FBI insists never existed.”
Trentadue’s filing comes some 17 years after he initially sued the FBI for surveillance footage of the OKC bombing in 2008. His lawsuit went to trial in 2014, and the FBI vociferously argued that no footage from the RTA buildings exists. The presiding judge has yet to issue a final judgment, in large part due to allegations that the FBI tampered with one of Trentadue’s witnesses (that wild saga can be read here). (Read more: Headline USA, 6/8/2025)(Archive)
We were warned that an internal revolution started by the communists would be coming. We were also warned that the summer of 2025 would be a “summer of chaos” in the United States. So the truth is that what happened in Los Angeles over the past few days shouldn’t be a surprise to any of us. The next couple of years are going to be a time when the far left in this country gets crazier than they have ever been before.
What we have just witnessed is only the beginning. So buckle up and hold on tight because things are only going to get wilder from here. The following are 16 things that everyone needs to know about the extremely violent far-left revolution that just erupted in Los Angeles…
#1 The protests in Los Angeles have been extraordinarily violent. It is being reported that objects were being thrown at police vehicles, and at one point a car was set on fire in the middle of an intersection…
KTLA video footage shows lines of law enforcement officers standing in the streets as protesters taunted them, while others blocked a roadway and threw objects at police vehicles. In addition, a car sitting in the middle of an intersection was seen engulfed in flames:
#2 The mainstream media has generally been downplaying this fact, but it has been confirmed that “multiple federal law enforcement officers” have been injured by the protesters…
Large-scale protests have sprouted throughout L.A. County including in the Westlake District, downtown L.A. and Paramount, and have escalated to violence on several occasions. A federal law enforcement official tells CBS News that multiple federal law enforcement officers were injured during confrontations with protesters on Friday and Saturday.
#3 Setting fires in southern California is a very foolish thing to do because they can easily get wildly out of control. But some of these violent protesters were “starting fires with accelerants” anyway…
On Saturday, anti-ICE protesters were filmed starting fires with accelerants during the anti-ICE rallies.
You can clearly see in a video making the rounds on X that the protesters are spraying accelerant on the dry brush before they set in on fire. Others are wearing Mexican flags as they stand by and watch.
#4 In the old days, everyone knew that you just don’t mess with the U.S. Marshals Service. They may not have realized it at the time, but the crowd of protesters that “swarmed” a U.S. Marshals Service bus could have very easily gotten shot…
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A crowd swarmed a US Marshals Service bus exiting a nearby freeway, with authorities later closing on and off ramps to keep protesters from taking over the highway.
Smoke rose from burning shrubbery and refuse in the street, and demonstrators kicked at a Border Patrol vehicle.
A boulevard was closed to traffic as Border Patrol agents circulated through the area.
It’s become as predictable as heat waves and mosquitoes: every summer, the radical left finds a new excuse to unleash chaos on America’s streets. It kicked off in full force with George Floyd’s so-called “summer of love,” a blood-soaked, fiery spectacle that left cities burned to the ground, a trail of injured and dead bodies, and police departments damaged and demoralized.
Since then, like clockwork, they’ve churned out one outrage after another. Climate tantrums that block highways and ruin livelihoods. “No King” protests that vandalize statues and harass everyday Americans. And now, right on cue, they’re rioting to protect illegals from ICE, turning US neighborhoods into lawless war zones, all to keep America’s borders wide open and the Dems new illegal voting bloc intact.
Riot police have arrived in LA, and explosions are heard. 🔥🔥🔥
The protestors are smashing into the cars attempting to get through the freeway. Total chaos! pic.twitter.com/Jm2xt4sKKn
(…) This latest riot-fest out of Los Angeles proves this racket perfectly. The riots over ICE raids were so bad that President Trump had to send in the National Guard. Of course, the left tried to fight having the National Guard restore law and order.
ALERT: Today a federal appeals court will be holding a hearing on President Trump deploying the National Guard to the LA anti-ICE riots.
President Trump has the authority to enforce federal law—which includes federal immigration law.
— Rep. Wesley Hunt Press Office (@RepWPH) June 18, 2025
And just like always, the propaganda press played their “Baghdad Bob” role, calling it “mostly peaceful” while fires crackled and riot squads fought to regain control right behind them.
So who’s really behind this chaos, and how is your hard-earned tax money funding it?
Tulsi knows…
Watch:
And here is:
The Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: The LA Riots are FUNDED and ORCHESTRATED and she has the receipts, as the Democrats deny the 6th day of war. pic.twitter.com/mtcmI9ap6y
EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayer-Funded Nonprofit Behind the Anti-ICE Riots in Los Angeles.
Over the past two days, ICE agents have conducted targeted operations across the Los Angeles region, detaining more than 40 suspected illegal aliens. These enforcement actions triggered large-scale demonstrations, some of which turned confrontational, with reports of vandalism, blocked traffic, and physical clashes with federal agents.
The unrest has prompted questions about who is organizing and funding these protests. One of the organizations at the center of the resistance to ICE is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), a Los Angeles nonprofit that has long provided legal and advocacy services to illegal aliens. CHIRLA is known for radical positions on immigration—for example, it led a campaign to abolish ICE in 2018.
Angelica Salas
Yesterday afternoon, as clashes with federal law enforcement were heating up, CHIRLA Executive Director Angelica Salas held a press conference during which she announced that the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network’s hotline had received more than 50 calls reporting ICE activity and sightings of “men in military garb.” LARRN is organized by a coalition of nonprofits, and CHIRLA plays a central role, using its main phone line as the hotline number. LARRN’s hotline is one of the communication systems that allows legal observers, volunteers, and other activists to be quickly dispatched to the scene of immigration enforcement actions.
During her remarks, Salas referred to SEIU California President David Huerta as her “brother,” highlighting CHIRLA’s close ties to organized labor in California. Huerta had been arrested during one of the protests for blocking the path of an ICE vehicle, as shown by video footage released by U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. Governor Gavin Newsom expressed his unequivocal support for Huerta, claiming he was only “witnessing” the action, while Essayli announced his intention to file criminal charges.
For her part, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has defiantly opposed federal immigration enforcement in the city, stating on social media Friday, “We will not stand for this” and “No vamos a permitir estas acciones,” (“We are not going to permit these actions”). She added that her office would collaborate with community-based organizations that serve immigrants. She has a long relationship with CHIRLA and bragged last year about obtaining federal funding for CHIRLA’s programs. That grant is part of a broader stream of public dollars that the organization receives from government sources.
In fact, according to a financial audit submitted to the state, the CHIRLA organization received nearly $34 million in revenue from government contracts during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, with 96% of that funding from the State of California. That figure marks a sharp increase from the prior year, when it received around $12 million in government contract revenue. Agencies contributing to CHIRLA’s funding during this period included the California Department of Social Services, the California Arts Council, the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, and the Department of Homeland Security. Notably, as mentioned above, a DHS contract funded CHIRLA to provide citizenship instruction and naturalization services.
With $100,000 remaining on CHIRLA’s contract, DHS froze the remaining funds in February. CHIRLA responded by suing. The court denied their motion for a preliminary injunction on May 29. This is one of two lawsuits CHIRLA filed against DHS this year. The other was dismissed for lack of standing and is on appeal.
To sum up how this works: Your tax dollars fund an organization that organizes efforts to directly interfere with the federal government’s lawful exercise of authority. Then, through its lobbying arm, that organization helps get Democrats elected to office, who then repay the favor by ensuring increased funding.
This is the nonprofit industrial complex at work.
EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayer-Funded Nonprofit Behind the Anti-ICE Riots in Los Angeles.
Over the past two days, ICE agents have conducted targeted operations across the Los Angeles region, detaining more than 40 suspected illegal aliens. These enforcement actions triggered large-scale… pic.twitter.com/bDTn0oB6nD
I forgot to share this document, which shows the list of government agencies that funded CHIRLA. It relates to the funding year ending June 2023, though the filing date is 2024. pic.twitter.com/zGhvKXadZJ
𝑵𝑬𝑽𝑰𝑳𝑳𝑬 𝑺𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑯𝑨𝑴: Funded Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests; Now Tied to Anti-ICE Riots
The LA riots were part of a series of nationwide protests organized by Communist PSL (Party for Socialism & Liberation) taking place on June 7-8.
Several days ago, Neville Singham was identified as the main backer behind PSL.
PSL printed signage and spokespeople not only for the LA riots, but also for San Antonio and other cities. I’ll document Neville Singham’s involvement below:
🚨🔥 𝑵𝑬𝑽𝑰𝑳𝑳𝑬 𝑺𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑯𝑨𝑴: Funded Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests; Now Tied to Anti-ICE Riots 🔥🚨
🧵 The LA riots were part of a series of nationwide protests organized by Communist PSL (Party for Socialism & Liberation) taking place on June 7-8.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 9, 2025
iPSL was the closest thing to a nationwide association that I could find for the prior weekend’s riots. Though I did find Chicago Teachers Union signs too: pic.twitter.com/GhSvxrXNCw
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 9, 2025
The encampment made national news when it was revealed that the vast majority of those arrested were not ASU students. pic.twitter.com/NnVM2isYcI
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 9, 2025
Students for Justice in Palestine was also credited for the pro-Palestinian protests that occurred on campuses last year. PSL and SJP collectively organized many of the Palestinian protests last year. pic.twitter.com/pUTtPgbtZ3
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 9, 2025
It is important to understand that Neville Singham / CCP / Russia are fundamentally opposed to George Soros. Yes, both Singham and Soros are extreme left.
But Singham is the old school Communist / Marxist / Leninist subversive, whereas Soros works within socialists. To that… pic.twitter.com/ezEip7Pjls
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 9, 2025
Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, founded CODEPINK. Her focus seems to be on telling us how China is not our enemy, with a book set to be published soon. pic.twitter.com/3zI5AhVIqY
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 9, 2025
Marco Rubio and Lindsay Graham sent a letter to Merrick Garland begging then-AG Garland to investigate Singham for violations of FARA. Evidently, nothing happened.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 9, 2025
🚨 Let’s break this down:
1️⃣ Neville Singham is deeply tied to PSL, the group behind last weekend’s anti-ICE protests.
2️⃣ He was also the force behind last year’s pro-Palestine campus unrest.
3️⃣ Senate Republicans urged the Biden admin to investigate him for FARA violations.…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 9, 2025
Thanks to the investigative work of @DataRepublican, House Oversight will issue a formal document request to Neville Singham regarding his funding of a communist group linked to the LA riots and the CCP.
IF HE REFUSES TO APPEAR, HE WILL BE SUBPOENAED, AND IF HE IGNORES THAT HE…
LA riots break out due to ICE doing their job. (Credit: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)
CNN and MSNBC referred to riots in Los Angeles as “peaceful” 170 times as of Monday afternoon since the violence broke out following a Friday raid by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.
President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to deploy Saturday as the riots continued in Los Angeles following a raid by ICE at a Home Depot, with video posted to social media showing an individual wearing a motorcycle helmet throwing rocks at the windshields of vehicles containing ICE agents with the FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to that person’s arrest. Despite the videos of fires burning appearing on those networks, they used the term “peaceful” dozens of times, according to a DCNF review of Grabien data.
While the phrase “peaceful protests” did not appear on CNN until Sunday, it has appeared 30 times on the network, with 25 of the utterances taking place Sunday. The phrase has been used 16 times on MSNBC, 12 of them on Sunday.
The term “peaceful protest” was used 124 times from Friday to Sunday on the two corporate 24-hour news channels. CNN used that term 69 times, while MSNBC used it 55 times.
In one instance Monday, MSNBC host Ana Cabrera claimed “vastly peaceful protests” against the ICE raids were occurring in Los Angeles.
“Let’s bring this all back to where it started,” Cabrera said during a segment with , the deputy state director for California for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). “Vastly peaceful protests of ICE operations in the Los Angeles area.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed that rioters in Los Angeles setting fire to and vandalizing vehicles, looting businesses, and throwing objects at law enforcement officials are caught up in the “exuberance of the moment.”
While speaking at a press conference, Pelosi explained that “when there is a large gathering” of people, anarchists view it “as an opportunity and they move in.” Pelosi continued to claim that images or videos showing a “burned car or a broken window” may be due to “the exuberance of the moment” or from the anarchists.
“When — and I say this as a former party chair — when there is a gathering, a large gathering of people, the anarchists see it as an opportunity and they move in,” Pelosi said. “So, [you] always have to be careful, whether you see a burned car or a broken window, or whatever it is. It may be the exuberance of the moment, but it may be the anarchists setting in.”
PELOSI: “Be careful when you see a burned car or a broken window, it may be the exuberance of the moment!”pic.twitter.com/zXqeRtVI2q
HOLY SHLIT. Nancy Pelosi is now claiming that she and others “begged” Trump to send in the National Guard on Jan 6th.
Another LIE
Here is a video of Pelosi ADMITTING that she was responsible for the failed security on Jan 6th, and a letter from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser ADMITTING… pic.twitter.com/IXRmZbZnYE
FACT: I made 11 urgent calls requesting National Guard support on Jan 6, starting at 12:58 PM. Approval was withheld for 71 minutes by the House Sergeant at Arms, who reported directly to Speaker Pelosi. She caused critical delays, and now is shifting blame to @realDonaldTrump… https://t.co/Hg7nn0iAuH
Today a federal grand jury seated in Newark, New Jersey returned a three-count indictment charging U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers. This indictment has a maximum penalty of 8 years for Count One, an additional maximum penalty of 8 years for Count Two, and a maximum penalty of 1 year in prison for Count Three.
As I have stated in the past, it is my Constitutional obligation as the Chief Federal Law Enforcement Officer for New Jersey to ensure that our federal partners are protected when executing their duties. While people are free to express their views for or against particular policies, they must not do so in a manner that endangers law enforcement and the communities those officers serve.
Today’s decision by the grand jury is the next step in a process that my Office will pursue to a just end.
Today a federal grand jury seated in Newark, New Jersey returned a three-count indictment charging U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers. This indictment has a maximum penalty of 8 years for Count One, an…
1,500 Protests Planned. 50 States Targeted — PBD Says It’s a Setup as Democrats Look for their “Next George Floyd” moment to Frame Trump as a Dictator. @patrickbetdavid delivered a warning: the setup is already in motion.
“They’re losing their minds. It’s great to be on with you here. They’re losing their minds. But here’s the thing—when you look at Gavin Newsom, it’s very interesting how opportunistic he is and what his format is: blame, deflect; blame, deflect; get emotional; play politics; spin a little bit. The guy is such a gifted spinner.
Here’s a challenge that Californians have to be thinking about: California—this is the closest it’s ever been to being red. This is the closest California has ever been to being red in a long time. Now, a lot of the people that voted for Trump—the independents, the libertarians, and the conservatives in California that voted for Trump—they want to see changes in California.
Are you going to fall for this tactic? He’s separating families and their kids and all this… this is all this other stuff. He’s doing all this other stuff. It’s going to be interesting watching how California handles this, because if they succeed in getting everybody else emotional, we know what game they’re playing.
June 14th is President Trump’s 79th birthday—250-year army. You—you got flagged. You got all this stuff that they’re doing with America.
They don’t want to see any of these victories taking place. An Axios article came out talking about 1,500 protests—they’re already planning them in 50 states, funded by 100 progressive organizations and a lot of different NGOs. One of the Walton billionaires, Christy Walton—her name was mentioned in the New York Times. This is a 19–20 billion dollar type of person.
A lot of this money—you hear Soros, all these other things that they’re doing. They’re planning this. You know what they’re looking for? I hate to say this—they’re looking for their next George Floyd. That is all they need. They need one person. They need one massive crisis.
They have no policies. They have no good ideas. I’ve yet to see— I went on ChatGPT. I said, “Can you tell me what solutions Mayor Bass and Gavin Newsom have given to all these protesting?” There are no solutions. It’s meetings. It’s suing Trump. Zero solutions.”
🔥FLASHPOINT: This is not a protest, it’s a controlled burn… a manufactured ignition… every city lit like a fuse line, June 14 isn’t the destination…
It’s the detonation…
[They] want a clash…
[They] need one…
The Deep State can’t win in the Light… so… pic.twitter.com/jfla2rV3g2
— Observing Consciousness (@holonabove) June 11, 2025
Ironically, Christy Walton doesn’t even live in the US.
She literally lives in MEXICO where she is taking out anti-Trump ads.
I’m told by a source that other members of the Walton family, which owns @Walmart, begged her not to take the ad out but she didn’t listen.
The U.S. House of Representatives just voted 266–148 to repeal Washington, D.C.’s Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022, which allowed non‑U.S. citizens, including potentially illegal immigrants and foreign agents, to cast ballots in local elections.
Led by Rep. August Pfluger (R‑TX), the vote drew support from 56 Democrats, proving GOP fears that D.C.’s progressive experiment threatens the sanctity of American elections.
“PASSED: My bill to prohibit noncitizens from voting in DC elections just passed the House!” Pfluger wrote on X.
He added, “It’s common sense: Only American citizens should be able to vote in U.S. elections!”
✅ PASSED: My bill to prohibit noncitizens from voting in DC elections just passed the House!
It’s common sense: Only American citizens should be able to vote in U.S. elections! pic.twitter.com/AfSYjiyoR6
The Democratic Party’s rogue network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with Marxist-aligned political ideologies is likely serving as the organizational backbone behind recent anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. These demonstrations, which began as opposition to federal immigration enforcement actions, have escalated into civil unrest involving vandalism, arson, and looting, and now, the FBI has launched an investigation into the funding sources behind the chaos.
FBI Director Kash Patel told Just the News, “The FBI is investigating any and all monetary connections responsible for these riots.” This comes as a pattern of escalation is consistent with previous color revolution-style mobilizations by the Democratic Party’s NGO sphere.
While experts note that protest funding itself isn’t illegal, the FBI is focusing on the intent behind financial support—particularly if it facilitated criminal activity.
REPORT: At Multiple Riot Locations In Los Angeles Monday, People Were Seen Distributing “Bionic Shield” Masks Costing $30-$50 Each.
This Is Not A “Grass Roots” Protest. These Masks Assist Rioters In Fighting Law Enforcement & Guard Members.
Help Us ID The Source. pic.twitter.com/SZf6YZXrEz
“If you have to watch out for a burnt car, that isn’t a peaceful protest, that isn’t America. That’s anarchy,” acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Fox News.
Among the nonprofits identified as playing a key role in last week’s unrest are the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) and Unión del Barrio—a group seen as the Mexican version of BLM, whose manifesto openly cites Marxist and communist ideology. These groups sparked some of the first protests, which quickly morphed into unrest last week and over the weekend.
As civil unrest spreads across Los Angeles, President Trump has ordered the deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to stabilize the region. At the same time, nearly 200 NGOs linked to the Democratic Party’s activist network are reportedly coordinating efforts to export the unrest to cities across the country this weekend.
JUST RELEASED: Follow the Money Behind the No Kings Rally
DataRepublican has launched an interactive, open-source map showing how your tax dollars flow to organizations involved in the No Kings rally.
🔍 I tracked funding from federal sources to final recipients, prioritizing direct paths (not via DAFs) whenever possible.
👉 IMPORTANT: most paths still went through Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs)—the black box of the nonprofit world. Unfortunately, it’s a common and opaque funding structure that deserves scrutiny.
💥 Explore it for yourself:
Click on “Federal Grant Flow” for any NoKings organization to open any visual flowchart, tracing dollars from origin to destination.
🖼️ Also, you can save any graph as an SVG and take it wherever you need.
📌 I’ll keep updating the database as more EINs come in. Got a group to investigate? Send it my email address with an EIN.
🧠 Let’s shine a light on influence laundering.
Link below 👇
🚨 JUST RELEASED: Follow the Money Behind the No Kings Rally 🚨
DataRepublican has launched an interactive, open-source map showing how your tax dollars flow to organizations involved in the No Kings rally.
BREAKING: Sanctuary Governors will TESTIFY on June 12 on how their states’ policies are SHIELDING criminal illegal aliens and jeopardizing Americans’ safety.
House Oversight Cmte Hearing Sanctuary States – Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) questions:
🔹Donalds takes each governor to task for their policies 🔹Pritzker and Hochul have no idea how much they are paying for Illegal Aliens.
🔹Gov. Walz (D-0MN) refuses to apologize for calling ICE… pic.twitter.com/0lgHw0lR8t
MN Gov. Tim Walz, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker & NY Gov. Kathy Hochul gave their opening statements at a House hearing on sanctuary cities. They criticized the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and deportation tactics. Watch their remarks.https://t.co/Eqr5QrEsXM
🚨 @RepEliCrane goes off on Governor Tim Walz for urging illegals to climb the border wall with a 30-ft ladder, putting tampons in boys’ bathrooms, and trying to disarm law-abiding Americans. pic.twitter.com/NR9bloN0x0
.@RepJamesComer on sanctuary cities: "These governors handcuff law enforcement from doing their jobs, harbor predators and call it compassion." pic.twitter.com/4wz6jsIwxJ
While we grill the sanctuary governors of IL, NY, and MN for putting Americans at risk, the House passed @RepClayHiggins' bill banning DC from enacting policies to protect illegals from ICE.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 12, 2025
More of MTG questions:
WOW! Congresswoman Nancy Mace completely OBLITERATES Tim Walz for comparing the brave men and women of ICE to the Nazi Gestapo.@RepNancyMace: "Do you apologize for your disgusting comparison of ICE to the Gestapo?" pic.twitter.com/xtI5u9PmLz
🚨 RIOT INC. EXPOSED: HOW ARABELLA DARK MONEY FUNDS THE PROTEST INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
(And Use Taxpayer Dollars as a Force Multiplier) 🧵👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/4eQemyRQyS
💰 $114.8 Million Dark Money Infusion: The Arabella Advisors network has funneled at least $114.8 million to “No Kings” protest organizers and affiliates
according to most recent (’19-’23) financial disclosures analyzed by GAI. pic.twitter.com/qWHyuAa7Tg
✊🏻Indivisible Project as a Protest Vehicle: Indivisible, the official organizer of the “No Kings” protests, received $14.06 million in contributions in 2023 alone, including from dark money intermediaries like Arabella’s Sixteen Thirty Fund and billionaire donors. pic.twitter.com/gNnphNVUH6
Soros and Wyss Are Critical Donors: George Soros’s Open Society Network has provided over $8 million in funding to Indivisible; Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss channeled $2.5 million through his political action fund. Soros and Wyss crucial Arabella funders. Wyss is a foreign national and shouldn’t be affecting the US political process.
💶🤑 Soros and Wyss Are Critical Donors: George Soros’s Open Society Network has provided over $8 million in funding to Indivisible; Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss channeled $2.5 million through his political action fund. Soros and Wyss crucial Arabella funders. Wyss is a… pic.twitter.com/hw40vuUw9J
Arabella’s Protest Subcontractors: Two Arabella-funded nonprofits—Community Change Action (+FIRM) and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)—were involved in “anti-ICE” riots, with Arabella providing $5 million to them based on recent disclosures. pic.twitter.com/cgps17W0pe
👏🏻 Kudos to Senator Josh @HawleyMO for expanding his investigation beyond Arabella-backed CHIRLA to the other radical groups behind the anti-ICE uprising in Los Angeles. https://t.co/d6MiEQONAb
💰Over $50 Million in Federal/State Grants to CHIRLA: Our investigation found that the leftwing group received more than $50 million in public grants since 2021. Will post those financial disclosures to our website linked below. THAT MEANS WE ARE FUNDING THESE UPRISING WITH OUR… pic.twitter.com/3IPVs8VvtP
EPA’s $2 Billion to Arabella-Linked NGO: The EPA attempted to funnel $2 billion in climate funds to Power Forward Communities whose partners include the Stacey Abram’s-advised Rewiring America—an initiative of Arabella’s Windward Fund. pic.twitter.com/vqfrgzdINe
Force-Multiplying via Federal Dollars: Arabella-backed groups increase their protest impact by supplementing billionaire dark money with federal and state taxpayer money, amplifying unrest through this dual-funding pipeline. They’ve created a professional protest machine with government backing; sustained
not only by billionaires but indirectly by U.S. taxpayers, effectively conscripting public money into partisan activism.
💥💰 Force-Multiplying via Federal Dollars: Arabella-backed groups increase their protest impact by supplementing billionaire dark money with federal and state taxpayer money, amplifying unrest through this dual-funding pipeline. They’ve created a professional protest machine… pic.twitter.com/aRlPVTz4ux
Four men, including a government contracting officer for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and three owners and presidents of companies, have pleaded guilty for their roles in a decade-long bribery scheme involving at least 14 prime contracts worth over $550 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars.
Roderick Watson, 57, of Woodstock, Maryland, who worked as a USAID contracting officer, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official;
Walter Barnes, 46, of Potomac, Maryland, who was the owner and president of PM Consulting Group LLC doing business as Vistant (Vistant), a certified small business under the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 8(a) contracting program, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and securities fraud;
Darryl Britt, 64, of Myakka City, Florida, who was the owner and president of Apprio, Inc. (Apprio), a certified small business under the SBA 8(a) contracting program, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official; and
Paul Young, 62, of Columbia, Maryland, who was the president of a subcontractor to Vistant and Apprio, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official.
In addition, Apprio and Vistant, both of which contracted with USAID, have agreed to admit criminal liability and enter into three-year deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) in connection with criminal informations filed today in the District of Maryland. As part of these resolutions, both Apprio and Vistant admitted to engaging in a conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and securities fraud. The DPAs entered into with Apprio and Vistant require each company to, among other obligations, provide ongoing cooperation with and disclosures to the Justice Department, implement a compliance and ethics program, and report to Justice Department regarding remediation and implementation of these compliance measures.
“The defendants sought to enrich themselves at the expense of American taxpayers through bribery and fraud,” said Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Their scheme violated the public trust by corrupting the federal government’s procurement process. Anybody who cares about good and effective government should be concerned about the waste, fraud, and abuse in government agencies, including USAID. Those who engage in bribery schemes to exploit the U.S. Small Business Administration’s vital economic programs for small businesses — whether individuals or corporations acting through them — will be held to account.”
“Watson was entrusted to serve the interests of the American people — not his own — and his criminal actions for his own personal gain undermine the integrity of our public institutions,” said U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes for the District of Maryland. “Public trust is a hallmark of our nation’s values, so corruption within a federal government agency is intolerable. This office, along with our law enforcement partners, will continue to pursue and prosecute corruption at every level to ensure accountability and protect public trust.”
“The guilty pleas reflect the FBI’s unwavering commitment to holding accountable all those who abuse the authority and responsibility of public service,” said Assistant Director Joe Perez of the FBI’s Criminal Division. “The actions of the defendants in this scheme serve to erode public trust. The FBI is focused on rebuilding this trust and protecting American taxpayers from corruption through investigations such as these.”
“Corruption in government programs will not be tolerated. Watson abused his position of trust for personal gain while federal contractors engaged in a pay-to-play scheme,” said Acting Assistant Inspector General for Investigations Sean Bottary of the USAID Office of Inspector General (USAID-OIG). “USAID-OIG is firmly committed to rooting out fraud and corruption within U.S. foreign assistance programs. Today’s announcement underscores our unwavering focus on exposing criminal activity, including bribery schemes by those entrusted to faithfully award government contracts. We appreciate our longstanding partnership with the Department of Justice in holding accountable those who defraud American taxpayers.”
“Watson exploited his position at USAID to line his pockets with bribes in exchange for more than $550 million in contracts. While he helped three company owners and presidents bypass the fair bidding process, he was showered with cash and lavish gifts,” said Chief Guy Ficco of IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). “Through its financial crime investigations, IRS-CI works to protect taxpayer dollars and ensure government funds are awarded based on merit — not corruption. In close coordination with our law enforcement partners, IRS-CI helped put an end to their greed and criminal conduct. Now, Watson and his co-conspirators will face justice.”
Overview of Bribery Scheme
According to court documents, beginning in 2013, Watson, while a USAID contracting officer, agreed with Britt to receive bribes in exchange for using Watson’s influence to award contracts to Apprio. As a certified small business under the SBA 8(a) contracting program, which helps socially and economically disadvantaged businesses, Apprio could access lucrative federal contracting opportunities through set-asides and sole-source contracts exclusively available to eligible contractors without a competitive bid process.
Vistant was a subcontractor to Apprio on one of the contracts awarded through Watson’s influence. After Apprio graduated from the SBA 8(a) program and it was no longer eligible to be a prime contractor for new contracts with USAID under this program, the scheme shifted so that Vistant became the prime contractor and Apprio became the subcontractor on USAID contracts awarded through Watson’s influence between 2018 and 2022.
During the scheme, Britt and Barnes paid bribes to Watson that were often concealed by passing them through Young, who was the president of another subcontractor to Apprio and Vistant. Britt and Barnes also regularly funneled bribes to Watson, including cash, laptops, thousands of dollars in tickets to a suite at an NBA game, a country club wedding, down payments on two residential mortgages, cellular phones, and jobs for relatives. The bribes were also often concealed through electronic bank transfers falsely listing Watson on payroll, incorporated shell companies, and false invoices. Watson is alleged to have received bribes valued at more than approximately $1 million as part of the scheme.
In exchange for the bribe payments, Watson influenced the award of contracts to Apprio and Vistant by manipulating the procurement process at USAID through various means, including recommending their companies to other USAID decisionmakers for non-competitive contract awards, disclosing sensitive procurement information during the competitive bidding process, providing positive performance evaluations to a government agency, and approving decisions on the contracts, such as increased funding and a security clearance.
Apprio and Vistant also agreed to resolve concurrently with the Justice Department in its separate Civil False Claims Act investigations relating to the bribery scheme.
Overview of Vistant Securities Fraud Scheme
According to court documents, in 2022, Barnes and Watson defrauded a licensed small business investment company (SBIC), in furtherance of the bribery scheme, by inducing it into executing a credit agreement with Vistant. Through the credit agreement, Barnes caused Vistant to issue stock warrants that, if exercised, would result in the SBIC having a 40% equity stake in Vistant. The credit agreement also provided for a $14 million loan to Vistant from which Barnes could pay himself a $10 million dividend. Prior to executing the credit agreement, Watson agreed at Barnes’s request to speak with the SBIC about Vistant’s performance as a government contractor on USAID contracts. When speaking with the SBIC, Watson omitted that Barnes had bribed Watson to obtain USAID contracts for years. Watson’s endorsement of Vistant thereafter induced the SBIC to enter into the credit agreement with Barnes.
Overview of Apprio Securities Fraud Scheme
According to court documents, in 2023, Apprio, acting through Britt, engaged in a scheme in which Apprio fraudulently induced a private equity firm, which had an investment pool that was licensed as a SBIC, to purchase from Apprio’s parent company a 20% equity stake in the company for $4 million and simultaneously extend it a $4 million loan secured by shares of Apprio stock. In addition to making false material representations in the stock purchase and loan agreements, Britt intentionally omitted during his negotiations the material fact that he had bribed Watson for years, which was intended to deceive and induce the private equity company into executing the agreements.
Deferred Prosecution Agreements with Apprio and Vistant
The Justice Department reached its resolution with Apprio based on several factors, including Apprio’s credit for clearly accepting responsibility for its criminal conduct, fully cooperating in the investigation and engaging in timely remedial measures. Based on these factors, the criminal penalty calculated under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines reflects a 10% reduction off the bottom of the applicable Guidelines fine range pursuant to the Criminal Division Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (CEP). According to court documents, Apprio agreed that the appropriate criminal penalty based on the law and facts in its case is $51,673,185; however, Apprio also met its burden of establishing an inability to pay the criminal penalty sought. Based on the Justice Department’s independent analysis, it determined that paying a criminal penalty and civil settlement greater than $500,000 would substantially threaten the continued viability of Apprio. Accordingly, the Justice Department determined that the appropriate resolution of this case is a DPA and a payment of $500,000 in a civil settlement.
Similarly, the Justice Department reached its resolution with Vistant based on a number of factors, including Vistant’s credit for clearly accepting responsibility for its criminal conduct and cooperating with the investigation. Although Vistant’s cooperation was initially delayed and limited, Vistant began to fully cooperate thereafter. Vistant also received credit for engaging in timely remedial measures. Based on these factors, the penalty calculated under the Guidelines reflects a 5% reduction off the bottom of the applicable Guidelines fine range pursuant to the CEP. Vistant agreed that the appropriate criminal penalty based on the law and facts in its case is $86,407,740; however, Vistant also met its burden of establishing an inability to pay the criminal penalty sought. Based on the Justice Department’s independent analysis, it determined that paying a criminal penalty and civil settlement greater than $100,000 would substantially threaten the continued viability of Vistant. Accordingly, the Justice Department determined that the appropriate resolution of this case is a DPA and a payment of $100,000 in a civil settlement.
Watson is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 6, and faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. Young is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 3 and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Britt is scheduled to be sentenced on July 28 and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Barnes is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 14 and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
The FBI, USAID-OIG, and IRS-CI are investigating the cases.
Trial Attorneys Matt Kahn and Brandon Burkart of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick D. Kibbe for the District of Maryland are prosecuting the cases.
Ukrainian Nazis: a bigger problem than the media will ever acknowledge. (Credit: The Gateway Pundit)
The western media has been willingly blind to one of the worst-kept geopolitical secrets of our times: that the heroic ‘defenders of democracy’ in Ukraine are, in many cases, a bunch of Neo-Nazis running around unchecked.
The French premier newspaper Le Monde has just released the result of a 10-day investigation on the 3rd assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and to their ‘surprise’ and dismay found out that the militants go around openly and proudly wearing neo-Nazi symbols.
Of course, no one needed the Le Monde deep dive, since the information is readily available about the Nazi Azov Brigades and their heirs of the 3rd assault brigade.
And, what’s more, no one is hiding the fact that the Nazi collaborator and war criminal Stephan Bandera has been turned into a Ukrainian national hero.
“According to Le Monde, hundreds of servicemen of the 3rd Assault Brigade — the direct heirs of the Azov Regiment — continue to openly use Nazi symbols. The photo shows swastikas, greeting gestures, and SS emblems.
Despite the ‘reform’ and the formal inclusion of the brigade in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, radical symbols have not disappeared. Journalists note: this is not a matter of chance, but of a conscious choice – either based on ideological convictions or as a tool of intimidation.
On June 14, in Kiev, on the day of the ‘March of Equality’ [Gay Pride], radicals from the ‘Carpathian Sich’ held an alternative ‘March of Tradition’. Participants were captured on camera demonstrating a Nazi salute.”
Watch: Nazi salutes, swastikas, SS emblems… Le Monde Investigation on the 3rd assault brigade.
(Clipping from LeMonde video)
“Nazi salutes, swastikas, SS emblems… a video investigation by LeMonde on social media has identified several hundred worn by [350]🇺🇦soldiers. Among these… soldiers are 200 from the 3rd Assault Brigade, one of the elite units of the🇺🇦army.” pic.twitter.com/pjKu0aaXtM
BREAKING: Multiple sources tell 5 Eyewitness News at least two MN state lawmakers were shot at their homes last night by a gunman impersonating a police officer. DFL Speaker Emerita Melissa Hoffman in Brooklyn Park and DFL Sen. John Hoffman in Champlin. Working on more details. pic.twitter.com/ZjI7r00846
🚨 Governor Tim Walz Confirms Melissa’s Hortman & her husband have died & that THIS WAS A POLITICALLY MOTIVATED SHOOTING.
Sen. John Hoffman & his wife are in surgery and expected to survive. Their homes were in Champlin & Brooklyn .Both lawmakers & spouses shot by suspect(s)… pic.twitter.com/KP8JxXQ5ya
BREAKING: I’m told by a police source in Minnesota the suspect in the shootings of MN state lawmakers is Vance Luther Boelter.
It appears it is the same Boelter who was appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2019 by Gov. Tim Walz. He appointed to the… pic.twitter.com/r1wjWXs2lA
BREAKING: I’m told by a police source in Minnesota the suspect in the shootings of MN state lawmakers is Vance Luther Boelter.
It appears it is the same Boelter who was appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2019 by Gov. Tim Walz. He appointed to the… pic.twitter.com/r1wjWXs2lA
🚨 #BREAKING: Dr. Vance Boelter, the Tim Walz appointee who ALLEGEDLY kiIIed Rep. Melissa Hortman, is the Director of Security Patrols at a security firm in MN
This explains how he would have access to a “law enforcement-like” vehicle and uniform, as police have reported.
Alleged MN shooter Vance Boelter attempting to gain entry. Mask? Shaved head? Appears to be an attempt at obscuring his appearance while gaining entry. https://t.co/MybriYDMj4pic.twitter.com/FGqU5MPtEC
Authorities reportedly have identified Vance Boelter as the top suspect in the killings of Democratic Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, as well as wounding Democratic Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, on Saturday, according to The Associated Press.
Law enforcement believes that Vance Luther Boelter allegedly killed Hortman and her husband early Saturday morning before going on to shoot and seriously injure Democratic State Sen. John Hoffman of Minnesota and his wife, according to the AP.
Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reportedly tapped Boelter in 2019 to serve on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board after having previously served on the Governor’s Workforce Development Council under former Democratic Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, according to the New York Post.
Police said they encountered the shooter, who they reportedly believe to be Boelter, at Hortman’s home and exchanged fire before the individual managed to slip away. The individual who engaged law enforcement at the scene posed as a policeman in order to carry out the attacks on Hortman and Hoffman.
Police found “No Kings” signs in the suspect’s vehicle, and advised residents not to attend planned anti-Trump “No Kings” protests in a Facebook post. Walz stated that Hortman’s murder was a “politically-motivated assassination” during a Saturday news conference, and authorities said they have recovered a manifesto as well as a list of other targets. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 6/14/2025)(Archive)
REPORT: CNN reports that the suspect in the Minnesota shooting had a list of 70 names of political leaders and locations, including abortion clinics.
Here is what we know, according to CNN:
– Law enforcement found a “hit list” with about 70 names on it.
– Names included “abortion providers, pro-abortion rights advocates, and lawmakers in Minnesota and other states.”
– A Father’s Day card was found that was addressed to the suspect in a bag full of ammo.
– Flyers that said “No Kings” were found in the vehicle.
– The suspect, who has been identified as Vance Boelter by the AP, had a tactical vest on.
REPORT: CNN reports that the suspect in the Minnesota shooting had a list of 70 names of political leaders and locations, including abortion clinics.
Here is what we know, according to CNN:
– Law enforcement found a “hit list” with about 70 names on it.
Given the targeted shootings of state lawmakers overnight, we are asking the public to not attend today’s planned demonstrations across Minnesota out of an abundance of caution. pic.twitter.com/7hFccnrQUT
The FBI offers a reward of up to $50,000 for info leading to the arrest and conviction of Vance L. Boelter, suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses at their residences on June 14, 2025: https://t.co/XjawGOt5lqpic.twitter.com/tZ9RE97OHk
Vance Boelter texted roommates that he was “going to be gone for a while” and “may be dead shortly,” according to one of his housemates in North Minneapolis who read the message aloud to reporters. https://t.co/NCVjuqpHMSpic.twitter.com/OCKOjlUb76
— The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) June 14, 2025
Vance and Jennifer Boelter (Credit: public domain)
MORE: Multiple sources say he was spotted near a residence in Green Isle and began running down a driveway into the woods, wearing all black with a backpack. At one point he was tucked in the fetal position and then began to army crawl until he eventually stood up to surrender.
Rep. Julie von Haefen attended the “No Kings” protest yesterday in North Carolina holding an effigy of what appeared to be the decapitated heads of Trump and his senior policy advisor Stephen Miller.
“Amazing turnout all across the Triangle today, including this event at the Capitol hosted by @wakedems and @ncdemocrats #lfg #nokings #nokingsprotest #nokingsinamerica #raleigh #raleighnc,” she wrote in a Facebook post.
As well as the gruesome heads of Trump and Miller, von Haefen appeared to be waving a banner that said: “In These Difficult Times, Some Cuts May Be Necessary.”
Stephen Miller’s forehead was also engraved with a swastika, a reference to Nazi symbolism. Miller himself is Jewish.
Wow this is sick. North Carolina State Rep Julie von Haefen (D) posted a photo from the “no kings” protest which calls for Trump to be beheaded‼️ @FBIpic.twitter.com/ETn7O6e8cu
(…) Von Haefen appears to be sheltering herself from criticism by locking her X account.
The stunt brings back memories of the disgraced comedian Kathy Griffin, whose career and life went into meltdown after she held up a photo of Trump’s decapitated head shortly after he took office in 2017. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 6/15/2025)(Archive)
A COVID vaccine database covering 18 million citizens has just been released for the first time.
After reviewing the data, a top professor warned: “The more doses you get, the sooner you’re likely to die.”
The most terrifying finding was a deadly spike just 3 to 4 months after the final shot.
On June 15th, a group of brave Japanese truth seekers did what their government wouldn’t—they released a bombshell broadcast exposing vaccine data from over 18 million people.
— 我那覇真子 Masako Ganaha (@ganaha_masako) June 15, 2025
Journalist Masako Ganaha posted on X: “If the government won’t do it, then the people should investigate the mass deaths of Japanese people! Database of 18 million vaccinated people revealed for the first time!”
The video featured Member of the House of Representatives Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Dr. Yasufumi Murakami, and the Information Disclosure Request Team.
Dr. Yasufumi Murakami isn’t just some fringe voice. He’s a respected professor at the Tokyo University of Science, where he serves as vice director at the Research Center for RNA Science.
He holds a Doctor of Pharmaceutical Science from the University of Tokyo and has authored over 100 scientific publications.
But when the data went public, things got deeply unsettling.
Pharma insider Aussie17 shared a clip from the broadcast on X.
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JAPANESE BOMBSHELL !
Data on Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated has been compiled from 18 million people!
“..the more doses you get, the sooner you’re likely to die, within a shorter period…”
(…) Then came a graph that was impossible to ignore. It showed a clear pattern: the more vaccine doses a person received, the sooner they died after their final shot.
The title translates to: “Number of days from final vaccination to death and number of deaths.”
The note on the right reads: “As the number of vaccine doses increases, the peak in deaths appears sooner.”
According to Patel, the documents reveal that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was involved in a scheme using fake IDs to fraudulently obtain and cast mail-in ballots in favour of Biden. (Credit: public domain)
EXCLUSIVE: @FBIDirectorKash & @FBIDDBongino: Expose the FBI and Gascón’s Konnech–CCP Election Software Cover-Up
Strong evidence shows that corrupt FBI officials and former LADA George Gascón deliberately concealed CCP infiltration of U.S. election systems—because exposing it would have politically benefited
@realDonaldTrump @Kash_Patel & @dbongino now have a rare opportunity: expose how deeply politicized the FBI became, remove CCP-controlled software from America’s elections, and finish an investigation that was already 90% complete before it was sabotaged.
At the center of the scandal is Konnech, a Michigan-based election software company secretly developed and financed by two Chinese firms—Jinhua Yulian Network and Jinhua Hongzheng Technology—under contract with China’s National People’s Congress and in partnership with state-owned giants like Huawei, China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile, and Lenovo.
Konnech’s flagship product, PollChief, is used to manage poll worker scheduling, equipment deployment, and logistics in major U.S. cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington D.C., Fairfax County, and St. Louis.
In early 2021, @TrueTheVote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips discovered that Konnech was storing the personally identifiable information (PII) of U.S. election workers, judges, and voters on servers in China. Using open-source tools like Binary Edge, they traced PollChief to Chinese IP addresses—where they found unsecured databases containing names, Social Security numbers, addresses, bank information, voter roll data, polling location schematics, provisional ballot serial numbers, and even passwords for voting machines.
They alerted FBI field offices in Detroit and San Antonio, where agents took the threat seriously and launched a 15-month counterintelligence investigation. But in April 2022—just before the release of Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules, a film on 2020 election fraud featuring True the Vote—FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. intervened and flipped the investigation on its head.
Field agents warned Engelbrecht and Phillips that they, not Konnech, were now considered the threat. Two senior female FBI officials in Washington D.C. were reportedly preparing criminal charges against them rather than Konnech’s CEO Eugene Yu. Engelbrecht was warned she and Phillips might be prosecuted for accessing Konnech’s data on Chinese servers.
The FBI even tipped off Konnech about the investigation—compromising the case—and began circulating internal accusations that Phillips had committed cybercrimes, referring those allegations to the CIA and NSA. Phillips said their goal was to “Roger Stone” him—publicly smear and criminalize him as they had done to Trump allies.
In fear for their safety, a field agent advised Engelbrecht and Phillips to take the “nuclear option”—go public. On August 13, 2022, they did just that at The Pit, a closed-door briefing in Arizona with 200 cybersecurity experts, journalists, and election integrity investigators.
Two weeks later, Konnech sued them. In a stunning series of courtroom actions, Engelbrecht and Phillips were jailed and held in solitary confinement—until the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered their immediate release. The FBI stood by and let it happen. After their release, they published thousands of documents exposing Konnech’s ties to China. Within days, Konnech dropped the lawsuit.
Meanwhile, independent researchers quickly pieced together Eugene Yu’s background. Born in China, Jianwei Yu (于建伟) graduated from Zhejiang University in 1982 and worked for the CCP from 1983 to 1985 as a project manager in the Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone. He moved to the U.S. in 1986 to pursue an MBA at Wake Forest University.
In 2002, Yu founded Konnech. By November 2005, he had launched a Chinese subsidiary—Jinhua Yulian Network—funded and overseen by the CCP. That same year, he was profiled as an “overseas scholar” in a Chinese-language publication by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and the American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF).
CAST is a formal CCP arm linking Chinese leadership with overseas scientists and technologists. AZKEF, where Yu served on the finance committee, flew U.S. researchers—including Harvard’s Charles Lieber—to Chinese universities. Lieber was later arrested for failing to disclose his ties to China’s Thousand Talents Plan, one of the CCP’s many programs that recruit foreign experts to encourage the illicit transfer of intellectual property back to China.
Konnech’s Chinese ties ran deep. It partnered with Michigan State University’s Confucius Institute, developed software in CCP-run tech parks, and directly served China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
On January 25, 2006, Yu’s Chinese company was accepted into the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Jinhua Science and Technology Park—a CCP-controlled tech incubator. From that point on, Jinhua Yulian Network and Konnech, were financed, developed, and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
Just a month later, on February 25, 2006, Yu registered the domain yu-lian .cn for Jinhua Yulian Network using his Konnech email address (eyu@konnech .com). Archived versions of the company’s Chinese-language website show Yu praising “Comrade Jiang Zemin” and the Chinese Communist Party, while promoting Konnech’s software products used by the National People’s Congress, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Election Management Solutions Detroit, and U.S. Overseas Voters.
In December 2006, Konnech partnered with the Confucius Institute to build a Chinese communication platform called ChineseBrief .com. Yu registered CNBrief LLC, launched www.cnbrief .com, and displayed a banner in Chinese that translated to: “Chinese Brief – Overseas Chinese Network.”
Confucius Institutes are CCP-funded cultural centers embedded in Western universities that U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers have long warned operate under the direction of the CCP.
On July 18, 2007, an archived Chinese government website showed Yu offering a 5 million yuan (~$700,000 USD) software development contract on behalf of Jinhua Yulian Network, again using his Konnech email address and website.
Strong evidence shows that corrupt FBI officials and former LADA George Gascón deliberately concealed CCP infiltration of U.S. election systems—because exposing it… pic.twitter.com/IcD3yNEBw1
The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.
I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the Chairman Grassley for further review. pic.twitter.com/sBVNUgN2BJ
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 17, 2025
Sir, I WAS in charge of election analysis and DID call it out. CIA and ODNI tried to cover up the evidence and when I wouldn’t go along with it, terminated me.
The newly declassified intelligence reports from August 2020 weren’t corroborated or fully investigated and instead were recalled from intelligence agencies at about the time that then-FBI Director Chris Wray testified there were no known plots of foreign interference ahead of the 2020 election in which Biden defeated Donald Trump, officials told Just the News.
The new documents were turned over to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who had first raised concerns to the bureau that the intelligence hadn’t been fully vetted, and instead was just dismissed even though there was evidence of the fake licenses.
“Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of Chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency at the people’s Bureau,” Patel told Just the News in a statement. “To that end, we have located documents Chairman Grassley requested, which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election.
“Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots – allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public,” Patel also said.
“In accordance with Chairman Grassley’s request for documents, I have immediately declassified the material and turned the document over to the Chairman for further review.”
In December 2020 a Chinese Whistleblower Sent The Gateway Pundit Video, Photos of Alleged Chinese Counterfeit US Ballot Printing Operations – This Week the FBI Confirmed This Chinese Counterfeit Ballot Manufacturing Operation Was Real …Update: YouTube Took Down the Video But We Still Have Them Posted Below
For the sake of urgency I’m going to talk in direct and bold terms about the targeting of Tulsi Gabbard. The IC system is attempting to remove her as a disruptive influence by using Iran as a wedge to get her out, but the issue they have with Director Gabbard has nothing to do with Iran.
CTH approaches this after being very concerned about Tulsi Gabbard’s ability. Not because of intent, but rather we doubted her understanding of the scope of the IC opposition aligned against an effective Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Tom Cotton, the disassembled National Intelligence Council and a host of Intelligence Community embeds would like to see Gabbard removed. DC wants to see her removed because the traditional role of the DNI has been a willfully blind tool of the Intelligence Community; Gabbard is not that.
In the past few weeks, ever since she began intercepting the ICIG issues and using her own personnel to monitor the IC network, she has been targeted with several direct smear campaigns. It is obvious the targeting is coming from inside the intelligence apparatus, and perhaps even the orbit around/under CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
Tulsi Gabbard did make a strange video about nuclear weapons contrast against the horrific outcomes in Japan, but that seemed to be more of a personal video entry expressing a deep concern about nuclear weapons from her own perspectives. I said it was weird when I saw it, but I put that expression into the context of ‘surfboard Tulsi‘, the DNI peacenik. No biggie.
However, with the Israel -v- Iran conflict encompassing the White House, there is a transparent objective to weaponize Tulsi Gabbard’s activity as a contrast against President Trump supporting military conflict in Iran.
This contrast is being stimulated by the same elements who want to see her removed for the reasons noted above.
The latest narrative du jour in the files includes:
WASHINGTON DC – […] Trump has increasingly mused about nixing Gabbard’s office completely, an idea he floated when he gave her the job. In the White House there have been discussions about folding its mandate into the CIA or another agency, according to one of the people familiar with his response to the video and two others familiar with the matter — though it’s unclear what that would mean for Gabbard. The Director of National Intelligence serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser and oversees the sprawling U.S. spy community. (link)
First, “nixing Gabbard’s office completely” is exactly what the bad elements of the Intelligence Community would love to see. Second, “folding its mandate into the CIA” is like a dream come true for the darkest elements of the IC and Senate enablers. And Third, “serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser” is false. That’s the job of the National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio.
If there is one hope amid this looming and increasing drumbeat to remove her, it is that Marco Rubio likely can see exactly what the motives and intentions are from his former colleagues. The elements targeting DNI Gabbard all come from SSCI Chairman Marco Rubio’s old tribe.
SoS/NSA Rubio might save her, as too may Vice President JD Vance. Both of them are at the perfect distance to see the assembled drumbeat against Gabbard for what it is, a coordinated Intelligence Community operation. At least that is my hope.
I am not confident they will succeed removing her. However, what I am confident about is that if DNI Tulsi Gabbard is removed, she will not be replaced, and that’s as good as a win for the bad actors trying to target and survive Trump.
President Trump has no more juice or influence in the Senate. That time is over. Trump has exhausted all of the political capital he held in the upper chamber. Every Republican Senator now smiles, nods and does whatever the heck they want regardless of how it impacts President Trump. This is especially true for the SSCI who would control confirmation of a DNI replacement. They Republicans do not have to pretend any longer, Trump’s juice is gone.
If President Trump allows the Brutus crew in his orbit to isolate, ridicule and marginalize Tulsi Gabbard, he will be putting a significant part of his administration at risk. This is the Six Ways from Sunday crowd. (Read more: Conservative Treehouse, 6/18/2025)(Archive)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard delivers opening remarks at a House Intelligence Committee hearing, March 26, 2025. (Credit: video clipping)
In Tulsi Gabbard’s testimony regarding Iran’s nuclear program, there are indications of selective reporting or misrepresentation about what she said.
In March 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence, testified before Congress that the U.S. intelligence community assessed Iran was not actively building a nuclear weapon and that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program suspended in 2003.
She noted, however, that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile was at unprecedented levels for a non-nuclear state and that public discussion of nuclear weapons in Iran had increased, potentially emboldening advocates within the regime.
