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October 9, 2025 – Jonathan Rinderknecht of Orlando, Florida, is arrested for intentionally setting the Palisades fire

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, shelled out $2 to hybrid PAC ActBlue on two separate occasions just days apart in 2020 – $1 on Sept. 4 and another buck on Sept. 11, according to the Federal Election Commission.Records also show the alleged Palisades Fire arsonist — born in France — was registered to vote in Florida, though he never declared a political party

More Left-Wing Terrorism: Palisades Arsonist Jonathan Rinderknecht Donated to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

Report: Palisades Arson Suspect Ranted About Trump, Climate Change

h/t X22Report

October 09, 2025 – MSM interview covers up Ukrainian fighter’s swastika tattoo

In another embarrassing and revealing moment for Western mainstream media and its many puff pieces on Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Regiment, Canadian national broadcaster CBC has aired a news report this week from “an elite training facility” of its 3rd Assault Brigade in Kiev, featuring a fighter with a swastika tattoo on his arm.

The footage, released Thursday, blurred out the swastika tattoo of one of the main military trainers interviewed, but failed to do so in the video’s YouTube thumbnail. Comments were turned off, with a note attached in the YouTube description which reads: “A tattoo of an offensive symbol has been blurred in this video.” Watch (officer with tattoo starts at :16 mark)

It was in June 2024 that the US State Department first announced that it had lifted its longtime ban on giving weapons and training to Ukraine’s notorious Azov Brigade (often referenced by its earlier name Azov Battalion).

Since then, efforts to normalize Azov—which mainstream media had long ago grudgingly admitted was full of “neo-Nazi ideology”—have only grown.

The group’s members have never been shy about sporting Nazi-inspired tattoos and patches. Ultimately, they haven’t changed, only their Western supporters’ perceptions of them have.

The blurred out tattoo in question from the CBC footage:

 

Ukrainian scholar and historian, Dr. Marta Havryshko has on many occasions slammed Western media attempts to whitewash the extremist militia group. For example she once wrote:

“Azov changed” – the mantra of many liberal and progressive public in the West, who, after 24 Feb. 2022, demonstrate sympathy toward the Azov movement, whitewashing its past, justifying its present, and showing no concerns about its future.

Just this month, Ukraine’s President Zelensky promoted Azov’s founder, Andriy Biletsky, to the rank of Brigadier General, amid these efforts to downplay or cover up the group’s clear neo-Nazi ideology. (Read more: Zero Hedge, 10/11/2025)  (Archive)

October 9, 2025 – Former FBI Director Chris Wray under federal investigation

Christopher Wray (Credit: Andrew Harnik/The Associated Press)

(…) In August, the Oversight Project criminally referred Christopher Wray to the Department of Justice, citing false statements to Congress and obstruction of official proceedings.

The referral detailed two key incidents:

  1. The FBI’s anti-Catholic “Richmond memo” scandal.
  2. The FBI’s obstruction of an investigation into a Chinese mail-in voting scam allegedly linked to the 2020 election.

According to whistleblowers and declassified documents released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the FBI blocked an investigation into claims that the Chinese Communist Party manufactured thousands of fake driver’s licenses and shipped them to the U.S. to facilitate fraudulent mail-in voting operations benefiting Joe Biden.

Wray lied under oath about both scandals, the mail-in voting cover-up and the Richmond memo.

The Richmond memo, exposed by whistleblower Kyle Seraphin, revealed that the FBI had targeted Traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists and discussed using priests and parish staff as “tripwires” to spy on religious communities.

Wray later called the memo “appalling” and claimed it was “immediately retracted,” a statement that congressional investigators have since proven false.

In yet another damning revelation, the FBI recently admitted that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the crowds during the events of January 6, 2021, hundreds more than previously disclosed.

This directly contradicts Wray’s sworn testimony before Congress, where he denied extensive FBI presence in the Capitol protest. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/09/2025)  (Archive)

October 10, 2025 – Chicago residents welcome border patrol in contrast to leftist anti-ICE radicals

A video posted on social media shows Chicago residents warmly greeting U.S. Border Patrol agents who are deployed to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers rounding up criminal aliens. The welcome stands in sharp contrast to the actions by organized anti-ICE radicals.

A CBP video crew followed Border Patrol’s Commander Op at Large, Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino, as he walked around various businesses in the Windy City. The business managers and customers warmly greeted the chief with handshakes, warm smiles, and fist bumps.

The residents appeared to endorse the Border Patrol’s mission in support of President Donald Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz. Federal law enforcement officials have arrested hundreds of violent criminal aliens since the Chicago operation began.

Of these was a Guatemalan illegal alien who Chief Bovino describes as a “child rapist.”

Another is described as a Mexican national with nine previous felony and misdemeanor arrests. One of these included an incident that made national news when he allegedly posed as a rideshare driver and sexually assaulted a Chicago woman after she left a nightclub. Sanctuary City policies in Chicago led to his release from detention two days after his arrest, Bovino reported.

Why are we in the greater Chicago area?

To arrest bad people and bad things.

Exhibit A: Illegal alien from Mexico arrested by Office of Field Operations Operation Midway Blitz…

In addition to 9 previous arrests (including felony and misdemeanor convictions), his most recent arrest made national news, when on March 30, 2025, he allegedly posed as a rideshare driver in Chicago, IL and sexually assaulted a woman inside his vehicle after picking her up outside a local nightclub. He was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated kidnapping with bodily harm, and unlawful restraint. He was released from detention two days after his arrest.

With a lengthy and violent criminal record dating back to 2002, why has he been living free as a bird in the Windy City? Because of Chicago’s embrace of sanctuary policies, which hurt rather than help its residents. But no more. Operation Midway Blitz is here to rid Chicago of criminal illegal aliens like him.

(Read more: Breitbart, 10/10/2025)  (Archive)

Chicago residents who agree help is needed:

Chicago resident Cata Truss joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss President Donald Trump’s proposal to send the National Guard to help curb crime in Chicago, and the reaction from local leaders. August 2025

‘Outnumbered’ reacts to Chicago residents erupting at a city council meeting over the city’s sanctuary policies prioritizing illegal immigrants over citizens. December 2024

At today’s Chicago City Council Meeting, several citizens voiced their displeasure with the leadership of the city as Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson presided. February 2024

Chicago resident Cata Truss outlines her frustrations with local, state and federal leaders’ handling of the migrant crisis. February, 2024

October 11, 2025 – Dem Minn AG Keith Ellison claims nobody knows what Antifa is after promoting their handbook in 2018

Democrat Attorney General over the state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, claimed that “nobody knows” what Antifa is when he was on MSNBC for a media hit. He posted himself holding the book, “Antifa, The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” in 2018.

The book, by Mark Bray, who recently fled the country after President Donald Trump declared Antifa to be a domestic terror group, was posted in a picture by Ellison in 2018, according to reports at the time.

While he appeared on MSNBC, Ellison was discussing Antifa when he said, “If there really is no Antifa as an institution organization, then anybody who’s associated with Antifa-like ideas, you know, can be persecuted. All you have to do is say, ‘Prove you’re not Antifa.’ Well, how can you prove a negative, and suddenly they’re just going to be able to use that to justify suppressing speech, arresting people, deploying ICE, deploying the National Guard, deploying the military.

“So the fact is that nobody even knows what it is. The first person I ever heard use the word Antifa was Donald J Trump when he was going on about how there were good people on both sides of Charlottesville, that’s the first time I ever heard anyone use the term. So now it’s amorphous thing. And if nobody’s really Antifa, then everybody could be.”

According to the Washington Examiner, half the funds that the book Ellison was holding in 2018 written by Bray are “funneled to the funding arm of Antifa International, which financially supports hundreds of affiliates around the world, including accredited antifa chapters in America, such as Atlanta Antifascists and the Central Oregon Anti-Fascist Action.”

Additionally, in 2020, Keith Ellison’s son, Jeremiah Ellison, publicly declared that he supported Antifa. “I hereby, officially, declare my support for ANTIFA,” the AG’s son said at the time. (Read more: The Post Millennial, 10/11/2025) (Archive)

October 13, 2025 – Meet the organizers behind the No Kings protest: Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg & Ezra Levin

This week, the movement that started with a Google Doc… Indivisible… is back in the streets. ✊ Founded by former congressional staffers Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin and funded by George Soros’ Open Society network, Indivisible has grown from a viral guide into one of the most powerful grassroots networks in the U.S.

Now, they’re leading No Kings, a nationwide push to remind America that democracy means no one is above the law. 👑❌

This thread dives into who Greenberg and Levin are, how Indivisible rose to prominence, and what’s really behind the “No Kings” movement.