.@DNIGabbard in March: “Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons.” pic.twitter.com/UZ2RN8YiV8
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 18, 2025
Some media reports have claimed the White House or media outlets deceptively edited or framed Gabbard’s testimony to suggest she warned Iran was closer to developing nuclear weapons
White House Deceptively Edits Tulsi Gabbard’s Testimony To Make It Look Like She Was Warning Iran Was Close to Nukeshttps://t.co/LCgp8LXQc9
(White House Deceptively Edits Tulsi Gabbard’s Testimony To Make It Look Like She Was Warning Iran Was Close to Nukes/Mediaite, 6/18/2025)
President Trump’s public dismissal of Gabbard’s assessment in June 2025, claiming Iran was “very close” to a nuclear weapon, created a narrative divergence. Gabbard responded by asserting she and Trump were “on the same page.”
DNI Gabbard tells us she and Trump are “on the same page” when it comes to Iran nuclear timeline
“Pres Trump was saying the same thing that I said in my annual threat assessment back in March. Unfortunately too many people in the media don’t care to actually read what I said”
On March 26, 2025, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard delivered opening remarks at a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing for the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The complete opening statement is linked below and this is what she said about Iran:
Iran continues to seek to expand its influence in the Middle East, despite the degradation to its proxies and defenses during the Gaza conflict. Iran has developed and maintains ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and UAVs, including systems capable of striking U.S. targets and allies in the region. They’ve shown a willingness to use these weapons, including during a 2020 attack on US forces in Iraq and in attacks against Israel in April and October 2024. Iran’s cyber operations and capabilities also present a serious threat to U.S. networks and data. The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. We continue to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program. In the past year, we’ve seen an erosion of a decades long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public likely emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran’s decision-making apparatus. Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons. Iran will likely continue efforts to counter Israel and press for U.S. military withdrawal from the region by aiding, arming, and helping to reconstitute its loose consortium of like-minded terrorists, actors, which it refers to as its “Axis of Resistance.” Although weakened, this collection of actors still presents a wide range of threats including to Israel’s population, U.S. forces deployed in Iraq and Syria, as well as U.S. and international military and commercial shipping and transit.
Internal FBI emails reveal that rogue agents and prosecutors in the Biden DOJ were looking for ways to pile on new criminal charges against Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — this time over his involvement with the J6 prisoner choir, based on a single partisan news article.
The 2023 emails obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and revealed exclusively to The Post are an example of the nitpicking malice of anti-Trump lawfare that tainted special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation during Joe Biden’s presidency.
J.P. Cooney (Credit: LinkedIn)
“Can we do some work to nail down Trump’s role in this,” writes prosecutor JP Cooney to DOJ colleagues on March 8, 2023, in an email with the subject line “J6 Prisoner Choir/DJT” and an attached Forbes.com article titled “Trump Collaborates On Song With Jan. 6 Defendants.”
“According to this Forbes article, Trump recorded the Pledge of Allegiance at MAL [Mar a Lago] and Kash Patel [now FBI director] and Ed Henry [a former Fox News host] were also involved,” Cooney wrote in the email chain.
“The profits are routed to an LLC run by Henry, and proceeds are intended for families of incarcerated J6 defendants — but there is apparently a vetting process that excludes families of defendants who assaulted police officers.
Ahmed Baset (Credit: LinkedIn)
“I asked Ahmed [likely prosecutor, who was fired earlier this month] to preserve this last night. I’ll talk to Maria/Erin and Julia about doing some follow up here to nail down Trump’s role.”
Cooney also instructed colleagues to look at starting “some process on Ed Henry’s LLC,” presumably a legal process such as a subpoena, search warrant or other court-authorized actions to gather evidence.
His email was forwarded to eight agents and DOJ staff, including notorious anti-Trump FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina, who responded two days later to say he was investigating the claims in the Forbes article about Trump and the J6 prisoner choir: “Esther and I are working on this today. We’re going to put together our findings at 2 and get something to you shortly after that.”
Walter Giardina (Credit: Marco Polo)
Giardina was “Agent Zero” in a lot of overzealous FBI actions involving Trump and his allies, including the investigation of Trump White House adviser Dr. Peter Navarro on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to appear before the House committee investigating the J6 riot.
It was Giardina’s FBI team that arrested Navarro as he was about to board a plane at Reagan National Airport in 2022, put him in leg irons and threw him in jail instead of simply issuing a summons for him to come to court, as the federal judge overseeing the case later said while criticizing the heavy-handedness.
Giardina was also significantly involved in Operation Crossfire Hurricane (the debunked Russia collusion investigation against Trump), Mueller’s investigation and cases involving Trump allies Dan Scavino and Roger Stone, as well as the Hillary Clinton emails case.
According to Grassley, Giardina was an “initial recipient of the Steele Dossier” and falsely claimed that the bogus Clinton campaign smear sheet against Trump was corroborated as “true.”
Giardina also “electronically wiped the laptop he was assigned while working for Special Counsel Mueller outside of established protocol for record preservation, raising the possibility that he destroyed government records.” (The New York Post, 6/18/2025) (Archive)
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) is running out of money.
Some of the sources for their contributions have disappeared. It is estimated that annually $15 billion per year was laundered from USAID to non-profits and NGOs controlled by the Democrats.
This funded the lifestyles of thousands of left wing activists with salaries of $200,000 to $500,000. In turn, they would regularly make donations of thousands of dollars to Democrats in order to keep the fraud flowing.
Now that Trump and DOGE have ended that scam, this is starting to show up in Democrat fundraising numbers. Tens of thousands of their activist donors have lost their jobs which were funded by USAID.
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) is running out of money.
Some of the sources for their contributions have disappeared. It is estimated that annually $15 billion per year was laundered from USAID to non-profits and NGOs controlled by the Democrats.
Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.
Fund-raising from major donors — some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with — has slowed sharply. At the same time, he has expanded the party’s financial commitments to every state, and even to far-flung territories like Guam.
(…) In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Martin acknowledged that his early efforts to rebuild the party had been “overshadowed by some of this inside baseball stuff.” But he said he was bringing about meaningful change, pointing to increased investments in all 57 state parties, including the territories and Washington, D.C. He also noted that the D.N.C. was helping organize more than 100 town halls in Republican districts, carrying out an extensive 2024 postmortem and creating a war room to counter President Trump.
“I know there’s a lot of people that are carrying grudges, that are still litigating the campaign that their person didn’t win,” Mr. Martin said. “I am not one of those people. There’s no sense of living in the past. I have no enemies other than Donald Trump and the Republican Party.”
Six people briefed on the party’s fund-raising, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss its finances frankly, said big donors — who are an essential part of the party’s funding — had been very slow to give to the party this year as Mr. Martin solicits contributions. His commitment to state parties, which amounts to $1 million in monthly spending, has further strained the finances.
Senior D.N.C. officials have discussed the possibility of borrowing money in the coming months to keep the operations fully funded, according to two people with direct knowledge of the private discussions who insisted on anonymity. (Read more: New York Times, 6/18/2025)
Garrett O’Boyle and Steve Friend are guests of Kash Patel at his Las Vegas premiere of “Government Gangsters” on September 29, 2024. (Credit: Breanna Morello/YouTube clipping)
FBI whistleblowers Garret O’Boyle and Steve Friend were set to make their return to work for the federal government, but that’s suddenly changed.
After the news broke on my show, their return to government was shut down.
Sources close to the incident are saying this was Director Patel’s decision.
“We got to figure out a way to stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible,” Bernie said in McAllen, Texas, on Friday.
McAllen has been overrun by the Mexican cartel thanks to Democrats’ open borders policies. Still, Bernie doesn’t care because he lives in Vermont and doesn’t have to suffer the consequences of his actions.
WATCH:
Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders says “we got to figure out a way to stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible.” pic.twitter.com/r11hvH8KeX
We were in court this week for a hearing ordered by U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan in our FOIA lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for “Twitter Files” records concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop and other censorship. The only issue remaining in the lawsuit is the FBI’s continued hiding of records documenting two meetings between Twitter and the Biden FBI.
We filed the April 2023lawsuit against the Justice Department, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence after the FBI failed to respond to a December 2022 FOIA request for the records of any FBI official and key Twitter employees between June 2020 and December 2022 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01163)).
The lawsuit references Yoel Roth, Vijaya Gadde, and Jim Baker, who were prominent in internal discussions at Twitter about censoring the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, as journalist Matt Taibbi revealed in the December 2022 release of the “Twitter Files.”
It is frustrating beyond belief for us to have to go to federal court for basic information on Biden’s abuse of the FBI, using Twitter to censor and monitor Americans.
Earlier this year, FBI Director Kash Patel committed the FBI to a “new era” of transparency:
The FBI is entering a new era—one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice. There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned — and anyone from the prior or current Bureau who undermines this will be swiftly pursued. If there are gaps, we will find them. If records have been hidden, we will uncover them. And we will bring everything we find to the DOJ to be fully assessed and transparently disseminated to the American people as it should be. The oath we take is to the Constitution, and under my leadership, that promise will be upheld without compromise.
Through FOIA and other direct litigation, we continue to investigate and litigate the broad range of censorship that had been imposed upon tens of millions of Americans.
In November 2024, we uncovered records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealing an extensive effort by government and non-government entities to monitor and censor social media posts on fraud during the 2020 election.
In June 2024, heavily redacted Homeland Security records from a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit showed state election officials in the days before and after the 2020 election flagging online content deemed “misinformation” and sending it to the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a DHS-funded nonprofit, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is a division of DHS, the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), which was created to flag online election content for censorship and suppression, and others.
In December 2023, Homeland Security records from the same lawsuit showed a close collaboration between its Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) and the leftist Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to engage in “real-time narrative tracking” on all major social media platforms in the days leading up to the 2020 election.
In November 2023, we uncovered Homeland Security records that showed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) communicating during the 2020 election campaign with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP). The CISA records showed government involvement in the EIP pressure on Google, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit and other platforms to censor “disinformation.”
In September 2022, we suedthe Secretary of State of the State of California for having YouTube censor a Judicial Watch election integrity video. In March 2025, Judicial Watch asked the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case.
In July 2021, we uncovered records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which revealed that Facebook coordinated closely with the CDC to control the Covid narrative and “misinformation” and that over $3.5 million in free advertising was given to the CDC by social media companies.
In May 2021, we revealed documents showing that Iowa state officials pressured social media companies Twitter and Facebook to censor posts about the 2020 election.
In April 2021, records from the Office of the Secretary of State of California revealed how state officials pressured social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Google (YouTube)) to censor posts about the 2020 election. Included in these records were “misinformation briefings” emails that were compiled by communications firm SKDK, which lists Biden for President as their top client of 2020. The records show how the state agency successfully pressured YouTube to censor a Judicial Watch video concerning mail-in voting and a Judicial Watch lawsuit settlement about California voter roll clean up. (Judicial Watch, 6/20/2025)
Vance Boelter, 57, the suspect in the assassination and attempted assassination of Minnesota state lawmakers, made the claim that Governor Tim Walz instructed him to kill US Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in order for the governor to run for her role in the Senate, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.
The letter claims that he was trained by the US military unofficially, and that Walz told him to kill Klobuchar as well as other lawmaker, the outlet said, citing two sources familiar with the letter.
According to another report from Alpha News, citing multiple sources familiar with the investigation into Boelter and the shootings, said in a “confession letter” intended for FBI Director Kash Patel, Boelter confirmed that he was the “shooter at large in Minnesota involved in the 2 shootings.” (Read more: The Post Millennial, 6/20/2025)(Archive)
In a rambling, conspiratorial letter addressed to the FBI, alleged assassin Vance Boelter claimed Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Walz could run for the U.S. Senate, according to two people familiar with the contents of the letter.
The letter is the clearest evidence yet of Boelter’s mindset after the targeted violence against Minnesota politicians last week. It is incoherent, one and a half pages long, confusing and hard to read, according to two people familiar with the letter’s contents. It includes Boelter alleging he had been trained by the U.S. military off the books, and that Walz, who is not running for Senate, had asked him to kill Klobuchar and others.
(…) Klobuchar said in a statement Friday that, “Boelter is a very dangerous man and I am deeply grateful that law enforcement got him behind bars before he killed other people.”
‘F*CK AMERICANS, F*CK ISRAEL’: US State Dept. Visa Specialist Admits to Helping Illegals Evade Deportation: “Don’t Admit the Truth, Don’t Tell Them What You Did”
“I do say it to cab drivers that are from, like, Hispanic descent. I’m like, ‘don’t talk to the police’… If you want a loophole, keep your mouth shut.”
“F**ck these people [Israelis]… I hate them to death.”
This is just the beginning. These radicals with anti-American views have been embedded in our executive branch for generations and we are systematically cleaning out contractors that have allowed this. Let us be clear: If you have these views and you work in or with the State… https://t.co/WtshvK9zC0
We must ban all Dominion and Smartmatic electronic voting machines from America and the world, this is how they steal elections including the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election in which votes for President Trump were electronically switched to Joe Biden. https://t.co/k6vRe9Ua2k
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and former Columbia University graduate student, was released from ICE detention in Jena, Louisiana, on June 20, 2025.
The rally happened outside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine which is near Columbia University, NBC Newsreported on Monday.
Khalil, who is a graduate of Columbia, was arrested in March after leading radical protests on the campus, per Breitbart News. The article noted President Donald Trump had previously promised to deport foreign students fomenting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel protests on campuses.
While addressing the crowd, Khalil said, “Mahmoud Khalil is a human rights defender. Mahmoud Khalil is a freedom fighter. Mahmoud Khalil is a refugee. Mahmoud Khalil is a father and husband. And, above all, Mahmoud Khalil is Palestinian.”
Video footage shows him leading the chant, “Free, free Palestine!” as the crowd joined him:
Mahmoud Khalil is again leading antisemitic chants outside of Columbia University now that he was wrongly freed by an activist judge.
Khalil is a radical jihadist. So is his gross wife. They both need to be deported along with their child.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) June 22, 2025
A federal judge recently issued a ruling that Khalil be released from ICE custody. The Breitbart News report said U.S. District Judge Michael E. Farbiarz, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, had “previously rejected Khalil’s request to be released from ICE custody, explaining that he had ‘not put forward factual evidence as to why it might be unlawful to detain him’ regarding the charge that he reportedly omitted information on his green card application.”
Video footage appears to show his arrival back in New York City after his release accompanied by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY):
Look who personally accompanied anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil back to NYC.
Yes. AOC. The rising star of the Democratic party.
ALERT: Just DAYS after a federal judge orders the release of Mahmoud Khalil he throws an anti-Israel rally at Columbia.
Khalil is NOT a legal citizen yet a federal judge has granted him the position to continue spewing anti-American rhetoric. pic.twitter.com/W8pVxjuDoX
— Rep. Wesley Hunt Press Office (@RepWPH) June 23, 2025
(…) In early April, Emirati political analyst Dr. Salem Al-Ketbi warned that university campuses across the United States are now “targets for extremist organizations that exploit immigration laws to embed operatives, secure future U.S. citizenship, and cultivate a new generation of pro-terror activists — often under the radar,” per Breitbart News. (Read more: Breitbart News, 6/23/2025)(Archive)
Hunter Biden and his attorney Abbe Lowell, a partner of DC firm Winston & Strawn, depart a House Oversight Committee meeting, January 2024. (Credit: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
“This is breach of contract action against Mr. Biden for unpaid legal fees,” reads the complaint against Hunter filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by Winston & Strawn LLP.
The lawsuit notes that Hunter, 55, hired Winston & Strawn “to represent him in several complex matters, including criminal trial in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware,” and that the firm provided him “with extensive legal services in those matters which generated a substantial amount of fees.”
Winston & Strawn claims Hunter has dodged the firm’s “repeated” efforts to collect those fees.
“Although a portion of those fees have been paid, Mr. Biden presently owes [Winston & Strawn] substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest that are due and payable,” the complaint stated.
“Despite repeated requests for payment, Mr. Biden has failed to pay the amounts he owes.
(…) The firm said it “incurred substantial financial damages” because of Hunter’s alleged “breach of the Engagement Contract.”
Trump’s White House counsel sent a letter to Biden aide Neera Tanden this morning, as she appears before the House Oversight Committee amid a probe into Biden’s mental fitness as president — The letter argues that asserting executive privilege is “not justified” because of the nature of the allegations.
“The President authorizes you to provide unrestricted testimony to the House Oversight Committee, irrespective of potential privilege.”
Trump’s White House counsel sent a letter to Biden aide Neera Tanden this morning, as she appears before the House Oversight Committee amid a probe into Biden’s mental fitness as president — The letter argues that asserting executive privilege is “not justified” because of the… pic.twitter.com/jWaTNBgdVz
A top former aide to former President Joe Biden testified behind closed doors Tuesday for more than four hours as part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into his mental fitness to serve and his White House’s use of an autopen, confirming she was authorized to use the automatic signature device while pushing back on concerns about alleged manipulation or malfeasance.
Neera Tanden, who served as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, explained in her opening remarks Tuesday that she was given authority to wield the autopen. She said she “was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president” and was authorized to direct autopen use from October 2021 to May 2023 when she was serving as staff secretary and senior adviser to Biden.
Now, a crucial new detail has emerged regarding the closed-door testimony. According to an Oversight Project press release, Tanden would utilize the autopen without actually verifying from Biden himself that it was an authorized action. From the release:
“…she would send decision memos to Biden’s inner circle with no visibility of approval between sending the memo and receiving it back. Tanden’s testimony confirms that she affixed Biden’s signature onto presidential documents without direct knowledge that Biden authorized the given action.
“Given Biden’s clearly deteriorating condition and lack of capacity, it was incumbent on Tanden to actually confirm that Biden himself was capable of and actually making decisions. Instead, it appears that a close cabal of advisors were put between the autopen and the President.”
Oversight Project President Mike Howell joined Chanel Rion on OANN’s Fine Point to discuss the autopen scandal:
We’re going to learn that there were two types of people running the Biden White House.
The politburo where decisions were made and White House staff where decisions were implemented.
The Washington Examiner also reported yesterday that Tanden “was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents” and that the administration used the “system for authorizing the use of the autopen that [she] inherited from prior administrations” through her tenure as staff secretary.
President Trump earlier this month called the autopen saga “the biggest scandal outside the rigged 2020 election,” saying that he wasn’t a “big autopen person, fortunately.” President Trump added that the autopen is used when you get “thousands of letters from…people all over the country” and that is where the autopen “starts and stops.”
President Trump said that Biden “was never for open borders…transgender for everybody…men playing in women’s sports…frankly, I said it during the debate and I say it now, he didn’t have much of an idea what was going on.”
In January 2021, President Trump prophesized that, “The 25th Amendment is of zero risk to me, but will come back to haunt Joe Biden and the Biden administration. As the expression goes, be careful what you wish for.”
Howell would go on to discuss the 25th Amendment with Rion:
Kamala Harris and the Biden Cabinet abdicated their duty to invoke the 25th Amendment, Section 4.
They knew Joe Biden was incapacitated but preferred it.
Jodie Evans gets most of the attention as the co-founder of CODEPINK and Neville Singham’s wife. But Medea Benjamin’s history may be more interesting.
While creating the linked thread below, I dived into Medea Bejamin briefly – who had an interesting history of speaking to Chinese media.
She co-founded Global Exchange with her husband, Kevin Danaher, which goes on a number of “Reality Trips” to various closed countries – Cuba, Venezuela, among others.
If you’ve followed me long enough … you know that’s a big red flag. State-facilitated exchange trips are one of the most common “soft power” tools that countries have in exporting their ideology to others.
🧵 THREAD: The history of Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODE PINK
Jodie Evans gets most of the attention as the co-founder of CODEPINK and Neville Singham’s wife. But Medea Benjamin’s history may be more interesting.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
Benjamin, per SFGate, has been a career activist since her college years, spending much of her time overseas in Africa. The Wikipedia page says that she joined Students for a Democratic Society in college – if so, this makes her yet another homegrown career NGO-ist. pic.twitter.com/2rbic28KOY
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
In 1988, she co-founded Global Exchange. The SFGate article credits her father as having backed it with hundreds of thousands of dollars, despite them disagreeing vehemently on the issue of Palestine. pic.twitter.com/eq1ermCj92
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP) was formed by Fidel Castro himself in 1960. So, Medea is literally taking people on Cuban tours to a state-linked institute formed by Castro himself. pic.twitter.com/SMP6gWqRQd
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
The Sandinistas are a left-wing political party which was once at the center of a CIA coup. It is the party which Daniel Ortega belongs to.
So, yes, Medea Benjamin’s Global Exchange took others on a trip to Nicaragua to meet the left-wing activists there. pic.twitter.com/86U8dZN0r4
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
In fact, the Global Exchange delegation to Iran was so unusual that Medea Benjamin came under FBI scrutiny for it. This was reported in Tehran Times, an Iranian state-controlled news outlet. pic.twitter.com/6ftov3KQAr
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
Global Exchange also visited Venezuela – back then, Venezuela was promoting luxury people-to-people exchanges with the tourists meeting Chavez himself. pic.twitter.com/XFzLmKxGie
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
Hugo Chavez himself actively worked through Medea Benjamin by creating its own mouthpiece, Venezuela Information Office, and tapping into Global Exchange for activism. pic.twitter.com/oac7JZAODc
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
Perhaps a FARA investigation is in order.
And never forget: the Democratic party has a foreign subversive problem.
Thread end.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
I lied. Global Exchange is a 501(c)(3) – EIN 94-3066686. 26 U.S. Code § 501(c)(3) prohibits political activity for nonprofits. This includes foreign contexts as well. Looks like I’ll be writing another stern letter tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/Om9nz4MvU1
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
CODEPINK’s financial ties to Neville Singham—a Shanghai-based figure funneling cash into pro-CCP narratives—expose a glaring hypocrisy. Their “China Is Not Our Enemy” campaign parrots Beijing’s talking points, including denying the Uyghur genocide, which the State Department explicitly condemns. This isn’t activism—it’s a propaganda pipeline.
When 25% of your funding flows from a regime that jails dissidents and runs surveillance states, your credibility collapses. The real issue? D.C. allows nonprofits to launder foreign influence under the guise of “peace.”
Accountability starts with exposing these financial webs and demanding transparency. National security isn’t negotiable, and neither is the truth.
Follow the money and see how deep the influence runs:
CODEPINK’s financial ties to Neville Singham—a Shanghai-based figure funneling cash into pro-CCP narratives—expose a glaring hypocrisy. Their “China Is Not Our Enemy” campaign parrots Beijing’s talking points, including denying the Uyghur genocide, which the State Department…
Makes me wonder if Craigslist is actually behind a lot of the paid protests. There are active ads on Craigslist to hire the paid protestors across the country. 🧐
She is the top elections enforcement official in the Civil Division at the Trump/Bondi Department of Justice.
She has spent nearly her entire professional career at the Department of Justice. Lawyers close to the Department of Justice tell the Gateway Pundit that she’s now the “top dog” for election crimes.
From 2021-2025, Riordan worked for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which sues states to clean up their voter files. She spent a year in Charlottesville, Virginia filing less than a dozen cases against illegal immigrants for the government. She also prosecuted a man in Virginia for possession of marijuana in the Shenandoah National Park.
This past week, Riordan, according to DOJ sources, has been giving talking points as to why election crimes will not be prosecuted under the second Trump administration. DC Attorneys involved have relayed what Riordan is telling people around town: actual election integrity is impossible.
Riordan’s two main excuses for not prosecuting these crimes herself are obviously lies. She has told attorneys that she lacks data analysts and doesn’t have “a data guy” to review election data for irregularities and systemic fraud, and that loopholes in current law prevent her from investigating voter fraud anyway.
This is the reason, she says, why she cannot prosecute the obvious systemic voter fraud documented in states like Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan.
Riordan complains that she has “no data people” that she has access to, so she can’t effectively investigate election fraud from 2020 or 2024.
(…) Bill Bruch, who publishes a popular Substack on election integrity efforts in Washington State, “All Things Politics,” told the Gateway Pundit in response: “It’s concerning to hear that the Department of Justice doesn’t have a ‘data guy’ especially when I have five great ones, and IT specialists focused on election integrity whom I have worked with for years, that I could refer to them if DOJ asked. There are a lot of great expert people doing this work as volunteers, with solid resumes and credentials. I just can’t imagine that the nation’s central law enforcement agency can’t figure this out. Washington State was one of the first to use vote-by-mail, so we have seen the many methods they have used to cheat elections.”
Luckily for Riordan though, the Gateway Pundit has done her work for her, and can point her to the many data analysts nationwide who could assist her in this effort.
In fact, most of the data analysis has already been done. She doesn’t even need her own ‘data guy.’
The Gateway Pundit has years worth of archives that she could peruse that could give her the legal ‘reasonable grounds’ to open an investigation. The ‘reasonable grounds’ standard is the most common threshold for opening civil investigations, lower than “probable cause” which is the criminal standard, and similar to a “credible allegation” or “factual basis” suggesting a legal violation.
The Gateway Pundit also conducted an interview alongside another group in the fall of 2024 with Tom Davis, a retired Michigan data analyst who wrote a report on data irregularities in the 2020 election along with John Droz. The review of this data shows impossible irregularities in absentee ballot data where there is a correlation between the percentage of the vote that Republican and Democrat candidates receive from absentee ballots, by precinct.
The full interview with “data guy” Tom Davis is below.
John Droz also wrote data reports along with many other ‘data guys’ of which Tom Davis was one, after the 2020 elections looking into voting irregularities in swing states. His reports have never been challenged.
Riordan also claims that the Help American Vote Act (“HAVA”) of 2002 is essentially without any effective enforcement sections, rendering her impotent to bring cases about voter fraud. She claims that her only power to enforce the law rests in TItle three of the act.
Title III sets mandatory requirements for voting systems, provisional ballots, and centralized voter registration databases, and under Section 209 of HAVA, the Attorney General has the authority to bring civil actions in federal court to ensure state compliance. These lawsuits typically seek declaratory or injunctive relief to force states to correct deficiencies—such as failing to implement accessible voting machines, mishandling provisional ballots, or neglecting to establish a statewide voter database. Unlike private individuals, who must follow the more limited and procedural pathways outlined in Title IV, the DOJ can act directly to compel corrective action, often through consent decrees or court orders. This enforcement mechanism allows the federal government to maintain baseline election integrity and uniformity across states that accept HAVA funding.
DOJ sources tell the Gateway Pundit that in meetings, Riordan also deflects responsibility to prominent DOJ officials Ed Martin and Mack Warner. Martin and Warner, election integrity advocates suspect, are being set up to be the public face of fighting for election integrity, and are being set up to fail. The actual deep state complex within ‘main Justice’, which is what the Department of Justice calls itself, the deep state actually in control of the machinery of the Department are completely disinterested in pursuing the credible claims of voter fraud. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 6/25/2025)(Archive)
Jill Biden and “work husband” Anthony Bernal (Credit: Kevin Dietrich/Getty Images)l
A top aide who worked in former President Joe Biden’s administration has been slapped with a subpoena by House Republicans for an alleged cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline during his time in the White House.
Anthony Bernal was a senior aide to Biden and some called him former first lady Jill Biden’s “work husband,” the New York Postreported Thursday.
Bernal on Wednesday told the House Oversight Committee he would not sit for a transcribed interview about the allegations.
“Bernal had been slated to appear on Thursday but pulled out after the Trump White House counsel’s office informed former Domestic Policy Council director Neera Tanden, who gave evidence Tuesday, that she wouldn’t be granted executive privilege,” the Post article said.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-KY) issued the subpoena, according to Fox News.
In a letter to Bernal on Thursday, Comer stated:
Given your close connection with both former President Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden, the Committee sought to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden’s fitness to serve from the American people. You have refused the Committee’s request. However, to advance the Committee’s oversight and legislative responsibilities and interests, your testimony is critical.
He added that leadership “seeks information about your assessment of and relationship with former President Biden to explore whether the time has come for Congress to revisit potential legislation to address the oversight of presidents’ fitness to serve pursuant to its authority under Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment or to propose changes to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment itself.”
In May, a Breitbart News article said Project Veritas undercover video footage revealed former Democrat National Convention (DNC) vice chair and gun control activist David Hogg accusing Bernal of running the White House. (Read more: Breitbart News, 6/26/2025)(Archive)
President Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews Air Force Base March 20, 2019. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census.
President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys general and Republican legislators, the second Trump administration is determined “to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said last month.
What Miller didn’t mention are the political implications of the administration’s move. It could have significant political implications because the census count is used to apportion House seats, determine the number of votes each state gets in the Electoral College for selecting the president, and drive the flow of trillions of dollars in government funds.
Some immigration researchers project that including noncitizens in the census count disproportionately benefits Democratic states with large illegal alien populations. A recent study counters that, based on 2020 census figures, there would have been a negligible shift to the political map had the U.S. government excluded noncitizens from that count. But looking backward, those researchers found, red states would have benefited under the administration’s desired census counting shift. Had authorities excluded such migrants from the 2010 census, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Ohio and North Carolina all would have gained one seat in the House, while California would have lost three seats, and Texas and Florida would have each lost one seat – with the total number of Electoral College votes allotted each state changing accordingly.
Since the first census in 1790, the nation has counted not only citizens but also residents to determine such representation. In addition to citing its long history, defenders of the practice say it is only fair that states should be given the power and resources to represent and serve everyone within their borders.
Critics contend the government’s powers come from “We the people” – citizens or eligible voters – a government established before tens of millions of migrants resided in the country illegally. They also say the practice dilutes the representation of American citizens while incentivizing localities to promote illegal immigration.
Trump’s first term hints at what is to come if his administration vigorously pursues a citizen-centric census policy. In July 2020, when the president issued a memorandum to exclude illegal migrants from the census, blue states and immigration groups challenged it in court almost immediately.
Those challenges rose all the way to the Supreme Court. But it did not rule on the merits – whether all residents must be counted and if the president has the authority to exclude nonresidents – setting the stage for a battle over immigration and presidential power.
The Meaning of the 14th Amendment
The census issue hinges on the Constitution’s language, which calls for apportioning House seats among the states “according to their respective Numbers.” Those “Numbers” originally included “free Persons” and “three-fifths of all other Persons” – namely slaves, a result of the states’ compromise. The framers excluded “Indians not taxed” – Native Americans who were members of sovereign tribal nations, not citizens – from the count.
After the Civil War, Congress passed the 14th Amendment to recognize the rights of the formerly enslaved. It states that congressional representation “shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State,” again excluding Indians not taxed. Under the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, this population would be granted citizenship.
Congress tasked the secretary of commerce with carrying out the census “in such form and content as he may determine.” The president receives that data, is responsible for carrying out the apportionment calculations, and transmits the information to Congress.
Echoing arguments against birthright citizenship, critics on the right say that the 14th Amendment aimed to address the status of former slaves, not masses of illegal migrants. They assert that including this population in the census artificially skews political power, effectively disenfranchises citizens, and incentivizes states to adopt sanctuary policies protecting people here illegally.
“…[R]espect for the law and protection of the integrity of the democratic process warrant the exclusion of illegal aliens from the apportionment base, to the extent feasible and to the maximum extent of the President’s discretion under the law,” President Trump wrote in the 2020memorandum.
The first Trump administration argued that the “persons in each State” that the 14th Amendment refers to had long been interpreted to mean “inhabitants.” Inhabitants, it asserted, do not include “every individual physically present within a State’s boundaries at the time of the census,” noting that past administrations had excluded temporary aliens and foreign diplomatic personnel for apportionment.
The administration also argued that the Constitution and relevant law authorize the executive branch to determine who is to be counted as an inhabitant in the census. The president, therefore, had discretion to omit “persons with debatable ties to a State,” like “aliens living within a jurisdiction without the sovereign’s permission to settle there.”
The administration pointed to Franklin v. Massachusetts to support its claims.There, the Supreme Court held that the President George H.W. Bush administration could include Defense Department employees deployed overseas in the census. Then, the Court found that the president’s duties in the census process are not solely “ceremonial or ministerial,” and that federal law “does not curtail the President’s authority to direct the [Commerce] Secretary in making policy judgments that result in ‘the decennial census.’”
In testimony at the Democrat-led July 2020 House Oversight Committee hearing on the Trump memorandum, Republicans tabbed the head of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, John Eastman, to defend it. The conservative legal scholar, much-maligned by the left for the counsel he provided President Trump regarding challenging the 2020 election, recently told RealClearInvestigations that the Declaration of Independence’s “consent principle” – the concept that government derives its power from the American people – “compels that only citizens be counted for purposes of reapportionment,” and that the principle “is actually codified in the Constitution by excluding ‘Indians not taxed.’” In Eastman’s view, that language signifies that the founders sought to omit “those who are not part of our political community, from the apportionment for representation.”
“President Trump would be on solid ground, therefore, were he to direct that the census either not count illegal aliens at all, or at the very least record citizenship status so that a proper apportionment of citizens could be conducted,” Eastman said.
The plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration contended that the 14th Amendment’s “persons” includes all residents irrespective of their immigration status; that the president lacked the discretion to deem otherwise; and that the process the administration had put in place to exclude illegal aliens was legally deficient. The president had issued a July 2019directive in advance of his memo instructing the Census Bureau to collect citizenship data from various federal agencies, which would have been used to exclude illegal aliens from the apportionment count, raising additional legal questions.
Testifying opposite Eastman at the committee hearing, former Census Bureau directors warned that the president’s memo would spook potential respondents and suggested the memo would minimally create the appearance of politicizing the census.
Trump’s action reflected an “illegal desire of only counting citizens,” said Vincent Barabba, former Census Bureau director under the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. “[H]is real objective…is to make sure less people will be counted in states with large minority populations which did not support President Trump or the positions he has taken.”
When litigation over the Trump census policy reached the Supreme Court, it punted. In December 2020, the justices held by a 6-3 margin in Trump v. New York that the plaintiffs lacked standing, and that the case was not ripe for adjudication – with Justices Steven Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissenting.
Upon taking office, President Biden issued a first-day executive order revoking both of Trump’s policies. Excluding people based on their immigration status “conflict[s] with the principle of equal representation enshrined in our Constitution, census statutes, and historical tradition,” Biden wrote. “Reapportionment shall be based on the total number of persons residing in the several States, without regard for immigration status.”
States Provide a Backup Plan
The first Trump administration lost a related case at the Supreme Court. In 2018, the administration reinstated a question on the decennial survey about the citizenship status of respondents – a move that likewise came under furious legal challenge.
The Commerce Department stated that it reinstated the question at the behest of the Justice Department, which was seeking superior data on voting-age citizens necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act. Critics sued the administration, saying that including the question, which administrations had dropped after 1960, would chill immigrant respondents, leading to an unconstitutional undercount.
In June 2019, the justices found that while reinstating such a question was legal, the process by which the president sought to do so was invalid, since the Commerce Department’s rationale for including it was “contrived” and “pretextual” – in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
If the second Trump administration fails to win court approval of its expected effort to exclude illegal migrants, this time around, it will have backup.
Three days before Trump’s second inauguration, Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio, and West Virginia sued the Commerce Department, arguing that its prevailing practice of counting foreigners including illegal aliens at their place of “‘usual residence…’ robb[ed] the people of the Plaintiff States of their rightful share of political representation, while systematically redistributing political power to states with high numbers of illegal aliens and nonimmigrant aliens.”
They want the federal court, among other things, to vacate this “Residence Rule” to the extent it requires the Census Bureau to “include illegal aliens and nonimmigrant aliens in the apportionment base.” And they want to require the Census Bureau to include questions on the survey about citizenship, including one to determine whether non-citizen respondents are lawful permanent residents.
In March, the federal court stayed the case at the Trump administration’s request. The administration said it needed time “to determine its approach to the Residence Rule.” The White House and states plan to provide a joint status update on July 1.
The Justice and Commerce Departments did not respond to RCI’s requests for comment.
Republicans Seek a Legislative Fix
In the interim, Congress has acted. During the last session, Republican members introduced the Equal Representation Act, requiring the census to include a citizenship question and exclude all non-citizens from the census count for apportionment.
Democrats panned the bill, with the then-ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Jamie Raskin, writing in a minority report that “The plain reading of the [constitutional] text is clear as day, and the original purposes have been carefully articulated and never rebutted. For those who like to follow precedent, every apportionment since 1790 has included every single person residing in the United States, not just those lucky enough to have been given the right to vote.”
In 2016, the Supreme Court held that a state or locality may draw legislative districts based on total population, irrespective of the fact that some districts may have significantly larger voter-eligible populations than others.
Writing for the majority, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that “we need not and do not resolve whether…States may draw districts to equalize voter-eligible population rather than total population.”
Fifty years prior, the Court held that Hawaii could use a registered-voter population base for its apportionment of state legislative seats due to the “large concentrations of military and other transients” in key population center Oahu.
In May 2024, the House passed the Equal Representation Act on a largely party-line vote, but it failed to advance in the Senate.
The current House reintroduced the bill by North Carolina Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards. He told RealClearInvestigations that “Americans deserve fair and equal representation, something that will not be possible until we eliminate the influence of noncitizens in our elections.”
The bill must first move through the Oversight Committee, chaired by Kentucky GOP Rep. James Comer. He told RCI that “American citizens’ representation in Congress should not be determined by individuals who are not citizens of the United States.”
Comer said his committee plans to move the bill again during this congressional session.
The states suing the Commerce Department are adamant that their view should prevail irrespective of legislative action.
Christopher Hajec, Director of Litigation at the Immigration Reform Law Institute – a legal nonprofit opposed to “unchecked mass migration” that is representing Kansas in the pending states’ suit – told RCI that “Whatever Congress does or does not do, our position is that the Constitution implies that illegal aliens should not be counted in the census for apportionment.”
This article was originally published by RealClearInvestigations and made available via RealClearWire.
A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama administration’s spy agencies’ assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were “excessively involved” in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process that raised questions of a “potential political motive.”
Further, Brennan’s decision to include the discredited Steele dossier, over the objections of the CIA’s most senior Russia experts, “undermined the credibility” of the assessment.
The “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Election Interference” was conducted by career professionals at the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and was commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May.
The “lessons-learned review” found that, on December 6, 2016, six weeks before his presidency ended, Barack Obama ordered the assessment, which concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin “aspired” to help Trump win the election.
The review identified “multiple procedural anomalies” that undermined the credibility of the ICA, including “a highly compressed production timeline, stringent compartmentation, and excessive involvement of agency heads.”
It also questioned the exclusion of key intelligence agencies and said media leaks may have influenced analysts to conform to a false narrative of Trump-Russia collusion.
“The rushed timeline to publish both classified and unclassified versions before the presidential transition raised questions about a potential political motive behind the White House tasking and timeline.”
The review found that Brennan directed the compilation of the ICA, and that his, Comey’s and Clapper’s “direct engagement in the ICA’s development was highly unusual in both scope and intensity” and ”risked stifling analytic debate.”
Brennan handpicked the CIA analysts to compile the ICA and involved only the ODNI, CIA, FBI and NSA, excluding 13 of the then-17 intelligence agencies.
He sidelined the National Intelligence Council and forced the inclusion of the discredited Steele dossier despite objections of the authors and senior CIA Russia experts, so as to push a false narrative that Russia secured Trump’s 2016 victory.
“This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump,’” said Ratcliffe in an exclusive interview.
“It was, ‘We’re going to create this and put the imprimatur of an IC assessment in a way that nobody can question it.’ They stamped it as Russian collusion and then classified it so nobody could see it.
“This led to Mueller [special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry, which concluded after two years that there was no Trump-Russia collusion]. It put the seal of approval of the intelligence community that Russia was helping Trump and that the Steele dossier was the scandal of our lifetime. It ate up the first two years of his [Trump’s first] presidency.
“You see how Brennan and Clapper and Comey manipulated [and] silenced all the career professionals and railroaded the process.”
ACTBLUE MUST FACE CONGRESS AFTER MASSIVE FRAUD & FOREIGN ELECTION FUNDING DOJ PROBE. ActBlue officials have been subpoenaed and are now legally obligated to testify before Congress over years of enormous fraud regarding their fundraising platform directly connected to the Democratic Party.
They are alleged to have been laundering money through ActBlue for years using unaware American citizens’ personal information in an attempt to cover up the illegal donations, especially coming from foreign nations.
Biden’s Treasury Secretary stonewalled Congress refusing to release ActBlue information, the top seven executives at ActBlue resigned as billions of taxpayer dollars in small dollar donations to ActBlue coming from USAID to Democrat-aligned NGOs began to disappear.
Pam Bondi has also been ordered by President Trump to investigate ActBlue. One person summoned is a current senior workflow specialist, and the other is the former VP of customer service, Alyssa Twomey, per NYP.
Are you starting to understand how these illegal operations steal and launders your taxpayer dollars and hides foreign money and why USAID and all these front companies and NGOs were so important?
And it’s all being used to undermine the American citizens, their interests, and the United States in general all while using your own taxpayer dollars and information to cover it all up, steal elections, destroy the country, and enrich themselves.
This isn’t politics. This is a literal criminal enterprise disguised as a government organization.
ACTBLUE MUST FACE CONGRESS AFTER MASSIVE FRAUD & FOREIGN ELECTION FUNDING DOJ PROBE. ActBlue officials have been subpoenaed and are now legally obligated to testify before Congress over years of enormous fraud regarding their fundraising platform directly connected to the… pic.twitter.com/JtN6WdemvF
Linda Sun exits Brooklyn Federal court with Chris Hu after she was charged with acting as an unregistered agent of China’s government, September 3, 2024. (Credit: Kent J. Edwards/Reuters)
Linda Sun Falsified Information to Cause Approval of NYS Contracts Awarded to Businesses Operated by her Family Member and her Husband
BROOKLYN, NY – A federal grand jury in Brooklyn yesterday returned a second superseding indictment that added charges against Linda Sun and her husband and co-defendant Chris Hu related to a fraudulent scheme involving procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE) by the New York State (NYS) government at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the scheme, Sun steered contracts to vendors with whom she had undisclosed personal connections, and she and Hu received millions of dollars from the vendors, including some in the form of kickbacks, which Sun did not disclose to the NYS government. The new charges against Sun and Hu include honest services wire fraud, honest services wire fraud conspiracy, bribery, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Additionally, Hu is charged with tax evasion. The defendants will be arraigned on Monday, June 30, 2025.
Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Christopher G. Raia, Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI); and Harry T. Chavis, Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI New York), announced the new charges.
“As alleged, Linda Sun not only acted as unregistered agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China, but also enriched herself to the tune of millions of dollars when New York State was at its most vulnerable at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,” stated United States Attorney Nocella. “When masks, gloves, and other protective supplies were hard to find, Sun abused her position of trust to steer contracts to her associates so that she and her husband could share in the profits. We demand better from our public servants, and this Office will continue to hold accountable public officials who enrich themselves at the expense of the New York taxpayers.”
(…) “During a global pandemic, Linda Sun allegedly leveraged her authority within the New York State government to secretly steer contracts to selective PPE vendors in exchange for millions of dollars in kickbacks to her and her husband,” stated FBI Assistant Director in Charge Raia. “This alleged scheme not only created an unearned and undisclosed benefit for the defendants and their relatives, but it also exploited the state’s critical need for resources in a health crisis. The FBI will never tolerate any public official who abuses their position to profit at the expense of others, especially when their objectives align with foreign agendas.”
“Not only did Sun allegedly use Chinese money and her influence in New York State to benefit the Chinese government, it is further alleged that she used her position to steer multi-million-dollar contracts to companies controlled by family members and friends. With this investigation, this husband-and-wife team with supposed ties to corruption has been rooted out, and they will soon understand that in legitimate government spending, there is no friends and family discount,” stated IRS-CI New York Special Agent in Charge Chavis.
As alleged in the superseding indictment, at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic and while working with the team of NYS government employees responsible for obtaining PPE, Sun used her position of influence with the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to coordinate the NYS government’s purchase of PPE from vendors located in the PRC. In addition to certain vendors referred by the PRC government, Sun referred two vendors (the Cousin Company and the Associate Company) that were not recommended by the PRC government but rather had ties to Sun and Hu, while claiming falsely that these, too, were referrals from components of the PRC government. In reality, the Cousin Company was operated by one of Sun’s second cousins, and the Associate Company was operated by Hu and one of Hu’s business associates. With Sun’s assistance, the Cousin Company and the Associate Company each entered into multiple contracts with the NYS government worth millions of dollars apiece.
Sun, the Associate Company, and the Cousin Company did not disclose to the NYS government (1) the fact that Sun and Hu had relationships with the Associate Company and the Cousin Company, or (2) that Sun and Hu received a portion of the profits that the Associate Company and the Cousin Company made as a result of their contracts with the NYS government for PPE, including through kickback payments from the Cousin Company.
To conceal her relationship with the Cousin Company from procurement authorities at the NYS government, Sun falsified a document to suggest that the Jiangsu Department of Commerce had recommended the Cousin Company. On or about March 20, 2020, Sun and other NYS government officials received an email from the U.S. representative to the Jiangsu Trade & Business Representative Office in Albany, New York suggesting four PRC-based vendors who were able to provide PPE for the NYS government. On or about March 21, 2020, Sun forwarded herself an altered version of the email in which she replaced the first suggested vendor—a vendor that produced ventilators—with the Cousin Company and wrote that the Cousin Company was recommended by the Jiangsu Department of Commerce.
On or about March 24, 2020, in an email with the subject line “Already VERIFIED by Linda Sun,” Sun wrote to NYS procurement officials that the Cousin Company “came recommended by Jiangsu Chamber of Commerce,” that the representative had helped “screen potential vendors,” and that the Cousin Company’s surgical mask was the “gold standard.” Below Sun’s message was what purported to be quoted text from the Jiangsu Chamber of Commerce’s email recommending vendors. However, the email in the quoted text was the altered email.
In connection with the Cousin Company contracts with the NYS government, a spreadsheet maintained on Sun and Hu’s personal computer indicated that the Cousin provided payments to Hu (and Sun) totaling approximately $2.3 million during 2020 and 2021. These kickbacks from the Cousin Company represented taxable income. Hu did not report these payments as income to the U.S. government, as required, or pay taxes on this income in Forms 1040 for 2020 and 2021 that he filed on behalf of himself and Sun.
In part, Hu laundered the income from the Cousin Company by having the Cousin make $1.5 million in payments in three $500,000 increments from another entity that the Cousin owned (the Cousin Entity) to U.S. accounts at a financial institution. Hu created these accounts in a close relative’s name instead of his own on April 29, 2020, two days before the final $6 million payment from NYS government to the Cousin Company.
Sun also arranged for the Associate Company to be a vendor for NYS government contracts. On March 14, 2020, Sun wrote an email with the subject “Mask suppliers” to other members of the NYS government PPE task force with procurement authority and listed the Associate Company as a potential supplier. Sun subsequently communicated with the Associate Company by email to obtain a price quote for the contract and provided a status update to the NYS government about the contracts with the Associate Company.
A computer owned by the defendants contained a NYS internal document tracking various state PPE contracts, broken out by vendor. One of the fields in the document contained, for each company, an answer to the question “why did we do business with this vendor?” For the Associate Company, the answer to the question was listed as: “referred by Chinese chamber of commerce.” However, there was no such referral for the Associate Company.
According to a spreadsheet found in one of Hu’s electronic accounts, the total profits Hu expected to reap from the contracts that the Associate Company and the Cousin Company had with the NYS Department of Health totaled $8,029,741. Hu marked the column for these expected profits with the word “me.”
The new charges are in addition to the existing charges against Sun, which include violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, alien smuggling, and money laundering, and the existing charges against Hu, which include money laundering conspiracy, money laundering, as well as conspiracy to commit bank fraud and misuse of means of identification. The charges in the superseding indictment are allegations and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s National Security and Cybercrime Section. Assistant United States Attorneys Alexander A. Solomon, Robert M. Pollack, and Amanda Shami are in charge of the prosecution, with the assistance of Trial Attorney Eli Ross from the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section and Litigation Analyst Emma Tavangari. Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Mantell of the Office’s Asset Recovery Section is handling forfeiture matters. (Justice.gov, 6/26/2025)(Archive)
An identity theft investigation led to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace raid at a fire equipment factory in North Carolina on Wednesday. The operation led to the arrest of at least 30 people, according to a local news report.
ICE Homeland Security Investigations special agents and deputies with the U.S. Marshals Service conducted a workplace enforcement operation at the Buckeye Fire Equipment Company in King Mountain, North Carolina, on Wednesday. The operation followed an investigation by the HSI into allegations of identity theft.
ICE officials told Queen City News they visited the plant as part of an investigation into identity theft and other crimes.
“Allegations of identity theft and you should take seriously. Would you want your identities used for someone else to work or do whatever they’re going to do with them? So its a serious federal crime,” ICE spokesman Lindsay Williams told the local news outlet. “There have been some folks detained where somewhere in the dozen or so range, but that number may increase as we continue.”
Officials later confirmed they had placed at least 30 people into custody. They expect that number to increase as the investigation continues. (Read more: Breitbart News, 6/26/2025)(Archive)
Well, CNN is at the center of yet another fake news hoax. What number is this now? Honestly, too many to count. But this latest stunt is especially egregious because it involves our national security.
So what happened?
CNN ran a bogus story claiming that President Trump’s highly successful military strikes barely dented Iran’s nuclear program and only set them back “a few months.” The goal was obvious: downplay the operation and spin it as a failure.
But here’s the problem: that claim completely contradicted the official military assessment, which stated the strikes were a resounding success.
Senator Rubio and Pete Hegseth shredded the media and the likely leakers for pushing a false narrative that not only undermines President Trump but also puts US national security at risk.
Watch these two powerful clips:
NEWS: At NATO, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says a criminal leak investigation is underway after top secret intelligence was released to undermine the U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear program
Secretary Rubio adds: These are professional “stabbers” manipulating intelligence… pic.twitter.com/j71rWQXlzW
Hegseth SHAMES the media for reporting on a leaked “preliminary” “low confidence” report in an attempt to cast doubt on the success of U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/upmwztr1WQ
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is launching a probe into a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report leaked to CNN assessing damage from President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.
Now here’s where the story takes a turn. Enter Natasha Bertrand… CNN’s Pentagon and national security correspondent. But she’s a lot more than that.
Bertrand has been called a Deep State mouthpiece and a key player in pushing the Russia hoax, the infamous “pee tape” lie, and a long list of other intelligence-backed psy-ops, like the Hunter Biden laptop coverup and the “51 spies who lied.” But now, she’s got a new gig. Ms. Bertrand is the alleged leaker.
@PressSec: “We have seen this playbook run before… leaked bits and pieces of an intel assessment to push a false narrative. And it’s to the same reporter, I will add —
@NatashaBertrand of@CNN— who has done this in the past. In 2020, it was Natasha Bertrand who had 51 intelligence analysts falsely lie to her… that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.”
.@PressSec: “We have seen this playbook run before… leaked bits and pieces of an intel assessment to push a false narrative. And it’s to the same reporter, I will add — @NatashaBertrand of @CNN — who has done this in the past. In 2020, it was Natasha Bertrand who had 51… pic.twitter.com/Dwy75y3HoE
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 26, 2025
Dem leaders quickly fell in line, backing up the bogus story:
I read key intelligence and sat in a classified briefing today on the Iran strikes.
I cannot share the details. But I can share this: Trump did not “obliterate” their program. He likely set it back months, not years; leaving diplomacy – once again – as the only real path. pic.twitter.com/AWLERf3yMe
Well, now we know. The so-called “assessment” being passed around was junk—completely lacking in credibility. It was never going to be officially published because it wouldn’t hold up under real scrutiny.
Which means the only way this fake narrative could see the light of day was to leak it straight to the regime’s favorite cable news source: CNN.
That’s exactly why it landed in Natasha Bertrand’s lap. No ethical journalist would touch it. But she would, and that’s what makes Natasha the Deep State Darling that she is.
Journalist Molly Hemingway called out just how flimsy this so-called report really was.
I’ll add that multiple knowledgeable sources tell me the intel assessment being bandied about specifically notes it was done the day after the strike, needs weeks’ more analysis, was not done in conjunction with other intel agencies, and was given a low confidence rating. pic.twitter.com/psNEhnceNq
But again, this shouldn’t surprise anybody, since Natasha is the Deep State’s go-to girl. And speaking of that, take a look at this reel, highlighting Natasha’s biggest fake news hits:
CNN’s star reporter Natasha Bertrand on Bomber Gate has quite the sordid history including: Trumps a Russian Agent Moscow Pee Tapes are real and Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation. But we cannot criticize her. BS Credit: @MegynKellyShowpic.twitter.com/HvesJ0xtUN
A Pulitzer-Prize winning Washington Post journalist was arrested and charged with possession of child porn, DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Friday.
Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, was arrested on Thursday after FBI agents discovered 11 videos of child sexual abuse material on his work laptop during a raid, Pirro’s office says, adding that they also found fractured pieces of a hard drive in his hallway, and seized several electronic devices.
After examining LeGro’s work laptop, the FBI says it found a “folder that contained 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material.”
LeGro, a veteran journalist who worked at WaPo for 18 years, made his first appearance in District Court of Washington DC on Friday, and has a detention hearing scheduled for next Wednesday, the NY Post reports. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted.
A heavily redacted FBI affidavit against LeGro claims the reporter was linked to multiple E-Gold accounts in 2005 and 2006.
E-Gold was a digital payment service that ceased operations after the feds accused the company in 2007 of laundering money for child pornographers.
The affidavit notes that the FBI received court approval to monitor LeGro’s internet account in May. -NY Post
LeGro worked for the Post‘s sports department between 2000-2006, left to work as a reporter and producer for “PBS NewsHour“, and then returned to WaPo in 2013. At WaPo, he was part of a team of reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for coverage of former Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore – who was the victim of a disinformation campaign funded by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.
The Post was threatened by Moore with a lawsuit after the outlet claimed that he romantically pursued a 14-year-old girl when he was in his 30s – an allegation he vehemently denied.
Jackson not only dissented, but did so with “deep disillusionment,” following the majority opinion that “universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority Congress has given to federal courts.” Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered the opinion of the court.
It’s one for the ages.
“By the end of the Biden administration, we had reached ‘a state of affairs where almost every major presidential act [was] immediately frozen by a federal district court,’” Barrett writes. “The trend has continued: During the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, district courts issued approximately 25 universal injunctions.”
The Trump administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court did not concern the question of the executive order’s legality. It instead concerned the powers of the federal district courts to issue universal injunctions – in this case, those that would bar the executive order from applying to anyone, not just the plaintiffs in a local case.
Barrett correctly bristles at the clear overstep of the judiciary. “The bottom line? The universal injunction was conspicuously nonexistent for most of our Nation’s history,” she notes.
A huge rulling by the Supreme Court, smacking down the ridiculous process of nationwide injunctions. Under our system, everyone has to follow the law–including judges! pic.twitter.com/S3Os7RpV6F
$14.6 BILLION in Healthcare Fraud EXPOSED — And the Fight to Take It Back Has Just Begun
America — this is the largest healthcare fraud takedown in U.S. history. And it was made possible because of @POTUS Trump’s Executive Order on Fraud, Waste & Abuse — and the leadership of @SecKennedy
Health and Human Services.
🔹 324 charged
🔹 96 medical professionals indicted
🔹 $14.6 BILLION in fraudulent claims uncovered
🔹 Over 1 million Americans’ identities stolen
🔹 Foreign rings from Russia, Eastern Europe, and Pakistan involved
Mehmet @DrOz, CMS Administrator, made it clear:
“This isn’t just about fraud.
It’s a coordinated attack on our health care system.
And we’re CRUSHING it.”
🧠 Dr. Oz revealed:
✅ $100M+ in taxpayer funds stopped before they could be stolen
✅ 27 providers under lockdown — payments frozen until verified
✅ New AI-powered Fraud War Room now operating at CMS
✅ Clinics caught billing for surgeries in two states at once… on the same day
Yes — that actually happened.
💉 DOJ’s Matthew Gallotti added:
“These aren’t just schemes — they’re THEFT from American families.
Every fake claim drives up our deficit and endangers care for our most vulnerable citizens.”
This takedown even uncovered doctors billing Medicare for skin graft surgeries on dying patients in nursing homes — just to cash in one last time before death.
This is evil wearing a white coat.
🇺🇸 President Trump’s Executive Order Was the Spark
When President Trump signed the E.O. to target fraud and protect Americans, he unleashed a federal coalition:
DOJ, FBI, CMS, DEA, State AGs, And HHS under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Together, they’re not just prosecuting criminals — they’re preventing crime before the money ever leaves the building.
📞 Protect Yourself — and Help the Fight
Dr. Oz called on Americans to take action:
“Over half of whistleblower tips we get are for healthcare fraud.
Help us stop it. Guard your data. Report abuse.”
🧠 Call: 1-800-HHS-TIPS
🛑 The era of turning Medicare into a piggy bank for global crime syndicates is OVER.
This is what happens when real leadership returns to Washington.
This is what happens when We the People are defended.
God bless the men and women who made this possible.
And may God bless America. 🇺🇸
📢 $14.6 BILLION in Healthcare Fraud EXPOSED — And the Fight to Take It Back Has Just Begun
America — this is the largest healthcare fraud takedown in U.S. history. And it was made possible because of @POTUS Trump’s Executive Order on Fraud, Waste & Abuse — and the leadership of… pic.twitter.com/HEeC1AqCXK
Joshua Aaron has worked in and around the tech industry for around two decades. He built his first app — a blackjack game — at computer camp when he was 13.
His newest app is designed for a very different purpose: to let users alert people nearby to sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area.
Aaron launched the platform, called ICEBlock, in early April after watching President Donald Trump’s administration begin its immigration crackdown. The White House’s immigration policies have sparked mass protests across the United States; a CNN poll in April showed 52% of Americans polled said Trump has gone too far in deporting undocumented immigrants.
ICEBlock currently has more than 20,000 users, many of whom are in Los Angeles, where controversial, large-scale deportation efforts have taken place.
CNN also did a segment promoting the app.
WATCH:
Disgusting
🚨CNN promotes new APP to track ICE and warn illegal aliens before they are detained and deported.
Reporter Benny Johnson asked Noem and Trump about CNN’s coverage of the app that tracks ICE agents location.
Noem said CNN may be prosecuted.
“We’re working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that. What they’re doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement…and operations,” Noem said.
“What they’re doing, we believe, is illegal,” Noem said.
WATCH:
🚨 BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says they’re working with the DOJ to potentially PROSECUTE CNN for promoting an ICE tracking app
Trump says he also wants accountability for CNN over their false reports on Iran.
California would be the biggest winner in the sanctuary vote scam, as it would gain 11 more congressional seats due to immigrants and their young children being counted in the census.
President Trump is once again pushing to exclude illegal aliens from the census count used to determine congressional representation and Electoral College votes.
On January 20, 2025, he rescinded a Biden-era executive order that had mandated counting all residents regardless of immigration status, signaling his intent to revisit the policy. The president argues that including undocumented immigrants dilutes the political power of U.S. citizens and amounts to a form of voter suppression.
Trump declared that “States adopting policies that encourage illegal aliens to enter this country and that hobble Federal efforts to enforce the immigration laws passed by Congress should not be rewarded with greater representation in the House of Representatives”.
Liberal states are already mobilizing resistance, as they did during Trump’s first term when challengers led by New York, along with cities, counties, and immigrant rights groups, argued that Trump’s move could leave several million people uncounted and cause California, Texas and New Jersey to lose House seats.
New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump of trying to “punish states that are immigrant-rich” and “transfer power from those states that have significant number of immigrants to those that do not”, with groups including the ACLU immediately filing lawsuits arguing the policy violates the Constitution and federal law.
The scale of sanctuary jurisdictions protecting illegal aliens is staggering. The Center for Immigration Studies identifies 13 sanctuary states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Washington, along with 220 sanctuary cities and counties across the United States.
(…) This represents a massive transfer of political power from states that enforce immigration law to sanctuary jurisdictions that actively shield illegal aliens. The census scam allows sanctuary states and cities to artificially inflate their political representation while law-abiding states lose congressional seats and electoral votes they rightfully deserve based on their citizen populations. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/2/2025)(Archive)
Hello “Mrs. Butters” – or more likely, Mr. Álvarez-Aranyos,
I came across American Opposition via the link in your X bio and decided to take a closer look.
According to its own description, American Opposition is a “non-profit, non-connected political action committee created to counter the rise of fascism in the United States.” In reality, it looks more like a barely-functioning vanity project. The FEC filing (Committee ID: C00896720) confirms it’s a newly formed PAC with little traction or visibility.
If your Threads activity is any indicator – where you regularly post that Pete Buttigieg deserves more influence than Harry Sisson or Lindy Li, it’s no surprise the project isn’t gaining ground.
The American Opposition Threads feed mostly showcases photos of the founder (you) attending protests. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that this PAC serves as a vehicle for you to play full-time activist on someone else’s dime — though apparently, not many dimes are coming in. Despite your background, it seems you didn’t cultivate enough support in the NGO world to land real institutional backing.
Let’s review that background: You launched the online edition of Editora Listín Diario while still in college. Later, you advised the Department of Defense on “strategic communications” during the Iraq and Afghanistan operations. Most notably, you led strategic comms for Protect Democracy during the 2020 election, a group bankrolled in large part by Open Society Foundations. That’s Soros money, plain and simple.
So the image starts to clarify: a military-to-NGO pipeline operative with Soros backing, trying to rebrand as grassroots opposition. But if this PAC is your flagship, the branding isn’t working.
So your way of coping with your own failure is to mock Texans suffering through a devastating natural disaster on an X account called “Mrs. Butters.”
Stop being evil.
Hello “Mrs. Butters” – or more likely, Mr. Álvarez-Aranyos,
I came across American Opposition via the link in your X bio and decided to take a closer look.
According to its own description, American Opposition is a “non-profit, non-connected political action committee created… pic.twitter.com/Js3ft9FMlh
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 6, 2025
BREAKING – Data Republican has identified the person behind the “Mrs. Butters” account that celebrated the flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas, which claimed the lives of multiple children as Mr. Álvarez-Aranyos, a Soros-funded former Defense Department advisor running a failing… pic.twitter.com/mmymzey9LA
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) July 6, 2025
Many on the left are amused by the devastation and deaths that were caused by the flash flood in Texas on July 5, 2025. (Credit: clipping from Chicks on the Right video)
On Wednesday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) said that Democrats haven’t really talked about extending the 2017 tax cuts for people making under $400,000 annually because Republicans aren’t being bipartisan.
Host Kelly O’Donnell asked:
“Another component of this is maintaining the 2017 tax cuts, at that time, so, now, it would be a matter of maintaining that, not new cuts for most Americans. The Democratic Party in 2024 did talk about wanting to make sure that those tax levels remained low for those earning under $400,000 a year. But I don’t hear Democrats talking about the tax cut piece of this much. What’s your response to that?”
DelBene answered:
“Well, I think, maybe we would be in a different place if we were actually coming together to talk about what we can do to help make sure families across the country can thrive. We would talk about putting together a tax policy that is fair, that puts working families first, this is tax policy that puts billionaires first, all of the permanency in the tax bill that they’re putting forward is for the wealthiest and large corporations. It’s not for working families. So, let’s have that conversation. Let’s have that be the priority, let’s expand the child tax credit and help, again, lower childhood poverty across the country. These are important priorities, something we could be working on in a bipartisan way, but there’s been nothing bipartisan about this.”
Sanjay Gupta, much like his buddy Jake Tapper, is now trying to gaslight us and rewrite history.
Gupta just told Gavin Newsom that it was a mistake for people to claim that the vaccine protected against infection and transmission, but that he wasn’t one of the people making those claims.
Hey Gupta, nice try. Let’s roll the tape.
Sanjay Gupta, much like his buddy Jake Tapper, is now trying to gaslight us and rewrite history.
Gupta just told Gavin Newsom that it was a mistake for people to claim that the vaccine protected against infection and transmission, but that he wasn’t one of the people making… pic.twitter.com/g7dpo8P1Xb
BREAKING: @abcnews anchor @arobach caught on ‘hot mic’ in August disgustedly exposing networks decision to strategically spike bombshell investigation into Jefferey Esptein over THREE YEARS AGO.
December 19, 2023 Federal judge confirms the existence of a Jeffrey Epstein “associates” list:
BREAKING: A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in early 2024 that will make public the names of scores of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates. https://t.co/fxSs5ssJ9Rpic.twitter.com/5tl09oAkbT
— Michele Swinick 💲 Make More Money & Get Healthy! (@EverythingHomeT) July 8, 2025
Benny Johnson (Feb 2025): “You say that the FBI has Epstein’s list, they’re sitting on it… Why is the FBI protecting the largest-scale pedorist [sic] in human history?”
In February 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi stated on Fox News that a Jeffrey Epstein “client list” was “sitting on my desk right now to review,” suggesting it was under consideration for public release as directed by President Trump.
Mike Benz explains exactly how the Epstein files are controlled by the CIA, not the FBI, and demands that the agency release everything to the public:
“I want answers from the CIA. You and I can’t get the kind of access he had as normal civilians. In 2020 the Justice Department did a 350 page report.. One footnote.. About CIA connection.. that says “We asked Acosta about Jeffrey Epstein being an Intelligence agent, he said no.” Softball question of the century.”
“That’s all we get? No questions about conversations, no evidentiary trail or who spoke to him. Set up to fail. End of the story. There is a complete lack of enthusiasm to finding out the answers. They have not shown us any evidence of what they’ve seen. Is there no evidence of no appetite?”
Mike Benz explains exactly how the Epstein files are controlled by the CIA, not the FBI, and demands that the agency release everything to the public:⁰⁰“I want answers from the CIA. You and I can’t get the kind of access he had as normal civilians. In 2020 the Justice… pic.twitter.com/OjCqv3NvIq
Mike Benz exposes Former U.S AG Bill Barr’s dark history with Epstein, He was the CIA’s mop-up man and his father worked directly with him, “Family business”:
“Epstein died under his watch.. Did the blocking and tackling the first time around. There was an immediate conflict of interest.. Both were actively involved in the Iran-Contra scandal.”
“You had an immediate conflict of interest when Barr said Epstein killed himself and that the case was closed. You’ve got the CIA’s mop-up man as the head of the Justice Department and his father worked directly with Epstein. Father like son, family business.”
Mike Benz exposes Former U.S AG Bill Barr’s dark history with Epstein, He was the CIA’s mop-up man and his father worked directly with him, “Family business”:
“Epstein died under his watch.. Did the blocking and tackling the first time around. There was an immediate conflict of… pic.twitter.com/zptD9TLNx5
USAID. Soros. Internews. OCCRP. Bellingcat. They say they support democracy. But from Hungary to Brazil, Slovakia to the U.S., they’ve become the new information warlords.
This isn’t about truth.
It’s about power and who controls the story.
DEEP DIVE Episode 2 – ONLY on 𝕏
00:10 – “The Blob”: Pentagon, State, USAID, donors, and 10,000+ NGOs – all moving in sync.
02:15 – Internews trained 9,000 journalists and reached 778M people…in one year.
03:47 – Reagan’s CIA workaround: how Internews and NED were born after Church Committee fallout.
05:09 – Internews’s playbook: media ops for regime change in Brazil, Serbia, Belarus, and more.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined by fellow Democrats, speaks out against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at a press conference on July 02, 2025. (Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
At town halls in their districts and in one-on-one meetings with constituents and activists, Democratic members of Congress are facing a growing thrum of demands to break the rules, fight dirty — and not be afraid to get hurt.
Why it matters: House Democrats told Axios they see a growing anger among their base that has, in some cases, morphed into a disregard for American institutions, political traditions and even the rule of law.
“This idea that we’re going to save every norm and that we’re not going to play [Republicans’] game … I don’t think that’s resonating with voters anymore,” said one House Democrat.
Another told Axios that a “sense of fear and despair and anger” among voters “puts us in a different position where … we can’t keep following norms of decorum.”
Axios spoke to more than two dozen House Democrats for this story, with many requesting anonymity to offer candid insights about their interactions with constituents and activists.
Zoom out: For months, Democratic lawmakers have fumed that their base’s demands to “fight harder” misunderstand the lack of legislative and investigative power afforded to the minority party in Congress.
“We’ve got people who are desperately wanting us to do something … no matter what we say, they want [more],” Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), the chair of the center-left New Democrat Coalition, told Axios.
Liberal voters have angrily accosted Democrats at town halls for — in their view — not doing enough to counter President Trump’s agenda.
What we’re hearing: The grassroots wants more. “Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot” when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios.
“Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” the lawmaker said.
A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them “civility isn’t working” and to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.”
A fifth House Democrat told Axios that “people online have sent me crazy s*** … told me to storm the White House and stuff like that,” though they added that “there’s always people on the internet saying crazy stuff.”
Between the lines: While other Democratic lawmakers said their discussions haven’t gone that far, nearly every one who spoke to Axios cited examples of voters’ panic and fury fueling demands to adopt brute force tactics. (Read more: Axios, 7/7/2025)(Archive)
For decades, the United States government has run covert psychological operations overseas to destabilize foreign regimes and engineer regime change under the false banner of spreading democracy. They make these color revolutions look like spontaneous protests and “people power” movements. But they’re all staged. They’re run by government spooks, globalist nonprofits, and media hacks. This is the same script they’ve used overseas for years, and now they’re running it here, against Americans.
And they’re at it again, but this time the colors are darker than ever and the revolution is sneakier than ever before. More on that shortly…
Since Donald Trump splashed on the political scene, riding that Trump Tower escalator down to political history, the national security blob has turned its arsenal against the American people. The intelligence tricks that were once used on foreign authoritarians are now being used to destroy Trump and his movement.
We at Revolver didn’t just call this early; we actually laid it all out. Our original Color Revolution series exposed how deep this US psyop went. We named names. We connected dots. We pulled receipts. And that’s exactly why we became a target.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a component of the Department of Homeland Security — yes, the same Department of Homeland Security that housed the ill-fated, Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board led by everyone’s favorite Harry Potter erotica musician Nina Jankowicz (we’re not kidding).
While CISA was engaged in fairly aggressive censorship efforts designed to combat foreign disinformation, it ran into some First Amendment limitations when it came to its true desire to censor domestic political speech in the lead-up to the 2020 election. This is where the other organization Taibbi mentions comes into play–the technically non-governmental Election Integrity Partnership (EIP). Because the EIP was not technically part of the government, it could engage in the aggressive censorship that CISA and DHS wanted, without having to worry about minutiae such as the First Amendment…
That little nugget above might sound like a weird alphabet soup of censorship, but when you break it down, it’s actually the building blocks of a full-blown regime control machine that’s cleverly hiding behind words like “safety” and “integrity,” and of course their precious “democracy.”
(…) And that’s the key here, folks. Color revolutions aren’t just about protests or elections. They’re about controlling the way people absorb and think about events. They shape perception. And that brings us to the next chapter of this playbook.
Because now, the same regime change operatives that Trump fired from the federal government are back, and they’re pissed and aren’t hiding their agenda, not even a tiny bit. Here’s what these bad guys are up to now.
Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power.
For years, these officials were stationed across the globe actively supporting opposition movements in autocratic nations. Now they’ve got time, a network of former colleagues and a growing sense of moral indignation. “Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one,” said a currently employed federal official, who spoke to NOTUS on condition of anonymity. “They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they’ve done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime.” The former officials tell NOTUS they’re holding workshops on a tactic called “noncooperation.”
They’re building a network of government workers willing to engage in even minor acts of rebellion in the office. And they’re planting the seeds of what they hope could become a nationwide general strike. Some in the informal network of Trump opponents are sharing an old CIA pamphlet with allies who still work in the government: It’s called “Simple Sabotage.”
So, to put it as simply as possible, Trump didn’t just fire a few bureaucrats; he inadvertently scattered an entire trained insurgency out into the wild. These are people who spent their careers funding revolutions, starting civil unrest, and pushing political dissidents into so-called “peaceful protest” in authoritarian states. And now they’re applying all that expertise… right here at home, in the land of the “free.”
They’re actually holding workshops on “noncooperation.” They are literally passing around CIA sabotage manuals as some quiet bedside reading material. And they’re setting up nationwide “resistance” networks. And yes, you know this all sounds familiar, because this isn’t our first rodeo. We busted the color revolution door wide open with our reporting on the actual architect of this very playbook: Norm Eisen.
In our report on Never Trump State Department official George Kent, Revolver News first drew attention to the ominous similarities between the strategies and tactics the United States government employs in so-called “Color Revolutions” and the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump. Our recent follow-up to this initial report focused specifically on a shadowy, George Soros-linked group called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), which convened “war games” exercises suggesting the likelihood of a “contested election scenario” and of ensuing chaos should President Trump refuse to leave office.
We further showed how these “contested election” scenarios we are hearing so much about play perfectly into the Color Revolution framework sketched out in Revolver News’ first installment in the Color Revolution series. This third installment of Revolver News’ series exposing the Color Revolution against Trump will focus on one quiet and indeed mostly overlooked participant in the Transition Integrity Project’s biased election “war games” exercise—a man by the name of Norm Eisen. As the man who implemented the David Brock blueprint for suing the President into paralysis and his allies into bankruptcy, who helped mainstream and amplify the Russia Hoax, who drafted 10 articles of impeachment for the Democrats a full month before President Trump ever called the Ukraine President in 2018, who personally served as special counsel litigating the Ukraine impeachment, and who created a template for Internet censorship of world leaders and a handbook for mass mobilizing racial justice protesters to overturn democratic election results, there is perhaps no man alive with a more decorated resume for plots against President Trump.
Indeed, the story of Norm Eisen—a key architect of nearly every attempt to delegitimize, impeach, censor, sue, and remove the democratically elected 45th President of the United States—is a tale that winds through nearly every facet of the color revolution playbook. There is no purer embodiment of Revolver’s thesis that the very same regime change professionals who run Color Revolutions on behalf of the US government in order to undermine or overthrow alleged “authoritarian” governments overseas are running the very same playbook to overturn Trump’s 2016 victory and to preempt a repeat in 2020.
To put it simply, what you see is not just the same Color Revolution playbook run against Trump, but the same people using it against Trump who have employed it in a professional capacity against targets overseas—same people, same playbook. In Norm Eisen’s case, the “same people, same playbook” refrain takes an arrestingly literal turn when one realizes that Norm Eisen wrote a classic Color Revolution regime change manual and conveniently titled it “The Playbook.”
Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing related to the Trump–Russia probe, including allegedly making false statements to Congress, Justice Department sources told Fox News Digital.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred evidence of wrongdoing by Brennan to FBI Director Kash Patel for potential prosecution, DOJ sources told Fox News Digital.
The sources said that the referral was received and told Fox News Digital that a criminal investigation into Brennan was opened and is underway. DOJ sources declined to provide further details. It is unclear, at this point, if the investigation spans beyond his alleged false statements to Congress.
As for Comey, DOJ sources told Fox News Digital that an investigation into the former director is underway, but could not share details of what specifically is being probed.
A 33-year-old Chinese national has been taken into custody for his alleged involvement in U.S. computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021, including the reckless and indiscriminate HAFNIUM campaign that compromised thousands of computers worldwide.
Authorities took People’s Republic of China (PRC) national Xu Zewei (徐泽伟) into custody in Milan, Italy, as he departed a plane from China at the request of the United States.
Xu is charged along with PRC national Zhang Yu (张宇), 44, in a now unsealed nine-count indictment returned in November 2023. They were both involved in computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021 at the direction of officers of the PRC’s Ministry of State Security’s (MSS) Shanghai State Security Bureau (SSSB), according to the indictment.
The charges allege MSS and SSSB are PRC intelligence services responsible for PRC’s domestic counterintelligence, non-military foreign intelligence and aspects of the PRC’s political and domestic security. When conducting the computer intrusions, Xu worked for Shanghai Powerock Network Co. Ltd., one of many “enabling” companies in the PRC that conducted hacking for the PRC government, according to the charges.
“The indictment alleges that Xu was hacking and stealing crucial COVID-19 research at the behest of the Chinese government while that same government was simultaneously withholding information about the virus and its origins,” said Nicholas Ganjei, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. “The Southern District of Texas has been waiting years to bring Xu to justice and that day is nearly at hand. As this case shows, even if it takes years, we will track hackers down and make them answer for their crimes. The United States does not forget.”
“This arrest underscores the United States’ patient and tireless commitment to pursuing hackers who seek to steal information belonging to U.S. companies and universities,” said John A. Eisenberg, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division. “The Justice Department will find you and hold you accountable for threatening our cybersecurity and harming our people and institutions.”
“While the world was reeling from a virus that originated in China, the Chinese government plotted to steal U.S. research critical to vaccine development,” said FBI Houston Special Agent in Charge Douglas Williams. “Xu Zewei, an alleged hacker acting on behalf of China’s primary spy agency, targeted COVID-19 data using sophisticated cyber techniques and tradecraft. His landmark arrest by FBI Houston agents in Italy proves that we will scour the ends of the Earth to hold criminal foreign adversaries accountable.”
According to court documents, in early 2020, Xu and his co-conspirators hacked and otherwise targeted U.S. based universities and leading immunologists and virologists conducting ground-breaking research into COVID-19 vaccines, treatment and testing. The charges allege Xu and others reported their activities to officers in the SSSB who were supervising and directing the hacking activities. For example, on or about Feb. 19, 2020, Xu allegedly provided an SSSB officer with confirmation that he had compromised the network of a research university located in SDTX. On or about Feb. 22, 2020, the SSSB officer directed Xu to target and access specific email accounts (mailboxes) belonging to virologists and immunologists engaged in COVID-19 research for the research university, according to the allegations. Xu later allegedly confirmed for the SSSB officer he acquired the contents of the researchers’ mailboxes.
Beginning in late 2020, Xu and his co-conspirators exploited certain vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, a widely used Microsoft product for sending, receiving and storing email messages, according to the charges. Their exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server was allegedly at the forefront of a massive campaign targeting thousands of computers worldwide and known publicly as “HAFNIUM.”
In March 2021, Microsoft publicly disclosed the intrusion campaign by state-sponsored hackers operating out of China. In July 2021, the United States and foreign partners attributed the HAFNIUM campaign to the PRC’s MSS, which they and private sector cybersecurity leaders condemned as “indiscriminate,” “reckless,” “irresponsible” and “destabilizing.”
The charges allege victims of Xu’s exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server were a university located in SDTX and a law firm with offices worldwide, including in Washington, D.C. After exploiting computers running Microsoft Exchange Server, Xu and his co-conspirators allegedly installed web shells on them to enable their remote administration. According to the indictment, these web shells were specific to HAFNIUM actors at the time. As with the earlier COVID-19 research intrusions, Xu and Zhang allegedly worked together on the HAFNIUM intrusions under the supervision and direction of SSSB officers. For example, on or about Jan. 30, 2021, Xu confirmed to Zhang that he had compromised the university’s network, according to the charges, and on or about Feb. 28, 2021, updated an SSSB officer on his successful intrusions. This SSSB officer then directed Xu to obtain a list of other, successful intrusions from a second SSSB officer, according to the allegations. The charges allege unauthorized access to the law firm’s network allowed Xu and his co-conspirators to steal information from mailboxes and search them for information regarding specific U.S. policy makers and government agencies. Their search terms allegedly included “Chinese sources,” “MSS” and “HongKong.”
The announcement of charges against Xu is the latest describing the PRC’s use of an extensive network of private companies and contractors in China to hack and steal information in a manner that obscured the PRC government’s involvement. Operating from their safe haven and motivated by profit, this network of private companies and contractors in China allegedly cast a wide net to identify vulnerable computers, exploit those computers, and then identify information that it could sell directly or indirectly to the PRC government. This largely indiscriminate approach can result in more victims in the United States and elsewhere, more systems worldwide left vulnerable to future exploitation by third parties, and more stolen information, often of no interest to the PRC government and, therefore, sold to other third-parties.
In April 2021, the Justice Department announced a court-authorized operation to remediate hundreds of computers in the United States left vulnerable by HAFNIUM actors.
Xu is charged with two counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to do which all carry possible prison terms of up to 20 years in federal prison. The indictment also includes conspiracy to cause damage to and obtain information by unauthorized access to protected computers, to commit wire fraud and to committing identity theft as well as two counts of obtaining information by unauthorized access to protected computers. If convicted on any of those charges, he could receive up to five years, while intentional damage to a protected computer carries a maximum 10-year-possible sentence on either of two counts as charged. For the aggravated identity theft, he could receive another two years which must be served consecutively to any other prison term imposed. All convictions would also have the potential of up to $250,000 as a possible fine.
Zhang remains at large. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to contact the FBI 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).
The FBI’s Houston Field Office is conducting the investigation.
SDTX Assistant U.S. Attorneys S. Mark McIntyre and John Marck and Deputy Chief Matthew Anzaldi of the National Security Division’s National Security Cyber Section are prosecuting the case.
As the debate rages over the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, Foundation for Freedom Online founder Mike Benz took a close look at Epstein’s history with the intel community talking to host Jesse Kelly. Benz has promised a deep dive on the topic soon.
Mike Benz: Epstein was working with the CIA in the early 1980s at the very start of his career after he left Bear Stearns. In 1981, right after leaving Bear Stearns, Jeffrey Epstein created a one-person for-profit company in his one-bedroom New York apartment. It was called the Intercontinental Assets Group, and it held itself out as an international bounty hunter for high-net-worth individuals to both recover money and shield money internationally. Right away in 1981, he starts this company that basically helped royalty and high-net-worth individuals basically recover loan debts or assets owed to them that were held in cryptic offshore bank accounts, as well as helping them structure their own assets in a way that would make it difficult or impossible for others to collect those assets.
And in 1982, just one year into that, he got a fake passport, an Austrian passport, listing his residence as Saudi Arabia. This is a fake passport. This was recovered by the FBI in 2019 when they drilled a hole in Jeffrey Epstein’s safe and recovered this. Prosecutors held this passport up at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. Now, this fake passport was so good that it was able to go through four different country checkpoints. It had a false name, but Jeffrey Epstein’s photo, so that he could get back and forth. And why Saudi Arabia? Well, because Jeffrey Epstein, one of his main clients for the group that he set up in 1981, was Adnan Khashoggi.
Adnan Khashoggi was the CIA arms runner for the Iran-Contra affair when Congress blocked the U.S. federal government through a congressional law called the Bolan Amendment, with the Democrats controlling the House of Representatives, banning any U.S. funds from being directed to the overthrow of the Nicaraguan Sandinista government. And the Reagan White House and National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency wanted to do it anyway. They were left with a problem, which was that the CIA had been neutered during the Jimmy Carter years. There had been prohibitions on the categories of covert activity it could do, and the Bolan Amendment from Congress blocked them from using U.S. aid funds or State Department funds to run the operation.
Enter Jeffrey Epstein and Adnan Khashoggi, his client. During the Iran-Contra affair, which dogged the entire Reagan administration when all this came out, the U.S. was selling arms together with Israel to Iran, which is kind of ironic as the current geopolitics of Israel-Iran play out around missiles flying overhead earlier this month between those two countries. Israel and the U.S. were selling weapons to Iran at that time through Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer who had been working with the CIA for 30 years.
In fact, this all came out in formal, under-oath testimony from the Paris office of BCCI, which was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, one of the largest banks in the world, which was effectively a CIA proprietary bank for running arms to the Mujaheddin when the CIA was creating the Islamo-terrorist network that would later become Al Qaeda and then ISIS. Adnan Khashoggi was a client of that bank, together with the CIA, and the head of the head of the Paris branch said that Adnan Khashoggi personally told him that he was working for the Central Intelligence Agency and Jeffrey Epstein was his money bundler. This is at the height of the Cold War, mind you.
And so you see this relationship going back to the early 1980s. In 1985, Jeffrey Epstein becomes linked up with Les Wexner in Columbus, Ohio. Les Wexner was the head of what at the time was the largest retailer in the entire United States, limited brands, famous for Victoria’s Secret and many, many others. Les Wexner’s tax attorney, Arthur Shapiro, was murdered in a gangland style assassination in 1985, the day before he was set to testify in an IRS grand jury investigation. The IRS had been looking into the Wexner empire’s finances and failure to, I think, file taxes for something like five years and seven years of investigation. Arthur Shapiro, who ran that, was supposed to testify to the IRS grand jury just one day before he was gunned down.
It was right after that that Jeffrey Epstein appears to meet Les Wexner and then go on to have durable power of attorney over the entire Wexner enterprise. In 1993, Jeffrey Epstein personally negotiated the sale, the transfer of Air America, which would then become Southern Air Transport, a CIA proprietary airline straight from Miami, where it got busted as part of the Iran-Contra gun trafficking and narcotics trafficking in order to run this illicit operation in Iran-Contra. That very airline used Jeffrey and that Jeffrey Epstein was a critical part in the structuring of this CIA operation. He then negotiated the transfer of that CIA airliner straight to Columbus, Ohio, where the Wexner empire was based for the primary purpose of transporting the limited cargo between Ohio and Hong Kong, which is another one of these narco states. Hong Kong was won by the British during the opium wars and has been kind of a lawless gun and drug running zone ever since.
How does one get to be the financial bundler for the CIA’s main arms, illicit arms trafficker in the Middle East without having any scrutiny from the Central Intelligence Agency? How does one personally negotiate the transfer of a CIA proprietary airline? By the way, Southern Air Transport declared bankruptcy in Columbus, Ohio, the very day the CIA put out an acknowledgement of Air America’s role in the gun running and narco trafficking in Iran-Contra. Subsequent to that, the US State Department personally made Jeffrey Epstein the tenant on the lease for one of the second largest residents in all of New York City. This residence was seized from the government of Iran as the US was putting sanctions on it and then personally leased out to Jeffrey Epstein. How do you have the State Department as your personal landlord? Do you think you or I, Jesse, could score something like that?
The State Department then ended up in a legal dispute with Jeffrey Epstein because Jeffrey Epstein subleased that apartment to the defense lawyer for the “French Connection” and “Pizza Connection” drug scandals (Ivan Fisher), where you had CIA involvement in narco trafficking that was effectively dealt, you know, hushed over in this trial through this very defense lawyer that Jeffrey Epstein then leased the State Department building seized from Iran from. What I’m trying to communicate here is that every aspect of the Jeffrey Epstein story is part of the restructuring of intelligence work after the scandals of the 1970s when the CIA was barred from doing activity directly. And that’s when USAID came into the picture and took the baton from CIA and these and the NGO apparatus that we’re now living under with the National Endowment for Democracy and Internews and the US Agency for US Institute of Peace and the web of private contractors and private financiers in order to be the front men for CIA operations. Jeffrey Epstein was present at creation of that entire apparatus. There is zero chance on God’s green earth that there are no CIA files on this guy.
And the fact that this justice department has effectively pointed us to the FBI when this is a CIA job is not a good look for transparency.
Speaker Mike Johnson has announced that 28 of President Donald J. Trump’s executive orders have been officially codified into federal law under the newly passed “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
“Last week, when House GOP passed the One Big Beautiful Bill, we codified into law 28 executive actions taken by President Trump. More to come!,” Johnson wrote in X.
The legislation enshrines a robust America First agenda — ranging from national security to economic revival — making it nearly impossible for future administrations to undo without going through Congress. Among the codified executive actions:
Securing our borders
Declaring a national emergency at the southern border of the United States
Protecting the American people against invasion
Ending taxpayer subsidization of open borders
Restricting the entry of foreign nationals to protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public safety threats
Implementing the President’s “DOGE” cost efficiency initiative
Protecting America’s bank account against fraud, waste, and abuse
Continuing the reduction of the federal bureaucracy
Stopping waste, fraud, and abuse by eliminating information silos
Iron Dome for America
Unleashing American drone dominance
Restoring America’s maritime dominance
Unleashing American energy
Reinvigorating America’s beautiful clean coal industry
🚨REMINDER: The Biden White House previously blocked President Biden’s doctor from testifying before @GOPoversight, part of an effort to conceal Joe Biden’s declining health.
I subpoenaed Dr. Kevin O’Connor & he will appear tomorrow.
Ex-White House Dr. Kevin O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment and ducked out of his high-profile congressional deposition Wednesday over the purported shielding of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. https://t.co/tVWE4dFxw9pic.twitter.com/FyKa42C7FO
Ten individuals have been charged for their roles in the shooting of an Alvarado police officer at the Prairieland Detention Center.
Today’s announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy E. Larson, Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI R. Joseph Rothrock, and Enforcement Removal Operations Dallas Acting Field Office Director Joshua Johnson.
According to a criminal complaint filed today, the defendants, dressed in black military-style clothing, began shooting fireworks at the facility, as part of an organized attack.
After approximately 10 minutes of convening, one or two individuals broke off from the main group and began to spray graffiti on vehicles and a guard structure in the parking lot at the facility. An Alvarado police officer responded to the scene after correctional officers called 911 to report suspicious activity. When the Alvarado police officer arrived, one alleged defendant positioned in nearby woods shot the officer in the neck area. Another alleged assailant across the street fired 20 to 30 rounds at unarmed correctional officers who had stepped outside the facility.
As alleged in the complaint, AR-style rifles were found at the scene. The assailants fled from the detention center but were stopped by additional law enforcement officers. Some defendants were wearing body armor, some were armed, and some had two-way radios. A total of twelve sets of body armor were found during searches of vehicles associated with the defendants, on their persons, and in the area around the Prairieland Detention Center.
Additionally, officers found spray paint, flyers stating, “FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!” and “FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS,” and a flag stating, “RESIST FACISM – FIGHT OLIGARCHY.” One of the alleged attackers had cell phones inside a “Faraday bag,” used to block phone signals and commonly used by criminal actors to try to prevent law enforcement from tracking their location.
Ten individuals were charged in one complaint with three counts of attempted murder of federal agents and three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Those include:
• Cameron Arnold
• Savannah Batten
• Nathan Baumann
• Zachary Evetts
• Joy Gibson
• Bradford Morris
• Maricela Rueda
• Seth Sikes
• Elizabeth Soto
• Ines Soto
As outlined in the complaint, officers photographed the graffiti, flyers, flag, body armor, and magazines containing ammunition:
“Make no mistake, this was not a peaceful protest,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy E. Larson. “This was an ambush on federal and local law enforcement officers. This increasing trend of violence against law enforcement will not be tolerated in the Northern District of Texas. Those who use violence against law enforcement officers will be found and prosecuted using the toughest criminal statutes and penalties available.”
“The incident at the Prairieland Detention Center underscores the dangers that officers face daily. We want to thank all the law enforcement agencies that promptly responded and assisted in apprehending the suspects,” said FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock. “The FBI stands with our partners and pledges that violence against law enforcement will not be tolerated. We are committed to thoroughly investigating this weekend’s incident and will hold those responsible accountable for threatening the safety of law enforcement.”
“Violence, threats of violence, and attempts of vandalism at our ICE Facilities will not deter our officers at ICE from fulfilling their duties, said Josh Johnson, Acting ERO Dallas Field Office Director. “This type of vigilante lawlessness is emblematic of the dangers federal, state, and local law enforcement officials face every day.”
A criminal complaint is merely an allegation of criminal conduct, not evidence. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. If convicted, the defendants face a minimum penalty of ten years in federal prison and a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
The investigation was conducted by the Dallas FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Office (ICE ERO), Homeland Security Investigations, ATF, Texas Department of Public Safety, Alvarado Police Department, and Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Frank Gatto and Shawn Smith are prosecuting the case.
— TheStormHasArrived (@TheStormRedux) July 9, 2025
‘If Two Or More Persons Conspire To Overthrow, Put Down, Or To Destroy By Force The Government Of The United States They Shall Each Be Fined Under This Title Or Imprisoned Not More Than Twenty Years, Or Both.’
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) transferred thousands of viral samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China over a 10-year period without securing a formal agreement to govern the exchange, according to newly obtained internal documents.
These documents, which were not previously disclosed, highlight significant gaps in oversight and accountability during a global public health program partially funded by the American government.
At the center of the matter is USAID’s $210 million PREDICT program, led by the University of California-Davis.
The initiative collected viral samples across several countries, including China’s Yunnan Province, a region known to host coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.
The program aimed to identify pandemic threats but lacked clear protocols for long-term sample storage and tracking once federal funding concluded in 2019.
Documentation from the program, reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), revealed that 11,000 samples were exported to WIV with no indication of safeguards to ensure the materials were not diverted for unauthorized use, such as bioweapons development, or that the U.S. government could later access them for investigation.
Dershowitz, who was named as John Doe in the Epstein court documents, said that he knows the names of the individuals on Epstein’s client list.
“Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them. But I’m bound by confidentiality from the judge on the case and I can’t disclose what I know,” Dershowitz told Sean Spicer.
🚨@AlanDersh said he saw the entire Epstein list while proving his innocence:
“Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them. But I’m bound by confidentiality.” pic.twitter.com/2bx7SwozN3
🧵 1/ I’ve been asked today why I think Jeffrey Epstein *might* have been a gov asset. Let’s unpack the case. His connections, wealth, & influence raise red flags. Was he just a financier? Or something more? https://t.co/93Sh6UNPrQ
3/ His personal network was a who’s who list that would make a king blush: politicians, royalty, tech moguls, etc. Why did so many powerful people trust a convicted felon? Was he collecting dirt for someone? Blackmail operations often use honeypots—Epstein’s islands fit the bill.
5/ The source of Epstein’s wealth remains … unclear—to put it mildly. No clear record of how he amassed his vast fortune. Shell companies? Shadow accounts? Sounds like a setup for laundering or funneling funds. Government assets are known to get “sponsored” to play their role.
7/ If Epstein was a government asset—and to be clear, I have no knowledge of that beyond what I’m saying here (gleaned entirely from publicly reported, non-classified sources)—silencing him would presumably protect the puppet masters.
🚨 BREAKING: JEFFREY EPSTEIN ONCE CLAIMED TO WORK FOR THE CIA
Been doing research with @lamps_apple all evening … and, yeah, Epstein did claim to work for the CIA in a 2001 Evening Standard article. pic.twitter.com/lvCdBPyiAx
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 10, 2025
Watch this and you will understand there is simply no way Jeffrey Epstein was not on the CIA’s radar since at least 1983, when Epstein was just 30 years old. At that time, Epstein was managing the covert funds of the CIA’s top point man for its biggest covert action. pic.twitter.com/t5f7OCdlqS
The popular headlines read that six secret service agents were suspended last month. However, a more fulsome review of the disciplinary action highlights a slight slap on the wrist as the suspensions were from 10 to 42 days.
The disciplinary action follows an internal review of the failures of the Secret Service during President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania that almost cost him his life.
WASHINGTON – Six agents were suspended by the U.S. Secret Service for failures connected to last year’s attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an official told ABC News.
The personnel moves were confirmed four days shy of the anniversary of the July 13, 2024, shooting incident that left Trump’s ear bloodied.
Corey Comperatore, a firefighter attending Trump’s campaign rally that day, died in the attack.
[…] The discipline against the six agents was issued in recent months, and the agents were given the right to appeal. The suspensions ranged from 10 to 42 days, according to the official, who was briefed on the agency’s actions.
The positions of those suspended ranged from supervisory level to line agent level, a source familiar with the agency’s decision told ABC News. (read more)
EXCLUSIVE AND #BREAKING: The real story behind the six Secret Service suspensions over Butler failures:
Key supervisors who signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were on the final walkthroughs before the J13 rally were never disciplined but instead received BIG PROMOTIONS, multiple sources in the Secret Service community tell RealClearPolitics @RCPolitics.
One of those supervisors on the final walkthroughs, Nick Menster, was assigned this year as the No. 2 in charge of the Lara and Eric Trump protective detail. The other, Nick Olszewski, ironically, became the chief (special agent in charge) of the Inspection Division, which is responsible for ensuring the accountability and integrity of the agency’s personnel and operations.
Inexperienced agents positioned for failure and a more senior agent who spoke out about the ambiguity about the AGR roof coverage, according to Secret Service sources and Congressional testimony, are taking the fall.
Rank-and-file agents are incensed over the decision not to hold the supervisors accountable, further sinking the low morale and exacerbating retention problems throughout the agency. Secret Service Director Sean Curran was in charge of the Donald Trump detail at the time of the rally, and Menster served under his command.
Another big point – multiple Secret Service sources tell me that the original Secret Service disciplinary recommendations varied but maxed out at 52 days without pay. However, lawyers for the agents were able to scale that discipline down to 10 to 42 days without pay. This is a relatively light punishment for such egregious failures, but the fact that some of these agents didn’t receive the supervisory oversight that an outdoor rally of this magnitude required is likely a mitigating factor. If so, that begs the question of why key supervisors appear to have skated.
The agents being suspended may still decide to sue the agency.
“We avoided more severe sanctions, and now we’re assessing the next steps with respect to these discussions,” said Larry Berger, an attorney for several of the suspended agents who previously has served as a general counsel for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. Berger now has his own firm, Berger and Deplas.
Three of the six who are taking the fall (unpaid suspension) are:
Myotsoty Perez – an inexperienced agent (according to Congressional testimony, which did not name her) who was the “site agent” in charge of the security for the rally. She was part of the regular Donald Trump detail and was not chosen for the big outdoor J13 rally, but simply had her “rotation” come up, according to multiple Secret Service sources.
Meredith Bank – a far more experienced agent out of the Pittsburgh Field Office who was serving as the “lead agent” for the day of the rally – overseeing operations from the time then-candidate Trump arrived at the airport to the final departure. She told Congressional investigators that she informed Perez that her supervisor, Nick Menster, would be asking her where the local law enforcement were to be positioned in/on the AGR building. Menster, however, never specifically asked that question, according to the Congressional transcripts.
Dana Dubrey – a mid-level agent in the Pittsburgh Field Office who served as the “site counterpart.”
Tim Burke – the chief (special agent in charge) of the Pittsburgh Field Office.
Brian Pardini – the No. 2 in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office.
John Marciniak – the Uniformed Division counter sniper who was assigned to the rally late because of the Iranian threat to Trump’s life. Marciniak had just two days, instead of the customary five, to formulate his security plan.
More reporting to come — especially concerning Burke and Pardini.
There’s a big contingent in the Secret Service that believes the Pittsburgh office is unfairly taking the fall when the Trump Detail, and the team of Miyo Perez, Nick Menster, with Nick Olszewski, serving as an inspector assigned to rally, are traditionally parties that should be ultimately responsible for a rally’s overall security and failures of the security plan and execution.
🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE AND #BREAKING: The real story behind the six Secret Service suspensions over Butler failures:
Key supervisors who signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were on the final walkthroughs before the J13 rally were never disciplined but instead received BIG… pic.twitter.com/Thp4XjJMVH
Joseph Laplante blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order (Credit: X/joma_gc)
On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Laplante announced that he would issue a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for illegals and narrow the class covered to children only.
Laplante, who was nominated by George W. Bush, also said he would grant a 7-day stay of order for “court efficiency.”
As The Straits Timesreported, Laplante made the ruling after the ACLU and other illegal alien activists begged him to grant class action status to a lawsuit they filed seeking to represent any babies whose citizenship status would be threatened by the implementation of Trump’s directive.
Laplante agreed to certify the plaintiffs as a class representing the babies and said the decision to issue a nationwide injunction was “not a close call.”
“That’s irreparable harm, citizenship alone,” he said. “It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world.”
LAWFARE: DHS rescued more than ten children being used as slave labor by human traffickers in the Los Angeles area last week during a lawful raid on Glass House Farms. Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, issued an injunction preventing the DHS from rescuing more children in the Los Angeles area. Child labor in Ghana is NOT considered a bad thing with almost 25% of children age 5–17 engaged in child labor with approximately 14% in hazardous work such as pesticide use, heavy lifting, or exposure to risky environments.
LAWFARE: DHS rescued more than ten children being used as slave labor by human traffickers in the Los Angeles area last week during a lawful raid on Glass House Farms. Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, issued an injunction preventing the DHS from rescuing more… pic.twitter.com/wRQzQJFgTi
The injunction by Judge Frimpong is a disgraceful obstruction of lawful enforcement. DHS executed a federal warrant to rescue trafficked children—actions fully within their mandate to combat human trafficking and protect victims. Blocking these operations under the guise of civil liberties prioritizes political agendas over public safety.
ICE raids targeting criminal networks hiring minors aren’t racial profiling; they’re necessary interventions against modern slavery. This ruling undermines border security, emboldens traffickers, and leaves vulnerable children in harm’s way.
Federal authority must prevail over judicial overreach that shields lawbreakers.
The injunction by Judge Frimpong is a disgraceful obstruction of lawful enforcement. DHS executed a federal warrant to rescue trafficked children—actions fully within their mandate to combat human trafficking and protect victims. Blocking these operations under the guise of civil…
Major California marijuana producer Glass House Brands imposed “systemic quota and production demands” on workers that violated labor law, including unpaid overtime and unrealistic workloads, a lawsuit filed by an ex-worker in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges.…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has revealed that Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) was “part of a violent mob of protestors attempting to obstruct federal law enforcement as they executed a criminal search warrant at a marijuana facility” and that he doxxed an ICE agent by handing the individual’s business card to members of the violent group.
According to ICE, the doxxed agent was also “left bloody” after the mob hurled rocks at agents who were doing their job.
The officers were conducting criminal warrant operations at marijuana farms operated by the Glass House Brands Inc. in Carpinteria and Camarillo when the chaos unfolded.
Carbajal claimed in an X post that ICE agents were “using unnecessarily aggressive and militarized tactics against local farm workers and peaceful protesters.”
Yesterday in Carpinteria, I witnessed ICE agents using unnecessarily aggressive and militarized tactics against local farm workers and peaceful protesters.
It was appalling. This is not how we keep our communities safe.
Let’s take a look at iceblock shall we a popular doxxing site for leftists against ice officials along with a way to obstruct ICE from doing their job. pic.twitter.com/DrTR6n8WYD
ALL OF THESE websites are hosted from the same place
By the Same people
SO – The iceblock APP – and potentially stored Federal Officer information is being Developed and Upkept by THE HUSBAND OF AN ACTIVE US GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith addresses reporters in Washington, D.C. August 1, 2023 (Credit: Getty Images)
Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired at least 20 prosecutors and support staffers who assisted former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News Saturday.
Senior leadership at the department had already ousted most of the remaining prosecutors associated with the probes.
A DOJ spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to ABC News’ requests for comment.
Some of staffers who have been identified through the Justice Department’s “weaponization working group” may not have had any significant role in driving the prosecutions themselves and were, support staff, litigation assistants and U.S. marshals, according to sources.
The firings have sent a chill through the remainder of the DOJ’s career workforce, which had previously been left shaken by dramatic purges and reassignments of officials in the early days of Trump’s presidency. (ABC News, 7/12/2025)(Archive)
Joe Biden’s Senior Climate Policy Advisor directed $5 billion taxpayer dollars to a NGO THAT SHE WORKED AT
“She previously worked for them — So she sent money to the organization — $5 billion. Is that not blatant corruption”
This wasn’t the only time this happened. Congressman Eric Burlison: ‘Democrats gave grants to their friends in NGO’s that they use to work for’ and gives more examples
“$5 billion is very difficult to spend. $5 billion is an absurd amount of money”
INSANE 🚨 Joe Biden’s Senior Climate Policy Advisor directed $5 billion taxpayer dollars to a NGO THAT SHE WORKED AT
“She previously worked for them — So she sent money to the organization — $5 billion. Is that not blatant corruption”
The Biden administration’s reckless distribution of taxpayer dollars to politically-connected NGOs highlights systemic corruption in federal grant processes. The $5 billion example mirrors the $2 billion Power Forward Communities scandal exposed in Bill Title, where Stacey Abrams-linked groups received massive funding despite minimal financial history.
This pattern of funneling public money to former employers and allies—like LaTricea Adams’ $20 million EPA grant to her own nonprofit—proves the urgent need for the Putting Trust in Transparency Act’s donor disclosure requirements.
When bureaucrats operate this brazenly, it’s not “oversight”—it’s theft from Americans struggling under inflation caused by these very spending sprees.
The Biden administration’s reckless distribution of taxpayer dollars to politically-connected NGOs highlights systemic corruption in federal grant processes. The $5 billion example mirrors the $2 billion Power Forward Communities scandal exposed in Bill Title, where Stacey…
John Solomon says he has confirmed that the DOJ & the FBI has been secretly building a massive conspiracy case against the deep state! 💥
“MAGA base, Americans, will be happy when they see where this is all heading in the next few weeks… I’ve got it confirmed. There’s a conspiracy case that was opened that looks at this window as a very large window.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a special prosecutor named by Pam Bondi in the next week or two. And why does this become significant? Because you don’t have to necessarily then bring the grand jury or the indictment in Washington, DC… it allows them to go to some place like Florida…
This has been going on behind the scenes… This is a REALLY big deal…
I think the most likely scenario is a large conspiracy case and it starts in the middle of July 2016, when John Brennan walks into President Obama two days before Crossfire Hurricane is launched… President Obama and Brennan knew… that this was a dirty trick by Hillary Clinton. That would be the first overt act and it would carry through…
It allows for a very large series of events to be wrapped into a single conspiracy, and all of them to be brought into the indictment.”
Patriots, it’s time. We knew it was heading this way, we kept the faith, but now it’s materializing right in front of our eyes!
MASSIVE NEWS: Stop what you are doing and take 5 minutes to watch this clip. This is huge!