October 13, 2025 – The Biden administration Civil Rights Division had close relationship with SPLC who put Christian and conservative groups on their “hate map”

October 14, 2025 – State Department contractor steals thousands of pages of “Top Secret” documents; meets with Chinese officials

A State Department contractor stole thousands of pages of “TOP SECRET” classified documents and met with Beijing officials.

Ashley Tellis (Credit: public domain)

Ashley Tellis, an expert on India and South Asian affairs, removed the top secret documents from secure locations and met with Chinese officials.

The classified documents were located in Tellis’s Virginia home during a raid.

“On Sept. 25, he allegedly printed U.S. Air Force documents concerning military aircraft capabilities. Federal prosecutors allege that he met with Chinese government officials multiple times over the past several years,” Fox News reported.

Prosecutors said in September 2022 that Tellis brought a manila envelope with him when he met with Chinese officials in a Virginia restaurant.

Fox News reported:

A State Department employee is accused of removing classified documents from secure locations and meeting with Chinese officials dating back to 2023.

The Justice Department said Ashley Tellis was an unpaid senior adviser to the State Department and also a contractor with the Office of Net Assessment at the Department of Defense, recently renamed the Department of War. He is considered a subject-matter expert on India and South Asian affairs in his role at the Office of Net Assessment.

Tellis began working for the State Department in 2001, court documents state. He is accused of unlawful retention of national defense information, according to an affidavit.

He held a top-secret clearance and had access to sensitive information, federal prosecutors said in court documents. He was also employed as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/14/2025) (Archive)

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October 14, 2025 – Portland’s Antifa camp receives and then stores supplies near ICE facility

 

October 14, 2025 – Congress collected 30 million lines of phone data in Trump J6 probe, raising civil liberty concerns

In April 2022, former Republican Representative Denver Riggleman resigns from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to work with a nonprofit organization in Ukraine. (Credit: Bloomberg)

Congressional investigators collected a stunning 30 million lines of phone data mapping contacts between conservatives and the Trump White House in the name of investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, a massive dragnet that raises civil liberty concerns about the lack of limits on the ability of lawmakers to snoop on Americans’ private phone calls.

Adam Kinzinger (Credit: public domain)

The mountainous collection of phone records were revealed to the FBI led by Chris Wray in late 2023 by former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a GOP member on the Democrat-run House Jan. 6 select committee. The cache was offered to the bureau on the eve of the 2024 presidential election as evidence without requiring a warrant, according to an FBI document memorializing the offer that was reviewed by Just the News.

The memo says Kinzinger told the FBI that the phone data had been collected by then-former Rep. Denver Riggleman, an ex-Republican who was a staffer on the Capitol riot committee and who later helped Hunter Biden’s legal team in its efforts to cast doubt on the laptop belonging to Joe Biden’s son.

Congressional powers used to conduct lawfare against Trump

The FBI memo does not reveal whether the bureau ever took Kinzinger up on his offer, but it does reveal the sheer magnitude of a phone surveillance project the Democrats ran by using congressional subpoenas to gather phone records about Americans’ contacts with the Trump White House.

Kinzinger told the FBI that the J6 committee “collected and linked a substantial amount of telephone data, and noted the FBI may already possess such data. While former congressman Denver Riggleman worked with the Select Committee he (Riggleman) had a contact and was able to obtain toll information including for White House root or switchboard numbers via congressional subpoena,” the FBI agents wrote in their memo summarizing the offer.

“Kinzinger noted that he (Kinzinger) did not conduct the analysis himself but that Riggleman had identified certain telephone connections between numbers identified as being associated with the White House and certain individuals,” the memo continued.

(…) The newly-released memo on Kinzinger and Riggleman was recently uncovered by current FBI Director Kash Patel and has garnered significant attention inside the bureau because of the timing of the contact between the agents and the former lawmaker in December 2023.

By that time, Kinzinger had already left Congress and the committee he worked for had ended its probe a year earlier. But the 2024 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was heating up with the first presidential primaries just weeks away from starting.

Agents noted that Kinzinger seemed eager to help the FBI at that moment and that Congress had not figured out what to do with the massive collection of data.

“Kinzinger indicated that Riggleman may have never received direction on what to do with the toll data, which included approximately 30 million lines of data,” the FBI memo stated. “Kinzinger believed it was in an electronic format but did not know if it was the original subpoena returns.”