John Solomon says he has confirmed that the DOJ & the FBI has been secretly building a massive conspiracy case against the deep state! 💥
Former President Joe Biden admitted to the New York Times that he did not individually sign off on each of the pardons issued via his autopen signature to batches of criminals at the end of his term, though he reportedly delineated criteria to staff.
In the final months of his term, Biden issued four large sets of pardons, three of which were categorical clemency actions covering large swaths of people, the Timesnoted Sunday.
Per the outlet, Biden approved standards to give out categorical pardons to criminals in his final months in office, but staff ultimately ran a final list of names that supposedly met the criteria through the autopen, though it had been revised after Biden delineated the requirements:
Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people, he and aides confirmed. Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence.
Even after Mr. Biden made that decision, one former aide said, the Bureau of Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates, resulting in small changes to the list. Rather than ask Mr. Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version through the autopen, which they saw as a routine procedure, the aide said.
Citing emails reviewed among the Biden team, the Times noted that then-White House staff secretary Stefanie Feldman was in charge of the autopen.
The emails indicate that Biden would say what the criteria were for the batches of pardons in meetings with top advisers, including Chief of Staff Jeffrey Zients and White House counsel Ed Siskel, who would then relay Biden’s wishes to their assistants, per the report. (Read more: Breitbart News, 7/14/2025)(Archive)
BREAKING — The New York Times reports that Dr. Fauci’s ‘pardon’ was signed by an autopen and received late-night approval from a White House aide pic.twitter.com/TgT1eCSp0D
🧵🧵Why was our FBI protecting Clinton for 30 years but somehow allowed an asset of a foreign government to get blackmail material?
That makes no sense.
What does make sense is that they looked the other way this whole time because of Clinton.
Receipts below:
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
1. Travelgate and Whitewater
In 1993, shortly after taking office, the Clinton White House abruptly fired seven nonpartisan employees from the White House Travel Office. These staffers had served under multiple administrations and were responsible for managing press and presidential travel logistics. The Clintons replaced them with close Arkansas allies, including a cousin of Hillary Clinton. Hillary initially denied involvement, but a 2000 report by Independent Counsel Robert Ray concluded she had played a “significant role” in the firings and provided “factually inaccurate” statements during the investigation. Nothing happened to her.
To justify the firings, the White House referred the matter to the FBI, which launched an investigation into alleged financial mismanagement by the Travel Office. Critics including members of Congress and press associations viewed this as a politically motivated purge. The FBI’s decision to involve itself in what was essentially a personnel dispute enabled the Clintons to frame the firings as criminally necessary, rather than politically convenient. In the only criminal prosecution, longtime Travel Office director Billy Dale was accused of embezzling $68,000. However, the jury acquitted him in under two hours after no personal enrichment could be proven. The case highlighted the use of federal law enforcement to legitimize a politically charged action—and the FBI’s role in facilitating it without pushback.
Whitewater, meanwhile, began as a real estate investment in the 1970s between the Clintons and their friends Jim and Susan McDougal. The venture failed, but when Bill Clinton became president, the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan—run by Jim McDougal—drew federal scrutiny. Dozens of Clinton associates, including both McDougals and former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, were indicted and convicted of fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction. However, despite emerging evidence and the discovery of previously missing Rose Law Firm billing records implicating Hillary Clinton, the Clintons themselves escaped prosecution.
According to FBI field agents involved in the Whitewater probe, promising leads were often ignored or sidelined by upper-level DOJ and Independent Counsel staff. Kenneth Starr, initially tasked with pursuing the Whitewater investigation, eventually redirected the focus of his probe to President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky—a scandal that led to impeachment, but not accountability for the original financial misconduct.
Pattern Established: The FBI allowed itself to be instrumentalized—first by providing cover for Travelgate, and later by failing to insist on rigorous follow-through during the Whitewater investigation. This marked the beginning of a long institutional pattern of deferral, soft enforcement, and political calculus when dealing with the Clintons.
1. Travelgate and Whitewater
In 1993, shortly after taking office, the Clinton White House abruptly fired seven nonpartisan employees from the White House Travel Office. These staffers had served under multiple administrations and were responsible for managing press and…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
In 1996, during President Bill Clinton’s first term, it was revealed that the White House had improperly obtained and reviewed over 900 FBI background files on former Republican officials, many of whom had served in previous administrations. This included sensitive and private information gathered through security clearances—data that, by law, should never have been accessed without specific authorization and legitimate purpose.
The files were requested by Craig Livingstone, the Director of the White House Office of Personnel Security, a Clinton political appointee with no prior experience in handling classified records. Livingstone claimed that the request was made in error, citing an outdated Secret Service list. This explanation was quickly adopted by the Clinton White House as a “bureaucratic mistake.”
Yet the scale and nature of the breach raised alarm across Washington. The victims of the data breach included James Baker, John Sununu, Tony Snow, and even former Reagan-era cabinet officials—a who’s who of Republican leadership. The fact that this treasure trove of political opposition research ended up in the Clinton White House without consequence prompted concerns of political espionage, misuse of intelligence, and a dangerous precedent of turning federal security mechanisms into partisan tools.
Despite the serious implications—unauthorized access to sensitive FBI files, potential violations of the Privacy Act, and improper handling of government records the FBI’s response was strikingly muted. The Bureau conducted an internal review but did not pursue charges against any White House officials. Instead, it allowed the administration’s narrative of “clerical error” to stand. Craig Livingstone ultimately resigned, but no one was prosecuted.
Congressional hearings led by Republicans were convened, and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr was asked to review the matter. Starr concluded that although the actions were “grossly inappropriate,” there was insufficient evidence to prove criminal intent. Hillary Clinton, who many believed had recommended Livingstone for his position, denied under oath that she knew him prior to his hiring—a claim later challenged by several witnesses but never prosecuted as perjury.
Institutional Implication: The FBI’s decision not to pursue legal remedies despite a clear breach involving politically sensitive data demonstrated an early pattern of deference. Rather than challenge executive overreach, the FBI enabled the administration to control the narrative, framing an invasive political act as mere clerical mishap. In doing so, the Bureau signaled to future administrations that violations committed in the name of political preservation could be tolerated, or at least quietly buried.
In 1996, during President Bill Clinton’s first term, it was revealed that the White House had improperly obtained and reviewed over 900 FBI background files on former Republican officials, many of whom had served in previous administrations. This included sensitive and private…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
2. The Clinton Foundation, Foreign Donors and the FBI’s Silence
Between 2009 and 2016, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation came under growing scrutiny from journalists, watchdog groups, and law enforcement officials for allegedly facilitating pay-to-play arrangements involving foreign governments and wealthy international donors. While the Foundation branded itself as a global philanthropic leader, critics argued that it served as a shadow diplomatic network—one where access to the Clintons came with a price tag.
The Pay-to-Play Allegations:
The core allegation was simple: foreign donors made large contributions to the Clinton Foundation and, in return, received favorable treatment or access to the U.S. State Department. Examples frequently cited include:
The Uranium One deal: In which the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom gained control over 20% of U.S. uranium production after the State Department, under Hillary Clinton, signed off. At the same time, Clinton Foundation-connected donors reportedly contributed over $145 million to the Foundation.
The Crown Prince of Bahrain: Donated millions to the Foundation and secured a meeting with Secretary Clinton after previously being denied access.
Foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Algeria, donated millions to the Clinton Foundation even while they lobbied the State Department for weapons deals or regulatory decisions.
2. The Clinton Foundation, Foreign Donors and the FBI’s Silence
Between 2009 and 2016, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation came under growing scrutiny from journalists, watchdog groups, and law enforcement officials for allegedly…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
Multiple FBI Field Offices Launched Inquiries
According to reports from The Hill, Fox News, and journalist John Solomon, FBI field offices in Little Rock, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., began preliminary inquiries and even opened criminal investigations into potential public corruption and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The field agents compiled financial records, donor logs, and communication intercepts.
But almost uniformly, these investigations stalled or were shut down by FBI headquarters and DOJ leadership, including then–Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. According to congressional testimony and whistleblower reports:
Field agents expressed frustration that search warrants were denied and grand juries were never convened.
Senior DOJ officials declined to authorize subpoenas or interviews with key witnesses, citing lack of “predication,” despite agent-level consensus that the Foundation’s structure and activity warranted deeper scrutiny.
In a 2018 letter to Congress, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed that some agents believed the Clinton Foundation had “patterns of suspicious activity,” but the cases were not aggressively pursued. A subsequent report from Special Counsel John Durham (2023) echoed this pattern, noting that FBI brass showed reluctance to fully investigate politically sensitive subjects involving the Clintons, even when probable cause was present.
Multiple FBI Field Offices Launched Inquiries
According to reports from The Hill, Fox News, and journalist John Solomon, FBI field offices in Little Rock, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., began preliminary inquiries and even opened criminal investigations into…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
Institutional Paralysis
Unlike prior Clinton scandals, this one involved international donors, foreign governments, and embedded influence in U.S. foreign policy. The Foundation’s massive size and overlap with official U.S. diplomacy made it difficult to untangle corruption from conventional diplomacy. But rather than confront that challenge, the FBI and DOJ leadership chose inertia.
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy wrote that the case showed “all the hallmarks of an intentional stall designed to run out the clock before the 2016 election.” Meanwhile, FBI insiders like James Gagliano and whistleblowers from within the Bureau confirmed that agents pursuing Foundation leads felt “blocked from above” and warned not to “push too hard.”
Implication:
This wasn’t a failure to investigate it was a decision not to investigate fully. Despite compelling leads, financial trails, and circumstantial evidence suggesting transactional diplomacy through the Clinton Foundation, the FBI chose to avoid the political and institutional risk of pursuing charges. In doing so, it helped preserve the Clintons’ public image during a presidential election and protected the credibility of Washington’s most powerful networks.
Pattern Reinforced: As with Whitewater, Travelgate, and Filegate, the Foundation investigation followed the now-familiar script: preliminary activity, a show of interest, internal resistance, and ultimate collapse before charges could be filed.
Institutional Paralysis
Unlike prior Clinton scandals, this one involved international donors, foreign governments, and embedded influence in U.S. foreign policy. The Foundation’s massive size and overlap with official U.S. diplomacy made it difficult to untangle corruption from…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
3. The Email Server Scandal: “Gross Negligence” Becomes “Extremely Careless”
Between 2009 and 2013, while serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton conducted official government business through a private email server housed in her Chappaqua, New York home. This unapproved arrangement violated longstanding State Department protocols and federal records retention laws—but more seriously, it compromised classified information by circumventing secure government systems.
An FBI investigation launched in July 2015 after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit uncovered the existence of Clinton’s private server. Over the next year, agents examined tens of thousands of emails, several of which were later determined to contain classified national security information, including Top Secret/Special Access Program (SAP) material among the government’s most sensitive data.
The Comey Statement and the Shift in Legal Language
On July 5, 2016, just days after Hillary Clinton was interviewed by FBI agents—and notably not under oath—FBI Director James Comey gave a surprise press conference. In it, he declared that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in handling classified material but concluded that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against her.
What Comey did not disclose publicly at the time was that the original draft of his statement, prepared weeks earlier, had accused Clinton of being “grossly negligent”—a legal term with direct implications under 18 U.S. Code § 793(f) of the Espionage Act. That statute makes it a felony to mishandle classified information through gross negligence, regardless of intent.
According to Senate Judiciary findings and FBI email records released in 2017 and 2018, senior FBI officials, including Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, helped edit Comey’s statement. The phrase “grossly negligent” was replaced with “extremely careless”—significantly weakening the legal interpretation and removing the statutory threshold for criminal prosecution.
3. The Email Server Scandal: “Gross Negligence” Becomes “Extremely Careless”
Between 2009 and 2013, while serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton conducted official government business through a private email server housed in her Chappaqua, New York home. This unapproved…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
Immunity Deals and Evidence Destruction
Several of Clinton’s top aides—Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, and Bryan Pagliano—were granted limited immunity deals by the DOJ and FBI, which:
Prevented the government from using any of their testimony or recovered data against them in court.
Allowed them to retain laptops that contained classified information.
Permitted the destruction of devices after review, wiping evidence that might have otherwise been used to reconstruct events or establish intent.
Pagliano, Clinton’s IT aide, invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify before Congress, yet still received an immunity deal.
Furthermore, the Clinton legal team deleted approximately 33,000 emails that were deemed “personal” before turning over the rest to the State Department. These deletions were carried out using BleachBit, a software designed to render data unrecoverable. The FBI was aware of this activity but did not seek search warrants for backup servers or pursue obstruction of justice charges.
Immunity Deals and Evidence Destruction
Several of Clinton’s top aides—Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, and Bryan Pagliano—were granted limited immunity deals by the DOJ and FBI, which:
Prevented the government from using any of their testimony or recovered data against them in…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
The Institutional Fallout
DOJ officials, including then–Attorney General Loretta Lynch, had privately recused themselves from the case—but only after a highly publicized tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton in June 2016, just days before the FBI’s final decision was announced.
Comey’s public announcement of no prosecution was outside DOJ protocol, as charging decisions are typically made by the Department of Justice, not the FBI Director.
Despite clear evidence that Clinton repeatedly violated protocols, removed classified material from secure systems, and failed to preserve public records, the FBI insisted there was no intent to break the law—despite intent not being a required element under the relevant statutes.
Implication
This case marked one of the most dramatic examples of institutional leniency toward the Clintons. By shifting legal language, offering immunity, and avoiding confrontation, the FBI created the appearance of neutrality while executing a de facto exoneration. Agents involved in the case reportedly expressed concern and frustration over how the probe was handled, but their objections were overridden at the leadership level.
Pattern Continued: Like Travelgate, Filegate, and the Clinton Foundation investigations, the email scandal was contained through selective definitions, procedural maneuvering, and political shielding—ensuring that a clear breach of national security protocol resulted in no consequences.
The Institutional Fallout
DOJ officials, including then–Attorney General Loretta Lynch, had privately recused themselves from the case—but only after a highly publicized tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton in June 2016, just days before the FBI’s final decision was announced.…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
4. Embedded Allies in the FBI and DOJ
The handling of major Clinton investigations—particularly the 2016 email probe—was shaped not only by legal decisions, but by the personal and political entanglements of senior officials within the FBI and Department of Justice. The appearance of bias was not speculative—it was embedded in the very structure and staffing of the investigations. The relationships and actions of key players raised profound concerns about impartiality, and suggested a conflicted and politicized investigative environment.
Andrew McCabe – Deputy FBI Director
As the second-highest-ranking official at the FBI, Andrew McCabe played a central role in overseeing the Clinton email investigation.
At the same time, his wife, Jill McCabe, was running for Virginia State Senate, and received $675,000 in combined contributions from entities controlled by then–Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe—a close Clinton ally and longtime Democratic fundraiser.
Although McCabe formally recused himself from the Clinton probe in late 2016, he was involved in key decisions and briefings throughout much of the investigation.
The DOJ Inspector General report (2018) later concluded that McCabe “lacked candor” on multiple occasions regarding media leaks and had engaged in conduct that violated FBI policy, though it stopped short of declaring political bias.
Perception: The timing and magnitude of the political donations to McCabe’s family—paired with his direct role in sensitive Clinton investigations—created an unavoidable perception that the FBI’s leadership was not impartial.
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page – Senior FBI Officials
Peter Strzok was the lead counterintelligence agent on both the Clinton email case and the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into alleged Trump–Russia collusion.
He worked closely with Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer, with whom he was also engaged in an extramarital affair.
Thousands of text messages between Strzok and Page, uncovered by the DOJ Inspector General, revealed intense political bias, including:
Referring to Trump as an “idiot,” “disaster,” and “menace.”
Expressing commitment to an “insurance policy” in the event Trump won.
Messaging, just days after the start of the Trump-Russia probe:
“We’ll stop it.” (referring to Trump’s election)
While the IG ultimately concluded that their biases did not directly affect investigative outcomes, it confirmed that their conduct “cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation.”
Impact: These texts severely damaged public confidence in the Bureau’s neutrality and suggested that senior officials guiding Clinton- and Trump-related cases were not ideologically neutral actors, but partisan figures shaping outcomes from within.
Loretta Lynch – Attorney General
In June 2016, Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton on the tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
The meeting occurred days before the FBI formally interviewed Hillary Clinton, and just a week before Comey announced no charges would be filed.
Although Lynch and Clinton claimed the conversation was purely “social,” the meeting was not disclosed to the public until after it was leaked, triggering national outcry.
In the aftermath, Lynch announced she would “accept the FBI’s recommendation” on whether to charge Hillary—but did not recuse herself or appoint a special counsel.
Result: The tarmac meeting reinforced suspicions that DOJ leadership was not operating independently, but was instead coordinating—or at least collaborating—with Clinton interests to protect political standing.
Implication: The Clinton investigations were not handled in a vacuum. They unfolded within a bureaucracy that included officials tied—directly or indirectly—to the Clintons themselves. This institutional entanglement blurred the lines between legal objectivity and political preservation, further cementing the impression that the Clintons operated under a different set of rules.
4. Embedded Allies in the FBI and DOJ
The handling of major Clinton investigations—particularly the 2016 email probe—was shaped not only by legal decisions, but by the personal and political entanglements of senior officials within the FBI and Department of Justice. The…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
5. The Epstein Connection: From the White House to CGI
The relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons spans decades, forming one of the most persistent and unsettling threads in the broader scandal surrounding elite privilege and political protection. From frequent visits to the Clinton White House in the 1990s to Epstein’s deeper entanglement with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in the 2000s, the ties are well-documented—and increasingly difficult to dismiss as coincidental.
Early Access: Epstein’s White House Visits (1993–1995)
According to visitor logs obtained via the Clinton Presidential Library, Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times, sometimes multiple times per day, totaling 37 separate entries between 1993 and 1995. Each time, he was signed in by Mark Middleton, a Clinton aide and then–Special Assistant to the President. Middleton worked closely with White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty and was responsible for coordinating donor access and VIP introductions.
These visits occurred years before Epstein’s public emergence as a wealthy sex offender or financier. At the time, he was quietly ascending through the world of elite philanthropy, cultivating ties to scientists, politicians, and billionaires. His entry into the Clinton White House—typically reserved for donors, political allies, or key operatives—suggests he had established himself as more than a casual acquaintance.
Jet Flights and Clinton’s Travel
Between 2001 and 2003, Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet—dubbed the “Lolita Express”—at least 26 times, according to flight logs submitted in civil and criminal proceedings. These trips included international destinations, often tied to Clinton Foundation or CGI initiatives, such as anti-AIDS campaigns in Africa. Notably:
Five flights included no Secret Service detail, a rare and suspicious omission for a former U.S. president.
Flight manifests often included Ghislaine Maxwell and women later identified as Epstein trafficking victims, including Chauntae Davies, who later accused Epstein of abuse.
Clinton has denied ever visiting Epstein’s properties, including Little St. James island and the New Mexico Zorro Ranch, but survivor Virginia Giuffre testified that she saw Clinton on the island. While she stopped short of accusing him of misconduct, she quoted Epstein as saying, “He owes me a favor.”
Philanthropic Overlap: Epstein, CGI, and the Clinton Foundation
Despite his 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from a minor, Epstein maintained ties to elite philanthropic circles, including the Clinton Global Initiative, founded in 2005. According to court filings and his legal team:
Epstein was “part of the original group that helped conceive” CGI.
He donated at least $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation and was reportedly involved in coordinating donor circles during CGI’s early years.
Survivors and journalists allege that Epstein used his philanthropic persona to legitimize his presence among global leaders—and that his ties to CGI helped insulate him from scrutiny even after his conviction.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Clintonworld
Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate and key enabler, enjoyed deep and enduring access to the Clinton inner circle:
She was invited to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010, two years after Epstein’s conviction.
She attended Clinton Global Initiative events through at least 2009, appearing in photographs with prominent politicians, foreign dignitaries, and billionaires.
Multiple sources, including Vanity Fair and The Daily Mail, reported that Maxwell was considered a fixture in elite political and donor circles—a status she retained long after the public knew of Epstein’s criminal record.
The Death of Mark Middleton
The man who had granted Epstein White House access, Mark Middleton, died under highly suspicious circumstances on May 7, 2022, at Heifer Ranch in Perry County, Arkansas. Authorities ruled his death a suicide, stating he:
Hung himself from a tree using an extension cord.
Sustained a shotgun wound to the chest.
Had a Stoeger 12-gauge shotgun found 30 feet away—an unusual detail, since it’s rare for a person to both shoot and hang themselves in a single act.
The crime scene photographs were sealed by court order at the request of Middleton’s family, citing online conspiracy threats. The official investigation concluded no foul play, but the bizarre nature of the death—and Middleton’s historical proximity to both Epstein and Clinton—has only fueled deeper suspicion.
5. The Epstein Connection: From the White House to CGI
The relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons spans decades, forming one of the most persistent and unsettling threads in the broader scandal surrounding elite privilege and political protection. From frequent…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
Implication
This section of the Clinton–Epstein saga underscores the depth and persistence of Epstein’s integration into elite networks. He was not a fringe figure or rogue actor. He was a trusted donor, guest, and travel companion, embedded in CGI programming and personal Clinton family events—even after his criminal conviction.
The FBI never pursued Epstein’s connections to Clinton with the same vigor it showed toward other politically sensitive figures. Neither Clinton was subpoenaed. No grand juries were convened to probe Epstein’s role in CGI, nor were co-conspirators publicly named during Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. The failure to investigate these connections speaks to a broader pattern of protection and political calculation.
Implication
This section of the Clinton–Epstein saga underscores the depth and persistence of Epstein’s integration into elite networks. He was not a fringe figure or rogue actor. He was a trusted donor, guest, and travel companion, embedded in CGI programming and personal…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
6. Institutional Self-Preservation Over Accountability
By the mid-2000s, the Clintons were no longer merely prominent political figures—they had become central nodes in a vast web of global influence, stretching across diplomacy, intelligence, philanthropy, media, and finance. Investigating them thoroughly did not just threaten their personal reputations; it risked exposing systemic vulnerabilities and implicating entire institutions. As a result, the FBI—alongside other elements of the Department of Justice and the intelligence community—opted for institutional self-preservation over legal accountability.
Covert Intelligence Operations
Bill Clinton’s presidency and Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State intersected with numerous classified and sensitive operations:
Clinton-era U.S. covert action in the Balkans, Iraq, and post-Soviet states created enduring relationships between the Clinton inner circle and intelligence operatives.
The Clinton Foundation and its international reach meant that many of the Foundation’s foreign donors and partners may have also served as informal intelligence contacts or fronts.
Epstein himself was rumored to be protected by or connected to U.S. and foreign intelligence services, which former officials such as Alexander Acosta alluded to when he stated, “I was told he belonged to intelligence”—justifying the 2007 non-prosecution agreement.
Implication: A full investigation into the Clintons’ dealings—especially their ties to Epstein—could have unspooled covert partnerships, clandestine funding channels, or proxy operations involving allies, adversaries, and strategic regions.
Diplomatic Backchannels
The Clintons—especially Hillary as Secretary of State—operated parallel diplomatic networks through the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. These channels:
Bypassed traditional oversight by the State Department and Congress.
Enabled direct contact with foreign heads of state, royal families, and private global actors under the guise of charitable partnerships.
Created situations where diplomatic negotiations, grant allocations, and policy positions were potentially shaped by donor relationships, not national interest.
A full probe would have drawn in sovereign governments, multilateral institutions, and high-level foreign intelligence officers, risking massive geopolitical fallout.
Foreign Donor Corruption
Between 2001 and 2016, the Clinton Foundation received hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign governments and corporations—many of whom had business before the U.S. government while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
Investigating these donations seriously would have forced the FBI to:
Subpoena foreign governments and multinationals.
Follow financial trails into offshore accounts and tax havens.
Confront the possibility that U.S. policy decisions were influenced or purchased.
Rather than risk that confrontation, FBI headquarters reportedly shut down or blocked multiple field office investigations, including those in Little Rock, New York, and Los Angeles, as confirmed by journalists and whistleblowers like John Solomon.
Blackmail Networks (e.g., Epstein)
Jeffrey Epstein’s operation was not just about personal exploitation—it was about leverage:
Surveillance systems in his New York and Palm Beach homes were reportedly used to record high-profile guests engaging in compromising acts.
His proximity to politicians, academics, and royals across the globe allowed him to build a blackmail portfolio.
Bill Clinton’s deep and well-documented association with Epstein—37 White House visits, 26 private jet flights, CGI donor overlap—placed him at potential risk.
Prosecuting Epstein thoroughly—especially post-2005—risked exposing not just Clinton, but a broader network of compromised officials across multiple governments.
6. Institutional Self-Preservation Over Accountability
By the mid-2000s, the Clintons were no longer merely prominent political figures—they had become central nodes in a vast web of global influence, stretching across diplomacy, intelligence, philanthropy, media, and finance.…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
Why the FBI Chose Silence
Faced with this tangle of risk, the FBI and DOJ leadership made a strategic calculation:
Better to protect the system—even if it meant allowing elite wrongdoers to escape justice.
Better to preserve public trust in institutions than to open scandals that would implicate diplomats, donors, and potentially even the intelligence community.
This posture of institutional protectionism explains:
The refusal to subpoena key Clinton Foundation donors.
The rewriting of Comey’s findings in the email probe.
The destruction of immunity-sealed evidence.
The refusal to publicly name Epstein’s clients.
In each case, accountability was delayed, diluted, or dismissed in favor of stability, optics, and reputational defense.
Conclusion
The FBI’s failure to hold the Clintons accountable was not merely about favoritism—it was about the preservation of an elite architecture of influence. To indict the Clintons would have meant exposing how American power—across diplomacy, security, and finance—is wielded behind closed doors. In choosing not to pursue justice, the Bureau upheld a dangerous principle: that power can insulate itself from the law when the stakes are too high.
Why the FBI Chose Silence
Faced with this tangle of risk, the FBI and DOJ leadership made a strategic calculation:
Better to protect the system—even if it meant allowing elite wrongdoers to escape justice.
Better to preserve public trust in institutions than to open scandals…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
A 2024 Lawsuit Detailing the FBI Gross Negligence
1. Decades of Delay and Inaction
The plaintiffs claim the FBI received credible reports about Epstein’s trafficking as early as 1996, yet only opened a case in 2006—a delay spanning a full decade
This mirrors earlier political-era misconduct (Travelgate, Filegate), where internal political considerations or institutional caution led to delayed or superficial investigations.
2. Cover-Up Allegations & Political Influence
The lawsuit describes how victims were ignored—cases were dropped, interviews never conducted, and field office leads blocked .
This aligns with the precedent of claims that FBI senior leadership intervened, as seen with Clinton-linked cases, to avoid politically damaging associations.
3. Suppression of Evidence
Plaintiffs assert the FBI seized tapes, flight logs, and victim interviews—and then effectively hid them.
Decades earlier, the FBI similarly deflected on sensitive Clinton-related records. In the Epstein context, the DOJ’s refusal to release a “client list” or full document collection in 2025 reinforces a continuing cover-up culture.
4. Institutional Self-Preservation
Facing high-level risks—intel exposure, donor scandal, sex-scandal associations—the FBI consistently chose to sideline evidence or dismiss cases rather than face political fallout.
Doing justice to Epstein’s trafficking would expose interconnected elites, including the Clintons, and risk unraveling systems of influence—a scenario mirroring the institutional rationale discussed earlier.
Implications for the Lawsuit
Negligence Standard
Victims accuse the FBI under the Federal Tort Claims Act of negligently failing to follow its own protocols—just as it once did in politically charged investigations.
Damage Linked to Cover-up
The lawsuit asserts that victims were abused repeatedly because the FBI chose not to act—a legal reflection of the theory that the FBI shielded political and institutional interests above all else.
Demand for Transparency
Plaintiffs request the unsealing of records—flight logs, witness statements, tapes—mirroring demands for transparency in EB and Clinton investigations. The DOJ’s refusal to release “Epstein files” continues to raise deep suspicion
Ongoing Culture of Protection
The Espionage-like silence around Epstein parallels earlier silence regarding Clinton. The lawsuit suggests that Epstein was similarly protected from exposure by virtue of his elite ties.
Conclusion
The “12 Jane Does vs. FBI” lawsuit is not just a claim of investigatory neglect—it is a legal crystallization of the institutional behaviors described throughout this paper:
Delay and delay tactics
Suppression of evidence
Political calculation over justice
Protection of elites at the cost of victims
A culture of silence spanning decades
Whether intentionally shielding powerful figures like Epstein—and by extension, those with whom he associated—the FBI faces serious scrutiny: did it, once again, prioritize institutional self-preservation over accountability and justice?
Clinton has never been subpoenaed or questioned under oath about his relationship with Epstein—despite being:
A frequent flyer on the “Lolita Express”
A foundation partner with Epstein-linked figures
Present at multiple overlapping events
This lack of inquiry is consistent with the FBI’s longstanding reluctance to fully investigate figures at the top of the political hierarchy, particularly when those figures are as globally entrenched as the Clintons.
A 2024 Lawsuit Detailing the FBI Gross Negligence
1. Decades of Delay and Inaction
The plaintiffs claim the FBI received credible reports about Epstein’s trafficking as early as 1996, yet only opened a case in 2006—a delay spanning a full decade
This mirrors earlier…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
Citations and Sources
Independent Counsel Robert Ray. Final Report of the Independent Counsel Regarding the Travel Office Matter, 2000.
DOJ Office of the Inspector General (Michael Horowitz). Review of Allegations Regarding Various Actions by the FBI and DOJ in Advance of the 2016 Election, June 2018.
Giuffre v. Maxwell, Case No. 15-cv-7433 (S.D.N.Y.), Unsealed Documents, January 2024.
Flight Logs, U.S. District Court Exhibits, Southern District of New York (entered 2015–2020).
The Guardian, “Names including Clinton, Trump, and Prince Andrew found in Epstein court documents.” Jan 3, 2024. https://theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/jeffrey-epstein-list-names-released
Business Insider, “Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s jet many more times than previously known.” July 2019.
Politico, “FBI agents were told to stand down on Clinton Foundation probe.” Nov 2016.
Fox News, “DOJ ignored FBI agents who sought Clinton Foundation probe: sources.” Oct 2016.
The Hill, John Solomon. “FBI found ‘evidence of criminality’ in Clinton Foundation but never filed charges.” Jan 2018.
Wall Street Journal, “DOJ says there is no Epstein client list as it backs off promised releases.” Jan 2025.
Reuters, “Epstein victims sue FBI for failure to act on tips.” Feb 14, 2024.
U.S. House Oversight Committee, “Mark Middleton Visitor Logs.” Clinton Presidential Library Archives, released July 2019.
Vanity Fair, “The Surprising Guests at Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding.” July 2020.
New York Post, “Clinton Global Initiative events included Ghislaine Maxwell after Epstein’s conviction.” September 2019.
ABC News, “FBI confirms immunity deals granted to top Clinton aides.” Oct 2016.
Daily Mail, “Ghislaine Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding and Clinton Global Initiative events.” July 2019.
Testimony of Larry Visoski, Epstein’s Pilot. U.S. v. Maxwell, Southern District of New York, 2021.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz, 2018 Senate Judiciary Hearing Transcript, FBI Email Draft Edits.
Fox News, “Secret Service logs missing from Clinton’s Epstein flights.” 2021 report.
Court records: Virginia Giuffre depositions, S.D.N.Y., 2015, unsealed 2020.
Citations and Sources
Independent Counsel Robert Ray. Final Report of the Independent Counsel Regarding the Travel Office Matter, 2000.
DOJ Office of the Inspector General (Michael Horowitz). Review of Allegations Regarding Various Actions by the FBI and DOJ in Advance of the…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) July 13, 2025
Foreign buyers purchased $56 billion worth of existing homes in the United States between April 2024 and March 2025, up by 33.2 percent from the previous 12 months, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said in a July 14statement.
In terms of the number of properties, they bought 78,100 units, a 44 percent increase from the prior year. This was also the first annual increase since 2017. The average purchase price was $494,400, a “record high,” NAR said.
“International interest in buying U.S. real estate increased following the global economic recovery from several years of pandemic-related disruptions,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement.
“However, elevated home prices and interest rates continue to dampen overall potential sales activity and remain well below pre-pandemic levels.”
China was the top buyer nation of U.S. existing homes, making up 15 percent of all foreign purchases. Canada was a close second at 14 percent, followed by Mexico at 8 percent, India at 6 percent, and the United Kingdom at 4 percent.
The top housing market for international buyers was Florida, which accounted for 21 percent of all such deals. This was followed by California (15 percent), Texas (10 percent), New York (7 percent), and Arizona (5 percent). (The Epoch Times, 7/15/2025) (Archive)
Entin: Have the organizers of the July 17 demonstrations approached you?
Swart: Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17 movement have approached us, and in fact, we rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million.
Entin: $20 million?
Swart: Correct. I mean, this is a nationwide thing, right? It’s not to say I would have made $20 million personally, but the value of the contract would have been worth around that amount, nationwide, to organize huge demonstrations around the country, but personally, I just don’t think it’s effective. So, I’m not trying to call myself virtuous for rejecting it. What I’m saying is, I’m saying I’m rejecting it, not because I don’t want to take the business, but because, frankly, this is going to be ineffective. It’s going to make us all look bad.
Here is the raw interview with “Crowds on Demand” CEO Adam Swart for full context: pic.twitter.com/3F6fLemih5
Timeline editor’s note: AI interpreted the confession letter posted in this X thread, and there are several significant errors. I put a line through the errors, and for some, I was unable to interpret them, so I left with a question mark.
“Dear Kash Patel,
My name is Dr. Vince Lethorn Berthar Dr. Vance Luther Boelter, Ed.D. I am the shooter at large in Minnesota involved in the June 12 shootings, which happened in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 13 — sometime between approximately 2:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m.
I will probably be dead by the time you read this letter. I wanted to share some information with you that you might find interesting.
I was told trained by U.S. military people on the lakes during my release off the books starting in college. I’ve been on many operations since then in Eastern Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Africa — all in the line of duty, doing what I believed was right and in the best interest of the United States.
Recently, I was approached about a project that Tim Walz wanted done. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Keith Smith were involved. I wasn’t originally aware of the project — but Tim wanted me to kill Amy Klobuchar and Tina Keith Smith to force a planned retirement.
Tim Walz and Amy Klobuchar (Credit: public domain)
Tim wants to be a senator and didn’t trust them to retire as planned. With Amy gone, Tim would stay in at the last minute, get one of the open Senate seats, and [someone named] Elken Keith Ellison would be rewarded with a large government contract ?.
I told Tim I wasn’t willing to do it. I said if he didn’t call off that plan, I would go public. He said he would “call it off” — but instead, he set up murders said he would hurt my family if I don’t play ball. including one involving someone named Jan, Mel, and others Then he set up a meeting with me and Mel — and — to “get the dark types” when I moved ?.
They had some people trying to kill me. I was able to get away by God’s mercy. I went back a short time later and shot several of them.
You should note: I didn’t fire a single round at any peace officers. I had plenty of opportunity, but I didn’t take it. Ask for the report on how many weapons and how much ammunition I had on me.
When the cops pulled up right next to me in their vehicles, I had an AK pistol aimed right at their heads. I could have left a pile of cops dead — but I didn’t shoot. You can ask them yourself. I support law enforcement. That’s why I spared them.
But if they come after my wife and kids next time, I won’t give them a pass.
I want you to get on the phone and tell Tim [Walz] you have a few questions. Then ask him if he knows me. If he says no — that he never met me — go look at the files. You’ll see that Tim Walz personally groomed me and put me on his Governor’s task force boards as a business representative. He’s now trying to destroy me for his public record. appointed me to the Governor’s Workforce Board ?, the business representatives. He is probably trying to destroy that info but it’s public record.
Ask Tim why they kept the SWAT incidents ? silent from the media when they first happened. Not a word in the press. Why? Because they needed to get their stories straight figured out first. They didn’t want anyone wanted everyone on the same page about “what happened.”
Tim’s probably crapping bricks right now because I’m still at large, and he knows what I can declassify do. He knows what I know. I know where all the buried skeletons are.
S0 I will be shot on sight — you can bet on that. — because I know where all the buried skeletons are.
If I’m going to turn myself in, it needs to be directly to you, and I need to be held at a military prison near or in the Middle East — or at least on a ship. These guys have tour gains their guns everywhere, and can get to anybody.
I’m willing to spill all the beans. I just want my family safe. They had nothing to do with this and are totally innocent.
This was a one-person op.”
🚨 BREAKING: Vance Boelter’s confession letter has been released following his federal indictment.
Here is what is says:
“Dear Kash Patel,
My name is Dr. Vince Lethorn Berthar, Ed.D. I am the shooter at large in Minnesota involved in the June 12 shootings, which happened in… pic.twitter.com/ahWcDUvmyl
Johnson & Johnson Lead Scientist Confesses J&J COVID-19 Vaccine Was ‘Not Safe and Effective,’ Reveals “Lack of Research” From Rushing to Release Vaccine: “People Wanted It, We Gave It to Them”
“Do you have any idea the lack of research that was done on those products [vaccines]?”
“I mean we basically just had a race to figure out who could solve it best… At one point, we just canned it.”
BREAKING: Johnson & Johnson Lead Scientist Confesses J&J COVID-19 Vaccine Was ‘Not Safe and Effective,’ Reveals “Lack of Research” From Rushing to Release Vaccine: “People Wanted It, We Gave It to Them”
“We didn’t do the typical tests,” said Joshua Rys, a Lead Scientist in Regulatory Affairs for Johnson & Johnson (J&J), revealed on hidden camera that the typical clinical process was abandoned for the COVID-19 vaccine, knowingly bypassing standard testing protocols under pressure from the U.S. government and public demand. He added, “This was just, ‘let’s test it on some lab models… and just throw it to the wind and see what happens.’”
He acknowledged that the public wasn’t informed about the shortcuts, asking, “Do you have any idea the lack of research that was done on those products?” Rys claimed, “People wanted it, we gave it to them.”
While public officials claimed the vaccines were “safe and effective,” Rys pushed back. “There’s no proof. None of that stuff was safe and effective,” he said, adding that the industry relies on a benefit-risk tradeoff to justify product launches.
Rys also pointed to government pressure through Operation Warp Speed. “The government is like, ‘We need help… You’re solving this problem,’” he said. “People panic, so they try to solve it in whatever way they think is good.”
According to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson, “Even during a public health emergency, pharmaceutical companies are still required to follow strict protocols for clinical testing. For emergency use, companies must show that the benefits clearly outweigh the risks. Oversight doesn’t stop at approval — the FDA and other agencies also monitor products closely once they’re in use. That includes real-world safety tracking, independent advisory committees, and required reporting of any adverse events. These steps are in place to make sure public health decisions are based on solid science and strong safeguards — especially in emergencies.
Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad recently announced a new vaccine safety and transparency framework — one that’s built on gold-standard science, real-world data, and honest communication with the public and will require thorough safety testing before licensing. Their work is focused on strengthening trust, improving how we monitor safety after vaccines are in use, and making sure people have clear, accurate information to make informed decisions.
HHS remains committed to full transparency and evidence-based oversight — putting the safety of the American people first.”
OMG has reached out to Joshua Rys and Johnson & Johnson for comment regarding Rys’ statements.
Text messages show U.S. @SecretService Agent Marc Hendrickson inviting a stranger to the White House, sharing a photo from the @WhiteHouse grounds, disclosing operational details, and disparaging his protectee, President Donald J. Trump.
Evidence reveals a continued and dangerous lapse in the Secret Service’s sacred commitment to be “Worthy of Trust and Confidence.”
Text messages show U.S. @SecretService Agent Marc Hendrickson inviting a stranger to the White House, sharing a photo from the @WhiteHouse grounds, disclosing operational details, and disparaging his protectee, President Donald J. Trump.
U.S. Secret Service Agent Marc Hendrickson Invites Project Veritas to the @WhiteHouse, Disparages Commander-in-Chief while on Duty Protecting @POTUS, @FLOTUS, and Cabinet Members.
With the recent shocking admission by Joe Biden that he did not personally approve at least some of his sweeping presidential pardons and that they were signed by autopen, millions of Americans are questioning how many decisions in the Biden White House were actually being made by his unelected wife, criminal son, along with a shadow government of bureaucrats and aids.
Emails indicating that then-White House chief of staff Jeff Zients approved the use of the notorious White House autopen. Biden’s team used an autopen on 25 warrants for pardons and commutations in December and January of last year, but two of those warrants granted clemency to thousands of people.
In a House Republican investigation on the autopen signatures and Joe Biden’s mental state, a former senior aide to Jill Biden, Anthony Bernal, became the second person to invoke the Fifth Amendment and decline to answer questions.
Biden’s pardons include his own family dating back to 2014 (coinciding with evidence that the Bidens may have received payoffs from foreign governments in exchange for political favors). They also protect Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has long been implicated in illegal gain of function research on coronaviruses in Wuhan, China which critics assert may have led to the outbreak of covid pandemic.
If the pardons were signed by aids using autopen and not by Biden, then there is a possibility they can be legally nullified. Though proof would have to be provided that Biden was not specifically aware of certain autopen signatures. Staff using the autopen to sign for a president without his knowledge or cognitive approval is potentially criminal, which is likely why aids are now pleading the 5th Amendment.
“Well, unfortunately, that was quick,” said Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, after the deposition ended. “I believe the American people are concerned. They’re concerned that there were people making decisions in the White House that were not only unelected but no one to this day knows who they were.”
On Wednesday evening, prosecutors in the office, still shaken by the Eric Adams debacle, rallied around Comey, with dozens of them banding together to escort her out of the office for the last time: https://t.co/S8aQlYqjza
This week, the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing detailing how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) helped facilitate and benefited from the historic Biden-Harris border crisis, as well as how far-left NGOs are still working to help inadmissible aliens undermine federal immigration law under the Trump administration. Tuesday, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Josh Brecheen (R-OK) penned an op-ed in the New York Post outlining the importance of this hearing and the Committee’s investigation into these organizations.
Witnesses included Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project; Ali Hopper, president and founder of GUARD Against Trafficking; and Julio Rosas, a national correspondent for Blaze Media––all of whom have investigated or reported on how these organizations work with Democrat officials and open-borders advocates to advance a pro-illegal immigration agenda.
In the hearing, witnesses laid out in detail how NGOs received more than $6 billion from the Biden-Harris administration, including through grants from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and others. They also testified about how the Biden-Harris administration handed over unaccompanied alien children (UACs) to NGOs, primarily at the border, who then delivered them to poorly-vetted sponsors. The Biden-Harris administration then failed to ensure proper follow-up communications to check on the well-being of the children, leading to more than 300,000 children unaccounted for in the interior. Simultaneously, many of these NGOs and their executives enjoyed substantial revenue and salary increases thanks to the grants.
WATCH: @Julio_Rosas11 breaks down exactly how NGOs helped the Biden-Harris administration facilitate mass illegal immigration and how these actions incentivized migrants to make the dangerous journey to the U.S. pic.twitter.com/7ixjgd1nzA
In his opening statement, Rosas revealed exactly how NGOs helped incentivize migrants to make the dangerous journey to the United States:
“The NGOs located along the border were often the first place processed migrants went to after being released by Border Patrol. These organizations helped the Biden-Harris administration avoid the bad optics of released migrants having to be on the street due to the large volume of overcrowding in certain sectors. Even with those efforts, the mass overcrowding still resulted in people sleeping on the streets, sometimes during the winter.
“Ultimately, the goal of these NGOs was to get people to their desired destination within the United States and get them settled in, even though their legal status was far from being secured. I would often see volunteers or staffers at the airport when I left the border guiding these processed migrants to ensure they made their flight. A few times I saw them ushering unaccompanied minors. This is haunting to think back on now knowing Biden’s HHS lost track of thousands of minors once they reached their supposed final destination.
“By having this guaranteed help once they reached U.S. soil, illegal aliens had greater incentive to put their lives in danger by traversing through the Darien Gap and cartel-controlled territory in Mexico. One shelter in El Paso told me in 2023 around 80 percent of the women who came to them had been raped, sometimes in front of their children. This highlights that despite the NGOs having the stated goal of helping these people, their ‘help’ ends up harming the people who used their services. Yes, they made it to the U.S., but at what cost?”
“Simply put—under the Biden administration’s open-border policies, the government could only do so much to facilitate mass illegal immigration.”
Howell detailed how NGOs helped the Biden-Harris administration facilitate mass illegal immigration:
“Simply put—under the Biden administration’s open border policies, the government could only do so much to facilitate mass illegal migration, welcome the illegal aliens to the United States, and move them around the country. It needed help and open borders organizations jumped at the opportunity to fill the void. The Biden administration repaid them by driving an estimated $6 billion to a conglomerate of 15 UN agencies and 230 NGOs, as recently calculated by the Center for Immigration Studies, to do this work for them. In doing so, the Biden administration turned the Border Patrol into nothing more than a welcome center—a day care—and glorified Uber drivers that ferried illegal aliens to open-borders organizations. In turn, the open borders organizations facilitated mass migration of illegal aliens throughout the interior of the United States.”
“Modern Day Slavery”: Ali Hopper Exposes Biden’s Border Catastrophe in Devastating Testimony@ali_hopper, president of Guard Against Trafficking, delivered searing testimony before the Homeland Security Committee today—laying bare how cartels and federally funded NGOs are… pic.twitter.com/PNJLEkzieM
Hopper’s opening statement provided first-hand accounts from contracted compliance officers, which detailed how the NGO Endeavors failed to protect the UACs in their care:
“‘Staff were hired without completed fingerprinting or thorough background checks.’ ‘Male staff were found inside female dorms.’ ‘A contractor led 150 teenage girls, minors in sexually explicit dance routines, teaching them how to twerk. He did it twice—once at the facility’s ribbon-cutting, and again months later—before an on-site compliance officer demanded intervention.’ ‘Children collapsed after being subjected to massive vaccination protocols with no parental consent and no clear medical follow-up.’ ‘Two compliance officers discovered a female housed alone in a dorm who was over 18 years of age. Endeavors was shielding her from ICE. In other cases, UACs on the verge of turning 18 were released early to avoid ICE transfer.’ ‘An Endeavors employee that raised concerns about too many children being sent to a single address was terminated.’ ‘A former ICE employee with a background in case management, serving as a contracted compliance team lead was actively stonewalled from reviewing child placements.’”
“99% of their funding came from grants from the federal government, and what did these organizations do with that?” @RepMichaelGuest breaks down how NGOs like Southwest Key Programs and Endeavors benefited from the border crisis and taxpayer dollars: pic.twitter.com/gBR7f9ZZj1
“Endeavors received 97 percent of their funding from federal or local grants. They weren’t out raising money; they weren’t out there ringing the bell… They were instead an arm of the federal government in that they received 97 percent of their funding. And then Southwest Key Properties was an NGO that blew past that––99 percent of their funding came from grants from the federal government. And what did these organizations do with that?”
“In 2020, Endeavors reported $52 million in revenue. In 2021, they reported $658 million in revenue––a $600 million increase in a year, with 97 percent of that money coming from the federal government. And then in 2022, they reported a record $1.18 billion from the federal government––or at least 97 percent of that. You talk about how executives for Endeavors padded their pockets, that with this increase in revenue comes an increase in salary, that the compensation for the CEO doubled… In an article from the New York Post, they talk about another one of these nonprofits. They talk about Southwest Key. The headline says, ‘Texas non-profit housing migrant kids took $3 billion in grants from Biden administration and boosted executive salaries up to 139 percent to pull the plug.’”
In today’s hearing, @RepGarbarino asked @ali_hopper to share some of the most egregious examples of the activities NGOs engaged in to support the Biden-Harris administration’s open-borders policies.
“Ms. Hopper, organizations that aided and embedded illegal immigration activities must be held accountable, and the Committee has identified countless non-government organizations that have appeared to have played a larger role in propping up the Biden administration’s border crisis, helping play a role in obscuring the true extent of the lawlessness that occurred over the last four years. Can you highlight some of the most egregious examples of the activities NGOs engaged in to support the Biden administration’s open border policies?”
Hopper answered:
“I think Florida’s grand jury review of the whole unaccompanied children process is a great place to start if people haven’t looked into that. There are numerous situations where you can look at the funding of what the NGOs took in, starting with the 990 [forms]. Then, when you start to zoom in, you look at the program mismanagement, waste, fraud, and abuse. This isn’t about the humanitarian mission. This isn’t about the religious component of the organization, the non-profit. We heard people bring up the religious component of the non-profit. That has nothing to do with that. It has to do with how the humanitarian organization handled the program, handled these children, handled these funds, and handled the sponsors. And they didn’t—they didn’t handle any of that.”
Subcommittee Chairman Garbarino continued:
“Can you also elaborate on the extent to which the Biden administration’s reliance on non-governmental organizations endangered the lives of those children.”
Hopper concluded:
“Once NGOs were sending children to their sponsors, they were supposed to have an individual traveling with them to make sure that they got to their destination. We were actually on a flight with numerous UACs. They were unaccompanied, couldn’t speak the language, and the airline struggled to communicate with them. They were traveling alone. When we spoke with the flight attendants, they outlined numerous situations where children showed up in correct locations [and] CPS would have to be called because the sponsor either didn’t show up [or] they were at the wrong location. They couldn’t communicate with these unaccompanied children, and they were not supposed to be traveling alone. Once they got to that state, there wasn’t a follow-up.”
“How many children do you think that DHS basically lost and didn’t have track of during the four years of the Biden administration that were in the United States?”
Hopper answered:
“The reports vary, but as of the last number that we were made aware of, it was over 325,000 children that went unaccounted for.”
“My colleagues on the other side don’t want to speak about this hearing. They want nothing to do with this hearing. Why? Because of the failure. And one of the greatest failures in American history of the Biden administration, I believe, was not keeping track of children. And it wasn’t like the folks that sit on the other side of this aisle weren’t made aware by people sitting on this side of the aisle that it was happening. And they failed to do anything or speak out against this atrocity that was happening to the children that were coming through the border… What we’re trying to bring to light is—we want to make sure this never happens again. We need to bring it to light right now because it wasn’t going to be brought to light under the Biden administration… I thank God that we have President Trump in office who has controlled the border.”
.@RepClayHiggins lays out the “abhorrent industry of child trafficking that prospered from the open-border policies of the Biden administration for four years,” which NGOs helped facilitate:
“[The Biden admin] fed a pipeline of…children into sex trafficking and slave labor.” pic.twitter.com/wQTzDuH0mD
Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA) blasted the Biden-Harris administration for facilitating human trafficking by partnering with these NGOs:
“Much to the chagrin of a whole abhorrent industry of child trafficking that prospered from the open border policies of the Biden administration for four years, 2021—‘22, ‘23, and ‘24. Much to the chagrin of these people that made bank… Mr. Howell, are you aware that ongoing right now, right now in our country, DHS, ICE, FBI, local and state law enforcement agencies [are] working on classified operations to locate, find, and rescue trafficked, tender-aged, mostly girls—we’re talking about girls 14 and younger—across the country that were trafficked into our country in 2021, ‘22, ‘23, and ‘24. Are you aware that those operations are ongoing?”
Howell answered:
“Yes, sir. They’re trying to find the children the Biden administration lost.”
Rep. Higgins continued:
“They’ve rescued so far, 35,000 [kids]…Now, according to Ms. Hopper’s research, which I find fascinating—everybody up here should—70 percent of the documentation turned in by so-called sponsors [were fraudulent or incomplete], which were lined up by who? The NGOs. Through whom primarily? HHS. It was a pipeline, man. We fed a pipeline of tender-aged children into sex trafficking and slave labor into our country. We’re finding these kids—we’re tracking these fraudulent documents.”
“65,000 calls [to HHS] went unanswered…One case where a child’s call was reporting that grown men were coming into his room at night… That call went unanswered.”@ali_hopper details the Biden administration’s devastating failure to protect unaccompanied alien children: pic.twitter.com/G8GS8JdDYi
Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ) asked Hopper to detail how the Biden-Harris administration failed to protect these children:
“Our colleagues are very upset that we’re having this hearing today. They don’t want to talk about this stuff. They don’t want to talk about the 300,000 kids that we still don’t know where they are. They’re upset that President Trump got elected. They’re upset that he’s doing exactly what he said he was going to do, and we’re backing him up here in Congress. This is what the American people voted for because they saw four years of the carnage that these open border policies plagued on the United States. We’re talking about the NGOs that they used as middlemen to carry out their operations.”
“Ms. Hopper, you’ve worked closely with trafficking victims and survivors. I’d like to explore the role that the NGOs have played in enabling the trafficking and exploitation of unaccompanied alien children. Under the last administration, what safeguards were put in place to protect vulnerable unaccompanied children?”