The agent who interviewed him said “that she would contact Kinzinger if any additional information was requested,” the memo stated.

Kinzinger did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent to him through the speaker’s bureau contact listed on his personal website. Riggleman did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent to him through his LinkedIn page.

Latest revelation raises concerns about Biden-era dragnet

(Read more: Just the News, 10/14/2025)  (Archive)

October 16, 2025 – After a decade of corruption and election fundraising crimes, Stacey Abrams’ nonprofit ‘New Georgia Project’ shuts down

“We are proud of the milestones we have achieved, the communities we have engaged and the countless individuals whose lives have been strengthened by our work,” the Board of Directors wrote in a statement.

Earlier this year, the Georgia Senate launched an investigation into Stacey Abrams and her nonprofit, The New Georgia Project, for illegal fundraising activity.

“Abrams and the New Georgia Project, from which she is no longer affiliated, are being investigated by the same Senate panel that has been examining Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ historic indictment of Donald Trump during the time he was out of the Oval Office,” Atlanta News First reported.

“The Senate committee will focus on alleged campaign finance violations and possibly the recent New Georgia Project firings allegedly tied to efforts to unionize the voting rights organization,” the outlet reported.

Francys Johnson (Credit: public domain)

As previously reported, Francys Johnson, the head of Stacey Abrams’ nonprofit The New Georgia Project, announced he is resigning from his post after the firm was hit with a massive fine for committing campaign fundraising crimes.

Twice-failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams created the nonprofit in 2013 to get out the black vote.

Abrams has repeatedly claimed, without providing any evidence whatsoever, that Georgia Republicans engage in black voter suppression. She blamed her previous crushing election loss to Brian Kemp on black voter suppression.

The New Georgia Project was slapped with a $300,000 ethics fine for illegal campaign fundraising in January.

“The [State Ethics Commission’s] investigation, which lasted five years, revealed that the organization raised $4.2 million in dark money and spent $3.2 million on campaign activities,” Fox 5 Atlanta reported earlier this year.

The Justice Department needs to investigate Stacey Abrams for crimes related to another nonprofit linked to her that is under fire for a dubious cash infusion from Joe Biden’s EPA.

Earlier this year, Elon Musk’s DOGE discovered that Joe Biden’s EPA awarded $2 billion to a firm linked to failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

Even worse, the firm only reported $100 in revenue in its first three months in business in 2023.

It was revealed that $2 billion of the $20 billion recovered by Lee Zeldin was awarded to Power Forward Communities, a brand new nonprofit linked to Stacey Abrams, according to the Free Beacon. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/16/2025)  (Archive)

October 16, 2025 – Smartmatic is charged with money laundering, bribing election officials

On Thursday, federal prosecutors charged Smartmatic, a controversial voting technology company, with money laundering and bribing Philippine election officials with $1 million. The allegations relate to payments Smartmatic allegedly made to win a contract with the Philippine government for managing the 2016 presidential election and to ensure prompt payment for its services. These transactions reportedly took place between 2015 and 2018.

In 2024, three former Smartmatic executives, including co-founder Roger Piñate, faced charges, though the company itself was not initially named as a defendant. Prosecutors also claim Piñate bribed a high-ranking Venezuelan election official with a luxury home in Caracas in exchange for political favors.

In the Philippines, Piñate faces charges in a $1 million bribery scheme involving overpriced voting machines, with the surplus funds allegedly channeled into secret accounts to bribe election official Juan Andrés Donato Bautista.

Smartmatic has sued multiple American news outlets for their reporting on allegations that its voting machines were used improperly during the 2020 elections, with Democrat megadonor and Epstein Island visitor Reid Hoffman funding the lawsuits. Previously, liberal plutocrat George Soros recruited a Smartmatic chairman to serve as president of his Open Society Foundations organization. (The National Pulse, 10/17/2025)  (Archive)

October 16, 2025 – Trump launches major IRS overhaul, targets Soros-linked political funding

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building in Washington D.C. (Credit: David Ake/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has directed a sweeping overhaul of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), with interim IRS Commissioner Scott Bessent and senior advisor Gary Shapley spearheading a restructuring effort that includes new investigative priorities and leadership changes.

The move comes as the agency operates with reduced staff due to the ongoing government shutdown and follows the removal of former Commissioner Billy Long in August after a policy dispute over taxpayer data.