Hopper answered:
“I previously discussed the post placement welfare checks, which consisted of two phone calls. Again, if the sponsor didn’t answer, the case was no longer followed up on. But there was also a notice of concern hotline where people could report concerns about the unaccompanied child’s safety. But what this administration found was from August 2023 to January of 2025, 65,000 calls went unanswered. Those calls spanned from complaints about stale bread all the way to being abused. One case where a child’s call was reporting that grown men were coming into his room at night, and they were touching him. Nothing happened with that call. That call went unanswered—until this administration took office [and] went through those 65,000 calls, made follow-ups, conducted a welfare check, and now that child has been rescued and that sponsor has been arrested. These are the safeguards that were put in place—but accountability and oversight was not had.”
Longtime President Donald Trump political foe Democrat California Sen. Adam Schiff was referred to the Department of Justice to face criminal prosecution over alleged mortgage fraud that reportedly stretches back years.
Schiff, who was elected to the Senate in the 2024 election cycle following decades as a House lawmaker, is under scrutiny after the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a letter to the Department of Justice in May sounding the alarm that in “multiple instances,” Schiff allegedly “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from 2003-2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property.”
FHFA is an independent federal agency that oversees Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
This week, Trump publicly lambasted Schiff over the alleged mortgage fraud, while Fannie Mae’s financial crimes investigations concluded Monday in a letter to the FHFA that Schiff allegedly engaged in “a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation” on five Fannie Mae loans, Fox News Digital previously reported this week. (Read more: Fox News, 7/17/2025)(Archive)
HOLY SHLIT
“Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff engaged in a sustained pattern of possible mortgage fraud” pic.twitter.com/Z5prRUVQ91
On Monday, director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency received a memo from the
Fannie Mae financial crimes investigations concluding that Adam Schiff allegedly engaged in “a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation” on 5 Fannie Mae loans https://t.co/rEE3lkjFq4pic.twitter.com/jRfLXUzIim
Adam Schiff’s mortgage fraud scam is exactly why Americans despise D.C. politicians—lying about residency to cheat the system while collecting taxpayer-funded salaries. Fannie Mae’s findings prove Schiff exploited primary residence loopholes for years, securing sweetheart loan…
Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it.
Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump? https://t.co/KHsTFOSl34
TRUMP’S ALLEGED EPSTEIN BDAY LETTER: The Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the “blockbuster” story alleging a letter Trump wrote to Epstein for his 50th birthday included some tawdry elements previously worked for Main Justice (his only prior reporting experience listed in his bio).
Main Justice was Glenn Simpson’s wife’s publication. Simpson founded Fusion GPS, which was paid by Hillary Clinton/the DNC (through Perkins Coie) to produce the Steele Dossier at the center of the Russian hoax against Trump.
Both Glenn Simpson and his wife, Mary Jacoby, worked for the Wall Street Journal before launching their own enterprises.
Trump is now suing the Wall Street Journal over the “blockbuster” letter story, arguing that it’s bogus and they never showed him it so he could comment.
#BREAKING SCOOP re:
TRUMP’S ALLEGED EPSTEIN BDAY LETTER: The Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the “blockbuster” story alleging a letter Trump wrote to Epstein for his 50th birthday included some tawdry elements previously worked for Main Justice (his only prior reporting… https://t.co/Osa4jYsvV0pic.twitter.com/BukMUhegt6
While the big news in the release of two key — and contradictory — documents about the role Russia played in 2016 election interference was the headline-grabber from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s document drop last week, buried in the report is an eerie email exchange about the so-called “Steele dossier” and how it got into intelligence assessments.
On Friday, Gabbard released a slew of information regarding how the intelligence community viewed Russian interference in the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the last days of Barack Obama’s administration. An initial Presidential Daily Brief found that there was little evidence of serious interference and that it “did not impact recent U.S. election results” via cyberattacks.
(…) However, Gabbard said, that Dec. 8, 2016, PDB was pulled and never presented. Instead, less than a month later, a new document, which showed far more confidence that Russia had interfered on behalf of the Trump campaign, was presented. Gabbard released evidence that Obama’s DNI, James Clapper, began working on it the day after the Dec. 8 PDB was pulled.
(…) At the back end of the 114 pages of documents that Gabbard released was an eerie email exchange between several intelligence individuals regarding the role that the Steele dossier played in the report and whether or not it was appropriately added as an annex.
The exchange involves a 2019 Freedom of Information Act request by Kimberly Hermann of the conservative Southeastern Legal Foundation, which looked for mentions of the dossier on certain government systems.
The dossier, eponymously named after former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, was initially assembled as opposition research for the Hillary Clinton campaign. It eventually found its way into requests for warrants against Trump campaign officials and assessments of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign despite the fact that most of its assertions could not be corroborated and many were provably false.
A Sept. 18, 2019, email from a redacted official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence raised some alarm about the fact that the Steele dossier was involved in the ODNI’s efforts at all.
The first part of the email dealt mostly with technical issues — the number of hits that match the query and how, due to their position, sorting through all his emails would be “impractical.”
However, it gets more problematic from there: “Second, regarding the email below — I am choosing my words carefully, for your awareness, because the premise of the message is concerning,” the official wrote.
“As you know, I was a Deputy on the NIO Cyber team, also the de-facto elections team, from 2015 through this year,” the official wrote. “I have intermittently participated in IC foreign influence and election security efforts from 2014 through this evening.”
“I was asked by NIO Cyber [redacted] to participate in the analytic scrub of the non-compartmented version of what I think is the 2017 ICA referenced below. It included no dossier reference that I recall,” the official said. [Emphasis theirs.]
This was important, they said, because even though they were “not in all of the Russia compartments, and so I did not participate in the crafting of the compartmented version,” they had queried about other information that might be involved.
“At no point did [redacted] suggest that there was any analytically significant reporting that I was NOT seeing, with the exception of compartmented material (I asked repeatedly, because of analytic concerns I held regarding a KJ that remain unresolved to this day),” the email read.
While it’s unclear from the chain whether the Steele dossier was regarded as “analytically significant” in that part of the investigation, they went on to note that Clapper would then go on to include it in the briefing given to Obama.
“I did hear second hand from [redacted], ostensibly recounting words of then DNI Clapper, on the day of a briefing to current [then, I think, just elect] POTUS, about inclusion of dossier materials in a presentation to POTUS elect. This was characterized as an unexpected and unwanted sudden and unilateral act by then DIR FBI Comey, and as a source of concern to the DNI,” the email read.
“To this day, I have never seen or reviewed dossier materials in a work setting,” it continued. “Bottom line — though I am glad to have been spared exposure to the material, if it was influential, I hope it was in a compartment I am not in, because otherwise — given my 5 years of working these topics at PDB and ICA level … we may have a different information issue.” [Emphasis theirs.]
This lengthy email received a terse response the next day: “are you asking for any guidance or action by me, or is this just informational?” the superior said.
A response from the original sender, a few hours later, tried to “cut to the chase” about it: “IF the Dossier material WAS used by the NIC, unless it is also compartmented, my NIO intentionally deceived and excluded me from things I was cleared for and had need to know, throughout his entire tenure here. I prefer to think that isn’t true, but if it was, we have a problem.”
The response to that specific point, from the superior: “[I]t is routine that we get material and don’t share it with everyone — and it’s not a matter of a particular clearance.”
The email is denuded of significant context by redaction, so it’s unclear how important it was. However, Gabbard felt the need to append it as part of an annex to the larger report — and, given the cryptic nature of it, expect to hear more about it in the coming days and weeks from FBI Director Kash Patel, particularly involving the identity of these two individuals. (Read more: Western Journal, 7/23/2025) (Archive)
FBI Director Kash Patel, in a June interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, revealed that he found a room full of documents and computer hard drives “that no one had ever seen or heard of.” (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
FBI Director Kash Patel found a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in multiple “burn bags” in a secret room inside the bureau, sources told Fox News Digital.
Sources told Fox News Digital that multiple burn bags were found and filled with thousands of documents.
Sources told Fox News Digital that one of the documents FBI officials found in a burn bag was the classified annex to former special counsel John Durham’s final report, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed.
The declassification of the classified annex is being done in close coordination between CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi and acting National Security Agency Director William Hartman.
The declassified annex will be transmitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who ultimately will release the document to the public.
Sources exclusively briefed Fox News Digital on some of the contents of the classified annex — including that the U.S. intelligence community had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the alleged Trump–Russia collusion narrative — before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire Hurricane probe.
A source familiar with the contents of the classified annex told Fox News Digital that while it may not have been exactly clear in the moment what the intelligence collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight, it predicted the FBI’s next move “with alarming specificity.”
“Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” the source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters that have not yet been made public, told Fox News Digital.
“Mere days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane,” the source said. “It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey are going to be able to explain this away.”
Sources told Fox News Digital that Patel and his team discovered a previously undisclosed sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) in the FBI headquarters.
Fox News Digital reached out to previous FBI Directors Christopher Wray and James Comey for comment and has not yet received any responses. (Read more: Fox News, 7/30/2025) (Archive)
ODNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified a presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.
Last week CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced that a new CIA report revealed former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper worked together to purposely corrupt the Trump-Russia investigation in 2016 before Trump entered office.
The three corrupt Obama officials even included the Steele Dossier in their quest to “screw Trump” knowing at the time that the Steele Dossier was complete rubbish.
On Friday it was revealed that Barack Obama knew it was a hoax and he was involved in manufacturing and politicizing the intelligence to create the Trump-Russia collusion canard.
“The IC is prepared to produce and assessment per the President’s request…” the report read.
The Obama administration “manufactured and politicized intelligence” to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise, Fox News Digital has learned.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Friday declassified documents revealing “overwhelming evidence” that demonstrates how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the yearslong Trump–Russia collusion probe.
Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the intelligence community consistently assessed that Russia was “probably not trying…to influence the election by using cyber means.”
“We assess that foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome this year. We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results,” the report said.
“We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure,” the report said.
Last week investigative reporter Paul Sperry said Barack Obama’s fingerprints are all over Brennan’s IC report.
He was right.
DEVELOPING: Sources tell me OBAMA’s fingerprints are all over Brennan’s post-2016 election Intelligence Community Assessment/Putin-Trump frameup scandal, which leads directly back to the White House and Susan Rice, Lisa Monaco,Celeste Wallander. Biden also was in on the briefings
🧵 Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President @realDonaldTrump, subverting the… pic.twitter.com/UQKKZ5c4Op
For months preceding the 2016 election, the Intelligence Community shared a consensus view: Russia lacked the intent and capability to hack U.S. elections.
But weeks after President Trump’s historic 2016 victory defeating Hillary Clinton, everything changed. pic.twitter.com/ss6A20yZ7k
On Dec 8, 2016, IC officials prepared an assessment for the President’s Daily Brief, finding that Russia “did not impact recent U.S. election results” by conducting cyber attacks on infrastructure.
The next day, top national security officials including FBI Dir James Comey, CIA Dir John Brennan and DNI James Clapper gathered at the Obama White House to discuss Russia. Obama directed the IC to create a new intelligence assessment that detailed Russian election meddling, even… pic.twitter.com/b7ly73h12t
Obama officials immediately leaned on their allies in the media to advance their falsehoods. Anonymous IC sources leaked classified information to the Washington Post and others that Russia had intervened to hack the election in Trump’s favor. pic.twitter.com/eHdPaGfxbD
On January 6, 2017, just days before President Trump took office, DNI Clapper unveiled the Obama-directed politicized assessment, a gross weaponization of intelligence that laid the groundwork for a years-long coup intended to subvert President Trump’s entire presidency.… pic.twitter.com/hlSjnLGnsy
This betrayal concerns every American. The integrity of our democratic republic demands that every person involved be investigated and brought to justice to prevent this from ever happening again.
I am providing all documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve.
.@DNIGabbard: In the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the Intelligence Community agreed that there was no Intelligence that reflected that Russia was trying to hack the election… So it was very striking when we look back at the documents that I declassified and… pic.twitter.com/hhmUXQkkWJ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 20, 2025
.@DNIGabbard: “It’s worse than even politicization of intelligence; it was manufactured intelligence that sought to achieve President Obama’s and his team’s objective, which was undermining President Trump.” pic.twitter.com/koO5IK1eDx
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 20, 2025
.@DNIGabbard on the Russia collusion hoax: “The effect of what Pres. Obama and his senior national security team did was subvert the will of the American people, undermining our democratic republic, and enacting what would be essentially a years-long coup against Pres. Trump.” pic.twitter.com/29kviGOAdE
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 20, 2025
Last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the FBI for a criminal investigation. Some reports claim the referral relates to Brennan potentially having perjured himself before Congress. But on Wednesday, President Donald Trump may have pointed to another direction the FBI probe may take. In an interview with reporter John Solomon, Trump said he would declassify an annex to the May 2023 report filed by John Durham, the special counsel appointed during Trump’s first term to investigate Russiagate.
The annex, according to Solomon, deals with the “Clinton Plan intelligence”—and, says Solomon, “lawmakers and Durham have suggested it would provide damning evidence to any prosecutor.” Trump told Solomon, “I will absolutely declassify it.”
The “Clinton Plan Intelligence” refers to intelligence the CIA received in late July 2016 from a Dutch spy agency. The Dutch had penetrated a Russian intelligence agency that appears to have hacked the emails of Clinton allies and Democratic officials. And it was from these communications that the Russians learned the Clinton campaign had devised a plan to smear Trump as a Russian agent to deflect attention from her use of a private email server.
According to Durham’s final report in May 2023, the U.S. intelligence official “who initially received the information immediately recognized its importance—including its relevance to the U.S. presidential election—and acted quickly to make CIA leadership aware of it.” Brennan himself, the report shows, “personally received a copy of the intelligence.”
According to Brennan’s handwritten notes, in an Aug. 3, 2016, meeting at the White House, he briefed Barack Obama and other U.S. officials, including then Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then FBI Director James Comey, about the Clinton Plan intelligence. The notes claim that he alerted them to the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”
Ratcliffe declassified Brennan’s notes in late September 2020, when Ratcliffe was Trump’s director of national intelligence. He also declassified a second Clinton Plan intelligence document that Durham found during his investigation. This was a CIA memo dated Sept. 7, 2016, addressed to Comey and FBI agent Peter Strzok, that referred the Clinton Plan intelligence for further investigative action.
What’s odd is that virtually no one working on the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, saw the CIA memo. According to Durham’s report, “None of the FBI personnel who agreed to be interviewed could specifically recall receiving this Referral Memo, nor did anyone recall the FBI doing anything in response to the Referral Memo.”
For instance, former FBI general counsel James Baker told Durham “that he had neither seen nor heard of the Clinton Plan intelligence or the resulting Referral Memo prior to his interview” with Durham.
Same with Supervisory Special Agent-1, reportedly an FBI agent named Joe Pientka. According to the report, when Durham showed Pientka the information, he became “visibly upset and emotional, left the interview room with his counsel, and subsequently returned to state emphatically that he had never been apprised of the Clinton Plan intelligence and had never seen the aforementioned Referral Memo. Supervisory Special Agent-1 expressed a sense of betrayal that no one had informed him of the intelligence.”
According to the Durham report, Comey and Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, were briefed on the Clinton Plan intelligence. But there’s no evidence that Brennan, Comey, Clapper, or any other Obama official included the Clinton Plan intelligence in any of their preelection briefings on Russian interference to Senate and House leadership and oversight committees.
Same after the election—none of Obama’s spy chiefs ever mentioned the Clinton Plan intelligence. Obama reportedly told Brennan that he wanted his CIA director to include everything the intelligence community had on Russian interference in the 2016 election for the intelligence community assessment (ICA) that the outgoing president wanted completed before he left office. But there’s nothing about the Clinton Plan intelligence in the ICA. Of course, it would have been a powerful rebuttal to the ICA’s central conclusion that Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election. Or it would have made the assessment entirely invalid.
Brennan neglected to mention the Clinton Plan intelligence during his testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on May 17, 2017, or before the House Intelligence Committee a week later. And, obviously, the former CIA chief never talked about the Clinton Plan intelligence during his many TV appearances on NBC and elsewhere.
It’s clear why the Clinton Plan intelligence was buried and why none of the FBI officials Durham interviewed had seen the CIA referral memo. It exposed Russiagate as a hoax, despite the broad preelection media campaign insisting otherwise, including leaks from U.S. officials falsely alleging Trump’s ties to Russia. After the election, the CIA referral memo posed an even greater threat: It gave evidence of a conspiracy involving the top leadership of the American intelligence community, including at least Brennan, Clapper, and Comey, whose FBI investigated Trump as a Russia spy even though the FBI director was made aware it was a dirty trick.
It’s not clear how Brennan found out that Durham had discovered the CIA referral memo and was asking questions about it. Perhaps it was due to a rumor of Pientka’s rage after Durham showed him the document in a July 22, 2020, interview that got Brennan worried. Only two days before Brennan was scheduled to meet with Durham on Aug. 21, the special counsel had confirmed with a U.S. official that Brennan had personally received a copy of the Clinton Plan intelligence. Why, Durham would want to know, hadn’t the CIA referral gotten to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team?
One theory investigators may be pursuing relates to Brennan’s notes about his Aug. 3 briefing at the White House. Did Brennan doctor his notes after he learned Durham had found the CIA memo? Notes showing he’d briefed Obama, Lynch, and Comey would prove he hadn’t buried the memo or the Clinton Plan intelligence but had in fact read in the principals. It wasn’t his fault the Crossfire Hurricane investigators didn’t get the CIA memo—he told Comey about it, and the attorney general and even the president.
Durham interviewed Brennan for eight hours at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on Aug. 21, 2020. Durham’s ability to bring any charges was limited because he was under the watchful eye of Joe Biden’s attorney general Merrick Garland. But now? If the statute of limitations on the case is five years, FBI Director Kash Patel has a little more than a month. If, however, the onetime congressional investigator who uncovered Russiagate is building a conspiracy case, law enforcement may have much more time to make sure it’s airtight before bringing charges.
In any event, it’s worth noting that the only genuine piece of Russian intelligence U.S. spy services ever received during the Trump-Russia probe was intelligence that Russia knew the Clinton campaign was behind the effort to dirty Trump as a Russian agent. It seems appropriate that Russian intelligence may lead to the prosecution and conviction of Brennan and the intelligence officials responsible for the biggest political scandal in U.S. history. (Lee Smith/Tablet, 7/18/2025)(Archive)
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A $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded children’s nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic has been described by FBI Director Kash Patel as “one of the worst” in Minnesota history.
The FBI director told Fox News in a statement that 70 people in Minnesota have been indicted for their role in the sprawling “Feeding our Future” fraud scheme during the COVID-19 pandemic, which exploited a federal program designed to reimburse states for the cost of feeding children.
Conspirators falsely claimed to have served millions of meals during the pandemic, but instead used the money for personal gain. Of the individuals indicted, 38 have pleaded guilty, FBI officials told Fox News Digital. More than a dozen of the individuals are awaiting criminal trial, with the next trial beginning in August.
“Stealing over $250 million from hungry kids during a pandemic to fund mansions and luxury cars is as shameless as it gets,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. “I’m proud of the FBI and our partners for dismantling this web of corruption, holding dozens accountable, and sending a clear message: if you exploit the most vulnerable, we will find you and bring you to justice.”
Conspirators charged in the scheme are accused of fabricating invoices, submitting fake attendance records, and falsely distributing thousands of meals from hundreds of so-called food distribution “sites” across the state — taking advantage of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to waive, for the duration of the pandemic, many of its standard requirements for participation in the Federal Child Nutrition Program — including relaxing its requirement for non-school based distributors to participate in the program.
Charging documents show that roughly 300 “food sites” in the state served little or no food, with the so-called “food vendors” and organizations fabricated to launder money intended to reimburse the cost of feeding children. (Read more: Fox News, 7/18/2025)(Archive)
An illegal immigrant accused of decapitating a missing woman and stashing her body in a bleach-filled container was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — three months after an Illinois judge let him walk on the gruesome charges, officials said.
Mexican national Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, was nabbed Saturday afternoon at a Chicago market after being charged with concealing and abusing the corpse of Megan Bos in April, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News.
Judge Randie Bruno (Credit: public domain)
Lake County Judge Randie Bruno shockingly cut the perp loose after his first court appearance.
“It is absolutely repulsive this monster walked free on Illinois’ streets after allegedly committing such a heinous crime,” a DHS spokesperson told the outlet.
“Megan Bos and her family will have justice.”
Mendoza-Gonzalez was first arrested in April after police discovered the 37-year-old victim’s headless body stuffed inside a bleach-soaked storage bin in the yard of his Waukegan home, officials said.
He allegedly told police the woman, who was reported missing in March after vanishing in February, had overdosed at his home, and instead of calling authorities, broke her phone, hid her body in the basement for two days, and later moved it outside, the outlet reported.
The Mexican national will now remain in ICE custody after a Illinois judge cut him loose back in April.
But police said Bos’s corpse had been rotting in his yard for nearly two months before it was found.
Mendoza-Gonzalez was locked up but released about 48 hours later under the state’s controversial SAFE-T Act, which abolished cash bail and allows judges to determine jail time, no matter how severe the crime is, Antioch Mayor Scott Gartner said at the time.
“I was shocked to find out literally the next day that the person that they had arrested for this had been released from prison under the SAFE-T Act less than, detained less, I think, than 48 hours,” he said, the outlet reported. (Read more: New York Post, 7/19/2025)(Archive)
Damning revelations in federal documents obtained by a conservative watchdog group show the Biden administration’s Justice Department sought a “federal hook” so they could investigate and criminally charge parents protesting school policies related to COVID, transgenderism, critical race theory, and other issues.
Career attorneys in the DOJ argued in the released correspondence that such a move was legally baseless and would trample the First Amendment rights of parents.
The government documents, obtained by America First Legal, “conclusively prove” a memo from former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “mobilized the full force of the federal government’s firepower against concerned parents—not to protect schools, but to silence dissent” and the ensuing investigation was “politically orchestrated and coordinated with the Biden White House,” America First Legal charged Friday.
The AFL in an extensive release on its website reported:
These never-before-seen documents—uncovered only because of AFL’s relentless efforts over the past three and a half years—expose not only the Biden White House’s involvement in pushing a weaponized DOJ, but also strong dissent from careers within the Department’s Civil Rights Division, who warned that there was no federal authority or legal basis to target these parents in the first place because their speech is protected by the First Amendment.
The photocopies of emails and documents involved were also published on the website.
Kevin Chambers (Credit: DOJ)
In one letter obtained by AFL, Kevin Chambers, an aide to the attorney general, wrote to a colleague on Oct. 1, 2021: “We’re aware; the challenge here is finding a federal hook. But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist in some form or fashion.”
Fox Newsreported that Garland issued a directive on Oct. 4, 2021, that directed the FBI to assist local law enforcement partners with a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” against school administrators.
Garland told a congressional hearing soon thereafter that he had given the directive after the National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the White House that had asked the Biden administration to investigate parents displaying threatening behavior at school board meetings as possible “domestic terrorists,” the news network reported.
President Trump set the internet on fire on Sunday evening after he posted an AI video of Barack Obama being arrested by FBI agents and tossed in prison.
The video shows FBI agents ambushing Barack Obama during an Oval Office meeting with Trump, cuffing him and putting him in prison.
Trump has been going full 4Chan over on Truth Social.
He is sharing AI videos of Obama being arrested and thrown in prison.
Is Trump just trolling? Or is this soft disclosure?
President Trump also posted mugshots of the Deep State coup plotters involved in the Russia collusion hoax.
On Saturday evening President Trump floated prosecuting Barack Obama and the Deep State thugs involved the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
ODNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified a December 2016 presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.
(…) On Saturday, White House spokesman Harrison Fields went on Fox News and directly called out Barack Obama and the lying media.
JUST IN — President Trump praises Special Assistant to the President Harrison Fields for perfectly articulating how the Obama administration orchestrated the Russia hoax, and Trump implies he wants everyone prosecuted, including the 44th President of the United States.
JAMES COMEY: “Hey, everybody. Welcome back to my Substack. This week, I want to offer some thoughts about justice. The Justice Department’s ability to protect the American people depends upon a gift that every employee gets when they join the Department. It’s a gift they may not know they’re receiving until the first time they stand up and identify themselves as a Justice employee and say something—whether that’s in a courtroom, at a conference, or at a cookout.”
“And they find that total strangers believe what they say next. They’re believed because, when they speak, they aren’t seen as Republicans or Democrats. Instead, they’re seen as something separate and apart in American life—a group of people just trying to do the right thing.”
“For years, I’ve described that gift as a reservoir of trust and credibility—a reservoir built for them and filled for them, one drop at a time, by people they never knew. People who made sacrifices before they joined the Department and kept promises. People who made mistakes, as we all do, and admitted them and fixed them. People who made hard calls without regard to position or privilege, who looked only for facts and applied those to the law.”
“The job of every Justice employee—their sworn obligation—is to protect that reservoir, to pass it to those who come after them, who may never know them.”
“The problem with reservoirs is that it takes tremendous time and effort to fill them. But one hole in the dam can drain the reservoir quickly. The protection of the reservoir requires complete commitment to truth, and a recognition that what one person does can ruin what benefits everybody.”
“I came up with that reservoir metaphor years ago when I was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Patrice and I and our kids lived far north of the city—still in my jurisdiction, but more affordable for a family of five kids. We lived with reservoirs all around—that’s where the city’s water supply was held.”
“My five kids played around those reservoirs. One of the dams was across the street. And one of those kids grew up to be a federal prosecutor in that same Southern District of New York. She became a star there, holding the powerful accountable.”
James Comey read his daughter’s message to colleagues.
Last week, she wrote a letter that I want to read:
“Yesterday was unexpectedly my last day in the office. I was summarily fired via memo from Main Justice that did not give a reason for my termination. Every person lucky enough to work in this office constantly hears four words to describe our ethos: without fear or favor.
“Do the right thing the right way, for the right reasons—without fear of retribution and without favor to the powerful. For the majority of my nearly ten years in SDNY, fear was never really conceivable. We don’t fear bad press. We have the luxury of exceptional security keeping us physically safe.
“And so long as we did our work with integrity, we would get to keep serving the public in this office. Our focus was really on acting without favor—that is, making sure people with access or money and power were not treated differently than anyone else, and making sure this office remains separate from politics and focused only on the facts and the law.
“But we have entered a new phase where without fear may be the challenge. If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.
“Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place—a fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power, of commitment to seek justice for victims, of dedication to truth above all else. It has been an honor to fight for those principles by your side.”
And she signed it: Maureen.
At the end of the video message, James Comey went off on Trump and the “hacks” at the Justice Department.
JAMES COMEY: “I don’t have much to add to that, except to say: the reservoir is in grave danger right now. Trump and the hacks who lead the Department of Justice are hammering at the dam day after day, trying to turn it into just another gold-leaf-covered Trump subsidiary.”
“Our best hope is that good people will stay and do what Maureen asked—have the courage to do the right thing, always. You may get fired for acting that way, but there’s honor in that—and nothing but disgrace for those who don’t stand up.”
“There are going to be hard weeks in the Trump era, and this was one for my family. But there are plenty of good people still in the Department committed to doing things the right way, committed to the rule of law.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley just released a newly declassified annex from the 2018 DOJ/OIG report detailing disgraced former FBI director James Comey’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server.
The annex shows that Comey and his corrupt FBI underlings deliberately sandbagged the Clinton investigation and refused to take basic investigative steps that would’ve revealed how seriously Clinton compromised national security.
“The DOJ OIG’s Clinton annex shows the FBI obtained thumb drives from a source during the Clinton investigation, but then-FBI Director James Comey, as well as then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and others, failed to perform additional, targeted searches of the drives, even though they contained information relevant to the inquiry,” Grassley’s office notes.
“The DOJ OIG report illustrates that the FBI failed to thoroughly and completely investigate the Clinton matter as a result, as well as vet the serious national security risks created by Clinton’s careless handling of highly classified information.
According to the DOJ OIG, the thumb drives contained highly sensitive information exfiltrated from U.S. government agencies, including the Department of State, as well as then-President Barack Obama’s emails and, potentially, congressional information. The thumb drives were never reviewed as part of the Clinton investigation, contrary to the recommendation of a draft FBI memorandum.
The DOJ OIG report also shows the drives should have been immediately reviewed for foreign intelligence purposes, but were not.”
Jason Foster was the Chief Investigative Counsel for Chuck Grassley and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“The thumb drives contained highly sensitive information exfiltrated from U.S. government agencies, including the Department of State, as well as then-President Barack Obama’s emails and, potentially, congressional information. The thumb drives were never reviewed…” https://t.co/7z6Kdr9nj8pic.twitter.com/Y0u2hcNiU2
For the record, I have not been a source for this or any other story mentioning the classified appendix to the @JusticeOIG’s Clinton e-mail report.
However, I will state publicly—without revealing anything I’m legally obligated to keep confidential—that as @ChuckGrassley’s chief investigator at the time, we arranged a bipartisan briefing for Senators on the Judiciary Cmte.
Then-DOJ IG Michael Horowitz summarized the information in the appendix to the several Democrat and Republican Senators who chose to attend.
Each of them, from both sides of the aisle, expressed shock that the gov’t turned a blind-eye to the information at issue. Even prominent Democrat Senators acknowledged in this private setting that it required further investigation, even if it was likely to be politically embarrassing for their party.
IG Horowitz explained why his office was limited in conducting further inquiry due to jurisdictional issues. I urged him to partner with the Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) on a joint follow-up probe, an idea which several of the Senators present thoroughly endorsed.
To my knowledge, no joint DOJ/IC IG probe ever happened. But I left in Fall 2018, so I’m not privy to nonpublic developments that may have occurred after that.
One of the things I did before I left was to seek a briefing from the FBI to explain its failure to investigate the information in the DOJ IG appendix, regardless of whether the rest of the Intelligence Community did anything.
A first-term Trump-era congressional affairs official acknowledged to me that it was a huge and legitimate concern and that the FBI needed to answer for it—but asked for more time to “get their arms around it” before coming in to brief us.
No such FBI briefing occurred while I was still there.
For the record, I have not been a source for this or any other story mentioning the classified appendix to the @JusticeOIG‘s Clinton e-mail report.
Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade criminally charged eighteen people, including former President Donald Trump concerning the Fulton County 2020 election interference in Georgia. (Credit: Alyssa Pointer/Getty Images)
Marlow stated, “[T]here is clear evidence there was collusion from the Joe Biden White House with these various cases. One key example is Nathan Wade going to the White House two times for a total of I think it was about 16 hours of meetings at the White House, during the middle of this. … Nathan Wade was a family lawyer, he was a nobody, he would never be on a case like this in a million years.”
He added, “And him doing this somehow also got him invited to the White House, there’s no scenario that Nathan Wade was talking about in that White House other than how to get Donald Trump.”
He further stated that Congress will have to investigate this since people outside government can’t due to how disclosure rules work. (Breitbart News, 7/22/2025)(Archive)
This is massive. The speaker of the House says here he has no issue compelling testimony from the former president of the United States. Barack Obama himself is now at the center of everything. (Always was, but now formally is). https://t.co/Ct3cdUAASH
Letitia James attends Trump trial, May 2024. (Credit: public domain)
The Standard Chartered Bank sanctions evasion case, now in court in the US Second Circuit, found at least $9.6 billion of illegal payments by the bank to Iranian and Hezbollah entities.
The case implicates NYAG Letitia James and the Federal Reserve for ignoring billions of these illicit payments and ignoring Treasury sanctions designations. Maximum Pressure is not being enforced because of the failures of the Fed and the NYAG.
Make sure this case continues.
** Call the Southern District of New York …. Office number: 212-637-2200
At least $9.6 billion of specifically identified illicit payments were made by SCB from its NYC branch to OFAC and known terrorist names. The $9.6 billion was found in internal trade reports turned over by bank whistleblowers and represents the first batch from SCB Dubai office that cleared through SCB NYC. There are estimated over $100 billion more of illegal payments that are more recent and from SCB China where it has 53 mainland branches that facilitate dollar trade payments for oil and war-making materials.
These payments were hidden by SCB from required disclosure in its ongoing Deferred Prosecution Agreement now under the jurisdiction of DCUSA Pirro and SDNY Clayton where both were briefed on SCB after their appointments. There are career blockers at each jurisdiction.
Involvement by the NYAG
In early 2024, NYAG was briefed by terrorist financing experts and the whistleblowers in detail on the illicit payments yet did nothing about it other than reapprove SCB annual license.
NYAG was briefed in two meetings in February and March 2024 about the $9,6 billion of illegal payments and did nothing but approve the annual renewal of SCB State banking license. One of meetings was recorded and clearly shows that NYAG officials recognized the payments were not previously known and not in prior SCB sanctions settlements. Five NYAG senior staff including Letitia James Deputy Scott Spiegleman were in all meetings. In late 2024, Spiegleman went to work for IBM which has a large tech contract running the SWIFT platform. IBM Promontory advised SCB to hide currency trade data. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 7/22/2025)(Archive)
Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi October 22, 2015. (Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) recently sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI Director Kash Patel requesting that the FBI review the unevaluated material related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and mishandling of highly classified information during her time as Secretary of State.
This untapped and unreviewed information has lived within thumb drives in the FBI’s custody inside a Northern Virginia offshoot office of the FBI’s Washington Field Office since 2018. This letter was sent in response to Chairman Grassley’s efforts to get the appendix to the DOJ OIG’s June 2018 report reviewing the DOJ and FBI’s handling of the Clinton investigation, also known as the “Clinton annex,” declassified.
Chairmen Crawford and Grassley wrote, “The revelations contained in the declassified OIG appendix are at the heart of why the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) became distrusted by so many under your agency’s prior directors: a failure to impartially conduct its law enforcement and intelligence mission. Concerning the issue at hand, Comey’s FBI shockingly failed to review and exploit evidence in its own possession, even though they admitted in written memos the information was necessary to conduct a ‘thorough and complete investigation.’ The FBI also failed to review and exploit other foreign intelligence information.”
They continued, “Therefore, we now write to stress the importance that this material be immediately dug out from hiding and properly assessed. How evidence which purportedly includes information related to ‘former President Barack Obama’s emails’ and ‘network infrastructure diagrams for U.S. government classified networks,’ remained unreviewed by the preeminent law enforcement agency in the world is mind-numbing. We know you will not similarly ignore evidence in your agency’s possession, no matter where its exploitation or conclusions might lead.”
Notably, the declassified Clinton Annex revealed that:
Russian-language reports were also obtained by the FBI of discussions between then-DNC head, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, with suggestions concerning the deletion of evidence on Hillary Clinton’s email servers, mention of FBI’s investigation into the Clinton Foundation, and reports suggesting then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch was in contact with Hillary Clinton’s staff.
DOJ OIG also relied on the now-debunked Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on the Russia collusion hoax during its review, once again shedding light on the damage caused by the ICA’s widely spread tentacles.
Thumb drives containing unreviewed info on Clinton email scandal&mishandling of highly classified info hv been sitting at an FBI offshoot office since 2018 I sent a letter w House Intel Chair Crawford asking Dir Patel 2 review materials&report back ASAP
Senate Republicans are re-opening the Clinton email probe. It had to be done. Several thumb drives were never analyzed, with a detailed report showing that the FBI came up with laughable reasons not to do it, deviating from department policy.
As Matt Taibbi, a former contributing editor to Rolling Stone, noted, the 35-page annex to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2018 report on the DOJ’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server and the 2016 election was a Keystone Cops operation.
With such glaring incompetence, it was reported last night that this probe will be re-examined.
🚨 BREAKING: Senate Republicans are re-opening Hillary Clinton’s email case again with new information released:
“Senate judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley claims a justice department inspector general report from 2018 has just been released. Grassley says new documents prove… pic.twitter.com/XY8ZpHDkXg
Justice is coming, but before it does, many more media people are going to have meltdowns.
Interesting how Obama-appointed DOJ IG Michael Horowitz, a Dem donor, suddenly transferred to the Federal Reserve last month as the 35-pp “Clinton Annex” he bottled up for 7 years was finally being declassified. There was no compelling reason to censor it.https://t.co/nN6QZkSXXU
NOTE: These text messages and emails would constitute material evidence of potential violations of the Hatch Act by Obama officials and provide another data point in a broader criminal conspiracy, which would obviate statutory time limits for prosecutors https://t.co/ulufDZ2ppg
The DOJ OIG’s Clinton annex shows the FBI obtained thumb drives from a source during the Clinton investigation, but then-FBI Director James Comey, as well as then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and others, failed to perform additional, targeted searches of the drives, even though they contained information relevant to the inquiry. The DOJ OIG report illustrates that the FBI failed to thoroughly and completely investigate the Clinton matter as a result, as well as vet the serious national security risks created by Clinton’s careless handling of highly classified information. According to the DOJ OIG, the thumb drives contained highly sensitive information exfiltrated from U.S. government agencies, including the Department of State, as well as then-President Barack Obama’s emails and, potentially, congressional information. The thumb drives were never reviewed as part of the Clinton investigation, contrary to the recommendation of a draft FBI memorandum. The DOJ OIG report also shows the drives should have been immediately reviewed for foreign intelligence purposes, but were not.
The FBI also obtained intelligence reports discussing purported communications between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who was chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the time, and two different individuals who worked for the Soros Open Society Foundations. The intelligence reports alleged that the Obama administration took efforts to scuttle the investigation into Clinton and protect her candidacy. The DOJ OIG Clinton annex shows Comey, McCabe and Strzok, among others, did not make serious investigative efforts to determine the veracity, or lack thereof, regarding the intelligence reports.
On July 5, 2016, Comey exonerated Clinton in a public statement regarding the investigation and recommended DOJ take no legal action to hold her accountable. Grassley’s oversight revealed Comey planned to exonerate Clinton even before interviewing her. Weeks later, on July 31, 2016, Comey’s FBI formally opened the bogus Crossfire Hurricane investigation into President Trump’s disproven collusion with Russia. On that day, Strzok texted Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer, saying: “And damn this feels momentous. Because this matters. The other one did, too, but that was to ensure we didn’t F something up. This matters because this MATTERS. So super glad to be on this voyage with you.”
Grassley cited Comey’s handling of the Clinton investigation as evidence that Comey lacked the ability to maintain the public’s trust in the FBI, and was therefore rightfully terminated.
A House Oversight panel subcommittee voted to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton on Wednesday over their alleged ties to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) introduced the motion for subpoenas during a Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee hearing, and it was approved by the Republican-led panel via voice vote, with no roll call taken.
The Clintons and several former top Justice Department officials — ex-FBI Director James Comey, one-time special counsel Robert Mueller and former Attorneys General Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions and Alberto Gonzales — were included in the list of subpoenas sought by Perry in order to “expand the full committee’s investigation into Ms. Maxwell.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) would need to formally issue the subpoenas to the Clintons and the others for them to be compelled to provide testimony or documents to the panel.
“Subpoenas will be issued in the future,” a spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee told The Post.
(…) The subcommittee’s actions come after Comer subpoenaed Maxwell, who has been serving a 20-year prison sentence since 2022, to sit for a deposition with the Oversight Committee.
The deposition has tentatively been scheduled for Aug. 11, at the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, where Maxwell has been incarcerated since her conviction on sex-trafficking conspiracy charges. (Read more: New York Post, 7/23/2025)(Archive)
New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history. Per President @realDonaldTrump’s directive, I have declassified a @HouseIntel oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election.
In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him.
Here are the top Obama Russia Hoax lies debunked by today’s release:
🧵 New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history. Per President @realDonaldTrump‘s directive, I have declassified a @HouseIntel oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration… pic.twitter.com/0sS4Df8yoI
LIE: Putin and the Russian Government helped Trump win the 2016 election
TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax, suppressed intelligence showing Putin was preparing for a Clinton victory, manufactured findings from shoddy sources, disobeyed IC standards, and knowingly lied to the American people.
LIE: Putin and the Russian Government helped Trump win the 2016 election
TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax, suppressed intelligence showing Putin was preparing for a Clinton victory, manufactured findings from… pic.twitter.com/nkaLDMrUSv
LIE: The fabricated Steele Dossier was not used as a source in the Obama Administration’s January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of the November 2016 election
TRUTH: Not only did CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, DNI Clapper and others include the Steele Dossier in the 2017 ICA, they overruled senior Intel officials who warned them it was fabricated and should not be used.
LIE: The fabricated Steele Dossier was not used as a source in the Obama Administration’s January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of the November 2016 election
TRUTH: Not only did CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, DNI Clapper and others include the Steele Dossier… pic.twitter.com/1927wVPJSK
LIE: The Obama Administration’s January ICA was an independent Intelligence Community product, produced with apolitical analysis.
TRUTH: Obama ordered the Intelligence Community to create an Intelligence Community Assessment they knew was false, promoting a contrived narrative, with the intent of undermining the legitimacy and power of a duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.
LIE: The Obama Administration’s January ICA was an independent Intelligence Community product, produced with apolitical analysis.
TRUTH: Obama ordered the Intelligence Community to create an Intelligence Community Assessment they knew was false, promoting a contrived narrative,… pic.twitter.com/DjCA1Ws1It
Together, the @ODNIgov records released on Friday, the @TheJusticeDept’s June 2018 report known as the “Clinton annex” released earlier this week, and the @HouseIntel oversight report we released today confirm what many Americans have known: The Russia Hoax was a lie that was knowingly created by the Obama Administration to undermine the legitimacy and power of the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Together, the @ODNIgov records released on Friday, the @TheJusticeDept‘s June 2018 report known as the “Clinton annex” released earlier this week, and the @HouseIntel oversight report we released today confirm what many Americans have known: The Russia Hoax was a lie that was…
A top lawyer for President Donald Trump’s National Security Agency previously worked for Senate Democrats on their discredited probe attempting to tie Trump to Russia and has a history of partisan anti-Trump activism.
April Falcon Doss is the current general counsel for the NSA, the powerful cyber-intelligence agency, according to the agency’s website. A longtime veteran of the agency, Doss also worked as an NSA intelligence lawyer from 2003 to April 2016. But in between those two stints, she worked on the highly-partisan congressional investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
Just months into Trump’s first term as president, she took a high-level job working for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on the Senate Intelligence Committee, investigating supposed Russian interference in the 2016 election. Doss was the Democrats’ Senior Counsel for the committee’s Russia investigation, which conducted hundreds of interviews in its failed attempt to find evidence of conspiracy between Trump and Russia.
Doss is a transparently partisan activist who has written publicly about her opposition to Trump. She has called for Trump to be permanently banned from social media for staging an “insurrection,” attacked Republicans for opposing a crackdown on “disinformation,” and defended the treatment of Trump aides Carter Page and Michael Flynn at the hands of the intelligence state.
reported in June 2022 that the NSA, during the Biden administration, had re-hired Doss for the top role. The intelligence agency didn’t publicly announce the hire, it reported, because it didn’t want to “stir the hornet’s nest among Capitol Hill Republicans.” That’s because in the interim, Democrats, “experts,” and intelligence officials had decried it as improper — and ultimately blocked it — when Trump had attempted to name a Republican former House intelligence committee staffer to the same role. (Read more: Conservative Roof, 7/23/2025)(Archive)
Intelligence officials under former President Barack Obama omitted information indicating Russia had damaging material about Hillary Clinton’s mental and physical health during the 2016 campaign but chose not to release it, as they worked to find support for a narrative that Russia intervened to help elect President Donald Trump, according to newly declassified records.
The revelation comes from a long-classified House Intelligence Committee report made public by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday. The report, dated Sept. 18, 2020, says Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service accessed internal Democratic National Committee communications in 2016 that contained detailed allegations about Clinton’s physical and psychological health, including claims she was on a daily regimen of “heavy tranquilizers” and suffering from a mix of “intensified psycho-emotional problems.”
Wednesday on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reacted to “crazy questions” from members of the media during a press conference about her efforts to expose so-called Deep State actors alleged to have knowingly promoted debunked claims of Russia-Trump collusion to alter the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Gabbard told host Jesse Watters the media were “complicit” in promoting those claims.
“You mentioned, Director, that there’s, I guess, Deep State actors who are still trying to prevent the truth from coming out,” Watters said. “What do you mean by that?”
Gabbard replied, “There are still people, it won’t surprise you, within the Intelligence Community who don’t want this information to see the light of day. Some of them may be implicated in the crafting of it, others are concerned about people being embarrassed, others are concerned about accountability, and what else we will discover as we continue down this path towards the truth and bring about accountability for the American people. That’s really what this is all about, and why it does such a disservice. I was standing there in the White House Press Briefing Room and hearing some of these crazy questions being asked by members of the media who are trying to distract and deflect away from the historic expose that we have brought forward, that once again, puts into question the American people’s ability to trust the integrity of our Democratic Republic.”
“And the reason why that is, and it’s similar to the Deep State actors who have been trying to stop us from releasing this, is that we have members of the media who were complicit in this from the very beginning, who were leaked early copies of this, or at least lines from this, January 2017 Obama manufactured Intelligence Assessment,” she continued. “They printed what they were fed, people like Ellen Nakashima from The Washington Post, who, by the way, went on to win a Pulitzer Prize because for years, she was so good at lying and not telling the truth to the American people that they gave her an award for it. These people are still here. Ellen Nakashima is still harassing people who work within the Intelligence Community who are calling up and reporting her using burner phones to try to ask them harassing questions. There are a lot of Deep State actors still here within Washington.” (Read more: Breitbart News, 7/24/2025) (Archive)
Sometimes it takes a second watch for the truth to really slap you in the face, and this is one of those moments.
James Comey’s 2018 sit-down with Bret Baier may have flown under the radar back then, but now, after everything Tulsi has exposed and the DOJ’s new Strike Force aimed directly at Obama’s regime, yeah, this Fox Interview feels like watching a guilty man squirm under fluorescent lights.
Bret may not have realized it at the time, but he pulled off a master class in cornering a liar without even raising his voice. What we’re watching now, in hindsight, is Comey unraveling on national TV. Tripping over his words, dodging basic questions, and desperately trying to explain how the Director of the FBI didn’t know Hillary Clinton funded the Steele Dossier that sparked the entire Russia collusion hoax.
People’s dogs knew this, but Comey didn’t?
That’s a hard pill to swallow, and Bret let him know.
Comey launched a full-blown investigation into a sitting US president, based in part on a (fake) document he claims he didn’t even know was bankrolled by the DNC and Hillary’s campaign. It’s laughable. The man was either criminally incompetent or lying through his teeth. Most likely a bit of both.
Bret presses him, and you can see it: the darting eyes, the tight-lipped half-smile, and the body language of a man who’s praying the commercial break rolls in to save him. He even claims he never briefed Obama on the dossier, something Bret finds fantastical. You can practically see him thinking, “Are you serious, man?”
And now, in 2025, with the Strike Force knocking on doors and declassified intel crushing the fake narrative, you really have to wonder how many frantic phone calls this lurching buffoon has made to his legal counsel in the last 48 hours.
Watch the full interview again. This time, with 2025 eyes…
Knowing what we know now about scumbag Comey- this interview hits a whole lot different pic.twitter.com/1ZSCKPaysB
February, 2018. John Brennan on the Steele dossier: “It did not play any role whatsoever in the Intelligence Community Assessment that was done that was presented to then President Obama.”
Hey everybody, watch James Comey lie under oath in 2017 about the seriousness of “Russian election interference.”
The memo that DNI Gabbard released proves clearly that Comey was lying during this testimony. He needs to be held accountable for the damage he did to this country. pic.twitter.com/rowA74bs4C
Media Matters for America — the far-left censorship group that spent decades smearing conservatives — is on the verge of implosion after sustained legal and financial pressure from Republican leadership and X owner Elon Musk, the New York Times revealed this week.
Media Matters, the leftist nonprofit notorious for its scorched-earth campaigns against conservative media, is reportedly in a state of crisis, reeling from a series of lawsuits, federal investigations, mass layoffs, infighting, and donor panic. The New York Times now confirms what many on the right have suspected for months: the group’s legal and financial foundation is cracking, and its future is in jeopardy.
The collapse follows an aggressive legal response to what Elon Musk and Republican officials describe as Media Matters’ attempt to trigger a boycott of X, the social media platform owned by Musk. After the group published a report accusing X of placing major brand ads next to pro-Nazi content, Musk responded by accusing the group of manipulating data. X filed a lawsuit alleging fraud and defamation. Republican attorneys general in Texas and Missouri followed up with investigations into the group’s funding and alleged deception of donors.
Despite claiming it has “no plans to close,” Media Matters has quietly cut back its attacks, slashed staff, and even floated shuttering operations entirely, according to interviews and internal documents obtained by the Times.
The group has racked up over $15 million in legal bills in less than two years, alienated donors, and now reportedly faces a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation — revealed through documents obtained by Reuters and not yet publicly confirmed by the commission — into whether it colluded with other liberal organizations to suppress advertising on Musk’s platform.
Breitbart News has reported extensively on the group’s unraveling, including a federal judge’s decision to allow Musk’s lawsuit to proceed to trial in April 2025. The lawsuit accuses Media Matters of deploying “coordinated, inauthentic behavior” to mislead advertisers. This conduct, X claims, sparked an advertiser exodus. According to the New York Times, the advertiser boycott, which X attributes to Media Matters’ report, cost the platform more than $75 million in lost revenue.
The group’s president, Angelo Carusone, has blamed the Trump administration for using federal power to “silence critics.” In May, the FTC issued a sweeping investigative demand for documents related to Media Matters’ communications with other liberal watchdog and advertising groups, echoing concerns raised by Elon Musk that such entities coordinated advertiser boycotts under the guise of “brand safety.”
Once a powerhouse in Democrat-aligned media warfare, bolstered by billionaire donors like George Soros and nonprofit structures that shield donor identities, Media Matters now finds itself hemorrhaging cash, morale, and relevance. Even longtime allies have reportedly distanced themselves, and one top donor has allegedly urged the group to shut down altogether. (Read more: Breitbart News, 7/25/2025)(Archive)
President Obama spoke with President-elect Donald J. Trump at the White House to discuss the transition of power. (Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)
Aides who worked for Barack Obama are desperate to shut down the burgeoning scandal surrounding their former boss and have devised a laughable plan to prevent it from reaching the public further.
(…) Now, NBC News reveals that Team Obama is desperate to find a way to ensure the scandal eventually dissipates and put a stop to more “unchecked allegations.”
To former aides who worked in Barack Obama’s White House, the Trump administration’s allegations of “treason” carried the stench of desperation from a president straining to shift the focus from a burgeoning scandal around Jeffrey Epstein.
Still, they’re grappling with how to contain the unprecedented accusations National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has leveled, even as they dismiss them as asinine, interviews with more than half a dozen people who worked in Obama’s White House or on his campaigns reveal.
These people say the events of the last week have turned into a messaging balancing act between unnecessarily giving oxygen to the claims that Obama ordered a false intelligence analysis to show Russia had worked to help Trump win the 2016 election and leaving the potential for unchecked accusations to balloon. Many of those who talked to NBC News were not authorized to speak publicly about strategy.
What is their brilliant scheme? It turns out that they plan to reach so-called Republicans via newspaper editorial boards and via members of Congress.
“The battle now is to play this even to make sure that thoughts don’t start to creep into more mainstream” audiences, a former Obama administration official said. That person said it was important to reach “mainstream Republicans,” who would listen to editorial boards and those in Congress who deemed the allegations against Obama as “beyond the pale.”
Do they actually think any GOPer, even more moderates, care one bit what the Wall Street Journal or Washington Post has to say?
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Ghislane Maxwell (Credit: CNN clipping)
Ghislaine Maxwell told the DOJ about “100 different people” linked to Jeffrey Epstein, according to her lawyer David Oscar Markus.
Maxwell never pleaded the Fifth.
The comments start at 5:53 in the video:
I think Ghislaine did a wonderful job. She literally answered every question. She didn’t say, “You know what, don’t ask me that, I’m not gonna talk about this person.” She was asked maybe about 100 different people, she answered questions about everybody and she didn’t hold anything back.
Ghislaine Maxwell attorney David Oscar Markus takes questions from the press after the DOJ meeting in Tallahassee, Florida.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after a jury convicted her of sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and conspiracy.
Maxwell has already said “she’s willing to testify before Congress on Epstein’s apparent full client list.”
(…) According to new reporting from Fox News, twenty CIA and FBI agents have now confirmed that Obama didn’t just know about the Russia Hoax, he ran it. And to keep it buried, he locked the evidence away in a CIA vault, where it sat hidden for nearly a decade.
Barack Obama is so f*cked
20 CIA and FBI Agents have now confirmed Barack Obama worked with our old CIA Director to create the fake Russia Hoax and then “locked it away in a CIA vault for almost a decade”
Yes, America, Obama could be in some very hot water.
Revolver:
This is a seismic shift, what many of you voted for. It’s a sign that the Obama regime’s protective shield may finally be cracking.