According to officials familiar with the matter, Shapley has been tasked with identifying individuals and entities who may face criminal scrutiny over potential political and financial misconduct.

Among those reportedly reviewed is billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, whose Open Society Foundation remains one of the world’s largest funders of progressive causes.

Soros’ Fund for Policy Reform, largely run by his son Alex, donated $60 million to Democrats in 2024, ranking as the 12th largest contributor nationally and second among exclusively liberal givers.

The overhaul has coincided with a broader push from the administration and Republican leaders to examine political funding sources tied to recent anti-Trump demonstrations.

Senator Ted Cruz introduced legislation this week to enable the Department of Justice to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to investigate financial backers of the “No Kings” protests held over the weekend. (Read more: Lifezette, 10/16/2025)  (Archive)

October 16, 2025 – Former Special Counsel Jack Smith is referred To DOJ for misconduct investigation and possible disbarment

Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of Donald Trump on 1 August 2021. (Credit: J Scott Applewhite/AP)

Former special counsel Jack Smith was criminally referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 16 by multiple Republican lawmakers for alleged misconduct and possible disbarment.

A group of GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking her office to refer Smith, who was involved in two federal cases against then-former President Donald Trump, to the Office of Professional Responsibility for an investigation.

A statement from Blackburn’s office said Smith had “allegedly engaged in serious prosecutorial misconduct through the politically motivated Arctic Frost investigation and must face appropriate consequences, up to and including disbarment.”

It was revealed earlier this month that the FBI had obtained cell phone records of several sitting Republican senators.

“As part of Jack Smith’s weaponized witch hunt, the Biden DOJ issued subpoenas to several telecommunications companies in 2023 regarding our cell phone records, gaining access to the time, recipient, duration, and location of calls placed on our devices from January 4, 2021, to January 7, 2021,” Blackburn and several other Republican lawmakers wrote to Bondi on Thursday.

The senators added that they “have yet to learn of any legal predicate for the Biden Department of Justice issuing subpoenas to obtain these cell phone records,” the letter said.

(…) In their letter, the lawmakers accused Smith, who obtained records in the FBI’s Arctic Frost probe, of infringing on the rights of the elected officials and violating their respective rights to privacy.

“This is especially true given the invasion of our privacy was directly connected to our core legislative functions protected by the Speech or Debate Clause of our Constitution,” the Republican lawmakers wrote. “To the best we can tell, Smith’s team went on this fishing expedition for one simple reason: we are Republicans who support President Trump.” (Read more: The Epoch Times, 10/17/2025)  (Archive)

October 16, 2025 – Former NSA John Bolton is indicted by grand jury for mishandling classified documents

The Justice Department presented evidence to a federal grand jury in Maryland against former National Security Adviser John Bolton for allegedly transmitting highly classified materials through his private AOL email account during his 2018–2019 tenure.

The investigation centers on documents labeled Secret and Confidential related to weapons of mass destruction, as well as personal notes resembling a diary that may contain additional classified details.

Prosecutors argued that Bolton willfully removed, retained, or transmitted national defense information in violation of sections of the Espionage Act of 1917.

(…) On August 22, 2025, FBI agents executed court-authorized searches of Bolton’s Maryland home and his Washington, D.C. office as part of a federal investigation into possible improper retention, transmission, or loss of classified information.

According to unsealed court documents, agents seized multiple devices, computers, tablets, iPads, flash drives, and cellphones, along with boxes of documents labeled “Trump I-IV” and a binder titled “statements and reflections to Allied Strikes.”

New documents released revealed that John Bolton stored classified information about WMDs and the United Nations.

“Categories of potentially classified records that the FBI reported finding at Bolton’s office included: travel memo documents with a “secret” label; confidential documents from the U.S. mission to the U.N.; confidential documents related to strategic communications; and classified documents related to weapons of mass destruction,” Politico reported.

The search warrant affidavit (partially redacted) references potential violations of the Espionage Act and statutes governing unauthorized transmission or retention of national defense information.

Read the affidavit here or below:

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/16/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE:

(…) John Bolton transmitted classified emails over a private server system and they were intercepted by Iran, according to the indictment.

According to the 26-page indictment, Bolton shared the classified documents with two unnamed relatives. While the indictment did not name the relatives, a previous leak to The New York Post revealed that Bolton shared the documents with his wife and daughter.