For the first time in about a decade, the barrel of our crooked government might finally be pointed in the right direction. Instead of targeting innocent Americans, the elite liars who abused their power and cooked up one of the most dangerous political hoaxes in US history are finally in the crosshairs, right where they belong.
But there’s something you need to understand about this “Strike Force” operation. It’s not just your average investigation. It’s a helluva lot more than that, and the Obama cronies, like James Clapper, are smart to lawyer up.
So… what exactly is a DOJ “Strike Force,” and why should it have Obama’s inner circle panicking and calling their lawyers
As Sean Davis, CEO of The Federalist, put it best:
Strike Forces are almost always focused on massive fraud conspiracies, which is great news for the rule of law, and very bad news for the Russia hoaxers who ran a seditious and treasonous conspiracy against the U.S. https://t.co/A3qPYuKoJapic.twitter.com/n99NvOCbYm
Travel back in time to the year 2021 and you might find yourself in the middle of a bizarre debate over the virtues of “cancel culture”. At the time, the political left was aggressively trying to secure long-term power within the US through a multi-pronged psychological offensive – A war on the minds of the masses designed to force Americans into submission.
A big part of their strategy relied on the fundamentals of Cultural Marxism: The combination of Marxist mob tactics, artificial consensus and the exploitation of minority grievances as a vehicle for controlling speech. This was the rise of the “woke movement” to the halls of government.
The root of their power was not martial. In fact, the political left is weak and largely astroturf with minimal ability to project power in a physical way. If conservatives wanted to destroy them tomorrow the task would be relatively easy. We don’t because many of us still have hope that our problems can be solved through peaceful discourse.
What the leftists did have at their disposal was a massive institutional apparatus of government agencies, corporations, Big Tech and NGOs. The full might of the establishment cabal was on their side, which meant they had the means to enforce “cancel culture” and silence their ideological opponents.
I don’t think there has ever been a psychological war on a population that was more pervasive and tyrannical. Not since Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China has a citizenry been under such a siege by their own government. The fact that we survived this event, defeated the onslaught and actually grew a grassroots anti-woke movement without the use of social media forums is truly mind blowing.
Very few people today realize the level of victory that was achieved. We thwarted perhaps the largest 4th Generation “mind war” ever devised and we did it without any institutional access. We won by simple truth and word of mouth.
Another tool that the leftists and globalists used was the mobilization of illegal migrants, gays and minorities as a shield against criticism or counter-protest. If conservatives and moderates fought back with superior debate or our own protest groups, we were immediately accused of racism, xenophobia and homophobia. Merely presenting an opposing view to the progressive machine was considered an act of evil.
Large contingents within all of these groups were happy to go along with the agenda for numerous reasons.
First and foremost, DEI allowed them to easily game the system. They could snatch up grants, subsidies, welfare, and leapfrog over more talented and more intelligent competitors in education and business simply because of their “marginalized status”.
Secondly, the system under progressives was two-tier; leftists activists, illegals and minorities were given preferential protection while breaking the law and causing chaos. Conservatives were labeled terrorists for any act of defiance. We were banned from the largest web platforms. Some of us were targeted by the online mob and lost our jobs. Others were “de-banked” and threatened with ostracism from the economy. Still others were imprisoned.
This imbalance of the law bred a culture of entitlement, especially within the LGBT cult and the black community. Illegal aliens were given carte blanche to enter the country and feed like parasites. Not only that, but they were treated like heroes coming to save the US from “population decline” and “labor shortages”.
They all participated in the game willfully and joyfully.They were ALL part of the problem. But, of course, none of them ever thought the party would end or that they might end up facing consequences for their behavior. They joined in the feeding frenzy without considering the inevitable clap-back. (Read more: Brandon Smith/Alt-Markets, 7/25/2025)(Archive)
Former House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes appears on OAN with former Congressman Matt Gaetz to discuss the information released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
As noted by Nunes, why did it take this long for the information to surface? That question showcases how corrupt the DC system -the Intelligence Community- is in its effort to protect itself from accountability.
Nunes also points to the raid on Mar-a-Lago as a possible entry point for investigative accountability. WATCH:
Let me refresh on something that could potentially be a revelation down the road.
In 2022 a Florida judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Trump against Hillary Clinton. [65-page Ruling Here] The media enjoyed ridiculing Trump using the words of the judge who dismissed the case. As noted by the Washington Times, “Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, said Mr. Trump’s filing was too lengthy, detailing events that “are implausible because they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached.”
When I originally read the 108-page Donald Trump lawsuit filed in March 2022, it took me a few moments, and then I realized this was not a lawsuit; this was a legal transfer mechanism created by lawyers to establish a proprietary information silo.
Here’s a totally different take on the issues surrounding the Trump -v- Clinton lawsuit, which -from the outset- I always believed was going to be dismissed because suing all of those characters under the auspices of a civil RICO case was never the objective.
In the aftermath of the filing, the silo created by the lawsuit is grounded upon attorney-client privilege, a legal countermeasure to a predictable DOJ-NSD lawfare maneuver, which unfolded in the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid and the subsequent Jack Smith targeting operation.
In March 2022 President Trump filed a civil lawsuit against: Hillary Clinton, Hillary for America Campaign Committee, DNC, DNC Services Corp, Perkins Coie, Michael Sussmann, Marc Elias, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Dolan, Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Robby Mook, Phillipe Reines as well as Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, Orbis Business Intelligence, Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Neustar Inc., Rodney Joffe, James Comey Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith and Andrew McCabe. [108-Page Lawsuit Here]
When I was about one-third of the way through reading the lawsuit, I initially stopped and said to myself this is going to take a lot of documentary evidence to back up the claims in the assertions. Dozens of attachments would be needed and hundreds of citations to the dozens of attachments would be mandatory. Except, they were not there.
After reading further, while completely understanding the background material that was being described in the filing, I realized this wasn’t a lawsuit per se’. The 108-pages I was holding in my hands was more akin to legal transfer mechanism from President Trump to lawyers who needed it.
The lawsuit filing was contingent upon a series of documents that would be needed to support the claims within it.
Whoever wrote the lawsuit had obviously reviewed the evidence to support the filing. However, the attachments and citations were missing.
That was weird.
That’s when I realized the purpose of the lawsuit. In hindsight, things became clear when the FBI later raided the home of Donald Trump, and suddenly the motive to confiscate documents, perhaps the missing lawsuit attachments and citations, surfaced.
With the manipulative, and I said intentional, “ongoing investigation” angle created by the John Durham probe essentially blocking public release of declassified documents showing the efforts of all the lawsuit participants (Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax), in 2021 President Trump needed a legal way to secure and more importantly share evidence.
Think of it like the people around Trump wanting to show lawyers the evidence in the documents. However, because of the construct of the lawfare being deployed against Trump, any lawyer would need a *reason* to review the evidence. The Trump -v- Clinton et al lawsuit becomes that ‘reason.’
The “documents” (classified or not) were likely reviewed by lawyers in preparation for the lawsuit. This is their legal justification for reviewing the documents. In essence, the lawsuit was a transfer mechanism permitting the Trump legal team to review the evidence on behalf of their client, former President Donald Trump.
Once the formation of the lawsuit was established, the retainer and acceptance of the lawyers to represent their client cemented, the legal counsel, discussion and information within legal duties/obligations of those who represent the plaintiff (Trump) becomes an information silo. In addition to previous executive privilege established by President Trump himself; outside government there is now another silo to defend against the motives of the Lawfare crew (DOJ), the attorney-client privilege.
The lawsuit itself then becomes a transfer mechanism permitting sharing of the documents and providing legal cover for the reviewers (lawyers). The details within the 108-page filing constitute the claims of the plaintiff in the lawsuit, which were established by the evidentiary documents later seized by the DOJ and FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
“Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, said Mr. Trump’s filing was too lengthy, detailing events that “are implausible because they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached.”
There were no attachments and/or citations to the documentary evidence in the 108-page filing, because there was a legal risk to citing evidence with a status in dispute by the corrupt people in Main Justice and the FBI.
Secondarily, there was an obstruction risk to the President in 2022, if his legal team was to publish citations that were part of an ongoing investigation (John Durham). However, this doesn’t negate the value of constructing the information silo, an attorney-client privilege.
The lawsuit was dismissed in March 2022.
In August 2022 the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago.
If the documents chased by the FBI were part of the lawsuit established by President Trump and his legal team via Trump -v- Clinton, then the material seized by the FBI would be -in part- attorney client work product. Lawfully obtained, constitutionally declassified and legally protected material.
According to later reports all of the documents were returned to President Trump at the conclusion of the Jack Smith investigation.
I think Devin Nunes is right to draw attention to the motive of the FBI to raid Mar-a-Lago.
Given the nature of the FBI working collaboratively with the Clinton crew in 2016/2017, I genuinely suspect it was the underpinning evidence to support the claims of the Trump -vs- Clinton lawsuit the FBI were looking for. (Conservative Treehouse, 7/26/2025)(Archive)
(…) Real Clear Investigations reporter Paul Sperry revealed last night that Bolton had a classified memo in his possession that showed how former CIA Director John Brennan helped manufacture intelligence linking Trump to Vladimir Putin. Still, he never briefed Trump on the matter.
Guess what he did instead?
He stuck it in a National Security Council safe because he supposedly believed the intel. What a snake.
“Sources tell me in 2018 former Trump Nat’l Security Adviser John Bolton received a classified memo summarizing the explosive report exposing how Brennan cooked up Putin-Trump intel, but Bolton stuck it in an NSC safe and never briefed Trump, believing the Brennan intel,” Sperry wrote on X.
BREAKING: Sources tell me in 2018 former Trump Nat’l Security Adviser John Bolton received a classified memo summarizing the explosive report exposing how Brennan cooked up Putin-Trump intel, but Bolton stuck it in an NSC safe and never briefed Trump, believing the Brennan intel.
John Bolton’s Classified Bombshell: How a Neocon Cover-Up May Have Sparked Criminal Liability and Prolonged The Russia Hoax Narrative Continue! RETWEET
In a stunning revelation, journalist Paul Sperry reports that in 2018, former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton received a classified memo exposing how CIA Director John Brennan fabricated Putin-Trump intelligence. Rather than briefing President Trump, Bolton allegedly stashed it in an NSC safe, a decision that could ignite criminal liability. By concealing evidence of a potential intelligence hoax, Bolton may have obstructed justice, a felony with no statute of limitations (SOL) if tied to an ongoing crime. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3282, SOL typically runs five years, but concealment can extend it—especially if the cover-up perpetuates a fraud against the government, as this might suggest.
Trump faced not just leftist vitriol but neocon ire for rejecting forever wars. He obliterated ISIS in weeks, deterred North Korean aggression, and bolstered the military, deploying it decisively—like the swift, clean strike on Iran that quelled its conflict with Israel. Yet, hawks like Bolton fumed as Trump spurned their Ukraine-Russia quagmire, refusing $300 billion in aid. This neocon backlash, fused with Brennan’s alleged ruse, fueled Trump’s first-term torment. Bolton’s silence may have shielded a narrative that painted Trump as Putin’s pawn, a charge now unraveling. As the truth emerges, the neocons’ war lust and Bolton’s vaulted secret could redefine this saga. (NOTE: any discussion about criminal statutes is personal opinion and not Legal advice)
John Bolton’s Classified Bombshell: How a Neocon Cover-Up May Have Sparked Criminal Liability and Prolonged The Russia Hoax Narrative Continue! RETWEET
In a stunning revelation, journalist Paul Sperry reports that in 2018, former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton… pic.twitter.com/pzInS9FG91
In an exclusive interview on The Matt Gaetz Show, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reveals explosive evidence tying President Obama, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper to the origins of the 2016 Russia collusion hoax. Gabbard details how senior intelligence officials were overruled, how discredited sources like the Steele dossier were knowingly used, and how a DOJ strike force is now investigating criminal referrals. She says this wasn’t about national security. It was a political hit job against Donald Trump.
CIA’s been working w DOJ to declassify for release–likely this week–explosive new info from long-class. Appendix to Durham Report showing FBI accelerated plan by Hillary to frame Trump as a Russian traitor. Underlying intel puts Brennan, Comey, Hillary in perjury jeopardy.
BREAKING: CIA’s been working w DOJ to declassify for release–likely this week–explosive new info from long-class. appendix to Durham Report showing FBI accelerated plan by Hillary to frame Trump as Russian traitor. Underlying intel puts Brennan,Comey,Hillary in perjury jeopardy
“What intelligence shows is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier, to those fake Russia collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and bearing the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to.”
🚨 BREAKING: CIA Director Ratcliffe confirmed MORE evidence in the Russia Collusion Hoax is about to drop, and it DIRECTLY IMPLICATES Hillary Clinton
LOCK. HER. UP.
“What intelligence shows is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to be an… pic.twitter.com/F7S4OfOVez
New details have emerged regarding a highly classified intelligence memorandum relating to alleged plans by Hillary Clinton to tie Trump to Russian hackers. As Sleuth News previously covered, the memorandum was originally created by Russian intelligence and forwarded to the CIA by the Dutch, who had infiltrated Russian groups.
Hillary Clinton and Jennifer Palmieri on the 2016 campaign trail. (Credit: public domain)
According to sources familiar with the matter, the memorandum is based on an email sent in March 2016 from Jennifer Palmieri, a senior official in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, to Leonard Bernardo, a Democrat operative with ties to the party’s leadership employed by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. This email, sources claim, outlined a strategic plan that included leveraging the FBI to amplify allegations of Russian collusion against then-candidate Donald Trump, weeks before the Russians are alleged to have hacked the Democratic National Committee.
The latest report builds on Sleuth News’ earlier reporting and adds to 2023 reporting by the New York Times which took note of Special Counsel Durham’s inquiries relating to Bernardo. The Times report also suggested, without evidence, that US officials viewed the intelligence memorandums as Russian disinformation, and offered no explanation for why the Russians would have moved to cut off Dutch access if the memorandums were in fact a disinformation product.
For Special Counsel Durham’s part, he found no evidence of any attempt by the FBI to vet the intelligence:
As previously noted, Bernardo is also allegedly tied to the Renteria memo, involving an agreement memorialized in an email from Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Bernardo, which outlined an alleged conversation between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and staffer Amanda Renteria where Lynch agreed not to let the investigation into Clinton’s email server progress too far.
Jennifer Palmieri was previously known to be tied to an email released by Wikileaks which notes a February 2016 “swift boat plan”, further buttressing the core elements of the alleged Russian intelligence memorandums:
According to Sleuth News sources, Palmieri is the foreign policy advisor referenced in John Ratcliffe’s declassified memorandum regarding Clinton’s approval of a plan to tie Trump to Russian hackers. (Read more below)
Gina Haspel swears in as the first woman to direct the Central Intelligence Agency, on May 21, 2018. (Credit: public domain)
On this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” GAI President Peter Schweizer said former CIA Director Gina Haspel should undergo further investigation regarding the alleged Russia collusion intelligence efforts by former President Barack Obama and his top officials.
Schweizer said, “One name I’d like to see out there more is Gina Haspel. She was the CIA director, appointed by Donald Trump. She certainly had access to this material. It’s interesting to me that she was the London chief of the CIA in the 2000s. In 2014, CIA Director John Brennan sent her back there, which was a highly unusual move, and she was there during this period. Much of the fake Russia collusion intel, from Steele and others, was coming out of London. So, what role did she play in creating this? And also, what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director and she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?”
On former staffers denying they saw any of President Joe Biden’s mental decline, Schweizer said, “The notion that White House staffers were insisting that ‘he seems fine to us’ is ridiculous. Just look at the numbers. In 2021, he had 58 known phone calls with foreign leaders. By 2024, that was down to 20. Look at the press conferences. He went from having nine solo press conferences to zero in 2024. There were conscious decisions being made to make sure he was not being exposed to the public.”
Schweizer names former CIA Director Gina Haspel as worth investigation over Russia Collusion questions | The Drill Down https://t.co/ddQSIaV0fp
CIA John Ratcliffe: Lisa Page confirmed to me under oath that the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information.
(Timeline editor’s note: Although this story was covered on July 13, 2018, I realized the importance of revisiting Lisa Page’s timeline tag to refresh my memory. Be sure and check her tag below to see the broader picture that Ratcliffe wants us to revisit.
We have been compiling information all these years, for this moment. Please feel free to share far and wide.)
(Even though he did this in 2024) Hopefully, his X/Twitter posts as well as all of his text messages (and anything else incriminating) are used at a trial to hold this evil, corrupt, traitorous POS accountable one day soon! @JackPosobiec
— Patrick “Chief” Keefe (@244335ChiefK) July 28, 2025
GWU law professor Jonathan Turley appeared on Fox News Tuesday to explain the timeline that led to the derailment of President Donald Trump’s first term.
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released declassified evidence showing that former President Barack Obama and his national security team “manufactured and politicized intelligence” following Trump’s 2016 victory. During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Turley noted the role of the media in perpetuating the narrative.
“It’s fascinating the response of the media with the Russian collusion narrative that was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign secretly. They denied that they funded the Steele dossier. But they took that, didn’t question it. And it turns out that all these other people had heard about Hillary Clinton’s plan, but these reporters that got Pulitzers for this didn’t seem to bother to pursue those types of leads,” Turley said.
Turley said pivotal moments unfolded as early as July 2016, when CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton’s plan to fabricate a Russian collusion narrative.
“Laura, we’re finally seeing parts of the timeline filled in, and it’s creating a very damning picture. Remember, in July 2016, [then-CIA Director] John Brennan went to Obama and briefed him that Hillary Clinton was going to invent this Russian collusion theory to distract from her email scandal,” Turley told host Laura Ingraham. “And so that was back in July. And then we now know, because of recently declassified material, that months later, it was Brennan who intervened, overruled people at CIA, and put the Steele dossier, this infamous debunked report, into the assessment being used by the Obama White House at the very end of Obama’s term.”
Judicial Watch announced today it received 47 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit about Gov. Tim Walz’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party. DHS and the FBI counter-intelligence investigation into Walz’s CCP connections determined that “China is happy” with Walz being selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket. Walz’s connections to the CCP were extensive and a concern to the intelligence community, according to the documents produced.
(…) An email dated August 6, 2024, the day Walz was officially named the Democrat vice presidential nominee, shows Homeland Security personnel discussing how they were aware communist China had a plan to target politicians likely to end up in DC, specifically Walz and Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo.
A Homeland Security official whose name is redacted states:
Walt’s got the Vp. You all have no idea how these feeds into what prc [People’s Republic of China] has been doing here with him and local gov. It’s seriously a line of the intel. Target someone who is perceived they can get to DC
Another official responds: “this speaks too to the rin [raw intelligence] you reviewed for us”.
A participant adds: “the perception narrative that has been pushed with one of the local ngos [non-governmental organizations] had direct ties to the former Gov here in Nevada. FBI has lead on a couple of things the only issue is being in the 9th circuit.”
A participant states: “Good to know and yes there involvement with HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] and fbi on things here”.
Another adds: “If anyone has interest I can give provide context in a classified setting.”
An official noted: “But this has more of strategic impact then obviously the general public knows”.
A BBCarticle titled “‘Harris’s no 2 taught in China’: Chinese internet reacts to Walz.” is posted to the non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat, on August 7, 2024, by a redacted Homeland Security participant in the group.
The article states that Walz “spent a year in the south-eastern province of Guandong in 1989 – a topic that was trending on Weibo with 12 million views.”
“The fact that it happened in 1989 – the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre – was not lost on those commenting on Chinese social media,” the article adds.
A participant in the August 7, 2024, group chat with a name states: “China is happy”
A group chat participant states: “with FBI mission in the CI [counterintelligence] field i believe they need to get included….”
Another clarifies: “CITF [corrects the previous acronym above]”
A group chat participant adds: “I think this conversation is FOIA-able…”
A participant states: “makes a great point about CITF coordination, I will state though that folks need to be cognizant of who the primary players even with FBI being the executive agency for CITF. ie dealing with SAPs [Special Access Programs] here so CI depends on what the problem set is and who will take point”
On October 29, 2024, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said a Homeland Security whistleblower told the committee that Walz was a “target” of the Chinese Communist Party as “someone they can get to DC.” The whistleblower also disclosed “that officials from DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have been involved in the Department’s investigative and/or intelligence work connected with the CCP, the state of Minnesota, and Governor Walz.”
The documents show a skeptical internal DHS discussion about Wang’s contacts with Walz.
In the nation-state threat Bi-weekly sync conversation dated September 12, 2024, a DHS participant who has a redacted dhs.gov email address states: “I need someones thoughts (please keep internal to DHS)”
Another participant explains: “so this person requested a meeting with Walz due to the house investigation they have walz for his relationship china. Then he drafted this letter for upcoming travel he has to china assuming he will get detained”.
The person who requested the meeting with Walz, Chang Wang, is a U.S. citizen, an attorney, adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, and vice chair of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. Wang writes to Walz that he fears being “forcibly detained” upon an upcoming visit to China. He also includes a copy of his itinerary while in China which includes being a witness in a court case.
One participant responds: “I read this as TNR but what am I missing”.
Another adds: “that’s what it looks like…begs the question, if he anticipates being detained, why go? weird.”
Someone replies: “I know right”.
Another group chat participant adds: “I am working with hsi (Homeland Security Investigations) on it”.
A question follows: “what is TNR?”
Another participant clarifies: “transnational repression”.
One person elaborates: “i’m not sure it counts as TNR since it seems to assume being snatched while in China, so it isn’t crossing borders. if he claims they have been pressuring or seeking to coerce him while he’s home in, apparently MN, that would count as TNR. I don’t know the background on him. [Redacted] is my TNR lead.”
Another offers: “can reach [redacted] as well, my China lead.
A group chat participant writes: “mind you, if he’s a known dissident they probably were pressuring him while he was in the U.S. If he went back anyway, Navalny style, and got pinched, it’s just that part that might not be treated as TNR. There’s no TNR statute per se (only proposals) so FBI investigates it as elements of the underlying offenses (like the stalking, extortion, assault, kidnapping, etc.”
Another group chat participant adds: “Not my area but his itinerary entry for 9/29 is interesting appears he is a witness for the plaintiffs in a court case. Could be related to why he thinks he may be detained. Also is there additional context on why he requested that meeting or the proposed topic?”
“These documents uncovered by Judicial Watch show that the Biden administration covered up intelligence concerns about Tim Walz’s connections to China. This is a major scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. (Judicial Watch, 7/29/2025) (Archive)
A crony of then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper threatened to withhold a promotion from a senior intelligence official unless he concurred in the fake Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, notes obtained exclusively by The Federalist show.
The notes made public for the first time today recount a conversation the top analyst in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) had with an unnamed superior who worked closely with the then-Director James Clapper, according to sources familiar with the document.
The release of the notes represents the latest cache of documents declassified by the Trump administration official concerning the ICA that outgoing President Barack Obama ordered, which falsely assessed that Putin “aspired” to help Trump win the election. An earlier release by the current Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, revealed the senior intelligence official — whom her office identified as an ODNI whistleblower — had been charged with conducting a “scrub,” which is a review, of the intelligence in the non-compartmented ICA. Emails released last week by Gabbard show the top analyst expressing shock over the ICA’s reliance on the Steele dossier because the versions the analyst reviewed included no intel relying on the Hillary Clinton-based fairy tale of opposition research.
According to a person familiar with the notes, the analyst documented his recollection of the conversation on March 31, 2023 — more than six years after the conversation occurred. The delay, The Federalist’s source explained, occurred because the analyst’s efforts to share his concerns, first with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC), and then later with Special Counsel John Durham and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, proved unsuccessful. Only later did the analyst receive an inquiry for more information about his claims, leading to the drafting of the summary of his recollections.
Those notes capture the analyst claiming in early January that his supervisor told him, “There is reporting you are not allowed to see,” adding that “if you saw it, you would agree” with the ICA. After noting he concurred “with varying confidence with most of the 2017 ICA’s Key Judgements,” the analyst explained that he “would need to review any reporting myself in order to consider it.”
“You need to TRUST ME on this,” Clapper’s crony countered, stating to the analyst he “would need to demonstrate [his] ability to ‘outgrow’” his refusal to sign off on assessments he did not share, in order to be recommended for a promotion. The analyst remained firm, according to the notes, which led his exasperated superior to reply, “I need you to say you agree with these judgements, so that DIA will go along with them!”
The DIA is the Department of Defense’s “Defense Intelligence Agency,” and the notes explain that ODNI sought “to bring DIA on board as an additional IC Agency signing on to the 2017 ICA.” The ODNI whistleblower then relayed that the conversation turned to the “DIA’s supposed trust in me, and the necessity of me proving my ‘corporate IC officer’ bona-fides by doing what it took to bring DIA on board …” The analyst refused to alter his assessment, and the DIA did not join the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency (NSA) in signing off on the final non-compartmented versions of the ICA.
“I remember this conversation very clearly,” the analyst explained, stressing “it was a difficult situation and I listened, and chose my responses, with care.” “I was aware that I was defying the [National Intelligence Officer’s] direction to me (to misrepresent my views to DIA) based on a conscious decision to adhere to IC standards, tradecraft, and ethics,” the notes concluded. (Read more: The Federalist, 7/30/2025)(Archive)
UPDATE 8/17/2025
REVEALED: The Clapper deputy who “pressured” the ICA whistleblower to support fake Putin-Trump conclusions has been ID’d as Vinh Nguyen, a onetime McCain campaign worker + member of the McCain Alumni Club who incorporated Crowdstrike’s bogus report on Russian hacking into the ICA pic.twitter.com/5IXpCXo32T
Each member of the board of directors overseeing Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools in Sacramento either resigned or was removed weeks after the release of a report by the California State Auditor that found the school improperly received over $180 million in education funding.
In addition, the report, published June 24, says the adult charter school engaged in “questionable financial transactions” and conflicts of interest, including unlawful gifts, luxury travel and the hiring of unqualified individuals. The school avoided accountability for student progress and did not conduct standardized testing of students.
The Sacramento charter school board resigned after a state audit showed the school misused $180 million in taxpayer funding. They gave six-figure jobs to relatives, had fake students, and misrepresented attendance. They gave lucrative contracts out to their “star,” one Mr. King (see below).
And it’s a school for adults that received K-12 funding they weren’t eligible to receive.
The most remarkable thing is they got away with this since 2018 when they first went under scrutiny.
The audit report says multiple agencies are to blame for the lack of action since the 2018 report, including the charter’s authorizer, Twin Rivers Unified, the Sacramento County Office of Education and the California Department of Education.
“Twin Rivers conducted only minimal annual oversight of Highlands, and instead relied heavily on annual audits that we found had inaccuracies,” said California State Auditor Grant Parks in the report. “If Twin Rivers had conducted more thorough oversight, it could have identified some of the violations we identified as part of our audit and taken action to address them earlier.”
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch stonewalled Congress on July 12, 2016, on the details of the Hillary Clinton email case, refusing to get into the specifics of her decision not to prosecute for mishandling classified material. (Credit: CSpan)
We now have plausible intelligence suggesting the attorney general may have assured Clinton allies that the FBI investigation into Hillary’s emails would go nowhere.
The FBI never investigated explosive allegations that Attorney General Loretta Lynch coordinated with the Clinton campaign to suppress Hillary Clinton’s email server scandal. Those allegations stem from a secret Russian intelligence memo that circulated inside the U.S. government in 2016. The memo was so concerning that it pushed FBI Director James Comey to break ranks with Lynch during the Clinton email probe. Now, thanks to the newly released appendix [annex]of Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, that memo is public, and it appears to confirm long-held suspicions about how the Clinton investigation was handled.
Some of the same intelligence recently appeared in the “Clinton annex” released by Sen. Chuck Grassley on July 21, but the newly released Durham Appendix [Annex] provides a more comprehensive account of this intelligence stream, tracing it from early allegations involving Lynch through to the later scheme to frame Donald Trump as a Russian agent.
While much attention has focused on the Clinton plan to smear Trump, the alleged coordination between Lynch and the Clinton campaign to suppress the email server scandal has so far received less scrutiny.
(…) Durham’s report acknowledges that while some of the phrasing in the intelligence may have suffered from translation issues or conflation, intelligence officials deemed it to be authentic.
According to one of the newly released memos, in a Jan. 12, 2016 conversation with Goldstein, Wasserman Schultz revealed that the Obama White House was applying pressure on Comey via Lynch to shut down the email investigation because the scandal was damaging the Democratic Party and threatening Obama’s legacy:
“Obama has no intention to darken the final part of his presidency and ‘legacy’ by the scandal surrounding the main contender from the DP [Democratic Party]. To solve the problem, the President puts pressure on FBI Director James Comey through Attorney General Lynch, however, so far without concrete results.”
Wasserman Schultz also allegedly noted that the FBI lacked strong evidence against Clinton due to the “timely deletion of relevant data from mail servers.”
But it’s the March 5 alleged follow-up conversation between Benardo and Wasserman Schultz that contains the most damning allegation: “The political director of the Hillary Clinton staff Amanda Renteria regularly receives information from Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the plans and intentions of the FBI.”
If true, this would mean that while the FBI was actively investigating Clinton, the sitting Attorney General was secretly updating her campaign on its progress, compromising not only the DOJ’s independence, but the entire premise of equal justice under law.
The memo further claims that,“Barack Obama sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from the FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department.” (Read more: The Federalist, 8/06/2025) (Archive)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard confirmed that the 2020 election was compromised, and the federal government knew about it.
Earlier this year, during a high-level Cabinet meeting with President Trump, she disclosed that the Intelligence Community has been investigating election interference and tampering with electronic voting systems, including signs of foreign and domestic actors manipulating vote totals.
“I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard said.
She continued, “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.”
Appearing on Benny Johnson’s show, Gabbard revealed that a whistleblower from CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) came forward with alarming evidence showing the government was aware of massive vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines ahead of the 2020 election, but deliberately chose to stay silent.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: DNI Tulsi Gabbard confirms major bombshells on 2020 election fraud are coming soon.
She says the federal government knew about voting machine vulnerabilities and chose to look the other way.
— Miss DisMal Information (@bitchfork) July 31, 2025
It’s time to arrest Hillary Clinton. Showing us this evidence of conspiracy isn’t enough. For this to never happen again, we need her in a jail cell. pic.twitter.com/mOEJ5pldEc
Page 4/29 of Durham Annex addresses motive of BO to redirect attention away from investigations of the Clinton Foundation.
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— Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers (@CFWBers) July 31, 2025
Jeffrey Goldstein… According to the intel Obama was putting pressure on Comey through Lynch to get rid of Hillary’s email scandal. pic.twitter.com/dIMtrTv5FE
In March 2016 Russia had intel that Obama was putting his finger on the scale for Clinton in relation to MYE and that Clinton with support from special services (FBI?) was preparing the Russia Hoax. pic.twitter.com/b9MokUxg7s
Obama was briefed on the Clinton plan intelligence on August 3, 2016 and the CIA assessed in 2017 that it was not the product of Russian fabrications. 👀 pic.twitter.com/cbmCop5MqU
The rest of the Appendix is about Halper being a fat liar, he recorded his conversation with Page and still lied to the FBI about him and those lies were used in FISA warrants. Halper should be in jail. That’s the appendix folks and this 2-year-old thread is over! pic.twitter.com/dwUKKUdAyT
How did CNN know the ‘dossier’ contained OPPOSITION RESEARCH three days BEFORE Trump’s inauguration? 9 months later when it became public that Clinton paid for it EVERYONE in the Clinton campaign claimed to have no idea they paid for it…but CNN knew. 🤔pic.twitter.com/ad3cK0vZFT
We uncovered this annex, along with thousands of other documents, buried in a back room at the FBI.
It revealed a highly classified piece of the Durham report: evidence that the Clinton campaign plotted to frame President Trump and fabricate the Russia collusion hoax.
Crossfire Hurricane Team (Credit: Conservative Treehouse)
The Classified Appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s report has been released. You can view it here.
To briefly summarize, the Classified Appendix provided further information about the matters covered in parts of Durham’s report – specifically, those relating to Hillary Clinton’s plan to link Trump and Russia; the threat of foreign influence by a foreign government; and the Carter Page FISA application renewals.
But the most material information covers the Clinton Plan, and provides further details on how that plan started, efforts by Clinton and her team to influence officials within the Obama Administration, and how the Clinton Campaign would use Crowdstrike to further their theory that the Russians hacked and leaked information from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
The Clinton Plan Origins
Some context is needed to understand how the Obama Administration discovered the Clinton Plan back in July of 2016. And the Classified Appendix supplies just that.
From 2014 to 2016, persons affiliated with Russian intelligence hacked and gained access to the emails of numerous US public and private entities, including government agencies, non-profits, and think tanks. This included the Open Society Foundations, formerly known as the Soros Foundation.
Sources provided the U.S. with intelligence concerning these hacks and access, including emails and Russian reports analyzing the hacked communications. Some of the emails originated from Leonard Benardo (remember that name), who was the Regional Director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations (Soros).
One of the Russian reports obtained by the FBI concerned a discussion of confidential discussions with Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz concerning the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal, and included the following intelligence:
The potential of an FBI investigation of “possible corruption relating to Department of State (under the leadership of Clinton) preferential treatment of donors to the Clinton Foundation caused a significant negative reaction inside the party. . . According to Wasserman-Schultz, FBI, so far, does not have persuasive evidence against Hillary Clinton because of the timely deletion of relevant data from mail servers.”
To solve the problem of the investigation of Hillary Clinton potentially darkening the final part of his presidency, Obama “puts pressure on FBI Director James Comey through Attorney General Lynch, however, so far, without concrete results.”
Another Russian intelligence memo provide to U.S. intelligence – this time from March 2016 – stated:
“The political director of the Hillary Clinton staff, Amanda Renteria, regularly receives information from Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the plans and intentions of the FBI.”
By this time, Clinton staff had begun the process of formulating a plan to link Trump and Russia – potentially through Christopher Steele, who, at the time the memo was drafted, had already begun “preparing open source opposition research regarding Trump’s purported ties to Russian oligarchs.
High-level FBI and DOJ officials, including Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, were briefed on these materials in March of 2016. They ultimately dismissed this reporting and the FBI declined to investigate whether Attorney General Lynch had, in fact, communicated with Amanda Renteria (the “political director of the Hillary Clinton staff”).
More Evidence Concerning the Clinton Plan and Crowdstrike
In July 2016, U.S. intelligence received additional information from its source. This time, there were reports that summarized apparently hacked materials and “certain hacked emails allegedly sent by Leonard Bernardo of the Open Society Foundations.” This is the information possessed by CIA Director John Brennan that would be eventually briefed to President Obama and others within his Administration.
The memorandum stated that Hillary Clinton “approved a plan proposed by one of her foreign policy advisors, Julianne Smith” to smear Donald Trump by linking him to Russia. Clinton’s approval would take place on July 26, 2016.
By magnifying “Putin’s support for Trump” and alleging Putin was influencing the election, Clinton would “force the White House” to confront Russia. Importantly, the memo noted that “Clinton’s supporters in the FBI lack conclusive irrefutable evidence of the Russian Federation’s involvement in the scandal, tied to the theft of the DNC’s correspondence.” (Note: that assessment regarding the hack-and-leak turned out to be true.)
The memo also noted that without direct evidence linking Russia to the hacks, “it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated ‘attic-based’ technical structures that are involved in cyber security, in particular, the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect Companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading US publications.”
In other words, Crowdstrike would provide information to the FBI concerning the alleged hack and then feed the media the same. And that’s what happened.
Emails Discussing the Clinton Plan
The Classified Appendix contained further evidence illustrating the Clinton Plan and the strategy to weaponize the DNC/DCCC hacks – this time from emails sent from Leonard Benardo of the Open Society Foundations.
The first is a July 25, 2016 email where Benardo discusses the Clinton Plan, the “long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump”, and how, later on, “the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”
Another email obtained by U.S. Intelligence (foreign source unknown) from late July 2016 suggested a plan to link Guccifer 2.0 to Russia and how “Clinton sympathizers” within the U.S. government needed to condemn the alleged Russian actions and tie them to Putin:
That email attached a July 27, 2016 email from Benardo (Soros), which confirmed that Hillary “approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections” to “distract people from her own missing email.” Importantly, the Benardo email again discussed the use of Crowdstrike to further the Clinton Plan.
Some discussion is necessary concerning whether the Benardo emails were authentic. Durham and his team looked at that very issue, stating: “Certain [U.S. Intelligence] analysis and officers whom the Office interviewed, and who were well-versed in the Sensitive Intelligence collection, stated that their best assessment was that the Benardo emails were likely authentic.”
While Durham was unable to locate corresponding records from the think tanks, his Office did “identify certain emails, attachments, and documents that contain language and reference with the exact same or similar verbiage to the materials” we discussed above.
And while Julianne Smith could not “specifically remember proposing a plan to Clinton or other campaign leadership to try to tie Trump to Putin or Russia,” she conceded “that it was possible that she had proposed ideas on these topics to the campaign’s leadership, who may have approved those ideas.” That’s essentially an admission.
More corroboration concerning Benardo’s statements that “Julie says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump and that “the FBI will put more oil into the fire” came from texts that Julianne Smith sent to a Clinton foreign policy advisor. Smith was actively digging into whether the FBI or other government agency were investigating the hacks:
Wrapping things up, Durham concluded that it was his “Office’s best assessment that the July 25th and July 27th emails that purport to be from Benardo were ultimately a composite of several emails that were obtained through Russian intelligence hacking of the U.S.-based Think Tanks, including the Open Society Foundations, the Carnegie Endowment, and others.”
The Response of U.S. Intelligence and the FBI – and AG Lynch’s “weird reaction”
The whistleblower who threw open the curtains on the FBI’s weaponization of the security clearance process against Trump supporters, COVID vaccine skeptics, and 2nd Amendment advocates has now had his security clearance reinstated. The Justice Department has also agreed to cancel his indefinite suspension after more than three years, provide full backpay with benefits, and rehire him at the FBI.
More than a year ago, Empower Oversight unveiled shocking documents that showed the FBI forcing its client’s co-workers to answer improper political questions during a security clearance probe. Those documents led to a Justice Department Inspector General investigation, which is still ongoing.
In the FBI Security Division’s investigative file of Empower Oversight’s client, a preprinted interview outline listed the following questions:
“Vocalize support for President Trump?”
“Vocalize objection to Covid-19 vaccination?”
“Vocalize intent to attend 01/06/2021?”
The FBI interview outlines indicated that co-workers were also interrogated about their colleague’s other First Amendment expression outside of work, including attendance at a rally in support of the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.
“The FBI security clearance process was completely secret, with generally no oversight from the inspector general or Congress. That’s an environment ripe for abuse and easily taken advantage of. Without these back-room documents, we never would have known about the abuse within the Security Division, and that political considerations were right there in black and white as real factors in the decision-making process,” Leavitt said. “We appreciate the Trump administration giving this patriotic FBI employee an opportunity to move forward with the Bureau and look forward to resolving matters for other whistleblowers who suffered from the same bias.”
“The information brought to light through this whistleblower’s case showed clear government wrongdoing, and not just for this person, but for tens of others who suffered from the political bias of the FBI under the previous administration. We hope this is the first of many resolutions for those who have suffered for years without pay or a security clearance, leaving their lives in limbo. My work to find a resolution for other whistleblowers who’ve been wronged will continue,” Senator Chuck Grassley said. Grassley was a champion for the FBI whistleblower within the Department of Justice as they worked to restore the whistleblower’s employment and clearance
During a June 2024interview with Tucker Carlson, Empower Oversight president Tristan Leavitt outlined the case about how these documents were discovered.
Empower Oversight had also previously provided the inspector general with evidence that the FBI’s Deputy Director told a large group of FBI executives that anyone who disagreed with the FBI’s handling of January 6th cases did not belong in the FBI. These whistleblower documents suggested that at least some FBI personnel believed they had a license to purge employees with certain views and abused their power to conduct security clearance probes as a pretext to achieve that goal.
When Rep. Tom Tiffany asked then-Director Christopher Wray in a House Judiciary Committee hearing about the so-called “Trump questionnaire,” Wray responded that the questionnaire was used by an outside contractor for the FBI’s Security Division who was no longer with the FBI. Empower Oversight subsequently revealed that such questioning is conducted almost entirely by contractors in the Security Division, but their work is often reviewed by career FBI employees. Furthermore, the contractor in question had been scheduled to retire at the time the questions were used and was not disciplined in any way for the use of the questionnaire as Wray’s comment implied.
That’s not what it shows at all. The New York Times is straight up lying.
1) The Durham annex never states at all that the specific intelligence was “fabricated.” It says the opposite, that his office was never able to “determine definitively whether the purported Clinton campaign plan [intelligence]…was entirely genuine, partially true, a composite pulled from multiple sources, exaggerated in certain respects, or fabricated in its entirety.”
2) At the time the intel which Ben Smith says was “fake” was received, John Brennan took it so seriously that he briefed Obama about it, took notes about it, and stashed the notes away in his safe.
3) James Comey specifically went under oath and cited the Clinton plan intelligence as one of the major reasons he chose to unilaterally usurp the authority of Loretta Lynch and to declare that the U.S. government would not charge Hillary Clinton for her use of an illegal private email server.
4) Comey told Congress that he believed the Clinton plan intelligence was “genuine.” “So far as I knew at the time, and still think,” Comey testified on December 7, 2018, “the material itself was genuine[.]”
5) FBI general counsel James Baker said he was “greatly concerned” about the intel and specifically Lynch’s reaction when confronted with it. Durham’s report said Baker “did not dismiss the credibility” of the intel reports. Andrew McCabe likewise said he was struck by Lynch’s “odd” reaction to the allegations.
6) Everyone on earth knows the Clinton campaign launched a scheme to falsely claim that Trump colluded with Russia. This new claim that somehow it was a fabrication that the Clinton campaign ran an op to falsely tie Trump to Russia is beyond insane. It’s sociopathic.
That’s not what it shows at all. The New York Times is straight up lying.
1) The Durham annex never states at all that the specific intelligence was “fabricated.” It says the opposite, that his office was never able to “determine definitively whether the purported Clinton… https://t.co/svfce97aGu
So is the NYT/Russia collusion hoaxers claim that Russia faked a plan that just happened to be identical to Clinton’s actual plan that she ended up running with NYT’s help? Kind of funny. https://t.co/IXIZR7AxBz
It’s sad that we have to constantly go through this exercise with media figures obsessed with false narratives.
Sean is correct, as he lays out the fact pattern about the attempted takedown of President Trump.
I STRONGLY caution you against accepting media driven narratives about the collusion hoax, given their roles in promoting the hoax in the first place, and the discovery of new information since the Director and I took over.
It’s sad that we have to constantly go through this exercise with media figures obsessed with false narratives.
Sean is correct, as he lays out the fact pattern about the attempted takedown of President Trump.
I STRONGLY caution you against accepting media driven narratives… https://t.co/AX49kyqwgM
One of the most striking revelations in the newly released Durham Appendix is that the steady stream of intelligence flowing from Russian sources throughout 2016 abruptly ended in late July. This intelligence covered everything from Hillary Clinton’s efforts to cover up her email scandal to her campaign’s plan to smear Donald Trump with false Russia collusion allegations. The documents span from January through late July 2016, the moment when U.S. intelligence discovered that Russian operatives were aware of Clinton’s plan to vilify Trump.
Here is where the story takes a darker turn. That crucial late July intelligence was briefed to President Obama by then–CIA Director John Brennan on August 3. The very next day, Brennan placed a direct call to his Russian counterpart, Federal Security Service Director Aleksandr Bortnikov. Officially, Brennan warned Russia to cease election interference. Yet at that time, no confirmed interference had occurred. In fact, even months later, both the FBI and NSA expressed strong skepticism about the central claim that Russia had hacked and leaked Democratic National Committee emails.
So what did Brennan really communicate to Bortnikov? The sudden stop of the intelligence stream right after the Clinton plan was exposed strongly suggests Brennan signaled to the Russians—either directly or indirectly—that U.S. intelligence had uncovered their knowledge of Clinton’s scheme. The result was the immediate drying up of that valuable intelligence channel.
In other words, Brennan’s phone call appears to have sabotaged a critical intelligence pipeline to protect Hillary Clinton from further scrutiny, prioritizing dirty politics over national security
That call always stood out. Brennan said he raised the subject of published reports about Russian interference in the election. What published reports?
Brennan’s own words: “I told Mr. Bortnikov that if Russia had such a campaign underway, it was certain to backfire”
The Department of Justice official who signed off on $2 million in taxpayer-funded payments to disgraced Russia collusion hoax participants left the Department of Justice to help lead the “legal resistance” to President Donald Trump and other duly-elected Republicans, new records reviewed exclusively by The Federalist reveal.
FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, sued the Department of Justice over the release of messages detailing their role in pushing the Clinton campaign’s Russia collusion hoax. They said the release of the messages that were written using government resources violated their privacy. The Biden administration rewarded the duo with lucrative payouts. Strozk received $1.2 million in taxpayer funds while Page received an $800,000 settlement.
“[W]e have identified Brian Netter, Deputy Assistant Attorney General as the individual that approved the settlement agreements,” a DOJ official told the Center to Advance Security in America, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2024, when the payouts were publicly announced. Netter was the deputy assistant attorney general for the Federal Programs Branch during the term of President Joe Biden.
Netter currently serves as the legal director at Democracy Forward, a Democrat Party-affiliated group launched in 2017 to fight President Trump with lawfare. The group brags that it took Trump to court more than 100 times in his first term in office. It has continued its use of the courts to win political battles into his second term in office. “Liberal Legal Group Positions Itself as a Top Trump Administration Foe,” toutedThe New York Timeslast November.
Marc Elias, the attorney known for his work damaging the integrity of both the 2016 and 2020 elections, chairs the board of Democracy Forward. Elias, as the Clinton campaign general counsel, signed the checks for her campaign’s Russia collusion hoax. To hide the Russia collusion hoax’s origins, the funding was fraudulently run through Elias’s law firm as “legal services.” Clinton was fined only $113,000 for the false claims she made to hide her role. Elias also ran Democrats’ legal effort to destabilize the 2020 elections with the sudden expansion of unsupervised mail-in balloting operations staffed by Democrat-run nonprofit groups. (Read more: The Federalist, 8/1/2025)(Archive)
Karen Dunn is an American attorney and political operative. Dunn is a former partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. As an attorney, she has represented clients including Apple, Oracle, and Uber, and in 2021, she defended Apple in a lawsuit brought by Epic Games. Dunn is a specialist in debate preparation in Democratic politics, particularly for candidates for president and vice president. Dunn and Ron Klain co-led President Barack Obama’s presidential debate preparation team in 2012 and led the presidential debate preparation for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Wikipedia
The couple that litigates together: Brian Netter and Karen Dunn, May 2016. (Credit: Evy Mages)
At the July 25 – 28, 2016 Democratic Convention, Clinton foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan drove a golf cart from one TV-network news tent in the parking lot to another, pitching producers, anchors, correspondents and even some NBC network executives a story that Trump and his advisers were in bed with Putin and possibly conspiring with Russian intelligence to steal the election. He also visited CNN and MSNBC, as well as Fox News, to spin the Clinton campaign’s unfounded theories. Sullivan even sat down with CNN honcho Jeff Zucker to outline the opposition research they had gathered on Trump and Russia.
…On Oct. 31, 2016 Jake Sullivan hyped the story on Twitter, claiming in a written campaign statement that Trump and the Russians were operating a “secret hotline” through Alfa Bank and speculating “federal authorities” would be investigating “this direct connection between Trump and Russia.” He portrayed the discovery as the work of independent experts — “computer scientists” — without disclosing their connections to the campaign.
“This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow,” Sullivan proclaimed.
Clinton teed up that statement in an Oct. 31 tweet of her own, which quickly went viral. She warned voters: “Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.”
Also that day, Clinton tweeted, “It’s time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia,” while attaching a meme that read: “Donald Trump has a secret server. It was set up to communicate privately with a Putin-tied Russian bank called Alfa Bank.”
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
At the same time that Simpson was working Slate, he leaked to a friend at the New York Times that the FBI had evidence of the Trump-Alfa link, providing the Times and other friendly media outlets a serious news hook to publish the unfounded rumors on the eve of the November election. (Real Clear Investigations, 1/27/2022)(Archive)
(…) In September 2016, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” which is co-hosted by Stephanopoulos, aired parts of the Millian report. Later that day, Hillary Clinton tweeted out a campaign video incorporating heavily edited quotes from Millian and suggesting they were more evidence Trump was “an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” Above the video she posted on Sept. 22, Clinton personally tweeted: “The man who could be your next president may be deeply indebted to another country. Do you trust him to run ours?”
In effect, Clinton broadcast to her millions of followers a story her campaign had helped manufacture through a paid contractor.
The man who could be your next president may be deeply indebted to another country. Do you trust him to run ours? pic.twitter.com/5TU9olTqd5
Hilary Clinton in 2016 appearing on The View peddling the Russia Russia Hoax, which of course she knew at the time was an absolute hoax. pic.twitter.com/dwN8JcWdPY
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) July 22, 2025
October 19, 2016
Oh Lordy, this aged well. 😜😜😜@HillaryClinton says on the record that the ”Russian Government” hacked American websites, accounts and private institutions and then gave that information to WikiLeaks -“Clearly it came from Putin himself” (THIS IS NOW A PROVEN LIE.) pic.twitter.com/b6XtSqfUYr
Trump campaign officials may have been drawn into contact with Russia via the promise of a mythical stash of Hillary Clinton emails. Joy Reid and her panel discuss.
This clip is amazing. If future generations study the fake news and how it operated, they should start with this clip.
This is fake news, reporting on a story by fake news that claims the President isn’t taking previously reported fake news seriously.
September 10, 2018 – Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman released a new secret recording in which President Donald Trump can be heard discussing Hillary Clinton and the Russia investigation.
November 28, 2018 – The Bill and Hillary Clinton road show opened in Toronto last night, where they had some choice words for President Trump. NBC’s Kate Snow and Philippe Reines, former deputy assistant secretary of state under Hillary Clinton, join Craig Melvin to discuss.
July 22, 2018 – Hillary Clinton has criticised Donald Trump’s performance at the Helsinki summit. ‘The great mystery is why the president has not spoken up for our country,’ said the former US secretary of state, speaking at OzyFest in Central Park, New York. She also said she believes Russian agents are targeting the November midterm elections
2019
May 2, 2019 – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with Rachel Maddow about the successful Russian interference in the 2016 election and the dangers of Republicans putting partisanship ahead of national security just because their candidate was the beneficiary of that interference.
2020
August 21, 2020 – The Russians actively interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump, Sec. Hillary Rodham Clinton warns on the heels of the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Report release, and the Trump administration has done nothing to stop them from interfering in the next one.
July 20, 2020 – On President Trump’s reluctance to criticize Russia from the 2016 election to the bounty plot, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says, “I am glad that Vice President Biden, with all of his experience in foreign affairs … is trying to warn the American people that what happened in 2016 is sadly underway again.”
2021
November 4, 2021 – Jesse Watters discusses how the media latched on to the Russia collusion narrative on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
April 3, 2022 – In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, former Secretary of State and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton talks about American support for Ukraine as they push back the Russian invasion.
2023
September 25, 2023
For timeline entry:
Piers Morgan calls out Hillary Clinton for pushing Russian election interference: ‘Brazen Hypocrisy’ https://t.co/faSdlX964L#FoxNews
— Ultra Clinton/Govt Corruption Timelines (@clintonpay2play) August 1, 2025
2024
September 16, 2024
One day after President Trump was nearly assassinated for the second time in less than three months, MSNBC brought on Crooked Hillary who called him “a danger to our country and world.”
September 19, 2024 – During her appearance on #MorningJoe, Hillary Clinton emphasized the dangers posed by Donald Trump and his enablers, warning that the country is facing a stark choice between “freedom and oppression”:
“This is a contest between freedom and oppression, democracy and autocracy, bringing people together and further dividing us. And that’s what has to be communicated every single day between now and the election.”
September 18, 2024 – Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss how Hilary Clinton wants to threaten Americans’ free speech rights.
2025 – The tables turn
July 31, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard TORCHES Hillary’s ‘TREASONOUS’ Actions to RIG Election as She Drops ‘Smoking Gun.
July 24, 2025 – The Department of Justice is now going through the massive number of files in their investigation of what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said was a treasonous conspiracy by the Obama administration to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency and the 2016 election.
July 31, 2025 – THE DURHAM FILES UNSEALED: Clinton Exposed, Burn Bags, and a Deep State Meltdown*
President Trump’s administration has **officially declassified the hidden segments of the Durham Report**, and it’s even more explosive than anyone expected. For years, Americans demanded to know the full truth—and now, the curtain has been pulled back. Turns out, **the most damning evidence was classified on purpose**.
And it gets even wilder: *thousands of FBI documents set to be destroyed* were intercepted just in time. These “burn bags” were packed with **Hillary Clinton-related evidence**—including emails, handwritten notes, and intel summaries that point to her as the **orchestrator of the Trump-Russia hoax**. We’ve always known it smelled rotten. Now the **paper trail is alive and breathing**.
According to *John Solomon* of Just the News*, one key email from **Leonard Bernardo**, now revealed to be closely connected to George Soros, is sending shockwaves through D.C. Bernardo, who holds a top position at the Open Society Foundations, appears to be **deeply entangled in the planning and cover-up* of the false Russia collusion narrative. Two of his emails—once buried—now link directly to strategic misinformation campaigns.
*Glenn Beck* broke even more news, hosting *DNI Tulsi Gabbard**, who confirmed that **former Obama-era officials involved in the Russia hoax are still embedded in the federal government today**. Some of those recently named have **locked down their X (formerly Twitter) accounts* or made them private, attempting to vanish just as sunlight begins to expose everything.
**Karoline Leavitt**, press secretary for Trump 2024, issued a powerful statement on behalf of the campaign, saying the revelations prove the **FBI and DOJ were turned into political weapons under Biden and Obama**—but that justice is finally catching up.
The Clinton machine knew exactly what it was doing. Carefully worded media appearances. Doctored talking points. And a cooperative press that ran with it—all while Americans were told they were “conspiracy theorists” for asking questions. But now, *video clips of Hillary Clinton doubling down on the Russia lie* are resurfacing—and they did not age well.
Whistleblowers are finally speaking out, saying they were *threatened into silence**. One said: “We didn’t know who we could trust—it felt like everyone at the top was part of it.” Investigative analyst **Mike Benz* confirmed that *former agents from the CIA, NSA, and FBI* coordinated the entire operation like a shadow government.
It’s not just Hillary. *Adam Schiff**, **Jake Sullivan**, and even **Susan Rice* are back under the microscope. And while *Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez* try to dismiss the revelations as “old news,” this is the first time we’re seeing *physical documents**, **verified communications**, and **internal memos* directly implicating key players.
The swamp is deeper than we thought—but the declassification of these documents may finally be the match that lights the fire. *Hillary Clinton is no longer safe behind the curtain.* As Trump said: “In the end, truth always wins.”
July 31, 2025 – Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble’s “System Update,” and independent journalist Aaron Mate to discuss the emails revealed in the newly declassified Durham report annex that appear to lay out the Clinton campaign’s plot to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent, the involvement of the Obama administration, and more.
July 31, 2025 – The truth is finally coming out. Chuck Grassley just dropped declassified documents that were hidden in burn bags at FBI headquarters—documents exposing how Hillary Clinton’s campaign allegedly orchestrated the Trump-Russia hoax. This isn’t just about dirty politics—this was a coordinated takedown, and it’s time people go to jail for it.
Imagine patriotically and proudly serving in the first Trump White House for four years, and departing in January of 2021 . . . Then, during the four years you’re out, BIDEN LAWFARE kicks in, and you receive the below email five weeks before re-entering the White House again in January 2025…
“Google received and responded to a legal process issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation compelling the release of information related to your Google account. A court order previously prohibited Google from notifying you of the legal process…”
I’ve never shared this—but this is a small taste of the INSANITY that many of us went through—right here in the United States of America. LAWFARE at its finest. A Complete and Total Disgrace!!!!!
Imagine patriotically and proudly serving in the first Trump White House for four years, and departing in January of 2021 . . . Then, during the four years you’re out, BIDEN LAWFARE kicks in, and you receive the below email five weeks before re-entering the White House again in…
Imagine working in the White House—
then getting secretly investigated by Google, gagged by the FBI, and legally muzzled without a whisper of due process.
Welcome to Biden’s America.
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It’s not just censorship.
It’s surveillance with a smile.
It’s digital espionage wrapped in court orders.
And it’s all hidden until the next election cycle.
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The regime doesn’t need to arrest you.
They let Google do the dirty work.
They let secrecy do the silencing.
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This isn’t lawfare.
It’s techfare.
A quiet war fought with servers and subpoenas.
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If they can do this to a White House official…
what do you think they’re already doing to you?
Imagine working in the White House—
then getting secretly investigated by Google, gagged by the FBI, and legally muzzled without a whisper of due process.
Welcome to Biden’s America.
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It’s not just censorship.
It’s surveillance with a smile.
It’s digital espionage wrapped in…
can you show the date and details of the search warrant? Maybe you should request or FOIA a copy of the search warrant and associated affidavit. Relatively unredacted search warrants related to Roger Stone were produced to FOIA.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has opened an investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith, who may have unlawfully targeted President Donald Trump.
The OSC has Smith under a microscope regarding the possibility that he violated the Hatch Act, which says government workers are not allowed to take part in certain political activities, Fox Newsreported on Saturday, noting it received confirmation of the probe from the office and that Smith is not being criminally investigated.
The OSC is a government watchdog that operates independently as a federal investigative and prosecutorial office. In July, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked its members to investigate whether Smith, who was the special counsel for former Attorney General Merrick Garland, engaged in unlawful political activity to influence the 20204 presidential election and targeted Trump in doing so.
“President Trump of course vanquished Joe Biden, Jack Smith, every Democrat who weaponized the law against him, but President Trump’s astounding victory doesn’t excuse Smith of responsibility for his unlawful election interference. I therefore ask the Office of Special Counsel to investigate whether Jack Smith or any members of his team unlawfully acted for political purposes,” the senator wrote in is request.
It’s going to be difficult for the media and Democrats to dismiss the U.S. Office of Special Counsel investigating former Special Counsel Jack Smith on allegations that he improperly used his prosecutorial powers to stop President Trump in 2024.
Smith was widely disparaged for trying to rush his Trump cases on classified documents and January 6 trial scheduling to occur before the 2024 election, violating the standard DOJ 60 day rule that prohibits DOJ action before a vote for the purpose of influencing elections.
He disobeyed a court-issued stay of proceedings, submitting discovery and filings after the order anyway on his January 6 case, which Rep Elise Stefanik described as “a lawless breach of trial ethics.”
He’s accused of timing trial proceedings to coincide with election milestones—such as the Iowa caucuses.
He filed a super-lengthy brief (165 pages) in the January 5 case just one month before the 2024 election that included secret grand jury testimony and was widely covered in the media, thereby disadvantaging Trump. His disclosure of sealed grand jury materials was widely seen as an attack on Trump.
Critics said it resembled a campaign opposition research dump, timed one month before the election.
Smith also chose favorable legal venues (e.g., Washington, D.C.) and judges (Tanya Chutkan) perceived as unfriendly to Trump. D.C. jury pools were viewed by critics as politically hostile to Trump.
Also he previously prosecuted Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) for corruption, a case the Supreme Court unanimously overturned in 2016.
Days after Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas called for an investigation of former special counsel Jack Smith, it has begun.
On Saturday, the Office of Special Counsel confirmed it was looking into a potential violation of the Hatch Act, which bans politics on the job for federal workers, according to The New York Times.
The New York Post said it has seen an email from Senior Counsel Charles Baldis at the Office of Special Counsel saying it was reviewing the possibility of Hatch Act violations by Smith.
These actions were not standard, necessary, or justified. They were the actions of a political actor masquerading as a public official.
That’s why I’ve asked this unprecedented interference in the 2024 election be immediately investigated by OSC. https://t.co/5cirJoPz7P
Sorry I am not impressed with an internal DOJ inquiry into whether Jack Smith violated the Hatch Act to interfere in the 2024 election.
I covered those thugs and both cases against the president more than anyone on this side—and I want handcuffs.
Not for election interference but criminal charges for systematically abusing their power to deny the president and his associates their constitutional rights.
Evidence was mishandled and destroyed in documents case. They threatened attorneys and witnesses. They completely made up the obstruction charges, finally admitting they didn’t know if the boxes that had been moved contained the bullsh*t “classified” papers Trump allegedly had. And God only knows what they pulled in closed door hearings.
Smith criminalized routine communication between executive branch officials in Jan 6 case until the Supreme Court stopped him. Two of the four counts in the indictment related to 1512c2 which SCOTUS also overturned.
He successfully imposed a gag order on the president and others involved in the case. And his top prosecutor, Tom Windom, had his dirty fingerprints on the case from the start leading all the way back to Biden DOJ and White House.
A grand jury not Office of Special Counsel probe. FBI raids not gentlemanly exchanges over process and privilege.
When they suffer what people like Jeff did—then we’re getting somewhere. Until then, it’s all a paper exercise.
Sorry I am not impressed with an internal DOJ inquiry into whether Jack Smith violated the Hatch Act to interfere in the 2024 election.
I covered those thugs and both cases against the president more than anyone on this side—and I want handcuffs.
Newly appointed FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary pulled no punches as he directly accused the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of funding the lab responsible for creating the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic and claimed the lives of over 20 million people globally.
Speaking to NewsNation’s Connell McShane, Dr. Makary blasted the former NIH leadership for pouring taxpayer dollars into unaccountable pet projects, including the now-infamous lab that engineered the virus that triggered a global pandemic.
Dr. Makary: The way it used to be. We’re planning to change our health agencies for a generation or longer. Look at the NIH. When J. Bhattacharya came in there, it was a mess. Fourteen percent of the grants were descriptive studies on health equity.
And the NIH had just funded a lab that brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people worldwide. So they’re getting back to studying root causes, a cure for cancer, debilitating neurodegenerative diseases, and they’re going to do good work.
Connell McShane: Right, but you have to do it with fewer people. Is that a challenge with the cuts, or is that not really what it’s made out to be either?
Dr. Makary: The FDA is strong, and it’s going to continue to be strong. The cuts were consolidations. There were no layoffs to scientific reviewers or inspectors at the FDA.
There was consolidation of the twelve travel offices at the FDA. And so we’re going to institute teamwork and break up the fiefdom culture within the agency. It’s an interesting conversation.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary:
“The NIH had just funded a lab that brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people worldwide!” pic.twitter.com/ZtX9hH6vxX
Democrat Senator Adam Schiff (CA) is under investigation for mortgage fraud, Fox News reported.
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Tuesday evening exclusively reported that the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland is investigating Schiff for possible charges involving mortgage fraud.
BREAKING: There is a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION now underway against Senator ADAM SCHIFF!
(…) Last month in an episode of The Ingraham Angle, Laura revealed that she had exclusively obtained a criminal referral for Adam Schiff — and the allegations are explosive.
The criminal referral, submitted to the DOJ by Housing Director Bill Pulte, accused Schiff of falsifying bank documents and property records over a period of 16 years in order to score more favorable mortgage terms and rates.
The fraudulent activity allegedly spanned from 2003 to 2019, and centers on a lavish Potomac, Maryland home — while Schiff simultaneously maintained a condo in Burbank, California.
“The referral, submitted to the DOJ by Housing Director Bill Pulte, alleges that Schiff has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms—impacting payments from 2003 to 2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property. Schiff owns a home in California and another in Maryland,” said Ingraham.
BREAKING: The criminal referral on Adam Schiff has been obtained by Laura Ingraham and you wouldn’t believe what they’re alleging.
They say that Pencil Neck did the same thing they accused Trump of doing.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. dropped a mega bombshell on Tuesday when he announced that BARDA will be CANCELING 22 mRNA vaccine development contracts, saving taxpayers about $500 million in the process.
This move delivered a major blow to the biomedical industrial complex, which was… pic.twitter.com/2aPXswmHQJ
Kennedy also gave legitimacy to what was deemed a “conspiracy theory” for the longest time.
He suggested the COVID-19 shots, marketed as “safe and effective,” could have CAUSED the virus to mutate more quickly and EXTENDED the pandemic altogether.
And you can already see the media and biggest vaccine pushers in total freefall.
At least four different local news stations effectively read from THE SAME SCRIPT, each crediting the COVID shots with “slowing the COVID-19 pandemic”—shortly after Kennedy decided to pull the plug… pic.twitter.com/KfbPrrbWIp
Professor @PeterHotez responded to the news, saying:
“The US government is turning its back on an mRNA platform technology that saved 3.2 million American lives during the pandemic and is our best chance for vaccines against new and emerging pandemic threats.” pic.twitter.com/yUUT0FkptD
Vaccinologist and multi-millionaire beneficiary of his own rotavirus vaccine patent, Paul Offit, said it was a “sad day for science.”
“[mRNA] is a phenomenal technology and it was remarkably safe … Although the vaccine could cause myocarditis … it was rare and it was transient… pic.twitter.com/7Mk9fzMGFU
Even the BBC had a quiet meltdown, with one doctor saying Kennedy’s decision to fund mRNA was rooted in “misinformation” and “anti-science.” pic.twitter.com/p8lDZJfkc6
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appears for an extensive podcast interview with Miranda Devine.
It may create ‘splodey heads in Washington DC, but DNI Gabbard is now positioned as the tip of the spear to penetrate the fraud, lies, schemes and manipulations of the Intelligence Branch of government. Tulsi Gabbard is the leading voice for honesty and sunlight against the entire DC apparatus that participated in the Russiagate construct.
Gabbard now understands how the DC silo system was weaponized during the manufacturing of information against a political candidate, Donald Trump. Gabbard is speaking truth toward a corrupt system, and she will be the target of all fury that’s dependent on the retention of the corruption.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sits down with Miranda Devine to discuss, in her own words, Obama’s Russiagate plot to sabotage Trump, Hillary Clinton’s vendetta against her, and the evidence that could topple Brennan, Clapper, and Comey. WATCH:
JPMorgan and Bank of America “debanked” President Trump for his role in the January 6 Capitol Hill melee following pressure from the Biden administration’s banking regulators and the Federal Reserve, people with direct knowledge of the matter tell The Post.
The exact reason for Trump and his tens of millions of dollars in holdings being kicked off the JPMorgan banking platform, and then denied access to Bank of America’s services has yet to be reported.
But sources at the banks — the No. 1 and No. 2 largest in the US in terms of assets — confirmed the cause stemmed from the controversy surrounding Trump’s actions that day, and threats from Biden’s bank regulators that banking the former president’s money put them at in danger of falling afoul of rule that prohibit financial institution from doing business with individuals and companies that present a “reputational risk.”
People at the banks tell The Post that Biden’s banking cops at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve often used the nebulous nature of the edict to go beyond debanking money launderers and drug kingpins.
They were pressured to include people who have heterodox political and business ties that often included conservatives and anyone who participated in the January 6 protests. (Read more: New York Post, 8/5/2025) (Archive)
Beto O’Rourke campaigns on top of a table where people eat, March 2019. (Credit: Chip Somodevilla//Getty Images)
State lawmakers in Texas make just $7,200 a year. A group of Democratic legislators spent roughly four times that amount to take a private jet to Illinois in an attempt to block their Republican counterparts from passing a new congressional map. But they didn’t have to worry about the price tag—because Beto O’Rourke’s PAC picked it up.
That’s according to a report in the Texas Tribune, which cited two people involved in the effort to raise funds for Texas Democrats’ walkout. O’Rourke’s PAC, Powered by People, is “armed with a $3.5 million war chest” and has covered most of the costs associated with the walkout so far, including “air transport, lodging, and logistical support,” the outlet reported. Every dollar the group receives going forward will go toward supporting the walkout.
O’Rourke’s emergence as the walkout’s financier could land him in legal trouble. Lawmakers who flee Texas to prevent the state legislature from having enough members to pass laws are subject to $500-a-day fines under Texas house rules, which also prevent walkout participants from soliciting political contributions to pay those fines. Republican governor Greg Abbott has said that “any other person who ‘offers, confers, or agrees to confer'” such contributions to the “fleeing Democrat House members” may be in violation of state bribery laws.
That’s unlikely to faze O’Rourke, who has long spent sizable sums of money on questionable political endeavors.
O’Rourke ran three high-profile campaigns for Senate, president, and governor between 2018 and 2022. He spent nearly $200 million on the three races—including $19 million on his presidential campaign, which lasted just seven months—but lost all of them.
O’Rourke’s PAC also funneled $600,000 to a group of Texas Democrats who spearheaded a similar walkout in 2021 over a Republican-led voting bill. After spending nearly five weeks in Washington, D.C., several walkout participants returned home, giving Republicans the attendance they needed to pass the bill.
This time around, more than 50 Texas Democrats fled the state on Sunday to deny Republicans the quorum needed to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries, an objective they plan to complete during a 30-day special session that began two weeks ago. The Democrats traveled in style—photos showed them boarding a 76-seat CommuteAir jet chartered through Signature Aviation, a company that dubs itself “the world’s largest network of private aviation terminals” and maintains its own “state-of-the-art” private terminal at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. (Read more: Washington Free Beacon, 8/5/2025)(Archive)
OBSTRUCTION: We’re now learning that Texas House Democrats were colluding with billionaire JB Pritzker to prevent the Texas House from achieving a quorum. The secret meetings began the month BEFORE Governor Abbott announced the special session. pic.twitter.com/iDtGcI5z2P
“I Defied My Government for Love”: US State Department Foreign Service Officer Dated Senior CCP Leader’s Daughter, Admits “She Could Have Been A Spy,” Refused to Report Her
“Her dad was either a provincial or a federal minister of education. So he’s, like, straight up Communist Party.”
“I was supposed to, whatever, sort of report what I knew about her, but I always thought that was kind of unfair.”
“I Defied My Government for Love”: US State Department Foreign Service Officer Dated Senior CCP Leader’s Daughter, Admits “She Could Have Been A Spy,” Refused to Report Her
“Her dad was either a provincial or a federal minister of education. So he’s, like, straight up Communist… pic.twitter.com/7Pv1XcZ2x0
I defied my government for love,” confessed Daniel Choi, a U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer, to a hidden camera, on a date with an undercover OMG Journalist. Choi admitted to knowingly violating diplomatic security protocols by failing to report a romantic relationship with the daughter of a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official.
Choi confirmed he chose not to file a required disclosure after beginning a relationship with Joi Zao, a 27-year-old Chinese national who entered the United States on a work visa in late September. Under federal regulations, Foreign Service Officers are required to report close and continuing contact with foreign nationals from adversarial nations, including China. Choi acknowledged this requirement but stated he believed it was unfair. “I was supposed to, whatever, sort of report what I knew about her,” he said, adding, “But I always thought that was kind of unfair.”
Choi also disclosed that Zao’s father was a high-ranking official in the CCP. “Her dad was either a provincial or a federal minister of education,” he said. “So he’s, like, straight-up Communist Party.” When asked whether Zao could have been engaged in espionage, Choi confirmed: “She could have been a spy.”
Choi admitted he deliberately withheld the relationship from his superiors “out of respect” for Zao. Choi added that he would have considered reporting the relationship only if it became serious or led to marriage, acknowledging, “If I were dating somebody and we were going to get married… then maybe I would do the report.”
For years, I’ve told you about Barack Obama’s legal hatchet man and color revolution extraordinaire Norm Eisen. Look here and here.
The theory of the case is simple: the intelligence community and deep state tactics used for regime change abroad were turned inwards and weaponized against President Trump. Think impeachments, paid protests, propaganda, surveillance, and bogus indictments.
President Trump’s call for a mid-decade census has been met with the predictable clamor of objections, legalistic squabbles, and cries of partisanship. But strip away the politics, and one finds a more elemental issue: representation rooted in reality versus power propped up by error.
In 2020, the US Census Bureau, to its credit, admitted what is perhaps the most consequential mistake in its modern history. Through its own Post-Enumeration Survey, it revealed that it had severely undercounted Republican-leaning states like Texas, Florida, and Tennessee, while substantially overcounting Democrat strongholds such as Minnesota, Rhode Island, and New York.
The resulting distortion stripped states like Texas and Florida of seats they rightly earned and awarded phantom representation to states like Minnesota and Rhode Island. This was not a statistical quibble but a systemic fracture in our representative republic.
When population counts determine congressional seats and electoral votes, such errors do not merely skew data. They rig elections.
CENSUS: The US Census Bureau admitted undercounting population in Republican-controlled states like Texas (stealing 2 seats) and overcounting in Democrat-controlled states like Minnesota. The Democrats knew that this couldn’t be fixed unless Republicans held the House, Senate,… pic.twitter.com/VWw2NsgjtR
To appreciate the stakes, let us be blunt. The Census Bureau’s own post-count audit estimated that Texas was undercounted by over half a million people, Florida by over 760,000, and Tennessee by nearly 300,000. These errors alone deprived each of these states of not one, but two congressional seats apiece, had accurate counts prevailed. Meanwhile, Rhode Island, which was projected to lose a seat, managed to cling to both of its House seats by a margin of 19,000, only to have the post-enumeration survey later reveal it had been overcounted by 55,000. Minnesota, famously, retained its 8th congressional seat by just 89 counted individuals. It was later shown to have been overcounted by over 200,000. Had the Census Bureau counted with precision, Rhode Island and Minnesota would each have lost a seat. Colorado, too, gained a new seat, but only because the undercounts in Republican states freed up enough seats to permit it. In total, as analysts from the Heritage Foundation and House Oversight Committees have concluded, up to seven congressional seats were misallocated, distorting both the House and the Electoral College.
What makes this not just a mistake but a scandal is the funding, coordination, and deliberate politicization that preceded it. California taxpayers alone spent over $187 million on census outreach efforts, much of it targeted at ensuring that illegal aliens were counted. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan added millions more. Reed Hastings, too, poured money into nonprofits that work both to support migrants entering the country unlawfully and then to ensure those same migrants were counted in the census. This was not a disinterested exercise in civic engagement. It was a partisan play for power: flood blue states with migrants, count them whether or not they have a legal right to be here, and thereby inflate the representation of states with pro-migrant policies. Even if one avoids impugning motives, the incentive structure is perverse. NGOs that facilitate illegal entry into the country have every reason to pad census numbers, since more people on paper means more money and more political clout. That is not democracy. It is demographic manipulation.
Some will insist that the Constitution requires counting everyone, regardless of status. But this interpretation is neither necessary nor historically grounded. The constitutional language calls for an “actual Enumeration” of persons, not of citizens nor exclusively of legal residents. But context matters. The Framers were silent on illegal immigration because it did not exist as a legal category in 1787. Yet they made clear that representation was to be based on those who comprised the polity, not transient populations or foreign nationals residing unlawfully within the republic. James Madison, writing in Federalist No. 54, explicitly ties representation to those who are part of the body politic. A foreign national who arrives unlawfully and resides temporarily, outside the protection of the law, was not envisioned as a constituent unit of representation. To argue otherwise is to indulge anachronism.
But even if one grants the current interpretation, it does not follow that the government must count illegal aliens for purposes of apportionment. President Trump, in his first term, sought to exclude illegal aliens from the census-derived apportionment count. The move was blocked not on constitutional grounds but on technical ones, the administration had not completed the work in time. As Justice Alito noted in his dissent in Trump v. New York, the Constitution does not preclude excluding those who are here unlawfully from the basis of representation. It merely requires that Congress and the Executive act with clarity and statutory authority. President Trump, now re-elected, seeks to do just that.
A mid-decade census is both statutorily permitted and constitutionally sound. Critics claim that apportionment must occur only once every ten years. That is incorrect. Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution mandates that an enumeration occur at least every ten years. It does not forbid additional counts. The Census Act allows for a mid-decade census, and although it currently prohibits that count from being used for apportionment, this is a matter of statute, not constitutional command. Congress can and should change the law. If errors as massive and consequential as those in 2020 occurred in any other area of governance, say, counting ballots or recording GDP growth, they would be grounds for audit, correction, and likely removal of those responsible. Yet in the most fundamental count the federal government performs, the literal counting of who lives here and who is represented, we are told we must accept known errors for a decade.
Why? Because that is how it has always been done? That is not an argument, it is an abdication. If the founding principle of republican government is that representation follows population, then we are bound to ensure that population counts are accurate. When they are not, and when we know they are not, we have both a legal and moral obligation to correct them. President Trump’s mid-decade census is the first step in that correction.
Moreover, the exclusion of illegal aliens from the new count is not a distortion but a restoration. For decades, Democrats have blurred the lines between citizens and non-citizens, lawful residents and unlawful entrants, in pursuit of what they themselves called a “demographic advantage.” As early as 2001, political strategist Ruy Teixeira argued that immigration would yield a permanent Democratic majority. The census, under this view, becomes not a tool of representation but an instrument of demographic engineering. To reverse this trend is not radical. It is prudent.
Consider the incentives. If states know they can increase their House seats by increasing their population through illegal immigration, they have every incentive to adopt sanctuary policies, resist deportation efforts, and fund NGO programs that attract and count unlawful residents. This is precisely what happened in California, where nonprofits received government funds to ensure the enumeration of undocumented migrants. The same organizations that aid illegal border crossings were paid to boost census participation. This is, by any reasonable measure, a conflict of interest.
A new census that excludes illegal aliens removes that perverse incentive. It restores the proper relation between the governed and their representatives. It ensures that House seats are allocated based on lawful populations, not inflated tallies driven by political gamesmanship. It is both lawful and right.
Opponents will say a mid-decade census undermines stability. But stability based on falsehood is not stability at all. It is stagnation. The republic does not benefit from knowingly maintaining an incorrect apportionment. The fact that the law currently prohibits mid-decade apportionment adjustments is not a defense of that law but an indictment of it. Congress should change the statute, authorize the new census for apportionment purposes, and ensure that only legal residents are counted for representation. This requires no constitutional amendment. The Constitution permits it. Only inertia and politics prevent it.
Representation is not a game of margins. It is the beating heart of our democracy. When states like Texas and Florida, home to tens of millions of citizens, are denied proper representation, the injury is not just to those states but to the Union. When states like Minnesota and Rhode Island are awarded seats they do not deserve, the distortion multiplies through every vote cast in the House and every electoral vote assigned to a candidate. President Trump’s call for a new, accurate, and lawful census is not merely defensible. It is necessary.
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The FBI fired former Acting Director Brian Driscoll and other senior officials involved in January 6 cases and Trump witch hunts.
CNN reported on Thursday that former Acting Director Brian Driscoll, Acting Director in charge of the Washington Field Office Steve Jensen, and special agent Walter Giardina have all been fired.
Walter Giardia hunted down Trump Advisor Peter Navarro.
Two senior FBI officials, including one who initially resisted the Trump administration’s effort to gather the names of agents who worked on cases related to the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, are being fired, multiple sources tell CNN.
Brian Driscoll, who was acting FBI director in the weeks before now-Director Kash Patel was confirmed, is being dismissed, sources said. Steve Jensen, the acting director in charge of the Washington Field Office, is also being fired, according to two separate sources.
The administration has also fired other agents in the bureau this week who were perceived to be opposed to Trump in the past, according to three sources familiar with the agency’s actions.
Earlier this year it was reported Driscoll refused to hand over the names of the officials involved in January 6 cases and Trump investigations.
Letitia James attends Trump trial, May 2024. (Credit: public domain)
New York Attorney General Letitia James was hit with subpoenas as part of a grand jury probe by the Albany US Attorney’s Office into her office’s $454 million civil fraud case against President Trump, a source familiar with the investigation told The Post.
John Sarcone (Credit: public domain)
Northern District of New York acting US Attorney John Sarcone convened the grand jury after coordinating with the FBI to launch an investigation into James in May.
One of the subpoenas related to the civil fraud judgment won by the Empire State Attorney General’s Office against Trump, which is still under review by the First Department Appellate Division.
A second subpoena reportedly dealt with the AG’s own probe into the NRA, the New York Times first reported. Other records were also requested.
“Any weaponization of the justice system should disturb every American,” a spokesperson for the NY AG said in a statement. “We stand strongly behind our successful litigation against the Trump Organization and the National Rifle Association, and we will continue to stand up for New Yorkers’ rights.”
(…) “If average New Yorkers went into a bank and submitted false documents, the government would throw the book at them, and the same should be true for former presidents,” the attorney general had said.
The well-placed source did not indicate whether the current US Department of Justice probe included recent claims of mortgage fraud by the AG on properties in Brooklyn and Virginia, which James denied as “baseless.” (Read more: New York Post, 8/8/2025)(Archive)
DOJ has referred Leticia James to a Grand Jury in Albany for a “Deprivation of Rights” investigation by the newly formed Strike Force at DOJ.
This stems from the Trump case regarding the valuation of Mar A Lago.
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins (Credit: public domain)
Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins, who serves as the Sheriff for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, has been charged with extortion involving the purchase of an equity interest in a Boston-based cannabis company.
Tompkins, 67, of Boston, Mass, was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of Extortion Under Color of Official Right. He was taken into custody this morning in the Southern District of Florida and will have an initial appearance at 11:00 a.m. He will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date.
“Mr. Tompkins is a sitting Sheriff, responsible for over 1,000 employees, who was elected by the good people of Suffolk County. Today, he is alleged to have extorted an executive from a cannabis company, using his official position as Sheriff to benefit himself. Elected officials, particularly those in law enforcement, are expected to be ethical, honest and law abiding – not self-serving. His alleged actions are an affront to the voters and taxpayers who elected him to his position, and the many dedicated and honest public servants at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department. The people of Suffolk County deserve better,” said United States Attorney Leah B. Foley. “Public corruption remains a top priority for my administration and we will continue to investigate and prosecute anyone who uses their position of trust and power for their own gain.”
“From his very first day as Suffolk County Sheriff, Steven Tompkins sought to portray himself as a man of the people – a principled public servant and reformer, devoted to the cause of justice. That’s why it’s beyond disappointing that he’s now accused of gaming a system instituted in the interests of public safety and fair play. The FBI took Sheriff Tompkins into custody today for allegedly extorting $50,000 from the owner of a national cannabis retailer seeking to do business in Boston. We believe what the Sheriff saw as an easy way to make a quick buck on the sly is clear cut corruption under federal law,” said Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division. “The citizens of Suffolk County deserve better, not a man who is accused of trading on his position to bankroll his own political and financial future. Public servants must be held to the highest of ethical standards, and those falling short will be rooted out.”
Tompkins currently serves as the Sheriff for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department (SCSD). He was first appointed Sheriff in 2013, elected as Sheriff in a special election in or about 2014, and thereafter elected to successive six-year terms. As Sheriff, Tompkins oversees approximately 1,000 correctional officers and other employees responsible for operating and maintaining correctional facilities in Boston at the House of Correction and the Nashua Street Jail.
According to court documents, in 2019, the cannabis company, Company A, sought to open a retail cannabis dispensary in Boston and applied to the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) for a dispensary license. To satisfy the Positive Impact Plan (PIP) requirement of the CCC, Company A entered into a partnership with the SCSD whereby the SCSD would help screen and refer graduates of its re-entry program to apply for work at Company A’s retail store.
Company A’s partnership with the SCSD was memorialized in a September 2019 letter signed by Tompkins and submitted to the CCC in its completed dispensary license application in or about March 2020. In or about March 2021, the CCC approved a license for Company A to operate a cannabis dispensary in Boston. The CCC later approved license renewal applications for Company A in 2021, 2022 and 2023. In each of the renewal applications, Company A included its ongoing partnership with the SCSD as part of its fulfillment of the PIP requirement.
According to court documents, one of Company A’s goals was to raise capital to launch an initial public offering (IPO) and then continue its growth as a publicly traded company. Company A officials, including a company executive identified as Individual A, sought multimillion-dollar investments from institutions or other high net-worth, sophisticated investors in order to raise capital. Company A officials, including Individual A, were not looking to raise capital from the general public or small, individual investors. Beginning in or about mid-2020, Company A began preparing for an IPO of Company A stock, which included producing audited financial statements, hiring attorneys to ensure compliance with securities laws and obtaining additional financing from large scale and high net-worth investors, among other things.
It is alleged that Tompkins pressured Individual A for stock, reminding Individual A that Tompkins had helped Company A in its Boston licensing efforts. It is alleged that Individual A believed and feared that Tompkins would use his official position as Sheriff to jeopardize Company A’s partnership with the SCSD and thus imperil both the dispensary license for Company A, as well as the timing of the IPO. In fact, in October 2020, Company A asked Tompkins for an updated partnership letter to submit to the CCC for its yearly renewal of Company A’s Boston license. Within one month of signing the October 2020 SCSD partnership letter with Company A, and after increased pressure on Individual A, Tompkins allegedly obtained a pre-IPO interest in Company A stock after Individual A relented to Tompkins’s demands.
In November 2020, Tompkins allegedly wired a $50,000 payment from his retirement account to an account controlled by Individual A. Tompkins paid a pre-IPO price of approximately $1.73 per share of Company A stock (equity equivalent to 28,883 shares) and after a reverse stock split, Tompkins held approximately 14,417 shares at a price of approximately $3.46 per share.
According to court documents, in or about mid-2021, when Company A launched its IPO, the stock had a value of approximately $9.60 per share. Thus, Tompkins’s $50,000 purchase of 14,417 shares of Company A stock had appreciated to an approximate value of $138,403.
In May 2022, Company A stock decreased in value such that Tompkins’s equity interest in Company A stock was worth several thousand dollars less than the $50,000 he originally invested. However, Tompkins demanded a refund of $50,000 and, despite the decrease in the value of Tompkins’s investment, Individual A agreed to Tompkins’s demands for full repayment of $50,000.
Subsequently, from approximately May 2022 to July 2023, Individual A refunded Tompkins $50,000 investment by issuing Tompkins five checks. Allegedly in accordance with Tompkins’s wishes, Individual A wrote memos on certain checks that read “loan repayment” and “[company] expense” to disguise the nature of some of the payments: (Read more: Justice.Org, 8/8/2025)(Archive)
8/8 Bottom line: Huge win for Trump. HUGE. And also, I would submit, shows how Boasberg’s anti-Trump bias and presumption Trump would violate an order played out in the real world and precisely why recusal was appropriate!!
“Anonymous” Author Miles Taylor PANICS that Trump Admin will *finally* arrest enemies of MAGA🚨
“Look, umm — uh — uh — I am — I am reasonably confident I did not commit treason against the — uh — United States of America.”
“Whether it’s going against me or Attorney General James or Adam Schiff — they want to go shine a light on these people and their lives and follow them as long as possible to find the traffic infraction that they can lord over them to make their lives very, very difficult.”
“And make no mistake — this is not for show.”
“The president is under enormous pressure from the MAGA base to put these people in handcuffs.”
“It’s why for years he talked about locking them up. They now want to see it. And I’m telling you — they are going to find it.”
“One of these newscasts … we’re going to be reporting sort of breathlessly that one of these people on this list has been put in handcuffs, has been picked up and is in detention.”
“We are going to cross that Rubicon during the Trump presidency. It brings me no joy to forecast that.”
🚨NEW: “Anonymous” Author Miles Taylor PANICS that Trump Admin will *finally* arrest enemies of MAGA🚨
“Look, umm — uh — uh — I am — I am reasonably confident I did not commit treason against the — uh — United States of America.”
A career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in 2017 that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate scandal, according to bombshell FBI memos that Director Kash Patel has turned over to Congress.
The FBI 302 interview reports obtained by Just the News state the intelligence staffer — a Democrat by party affiliation who described himself as a friend to both Schiff, now a California senator, and former Republican House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes — considered the classified leaking to be “unethical,” “illegal,” and “treasonous,” but was told not to worry about it because Schiff believed he would be spared prosecution under the Constitution’s speech and debate clause.
No publicly-disclosed opinion from the Attorney General or the Solicitor General can be found making that determination as a matter of law.
But officials told Just the News that DOJ officials showed little interest in pursuing Schiff when the allegations were brought to them years ago, citing the very same excuse the lawmaker had offered.
In his most recent interview with the bureau in 2023, the whistleblower, whose name is redacted, told agents from the FBI’s St. Louis office that he personally attended a meeting at which Schiff authorized leaking classified information.
“When working in this capacity, [redacted staffer’s name] was called to an all-staff meeting by SCHIFF,” the interview report said. “In this meeting, SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States DONALD J. TRUMP. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President TRUMP.”
The whistleblower told investigators that he “stated this would be illegal and, upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured that they would not be caught leaking classified information,” the 2023 interview report stated.
The staffer made similar claims to agents in the FBI’s Washington field office as early as 2017, shortly after Trump took office for his first term.
Schiff did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
The alleged leaks fall outside the statute of limitations for prosecution on most legal theories, but the revelations nevertheless come at a sensitive time for Schiff, who recently was referred to the Justice Department for possible prosecution for potential mortgage fraud, based on a story first written by Just the News.
Officials also said some of the DOJ officials who declined to prosecute a rash of classified leaks during the Russiagate affair remain employed in positions of power, a matter that may be of interest to lawmakers in Congress.
“For years, certain officials used their positions to selectively leak classified information to shape political narratives,” Patel told Just the News on Monday. “It was all done with one purpose: to weaponize intelligence and law enforcement for political gain.
“Those abuses eroded public trust in our institutions,” he added. “The FBI will now lead the charge, with our partners at DOJ, and Congress will have the chance to uncover how political power may have been weaponized and to restore accountability,” he said.
Schiff, who previously served as the ranking member and then chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) before ascending to the Senate, pushed false allegations of Trump-Russia collusion for many years, and touted British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier — even reading multiple baseless claims from it into the congressional record in March 2017.
The whistle-blower began approaching the FBI that same year.
In one meeting, the Democratic HPSCI staffer told the FBI that retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn — Trump’s first national security adviser — was to be a specific focus of the committee as part of a broader effort to target Trump. The whistleblower also specifically pointed to Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., as a likely source of classified leaks, the memos state.
Punishment for duty to law instead of party loyalty
The Democratic staffer also allegedly told a former Republican colleague on the committee that he was terminated because Schiff’s staff did not believe he had adequate “party loyalty” after he raised concerns about the leaks strategy, the FBI memos show. (Read much more: Just the News, 8/11/2025)(Archive)
D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) only includes homicide, sex abuse crimes, assault with a dangerous weapon and robbery in its overall “violent crime” numbers that show a decline in 2024. Aggravated assault and felony assault without the use of weapons are left out, despite D.C. law describing them as violent offenses causing bodily injury and despite the fact that aggravated assaults are increasing, according to the FBI.
“Felony Assault does not fall under the D.C. Index violent offense categories,” the MPD told the Daily Caller News Foundation without answering specific questions.
The FBI includes a broader range of assaults in its violent crime data for D.C. based on what local police provide to the bureau. Consequently, the FBI’s data show that the number of violent offenses in D.C. only decreased by 10% in 2024 and remained slightly higher than in 2018.
The FBI’s numbers also show that homicides have remained higher than pre-pandemic levels in the years since 2020, with the exception of 2021, a year when D.C. submitted incomplete data, according to Axios. Additionally, D.C. saw 12% more aggravated assaults with or without a weapon in 2024 than in 2023 and 37% more than in 2022, per the FBI. (Read more: Daily Caller, 8/11/2025)(Archive)
(…) The Democratic whistleblower told the FBI in a December 2017 interview at his home that “the HPSCI work environment started to change around August 2016 as the U.S. presidential election approached.” He said that, during a September 2016 staff meeting, other Democratic staffers revealed they had provided “on background” information to journalists about “their impressions of Russian activity surrounding the upcoming election.”
The Democratic staffer told FBI agents during an August 2017 interview at the Bullfeathers restaurant in the nation’s capital that he was told by various HPSCI staffers in the October 2016 timeframe that if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the November 2016 election, Schiff would be offered the position of CIA director. The staffer told the FBI in December 2017 that “the mood within HPSCI was indescribable” after Trump’s win, and that Schiff “was particularly upset, as he believed he would have been appointed as the Director of CIA” had Clinton won the election. (Read more: Just the News, 8/11/2025)(Archive)
DEVELOPING: Ellen Nakashima, the Washington Post’s handmaiden for the deep state, is now showing up in FBI 302s as the likely key recipient of classified intelligence leaks from Adam Schiff regarding Russiagate https://t.co/5DWCIlh25f
Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Ranking Member Rep. Devin Nunes listen to Gordon Sondland, the U.S ambassador to the European Union, testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill November 20, 2019. (Credit: Doug Mills/Getty Images)
Devin Nunes was put under investigation in 2017 for looking into abuse of foreign intelligence surveillance programs, including by Barack Obama’s White House. New documents appear to vindicate him.
Last week, when Donald Trump’s Justice Department releasednotes of an FBI interview with a “whistleblower” from the Democratic staff of the House Intelligence Committee, the few media outlets to seriously cover the story focused on a grave accusation: then-Congressman Adam Schiff approved leaks of classified information in 2017 as a way “topple” the Trump administration. The document, which seemed to confirm mention of a “Committee Witness” in an Inspector General’s report last year, triggered heated denials from Schiff and fellow Democrat Eric Swalwell, who seethed that the only “real criminals” in Washington were in the White House.
Few noticed another passage deep in the report, in which the Democratic staffer described efforts to “unmask” identities of figures in Trump’s orbit. Typically, the names of Americans swept up in monitoring of suspected foreign terrorists or criminals are anonymized, and transcripts of their conversations are only available to non-intelligence personnel upon request from high-level officials. The whistleblower suggested these “unmasking” techniques had been abused by members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, or HPSCI:
HPSCI personnel contacted [redacted] and [redacted] and requested the number of documents the agencies had related to President Trump. The staff wanted to know how many of these documents were masked. They planned to request the unmasking of the individuals and then deal with them.
The report contains other mentions of efforts by “HPSCI attorneys” to unmask the identities of unnamed figures. It’s theoretically possible that the staffer was referring in certain places to actions by Republican HPSCI staffers, but it’s unlikely that’s the case throughout, especially in the above passage. Either way, there’s reason some of the Republicans who originally looked at this issue saw in that release a piece of overdue vindication, after being denounced for investigating these very practices nearly a decade ago.
Over the years, however, evidence surfaced suggesting abuse claims were anything but conspiracy theory, and that Nunes was correct to raise an alarm about misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) program. Although a Trump-appointed Special Counsel, John Bash, issued a report finding no evidence of misuse of unmasking procedures for political purposes, Trump-Russia investigators in both the Senate and the House have long believed there was more to the story, and that Bash’s report ignored significant evidence of corruption. “Not gonna lie. The Bash thing was a gut punch for us,” is how one former Republican Senate aide put it. “It sucked.”
Now the unmasking story is back in the investigative picture. According to a Justice Department spokesperson, the FISA court in June unsealed more Carter Page materials for oversight purposes, giving Russiagate investigators new documents to examine. Along with last week’s FBI whistleblower release, hopes have been reignited that the issue of using FISA to spy on Americans for political reasons will finally be re-examined, after a nearly decade-long delay.
“We pushed for years for transparency and accountability for the Russia hoax and were continually disappointed,” a Nunes-era HPSCI staffer told Racket. “But right now, some of us are feeling a strange sense of optimism that we’re not used to.”
In May 2017, the FBI’s Baltimore Field Office received a referral from FBI headquarters to open a media leak investigation into a January 13, 2017Washington Post article by David Ignatius, which contained highly classified information concerning calls placed between Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador:
According to a senior U.S. government official, Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29, the day the Obama administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian officials and other measures in retaliation for the hacking. What did Flynn say, and did it undercut the U.S. sanctions?
The Logan Act (though never enforced) bars U.S. citizens from correspondence intending to influence a foreign government about “disputes” with the United States. Was its spirit violated? The Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Baltimore Field Office would conduct a full investigation – named Echos Fate – into the leak beginning May 10, 2017, assisted by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, the DOJ National Security Division, and the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.
It also investigated the leak of information, again to the Washington Post, in an article written by Greg Miller, Adam Entous, and Ellen Nakashima published on February 9, 2017 and entitled “Officials Say Flynn Discussed Sanctions.” That article was particularly destructive, as the leaks concerning the Flynn/Kislyak calls were alleged to be “contrary to public assertions by Trump officials”, putting Flynn on the ropes and the Trump Administration on the defensive.
Various other articles were part of Echos Fate, including:
Part of the problem with determining the identity of those who leaked the Flynn/Kislyak information was that, beginning in late December 2016, the outgoing Obama Administration made those calls a matter of routine discussion – starting with January 2017 meetings in the White House.
As documented in Peter Strzok’s notes from a January 4, 2017 meeting at the Obama White House, FBI Director James Comey brought those calls to the attention of President Obama (and VP Biden, Sally Yates, and others).
As explained by the FBI, their investigative pool was “comprised of over 167 individuals” – not including all those persons “exposed to the ECHOS FATE material through verbal briefings and discussions.” The FBI’s investigative pool was essentially unknown.
For over a year, we’ve had our own FOIA lawsuit filed against the FBI for the Flynn/Kislyak investigation – and recently received the FBI’s opening communication on ECHOS FATE, though it was much more redacted than what was just released. We’ve been informed by the Government that the Echos Fate investigative file is over 2,000 pages and has an hour of video. Production of these records will be slow – and we will be sure to post what we get.
Those 2,000 pages don’t include the thousands of documents reviewed by the FBI in its attempt to find those who leaked. But it does include over 30 interviews, described by the FBI as including those from the FBI, DOJ, and US Intelligence Community.
On our own, we were able to determine that the initial leak of the Flynn/Kislyak calls likely took place around January 5, 2017 – just one day after the White House meeting where the calls were discussed. And the leaks weren’t initially made to David Ignatius but to Adam Entous (then with the Washington Post). Entous, in a public appearance, discussed how the leaks occurred, though he didn’t give names:
“Then, my sources start whispering to me that there were all these mysterious communications between Michael Flynn, who was then the National Security Advisor designate for Trump and the Russian ambassador, Kislyak.”
Back in May 2020, we asked Entous about the Flynn leak. He responded the leak came directly from “sources [who] saw a transcript and described it to [him].”
We suspect there were a host of officials who leaked the Flynn calls – including Sally Yates or her underlings, like Mary McCord or Tashina Gauhar. After all, Entous was suspiciously familiar with Yates’s concerns about the calls:
In any event, by December 2020, the Baltimore Field Office, in concurrence with the US Attorney’s Office for DC, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, and the FBI’s Washington Field Office, recommended that Echos Fate be closed, stating all investigative steps and methods, and all leads, had been completed or discontinued. (Read more: Techno Fog, 8/13/2025) (Archive)
The FBI confirmed illegal intel leaks but rounded up no offenders. Declassified memos have unmasked Comey’s secret media conduit, a law professor whom Comey put on the government payroll.
The FBI concluded numerous legacy news media stories that crafted the false Russia collusion narrative contained illegally leaked classified intelligence but failed to definitively identify the leakers. But agents did force a stunning admission that ex-FBI Director James Comey used a special conduit to the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times in his bid to polish his image and push for a special prosecutor to take down President Donald Trump.
Daniel Richman (Credit: public domain)
Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman admitted to agents in interviews he routinely communicated on behalf of Comey, his longtime friend, with Times reporter Michael Schmidt, whose work was among the newspaper’s 2018Pulitzer-winning stories on Russian election interference. The goal, Richman told the FBI, was “to correct stories critical of Comey, the FBI and to shape future press coverage” outside of the bureau’s official press office, according to internal FBI memos that current Director Kash Patel delivered to Congress this week.
While Richman was known to have been publicly quoted in news stories as an advocate for Comey, he admitted to agents — who were part of the FBI’s Arctic Haze classified leaks inquiry — that he was given access by Comey to what turned out to be highly classified information up to the SCI level and sometimes provided information to reporters on an anonymous basis.
Richman insisted he did not believe he had confirmed or provided classified intelligence to reporters but said he could not be 100 percent, the memos state, noting he could only make his leak denial “with a discount.”
“Richman was pretty sure he did not confirm the Classified Information. However, Richman told the interviewing agents he was sure ‘with a discount’ that he did not tell Schmidt about the Classified Information,” one FBI memo recounted.
In the end, the Justice Department decided not to pursue any criminal charges against Comey or any of his lieutenants or now-Sen. Adam Schiff despite potential evidence of leaks, saying it could not be certain of who leaked what and when.
But its interrogation of Richman and his admissions of significant contact with the Times‘ Schmidt provide the most detailed account to date of how Trump critics like Comey — who was fired by the president — used the media to craft narratives that ultimately turned out to be untrue or misleadingly overstated, the memos show.
(…) Just the News also revealed this week that a career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in 2017 that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate scandal. Schiff has denied the allegation.
Newly-declassified FBI memos also include details on classified leaks investigations dubbed Tropic Vortex, Foggy Falls, Riding Hood, Sirens Lure, Echos Fate, and Genetic Christmas.
Comey, Richman, and “Arctic Haze”
(…) The leak investigation zeroed in on four news articles which contained leaked classified information.
The first was a New York Timesarticle by four reporters — Schmidt, Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, and Eric Lichtblau — from late April 2017 titled “Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. from Politics. Then He Shaped an Election.” The second was a Washington Poststory by Ellen Nakashima from early April 2017 titled “New details emerge about 2014 Russian hack of the State Department: It was ‘hand to hand combat’.”
The third was another Washington Postpiece by Karoun Demirjian and Devlin Barrett from late May 2017 titled, “How a Dubious Russian Document Influenced the FBI’s Handling of the Clinton Probe.” The fourth was a Wall Street Journalarticle by Holman Jenkins Jr. from late May 2017 titled, “The Trump-Russia Story Starts Making Sense.” (Read more: Just the News, 8/12/2025)(Archive)
Former Trump campaign aide Carter Page in May 29, 2019. (Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
On May 10, 2017, the FBI opened a leak investigation – which it called Foggy Falls – into classified materials leaked to the Washington Post concerning the Carter Page FISA applications. The article at issue, “Court Let FBI Monitor an Adviser to Trump”, was written by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett, and Adam Entous and published on April 12, 2017. Another article containing criminal leaks of classified information was published by the same authors at the Washington Post and entitled “FBI Obtained FISA Warrant to Monitor Trump Adviser Carter Page.”
These articles included specific details from the FISA applications, including Page’s alleged “contacts with Russian operatives that have not been publicly disclosed.” Omitted from the article (and the FISA applications, of course) was the fact that Page had been an intelligence source in the years before Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Focus on Adam Schiff
As part of the investigative process, the FBI looked into those who had access to the FISA application during its certification and approval, including those at the DOJ and members of Congress and their staffers, who had been provided with “read-only” copies of the FISA applications in March and April of 2017.
As part of its due diligence, the FBI sent a March 2018 memorandum to the DOJ and to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia “regarding the viability of prosecution and willingness of DOJ CES and USAO-DC to prosecute.” The DOJ and DC US Attorney’s Office “never provided a written response.”
After Trump declassified redacted versions of the FISA application and the renewal applications, the FBI again sent memorandums to the DOJ and DC US Attorney’s Office “regarding the viability of prosecution and willingness of DOJ CES and USAO-DC to prosecute this matter given all classified material which served as the basis for leak has been declassified by the President.” And again, the DOJ and USAO-DC never responded.
From the recent disclosures, it appears conclusive that the DOJ and DC US Attorney’s Office were unwilling to take all investigative steps to investigate the FISA leaks to the Washington Post. Though some of the information remains redacted, it suggests that the DOJ/USAO-DC refused to subpoena records from Congress (likely those associated with Adam Schiff) and from members of the press related to the leak. Here’s the summary in full, with redactions:
The investigation wasn’t without one scalp – it appears it led to the opening of “Riding Hood”, which looked into Senate Staffer James Wolfe. A March 2020 letter from the DOJ National Security Division to the FBI concerning states:
“The investigation did identify James Wolfe, a former staffer on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as a subject. Wolfe was interviewed and pled guilty to violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001 for making false statements to the FBI about his contact with members of the media.”
If you recall, Wolfe had an ongoing affair with Politico/New York Times reporter Ali Watkins (sex for access, to put it bluntly) and leaked FISA materials – rightly assumed to be pictures of a Carter Page FISA application – to Watkins. Jessie Liu, the then-US Attorney for the District of Columbia, declined to prosecute him for the disclosure of classified materials. Ali Watkins is still employed by The New York Times, by the way.
Adam Schiff: Soon after the Democrat took control of the House Intelligence Committee, its review of the drafting of the intelligence community assessment was classified and locked in a Capitol basement safe. (Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
On October 23, 2017, the FBI opened “Genetic Christmas” – the investigation into leaks of classified information to NBC News published in their December 14, 2016 article “U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack.” The article alleged:
U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.
Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used. The intelligence came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said.
These conclusions by the Obama Administration would eventually be repeated in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which was provided to President Obama in early January 2017. We previously addressed the Intelligence Community’s reliance on bogus documents and whistleblower concerns about the politicization of the ICA.
As with the Flynn leak investigation, it was difficult for the FBI to determine exactly who knew about the “new intelligence” or the allegations (false) of Putin’s approval of the DNC/DCCC hack. They determined 46 FBI employees had access to the information and that there were “an unknown number of individuals, at least 15 based on names provided during interviews, who had access to the GENETIC CHRISTMAS information through verbal briefings and discussions.” The FBI also observed that US Senators were briefed on the Russian assessments on November 28, 2016 and December 9, 2016.