“From on or about April 9, 2018, through at least on or about August 22, 2025, BOLTON abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor-including information relating to the national defense which was classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level-with two unauthorized individuals, namely Individuals 1 and 2,” the indictment read.

BOLTON also unlawfully retained documents, writings, and notes relating to the national defense, including information classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level, in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland,” prosecutors said according to the indictment reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.

John Bolton’s potential indictment under the Espionage Act is a long-overdue reckoning. The FBI’s August search uncovered classified docs referencing WMDs—critical national security material. Bolton’s claim that these were “ordinary” for a former official? Laughable.

If a Trump ally mishandled intel, the media would demand life in prison. But Bolton, a career swamp creature who trashed Trump while cozying up to globalist agendas, gets kid-glove treatment.

Prosecuting him isn’t political—it’s enforcing the law equally. The Espionage Act exists to punish betrayal, not protect D.C. insiders. Lock him up.

UPDATE – 10/17/2025:

John Bolton, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor (NSA), has been indicted by a grand jury for the District of Maryland. Here is the indictment.

In total, Bolton faces 18 felony counts: 8 counts of transmission of national defense information (18 USC § 793(d)) and 10 counts of retention of national defense information (18 USC § 793(e)) – charges that fall under the Espionage Act.

(…)  The indictment doesn’t fill all the holes of this story – we suspect that the FBI’s investigation into Bolton’s possession of classified documents started at this point. The FBI would have vigorously investigated the hack by a foreign state (especially one by Iran against a former high-level government official) and, at some point, would have learned of the contents of Bolton’s email account. Or of what the hacker possessed/extracted. Perhaps both.

John, Gretchen and Jennifer Bolton (Credit: public domain)

Curiously, the FBI chose not to pursue that investigation. At least not until August 2025, when the FBI executed search warrants of Bolton’s home in Maryland and his office in Washington, DC, where the FBI seized materials showing: (1) Bolton transmitted his diaries containing classified information to his wife/daughter; and (2) printed copies of versions of those diary entries with classified information.

These facts are important because they relate to a settlement made between the Government and Bolton concerning Bolton’s memoir, which the Government concluded contained excessive amounts of highly classified information that needed to be removed. As part of that settlement, Bolton agreed to “provide to the United States all materials in his possession, custody, or control that may contain any classified information.” He also agreed to return classified materials contained in drafts, whether in physical or electronic form.

With respect to the counts themselves, Bolton revealed the following highly classified information in the notes/documents sent to his wife and daughter (this is just part of what Bolton revealed, the indictment summarizes in much more detail):

  • Intelligence about a future attack by an adversarial group in another country.
  • Intelligence that a foreign adversary was planning a future missile launch.
  • Information about covert action in a foreign country.
  • Intelligence collected on the leader of an adversary’s military leader.
  • Intelligence concerning an adversary’s knowledge of a planned US action and an adversary’s plan for attack against the US.
  • Intelligence on covert action planned by the US (multiple documents had this information).

(Read more: TechnoFog/Substack, 10/17/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE 10/18/2025

October 16, 2025 – Tom Homan addresses the $50K bribe accusations

It’s one thing to throw political punches, right? It’s quite another to cross the line into pure defamation. But that’s exactly what happened when Dem Senator Mazie Hirono decided to smear Border Czar Tom Homan with a baseless claim that he took a $50,000 bribe.

You’d think a sitting senator would know better than to hurl accusations with zero evidence, right? But thanks to congressional privilege, our beloved elected officials can say just about anything they want on the House or Senate floor and face zero consequences. That’s not an exaggeration; it’s literally written into law.

Members of Congress are protected by the “Speech or Debate Clause,” which grants them absolute immunity for what they say in official legislative acts. That means they can lie through their teeth on the floor, and nobody can sue them. Honestly, it’s insane, and it’s one of the many ways DC protects itself while regular Americans get raked over the coals for way less.

(…) This is what passes for “debate” in today’s Dem Party, slinging fake accusations recklessly with no accountability. It’s why the public’s trust in Congress is literally circling the drain. It’s time to revisit those congressional protections. If the Founders knew today’s politicians would weaponize immunity to smear their opponents, they would’ve written that clause a helluva lot differently.

But to his credit, Tom Homan didn’t dodge or deflect on this accusation. When Bill O’Reilly asked him point-blank about the bribery claim, he looked him dead in the eye and said, “I didn’t take $50,000 from anybody.”