Thus, “the investigation revealed an unquantifiable subject pool because there is no way fully determine the scope of dissemination of the GENETIC CHRISTMAS information prior to its release.”
With the unknown subject pool and delays in witness interviews and the criminal referral (approximately 9 months after the leak), the FBI found it difficult to develop leads. Genetic Christmas was subsequently closed in February 2020.
Related to this investigation was a November 5, 2023, FBI interview of a former staffer with Congressman Adam Schiff. The staffer described a meeting with Schiff and his staff, where:
“SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States Donald J. Trump. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President Trump.”
As summarized from his interview, the former staffer was eventually informed that the DOJ would not investigate the matter further due to Congressional immunity, though there is no legal basis to conclude that leaks to the media or leaks by staffers are protected by the Constitution.
The November 2023 interview with the staffer was essentially a follow-up of other interviews with the staffer that took place beginning in August 2017, where he described how Schiff and Democrats would plan their “leaking process”, how staffers described their contacts with journalists concerning Russia and the 2016 election, and the identities of three staffers who were likely responsible for leaks. (These leaks and the DOJ’s process to obtain records of members of Congress, their staffers, and members of the media, would eventually be part of an Inspector General report, available here.)
After the 2016 election, Adam Schiff was particularly distraught, as he thought he would be appointed CIA Director under Hillary Clinton – a frightening proposition. In February 2017, hoping to create a public fervor surrounding the Trump/Russia hoax, the Democrats instructed their staffers to use their Intelligence Community sources “to gather [classified] information, which would then be made public through the media in order to compel public opinion.”
The leaks were “driven from the top” and “structured and intentional.” One of their targets was General Flynn, though their ultimate goal was trying to get Trump impeached. Democrat staffers justified leaks of classified information because they believed they were “in the middle of a constitutional crisis.” (Read more: Techno Fog, 8/13/2025)(Archive)
Jared Kushner, 2025. (Credit: Andrea Hanks/Official White House Photo)
As part of the effort to sabotage Trump and to render ineffective his staff, there were also leaks to the Washington Post, The New York Times, and CNN targeting Jared Kushner, alleging improper and shady contacts with Russia. The FBI’s investigation into those leaks was opened in September 2017 under the name Sirens Lure.
As was the case with the other leak investigations, the FBI faced a daunting task: it initially identified “over 192 individuals in the subject pool” across various parts of the government, from the Intelligence Community to Congress.
Notably, some of the media reports concerning Kushner occurred after a “Read Room” was established for members of Congress to view classified information. House Democrats restricted access to at least one HPSCI staffer from an FBI interview “based on Speech or Debate privileges.”
This led the FBI to back-off attempts to interview other Congressional Democrat staffers. Though the FBI considered search warrants but either the FBI or the DOJ decided against that course of action. Without the capabilities to pursue the investigation further, and faced with the prospects of interviewing over 192 potential subjects (the number was likely much higher), Sirens Lures was closed in May 2021.
Victor Davis Hanson just held a mirror up to the modern Democrat Party the reflection wasn’t flattering.
According to Hanson, their entire political strategy now hinges on a single claim: that they are “saving democracy” from Donald Trump.
But peel back the rhetoric, and the reality looks very different.
“The Democrats have a new narrative. The left in general does, that they are ‘saving democracy’ from Donald Trump, and that justifies almost any means necessary to achieve the end of destroying or preventing Donald Trump from governing effectively.”
Hanson laid out in simple terms the glaring contradiction: “The problem with all of this is they are destroying democracy to destroy Donald Trump.”
It’s not even a metaphor.
It’s a direct inversion of what they claim to stand for.
And to prove it, he walked through exactly how this mindset has played out in real-time.
Victor Davis Hanson just held a mirror up to the modern Democrat Party the reflection wasn’t flattering.
According to Hanson, their entire political strategy now hinges on a single claim: that they are “saving democracy” from Donald Trump.
Hanson pointed to it as a textbook example of the left projecting what they’ve already done onto their opponents.
Now that Republicans are playing by the same rules, Democrats are screaming foul.
But what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.
“One of the issues that they are agitating is the redistricting of congressional districts in Texas, in California now,” he said.
“And the general problem that the left has is if you look at gerrymandering to make these jigsaw puzzle piece-like districts, the left is way ahead of the right.”
He pointed out that in many states where Trump won 40–50% of the vote, Republican representation in Congress doesn’t come close to matching that.
And he backed it up: “There’s been sophisticated studies of gerrymandering, and it boils down to the Republicans are short, some 6 to 10 seats in the House based on the proportion of the national vote they have received.”
So why the outrage now? Because Democrats fear losing their edge.
“The Democrats know that, but they’re angry about the Texas reapportionment and gerrymandering, and their attitude is we’ve already gerrymandered our states to the maximum. Don’t dare try to emulate us.”
When Republicans do, suddenly it’s a threat to democracy.
In response, Democrat blowhards like James Carville have doubled down on a new mantra: get tougher.
But as Hanson explained, the Democrats are already there.
“James Carville said that they have to get tougher. That’s the new mantra.”
And yet, he argued, they’ve been anything but restrained.
“Got to get tougher, got to get meaner. Cory Booker screams and yells and throws a fit about every three weeks in the Senate. Hakeem Jeffries picks up his baseball bat. There’s usually a video with the squad or representatives using the word ‘sh—’ or the F word, kind of pornographic.”
“Jasmine Crockett periodically calls Donald Trump names that are—can’t be repeated on air. But you can see the anger.”
He paused before making the point crystal clear: “They have been too tough.”
Take gerrymandering.
Hanson pointed to it as a textbook example of the left projecting what they’ve already done onto their opponents.
Now that Republicans are playing by the same rules, Democrats are screaming foul.
That set the stage for Hanson’s most serious charge.
The three earth-shattering scandals Democrats have orchestrated to cripple Trump weren’t just aggressive…they were unprecedented.
They make Watergate look like a tea party on the South Lawn.
“There’s been three great scandals in the 21st century,” he said.
“The first was the Russian collusion hoax that was prompted by Hillary Clinton and facilitated by the Obama administration on its way out, that almost destroyed the Trump campaign, sabotaged his transition, and ate up 22 months of his first two years.”
He continued:
“The second was the Biden, FBI and CIA—but especially the CIA and the intelligence agencies—got 51 people, former intelligence authorities, to LIE to the American people on the eve of the second debate to affect the 2020 election, and claimed, falsely, that Donald Trump was lying about the laptop of Hunter Biden.”
“That was a complete lie. It was Hunter’s laptop. We know, because the FBI had it in its possession and authenticated it.”
And then came the third.
“The great scandal,” Hanson said, “that the Democratic Party and the obsequious media knew that Joe Biden was non compos mentis, he was not cognitively able to fulfill the office of the presidency.”
He described how they hid it from the public…until it became impossible to hide.
“When he finally challenged Donald Trump to a debate and melted and before our very eyes, sort of like the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz, he melted into a non-entity.”
What an image.
Maybe this could be used as a metaphor for the current state of the Democrat Party.
Melting.
That set the stage for Hanson’s most serious charge.
The three earth-shattering scandals Democrats have orchestrated to cripple Trump weren’t just aggressive…they were unprecedented.
They make Watergate look like a tea party on the South Lawn.
He argued that when you line up the pattern of actions, from media lies to lawfare to ballot bans, one thing becomes clear: the Democrats aren’t protecting democracy.
They’ve been gutting it.
“If you look at the Democrats, they have staged three great scandals to try to destroy the Trump administration and by extension, democracy.”
Then he listed more.
Each transgression against democracy, stabbing like a dagger.
“They impeached Donald Trump twice. No one’s ever done that.”
“They tried him as a private citizen. Nobody’s ever done that.”
“They raided his home in Mar-a-Lago. That is a terrible precedent for an ex-president. No one has ever done that.”
“They tried to get him off the ballot in 25 states. No one had ever done that.”
“There were two assassination attempts during the campaign that had never happened before.”
“They tried to debunk him and make it impossible for Donald Trump to write a check, whether from Morgan Stanley or Bank of America or any bank.”
So when Carville says Democrats are now going to get tough?
They already did.
Hanson says it’s TOTAL gaslighting.
“When James Carville says, we’re going to get tough, we’re going to get really tough, and we’re going to let in Puerto Rico and Washington, DC to get four senators, or we might have to pack the court to 13 justices, I’m thinking, well, you always were going to do that.”
He went even further.
“If you had not lost the House and Senate during the Biden administration, had you had a normal president that was in control of his mental and physical abilities, then you would have not only packed the court and not only, as you promised, let in two states, but in addition, you would have gotten rid of the Electoral College by the hook and crook of the National Voter Compact.”
“And more importantly, you would have abolished the Senate.”
Hanson broadened the lens.
He argued that when you line up the pattern of actions, from media lies to lawfare to ballot bans, one thing becomes clear: the Democrats aren’t protecting democracy.
That’s why the Democrats’ narrative is collapsing under its own weight.
“So the problem, James Carville, and Democrats, is that you have sabotaged democracy, and you’ve done things that no one has ever done before to an oppositional candidate, presidential transition, and president.”
Now, the consequences are finally catching up with them…not because they were too soft, but because they pushed too far and failed.
They are both powerless and rudderless, lost at sea.
“You’re furious because you’re on the 40% side of every issue that’s dear to you, from the trans issue to the border issue to the crime issue, to the Green New Deal issue, to foreign policy, and you have no political power.”
“You don’t have the White House, you don’t have the Congress, you don’t have the Supreme Court.”
“And your institutional power—the media, academia, the foundation—they are under assault.”
So now, he said, they’re spinning a new story to distract from what’s really happening.
“You’ve created this completely false narrative that you have to get tough… In fact, the opposite is true, everybody.”
Then he delivered the final blow with the grace and eloquence only Hanson could bring. It was knockout punch after knockout punch.
It cut directly to the core of Democrat Party….bare for the world to see.
“You have been the most vicious and the most abject subverters of democracy all for the short term gain of destroying Donald Trump.”
“And now that’s boomeranging upon you, and you don’t like to see it happen to you, what you tried to do to Donald Trump.”
“There’s a whole vocabulary cross-culturally for what is happening to you now. It’s called payback is a ‘blank’, karma, boomerang, do unto others as you should do unto you, only eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.”
“But this is called retribution and it’s fully earned for what you’ve done to democracy, as long as it’s legal and it’s necessary.”
“You’re angry because you’re impotent, and you created false narratives that Donald Trump is doing what you have actually done.”
“And what is that? Destroying democracy.”
Wow, that was BRUTAL, but accurate.
That’s why the Democrats’ narrative is collapsing under its own weight.
“So the problem, James Carville, and Democrats, is that you have sabotaged democracy, and you’ve done things that no one has ever done before to an oppositional candidate, presidential transition, and… pic.twitter.com/1IGnZzQRSp
The Left claims they’re “saving democracy” from Donald Trump—but their actions tell a different story.
Democrats have pushed some of the most brazen political scandals in modern history—from the Russia collusion hoax, to burying the Hunter Biden laptop, to hiding President Biden’s cognitive decline—all in the name of stopping Trump.
@VDHanson exposes how the Left has undermined democracy in the very process of claiming to defend it on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“ The problem, James Carville and Democrats, is that you have sabotaged democracy. And you’ve done things that no one has ever done before to an oppositional candidate, presidential transition, and president. And now you’re furious because you’re on the 40% side of every issue that’s dear to you—from the trans issue to the border issue, to the crime issue, to the Green New Deal issue, to foreign policy. And you have no political power. You don’t have the White House, you don’t have the Congress, you don’t have the Supreme Court. And your institutional power—the media, academia, the foundation—they are under assault.”
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(0:00) The New Narrative
(0:22) The ‘Tougher’ Mantra
(1:25) Gerrymandering and Redistricting
(3:01) The Three Great Scandals
(4:54) Unprecedented Actions Against Trump
(6:15) Democratic Frustration
(8:09) Conclusion
Credit where it’s due: investigative journalists John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy at Just the News have just pulled the curtain back on one of the most brazen examples of political interference in law enforcement we’ve seen since the bad old days of J. Edgar Hoover’s private files. And, just like back then, the stakes were presidential.
Thanks to a newly declassified 2017 FBI memo—kept hidden until now—we have a play-by-play timeline of how the Obama-era Department of Justice and FBI brass ran interference for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, smothering a serious investigation into the Clinton Foundation while going full throttle on the Trump–Russia “Crossfire Hurricane” probe.
The memo lays out, in black and white, the internal orders to “shut it down.” That’s not my paraphrase. According to the memo, then–Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates literally told agents to stop pursuing the Clinton Foundation case—even as field offices in New York, Little Rock, and Washington believed they had enough to move forward.
Feb. 2016 – DOJ signals to FBI that it “would not be supportive” of investigating the Clinton Foundation.
Mid-Feb. 2016 – Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe orders that “no overt investigative steps” be taken without his personal approval.
Spring–Summer 2016 – Agents in Little Rock move to a full investigation but are denied permission to collect even basic documents.
June 2016 – Attorney General Loretta Lynch meets privately with Bill Clinton on the tarmac in Phoenix; both deny discussing the case.
July 2016 – FBI Director James Comey announces “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against Clinton, effectively ending the investigation in public view.
Late Oct. 2016 – McCabe leaks details of the Clinton probe to The Wall Street Journal.
Nov. 1, 2016 – McCabe recuses himself from the case, days before the election.
Contrast – At the same time, the FBI opens “Crossfire Hurricane” against Trump in a matter of days based on minimal evidence.
2025 – AG Pam Bondi authorizes a strike force and grand jury to investigate possible criminal conspiracies tied to the 2016 suppression.
Meanwhile, over in the Trump camp, the bureau opened a full investigation within days based on the flimsy “Australia tip” about a bar conversation involving George Papadopoulos. The Durham Report later called it “immediate.” In other words, when it was Trump, they floored the accelerator. When it was Clinton, they yanked the emergency brake. (Read more: Larry O’Connor/Substack, 8/14/2025)(Archive)
The newly released Clinton Foundation Investigation Timeline reveals that the FBI Los Angeles Field Office was investigating 19 Clinton Foundation bank accounts for ‘campaign finance fraud’ in 2016-2017, but the investigation was shut down.
BREAKING: Newly declassified FBI documents reveal the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office was investigating at least nineteen (19) Clinton Foundation bank accounts for possible “campaign finance fraud” in 2016-2017 before the Justice Department shut the “sensitive” investigation down.
Investigative journalist John Solomon has uncovered a smoking-gun email from Obama’s Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates explicitly ordering FBI agents to shut down a criminal corruption probe into the Clinton Foundation.
(…) The most damning piece, however, according to John Solomon, is the document uncovered by FBI Director Kash Patel.
In it, Deputy AG Sally Yates directly instructs the FBI to “shut it down” the Clinton Foundation investigation, effectively granting the Clintons immunity from further scrutiny during the 2016 election cycle.
According to Solomon, several prosecutors have now stepped forward and are willing to cooperate with Congress and Trump-aligned investigators.
Patel reportedly has more explosive emails from Obama-era officials, which he intends to turn over to lawmakers.
John Solomon: Tonight, we’re going to tell you about the other Clinton investigation — one that was running in three separate FBI offices: New York, Washington, and Little Rock. It was a predicated criminal investigation that was examining whether Hillary Clinton ran a pay-to-play scheme that delivered favors from her perch as Secretary of State, while foreigners and others paid large sums of money to her family foundation — the Clinton Foundation — run by Bill Clinton and their daughter, eventually Chelsea Clinton.
Three separate agencies, three separate bureaus — offices of the FBI — believed they had predicated evidence to pursue. But every time they tried to move the ball down the road in the shadows of the 2016 election, they got shut down. I mean, they got shut down at the highest levels of their agency.
Andrew McCabe, the Deputy Director — a man who potentially had a conflict of interest with Hillary Clinton; his wife got money from Hillary Clinton’s former allies to run for a Virginia State Senate seat — attended the meeting where that assistance was solicited. He eventually was conflicted out, but not before he gave the order to his agents that: You won’t investigate or do anything on this unless I approve it.
Downstream from them, four different U.S. Attorneys’ offices under Barack Obama were asked for help by the agents. Agents need help. We need a grand jury. We need to get evidence. We want to move the case down the road. All three of those four offices told the agents: You’re on your own. We will not assist you in your pursuit of criminal charges against Hillary Clinton.
Then, perhaps the most extraordinary statement in the document — that we are going to show you on screen now — the Deputy Attorney General for Barack Obama, Sally Yates, explicitly told the FBI: Shut it down, meaning the corruption probes of Hillary Clinton.
Think about this: while Donald Trump was out on the campaign trail chanting Lock her up, maybe there was a good reason to lock up Hillary Clinton — he would argue that every night — the Obama Justice Department was telling the FBI agents who also thought there might be a reason to lock up Hillary Clinton: Shut it down. Remember those words.
[…]
But one last piece of note before I bring in Amanda: we have now confirmed tonight there are some prosecutors who have come forward and are willing to cooperate with Attorney General Pam Bondi and, of course, FBI Director Kash Patel — who found this document. He found this document based on some whistleblowers that Just the News had. He went and got it. He has other emails that he’s going to be turning over to Congress that I think will further this narrative.
This is the beginning. But we told you this was a double-headed scandal. The first part was pursuing false allegations against Republicans. The second was forming a protection racket around Democrats — a racket around Democrats like Hillary Clinton and the Biden family and others, including Joe Biden himself, when it came to classified documents.
John Solomon is releasing an email from Obama’s Deputy AG Sally Yates, which was found by Kash Patel, that explicitly told FBI agents who were investigating corruption at the Clinton Foundation to “SHUT IT DOWN.”
Megyn Kelly is joined by John Solomon, founder of “Just The News,” to discuss reports of multiple grand juries investigating alleged conspiracy involving the Clintons, Bidens, and figures in the Obama administration, the key dates in the timeline involving possible corruption, and more.
Over the course of the last 48 hours, the supposed ‘paper of record’ has advocated for a military coup against Trump and called for the abolishment of the U.S. Senate and the Electoral College, and to pack the U.S. Supreme Court.
These are the people who claim to want to save Democracy? Really?
This column by two members of the Obama administration was published yesterday:
The New York Times is pro-military coup against President Trump.
What a flaming pile of trash in The Times, written by former Obama NSC officials Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson. pic.twitter.com/0Ds0LxbGUZ
We Used to Think the Military Would Stand Up to Trump. We Were Wrong.
By ordering 800 National Guard troops to Washington, on the pretext of an illusory crime wave, President Trump has further dragged the U.S. military into domestic law enforcement, in a move credibly perceived as an ominous “test case.” This continues what the administration started in California in June as part of the its deportation efforts.
Unfortunately, though we (and others) had hoped that the military would only respond to calls to action in American cities and states kicking and screaming, we no longer expect resistance from that institution. Once, perhaps, traditionalist officers might have leaned on protocol and refused to heed a lawless order, taking inspiration from the generals — Mark Milley and James Mattis — who resisted the uprooting of established military standards in the first Trump term.
Then today, the New York Times published this:
New York Times now just openly calling to overthrow the government. Sounds insurrectiony pic.twitter.com/EUTLCia9kz
These are the same people who will then turn around lecture the rest of us about democracy. They are basically admitting that they can’t win unless they radically change the rules. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 8/15/2025)(Archive)
I’m relieved that the New York Times has finally ripped off the mask. They are the voice of insurrection and owning up to it at long last. pic.twitter.com/1dyyiOGiIb
Trump Federal Housing Director Bill Pulte issues bombshell revelation that Biden-appointed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook likely committed MORTGAGE FRAUD.
“[Jerome] Powell must look into it or he is complicit.”
“Ms. Cook: why did you designate your Atlanta Condo as your primary residence two weeks after declaring your Michigan home as your primary residence?”
Another mortgage fraud investigation may be opened. Wow.
🚨 BREAKING: Trump Federal Housing Director Bill Pulte issues bombshell revelation that Biden-appointed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook likely committed MORTGAGE FRAUD.
“[Jerome] Powell must look into it or he is complicit.”
U.S. Federal Housing FHFA, alleges in a Criminal Referral to the Department of Justice that Federal Reserve Governor, Lisa D. Cook, committed mortgage fraud by designating her out of state condo as her primary residence, just two weeks after taking a loan on her Michigan home… pic.twitter.com/3hlknQ4yzF
MASSIVE ActBlue money laundering operation exposed through home mortgages and is now officially under investigation.
ActBlue is laundering cash through phantom real estate deals, turning thousands into hundreds of millions of dollars. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Democrats get a $200,000 home, create a fake $200,000,000 mortgage on the home and then launder the money through wire transfers.
This is just ONE layer of the Democrats enormous money laundering operation through ActBlue.
Over 400 carbon-copy donations on a single day led investigators to tons of hyper inflated property “sales” in California and Texas.
It was all made up. Multiple transfers in a single day, private cash lenders, no public loan records, and addresses that don’t exist.
The pattern mirrors classic Bank Secrecy Act violations, pumping millions into federal races around each election cycle, and is now in the Justice Department’s hands for potential charges under the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020.
This also ties into everything currently transpiring including the 2020 election, the fake IDs, ballots, and every NGO and non-profit, including connections to cartels, and big banks, such as TD Bank, who was already fined over $3 billion for letting dirty money be laundered through their systems completely under the radar or with proper oversight.
You wonder why they’re so desperate and begging for cash. USAID and ActBlue are two of their largest cash flow operations and they are either completely shut down or under investigation and about to be.
It’s only a matter of time.
Source: @stinchfield1776
MASSIVE ActBlue money laundering operation exposed through home mortgages and is now officially under investigation.
ActBlue is laundering cash through phantom real estate deals, turning thousands into hundreds of millions of dollars. You just can’t make this stuff up.… pic.twitter.com/zgXIZ06IvX
Former FBI Director James Comey declared himself a Taylor Swift fan, a.k.a. “Swiftie,” in a video posted to social media on Sunday, saying the pop star’s music gives him the strength to oppose President Donald Trump.
“I’m in a family’s Swiftie group chat. I know all her music, and I listen to it in my headphones when I cut the grass,” Comey said in the video, adding that his favorite songs are “All Too Well” and “Exile.”
The former FBI Director said that Swift’s music has been a major part of his family for several years as they have dealt “with adversity and celebration,” saying that the pop star’s example has helped him to resist “bullies.”
“But I gotta be honest, it also leaves me with a strange feeling at times because I don’t want us to become like Trump and his followers,” he said. “There are far more decent, honest, kind people in America than there are mean jerks. And don’t get me wrong, we have our jerks, millions of them.”
NEW: Former FBI Director and ‘Swiftie’ James Comey releases a 5-minute video talking about how Taylor Swift inspires him and how she helps him deal with Trump.
“At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, CT, 14 years ago, she sang a song about this topic, asking…”
(…) In July, the FBI launched an investigation into former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey over their roles in the investigation surrounding President Donald Trump and Russia’s alleged collusion. (Read more: Breitbart News, 8/17/2025)(Archive)
In a piece published yesterday, I documented how anti-Trump activist Judge James Boasberg was assigned a series of “Trump cases” in the early weeks of the second Trump administration. He then blocked and stalled part of the president’s first wave agenda.
So, how did one left-wing judge get assigned so many sensitive cases? Part of the answer is the legal tactic known as “judge-shopping,” which was patented by lawfare general and activist attorney Marc Elias.
In an exclusive interview I conducted as part of my research for Breaking the Law, President Trump has called out the practice and warned that “judge-shopping is rampant at levels never seen before. You know the outcome of a case as soon as the judge is picked.”
“And the radical left is using this, their final weapon, to take down America,” the president told me.
Judge-shopping is a straightforward idea: A politically interested party will bring a case to a court with mostly favorable judges to make it likely they get their desired outcome. For example, some courts have only one judge, so it can be easy to anticipate how a judge will rule if you bring the case to that judge’s court. Other powerful courts, such as the D.C. District Court, is composed of mostly of judges who appear to be ideologically on the left. The venue rules for federal cases (28 U.S.C. § 1391) make it so that virtually every case brought against the federal government can be filed in that court since it is often where the defendant resides or where the relevant events occurred.
Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer credits Marc Elias, a high priest of lawfare if there ever was one, with popularizing the venue-shopping tactic. According to Schweizer, Elias was able to swing the highly contested 2008 Minnesota senate race for Democrat Al Franken over Republican Norm Coleman by finding a specific court to legitimize over a thousand ballots that had previously been rejected because they had potentially been cast by convicted felons.
(…) The left has used Elias’s tactic to great effect, politicizing the courts and ensuring there is no equal justice under the law for political conservatives.
It is imperative we move to end judge and forum-shopping immediately. The damage a politicized judge can do goes beyond injunctions and TROs. These judges decide the rules of the court, who and what goes in and out, what decisions juries can and can’t make, etc. As was the case in Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom, the jury instructions and other peculiarities of a particular judge’s courtroom can determine the outcome of the case. (Read more: Breitbart News, 8/17/2025) (Archive)
On Sunday, Ed Martin, DOJ Pardon Attorney and Director of Weaponization, appeared on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss Adam Schiff’s mortgage fraud, the Trump-Russia hoax, January 6 Committee members and the Biden autopen scandal.
Ed Martin revealed the DOJ is investigating members of the unconstitutional January 6 Committee.
The nine members of the January 6 Select Committee included: Chairman Bennie Thompson, Vice Chair Liz Cheney and other members were: Adam Schiff, Zoe Lofgren, Jamie Raskin, Pete Aguilar, Stephanie Murphy, Elaine Luria and Adam Kinzinger.
Separately, Rep Loudermilk recently announced he will be creating a subcommittee with subpoena power to investigate the January 6 Committee.
Ed Martin suggested January 6 Committee members will be subpoenaed… they… should ‘keep an eye on their mailbox.’
“Trust me – a lot of people did not get a pardon that were involved in the Select Committee. They ought to be keeping an eye on their mailbox because there’s a lot to be asked about,” Ed Martin said.
“Pam Bondi has let us loose and when this comes out, it will take the whole of these people’s hoaxes down and we’re doing it bit by bit,” he said.
“There’s a referral from Bill Pulte about mortgage fraud…but now there’s more on Adam Schiff. And all we’re gonna again and get to the facts of this,” he added.
Former Attorney General William “Bill” Barr said he never saw any evidence that President Donald Trump intervened or committed a crime relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s case, a source familiar told the Daily Caller.
During Monday’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee, Barr testified Trump never offered any input or direction regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case or his death.
🚨 Chairman @RepJamesComer confirms DOJ will begin sending House Oversight documents related to Epstein on Friday:
“Officials with the Department of Justice have informed us that the Department will begin to provide Epstein-related records to the Oversight Committee this week…
The Fox News video I re-posted was from April 24th. But something brand new: by next week I will have filed an FEC complaint against US Senator Amy Klobuchar.
KLOBUCHAR FOR MINNESOTA takes $3,946,364 USD in 46,448 Smurfing Contributions, from 5,160 Contributors.
AMY FOR AMERICA takes $4,880,382 USD in 66,796 Smurfing Contributions, from 7,724 Contributors.
AMY KLOBUCHAR VICTORY COMMITTEE takes $807,166 USD in 309 Smurfing Contributions, from 239 Contributors.
Totaling $9,633,912 of her federal campaign committees Smurfing, i.e. criminally laundering money into her campaigns. And I know it is higher yet. @amyklobuchar @SenAmyKlobuchar
Meaning Klobuchar cheated, she committed massive election fraud and in no way is the duly elected US Senator from Minnesota. Resign now Klobuchar.
The Fox News video I re-posted was from April 24th. But something brand new: by next week I will have filed an FEC complaint against US Senator Amy Klobuchar.
KLOBUCHAR FOR MINNESOTA takes $3,946,364 USD in 46,448 Smurfing Contributions, from 5,160 Contributors.
President Trump orders US DOJ to launch full scale investigation into Actblue. America you’re welcome from: @immutablechrist @TheTVConsPiracy @smurfsearch @PatriotsACT @jewelsHND @JamesOKeefeIII, myself and many others who spent years researching, exposing, getting criminal investigations opened at the states’ level and then federal level against Actblue.
NOTE: @Actblue is just one campaign committee committing Smurfing, i.e. structured criminal money laundering typically using computer bots. There are over 1,300 identified committees committing Smurfing.
Including @WinRed – with US Senator Lindsey Graham being a big one out of many as just one example.
🚨Biden’s Own DOJ Threw Red Flag on Autopenned Pardons 🚨
NEW DOCS FROM @EagleEdMartin show Biden’s own DOJ warned against autopenned clemency awards.@realdonaldtrump should refuse to release inmates that received this illegal clemency and re-arrest those already released. pic.twitter.com/pPCYz8UD3f
On Jan. 17, 2025, President Biden autopenned three warrants giving clemency to almost 2,500 people, including murderers, drug traffickers, and gang members.
One warrant awarded clemency to hundreds of federal inmates for “offenses described to the Department of Justice.” pic.twitter.com/znfjMqTOUI
Biden admitted to the @nytimes he did not “individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people.” Instead, he gave broad categories of people to pardon and let staff execute powers that belong only to the President.
Weinsheimer flagged over a half-dozen Jan. 17, 2025 clemency recipients that have violent histories. These inmates killed cops, murdered witnesses and their kids, shot informants, hired hitmen, and were gang members.
Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right. Those in the Intelligence Community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold. In doing so, they undermine our national security, the safety and security of the American people and the foundational principles of our democratic republic.
This is why, at @POTUS’ direction, @ODNIgov directed the revocation of the security clearances of 37 current and former intelligence professionals who have abused the public trust by politicizing and manipulating intelligence, leaking classified intelligence without authorization, and/or committing intentional egregious violations of tradecraft standards.
Our Intelligence Community must be committed to upholding the values and principles enshrined in the US Constitution and maintain a laser-like focus on our mission of ensuring the safety, security and freedom of the American people.
Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right. Those in the Intelligence Community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold. In… pic.twitter.com/23DUNuVAi0
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just AXED a Biden-era censorship office that was working with social media companies to censor conservatives and anti-establishment voices.
“This Center was going and working with different social media companies saying… ‘we have to censor these dissenting voices.'”
🚨 BREAKING: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just AXED a Biden-era censorship office that was working with social media companies to censor conservatives and anti-establishment voices.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just delivered a win for free speech by dismantling Biden’s censorship pipeline. The Biden-era Domestic Terrorism Prevention Center wasn’t about security—it was a taxpayer-funded censorship factory. Their strategy weaponized federal agencies to pressure Big Tech into silencing dissent under the guise of “countering misinformation.” Section 3.2 of their declassified plan even pushed digital literacy programs through USAID, blurring lines between national security and ideological control.
Gabbard’s move exposes how bureaucrats hijacked counterterrorism funds to police speech instead of threats. This is why audits matter: $50M+ wasted on policing tweets while real security gaps fester.
Defund the thought police, refocus on actual threats.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just delivered a win for free speech by dismantling Biden’s censorship pipeline. The Biden-era Domestic Terrorism Prevention Center wasn’t about security—it was a taxpayer-funded censorship factory. Their strategy weaponized federal…
FBI Director Kash Patel joined Larry Kudlow in a bombshell interview this week, and it’s ten minutes every American needs to see.
On Larry Kudlow’s show, FBI Director Kash Patel unleashed a series of bombshells that confirm what millions of Americans have long suspected: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were the masterminds behind the phony Russiagate hoax and the illegal invasion of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
Now, Patel has confirmed it on national television, Obama and Hillary Clinton were at the very top of the conspiracy.
Kudlow pressed Patel on how the FBI could justify invading the private home of a former president, something unprecedented in American history.
Patel laid it out plainly: Russiagate, the FISA Court abuses, and the Mar-a-Lago raid were all connected. A “political operation,” not a legitimate investigation.
Kudlow also asked Patel point-blank if Obama and Hillary were the architects of this grand conspiracy.
(Credit: Pete Marovich/NYT/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
They call Walter Giardina a Marine hero. The media portrayed him as a martyr in FBI Director Kash Patel’s recent “purge” of politicized FBI agents.
In my new book, I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To, I call Giardina something else: the tip of the spear in a weaponized FBI campaign to destroy Donald Trump — and a disgraced FBI agent who personally targeted me and my fiancée.
(…)
Target: Navarro
In early 2022, the Democrat-controlled January 6 Committee subpoenaed me. I refused their witch hunt, citing executive privilege — not as a tactic, but because it has long been the Department of Justice’s settled policy that senior White House advisers to the president have absolute testimonial immunity from compelled congressional testimony about their official duties.
This protection exists to preserve what the Supreme Court calls candor and confidentiality in presidential communications. This is the very essence of George Washington’s doctrine of executive privilege, first asserted in 1796 to protect sensitive deliberations from legislative intrusion.
But in my case, a partisan and weaponized Biden DOJ turned its own policy on its head and indicted me anyway. I was Giardina’s huckleberry, and he went after me like a jackal — discarding over two centuries of Constitutional separation of powers protection to score a political hit.
On May 19, 2022, at 4:50 PM, Giardina emailed a group of FBI agents with the news: DOJ wanted to indict me within two weeks. His email read like a military op order: find my location, get my phone and iCloud data, plan the “knock-and-talk,” time the arrest. Every detail accounted for.
By May 24, the plan was locked: indictment on June 2, arrest on June 3 or June 7. “Media attention is anticipated,” one of the emails noted. They weren’t just planning an arrest — they were scripting a Perp Walk Media Circus.
Internal FBI emails later released by Sen. Grassley would show that after Walter Giardina updated everyone on the DOJ’s indictment plan, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault replied, “Wow. Great” — a revealing glimpse of the partisan enthusiasm behind the operation. (Read more: Breitbart, 8/20/2025) (Archive)
(…) Appearing on an OANN program this week, Schweizer told host Matt Gaetz that the government’s double standard is unmistakable. “At the same time, they are killing an organic investigation into Clinton corruption… they were also creating a completely fictional investigation tying [Donald] Trump to Russia,” he said.
Five FBI field offices had been involved before being shut down, including a satellite office in Africa. Schweizer called the saga proof of a new kind of corruption — “offshored, globalized corruption,” complete with political dynasties selling access and foreign oligarchs buying influence.
The contrast between the scuttled investigation of the Clinton Foundation and the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the Trump campaign’s purported ties to Russia is glaring. While the Clinton probes were heavily throttled, the FBI raced to open a full investigation into Trump’s campaign on the flimsiest of tips — a conversation in a London wine bar — green-lighting it within three days. Clinton’s Russia vulnerabilities were turned into Trump’s burden, projected onto his campaign in a haze of innuendo.
Put together, the picture is damning: an IRS that dropped the ball in 2019, and an FBI and DOJ that throttled their own field offices in 2016. The whistleblowers are still pressing their case, six years later.
But the old memos are now re-surfacing, and the “deep state” may yet face a reckoning from what may prove the largest political scandal of modern times. (Read more: Zero Hedge, 8/22/2025)(Archive)
Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers: Doyle, Moynihan vs. IRS in a December 2018 Congressional hearing. (Credit: Fox News)
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) abruptly shuttered an investigation into the Clinton Foundation during the first Trump administration, according to internal IRS memos, emails and related notes reviewed by Just The News.
The whistleblowers, John Moynihan, a retired Drug Enforcement Agency financial crimes analyst, and Larry Doyle, a corporate tax compliance expert, had submitted extensive documentation to the IRS, according to Just The News. The whistleblowers alleged the Clinton Foundation had mishandled funds, mingled personal and charitable finances and possibly engaged in quid pro quo arrangements.
“Can’t talk about the CF,” one IRS agent allegedly stated in a memo, cutting off communication with two whistleblowers who had been working with the agency for months, according to Just The News.
Between January and April 2019, the whistleblowers met repeatedly with IRS investigators, presenting detailed evidence, including thumb drives with thousands of pages of documents, charts mapping financial networks and lists of potential witnesses, the outlet reported. But by July 2019, all investigative activity had ground to a halt.
The whistleblowers contend that there is “absolutely no doubt that somebody up the chain of command blocked this pursuit,” Just The News reported. Moynihan and Doyle are currently pursuing two cases in the U.S. Tax Court, arguing they were wrongly denied an award for identifying alleged tax irregularities at the Clinton Foundation. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 8/21/2025)(Archive)
The Weaponization of USG agencies (DOJ, FBI, IRS et al) – targeting opponents and protecting (coverups) friends such as the Clintons – MUST be AGGRESSIVELY addressed AND PROSECUTED in order to #SaveAmerica.
Remember Lois Lerner? As if she never left. ⚖️👇🏻🇺🇸👇🏻⚖️ https://t.co/Cc5U72fD3W
— Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers (@CFWBers) August 21, 2025
Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State (Credit: Wikipedia)
A New York appeals court tossed a nearly half-billion-dollar civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump on Thursday.
The penalty, which now stands at over $515 million with interest, is “excessive,” a panel of five judges found.
Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump last year to pay $355 million in penalties in the case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who alleged Trump inflated his net worth to secure better loans.
“While the injunctive relief ordered by the court is well crafted to curb defendants’ business culture, the court’s disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” Justice Peter H. Moulton wrote in a concurring opinion joined by Justice Dianne Renwick.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that he “greatly respect[s] the fact that the Court had the Courage to throw out this unlawful and disgraceful Decision that was hurting Business all throughout New York State.”
“This was a Case of Election Interference by the City and State trying to show, illegally, that I did things that were wrong when, in fact, everything I did was absolutely CORRECT and, even, PERFECT,” he wrote. “Every single Dollar was thrown out, even the penalties imposed on us by the Corrupt Judge, one of the most overturned in History, Arthur Engoron.”
Two other judges, Justices John R. Higgitt and Llinét M. R, said they would have vacated Engoron’s judgement and ordered a new trial.
Another judge on the bench highlighted James’ political motives in bringing the case, arguing the complaint should have been dismissed in its entirety.
“Plainly, her ultimate goal was not ‘market hygiene,’ as posited by Justice Moulton, but political hygiene, ending with the derailment of President Trump’s political career and the destruction of his real estate business,” Justice David Friedman wrote. “The voters have obviously rendered a verdict on his political career. This bench today unanimously derails the effort to destroy his business.”
Suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle, FBI Agent Steve Friend, FBI Agent Marcus Allen and Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt are sworn in at a hearing on Capitol Hill. (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
On Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that 10 FBI whistleblowers who were targeted, punished, and silenced by the corrupt Biden–Harris regime have finally reached settlements that include full backpay, restoration of their security clearances, and reinstatement to their jobs.
Patel posted the news on X, thanking President Trump and Senator Chuck Grassley for standing up for these brave Americans:
Breaking: agreements have been reached with 10 FBI Whistleblowers (and counsel) to include a combination of backpay, security clearance, and reinstatement. We greatly appreciate @realDonaldTrump commitment to transparency and accountability. Thank you to @ChuckGrassley for…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 21, 2025
James Comey testifies before Congress in March 2017 after his misleading “Gang of Eight” private briefing for top lawmakers. (Credit: AP)
Federal prosecutors gathered evidence from James Comey’s top lieutenants that he authorized the leak of classified information to reporters just before the 2016 election but declined to bring criminal charges, according to recently declassified memos that call into question the former FBI director’s testimony to Congress.
James Rybicki (Credit: The Associated Press)
The bombshell revelations involving ex-FBI general counsel James Baker and ex-Comey chief of staff James Rybicki were memorialized in documents that FBI Director Kash Patel discovered earlier this year, but the passages were originally redacted by the Justice Department in versions sent to Congress earlier this month.
Attorney General Pam Bondi intervened and eliminated the redactions, dispatching new versions of the memos this week to the House and Senate Judiciary committees, officials told Just the News.
The memos detail evidence and interviews gathered by U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents concerning classified information leaked to The New York Times in October 2016, ahead of the November election in which Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.
James Baker (Credit: Twitter)
“The USPIS Investigation also revealed Baker disclosed USG [U.S. government] classified information to the NYT under the belief he was ultimately instructed and authorized to do so by then FBI Director James Comey,” one summary memo reads. “For example, during interviews, Baker indicated FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki instructed him (Baker) to disclose the information to the NYT, and Baker understood Rybicki was conveying this instruction and authorization from Comey.”
The memos don’t identify the specific pieces of classified information that were leaked or whether Comey or anyone else was authorized to declassify them for the media. But they were investigated by multiple prosecutors, including the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., under Trump’s first administration and by future-special prosecutor John Durham, and all declined to bring criminal charges, the memos show.
Bondi told Just the News on Thursday she was committed to bringing accountability for the yet unpunished leaks.
“This document produced at my direction confirms what many Americans have long suspected: former FBI Director James Comey and his chief of staff engaged in abhorrent conduct,” she said. “There must be accountability for those who were entrusted with safeguarding our nation’s secrets and failed to do so.”
Comey previously denied during congressional testimony that he had ever been a source in news articles related to the FBI’s investigations into Trump and Clinton and further denied that he had ever approved of anyone else at the FBI being such a source. He has long denied any wrongdoing and insisted he has been politically attacked because he stood up to Trump.
Patel told Just the News the evidence he uncovered raised concerns that one of his predecessors may have authorized illegal leaks and lied about it.
“These newly declassified memos show how former FBI leadership authorized classified leaks and withheld the truth from Congress and the American people,” he said. “Thanks to President Trump’s commitment to transparency, the cover-up is being exposed. The public deserves nothing less than full accountability.”
A recent barrage of declassified documents showing Comey and current Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., may have been behind national security leaks over the last decade designed to harm Trump may prove more than just an exercise in historical accountability.
Legal experts say the statute of limitations for prosecution under espionage laws for leaks back in 2016 or 2017 can be extended to 10 years if the act was knowing and willful and harmed national security or was part of an ongoing criminal conspiracy that continued into the last five years. (Read more: Just the News, 8/21/2025)(Archive)
FBI agents raided the DC-area home of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning in a high-profile national security probe, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Federal agents busted into Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post.
“NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” he said in a cryptic post to X shortly after the raid began.
The probe — which is said to involve classified documents — was first launched years ago, but the Biden administration shut it down “for political reasons,” according to a senior US official.
Bolton has previously been accused of including classified information in his 2020 book, “The Room Where It Happened.”
President Trump fought to quash its publication over its inclusion of national secrets — saying Bolton broke an NDA signed as a condition of his employment — but was ultimately unsuccessful. (The New York Post, 8/22/2025) (Archives)
John Bolton was really enthusiastic about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
The firing follows a June preliminary assessment from the DIA — the Pentagon’s main intelligence wing — of the Iran military strikes, which prompted vicious backlash from the Trump administration.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest senior military or intelligence officer to lose his position in a wider purge of national security agencies’ top ranks, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, didn’t immediately cite a reason for the dismissal other than “loss of confidence,” a catchall term Hegseth has used to justify the sacking of other senior military officers this year.
The firing follows a preliminary assessment from the DIA — the Pentagon’s main intelligence wing — of the military strikes on Iran’s three main nuclear sites in June, which prompted vicious backlash from the Trump administration after it was first reported by CNN and the New York Times.
That preliminary report assessed that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had been set back only a matter of months, in contrast to Hegseth’s and President Donald Trump’s statements that the capabilities had been “obliterated.”
The Pentagon and the Defense Intelligence Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Since entering office, Hegseth has fired a slate of America’s most senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles “C.Q.” Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan and Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife.
Last week, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin announced he would step down in November, after being forced out of his position.
The Trump administration has simultaneously purgeda number of spy agency heads, whose roles, like the military’s, are supposed to be apolitical.
In April, Trump fired the head of the powerful National Security Agency, which conducts electronic and digital eavesdropping. Gen. Timothy Haugh and his deputy, Wendy Noble, were dismissed after far-right activist Laura Loomer advocated for their ouster.
In May, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard removed the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, Michael Collins, and his deputy. The move came after the NIC, a respectedanalytic hub, wrote an assessment that contradicted Trump’s rationale for invoking the Alien Enemies Act and deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members without due process. (Washington Post, 8/22/2025) (Archive)
On Friday, CBS Newsreported that Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, banned US classified intelligence regarding the negotiations on Ukraine with Five Eyes partners.
The Five Eyes Alliance (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The organization has its origins traced back to World War II.
This information was leaked to CBS News by current intel operatives. They spoke under condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters.
They should be tossed out the door like the other dirty leakers in the intelligence community.
In 2018, The Gateway Pundit was the first to report that the Deep State was using foreigners to spy on then-candidate Trump in 2015 prior to the 2016 presidential election. President Trump tweeted our report by Joe Hoft the following day and the fake-news mainstream media immediately attacked him for promoting what they called a “conspiracy theory.”
We later discovered more evidence in 2020 that we were 100% correct in our initial reporting.
Joe Hoft reported on this development at the time. In June of 2018The Gateway Punditposted an article identifying unredacted words in previously redacted texts between corrupt cops Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two individuals supposedly having an affair and key players at the top of the FBI involved in spying on candidate and then President Trump.
The discovery came from an individual on Twitter who was later removed from the platform, named Nick Falco, who identified a word uncovered in a Senate text that the corrupt DOJ previously redacted.
In our 2018 post, we noted that hidden in the information released by the Senate at that time were unredacted Strzok–Page texts that revealed that the FBI initiated actions to insert multiple spies in the Trump campaign in December 2015. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 8/23/2025)(Archive)
President Donald Trump announced that current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has uncovered bags of hidden documents related to corruption in the 2020 election.
Trump, speaking in front of his administration as they continue a historic federal crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., and push for peace negotiations in the Russia-Ukraine war, directly addressed the bombshell findings.
According to a statement by President Trump, these files contain “massive” evidence of wrongdoing and will soon be made public.
President Trump: “And you’ve also found many bags of information. I think they call them burn bags. They’re supposed to be burned, and they didn’t get burned, having to do with how corrupt the 2020 election was. And when will that all come out?”
Tulsi Gabbard, serving as Director of National Intelligence, confirmed the shocking find:
Tulsi Gabbard: “Mr. President, I will be the first to brief you once we have that information collected. But you’re right, we are finding documents literally tucked away in the back of safes in random offices in these bags and in other areas, which again speaks to the intent of those who are trying to hide the truth from the American people and trying to cover up the politicization that was led by people like John Brennan and James Clapper and others that have caused really immeasurable harm to the American people and to our country.”
(…) “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.” (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 8/26/2925)(Archive)
Months after he refused to charge Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election for using a private, unauthorized server to transmit classified information, then-FBI Director James Comey’s inner circle used personal email accounts to further a plan to make an “unauthorized disclosure” to journalists, newly declassified memos reveal.
When investigators in a criminal probe codenamed “TROPIC VORTEX” sought permission in 2019 to gain access to those private emails, federal prosecutors turned them down, according to the memos recently uncovered by current FBI Director Kash Patel and declassified for release to Congress by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
James Rybicki forwarded a communication to his private email address in furtherance of an unauthorized disclosure of classified information to journalists. (Credit: Minnesota Lawyer)
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington DC “issued a prosecutorial declination decision for TROPIC VORTEX,” the FBI memo shutting down the probe stated.
The memos are the latest evidence that FBI agents on the front lines had serious concerns about illegal leaks and abuses of classified information allegedly involving major figures in Washington like Comey, now Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Clinton. The efforts at investigating were repeatedly thwarted.
Just the News reported last week that agents gathered eyewitness evidence from Comey’s top lieutenants, including former chief of staff James Rybicki and ex-FBI General Counsel James Baker, that the former FBI chief authorized the leak of classified information to reporters just before the 2016 election. No charges were ever filed.
(…) The newest declassified memos detail evidence alleging that in March 2017, Rybicki forwarded a communication to his private email address in furtherance of an unauthorized disclosure of classified information to journalists directed by Comey.
Federal prosecutors originally issued a preservation order for the private email account based on the findings by the FBI’s Washington Field Office that the communication was in furtherance of a media leak. Ultimately, though, the prosecutors decided against pursuing “additional legal process” because the communication was itself not classified.
We exposed how George Soros converts tax-deductible donations into political campaigns through a $34 million pipeline where Tides and Working Families Party coordinate to support candidates like Zohran Mamdani
Our investigation uncovered a $2+ billion tax-exempt network that systematically converted charitable donations into political power. The numbers tell the story.
THE BASIC SCHEME: George Soros donates to his Foundation to Promote Open Society (501c3) – tax deductible → $8.4M flows to Tides Foundation (501c3) → $29.3M flows to Tides Advocacy (501c4) for “political advocacy” → Coordinates with Working Families Organization supporting candidates like Mamdani
THE SMOKING GUN – REVERSE FLOWS: After receiving $9.71M from the Soros pipeline, Working Families Organization sent $325,000 BACK to Tides entities. Independent charities don’t do this. It’s mathematical proof of coordination.
Janiece Evans-Page (Credit: public domain)
SYSTEMATIC CONCEALMENT: Tides Advocacy (501c4) lists Janiece Evans-Page as Director, while she simultaneously serves as CEO of both Tides Foundation (501c3) and Tides Center (501c3), yet Tides Advocacy filed NO disclosure forms for 5+ years while receiving $29.3M.
THE EIN SCANDALS:
➡️Working Families Organization reported $80,000 to “WFP National PAC” but used an EIN that actually belongs to “International Earthlight Alliance.”
➡️Tides Center reported a $343,753 contribution to “Tides Advocacy” using an EIN that belongs to “Think Outside Da Block Inc.
PROFESSIONAL AUDITOR CONFIRMATION: Deloitte auditors confirmed operational integration between Tides Foundation and Tides Center, requiring consolidated financial statements. Yet Tides Advocacy – sharing the same leadership – systematically concealed these relationships. 6/
THE SCALE:
➡️$34.4M in documented flows between supposedly independent entities
➡️$16.1M in government grants flowing to organizations with political arms
➡️$36.5M in admitted “political transfers” by Open Society Institute
➡️Over $2B in total network operations
OUR EVIDENCE: Every dollar amount traced to original IRS Form 990 filings. We’ve filed a Fifth Supplemental IRS whistleblower complaint documenting potential $500M+ in tax recovery from this coordination system.
THE MAMDANI CONNECTION: This network manufactured his “grassroots” campaign while maintaining the illusion of independent charitable work. The infrastructure that created his political rise operates continuously, creating candidates nationwide.
WHY IT MATTERS: If charitable tax deductions can be systematically converted into political coordination through concealed control structures, it undermines the entire tax-exempt system. Donors get tax breaks, candidates get “grassroots” cover, taxpayers subsidize political operations.
The mathematics don’t lie. When organizations engage in $34M+ flows while concealing key relationships and sending money backward through the system, these patterns warrant investigation.
BREAKING: We exposed how George Soros converts tax-deductible donations into political campaigns through a $34 million pipeline where Tides and Working Families Party coordinate to support candidates like Zohran Mamdani
Today, U.S. Federal Housing sent a 2nd Criminal Referral in the matter of Lisa D. Cook, related to a mortgage on a 3rd property and alleged misrepresentations about her properties to the United States Government during her time as Governor of the Federal Reserve.
On April 7, 2021, Cook entered a 15-year mortgage for a condominium in Cambridge, MA, representing it as her “Second Home”. Only eight months later, on December 1, 2021, Cook signed an ethics form with the U.S. Government that this property was an “investment/rental property”.
In subsequent filings from 2022 to 2025, Cook consistently listed this property as an investment/rental property, not a second home. Representing the property as a second home may have allowed Cook to secure a lower “Second Home” mortgage down payment and rates, as investment properties typically carry higher down payments and higher rates due to increased risk.
Additionally, Cook allegedly misrepresented her Atlanta, GA property from 2022-2025 to the U.S. Government as her residence, despite evidence suggesting it was being rented out to tenants. Similarly, Cook declared in a 2025 government filing that her Ann Arbor, MI property was her personal residence, however, we have reason to believe that as of 2025, the Ann Arbor property is being used as a rental property, not a personal residence. These inconsistencies appear Cook made additional, multiple false representations, including to the U.S. Government, regarding the status of her mortgages and properties.
3 strikes and you’re out.
Today, U.S. Federal Housing sent a 2nd Criminal Referral in the matter of Lisa D. Cook, related to a mortgage on a 3rd property and alleged misrepresentations about her properties to the United States Government during her time as Governor of the… pic.twitter.com/TAH68Mia23
Last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the FBI for a criminal investigation. Some reports claim the referral relates to Brennan potentially having perjured himself before Congress. But on Wednesday, President Donald Trump may have pointed to another direction the FBI probe may take. In an interview with reporter John Solomon, Trump said he would declassify an annex to the May 2023 report filed by John Durham, the special counsel appointed during Trump’s first term to investigate Russiagate.