Overton:

Bill O’Reilly asked Tom Homan if he wanted to clarify anything about the $50,000 bribe in front of a live audience.

The Border Czar looked O’Reilly dead in the eyes and said:

“I didn’t take $50,000 from anybody.”

Then Homan revealed something that those accusing him of taking bribes probably don’t know:

“Day one I came back, I recused myself from any discussions, of any contact or any monetary decisions like that because I used to have a company that did consulting.”

“So I cleared myself day one.”

“What people don’t talk about is I took a significant, huge pay cut to come back and serve my nation.”

“I am not enriching myself doing this job.”

O’Reilly asked Homan: “Does this make you angry that they’re coming at you this way?”

Homan’s response woke up the crowd:

“I don’t care what people think about me, I never have because I know who I am. I work for the greatest president in the history of this nation in my opinion.”

“And we’re doing the right thing every day.”

October 17, 2025 – House Oversight Committee releases transcript of former Epstein prosecutor Alex Acosta

Alex Acosta (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released the transcript of Alex Acosta’s transcribed interview as part of its review of the federal government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases.

In addition, the Committee published letters from former U.S. Attorneys General Eric Holder and Merrick Garland, as well as former FBI Director James Comey.  All three stated, subject to 18 U.S.C. § 1001, that they had no knowledge or information related to the Committee’s investigation.

The Committee also published new records from the Epstein estate. A backup can be found here.

Read [Below]: Chairman Comer Statement on Transcribed Interview with Alexander Acosta

(House Oversight Committee, 1o/17/2025)  (Archive)

September 19, 2025 – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) made the following statement on today’s transcribed interview with former U.S. Department of Labor Secretary and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alexander Acosta:

“Alex Acosta cooperated with our questions today and provided information that will help advance our investigation into the federal government’s handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases. This information will guide our next steps as we work to bring accountability, and we expect to announce new action soon. We will also release the transcript of Mr. Acosta’s interview to ensure transparency for the American people.

“As I stated earlier today, the Trump Administration is fully cooperating with our investigation, and we will soon review bank records to follow the money trail. In addition, the Epstein estate will provide unredacted cash ledgers, calendars, call logs, and message logs. This information is critical to our work.

“We owe it to the survivors to follow the facts, not politics. While we want this investigation to be bipartisan, Democrats are attempting to manufacture yet another false narrative about President Trump, as they have done in the past. To be clear: former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has stated there is no evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump. We call on Democrats to end these distractions and instead focus on what truly matters: transparency and accountability.”

Readout of the Transcribed Interview:

  • Alex Acosta stated that he never met Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell and that his decision to resign as U.S. Secretary of Labor in 2019 was entirely his own. He emphasized that no one suggested he resign.
  • According to Mr. Acosta, a key issue in the U.S. Southern District of Florida’s handling of the Epstein case was whether it should be prosecuted federally or locally. Mr. Acosta also referenced a statement from the lead prosecutor outlining evidentiary issues that could jeopardize a conviction if the case went to trial. The consensus within the U.S. Attorney’s Office was to pursue a negotiated resolution given the challenges of securing a guilty verdict.
  • Mr. Acosta expressed concern that if the case had gone to trial and prosecutors lost, it would have sent the message that Epstein had escaped accountability and could continue committing offenses.
  • Mr. Acosta stated his office received multiple assurances that Jeffrey Epstein would not be allowed on work release yet somehow Palm Beach County allowed it to happen. Mr. Acosta later stated that had the U.S. Attorney’s Office known the state would allow Epstein to go on work release and fail to address or prosecute the case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Mr. Acosta would not have agreed to returning it to the state level. He expressed remorse and that the decision was on him.
  • Mr. Acosta confirmed that he never saw President Trump’s name on any document or any matter related to Jeffrey Epstein.

October 17, 2025 – FBI arrests pro-Hamas October 7th attacker living in Louisiana; was granted a visa by Biden admin

A man living in Louisiana was just arrested by the FBI for joining Hamas t*rrorists in the October 7th attack against Israel.

Mahmoud Amin Ya-qub Al-Muhtadi was born in Gaza, applied for a visa in Cairo, and was granted a visa under the Biden admin.

On Oct 7th, his cell phone connected to a tower near a Kibbutz where multiple Americans were kiIIed.

Democrats literally allowed unvetted suspected t*rrorists to invade and freely roam our country.

Man living in Lafayette accused of taking part in Israel attacks says he is innocent